The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-21

ST. Louis when he fell into a vat o.
boiling tar
George Jackson, Elmer Gilman, Ear-
ley Sims and ]. o. ireland. of Bloom
ington, were injured while working
on the new science hall at Indiana Uni
versity. The false work for the con-
crete gave way and the men fell from
the third story to the basement The
injured workmen probably will re-
cover.
Planting and husking corn at the
same time is something unusual for
this part of Indiana A farmer living
northeast of Goodland has about fifty
acres Of corn to husk yet. Some OF
the farmers of that vicinity are ex-
perimenting with a little early corn
At least one has corn up so that the
rows can be seen across the field. Only
small fields have been planted.
Sick and destitute and too proud to
appeal to charity, George Wolfe, aged
80, of Evansville, died suddenly as he
was seated at the dinner table He
had been i'll for several weeks, suf-
fering from lung and throat trouble,
but refused to the last to ask for aid.
After remarking that he felt better
than he had for some time his head
fell over on his breast and he expired
in few seconds.
Construction work on the new Grand
Trunk railway bridge over the St Jo-
seph river at South Bend, which was
held up last summer by litigation in
the courts, has been started and a
large force of men is engaged in doing
preliminary work on the abutments
and pillars. The bridge will be wide
enough to accommodate two tracks
and will be four spans long. each span
124 feet in length.
Several cottages occupied by ne
groes in a suburb of Evansville were
destroyed by fire. Dozens of loaded
army rifles were found under the cot
tages, and in the numerous explosions
of firearms that followed firemen were
in danger of their lives. The dwell
ings were veritable arsenals, and 1t is
believed the negroes had the guns
there since the race riot there several
years ago. The police are making an
investigation.
An interurban car struck George
Wemiller, farmer, living near Croth-
ersville, and he may die of his inju-
ries. Wemiller had been marketing at
Crothersville, and on returning home
tried to cross the track in front of
limited car. His large two-horse farm
wagon was torn to fragments. but the
horses escaped uninjured The wreck
of the wagon and the man were thrown
some distance from the crossing. We
miller is believed to have suffered con-
cussion of the brain.
Several fields OF corn are planted
near Oakland City, the earliest for
many years. The acreage will be I'M
usually large, owing to the excellent
season for preparing the ground. Bot
tom land that usually is too wet to
plow until during May is now in fine
condition for planting. The oats crop,
which was sown early, promises good
yield. The fruit crop win probably
break all records. Peaches, pears. APP
pies, plums and all small fruits are
showing abundance of bloom.
The drillers of the Lynch well on the
Rightly farm, one and one-half miles
southwest of Hazleton, have reached a
depth of nearly two thousand feet BE
tween 1925 and 1000 feet an oil pro-
ducing sand was struck, and If no bet
ter is found lower down this one will
be shot in a few days. The well will
be drilled to about 1920 feet in order
TO see if there is an underlying strata
of Trenton rock This well is one of
the deepest in Gibson County, and is
me of the two deep test wells now
being drilled.
Mrs. Hartman Nolte, aged 40, died at
her home in Clinton from the effects
of dose of morphine which a physi-
clan said was enough to kill a rhi-
noceros. 1t is thought the woman COM
mitted suicide, although the drug may
have been taken through ignorance.
The woman had been an invalid many
months and had been denied morphine
by her husband. She obtained it by
sending her son to drug store and
had swallowed over half the contents
of a bottle before her husband found
what she had done. She lived several
hours.
| Miss Laura Smith, young stenogra-
pher, saved Lewis Dawson, a printer,
from being run, down by a cut Of
freight cars at the Fourth street cross
ing liz Connersville. Dawson, whose
hearing is defective, was about to go
on the crossing, and did not see or
hear the cut of cars approaching. Miss
Smith was several yards behind Daw-
son, and she ran, seized him and
jerked him back out of danger a mo-
ment before the cars went by. The
girl collapsed and almost tainted aft
erward, but Dawson declared the pull
she gave him, which was his first init
nation of danger, would have moved
a giant.
Thomas Nye, of Greenfield, bought
and shipped to eastern markets dur
ing the last six weeks twelve carloads
of eggs. a total of 1000 eggs. or
$4,000 dozen. He paid 10 cents for
most of them
Joe Matthews, aged 10, of Coxville,
is at ST. Anthony's Hospital, Terre
Haute, with a fractured skull, caused
when with other boys he was playing
pranks while swimming. Somehow he
was struck with stone. He will re-
cover.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bannon Fitzpatrick,
aged 81, who lives in Coal City with
her daughter, Mrs. ]. F. Br;nley, re-
members distinctly having seen Hal
ley's comet in 1885. The aged woman
has expressed a wish to view the com.
ct again.
The residence of James Gibson, of
Evansville, was badly damaged by fire
at ] o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Glib
son and her five children were sleeping