The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-19

He believes it is worth about $4,000.
1t weighs 46 grains.
Miss Gr9ce Shiddell and her mother
were thrown from their rig in a run
away accident in College Hill, near Lo-
gansport, and the former suffered a
conclusion of the brain.
While E. w. Reiber was fixing a We
hicle at his shop at the Fair Grounds
in Elwood, a cold chisel flew from his
hand, cut his nose off and injured one
of his eyes. He is in a serious con-
dition.
John L. Taylor, aged so, sank down
on the street in Fort Wayne and ex-
pired in few moments. Taylor came
to Fort Wayne from Button about
one year ago. Death was due to a pull
monary hemorrhage.
Four prominent society women of
Brazil were poisoned recently by eat
ing castor beans. The women were vi
olently i'll for time. They had heard
that castor beans were a delicacy and
desired to see for themselves. The
women will recover.
Rev. John Wright johnson, aged 81,
of Fountain City, is fatally ill. He was
great anti-slavery worker, and assist
ed Eliza Harris, made famous by Har-
riet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Toms
Cabin" to escape. Johnson told the
story to Harriet Beecher Stowe on the
occasion of her visit to Fountain City.
Fay Gore, a Southern Indiana rail-
road conductor, who has been lame for
nineteen years, submitted to an opera
ton at Terre Haute and he will re-
cover the use of his manned foot. DR..
w. o. Jenkins removed a wire nail
one and a half inches long, which
Gore ran into his foot while a bare
foot boy.
An epidemic of measles is raging in
Logansport which threatens to become
more serious than the one which pre-.
vailed last spring. Then there were
over five hundred cases and health au-
thorities contemplated closing the
schools. Every day the number of new
cases reported becomes larger and
physicians are becoming alarmed.
Edward, the 4-year-old son of Chas.
Kirk, a merchant of Muncie, was dis
figured for life when the little boy
was attacked by a vicious bulldog
owned by J. Edgar Johnson. The ami.
mails teeth lacerated the child's face
inflicting serious wounds. The death
of the dog, which is a valuable one
has been demanded by the boys par.
ents.
Because two boys injured in Fourth
year died of lockjaw afterward, the
city authorities, headed by Mayor Ed
ward M. Tuhey, have decided that
Muncie this year shall get in line with
number of other cities and have a
sane Fourth" An ordinance is now
being drawn for presentation at the
next regular meeting of the City Coun.
Gil, prohibiting the sale of fireworks in
Muncie.
Carl Cotton, the five-year-old SOL
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Cotton, of Terre
Haute, who suffered a fracture of the
skull when his grandmother, Mrs. En-
ma Deitzen, of Anderson, accidentally
dropped a chair on his head, has re
gained consciousness. The child and
his mother are visiting Mrs Emma
DeitzeD, who preparatory to house
cleaning, decided to discard an old
chair. She threw it from the second
story window just below which the
child was playing.
George DeMuth, deputy apiarist Of
Indiana, his wife and one child, were
painfully injured recently. Mr.. De
Muth was moving several colonies oil
bees 20 a farm south of Peru and his
horse became frightened at passing
auto truck and ran away. The occu
pants were thrown down an embank
ment and the wagon and hives rolled
on them. Thousands of the bees es
capped and the DeMuths, as well as
the men in the auto, who rescued the
injured, were badly stung.
Marshall McMurran, a miser, who
was found in his cabin several miles
below Evansville, half frozen and near
ly starved several months ago, with
money in his clothes amounting tC
nearly 1000. is dead at the Southern
Indiana Inasne Hospital, after a briei
illness. He was nearly 20 years old
and it is estimated he left fortune
valued at 100000. McMurran had lived
in one hut for several years, and his
neighbors never knew he had anything
of value about his place. Where his
money came from is not known. Lit
tie is known of McMurran's past life
Shortly after McMurran was found in
a neglected condition in his hut, sew
eral months ago, he was adjudged in
sane and removed to the hospital. His
body will be held several days in the
hope that some relative may be found
The Postal Telegraph Company has
representative in Newcastle seeking
a location for an Office and it is an
nounced the company will soon built
into the city and compete with the
Western Union.
John McCrea, a mail carrier on .rura
route No. l out of New Richmond, has
black Minorca rooster that has -four
legs, the two extra legs extending
from behind They are five inches
long. The rooster is now more thar
year old.
VIM. Geake 33, of Fort Wayne, has
received notice that he has been elect
ed member of the Supreme Council
of Masons of Italy, effective since
March %. Geake is the head of the
Scottish Rite Masons in Indiana.
While sinking an air shaft for the
Anterior mine, south of Clinton, work
men came on a tree imbedded at los
feet below the surface. The tree up
peared to be a beech and was ap
parently well preserved, but when Gu
in two had almost the consistency o.
soap stone. Yet the bark and the fl
hers Of wood chouad MAINLY