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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
MORE RUSSIANS KILLED.
Terrorists Assassinate a General
and a Colonel.

St.Petersburg, Aug. 27.--The
terrorists today killed two high
military officers and attempted
the life of third. The first as
sassination was of Gen. Won
Liarliarski, acting military gov
ernor general of Warsaw. He
was shot to death as he was
driving through one of the main
streets of Warsaw. His slayer
was killed.
Following almost Immediately
upon this news came the tidings
that Col. Riemann of the Sem
inovski Regiment had been muir
dered at Luga. An attempt on
the life of Baron Stahl in the
grounds adjoining the palace at
Peterhoff was evidently due to
the baron's strong resemblance
TO Gen. Trepoff, who has long
been on the death list. Gen. Won
Liarliarski had been threatened
many times by the terrorists, but
paid little attention and he was
unguarded when assassinated.
The assassinations of today,
following on that of General Min
and the attempt on Premier
Stolypin, have caused renewed
talk of a military dictatorship.
Men and women are being drag
ged firm their homes at all hours
and hundreds more are being or
dered to leave the city. Every
stranger is being closely watch
ed. Even American and other
tourists at the principal hotels
are being subjected to the most
stringent espionage.
The revoultionists openly
boast that the Cars name is on
the list of those who are to die,
and they insist that he will die
when the time comes. That they
are in earnest in their threats is
shown by the arrest of two men
as they were trying to get into
the palace with bomb conceal
ed in a basket of fruit. They are
in Jail and have been identified
as prominent revolutionists from
Moscow. They will be sent to
Siberia.
Repeated warnings were sent
to Col. Riemann of the terrorists
that his life had been forfeited to
the revolution. Ignoring the
threats Riemann asked short
time ago to be sent to Poland
to aid in the rerressive acts of
the government which were re-
Gently inaugurated there. He
had shown the utmost cruelty.
His death at this time therefore
is not surprise. His friends
are wondering that he escaped
for so long time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Enjoyed Your Voice."

. A well known public speaker
who has the reputation of being
an orator lately spoke to an au-
dience of foreigners. They could
not understand English, he
could not speak Italian. But
when it was all over they COM
Eplimented him by saying that
they enjoyed his voice"
That ingenious expression is
"a fair statement. of the enjoy
ment that a great percentage of
the public takes in oratory, in
public speech and in lecture and
sermon. The voice and its use is
one of the largest elements of
popularity of the modern plat
form speech. The manner of
speaking more than the matter
of delivery determines the admit
ration which the crowd has for
the speaker. His theme may in
terest in its statement, but it is
generally forgotten by the speak
er and not found by the listener.
Enjoyed your voice" is high
compliment for the men and
women who seek notoriety, be-
cause they know that the voice
has stirred the emotion they
sought to awaken, has touched
the chord they desired to strike.
|-Elkhart Review
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Citizens Will Act.

Michigan City is thoroughly
aroused and judging from the re-
ports emanating therefrom it has
very good reason to be. The cit
liens and taxpayers are shocked
by financial conditions and they
are preparing to make a thor
ough investigation and do every
thing possible to right the
wrongs which have covered a
long period of years. 1t is said
that three propositions are be-
ing considered. One is the plac-
of the city in the hands of a re-
ceiver, another is to restrain the
city from collecting more taxes
or doing any business until the
tangled affairs of its treasury are
unraveled, and the other is to
|impeach those members of the
council who are standing in the
way of an honest investigation
of the books in the treasurer's
Office. AS the last proposition
is the one which is said to be
meeting with general favor it
seems that Michigan City is not
only keenly aroused to the actual
situation, but that action of sum-
mary nature is to be taken. Co
ing upon the theory that glaring
evils call for strong remedies
Michigan City is going after Of
|ficials, against whom charges
have been made, in a manner
which should result in justice.
1t is said that clique of pol
iticians, made up of Democrats
and Republicans have held pow
|er for years and that they have
used their positions to further
their own ends. The city has at
last awakened and seems about
to see that those who are respon-
sible for the disgraceful 6nan-
cial condition get their just de-
serts. 1t isn't reform, the peo-
pie are simply declaring their
rights.-South Bend Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30

1t is moi SO very long ago that
la great outcry was raised against
"a billion-dollar Congress Bill
lion-dollar congresses have been
1.-THE rule, however, for a dozen
years, and we are approaching
the two-billion mark. The APP
preparations for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1907, amount to
1878, 589, 185, which may be COM
pared with total of 9S9 ,239, 205,
made by the two sessions of the
hfty-third Congress to cover the
fiscal years ending June, 1895
land 1896.
Such comparison shows that
we have passed into a new era,
and this era began with the
Spanish war. There was a Jump
|of half a billion with the appro-
|priations of the fifty-6fth Cong
|ress for 1899 and 1900, which
came to $1,566. 890,016. Then
There was a reduction which
amounted to only little more
than $100,O00,0O0 for the two
sessions of the next Congress.
This was followed by an increase
that nearly wiped out the differ
|eiice, and the ffty-eighth Cong
ress appropriated $1,000, 053, 544
for the fiscal year ending with
June, 1905 and 1906.
1t will be observed that the
amount last named is less than
twice the amount of the appro-
|priations made by the first ses-
sion of the fifty-ninth Congress,
which, as we have said, was
$S79, $50 1875. This gives an in
crease of 059, 404 ,554 over the ap-
preparations made the previous
year, which were the largest dur
ing the six years from 1901. In
explanation of the difference
there is Panama at $4,000 600
and other items mentioned are
appropriations for the carrying
out of the meat inspection law,
the continuance of contracts for
river and haEbor work, the reor-
ganization of the diplomatic and
consular service and the extern
sion of the rural free delivery
service The largest single item
lis for the Postoffice Department,
$191 .695, 1913. The expenditures
Of the department have beea
growing steadily, but, of course,
there is very large Offset in its
revenues though it is not self
sustaining. Pension appropria-
items come next, and they
amount outright to SAC, 245, 500.
Taey have not varied much in
MANY years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Plymouth Girls Sent Home.

Without friends and almost
penniless, and more than one
hundred miles from home, Pearl
Galloway and lone Gross, two
young women of Plymouth,
eighteen years old, roamed the
streets of Indianapolis for two
days until at last, weak from
want of food and exhausted from
their long tramps they appealed
to Police Matron Gregoire at po-
lice headquarters and were given
food and assisted in getting
transportation to their homes.
The two girls went to the city
last Sunday on an excursion
train and went to Fort Benjamin
Harrison. Owing to the storm
which ragged in the afternoon
they were unable to return to the
city in time to catch the return
excursion train and being with
out means to purchase regular
ticket they were stranded. They
arrived in the city half an hour
after their train had left the city
md with only a little more than
fifty cents. Toward midnight
they found a cheap rooming
house in which they purchased
lodging for the night. Monday
morning without any money
they again began tramping about
the streets, after writing a letter
to their parents telling them of
their plight. They walked the
;trets until dark, without food
md then appealed to a pawn
broker, who gave them enough
20 buy food and lodging in ex-
change for a ring which one of
them wore.
Tuesday morning the girls
were again without money and
at noon, footsore and hungry,
they APPEALED to the police. First
food was purchased and then
their clothing, which had been
badly damaged by the rains was
exchanged for some purchased
by Matron Gregoire. Later ar
engagements were made with the
railroad officials to honor the
excursion tickets and the two
girls left for their homes.-War-
saw Union.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Plymouth High School.

The High School will occupy
a new study hall the coming
school year. The hall has excel
lent light and ventilation and
much care has been exercised TO
make it modern in every respect.
Four recitation rooms and two
laboratory rooms have been pro-
vided. The laboratories are
equipped with "up-to-date' APP
paratus and now meet the re-
quirements for the presentation
of scenic subjects.
Plymouth High School was
commissioned in 1883 and again
in 1903. Graduates may enter
colleges and universities without
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Rooster Killed a Snake.

Hearing an unusual r,oise in
his chicken house Lon Hanson.
residing near Knox, Ind, inves-
tigated and found three of his
game roosters in desperate COM
bat with a blacksnake FIVE feet
in length. The roosters fought
the reptile until they had killed
it. Then they strutted around
the body growing Justify.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30

Albert G. Lane, whose death
was announced Wednesday, had
been connected with the schools
|of Chicago and Cook county for
SO many years that he probably
had larger acquaintance among
the pupils than any other educa-
tor. Men who have long been
prominent in the city's affairs
knew him as a teacher and as
county superintendent when
they were boys. He was prin-
cipal as far back as 1858. He
was himself a pupil in the
schools before that date, and was
born and educated in Chicago
The changes that he witnessed
in the school system were SO re-
markable that it is difficult to
think of them as occurring in a
Lifetime. When he was gradual
ed from the high school with its
first class there were only be-
tween 10000 and 1000 public
school pupils in the entire city.
There are now nearly 100000.
The number of teachers has in
creased from eighty-one to al
most 5000. There are now
about score of high and manual
training schools that have devel-
|oped out of the old Central High
School in which Mr.. Lane was
a student. There are more of
them than there were elementary
schools in his school days, and
the elementary schools have in
creased score upon score.
With all this growth there has
beer an immense development
ON the educational side, and as
assistant superintendent and
Superintendent Mr.. Lane was d.
rectly concerned in that develop
ment. He avs also deeply in
terested in the public school
problem as it affected the whole
country, and had held the Offices
|of president of the Illinois
Teachers Association and presi-
dent of the National Educational
Association. Superintendent
Cooley in commenting upon his
work speaks feelingly of the as
sistance he had received from
him, and it may well be believed
that his experience and skill as
educator were of decided value
in the Office of district superin-
|tendent, which he held az the
time of his death.-Record Her
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30

Esperanto, the universal Ian
guage, will soon be read, written
and spoken over the whole
world. Now is the time to learn
Free lessons given in the Sunday
issues of The Chicago Chronicle
beginning August 26. Order
from your newsdealer or direct
from The Chicago Chronicle, 164
Washington Street, Chicago, ILL.,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
4, To Visit Philippines.

Mrs. Elizabeth Retiring, Miss
Wilella Tfirockmorton and Miss
Harriet Elbel of South Bend, ac-
companied by Mrs. M. V. Beig-
err of Mishawaka, LETT South
BEND Thursday for Seattle,
Wash, and on Sept. 2 they will
sail on the steamer Dakota, for
China, Japan and the Philip
pines. Mrs. Ralph Tarbell OF
South Bend, and her sister, Mrs.
A. p. West of Los Angeles, CAL,
will join the party which expects
to return the latter part of No
vember.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Now it is Cement Tile.

Francis Without of near Cor
unna, recently invented a new
process for the manufacture Of
cement tile. A thorough testing
has proved its efficiency and a
factory is now being erected at
Corunna for the manufacture of
tile. Great superiority is claimed
over the old clay tile and the
work is being watched with
much interest by the farmers of
the community.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
Terrible Power of Earthquakes,

The engineering skill which
puts steel and iron bridges in al
most impossible places, which
lays railroad tracks along the
most perilous routes; the archi-
tects and builders to rear sky
scrapers to dazzling heights; the
steel ships of commerce and of
war, surprising the widest
dreams of the past generation
the marvelously swift railroad
trains; the development of in
dustry and comerce to volume
that almost exceeds belief-of
these things man may we'll be
proud. But there is not a mart
of trade, there is not a manufact-
uring center created by the gen.
Jus and industry of man that
may not be reduced to ruins in a
few moments if nature brings
her forces to bear upon it. The
railroad track may disappear, the
iron and steel bridge may go
down to destruction before the
Irresistible forces beneath the
earth. The sky scrapers may
topple to the ground as though
they were SO many ant hills. The
ships of war and of commerce,
anchored in peaceful harbors
may become the prey of tidal
waves. Nature in her angriest
mood may take the strongest
and most impressive creations OF
man appear to be the toys OF
prattling children.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30

w. H. Blodgett of the Indi-
annapolis News says the financial
affairs of Michigan City are in
very bad shape and ring COM
posed of both Democrats and
Republicans are doing all they
can to prevent an investigation.
Rings always work for their own
interests. Rings and trusts care
nothing for the welfare of the
people or the success of parties
only SO far as it is of advantage
to them. The Republican ring in
Marshall county which is willing
at any time to prevent the cleo
ton of Republican county tick
ct to advance their own interests
is an illustration of this fact.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-30
SOLVE SCHAFER CASE.
Old Letter Leads to Arrest Oh
Bedford Man.

Evansville, Ind, Aug. 23.-
That the great mystery sur
rounding the murder of Sarah
Schafer, the pretty Latin teacher
in the Bedford High School, on
Jan. II, 1904, has at last been
solved is the belief of Prosecutor
Benedict and Marshal Myers Of
Bedford and of the local detec-
tives who have under arrest Err
nest Tanksley charged with
committing the crime
Tanksley was arrested here
charged with kidnapping Nellie
Rainey from her home in Hell
tonville, Ind, eight miles from
Bedford. The girl was with him
here when he was arrested. He
is a married man and has a wife
and three children at Helton-
vile.
Three years ago his relations
with the Rainey girl became
known and he left home and
went to Bedford and worked
there in hopes of hushing the
disgrace. 1t is believed he de-
cided the best way to clear his
family of disgrace was to kill the
Rainey girl
He wrote her a letter asking
her to meet him in Bedford on a
certain alley corner on the night
of IAN. 81, 1904. 1t was at this
very spot and time that Sarah
Schafer was dragged down the
alley and killed.
The Rainey girl IS pronounced
a duplicate of Sarah Schafer in
appearance and the police believe
that Tanksley sim ~ made a
mistake in the woman and killed
Miss Schafer while thinking he
was getting Miss Rainey out OF
the way. The night was dark
and such a mistake could easily
have been made.
Tanksley returned to his room
that night with fresh, bloody
scratches on his face. His room
mate, Earl Hunter, asked him
how his face became bruised. He
did not reply. Late that night
he awoke his roommate by polk
ing bundle of clothes into a
stove. Hunter asked him what
he was doing and an eyasive re-
ply was given.
Last fall Tanksley left Bed
ford and at the same time Miss
Rainey disappeared from her
home and was not heard of again
until arrested. Recently Miss
Rainey's father turned over to
Prosecutor Benedict OF Bedford
humber of letters Tanksley
had written to Nellie. His object
was to have Tanksley arrested
for kidnapping the girl
Among these letters was the
one making the engagement on
the alley corner in Bedford. The
prosecutor connected Tanksley
with the Schafer murder at once
and soon unraveled the whole
skein of evidence.
Tanksley and the Rainey girl
were arrested here in a rooming
house. He refused to talk to the
police. The girl tried to tell the
story that they had been mar
ried. Late tonight she made a
statement to a newspaper report
er that she knew Tanks1ey was
wanted at Bedford for some
charge other than kidnapping.
There is another charge which
can be brought against Ernest
she said. "of which he has beer
living in terror ever since we left
Bedford. IF this charge is
brought against him it will be
terrible for him to bear and viii
cause the creates sensation.
will commit suicide rather thar
tell what / know"
Tanksley and the Rainey Cir
will be taken back TO Bedford
Fridav morning by Marshal Ny.
ers. where the man will stand fol-
trial in the Schafer murder.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-14
DAILY GRAPHIC
-nE N

the passing of some of the older old time policemen. who regarded the third degree" as a legitimate part Of police work, physical brutality to- ward prisoners has been on the waue in Chicago. One of the present in spectorS and many officers of lower rank are known to favor the third degree" under certain circumstances, the instances are becoming fewer.
 \ case of confronting an accused murderer with the corpse of his vic tim and the greWsome environment and implements of his crime to force confession has not arisen iu Chicago for many years
 Two equally unfair but less brutal methods of forcing confessions, how ever, are in common use The first is thc misrepresentation io prisoner that his accomplce has confessed all. \ criminal often reveals facts, beliey- ing his pal to have "squealed,' when he could not have been driven to con feSSiOn otherwise. The other method is the long g-distanee, relay "SweatinS. Prisoners often are questioned for as long as twenty -four hours at stretch, the Questioners taking turn about with the prisoner. If t,e prisoner talks at all he is certain to become confused and contradict himself; if he refuses to talk he prob2ely is given even q more severe treatment than verbal onslaught.
 In discussing the legal phases of l the ''SWeat-boX' and third degree as practiced in Chicago, Judge Albert C. Barnes, formerly assistant states , attorney, said:
 When person is arrested the po- lice. under the law. have no right to hold him without process. After the serving of the process, whatever it may be, the prisoner has certain rights ' prescribed by law. Any undue influ- ence or physical force or form of tor : ture employed is clearly illegal. It Is perfectly proper and legal for the po- 1 lice to question a prisoner provided
 it is done in a way that does not con
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-14

nose and ears missing, his eyes ob- flesh, and his body pounded till it look ed like he had been run over by an automobile running forty miles all hour. The police sent for doctor and had Smith patched up.
 In the Mize murder case i'll Hyde park last year not fewer than twenty vague description. More than one Of the persons arrested and released told vivid stories of the sweat box meth ods. although none of them were in jured. In the Bartholin murder mys- tery, which afterward was cleared up by the suicide of William Barth0liH i'll Iowa. companion of the matricide and rOomer at the 3artholin house, named Thompson. was arrested It was believed that he could throw light on the mystery if he would and the police handled him without gloves. After Thompson $ innocence had been established by subsequent events he brought suit against Inspector Hunt for heavy damages claimed due him on account Of alleged maltreatment by the police, directed by the Hyde ] park inspector. This is one of the very few cases in which prisoners have tried to seek redress from the police. The case went against Thomp -On.
 As there is seldom anyone in the room or cell when prisoner is 'sweated' or given the third de gree except policemen, it is virtually l impossible for prisoner to furnish such corroboration of the facts as Is necessary to win case in court IT addition, in the few cases of this kind brought in Chicago the courts evidently have been disposed to accept the view that when serious crime has been committed the police arc justified in the exercise of their searcl for the guilty party in adopting almos any means that promises to gain tn. desired end
 Old Methods Passing.
 Since the death of Jack" Shea ant
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-14
The Third Degree
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there was not one on whom the crime .could be fastened. Still they were nheld without process and sWeated, al though there is no evidence that they were man-handled to any extent. Just at the time it began to look like the fish from the dragnet would have to be thrown back into the black waters of Chicagos under world an anony- mons letter was received by the police stating that one of the men i'll custody had been implicated in many crimes and could give much information about the operations of the long man" and the short man.
 The Girl or the "PaIs.
 This one man was singled out and ssweated." Detectives were set at work tracing the life of the prisoner upon whom they were working. They found that he had infatuated and talk en from her respectable home girl in her teens, and had been living with her on the North Side as her husband. sANo sweating was severe enough to make this man tell what he knew. N After the facts concerning his sweet heart were unearthed he was brought z into the front office.'
 "We know all about your relations : with this girl" he was told. She knows what you have been doing, and we intend to arrest her and make her tell what she knows. Her knowledge also makes her a party to the crimes, and we shall show her no mercy. There is only one way you can stop this, and that is to give us the infor- mation we want instead of compelling us to force it out of her.
 The prisoner was given little time to "think it over." The girls disgrace was unknown to her family. and what x she was he had made her. He knew ~ that the police would keep their word Band there was no way for him to com municate with the girl to enable her