The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-01-20
REVIEW OF INDIANA

dnSNllle, 1Ound pearl that is valued |
at several hundred dollars.
Thomas Bodkin, a farmer near
Greenfield, butchered several hogs for |
his years meat, and after he had fig |
ured up the cost, s175, he sat. down |
and cried
Henry Fork, trapper near Lincoln /
City, caught large wolf in a steel trap |
which he set near his home. This is |
the first wolf in several years to be |
caught in the southern part of the |
State.
Lee Willis, aged years, son of How |
ard Willis, farmer, living near I'm !
ion, dreamed that he was assailed by |
Indians and in getting away from his
fancied foes he flung himself from the
bed, breaking an arm.
Two large foxes were caught alive
by hunters three miles east of Milton.
One OF them was taken in a trap by
Allie Urine. The other was scared up
on the farm of OFT Crownover. where
it had been living on chickens, and was
chased several miles by Albert New
man. Fred Murley and OFT Crownover.
Just as it was about to escape into its |
burrow, Albert Newman caught ii by
the tail
Using court plaster, on which had
been rudely printed an 90" two young
men raised a 81 bill to a SO bill and
successfully passed il on a Newcastle
restaurant proprietor, receiving over SO /
in change after eating a lunch Wher-
ever the figure 4" showed, a court
plaster 20" was added. The crime was
revealed when an attempt was made
to deposit the bill in bank. The po-
lice are seeking the two men.
Stricken with paralysis, Mrs. Zenas
Ffnney, of Princeton, fell into an open
CRATE, but was saved from death by
her daughter Jennie Mrs. Finney was
talking over telephone with her
daughter, an operator at a local ex-
change, when stricken The daughter
heard the sound of the fall and at once
telephOned to neighbors to investigate.
They found Mrs Finney enveloped in
flames, but physicians say she will
live.
A wildcat is terrorizing the people
living in the neighborhood of Steele's
schoolhouse, northwest of Owensville. |
The beast made its appearance several
days ago, and has been seen a number
of times by different people. David
Mason and James Farrar took shot
at the, wildcat, but it scampered off
uninjured through the woods Parents
of several of the pupils attending the
Steele school are keeping their chill !
dren at home.
A miner in Ayrshire mine No. is
killing rats by electricity at the rate
of about twenty day. The mine has
long been overrun with rats, and min
ers have been seriously troubled. Along
the main entry of the mine is high |
ly- charged electric signal wire. Pro-
curing piece of copper wire, a miner
attached it to this signal line, and
placing the free end in his room, at !
tached piece of meat. Each time
rat attempts to eat the meat it is |
shocked to death.
After fighting for life for a week |
against tremendous odds in st. Mar
garet's Hospital, Hammond, Mrs. ia
cob Busch, of Lansing, H., succumbed |
A week ago she was fearfuIly burned |
while trying to light fire with kero-
sene. She was taken to Hammond, a |
distance of five miles, In a bobsled, |
with the thermometer IL degrees be-
low zero. In a short time after she |
gave birth to son In the hospital, |
and her case presented one of the most |
remarkable evidences of vitality the |
doctors ever knew.
Charles Marshall, aged So, a stock |
buyer and a man prominent in Wells |
County politics. was struck by south |
bound Indiana Union Traction car at |
Poneto, six miles south of Bluffton, and |
fatally injured. Marshall was driving |
a two-horse buggy, and while crossing |
the traction line at curve he did not |
see the car approaching The car |
struck the buggy amidship. throwing
the occupant forty feet into the yard |
of Abner Nuttor When surgeons ex- |
amined the injured man they found |
that his lungs had been punctured by |
broken ribs.
DR.. and Mrs. Jesse Reagan, of Plain |
field, celebrated the sixtieth anniver- |
sary OF their marriage recently. Dr. |
and Mrs. Reagan were married near |
West Newton OH January 10. 1850 |
Only one person is living who attend |
ed the wedding-Mrs. Lucinda We've |
see, sister of Mrs. Reagan, who was
present at the celebration. DR.. Reagan
will be "a years old in few days and |
his wife is three years his junior He |
lived in Plainfield when a small boy |
and was witness to the upsetting of |
the stage in 1912, when President Van |
Buren, was dumped into a mud hole |
near a big elm tree which today is |
known as the Van Buren, elm. DR.. |
Reagan has practiced medicine for
fifty-six years. He was surgeon in the |
army, member of the One-hundred- |
and forty-eighth regiment
When Charles ]. Blake, a machinist
of Anderson, put coal into stove at |
his home in Anderson, he accidentally |
dropped his purse, containing s125 in |
bank certificates in the fire. The |
money was consumed.
Mrs. William Asher McMurren, of |
Newark, n. j.. has written to Sheriff |
w. z. Barnes at Evansville stating she |
believes that Marshal McMurran, the |
hermit. who was found starving there !
with $4,000 in money on his person, |
is her long-lost brother.
Having lost his position as manager
of dry goods store in Martinsville |
through the use of liquor, which he al |
leges he obtained at the Red Cross and |
Regnish drug stores, Z. G.. Burnette |
has sued those firms for $500 for loss |
of wages since he was discharged
j. w. Miller, one of the men indict- |
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