The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-30
REVIEW OF INDIANA

water pearl for 5000 at Corydon. He
found the gem in a mussel shell in the
Ohio rived, alorg Harrison County.
The last request of Anderson Hogs
ton, aged &c years, wealthy farmer,
was not complied with 1t was his de-
sire to have his body cremated, but his
relatives did not favor his plan and his
body was buried at the Odd Fellows
cemetery at Marion. His home was
near Reeseburg, and he had gained
fame by raising watermelons.
Brazil is flooded with counterfeit
silver dollars, which were distributed
there at various department stores
during the holiday rush. When the
merchants opened their tills they
found a number of these spurious
coins. The bogus money was of the
issue of $780, The counterfeit is an
excellent one and hard to detect ex-
cept by close inspection.
Lizzie Sanders, aged 16, who for two
years, since their parents died, has
been a mother to four little brothers,
died at Hammond last week She had
been ill for some time with tuberculo-
sis, out insisted on working at fac
tory up to the last, so that she could
buy them Christmas presents. The girl
had refused to let the boys go to an
orphans home, and her life was a sac
rifice to their care and comfort
In fire that Destroyed her home,
Mrs. Catherine Corcoran, aged so, was
burned to death at Upton Firemen
discovered the aged woman's shoes
and dug for an hour in the shoulder
ing ruins in the rear of the dwelling
before finding the charred body. 1t is
presumed that Mrs. Corcoran discov-
cred the fire, which was caused from
an unexpected pressure of gas. and in
trying to extinguish it her clothing
caught fire and she was burned TO
death, being alone in the house at the
time.
The bursting of large equalizing
saw in front of which he was standing
at the time, cost the life of Tilden
Miller, aged 80. He was working at s.
H. Adams & Co.'S factory in Portland.
A car of heading running on a track
from the dry kiln to the saw, over
turned and was thrown on the saw
The saw burst and part of it struck
Miller on the right leg just below the
thigh, severing it from the body Be-
fore medical aid could be summoned
he died from loss of blood. A wife
and three small children survive
John Buzzard, a farmer of Hunting
ton County, marketed three hogs for
S72. The three animals weighed 900
pounds and were about as fine speci-
mems as have been seen in the Hunt
ington market for some time. Mr.. Buzz
zard had previously marketed forty
hogs and has now 500 TO tell the story
of his hog sales for the season and ex-
poets to equal the amount by bunch
of thirteen fat cattle which he will
market this weeF He figures that the
corn he has fed his hogs which were
marketed brought him at least 81
bushel All the feed was raised on his
eighty-acre farm
Maria r. Taylor, oolored, who died
a few days ago at Richmond, is said
to have been more than one hundred
years old. She was the mother of chill
before the Civil War. Until two years
ago the negro woman worked and
made her own living, and when unable
to continue her labors refused assist
ance from various charitable organiza-
tons, although she received attention
from people for whom she had worked
many years ago. life insurance pol
icy for SIS, on which she had paid q
premium many years, was found
among her effects.
Although he fell distance of thirty
five feet down an elevator shaft at the
Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Works in
Newcastle, S. T. Guype, of Middletown,
! an employe of the company, escaped
serious injury. Guype was making re-
pairs at the opening of the shaft on
the second floor, and when some tim
bers gave way he fell to the basement
When picked up Guype was uncon-
scious, and physician was sum-
moned hurriedly. Just as the doctor
started to examine him Guype jumped
to his feet, gave himself a shake and
asked that he be allowed to return to
work. He was seemingly none the
worse for his experience.
Elmer Mills, of Muncie, found, half
frozen and almost helpless, a strange
bird, unlike any fowl ever seen there
and although many persons have tried
to identify it, none has succeeded as
yet 1t is as large as a full-grown
chicken, and is the color of quail
save for two long black streaks, one
on either side of its body II has a
long, sharp beak. which it snaps vic
iously when approached by anybody
but Mills. and it emits sounds similar
to the growl of dog. After being
warmed it became active in the store
room where it was placed, but it did
not attempt to fly, and contented itself
with stalking around the room. It is
believed the bird is a native of a
warmer climate, and was driven out Of
it's habitat by storms.
In quarrel at Evansville over the
quality of whiskey they had purchased
in bottle, George Cline, aged 10, was
stabbed to death by Owen Logsden,
aged Is, who was arrested.
Workmen building a sidewalk in
Clinton, near the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois right-of-way unearthed an inter-
esting book, in fair state of preser-
walton, bearing the minutes Of the
Town Board from 1867 to 1873. At
that time Clinton had a population Of
three hundred.
Henry Garrett, a wealthy farmer
from Posey County, was sandbagged
and robbed of $50 at Evansville His
skull was fractured and he may die
The police are looking fos his assail-
ant.
4 w. c. Hart, aged sc, who lived n
Evansville, is dead of lockjaw. caused