The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
REVIEW OF INDIANA

MISS hdle lash, dSeu Z years, uicu
last week in Gallatin County, Illinois
She never weighed over twenty pounds
all during her life, although she was
not considered a dwarf
Mrs. Edward Schultz, aged so, is
dead at her home in Center Township,
after lingering illness. She was the
largest woman in Dearborn Coun-
ty, weighing more than three hundred
pounds at the time of her death
Pref Miles, aged Ga years, and for
lhore than twenty years banker at
Milford, Kosciusko County, died last
week. He leaves an estate estimated
at 100000. Miles was born near Day
ton, Ohio, April 80, 1916. He was a
Royal Arch Mason, an Elk and a
knight Templar
Eighteen girls employed as operators
in the Portland telephone exchange
struck because the manager ordered
them not to wear low-neck dresses on
or off duty, as they caught cold and
could not talk plainly over the wire.
modifying the order.
c. H. Cunningham and w. c. Cum
bingham have completed a deal by
which they bought all the furniture
and fixtures of the Westcott Hotel at
Richmond, and took 9 ten-year lease
on the building c. II. Cunningham
was until recently manager of the
Aims Hotel, Cincinnati, and w. c. Cum
bingham is president of the Rand Ho-
tel Company, Cincinnati, and was for
merly with the Bates, English and
Claypool Hotels, Indianapolis.
Michael Callahan, aged SO, was in
stantly killed at Rochester by Van
dalia locomotive, which ran over him
and nearly severed his head from his
body. The accident occurred about
one-fourth of a mile from Grass
Creek 1t seems that he was walking
north on the track when the engine,
with coal tender, running backward In
the same direction, overlook him. Cal.
lahan was a former resident of Grass
Creek, but of late years has been living
at the county farm south of Roches-
ter. AS far as is known he leaves no
immediate relatives.
When Fred Steed, bookkeeper of a
Muncie savings company, saw team
OF runaway mules dashing down TIE
street at a breakneck pace and OBJ
served a group of kindergarten chill
dren and their teacher start across the
street directly in the path of the run
Always without realizing the impend-
ing danger, he dashed in front of the
frightened animals, grasped the bride
reins and turned them to the sidewalk
and against the Central building,
where the brick wall stopped them.
Steed escaped injury and the children
were unhurt. The animals were not
seriously injured.
In runaway accident near Ladoga
Mark Shackleford, a wealthy farmer.
narrowly escaped with his life, al
though his horse was killed when Ii
dashed into a north-bound monon
freight train at grade crossing.
Shackleford stepped out of his buggy
to adjust the harness and the horse
became frightened and started to run.
Shackleford, who grabbed the lines.
was dragged several hundred feet be-
fore he finally let go his hold, The
horse continued its mad fight and,
striking one of the cars of the train
that was crossing the road, was hurled
beneath the wheels.
| The Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
in Fort Wayne, has started a move
ment to raise funds to provide for a
Reproduction of the historical old Fort
Wayne on the site occupied by the
structure more than hundred years
ago. The small triangular tract OF
ground is now a public park, and the
women propose to construct there a
replica of the old fort and stockade
which formed the central point in the
defense against the Indians A short
time ago the chapter erected a boul-
der to mark Wayne trace, the route
taken by General Wayne and his army
| in leaving the fort, and they propose
similarly to mark the point at which
General Harmer and his troops forced
the Maumee river. Both points are
within the city limits of Fort Wayne
The making of molasses from the
sap of the sugar maple has been prac-
tically a failure in the vicinity of Ha-
gerstown this season, less of ii being
produced than in any former year.
/ Owners of sugar orchards are at a loss
to account for ii, as the conditions OF
the winter just passed and of the early
spring seemed very favorable. Some
of the farmers own orchards of a
thousand or more trees, these orchards
yielding every season a considerable
revenue A singular condition exists
When the trees are at first tapped,
| the sap flows abundantly. but in a few
hours the flow ceases and the trees
must be retapped If a further flow is
desired. The finished product is of a
peculiar waxy consistency and the ia
vor of poor quality. Many farmers
closed their camps after the first
boiling.
While burning some trash at her
home in Sandcreek Township, Barthol
omew County, the clothing of Sarah
Prudence Allen, the 17-year-old daugh
ter of Lindsay Allen. caught fire, and
she was fatally burned.
The home of John Meade. near Fran
cisco, was destroyed by fire. The
dwelling was one of the oldest in Glib
son County and was valued at 5000
The insurance was $1,000. The house
was for many years occupied by Cap
tain w. S. Whiting.
Elkhart theatres having announced
they will begin Sunday performances
the Rev. ]. H. Breish, president of the
Ministerial Association, announces
that the association has retained
counsel and will prosecute each man
ager for violating the Sunday law.