The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29

lowed her 2-year-old son to play with
her hand bag. The child opened it,
found arsenic tablets, ate some and
died.
With no food for five days and sleep
ing in box cars for several nights, ia
cob Owens, aged 81, claiming to live
at Columbus, Ohio, was picked up in
Evansville unconscious and sent to a
hospital. He may die. Owens came
to Evansville to look for work.
Paul H. McNeill. of Bloomfield, has
confessed robbing Isaac NJ. vaugn,
county recorder, of purse containing
$50. An affidavit was field against
him. The mother of Mcneil gave bond
in the sum of $500. On account %
the social standing of the Mcneil fam
ily the affair has caused sensation.
Jacob Luckey, for twenty years a
teamster for the Diether Lumber Co.
at Fort Wayne, was pinched under a
falling lumber pile and he has eight
ribs and his collar bone broken. Both
jaws are bruised and he has a long
scalp wound, besides internal injuries
years Of age.
John Young, bachelor, aged IS,
making his home with his brother,
Thomas Young, northwest of Warren,
near Plum Tree, shot himself in the
forehead with twenty-five caliber tar
get rifle. Dependency over the death
of his mother, together with poor
health, is supposed to have been the
cause of his act. The bullet penetrat-
ed the brain.
The mother of 17-months-old Helen
Rosencranz will undergo an operation
at Evansville and give up a part of
the skin of her body to be grated on
the body o. the child who was seri-
ously burned last week when a gaso-
line stove exploded. The child was
playing near the stove when the ex-
plosion occurred, and was badly
burned about the breast and face.
While travelling forty miles an hour
a f1ange on a wheel under the pony
trucks of Pennsylvania engine broke
near Shelbyville, letting the pilot
down, and the train ran mile east of
the city before being stopped. 1t is
a mystery how the wheels remained on
the track. A wrecking crew from Co.
lumbus had to sidetrack the engine
and take the train to Columbus, after
three hours delay.
After nearly a years effort and ex-
pending nearly $500, Fred Adrian, a
young farmer living southeast of New
session of gray mare which was
stolen August /, 1908, from a public
hitching rack. BY accident Mr.. Adrian
learned that his horse had been sold
to a man near Columbus, Ohio. He
Immediately instituted suit for. posses
sion, but was unable to get his proper
ty. He carried the case to the higher
court and was successful.
In a battle with cockroaches in the
kitchen of restaurant at Anderson,
Miss Lizzie Rigdon, 80 years old, a
took, was probably fatally burned. She
was spraying the walls and crevices
with gasoline fell on hot stove. In,
stantly a flash filled the kitchen
reaches were routed, but Miss Rigdon
was carried out frightfully burned
about her face, arms and chest, and
her hair was half burned off. She al.
so inhaled the flame. There was but
little damage to the kitchen.
Tom Mauger, proprietor of the In,
diana Harbor Express Company,
bought piece of limburger cheese and
1t has already cost him 5000. Mau.
gers wife refused to tolerate it in the
house, and so he tied it to a nail out.
side of his house and the hot weather
did the rest. Mauger forgot about the
cheese and his wife told him that there
was something wrong with the plumb.
ing. He employed a plumber and in
searching through the pipes for de-
fects liz sewage, the plumber practi-
cally wrecked the house. Then Maui
ger remembered the cheese and the
cause of the smell, and the plumbing
bills are still coming in.
Fortunatus Miller, a well-known cit
lien of Elkhart, received word of the
death of his mother at Three Rivers
one day last week. He says he knew
ka1 Inn f4r hA old
clock which has been in the family 49,
years stopped the midnight before
though just wound. He says it per
formed a similar trick before the death
of his grandfather, his grandmother
Ills father, and each of the five broth
ers of his grandfather. The death OF
a cousin was presaged by the clocks
striking three times at the exact time
of his death. Mr.. Miller is the only
member of the family who will keep
the clock. His mother was 80 years
old and all of her eleven brothers and
sisters lived to be very old, the young
est to die being IS years.
Several days ago Mrs. Harrison
Mounts noticed a sore place on the
shoulder of her 2-year-old son Robert
She took him to physician in Greens
burg, who used knife and found i'm
bedded in the flesh large needle.
Anthony Whisker, a farmer near
Shelbyville, was assisting in putting
hay in the barn when the main rope
of the hay fork broke and the hay fell
on Whisker, knocking him of the
wagon. He was injured internally and
will die.
Mrs. Samantha Bennett is defend
ant In her fifth divorce suit by action
filed recently at Sullivan by her hus
band, Charles Bennett, who charges
she drew revolver on him. Bennett
| is teamster.
The official board of the Wall Street
| Methodist Episcopal Church of Jeffer
sonville has come to the aid of w. II
Whitaker, former Superintendent Of
| the Indiana Reformatory, and in reso
buttons express confidence in Whitta