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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
NEW TRAGEDY AT SPRINGFIELD.
Woman Who Is Said to Have Led
Mob Commits Suicide.


Mob Commits Suicide.
Mrs. Kate Howard. who is said to
have led the fierce mob during the re-
cent race riots in Springfield, I'LL, made
good her boast that she would die by
her own hand il pushed too far She
died at the county Jail ut 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning, few minutes
after she had been arrested on a charge
of murder Poison swallowed while in
the custody of an officer at her home
did its deadly work while en- route TO
the prison and she collapsed before en-
tering the steel doors, dying few min
utes later. The woman was ~ years of
age.
To the last the woman on whose
shoulders had been laid much of the
responsibility for the reign OF terror
that possessed Springfield on Aug. IA
and 10 denied her guilt. Her last
words to the officers who had arrested
her were: Il am not guilty of the MUIR
der of anyone Yet a few moments
later she swallowed the deadly draught
which ended all her earthly troubles
and fulfilled her boast that she would
flnd release In death should additional
charges be preferred against her.
The special grand jury investigating
the recent race riots returned its firS
indictment for murder Wednesday af-
ternoon. Three indictments were re-
and William Donegan. the negroes who
met death at thu hands of the mob
Mrs. Howard and Abe Raymer were
charged with having led the mob which
1ynched Burton at the corner of 10Th
and Madison streets early Saturday
morning, Aug. Is.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
PosToFFICE THIEVES GET So, 900.
Blow Open Safe and Take Stamps,
Registered Letters and Money.

Dynamiters descended the other night
on the Waukegan Qll.) postoffice and in
spectacular raid carried off everything
of value the place contained. Forcing
open the safe they found plumber worth
$1,000 in postage stamps and cash. They
sawed their way into the Office through a
stairway, the top of which rested on the
ceiling, and dropped twelve feet to the
floor. The way in which the safe had
been opened mysti6ed the postmaster,
Charles G. Watrous. when he arrived in
the morning. Dynamite had been used.
but the locks had been turned as neatly
as If the burglars knew the combination.
fresh supply of stamps had just been
received by the postmaster and the po-
lice are working on the theory that the
daring robbery was committed by some
one who had knowledge of this fact.
widespread man hunt was begun at once
following the discovery of the robbery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
$4,000, 900 NEW ORLEANS FIRE.
Members Of Department at Picnic
and Flames Get Bie. Start.

Fire in the center of the commercial
district of New Orleans swept over por-
tious of three blocks, destroying a large
number of wholesale houses, manufacture
ing plants and small stores Originating
at Bienville and Chartres streets, the
flames worked their way north as far as
Cont street and west toward Royal,
bringing about loss of about $4,000, 900.
At the time the alarm was turned in the
New Orleans iremen were in the midst
of their annual picnic at a suburban
park. and the engines and patrols re-
sponded with mere handful of men.
Among the establishments burned were
Central Glass Company George ID. Scott,
lighting and electrical instruments; Hell
denheim, Levy and Weiss, shirt manu-
facturers Hoehn & Dieth. wholesale mil
linery Kost Commission Company Paul
Gelpi x Sons, wholesale liquor dealers
New Orleans Junk Company; Isidor
Keiffer & Co.. boots and shoes, and Thorn
as l.. Harris, wholesale liquor dealer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
BIG MORTGAGE Is FoREcLosEn.


American Trust and Savings Banh
Wins 100000 Case.
On complaint of the American Trust
and Savings bank of Chicago against the
Citizens Heat and Light Company of
Elwood, calling for $4,000 by foreclos-
ure of mortgage. Judge Grenlee in the
Madison Superior Court found for the
plaintiff in the sum of 1851, 2S5. Judg-
ment was also rendered in favor of Ma
son, Lewis & Co. of Chicago for S5f,9S5-
G. r. Call of Chicago, counsel for the
plaintiff. was allowed $500 as fees and
the Elwood Trust Company, as receiver.
$1,000. The receiver was ordered to Sell
the property of the Citizens Heat and
Light Company at the court house in An
derson Sept. Is. The Citizens Heat and
Light Company owns the electric light
plant, and also controls all of the gas
franchises and gas lines at Elwood. But
little Elwood capital is interested. The
original issue of bonds by the defendant
company was S342O 900. and it is alleged
interest has been defaulted until the in
debtedness exceeds $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
KERMIT SAVES THREE LIVES.
Presidents Son Stops Runaway
Team at Great Danger to Self.


Kermit Roosevelt, who is to accompany
his father, President Roosevelt, on his
hunting trip to the African jungles next
year, displayed his courage and his skill
as horseman the other afternoon at
Oyster Bay. On horseback he pursued
for more than a mile pair of runaway
biooded horses dragging behind them a
carriage in which was a helpless woman
and her two little sons. BY stopping the
runaway, at TIE risk of serious injury TO
himself, he undoubtedly saved the three
lives. Frank Hilton. New York bust
ness man, arrived at Oyster Bay on a late
afternoon train and was met by his wife
and her two sons in the carriage. On the
way home they attempted TO pass dis
abled automobile and the wheel of the
carriage struck a post. The shock threw
Mr.. Hilton out. and the horses ran away.
Kermit Roosevelt out for ride, was
few hundred feet behind and Immediately
gave chase. After repeated efforts, at
danger to himself. he succeeded in stop
ping the team
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
WOMAN SLAIN SHIELDING SON.


Drunken Farmer shoots Mother-fn-
Law After Carousai.
Mrs. Sarah Margaret Meacham of La
porte was shot and killed by her son-in-
law, William DELPHI. while trying to pro-
tect her son. William Edward Meacham,
from Delph's anger. DELPHI. truck farm
er, had been drinking heavily with his
brother-in-law. George Meacham. They
took home with them two quarts of whis-
ky, which they drank. They quarreled
with William Meacham and Other rela-
tives, and Mrs. Meacham was shot while
endeavoring to hasten William into the
house away from DELPHI.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Much Insured Mans Body Found.

A body, believed to be that of William
McCracken. who disappeared from his
home in Nelogony. Okla. Aug. 9, after
taking out life insurance for 1000, was
found in the Arkansas river. Insurance
companies have been resisting payment
on the ground that McCracken's disap-
pearance was a part of scheme to de-
fraud them
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
POLICEMAN KILLS BURGLAR.
Former Fireman Caught Robbing
Man Who Befriended Him.

Caught in the act of robbing the house
of neighbor who had many times be-
friended him, Edward Mooney, former
city fireman with a record for heroism,
was shot and mortally wounded by Pa
trolman Harrington in Philadelphia. Har-
rington was notified that burglars were at
work in the home of Frederick Eastwick
and on entering found Mooney ransack-
ing a bedroom. Mooney turned out the
light, and exclaiming. well, it is you
and me for it." jumped at the policeman.
Both drew revolvers, but Harrington shot
first, and a bullet entered the former
freman's head, infiicting a wound from
which he died later in hospital.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

According to the figures for the last
year available, Americans used the tel
ephone 3,6S0.0OO.OOO times, against
3,114, 541 ,G91 times abroad. In Europe.
with its five times greater population,
there were J,126,SsO subscribers, as
compared to 2,241,367 in the United
States
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
BUILDING AND LOAN FAILURE.
Bedford Crash Is More Serious than
ut First Expected.

Bedford Crash IL More Serious than
ut First Expected.
The failure of the Bedford Building,
Savings and Loan Association is more
serious than first reported. The stock
holders and shareholders will realize but
little. if anything. from the wreckage-
Instead of there being any money in the
treasury the association is in debt to the
Citizens bank $4,000 for borrowed
money. and when asked il this report was
true Secretary Dyer refused to affirm or
deny it. Many poor people of Bedford
will suffer, having for years put all their
hard earned savings in the institutions
hands. The failure IS a complete one, as
the loans outstanding do not equal the
liabilities. 1t is said the assets are only
$1,000, and this is not enough to pay
what the association owes for borrowed
money. leaving nothing for the stockhold-
ers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

The vessel movement on tine great
lakes aggregated 1850 vessels, of 3d.
1876, 400 net tons register, cleared from
the various lake ports, comp~red with
1851 vessels, of 94,094,316 net tons
register, cleared during the preceding
season.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
1900 MINERS CLOSE STRIKE.

Indianians. However, Refuse 10
Obey Lewis Order.
With the strike in the bituminous coal
field officially ended by the announcement
that the operators association had
agreed to the demands of the United
Mine Workers of District No. IL, 1900
miners were at work Friday and nothing
remains to be adjusted but the troubles
at the Hudson mine. Terre Haute. Not
withstanding that President Lewis has
threatened to take the charter from the
miners employed at the Hudson mines IL
they do not return to their labors imme-
diately pending a settlement, the miners
steadily refuse to go back unless the
driver who was discharged is reinstated-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
NATION OWNS HUGE LAND AREA
Report Shows 754, 1895, 296 Acres I'm
disposed OF in Various States.

The general land Office in Washington
has compiled its annual statement show
ing the area of the public domain re-
naming undisposed of on July /, 1908.
The reports were recently received from
the various local land Offices in the pub
lie land States. excepting Alaska.
From the statement it appears that the
government still has an area of 754, $685.
26 acres of surveyed and unsurveyed
public lands distributed as follows:
Alabama, 129.713; Alaska 36S, OIL
500: Arizona. 42,769,202; Arkansas. L.
O6O 1876: California. 29,S72. 493; Colo
RADIO, 23.696.697 Florida, 414.942; Idaho,
20, 1S5.O02; Kansas. III ,446; Louisiana,
1929: Michigan. 1861: Minnesota,
1.7SS,I05; Mississippi. 42.791; Missouri,
2T.4S0; Montana. 1862. 40; Nebraska,
3.014, 65S: Nevada. 81, 177O50: New Mex
leo. A. III 800; North Dakota, 2,322, $50 I:
Oklahoma, $3.50; Oregon. 1851 ,913;
South Dakota. 6.561 ,295: Utah. 36,57S.-
99S: Washington, 4.635.O01; Wisconsin,
1920; Wyoming. Bias, 1902; total, 754,-
800 296
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Big Bank Robbery in Canada.

Five masked men dynamited the
safe in the Provincial bank at ST.
Eutasche, ten miles from Montreal,
and secured $4,000. They held up
the caretaker and kept a posse of cit
liens at bay with revolvers and made
good their escape to Montreal. Two
arrests have been made on suspicion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
SHONTS SAYS RAILROADS WAIT.
Will Make Few improvements Until
They Know Election Results.


That the approaching election will have
much to do with the making or the MARI
ing of the railroad future was the gist of
a statement made by Il. Z. Shorts. presi-
dent Of the Chicago and Alton and Clover
Leaf railroads and father of the Duchess
de Chaulnes. who was in Chicago en-
route for a Homecoming celebration at
Centerville. Iowa. He refused to COM
NIT himself with regard to political pref
erence.
Railroad property is falling away be-
low the usual standard at which it is held
because of the uncertainty in the outlook.
The railroads of the country are not
spending a dollar for Improvements.
have not spent a dollar for such purpose
within a year nor bought nor laid ton
of rails. The other day | bought 1000
steel cars for the Alton because they were
absolutely necessary. That is the only
reason that any railroad will spend a
penny at this time
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

of the State Federation of Women's
founded the Jane Jefferson Democratic
Club.
-
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States Supreme Court is % years old.
Despite his flowing snow-white hair
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

THE mere fact that a man is sent
by his doctor to some particular baths
or springs where he sees other invaliCs
confident OF a cure makes him think
that he, too. can get WELL" said DIR. Il
Murray Leslie, speaking at the Incor
porated Institute of Hygiene in London
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Duluth Plans Aerial Road.

Following the construction of its
aerial bridge, which is the only one OF
it's kind in America. Duluth may build
an aerial railroad like the famous Staar.
brucken road in Germany, with cars sus.
pended from a single trestle. The rail
way will be a suburban line and avenues
will be provided with moving sidewalks to
act as feeders for the new line.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

tional convention at
Denver. Is known
I'm Colorado and the
East as a lecturer
on woman suffrage
and has always
taken an active
part in State and
city politics. She
was the first super
intendent of schools
in Adams county
and has held other
po litical offices.
Several years ago
she WAS president
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

work. Mr.. Hitchcock was born at Am
herst. O.. Oct. ), 1867. He was gradu-
ated from Harvard University and en-
tered government service at Washing
ton as clerk i'm 1891. While clerk
he read law and became interested in
secretary TO the Republican National
Committee he was made chief clerk in
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor. whence he was promoted to the
Post Office Department.
-:
Gov. Claude Augustus Swanson of
Virginia, who seconded the nomination
of William Jennings Bryan at the Den
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Victim Only Aided Thieves.

Stephen Day. politician living near
Mendoza, ILL.,. hung lighted lanterns in
his orchard to brighten away thieves.
He awoke to find he had furnished
light by which they could strip the
darkest corner. He kicked the Ian
terms to pieces.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
NOTIFIED OF PUNISHMENT.
Letters Sent West Point Cadets Tell
ing Them of Presidents Orders.

Adjt Gen. Ainsworth of the army has
forwarded letters to Cadets William T..
Rossell, Jr., and Harry L. Weaver. the
suspended first class men of the military
academy at West Point, informing them
of their dismissal from the academy in
pursuance of orders from the President
and Secretary of War Wright. Adjt.
Gen. Ainsworth also sent letters to the
six third class men suspended from the
academy for hazing. informing them that
they had been suspended until June 10,
1909, when they will be ordered to return
to the academy, unless they shall mean
time resign.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Long Fast Wins a Husband,

Miss Eta Priscilla Grove, the Chicago
school teacher. who won fame by fasting
forty days in Long Beach. Cal. recently
married Grant Barber of Willow Brook.
Mr.. and Mrs Barber met while the bride
was undergoing her long fast and the
young man says he loved her because of
her discrimination to continue the fast
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

YER convention. was
a COngre S man
from the Fifth Vir-
ginia District for
fourteen years be-
fore his election as
Governor in 1906.
He is Il self-made
man. obtaining his
general and legal
education through
his own efforts, and
he has followed the
plOw on a farm. A
year ago he was
1o..,~I% g. -Ilso
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Kern Is Notified.

John Worth Kern was notified formal
ly at Indianapolis of bis nomination for
Vice President by the Democratic nation
al convention and replied outlining the
issues w. J. Bryan made a speech. dis
cussing trusts and Analysing Taft's speech
of ocoaptopoa
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
RICH MAN Is PREY FOR ANTS.
Falls Ill in Road and Hundreds Pass,
Ignoring His Appeals.

6ASAAh6 AAAo hPR~oAS'
Burton X. Jarvis, a wealthy contractor
of Terre Haute, Ind, died at the county
hospital in Los Angeles, as the result OF
lying helpless under a tree near the Caws-
ton ostrich farm, surrounded by houses
and with people passing frequently, for
nearly three days. while red ants fed upon
his body. Jarvis was afflicted with tuber-
culosis. which had caused him to come
to California. He had a room at the
Cragburn hotel, leaving there Sunday
to visit the ostrich farm. When he came
to the spot where he was found he faint
ed and remained there for two days. Be
cause of the exposure. pneumonia attack
ed his weak lungs. and though all that
could be done for him when taken TO the
hospital was done, he could not survive.
He told of trying TO attract passers by,
who evidently thought him drunk, as they
paid no attention. Boys bought him food
with money he gave them. and finally told
a woman who lived near by about him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Robbers Plumber Safe.

Five masked ren dy1amited the safe
in the Provincial Bank at st. Eustache,
ten miles from Montreal. Canada, and Sc
cured $4,000. They held up the care
taker and kept a posse of citizens at bay
with revolvers and made their escape 70
Montreal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

to Albany and beanie clerk in a cloth
Jig store. In Massachusetts Mr.. His
gen achieved wide prominence because
of a bitter fight covering twenty years,
with the Standard Oil Company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Heinz Gives $25, 600.

H. ]. Heinz, Of fifty-seven varieties
fame, has contributed $4,000 to WI
mona Assembly for the erection of a
Sunday School auditorium, which will
be ready for occupancy at the opening
of the assembly season next year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Smoke Cigarettes, Lose Job

Superintendent Easley of the Rock
Island railroad has issued the following
order: ut is noticeable that many of our
employees are addicted to the habit of
smoking cigarettes. This is not desirable,
and hereafter any employee caught smok-
ing cigarettes will be dismissed from the
service"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03

attention outside his State through his
stand for the rights of the State
against federal judge in the enforce
ment of 2-cent passenger rate. Gov.
Swanson was born in 1862.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
80 ENroMBED MINERS PERISH.
Twenty-Five Bodies Recovered from
Scene of Oklahoma Disaster.

Scene Of Oklahoma Disaster.
More than thirty men were suffocated
Wednesday morning in Hailey-Ola mine
No. ] at Haileyville, Okla, when fire de-
stroyed the hosting shaft and airshaft
and cut off air from the men below.
Twenty-six bodies were removed from
the mine. following a successful three
hours battle with the flames. 1t is be.
lieved that six or eight more will be
brought out. Twenty-Five mules were suf-
located and some of their bodies were
burned. After the entombed men bad
gone down in the cage a fire broke out,
occasioned by the ignition of barrel OF
oil which a miner was trying to divide.
The flames spread at once to the hosting
shaft and the air shaft and all communi.
cation with the top was at once shut off
The Hailey-Ola is owned by DIR. ID. NJ
HALEY, James Elliott and a number OF
Chicago and st. Louis capitalists.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
BEER GOES INTO THE SEWER.
Eight Hundred Barrels of Perfectly
Good Beverages Confiscated.

Eight hundred barrels of beer, valued
at $1,000, belonging to a local brewing
company. were emptied into a sewer at
Oklahoma City, Okla, in the presence OF
State Dispensary Agent Robert +. Loziei
and Internal Collector Charles Howard
Two thousand people attended the empty
ing, some with buckets and pitchers, hop
ing for a chance of salvage which hope
was disappointed. Photographers took
pictures of the scene. The beer was on
hand when a State law took effect.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Three Hurt in Street Car Fire.

Three persons were badly hurt, one
woman probably fatally, while several
others were terribly bruised in panic
ON a swiftly moving street car which
caught fire in Cleveland. The motorman
was hurled through the vestibule window
when a fuse blew out, and the car ran
a block before it was stopped. Men,
women and children leaped from the car
and were thrown violently to the pave
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Millionaire Kills Himself.

John III. Briggs. aged 62 years, mill
ionaire cattle raiser, killed himself at
his home in Attica, Ind. He stood be-
fore a mirror and fired a bullet through
his brain. Briggs served in the Civil
War with the 135th Indiana volunteers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Young Farmer Killed.

Jesse Van Osdol, a young farmer,
was killed near Rising Sun, Ind, by
tree falling on him. He was cutting
the tree down and it caught him in
falling.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
TWENTY-FIVE DIE IN FLOOD.
Thousands of Dollars Worth c
Property Destroyed by Water.

A food in the Cimmaron river, follow
ing a cloudburst, washed away a number
of dwellings at Folsom, n. NJ, and %
persons were drowned. Eleven bodies
have been recovered. Ten miles of track
and twelve bridges OH the Colorado and
Southern railway were washed out.
Trains were delayed forty-eight hours
The property loss is estims.ed to exceed
100000. Folsom is in the northeastern
part of New Mexico. near Ration. on the
Santa Fee railroad. Its elevation is about
1000 feet, and it is constantly in danger
Of floods.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
SCHOOL BUILDING UNSAFE.

Handsome New Structure mt Bici<nen
Weakened by Weight of Roof.
The new $4,000 school building in
Bicknell has been condemned. II was
erected only two years ago. and il is a
beautiful one, containing twenty rooms
and several halls. Citizens feared for The
safety at the time of construction, owing
to the immense slate roof The weight
has begun to crush down on the building.
and spread the walls. Braces were plsc-
ed in position from the basement to the
ceiling, but afforded little relief. Ii is
not known when school will open.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Never Home Robbed.

An investigation by detectives has
begun to locate, il possible. a collec-
ton of valuable jewelry which was
stolen from the summer home of Post
master-General Won l.. Meyer in Ham
ilton. Mass. The articles included a
number of family jewels much treas
ured, which were contained In a small
box, a diamond necklace, a set of
black pearls, diamond pin and a num-
Der of other gems. The theft was
affected while the family was at din
ner
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Eight Killed in Naval Accident.

Two men were killed and six others
dangerously wounded on board the Danish
cruiser Hekla by the premature explosion
of shell. The accident occurred during
target practice at Aarhus bay.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-03
Georgia Tackles Convict system,

Georgia's State Legislature assembled
in extra session Tuesday to consider the
convict lease system. 1t is said that the
convict investigation committee has
framed a bill which will be pushed
through rapidly. and that the special ses-
sion will adjourn within few days.