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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
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.Chicago-Cattie, common to prime,
$500 to S7.75; hogs. prime heavy, s4.0C
to S5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $500
corn, No. 2, zoe to tic; oats, standard
sic to 52c: rye, No. 2, 7Sc to Soc; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to S11.j0: butter, choice creamery. zoe
to 23c; eggs, fresh, 12c to Ice: potatoes,
new, per bushel, $1.O2 to $1.0S.
InGianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to 500: hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep. common to prime,
$500 to $40: wheat. No. 2, 99c to
$1.OO; corn, No. 2 white, &c to 65c; oats,
No. white, Sic to SIC.
St Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $7.15; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $4.75
wheat. No. 3, S1.OO to S1.O1; corn. No 2,
73c to 74c; oats, No. 2, 51c to 53c; rye,
No. 2, Zoe to Soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, 500 to 1913
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat. No. 2, &c to Csc; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; oats, No.
mixed, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 2. SIC to SEC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $6.G0; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Toe to 77c; oats. No. white,
54c to sec; rye, No. 2, SIC to Sac.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern.
$1OS to $1.10; corn, No. 8, 72c to 73c
oats, standard, 53c to soc; rye, No. 1,
79c to soc; barley, No. 2, 64c to Coo (;
pork, mess, $13.72.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $7.05: hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 TO $500.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $500 |;
hogs. $3.50 to 5000; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. red, $1.00 to $1.O1 |;
corn, No. 2, &c TO Tie; oats, natural
white, 5Sc to 60c; butter, creamery, PIC
to 23c; eggs. western. 13c to Ice.
Toledo-Wheat, No. ? mixed, 96c to
97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c (:
oats, No. = mixed, 3d.. to 54c: rye. No.
2, Sic to S3c; clover seed, October, $50.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
4 AND Is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Complete.
Berlin Church is Set AbIaze.

Berlin Church is Set AbIaze.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany,
says: An attempt was made to burn
down the old st. Paul's Catholic church
at Moabite, which was crowded with
people to hear a sermon by the FAM
Gus Dominican monk, Father Bonaven-
ture About 1900 persons were pres
ent, including more than a thousand
women and children. While tie con-
gregation was kneeling in silent prayer
someone informed Father Bonaventure
that the church was afire. Without
alarming the congregation he informed
the pew holders that an insignificant
blaze had broken out and they had bet
ter re We the building as soon as pos
sible I a rapid and an orderly manner.
When they reached the streets they
found the firemen drawn up with lad
ders against the walls. The fire fight
ers discovered that nearly dozen fire
brands soaked with petroleum had
been distributed about various parts of
the roof. The flames were extinguished
With difficulty after great damage had
been done. The firemen declare that
only the GOODNESS of the clergy pre-
vented great disaster.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
CHICAGO.

Commercial defaults make the best ex.
hibit in long time and credits generally
are the cause of little adverse comment.
A comparatively lower volume of pay
ments through the banks appears, owing
to the week including only FIVE business
days, but the daily average is better than
recently shown
Railroad returns continue falling he
hind those at this time last year, and the
offerings of heavy freight from the mills
and factories remain light. There is,
however. heavier forwarding of farm pro-
ducts, and trade makes further response
to more settled weather, although evil
dences of curtailed production diminish
rather slowly and notable demands in the
leading industries yet make a meager adj
vance.
\ strengthening influence in current OPP
erations is the healthier tone which per-
vades iron and steel and gradually in
creasiug outputs in metal and wood work
ing lines.
Financial provision against future needs
is made less of a problem by greater ease
in the money market, and railroad man.
ayers now give more attention to track
and equipment requirements. the prospect
Frightening for. commitments which
should soon stimulate activity.
Distributive dealings remain very salts
factory in staple merchandise, wholesale
orders being numerous for warm weather
goods. and both local and country retail
sales have risen to seasonable extent.
Mail orders from outside points for fall
and winter goods come forward freely
High prices for grain enrich the agri-
cultural interests, and crop reports indi-
cate gratifying progress under the pre-
vailing ideal weather
The total movement of grain at this
port, 7.460, 100 bushels, compares with
S,549. $40 bushels last week and 7.2OS. 4S6
bushels in 1907. Compared with last year
there is increase in receipts of 76 per
cent, and decrease in shipments of 1.6
per cent.
Live stock receipts are again remark
ably low, 1919. 800 head, comparing with
242,620 head last week and 223,514 head
last year.
Bank clearings, $21O, 326, 721, are 2O.5
per cent under those of corresponding
week in 1907. Failures reported in the
Chicago district number %, against %
last week and 20 a year ago. Those with
liabilities over 5000 number 3, against
8 last week and in 1907.-Dun's Re-
view
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
CUT POSTAGE TO ENGLAND.
Arrangement Whereby Letters Cross
Sea for Two Cents an Ounce.

Postmaster General Meyer announces
that an agreement has been reached with
the British government providing for
letter postage of cents an ounce be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain and ireland, to become operative Oct.
i, 1908. The matter of a penny post
age" as it is called in England, has been
under consideration for some time. Last
July President Roosevelt approved Mr.
Meyers course in urging a restricted
union with England" Oct. /, 1907, the
universal postal union, which governs the
international postal transactions of the
civilized countries, reduced the rate of
letter postage from ) cents half ounce
fiat to D cents for the first ounce and 3
cents for each additional ounce. This is
the present rate between the United
States and Great Britain. Postmaster
General Meyer believes the reduction in
the rate of postage to the United King
dom ultimately will result in an increase
IN receipts. 1t has always been found
chat a reduction of the letter rate result
ed finally in increasing the revenue. He
is also of the opinion that a lower post
age will lead to a freer commercial inter
course
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
ONCE RIH; SEEKS PooREoUsE.
Even Institution He Once Aided
Closed to Aged Chicagoan.

Charles ]. l.. Meyer, once a million
aire lumber and railway magnate of Fond
du Lac, Wis, now the age of a years,
overtaken By poverty, sought admission
the other day to the poorhouse at Mil
waukee and it was denied him. He is
said to be on his way back TO his little
room at 90 Aberdeen street, in Chicago.
His application was made to Gustave
Frellson in Milwaukee, who is agent of
the associated charities there. which Mr..
Never himself helped organize and TO
which he contributed literally in the days
of his wealth. He asked to be admitted
as pauper to the poorhouse. Il am
sorry" he was told, 'but by your re-
moval TO Chicago two years ago you have
forfeited your right TO enter the poor
house here" The agent said he would
write TO Mr.. Meyers two sons-in-law to
try to rouse them to a sense of their duty.
Mr.. Meyer was formerly one of the rich
est men in Wisconsin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11

county in the First and Second Dis
tricts. In the Third District he lost
Hardin County and in the Fifth Cum
minis secured majority in three of the
counties
Official returns Thursday from all of
the ninety-nine counties OF Iowa give
Senator Allison 102, 159 votes. against
92,7S6 for Governor A. Il. Cummins,
for the Republican nomination for Uni
ted States Senator. The Allison ma
jority in the State is 1878. Carroll has
$4,000 over Garst for Governor.
In the congressional contest in the
Seventh District the result was still
in doubt. Judge Prouty's friends claim
ed the nomination by a majority Of
four votes. The other side declared
that Captain J. A. I. Hull had defeated
Prouty by majority of 81 votes.
Senator Allison has been in the Unit
ed States Senate since 1878 and he
served four terms in the lower house
before winning the toga. This gives
him record Of forty-three years In
Congress. Mr. Allison was born at
Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1920.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
Indiana
State News
NEW ENocH ARDEN Is PUNISHED
Man Deserts Wife Whose Former
Husband Posed as Brother.

Man Deserts Wife whose Former
Husband Posed as Brother.
After telling a most remarkable story
on the witness stand in the Laporte Cir
cult Court Enoch Asbury Stone was con-
victed by the jury of wife desertion. He
was fined SO and disfranchised for three
years Stone admitted the desertion and
declared that he had left because he dis
covered that Harry KNIT, who had been
living with them for seven years and who
he supposed was his wife's brother, was
really her second husband, from whom
she had been divorced. She had eight
children by Knott. Mrs. Stone admitted
this charge, but claimed that no intimacy
has existed h-tween her and Knott since
their divorce. Mrs. Stone has been mar
RED TO four different men and twice to
Stone. This latter peculiar incident was
due 10 the fact that Stone was a seaman
for sixteen years, sailing under the name
OF j. Williamson of Chicago, and that
when he met the woman he married her
in Chicago uuier his assumed name Later
he remarked her in Oklahoma under his
right name. Stone while a seaman went
around the world eleven times. He says
he will sue for divorce.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11

@'I0c]E7|EEE>>l]!FIs

The startling assertion that in the
schools of S16 cities and towns of the
United States conditions are ripe for a
repetition of the Collinwood, Ohio, fire
disaster appears in current issue of a
fire insurance publication, the Insurance
Press. A list of the danger spots is pub
lished, and it includes Chicago. New York.
Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston
and numerous other large cities, as wei
as smaller centers of population.
Fire statistics show that, during The
first quarter of 1908, ffty-eight Tires &C.
Cured in educational institutions of the
United States and Canada, resulting IN
death to many students, endangerIny the
lives OF thousands of others, and causing
a property loss of about $1,OOO,000. In
many instances dormitories were burned.
some while the students were asieep at
night. Such dangerous blazes occurred
in nineteen States and one territory. Pub
lie school fires caused damage in eighteen
States. Panics among pupils and teach
ers invariably resulted. Safety was often
found to be sought, not in the projection
afforded by freproof building material,
iron escapes or other structural improve
ments, but in FIRE drills. which depended
upon discipline that could be maintained
only when danger was remote.
The statement is made that az I'D col
leges and universities the question of the
safety of the lives of students has scarce
y been considered. BY far the greater
danger, however, is said to exist in the
public schools of the country. Public
school boards are said to appreciate their
responsibility by providing ireproof ma
terials in new buildings, but little o MOTH
ing is done to improve conditions in old
school houses which were erected before
the modern building era.
This is declared to be a matter worthy
immediate and widespread action on the
part of public officials. If theatcrs.
churches, halls and other public gather
ing places are by law equipped with
sprinkler systems, fire escapes and other
safety devices. how important 1t is that
school houses, where children spend as
much as thirty hours week, be pro-
tected. The Fort Wayne, Ind, hotel
fire, which found helpless, sleeping vic
tins in unprotected rooms, is the eighty
fifth blaze of its kind in the United States
and Canada since the first of the year.
Not all of these resulted in loss of life,
but hotels, like schools, are shown to he
in need of special protective apparatus.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
FROM FAR AND NEAR.

A federal grand jury has begun an in
vestigation of alleged land frauds said
to have been committed in Umatilla coun-
ty, Oregon.
Lieut.. Archibald Taggart, biggest po-
liceman in New York, 6 feet 6 inches tall
and 500 pounds in weight, has retired af-
ter twenty years to become butcher.
Three men, John Sharpless, John Miles
and young Englishman. named Rich
mond. all of Nelso... B. c., were swept
over the falls in Kootania river and
drowned.
Owing to the extra bounty offered by
stockmen in the Black Hills country,
nearly 200 coyotes, score of gray wolves
and many other animals have been killed
off during the past winter.
Fire at Childress, Texas, destroyed the
machine, blacksmith and boiler shops of
the Fort Worth and Denver road The
loss will reach 100000.
At the meeting of the Yale corpora
ton in New Haven, Conn, announcement
was made of the election of Prof Jones,
dean of the School of Engineering at the
University of Minnesota, as dean of Yale
college
Failing a quorum, the members of the
Arkansas Legislature, called in special ses-
sion by Speaker a. III. Hamter, gave up
the attempt to transact business and adj
journed sine die. There will be no ex-
traordinary session.
President Roosevelt has signed bill
providing for the reorganization of the
militia of the United States and its arm
ing and equipment at cost not to exceed
100000.
After eighteen years separation moth
Ell and daughter, Mrs. Jacob Hartwig of
Dillon, Mont, and Mrs. Charles Joll;son
of Portland, Ore, have been reunited The
daughter was kidnapped by the father.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, speaking
before the Alumni Association at the COM
mencement exercises at the Alabama
State university in Tuscaloosa, said that
the danger that threatens the nation is
in Capitalization of political power and
the nations wealth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
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GOSSIP Gossip

Playing the "Star-Spangled Banner"
On shipboard is ceremony which must
De ATTENDED with proper respect. One
Of the correspondents with the cruising
feet writes that on one rainy evening,
when Ills ship was just below the equa-
tor, the band gave the usual concert
between decks. Ii was so hot that the
members of the band took off their
coats, and the members of the crew
took off everything but their under
shirts and trousers. When the time
came to play the national air the lead
er paused. the band stood, and the
members of the crew came to attention
but no signal to play was given until
every man had put on his coat and
hat, that patriotism might never lose
its self-respect by being caught in dis
habille.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
rELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs

For the first time in years the lid was
slipped on the beer gardens and ''ancing
halls in Toledo.
Fire in Ford & Co.'S planning mill and
lumber yard at Mansfield, Ohio, caused a
loss of about 100000.
Brig. Gen. Evan Niles, retired, who
served i'm the Civil. Indian and Spanish
wars, died in San Francisco.
The pipeshop of the Best Manufacture
ing Company, Twenty-fourth street and
the Allegheny Valley railway, Pittsburg,
was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
The Montana wool for this year is es-
timated by the wool growers association
at 35.0O0,O00 pounds. which at 20 cents
means $7,OOO,Oo0 for the flock muster.
After beating the messenger. ]. E. Per-
rine. to insensibility, robbers on a Great
Northern express train between Seattle
and Vancouver looted the express safe
and made way with between $1,000 and
$4,000
Fines of $4,000 against the Omaha
railroad and $2OO0'against II. III. Pearce,
its general freight agent. imposed in re-
bate cases. were affirmed by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at st.
Paul.
DR.. s. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia
was elected president of the American
Neurological Association. which held its
yearly sessions in the Quaker city.
Constitutionality of the law providing
that cattle being shipped to market shall
not be confined in cars longer than twen-
weight hours without unloading, was up
held by the United States District Court
at Topeka, Kan.
Judge Saunders in the United States
Court in New Orleans dismissed a suit
brought by Independent tobacco dealers
against the American Tobacco Compeny
charging violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law. The court held that no law
had been violated.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11

The President has passed upon the
cases of twenty-three enlisted men from
the department OF Dakota, who were
convicted by courtmartial of various in
fractions of the army regulations, prin-
cipally desertion. In the most of these
cases. the President approved the find
ing and sentence of the court, but in a
few cases he mitigated the sentence
TO a lighter punishment than, that i'm
posed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
INVENTOR, BROKE" ENDS LIFE.
Il. E. Schnabel, Pioneer Barb Wire
Manufacturer. Self-Slain.

Herman l.. Schnabel, inventor, pioneer
barb wire manufacturer, old friend of
John W. Gates and Isaac Ellwood, and
one time millionaire, shot himself dead in
his room at All Dearborn avenue, Chi
cago. He assigned no cause for the act,
and merely left request that number
of his friends be notified. Mr.. Schnabel
was reticent concerning his personal af-
fairs and little is known of his life by
those with whom he came in daily con-
tact. He was a mechanic of ability and
invented several labor-saving devices for
the manufacture of barb wire, and sue
ceeded in interesting several capitalists
in forming the Schnabel Wire Company,
of which he was the head and later be-
came the sole owner. When John W.
Gates and Isaac Ellwood were forming
the American Steel and Wire Company
they included the Schnabel concern in the
list and used the Schnabel devices in all
their factories. 1t is said Schnabel re-
ceived for his patents and business more
than $1,OOO,OOO, all of which he lost in
unfortunate speculation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

While the funeral services of Mrs. John
A. Vosh were being held in the Friends
church at Cammaek lightning struck the
church steeple, tore hole through the
roof. destroyed part of the belfry, and in
jured several persons.
James Clear, who murderously attacked
his wife with razor, cutting her throat,
back. shoulder and breast, and then cut
his own throat in Peru. pleaded guilty to
the charge of assault with intent to kill,
and was sentenced to IA years in prison.
His wife is still in precarious condition.
Joel Kester, mussel shell gatherer.
was caught in his dragnet in the Wabash
river at Terre Haute and drowned.
Mrs. Wilbur Shepard and Mrs. Glow
Temple. armed with a shotgun, pursued
a negro who had robbed their homes ID
Wabash, overlook him and forced him TT
await the arrival of the officers an hou4
later.
After being out four hours a jury in
the Laporte Circuit Court found George
Finne guilty of manslaughter. Finne,
who is 1S years old, shot his neighbor.
George Priebe. as the latter was coming
from his own chicken coop.
A hundred school children in Warsaw
paid tribute to the memory of "Don," a
Newfoundland dog belonging to Charles
Scott. which died the other day. The
animal once saved child from drown
ing, and for many years displayed almost
human intelligence.
Elsie and Robert Miller of South Bend,
13 and 8 years old. accompanying their
father on his first weekday outing in five
years. were drowned off Leeper Park
Island while the parent was on the main
land. 1t is believed that the boy either
fell into the st. Joseph river or attempted
to wade. and that his sister attempted to
rescue him.
Floyd, 3 years old, son of Walter Jack
son, was accidentally shot by his 6-year-
old brother in Shebyville, and lived only
twenty minutes The boys were playing
soldier on the front porch. The elder
boy was armed with a shotgun.
For ..peeking'' on district meeting Of
the Odd Fellows at Browns Corner a
beyy of women may become the objects of
a legal prosecution. The meeting was
held in a room in which the windows were
left open because of the warm weather.
The women climbed trees to see and hear
the mysterious proceedings Discovered,
they fed. The lodge, however. voted to
bring action, and the prosecutor has been
supplied with information.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
Over Score of Dead.

The tornado which passed over south
ern Nebraska and portions of northern
Kansas Friday evening was the most dc
structive and covered the most territory
of any similar storm which has visited
the State in many years. At least twen-
ty-three are known to be dead, five fatally
injured and score of others hurt, some
of them dangerously. Several persons
were killed in the towns of Bryon, Neb,
and CORTLAND, Kan.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
FARMER COPIES NoAH's STUNT.
Caught by Mississippi Flood, He
Stocks Raft with Living Creatures,

j. w. Appleton of Missouri Point,
No., is floating down the Mississippi river
with his family, and also twelve pigs,
three cows. two horses and poultry, on a
large raft which he launched just before
the river broke over its banks and COW
cred his farm with several feet of water.
He started on a recent afternoon, intend
ing to steer his raft for high ground,
but thus far has not been able to effect a
landing. The raft, which is an enormous
affair, was built by Appleton few weeks
ago in preparation for the flood. 1t is
surrounded by railing to keep the cattle
from falling into the river. Food for man
and beast to last several days was taken
along.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
GRAIN MEASURE KNOCKED OUT
Supreme Court Finds that New Mis-
souri, Statutes Are Defective.

The Missouri Supreme Court has de-
cided that the State grain weighing law to
be unconstitutional on the ground that it
permits of a multiplicity of suits. The
Supreme Court also decided the eight
hour train dispatchers' law passed by the
last Legislature to be unconstitutional on
the ground that it allows operators at sta
tons where only one operator is employed
to work twelve hours. The court also
handed down an opinion deciding that
liquor dealers have right to ship intox-
icating liquors into local option counties
c. o. ID. when sale is made where ship
ment is made
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
Wins Epson Derby.

Before the greatest crowd that ever
gathered on historic Epson Downs and
with weather conditions glorious enough
to turn out Great Britain's biggest vanity
fair, the Derby was won by a long shot,
e. Ginistrelli's FLY Signorinetta, which
sold at 100 to l in the betting and was
one of the least considered of the field of
eighteen animals in the classic event
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-11
ToRNADoEs SWEEP EVANSVILLE

Several Persons Are Injured and
Houses Are UnroOfed.
With fierce fury two tornadoes, one
from the south and one from the west,
swept over Evansville the other after
noon. Several persons were injured and
many had narrow escapes. The wind
blew ninety miles an hour and telephone
wires are down. Houses were unroofed
and the court house was struck by light
ming. The tornado crashed through the
heart of the wholesale district, two blocks
west of the retail center of the city. Win
dow lights, shutters, trees and chimneys
were DESTROYED