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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Committed Suicide.

c. c. Browand, who failed to re-
ceive the appointment as postmaster
of Kendallville, committed suicide at
o'clock Wednesday morning by
hanging himself in his barn. He had
ben respondent ever since Alexander
received the appointment in his stead.
At Browand's request ten republi-
can politicians of Kendalville went to
Washington some time last winter
ostensibly in the interests of his can
didacy. Since Alexsnder's appoint
ment, Browand has believed that in
stead of trying to get the appointment
for him, they worked in the interest
of his rival. He has been brooding
over this supposed betrayal and the
disappointment over his failure to get
the Office and it is believed that his
mind became unbalanced. Browand
leaves a wife and four children. He
was about IS years of age and was
an old soldier.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

The best planks in the platform
are the two on the custody of public
funds and on private banks. They
speak to the point, without any of
that circumlocution 10 conceal
thought which is so often deemed
necessary by platform writers. And
the topics mentioned probably touch
the coming campaign at two OF its
most vital points. 1t il needless for
The Star at this time to refterate
what it has long maintained about
these two pressing reforms. This
paper was the pioneer in the cam
paign for reform of the custody of
public funds.
The profit from the use of these ac-
cumulations justly belong to the peo-
pie, if anywhere, These funds are
the peoples. and officials who handle
item are elected not to make money
olt of them, but to care for them
safely and account for them accurate
ly. The custom that has grown up is
nothing more. or less than an init
mate part of a system under which
the public service has been viewed
as merely opportunity for making
private profits at public expense.
The Republican party is in admir-
able position to lead the fight on this
matter, for a Republican Governor
and Republican papers have been
foremost in its advocacy and the ex-
pert report on which the platforms
recommendations are based was made
by and under Republican auspices.
The acts of the last legislature also
put the party in correct attitude
toward the examination of private
banks, which is declared for. Upon
such measures of practical reform as
these the campaign IL likely to be
waged, and it will be much better
SO than to have it degenerate into a
mere bandying of cheap and indis-
eliminate charges of graft and cor
ruption.-Indianapolis Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Death of Judge Andrew.

Judge William P. Andrew the old
est member of the Laporte county
bar, was found dead in bed at his
home in Laporte Friday morning. He
was born in Hamilton, Ohio and was
in his 9th year. He studied law with
the celebrated Bellamy Storer, of
Cincinnati, was a graduate of Tran
sylvania University, Lexington, KY,
was ordained as a minister of the
Christian church and preached and
practiced law until he was elected
Judge of the Laporte circuit court in
1876. He taught the first law classes
in the Laporte University, and having
also completed course in medicine
he began the practice of medicine,
and also taught medical classes. He
praciced the three professions at the
same time, though his labors in the
law predominated. He was a resi-
dent of Laporte over 20 years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

The Lake Erie Railway company is
making an effort to cut down the run
ming time on the line The Michi-
gan City excursions which in years
past have run on six-hour schedule
between Indianapolis and Michigan
City, will be run in FIVE hours and
35 minutes. The return from Mich
igan City is made in the same time.
The engineering and operating de-
partments have been working hand in
hand to accomplish speed results.
The road bed has been put in con-
dition up to the standard set by the
New York central lines. The oper-
ating department has been assured
of the early receipt of ten new pas
senger engines of heavy nigh speed
type, 25 new coaches and six baggage
cars, which will be put in service at
once. Bridges and culverts have been
renewed and much new track IS under
way.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

Yeijiro Ono, superintendent of ag-
encies of the Bank Of Japan. who was
in Chicago last Sunday. is of the
opinion that our paper currency sys-
ITEM is cumbersome and not sufficient
Iy elastic to meet the needs of COM
mercial nation. He is reported a.
saying that our national banning sys-
ITEM is such that it is impossible for
the government to control properly
the volume of the currency"
Mr.. Ono states the familiar fact
that the japanese sytem was original
ly copied from ours and adds: I'VE
had 153 national banks at one time,
but we found that such a system was
neutrality-suspicious. we needed
more centralized system-so in 1882
the government founded the Bank of
japan and two years later abolished
the national banks Ten years ~ere
allowed, however, for the retirement,
|of the national bank notes. In 1895
private banks were sanctioned and we
now have in the country about 1900
private banks BESIDES the Bank of
Yokohama. We now have perfect
ly elastic currency which can be ex-
banded and contracted to suit the f.
nancial and commercial needs of the
country"
If Japan really has a miraculous
paper currency like that, Mr.. Ono
would confer favor on the United
States by explaining the system and
describing its workings. He would,
perhaps, fully repay what Japan owes
us for number of things we have
from time to time given to Japan
if she can owe US for what we have
freely given. But in the interview
from which the foregoing is quoted
he explains nothing Chicago chron-
icle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Automatic by Habit.

A most singular instance of the
perfect working of the subconscious
or automatic nervous system has just
been brought to light in the case of
a train dispatcher in Wyoming. He
has for weeks been subject to wild
vagaries of a disorder-d mind-in
fact, insane, yet he has performed
the duties of his position, controlling
the movements of trains involving
millions of property and thousands of
lives, with absolute accuracy. Crazy
on every other subject, he has SEEM
ed perfectly sane in handling trains.
Psychologists would say that the
higher centers of the brain did not
function at all in connection with his
work, but that it was simply the reac-
ton of ganglia made automatic by
habit.--South Bend Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Indiana Deaths in April.

The Bulletin of the State Board oil
Health presents the following review
of disease and mortality in the state
in April. Tonsilitis was reported as
the most prevalent disease. Then in
turn follow rheumatism, pneumonia,
bronchitis, influenza, scarlet fever.
whooping cough, intermittent fever
and remittent fever, measles, pleuri-
tbs, diarrhoea typhoid fever (enteric),
erysipelas, diptheria and mcmbran-
Gus Group, inflammation of the bow
els, cerebro-spinal meningitis, typho-
malaria fever, smallpox, cholera NOR
bus, puerperal fever, dysentery, chol-
era infantum. In the preceding month
tonsilitis was reported as the most
prevalent disease and pneumonia was
second. In the corresponding month
last year rheumatism was reported
as the most prevalent malady and in
fluenza second. Smallpox epidemics
occurred in Adams county, Is cases;
Allen County, 30 cases; Miami, IL
cases. Eleven counties reported the
disease present with no deaths. In
the corresponding monht last year,
Isl cases were reported in Is coun-
ties with A deaths.
The deaths during the month were
2976, rate 1a.a. In the corresponding
month last year, 26sS, rate, 12.l. The
cities report a death rate of 1879
which is 81 higher than the average
for the whole state The country re-
ports a death rate of 11.s which is
Ia lower than the average for the
whole state.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
CONTRACTS FOR BOOKS.
Indiana Company Loses Profitable
and Long Standing Business.

Contracts for school books to be
furnished for use in the public schools
of Indiana for the next FIVE years
have been let by the state board of
education, as follows:
Physiologies, to Silver, Burdette &
Co., Chicago. the price for the ad-
vanced books to be so cents and for
the primary books 80 cents; gram.
mars, to Benjamin K. Sandborn &
Co., Chicago, the Scott-Southworth
book being chosen, at the retail price
of rs cents and the exchange price
of II cents; histories, to CHM & Co.,
for the Montgomery book at the re-
tail price of IS cents; spelling books,
to Longmans, Green & Co., for the
book by Miss Georgia Alexander,
supervising principal of school No.
AS, indianapolis; the retail price of
the book to be 10 cents and the ex-
change price cents.
The contract for furnishing physi-
ologies has for years been held by
the Indiana School Book company,
and it was charged before the board
by representative of ]. B. Lippin-
colt & Co., of Philadelphia, that the
same physiology that is now in use
in Indiana has been furnished to the
schools of Tennessee at lower price
than is now paid in Indiana. 1t was
also charged that the Indiana School
Book company was connected with
the American Book company, but
Edward Hawkins, manager of the In
diana School Book company, made
denials of these statements.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

Everybody knows chat the yellow
press is capable of anything that is
brutal and vulgar and that it stands
ready to desecrate the family, the
church, religion and the courts of
heaven itself for the purpose of Sc
curing one morbid and sensational
paragraph. This is well known and
yet it gives people sort of shock
to read in one of these newspapers
a recent alleged dispatch from Rome
with reference to the personality of
Jesus Christ.
The dispatch comes by way of Ber-
lin and announces the discovery in
the library of the Lazarist fathers in
Rome of an alleged letter written by
Publius Lentulus, an officer of Pom
titus Pilates court to the Roman en-
peror concerning Jesus Christ, who
it is said. was then just beginning
his ministry in Judea-
This letter bears internal evidence
of having been composed by the
night police reporter or the horse
editor of the yellow journal. After
few tolerably dignihed and ration
al references it proceeds to remark
that Jesus was well up in every
branch of knowledge" and that his
mother is the best looking woman
ever seen in these parts" To be
we'll rounded out it should have gone
on to say that he was too fly" to be
trapped by the Pharisees, that every
thing he said was ION the square
and up to date" and that Plate was
"all in" as soon as he laid eyes on
him.
We call attention to this pulica-
ton not as a piece of news but as in
dicating the low-water mark of yell
low journalism. We have ali been &C
customed to see it burrowing in filthy
scandal. patronizing murder and as
sassination, melting instruction, in
viting anarchy, invading the home,
corrupting childhood and reveiing in
| fictitious horrors and lying sensa-
tons.
These things are low enough ap-
parently to suit the most degraded
nature, but it seems that it has found
lower depth. 1t is not satisfied I'M
til the clergymen are subsidized, the
sacred precincts of the church in
vaded and the Deity travestied and
insulted Whoever dreampt that it
would condescend to a fake cable
gram, written in slang about Jesus
| Christ?-Chicago Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
EVANS HAS GREAT FLEET.
Greatest Fighting Squadron in World
To Be Assembled

Within 80 days the Atlantic fleet OF
warships under command of Rear.
Admiral Evans, will exceed the fight
ing strength of any two fleets in the
world.
The first class battleships Rhode
Island and Virginia, recently placed
in commission, will be turned over to
Fighting Bob" in few days, and
early next week the two biggest bat
tleships ever constructed for the
American navy-the Connecticut and
the Louisiana-will be commissioned
and take their places in Admiral
Evans line.
The fighting strength will be aug
mented later in the season by the
commissioning of the battleships New
Jersey, sister of the Rhode Island
and the Virginia, and by the armored
cruisers Washington and Tennessee,
the last two named more than SOC
tons each bigger than the West Vir-
ginia.
The feet of Admiral Evans, aside
from the torpedo hotilla, auxiliaries
and 10 unprotected cruisers and gun
boats, will by summer include the
following vessels, the assembling of
which is unparalleled in American
naval records:
Battleships, first class-Connecticut
Louisville, Maine, Missouri, Kear-
sage, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Vir-
ginia, New Jersey, Alabama, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, and Massachusetts,,
representing $4,000 tons.
Armored cruisers-Tennessee, Col
orado, Washington, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Maryland-sa, 900
tons.
This, too, in excess of such fighting
craft as the Columbia, Minneapolis,
Cleveland, Denver, Des MONIES, New
port, Nashville, Dubuque, Paducah,
Don Juan de Austria, all of which are
attached to the Atlantic fleet
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Oglesbee Got First News.

The first news of the San Francis
co horror that reached the island of
Porto Rico was received by wireless
telegraph and the operator who took
the message was boy born in Ply
mouth, Harold Oglesbce, an electric
ian in the navy stationed at San Liam.
He reported the information to the
commandant, who declined to believe
it, thinking it was either an error or
joke. The message arrived on the
morning after the earthquake and in
the afternoon it was confirmed by
cable and was then made public in
the city of San Juan.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

The new laws passed by the last
Legislature to govern the cities and
towns of Indiana places the cities in
FIVE classes. Indianapolis is the only
one in the first class and in the sec
ond class there are but two cities,
Evansville and Fort Wayne In the
third class are Anderson, Muncie.
New Albany, South Bend and Terre
Haute. In the fourth class there are
now eleven cities as follows: Elkhart,
Elwood, Hammond. Jacksonville.
kokomo, Lafayette. Logansport.
Marion, Michigan City, Richmond
and Vincennes There are seventy
one cities in the fifth class. All cities
less than ten thousand people are in
the fifth class.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

00tCluot 4&ttlNOu , Ifkul 10 TIC
governorship of Ohio is likely to be
settled by the action Of the attorneys
of William T. Spaeth, formerly of La
Porte, arrested at Cleveland and
brought to Colurlbus on a charge of
alleged completely in the robbery of
the Forepaugh-Sells circus of $780,
900 at rarboro, N. c., for the attor-
neys for Spaeth are insisting on a
hearing of the extradition warrant
by Governor Pattison in person. The
attorneys refused to consent to a
hearing before a clerk in the COVER
nor's Office. Spasth was released ON
$1,000 bond pending the result of the
extradition proceedings.
Since his Inauguration Governor
Pattison has been seriously i'll and
the claim has been made that he is
not physically fit to conduct the az
fairs of his Office This point prob
ably will be settled by his action in
the Spaeth case.-Laporte H .fald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
RATE BILL PASSED.
Bill to Control Railroads Gets Al
most Unanimous Vote.

The railroad rate bill was passed
by the Senate at 1850 o'clock Friday
afternoon by vote of II to 3. Sen
ator Foraker, Republican, of Ohio
and Senators Morgan and Pettus
Democrats, of Alabama, cast the neg
alive votes. Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island, leader of the Republican con-
sentative forces, was the only notable
absentee when the roll was called and
his pair, Senator Teller, announced
for him that had he been present he
would have voted for the bill
AS the sentiment was unanimous
aside from the three exceptions not
ed, none of the general pairs pre-
vented any senator present from reg
istering his will on a measure that
has had scarcely a parallel in impor-
lance since war time, not excepting
tariff bills and financial legislation.
Much of the bitterness that has
characterized the last days of the not
able debate disappeared as the hour
for calling the final roll drew near,
and at the very close of the seventy
days contest there was presented the
anomaly of Senator Tillman taking
the floor to declare that whatever
success comes of the measure now on
the threshold of becoming a part of
the law of the land will be due large
ly to Theodore Roosevelt Senator
Dolliver and others also spoke in
praise OF the President
Mr.. Tillman, who in all probability
would decline to shake the hand of
the President of the United States
if they met upon the street, who has
refused and probably will continue
to refuse to set foot inside the White
House as long as the present admin
istration endures, declared a, the mo-
ment of action that he did not want
to lay down the Responsibility that
had come to him when the bill was
thrust into his hands7and he was
a:ade the leader in charge of it with
out saying that had it not been for
President Roosevelt ipdefatigable
work in and out of season theye|
would have been no rate legislation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

+. l.. Williams, secretary to Rep.
resentative Overstreet, has discovered
in runmaging through lot of old
Gov erEnent records "a time-stained
volrm which is of great interest to
lndianians as it gives the receipts oil
all Indiana postal affairs at that early
date. That was before there was
such city as Chicago; at least the
same volume, which deals also with
postal affairs in all of the then exist
ing States, contains no mention of a
postoffice at Chicago.
In that year there were 135 post
Offices in Indiana. Their total re-
ceipts were s5.67o.s6. The receipts
of the Indianapolis postoffice for the
entire year were $37236. Ansidea of
the growth of postal receipts in In
dianapolis may be obtained by COM
parison with the recent reports. The
receipts of the Indianapolis postoffice
for the single month of April, 1906,
were s75,500.09, or over twelve times
as much as the receipts of all of the
pdstofices in Indiana for the entire
year of 1927.
1t is interesting to note that the
town of Harmony was next to Indian
apolis in the volumeof postal receipts
in 1927. Its receipts. as reported to
the general Government, were
$2s3.96. Madison came next, with re-
ceipts footing up $262.30. Other Indi-
ana postofices reported receipts for
the year as follows:
Waterloo, $5.O5; Shelbyville, $3.50;
Lawrenceburg, $167.s1; Crawfords-
vile, $l1o.23; Fl. Wayne, s12S.43;
Connersville, $135s4; Brookville,
$las.o5; Bloomington, $1a4.eo; Vevay
$lsl.O4; Terre Haute, $2O0.77; Salem,
sao2.1e; New Albany, s157.11; Rich
mond, $165.25.
The old volume dwells on the i'm
portance of the National Road as a.
mail route, and contains memorial
from the Legislature of Indiana urg-
ing Congress to open a practicable
stage route through Indiana upon the
line of the National Road as located
and a practicable mail route through
that part of Illinois and Missouri to
effect so desirable an object"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
GIFT OF COAL STOCK.
Testimony Given Before the Com
mission by Division Supervisor
dent OF the Pennsylvania.

Revelations of an unusual character
were made during the Investigation
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission into the alleged discrimina-
ton by railroad companies in the dis
tribution of cars to coal companies
in the bit'minous region Three inn
portant witnesses were heard in the
persons IF George w. Creighton,
general superintendent of the Pitts
burg division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; Robert K. Cassatt, son of
President Cassett of the Pennsylvap-
ia Railroad and Eastern manager of
the keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany, and John M. Jamison Of
Greensburg, Pa. president of the
Jamison Coal and Coke Cmpany. Mr..
Creighton admitted that he held stock
in several coal companies, snd that
the stock had been presented to him.
Mr.. Jsnison testified that his COM
pany bad presented Pennsylvania
Railroad officials with stock in his
company with the object of securing
better treatment and facilities frcm
the corporation. He also said thar
Robert Pitcairn. now assistant to
President Cassatt, had declined
prefer of stock, saying that he pre-
ferred the money Mr.. Jamison
bought the stock back from him for
$4,000.
r. K. Cassatt told the commission
that at time when the Pennsylvan-
ia Railroad Company was suffering
from scarcity of coal cars Is had
relinquished its claim to 500 cars or
dered from the Pressed Steel Car
Company and that the cars had been
purchased by the Keystone Coal and
Coke Company. another interesting
witness was G. w. Clark. Pennsyl-
vania Railroad car distributor at Al
toona, who was on the stand and who
told of having received a monthly
check of $50 from Capt. Alfred Hicks
a mine operator, and stated that he
did not know why the money was
sent to him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24
Rettinger Bound Over for Murder.
Fred Rettinger had a preliminary
examination before Justice Young

Fred Rettinger had a preliminary
examination before Justice Young
Monday morning and was bound over
to circuit court without bail
Eli Shafer retired farmer testi-
fed that he saw Rettinger and Bates
close together on sidewalk, heard
shot fired that killed Bates, but did
not see revolver until Rettinger turn
ed and shot at Frank Bates. After
the shooting saw Rettinger running
north. Joseph Ray saw the shoot
ing, saw Rettinger and Bates on side
walk. Rettingers passed him and
walked towards Bates, saw revolver
in his hand when he passed him and
walked toward Bates; saw him raise
revolver and shoot Bates. He said
Bates threww up his hands and cried
oh! as he fell. Rettinger shot at
him after he fell but only one shot
took effect. Rettinger then turned
and moved to one side to avoid Mrs.
Townsend, a woman who lives four
miles from Bourbon. He then shot
Frank Bates; Frank ran into Spen-
GERS restaurant; Rettinger followed
him into the restaurant; heard two
shots fired after they got into the
restaurant John Stafford gave prac-
tically the same testimony The evil
dence showed that Rettinger fired
FIVE shots in ALL
The defense did not introduce any
evidence. 1t seemed that they want
ed only to get an idea of the evil
dence which the prosecution would
present.
Messrs. Hess and Martindale, at
torneys for the state, did not seem
inclined to present any more evidence
than was necessary to bind Rettinger
over to court, consequently there
was not much in the preliminary ex-
animation.
Parker and Stevens are the at
torneys for the defense and will do
what they can for their client. Ret
finger was remanded to Jail to await
the action of the grand jury which
met at one o'clock Monday after
noon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

Speaker Cannon received hundred.
of kilograms from Oklahoma expires
sing the opinion of hundreds of peo-
pie about him. This one. however
which he declares is the most re-
markable inquiry ever propounded to
an American statesman, he proposes
to frame: "Shall Oklahoma, the gem
of hope be sacrificed on the Shylori
of despair?"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-24

The president has decided that the
Spanish treaty claims commission, of
which ex-senator w. E. Chandler is
a member, shall go out of existence
September 1. The commission was
created in 1901, and its life fixed at
two years, with the provision that
the president might extend ia exis-
tence for six months periods. Six
months extensions have already been
made. The present lease of life was
signed March 1. The White House
feels that now is good time to let
the commission quit business. Since
it was formed the commission has
made eighteen awards involving
s323,ooo- The expenses of the body
have exceeded 100000.