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


Robert Pace, of Gas City, set fire to
her clothing while playing with
matches and died from burns.
Mary E. Ormsby has filed suit at
Bluff.on asking divorce from her hus-
band, John T. Ormsby, to whom she
was married twenty-seven years ago.
Arthur H. Walls, a farmer near
Greenfield, had his leg broken in two
places and suffered other injuries
when load of hay upset and fell on
him.
Charles Watkins attempted to burn
the County Jail at Shelbyville. He
gathered bed tick and blanket and
removed his clothing, put all in pile
and set it on fire. The fire was burn
ing fiercely when discovered, but was
soon extinguished by Deputy Sheriff
Laws. Watkins awaits commitment to
an insane asylum.
William Warder Hamilton of Green's
burg, sent up a paper balloon bearing
his name and address on a card sew
eral days ago. Two days later he Ne
ceiyed souvenir post card from Win
chester, KY, stating that the balloon
had landed in that city. BY air line
Winchester is $50 miles southeast of
Greensburg.
William and Jacob Evans, two small
Yarling. near ShelDyville, and they
were playing around a wind pump
when they caught their hands in the
machine. The boy had one finger
taken off at the first joint and the girl.
in trying TO assist the boy, had one Of
her fingers taken of at the joint.
Carlius F. Keeper, foreman o. the
jointing shop of the Bauer Cooperage
Works in Lawrenceburg, was struck in
the right eye by piece of steel from
circular saw that burst. The sight
of the eye was destroyed and it is
thought that he will lose the sight OF
the other eye. Keeper served as cor
poral in Company NJ, 161st Indiana
Volunteers during the Spanish-Ameri
can War.
John H. Luchtman, an aged farmer
and veteran of the Civil War, was bit
ten by rattlesnake on his farm, five
miles south of Michigan City. He was
moving in a meadow and stopped to
remove some grass that had choked
the sickle, when he touched the reptile
and it sank its fangs into his hand.
His wrist was bound with Irvine and he
was hurriedly taken to hospital. He
will recover. The snake was killed. II
had five rattles.
Albert Shoaf, rural carrier on route
No. at Petersburg, has purchased an
automobile and hereafter will use il in
delivering the mail. Mr.. Shoaf has
had much trouble in keeping his
horses in condition to travel twenty
| five miles a day By using an auto he
can work three-fourths of the day for
himself and at the same time draw his
| salary from the Government II the
experiment is successful, several other
automobiles will be bought at once.
Lightning struck the same house
twice within fifteen minutes during an
electrical storm at Hagerstown. The
| first bolt tore the roof and weather
boarding from the northwest gable OF
the house owned by Arch Benbow.
Less than fifteen minutes later a Sec
ond crash came and Mr.. Benbow was
severely shocked. This bolt had en-
tered the back kitchen, melted nail
where it entered, and run along a
heavy oak stringer which was reduced
to splinters as fine as matches. The
| fluid encountered a second nail and
turned from its course and its trace
was lost.
Detectives, following a trail of white
-four from the Steck & Miller grain es-
tablishment in Muncie, arrived at the
grocery of Elias Bromagen and there
asked him whether he had not re-
ceived large quantity of stolen flour.
Bromagen admitted that lie had pur-
chased of strangers in the middle OF
the night considerable flour about
which he had asked no question. and
he surrendered this. He also produced
certain empty sacks that had con-
| tanned flour stolen from the confec-
tionery store of Charles Hinkley and
said that he had obtained that from
the same men. No arrests have been
made.
| When ]. A. Landers, county treas
urer at Martinsville, opened his mail a
few days ago he found a money order
for s2.14, accompanied by letter from
former Morgan County citizen, in
which the latter said he wished to cor
rect wrong committed In 1907, when
he failed to list 500 worth of his per-
sonal property. He knew the tax rate
for that year for his township and en-
did not mention the township, but
Treasurer Lands made an examination
and found which township had that
rate and then found the mans name on
the tax duplicate. The amount was
put on the duplicate and a receipt was
sent him for his taxes for that year.
The man now lives in another part OF
this State.
Hershel Cooper, the 16-year-old son
of Leamon Cooper, was drowned In D.
w. Hayes pond about one-half mile
north of Odon. Cooper and a few
other boys were swimming when Coop
er was seized with cramps and sank.
The first cement sidewalk In Goshen,
laid thirty-four years ago in front OF
the residence of Mrs. ]. NJ. Noble, has
Just been torn up to be replaced by a
new one. Only the havoc wrought by
roots of trees growing near made II
necessary to tear up the old walk.
Joseph Robbins, aged Sc years. came
from Spiceland and took poison in
Maxwell Briscoe Park, New Castle.
Boys flying kites came across the still
breathing man and called assistance.
but he died.
Through the kindness of their neigh