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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

the court to declare it mistrial. Judge
Hart said he would listen to arguments
on this motion later. He then fixed
the defendants bond at $4,000 each,
which was acceptable to both sides.
The verdict, coming as it did upon
the heels of Foreman Burke's declara-
ton, that we are hopelessly tied up
as to the Coopers." was decided sur
prise. The defendants took it coolly,
almost without emotion. Mrs. Burch
and Mrs. Wilson, the daughters Of
Colonel Cooper. restrained their emo
ton gamely. Mrs. Burch sat with her
arm around her brother Robins Shout
der and Mrs. Wilson was at her faith
er's right.
After filing a bond totaling nearly
n million and half, Colonel Cooper
and his son retired TO the home of
Judge J. c. Bradford to discuss the
next move in the case. Although Judge
Hart fixed the bond at So, 900 for each
defendant, there was a rush to sign it
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

The Senate was in session just eight
minutes Friday. adjourning at 12:Os
D. m. until Monday. The census bill was
received from the House and referred
to committee. and George T. Oliver of
Pennsylvania was sworn in as Senator
For four and a half hours the House
of Representatives listened to the read
ing Of the tariff bill. which was con-
cluded. 1t was the only business trans
acted. 1t was perhaps the dreariest
legislative session of any held by that
body in recent years. Some of the
members early in the reading took to
the cloakrooms and lobby back Of the
Speakers desk. while others left the
building for the day. Mr.. Sims of Ten
nessee injected a breath of life into the
proceedings. He wanted the reading
of the bill dispensed with as a farce,
but objection was made. Then he asked
unanimous consent that the bill be put
on its passage. saying it was evident
no opportunity would be afforded to
amend the measure i'm the House. To
this suggestion. however, Mr.. Mann of
Illinois objected. The House ut 90
p. m. adjourned until Monday noon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
ANTHRACITE MINES MAY CLOSE
officer Says Operators Have Supply
md VIII Strike First

Rumors are taking definite form tina.
the anthracite operators will shut down
their collieries April unless the miners
come TO an agreement with them before
that time. A shutdown, a strike or a
continuance of the present working agree
ment for three years is the only possible
solution, according to prominent opera
tors. George +. Baer. president of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railrasd. did
not come to New York the other day. a.
his been his custom, to confer with presi-
dents of other anthracite roads. Whetb-
er any significance may be attached to
this or not, an officer of a big wholesale
coal firm. who speaks with authority,
summed up the situation in these words
II know positively that there VIII be a
lockout if there is not strike on April
] unless there is a settlement in tne mean
time. There is SO much coal on the
ground the operators are not going TO
allow the union TO take its own time 10
strike a blow. but will strike fist"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
EXoNERATE j. A. CHAMBER.

Millionaire Who Killed an English
man Freed by the Coroner.
John Armstrong Chanler. millionaire
and former husband of Amelie Rives, who
killed John Gillard, an Englishmqr. at
the Chanler home, Merry Mills, near
Charlottesville, Va, was exonerated w a
coroner's jury. Gillard had followed his
wife into the Chanler home and was
beating her with a pair of toEgs, when
Chanler drew revolver TO protect the
woman. In the struggle with Gil,ard the
weapon was discharged, the bullet enter
ing Gillard's head. Chanler, who is re-
lated to the Astors, changed his name to
Chaloner after his release from an Insane
asylum in New York State several years
ago. Recently, by legal process, he again
took his family name.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Student Dead From Hazina.

The authorities of White county, In
diana, have learned that youth nam
ed Charles Stinson is dead as a result.
Of hazing by fellow students at the
White school, who it Is alleged, strung
him up by his ankles to a sapling near
the school building and left him hang
ing SO long that he died within a few
hours after ne was taken down. Sew
eral teachers of the White school have
been driven away by unruly students
A few days ago new teacher was en-
ployed who was more determined than
his predecessors and he whipped the
rebellious young men. They blamed
Stinson for their humiliation 1t is ex-
pected that arrests will follow.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

The Senate was not in session Thurs
day. The first piece of Legislation to
be acted on by the House during the
special session was the bill providing
for the taking Of the thirteenth census,
which was passed. In its present form
the measure gives to the Civil Service
Commission jurisdiction over appoint
ments and provides for the printing of
the reports by the government printing
office. As enacted at the last session,
the bill stripped the Civil Service Com
mission of such authority, and there
was a provision allowing some of the
printing to be done by private firms.
because of which President Roosevelt
vetoed it. 4 further amendment was
made whereby appointments are to be
apportioned pro rata among the States.
The tariff bill was officially reported
to the House from the Committee on
Ways and Means and is now ready for
consideration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

on the part of wealthy citizens of
clerk in the Criminal Court 1t seemed
as If every friend of the Coopers con-
sidered it incumbent upon him to sign
the bond. When there was no more
room for names at the foot of the doc
ument the new bondsmen Endorsed it
across the face until it was difficult to
decipher the signatures.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

The Senate was not in session
Wednesday. The tariff bill was pre-
sented in the House by Chairman
Payne of the COMMITTEE on ways and
means and referred. Until il is re-
ported out of committee, which Mr.
Payne said he hoped would be at an
early day, the measure will not be-
come official. According to a state
ment made by him upon the for, he
did not anticipate any committee
changes Messrs. Bartlett (Ga.) and
James (Ky.) made good their caucus
pledge not TO accept n committee ap-
pointment unless first approved bytheir
minority leader, Mr. Clark (Mo.), and
fatty refused TO serve on the commit
tee on mileage, the membership of
which was announced by the Speaker.
No objection was made because OF Mr..
Bartlett's attitude. but it required a
vote Of the House before Mr.. James
was excused by the Speaker. although
1t was manifest that the vote was
overwhelmingly against excusing him.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
LUMAN MANN IS FREED.
"God Is just" Cries Alleged Stran-
gler, and Then He Weeps.

"God Is just" Cries Alleged Stran-
gler, and Then He Weeps.
Luman C. Mann was acquitted
Thursday afternoon after the jury in
Chicago court had considered his
case Il little more than two hours. The
verdict clears him forever of the
charge that he beat, bound and stran-
gled TO death Mrs. Fannie Gilmore
Thompson at clearinghouse at 1912
Michigan avenue. The scene in Judge
McSurely's courtroom after the ver-
dict was given might have been staged
for mclodrama. AS the clerk read
the words mot guilty" Mann sprang
to his feet, flung his hands over his
head and cried out: God is just,'
In spite of the solemn abjuration of
the court delivered few minutes be-
fore that no demonstration would be
tolerated women screamed. men clap
ped their hands and several of the
witnesses for the prosecution Kissed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
N%&6(1jQA5y/

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime
f4.O0 to S7.25; hogs. prime heavy, $3.50
20 $3.50; sheep. fair to choice, $500
% 5000; wheat. No. 2. SLID TO S1.21;
sorn, No. ., 64c to 65c: oats, standard.
j2c to BE; rye. No. ,, 79c to Sic: hay,
imothy. $500 to $3.50: prairie. $500
o S11.50; butter, choice creamery. 25c
% 2Sc; eggs. fresh. 15c to Ice: potatoes,
Der bushel. soc to 9Oc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40: hogs,
$500 to $685.: sheep. 500 to S5.75:
wheat. No. .. S1.29 to S1.31; corn. No. ..
j4c to 65c: oats. No. 2, SIC to 53c: rye,
No. =. 79c to Soc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. 500 to S6.2J:
hogs, 500 TO $7.15; sheep. $500 TO
$50: wheat. No. 2, Sl.26 to S1.27; corn.
70. mixed. &c to Csc: oats. No. 2
mixed. 53c to 54c; rye, No. ., SIC to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to S5.65; hogs,
400 to $3.50: sheep, $3.50 10 $500:
wheat, No. 2. S1.19 to S1.20: corn, No. 3
fellow, 6Ic to Csc; oats. No. 3 white.
SAC TO DOC: rye. No. =, SOC to SIC
Milwaukee-Wbeat. No. northern,
fila to S1.16; corn. No. 3, &c to CSC:
oats. standard. 54c to 56c: rye, No. /.
i9c to soc; barley, No. /, 65c to &c;
pork. mess. SI6.40.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers.
400 TO sos; hogs. fair to choice, $500
% SI.15; sheep, common TO good mixed.
400 TO $40; lambs. fair to choice.
$500 TO SS.15.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $685.;
icgs. $3.50 to 500: sheep. $500 to
500; wheat. No. . red. $1.22 to S1.23:
,orn. No. 2, I4c TO Toe: oats, natural
white, SIC TO Soc: butter. creamery. pc
% 3Oc: eggs. western, 16c to 19c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed. S1.20 10
s1.21: corn. No. , mixed. 66c 10 &c !;
bats. No. 2 mixed. SAC to 55c: rye. No.
?, Sic to SIC: clover seed, $5.35.
Indianapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500
$3.50: hogs. good to choice heavy,
$50 TO SG.60; sheep. good 20 choice,
$50 to S4.00: wheat. No. .. slo0 to
;122: corn, No. 2, white. Gle to CSC:
rats, No. white, Acc TO ole.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Find COOPERS GUILTY;
20 YEARS IN PRISON
Jurors Bring In Verdict of Second
Degree Murder for Kill.
ing of CarmaCk.
BAIL IS IMMEDIATELY GIVEN.
Friends of Convicted Men Rush to
Sign Bonds Pending Argument
for New Trial.

Guilty Of murder in the second de-
gree, with twenty years Imprisonment
as the penalty, was the verdict brought
in by the jury in Nashville Saturday
morning in the case against Colonel
Duncan i. Cooper and his son, Robin
Cooper, charged with the murder Of
former United States Senator Z. w.
Carmack. The jury the previous day
acquitted John B. Sharp, a co-defend-
ant
Immediately the defense moved TO
set aside the verdict because of the YER
dict of disagreement Friday and asked
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Woman Must 60 to Electric Chair.

Governor Hughes of New York, has
announced that he has denied the ap-
plication for executive clemency in
the case of Mrs. Mary Farmer, who
is under sentence Of death at Auburn
prison for the murder of Mrs Sarah
Brennan at Brownville, N. Y. Mrs.
Farmer will be executed some time
next week. Mrs. Farmer will have
been the second woman to 90 to the
electric chair in New York; the other
was Mrs. Martha Place, who was put
to death in Sing Sing prison on March
90. 1899, when Theodore Roosevelt
was governor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
FLOOD SWEEPS TOWN.
Two Killed and Several Hurt by
Bursting of Reservoirs.

Bursting of Reservoirs.
Three persons were killed. three 9th
ers probably fatally injured and many
more slightly hurt, while ten or more
houses were completely wrecked and
forty more badly damaged when the
two large water tanks supplying the
city of -ParkerSburg, W. Va, with wa
ter burst early Friday. AS two explo-
sions were heard just before the col
lapse of the huge water towers. it is
believed they were blown up with dy-
Mantle by some miScreant.
The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Maggie and small child. The bodies
were found in the ruins of their home.
The seriously injured are: Mrs. john
Maloney, both legs broken, hurt inter-
nally; probably viii die. Mrs. Kate
Harness, invalid, badly bruised and
shocked; may die. Clara Jones. color
cd. hurt internally; probably will die.
The towers burst at ! 80 a. m. and
the immense stream of water rushed
down Prospect hill. sweeping every
thing before it. Houses were swept
into the street and the residents were
knocked from their beds. All the men,
bers of one family. while sleeping in
an upstairs room. were carried down
street seventy-five yards. their house
being split almost into splinters, yet
all escaped injury except one girl,
whose collar bone was broken. The
two huge tanks contained the entire
city supply of water and a water fam
inc is now imminent.
The damage will amount To between
100000 and S250,O0O. The st. Johns
Lutheran Church was almost complete
ly demolished. but through its sacrifice
many lives were spared and much
more damage prevented, as it was d.
rectly in the path of the water.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
FINES STANDARD OIL $780, 900.

Federal Court mt Buffalo Denies Mo-
ton sOr New Trial.
Judge Hazel in the United States
Court in Buffalo. N Y, denied the mo-
ton of the Standard Oil Company for a
new trial and imposed fine of $4,000
The case hinged on the Standards ac-
cepting concessions from railroads on
the shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y,
to Rutland, and other points in Yer
mont There were in all 346 counts
found against the oil company. but thus
far only forty have been considered. The
railroads involved are the New York
Central the Pennsylvania and the Rut-
land. The company was given sixty days
in which to prepare an appeal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Nine. Modieska M.

Nine. Helena Modjeska, the fam
Gus Polish actress, is seriously i'll at
her home on Bay island, near New.
port, Orange county, California Nine.
Modjeska's husband. Count Bozenta. is
constantly at her bedside. Modjeska
Is suffering from an old trouble, but
1T is complicated by a new attack of
heart trouble.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
WANTS FATHER IN PRISON.
Chicago Boy and Mother Say They
Will Help Send Marks There.

Mrs. Emma Marks. first wife of Solo
mon Marks, and their son, Samuel f.
Marks, 1918 Stewart avenue, Chicago, ar
rived in st. Joseph. Mo-, the other day
and made afidavits pertaining to domestic
complications of the former manager OF
the Security Business Company of St
Joseph, Des Moinas and Omaha, an al.
legged get-rich-quick concern suppressed
by the government. Marks refused at
first to meet his son and wife at the jail
Office on grounds that the son had threat
ened to shoot him. He finally talked
with them through the bars and begged
their aid in keeping him out of the peni.
Tertiary. They said they would helI
send him there.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
G. A. R. FOUNDER Is DEAD

Captain kannn, Charter Member of
First Post Organized, Expires.
Captain Nj. +. Kanan, charter member
and first commander of the first post of
the Grand Army of the Republic ever or
ganized, died in Decatur. ILL.,. Friday. But
one survivor of the charter membership
now lives. He is Captain Chris Riebsame
of Bloomington. Captain Kanan served
six years as Mayor of Decatur and also
q term in the State Senate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
D,, When Deprived Of Opium,

That the opium curse i'm China is moi
being stamped out without loss of life
Is the statement of DIR. T. X. Tooker. q
medical missionary who has returned
from a seven years sojourn in that coun
try. DIR. Tooker says many of the habit
ual users of the drug succumbed when il
was taken away from them and others
weI driven into insanity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
GIRL STUDENT Is MISSING.
Minnesota University Pupil, Chm
grined by Failure, Disappearx.

Miss Frances Renning of Kasson.
Mimi. a junior at the State University
in Minneapolis. mysterionsly disappeared
several days ago. and the police of the
Twin Cities were asked by her father to
help locate her. Miss Renning failed in
all of her examinations at the end of the
first semester. and was dropped from the
roll of the university in the middle of
February. She continued to visit the uni
versity campus for about a month. but
did not write home of her failure. Her
father came to Minneapolis the other
day to learn if she was i'll, and learned at
her boarding place that she was not there.
He also learned at the university that
she boarded a Chicago Great Western
train Monday, but gave no hint of her
destination.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Lion Tanner Dies of Pneumonia.

Amos Mccoy, well known to circus
managers throughout the country as
an acrobat and lion tanner, died in
Colorado Springs, Colo, of pneumonia
Mccoy was employed at the Zoo there
as caretaker, having come West some
time ago broken in health.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Barn and Six Horses Burned.

The barn on the farm of o. w.
Wrighter, five miles southwest of
Knightstown, Ind, burned and six head
of farm horses. farm implements, wag-
ons and buggies were destroyed. The
loss is about 1900. The origin of the
fire is unknown. Jesse Addison lived
on the farm.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
MIX Impure, Two Are Dead

After drinking milk from a diseased
COW in Client, Ohio, Mabel Baxter, aged
IL, and her sister, Edith. aged o, are
dead, and Clare. aged 8, and May. aged
), are said to be dying. Beecher Baxter
and wife, the father and mother, also are
i'm a critical condition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Illinois Banks Safe Is BIowu

Robbers at a. m. Thursday broke into
the bank at Birds. H., and took about
$1,000 in cash. Entrance to the bank
building was made at the rear door and
nitroglycerin was used TO blow the saf e.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
For Freight Boats on Missouri.

The Commercial Club. the leading bust
ness organization of Kansas City, has de-
cided to raise 100000 to re-establish a
freight boat line between Kansas City and
st. Louis. The action follows the alleged
discrimination by railroads against Kan
sas City shippers in favor of Oklahoma
merchants.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
TO CUT WAGES OF $4,000 MENp
steel Corporation VIII Make Reduc-
ton April 15, 1t Is Reported.

Reports are again current in quarters
said to be usually well informed on such
affairs that the United States Steel Cor
poration is contemplating a cut of from
- to 20 per cent in the wages of its
100000 employees, to take effect April
IL. L. Ii. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, when asked re-
garding the truth of the report, said that
the question of wage reduction hao not
been discussed yet by the board of di-
rectors. He added. however, that he did
not mean to say that reduction would
not be decided on
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

Winnipeg has decided to have a worlds
exposition in 1912. A committee of citi-
zens sent to st. Louis, Chicago, Seattle
and Portland, reported favorably on the
prospect at a mass meeting. 1t was de-
cided to raise $2O0O,O00 for exposition
purposes
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Missing Man Alive and Wen

Frank L. Sherwin. the American ex-
press cashier in Duluth. Mimi. who dis
appeared Feb. !, is alive and well in
Denver. Sherwin's accounts were in per-
feet order. The other day his former en-
ployer received letter from him. He
says he remembers nothing of his depar-
ture,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Woman cored bv Mad Cow

Mrs. Theodore Clapper, fifty-fve,
wife of a farmer living a half mile
southwest Of Hartford City, Ind, was
gored by an Infatuated COW in the barn
at her home when she went to milk.
There is small chances of her recov-
cry.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Wreck I'm Heart of New York

4 conductor was Slightly injured and
a trainload of passengers shaken up when
the real car on an incoming New Haven
Railroad train jumped the track IN the
yards at the Grand Central station in
New York. AS the train was proceeding
slowly il was quickly stopped and little
damage was done.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Pioneer chicaqoan Dead.

Capt. Henry c. Kelly, pioneer Chi
cagoan, who won his title in the Civil
War, and who was one of the experts
who made transportation by pneumatic
tube success, died at his home in
Chicago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
XIII. Alleged Wife stealer.

Edward Butler. a saloon-keeper, was
shot and instantly killed in Trinidad, Col.
by J. NJ. Justice. Justice Immediately
gave himself up 10 the officers, and stated
that Butler had stolen his wife from aim
and refused TO reveal her whereabouts.
There were no witnesses to the shooting.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Walks Into River and browns.

Daniel p. Roof. sixty years old,
walked from the stone wall of the river
front at Howard Park in South Bend,
Ind, and lost his life in the St Joseph
river. The body was recovered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Three Men Burned In Exn,osior

An explosion in the retort of a gas
generator of the Washington Gas Light
Company's plant Monday resulted in the
burning of three men so severely that it
is thought they will not survive.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
ENGLAND TO BUY WAR SHIPSp
VIII Get Three Dreadnoughts from
Brazil, Says Revived Rumor.

Says 1tumoTs
The naval scare in England has been
revived by rumors that the British gov
eminent is considering the purchase of
three war ships of the Dreadnought type,
now being built in England for Brazil.
In the House of Commons the opposition
speakers made strong effort TO force
the hands of the government into giving
a guarantee that four conditional
Dreadnoughts would be laid down. Pre-
mier Asquith declined to promise any
thing except that the vessels would be
built if Germany continued her active
construction of war ships. He argued
that this question of Dreadnoughts had
nothing to do with the maintenance of n
twO-pOwer standard. 1t is believed that
the premier's noncommittal attitude will
occasion renewed agitation on the part
of the press and the public.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Four Eiremen Injured.

A dispatch from Worcester, Mass,
says: Four fremen were injured, one
seriously. in fire which destroyed the
plant of the Wright Wire Company,
causing a loss Of 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25

Two young men, about the same age.
but strangers to each other, committed
suicide at the Wilson Hotel in Salt Lake
City, about the same time the other day.
III. Enrice, a stenographer, took morphine
and w. ID. Ecoff swallowed carbolic acid.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
GREAT BRIDGE DYNAMITED
Hammond and Indiana Harbor, Ind,
Shaken by Explosion.

One-half million dollars worth of prop
erty was destroyed. hundreds of lives
were imperiled and the cities of Ham
mond and Indiana Harbor,- Ind, were
shaken from end to end by an explosion
of nitroglycerin that completely wrecked
the steel construction work of the new
Lake Shore Railroad bridge that is being
built at Indiana Harbor. The explosion
is declared to have been the result of la
Dor troubles between union wokmen and
the Pittsburg Construction Company Of
Pttsburg, which is building the bridge.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
Woman Novelist Deao.

Mrs. Elinor Mccartney Lane, the
novelist, died at Lynchburg, Va. She
had been iii for several days and was
on her way south with her husband,
DR.. Francis r. Lane, to recuperate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
CARUSO IN BREAKDOWN


Great Tenor Faces Permanent Re-
tirement-VOcal Chords Relaxed.
1t is announced that Enrico Caruso
will not appear in any Of the operas at
the Metropolitan, in New York, for some
days. 1t is thought advisable to let the
great tenor have a complete rest. This
is all the official announcement contained.
but friends of Caruso declare he is suffer
ing from relaxed vocal chords and that Il
is not only doubtful if he viii. sing in
public again this season. but entirely pos
sible that he may have to retire perna-
nently