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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

The foregoing are the causes of the
loss of dozen lives in the Aveline
hotel fire, as set forth in the verdict Of
Coroner A. J. Kesler. The verdict has
been filed with the County Clerk. The
findings are the result of a minute in
Quiry, in the course of which the Coro-
ner examined scores of witnesses and
the testimony covers over 700 type
written pages. The blame for the holo-
caust, 1t will be seen, is divided, the
hotel management, the men in charge
of the building at night, the propri
etors, the State Building Inspector and
the municipality all coming in for a
share Of the responsibility. The Coro-
ner finds the origin of the fire to have
been near the furnace, in the timbers
which were located in close proximity
to the firebox, and following the joists
to the elevator shaft, which was lined
with inflammable pine instead of
metal. The State Factory Inspector is
held responsible because, although he
inspected the building three times, he
did not order proper measures taken
to facilitate the escape of the inmates
in case of fire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.

A parcels-post convention has been con-
cluded between the United States and The
Netherlands TO take effect July i.
The conference report on the naval APP
preparation bill has been adopted by the
Senate. The bill carries S122 662, 115.
The application of the city of San
Francisco, made in 1901. for the Lake
Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy valley rcser-
voir sites in the Yosemite national park
for a city water supply was formally APP
proved by Secretary of the Interior Gar
field.
House elections committee number
three decided the contested election cases
of Anthony Michalek, Republican. of Hi
nois, versus Representative SABBATH. and
Stanley III. Kunz. Democrat. of Illinois.
versus Representative McGavin- In each
case the committee decided that the sit
ting member was legally elected
The President has transmitted to Con-
gress letter from Secretary Root, coun-
selling the commencement at once of an
international investigation into the opium
question in the far East and recommend
ing that Congress appropriate 10000 for
this purpose. Governments will send COM
missioners to Shanghai Jan. I, 1900.
After a debate lasting practically the
entire session the House, by a vote of 1856
to 124. agreed to the conference report
On the naval appropriation bill
President Roosevelt received the Jap
anese financial delegation visiting this
country under the leadership of Baron Y.
Sakatani. former minister of finance Of
Japan. The delegation was presented 20
the President by Ambassador Takahira.
The Senate passed the postofice appro-
priation bill. carrying amounts aggregat-
ing $229,021,367. As passed the bill al
lows 81 a day expenses for railway postal
clerks when away from terminals, which
will incur a total expense of about ST.
100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
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Ohicago-Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to $40: hogs. prime heavy. $500
TO $5.45; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $40; wheat, No 9, S100 to S102;
corn, No. 2, 73c to 74c; oats, standard,
timothy. $3.50 to $3.50: prairie. $500
TO $1,000: butter, choice creamery. lie
to Die: eggs. fresh, 12c to Ice; potatoes,
per bushel. 60c to &c.
Indianapolis--Cattle. shipping. $500
to 500; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to $50; wheat, No. 2, 99c to
Sl.0o; corn. No. , white. &c TO Csc; oats,
No. 2 white, 51c to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to Sis: hogs.
s4.Oo to $40; sheep. $500 to $50:
wheat, No. 2. S1.03 to S1.04: corn. No. 2.
tic to re; oats. No. .. Acc to sic; rye,
No. 2, &c TO Soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. S4.O0 to S6.75;
hogs, 500 to S5-S5: sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat. No. ,. s1.02 to s104: corn.
No. mixed. Toe to Zee: oats, No. 2
mixed, 52c to 53c: rye. No. 2, s2c to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to S6.60: hogs,
$500 to $40: sheep. $3.50 to S475;
wheat, No. 2. S1.O0 to s1.01; corn, No. 3
yellow. 75c to 76c: oats. No. 3 white,
SIC to J6c; rye, No. =, SAC TO Sc.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $685.:
hogs. $3.50 to 5000: sheep. $500 TO
$50: wheat. No ? red, S103 to S1.O4:
corn. No. =. 73c to 75c; oats natural
white, SIC TO 59c: butter, creamery, pic
to 22c: eggs. western, 13c to lie.
Wheat. No. 9 northern.
S1.O6 to $1.oS; corn. No. 3, 72c to 73c:
oats, standard. 5fc to 55c; rye, No. 1,
SIC to SIC: barley, No. ., 74c TO 75c:
pork, mess, $685..
Buffalo-Cattle choice shipping steers.
$500 TO sos; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to Sj.75: sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to 1913: lambs fair to choice.
$500 to 800.
Toledo-Wheat. No. mixed, Csc 10
99c; corn. No. 1ixed, tic to re;
oats. No . mixed. SIC to 55c; rye. No.
2, SIC to S3c: clover seed, prime, $500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

Grafton of his candy and caramel factory.
While passing electric currents through
milk to sterilize it he fodnd in the milk
soft, white, elastic substance. This was
the beginning of IA series of experiments
resulting in the product for which he has
now coined the name "omsite.'
Sixteen pounds of omste can be pro-
duced from 100 pounds of ''skim milk"
the latter having market value of eight
cents for 100 pounds. 1t is said to be
impervious to acids, unaffected by heat
or Geld, an absolute non-conductor of
electricity, freproof and practically indie
structibe.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

How I.douard Belin. a French engi-
neer. has employed an entirely new princi-
pie for the successful transmission of pho
tographs 1000 miles over telegraph
wire is told in the April Current Litera
lures excerpt from London Engineering.
That principle is the effect of light rays
ON bichromate gelatine-namely, that the
gelatine loses its capacity to swell when
immersed in water When picture is
printed on this the brightest portions are
the deepest cavities and the darkest the
highest projections. To transmit these
gradations to a corresponding surface at
a distance it is only necessary to produce
electric current oscillations corresponding
to the relief of the various portions of
the picture. and then to reconvert them
into light fluctuations.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
CHICAGO.

The mortality in business now shows
less than a year ago, but the volume of
payments through the banks again fur
nishes an unfavorable comparison, and
the State bank exhibits reflect further
piling up of deposits and unemployed
funds. The latter conditions appear as a
natural result of curtailed commercial
operations and are less disturbing than
the spread of labor troubles in the coal
helds and the purpose to advance rail-
road freight tariffs.
The situation in the leading industrial
branches has become no worse, but the
uncertainty as to the trend of costs and
the paucity OF demands for finished pro-
ducts add to the hesitation in making inn
portant contracts.
Weather conditions continued mostly
adverse TO seasonable activity in distribu-
tive dealings and local retail trade was
irregular. More favorable reports as TO
the consumption of general merchandise
come from the interior and buying would
be even better were the rush of delayed
farm work less pressing.
Visiting buyers in the wholesale dis
trict are not now expected in large num-
bers, as necessaries have been obtained or
provided for, but the current buying is
yet good in staples, although confined to
absolute needs Mail adyices indicate
that road statesmen meet with less diff
Guilty in securing substantial orders in
fall and winter goods. Continued ease
in money is making collections generally
prompt.
Transportation peturns testify to fur
Their falling off in the offerings of freight
by both rail and lake. Local building
operations steadily extend and there is
more heavy construction being planned
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number "a, against SO last week and
26 a year. ago. Those with liabilities
over 5000 number Z. against last week
and in 1907.-Drn's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
SOCIALISTS NAME DEBS.
Chosen by the National Convention
as Candidate for President.

Eugene v Debs will once more be
the standard bearer of the Socialist
party i'll the national campaign of 1908.
With four candidates in the field. he
received a big majority on the first
ballot, which was taken at 30 o'clock
Friday morning in Chicago. and then
a motion was made to tender the nOmi-
nation by acclamation.
For the first time i'm the history of
the party there We're number of 9TH
er names placed before the convention.
At one time, in fact, there was dem
onstration made i'm favor of j. J. Carey,
of Massachusetts. that made il look
as if the old leader might have a fight
on his hands.
At o'clock in the morning Benjamin
Hanford, the Debs running mate ON the
ticket four years ago, was nominated
for Vice President b. reclamation.
May Wood SimOns, wife of A. NJ.
Simons, received the votes of twenty
delegates for the Vice Presidency The
closest opponent of Hanford was Sey-
mour Stedman, of Chicago, who re-
ceived 43 votes. Others voted for were
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

tic and gulf coasts and in the Mississippi
valley, from the great plains to the ALE
ghenies and from the northern lakes to
the mouth of the mighty Father OF Wat
ers.
The work of preserving all the natural
resources should be co-ordinated and sys-
tematiZed.
The people as a whole have right to
protect themselves against waste by the
individual even to the point of regulating
by law how the individual shall use his
own property.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
BRINGS NEWS OF 10000 KILLED.
Steamer Titan Has Details of Tidal
Wave Engulfng Chinese.

News of one Of the greatest disasters
that China has ever known, a sudden
tidal bore i'm the Yangtse-kiang, which
involved the loss of nearly 10000 lives
at Hankow, was brought to Seattle by
the steamer Titan. A bore tweniy-six
feet in height passed without warn
ing down the river, over which hung
thousands of iunks, sampans and small
boats, wrecking large river steamers.
Some 1900 Chinese were sleeping in
sampans and small craft and mat sheds
and huts by the river side at Hankow
and they were enveloped by the great
wave, which swept away broken junks,
splintered sampans and heterogeneous
mass of debris, with syarms of
drowned Chinese mixed with the wreck
age The scenes for many days after
the disaster were horrible, the river
side being strewn with dead and de-
bris of wrecked craft for many
miles
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Death from Blow ON Funny Bone.

Strange indeed was the form in which
death came to Abel Il. Castor, son of
DIR. w. +. CASTOR of Plainfield, y. j..
The young man. Is years old and very
popular, was a student at the local high
school, With other members of the
school young CASTOR was attending Il
class reception a few days ago, and while
waltzing with Miss Margaret Lambert,
struck an iron pillar in seeking to avoid
other dancers. a sharp corner caught the
ulnar nerve, commonly known as the
funny bone,'' and he Immediately com
planned of numbness in the limbs. He
was assisted to an ante-room, where he
became unconscious, remaining thus until
death. about SO hours later. -Four physi-
clans diagnosed the trouble as meningitis,
and worked hard to restore the sufferer.
They assert that the attack was the di-
rect result of the blow on the elbow.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Accidental Discovery of Fortune.

Through the accidental discovery of a
process by which a solid substance hav-
ing the qualities of rubber can be pro-
duced from skim milk George w. Frye
of Lexington, Ohio, has enlisted the in
terest of manufacturers to such an extent
that three offers of S1,000,000 each are
said 10 have been refused by him for
all rights and patents in connection with
it. lie is not satisfied with this, and a
company capitalized at S1O,OOO,O0O is to
be incorporated to make and market the
new material.
Mr. Frye made the discovery in the OPP
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

From the streams that drain the South
ern Appalachian mountains Washington
experts say 2,S00,000 horse power Of
water power has been developed in &.
last few years. This power is used by
southern mills. 1T is estimated that these
resources may be utilized to the extent
of 42.OO0OOO horse power
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Candidate Is a Suicide.

Montague Smith of the private banking
firm of l.. III. Smith & Co. and Liberal
candidate for Hampton in the Ont@rio
provincial elections, committed suicide -
shooting. Mr.. Smiths business and pr'-
vate affairs were in excellent condition.
No motive for the act is known.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

Mgr Bisletti, major domo of the Vat
lean. is likely to be created a cardinal
at the June consistory at the Vatican.
The reason America cannot have another
cardinal is that if one were created
Archbishop Bourne of England would
also have to be elevated, and the Pope
is opposed to this step.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Finds Germ for Insanity.

DIR. j. ID. O'Brien. the youngest alien
list attending thu national convention OF
the American Psychological ASso-
citation i'm Cincinnati, read a paper ia
which he claims to have discovered the
,arn, of insanity
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Fire DESTROYS Packing Plant.

The old plant of the Omaha Packing
Company at South Omaha, Neb., was
destroyed by fire, and 100000 pounds OF
meat consumed. Five iremen had mar
row escape from death beneath a falling
wall Several other plants were threat
ened bv the flames. The loss IS estimated
mt more than 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

The Owensboro Savings Bank and
Trust Company and the Davies County
Bank and Trust Company, both of Owens
boro. KY, are declining to receive deposits
and have suspended cash payments pend
ing a proposed reorganization of both in
sfitufiorS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

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Elevator shaft lined with in ,
fiammable wood, constituting a
ready means of communicating :
fire.
Furnace left without attention :
after midnight
No competent Waterman on
duty after 9 p. m. .
Fire escape difficult of access.
Rooms without balconies lead d.
ing to fire escapes.
Rooms unprovided with chains .
and knotted ropes.
State inspectors inspection SUI :
perficial and incomplete.
State inspector did not order :
provision of facilities for escap- .
ing from fire.
Night clerk negligently called
only chemical engine instead of
entire fire department.
Fire department equipment
and life-saving apparatus made =
quate, owing to city's gross neg
lect-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

The Davis County bank of Owensboro.
Ky, with deposits of 100000, assigned.
Henry Cline was named by COURT as as
signee. The assignment folio the as
signment of the Owensboro Savings Bank
and Trust Company, with deposits Of
oyer SrOOCOON
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

Federal officers at Denver, Colo, have
arrested the Rev. Ira ID. Williams, n
preacher of Tiff. Colo, on the charge
of having sent Through the mails libel
Gus and defamatory matter upon the con-
duct of the President of the United
States. The defamation was pasted on
the envelope, but Mr.. Williams denies
putting il there.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
v;,n r.oues Lowlv Maiden.

King Manuel of Portugal rejects the
British princess suggested as a wife by
his mother. declaring he loves the daugh-
ter of a lady in waiting and will wed no
other.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

w. NJ. Mcdonald an Englishman, was
hanged at Pttsburg for the murder of
his common-aw wife Through the eff
forts OF Ambassador Bryce a stay of ex-
ecution had been obtained.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
PRESIDENT ROOSnHTS CONSERVATION SPEECH


selves and our children against the waste
ful Development OF our natural resources
whether that waste is caused by the actual
them impossible of DEVELOPMENT hereafter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Midshipman Drowned at Annapolis
Tornado Kills Four Persons.

Reports from Crowley, La, tell of
four deaths in a tornado near that
place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Minister Murders His Wife.

Temporarily insane, according to his
own statement, Rev. s. A. Coffman, so
years old, a prominent Methodist Epis
copal clergyman of Rosstown, w. Va,
killed his wife by cutting her throat
from ear 20 ear. A moment after the
crime, he says, he regained his senses
and realized what he had done. He
Immediately surrendered himself and
was locked up. During the past week
or two he has been conducting a series
of revival services and has been adding
to the membership of the churches un.
der his care. He had just finished his
revival and appeared to be well pleased
with the result. He and his wife were
discussing the services when he sud
denly seized a poker and began strik.
ing her on the head. There was a
struggle, during which Mrs. Coffman
succeeded in escaping from the house
TO a garden at the rear. She was fol-
lowed closely, however, by her hus-
band, and when he caught up with
her, another battle for her life took
place, when she was overpowered.
Coffman had taken knife with him
when he followed his wife to the gar
den, and when he had her powerless in
his grasp, he cut her throat from ear
to ear, causing instant death.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Value of Irrigation.

Moreover, we can add enormous tracts
of the most valuable possible agricultural
land TO the national domain by irrigation in
the arid and semiarid regions and by drain
age of great tracts of swamp land in the
humid regions.
We can enormously increase our trans
portation facilities by the canalization of
our rivers so as to complete a great sys-
TEN of waterways on the Pacific. Atlantic.
and gulf coasts and in the Mississippi Val
ley. from the great plains to the Allie
ghenies, and from the northern lakes to the
mouth of the mighty father OF waters.
But all these various uses of our nat
ural resources are SO closely connected that
they should be cO-ordinated, and should be
treated as part Of one coherent plan and
hot in haphazard and piecemeal fashion
We are coming to recognize as never be
fore the right of the nation to guard its
own future in the essential matter of nat
ural resources.
In the past we have admitted the right
Of the individual to injure the future Of
the republic for his own present profit The
time has come for a change.
As a people we have the right and the
duty, second to none other but the right
and duty OF obeying the moral law. of re
quirins and doing justice, to protect our
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

Advertise in this paper.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21
Three Killed on Railroad Crossing.


Three persons met death and an
other was fatally injured in crossing
accident one mile north of Flora, Ind,
when Pennsylvania railroad passen-
ger train struck a carriage, hurting the
occupants into the air. The vehicle
contained the family of Township
Trustee James l.. Cripes, who met in
slant death. Mrs. Cripes, the wife, and
2-year-old daughter Ruth, also were
killed. Another child was fatally hurt
Midshipman Drowned at Annapolis
Midshipman Arthur Lineford Lucas
of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the grad
uating class, was drowned at Annapo
lis, Md, and Midshipman Carl ID. Hib
bard, of Norfield, Mimi, nearly lost his
life in an effort to save that of his
friend.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-05-21

Coroner's Verdict on the AveIine Hotel
Fire is Sensational.
Chicago eagle., 1908-01-25

ACREDIT.RATINo AND COLLECTION COMPANY
0onnuously Condvoved Thirty Years under same man
a0ounent
We have fact. and inflammation oonoeEnsng Tie 1nen,
Standing Habit OF Pay and General Reputation for
Credit Of than Five Hundred Thousand tnd1vd.
uals firms and corporations dong business IN the city
Of Chicago
Our tacliue. enable us to write cornInero0. Fidelity
and Insurance Reports immediately on request
No annual Subscription u required 70 do business
With this office. ~
ssnd posssl osos Central 1854
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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-11-12

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IA, nsz1s s.5s AID liz yo.efs thought
iss 14A ef.sissd y, arsois4ss term.
TIE setsts Is IA. stScss ~ oysa ana
stsasga,so'Ssgd document ~ any cge
~f,o xi.oxs III. Joslnssn nigh. e1pec'
3geM bssn. There FL M yeAson zny
the ossszcs1 republican czn6i1zts foY
governor stso1Ic.esi ss,y badly osef his
lack " s1ccess. Had i. MT ksen that
tbs idea wzs genera .i,a. Burke should
have zseond tern. there IL no doubt
that Hf. J1hnsJn would have see III
large maJg'j:y. The Record does
not knoN - man ~ tie state .l.y
would NJ stronger candidate scE
governor tao years from now when
the desire " reward Burke with q
second term viii M absent-,f,sn G.
A. Johnson.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-11-12
The Submarine Crew.

Not until you have gone down in q
submarine and seen the crew at work
can you say you have seen the limit ia
which Il Il possible TO drill human
creatures. No crack company Of Z regi.
ment, no fire company In any Of ON
big cities. not even the engine force %
Z man-of-war. II under such discipline
as the crew Of submarine. The navy
department and the men themselves
realize that months are required before
even the most capable group Of ten
can be made to work az . unit, perfect
as clockwork. There b no time to
break i'm crews when once war b de-
clared. and for this reason the subma-
rine service is continually and inces-
sanity 10 war practice. Practice runs
in the ordinary sense do not exist
Each time the boat stands out to GO
she goes rs Il for business. the scenes
you see being exactly Ike those that
would be enacted were the vessel bent
upon actually sinking IN enemy.-St
Nicholas.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-11-12
M iaaa "A lake,.

In the days OF the second empire
Baron Gros vas cent to Japan to Dc
mand the opening Of certain ports e
French commerce Among the rest be
named to the japanese ministers Z Ger.
tain city. The japanese functionaries
smiled SO broadly when be preferred
the request that the French ambassa.
dor asked them to tell him what ave
them SO much amusement, but instead
Of answering the japanese minister,
said:
I'VE win open the port in question
my lord. IL France In her turn w1I!
open q certain port to us."
"wkat port h thatr' asked thu
Frenchman.
The port Of Liverpool"
But. your excellencies.s laughing
Liverpool is not a French port, but
an English one"
YES" answered the japanese, .and
the port you named IL not In Japan
but Ia Korea"
The French ambassador vas com.
PEELED to admit that The Joke VA
against him.-London Answers.