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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
POSTOFFICE CUTS rA,.
Government Orders Reduction ia
Charge for Hauling Mails

general order has been issued by the
Postoffice Department which will result
IN reducing the compensation enjoyed
by the railroads for carrying the mails
by at least S1,O00,000 annually. In con-
there may be u scandal if all the facts
which made the issuance of the order a
necessity become known.
The order in question affects several
hundred mail routes in the country and
is to the effect that on these routes the
mail can be carried in smaller cars than
the railroads are using. 1t is therefore
ordered that a reduction either be made
in the size of the cars or if the railroads
choose TO continue their use they will get
paid for the size of cars actually needed.
On the other hand. the railroads insist
that it is the province of the Postoffice
Department to designate the cars which
shall be used on the mail routes and that
the roads are now using such cars as
We're actually ordered by the department.
Department officials admit that this is
true, but insist that more space is being
paid for by the department than is actu-
ally needed in the transportation of the
mails. but it is not stated whether this
condition is the result of poor judgment
or otherwise. The new order is the re-
suit of the work of 125 private detectives
which the Postofice Department placed
on the work about six months ago Their
reports show that in hundreds of cases
the government was paying for more
space than is necessary and the Postmas-
ter General therefore ordered reduction.
Besides the regular compensation based
upon tonnage which the railroads receive
for transporting the mails they also re-
ceive car mileage for cars over thirty
feet in length.
The Postoffice Department has decided
to begin weighing the mail on all routes
in the country early in October with a
view of furnishing Congress with data
asked for. In order to do so the govern
ment will have to provide thousands OF
additional scales.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
REVOLT NIPPED IN BUD.
Cuban Patriots Claim Plot to Con-
tinue Occupation.

Particulars have just leaked out of n
projected uprising in 0riente, Cuba,
which recently gave Gov. Magoon some
anxious hours. At the palace absolute
ignorance is professed OF anything in the
shape of disturbance, but the interesting
fact remains that an uprising was pro-
jected to take place on July II, and
would doubtless have been started had
it not been for the vigilance of United
States army officers detailed on secret
service. All the trouble arose from the
efforts of Capt. Robert Alexander, Elev-
enth United States infantry. quartermas-
ter of the American garrison in MORO
castle, Santiago, TO beautify the grounds
about the old fortress by setting out
trees. Unluckily he selected coco palm
for the purpose, and having secured from
an acquaintance 100 young trees, had
was congratulating himself on his efforts
to improve Cuban property without cost.
for all the work of planting was done
voluntarily by the soldiers of the garrison.
the rumor went flying through the whole
province that the Americans were plant
ing cocos ON the Moro, and as it takes
six years for a coco to come into bearing,
il was. of course, obvious that the Amer
leans intended to remain for at least that
period. Patriots met in secret and decid-
ed to invoke the counsel of Gen. Loynaz
del Castillo of Havana. who is in con-
dition of chronic agitation over the ques-
ton of the duration of the American
occupatio and that warrior dispatched
two emissaries to Santiago to investigate.
The excitement increased; more meet
inss were held; arms were distributed to
the number, it is said. of seventy-ive
rifles with ammunition. and rising was
set for July u under the leadership of
one Rodrigues of Santiago and Gen. Ca
macho of San Luis. The plan was to
begin operations by rushing small iso-
lated posts of rural guards, massacreing
the men, and then, as the insurgent ranks
increased, attacking Santiago itself and,
If possible. wiping out the American gar
rison. The secret service officers went
to work and exposed the whole plot sew
eral days before the date set for the up
rising. To the leaders they read lecture
on the subject of arboriculture as prac-
ticed by American soldiers in Cuba. with
a solemn warning to abstain from any in
reference therein. This sufiiced to check
their patriotic ardor and now peace refgns
throughout the Oriente.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
CHICAGO.

Despite the hot weather business actiy-
ity is undiminished and production in the
heavy industries is without abatement
A satisfactory demand continues in lead
ing retail lines, removing anxiety as TO
the stocks to be carried over. Demand
all through July was exceptionally good
and the usual clearance sales have made
the preparation of impending inventories
easier. Country merchants entertain
confidence as to the outlook, their opin-
ions being supported by demands which
show healthy expansion among the pros
porous farming communities Increasing
accessions appear in the numbers Of Wis
iting buyers and their operations in sta
pies compare favorably with year ago.
Notwithstanding the increased failures
in this district, mercantile collections in
the western states leave little room for
complaint and credits generally maintain
a satisfactory position. Crop conditions
Great favorable impression.
Bank clearings, S230259,7S7, exceed
those of CORES bonding week in 1906 by
III per cent.
Failures reported in Chicago district
number %, against 21 last week and ~
a year ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
TE9S EIEAas&l5zS
&NpG-

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 TO $7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $6.35; sheep, fair to choice. $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, Soc to o0c /;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, standard,
43c to 44c rye, No. ,, Soc to SIC; hay,
timothy, $14.OO to $1,000; prairie, 5000
to $500; butter, choice creamery, PIC
to 24c; eggs. fresh, 12c to 16c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 7Sc to S3c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to $685.; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$6.O5; sheep, common to prime. $500 to
$4.75: wheat, No. 2, Soc to SEC; corn.
No. 2 white, 51c to SIC; oats, No. ?
white, Ace to. ACC.
St Louis.Cattle, $3.50 to $7.35
hogs, $4.00 to $6.40 sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. ., SIC to Soc; corn.
No. 2, sic to 52c; oats, No. ?, Acc to
47c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SAC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to S5.SJ /;
hogs, $500 to $780, sheep, $500 to
s4.75; wheat, No. 2, 90c to Ole; corn.
No. 9 mixed, 55c to SIC; oats, No.
mixed. Acc TO acc; rye, No. 2, SEC to SSc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
S4.OO to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $500 /;
wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c; corn, No. 3
yellow, SIC to 5Sc; oats, No. white,
46c to 4Sc; rye, No. >, Zoe to SOC.
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Csc to $1.O0: corn, No. 3. 53c to SAC /;
oats. standard, 44c to Ace: rye, No. ],
Soc to SIC; barley, standard, 69c to Zoe;
pork, mess, $16.35.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50: hogs, fair to choice, 500
to $685.; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4.OO TO $500; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle, 800 to $6.70 I:
hogs, 500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. = red, 96c to Csc !;
corn, No. 2, 59c to Goo; oats, natural
white, Ole to 52c; butter, creamery, pc
to 25c; eggs, western, Ice to 19c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SOC to
Ole; corn, No. = mixed, 54c to 55c I;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to Acc; rye, No.
2, 76c 20 7Sc; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
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The News ~
N~OONN~N~~

Government and trusts are approaching
what looks like showdown.
Be sure you get your share of the new
issue of $40 gold certificates.
This country is now due for a terrible
outbreak of the fishing fever.
A Jap is so little that it doesn't take
much to get him excited all over.
Summer. summer, you're hummer,
though you were right late conner.
That sullspot $1,000 miles long is
Don't get mad If some dozen or more
persons ask you, rs it hot enough for
you?"
While posing as injured innocence
Mayor Schmitz is not cutting very
heroic figure.
Some young men think that pink
hatband and pair of yellow shoes con-
stitute summer vacation.
Airships will never be an entire sue
cess until they have attachments that
will enable them TO crawl or swim.
OF course the ships are going to the
Pacific for a practice crulSe-nOt specl-
flying what kind of practice, either.
As soon as woman finishes cleaning
house she begins to put up preserves, and
then it'll be time TO clean house again.
A young couple found starving in Phil
adelphia on their honeymoon, and every
body thought love could live on air
A New York groom Tilted the bride
elect just because she was not like her
photograph. If this were a just cause,
the country would be full OF broken
matches.
Germany has passed law to muzzle
the snapshot photographers But the
American citizen will still be compelled to
dodge.
The high-salaried men of the Panama
Canal Commission are row classed as
$4,000 Beauties But Taft thinks that
handsome is as handsome does.
A petition signed by 100000 Ameri-
cans was presented to The Hague Peace
Conference. An American will sign most
anything for the sake of peace.
Another American girl married to a
member of the highest nobility has jump
ed her job American husbands will be
above par before very long if this sort
Of thing keeps On.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
SAY MOST STRIKES WIN.
Statistics Also show Unions Succe<
I'm Industrial Battles.

Statistics Also show Unions Succeed
I'm Industrial Battles.
More strikes succeed than fail and the
most successful strikes are those conduct
ed by organized labor Statistics tabu-
lated by the Bureau of Labor, covering
the last twenty-five years. show this to
be true. In all strikes during the last
quarter of century the employees were
entirely successful in As per cent of the
cases and partly successful in - per
cent. but in 81 per cent they failed.
Organized labor succeeded in 40 per
cent of the strikes called and failed in
81 per cent, while unorganized labor was
successful in "a per cent and failed in
IS per cent. Most strikes, Al per cent of
all. have been caused by a demand for
increase of wages. Recognition of unions
and union rules have caused % per cent
and sympathetic strikes 3 per cent.
Arbitration has been effective in bring
ing about q settlement of labor disputes
in only per cent of all strikes and =
per cent of all lockouts, while joint agree
ments have ended u per cent of the strikes
and II per cent of the lockouts.
In the last twenty-five years there have
been 33,303 strikes and lockouts, affect
ing .,444,279 employees.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
10 - N. NJ. N F. o. FIN.
u I'd - 10th y 18TH oath
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions of Thinge
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Complete.

A dispatch from Boise, Idaho, says:
Into the bright sunlight of beautiful
Sabbath morning, into the stiffness of
a city drowsy with the lazy slumbers
of summer Sunday, William ID. Hay
wood. defendant in one of the most
noted trials involving conspiracy and
murder that the country has ever
known, walked free man, acquitted
of the murder of former Governor
Frank Steunenberg. The probability
OF verdict of acquittal in the case
of the secretary treasurer, and ac-
howledged leader of the Western
Federation of Miners had been freely
predicted since Saturday, when Judge
Fremont Wood read his charge, which
was regarded as strongly favoring the
defense in its Interpretation of the
laws of conspiracy. circumstantial evi.
dence and the confederation of an &C.
couplice who confesses.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
NEW YORK.

High temperatures have stimulated
crop development as whole, helped re-
tail trade in light summer wear goods and
Improved recorder business for the latter
with jobbers, all these influences favor
ing some growth of the feeling that early
poor starts in crops and trade have been
largely made UP for. There is about the
usual midsummer quiet in future trade
lines, but fall samples are prepared, low
rate excursions begin next month, ship
ments of fall goods are increasing and
collections have improved at various mar
kets. Industry exhibits lull in some
lines, notably iron and steel in its cruder
forms, though the immediate effect of the
strike of iron ore miners in, Minnesota
has been to stimulate, temporarily at
least, the demand for pig iron at all
markets.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July % number 155,
against III last week, III in the like
week of 1906, 1871 in 1905, ia in 1904
and 100 in 1908. Canadian failures for
the week number %, as against 26 last
week and "a in this week a year ago.
Wheat, including -four. exports frorl
the United States and Canada for the
week ending July p aggregated 2,316,54S
bushels against 2,21O.77O last week,
I1OS,105 this week last year and 6.974.-
526 in 1901 For the first four weeks Of
the fiscal year the exports are 9.9j0.931
bushels, against 6,942, go in 19O6-O7 and
$1,000, 1914 in 1901-02.
Corr, oxv,orfc for tho xx-oor ,.o fsf2S OLA
bushels, against 2,066,967 last week and
539,073 in 1906. For the fiscal year to
date the exports are 6,554. 400 bushels.
against 2,662, 553 in 1906-07.-Brad-
streets Commercial Report
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01

parentase and blood when she married
the millionaire in 1874. They declare
that the ex-Congressnan's charges are
false, and that Mrs. Warner and her
two daughters will sue him for libel.
Mr.. Warmers allegations against his
stepmother and half-sisters Mrs. Ara
bella Warner Bell and Mrs. Minnie
Warner Mettler, were made under oath
in the contest against his fathers will
brought by Mrs. Warner
Mrs. Warner began the fight to Sc
cure her widows share of the 81 $780,
600 estate of the banker. who died in
1903, refusing to abide by the terms
of an antenuptial contract which gave
her an annuity of $500 and $4,000.
She declared that her husband had in
duced her to sign this agreement by
fraud and by grossly disappearing
the amount of his property. Hence she
contends that the agreement is void.
The widows claim is considered so
strong that she is said to have been
offered 100000 by Vespasian Warner,
executor of the will, and his sister,
Flora Warner McDermott. She refused
the offer. it is declared, and the
charges followed in an amendment to
the executors answer to the widows
petition.
This amendment argues that, since
Mrs. Robinson deceived her husband.
the amounts provided for her in the
ante-nuptial contract are all she should
have.
Mr.. Warner affir1ns that Isabella
Warner is the daughter of Stephen
Robinson, an Ohio negro. The Commits
sioner of Pensions claims he has
searched the country for affidavits
bearing out his claim. Most of them
were secured in Norwalk, Ohio, former
home of Stephen Robinson.
The Warner will case has been the
talk of the countryside for months, for
the family founded by John Warner,
farmer and former head of John War
ner & Co.. bankers, of Clinton, ILL.,, is
the most prominent in a social and
business way in the county. Vespasian
Warner was a member of Congress for
twenty years.
For thirty years Mrs. Isabella War
ner has been a leader of the De Witt
County, Illinois, society. OF fine fea-
lures and gray hair, cultured and at
tractive in dress and manners, no one
ever has breathed whisper of sus-
picion against her name or blood.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
EXPRESS LOOT Is 500, 900.
Robbery of Adams Company in New
York Going on a Year.

That an Adams Express warehouse in
New York City has been Systematically
robbed for nearly year, the losses esti-
mated to total 100000, was revealed the
other day in the arraignment in police
court of three suspects. A woman is
also under surveillance by the police,
accused of receiving some of the stolen
goods. The stolen goods were taken from
a warehouse In st. Nicholas avenue. In
many instances, it is said, trunks and
packages were opened, part of the val
uables they contained distracted. and
then sealed. The police followed Joseph
Smith, an employee, as be was leaving
the warehouse. He spoke to Frederick
Bonitz, driver. Bonitz drove to the
Harlem river bridge. threw of some bun
dies which Smith was waiting to receive.
The police caught both men. Albert Lift,
another employe. was then arrested as a
suspect. A letter in Smiths pocket. adj
dressed to Miss Catherine Norris, his
fancee, gave the police her address. They
looked her up and she confessed Smith
had given her stolen goods. Smith later
told the police the warehouse was being
Systematically robbed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Coney Island swept by Fire.

Coney Island, the playground of New
York millions, was visited by disas
trous fire and seven blocks in the
amusement zone were completely de-
stroyed- Tilyous steeple-chase park,
and nearly a score of small hotels
were wiped out and for a time the
flames threatened destruction to Luna
Park and Dreamland, great homes of
summer amusement. A lucky shift of
the wind to seward aided the firemen
and probably saved the whole pic
turesQue area but not until million
dollars damage had been done. Three
persons were injured, one of them,
Gottfried Messerli, a fireman, probably
fatally.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
HEAVY LOSS 1T VICTORIA.
British Columbia Seaport Suffers
Damage of $25O,OOO.

The most destructive fire in 'Victoria's
history occurred Tuesday evening. burn
ing five blocks and many detached build
ings in the British Columbian city. Start
ing in the unused boiler room of the de-
funct Albion works, the flames wiped out
the shacks of the tenderloin, bounded by
Herald and Chatham streets. to Govern
ment street. and were carried from block
to block. From Storer street to Quadra.
four blocks east. and from Herald and
Chatham and Pioneer streets scarcely
anything escaped. Firemen, aided by the
soldiers of the garrison and a host of
volunteers. fought desperately. pulling
down many buildings in the path of the
fire. The loss is estimated at $2JO,OO0-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
MEN IN TOWN ALL EM1aRATE.


The lure of the United States as land
of opportunity and wealth to the people
of Hungary has brought out a curious
state of affairs in the village Of Kerisova,
near Lugos, that at the last census had
a population of $500. One by one the
male residents of Kerisova heard the call
across the water, and they emigrated in
patches until the mayor was the only
adult male to remain in the village. Final
ly he also succumbed to the reports of
good wages and golden chances in Amer
lea sent back by his fellow townsmen,
and. packing his trunk, ne made his way
to the emigrant ship at Fiume. As re-
suit of this exodus Of males the women
of Kerisova have just elected a young
woman to the position of mayor, and 9TH
err female residents have been elected to
fill the remainder of the municipal offices.
The statutes in Hungary provide that no
woman shall hold public Office, and, ac-
cording to the letter of the law. the
presence of the women in Office is illegal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
AMERICAN ROADS MOST DEADLY
United States Leads I'm Number of
Persons Killed on Rails.

United States Leads I'm Number of
Persons Killed ON Rails.
Herr Cutlery, an official of the archive
bureau of the Prussian railway admins
tration, has prepared comparative table
of statistics of those killed and injured
by railways in various countries. He finds
that the railroads in the United States
arc the most deadly. The United States
has more mileage than all Europe, bat
even taking that into consideration. the
United States holds pre-eminence in pro-
portional figures.
Out of every 10000 employees the rela-
tive figures of killed are: United States,
26.1; England, 1913; Switzerland, 80;
Russia, IS; British India, ca; Belgium,
fl.
In the matter of travellers injured,
France holds the lowest record in the
world. The United States shows proper
tionately forty times as many injured as
Russia; twenty-five times as many as
Italy; as England, twenty; Belgium,
eight; Switzerland, four; Germany, two.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01

Mrs. III. G. Robinson, wife of the rec
tor of st. Johns Episcopal church in
West Seattle. Wash, deserted her hus-
band for Japanese servant who had
been in the employ of the minister's FAM
lily for year. The police arrested the
couple. Mrs. Robinson has been forgiven
by her husband, who provided bail for her
and the Jap.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Indicted on 1874 Counts

Dispatches from Memphis state that
the federal grand jury for the West
Tennessee district has handed up an in
dictment containing 1924 counts, each
count a separate Indictment in itself, all
aimed at the Standard Oil Company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
christy's Health Is Wrecked.

Howard Chandler Christy, creator of
Americas most exquisite type of fem
mime loneliness, is paying the penalty of
being too popular. Broken in health and
nerves, the young artist has laid aside
brush and palette and within a few days
will go into seclusion for six months or
year. Incidentally Mr.. Christy will be
carelessly flinging aside abort $1,000 a
week.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Kills Faithless Suitor.

Marietta Dennoro, IS years of age, an
Italian girl, shot and instantly killed
Raffaele Darbato, 10 years Of age, in the
street in Cleveland. They were to have
been married July 3, according to the
story of the girl. She says he refused.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
JOB AS TEACHER PRIZE IN RACE.

Girls Drive Nine Miles in Early
Morning to Get Position.
Miss Della Felters and Miss Pearl
Wheatley of Iona, Kan, raced nine miles
the other day with a position as teacher
of the Oakland school as the prize. Both
girls wanted the place and the school
board, unable to decide which to choose,
told them the one who first entered the
grounds surrounding the house of Presi-
dent Pucket at Oakland that morning
would be employed. Both young women
started out in the night, with young men
tc drive them. After an exciting race
Miss Felters won by thirty minutes,
reaching the Pucket home at a. m.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Car Barn Robbery Attempted.

A desperate attempt by four holdup
men to rob the car barns of the Chicago
Consolidated Traction Company, 10th
avenue and West Madison street, was
frustrated by the quick action of the barn
cashier, who switched on burglar alarm
with his foot as he opened fire on one of
the bandits. The holdup men escaped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Rate Law UnconstitutionaI

Federal Judge Pritchard at Asheville.
n. c., declared the penal clause of the
new North Carolina rate law unconsti-
tutional and scored the state for defiance
of habeas corpus for Southern Railway
agents sentenced to the chain gang. Gov
ernor Glenn ordered appeal, and
Roosevelt has taken a hand.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
Ianan to Control Korea

Japan's complete control of Korea is
shown by statement made by yiscount
Hayashi, the Nike los foreign minister,
who says Japc. Ill guide the destinies
of the empire and act as its protector.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01

In an early morning fire at Memphis,
Tenn, originating on the eleventh
floor of the Memphis Cold Storage
Cor VANS building which was being
err cte:, one fireman lost his life and
tvo others were seriously injured. The
loss will be about 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-01
shoots Father During Row.

Following a quarrel at the supper
table, George Federkiel. aged % years, a
turnkey at Central police station in San
dusky. Ohio, shot his father, Andrew
Federkiel. aged IS years. The latter Is
not expected to survive.