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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
BURGLAR KILLS A cIRL


Miss Maud Reese of Chicago Finds
Thief i'm Her Flat and Ia Shot.
Miss Maud Reese, while trying to cap
ture a burglar, was murdered by him in
her home in Chicago Tuesday night. She
fell On the floor within a few feet of
her companion, a woman almost blind.
Miss Reese, who was % years old and
employed as a stenographer in the legal
department of the Union Traction Com
pany, accompanied by Mrs. NJ. NJ.
B~aumgartner, had been in the fat less
than a minute when the murderer fired
the fatal shot in the dark.
Miss Reese lived in the fat with her
sister, Anna, a nurse. Earlier in the
day the sisters had received a telegram
from their brother-in-law at Green River,
ILL.,, saying their sister, his wife, was i'll.
Anna Reese decided to go. Miss Maud
Reese, who never had been alone in the
fiat at night, telephoned to Mrs. Baum
gartner. who consented to meet Miss
Reese at the Union Traction Company's
office. Mrs. Baumgartner is under treat
ment for her eyes and her sight is inn
paired. The women reached the fiat af-
ter dark, having left the office at about
5 p. m.
Miss Reese unlocked the door and
both stepped in. In a moment Miss
Reese whispered to her companion, Il
believe there is some one in the house.
Can't you hear some one m%ovingF'
Noise of feet could be plainly heard In
the kitchen in the rear of the fat
BE quiet. You stay here while | go
to see what it is" whispered Miss Reese.
Mrs. Baumgartner heard her friends
firm steps on the bare oak floor of the
hallway leading to the kitchen. A mo-
ment later there was a scream, followed
by a mans threatening voice.
"Helpi Helpt' came from the kitch-
en-. Then there were an overturning OF
chairs and a crashing of dishes. Almost
at the same time a man came running
toward the front door, talking in a low,
gruff voice and evidently struggling to
get away. Miss Reese was either hold
ing on to him or was being dragged by
him.. Above the noise the mans voice
sounded finally:
Let go of me or I'll shoot"
Mrs. B~aumgartner said she saw the
dim outlines of the burglars back and
his hand reaching for a pocket. 4 shot
rang through the fat. Miss Reese fell
to the floor with a gasp. Turning an
grily and cursing, the man ran toward
the kitchen. The sound of crashing
glass indicated his escape out of a win
dow. People from other fats in the
building soon ran to the scene. After
the gas was lighted Miss Reese's body
was found lying on the floor near he
entrance so that the door could not be
opened until it was moved. A telephone
call was sent to the Sheffield avenue
station and fifteen minutes later the po-
lice began to arrive.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The arrest and confession of Alfred
r. Smalley at Elizabeth, n. j., have
given society in that city a shock. Small
ley has admitted to the police that he
has lived in great part for five or six
years by burglaries at night while he
was conducting himself as an upright
business man by day. With the name
of SmaIley is associated hat of Mrs.
Lewis c. Ford. a young matron well
known in Elizabeth, but the police. I'M
able to show that Mrs. Ford was an ac-
complete of Smalley, say she must nave
been an innocent victim and attributed
the fact to her blind infatuation for the
man. Her husband, a well-to-do station
er, agrees with the police. He says he
knows his wife has been or intimate
terms with Smalley several years, al
though he had never seen the man. A
week ago when a neighbor told him
that Smalley was under police suryeil-
n and that he had seen the man
many times in the last few months go
ing In or coming out of the Ford home,
Ford hurried home. found that his VIE
was out and in her absence he broke
open q large trunk of hers which she
had been careful never to leave unlock
ed. he found in it a large quantity OF
silver and many pieces Of jewelry, out
none of great value. "As soon as my
wife came h0me," said Ford, Il con-
fronted her with the discovery. She con-
fessed that everything in the trunk had
been given to her by Smalley in August
at the time he was moving his family
from Bayonne to Clayton, with a re-
quest that she should take care of it for
him, and that she had no suspicion he
came by it dishonesty" According to
his confession Smalley has been a Rallies
for at least five years. Until recently
he was a salesman for a large meat
packing house at a salary of $50 a week
and expenses.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Activity is still the key
note of the industrial and
| New York.

commercial situate on.
Colder weather and the coming Christ
mas holidays have caused a heavy
distribution in practically every Sec
ton of the country, ave in the North
west, where the rather high tempera-
lures and railway congestion prevent
the fullest development. Railway
earnings are enormous, but the wide
spread blockades are assuming a Sc
rious phase and tend to curtail prCduc-
ton in some Industrial lines. Manu-
featuring lines are remarkably active.
Consumption of iron and steel is pro-
ceeding at an enormous rate with no
apparent sign of a let-up in the i'm
mediate future.
Collections on the whole are classed
as good, but the holding of cotton for
higher prices in the South and the car
shortages in the Northwest render pay-
ments somewhat slow in places.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended Nov. 16
number 19S. against 166 last week,
100 in the like week of 1904, 234 in
1903, POI in 1902 and 223 in 1901.
In Canada failures for the week
number forty-one, as against thirty
last week and twenty-four in this
week a year ACCOMPLISHMENTS Com
mercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
/. Chicago.


-I nous moyemen of grain
and higher prices for furnace product
and hides are the outstanding features
Of this weeks developments. 1t is
clear that the volume of business fully
sustains unprecedented proportions,
and it is not surprising that the use
of money. has depleted cash resources
and forced an advance in the discount
rate for commercial needs.
While commitments in iron and steel
barely equaled recent aggregate, this
does not relieve the tremendous pres
sure upon productive capacity, and the
manufacturing conditions generally ex-
hibit growing strength. Distribution
Of commodities reflects an expanding
consumption, but along with this is
further evidence of inaSequate trans
p%ortation facilities and delays in tran
sit which interfere with business oper-
ations.
Weather conditions continued to
stimulate better demand in the lead
ing retail lines, sales Of necessaries
hiohihS a SOOQ SIONluS. NhOiOSo'S
trade has held mp very satisfactorily.
visiting buyers staying in the markets
to a larger proportion and later than
usual at this season Bookings made
a good aggregate in footwear, cloth
ing, blankets and general dry goods,
while shipments were large in food
products, canned goods and hardware.
Notwithstanding merchandise values
average high, there is no hindrance to
liberal absorption, and country stocks
are seen to be diminishing. Farm adj
vices remain very encouraging. many
improvements involving large OUTLAWS
being under way. and mercantile col
lections are found prompt in this dis
trict.
Western railroad earnings again are
climbing above all former totals.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty-seven against
twenty-one last week and twenty-five
a year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
1Ek MLAsH3g7S
10: 5000

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $6.60: hogs. prime heavy. $500
to 1892: sheep. fair TO choice. $500 to
1925; wheat, No. 2, S3c to Soc; corn.
No. 2. 45c TO 46c: oats, standard, 2Sc to
29c; rye. No. 2, 66c to &c; hay. timo-
thy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, 5000 to
23c; eggs. fresh, 23c to 2Sc; potatoes.
per bushel. SOC to &c.
Indianapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500
to 1915; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$5.05; sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, SEC to SIC; corn, No.
2 white. 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white,
29c to Sic.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to $40;
wheat, No. 2, SEC to soc; corn, No. 2,
42c to 43c; oats, No. 2, Doc to 30c; rye,
No. 2, &c to &c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $4.S5;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$4.75; wheat, No. 2, Soc to 9Oc; corn,
No. 2 mixed, SIC to 53c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $3.50; hogs,
YfsOV " Y1ssV, cuCCp, Y@.VO W $9.JO,
wheat, No. 2, SIC to SSc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 45c to 46c; oats, 10. 3 white,
31c to 33c; rye, No. 2, 69c to zoe.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
&c to SAC; corn, No. 3, 41c to 43c,
oats, standard, 29c to Gle; rye, No. 1,
Csc to soc; barley, No. 2, 53c to SOC;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SIC to
Sc; corn. No. 2 mixed. sic to SIC; oats
No. 2 mixed, zoe to BE; rye, No. 2, 54e
to &c; clover seed, prime, SS.O5.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers
$500 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice. S4GC
to $500; sheep, common to good mixed
500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to S7.35.
New York-Cattle, $4OO to $40
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 te
$5.25: wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to Csc
corn, No. 2, Sc to SIC; oats, natural
white, 35c to BE; butter, 21e
to 24c; eggs, western, 2Sc to 32c.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Crew VIII Travel from Chesapeake
Bay to Manila.

Bay to Manila. "a
J.. ID. Wood, a tugmaster of Norfolk,
has signed a contract with the Navy
Department to go to Manila with the
ID. ID. Dewey ON one of the most re-
markable cruises of modern times. The
ID. d. Dewey is the large steel floating
dry dock now at Solomon's Island, in
Chesapeake bay, which is to dock the
largest ships of the American naval
force in the far East if it can be sue
cessfully piloted through fouy seas, over
1900 miles lying between Chesapeake
bay and Manila bay. Mr.. Wood is to
live aboard the dock during the voyage.
He anticipates having one of the most
pleasant experiences of his life. He
will receive $3.50 q month, his vessel
will be so stable in the heaviest weather
that it might be possible to play bill
lizards aboard. according to some officers,
and he will nave plenty of good COM
pany and solid comfort. There is a per-
manent crew of lnachinists, engineers,
sailors. electricians and fremen, and
these people are to remain attached to
the dock at Manila. On the voyage
across they will be REINFORCED by twen-
ty-two sailors. who will be discharged
when they reach Manila. Sleeping ac-
commodations on the dock are as good
as on the best man-of-war, and as there
is abundance of room there will be no
crowding. Receiving the best of mer-
chant sailor pay, the crew will be abun
dainty fed, as the ration allowance Tor
this cruise is placed at go cents each
daily, instead of the usual rate of 30
cents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
LAY MURDER TO VOTE FRAUD.
Man Slain i'm New York Fight Had
Marked Ballot I'm His Pocket.

Man Slain i'm New York Fight Had
Marked Ballot I'm His Pocket.
Election frauds are believed by the
police to have caused the murder of w.
+. Harrington in the Little Naples
dance hall in New York, and also the
probably fatal injuries of Abraham
Juckerman, who was found with a frac-
tured skull some distance from the hall.
The dance hall is conducted by Paul
Kelly, leader of an east side gang. From
papers found on the dead man and from
information obtained from nine prison
ers. two of them women. who were ar
rested after the murder, the police learn
ed that the quarrel started over elec-
ton affairs. One of the prisoners had
a marked ballot of the last election in
his pocket. Harrington was killed in
the barroom of the Little Naples during
a revolver battle. Bernard Escotte, the
bartender, and one of those under arrest
said the fight started when four men,
bers of the Liberty association, which
is hostile to the Kelly gang, entered the
room after midnight. One of the men
exclaimed: "My best friend was shot
here Tuesday morning. Are there any
of you here who knows how to shoot?
If you do I'd like to have you begin"
The challenge was accepted and in the
battle which followed fifty shots were
fired. When the officers arrived Har-
rington was dead on the floor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Sultan Arrests Chief of Police.

A dispatch from COnStantinople. Turkey,
says: The sultan has ordered the arrest
of Fehim Pasha, chief of the secret police,
on the charge of working against the rul-
er's interests. A big sensation has been
caused by this action. 1t is reported that
the porte has discovered a plot among the
secret police to head q movement to depOse
Abdul Hamid if he gives way to the de-
mand made by the powers for international
control of the finances of Macedonia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions OF Things
are shown. Nothing Overlooked TO
make il Complete.
Soldiers and Sailors in Open Revolt.

Sebastopol special: The long expected
mutlny of sailors who have been on the
verge of revolt for months has come and
Russia's stronghold on the Elack Sea is in
danger of falling completely into their
hands. The situation is very critical. All
the shore equipages, numbering 1000 men,
are in open rebellion, having driven away
or taken their officers prisoners. The Brest
regiment of infantry has gone over in a
body to the mutineers. General Neplueff.
the commander of the fortress, is a captive.
Some of the artillerists have also joined
them in revolt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Marconi dislikes the word "Marcon;.
gram used to describe the wireless mes.
sage.
Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks
are planning q great social campaign in
Washington for the coming winter.
The late African explorer, Livingston
is to ave a erected to his
memory at Chitambo, where he died.
Gen. Frederick d. Grant was elected
president of the Grant Family Asso.
citation, which just held a reunion AT
Windsor, Conn. There were some SOC
members of the family present.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Rear End Collision.

One man was killed. five were injured,
twenty-five freight cars, one postal car,
one baggage car and a Pullman car totally
wrecked as the result of a rear end collision
of two w~estbound freight trains and the
subsequent collision of a passenger train,
westbound, with the wreckage, which had
been strewn over the four tracks o n the
middle division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road at ThompsontOwn, Pa.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Death Seals Robbers Lips.

Harry Slater, alias Skeets FOote, alias
Henry Wilson, who escaped from the Jack
son, Mich.- p~enitentiary August 9, 1904,
while serving sentence for the robbery of
the Richmond, Mich, bank, and who was
shot through the abdomen in a running
pistol duel with Policeman Daniel Kelley
fessiOn except to Rev. Manning of st.
Roses church, who administered the last
sacrament of the church.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Four Negroes suffocated.

Four colored men lost their lives by suffo-
cation during a fire in a house and wood
ward on h street N. W.. Washington, ID. T..
The men were asleep in the building, the
lower portion of which was used as a
kjndling mill. The fire under the boiler
had been carelessly banked and some blaz-
ing Goals ignited a mass of shavings. Two
men escaped by jumping.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

w. E. Thomas, associate of the late
C. j. Devlin, swallowed carbolic acid
at Leavenworth, Kan. He is still alive.
MI. Thomas evident attempt at suicide
was undoubtedly caused by complica-
tons arising from the Devlin failure of
last July.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Serious Accident at Anderson.

A cut of freight cars at the Morgan street
crossing of the Big Four railway crashed
into an electric passenger car at Anderson.
Ind, instantly killing Wilson J. Britten-
ham, day foreman of the Big Four yards
and fatally injuring James Iiilligoss, street
car conductor Miss Lena Behert of An
derson, and w. o. Walton of Nashville.
Ind, passengers on the street car, were
seriously injured Other passengers
were also painfully injured, including the
motorman of the car.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The house of kings CONQUERED in the
impeachment proceedings of the house of
warriors in the Cherokee council at
Muskogee, L. T., and Chies w. G. Rog-
ers was officially deposed. Frank ].
Boudinot was elected to the chieftaincy.
1t is now for the government to decide
which of the two claimants it will recog-
nize.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Countess Louisa May De Szilassy was
granted a divorce in Detroit from Count
Gyula De Szilassy of Austria on the
grounds Of desertion and ~non-support.
The countess was Miss Hecker, daugh-
ter of Col. Frank j. Hecker of Detroit,
former member Of the isthmian canal
commission
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Bank b b Fooled.

A gang of bank robbers which has been
operating for the past few weeks in sew
eral Ohio and Indiana towns made an
unsuccessful attempt to blow open the
vault Of the hank at Mendon, Ohio. The
~intruders, four in number, drilled the mas
sive vault doors and used their explosive.
but failed to reach the cash box. All tele-
graph and telephone wires at both ends of
the town were cut. They left Town in two
stolen rigs, N of which was located in
Lima.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

A. s. Busby, for four years assistant
~penitentiary at Rusk, was convicted By
a jury in Galveston of embezzling ST.
500 of the funds of the State end SEN
fenced to serve three years in the prison
which he formerly managed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Mrs. Marie ~Santangelo. an Italian inn
migrant, is detained at Ellis Island while
making the choice between parting pos
sibly forever with her two children in
order to make her home here with her
husband or of giving up her husband
to return to Italy with the children. Her
husband is living at Youngstown, Obi.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
CASUALTIES OF THE RrsxxNs.
Army Lost S:,642 in
Battle and 1880 by Disease.

Col. John Van r. Hoff, medical de-
partment U. S. A., who has recently re-
turned from the Russian army in Man
churia, with which he went through part
of the campaign in the war against
Japan, has been authorized by the chief
of staff to give out excerpts of his Off
cial report. According to Col. Hoff the
number of killed and dead of wounds
was 37,642 men and the number of men
dead from disease 1880. These statis-
tics are exclusive of casualties at Port
Arthur and show almost exactly two men
dead from results of battle to one man
dead from sickness. This record is,
according to statistics. the best made
in any war up to the present time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The charges served on Midshipman
Minor M~erriweather. Jr.. at Annapolis
in connection with causing the death OF
Midshipman James r. Branch in a prize
fight, include manslaughter, violation OF
the naval articles and conduct to the
nrejudice Of good order and discipline.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Mrs. Frances Burton Harrison, wife OF
The candidate for lieutenant governor OF
New York at the last election, was almost
instantly killed in an automobile accident
in Long island City. Mrs. l.. /. Scott of
San Francisco, who was with Mrs. Har-
rison. received internal injuries.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
SAVED FROM HELPLESS BOAT.
Passengers and Crew Rescued with
Brooches Buoy.

B~reeches buoy.
From the big steel Graham & Morton
steamer Argo that lay pounding out its
life off the beach off Holland, Mich,
twenty Chicago passengers and the crew
of twenty-five were saved from imminent
death by a p~erilous ride over raging
breakers in the breaches buoy of the
life-savers Friday. A southwest gale of
intensity seldom equalled on Lake Mich
igan had hurled the big steamer on the
shore 600 feet north of the Holland pier.
The boat was helpless in a furious and
ever-rising wind that raised huge waves,
which broke over the Argos deck and
prevented the launching of life boats or
the attempts of l~ife-savers to reach the
imperiled passengers and crew.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

George Robinson was killed and A.
w. Wall and an unidentified Hungarian
were fatally injured by a fall of slate
in mine No.. / of the New England Coal
Company at San Toy, Ohio. Three tons
of slate fell, Robinson's body being
crushed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Girl football players of Miss NJ. e.
Mead's seminary, Hillsdale, defeated the
second eleven of the Overlook elleck
Military Academy Of Norwalk, Conn.,,
by a score of IL to O. The academy has
voted 70 take its colors and letters from
the beaten boys for a month as punish
ment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
DEAD WIFE SPURS EXPLORER.
Unable to Forget Her, He Plunges
Into Wilderness.

Into Wilderness.
When Dillon Wallace returns to New
York from Labrador next April, as he
is expected to, he will take a brief rest,
and then, it is said, prepare a big ex-
petition to visit the unexplored sections
as Alaska wallace has the explorers
fever" said Alonzo G.. Wallace, his per-
sonal friend. There is an underlying
motive in the Wallace expedition that is
sad in tone. Several years ago Wallace
lost his wife. to whom he was much
attached, and whom he can never get
out OF his life. From the moment she
died the restless spirit set in and Wal
lace has never found comfort except
when on the trail toward some new
land"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The plant of the Decatur Milling Com
many at Decatur, Ill. was totally destroyed
by fire, involving a loss of $4,000, covered
by $4,000 insurance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Granville Gain, cashier of the Bank Of
Hayti, No., has disappeared and it is
charged that he has absconded with $4,000
of the banks funds. A reward of $500 has
been offered has been offered for his appre-
hension. The capital of the bank was $4,000
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
sixteen Killed, Thirty Hurt in Wreck,

Sixteen Killed, Thirty Hurt in Wreck.
At least sixteen persons were killed out
right, burned to death or suffOcated and
thirty more were seriously injured at Ba-
ker's bridge station, a mile and a half west
of Lincoln. Mass, on the main line of the
Fitchburg division of the Boston & Maine
railroad. The regular express train crashed
into the rear of a local train. The wreck
was due to a heavy fog which obscured the
signals set by the forward train.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30
Town Exterminatins II. Dogs.

Within three days seventy dogs, two
thirds of the dog population of Hacketts-
town, N. J., have been hanged, drowned
or shot. The determination is due to the
death of 3-year-old Mary Harris and the
fear of an epidemic of ~hydrophobia. 1t
will continue until every dog in the town
is killed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The cashier Of the United States as
say Office in Seattle has been arrested.
charged with stealing $35 900 in gold
dust from the pckes of Klondike miners
and substituting black sand to make up
the weight.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

The First National Bank of LineviIle,
Ala. has beer closed by order of its board
of directors. National Bank Examiner s.
n. Cooper has been appointed receiver.
The and liabilities of the bank
were S71.1O2 each.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-30

Mayor Byels Of Nation, III. on re-
turning to the city after an absence Of
two days, found that the council had Sc
lected a Mayor pro tenn. in his absence
who had appointed a new chief of police
and other officials