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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
"LOUDEST" PRIZES WON BY F
A. FORBES.
Horticulturists Give Premiums to His
Onions.

Prizes and prizes were awarded at
the meeting of rhe Indiana State Hor-
tlcultural Society, in annual session at
the State House. but F. A. Forbes,
OF Plymouth, succeeded in capturing
the "loudest" prize. Mr.. Forbes won
frst premiums on two varieties of
onions. One variety was. the red
globe and the other was the yellow
globe. The onions were almost per-
fec in shape Mr.. Forbes told men,
bers of the society that onion grow
ing with him had been very profitable.
The onions which won the premium
came from a five-acre tract devoted
exclusively to that vegetable The
yield of the FIVE acres was 200 bushels
per acre and the price received for
these on .ons was $4,000. 1t wasn't a
good season for onions at that, he
said.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Proposed Tax on Beer.

An annual tax of 81 on every barrel
of beer brewed in the United States
for the creation OF a permanent in
vestment fund OF $50,0OO,OO0 yearly
for the development OF the country's
waterways is the proposal carried in
joint resolution introduced in the
House by Mr.. Acheson, OF Pennsyl-
vania. The preamble asserts the in
adequacy OF railroad trackage to
handle the country's fast growing
business, points TO waterways exten-
sion as the vital prerequisite to State
and national development of re-
sources and recites that the revenue
from the proposed high license tax on
beer should be applied annually not
as an ordinary expenditure, burt as a
permanent investment"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
New Gold $40 Pieces.

The first instalment of new gold
twenty dollar pieces has been ship
ped from the United States mint in
Philadelphia to various subtreasuries
about the country There were lis,
900 of them, their monetary value
being $2,3OO,OOO. On one side OF the
coin is an eagle flying. with out
stretched wings, while on the other
side is figure of Liberty" The
coins were made concave, the fgures
being in high relief nine strokes OF
hydraulic press being required to
make them Hereafter only one
stroke will be used. and thus the
coins just circulated will be different
from those to be put into circulation
later.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Canal for Indiana.

An Indiana state organization for
the advancement of waterway inn
proverlems is one Of the possibilities
of the near future Henry Riesen-
berg. of indianapolis, who was elect
ed vice president OF the National
Congress of Rivers and Harbors, said
Friday that as soon as he returns to
indianapolis from Washington, he
will issue a call Tor a state conven-
ton to form a permanent organiza-
ton TO agitate waterways improve
menss The convention will be held
at indianapolis, and every CONNER
cial body in the state will be invited
70 send delegates.
Among the specific improvements
that will be agitated is ship canal
from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan via
Northern Indiana An appropriation
for the Wabash and an appropriation
for deepening the Ohio river so as to
insure a ninc-foot stage at all seas
ons of the year will be asked.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Five Hundred Men Entombed in
Mine.

A terrific and disastrous explosion
occurred Friday in mines Nos. and
8 of the Consolidated Coal Company.
| of Monongah, w. Va. A long dis
tance telephone message said that the
bodies of three miners had been re-
covered near the mouth OF mine No.
Is. They were foreigners. Superin-
tendent John Malone, of the mines.
said there were at least FIVE hundred
men entombed Mine No. is To-
Gated on the east side OF the Monon-
gahela river, and mine No. s is on
the west side How the explosion oc-
CURED simultaneously in both mines
can not be explained
The explosion was heard for a dis
|tance of eight miles. 1t is believed
that majority of the entombed men
were killed
Immediately after receipt of the
news, physicians and special cars
were sent to the scene from Fair
mount. The mine was then too full
|of gas and smoke for the rescuers 10
be able to go in.
1t was said the explosion started in
No and spread to No. 8 mine. the
two being connected. The very earth
seemed to be rent at the moment OF
the shock. Some idea of the force
of the explosion may be gained from
the fact that props from the mine
were not only blown out of the entry.
but were hurled by the force of it
clear across the west fork of the Mo
nongahela river.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Fairbanks and. Cannon Favor Deep
Waterways.

Vice Presiden. Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon Thursday, in receiv-
ing committee of fifty delegates to
the recent waterway convention IN
Memphis. expressed their heartiest
sympathy with the project for deep
waterway from the lakes TO the Gulf
of Mexico. A memorial was pre-
sented praying the support OF Con-
gress to the project for ship canal
from the great lakes to the Gulf OF
Mexico through fhe Atlantic coast
States, and recommending an annual
appropriation of s5O,000,000 for har-
bors and waterways improvement.
A notable feature of the rivers and
harbors congress convention, now IN
session in Washington, was the adj
dress delivered Friday by James J.
Hill, resident OF the Greet Northern
Railway Company. who was introduc'
ed to the congress as "a wizard OF
transportation and one OF the greatest
railroad builders in the world"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
METSKER, THE DOWNTRODDEN,
SAVED BY A MERCIFUL JUDGE.

Metsker the Unholy would have
been convicted had not kind-heart-
ed and merciful Judge taken compass
siol on him AMI practically instructed
the jury to acquit the defendant, the
Hon. CD Clay w. Metsker.
Metsker the unholy is charging
everybody with being whisky men,
Mr.. O'Keefe, Mr.. Martindale and Mr..
Hendricks. The facts in the case
are that Metsker. the unholy, the all
around CRATER, drinks more whisky
in one day than all the men he men
toned do in whole. month, and drinks
more whisky in day than the edi-
tor OF the Tribune does in ten years.
His unholiness holds title TO a
saloon on North Michigan street
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Allege Parents Sold Girl.

Marie Thompson, the sixteen-year-
old girl taken from Gypsy camp or
a writ of habeas corpus by her par
ents. Antonio Thompson and wife. o.
Los Angeles. Cal, has been given
into the custody of her parents by
Judge McElhnney at the hearing oi
the case
The court dismissed the case with
out hearing arguments, but immedi-
ate1y afterward Mr. and Mrs. Thomp-
son were arrested on the charge Oi
having sold their daughter into slav-
cry.
The charge was based on the dec
laration of Peter Adams, Gypsy
who asserted he had paid Thompson
$500 in gold for the girl
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Saved by Pluckv Cir.

The presence of mind and pluck of
Marie Ociola, eighteen years old, en-
loyed in the wooden mills of Thomas
Oakes & Co., in Bloomfield, N. j.,
Saved Thomas Ellis from death. Ellis
IS foreman in the worsted department.
the mills. His left arm was caught
n the betting and he was being drassn
toward the shafting when Miss Osci-
ola ran to his assistance. She caught
lIold of his ankles and held on, crying
for help.
Miss Osciola swung TO and fro. but
held fast. and iier weight prevented
Ellis from being dragged TO the shaft
ing, where he might have been killed
The young woman's cries for help
were heard, the machinery was stop
ped and Ellis was released from the
betting and taken in an ambulance to
the hospital, wheresit was found that
his arm was broken in two places.
He was also painfully bruised The
girl was not injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
End of Investigation of San Fran
cisco Sin.

Alter having met on 100 separate
days, on which ninety-five sessions
were held, and having returned AL
indictments, involving forty-seven
persons, the Oliver grand jury at
San Francisco, made its final report
to Superior Judge Coffee Wednesday
and was discharged.
Most of its work has been concern
ed with indictments for graft" and
bribery, connected with municipal
affairs and the public utility corpor-
ations of San Francisco. The I'm
report is voluminous document and
says in part:
I'VE cannot even outline the va
amount of evidence received by ms
showing corruption and vice of the
lowest kind involving great moral
turpitude, such as the PARTICIPATION
of the former mayor of our city in
the profits earn.d by the lowest of
fallen women, which constitute a re-
cital of seemingly inconceivable sin,
shame and violation of law.
The unlawful and corrupt protec-
ton given by the police to vice sor
the benefit, pecunialy and political
ly, of the heads of the adminisfra-
ton and many of the rank and file
of the departments is unbelievable.
If it were not for the low character
of the witnesses examined and the
tangled mass of contradictory evil
dence submitted much of it undoubs-
edly perjured, indictments would
have been found for extortion and
conspiracy in forming house of i'll
fa-ls trust.
There was not a property owner
in San Francisco after the fire in
whose property there remained any
salvage, WHO was not robbed by con-
nivance oi the police officials with
the junk thief"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Temporary Injunction Against Ro-
chester, Ind.

A temporary restraining order has
been granted in the Federal Court
in the case of William w Harrison
of Philadelphia. against the town OF
Rochester. Ind. The motion for a
temporary injunction will be argued
in the Federal Court December 2l,
ana until that time the order that
has been granted will restrain the
school trustees from paying any
money out OF the special school fund
of the town except on the interest al
legged to be due on bonds held by the
complainant 1t also temporarily re-
strains the payment of any money to
Fred Hoffman for certain street i'm
provements in the town.
Harrison brought suit on the
ground that payment OF interest had
been defaulted on about $4,000
worth of bonds held by him that
were executed by the city toward
paying for a water plant and abou,
SO. 900 worth of bonds that were exc
cuted for the purpose OF assisting in
the erection of a school house. He
said that a special school fund had
been established to pay the interest
on the school bonds, but that the de-
fendant has refused to pay the in
terest on the. school bonds out OF this
fund
He asked that the defendant and
it's officers be enjoined from paying
any money out OF the school fund,
except as interest on the school
bonds and that they be enJoined
from failing or refusing to levy
special tax for payment of interest
on the water bonds out OF any funds
now on hand and not otherwise le-
also was asked to restrain the pay
ment of any money to Fred Hoff-
man untH further hearing OF the
case.
The order, which will preserve the
case in its present state until further
hearing, was made by Judge A. b.
Anderson, who was in the city Wed
nesday because the illness of mem
Der of the jury in the Walsh case,
which the judge was hearing in Chi
cago. caused recess in that case
indianapolis News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Financial Situation Looks Very Op-
timistic.

The financial situation has cleared
materially during the past week and
assumed decided optimistic turn.
There was an increased ease in call
money, some lifting of the embargo
on time loans, advancing bonds and
stocks prices and lowering OF the cur
rency premium.
Despite the failure OF two large
banks there are many favorable sides
to the situation. several cities report
ing issuance of clearing house certif-
icates has been suspended, while 9TH
ers report that currency payments are
quite general, and the feeling is that
the payment OF The country will soon
be generally resumed.
The improved financial conditions
encourage the belief that business
may be deferred much beyond the
end of the month. according to close
students.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Churches Poor Sellers.

| Ecclesiastical real estate is a drug
on the market i'll France There is
plenty of it, and much that is really
desirable if any one want. to claim
a church as one OF the possession.
but the French people who cried
loudest for the confiscation of the
Catholic congregations properties,
with the thought that the revenue
would come in handy for the gov
ernment are not coming forward to
buy
| The result is that it is next to inn
possible 10 sell in the provinces and
nearly as bad in Paris itself Offers
have to be sought over and over even
in the best quarters fthe city The
great Convent of the Chanoinesses
of St Augustine, on the Avenue
Hoche, found no bidders after it had
been put up seven times. Finally,
in desperation, it was divided into
building lots, and of these but two
have been sold NJ. Menage, the
| iiquidator of the property of the con-
gregations, has at last decided that
everything shall be offered on the
tiock. which gives little hope of real
izing the millions for the state that
had been counted upon when the
Separationists forced the Catholic
church to face expulsion, and it is by
no means certain that even thousands
will re obtained.
Despite all this the expulsions go
on Just the same. In some places
there is violent resistance, in others
keen show of displeasure.
AT Trehau, the abbot was found
kneeling on his prie-dieu, after the
door had been forced. but made no
res lance
At Rumengpl, however the three
vicars opposed the expulsion most
strenuously. dressed in full sacerdo-
.as and excommunicated the officers
of the law as they were driven out.
Rumengol is one of the most popu-
lar Of all the shrines in Brittany, and
5 much re orted to by pilgrims from
other departments, and its vicarage
is perhaps. the finest in that region,
being an imposing pile, with adjoin-
ing stables. outhouses and farm
The priests of Benodet were ex-
PEELED by a special commissary from
Quimper, with sixty mounted police,
but. though trouble was expected,
only one obstreperous woman had
to be arrested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Sits Heart Sack to Save Life.

Patrick Hagerty. patient at St
pincent's Hospital. at Indianapolis,
lives despite an operation for the re-
lief of an inflammation of the heart
sack. or pericardium, in which il was
necessary for the surgeon to grasp
the pericardium with a pair of for
ceps and slit it with lance
The operation is rare one The
surgeon who performed it, and who
declined to discuss the case at all If
his name were used, believed that il
was the first operation of the kind
ever performed in indianapolis.
The pericardium was found in the
operation to have been greatly infam-
ed and the fluid which lies between
it and the muscles of the heart had
increased to such an extent that the
working of The heart muscles was
seriously hampered
Hagerty is % years old and was
possessed of an excellent constitu-
ton. He came from County Done
gal. Ireland
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
FOUR BANKS FAIL AT KANSAS
CITY.
National Commerce Institution Goes
Down, Carrying 8 Smaller
Houses With It.

A1O0S(o WIN IL.
The National Bank of Commerce
the second largest financial institu-
tion in Kansas City, with $16,942, ,694
in deposits, failed to open its doors
Thursday. Later three small institu-
tions in which the Bank of Com
merce was largely interested-the
Stockyards Bank of Commerce, the
Union Avenue Bank of Commerce,
and the State Bank of Argentine,
Kas., a subufD-also closed their
doors
The failure of the National Bank of
Commerce followed steady run of
six weeks, during which the bank
had paid off 100000 of its deg S
its, reduced its loans three and a halt
million dollars, cut down its cash re-
sources eleven and three-fourths mil
hon dollars, and sold two million
dollars of high grade bonds in an
effort to meet the demands upon it.
The directors of the hank had been
in conference practically all night be-
fore the decision to suspend business
was reached. They gave out a state
ment Thursday morning saying that
inability to collect money from bor-
rowers as fast as it was demanded
by the creditors of the bank was the
cause o fthet closing They said Chi
cago and New York bankers had Of
fered assistance, but that i had been
refused because they could not tell
how long the heavy drains would
continue
Certain Chicago, New York, and
St. Louis bankers agreed to raise
S3,750,0oO to help out the National
Bank Of Commerce If that amount
would pull the institution through
1t was provided, however, the bank
should be specially examined and the
securities offered 70 rthe loans TO be
made should be approved A spec a.
examination proved conditions TO be
unsatisfactory AMI the bank was
closed.
A few of the Chicago banks al
ready had advanced several hundred
thousand dollars. One of the loans
was secured by bonds. Another
large bank, instead of making a loan,
rediscontinued large sum of con-
mercial paper The closing of the
bank occas.oned no disturbance at
Kansas City The same was true in
New York
But as Kansas City is a so-called
reserve city under the national bank
ing act, a great many Kansas banks
carried 4 part of their reserve with it.
There may be some suffering in Kan
sas and contiguous territory on this
account
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Better to Live.


actress, adds another to the long list
OF men and women of prominence
who have in recent months taken
their own lives. When a bank presi-
dent whose bank has failed through
his own mismanagement ends his
LIE voluntarily, as has happened twice
lately in New York, cause for it can
be understood, but the self-destruc-
tion of one who to all appearances IS
enjoying what are, in the common
estimate, among the most desirable
prizes OF existence-popularity, re-
spect, public applause, financial pros
perity-creates a shock of surprise.
Various theories are advanced to
account for the growing frequency Of
suicide In insurance circles the
opinion is expressed that the payment
of life policies to the families of men
who have killed themselves-the anti
suicide provision being disregarded
for reasons of expediency or because
OF a difficulty Of proving the undoubt-
ed facts a direct encouragement to
self murder and explains many cases.
Med cal men, on the other hand, urge
the exhaustion OF nervous force in
c:dent to the pressure of modern life
as rhe chief cause Tolstoy, in re-
cent article on murder, says that TO
deprive the human body of the divine
principle, which is Life, is rejection
and defiance of the moral law reveal
ed thousands OF years ago and OF the
central doctrine of Christianity He
S discussing war, but the same argu-
ment applies, of course, to self muir
der.
Probably the Russian philosopher
comes nearest to the truth. Certainly
the lack of moral stamina is evident
in most instances. The bank presi-
tents had not the courage to face the
results OF their own bad judgment
and left the burden OF settling their
affairs to others Every heart know
eth its own bitterness" but whatever
grief the actress may have cherished
she still had those things in abund-
ance which make life worth living
health. the power to entertain her
fellow beings and make their days
brighter, unlimited opportunities OF
enjoyment for herself
A phase of the moral law not sug-
gested by Tolstoy is always disre-
garded in the suicide of the sane.
for few persons nowadays accept the
theory that the man who kills him
self is necessarily mentally unbalanc-
ed; this phase is the duty of a mar
to his family and friends Intense
selhs'hness is characteristic of the
suicide. He seeks to evade trouble
for himself, careless or the anguish
he causes TO those whom he deserts.
Even the man who deliberately goes
to his death in order that his family
may benefit by his insurance fails to
reflect that no money can offset the
heritage of horror caused by his act
Whatever the causes of the increase
II self-destruction. the fact remains,
however, that the deed is so contrary
TO every healthy, wholesome human
instinct that its performance can new
| er be other than impossible TO the
common man. A degree of courage
| IS necessary TO one who takes his
| own life, but the average man, for
tuna. ely, has the greater courage to
live He may mot like the way the
cards are shuffled," but he will play
the game OF existence through to the
end.-IndianapOlis News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Two Valuable Bulletins.

The Indiana agricultural expert
ment station at Purdue university ha:
just issued two bulletins that are oil
special value to the branches of farm
ing which they represent. The first
one is on Beef Production" by Prof
]. H. Skinner and w. A. Cochel and
the second is on Commercial Fruit
Growing" by Profs. James Troop and
c. G. Woodbury.. These bulletins
deserve careful reading. They can be
had by dropping a line to Prof Ar
thur Goss. director of the expert
ment station, Lafayette, Ind.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Grant Haines Fined $4,000.

The case of the state versus Grant
Haines charged with assaulting Lib
erty Cross with intent to kill him,
was given to the jury about o'clock
Thursday evening and after. being out
less than two hours the jury decided
that the provocation under which
Ha;nes laborci when he attacked
Cross with knife was SO great that
a fine of fifty dollars and costs was
sufficient Haines is feeling good
over the verdict and a great load is
taken from the mind OF his wife
Both Haines and his wife felt that
he was in danger of prison SEN
tence
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
To Force Early Trials.

1t is given out at Georgetown that
Attorney General Brea;hitt, upon as
Stunning the duties of his office, will
take up the Goebel murder cases and
bring all the indicted to an immedi-
ate trial Many who are under in
dictment have been serving in the
Power trial there as Witnesses and
in return for their services have never
been put in jail or compelled to give
bond The matter, it is said. will be
taken cut OF the hands of the com
monwealth's officials because of the
methods pursued in prosecuting somt
and letting others go.
Ii is expected that some who are
in the state, acting as witnesses in
the Powers trial will be arrested and
Ted for such proceedings. The most
important testimony at the Powers
trial Friday was against Jim Howard
who is serving hfe sentence for the
murder of the governor.
Judge J. III. Hazelrigg, who was
chief Justice Of the court of appeals
at the time Goebel was assassinated,
was the first witness Friday
Just previous TO the shooting Judge
Norton came into his court and n
formed the witness trouble was brew
ing. He adjourned court and they lef,
the room. Judge Habelrigg saw the
west door of the executive building
open Three men came out with
guns, bludgeons and revolvers
One OF the men seemed to be Civ
ing command, and Judge Hazelrige
thought this man was Jim Howard
Five minutes later Goebel was shot
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Van Tassel is Sentenced.

Guy Van aTssel was found guilty
of the murder of Policeman Luke
Fitzpatrick and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by a jury in the criminal
court at Chicago Thursday night.
Fitzpatrick was killed while at
tempting to arrest Van Tassel and
Chas. Hanson for a burglary at Ham
mond. Ind. Another policeman shot
and wounded Hanson, but Van Tas-
sci escaped. Hanson was sentenced
to life imprisonment, and subsequent
ly enough dynamite was discovered
in his cell to destroy the entire jail.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
Shout Caused Trouble.

James Brokel of Newman, ILL.,, ha.
brought suit against Samuel Leon
ard for $4,000. charging personal in.
jury Brokel, while taking leave oi
Miss Hattie Leonard, fell off the
steps and broke his collar bone He
alleges that the fall was due to a
shout from Miss Leonard's father
while Brokel was in the act of kiss
ing the girl goodnight. In the sui
brought Brokel is encouraged by the
young woman, as she thinks the in.
reference by her father was unwar.
ranted.