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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
NEW YORK.

Distributive trade shows growth from
week to week as the spri ~ season ap-
proaches, and the tone of trade as a whole
is more optimistic, but, despite the large
number of buyers in evidence at leading
markets, the character of the busineSs
lone does not vary from that hitherto de-
scribed. Conservative buying, largely of
staples, is the rule, and the uncertainty
as to prices in many lines acts as a
check to fullest activity. This is espe
cially manifest in some lines, as. for in
stance. cotton goods, where prices have
been of late sharply reduced, without.
however, evoking the interest expected.
In few, if any,. cases are comparisons
With a year ago satisfactory, and a nun
Der of measures of monthly trade and in
dustrial movement point TO ~shrinkage of
% per cent or more.
Business failures for the week ending
March ) number PSI, against pa last
week. 112 in the like week Of 1907, III
in 1906, 100 in 1905 and 200 in 1904.
Canadian failures for the week number
40. against 81 last week and 81 in the
like week of 1907.-Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Young has been expelled from
the PHILIPPINE assembly by a vote of 40
to 80. He was very bitter in his attacks
Upon party leaders.
d.. Inslee b. Berry of New York rec
ommends that all trains carry besides the
ak and crowbar, a kit containing band
ages, whisky, splints, plaster and sterilized
cotton.
The German steamship Robert Heyne
arrived in New York after a furious bat
tie of twenty days with a series of storms,
which its captain declared the worst he
ever saw.
Seven terrorists involved in the plot
against the lives of Grand Duke Nicholas
and other Russian dignitaries were sem
fenced to death at st. Petersburg.
Serious %rioting occurred during the
course of the celebrations of the Muhar-
ram, the first month OF the Mohammedan
year. at Bombay. India. Tho police were
attacked, and fired into the mob, killing
several and woundine many others.
Six bronze tablets from the Rock ISL
and arsenal, Illinois, have been placed on
the monument that have been erected at
Tien-tsin. China. in memory of the Amer
lean soldiers and sailors who lost their
lives in the Boxer outbreak of 1901.
Notices were posted at the Naumkeag
Cotton Company's mill in Salem, Mass,
announcing a curtailment of 20 per cent
of working time. About 1,5OO hands are
employed.
Fifty-one dollars paid at a New York
auction of coins for a copper half-cent,
is said to be the highest price ever given
in this country Tor a coin of that denomi-
nation and date, 1925.
John w. Riddle, American ambassador
to Russia. has stopped she prosecution of
DIR. Dubolchet, an American physician,
practicing N Odessa. who had been ar.
rested az a revolutionist and refused pee.
mission to consult the American consul.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
NATIONAL CAPITOL NOTES.

A bill was introduced by Mr.. Gale
delegate from Alaska, to establish a ter
~ritorial government in Alaska.
James Speyer, banker, had a long con-
ference with the President on business
conditions. He declined to discuss the
details of the interview.
n. h. Thistlewood was sworn in as G
member of the House of Representatives
from the Twenty-ifth District of Illinois
in succession to the late George w. Smith
Secretary Metcalf received from Ad'
miral Washington l.. Capps, chief con.
structor of the navy, a report ~refutine
criticisms which have appeared regarding
naval construction.
The naval board, headed by Command
err Frank Fletcher, which examined into
the recent drownings of Privates Steener.
son and Mcintosh of the Marine Corps
at Newport, II. L., has reported that in its
opinion the deaths were purely accidental
The bill to codify and revise the Grim
inal avs of the United States was passed
by the Senate. The amendment Offered
by Senator Culberson of Texas penaliz
ing the improper giving out of informa
ton by government officials affecting the
market value of products of the soil was
incorporated in the measure.
The eight bridges crossing the ALE.
gheny river at Pittsburg will not have
to be raised, according to a decision rem.
dered by Secretary Taft. He gave no.
tice, however, that future bridges to be
constructed over the river must be built
AZ feet above the water.
\ favorable report on the bill of Rep.
resentative Humphrey of Washington
providing for a government exhibit at the
Alaska-Y ukon-P Pacific exposition to b.
held at Seattle, Wash, in 1909, was or
dered by the House committee on indus
trial arts and expositions. The bill car.
ries $75O,O0O.
The House committee ON interstate anc
foreign favorably reported the
Sherman bill fo%rbidding the carrying Of
explosives on any passenger vehicle en-
gagged in interstate IN
The Senate confirmed the nominations
of Louis A. Coolidge of Massachusetts,
To be assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Charles L. Grand6eld Of Missouri tC
be first assistant Postmaster General.
The monthly statement of the collec.
tions of internal revenue shows that fol-
the month of January, 1908, the tota
receipts were $40, 742,00f, which is a de
crease as compared with January, 1907
of S967 ,O13.
1t is probable that in Il day or two
Chairman Knapp of the interstate com
merce commission and Commissioner oi
Labor Neil will undertake by the terms
of the so-called Erdman act, to mediate
between the employees and officials of tn,
Southern railway in respect to wages.
L.. Allison Wilmer of Maryland ha.
been appointed a special assistant to The
Attorney General in Washington, to hay.
charge of cases under the commoditie,
clause of the Hepburn law. Il. c. Spell
ing, formerly with the interstate com
merce commission, also has been appoint
ed a special assistant to the Attorney
General with special reference to anti
trust cases
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
C

Trade conditions in Chicago for the
week are summarized by X. q. Dun &
co. as follows:
Seasonable weather and the removal of
difficulties in forwarding heavy freight
md grain brought more general activity
md trade advances e~ncouragingly in the
leading lines of distribution. Buyers
from many sections have crowded the
wholesale district and their purchases in
creased the business thus far negotiated
Tor future delivery of the principal sta
plies. An active demand also developed
for prompt shipment of textiles, food pro
1ucts, footwear and furniture. Sales of
millinery and notions show distinct i'm
Drovement, and there is less hesitancy in
men and women's wear than was felt
throughout last month. Local shipping
rooms are under great pressure in getting
cut goods for the interior and the q%uanti-
lies increase right along. although rail-
road returns show a smaller aggregate OF
tonnage than a year ago.
Mercantile collections reflect further
Ease in financial conditions. and there is
less anxiety as TO credits. the drastic elm
nation of weak concerns making the out
look less clouded. March payments
through the banks swell the volume of
bearings considerably over recent figures,
and there is additional release of funds,
but the offerings for discount remain
moderate and choice commercial paper is
quoted, at 6~per cent. Shipments OF cur
rency usually rise about this time, but
deposits stand exceptionally high. and the
investment for Improvements is not yet
fairly started, although there will be bet
ter demand soon in preparation for spring
work on the farms and resumption of lake
traffic. Building permits for business
structures during February were % in
number, and S1,317,SOO in value, against
36 in number and S1,0S1, 800 in value in
February. 1907. the gain being gratifying
in view of the late drawbacks.
New bookings in iron and steel are not
significantly large, but the fact that de-
mand shows recovery creates a better tone
IN the industrial branches. Factories in
this district have more machinery active
and increased numbers of hands employ
ed, and the prospects brighten for an
early starting up of some furnaces and
mills. F~oundrymen find orders coming
forward and they would be heavier buy
ers of pig iron were prices more settled.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 40, against 81 last week
and 10 a year ago. Those with liabilities
over 5000 number Is, against IA last
week and 4 in 1907.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

world would be able to patrol the 10000
facilities for landing 10000 troops in
the Philippines in a week. There are
11,0OO United States troops in the is
lands, including the c~onstabulary.
\ large force in the Philippines is a
necessity against the menace of Japan.
Her statesmen know there would be
nothing left of the japanese put an ar
tistic temperament after America had
finished. but there same statesmen may
be forced into a war by the unrest and
ambitions of a people whose assurance
and conceit has become unbearable since
the encounter with Russia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
To Improve Factory Conditions.

Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of ].
Pierpont Morgan, and several other
wealthy society women, are leading a
movement, intended to be of national
scope, to improve the condition of work
ing women and men in large cities. To
this end they have voluntarily assumed
the duty of factory inspectors in New
York City and vicinity. examining close
ly into the hygienic and social conditions
prevailing. The purpose so far devel-
oped is not to remedy, existing conditions
by influencing legislation, but to work
by private influence on the individual
manufacturing firms in whose workshops
are found abuses or unsatisfactory con-
diticns.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
UNCLE SAM MAY DEPORT MANY,
Starts War on Anarchists by Taking
Census of Public Charges.

OC4oo9 VI 0h
Aroused by the attempt upon the
life of Chief Shippy of Chicago. the
United States government has official
ly swung its forces into action in a
nationwide battle against ANARCHY. Or
ders went out from Washington 20 take
the first step in purging the nation of
these foes to government and individ-
ual life. The Instructions from Wash
ington were the result Of a prolonged
Cabinet meeting, and in addition to the
word sent out by Attorney General
Bonaparte to his subordinates they
were embodied in a special order issued
by Secretary Strauss of the Department
Of Commerce and Labor, who is espe-
cially intrusted by law with the duty
of deporting anarchists and see that
they do not gain entrance to tbs coun-
try.
For the second time since the passage
of the new immigrant law in 1903, de-
tails of immigration inspectors have
started out to take a census Of the
prisons. insane asylums, ~reformatories
and charitable institutions of the coun-
try to collect statistics relating to the
number of aliens in these institutions
and those who have become public
charges. 1t is said this is the first step
in the war which the Department of
Commerce and Labor will wage against
anarchists and members of pernicious
secret societies. Hundreds of deporta-
tions may follow.
In official circles it is admitted that
future immigration legisla ion of a rad
ical character may result from the re-
ports brought in by these Investigators.
The details Of men were ordered to
work as rapidly as possible and t o have
their reports ready for presentation to
the department at Washington by May
81.
Under the law an alien can be de-
ported II he becomes q public charge
within three years after landing. 1t is
believed a large percentage of the aliens
now depending on charity have not
been in the country three years, and
therefore wholesale deportatiOns are
| likely to result.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Nine. Gould Not Married.

A dispatch from Paris. France, says:
Nine. Anna Gould who recently OBJ
tanned q divorce from her husband,
Count Boni de Castellane, has author
tied an absolute denial of the report
Chat she had been married to Prince
Helie de Sagan.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Immigrant Outflow Continues,

The record of the transatlantic steam
ship lines show that for The first forty
five days during the present year the
number of incoming foreigners was 22,-
$50, while those returning for the same
period reached a total of SAB. The
incoming figure is 249 per cent less than
for the corresponding period in 1907,
while that for the outgoing travel was
2G.S per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
IGNORED the Fire Drill.

Four hundred children in the public
school at Lees Summit, Mo-, rushed
out In disorder when a fire alarm was
sounded. Attempts were made to use
the fire drill, but a call of fire" from
outside Of the building caused the chill.
dren to make for the nearest exits.
No one was injured. The fire was
quickly extinguished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Woman Leaps to Death.

Miss Jessie Daw, of Brooklyn, who
has been an inmate of a sanitarium at
Fzshkill Landing, n. Y, for the past
three months, threw herself from a
third story window and was killed. She
had suffered from nervous depression.
Miss Daw was 48 years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
WHEN CHINA'S EMPRESS DIES
Then, 1t Is Said, Japan May Figbt
the United States.

So long as Tsze An, the dowager en-
press of China lives, the japanese ques-
ton will not become acute. That is the
consensus of opinion in the Philippines
today, a Manila correspondent asserts.
When the dowager empress dies Japan
undoubtedly will try to grab Manchuria,
and as a result of the complications the
Philippines may become involved. In
Manila it is not expected that the Japan
csc question will assume a serious phase
at all soon.
With Evans feet in the Pacific, Uncle
Sam will have sixteen first-class battle
ships and eight cruisers available against
Japan's entire navy of thirteen battle
ships and FIVE cruisers. No one believes
Japan will precipate hostilities. In the
event of war, though. Japan could take
the Philippines. She is only seven days
sail from Manila, and no navy in the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Edward Jones is Dead.

Advices from Atlantic City, N. j., an
2ounce the death of Edward Jones,
regarded as one of the greatest au-
ohorities on constitutional and interna-
ttonal law in the United States. Mr..
Jones' home was in New York City.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Three Women Drowned While BOATING,

While boating on the Appalachee
millpond near Greer, S. c.. a skif con.
tanning ten people capsized and three
young women were drowned. There
we're but two lei in the party and ii
was only through their efforts that the
other five women were rescued.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Threw Herself Under Train.

Rosa Gray, from whom her husband
recently obtained a divorce, died Fri
day from injuries received by throwing
herself under a moving train. She
waved her hand to her mother-inlaw,
who was standing neal her, as she
threw herself under the train.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Send Coffin to Coroner.

When Coroner Paris arrived at his
Office in the court house in birmingham,
ALI. the other morning he discovered a
large-sized coffin there with the following
note tackled on it: ITO Coroner Paris :
You next The note was signe2 by a
picture OF a hand made in black ink.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND IS TO BE.
IAN Sides and Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked 10
make lie Com plete.
Train PLUNGED Down Embankment.

Burlington passenger rain No. 4
was derailed at Kearney, Mo-, twenty
five miles north of Kansas City. and
went over a fifteen foot embankment.
Twenty persons were injured. None of
the injured were seriously hurt, their
injuries consisting mostly Of cuts and
bruises. The wrecked train was made
mp of baggage car, smoker and two
coaches. 1t is an accommodation train
that stops at every station between
Kansas City and Chicago. The acct
dent was caused by spreading rails.
The train was not running fast and
this fact probably prevented more SER
fous results.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Count and Countess S~zechenyi have
given Lieut.. William Kennel of New
York a set of amethyst waistcOat buttons,
cuff buttons and shirt studs, presumably
for his courtesies when they were obtain
ing their marriage licenses.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
CHICAGO Firemen Hurt.

A score of firemen were injured.
three perhaps fatally, by a fire which
destroyed Apollo Hall. a three-story
structure in Blue Island avenue, Chi
cago, III. The damage is $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Unidentified Dead in colIinwood Buried

Twenty-one little white caskets were
placed beneath the ground in the Gem
etery in CollinwOod Monday. OF these
seventeen contained the bodies of I'M
identified children who lost their lives
in the burning OF the Lake View school
Wednesday, March 4. The other four
caskets contained the bodies of iden.
titled children, but were included in
the public funeral as the expenses
ere borne by the village.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Woman Autoist Kills a Man.

Louis Klein, aged 80, who has been a
county official for over thirty years, for
some time past an assistant in the engi-
neer's Office, was run down and almost in
stantly killed while crossing a street in
Cincinnati by an automobile driven by
AIRS. Charles Haas, wife of a cigar manu-
focfurar
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Oscar s. Straus. Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, at a banquet in Boston
made a plea for the fullest freedom of
commerce, for equal opportunities po-
litically, economically and individually
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
rramnled in Church Panic.

A special from Guadalajara, Mexico
saws that the act Of a half-witted man in
locking the rear door of a church at
x,cotlan while services were in progress
resulted in a panic and the trampling to
death of two men and six children.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Bad Wreck on Union Traction Line.
In a collision between a freight and
blesville branch of the Indiana Union
Traction line nine persons were seri.
ously injured and many others were
more or less injured by being shaken
up. A north-bound passenger car and
q south-bound freight came together
at Brays crossing, near Noblesville.
Ind, making almost a complete wreck
of both cars.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
BAD Fire in Peoria.

Fire which started in the Hart Grain
Weigher Company paint shop at Pc
uria, Ill, did s195, 900 damage to the
buildings and stock.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
steals JeweIry from Friends.

Mrs. jeanette Newman of New York
IL said to nave admitted stealing $4,000
in jeweIry from a society friend to main
tain her son in a private school and to
keep up appearances
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Incendiary Fire in Toledo.

A fire supposed to be of .ncendiary
origin In the furniture manufacturing
slant of Keiger Brothers, Toledo, Ohio,
entailed a loss of $75. 900.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Judge O'Neill, in the Circuit Court
at Eau Claire, Wis, has set aside a YER
dict of S3.25O damages awarded the faith
er of Charles b. Clemens, who, with his
sister, was killed by an Omahs train at
n grade crossing. The court holds that no
money judgment could assuage the grief
of the parents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
Fatal Wreck on Pere Marquette.

A Pere Marquette passenger train
eollided with an extra train near Wy
Oming Yards, Mich. One person is
Known to have been killed and several
others injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Seventy-six miners, most of them Jap
anese. were killed in an explosion at La
Rosita mine, near San Juan De Cabins,
Mexico, Thursday.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

~@DDgIpS

1t takes about 100000 men to run
the Federal government and this is
rot Il great number when we consider
that there are nearly 90.0O0,OO0 of peO-
pie in the country. This number in
cludes Il great many country postmast-
ers and others. who do lot give their
whole time TO the government, but Ices
not include some 10000 privates and
nOn-commissiOned men in the army. 1t
is notable that there are two kinds of
jobs which it is hard for Uncle Sam to
fll-thOse in the army and those in
technical positions. The army is about
$4,000 men short of the proper force
and the number of those in the ser
vice is decreasing steadily through de-
sertions and expiration of enlistments.
Men can do better i'll civil life, and
wen West Point appointments go beg
ging. The technical positions in the
various departments in various branch
es of the service are hard to fill. The
examinations are very strict, the re-
Iuirements are of the highest and the
pay is about one-half that in civil life.
1t is no wonder that it is hard TO Sc
-ure the right sort of men. Every man
is supposed to be a patriot, but that
iOes not mean that he is willing to
work for Uncle Sam for half pay, espe,
,ially as this employer is rich and able
to pay better salaries. Members of
Congress voted themselves 80 per cent
additional pay. but did not take into
plOyes of the government. most of
whom are working at Il compensation
fixed more than 80 years ago, when the
cost of living was not more than half
what it is at present.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Miss Mayme Shales of Wilkesbarre.
Pa, is dying of poison as the result of
putting an indelible pencil in her mouth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Hundreds of women are employed
in the secret service of Germany.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12
SAID TO SOUND KEYNOTE.
Ohio Republican Platform Consid-
cred of National Significance.

The platform adopted by the Ohio
Republicans is considered of national
significance, as it is the joint work Of
the ablest advisers of President Roose-
welt and of the most astute OF the cam
paign managers of Secretary Taft. AS
the joint product of these men, few Re-
publicans doubt that the Ohio platform
sounds the keynote of the Republican
campaign. always in the event of the
Roosevelt-T Taft control of the National
Convention. Following is the platform
in brief:
Government regulation of railroads as
against government ownership.
Re-enactment of the employers liability
act.
Limitation of the exercise of the power
of injunction.
Greater merchant marine and an ade-
quate navy.
Revision of the tariff by a special ses-
sion of the next Congress.
Protection of the civil and political
rights of negroes.
Reduction of representation in Congress
and the electoral college in all the States
where white and colored citizens are dis
franchised.
Approval of the prosecution of illegal
trusts and ~monopolies and of evil-doers
both in the public service and in The COM
mercial world.
Endorsement of Roosevelt administra-
ton.
The platform which the Nebraska
Democratic State convention adopted,
and which is the announcement of prin-
ciples which will go into the national
platform at Denver in July, declares in
favor of the vigorous enforcement of the
criminal law against trusts and trust
magnates, urges tariff reform and an in
| come tax and demands such an enlarge
ment of the powers of the national and
State railway commission as to give to
persons and places full protection from
discrimination and extortion."
Mr.. Bryan, in a brief address follow
ing the naming and in%structing for him
of sixteen delegates to the national con-
v~ention, said "As the Republicans used
one faction of the Democratic party to
| defeat us in 1896. we shall return the
compliment this year and use one part
of the Republican party to defeat the
other"