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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-06-13

The most successful farmer is not
always the best farmer. The former
may raise fine stock and grow big
crops, but If he does not also grow
crop of good ideas and rear a bunch
of manly boys and womanly girls, and
reach out the glad, helpful hand to
push along right conditions in his
community, state and nation, he lacks
many qualifications which go to make
up the best farmer. No farmer can
limit his activities and his interests
to the 160-acre farm and be what he
ought to be.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-06-13

The value of the Babcock tester in
determining the relative merits Of diff
ferent members of the herd must nee
essarily depend upon the frequency
with which the tests are made, the
number of milkings from which the
sample is taken and the accuracy with
which the test is carried through.
Many have claimed that two or three
tests, made at intervals Of sever al
months, with the weight of milk, will
furnish a fairly accurate basis for es.
timating the fat yield Of a COW for
one year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
NEW YORK

Trade and manufacturing conditions
are in high degree favorable, despite the
lull in demand usual at this stage of the
spring season Some odd cross-currents
are visible because OF the scarcity of
stocks in so many lines. necessitating
buying in other markets 10 exc out sup
plies sold ahead some time ago. In re-
tail t.ade cold weather and bad country
roads are bar TO fullest activity. but
the volume of business as a whole exceeds
the corresponding period in other yeAys.
Business failures for the week endil<<
April IL number 194, against 1871 last
week and 161 in the like week of 1906
Canadian failures for the week number
%, against % last and Is in this week
a, year ago.
Wheat. including -four. exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending April ii aggregated 1881. .
105 bushels. against 3.460s72 last week
and 2.362.3 47 this week last year. for
the last forty-one weeks of the fiscal
yea. 135SS3.022 bushels against 107.-
zoe .919 in 10000. CorA exports for the
week are 1.415,719 bushels. against q
91,.004 last week and s,725.799 a year
age; for the fiscal year to date. $685.
80 bushels. against $1,000. 135 in 1906
06.-Bradstreet's Report
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
CHICAGO.

Aside from the temporary effect of/R
seasonable weather the prevailing cD1di-
tions impart sustained strength 70 BUSH
ness. No interruption appears in pro
duction of the leading industries new
demands come forward steadily and, with
the resumption of navigation to lower
lake ports. transportation OF freight y
more extended Commercial loans exhibit
the greatest aggregate vet attained here
but. while the tone is easier, the discount
rate may not decline appreciably until
there is a further gain in deposits
Advices testify to spring merchandising
equaling expectations at most interior
centers. farm work well forward and at
tention turning to extensive improve
ments. Distributive trade generally is
upon an encouraging basis here and in
the West and there is yet much activity
in the jobbing branches upon demands for
textiles. footwear. clothing. furniture and
hardware. Some delays occur in forward
ing general merchandise. due TO scarcity
in first hands. and road statesmen obtain
good orders for summer staples, indicat-
ing that buyers have no loss of confi-
3enc> in the future.
Manufacturing progress is unabafed-
The capacity Of most plants is exerfed TO
the limit. and the machinery and labor
employed exceeds all previous experience
in iron and steel. power, car and forge
work.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number IL, against 13 last week
and 26 year ago.-Dun's Review CT
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

while the police We're already on his
trail, and disappeared. He says now
that he wandered over the country and
has been TO Italy. He had changed his
name to Pasquale Girolamo and pro-
vided ehimself with a birth certificate
issued under that name His appear
ance enabled him to pass easily as an
Italian.
After admitting his identity. he de.
clared his innocence. saying that the
woman cut her own throat while she
was alone i'm the fiat with him.
Constantine is never-do-well son
of welI-to-do parents. who was always
idle and penniless He was roomer
in the fat of the Gentrys. who were
both talented artists. and only six
months married The husband went &c
work at a. M. leaving the roomer and
his wife at home Two hours later the
beautiful wife staggered to doctors
office on the first floor, gasping that
someone had cut her throat, and bled
W utdtH HIS 4ttt III lev
The evidence against Constantine is
purely circumstantiaf and there is nc
motive known. Theories range from q
crime of mailman. love. disappoint
ment and jealousy to murder for plain
robbery.
In brief, Constantine's story of the
tragedy is as follows:
/ never killed Mrs. Gentry. l was in
the house when she committed suicide
did not kill her. but was in the room
when she cut her throat.
don't know why she did it. but she
certainly did cut her own throat j
saw il.
l didn't know what to do J was there
alone with the dead woman.
was the only witness of the deed
became panic stricken and thoroughly
unnerved. / was afraid I would be &C
cused of having murdered her. so | ran
away, anxious to get anywhere, where ]
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

pearl necklaces, etc. These gifts were
returned by her mother, who chaperoned
her devotedly.
Miss Nestit subsequently went to Eu-
rope with her mother, and Thaw pursued.
After a few months Mrs. Nesbit return
ed to announce that her daughter was
at last accepting the attentions of that
odious man." and that she wished to have
nothing more to do with her. Mrs. Mes
bit married again. and Miss Evelyn went
on her unchaperoned way.
Little is known of the European ex-
ploits of Thaw and the girl. They auto
modified together. but were very discreet,
the only adventure being an arrest in
Switzerland for fast driving, when they
were booked by the police as man and
WIFE
Oct. %, 1901, they registered at Clar-
idge's in London as III. X. Thaw and
wife" When Harry's family heard of
it they sent cutting cablegrams. Nov. /
the pair landed in New York and went to
the Cumberland hotel. Two dags later
they were elected from the Cumberland
Then, after being refused rooms by four
hotels, Thaw and Mis- Nes5it parted tenn
porarily. Thaw went to Pittsburg to con-
fer with his family. Miss Nesbit follow
ed him in the spring, and April 4, 1908
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
JURY DISAGREES
LoNG,pRAWN.oUT TRIAL COMES
TO AN END.
Famous Legal Battle Lasts for Three
Months-PrOcceding Have Been
Eagerly Followed by Reading
Public in Two Continents.

Hopeiessly divided-seyen for
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree and five for acquittal on the
ground of insanity-the jury which
since January % has been trying Har-
~ K. Thaw in New York City report
e. Friday afternoon after forty-seven
hours and eight minutes of delibera-
ton t. Ak it could not possibly agree.
The twelve men were promptly dis
charged by Justice Fitzgerald, who de-
clared that he, too, believed their task
hopeless. Thaw was remanded to jail
without bail to await a second trial
on the charge of having murdered
Stanford White, the noted architect
When this new trial will take place
no one connected with the case could
express an opinion. District Attorney
Jerome declared that there were many
other persons accused of homicide
awaiting trial and that Thaw would
have to take his turn.
Events moved swiftly and thrilling
" in the last day of the great Thaw
trial in New York. For Thaw and for
those who were hoping for his acquit-
tai it was the most soul trying ordeal
Of the twelve weeks which the trial
had lasted. Upon the heels of District
Attorney Jerome's closing address,
nearly every word Of which was like
the blow of n lash on Thaw and his
girl wife, Justice Fitzgerald charged
the jury in a manner that seemed to
dry up every yestige of hope for STAN
ford Whites slayer. And then the
case was given to the jury.
The closing day of the trial proceed
prisoners wife recited her pitiful story
on the witness stand. District Attor-
ney Jerome dissected the argument of
Mr.. Delmas for the defense and tore it
20 shreds. Selling upon incidents in
Thaw's life, he pictured the prisoner as
q man whose character was as black as
that of Stanford White. and Evelyn
Nes5it he portrayed as girl anything
but the innocent child Mr.. Delmas had
shown her.
Harry X. Thaw sat with clenched
fists and blancEed face while District
Attorney Jerome tore his life to shreds.
and demanded that the jury assess
against him the death penalty. Sar-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Tbc Mcdonald engineering building at
EcGill university at Montreal. was de
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
between 100000 and $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
The negro longshoremen of the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation Com
pany and the Old Dominion Steamship
Company. who have been on a strike for
an increase of cents an hour in wages.
have been notified by the companies that
they need not return to work.
All men have been withdrawn from the
underground workings in the Homestake
mine at Lead. s. D.. in consequence of
the presence of carbon dioxide gas caus-
ed by the fire that has been burning in
the mine. There has been no loss of
life. but many men have been overcome
Jy the sas.
The oyster settlement at Maurice river.
near Millville. n. J., was burned out.
Loss $4,000. on which there was no in
surance.
Stephen Shellgo of Cleveland commit
ted suicide on a railroad train near Wash
ington. ID. c.. by shooting himself through
the right temple.
The artillery district of San Diego,
which was discontinued in May. 1904. has
been re-established and will now COM
prise Fort Rosecrans, Cal.
The commission appointed by Secretary
Taft to consider the improvement of the
landscape of Niagara gorge continued its
investigation of the American bank.
A. b. Nichols, % years old, son Of
Jacob Nichols, prosperous faimer.
wanted for two months for forgery. was
arrested on his return to Lebanon. Ind.
Marquis Bindo Peruzzi de Me8-.i com
mitted suicide with revolver in i1s
apartments at Florence. Italy. He was
20 years of age and weli-known sports
man. His mother, who is widow. was
formerly Miss Edith Storey of Boston.
According to a report issued by the
bureau of statistics of the Department Of
Commerce, cocoa importations into the
United States are now averaging more
than a million dollars a month against an
average of quarter of million dollars
month decade ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, candidate
for the presidency Of Cuba, is i'll with
consumption.
The trials of Judge Hargis and others,
charged with the assassination of James
Cockrill, were assigned at Lexington,
KY, to begin May {.
John ID. Rockefeller opened the picnic
season the other day at Lakewood. n. j.
He took the choir of the Baptist church
over to the seashorc in the afternoon and
then entertained the party at supper in
the evening.
Three hundred japanese will leave
Honolulu on the steamship Korea for
San Francisco, whittier they will Be
shipped to Vancouver, B. G.
The report of the official naval tribunal
of France of its inquiry into the battle
ship Jena disaster, rejects the possibility
of malice as an explanation of the ex-
plosion and attributes it solely to pow
der 3D."
William West, an engineer on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. shot
and killed Engineer Fraser at Montgom-
cry, Ala, and finding escape impossible
turned his pistol on himself. dying a few
moments later. West was accused e
stealing . ring.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

possibilities of new suggestion, great
or small, the amount of work of which
he was capable was the despair of every
man with whom he came into business
relations He could accomplish his
greatest duties on apparently three or
four hours sleep, and in addition to all
OF his vast enterprises, White was known
over Europe and America as one of the
most companiorable and lovable men of
his time.
Cultivated. gifted in practically oil the
arts, he took with him wherever he went
that extraordinary love of fun and bois-
ferrous jollity that distinguished him to
the end and that made his presence
sought and priced in every branch of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

casm tipped every word which the dis
trict attorney spoke He declared the
pathetic "unwritten law" arguments OF
Mr.. Delmas, If needed by the jury,
would turn New York into the sem
blance of a western mining camp. and
sidiculed the "dementia Americana on
which the final plea for acquittal had
been made.
The district attorney declared that
romance and sentiment did not enter
into the issue ii was not q question
of stanford Whites character or Eve
lyn Thaw's sufferings: it was plain,
matter-of-fact homicide. "A common.
cowardly tenderloin murder is the
way he termed II.
II was Jerome's summing-up speech
the last word in the famous trial be-
fore the Judge intrusted the prisoners
fate to the jury. Jerome dashed Thaw
as with a knout of a thousand fails.
1t was the most savage attack Of the
whole trial. There was not a dark
page in Thaw's life that was not turn
ed TO the light of criticism and blame.
So fierce, so vindictiye was Jerome that
there were many who believed he was
purposely seeking to goad Thaw into
some outburst. HE is guilty and
should be punished" was the burden
of his speech.
And following this terrific arraign-
ment which had turned the hopes of
Thaw and his relatives into forebod-
ings, came the judges charge to the
jury As the jurist, avoiding all ef-
forts at oratorical effect, went over the
facts and admonished the men who are
to decide on Thaw's fate to put aside
passion and prejudice and render a
verdict strictly on the legal points at
issue, an expression of abject terror
overspread the prisoners face. The
judges definition of insanity sufficient
to cause an acquittal dampened the
hopes even Of the prisoners lawyers,
and as the jury filed out of the room
1t was plain that all concerned were
anxious.
After celebrating for more than
eighteen hours without being able to
reach an agreement, the jurors report
ed before Justice Fitzgerald Thursday
morning and asked permission to ex-
anime q large number Of the exhibits
introduced during the trial and also
asked to have read to them the testi-
m6ny of several OF the eyewimesses
to the tragedy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18


Chicago-Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to 1919: hogs, prime heavy. 500
to SGT; sheep. fair 10 choice. $500
to 5000: wheat. No. ?. 71c to 7Sc; corn,
No. 2. Acc to 47c: oats. standard. Ale to
43c; rye, No ?. CSC to 69c: hay, timo-
thy. $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500 TO
$3.50; butter. choice creamery. &c TO
30c: eggs. fresh. 14c to lie; potatoes.
30c TO 4Sc.
dianapolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
TO 5000: hogs. choice heavy, $500 10
$500; sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to
1913: wheat. No. ?. 74c to &c; corn.
No. 2 white, 45c to acc; oats, No. 2
white. 42c to 44c.
St Louis--Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50:
hogs. $500 to 500; sheep. $500 to
$50: wheat, No. 2. TIC to 7Sc: corn.
No 2, 4fc 10 45c; oats. No. 2, Ale TO
43c; rye. No. ?. J7c 10 Csc.
Observation-Disclosures. $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to S6.95; sheep, $500 TO
$500: wheat. No. ?. nc to roc; corn.
No mixed. 46c to zTc: oats No.
mixed, 42c 10 43c; rye, No. ?, 73c to 74c.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $3.50: hogs,
S4.0o to $3.50: sheep. $3.50 to 5000:
wheat, No. ?, &c to 79c; corn. No. 3
yellow. Acc to 47c: oats. No white.
45c to 47e: rye. No. ?, tic to 13c-
Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern.
79c to S3ss corn. No. 3. 42c TO 44c.
cats, standard. 42c to 44c: rye, No. ].
69c to lie: barley. standard. zoe to Tic:
pork. mess, S16.15-
Buffalo-Catrle choice shipping steers.
$3.50 to 5000: hogs fair to choice. $500
to $7.15; sheep. common to good mixed,
S4.u) to $500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 TO 5000.
New York-Cattle. $500 to 5000:
hogs. $500 to S7.20; sheep. $500 to
S5.S7: wheat. No = red. SIC to Sac:
corn, No. 2. 52c TO 53c; oats. naturs'e
white. 4Sc to soc: butter. creamery, ~
to 31c; eggs. western. 15c TO lie.
Toledo-wheat. No. mixed. nc to
79c; corn, No. mixed. 44c to acc:
oas. No. mixed. 43c to 45c: rye. No.
2, CSC to 69c; clover seed. prime, 1928.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
BALL SEASON Is ON.
GAME OPENS IN SEVEN BIG
LEAGUE CITIES
Everywhere Welcome Return OF
the National Sporf-C1oseg Com
tests the Rule i'm Opening Games.

Thursday afternoon the gladstone
cry, "Play ball, ~ went up in nearly
every large city between Plymouth
Rock and the Mississippi River and
and the Titanic struggle for suprem-
acy in the two great leagues for the
season of 1907 was on.
In Chicago the pennant-winning
Cubs of the National League, VINO
broke all records for the number OF
games won last year. delighted the
hearts Of 5000 faithful fans Icy defeat
ing the St Louis Cardinals by score
of to 4.
In st. Louis the world-famous worlds
champion Chicago White Sox of the
American League went down to defeat
at the hands of the Browns and hand
some Nick Altrock bowed his head in
sorrow at the supremacy of Harry
Howell. the premier spit-ballist. The
score was to 0.
In only one city was the opening
game postponed-in Boston, where, ON
account of recent heavy rains, the
grounds were impossible and play inn
possible.
In New York the Giants got into 4
row, as usual, and forfeited tho szme
to Philadelphia at the end of the eighth
inning. when they were already badly
beaten
At Detroit Napoleon Laioie and his
gallant crew. went down before the on
slaughts of the Tigers.
The Athletics and Bostons pulled off
the prize stunt of the day by playing
fourteen innings before the. Boston
team finally won out, s to 4.
At Cincinnati, Notwithstanding the
cold weather and the traces of snow
which still remained, the Cincinnati
team broke all presidents by winning
the opening game, the Pirates being
the victims of tl:is remarkable rever-
sal of form.
In Washington much to their sor-
row, the Senator's entertained Clark
Grinith's New York Highlanders and
lost
Everywhere the attendance was
good. The eager fans, who had been
awaiting the day impatiently. turned
out by the thousands TO witness the
opening trays and shivered with de-
light quite as much as they did from
the cold when finally. after months Of
yearning, the command to play was
given.
All of the big league teams have
trained more extensively this season
than ever before and heartier, husk-
Ter. happier lot of athletes IL would be
impossible TO find on the face of the
globe than the gallant crews who will
battle against one another for the base
ball honors of the world during the
season Of 1907.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Telexraphic Brevities.

The Delta Chi legal fraternity. in con.
vention at Washington elected Harry H.
Barnum of Chicago president
The sawplill of the Maley. Thompson
& Moffet Lumber Company at Cincinnati
burned, causing loss of $4,000.
benjamin Thaw. half-brother of Har-
ry X. Thaw, has donated $4,000 TO the
fund for the proposed new building for
the Western University of Pennsylvania,
Pittsburg.
Milton Il. Kirk of Chicago. who recent
ly passed the examination for consular
service, has been appointed consular
clerk. vice William Hunter Delaney, who
has been promoted.
The annual meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
Railroad Company of Texas was held in
Dallas. The entire board of old direc.
tors was reelected.
Two white men and two negroes were
shot at Lynchbufg, Va. in a riot result.
ing from the white men being jostled of
the sidewalk by four negroes.
Armed with rife and standing guard
over her dead husbands body, Mrs. L. G.
Drew ueiu "a SneIlu pOSSe at Day IOr
twenty-four hours at Water Valley. La.
Mrs. Drew is charged with shooting her
husband.
Otto ID. Stallard, defauting cashier of
the Peoples National bank at Sedan,
Kan, was granted continuance in order
to permit him to raise a crop on his
home place to keep his family from want.
He has agreed to plead guilty.
The Shamokin wagon works, an adjoin-
ing planning mill and seven small dwell
ings at Shamokin. Pa. were destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
III. +. Bowman. an insurance agent rep
resenting himself to be from Columbus,
Ohio. was found dead in Delphos. Ohio,
hotel. He retired apparently in good
Sealth. Death is supposed to have been
due to paralysis.
AT a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the American Window Glass Com
pany in Pittsburg, Pa. it was decided to
continue operating all factories during the
summer months. This will mean steady
work for large number of employees who
are usually idle during the summer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Career of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
Byron's expression, 1.-THE fatal gift of
beauty" is strangely exemplifed in the
life story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Eve
lyn Nesbit's early home. like Thaw's.
was in Pittsburg She is the daughter
OF Winfield Scott Nes5it, a lawyer who
had a small practice and died leaving the
widow with only pittance. At the age
Of IA Evelyn began to work for her liv-
ing in a Photographic studio in Pbiladel
rhia. Her employer took a picture of
her to hang in an exhibition, and Evelyn
woke up the next morning to find herself
famous beauty. Artists began to beg
her TO pose for them, and within few
months she was earning a good income
in New York as model
In these model days she met White,
who induced her to 90 upon the stage,
and persuaded a theatrical manager to
give her a trial. Later White sent Miss
Nesbit to a fashionable eastern school
and after that she returned to the stage.
Among the host OF men who were
smitten by her charms was Harry Thaw
His attentions were at first received
with disfavor, although he had a habit
of sending to her home grand pianos,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Power fer Garbage Costly.

According to Henry Floy, an engineer
who has been studying the subject for
the city of East Orange, N j., the scheme
advocated by many enthusiastic persons
of producing electric light and power, or,
perhaps, steam, for heating purposes by
burning the refuse of cities, is not a
practicable one. Mr.. Floy's report in
dicates that the light and heat which
would be produced by the burning of the
garbage could be obtained more cheaply
by burning coal, and that so far as the
relative economy of the two methods is
concerned it would be more advantageous
to dispose Of the refuse By hauling it
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18

Stanford White, victim of Thaw's bull
lets, was one of the best known archi-
tects in the country. He designed many
famous structures throughout the land
including a number of the most prominent
buildings for the Columbian exposition.
Mr.. White was born in New York City
Nov. 9, 1858.
There is hardly city of prominence in
the country that does not boast at least
one building designed by his firm.
Possessing himself a sense of beauty
that enabled him instantly to grasp the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-18
Lumhcr Production Rulletin.

The national forestry service has made
public IFS estimate of the annual produc-
ton of lumber in this country at 100000
600 cords. valued at 81 100000 900. The
State of Washington ranks first, with an
output of 4.OO0OOO.OO0 feet. and next in
order come Wisconsin. Louisiana, Mime
sofa, Michigan, Arkansas. Pennsylvania.
Mississippi. Oregon. North Carolina, Cal
ifornia, Texas. Alabama, Maine. Virginia,
Georgia. West Virginia. Florida. New
York, Tennessee, South Carolina. Ken
lucky, Missouri. Indiana, New Famp-
shire, Ohio. Vermont, Massaci otis.
Idaho, Montana, Maryland. Iowa, inos.