The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-05


Joseph E. Hennings, proprietor of
the Grand Hotel and lessee and man.
ager of the Grand Opera House in An
derson, was seriously injured when he
slipped on a stairway and fell to the
basement of the theatre. A surgeon
found Hennings suffered a dislocation
of his right ankle and that ali the liga-
ments of his leg below the knee were
badly torn.
Because his father gave him a fog
glng with a piece of a rail, Everett
Roberts, of Bright Light, on the Wa
bash river, ran into the house and OBJ
tanning shotgun returned wounding
him. The boy left home at once ard
is still at large. The son is said to
have refused to assist in driving hogs,
whereupon his father seized a club
and administered punishment.
Notwithstanding the wintry weather
OF the last week, mushroom hunters
have been coming into Peru with large
quantities of them. James Rhineber-
ger. while there was snow still on the
ground, found 119 mushrooms Frank
Mock also brought in a bushel bas-
ketful of fine ones. Several persons
report that they found mushrooms pro-
truding through the snow, which is
unusual.
Frank NJ. Young, of HopkinsviIle,
KY, who is six feet seven inches tall,
was denied admission into the regular
army at Evansville because of his
height. Young says that until recent
ly he was street car conductor, en-
ployed on the lines in st. Louis, and
he gave up his job because the COM
pany refused to alter the cars so he
would not have to bend over each time
he entered one.
Frank Suits, young man, totally
blind, has completed breaking fifteen
acre field on a farm pear Greenfield.
He is the first blind man in Hancock
County to undertake this kind of
work. Suits used an ordinary walk
ing breaking pillow. When he supposed
the pillow to be near a corner he would
stop the team and feel over the ground
to get his bearings. Suits completed
the field without any assistance
In freight wreck on the Chicago,
Cincinnati & Louisville railroad three
miles south of Richmond, three train
men were slightly injured and Joseph
". Hardlica, of st. Louis, was killed.
Hardlica is believed to have been a
tramp beating his way. Letters in his
pocket fixed his identity. The wreck
occurred just across the Wayne Coun-
ty line, in Union County, and was
caused by car jumping the track. A
number of cars were badly damaged.
Mrs. Nellie w. Lowe, matron of the
Y. NJ. C. A. of Omaha, Neb., will be
the successor of Mrs. Martha E. Walk
er as matron Of the Y. NJ c. A. Of
South Bend. Mrs Walker rendered
her resignation at the last meeting of
the directors. She will leave July 2
for Europe, as chaperon of a party of
young women on a one-year tour. Mrs.
Lowe is one of the best-known Y. NJ.
c. A. matrons in the country, and with
Mrs. Walker, ranks high in Y. NJ c.
A. circles.
The scarcity of laborers has COM
PEELED Roadmaster ID. r. Wright, of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, to
bring gang of twenty Hungarians
from Fort Wayne to complete the
work of ballasting and placing new
rails on a stretch of track ten miles
long between Portland and Stone Sta
ton. The work will require about one
month to complete. The roadbed will
be reballasted and new rails of the
regulation weight and length will re-
place the present ones.
| Married in their youth, divorced
twentyseven years ago, each taking
another mate short time afterward,
only to go back to each other and be
secretly married again in South Bend
is the succession of marital experien-
ces of Henry Ranstead, aged 81, re-
tired farmer, of Terre Coupee, st.
Joseph County, and Mrs. Jane Frame,
aged x, of the same place. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ranstead, during their first mar
riage, before clouds gathered to OBJ
scure their happiness, had three chill
dren, one son and two daughters.
Walton, the son, is now So years old,
and lives on the old homestead.
James X. Yeagley, produce buyer
and shipper of Denote, was fined
for the shipment of fifty-four quails,
eight wild ducks, one snipe and sew
enteen rabbits to commission mer-
chants IN Chicago on December rs
last. The game was shipped in a bar
rel by express and billed as rabbits.
Yeagley's fine and costs amounted to
$1O9. Convinced that there have been
many violations of the game law in
the Kankakee valley. Chief Deputy
Game Warden Earle says he intends
to break up the practice of illegal
he has to camp on the Kankakee all
the year round.
A strange monkey, believed to have
escaped from a circus, committed su.
icide at the plant of the Globe Handle
Company in Evansville, whittier he
had wandered, by hanging himself
with chain from one of the rafters.
A COW valued at 500, belonging to
Milton White, of near Nashville, be-
came entangled in a clothes line last
week and choked to death. Mr. White
found the animal in the morning lying
on the ground with the wire wrapped
around its neck.
George Hightower, of Greensburg
has four-legged chicken which was
Matched in brood last week. 1t is a
full-blooded Plymouth Rock and the
two additional "scratchers" are set be
tween the normal legs. The fowl is
alive and healthy.
The new city directory for Peru and
its immediate suburbs shows that
there is a population of seventeen
thousand in the territory included
within a radius of one mile and hall