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The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Badly Bitten by a Rat.

George E. Moore, machinist resid-
ing at Fort Wayne, was recently Sc
verely and painful injured in pecul-
lar way. While cutting the grass in
his yard big rat ran out of the high
grass and climbed up inside the right
leg of his trousers, before the startled
man could stop it. The rodent climb
ed up the mans leg, badly lacerating
it, and fastened its teeth in his hip.
Although he grabbed the rat and
squeezed it until he could hear its
bones crack, he could not loosen its
hold, and had to call a neighbor TO
his assistance.
The neigbbor crushed the rats
head between two stones and then
split the seam of MOore'S trousers in
order to get the rodent out. The rat IS
teeth were sunk so deeply into the
mans flesh that they had to be pried
out with pen-knife. Moore suffered
excruciating pain, and the doctor who
cauterized the wound regarded it as a
very serious one.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
No Corn to Burn.

The New York Herald expresses
the opinion that the corn crop will be
so large that there will be 'scorn to
burn" The corn crop is not fully
assured yet, but it may be safely pre-
dicted that never again in this cOun-
try will there be corn to burn. In
fact, from year to year, corn always
has good value. During the past
dozen years the alienation Of full
and short crop has caused prices to
double. SO that those who nave been
in a situation to hold the abundant
crop until a short season have doubled
their money without the risks of mar
gins and bucket shops. More and
more Europe is coming to appreciate
corn, and here at home the experience
of the past year has taught us that of
all the crops corn is the more import
ant. Instead of burning it, let the
surplus of the full years be kept,
Joseph-like, for the lank years.-In-
Journal.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Locomotives Race for Ten Miles.

The fastest race tract in America is
in Indiana. 1t has a record of a mile
in less than fifty seconds. and it is as
serted that considerable money is
banked on the races that occur on this
track, which is stretch of about ten
miles between Elkhart and Goshen.
The speeders are the fast trains on
Big Four and Lake Shore railroads.
The tracks of the two roads run side
by side. and the Big Four train pulls
out of Elkhart every afternoon about
the same time as the Twentieth Cen
tury limited leaves that station. 1t
is understood between the enginemen
that it means a race, and as there are
no stops until Goshen is reached,
there is pretty display of scientific
running. Honors thus far are about
even.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Jefferson Speicher Killed.

Jefferson Speicher, son of Mrs. En-
lily Speicher, and brother of Charles
Speicher of this county, Clinton
Speicher of South Bend, and Mrs.
Frank Woods, of North Dakota, was
killed near Milford Junction Sunday
night.
Mr.. Speicher resided with his mo-
ther near Linkville for more than
twenty years, but they removed to
Milford about four months ago. He
had been subject to epileptic fits since
he was nineteen years old and it is
supposed that while suffering from one
of those attacks he fell on the Big
Four track Sunday night and a
train ran over him. The body was
terribly mangled when found and the
remains were buried Monday.
His head was severed and the mutt
lated pieces of his body were Strewn
along the track for distance of
eighty feet. The trunk was lying be-
tween the rails and had been dragged
some distance. In fact the remains
were SO badly disfgured that it was
almost impossible to identify the man
as Speicher. His head was crushed.
Deceased was about AZ years old
was industrious, intelligent, and of
excellent habits until long years of
epilepsy impaired his faculties men,
tally and physically. He was related
to the Ridgways, SeltenrightS and
other prominent families of the Link
vile neighborhood.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
The Balloon Ascension,

Saturday was fair and warm, one of
the best days of the season for harvest
ing, making hay and plowing corn,
consequently there were few farmers
in town, but the balloon ascension.
the races and other amusements were
exactly as advertised. Plymouth
never postpones things on account of
weather.
The fast bicycle race was won by
Levi Ringle, of Bremen. Few boys
of his age can make better time than
Ringle.
The slow race from Kloepfer'S cor
ner to the Jacox corner was easily won
by Freddie Kuhn, who can handle a
bicycle about as he pleases.
The balloon ascension was the event
of the day. The monster balloon with
Professor Galloway in the basket rose
majestically and fioated away to the
northeast. When the professor seemed
mere speck in the air he opened the
parachute and descended alighting un-
injured on Sigmund Mayors house
east of th postoffice. The feat was
witnessed by over 1000 people and it
was one of the prettiest and most sue
cessful ascensions ever made in Plym-
outh. Prof. Galloway is not novice in
managing balloon. He understands
the business thoroughly.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Ransacked Farmers Home.

While the family of James Swarzell,
a wealthy Porter county farmer, were
at church Sunday two unknown men
drove up to the Swarzell home with
platform wagon and thoroughly ran
sacked the house taking money, jewell
ry. Silverware, clocks and similar ar
ticles to the value of several hundred
dollars. The thieves then drove leis-
urely away and suspicion was not
aroused until the family's return from
church three hours later. A posse of
neighbors headed by Farmer Swarzell
are hunting the nervy burglars, but
thus far without success. Men and
team seem to have disappeared COM
pletely as though swallowed up by the
earth
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Hero of San Juan Hill.

David H. Keller, a farmer five
miles south of Marion, who was with
President Roosevelt in the famous
charge up San Juan hill, and was a
participant in the attempt to capture
Sitting Bull, and was present when
the Indian chief was killed. is violent
lv insane, and will be taken to the
Eastern Indiana hospital, at Rich
mond. Keller's affliction dates from
the famous charge. He was seriously
injured. One side was caved in and a
number of his ribs were broken. He
never fully recovered from the injury
and has finally lost his reason.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
As Christ Would Run II.

'sGolden Rule Norton" who made
for himself quite reputation during
the past two years by conducting his
grocery stores as Christ would run
them, is to run an excursion from
Marion to Toledo, Ohio, on July %.
Norton is the proprietor of about five
stores in and near Marion and all are
run according to scriptual directions.
The excursion is to be run to the
Casino, and on the trip no cigars,
whiskey, beer or chewing tobacco will
be allowed.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Three Years In Plymouth,

In his annual sermon at the Reform
ed church Sunday morning, Rev. j.
E. Hartman made the following state
ment:
''Something more than week ago
we passed the third milestone of my
ministry with you. God has led us
hitherto: he has been good to us.
Figures are not ALWAYS reliable as
indices Of progress or 1etrogression
But they have their interest. Hence
| submit to you that during my pastor
ate here l have baptized twenty
adults. 1t has. been my sad duty to
stand with you at the brink of thirty
nine open graves. Through my
ministry twenty-nine new homes have
been founded. And into the bonds of
our Christian fellowship it has been
my joyous privilege to induct more
than fifty souls.
1t has been my purpose to bring to
you the fruits of a systematic study of
the scriptures. 1 have preached con-
tinuouSly through the gospel of Mark,
the Epistle to the Philippines; and
now for almost eighteen months from
the Acts of the Apostles, with the
hope to complete this rich mine of
text and truth within the course of a
few more sermons. And yet how sub
timely unexhausted remains this well
spring of Gods revealed truth. Who
can fathom the depths of revelation?
What Seer's eye can scale the pin
nacles of its completed symmetry?
Where is the preacher whose voice,
shallow though IN the rapture of
most finished eloquence, can ever hope
to be more than the echo of the tri-
umph song ofGod'S everlasting truth?
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

The death of Archbishop Feehan, of
Chicago, depriveS the Catholic church
of one of its most powerful supporters
in the west. He was a man of the
highest christian character, and of re-
markable ability. He had rulership
over diocese composed of 300
churches and over 400 priests be-
sides many schools and colleges, asy-
lums and hospitals. He was the
founder of the popular and powerful
order. the Catholic Knights Of Amer
ica. He was 73 years of age and had
been in charge of the Chicago diocese
for quarter of century.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

While the wholesale business of Chi
cago is almost completely paralyzed,
and while its business men are suffer
ing loss of 81, 900, 900 per day, the
striking freight handlers and the rail-
roads are in a deadlock, and announce
their determination to fight to the
finish over the question of one-half
cent per hour per man, or total of
about $500 for every twenty-fOur
hours; this sum being divided on one
side between twenty-four railroads,
and on the other between 10, 900 men.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Worry and the Weather.


Recently man who had kept ac-
count of his worries for given num-
Der of years declared that of the
thousands of things which had caused
him anxiety he could remember only
two that had any substantial basis,
and that these, viewed from a dist
ance, were trivial
This man voiced a common expert
ence of humanity. Worries are in
the vast majority of cases unreal
Many persons are laden with ankle
ties regarding the prospects of the
weather.
Two months ago it seemed perfect
ly clear to these persons that the
drought of a year ago was about to be
repeated, and they worked upon the
feelings of the western population
until days of prayer for rain were set
apart by some of the governors.
The heavens opened In due time
and the floods came, and these persons
were certain that the rains would
continue until the growing crops were
washed away Yet there was hot
period, and it proved TO them that we
should have hot and dry summer,
which would be especially trying to
those whose constitutions demanded
cool and wet summers.
By June the north winds began to
blow and the early summer took on all
the characteristics of late spring,
Then the same persons were quite
certain that we should not have SUM-
shine and heat enough to ripen the
crops and that the unreasonable u
weather wonld prove calamitous to
persons subject to throat and lung
troubles.
Now we are passing through the
most delightful season of the year, the
period when the weather seems to he
made to order for summer resort pur-
poses, and yet these same persons are
beginning to worry lest the warm
term shall be protracted and severe,
with consequent sunstrokes and heat
prostIations.
There are few who philoSophize
over the weather, and these are the
people who are comfortable at all sea-
sons of the year, and comparatively
happy. Their philosophy is based up
on the principle that the weather is
never colder or hotter, dryer or-wetter
than it feels, and that nobody has
ever yet been known to suffer disease
or discomfort of any kind from the
weather that has been predicted to
come the next week or the next
month.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

1t is possible that the schedule of
the new 24-hOur train service over the
Pennsylvania and Lake Shore roads
between Chicago and New York may
be reduced to sixteen or eighteen
hours. BY run made by this train
Friday night over the Lake Shore, it
was demonstrated that the distance
between the two cities may be cover
ed easily IN sixteen hours. One day
last week the west-bound flyer over
the Lake Shore was blocked two hours
and twenty-eight minutes by freight
wreck at BrOcton, forty-nine miles
west of Buffalo AS soon as the OBJ
struction was cleared the Twentieth
Century limited started on on re-
markable run. The distance from
Brocton to Chicago-481 miles-was
covered in 4S1 minutes. BrOctOn is
less than one-half the distance be-
tween New York and Chicago, and
the fact that the train made up two
hours and half in lessJthan half the
distance demonstrates to the officials
of the Lake Shore and New York Gen.
tral sroadS that the entire Journey
could be made with safety on a six
teen-hour schedule. Following is a
resume of the run by divisions: Broc-
ton to Cleveland, 135 miles, 131 min
vtes; Cleveland to Toledo, 113 miles.
103 minntes: Toledo to Elkhart, 1873
miles. 115 minutes, Elkhart to Chi
cago 1O1 miles, Ill minutes. Between
Elkhart and Chicago the run included
Slow-downs for fourteen railroad cross
ings, three slow orders and twelve
miles through the Chicago yards from
South Chicago to Grand Central STA
tiOD
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Senator j. c. Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, is out in statement in which
he declares that he hopes ''to live
long enough to see United States SEN
ators elected by direct vote of the
people," AS an experimental step in
this direction, Senator Blackburn
might induce himself and his associates
in Kentucky democratic leadership TO
permit the election of governors in
his state by the same method.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Township Trustees.

There will be a meeting OF the
Township Trustees of the Thirteenth
Congressional District, in Rochester,
Thursday and Friday. July "a and 25.
The object of the meeting is the
discussion of topics patent to said Of
ficers and their constituents. There
are eighty-fonr townships in the dis
trict which will probably be pretty
fully represented.
The program already prepared is an
interesting one and will undoubtedly
be fruitful of good. The meeting
will be held at the Rochester Normal
University.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

The government has appropriated
s5, 900, 900 towards the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition at st. Louis in 1904,
but Secretary Shaw rules that unless
the exposition managers agree to sign
a contract not to open the exposition
gates on Sunday, he cannot allow any
of the appropriation to be used for the
salaries of those connected with the
exposition, as the government OBJ
serves the Sabbath and does not pay
its employees for laboring on that day.
This is good point and as the salar-
les begin now the managers must come
to q decision at once or lose the big
git Of congress.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

A leading democratic senator re-
Gently admitted that the reason he
and number of his colleagues sup
ported the Panama canal plan was be-
cause they had confidence in Senators
Hanna and Spooner, who have more
influence than any two men in the
country, especially in matters not
political, with the democratic side in
the senate. This is certainly trib-
ute to these two able statesmen.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Egyptian cotton is being introduced
in Texas, and promises to revolution
ize the cotton industry of the South.
1t is much more desirable than the
cotton raised in the United States now
and IS even better than the sea island
cotton. The Egyptian cotton has
much longer fibre than other cOttons,
and its seed can be removed so easily
that it is not necessary to cut up the
cotton in ginning it.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
One of the problems that the Am

One of the problems that the Amer
lean people will be considering soon
relates to the kind of labor that can
be used in building the Panama canal.
When the French were at it it was
found that negroes could not with
stand the terrible miasma of the Pan
anna ditch. The London Spectator
suggests that s'the only men who can
be trusted to do the work are the Chi
nese; but the cost of bringing them
after the canal is opened will be very
great, even according to American
ideas.''
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Charles NJ. Schwab in answer to a
suit filed against the steel trust at
Trenton, n. j. makes affidavit that
the assets of the corporation amount
to one billion four hundred millions of
dollars. He values the Carnegie prop
ertleS at $500, 900, 900 and he says that
the earnings of the trust for fifteen
months have exceeded 10 per cent of
the capital stock.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Unlike many mine disasters, the
terrible calamity at Johnstown did not
appear to be due to the failure of the
owners to provide for the Safetyof the
men working in the mine. The pres
ence of the gas was realized. and
strict rules were in force to prevent
its ignition: The safety lamp was re-
quired, but miners became careless
and used the torch. which gives bet
ter light.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Rebate Given if Train is Late.

j. H. Wood, general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania railaoad,
has authorized the statement that
through passengers on the new Twen-
tieth Century Limited express between
New York and Chicago will get re-
bate on their fare if the train in an
hour late or more. Each passenger
on this train is charged s2S from New
York to Chicago, which is So more
than the standard fare. If the train
is late one hour 81 rebate is due the
passenger; late two hours, a 50 rebate;
four hours a "a rebate. and SO on.
Tell your neighoors about the good
Qualities of THE TRTRrrNr-
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

And now it is announced In Kansas
newspapers that Jerry Simpson, who
was known in Kansas as the seckless
champion of the oppressed, has now
become leading spirit in corpora
tion that has for its purpose the irri-
CATION of vast arid tract Of land and
the lighting of the city of Roswell,
Kas,, by electricity, the power to be
secured from falls in river near that
place..
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

A revised and probably final eStim-
ate of the Boer forces in the field
places them at $4,000. This is fully
three times as many as it was thought
they could muster, and is probably
the largest number that SO small ma
tion ever put in the field. Many OF
the fighters we're mere boys n years.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Mule Market to Reopen.

The British will reopen their horse
and mule depot in New Orleans for
the purpose of restocking the Boer
farms. w. J. Hammond, steam
ship agent who vent to England to
try to secure the renewal of the South
African horse trade, cabled that he
and Captain Marsham, who had charge
of the business. were on their way to
New Orleans to reopen it.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Winter is beginning in Australia,
and the country is in rather a bad
way. Continued droughtns in Queens
land, New South Wales, South and
Western Australia have wrought much
damage to the agricultural industries,
and the result is that many labOrerS
are out of employment. The country
is, however, rich in resources and is
not likely TO suffer long.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

4 year or so ago, President Schur-
mann, of Cornell University, a men,
Der of the first PHILIPPINE commission,
was being quoted as an anti-imperial-
ist. Now he thinks 'sour political
philosophy is full of hope and promise
for the Philippine nation and for
every people and race on the globe. +"
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
SPIRIT OF ANXIETY
II Pervades the Offices Of the United
Nine Workers.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 16-The action
of the special convention of the Uni
ted Mine Workers, which is to NEE
here Thursday, is as problematical to
the officers of the union as to the pub
lie. A spirit of unrest is apparent
about headquarters. the officers ac-
knowledging that it will be no easy
matter to control the convention and
keep down the radical element. Dele
gates that are being elected to the
convention by local unions are gen-
orally uninstructed, being left un-
hampered, to vote in harmony with
the sentiment expressed at the con-
vention. While there is apprehen-
sion of sharp contest a prevailing
opinion that strike will be averted
is gaining strength. Instead of
strike, it is believed that the bitumi-
nous miners will give financial sup
port to the strikers in the anthracite
region and the bituminous miners of
West Virginia.
The most serious phase of the sit
dation and the feature most likely to
precipitate general strike is the ef-
fort Of the anthracite operators to
break the union. 1t is now recog-
nized that the fight in that region is
no longer for an increase in wages and
betterment of working conditions, but
between the union Of miners and the
anthracite coal combination for ex-
iStence. Enough has been said by the
coal operators to substantiate this be-
lief. To have the organization bro
ken in the anthracite region would
mean loss of $50, 900 members, be-
sides the general dissension in the
ranks of the union that would follow
such catastrophe. The radical ele-
ment in the union, naturally more ap-
prehenSive than the conservative, will
lead movement for general sus-
pension of work with great activity.
If it is demonstrated in the conven-
ton that the organization is really in
danger the forces Of the radicals will
be rapidly increased and the officers
themselves may be driven into IN
dorsing a general strike if it becomes
necessary to save the union.
The fact that the United Mine
Workers have the support of every
labor organization in the country en-
courages those In favor of a general
strike to agitate radical action. The
outside unions are not indorsing
general suspension of work by the
miners, neither are they opposed to it,
out it is known that many labor leaders
have pledged the support of their or
ganizatiOnS whenever the miners ask
for assistance.
Ine 0fncerS or the mine workers are
opposed to general strike, but the
decision rests with the convention.
The mine workers. as a rule, observe
the advice of their officers, particu-
larly of this administration, but
should the delegates become too en-
thusiastic in their cause they may
take the convention in their own
hands. The delegates sent to the
national conventions generally repre-
sent the best informed and brightest
men IN the local unions, and are US
ually pretty level-headed. However.
there never was such a complicated
issue confronting them before, and
the convention itself can only deter
mine what may happen.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Welded In BROTHER.

A sensation was caused at Jefferson
City, No., when it became known
that Mrs. Maggie Wagner, young and
attractive, had committed suicide at
Russellville because she had learned
three months after her marriage that
her husband was her half brother,
from whom she had been parted since
early childhood.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

The first week of the freight hand
lerS' strike in Chicago is estimated to
have cost $780, 900. The two largest
items in the estimate are loss TO mer-
chants, s2'400, 900. and loss to rail-
roads, So, 500, 900. This is very sense
less kind of commercial war.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Started on Long Walk.

w. B. Cummings, common laborer
of Elkhart, to whom small estate
was left by the death of his father in
England six years ago, Tuesday
started to work his way to claim bis
inheritance, despairing Of saving
sufficient money to make the trip as a
paid passenger. He is about 81 years
old. He will walk to New York, earn
ing what he can on the road, and will
then ship for Hernbay, England.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

Mont Pelee loves to be contradictory
evidently. When the scientist first
declared that there would be no erup-
tion the volcano wiped out a whole
town and killed hundreds of people.
1t kept quiet until the scientists
pointed out that it was impossible
Mont Pelee could have another erup-
tion for years-nOw it has started
aOaip
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

The Spanish people have subscribed
for e13O, 900, 900 of a new government
loan. This is ten times as much as
the governmnnt wanted, and is taken
to be an indication that Spain, or at
least many of the Spaniards have not
become IMPOVERISHED.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17
Chance to Show Good Sense.

When it comes to discriminating
between democratic factions. the
American voter will manifest his good
sense by following the old injunction,
Between to evils, choose neither. -"
Peru Republican.
The Plymouth tribune., 1902-07-17

The tenth week of the great anthra-
cite miners strike may witness the
crisis. Everything now depends up
on the national convention which
meets at Indianapolis on Thursday.