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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
STORY OF GINGLES GIRL.
Irish Lacemaker Tells That She Was
Beaten in a Chicago Hotel.

queer story of an alleged plot by
Two women and a man violently to
force her into white slavery was told
on the witness stand by Ella Gingles,
young Irish lacemaker, on trial in
Chicago on charge of having stolen
valuable laces from Miss Agnes Bar
rette. The girl detailed the events she
alleged preceded her discovery by the
police, drugged. gagged and tied to a
bathtub in the Wellington Hotel last
January. The witness three times was
overcome. The girls testimony was
given as proof of her earlier charge
that she was victim of bold plot,
in which Miss Agnes Barrette and
Mrs. Cecilia Kenyon, the latter now
dead, conspired to make it appear
that she was a thief.
On the evening of Jan. last, she
testified, Miss Barrette asked her TO
come to the latter's room in the Wei.
lington Hotel, with the understanding
she would be paid money due her. In
stead, the girl declared, the woman,
assisted by Miss Kenyon, locked her
in room. The women, she said, re-
moved her clothing. Then, she testi-
fed. they choked and beat her repeat
eddy. The girl recited her struggles
to escape from the torture she alleged
was inflicted upon her by the two
women and man, who later came,
and how she finally was released at
midnight half clad after her money
had been taken from her.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
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The annual rowing races between
Yale and Harvard on the Thames were
won by the crews of Harvard. Cornell
won on the Hudson.
The base ball team of the University
of Wisconsin has about decided to
abandon the project of visiting Japan
as had been planned.
Minneapolis made it four straight
over Indianapolis for the series by
taking the last game on the home
grounds in the twelfth inning. 4-3.
The spring meeting of the Montreal
Jockey Club was a huge success this
year. At the closing events a major
ity of the finishes were close and ex-
citing.
The frequent rains have retarded
training throughout the country, and
as a result the trotters and PAGERS are
at least three weeks late in their
"preps" for the races.
Lou Dillon is creating quite stir
on the Berlin tracks. After being in
retirement for nearly four years she
proves that she has lost none of her
old-time speed. The record she now
makes is 2:02 3-5.
A novel experiment has been tried In
Cincinnati. 1t has been demonstrated
that base ball can be successfully
played by electric light. President Her
mann, of the National Base Ball Com
mission, pronounced the attempt a sue
cess.
The New Zealand rover. r. Arnst
defeated w. Webb, in a contest on the
Wanganui River, n. H., which victory
allows him to retain the sculling cham
pionship of the world. His record is
az miles in IS minutes, IA 3-5 sec
onds.
The Chicago Automobile Club have
sustained losses amounting to $4,000
as a result of the Crown Point meet
and they have decided to drop auto
races from the schedule for 1910. If
the races are given they will be con-
Quoted on vastly different lines.
A few years ago the three heat,
every heat race, plan found many
followers, and for time it seemed
that the system would take the place
of the other but il is gradually being
discarded, and there will be few races
of that character this season.
The fourteen stakes to be decided
during the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Associations thirty seventh
annual meeting at Lexington, Oct. 5
to 10, inclusive, have closed with a
total entry of $50 horses. an average of
forty-two nominations per race.
Edward and Joseph Madden, the
youngest trotting horse breeders and
owners in the world, will this season
campaign one of the most pretentious
stables of harness horses that will go
down the Grand Circuit.
The French Derby at Chantilly was
won by W. X. Vanderbilt's NegofoI
in impressive style from Edmond
Blanc's Union, with Negofol's stable
companion, Oversight, third.
Miss Gwendolyn Rees of st. Paul
defeated Miss Marie Wagner the ma
tional indoor champion tennis player.
in Philadelphia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
BRIDE AND GROOM DIE.
Id entity of Couple Drowned ut south
Il LII

Identity of Couple Drowned ut south
Bend Is Revealed.
Death in a suicide compact in the
river at South Bend, Ind, ended a two
day honeymoon and terminated the
romance of Herman Lindemann and
his bride, formerly Eleanor lister,
both of Chicago. The two were mar
ried Saturday at st. Joseph, Mich. By
a justice. They rode to death in the
ST. Joseph river over the dam at South
Bend. Those who saw the boat go
over the rapids declare the two must
have died in suicide compact AS
the boat shot over the dam Linde-
mann arose in the bow of the fran
rowboat, smiling at the horror-strick-
en- crowd which shouted a warning
from the shore, pulled twice on ciga-
rette, and then, as the boat went over
the dam, clasped his bride in lis arms
and sank from signt Discovery of the
young mans identity came when
search was made at the Crescent Ho-
tel, where Lindemann and his bride
had registered Monday. Chicago adj
dresses of the two were found in cloth
ing left in their rooms.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
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Two hundred and seventeen girls
were graduated from Vassar this year
At Harvard it was announced that
former President Eliot had been made
president emeritus and the alumni
fund in his honor reached 100000.
The University summer school. un-
der the direction of Dean George F.
James, has begun. 1t promises larger
attendance than last year, when 1900
students attended.
The Woman's College, at Jackson
vile, ILL.,. founded sixty-one years ago.
graduated a class of sixty-one this
year. A new $4,000 building for this
institution is in process of construc-
ton.
The Chicago school board has decid-
ed to abolish Latin and algebra in the
lower grades and readjust the course
of study, making it more practical. A
training school of domestic science for
girls is to be established.
In the recent examination of fores-
try in the University of Michigan,
William w. Morris received the mark
of S7.73, the highest mark won in the
recent forestry examination in all the
universities of the country. He has
been almost wholly self-supporting
while at the university.
The feature of the Manchester Col
lege commencement, aside from the
formal announcement that the en-
dowment fund of s45O,00O had been
raised, was the recital given by the
department of music.
The Minnesota Indian School at Nor
ris will not be taken over by the
State for an agricultural station for a
while The government has appro-
priated s27 900 to maintain the Indian
school until the State takes hold.
st. Joseph's Academy granted di-
plomas to thirty-one girls who finished
the course at that institution in st.
Paul last week. The commencement
exercises were held outdoors. Arch
bishop Ireland delivered the address.
In Des Moines, Iowa, Miss Maud
Ewing and Miss Ida May Tilden,
school teachers, were arrested,
charged with having beaten 9-year-old
David Kaplain.
Crivitz. Marinette County, Wis, is
10 have q new agricultural school, pro-
viding the residents of the county will
donate eighty acres of suitable land
for that purpose.
All of the seventyOne counties of
Wisconsin, except Florence County.
were represented at the University Of
Wisconsin last year. il the t0trl en-
rollment of 4,521 students.
New York City school authorities
have denied the truthfulness of the
sensational report m;de at the Allan
tic City meeting of the American Med
zeal Association by DR.. T. Alexander
MacNicholl. The report made by the
doctor was to the effect that medi-
cal inquiry covering 10000 New York
public school children had disclosed
that 1900, or SO per cent, drink reg
ularly, or occasionally, alcohol in
some form; that 11,100, or 81 per cent,
drink daily from one to five glasses
of beer, that $780, or II per cent,
drink wine or spirits,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
REVIEW OF OHIO

While witnessing a high dive at a
Lima amusement resort Mrs. Clarence
A. Richardson was stricken with a
heart attack, and physicians say she
may die as the result of the shock.
C. w. Ford was the first man in
Hancock County to cut his wheat, hav.
ing put the reaper in the field last
week. Mr.. Ford states that the grain
is very fine this year and that the
average yield per acre will be large.
Pedestrians passing the vicinity o.
Tusculum, on Eastern avenue In Gin
cinnati, after recent rain stepped
carefully. The ground for a half
square was literally alive with hun.
dreds of tiny frogs that had appeared
with the shower.
DR.. NJ. R. Charles and wife, who
have been spending several weeks
with the latter's parents in Findlay,
have left for California, intending to
sail for Shanghai, China, where the
doctor has charge of hospital. They
viii De gone Tor eight years.
The humane officer of Oxford swore
out a warrant against Allen Taylor,
colored, charging him with cruelty. 1t
is said that Taylor tied his son, Hart.
we'll Taylor, up to the rafters in his
barn with a strap and then beat the
youth until he was nearly exhausted
Workmen at the Ben Pool gravel pit
near Defiraff recently unearthed sew.
eral human skeletons, believed to be
the remains of Indians With the
bones were found flint arrow heads,
notched bone arrow bases, some bear
teeth, which were used for ornaments,
it is supposed.
A horse hitched to a fence on the
farm of NJ. Bippus, seven miles west of
Findlay, paved so hard that it I'm.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
sUFTRAGIsTS PICK ANNA SHAW.
Minister Elected President of Ma
tfonal Association at Seattle.

Minister Elected President of Ma
tfonal AssociatiOn at Seattle.
The national convention of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association in
Seattle elected the following officers:
President--Rev. Anna H. Shaw.
Moylan, Pa.
First Vice President-Mrs Rachel
Foster Avery, Swarthmore, Pa
Second Vice President-Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley, New York.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Kate
N. Gordon, New Orleans.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. Ella S.
Stewart, Chicago.
Treasurer-Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton. Warren. o.
First Auditor-Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.
Second Auditor-Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell. Boston.
Secretary Gordon accepted re-elec-
tion unwillingly, with the understand
ing that she might resign after few
months. The national leaders hope
that Prof. Frances Squire Potter may
be induced to leave the University of
Minnesota and give all her time to the
Office of corresponding secretary at
the New York headquarters to be es-
tab,ished.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15

ate on the train while on the way
from New York to Xenia last week
After coming home he dictated a let
ter accepting a call TO the pastorate
of Delaney On. " church.
Attorney Earl G. Scott, who was dis
charged at Youngstown several
months ago, has gone on the stage He
is appearing with a company in Pitts
burg. Scott practiced law in New
York for some time after leaving
Youngstown. He was formerly clerk
in the Ohio House of Representatives.
A representative of the Ohio Agri-
cultural college will soon be in Bowl
ing Green to arrange for an agricul-
tural school for this winter under the
extension act passed by the last Legis-
lature whereby residents of the sew
eral counties which provide for certain
expenses, will have the privilege of
receiving weeks instruction from
men connected with the o. S. u.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lasher, an aged
couple of Delaware, while trying out"
their newly purchased family horse,
were thrown against a hitching post
during a runaway. Mrs. Lasher's skull
was fractured, left leg broken, knee
cap dislocated and she suffered bad
body bruises. Her husband sustained
no broken bones, but was injured in
ternally. Both are in the hospital.
John Alexander, of Akron, driving
an automobile at Lewiston Reservoir
last week, went over forty foot en-
bankment and was severely hurt.
Misses Ruth Smith and Marie English,
under the car, but neither was SER
iously hut. A big car from Spring
field ran off a narrow road into the
water at the same resort, and although
all of the occupants got wet they were
not hurt.
Roy Watson, of Rawson, was prob
ably fatally injured when scaffold on
which he was working fell. Aaron era
mer, of Findlay, and Charley Folk, of
Rawson, sustained broken arms and
legs.
William Jordan, of Mt. Blanchard,
has been given notice that his pension
has been increased from $50 per
month to 500, because of total blind
ness. He was a member of a company
in General William II. Gibson's old
regiment.
rf~r-
Company of Bellevue has secured a
lease on the Globe Roller mill, of Nor
walk, and after extensive improve
ments have been made will operate the
property in connection with their
Bellevue mill.
Evidence of returning activity in
railway circles is evidenced by the l..
r. & WIS recent order, booked by the
oar timber amounting to $4,000. The
order was taken with the understand
ing that delivery IS to be made at the
earliest possible date.
Warren, a 4-year-old twin son of
Homer Ellis, of Port William, was
drowned in cistern at the home of
his uncle, Albert Turner. The cover
ing was insecure and gave way when
the child toddled across it.
Wild duck at $50 per is pretty ex-
pensive eating" said Game Warden
John c. Speaks, "but that is what we
have just collected from William Derr.
an engineer at the Cincinnati water
works plant, for killing wild duck
Derr claimed that he shot il as a mat
ter of duty, as it was making the water
foul"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
NEWCOMB, SCIENTIST, is DEAD.
Military Funeral for Noted Astron-
omer in Washington, D. c.

Military Funeral for Noted Astron-
omer in Washington, d. c.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, astronomer,
mathematician. traveller, and rear ad-
miral, retired, who died at his home in
Washington, ID. c., was buried with
military honors in Arlington Cemetery
Wednesday. High officials of the gov
eminent attended and the honorary
pallbearers included prominent men.
Prof. Newcomb is survived by his
widow, a daughter of the late DR..
H3ssler, surgeon, u. S. ~, and three
daughters, DR.. Anita Newcomb Nc
Gee of Washington, Mrs. Francis Will
son. and Mrs Edward Whitney, both
of New York. Simon Newcomb was
the recipient of more degrees and
similar honors abroad than any other
American man of science. He was the
first American associate of the French
institute since Benjamin Franklin, and
was decorated by Kaiser Wilhelm with
the order Pour lie Merite fur Vissen-
schaften und Kunsten." He was
writer on political economy as well as
in his own peculiar department of
learning, that of astronomy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15

The Butler County Commissioners
have passed a resolution to improve
the roadway three miles south of the
Columbia bridge to the line between
Ross and st. Clair Townships.
Herman Tranker, with six other
young men and three girls, waded neck
deep to safety on the shore, when a
power boat in which they had set out
from Cedar Point for ride on San
dusky Bay caught fire. The boat was
destroyed.
Gen. A. H. Axline, Columbus, so
years of age, and adjutant general of
Ohio under Governor Foraker, jumped
into Sandusky bay and saved Axline
Dewitt, his 6-year-old grandson, from
drowning The two were fishing and
the boy fell off the dock.
The incorporation of the Times
Printing Co., for $4,000 means a new
Republican organ for Clark County
The paper will be revival of the old
Springfield Gazette and will be print
ed in the morning. Springfield and
Lima capital is interested.
Burt Marvin, of Kenton, who was
belfast for nearly eight months as a
result of partial paralysis caused by
striking his head on a stone while
driving at Riverside Park last fall, was
thrown from his automobile few
days ago and perhaps fatally hurt.
AT Company x rifle range, near Ere
mont, stray bullet struck a piece of
iron on one of the targets, glanced and
after striking John CARRIER. aged -,
on the nose, landed in the left leg of
Cecil Smith. another boy Doctors
were compelled to cut out the bullet
The Rev. F. o. Ross, United Pres
byterian minister, died of ptomaine
poisoning, caused by sandwiches he
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
feleKraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
Of the Many.
Kills Babe at Breast.

After preparing herself for bed. Mrs.
Bump, wife of Ralph Bump, a farmer
residing four miles southeast of Roam
oke, Ind, deliberately fed the babe at
her breast three morphine tablets and
then, laying it in its crib to die, drank
a half ounce of carbolic acid and called
her husband to tell him what she had
done in a fit of mOmentary insanity.
The child, four months of age, died
and the mother is lowering between
death and recovery, more nearly dead
than alive, and with the awful charge
of infanticide lowering over her. Re-
peatedly she continues TO vow her de-
sire that her effort at willful self-de-
struction will yet be successful, al
though admitting that, if she had not
killed her infant, she might wish TO be
well again
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15

earthed a mans bloody dress shirt,
and the authorities are seeming a
crime. Indistinct initials were found
on the garment Near where it was
found fire had evidently destroyed
papers. etc. The authorities are inves-
tigating.
The Northern Ohio railroad, which
runs from Akron to Delphos, has ac-
commodation trains that are accommo-
dating in every sense of the word A
Findlay man returned recently from a
trip over that road and says that at
Bluffton, the conducted backed UP his
train to where a ball game was be-
ing played and remained there until
the passengers witnessed three in
nings. and then started on to Akron.
Edward M. Quimby, of Wooster, a
millionaire with large interests in
nearly every city in the State, died
several days ago in hospital at Ores
den, Germany, following an operation
for appendicitis. His wife and eight
children had accompanied him on his
trip to Dresden and were present when
he died. Mr.. Quimby's property con-
sisted of real estate in Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Toledo, Wooster, Warren and
Pittsburg. 1t was inherited from his
father, a pioneer Ohio merchant
Red cedar trees to the number OF
about 100 were discovered buried in a
swamp in Macarthur Township, six
miles north of Bellefontaine, by sur
veying party. No trees of that spe-
cies have grown in Logan County
within the remembrance of pioneers.
The bases of the trees which varied
from Is TO 30 inches in diameter, were
found to be tapered and showed plain
ly the work of beavers, which had
felled the trees probably $50 years
ago. The trees are in perfect state
Of preservation.
When George Krock moved into the
home formerly occupied by Mrs. John
Briggs at Forest, he found 800 In an
old tin can which he turned over to
the heirs. He was given $50 as a re-
ward Cor his honesty.
ST. Marys capitalists have leased
the old San Souci, a we'll known resort
at the northeast corner of the st.
Marys reservoir, and will open it to
the public in the near future. The
club house will be overhauled and the
dancing pavilion repaired.
Rev. II. E. Stafford, newly installed
pastor of the Christian church in Mas
sillon, has announced that he would
present four arguments in favor OF the
saloon on Sunday evening. Mr.. Stat
ford last Sunday refused to preach for
the dry" forces in Beach City.
The oldest woman in Butler County,
Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, died at her home
in Somerville, aged 80 years / month
and "a days. She was the mother of
twelve children. the oldest a daughter
aged IS. Her husband, Colonel Amos
Mills, died thirty years ago. He was a
veteran of three wars.
Isaac Gregory, of Wales Mills, was
bound over to the Meigs County Com
mon Pleas Court of the charge of cut
ting with intent to kill Luther Allen.
The trouble arose over a girl. Allen
was badiy cut about the face and arms
Morris Crosh, As years old, owner of
an ice plant at Lockland, a suburb of
Cincinnati, was killed by cold in his
ice plant recently. The man had been
working outside the plant in the in
tensely hot sun. The sudden change to
the cold air inside the plant was too
great shock and he literally froze
to death.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
EIks, Train Mixed in Wreck.

Three trainmen killed and one fatal
ly injured and traffic tied up for more
than twelve hours are the results of
Cisco. Utah, between section five of
west-bound Denver & Rio Grande pas
senger train No. and an east-bound
sheep train. Elks bound for Los An
geles were passengers on the wrecked
train. The engine crew and baggage
man of the passenger train were killed.
None of the passengers was injured.
Fourteen special trains carrying Elks
to Los Angeles were held at Grand
Junction. Colo, on account Of the
wreck.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
TEACHERS SHUN BOOK FIGHT.
Refuse to Elect Man Committed to
Contest for Price Reform.

Contest for Price Reform.
The election of James Yadkin Joyn-
er, superintendent of public instruc-
ton of North Carolina, as president of
the National Educational Association
in Denver, is regarded by his support
ers as victory in their fight against
any regulation of the prices of school
textbooks. Mr.. Joyner was elected
over Ben Blewett, head of the st.
Louis schools, and DR.. J. II. Phillips of
Birmingham, Ala.
The association went on record
against the existence of fraternities in
high schools in a resolution which
declares such organizations to be OPP
posed to the spirit of democracy. 1t
also decided to investigate" the feast
bility of simplified spelling. but took
no decided stand either for or
against it.
Irwin Shepherd OF Winona, Mimi,
was reelected secretary, A. H. Cham
berlain of California was reelected
treasurer, and Lorenzo d. Harvey, the
retiring president, was elected first
vice president San Francisco was
selected as the next meeting place of
the National Education Association.
Milwaukee and Boston contended
for IL
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
TARIFF BILL IS PASSED
BY VOTE OF 45 TO 81
Ten Republicans, Firm for Down.
ward Revision, Oppose Measure
--One Democrat Supports II.
TRIUMPH OF SENATOR ALDRICH
Conferees from Senate Appointed at
Once, Without Waiting for
House Action.

BY a vote of 45 to "a the tariff bill
utes after IL o'clock Thursday night
under dramatic circumstances.
Ten Republican Senators defying a
last attempt of AldFich of Rhode
Island to read them out of the
party, cast their votes against the pas
sage Of the measure. Here are the
ten:
BeveridSe, Ind Crawford. s D
Bristow. Kansas. Cummirs, Iowa.
Brown, Nebraska. Deliver, Iowa.
Burkett. Nebra ska. IA Toilette. Wis.
ClapD. Minnesota. Nelson. Minnesota.
Immediately after tee passage of the
bill. on motion of Senator Aldrich-
contrary TO precedents. but sustained
by the Vice President. who was in the
chair-the tonferees on the part of the
Senate who will deal with the measure
in its next stage were appointed The
usual custom is to wait for the House
IN which p measure originates to re-
ject amendments made by the other
Senate conferees are:
Republicans.
Ald.ich. II. l. Penrose, Pa.
Hale, Maine Cullom, Illinois.
Burrows. Mich.
Democrats.
Daniel, Virginia. Bailey, Texas.
Money. Mississippi.
Senator Cullom while named on the
committee, may not serve during a
great part of the deliberations He
leaves for Atlantic City with Mrs. Gull
lom and has set no specific time for
his return to the capital His consent
at the last moment to have his name
Included in the committee member
ship, although inclined by the condi-
ton OF his health to step aside, solves
problem that otherwise would have
given New England. already more
than adequately represented, another
member on the committee in the per-
son of Senator Lodge of Massachu-
sets, whose seniority would have de
handed consideration and prevented
under the circumstances, the appoint
nient CT Senator Smoot of Utah
The vote in detail on the bill was as
follows, Senator McEnery of Louisiana
being the only Democrat to vote for
its passage: