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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
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The Hartman Rubber Company's plant
at Belleville. n. j.. was destroyed by fire,
involving a loss of $4,000.
The Y. NJ. G. A. building in Utica, N.
", was completely destroyed by fire. The
loss will be upward of 100000
Crossed electric wires caused fire at
Cincinnati which destroyed the Ohio Car
riage Company's plant. Loss $4,000,
fully covered by insurance.
The coroner is investigating the death
of Mrs. A. NJ. Darling. who was found
dead with her skull crushed at her home
in Oberlin, Ohio.
Chief of Police George G.. Sheets of
Salt Lake City, charged with conspiracy
TO defraud tourists by protecting gam
blers who fieeced them, was held for trial.
While preparations were being made
at Spartanburg. s. c.. to hang John Shell
ton. negro. convicted of killing his faith
er-in-law, Sheriff Nichols received an or
der from Chief Justice Pope of the SUI
preme Court staying the execution until
April 10.
Frank NJ. Mabry, a weli-known banker
of McGregor, Texas was sentenced to five
years in the Leavenworth penitentiary for
embezzlement from a national bank.
Major z. w. McClaughry, warden of
the United States penitentiary at Leav-
enworth. Kan. received word of the de-
tention in Portland. Ore, of James Sey-
mour one of the mutineers who escaped
from the penitentiary Nov. z, 1901.
The judges of the Court of General
Sessions of New York may ask the Legis-
lature to increase the penalty for black
mail accompanied by threats from the
present maximum of five years imprisoa-
ment to a maximum of twenty years.
The Iowa standpatters absolutely con-
trolled the making of federal slate for
the State at Washington, and the Cum
minis faction was not allowed one APP
pointment.
Charles W. McWhorters, formerly as
sistant cashier in the city postoffice,
Washington, indicted for embezzement of
$4,000. entered a plea of guilty in the
criminal court. He was sentenced to one
year and one day in the penitentiary.
Frank Van Dusen, chief assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, died of pneumo-
mia at Pittsburg. Two hours later his
wife, Mrs. Sarah Van Dusen. expired in
an adjoining room from the s..ne disease.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

protest against the appointment of Judge
Robbins as the special judge TO sit in
his fourth trial, because this is the judge
who sentenced him to death in the third
trial. This appointment is by Gov. j. G..
W. Beckham.
During his long stay in many jails,
Powers has kept himself constantly en-
ployed, that he might not brood over his
troubles, and has adhered to a rigid sys-
tenn of exercise. AS a result he is ply
sically and mentally in good condition and
hopeful of being indicated some day.
Out in the mountains of Knox county
a devoted mother is clinging TO life in the
hope of seeing her son restored to free
dom. AS bsfore, his case will be fought
with the funds of people all over the Unit
ed States, who believe hirn the victim of
partisan hatred.
For Caleb Powers declares he was 60
miles from Frankfort when an assassin's
bullet laid low William Goebel, who was
driving the Legislature to name him Gov
ernor. Now, the prosecution for the
fourth time will try to establish that the
fatal shot was fired from the window of
Powers office in the State House by a
hired assassin.
in July, 1900, he got his first trial, was
convicted and sentenced TO life. The
Court Of Appeals rejected the finding Of
the court Again he was tried and given
life sentence, and saved by the Court
Of Appeals In 1903 he was again con-
victed and sentenced to death, the Court
of Appeals also annulling this trial. For
a while in 1905 he was in the hands Of
the United States Court. but the Supreme
Court of the United States sent the case
back to the State courts as having full
Jurisdiction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

The Atlantic transport line, whose
steamers ply between New York and Lon
don, announce that its vessels will soon
be installed with complete private apart
ments, similar TO those in which thou
sands of people in all our great cities
now live. These will differ from the pre-
vailing steamer suite, in that each will
have a private hall. bedrooms. parlor
library. bath. etc. Each fat will be 80
feet in length, and have a width Of 10
feet, and the windows will look on deck.
The temporary tenants name will be on
the front door and bell will announce
callers. Each apartment will have an
electric heater. on which light meals or
the baby's milk can he prepared, after
mother has finished curling her hair
Complete meals, however, will be served
to order in each fiat, one of the rooms
being converted into a dining room.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Nebraska wins Tax Cases.

The United States Supreme Court. in
decision announced by Justice Holmes
rules that the Union Pacific and Burling-
ton railroads must pay the tax rate on
their property in the State of Nebraska
to the amount of S3,100,000. This in
cludes the taxes of 190405-O6, with pen
alties for non-payment- The railroads
had offered to settle for S2,200,00O. The
objection to payment had been made orig
inally on the plea that the equalization
board, acting under the influence of po-
litical agitation, had so increased the val
uation of property as TO almost double the
aggregation payment of railroads in pre-
vious years. 1t was charged that the
board took into consideration interstate
business and property of the railroads To-
Gated outside of the State. but on these
points the court decided otherwise.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Notes of Current Events.

The three-story wooden grain elevator
of o. b. Tilton in Nashua, n. H., was
burned. The loss is $1,000.
Italian officials have decided that the
excavations at Herculaneum will be car
ried out by the Italian government with
out foreign aid.
Prof. Matteucci of the Vesuyius ohserv-
atory denies that he prophesied the possi-
BILE destruction of the world by comet.
A dispatch from Tangier asserts that
French syndicate has erected wireless
telegraph stations at nearly all the Mo-
roccan ports, including Tangier.
The George Washington university has
appointed an alumni committee and citi-
zens' committee to raise 100000 to pur-
chase new site for the institution.
1t has become known in Rome that
Spain is ready to indorse the Anglo
American proposition at The Hague con-
ference for the limitation OF ornaments.
A report on railroad construction in the
Philippines, given out by the bureau of
insular affairs shows that $500 men are
at work on the different lines under way.
What is said to be the biggest deal in
Columbia river timber land ever made
was completed when the Clark & Wilson
Lumber Company, a Wisconsin firm, pur-
chased 100000 acres near Goble, Ore, for
$4,000.
Samuel III. Anthony, a negro. was
hanged in Moyamensing prison for the
murder of his wife on Sept. 81, 1904.
Frank Poplis. an Italian convicted of kill
ing a woman, was respited by the Gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania.
Francis Godino, convicted of the muir
der of Giuseppe Triberi near Coryville,
Pa, last March because he refused de-
mands for money, was hanged at Smith
port.
An appeal to the Methodist Episcopal
church of the United States for 100000
for the current year has been decided on
by the merged freedman's aid, Sunday
school and educational boards of that de-
nomination.
AID exploration party headed by DIR.
Donald K. MacDougal, director of the
Carnegie desert laboratory at Tucson, re-
turned and reported that the area of the
Sakon sea may be estimated at 100
square miles.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Favor simprined spelling.

On the ground that they deprecate the
hardship and waste entailed upon chill
dren by our illogical spelling and the
process of its mastery, and because they
appreciate the Importance of intelligent
citizenship, and see how our spelling
handicaps foreign-born children in learn
ing our language and in understanding
our institutions, the Teachers Association
of Illinois has pronounced itself unequiv-
ocally in favor of the adoption of the sim
plified spelling boards recommendations.
They approve the action of President
Roosevelt, and regret the obstruction Of
fered by Congress. asking their Senators
and Representatives to inaugurate an in
ternational movement toward reform
spelling.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
ON VERGE OF A PANIC.
BIG SLUMP IN STOCKS JARS
WALL STREET.
Most Frantic liquidation in Ycnrs.
Resulting In "a s5OO,OOo,OoO Loss,
Causes Consideration Among Mig
Bankers and Railway MaEnates.

For several hours Wednesday Wall
street was so close to a panic that the
thousands who thronged the brokers'
Offices. cafes and other places between
the hours of 10 and expected that the
crash would come any moment and
that the wild scenes enacted in the
great panic day of May 8, 1901, would
be repeated. That there was no actual
panic was due almost wholly to the
fact that the public, which speculates
on margins, has been virtually out OF
stocks for three months and the game
is almost entirely confined to profess
SIGNALS, who are usually able to wealth
er such storms At one time, however,
there were rumors that several of the
big houses which trade on their own
account were in a critical position, but
when the settlement hour had passed it
was known they had been able to pull
through.
Wall street charges the days demon
alization to the attitude of the admin
istration toward the great railroads of
the country and some persons discerned
in it an object lesson for President
Roosevelt. A New York correspondent
says, however, that most judges of the
situation saw in a complete absence of
public buying, even at the bargain
prices which now prevail, the wide
spread disgust with the stock-jobbing
methods of those who control the great
railroads of the country, the stock-wa
tering processes of which they have
been guilty, the general indifference on
their part To the rights and interests of
the public aud the defiance by the cor
poratiOns of laws designed to regulate
and control them. 1t has been years
since the public has failed to respond
to the low range of prices which was
established by Wednesdays buying.
The panic was not averted by outside
buying Whatever support there was
came from the banking interests, who
interposed their influence to prevent
complete disorder.
The crash was by far the worst since
the Northern Pacific scare 1t was
much more radical, for instance, than
either OF the two recent big market
breaks. and il was more significant be-
cause, succeeding a, decline of about
5000, 100000 in market values from the
high of last year. its effect is cumu-
latiye. The entire situation is engag-
ing the attention of the President and
his Cabinet, the Governors and Legis-
latures of States and money kings all
over the country.
President Roosevelt permitted ii to
become officially known that he will
maintain the attitude he has assumed
regarding the railroad interests. To
use his own expression, he will "stand
pat" This applies both to antitrust
laws and the Hepburn bill.
Expected action by Secretary Cortel- |
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

of DR.. III. y. Marvin of Dover, diSap-
peared. For a time it was supposed he
had wandered away and become lost.
but the conviction was soon forced
upon the distracted family that he had
been kidnapped
Rewards were offered and detectives
undertook the search for the boy. 4
ship captain was arrested on suspicion.
but he was speedily discharged. Mean
while the State increased the fervOr of
the search by adding to the personal
offers of reward until the sum now
amounts to S27, 900 for the recovery of
the boy and the capture of his sbduc-
tors.
Philadelphia detectives believed the
child had been carried to that city and
they made a careful search of the ne
gro quarters. This belief was based on
the statements of Walter Winner that
he saw such a child on Market street
in charge of two negro women. At that
time he had not read the kidnapping
story. but he was struck by the beauty
of the child and wondered that he
should be in such company.
Then the State authorities received
demand for pay for returning the
boy. This demand came through New
York detective agency to whom it was
mailed from the Canadian border near
Detroit. The name signed to the let
ter is that of n big negro with bad
reputation in New York. While the
letter may be fake so much attention
was paid to Ii that detectives have been
sent to the neighborhood from which it
came
The disappearance of little Horace
was remarkable. DIR. Marvin with his
family had recently moved upon farm
which he has purchased from Charles
GOOdell. On the day of the disappear
ance Mr.. Goodell was drawing away
effects not included in the sale. The
Marvin children and their cousins were
playing hide-and-seek and as GoOdell
was driving away a number of them
ran TO him and asked if Horace was in
the wagon. Mr.. GOodell had seen the
boy sitting atop of a haystack as he
drove by. He told the children so and
they ran back. But they could not find
the boy and finally gave the alarm.
That was the last seen of the child.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

rou of the Treasury Department to
stem the tide of decline gave a ray
Of hope TO the street before the open
ing Thursday. The Secretary an
bounced that owing to the stringency
N the money market the $30,000,000
Of government funds, deposited with
the banks last September, would not
be recalled at once, as had been in
tended.
PaniclSy conditions of Wednesday In
Wall street were repeated Thursday,
lower points throughout the list were
reached, and two failures were report
ed in London.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
japan Apparently Satisfied.

Dispatches from Toxic after the pas
sage of the American exclusion bill re-
port the tone Of the leading newspapers
as eminently pacific and quiet. Foreign
Minister Hayashi has explained that af-
tee the present treaty shall be concluded
japan will then seek to remove consular
jurisdiction. and for this some sacrifice
will be necessary. The news was not tax
quite calmly by the populace, and
especially the japanese in Hawaii were
wroth. The latter held mass meeting
at Honolulu and cabled resolution to
President Roosevelt protesting in the
name of humanity and liberty against the
prohibition of their immigration tc the
United States, as it enslayed them ptrma-
nently to the Hawaiian capitalists.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL.
Caleb Powers Perhaps Most Noted
Prisoner i'm the Country.

Prisoner i'm the Country.
1t has been seven years since the arrest
of Caleb Powers. charged with conspiracy
in the assassination of William Goebel in
Kentucky. He is probably the most re-
markable prisoner in the United States.
His long confinement in Jail and his
three convictions, his two sentences to
the penitentiary for life, his one sentence
to be hanged by the neck till dead, his
hopes of escape from the State courts
dashed by the Supreme Court of the
United States-all this he has borne with
fortitude.
Powers spirit is unbroken. The noun
taineer. from his cell in the Jail at
Georgetown, KY, has voiced a fervent
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

The British government is about to ask
Parliament to establish a great technical
college for London at South Kensington.
the government giving the necessary land
and making substantial grants. while
great business firms and technical indus
tries will be asked to cooperate. Many
donations have been received, including
81 10000 from the late Alfred Belt, the
great South African diamond king.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

Fire was discovered in the basement
of building at Fourth avenue and Chan
Gerry lane, Pittsburg, Pa, occupied by
man who is making experiments with
nitric and sulphuric acids. Before the
firemen could direct stream of water
terrific explosion occurred which threw
the acids and burning oil over a wide
area. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
roosevelt ON Family Life.

That a woman cannot do the best work
in her home and for her husband if she
occupies a merely servile attitude toward
him. is one Of the ideas contained in the
recent letter written by President Roose-
welt to the New York State mothers
assembly. He urges that woman should
have the same right as man to train her
mind and that she should have wholly
outside interests and occupations in addi-
ton to her home work occasionally.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Indiana
State News
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FIRE DESTROYS OPERA HOUSE
East Chicago Phone Girl Remains Al

East Chicago Phone Girl Remains ~
Post While Building Burns
The Todd Opera House at East Chicago
was partially destroyed by fire at Z o'clock
Sunday morning. The loss will be about
100000. The building was a five-story
structure and burned fercely several
hours 1t was necessary to summon the
departments of Hammond and Indiana
Harbor. The Amalgamated Association
of Puddlers, Iron and Steel Workers
local union held smoker in the hall Sat
urday evening. and the fire is said to have
started from burning cigars carelessly
cast upon the floor. Ella Thompson,
night operator of the Chicago Telephone
Company, which has Offices in the build
ing, remained at her post until she had
summoned assistance from neighboring
towns. Then the falling of the rear wall
forced her from the switchboard The
lower floors were occupied by the East
Chicago Land Company and the First
National Bank. The Offices of the build
ing were mostly given over to physicians
and dentists and professional men. many
of whom will suffer a total loss of their
effects
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
The execntiye committee of the Bantis,

Missionary Union has recently issued a
circular showing that the donations from
the Baptist churches last year were $14,-
600 short of the previous year, and only
slightly in excess of what they were ten
years ago. The Chicago Standard, one
of the leading Baptist papers, asks what
is the matter, and answers that the sit
uation is the result of failure on the part
of many Baptists to read their denomina-
tional papers, but adds that The real rea-
son lies in the lack of the "life Of Christ
in the life of man."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
FamiIy Of -Four Drowned.

Four persons were drowned in an
effort to escape from their totterirg
home at Riverside, w. Va, which was
completely inundated by the flood, to a
place of safety. William Francis, his
wife and daughter, Esther, aged Is
years. and son, John, aged 9 years,
are the victims.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
woman Decnpitated by street Car.

In the presence of scores of Mortified
spectators who were unable to render
her assistance, an unidentified woman
well dressed and about As years old
was decapitated by south-bounG
Archer avenue street car at Leavitt
street. Chicago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Frightful ExrIo.ion at Cincinna

Frfghtful Explosion at Cincinnati.
By the explosion of $50 pounds of
dynamite in shack on the site of the
new City Hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio,
enormous damage was done to resi-
dences and buildings all through the
surrounding residence section. All
glass within radius of half mile
was broken. neighboring store fronts
were blown out, furnaces dismantled
by shock, sewers disconnected and
other damage DONE The German Old
Mems Home and the Jewish Hospital
were the largest buildings near the ex-
plosion, which occurred in Avondale,
one of the best known residence Sec
lions. and both suffered seriously. The
cause of the explosion is unknown but
incendiarism is feared.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Robbers Blow Rank Safe.

Robbers blew the safe of the First
National Bank at Batesville, Ind, but
succeeded in getting only small sum-
Charles Meyer, groceryman, living
across the street, was awakened by the
explosions and raised a window and
was greeted with a pistol shot. He
returned the fire and twenty shots
were exchanged 1t is not believed
any one was struck. The robbers es-
capped
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Miners Plunged to Their Death.

A dispatch from Saarlouis, Rhenish
Prussia, says that twenty-five miners
were killed at the Gerhard coal mine.
They were descending one of the
shafts in cage when the cable broke
near the top and the miners plunged
down several hundred feet. They all
met with instant death. The mine be-
longs to the Prussian government,
which has already begun an official
inquiry into the accident.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

purses or It's VIC
Tins and those con
victed of practi-
cling it should be
punished most Sc
yerely. Even cold
blooded murder is
tame compared to
the suffering at
tending the steal
ing of a child and
holding it for ran
som. Unfortunate
ly, like the doings
of the b | a C k
Hand. the despic-
able work of child
stealers is increas-
ing.
The latest crime
of kidnapping to
attract attention
is that perpetrated
at Dover, Del. A
fortnight ago Hor-
ace y. Marvin,
-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
Pillory Mrs. C. ]. Holman.

The mother and two sisters of Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw's father have sent a state
-nent to the press at Pittsburg branding
Mrs. Charles ]. HolmaR as an 'inhuman
mother. who sacrificed her daughters soul
for money on which to live without
effort"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21
breads Business Investigation.

An autopsy shows that Leonidas Pres
ton. supposed to be millionaire, who died
suddenly in New York. was killed by poi
son, and it is believed he committed sui
eide to avoid facing an exposure of the
condition of his business affairs.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

John d. Rockefeller is planning to
give $5O.000.000 for the purpose of lift
ing the Chinese in their own country
to the plane of civilization of the
American people.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

BY the burning of Helicon Hall at
Englewood, ~ j., the home of Upton
Sinclair cooperative colony, one man,
Lester Briggs, carpenter of Provi-
dence, R. L., was killed and eight of the
colonists were injured by jumping
from windows.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

Whitney Molier. aged 81, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Edna Dobson,
aged II, at Point Alapachie, La, and
then killed himself. He had asked her
repeatedly to marry him and she had
refused.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

A north-bound Bellefontaine street car
jumped the track on Cherokee street, st.
Louis, coiiided with a south-bound car,
veered and ran twenty feet on the side
walk and was wrecked, resulting in severe
injuries to seven persons. Several others
received minor injuries.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

Lawrence c. Hull Jr-, grandson OF Dr.
Nelson S. Darling Of Laporte. has won q
Cecil Rhodes scholarship. which entities
him to four years study at Oxford uni
versity and an endowment of $1,500 per
year for his support Hull is one of the
youngest students ever graduated from
the University of Michigan. where he is
now student in the law department
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

Samuel Reed, the veteran locomotive
engineer of the Lake Shore road, who
wandered away from Goshen on recent
morning while mentally deranged was
found walking toward EIkhart, partially
recovered from his alteration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-21

The will OF the late Stephen Salisbury,
the Worcester, Mass, millionaire, which
bequeathed property valued at between
100000 and 100000 to the Worces-
ter Art Museum was sustained by the
Massachusetts, Supreme Court.