The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-01-06
REVIEW OF INDIANA

and received broken hip.
The 5-year-old son of Joseph Eshel-
man, of Connersville, swallowed a
watch chain eight inches long. A ply
stefan succeeded in relieving the child.
Marshall Lines, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. E. Lines, of Shelbyville, suffered a
fractured jaw when a cow he was feed
ing struck the boy in the face with its
head
The residents of Fugit Township, in
the north part of Decatur County. had
big fox hunt last week. No dogs or
guns were allowed, but all participant
ing were requested to bring horns,
bells and other noise-making devices.
Mrs. Pauline Summers, a well-known
resident of Valparaiso, was removed to
the Christian hospital where an oper-
alton for appendicitis was performed
Mrs. Summers is past grand matron Of
the Order of the Eastern Star in In
diana
The Rev E. ]. Sias, pastor of the
First Christian church in frankfort,
cial board to take effect on February
Is. Mr. Sias will go to Lincoln, Neb.,
and enter the lecture field. He has
been offered $4,000 for thirty-two
weeks on the platform.
Quail and Hungarian pheasants are
perishing in Indiana by the thousand,
because they are unable to get food
since the snowstorm. The heavy snow
has covered the food supply on which
the birds depend. From many places
reports come that farmers were clear
ing the snow from the fields in order
that the birds could find something to
eat.
Hanson j. Gooden, aged so, was
painfully injured while hunting along
Tanners creek, near Lawrenceburg. He
became separated from his COMPANIONS
and was chased up a tree and held
captive for three hours by big ram
near sheep farm. When Gooden at
tempted to climb down the tree he was
so cold and stiff that he fell and broke
his right arm in two places.
L
Wayne to the George H. Smith grocery
was carried through Portland by the
night train which regularly brings it,
and it reached Richmond before its
presence in the express car was dis
covered. There was no express train
coming north again until afternoon.
but a freight crew just leaving the sta
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was roped on the engine, tied to the
cowcatcher, and in this position
reached Portland in time to serve the
grocer's patrons at the noon hour
Joseph H. Citizens, whose death &C.
Cured suddenly at Indianapolis, was a
pioneer hotel man of Richmond, con-
Quoting at various times the Hunting
ton, the Grand and the Arlington ho-
tells. He was one of the best known
men of the city of Richmond, and be-
cause of the fact that when he left
there few days ago to spend Christ
mas with his daughter in Indianapolis
he was in the best of health, apparent
ly, the news of his death came as a
great surprise to his friends. Mr.. 9th
ems was to have been married soon to
Mrs. Mary Lincoln.
Pearls are getting to be so common
at Hope. Bartholomew County, that be-
fore long the people there will be
tempted to cast them before swine. All
of the recent pearl finds have been in
oysters, and the oyster trade has taken
a sudden squirt. George Wendell, mar
shall of Hope, found pearl which a
Hope jeweler valued at 500. Charles
Gilleland, south of Hope, bought a
quart of oysten and found a pearl
about the size of a pea The pearl will
be sent to Cincinnati for examination.
and If 1t is as fine as Hope jewellers
say. it will be worth several hundred
dollars. DR.. T. K. Reed, of Hope,
bought a pint of oysters and found
pearl valued at $50.
The birth rate for the month of Oc-
tober, according to figures just COM
piled by the State Board of Health,
was 1877, an increase of $40 over the
rate for the corresponding month of
last year The number of births re-
ported for the month was 1910, an in
crease of 1874 over the corresponding
month last year. During the month
2,212 male children were born and
2,12S females. Warren County again
led the counties of the State in the
birth rate, which was 3l.5. Floyd
County was lowest. with 9.5. ST. Jo-
seph County had rate of 27.7 and
Marion a rate of 1911. One hundred
and seventy-five deaths from violence
were reported. OF these 10 were muir
ders and 2S suicides. The death rates
of cities having populations of 10000
or over are reported as follows: Indi-
annapolis, 14.7; Evansville. 1870; Fort
Wayne, 1O6; Terre Haute, 1S.6: South
Bend, 1876; Anderson, Isl; Columbus,
81; East Chicago. 244: Elkhart. 1913;
Elwood, 6.1; Hammond, 81; Jefferson
vile, 2l.3; Kokomo, 1913; Lafayette,
1877; Laporte, 1874; Logansport, 21S;
Marion, 100; Michigan City, 81; Mum
Gle, ia: New Albany. 1872; Peru, 11.6:
Richmond, 14.9; Vincennes, 90.
The Rev. Henry w. Schwan, pastor
of the West Creighton Avenue Church
of Christ, in Fort Wayne, has an
nounced his resignation and will de-
liver his farewell sermon next sunday.
Miss Alice Bulger. aged 26. died q
few days ago at Washington, of tuber-
culosis. She had been i'll a long time
and realizing that she was going to
die, made all arrangements for her
funeral and selected her burial robe
She was popular in Washingtons
younger set.
For killing a mule with a pick Dink
Thomas, a miner of Hymera, was
placed in Jail for thirty days He is
said to have become enraged at the
animal and to have struck it such a
blow that it fell dead.
The skiff in which they were making
their way across White river crushed
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