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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
FOREIGN.

japan has filed in Washington formal
complaint against France for harboring
the Russian fleet and representation
have been made direct to Paris. The
allies of the belligerents may be drawn
into a world war.
The first American baby to be born
in the canal zone is reported to have ar
rived on March Is at Corozal, In Pana-
ma, the parents being Mr.. and Mrs ]. A.
Stewart Of Washington, ID. G. he has
been given the name of Wallace Waldron
Stewart
Commander John B. Briggs, U. S. N.
has been acquitted of the charges pre-
ferred against hin by the naval court
martial which tried him in Manila Com
mander Briggs was in command of the
cruiser Baltimore when that vessel
grounded in the Straits Of Malacca about
six months ago.
With four dead sailors and the remain
der of the crew helpless from beriberi
and smallpox, the American bark Mi
nerva drifted into the harbor of Labuan.
Borneo, few days before the transport
Sherman sailed from Manila The only
person who was capable of being on deck
was the captains servant, a Filipino
who was completely ignorant of naviga-
ton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
WANT TO BE CONSuLS.
Tremendous Crush of Applicants for
Foreign Bcrths.


Never before since the government be-
gan has there been such crush of ap-
plicants for consular posts as has been
witnessed at the White House since the
inauguration. says e Washington corre-
spondent.
Some of the men applying for consular
billets present remarkable reasons for
their desire to take Office under this GOV
eminent in foreign countries. One of
them, on his way to the White House to
see the President. stopped at the State
Department and filed formal applica-
ton for a post in Spain which he had
been informed was soon TO be vacant.
DO you speak Spanish? 2" the young
man, citizen of central Illinois, was
asked at the State Department.
"Nope-don't know a word of the
lingo" was the applicant reply. That's
one of the main reasons why / want the
job-want to learn Spanish"
Another applicant for consular pre-
ferment, this one from Iowa, told the
State Department people. upon whom he
called to make preliminary inquiries,
that he wanted the consuiship-held
down by very competent man who is
not going to be disturbed-at German
city near which a famous spa is located.
He was asked why be had fixed his mind
upon just that place.
WELL he replied, quite offhand. like
n man sure of his ground. I'm all run
down with the rheumatic, and I'm in
formed that them Dutch baths fix a
rheumatic Teller up in no time. l want
to git near 'em SOS | can git boiled
OUT
Not less engaging was the reason of
fered by a young Michigan man for de-
string a consular berth in an Italian city
Of the second grade, this place also be
ing occupied by a man who is going to
be let alone.
'You see," he explained at the State
Department, "a sister of mine married
a Dago up in Detroit three or four years
ago-Dago who paints, or sculpts, or
something of that sort He took her to
this town in Italy-the place where l
want to go-soon after they were mar
ried. The folk at nome have heard from
various sources-not from Sis herself,
because she never writes a word about
it-that he isn't treating her Oh the
square, neglects her. and all that.
want to be appointed to that Italian
town SOS | can be near Sis. and if l
find that she's getting the worst of it,
SOS l can punch the nose off the Dago.
l guess that's a pretty good reason, isn't
it?
A Swede gave as a reason for want
ing a consular Office in his native land
that he had a rich uncle there and wish
ed to be near him when he died. HE
may loaf me and leave me somet'ang in
his will"
The usual crowd of colored applicants
for the Liberian post have come TO
Washington. One of them, jolly. very
fat and very black man from Arkansas,
gave a singular reason for his desire to
be appointed to the post on the east coast
of Africa.
"Ah'm dun tiuhd O. desc hyuh nigguhs
in dis country whut wants tub be wife
folks" he said. "Ah wants tub mix up
wifi sho' 'nough nigguh nigguhs. dat doan'
want tub be nothin' else, fo' uh change"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
SOUTHERN.

Joseph Jefferson. the bestowed come
dian on the American stage, died Sunday
night at his home at West Palm Beach,
Fla. eyed 76 years.
Senator James P. Talliaferro was for
mally reelected United States Senator
from Florida by the joint Assembly of
the State Legislature at Tallahassee for
the term ending 1911.
Fire destroyed half the town of Glen
DENIM, VI. Va. all the business section
being burned. The blaze was started in
one of the stores, which was set on fire
by robbers who had looted the place.
W. j. Oliver, wealthy Knoxville
CTenn) business man, procured an in
junction commanding Miss Cross TO re-
frain from calling herself Mrs. Oliver.
Miss Cross is suing for breach of prom
Use.
Col. ID. w. Emmons, founder of Hunt
ington. w. Va. and one of the most
prominent citizens of West Virginia, was
stricken with apoplexy while seated at
the breakfast table and died in a few
minutes. He was rs years old.
An attempt was made on the life of
Mrs. Florence Hogan of Mobile, Ala,
by means of a box of candy sent her
through the mails. The woman detected
a peculiar odor and an analysis showed
the confection contained poison.
In an attempt to escape from the par
ish Jail in Ponchatoula. La, three men
set fire to the structure. Two of them,
Harry Taylor of Vine Mont, Ala. and
James Reilly of Philadelphia. were burn
ed to death, and Lucien George De Las
of Lafayette, La, was probably fatally
injured.
The main building of the Vanderbilt.
university, Nashville, Tenn, destroyed by
fire. will be rebuilt. the plans being per-
fected at the next meeting of the board
Of trustees. The destruction of the main
building will in no way interfere with
the operation of the school. Many price
less treasures were destroyed.
An explosion in the Cabin Greek Min
ing Company's mines near Kayford, w.
Va, may result in the death of five min
ers and the fatal injury of three others.
Nine men were within the mine when
the explosion occurred. OF these four
managed to reach safety with the assist
ance of friends. Three of the number
were so badly injured that they are not
expected to live.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS.
Influx of Aliens Is Greater than Ever
Before in Our History.

A tidal wave of immigration is now
breaking on our shores. 1t is computed
by immigration authorities that 100000
aliens will have landed in the United
States in the fiscal year which ends on
Tune 30 next.
The figures for March arrivals am
ply sustain this prediction. As. compar-
ed with former years, immigration has
been steadily rising ever since last No
1ember. 1t is unusual for the rush to
ret in during the winter season. 1t
seldom begins earlier than March and
he high-water mark is reached in April
and May; yet the opening months of this
year showed almost double the arrivals
of the same months of 1904, the record
for last January being II 400, as against
23,129 in January, 1904, and for Feb
ruary, 1850. as against 2S067 in 1904.
This anomalous increase setting in so
early in the year portends nothing less
than a deluge of foreigners. To carry
them over every available passenger
carrying ship has been put in commits
sion and many tramp steamships have
been chartered in addition, while all the
regular passenger boats are booked to
their full capacity for the next three
months.
Strange as it may seem, industrial and
other conditions in the United States are
known almost as well in Europe as they
are here. To every town and hamlet
America spells prosperity and gigantic
operations in which every man may have
share. Many come here early in the
spring in readiness to work on farms,
but by far the greater number are labor
ers who expect to find employment on
construction work. Every nook and
Granny of Europe is appraised of the vast
railroad and rapid transit developments
now in course of construction or project
ed, and it is the prospect of work along
these lines that is now largely response
BILE for the unprecedented rush of immi-
grants.
For purposes of comparison it is in
teresting to look at some of the inmi-
grafton figures for last year. The total
number of alien steerage passengers who
arrived at the port of New York during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1904, was
60S,922. These brought with them 49,
$40, or $24.69 per head. OF nation
alities the south Italians led with total
Of 40, 225: then came the Hebrews. with
S4,91O: Germans. with 59.327; Poles.
with 5O.313; Scandinavians. with 3S,214:
north Italians, with 35,6S7; Irish, with
26,1S5; English. with 23.5OO: Slovaks,
with 22,425. and Magyars. with 20.62S
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
Telephone Company Beaten.

After fifteen years of bitter war be-
tween the American Bell Telephone Com
pany and the anti-Bell companies, Of
Iowa, the former has at last capitulated
and announcement is made that here
after exchanges controlled by that COM
pany will connect with those of its rivals.
Both sides lost great amounts of money
during the long continued war. Millions
have been invested in the duplicating Of
small exchanges and toll lines The Bell
Company would not permit its subordi-
nate companies to connect with iires
equipped with other than Bell instru-
ments.
Legislation and litigation alike failed
to force connection. The fight has caused
such wonderful development of tele-
phone business in Iowa that a recent
bulletin of the census department credits
that State with one-third Of the rural
telephone business of the country. almost
all Iowa farmers having anti-Bell phones
in their houses. 1t is expected that the
Bell Company's surrender in Iowa win
be followed by litigation all through the
West.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
A CONSERVATIVES CITY.
Movement to Pound Such Community
in Texas or New Mexico.

Physicians, bankers, business men, fra
ternalists and military engineers of St.
Louis and nearby cities are interested in
a plan to found in New Mexico or Texas
a city of consumptives. They have or
ganized the National Fraternal Sanato-
rum for Consumptives for the establish
ment of this odd city.
Last month committee of physicians,
business men and a sanitary engineer left
st. Louis for three weeks tour of
Texas and New Mexico to look about for
suitable site. They Travelled 1000
miles and visited seventeen different
places. The competition for the site
was keen. some places offering from 1000
to 100000 acres of land for the proposed
settlement, and one railroad official
pledged to the santarium 100000 in
cash and lands if it should be placed
along his line. The site has not yet been
chosen.
The proposed sanatOrium will be a de-
parture from the usual lines along which
such institutions have heretofore been
conducted. 1t will be community rath-
er than the usual camp city, in which
there will be opportunities for the con-
roundings the ordinary life of those in
good health, working at farming, stock
raising and other outdoor vocations. The
sanatorium will be conducted on the mu-
nicipal ownership plan. with absolutely
no commercial features. The revenue
for the administering expenses will be
raised by a per capita tax on fraternal
and other organizations to whose MEM
bers the sanatorium Will be open.
1t will be open to all fraternal socie-
lies, churches, clubs, cities, counties and
States in the United States which con-
tribute a per capita tax of one cent a
month a member: to all union men of
every occupation, as well as to all other
labor. benevolent or other organizations
contributing per capita tax to the sup
port of those whom they send to the san
atorium. The patients thus sent will
live there as the guests Of their respec-
tive organizations, with a minimum of
personal expense. The Temple of Fra
ternity at the worlds fair will be re-
moved to the site as soon as it is selected.
and will serve as the administration
building of the colony.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
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They don't permit trainmen to remain
TN continuous duty beyond 4 certain time
limit on the Chicago and Northwestern
railway. and the management is receiv-
ing much commentator from the press
on the subject of the recent order intend
ed to crystalline this policy. On the
Northwestern rne. under this new rule,
the men are not only not required to
work belond reasonable limit, but the
man who wants to increase his days earn
ings is restrained from doing so, and ten
hours of work with eight hours rest is
made the standard beyond which the
men must not go without a reasonable
amount of rest. No engineman or train
man is allowed to go out on the road
without meeting this requirement, and
an elaborate checking system is employ
ed to insure the observance of this rule
The New York Central lines have
formed comprehensive plans requiring
The expenditure of more than $500, 000,
600 with a view to obtaining a frmer
hold on the enormous tonnage originat-
ing in and passing through Chicago In
this latest Vanderbilt scheme many mill
ions of dollars are 20 be expended in exr
tending the Big Four Railroad into Chi
cago, and in connecting the Lake Shore,
the Michigan Central. the Nickel Plate
and the Big Four with all of Chicago's
important industries, and also in giving
these four systems physical connection
with all of the railroads centering in Chi
cago. The plans will firmly entrench the
Vanderbilts in the second greatest ton
mage center in the country.
The railroad mileage in the United
States is increasing at the rate of about
5000 miles year. AT this rate in TWEEN
ty years there will be 100000 more miles
of railroad in the country. If the coun-
try continues to develop during the next
twenty years as rapidly as it has during
the last two decades it will require fully
10000 more miles of railroad to handle
the increase in the volume Of traffic.
A portion of the $13.OO0.0 COO for inn
provements to the B. & O. will be spent
in additions to rolling stock These adj
ditions will consist of 175 consolidated
freight locomotives, 80 passenger engines,
40 switch engines and 10000 cars. The
official report shows that the company
now has in service 1911 locomotives and
50, 200 freight cars.
The matter Of the reimbursement of the
wages of locomotive firemen on the Mich
| igan Genital has been practically set
lied
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
TO HOLD UP COTTON PRICES.
Planters in the South Organize to Re-
duce the Acreage.

Planters in the South Organize to Re.
duce the Acreage.
The cotton growers of the South are
organizing for the purpose of keeping up
the prices of the commodity by curtail-
ing the number of acres devoted to its
cultivation. The normal cotton crop Of
the South, writes William E. Curtis in
the Chicago Record-Herald, is about TO-
100000 bales, and it pays reasonable
profit if middlings, that is the average
grade, sell anywhere above 8 cents. Ten
cents a pound is the ideal price, and al
lows the planters to live in the greatest
luxury. Middlings are now quoted at
about ~ cents, which leaves only a
small margin of profit. If the crop this
year is all gathered it will run as high
as 100000 bales, but about 10 per
cent of it is still left unpicked in the
fields, and it is calculated that 12,O00,-
600 or 100000 bales are already GIN
ned and ready for market. 20
In order to keep the price at 10 cents
it is proposed to withdraw 100000
bales of the present crop from the mar
ket and reduce the acreage cultivated
20 per cent next year. To do this it is
necessary to organize the farmers. Con-
ventions have been held in all the cot
ton States and agents have been appoint
ed to canvass every one of the counties
in which cotton is grown. They are call.
ing the farmers together and comforting
with them, explaining the situation, per-
suading them to join the Southern Cot
ton Association, which is organized to
promote the general welfare, and the
Cotton Planters Holding and Commits.
sion Company, which is to provide the
ways and means to hold back 100000
bales of this years crop from market.
Harvie Jordan, president of the associa-
ton, is directing the movement, In which
not only planters are engaged, but bank
ers, merchants and other business men
whose interests are involved in the cot
ton crop-and there are few people in
the Southern States whose interests are
not.
A big convention which was held In
New Orleans in January sent a commits
sion to Washington to confer with the
President and to ask Congress to appoint
a commission to discover means by
which the exports of cotton may be pro-
NOTED. At present about 60 per cent Of
the normal crop is sent to foreign coun-
tries, and about 40 per cent is consumed
at home.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27

James Lingafelter, and son Robert were
convicted of forgery. Now the entire
family is involved
Mrs. Laura Black publicly horsewhip-
ped G. E. Sherman, teacher in the
public school of Yukon. Okla. She caus-
cd his arrest on a charge of Furnishing
he was acquitted he made Objectionable
statements concerning her.
Frederick Uterbark. Cleveland sa-
loon-keeper, committed suicide by DELHI
erately kneeling and placing his neck
across the rail in front of a Lake Shore
passenger train, which was moving at 4
high rate of speed. The head was com
pletely severed from the body.
The body of Miss Miranda Bricker.
aged %. who had been assaulted and
strangled to death, was found in the
rear of the home in Mount Vernon, Ohio,
where she had been employed as house
maid. The woman had been dragged
500 feet from the place where she was
first attacked.
Al Subert, Neb., George Huiggle fired
five shots into the body of his wife and,
going to a room upstairs, shot himself
through the head. 1t is believed both
will die. Mrs. Huiggle was hanging
clothes on line when her husband came
mp behind her and fired. Huiggle and
his wife have not lived together for some
time
Elections were held in a majority of
the cities and towns of South Dakota
Tuesday for Aldermen and members of
the boards Of education and in some
places for Mayor. Assessor and justices
of the peace. Party lines were not close
ly drawn. but the question of license or
no license to sell liquor was the issue IN
most instances. License carried in NOR
than two-thirds of the cities and towns
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
KILLED LIKE CATTLE.
Pittsbnrg veritabte Slaughter House
Says an Official.

Says an Official.
ION account of insufficient laws regu-
.ating the matter, and the utter disregard
for the laws which do exist, Pittsburg is
Being turned into regular slaughter
house, and hundreds of workmen, mostly
foreigners, are being killed each year
ike so many sheep and cattle in the steel
mills. the blast furnaces and the coal
nines."
Coroner Joseph G. Armstrong made
his startling statement in addressing Il
soroner's jury investigating the death Of
\ Hungarian killed at the plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company.
Adelbert Merle, Austro-H Hungarian
,onsul general, backed by the coroner,
proposes to petition the State and federal
authorities to ascertain if something
cannot be done.
An attache Of the consulate said the
aumber of fatalities were never fully re-
ported. but that every year as investiga-
ton was asked of the cases Of men who
were reported to have disappeared. Two
such cases now being inquired into were
those of men employed at the tops of
blast furnaces, who had probably made
misstep and followed the ore they were
dumping into the furnaces, where thei.
fate was something horrible to contem-
plata
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Week
| New y1rk lily Review of Trade says:
- - Coed news still FREEDOM
mates in trade and industry. Easter
business is of large volume; dry goods.
clothing, footwear, and all lines Of
wearing apparel reporting an unusual
ly good demand, and shipping depart
ments are taxed to their full capacity
in many cases.
The country as a whole is experience
ing more settled weather, which is re-
Elected in better retail distribution of
merchandise. Jobbing trade in goods
for fall delivery is broadening, and
there is more inclination to prepare for
the future.
Manufacturers report less idle ma
chinery, the iron and steel industry
leading with an unprecedented output
of pig iron, yet consumption is also
above all records, for there is no ac-
emulation at the furnaces. Textile
mills are also well engaged, as a rule.
and forwardings OF footwear from Bos-
ton make favorable comparisons with
every year except 1900.
A few labor controversies are threat
ened, but none is Of sufficient magni-
tude to materially check progress, even
if expected settlements are not attain
ed, for the number of hands involved
is comparatively small.
Bradstreet's Commercial Agency
makes the following report:
Spring trade at wholesale apparently
has passed its zenith, but recorders, es-
pecially at the West, are unusually
good; iron consumption is unprecedent-
ed, winter wheat promises excellently.
and the acreage in other cereals will be
large.
Building and building material are
active, export trade displays signs of
improvement. railroad earnings show
10 per cent gain for March and an in
crease of B per cent for the quarter.
and bank clearings show continued
heavy increases over last year. Retail
trade is good in sections. but has been
retarded by cold weather or heavy
rains and the lateness of Easter at 9th
er points.
Meat. fish. ard poultry prices are
conspicuous exceptions to the otherwise
easing tendency of food products. In
meats, lessenej receipts and higher
prices for cattle, Lenten influences, and
other causes are assigned for this.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
IN GENERAL

Weekly trade reviews report season
able progress in business activity. Rail-
road earnings are larger and the crop
outlook is good.
The upper house Of the colonial Leg
stature has passed Premier Bonds bill
excluding American fishermen from New
foundland waters.
A gas buoy in process of filling on
board the government steamer Scout ex-
ploded near Kingston. Ont. killing one
and injuring four of her crew.
Miss Eliza Lowery of Rodney. Onr..
was murdered at her home by masked
man. She had refused him money and
he beat her to death with club.
Captain A. H. Latin, said to be the
oldest sailing officer in the national quar-
termascer's service, has been reinstated
to his old position, that of commander
of the cable-ship Burnside. by President
Roosevelt.
A disastrous fire broke out at an early
hour Friday and reduced to ashes the
convent in the little village of st. Gene
We've, Que One nun, four other women
and eight girls lost their lives. The fire
started about midnight. As soon as the
fire was discovered the villagers FASTENED
to the scene. Bucket brigades were hur-
riedly formed and every possible effort
was made to save the building, but the
FIRE had gained such Roadway that it was
soon apparent that there was no chance
to save it from destruction. The occu-
pants. hurriedly aroused by the smoke,
attempted to grope their way out of the
building. Notwithstanding all efforts, un-
| fortunately, here was deplorsole loss
| Of life. The fire started in the cid wom-
ems hospice and the smoke was so thick
| that the children on the floor above were
unable to get down. The convent was
called Ste. Anne's and was branch Of
the convent of the Sisters of Ste. Anne'n
| of Ilachine.