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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
CAPTAIN WENT FIRST.
Master Of IIl-Fated Steamer Larch-
mont Accused of Cowardice.

A new element was injected into the
horror attending the loss of the steam
err Larchmont in Block Island sound
through collision with the schooner
Harry Knowleton, when Captain Nc
Vey of the steamer admitted that his
lifeboat was one of the first, if not the
first, to leave the sinking ship.
This statement was made in reply to
charges by Fred Hiergsell, an 1S-year-
old lad of Brooklyn, one of the sur
vivors, that the passengers were left to
shift for themselves; that the ships
crew crowded the boats without at
tempting to provide for the passengers,
and that Captain McVey was the first
to desert the ship. The statement of
young Hiergsell caused sensation, in
view of the fact that ten of the nine
teen survivors were employees on the
ship, or, in other words, that while APP
proximately 20 per cent of the vessels
crew was saved. only s per cent OF the
passengers survived.
Captain Mcyey explained that while
his boat may have been the first in the
water it was because he had a good
crew and that he remained by his ship
until she went down. At least 157 per-
sons were known to be on the steamer,
and there is every indication that the
number was nearer 200. Until the hull
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
SAVE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
President I'm Message Makes Plea
for Western Fuel.

President I'm Message Makes Plea
for Western Fuel.
President Roosevelt Wednesday sent
to Congress a long message calling at
tentlon to the urgent need of legisla-
ton affecting the different phases Of
the public land situation in the United
States" The President advocates the
conservation of coal and other fuel re-
sources on lands still belonging to the
government, saying that henceforth the
nation should retain it's title to its fuel
resources: urges government control of
the Western public land pastures, with
q system of small grazing fees, etc, and
asks for an appropriation Of 100000
Immediately available, in addition to
present estimates, to be used in detect
ing and preventing land frauds. He
contends for a system Of government
leasing of mineral lands and for treat
ing these fuel lands as public utilities.
President Roosevelt points out that it
coal lands had been left under govern
nent control, and suggests provision in
the West against recurrence of the
conditions we deplore in the East"
Citing 1900 cases of public land entries
in four districts mentioned, the Presi-
dent says noncompliance with the law
was found in more than half Of them,
and deliberate fraud in many cases.
The President first refers to his pre-
vious messages TO Congress on the SUBJ
ject, and again calls attention to the
Importance of legislation which would
provide for title to and development of
the surface land distinct from the right
to underlying mineral fuels under a
leasing system on conditions which
would inure to the benefit of the public
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21

An agreement to vote the next Gay on
the conference report on the immigration
bill. which includes the provision intend
ed to settle the Acknowledgements ques-
ton. was reached in the Senate after an
entire day of discussion Friday. The
naval appropriation bill, carrying $780,
100000, was passed by the House. An
amendment to strike out the provision for
an additional battleship was defeated by
a vote of ia to 146. The postoffice APP
preparation bill was taken up and an
agreement made that general debate
should cease at IL o'clock noon the fol-
lowing Tuesday. The conference report
on the diplomatic and consular bill was
adopted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
CHICAGO.

The progressive tendencies which thus
far have characterized business activity
maintain their ascendency- Better wealth
er permitted rapid recovery where trade
was interrupted by recent storms. and
there is more push in leading retail lines
new construction and transportation of
heavy materials from the factories Mar
keting of crops has declined. but this is
temporary, and reports as TO winter
wheat are encouraging. damage to exposed
fields being slight. The markets for pro-
visions and live stock excite much inter
est, speculative buying having forced
values to a high level, although it is con-
ceded that the raw material and stocks
in store are below normal needs of con-
sumption. Crude materials for factory
conversion display sustained strength, and
the general demand remains vigorous as
ever.
Conditions in the distributiye branches
become more favorable with the advancing
winter season. State street sales picked
up sharply during the few mild days and
for the month thus far are larger than a
year ago. Dealings in the jobbing lines
have expanded equal to expectations.
Bookings rose to an exceptional aggregate
in the textiles. footwear. food products,
mems wear and furniture. and numerous
large orders are marked for early ship
Eent to various interior points. Road
statesmen send in satisfactory orders from
the Southwest and the cotton region. while
advices still inspire confidence in the mer-
chandising outlook throughout the west
ern territory.
Bank clearings, 1924. 59S,651, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 11.6 per cent
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered %, against p last week
and % year ago.-Dun's Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
BURBANK LEAVES PRISON.
Former Lieutenant Who Abandoned
Filipino Wife Is Released.

Ex-Lieut Sidney s. Burbank was re-
leased from the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kan, the other morning
after serving nearly fifteen months, and
started for Indianapolis, where he will
visit a brother He declined TO make
known his plans after that. Burbank
took occasion TO criticise the officerE re
spcnsible for his conviction, and said he
would make statement regarding his
case that would create sensation IN
army circles. Burbank comes of mill
tary family. his father and grandfather
both having served in the United States
infantry. His engagement in 1903 to
prominent young woman of Leavenworth
precipitated a suit by his Filipino wife,
Mrs. Conception Vasques OF Valladolid.
Negroes, who filed her claims with the war
Department TO prevent the marriage OF
Lieut. Burbank. Two years ago Burbank
returned to the Philippines with his regl-
ment. Shortly after his arrival the Fill
pino woman began an action against him
in the civil courts for abandonment and
non-support. She was granted separa-
ton, but not a divorce. and Burbank
was ordered to pay her $50 month all
mony for the support of their child. Later
Burbank was tried by court martial and
convicted of embezzling company funds
and of other conduct unbecoming an OH
Ger and gentleman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to Sill: sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $3.50: wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c: corn,
No. 2, 42c to 43c: oats. standard. 36c to
Csc; rye. No. 3, &c to Csc: hay, timo-
thy. $500 to $1,000: prairie, $500 to
$14.00; butter, choice creamery. DC 10
33c: eggs. fresh, pc to &c: potatoes,
Soc to 44c-
lndianapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500
to $3.50: hogs, choice heavy. $4.0O to
S7.2c; sheep. common TO prime. 500 to
S5.25; wheat. No. 2, Toe to Tic: corn.
No. white. 45c to 47c; oats. No.
white, 40c to 42c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1910;
hogs, 800 to SIP: sheep, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ?, 7Sc to 79c; corn.
No. 2, 42c to dc; oats. No. ?, Soc TO
Ale: rye, No. 2. 64c to CSC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to SIPS: sheep, $500 TO
1925: wheat, No. 2, 79c to soc: corn,
No. mixed. Acc TO 47c; oats. No.
mixed, Ale to 43c; rye. No. 2. 69c TO
Tic.
i'ctiOtt -Ndtbts e1soV W Fcsocs uo-rs
500 to $7.15; sheep, $3.50 to $500:
wheat, No. 2, &c to 7sc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 45cfto Ale; oats. No. white,
42c to 43c; rye. No. >. CSC to 69c.
Observation-Disclosures, No. 2 northern,
soc to S3c: corn. No. 3. 41c to 42c;
oats, standard, 3sc to 4oc; rye, No. I,
&c to soc; barley. standard. 5Sc to Goo;
pork, mess. STAT.
Butfalo-CattIe, choice shipping steers,
500 to SO. 15 hogs, fair to choice. $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $40; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to $S.15.
New York-Cattle, 500 to $500;
hogs, S460 to $50: sheep. $500 to
5.25: wheat, No. red. Sic to S2c:
corn, No. ?. 54c to SOC; oats. natural
white, Acc TO 51c: butter, creamery, &c
to Bic; eggs. western. 23c to pc.
Tofedo-wheat, No. mixed, Toe to
re: corn, No. 2 mixed. 39c to Ace.
oats. No. mixed, Soc TO Ale: rye. No.
2, 65c to 67c; clover seed, prime. $50.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
RAISE FREIGHT RATES.
Roads All Over Country Preparing e
Make Increases.

Make increases.
Railroads of the entire country are
preparing to make general increases in
freight rates which will bring them
several hundred millions added revc-
nue. annually. In Chicago conferences
have been held between the highest
traffic men of both Eastern and West
ern roads. with view to eliminating
hundreds of rates which are known as
commodity rates. ard to compel ship
pers to submit to the classification
rates, which are substantially higher.
The preliminary work is being done
by committees representing both sec
tions of the country, and the exact
magnitude of the increases and Of the
general move for more revenue will not
be known until these committees make
their report, which may not come be-
fore June.
The excuse put forward for a gen
eral increase in rates is the alleged
alarm felt in Wall street and among
the stockholders and directors of all
railroads over the increasing 0lfnculty
in obtaining money with which to
make needed Improvements, built ex-
tensions and provide equipment and
facilities for carrying the traffic of the
country. 1t was stated that more than
81. 500, 100000 had been appropriated
by the railroads for these purposes, but
thof ~ Woo ;u,noScihla IN anat rho CO.
curities in any of the money markets
OF the world.
Accordingly the railway presidents
and the men who control the transpor-
tation facilities have come to the con-
clusion that the only way to raise the
necessary money is to join the process
sion and increase the price of what
they have to sell, which is transporta-
tiOn
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
HORROR AT HANGING.
ROPE BREAKS TWICE WITH A
HEAVY NEGRO.
Victim walks Back tn ScaEold and
Finally Dies i'm Agony on Ground
--Princeton to he Gheatest Univcr-
sity of World.

narrowing spectacle accompanied the
hanging at Farmville, Va, of Moses Hill
and William Ruffin, negroes, who were
convicted of the murder OF Postmaster
John Grubb. As Hill weighed 275 pounds.
rope of unusual strength was secured for
the moose. 1t proved unequa. to the
strain. however. and as the drop was re-
leased the rope broke and Hill was thrown
to the ground. The negro got up unaided
and calmly walked back 10 the scahold.
Another moose was adjusted and the trap
sprung a second time. The negro's body
shot downward. then stopped with jerk
that broke his neck. A minute later the
strands of the rope parted again and Hill
died in agony on the ground before pre-
paraeons could be made for third at
tempt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
ICE GORGE BREAKS.
Family Of Four at Columbus, Neb.,
Drowned by Flood.

The roar of rushing waters, the crush
ing of ice and the cries of drowning peo-
pie shouting for help broke upon the ears
of Columbus, Neb., residents Tuesday
night The breaking of an ice gorge in
the Loup river a few miles northwest of
the city caused the water to rise over i've
feet in an hour. A family of four, Doc
McCone, his wife, daughter and sister-in-
law, were drowned while attempting to
escape to higher ground in spring wag-
on. The whole south side of Columbus is
under water and many families are inn
prisoned in houses surrounded by from
four to ten feet of water. Hogs and cat
tie were drowned in the Union Pacific
stock yards. Rescue parties are doing
Leroic work. but many who are shouting
for help cannot be reached until the water
goes down
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
Telegraphic Brevities.

The Paris Pasteur institute is made So
100000 richer by bequest of Daniel
Osiris, the philanthropist.
All grades of fine writing paper are to
be increased 10 per cent in price, accord
ing to advices from Holyoke, Mass.
A newspaper fight which has been wag-
ed between the Daily Herald and Daily
Courier at Bristol, Tenn, was ended
With the purchase of the Courier by the
Herald.
A dinner was given in honor of Daniel
ii. Burnham of Chicago by the Civic
League of st. Louis. Mr.. Burnham made
brief speech on art and designing for a
great city.
Gov. Magoon of Cuba surprised the ma
tives of Havana by fighting a small fire
Oh the roof of tie palace, caused by cross
ed electric wires.
Sixteen States west of the Missouri
river were represented in the transmits
sissippi dry farming congress which con-
vened at Denver.
The national board for the promotion
OF rife practice has decided to hold its
annual shoot at Camp Perry, Ohio, be-
ginning Aug. 26.
The Toledo Ice and Coal Company filed
demurrers to the indictments charging it
with accepting rebates ON shipments of
ice from Michigan.
The six-story brick building owned by
the Troy Waste Manufacturing Company
at Troy, n. Y, was destroyed by fire. The
less is about S150O00 The building stood
in the collar district.
Fire destroyed the six-story building
on East Gay street, Columbus, Ohio, oc-
cupied by the PEBBLES Merchandise Com
pany, an installment house, entailing a
loss estimated at 100000.
The bark Charles Loring, carrying lum-
Der from Savannah to New York, was
run into and sunk by the Old Dominion
Line steamer Seneca four miles off Sea
Girt. n. j. No lives were lost.
The sale of the Wood Hagenbarth
ranch in the States of Sonora and Chi
huahua, Mexico, to John ID. Ryan, Taos
f. Cole and Col. w. G. Greene by Salt
Lake City owners was reported at Salt
Lake City. The consideration is over
s., 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
PLAN OF THAW DEFENSE.
Contend that Defendant Was Ten
norarilx Irrexnou xihIe

Contend that Defendant Was Tenn
pOrarily irresponsible.
Harry n. Thaw is fighting against
the plea of insanity his attorneys are
trying to establish with the aid of such
carefully prepared expert testimony.
Thaw fears that District Attorney
Jerome is planning to send him to the
madhOuse in the event of his acquittal,
and this fact makes him fear the plea
his lawyers have set up. They are at
tempting to prove that he was insane
at the time of the murder of Stanford
White, June %, 1906, but that he has
been constantly improving since then,
and is now entirely sane. Thaw fears
that his attorneys are putting too much
emphasis on this feature OF the case
and believes that n stronger attempt
should be made to impress the jury
with the self-defense plea. and to win
its sympathy by unspoken appeals to
the unwritten law.
The trial was brought to a sudden
halt Thursday by the death of Mrs.
Mrs Bolton had been suffering from
double pneumonia, and it's fatal ter
minatiOn caused alarm among those
directly interested in the Thaw case.
The testimony of Dr. Evans in the
Thaw case revealed the nature of the
defense. The doctor. who is not an inn
provised expert. but the head of large
insane asylum and a physician of many
years experience in mental diseases,
testified that on the occasion of his
first three visits to Thaw i'm jail, Thaw
was undoubtedly insane. He was suf-
fering the after effects of mental ex-
plosion." During the period covering
the later visits of the physician Thaw
showed steady improvement, so that
it would appear that at present he is
nearly, IL not quite, sane. In other
words, he defendant was not response
BILE for his deed at the time it was COM
mitted. and. therefore. should not be
punished. On the other hand. he is not
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21

The Spanish socialists have decided TO
join the republicans IL the coming gen.
eral elections.
Fire destroyed the main business street
of Holloway, Mimi, village of 200 peo-
pie, seven miles north of Appleton
Marian Livingston, cousin of the late
John Greenleaf Whittier, is dead in Phil
adelphia after enduring the privstions of
poverty for twenty years
1t has been decided to hold the fourth
annual convention of the Roadmakers' As
ISOLATION in Pittsburg March II, Is and
IA. Over $500 delegates, representing
thirty-eight States, will be in attendance.
The army transport Logan sailed from
San Francisco for the Philippines with
seventy-five first-class passengers, the
Twent-third and Twentyfourth bat
teries Of field artillery and 1000 tons of
general supplies.
The home of Frank Sostock. Pole, at
Oil City. Pa. was destroyed by fire and
two children were burned TO death.
Martin Braun, who has been making an
investigation for the personal information
of President Roosevelt, announced at Fl
Paso that he had discovered wholesale
schemes for smuggling Chinese across the
Mexican border.
Rabbi Solomon Foster Of the Temple
B'nai Jeshurun of Newark. n. j., at
tackled the custom of having the Bible
read and having Christian hymns sung at
the public schools of that city, at the
monthly melting of the Newark Ministe-
rial Association.
Charles III. Everly, formerly teller IN
the St. Louis Union Trust Company.
pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling
5000 from the trust company and was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
The Alabama Senate passed q bill
which empowers the State railway com
mission to examine all books of railroad
companies and authorizes il TO require
officials to bring these books before the
commission.
A Morocco syndicate has been forced in
Berlin to further German trade interests
in that country. The move is taken to
indicate Germany's seriousness in follow
ing up the interests she urged in the Al
geciras conference.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21

Carrie Nation, attended by two friends,
when denied admission at the executive
Offices of the White House the other day.
harangued a crowd which had gathered
regarding the treatment offered her and
then voluntarily retired.
A bill approprating S1c000,000 to
purchase all the property on the south
side of Pennsylvania avenue between the
United States treasury and capitol build
ings and south to the Mall in Washing
ton was ordered favorably reported by
the Senate committee.
Senator McCreary has announced his
purpose of offering the Philippine tariff
reduction bill as an amendment to the
Philippine agricultural bank bill, which
will be taken up in the Senate soon.
President Roosevelt received the COM
mittee of the National Live Stock Asso-
citation and the National Wool Growers
Association on the proposition favoring
government control of the ranges.
Representative Garrett of Tennessee in
PRODUCED bill prohibiting railways from
requiring employees to work moIe than
eight hours in twenty-four excepting in
emergencies, when the time may be ex-
tended to twelve hours.
The Presidents order forbidding the is
sue of final certificates to public lands
until an actual examination has been
made on the ground was the subject of
conference at the White House.
A supervisory committee of the Inter
national Bureau of the American Re
publics adopted resolution accepting
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $750,O00 for
the erection of a permanent home for the
bureau in this city.
The McCumber service pension bill was
fayorably reported to the House. 1t pro-
vides a pension of So month to all
veterans of the Mexican and Civil wars
at 81 years of age, SIS month at 20
and $40 a month for all over %.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
NEW YORK.

Better weather and improved roads
have developed stronger tone and great
er activity in distributive trade. increased
deliveries of grain by farmers. and slight
ly relieved the congestion in transporta-
ton lines, though the latter situation is
still far from perfect
Cold weather and price concessions
have helped to move remaining stocks Of
winter goods. With wholesalers and job
bers, deliveries on orders are the main &C.
cupation, but there is apparently little let
up in the demand for cotton goods for
anything like spring or summer delivery
Freer movement of grain has led to ease
in wheat. corn and oats. and enormous
receipts of cotton have made for similar
condition in this line.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Feb. IA number 204,
against 1913 last week, 20S in the like
week of 1906. 243 in 1905. 231 in 1904,
and 1SS in 1903.-Bra istreet's Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
FEATURES OF INTEREST
CONCERNING PEOPLE. PLACES
AND DOlNGS OF THE WORLD.
Courts and Crimes, Accidents aud
Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain,
Stock and Money Markets.


INDIAN Claims Part of Fort Wayne.
General Sherwood, of Toledo, Ohio,
Congressman from that district, has
been retained to press the claim of
James M. Walcott, half-breed Indian
residing at Maumee, a suburb of To-
ledo. to $40 acres of land now included
In the heart of the city of Fort Wayne,
Ind The matter will be presented to
the land commissioners. The state
ment is made that the claim is indis-
putable and the land is worth millions
of dollars. Walcott has a letter which
&c received from the land Office on
November II, 1905, in which the gov
eminent authorities say that the land
on which Fort Wayne nov stands was
decided to Walcott's mother by treaty
and has never been legally transferred
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
Double Tragedy ut south Bend.

William j. Rush, AZ years old, of
South Bend, Ind, fatally cut his wife
with a razor and then with the same
weapon ended his own life. Rush at
tackled his wife while she was in bed.
using razor and the butt end of a
revolver. Thinking her dead, Rush
then slashed his own throat three
times from ear to ear and died soon
aft@wards. Domestic trouble, it is said,
was the cause of the deed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21

Leonard I. Brown, 36 years of age,
merchant, and Margueret Strawb, aged
&c, were found dead in the rear part of
the formers store in Washington. The
district coroner after an investigation said
it was a case of suicide and murder. Miss
Strawb and Brown were lying on cot,
the latter with a bullet wound in his
mouth. while the former had been shot
four times
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
GYPSY MOTH Is DOOMED.
Parasite Discovered by Department
of Agriculture to Destroy Insect.

A discovery has been made by the De
partment of Agriculture in Washington
which is expected to destroy the gypsy
meth, which has destroyed the trees and
shrubs in Massachusetts and other States.
The discovery is parasite of the gypsy
moth. which ranges in size from a micro
scopical insect to one as large as mos
quito. Scientists of the department say
that there are eight or ten varieties OF the
parasite, all of them deadly to the moth
The parasites were found in southeastern
Europe, and it is the intention of l.. o.
Howard, chief of the bureau of entomoi-
ogy, to make a trip abroad and collect
gypsy moths infected with the parasites
He expects tn bring back several hundred
thousand to We distributed in the districts
ravaged by the moths.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
POSSE TAKES TRAIN ROBBERS.
Four Armed Men Caught in Running
Revolver Fight.

Four car bandits robbed freight train
on the Lake Shore railway at Terre
Coupe, Ind. and we're captured after
running battle with posse. The men
forced their way into a freight car and
threw the merchandise out. The train
crew was held at the point of revolvers,
but the engineer detached the engine and
a dash was made for New Carlisle. where
the posse was organized and returned.
The bandits gave their names as follows:
William Weber, aged 10, Laporte coun-
ty: Herman Fink. 81. Logansport: Geo.
King. %. Ashland. KY; Thomas Burns,
40. Cleveland, Ohio.