The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-11
REVIEW OF INDIANA

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Isaac N. Roush, 60, prominent
business man at Gas City, was acct
dentally electrocuted when telephone
and electric light wires leading into
his home became crossed.
Michael Pulaski, aged 50 years, of
Medaryville, while on a visit to his
sister at Kouts, Porter County, was
struck by a Pan Handle train and cut
to pieces. He leaves a widow and eight
children.
Judge Fortune, in the Circuit Court
at Terre Haute, gave judgment to
Charles Curtiss against Vent Murphy
for $500 because he was bitten by the
defendants dog. Curtiss was bitten
last year during a mad dog scare, and
Curtiss was at the expense of taking
treatment at the Pasteur Institute in
Chicago. Murphy is now said to be a
resident of California.
Hume Demott, a liveryman of OF
well, ans George A. Holton, Demo-
cratic County Chairman, while driving
rapidly on pike in opposite directions
east of Petersburg, ran into each
other and both men were thrown from
their buggies, alighting on their heads
Holton's neck was wrenched and De-
motifs hands were temporarily para
lyzed. The injuries of both men are
painful.
The death OF Cadet Byrne will not
bring about any radical change in foot
ball at Notre Dame, according to Pres
ident Rev. John Cavanaugh 81 ven-
ture to say that more people have died
of pneumonia contracted while viewing
a game than have lost their lives on
the field. believe, too, that there are
many more deaths from automobile ac-
cidents than there are from football"
said Father Cavanaugh.
Thomas Harvey, a wealthy stock
buyer of Logansport, who survived a
siege of typhoid fever recently to find
himself totally deaf, suddenly regained
his hearing. In going from his home
to his barn, Harvey stumbled and fell
to the ground. He was severely Jared
by the fall and on arising, clapped his
hands to his ears. Harvey says he ex-
perienced a roaring sensation. Grad
ually the roaring noise ceased and now
Harvey can hear as well as ever.
Lazie Stanley, aged %, horse trad
er. and Miss Maggie Mitchell, aged Is,
who says she is a fortune teller, were
granted marriage license in Ander-
son recently and were married accord
ing to the peculiar rites of gypsies, in
addition to a regular ceremony per-
formed by Pendleton minister The
bride and bridegroom are members of
the Stanley tribe of gypsies, with head
quarters at Dayton, Ohio. Temporarily
several members of the tribe are camp
ing in the vicinity of Pendleton.
Nellie Jackson, young girl living in
Logansport, narrowly escaped electro.
cution when she leaned against an
electric light pole on a street corner
in the vicinity of her home. The girl
took hold of a wire cable used in rails
ing and lowering an arc light, and she
received shock of 1900 volts. She
was knocked to the ground and after
ward removed to her home in a dazed
condition. Examination showed that
the girls hand that had grasped the
cable was badly burned. The city
electrician found that the cable had
come in contact with heavily charged
wire.
Captain Thomas Jefferson Howard
aged 70 years, died last week at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry DUFF
fly, in Jeffersonville. He was a clerk
for many years on Ohio and Mississippi
river steamboats,, and was the younger
brother of three men who were found
ers of shipyards in Jeffersonville. Cap.
tain Howard served as first clerk on
the Robert Z. Lee and other river
packets, some of them built by his
brothers. He served during the war in
Confederate cavalry regiment, and In
later years was bookkeeper at How
ards shipyards. Besides a daughter,
two sons survive him-Paul Howard
and Arthur Howard-both in the boat.
building business at Seattle, Wash,
where their father located for a short
time ten years ago. Captain Howard
was born at Cincinnati a few years
after his parents came from England
Carl Lamar. of Frankfort, has just
completed a model for an airship. AT
its first trial the diminitive airship
flew about one hundred feet with the
ease and grace of a bird The ma.
chine is eight feet in length and seven
feet in width. On account of the ship
being too small to carry a gasoline en-
CINE the motive power for the trial was
obtained by O coil of rubber, which
propelled the wings as it unwound it
self. The machine did not come to
the ground until the rubber was all
unwound. Lamar has been working
on the idea for his machine for some
time and will soon begin the work OF
building a machine large enough to
carry a gasoline engine. Lamar for a
number of years was engaged In Civ,
ing balloon ascensions and parachute
leaps throughout the State and it was
while thus engaged that he began the
study of airships. He feels confident
he can build a ship that will fly.
Three houses near the South Linton
mine, one mile south of Linton, sank
about five feet last week. The ground
is in bad condition and may cave in
at any time.
Walter Thackery, of near Viewpoint
was arrested by deputy game wardens
John Bravy, of Anderson, and George
Tail, of Indianapolis, on the charge OF
shooting quail and rabbits out of sea
son. Thackery pleaded guilty before
Justice of the Peace Thomas Powers
in Greensburg and was fined $3.50.
DR.. Nelson 3. Ross, well known ply
stefan of Muncie, who killed a traction
car conductor in quarrel over an ex
ira fare of 10 cents, has been taken