The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
REVIEW OF INDIANA


Miss Kittie Smith, the armless girl
at South Whitley, has become financial
secretary for the Home for Crippled
Children at Woodburn, Ill.
Worrying over the fact that he was
recently arrested it Boonville on
grand larceny charge, caused Early
Baleys. aged % years, of Evansville, to
commit suicide.
The State Eealth Boards bulletin
for July shows there were 1913 deaths
in the State in July, an average of 12S
for each 1000 people. There were 324
deaths due to tuberculosis.
James Evans, a stock dealer. Sc
years old, and Otto Spaeth, Is years
old, were killed by a Big Four train
while crossing the tracks at Stave-
town, a suburb of Brookville, in a
buggy.
A band of very considerate yeggmen
visited the Banner Laundry in Fort
Wayne. In an effort to crack the safe
with nitro-glycerin, and upon realizing
that success was an impossibility, they
penciled note reading: BE careful.
Explosives in here" and pasted it to
the safe door.
Richard Ohr, of Evansville, aged s
years, climbed a tree after a large
peach and in reaching for it lost his
balance and fell to the ground, a dis
lance OF twenty feet. His arm was
broken, one ankle was sprained and
the boy also received internal injuries
that may prove fatal.
j. L. Peetz, State Statistician, who
started on Western tour last week
with his wife, has sustained a badly
crushed foot, and word has reached his
Office in Indianapolis that a surgical
operation will be necessary. He has
been taken to WOODBURY., Ore, where
his brother resides.
Mrs. D. F. Stuesman, wife of farm
er, northwest of Goshen, fought with a
grounding for twenty minutes. The
animal invaded the house and Mrs.
Statesman rushed out and seized a
garden rake. The grounding followed
her to the porch and attacked her saw
agely. She fought the animal or, but
was bitten about the ankles. Finally
she sunk a prong of the rake In the
| animals eye and it ran away.
Miss Sylvia Bowman, who lives mean
Columbus, is in a serious condition as
a result of injuries received in run
away near that CITY, She started to
drive home along highway that paral-
lels the Pennsylvania railroad track
and her horse became frightened at
passing train. The animal demolished
the Iuggy and Miss Bowman has
bruises and injuries from head to foot.
One leg was broken in two places.
Miss Marie Graham. daughter of ia
cob Graham, the Ligonier carriage
manufacturer, narrowly escaped death
by poisoning. Miss Graham had an at
tack of tonsilitis and her mother tele-
phoned to a druggist, for some laxol,
a substitute for castor oil. The drug
gist understood the mother to order
lysol, a deadly poison. The poison was
sent to the home and without looking
| at the label the girl was given a table
spoonful and half Only the prorapt
action of the doctors saved her life.
According to Sam Pete Mauck, who
lives near Owensville, land turtles are
fond of cucumbers. Mrs. Mauck found
that some animal was ravaging her GU
cumber patch, and though she watched
diligently could not detect the marau-
der. Finally an old hen, with little
chickens, aroused suspicion, and they
were promptly locked up. This did not
solve the mystery. and Mrs Mauck
decided to watch the patch more close
ly. To her surprise she found a large
land turtle trying to drag off cucum-
Der.
Because he believed his life depend
ed on his eating thirty eggs day and
quantity OF gelatin and pigs feet,
Fred NJ. Johnston, Of Shelbyville, was
declared insane by a commission.
Later Johnston disappeared from his
home. He was last seen running
through a corn field, ten miles from
Shelbyville. Before his disappearance
Johnston heard that his mother intend
ed sending him to private infirmary.
The demented man thought she was
without funds to do SO, and rather than
have her spend her money in that man.
ner he left home.
Mayor c. A. Rigdon, Of Warsaw, will
share with Joseph Fu-ay in drawing
ticket No. ] in the F1athead reserva-
ton lands. F'uray lives in Warsaw, but
is travelling most of the time for a
Kentucky distillery. He dropped into
Warsaw some time ago and went to
Mayor Rigdon. Here" he said, 'let's
take a chance on this drawing I am
unlucky and never got anything. II
have a lucky man with me l feel in
my bones that can win. You are the
lucky man; let's give it whirl?" They
signed an agreement and Euray left
for the West, taking three numbers for
the Mayor. The winning will be divid-
ed equally betweeo the two.
Joe Simons. painter at Huntington,
was painfully hur. in tumbling from a
house on which he was at work.
Moses Myers and John Heiny, pio-
neer residents of Cambridge City, are
examples of thrift to many of the
younger generation. The former is 81
years of age. tbs latter, ~ years of
age. These men, despite their age,
worked shoulder to shoulder. all of
last week in a field, pitching and
stacking hay with but little complaint
of fatigue.
Twelve squares of streets in Nit
chell have been oiled this summer to
keep down the dust and they have
proved so satisfactory that an addi-
tional car of oil has been ordered. Sew
eral more streets will be improved
within few weeks.
Professor w. H. HIATT, of Purdue Uni
versity, has been selected to represent
the United States forestry service at
the congress of the international as