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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
SAVE STATE CAPITAL.
BUILDING IN BATON ROUGE, LA.
BADLY DAMAGED.
Governor and Members of Legisla-
ture, i'm Night Clothes, Assist in
Subduing Flames Pennsylvania
Strikers Shot by Troops.

The saving of the State capitol build
ing in Baton Rouge, La, from destruction
by fire was accomplished in spectacular
manner with Gov. Blanchard, assisted by
many Louisiana legislators dressed in
their night clothes and by thousands of
Baton Rouge citizens, supplemented the
fire department. The fire started from
defective wiring near the roof of the
Senate chamber, destroying the capitols
eastern wing above the fist floor. The
damage was betweei $4,000 and $780,
600. Among the Va luables in the ruined
Senate chamber where the roof fell in
was the famous painting, 1.-The Battle of
New Orleans" said to have been valued
at $4,000. Gov. Blanchacd directed the
work of saving valuable papers. The Leg
islatuGe now being in session, the Senate
meets in the Elks' thea.ef. The capitol
is an imposing piece of architecture on
the bank of the Mississippi. 1t was first
built in 1S47 and was destroyed by fire
during the Civil War, after Federal
troops evacuated it. The present struc-
ture was erected in 1880.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
Points IN the NELL Renort.

"Potted ham" is made with the help Of
meat scraps unfit to be eaten,' bits Of
rope and other rubbish.
There are no restrooms and women are
stationed in the Mushrooms TO prevent the
girls from resting there.
There are no lavatories or sinks where
employees may wish their hands before
plunging them into meat products.
Even the ordinary decencies of life are
ignored in the sanitary arrangements
made for the men and women employees.
The phraseology of the labels alleging
government inspection is wholly unwar-
ranted and tends TO deceive the purchaser.
Canned meats moldy with age are ''liv-
ened up" by being heated, relabeled and
placed ON the market.
Girls of 16 stand ten hours a day, al
though their work could be done just
as well if they were permitted to sit
down.
Workers climb over heaps of meat with
their dirty shoes and cut up sides of beef
holding them against 'indescribably filthy
aprons"
Piles of sausages and moldy canned
meats, supposed to be tanked, may at OPP
ton of the superintendent be turned into
sausage, after being treated with chemi-
calls.
Girls and women are forced 20 work in
a room at a temperature of So degrees,
with a water-covered floor and leaky
ceiling. although all these conditions ap,
parentiy are unnecessary.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
LETS BABY SLEEP IN SNOW.
Mother at Club Convention Says In
fants Should Take Maps Outdoors.

Let your baby sleep out of doors for
part cf the day from the minute it is
born. Even if the baby is born in the
winter, get it out of doors at once. Wrap
It up in wooden clothes and tuck it into
coy, padded Klondike bag. Then put
the baby in hammock or specially made
box and let it sleep out of DOORS" This
startling advice was given at the Nation
al Federation of Woman's Clubs in st.
Paul by Mrs. Winona s. Abote, mother
of five children. She was brought to the
convention by Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley-
Ward of Chicago. My baby has slept
out of doors when the mercury stood at
70 degrees below zero, and it is tie strong
est baby in the world continued Mrs.
Abbott. 1T is now 20 months old, and
1t can hold its own weight on horizon
tai bar for a minute and a half. When
your baby is six months old, dress it in
warm clothes, put a macintosh on it, and
place it out of doors. Put i. right in
the snow. That will do L good, for the
dampness and moisture canro. come
through the macintosh. 1t vii enjoy
the snow and thrive on the cold weather.
The mothers said I'VE just won't do it"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
TALKING MACHINES BADp
John Philip Sousa Makes Bitter At
tack on Them

John Philip Sousa, the bandmaster,
made a bitter attack on talking machines
at the hearing ON the copyright law by
the combined committees on patents OF
the Senate and House in Washington, ID.
c. Il tell you the human voice is not
heard as it used to be-" he said, land
prophesy that the vocal chords may by
this disuse become useless. Another evil
denee that these machines are taking the
musical initiative from our people is that
the sale of the banjo, the mandolin and
the guitar is greatly decreasing. and the
dealers tell me this is on account of the
increased use of the talking machines.
Mr. Sousa testified that in every one of
the catalogues of the manufacturers of
talking machines was list of some twen-
ty to a hundred of his compositions but
he had yet to receive the frs. cent for
what ne regarded as this piracy" Libra
rian Putnam declared that the manufac-
turars of talking machines would oppose
the provision prohibiting the reproduction
of copyrighted musical compositions with
out the consent Of the proprietor of the
copyright
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
Comment by the President

/ urge the immediate enactment into
law of provisions which will enable the
Department of Agriculture adequately to
inspect the meat and meat-food products
entering into interstate commerce, and
to supervise the methods of preparing the
same, and to prescribe the sanitary condi-
IONS under which the work shall be per-
med. / urge the enactment of the
Beveridge amendment.
Tie conditions shown by even this
short inspection to exist in the Chicago
stock yards are revolving. 1t is impera-
lively necessary in The interests of de-
cency that they should be radically chang
ed. Under the existing law it is wholly
impossible to secure satisfactory results.
The report shows that the stock yards
and packing houses are not kept even
reasonably clean and that the method of
handling and preparing food products is
uncleanly and dangerous to health.
If inspection of meat food products at
all stages of preparation is no. secured
by the passage of legislation recommend
ed, / shall feel compelled to order that
inspection labels and certificates on can
ned products shall not be used hereaftr.
In my judgment the expense Of the
inspection should be paid by fee levied
on each animal slaughtered. If this is
not done the whole purpose of the law
can be defeated at any time through an
insufficient appropriation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

President Roosevelt's autograph brought
SIS in New York in aid of San Francisco
sufferers.
The Italian consul at New Orleans, G..
Fara-F orni, has been transferred TO Phil
adelphia.
The National Clothiers Association has
elected Marcus NJ. Marks of New York
president and L. II. Kohn of Chicago vice
president.
Chancellor Won Bulow has left Berlin
for the Island of Nordeney, off the north
ern coast of Germany, where he will spend
his three months holiday.
King Victor Emmanuel received in pri-
vate audience Siias McBee, editor of the
Churchman of New York, with whom he
conversed on the relations between church
and state in Italy.
II. j. Croker of San Francisco was
awarded a gold cup for his exhibit of
Hawaiian stamps at the International
Philatelic exhibition which is now being
held in London.
Chairman T. r. Shonts of the isthmian
canal commission will be the chief speak
er at the twenty-fifth Anniversary celebra-
ton of Drake university at Des Moines,
Iowa, on June IA.
The consumption of beer and whisky
in Cincinnati during April was consid-
erably heavier than the corresponding
month last year, despite the new midnight
closing law.
Donald Grant of Chicago was elected
president and Henry Meyer, cashier of
the Hamilton National bank, vice presi-
dent, in ths reorganization of the San
Francisco, Idaho and Montana railroad
at Boise, Idaho. Both are of Chicago.
Announcement was made in Oberlin,
Ohio, of the breaking of the engagement
of Prof. Julius A. Brewer, A. NJ. Phi. d.,
of New York, to Miss Mary Katherine
Barrows. daughter of the late John II.
Barrows, president of Oberlin College
Representative Goulder of New York,
testifying before the House committee on
judiciary Monday concerning the propos-
ed insurance law, said that to be State
Senator at Albany was worth anywhere
from $4,000 to 100000 year, and that
this money came largely from insurance
companies which want to get or defeat
legislation. He said his company, the
Pennsylvania Mutual, in 1896, had been
coerced into giving $4,000 to cam
paisn committee.
Mrs. Lydia Titus of Rockland, Me-,
is trying to raise funds in Boston to
search for the body of her son, Edgar NJ.
Titus, who disappeared in Death Valley,
CAL, June 20. 1906.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

DIR. Fridtjof Nansen, the Arctic explor.
er. is a firm believer in woman's rights.
Costa RIGA has named Ascension Es-
ouivel. former president of the republic.
as it's delegate to the pan-American Con-
gress in July.
DIR. Solly, a noted pioneer physician Of
Colorado Springs, Colo, was brought to
Chicago. His life demands the effect of
the lower altitude.
f. A. Heiner. aged IS. of indianapolis
committed suicide at Shreveport, La. by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been in bad health.
The treasurer of Falls City, Neb.. has
fled a petition in bankruptcy, admittinx
$4,000 shortage in city funds. with
which he paid business debts
A fashionably gowned young woman,
believed TO be an actress, was found nm
conscious in New York. In lucid inter
val she said she had been robbed.
Andrew Lang once wrote to Israel
Zangwill to ask him to take part in an
authors reading for the benefit of charity.
and received the following reply: III
Lang will. Zangwill.'
Sir Charles Metcaife, the consulting en-
sineer 10 the Rhodesian railways. claims
the w,rld's record for rapid construcfion
an the la abroad above Victoria falls. Five
and three-quarter miles of track we're laid
| in twelve hours.
| Alva J. Niles, recently appointed adju-
tant general of the Oklahoma National
| Guard. has the distinction of being The
| xounoest adiutan Mt, general in the UnifoI
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14


Chicago-Cattle. common to prime
$500 to 5000; hogs, prime heavy, 500
to $6.55; Sheep fair to choice. $500 to
5000; wheat, No. 2, SIC to SIC; corn,
No. 2, Acc TO Sic; oats, standard, 35c 10
SIC; rye, No. ?, Gle to &c; hay, Gmo-
thy, $3.50 to $l4.00; prairie 5000 TO
S1400; butter, choice creamery. 16c to
19c: eggs, fresh, lac TO 1Sc; potatoes,
new, $1.10 to $1.35.
Indianapolis--Cattle. shipping. $500
to 1915; hogs, choice heavy, S4-00 to
S6.42: sheep. common to prime. $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat. No. 2, Sc TO soc; corn.
No. 2 white, Ace to sic; oats No. 2
white, 33c 20 35c.
St. Louis-Cattie, $3.50 to 5000;
hogs, $500 TO $3.50; sheep. $500 to
S6.f5; wheat, No. z. Soc 10 Ole; corn.
No. 2, 47c TO Acc; oats. No. ?, Sc 70
34c: rye, No. 2. Csc to SAC.
Cincinnati--Cattle. $400 TO 1928;
hogs. $4O0 to $3.50; sheep, 500 10
$500: wheat, No. ?. 30c to Ole; corn,
No. 2 mixed. 52c to 53c: oats, No. 2
mixed, 36c to SIC; rye, No. 2, 66c 70
69c.
Detroit-C Cattle, 800 to $40: hogs.
$500 to $3.50: sheep, $3.50 TO $500;
wheat, No. 2. SEC to SSc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 3 white,
35c 10 Bic; rye, No. 2, Csc to Csc.
Milwaukee-wheat. No. northern.
SEC to SIC: corn, No. 3, 49c TO Bic;
oats. standard, 35c to 36c; rye. No. ],
&c to CSC; barley, standard, SAC to 56c;
pork. mess, S16.77.
Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed. So to
S5c; corn, No. mixed, 46c to 4Sc;
oats. No. 2 mixed. Bic to 33c; rye. No.
2, 66c to &c; clover seed, prime. $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to $5.75; hogs. fair to choice. 500
to $3.50: sheep. common TO good mixed,
$500 to $50; lanb~c fair to choice,
$500 to s7.20.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs. 500 to 500: sheep, $500 to
1915: wheat, No. red. 93c to 95c;
corn, No. 2, SIC to 5Sc; oats, natural
white. Ale to 42c: butter. creamery, lie
to 2Oc: eggs, western, 15c to lie
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
Loss in San Francisco.

When the first estimates of the insur-
ance companies losses in San Francisco
were given out, the total was placed at
from S175.000,0O0 to 500, 100000. The
Official compilation used in the executive
sessions of the adjusters shows these esti-
mates to be far below the real figures.
The aggregate loss of all the III COM
ponies is given in the tables as more than
5000 600 600
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
MINERS KILLED BY TROOPS.
Shot Fired at Constabulary Brings
Bullets Upon Strikers.

Two strikers we've killed and six wound
ed at the new mining town of Ernest,
Pa, in a conflict between detail of
State constabulary and coal miners.
Shortly after daylight a body of strikers
headed by a brass band marched from the
Anita mines in Jefferson county TO reA
ceive one of the officials expected from
Punxsutawney.l On the way to the sta
ton the marchers encountered detail
of twelve members of the State constabu-
larry. As they passed striker fired a
revolver at the troop. No one was struck,
but the constabulary retaliated with a
volley from their carbines. When the
smoke cleared eight strikers were lying
on the ground and the others had fled
down the hill. Two of hose shot had
been killed and the six others were Sc
verely wounded.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

The appellate division of the New York
Supreme Court handed down Friday its
opinion that George w. Perkins was
guiltless If criminal intent Ia connection
with his contribution of $4,000 to the
Republican campaign fund ON behalf OF
the New York Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Perkins was discharged, and the con-
tention of District Attorney Jerome up
held. while the decision of Justice Green
baum was reversed. The case will now be
carried to the Court of Appeals.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

Ex-State Senator G. e. Green of New
York and w. ID. Doremus we're placed on
trial in Washington, charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the government postal
service.
Representative Gardner of Texas has
introduced resolution directing the Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor to ascer-
tain if there is difference in the price
at home and abroad of iron and steel
products: also to ascertain whether the
United States Steel Corporation owns or
controls other corporations in violation of
the Sherman antitrust law.
The Russian government has informed
the State Department that it has directed
the local officials at Batum to do every
thing in their power to secure the arrest
and punishment of the murderers of Vice
Consul Stuart at Batum. Several ar
rests have been made, but there is no GER
tainty of the guilt of the parties.
John G. A. Leshman, the United
States minister TO Turkey, had long
conference with Secretary Root, after
which it was confidently expected by the
department that Congress will raise the
American mission at Constantinople to an
embassy and Mr.. Leishman doubtless will
be continued there when the post is ele-
waited.
The Secretary of War has authorized
the announcement that it had been de-
cided by the President to appoint Col.
Stephen p. Jocelyn, who is the senior
colonel of the line, now serving as
member of the general staff in San Fran
cisco. as a brigadier general 10 succeed
Gen. Buchanan, and Col. Walter T. Dug
gan, now on the Philippines First in
fantry, to succeed Gen. Frank d. Bald
win. Both of these officers are Civil War
veterans.
Representative Fletcher of Minnesota
extended to the President an invitation
to attend the State encampment of the
G. A. r., which is to be held in Mime
apolis next August.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

on each animal slaughtered. If this is
not done, the whole purpose of the law
can at any time be defeated through an in
sufficient appropriation, and whenever
there was no particular interest in the
subject it would be not only easy but
natural thus to make the appropriation
insufficient. If it were not for this con-
sideration / should favor the government
paying for the inspection.
The alarm expressed in certain quar-
ters concerning this feature should be al
layed by realization of the fact that
in no case under such a law will the cost
of inspection exceed 8 cents per head
call special attention to the fact that
this report is preliminary and that the
investigation is still unfinished. 1t is not
yet possible to report on the alleged abuses
in the use of deleterious chemical com
pounds in connection with canning and
preserving meat products, nor on the al.
legged doctoring in this fashion of faint
ed meat and of products returned to the
packers as having grown unstable OF
unusable from age or from other reasons
Grave allegations are made in references
to abuses of this nature.
Law Needed to Stop Abuse.
Let me repeat that under the present
law there is practically no method OF
stopping these abuses if they should be
discovered to exist. Legislation is need
ed in order to prevent the possibility Of
all abuses in the future. If no legisla.
ton is passed then the excellent results
accomplished by the work of this special
committee will endure only so long as the
memory of the committees work is fresh
and a recrudescence of the abuses is alb
solutely certain.
I urge the immediate enactment into
law of provisions which will enable the
| Department of Agriculture adequately to
inspect the meat and meat-food products
entering into interstate commerce and to
supervise the methods of preparing the
same and to prescribe the sanitary condi
lions under which the work shall be per-
formed. / therefore commend to your ia
yorable consideration and urge the enact
| ment Of substantially the provisions
known as Senate amendment No. . tc
the act making appropriations for the
Department of Agriculture for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1907, as passed by
the Senate, this amendment being com
| monty known as the Beverage amend
! ment. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
New rrial for Charles Dunn.

The Supreme Court of Indiana for the
second time reversed the judgement con-
yicting Charles w. Dunn, OF the murder
of little Alice Cothrell, near Fort Wayne,
for which crime he was sent to prison
for life- Thedecision of the Supreme Court
means that Charles Dunn will be brought
back to Fort Wayne in the course of the
next week or two. He will be confined in
the Allen county jail, for the third time,
to await the verdict of jury that is to
decide his future fate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
Bartender Shot by Teamster.

Thomas H. Crume, aged g. bartend-
er, was shot and instantly killed in Brai-
nerd, Mimi, by Alexander Alexanderson.
AleAanderson, it is said, came into the sa-
loon where Crume was working and asked
for drink. Crume refused to giwe it to
him and Alexanderson began TO abuse
Crume and later shot him without appar-
ent provocation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

The four trade associations of employ
ers in the Building Trades Employers As
ISOLATION of New York who employ car
penters met and passed a resolution de-
claring a lockout of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters. The lockout will affect 1900
carpenters in the metropolitan district
and render thousands in other trades idle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

indianapolis correspondence:
The distinctive feature of the Dello-
cratic State convention which nominal
ted the above ticket was the inlorse-
ment of William Jennings Bryan as the
party's candidate for the Presidency in
1908.
Democrats of Indiana in convention
Thursday adopted a platform strongly
indorsing WIN. j. Brsan for the presi-
dency and selected state ticket for
all offices, except governor and reporter
of the Supreme Court. Benjamin F.
Shively. of South Bend, former repre-
sentative il congress from the Thir-
teenth Indiana district, was permanent
chairman and in his address said
'sThat which is today eulogized and
approved as broad craftsmanship and
enlightened patriotism in Theodore
Roosevelt was only a few years ago de-
nounced as reactionary, revolutionary
and unpatriotic in William Jennings
Bryan. The afterslght Of the one is
dlHAoSt cQutl ~ tiC ASAcS1Shi VI e1tS
other"
The resolutions committee was at
work on the platform until after 3
o'clock and the report was not ready
before the convention was in session.
1t was read by Samuel L. Ralston OF
Lebanon, chairman Of the committee,
and besides a number of planks on
state issues contained the following:
"The Democracy of Indiana in con-
venti0n assembled renews its ale
glance to the principle Of constitution
al government through laws enacted
and executed in the interests Of the
whole people without favor to individu-
al or class. 1t pledges Itself when re-
turned to power to correct the evils
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

The government has placed with Will
liam Simons & Co., Scotch concern, a
contract for two suction dredges for the
Panama canal work. Their bid was 1904,
600. which was $4,000 less than the low
est American bid. The Simons company,
which Is located at Renfrew, is the Oldest
builder of dredges in the world. The new
dredges will be of $500 tons hopper ca
nacify
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14
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 1t Complete.
Eight Miners Dead from Fire Damp.

Eight Miners Dead from Fire Damp.
A special from Red Lodge, Mont, says
that eight miners are dead and it is be-
lieved several others have lost their lives
as the result of fire damp which filled the
corridors of the mines of the Rock Fork
Company. The fire which has been smoul-
dering for years broke out again and was
supposed to be under control when the men
went to work. The flames became sud-
denly active and the men working in lower
levels were cut off. There were many dar-
ingrescues. Streams of water were poured
on the fire but with little effect As the
rescuers cannot proceed to the lower levels
because of the white damp it is thought
that others have lost their lives.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-14

that have grown out of Republican Of
fetal shortcomings, to an economical
administration of public affairs. and to
the consistent enforcement of the laws
pertaining to public welfare.
ut sends greetings across the sea to
that wise and conservative statesman,
unfaltering patriot and superb leader,
William Jennings Bryan, and pledges
its vote in convention and the electoral
vote of Indiana to him for President in
1905"
Scene OF Wild Enthusiasm.
When the resolution of inGorsement
was read the delegates rose to their
feet and cheer after cheer resounded
through the hall Then the men and
women in the balconies and on the
stage took it up, and hats and handker-
chiefs were waved, and more than n
thousand voices joined in the applause.
For fully five minutes the demonstra-
ton continued.
As the resolution was read an oil
painting of Bryan, that had been pur-
posely concealed by the drapery of the
stage, was lowered into the full view
Of the delegates. The scene that fol-
lowed was intensely dramatic. Men
threw their hats in the air, women
waved their handkerchiefs aud fans,
and many men left their seats amorg
The delegates and walked up and down
the aisles, shaking hands with every
one in token of the great JOY they selt
over the resolution.
Conventions Work IL Easy.
The convention was in session only
about four hours, and the ..cket was Sc
lected without taking ballot, all the
nominees being chosen by reclamation.
There were two or more candidates for
the several positions on the ticket be-
fore the convention assembled. but be-
fore the nominations were made on the
floor the list had been reduced to one
candidate for each office, and the work
of the convention, therefore, was soon
accomplished.