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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
MOB STAYS WOMAN AND CHILD.
Lives Lost in Race Conflict I'm Gcor-
gin-Shots on Both Sides.

Lives Lost in Race Conflict I'm Gcor-
gin-Shots on Both Sides.
At Reidsville, Ga, a mob included a
colored woman and children among
its victims at "lynching." One white
man and four colored persons were
killed and seven are ON the injured list
as a result of an effort to capture a
colored man who attempted to attack
Mrs. Laura Moore, a widow living near
Manassas.
Fifteen persons surrounded the
house of Sam Padgett, whom they sus-
pected of harboring the colored man,
and demanded to be allowed to search
the home. Permission was given, but
when within thirty feet Of the house
those inside the building opened fire on
the posse, instantly killing Hare and
wounding Pierson, Daniel and Ken
nedy. The posse then returned the
fire, killing Padgett and his 10-year-
old daughter and wounding two other
girls, aged 6 and 13, and two of Pad
gets sons, aged 20 and 20.
The colored man who shot Hare was
started for Reidsville Jail, together
with Padgett's wife and son. who also
were caught On the way the officers
were overtaken by about seventy-five
men, who took tie prisoners from
them. The woman was told to run,
and as she did SO she was riddled
with bullets, her son being shot to
pieces where he stood. The other pris-
oner was jailed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
rate of Forest De.sructson

According to a bulletin issued by the
forest service of the Agricultural De-
partment. every person in this country is
using over six times as much wood as
the individual consumption in Europe,
and the country as whole CONSUMES
over three times what the forests of the
United States grow during the year. The
consequence of this policy is an newt
able timber famine. 1t is poirtcd out
that the increased population since 1880
is barely more than half the increase in
lumber cut, so that the increase of for
est destruction cannot be explained en-
tirely on the theory of increased popu-
lation. The Northeastern States have
passed their maximum production. and
the Southern States are near their max
imum, while the State of Washington
now ranks first in the volume of timber
cut. AT present one-fifth of the total for
est area is owned by the government.
The average age of trees felIed for lum-
Der this year is not less than 40 years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30

CHICAGO.

Aside from the effect of unfavorable
weather on leading retail lines, the course
of business is steady, production in the
industrial branches being fully sustained
and new demands carrying the period of
assured forward work farther into 1908.
No diminutiOn appears in the pressure
for supplies Of raw material.
Current inquiries indicate that heavy
orders for rails and equipment are inn
pending, aud there is fair activity in fur
mace product. structural shapes and wire.
Local building operations involve unusual
consumption of materials and the forces
employed increase, at exceptionally high
wages.
Manufacturing conditions remain ia
vorable, wood and leather working plants
steadily increasing outputs, and there rs
large distribution of electric and brass
goods. Receipts of ore fall short of ex-
pectations, owing to late opening of nav
igation. but fresh arrivals of lumber and
hides exceed those of a year ago. Deal
ings in the wholesale branches make a
fair aggregate.
Mercantile collections continue to be
ICY th~VtA<scsihS- StattthcnN> thlc
week exhibit deposits at the highest level.
Commercial borrowing is not particularly
urgent at this time. but money works
easier, although the discount rate re-
mains at .5l2 per cent.
The markets for provisions and live
stock reflect steady absorption. and bet
ter receipts of hogs increase packing, but
the breadstuffs are in lessened demand,
the rapid rise in prices having discour-
aged cash operations. The total move
ment of grain at this port aggregated
only 7,fP3,SS6 bushels. against $685.
100 bushels last week and 5.746,6SS bush
els year ago. Compa red with those of
last year, there are increases in receipts
of 14.3 per cent and in shipments 42.G
per cent. Receipts of live stock were
266.S93 head. against 253,345 head last
week and 2S0.S14 head last year.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number II, against 26 last week
and "a year aso.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
TWO MEN FALL 4 MILE
RIP IN BALLOON LET'S AERO
NAUTS DOWN.
Disaster Is Narrowly Ayertcd and
Two Frightened Men Climbs Down
Anchor Rope Into Tree-Ab-
scondinG Teller Gets Eiomesick.

Landing in a tree top near Middlefield.
Mass, Harry Markoe. Jr, and Leo Ste
vens of New York had remarkable es-
capes from serious injury and death in
the balloon Centaur. The airship that
carried Count de Ia Vaulx in his record
trip across Europe from Paris to Rus
STA has three-foot rip and will proba-
bly, never be used again for an ascent.
Starting from Aero Park in Pittsfeld
at one minute after s o'clock the aero
nauts were carried eastward. Up they
went 60O0 feet. The sudden ascent in
the warm sun expanded the gas, swelling
out the balloon so that it burst in two
places. Down they shot a mile =, three
minutes. The aeronauts let out all the
ballast and delayed for an instant the
descent. Then they threw overheard
lunch baskets. overcoats. heavy shoes and
all instruments except stetho cope and
a thermometer. rs the anchor struck the
earth il picked up a farmers Virginia
fence and dragged it 100 feet. Then the
iron weight caught in the branches of a
maple tree and the frightened aeronauts
tumbled out of the basket and came
to earth by the anchor rope.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
AycoboI the Future Fuel.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in a
recent address before the Americas Club
at Pittsburg, referred at considerable
length to the work the department is do
ing toward the development of the pro-
duction of alcohol for industrial uses. He
said: mo more coal is being made. Our
wood fuel is getting scarce, and the sup
ply of mineral oils will some day cease.
1t is high time we were looking about for
sources of light, heat and power. Other
countries are doing this. Alcohol meets
the requirements, and starchy plants yield
alcohol. One of our explorers last year
found the Siberians at Tomsk growing a
large variety of potato for the alcohol it
yields. He brought back half ton of
them, which will be distributed this
spring among the experiment stations"
He made the further statement that corn
cobs made IL gallons of alcohol 20 the
ton, and sweet corn stalks z, and that
alcohol could be made from unmarked
able fruit and vegetable matter and many
refuse plants, and thought the time was
surely coming when the people remote
from wood, coal or oil would arrange to
grow plants rich in starch for their sup
ply of light, heat and power.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
WAGES ON THE CANAL.
Secretary Taft AGirms Rates Of Pay
and Hours OF Labor.


and Hours OF Labor.
The decision of Secretary Taft affirm
ing rates of pay, hours of labor, etc, for
men employed on the Panama canal work
applies especially to steam shovel men,
construction train engineers and conduc-
tors. The shovel men wanted higher
wages. as follows: Engineers, from $2i0
10 $500 month; cranesmen, from $1S5 to
$3.50; firemsn, from $S3.33 to $110 The
Secretary rules that the present rates are
high enough after comparing the advan-
tages which the isthmian shovel men have
over their brothers in the States, with
the disadvantages which they have TO bear
in living on the isthmus." He explains
that the present basis is from % to 81
per cent higher than the average In this
country, while the canal men get steady
work twelve months in the year, six
weeks leave with pay. twenty days sick
leave. lodging free, and the married men
water, fuel and light at the public ex-
pense, free medical attendance and an
eight-hour day. He says further that
yellow fever has been stamped out and
the sick rate greatly reduced. Although
denying that the contracts with the men
contain any promise of Gradual increase
of pay, he has recommended yearly in
crease of 8 per cent TO skilled men.
The wages of the construction train en-
gineers are advanced to $40, as re-
quested.
As TO dismissals. the Secretary has ap.
proved plan whereby final and summary
action will rest with committee consist.
ing of one representative of the craft cpn.
cerned, ono of the foremen and one of the
commission.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
Interesting News Items,

Joseph Miner is under arrest as the
result of the finding of the dead body of
L. Sirmans, storekeeper at Sirmans'
station, Madison county, Florida
More than a score of families were rem
dered homeless by a fire which swept
Lincoln. n. H.. entailing a loss of $780,
600. Twenty-Five cottages and two large
residences were destroyed.
George w. Caldwell, a contractor, was
served at Little Rock, Ark. with a war
rant based on an indictment charging
graft in connection with the new State
capitol
The steel steamer Saxon, owned by the
Pittsburg Steamship Company, went
ashore on Caribou Island, Lake Superior,
during a fog, and is declared to be in bad
shape.
Secretary of State Schmail formally
denied to the Minnesota Retail Lumber
Dealers Association the right to incor-
porate on the ground that its articles Of
incorporation filed March II were In
conflict with the State antitrust laws.
After consuming the warehouse of tie
Aetna Standard mill of the United States
Steel Corporation at Bridgeport, Ohio,
fire, which threatened complete destruc-
ton to the 100000 plant of the con-
Germ. was subdued.
The Armenian Students Association
Of this country through its executive
committee at Hartford, Conn.,, has me-
morialized President Roosevelt to bring
before The Hague peace conference the
present conditions of affairs in Armenia
and further asks that he instruct the
peace ENJOYS to use every effort to secure
a guaranty of personal property, life and
honor to the Armenian sufferers from the
Ottoman government.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
INVADING MEXICO.
American TURNER'S Are BeneftinE
Themselves and the Creasers.

Themselves and the Creasers.
More than hundred families from
the United States have gone into the
republic of Mexico during the last thirty
days to develop farming lands along the
northern border.
They took their household effects and
went to live just like they have been liv-
ing in The United States. This is some
thing of a departure from the plan here
tofore followed with but Indifferent sue
cess by people from the States who have
gone to live on farms in Mexico
The old p'3r was to form colonies,
The colony proposition was not a great
success. 1t was due more 10 the failure
Of the colonists TO agree and adapt them
selves to the, environment than to any
other cause that the colonies were not
successful.
1t has been discovered by the pioneer
Americans on farms of Mexico that con
ditions in the republic are stable and
there is no need for colonies. So indi.
vidual American families are now locat-
ing themselves on haciendas in Mexico
Just as they used to do in the West
They are becoming neishbors to the Mex
lean families and each is learning some
thing to advantage from the other.
So far as the experiment of individual
effort at farming in Mexico by Americans
has gone, it has proven successful The
cotton-growing possibilities of the repub'
lie have never been appreciated by the
people beyond the Rio Grande, and in
this one line there premises to be great
profit for the American farmers who un-
derstand growing the staple. The high
price of cotton is an inducement to these
farmers TO plar.t cotton.
The Mexicans are learning the Ameri.
can style of agriculture from their neigh
bors from the States, and the general
result of immigration of families of farm.
ers from the United States to occupy the
cheap lands of Mexico promises to be
very good
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
DEl5 S|ES|g;2ES{l5TS

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $500: hogs. prime heavy, $500
TO $685.; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $6.10; wheat. No. =, 96c to Csc
corn, No. ., 5Sc to dc; oats, standard,
45c to Ale: rye. No. 2, SIC to SEC: hay,
timothy. $14Oo to $21.0o; prairie, 5000
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, pc
to 24c; eggs. fresh, 13c TO 15c potatoes,
Doc to 6tc.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping. $500
TO 5000: hogs. choice heavy. 800 to
$3.50: sheep, common TO prime, $500 to
$5.25; wheat, No. =. Ole TO 93e; corn.
No. = white, 53c to 54c; oats, No.
white, 42c to 44c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $40 to S6.2J
hogs. $500 TO $6.52: sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, &c to Csc; corn,
No. ., 53c to Doc: oats. No. 2, 43c to
45c; rye, No. ?, 75c to &c.
CincinEati--Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs. $500 TO S6.55; sheep, $500 TO
$500: wheat. No. =, 95c to 96c; corn,
No. . mixed. 53c to 5Jc: oats, No.
mixed, 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, 74c to &c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 500; hogs,
S4.00 to $500: sheep. $3.50 to $3.50 !:
wheat, No. 2, 93c to $1.00; corn, No. 3
yellow, DOC to 5Ic: oats, No. white,
47c to 49c; rye, No. =, SEC to Sic.
Wheat, No. 2 northern,
99c to S1.01; corn, No. 3, 52c to 53c T;
oats, standard, 44c to 45c rye, No. 1,
Sic to S3c; barley, standard, SIC to SIC ;
nork mess S1G45
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$3.50 to 5000; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $5.75; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 500.
New York-Cattle, 500 to 5000 J;
hogs. $500 to $700: sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, S1.01 to $1.O3 /;
corn, No. 2, 60c to 62c; oats, natural
white, Acc to sic; butter, creamery, 23c
to DC; eggs. western, 1Jc to lie.
Toledo-Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 99c to
500; corn. No. 2 mixed, soc to SIC ;
oats. No. . mixed, Acc to 47c; rye. No.
2, 79c to Soc: clover seed, prime, $500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
FIENpIsH WRECK PLOT.
COnSt Line Limited Hurled from
Trestie Near Los Angeles.

Const Line Limited Hurled from
TrestIe Near Los Angeles.
4 fiendish train-wrecking plot was
perpetrated near Los Angeles, Cal,
that resulted in the death of one man
and the injury of twenty-five persons.
four of whom are dying.
Train No. 30, one of the Southern
Pacifc's coast line flyers, Tuesday
night was hurled from the tracks on
trestle at West Glendale by the delib-
crate work of murderous train wreck
ers. Seven cars plunged off the tres
tie, while the train was making forty
miles an hour, falling sixteen feet to
the bottom of a gulch.
In accomplishing the wreck of the
train, which was the Coast Line
Limited" devilish ingenuity was ex-
ercised. At a point on q trestle over
bolts of two connecting rails on the
south-bound track had been removed,
and in the apertures whence the bolts
were taken strands of heavy wire were
/
the appearance Of the track after the
wreck it was evident that some person
hidden ON a hillside close to the tres
tie had pulled the wire as the train
approached and spread the rails out
ward toward the edge Of the trestle
The train, three hours late, was
travelling at rate of between thirty
five and forty miles an hour. The en-
CINE wheels were first to leave the rails
and the engine took to the ties, tray
cling nearly 100 yards before it was
brought to a standstill.
The tender, the diner, two Pullmans,
the buffet, mail and baggage cars
plunged over the edge of the trestle,
falling distance of sixteen feet. The
buffet car, the express car, and one
Of the Pullmans were turned upside
down and the others landed on their
sides. All were badly crushed and
splintered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30

1264-English barons victorious at
Lewes.
1464-Yorkists victorious at Hexham
(War of the Roses).
1JO9-Louis MI. defeated the yenetians
at the battle of Rivolta
152J-Anabaptists defeated at Franken-
hansen.
61o-Assassination of Henry ". of
Franee and accession of Louis Nil.
1642-Montreal founded by Maison-
neueve.
17S3-st. John. n. B.. founded by U. E.
Loyalists.
1791-Lord CORVALLIS routed the army
of Tippoo Saib.
179j-Alliance Of Paris.
1196-First vaccination Ly DIR. Jenner.
1s04-Lewis and Clarke started up the
Missouri river on their "trip of ex-
plorafion.
1S0f-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed
Emperor of the French
1s09-British took possession of the
island of Anholt
1s11-Battle of Albuera, between French
and British.
1S39-Caroline Murat. sister of Ma
poleon l. and ex-Queen Of Naples,
died.
1s40-John NJ. Niles of Connecticut be-
came Postmaster General of the
United Sfafas
1s4i-Fall of rock from Cape Diamond
Quebec, killing % people.
1S4s-Insurrection in Vienna Emperor
fled to Innsbruck.
1S53-First railway train left Toronto.
1S56-Queen Victoria distributed medals
to the wounded heroes of the Crimea
Republican convention at Chicago
nominated Abraham Lincoln and
Hannibal Hamlin
1S61-Adelina Patti made her first ap
pesrance in London.
1S72-Pere Marquette and party started
from Michilimackinac to trace the
course of the Mississippi.
1SS5-Louis Biel. leader of the rebellion
in Northwest Canada. surrendered
1SS6-Britain took possession of all Bur
nah. annexing it to India.
1S92-Great damage caused by food a
Sioux City. Iowa.
1S95--Count Kalnoky. premier of Aus
tria-Hungary. resigned.
1S97-Turkey agreed to an armistic'
with Greece.
1898 -Battleship Alabama launched a
Chester, Pa.
1S99--Edward Everett Hale resigned
passionate of South Congregations
church, Boston, after forty-thre'
years of service.
I90o-Gen. Butler occupied Dundee
South Africa.
1902 Coronation Of King Alfonso XIII
at Madrid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30

George Paul of Evansville. aged IL, ac-
cidentally shot himself in the head with
Flobert rife and died instantly.
Six great grandchildren were pall-bear-
ers at the funeral of Mrs. Cynthia Ded-
rick of Wabash, aged o. This is said
to be the first time in the history of the
State that all the pall-bearers were fully
grown and great-grandchildren.
Wearing a pair of trousers and an ex-
preston of grim determination, Chief of
Police Joseph Martin of Gary sailed
forth to capture the thieves who stole
the remainder of his garments the previ-
Gus night. These included brand-new
uniform, the pride of the town. The
thieves entered almost every place in
Gary and besides stealing clothing from
residences stripped Soltow's tailoring es-
tablishment, where the new uniform re-
posed. Chief Martins predicament was
shared by President Thomas K. Knots Of
the village board, who was forced to order
a new suit because of the raid.
Farmers have been encouraged by the
outlook for wheat, and in some sections
it is believed the crop will reach an av
erage. if indeed, it does not exceed it.
The scarcity of snow during the winter
left the wheat exposed without any pro-
lection 60 the severity of the freezes. and
when the thaw followed the roots of
much of the crop were above ground.
Mrs. Anna Daugherty. aged 20. was
found dead in bed in Wabash. Her son,
a former Big Four dispatcher, with whom
she lived, was lying in another room
helpless and speechless. He knew she
was dead, but was unable to give the
alarm
Martin DIAL, for thirty-6ve years man
ager of the Terre Haute Gas Company.
has obtained restraining order from
Judge Cox to prevent the officials Of the
United Gas and Electric Company Of New
York, which owns the Terre Haute plant,
as it does number of others in western
cities, removing him from his position.
He alleges that his is an elective of5cH
and that he can be removed only by ac-
ton of the stockholders
The family of Clarence Laurence ,liv-
ing near Evansville, ate new potatoes
the vines of which are supposed to have
been sprinkled with paris green Two
of the family are reported in a ding
condition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30

Ray Stannard Baker, in the second
of his series OF articles for the American
Magazine, dealing with the negro prob
lem, condenses his observations into this
phrase They want the new South, but
the old darkey." He said he had the
experience of being told that no north
erner can understand the negro as well
as those who have lived with them all
their lives, and then of finding that
these men rarely knew anything about
the better class of negroes, those who
were in business or in independent occe-
pations. and who owned their own
homesP On the other hand, the best
negroes did not know the higher class of
the white people in the South. and based
their suspicion and hatred upon the acts
of the poor white trash" To this he
attributes the danger of the present sit
uation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30

Esther Carter, daughter of Z. r. Car
ter, Newark. Ohio, while picking flowers
along a canal fell in and was drowned.
Gov. Folk granted respites until June
81 to John and Ameleck Brooks of Iron
county and Tom Clay of Boone county,
Missouri, all under sentences of death
for murder.
Counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit
for an accounting of the estate of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy filed at Concord,
n. H., affidavits declaring that the orig
inal charges are true
Judge Watts Parker granted the appli-
cation of Bill Britton of Breathitt coun-
ty. Kentucky, charged with the assassin
alton of James Cockrill, for bail, fixing
the amount at $500.
]. r. Dysinger, contractor OF Cleye-
land. Ohio. while waiting for car in
the Pacific Electric depot, Los Angeles
was robbed of $500. His vest was cut
open without his knowledge.
Many lives were endangered by fire in
the dry goods store of Macal,,ey Broth.
ers at st. John, n. b. Two girls hung
to a window sill of the third story until
they were taken down on a lslde.' by
firemen. The loss is S15O.000.
Figures compiled by the New York
Journal of Commerce show that during
April the fire loss in the United States
and Canada was $21 .S25, 900, some $10,-
100000 more than for April, 1905. Nc
fai- comparison can be made with 1906
because the San Francisco fire occurred
during that month.
Alexandra Garland, Jr., attache of the
Peruvian legation, was stabbed and seri.
ously wounded by Charles A. Edwards
secretary of the Democratic congressional
campaign committee and clerk to the
House minority organization of which
John Sharp Williams is chairman, in
Washington. They fought over Miss
Louise Scott.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
vULGATE TO BE REVISED.
New Latin Translation of the Bibl.
Decreed by Pope.

In a dispatch from Rome the CORE
spOndent of the London Times says the
Pope has issued a decree intrusting the
entire revision of the vilgate to the Ben
edictine order. This is the most impor-
tant decision yet announced as an out
come of the biblical commission appointed
toward the end of the pontifcate of Leo
XIII. In an editorial article the Times
says it is difficult to overestimate the
Importance of this step. NO book,
the paper declares, has exercised
wider and more powerful influence in
molding the faith, morals, thought and
traditions of the literature of the Euro
pean world than the Latin version of the
scriptures which we know as the vulgate.
For 500 years it has been setting its
impress upon the lives and the whole men
tai heritage of countless millions of men"
The paper adds the step is bold one, but
it will be hailed with satisfaction by many
within as well as without the church Of
Rome.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-30
Nephew Smiths Chief Heir.

The fortune held by the late James n.
Smith, known in Wall street as silent
Smith, which was believed to be near
$J0,000,000, has now been divided among
the heirs by the will probated at New
York on the day of the funeral. The real
value of the estate is found TO be not
over $25,000,O00. Oh this the largest
piece goes to George G. Mason, a nephew,
who has worked his way up from the
shops in the service of the st. Paul rail-
road. He gets $12,000,000. A third goes
to another nephew, William Smith Mason,
a young real estate man of Evanston, ILL.,,
while $3.O00000 is left to the widow, ST.
100000 to titled sister, Lady Cooper of
England, and smaller amounts to other
relatives.