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

was playing and the boy was thrown |
under the wheel and SO badly crushed |
that it is believed he will die
Trying to initiate his father in slid
ing down the pole at the engine house,
the three-year-old son of Captain
Frank Cecil, of Evansville, fell on his
head after climbing twenty feet and
sustained probably fatal injuries.
At the risk of his own life, Niles
Root, of Muncie, when he saw his barn
burning, rushed into the flames to
save his horse, and succeeded, al
though he himself was seriously
burned. His hat was burned from his
head. The animal was not injured.
While w. E. Axline, of Noblesville,
was driving his large touring car, the
machine struck the three-year-old son
of Augustus Montague, who was play
ing in the street. The childs left leg
was broken near the hip, and it is the
opinion of the attending physicians
that the child is seriously injured in
ternally.
While Bert Cutsinger was driving
a team of horses to a large roller in
a field at the Walter Compton farm, in
Shelby county, the animals became
| frightened and ran away, throwing
Cutsinger under the roller. The ma
| chine crushed his body into the soft
earth, badly bruising him, but break
ing no bones.
Ivan Bradley, of New Albany, stu
dent brakeman, was instantly killed in
the Panhandle yards in Logansport,
while making his first run. He alighted
from his train and stepped in front of
northbound passenger train No. 20,
which was entering the city. He was
struck and hurled into the air, and
was dead when his body struck the
ground.
John Victor, age ninety-two, veter-
an of three wars-Mexican, Texas bor-
der and later captain of company
in the civil warts dead at his home
in Paramount. Eight children survive
him, all of whom live near that place.
Mr. Victor was born in Germany in
1917 and came to this country at an
early age, landing at New Orleans
Until two weeks of his death he was
active and was seen daily about the
streets of Paramount and Marion
The marriage of a twelve-year-old
girl to a man of thirty, which TOOK
place in Rochelle before a justice Of
the peace few days ago, has just be
come public, and is attracting much
attention. 1t appears that the mar
riage license was issued on the max
ing of an affidavit by the girls par
ents that she was seventeen years old
the date of her birth being given a:
January Z, 1893. The bridegroom
: name is Alexander Fisher, and thG
girl brides maiden name was Laur.
Belle Thompson, of Catlin,
, Clarence Nordman, age twelve, soi
I of Herman Nordman, a farmer wh'
lives south of Columbus, is in a serious
r condition as the result of injuries in
2 f.icted when the mule his father wa
' driving took fright at an automobile
: |
v and his son were thrown out. Nord
0 man escaped with a few scratche
e but the boy was badly cut about tn
a head The motorists took the child i
s their machine and brought him to
e local hospital. They said they wer
o from Louisville, but declined to Civ
e their names.
The Muncie Art Association, tn
Commercial Club and other civic boo
les are behind a project to dredg
White river from point three mile
n east of Muncie to Westside park, tw
D niles west of there. The river wind
b about the city and forms the cit
r boundary part of the way. If thi
1 project is carried out it would involv
y about six miles of dredging. 1t is il
bank a continuous boulevard, am
wherever necessary, to build a leve
Through the "Muncie beautiful NOV
!, ment, backed by the art association
= flowers are being placed along th
= river banks near the city.
d Aroused to action by the rapi
r. spread of an epidemic of rabies in I'll
pecanoe County, the City Council {
: Lafayette held a special meeting an
instructed Mayor George r. Durgan
issue a proclamation ordering ever
dog in the city muzzled forthwith
kept in confinement. Mayor Durgs
issued the proclamation and it goes
to effect at once. The police will sho
unmuzzled dogs on sight. Not in mar
years has hydrophobia been SO prev
lent as at the present time. A numb'
of cases are reported in different farl
ing communities of the county, and
each instance where an examinati-
has been made by experts they ha
found distinct evidence of the DIRE.
disease.
While Everson Decoursey was out
the barn lot at his home near Fs1
land a colt kicked him in the hea
fracturing his skull. His recovery
doubtful.
Frank Ebert, of Alexandria, W
| elected president of the American {
| der of Owls by the delegates to q
State convention in Richmond. 9th
officers are Charles Potter, of Rio
mond, vice-president, and George Gle
of Anderson, invocator. The next me-
ing will be held at Anderson in 49,
The large barn on the farm of BE
erly Willis, north of Winslow, burn
to the ground recently. The fire
thought to have been of incendia
origin. The loss is estimated
$1,000, with $500 insurance.
Word has been received of the fix
ing of a skeleton five miles north
Pierceton, near the Highland Pa
clubhouse. The skeleton is that of
woman and was found in an uprig
position in a sand bank four feet
low the surface by the children
John Kuhn, who were playing in
sand.
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