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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
CHICAGO.

General conditions indicate that corr
merce is sustained at an unprecedented
volume and without impairment of con-
fidence in the outlook. Payments through
the banks ere now risen to daily aver
age of almost $J0,O00,000 surprising all
previous records. but there is no symptom
of unusual financial pressure. credits be-
ing satisfactory and statistics as to de-
faults during the last six months show
ing decreased numbers and liabilities
Mid-year inventories and repairs to ma
chinery caused but slight cessation in
operations. Production is maintained
close to the limit of capacity in the lead
ing manufactures, while the Weather IA
vcrs distribution and has appreciably
stimulated widespread demand for sea
scnable merchandise, stocks of summer
goods undergoing rapid reduction.
Raw material markets remain sharply
drawn upon for fresh supplies, and prices
stand at a higher level than year ago,
although hides, leather and Trick exhibit
recent declines in cost. Building work
is unusually extended and calls for heavy
absorption of lumber, quarry and planning
mill outputs.
Bank clearings. S24S.652 065, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
21.9 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict for the six months ending June sc
number 534. against 6SS for similar pc
Rod in 1906 and those with liabilities
over $1,000 number. 151, against 19S.-
Dun's Review of Trade
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

year The payments are $1S,o97,674
greater than those of last July. Some
corporations that never before paid
dividends come up smiling with profits
for their stockholders. Others that
were obliged to suspend dividends now
cheerfully renew, and many companies
announce an increase over their regu-
lar dividend rates.
The dividends to be paid are: Rail-
road, S36,7J00S9: industrial, $41,017,-
213: traction, S7,OS6.615; bank and
trust companies, S7,700,OOO; total, $92,-
553,s37. The amount last July was
$50. 753,331. The interest payments
will be as follows: Railroad, 81 $780,
600: Industrial. $11,4jO,OOO: fractions,
S2,1OO.OOO: government, $3,J2S.S0S; to-
tai. SSS,32S. sos, as compared with $685.
030S4O in July last year. Among the
railroads the most notable increases in
dividends have been made by the Van
der5ilt lines. The largest amounts to
be dishursed by railroads are Chicago
& Northwestern, semi-annual. $3.4S6,-
Gel: Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
pEARrH OF FARM LABoReRs.
Fully 10000 of Them Are Needed in
New York state.
Severance, No. .; Glass.

Despite the establishment of agricul-
tural colleges and the agitation for a
return TO the land" there are $1,000
fewer farrs in the State of New York
at the present time than there were in
1890. And it will possibly be equally
surprising to the average city man to
learn that in spite of this decrease in
the number of farms, the shortage Of
farm laborers has grown to such dimen-
sions that the State is advertising in IL
foreign newspapers for agricultural la
borers.
These facts have been brought out by
Representative Bennett, who is the chair
man of a committee appointed by Con-
gress to go abroad to study the immigra-
ton question from the viewpoint of at
tracing more immigrants from the agri-
cultural countries of Europe. In addi-
ton to this, the immigration Commits
sion is to make another investigation, the
scope of which will include all parts Of
the country, with a view to getting at the
real facts as to the shortage of farm la
borers throughout the United States, and
by next winters session of Congress its
iutinbtAc htpc W bC III poootsctOi VI Seeh
tistics that will materially help to inn
prove the conditions of employing agri-
culturists all over the United States.
Bolton Hall, who is missionary in
the cause of people taking up small farms
near the large cities and of working them
on scientific principles. says the decrease
in the number of farms in New York
State isiowing to two causes. One is the
great rise in land values near the large
cities, and the other is the creation CT
vast estates by rich men through the alb
sorption of many small farmers hold
ings. Within the last year alone, he esti-
mates. 1000 farms were sold Sa Long
Island for conversion into building lots.
In the counties just north of New York
City many thousands of acres of farm
land have gone to make up great estates.
At the present time $4,000 farm la
borers could find employment in New
York State
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
PAST AND PRESENT
AS II COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Telegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Many.
Three story Block Collapsed.

Two brick buildings three stories
high, located near the northwest cor
ner of Meridian/and Maryland streets,
In Indianapolis, Ind, collapsed from
some unknown cause early Sunday
morning. causing a loss of 100000. A
subsequent fire in the debris entailed
a considerable portion of the loss. Had
the collapse occurred during business
hours a large loss of life would GER
tainly have occurred As the buildings
were among the oldest in the city it is
thought this was the main reason for
the collapse. The principal losers are:
Daniel Stewart Drug and Glass Com
pany, 100000; Martha Stewart, on
building. $4,000; the Brunswick Balk
Collender Billiard Company, $4,000,
and Henry C.. Balse estate building,
$4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

semi-annual, S2,967 800. and New York
Central, quarterly, S2,6S9. $50 The
largest amounts to be distributed by
industrial companies are United States
Steel, common stock, quarterly, $2541,-
80: Anaconda, quarterly, 100000;
American Telephone & Telegraph,
quarterly, $2,631,02S; General Electric,
quarterly, $1,304,314; and Western
Union, quarterly, $1,216,757.
Some of the banks and trust compa-
MES have done very well. The Fifth
avenue bank pays special dividend of
80 per cent in addition to the regular
quarterly rate of % per cent. The
Colonial bank pays semi-annual divi-
dend of 10 per cent. The New York
Trust company increases its dividend
rate from 20 to 30 per cent, New York
Life Insurance < Trust from 40 TO 40
per cent. Bankers Trust from 10 to is,
Knickerbocker Ice from 40 to 90. Trust
Company Of America from 80 to 40,
Metropolitan from 20 to "a, and United
States Mortgage & Trust company
from % to "a per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

Chicago-Cattle. common TO- prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
TO 5000; sheep, fair to choice. $500
20 $500; wheat, No. 2, 9Jc TO 97c;
corn, No. 2, 53c to sic: oats, standard,
Ale to 42c: rye, No. 2, s3c to SIC; hay.
timothy, S14.O0 to $21.00; prairie, $500
to $500: butter choice creamery, 19c
TO 24c: eggs, fresh. 12c to 14c; potatoes,
new, per busfel, $1.15 to S1.25.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $500
to $6.6J hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S6.05: sheep, common to prime. $500 to
1928: wheat. No. ,, 90e to 92c; corn.
No. 2 white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. ,
white, Acc to Acc.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $500;
hogs. 500 to S6.05: sheep, $500 to
$50: wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn,
No. =, 53c to 54c; oats. No. ?, 42c to
44c; rye. No. 2, Sic to see.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
S465: wheat. No. 2. 9Jc to 96c; corn.
No. mixed. 55c to J6c; oats. No. ,
mixed, 46c to Ale; rye, No. 2, SEC to Ssc.
Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to S6.15; sheep. $3.50 TO $500;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn No. 3
yellow, 54c to &c: oats, No 3 white,
acc to 47c rye, No. 2, SEC to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S102 to 100; corn, No. 3. 51c to 52c;
oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. l,
SEC to SIC; harley, standard, I5c to &c !;
pork mess. 1882
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$4.OO to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice. $500
to $6.40; sheep, common to good mixed.
800 to $500: lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $7.25.
New York-Cattle. Sf0O to $500;
hogs, $500 to $660; sheep. $500 TO
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to 500;
corn, No. 2, 60c to 62c; oats, natural
white, zoe to sic; butter, creamery, DC
to 25c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c-
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 96c to
Csc; corn, No. mixed. 54c to DOC;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to Acc; rye, No.
2, roc to Sic; clover seed, prime, $3.50.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

New York, is a pleasing function at
any time, but this season the divide
is the largest in history. The July
dividend and interest payments of COR
porations reach the stupendous total
of S1S0.SS1, $40. July and January are
the months when the great bulk of cor
poTation profits are up for division.
The prosperity that reached such great
Roadway last year and is still under
way Is responsible for the magnificent
proportions of the July melon this
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
AeropInne BaIIoon Fails.

The first test of the combination of a
dirigible balloon and aeroplane construct
ed by Santos-Dumont, which was made
recently at Paris, resulted in complete
destruction of the machine. 1t consisted
of balloon shaped like cigar, % yards
long and 81 in diameter at the center,
hitched 10 two aeropanes directly under
meath, and frame carrying 80 horse
power motor. with a screw 400 centime-
tiers in diameter. the whole being so kilo-
grams heavier than its bulk in air. The
machine started all right and SKINNED
along over the grass short distance I'M
til the rear of the aeroplane suddenly
lifted and caused the front end of the
balloon to strike the ground so that the
whole thing collapsed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

@D7N
~NN~Ocr~ON

Union BARRIERS of Cleveland, Ohio, are
watching all the shops to see that they
close on Sunday, according to law.
During the last twelve months there
was an increase of 5J,T1S members add
ed to De rolls of trade unions in Ger
many.
The labor movement has taken hold in
Egypt. The printers employed on Cairo
paper, Les Pyramides, are out for bet
ter conditions.
Chicago elevator men have submitted
to a board of arbitration a proposition
made TO building managers for an in
crease of so a month.
Miss Anastasia O'Meara of Cambridge,
Mass, has the honor of being the first
woman to hold an Office in the strong
Retail Clerks Association of that city.
She was also the first woman member of
the association. =
Il. V. Powderly. known to all oider
union men as the head of the Knish of
Labor when that organization was al the
height of its power, has been appointed
chief of the Bureau of Informaton I'M
der the Bureau of immigration.
The National Farmers Education and
Cooperation Union has organized it's first
branch in Oregon, in the Hudson Bay
country, with a membership of fourteen.
1t is expected to organize unions in va
rious other parts of the State in the near
future.
Conditions in the Canadian cigarmak-
ing industry have been unsettled for some
time, owing to differences between the
employers and the union.
The movement for compelling nom
unionist miners to join the union is meet
ing with success in South Yorkshire, Eng
land, and adjoining coal fields.
The latest and most up-to-date form of
government sick insurance is being con-
the second chamber of the States Cen
eral. The proposed insurance is obliga-
tory and extends to all laborers employ
ed regularly.
Boston, Mass. coopers, who have not
asked for raise of pay for fourteen
years, wish an increase from the present
minimum of $3.50 day to one of 81 a
day.
Members of the Mattresses union of
1QOeulX, ATlZ.. WHO nave DeeQ working
eleven to twelve hours q day, threaten
to strike if their day is not reduced to
ten hours.
Grand Master p. III. Morrisey, recent
ly reelected by the brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen to be the head of the or
ganization for the next two years, has
already served in that position twelve
years.
A considerable proportion of the trade
unions of Great Britain, Switzerland
Belgium, France. Italy, Austria, Hun
gary, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and
Germany provide benefits for unemploy-
ed members, and many other organiza-
tons, such as friendly societies and CO.
operative associations, similar protection.
A man who was doing picket duty for
the Machinists' Union at Seattle, Wash,
has been adjudged guilty of contempt Of
court because he carried a banner on the
street car near the shops where the strike
! existed. The court had issued an injunc-
ton restraining members of the union
from intimidating would-be strike-break-
ers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

The new treaty between France and
by Foreign Minister Pichon. The chief
purpose of the treaty, from the standpoint
of France, is to insure her possessions
in Indo-China. and in return for this dip
lomats read between the lines the prom
Used friendship and tacit understanding
that Japan will have access TO the French
money market in the negotiation of flu
ture loans. 1t is understood that Japan
expects to borrow something like $1,000
O00,OO within the next few years in or
der to convert her high-rate loans into
easier securities and furnish the capital
for large industrial developments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
THE COST OF CRIME.
In One Year 1t Amounts to More
than S1,OOO,OOO,O0O.


The detailed cost of crime in the
United States presents some astounding
figures. In 1907 the cost of crime in
Greater New York was $50, $50. 133 24.
The State, county ard city authorities
outside OF Greater New York spent for
i. $40. 6O5. 472.75. In 40 States New
York excluded) the expenditure was
S697 .0S0,00O. Criminal losses by fire to-
tailed SlOO,OOOOOO. BY customs frauds
the national government lost $60,000,-
000 During this one year the loss in
wages of 100000 State prisoners was
S2S,0S0,000, while the loss in wages of
10000 prisoners in city and country
jails was S33,OOO,OOO. The grand total,
therefore, of the cost of crime in the
United States reaches the stupendous fig
ures of S1,O76, 327 ,605.99.
The cost of religious work in the
United States is enormous. The cost
of foreign missions, comprising all de-
nominations, is $7,0OO,OOO; home mis-
sions expend the same sum. We spend
for education, $20O,OO0,O00; for church
expenses and ministers salaries, $780,
100000. Hospitals and dispensaries for
the sick poor cost us $1OO,OOO,OOO; for
sanatoriums of all kinds we spend $780,
100000. City missions and rescue work
of all kinds demand and receive $1,000
coo: humanitarian work of every kind,
S12,OOO,OOO. Our Young Mems and
Young Women's Christian Associations
cost $5,OOO,OO0; while all other moral
and social work in the United States
requires an expenditure of $5,OOOOOO.
The total expenditure for humanitarian
and religious work is, then. $o49,OOO,OOO.
AS against this, the total cost of crime
In the United States for the year reached
the incredible total of $1,O16,327 ,6O5.99.
That is to say we spead more than
$5OO.0OO,0O0 a year more on crime than
we do on all spiritual, ecclesiastical, ply
steal, humanitarian. educational and heal
ing agencies put together.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
News of Minor Note.

The Kansas penitentiary Irvine plant
is to be shat down temporarily because
of the shortage of the wheat crop. A
surplus of Irvine is in store there.
Two golfers and their caddies were
stunned by lightning at East Liverpool,
Ohio, while holding umbrellas over them
selves on the golf links there.
viscount Hayashi, japanese minister
of foreign affairs, declared the rumor that
Ambassador Aoki would be recalled from
Washington was totally without founda-
lion.
While playing in the street in Atchi-
son, Kan, Robert Dosser, the 4-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Dosser, was
struck by a street car and instantly killed.
Steps are being taken by the interstate
commerce commission, in conjunction
with the railroad commissions of various
States, to prevent a recurrence of the
fuel famine that created so much distress
in the Northwest last winter.
Stockholders of the Ottawa. Kan.
Chautauqua have decided not to have a
Sunday program which requires the
charging of an admission fee. Judge G.
4. Smart was elected president in place
of Rev. c. s. Nusbaum, resigned
Gov. Cummins of Iowa. in an interview
at Minneapolis, Endorsed President Roose-
Welt for denomination. The Governor
said he himself was not candidate.
Philip NJ Brown has been appointed
secretary of the American embassy at
Constantinople and Peter A. Jay has been
appointed secretary of the embassy at
Toxic.
James l.. Bradford, one of the most
widely known lawyers practicing in land
cases in the United States, began a two
years sentence IN the parish prison in
New Orleans. He was convicted on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernn,ent in various land cases in the
Southwest by the false entry of names,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
WAR ON sPARROWs.
Government Asks People to Help
Exterminnte Pest.

Exterminnte Pest.
The government is asking people all
over the country to make war on the
English sparrow and to put up bird
houses and bore holes under the caves
of the barns to encourage the swallow
This measure is made Imperative in
order that the cotton industry of the
United States may not be destroyed
All insect-eating birds are of i'm
mense value to the farmer ard the for
ester. but it has been discovered by the
government bug experts that there is
no bird equal to the swallow. Particu-
larly is this true in the matter, of the
insect which is destroying the cotton
plantations of the South
The boil weevil. despite every effort
to stay its march. is spreading at the
rate of about fifty miles year. and
sooner or later it is said that ii is
certain TO infest the entire cotton pro-
ducing area-a fact which no. only
seriously concerns the Southern plant
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

Mrs. Russell Sage's latest benefaction
is an endowment fund of 100000 for a
pathological institute to be run in con-
nection with the New York city hospital
and city home on Blackwell's Island. The
purpose of the institute is to inquire into
the problems of disease, more especially
the diseases of advanced life, and the i'm
provement of the city's poorest sick and
aged in two of its largest institutions.
The institute will be organized by Drs. f..
G. and L. c. Janeway, and will be under
their direction, although it is expected to
be closely associated with the department
OF charities.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during June, as
compiled from the records of the jour-
nal of commerce and commercial bull
letin, aggregate $14,765,000. This
brings the total fire waste for the first
half of 1907 up to sl17,477 800 as COM
pared with 1877 ,665,50O for like por-
ton of the year 1906, but these figures
include s2SO,O0O,000 chargeable to the
San Francisco confiagration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

Lincoln Beachey, the aeronaut, who has
sailed in his dirigible balloon over the tops
of several American cities, repeated the
exploit the other day, when he sailed in
his airship from an amusement resort on
Staten Island across the harbor and over
the city, alighting at Battery park. Con-
tact with the crowd of spectators injured
one of his propellers, and to this he laid
the disastrous ending of his voyage, for
the ship became helpless when he was
midway over the city and drifted in the
wind over East river, where it settled
upon the steel mast of buoy destroying
the gas bag
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
Famou. Doctor Opposes Drugs.

Sir Frederick Treves. physician to the
King of England, speaking at the opening
of a London hospital, expressed the be-
lief that the time was not far off when
bottles on doctors shelves would be re-
duced TO a very small number, and when
people would ''leave off the extraordinary
habit of taking medicine when they are
sick" At that time people would resort
TO simple living. suitable diet and plenty
of sun and fresh air. He said the time
would come when it would be as anon
alous for people TO die of scarlet fever.
typhoid, cholera and diphtheria as it
would be for a man to die of a VOLTS
bite in England. He referred to the dis
coveries in meteorological science as being
capable of reducing mortality from infec-
tious diseases to the zero point.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
VARIETIES OF SWALLOWS.

er, but in it's ultimate consequences af-
fects the well being of the whole coun-
try.
The aid of the North is required, as
most of the swallows spend part of the
season in the Northern States and in
many cases do their nesting there. The
bird is disappearing, however. because
the English sparrow harries him and
kills his young by the thousands. Va
rious methods of DISCRIMINATING the
English sparrow are recommended by
the department. Most of them consist
in the use of poisoned grain.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11

Director w. J. Holland of the Car
negie museum at Pittsburg, after a thor
cugh examination of prehistoric animals
found in a cave near Holidaysburg, Pa,
announces that the bones were those of an
immense bear, unlike any now in exist
ence, and which must have lived 10000
years ago. The smaller bones found in
the cave, and which were supposed to
be the offspring of the bear, DIR. Holland
says are those of the mammoth's young.
which the great bear must have captured
in raid upon the mammoth herds Here
tofore it has been assumed that no ami
NAL was powerful enough to prey upon
the mammoth. Besides these bones, there
were in the cave the bones of numerous
gigantic squirrels and other animals
which are now extinct. Another similar
cave has been found near Greensburg,
Pa, and it is to be dynamited.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
Vegetables Prevent Cancer.

DIR. Robert Bell, prominent physician
of London, England, holds that cancer Is
not caused by any micro-organism, but is
the result of faulty diet and consequent
improper sanitation of the body. In a
recent lecture he announced that bad
eating and drinking was one of the chief
factors in the production of cancer. One
of the special causes was the eating OF
too much red meat, but in general the
persons who ate freely of vegetables and
milk was better able to resist the APP
proach of cancer. In his whole life he
had met only one cancer patient who wa
q vegetarian.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
Holmes Defends Himself.

The motion to acqut having been over
ruled in the trial of Edwin s. Holmes,
former assistant statistician of the ,Agri-
cultural Department, for sale of crop re-
ports, Holmes took the stand in his own
defense He directly contradicted the tes-
timony of Broker Van Ripper as to the
giving of signals to confederates by the
height of his Office curtain. He said he
had no relations with Theodore Price ex-
cept to try to interest him in a private
crop report venture.