The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12

Leesburg, who was taken to the hos
dynamite explosion while blasting
stumps, died there. He left widow.
George, the 4-year-old son of Horace
Bedford, owner of printing house in
Anderson, was fatally injured while
playing when he rode down a stair
way in a toy wagon. Three years ago
the boy fell from a third-story window
to cement pavement, and was only
slightly hurt. One year ago the child
rode down a stairway in the same toy
wagon but was not seriously injured.
At meeting of the congregation of
the Friends church in Muncie to
Muncie to choose a successor to the
Rev. Charles S. White. the pastor who
has resigned to go to California, call
will be formally extended to the Rev.
Mrs. Daisy Barr, now patsor of the
Friends church in Paramount. Mrs.
Barr has already resigned her Fair
mount charge to accept the Muncie
pulpit.
A company of indianapolis men have
purchased. the 1913 acres. comprising
Spring Lake Park, five miles west of
Greenfield, on the traction line, and
propose TO erect summer cottages and
expend considerable money in beauti-
flying the place. The lake, at present,
occupies three acres. The farm was
purchased from c. E. Mathew, of st.
Petersburg, Fla, formerly of India
napolis.
The Indiana Boys School at Plain
field is in the throes of typhoid fever
epidemic. there being about fifty
cases among the inmates and five
among the officers of the institution.
So far no deaths have resulted. Steam
whistles in Plainfield have not blown
for several days because of the serious
condition of many of the patients. An
extra force of nurses and physicians
have been employed. So far no cause
has been found for the outbreak of
the disease, though a thorough investi-
cation is being made.
The old theory that a feather bed
furnishes protection from lightning
was completely knocked out during an
electrical storm at Princeton, when a
bolt struck the home of John Chesser.
mile south of the city, passed into
the house on the telephone wire and
tore all to pieces a wooden bedstead
on which was a feather bed. The
feathers and ticking were partly
burned. Fortunately Mr.. Chesser and
his family had gone to a neighbor's
to spend the night and thus escaped
injury. The house was considerably
damaged
Realizing that death was near at
hand, w. A. Jordan, of Brownsville.
aged So, arranged that his funeral SER
vice should be held in the Methodist
church there, of which he had been
member for sixty-nine years, bequeath-
ed 81, 400 to the church for the pur-
pose of keeping in condition the graves
in the churchyard, and then died. The
little edifice was crowded with friends
who came to attend the services, and
the aged mans body was laid away in
the little country cemetery, which will
be kept beautiful for years because of
his bequest.
Ernest Alyea, aged 50, charged with
horse stealing, was brought to La
porte from Chicago by Sheriff An
stiss, having been arrested there fol-
lowing a six months search. The
horse was recovered in January AL
yea pleaded not guilty. After his ar
rest it developed that Alyea may be
the man that shot the chief of police
in Kenosha, Wis, on July 4, last year
He was arrested there as a suspected
horse thief and while being taken to
jail by the chief of police drew a re-
volver and shot the officer through
the right breast and got away.
Residents of Lawrenceport, seven
miles east of Bedford, on White river,
have had the time of their lives catch
ing fish since last week. Noticing that
black suckers were shoaling, Charles
B. Stewart, young man of that place,
unaided and with his naked hands,
caught hundreds of them, which he
afterwards sold for $50. 1t is estimat-
ed that over three thousand pounds
of fish were taken from the river at
the old dam at that place in three
days, some of which weighed twelve
were brought to Bedford and sold in
the streets.
: Robert Squires, who recently moved
| from Anderson to a farm adjoining
Marion, relates a remarkable story of
egg incubation. A week before Mr..
Squires was ready to move he set a
| black Minorka hen on fifteen eggs.
Not desiring to leave the hen behind,
he took her with the box in which she
was setting and boarding an inter-
urban car brought hen, eggs and all
distance of thirty-five miles by trac-
tion car and then changed to Marion
street car to get to his home The
hen remained on the nest with her
changed surroundings and few days
ago every one of the fifteen eggs
| Matched chick.
Owing to the scarcity of fish and
the high price of meats Evansville
commission men report that hotel and
restaurant men now serve the whole
frogs on their tables instead of the
hind legs as heretofore.
| John Milthaler, farmer living near
Portland, has a hen that took under
it's wings a family of small kittens.
The hen resists all efforts TO remove
the kittens from its nest, with the
same spirit that might be expected
were they a brood of chicks.
The Rev. w. C. Aye. pastor of the
NJ E. Church at Wingate, killed a
large blue heron, a rare bird in that
part of the state. The bird measured
five feet, five inches from tip to tip.
Daniel Fry, living near Sullivan, has
a freak egg almost perfect in shape