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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Refuses to Be Ousted.

After trial which has lasted
for several days, Edwin ]. B;da-
man was ousted as mayor of Ter
re siaute by a two-thirds vote OF
the common council. The mayor,
however, refuses to be removed,
and, taking advantage of the re-
fusal of the comptroller, who un-
der the law becomes acting may
Tor to take the chair, occupied the
place himself, declaring that he
would be mayor till hill freezes
over" The comptroller refused
to assume the duties of the posi-
ton on the ground that he was
satisfied as to the law governing
such cases. Mayor Bidaman will
attempt to hold the Office and dis
charge the duties of mayor, and
the council may use force to carry
its orders into effect. Mr.. Bid
|aman alleges that the council pro-
|ceedings are invalid because
three Of the councilmen, while
sitting as jurors in the case, took
| the witness stand to testify
against him.
The charges on which the i'm
Ipeachment proceedings against
Bidaman were based alleged
specified failure to enforce the
liquor and anti-gambling laws,
and the evidence of a large num-
Der of citizens was taken, these
differing greatly, however, as to
the mayors acts. 1t was charged
| and not denied that Mayor Bida-
man, after giving orders for the
enforcement of the laws, had Sc
Icretly countermanded the orders
1t was declared that the city was
|"wide open" in the sense that nc
efforts were made 60 suppress
gambling and no attention paid
to the law regarding closing
hours for saloons. The proceed
ings, by which the mayor was
ousted, came after a day of tes-
ltimony. The council sat as an
impeachment court, and when a
vote was taken on the charges
they were sustained by six yeas
and three nays, just the required
Itwo-thirds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Mr.. Gear Badly Hurt.

s. While picking cherries at the
Seltenright place near Oak Hill
cemetery, Wednesday afternoon,
Mr.. w. S. Gear, who lives at the
H. G. Thayer place on Michigan
street, fell from a cherry tree at a
height of about seventeen feet
His head, shoulders and hands
seem to have struck the ground
first. Both arms are broken at
the wrists and his spine seems
to be fractured. He is entirely
paralyzed below the breast and
there seems to be little reason to
hope for his recovery; but DR.
Stephens and DR.. Loring think
there is still a chance to save his
life.
The fall was caused by the
breaking of small limb on
which he was standing. He is
la very estimable gentleman
about 81 years old, and he and
his family have the sympathy Of
everybody.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
The Wilcox Conger Wedding

Brief mention of the marriage
of Archibald Oliver Wilcox and
Miss Fife May Conger was made
in The Tribune Wednesday ev.
ening.
Both these young people are
natives of Marshall county, grad
yates of the Plymouth schools
and have friends wherever they
are known. Mr.. Wilcox has been
employed in Chicago banks dur
ing the past eight years and is al
present teller in the Commercial
National bank of that city.
The marriage ceremony Wed
nesday afternoon was witnessed
by relatives and chosen friends
of the bride and groom and the
happy couple left on the 6 :04 p
m. train for Chicago.
They had, of course, secured
a carriage to take them to the
train, but their friends loaded
them into the Beagles' dray
which had been decorated for the
occasion and accompanied them
to the train where amid showers
of rice and old shoes and music
specially selected, they were al
lowed to depart for Chicago.
The whole affair was intended
to show that they stood as high
in the estimation of the best PEG.
pie as any other young couple
that ever left the city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Roosevelt Will Retire.

President Roosevelt has again
announced his determination not
to be candidate for the presiden-
cy a third time. This time the
assertion is made to w. A. Con-
ant of Colorado Springs in let
ter from Secretary Loeb.
Mr.. Conant, who cast his first
vote for Fremont in the first
Republican campaign and who
has been voting for Republican
candidates ever since, wrote to
the president several. days ago
asking him definitely if he would
stand for a third term in 1908.
The reply, unequiyocally stating
that Mr.. Roosevelt will not, is as
follows:
White House, Washington,
June 21.-My Dear Mr.. Conant
The president thanks you for
your letter of the 18th instant
and cordially appreciates your
kind expressions concerning him
self. He says however, that you
will have to vote for some other
Republican candidate next time.
Conveying to you the presi-
dents best wishes, | am,
William Loeb, Jr.,
Secretary to the President,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Cow Gets Very Drunk.

Intoxicated from over-indul
gence in the use of alcoholic liqu-
ors" is the diagnosis in the case of
a cow which Wednesday after
noon set the mountain village of
Normalville wild with excite
ment.
The bovine had licked up the
entire contents of a barrel of hard
cider which had accidently over
turned and after it had taken eff
feet started on rampage through
the principal streets of the vii
lage. Fences, wagons, boxes and
live stock offered no effectual
barrier in its path. The COW ran
down the road until, tagged out
with the strenuous pace, she
rolled into the. ditch along the
roadside. An effective posse. of
citizens was hastily organized and
the Least was bound, m,zzled
and physician summoned to
examine her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Teacher Elected.

The board of education has ell
ected William Rea to fill the va
cancy in the high school corps
caused by the resignation of f.
F.. Lands. Mr.. Rea is son of
DIR. Rea, who. though member
of the board, had no voice in the
election OF his son and cast no
vote. The new incumbent is a
graduate of Culver Military acad-
envy and has completed his junior
year in the state university. He
will spend the summer vacation
in taking high school training
course at the state university
Culver Citizen.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Hanly Sees Bright Days.

At the graduation exercises OF
class of SO at the Indiana Nor
NAL school Gov. Hanly, in speak
ing of corruption in all walks OF
life, said: "The American people
are on the verge of great revo-
luton, great and sudden eco
nomic and social change. These
changes will restore the equal
rights of men and the happiness
of the people. Most of the prog
ress of the race is due to evolu-
ton, slow and imperceptible. but
these are times when conditions
ear SO hardened that a revIolu-
ton is needed"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Used To Visit Here.

Harry Kendall Thaw, the mill
ionaire murderer of Pittsburg,
was once upon a time a more or
less frequent visitor in Valparai-
so and the older Pennsylvania
railroad men remember we'll the
time he came here. The late
William Thaw, Harry's father,
was once vice-president of the
Pennsylvania lines west, and in
that capacity made tours of in
spection over this division, stop
ing off at Valparaiso. On these
trips young Harry, who was then
about fifteen years old, often ac-
companied his father, and is re-
membered by some of the local
railroad men as precocious chap
OF pleasing appearance.-Valpa-
raise Vidette.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The attempt to make Thaw ap-
pear insane when he shot White,
and to have seeds of insanity
enough to bring forth fruit at any
time apparently failed at the out
set. A similar attempt to prove
John Alexander Dowie insane ap-
pears to have met with more sue
cess. The insanity fad when men
do wicked or foolish things is be-
ing carried to excess. If men
become depraved or wicked it ex-
cuses little in view of modern re-
search to prove them insane.
Wickedness of many sorts is
cause for insanity, and the insane
ought to be Investigated for signs
of early wickedness rather than
the criminal excused by reason
of unsound nind.-Elkhart Re-
view.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Few persons today stop to
think how different things were
in this country a century ago
Here are a few to think of.
Merchants wrote all their let
ter with quill pens. Sand was
used to dry the ink as there was
no blotting paper. There was nc
street letter boxes; letters had to
be carried to the postoffice. Ii
cost eighteen and one-half cents
to send a letter from Boston to
New York, and twenty-five cents
from Boston to Philadelphia.
Every MISUNDERSTANDING
ton for example wore a queue
many powdered their hair.
Imprisonment for debt was
common.
Virginia contained one-6fth OF
the whole POPULATION of the coun.
try.
The Mississippi valley was not
SO well known as the heart OF
Africa is now.
Two stage coaches carried all
of the travellers between New
York and Boston, and six days
were required to make the trip
There was not public library
in the United States. A dag la
borer received two shillings pei
day.
Stoves were unknown. All the
cooking was done at an open FIRE
place.
And this was only one hundred
years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
MARRIED.
Bishop--Shafer.

AT their beautiful new home on
East Caro- street, Mr.. Jap P.
Bishop, foreman at the Swindell
cold storage, and Miss Carrie E.
Shafer, an accomplished young
lady of Argos, formerly a clerk
at Sarber's were married We'd
nesday evening, June "a, at 8 o.
clock by Rev. N. II. Sheppard
of the Christian church. Mr..
Bishops mother, Mrs. Eta
Smith, of Plymouth, his young
daughter Ruth, and Mrs. Bish-
ops mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Shat
er OF Argos, were present at the
ceremony. The young people
went to housekeeping at once in
their newly completed home
which has in it all of the modern
Improvements.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
The Bryan Campaign.

The Charleston News and
Courier is not stampeded by the
rush to Bryan. 1t calls attention
to the fact that the Democratic
convention will not meet for two
years, in which time anything
may happen. 1T is" the Charles
ton paper says, dangerous and
foolish hurrying, this crowdine
to standard in time of rolitical
truce" 1t thinks that the Dem
ocrats of Indiana, Missouri, Ar
kansas, and "a State of easily for
gettable name in the Northwest
are all Slaves to the Bryan hab-
IT. and that they may be expect
ed to go on forever indorsine
Bryan, alive or dead" Not bad
analysis OF hte situation. AS for
the gold Democrats-the few OF
them who have rushed into the
Bryan camp-it is said that these
think that Bryan has sobered
down, and also that they do not
believe that victory can be hoped
for on the old lines. But the
News and Courier is by no means
convinced of Bryan's change of
heart. Intolerance of opposing
views, has, in its opinion, always
been one of his characteristics.
He never gave the gold Demo
Gratis credit for honesty or SINGER
ity. The paper then adds:
We shall be surprised if Col
onel Bryan does ont insist upon
a formal declaration again for free
silver coinage. We shall be even
more surprised if he does not take
occasion to humiliate the gold
Democrats in small ways, so far
as he can, if he become ascendant
IN the party. For the larger ends
of serving their country and their
party they may support him in
spite of this. Whether Mr.. Bry-
an shall be the candidate or not,
the shouting that is now going on
seems ill-timed, unless, indeed,
the Democracy is a one-rnan par
ty. TO quote what a South Car
olina celebrity said of himself, if
he is the only man with the
brain and the nerve" to lead the
hosts to victory, the sooner all
of us tack on to his coat-tails the
better will be our. chances at the
pie counter when he is elected,
but, with admiration for his gifts
and virtues, we are utterly unable
to regard Bailey, Francis, Wat
terson, Folk, Douglass, Gray, Ay-
cock, Carmack, Cockrell, Frazier,
Tillman, Rayner, or Hearst for
that matter, as pigmies by his
side. Why should the Democratic
party go off half-cocked about
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Subscriber for the Newspapers.

Senator Hemenway subscribes
for more newspapers than any
other member of the United
States Senate. He receives and
pays for 10S Indiana newspapers
and his private Office at times re-
sembles an editors sanctum. His
private secretary, Thomas P,
Littlepage, goes through the ex-
changes with a fine tooth comb,
as it were, and every item, good,
bad or Indifferent, concerning the
junior senator Immediately finds
its way into a scrap book. Not
only personal items, bat those
that bear in any way on Indiana
politics, are cut and pasted, SO
that in future years Senator
Hemenway's scrap book will be
valuable and interesting books oil
political reference.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
GOVERNOR is ACTIVE.
Indiana Executive Seeking to
Close French LICK.

The state OF Indiana up to the
present time has practically been
powerless to put stop 10 the
gambling at French LICK. Inns
Is admitted by state officials hign
in authority. 1t IS known. that
Gov. tianly is at his wits end
for some method by which the
Monte Carlo can be closed.
The governor still declines to
discuss the French LICK matter
or the action of the ministers OIL
the city taken Sunday.
The first definite announcement
that has come from the state OF
tcials since the French Lick scan
dial was exposed was made when
it was declared that the governor
and the attorney generals depart
ment are at work on a plan by
which they hope to put the gamo-
lers out OF business.
sThe officials say that the first
thing is to procure witnesses
to get hold OF some one who has
gambled at one OF these resorts
and who is willing TO go into
court and tell about it. This i
one of the features that makes
the governor and the attorney
general feel that they are III
against difficult proposition. =
majority of the patrons OF THESE
games are men and women who
90 from Louisville, Chicago, OF
some other large city, to the
southern Indiana resorts. The
state officials realize that at the
first intirnation that witnesses are
wanted these people will get Out
of sight.
Just now state officials art
working out a plan by which the,
hope 10 obtain evidence against
the gamblers-evidence that will
be testified toby people who are
friendly to the state IN its efforts
to stop gambling down there
1t is pointed out that whatevel
action IS taken against the pro
moters of games at West Bader
and French Lick must be taker
in the county in which the resorts
are situated. Proceedings mus
be begun by the prosecuting at
torney of Orange county. Unde'
the law the governor has no au
thority to compel the prosecutor
to act or force the local courts t.
convict. Had he possessed thl:
power it is said, he would have
cxerted it long ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

From his home across the sea
Richard Croker has sent the
strongest kind of a declaration
for William ]. Bryan for presi-
dent. In a letter to Harry W.
Walker, secretary of the acque-
duct commission, who is interest
I'd in promoting the reception to
be given Mr. Bryan on his re-
turn to this country, Mr.. Croker
says:
You have my sentiments re-
garding Bryan, as / look upon
him as one of the most able men
of our country. | have no doubt
that he was robbed of both cleo
tons by the trusts and that he
was also misjudged. l hope l
may live to see him the president
|of the United States.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

Leigh Hunt was a school teach
er at Columbia City in 1869. He
made unfortunate investments
and left that town leaving $4,000
in debts. He went to Seattle and
|endeavored to recover his lost f.
nancial ground. In 1898 he again
made a failure. Friends stood
BIZ him in his adversely. He went
to Korea where a short time age
he disposed of his holdings for
Sc, 000,0 900 returned to Seattle and
Columbia City, paying off all the
old scores with interest. 1t is
said, to settle the $4,000 at the
latter place over $4,000 was
used.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Liberals to Get Ministry,

St. Petersburg, June 2S.-The
constitutional Democrats were
hurriedly summoned to caucus
this afternoon and it was again
rumored in the corridors OF the
lower house of parliament that
negotiations are proceeding with
them for the formation of a min
istry headed by M. Mouromtseft,
president of the lower house.
The emperor and the court are
being frightened into surrender
less by The violent attacks made
on the government in the lower
house than the alarming spread
of revolutionary disaffection
among the troops.
When the Preobrejensky regi-
ment, His Majesty's Own pro-
nounced its solidarity with parli-
ament and its agrarian program
in the big camp of the guard reg
iments at Krasnoe-Selo, less than
a dozen miles from Peterhof, the
emperor's eyes opened and the
court began to realize that there
avs only step from that to de-
claring allegiance TO parliament
as against the government
Even the former procuratoI
general of the holy synod, Nj
Pobedonosteff, is said to have rec
ognized the inevitable and tC
have advised the emperor to yiele
to the demand for responsible
ministry as the only means o.
preserving the throne.
The governments sudden feal
of affronting public opinion aftel
finding the army infected with
the revolutionary propaganda il
shown in the hurried grant OF
new trial to seven men condemn
ed to death at Riga.
The only conservative group II
the lower house of, parliament
which is headed by Count Hey
den, has at last bowed before thu
storm of radicalism and has de
clared in favor of practically TIN
whole of the constitutional Dem
ocrats' aglerian programme, in
GLIDING the appropriation of stat
church, crown and private lands
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Rev. Crowder's Birthday.

Rev. Crowder was very agree
ably surprised Wednesday, when
a crowd of young people finding
him on the street took him in the
hack to Pretty Lake. The day
was Rev. Crowder's 35th birth
day. All enjoyed themselves and
did justice to the well filled bas-
kets and extra large ice cream
freezer. Those present were
Rev. Crowder, Mr.. w. r. Crow
der, Elizabeth Evans, Edith
|Shrider, Helen Jordan, Eva Ma
son, Lucretia Loring, Floy Leon
ard, Olive Beldon, Paul Singrey
Eugene Pesch, Darmon Rhine
hart, Earl Mclaughlin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Meritorious Promotion.

The promotions on the New
York Central lines have an anus
ing and instructive phase. w. c.
Brown has been moved up from
the position of wooding engines
on the St. Paul road in 1869 to
the first vice-presidency of the
New York Central lines. A. H.
Smith has been promoted from
an odd job man in the shops Of the
Lake Shore road to be eastern
vice-president and manager of the
lines east of Buffalo. c. E. Schaff
has passed from twisting the
brake wheel of a freight car on
the Big Four system in 1871 to
be western vice-president in oper-
ating control west of Buffalo.
Each of the men has been advanc-
ed strictly according to merit.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Ananias Baker Nominated.

Ananias Baker of Fulton coun
ty, was renominated by the Re
publicans for joint representative
of Cass and Fulton counties
Baker became conspicuous dur
ing the last legislatures b,
exhibiting 800 said to have beer
offered by Q. A. Baker, lobbyis
for the American Tobacco com
pany for his vote. As result
of this denunciation the latter be
came fugitive and the anti-cig
arctic bill q law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
State School Funds Apportioned.

Fassett A. Cotton, State Super
intendent of Public instruction,
has just completed the June APP
portionment of the school funds
of the State, showing that the
amount apportioned at this semi
annual settlement amounts to ST.
1854 1852. This is a per capita APP
portionment of $1.62, or one cent
greater than it was at the cor
responding time last year. The
report shows, also, that 1862
boys and girls between the ages
of six and twenty-one are in the
state.
While the above sum is the
amount realized for the general
aportionment,> there is an addl-
tional sum of $53, S32.98 that APP
pears in the statement, for the
first time. This is the amount
that was realized from the six
mills levy to be devoted to those
schools that are not able to main
tain the minimum six months
term that is required by law. This
amount was taken from the reg
ular apportionment, in accordance
with the law passed by the last
Legislature.
OF the total amount of money
received into the common school
fund, $1,304,372.57 was received
from the regular eleven cent levy,
the $53, S32.9S from the six mill
levy and the balance $6,S49.70
from miscellaneous sources, such
as forfeitures, etc.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Farm Engineering Taught.

One valuable thing taught at
Winona Lake Agricultural col
lege is that of farm engineering.
Under this subject the pupil will
be given instruction and practice
in such subjects as drainage, ir-
rigation, road making and laying
out of farms. In the matter of
drainage they actually dig bitches
taking the levels and learning the
best way to construct the drains.
They see land turned by their
own actions from useless into
productive soil.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
"That Happy Time"

Friday evening the officials at
the court house treated to ice
cream and Nabiscos in honor of
Miss Babe Follmer of Monterey
and Miss Trixie Turner of Mon
ticello, two young ladies now
working at the court house. A
good time was had. Fine stories
were told and sallies of wit and
reparte exchanged.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05
Queer Freak of Time.


If Tom Mccoy gets a job on
the prison farm at Michigan City
as he is reported to be in hopes
OF, he will have for his boss Al
fred Armstrong, who formerly
lived on the Mccoy farms in Jas
per county. The whirligig of time
brings out some queer results
sometimes.
Purified by BILLY" Sunday.
Prophetstown, ILL.,, is redeemed
from a worldly village, with
thriving saloons and its full share
of vices, it has been converted
through the efforts of Billy
Sunday, the former base bali
player, and bids fair to become
a marvel of spotlessness AMI pur-
ity. The moral upheaval that has
occurred was shown Monday
when Mayor Paddock and all the
members of the town council fell
at the feet of the evangelist after
he had delivered an unusually
strong exhortation, declared
themselves miserable sinners and
professed a desire to lead better
lives. They were followed by
many of their townspeople, and
now a movement is on foot to re-
fund the money paid by liquor
dealers for licenses in Prophets
town and close all the saloons irl
the place. 1t seems probable tina,
the whole village will be convert,
ed before Sunday ends his ser
vices. His meetings have aroused
remarkable interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The Bunch ditch in Marshall
county, has been completed and
the Hoffman ditch is almost fin
ished by the contractor, John
Hughes of Nappanee. They are
about IL miles long and cost
about $4,000. They start near
Lakeville and run parallel with
each other about a mile apart and
empty into Yellow river west OIL
Bremen. They are expected to
reclaim about 10000 acres oil
heretofore unproductive land.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-05

The debate between Gen. eros.
venor of Ohio and Chanp Clark
of Missouri, on the ship subsidy
will take place at Winona Assem-
bly, next Monday afternoon, be-
ginning at 2 o'clock. Congress
man Brick of South Bend, viii
preside.
A big attendance is expected
Hon. b. F. Shively of South
Bend has been invited to be pres
ent and will be the guest of Will
liam Conrad of Warsaw.