The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-16

Cathedral at Fort Wayne will be hel,
November fe, II and Is. The worl
on the cathedral is being rushed nigh
and day. The Supreme Council will at
tend the dedication. The present indi
cations are that the class to take tn,
degrees from fourth up will excee,
four hundred.
Mrs. Frank Cour. her two daughters
the Misses Carrie and Bertha, her sol
Frank and Frank Thompson, all O
Fort Wayne, are all expected to re
cover after serious illness from toad
stool poisoning. The people were un
der the impression that they were eat
ing mushrooms. The hasty administra
ton of antidotes saved the family.
Coroner Alfred has filed his verdic
relative to the death of William War
rem, farmer living near Maplewood
who was killed on the night of August
26, near Brownsburg. Warren's bod,
was found along the tracks of the Ber
Hur traction line. Coroner Alfred
found that Warren met his death by
being assaulted by an unidentified man
w. H. Ewers, of Danville, ILL.,, was in
Carlisle looking at site for a manu-
featuring concern, now located al
Terre Haute, that is soon to be dis
mantled and moved to some towr
where raw material can be obtained
more readily. The factory manufac
lures various kinds of clay products
and gives employment to $50 work
men.
Mark Remington, aged IS, a promi
nent citizen of Bangor, Mich, rather
than suffer rheumatic pains, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in the
temple at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Justice Harding in South Bend, where
he had been living. Remington ha6
been engaged in selling patent medi
cine to farmers near South Bend fol
some time.
Captain E. M. Baldwin, pilot in the
government service during the Civil
War, who has been in army service
for forty years, now stationed at the
depot of the quartermaster's depart
ment in Jacksonville, is one of three
veteran employees of the place whose
wages have just been cut. Hereafter
Captain Baldwin will receive $1,000 in
stead of $500 year
xr-oC -.
that the Government had purchased
the w. T. Hicks and Dr. p. c. Holland
lots at the corner of College avenue
and Seventh street as site for tie
new postoffice. The total cost of the
two lots was $14,5O0. An effort will
be made to start the construction work
in early spring. The amount appro
priated for the Government building
is 100000.
The contract has been let by Super
intendent James M. Sutton, to the
Hummer Construction Company, oil
Marion, Ohio. at s64,475 for dredging
the Salamonia river from Pennville
Jay County, to the Matamoras bridge
near Montpelier, Blackford County, a
distance of seven miles. Figures OF
five other bidders ranged as high as
sS1,150. Actual work will begin in
three months.
A peculiar situation has developed in
Princeton, school circles. Unless about
twenty pupils of Patoka Township are
Immediately transferred to the city
High School patrons threaten to bring
suit to compel the recognition of such
transfers. The pupils whose transfers
have been held up have enrolled with
the city High School and expect to
take thenr places among the classes.
AS result of the sudden increase in
attendance the High School is crowded
to overlooking and the faculty is un.
able to cope with the situation at pres.
ent, as the seating capacity of the High
School department is only 15S, while
ITO pupils are enrolled.
That Newton l.. Gilbert, former Con.
gresham from the Twelfth District
and erstwhile Lieutenant Governor of
Indiana, who now holds one of the big
Government positions in the Philip
pines, is getting to be as big man as
President Taft-fguratively speaking
lis exemplified by the fact that he is
now occupying the house that was
Tafts home when the latter was Gov
ernor of the Philippines. This infor-
nation is cleaned from letters written
to friends by Gilbert. The former Fort
Wayne man states that his new home
is situated In one of the most desirable
residence portions of Manila directly
on the bay. Mr.. Gilbert writes that he
and his wife have recently returned
from a three weeks trip to Australia.
They were accompanied on this trip by
Bishop Brent, one of the foremost re-
ligious leaders of the island. He has
purchased a big touring car and with
this makes trips around the island. Be
fore long, he writes, he expects to re-
turn to Fort Wayne for visit, but he
states that he is entirely too busy at
the present time to fix any definite
date for his return.
Anna Scofeld, aged SO years, widow
Of Darius Scofield, died at Elkhart from
pneumonia. Six children, a sister,
aged 81 and a brother. aged 80. sur
vive her. She was of Dutch descent
and was born near Buffalo, n. Y.
Christian c. Waldo, SO years old and
a prominent contractor and builder of
Fort Wayne, was killed at Huntington.
He stepped on the interurban track to
signal the car to stop. The motorman
failed to slacken the speed and the car
struck him, killing him instantly.
Prof. w. s. Hiatt, superintendent of
the Frankfort schools, killed himself
In that city by taking carbolic acid.
He was found in the basement by the
janitor of the building. Hiatt was
elected superintendent about a month
ago. No cause is known for his act.
A blazing automobile belonging to
Herman Fedler, of Hammond, that
caught fire following a gasoline explo-
sion in a Crown Point garage, placed