The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-17

the Frankfort waterworks. fell dead
from wagon in which he was driving.
He was formerly a resident of Fair
field, Ohio.
Silas Cook, merchant of Horton
vile, died at Alexandria from the eff
fects of the excitement caused when a
car IN which he was sitting jumped the
track and brought ON an attack of
heart trouble.
Frank Stevens, of Moores Hill, has a
brood SOW that is threatening a new
method of lowering the price of pork
She has just given birth to eighteen
pigs, sixteen of which bid fair to live.
The average weight of the youngsters
is one pound and ten ounces.
Jacob E. Schultz, raw fur dealer at
Petersburg, broke the record for prices
for a mink hide, buying a specie of
mink that is found in Maine and pay
ing SO for it. The animal was caught
sixteen miles north of Petersburg. was
small, but thickly coated with very fine
fur.
The reward of $500 offered by the
Allen County Commissioners for the
murderers of Town Marshal Croy, of
Woodburn, has been divided Seven
tenths went to DR.. Don Gorrell and the
remainder went to William Lands and
Oscar E. Benjamin equally The cit
liens fund of $4,000 will be divided by
the Circuit Court.
A mother, SO years old, appeared be-
fore the State Board of Pardons re-
Gently seeking the release of her son,
Albert Kinley, who is serving term in
the Michigan City Prison for stealing
junk. The woman said that her son
had been sentenced in 1906 from Mari
on County, and she argued that he had
paid sufficient penalty for his offense.
For thirty-fve years Samuel Ste
phens, of Greenfield, suffered more or
less pain in his jaw. Physicians were
unable to locate the cause until few
days ago, when a stone one-half inch
long and three-eights of an inch thick
was removed from the muscles near
his ear. Stephens has no idea how or
when the stone became imbedded in
his head.
A second hospital for animals is to
be established in Muncie at once by
DR.. Orville L. Boor, a veterinary sur
geone One institution of the kind has
been in successful operation for sew
eral years. DR.. Boor will construct his
own building at a cost of $4,000 and
it will be located near the center Of
the city. Every possible comfort for
sick and injured animals will be pro-
vided.
Thurman Percifield and Clarence
Marshall, of Nashville, tell an early
spring fish story and are willing to
make affidavit that the story is true
The two young men were fishing with
minnows in Salt creek, and were sit
ting close together A bass took the
minnow on Percifield's hook and then
gobbled the minnow on Marshall's
hook. Both men jerked at about the
same time and landed the fish, which
was fastened to both hooks. The bass
weighed two pounds, and 1t was di-
vided equally.
Henry Williams. aged IS, of Lafay-
cite, formerly Of Ladoga, a Monon
brakeman, was seriously injured at
Wallace Junction, south of Crawfords-
vile, by being crushed between tive
cars. He was taken to the hospital at
Bloomington, where it is said he can
not recover. A strange fate it seems
pursues the Williams family. Henry
Williams is the third son of Isher VIII.
liams, of Ladoga. The eldest son, Ora
Williams, was killed ten years ago at
Ladoga by being run over by a train
About year ago the second son, Mont
Williams, was killed on the Monon rail-
road. All three sons were employed as
trainmen by this railroad company.
The injured mans home is at Lafay-
cite, where he has a wife and child.
DIR. and Mrs. John NJ. Stucky cele-
brated the sixtieth anniversary of their
marriage at their home in Gosport re-
Gently. All the children were present,
with many grandchildren The children
are DR.. Thomas f. Stucky, Homer W.
STICKY, E. W. Stucky and Mrs. H. &.
Binkley, all of Indianapolis, and DR..
Fred v. Stucky, of Gosport. DR.. ]. NJ.
STICKY, who is 80 years old, is Ken
tuckian by birth, and came to Gosport
from Louisville in 1S4S. He was grad
uated from the University of Louis
vile, a medical school, and was in the
active practice of medicine in this
place for fifty-five years. DIR. Stucky
was a member of the Indiana Legisla-
ture in 1866. He was assistant sur.
geon of the Fffty-ninth Indiana Regi-
ment during the Civil War, and parti-
cipated in the battle of Shiloh. In the
early days he was a fighter for the
adoption of the free school system of
Indiana, and he has been prominent in
all temperance legislation and identi-
fled with all early developments. Mrs.
Stucky. who is ~ years old, is daugh-
ter of Hezekiah Wampler, an early set
tier and large real estate holder in
Owen and Monroe Counties. porn are
enjoying good health.
Thomas Cottrell, one of the mem
bers of the cid guard of the democracy
died at his home on East Ohio street.
Indianapolis, after a. months illness.
Bert Swan, who is giving a diving
act at an Evansville theater this week,
tried to swim the Ohio river there,
which is over two miles wide, on a
wager. When he got about one-third
of the way across he was seized with
cramps and would have drowned had
not a boat which trailed him picked
him up.
The 4-year-old daughter of Louis
Trap, of Evansville, was struck by an
driven by Carl Laval and
hurled fifty feet into the air and over
a fence upon lawn. While the little
one was badly injured, it is believed
she will recover.
James Z. Jean, a Worthington con-