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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
TORTURED BY FIRE AS JOKE.
Worker, Suspended Above Blast Fur
mace, Is Fatally Burned.

Henry Perry, a mill worker of Wheel
ing. w. Va, is fatally injured from a
brutal hazing administered by fifty en-
pioyes of the Tyler Tube and Pipe Com
pany in Washington. Pa. Perry was
beaten and burned. The Tyler Company
steel workers have custom of initiating
new employees. Perry was fastened TO a
hook of a big iron crane and bound fast
with cords. Then he was swung above
a big blast furnace which is usually ap-
preached by the workmen only when COW
cred by shield. Finally the cords were
burned through and Perry's unconscious
form dropped to the floor right in front
OF the furnace, where his flesh was shriv-
eled and his clothing charred. His tor
mentors. alarmed at their work, called
DIR. j. Il. Maxwell, who worked with the
man for seven hours before restoring con-
seriousness. Physicians believe Perry in
hailed the flames and entertain little hope
for his recovery. Warrants were issued
for the arrest of the ringleaders of the
affair, but they escaped arrest by getting
out of town.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
STEAMSHIPS Fast TRIP.
Lusftania Crosses the Atlantic I'm Five
Days and "a Minutes.


After spectacular ocean race
against time which held the attention
of the world for five days, the Lusi-
tania reached Sandy Hcok lfghtship
The giant turbine liner of the Cunari
Line made the voyage from Queens
town in ) days "a minutes.
The Lusitania beat the best time
ever made by her sister ship of the
Cunard Line, the Lucania-tiye days,
seven hours and twenty-three minutes
by over six hours, but was thirty
five minutes behind the time set by the
Hamburg-American liner, Deutschland.
Sixty-one years ago the little steam
ship Europa of the Cunard Line, with
old-fashioned engines, crossed the At
lantic from Liverpool to New York in
eleven days and three hours, breaking
the worlds record at that time. Then
began the contest for supremacy Of the
sea which led to the building of the
fleet Lusitana.
The Lucania's record of five days,
seven hours and twenty-five minutes,
made from Queenstown to New York
in 1894, was at an average speed of
21.S1 knots over a course of 2,779
miles.
Then the North German Lloyd and
American lines began to battle for the
western record from Southampton to
New York. which was held between
1898 and 1896, by the steamships Paris,
New York and st. Paul of the Ameri-
can Line. The st. Paul in 1896 made
the voyage in six days and thirty
minutes
Then the North German Lloyd Com
pasy put over the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, and the new vessel n 1897 be-
came the marine wonder of the world
when it hung up a record of five days,
twenty-five hours and thirty-five min
utes from Southampton to New York.
The big Kaiser created a new record
in 1899, when it steamed from Cher
bourg TO New York, a distance of 1850
| miles, in five days, eighteen hours and
fifteen minutes. This record was low
cred in the same year by the Kaiser
to five days. seventeen hours and thir-
ty-seven minutes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
FINDS CITY OF UNKNOWN RACE.
Returns from Trip to Ecuador.

NJ. ii. Saville, professor of ethnology
at Columbia university. who has returned
from a trip TO Ecuador, said he had dis
covered the ruins of cities near the coast
which contained many evidences of a
race hitherto unknown to present-day sci
entists. The professors researches ex-
tended along the Pacific coast about fifty
miles TO the north and about the same
distance To the south of the equator
Somewhere between these points and TO
a distance about 100 miles inland he
found evidences of a city of antiquity.
The city, he said, had streets lined with
houses of singular construction. Though
the dwellings had been made of light ma
terial. sort of palmetto or thatch. they
had been constructed evidently with a
view of withstanding the shocks of the
frequent earthquakes of the region and
were intact He said he believed the city
had contained 5000 or more people 500
years ago. In his opinion the race was
one of the highest in civilization living in
America previous to the coming of Column
bus
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
SANDBAR BECOMES ISLAND.
New Jersey Man Made Comparative
ly Wealthy Through Sea Action.

BY the action of the sea bar of sand
has been created into an island near
North Wildwood, n. j., and the man who
paid the State $1S5 for it two years ago
has just sold it for $4,000. The island
is to be enlarged with sand pumped from
the sea and connected with Five Mile
beach, which probably will afford a means
Of connecting the coast trolley lines be-
tween Atlantic City and Cape May in the
great project of continuous line from
Atlantic Highlands to the Capes. By
one of those puzzling switches Of the cur
rents the bar began to rise about ten
years ago, and as it gradually grew higher
and higher it at last was visible above
high water. The shifting sands contin-
ued TO pile up and finally created the
island.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
WELlMAN POLAR TRIP FAILS.
Airship Is Wrecked and Plan to Seek
Pole Abandoned for This Year.

Airship Is Wrecked and Plan to Seek
Pole Abandoned for This Year.
Walter Wellman on Friday arrived
at Tromsoe. Norway. on board the
Frithjof from Spitzbergen on his way
home. He announced that he had def
nitely abandoned for this year, after Il
disastrous trial of his airship, the pro-
posed attempt TO reach the North Pole.
Worldwide interest had been excit-
ed in Wellman's proposed trip. Mr..
Wellman's plans were rs simple as they
were spectacular and scientific. With
two picked companions he purposed to
sail in his airship from Spitzbergen
to the North Pole, distance as the
crow flies of 61S miles.
The airship was Il dirigible balloon,
modelled on the best lines known TO
French balloon makers. 1t bore steel
car 10 feet long, which would contain
the three explorers, their outfit of me-
neurological and navigation instruments
and a kennel of twenty-nine Alaskan
sledge dogs with sledges. In case of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
ALASKAN VOLCANO BREAKS OUT.
Eruption in Aleutian Islands Covers
Villages with Ashes.

Advices received at Seattle from an
officer of the revenue cutter Rush, lying
at Dutch Harbor, and dated Sept. 4. say
that on Sept. l and . volcano in the
Aleutian Islands broke forth. sending tons
of ashes and cinders over score or
more or native villages, frightening the
native Alaskans as well as the whites out
Of their wits and covering the decks of
the cutter with debris from the volcano.
a hurricane accompanied the phenome-
non and wild fowl of all kinds were driv-
en- far to sea. No lives were reported
lost The eruption occurred in the vi
cinity of the volcanic island Perry, which
sprang up from the sea short time after
the San Francisco earthquake.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
$1,000 in Gold in Fire Ruins.

Fire destroyed the fine rural home
belonging to the Misses Martha and
Elizabeth Longenecker, wealthy wo-
men near Mishawaka, Ind. The fire
started in the kitchen. and the house
was destroyed. The loss will reach
$4,000, with 81 900 insurance Nearly
all ef the fine furniture was saved,
but 1880 in gold, in a trunk on the
second floor, went down in the heap
of ashes and cinders.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19

Capt. Henry Brown, a veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars, and inventor OF
the bell buoy, as now used at American
ports, died at Charleston, S. c.. aged sc
years. He served during the COS under
Farragut and Porter.
BY utilizing the principle of the farm
er's hotbed, exposing pipes of ether to
the rays of the sun under glass cases
Frank IShuman, Philadelphia engineer
and chemist, claims TO be able to turn
the suns rave directly into power, suffi
cient for commercial uses.
President Roosevelt is considering an
invitation to go bear hunting in the cane
brakes of Louisiana Immediately after his
forthcoming journey down the Mississippi
river.
Two true bills have been found agains,
Pennsylvania county grand jury in North
Carolina, on account of the alleged dan
gerous condition of the roadbed.
The police of Paris sent to an infrm
airy woman who says she is Miss Amy
Root of Rochester, y. Y, and who
claims to be a cousin of Elihu Root. Her
mind was unbalanced and she would clint
on restaurant tables and sing and dance
The mackerel fleet of sixty-five sail
composed mostly of craft from Port.
land, Me-, and Gloucester. Mass, reports
that in the aggregate the vessels have
stocked S5O0,0OO worth of fish.
In France all mechanics are required
to serve an apprenticeship of from two
to three years. During the half of that
period they are required TO board them
selves and are not paid any wages.
The Rapid Transit Company of Phila
delphia has proposed that it will inau
gurate a 4-cent fare on all lines, surface
elevated and suburban, and that all free
transportation, transfers and tickets shall
be abolished. The announcement hal
been made to test public sentiment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
ROBBERS HOLD UP FAST TRAIN.
Take Registered Mail from the Great
Northern Oriental Limited.

The Great Northern Oriental Limited
was held up by two masked men west of
Rexford, Mont, at an early hour Thurs
day morning. The robbers crawled over
the tender and at the point of their guns
commanded the engineer to stop the train
and go with them to the express car and
tell the express messenger. mail clerk AMI
baggage man TO back into the coaches.
After the messenger. baggage man and
mail clerk had left their cars the robbers
went through the mail cars and robbed
the sacks of large quantity of regis
tered mail. The express safe was found
empty. The railroad company has offered
a reward of $4,000 for the arrest of the
robbers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
SOLDIERS STORM JAIL; REFUSED
Attack Prison to Free Comrade, but
Are Frightened bv Shots.

A mob of nearly fifty soldiers of the
Farriers' School at Fort Riley came to
Junction City about 10 o'clock the other
morning for the purpose of releasing a
comrade who was confined in the county
Jail. The sheriff and city police force
were notified of their coming and from
positions in windows above the Jail open
ed fire that quickly dispersed the mob
as it sought to force an entrance. The
authorities at Fort Riley placed guards
at the Jail and are aiding in the effort to
find the members of the mob. Two ar
rests have been made No one was shot
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Circus Man Left 100000.

The will of the late Louis Sells, last
of the showmen of that name, who
died last week, was deposited with the
Probate Court in Columbus, Ohio, by
w. b. Heston, his attorney. 1t was
stated by the attorney that Mr.. Sells
left an estate valued at $500, 900, which
is equally divided between his widow
and his daughter, with provision for
annuities to his sisters ample to sus-
tain them for their lives
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
SUBMERGED wreck Perils ships.

The late survey steamer General Will
liams reports the discovery of wreck in
thirty-six feet of water, two miles north
EAST of Colchester light. 1t lies close TO
the track of boats bound for the Detroit
river and taking the north side of Col
chester light. The wreck has twenty
three feet of water over il at the present
stage, but in stormy weather it would be
a menace to shipping.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Indiana
State News
GIRLS DINNER WINS REART.
Attorney WEEDS Fair Cook Week
After First Meeting Her.

Attorney WEEDS Fair Cook Week
After First Meeting Her.
John Hamm, a young Elwood lawyer,
started to Anderson in an automobile.
Near Franklin his machine went dead"
He went to farm house to buy lunch
con. Miss leila NJ. WEIGH, who is just
p, informed the young man that if he
could wait she would prepare dinner He
amused himself in the parlor playing the
piaLo until he was invited into the dining
ROOM The biscuits were superb, while
the coffee was delicious. The pies and
cake melted in his mouth. The girl was
interesting and pretty. They chatted
while a cheuffeur was fastening from an
Elwood garage to bring his dead auto
back 20 town. Just one week later the
young man and the girl rode TO Ander-
son in the same old automobile, where
license was AIKEN out 4 wedding fol-
lowed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Tn Re Named New York.

1t is announced from Washington that
the President and the Navy Department
have reached decision TO name one OF
the two 20,O00-ton battleships authorized
by the last session of Congress the New
York The armored cruiser now bearing
that name will be rechristened Saratoga
to perpetuate the name in the navy OF
the historic old vessel with that title
which has been condemned and is about
to be broken up. The other of the two
giant battleships authorized has been
named Delaware.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Possible Acknowledgement Union.

Since the proposition for joint state
hood with New Mexico has been reject
ed by the people of Arizona it has been
suggested that in case Congress shows a
disposition to withhold statehood bonors
from Arizona separately a move might
be made toward union of that territory
with Nevada. Such a measure, it Is said,
will be strongly supported by the very
people who have opposed the union with
New Mexico,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
A CRIMINAL ENIGMA.
Constantine, Alleged Slayer of Mrs
(senfrV- IN A. T.fA

Constantine, Alleged slayer of Mrs.
Gentry, Soon, to BE Tried.
The authorities of Cook county. Illinois,
Eust soon deal with criminal enigma
whose crime shocked the whole country
and led to the crusade against law-treak-
ers which for the time being almost freed
Chicago of criminals This man is Frai-x
j. Constantine. slayer of Mrs. Louise
sentry. The fellow has spent several
months in Jail and his trial is about 10
open. 1t will be one of the hardest fought
on record in Cook county, for. though
there is little doubt in the public mind
that Constantine is the murderer, he will
be ably defended and the evidence against
him is all circumstantial. The prisoner
is of Italian birth and his mother runs
a grocery store in New York
Although he admits nothing, the police
assert that they have him positively iden-
titled and that they not only have his own
admission of his identity. made when he
was arrested in New York, but that he
made statements about the crime. Mrs.
Gentry was young woman, married but
a year, and lived in fiat where there
were other occupants of similar tastes.
Her husband was a man of some means
and they lived in refined manner. In
the latter part Of 1905 young man
named Constantine came to live in the
same fat and made the acquaintance of
the Gentrys. He spoke of fine family
connections and conveyed the impression
New York, were rich. About IL o'clock
in the forenoon of Jan, 6. 1906, Mrs.
Gentry, fully dressed in street attire,
dashed down the stairs from her apart
ments and rang the bell of a doctors
Office on the ground floor, who, upon
opening the door, saw her fall TO the
floor Her throat was slashed almost
from ear TO ear and there was blood all
about her and trailing down the stairs.
She pointed up the stairway in mute
testimony that the attack had occurred
there In four minutes she died.
Suspicion at once pointed to Constan-
tine because he had disappeared, leaving
his hat behind. From tat time on for
well over year Frank Constantine was
hunted as suspected criminals seldom are
hunted, the chase leading through three
continents, being participated in and
urged on constantly by an aggravated po-
lice force aroused by series of dastardly
women murders in Chicago.
According to the story Constantine is
alleged to have told the New York police
after his capture he went from Chicago
to New York: thence TO Naples, remain
ing a month in that city before going to
Argentina, South America. After five
weeks he returned to Italy, went thence
to London, where he remained until he
sailed for New York in January, 1907.
His relatives hid hims in New York, but
when he was about to return to Italy he
was captured on the docks April by an
Italian detective of the New York force.
Constantine's shrewdness in evading
arrest, his compcsure and alertness when
under questioning by the police and his
present attitude of nonchalance and al
most absolute silence show him as a man
of self-composure far beyond what might
be expected of man of his years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Woman Is Slain in Bed.

Mrs. Maude Westerfield, 26 years old.
was found murdered in her home in Chi
cago. Her body, with bullet wound
over the left temple, was found in bed
by her husband. Herman Westerfeld, 80
years old. The police are looking for
Edward Hildebrandt, % years old, who
for several months has boarded with the
Westerfelds, and is said to have been at.
tentive to the woman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Cttvwnrd Trend of Negroes.

In the concluding installment of Ray
Stannard Bakers series on the color line
in the American Magazine, an explana-
ton is given why the negroes of the
South are drifting so rapidly to the cities.
1t is that they feel the lack of schooling
for their children in the country and the
lack of police protection. The difficulty
of keeping supply of good labor is caus-
ing the owners of the big plantations to
sell off small farms to the more thrifty
negroes
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Mother and Sons Burn.

Two little sons of August Pumpke in
Dubuque, Iowa, played with matches dur
ing the absence of their mother and set
fire to their clothing. The mother re-
turned to find them in flames, and was
fatally burned trying to save them. The
children died soon after the fire was
quenched and the mother a few hours
later The house was destroyed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Rob Bank; Flee from Possee.

Masked robbers broke into and blew
open the safe in the Royal Savings bank
in Chippewa, Ont. A posse was organ
lied and at once set out in pursuit of
the robbers. Officials of the bank say
the safe blowers were frightened away be-
fore they got into the safe deposit box
inside the vault, where the most of the
banks money was kept.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Millionaire woodford Dead.

A special from Charlevoix, Mich.
says that M. d. Woodford, aged CO, a
mHlti-millionaire railroad magllate,
real estate financier and former presi-
dent of the C. H. & d. railroad, of
Cincinnati, Ohio. died Sunday in his
summer home after a lingering illness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Lost Steamship Found Safe.

Word was received in South Norwalk,
Conn.,. of the safe arrival of the steam
ship Nebraskan at Salna Cruz, Mexico
The officers reported that the feed pump
burst shortly after the start had been
made from Honolulu, Aug. 16, and it was
impossible to get water necessary to sup
NV the boilers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19

On Sept. ) the International Harvester
Company of Wisconsin pleaded guilty
at Austin, Texas, in the antitrust suits
instituted against it by the State OF Tex
as and paid the fine of $4,000 imposed
by the court. The company also sub
scribed to the perpetual injunction for
bidding from operating in any way in
Tpxas
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
voliva Succeeds Dowie.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva was formally
elected general overseer of the Chris
tian Catholic Apostolic church in Zion
f0r life by the general ecclesiastical
conference held in tent at Zion City,
Ill. The vote of 1892 was pronounced
unanimous.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Gourdain Is a Maniac.

Louis A. Gourdain of Chicago, who
duped half million people in twenty
years and whose operations netted him
nearly 100000, became a raving ma
MAC in the government prison at Atlanta,
Ga. He has been removed to the govern
ment asylum for the insane in Washing
ton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19

Report Shows Decrease fin business
of Indiana Companies.

Report shows Decrense I'm Busfness
of Indiana Companies.
The report of the insurance department
of the State for the year ending Dec. 81,
1906. shows that the fire insurance com
panies had the Sest of the business during
the year and that the life companies
showed a decrease over the year preced-
ing, though both made a Comparatively
good showing, circumstances considered.
The Indiana fire insurance companies
wrote a total of SS.2f6.64S worth OF bust
ness in 1906, as against S1S.30S.5S3 in
1905. The foreign fire insurance COM
panies wrote SS0.937 ,977 worth of bust
ness in 1906, which is substantial in
crease over the S73.111.565 that they
wrote in 1905. The legal reserve Indiana
life insurance companies wrote total OF
$685., So worth of business during the
year
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Head of Cars Prison Slain.

NJ. Borodulin, general superintendent
of the Akatui political prison, in Trans
baikalia, Russia, was assassinated by an
unidentified man on the streets of Pakoff.
his home village, where he was spending
a vacation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Falls from Horse to Death.

William j. Mulhall. farrier for the first
city troop of Philadelphia, and a we'll
known college football player and athlete,
was killed at STAFFORD, a suburb, by
plunging head foremost over a mustang.
Mulhall was showing friend some of
the evolutions practiced by cavalrymen
in their drills.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Neighbors Egg Artist Earle.

Villagers of Monroe, n. ", hurled eggs
at Ferdinand Pinney Earle of affinity"
fame. 1t would be difficult to say which
was the sadder when his train pulled out
OF New York-the artist with over-ripe
eggs spattered over his collar or the viii
layers because he had escaped with so
little
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Praises Lightning Rods.

Fire Marshal Purtell of Wisconsin says
that lightning rods are almost a certain
safeguard against loss of property from
lightning, and suggests that fire insurance
companies offer lower rates to property
owners who use them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
TROUBLE IN sHELBYvILLE
Race War started When Five Ne
croex Attack Policeman.

Race War Started When Five Nc
Eroes Attack Policeman.
Shelbyville has another race war. The
trouble started when FIVE negroes attack
ed Policeman Daniel Starkey, beat him
into insensibility and fed when crowd
of whites arrived. Five shots were fred
at the fleeing negroes, but none took effect
SO far as is known. A posse of 100
whites was formed and secured the city.
Mayor Swain and party of policemen
captured two of the colored men, Steve
and Robert Marshall. near the outskirts
of the city. They were taken to jail.
where they are closely guarded. The
streets were cleared of negroes. No vio-
lence was attempted, but crowds of angry
citizens stood on the street corners threat
ening the colored men.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Heavy SHIPMENTS Of Coal.

Shipments of hard coal by lake from
Buffalo during August amounted to 1885,
S73 tons, breaking the record of July,
when i21 ,52J tons were forwarded to
upper lake ports by boat. Of the total
Duluth and Superior received 1S4,93s
tons. Chicago 132,S0O tons and Milwau-
kee $3.50 TONS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
Coincidence of Death.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Poole, So and
81 years old respectively, were killed
at the same me ment, the former by
an explosion in coal mine, and his
wife in the railroad yards at Centralia,
III. Their home was in Odin, Ill.