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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
RUSSIAN CRISIS.
Bloody Civil Strife With War to
the Death Expected.

With the reOpenlnS OF CaDle
communication direct with St.
Petersburg events in the Russian
empire are seen to be at the
threshold of a new epoch of ter
ror. The red terror" has had its
day and is to be superseded by
the white terror" in the shape of
pitiless acts of repression by the
government, which is making a
last desperate fight tor its life.
The result is likely to be a revo-
luton which for bloodshed and
merciless reprisal will be without
a parallel in the worlds history
and having for its final cataclysm
the annihilation of czardom
The government as the first act
in this tragedy has virtually pro-
claimed a state of war to exist
throughout the empire, empower
in local governors, who are near
ly always the worst type of reac-
tionaries, to proclaim martial law
in cases of stress and to exercise
dictatorial powers in throttling
the revolution.
All this augurs the downfall of
Witte, whose position is now
desperate, and the elevation of
Durnovo, hated alike by liberals
and radicals. Count Alexis Igna-
tieff will be made military dictat-
or.
A meeting of the terrorist
branch of the social revolution
lists has been held and as a result
of the seizure of the proletarian
leaders an era of assassination is
expected to result. Count Witte
himself is i'll imminent danger of
death and a strong guard is kept
about his person at all times.
The seizure of the revolution
airy leaders has had no effect on
the proletarian organization, as
new men Immediately took their
places and organized new COM
mitee. If the revolution is to be
defeated in this manner the
whole poulation must be arrest
ed.
Reports from the provinces
throughout Russian show that
the country is already in the
throes of armed revolt. The reb-
els are in supreme authority in
the Baltic provinces where pro-
visional governments exercise
administrative powers. The
movement has extended into the
government of Kovno, a part OF
the ancient kingdom of Lithuan-
la, and is almost certain to fire
Poland.
The government evidently an
ticipates battle royal and has
made its dispositions according
| ly. 1t fully understands that the
proletariat will give blow for
blow in answer to the wholesale
arrests.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21

The Marshall County Medical
Society met Dec. IA at 2:3O P.
M. in parlors of Ross House and
elected the following officers for
ensuing year: DR.. 0. A. Rea
president; DR.. R. c. Stephens
vice-president; DR.. L. D. Eley,
treasurer, DR.. S. c. Loring, secre-
tary. Board of censors, DR.. A
c. Holtzendorff, DR.. E. E. Park
'er, DR.. H HI. Tallman. Delegate
to State society, DR.. n. B. Aspin-
all. Society meets second Thurs.
day of each month. DIR. Daugh-
erty OF South Bend read a paper
on Cholecystitis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Methodist Sunday School.

Many of the classes in the M.
E. Sunday school are organized,
and are known by the following
names, The Ben Hur, The Will
ard, The Young Men, Ba-ra-ca,
St. Sophea, Kings Daughters.
Berean, St. Elmo, Forget-me-
nots, Cadets, Daniels Band, So
roman, Light Bearers, The F. Gs,
The Mems, The Merrill. The
teachers in this Sunday School
are, Mrs. Ida Kilmer. VIM. H
Matthew, Prof. VIM. H. English
Mrs. VIM. Matthew, Mrs. VIM
Suit, Miss Catherine Preston
Mrs. E. w. League, Mrs. w. F,
Taylor, Miss Tyra Sanders, Miss
May Swindell, John S. Crowder
Mrs. c. w. Metsker, Samuel E.
Boys, Alice Hallock, Miss Vera
Humrichouser, DR.. S. c. Loring
Mrs. Hazel Ketcham Cough, D
| S. CRUDE.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
High Men Indicted.

Fourteen indictments by the
federal grand jury were made
Thursday against common car
riers, railway officials, shippers,
freight agents charging the Civ
ing of rebates and a conspiracy
to gain rebates.
Along with the IA indictments
returned are Armour, Cudahy
Morris, and the Swift Packing
companies, the Alton & Milwau-
kee railroad companies; Genera
Traffic Manager Crosby, or tie
orn, and F. A. Wann, former Of
fetal of the Alton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Death of a Pioneer.

Stephen 5. Staley, one of the
pioneers of Marshall county,
died at one o'clock Sunday morn
ing. He had been in declining
health for several months, and
went to Windfall, about FIVE
weeks ago to visit his daughter,
the wife of Rev. A. ]. Carey, pas
tor of the NJ. E. church at Wind
fall. There he was taken SER
iously i'll about three weeks pre-
vious to his death and was un-
able to return to this county
where he had resided over 20
years.
Deceased was born in West
Virginia, April 6, 1920, and was
aged S5 years, s months and IL
days. He came with his parents
to Ohio, when a child and from
there to Marshall county, Indi-
ana. in 1884, and resided here
until his death.
llS Id III LII &C lllliCS SOulllCdSl
of this city, which he owned at
his death, was purchased from
the government and had been his
for more than sixty years.
He was an energetic conserva-
tive citizen, was a soldier in the
civil war was republican in pol
itics and was for more than half
a century member of the NJ. E.
church. He was the father OF
eight children, seven sons and
one daughter and reared a family
of whom any one might we'll be
proud. Two sons preceded him
in death and FIVE sons and his
only daughter are still living
They are John J., David B., and
Leroy of this county, ]. B. OF
Philadelphia and Herold of Chi
cago, and the daughter at whose
home he died.
The remains were brought to
Plymouth Monday and were tax.
en- to the home of John J. Staley
on south Michigan street to
await funeral services at 2 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Bremen Boy in Trouble.

Ino Neufer, 16 years old
whose parents reside at Bremen,
reached Chicago FRIDAY, and
started in to "see the town with
$500 alleged to have been stolen,
He spent money so fast that he
was the liveliest person on the
south side levee. The police ar
rested him as he was about to
open another bottle of extra dry
Saturday he was held to the ju-
venile coourt by Justice -aver-
ly, charged with robbing tile sta
ton of the Chicago & Western
Indiana Railway company al
Western Springs.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Looks Like Business.

Attorney General Moody ap-
pears to have become imbued
with the Roosevelt idea of deal
ing with law-defying trusts and
combines. He has issued instruc-
ton to United States attorneys
directing them to institute pro-
ceedings against violators of the
law under that section of the
statutes which includes imprison-
ment with the imposition of q
money penalty. That looks like
business. In the matter of re-
bates both giver and taker are
hereafter to be dealt with.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21

The initial bills for the work
on the Panama canal are not re-
assuring of economy in the great
project. Ten thousand dollars
seems to have been considered
about the minimum of expendi-
ture for any purpose connected
with the canal. The nation can
hardly complain of mal-adminis-
tration in insurance affairs in
view of some of the expenses that
are a part of the millions already
expendedon the canal project,
Fromthis day on congress should
see that economy, not graft OF
unnecessary expense, shall be the
guiding principle of expenditure
--Elkhart Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Roosevelt on Farm Life.

James provinces, a farmer liv-
ing near Auburn, was introduced
to President Roosevelt while in
Washington recently. The pres
ident told Mr.. provinces that he
wished more of the farmers
would come in, but that they
seemed afraid of him. Speaking
of the farm he said that he real
lied that it was the safest place
to bring up boys and that he was
worried and puzzled as to what
to- do with his own boys and that
he wished he could get them Out
of the city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
A Moral Town.

Chesterton Tribune: Since
Hebron has shut out the saloons
from its precinct. the fellows
have got into the habit of max
ing the barber shops their head
quarters and playing cards in
them. A few days ago the town
board issued orders that this
must stop or the proprietors will
be prosecuted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21

Mrs. Mary Aldaffer, widow OF
Israel Aldaffer, died at her home
north of Inwood, Friday, Decem-
Der Is, aged II years. She and
her husband, who died about five
years ago, were old settlers OF
that neighborhood. Funeral SER
vices at the German Baptist
church east of Inwood at II 90 a.
nj. Sunday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
BUSINESS MEN sWINDLED
Mysterious Foreigner Said He
Knew How to Make Gold.

THE chemist said DR.. John
n. Hurry, like the physician,
the lawyer and the priest, has
certain confidential communica-
tions he may not divulge to even
a newspaper reporter. But in
this case what | have to relate
occurred nearly twenty years ago
and the persons most interested,
whether alive Or dead. shall be
nameless in this history.
so it was that, twenty years
ago, swarthy foreigner, with
the blackest of black boards and
the inkiest of mustaches, both
closely trimmed, put up at the
Denison Hotel, Indianapolis. His
manner was quiet and reserved,
his voice soft and low. He was
a Hungarian, at least so given
out, spoke English with an ex-
cellent choice of words, but with
a foreign accent
There was an air of mystery
about him, and as he moved
through the hotel lobby every
one looked at this distinguished
visitor. In a little while he was
seen in company with two of the
solid business men of the town,
men who had the credit of know
ing good thing when they saw
it.
One day one of these solid
business men came to me with a
shining piece of metal and asked
me to tell what it was. | tested
1T and reported that it was 90 per
cent. pure gold. A little later
other pieces of metal were sub
mitted to me and they. too, were
almost pure gold. Then l began
to put the story together. This
wandering Hungarian had
sought out these solid business
men and had let them in on a
good thing. He gave out that
he was an alchemist and under
stood the transmutation of met
ais. AS a first stake they had
given him five ounces OF gold and
he produced ten for it. Then they
staked him with ten ounces and
he produced twenty ounces of al
most pure gold for it. He told
them that with certain DrOpor-
tions of bronze, mercury, lead
and some rarer metals, he was
able to make a compound which
when it came from the crucible
was pure gold.
They had not had much doubt
that he could do all that he said
he could do, as they had seen the
proof. but to make assurance
doubly sure they consulted me-
dunn. who set all their doubts at
rest by assuring them that they
were about to engage in most
successful venture.
THAT Hungarian alchemist
rugged up a wonderful furnace
in the third story of building in
South Meridian street, east side,
near the Union tracks, with cru
cibles. a,embics, copper wires
and electrical apparatus, with red
curtains and cabalistic writings
everywhere.
"All at once the Hungarian
was missing. They had been
doubled the amount transmitted,
until they had put up $4,000
The Hungarian was never heard
of after. His success in quilting
these solid business men is infal-
lible proof that the business man
isan easy mark when the right
kind of operator comes along. Oh
course, when the money was
gone they maintained a discreet
silence
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21

The county commissioners of
Laporte county, have ruled by in
creasing bond of the county
treasurer from $350,000 to $475,-
900 that he is to collect taxes in
Laporte, Michigan City and
variously construed in the state.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Court House, Plymouth, Indiana,
Dec. 26 and 27, 1905.
PROGRAM.
Music

Invocation Rev. Plug
Music
How to secure and maintain soil
fertility ID. F. Maish, Frank
fort, Indiana.
Discussion E. S. Freese
Handling Beef Cattle at a profit
A. O. Lockridge, Greencastle
Discussion VIM. Erwin, Bourbon
Noon
Music
Diversified farming safest and
best .......... ID. F. Maish
Discussion $500. Peter Helm
How a Farmer may learn the
Needs of his soil. "A. o. Lock-
ridge.
Discussion Henry FARRELL
EVENING SESSION.
Music Mozart Club
The Sunny Side of Farm Life.
Lockridge
Music Mozart Club
Forestry and Forest Preserva-
ton John w. Parks
Music Mozart Club
WEDNESDAY.
Music
How to lay out a farm for prof
liable management A. O.
Lockridge.
Discussion ..... John McFarlin
How to feed and care for milk
cows ID. F. Maish
Discussion ...... Matt Lowery
Noon
Music
Election of officers
The Farmer of today d. F. Maish
Discussion ......J. M. Schroeder
Judging Corn and Awarding pri-
zes. Prof. Albert Hume. Uni
versity of Illinois.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
HoH--Enslev.

David V. Hoff and Mrs. Eliza
beth L. Ensley. both of Marshall
county, were united in marriage
at the Reformed parsonage by
Rev. ] S. Keppel, Thursday ev-
ening, Dec. IA, at z o'clock. A
few relatives and friends were
present. They will take up their
residence on West Laporte street
in this city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Supervisors Of Center Township.

At the election Saturday after
noon the following supervisors
were chosen: District No. / John
A. Anders, 2 Frank Pierce,
John Weissert, 5 George w. An.
ders, 6 William E. Starr, Z Syl-
vester Lowell, 8 William Manual
g Emry C. Camerer, 10 Joseph
Barts, II Elmer Deacon, IL A. F.
Harris, 13 c. w. Johnson.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-21
Snyder-Osborne.

Edward L. Snyder and Miss
Anna E. Osborne, both of Mar
shall county, were united in mar
riage at the Reformed church on
Plumb street by Rev. ]. S. Kep-
pei, Thursday, December IA, at
Il 80 o'clock, in the presence of
small number of relatives.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
Wine and Wills.

The Law Magazine and Review tells
an odd story OF a Hamburg merchant
who had five sons who We're all ardent
teetotalers. The merchant was con-
trary minded. and. to rescue the mis-
guided young men from the error Of
their obstinate ways, he directed in his
will that each of the five should on the
day OF the funeral drink glass OF
wine to his memory in some public
place, adding as condition subsequent
that II any of them should refuse to
drink the enjoined glass his share OF
the Inheritance should be forfeited and
divided up among the more complai-
SAINT brothers, but if all should refuse
the whole family property should so
to charities.
No other testament so odd on the sub
ject of wine is recalled except that of a
total abstainer who left fine wine Gel
lar, recent legacy to himself, TO his
heir, with directions that Its contents
should be poured untasted on the
ground
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
Does the sun Set9

ut Ill becomes any of us to criticise
lapses in grammar" says an authority,
when we all Of us consent to and
constantly make use Of one such lapse
ourselves. To speak of the setting
sun is wholly Incorrect You may set
a book ON table or even set son on
a chair if he be big enough not to fall
off. but what does the orb OF day set,
and where does 1t set? No, sir, queer
as it may sound to ears grown accus-
toned to the universal form, the sun
sits. If it sets anything why doesn't
it raise something? If it shouldn't be
the rising and the sitting sun 1t should
be the raising and the setting sun.
Think it over, and when you get 1t ar
ranged to your satisfaction try to find
out what you mean when you speak
of setting en."-Philadelphia Rec
ord
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
The Life Xns In Him.

Daniel O'Connell once unraveled a
queer plot in q will case. Witness aft
er witness swore that they saw the
document duly executed. At last con-
stantly reiterated expression caught
the lawyers attention, The life was
In him." over and over repeated. by
the virtue of your oath, was he aliveT
he asked one witness. BY the virtue
of my oath. the life was in him." he
was answered. Then O'Connell turned
to the man and very slowly and very
solemnly said. Nov I call upon You.
in the presence of your Maker. who
will some day pass sentence upon you
for this evidence, l solemnly ask you
and you answer at your peril-was not
there a live fly in the dead mans
mouth when his hand was placed upon
the will?" Cornered and pale with
fear, the witness confessed that this
had actually happened.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26

One Of the oddities of our system OF
reckoning time is eXemplified in the
question as to what time the north
pole keeps. In theory all places on one
meridian Of longitude keep the same
time; therefore the north pole, being
the central point of all meridians, must
necessarily have all times. Should the
pole ever become habitable the resi-
dent would be able to have day or
night at any hour Din theory by elect
ing to take his time from Il meridian
to correspond. Should such an unex-
pected event ever occur there would
have to be made some readjustment of
our present system of reckoning time
to suit the arctic regions.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
WILD saBOCNS.
An Incident Which Illustrates ii.
Caution of the NnimalA,

One of the farm boys drew our at
tention to what seemed little more t.Jn
couple OF dark specks on the slope
of the hills to the right, but we could
soon see that they We're moving. and
when they came within half mile Of
us we could distinctly recognize them
as herd of balloons.
The boy said that he was quite sure
they were on their way to the water;
but, to our surprise. they did not make
any advance. y quarter of an hour
elapsed. half an hour: still no sign Of
the'7 approach. All at once, as If they
had started from the earth b. magic,
at the open end of the pond. not sixty
yards from our place Of ambush. stood
two huge males.
When or how they got there no one
could tell Probably they had come
by circuitous way through the val
ley. or 1t might be that they had crept
straight down through the grass. They
had certainly eluded our observation.
Being anxious to watch the move
ments of the animals and to ascertain
whether they belonged to the herd
playing under the mimosas, refrainel
from firing and determined to see
what would follow next. Both balloons
sprang toward the water. and, leaning
down, they drank till they We're salts
fed Then, having gravely stretched
themselves, they solemnly stalked
away on all tours in the direction OF
the herd. There was little doubt, there
fore, that they belonged to the herd
and had been sent forward to recon
hotter. for rs soon as they got back
the entire herd put itself in motion
toward the pond.
There were mothers taking care Of
their little ones; there were half grown
animals. the boys and girls of the com
pany. At first only one baboon at 4
time came to the waters edge and,
having taken its draft, retired to the
rest. but when about ten had thus ven
tured separately they began to come
in small groups, leaving the others roll
ing and jumping ON the sand.-Youth's
Companion.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
Genesis of the Lightning Rod.

The first lightning rod was not con-
structed by Franklin nor set up in
America, but by monk at Seutten-
berg, Bohemia, named Prohop Dill
wisch. His apparatus was made and
put together during the spring and
summer of the year 1854 and was first
set up in the garden of the cure of
PrenditZ CMoravia) on June 10 of the
year above named. The rod attained
as much distinction as that later made
by Franklin and was the cause Of the
inventor being presented with much
money and large estates. His enemies
claimed that the rod was the cause of
the great drought Of 1857, 1853 and
1853, and upon the matter being report
ed to Vienna 1t was ordered to be taken
down.
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
Photographine Lightning.

An English writer tells how light.
ming ''sits" for its photograph Light.
ming can only be photographed at
night. 1t is also impossible to use any
cap or shutter for this work, inasmuch
as the eyes do not observe flash of
lightning till ut least tenth of a sec
ond after it has passed. So that, hav-
ing focused your camera beforehand,
draw the shutter and hold the camera
in the direction you think the flash
will take and you must trust to the
courtesy Of the lightning to be there
On time"
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
Who He Was,

A traveller saw woman take man
by the collar, yank him up the steps
into u railroad car, jam him down into
a seat, pile up valise and two big
brown baskets with loose covers and
long handles ut his feet and say:
Now, sit there until l help Mary
Jane on the car and don't move till
come back"
When the woman reached the door
the traveller said to her:
"Is that man your husband?"
"Naww roared the woman. Hes
my daughters husband, and she hasn't
spirit enough to say her soul Is her
own"
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
ODD FACTS ABOUT DEER.


wonderful Jumpers, w th q MARVEL
Sense of Smell.
Deer are wonderful jumpers, as may
be imagined" says writer. II have
seen hind clear fifteen feet or so and
buck as high as tall man merely to
avoid small drain. and also, at a
drive, 1 have seen stag jump cleap
over one Of the beaters, taking fence
at the same time There is still ex-
taut the record Of a famous leap made
by stag down on the borders Of Eft
tick during hunt by one Of the old
Scottish kings. The place is known
as the Harris Leap and is commend
rated by two stones, which the mon
arch had erected to mark the spot.
They measure twenty-eight feet apart.
Deer have marvellous sense of
smell. With n strong wind blowing
they will scent man mile off. Yet,
though their powers OF scent are mar
Illusion quickly dispelled. From read
ing various old books on the subject I
had come to regard their sight as
something quite abnormal and fondly
imagined that. on spying deer, say, a
mile or SO away, a cautious advance
was necessitated, after the manner Of
our ancient enemy. the serpent.
"Now, though deer do have good
sight. they are certainly inferior In this
respect to the roe, and so long as you
keep perfectly still, will have great
difficulty In detecting you. l proved
this again and again one July when
trying to obtain photographs of wild
deer. did not get any photographs.
though plenty Of experience, but was
often lying within fifteen yards Of
deer without their being conscious Of
my presence"
The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
The RenRal Groaheak.

The Bengal grosbeak builds nest
shaped like bottle and always selects
for its support a long. 1.-THE limb over
hanging a stream of water. The en-
trance is beneath, and, from the situa-
ton and peculiar shape, 1t Is absolute
ly impossible for a snake to gain ad-
mission to the nest. One naturalist
records seeing fourteen attempts on the
part Of serpents to get at the nest, but
the hungry snakes always fell of into
the water.