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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Death of Two Pioneers.

One by one the pioneers of Marsh
all county are passing to the realms
unseen b. mortal eyes.
This week we have To chronicle the
deaths of John JacOby and Minerva
Monroe, both residents of this county
for almost sixty years.
John JacOby died at his farm east
OF this city Tuesday afternoon. Fifty
four years ago he and bis bride, who
was Miss Serena Ray. went to a hum
Bile home on the farm where Mr., ia
CODY died and there they lived hap
PLY until parted by death. Their
welded life was blessed by a family of
seven children, five of whom are liv-
ing.
John Jacoby was born ia Schuylkill
county, Pa, moved with his fathers
family TO Ohio when he was nine
years old and from there came to Mar
shall county IN lS47 and for 81 years
made his home near where he died.
The principal feature of his educa-
ton was of a practical kind which
taught him at an early age to follow
the pillow, but he was well informed
and throughout his long residence in
this county he enjoyed the confidence
and esteem of all who knew him.
The small farm which he purchased
before his marriage was increased to
almost 300 acres of which was IN a fine
state of cultivation at the time of his
death. He was a thorough and sys-
tematic farmer, honest and indus
tiious, enterprlsing, always a firm
friend of public improvements, one of
the best types Of the men who have
made this county one of the best in
Indiana. In politics be was a repub-
lican from the foundation of the party
until his death and was also a promi-
nent member of the Reformed church.
Mrs. Monroe was one of the Oldest
settlers of Polk township and at the
time of her death had resided there
over Sc years. Her maiden name was
Lemert. She was the mother of Ed
ward, Fred, Charles and Robert Mon
roe, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Warren
Johnson, and Mrs. Charles Walburn,
of this city was her foster daughter.
She was a true, w~hole-souled pioneer,
honest as the day, ~kind-hearted but
conscientious and always stood firmly
for what she believed to be right. She
will be missed by her family and a
large circle of friends.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Newspaper Statements DON'T Count.

And SO DR.. Probert, all around
crook and swindler with a penitenti-
airy record in Wisconsin,, a bank SWIM
ding record at Bourbon, Ind. and
Eau Claire, Mich, and a snide medi-
cal diploma mill at Niles, has turned
up a swindler again in a bank enter
prise at Dayton, Ore, and is missing.
The people out there think he may
have suicided. Far be it from their
thoughts. He has probably only gone
to the next county seat to repeat the
operation and further prove that sew
eral suckers are born every minute
and that people would rather trust a
glib stranger than home grown homes
Jy. Heaven alone knows how much
more of a rotten record Probert has
than is already enumerated, but it
has had wide publicity and yet that
doesn't seem to count.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
EVILS WROUGHT BY PROMOTERS
Widow Killed Herself When Bottom
Dropped Out Of Watered Stock.

Mrs. Joseph Kuntzman, of New
York city, killed herself because she
had lost her fortune. When her hus-
band, Joseph Kuntzman, who was a
law partner of former Secretary Root,
died seven years ago, he left his widow
more than 5000, 600.
BY the advice of Wall street finan-
ciers, Mrs. Kuntzman invested her
money in steel stock, ship building Sc
curities and other inflated stocks. She
lost every dollar and her handsome
home besides.
Il wish | were dead and my trou-
bles over" said Mrs. Kuntzman TO
her two daughters. A few minutes
afterwards she swallowed carbolic
acid.
Let us change the statement in the
first paragraph of this article. Mrs.
Kuntzman die not kill herself. She
was murdered. BY whom? By the Fl
~nancial promoters who inflated the
stocks which they sold to a confding
public-tO widows like Mrs. Kuntz-
man.
These promoters did not couspire to
murder their victims. They conspired
to steal only. But they are RESPONSE
BILE for the ruin and suffering and sui
cideS that followed their wholesale
theft.
When the house breaker enters your
house tosteal he is prepared to commit
murder If necessary. When men con.
spire to water stocks and sell the
water, receiving therefor dollars which
stain the palms Of their hands blood
encrusted, tear-stainel dollars-they
should be prepared to do murder if
necessary.
The only difference between such
robbers and the house. breakers is this.
One set robs and kills against the law.
The OLher set rObS and kills accordi ing
to law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Struck II the First Time.

A story is told in the House Demo-
cratic cloak-roomS of Representative
Bankhead's appearance at one of the
registration places of Alabama. He
found the registration officials busily
engaged in a~scertalning a Negroes
qualifications for exercising the right
of suffrage. One of the requisites,
under the new constitution, is ability
to read or interpret any part of that
document.
MI. Blankhead was standing at one
side observing the proceeding. when
a registration official approached in
great p%erplexity. "Mr. Blankhead, u
said he, ''this is a very smart negro.
We have asked him every question we
can think Of. He answers them all.
Can you suggest anything?"
"Why don't you ask him to explain
a writ of certiorari?" responded the
astute Alabama memqer.
That was done. The negro
scratched his head for a time, very
much in doubt what to say.
deed. boss" he finally replied,
81 guess you've done got me. l doan
know what dat is 'cept it be something
to keed a niger from voting."-
Washington Post.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
nature d. things, one would NOT be .

nature Of things, one would not be a
candidate against the other. Delavan
Smith of Indianapolis, who has also
been In Washington during the last
ten days, will likewise support Con-
gresham Hemenway as successor to
his cousin, Mr.. Fairbanks.
1t is proposed, as part of the gener-
al plan, that MI. Henry shall either
be made vice-chairman of the national
committee, if that can be brought
about, or placed in charge of the wes-
tern headquarters in Chicago.
The fact that Messrs. Henry and
Smith, who control respectively the
indianapolis Journal and the News,
and maintain very confidential rela-
lions with Senator Fairbanks, are for
Mr.. Hemenway for the Senate, con
firms the statement heretofore made
in these dispatches that Senator Fair
banks has decided to accept the vice.
presidential nomination.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
WHAT IS INVOLVED.

The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can gives this clear statement of the
real bearing on MI. Smoot of the hear
Jog now in progress before the senate
committee of privileges and election:
President Smiths disclosures are
important chiefly as bearing upon the
case at trial-the eligibility of Reed
Smoot, who vas duly elected, to a
seat in the United States senate.
Against this man, it must be under
stood no accusation of unworthy con-
duct has been sustained. The some
what violent aspersions of women s
organizations do not alter the facts
that he has practiced polygamy,
and in public and private life has been
a citizen of exemplary character. The
charge, therefore, is not that he is
personally unfit to hold the Office of
senator, but that the system which he
represents, condones and defends is so
radically opposed to the law and pub
lie policy that his participation in the
making OF laws would be an absurdity
and a dangerous precedent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

This will be a great year for the
stockholders Of the Jerusalem & Joppa
railroad,
Twelve thousand Sunday-schoel
workers are going owe this queer lit
tie line from Joppa to the ancient cap
ital of the Holy Land. They are go
ing on a sacred pilgrimage. They
haze left America and will reach Asia
in April.
The road is only thirty-one miles
long, but it runs dining cars. Long
distance eaters sometimes finish their
desert in the depot at Jerusalem,
though it takes the little wood burn
ing engines an hour and a half to pull
the train over the line.
While this is annoying to the camel
DRYERS who do the freighting of the
Jerusalem Transfer Company, it gives
the Jerusalem beggars a chance to pull
themselves together after their on
slaught on the first passengers to
alight.
The Sunday-school pilgrims will
travel 10, 600 miles. And in all this
distance they will suffer less incon-
venience and hardship than was suf-
fered bv pilgrims IN the tenth century
after they had landed in Joppa. They
did well to get away with their lives.
The Sunday-school pilgrims. taking
tents with them, will be able TO es-
cape the Jerusalem flea and the cook
ing of the few and bad Jerusalem
hotels.
This will enable them to drink to
its depth the inspiration Of the won-
derful land. They will come home
broader men and women for their con
tact with a wider world, and deeper
Christians for having walked where
the founder of Christianity was wont
to spend his days.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Why We Have Laws.

There seems to be no hope for
me-" complained the prisoner.
They've brought out evidence l had
no idea they could produce. They've
demolished the aIibi l expected to set
up and I guess we'd better quit. 1
don't care to spend any more money
on the CASE"
well, yOu,re a fine sort of fellow, -
replied the lawyer. "What does
their evidence amount to anyway?
I've discovered a place in the law
where a comma is used in place of a
semicolon, and, more than that.
there's an ~ turned upside down 10
the third clause. We've got the finest
kind of chance to get you off on a tech
nicality."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Coal From Marsh Soil.

South Bend capitalists are interest
ed In a new method of manufacturing
artificial coal. The material is dirt
soil from the Kankakee marshes in
Laporte and Porter counties. and the
promoters believe that their method
will supersede the use of coal in In
diana. Samples of the briquettes
made by artificial mean were SUBJ
mitted to the state factory inspector.
Samuel Robinson of South Bend is
the chief promoter of the new enter
prise. When mixed with chemicals,
the soil of the marshes is subjected to
enormous hydraulic pressure. The
product is harder than GOAL aud more
cOmbuS ible. 1t contains a larger per-
centage Of carbon, but makes less
smoke than anthracite, its inventors
claim.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The men who control the affairs of
the republican party in New York are
wise enough to know that Roosevelt
is the only candidate who can carry
their state this year. They know
that II he were defeated for nomina
ton and some other candidate taken
In bis place at the behest OF Wall
street, New York would be put in the
democratic column without question.
The president had reason to expect
the endorsement of his party in New
York, and the action OF the commit
tee should presage the adoption Dy the
state convention in April of a hearty
resolution Of Endorsement and the sell
ection Of delegates pledged TO work
for his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lea
er.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

1t is well known that a man is u.s.
ually judged by the company he keeps
and if Reed Smoot is ousted from his
seat in the United States senate it
will be because of the torn of public
censure raised by the defiant attitude
of his Mormon friends. Mr.. SmOOt
is not a polygamist and he has a good
record as a citizen but he trains In
very bad company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

Representative Watson, of Indiana,
wes reminded Of a story they used to
tell on Adlai E. Stevenson when be
was Vice President OF the United
States.
stevenson was walking along the
street one day, "he said, ''when there
started a discussion Of the inconse-
quential Of the Vice President.
he wears a hat the same size as
any other man., one of those discus
sing the question said, and wear the
same size shoe as any other man, and
he has not a darn thing on his mind
but the health of the President =
New York World.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
he campaign management.

February had a bad record for fires
in the United States, The aggregate
loss foots up over $50. 900, 00o.. The
three largest CONGREGATIONS were in
Baltimore, Md, Rochester, N. Y /,
and the Wisconsin state capital. In
January the fire loss amounted to
81, 700, 200, all told, making the en-
tire loss for the first two months of
the year over s111, 900, 600.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

In the eleventh or twelfth century
the Japanese were the most dashing
pirates of the East; iE fact, we might
almost call them the vikings OF the
East. They used junks-small ships
with a scrap of sail, but the little ves-
sells in which the Danes once raided
our own coasts, or as the craft which
the Penzance fishermen haye today.
With these junks the Japanese roamed
the seas, going everywhere along the
Chinese main, favaging the coasts,
trading and bringing home priceless
works of art from China.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
1t was well known for several weel

1t was well known for several weeks
before the meeting of the convention
at Knox that Congressman Brick
would be renominated by reclamation.
1t seems to have been settled by the
republicans of all the congressional
districts in Indiana that the old men,
bers of congress must be returned
this year-that there must. be no
swapping of horses while crossing a
creek" That Mr.. Brlck will be re-
elected by a large majority is not
doubted, even by the democrats OF
this district.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
)sperity and influence.

The story is now going the rounds
that Senator Fairbanks may De the
next chairman of the republican ma
tional committee. to succeed the late
Senator Hanna. instead Of being made
the nominee for vice president. Sew
eral western papers have printed the
rumor, which is interesting chiefly be-
cause it issa new contribution to the
mass of speculation concerning nation
al political affairs.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
A FATAL MISTAKE
is Often Made by the WIsest OF Plymouth
People.

It's a fatal mistake to neglect back.
ache.
Backache is the first symptom OF
kidney ills.
Serious complications follow.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them
promptly.
Don't delay until too late.
Until it becomes diabeteS-Bright's
disease.
Read what a Plymouth citizen says:
A. B. Personett. barber, Young's
LaSalle ST., barber shop, residence
Washington street, says: "Any0ne
who follows my calling requires a good
sound back; for the long hours spent
at the chair particularly on a busy day
brings a steady strain on the muscles
of the loins, and if that part of your
anatomy is not in the best Of condi-
tion you cannot perform a days duty
with any degree OF comfort. With the
passing Of time the aching increased
and every morning commenced work
with fear and trembling for l learned
that each days was similar to the pre-
ceding one as far as my aching back
was concerned. 1 knew what l would
be obliged to endure and this dread of
itself is sufficient to cause i~rritabiIity
and nervousness in any man. A friend
advised me to try a standard remedy
extensively advertised but l failed to
receive any benefit. Finally noticing
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
WANTS TO SUCCEED FAI RBANKS.

Louis Ludlow, the Washington cor
respondent of the indianapolis Star
says an arrangement with an impor-
tant bearing on republican politics In
Indiana, was made in Washington
last week.
Congressman Hemenway is now pos
itiyely and actively a candidate for
the United States Senate to succeed
Mr.. Fairbanks. The last step in the
creation of his candidady was an ag-
reement reached between him and
Charles L. Henry Of Indianapolis at a
conference in Mr.. Henry's room at
the willard Hotel the night before
the latter left Washington for Indi-
annapolis.
At that conference Mr.. Henry
agreed to keep out Of the senatorial
race and to throw the weight Of his
personal influence to Hemenway. Mr..
Henry came to Washington for the
express purpose Of talking TO Mr..
Hemenway about this matter. The
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

1t is time to begin to think about
city officers who will be elected the
first Tuesday in May, The question
ought not to be who wants to be may
or, marshal or councilmen, but who
ought to fill these positions. Every
citizen ought to give this matter ear
nest and thoughtful consideration.
These officers should be honest, up
right, leyel-headed men who will re-
fleet credit upon the city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

of this city. and Elmer S. Smith of
Pulaski county were chosen delegates
TO the national convention. Lyman
Brackett of Rochester, was nominated
for presidential elector. =. j. Daniel
son of Hamlet, and +. H. Wurzer of
South Bend, were made alternate del
egateS to the national convention.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The lynching of negroes is becom-
ing a mania. North, south, east and
west seems almost equally affected.
Unless stringent measures are taken
to stop these terrible affairs we will
eventually have terrible race wars and
a state of anarchy IN America that
will make US despised by other nations
and set the country back a century in
prosperity and influence.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The Indianapolis Journal says Ed
itOr MetSker has no more use for
Hearst as a candidate for president
than he would for a Chinaman and
the chances are that when he gets
through shooting hot shot into the
Hearst boom in Marshall county it
will have collapsed like a toy balloon
on old settlers day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

Japan's trade with your Uncle Sam
last year amounted TO nearly 67.000,-
600 while that of Russia aggregated
less than s31. 900, 900. Aside from any
of the finer considerations involved, it
IS only human nature for a man in
trade to sympathize with the patron
who puts the most shingles on his
roof
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

A democratic boom for General
Miles for president has been launched
in Iowa, and the generals political
managers are starting the movement
in other states. 1t is expected TO en-
list the support Of the wing Of the
party In the west opposed to the
Hearst movement. General Miles has
always been a republican and while be
viii probably afaliate with the demo-
crats in opposition to Roosevelt, the
experience Of the democratic party
with Horace Greeley IS their candi-
dste Of president win probably pre-
vent the nomination Of General Niles
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The supreme court of the United
States holds that congress has full
power over insterstate commerce, that
the antitrust law is constitutional,
that it applies to railroads as to other
corporations, and that it forbids, not
simply unreasonable, but all contracts
In restraint Of trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Plymouth. Ind. March II. 1904.
Senatorial Convention of KoscIusko and
MARSHALL Counties.

The Republicans of Kosciusko and
Marshall counties will meet in dele
gate convention at the town OF Etna
Green in Kosciusko county, on Mon
dav, March 2Sth, 1904 at 2 O'Clock p.
for the purpose of nominating a candi-
date for senator. of which the dele
gates selected will take due notice.
March IA, 1904.
L. w. RoYsE, chairman
Kosciusko county.
FOSTER GROVES chairman
Marshall county.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
Russians are avoiding

Russians are avoiding a decisive en-
gagement until 800, 600 troops shall
have been concentrated in the far
East. meanwhile being ready to allow
the japanese to occupy Port Arthur
and Vladivo itock, and possibly Har-
bin and Mukden. The report that
Port Arthur already has fallen is pro-
nOunced incorrect.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The reorganizers are getting a good
many favorable press comments on
their efforts to save the party from
those who have been voting the Dem
ocratic ticket in recent years, but up
to date the Bryan-Hearst alliance
seems to be gathering in most Of the
delegates to the st. Louis convention.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The Republican state convention
will be held Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 20 and 81. 1t will consist of
l,4SS delegates, and 745 votes will be
necessary to nominate. 1t is expected
the contest for n nomination for
governor will be a warm one from this
time on.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The most nutritious yet cheapest
food on the market is Pillsbury'S
Vitos. A two pound package costing
Is cents will make twelve pounds Of
cooked food and is delicious served
with sugar and cream. It is made
from the germ OF the wheat and is
pure and wholesome, entirely free
nom adulteratton. Grocers handle IT
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The latest report as to what the
democrats are going to do at st. Louis
is that Judge Alton B. Parker is to be
the nominee for president and Senator
Francis NJ. Cockrell OF Missouri for
yice-president. Senator Arthur Pue
German is to be chairman Of the ma
tioaal committee and have charge Of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

Although the position of Pension
Commissioner is not always an easy.
pleasant or popular place to fill, there
seems to be no lack of men who are
willing to do their best when Mr..
Ware is ready to turn 1t owe to some
BODY else.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

1t is said that Judge A. h. Parker,
of New York, whom the re- organizers
seem to think will be the democratic
candidate for p. esident, emitS a dry
cough when an interviewer ap-
proaches him and will not even COM
NIT himself to the weather.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17


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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17
BRICK eEN0MlNATEO
Chosen by Acclamation. DR.. Knott OF
This City Elected Delegate to the
National Convention.

The republicans of the Thirteenth
congressional district met in conven-
tion at the new opera house in Knox
at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday.
A. l.. Brick was nominated for con-
gress by reclamation. DR.. ID. c. Knott
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

President Roosevelt makes it plain
that the trusts will now have to obey
the law as decided by the supreme
cOurt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The democrats need an issue for the
campaign this year, and it begins to
look as If they would be compelled to
fall back upon the old question of the
tariff. The wiser among them will 90
so with reluctance, but it not easy to
see what else is left to them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

The Prohibitionists propose to NOM
mate General Miles for president.
They are evidently trying to kill the
boom started in favor of Miles for
the democratic nomination.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

With the Bristow report, the Smoot
case, the Springfield riot and various
other exciting episodes in his W do
main, Uncle Sam has troubles Of his
own on hand just now.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-17

Wages In the United States on the
average are more than twice those in
Belgium, three times those of Den
mark, France, Germany, Italy and
Spain, and one and a half those in
England and Scotland.