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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

At New Dorp, Staten Island, there has
been built house which is really fire.
proof. The walls and partitions are OF
hollow concrete blocks, the floors and
roof Of REINFORCED concrete, the floors
being supported by 3x10-inch concrete
beams, REINFORCED with bars. The slab
forming the roof extends down to form
a cornice, thus completing the frame with
out the use of a single piece Of wood. The
stairs and porches are also of cement, re-
enforced with rods.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
CHICAGO.

The summer season OF
Ullod0U business activity is unlike
-ily TO be marked by much
Of the customary cessation for repairs,
this period surprising all previous in
the accumulation of forward work
among the leading industries This
condition gives unusual strength TO
current dealings and much confidence
in the outlook. Wholesale selections
In fall wares make an encouraging adj
vance, while new demands for mill and
factory outputs compare favorably with
year ago, although bookings have les
sened for rails and cars. Production
is close to the capacity in pig iron and
steel. and steady growth appears in
heavy hardware and machinery. cleo
trio supplies, footwear and furniture.
Mercantile collections are unusually
good, more promptness appearing at far
Western points. 4Svices indicate that
country stocks of merchandise undergo
reasonable reductions. Local retail
trade has expanded. despite the rain
storms, lightweight apparel and foot
wear being in much request Wholesale
activity Is stimulated by more recorders
for the interior and tho early selections
for fall delivery. The movement Of
! commodities exceeds the great tonnage
Of a year ago. due mainly to extraor-
binary forwardings of furnace and mill
products and enlarged grain market
lngs.
The total quantity Of grain handled
at this port aggregated 8650,419 bush
els, against S.676,634 bushels last week.
Receipts made the substantial gain Of
IS per cent over those In 1905. but the
shipments decreased 10 per cent Lum-
Der receipts. 56.1s2. 900 feet. compare
with "a, 1000 feet last week. Hides
received were only zoos B53 pounds,
against 3.066. 161 pounds last week
Bank clearings. sos, 229, 595. exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1905
by 81 per cent. Money wan unchanged
at and 5la per cent.
/ Failures reported in the chicago dis
trict number %. against 81 last week
and II year ago--Dun's Review OF
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Lose Lives i'm Michiran Lake.

John Collins, aged % years, and his
sister, Clara Collins, aged IL years, were
drowned in Terbush lake, three miles
from Fenton, Mich, when one of the two
rowboats in which Mrs. Selma Collins.
her nine children and hired man, George
Crowler, were gathering water lilies, cap
sized.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Craft Lost and Crews Drowned.

A yacht, the name of which is un-
known, and two trading schooners were
sunk and 1t is believed all on board were
drowned in a terrific storm which struck
the New Jersey coast. One of the schoon-
ers Is thought to be the Buena Vista Of
Red Bank. The name of the other il not
known.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
coNv1cTs TO MAKE ALCOHOL.
Gov. Hoch Proposes State Distillery
for Kansas.

Gov. Hoch is in favor of the establish
ment of State distillery to make dena-
tured alcohol in Kansas. "Such a distil-
lery," said the Governor, would furnish
means for employing large number Of
convicts. The courts could not declare
the law invalid on the grounds held valid
against the State oil refinery measure.
This law would have the same effect that
was expected of the oil refinery measure,
in that it would reduce the price of light
and fuel to the consumers"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05


The plant of the West Virginia Brew
Ing Company at Huntington. ". Va, was
burned. Loss 100000.
The Farmers and Merchants Savine1
bank in Roseville, Muskingum county.
Ohio, has closed its doors.
B. f. Yoakum of the Rock Island d.
rectorate has bought New York resi-
dence, raging $3.50. 900 for it.
Over forty military convicis will BE-
transferred from Governors Island, n.
Y, to the prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
DR.. Richard Burton, the Boston pro
lessor and lecturer. will return to Min
nesota to take the chair of English At
the university.
The boiler in the sawmill Of the Lyons
Company, near Frenchburg, Ohio, blew
up. killing three men and perhaps fatally
injuring three others.
The Rt. Rev. John B. Delany, Roman
Catholic bishop of the diocese of Man
chester, died at the Sacred Heart hos
pital in Manchester, N. II.
william Wardlow and Jesse Heating,
convicts. died in the Wyoming peniten-
tiary from the effects of wood alcohol
taken from a shellac bottle.
A movement was launched the tsher
dav at a meeting Of the Denver conven-
ton league to bring both of the great
national conventions to that city two
Assemblyman Max Eckman Of New
YORK pleaded guilty to stufin9 a peti,
tion nominating him as a municipal own
ership candidate. -Four notaries also
plead "a guilty.
Prosecuting Attorney 1. B. Kimbrell Of
Kansas City has announced that If the
grand jury fails to indict the member
Of the alleged Ice trust in that city be
will begin proceedings similar to those
Instituted BY Attorney General Hadlex
against the Standard Oil Company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Railroads Again Hit in Ohio.

In an opinion to the State railway COM
missioner Attorney General Ellis of Ohio
holds that though the Freiner 2-cent fare
bill does not apply to distances less than
FIVE miles, it is violation of the common
law for a railway to charge fare in ex-
cess of the rate established for the longer
distances. Some of the roads had at
tempted this.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
surxivies a Fall OF 7e fsat.

Jan Junzwicz, young Polish laborer
employed at the new auditorium in St.
Paul, fell seventy-six feet from the top Of
the building and escaped instant death
only by the fact that he luckily alighted
in wheelbarrow full of soft mortar. As
1t was, he suffered only severe cuts on his
head and a wrenched back.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Seek Missing Millionaire.

Five thousand dollars reward for in
formation leading to the finding of Mi
chael Liebel, ST.. millionaire brewer Of
Erie, Pa. is offered. Liebel left his home
on May % and went to Buffalo He was
seen Sunday in the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie depot in Pittsburg.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

One man was killed and three others
badly injured in a collision between an
automobile and a trolley car which occurred
at Troy avenue and Paclfcstreet. Brooklyn,
N Y The dead man is Herman Schnippe,
. wealthy grocer, of South Third and Berry
streets, Williamsburg He sustained a
fracture of the skull and died in few
minutes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Mayor Dempsey of Cincinnati, Ohio, has
issued an order, fordidding Salvation Army
workers from soliciting funds for their
work on the streets and directed the chief
of police strictly to enforce it. The
mayor said the army's methods of distrlb-
ufing charity are open to criticism. He
says he cannot understand why, after they
have acquired property worth $4,000, they
still demand small price for food and
lodging, and will not give them unless
paid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Mrs. James Tanner, wife of the COM
mander- -chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, was killed at Helena, Mont, in
an automobile accident. General and Mrs
Tanner, Mrs. j. K. Toole, wife of the gov
ernor, and General Wilson, of Bozesnan,
made up an automobile party and on the
way to Fort Harrison the automobile went
down an embankment. General Tanner
was on visit Of inspection to the Montana
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
HELD FOR NUMBERING WIFE.
Love Of Pretty Young Widow Leads
Rocbester N " Man m Crime

Rochester, N. z, Man to Crime.
Charged with the murder of his wife
and having made complete confession Of
his crime to the local police, William
Brasch of Rochester. n. Y, was arrested
in Cleveland. With Brasch there was
arrested Mrs. Mary Gilmore, with whom
he is alleged to have eloped. The body of
Brasch's wife was found in the canal at
Rochester and suspicion at once turned
to her husband, who disappeared. Brasch
confessed the murder to the local police,
the latter say, and told them that he
killed his wife because of love for the Gil
more woman. The latter is a cookbook
ing widow about % years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Tax Inquisition Stopped.

The Ohio Supreme Court has handed
down decisions anrulling the laws under
which the tax inquisitors have been APP
pointed in the various counties in Ohio.
Ii upheld the finding of the Montgomery
County Court, which held tie laws in
valid and reverses Hamilton county
courts, which held the laws valid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Believing that she had found a play
mate of her own age when she looked into
an eight-gallon jar of water and saw her
own reflection, the 2-year-old daughter Of
Frank Martin of Pemberville, Ohio, lean
ed over the can to reach the image, fell in
and was drowned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

A special from London says: By the ex-
pl0sion Of gun on the battleship Essex at
Plymouth one member of the crew was
killed and eight others were injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Attempts to Blow Up Forty Men.

The powder house at the Harris lime
quarry, Helena, Mont, was blown up
and forty men sleeping in brick house
near By had remarkable escape from
death. An insane man who is roaming
the country il believed to have commit
ted the deed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Three masked men entered the general
store Of Crull Bros, in which the post
Office il located in Osceola, Ind, stealing
stamps, cash and much booty, which was
hauled away in carriage. The villagers
were aroused by burglar alarm and six
residents fred twenty or more shots at
the robbers, wounding one of them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Tilted Lad Takes Two Lives and
r..~ n.-x-xs - D-~>~<-

Causes Destruction Of Property.
Jealousy put into the mind of Tilted
country boy a plot for revenge which cost
his own life and that Of his sweetheart
and made the girls parents, a prosperous
country couple, almost penniless, in the
pretty village of Amity, N. ]. Rose May
Cowley, 10 years old, Is dead. Cleveland
Longcore, p years old. her rejected sutton,
killed himself after taking her life. Henry
Cowley and his wife lost their house and
barns, with all their household goods,
stored crops and farming implements, by
fire which had been started by young
Longcore before he shot the girl.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Being very proud of his sound, white
teeth. Ralph Bednarsky of Shamokin,
Pa. used them to pull nail in order to
show how strong they were. The nail,
however, slipped down his throat, and it
is expected that he will die from internal
decorations.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Buy the American Magazine

The American Magazine, lorg known
as Leslie's Monthly, has been sold to the
Phillips Publishing Company, composed
of John 8. Phillips. Lincoln st ffens, Ray
stannard Baker, Ida NJ. Tarbell, G. A.
Boyden, Peter Finley Dunno and William
Allen White.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Held for Drowning his WIG,

The inquest in the case of William
Brasch, arrested at Cleveland, charged
with numbering his wife in Rochester, N.
Y, by pushing her into the Erie canal,
resulted in Brasch being held by the coro-
ner.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Three men were drowned in a vat Of
crude petroleum in the plant of Holmes,
Booth Il Hayden Co.. at Waterbury, Conn
They were each overcome in turn by the
fumes of the oil and fell unconscious into
the vat and were drowned The bodies
were recovered
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The body of John Hanlon, wealthy
famer Of Redwood, was found almost
nude in the river at Waterfowl, Wis An
almost empty wallet and a pair of shoes and
stockings were found on the river bank.
No clue. Relatives claim murder and
robbery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The measures adopted by Secretary
Arios at Panama to suppress the election
Disturbances restored complete tranquil
lity. The American marines did not
leave the canal zone. All is quiet
throughout the republic.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Caught in a Dough Mixer.

Allen Rutner, aged 20, of Tracy City,
Tenn, was ground to a pulp in dough
mixer in the New Orleans bakery at Chat
tanooga. Tenn He was feeding the mixer,
when bis hand caught and before assist
ance came his head and shoulders were
ground to pulp.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

to say in defense Of
the meat packing In
dustry and of Its
critics. In a word,
he denounced the at
tacks as scarGalous-
ly unfair and, with
reference TO the cor
poration of Armour
& Co., he said it had
spent an average of
100000 a year for
the last FIVE years in
the extension and
-,.o~o1 sr,n-.ouo-r1 ONT
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
sunday Bill Applies 70 Avn.

The rigid Sunday Observance bill now
before the Dominion parliament was the
subject of a lively session. The exemp-
ton clause respecting Jews, Adventists
and others who keep some other day as
their Sabbath was defeated.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Just as he crossed the tape at the end
of quarter-mile sprint in Westfeld,
Mass, William Harms of Chicopee high
school dropped dead. The death of the
youth furnished sad ending for the
annual inter-scholastic games of the
Westfeld and Chicopee high schools.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Fire destroyed the big plant of the A.
Hubbard Lumber Company at Oregan av-
enue and Gray street, Paterson, N. j., en-
failing loss of $4,000. Ten horses were
killed and two firemen seriously injure .
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
President win visit Panama

President Roosevelt will visit the 18th
mus of Panama in the fall and personally
inspect the progress of the work on the
canal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Burned to Death by Brother.

Dorothy Jordan, years old. was burn
ed to death when her twin brother. Dom
aid, set fire to her clothing in the yard at
their home in Yilmette, Ill. The twins
were trying to start a bonfire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Fire destroyed the Bozman company's
lumber yard and Bowen livery harm at
O'Neill, Neb- Twenty horses persisted.
Loss $S5 900; no insurance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
salvation Army Leader WEEDS.

Commander Booth-Tucker and Miss
Minnie Reid were married at the Saliva
ton Army's citadel, South Tottenham,
London. Gen. Booth oficiated. Only
relatives and high officers of the army
present.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Bombs Intended to Stay King and
Queen Of Italy Discovered.

Queen OF Italy Discovered.
The Italian police have discovered an
other attempt to assassinate the king and
queen during their trip from Rome to
Ancona- The police of the village OF Cas-
tel Ferretto, near Falconara, on the Adri-
atic sea, searched the house of Aurello
Landi, an anarchist, and in a hole in the
floor found three loaded bombs Landi's
home adjoined the railroad over which the
king and queen were to have passed in a
few hours Landi and two friends who,
1t is believed, were to have thrown the
bombs, and seven other confederates have
been arrested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Drydock Goes on Rampage

The United States drydock Dewey
broke adrift from her conveys, the Golfers
Glacier and Caesar, when approaching
Singapore, but anchored safely a few
hours later. The Glacier lost her bow
spirit in the collision.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Prison Term for Rebaters.

The first prison terms ever imposed in
the United States in railroad rebate
cases have been passed upon two men in
the Kansas City prosecutions. Packing
companies and the Burlington railroad
were fined.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Youths Lee Made Loncer.

]. Walter Wilde of Philadelphia, who
had his leg rebroken and made longer so
he could enter West Point. has recovered
The operation was successful.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Negroes Mistaken for Ashes.

Mistaken for an ash heap by the engi-
over by a Missouri, Kansas and Texas
south-bound train at Welch, Ind. T., near
the Kansas line. and ground to pieces.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Dynamiters at Alaska, Ind, blew up
the drug store of Grant Phan, who re-
Gently pleaded guilty to selling intoxi-
cants. The building was wrecked and the
stock of goods was scattered for dis
lance of two blocks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Chicago High School Graduate.

Chicago high school graduates this
year aggregate 1,169, decrease of eighty,
as compared with 1900. Statistics show
the high schools are at standstill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Appropriations by the present Congress
far exceed those of any previous year,
and probably will total nearly $1,000
100000 for the present session.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Badrers Are for Bryan.

The Wisconsin Democratic convention
Endorsed w. j. Bryan for the presidency
in 1908 and declared for city ownership
Of utilities and other reforms.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Alleged Counterfeiter and Compan-
ion Are Picked Up in Utah.

ION Are Tlckeu Up III Utau-
While attempting, it is alleged, to pass
a counterfeit bank bin at the town Of
Murray, Utah, two strangers who gave
their names as Edward Honk and Thomas
Rowlcy, were arrested by deputy sheriff
ana are held on the charge of attempting
to pass counterfeit money. In the shoes
Of one man and the necktie of tie other
$1,000 in FIVE and ten-dollar bills, pur-
porting to have been issued by the Mer-
chants and Planters bank of Savannah,
Ca, were found.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
would Embrace All Reformers,

The national committee of the Peoples
party Endorsed the movement to concen-
trate reform organizations of the country
a. an integral part Of the party.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

james Mitchell, Veteran Editor, Dead.
James Mitchell, former educator, later
editor and political leader, and still more
recently street character of Fort Wayne,
Ind, died at Hope hospital in that city
from complication of stomach and liver
troubles. He had been i'll for several
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The girls dormitory of the Knox county
industrial school, situated just beyond the
city limits of Knoxville, Tenn, was totally
destroyed by fire. Fifty-eight girls, Sleep
ing in the building, escaped without injury.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

! New York.

sections restored prospects
Of bountiful harvests, and the business
of the nation has maintained volume
that is exceptionally heavy fof me sea-
son. Some evidences Of eonservatism
regarding production beyond assured
demands arc noted, but in mauy Of the
leading industries contracts have been
placed for the entire output during the
balance of the year, while steel mills
are booked we'll into 1907. Que Of the
best features Of the week was the set
Element Of coal mining troubles ia Ohio.
concessions being made by both con-
testants that resulted in resumption Of
work by $4,000 miners.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Thomas Walsh, a union man, was Ia
tally shot in clash between union and
non-union structural iron workers 1t
Pittsburg.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Clifford Brightmier, years old, acct
dentally shot and killed his 3-year-old
brother in Kansas City while playing
with their fathers revolver.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
ARMouR SPEAKS OUT.

Chicago Packer Refers to Current
Criticism Untustffiable.
j. Ogden Armour, who arrived in New
York Tuesday with his wife and daugh-
ter after a season in Europe. had much
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05


Congress passed many laws of benefit
to nation and made record for words.
Secretary Root turned down reformers
liz making appointment of consul general
to Congo Free State.
Senator Tillman charges Standard Oil
influence in changing common carrier
clause in rate bill.
President Roosevelt wants everybody in
the United States to understand that the
food at the White House is plain but
wholesome, nothing more. He read in q
Washington paper story about the elab-
crate menus declared to be in order three
times day at the White House. Straight
way he sent for reporter of this paper
and made a strong denial that he and his
family had anything to eat so much bet
ter than the average American family.
"Why, for LUNCH" he declared, 81 some
times have only bowl of milk and a
hunk OF bread and the children get cold
roast beef"
Senate committee on the judiciary re-
ports that the Constitution does not per-
NIT federal regulation of insurance.
The Senate has passed the House bill
authorizing the city of st. Louis to con-
struct a bridge across the Mississippi
river.
Government has a scheme to irrigate
5000 acres of arid land in Southwestern
Kansas by series of pumps operated by
electricity.
Review of the work of Congress shows
remarkable series of victories for Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The Republicans are ex-
pected to make the reform legislation one
of the features of The fall campaign.
The Senate passed bill on the subject
of immunity for witnesses in criminal
cases against corporations, which the
House also passed, inserting an entire
new bill after the ,enacting clause. The
House bill follows the lines laid down BY
Attorney General Moody in the packers
case.
Senator Gallinger does not believe in
diverting the irrigation fund so as to util-
ize it for drainage purposes and said so
when Senator Mallory attempted to have
the Senate act on a resolution authoriz-
ing a survey of the Florida everglades,
with the end in view of determining the
practicability of draining them and con-
yerting them into farming lands.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Castro will resume the presidency of
Venezuela July =.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
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