The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-23


national committeeman from Indiana
in 1896, is critically III and his attend.
ing physician said Monday he doubted
If he could recover.
Miss Alice Bechtel and Mrs. Nelson
Sanner and two children have gone to
Moorehead, Kas., to visit relatives.
Mrs. Sanner Will return in two OF
three weeks, but Miss Bechtel will
probably remain during the summer.
The bans of Joseph NJ. Hanna, one
of the prominent young men of La
porte, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Wade,
of Plymouth, have been announced.
The nuptials will be solemnized at st.
Michael's church, Plymouth, the
morning of April %.
The conservative labor leaders OF
Chicago have warned the unions that
they are injuring their own cause by
the reckless striking mania. They
see what the public feels, that such
acts are tending to estrange sympathy
even of the unions themselves.
E. S. Tascher. who is here employ
ing machinists for a large manufac-
turing firm in Chicago, was born and
raised and educated in Plymouth.
He has been away from here about
nine years, and is pleased with the
great improvement that this city has
made.
Frank Brumbaugh, az Elkhart
bridge contractor who for years
seemed to have everything his own
way in that line in this locality, has
filed papers in bankruptcy with Ref
cree Lambert. The liabilities are stat
ed to be s116. 999.9S; assets, s49,-
955. %.
1t is reported that Jeffries says that
he will try to kill Corbett. Now
let COrbett make the same avowal In
relation to Jeffries. This would in
sure lively and interesting mill, and
if both should succeed in their pur-
pose the public would have little cause
for grief.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Reeves have is
sued invitations to the marriage of
their daughter, Miss Celia Maude to
Mr.. Clyde Robert Beattie, May 5,
1903. at 7:30 p. m. 1t is also the 35th
anniversary Of the marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Reeves, who were married
May 5. 1868.
The London Daily Mail speaks dis
paragingly of the ostentatious display
connected with the last Vanderbilt
wedding. We Americans can at any
rate comfort ourselves that our supper
classes" must pay for their foolish
ness out of a private bank account
rather than out of the government
treasury.
Col. Chauncey B. Oakley, for nearly
sixty years a resident of Fort Wayne,
for one term at the head Of the munic-
1pal government, and during bis entire
life a public-spirited citizen of the
best type, died Sunday morning, of
bulbar paralysis, an affection of the
spine, from which he had suffered for
the last three months.
Owing to the signs of a severe
drought in some places in Ohio as a
result of elections under the new local
option law, the brewers have decided
to help in enforcing the Sunday-clos-
ing law in the smaller municipalities.
Once in while it SO happens that
there is more money in obeying the
law than In violating it.
Auditor H. H. Miller and wife were
called to Bremen Wednesday by the
death of Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs.
Ringle who died suddenly Tuesday
She was IS years old and had been a
resident of German township over 81
years. Arrangements for the funeral
have not been completed, but it will
probably be held Saturday.
That prosperity is not confined to
persons VIGOROUSLY plutocratic is man.
ifest in the fact that members Of the
"Mizzoory" legislature, gentlemen who
formally wore jeans pantaloons, hick-
DRY shirts and one suspender, are now
throwing around $1,000 bills in a
fashion which makes the Rockefellers,
Vanderbilts and Morgans look small.
A farmer near North Manchester
sold a load of hogs the other day and
deposited the money In the bank
with the exception of 500, which he
hid in toe cook stove. His sister got
up early and started fire, and for a
while matters were rather warm Ia
that household. Just think of a man
allowing his sister to get up and build
fires! He ought not to have any
money.
The Young Women's Social Union
of the PRESBYTERIAN church have es-