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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
RELIEF TRAIN BURNED
AND MANY DIE IN FIRE
Refugees from Metz, Mich, Arc
Trapped by Forest Fires and
Score Perish.
FIFTEEN SKELETONS FOUND.
Engineer and Fireman Have Thrill
ing Escape After Seeking Safety
in Vain in Water Tank.

Nearly O score of men, women and
children, refugees from the Michigan
forest fires that have destroyed seven
towns and have caused property losses
estimated at several million dollars,
were burned to death in a relief train
wreck Friday. The train, consisting Of
box cars, after leaving the town of Metz
in the upper peninsula, struck burn
ed out culvert and left the track The
passengers were trapped on all sides
by the flames and cremated In q fiery
furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons
were found In the burned wreck.
The forest fires above Apena, in
PresQue Isle county, suddenly become
threatening Thursday, after it was be-
lieved that the heavy rains early in the
month had extinguished them. They
spread rapidly and soon were menacing
number Of towns along the line of the
Detroit and Mackinac Railroad The
village Of Metz, with about 100 inhab-
itants, lay in the path of :he flames.
Its situation became dangerous Thurs
day night.
Relief Train OF Box Cars.
The railroad sent In q relief train of
box cars. Household goods and
mercantile stocks were loaded on some
Of the cars and the people filed the
others. How many were taken aboard
is not known, nor is 1t known whether
any Of the farmers from outlying
points had come into Metz seeking
refuge from the flames.
With its load Of frightened men, wo-
men and children the train pulled out
Of Metz about midnight and started
for the north, with flames along the
tracks on both Sides The cars pro-
ceeded toward the north as far rs
Hawks station, about halfway be-
tween Metz and Millersburg. There
the fire was sweeping across the track
so fiercely as to make further progress
in that direction impossible and the
train was headed back toward the
south for Alpena. While rushing
through the fire and smoke the engine
struck culvert which had been burn.
ed. 1t left the rails and fell into the
ditch.
Engineer Foster and Fireman Lee
took refuge in water tank, where they
stayed until the water became SO hot
that they had to leave the tank and
run for their lives. They, with Con
ductor Kinville, realizing that the
train was hopelessly ditched and thai
to remain with it meant certain death
started to Posen. They left the wreck
and escaped by crawling along the
tracks on their hands and knees, with
the forests on both sides roaring fur.
naces. Conductor Kinville is reported
to be blind from his burns, but Foster
and Lee are understood to be not
severely Injured. There are reports
that several others escaped with the
trainmen. George Boston, travelling
salesman, was on the derailed rescue
train, but succeeded in reaching Posen,
where he arrived badly burned. He
says that one car of the train was
filled with men, women and children
and that probably about twenty must
have persisted in the fire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
DG4z ElEAA(22Ey&%ERS
e@5: 5000

Ohicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$4O0 to $7.60; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $6.O7; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 99c To- $1.OO;
corn, No. 2, 7Sc to Zoe; oats, standard,
47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, Tic to 72c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to S11.O0; butter, choice creamery, 23c
to DE; eggs, fresh, zoe to 24c; potatoes,
per bushel, 52c to 6Oc.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1913; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to 1928; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to 1910; wheat, No. 2, $1.O0 to
$1.01 corn, No. 2 white, &c to nc; oats,
No. white, 4Sc to Ace.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $50; hogs,
$4OO to 5000; sheep, $500 to $435 !;
wheat, No. ., $1O2 to $1.O4; corn, No .,
Toe to 76c; oats, No. =, 47c to 4Sc; rye,
No. ., 7Jc to &c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $5.25 !;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. 2, $1.O5 to S1.06; corn,
No. mixed, Tic to zoe; oats, No. =
mixed, soc to ole; rye, No. 2, SOC to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50 !;
wheat, No. 2, S101 to STOP; corn, No.
yellow, soc to Sic; oats, No. 3 white,
zoe to Sic; rye, No. 2, TIC to 7Sc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$1.O2 to $1.O4; corn, No. 3, lie to 7Sc !;
oats, standard, 51c to SIC; rye, No. 1,
75c to 76c; barley, No. 1, 65c to Gee !;
pork, mess, $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $6.4O;
hogs, $3.50 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. red, $1.OS to $1O9 !;
corn, No. 2, 7Sc to roe; oats, natural
white, SIC to SIC: butter, creamery, Doc
to 27c; eggs, western, PIC to 26c.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $6.4O; hogs, fair to choice, $4.O0
to S6.15; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $40.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, $1.01 to
$103; corn, No. 2 mixed, Tic TO ISc ;
oats. No. 2 mixed, SOC to 51c; rye, No.
., nc to roe; clover seed, October, $o.O2.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

A course in mental healing will form
part of the curriculum at Tufts college,
at Boston, Mass, this year.
The Michigan Federation of Labor
went on record in favor of woman suf-
frage and against prohibition.
Two persons were killed and three prob
ably fatally hurt when an auto loaped
an embankment at Ashland, Pa.
The list of dead in the collision at
Young's Point has now reached twenty
one and the injured are placed at nine.
The cutting mill of the williamsport
(Pa.) nail works was destroyed by fire,
involving a loss of $4,000 to 100000.
About 80 men are thrown out of work.
Specifications inviting bids for dredging
Pearl harbor, Hawaii, where the United
States is TO establish an important naval
station at an estimated cost of S2,500,-
600, have been issued at Washington,
D..
After a police search extending to ell
parts of the United States and Europe
Dr. George Morton of New York was ar
rested in Philadelphia on the charge OF
obtaining 100000 by means of fraudu-
lent notes.
The exploding of tire on an automo.
bile containing six persons, near Mount
Eden, CAL, overturned the car and al
of the occupants were injured, but none
fatally.
Three men lost their lives on the To
ronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway wher
a burning trestle gave way, precipitatine
a freight train into the dry bed OF q
stream.
An attempt to kill Joseph Canister,
grocer at Reading, Pa, and his family by
exploding dynamite under his home wa.
made the other day, the members of the
family being thrown out of bed, but no
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Military School Burns.

The Nebraska Military Academy, To-
Gated three miles west of Lincoln, was
destroy ed by fire. The school was es-
tablished by B. ID. Hayward and the
building erected for the Western Nor
NAL College was equipped for the ven
ture. The fire started ir the northwest
wing over the kitchen. The loss is es-
timated at 100000 with $4,000 in
surance. Sixty-five boys were enrolled
and these were taken from the build
ing in safety.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
TANK CAR EXPLOSION HURTS g.
Many Others Hurled Down a TWEEN
ty-Foct Embankment.

Six persons were burned severely at
Amherst, Ohio, late the other night when
tank car filled with gasoline exploded
following a wreck on tie Lake Shore
road. The injured are: Fire Chief John
Einwachter, Sebastian Stolz, Herman
Kahl, a fireman; a. ]. Hamel. fireman !;
William Hagen, a high school student,
and William Kuss. Fifty persons were
hurled down twenty-foot embankment
beside the tracks. The tank car was in
the center of the west-bound freight train
and the two cars Immediately behind it
were telescoped. The persons who were
injured by the explosion had gathered to
see the firemen extingu;sh the blaze, which
caught from the hot box.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
NUBBINS OF NEWS.

Representatives of the coal miners of
Washington and the coal operators met
recently and signed an agreement for the
present wage scale to be in force for the
next two years.
President Roosevelt has told Israel
Zangwill, the playwright, who was his
guest at luncheon, that the line, mot be-
ing American, we hold our troth sacred" "
In The Melting Pot" was an unjust slur
upon American domestic life and suggest
ed that it be changed, which suggestion
Zangwill is considering.
p. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, w. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making spu-
rious nickels, which were used to work
slot machines.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of
Grand Duke Sergius, who was assassinat-
ed az Moscow in 1905, has retired to a
Russian convent near Moscow. She may
decide to take the veil.
At a reception in the Lyric Theater,
| New York, under the auspices of the
United Irish League, John Z. Redmond
and Joseph Devlin, the Irish ENJOYS, were
given a rousirg reception by large au-
| dience.
A gift of 100000 to Tufts college un'
der the provisions of the Braker will, re-
Gently probated in New York, was an
nounced to Tufts students at Medford
Mass. The money is to be used as a
foundation for a school of finance and &C
counts.
| D. M. Carr, an advocate Of parcels.
post legislation, in an address before the
| National Rural Letter Carriers Associa'
ton at Omaha, Neb., urged the passage
of the Burnham congressional bill, which
he contended, would make the rural post
al service self-sustaining. He said one
cent postage, If it should become effect
i've, would entail loss of millions OF dol
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
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the News y

Looks like Bill is going to be elected.

LOOKS IKE Bill is going TO be elected.
Open season for political broadsides.
The most popular college this year il
the electoral college.
The habit of burning letters ought TO be
taught in the schools.
That DIR. Rustin of Omaha must have
been a cheerful citizen.
China has decided not to let France
slide down its cellar door.
+ No campaign is really hot until the
election judges begin to fight.
That is an ominous shadow which the
cholera is casting over Manila.
Business is beginning to pick up. Look
at the ready letter-writer industry.
Lots of people can see political rain
bows without going up in airships.
Nobody's being kept awake by the
noise of the campaign contributions.
Airship trips by moonlight. For re-
served seats apply to Wright brothers.
The American feet is experiencing all
sorts of novelties, including a typhoon.
The poor little tuberculosis germ will
now have time TO take a little needed rest.
This country's Eecord-breaking pump
kin crop ought to make pie lovers laugh.
The new Chinese minister-elect, Chung
Men Yew, has name like midnight cat.
If the freak styles in hats keeps on,
next thing we will have a mems millinery
store.
Things seem to indicate that we are
now living in the United States of Stand
ard Oil.
Is giving $1,000 automobiles to ac-
fresses pastime among needy Wall street
brokers?
Bulgaria thought she might as well take
slice of freedom while it was going
around.
Who would have believed that the ma
chinery of politics had been so completely
oiled up?
Not in it now unless you have either a
new cure for consumption or a Standard
Oil letter.
The case of Thaw shows that even in
Jail the bill collector will get you il you
don't watch out.
An automobilist who is not fined now
and then considers that lie might as well
not have machine.
| This warning against collecting cam.
paign money sounds like grim joke to
the committee treasurers.
Hunting bears in automobiles in Vel
lowstone Park. Now it's up to the Presi
dent to hunt African lions in an airship
There are III, 404 paupers in London
not to speak of the 1 ,264, 407 other peopl,
who conceal the fact that they haven
any money.
Landslides are great things-unless yor
happen to be caught under the landslide
Looks like good business with tn,
Wrights selling so aeroplanes at one time
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
BIB FRIENDLY, URGES JAPAN.
Mikado Says He Wants to Be on
Good Terms with Every Nation.

The japanese Official Gazette publishes
an imperial rescript in which the Emper-
or says: 'The East and the West are de-
pendent upon one another for the promo
ton of their mutual welfare, and on this
account we should endeavor to cultivate
the friendship of other nations. In this
We shall be acting in accordance with the
sacred traditions of our forefathers and
our glorious national history" The ign
perial rescript became public property be-
cause of an addess made by Premier Kat
sura before the prefectural governors. The
premier outlined the governments econom-
ic policy and emphasized its determine
ton to reduce unproductive expenditures.
The fact that the foreign relations of
Japan were increasingly cordial with all
the nations, he declared, would be an in
ccntive to the administration to remove
every possible cause of friction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
TRAMP THRAsHED BY A WOMAN.
Knight of Road Becomes a Badly
Whipped Person.

Mrs. John Snyder of Riverside, Pa,
who weighs 2I5 pounds, busted the road
side with a tramp who had insulted her
When she was through with him the
knight of the road was a pitiable sight
The tramp went to the Snyder farm house
and after being given something to eat
discovered Mrs. Snyder was alone and
insulted her. Mrs. Snyder knocked him
down, picked him up again, ran him to the
road, held him with one hand, and beat
him with the other. Neighbors, hearing
the tramp's shrieks, ran to Mrs. Snyder's
aid. They wanted to lynch the man, but
she insisted the punishment she had given
was severe enough.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22

Using a more powerful motor and pro-
peller than formerly, Wilbur Wright made
new record flight at lie Mans, France,
when his aeroplane carried himself and a
reporter for the Paris Figaro through the
air at high speed for ifty-fve minutes and
thirty-two seconds, the latter part of the
flight being after dark had settled down
over the field. The speed with passenger
was 37.S7 miles an hour. Lazare Weller,
the Paris inancier and promoter of in
vention, has ordered the construction of
a flock Of Wright aeroplanes, and all
Franco is rejoicing at the prospect of TAX
ing the lead of other nations in this new
industry and possible means of defense.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Kept Vow Never to Work.

Sol" James A. Murray, one of the
city's most peculiar characters, died at
the branch hospital in Cincinnati at the
age of % years. Twenty years ago Muir
ray was the leader of a plumbers strike
and took VOW never to perform another
lick of work if the union was not sue
cessful. The union lost and Murray, who
up to that time had been an Industrious
and frugal workman, kept his VOW, living
off his wits and the indulgence of his rela-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
U. s. IMPORTS LESS oPIUI.
Government Figures Show Decrease
Though Total Reaches 81 $50, 600.

That the opium traffic in this country
is on the decline is indicated by figures
compiled by the bureau of statistics in
Washington. This shows that opium inn
ports decreased $2J0,OOO in 1908, as COM
pared to the previous year. Thus far this
year the Chinese empire has supplied this
country with $1,322691 worth of opium,
while from elsewhere the opium imports
amount to si4,O12
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Heavy Snow in Colorado.

A storm, accompanied by rain, which
changed frequently to snow, has pre-
vailed throughout northeastern Colora-
do for several days. In sections of the
mountains heavy snow has fallen. Con-
siderable damage was done to electric
wires and telephone and telegraph
wires are seriously affected. Railroad
and interurban electric lines have been
interrupted and at places completely
blocked. Several accidents and at
least one death have resulted from
persons coming in contact with broken
electric wires.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
More officers Under Civil Service.

Many Washington government Offices
are brought into the classified executive
service under an executive order signed
Friday and announced the other day. They
include employees in the five civilized
tribes commission, 112 in all; persons
connected with logging operations of the
general land Office, clerks in the bureau
of education, employees connected with the
Indian service and scattered employees in
other departments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22

Mrs. Armar ID. Saunderson, formerly
Miss Anne NJ. Archbold, daughter of John
ID. Archbold, has presented to tie Amer
lean Museum of Natural History in New
York mounted specimens of the rare
bongo of the antelope family, and of the
forest or giant pig, which she obtained
from natives in Eldamo ravine, British
East Africa, these being the first speci-
mems of both animals ever brought to this
country.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Jocko Briggs Gets Two Years.

"Jocko"' Briggs who escaped being
hanged in Chicago five years ago for the
murder of Hans Peterson by the narrow
est of margins, is in Jail in Cleveland,
Ohio, and will be taken to the Ohio peni-
tertiary to serve two years sentence for
pocket-picking. Briggs was tried under
the name of Joseph King and admitted
his identity only after he had been con-
yicted
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
40 Students Poisoned.

About 40 of the students and teachers
of the South Lancaster Academy at South
Lancaster, Mass, are suffering from pto-
maine poisoning, believed to have resulted
from eating canned corn. During the
whole of one night practically all the doc
tors in Lancaster and Clinton were kept
busy. No sessions of school were held
the next day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Injunction Keeps Rates I'm.

The st. Louis and San Francisco rail-
road has filed 3-cent per mile passen-
ger rate tariff with the Arkansas railroad
commission. The other main lines of Ar
kansas will file similar tariffs. The re-
establishment Of the 3-cent rate results
from the granting-of a temporary injunc-
ton to the trunk lines of Arkansas
against the enforcement of a 2-cent rate
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Car Goes 100 Miles an Hour.

In an effort to capture the worlds rec
ord for speed in an automobile Washing
ton A. Roebling, second son of Charles
G. Roebling of Trenton. N. j., tried out
on a private track his new 140-horse-
power racing automobile, designed to de-
velop a speed of no miles an hour under
ideal conditions of track. 1t is under
stood that the morning test showed 12O
miles an hour easy of accomplishment,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Man 100000 Year, AGO.

Prof. Peuck of Berlin is coming to New
York soon to lecture on the interesting
anthropological discovery in a wonderful
cave at Saints, Switzerland. In it DR..
Bachler has unearthed numerous remains
of colony of bears, with quantity of
human bones of the prepaleolithic period.
1t is held that the men lived in the cave
and ate the bears, which had been hunted
and killed. Prof. Peuck claims to have
proved the life represented in these re-
mains must have had its being in the in
terglacial time or before the last glacial
modification of the Alps. That would
make the time about 100000 years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
100 Periled in Mine Fire.

Fire in one of the galleries of the Koe-
nigsbrube coal mine near Koenigshuette
Prussia, fmperiled 100 men at work, and
it was thought for a while that they
would be lost. They escaped through an
adjoining shaft. Twenty-three men in an
other gallery were brought out uncon-
scious. Twenty were revived, but three
stfcctimbed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Baird Guilty of Land Fraud.

The federal court jury in Omaha. in
the case of Frederick $. Baird of Chi
cago, charged with attempting to defraud
the government out of public lands in
Dawes county, Nebraska, by fictitious en-
tries. has returned a verdict of guilty on
six counts. Baird is the head of the Chi
cago Ranch Company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Roosevelt Signs Contract.

President Roosevelt has signed a
contract with the Outlook to act as an
associate editor after his retirement
from the presidency on March next
This is made subject to the existing
contract to write the story of his Afri-
can travels for Charles Scribner's
Sons. His work in connection with the
Outlook is to cover political and
economic topics
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Immense Cathedral Begun

An era Of extensive church building in
st. Louis eliminated Sunday in the lay
ing by Bishop Faleonio of the corner
stone of the new Catholic Cathedral,
which when completed will cost more than
100000, and in the dedication Of the
Second Baptist Church at Kings High
way and Mcpherson avenue, which has
Just been completed at cost of S250OO0.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22

Ever since the passage of the pure
food law, manufacturers have COM
planned of the injustice of denying
them the use Of the small amount Of
preservatives necessary to keep certain
kinds Of food products from fermenta-
ton or other form of deterioration.
Professor Wiley of the Bureau OF
Chemistry in the Department of Agri-
culture has appointed pure food COM
mittee, to represent the different States
having pure food laws. the object Of
which will be to harmonic the State
laws with the laws of the government.
The COMMITTEE will also. without doubt,
define what is a safe amount of preser-
vative TO be used. 1t is said that there
has been an increase of ptomain-poi-
soning since the pure food law went
into effect, but perhaps the statement,
like some of the food products. can
best be taken with a grain of sailor
of boracic acid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22

The great white plague costs the peo-
pie of the United States over billion
dollars each year. This statement was
made by Prof. Irving Fisher Of Yale
before one of the sections of the tuber-
culosis congress. He estimates that
consumption kills $4,000 every year in
the United States. This is equal to the
deaths from-typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, appendicitis. meningitis,
diabetes, smallpox and cancer all put
together. Then again, it generally takes
three years to die, during which time
the poor victim can earn little or moth
ing. Finally the scourge picks out its
victims when they are young men and
young women, at the very time they are
beginning to earn money The mini
mum cost of su IN items as doctors bills,
medicines, nursing and loss of earnings
before death amounts to over 81 400 in
each case, while tie earning power
which might have been," IL death had
not come, brings the total cost to at
least $1,000 If this is multiplied by
the 13S,OOO deaths, we find the cost is
bigger than the almost incalculable sum
of $1,000 100000. Prof Fisher esti-
| mates that over half Of this cost gener-
ally falls. ON the luckless victim him.
self, but the cost to others is over $440,-
100000 a year. As a matter Of self
defense it would be worth while to the
community, he shows, i'm order 10 save
merely a quarter of the lives now lost
by consumption, to invest $5.500,000,0 CO.,
At present only fraction Of per cent
of this money is being used to fight the
disease. Five million people now liv-
ing in the United States are doomed TO
fill consumptiyes' graves unless some
thing is done to prevent il. AS each
death means anxiety and grief for a
| whole family. he estimated that there
will be over 20.0O0,O00 persons rendered
| miserable by these deaths