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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-09-18
Killed at Bourbon.

Otto Compton, aged about 80 years,
was instantly killed at Bourbon Sum-
day forenoon. Mr.. Compton was
crossing the railroad tracks noticed a
freight train moving slowly but did
not see another train which
was moving much faster on the
the next track. He hurried across to
get out of the way of the first train
and stepping on the second track was
struck by the engine of the other train
which was moving in the same direct
ion as the one on the first track.
He was badly mangled and killed in
stantly. Deceased was working
man and leaves three children, his
wife having died about two years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-09-18
Excursion to Chattanooga via PennsyIva.
MIA Lines.

Excursion tickets to Chattanooga,
Tenn, account Sherman brigade re-
union, will be sold via Pennsylvania
lines. September 10th and 18th. De-
tailed information will be furnished by
Pennsylvania lines ticket agents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
HOTEL LOBBY GLEANINGS
COUNTRY'S PROSPERITY RESPON-
sIBLE FOR FIRE LOSSES.
The Situation Explained by Mem
Der of the League of Fire Under
writers-HoteI Visitors.

THE general prosperity of the country is
in measure responsible for the heavy fire
losses we are having these days. said a
man at the Spencer House last night He
is a member of the Indiana League of Fire
Underwriters, which held it's regular
monthly meeting at the Spencer yesterday
afternoon. The league is composed of the
field men" employed by the insurance
companies in Indiana. This includes the
special and state agents for the companies
and the adjusters. At these monthly meet
ings the general condition of the fire in
surance business is discussed.
The first six months of this year." said
the man who was talking of the business
last night, "all the companies will lose
money for the losses in this State have
been very disastrous. Were you aware
that for every 800 in losses paid out by
the insurance companies the State loses s.?
That is explained this way: The insurance
companies pay the State 50 on every 800
Of premiums collected after the losses have
been deducted. Naturally ever dollar paid
out is considered a loss. In Indiana thus
far this year the losses have been a consid-
cradle per cent greater than they were for
the same period last year. So far as my
own losses are concerned they have been at
least % per cent. higher. The insurance
rates in this State have been increased
some, but not sufficiently to put the bust
ness on a participating basis. A few
years ago the losses were not so great and
the companies were making money. They
put the rates down and have not been able
TO get them up to what they once were. l
am inclined to attribute the unusual fire
losses to the fact that factories are runnin e
full time and some of them day and night.
Their machinery being in use almost con-
Stantly becomes heated. Then rubbish of
different kinds is left lying about because
the men are too busy in the factories TO
clean up. AS a result there is liable to be
n fire. The insurance business has been
unsatisfactory for the last three years, and
particularly for the last six months,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
c., III. & ID. VIII Not BE Sold.

Wall Street Journal
There is absolutely no truth In the story
that Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has
been sold, or is likely to be sold either to
Southern, Monon or the Vanderbilts. The
story is very Old but is revamped every
now and then and made to do service as
news. The basis of the various reports is
l suppose. that we lease Cincinnati South
ern jointly with Southern Railway have
trackage rights over Monon into Chicago
and over Michigan Central from Toledo to
Detroit. Our relations with these roads
are new exactly as they have been for
years, and. humanity speaking, will con-
tinue TO be the same indefinitely. The
lease of Cincinnati Southern by the city of
Cincinnati to road and Southern con-
Jointly was renewed the other day for a
period of siXty-five years.
Conditions along our line promise ex-
cellently for crops this season. on a re-
cent trip over the Springfield division,
found that wet weather threatened some
damage in Illinois to the corn. Water was
standing i'm the low places, but the gem
eral opinion that unless very hot
weather came on before the water went
away, entailing damage by 'scaIding"
little real harm would result. Since then
/ believe conditions have been favorable
and prior to that time everything promised
the best crop in years. Taken as a whole
our region looks forward 10 an excellent
season
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
CAMPAIGNER IN TOWN.
Fred Lands, in Strange Gnrb, at the
Denison Hotel.

a young man of rather slender build. with
a pair OF grey eyes, a profusion of curly
brown hair and a classic face. lounged
about the lobby of the Denison Hotel
yesterday afternoon. He carried his hands
in his trouser pockets and the bottoms of
his trousers were rolled. He wore a belt
and q red bandanna handkerchief was
knotted about his neck. straw hat set off
his curling locks. The young man looked
anything but a bowling swell and indeed
he makes no pretensions OF being man Of
extreme fashion. He does pretend to be
a campaigner, however, and his friends say
he will cut a pretty big figure in the coming
campaign In Indiana. The young man was
Frederick Lands. who defeated George W.
Steele for the congressional denomination
in the Eleventh district, after something
over d thousand ballots had been taken.
Young Lands yesterday made his first trip
TO the capital since the State convention.
For time after the Wabash convention
he was i'll, IL was said. but he remarked
yesterday that he never felt better. The
rather careles manner of his dress yester-
day, suggested that he might have been as
sisting some OF his farmer friends In the
harvest fields, but he explained that he had
been campaigning. That Lands will ha
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
LOCAL WHOLESALE TRADE
CITY MARTs ARE VERY DULL, EVEN
FOR THE QUIET SEASON.
Poultry, Eggs and Butter the Only
Hard SpOts-UnusualIy Heavy Re-
ceipts of Wheat and Corn.

Dizziness was the chief characteristic of
the local market yesterday. Seldom is
there so little doing even at this season
of the year. On Commission row indica-
tions are for lower prices. but there was
no material break yesterday, although the
supply of fruit and vegetables was ample
for the demand, and some very choice APP
pies, peaches, watermelons and canteloupes
are offered at low prices. The produce
markets about the only active spots,
and in them strong prices the feature.
Choice butter is frmer, eggs are firm and
unchanged and poultry is fast mover at
prices quoted. supply being short OF the
demand. New tomatoes in good sup
ply and weak in price. Some very good
stock is offered. Various conditions have
combined TO bring about easier state
of affairs in canned tomatoes, for which
quotations are slightly lower. New packs
are offering at lower figures than earlier
in the season, and spots are feeling the
influence of the weaker situation. Added
to this is the fact that fresh tomatoes are
now plentiful and selling at low prices.
while the season for large demand of
canned stock is almost over. In other lines
of canned goods there is no change. Flour
is very firm. Sugars and coffees are selling
at the prices of three weeks past. In dry
goods, boots and shoes and millinery quiet
ude is the current condition, and will be
for the rest of the month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
A RATE WAR is POSSIBLE
CLAIMED THAT THE WABASH AND
THE ERIE ARE THE DIsTURBERs.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day ton
Not on the Market at Any Price
General Railroad News.

Nothing has occurred lately which has
announcement of the Wabash that it would
sell tickets good on it's fast trains, July
IL, 81 and Aug. and IA. at $3.50 round
trip from Chicago to New York, with stop
over privileges at Detroit and Niagara
Falls, which is less than the regular one
way fare. The Wabash company says
tickets will be good twelve days, it is an
Offset to the seashore excursions being
given by other east-and-wes roads. The
Erie line, one of the trunk lines, is said TO
be behind the movement, but tries to place
the blame, it is stated, on the Wabash
New York has heretofore been regarded as
a sacred place against long-distance ex-
cursion invasion, in view of the great COM
mercial traffic. The Wabash, however,
seems intent in carrying low rates East and
West. General Passenger Agent Crane is
backed, it is said, by the Gould interest in
his efforts to force the fight. and this will
force other Eastern lines to take similar
action. The Pennsylvania will bitterly
fight the threatened Generalization, The
matter will be taken up at the next meet
ing of the Trunk Line Association. 1t Is
understood that the Wabash will give ex-
cursion rates from Chicago and points
west of the Missouri river to Atlantic City
and New York. Every month makes it
croach on Eastern territory. that II is to
be rate disturber, and excursions to East
ern cities will become as common as to
Western points the last few years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15

Alvin f. jackson Looks After George
+. McCuIlOch's Car.

Alvin Z. Jackson, the young man who has
charge of the Martha. the private car
of General Manager McCulloch. of the
Union Traction Company. was in town
yesterday Jackson was imported from
New York some time ago by Mr. McCul-
loch and devotes all his time to looking
after the Martha and the comfort of
the guests who enjoy the luxury of trav-
cling in the general managers car. Jack
son speaks three different languages in
addition to English and has travelled ex-
tensively AS valet for Mrs. Z. b. Hull.
a wealthy Detroit woman, he travelled all
over Europe a few years ago. He was
afterward valet for George p. Scribner a
wealthy young New Yorker, whose death
occurred in 1895 the result of fall from
the third-story window of his residence
in New York. Jackson thinks the easiest
job he ever had was when, a lad of siX-
teen. he went from New York to Japan
by way of Honolulu a cabin boy on a
full-rigged ship The ship returned by the
same route, the entire trip occupying
eighteen months. Jackson's sole duty on
this trip was looking after the comfort of
the captain. "One of the peculiar incl
dents of this trip said Jackson yester-
day, was the manner in which a seaman
lost his eyesight He was at the wheel
one night when the weather was almost
a dead calm. He was compelled TO keep
a sharp watch on the sails to see how the
breeze was coming up and the glare of
the moon on the sails made him blind.
His eyes were perfectly clear and no one
could detect that he totally blind
Jackson's pride is the Martha, and his
enthusiasm over the car is shared by his
employer, the general manager, who is
never so contented as when speeding over
the lines in the little flyer. The car is a
miniature Pullman. The motorman who
drives the car is Emory II. Johnson, one OF
the most competent and trusted of the
Union Traction Companys employees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15

BUSINESS CHANCE-An established money!
making business in Indianapolis with S. 600 in
stock and machinery hand, together with
valuable patents. Is in need OF about $40 600 ad-
ditional cash capital. Capable man with that
amount half interest and business
management. Fullest investigation desired. and
excellent references given. Address for inter
view Box Is, care Journal.
BUSINESS CHANCE-Gcod men wanted TO oDer-
crate plants for the manufacture and applica-
ton OF Coral Marble TO floors and wainscotfng
in the States of Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Ohio. Indiana and Michigan. The entire services
OF two men for each Plant manager and SUI
perintendent required. Forty men for twenty
plants needed; must be or excellent Character
and good business qualifications Liberal sal
aries will be paid. small investment in the
stock OF the company is required as well as
conpanys option on the stock should services
be dispensed with. Coral Marble is a substitutes
for marble and tile for floors and wainscotine
at less than one-half the price OF the former
THE CORAL. MARBLE COMPANY, Chamber of
Commerce Bldg. Cleveland, o.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
indianapolis Grain Market.

Not in months has the local grain market
shown so much activity. Arrivals of wheat
are large, inspections reaching forty-six
carloads yesterday. Corn receipts were not
so large, being but twenty cars. Hay was
stronger in price. Track bids, as reported
by the secretary of the Board of Trade,
ruled as follows the track:
Wheat steady; No. 2 red. 731zc. track: No.
red. 7212c, on milling freight; No. red
69I26711zc. track; wagon wheat. 73c.
Corn steady; No. l white, 66l9c No. 2
white. 661zc; No. white, 661zc; No. white
621zn641zc No. white mixed. CSC: No 3
white mixed. 65c; No. 4 white mixed 61G
63c; No. yellow, 6514c No. yellow, 654c
No. 4 yellow. 611d6SAc; No. 2 mixed. 65c
No. mixed. 65c; No mixed, 61H63c; ear
65c; wagon market. size
Oats weaker; No. . white. 52d52Izc; No 5
white. 5119u52c; No. 2 mixed, 5012Q51c; No.
5 mixed, 5OQ5012c.
Hay steady: No. timothy, sl3d13 50; No
timothy, Sll.50ftl2.
No. 3 red. IL; no. red. /; rejected. 25:
understandable, 2; total, IS cars Corn:
No. 3 white. Is cars; No. white. l: No.
yellow, /; No. yellow, !; No. mixed.
Hay: No l timothy, l car; No. i prairie,
/: total, cars.
WAGON MARKET.
Offerings on the wagon market were fair
for Monday, demand was not very active
and sellers were obliged TO let down prices
little unless on a choice article Prices.
as reported by the wagon weighmaster.
ranged follows:
Corn-72q75c per bu.
Oats-52fl55c per bu.
Hay-Timothy. choice. sl3d15: new, sl0d
IL; mixed s1d12; clover, s9alO. according
10 quality.
sheaf 0ats-sl2als per ton.
Straw-S51l6. according to quality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Harry Dodd. travelling auditor OF the Mo
non. is in the city inspecting the local
office.
The August meeting of the Central Pas
senger Association will be held at Putin
Bay. Aug. Is.
hauling a third sleeping car from Indian
apolis for the East on the Knickerbocker
Express.
r. A. Jackson. of Richmond. Ind. has
been appointed general attorney of the
Chicago. Rock Island q Pacific, with head
quarters at Chicago.
F w Buskirk. for many years assistant
general passenger agent of the Erie, will
retire from that position on Aug. 1 10 en-
gage IN commercial pursuits.
]. a Barnard. president of the Peoria &
Pekin Union Railway. was in Chicago
yesterday attending a meeting OF the ex-
ecutive committee of that road.
All stations on the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern main line in Indiana will.
on Aug l. come under the Jurisdiction OF
the Indiana Car-service Association
Charles Meek. after twelve years serv-
ice as telegraph operator on the Nickel
plate, has resigned TO take a position as
superintendent OF an oil tank works.
Business is improving with the Toledo.
ST. Louis Western. In the first week
in July the road earned S45,31S. an increase
$3.50
The new tracks at la Otto. which con-
meet the Nandalia Michigan division with
the Grand Rapids a Indiana, are COM
pleted anC connection is now made without
any delay
The anthracite coal strike is telling seri-
ously on the earnings OF the Chesapeake
* Ohio the road the first week in July
earning Sls5.s70 a decrease as compared
with last year OF $40. rs
Train y on the Big Four, which hauls the
through sleeper Of the twentieth century
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
MOVING DAY" AT ACTON.
The Programme Proper for the As
sembIy VIII Begin To-Day.

Moving day was observed yesterday at
Acton Park and by evening the grounds
had the appearance of a small village.
There are over thirty-ive families occupy
ing the cottages and many more are ex-
pected to arrive to-day. The park is in ex-
cellent condition and everything points to a
most successful season. Many improve
ments have been made during the past
year, and, while the place still contains
that quaint and antique appearance, the
new effect is decidedly noticeable
The programme proper begins to-day
which will be taken up in the guests get
ting located and the persons who expect to
camp preparing for their outing. There
Will be no meeting during the day, but to-
night a Photographic concert is to be given
in the tabernacle. Tomorrow Rev H w
kellogg. pastor OF Central-avenue Church
of this city, will deliver a sermon at $3.50 in
the afternoon. In the evening a stereopti-
con lecture by the Rev. II. w. Baldridge.
of Madison, on Views in the Life of
Christ" will be given
The programme for Acton Assembly s
first week is as follows:
July 10. Opening day-7:45 p. M, phono-
graphical concert by the Carlin & Lenox
Company. of Indianapolis.
July 1850 p. m, opening sermon by DR..
Kellogg, of Indianapolis; 7:45 D. m. stere-
opticon views from the life of Christ by
Rev. II. w. Baldridge. of Madison, Ind.
July 4t-AV-ous SctlAlOl DA rev. II. TX.
Bryan. of Franklin: $3.50. lecture by DIR.
Doddridge, of Greencastle: 7:30. evange-
listic services by Mr.. and Mrs Frame, OF
Muncie
July is and 19-Mr. and Mrs. Frame will
hold three services daily. and two of the
prominent ministers will preach.
July 2-General John 3. Gordon will de-
liver an address. General Gordon is an
ex-United States Senator, an ex-Confeder-
ate commander and one of the abest
speakers and most popular men on the
American platform to-day He will be
introduced by Congressman Griffith of the
Fourth Indiana district. Other dis.
tinguished men viii be present.
During the assembly there will be music
and singing, conducted by Rev. c. B. Syl.
vester. Mrs. Flora \. West and a choir OF
Well-trained voices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
WILL BE A BUSY MAN.
Representative WatsOn's Itinerary
Will Take Him to California.


John B. Gordon will speak in the morn
ing on The Last Days of the Confederacy.'
and I'll speak in the afternoon on The Last
Days of the Democracy " remarked James
Z. Watson, representative in Con-
gress from the Sixth district, who
was in town yesterday. Mr.. Wat
son was telling of his plans for the
summer and fall and particularly of his
engagement with the Chautauqua people at
Beloit Kan. Mr.. Watson will leave for
Beloit to-day and will address the Chau-
tauqua assembly there on Thursday after
noon. The representative from the Sixth
mas planned for a busy summer. His
speech at Beloit, to put ii in his own lam
guage, will be "a political speech mixed
with a little patriotism" On July 20 Mr..
Watson will leave for California to attend
a meeting at Sacramento. After this meet
ing he has arranged to deliver addresses in
four different congressional districts in the
State of California He will make speeches
in the districts of Representatives Metcalf,
Kahn, CoOmbs and Needham. These ar
engagements were made with Mr.. Watson in
Washington, and at the request of the Cal
ifornia delegation he consented to address
the state convention at Sacramento on
Aug. %
Immediately after the convention Mr.
Watson will start for Indiana, expecting
to arrive here about Sept l. He will start
at once making speeches in his own district
and will keep in touch with his people in
oratorical way until about the goth of
September, the time of the opening of the
campaign in the State He will then turn
his district over to the state committee to
take care of and he will start out for a
three weeks series of speechmaking for
the national congressional campaign COM
m1ttee, Of which Representative Overstreet
will be at the head, going wherever the
committee sends him. At the close of this
work Nh. Watson will be at the service of
the state committee. He expects to take
part in the campaign in the First, Fifth,
Eighth and Thirteenth districts. The
First ~ Representative Hemenway's dis
trict, the Fifth is Mr.. Holidays district
and the Eighth and Thirteenth are repre-
sented by Messrs. Cromer and Brick re-
SpeptiValV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15

Col. John c. Wingate is in town with
new corn story. Over in Montgomery
county. where the colonel lives, the people
pride themselves on raising big corn Our
people insist that we have the great garden
spot of the country" said the colonel last
night. Two years age the colonel came to
town one day to attend a meeting of the
State Board of Tax Commissioners and re-
lated that he was delayed because the corn
was so heavy in his part of the county that
II fell over into the highways and retarded
travel; 1t is with this part of the county
that the colonel's new story deals.
I'VE never had better growing weather
for corn said he. In our county Philip
Deter, living three miles northeast of
Wingate, recently tested the growth of
stalk of corn for nine days. He did this
by setting a stake in the ground near the
corn stalk and clipping of the top OF one of
the blades at the top of the stake. Stretch
ing the blade up after twentyfour hours
he found that il had grown six and one
half inches. In forty-eight hours he meas
ured the blade again and 1t had grown
fourteen inches. In three days the blade
had grown twenty-three inches in seven
days it had grown forty-one inches and in
nine days fifty-six inches In the nine days
the stalk had grown two feet and eight
inches.
We have the best wheat crop in our
section, except that the acreage is shorter
that we have had since 1854 Uncle Matte
Suffers, living three miles southwest of
Wingate, threshed twelve acres of wheat
last week that averaged forty-fve bushels
and one peck, machine weight TO the acre.
and the machine weight was overrunning
at the elevator about three bushels TO the
hundred which would make the wheat av
erage between forty-seven and forty-eight
bushels 10 the acre. The quality of our
wheat is very fine. nearly ali grading No. ?.
The threshing machines are all running.
and the grain is in excellent condition for
threshing. We have never had a better
prospect for wheat, oats, corn and hay,
except that the oats in places is badly
lodged. The weather just now is ideal.
We have two of the largest elevators on
the Clover-leaf road in our place. New
wheat is worth 20 cents and corn 50. There
is considerable old corn yet in sections
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
Democratic Chairman's Activities.

Chairman O'Brien, of the Democratic
state committee was at the Grand Hotel
last night on his way to Peru to attend the
Democratic congressional convention in the
Eleventh district. He recently was NOM
mated for joint senator from the counties
of Dearbon, Franklin and Ohio AS the
district is something like 1000 Democratic
he is reasonably sure of being elected. The
chairman says he has fixed no definite
time for the state committee to meet again.
1T will meet, however, before the opening
of the campaign, which will be the latter
part of September.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-15
Marion Trust Company.

At the semi-annual meeting of the d.
rectors of the Marion Trust Company, held
yesterday afternoon. a semi-annual divi-
dend OF 2i2 per cent. of the paid up stock of
$4,000 was ordered paid Net earnings of
Sl6332.22 We're placed TO the account of un-
divided profits. Victor X. Hendricks pres
ident OF the Hendricks-Vance Company. OF
South Meridian street was elected a di-
rector or the company 10 fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Samuel A Morri-
son, late cashier OF the Fletcher National
Rank