The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-02-03

VIII recover, although he Will be dis !
figured for life as the result of a slash |
across his face. Muey is under arrest. |
Jas. Shouse, aged so years, farm
err who lived near Monroe City, |
drowned himself in big concrete wa
ter tank located in his barn lot. He !,
left a note saying he took his life for |,
the "betterment" of his twelve chill !
dren. He had been i'll. His wife died !
about a year ago.
Chicken thieves with an eye to safe |!
ty raided henhouse at the home of
Mrs. Bertha Stadler, near Columbus,
and stole sixteen hens. There was one
rooster in the bunch of chickens, but it
was left alone. BOOSTERS generally
crow when molested, it is said, and
the thieves evidently thought the male
bird would give the alarm.
Fred Freeman and Harvey Launis,
of Bedford, have returned from Floyd
County, where they have been duck
hunting, and have in their possession a
golden eagle, which they trapped after
they saw the big bird swoop down on
q barnyard near New Albany and car
ry away small pig. The eagle meas
ures FIVE feet two inches from tip to
tip and will be presented to the Bed
ford Aerie of Eagles, or which organi-
cation Freeman ana Launis are mem
bers.
A call for bloodhOunds and the Sher-
If to point six miles northeast of
Bedford, in which it was refused to d.
vulge the nature of the trouble, caused
much excitement from the belief that
a terrible crime had been committed.
The call was answered and, as a re-
suit, Oscar and John Watson are in
JAIL charged with the theft of meat
and lard from the smokehouse of a
Mrs. Ramsey They were trailed by
the hounds, and a search of Watson's
home revealed nine hams and other
meats hidden under five feet of fodder.
Another step TO incsease the num-
Der of his hearers was taken recently
by the Rev. Benjamin F. Nye, of the
First Presbyterian church in Muncie,
when he placed several private tele-
| phones in the auditorium of the church
| building, by means of which persons
almost totally deaf are enabled 20 hear
his sermons and the music. Mr.. Nyce
says that many who are partially deaf
would attend church services if they
| could hear, and thinks this difficulty
| in many cases may be overcome by
placing private telephones in certain
pews.
Logansport people have become so
good that one individual, who did not
| possess a Bible, broke into the Rail-
road Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton rooms and stole the one that be-
secretary, says that any man who is so
| determined to get religion that he will
steal TO obtain it, should be commend
ed instead of punished Although the
thief took Shepherds best Sunday trou-
sers, the secretary will not prosecute
! him il found, for he believes that the
robber will become interested in the
Bible and probably will reform.
AS the result of an assault made on
Lee Nelson, aged 80, by Roy Barkdull,
II years old, at the Boyer-Kandell
glass plant at Daleville, eleven miles
west of Muncie, Nelson may die with
broken skull. Barkdull, who surren-
| dered. is in jail at Muncie. Young
Barkdull, who has been employed at
the plant, was at work repairing some
1, ..ss., AT~1- T.
man, is said to have found fault with
| the work, and an argument ensued
that resulted in Nelson being struck
over the head by young Barkdull with
gathering rod.
Married life has not proved success
to Raymond Albright, a young farmer
/ of Bartholomew County, according to
the allegations in a complaint for a di-
yorce which his wife has filed against
him in the Circuit Court. Mrs. Mary
Zeigner Albright. who'is member of
a prominent Flasrock Township fam
/ lily, alleges that her husband told her
he only wished TO try married life a
year and that at the end of that time
he ordered her to go to her people
and leave him alone. She also alleges
that he kicked, struck and bit her and
called her vile names. In addition to
a divorce, Mrs. Albright asks that her
maiden name be restored.
Emmanuel Souders, marshal of ia
sonville, is making his power felt as
an officer of the law He is waging re-
lentless war on the illegal sale OF
| liquor, and has caused a number Of
convictions. He has given orders to
merchants that all slot machines must
go, that shaking dice in any form will
not be permitted and that any and all
screens for any purposes whatever
shall be removed Souders has the
temperance people back of him and the
wave for better morals there will be
steadily increased. His orders so far
are being generally obeyed. Souders
was formerly night Waterman at ia
sonyille. and during his short service
he made eighty-two arrests.
The Drain schoolhouse near Prince
ton burned with its contents, including
all the pupils books. A coal dropping
from banked fire in the stove is sup
posed to have been the cause Miss
/ Gladys Armstrong is the teacher
Forty cases of measles have been
reported at Huntsville. Bartholomew
County, town of about five hundred
inhabitants. So far there have been no
deaths from the disease, and most of
the cases are reported to be of mild
form
The 2-year-old baby girl of Mrs. John
| Burke, living near Greencastle, was
shot through the brain and fatally
wounded by her 9-year-old brother, who
was playing with rife The boy says
that he didn't know the gun was
loaded
The Secretary of Agriculture has APP