The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-02-24
REVIEW OF INDIANA

lent of the National Brick Manufac-
10 exert his influence in favor of the
creation of a federal bureau of mines.
Longcliffe officials deny Tie story
published under a Columbus date line.
physician, and Miss Josie Quinn,
nurse at the Northern Indiana Hos
pital for the Insane, were forced to
leave the institution because they
Statistics supplied by the Pennsyl-
vania company show that LOO men
are now engaged in the train service
on the Fort Wayne division of the
Pennsylvania lines. OF this number
200 are conductors, $50 are brakemen,
$50 are engineers. 24O are .fremen
and the remainder are employed in
the yards as switchmen.
Fred Gretchen. aged SIS years, had
a peculiar accident. He was sitting
quietly in a chair at his home in Bed
ford when his left limb became af-
fected by muscular contraction
which gave it a severe jeprk. The in
voluntary action caused the bone above
the knee to snap Medical attention
was summoned and the fracture re-
duced
Newton Wallen, barber of Iona,
put on pair of faT-sighted spectacles
instead of his own near-sighted glass
es one night last week. and before
he realized his mistake he had cut
OFF large slice of Europe Lanes ear.
Lane was in the barber chair and
Wallen was stropping his razor pre-
paratory to shaving his customer when
the accident occurred.
NGeorge Sullivan, of Dunkirk, who
was adjudged insane several days ago,
following an attempt to commit sui
eide by taking poison, made another
attempt to kill himself by thrusting
a redhot steel poker down his throat.
Sullivan's mouth was badly burned
before he was overpowered by his
son. The demented man has been
placed in Jail at Portland pending his
removal to the East Haven hospital.
Roll Terrell, aged 80, was killed at
Mitchell, b. falling head first into a
stone crusher, while he was assisting
in dumping cars of stone into the ma
chine. He was ground to death. Ter
rell had serted time at Jeffersonville
and Michigan City. When a youth
one of his arms was taken off by a
train. Last summer he climbed on
a fast express train and when near
Huron fell out, but was only slightly
injured
There arrived in Terre Haute re-
Gently from New Orleans for transship-
ment to New York large case con-
tanning an elephant hide and it was
from T. r. Nuji, of Africa, and con-
signed to G.. Bartlett, an animal deal
er, of % Greenwich avenue, New York.
1t had been sent to Bartlett at New
Orleans, where he was formerly in
bushes and was being forwarded. The
combined weight of the box and con-
tents was 600 pounds.
The school building at Greenwood
caught fire from furnace and blaze
in the primary room was the first the
teachers knew of it, Excitement was
caused in the town, but with rare cool
ness and self-possesion, each teacher
dismissed her room and marched the
children out without an accident Ii
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building has caught fire, and school is
now closed until the building can be
repaired and made safe. The damage
to the school building is not great.
Judge Frank Feely, of Muncie, is
adopting the pledge cure" for habit
ual drunkards. The first to take the
cure" was Frank Dennihan. who has
been frequently arrested. Dennihan.
in the company of an officer, went to
the st. Lawrence Catholic rectory and
there on his knees before the Rev.
Father Kohl, agreed not to taste liquor
for period of two years. Then Judge
RELY released him. Others are to re-
ceive similar treatment in the hope of
working permanent reform in them in
stead of Furnishing them.
A mail box on rural route No. 3,
out of Greenville, has been robbed of
number of letters In the last few
days, and the last time the box was
looted the thieves were caught in the
act, a pair of English sparrows being
the culprits. When the letters first
began to disappear it was thought
some person was getting them. but
the mystery deepened when the let
tiers were found unopened in a fence
corner nearby. 1t was decided TO
watch the box from distance and the
owner was rewarded for his trouble
He saw the sparrows fly to the box
and work their way through the open
ing with a letter and worked away
until they got it out, after which one
of the birds flew TO the fence corner
with it. After they had repeated the
operation several times they were
driven away. 1t is believed the birds
had selected the box in which to
build a nest and for this purpose
were removing It's contents
Ernest III. Thies. farmer living
near Rising Sun, has fenced off six
acres of ground and will raise skunks
for their fur. He has two hundred OF
the animals on the place % start
with
Frightened by an alarm of fire
which caused $4,000 damage at
Henry, Miss Clete Erne, daughter OF
William .Erne, was so badly shocked
that physicians were unable to save
her life She had been i'll several
days.
James L. King, of Cypress, while
crossing the Louisville & Nashville
railroad at Lockhart's Point in his
buggy was struck by passenger train
and will probably die from his in
juries. Mr.. King is 81 years old.