The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-07

ously injured by being thrown from
| cart while breaking a colt to drive.
G.. p Bowman, of GRANVILLE, is build
ing a corn crib on the Wabash river
six hundred feet long, with capacity
of eighty thousand bushels.
John Turner, aged 81 years, whose
home was in Bloomington, was
drowned at Macon, Mo-, where he had
just arrived to teach French in the
Blees Military Academy.
The public sale of the estate of Will
liam Lambert, near Poneto, Wells
County, was opened with prayer and
song service, led by Rev. earns and
Rev. Hornady, of Poneto.
The 200 men employed in Dering
Mine No. s, at Clinton, who quit be-
cause they thought the cage unsafe,
returned to work after repairs had
been made on the tipple braces.
Containing a quotation that men can
always take care of themselves, but
tlat women have not an equal chance,
the will of Frederick W. Kell, of Fort
Wayne, provides that all his large es-
tate be given to his three sisters.
The acreage planted in sorghum
cane in the vicinity of Lyons was large,
and the manufacture of molasses has
been going on for some time. Two
cents a gallon is the price paid to the
mills by the growers. The finished pro-
duct sells for 60 cents a gallon.
A runaway team at Auburn crashed
into the rear of carriage in which
Mrs. Charles Cook and her little child
were driving, and in the collision the
buggy top was crushed down over Mrs.
Cook and the babe, making them pris-
oners. Mrs. Cook was painfully in
jured, but the child escaped.
The Peru Canning Company, of Peru,
is almost begging for help in order to
save the tomato crop which is a large
one. The factory is working twenty
four hours day and has seven hun
dred men and women peeling tomatoes.
The company has appealed to the mis-
sionary societies of the various
churches for assistance
The Reliable Dry Goods Store at
| Michigan City was entered by
burglars and robbed of silks valued at
$1,000. The thieves, who are supposed
| to be members of a band of profess
sional silk thieves who have been op-
Grating in that locality for some time,
gained entrance to the store by way
of the basement The same store was
robbed two months ago.
Ten milk COWS owned by J. r. Gray,
of the Orange neighborhood near Rush
vile, are supposed 10 have been poi
sOned. The COWS were sick when Mr.
Gray went out in the morning to milk,
and it is thought that one, fine Jer-
sey, will die. The cattle were in the
pasture and the only possible explana-
ton of the sudden sickness of so many
Of the herd is that they were poisoned.
BY vote of 80 to As, it was decided
! by the National Association of Rural
Free Delivery Carriers, in session at
Rochester, n. Y, to continue the per
capita tax as now at 81. These officers
were elected: President, Elias Frey,
Pendleton, Ind; vice president, l.. ID.
Songer, Trenton, Mo-; secretary, p T..
Gull, Concord, Mass; treasurer, ]. d.
Williams, Renfrew, Pa. The next con-
vention will be held in Little Rock,
Ark.
AS result of brutal hazing by four
schoolmates, Albert Whitticker, aged
IL, of South Bend, is in a serious con-
dition. Whitticker was stripped of his
clothing, tied to tree and so terribly
beaten with clubs that he tainted.
When the hazers realized what they
had done they ran in fear, but later one
of the boys returned and released the
victim. Young Whitticker says he re-
fused to keep off forbidden "nutting
ground" and was punished.
Fire of uncertain origin destroyed a
barn and contents belonging to DR.. r.
b. William at Trafalgar The loss is es-
timated at $1,000. partially covered by
insurance. A quantity of feed, one
hundred tons of hay and eleven horses
were housed in the structure, and
added fuel to the flames. The blaze
was discovered bya travelling salesman
in nearby hotel, and before he could
sound an alarm the fire had gained
great Roadway. Volunteer firemen con-
fined their efforts to saving adjoining
property.
Milward Adams, manager of the Au-
ditorium Theater at Chicago, and who
spent a number of his younger years
in Danville, this State, has been hon.
ored by the King of Greece with the
decoration OF knight of the golden
cross in the Royal Order OF Our Savior.
He is acting consul for Greece and is
also the Siamese consul. He directed
the dedication services of the worlds
Columbian Exposition in 1892 Adams
was born in Lexington, KY, in 1857,
and when a small boy came to Dan
vile with his parents, where he at
tended the old Danville Academy for
several years.
Inc z-mOntnS-Old DaDy or Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Girton was found dead in
bed at their home In Harmony. The
child's face was found buried in the
bed clothes, and death was caused
from suffocation.
For the seventh time Mrs. Malinda
Fronefeld, at Decatur, has filed suit
for divorce from William G. Fronefield.
They have been twice divorced and
three times married TO each other, and
the remaining times the suits were dis
missed before coming to trial.
Joseph l.. Gruber and James b. Har.
per, of Fort Wayne, have been elected
to the thirty-third degree of Scottish
Rite Masonry. Wright Rockhill also a
Fort Wayne Mason. had the thirty
third degree conferred upon him last
week by the Supreme Council