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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
AFTER MANY YEARS
An Apparent Wholesale Murder Mystery
is Developed at Peru.

What was probably wholesale
murder has been unearthed by Will
lam Downing a farmer, who lives on
the south bank of the Wabash river,
four and quarter miles west of Peru.
Mr.. Downing, while digging in a
spring at his home to make room for
barrel. removed the skeletons of six
persons, four adults and two children
evidently the remains of what was
once whole family.
One of the skulls had hole in it
as if it had been made by blow from
club. Some of the ribs showed signs
of having received blows also. These
conditions and the fact that the
bodies were buried standing erect and
SO closely together indicate that the
family had been foully dealt with.
But who the people were or who
committed the deed is as much of a
mystery as when the bodies were put
there.
r. b. Leese, who has lived in the
vicinity for fifty-six years and now
lives next door neighbor to Mr.. Down
ing, SAYS that he never heard of the
Indians burying their dead in the
manner in which these bodies were
found He is of the opinion that the
skeletons are the remains of white
family murdered and buried i'm the
early days of last century, but who
they were or how the bodies got there,
he says he has no idea.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Over the Falls and Lived.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Oct.
25.-Mrs. Anna Edison Taylor
celebrated her forty third birth
day yesterday afternoon by MAX
ing a successful trip over the
Horseshoe falls in barrel. She
is the first person to attempt
such performance, and the
thousands who witnessed it were
amazed at the manner in which
the barrel plunged over reef
after reef in the upper rapids be-
fore taking the final plunge of
158 feet into the seething whirl-
pool below.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
BACK TO HER SPOOKS
Mrs. Piper Renounces Her Remuneration
and is a Medium Still.

Boston, Mass, Oct. 24.-Mrs.
Leonora E. Piper, the famous
medium of the American branch
of the Psychical Research So
ciety, who declared last Sunday
she had decided to retire to pri-
vate life, now asserts through
her control" that she has be-
come reconciled to her position
again and will continue with the
society. Her original decision
TO leave the society was not so
extraordinary when announced
as the confessions that accom-
panied it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
A LITTLE EXPERIENCE
What One Man Saw in a Day Showing
fiearsfs DisreputabIe Methods.

A Plymouth gentleman who was in
Chicago last week for the first time in
three years received an impressive les
son i'm the up-to-date methods of
boosting the circulation of Hearst S
American. The gentleman referred
to walked five squares on Adams
street during the busy room hour and
heard twenty or thirty newsboy's cry
ing that progressive (?) sheet with
lung-tearing voices and every one of
them called ssFull account of the hOr-
rible accident. Many lives lost in a
street car collision on Milwaukee
avenuel" At O'Clock the same gen.
tleman was on Dearborn street in the
downtown district and the newSbOyS
were selling the American with cries
of "All about the Czolgosz suicide in
prison,'' After the theatre i'm the
evening our Plymouth mans ears
were assailed with the shouts of
dozens of urchins peddling the same
sheet and the inducement to buy was
Hammond all burned up. The
whole town on fire."
1t turned out that the street car
collision resulted only in the fracture
of three left legs, the Hammond fire
involved one plant alone and the
suicide had no foundation i'm fact
whatever. The newsboyS are in
structed at the office of the paper as
to the calls they are to use in selling
On the streets. Deceit, distortion
and exaggeration are the grounds Of
Hearst IS apparent success in forcing
his wares upon the public, but such
success can never be more than tenn
pOrary.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
SAMAR IN FERMENT
Startling Conspiracies are on Foot
in the Islands.
Many Native Civil OfflCiols Implicated in
the attempted Instruction Against
+. American Autt,cr ty and Numerous
A rests Already Node.

MANILA. Oct. 26.-Numerous
suspected municipal officials have
been arrested in Samar. Evil
dence shows that there have
been startling conspiraces on
foot. The sources of the chief
supplies for the rebels have been
blockaded, and the inhabitants
are now required to concentrate
in towns. People outside these
camps will be regarded as ene-
mics of the Americans.
Intense feeling exists among
the troops in Samar. If they
can meet the enemy in the open
there will be great retaliation.
Many of them have seen and the
others have heard of the bar
barous treatment to which the
dead American soldiers were
subjected by the Filipinos re-
Gently.
Francisco de Jesus, LUX bans
chief comGissary, was recently
captured and taken to Cebu.
Papers which he had in his pos
session have resulted in the ar
rest of many of the best-known
presidents and other civil Off
Gals of the island of Levte.
1t developes that Biliran island,
north of the island of Leyte, has
been a hotbed of instruction.
Every civil official there has been
aiding the insurgents OF Samar
in every way. They have landed
several cargoes of rice and have
received hemp in exchange.
Several thousand dollars also
fell into the hands of the Ameri-
cans when De Jesus was made
prisoner. His capture is thought
to be a great disaster to the
revolutionary cause.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
POWERS CONVICTED
FOR THE SECOND TIME

GEORGETOWN, KY, Oct. oS.-
Ex-Secretary of State Caleb
Powers was again convicted as
accessory before the fact to the
murder of Gov. William Goebel
in January, 1900, and the second
time sentenced TO Imprisonment
for life
Powers sat pale and motion
less when the verdict was an
nounced by Foreman Calvert.
The attorneys of Powers shook
his hands, expressing aloud their
renewed belief in his innocence.
Women crowded around Powers,
embracing him and tears were
shed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
New Worlds Trotting Record.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. %
Cresceus king of trotters, broke
the worlds mile record for a half
mile track yesterday afternoon
at the Kansas City Driving clubs
park, going the distance in 2:094,
and clipping just one-quarter of
a second off the best previous
record, made by him at Toledo,
two weeks ago. He made the
new record in his very first trial.
The time by quarters: 328, :0444.
1861, 2:09$.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
HAS SEEN 1T ALL
Travels of the Man From Turkeyvile.
Which Is in Kosciusko County.

'Have you spent all your life right
here in this one place." asked a
stranger of Jake Davis as he came
across him seated on the fence whit
Ting by his pickle patch.
Not by a derned sight. said Jake.
Il been hyar the better part o'the
time, but la, / hev travelled fur an
wlde.'
ever been abroad?r
oval, not exactly to say abroad on
less you call it goin abroad to go from
here way over to Ligonier: | been over
thar twice in the last forty year. It's
fourteen and a half mile to Ligonier,
an / been further than that, fer my
ole woman an me went clean to Fort
WAYNE on our weddin' tower. and
that's thirty-nine mile from hyar.
Then L been over in LAGRANGE county
to see my wife's folks twice, an that s
twenty odd mile from here.
.sThen / been over to Warsaw ez
many ez four times, an that's eigh-
teen mile.
..Ez l say, been hyar most O. the
time, but then I've travelled fur an
wide all the same. I've seen the big
four-story mill at LIgonier an the en-
CINE an kyars over to Pierceton. /
rid three miles on 'em, an it's all l
want o. the pesky things. I've seen
a calf with two heads, an a Teller
that could eat fire an dance on bro
ken glass in his bare feet. | seen a
man hung once, an a boss race fer a
purse O. So. Yes, sir. I've been fur
an wide and / reckon I've seen the
biggest part o. what there is to see in
this world, an / don't dot on dom
no more gaddin about. ''-Pierceton
Record.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
No Ground for Anxiety.

New YORK, Oct. 26. -Dun's
Weekly Review of Trade today
says:
With mills, shops, factories
and furnaces assured of full oper-
alton until the end of the year,
as rule, and many contracts al
ready running far into 1902, there
is no occasion for anxiety regard
ing the industrial situation. Job.
bers are still urgently asking
prompt deliveries by manufactu
rers of staple lines. while open
ing transactions in fancy goods
for the holidays are unusually
early. showing that dealers an
ticipate a large trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Boy Begins Life Imprisonment.

LAPORTE, Ind, Oct, 25.-The
youngest known life convict in
the country began his imprison-
ment in the state prison at Mich
igan City yesterday. He is
Smith Jones, Ii years old. He
was convicted of murder in the
first degree in the Warrick coun-
ty circuit court. The crime was
so cold Olooded that instead of
sending the LAD to the reform
school the judge sent him to
prison.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
REAL ESThTE TRANSFERS
TO OCT. 26 1901
AS FURNISHED BY
CRESSNER & CO.,

Owners of the only abstract books in the
| county Abstracts of title to all real estate
in Marshall county compiled promptly and
accurately.
Tobias Wise and wife, warranty
deed to John r. Dietrich, S w 1 of
w of S 5, T "a, r 3. Consideration
$1,000.
John r. DIETRICH and wife, war.
ranty deed to George F. and Laura
Troup S w i of S w ! of S 5, L "a,
Rs. Consideration s14OO.
William Hr Huff and wife, war
ranty deed to John r. Dietrich, und
of al n of B. & o. II r lin S w ! of
S W and all S of River & n of B. &
r r in E of S w all in S 26, T 81,
r 3. Consideration 5000
Heirs of Henry Berger, decd, war
ranty deed to John r. Dietrich and
VIM H Huff, W s A n of River in S
E of S W of S &c, T 35, r 3. Goa
sideratiOn $500.
Heirs of John f Beck, decd, Q G ID
to Annetta Beck, und 2-15 of n E I
and E of n w of S SO, T 33, .R 3.
Consideration S1S13.42
Will ] Melser, warranty deed to
Oliver NJ Porter, S of w of Sec
%, NJ r L. Consideration s2650. 90
Franklin NJ Keyser and wife, war
ranty deed to p + w & CRR2O feet
strip S of Rt of way across E part of S
w / of S "a, L "a, r l. Considera-
tion s21.OO
John Wilhelm and wife, warranty
deed To- Anna Wilhelm, part of lot 20,
orig plat s Bremen 800.
Eli III. Miller and wife, warranty
deed to William Engle allN of r r
in S w J of S %, T 25, r 3. Con-
sideration $4,000
Leonora Kleopfer and husband, war
ranty deed to John Shusdorf, lots 6S,
50, 20, IL Corbin's Con of Independ-
ence add Plymouth. Consideration
$500
Samuel Haag and wife, warranty
deed to George Haag und part of lot
s, blk 4, Tyner. Consideration 5000
Henry Whitesell, decd, by ADM
to John p. Anderson, lot 2, ex 5 A in
n w corner og S 6, T 33, R 1. Con-
sideration s11OO
Harlus w Wetherell and wife, @ G.
d to Edward T H,rland, Frank S
Beardslee, N E of E of S 26, L
"a, r 3. Considera ion s25
Enoch l. Newcomb and wife, war
ranty deedsto Ira B. Yearick, lot I
Brownlee's sub div of lot lis Wheel
er's add plymouth. Consideration 500
Emma A Hamberg and husband,
warranty deed to Eugene Balsley, N
E of N E OF S 7, T 30, r 2. Con-
sideration $500
William Huff and wife, warranty
deed to Edward Anderson, N go A of
WI of N E of S %, T "a, R }. Con-
sideration $1,000
Richard Il Tea, warranty deed to
James E Whitaker, w J of N J Of N
E and w Is ] A of N E / of N E
all in 10, T "a, r 4. Consideration
$500
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Negotiations With Brigands OF.

LONDON, Oct. 26.-According
to advices to the Morning Lead
er from Sofia, dated Tuesday, Oct.
%, any negotiations that were
pending between the Bulgarian
authorities and the abductors of
Miss Stone have been broken
off.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

Rochester has awarded contract
for the construction of sanitary
sewer to cost $40, 1880. 1t will
extend through the town on Main
street, with several laterals, and will
terminate in a disposal plant. The
total length viii be 1902 feet.
Work is to begin by Nov. 4. We ex-
tend congratulations.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
A NeishborIy Thrust.

A Plymouth man was in the city
Tuesday with the purpose of opening
restaurant here but the rent charged
for the only store room in town rather
scared him of. There is quite diff
ference in rentals between a live town
and one of the other sort Mishawaka
Enterprise.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
ECONOMY, NOT LUCK,
SECRET OF SUCCESS.
Rochester Republican.

The great majority of men are what
is commonly called poor men. and the
question naturally arises why the poor
are in the majority. The answer is
that the average citizen is not built
on the plan to acquire an independent
competence, that is to say has not ac-
cumulated enough to care for himself
and family on rainy day, to provide
for sickness and death without owing
any one a dollar or depending upon
friends to help out i'm time of need.
1t is safe to say that nine-tenths of
the young men in Rochester are living
at the top of the heap. That is they
are expanding every dollar they can
possibly command for clothing. for
society, for a good time, for cigars,
and possibly for saloon patronage, and
many are not satisfied with absorbing
all their earnings but are determined
to keep up with the procession if
many articles are purchased on credit
and never paid for. And you would
be surprised to look over the books of
clothiers and behold the names of
persons who kindly received credit and
then abused the confidence imposed.
Such fellows are recorded as '.dead
beats" and all dealers are shy of them.
The only possible way for a poor
boy to rise above the ranks of poverty
is to avoid the ''Swimr and resolve to
lay by a certain amount of money
each week if it is necessary to make
sscrifice to do SO.
One of the wealthiest men in Roch-
ester accomplished his purpose, not so
much by earning big wages or specula-
ton but by laying upevery dollar that
could possibly be spared from a COM
Portable living, when the accumulated
dollars were put out to earn other
dollars. In this way his wealth was
acquired by economy, not by any
special exertion or speculation. and it
came easy, and what one man has done
can be done by others.
1t looks bad for young man to 90
about the streets smoking cigars and
having an all around coed time and
depending upon his parents or friends
for the bread he eats and a comfort
able home that he never assisted in
providing. The young man who eats
the bread he did not earn is that
much of pauper and the only differ
ence between himself and a tramp is
that he does not subsist upon hand
outs because he is permitted to sit at
a we'll filed table.
Young man, if you want to avoid
being dependent, borrower, rent
CT, one who lives from hand to mouth,
begging assistance in times of affiic-
ton, buying on credit when you are
unable to earn wages, commence now
to cultivate a principle of economy
that will make you Independent in all
things, because with money ycn IAN
purchase all the needs of mortal IAN.
Therefore the difference between
dependence and independence is not
luck or speculatlon-it is ony econ
omy-a principle that any person can
practice.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
DEFIED BANDITS
Bravery Of an Express Messenger
in a Hold.up.
Southern Poetic Train Attacked bu
Robbers Who are Fooled bu q Guord
He Hurled Lighted Dynamite out
of His Car and Used His Gun.

PORTLAND, Ore Oct. "a. =
The north bound overland ex-
press train on the Southern Pa
citic was held up by two masked
men fifteen miles south of Eu-
gene at 3 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. The robbers blew open the
express car with dynamite, but
secured little booty. having been
driven off by the express mess
enger.
The only things they carried
away were the contents of one
registered mail pouch. Two
men boarded the train at Cottage
Grove, and a short distance this
side, near Saginaw, they climbed
over the tender, put off the fire.
man and his helper, uncoupled the
express car, and made the en-
gineer drive ahead short dis
lance. When the train halted
their first act was to blow open
the door of the express car,
which they did with dynamite.
tearing the door to pieces and
badly damaging the car
Express Messenger G. R.
Charles was in the car. and had
made up his mind to stay there.
The robbers ordered the messen.
ger out of the car, but he refused
to come. He held a position
where he could easily bring down
any person who should enter
through the opening on the side
made by the dynamite
Come out of there or we will
blow you and the car to -"
commanded the robbers.
BLOW and be d-d.m was the
answer.
Then the desperadoes com
PEELED the engineer to throw into
the car stick of dynamite, with
lighted fuse The messenger
grabbed it and threw the blazing
thing back at them. 1t exploded
outside the car.
The men next attempted to en-
ter the car by compelling the en-
gineer, who was in the hands of
the robbers, to crawl in through
the door, the robbers hoping to
gain admittance by using him as
a protector. But Charles used
his shotgun to good advantage
and kept up hot IRE directly
over the engineers head, know
ing we'll the robbers would at
tempt to follow him into the car.
Finally the robbers turned
their attention to getting what
little they could from the mail
car. They obtained the regis
tered mail, and then one of them
took the engineer on board the
engine, which he commanded to
be cut loose from the train. 1t !
ran to within half a mile of Eu-
gene. where the robber left and
started toward the Willamette
river, in a northerly direction
The passengers were not mo-
Tested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Missing Man Goes to Africa.

LAPoRTE, Ind, Oct. 2S-G. F.
Winslow, landlord of the Wins
low hotel, who has been missing
for several weeks, has, it is
learned, gone to Africa. The
hotel is in charge of his wife.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-14

inward. But don't let the chest fall. Ex-
halation must be slow and complete. The
air can be forced out of the lungs with
the chest kept erect 1t is not an easy
matter 10 n. ster this exercise in the be-
ginning. Do this twenty times.
For relaxation try this exercise: Take
a deep breath, close the hands, stretch
one arm backward and upward, then the
other moving the body at the waist line
one way or the other. eXpflling the breath
slowly Keep in mind that belts and cor
sets restrict the Development of the alb
dominal muscles. and il Is these that you
wish to stretch and pull and exercise.
Exercise in eXpulsiye breathing. Draw
in full breath. and emit 1t with a lively,
eXDulsive force, still sticting to your II
sound. Do NOT prolopg it as you do in
the ELUSIVE breathing. Let it be a sort
of short or moderately whispered cough
The breath is projected in the air. In the
exercise mentioned just before this enc
the breath is merely effused into the sur
rounding air.
Before going to sleep give your lungs
an air bath.
Lie fiat on the back, with no pillow
under the head.
Place~the arms close to the sides, then
inhale and exhale slowly, allowing your
self a rest of five or ten seconds between
breaths. Do this fifteen times Then
with arms extended straight out across
the bed, breathe slowly and deeply fifteen
time more.
You'll sleep like a top. unless you have
been filling up on mince pies or cheese
sandwiches or deviled crabs with tartar
sauce
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-14
BLESSED BY THE POPE.
a Little Indian Maiden Received mt
the Vatican

Mother Amedeus. of Helena. Mont. and
her Indian protege, Kol-in-zu-ten, who
have been recently given an audience be-
fore the Pontiff in Rome. passed through
Pittsburg. says the Dispatch" during
the early part of the week on their home
ward journey to the West They were
entertained for day and night at the
Mother house of the Ursulines, Winebid-
die Avenue.
Kol-in-zuten is a graceful little maiden
of eleven years of age. She was rendered
an enthusiastic reception by the students
of the Ursuline Academy the evening of
her arrival, and an imDromptu musicale
was arranged, in which the Indian girl
participated. Kol-in-zu-ten had her own
mandolin. and rendered several selections.
This same mandolin had filled its mission
OF pleasure before the convocation of the
superioresses of the Ursuiine order as
sembled in Rome during the winter and
as fingered by the Indian girl had played
no small part in bringing about the unity
OF that sisterhood on a broad and pro-
gressive basis.
Kol-in-zu-ten gave the Pittsburg stu
dents talk on her experiences as a trav-
eler. She spoke good English. and had a
budget of interesting facts. Not the least
interesting feature of the Indian girls
visit was the display of her little tokens
panions and acquaintance made in
Rome. There were snapshot pictures
which the camera man" had taken of
her while on shipboard, a gold piece from
the captain of the Kaiser Wilhelm. books
cards, beads, and trinkets from the good
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-14
HIS WHITE INDIAN.
A Tobacconist Uses 1t to Catch the
Feminine Trade.

There is a white Indian enrolled as a
permanent resident OF an uptown block
in Atlanta, Ga, in neighborhood where
good clothes obtain and the street CONVEX
sat'ons are grammatical, if not uplifting.
This Indian is usually to be found stand
ing outside the shop of purveyor of to-
bacco to the fashionable. AT other times
he is inside.
A man who entered the shop the other
day, says the Journal" bought his cl-
gar and casually enquired as to the color
of the wooden sign. Il have seen a good
many cigar store Indians he said, but
this is the first white cigar store Indian
L recollect. What is the idea in having
him painted this pure color?"
Why" said the proprietor, hesitating-
ly, why, well, if you must know l do it
to attract the ladies'
The ladies?" said the customer.
w by, certainly" said the shopman
THE ladies smoke. As matter of fact,
they are my best paying customers.
When j first started in business in this
neishborhood l had the regulation brown
Indian in front of the store One day a
young woman came in and asked for q
package OF cigarettes She went to un-
necessary trouble to convince me that
they We're for her brother who was sick
and couldn't come for them himself never
seeming to think that it was pretty funny
for man to be so sick he couldn't walk
out of the house, and yet could smoke
cigarettes. l asked her what kind he
smoked and she said she had heard the
name but had forgotten. Oh, she tried
hard to be foxy. But she gave herself
away when l showed her one brand and
she said, oh. that kind bites my tongue"
After that she blushed and began talking
about my sign.
she said the brown Indians were so
ugly, and she asked why / didn't have a
white Indian. She said white was so
much more gratifying to the eye. and
somehow or other she conveyed the idea
that If | put a white Indian in front of
the shop, all the other girls could come
here to buy cigarettes for their sick broth
ers. l don't attempt to explain what her
motives were, but ] could see she was i'm
favor of white. | knew who she was.
Her father is wealthy broker, and she
has lots of money to- spend on sick broth
ers cigarettes, so IL just spent couple
of dollars in having the Indian painted
white. f.r.,H
The next time sle came in she didn't
say anything about her sick brother hui
she did comment on the changed appear
ance of the Indianslatnd- she let me see
she was battered thatrI had taken her
advice. Ever sincGnthen she has been
doing a good deal to build up my bust
ness | don't care Very -uch now for
mans trade-no offence TO YOU strand 1
never Will let any of THE young fellows
get in the habit ofdlounging around the
store. That would keep the women away,
and its their patronage that paws my
rent and gives me profit