The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
REVIEW OF INDIANA

" hilC llCCo DCQlOl0y
Bert Lynn, aged 30 years, came in con-
tact with live electric light wire and
was hurled to the ground, thirty feet
below, striking on his head. He is
badly injured
Robert Earl, aged ii, was drowned
last week while playing pranks in the
water at a pond east of Terre Haute-
The boy was missed in the dark. His
body was found. He was a step-son
of George Kean, a farmer
Joseph Pickerell, without arms.
signed with pen in tech, an applica-
ton to marry Nora Hare at Terre
Haute. After the elopement the cou-
pie returned to Paris, Ill, to ask his
rich grandmother to help him.
The Monroe Oil and Gas Company,
an Oakland City corporation, drilled in
an enormous gas well on the Sim Bur-
nett lease, near Oakland City. The
well is thought to be one of the larg-
est in the field. Oil is expected at a
greater depth.
| Princeton is going through bread
famine, four wholesale bakeries work
ing at full capacity, having been I'M
able to supply the demand. On last
Sunday not loaf was to be obtained
in the city. The shortage is largely
due to the demand by thrashers.
Soon after she had taken the vows
that made her a nun of the Order OF
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claimed Miss Bernadetta Faske, aged
20 years, of Richmond. Only ten days
| ago Miss Faske went to Oldenburg for
her confirmation. Her death occurred
there and was sudden.
Two Richmond families are doing
their full duty toward swelling the
population of Wayne County. Mrs.
John Liscomb has just given birth to
her nineteenth child She is 40 years
old and her husband is Sc Mrs. Wal
lace Williams, only 80, has just be-
come the mother of her tenth child.
| Shelbyville people living in Franklin
avenue, between Elliott and Habig
streets, two short blocks, believe that
many children are a blessing. Within
these two squares, on both sides of the
street, there are los children by actual
count. One family consists of twelve
children and two doors from this
house is a family of father, mother
and their eight children.
Catfish, weighing from five to thir-
ty pounds, are being shown in the
streets of Columbus nearly every day.
and fish markets are selling home
grown" fish almost exclusively. Chas.
Haveron, who lives near Columbus,
brought forty-one-pound shovel head
catfish to the city and sold it to a
local dealer. This fish was caught in
the White river below Columbus. The
fish was cut into steaks and sold, and
it was so large that the bones had to
be cut with a saw
Miss Mary Germany, rs years old,
for thirty years a teacher of music in
the Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind
died at the Madison County Poor In
Urinary, where she had been an inmate
by choice for IL years past She was
blind from nine months OF age. After
leaving the Pennsylvania Blind School
and growing feeble Miss Germany ex-
pressed preference to being a ward of
the county rather than be supported
by relatives. Her brother, Willia.n
Germany, prosperous resident Of
Ovid, near Anderson. provided for the
burial of his sister in Ovid cemetery.
1 o1o1v,o;Dn+ox, n;fi1onc x,.f+,occoI -,
thetic sight few days ago, when Ed
ward Batterton, at one time a pros
porous citizen, was taken to the Codn-
ty Poor Farm. The man. now past so
years, has for years eked out a miser-
able existence, constantly scorning as
sistance and refusing to be sent to the
public farm He made a fight that
could not be overcome by Rolla Walk
er, trustee, who was-ferced to call Ed
Johns, chief of the police force, to
help get the old man to the county
| farm. Mr.. Batterton was at one time
the leading saddle and harness maker
In Bloomington.
George Bush, manager of the skat-
ing rink at Spencer Park, and Walter
McCrea. farmer, living north of I1o-
gaLsport, tell two stories which doubt
less may class as nature fakes, but
which are said to be true. McCrea
says two robins on his farm were
raised by foster mother. The mother
of the robins was killed a few days
after they were born and the cock
robin went away for half day and
then returned with another female
The newcomer hoped on the nest and
raised the little ones as tenderly and
as faithfully az the mother would
have. Bush seys he has a rooster that
will not roost any place but on the
horns of billy goat which he owns.
And, according to him, the goat is not
happy until the rooster is perched
there. Effort to dislodge the rooster
from his perch is resented by the goat,
who advances threateningly on the
disturber All during the day the
rooster and the goat chum around to-
gether.
Charles Breese, a timber buyer Of
Newcastle, found box turtle in the
nundreo-acre WOODS near Milton. Inc
creature draws itself inside it's shell
until it forms a box, In which 1t is en-
tirely enclosed. 1t is land turtle.
Edward, 9 years old, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Spangler. of Peru, while
dreaming of bathing, stood up in bed
and dived over the footboard. He
struck the floor with such force as to
dislocate his shoulder and bruise his
head.
The application of John Middlemans.
John r. Moffeett, James E. Conley, w.
+. Yeagerline and B. ]. Bennett to or
ganize the First National Bank of
Clay City, with capital of $4,000,
has been approved.
otto Boyce, of Streator, ILL.,, caught a