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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Coz plete.
seventy-one Persons Lose Life in Fire.

Seventy-one Persons Lose Life in Fire.
Seventy-one persons were burned to
death in a fire which completely de-
stroyed Rhoads Opera House in Boyer
town, Pa The opera house was crowd
ed with the members of st. Johns Luz
theran Sunday school, who were at
tending benefit given for that church
While the show was in progress tank
exploded The actors endeavored to
quiet the audience but in their anxiety
to make themselves heard and to avoid
the awful stampede of the women and
children the coal oil lamps which were
used at the foot lights were over
turned, setting the place on fire. The
flames fed by the oil shot almost TO the
ceiling and there was a wild rush of
the several hundred persons to escape
from the burning building. Scores of
women and children were trampled up
on and several who escaped being
burned to death died after being
dragged from the opera house. In many
cases, it is said, entire families have
been wiped out. The scenes which fol-
lowed the explosion is indescribable.
Scores of persons who were in the bal
cony at the time the explosion oc
CURED jumped from the windows and
sustained fractured limbs and skulls.
To add to the terrible disaster the fire
apparatus became disabled and the
structure was left entirely to the mer-
cy of the seething flames. 1t is almost
certain not a vestige of the bodies of
the unfortunates who were overcome
by the flames and persisted will ever
be found
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
LONG OCEAN WAR Is ENDED.
German Lines Driven to Union by
Cunard'S Fast Boats

Cunard'S Fast Boats.
The Hamburg-America and North
German Lloyd steamship lines have
buried the Ratchet after a battle for
transatlantic supremacy lasting from the
time the steamship Deutschland captured
the speed pennant from the Cunard line.
about seven years ago. The Deutschland
holds the record for crossing the Atlantic
between New York and Plymouth in less
time than any other ship. The North
German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
III. claims the record between Sandy
Hook and Plymouth. That is the way
when the Cunard line, with the Maure-
tania and Lusitania, knocked out all
speed and time records. The White Star
line, after diverting half of its fleet from
the Queenstown and Liverpool service to
the Southampton, Plymouth, and Cher
bourg route, naturally came into direct
competition with the German ships, TAX
ing away much of the patronage the Ham
burg and North German Lloyd lines had
mcnopolized practically for years. The
German companies have entered into
four-year-agreement covering the Ameri-
can, African and far eastern trade. by
its terms the Hamburg American line re-
nounces its passenger traffic in the far
east and limits itself to the carrying OF
freight. In return it is to receive from
the North German Lloyd company a
greater share in American second-class
and immigration traffic.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
CHICAGO.

While the curtailment of production in
various industrial branches continues,
there are evidences of favorable nature
for steady improvement to take place
soon. With the banks now virtually back
to specie payment and discount opera
tons extending, it is not surprising that
the volume of business as reflected by
bank exchanges, makes the best exhibit
IN nine weeks, the comparative decline
being the lowest in that period
Following the extra time taken to make
necessary repairs to plants, resumption
became general and quickly reduced the
number of workers made temporarily idle,
and the indications now turn for the bet
ter at the furnaces, mills and FORCES.
Some substantial bookings appear in
iron, steel and wire, and fair orders come
forward in furniture, boxmaking, foot
wear and vehicles. Little change is ex-
pected in prices, of finished products, but
a feeling that costs may be lowered is to
some extent causing hesitation where
much capital is involved.
Weather conditions advanced the jan
uary clearance sales in retail lines, stocks
undergoing satisfactory reduction, and a
considerable increased number of visiting
buyers attended the wholesale markets
for staples, textiles, boots and shoes. cloth
ing and food products. Mercantile collec-
lions throughout the West are irregular,
some sections renting promptly, while
at others the defaults indicate weakness.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 36, against % last week and
26 year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number Z. against l last week and
s in 1907.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.

Representative Gill of Maryland Of
fered a resolution designed to open the
way for a congressional airing of the
Admiral Brownson incident. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on naval affairs.
Richard A. Ballinger, commissioner of
the general land Office, has rendered his
resignation. to take effect March 4. Pres
ident Roosevelt has appointed Fred Den
nit, assistant commissioner, to take his
place.
Representative Fuller of Illinois re-
ceived a petition for the admission of
New Mexico as a separate State, with the
announcement that a delegation would be
in Washington in a short time to urge
Congress to act.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania intro
duced a bill to remedy the defects in the
present employers liability law by max
ing it applicable only to corporations en-
gagged in such commerce as Congress has
the undoubted right to control.
The President sent to the Senate the
following nominations George l.. God
frey of Iowa, to be surveyor of customs
for the port of Des Moines, Iowa; John
III. Page of Arizona, to be secretary of
Arizona. There were also a number of
army and navy promotions and many
postmasters named.
President Roosevelt directed the Secre-
tary of War to have prepared appoint
Sments for James +. Tracey as secretary
of finance and justice on the Philippine
commission, and Gegorio Arenta to be
judge of the Supreme Court of the Philip
pines, vice Tracey, appointed secretary of
finance and justice.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
NEW YORK.

Financial affairs show further and
marked Improvement, and money is more
plentiful and easier to obtain, but the
gain in trade and industry proper is still
largely one of sentiment. because bust
ness is quiet, the country over, railway
earnings and bank clearings are below a
year ago, collections are slow, though
better than a month ago, and industry
is as a whole on short time, with the
larger centers reporting a great number
of unemployed.
In trade lines the general report is one
OF backward business. Mild weather is
still bar to the widest activities in sea-
sonable goods North and West, and re-
tailers are stimulating tagging demand by
reduction sales Southern trade shows
little more life than a week ago. Some
lines report after-holiday collections as
better than those of December, and in
some cases better than anticipated. but
they in few cases are better than slow
to fair.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Jan. 8 number 434,
against $40 last week, 2S3 in the like
week of 1907, $50 in 1906, 295 in 1903
and 315 in 1904. Failures in Canada
this week numbered GO, against 81 last
week and "a in this week a year ago.
Bradstreet's Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16

DIR. Henry s. Atkins, superintendent of
the st. Louis Asylum for the Insane, has
been testing an entirely new course of
treatment for mild cases of insanity
among the woman patients, it being moth
ing more or less than Christmas shop
ping expedition. 1t is his theory that
anything which occupies the mind pleas
antly without causing too much excite
ment must be beneficial. He therefore
sent about twenty of his patients under
the charge of trained nurses, and each
supplied with a moderate amount of
money, to the department stores. The
entire party was so dressed and conducted
that no intimation was given of its real
nature, and this was not suspected by
the other shoppers. the unfortunate wom-
en- deporting themselves in the most con-
ventional and natural way possible.
Luncheon was eaten at tho restaurant,
which all enjoyed, and it was with re-
luctance, but no attempt at resistance,
that they returned to their quarters in
the asylum.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16

The numerous favorable reports con-
corning the cure for cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts discovered by DIR. Simon Flexner of
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search are now officially and authorita-
lively verified i'm the announcement made
in the official journal of the institute.
While no claim of infallibility is made,
the results have been such as to prove
the great efficacy of the remedy, and DR..
Flexner and his associates feel sure that
it will prove one of the greatest benefac-
tons to mankind. The Board of Health
of New York City has been cooperating
with DIR. Flexner in his investigations
and it is said that the city has furnished
the doctor with nearly fifty monkeys,
which animals were used in experiments
because of their anatomical resemblance
To the human race
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Indiana
State News
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
Two Children Injured While Trying
In Her

Two Children Injured While Trying
to Save Her Life.
BY the explosion of a coal oil can in
the kitchen. Mrs. Mark Hershberer, 40
years old, Of Charlottesville, was burned
to death and two of her four children
were seriously burned. Mrs. Hershber-
ger was alone at the time of the explo-
sion and was preparing dinner. 1t is be-
iieved she attempted to freshen the fire
in the stove with oil. The explosion
forced out the windows. Mrs. Hersh-
berger, with her clothing in flames. ran
out the back door and fell to the ground,
where she died before assistance could
reach her. Her daughter Mabel. aged
IL years, and her son Glenn, aged IA,
were in the house at the time. and they
suffered severe burns about their heads
and hands in an effort to save their
mothers life. They were taken TO the
home of neighbors, where their injuries
were dressed. Mark Hershberger. the
husband, is foreman at the shale pit of
the Poston Brick Company. He came
from Veedersburg about twelve years ago.
and month ago moved into the new
home which he erected. The home was
not damaged, the fire being put out by
the assistance of chemicals. Mrs Hersh-
berger was formerly Miss Myrtle Ches-
terton of Veedersburg.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
IMMIGRATION Is PARALYZED.
Arrival Of Foreigners in New York
Shows Heavy Decrease.

Because of the heavy falling off in
immigration which has reduced them to
comparative idleness, the government en-
ployes at Ellis Island, New York, through
whose hands the incoming aliens pass.
fear more or less sweeping reduction in
their ranks in the near future. Commits
sioner of Immigration Watchorn says
there will undoubtedly be a reduction in
the force if the decline in immigration
continues. There are about 800 govern
ment employees of various classes at the
immigration receiving station at present.
Instead of the 5000 or more immigrants
a day whom this force has been accus-
toned to handling, the average now is
less than 800. Each arriving foreigner
therefore is able to have personal at
tendant to usher him through the mazes
of the landing process. There are no
signs of any immediate stimulation of the
incoming stream. which has been reduced
within the last few months.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
SECOND TRIAL OF
HARRY K. THAW IS ON
Young Millionaire Who Shot Stan.
ford White Again Faces the
Charge of Murder.
SCENE IN NEW YORK COURT.
Evelyn Will Repeat Her Story, but
"Unwritten Law" Will Not Be
Relied On.

The second trial of Harry Kendall
Thaw, the young Pittsburg swell and
spendthrift, for the murder of STAN
ford White, the New York architect
and man about town, is again under
way. 1t was tedious work securing a
jury. The first trial was reported so
completely and was so widely read in
all its sensational and nauseating de-
tails that an attempt to secure twelve
men who had not read of the case and
formed more or less of an opinion was
hopeless. The most acceptable jurors
then. We're those who could swear that
despite reading an opinion they could
judge Thaw's guilt or innocence purely
on the evidence submitted to them.
AS to the actual commission of the
deed, of course. there is no question.
The defense is not to combat that pal
pable fact. Neither is it relying, as
Delmas did in the first trial. on ''the
unwritten law" Martin w. Littleton,
Delmas' successor as chief counsel. de-
ponds entirely on the plea that Thaw
was insane and irresponsible at the
time Of the shooting.
The prosecution is devoting itself to
proving the commission of the crime
and to controverting the evidence for
the defense. Littleton will put Evelyn
Thaw upon the stand and she will tell
her story all over again. This is neces-
sary in order to demonstrate that there
was reason for Thaws attack of brain
storm" or insanity, but the young wife
will not be handled as tenderly by the
prosecution in cross-questioning as she
was before. Jerome has had one of
his assistants follow out the European
tour, mile by mile, which Thaw and the
girl took before marriage and will be
able to catch up the witness at every
misstatement as to that trip.
Evelyn has so far been in daily at
tendance on the trial and is putting up
the same bluff of appearing in the sim
pie garb of an ingenious school girl,
though she Is mature woman with ex-
periences enough back of her to fill sew
fantile, appearance and her counterfeit
ing of confiding innocence ut the first
trial had tremendous effect. 1t is
doubtful If they will be much of lever
this time in moving public opinion or in
impressing the jury.
Judge Victor j. Bowling is doing all
he can to expedite the proceedings
There has been at this second trial no
great crush to attend the proceedings,
though there is daily assemblage out
side to see Evelyn pass from her auto
mobile to the court room or to see
Thaw cross the bridge of signs" on his
way back to the Tombs.
Thaw is i'm good health. Regular
hours, plain food and forced decency of
life have had good effect on his ply
steal condition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
To Explore south America.

4 party of Boston scientists, under the
direction of George Melville Boynton, has
organized an expedition to explore the
wilds of South America. A Gloucester
fishing vessel has been bought and will
be christened the Discovery. There will
be about thirty-fve men in all and the
trip is expected to last five years. Opera
tons will be confined chiefly to the unex-
plored regions south of the Amazon river.
but the expedition will eventually follow
the Amazon to its source and cross the
Andes, coming out at Punta Parine. Peru.
IL the party will be botanists, minerolog-
lists, ethnologists, taxidermists and pho
tographers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
SHAFT TO BENNINGTON VICTIMS.
Sailors, Soldiers and Citizens Attend

Unwilling of Monument.
The monument in memory of the sailors
whe lost their lives in tie explosion of
the United States ship Bennington was
unveiled in San Diego, CAL, Tuesday. at
the National cemetery on top of Point
Iona. Thousands, including the officers
and sailors of the Pacific squadron and
citizens of San Diego and other Califor-
MIA cities, gathered to witness the cere-
mony. The plain shaft stands within
the plot where are buried the most OF
those who persisted in the disaster OF
July 81, 1905, and is composed OF sew
enty-four slabs of San Diego County
granite roughly dressed and towering SIX
" feet above the concrete base, capped
by a pyramid of polished granite The
national cemetery is almost at the top of
the promontory and the monument looks
in one direction out over the Pacific and
in the other over the waters of the bay.
The principal speech was made by Ad-
miral Goodrich, commandant at the navy
yard. who was commander of the Pacific
squadron at the time of the accident on
the Bennington. When Admiral Goodrich
finished the unwilling took place. consist
ing of the dropping of the national en-
sign which had been draped over the two
tablets on the face of the monument.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Too Many Children; Suicide.

Despondent because he could not prop
erly care for his family, Joseph ii. Shep-
pard of Millville, n. j., killed himself
He often said he had more children than
he could properly support, and since q
day or two ago seventh child was add
ed to the family. he had been respondent.
He paced the floor all night and then
shot himself
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
OWNERS SEEK AID.
Operators Ask Geological Survey to
flake Thorough Investigation.

Appalled, by the recent mine disasters
which have claimed hundreds of lives,
the West Virginia Mining Association
has appealed to the government for aid
in locating causes of the trouble. Reso-
buttons were adopted urging legislation
enabling the geological survey to ascer-
taia the causes of the recent mine explo-
sions and apply remedies found necessary.
The resolutions set forth that the opera
tors cannot account for many of the dis
asters which have occurred in the best
regulated mines, and that the federal
government should take steps in the mat
ter Immediately. The operators pledged
an annual contribution for private re-
search along this line amounting to be-
tween eight and ten thousand dollars.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Boy Admits Firing Hotel.

Charles Goodland, 10 years old, who
kept watch at night in the Beacon Light
Hotel in Worcester, Mass, confessed that
he set the fire which nearly destroyed
the building and resulted in the death of
Dennis Driscoll, about hundred other
dodgers having narrow escapes. He had
made previous but unsuccessful attempts
TO burn the place, the police say. His
sanity Will be tested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Business Is Business.

'You butchers certainly have a snap"
remarked the grocer.
"How do you figure that outT
queried the man behind the meat block.
WHY" answered the grocer, you
weigh the bones with the meat and
charge meat prices for them
WELL" rejoined the butcher, 81 don't
see where l get the bulge on you. When
you sell cheese don't you weigh the
holes and get cheese prices for them?"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Photos Sent by wireless.

Pascal Berjonneau, an inventor, recent
ly exhibited before the Postmaster Gen.
eral at Paris a new telephotography ap-
paratus which can be adapted to the
wireless system or to the ordinary tele-
graph wire system. He transmitted the
picture of the postmaster without the aid
of wires from one end of the hall to the
other. The inventor claims that distance
does not interfere with the effectiveness
of his method. Photographs, he says,
can be sent by it between New York and
Paris
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Shin PLANT closes: $50 Are IDLE.

The Collingwood Shipbuilding Com
pany at Collingwood, Ont, has closed its
plant. throwing 45O men, 10 per cent of
whom are residents of the town, out of
work. The men demanded a 10 per cent
increase in wages. The situation was ex-
planned to their committee, but the men
not returning to work, the directors de-
cided TO close the plant.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Martial Law Ends at Muncie.

an end in Muncie at noon Monday,
when Major Powell, quartermaster
general, arrived with the Governors
proclamation. He delivered this to
General Mckee, who communicated it
at once to Mayor Guthrie, the police
board and the sheriff. The saloons,
which have not been opened since De-
cember 81 excepting for four hours on
January 2, received permission to open
their doors for business. There has
Been no trouble growing out of the
strike Of street railway employees for
several days.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
LOSES LIFE IN ROUNDHOUSE FIRE
Man Burned to Death at Elkhart,
Ind.-Blaze Amounts to $14O, 900.

Eighteen of the fifty stalls of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern passenger
and freight roundhouses in Elkhart. Ind,
with the big machine shop and oil house
that stood between, were destroyed by
fire that started at o'clock Thursday
morning. Each stall had its engine and
the woodwork of these was burned. Will
liam Shamburger, aged IS, who had
charge of the tool room, was burned to
death, dying on the ground just after he
emerged from the oil room. The loss will
reach $4,000. The fire was due to an
explosion of paint.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Ten Hurt in Dynamite Explosion.

Ten persons were injured by an ex-
plosion of three dynamite bombs which
partially wrecked a six-story tenement
building on East Sixty-fourth street,
New York City. The injured were re-
moved to Flower Hospital. The dyna-
mite bombs were planted in the cellar
of the tenement and exploded one
after another in quick succession. The
explosion threw The occupants of the
tenement in panic and there was
much excitement among the patients
and nurses of Flower Hospital, which
. only short distance away. Scores
of people rushed from the adjacent
houses and the police had all they
could do to quiet the terror-stricken.
There are number of Italian families
among the tenants in the house, but
the police believe the bombs were ex-
pioded by members of the Black Hand
Society.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
JARRED BY POWDER BLAST.
Illinois and Missouri Towns Feel
Shock of Explosion.

The Du Pont company's mills, two and
one-half miles from Edgemont, midway
between East st. Louis and Belleville,
ILL.,. were blown up at 10 80 o'clock
Thursday night. Nobody was killed, but
many were hurt. Eighteen men had just
left the mill. and seventeen men were PRE-
pairing to take their places in the mill at
the time. The shock was felt sixty miles.
At Edgemont fronts of business houses
were wrecked. Plate glass windows In
St. Louis and other cities were shattered.
At Alton. H., there was a stampede to
get out of a theater. \ suburban car
entering Edgemont was partially wreck
ed. Several passengers were bruised and
cut by flying glass. Motorman Claude
Barnes of Belleyille was blown from his
post anu picked up unconscious ten feet
away
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Bio Fire at Portland, Ind.

Fire destroyed the warerooms and
stock of the Portland Eggcase Com
pany, causing loss of $4,000. The
total insurance will not exceed $1,000.
J. A. Long, of Portland, is the princi-
pal stakeholder. The plant will be re-
built without delay.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
Report on Mononrah Disaster.

The report of the Pennsylvania mine
experts after an investigation of the mine
disaster at Monongah, Va, was made the
other day and agrees with that of the
West Virginia experts that the disaster
was caused by dust explosion after a
blowout shot.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
STRANGE MALADY GRIPS CITY.
Thousands of People at Lansing,
Mica, Stricken at Night

From some unknown cause Lansing,
Mich, was seized with strange malady
some time during the night, thousands
Icing suddenly stricken with extreme
nausea, accom-. ,anied by acute intestinal
trouble. Most physicians attributed the
malady to atmospheric conditions. From
midnight until morning and all during
the forenoon calls for physicians were
incessant. Whole families were stricken.
Two boys were found lying in the street,
too i'll to walk Fifteen city teachers
and hundreds of pupils were absent from
school. All the stores were short of
help. Outside of the waterworks zone
the disease was quite as prevalent as in
other sections, so the water supply is not
under suspicion