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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
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While there is a more conservative
tone permeating business circles, fall ac-
tivity in the leading industries is more
defined and of encouraging magnitude.
Production reflects no appreciate falling
with greater ease were the tension less in
money and cost of supplies.
Transportation facilities by both rail
and lake are severely tested by increased
general freight offerings and marketing
of crops, and with this gratifying condi-
ton in evidence it is not clear that COM
merce is undergoing shrinka3e. New de-
mands continue strong for factory mate
rails to complete contracts which run far
ahead, especially in steel, forge, car and
machinery construction.
The most active branch at present is
that of staple merchandise, the absorp-
ton of which is remarkably strong and
comparing favorably with year ago in
textiles, footwear and food products. The
attendance of visiting buyers includes
many from distant points, and their lib
eral orders indicate sustained confidence
for satisfactory sales throughout the ag-
ricultural communities. Local retail dis
tribution is of seasonable extent.
Mercantile collections in the West oc-
casion little complaint, and defaults COM
pare favorably with last year in both
Numbers and liabilities.
Marketings of crops indicate that grow.
ers are disposed to secure the current
high returns. The general demand for
breadstuffs is well sustained and the ship
ments run heavier than year ago. Live
stock and provisions are in ample supply
and the absorption is good for both do
nestle and foreign needs.
Bank clearings, S243.913,697, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 15.S per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered twenty-three, against
twenty-three last week and twenty-five q
year ago, those with liabilities over So,
600 being only two in number. -Dun's
Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
NEW YORK.

Whether attributable to the improve
ment in the general financial situation or
because of favorable weather allowing of
additional crop development, there is a
perceptibly better feeling in general in
commercial lines. Retail trade has hard
ly been as brisk as desired or expected,
because the warm weather while helping
crops, has not stimulated fall buying to
any great extent. Reports as to jobbing
trade so far this fall are, in the main,
favorable, though the undertone of con-
servatism is still perceptible.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Sept. 10 number 179,
against 172 last week, III in the like
week of 1906, 173 in 1905, 203 in 1904
and 1S5 in 1908.
Canadian failures for the week number
forty, as against twenty-five last weet
and twenty-six in this week year ago.
Bradstreet's Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
HOLDS 2-cENT FARE LAW CRIME
Pennsylvania Judge, in Knocking It
Out, Uses Strong Language.

The 2-cent fare law enacted at the re-
cent session of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture was adjudged invalid, unconstitu-
tional and void in its application to the
Susquehanna River and Western Railway
Company, which connects Duncannon and
Bloomfield, in an opinion delivered at
Bloomfield by Judge Shull of the Perry
County Court. The law, he declared in
his decree, is caprice of Legislature,
many of whose members, without rhyme
or reason, facts or figures. information
or reputation, pledged to perform the act
in the name of Reform" and that I'VE
might say of reform as was sail by Nine
Roland of Liberty in the days of the
French revolution oh, Liberty, Liberty,
how many crimes are committed in thy
name.'"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
SALVADOR NAVY DESERTS.
Officers, Cook and Crew Who Took
Steamer to Acaiutla Return.

Officers, cook and crew of the steam
schooner President, which sailed from
San Francisco two months ago to be the
navy of the Salvadorean government, have
returned on the City of Para, having
abandoned the President at the wharf in
Acajutla. Salvador. AS Chief Engineer
George r. Lindsay walked from the Pres
ident along the wharf at Acajutla to the
City of Para he defied the soldiers of
President Figueroa to interfere with
them. waving as a sign of his immunity
his international certificate as IN engi-
neer. There was trouble aboard the Pres
ident before she sailed from San Francis
co. and when Lindsay delivered the Pres
ident at Acajutla he was ready to resign.
With him was the whole crew. Lind
say says the Salvadoreans tried to get his
men drunk, but failed. Lindsay promised
to meet the governor at Acajutla, but in
stead he and his party went on board the
City of Para and sailed for home.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

The war between the transatlantic
steamship lines was continued, The in.
ternational Mercantile Marine announc-
ing that first cabin rates from New Yoik
to Liverpool on such ships as the Baltic
Cedric and Celtic would be $3.50, re-
duction from 800. and that the eastward
rates would be, from now or, $3.50. a
reduction from $50. The rate by the At.
lantic Transport feet will be $50, instead
of $40, for first cabin to London, and tho
big Adriatic of the White Star line WI
carry passengers for $3.50, instead oil
S95- The Cunard followed suit with q
first cabin rate of S72.50, including Medit
erranean ports, mad $3.50 on the Um5ria
and Etruria. Corresponding cuts were
expected from the North German Lloyd
and Hamburg-American.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
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14O2-English defeated the Scots al
Homeldon HILL
15O4-Columbus took final leave of the
New World and sailed for Spain.
1609-Henry Hudson discovered the riv'
er which bears his name.
1640-Lord Stirling. to whom James l.
gave a large section of what is now
the United States ard Canada, died
in London.
|1G4j-Covenanters defeated Montrose al
Philiphaugh.
1142-Faneuil Hall completed and pre-
scented to the town of Boston.
1I59-V1olfe landed troo ps at Quebec.
1175-Gen. Washington began to commits
sion war vessels.
177S-Benjamin Franklin sent to France
as minister plenipotentiary.
17S1-Gen. Washington arrived at vii.
liamsburg and assumed command.
11S2-Congress accepted the offer Of
Virginia's western lanus.
1IS6-Connecticut decided western land
to Congress.
1ISS-Congress made New York the
capital city of the United States.
1IS9-Alcxander Hamilton became Sec
rotary of the Treasury. Henry
Knox of Massachusetts, became Sec
rotary of War.
1S03-Lord William Downs appointed
chief justice of Ireland.
1914 Dot,1o oc D1ott.k,,rcb
British made an unsuccessful attack
on Baltimore. ;. British bombarded
Fort McIIenry, near Baltimore.
British abandoned their expedition
against Baltimore.
1S29-Treaty of Adrianople, ending war
between Russia and Turkey.
1S41-Walter Forward of Pennsylvania
became Secretary of the United
States Treasury.
1S46-First Mississippi rifemen. under
command of Company 1, Jefferson
Davis. charged the Mexicans at Fort
Teneria.
1S47-American army under Gen. Scott
marched into the Mexican capital.
Many lives lost in hurricane of New
foundland.
1S50-Jenny Lipd first appeared on an
American stage at Castle Garden, n
Y. Alexander II. Ii. Stuart OF
Virginia became Secretary of the In
terror.
1S5S-Steamship Austria, Southampton
to New York, burned at sea; All
lives lost.
1S61-President Lincoln revoked Gen
Fremont's emancipation order.
1S62-Governors of fourteen States met
at Altoona, Pa, and approved @!
emancipation as war measure.
Gen. Mcclellan appointed to com
mand the defense of Washington.
1S64-Gen. Sherman entered Atlanta
ending the four weeks siege. i. Gen
Sherman ordered all civilians to
leave Atlanta.
1SG9-National Prohibition party organ
lied at convention in Chicago.
1S71-Henry Irving first appeared il
"Fanchette" at the London Lyceum
-. Mont Gents tunnel opened.
1S12-Alabama claims against Englani
decided in favor of the United States
1SS6-Canadian Pacific railway tele
graph line opened for business.
1S03-Gov. William Mckinley of Ohio
opened his campaign for reelection
with a speech at Akron.
1S94-Hinckley and other Minnesota
towns swept by forest fires.
1S9S-British forces defeated the Der
wishes at Omdurman. Admiral
Cervera and other captured Spanish
officers sailed for Spain.
190G-Emperor of China issued an edici
promising constitutional government
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
KIDNAPPED BY GYPsIES.
Child Slave Escapes From Band
After Four Years Captivity.

Cn1lQ slave Escapes rom D0n0
After Four Years Captivity.
The flames of the great South Chicago
steel mills were the beacons which few
nights ago lighted a kidnapped boy TO his
home. After four years spent as a child
slave of the wandering gypsies 10-year-
old Walter Cutler found a safe haven
under their glare.
The boy was kidnapped four years ago
from South Bend, Ind, where his mother
and his stepfather, Frank Cullen, lived.
Some time before his father, j. II. Cutler,
a South Chicago shipyard superintendent,
died, leaving a widow and two children,
Walter and Flora. A year later the
mother married Cullen and went with her
husband and family to South Bend. The
couple had just settled on the outskirts
of the Indiana city when 6-year-old Wal
ter was stolen by a band of gypsies. No
attempt to secure a ransom was made,
and for year the captive was only a
charge to his kidnapers. Then he was
taught to care for the horses and children
of the gypsies.
The band subsisted by horse trading
and fortune telling and was commanded
by Chief Joseph Casmir. The captive
was abused by the gypsy children, who
regarded him as slave, and any attempt
to resent their cruelty led to more severe
beatings by the chief and his followers.
He was compelled to sleep and eat
with the dogs and was commanded to
keep out of sight when visitors came to
the camp. The child became tanned to a
hue almost as dark as that of his cap
tors, and because of enforced silence he
had forgotten all but few words of his
childhood tongue.
During all of his wanderings the bog
remembered the great sheets of fame
which rose from the scores of stacks in
South Chicago at night and which light
ed up the yard in which he and his sister
played.
a short time ago the gypsy band in
their wanderings reached the vicinity of
Chicago. One night the boy looked out
from his place among the dogs and saw
the great stacks belching forth sheets of
fame and once more the memories of his
home came back to him. He crept out
from among the tented wagons and STUN
bled out toward the great lights. When
dawn came he took refuge under a bush
and slept. When he awoke he pressed on
again to where he could see the great
mills
When the boy reached the city he still
was lost He could not explain his
wishes, and for a day he wandered the
streets without food. Blind chance led
him to the place where his grandmother
lived, and in an instant he recognized
her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

Greater Damage Can Be Done by
Latest Discovery.

The Navy Department has adopted
lew high explosive for use as a bursting
charge for armor piercing shells. The
oasis of this new explosive is understood
to be picrate of ammonia. This is one
of The developments in the test conducted
under the special ordnance board, which
aas been giving its attention during the
last two years to powders, projectiles,
fuses and other ordnance material. The
ests held at Indian Head proving grounds
showed that the new explosive effected
damage beyond that accomplished by other
shells. The explosive is described as
closely resembling the japanese SSH
nose" This adoption of high explosive
IS one of the most important events in
many years under the Navy Department
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

The forest service will collect 10000.
600 seeds of forest trees in Montana
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Califor.
MIA from the Douglas FIR, Englemanr
spruce, western larch. incense cedar anc
yellow pine The seeds will be used fol-
broadcast sowing and for planting in for
est service nurseries. The broadcast sow.
ing will be experimental, to test the ex.
tent to which this method of renewing the
forest in denuded lands of the West can
be used. One method of gathering the
seeds is to rob squirrels nests. 1t is to
be hoped that Uncle Sab will not do this
without replacing the boards of these
bright-eyed little rodents with gener-
Gus amount of something 'just as good
to eat"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
JAPAN TAKES UNCLAIMED ISLE
Asserts that Pratas, Which She
Seized. Was "No Mans Land"

According to advices from Toxic,
Japan claims the right to occupy Pratas
island, which was recently taken posses
sion of on behalf of Japan, on the ground
that as it lies between the Goth and 21st
parallels it is no mans land. A japanese
paper, just received. says: when Japan
took possession of Formosa she extended
her dominion to the Dist parallel of lati-
tude, and when America took possession
of the Philippines she extended her do
minion to the Goth parallel; thus the
space between the Goth and the 21st par
allels becomes no mans land and the
Island of Pratas is in north latitude 20
degrees and 45 minutes"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
western Union Stand. Pat.

The expected conference between the
leaders of the striking telegraphers and
the Western Union officers did not mate
rialize, and the executive committee of
the company sustained the course of the
officials in a formal resolution which re-
ferred to the slate strike" as though it
were a closed incident. President Smaii
of the union and President Gompers of
the American Federation were in New
York, and both said that there would be
no surrender. Small said that most Of
the telegraphers had got jobs on the rail-
roads. The Western Union declared its
regular quarterly dividend, as usual, but
did not publish the earnings for the quar-
ter, as is customary.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Divorced Seven Times.

On the hearing of the divorce case of
Anna Mcmahon against w. L. Mcmahon
in the Superior Court in Kokomo. the
startling fact was brought out that she
was asking for the seventh divorce, hav-
ing been married and divorced six times.
Although she was given a separation as
asked, the court ordered all court costs
assessed against her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

The strike CT the meat wagon drivers
of New York against the Employers As
ISOLATION has been settled upon the fol-
lowing terms Wages are to be the same
as before the strike; there is to be nc
discrimination for or against union or
non-union men; sixty-fve hours is to con-
stitute a weeks work, and all grievances
and the question of overtime are to be
left to arbitration. None of the compe.
tent strike breakers are to be dischag ed
to make room for the strikers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Carrie Nation Sent to Jail.

Mrs. Carrie Nation refused to promise
not to talk to crowds ON the street in the
future, in the police court in Washington,
ID. c., and was sent to the workhouse for
seventy-fve days in default of payment of
SO fine. She was arrested for disor'
derby conduct because she addressed a
crowd in front of the Postal Department
on the evil effects of cigarette smoking
and refused TO stop.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Peak Rise. from Sea.

DIR. C. Eakle aud A. B. Meyers, MEM
bcrs of an expedition which left Seattle
last year in the schooner Lydia to in
quire into the formation of Perry Island.
have returned to San Francisco. During
their stay in Alaskan waters the SCENT
;sts discovered a new peak. which has
since been named McCulloch Peak. BY
the formation of this peak Perry Island
has been transformed into a peninsula
connected with Bogoslog Island. The
whole formation is steaming hot Sew
eral earthquakes due to volcanic disturb
ances which preceded the advent Of Nc
Culloch Peak We're felt by both men.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
ELEVEN KILLED IN MINE.
Cage Containing 16 Men Falls $50
Feet in Negaunee. Mich.

A cage containing eighteen miners
plunged geo feet down the shaft of the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company mine
at Negaunee. Mich. Eleven of the men
in the car were killed. and the others
were injured so badly that their death is
expected. The cage was being lowered
at a. m. on its first trip for the day,
when the brake on the hosting drum
gave way. The safety clutches on the
cage failed to work, and the cage plunged
downward. The dead and injured men
were found huddled in a mass at the
bottom of the shaft. The officials of the
mine cannot account for the accident.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
sor+h Dakota Rank Looted

Three bandits broke into the First
State bank ct Leoka, s. d., wrecked the
safe, and escaped with $1,000. The rob-
bers were seen by the Waterman, but he
can give no accurate description. They
went through from Wetonka in a box
car, it is believed, and made their escape
on a hand car, going in the direction OF
AhsrdAeu
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Murder SUSPECT Arrested.

The police at Chicago have arrest
ed in connection with the murder of
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, the teacher
who =as found strangled to death,
white woman whose name they have
so far refused to divulge She Is
locked in a cell and closely guarded
The search for Richard E. Williams,
colored man, who is believed to know
something of the death of Mrs. Grant,
is being made theoretically, but so far
no trace of him has been found.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Leap Into River and Drown.

Pa1ic-stricken when an overloaded
barge in which they were crossing the
Allegheny River began to sink. six work
men employed on the United States gov
eminent dam at Aspinwall, Pa, jumped
into the river and were drowned. With
the exception of Frank Herman all the
men were Italians.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Leaves His Bible Class.

John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., will cease TO
be the leader of the Young Mems Bible
Glass of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church
in New York Oct. 1. He has resigned
and his resignation has been accepted.
Increasing demands of business and fear
of a recurrence of ill health are the rea-
sons given by him in letter to the class.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Robbers Get Chicago Money,

Forty thousand dollars, mainly in large
bills. is now declared to have been Sc
cured by the robbers who held up the
Great Northern train near Rexford,
Mont, Sept. u. This money is reported
to have been shipped by the Commercial
bank of Chicago to the Old National bank
of SnOkane
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
TayIor,s Wnrrant Suspended

In the Circuit Court at Lexington. KY,
Judge Stout ordered the suspension of
the warrant issued against former Gov
w. s. Taylor, now fugitive in Indiana,
who is charged with completely in the
murder of William Goebel. in order that
Taylor may come to Kentucky to testify
in behalf of Caleb Powers, soon to be
tried for the fourth time for the Goebel
murder.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Land su,uaIer. s.,,.,ccd.

Judge De Haven in the Federal Dis
trict Court of San Francisco has SEN
fenced John A. Benson and T.. ID. Perrin,
leaders in extensive California land frauds
against the government each to one years
Imprisonment and fna of $1,000. At
the same time both men were released on
$500 each, pending review in the Court
of Appeals.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Photosrnphing Thoughts.

DR.. Hippolyte Baraduc, noted French
physician, has recently published a series
of photographs purporting to represent
different thoughts or prayers, thus offer
ing some confirmation to the theories of
the Theosophists. DIR. Baraduc. on the
assumption that the human being is COM
posed of fluid or gaseous bodies as well
as that of flesh and blood, exposed vari-
Gus sensitized plates in the dark near to
persons in varying states of mind and got
differing results. He sometimes uses a
green electric light.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

Thirty persons were drowned and 100
houses burned in the Kosakabl mine, near
Kotaru, Japan. A fire started in the
mining works and while attempts were
being made to save the mine the wafer
reservoir was broken, flooding part of the
village. Many women and children were
among the victims.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Judge Criticises Dry Law.

In refusing the application OF Attorney
General Jackson for rehearing of the
saloon cases decided a week ago Judge
Gilpatrick of the Circuit Court in Leav-
enworth, Kan, severely criticised the pro-
hibition law. He referred to the law as
hostile and venomous to persons who do
not agree with it."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Eagle Carries off a Child.

One of the pair of giant bald eagles
that neFt in a dead chestnut tree on
Waukhaw mountain. near Caldwell n. J.,
carried 3-year-old Gladys Vreeland to the
top of a tall hemlock tree and dropped
her into its branches, according to the
story told by her father, John Milton
Vreeland.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Big Hotel Burns, Town saved.

Heroic work by Rev. DIR. p He'll. pas
tor of the Evangelical church at North
Webster, and his volunteer company OF
fire fighters, composed of men and women
of the little village, saved the town from
a fire which destroyed the big summer
hotel owned by Abner Warner. The peo-
pie of the town have subscribed $1,000
to aid Warner in rebuilding the hotel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
STRANGE Miscarriage of Justice

William Evans has been found inno-
cent of the charge of burglary on which
he was convicted in Anderson county,
CAL, thirteen years ago and sentenced to
life imprisonment. He viii be released
from San Quentin penitenti,ry soon. The
man who prosecuted him admitted that
he was innocent on his deathbed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

Hattie Bell Teeter, recently adjudged
insane, and being cared for at her moth
er's home in La Porte, pending her re-
moval to the asylum, attacked and al
most killed her aged mother with big
pitcher. The old woman's cries brought
help, and the insane daughter was over
powered
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
CUPID CATCHES TRAIN MOVER.

Youngest Dispatcher I'm the Country
Elopes and WEEDS Mt south Bend.
Oliver III. Heron, train dispatcher at
Michigan City, and Miss Violet E. Nor
gan, daughter of an officer in the United
States army who has been living at Bu-
chanan, Mich, with her grandparents,
eloped to South Bend and were married
by the Rev. DIR. II. W. Johnson of the
First Presbyterian church. Mr.. Heron
is the youngest train dispatcher in the
country, being only 81 years old
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Shoe FACTORY Workers on Strike.

A dispatch from st. Louis, Mo-, says
that a conservative estimate places
the number of strikers who are out as
a result of the general strike insti-
tuted by the shoe factory workers at
$4,000. Letters were sent to the man
agem ent of each of the eighteen shoe
manufacturers affected announcing
the demands of the strikers and offer
ing to meet their former employers for
the purpose of affecting a settlement.
The demands comprise a nine-hour
work day throughout the shop, the rate
of pay to remain on the basis of the
ten-hour work day. The officers of
the companies operating the eighteen
factories at a recent meeting decided
not to accede to any demands made
by the strikers. 1t was agreed that
committee should be appointed to con-
duct the employers side of the contro-
VerSy.