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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
THE CANNED BEEF INDUSTRY.
Figures ON Exports show Trade I
Have Fallen OF.

Figures ON Exports Show Trade to
Have Fallen OF.
Detailed reports of the export business
in canned beef go to show how the ex-
port output of that product has been re-
duced since last spring. In August
the exports were down to 659, 12I pounds,
against 5,04S,5S3 pounds same month last
year. For September the exports increas-
ed to 1,644,S13 pounds. against 1885. 1872
pounds for September last year. The fig
ures for September still show business
only AZ per cent of that done at the same
time last year, but August business was
only about 13 per cent of the volume of
business done the same month last year.
For nine months of this year total Of
81, 161,71S pounds of canned beef has
been sent out, against 52.577, 4S4 the same
time last year. and the value of this
stands $3,042, 1872, against $5,135,5O1
worth of canned beef sold the same time
last year. For the nine months of the
fiscal year ending with March, 1906. total
exports of canned beef were 52.600,S13
pounds, valued at So .267, 013, against A.
675,059 pounds, valued at $4,Si0,15T for
exports the same period ending with
March, 1905.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

A daring robbery was committed in
the center of st. Petersburg by which
a number of highwaymen got away
with $193, 900 from a wagon which was
conveying the cash from the customs
department to the State treasury. Two
bombs were thrown in quick success
sion at the vehicle as it was passing
a corner near the Ekaterinsk canal,
close to branch of the treasury, after
which rush was made for the wagon
by number Of armed men, who, after
exchanging aot fire with the gend-
armes escorting it, managed to secure
the booty and fed across a small foot
bridge spanning the Ekaterinsk canal,
but leaving five of their number in
the hands of the police. Many by
ISLANDERS sustained slight injuries as q
result of the explosions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
FIND LOST GOLD MINE.
MICHIGAN MEN REDISCoVER
RICH WORKINGS.
Treasure that Has Been Told of for
Years Is ON Douglas Island Near
Juneau, Alaska-Shot by Noe
turnaI pepper.

Alaska's legendary gold mine. Lost
Rocker, with its old cabin, old rocker and
grirsstone, unknown to any human being
since 1866, when it was lost to record by
the accidental death of an Indian trapper,
has been rediscovered by Crate Campbell
and George +. Scott, Musgekon, Mich,
Adventures, who left there for Alaskan
fields two-score years ago. They had
grown white haired in their search for
the treasure and only through losing their
bearings and after suffering at deaths
door from cold and starvation did they
stumble upon Lost Rocker. The mine is
located on Douglas island, near Juneau.
The find has been staked out and claimed
By the Muskegon men and is expected to
net them millions. Its gold when the
mine was first discovered was the purest
known and the name of Lost Rocker has
been a coveted household word with gold
hunters ever since. Relatives had given
the two men up for dead.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
CHURCHES MAY RUN DANCES.
Devised In Omaha as Means of
Combating Vice.

A proposition is under way in Omaha
by several of the churches, by which they
hope to provide four halls in which to
aold dances for the young people who now
| frequent the public dance halls of the
city. 1t is planned to hold these dances
twice a week and to have in attendance
each night one OF the church women, who
will be interested ia this work for the
Young people. Rev. Il. ii. Bell is at the
head of the plan.
With a party of newspaper people, and
under the protecting wing of two city de-
tectives. Rev. Mr.. Bell visited the dance
halls of Omaha and remained until late
hour to study the conditions under which
many young people take their Saturday
night amusement. After these visits one
Of the detectives inquired:
What are you going to do? They've
got to have some amusement, these young
folks. Many of the girls have no homes
where they care to invite their company
and there is no place for them but the
dance halls and the parks and the thea
tiers. Why don't the churches get to-
gether on this question and provide some
wholesome amusement for these young
people?"
"We are planning to do this" said Mr..
Bell. 1--WE hope to establish at least four
halls in Omaha, where young people may
go to dance decently and in order. Dane
ing is a natural amusement for young
people and / am heartily in favor of it.
But the romping and hugging which |
have seen tonight is not dancing. 1t We
establish our dance halls, as we hope to
do, we will have ladies in charge of the
halls who will look after the young people
and see that everything is conducted de-
Gently and in order We recognize the
fact that they must have proper recrea-
ton and that we must provide something
better in the place of these dance halls.
We hope to lay this matter before the
Omaha Womens Club and have their CO.
operation in the matter"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
CHANGES IN CABINET.
GENERAL SHIFT IN PRESIDENTS
FAMILY PLANNED.
Oscar s. Strauss and George Won l..
Meyer VIII Take Office When
Shnw and Moody step Out-Per-
soHnel of Recognized Body.

President Roosevelt announced Tues
lay night the reorganization of his
cabinet made necessary by the retire
nent of Attorney General Moody Jan.
and the retirement of Secretary Shaw
Of the Treasury Department March 4.
The two new cabinet ministers will be
George V. l.. Meyer, now ambassador
10 Russia, as postmaster general and
Oscar S. Straus of New York as secre-
tary of Commerce and labor. Messrs.
Cortelyou, BoIaparte and Metcalf will
have new portfolios.
The rorganized cabinet will be as
follows:
Secretary of State-Elihu Root of New
York.
Secretary of the Treasury-George B.
Cortelyou of New York.
Secretary of War-William III. Taft OF
Ohio.
Attorney General-Charles ]. Bona.
parte of Maryland.
Postmaster General-George Won l.
Meyer of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Navy-Victor II. Met:
calf of California.
Secretary of the Interior-Ethan Allen
Hitchcock Of Missouri.
Secretary of observation-disclosures Will.
son of Iowa
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Oscar Solomon Straus of New York.
Mr.. Straus is well-known New
York merchant who was formerly a
Democrat, but left the party on the
free silver question, and has been a
Republican since. He was minister to
Turkey under Cleveland's second ad-
ministration and was reappointed by
Mckinley. Mr.. Straus is a Jew, and
his appointment is remarkable from
the fact that he is the first Jew to be
a member of the cabinet of the United
States.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
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 Com lete.
TRAIN PLUNGEs OVER BRIDGE.
Passengers Caught Like Rats In q Trap
and Drowned.

By the wrecking of a three-coach
electric train on the West Jersey &
Seashore railroad near Atlantic City,
N j., at least fifty passengers per-
ished and the list may reach the total
Of seventy-five when all is known.
While crossing over a drawbridge
spanning the water way known as
The Thoroughfare," which separates
Atlantic City from the mainland, the
train left the track and plunged into
water. Passengers in the first two
coaches, with one or two exceptions,
we're drowned. Twenty-Five bodies have
been recovered and it is believed that
at least twenty-five and possibly fifty
more bodies still are in the submerged
coaches. The disaster is the worst
that has happened since the terrible
Meadows wreck of July 80, 1896. The
accident was due to rail turning
In
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

against the Rialto
Grain and Securities Company, a get
rich-quick concern which fourished in
Missouri few years ago.
When Burton, at that time a United
States Senator from Kansas, was con-
victed of the crime of using his official
station to make money unlawfully, it was
said that he would never be punished for
his offense. He himself believed it would
be possible to obtain immunity for his
acts and that the humiliation and discom-
fort of serving a term in prison would
not be his. Immediately after his con-
viction an appeal was made to the higher
courts and it went as far as the United
States Supreme Court. 1t had the effect
of delaying his punishment, but the Su-
preme Court denied his petition for a re-
hearing in the case. and the ex-senator
has begun his term in the little prison.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Edward WaddelI of Fort Wayne, In
fit of jealous rage. shot his wife. infict-
ing probably fatal wound in the left
breast.
The Rev. Dr. Donald Morrison told the
Indiana synod Of the Presbyterian church
il cost $500 to convert sinner in In
dianapolis.
Gov. Hanly turned the first shovelful OF
earth for the beginning of work on Madi-.
sons new $2.000.000 State hospital FOR
insane. He spoke to an immense audi
enc in the opera house.
A runaway traction car on the Indiana
Northern line crashed into a moving
freight train on the Pere Marquette rail-
way near Michigan City. The twenty
five passengers were shaken up. but none
was badly injured.
Fire of unknown origin wiped out the
business section of Monroe City The
loss is estimated at $4,000. with but
$1,000 Insurance.
George Followed of Terre Haute- aged
"A. who procured divorce from his sec
ond wife two days ago. has married Mrs
Ada Smith. aged 81. This is Mrs. Smiths
third matrimonial venture.
A large bull attacked a car filed with
passengers on the Evansville and Prince
ton traction line. and after being driven
off the track twice attacked the car a
third time. The smotorman met the ami
NAL with all power on and the jolt near
'ly deraied the car. The bull was killed.
Mrs. Robert Arrol died in Anderson.
making the third death in one family
from eating toadstools by mistake for
mushrooms
Two men were killed and three injured
when forty horsepower boiler at Frank
Gosnell's sawmili. fifteen miles southwest
of vincennes, exploded. The dead men
were hurled 100 feet by the explosion.
The mill was totally wrecked.
Mrs. James Odell. who lives near Bur-
nettsville, was attacked by a white man,
who escaped. Her condition Is critical.
The man Appealed to Mrs. Odell for food.
When she admitted him he beat her into
insensibiIity. She was alone except fog
. 3-year-old child
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Mrs. Alice Earl Stuart supports
New Project at Lafayette.
Backed by the moral and financial sup
port of Mrs. Alice Earl Stuart, one OF
Indiana's wealthiest and most philan-
thropic women, a free Industrial school
for young men and women who are either
employed during the day or are not able
to attend college, has been established in
Lafayette in comfortable and commodious
quarters. and the school is expected to be
a great success this winter. Ii is the
intention to extend the work year after
year until the erection of handsome
building for the use of the school is pos
sible. Mrs. Jessie Afatlock is the super
intendent of the school; Miss Matthews OF
Cambridge City. teacher of drafting and
sewing; Miss Green. cooking In this de-
partment the speciality will be the train
ing of cooks for domestic work.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Trade is unprecedented
ly active for the season.
Do%a;1 x,l
| New York.

nou ilhs ACTIVE III the season
Retail trade has broaden
ed out, with consequent increase of the
recorder demand from jobbers. and
there is rather more doing on spring
account. Higher prices for cotton have
helped Southern trade. inducing freer
marketing and enlarging country trade
and collections. Good reports also
come from the central West and At
lantic coast points, where weather con-
ditions have improved. Something
like an unfavorable cross current is
visible in the Northwest, where car
congestion and overfowing country ele-
vators are complained of as affecting
marketing Of wheat. The grain trade
generally also complains Of the car
congestion causing losses, owing to ex.
port business being delayed. This
weeks reports of grain shipments, how
ever, show large exports of both -four
of grain handlers curtail shipments
from some Pacific ports. Reports Of
labor scarcity are still weIl-nigh uni
versal. and the movement of the cotton
crop, the shipments of lumber. the out
puts Of coal, and the deliveries of va
rious mills are still restricted from
this cause or by reason of inadequate
car supply. Voluntary wage increases
are reported in numerous lines. but ag-
itations for higher compensation are
numerous among railway employees
Bradstreets Commercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Trainmen's Union Serves Notice for
Switchmen on Nearly All Roads.

Trainmen's Union Serves Notice for
Switchmen on Nearly All Roads.
A demand for an eight-hour day for
switchmen, without any reduction in the
present scale of wages, was filed the 9TH
er day with the general managers of prac-
tically all the railroads of the country
by committees representing the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen. Attached
to the demand was a request for confer
ences within ten days. At the same time
that notices were being served on the
managers of the roads entering Chicago
similar action was being taken by COM
mittees in Pittsburg, Kansas City, Oma-
ha, Council Bluffs, st. Louis, East st.
Louis, Denver and Pueblo. Negotiations
already are in progress with the railroads
on the Pacific coast, and the men in Oak
land and San Francisco are being paid
premium of II per cent over the regular
scale. The men in Cleveland and Cincin-
natl have not completed their vote on the
proposition, but it is expected to be ready
for presentation within a week.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

The throng of spectators at the Long
champs course near Paris, last Sunday,
was thrown into a panic by a riot in the
betting ring, which eliminated in the
burning OF the booths and the cslling out
of soldiers and iremen to save property
and restore order. The rioters retreated
when the soldiers arrived, bat much dam
age had already been done The disturb
ance was brought about by bad start
in the free handicap which left the favor
lite and three other horses at the post
and enabled an outsider to win the race.
The government next day took cognizance
of the riot by announcing that there
would be no more racing this season.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

The Loss ON Buildings and stock
Amount to $4,000.

The Loss ON Buildings and stocks
Amount to 100000.
Fire broke out in the Hendricks block
in Brazil and caused $4,000 loss to
the building and the stocks of the various
firms occupying rooms The total insur-
ance is about $1,000. The Hoffman hotel
suffered loss of 500; o. III. Horner.
druggist, $1,000; King Bros furniture
store. $1,000; L. Hyman. clothing and
furnishing store. 5000: A. Il. Lemon,
jewelry. 500. The fire originated in Hs-
mans store. 1t is supposed that electric
light wires started the fire. While the
driver of the hose wagon was helping TO
unwind the hose, the horses became flight
ened at the crash of large glass window
and ran away, running four miles before
they were stopped. The hose broke and
part of it was attached to the runaway
hose reel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
FIX PRICE OF FARM PRODUCTS.
Scale Is Arranged by the American
Society of EQUITY.


The national convention of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity in East st. Louis,
ILL.,, fixed prices on farm products as fol-
lows: Wheat, No. 1 northern or No.
red, 81. Corn, to the end of this year,
II cents: from Jan. / to April I, 90
cents; after April / and until prices are
again fixed, % cents. Oats, 40 cents.
Barley. No. 2, 30 cents. Rye, 90 cents.
Buckwheat, 20 cents. Potatoes, Irish, Go
cents; sweet. S5 cents. Beans, navy,
$1.J0; red, 81. Cotton, II cents. Wool.
30 cents. Hogs, $3.50. Cattle, So.
Sheep. $3.50. Hay. $14. Broom corn,
$40 to 500. The following officers were
elected: President, ]. A. Everett. Indian
apolis; vice president, J. b. Whiting, In
terlaken, ". Y; secretary, ]. w. Tubbs,
Indianapolis; treasurer, John p. STEELE,
indianapolis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
suureme Court Contempt Canes.

The answer of Sheriff Ship CT Hamil-
ton county, Tenn, and nine deputies, TO
the charge of contempt made by the SUI
preme Court in connection with the lynch
ing of negro named Ed Johnson at
Chattanooga last March after Johnson
appeal had been granted by the highest
court, was filed at Washington, by ex-
Attorney General Harmon. The answer
contends that the negro's case was not
appeaiable, but that in any case the
sheriff and his deputies did their best to
prevent the lynching.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
COLORADO RIVER TURNED BACK
Southern Pacific Engineers Save
$25, 900, 900 Worth of Property.

After months of work and the experdi-
ture of an enormous sum the Southern
Pacific has won its fight against the
Colorado river near Imperial. Cal. The
other day it turned back to its channel
leading TO the Gulf of California the
first water of the river that has flowed
there for two years. BY this great
achievement $25.OO0,OOO worth of prop
erty and the homes of 10000 people are
rescued from threatened inundation.
Salton sea. which has been created dur
ing the two years that the river has
been pouring into the desert bosom. will
now dry up. The engineers have built a
concrete dam or gate. supplemented by a
rock and gravel dam. across the break.
The present expense is $1,000 day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
The course of business
CHICAGO.

UnlCd0O. maintains steady adj
-1 vance, and notwithstand.
mig high bank rate, demands on pro-
duction project farther into the fu-
ture. With plants behind on orders
in important lines and contemplated
additions to capacity, it is clear that
consumption has attained unprecedent-
ed force and the general trade outlook
can be regarded as encouraging
Distributive dealings again have ex-
banded. More buyers appear in the
jobbing trades for staples and holiday
goods, while the seasonable weather
helps materially in reducing retail
stocks in both city and country. A
tendency toward increased cost Of sup
plies enters into manufacturing opera
tions, but the main conditions reflect
strength, and the need of additional
force is more evident in the iron work.
ing branches. Buying of raw materials
continues very heavy, with prices firm
at the highest level and slightly high.
er than a week ago for iron ore, crude
steel and domestic hides.
Disappointing receipts of lumber for
two weeks add to difficulty in obtain.
ing adequate requirements. and smaller
arrivals of live stock interfere with
packing. With these exceptions the
movement of commodities remains OF
enormous aggregate. being to larger
extent than usual made up of heavy
factory outputs and general merchan
disc. There is increasing complaint OF
slow deliveries by rail- yet mercantile
collections are reasonably prompt and
no serious defaults appear to disturb
the confidence Of sellers.
Current commitments in the manu-
featuring divisions, owing to the
crowded condition of bookings, have tt
be mostly entered for execution durins
the coming year. Further demand Ii
noted upon rail mill capacity, but the
greatest pressure is upon the furnaces
plate mills shipyards and car shops
Much of the volume of future work
will add TO transportation facilities
but there also is great deal for new
buildings, power. machinery and agri
cultural uses. Other lines of activity
make an exceptional showing in wood
working, furniture, footwear and heavy
hardware, but in most of these the
raw material is not readily obtained
and cost involves close figuring.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 81, against 26 last weel
and % year ago.-Dunn's Review OF
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Victory for Eight-Hour Law.

The first test case in Ohio of the fed
eral eight-hour day lawtended in a vic
tory for the government IN Cincinnati.
After being out fifteen minutes the jury
i'm the United States court found the
Sheridan Kirk Contracting Company
guilty of having violated the law in the
construction of the big Ohio river dam at
Fernbank.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
washington On Race Riots.

In his address at the closing of the
National Afro-American council at New
York, Booker L. Washington spoke of the
critical condition of the race problem
in the South since the riots at Atlanta.
He condemned strongly violence as a re-
prisal of violence. He declared that the
negro race must stand together in defense
Of its rights, and urged the Importance
Of the northern negro making the best
possible sample of what the race could
attain to. He pleaded for equal privi-
leges, and insisted that if arms we're per-
mitted to be used by one race like priv
ilege should be conceded to tn othr.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Accuse Couple in Murder.

ID. NJ. Twemley and wife, occupants of
a houseboat, were arrested at Fort Smith.
Ark, charged with being implicated in
the killing Of the man found tied in a
cotton sack at Pawpaw, 1. L. Twemley
has made confession duplicating an
other man, but denying that he had any
hand in the murder except being present.
The man accused now resides at Eufala.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
AMERICAN MISSIONARY ANNUAL
Treasurer Shows Debt Has Been Re-
duced $21, 341 the Past Year.

The sixtieth annual meeting of the
American Missionary Association began
in Oberlin. Ohio. Tuesday. The treas
urer. n. w. Hubbard of New York, re-
ported that the total receipts for the year
had been S423.627: that the debt had been
reduced during the year from $S9,254 to
S67,912; that the income of the Daniel
Hand educational funds for colored peo-
pie had been Stab; that the reserve
legacy account for current work of 1906
o. will be $65,732, and for 1907-OS. will
be $3S,672, a total reserve legacy fund OF
$1O4, 405. Receipts for current work
have been S423.626, and the expenditures
have been $402, 2S5, credit balance on
the year of S21,341. This amount has
been applied to the reduction of the old
debt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Luther Means, aged SO years, the small
est man in Ohio, is dead in Ashland.
Means, whose height was 30 inches, had
an abnormally large head. Eight years
ago Means married Miss Leolla Mansfield
of Burlington, Ohio. Mrs. Means is 4S
inches in height. The day they were
married their weights were exactly the
same, 113 pounds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

The statement made by Secretary OF
War Taft on the eve of his departure
from Cuba that he would put all the
arms surrendered by the insurgents where
they would do no further harm was veri-
fed when a company of the Cuban ar
tillery spent the afternoon throwing
these weapons into the sea from the outer
bastion of Moro Castle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
Great Church Dedicated.

The new st. Paul Roman Catholic ca
thedral, representing cost of $780,
600 and over three years labor. was dedi-
Gated in Pittsburg by Monsignore Do
mede Falconio. papal delegate to America.
assisted by Cardinal James Gibbons of
Baltimore, Archbishop Farley of New
York, Ryan of Philadelphia and score
of other high dignitaries.