The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-23

will exceed s25OOOO. Much of the corn
washed out will be total loss.
When Hugh Bickel, aged fifteen
years, of Darke County, was trying to
dig a bullet from a cartridge to use
for fishline sinker, the shell explod-
ed. The bullet penetrated his right
breast just below the collarbone, and
he died in five minutes. The hand
which held the cartridge was not in
jured
Frank Mason, age twenty-six, of
New Albany, who has been i'll of meas
les, sprang from his bed while in a
delirium, and running to the Ohio
River. two squares from his home,
leaped into the water. Relatives, who
were closely following, sprang into a
skiff and reached Mason before he
sank for the third time His condition
is serious.
A young rooster belonging to Earl
Burley, of Rushville, committed sui
eide the other day. 1t jumped up and
caught its head between two palings,
ssrangling to death. 1t is said that
the bird woke up to find the sun had
risen before he gave the signal. His
succeeding loss of prestige in the barn
yard was too much to bear, and he
ended it all.
Holding branch of tree which ex-
tended out into Pigeon Creek, after
they had sunk twice in the water, Jen-
ME Cox and Stella Julian, each age
fifteen, barely escaped drowning. The
two girls, with forty-five others, from
Evansville, went to Lost Bend on
picnic, and after they had decided to
so in bathing in Pigeon Creek they got
beyond their depths
An elevator in the Claypool building
fell in Indianapolis with five passeng-
ers. 1t went down three floors like
shot, injuring DR.. H. A. Koss, Miss
Leonie Scott and Miss Leo Rose, Chas.
Hendricks and Cornelius Wilson, the
colored operator. None of them is
thought to be seriously hurt. A bolt
holding the cable gave, way, and the
emergency brake failed to work.
Mrs Amy Carroll and her two
daughters, Mabel and Celia, are among
the graduates at the University of
Michigan this year. Mrs. Carroll and
Miss Mabel will receive a degree of A.
B. on June 80, and on June 80 Miss
Celia will receive a diploma. The
Carols, who are from Richmond, Ind,
each spent two years in the Indiana
University before entering Michigan.
The following appointments have
been announced by Joseph Sego, the
new commander of the Sons of Vet
Grams of Indiana: Division councillor,
Herbert A. Luckey, Indianapolis; divi-
sion chaplain, ]. b. pullman, Bloom
ington; division inspector, Fred S.
Kenneson, Valparaiso; division pa
triotic instructor, Legrand T. Meyer,
Hammond; division chief of staff, NJ
B. Rockwell. Valparaiso; division per-
sonal aid, George F. Ogden, Wabash;
division organizer, r. G. Boswell, Win
chester.
The latest addition to the artist col
ony of Brown County is Gustaye. w
Baumann, of Chicago. He was at
tracted by the glowing accounts given
by fellow-artists of that city, and is
the first Chicago artist to arrive this
season. Mr. Baumann is especially in
terested in wood engraving and etch-
ing, both in color, and is delighted with
the numerous subjects the county of
fers for this kind of work. Mr.. Bau-
mann is an American. but is compar-
atively fresh from two years of study
in Munich, where the art of color
printing is highly developed
Several months ago Mrs. Frank Null
vey. we'll known society woman of
Hammond. died, and recently Mrs.
Marshall Gardner, of BRIDGEPORT, Conn,
came to visit her brother, Mr.. Mulvey,
and assist him in housekeeping. While
making a bed Mrs. Gardner accident
ally tore a mattress and saw a bulky
package tied in a handkerchief When
unwrapped it was found to contain
$1,000 in bills, which had been sewed
into the mattress by Mrs. Mulvey
Her death was sudden, and just be-
fore she died she seemed to have a
secret to impart, but could not talk.
Aionzo Pace, farmer living west of
Bedford, is in receipt of a letter con-
tanning conscience money from a
man who lived in Bedford years ago.
The letter contained a one dollar bill
More than twenty years ago Mr.. Pace
raised many watermelons for market
and from the letter, the man, who was
then boy, invaded the farmers patch
and helped himself. This the writer
says has caused him much worry and
his conscience has troubled him SO
since reaching manhood that he could
stand it no longer and inciosed the
money that he knew would cover the
value OF the melons he had taken when
a boy.
Simon Conn, aged fifty, married, a
farmer in Washington Township, Ma
rion county, was killed when he was
struck by lightning while at work in
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death.
Survivors of the old Fort Wayne
volunteer fire fighting organizations
are being rallied together to partici-
pate in the fifth annual tournament of
the Northeastern Firemen's Associa-
ton, which will be held in Fort Wayne
June So
Mrs. Miller, wife of Lora II. Miller,
a young farmer near Rushville, COM
mitted suicide at her home southeast
of Homer, by taking carbolic acid. Ill
health is attributed as the cause The
husband and two children survive her.
Mrs. Michael Plapes, of Lafayette,
was bitten about the hands and arms
to-day by mad dog, and, it is alleged,
was found to have been suffering with
the rabies. There is an epidemic of
rabies i'm the county and fifteen peOple