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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
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Prosperity seems to be moulting few
feathers.
1t will cost you 33 per cent more now
to telegraph your baby"
All the railroads are ready to adopt
the legislative block system.
They are building San Francisco this
time with the graft attachments removed.
Japan has launched the biggest battle
ship in the world, but it doesn't interest
Russia.
The season of severe mortality among
Office boys grandmothers has once more
set in,
The human mind is singularly addicted
to the diversion afforded the world by
baseball.
''Silent" Smith didn't have to talk. His
$5O.0O0,000 of money talked enough for
any man.
The "early settlers" are the people who
pay for their rooms in advance down at
jamestown.
They say Paris eats 10000 horses
year. No wonder there are so many
horseless carriages there.
There hasn't been a rainstor;n in Cuba
for six months. No wonder Cuban pat
riotism is drying up.
In South America they have discovered
a tree that gives milk. Maybe il was
just a good old wooden pump.
The Tilted girl in Wyoming who hasn't
spoken to a man for u years ought to
DO encouraged to keep it up.
If tho rarieo of proporiQc would only pO
down like the price of stocks, the house
holder would long for a panic.
Since the free pass was amputated, the
average Legislatures have not been blind
to the faults of the railroads.
Why should Anna Gould Castellane
pay $4,000 for a divorce in Paris when
she can get one just as good in Chicago
for $2,97?
This thing of burning ashes, after a
treatment with salt is likely TO be taken
by most people with a grain two of
that article.
1t cost the former Countess de Castel-
lane $4,000 10 get rid of Boni, which
shows that bargains are never the cheap
est in the end.
"A
that St Patrick was Presbyterian. And
that just the peace movement was get
ting along so well.
A negro has won the Rhodes scholar
ship from Pennsylvania, which will add
a bit of ebony to the variegated collection
at Oxford university.
A little discrepancy of 100000 has
been found in the accounts of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. Better repair the
chair of mathematics.
Pennsylvania paid $1,000 for a 500
bootblacking stand in the new State
House. Must have been cutting up high
shines a Harrisburg.
The Philadelphia man charged with
marrying 80 women is conclusive EVIL
dence that neither the fools nor the
martyrs are all dead yet.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
All Around the Globe.

During a quarrel in a liquor store at
Youngstown. Ohio, William Price shot
and almost instantly killed Tom White
head. Price was captured
Gov Folk has granted respite OF
sixty days to William Spaugh, Jr., SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder o.
Sheriff Polk OF Iron county, Mo.
Announcement was made that the gen.
eral conference of American Friends will
be held in Richmond, Ind, opening on
Oct. Is. Canada, Cuba and Mexico will
be represented.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed for the Cleveland. Ohio, Win
dow Glass Company in the United States
District Court. The liabilities are given
as S45OnOO
The MarbIehead life-saving crew res
cued three men adrift on scow which
became separated from the tug Pankrantz
during heavy storm. The men spent
wild night on Lake Erie
Michael Mcnamara was convicted at
St Louis of murder in the second de-
gree. Mcnamara killed his wife while
she was with another man in hotel
last August. He is yet to be tried ior
killing the man at the same time.
The auxiliary gasoline sloop-yacht j..
Daggit. owned by Captain James Havity
OF Miami. Fla. was burned in Albemarie
! sound. North Carolina. following the ex-
plosion of a gasoline tank.
Capt. n. 7. Smith, the veteran treas
urer of the Southern Pacific Railwas
Company. died at his home at San Carlos,
San Mateo county, Cal. Pneumonia, COM
bined with paralysis, caused death.
Senator Ellis of st. John, n. b.,
spoke strongly against the increase in
postage ON newspapers to the United
States. He said it was not in the in
terest of Canada, as many Canadians liv-
ing in the United States would be depriy-
ed of home news
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

street rejoices over those facts. Wall
street insists that the father and son
are quitting losers in sliding sum Of
from 100000 to $40,OO0.O00.
The notice of the dissolution Of the
firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. started
all the reports about the financial de-
cline of the family. That was the firm
through which the great plunger
traded, and it was brought into exist
ence to enable him to plunge as he
pleased. Son Charley" headed il, but
father was in reality the firm.
The so-called rich mans panic" that
reached its climax March 10 was de-
clared to have been the cause of the
downfall of the Gateses- Consistent
bulls always, they are reported to have
been caught heavily in that terrible
slump of stocks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
VETERANS UNvEIL SHAFT.
Society of Army Of Potomac Honors
McClellan's Memory.

XuCtlSl1au MeulcIy.
President Roosevelt. cabinet members,
army and navy officers and men promi-
nent in civil life participated Thursday
afternoon in the ceremonies attending
the unwilling of the statue TO Gen. George
Il. Mcclellan which has been erected in
Washington by the Society of the Army
OF the Potomac. Hundreds of old sol
diers were in the city to attend the cere-
monies. OF these veterans about two
thirds are from the Army of the Poto-
mac. of which Gen. Mcclellan was COM
mander. The monument, at Connecticut
avenue and Columbia road. was unveiled
at 2 80 O'Clock. Brig. Gen. Henry c.
Dwight, president of the Society of the
Potomac, presiding. Right Rev. Henry
Y. Satterlee, bishop of Washington,
opened the services with prayer. after
which Brig. Gen. Horatio c. King of
New York gave a brief history of the
statue. The unwilling by DIR. George
Mcclellan was followed by a salute by
the Fourth battery. United States field
artillery. Addresses were made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Major Gen. Daniel f.
Sickles. Major Gen. O. o. Howard and
Major Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
GATES QUITS MARKET.
Am erica's Most Spectacular PIungcx
Retfres from Wall Street.

Am erica's Most Spectacular PIungcK
Retfres from Wall Street.
John w. Gates, Americas most spec
tacular financial plunger, has resolved
to plunge no more. He has gone out
of business. Wall street says John w.
Gates is down and out" that he has
'lost his nerve" and is fleeing from the
scene of his disaster. Gates says he
hasn't time TO discuss funny dreams"
His son; Charley" says that the head
of the house is just going to France for
year or so for good time. and that
he will return. A Chicago partner de-
clares that all the broke" stories are
'plain rot :, that the old man got
cold feet and quit when the stack in
front of him was high enough'-using
the vernacular that Mr.. Gates uses
when he used to bet a million
There is one fact in the conflicting
reports concerning the multi-millionaire
SPECTATOR. He has quit business. Wall
street knows that fact, for the formal
notice of the dissolution of the firm Of
Charles G. Gates & Co. was given out
Admittedly also the Gates, father and
son, are going abroad for a year. Wall
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT That WHICH HAS BEEN
AND IS TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make il Com pletc.


Four small children were burned to
death in the home of Martin Campbell,
eight miles from West Branch, Mich,
on a branch of the Michigan Central
railway. Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell had
gone to a dance a mile away from
their home. leaving their six little ones
locked in the house. They left big
fire in the stove, and in some manner
this ignited the house, which was de-
stroyed with its contents. The chill
dren were awakened by the flames,
and the two eldest, aged and 10
years, managed to escape in their
night clothes. The four smaller ones
persisted in the flames. The parents
are Frustrated over the tragedy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
LIVING COST is HIGHER.
Government Report Says Wholesale
Prices Are Advancing.


The bureau of labor has taken an
other look into the cost of living and
it finds it is still increasing. Its latest
examination had 10 do with wholesale
prices only. 1t is now making a study
of retail prices. The bulletin just is
sued shows that wholesale prices, con-
sidering 2jS commodities as a whole,
reached a higher level in 1906 than ut
any other time during the seventeen
year period covered The average for
the year 1906 was sc per cent higher
than for 1905, 3G.5 per cent higher
than for 1897, the year of lowest prices
during the seventeen-year period. and
22.4 per cent higher than the average
for the ten years from 1890 to 1899.
Prices reached their highest point
during the seventeen-year period in
December. 1906, the average for that
month being Al per cent higher than
per cent higher than the average for
December. 1905.
The average price for 1906 Of farm
products, taken as whole, differs but
little from that OF 1905, decrease oe
only one-half Of per cent being shown.
Food as n whole increased SO per cent
in average price for 1906, US compared
with 1905. The principal articles show
ing an increase were cheese, fish, fruit,
hog products. milk rice and vegetables.
No change took place in the price OF
bread. A slight decrease in the whole
sale cost Of coffee, eggs, wheat. -four,
corn meal. beef, sugar and tea is
shown.
OF the seventy-five articles included
under clothes and clothing, sixty-six
showed an increase in price, five show
cd no change, and only four showed Il
decrease. In the group, as a whole,
there was an average increase of rs
per cent in price. In fuel and lighting,
as a group, there was an increase in
price of ) per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
CAR STRIKE ENDS.
Salt Lake City Company Refuses to
Recognize Union.

Street car service in Salt Lake City has
been resumed after two days suspension.
After the electrical workers had prac-
tically decided to go out in sympathy
with the carmen, as well as for the adj
justment of grievances of their own, the
street car company sent for former Con-
gresham Brigham ii. Roberts and gave
him power to come to any settlement
with the men that would not involve for
NAL recognition of the union. National
Secretary c. o. Pratt told him the terms
of the men. To these Mr.. Roberts as
scented and the strike was over. The de-
mand of the men. which was granted. is
rate of % cents an hour for carmen.
with 80 cents after the first years SER
vice
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
SCHOOL GARDENS A SUCCESS.
Philadelphia Has I,sOO Little
"Farmersv mt Work in Them.


The coming of pleasant weather has
put 1,s00 Philadelphia children into the
school gardens working with rake and
hoe to help nature do her part in the
production of crops. Among Philadel-
phia's educational activities its municipal
school gardens are unique. No other city
has worked out the problem of supple
menting school room work with nature
study SO successfully or to such an extent
The ten gardens conducted in different
parts of the city by the Board of Edu-
cation for public school children are con-
sidered of such economic and civic i'm
portance that the board this year closed
its summer schools in order to devote
more time and money to maintenance of
the gardens, and the announcement of
outdoor exercise in the Fairgrounds con-
nected with them.
Scientific gardening is taught in these
outdoor schools. Punctuality is insisted
ON. The garden of the sluggard is taken
away and put in charge Of an embryo
farmer who keeps down the weeds and
pays the price of eternal vigilance for
his crops.
Eacn cnlld VINO gets a plot must
register. He or she is required TO keep
a record card noting the day of planting
and the results, so that at the end of the
season the principals can ascertain how
productive the garden has been. Each
one knows how many cabbage, bundles of
beets, heads of lettuce, spinach, tomatoes
and turnips have been grown in each
truck patch.
The garden teachers position is no
sinecure. She has to be an expert farm
er as we'll as good disciplinarian. She
has to combine work and play methods
and must be able to manage hand pillow
as well as an obstreperous child. She
must handle her rake and hoe with equal
dexterity, be able to lay off and dig
paths. discern plant diseases. know how
to exterminate pests and be an all-around
HANDY man" as well as good teacher.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Indiana
State News
VIEW U. S. BUILDING DEDICATED.
Reception and Banquet Mark Opef'
ing of Hammond Postofice.

Reception ana Banquet Mark opef
ing of Hammond Postofiice.
Hammond's new Federal building was
dedicated the other afternoon. The cere-
monies began at 2 p. m. with a reception
at which guests from Chicago. Crown
Point, Hammond. Whiting, East Chicago,
Indiana Harbor and Valparaiso were
present. Mrs. Hugh f. Meikle. president
Of the Hammond Woman's Club, was in
charge President Jacob Schloer of the
Hammond Business Mems Association
and Congressman Edgar ID. Crumpacker
delivered the dedication addresses Mr..
Crumpacke- predicted that Hammond is
to be a court as well as commercial
and industrial center. The banquet in
the evening was attended by BOO Mayor
Becker delivered the address of welcome,
and was followed by Congressman Crum-
packer, who spoke on "Our Country"
The building cost 100000. 1t is built
of stone and is three stories in height
In it are rooms for Justice Anderson,
District Attorney Bowers, referee in
bankruptcy. revenue collectors and grand
jury rooms. The postofiicc occupies the
entire lower floor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
WINS RICHES ONLY TO sTARvE.
Former Chicagoan Dies in Desert
with Fortune in Possession.

John l.. Morgan, formerly of Chicago,
possessed of wealth enough to keep him
in luxury, has starved to death on the
desert of Death valley. Morgan's death
occurred at Furnace Creek. The story
was brought to San Bernardino by Wal
ter Adams. Morgan's partner.f For more
than year the men have been prospect
ing on the border of Death valley. Last
summer they were lost and suffered ag-
onies from thirst and hunger before be-
ing rescued. During that period Morgan
ate the deadly burning sand" of the des-
ert. He suffered periodically from the
effects of the hardships sustained during
that time and finally reached such con-
dition that he could not eat. Adams is
now on his way to Chicago to find the
widow of his dead partner. Morgan made
his partner swear that il he died without
seeing his wife Adams was to take to her
Morgan's last farewell.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
strike OF sbipy Officers.

The American Association of Masters,
Mates and Pilots has declared general
strike OF the first, second and third Of
GERS on all coastwise vessels sailing from
New York, to go into effect May j, to
enforce their demands for an advance in
wages to 500. $50 and $50, respectively.
This strike took the form Of individual
designations, as the law requires them to
give notice of intention to quit work.
Later the strike was called off in the case
of the Brunswick and Bull lines, which
agreed to pay the desired wages.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Panic IL CHICAGO Fire

Patrons and employees of the Lotus
Club restaurant, on the second floor of
the building 257 Wabash avenue. Chicago,
battled with each other in a terrible
struggle to escape death by fire at noon
Wednesday. Forty were injured. some
perhaps fatally. The Story & Clark
Piano Company and the restaurant were
damaged to the extent of $45,O00
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Catches Burglar in window.

Mrs. Rudolph Luthy trapped masked
burglar in her home in Cleveland. She
discovered the craftsman forcing jimmy
under window. When the burglar
thrust both hands under Mrs. Luthy saw
the trap he had set for himself. She
sprang forward and slammed the window
down on his fingers. Mrs. Luthy called
to her husband. The man at the expense
of some square inches of skin tore his
hands loose from the trap and escaped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

A dispatch from Kansas City says:
The campaign in Kansas and Okla
homa to exterminate the green bug
which has been doing much damage to
wheat is. developing interesting fea-
lures. The main effort is being di-
rected in the collection and distribu-
ton throughout the affected districts
of the ladybug so-called, which Pro-
lessor Hunter, entomologist at the
Kansas State University, recently dis
covered to be the parasite enemy of
the destroying green bug.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Navy Uniform Not Immune.

Judge Sweetland, in the Superior Court
at Providence, X. L.. has decided that
Chief Woman Buenzle, who was barred
from Newport amusement hall because
he wore the uniform of the United States
navy, can recover at law only the price
of his admission. The JUDGE holds that
proprietors of such places may admit Or
exclude whom they choose, and that the
man in naval uniform has no special
rights. This is the case in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt and naval officers took a
great interest, subscribing to the legal
expenses of the prosecution.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

Fire which broke out in the Free
Zone warehouse in Bremen, Germany,
caused damage estimated at $780,
600. The Bremen fremen fought hard
for many hours. The flames were
spread by high wind and some new
wooden buildings on the machine
wharves were destroyed. In the ware
houses 10000 bales of cotton were
burned The cause of the fire is not
known. No lives were lost.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
LAND BALLOON NEAR eoLcoNDA.
Aeronauts Get Only $50 Miles Away
frnr, T.or1ic Hor1rc


from ST. Louis in 10 Hours.
Captain G. De +. Chandler, United
States signal, service, and ]. G. Mccoy
of New York failed to break the long
distance balloon record and to win the
Lahm cup Their balloon, which left St.
Louis at 20 Tuesday evening, landed
five miles north of Golconda. ILL.,, at 2 80
Wednesday afternoon. To have won the
Lahm cup the balloon would have had
TO go more than 400 miles. Golconda is
only 40 miles from ST. Louis. Captain
Chandler and Mccoy. upon leaving st.
Louis, hoped that the winds would carry
them toward Washington. ID. c., but the
balloon took a southersy course imme-
diately upon leaving the ground. 1t
crossed the Mississippi river and contin-
ued southwark near the river some dis
lance, when it was driven back into Mis-
souri,, where it continued south until
near the Arkansas line. At noon We'd
nesday the balloon lowered over Cape
Girardeau. No.. until a west wind took
it across Illinois into Indiana. where an
east wind drove it back to Golconda.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Gunboat Captain Takes CHARGE.

General Davis, colored. was brutality as
sauHed at Puerto Cortez April % by
Nicaraguan soldiers and may die. Com
mander Fullam of the United States gum
boat Marietta has ordered the arrest Of
Nicaraguan Officers and soldiers. and if
the man dies they will be tried for muir
der. Fullam has assumed charge. Davis
is not an officer. His name is General.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
SALOONS WIN A DECISION.

others Besides Members of Families
Allowed I'm Barrooms on Sundays.
In Valparaiso ex-senator Agnew, as
special judge in the case of the State
VS.. Theodore Things. saloon-kceper.
held that saloon-keeper had right to
permit people in his saloon on Sunday
besides members of his family. though he
had no right to sell them drinks. He
claims that the Legislature in making
new laws repealed the section providing
that none but members of the family be
permitted in saloons. The State, there
fore, must prove that parties were served
made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Settlement in SIGHT

As a result of the energetic representa-
tions of the State Department, through
Ambassador Leishman. an imperial trade
was issued in Constantinople in regard
to the American schools and other ques-
tons long pending between the United
States and Turkey, authorizing the min
listers to take action in the matter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
p,r;ed Miners Saved

Taken from the dark recesses of coal
mine. where they had been imprisoned
for over 100 hours. and snatched alrnoss
from the jaws of death, the seven men
taken from the Berwind-W White mine No.
SO. at Foustwell, Pa, are lying in the
Windber hospital, physically exhausted
and oblivious to all around them. All
will probably recover.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

Captain j. 6. Kiah Of the life-saving
station at Har,or Beach. Mich, has re-
ceived note found inclcsed in bottle
on the beach near Lexington which sx-
plains the fate of the lost fishing tug
Searchlight. The note reads as follows:
"Searchlight turned turtle off Harbor
Beach; all gone down except 'Jeck' in
cork jacket. NJ. Perkins" The aote is
regarded IS genuine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Buv Timber Tract.

A. C. Dutton * Co. and John Fender
son & Co. of Springfield, Mass, have
purchased seventy-two square miles of
timber lands and mill from n. c. Nc
Nair. Jacquet River, y. e.. and twenty
square miles and q mill from John Dutch
at the same place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Samuel 7. 4. Prime Dead.

Samuel Thornton Kemys Prime, fam
Gus as the founder and editor of Primes
Crop Bulletin" a relative of Mrs. Rus
sell Sage, died Friday at the Chicago
Home for Incurables, at the age of "a
years. He had been a sufferer from
paralysis for several years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Pot Of cold wor,n s,.ooo-

While tearing down an old West
Side building in Cleveland, Ohio, once
known as the Ohio City Inn, b. w.
Holiingsworth, contractor, unearthed
a pot containing $1,000 in $40 gold
pieces. The gold was found directly
under the spot where pile of bones
was unearthed week ago, and much
mystery surrounds the find
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09

At the end of an address by William
L. Stead in the Yale auditorium at New
Haven. Dean Rogers declared the session
adjourned, although it was Mr.. Stead's
desire to ask the assemblage to express
itself on his proposed peace pilgrimag e.
The dean explained that it was a rule at
Yale never to indorse any speaker OF his
ideas when presented ON the free plat
form, even though they were admittedly
correct. Already Mr.. Stead has received
the approval of audiences at Harvard,
Allegheny, Tuskegee and other colleges.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Autoists Waylaid by Farmer.

Armed with shotgun William Ewing,
farmer living near Hammond, Ind, lay
in ambush five hours for a party of FIVE
Chicago motorists, two of them women,
and when they approached his ambuscade
compelled them to stop their machine and
pay him $50 for damage resulting from
runaway they had caused.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Swettenham Is Retired.

Sir Alexander Swettenham retired
from the post of governor of Jamaica
Friday. He has gone to his residence in
the hills, where he will stay until he
leaves the island. Colonial Secretary
Bourne has been installed as acting gov
ernor pending the arrival of Sydney Oil
vier, the new governor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-09
Ice Combine Is Held Guilty

Judge Walter A. Powell, in the Cir
cult Court at Independence Kan. handed
down a decision reversing the findings of
Special Commissioner w. s. Flournoy in
the so-called ice trust cases. Judge Pow
ell holds that a combination does exist
among certain Kansas City retail ice
manufacturers in restraint of trade.