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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Unfonists Urge Consolidation of Tel
cCraph with Postal System.

cGrnpn system.
President Small of the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union has called on the
United States and Canada to take over
the centrol of the telegraph lines now
owned by the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies. At the
same time he began a campaign to Sc
cure a congressional investigation of
the conduct of those companies in this
country. To this end the union has es-
tablished two funds-one for the direct
support Of the strike and the other to
pay the expenses of the government
ownership campaign. He asks tnat
trade unionists in general and telegra-
pliers in particular begin at once to
raise 100000 for these purposes.
The strike was further strengthened
by the calling out of leased wire OPP
orators in many brokers' offices, and it
was expected that the cable operators
would also join. On the other hand
the telegraph companies claimed to be
taking care of all business offered, and
say that the strike is a closed incident
SO far as they are concerned. Wash
ington heard that Commissioner Neill
was about to submit a report regarding
the telegraph strike to the President.
The strikers charge that the companies
are taking most of their business sub
ject to delay, and that the dispatches,
instead of being put on the wires, are
sent by messengers in suit cases from
one city to another, to be copied and
delivered by local messengers.
1t is said that bill is to be intro
duced at the coming session by Con-
gresham Samuel Smith. of Michigan,
which will authorize postal telegraph
systems operated by the Post Office De-
partment.
Congressman Smith says: I'VE pro-
vide for carrying the mails by the
swiftest known method, steam, electric
railways and pneumatic tubes. Why
deny the right to tie use Of the tele-
graph? We carry the mails at "a loss.
Why not use the telegraph not only as
a convenience and blessing to all our
people, but to help wipe Ous the an
nual postal deficit? Who doubts that
the telegraph is IN essential part Of an
efficient postal services?
The constitutional right to establish
a postal telegraph system is unques-
toned. The government started out by
owning the telegraph system. In 1915
the government had built telegra ph
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

A girl baby was born to Gov. and Mrs.
Charles Il. Hughes at Albany the other
day, it being their fourth child.
William w. Prosser, St. Louis, city
passenger agent of the Clover Leaf rtute,
died at Laporte, Ind, while visiting rela-
tives.
Three Japanese belonging to travelling
acrobatic troupe have been arrested in
Russia with plans of Notifications and
other secret military documents in their
possession.
A foreign government, supposed to be
Russia, says the London Chronicle has
awarded to a British firm of shipbuilders
a contract for several battleships, cruisers
and gunboats-
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, has
leased 10000 acres of grazing land in
the Standing Rock reservation, South Da-
kota, comprising one of the finest cattle
tracts in the Northwest.
Gen Lewis Cass Fry, who in 1894
led $50 men, comprising the Pacific
coast division of Coxey's army, from San
Francisco to Washington, is dead at
Brice, Mo.
George Hoey, veteran actor, died IN
New York after short illness. He was
we'll known to the old timers. having play
ed with Booth, Barrett, Jefferson and
other famous players.
Asmopd s. Meserve. warden of the New
Castle county workhouse, near Whining
ton. Del. and one of the leading criminol-
osists of the country, has resigned be-
cause. it is stated, he disapproves of the
Delaware whipping post.
Cass Gilbert, New York architect, has
Just purchased the Old Keller tavern at
Ridgefeld. Conn, and will occupy it as
a summer home. The tavern was built in
1866. At the battle of Ridgefield April
26. 17T6, it was struck by a cannon ball,
which still is imbedded in one of the
walls.
Sensational disclosures, involving pad
ding of accounts to the extent of hundreds
of thousands of dollars by the INTERIOR
ough company, headed by August Bel
mont, were made by the New York public
service commission. 1t is alleged the COM
pany's plan was TO charge the city an
excessive price in case 1t should take over
the property.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
BOLD FELLOW FAILS.
GOES UEDER AFTER MAKING
MILLIONS IN SHORT TIME.
Financial Ca-cer of Firm of Speccln-
tive Builders Is Cut short by
Money Squeeze-HudsOn's Bay
Connected with Mexican Gulf.

In the United States District Court in
New York Jacob 5. Haiprin, who re-
Gently lived in a costly house but now has
no residence. filed a petition in bank
ruptcy, placing his liabilities at S3,141,-
213. His secured liabilities were esti-
mated at $363,2JO. while his assets are
$50. Halprin. who is a young man with
a wife and children. associated himself
with two other young men in the specula-
tive building business. They had prac
tically not dollar, but managed to
scrape together enough to secure a build
ing plot with a big mortgage on it, in
which they had an equity of a couple of
thousand dollars. Then they got build
ing loans, put up an apartment house and
sold it at handsome profit. They re-
peated the operation until at the end of
two years they had paper profit of ST.
100000 each. Then the money squeeze
began and in three months they were
several millions in debt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
MAILS BOMB TO CoRTELYoU.
Package Addressed to Secretary Of


The explosion of what appears to have
been a large percussion cap in a package
addressed TO Secretary of the Treasury
George b. Cortelyou created excitement
in the Nicetown substation of the Pnila-
delrhia postofiice the other day. The
package, which was collected from a box
in the northern section of the city, was
received by Clerk Roberts, who says it
was about four inches long by two inches
wide and three-fourths of an inch thick.
When Roberts brought his steel cancella-
ton die down upon the stamp the package
exploded and was torn to pieces. Rob
erts was unhurt. The pieces of paper
were put together and the package was
found TO have been addressed TO Secre-
tary Cortelyou, Washington, ID. c., the
address having been cut from newspaper
and pasted on the package. Chief Postal
Inspector James Il. Cortelyou, a brother
of the Secretary, is trying TO solve the
mystery surrounding the explosion,
though most of the authorities think the
package was mailed as a joke. There
was not sufficient explosive matter in it
to have done injury to anyone. What
was in the package aside from the ex-
plosive cap the officials will not say.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND Is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions of Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Com plete.
Death Comes TO Great Actor.

Richard Mansfield, the actor, died at
6 o'clock Friday morning at his sum-
mer residence, "Summeroaks," New
London, Conn. Mr.. Mansfield's illness
dates several years back, but his con-
dition did not become acute until few
weeks ago, when he went to a quiet
retreat in the Adirondacks in the hope
that absolute quiet and a long rest
would aver the threatened collapse of
his nervous system. Eminent special
lists attended him and a few days
ago, being little or no better. he was
taken to his summer home on Long
Island Sound with the intention OF
making long stay there The change
proved unavailing and within the past
day or two it was quite apparent the
end was not far of.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Within Our Borders.

John Phillips, - years old. was drown
ed in Evansville while bathing in tie
Ohio river.
Simon Ward. air brake inspector fer
the Chicago. Cincinnati and Louisville
railroad at Peru, was found dead under a
train. Whether it is suicide or accident
is unknown.
Gov. Hanly Of Indiana reiterated the
warning given in his Elkhsrt speech urg-
ing caution in the policies of the admin
istration in its efforts to correct corpo-
ration abuses.
One man was killed and fourteen in
jured on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Hagerstown when local freight crashed
into a wreck train. Responsibility for
the disaster has rot been fixed
Edward Fahrholz Of Evansville, super
intendent of a factory at Princeton, was
killed by falling from the platform of a
train on the Evansville and Terre Haute
railroad. Both legs were cut of.
Fire by lightning destroyed eleven
business buildings in Reynolds. Loss
$4,000.
United States Senator James A. Hem
enway has authorized the appointment of
Henry Baldwin Lewis of New Albany
as cadet to West Point He is son of
Capt. Lewis, an officer of thirty years
standing.
Mrs. Ruth Clayton. the centenarian.
who died in Hancock county. besides be-
ing 100 years old. was remarkable wcm-
an in many ways. She leaves forty grand
children, serenty-one great-grandchildren
and eleven great-great-grandchildren.
Relatives in Petersburg received word
that Charles Lewis, editor of the Repub-
lican at Kersey, Colo, had been shot and
instantly killed on account of an article
rejecting on the wife of a citizen of that
place. Lewis married Miss Lucy f. Hog
gait Of Petersburg three years ago.
Following quarrel between Mrs.
Tzabela Lagockski and Mrs. Alice Va
worski in South Bend. the women en-
gagged i'm a fight which ended with both of
them rolling downs flight OF stairs locked
in each others arms. As the result of
her injuries Mrs. Lagockski is dead ana
Mrs. Vaworski has been ordered arrested
on a charge of murder.
An unidentified man was struck by a
c.. H. < ID. train in Connersville and
killed. From an inscription on his grip
the name is supposed to be NJ. lnninger
of Celina, Ohio. He was on the railway
bridge OF the time and he was knocked
to the street, II feet below. Apparently
he was 45 years old.
The State beard of railroad commits
sioners issued formal order requiring all
railroads operating in the State of In
diana TO .quip their lines with the auto
matte block signal system This order
has been in contemplation ever since the
disaster at woodville. on the Baltimore
and Ohio, in which SO many immigrants
lost their lives:
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

-rveyors are in the field laying out a
route for the Sulphur, Coalgate and
Southeastern road in Oklahoma.
The commission of South Dakota met
at Sioux Falls to consider a readjustment
of the freight and passenger rates for
the entire State.
1t is announced that the Pennsylvania
road has resumed its aggressive construc-
ton and improvement operations on all
parts of its system.
As a test of long-distance speed en-
DURANGO. Union Pacific motor car No. II
has made continuous run from Omaha
to Denver in is hours 81 minutes.
The annual report of the Lehigh VAL
ley indicates that the year was very
prosperous one for the company. The
net earnings of S13,954,17S are an in
crease of $1,316,532.
Railroad rates from points west OF Chi
cago to the national Grand Army OF the
Republic encampment at Saratoga. n. T.,
are unreasonably high and unjust, a.
cording to complaints received by the in
terstate commerce commission in Wash
ington.
The Receivers and Shippers Associa-
ton of Minnesota is supporting the State
movement in its effort TO enforce the
State laws, irrespective of the interstate
laws. The association has interviewed in
the litigation and thus hopes TO relieve the
State commission of any embarrassment
which that body may feel in the case.
Under the presidency of J. I. Hara-
han the Illinois Central system has shown
a most remarkable Increase in earnings.
The gross traffic receipts for the fiscl.
year ended June 30 show an increase of
S4.974.22S. The operating expenses and
taxes increased $3,62S,055. This makes
the net earnings an increase of S1.346.ls3.
Not in the history of the Illinois Central
has any showing approached this. 1t is
asserted that the great increase in net
earnings is due almost entirely to Mr..
Harahan's management. as other big
southern roads for the same period show
heavy decreases in earnings.
application has been made by the
Great Northern road to the railroad COM
mission of British Columbia for the can
collation. of certain deeds conveying land
10 III WHICH, IL pun iidStu aANobftAs
Wholesale prosecution of the railroads
for their disregard of the laws regulating
the watering and feeding of live stock
while in transit has been undertaken by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Orders have been issued, it is learned.
to begin construction work on the North
western Pacific joint Southern Pacific
Santa Fe enterprise which is to give San
Francisco a new rail connection with
Eureka.
Contracts have been let by the North
ern Pacific road for the construction of
new line over the Rockies, west of
Helena, by the way of McDonalds Pass.
New England roads are still aggressive
n their fight against the enforcement of
the per diem charge imposed for the use
of freight cars of connecting lines as fixed
by the last meeting of the American Rail-
way Association.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
KILLED DEFENDING HIS MOTHER.
John oster, Jr., of Mascoutah, ILL.,,
Fatally Stabbed by Father.

John Oster. Jr., % years old, died in
Mascoutah, H., from stab wounds alleg-
ed to have been inflicted by lis own
father. John Oster, aged 60 years, who
IS now under arrest. During quarrel
the previous night between the elder Os-
ter and his wife the son went TO his
mothers defense. This so enraged the
father that they got into a struggle and
young Oster was stabbed. He fed from
the house, closely pursued by his father.
who is cripple. In the chase the young
man collapsed. Neighbors carried him
into house, where he died several hours
later.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
HEROIC CURE FOR DIVORCE.
Drastic Law Enacted by New York
Legislature in Force.

Sept. l goes into effect one of the most
drastic laws ever enacted in New York
State. 1t provides that married person
guilty of the statutory offense commits
misdemeanor and on conviction subjects
himself, or herself, to Imprisonment in a
penitentiary or county Jail for not more
than six months or TO fine of not more
than $3.50, or to both. Mr.. Phillips, au-
thor of the bill, said recently: My bill
is not revolutionary, as it may seem at
first reading The offense we aim at is
the only statutory cause for divorce rec
ognized in this State. Evidence of his
or her guilt is accepted as convincing
proof of his or her unfitness for matri-
mony, but involves no further penalty.
1t is not an uncommon practice for per-
sons dissatisfied with each other to ar
range the scenery and fabricate proof that
will secure a divorce. That is disgrace
to our civilization. The man or woman
who resorts to such degrading immortality
should be punished equally with a man or
woman who, intending surreptitious vio-
lation of his or her marriage vows, are
detected"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Policeman Killed hv Negro.

George Schuman, policeman, was
shot and killed by negro on the tracks
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road at South bethlehem, Pa. Three
shots were fired at Schuman at close
range. Despite the wounds Schuman
walked to police headquarters and report
ed that he had been shot. He became I'M
conscious and died ten minutes later.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
line between Washington and Balti
ao.4:.~ COO o0n

line between Washington and Balti-
more, costing $4,000.
Two years later, under a notion of
economy, it was turned over to pri-
vate ownership. Among the public
statesmen who protested against this
course were Henry Clay and Cave
johnson. Prof. S. +. b. Morse also
prophesieL the evils Of pirate owner
ship.
Justice Brown, of the United States
Supreme Court, has said: IF the gov
ernment may be safely intrusted with
the transmission of our letters and pa
pers, see no reason why 1t should not
also be intrusted with the transmits
sion of our kilograms, as is almost uni
versally the case in Europe"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
NELSON MORRIS DIES.
Pioneer Chicago Packer and Million
aire Passes AWAY.

Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer
and multimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nell
son Morris was the third member of the
famous big four packers. Philip ID.
Armour and Gustavus +. Swift preceded
him to the grave, and Michael Cudahy
is the only survivor of the city's pioneers
in the packing industry. Mr.. Morris
death was due to chronic affection of the
heart, with kidney complication, which
had its origin some time ago.
Nelson Morris was born in the Black
Forest, Germany, Jan. Z, 1910. His faith
er originally was wealthy cattle dealer,
but he became reduced to poverty after
joining the revolutionary movement to
unite the Black Forest TO Switzerland.
The father was an exile until the son
paid his ransom twenty years ago. Carl
Schurz was a fellow exile of young Nor
ris, who, when he landed in Philadelphia
penniless was IL years old.
The young man walked to New York,
where he hired out to haul charcoal in
Lakeville, Conn.,, for So month and
board. Later he worked his way on a
canalboat to Buffalo, thence walking to
Chicago. Here he went to work in the
old stockyards. Five dollars a month
was his salary the first year, increased
to $40 the second year. All he
saved from his earnings he sent to his
relatives across the ocean. He began to
buy hogs when he was 10, making enough
to start himself in the cattle business a
year later. The packer used to tell how
at first he killed and dressed his own
cattle. He slept on the slaughter house
floor at night in order to b. on hand early
in the morning with his beef and pork.
His first financial reverse came when he
was is years old. When he was % years
old Morris suffered another reverse. He
Endorsed papers for creditors who went
back on him. Within a year, however,
he had recovered from his loss.
He started his packing house in 1862
and during the latter part of the war sup
piled the army of tie West with beef.
Mr. Morris was the first to export live
cattle from this country to Europe. He
received the first contract ever given to
supply government with beef. He OBJ
tanned important and profitable contracts
with France, England and Germany.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
ARMY MEN TO GET MORE PAY.
New Law Is Agreed Upon to Benefit
Rank and File.

Increase in the pay of the army, but
no increase in its size, is the compromise
which has been reached between the Pres
ident and the leaders in Congress who
control legislation. The President has
given hearty approval to the plans of the
general staff of the army, which included
both increases, but after consultations
and conferences it has been decided that
it will be impossible to do more at the
next session of Congress than secure an
increase in the pay of the army. Imme-
diately upon converting bills will be intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Dick of
Ohio and in the House by Representative
Capron of Rhode Island, carrying out the
agreement which has been reached.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Nurses Save in Hospital Fire.

Fire, originating from sterilizing APP
paratus, broke out in the Thrall hospital
in Middletown, n. Y. Arthur Thornley,
an orderly in the hospital, was so badly
burned that he will die. He fell to the
floor unconscious and was rescued by Dr.
Lillian Morgan. A dozen women nurses
did heroic work in fighting the fire and
rescuing the twenty-six patients who were
in the building.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
WOLVES TERRoR1zE DULUTH.
Pack Kills Cattle and Party Starts
Out to Exterminate It.

Driven from the far North by starva-
ton, huge pack of wolves is creating a
reign of terror in the locality of Duluth,
MINI. John Robinson and Reuben Viii
son, carpenters of Duluth Heights, one
of the city's suburbs, were attacked by
the animals on their way home from
work the other night and were forced to
take refuge among the branches of pine
tree, where they remained until the next
morning, when they were rescued, almost
exhausted. The wolves, which are far
more daring and savage than usual, travel
in big packs, and during the last two
weeks have killed dozens of cattle and
other domestic animals in st. Louis coun-
ty. At night their hunting cry strikes
terror to the hearts of the people living
in the outskirts, and the city authorities
have been asked to take steps to exter-
inmate the brutes. A large party of
hunters, with dogs, has gone in pursuit
of the pack
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Eiohteen Die in trolley Crash.

A dispatch from Nation, ILL.,, says:
Eighteen dead and sixty injured
have been taken from the wreck of an
electric train on the Mattoon &
Charleston electric railway, which &C.
Cured on a sharp curve shortly be-
fore noon Friday. OF the dead, nine
have been identified. The bodies are
at an Undertaking establishment in
Nation and the injured are at hos
pital. The train consisted of pas
senger motor car and trailer loaded
with people going to Charleston, to
attend the county fair. One mile west
of Charleston, on account of con-
fusion of orders the train crashed in
to an express car on the road coming
toward Nation. Both cars were
wrecked.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
KING ONION RECEIVES HOMAGE.

Farmers I'm Vicinity of Wolf Lake
Hold Festival I'm Honor of Crop.
King Onion held sway at Wolf lake
the other day when 5000 people gathered
to pay respects to that vegetable. which
is the principal crop raised by the farm
ers of Wolfe and the vicinity. Three In
diana Congressman, c. c. Gilhams, James
Watson and ]. A. Adair. delivered ad-
dresses. All of this was because the
onion crop is fully up to the expecta-
tons of inc growers
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
TRAIN RUNS INTO STREET CAR.
Only One Seriously Injured Out of
SixtY-fve Passengers.

One man was dangerously injured and
sixty-fve persons narrowly escaped death
in an accident on a railway crossing at
North La Crosse. Wis. A street car was
hit by railroad train at the crossing. A
great panic ensued among the passengers
and fCr tine it was feared that many
had been killed and ambulances and a
corps Of physicians were dispatched to the
scene. Most of the passengers. however,
had miraculously escaped injury. James
Gaskell. aged GO, had both legs broken
and crushed and he was taken to hos
pital in a serious condition. The other
passengers received only scratches.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Indiana
State News
WOMAN HURLED FROM BUGGY.
No CIew as to Identity of AssaiIans
of Mrs. Josephine Griffin.

In the death of Mrs. Josephine Griffin
at the county Jail in South Bend. the po-
lice have a murder mystery to solve to
which they have as yet no clew. The
woman. in an unconscious condition. and
with her body covered with bruises. was
thrown from buggy in front of the coun-
ty infrmary Sunday. Immediately the
driver whipped up his horse and escap-
ed. No trace of him or of the rig has
been found. despite the fact that the pc
lice have been working on the case for
neacly week. When the woman rallied
she was insane and unable to give the aa-
thorities any information regarding her
relatives or her home. The only state
ment she made was as to her name
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05

The first hanging in that county for
more than twenty years took place in In
diana, Pa, Tuesday, and owing to the
breaking of the rope the operation had to
be repeated. The victim of the law was
Carmine Reno, aged 45 years and weigh
ing 115 pounds. The crime which Reno
expiated was the murder of his sweet
heart, Marian Bearno, aged 10, at her
home in Ernest, two years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-05
Quick Act Saves Aeronart.

Earl Hess, boy aeronaut, escaped death
seemingly by a miracle when his big
Knabenshue balloon burst 400 feet in the
air and he was precipitated to the ground
at Greenville, Ohio. The aeronaut con-
trived to twist the balloon in such shape
that it formed a parachute.