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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
The Fleet at Jamestown.

A good many items are making the
rounds of the NEWSPAPERS in which
the greatness of the coming United
States naval display in Hampton
roads is described. There is an &C
companying intimation that the gov
eminent has the distinct purpose in
view of impressing the representatives,
of foreign countries with the strength
of this nation on the sea. The chances
are that the outcome will be in an
entirely different direction.
The maritime countries of the
world will not be much impressed
with a feet regarding which they
have had accurate information for a
long time. Those whose duties re-
quire familiarity with naval condi-
tons of the principal nations know
just how many battleships the United
States has, how many protected
cruisers, and how many torpedo
boats. Foreign officials here have
kept their home governments inform
ed of the progress in navy yards and
in shipbuilding plants. They have
given correct advices respecting con-
gressional action regarding the navy.
Full information about the ships
probably is on file in the navy depart
ments of other countries.
The people who will be IMPRESSED
most will not be the foreigners but
the citizens of the United States. The
average man knows little of the de-
tails of the American navy His views
are apt to be general ones. He knows
that ships have been built and are
building. He knows that congress
has made appropriations, but his spe-
cihc information is scantv. 1t is quite
possible that there may be visitors
to the jamestown exposition who
have never seen a battleship of the
country which they claim as the land
of their birth. They are the ones who
will be impressed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
POSTOFFICE ROBBED.
Three Masked Men Robbed the Dyer
Postoffice Monday.

The postoffice at Dyer, Lake coun-
ty, was robbed Monday morning by
three masked men who dynamited
the safe. Postmaster Baker who was
aroused by the noise the robbers
made, narrowly escaped death when
he attempted to resist them. The
robbers fired two shots at him. They
then forced him to stand with his
hands ir the air, while one of the trio
blew open the postoffice safe with
dynamite.
The explosion aroused The entire
town, but the citizens were afraid to
attack the armed desperadoes. The
robbers stole 5000 two-cent, 1000
one-cent stamps and $50 in cash
When they had secured this plumber
they forced Postmaster Baker to
walk in front of them as a shield.
They compelled him to accompany
them as far as the Michigan Central
depot, where they broke down the
door and robbed the cash drawer of
So. This done they kept Baker COW
cred unil they tore down the door
of section shanty and appropriated
handcar. Firing volley of shots
into the air while terrified citizens
looked on from hiding places the
bandits escaped toward Hammond.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Judge Files Protest.

Warsaw, Ind, April 17.-Today a
protest was filed with the auditor OF
state in regard to the payment of the
Kosciusko county judges.
Judge Hiram L. Biggs in whose
interest the protest was filed, has
sat on the bench but one day in TOUR
years. Judge Biggs was sick when
he was elected to Office four years
ago and was in the West for some
time after his election. When he re-
turned he was able to fill his Office
but one day. Judge Biggs is now
hopelessly insane and is cared for at
his home on East Fl. Wayne street
The Honorable L. w. Royse was ap-
pointed the Judge pro TEN. about two
years ago by the Governor and since
that time has been drawing $1,000 a
year, the remaining 5000 year going
to Judge Biggs.
The new law, which increased the
salary to $4,000 a year, did not
change the amount to be paid to the
Judge pro tenn. and the result is that
the 1000 increase was expected by
some to go TO Judge Biggs during the
rest of his term of two years, but
Auditor Billheimer in drawing the
vouchers divided the increase accord
ing to the proportion in which the
original salary had been divided.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Cause of Walkers Ruin.

Evansville, Ind, April 17-John P.
Walker, former city and county
treasurer, who is on trial here on
the charge of embezzling 100000 OF
county funds, testified that he lost
much of the money in aiding friends
and that he invested about $4,000 of
the money in mining stock A great
deal of this stock proved worthless.
He said he sank $4,000 in one
mine in New Mexico and that a few
days after the investment was made
he learned the title to the property
was worthless.
He was president of the Evansville
team of the Central League for two
seasons, and lost about $1,000 in this
venture.
Walker says he lost from $4,000 to
$4,000 in personal loans to friends,
and that many of the loans were un.
secured He is known as a liberal
man, and when friend went to him
for money he seldom refused the re-
quest.
Walker said that it was not his in
tention to defraud the county and
that he hoped to pay back the money
in time. He said when he realized
he would be unable to do this, he first
thought he would blow out his brains
but that he finally decided to face
the world.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Possible Promotion of John L
Grifiths.

The State Department is consider
ing the advisability of offering the
vacant consul generalship at Brussels
to John L. Griffiths, of indianapolis.
now consul at Liverpool. The Brus-
sells post pays about the same as the
Liverpool place, but. in some respects
it is more important The official
there has the rank of consul general.
while at Liverpool he is rated as a
consul. Under the new system of
promotion the place will be filled, it
is announced, by the elevation of
some one now in the service. The
post is regarded as a stepstone to
Berlin, Paris or London. Several
consuls are seeking promotion to ~
place, but Mr. Griffiths is not among
this number. 1t is understood that he
is we'll pleased with his present work,
but the department may decide that
he would be of more service at Brus-
sells. The Presidents relative, George
w Roosevelt, who was consul-gener-
al in that city at the time of his
death, recently, was regarded as one
of the most valuable men in the con-
sular service
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
ALI Equally Dscredited-

About the only thing that need be
said of the belated attempt at self
justification of Evelyn Nesbit's moth
err is that it manifests certain sus-
ceptibility to public sentiment which
previously seemed to be lacking. The
woman hopes to redeem herself from
the gravest accusation that can be
brought against a mother-that OF
selling daughter to destruction.
Whether she has been successful
or not is question which every
reader of the statement will answer
for himself. 1t need only be said that
woman who would go away and
leave her daughter in charge OF a
man of Stanford Whites reputation
must have been singularly confiding
or singularly obtuse
One thing should always be borne
in mind, however, that if Mrs. Hol-
man seems to be lacking in proper
sensibility she is no worse than all
the other actors in the drama of hon.
icide and degeneracy which has
claimed the public attention for al
most year.
Not one of them has evinced the
slightest sense of shame Not one Of
them has manifested even all elemen-
tary moral sense All of them have
shown themselves to be mere ami
mails guided by purely animal in
stincts and subject to no ethical or
intellectual considerations whatever
In such a coterie of degenerates
Mrs. Holman by comparison becomes
almost admirable. She at least has
killed nobody nor has she melted to
murder. Whatever we may think Of
her maternal solicitude-or the lack
of tive will most of us be disposed
to believe from the facts elected at
the trial that if Evelyn Nesbit had
not gone wrong with White she
would have gone wrong with some
body else.
This does not excuse Mrs. Holman,
but it does tend to mitigate the
shame that attaches to the mother
who is alleged to have sacrificed her
daughter for money.
The truth of the thing is that ev-
erybody figuring in the now celebrate
ed case is so thoroughly discredited
and disreputable that it makes no
difference what statements may be is
sued. 1t would be better if they
issued no statements at all. The
greatest mercy they can hope for is
TO be rgotten.-Chicago Chronicle
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Death Bares Marriage.

Goshen, Ind, April 17.-Claiming
she is the legal wife of Valentine
Blough, who was killed by traction
car recently, Miss Amanda Norris,
his housekeeper, today began an ac-
ton in partition against all his heirs,
asserting her right to widows dow
er in his $4,000 estate.
Not until after Bloughrs sudden
death did Miss Norris ever divulge
her marriage to him, which, she says
occurred in Windsor, Canada, in 1905
She has Produced Canadian mar
rage certificate, explaining she mar
ried him secretly when they went on
a pleasure excursion.
Although Blough was thought to
have left will directing the dispos-
al of his property search has failed
to reveal the document Blough was
IAN eccentric farmer who accumulated
immense holdings of farm lands.
He has a divorced wife and several
tchildren living in Lagrange Ind. De-
tectives are now in Canada looking
Up the marriage records.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Wealth of Indiana.

In a few days the census bureau
will issue bulletin on Wealth, Debt
and Taxation in the United States.a
which will be of special interest to
Indiana, as it will show to what ex-
tent property values increased in In
diana during the first four years of
the present decade. Under the head
of Estimated True Values of All
Real Property and Improvements,
the Bulletin Will set forth the estimat-
ed wealth of each of the Indiana
counties pm 1904, as compared with
its wealth in 1900 1t will show that
the real estate and improvements in
Indiana increased from 81, 500, 2S3, s33
in 1900 to SLIGO, 55s,95s in 1904. In
some counties, as, for instance, Craw-
ford, Ohio and Brown, property val
ues have decreased, but IN nearly all
there has been a very substantial in
crease In Marion county the in
crease was nearly S65,000,00e, and
St. Joseph shows an increase of al
most $10,000,O00.
The value of real property and inn
provements for counties is as fol-
lows: Allen, 1900, $60,2O7, 407, 1904,
$69,156,135; Elkhart, 1900, $27,6O5,-
1904, s3o,O45, 735; Laporte, 1900, $685.
4s3,6s7, 1904, $30,39O,O14; Marshall
1900. $14,371 .s97, 1904, s16.5ss,91O; St.
Joseph, 1900, s43,s61 400, 1904, $685.
323,432; Vigo. 1900, s3S, 13O,3s6, 1904,
s45, 800.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
More Harmony.

With Hearst running his Indcpen-
dence League and Bryan once more
denouncing the gold Democrats it
can not be said that the outlook for
harmony in the Democratic ranks is
encouraging. In speaking of the
Presidents great conspiracy the
other day Mr.. Bryan said:
1--WE had the same conspiracy in
1896. 1t is the corporate element
that controls the party and after our
experience l sympathize with the Re-
publicans. They have their own cor
rorate adherents and they have all
ours too those that left in 1896.
They will not come back to us; they
ought not to; our party will be weak
er if they do But they are all herd
ed in the Republican party now and
will not come back.
The gold Democrats have never
been in the habit of following either
Tic iCdQCi ShiP III TIT SouhoCi vi Ii
an, and if they want to come back
they will do SO. AS matter of fact
many of them have come back. Many
many of them have gone back. Many
went back in 1900 and voted for Bry-
an, as he very well knows. These
were not then, and are not now herd
ed in the Republican party. Of course
it may be said that it does not mat
ter to the gold Democrats what Bry-
an thinks of them But it would
seem as though any man who really
wished for the Democratic success,
who really had the welfare of the
Democratic party at heart, would
seek to make that party as large as
possible. Yet Bryan is apparently
striving or smallness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
The a-cent Fare Laws.

Michigan has joined the procession
of states that have passed 2-cent fare
laws despite the protests and threats
of the railways. Even the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, owned or controll-
ed for generations by the railways,
did not dare resist the popular de-
mand- The railways, however, do
not propose to accept the new rate
without struggle There promises
to be a battle royal in the courts
to determine whether the new laws
shall stand and whether the rate is
reasonable. If it be shown that the
rate is unreasonable it will not be
permitted. No ones property may
be con6scated. Whatever be the out
come one result seems certain,
greater respect for the law and a new
understanding by the roads, which,
as typical corporations, have SO long
practically known no law but their
own will; that there is final power
greater than they, and that those that
exercise it are not conhscators nor
anarchists, but are the sober Ameri-
can people. The power is theirs and
not the railroads, and nothing exists
in the land that is not subordinate to
this power.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
ARREST CULVER YOUNG LADY
Emma Candy Placed Under Arrest
on Charge of Abortion.

Monday afternoon Sheriff Voreis
and Prosecuting Attorney Molter
went to Culver and placed Emma
Candy under arrest on the charge Of
abortion.
1t will be remembered that the
body of a child was found dead along
the Vandalia right of way in this city,
and since that time the officials have
left nothing undone toward tracing
the guilty party or parties.
Now they say they have woven a
strong chain OF evidence around Miss
Candy and have dropped the hint
that two and possibly three other
persons may be implicated in the
deed. They say they have proof that
Miss Candy was in this city four or
five days previous to the finding OF
the child's body and that she left
town on the day the body was placed
along the railroad track.
Many people, however. believe
Miss Candy to be innocent. She is a
young girl not more than sixteen
years of age and was not what one
would call a real bad girl She has
not been given the best of home
treatment and she says she does not
know the meaning of friend. This
combined with the girls tender age,
should have weight in securing for
her light punishment if she is found
guilty. She was released this morning
on 500 bond for her appearance be-
for Justice Harry Unger. Atty. Mar
tindale has been engaged to defend
her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Tilted Girl Ends Life.

There was shocking suicide at
Kewanna Monday at noon. Miss Sue
Hood, a country girl. Is years old,
shot herself at the dining room of
the Toner hotel, where her sweet
heart, Charles Corsaut, was eating
dinner, and died in great agony half
hour later. The girl had been keep
ing, company with Corsaut for the
last year, but recently the couple
quarreled.
Miss Hood came into Kewanna
Saturday and tried to see Corsaut,
but failed. Sunday she learned that
her sweetheart had gone out with
another girl and Monday forenoon
she again drove to Kewanna. After
mailing a letter to Corsaut and one
to her mother she followed Corsaut
to the Hotel Toner, where he boards,
and going to the dining room door
called out, Goodbye Charlie" and
the sharp crack of pistol followed
Miss Hood was found lying on the
floor and was carried upstairs, where
she died half an hour later.
Miss Hood was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaiah Hood and was a
beautiful but unsophisticated girl.
The letter written to the mother by
the dead girl stated that she could
not live without Charlie and that she
preferred death to his going back on
her and gave instructions for her fun
eral.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Profit to Farmers.

The people profit 1921, 100000 an
nually by the work of the agricultural
department, according to the esti-
mates of the bureau officials shown
in the report of the committee on ex.
pendltures in the agricultural depart
ment, which has spent the entire ses-
sion investigating the department.
The bureau of animal industry
leads the list with an annual valua-
ton of $5o,0OO,O0O of which 100000
is because OF the experiments making
hens lay more plentifully.
Chief Willis J. Moore, of the wealth
er bureau, says his bureau annually
benefits the people S30,OO0,OOo.
The bureau of plant industry places
its value at 100000. OF this, $780,
600 is because of the saving by intro
ducing the resilient COW pea
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, of the bu-
reau of chemistry. thinks his Office
does $10,00O.0OO OF good. He places
the investigation of sorghum syrup,
the saving from the investigation of
the sugar beet and the utilization of
waste in making denatured alcohol at
100000 each. He estimates the
value of his poison squad" expert
ment in determining the effects on
health of food preservatives and col
oring matter at $5,0OO,O0O. DR.. Wiley
thinks his investigation of the
sweet" or "hot" corn industry is
worth annually s250.O00.
The bureau of biology, which In
support of its estimate that it annual
ly benefits the people $4,000, 900 SUBJ
mitted beautiful orange-colored maps
labeled Skunk area of the United
States" asserts that $1,500,O00 benefit
was derived from its work among
coyotes and wolves" The biological
survey appropriation was left out of
the agricultural bill for the reason
that the money asked was to be ex-.
pended in mapping districts in the
United States which would make
ideal homes for frogs"
The bureau of entomology thinks It
saves the people s22,OOo,OOO a year,
of which 100000 is because it was
instrumental in the introduction of
the Australian lady-bird BEETLE"
The bureau of public roads is the
most modest of all and only asserts
it benefits the people $4,000 year.
The report severly criticises Chief
Moore, of the weather bureau, for
his expenditures on Mount Wealth
err" the research institution which he
established in the Blue Ridge Noun
tains at cost of s161, 900, for which
Comptroller Tracewell says under
existing law there is no authority
Secretary Wilson of the Depart
ment of agriculture, is criticised for
exceeding his authority in expending
the appropriation for the new depart
ment of agriculture building. Instead
of completing a structure for the en-
tire department he spent the money
in building a single wing.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25

In the "Roll of Honor" list of state
banks of the country, complied by the
Financier, a New York financial au.
thority, there appears but six Indiana
institutions, says the Indianapolis
Star, There are but 400 state banks
in the country with surplus and
profits account in excess of the CAPT
tai. On this list the Citizens bank
of Michigan City stands 146th- The
capital stock of this bank is $4,000,
while the surplus and profits amount
to $s7,50o. The Peoples bank OF
Portland ranks 316th; the State bank
of Otterbein is 31sth; the Ripley
county bank of Osgood 357th; the
State bank of Plymouth 417th and
the Farmers State bank of College
Corner is 4fs in the list
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Body is Found in Well.

Workmen, while cleaning out a
we'll in the north part of Greensburg,
Ind. Thursday afternoon, found the
body of a month old child floating
in the water. The house has been
vacated about three weeks, and Cor
oner Morgan is of the opinion that
the infant was cast into the well
about the time the house was vacated.
Until post norton is held it is
impossible to say whether it is case
of drowning or not. The slight clew
is being followed in the hope of find
ing the mother of the child
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Historic Edifce Ruined.

Mexico City. April lit was dis
covered tonight that the great cathe
dral of Mexico City, one of the larg-
est and most famous churches in the
world, was cracked from top to bot
tom b the recent earthquake. The
assure is Is centimeters or an eighth
of an inch wide. CONSERVATION was
caused by the discovery, and an engi-
neer has been appointed to examine
the building. The cathedral is CEN
turtles old. 1t is built on the old site
of the Aztec Temple, one of the most
historic spots in the country of Mex
leo. Thousands of tourists have Wis.
tied the edihce.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Bridal Couples Safe at "Pennsy" Sta
ton.

Hereafter the hazing of bridal par
ties will not be allowed at the Penn
sylvania station here, as the officials
have issued an order against it and
instructed subordinates to enforce it
rigidly.
This means that the village cut-ups
who always adopt the novel method
of chucking rice and old shoes al
bridal couples must not do SO as long
as the newly-wed are on the Pennsy's
property.
The order is the result of an acct
dent that happened at the station at
Wilmington, Delaware, where bride
groom was made the target of No.
10 shoe, with the result that he spent
his honeymoon in the hospital.
A cheerful idiot friend of his in the
party hurled the shoe, striking the
luckless bridegroom behind the ear.
He fell unconscious and after recov-
ering from a severe sick spell has
sued the company for damages.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-25
Plans for the K. of p. Camp.

Grand Chancellor Monyhan de-
clares that the encampment to be
held in Indianapolis the second week
in August by the uniform rank will
be the largest Pytlian event ever
held in the state.
We will have from 5000 to 5000
men in uniform" said the grand
chancellor, "and the members of the
subordinate lodges will attend in
great numbers. Altogether there will
be $4,000 members of the order in In
dianapolis."
The grand chancellor says that In
dianapolis business men have pledged
themselves to raise $4,000 toward
paying the expenses of the encamp-
ment. The Knights of Pythian lodges
have agreed to raise another $4,000.
we propose to have,' said the
grand chancellor, mot only the uni
form rank of this state present, but
we are going to have knights in uni
form from the states of Michigan,
Ohio. Illinois and Kentucky. We
have arranged for two crack teams
of Ohio knights confer the third
rank on candidates some night during
the encampment This will take place
at Tomlinson hall The knights in
uniform from the different states will
compete for the prizes that we in
tend to give. We will have about
$4,000 to spend on the encampment
and substantial part of this will be
put up in prizes"
The grand chancellor says the ded-,
ication of the new K. of P. state
building at Massachusetts avenue and
Pennsylvania sire I in indianapolis
will be dedicated on Wednesday of
encampment week. On that day there
will be street parade in which all
the visiting knights will take part.
The new building will be dedicated
by Supreme Chancellor Charles A.
Barnes.