The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
REVIEW OF INDIANA

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John Marble, who lives west OF Co
lumbus, lost a horse valued at $500
last week, as a result of a snake bite.
The horse had been turned into a pas
ture, where it was feeding, when it
was seen to wheel suddenly, give a
squeal of pain and run. A little later
the animal became violently i'll and
died. Investigation showed the horse
had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
Melchor Macrer, a Wells county
farmer engaged in blowing out stumps
went back to relight fuse which had
failed to explode promptly. Just at
that moment the explosion occurred
and the man was frightfully injured
about the head and face. Ii is feared
he will be permanently blinded by the
accident. 1t occurred in the morning
and it was nearly evening before the
injured man was found.
Lake county has doubled its popula-
ton since 1900, according to the fig
ures compiled by the Lake County Dr.
rectory company. The present popu-
lation of the county is 1854, while in
1900 it was 1882, making a gain in
the last nine years of 3S,562. The ma
jority of the cities of the county have
doubled their population, and two of
the centers of population-Gary and
Indiana Harbor-hardly existed at
that time
Ten poker players were arrested in
a raid which the police made in Co
lumbus on the cigar store of Dan
Truax. A dispute was in progress at
the game and one of the players said:
Il wish the police would raid the
joint" He had no sooner finished his
remark than he looked up and the po-
lice were in the room. Another player
declared that he would play his hand
out, as he held some good looking
cards. He was allowed to play the
hand out and won the pot
An exciting elopement took place at
Orwell, when Edgar Traylor, son of
joe Trylor, a well-to-do-farmer, and
Miss Fronnie Craig, daughter of Law
renee Craig. disappeared. Liverymen
of Petersburg received call to send
to Orwell carriage and driver. The
driver met the couple by appointment
and brought them to Petersburg,
where they took the train north pre-
sumably for some point in Illinois.
Their friends had no inkling of the
elopment until their parents missed
them at the breakfast table.
Miss Grace Jenckes, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray G. Jenckes, of Terre
Haute, died suddenly of the rare mall
ady. puerperal hemorrhage fulminanix,
which means lightning-like bursting
of blood vessels. AS yet medical
science has not discovered the cause.
There is no premonition of an attack
and when it comes in the form, as in
this instance, it is invariably fatal
Miss Jenckes was a popular member
was prominent as hostess and was
active in st. Stephens Episcopal
church.
Sylvester S. Abrams, seyenty-four
killed by west bound Pennsylvania
freight train on a crossing east of
Knightstown. .dr. Abrams, who lived
south of the railroad. had been work
| ing in his garden north of the track,
and was returning home when the
train hit him, throwing him distance
of 800 feet His skull was fractured,
both legs and one arm broken and mis-
body badly bruised. Mr.. Abrams served
in the civil was as a member of Com
pany E, Eighteenth Missouri Infantry.
A widow, six sons and two daughters
survive.
Tony Hetzner and family, who have
| just moved into a house at 176 West
Eighth street, Peru, were somewhat
! excited when one of the children I'M
earthed in the cellar a coffin. The
top of the colin was close tc the sun
the board top. Others of the family
were soon in the cellar, some digging
with the hope of unearthing a treasure
box. The coffin was of an ancient type
and contained bones and dust Old
time residents say the neighborhood
in which the Hetzner home is situat-
ed was the first cemetery ever in that
loaclity. Many years ago when Eigth
street was cut through the cemetery
scores of bodies were removed to
what is now Mount Hope cemetery.
State Fish and Game Commissioner
2. T. Sweeney has issued a statement
in which he says he viii pay for the
blowing and for the seed if farmers
in this state will each set apart about
one-quarter of an acre of ground and
grow some osrt of covering where
quail may be protected from hawks
and other birds of prey and from the
elements. Commissioner Sweeney
says the quail are rapidly disappearing
in Indiana because the underbrush is
being cleared out and wire fences are
taking the places of rail fences, leav-
ing no corners where they may hide.
He says something must be done by
the farmers or the quail supply in this
state will soon be a thing of the past.
Not one quail In five is killed by
hunter, he declares. the others dying
from starvation or exposure.
In an interview Mayor w. j. Hosey
of Fort Wayne censured the police
department for alleged neglect in al
lowing hotbeds of gambling to thrive,
and remissness in not closing UP sa,
Icons at the proper hour at night.
There now remain thirteen saloons
In Daviess county out of the thirty.
nine which were in existence on Feb
ruary %, when the county voted dry
by an overwhelming majority. OF the
thirteen remaining bars seven will Will
close the first week in June
Charles Dinkins. farmer who lives
near Columbus, has remarkable hen.
Recently she laid two eggs in three
minutes. That so overjoyed Dinkins
that he was thinking of giving her
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