The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-07
REVIEW OF INDIANA

Ladies' Aid Society of the Union Meth
odist church, five miles west of Port
land, unloaded in quick time car load
ed with tile, and just received by AL
bert Ertle, husband of one of the mem
bers. In few minutes they had added
So so to their treasury.
A. S. Meade, road foreman of en-
glnes on the Peru division Of the Wa
bash railroad for a number of years,
has resigned, to devote his attention to
farming. His successor is Engineer A.
r. King, of the Wabash passenger SER
vice between Toledo and Montpelier,
ONO. Mr.. King will move from Toledo
to Peru, and will make his headquar-
ters there.
A big shepherd dog went mad and
started on run through the fields
west of Petersburg. 1t bit a dog be-
longing to John Stewart, sprang upon
and bit mule belonging to Charles
Coffman, and bit mule valued at $500
owned by Tom Price. The whole coun-
try-side pursued the dog with shotguns
and rifles, and after a seven-mile run it
was killed.
Because of injuries received when
hurled from an automobile when it was
struck by test car driven by William
Carr, of Indianapolis Mrs. Arthur
Wellington, of Anderson, formerly
Miss Helen Werbe, of Indianapolis,
suffered the loss of several teeth. The
automobile firm employing Carr settled
with the husband of the injured wom-
an for $3.50.
Conductor Thomas Hatfield was
knocked down and robbed of SIS by a
lone highwayman while he was chang
ing the trolley of an electric car at
South Bend. The attack was so qui-
city made that the nine passengers
and motorman failed to hear the dis
turbance. Hatfield was seriously hurt
| and, when found by the motorman,
was unconscious
Suits against seventy-fve Fl. Wayne
men to enforce the collection of de-
linquent taxes have been filed by Pros.
ecutor Albert E. Thomas in the Circuit
and Superior Courts and the new Indi-
ana law governing the collection Of
| taxes will get thorough test there.
The amounts range from Sc to $135,
and some of the defendants are well
known. The filing of the suits, which
was not done until County Treasurer
Scheiman had exhausted every other
means to induce payment, has caused
a sensation.
Melchert z. Miller, collector and res
ident of Port Fulton, an eastern SUBJ
urb of Jeffersonville, was badly hurt
while returning in an interurban car
from Louisville by stone thrown
through the window by some one un-
known. He received fracture of the
nose and possible injuries to the eye
A second stone thrown through the
window little later caused a panic
among the women and children, al
though 1t struck no one The car men
think it was an attack by rowdies who
had grudge against the company.
A. few days ago Samuel Beam, dali
ryman at Columbus, left his delivery
wagon standing in an alley while he
thief stole 81 from a drawer In the
wagon. 1t developed that Beam had
been robbed twice before and at about
the same place. Beam has just re-
ceived a letter which says: Here is
the money / took from your milk wag-
on. II there is any more some one else
got it besides me. 1 win never do this
any more" The letter was accompa-
MED by 81. 1t was unsigned and the
writing had evidently been disguised.
An electric tight bulb, covered with
paper, generated sufficient heat to
cause fire and damage to the extent
of more than $4,000 in the basement of
! the H. H. Locker buggy and harness
store In Newcastle. In showing a
prospective customer a new style bug
gy salesman turned on the current
and then put the bulb on the floor,
while he tore the paper wrapping or
the buggy. He threw the paper down
on the bulb, hiding it, and some time
after he left the basement the fire
started. Several new buggies stored
in the basement were damaged. The
loss is fully covered by insurance.
| Although James Smith, a rag picker
of MuDcie, commonly known as the
mayor of Shedtown, in which locality
he lives, has just inherited $1,000 in
cash from the estate of a cousin who
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elated over his good fortune nor does
he aspire to any higher business than
the one in which he is now engaged.
MY rag cart is my best friend" says
Smith, "and l wouldn't know what to
do in any other business. l suppose,
though, that instead of my picking
rags, some one would be picking me if
tried to go into some kind of bust
ness of which l knew nothing" Then
Smith, stopping his cart, pulled from
his pocket a large roll of bills of yari-
Gus denominations, saying: Il just
drew these out of the bank so / would
not be broke"
| Falmouth is to have a new bank
with capital stock of $4,000. The
officers are: Fred W. Lightfoot, pres
ident; Fred Barrows, vice-president;
Alva Billy, cashier.
From section man to chief clerk in
the dispatcher's Office of the Vandalia
railroad at Logansport is the promo
ton that has come to Edgar E. Bren-
ton, of Darlington, in a period of four
years. The young man, who was born
on farm near Charlottesville. was 20
years old on New Years day.
John L. Jackson, postmaster at st.
Paul, has been made president of the
National League of Postmasters Of the
Fourth Glass, to succeed F. Z. Barber,
of Dalesville, resigned.
Workmen are excavating for three
story business block at Broad and Fiji
teenth streets in Newcastle and have
uncovered portion of an old corduroy
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