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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

knew that Steunenberg was to be killed
aud helped plan the murder. Under
the law of Idaho, as of most other
states, an accessory before the fact is
deemed equally guilty with the actual
murderer.
Chief Prosecutor Hawley presented
the introduction to the alleged trail of
blood that runs through half dozen
states and leads finally to the doorstep
OF Frank Steunenberg, who was blown
to eternity, according to the prosecu-
ton, as q part of a conspiracy within
the Western Federation OF Mlners--a
conspiracy directed by Haywood, Meyer
and Pettibone and executed by Harry
Orchard, Steve Adams and Jack Simp-
kins.
In the remarkable statement to the
jury by j. ii. Hawley for the State, a
number of overt acts were charged
against the "inner circle of the West
ern Federation of Miners. Mr.. Haw-
ley, however, stated that he was hold
ing other cases in reserve. These he
agreed TO submit in writing to counsel
for the defense, but he said that 1t
would be preferable for the develop
ment If his case IL for the present the
encouragement were withheld from the
public.
1t IL understood that the list of MUIR
ders and other crimes charged against
the Western Federation numbers at
least twenty-six, but the specific cases
mentioned by counsel for the State in
his opening address were some six or
sever. These murders are not confined
to tho State Of Idaho, but extend 10
nearly every mining point in Colorado,
where there have been mining troubles,
and to other states.
William ID. Haywood, it is declared,
Is not on trial for being an official Of
labor union. He is not ON trial in asy
representative character whatever. He
is on trial, simply as citizen, for help
ing to murder another citizen.
TIE lawyers for both the prosecution
and the defense have publicly express
ed themselves as entirely satisfied that
| the jurors chosen will render a fair
and impartial verdict. Consequently
there should be excuse for recrlmlna-
tons whatever the verdict may be.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

new systems. Nearly every merger has
been attended by IL stock issue. largely
Of water, which has been saddled upon
the railroads. The masters of finance
were discounting the growth of the ma
ton and the development of the prop
critics they were consolidating.
Every Observant person has been
aware of the fact that since the Span
iSh-American war the nations business
has been expanding at great rate.
The only branch of the country's mech
aniSm that has not kept pace with this
expansion has been the railroad. 1t has
been the policy of the masters OF
finance to check the building Of new
lines, force independent ones into sub
mission and concentrate traffic so that
Il would yield the largest possible rev.
enue to the trunk systems which they
controlled. They have succeeded. The
railroads of the United States to-day
are in few hands. But in their hunger
for large profits and early returns
from the properties they have absorbed,
the masters of finance have neglected
the physical well being of the railroads.
They have looked more to net earnings
than to improved roadbeds, additional
equipment and better service to the
public Thev viewed with more favor
the manager who worked men and
cars TO the limit all the time and show
eel a reduction of operating expenses
with a big increase in gross earnings,
than the one who always sought to inn
prove the property.
When about year ago the tremen-
dous bulge in the volume of traffic came
suddenly it found the railroads unpre-
pared. The masters of finance had not
added many locomotives and cars to the
possessions of the properties they had
absorbed. Neither had they extended
the terminals of the various roads to
meet the requirements of a constantly
growing traffic Division superintend-
ents. yardmasters. masters of transpor-
tation. train dispatchers, conductors
firenen, engineers and brakemen did
all they could. They buckled down to
their work as only well-trained. earnest
efficient men will do. When they were
called upon to work extra hours they
did 50 willingly. But they could make
no impression on the Hood. The more
they battled, the more freight seemed
to pour in upon them. Locomotives
capable of drawing thirty loaded cars
were pressed to drag trains of thirty
six or forty. Men who could work
safely and we'll twelve or fourteen
hours a day were kept on duty sixteen
or eighteen. Cars that should go to the
repair shops were kept in service on
the chance that they would get through
all right.
As it was with freight SO was ii with
pa ssenger traffic. Every passenger car
that could be utilized seemed to be
needed. One branch of the service
seemed to keep pace with the other in
growth.
And now the railroads are in the
throes Of the reaction from the strain.
Equipment has given way and men
have given way. Hundreds of persons
have been killed and hundreds more
probably will be slaughtered before
affairs come to normal state. The
dozens and dozens of freight wrecks
with the killing or manning of rail-
road employees have been too small in
interest to attract general attention.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

While the United Railroads, which con-
troll the San Francisco trolley system.
have succeeded in running more than
half their usual number of cars, despite
the strike of union men, these cars are
receiving but scant patronage, through
the fear of the public to incur the hos
tility of the unions by riding. The big
department and dry goods stores provide
omnibuses to carry their employees home,
and notices have been posted in many of
these stores warning clerks and other en-
ployes not to patronize the cars, on PEN
atty of dismissal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Indiana
State News
Indiana Supreme Court Holds City's'

Authority ss Manifold.
The Supreme Court has held that
city ordinance not only forbidding ss.loons
outside of the business part of the city
but also defining the boundaries of the
business part, so as to include only few
squares surrounding the court mouse and
the place where most of the business is
done is valid. 1t held that the only
ground on which such an ordinance can
be successfully attacked is that the city
has been guilty of an unreasonable abuse
OF its power and discretion in declaring
such boundaries. Ii also declared that
State may authorize saloons to be IL
censed and that the saloon business is
lawful except as declared unlawful by
the State
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Young Woman, Begs Mercy and
Threatens 10 XIII Herse1f-
Cupid was baked when Katie Sellers
ID years old. and George Gissom. -.
clippers from Henderson, KY. were ar
rested in Evansville just as they were
taking out a marriage license. The girl
was hello at police headquarters until her
father, VINO had notified the police Of the
elopement. came and took her back home.
The girl wore her dress to her shoe tops
and had her hair plated down her back.
When her father found her at police head
quarters in charge of Matron Roberts he
requested Mrs. Roberts to withdraw and
then gave the runaway school girl good
spanking.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Indignant over the recent refusal Of
the Marlborough Blenheim hotel at At
lantic City to receive the nieces of Sen
ator Rayner of Maryland on the ground
that they we're Hebrews, a number of
prominent and wealthy Jews of New
York have organized the Society for the
Enforcement of Equal Rights. 1t will
endeavor to prevent discrimination of any
kind upon the part of hotel managers
against Hebrews or any other race of peo-
pie. and an effort will be made to obtain
legislation to this end in all States which
have no such laws.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Frederick w. Hochn Of Indianapolis
Decamps with W0man's Money.

Frederick w. Hochn OF Indianapolis
Decamps with Woman's Money.
The theft of $4,000 in stocks and
bonds from safety deposit vault in In
dianapolis belonging TO his sister. Mrs.
Christina Mold. fight to Cincinnati and
disposal of $4,000 worth of bis plumber,
then complete disappearance. are the reve-
lations OF one days police investigation
and search for Frederick William Hoehn,
aged 40 years. The discovery of the rob
berry was made when Mrs. Mold returned
from a visit to Ohio Going to her de-
post vault, she discovered her fortune
gone. Suspicion was not directed to her
brother until a letter was received from
Cincinnati broker making inquiries about
stocks. and bonds which he purchased
from man.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

DIR. c. Lindahl of Copenhagen tells in
the London Lancet of his discovery that
terra which produce disease in the human
body. This bacteriacidal capacity of the
lachrymal fuid is not due to its inor-
ganisms which it contains. known as leu
cocytes. The fluid when heated and
cooled fails to prevent the growth of bac-
terra to the same degree as when in its
normal state
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

By the vote of 219 to LAG the Russian
Douma tabled the resolution condemning
terrorism, the constitutional democrats,
peasants and Cossacks opposing and the
socialists joining the monarchists, O To-
berists and revolutionists in favor of it,.
TG new rules of procedure permit only
two speakers on each side of any ques-
ton, and this maA,s prompt action. The
Car again faces open revolution in sew
eral provinces, and there is talk of an
other general strike.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Fred c. Bolt. Found Guilty.

Fred c. Boltz, OF Fort Wayne, Ind,
was found guilty in the Federal Court
at Indianapolis of receiving stolen
postage stamps and was sentenced TO
the penitentiary for three years and
fined 800. The sentence of the court
provides for hard labor at the Fort
Leavenworth prison. The jury reported
guilty on three counts and not guilty
on one count.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
PAST AND PRESENT
As IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Te1exraphic Information Gathered
BY the Few for the Enlightenment
OF the Many.
Victim. of Fatal Cyclone.

Twenty-nine known dead, and forty
persons injured. constitute the list of
casualties resulting from storms of tor
nad0 severity which swept over South
ern Illinois and Indiana and Central
Kentucky. These fatal visitati0ns came
IN the shape of cloudbursts. high winds
and electrical disturbances. The prop
erty damages will reach many thous-
ands of dollars. Houses were swept
away, bridges demolished and thous-
nnds of acres of growing crops were de-
stroyed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
spygiass that Tells Distance.

NJ. Gerard, an officer of the French
navy, has invented an instrument called
the telimeter, which enables one to find
accurately the distance of any visible OBJ
ject whose height is known. without COM
pick calculations. The principle on which
this instrument works is the combination
Of two prismatic rings so adjusted as to
give a variable retroactive angle, enabling
the user by means of graduated scale
to read Of the distance of the object
looked at without stopping to go through
a mathematical calculation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Lightning Fire. Lumber.

Lightning caused a fire in the yards
of the Gallon Lumber & Coal Company
at Gallon, Ohio, which for some time
Threatened not only the destruction of
that entire plant but many residences
~ the vicinity The flames were extin-
guished shortly after midnight The
loss is probably $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Chicago Mav Have the Best.

The question whether Chicago may en-
ploy as sanitary inspector Charles B.
Ball. Notwithstanding that he had re-
sided in New York prior to his appoint
ment three years ago, has now been de-
cided affirmatively by the city civil SER
vice commission. Mr.. Ball, who was for
merly chief tenement inspector under
Mayor Low, was appointed chief sani-
tary inspector after competitive exam
nation. but was Immediately removed by
order of Judge Hauecy on the ground
that he was a nonresident, and the second
on the list got the place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
suicide RECORD Growing.

The suicides reported in various Amer
lean cities during the first four months
of this year, according to a summary in
the New York Herald, were more numer-
GUS than ever before Asphyxiation and
hanging were the most popular methods
of self -destruction, and financial trou-
bles furnished the principal causes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Edward Myers. whose body was found
in the Wabash river at Mount Vernon
several days ago. was murdered. accord
ing to the verdict of the coroner. The
man was working on a barge of corn and
was supposed to have fallen into the
river. The coroner found bad wound
on the head. which leads to the belief
that the man was murdered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

The Rev. w. Arthur Noble of Korea
has one of the largest districts In Meth
odlsm. Recently he walked 800 miles,
the churches In one section Of his district
bent near enough for hin to q tAis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

G.. A. Ferguson, business man of
Van Vert, Ohio, was arrested at Lima
on the charge of forgery aggregating
several hundred dollars. A peculiar
coincidence is that his young son
turned the same trick on merchants in
Lima and in Michigan six months ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Fatal Ohio Trolley Crash.

e. OConnell, II. NJ. Billings, w. G.
Allen and William Sala were killed in a
rear-end collision on the Cleveland and
Southwestern Traction Soad at Elyria,
Ohio. Thirteen persons were injured.
Three of the injured died the same day.
Five others are expected to die.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
self-Loadfnx Mau.er Rifles.

Herr Mauser, the inventor of the rife
which bears his name. and who still lives
at Dusseldorf, Germany, announces that
he has invented an improved mechanism
by which the weapon is automatically re-
aided from a cartridge chamber after
firing. He thinks that all modern armies
will be compelled to adopt this improve
mont
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

A cigar stub or pipe carelessly
laid down is believed to be responsible
for costly fire in the dry kiln of the
Lake Shore railroads carpenter shop
Mt Elkhart, Ind Scores of valuable pat
terms we're destroyed and the loss is es-
timated at $4,000 to $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Believed Two Youngsters Set Fire
to Storage House Near Mine.
By the explosion of several hundred
pounds of powder al the storage house of
the Farnsworth mine, near Sullivan. two
boys were blown to pieces and three 9TH
ers We're seriously hurt. The dead are
Claude Davis. aged 8. and Paul Keen,
aged 8. The cause of the explosion is
not known. 1t is supposed thlt the boys
accidentally set the building on FIRE.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Price OF Bread.tuns up.

The threatened shortage in the whea:
crop and the high price of that commod-
ity are now reflected in the boost in the
price of flour, which has risen from $3.50
TO So in the last month. If continued,
this would necessitate a smaller loaf or a
cent advance in price.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

The suit to dissolve the alleged merger
of Gould interest railroads in Missouri
was argued in the Supreme Court on de
murrers filed by the defendants to the
information of Attorney General HadIey.
Decision is expected within thirty days.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Price for Bull.

Tho highest price ever paid for a
horned anilaal at any auction in the
world, so far as known. was paid for
Stockwell, king of the herd of JERSEY
cattle sold at the Linden Grove farm.
near Allentown, Pa. The price was SILL
900, and it was understood tina, the bid
der was Thomas K. Ryan.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

President Eliot of Harvard, in an ad-
dress before the Association of New York
State Colleges at Cornell, ithaca, n. u,
declared modern college sports are I'M
moral and dishonorable to large degree
and said his own college would be better
OF without any athletics whatsoever.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

There will be no summer in 1907"
This prediction was made by an un
known weather prophet in 1887. 1t was
found the other day in musry, old al
manac of that year. Mrs. w, c. Lam
genecker. of Toledo. Ohio. discovered
the almanac last week in an old bureau
drawer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

base traitor. He abandoned the mother
country and raised arms against her. He
was the real Benedict Arnold of the revo-
luton" Instantly the class was in an
uproar, but the English girl held her
ground and it was several minutes before
quiet was restored
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Prof C. A. Meserve. instructor in
chemistry at the James r. Millikin uni
versity. has been appointed food inspec-
tor under the national pure food commits
sion and has resigned his position with
the university.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

The bureau of statistics at Washington
figures the probable total of iron and steel
exports for the fiscal year at S175.000,-
600. as compared with $57,000,000 in
1907
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Eugene Mcclellan fatally wounded
James Rinehart in Elkhart. Mcclellan
vas talking in his sleep ard said some
thing which displeased Rinehart. who at
tackled him and cut his throat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Price of whisky Goes Up.

When it became known that Attorney
General Bonaparte would adhere to his
recent ruling about what constitutes, real
or straight" whisky, Wholesalers receiv-
ed notice that all straight whisky bottled
in bond would hereafter be retailed at an
increase of from 20 to % per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Dt.nstcrs uurt Pacific Man.

The annual report of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company says that its earn
ings were $4,S39.245. a decrease of $780,
O92, being attributed to numerous wrecks
and to the effects of the San Francisco
enrfhnuake
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
President Cabrera As-a..inated.

A private dispatch received in Mex
ico City states that President Cabrera,
of Guatemala, has been assassinated.
The news cannot be confirmed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

In Marion. Miss Lennie Lawrence tried
to commit suicide because she did not
want TO fulfil her promise to marry VIII
liam Burns. Mrs. Mary Saxon. di-
vorced woman, who has been in poor
health, killed herself She was 81 years
of age Both took carbolic acid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Lucy Pail is dead and Anna, her sis
ter. dying as result of their fathers
storing coal stove in the attic of his
house in Michigan City. Carbonic acid
gas. caused by Goals left in the stove,
is believed to have poisoned the girls.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

Adolph Haywood, young Petersburg
merchant, died from illness caused BY the
excessive smoking of cigarettes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

A large safe in the Boston Store, a
large dry goods establishment in Sche-
necfady, y. v, was blown and 81 100
stoleE. The robbery was discovered
when the store was opened next morn
ing.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

In a race clash near Yazoo, Miss,
three negroes were killed, four white
men were wounded and two negroes
were severely whipped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Folk for President.

The tip comes from New York that the
Democratic leaders have decided on Jo-
seph w. Folk of Missouri for their presi-
Dental candidate in 1908 and John A.
Johnson Of Minnesota Tor his ru7ninG
0Ato.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
CALLED WASHINGTON TRAITOR.
English Girl Starts a Riot in an
Omaha High School.

Omaha High School.
In Omaha the other day school girl
started riot by describing George Wash
ington as a traitor. The girl is a pupil
at the high school. She was born in
England and still sees history through
British eyes. In the course of the his
tory class recitation the teacher unsus-
pectingly made laudatory remarks regard
ing the Father of his Country which
were more than this English-bred miss
could brook, and she broke forth vehe-
mently with George Washington was a
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Air Line In Rccriver.- Hand-.

That receiver had been appointed
for the Chicago & New York Air Line
dent A. G.. Miller. of the company,
found George f. Hull, of indianapolis,
in Narge of the cOmpany's Chicago Of
fee. Hull said he had been named
receiver by Judge Sanborn, of the
United States CircSit Court. Judge
soon as Hull took charge of the CON-
pany's affairs.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

A fire supposed to be of incendiary
origin, burned three buildings at Som
ersville, Ind, the total loss being esti-
mated at $500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Jesse James Wins High Honors.

Jesse James Wins High Honors-
Jesse James, son of the noted bandit
of that name, was graduated from the
Kansas City School of Law Friday even
ing. receiving the highest grade of any in
his class of thirty-eight- He will practice
law in Kansas City.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13

But this explanation does not fully
explain. Men who go to the root OF
the trouble lay the responsibility for
present conditions upon the shoulders
o. half a dozen big men. who know
more about finance than they do about
practical railroading.
There has been an evolution in the
railroad business in the United States
in the last eight or ten years. 1t has
been a period of reorganization and
consolidation. Masters of finance rather
than masters of transportation affairs
have ruled in the councils of old and
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
GIVES BIRTH TO auADRurLErs.

Indiana Woman Has Four Childrcn,
but Only Two Survive.
Mrs Frank Croxton of Roanoke gave
birth to bankruptcies, three girls and a
boy, the combined weight Of which was
eleven and half pounds. Two of the
girls died within few hours but the
other two children lid fair to survive
Mrs Croxton, who is 43 years old. is the
wife Of section foreman of traction
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-13
Inveator of Harvester Die. a Pauper.

A special from Richmond, Ind,
says: Charles NJ. Hill, said to be the
original inventor of the self-binding
harvesting machine, is dead at the
Eastern Hospital for the Insane.
Crazed by the alleged loss of his val
nable invention. Hill has spent large
part of his life in a sanitarium, while
others, il is said, benefited from the
product of his fertile brain. He was
% years old