The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-16
REVIEW OF INDIANA

george Huber, aged 90 years, OF Fort
Wayne, walked out of his bedroom win
dow in dream and sustained injuries
that may prove fatal. ~
James T. Johnson, aged SO years, in
sane, created panic in Terre Haute
when he attempted to assault pedes-
trian with knife. AT police head
quarters six policemen had a task in
keeping him under restraint Johnson
was sent to a hospital and escaped
No trace of the inasne man has been
found since his escape. -.
Labor Day was celebrated at the
Inslana Reformatory in Jacksonville
by the observance of the holiday and
by a watermelon feast. AT the ses-
sion of the Board of Trustees recently
the parole of fifty-seven inmates was
authorized out of one hundred exam
! ined, by far the largest list consid-
cred or paroled in several years.
Twenty-Five of the members of the
Ruch family gathered at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. b. Groves in Milford,
the occasion being the annual family
reunion. Among those who were pres
ent to join in the festivities of the day
was Mrs. Catherine Ruch, the oldest
member, who is now past So years Of
age. The morning was spent in social
conversation and dinner was served at
the noon hour.
A burglar who evidently knew exact
ly where the money in John Ervin's
cigar store at Muncie was kept, calmly
walked past the cash register without
disturbing it and its small amount of
| change and vert to the spot where the
tin cash box was hidden. The thief
appropriated $110 and departed with
out eaving a clew. 1t is estimated that
burglars and pickpockets have OBJ
tanned $1,000 there in the last three
days.
Mrs. Ell Turnbull, aged 81 years, re-
siding mile west of Churubusco, died
from cancer of the stomach, leaving
surviving her the husband and fam
| lily of grown children. Her maiden
name was Elizabeth Witham and she
was held in high esteem in this COM
munity. The autopsy performed by
Drs. Franks and Briggs disclosed
malignant cancerous affection at the
pyloric orifice leading from the stom-
ach into the intestines.
Robert ]. Tracewell, controller of
the United States treasury, was the
guest of Congressman William o. Bar
nard, of Newcastle, recently. Congress
man Barnard entertained Mr.. Trace
well and party of local politicians at
dinner at the Bundy Hotel, after which
the Controller was taken about the
city. The business of Mr. Tracewell's
visit was not made known. Congress-
man Barnard will go to Chicago in a
week to attend a meeting of a con-
gressional committee of which he is a
member
Judge Fortune, of the Circuit Court
in Terre Haute, gave the new grand
jury special instructions to investigate
the facts in connection with the Hart
Schreck fight pulled off there July &c.
He told the jurors ID sift the matter
and discover If the bout had been a
prize fight" and If so to indict those
connected with it. Following the fight
Governor Marshall investigated the To-
cal situation in regard to fighting and
the action of the judge is supposed to
be the result of an agreement made at
tlat time
There will be a further delay in
starting the glass bottle factories in
Terre Haute because the manufacture
ers and the union men at a joint con-
ference in Atlantic City failed to reach
an agreement. The manufacturers
asked for a reduction in wages. Usu-
ally the fires are started following the
summer idleness, the day after Labor
Day. me blowers say they will re-
main out for year unless the old scale
of wages is paid. The product of the
several factories in Terre Haute is
comprised of beer bottles.
Ora Coppock, aged 20, an interest
ed student of wireless telegraphy, has
been ambitious to make Upton a sta
ton and with his own apparatus, man.
ufactured at home has erected what he
terms an aerial" high above the tree
tops. near his dwelling in North hide
pendence street. He was DESTROYS of
getting in touch with the station at
Michigan City and this was accom-
plished so easily that he became en-
thusiastic and has sent for sensitive
instruments, hoping to catch flashes
from New York and other cities.
Dow Finlayson, aged 80, of Wateska,
ILL.,, is at the Howard County mfr
mary in Kokomo suffering from
wounds received when he was attacked
in the street by Bert Spurgeon, of Ko-
komo. Spurgeon attacked Finlayson
without cause, it is said, knocked him
down, kicked him and then stabbed
him twice under the heart. When Fin
layson was picked up it was thought
he was dying, but he revived enough
to be taken 20 the County Infirmary.
His condition is serious. Spurgeon is
in Jail, charged with assault with in
tent to kill He was drinking when
he committed the assault.
Crooks, who took the stolen goods to
Chicago in two suitcases, robbed F. G.
Hause's dry goods store in Laporte of
$4,000 worth of silks and Attorney M.
E. Letters safe of two gold watches
and 500.
A serious accident marked the close
of the first day of The County Fair at
Crown Point, when Nicholas Chefaloo.
aged 80 years, trick bicycle rider,
while leaping the gap on a structure
fifty feet high, was hurled to the
ground. He may not recover
The incendiary who has been start
ing number of fires in Evansville,
continues his work, and eight more
barns went up In smoke. This makes
twenty-seven barns destroyed by fire
during the last week. all of mysterious