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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
cot many judgments. Here are some

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got many judgments. Here are some
of the cases and amounts:
United States Judge Thomas j..
Morgan of Baltimore, 100000.
Chief Judge James Mcsherry II the
Maryland Court of Appeals, $4,000.
Gen. l.. Victor Baughman, formerly
State Comptroller OF Maryland, sl1s.-
2S4.
The Fidelity and Deposit Company
OF acknowledgements Edwin War,
field of Maryland, president-s13,OOO.
Adams Express Company, sl417.-
1854.
Frederick county. Maryland. 81
415,034.
In his suit against Judge Morris of
the United States District Court Wag-
ner alleged that In refusing to Pturn
, certain valuable papers involving a
Large amount of money, the jude be.
came indebted, to him In the, sun OF
100000. No other explanation was
made, 30 far as Ii known Bome
years ago, however, certain legal pro.
tceedings of Wagner were before Judge
Morris for review. In rendering his
decision the eminent jufist wB ex.
ceedlngly severe upon the chront liti-
1 CANT, q
The allegations brought b! him
against the Adams Express Company
I, were usually, 1t is said, overchrges
on packages or that the Company dc.
( manded additional payment on | pre-.
paid package. 81 ;s5e 81
A suit against Otto Shank of Fred.
/ erick county, Maryland, Is Typical of
several hundred directed again& his
: one-time neighbors. The charge was
that Shank had closed drain, here
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
ss4,5ss.24 against IS defendants.

984,53s.24 against 65 defendants. 4, ! z
81 Then he sued Governor WaFfield's
Company. and one day the Governor
was surprised to find that judgments
to the amount of, 100000 had been en-,
tered against him In the Virginia jur-
isdiction.
The Governor the Adams Express
Companyand othor defendants formed
an organization for mutual protection
equity and brought the matter before
Judge Williams, at Clint1ood. The
Judge, when the case was explained.
granted the pleas of the visiting law
yers and set aside judgments to the
amount of $2,827,839. Other defend.
ants, 1t seems, have not yet had their
cases reviewed by Judge Williams.
Capt., Washington Bowie, attorney
for Governor arfield,i who made The
trip TO Clintwood with other lawyers,
said he was Ignorant of the nature Of
Wagners claims against; the Cover
nors Fidelity and Deposit Company,
and remarked :: sWagner's idea OF OBJ.
tanning Judgments In another. State
than the one In which the defendants
lived, and then attempting to collect
them through the United States Court
Is the most remarkable circumstance
of the kind in the history of the
worlds jurisprudence &
All the Nerdicts given on the suits
entered In Virginia were eby default,Y
the defendants not appearing to guard
their. interests. s.. g2tlg.
1T Is asserted bygmany de endants'
|, that they were never summoned and
knew nothing of the suits until mott.
fled of the findings of the Virginia
court or magistrate So far as known
Wagner has never profited financially
through his sweeping litigation.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
by damaging Wagner's property. The
smuont he claimed was $4,000. rs

by damaging Wagner's property. The
smuont he claimed was $4,000
In. Wagner's garrett in Washington,
after his arrest in 1906 on a charge
Of forging the seal OF the State OF
Maryland, were found two trunks full
Of Judgments against various PEOPLE
and corporations. The papers were
packed in SO closely that they weigh
ed nearly 500 pounds
Until few years ago this lover of
legal contention lived In Frederick
county, Maryland. and his residence
there was characterized by hundreds
Of legal battles.
His first troubles, 1t Is asserted,
grew out OF feeling engendered by the
Civil War. He was Unionist, and
always wore a chip on his shoulder,
being ever ready to wrangle with his
neighbors, many of whom were sym
pathizers with the ,Confederacy.
Before leaving Frederick county
Wagner; had secured T91 judgments
against various parties. Every one of
these was set aside by Judge Miller
Of. the Circuit Court as fast as they
came before him, M
Several years, ago the. noted It'll
CANT Disappeared from & Frederick
county, ard was heard OF In Dickin-
son county, Virginia. 81
To, reach the county seat OF Dick
fnson a two-day journey on horseback
from the nearest railway station and
over the toughest country that lies
In the Blue Ridge mountains is ne
cessary.t Here Wagner Instituted 500
Express Company, and was given full
Judgment on each.
He kept the legal mill grinding. In
! all, he obtained Judgments for ST.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
WORLDS CHAMPION LlrleAnr

Harrison Wagner Sued Anyone And
Everyone for Everything. iti
Harrison Wagner the aged habitnal
srer. who has Just been convicted or
perjury In Washington Criminal
Court, was the worlds champion lit.
igant. Aside from the case at bar.
he instituted Thousands OF suite and
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-02
No Need Of II.

! Would you like to attend a lect,
On the line arts?" 4 s5
mo" answered Mr.. Cumrt
mother and the girls can make mt
at home free Of charge" -Washi
ton Star. III q
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
F.rmer. to- Fight Grain Truat.

Open war has broken out between the
so-called grain trust and the farmers Of
the Middle West. The farmers say they
have paid 100000 year tribute to the
grain trust. and have been organizing, UNI
til now cooperative elevators are in or
Grafton all ever Iowa and are 0e;ng ex-
tended into Minnesota and Nebraska.
Their organization possesses $4,000
600 reserve fund. while back of the trust
sands the wealth of the Armours and
other millionaire capitalists. The CO OPP
erative elevators will get all of the grain
of their own members, but, in order TO
win, must also get some " the grain
from outsiders, thus crippling the trust.
There are now 40 farmers cooperative
societies in Iowa alone, with total men,
bership of $4,000, operating go elevators.
Also, the merchants of the Northwest
are organizing cooperative association
to combat the mail order houses, the mer-
chants so organized agreeing to advertise
under one management, in order 20 lessen
the expense and secure an expert man
ager. This movement is of great econoEl-
ic Importance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
WINS HIS LONG FIGHT
JOHN DIETZ VICTOR OVER lUM-
Der COMPANY.
After Audacious Conflict with
Federal and State Authoritfes-

The famous Dietz dam dispute has been
settled. and the millions of feet of logs
that have been held up by the intrepid de-
PENDANT of Cameron dam on the Thorn
apple river. near Winter, Wis, will be
moved at once. The trouble arose over
a dispute as to the title to a tract of
land covering the Cameron dam of the
Thornapple river. Both the Chippewa
Log and Boom Company and John Dietz
claimed title to the land, and Dietz de-
Tended the property against all corners.
Three different sheriffs failed to capture
Dietz. who has gained national fame for
his bold act in defying the authorities
The settlement was made between Mr.
Dietz's brother and w. l.. Moses of Chip
pewa Falls. The latter took the contract
to move the logs that have been tied up
by Dietz for over two years down the
river to the Chippewa Log and Boom
Company's ,sawmill at Chippewa Falls
for a consideration of $4,000. 1t is
claimed that of this sum he gave Dietz
$4,000 for permission to drive the logs
through Dietz's dam on the Thornapple
river.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
1E4z GAEsg2;2EzlERS
@ZR:I 600

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy. $4.6O
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $5.65; wheat, No. 2, 96c to 9Sc
corn. No. 2, Gle to 63c; oats, standard,
53c to Ole; rye, No. 2, Soc to 90c; hay.
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, PIC
to 27c: eggs. fresh, 1Sc to pic; potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to Coo.
polis-Cattle, shipping $500
to $6.S5; hogs, choice neavy, $500 10
S6.40: sheep, common TO prime. S3.OO
TO S4.75; wheat, No. ., 9Gc to 92c; corn,
No. white, Gle to SIC; oats. NJ. 2
white, 49c to SOC.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Csc to $1.00; corn,
No. 2, Coo to Gle; oats, No. =, 47c to
4Sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to SEC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to S5.75
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, Coo to &C; oats, No.
mixed, sic to 52c; rye, No. 2, SSc to 9Oc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $475
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn, No.
yellow, roc to lie; oats, No. 3 white,
Sic to 52c; rye, No. 2, SAC to Soc.
Observation-Disclosures, No. 2 northern,
S1.O4 to $1.O6; corn, No. 3, Gle to 62c
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. /,
soc to Ole; barley, standard, Ole to 92c
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $685. hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1928; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $S.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $6.45
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, S1.O5 to $1.O6 {;
corn, No. 2, 74c to Toe; oats, natural
white, sec to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 25c
to &c; eggs, western, lie to 22c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 94c to
96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 65c to &c
oats, No. mixed, Sic to 53c; rye, No.
2, SEC to SIC; clover seed, prime, $1,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
WHY American Marriages Fail.

Again a woman is finding fault with
American wives and complaining of the
failure of American marriages. This time
it Is Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic
Monthly, who says that 'the excessive
education and excessive physical coddling
of young women" and their devotion to
physical culture and sports, has evolved
a hybrid feminine who is cross between
a magnified, rather unmannerly boy and
a spoiled, exacting creature who sincerely
loves herself alone. Thus, explains this
sociologist, "a slipshod, unchivalrous COM
partnership" has grown up between the
sexes which after marriage is found to
be "a cause for tears or temper" One
contributory cause, she says, is the exist
ence of 2,9.1 courts empowered to grant
diyorceS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

4 summary of the report just sent to
the printer by the United States Bureau
of Labor, of which Charles Z. Neill is
the head, covering the year 1906, shows
that the prices of food were generally
higher during every month of that year
than in the corresponding month Of 1905.
The price in December was S-10ths per
cent higher than the average for the year
1906, and the year as whole showed a
higher average than any since 1890, the
period covered by the bureaus inyestiga-
ton. The increase of last year applied
unequally to twenty-five of the thirty ar
ticles showing the greatest advance were
lard, evaporated apples, pork, bacon, ham,
fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices
of food were 29-10ths per cent higher
than in the previous year.
The report deals also with the question
of wages for manual workers, and gives
figures showing that the advance in wages
per hour over the preceding year was
greater than the advance in the reral
prices of food. That is to say, the pur
chasing power of an hours wages as
measured by food was greater last year
tHdn the year DelOTt- ne liCletsc III
this purchasing power was i 4-10ths per
cent. As compared with the ten years
average from 1890 to 1899. the wages per
hour were "a 2-1Oths per cent higher, and
the number of employees AZ 9-10ths per
cent greater, and the average hours of
labor a week Cloths per cent lower. In
the principal manufacturing industries of
the country the average wages were
5-1Oths per cent higher than in 1905.
The greatest increase was in the manu-
facture of cotton goods, where the wages
were IL 2-10ths per cent higher, anu in
only one industry, that of paper and
wood pulp, was there a decrease, namely
l 1-1Oth per CEN.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
From Far and Near.

A thousand dock laborers are on strike
at Galveston, Texas. Traffic on the
Southern Pacific is tied up.
Miss Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa,
was killed and four other persons were
injured in an automobile accident in
Pittsburg.
William A. Culp, aged "a, awaiting
trial for the death of his brother, Floyd
c. Culp, last July at Turtle Greek, Pa,
committed suicide in the county Jail at
Pittsburg by hanging himself. using his
suspenders as a rope.
DIR. Longstaffe, who is mountaineering
i'm the Himalayas with two guides and a
Gmkha officer has reached the summit
of Trisul, %, 400 feet. This is the record
foc the Himalayas.
More persons crossed the Atlantic ocean
from this side during the first six months
of the present year than during any other
similar period There were 81 600 steer
age passengers in that time.
The latest figures available, those for
June, show that the gross earnings of
railroads operating over $4,000 miles
amounted in that month to $50 ,056,350,
the gain over June, 1906, being $780,
4o3. or 13.4 per cent
Where the trouble is physical such as
failure of an organ, Indigestion, cOnges-
ton or the liver and so on, strong, firm,
martial music will give best results, ac-
eording to DIR. Latson, editor of Health
Culture. For this class of trea tment the
key of G major is particularly recon-
mended.
Germany's war i'm southwest Africa has
cost S5O,OO0000. which has been spent
overcoming the resistance of one or two
native tribes. Eighty-six commissioned
officers were killed and the non-commis-
stoned officers numbered 229; rank and
file, 1,167; total, 1,4S2. Among the colo
rial troops 10 officers and 1875 men yer
ished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Notes Of Current Eventa.

A Hindoo prince is a candidate for the
football team at Cornell.
Hetty Green's son has become lead
ing oil operator in Texas and proposes to
be known hereafter as E. III. r. Green.
The Morning Sun of Cambridge, Ohio,
William j. Bryan will make a speech
making tour of New York under the aus
pices of the Progressive Democratic
League.
started last June by Senator Foraker to
advocate his policies, has been forced to
suspend.
Fire in the Parker block in New Ha-
ven, Conn.,. caused loss of 100000. The
fire was started by rats getting into a
case of matches.
An attack on the Roman Catholic
church made by l.. ]. King, a street
preacher, in st. Louis, led to a riot in
which several persons were injured.
Rev. William B. King, on trial before
the East Ohio Methodist Episcopal con-
ference charged with lying, defamation
of character and chewing tobacco, was
found guilty on the second count and pub
lcly reprimanded by the bishop.
Four of the fifty workmen at the pipe
works at WASHINGTON. Pa, who are said
to have initiated" Henry Perry when he
obtained a place at the works by swing
ing him over furnace, were arrested.
Perry, though badly burned, may recover.
Attorney Woodward, for North Caro-
lima. made the charge in the rate hearing
in Washington that the Southern railway
"a h. Of nfat tv.
600 year for lobbying at Raleigh The
court ordered that the State be given &C
cess 10 the company's books.
Since last December there has been an
average fall of prices of stocks equal to
over SO a share in the case of railroad
shares and of $27 in the case of industrial
shares. Apply this to the entire capital
ization of stocks and bonds of the rail-
road and industrial corporations of the
country, and the apparent depreciation
in prices amounts to about FIVE billions of
dollars.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
New Life-Restoring Apparatus.

r. c. Hall, writing in the August Tech
meal World Magazine. asserts that Prof.
George Poe of South Norfolk, Va, is able
to restore life to apparently dead animals,
his treatment being based upon the we'll
known method of forcing oxygen into the
lungs. For this purpose he has devised
an artificial respirator, modelled in all
respects after nature. 1t embraces two
small cylinders, each having an inlet and
an outlet, with which plungers work sim
ultaneously, and from which tubes are
conducted to the nostrils or mouth of the
patient. One cylinder is supplied with
oxygen, and the outlet of the other dis
charges directly into the atmosphere. The
plungers are worked by hand and timed
according to normal respiration. Thus in
one movement noxious gases from the
lungs are drawn into one cylinder, while
the next movement forces oxygen from
the other cylinder into the lungs. This
device has been patented and will soon be
upon the market.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

DIR. Edw. Giasco is dead and his young
wife, though slightly wounded in the
breast, following a mysterious shooting
on lonely road between Brazil and Terre
Haute, was placed under arrest DIR.
Giasco had brought suit for divorce,
and his wife, with her attorney.
drove to Terre Haute Thursday to see
him and try to reach an agreement as to
alimony. After talking the matter over,
DIR. Giasco started to drive his wife back
to Brazil. They had gone but a short
distance when revolver shots were heard.
Farmers found the woman wounded and
the man dead. Mrs. Giasco declared her
husband had attempted to shoot her and
then killed himself At the coroner's in
vestigation three bullet holes were found
in the dead mans head, either one of
which would have caused death. Mrs.
Giasco is a beautiful woman and a men,
Der of a prominent family The case
threatens to divide the entire town.
During a violent wind storm the wall
of a new six-story building under con-
struction in Fort Wayne was blown
down and Otto Schultz, an ironworker,
was killed. The dead man leaves widow
and four children. Much damage was
done in the city
Zolton Balanyi, Hammond high
school student, has organized a school
of seventy-five pupils among the Hun
garian workmen of the Standard Steel
Car plant. The school meets twice
week i'm a store room near the plant. The
youth, who speaks the language of his
pupils, is instructing them in English.
Henry Bundy, 50. owner of the famous
Bundy maidstone, died at lis home in New
Castle. He had treated hundreds of cases
of hydrophobia with the maidstone, which
he inherited from his father.
Orvil Teeters, a 15-year-old boy. was
taken to indianapolis from Kempton,
where it was discovered that horse the
bos- had in possession bad been stolen
| from Roy Ray of the firm of Ray & Co.
of the Union Stockyards i'm Indiana polls
The boy confessed the theft. mad told
Sheriff Clay that he had found the horse
hitched on the street. and had driven to
Kempton, where the outfit was sold for
500.
peyerette of South Bend, serving term
for the Richland. Mich. bank robbery
| in the Marquette prison picked up a
piece of glass and cut of his left hand.
| This fact came out in an investigation
now being conducted at Marquette for the
| purpose of learning the truth of the al
| legged cruelties practiced in the prison.
According to Peverette he could no long
| er stand the abuse. and when he was
| told to prepare himself for another beat
| ing he replied that he would cut off one
of his hands before he would submit TO
| further i'll treatment. Jeered at by the
keeper, he promptly carried his threat
( into execution.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26

The City of Butte, Mont, for six weeks
has been withoutra telephone service on
account of a sympathy strike of opera
tors and linemen for some striking line
men in Utah. The courts have sustained
mandamus writs against the Rocky Noun
tain BeIl Telephone Company to compel
it to operate its lines, but SO far as Butte
is concerned the company has made no
effort to resume service. The telegraphic
strike almost completely isolated the city
from the outside world. The strike of
the mail clerks several months ago left
the postoffice service in a badly crippled
condition, mail delivery being almost as
uncertain as the telegraph. In addition
to these troubles the strike of the machin.
lists, who went out about a month ago to
enforce a demand for increased pay, is
gradually closing down the mines.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
AT PANAMA.
Work Progressing on the Big Dam
and Other Main Eeatures


The work on the locks and dams at
Panama has taken such shape that il
is now possible TO see something of
their form. 1t is believed that the
menced at the Gatun locks within eight
cen months. Four steam shovels are
now digging out the sites for the locks,
and construction can be begun after the
is completed. Two steam shovels are
preparing the site for the erection of
the spillway works of the Gatun dam
Railroad trestles are being erected
across the line that will mark the in
side and outside boundaries of the big
dam, and from one of these dirt trains
are now dumping dirt upon the site of
the dam.
Preparatory TO the installation Of
pipeline dredges, by which more rapid
work on the dam will be possible, the
Charges River has been diverted from
its main channel and damned. The
January 1, when the work at Gatun
will be as actively in progress as that
at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for
the big masonry locks have been To-
Gated, and. what is equally interesting
to the engineers, material for the man.
ufacture of all the necessary cement
has been located on the Isthmus. 1t is
hoped, however, that cement can be
secured for such a price in the United
States as to make it more advisable to
procure the needed supply there in
stead of manufacturing it on the 18TH
mus.
The general features, designs and de-
tails of the Gatun and other locks have
been worked out, together with the
general type and number Of lock gates
to be used. The survey of all the coun-
try to be converted into the great Ga
tun lake has been completed and fin
ished reports show that the area will
be Ill square miles.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
MARINE WRECKS ARE FEW.
Not a Disastrous One Has Occurred
On Great Lakes in 1907


Marine men on the Great Lakes are
this season congratulating themselves and
hoping that the remarkable record, with
regard to wrecks, will continue to the
close. But at the same time they quietly
whisper, one to the other, Beware the
ides of November" for Nov. % has not
yet arrived. Upon that fateful Nov. Is,
1905, the most extensive and costly series
of wrecks in the history of marine naviga-
ton in the world occurred on Lake SUI
perior, when nineteen great freighters,
nearly all modern steel craft owned by
the United States Steel Corporation, was
wrecked, causing the loss of numerous
lives and in cash a loss of S3.3io.OOO,
S4,625,OOO of which was on hulls, and the
remainder on cargoes. 1t is with shud-
der that marine men recall the lake dis
asters of Sept. /, Oct. 20 and Nov. y,
1905. In three storms upon those dates
116 persons were lost out of q total of
124 for that entire season. This ire
mendous loss of life on the lakes IN one
season is better understood when the fol-
lowing records are given In 1895 the list
of lost on the lakes was but &c; in 1897,
So; in 1898, %; in 1893, an even 100;
in 1900, 10; in 1901, 122: in 1902. 14O;
in 1903, "a, and in 1904, 40; and then
came the unprecedented total of 30 lives
lost, the following season. of which num-
Der 124 were drowned or killed in storms.
Marine men are hoping for the best this
season, as thus far there has not been
serious loss on the lakes. Not vessel of
Importance on the great lakes has this sea-
son gone out of existence. During the
fateful season of 1905 a total of seventy
nine vessels went out of existence. In
view of the immense amount of salvage.
which goes down with every wrecked YES
sci, it is regarded as strange that there is
only a percentage of wrecked vessels that
are even touched by wreckers. In case of
the tremendous loss of nineteen modern
steel freighters on Lake Superior. in 1903,
all but the Lafayette and MADEIRA were
overhauled for salvage during the follow
inc caoSon