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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Surprise On Earl Glass.

A crowd of about 35 young boys
and girls surprised Earl Glass, at his
home three miles southwest of this
city, Wednesday evening in honor of
his 18th birthday. The party was
conveyed thither and hence on hay
rack The crowd stayed late and thor
oughly enjoyed the occasion
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Worms Work Havoc.

Gardners about the city report tina.
the grapecrop this year is almost a
failure, hundreds of what would 9TH
erwise have been fine clusters having
been destroyed by worms. A large
number of the earlier grapes are ripe
and few home grown varieties are
on the market 1t is expected that a
large number will be shipped in with
in few weeks as large crops are re-
ported in other localities.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
TAYLOR Doubts the Tale.

Ex-Cov. William S. Taylor, fugi-
tive from Kentucky, who is now liv-
ing in Indianapolis, does not take
much stock in the sensational story
sprung up Saturday, in which an In
dianapolis woman charges Turner
Igo, of Kentucky, with the murder OF
Senator William Goebel.
The story may be all right, he
says, but not much can be done with
it. as Igo is now dead, having been
killed by train His confederate,
John Sanford, named in the affidavit,
is in China. He went TO the Far
East several years ago. And the one
person who might corroborate the
story is also dead. This is the Ger
trude King who was with the Indi-
annapolis woman at the state house in
Frankfort on the day the murder
was committed
Tayoir believed the story when it
was told to him by the woman three
years ago, and he sought to verify
il but did not get very far. Later
a lawyer from Richmond, Ind, n4ra-
ed Robert White, came to him !
related .lat he had found a woman
who was an eye witness to the mr.
der. Tay.or told White to bring her
to his flee Within a few days
Waite cane back with the wom:n.
who proved to be the same Mrs. l. :,
lu Clirk who had talked to him -wo
or three years before.
II seems that the only use m,i6
by ~! tie of the affidavit was to sci
it I" tie Richmond Item, wnicn
sprung the story Taylor thinks tina;
he unloaded gold brick on he
newspaper.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
kansas Winner n Warship Race.

The battleships Kansas and Geor-
gia finished a 400 mile race Sunday
from Cape Cod TO the Delaware
breakwater, and the Kansas won by
an hour and seven minutes.
The fighters started the race Sun
day morning off the Massachusetts
coast, and under full steam khey
made for the Delaware breakwater
The keenest rivalry has existed
among the crews of both battleships,
and SO much talk had been going
around up forward and in the junior
and the senior officers messes that
Rear Admiral Evans decided to put
the vessels to test and settle the
matter for good.
With the battleships Kearsage and
Maine. the latter being Admiral
Evans flagship. the Georgia and the
Kansas had been ordered TO the
League island navy yard 10 go in
dry dock for repairs and 70 get in
readiness for the cruise to the Pa
cihc. The officers and men thought
it would be the proper thing to have
the big fighters race all the way and
demonstrate which of them was the
speedier craft. Admiral Evans gave
his consent. and when the battle ships
set their course off Cape Cod shore
they went full tilt There was heavy
betting among the crews OF both
ships all during the race, and many
q dollar changed hands when the
Kansas dropped anchor off Reedy is
land, just inside the breakwater. 1t
made the trip in twenty-three hours
and fiftyseven minutes, beating the
Georgia by sixty-seven minutes.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
FRISCO LABOR DAY RIOT.
Trouble Started by Street Car Men Interfering With Parade of
 Union Men.
A S &nz

San Francisco, Sept. 1.-The labor union parade Monday resulted In the shooting of two men by employees of the United Railroads at noon Monday. The car men were attracked by the oaraders and in self-defense opened fire The trouble started at Ferry, where it is stated a Sutter street car broke through the line of parade. A mob of labor union men followed the car and at the jurction of Sutter street, the members attacked car The mctorman seeing that his life was in danger, opened fire and wounded one of his assailaHts in the leg. A block further up an inspector was at tackled by the mob. He was sudden ly struck in the face, and ran from his assailants. They followed him to the corner of Sutter and Montgomery streets where they overlook him. He drew pistol and aimed at hurley labor unionist who carried bricks in his hands. The inspector opened fire and shot the man through the groin. Six shots were fired. A riot call was sent in to the police and fire depart ments and force of police and fire men were soon on the scene. The men who did the shooting were arrest ed. but several rioters who were seiz- ed by the police were released.
 John Peterson, member of the structural ironworkers' union. was shot during the rioting on Market street Monday by Motorman F. j.. Durbsen. died Tuesday morning at the German hospital. Durbsen claims that the shot was fired in self de- fense. He was under arrest for car rying concealed weapon. but after the death of Peterson charge of manslaughter was entered against him.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Three Victims of ouicksands.

Peoria, H., Sept. 4--Quicksand in the Illinois river near here caused the drowning of Charles McEnlee, Keetine Wilson and William Stringer of La con, III. The bodies were upright in the river. all three held firmly by the quicksand, which reached above their knees. The young men attended a picnic Sunday and at dusk they started home in rowboat. It is thought that the boat was overturned and that the men were exhausted by the quicksand in their attempt to wade to shore. The water was barely over the heads when the bodies were found.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
RECORDS WERE FALsiFIEp.
A Witness in Reformatory 'nvestisa ton at Hutchinson, Kan, Gre
 ates a Sensation.

Hutchinson, Kan, Sept. 4.-The sen sation of the state reformatory inves- tigation came Monday night when Joseph Dolman, prisoner in charge of the hospital under Dr. !. B. Foltz. the reformatory physician. testified that he had falsified the records in the case of negro prisoner named Ward, who died last May. It is charged that he died of starvation. Dolman testified that Wards hospital record had been destroyed and that Dr. Foltz had brought him slips purporting to be such record and told him to copy them on the books. He had done so, he said. The doctors explanation has not been heard. Typhoid fever was given as the cause of Wards death. An autopsy was held by Dr. Foltz and another whysician.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05

SENT HIS WIFE AWAY.
o se" fork Artist to Marry Young Woman Friend When Divorce
 Is Secured.

NC" fork, Sept IA remarkable story of change in the marital rela. eions Of Ferdinand P. Earle, an artist ana son of the late Gen. Ferdinand P. Earle, the hotel man, is published tuesday, apparently on the authority or MT. Earle himself. The arrange. nent which Mr. Earle says has been decided upon. included the return to France of his wife, where it is planned she IS to secure divorce, and this accomplished, the wedding is to occur or MT. Earle and young woman whose name is withheld. but who al. ready is living with her brother in MT Earle's country home near Mon. roe. Orange county, New York. A young son is to accompany the wife who Is to be sent away to France. The arrangement, strange to say, is appar- entiy acquiesced in by all the persons involved. A part of the arrangement was carried out Tuesday when the wife and child boarded the steamer Ryndall, which will sail Wednesday for Europe. Earle and the women he is to marry will accompany the wife to the steamer to see her off.
 Earle, in lengthy published inter. view, says that he is acting on his convictions, and maintains that his scheme of life is one designed to se- cure happiness. He also says he is a Socialist, but that his determination to part with his wife and wed another woman under conditions of mutual agreement was not evolved from the teachings of socialism, but from his own conception of mans duty to himself. He is not a believer in free love. but in the freedom of love when its dictates run counter to the formal precepts laid down by society.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Lipton Party at southampton.

London. Sept. 4.--Sir Thomas Lip ten and party of guests have ar- rived at Southampton on the steam yecht Erin. Lipton left Belfast last Thursday for Dublin and his non-ar' rival at the later port had given rise to rumors that he had steamed for tho United States. Sir Thomas and his guests had lively experience on
 Southsea They had boarded the schooner yacht Ceylon and wee at
 luncheon when storm arose which caused the boat to heel dangerously. Dishes, chairs, etc, were thrown about and smashed. The party returned to the Erin as soon as the squall abated.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
PREPARING FOR NEXI TR|P
President Roosevelt Busily Engaged in Writing Speeches for Mis-
 sissippi River Cruise.
THE OPENING ADDRESS AT CANTON, OHIO
Where the Monument to the Late President Mckinley is to be Un- yelled September 3o-River Trip Begins at keokuk, Iowa, October l and VIII End at Memphis.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 3.-To prepare a half dozen addresses, each of which will be read very generally by na- ton of S0,000,000 people and all to be delivered within the week from Sep tember 90 to Actober 6, is the task to which President Roosevelt is now devoting several hours of his time each night from o'clock until bed time. Besides the half dozen set speeches. the president will be called upon for as many more extemporane- ous talks, and these too. require some attention, although not finished pre- paration. The president is to termi- nate his vacation with a dash through the middle west and the south. He will participate first in the cermonies attending the unveillng of the nation al monument to the late President Mckinley at Canton, Ohio, September 30. At Keokuk, Iowa, MT. Roosevelt will speak again the following day and while no intimation has been made as to the character of this ad- dress, II IS DeileNeu tidt IL Wiit uc"t with the problems of the day. At this place the president will begin his cruise of the Mississippi aboard a steamer bearin the rivers name. River steamboat travel gives no op- portunity for rear platform talks and handshaking with eager crowds, but it has been indicated that many per sons will line the river banks just for glimpse of the president as he floats by.
 The river trip will be punctuated with functions at St. Louis where another prepared speech will be de ljvered. at Carlo. and at Memphis where the cruise will end. On the way by train back to Washington there are indications that the presi' dent will yield to opportunities whicn are coming to him for more talks ana that he will speak to the people oi Nashville and Chattanooga or some other selected point.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
A RAILROADS TROUBLES.
Frisco System Meets With Series of Accidents In okiahoma--Msy
 Be Work Of Wreckers.

Guthrie, Ok, Sept. 3.--That troubles do not come singly has been duly i'm pressed upon the Frisco system in Oklahoma recently. A series of mis- haps and accidents have occurred in rapid succession within few days that will cost the railway company several thousand dollars.
 The trouble started when 1t was dis covered that II bents of the bridge over the Canadian river near Francis were on fire. The fire was discovered by some persons living in a tent near the bridge, who notified the man in charge of the pumping station. He requested Sam McGeehee to get on a velocipede and go to Francis to notify the train dispatchers. Whih, making the run in the dark McGeehee's veloci- pede collideo with bandcar and he was thrown from his car and his back and thighs were seriously injured. D, c. Smith, the foreman of the section crew, had his ankle crushed.
 About the time this happened a bridge burned out near Beggs in the Creek nation. and another bridge burned near Woodville on the Texas border. Then an engine ran of a switch at Ada, I. T.. turning over. and train coming into Francis ran into an open switch and broke up couple of engines and an engineer jumping from his engine broke his ankle. The sudden stop of the train threw pas senger to the floor, dislocating his shoulder.
 While repairing bridge near Fran cis, w. J. Snyder fell 30 feet to the ground and was seriously injured. Recently the westbound Frisco pas sengr No. 407 collidd with 412 east
 bound near Sapulpa and an engineer and two firemen were killed. Several
 passengers were seriously injured. The latest piece of misfortune to the Frisco is the wreck of the Frisco Me teor near Tulsa, when one mail clerk and two passengers were seriously in jured.
 The Frisco company belieevs that
 many of its troubles are due to an or
 ganized gang of train wreckers and efforts are being made to secure the arrest of the culprits.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
G[RMANY'S PROSPERITY
Party of American Visitors Com- ment on Extreme Industrial Ad-
 vancement of Empire.
ARE AHEAD OF AMERICA IN SOME THINGS
Are Constructing Gas Engines Up to 5000 Horse Power and Using the Waste Steam in Manners Unknown in United Ststes-Have Orders for Several Years Ahead,

Berlin, Sept. 4.--Lieut. Godfrey L. Garden, of the United States revenue cutter service, who has been investi gating the principal industrial centers of Belgium, Switzerland and Ger many, with a party of American manufacturers and professors. pro- ceeded to Magdeburg Tuesday. In the party are H. w. Leschen, of A. Leschen & Sons, St Louis; Clifford Egan, of J. Fay Egan & Co.,, Cincin- nati; l.. H. Weber, of Kansas City; Prof. Clifford Coggins, of the Univer- sity of Colorado, and Prof. Raynor Allen, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 The two principal conclusions reached are the extraordinary pros perity and extreme industrial ad- vancement of Germany. All of the 35 works visited were crowded, some of them having orders for years ahead. At Mulhausen the Americans found gas engines being constructed up to 5000 horse power. Gas engines in America, Lieut.. Garden said, are regarded as being in an experimental stage, but all over Europe gas en- zines had passed from experimental to fully practical use.
 The Americans found that the Ger mans made great use of waste steam in manners unknown in America. Lieut.. Garden, who visited $50 Ger man works in 1903 as a machinery expert for the St. Louis exposition, was able to contrast what he saw during his present tour with what he saw on his visit four years ago. He said the workshop efficiency here had increased almost up to 100 per cent. the manufacturers everywhere having applied American methods of getting the highest capacity out of ever. that the Germans employ fewer American machine tools, most of those now in use having been made in Germany. although the highest class American tools are still i'm ported.
 The feeling among the manufac. turers of the party was that the United States will experience diff. culty in beating Germany. and that the American superiority in systems of work and machinery of a few ySars ago has we'll nigh been overcome.
 From Magdeburg the American party will go to Hanover, where 1t will break up. sailing for home on various steamers.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Japanese Flood pamaoe.

Tokio, Sept. 4.-The following is an official statement of the loss of life and damage caused by the recent floods: Killed, 34S; injured. 70; miss ing. 173; buildings destroyed, 1887: partially destroyed, 1876; washed away, 3,142; flooded, 173,339; em- bankments broken, 1,570; bridges washed away. 976. Rice and other crops suffered heavily in the flooded districts, but 1t is believed that the rice crop of the whole country will be slightly above the average.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
DELAY IN TBE LT(N CASE
Grand Jury Investigation of Re- batting Charges Postponed by
 Judge Landis in Chicago.
ON DISTRICT ATTORNEY SIMS MOTION
Government Attorney Stated in Court
 That a New Situation Had Arisen, Which Made It Desirable That Ger. tain Facts and Circumstances Be
 Submitted to Attorney General

Chicago, Sept. 4.--Judge Landis, in the United States district court Tues day, ordered postponement of the grand jury investigation of the re batting charges against the Chicago & Alton railroad growing out of the recent trial and conviction of the Standard Oil company until Sept. "A.
 It was generally believed that when court opened Tuesday letter would be presented from Attorney General Bonaparte settling the question of whether the department of justice in. tended to prosecute any action against the Chicago & Alton. The company had claimed immunity, as serting that it was promised by for mer District Attorney Morrison that If it aided the government in good faith in the prosecution of the Stan. dard Oil company that 1t would be exempt No such letter was, how ever, presented in court, either by Judge Landis or by District Attorney Sims, the successor of District At torney Morrison.
 When the court opened Tuesday District Attorney Sims said: "I am here, If the court please. in the mat. ter of the grand jury investigation and in that matter l have. to ask the court, or I wish to make a motion, for postponement. In compliance with the suggestion of the court made at he time of the convening of the present grand jury. the facts and circumstances in connection with the matter under investigation had been submitted to the department and I had expected to be able to re port to the court It's views and find ings. Very recently, however. a situ ation has arisen which, in my judg ment, makes it highly desirable that l have time to submit to the depart ment certain facts and circumstances in addition to those already sub mitted.
 For these reasons I request that further action in the matter be post poned for three or four weeks. l re gret the necessity for asking the CouTt TOT tnlS pOStpOitmtut, Uut ~ seems to me. in view of what I know in connection with the case, to be unavoidable.
 "Is the grand jury present?' asked Judge Landis.
 Not now. your Honor" How much time do you want?"
 "I think not less than three weeks It seems to me highly desirable that when the matter is again called that we be able to take definite action on 1t. Three weeks from today will be the 24th"
 You may inform the grand jury, said Judge Landis, that they are at liberty to take a recess until 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 24.' After leaving the court room Dis trict Attorney Sims declared that he intended to submit certain facts to the attorney general. and said that they had arisen within a few hours. He said that he would go to Wash ington within short time to present personally to the attorney general his reasons for asking the postpone ment
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Stranded by sunbonnet.

Guthrie, Ok. Sept. S.--lh ureei
 county, southwest of Mangum, .ne ;nrant son of MT. and Mrs. Charles ,sarnest was attempting to climb over . fence when he fell backward, ms s,nhonnet strings catching on the ion board. When his mother went out of the house to look for him she ,oupd the baby strangled to aesll'
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Nebraska Roads Demand Time.

Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 4.--Attorneys TOT the Burlington. Union Pacific. Missouri Pacific and Northwestern railroads appeared before the state railway commission Tuesday and de manded two months time to prepare evidence for the hearing on grain rates, which were promulgated by the commission two weeks ago. These rates cut the former schedules about lS per cent
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Fremont. Neb., Officials Arrested.

Fremont Neb., Sept. 4.--City Attor- ney c. E. Abbott, Chief of Police Pe- terson and Street Commissioner Fletcher were arrested Monday upon warrants sworn out by Union Pacific officials for using violence on iaborers who were laying track at Union and c streets. While the chief of police kept back the labors with his revolver the city attorney and street commis- sioner tore up the track just laid Ab- bolt is a prominent attorney and is a candidate for the nomination for dis trict judge The city officials have six special officers guarding the contested streets.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Build LID a Navy, His Advice.

Portsmouth. N. H.. Sept. 3.-The naval committee of the house of rep resentatives, which Is here to inspect the navy yard, attended a banquet Monday night Representative George E. Foss of Illinois. chairman of tho committee. spoke of The Hague peace conference as devoid of practical re- suit and urged the further upbuild- ing of the navy.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
comn,,in of oil Famine.

Guthrie Ok, Sept. S.-Grant county is complaining of an oil famine ana tbe neople there are trying to ma some way of getting around the okia' boma oil inspection law so that they can buy oil just across the line in Kan sas They say that oil and gasoline can he obtained in Kansas for rom five or six cents gallon cheaper than in Oklahoma.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
w.n, American Money,

Havana, Cuba, Sept. 4,-Buildine construction in the capital is at a standstill because of strike of ma, sons. who have demanded the payment of their wages in American money This strike may be the beginning of general move for American money. ex nected since the cigarmakers' strike.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Some caIifornia Appointments.

oyster Bay, Sept. 1.-PreSident Roosevelt Saturday. announced tho appointment of August E. Muenter to be collector of internal revenue in California: Edward Sweeney to be superintendent of the mint at San Francisco, and William NJ. Cutter to be coiner at that mint
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
kansas student Drowned.

Lawrence. Kan. Sept. 4.--Prof Charles Woodbury. formerly teacher in the high school of Lincoln. Neb., who recently began postgraduate course at the University of Kansas. was drowned in the Kaw river near here Monday night while rowing. He was 25 years of age.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
A youno Girls Narrow Escape.

Middletown, N. Y,, Sept. 4.-Miss Myrtle Rysdike, 17-year-old aero. naut, narrowly escaped death in mak- ing balloon ascension at Midway mark here. When 300 feet in the air the balloon caught fire and the hot air escaping 1t fell rapidly toward the earth. Several thousand persons in the park expected to see the young woman dashed to death, but she luck ily fell into the thick foliage of a tree. She escaped with few scratches.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
auilt the First Electric Line.

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. S.-David Putnam West is dead at his home here MT. West organized and buiit the first electric car system Tn Moht' gomery. which is believed to have heen the first in the world. MT. west was best known in the south as a hotel man. He had been proprietor of a hotel here 22 years. lie was 70 years old.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
RiddIed With Bullets.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 4.-The finding of the dead body of Jerry Johnson, with five bullet holes pierc- ing 1t, is believed to be the sequel of an attempt Monday to assault Mrs. w. w. Ellard at North Birmingham The body of the negro was found in an alley at Lewisburg The coro- ner's jury returned verdict that he died from wounds inflicted by un know nparties.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
Fatal Trolley Accident.

Schenectady. N. r., Sept. 1.-Two persons were killed and six seriously injured, three of whom may die, and a score less seriously hurt, in rear end collision between two trolley cars Monday night on sharp grade in the oufskirts of the city.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-09-05
mekinIey Memorial September 30.

Canton, O.. Sept 3.-A general in vitation to the people of the United States to attend the dedication of the Mckinley memorial monument Sep tembcr 30, has been extended by the executive committee in charge Of the arrangements