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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
THIS AND THAT.

Wyoming was admitted to the Union
July il, 1890.
Men in New York City smoIe 1,104,-
900 cigars each day.
A sea anemone has been known to
live for fifty years.
London uses $4,000 tons of sugar an
nually for jam making.
The primrose and lily-of- the-valley
will stand the shade of trees better
than most other flowers.
1t is generally asserted that in Nor
way every bride must exhibit a certifi-
cate that she knows how to cook.
No bird can fly backward. The drag
on fly, besides outstripping the swift
est bird, flies backward with ease.
New York City burns 10000 tons of
coal a year to pump water into the pub
lie reservoirs in Brooklyn, Queens and
Richmond boroughs.
DIR. Hans Richter, the famous mu-
steal conductor, is a thorough believer
IN comfort III dress ana not lnfrequent-
ly sets fashion at defiance.
A blue garden, every plant bearing
blue flowers, has been laid out at South
Lytchett manor, DOrsetshire, England,
the residence of Sir Elliott Lees.
While cattle are plentiful in Brazil,
and pasturage costs hardly anything.
butter in Rio Janeiro averages about
twice in cost what ii does In the United
States.
In Massachusetts the illegal sale OF
street railway transfers is made pun
ishable by fine not exceeding $50 or
Imprisonment for not more than thirty
days.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
JEWELS WORTH $4,000 STOLEN.
Systematic Robbery of New York
Diamond House Is Discovered.

An investigation which followed the
discovery that a diamond sunburst was
missing from the wareroors of Oliver Nj.
Ferrand. Maiden Lane diamond i'm
porter, in New York, has disclosed what
may prove TO be one of the biggest rob-
berries in the diamond district. Already,
it is said. jewels valued at $4,000 are
known to have disappeared and the inven-
tory of stock has not yet been completed.
1t has been disclosed, also, that the rob
berries probably had been going on for
years and it seems possible that when the
inquiry has been completed the total will
be far in excess of the amount now
known to be involved. While the investi-
CATION has been in progress Mr.. Ferrand
has been endeavoring to find one of his
oldest and most trusted employees, who
has been away from the city for several
months.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
OF BULGARIA
PROCLAIMED BY PRINCE
Ferdinand, Supported by Cabinet,
Takes Action at Tirnovo,
Ancient Capital.
THE NATIONS ARE MEDIATORS.
Powers Will Try to Prevent War
Over Balkan Trouble, and
Diplomats Confer.

Bulgaria, a tributary principality
under the suzerainty of the Sultan of
Turkey, Monday proclaimed its indie
pendence of Turkey. This action was
taken at TirnovO by Prince Ferdinand,
who was elected Prince of Bulgaria in
1887. The Bulgarian cabinet was with
the prince, having met him ut the from
tier and journeyed with him to Tirnovo.
Tirnovo is the ancient capital Of the
Kingdom of Bulgaria, and it was there
in the old days that the kings were
crowned.
Turkey is not inclined toward war
with Bulgaria, and London advices say
that she will likely call conference
Of the powers to consider Bulgaria's
proclamation of independence Indica-
tons from the other capitals are that
the powers will intervene to prevent
hostilities in the near East. France has
decided to act as mediator for the pur-
pose of preventing war. and Great Brit
ain also has made mediatory proposals
to the governments of Turkey and Bull
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

In Norman county, Mimi, wheat has
been threshing out 20 bushels to the acre.
Barley and fax are exceptionally good.
The State land department of South
Dakota has made the first Offering of
State lands in the old Fort Sully mill
tary reservation, which was practically
all taken by the State at the time it was
thrown open TO settlement.
While the South Dakota State veteri-
marian and the government authorities
are watching the anthrax situation in the
counties of the southeastern part of the
State, the Governors Office is yet receiv-
ing complaints in regard to the situation.
and demanding something more in the
way of stamping the. disease out All
such complaints are turned over to the
officials who have the situation in charge
for investigation. From reports the indi-
cations are that the situation in that part
of the State is of serious nature, and
will require careful handling to get the
disease stamped out.
The Red river valley is being invaded
by representatives of seed houses in the
Southwest who are after the potatoes
grown in this section to use for seed POI
tatoes through Kansas, Missouri, Okla
homa and Texas.
Following out his declaration of i'm
munity to any one defending lives or
property against night riders, Gov. Will
son of Kentucky granted pardons to Wal
ter Duncan, who was convicted of shoot
ing and killing Newt Hazlett at Jackson
vile, Shelby county. in June, and Riley
Harold, who was indicted as an acces-
sorry to the murder.
Night riders are organizing in North
eastern Arkansas, for the purpose of re-
ducing the cotton acreage for next year,
and compelling the holding of this years
crop for the minimum price set by the
International Farmers Union convention
which met at Fort Worth recently.
The eighty grain elevators and ware
houses owned by the Minneapolis and
Northern Elevator Company, one of the
concerns controlled by the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Milling Company, which
passed recently into the hands of receiv-
ers will be leased, for the next eleven
months to Charles A. Amsden of Mime
apois, the highest bidder.
Renewed activity is being shown by the
Northern Pacific in locating and securing
for itself land to which it is entitled, ac-
cording to the grants made by the gov
eminent at the time the charter was is
sued and at later dates. Employees of
the road are visiting the various govern
ment land offices and looking up vacant
land lying in the vicinity of their line,
with view to securing it for their road.
Officials claim that at best the roads
grant will be 100000 acres short.
The National Farmers Union, at its
convention held at Fort Worth, Texas, re-
elected the officers who served during the
past year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

Gov. Hanly appeared before the House
Tuesday afternoon and in excited tones,
at times trembling with emotion, read a
special message demanding that the at
tempted bribery charge made against him
by Representative Knisely be investigat-
ed. His request was granted. a commit
tee was appointed and the inquiry is I'M
der way. Knisely made an affidavit in
which he charged that Senator Wickwire
had offered him a position worth $1,000
a year. and that when Knisely demanded
authority for the offer he said Wickwire
took him to the Office of the Governor,
where the latter confirmed it, declaring
that lit was the opportunity of his life"
When the message had been read a mo-
ton was carried that a committee be APP
pointed. Speaker Branch named Condo
and Daily as the Republicans and Honan
and Pierson as the Democrats. Gov. Han
", Representative Knisely and Senator
Wickwire all appeared before the commit
tee.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Oldest Lodge of Masons.

Ceremonies which are to N rk the
acknowledgements anniver-
sary of the founding of st. Johns
Lodge, A. F. and NJ, of Boston, Mass,
the oldest lodge of Masons in the coun-
try, are in progress. Nearly four
thousand Masons crowded fremont
Temple for the opening religious SER
vices. In the gathering were fourteen
grand masters, representing the thir-
teen original States and Maine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
PENSION INCREASE S1s,664,821.
Loss of 1884 Person from Roll,
but Amount L Largest Ever

DuI A1nOunl LARGEST Ever.
The report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year ending on
June 80 last, shows that during the
year there were 34,333 deaths among
civil war veterans who were on the
pension roll. This falling off was equal
to about > per cent of the total, and
left 62S,0S4 survivors on the roll The
number of deaths was 3.1S2 greater
than during the previous year.
The total number of pensioners at
the end of the year was 951 .6S7. Dur
ing the year 54,356 pensioners of all
classes were dropped and 3S,6S2 added,
making a net loss of 54,6S4. The state
ment also shows that 1SS,445 widows
of soldiers already have taken advan-
tage of the law of the last session of
congress increasing to So month the
pensions to widows.
The actual expenditure for the year
on account of pensions was S153,093,
0S6, but on account of the law increas-
ing the rate to individual pensioners
the annual value of the roll at the
close of the year was $3.50, 495, I01, an
increase of $1S,644.S21 over the previ-
Gus year. The expenditure was the
largest in the history of the bureau.
The total number of applications for
pensions of all kinds pending at the
close of the year was 123,5S3, against
356,1S1 at the beginning Of the year
There are now only a little more than
one-third as many claims pending as
being adjudicated as rapidly as the
evidence necessary to determine their
merits is furnished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
BIG DRY VICTORY IN OHIO.
Twelve Counties in Tenth District
Vote Doom to Saloons.

Twelve Ohio counties voted Tuesday
under the Rose law, and all went dry"
by majorities ranging from a few hun
dred up to more than 1000. The number
of saloons affected is $50. Most of the
counties which voted are largely agricul-
tural, but Scioto and Lawrence counties
have a large urban population in Ports
mouth and Ironton, respectively. Alto
gether sixteen of the lightweight counties
in the State have had local option cleo
tons and all have gone dry" The total
number of saloons voted out is 800. The
counties that went dry" and the number
of saloons affected are: Gallia, 10; Jack
son. Al; Lawrence. %: Pike, o; Scioto.
Go: Adams. 3: Athens, IL: Vinton, 4 !;
Hooking; %; Van Vert, %; Nobel. Z;
Guernsey, 80.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
CHICAGO.

Business activity responds promptly 10
the stimulus of seasonable weather. and.
with the passing of the drought through
out the agricultural regions, blowing and
seeding are vigorously advanced. A bet
ter tone develops in money, employment
of funds has increased and recently bank
statements testify to an abundance of re-
sources for the normal requirements of
commerce.
Distributive trade shows further recov-
cry, lower temperatures helping the gen.
eral demand for necessaries, and there is
strong absorption of apparel, food products
and house furnishings.
Forwardings of staple merchandise COM
pare favorably with this time last year,
and jobbers' house and mail orders remain
of fair aggregate in dry goods, footwear,
hats and caps, woolens and suits.
Mercantile collections in the interior
are fairly prompt, and an increasing num-
Der of country merchants take the best
discounts on current purchases
Money is seen to be circulating more
freely among the farming classes. and
there is less drain of currency shipments
to move crops than year ago, although
marketings thus far have been liberal.
Manufacturing moves steadily forward,
more machinery and hands being active,
and there is notable decline in the num-
Der of idle cars.
Movements of raw materials to some
extent exceed those at this time last lear.
while values mainly hold firm. The alb
sorption of forest products steadily i'm
proves, and yard stocks being lower than
usual, it is easier to obtain better prices
for some varieties.
The total movement of grain at this
Fort, 9.J0S, 1919 bushels, compares with
1O,2S3,315 bushels last week and i, $780,
OBJ bushels year ago. Compared with
1907, there are decreases in receipts of
36.4 per cent and in shipments of 4S9 per
cent.
Bank clearngs, S2a6, 493, 03O. are 1873
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81 against % last week and
% year ago. Those with liabilities over
5000 number 6, against last week and
4 in 1907.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
>QZIS &MZS
gPSSSR

Fred Beel, the wrestler, has bought an
eighty-acre farm near Colby, Wis, and
will wrangle with the stumps hereafter.
NJ. ii. Griffin of Joliet, ILL.,, who won
second place in the discus throw in the
Olympic games in London, will enter Be
lott college this year.
Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight.
krocked out Frank Carsey of Chicago in
the fourth round before the Pacific Ath-
letic Club at Los Angeles.
Manchester college this year has forty
husky candidates for the football team,
and Carlisle has thirty-fve. The smaller
colleges ought to put up some good games
this fall.
At Nashua, \. H., Charles l. Van Zant,
for several years prominent baseball
player and n member of the Albany club
of the New York State League, commit
ted suicide at his home by shooting.
Mighty Roseben has probably run his
last race. AT least that is what Dave
Johnson and Trainer Weir said after the
Big Train had been badly beaten in the
Flight stakes at Sheepshead Bay. 1t
Roseben's defeat.
With a notable field of eleven horses,
including Geers' Teasel, Spanish Queen,
Acquin and Dewitt, it took five heats
and some sensational racing TO decide the
big race at the New York State fair,
the Empire State stakes of $4,000 for
2:14 trotters.
Magoffin, the new football coach of the
North Dakota agricultural college, has ar
rived. He is from the Michigan univer-
sity, where he was a star on the team for
some time and favorite protcge of Coach
Yost. This will be Magoffin's first effort
at coaching and he has a hard task to fill
the shoes of Gilmore Dobie.
President O'Brien of the American As
ISOLATION suspended Catcher James Block
of the Minneapolis club for three days
for delaying tie game By refusing to leave
the field promptly when ordered to do so
by the umpire.
The feature of the 2 :O4 pacing event
for the $4,000 Hamline purse at the Min
nesota fair was the rivalry between Cita-
ton and Lady Maud G. for first honors.
nt UOlStS ildu Litt at tWO pftNlOuS ldtc
meets this year, and each one of them
had captured a race, so that this was to
be the deciding event. Citation won two
heats and the race. Lady Maud captured
the other. Time, = 90, = :0419, = :0412.
The withdrawal from amateur athletic
ranks of John j. Hayes, winner of the
Marathon race at the Olympic games in
London recently, is announced in letter
written by Hayes resigning his member
ship in the Amateur Athletic Association.
The second day of the Great Western
fall meet at Peoria, Ill, was filled with
interest, Tommy Swift, heavily backed in
the 3-year-old pace, after winning the
first heat in the remarkable time of
2 :0o%, the fastest heat in this class ct
The year, broke in the second heat and
was distanced. Katherine Direct and
Earl Jr. fought the race out between
themselves, the former winning through
the superior craftsmanship of Mcmahon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
NEW HAVEN LINE HAS DEFICIT.
Pays Dividend of 8 Per Cent and Is
Short S2.516. 500.

The annual report of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad shows
startling deficit of $2,516,692 for the
year after paying a dividend of per
cent. This is made even more spectacular
by the statement that seven months of
the year ending July 1, 1908. show a
deficit of $4,O05,41S. AS the first fi7e
months of the year showed an increase
of 81 ,453. ESQ, the total decrease is brought
down to about S2,JOO,OOO. President
Mellen says fatty: THE public have yield
ed, although most unwillingly. TO a moder-
ate reduction in service facilities. The
employees have been, reduced in numbers,
but not in their rate of compensation.
The officials have had a cut in salaries,
but the great items that enter into the
cost of conducting the affairs of a public
service corporation are still at the highest
mark of the most prosperous times of re-
cent years, and unless labor and those con-
trolling the price of materials share the
necessary liquidation it is inevitable the
price of transportation must advance in
order that reasonable return be had
upon the money invested
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

1519-Cortex entered the Indian city of
Tlasca.
1o35-Cartier left his ship and proceeded
up the st. Lawrence in boats.
1638-De Vries sailed from Holland on
his third expedition to America.
1671-Mediators between the coionists
and the Indians met at Plymouth.
16S9-Count Frontenac arrived in Can
ada to reassume the government of
the province.
1693-The British army adopted the
ring bayonet.
lI37--The Hebrews disfranchised by a
vote of the New York Legislature.
1776-Congress appointed benjamin
Franklin. Silas Dean and Thomas
Jefferson commissioners to the court
OF France The new constitution
OF Pennsylvania was formally pro-
claimed.
lt.9-Paul Jones with the Bon Homme
Richard captured the British frigate
Scraps.
11So-Americans under Gen. Marion at
tackled party Of Tories at Black
Mingo.
11S9-Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts,
became Postmaster General of the
United States.
lSO3-First Catholic church in Boston,
Mass. dedicated.
1S13-Americans defeated the British in
battle of Lake Ontario.
1S15-First daily paper printed at Al
bany, n. Y.
1S2S-A monument was unveiled in
Charlestown, Mass, to the memory
of John Harvard.
1s39-Treaty between France and Texas
signed at Paris.
1S50-A Boston merchant paid $626 for
the choice of seats for the first per-
Torrance of Jenny Lind in that city.
1S04-A reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Canada signed by
the governor general. {. United States
sloop Albany sailed from Aspinwall
and was never more heard Of.
1S55-The corner stone of the Masonic
Temple was laid in Philadelphia.
1S62-Gen. Nelson shot by Gen. JEFF c.
Davis at Louisville.
1S63-Confederate troops attacked Gen.
Burnside at Knoxville.
1S64-Union troops victorious in a con-
fict with the Confederate forces at
Athens, Ala.
1S65-The Bank of Concord, Mass,
robbed of 100000.
1S6S-Gov. Warmouth's veto of the
negro equity bill was sustained in the
Louisiana House. :. Gen. Mcclellan
welcomed in New York upon his re-
turn from Europe.
1S70-President Grant paid a visit to
Boston.
1SS9-The judicial system OF the United
States established by act of Congress.
1S9G-A strike began on the Canadian
Pacific railway.
1S99-Naval parade in New York har-
Dor in honor of Admiral Dewey.
1902--A 100000 fire in Stockton, Cal.
1904--Earl Grey was appointed governor
general of Canada.
19O5-Robert Bacon resigned as director
OF the steel trust to become first
Assistant Secretary of State. :. (. Dis
astrous fire in the business section of
Butte, Mont. =. Highest court in
Canada denied the appeal of Greene
and Gaynor against extradition.
1906-Race riots continued in Atlanta !:
two negroes lynched. :. Mayor Nc
Clellan of New York, announced that
he would support William II. Hearst
for Governor
19O7--Cuban agitators were arrested
near Havana.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Ohio Counties Vote Out Saloons.

Perry county. Ohio, by a majority
of 1,O27, voted to Danish saloons, of which
there are fifty-six within its boundaries.
This is one of the important coal mining
counties. Brown county, on the Ohio
river, also voted out the saloons by a
majority of 6S2 There are twenty-three
saloons in this county. Nineteen counties
have now held elections under the Rose
law and all have gone dry, the total num-
Der Of saloons affected being 4S2.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Fire in Cincinnati.

Fire destroyed the five-story brick
building at 127 West Sixth street. Gin
cinnati, Ohio, occupied by one of the
stores of the Kroger Grocery and Bak-
ing Company. and slightly damaged
the adjoining buildings OF the A Con-
roy & Co. Furniture Company, the
Fair department store and Jos. Gentle
& Co.'S fruit store. The total loss is
$4,000. The Kroeger Company places
Its loss at about 5000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
INDIANA LAWMAKERS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

County local option in Indiana is now
fixed fact. The stage setting Saturday
was the most spectacular that was ever
seen in the Indiana House of Representa-
tives and the scenes were truly dramatic.
Massed about the Speakers desk, extend
ing around the four walls of the room and
filling the lobby and galleries, were eight
hundred or a thousand temperance work
ers, keenly alive to every movement of
the Representatives. The calling of the
roll on the passage of the bill began
in a silence that was almost painful.
Printed lists of the legislators were in
many hands and as the names were called
by the clerk the most intense interest was
manifested. A Representative stood up
to explain his vote. He was regarded as
opposed to the bill, but as he proceeded
the countenances in the lobby began to
brighten. Was he going to vote for the
bill? AS he talked the tension grew.
Then the words Il vote yes" fell on the
ears of the listeners and a great shout
went up from hundreds. When a men,
Der who was counted for the bill voted
against it there would be signs and smooth
cred groans from the crowd, but these
soon gave way to shouts of applause when
unexpected support came. Representa-
tive johnson OF Vigo county attracted
much attention when he rose to speak.
He had been counted upon as opposed to
the bill, and as he rose his daughter was
seen to seat herself by his side. His
voice trembled as he said life had been
burden 20 him; he could not read, he
could not sleep, he could not eat. He did
not approve of the bill, nor could he have
been elected if he had stood upon such a
platform. Then his voice fell to a wills
per and he burst into tears, voting yes"
as he sat down. Cheers resounded
throughout the hall. Johnson's daughter
smiled and every one knew to what infiu-
ence he had succumbed. One by one the
Representatives spoke and as the roll call
proceeded the workers began to take
heart One more vote for the bill would
insure its passage. Every ear was in
tent, every eye fixed on the members
Then that vote CAMERON an unexpect-
ed source-and the lobby went wild. The
victory was won. And then the vote pro-
ceeded rapidly, finally standing % to 40
in favor Of the bill, six Democrats having
voted for it and four Republicans against
it. Within an hour Gov. Hanly had
signed the bill. and county local option
became a law in Indiana.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
SHOT BY BRIDE OF TWO DAYS.
Louisiana Man Believed Fatally
Hurt by Wife, Who Is Arrested.

A. Sidney Bouteris, editor of the New
Era at Patterson, La, is at the point OF
death in the sanitarium at Franklin with
FIVE bullet holes in his body and his pref
~, young wife of two days, who was Miss
Jessie Demarest, is held in Jail to await
the outcome of his wounds, believed TO
be fatal. joseph Stansbury, John Cisna
and Roland Vitter of Patterson also are
in Jail, charged with being accessories.
1t appears that there was military
marriage al Franklin at l o'clock Mon
day morning.. Bouteris, Miss Demarest
and the young woman's father being the
chief actors. Bouteris refused to have
anything to do with his bride after re-
turning home, she returning to her faith
er's home. While Bouteris was sitting
at his desk in his Office two days later.
his bride walked in and began shooting,
five bullets taking effect.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

The announcement made by John Wan
amaker that he would give employment
to 1000 men in the work of demolishing
the old section of his store on Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, beginning last Mon
day morning, brought to the place a
throng of at least 5000 men, who surged
about the streets and so impeded traffic
that the police reserves had to be called
out to make way for the cars. After the
favored ones had been chosen the rest of
the crowd dispersed without disorder