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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
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The government has succeeded in put
ting an end to almost all the lotteries ex-
cept marriage.
That Wisconsin husband who waited &c
years to sue for divorce took long time
to think it over.
In spite of the steady work of the
bomb-throwers, there are still few I'M
killed Russian generals lodging around.
When a New York butler can retire
with 100000 it indicates that prosperity
has trickled right down through the popu-
lation.
a pretty Nebraska woman who won her
lawsuit promptly kissed the judge. You
sec, it's worth while being judge in Ne
braska.
4 California professor says 30 cents
worth of peanuts is more nourishing than
a porterhouse steak. Walk up to the pea
nut stand and get dinner for dime!
That Ohio boy who is to get S250,000
if he is patriotic American will proba-
bly, put up a Fourth of July celebration
that will make the country scream for
help.
4 lunatic who escaped from th" Mid
dletown On. W insane asylum has been
mailing back souvenir post cards from
every station. No doubt now about his
being crazy.
That Washington girl who sat on
wrecked boat and ate chocolates while
she waited for the rescuers ought to be
given a heroine medal by the Don't
Worry" Club.
Mormon elders have just brought over
from Europe 1913 girl converts. And the
fool killer was not on the dock to meet
them.
That Atlantic City waiter who got 10
cents reward FOR finding q lady's S1.S0T
can't believe that women are such liberal
spenders.
Brother of the Sum- There are several
people who think themselves the human
sun5urst.
a sting from q bee has just killed
Pennsylvania boy. and yet Senator Knox
is reckless enough to go around with a
bee in his bonnet.
Americans pay 100000 year for
life INSURANCE.. How many millions of
that is spent in calendars and picture
cards is not stated.
Charles NJ. Schwab thinks that every
wife should be cook but when he came
TO build a home he erected a structure
that doesn't look bit like kitchen.
A western scientist says that the girls
of the United States are kissing their
lives away" o death, where is thy vic
tory? o grave, where is thy sting?
So many men are being killed by the
strenuous life that DIR. Evans predicts
that Chicago will soon he an "Adsmless
Eden" 1t may be Aaamless, but it's
hard to imagine Chicago IS an Eden.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29

'terest of the public health, but differ
,ences have arisen at each stage OF the
attempt to frame regulations for the
government of the export trade in such
commodities owing to honest difference
of opinion as to the proper definition of
adulteration.
Although taking an advanced position
in this matter as revealed in the strin-
gent legislation contained in the pure
food law, the government of the United
States has been obliged at times to take
sharp issue with some of the European
government officials as to the harmfulness
of certain ingredients Of our food export
ed. Against purely technical objections
the Agricultural Department has been
contending with difficulty for long time.
But with the passage of the pure food
act, with the authority contained therein
to apply its provisions to imported food
and drugs and wines, the department finds
its hand much strengthened in dealing
with European governments, which are
now beginning to show very practical
interest in the inquiry which DIR. Wiley
is making into the nature of the ingredi-
ents of the great quantities Of foreign
delicatessen and liquors that are flowing
into the United States.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
BIG CINCINNATI FIRE.
HOMES, FACTORIES AND WARE
HOUSES DESTROYED.
Losses OF Several Victims in Queen
City VIII Aggregate S750,0o0-
Bays Explode Dynamite to Frig ht-
en- Passengers i'm Colorado.

\ shift of the wind aided the firemen
in their heroic efforts to overcome the fire
that started in the Eagle White Lead
Company's plant in Cincinnati Thursday
night. Five hours after the flames We're
discovered the fire was under control, af-
ter wiping out property valued at $780,.
600, driving hundreds of tenement dwell
ers from their homes and leaving waste
several acres of ground. Nearly every
thing on the irregular block bounded by
Broadway. East Court street, Hunt street
and the Norfolk and Western tracks was
destroyed. Numerous crowded tenements
fringed the fire section and scores of fami-
lies hurried to places of safety, many
carrying their valuables with them. Troll
ley and telephone lines had to be cut by
the iremel. crippling both kinds of ser
vice and adding to the loss of the fire
itself. Only one man was injured and
his injuries were not serious. The prin-
ciral losers were: Eagle White Lead
Company. $4,000: Morrison & Snod-
grass, window sash manufacturers. $780,
600; ID. T. Williams Valve Company.
100000; Il. III. kroger. wholesale and
retail grocery warehouses, $780, 600: f..
Roberts & Co. wholesale lumber, So
600; Isaac Joseph & Co.. waste and scrap
iron, $4,000; Cincinnati. Lebanon and
Northern, and Norfolk and Western rail-
WIS 5000; minor losses, $1,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
Odds and Ends

Danish engineer discovers process by
which beer is made from tablets.
Last year 81 large steel vessels Wee
built for service on the great lakes.
Sweden is the most progressive coun-
try in Europe in use of the telephone.
Only 81 per cent of Spain's 20,000O00
population are able to read and write.
German steamer lines threaten to stop
mail service ON Atlantic unless paid more.
Elks parade in Philadelphia in hottest
day of year; 4,430 persons were sum
struck.
William Abrams Martin, the solitary
survivor of the twelve men who convicted
John Brown, is still living in Virginia.
He has celebrated his seventy-fifth ami
rersary.
The value of the india rubber imported
into the United States during the last
year in the crude form aggregated $780,
100000. Brazil is the chief source of
supply.
4 Chinese merchant of Pekin who was
convicted of murder was sentenced to
death by being deprived OF sleep. -Four
warders kept watch over him to keep him
awake and on the tenth day he died.
Greece is said to be the poorest coun-
try of Europe. Her total wealth amounts
TO $1,000,000,000, or about half that of
Switzerland.
\ Japanese porter carries his teapot
with him when he goes to his days work,
as an American workman carries dinner
pail.
Mrs. Eddy, founder of Christian Sci
ence, is worth about 100000 and her
yearly income from the sale of her Looks
is not far from 100000.
Rock Island engineer went raving mad
GUS speed before trainmen could over
power him.
Lieut.. Col. Ayres, whose wife got into
difficulties with the officials of West
Point. makes a fight to keep from being
put on the retired list
Lost in the Australian bush, near Port
Darwin, for five days, Engineer-Com-
mander e. s. Silk was found alive and
well by black tracker.
Kaiser Wilhelm is having an antique
sun dial set up in the Imperial Park of
Charlottenhof bearing the inscription Il
count only happy hours"
to have originated in Saxony, and it is in
fh,t part of the empire that the o,nsump-
tion is most noticeable.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
MANY MOORS SLAIN.
Suitan's Troops Defeat Large Force

Suifan's Troops Defeat Large Force
OF Moroccan Rebels.
The Sultan's troops are reported to
have defeated again large force of the
knass tribesmen. in chose territory Caid
Sir Harry MacLear mas been held cap
tive. Six hundred Noors were killed and
several of their villages we're burned.
In Paris the Moroccan situation is re-
garded as having assumed distinctly
more serious aspect. The ferment in the
interior of Morocco. the proclamation of
Mulai Hafiz. the Su-an's brother. as sui
tan by section of the rebels, and the
appearance of new Moorish army before
Casablanca have created fear that the
whole country soon will be ablaze with
fanaticism.
More than 1000 colonial infantry, cav
airy and troops of other arms have been
modified at Oran and are ready to en-
bark on board transports, and other trans
Mediterranean ports to sail for Morocco.
Public sentiment is becoming stronger
against the halfway measures, which, it
is feared, will lead to disaster. The Paris
papers assert that the world must sup
port France if it is decided to send a
military expedition TO Fee, as in no other
way, the newspapers say, can the state
of anarchy in Morocco be ended. The
government. however, is resisting this
pressure, desiring to keep within the
bounds of the Algeciras convention, and
reports that negotiations are under way
for an enlargement of the mandate of the
powers are emphatical!y denied. Never
theless it is admitted, even in official CIR
cles, that something might happen which
would place an entirely new complexion
on the situation and compel France, in
the name of the powers, to chastise Mo-
r0ccO
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29

Party of Russian Jews on way to
America wayiaid and twenty-five were
slain.
Theodore Roosevelt is not the first to
give Oyster Bay presidential distinction.
George Washington once spent two days
there.
Prof. +. Clayton Wyland of the school
for the deaf in Frederick. Nd himself
mute, is the first person so afflicted to be
admitted TO membership into the knights
of Pythias- lie is a member OF Lodge %
and it was necessary. for the initiating
committee to learn the sign language
If the rate of consumption in 1905 were
maintained indefinitely without change.
our coal would last approximately 4.eco
years. but if the constantly increasing
rate which has marked the consumption
during the last ninety years be mainfc.n-
ed. our coal supply will practically be ex-
hausted within 100 years.
The Salvation army is established in
fifty-two countries and colonies and
breaches the gospel in thirty-oac lam
guages.
Annual reports of the Union and
Southern Pacific Railroad companies
show phenomenal earnings. which are
largely in excess of the dividend require
ments.
There are 1870 camps and roadhouses
in Alaska provided with telephones. in
addition TO many business houses. resi-
dences and cabins situated within the
limits of the larger CAMPS. The main
exchange is at Nome. Skagnay and
Whiteho-se are connected by telephone.
William T.. Curtis interviews Mrs.
Mary G. Baker Eddy. aged leader of
Christian Science faith. and finds her
mentally a~d physically Vigorous. without
sign of ''senle debility"
At sea level water boils at 90 de-
grees f.. at a height of 10000 feet at
1873 degrees +. When Darwin crossed the
Andes, in 1895. he boiled potatoes for
three hours without making them soft
Nine inches of dogs leg bone inserted
in the leg of Danny Buck. 9 years old.
of Los Angeles. has proved success in
surgery after nearly years worx. The
doctors have pronounced .he healing pro-
cess complete and have given the boy
permission 20 throw away his crutcheA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
ACQUIRES PANAMA LAND.
Government Gradually Getting Title
to Property from Private Owners.

Through the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion the government in Washington is OBJ
tanning title gradually TO all the lands 1t
needs in the canal zone coded by the
Panama government. Some of these tracts
We're in the hands of private owners when
the grant was made and negotiations with
them Or other proceedings have been nee
essary TO acquire title. In certain IN
stances this has been accomplished with
out difficulty and at almost nominal
prices, but in others the commission OF
arbitration appointed for that purpose has
not been 50 fortunate. Ia one case the
owners demanded a price a score or more
times as large what the commission
was willing to give. At the recent meet
ing OF the arbitration commission an
agreement was reached on the price to
be paid for three islands in Panama bay.
The arbitrators also agreed on the amount
TO be paid 70 certain property owners In
Panama who had claims pending for dam
age done by fire which swept the city
several years ago and which, it was as
serted on behalf OF the claimants, origi-
mated from work being done by the Amer
lean authorities in cleaning up the city.
In other cases the commissioners have
failed to reach agreements, and these VII
be referred 10 On umpire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
DEAD SENATOR ACCUSED.
Pennsylvania Ex-Omcial Confesses
He Knew Capitol Grafters.

James NJ. Shumaker. former superin-
tendent of public buildings and grounds at
Harrisburg, Pa. and implicated by the
report of the capitol investigation COM
mission. has declared that he will make
full confession of all he knows in con-
nection with the capitol graft scandal.
He elaine the manipulation of funds was
engineered by high official of the State
at Harrisburg to cover up n shortage in
the State treasury. Shumaker lives at
Johnstown. When he was subp9naed to
appear before the capitol investigating
commission he pleaded illness and remain
ed secluded in his house. Now be is APP
parently ready to diyulge important Sc
crets when the trials begin in Septem-
Der. Shumaker's statement, given out
by one of his closest personal and polit-
zeal friends is as follows: Il am going
on the witness stand to tell everything. l
will not keep back single secret. and
when l get through | will show that a
man high in official life at Harrisburg
ought to 20 to the penitentiary. | have
committed no wrong. / do no propose to
suffer for the sins of a scoundrel who
knew the colossal graft, but refused TO
stop it. as | urged. l know what the
graft was for. that it was to cover
treasury shortage. and save the name of
Il former United States Senator from
Pennsylvania. now dead
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29

Buyers excursions have been feature
of the week, and the leading primary mar
kets of the country have been flied with
country merchants. AS a result house
trade has been stimulated and orders for.
dry goods, clothing and shoes show con.
siderable improvement. Fall business. ex-
cept at few celters, is said to equal
a year ago at this date. the volume being
made up of numerous orders rather than
by any new interest or OF heavy business
In fact. many merchants display a d.spo-
sifion to go slow. fearing that orders may
fall off. not because OF a decline in con.
sumption. but more particularly of tight
ness of money.
Business failures for the week ending
Aug 22 number 1.3. against l5c last
week. LOO in the Ike week of 1906. I7o
in 1905. 1S5 in 1904 and 40 in 1909.
Canadian failures for the week number
ID, as against so last week and 10 in this
week year ago.-Bradstreet's Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
FIRES DESTROY FORESTS.
About 1900 Acres of Timber De-
stroysd in New England.

stroyed I'm New England.
Unusually dry conditions in the forests
throughout Massachusetts, caused by the
absence of rain during the last month,
have been responsible to n large extent
for the great damage by forest fires. which
have swept through southeastern Worces-
ter county. across the Cape Cod district
and over Bristol and Plymouth counties.
Abou; 1850 acres have been destroyed,
and in Several cases the flames have not
been checked, despite the fact that 100
men are engaged in fighting them.
The extensive fires which have devas-
tated the Cape Cod forests had their
origin in small blazes caused by sparks
from locomotives, while various causes
have been responsible for the others.
Blackened trunks and smoldering embers
are all that remain in many places where
formerly were forests of marketable tim
Der and heavy underbrush.
The most extensive fire is that raging
in the Douglas woods. one of the richest
areas of cumberland in the State. The
flames there have devastated 5000 acres
in Massachusetts and have spread into
Connecticut, where the damage is believ-
ed to be about one-ffth as great. Begin
ming in Douglas, the fire has eaten its
way through the forest land in the towns
of Sutton. East Douglas. Webster, NJ IL
bury. Oxford and Bridge, and is ssill
spreading
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
CHICAGO.


Another notable increase in the volume
of payments through the banks testifies to
sustained activity in commerce. and the
defaults reported are remarkably low.
There is, however. evidence of heavy
speculative operations in securities and
grain, and this interferes with more gen.
eral confidence in the trade outlook Other
adverse Developments of recent origin nm
press more conservatism in large enter
prises, and the position of money offers
no encouragement. Notwithstanding the
drawbacks. demands are found eQualing
expectations in the leading industries. and
there is no perceptible recession in pro-
duction and distribution.
Heavy shipments of currency to move
crops draw sharply upon deposits. and
the discount rate is firm at the highest
quotation this year, but reserves are well
maintained and most mercantile interests
are provided with requirements at this
time. Country banks have absorbed con-
siderable commercial paper. and the indi-
cations are good that western resources
viii be found ample to satisfy legitimate
financial needs during the next few
months of pressure.
Crop reports reflect seasonable head
way in harvesting. and the condition OF
corn in Illinois and Iowa steadily i'm
proves.
Visiting buyers from the West and
South arrive in the greatest numbers this
season and are active in selecting fall and
winter requirements. Demands compare
favorably with this time las. year ia sales
of drykgoods. millinery, clothing. footwear
and food products.
Bank clearings. 1921 .l2:s.655. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
1876 per cent.
Failures reported N the Chicago dis
tr;ct numbered IA. against % last week
and 10 year ago.-Dun's Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
EDDY CASE is CROPPED.
Those Who Began Case Decide to
Dismiss III.

The famous suit in equity brought
March l by George w. Glover. son of
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy, and others
as next friends against Calvin s. Frye
and others for accounting of the property
of the aged head of the Christian Science
church, came to an abrupt end Wednes-
day.
Immediately after the opening Of court
in the continued hearing regarding Mrs.
Eddy's competency before Judge Edgar
Aldrich and his comasters at Concord,
n. H., William L. Chandler, senior coun-
sci for the next friends" announced that
he had filed with the clerk OF the court a
motion for the dismissal of thc suit.
Mr.. Chandler said that there were many
reasons for this action, but TINT the prin-
cipal one was ''the unprofitableness of
any immediate result of decision in our
favor upon the exact issue as now framed,
compared with the burdens aad disadvan-
tages to be endured by Us, both before ard
after such decision"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
ROW OVER BIG GIFT TO KING.
Purchase of Cullinan Diamond Crit
cised in England.

The plan of Premier Botha of the
Transvaal to present the Cullinan dia-
mond TO King Edward meets with much
criticism both in England and the Trans
yaal. The finances of the colony are in
bad condition. and many people think that
the expense is unnecessary. The mag
mates of the Premier Diamond Mining
Company have found the Cullinan dia-
mond to be a white elephant. There is
no market for such huge stones. The Pre-
mier people are supporters OF Gen.
Botha's party, and critics say that if the
stone belonged to the De Beers Com
pant, which is opponent of Gen.
Botla. there would have been no thought
of presenting the diamond TO the king.
adding that the Botha party wants to
gain the credit for patriotic act. while
putting money from the treasury in the
pockets of their friends at time when
the colony can i'll afford such Injuries.
The controversy places King Edward in
an embarrassing position.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
TALK BE- TAFT.
Would Revise Tariff and Pat Big
Vioiators of Law I'm Prison.

ttO1StorS OF l8W I>EfsOn
William Howard Taft, Secretary of
War, and the administration candi-
date for the Republican presidential
nomination, at Columbus detailed his
views on pressing public questions be-
fore the Buckeye Republican Club. Sec
rotary Taft was received with enthusi-
asm, every person present rising and
cheering him vigorously.
The Secretary's address was ne first
and most important of a series to be
made at various points in the West
prior to his sailing for the Philippines
and Japan on the 10th of September.
From a political standpoint it was
noted that Secretary Taft laid down
his opinions in such a way that there
was no mistaking his candidacy and
hardly any doubt, also, that he expects
to have as his chief opponent on the
Democratic ticket William Jennings
Bryan. Mr.. Taft singled Mr.. Bryan
out repeatedly in discussing public
questions and the views of other indi-
viduals.
The salient features Of the Secre-
tary's address were:
He fsvors additional railroad rate leg
islation, notably an increase of power to
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He favors changes in the antitrust
law which will more clearly define it.
He believes there can be such thing
as a lawful trust, but emphasizes the
danger of unlawful monopolies.
He does not agree with Mr.. Bryan as
to the trust license plan and as to what
should be done with the trusts"
lie is in favor of remedying the "swol-
len fortune evil and suggests State leg
islation.
He believes that the graduated inherit
ance and income tax might be properly
resorted to by the government in case
of financial emergency.
He denies that Roosevelt's policies are
socialistic and that the President was re-
sponsible for State legislation reducing
railroad passenger rates or for Wall street
| flurries
He designated Mr.. Bryan's scheme of
government as ''nerveless' and denies the
practicability of a national referendum.
He comes out squarely against govern
ment ownership of railroads.
He announces that he is against free
trade, but favors tariff revision and be-
| lieves there should be no tariff tinkerins
until after the next presidential election
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29

the fields and farmers wives and daughters are work
ing side by side with the of the families Percy
Hoppergarss of the wealthy farmer has had to lay
aside his tennis racket golf sticks. fishing tackle and
cigarettes get busy tying wheat, hauling hay and all
such mental tasks He has to every bit hard
his mother or sister, right out in the hot too side
by them. This shows straits
are being put-Cincinnati Post.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29

Prof. jeremiah W. jerks of Cornell. q
member Of the United States lmmigra-
ton Commission, is on a tour OF the Ca
madam Northwest, investigating the mat
ter OF American immigration INFO Can
ada. He is also looking into the move
ment of Asiatics to British Columbia.
1t is said to be his purpose to dev.sc some
scheme to turn the American current
back to the States. lie is expo ted to
make a confidential report to tbs Presi-
dent on the results Of his trip.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
Held Crime to Enforce Law.

In Montgomery, Ala, Federal Judge
Jones Instructed the grand jury that it
must inJict all State and county officers
who interfere with railroad employees in
any attempt to enforce new statutes. Gov.
Conner thereupOn announced that il the
railroads are still violating the statutes
on Oct. / he will call an extra session of
the Legislature Immediately.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-29
Minister Killed by Mistake.

Mistaken in the dark for bootleg
ger" Sylvester slorris, IA years old, a
retired minister, was shot and killed at
Tulsa, l. T., by G. R. Wilson, deputy
United States marshal. Wilson, in COM
pany with another deputy had arrest
ed three "bootleggers," and were wait
ing for other violators of the law, when
Morris came driving by. He did not
stop when ordered and was shot dead