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

liam Oliphant, of Westport, pulled a
cloth from the dining table, upsetting
pot of scalding coffee on its face and
breast. The child will die. &
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hickman. of
Deer Creek Township, Miami County,
have been married for more than sew
enty years. Mr.. Hickman is SO years
old and his wife is three years his
senior
His appetite for meat and lack of
funds to purchase the food he desired,
prompted Otto Williams, a laborer of
Franklin, to rob the smokehouse of
Henry Murray, farmer living north
OF there. Williams is under arrest on
larceny charge, and has admitted his
guilt
The first home grown strawberries
of the season were brought into the
New Albany market last week and the
first shipment was a case consigned
to Indianapolis. This was earlier by
a week than Floyd County berries
have been marketed in many years.
Growers report that prospects are ex-
cellent for larger crop than for. sew
eral years.
William Swalley, aged 60, an inmate
of the Kosciusko County Infirmary, is
dead. Swalley had been teasing bull
and caused it to become enraged. With
lowered head the animal struck the
man in the chest and knocked him TO
the ground, where it continued to gore
him. Other inmates hurried to the
scene and drove the bull away, but not
before Swalley was fatally hurt. He
died OF his injuries. Swalley cane to
the infrmary six years ago.
The Common Council of Columbus
has decided that that city will have a
safe and sane Fourth of July this year.
A city ordinance adopted in 1869,
which provides that it shall be unlaw-
full to discharge any kind of fireworks
or explosives in any street, alley or
any other public place, has been dug
up and the police have already re-
ce.ved instructions to enforce the or
dinance- Dealers have been advised
! not to lay in a supply of fireworks and
explosives.
Joe Shrock and Joshua Simmons,
aged and years, were seriously in
jured few days ago. The boys were
riding down the town hill in an old
buggy without a tongue, and pretend
| ing they had an automobile. They
were guiding the vehicle with a rope
attached to the front axles and when
the buggy was going at full speed the
rope broke and the buggy turned over
in deep ditch. A shepherd dog be-
longing to Sampson David was caught
by the wheels and killed
Louie and Temple Alternately, aged
10 and s, respectively, sons of Unit
ed States marshal, at Frederick, Okla,
passed through Washington a few days
ago, on their way to New York City to
greet Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ON
his return from abroad. The juvenile
travellers are making the trip on horse
back and they attracted much atten-
ton. Their father has been with the
former President on several of his
hunting expeditions and was appointed
to his present Office by Colonel Roose-
welt The lads have now been Oh the
way three weeks and are ahead of
their schedule.
Mrs. 2. H. Hauser, of Columbus, has
presented the city with a portrait of
Smith Jones, first mayor of the city
of Columbus, and in accepting the por-
trait the City Council has started a
! movement to collect the pictures of
all the former mayors of that place.
Mr.. Jones, in addition to being the first
/ mayor OF Columbus after it was in
corporated as a city, was a delegate to
thu State convention that resulted In
the new Constitution of 1852" Dur
ing the Civil War he was selected by
the County Commissioners to handle
and distribute the bounty money in
Bartholomew County and such was his
probity that he was not required to
give bond. although he handled $780,
SAC. Following the Civil War he was
appointed collector of internal revenue
for his district He died in 1878, aged
| 65 years.
James Eason, aged 40, a farmer liv-
ing near Huntsville Crossing. had a
narrow escape from being killed by an
Infatuated bull. He entered the pasture
where the bull was feeding. knowing
that the animal had mean DISPOSE
ton The bull started toward him and
Eason grabbed a club to use in self
defense. For several minutes the man
and the bull fought and i'm one of the
rushes Eason was pushed down and
his ankle fractured. He tried to crawl
to fence, hoping IT, be able to climb
to the next field. As he was about to
reach for the fence to drag himself
over the bull made vicious lunge at
him and although he weighs 200
pounds Eason was tossed completely
over the fence. This fractured another
bone in the leg that was already dis
abled. Eason crawled a quarter of a
mile before he found help. He is
bruised from head to foot. but his in
suries are not thought to be serious.
Clark Wallace, aged 50 years, who
mas been NlncenLeS agent Tor sew
ing machine company, committed sui
eide by taking carbolic acid. Dan
Frederick, aged so, committed suicide
there in the same way.
| Farmers in the vicinity of Peters
burg lately organized mutual sheep
insurance society, which they called
the dog fund.-" and the $500 in the
| treasury was wiped out in one fell
swoop of sheep-killing dogs upon the
| flock of Grant Malotte.
While playing game of baseball
Roy Boyer. aged 16, living at Howell,
was struck in the face by bat that
a player accidentally let go. His nose
was broken and he was otherwise in
| jured.
! Daniel E. Storms, former Secretary