The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-06-04
Chairman Reach has called the In.


Wednesday, July Is. The delegates
will be elected the day previous.
The Maccabee tent at Laporte took
in a class of 100 members Wednesday
night. 1t now las over 500 members
and has been for three years the larg-
est tent of that order in the state.
The diocese of Iowa of the Episco-
pal church went on record Wednesday
against the proposed change of the
church from the Protestant Episcopal
church to the American Catholic
church.
1t is fortunate for Plymouth that
none of the storms which devastated
large portions of this section of Indi-
ana causing great loss of life and prop
erto. reached this city. We have
had no wind or hail.
Mr.. Machen, late of the postofflce
department at Washington, is said to
have been a ''good fellow" which is
an expensive fad that has not infre-
quently brought disaster on some very
able and worthy men.
!. An Iowa gentleman who was landed
in the top of tree in the next town
ship the other day naturally feared
that he had been hit by touring
automobile. He was greatly relieved
to find that 1t was only a cyclone.
There is now one physician to every
600 persons in the United States. 1t
is estimated that deaths and births
make room for 5000 additional doctors
a year, but the schools are turning
them out at the rate of 5000 year.
Commencement exercises of the
Plymouth high school will be held
Monday evening. June 10. The COM
mencement ball given after the close
of the exercises, is expected to be one
of the finest ever given in this city.
Grover Cleveland, in an address at
a New York mass-meeting called to
protest against Jewish massacres. de-
manded swift punishment for their
slayerS, but advised against making
extreme demands for action at Wash
inyton.
During the investigation of the as
sassination of Judge Marcum at Jack
son, Kentucky. everyone who
enters the court room is searched
for guns. and it is reasonable to sup
pose that the bench resembles well
stocked arsenal.
j. r. Dietrich has received the
Foundation plans for the new elevator
be expects to build in Bremen. Work
will be omnenced the first week in
June. The elevator will cost $4,000,
and will embody the latest features in
elevator construction.
Lightning struck Charles Kanarr i
house on the Michigan road six miles
north of Plymouth, Wednesday, de-
moIished his telephone and twisted a
shot gun out of shape but did not de-
much damage to the house and none
of the family were hurt.
Lightning struck John Whiteman,
of St. Joseph county, while he and
his three children were driving home
in double rig. When he returned
to consciousness the horses, rig and
family were all in fence corner, but
no one suffered lasting injuries.
A. dispatch from Jacksonville an.
nounces that two full-fiedged lottery
drawings are in operation there, add
ing that the goyernorwill be asked tt
suppress them. What they need down
there is the application of the state
and federal laws by fearless officers.
The College of Confucius the ole
university of China, has for three
thousand years borne the name O
Kwotszekier. It's main building, tn,
finest temple of Confucius in China
has 800 volumes in its court, 90 which
are engraved the names of It's so, O0'
graduates.
The worlds fair management ha
requested every hotel in st. Louis T.
furnish schedule of rates, which i
expects to charge during the fair, to
gether with statement of the accom-
modatlons it can provide. Thes
statements will be filed away to b
used as check against any attemp
at extortion during the fair.
The heavy rain on Monday after
noon was accompanied by very stil
wind, that did some damage to shad
trees in town. The barn of Charlie
Berger, east of town, that had beel
raised to put in a new foundation, wa
blown down. The barn of William
Engel was struck by lightning, bu
not seriously damaged. West of tow