The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-02
REVIEW OF INDIANA

James Wendell. aged IS years,
farmer near Goshen, was thrown from
his buggy and probably fatally injured
I In a runaway accident.
Miss Lillian Coffey was thrown t.
the ground and painfully hurt q
Bloomington when a livery horse tina
she was riding suddenly dropped dead
Five hundred patients from the
Longcliffe Hospital for the Insane were
taken to see circus in Loganspor
last week. They were accompanied b,
attendants.
While the children of Mr.. and Mrs
David Miller, three miles east of Hunt
ington, were at play, the little son acct
aentally thrust the prong of a pitch
fork into one of the eyes of his 7-year
old sister. The sight of the eye is
probably destroyed.
DR.. Daniel Palmer is dead at War
rem, where he had practiced medicine
sor many years. He cast his frs
presidential vote for Henry Clay, and
is said to have been the oldest Master
Mason In the State, having been q
member of the Masonic fraternity fifty
eight years.
The Rev. George w. Switzer, d. D..
presiding elder Of the Lafayette dis
trict of the Northwest Indiana Confer
snce of the Methodist Episcopal
church, has been elected vice presi
dent OF the American National Bank
81 Lafayette and will leave the minis
terial field about the middle of Sep
tember to devote his time to banking
and financial business.
The heroism of a barber In Pueblo
Colo, saved the lives of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles A. Turpin and daughter, for.
ner residents of Indianapolis, accord
Ing to information received at Co1Ym.
bus. The Turpin family was riding in
a buggy recently, when a spirited
horse, driven by Mr.. Turpin, ran away
A barber, who refused to give his
name, stopped the horse and averted a
serious accident.
Herman Stanley, a veteran of the
Federal Army, residing in Posey Coun.
ty, has applied to the War Department
for pension. In his application he
says he fell from the water wagon,
and, strange to say, he never touched
liquor in all his life. Stanley was the
driver of the water wagon in the bat
tie of the Wilderness, and a cannon
ball crashed into the wagon, knocking
him off the wagon seat. He received a
broken back in the fall, and claims he
was permanently injured by the acct
lent.
Mrs. Charles Fort arose from her
bed at her home, in Greenfield at 2
o'clock in the morning and while
asleep went to a cistern near the
wed the covering and des-
cended into water that reached her
chin. The contact with the water
awakened her and she screamed for
nelp. Her husband, the City Marshal,
and neighbors labored more than half
an hour before they were able TO res
cue the woman from her perilous po-
sition, as the construction of the els
tern is such that two persons could
not pass the opening at one time and
Mrs. Fort was not in a condition to
aelp herself By means of ropes and
q ladder she was finally rescued. Mrs.
Fort was dreaming that she was pre-
pairing to do the family washing.
On the farm of Lish Hiland, near
Danville. covey of quails has an
nexed itself to a flcck of young tur-
keys belongi~y to Hiland, and they
have adopted many of the habits of the
turkeys. The quails follow the turkeys
wherever they go and remain with
them during the day. When evening
comes the game birds follow the tur-
keys to their accustomed haunts and
roost in the trees with them. This is
said to be entirely foreign to the habits
of the quails. Instead of spending the
nights huddled together on the ground,
for some Jason the quails have for.
saken the habits of their kind and have
taken the first step>toward living a
dcWestic life. Hiland has made no at
tempt to talhe the birds, and so far as
he knows the covey Joined forces with
the turkeys of its own accord
An Infatuated bull. cwncd by John L.
Jones, a farmer living northeast of
Columbus, gored a valuable mare and
came near killing Jones. The farmer
had been away on a visit and when he
returned he started to drive throueh
his pasture to see how his cattle were
looking. The bull became angry ans
the vehicle. The mare driven
by the farmer weighs at least 1000
pounds, but the bull raised her clear
Of the ground and threw the animal
against the buggy. Jones jumped out
and the bull took after him. He scram-
bled back to the buggy and tried to
quiet the plunging mare. The bull
then turned his attention to the mare
and tossed her from one side of the
road to the other. Jones called to
some men at work in a neighboring
field and they came to his rescue
With pitchforks they drove the bull
away until Jones could escape fron
he field.
Curg Conrad, a farmer of Boone
County, and his wife, when driving to
he Zion Park camp meeting at lions
Jille, with his wife, was killed by a
special train on the Northwestern In
erurban line at Turkey Foot Crossing
Augustus Harrison, workman, was
caught in line-shaft in the factory of
Ne Lapel Bottle Company, at Lapel.
Realizing his peril, Harrison caught
lold of post and held to it until his
was stripped from him. He
vas uninjured.
Mrs. A. T. Studebaker, aged 80, one
'f the best known pioneer ladies of
was hurt when she arose in
he night from her bed during a slight
Illness and fell. The room was dark
md she lay in a clothes closet for a
ong time before she was found.