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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

The city council of Spandau, in Brand
enburg, Prussia. has inaugurated move
ment to raise $1,625,0O0 as a national
gift for Count Zeppelin.
Advices have been received at IN,
American embassy in ST. Petersburg thai
Ambassador Riddle is making good i'm
provement under the treatment at Kis
lovodsk, whittier he went to recuperati
from the effects Of his recent illness.
Capt. Lumsden, who commanded tn,
British cruiser Gladiator at the time silt
was lost in collision with q liner, hal
been found guilty of default in not com
plying with the rules of navigation, ant
has been dismissed from the service
The insular constabulary band, of Ma
Mia, is going to Australia as the guest Of
that government, to participate in the re
ceptions of the American fleet. The Phil
ippine authorities donate the service Of
the band and Australia pays the ex
penses.
The presidential election in Panams
went off smoothly, the result being tn,
choice of Senior Abaldia, candidate Of
the opposition to the government, unan
imously. The supporters of the govern
ment remained away from the polls. Tn,
electors are to meet Aug. /, and theil
decision will be certified Aug. Is in adj
vance of the meeting of the Nationa
Assembly on Sept /.
In a desperate battle between Mexican
troops and Papago Indians at the Imacu
lada ranch, near Cetrocolo, a mining
camp in the Altar district Of Sonora
nineteen Indians and two soldiers were
killed and five soldiers were wounded
At the Quebec celebration the Prince oil
Wales proved himself worthy represent
ative of King Edward, appearing at ths
various functions as field marshal, ar
admiral and as q plain English gentle
man. The military pageant on the plains
Of Abraham was the greatest ever seer
in Canada.
At Frankfort.on-the-Ma seven Ameri
can turner's gained sufficient number OF
points in the all around athletics of the
international tournament to entitle then
to figure in the prize list. The events
consisted of both apparatus and 6eld
work, lou points being the maximum
number possible to obtain.
Thomas l.. Moffat, the American con
sui at La Guayra, Venezuela. has re-
turned to this country on account of the
bubonic plague. which has isolated that
port from TIE rest of the world. The gun.
boat Paducah came within five miles OF
the harbor and the consul rowed himself
out to this means of escape.
The Central American Court of Justice
at Carriage, Costa Rica, has taken steps
to prevent the continuance of the revolu.
ton i'm Honduras or its spread to other
countries by acting on the complaint OF
President Davila of Honduras that Sal
vador and Guatemala have violated the
terms of the treaty. The court has or
dered that the Salvadorean troops sta
toned near the Honduran border be with.
drawn, and commanded President Cab
rera of Guatemala to prevent his people
from entering the territory of Honduras
In the meantime the life of the movement
has been knocked out by the defeat of the
revolutionists in two engagements north
and south.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

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Among the many causes to which was
attributed the business depression which
first manifested itself in March, 1907,
ard which reached its climax in the panic
OF October, was the high level of prices
to which practically all commodities had
been forced
Financiers, manufacturers and mer-
chants were almost unit in declaring
that prices must come down But we are
recovering from the depression and, with
few exceptions, prices remain at their
greatest altitude.
The most recent report of the Depart
ment of Labor and Commerce. covering
the movements of wholesale prices for the
past eighteen years, including 1907.
shows that in spite of the financial and
market depressions coincident with the
last six months of 1907 prices Of commodi-
ties save in few departments, such as
lumber, fuel and metal materials, were
higher at the close of the year than at its
opening and that the average price of all
commodities showed decrease of only a
little over / point for the period, the ac-
tual decline being from 1879 to 1864
The report shows that wholesale prices.
considering the 25S commodities as
whole, reached higher level in 1907 than
at any other time during the 1S-year
period covered. The average for the year
1907 was 81 per cent higher than for
1906; "A per cent higher than for 1897,
the year of lowest prices during the 49,
year period, and 29.5 per cent higher than
the average for the 10 years from 1890
to 1890. Prices reached their highest
point during the 1S-year period in Oc-
tober, 1907, the average for that month
being IL per cent higher than the aver
age for the year 1907 and % per cent
higher than the average for December
1906, the month OF highest prices in
1906.
OF the 25S articles for which whole
sale prices were obtained, 112 showed an
increase in the average price for 1907
as compared with 1906, 81 showed no
change in the average price for the year,
and 81 showed decrease in price.
When the commodities are considered
by groups. all of the nine groups showed
an increase in price in 1907 as compared
with 1906. For farm products taken as a
whole this increase was greatest, name
ly 1913 per cent; for food. 4.6 per cent !;
for cloths and clothing, Sc per cent; for
fuel and lighting, "a per cent; for metals
and implements, 81 per cent; for lumber
and building materials, 40 per cent; for
drugs and chemicals, S.3 per cent; for
house furnishing goods, 6.S per cent, and
for the miscellaneous group. ; per cent
Utica Globe
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
ARTIFICIAL LEGS SAVE A LIFE.
Make It Possible for Wearer to Free
Man from Electric Wire.

Harry Pinkerton, a police alarm oper-
ator in Pittsburg. was able to save
fellow mans life because he is a cripple,
having two artificial legs. AS Pinkerton
was walking along a street on the north
side, he saw William Wilson writing in
agony at the end of trolley line feed
wire, carrying 1900 volts, that had been
broken from its moorings. Wilson could
not let go Of the dangling wire he had
picked up. Pinkerton hurried to Wilson,
caught him around the waist and jerked
him away from the wire. Pinkerton's
cork and wooden legs being a nonconduc-
tor, the current could not reach the
ground through his body.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

Every form of theatrical amusement
and every kind of playhouse in the United
States has been brought under huge
combination of interests by means oi
what is known as ''gentlemen's agree
ment'' made at New York recently in the
Offices of Klaw & Erlanger. The ostensi
bic object was TO discuss the bettermen'
of conditions and harmonious co-opera
ton. and committee was appointed te
draw up plan. Even Belasco and Fish
were gobbed in this agreement through
the presence of Lee Shubert. 1t is In
effect a union or organization of the man
aoprs
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Te1egraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Emil ghtenment
of the Many.
Baron Sternburq Dead.

Baron Speck Won Sternburg, the
German ambassador to the United
States, died in the Hotel Victoria in
Heidelberg, Germany. The baroness,
who was Miss Lillian May Langham,
of Louisville, Ky, was with her hus-
band at the end The baron and the
baroness came from Hamburg the end
of last month to consult with Prof.
Vincenz Czerny, skin specialist. con-
corning malady from which the am
bassador had been suffering for some
time. After a prolonged examination
of the diseased part on the left side Of
Baron Won Sternburg's head Prof.
Szerny affirmed that the trouble was
not cancer, but lupus, and he could
cure it. Both the ambassador and his
wife were immensely cheered at this
opinion. Baron Won Sternburg is de-
scribed as having felt that his long
agony was nearly over and that soon
he would be a well man again. His
wife also shared that hope. Baron
Won Sternburg left New York for Ger
many on May 16 last.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Steers Eat Dynamite.

Oscar Huff, living near Bremen, Ind,
lost two val able steers last week in
an unusual manner. His cattle were
grazing in a field where Mr.. Huff was
blasting stumps. While he was absent
the steers ate quantity of the dyna-
mite. When driving them In at even
ing Mr. HUFF threw a stone at the herd.
The missile struck one of the steers
that had eaten of the dynamite and the
shock exploded the stuff in the ami
malls stomach and the steer was blown
into smithereens. The crash of the ex.
plosion Jared the other steer and 1t,
too. blew up" The shots were heard
distinctly for several miles.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The county commissioners of Blue
Earth county, Mimi, have voted 70 have
the county pay half the cost of repairing
bridges. roads and culyerts damaged by
the recent floods. The cost is estimated
at $4,000.
A company is being organized in Bos-
ton to operate aeropanes or diriglble bal
looms between Boston and New York
According to the present plans the first
experiments will be made with small diri-
gibles, with a carrying capacity of two
passengers in addition to the operator.
The Commercial Association of Walker,
Mimi, has purchased ninety acres of land
on the lake to provide suitable sites for
factories. \ five-acre tract has already
been cleared and graded for a box factory,
which will be erected this summer, and
negotiations are now under way for a
$1,000 boat factory.
The cooperative store. run at Harvard
for the benefit of the students, reports
sales for the fiscal year amounting to
100000 and the payment OF a dividend
of 9 per cent to the members. Similar
stores on the cooperative plan at Yale,
Cornell. Princeton and other coileges gre
also in prosperous condition.
AS a result of disagreement between
tho local branch of the international
brotherhood of Paperhangers and Night
Foreman Coyle oe the Rhinelander Paper
Company. machines Nos. and at
Rhinelander, Wis. are shut down, it is
thought for an indefinite length of time.
Ten million feet of logs are on their
way down Red Lake river and Crooks
ton is promised the opening of the
Crookston Lumber Company's big mill
again, VIII ieh has been closed in the saw
irg department this year. Three million
feet of this drive is destined for the
Crookston mil. and a few more millions
will be on their way later to add to this
trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Schools Must Be Safe.

The Attorney Generals Office in Co
lumbus, Ohio, rendered an important
opinion to the inspector Of workshops and
factories in regard to boards of educa-
ton which fail to equip school buildings
with fire escapes and to make other
changes which are ordered for the safety
of the children. The opinion says that
it is the duty of the mayor of the city
to resist all attempts of the boards of
education to open the buildings until all
changes ordered have been made
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
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Jack Leyburn helped the Michiganders
christen their new Detroit track by trot-
ting mile in 2:OiA in the Blue Rib
bon event
Nancy Hanks, the famous trotting
mare, has foaled a bay colt by Todd at
Hamburg place, John Z. Madden's farm,
lear Lexington, Ky.
Manager Egan of the Burlington base
,all club has been in Davenport inQuiring
INTO the prospects for purchasing the
Davenport baseball park.
At Pekin, ILL.,, Justo, in the 3-year-old
rot. went the first mile in 2:13H, the
fastest this year for 3-year-old trotter.
The quarters were made in 0:34la
:O7h, 1 Al, 2:13H.
At Brighton Beach ETHEREAL ran 51a
,urlongs in :O6, equaling the time made
~ Brookdale Nymph and Royal Vane for
he distance. Half Sovereign won the
handicap at elk furlongs from a good field
n the fast time of 1 IL %.
The records Of the Fargo track, all the
rack records of North Dakota and the
,alf-mle track record forsthe entire Unit
ID States so far this season were broken
oy Lady Maud c., owned by Walter
Palmer of Ottawa, ILL.,, when she made a
nile in 2 :OS1a.
The six-round bout between BILLY"
Papks, the western mddleweight, and
Sailor Burke of New York, which was
set for the Coliseum Athletic Club in
New York, did not take place owing to
police interference A number of per-
sons had gathered to see tho fight.
In the Winnipeg rowing regatta, the
Minnesota Boat Club crews of St. Paul,
won six out of nine events. They were
First in senior tours. in junior Fights, in
junior singles, in senior singles, in junior
feurs, in Junior doubles, second in senior
Fights. in bantam tours and in senior
doubles.
Although Hayes, The American, won
he great Marathon race in the Olympic
games. Dorando. the rlucky Italian who
might possibly have won had the British
officials not tried to assist him. is the
nero. Queen Alexandra presented him
with a silver cup and the American atli-
ctes will present him with a gold medal.
In the Y. NJ. G.. A. relay race from
Sew FORK to Chicago boys ranging in
lge from IL to 20 years carried the silver
ube containing Mayor McClellan's mes
age 1000 miles in 119 hours and 81 min
ties. In some places the boys made as
high as 20 miles an hour.
Owen Moran, the United Kingdom
lightweight champion, who recently whip
ped Seaman Hayes, arrived in New York.
After l beat Abe Attell at Colma, Cal, !"
said Moran, II want a 60 with Battling
Nelson" Moran fights Attell at 122
pounds four hours before the fight, and
ne offers to take on Nelan ct 1873 pounds
singside.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
SORROW KILLS MAN IN JAIL.
Pittsburger on Spree Locked in
Prison Under False Name.

Robert Shankey, bookkeeper of the
north side, Pittsburg, Pa, died of brok-
en- heart in the county Jail in that city.
Shankey had been sent TO Jail to sober
up after a spree Friday night, and was
committed under an assumed name by adj
vice of friends. He did not want his rel
atives TO know where he had gone, so he
didn't send any word. A friend who was
to tell Sankey's folks he had been sent
out of town on business forgot to do so,
and when his father succumbed search
of the city for the son proved of no avail.
Not until just before the body of his par
ent was laid away was young Shankey
found. When told it was too late to get
to the funeral the prisoner sank to the
floor, crying, "My heart will break" Be-
fore the jailer could unlock the door
Shankey expired.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Sent UP for Five Years.

Five years Imprisonment in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, was
the sentence pronounced by Judge Gar
land of the United States court in Sioux
Falls. s. d.. in the case of George ID.
Horras, former cashier of the Hot
Springs National Bank, which closed last
fall. Horras pleaded guilty to making
false reports. embezzling $4,000, and
other irregularities.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Millionaire's Wife a Suicide.

Mrs. y, Snellenberg, wife of n. Smell
lenberg. The millionaire department store
proprietor of Philadelphia, committed
suicide at the Oaks home in Denver by
eating strychnine tablets which had been
prescribed for her as medicine. Mrs.
Snellenberg was afflicted with consump-
ton and it is believed her illness pro-
duced melanchoIia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Six Children Burn TO Daath

Six children are dead and two others
are burned so seriously that recovery is
doubtful as the result of fire at the ii.
W. Schultz ranch, between Colfax and
Palouse, Wash. Four of the dead chill
dren were those of Schultz and two were
those of w. W. Fox, brother-in-law.
The men were away harvesting and the
mothers were attending theatrical per-
formance
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

Cooks, pastry cooks and chefs Of Great
err New York, to the number of 800 and
upward, have formed local union of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees Inter
national Alliance. The 5000 and odd
cooks of Greater New York work from
fourteen to sixteen hours day in the fall
and winter time, but during the summer
there is little or no employment to speak
Of
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
LOST WOMAN FOUND IN ASYLUM.
kidnapping Declared Used to Aid in
Imprisoning Sane Wife.

Through letter from former inmate
of an insane asylum on Long Island, rela-
tives who were nonplussed by the disap-
pearance two months ago of Mrs. Lottie
Long have discovered that she is detained
there. In an application for writ of
habeas corpus made by her brother,
Charles A. Flay, it is charged that Mrs.
Long kidnapped from her home on
the night of June l. drugged with NOR
phine and carried in a blanket from her
bed to an automobile, in which she was
taken, struggling to regain her liberty,
to the asylum. Mrs. Long is 81 years
of age and the wife of William Long gen.
eral agent of the American Express Com
pany, Brooklyn. Flay said: Il am posi-
tive that my sister is sane. She told
me that her husband offered her several
months ago $15 week if she would agree
10 a separation. She refused
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Stork Calls on Beveridge.

A son has been born to Senator and
Mrs. Albert ]. Beverage of Indiana, who
are stopping in Manchester, Mass, .for
the summer. Mrs. Beveridge, who was
Miss Catherine Eddy before her marriage.
is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
N. Eddy of Chicago and niece of Mar
shall Field
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Paper Trust Strike On.

The employees of the International Pa
per Company. or trust, which operates
mills in many places, were ordered out
recently as a protest against the reduc-
ton of the wages of some of the men,
bers of the union Most of the 10000
workmen responded, and the mills were
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Lake Eric Crane Crop Large,

Reports from points throughout the
Lake Erie grape belt indicate that this
years crop will be exceptionally large and
the best in quality gathered for number
of years. The harvest will be early and
good prices are promised, a number of
contracts at $50 a ton having already
been closed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Seize Jewelry for Customs.

Jewelry estimated to be worth 81, 800
was seized by the customs authorities in
New York from j. Thomson, retired gen.
tleman" of Chicago. on the pier of the
Hamburg American line in Hoboken, just
after the Deutschland had discharged her
passengers. Thomson had declared per-
sonal property to tn Salue of $50. A
watch and a diamou6 brooch were dis
covered by treasury aeent in his pocket.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Auto Dashes Over Embankment.

One man was killed and two were
injured. one probably fatally, when a
speeding automobile dashed over an
embankment in Delaware Park. near
Buffalo, n. Y, and into an abandoned
stone quarry. James Wayland, a
chauffeur, was instantly killed; John
Wakefield was fatally injured, and
James Morrison was seriously hurt.
The automobile was reduced to splin-
tiers. The men were running over the
parkways at high speed and dashed
over the quarry brink at turn in the
road.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Circus Train in Wreck.

Eight men employed by the Barnum
& Bailey circus were severely injured,
two probably fatally, when spreading
rails caused four menagerie cars to leave
the tracks of the Great Northern at Bel
lingham, Wash. The seriously injured
are w. G. Wheaton of Rochester. ~ Y.
and Andrew Melane of Mount Vernon.
Wash
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Troops Leave Springfield.

The withdrawal of troops from Spring
field, ILL.,, has been continued and the civil
authorities are now left responsible for
maintaining the peace. Negroes are
panic-stricken, fearing a renewal of the
rioting. Private Klein of Chicago has
been sent to Kankakee, guarded by a
company of militia, to face a murder
charge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Glass from Mans Forehead.

Theodore Norman of Avon-by-the-S Sea,
n. ". removed piece of glass three
quarters of an inch in length from his
forehead which. unknown to him, had
been imbedded there ever since he fell
downstairs with a bottle in his hand
twenty-six years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Physician Commits Suicide.

Rufus ID. Whitehead, a physician of
Elizabeth, N. j., committed suicide in his
room at q hotel in Portland, Me-, by
shooting himself through the mouth with
a revolver. 1t is believed he was tempo
rarily insane from overwork.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
MAY BE A JAPANESE SPY.
Mystery in Detention of Subject Of
Mikado at Pittsburg.

Sam Flu, japanese, was lodged in Jail
in Pittsburg, charged with trespassing on
railroad property. He is held in default
of bail. 1t is intimated that the tres
pass charge is made merely to hold Flu
pending investigation of a suspicion that
as a representative of the japanese gov
eminent he has been after the secrets of
the manufacture of projectiles at the
plant of the .Firth-Sterling Steel Com
pany, near McKeesport. When arrested
he is said to have told the railroad detec-
tive he was employed at that plant.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
GETS CONSUMPTION; SUES BOSS.
Blames Employer in Whose Factory
He Contracted Disease

Liability for causing the contracting
Of case of tuberculosis is charged in a
$4,000 damage suit filed in Louisville by
Richard Devine against the operator of a
rug factory. So far as the local courts
are concerned this is novelty in damage
litigation. The plaintiff says that in the
course of the defen dant's business he col
lected old carpets and worked them up
into rugs and that in this process no anti
septic treatment was given the carpets
for the purpose of destroying the disease
germs contained in them. 1t is averred
that the plaintiff can never recover.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

Gov. Conner of Alabama has ordered
two regiments into camp in the mining
section around Birmingham. following the
lynching Of a negro striker. Will Millcn.
accused of dynamiting the home of g
strike breaker.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Mexican Bullet Kills American.

Consul Maxwell r. Moorhead, at AGA
pulco, Mexico, has notified the State De-
partment of the death of Grant U. Price
of Winona, Mimi, from a gun shot in
ficted by a Mexican named Manuel Sa-
luda at Pie de la Custa, near Acapulco.
The Mexican authorities are making eff
forts to capture Saluda.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Another Kentucky Feud.

The dark and bloody ground had an
ether drenching with human blood in ths,
town of Layman, when a family feud be-
tween the Taylor and Blanton families
broke into open battle over the counting
of votes for school trustee. Before the
smoke had cleared away two men and one
woman were killed and six persons dam
gerously wounded with gunshots or knife
fhrusts
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
Seven Thousand Homeless.

The fire which ragged in the SIAM
boul quarter of Constantinople. Tur-
key, has been extinguished. The houses
in the quarter were mostly built of
wood and proved easy prey for the
flames carried by the high wind. 1t is
estimated that more than 1000 build
ings were destroyed. A number of fire.
men and women and children are re-
ported to have been burned to death
The homeless probably number seven
thousand
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27

The Lackawanna railway was on the
serge of a general tie-up owing to the
proposed strike of the switchmen. The
nnion of the latter voted to go ont unless
two men discharged at Buffalo were rein
stated. The company had refused TO re
.cde. saying that in day they could get
more than enough men to take the places
IF the strikers from the ranks of the un-
,rnnlnyetf