The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-23
REVIEW OF INDIANA

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Because her mother had rebuked
her for talking back, Lola. the 19-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Turner. of Bedford, swallowed poison
and died
James Dushane, of Chicago, was
fined $50 and costs at Fort Wayne for
selling adulterated butter. He says he
sold 500 pounds. made of oleomarga-
rine lard and coloring matter. He viii
be turned over to the Federal authori-
ties.
The Indiana Lighting Company, of
Fort Wayne, has received a twenty
tive-year franchise from Button to
furnish artificial gas from Fort Wayne
at $1.00 a thousand feet In natural
gas days Fort Wayne drew gas from
Bluffton.
Attracted by the screams of her in
FAINT, Mrs. Linzey Chitwood, living
near Needmore, opened the door of
her bedroom to find The room in
woman was painfully burned about the
face. The dwelling was totally de-
stroyed with loss of $500 and in
surance $500.
Thomas Bailey, aged 81 years, one
of the oldest mail carriers in the SER
vice. is dead at his home in Hillsboro.
He was appointed in 1869 and served
until three years ago. He was a vet
eran of the Mexican and Civil Wars,
and was the oldest member of the
Hillsboro Lodge of Masons. He is sur
vived by a sister, Aunt Mary Rafferty,,
who is in her ninety-fourth year. be-
sides a widow and family
Mayor-elect c. c. Crimmins, of Mar
celona, Mich, arrived in Fort Wayne
last week on a visit and in Textbook
walk was stopped three times by office
seekers who took him for Jesse Grice,
mayor-elect of Fort Wayne. They are
doubles" and the Michigan man says
he had trouble convincing the Office
seekers that he was not giving them
the double cross. He had never heard
of Grice before and thought the town
"bughouse"
The body of Andrew Hall, aged so,
who lived with his daughter, Mrs.
Johnson, on the Lee Hudelson farm,
east of Dunreith, was found floating
in Buck creek. near Newcastle, by a
searching party. Halls coat and hat
We're found on the bank of the stream,
which was swollen from recent rains.
The aged mans body was found two
miles down stream from the point
where his coat and hat were found.
Hall was almost blind and frequently
expressed wish to die.
William Bertrand. living on farm
northwest of Morocco, captured bald
eagle in his poultry house recently
after hard fight. Bertrand saw the
big bird swoop down and dart into his
poultry house and the farmer slammed
the door before the eagle could get
out. The eagle fought viciously until
well aimed blow on its head stunned
the chicken thief and permitted Bert
rand to overpower it. The eagle now
occupies a cage and seems fairly well
contented- 1t measured nine feet from
tip to tip.
With the mercury at 10 below, the
families of John Nichols and Frant
Trump, consisting of eight people, liv-
ing in a double cottage, near Crown
Point. escaped from the building,
which was burning. by leaping into
mile away from a neighbor's, and the
fire sufferers were forced to walk the
mile barefooted over ice and snow in
their night apparel. Mrs. Nichols
feet were badly frozen, and she is in a
serious condition. The origin of the
fire that destroyed the house and its
contents is a mystery.
Former State Senator Eph. Inman
has set the pace for new sport at
Washington. He is the owner of an
automobile and entertains his friends
by taking them fox chasing in the ma
chine. OF course Inman does not en-
ter the chase with his car, but with a
string of whining hounds he takes his
friends TO some advantageous point
and turns the dogs loose. With plenty
OF warm lap robes Inman and his
friends listen to the hounds far into
the night. An occasional bush is taken
that is cotton tail bush-but In
man declares it is great sport. He As
accompanied usually by Judge ]. "
Ogden, his law partner.
The wounded eagle held in captivity
at the home of Henry Mauck, living
north of Owensville, has found a kind
friend in the person of A. Meter, Of
Evansville. Meter wrote to Richey
Summers, of Owensville, and asked
him If the bird of prey would be libe-
rated in the event fund was rRised
for the purpose Meter inclosed 81 as
his contribution toward the liberation
of the eagle and expressed much sym
patty for tie confined bird and stated
that if he had as much money as Rock
efeller or Carnegie. he would buy all
the animals held in captivity in the
geological parks of the country and
give them their freedom. The eagle
was captured several days ago after it
was wounded and at least until it re-
covers the eagle will not be liberated.
A novel scheme for keeping chick
ems at home has been tried at Owens
vile with success. The chickens are
fed kernels of corn to which are tied
shipping tags bearing the following no
tice: Keep your chickens at home"
David Seatrick, aged 102, is report
ed to be dying at his home in Eliza
beth, Harrison County. He was for
many years a minister in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. He is said to
be the Oldest man in Southern In
diana.
Greensburg has a new industry in
the City Hall. The Council, at its last
session, granted C. Z. ST. John the use
Of the city hall basement for one year
for the nurpose of raising mushrooms