The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09


1t has been announced that the st.
Johns English Lutheran church in An
derson has extended call to the Rev.
! F. w. Cook, of Jewett, Ohio.
Physicians are puzzled over a sudden
outbreak of shingles in a German set
Element near Decker. Numerous cases
developed in one day and every Doctor
j in town was kept busy answering calls.
While cutting timber near Benham
several days ago, LATE Long, of Yer
sailles, and John Benham and Lafay
cite Benham found hundred pounds
of wild honey hidden away in the
trunk of a tree that had been blown
down by the wind.
Twenty-three cases of smallpox have
developed at the village of Lapaz,
seven miles north of Plymouth. The
disease has also spread in the vicinity
of Tyner, four miles west of Lapaz.
Miss Grace Hostetler, a teacher, was
the first to become i'll from the dis
ease and her school has closed. The
meeting of the Teachers Association
that was to have been held last week
has been postponed indefinitely.
With his skull fractured the 2-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Al Farmer,
! living six miles west of Logansport,
lies at st. Josephs hospital with fair
chances of recovery. The baby boy
was playing on the Fl. Wayne & Wa
/ hoc CHI int h.
was struck by car. Mrs. Farmer.
who witnessed the accident, took her
child in her arms and hurried to st.
Joseph's Hospital, where surgeons per-
formed an operation.
Four-year-old Florence Basey, of
Shelbyville, saved the life of her year
old baby brother, when she dragged
him from the burning home. The
mother of the children was visiting a
neighbor when the dwelling caught
fire from an overheated stove. Men
working in a field nearby saw the
flames breaking from the roof of the
Basey farmhouse, and removing a wa
ter tank to the house, soon succeeded
in extinguishing the blaze.
More than six months ago the Rev.
S. r. Lyons, pastor of REID Memorial
church in Richmond, was thrown from
bicycle and suffered among other in
| juries a broken collar bone. The frac-
ture was reduced, as it was believed,
but the bone failed to knit. Last week
DR.. Lyons underwent an operation at
Reid Hospital, the ends of the broken
bone being wired together. The opera
ton was an unusual one, but the sur
geons believe it will prove successful.
A small boy, niger killer" and a
pebble, were the causes of Charles
Lerch, farmer, of Switzerland Coun-
ty, being dragged by his runaway
team, which plowed through the big
plate glas swindow of the First Ma
tional Bank in Madison, and caused a
stampede among customers and en-
ployes A mail box on an iron post in
front of the bank was smashed by the
team, which was hitched to a heavy
wagon, and letters were scattered in
all directions. Lerch was badly hurt.
Beauregard Cullen, of New Albany,
telegraph lineman, is suffering from
injuries received when the end of a
buggy shaft was driven through his
upper jaw, penetrating the roof of his
mouth. Cullen was riding bicycle
when the accident occurred and was
unable to escape horse that SHE'D at
an engine. The sharp point of metal
tipped buggy shaft struck Cullen in the
upper lip under the nose and passed
mouth. A plate containing several ar
tifiicial teeth was forced down Gull
lens throat and he almost strangled
to death before surgeon reached him.
Samuel Meyers, horse trader, who
is serving Jail sentence in Columbus
on a charge of intoxication, does not
believe in letting the fact that he is
shut off from the outer world inter-
fere with his business. When a man
went to talk business with him through
the bars Meyers spoke in such high
terms of one of his trading horses that
the visitor left his watch and So in
money in part payment for the horse.
Meyers says he is handicapped to some
extent by having to remain in Jail, but
he declares that he has a family to
support and will continue in business
whenever the opportunity presents
itself.
The caving in of the earth's surface
near Coalmont, in the southern part of
Clay County, is causing much appre-
hension there. II is believed that the
cave-in is being caused by the aban-
doning of the Boyle mines. There are
great cracks In the earth, that go down
so deep that the strongest light can
not penetrate them. Some of these
cracks are within fifty yards of the b.
gle school, and Township Trustee
Pickett is at a loss to know what to
do. Parents refuse to allow their chill
dren to attend this school, and it has
been abandoned. The pupils are gath
cred up in wagons and hauled to an
other school two miles distant. Doz-
ems of miners houses have toppled
over and the occupants have fed. leav-
ing their household goods in their
dwellings.
E. V. limerick, lawyer and sports
man, of Fort Wayne, lost his famous
blooded hunting dog Honest Dick
Gladstone last week. He was killed
by a trolley car, and was valued at
$500.
Matt King, of Evansville, has chal-
lenged any one in Indiana to a Mara
thon race in turkey picking. He says
he can pick It's turkeys in eight and
one-half hours. King says he is backed
by his employers, Lowenthal & Co.,
In $1,000 bet against al! corners.
DIR. Gillie, City Health Inspector at
Fort Wayne, found all but one of the
twenty cattle on the Allen County
Poor Farm tuberculous after test
and the Commissioners had them