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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-19
RENTS BOX
Ex-Gov John c. Mccullough Has Ia.
ken Box in Metropolitan

W.T. "" ~ wv 2 F~''t"''
According TO the New York Times,
EX-Gov John G. Mccullough has rent
ed for the season u y. Mills private
box. No. 20 in the Darterre row Of the
Metropolitan opera house "a New York
City This is one of the most eXpen-
siye boxes In a house famous for It's
fancy prices.
On Wednesday evening the box Was
occupied by Gov. and Mrs McCul-
Tough. Senator John w. Stewart OF
Middlebury aud Miss Wild.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-19

of o to Is years
a Blouse Waist made from
remnants of soc cloths.
This is one OF those specials
picked up for cash and
passed along at the same
saving TO you as made by
us.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27

The court recommended that the death
Stoessel be committed to ten years i'm
%prisonmeDt in a fortress and that he be
excluded from the service.
For his services in the campaign
against the Boxers in 1900 Stoessel was
made a lieutenant general and sta
toned at Port Arthur, where he began
strengthening the works, little dream
ing at the time that he would be called
upon to defend the place against the as
sauits of the Japanese. In February,
1904, when the war broke out, Port
Arthur became the center of the con-
hict. Cut off by land and sea, Stoessel
and his men held out for nearly two
years before he was compelled to sur
render. At first he was given great
praise by the Russians. Emperor Mich
olas conferred upon him the title of
aid-6e-camp TO the Gar and the Ger
man Emperor ave him an order. Then
his critics became busy and a commits
sion appointed to investigate the sur
render recommended that Stoessel be
dismissed from the army and shot. His
trial followed. General StOeSsel's sem
tence, which is without the loss of
rights or honor" is generally regarded
as intended to satisfy public opinion.
1t is expected ne will be pardoned after
a brief Imprisonment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
Lemoine,. Diamond Formula,

Discussion still continues in European
papers concerning the case of Mr.. Le-
moline, the alleged diamond maker of
Paris, who Sir julius Wernher of the De
Beers Mining Company recently prose
cuted on the charge of swindling him out
of $4,000 in connection with the financ-
ing of a company to exploit Lemoine's
artificial diamond formula. Since Lee
MONIES arrest it has come out that he did
not confine his operations to Wernher,
but sold a half interest in his secret to
one Edgar Cohen, a London capitalist,
who has made public the formula attach
ed to the contract drawn at the time of
his investment. The main points of this
formula are the heating of a mixture of
iron 80 parts. boron 30 parts and ami
NAL charcoal 10 parts in an electrical fur
mace heated to a temperature of 1000 de-
grees. A current of carbonic acid gas is
turned on at the same time to drive out
the oxygen. Diamond makers and chem
lists appear to be skeptical about the gen.
uineness of this formula, Notwithstanding
that Armstrong asserts that he saw Lee
MONIES secret diamond making process,
and that it is entirely bona fde. The late
NJ. Maissan. who received one of the No
bel prizes for his discoveries, succeeded
in making very fine particles, known as
diamond dust, but which had nc CONNER
cial value.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
JACKIES AS
Remarkable Test to Be Made by
Navy Department.
Fair and Mild.

The Navy Department has under con-
sideration the most startling tests of
the penetrating power of shells. dan
ger to life. and the resisting power of
armor that ever has been tried in. any
navy. The proposition is to have the
monitor Arkansas fire a Pinch shell
weighing $50 pounds from a Cotton gun
a distance of two miles and have it
strike the turret of a sister ship, the
Florida. which is being placed in read
mess for the trial.
The astounding part of the test is the
proposition to have in the turret of
the Florida at the time of the impact
the full turret complement of twelve
men. All paper figures, all statistics
so far as weight of metal thrown, heat
generated by impact. resisting power of
armor. and other details would indi-
cate that the men in the turret would
come out unscathed except for the
shock. OF course, there is no record
in existence of a monitor, the turret
protected by IN 11-inch armor belt. be-
ing struck plump by 13-inch shells of
$50 pounds weight. All figures are
purely theoretical.
The possibility Of missing is indefi-
nitely small. All shots are now fired
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
R NEWS NOTES.

Mark Twain has returned from Ber-
muda, benefited in health.
A block of business houses at Tarpon
Springs, Fla, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000.
Death or life Imprisonment for confirm
ed criminals is favored by ex-Judge Chas.
s. Whitman of New York.
At the annual convention of the Ma
tional Gamers Association at Cincinnati
it was decided to hold next years conven-
ton in Chicago i'm connection with a huge
exhibition of canned goods at the Coli
scum.
Samuel Gompers told labor delegates
who met in Washington, ID. c., to organ
ize a department of building trades, that
any proposal to cut wages would be re-
sisted.
The entire business section of William
son, w. Va, was threatened with de-
structi0n from a fire that started In the
Moose hotel. Beside the hotel, the Will
liams.n Bank building and five residences
were destroyed. Loss $4,000.
Memorial services in honor of the late
Rev. DR.. Denis Joseph Stafford, pastor
of st. Patrick's church i'm Washington,
ID. c., were held in that city. Addresses
were made by Vice President Fairbanks,
Senator Beverage of Indiana and others.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
NEW YORK.

Widespread stormy weather has had the
effect of dulling d~istributive trade, inter-
rupting railway traffic and restricting the
movement of grain to market to the small
est volume in twenty-five months. In
addition floods in the Ohio and tributary
valleys have restricted Industrial opera
tons for a time.
Jobbing trade, judging from the re-
ports received, continued as recently
noted, a good-sized aggregate of small or
ders for immediate or near shipment be-
ing reported at leading markets. Mill
merry. dry goods and kindred lines are in
chief demand. with staple goods preferred
to novelties. which latter are rather neg
lected.
Retail trade is at a transition point,
and is quiet as a whole, responding to
the decreased purchasing of the wage
earning classes. Talk of reduction in
wages by railroads and others Is wide
spread.
Industrial affairs show little change.
with shutdowns or short time about COIN
terbalancing assumptions. There is, for
instance, more doing in finishing lines of
iron and steel, but in crude forms rather
less is doing, and the leading producing
interest in wooden goods reports 90 per
cent of its looms idle. Shoe shipments
are a little larger at the East, and full
time has been resumed at the leading
Western manufacturing center, but ship
ments are still well behind a year ago.
Cotton goods are no lower, but prices
are very irregular, with jobbers in many
instances cutting below manufacturers
prices. There is considerably more doing
in export trade in light weight cottons
for China, some prices reported being be-
low European Observation-Disclosures Re
port.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
@NAAMERCLAL
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5snAED 9n
Fix ~ IE
'2FNANCIN
CHICAGO.

Discussing trade in Chicago and its vi
cinity, Il. g. Dun & Co.'S report says:
Allowing for the adverse effect of I'M
usually severe weather and difficulties of
transportation and communication, bust
ness as a whole has held up better than
might have been expected. Recovery il
now expedited under brighter prospects
and more animation appears in new de-
mands. although many outside buyers
have been delayed in reaching this mar
ket.
The exhibits this week of the State
banks came timely and the details of con-
dition indicate that the lending power is
satisfactorily r%ecuperated. Money re-
mains freely oEcTed at 6 per cent for
commercial paper and the supply of the
latter begins to increase, but general i'm
provement in the demand for funds is not
looked for until next month and there is
a feeling that borrowing will have to cost
less to stimulate the principal industries.
February settlements at the banks make
satisfactory progress and increasing cur
rency returns from the interior cause
more expansion of deposits here.
Additional gain is noted in machinery
and labor employed in the iron branches,
but outputs are yet short of normal and
new bookings make a meager aggregate,
although there is h~esitancy in rails. struc-
tural shapes, wire and pipe. Orders for
hardware, brass and electric goods are
yet running light, but there is fair activ-
ity in furniture-making and footwear.
Leading retail trade suffered some de-
cline from the severe storm and decrease
in purchasing ability, yet seasonable goods
were required and both local and interior
stocks of merchandise met with crafty
ing reduction where heavy winter lines
had accumulated.
Many visiting buyers made their selec-
tons in the wholesale district and there
was substantial increase in forward or
ders for dry goods, millinery, boots and
shoes and furniture.
The total business made a closer COM
parison with the high figures a year ago
and there is an improving tone as to the
outlook throughout the agricultural re-
gions.
Bank clearings. $oO4. sos, 800. are 90
per cent over those of the corresponding
week in 1907, which had only five bust
ness days.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number Al, against SO last week and
% a year ago. Those with liabilities
over $1,000 number II, against 16 last
year and 3 in 1907.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27

from a ~geometrical deduction and with
machine precision. The she'll will
doubtless land just where aimed for,
and then if the theory Of the naval
experts holds good, it will be detected
and the turret left uninjured.
Naval attaches from all parts of the
world are anxiously scrambling for an
opportunity to witness it, but the de-
partment has declined all applications f;
i'm fact, it is said the ties will be made
far out at sea, so that observations and
deduction by foreign powers cannot be
made. The chiefs in charge Of the
work to be performed by these two
monitors have been instructed by the
Board Of Officers in charge of the ex-
pertinent to say nothing to the press,
and the result is to be kept solely for
the information of the United States
navy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
Hot and Sultry.
WASHINGTON'S HEIRS.
Discovery of Ohio Property Brings
5000 of Them to Light.

C,OOO OF 1neln TO Light.
Over 5000 he~irs-at-law of George
Washington, father Of his country, yet
Il childless man, have recently been
found in different parts Of the United
States through the recent discovery
that there is a large tract of land in
Ohio which belongs to the first Presi-
dent of the United States, having been
decided to him many years ago.
These heirs, through Lawrence
Washington, who has a position in the
Congressional Library at Washington,
are preparing to make a fight for the
property. Should they succeed through
the courts, they will very probably
deed the land back to the State of
Ohio for a big national park to be
known as Washington Park.
OF all these 5000 heirs of the collat-
eral branch of the family, the descend
ants of the four brothers and two sis
tiers. there is one who has the double
distinction of being a descendant of the
immortal George on both his fathers
and his mothers side. This is George
Steptoe Washington, a merchant of
Philadelphia. On his mothers side he
is descended from Colonial Samuel
Washington, the oldest of Georges
brothers. and on his fathers side, he
is a descendant of John Augustine. the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
OHIO VALLEY FLOOD
CAUSES BIG DAMAGE
Rise of Several Rivers Is Reported
to Be the Highest in Many
Years.
SUFFERERS FLEE TO THE HILLS.
Boat Invades Flooded Cornfield to
Save Farmers and S~tock-Sick-
ness Follows Privation.

The flood throughout the Ohio val
ley. caused by heavy rains and melting
SHOWS. is reported to be the highest
since 1876. Lives have been lost.
homes. bridges and fences swept away.
and crops and roads ruined. Hun
dreds of families have been flood
bound in the overlooked areas.
The Monongahela. Allegheny, Ohio.
Wabash and smaller streams have all
contributed TO the destruction which
ward the Gulf of Mexico.
Pittsburg. perhaps. has been the
greatest sufferer from the food which
has been sweeping down the Ohio val
ley. Any one acquainted with the To-
cation of the Smoky City knows why
Pittsburg is annually, and sometimes
several times a year, a victim of high
water. The MonOngahela and Ale
gheny rivers. uniting to form the Ohio,
each flows through a narrow ravine
and when the waters of the noun
tains and highlands come down in un-
usual quantities, owing to prolonged
thaws or persistent rains, the food OF
necessity must overflow the narrow
point between the ravines, thus inun-
dating more or less of the city.
In the vicinity of the junction of the
Ohio and Wabash rivers food suffer
ers abandoned their homes to the rag
ing waters and fed to the hills. Here
they have been quartered in huts,
sheds and deserted buildings and as a
result of the exposure and ~privation
pneumonia has become prevalent.
People along the lower Ohio River
have prepared for the siege in store
for them. Nearly a hundred families
on the Indiana side, opposite Union,
town, Ohio, were removed. The big
Ohio River steamer City of Spottsville
cut across a cornfield and brought out
several families, with 200 hogs, eighty
mules and fifty cattle. The rescued
flood victims had spent two nights in
terror and fought necessarily to keep
their stock from drowning. Residents
at S~hawneetown, ILL.,, are apprehensive,
as the levee has been weakened by the
excessive rain and the three floods of
last year. A constant watch is being
kept of weak places.
The Evansville and Terre Haute
Railway Company has been anxious
about the safety of its embankment
which parallels White River. and thou
sands of bags filled with sand have been
placed TO strengthen it, This place is
now known as the BLACK Hole be-
cause of the disappearance Of a train
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27

The possibility of missing is indefi-
nitely small. All shots are now fired
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
1M MLARAg7S
@BES@

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 5000; hogs, prime heavy. S4!Oo
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c;
corn, No. 2, SIC to SIC; oats, standard,
soc to ole; rye, No. 2, soc to SIC; hay,
timothy. $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, 21c
to 32c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 25c; potatoes,
per bushel, &c to zoe.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to SAFE; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to Doc; corn, No. 3
yellow, SIC to 59c; oats, No. 2 white.
52c to 53c; rye, No. ., SEC to Soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.O4 to $1.O6; corn, No. 3, 55c to SIC;
oats, standard, 51c to 53c; rye, No. 1,
soc to Sic; barley, No. 2, SEC to SIC
pork, mess, S11.90.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, S3.5C
to S4.60; sheep, common TO good mixed,
S4.OO TO 1928; lambs, fair to choice.
$500 to S7.65.
New York-Cattle. S4.00 to $685.;
hogs. $3.50 to $4.30; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. = red, 95c to 97c:
corn. No. ., &c to 63c; oats. natural
white, 5Sc to Gle; butter, creamery, PC
to ;32c; eggs. western, PIC to 2ic.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 93c te
95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c
oats. No. . mixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No
3, Toe to SAC; clover seed, prime, $11.50
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to S5.75; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $40; sheep, common to prime,
$500 { o $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c:
corn, No. 2 white, SIC to soc; oats, No. .
white, sic to SIC.
st. L~ouis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000; hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2.
soc to SIC; oats, No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; rye,
No. ., 79c to SOC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $4.75; sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. ., 96c to 97c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, DOC to SIC: oats. No. 2
mixed, soc to sic: rye, No. 2, Soc TO SEC.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Fire destroyed the Pine Tree Worsted
Company's plant at Putnam, Conn. Loss
$4,000.
Fire destroyed the roundhouse and ma
chine shop of the Central New England
Railroad at Fishkill Landing, n. Y. Loss
100000.
Miss Alice Hollis, who is totally blind,
sailed from New York on the steamer
S%tatendam, on her way to Weisbaden,
Germany, where she hopes to recover her
sight.
Mrs. Hannah Stanhope. the woman
who had Enrico Caruso, the opera singer,
arrested for annoying her in the monkey
house of Central Park, New York, last
year. was fined / cent in court for intox-
ication and disorderly conduct.
Because they refused to give pond in
answer to indictments for requiring or
permitting others to work on Sunday,
Judge Wallace in the Criminal Court in
Kansas City ordered O.. ID. Woodward of
the Auditorium, f. S. Brigham of the
Gilliss. J.. K. Donegan of the Century
and Martin Lehman of the Orpheum 70
Jail. Later Judge McCune issued writs
of habeas corpus.
Farmers of the northern end of La
Crosse county, Wisconsin, have taken a
fresh start in the war against the tele-
phone companies by the circulation and
liberal signing of a pledge to pay no more
than 81 per month for complete telephone
service. If this is not granted, they will
establish lines of their own.
An examination of the skeleton found
at Elmhurst, Cal, shows the corpse to
be that of a man of probably 40 years
of age and of medium build. A minute
inspection of the bones was made by DIR.
r. n. Eveleth of Elmhurst, who found
unmistakable evidences of murder. The
skull had been fractured above the left
ear. and the bones cut clean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27

The proceedings of the government
looking to the dissolution of the Standard
Oil Company were continued before Judge
Ferriss at st. Louis. L. Dana Durand
testified that in the case of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Railroad shipments
of oil were way billed at II cents per hun
dred pounds, while part of such shipments
were carried at 81 cents per hundred,
and part at 6 cents per hundred. All of
the testimony brought out by Mr.. Kellogg,
counsel for the government, was designed
to show that the Standard was enabled
to obtain a monopoly of the petroleum
business through n system of secret re-
bates paid by the railroads.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions of Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Com plete.
Merry Party Hurled to Death.

A transported pair of horses that
tore through the streets of Spring Val
ley, n. Y. between them a s%plintered
wagon pole, brought to the village the
first news of a grade crossing accident
In which nine members of it's most
prominent families were either killed
outright or frightfully injured. The
horses came to a stop at the livery
stable of George Young, from whom
they had been hired the night before
to take a party of men and girls to a
basket ball game at Nyack. Return
ing in the early hours of the day, the
wagon load of merrymakers was run
down at a West Nyack crossing by an
Ontario & Western express train. Four
of the party were instantly killed, two
died while being removed to the Hud-
son County Hospital at Hoboken, N. j.,
and the other three lie in a serious
condition at that institution.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
Indiana
State News
TWO BULLETS IN HIS BRAIN.


Lutte AyIor, of Lavrenceburg, At
tempts 10 Commit Suicide.
Lutte Aylor, shipping clerk for the Nc
Cullough Drug Company. attempted sui
eide at his home in Lawrenceburg by
shooting himself twice in the head with g
revolver. His daughter Katherine, II
years old. found him lying on the floor
in an upper room. The shots will likely
prove fatal. Aylor is 81 years old. The
cause for the attempted self-destruction
is attributed to i'll health. Mr.. AyIor
is prominently identified with the holiness
church and is conspicuous in the Anti
Saloo League. He has a wife and five
small children. The recent failure to
close the saloons in the city, in which at
tempt he was very much interested, is
said to have weighed heavily on his al
ready weakened mind.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

Fire destroyed the main business see
ton of Bicknell, including a new NJ asonic
hall. Loss $4,000, with no insurance.
Dawson Daugherty, a farmer of Taylor
township, has been acquitted of the charge
of assaulting Mrs. John Dickcy of Scot
land.
Andrew Johnson of Chicago and Ed
ward vanderen of Green Bay, Wis, were
killed by a train at Porter. while walking
IN the tracks of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railroad.
George w. Blacker, % years old, con-
Tossing burglary at the w. III. Davidson
hardware store i'm Lawrenceburg. has
been sentenced under the new law to from
ten to twenty years in the Indiana re-
~formatory. The court was inclined TO
be %lenient, but under his plea Of guilty
could do no less.
Francis L. Roots, president of the
First National bank at ConnersviIle. com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. He had been in bad
health for several months. Mr.. Roots
served several terms in the legislature
oaao "tc viii a aALON Va b1It
ness interests in Connersville.
Fire broke out at the Indiana reform
atory in Jacksonville, due to electric
wires in the library, which is in a room
Immediately below the chapel. The dis
coyery was made by Alfred Wild, night
captain, who turned in an alarm and q
well-drilled fire department turned out
and was at work in a few minutes. The
fire was restricted to one room and the
damage to the woodwork did not exceed
$50, but 400 books were practically de-
stroyed by fire and water. with an erti-
mated loss of $500.
While in the act of loading a shotgun
Jasper Terrell, a wealthy farmer of Glib
son county, shot and killed his sister,
Mrs. Columbus Rlmble, % years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27

At a meeting of fifty men interested in
charitable movements Of New York City
it was decided to erect a 100000 build
ing to be used as a home and workshop
for the worthy unemployed. who are will
ing to work. 1t will make no appeal
to the professional vagrant or tramp. DIR.
Harvey Furbay. one Of the founders,
says that charity lodging houses are much
imposed upon by the drones of society.
The new plan is expected to separate
these from the earnest u~nfortunates. IT
is expected that the work will make the
charity self-sustaining. The statement
was made that out of 997 men of the bet
ter class of unemployed so were found
to be college graduates.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-27
The Gates Train is peraiIed.

The special train bearing the
Charles Gates Mexican touring party
was derailed at Orrville, twelve miles
north of Laredo, Texas. Thirty peo-
pie are reported injured. According to
the dispatch every car in the train left
the track and all were thrown into
the ditch. The train consisted Of nine
cars, Eve of which were sleepers. Most
Of the passengers were from Toledo,
Ohio, and Chicago, but a number Of
San Antonio people were on board the
train. A special train was sent from
Laredo with doctors and nurses and
another from San Antonio. Late ad-
vices say the wreck was due to a
broken axle on the engine. None Of
the passengers were killed.