The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-01-13
REVIEW OF INDIANA

ID. b. Davis. of Peru, was fatally in
jured by an explosion of a moving pic
ture machine gas tank.
DIR. Sol c. Dickey has resigned as
president of the Winona Technical In
stitute of Indianapolis. He was one
of its founders.
The sum of s7,750 damages for inju-
ries received at the West Washington
street car barn in Indianapolis a year
ago, has been awarded to Joseph An
drews, formerly motorman. The In
dianapolis Traction and Terminal ca.
was defendant in the case.
c. B. Smith, president of the First
National Bank of Owensville, used an
light for a foot warmer
when he retired, with the result that
the bed covering was set on fire. Smith
was soon aware of the blaze and extin-
guished it without difficulty.
j. T. Foster, a fur buyer of Vim
cennes, has received from st. Francis
vile, H., ten miles below Vincennes,
the skin of black raccoon, an ami
NAL almost extinct in the vicinity This
is the second pelt of this kind Foster
has been able to purchase in twenty
years. He paid John Barnett 1915 for
the hide.
The Crandall farm, three miles north
of Newcastle, owned by Charles D.
Mohler, county commissioner, has been
sold to James CHM, a Hendricks Coun-
ty man. 1t consists of $50 acres and
the price was $4,000. which is regard
ed as high price. The Lee Hudelson
eighty-acre farm. along the National
road, nea. Dunreith, was sold to Fred
E. Hudelson for $4,000.
At the tenth annual reunion of the
Association of Survivors of the Battle
of Stone River, recently held in Terre
Haute. the following officers were
elected, and it was decided to meet in
Princeton, Ind, next year: President.
Samuel F. Wilson, Neoga, H.; Vice
President, ]. X. Henby, Greenfield,
Ind; secretary, w. H. Dryden, Mar
tinsville. Ind: Assistant Secretary,
Henry Wylie, Paris, Ind.
The Rev. w. NJ. Nelson, pastor of
the Grace Methodist church, a promi-
nent member of the Northern Indiana
Conference, has been released from
service by his congregation in Rich
mond in order that he may be trans
ferred to Cheyenne, Wyo. The Rev.
Mr.. Nelson recently asked to be per-
mitted to leave and the congregation
granted the request. The Rev. Charles
Gates, of Cheyenne, is to come to Rich
mond.
Presence of mind on the part of Ma
tron Gressell, of the Orphans Home in
Petersburg prevented a panic when
fire broke out in tie home. The kit
chen stove exploded while Matron
Gressell was preparing breakfast for
the forty-fve children in the home.
The stove lids were driven through
the ceiling and the building was set
afire Fearing a panic, the matron did
not call the fire department She sent
some of her assistants upstairs to
quiet the children while she directed
others in fighting the fire with buckets
The fire was put out and no one was
hurt.
Charles w. Kleckner, who represent
ed Cass County in the Indiana Legisla-
ture in 1907 and 1909, has been ap
pointed sexton of Mt. Hope cemetery
by David ID. Tickle, who succeeded
George p. Mckee as mayor of the city
of Logansport. Kleckner is hod car
rier by trade, and when in the Legis-
lature took much pride in his vocation.
He could have been returned to the
decided that good, steady four years
job under the city government is bet
ter than sixty days in the legislature
every two years. He begins his new
duties Immediately.
A few minutes after the new year
was ushered in baby was born at
the home of John Hando, near Car
michaels, Green County, Pa. At mid
night on New Years eve, 1908, Hando
was married near Laporte, Ind. cou-
sin in jest offered to wager the new
bridegroom that he would not be ia
Their inside of twelve months. This
wager was accepted. Later the Han
dos went east to live. The husband
and father holds that ii was only 11:05
in Indiana when the child was born in
Pennsylvania and that he won his wa
ger by fifty-five minutes. The Indiana
cousin declines to take this view and
demands the money, claiming Hando
lost the bet by five minutes.
The Vineennes Water Supply Com
pany, with o6ices at Philadelphia, has
given Vincennes the Harrison man
sion, with the privilege of keeping IT
or its present site until such time as
the water works company needs the
ground to make extensions of its
plant The management of the COM
pany in a letter addressed to the Board
of Public Works commends the patri-
otto spirit of the citizens of vincennes
in wishing to perpetuate the house.
The homestead is of brick with black
walnut finishings, and was built by
William Henry Harrison, the first gov
ernor of the northwest territory. Eff
forts were made some time ago to get
the Legislature to purchase the house.
Sheriff Demaree found the bars of a
second-fioor window in the Madison
Jail sawed through and all preparations
made for the escape of Jesse Stone.
house and Russell Eppinger, white, and
William Swift, colored.
Scantily clothed and suffering from
hunger and exposure Marshall McMur-
rem, aged 60 years, was found in his
hut a few miles below Evansville by
Deputy Sheriff Albert Heberer. He
berer found $4,000 in cash on the
mans person.
The farm recently purchased by the
Evansville Anti-Tuberculosis Society
with the $1,000 given it by Congress-
man John w. Boehne has been named
the Boehne farm in honor of the rep
resentative in Congress from the First