The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-09

REVIEW OF INDIANA

the Pigeon creek bridge near the city.
struck his head against one of the iron
beams and fractured his skull. He is
dying.
r. Z. Lucas, student at the Dan
vile normal school. attempted to race
with a limited traction car from Dam
vile to Indianapolis on a motorcycle.
His wheel skidded and he was thrown.
his skull being fractured.
Samson David, ex-sheriff of Brown
recently received a check
from an ex-clerk of Jackson county
for $40. which was paid into the.
clerks Office of that county in 1870.
The letter explained that the matter
had been overlooked.
Half dozen little boys were made
drunk recently by an unknown man.
They were playing along White river,
near East Connersville, when man
who had been fishing persuaded the
children TO drink a quantity of whisky.
All but one of the lads had to be car
ried home.
Horses from all parts of Henry coun-
ty Will be entered in the big Rose City
horse show, which will be held in
Newcastle soon. Secretary Menden-
hall reports that the list of entries
is now more than one hundred In
conjunction with the display CT horses
there will be parade of automobiles.
with prizes for the best entries.
Finding a morphine pill that had
rolled from a table to the floor, the
fourteen-months-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William HORNE, of Union City,
swallowed it while at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. Ida Shannon, in
Anderson, and for several hours after
ward the child was thought to be dy-
ing. A physician saved the little
boys life.
In support of recent plea by Mayor
Foster for a safe and sane Fourth of
July in Anderson, the city council
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
use of fireworks in the city and within
a radius of four miles of the city on
July 4. I'll was understood that per-
mission would be given for the use
of small firecrackers and night pyro-
technic display during a celebration
under the auspices of charity organic
atoms at Mounds park on July A.
No more commencements, lodge
celebrations or anything of that sort
goes in Upton on Wednesday nights.
The ministers in their association, de-
| creed against it, and they will not
| give invocation, benediction or adj
! dress if the event is fixed for this
| special evening. Another night will
do, but not prayer meeting night The
newspapers are also asked to empha-
size this night as one of religious OBJ
servance and TO give it publicity
The Idianapolis Trade Association
is travelling on the longest and most
| costly ticket ever sold for interurban
traffic in the United States, it is said.
The ticket was sold by the Indiana
Union Traction Company and cost the
trade association $3.50. The ticket
covers the trip of four special cars
and is in coupon form for the various
interurban lines it will go over but
most of the trip will be made on the
Indiana Union traction system and
connecting lines
An agreement to start the actual
work of track elevation in Fort Wayne
this week was reached at the city hall
in that city in a conference with the
board of public works, at which the
i Wabash railroad was represented by
Superintendent J. c. Sullivan and en-
gineer w. S. Danes, and the Pennsyl-
vania company by Engineer Arthur s.
Bland. Officials of each of the railroads
stated that they were prepared to be-
gin the work of grade separation with
out delay and to rush it to completion.
. Robert W. Grafton, a young artist
, now at work in Fort Wayne, has just
, sold to a big eastern art reproduction
, concern, his painting. The Cradle
Song" which has been selected by
. the company as the gem of American
contemporary art this year. The work
is in oil. 1t represents a Dutch in.
terror, with a mother bending over the
cradle in which her babe lies. The
picture was painted by Mr.. Grafton
. while In Holland, a year ago, and il
was first shown at a recent art exhibit
, in Fort Wayne. The price paid is said
to have been 81 900.
Il While score of persons were stand
1 ing near by, an eighteen-months-old
E | infant, seated in its cab, at the Beech
J Grove cemetery, in Muncie, was al
I most drowned, when the baby bruggy
0 rushed down an incline that leads to 6
/. small artificial lake and plunged, will
t the child, into seven feet of water. DR.
y Xene Y. Smith, riding a horse neal
/, by, saw the accident, and hastily dis
r mounting, jumped into the water ant
|. fished the child out, after it had gone
d to the bottom. After the childs lung
L had been emptied of water it SCENE,
Z little the worse for its experience an'
4. was taken home by the mother, VIII,
failed to give her name.
a Stella Bechinski, aged 5, of Chester
] while gathering eggs. The chile
q climbed on to a lumber pile near
barn and was crushed TO death whel
8 the pile gave way
r The newly instituted Zorah Tempt
e of Shriners has bought the Christian
II church property in Terre Haute, to b
L. vacated by the end of the year, whe
n, the congregation moves into a new ed
t. fee, and after remodeling it will US
l.. it for the home of the order. =
" Tom Toomey, veteran of the Civ
d War, aged 76, was struck on the hea
is by a Syrian at Fort Wayne and fats
y results are feared. Toomey recent
at fooled doctors by recovering froI
double pneumonia, and his friends sa
4 his constitution again will save his life
Of Frank Moor, superintendent of col
k struction, Eastern Division of the
a H., /. & Z. railroad, three weeks ag
nj set hen on fhirfoen eggs aft his HON