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

thrown from a spirited horse he was
riding.
William Murphy, aged s, who lives
south of Delphi, had his left hand so
badly mangled by an explosion of
dynamite cap that amputation was
necessary. The lad found the cas in
the barn, where it had been left for
stump blowers.
Elmore Holycross, of Greenfield, an
employe of the Terre Haute, Indiana
polls & Eastern Traction Company, is
in serious condition as the result of
coming in contact with live electric
wire while at work as lineman on the
road near Dunreith.
The Pure Oil Company, buyers of
the independent production Of the oil
field at Oakland City, is building a
ten-car loading station on the South
ern railway, east of the city, and the
first important movement of oil will
begin soon. The Company has nearly
100000 barrels of oil in storage.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
the stable of the Rainbow mine, at
Caledonia, last week, entailing a loss
of $4,000. Six mules and two horses
were consumed Five hundred bushels
of corn and fifty tons of hay were also
destroyed. The stable belonged to the
ALLIANCE Coal Company and was in
sured for $500.
| When Pleasant n. Rooms, a justice
of the peace of Newcastle, accepted a
cash fine from a prisoner before him
who was charged with intoxication he
did not notice that one of the dollars
was counterfeit. He is now wondering
who paid it to him. The dollar is a
rough imitation of a silver dollar of
the 1889 coinage of the New Orleans
mint.
White river mussel shells are being
sought by buyers from Iowa at prices
ranging from s19 to 1886 a ton. They
are the best shells found in the Unit
ed States and are becoming scarce.
Four years ago, like other shells, they
were a drag on the market at 81 Now
the river run" is worth about $27 a
ton. Slugs, river rum" are priced at
1915 an ounce.
j. F. Van Zandt, who for twenty
eight years was connected with the
railway mail service on the Southern
railroad, has resigned his position and
will engage in business at New Albany.
During the time he served the govern
ment he travelled over one million five
hundred thousand miles and In all the
time he served he never lost a regis
tered mail package.
A public meeting has been held at
Utica, eight miles above Jeffersonville
on the river, in support of an interur-
ban road and many promises of right.
of-way and purchase of stock were
made. The town has no means of com
munication, except the river. A meet.
ing is also to be held at Hibernia
twenty miles east of Jeffersonville, al.
SO in the section Of country between
the B. & o. and the river, with sim
liar purpose in view.
The population of the Indiana Refor.
matory at Jeffersonville has shown a
remarkable falling off in the last six
months, since the present manage
ment took charge. In little over six
months the population has fallen 205
from maximum of 1928, soon after
Major David c. Peyton became gen
int q
present time The present number is
even now more than the institution
can accommodate with comfort
Pensions have been granted to the
following Indianians: John Resinger
s12; Thomas bennington, SIS; Caro-
line Carter, $12; Robert H. Chance
Il; Charles T. Clark, $12; John Con
$12; George Keidel, $36; by spe
Il act, John Leimbach, SIS; John B
Lewis, $50; Hiram Nicholson, $24; Ce
ream NJ. Meeker, $50; Samuel A
Moore, $12; Joseph O'Haver, SIT; Lem
uel o. Powell. $12; Stephen Preble
$12; L. ]. Shook, s22; John Spahr
SIP; Walker H. Turner, $50; John H
Walden, $12; by special act, Bartlett
Whitehouse. $24 Martha ]. Wilson
IS; Daniel Young, $50.
Attorney Charles E. Averill acted as
Judge in the Indianapolis Police Court
when a controversy arose as to wheth
er or not a rooster was an animal. He
was from Missouri" to use SLANG
expression, and he insisted on looking
at the section of the law that put the
rooster in the class with animals. The
prosecutor said he did not think roos
ter was an animal until he had seen i
in the law books, and he got out Z
book and marked a section for the
courts edification. There it was il
print-that domestic fowls, doves an(
birds shall be considered as animals il
cases of cruelty to animals. The cour
then proceeded to hear evidence
against George Taylor, 217 South Oak
land avenue, who was charged with
cruelty to animals by beating rooster
it'll spade He killed the rooster be
use it persisted in coming into hi!
yard.
Thomas Williams, aged IA years
! died from blood poisoning in Evans
: Vile. He had small pimple on hi.
J finger, which he picked with a pin ant
tetanus developed.
Nellie Bradley, operator In a tele
phone exchange at Terre Haute, heard
hurry call for a surgeon and learned
that her father, Thomas Bradley, ha(
been run over by Vandalia train a
. a crossing. He died twenty minute.
!, later. He was q Vandalia employe fo
'orty years.
: While blowing stumps on the farm
: Of DIR. Horace Martindale, near Wilk
Z inson, Jesse E. Slaughter was instant
Iy killed, when fifteen pounds of dyna
mite exploded prematurely. Slaughte
7 who was % years old, was a membe
|, of the Knights of Pythias order.
John B. Ryan, a detective wei
known in Northern Indiana, has opene,
an agency and information bureau il
: the Peoples Trust building in For