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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Fire Causes Loss at philadelphia.

Fire, of supposed incendiary origin,
destroyed the bending shop and other
property at the car shops of ]. G. Brill
e. CO. in Philadelphia, Pa. entailing a
loss exceeding 100000. The plant is
one of the largest of its kind n the
country The loss is fully covered by
insurance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Leaps on Train and Escapes.

Malcolm Stewart, accused of being
short $1,7OO in his accounts with the
Universal Milling Company, leaped head
foremost through window on the Crla-
has Twilight Limited in the night and
escaped. He was being brought from
Minneapolis to Duluth by Sheriff Bates
for trial.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

A. Il. Cummins was elected United
States Senator by the Iowa Legislature
Tuesday to fill sthe unexpired term of
w. b. Allison, and Lieutenant Governor
Warren Garst was inaugurated as his
successor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Mother Of BiIIek Dead.

Herman Billek, convicted poisoner SEN
fenced to die Dec. IL in Chicago, broke
down Friday when he received news OF
his mothers death in Cleveland. Since
her sons conviction Mrs. Billek has failed
gradually
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Doctor Kills Himself.

DIR. o. $. Mills. aged AZ years, house
physician at the Columbus (Ohio) insane
asylum, left his room in Gallipolis hotel
and going to the middle of the city park
killed himself by sending a bullet through
his head
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
OPENS FIRE ON FAMILY.
Man kiIIa Daughter and Probably
Fatally Wounds SON, n Minister.

Returning TO his home on tbs upper
East Side, in New York, after an all
night absence, Carl Loose, baker. -
years old, opened fire with a revolver
upon members of his family. who were
at breakfast. lie killed his 17-year-old
daughter, Meta, and probably fatally
wounded his 2i-year-old son, Frederick,
Lutheran minister. The man was dis
armed by his son John, 10 years old, be-
fore a third shot could be fired. Loose
refused to give any motive for his act
Frederick, the wounded man, has bullet
in his abdomen. lie had received call
from church at Yale, S. d., had mar
ried an Illinois girl after receiving the
call and was preparing to leave for the
West with his bride.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Girl PupiIs Flee for Lives.

While the forty girl pupils of ST. Chris
tina's school, Saratoga, n. Y, were at
breakfast a fire broke out in the laundry
and spread so rapidly that all were forced
to flee to save their lives. The building
was damaged to the extent of $1,000. No
one was injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Bank at Eldred, Pa. suspend..

The Eldred Bank of Eldred, Pa, has
suspended 1t is said the liabilities are
about 100000 and assets about $4,000.
Alleged overdrafts by official of the
bank are said to have caused the suspen-
sion
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

Herman Billek, convicted slayer of the
yrzal family in Chicago, has only a few
more days to live. According to present
plans, he will be executed in the Cook
county Jail on Friday, Dec. II.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Paper from Cotton Stalks.

Paper is to be manufactured from cot
ton stalks, a heretofore useless by-pro-
duet, according to report of the bureau
of manufactures in Washington. A COM
pany capitalized at 100000 has been or
ganized at Atlanta for the purpose 1t is
claimed that paper can be made from
cotton stalks at cost of about So per
TON
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
co.'s Police Chief Drowned.
Fatal Collision at Boston, Mass.

William A. Buchanan, a brakeman,
was killed, five persons were probably
hurt and thirty-five more or less seri-
Dusty injured in rear end collision be-
tween two local passenger trains at
the South Boston station of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Wife Beaten shoots Two.

Two men who attempted to stop An
drew Bagotas, an Italian of Pittston.
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, from beating his
wife were shot by the Infatuated husband
one of the men dying instantly and the
other so seriously wounded that he is not
expected to live.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
wife Cause, KiIdnre,s Arrest.

On complaint of his wife. Owen Kill
dare, the playwright and author of New
York, was taken to j. Hood Wright hos
pital a prisoner, and, after being locked
up in the West One Hundredth street
station, was arraigned in the West Side
court on a charge of intoxication.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
SOLDIER FREEZES TO DEATH.

Goes Alone Alaskan Hunting
Trip and Lasts One Day.
A story of reckless adventure by one of
the signal corps operators in Alaska has
been received by Gen. Allen, chief of the
United States Signal Corps in Washing
ton. Private William A. Bonney, who
last June went to the lonely post of
Mimic, in central Alaska, went alone on
a five days hunting trip, and his frozen
body was found next day eight miles from
Mimic.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Life Convict Gets Pardon.

After sixteen years Imprisonment,
John Heise, a miner, aged As years, serv-
ing a life term for second-degree murder,
was the happy recipient of the Thanks
giving pardon at the hands of Governor
Harris of Ohio.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
LARGE Catch of Wild Animals.

William ID. Favors, a trapper and
hunter of st. Paul, Ind, reports the
following catch for nine nights: Nine
ty-six muskrats, three 'coons, five opos-
sums, four skunks and three minks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
XIII. Self and Two Children

Mrs. Michael Marialaky, wife of a
ranchman living near Evanston, Wyo.,
killed herself and two children and at
tempted to murder three other children
with pie dosed with strychnine. The act
is believed to be the result of domestic
unhappiness.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Fire DAMAGES colIeae.

Fire destroyed two wings of ST. Je-
rome's Catholic College at Berlin, On.
tario, entailiig a loss of $4,000. Stu
dents had narrow escapes and all got
put in their nightclothes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
section Hand. Meet Death.

Four Greek section hands were killed
and four others were terribly injured
when the Downers Grove express on the
Burlington road, loaded with suburban
passengers, crashed into hand car near
Highlands, seventeen miles west Of Chi
cago. at Z 80 o'clock the other morning.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Accused of killing with Auto.

Edward Beaverton of Ossining, n. Y,
was arrested on suspicion of being the
auto driver who last Saturday night ran
down and killed William Kramer and
William Purdy on the Albany post road,
near the estate of William Rockefeller.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Unifc To Control Pacific.

Despite official reticence at Washing
ton, il is learned from reliable sources
that Japan and America have reached an
agreement amounting almost to an often
sve and defensive alliance in the Pacific
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
citizens Friohtened by Robbsries.

The numerous bank robberies and
postoffice burglaries in Ohio and In
diana have frightened the village of
East Liberty, Ohio. and a Citizens Pro
tective Association is Being formed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Cation Broker Killed by Train.

Peter Il. Hellwege of the cotton firm
of Peter Il. Hellwege & Co. was run over
and killed by railroad train at Elysian
Fields avenue and North Prior street,
New Orleans. Mr.. Hellwege was about
81 years of age.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

Seated upright In "a chair by the side
of his bed, the body of Charles III. Seaver.
a travelling salesman of Jackson, Mich,
was found in a room of his hotel in
GAINESVILLE. Death probably was caused
by heart disease.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Prominent Canadian Dies.

Gen. Sir Henry Wilkinson, who had
large mining interests in the Lake of the
Woods, is dead at Kenora, Ont. aged 60
years. IIe served in the Indian mutiny
with the Sixteenth Lancers and was in
spector of cavalry at Aldershot.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
shoots Herself In Hotel.

Mrs. Eleanor Merron Covper, play
wright, shot herself in the st. Regis hotel
New York, in the same manner her aged
friend, James ii. Wallick, committed sui
eide.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03

Real estate owned b. Peter Van Wis
sineen, Chicago's arch swindler, will
bring total of assets up 70 $4,000 His
wife is believed entirely dependent on her
own efforts to make living.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
ROOSEVELT TO ADVISE CHINA.
Report that He VIII BE Asked 40
Helm Remodel Government.

The Japan Advertiser in Toxic gives
prominent publicity to the rumor emanat-
ing from Pekin hat one of the principal
objects of Tang Shao Yi's mission to the
United States is the endeavor TO induce
President Roosevelt TO act as confidential
adviser to China during the process of re-
modelling the government on constitutional
lines
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-03
Three Nesroe. Are Hanged.

Three negroes threatened with lynch
ing at Tiptonville, Tenn, were tried i'm
mediately at a specially called session of
court, convicted and sentenced to death
and the mob then executed them.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
just as Good.

I'VE are trying to educate our read-
ers to recognize the evils Of substitu-
tion," said the business manager Of
one Of the popular magazines.
Through our advertising pages we
are trying to get them up to the point
where they will insist upon getting
what they asked for. and win take
nothing else. The merchant who has
something just as good Is no more
to be depended upon than clerk in q
certain country store which friend
visited to buy something.
my friend had been invited unex-
pectedly to make a automobile trip,
and was not fully prepared for 1t. The
roads we're very dusty, and after tray
cling several miles the party came to
a country village. whore my friend
thought he might be able to purchase
something to protect his clothing.
The automobile halted before the gen.
erai store Of the village. MY friend
allghted and accosted q droWsy clerk.
I want to get linen duster, he
said.
I am very sorry said the clerk.
out We ere just cut d Linen busters
! can lst you have : nios fostaes
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
PACKAGE WAS OF SOME VALUE.
Gave Mrs. Potter an Opportunity sh'
Had Long Desired.

"You know you've often told me that
I'm one Of those who are always let
ting good chances slip by me-" Mr..
Potter remarked complacently to his
wife, on his return from weeks visit
to the city. Don't you recall 1t, Man.
dyf
IT may have been driven to It once
or twice." admitted Mrs. Potter.
whats that you've got in your hands.
William"
"This little package" said Mr.. Pot
ter, solemnly, cost me $1.4o, and ]
don't know what's in It. Waltz He
held up his hand as Mrs. Potter opened
her mouth with evident intent to re-
proach him.
Erred took me to one Of the sales
of unclaimed packages at the big rail-
way office one gay. Folks have to bid
Just what they think best; nobody
knows what's In anything. But Fred
and could both tell about this. Sealed
up on both ends as It's, we knew
twas something valuable, and being
30 light, we concluded twas probably
some piece O. women's jewelry. Fred
said that If it hadn't been pouring
rain, SO that few were there, wouldn't
have had any part of a chance; 'twould
have run away up In dollars. Here,
you open 1t.
IT told Fred I'd give him the credit"
Mr.. Potter went on, as his wife pried
on the seals with pair Of scissors.
i"He's used to such things, and knows
when to take and when to let 90. SO
you see"
Mr.. Potter's voice trailed on into
silence as his wife removed the wrap
ping paper from small pasteboard
box and opened it, held out to him q
little yellow bottle, tightly packed
with pale yellow tablets.
1.-TWO every hour till the pain is re-
lieyed," read Mr.. Potter with falter-
ing tongue from the label on the bot
tie held toward him by his wife. my
land, and you wouldn't burst to take
one Of 'em, not knowing what they're
for!"
Here, you put all this truck In the
fret" commanded Mrs. Potter. "And
you needn't trouble to notify your
nephew Fred. I'll write him this after
noon. There are a number Of things
I've been wanting to say to him for
some time."-Youth's Companion.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
Tho loquaclous swais.

Mr., Backwoods had called for the
first time to escort Miss pumpkin to
the weekly prayer meeting. An excess
of timidity and self-consciousness re.
duced both to a point Of absolute ST.
lence until at last and with visible e.
fort, as the meeting house" is
feared. the gallant summons all his
courage.
do you like stewed rabbits?" he
hazards.
"Yes," returns the maiden, coyly.
Again silence, until on the return
Journey the home lights are sighted
when, with another mighty effort, the
resourceful swain asks, feelingly:
Amt the gravy nice?"
And yet there are those that main
tain that country folk sometimes seem
at a loss for conversational topics
Bohemian Magazine.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
The Nous. Trap.

The sunlight turned the sea to yel'
low fame, and the inventor pulled bis
cap down over his eyes. "The child
is father to the man." he resumed
For instance: There was q miller's
son who invented, at the age Of II,
an automatic mouse trap, a trap that
used the recoil from one mouse's cap
ture to set itself for another mouse
This trap worked well. caught II
mice at the first go of, and soon rid
the miller's mill Of its mice myriads
Well, sir, the boy inventor Of that
mouse trap used the traps reeoil prin
ciple for his greatest invention, the
Maxim gun, for 1t is Sir Hiram Maxim
I'm talking about, and II You 90 To
the Maine village Of Sangerville they'll
show you there one Of the automatic
rapid-flring mouse traps that pres
ages the famous Maxim gun"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
DEATH in ITS WAKE
FRESHET IN CHINESE RIVER
SWEPT AWAY THOUSANDS.
Error and Delay In Transmission Of
Warning Telegram Responsible
for DIsaster-shlppins Swept
Before Irresistible Flood.

How q telegraphic error was res9on.
sible for the loss Of thousands Of lives
Is told by q Shanghai correspondent
The disaster occurred during freshet
on the Han river in the beginning Of
April, says London dispatch to the
New York Sun.
Owing to heavy rainfalls In the
mountains in northwest Hupeh It fire.
quently happens that torrent Of wa
ter rushes down the mountain sides
into the Han, a tributary Of the great
Yang.tse. Hitherto warning of the
freshets has been telegraphed from
Siang-yang, 400 miles away from the
mouth Of the Han, and on receipt OF
the news men have been hurriedly sent
out, equipped with gongs, to warn the
boats at the mouth Of the river to find
q safe anchorage.
On the evening Of April 6 lnessen-
gers were sent around with the news
that a freshet SIX feet high was on its
way down. The inhabitants and the
boating population considered q six
foot freshet to be Of little consequence.
and took no precautions whatever, be.
,lieving that, as in former years, It's ar.
rival need not be expected for another
ia hours.
Unfortunately the telegram announ.
cling the oncoming torrent was delayed
for "a hours and by an error in the
wording the height was reduced from
rs feet to six feet The freshet ar
rived at lightning speed at midnight
on April 6. The night was pitch dark,
the inhabitants were asleep.
Suddenly thousands Of boats in the
Han river were tbrn from their moor.
ings and hurled together in confused
mass on the breast Of q raging torrent.
Deep.laden boats we're sunk immedi.
ately, others were pounded to pieces
and some, catching fire. Lit up a scene
Of appalling destruction.
The people on shore were powerless
to assist and the cries Of the perishing
rent the heavens and were painful to
hear as a native newspaper described
It. Those boats that escaped the ini-
tiai onset OF the torrent were swept
out into the Yang-tse. where strong
northeast gale completed the work Of
destruction.
Lifeboats were sent out to the res
cue, but could render little service.
The terror of the night was increased
by three huge lunks which took fire
and, drifting toward the foreshore Of
the British settlement, endangered the
hulks mored along its front
The native papers state that a small
steamer, 700 large junks and innumer.
able small craft were destroyed. The
loss Of life, at first estimated at 1000,
probably exceeded double that mum.
Der. Eighteen hundred bodies were
picked up at one bend Of the Yang.
tse alone. 4 number Of women and
children were among the dead. Thir
teen hundred masts were recovered at
the same spot.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15

BUN, ana not an agreeable one, but
the incident taken from England
Without and Within" goes to prove
that 1t has Its uses.
| had been little over week in
London lodgings, and had my break
fasts served by the housekeeper. One
morning the maid said, as she took
my tray: ~
I'm afraid we sha'n't satisfy you,
sir, with your breakfasts"
l told her my breakfasts were very
good, that the tea, eggs, bacon, fish.
mullins and marmalade were good
enough for any man, and all I wished,
Eyes, sir, but you never grumble
about anything you have. and so we
don't know how to please you
Youths Companion.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15

@. r. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1860 Viz
ginia Ave-, Indianapolis, Ind, writes
II was so weak from kidney trouble that
| could hardly walk hundred feet.
Four bottles Of Foley's Kidney Remedy
cleared my complexion, cured my back
ache and the irregularities disappeared,
and can now attend to business every
day, and recommend Foley's Kidney
Remedy to all sufferers, as 1t cured me
after the doctors and other remedies had
failed. Sold by the Palace Drug Co,
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
ssn,ltIv ens,, 81 Earth.


The invention Of the seismograph
Tor the study Of earthquakes has led
TO the discovery Of the surprising SEN
sitivsness Of the crust Of the globe to
forces that might have been thought
too insignificant to cause distortion.
Among these forces Is the alteration
IN the pressure Of the atmosphere dur.
ting the passage Of storms, causing a
Iperceptible fitting Of large areas 81
ground. Prof. Amori Of Japan declares
that b storm which passed over the
sea east Of Tokyo recently caused the
bordering land to tilt downward. not.
withstanding the fact that the sea
rises with release Of atmospheric pres
sure, and the accumulation Of water
more than suflced to counterba!ance
the decrease in weight Of the air.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
HIs Great Fault.

eyes,. said the would-be-author. 'Ive
taken house In the country. but It
win be necessary for me to engage a
gardener. There's quite plot OF
ground around the house; too much
for me to handle"
eyes," replied Crittick, you never
could handle a plot, could ycuw
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
The pope as a Newspaper Reader.

The Pope az a Newspaper Reader.
! Pope Plus is firm believer In
newspaper reading. Ills favorites are
two provincial sheets, Venice Difesa
and vicenza verico. The latter pa
psr he has read nearly all his life.
When be became patriarch Of Venice
hs happened to make the acquaintance
Of the editor of Difesa, then strug-
cling daily. The editors views pleased
his eminence, and hearing Of the edit
cr's high character, he offered him bis
cid. The patriarch's liberality and
active support soon gave the Difesa q
very wide circulation, and It is now
20 profitable that It is regarded as one
a the most solid institutions Of the
great city.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
A Healthy Family

"Our whole family has enjoyed good
health since we began using DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, three years ago." says i.
A. Bartlett. of Rural Route /, Guilford,
Maine. They cleanse and tone the sys.
tenn In a gentle way that does you good
25c at the Palace Drug Store.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
canpalun candor.

"You don't get angry when people
refuse to indorse your opinions?'
"Certainly not" answered the ora,
Aor. Every -four years or so am
liabio 10 have to decline 10 iadcrse
sems Of ny own opinions
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
Emulation,

"Why do you think college boys are
80 fond of athletics?"
Il suppose" answered Mr.. 81 Level.
head, that the youngsters overhsar us
old chaps braggin' bout what we did
when we were boys, an sort O. feel
It their duty to try to keep up"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
Extend siberian Road.

A great extension Of the Siberian
railroad is proposed along the River
Amur, and as It has met with hearty
approval on the part Of the present
ministry, It is likely to be constructed.
n will open up 100000 acres of corn
land.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
No Way Of FlndlnG Out.

One does not usually make q virtue
Of faultnnding, but 1t seems. by Rich,
ard Grant Whites experience, that It
has Its valuable part in social econ,
omy. Grumbling has always been
considered > pFsroEatixe. az John
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
pSE DOLLAR YEAR n ADVANCE
OFFIClALcoUNTY and ClTYPAPER
Married Man IN Trouble

N A married man who permits any menu
Der 81 the family to take anything except
Foley's Honey and Tar, for coughs, coldi
and lung trouble, Il guilty Of neglect.
Nothing else Is as good for Oh pulmon'
ary troubles. The genuine Foley'i
Honey and Tar contains no opiatss and Il
Ii yellow package. Sold BY the Pal.
ace Drng 90. ss
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
Time Wasted.

Lady Ito caller)-You won't mind
my going on with my work while you
are here, will you? Then shan't feel
I'm wasting time.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
Tn. principal Hurt.

aCant you get over talking about
the way you got cheated in that horss
trader"
"No," answered Mr.. Sirius Barker.
II don't mind a man getting my
money, but hate to feel that have
lost his respect"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-10-15
The Kew to Domestic Peace.

"Tell me, do you love me?"
A tense silence followed the passion
ate words. The woman bent toward
him with hand pressed to her bosom,
Her very life seemed to hang upon
the answer.
AT last he spoke: f
Eyes, ! love you!"
And earnestness calculated to dispel
all haunting doubts was In his answer,
the same he had given her every day
Of their 40 years of married life. For
It Is the nature Of woman to keep on
asking.