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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Attorney General Davis of Texas. after
a conference at Dallas, decided to run for
a third term on the anti-Bailey issue.
The schooner Jesse Barlow was run
down near Pollock Rip lightship on Cape
Cod. The crew Of six men had a narrow
escape.
Seth Low, former president of Colum-
ba university. has been elected president
of the National Civic Federation to sue
coed August Belmont at the New York
meeting.
Admiral Dewey gave dinner at his
home in Washington. His birthday is
Dec. 20, but the dinner was held when
il was so that the President might at
tend.
Ex-senator w. A. Clark of Montana
is acting as mediator at Butte in the
fight between the labor unions and the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Com
pany.
The national board of arbitration, In
which newspaper publishers and the In
ternational Typographical Union are m
i:erested, met at Indianapolis and discuss
ell the printers scale paid in Chicago.
Foreigners attacked Constable James
Dolan at Lebanon. Pa. when h. attempt
ed to arrest coal thieves. and the consta-
BILE. in self defense, shot into the crowd,
killing two Hungarians.
Peru and Chile, through the medium of
Senior Balmaceda, the Chilean minister
to Peru, and Senior Polo. the Peruvian
minister of foreign affairs. signed their
first treaties of amity in Lima.
The liveryman who furnished the car
riage for President Roosevelt and others
to ride in at the opening of the James
town fair has sued Gov. Hokc Smith and
the Georgia commissioners for 500. a.
leging that he has not been paid.
After twelve hours of strike the execu-
tive committee of the New York Cab
mems Union ordered the men back to
work, on compromise of SID a week,
instead of $l4. which they were getting
When the agreement was announced the
nen became so violent that the police had
to be called
George Wilson, alias Williams tcol-
ored). arrested in Philadelphia on suspi-
cion that he was implicated in the murder
of Frederick Romer in Orange. n. j.
would not admit the charge, though put
through a third degree" pawnbrok-
err identified him as the man who pledged
a diamond ring belonging to the murdered
man.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
4, 100000 Christina. Trees a Yea

In discussing the effect on the forests
Of the country by the use of Christmas
trees, of which it is estimated that 4,000,-
600 are used each year, Clifford Pinchot,
United States forester, says that the eff
feet is infnitesimal compared with the de-
struction caused by forest fires and waste
full numbering. If planted four feet apart
these trees would be grown on less than
], 400 acres. He says that trees suitable
for Christmas trees do not grow in the
old forests, where reproduction is most
important, but in the open, and there is
no more reason for an cutlery against
using land to grow Christmas trees than
to grow flowers. According to Mr.. Pin
chot, the center of the Christmas tree in
dustry lies in the big cities of the East.
New York City and the New England
States consume 100000 trees, or nearly
one-half of all the output. Maine, New
Hampshire, the Berkshire Hills, in Mas
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Frisco HAS a 100000 Blaze.

Fire destroyed nearly the entire block
bounded by Mission, Jessie. First and
Second streets, in San Francisco. Sew
eral factories and stores were burned out
end the loss will amount to more than
100000. Most of the buildings destroy
ed were only temporary affairs, SO that
the loss was principally in stocks carried
by the firms involved.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
6HO0kS
GsO @ILHaEs
"~OOO~0ON"

Replying to this declaration, Mrs. John
s. Crosby, president of the Women's Dem
ocratic Club of New York, points out that
there is little in the training OF children
that the man, as we'll as the woman, ought
not 20 learn, and that if womankind were
restricted to the rearing and teaching Of
children she would be deprived of many of
the best opportunities for learning how to
do that very work.
AS an exercise in the duties of citizen
ship the political class of Columbia uni
versity held mock Republican national
convention. The only outsider who par
ticipated was Timothy l.. Woodruff, ex-
Lieutenant Governor of New York State
The favorite candidates in the order of
popularity were Hughes, La Toilette,
Root, Cannon, Roosevelt, Cortelyou aud
Fairbanks. On the final ballot Hughes
received 525 votes end La Toilette 352.
President Joseph Swain of Swarthmore
announced that he and the trustees had
come to the conclusion, after asking the
opinion Of twenty-five other colleges, that
they should not accept the millions left
them by Miss Anna L. Jeans, with the
condition that all intercollegiate athletic
contests be abandoned. President Swain
said, however, that if the estate were
very large he would favor trying the ex-
pertinent, with the privilege of returning
the money il it were found that the gift
vas of less value than the lack of free
dom.
Prof Franklin II. Giddings of Column
F. =. al -
fore the Peoples Institute at Cooper
Union, New York City, ON the subject Of
1.-The Jews in America" was asked for
an expression of his opinion as to the re-
cent agitation over the Christmas cere-
monies in the public schools. He replied
that he could not see how any one could
subscribe to the doctrine that it was right
10 tax one group of persons for a general
purpose and compel them under the law
to submit to things that are contrary to
their conscience. In reply to the question
how the Jew would treat the Christian if
their positions were reversed, he said that,
judging from history and present condi-
tons, he did not think the jew could
treat the Christian worse than the Chris
tan treats the jew and he was inclined
to think they would treat them better.
The professor gave it as his opinion that
the Jews in America would, in time, be-
come so Americanized as to lose their
racial identity.
The faculty of the Cornell university
medical college at New York announced
that hereafter the usual high school
course generally accepted as sufficient
preparation for the study Of medicine
would not enable students to enter there.
Candidates for admission would have to
be graduates of approved colleges or scien-
tific schools, seniors in good standing at
Cornell or any other like university which
would permit the substitution of the first
year of the medical course for the senior
year. Also others not possessing degree
may be admitted by passing a special ex-
animation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Could Cut Fare. i'm Two.

According to newspaper declarations,
the public service commission for New
York City will, in its coming report to
the Legislature, make some rather start
ling declarations and suggestions in re-
gard to the railroad companies of the city.
L. is limited, for instance, that the com
mission will declare that with proper cap
italization, the railroads could carry pas
sengers at less than half the fares now
charged, and still make large profits. In
totaling up the business for the year end
ing June so, it was found that the re-
ceipts of all the New York City COM
panies amounted to S66.093,776. The to-
tai operating expense for the year was
s37,013,O62, leaving balance of .S29,-
OSO,714.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

sachusetts, and the Adirondacks and Cats
kills, in New York, are the sources of
supply for New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia, and even Tor Baltimore and
Washington. The swamps of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota furnish the
markets of Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and Detroit, while the local demand
throughout the central West is mainly
supplied by nursery grown Norway
spruce
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Shooting at Muncie.

John Skinner, a saloon keeper of
Muncie, Ind, shot and killed Cola Ep-
pards, &c years old. Skinner says he
TILED Eppards in self-defense. as the
latter with several companions at
tempted to hold him up. Skinner is
in Jail charged with murder. Roy Ep-
pards, brother of the dead man, and
Grover Gillian were arrested in con-
neetion with the crime. it being al
legged they were implicated in at
tempting the robbery of house while
Skinner was passing and before the
hold-up took place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
jan spjes in Portland. OREGON,

Mayor Harry X. Lane, of Portland,
Ore, created sensation in an address
before the National Guard Association,
when he declared that agents of the
Japanese government had secured ac-
maps and specifications of every road
WHY leading into the city and of the
various pipelines from which the city
obtains its water supply. Mayor Lane
did not discover the presence of the al
legged spies until their work was COM
pleted, whereupon he transmitted his
information to Washington and was
asked to furnish all the details of tn.
operations of the alleged spies.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Accidents Lessened by Publicity,

According to the report of the New
York public service commission, the num-
Dor of street railway accidents in that
cicy for November shows steady decrease
since the commission began to keep w.
ord four months ago. During Move !.
As persons were killed, as compared with
4: in October, 63 in September AMI A.
in August. An even greater decrease is
noticeable in the number injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

Two people were burned to death and a
third fatally hurt in a fire which destroy
ed the general store and apartment house
of ]. Il. Currier in North Dover, Ohio.
Michael Veltrie, aged 80, who lived over
the store. and Joseph, his son, aged 13,
were burned to death. Mrs. Veltrie jump
ell from a ladder and was internally in
jured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

board our ships. the Navy Department
year after year has approved Of plans
by which the greatest guns on the
ships are directly above an open shaft
leading to the powder magazine.
That other nations long since recog-
nized the criminal stupidity of thus en-
dangering the lives of officers and men
and have remedied the defect by use
of common sense and ordinary precau-
tionary measures
That, without regard to the protests
of experts, our battle ships have been
built so low that if the sea is heavy
and ships are in action, the sea would
wash over the vessels, render some of
their most effective guns useless and
practically leave the ship to the mercy
of the enemy.
The officers i'm the American navy
who command the battle ships and
squadrons are too old; that under ex-
listing conditions young men cannot at
tain command, and that the service is
badly crippled as result.
That there is too much bureau man.
agement' in Washington too much
red tape in the Navy Department ;
that American genius is stified because
of the bureaus immersion in details,
and that with the Secretary of the
Navy q civilian, he should have a
board of expert advisers.
Other matters are dwelt on, but the
foregoing are by far the most impor-
tant. An afternoons fight on water
sealed Russia's fate in the recent war
with Japan, says Mr.. Reuterdahl, and
the same may well be true of the next
war into which this nation is plunged.
Ths issue is so important and the stake
so tremendous that the sea power
which is prepared in every respect to
meet the crisis will be the victor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND IS TO BE.
An Sides and Conditions Of Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make il Complete.
Two Indiana TRAGEDIES.

During sudden attack of insanity,
Claude Dodson, so years of age, killed
his aunt, Mrs. Jane Harrison, widow
20 years old, by cutting her throat
with a butcher knife. at the home of
his father, Mint Dodson, of Oxford,
Ind.
Mrs. w. L. Bevk, of Sellersburg, ten
miles from Jacksonville, Ind, shot
son-in-law. Daniel Schiller. She was
driven to desperation by wrongs
inflicted upon her daughter. Mrs
Beck is the wife of Prof. w. L. Beck,
principal of the Sellersburg schools for
the last fifteen years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
THINKS WEST NEEDS TROOPS.

If Navy Fails, officer Says, 10000
Japanese Could Control Coast.
Col. t. G. Woodbury., acting command
er of the department of the Columbia.
u. s. A., in a statement said that the
whole Pacific coast would be helpless in
case the navy should prove unable to pre-
vent the landing of force of 10000
japanese or other foreign army at any
of the numerous unprotected bays along
the coast. He said there are not 1000
regulars on the coast to resist an attack
by land, while 1900 infantrymen are
neadad
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
VOTES "DRY" TO GET BIG GIFT.

Hudson, Ohio, Takes Preliminary
step to Obtain Ellsworth Benefit.
Because a gift of 100000 supposedly
made by ]. w. Ellsworth, millionaire New
York coal man, which promises to make
the town model village provided that
the sale of liquor ceases before the money
is paid over, Hudson. Ohio. voted out sa-
looms by vote of 266 to 1SS. The towns
sentiment is Overwhelmingly wet" but
the chance to get municipal light and gas
plants, with a sewage disposal plant and
the remodeling of the old Western Re
serve College at cost of 100000 over
came the saloon sentiment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
CHICAGO SOLDIER ENDS LIFE.

Anton Garisch Commits Suicide I'm
Akron, Ohio, by Drinking Poison.
Anton Garisch, son of Andrew Garisch
of Chicago. and honorably discharged
from the Fifty-fifth United States artil-
lery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, a
month ago. committed suicide in Akron.
Chic by drinking carbolic acid. He was
cut of work and respondent. A year ago
near Fort Hancock Garisch captured al
Italian murderer of a policeman, receiv-
ing a stab in the side which laid him up
a month. For this act he received re-
ward
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Two Students Die in Fire.

The Roman Catholic school at Mon
terey, Ind, caught fire during the re-
hearsal of play by the children. A
gasoline lamp exploded. fatally burn
ing Clara Karmes and Margaret Fox,
aged Is years, and both pupils of the
school. They lived but few minutes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

Five men were killed in collision on
the Grand Trunk railroad at Lenox,
Mich. due to the engineer of fast nas-
senger train failing to see a signal set
against him. His train crashed into a
double-header freight train standing on
the track, and three engines were piled
in a heap.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Law Exempts Baby Carriages

Under the wheel tax law recently pass
ed by the Illinois State Legislature, and
which the Governor has intimated his in
tention of signing, every vehicle in Chi
Ct go on wheels that uses the city streets,
with the single exception of baby car
riages, will pay wheel tax. The money
thus raised is to be expended on the re-
pair of the streets. 1t is expected that
the revenue will amount to 100000 each
year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
children,s Home Burned.

Fire destroyed the Washington Chill
dren's Home south of Seattle, Wash.
Two children were burned to death
and the matron and a nurse were in
jured. The others escaped clad only
in their night robes. Mrs. Minnie Mey-
ers, the matron, was seriously burned
and injured in an attempt to rescue
the two burned to death. Miss A. L..
Hill, day nurse, was slightly burned
and was bruised in jumping from a
second story window.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Big Year for Cotton Mills.

Statistics just compiled show that the
dividends paid to stockholders of New
Bedford, Mass, cotton mills in 1907 have
been the largest in the history of the city.
The total dividends of eighteen corpora
tions reach S2,57S,250, on a capital stock
of $1S,770,O00, an average of 1913 per
cent. Last year the average rate was S.92
per cent, in 1905 it was &c and in 1904
the percentage was %.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Five Die in Wreck on Grand Trunk.

Speeding through dense fog at forty
miles an hour, Grand Trunk passen-
ger train No. collided head-on with a
double-header freight train half mile
north of Wilcox, Mich. Five trainmen
met death, four being killed instantly
The fifth one died three hours later
All passengers escaped injury except
q baby, which was slightly hurt by be-
ing thrown out of its mothers arms
and over a seat. The passenger loco
motive plowed under the engines of
the double-header and the trainmen
were buried in the wreckage. Their
bodies were terribly mangled- Ali the
dead trainmen lived in Detroit, Mich.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
FIND cHILp'S TONGUE.
Tue to Disappearance of Girl Causes


Give TO Disappearance of Girl Causes
Arrest of Father.
Sheriff Bauman of Fremont, Neb., di-
rected that Olaf Olsen of Rosalie be ar
rested. and that Mrs. Olsen and her two
children be sent to Fremont. This is the
result of the sheriff's Investigations of the
mysterious disappearance of 4-year-old
Lille Olsen, daughter of Olaf. two weeks
ago. A thousand men searched for her in
Thurseton and adjoining counties. One
day Sheriff Bauman discovered piece of
flesh in wheat shock on the Olsen farm.
Physicians pronounced this portion of a
child's tongue.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
VANDERBILT WEDDING is OFF.
Society Folk Hear Count Is Dissat-
fSfied with the Settlement.

SOClCty SOunt ~
fsfied with the Settlement.
New York society is stirred by a re-
port from Newport that the wedding of
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. heiress to the
S12.O00,eO0 Vanderbilt fortune. had been
called off owing to dissatisfaction on the
part of Count Szechenyi, the Hungarian
to whom she was betrothed, with the
amount of the marriage settlement which
was to be made to him. In all the salons
Of Newport the story went that the sturdy
Americanism of Alfred c. Vanderbilt and
Reginald Vanderbilt, the prospective
brides brothers. had revolted against the
marriage of their sister to a man who
they believed had revealed himself as
fortune hunter and that they had per-
suaded their sister after much trouble that
the foreign nobleman is unworthy of her,
The Vanderbilt family. however, will go
no further than the admission that the
wedding has been postponed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
slayer Suicide I'm Prison.

J. c. Cain, convicted murderer of
Charles ii. Morris, wealthy mine owner,
committed suicide in the county Jail in
Des Moines. He smuggled a razor into
his cell and cut his throat from ear to
ear Cain was waiting transportation to
Fort Madison, where he was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Verdict of Chicago Jury.

Thomas Chamales, the Greek proprie-
tor of the Savoy, a saloon in the
lcvee district of Chicago, has been
found not guilty by jury of his
peers. Chamales was charged with keep
ing his saloon open on Sunday and with
selling liquor on that day; he admitted
the truth of both accusations; the court
ruled that such actions were in violation
OF the law-the jury returned a verdict
of not puilty
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

production 224, 645, 600 bushels and val
lie sc cents.
Corn acreage was $685. 900, produc-
ton 2,592, 100000 bushels and value
| 51.7 cents.
Oats acreage was 81, S37 900, produc-
ton 754, $4,000 bushels and value AIS
cents.
1t was announced that the total val
lie Of the farm crops for 1907 was So
4O4 600, 900, an increase of $42S,OOO,OOO
for 1906.
The farm value on Dec. / of the four
crops already mentioned follows. Corn,
81 $40, 446, 600; winter wheat, $36i.21I,-
600; spring wheat, $193, 300, 900, oats,
$685., 56S, 900.
The comparative prices for the grain
c~o,,c FOR tho CT f1,roo voorc follow.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
Htrh wind Causes Wreck.

The baggage car and first passenger
coach of train No. %, north bound, on the
Colorado and Southern railroad was
blown from the track and overturned in
the ditch, a quarter of a mile north of
Marshall. J. G.. Garrett of LOngmont.
Colo, was fatally hurt and died. Five
persons were injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
GRAIN CROPS short,
BUT WORTH FAR MORE
Government Final Estimate Shows
Great Decline in Cereal
Production.
PRICES MAKE FARMERS HAPPY.
They Will Get Half a Billion of
Dollars More This Year
than Last.

The government report shows 9
shortage Of 7S5,9S7 600 bushels in total
crops as compared with the crops OF
l9O6, which were the largest ever raised
In this country, and a shortage of 81.
$1,000 bushels as compared with the
yields of 1905, which were also very
large.
The chief shortage is In the corr
crop, with 335,OOO,COO bushels, oats
with 211,O0O,OOO bushels aud wheat
with 1O1,OOO,OOO bushels.
There is something of an Offset to the
big losses in the feeding grains in the
increase Of G,431 900 tons &C hay as
compared to that OF 1900 and OF
3.O45,3SS tons as compared 70 the cror
Of 1905.
Prominent features OF the nnal revis
ion of its crop estimates foy the wear
by the Department Of Agriculture were
the Increases made in the reports of
area seeded to spring wheat, corn and
oats. In each of these particulars as
well as in the estimated weight OF
spring wheat and oats the official re.
ports ran more or less counter to the
general impressions of SPECTATORS. In
a few instances, such as the weight OF
oats, the figures given wore at variance
with all the experiences of the trade
for the year to date.
Figures of the Report.
The report gave final estimates of
acreage, production and value OF farm
crops, showing winter wheat acreage
to be 2S,132,o00, production 409,442, 000
bushels and value per bush.l $50 cents.
Spring wheat acreage was 17.079.000,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
OIL eusher Struck in Louisiana.

OH Gusher otruck III EouISIdhd.
In the Noble Company's No. 1 well,
at Jennings, La, which came in on the
new tract a quarter of a mile south
west Of the proven field, oil began
forcing high in the air, estimated by
oil experts to be doing at least 5000
barrels per day. A great deal of ex-
element prevails at the field, owing to
the fact that another pool has been
struck.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
,Tr. nrndIey After MONEY.

Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley has brought
suit in Salt Lake to break the will of the
late United States Senator Arthur
Brown, whom Mrs. Bradley shot and kill
ea in Washington in December, 1906. She
wants the estate for Browns two chill
dren.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
p,,,.hnr. Mil. IN Rc.ume

By Jan. 6, 1908, every mill in the Pitts
burg district will be in full operation.
This includes the mills of McKeesport,
Glassport, Duquesne and up the Mononga-
hela valley as far as Monessen. More
than $4,000 men will by that date have
returned to work.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

leagues ON trust
control of bust
ness" after nine
days service. Up
to a few years ago
it was an unwrit-
ten law that no
Senator should adj
dress his fellows
in a set speech I'M
less he had served
at least one term.
Then Senator Rev.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02
a q. Benunisne Is Dead.

Albert G.. Beaunisne. assistant publish.
er of the Chicago Daily News, died sud-
denly of heart disease after a treatment
recommended by his physician.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-02

James Il. Rensley. 81 years old, inven-
tor of the spoon oar and maker of oars
for most of the prominent boat clubs Of
the country, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in Poughkeepsie, n. Y. Rens-
ley invented the spoon oar in 1858.