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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

negro national fair will be held in
Mobile, Ala, in November. 1907 The
President will be asked to visit the expo
sition.
Fire destroyed the Townsend block, one
of the most substantial structures ia
Princeton, Mimi, causing loss estimated
at 100000.
Two hundred striking italian laborers
threatened violence at the General Ehc-
trio Signal Comrary's buildings at Roch-
ester. n. Y, but the police prevented a
clash.
The California Bankers Association
is looking earnestly for man named O.
Il. Mott, who is alleged to have forged
securities of trust company.
John II. Quirk, convicted of mansaugh-
ter for killing WA. Dowell, Minneapo-
lis newspaper man, was sentenced to ff-
teen years in States prison.
The health authorities of Havana are
having difficulty keeping confined resi-
dents of the zone surrounding Las Animas
hospital, where the smallpox is raging
A night bank will be started soon by
the City Bank and Trust Company of
New Orleans. The bank will be open
continuously from 10 a. m. until midnight.
George Wiley, for the last four years
treasurer of Contra Costa county, Califor-
mia, shot and killed himself in his home
lie told his wife before he died that the
shooting was accidental.
Five attachment suits, involving So, 200,
have been filed against james McCaus-
land, secretary of the McGrew Comput-
ing Scale Company of st. Louis, by cred
itors who claim that he has been away
from ST. Louis since Jan. 2.
The factory OF the Boston and Lock
port Block Company at Boston, manufac-
turers of marine pumps and blocks, 100
Condor street, East Boston, was partially
destroyed by fire. Four firemen were
slightly nurt. The loss il 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

When fire broke out in the Richard coal
mine near Dover, n. Y, 80 men in the
pit narrowly escaped All got out in
safety.
Charles McGill of the defunct Ontario
bank pleaded guilty to having sigssed false
returns and was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment.
Seven companies dealing in naval stores
and officers of the companies were indict-
ed in the United States Court at Savan-
nah, Ca, for violation Of the antitrust
law
The Paris police arrested the ringlcader
Of a gang of fifty criminals. who have
serrorized the department of Pas-de-Calais
and the Belgian frontier for two years.
committing many robberies and murders.
The Mikado has proposed to decorate
Robert s. Mccormick and George V. L.
Meyer, former ambassadors to Russia
Spencer F.. Eddy and other Americans
for their services to japan during the
Russo-Japanesc war;
The council of the English Hackney
Horse Society has resolved to offer to the
New York horse show as a mark of the
friendly feeling of the English breeders
a challenge cup valued at $500.
DIR. James W. Simpson, the dentist who
was acquitted at Riyerhead. L. l.. Of the
charge of having murdered his father-in-
law, BARLEY IT. Horner, said he would
establish dental Office and win success
yet.
The German government is expeiling
aliens who aided socialist candidates In
the recent elections The chief offenders
were Russian students with revolutionary
procliyities, who made speeches in behalf
of the socialists.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
18-HOUR FLYER IN RIVER.
Pennsylvania Train Plunges Dow
Ffffy-FOOt Conemauch Gorge.

Pennsylvania Train PIunges Down
Fffty-FOot Conemaugh Gorge.
The Pennsylvania railroads eighteen
hour train, between New York and Chi
cago. was wrecked at Mineral Point
eight miles east of Johnstown, Pa. Two
sleepers and the observation car were
piled up in the south fork of the Cone
maugh River.
There were fifty-four passengers on
the train when it left New York Friday
afternoon. A message received Mt 2 30
Saturday morning stated that twenty
nine persons were hurt and none was
killed. Eight of the injured were ia
ken to Altoona and several others to
J0hnstown. Some of the injured, it is
said, were seriously hurt.
The train was composed of a cOmbi-
nation car. an observation car, and two
sleepers. The accident occurred ON a
sharp curve. The locomotive and COM
bination car remained ON the roadbed,
but the three cars followed plunged into
the south fork branch of the Cone
maugh River.
The wrecked train was an hour and
a half late and running at full speed
when wrecked. The wreck occurred a
few minutes before midnight. When
the locomotive left the track it tore
down telephone and telegraph poles,
cutting off all communication for a
time.
The cars which went over the en-
bankment lay on their sides in the shall
low water of the river The wreck oc-
CURED at point nearly mile from a
telegraph Office.
1t is supposed that the derailment
was caused by the brake rigging COM
ing down under the second car.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Steel Trusts RECORD ou.rter.

The report of the United States Steel
Corporation for the lest quarter of 1906
shows $41,744,96S earnings, which was
more than amp previous quarter In the
history of the corporation. The untitled
orders on hand, amounting to 8,489, Ills
tons, also broke the record. The total
earnings in 1906 were S156,619,111,
which exceeds by s23OO0,0O0 the preyi-
Gus record of 1902 Notwithstanding
that the net surplus of the quarter was
$l5.500,000, there was no advance in
the dividend rate of IL on preferred and
Lon the common, the money going to the
purchase of new property and equipment.
the steel plant at Gary getting $1,000
600.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Ine git OF $lUO-OOO TO the Emma
Willard seminary, and s1,0O0,0O0 to the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic institute, both of
Troy. n. Y, and also $250,OO0 to the ma
tional committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association, have been announc-
ed. The gift to the Emma Willard semi
nary is due TO the fact that Mrs. Sage
finished her education there, and has been
for years one of the most enthusiastic
alumna. In letter to President Rick
etts of the Polytechnic, Mrs Sage says
that no conditions are attached to the
gift, and that it was made because of Mr.
Sage's personal relation to and interest
in the school. of which he was trustee
Neither of these gifts imply that Mrs.
Sage expects to specialize her charity in
educational lines. 1t is understood that
the money given to the Y. NJ. G. A. will
be used to erect building for the exscu-
tive Offices of the committee in Twenty
ninth street, near Lexington avenue, Kew
York City.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
PAST AND PRESENT
As IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
BY the Few for the Enlightenment
Of the Many.
Passenger wreck in Pittsburg Yard

Passenger Wreck in Pittsburg Yards.
The Philadelphia Express on the
Pennsylvania railroad, ran into an
open switch in the yards at Fifteenth
street, in Pittsburg. Pa. The New
York Express narrowly escaped run
ming into the Philadelphia train and
caused panic among the already
frightened passengers One coach on
the Philadelphia train was telescoped
and two others derailed. The train was
late and was running faster than
usual through the yards. Five women
passengers on the Philadelphia Ex-
press were injured. They sustained
serious cuts and bruises. They were
given medical attention by the hos
pisal and railroad physicians and later
continued their journey west.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28


Senator Mattingly's bill to compel
county commissioners, township trustees
and road supervisors to keep in repair
roads which form the routes of rural mail
carriers. and making the additional pro-
visions that such roads always shall have
preference in road improvements, and
that county commissioners may repair
such roads or build bridges without wait.
ing for appropriations, was called up on
third reading. Senator Bowser moved to
amend by striking out the provision which
would permit the building of new
bridge without appropriations TIKI
amendment was adopted. Senator Kim
brough. who is bridge manufacturer,
said he regarded the bill as one which
would open the door of the reform Law
and might be dangerous in its results. He
believed the bill should be killed The
bin passed, % to 16.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
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The existing japanese treaty expires
March II. President Roosevelt is pi.epar-
ing the way for new treaty, and has
already had conferences with the Califor-
MIA delegation.
Harry +. New of Indiana, acting chair.
man, and Elmer Dover, secretary of the
Republican National Committee, have an
nounced that the Office of chairman will
be filed at a meeting next December.
Philippe Bunau-yarilla, formerly min.
lister of the Panama republic to the Unit
ed States, predicts catastrophe for the
Panama canal. He says: If the Ameri.
can persist in fighting against nature the
world viii be deprived of perfect high
way for commerce and obtain, after many
years of blind and useless work, an expen-
sive am unsafe high level lock canal. the
keystone of which, the Gatun Dam, will
be washed out at the first earthquake,
perhaps even before its Inauguration
President Roosevelt attended banquet
of the foreign commerce convention dee
gates and spoke of the governments VI.
fort to develop trade relations with the
countries south of us. He also urged the
necessity Of a ship subsidy bill.
Sheffield Ingalls, of Atchison, Kan, SOD
of the late Senator Ingalls,, is now a
member of the Kansas Legislature. There
was tie vote in the election and the two
contestants agreed to draw straws for
the Office, and ingalls, won. The young
man looks very much as his father did,
is said to have brilliant gifts, and is a
Republican.
Representative Nicholas Longworth has
failed in his effort to provide more suit
able remuneration for American repre-
sentatives abroad, his mot ION being lost
upon a point of order. Selecting the case
of the British Ambassador as an exam
pie, Mr.. Longworth said when we com
pare the compensation of the British am
bassador here with that of our ambassa-
cor to England, who is paid 1880 a
year. with no other allowances whatever.
the comparison becomes utterly and out
rageously absurd and simply brings us to
the fact that under our system no one
but man of great wealth can represent
this government in high diplomatic Office"
The Texas House of Representatives
passed resolution calling on the At
torney General to submit all documentary
evidence duplicating Senator Bailey in
dealing with the Standard Oil people.
Nevertheless, the friends of Bailey pass
ed a substitute resolution in the Senate,
10 to u, calling for committee of seven
Senators to investigate the charges
against Bailey if such an investigation is
deemed advisable. This was thought to
have the effect of tabling the whole mat
ter.
The French battleship Brennus broke
from her mnnrinos during n sarara storm
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Senate PASSES High License Bill.
After a debate that lasted more than
two hours and in the presence Of the larg-
est crowd of spectators that has beer in
attendance since the session of the Gen
eral Assembly opened, the Senate Monday
afternoon passed the Mssttingly $1,000
saloon license bill by vote of % to IS.
Galleries and the space on the floor re-
served for spectators were filed long be-
fore the debate began and as it wax,d
warm, the number of visitors increased.
There were saloonkeepers, brewers aud
temperance workers in the crowd who OPP
posed the high license bill and there were
also brewers, saloonkeepers and temper
ance people present who were said to
favor it. The interest in every speech
was intense, but the great crowd made
absolutely no manifestation until the vote
had been taken and the result announced.
Then there was an outburst of handicap
ping from every side of the floor and
galleries.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
STICKS TO HER STORY.
Evelyn Thaw Does Not Falter Under
MerciIess Cross Questioning.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, young wife OF
the slayer of Stanford White, under
went a merciless cross-examination at
the hands of District Attorney Jerome.
The District Attorney insinuated, ca
joled and at times stormed at the wit
ness. She met his every mood. When
he spoke softly her answers were soft |;
when he tried sarcasm she in turn was
sarcastic, and when he ragged her an
swers came sharp and defiant And
through it all the witness told just
what she wanted to tell and no more.
When cornered her unfailing refuge
was, Il don't remember"
Mrs. Thaw's memory seemed to have
suffered relapse since she told her
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

More than a dozen women and chill
dren were injured, several of them
seriously in fire in an Italian church
at Chicago. Two hundred persons be-
came frightened by escaping vapor.
Most of the injured were cut by glass
from windows.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Governor Hanly. of Indiana, has
COMMITTED the sentence of William A.
Shores, who was to be hung at mid
night Saturday az the Michigan City
penitentiary, to life Imprisonment.
Shores shot and killed William Faw-
bush in Rush county several months
ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
rwenty-four Passengers Injured.

Twenty four passengers were cut end
bruised and the engineer and fireman seri-
ously hurt when Rock Island passenger
train No. Z crashed into a switch engine
standing on the main track in the east
end yards at Oklahoma City, Okla Both
engines were demolished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
To Dredge Upper Mississippi.

Carrying more than $S3, OO0,OO0 to pay
for various improvements in waterways
throughout the country, the river and
harbor appropriation bill was passed by
the House. One of the most important
amendments provides for deep-wat,..
channel in the Mississippi between ST.
Paul and st. Louis, at an estimated cos.
Of s20.000000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Senator Carl Z. Wood called I'D Sen.
ate bill DAT, on second reading and asked
that under suspension of rules the bill
be placed on its passage. The bill is to
amend the road law so as to permit a
county having less than fifty miles of
gravel roads to have 3-cent levy instead
of 1-cent. and is designed to afford relief
in Brown county, where the taxable val
uation of property is SO small that the
1-cent levy will not produce sufficient
revenue to care for the roads. The rules
we're suspended and the bill passed by
vote of SO to 2.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
~. eoo Fire I'm St. Louis.

The five-story building at the north
west corner of Franklin avenue and
Seventh street, st. Louis. Mo-. occu-
pied by the Globe Clothing Company,
was damaged $4,000 by fire, and three
fremen were hurt but none seriously.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The British royal commission on tu-
berculosis has finally announced its con-
clusion that the drinking of unsterilized
milk is the chief cause of consumption,
thus fatty contradicting the theory of
Prof. Koch, the great German scientist,
who held that bovine tuberculosis was Cot
transm:ssible to man through milk.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The eighteen pension agencies in the
country which the House abolished in
favor of the concentration of the dis
bursement of all pension expenditures in
Washington will be rehabilitated if the
action of the Senate committee on pen
sicns is sustained.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Ten persons were severely injured
and miraculously escaped death when
= south-bound car on the Toledo Ur-
ban and Interurban railroad left the
rails and completely turned over at
Portage, Ohio. The accident was
caused by the spreading of the rails
at a curve.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Marcus Braun. who has been investi-
eating the operation of the immigration
laws along the Mexican border, has ar
rived in Washington and will shortly sub
nit report to the Secretary of Com
merce and Labor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

on Wednesday given
a clear title to his
seat as a Senator
from Utah. His vim
dication was striking
and overwhelming.
Those who sought
his expulsion were
t h ir ty two votes
short of the neces-
sary twO-thirds re-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Big Mexican Oil Project.

Articles were filed with the Secretar
Il State in Dover, DEL, incorporating I'll
Mexican Petroleum Company, the objee
IF which is to develop oil fields in. Mexico
The authorized capitalization is 1000,
600. The concern is said to be backed b.
New York capitalists.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
High License Bill Killed.

The bill providing for 81 900 saloon
license in Indiana was killed in the
House Friday. The House voted fifty
enc to forty-seven to indefinitely post
pone the bill, thus practically killing it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The Lyceum theatre at Altoona, con-
Quoted as Keith's vaudeville, was de-
stroyed by fire. The fire Is supposed
to have been caused by crossed cleo
tric wires on the stage. The loss is
about $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Fire destroyed the barns and con-
tents of the Warren Street Railway
Company at Warren, Pa, and caused
4 loss of $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
Letter Carriers Resign.

The entire letter carrier force of Butte,
Mont, resigned because the pay is less
than that of common laborers. and many
,ther departments of the government are
handicapped by the low salaries allowab-o
n1ag HreSent laws.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

A fire which threatened the destruction
Of several city blocks in Allegheny,
across the Allegheny River from Pitts
burg, destroyed five business buildings
and three dwelling houses, causing an es-
timated loss of 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The House in the most interesting ses-
sion of the term passed an inheritance
tax bill on third reading and killed Mr..
Whites Estate board of healthy pollution
Of streams biz, even after Speaker Branch
had changed a large number of votes by
a brief speech in favor of the bill at the
end of the roll call.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

By a vote of 6 to 8 the House commit
tee on ways and means decided against
the plan to establish new subtreasury
in the Southeastern States
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Rev. John Dickson, for many years
. bishop in the United Brethren
Church, died at his home in Chambers.
burg. Pa, in his eighty-eighth year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The American vice consul at New
Chwang, China reported that the plague
had broken out in that province.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
wineroom Bill Passes.

The Mccullough bill, making ii penal
offense to permit boys or girls under IS
years of age in a wineroom, passed by
vote of 73 to 3.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
New York Collects Back Taxes.

The traction companies of New York
City have now paid in over $1,000 600 of
the $l9,0OOoOO due to the city for 'ar-
rears of the special franchise tex of 1904
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

VICE FFesIutHI TdIrUdHKs IdIu UtIUre
the Senate for Liliuokalani. former queen
of the Hawaiian Islands, a second addi-
ton to the petition filed by her in 1905
praying for the settlement of her claim
for sovereign lands taken from her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The Austrian Lloyd steamer Impera-
Tx. while bound from Trieste to Bonn
bay, ran ON rock near Cape Elphonisi
ON the Island of Crete, and sank soon
afterward. All the passengers on board
were saved, but forty members of the
crew, of whom thirty-two were Aus.
TRANS and eight Indians, persisted.
Among those rescued are the captain,
the doctor and the first engineer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The bay and Night Tobacco Company's
plant in Cincinnati was destroyed by fire;
loss $66,OOe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The House passed the Downey State
board of health pure food bill without
dissenting vote, 81 votes being registered
for it. No objections were made and the
authors speech in behalf of it was brief
This bill merely requires that things
shall be what they say they arr" he said.
The Downey bill was seriously crippled
by an amendment adopted on second read
ing. without protest from the author, TO
reduce the appropriation from $4,000 to
$4,000. This reduction and change
from $1,000 to $1,000 as tho salary of the
chemist will come so near making the law
ineffective, it is believed that opposition
will appear in the Senate to its passage
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28
sMooT KEEPS His SEAT.

Four-Ycar Fight Is Finally Settled
by the Senate.
Reed Smoot, Mormon apostle, after.
nearly four years of uncertainty,
STRIFE 'r~raciation and waiting, was
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The French battleship Brennus broke
from her moorings during a severe storm
and grounded near Hyeres. Later she
was foated much damaged.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

The House, after a long and earnest
debate, adopted the two amendments to
the Senate Bland 2-cent fare bill recon-
mended by the House committee on rail-
roads, The vote was 50 to SO. One
amendment provides that when passen-
gers fail to buy tickets they must pay
215 cents a mile cash on trains. but the
excess will be refunded at ny station of
the company. The other makes the half
fare rate limit five to twelve years, in.
stead of six to twelve, for children, thus
making all children over five pay fare
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-28

Another Earthquake Shock mt jamaica.
A dispatch from Kingston, .I-msica,
says that a violent shock of earth
quake occurred there Friday which
caused quite scare. 1t was the heav-
lest shock since the disacter of jan
nary IA. No loss of life occurred, but
several of the damaged buildings col
lapsed.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-04-11

Our Cream of Roses is uneX- ceIled for the Complexion. Red Cross Drug Co.
 A. B. Buttons AT kERNs.
 The Yucatan sails for Seattle via Catalla April 13.
 Now is the time to select your goods and style and have, your spring suit, skirt or coat made to order. Cameron Suit and Skirt Co.
 Pat Kennedy arrived yesterday direct from Teller He went to Fairbanks with dog team and walked from there to Valdez in ten days. He is stopping at the Seat tie hotel.
 Gauntlet gloves in gray and tan kid also long black silk. gloves. Sleeve Protectors at Ladies Bazaar,
 The Steamey Kramer copper property on Drier bay and the High Ball claim were sold last week to outside parties, and a deed has been recorded showing the transfer of an interest i'll a group O; quartz claims on Fidalgo bay. Get your spring bonnet at the Ladies' Bazaar. New Pattern hats on Yucatan.
 Mrs. w. E. Root entertained a number of ladies at her home yes terday afternoon iii honor of Mrs. J. G. McCracken, who will leave for the States on ths Yucatan.
 FOUND-A pin containing pie ture of a boy. Owner call at this office.
 La Martia Cigars-a really good smoke. Owl Drug Company.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-04-11
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Our Cream Of Roses is uneX- ceIled for the Complexion. Red Cross Drug Co.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-04-11

FoR SALE-Horses, Sleds and Harness, Cheap. Inquire Geo. ?. Meals. tf
 Clean beds. fire and cooking utensils at Parkers Bunk House, $1 50 per week. Mrs. Syring, Prop.
 For Sale-Horses, Sleds and Harness, Cheap. Inquire Geo r. Meals. tf
 Don't miss the Moving Pictures at the Montana tonight.