The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-01-22
Every mild day now is a DAY gained
In reducing the cost OF fuel.

old daughter, of Mrs. Ella Golf, of
Logansport, committed suicide Thurs
day morning by taking a dose of
NOR hine, Her brother drank carbolic
acid md died four months ago and she
had attempted to kill herself twice
since that time.
Official statements of the attendance
at Purdue university show that there
1900 students in all courses. The
total number in the engineering course
is 961; agriculture, regular, 40; sci
ence, l49; pharmacy, 81. The class
totals are: Seniors, 1856: juniors, 152;
sophomores, 1876, freshmen, 375.
Senator Harrison thinks county
councilmen should be paid 81 day
for time actually spent in the service
of the county. Senator Woods wants
law to prohibit exemptions against
claims for labor that do not exceed
800. Senator Lindley asks for law
to prohibit the marriage of diseased
persons.
If the element in favor of sympa-
thetic strike of the soft coal miners
had succeeded last fall, thus prevent
ing the shipment of soft coal until
the difficulty in the anthracite field
he'd been settled. there would have
been a degree of distress compared
with which the present suffering
would be of no account whatever.
At his old home in Waterloo, Ill,
Col. William r. Morrison, once the
idol of the Illinois democracy. is re-
signedly awaiting the summons of
Death. He is suffering from an affec-
tion which only the surgeons knife
can cure. His IS years are against an
operation, though he is remarkably
well preserved man for one of his age.
Mrs. Metcalf Beck, of Warsaw Ind,
died at her home Sunday morning,
January 10. She was the widow OF
one of the pioneers of Kosciusko
county, and was widely known for her
benefactions. She had ample means,
and used them to further every good
cause. SO that she will be, sadly missed
by all sections and grades of society.
King Coal swept everything before
him in the national capitol. The
house passed the bill admitting coal
free for year, there being only six
votes against Then the senate sprung
a surprise on the country. 1t passed
the same bill within nine minutes
after it was received from the house,
without debate and without vote in
the negative.
President Cassatt, of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, says the shortage in
anthracite is entirely due to the
strike, and that his company is haul
ing more soft coal than ever before to
fill the place of anthracite. He de-
clares the railways are doing all in
their power to relieve the famine. but
be does not expect any marked i'm
provement until spring.
A mysterious explosion occurred in
the furnace of the japanning-room of
the Oliver pillow works at South Bend,
blowing the windows out of one side
of the building. A door was torn
from its hinges and hurled across the
room, knocking down ForemanAndrew
Hagquist and breaking his arm.
Frank Kramer, another employe, was
thrown into vat of asphaltum and it
is thought his back is broken.
Lafayette is in the throcs Of a
police scandal, says the Elkhart Re-
view. "The ministerial association.
headed by three ministers, has openly
made charges that the head of the po-
lice board winks at vice with one eye
and counts the money received for its
protection with the other. The gov
ernor is to be asked to interfere. The
outcome will be watched by some 9TH
er cities where similar conditions are
said to exist.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the Indiana Dairy Association will be
held at Lafayette on Jan. 81, %, and
%. August Scholliol. of Bremen, is
on the program for a paper on "The
Swimming Station" and Samuel
Schlosser, of Plymouth, will talk on
general topics. Valuable premiums
will be given for the best exhibits of
butter and cheese, and there will be
an interesting display of dairy prod
ucts, machinery and supplies.
The bill pensioning totally deaf
soldiers at $40 a month, which became
a law Friday upon receiving the sig
nature OF the president, was original
ly introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes by Mr.. Overstreet at the
instance Of Wallace Foster, of Indi-
nap0lis. Mr.. Oyerstreet has succeeded