The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-14

blowing The weather was cold, and
fears are entertained for fruit and
early vegetables.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Robert T. Grimes, aged 81,
formerly postmaster of Anderson, and
Miss Prone Smith, aged 81, who has
been clerk in the postofice there for
the last eight years. The bride is
sister of Mr.. Grimes first wife.
The Fort Wayne police arrested Ed
ward Thomas Joseph Baughman, who
has deserted from the United States
navy three times. He is now in jail
awaiting transportation back to q
training ship. Baughman last eluded
officers at Indianapolis four weeks
ago. when he fed from the Union Sta
ton Their.
The Rev. Milton Mahin, veteran
superannuated minister of the Metho-
dist church of Newcastle, went to
Bluffton to attend the annual Metho-
dist Conference, the sixty-ninth con-
ference he has attended. Despite his
age, he breaches whenever called up
on and often holds two services in one
day. He is 81 years old.
Jealous because the 12-year-old
daughter of Mrs. lydia Schneider, of
Evansville, petted another dog, large
St Bernard belonging to Carl Songer
attacked the child and badly lacerated
hnv md L.
she will die. The dog leaped on the
little girl and several men who were
passing at the time rushed in and beat
the animal off,
Louis A. Bartholoine, aged 43, died
after a lingering illness of twenty-five
years of consumption, at his home in
Lawrenceburg. He is survived by two
brothers; Andrew Bartholome. PiQua,
Ohio, and Rudolph Bartholome, of Ko-
komo.. This was the thirteenth time
that he had been given up to die by
attending physicians during the last
quarter of century.
Leaking steam opened the throttle of
a Pennsylvania locomotive standing in
the Richmond roundhouse and the big
machine walked" out of its stall be-
fore hostlers could enter the cab and
shut OFF the steam. The engine ran on
tc the spur >eading to the main track,
but as the turntable was not set, top
pied into the ten-foot pit. 1t required
the combined efforts of two wrecking
crews to raise the locomotive, which
was only slightly damaged.
Melvin Anderson, of Huntsville, Bar
tholomew County, owns a horse that
eats rope The horse was hitched by
a rope halter and the halter disap-
peared- Other rope about the barn
went the same way. and finally the an
imal was watched. 1t passed up corn
and oats to eat rope Even Irvine
strings were eagerly devoured by the
animal. A veterinary surgeon was
called to examine the horse, but he
gave the case up as one that baffied
his skill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Robinson. of
Lowell. were victims of a runaway
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ell. They were driving home from
church when the horse became fright
ened at a scorching automobile. The
animal ran away. crashed into the
Lowell opera house after leaping on to
the SIDEWALK in Commercial avenue,
and piled the buggy, occupants and the
glass of the window into an indiscrim-
mate heap. The maddened animal
kicked itself loose Robinson was
bruised about the head and body and
Mrs. Robinson was hurt internally.
| If policeman in Columbus is seen
chasing a chicken there will be no
cause for inquiry because it will sim
ply be in the line Of his duty. The
City Council has adopted an ordinance
requiring chickens to remain at home.
IL fowls are found at large it is the
duty Of any officer to arrest and i'm
pound them" After three days, If they
have not been claimed by their owner,
they will be sold at the market price
and the money will go into the city
treasury. The ordinance gives any cit
izen the right to capture chickens run
ming at large and turn them over to
the police A fine for the owners of
chickens which run at large is pro-
vided in the ordinance.
Although he was a good swimmer
and made hard fight for life, the han
dicap of his clothing and shoes proved
too much for ]. R. Egloif, who fell
from a gasoline launch into the Wa
bash river. near Emison, and was
drowned. The man had been walking
on the roof of the boat when he lost
his footing and fell, dragging his COM
panion, William Woodrum. with him.
The latter swan to the Illinois shore
in safety. After falling in the water
Egloff swan after the boat, but could
not reach it. The gasoline on the YES
sci ran out and the men onu the boat
were unable to aid him and Egloff
sank. Later his body was found near
the mouth of sewer at Wolfe Hill,
about one hundred yards from the
place of drowning.
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grower of Madison, has six thousand
peach trees in full bloom. Present
prospects are bright for a big yield
both Of peaches and apples.
belled buzzard, which had caught
its foot in the forks of tree, was
captured by Lee Kintner. southwest of
New Albany, the jingling of its bell
attracting his attention On a band
on its leg was inscribed "B. II. Crone,
Tyrone, w. Va, July 4. 1886" The bird
will be liberated.
| Will Long, aged %. a negro, was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed at Jeffersonville by his sweet.
heart, Susie Woodlands, aged IS, col.
ored. Jealousy was the cause of the
shooting. The Woodlands woman is un-
der arrest.
Karl Selling, a Fort Wayne youth.
submitted TO a surgical operation few