The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-07

ton is one of the plans being pushed
by the churches of the State irrespec-
tive of denomination, according to the
Rev. DR.. w. j. B. Darby, of Evansville,
who is the head of the movement in
the Presbyterian church in the State
Hope is entertained for the recovery
of Mrs. Floyd ]. Webb at Wabash, who
was shot and seriously wounded by
Verne Hartleroad several days ago.
Hartleroad is ill in Jail, suffering from
the effects of poison he swallowed i'm
mediately after the shooting. He as
serts he has been praying fervently for
the recovery of his victim.
Mrs. Everett Parker, aged %, of
Richmond, has the unusual distinction
of being a grandmother. There are
five generations in the family. Mrs.
Charles Lane, of Indianapolis, is
daughter of Mrs. Parker, and recently
became the mother of baby, which is
the fifth generation. Early marriages
have made the family notable one.
On his way to his first communion
after confirmation at st. Paul's Evan
gelical church in Evansville, a week
ago, Eli Schaefer, aged IA, was ran
over by an engine near his home. The
body was cut in twain at the waist.
1t was identified by a prayer book in
the pocket, the gift of the boys mother
at confirmation. A hostler from the
Howell shops of the L. G. n. had
charge of the engine.
Mayor Chester, of Elkhart, has in
structed Chief Rinehart to notify all
persons who have been keeping bust
ness places open on Sunday that the
State law against following usual avo-
cation on Sunday" will be enforced be-
ginning next Sunday. The instruc-
tons by the Mayor are the outgrowth
of prosecutions by the Law and Order
League of managers who opened thea
tres for the first time last Sunday. The
theatre managers say they will obey.
Merl Funk, of Warsaw, is the undis.
puted rod and reel champion of Kos
ciusko County. While fishing from the
shore of Pike Lake, he caught "a pike
weighing 16A pounds. This is the
largest fish ever landed in any of the
lakes of this section with a rod and
reel. Edgar Raymond caught a pike
weighing twenty-seven pounds several
years ago, but with a throw line in
stead of rod. Mr.. Funk worked hard
for thirty minutes in landing the big
fish.
Alverio Miestian, Sicilian, six feet
two inches in height, and weighing
more than two hundred pounds, at
tempted to chastise an unknown Ital-
ian at Elkhart for applying an epithet
to his son. He is alleged to have
struck him with his fist, but he killed
him instantly. The dead man and the
son of Miestian were just outside the
house and apparently were testing.
After striking the fatal blow AIiestian
fled, taking his son, aged 10, with him.
The police are hunting for him.
Physicians are perplexed over the
case of Eddie Lotus, the Richmond
boy whose skull was punctured by a
steel umbrella rib several weeks ago
and who has been lying at Reid Me-
mortal Hospital in a critical condition.
While at play with several children
the umbrella rib was accidentally
plunged into Lotus eye by a compan-
ion. 1t pierced the skull and pene-
trated the brain. Blood poisoning de-
| veloped and LOTUS was not expected
to survive many days. There is no
chance for recovery, physicians say.
but the vitality of the lad is regarded
as extraordinary.
JEFF Clarke, a farmer living near
| Owensville, owns mule that plays
| the part of an alarm clock every morn
ing with such regularity that Clarke
has about discarded the little alarm
| clock that hangs on the bedpost.
Promptly at o'clock this mule kicks
| the side of the barn four times in sue
cession. AT first Clarke thought the
animal was Ill, and for several morn
ings he got up and investigated. He
took note, however, that the gong of
the alarm clock started buzzing when
the mule started kicking. He put two
and two together and reached the con-
clusion that the mule knows the hour
when the Clarke household should
arise and begin the days work.
Lon Brown, near Moreland, owns a
dog that Is responsible for two damage
L r,it hQin in lrf
against Brown, the aggregate amount
of the suits being $4,000. The suits are
| filed by Arthur Khaun and his wife. 1t
is charged that while Mr.. and Mrs.
Khaun were driving past the Brown
home, Browns dog ran out into the
highway and barked furiously at the
horse they were driving. AS a result
of the barking the horse ran away and
Mrs. Khaun was thrown out of the
buggy to the hard roadway, sustaining
a broken leg and other injuries. For
this Mrs. Khaun seeks to recover
Mr.. Khaun, for the loss of his wife's
services, companionship, etc., seeks to
recover $1,000.
The barn of William d. Barnes,
County Treasurer, burned at Eliza
| beth, Harrison County. last week,
burning his driving horse and team
belonging to John Kraft, of New AL
bany.
Newton Whitman, living near Cross
Plains, has sold his tobacco crop, p, >
453 pounds, for s3,OO3.42, more than
the original cost of his farm of three
hundred acres. Extended culture of
tobacco in Ripley County is compa-
ratively new venture.
A hog weighing SO pounds was sold
| by William Dixon to Shelburn G. East
at Worthington, for SASS. 1t will be
shipped to Indianapolis. 1t is the larg-
est hog ever sold on this market. A
SOW and eleven pigs were sold at a
public sale near Worthington for 500.
Quincy Hill, grower of original roses
at Richmond, received word that the