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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
CHICAGO.

Despite the telegraphers' strike and the
acute effect of this and other adverse fac
tors, trade conditions reflect no recession
in activity and volume of demands in
leading line. There is, however, as ex-
pected, more caution in approaching new
undertakings of magnitude.
1t is excellent testimony to the healthy
basis of commerce in this section that the
returns make a gratifying exhibit in pay
ments through the banks. in freight move
ments, mercantile defaults and factory
production, all these comparing favorably
with high records year ago. The banks
successfully maintain ample reserves, but
there is more urgent discount offering and
crop moving needs involve heavy ship
ments of currency 10 the interior.
Pressure upon available funds causes
no discrimination against responsible GUS
toners seeking accommodation, yet close
scanning of credits is in order, particu-
larly with reference to commitments for
the future. Notwithstanding a heavier
tone pervades some quarters, current
transactions sustain good feeling in the
leading industries and wholesale branches.
Distribution OF finished materials and
raw supplies is maintained at the highest
aggregate. and jobbers' shipments show
substantial advance.
Il Earnings of Chicago railroads surpass
all former gains, and lake traffic is enor-
mously extended in ore. coal and lumber.
Crude materials have not changed in
costs, aside from another decline in cop
per.
Crop reports again agree as to fine
progress in corn and spring wheat growth,
and the improving outlook spreads
throughout agricultural sections, where
heavy OUTLAWS are made for farm addi-
lions and tools. This encouraging fea-
.ture impans more confidence to the buy.
ing of stapS merchandise.
Country buyers in unusually large mum.
bers now rake their selections here, and
the bookings for early delivery run into
large totals in the textiles, clothing, boots
and shoes, furniture and food products.
Total movement of grain at this port
! 6.617, 1853 bushels. compares with 5.951,-
56S bushels last week and 8, 46S, sos bush
els year ago.
Bank clearings, $224,174. 169. exceed
those of the corresponding week last year
by 11.S per cent. Failures reported in
the Chicago district numbered %, against
26 last week and % year ago.-Dun's
Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
News of Minor Note.

Reports from Saranac Lake, Y. Y, are
that Richard Mansfield, the actor, steadily
is failing.
Three men were fatally burned while
repairing gasoline engine by torchlight
at yandergrift, Pa.
Gov. Deneen has committed the SEN
tencc of Stephen Quinn, who is in Joliet
for eighteen years.
A hobo who wouldn't tell his, name
saved two sons of farmer from drown
ing in the old Morris canal, near Center
vile, n. j.
The New York Public Service Commits
sion has decided to investigate the SUBJ
urban railroad service of the New York
Central railroad.
Lord Seton. who. was appointed master
of the horse when Sir Henry Campbell
Zimmerman first formed his British min
istry, has resigned.
A purse of 500 has been presented to
Troop +. Thirteenth cavalry. which found
Robert Barker, the 3-year-old boy, near
Washington.
Olga Molitor. daughter of Frau Mo-
lior. killed by Karl Han, her son-in-law,
at Karlsruhe. Germany. may be prose
cuted on a charge of perjury.
The United States maintains 3.176 mis-
sionaries in Japan, China, Korea, the
Philippines, Burmah, Siam, India, Tibet,
Persia. Turkey, Egypt and the South
American countries.
Emil Jerome Simon. the student of Co
lumbia University who was sentenced at
Potsdam, Germany. to three months i'm
prisonment for killing Frau Shulta in an
automobile accident, will withdraw his APP
peal.
The Bible which King Edward Is to
present to Bruton church, at Williams
burg, Va, on the occasion of its consecra-
ton on Oct 10 next, was sent recently to
Ambassador Bryce, at Washington, who
will forward it to the church officials.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
WIFE KNOCKS OUT RoBBER.
Woman Uses Baseball Bat on Thief
and Saves Hidden $1,000.

Mrs. Thomas Cooper of jefferson, Pa.
beat an armed robber with a baseball
bat and saved 81 900 which was hidden
in her house. She was alone when the
man knocked at the door. As she opened
it revolver was thrust in her face and
throw up your hands, was the command.
Mrs. Cooper seized ball bat and struck
the man, knocking the revolver from his
hands into the parlor. The intruder fore
ed his way into the room and then fought
with Mrs. Cooper until she became ex-
hausted. To gain time she told him the
money was in another ROOM He wentHo
get it and the woman got a shotgun and
locked herself in the parlor. The man
broke down the door, but was overawed
by the sight of the gun and ran away.
Mrs. Cooper stood guard until her hus-
band arrived from the fields. Then she
tainted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

ll6O-trederlc L. defeated by the ltal-
ians at Carceno.
1316-Irish defeated at Athenry.
1519-Magellan started on his famous
voyage of exploration.
15533J-Cartier entered the st. Lawrence
on his second voyage of discovery.
155I-Spanish and English defeated the
French at St Quentin.
1G07-First settlers from England land
ed in Maine.
1625-King Charles l. of England dis
solved Parliament.
164O-Arras taken by the French.
1642-First commencement exercises of
Harvard college.
1647-Irish defeated at DUNCAN Hill.
1666-First ships built in Canada said
to have been launched at Quebec.
1615-Greenwich observatory commenced.
169o-Limerick besieged by William III.
1104-Narva taken by Car Peter OF
Russia.
1I36-First newspaper printed in Vir-
ginia. at williamsburg.
173S-Orsova taken by the Turks.
17if-Frederick H. took Breslau.
1763-British defeated by the Indians at
battle of Bushy Run. in Michigan.
1164-Civil government established in
Quebec.
sacre of the Swiss guards.
1S12-Madrid entered by Wellington and
his forces.
1S14-Commission from England and
the United States met at Client to
arrange treaty of peace.
1S2l-Missouri admitted to the Union.
1S22-Suicide of Lord Castlereagh.
1S30-Louis Philippe proclaimed King of
the French.
1S31-Louis McI.ane of Delaware be-
came Secretary of the United States
Treasury.
1892 ibbeting irons used for the last
time in England.
1S36-Revolution in Madrid, and fight
of Isturitz.
1S37-Seven lives lost by the falling of
suspension bridge at st. John,
N Il.
1S40-Englsh Parliament passed an act
prohibiting the use of boys as Chin
ney sweeps.
1Si2-Ashburton treaty signed at Wash
ington, defining the boundary between
Canada and the United States.
1S43-Natal annexed to the British pos
sessions.
-Commemoration festival held at
Ayr in honor OF Robert Burns.
1S5.,-Bombardment of Sweaborg.
1Sa7-Napoleon III. and Empress Eu-
genie arrived in Englan to visit
Queen Victoria.
1S62-Battle of Culpepper Court House,
Virginia.
notwithstanding Debtors act passed
by British Parliament. Germans
defeated the French at the battle Of
Woerth.
1SS4-Gordon held Khartoum.
1SS9-Mrs. Florence Maybrick convicted
of the murder of her husband.
1890 William Kemeler executed at Au-
burn, ". ", first to be legally put to
death by electricity in the United
States.
1S92-Great strike of switchmen began
at Buffalo. Declared off Aug. "A.
1S94-Earthquake shocks felt at Mem
J,his, Tenn The President formal
ly recognized the republic of Hawaii.
1S97-Seror Canovas, prime minister of
Spain, assassinated by an anarchist
-. The Anglo-Egyptian army cap
tured Abu-H amid on the Nile.
1S90-Dreyfus trial opened at Rennes,
France. .Twenty-nine persons kill
ed in trolley ear disaster at Bridge
port, Conn.
19O2-Outlaw Harry Tracy committed
suicide in Oregon. Coronation OF
King Edward VII.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

a number of the farmers of Orange
county, y. Y, have organized an associa-
ton called the Orange County Union, its
purpose being to cut out the middleman's
profits and sell direct to consumers. To
this end they would form company
composed exclusively of members of the
union and operate large exchange in
Newburg, selling farm and garden pro-
duce slightly below present prices. To
secure the cooperation of the labor in
terests the farmers have asked to join the
Central Labor Union. The novelty of this
proposition has proved somewhat puz-
zling to the labor leaders, and commit
tee has been appointed to look into the
matter. The union men of Newburg are
enthusiastic over the project, but are not
little perplexed as to the proper way
of labelling the products of the farmers
organization.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
TIE WAR ON MOSQUITOES.
by Persistent Effort New Jersey Hn
Triumphed Over the Pest.

by Persistent Effort New Jersey Has
Triumphed Over the Pest.
BY the intelligent expenditure of what
seem, like absurdly small sums of money
when compared with the supposed diff
Guilty of, the task to be performed, several
of the parts of New Jersey that have
long had a national if not an interna-
tional, disrepute for the number and vo-
racity of their mosquitoes have been prac-
tically cleared Of the dangerous pests.
The suggestion that the great Hacken-
sack Meadows could be freed of the in
sects, and the joys Of summer life in the
cities around them thus be vastly in
creased, was received with derision, and
almost with Indignation, only few years
ago. Yet few thousand dollars spent in
| digging bitches has done away with the
stagnant pools in which alone the mos
| quitoes could breed, and they are no more
| except in the benighted towns where the
people lack either the sense or the energy
or both to avail themselves of the relief
| so close within their reach. incidentally
and it is Incidentally lot of worth
less marsh has been turned into good dry
| land
What has been done on and around
the Hackensack Meadows can be even
more easily done almost anywhere else. 1t
ought to be as disgraceful-indeed, it is
as disgraceful-for town to have mos
quitoes as it is for a town to suffer from
an epidemic of typhoid or diphtheria. for
the mosquitoes, too, are 'preventable.
| and their presence anywhere convicts
| their human victims either of gross ig-
norance or of criminal carelessness. And
| always it should be remembered that the
use of oil in a mosquito campaign is JUS
tifable, if at all. only as a temporary ex.
pedient, TO be resorted to only for instant
effects while the real work of extermina.
ton is in course of preparation and per-
| Torrance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22


An effort is being made to organize
a company of the Indiana National Guard
at Hope.
Mrs. George b. Deming. 40 years old,
while attending a Sunday school picnic
near Poland, fell dead of heart failure.
Spontaneous combustion of new mown
hay caused the destruction Of a barn
owned by S, b. whittenberger of War
saw.
Mrs. Frances Lee of Terre Haute, szed
81, pleaded guilty to assault and battery
on her neighbor, Mrs. Bailey. and paid
a fin, The aged woman had given the
other woman severe beating.
While Henry Lung was being tried at
Warsaw on a ciarge of illegally having
fish net. Constable James Stephenson,
who arrested him, fell over dead in the
court room.
Farmers in the section around Boon
vile fear another short crop of clover
seed. owing to the absence of BUNDLE
bees. The bees are essential, because they
carry the pollen from one clover blossom
TO another and fertilize the seed. Bum
blebees became so thick a few years ago
that they were a pest. and the farmers
concerted effort to exterminate them re-
suited disastrously to the crop.
FIT. Delashmut, receiver for the A. II.
Whitsett Coal Company at Shelburn, was
instantly killed by a gas explosion in the
mines.
Following ciscontinuance of the Rome
City assembly. Methodists have purchased
grounds at Winona Lake and will erect
$4,000 building.
While acting as peacemaker between
Washington. Joseph Cochran was badly
cut by Parker and will die.
Clarence III. Smith. IA years old. son
of David III. Smith, was drowned in the
Michigan City harbor by falling out Of
boat. The body was recovered
Dynamiters destroyed the dam at the
outlet of Winona lake. causing the lake
surface level to drop several feet. The
Winona assembly officials suppressed the
facts pending investigation. but called
upon the county authorities 30 assist in
capturing the guilty parties. The motive
of the marauders is a mystery.
Inundated because of his arrest on a
charge of fighting. James RYAN of Lon
don, Ont deliberately starved himself
TO death in the county Jail in South
Bend. having refused to take nourishment
made to compel Ryan to eat, but without
avail. When taken to jail he said be
would never leave the place alive.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
A New Foundation Method.

The Literary Digest quotes from for
eign engineering paper the description OF
a new method of making foundations now
used in all sorts of conditions. 1t is
known AS the compressed system. 1t con
sists In making holes through the soft
soil down to the hardpan by means of a
tapering arm, which is forced down like
q pile driver, and then filling these holes
with stones and rubble in successive lay
ers each of which is firmly rammed
down. The result is to produce a mono
lthic block of great strength. No ground
is removed in the boring of the shaft. the
sides OF which acquire great compact.
ness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

On the same day that Judge Lands
fined the Standard Oil Company he issued
perpetual injunction restraining the
American Seating Company from operat-
ing as trust. The concerns operating
under this name had been found guilty Of
violating the antitrust law by combin-
ing to monopolize the school furniture
business through agreements with school
boards throughout the country. The or
der was not fought by counsel for the
trust, as it was contended that the prac-
tees complained of had been stopped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Telexraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Iany.
Cars Plunge Into Niagara Gorge.

were hurled from the lofty steel arch
used by the Grand Trunk railroad in
to Niagara Gorge, plungiDg more than
two hundred feet into Whirlpool
Rapids. The train was travelling rap
idly across the high bridge when the
cars suddenly left the rails Part of
the side guard was torn away. The
engine and tender remained on the
track. No one is known to have been
hurt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Indiana
State News
STEER HAD TUBERCULOSIS.
Animal Slaughtered at Richmond
Found to BE Afflicted

A beef steer. suffering from tubercuIo
sis. was slaughtered at a Richmond abat-
toir and the carcass was condemned wheE
the government inspector east his eyes
on it. 1t was the fifth animal slaughtered
for food that has been condemned in
Richmond during the summer at the same
place, and as the animals were all sold
by farmers in that immediate vicinity, the
belief prevails that it is likely many dis
eased beeves have been slaughtered at
houses where there is no inspection, and
have been sold to consumers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

Health Commissioner Evans of Chicago
in a recent bulletin makes the statement
that in the last seven months of 1907
about 1000 men died. as compared to
5000 women, and that the death rate as
between men and women is now 20 per
cent, as compared to 10 per cent twenty
years ago. He attributes the cause of
this to the strenuous life of the average
Chicago citizen. contributory causes being
the quick lunch, constant exposure and
rarelessness. The only remedy, in his
opinion. is a return to the simple life of
our fathers
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
WHALES CHASE SHIP MILES.
Passengers on Insular Line Vessel
Are Awed by Many Sights.

Unusual natural phenomena alternately
delighted and awed the passengers of the
Insular line steamship Brooklyn, which
has arrived at New York from Porto
Rico. The most remarkable of these was
a school of fourteen whales which swan
after the ship for scores of miles. One
of the cetaceans even got so familiar as
to bump against the side of the vessel and
had to be pelted away by the stokers with
Jumps of coal. Friday morning Captain
Mclean, who was on the bridge, saw
comet appear. The skipper told his pas
sengers and all got up before dawn on
Saturday and saw the comet appear and
vanish. Saturday afternoon the Brook
lyn's passengers saw a third wonder OF
the sea. 1t was waterspout and was
seen in the form OF great column oil
water miles ahead of the steamer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Killed by Brother.

Ralph Whitbeck, years old, son Of
Bert Whitbeck, of the Detroit. Mich,
fire department, was accidentally shot
and killed by his older brother, Cecil,
aged s. The dead child had been sit
ting on his mothers lap when Cecil
pulled the trigger of 22-calibre rife.
The shot penetrated the brain.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Court Upholds Church Union.

The Supreme Court of Georgia has
handed down decision holding that the
general assembly Of the Cumberland
church acted within the scope of its con-
stitutional authority when it voted for
union of all of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain churches in the United States and
that the action of thai body with refer
ence to church property is to be recog-
nized by civil courts.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
WRONG CORPSE; STOP FUNERAL
Mother Discovers Mistake After Ser
mon on Death"

At Union City, Pa, jusc as a minister
was concluding services over what was
supposed to be the remains of Thomas
Kelly, who died in Galveston, Texas, the
mother of the young man discovered the
body was not that of her son. The body
was shipped to Erie, Pa, from Galveston
in a metallic casket, and the funeral was
being held. The preacher had finished a
brief sermon on Death" when the I'M
dertaker opened the casket for the first
time to allow the relatives to look upon
their dead. The young mans mother was
the first to see the body. and saw in
moment that an error had been made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

Application was made in the Federal
court at Utica, N. Y. for receiver Cor
the Curtis-Leggett Company, maker of
shirts, collars and cuffs. Assets, NOM
inally $2,090,000. Liabilities, $11, 00O,-
00o. The company employed $4,000
people.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
paid s2sO.ooo Libel DAMAGE.

The outcome of the libel suit brought
by the Lever Bros. against the London
Daily Mail and Evening News, owned BIZ
Alfred IIarmsworth, now Lord North
cliffe. was the withdrawal of the plea of
justification by the defendant, and the
agreement to pay the $4,000 demanded.
This is said to be the largest damages
ever paid for libel in Great Britain.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Evicted Tenants Bill Ruined.

The British House of Lords carried
tenants bill, which, according to the Lib
erals, will destroy the usefulness of the
measure. The government declares the
House of Commons will decline to accept
the amendments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
LEG MODELS ARE SHOCKING.
Omaha Women Demand Their Re-
naovaI from Store Windows.

A number of women, representing the
church societies of Omaha, requested the
police to compel the managers of the
stores to remove from their windows the
plaster of paris legs upon which the fancy
hosiery is displayed. The police did moth
ing, and thereupon the women appealed &c
the fire and police commissioners. The
latter have taken no action, but the won.
en- declare that they will have the objec-
tionable legs removed. 1.-The fire and
police commissioners are making an effo-s
to clean up Omaha" said one of the won
en-. land yet they permit these horcid
and vulgar models to be displayed in
store windows. They are disgraceful and
immoral, and they must be removed"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Po.tma.ter GOOD pedestrian.

Michael p. Polling. postmaster of Nash
vile, having frequently asserted that he
had walked from Schooner to Nashville,
distance of seven miles, in an hour,
Manville Tomlinson challenged him to a
pedestrian contest. and the contest was
pulled off, Polling covering the distance ia
fifty-five minutes. while Tomlinson report
ed five minutes later
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
All photographers Quit

Monday the telegraph operators in New
York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Buffalo, Baltimore and other cities
of the East joined the strikers, and the
trouble spread through the South. grew
worse in the West and extended to Can
ada. Operators on Associated Press cir
cults walked out, gripping the newspaper
service of the country.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22

Three sisters of Mrs. Albert Swarm,
who died OF burns at Elkhart, Ind,
were victims of unnatural deaths
Amelia OFT was killed by lightning in
]. p. Heasley's home west of Elkhart
In 1896; Pearl OFT died after being
kicked in the abdomen by calf, and
Sadie OFT died of an abscess in the
head caused by a fall.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
SPREAD OF STRIKE.
ORDER FOR GENERAL WALK-oUT
PROMULGATED.
Cell TO "Quit" Includes All CONNER
ciaI Telegraphers I'm United States
and Canada Order, However,
Adds Few Recruits to Strikers.

The general strike order to all com
mercial telegraphers not working under
union agreements, which was issued by
President Sylvester j. Small of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union Of
America at 80 o'clock Friday morn
ing, had produced almost no change in
the situation Saturday afternoon. TWEEN
ty-four hours after it had been promul-
gated
In fact the general order, heralded
in advance as the browning feature of
the strike, hardly created q ripple in
Chicago, according to a correspondent.
The force of the Chicago and Milwau-
kee Telegraph Company, which oper-
ates for public business between the
Chicago Board of Trade and the Mil
waukee grain exchange, six men all
told. went out and five men employed
oil leased wires by Hulburd, Warren &
Chandler, brokerage house. also left
their keys. The situation in the stock
yards and along the LaSalle street dis
trict otherwise was undisturbed, and
there were no new developments in the
strife between the union and the two
big companies. the Western Union and
the Postal.
All the reports which came in to
Chicago over the wires of the Associat-
ed Press and through other sources out
side of the union were to the effect that
there had been no change in the situa-
ton. Nevertheless union members were
unanimous in declaring that the coun-
der.
Advices from New York and Boston
said the order for general strike had
met with no response from the men at
work in either the Western Union or
the Postal offices or those in the Associ-
ated Press. The officials of the two
big companies said they had failed to
discover that the strike order had had
any effect on the situation. The extern
sion of communication 10 the more re-
mote and smaller towns was proceed
ing rapidly and business was being
moved eXpeditiously.
1t is estimated that nearly $4,000
men are on strike. The strike, it is
said, will be confined strictly to the
commercial telegraphers The railroad
operators will lend their moral and
financial support. There will be no
sympathetic strike of railroad teleg-
raphers, who are working under con-
tract and will live UP to their agree
mentS.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Gcynor, Convict, Is Ill.

J. F. Gaynor, convicted with Greene
of completely in the Savannah harbor
frauds, is critically i'll in Jail at Macon,
Ga. He and Greene are awaiting the out
como of their appeal to the United States
Supreme Court.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-22
Tbree generations in Jail.

With the arrest of David Keys, Civil
War veteran and a resident of Milton,
Pa, for many years, for completely in
many robberies, representatives of three
generations of the Keys family are lodged
in Jail. There are now eight of the Keys
ring in Jail, and more arrests are ex-
pected.