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

plished wife in the next room escaped
unframed. The anti Semitic Libre Pa
role charges Mime. Steiheil with hav-
ing poisoned President Faure because
he opposed revision OF the Dreyfus
case
One man in Paris. high i'm the conf
dence of the government officials, gives
I story Of President Faure's death hith-
erto untold. This man said that Pres
ident Faure visited Nine. Steinheil Sc
cretly the afternoon of Feb. 16. 1899,
at her home. The President had an en-
gagement for the afternoon at the Ely
see palace, and when he did not appear
Mile. Faure, his daughter, searched for
him. finally going to Nine. Steinheil's
home. There she found her father seat
ed In an arm chair, dead.
When the household had recovered
from the shock the body of the Presi-
dent was conveyed from the house
through back streets of Paris to the
Elysee Palace and there the formal
announcement was made of death by
apoplexy. 1t was said the President
had died I'm his own home, but Euro
pean courts were secretly informed Of
the real facts.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
125 DIE IN EXPLOSION.
Nearly All at Work Killed by Gas
in Marianne, Pa, Mine.

At least 13S men, mostly Americans
or English speaking miners. are dead
in the Pittsburg- uBffalo Coal Com
pany's mine at Mariana. in Washing
ton County, Pennsylvania. The. men
were caught in an explosion just before
noon Saturday and when rescuers broke
through the debris, all were found dead.
The force of the explosion was such
that the heavy iron cage which carried
the men from the surface TO the work
ings was blown 800 feet away from
the mouth of the shaft Two men who
were on the cage at the time were kill
ed, one of them having his head blown
off
The workings in which the catastro-
phe happened is known IS the Rachel
and Agnes mines, in reality a double
mine with underground connections.
Construction work was practically fin
ished and Deputy State Mine Inspector
Henry Louttit few minutes before
the explosion had completed two
days inspection which had revealed no
cause for apprehension.
The bodies of the men were hurled
through the top of the building and
far beyond it. Thompson was dead
when picked up, while the others, al
though MORALLY injured, were hurried
TO hospital.
So great was the force Of the eXplo-
sion that shattered portions of the
woodwork about the mouth of the shaft
were blown into Ten Mile Greek, 1000
feet from the shaft. Besides the three
men in the cage. portions of at least
two other bodies were blown from the
shaft and were found in the field near
by. The yentilating fans were put out
Of commission by the explosion, and
for several hours, until repairs could
he made, no air could be forced into
the mine. Immediately following the
explosion dense column OF smoke is
sued from the shafts and il was feared
Il fierce fire was raging at the bottom
Of the mine.
\ short time afterwards the smoke
almost CT sly ceased. but those on
the surface were unable to tell whether
the fire had been smothered out or the
shafts so filled with falling debris that
the smoke could not escape. Rescue
work was Immediately started.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
6HO0kS
0LLEaEs
~~OOOON~OO~

DIR. II. S. Copeland, now dean of the
New York Homeopathic college, will ten
der his resignation from the University
of Michigan faculty.
Prof. Richard c. MacLaurin, professor
of physics and mathematics at Columbia
has accepted the presidency of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Southern Minnesota teachers have APP
pointed committees to act with commit
desired legislation for the schools this
winter.
The Minnesota board of regents has de-
cided not to repair or rebuild the anat-
omy building recently burned. but TO erect
an entirely new building. adequate to the
needs of the department.
Through the General Education Board
John ID. Rockefeller has offered the Rich
mond College of Richmond, Va, $780,
600 onscondition that the Baptsts of the
State raise an additional $4,000, the
object being the development of the in
stitution into a great Baptist university
for the South. Rockefeller regards Rich
mond as the strategic point for such a
college.
AT the Minnesota university freshmen
girls have just completed the organiza-
ton TO further the acquaintance and
friendliness of the girls of the class, many
Of whom come to the school with few ac-
ousintances The organization will be
similar to the Cap and Gown of the senior
girls.
Commandant c. W. Weeks of the Iowa
university regiment is planning to or
ganize a company of university students
into a cavalry troop. Already saber
drills have been given company of the
student soldiers and the equipment soon
will be secured from the United States
government
Liang Ching Kwai, Chinese educational
commissioner, has arrived in Chicago to
establish a school in that city for Chi
nese children. The school will be support
ed by the Chinese government, and by
contributions given by local Chinese mer-
chants. The commissioner came to Amer
lea on a special educational mission a few
months ago, and has already established
schools i'm San Francisco and New York
Members of the Minnesota school
board are discussing a plan for making
the present high school buildings of the
city do double duty, with both morning
and afternoon sessions, thus obviating
the necessity of building any more high
schools in that city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
END OF TOBACCO WAR.
Trust Yields to Growers Organiza-
ton and Iawlessness Will Cease.

After years of fighting. involving the
depredations of night riders, the Amer
lean Tobacco Trust has closed a deal
with the Burnley Tobacco Society, its I'M
relenting foe for five years, involving
the sum of Sl4.000.0O0 and SOOOO,O0O
pounds of hurley tobacco. Practically
all of the money will be put into circu-
lation at once in Central Kentucky. and
after long period of self-enforced pow
erty. that part of the State producing
hurley tobacco once more will be pros
porous. The transaction also marks an
unusual situation in the United States,
in that great corporation has been
worsted by n band of humble. but de-
termined farmers.
The Burley Tobacco Society is an
organization that comprises about fifty
five counties in the northern and CEN
trail portion of Kentucky. and has in'its
membership all tobacco raisers. These
growers pooled all of their crops of
1906 ard 1907. and the organization
was controlled exactly like any corpor-
alton or trust would be, that is-by
officers and an executive board.
For years previous to the time the
farmers organized, the American To-
bacco Company had been driving out
competition and setting price upon to-
bacco from their offices in New York
and had not for four or five years al
lowed the farmer practically any profit
for raising the weed, never>,payins
more than or cents pound as an
average.
The tobacco growers. knowing that
the trust was realizing at least from
40 cents to 81 for the Burley tobacco
after it was manufactured for consump-
ton. decided as last resort, to organ
ize against trust prices. This they did,
with the result that by the recent deal
tlHy received an average of nearly 10
cents pound for their tobacco, thus
attesting they have gained their point
This was done by curtailing the pro-
duction and not raising n crop this
year.
Lawlessness was brought about IN
several counties of the hurley district
because farmers refused to go in the
pool and wanted to take advantage of
the high prices paid by the Independent
buyers and raise crop. To hot-head-
ed members of the Burley society this
brought about much disorder, as these
obstinate farmers were either forced
into the pool by threats or duly pun
ished, either by violence to person or
to their property. While the officers
and leading members of the Burley So
ciety frowned upon these acts Of law
lessness, they, in a manner, nodded con-
seat to some of the depredations that
were committed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
CHICAGO.

The usual indexes of activity make
healthy exhibit. Payments through the
banks indicate a satisfactory average,
and the default record is about normal.
Trade generally is sustaining its recov-
cry, while new demands strengthen the
outlook i'm manufactures. Permits for
new business structures and additions
now excel all former experience, this
months aggregating S6O69, 400, against
only S352.2O0 in 1907, and $500, 100 in
1906. Thanksgiving sales rose to sat
isfactory totals, but colder weather
would have been more beneficial in
leading retail lines. Distribution Of
commodities shows increased tonnage
by both rail and lake.
Failures reported i'm the Chicago dis
trict number 26, against Is last week,
% in 1907, and % in 1906. Those with
liabilities of more than $1,000 number
;, against ) last week, Is i'm 1907, and
8 in 190G.-Dun's Review Of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
q. & o. Limited Wrecked.

One man was killed, five others seri-
ously injured and many passengers
shaken up when train No. 5, known as
the Chicago Limited. on the Pittsburg
& Western branch of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, crashed into a "buckled"
freight train near Valencia, about
twenty miles north of Pittsburg. The
wreck was due to the breaking of a
long freight train on the grade near
the scene of the accident. One of the
ears on the end of the rear part of the
disconnected freight lurched out over
the northbound tracks just as the linz
tied came along.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
PREDICTS CHILDLESs WORLD.
Great Peril i'm Race Suicide Ia~ Seen
by-Prof. Wilcox of Cornell.

That there will be no children left If
present race suicide tendencies continue
during the next century throughout the
civilized world was prediction made by
Prof Walter z. Wilcox before the class
in sanitary science and public health at
Cornell university, Ithaca, y. y. The
true reason for the fall in the birth rate, !"
he said, lis that in modern times, mainly
in the last half century. births and the
birth rate have come under the control of
human will and choice in a sense and to
a degree never before true. This power
to control increase has been used and is
being used to-day with reference to pri-
vate economic advantage and far too little
with due consideration to social welfare
and progress"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Lumber manufacturers of the Middle
Northwest will send a committee to
Washington to urge the removal of the
tariff on lumber. Pacific coast lumber
men are said TO favor a retention of the
duty.
Winona jobbers and manufacturers
have entered formal protest against the
recent action brought about by the Sea
board lines by which the through rates
from the East to Winona and La Crosse
on freight have been raised above the
rates granted to st. Paul, which rates
have been given Winona and La Crosse
for a number of years.
The value Of the more important min
erals produced in the United States in
1907 is placed as follows: Coal, S6i4.-
19S, S9S: iron, 500, 1855, 900; copper,
S179, T99,3 800; clay products, S15S, 942,
369: petroleum, $l20, 1O6.749; gold. $780,
435, 200; stone, $7f,105,S05; cement,
So, 9O3,S51; natural gas, So, .S35 !;
lead, $3S, 107, 576; silver, $37, 299, 700 !;
zinc. SIG, 4O1 $40; sand and gravel, etc.
S13, 242, OO2; lime, S12,64O,512; phosphate
rock, S1O,G53,55S; salt, $7,439,5 51 min
erai waters, pt ,co1, Joo, ziuc. WHITE. DO
10000; slate, $6,019,2 20; sa,nhur, ST.
1850.
Judge NJ. d. Purdy has signed an order
extending the time at which the receivers
of the Pil!sbury-W asht urn company are
to make their report to the court thirty
days beyond the expiration of the ninety
days from the date they were appointed.
The Tobacco Growers Union of the
Wisconsin American Society of Equity,
has decided to make Chippewa Falls one
of the tobacco growing centers of the
State Large tobacco warehouses will be
erected and tobacco will be shipped in
from surrounding counties to be prepared
for the markets The Progressive League
will provide the site for the tobacco ware
houses.
At Belleville, ILL.,, Judge Moore, in the
Circuit Court, has issued a permanent
injunction restraining 10 fire insurance
companies doing business in Illinois from
fixing rates and maintaining joint agent
at East st. Louis The suit was begrn
in June, 1902, by ii. J. Hamlin, then
Attorney General of Illinois.
Charles NJ. Meyers and Edward NJ.
Collie, receivers for the Telephone, Tele-
graph and Sable Company of America,
have filed in the New Jersey Supreme
Court the declaration i'm their suit against
John Jacob Astor to recover $1,000
claimed TO be due for an assessment on
stock of the company alleged to have
been subscribed for by him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

In Belgium rhe exploitation of rail-
roads by the State is proving disastrous.
The deficit on last years working was
estimated between $4,000 and $1,000
900, but it will exceed S2,000,000.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
has added another order for $500 cars,
and has just placed the contracts for their
early delivery This will mean the con-
sumption of 10000 tons of structural
steel.
The machine shop. boiler shop and
blacksmith shop of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company at Brainerd. which
have been running but eight hours per
day for the past year, went hack to nine
hours last week.
The Arkansas State railroad commits
sion has voted TO issue an order to the
railroads against their charging Scent
passenger rate All the railroads are
now charging this rate and heavy penalty
suits will follow on the part of the State.
Judge Thicker in the federal court at
Little Falls, Ark. granted the nine aux
iiary Iron Mountain lines temporary
injunction against the 2-cent passenger
rate and freight tariff. promulgated last
winter by the railroad commission.
A new rate sheet, prevalent through
out the United States, excepting Michi-
gan, has just been put in by the Pullman
company, which. il is said, will result in
an increase yearly of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. For chair cars the COM
pany proposes to increase the cost every
ten miles, instead of every fifty as at
present.
The unfavorable results of the State
ownership of railroads in Switzerland
promises to be a leading issue i'm the
coming electoral campaign. The confed-
Grafton has S240.O00OOO invested in rail-
ways The deficit this year will be be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
With the formal signing of a general
contract with a prominent construction
firm. ii was stated that actual work on
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company's new S20.000,O00 depot and
terminal facilities in Chicago will begin
at once. When completed, two years
hence, the new station will be the largest
and most costly west of the Alleghenies.
Three new railroad branches in the Ca
madam Northwest have recently been
opened for traffic The Canadian North
srn railway inaugurated its service on
The Brandon Regina Line. 225 miles long.
The Canadian Pacific Line from Yorkton,
Sask., to Leslie, Sask., sixty-six miles,
was opened, &c was also its ninety-one-
nile line running from Moose Jaw. Sask.,
% Conan, known as Outlook, Sask.
Two small loans for railroad construc-
ion and improvement have been signed in
Pekin. One is for Sl.075,000 and will
De used for the neutrality-suspicious. line.
The term is twenty-five years, issue price.
%. interest, . per cent. Half of il ID
] AIKEN in japan and half in China.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Two clks in The San Francisco (Cal.)
geological garden engaged in fight that
resulted in the death of one
Lombroso's nephew, Guglielmo Ferrero
of Rome. will visit the President when he
comes 10 this country to lecture.
The cultivation of the camphor tree as
a substitute for orange cultivation is be-
ing considered in parts of Florida.
Mrs George Heimrod, wife of the
American consul at Berne. Switzerland.
a former resident of Omaha, died in the
Swiss capital.
Mrs. Matthew Birchard, mother of Mrs.
Frank III. Mason. wife of the American
consul in Paris, France, is dead there at
the age of 80.
ment house at 221 Sidney street, St.
Louis. Two children were badly burned
and man is missing.
William A. Biggs of Greenv;lle, Miss,
was found dead in deserted house near
his home. The body of woman was
in the room with that of Biggs.
Wells Brothers Company's big depart.
ment store at Litchfeld, Mimi, was burn
ed the other day. Loss on stock and
buildings. 100000; insurance $4,000.
Count Anton Sigray, cousin and best
man for Count Szechenyi when he welded
Miss Vanderbilt, has eloped with a 20
year-old Austrian girl, the daughter of
Count Haroncourt.
The Right Rev. F. A. Gosket, now en-
gagged in translating the Vulgate of St.
Jeromes translation Of the Bible, has no
funds with which to work, according to
Rome dispatches.
Frank Melville, one of the best known
circus men in the United States and for
a number of year, equestrian director of
the Hippodrome in New York City, sue
cumbed to heart failure in the general
Offices of the Hippodrome.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
5000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD.
Guthrie, Ok, Half Under Terrific
Torrent of Water.

Three thousand persons were made
homeless when the Cottonwood river,
fed by its tributaries, .overfowed its
banks Sunday and Inundated half the
city Of Guthrie, Okla.
Hundreds Of persons who refused to
get out ~ the flooded district, believ-
ing that the river would not rise as
rapidly rs it did. fired shots of dis
tress before sunset and hundreds of
boats with an army of rescuers brought
many of the tardy ones to places Of
safety.
So rapid was the rise in the Cot
tOnwood that twenty head of cattle
were drowned before they could be got
ten out of the waters Street car serv-
ice is completely at standstill. The
city's water plant is under water. Five
thousand dollars worth of cotton be-
longing to the Farmers oil mill was
washed away down stream
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
WAS NJ. FAURE SLAIN
BY NINE. sTE|NHE|Ll
Confession of Woman in French
Murder Case Involves Several
Noted Personages.
FRIEND OF LATE PRESIDENT.
Paris Infiamed by Charge Artists
Widow Poisoned Executive
Noted Suspect Is in Jail.

After almost ten years of mystery. il
is charged that a woman poisoned Fe-
lix Faure, president of France, because
he opposed revision of the Dreyfus
Ease. Whether she was the instrument
Of conspirators is question that Is
shaking France. On the answer may
depend tremendous political uphear-
al. The accused woman is Mime. Stein
he'll, who has been arrested for the
murder of her artist husband, Adolphe
Steinhill, rich and famous, and Nine.
Japy, his mother-in-law.
President Faure died suddenly in the
house of NJ. and Nine. Steinheil, Feb.
16, 1899, and no arrests ever were
made. Steinheil and Nine. Japy were
strangled to death the night of May 80.
1908. The artists beautiful and accom-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
murder and Suicide.

Actuated by jealousy r. ]. Byman
(colored) shot and killed Mrs. Myrtle
Evans (colored) and himself near the
Pennsylvania freight house in Fort
Wayne, Ind. Two witnesses saw the
trouble, but heard none of the CONVEX
sation. When officers arrived on the
scene half minute later the two ne
groes were found lying outstretched on
the brick driveway beaving their last
groans The man died within five min.
utes, but traces life were noticed in
the woman for minutes or more.
On Mr. Byman's sons was found a
letter addressed to Mr.. Charles Allen,
Gary. Ind
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
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Mr.. Rockefeller's memory is a miracle
OF mobility.-Indianapolis Star.
Mr.. Rockefeller's original investment
in oil was only $4,000, since when the in
side of the earth has continued to run
out at his feet.-Galveston News.
The uncertain memory of Deacon John
on the witness stand is bad recon-
mendation for that autobiography.-At-
lanta Constitution.
John ID. Rockefeller insists that the oil
business is hazardous" That's so there
is always danger that the tank may
spring a leak, thar one of the horses may
run away. or that autumn leaves may
get into the pipe line.-Kansas City Star.
1t may be gathered from Mr.. Rookie
feller's testimony before the court that the
Standard Oil Company was not brought
up on baby food.-Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Rockefeller justifies the enormous
Standard Oil profits on the plea that the
business has been hazardous" And Pres
ident Roosevelt has introduced a new ele-
nent of hazard for Standard Oil opera
tions7the hazard that attends violations
of law.-Kansas City Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

I'm ready to start and take my med
icine like II man." he said. Consider
ing the Grcumstantial evidence that
was produced against me i suppose
am lucky.
I'm just as innocent as you are of
what l was charged with, but it amt
any wonder the jury thought what it
did. The way 1 acted that morning
of the fire certainly looked suspicious
when it was presented in court.
Il thought Belle G1nness was not in
the fire, because all the money she must
have had wasn't shown up But after
hearing the evidence il looks to me rs
if that must have been her body in the
fire"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

tions in the empire. The fifth article
mutually pledges the two governments,
in the case of "the occurrence of any
event threatening the status quo" as
above described, or the principle of
equal opportunity, as above defined
ito communicate with each other for
the purpose of arriving at a mutual
understanding" with regard to the
measures they may consider it useful TO
4..l.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Two Boys Buried Alive in Sand Bank.

Verne Grippe and Walter Evans, of
Walkerton, Ind, aged 10 and 13 years,
were found buried in a sand bank near
the Baltimore & Ohio coal chutes. The
boys had left home early in the day to
spend the day in their cave in the sand
bank. The heavy rains caused the roof
Of the cave to fall in. The boys had
been dead three hours when found.
They were of prominent families, who
had been searching for them for hours
Two young companions led them TO
the cave which was the boys tomb.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
100 DIE WHEN STEAMER SINKS
Philippine COasffpE Vessel Strikes
N Rock DuriuE n Storm

Philippine Coasfipg Vessel Strikes
Rock During Storm.
The coasting steamer Pointing. carrying
large number of laborers from Narva-
can to the rice fields in Pangasinan PROV
ince L. L.. struck a rock and sank during
a storm off the town of San Fernando i'm
Union province. 1t is estimated that
hundred of the passengers and crew were
drowned. The steamer Viscaya rescued
fifty-fve a patrol of constabulary which
was established Immediately after the ac-
cident picked up fifteen bodies anu many
more were coming ashore. 1t is not known
whether any Americans or Europeans
were aboard the wrecked steamer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Rob Bank of All Cash-s4 900.

Six robbers dynamited the bank of
Page, Neb., securing all the cash in the
bank, said to be about $1,000, and made
good their escape. While two men did
the work the others stood guard. Two
guests of hotel near the bank witnessed
the whole affair, but did not give an
alarm, fearing they would be shot.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

The Kaiser has not yet learned his
trade What he needs is Loeb.-New
York World.
The German Emperor can go off be-
hind the barn and talk 10 himself as
much as he likes.-Baltimore Sun.
What has happened at Berlin is quite
as likely to be the beginning of something
as the nd.-Indianapolis Star.
Poor William. While his friend Theo-
lore is to be an editor, he, the Emperor
Of Germany, has been compelled to bow
the knee to the blue pencil of the chan
celor.-Detroit- News.
IL the Kaiser is not having a corking
good time it is not because he has not
been bottled up.-Atlanta Constitution.