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New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
TO LET CITIZENS USE ARnoRrEs
Bill. CHANGING MILITIA LAW TO BE INTRODUCED
IN LEGISLATURE

BILL CHANGING MILITIA LAW 1O BE IN fNoL-- LII
IN LEGISLATURE
Paterson, Nov. 20 (SpeciaD.-Senator Wood Mckee
has drafted A bill which he will introduce at the
next session OF the New-Jersey legislature ana
which the guardsmen OF Passaic. County hope VIII
relieve them from The command of Colonel Camp
bell passed il will mean practically the restora-
arrnory again as headquarters, but II VIII a4so AZ
feet the whole State One of the provisions OF lle
proposed measure is that the armory can oe uSed
bv the citizens for charitable purposes on conol-
tion that certain sum is paid TO the state TOT Is
Colonel Campbell has caused much trouble about
the annual charity bail being held in the arHory'
and last wear the Governor had 10 be Rppeaied 70
A short time ago he opposed the ELECTION o: zap
tain Ross of Passaic. be major OF the b$ttaA non
located In this county. and since then ne mas re
fused oerrssion to the battalion TO hold their an
nual games in the armory.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30

Paterson, Nov. % (SpeciaD.-Bernard Katz, the
brewer. with his wife and Mrs Philip katz. was
thrown from his carriage this morning in Broad
way and the three narrowly escaped being seri-
ousv injured The coachman had driven the car
riage the trolley tracks to avoid some
passing wagons when a trolley came up behind
and struck the coach, overturning It and throwing
the occupants the street. The glass was broken
and the carriage damaged The women suffered
from shock. Mr.. katz also badly shaken up
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30

FIRE
Hook and Ladder Truck No. s. OF Newark, while
going TO a fire yesterday capsized. Some OF
the men jumped and escaped injury. Jaoon Vesey
. sr,enant sBrained his ankle seriously; Charles
DoIbier the tillerman. sustained spraln 10 ms
min and Michael Gordon had his right leg injured
nd received scalp wound,
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
pant OF PIKE ESTATE TRANSFERRED
DEED CONVEYING PART OF HAckENsAcb
MEADOWS FILED.

t5aekensack Nov - tspeeiab,-A deed frem
tl;en NJ Pike and others to john r., ferrier was
flied with County Clerk Ramsey of Haekensack
to-day. The deed represents the sale Of large
tract of Hackensaek meadow land belonging 70
tbe p,Ie estate at North Arlington, near Newark
10 the syndicate formed short time ago to re-
cIs On, tho Hackeusack meadows. The price paid
MS Il 4g2 $50 Most OF the meadow land Is now
,Jsed for raising hay.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
TRACTION COMPANY DIssoLTED.

MOST OF STOCK HAD BEEN PURCHASED BY
COMBINATION OF COMPANIES
The Worcester Traction Company which was
organized 10 control the street railway system al
Worcester Mass was dissolved at a meeting OF the
stockholders at Newark yesterday The capita !
~ the company was $4,000 and reduced
few months ago TO $4,000 The original stock was
,1,,rcbaseS nv a combination of Eastern trolley
lines and the balance wiped out by the dis
solution
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
EDITOR OF UNIQUE PAPER DIES.
MAN WHO PUBLISHED ''THE SADDLE RIVER
LANDSCAPE EXPIRES.

Hillsdale, Nov. % (speciaD.-Albert p Smith died
at his home near Woodcliff, last night. For
twenty years he published The Saddle River
Landscape" unaided in his home The paper had
four pages. l2ia by 81 inches in size Smith set
M his own type and printed the little paper on Il
TOW press He was a cripple, and seldom seen
out He was neighbor OF the band OF angel
Dancers who live on the Lords Farm, and he
considered Huntsman T. Mnason, the leader OF the
band model Smith was siXty-nine years
Old and unmarried. The paper Will disappear
publiSheT.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
op- S,a.eSmr, sp Washington Two pages
of nrsrre. in To-morrow's Tribune
DROPPED DOWN NINE SHAFT.

r-sr- ,,r,>- 1xr->r SEVEN HUNDRED FEET AND
LIVED, But ALL MAY DIE
Ccnnellsyiile. Penn, Nov. 2a--at the Lambert
gnes near Nasontown. eight men, after dropping
distance of seven hundred feet Gown d Hli'le
s,z.t wer ali brought to the surface. living, oht
NH three diving and the Others probably fatally
In. Just as they got aboard the cage the caDle
rCied and the cage dropped A few seconds later
U miners al the top heard the sound or a crash
!. sfintering wood
lie cage on the opposite side was Immediately
assed with rescue party, who, on arriving G aI
{. bollatr found the men lying UNCONSCIOUS on
u ecor of the cage with crushed chests, broken
s-s and legs and IN some cases the bones pro,
s2-rs cut through the flesh one man ; sh-. @
rs .rac-1Yre6 TWO Of the injured miners were
2a-iczns and the other six Eungartans-
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
hssED AND THR0Wy THROUGH WINDOW,

C1ago, Nov 29-In a crowded downtown
NS1 s o'clock this morning, j. ". Rogge was
~S BY two highwaymen and thrown bodily
saga plsteglass window RogSe was attacked
e men IN Fifth-ave- near Madison-st, and
= o1e Of them choked him into helplessness
= etaer went through his pockets, securing
= amount Of money. The thugs then picked
:, p and threw him through a large piateglass
.sssr-snt window The men took 10 their heels
- crowd in pursuit. and finally lodged up an
-. - and escaped Rogge received a few painful
- aid bruises but was not seriously injured.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
gnropedn Aopernscmenrs,

EUROPEANS AND TRAVEL
LERS will find the London office of The
Tribune, 149 Fleet Street. a convenient
place to leave their advertisements and
subscriptions for The Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
ENGLISH CORONATION NOTES.

NOR LONDON MANSIONS AND HOUSES. Furnished
L or UHfurnished the neighborhood OF Buckingham
Palace and fashionable OF Town Apply to
Nessrs ROBT ". MANN & SON. Auctioneers & Sur
NeyoTs. L. Lower GrOsveror Place. Victoria sta
t!on) Ion1on. s ". ENGLAND. Telephone 40 west
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
NARROW ESCAPE IN TROLLEY ACCIDENT

OCCUPANTS OF CARRIAGE STRUCK By. cAF
THhOwN TO STREET.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
FIPEMEN HURT IN ACCIDENT.

HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK cAPsIzEs ON WAY
TO FIRE.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
The Howard Hote,

The Howard HOteI
Norfolk Street Enbankment. London Every modern
ocnforI Oyerlooks Eu,bankment and River. Elegant
nubIic rooms Electric light throughout American sys-
tenn eIsv Fixed tariff
New-York tribune., 1901-11-30
National Lawmakers pictures See To-
uerrow-s Tribune
MANY FOREIGN ORDERS FOR COAL.

See To-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
THIRTEEN AND FRIDAY
They Are Everywhere in the Record Of
the Murder of Nora Kifer.

Those who are inclined to believe in
unlucky dates and days will find very
peculiar confirmation of their supersti-
tiOn in the records which have been
made in the Gibson county circuit
court and the state supreme court in
the case of Joseph d. Keith, recently
convicted of the murder of Nora Kifer
and sentenced to suffer the death
penalty at the northern prison.. Sc
often, in fact, do the unlucky day Fri
day and the unlucky number Ii figure
in the case that it would seem that
Keith was destined to meet these in
every important step in the case, from
beginning to end.
1t was on Sept. 13, 1890, that Keith
rented his farm to the father of Nora
Kifer, and on the Friday following
Kifer and his family moved into the
vacated house and took formal posses
sion of the farm On the last Friday
in the same month Keith, who was a
man of family, asked Nora Kifer to
visit Indianapolis with him during the
following week, he then intending to
90 there to attend a lodge meeting.
On Dec. Ii of the same year he took
her on visit to Evansville, and on
the Friday following he called upon
Mrs. May Morelock in that city and
arranged with her to board the Kifer
girl. Nora accompanied him to the
boarding house, and on Jan. 13 follow
ing her Introduction into the house he
gave Mrs. Morelock a check for S95
for the girls board.
On April 13, 1900, Kifer received a
letter, written in red ink and signed
by bis daughter, but the handwriting
was shown afterward to be that of
Keith. Another letter was received
under date Of April q, which was
Friday, in the same handwriting. On
May Ii Keith and Kifer talked to-
gether about the missing girl, and the
father declared that the person who
had written the letters was the muir
derer of his daughter, On Friday,
July Ii, Keith, having been charged
with the murder of the girl, whose
body had been found in Pigeon creek,
had his preliminary trial at Boonville.
The stone which he had tied around
the girls neck after numbering her
was produced in court, and weighed
exactly thirteen pounds. Thirteen
months to day after first meeting
the girl Keith's trial was called at
Princeton, and on Friday, Jan. IL,
the jury rendered verdict of guilty
and fixed the death penalty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
The Presidents Turkey.

For thirty years it has been the Gus
tom of Mr.. Horace Vose, of Westerly,
r. l., to send the prize turkey Of his
fiocks to grace the Presidents dinner
table on Thanksgiving Day. This
year Mr.. Vose will ship an enormous
gobbler to President Roosevelt to be
devoured by himself and family on Nc
vember %. When Mr.. Vose began
the custom of sending turkey to the
President he had no motive other than
the desire to furnish a Thanksgiving
bird to the man who writes the
Thanksgiving proclamations. The
pioneer turkey went to President
Grant in 1878. 1t weighed thirty-six
pounds, and elected the first of the
courteous notes that have been COM
ing ever since in acknowledgement
from the executive mansion. Mr..
VoSe has been dubbed ssthe turkey
king" All through the summer and
fall he makes occasional visits to the
farms in the vicinity. keeping watch
full eye on the many flocks and eagerly
scanning the strutting companies for
the coming champion, the distinguish
ed member of all feathery tribes that
is to rise eventually to the dignity of
place on the White House dinner
table. The farmers of our great
country, every one of whom will no
doubt sit down toa good dinner on
November %, will wish our popular
new President much JOY in the cary
ing and eating Of his prize Thanks
giving bird.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
Married His Stepmother.

A marriage which has the diStinc-
ton of being the most unique in mat
rimonial annals of Clay County took
place in Flora last Thursday.
The parties to this contract were
David and Bertha Reynolds, whose
home is on the dividing line OF Clay
and Wayne counties, and the bride
was the young mans stepmother.
The young man applied for mar
rage license, but the clerk refused to
issue it without the consent of the
young mans father.
He returned accompanied by man
OF so years, who testified that he was
George Reynolds, the young mans
father and the divoSced husband of
tho woman whom his son wanted to
marry, and that he approved of the
contemplated union. The papers
were then issued and the marriage
took place The ageof the bridegroom
was given at 20 years and that of the
bride as %.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

The Attorney General, has written
to the State Game and Fish .Commis-
sioner, Mr.. Sweeney, Of Columbus,
giving his Interpretation OF how the
permit feature Of the game law should
be enforced. The law provides that
the commissioner or any Of his dep.
uties may arrest anyone hunting with
out a written permit from the owner
Of the lapd on which the hunter is
found.
The Acknowledgement says that If
this policy is followed the deputies
will be causing the arrest of the land
owners or their sons unless they carry
about permit to hunt on their own
property. This would be going furth-
er than the intent of the law, it is
thought, SO the Attorney-Gener has
informed Mr.. Sweeney that it win
not be necessary for his deputies to
make arrests except at the request Of
the land owners. II they desire the
arrest of anyone hunting on their lands
it is their privilege to inform the Of
ficers and the arrest will be made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
WOMEN IN POLITICS.

The influence exereted by the wo-
men of New York in the recent CAM
paign in that city shows that they
can make themselves power without
voting. In the New York canvass
the women took very active part.
OF course they were against Tam
many. They held meetings in many
parts of the city every day. Some of
the most effective addresses delivered
during that notably stirring campaign
were made by women. Their best
work was through the distribution of
circulars throughout the city, show
ing the enormities of the licensed sys-
tenn of blackmail, ObScenity, cOrrup-
ton, brigandage and general and
particular indecency and atrocity
which figures under the of Tam
many government. Nearly 100000
circulars appealing to the people to
strike down Tammany were distribut-
ed by women. They were active in
every precinct of the city. To the
moral influence of these women is
largely due the magnificent victory
won by the cause of morality and
civilization in the country'S metro
polls.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

The official estimates for the fiscal
year beginning July l, 1902, which
Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith will submit to congress at the
opening of the session, call for an ag-
gregate of Sc, go, 900 for rural free de-
livery service throughout the country.
This is an increase of 50, $50, 900 over
the expense of that rapidly growing
service for the current year. The
total for free delivery service proper,
which is that operated in cities, is
SIS, 745, 900, an increase of 9 per cent.
The grand aggregate for the entire
postal free delivery service, inclusive
of both the free delivery and rural free
delivery is S24, 995, 900.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

1t has been concluded that pnblie4s
lions unfriendly to our government
and its institutions, unfriendly tollaw
and order and defiant Of truth and
decency and authority, must be sup
pressed. II is not proposed that laws
shall be changed to effect this, but
that it shall be accomplished by a
unity of moral forces. The people
will apply the same doctrine to these
journals in their daily existence as
Cleveland applied when he refused to
be used to advertise Hearst's journals
when the Maine was sunk. Ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland has set the example
and pointed the way. Henceforth the
men of whatever reputation or sta
ton in life who consent to contribute
to the Examiner or srbmit to an
interview for its columns on public
question will be subject to suspicion as
willing to seek publicity through con-
temptible channels. Stockton (Cal. J
independent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
PAYS TO BREED UP
The Only Problem Now Left Is to
Make Stockmen Realize Truth
of This Statement.

We make no excuse for harping ON
the string of improvement liz live
stock. improvement is profitable. 1t
is necessary if the farm is to keep
ahead of the. ranch. 1t gives a man
more respect for his stock and for
himself. Both have better standing
in the world the nearer the highest
standard of excellence is approached.
But probably the best argument
for improvement is that it pays. A
feeder went forth the other day to
buy some steers. He found a bunch
and had to take them all or none.
There were some common ones in the
lot which the good ones had to sell.
Disregarding the fact that the good
ones would have brought more if sold
separately the difference in price was
enough to make man think. The
tops brought one dollar per hundred
weight more than tho scrubs. Sup
pose they averaged 1000 pounds. At
the price paid the best brought $40
and the Others $50 per head-a differ
ence of ten dollars. How many steers
would the breeder of the scrubs have
to raise to pay for good useful bull?
But that is only part of it. The
professors tell us that the scrub will
put on as many pounds as the we'll
bred animal in the feed lot. That
may be, but it does not apply to
growth under usual conditions. The
well-bred steer will outgrow the
scrub, will weigh more at a given
age. Not only more per hundred
weight, but more weight, and much
easier to sell. And still that is not
all. The man who goes in for i'm
provement gets big return that is
not figured in the steer market. He
is building up female foundation the
value of which cannot be easily esti-
mated.
Does it pay to breed up? That is
no longer a question. The problem 81
to get people to realize the truth
National Stockman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
THE CONTROVERSY ENDED.

The Schley controversy is ended and
hero of the Spanish war and of San
tiago has been indicated of all charges
of cowardice or neglect of duty. There
will always be in the minds of men Of
equal military and naval ability some
question as to the propriety of certain
movements and the judgment of the
commander, but those differences of
opinion obtain in case of the most
brilliant generalship and most sue
cessful military commanders. Even
Napoleon ana Grant were accused by
some of their luke-warm friends of
misjudged maneuvers, but their rep
utation as great generals and the
herOiSm of these movements is not
questioned in history. No more will
the movements of Schley be brought
into question by posterity. Some of
his detractors, however, have not
gained in the estimation of the peo-
pie by their efforts to injure the COM
mander.-Elkhart Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
Potato Crop is Short.

Preliminary estimate of the yield
per acre Of potatoes for the United
States is 500 bushels, against an
average yield per acre of sos bushels
in 1900, S7.6 bushels in 1899, and a
ten year average of 1871 bushels. The
present indicated yield per acre is the
lowest since 1890. OF the states hav-
ing $4,000 acres or upward in potatoes,
all except Michigan and Maine report
a yield per acre comparing unfavorably
with their ten year averages. In
diana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska report less than One-half and
Missouri less less than one-fourth of
an average crop. The average as to
quality is 1874 per cent, as compared
with SS.l per cent in November last
and 91.4 per cent in November, 1899.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

Cases Of the bubonic plague prevail
in Liverpool and the health authori-
ties of New York are much in fear
that it may get foothold in this
country. 1t has been in San Francisco,
but nothing has been heard about it
for several months and presumably it
has been crushed out on the Pacific
coast. There does not seem to be
much danger from it in localities
where proper attention is paid to
sanitary conditions, but in slum
quarters it is probably the worst dis
ease known TO humanity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

With local applications, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease. Ca
tarrh is a blood or constitutional dis
ease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucuos SUI
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not a
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed
by one of the best physicians III this
country for years, and is regular
prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known. combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucuos surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results
in curing Catarrh. Send for testi.
moniais free.
FL. CLANCY & Co, Props,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills arc the best.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

No industrial class in the United
States has prospered more or reaped
greater fruits from the protective pol
icy than the farmer. 1t has not only
given him splendid home markets, but
has enabled him, with other produc-
ers, to reach the markets of Europe
with his amazing surplus, so that the
farmers in England, as well as on the
continent, are driver in despair to
measures of retaliation. The situation
is not only clearly evidenced by the
new tariff proposed for Germany, aim
ed at American agricultural competi-
tion in Austria and the unrest else
where on the continent, to find the
American farmer underselling them
in their own markets.
The cause is found in up-to-date
methods, improved machinery and the
thrift and industry and intelligence to
use all bis advantages to the utmost.
These have given the American farm
er supremacy, and with them he will
maintain it in spite of retaliatory legis-
lation abroad. The effect OF his COM
petition in England is thus referred
to in a late article in the London
Mail:
That English agriculture as food
producing agency is now almost a
thing of the past appears evident from
the fact that, of the $4,000, 900 quar-
tiers Of wheat consumed annually in
the British Isles, no less than "a, 000,.
600 quarters came from abroad, fol
which nearly s40, 200, 900 is paid. An.
other $1,000, 900 is sent out of the
country each year for butter, fruit
vegetables, milk and other produce.
These facts are depressing to the farm
er, but some authorities declare that
instead of fighting the competition by
working his land or. up-to-date line
and by modern MAJ hinery. he Is ready
to abandon the struggle and his farm
as well. y ~ sib.,s
While England gets some Of her for
eign foods from India. South Americs
md Austria, as well as from Canada
TT is from the United1 States the bull
Of her present as well as future. sup
1plies must come. Expedientsi ofsre
taliation are but temporary .bafries
which are bound to give way to tn
imperative demands of self-interes
and to the cry Of the masses not en-
gagged in soil tilling, for cheaper bread
Commercial Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

Republican members Of congress
should look out for grafters. There
is large surplus in the treasury but
the prosperity of the country does not
warrant congress in entering upon
too many new schemes, which may
become heavy burdens and which will
react upon the party in the elections
near at hand. Such warning may not
be necessary, but the schemers will be
an army when congress assemblies. To
them it seems propitious season.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

During the year 1899 there were l.
945, corporations chartered under the
laws of New jersey and authorized to
issue capital stock to the amount of
-, 500, 900, 900. The fees collected by
the state on these charters amounted
to s727,023. Nearly two hundred of
the corporations were capitalized at
81, 900, 900 and upward. Six hundred
of them had capitalization of 81 ,OOO,-
900 or more. At the present time
more than $4,000 corporations in
every part of the United States are
operating under the laws of New
jersey, thus, in sense giving that
state power to legislate for every
other state in the Union. The Elk
hart Review thinks that the quickest
and best way to overcome one evil of
deleterious combinations, and to
regulate the formation OF such as are
legitimate in purpose, would be for
states to adopt uniform laws govern
ing the formation Of corporate bodies,
and then hold all organizations to the
spirit of the franchise or charter
granted them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14

The indianapolis Sentinel says there
seems to be sort of fatality in the
fact that when the Democrats lose
everything else they save German.
When we recollect that almost all In
diana Democrats reioiced when Cor
man was defeated, it is pretty tough
that he should beb up seFenely now,
while they are bowed In SORROW and
humiliation over the defeat Of free
silver
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
Low Yield Of Corn.

The preliminary estimate. of the
average yield per acre OF corn, as pub
lished in the monthly report of
Statistician Hyde of the department
OF agriculture, is 1874 bushels, as com.
pared with an average yield of 25.3
bushels per acre in 1900 and 1892,
1873 bushels in 1894, and a ten year
average OF 24.4 busheld. The present
indicated yield per acre is the lowest
general average ever recorded for this
crop, being 2.2 bushels per acre below
the yield in 1881, which has stood for
twenty years as the lowest ON record.