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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT That WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions of Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Complete.
LAKE SHORE FLYER WRECKED.
Many Killed and Injured in Disaster
Near Erie, PENNSYLVANIA.


The Twentieth Century Limited, the
New York Central fast train, en- route
from Chicago to New York, collided
with the rear end of passenger train
No. 10, on the Lake Shore railroad at
Northeast, Pa, sixteen miles east of
Erie, shortly after midnight. At the
time of the collision the Twentieth
Century was making 81 miles an hour.
Advices received by the railroad Off
Gals stated train No. 10 broke down
and that a second section of the Twen-
tieth Century ran into it. Twenty are
reported dead. The engine of No. &c
reared up, turned owed and fell upon
the coaches following Northeast is 6.
small town and at night is cut of from
both telegraph and telephone conmu-
nication. The Twentieth Century l.in-
tied is due at Erie at 11:45 p. m. mo
passed, running faster than SEIZED lle
time. Train No. 10, also east-bount
left there at 1905 p. M, and was
scheduled to take the siding at North
east, but it is believed the train did not
reach the siding far enough in advance
of the flyer to make proper clear
ance The wreck occurred directly op-
posite the Northeast railway station.
Railway officials refuse to make pub
lie any facts concerning the wreck
The second section of No. &c (the
Twentieth Century, vas made up OF
two cars from st. Louis, one from Gin
cinnati and one from Cleveland. The
st. Louis cars were ahead and most
of the dead are reported to be in the N
and in the two rear cars Of No. 10,
which carried passengers from Cleve-
land and Chicago. No. 10 was delayed
an hour and forty-five minutes at
Northeast and sent flagman back. 1t
is reported that his lantern went out,
but this is not confirmed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
SAY COOKS POLE DATA
IS A FAKE AND FRAUD
Landsrran and Veteran Navigator
Swear They Made All of Doc
tors Records for Him.
SAY DOCTOR FAILED TO PAY
Were to Have Received 81, O0O-Got
Only $500 on Account Before
Explorer Disappeared.

The New York Times publishes af
fidavits from Captain August w.
Loose, who says he is a pilot and nav
igator of ocean going steamships, and
George II. Dunkle, an insurance bro
ker, who claims to have been hired
by Dr.. Frederick A. Cook to supply
books and charts whereby his data
and observations in the arctic were to
be SO "doctored" that they would be
accepted by the University of Copen-
hagen. DR.. Cooks friends in New
York said that the explorer had met
Mr.. Du1kle once, and that he was so
pestered by him that when he called
a second time he sent word that he
could not see him. The affidavits in
effect are that DR.. Cook engaged the
two men to fake" the report he has
submitted to Copenhagen, promising
them $4,000 for the job; that he paid
them $3.50 and then disappeared.
The story told by the Times in part
follows: Captain Loose describes at
length how, working backward from
the pole, he calculated observations
that would fit in with Cooks nara
tive. and coached him on the neces-
sary notifications of the latter-as
for example that he must be sure to
record that he rose before Ais o'clock
on a certain morning because it was
ut that hour that certain star men,
toned in one of Losses calculations
would be visible.
''Mr Dunkle describes the inception
of the enterprise; how from the news
papers they gathered that DR.. Cook
was in deep water and inferred that
he would be glad to pay for help; how
Dunkle got John r. Bradley, Cooks
hacker, to introduce him; how the
subject was led up to delicately and
the bargain finally struck and carried
out, and how, at last, DR.. Cook disap-
peared. after accepting their work and
paying only $3.50 for it.
Both Captain Loose and Mr.. Dun
kle tell of visit to the shop of John
Bliss Co. at 12S Front street few
days after the captains first talk with
the explorer at the Waldorf-Astoria
and of purchasing for Dr. Cook vari-
Gus nautical and astronomical works,
besides three charts of Smith Sound
and the polar regions. Robert Flight.
who sold the books and charts, told
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

The Chicago. Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway, which instituted freight
traffic on it's new Puget Sound extern
sion by rates independently of the 9TH
er transcontinental lines, with some
especially low tariffs on Oriental ex-
port and import business has aban-
doned its independent attitude so far
as the import traffic is concerned.
One hundred miles of eighty FIVE
pound rails have been ordered for the
improvement of the Central branch,
subsidiary road of the Missouri Pa
cific system. The line traverses a rich
section of Kansas. Governor Stubs.
of that State, recently threatened to
institute receivership proceedings
against the line unless it was speedily
improved.
We are moving freight at the rate
of a billion gross tons a year, and to
do this we employ nearly two million
and one-half freight cars, and nearly
fifty thousand locomotives. We i'm
port about nineteen million gross tons
of merchandise yearly, and export
about fiftytwo million gross tons. Our
| foreign trade shows a return of 49,
0O0, 900. 900. and our domestic trade one
| of $4,000, 100000, annually One-half
of the worlds ocean commerce moves
along North Atlantic routes, and for
| the greater part of it our foreign trad
| ing is responsible. At this its volume
| is a drop in the bucket as against the
great trunk line tonnage i'm this coun-
| try.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
| placed orders in Philadelphia for TO-
900 new freight cars. These are in
addition to the orders for the regular
requirements on the 1909 and 1910
| schedules, for which 10000 cars had
| already been ordered since the first of
| the year.
The New York Central anu Hudson
| River Railroad Company has been au-
| thorized to issue stock to the value Of
| S44, 65S, 900, or 44.65S shares. the stock
| to be sold at par. OF the proceeds
nearly half will be used in the dis
charge CT certain three-year per cent
gold notes, which mature in Feb.ia ~.
1910
Our railroad tracka ge-main track
and siding-is $4,000 miles in length.
and this would girdle the equator four
teen times. In twenty years we have
built more railroad mileage than Great
| Britain and France combined in @cty
years. Two-fifths of the worlds entire
railroad trackage is laid down in I'm
Gle Sans territory. We have more
than five times the allotment of rail-
road mileage in Europe for each TO-
| 600 inhabitants, the figures being:
! Twenty seven miles in the United
| States; five miles in Europe. More
| over our railroad capitalization a mile
of railroad is less than one fourth Of
that of Great Britain on the same basis
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

reporter of the Times that he recalled
the visit and that the purchases were
made as described.
Captain Loose, in his statement,
says he stayed at the Gramatan Hotel
from Nov. 16 to Nov. 10, working out
and the doctor had frequent confer
ences. Mr. Dunkle went with him on
Nov. 16, leaving the next day He
and Captain Loose having connecting
rooms Nos. 126 and 12S, Mr.. Dunkle
registering for them. The register
shows the arrival on Nov. 16 of
George II. bundle and Andrew H..
Lewis the fictitious name agreed up
on for Captain Loose.
Captain Loose says he remained
secluded in his room during his stay
at the hotel so as to run no chance
of having the doctor found out. All
the time he worked hard on the polar
calculations. giving them to Dr. Cook
as they were completed. On the last
day of his stay at the hotel, Captain
Loose says. he gave DR.. Cook the
final set of observations he had made
for him and the doctor thanked him
profusely, declaring that he now felt
confident that his records would be
accepted at Copenhagen"
The Times is careful to explain
that it does not know whether DR..
Cook adopted the observations" of
Captain Loose.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
FROZEN TO DEATH IN SWAMP.
Lutheran Missionary Meets Fate in
Effort to Keep Appointment.

Rev. Ole o. Fugleskie, missionary
of the United Lutheran Church, disci-
pie and associate of Rev. Frank Hig-
gins, better known as the "Lumberjack
Sky Pilot" was found frozen to death
in an uninhabited and swampy region.
southeast of Spooner. Mimi, by a
searching party of homesteaders. The
hardy missionary left Nels Rippes'
homestead hut at Silver Greek, afoot,
at o'clock on a recent afternoon for
Clementson, thirteen miles away,
where he was due to hold services
that evening. When he did not arrive
it was taken for granted by the assem-
bled iumbermen and homesteaders that
he had not started out, as heavy
snow was falling. He was found about
ten miles from Rippes' place. at the
edge of floating bog. where he had
dropped exhausted with his Bible open
at his SIDE
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Die Penned In hY Flames.

Two women, two men and three chill
dren lost their lives and seven other
persons were seriously injured in a
tenement fire at Third and Sycamore
streets in Cincinnati, Ohio, which
broke QUE at midnight Three of the
dead were practically burned to Gin
ders and the charred bodies are unrec-
ognizable. In scenes and incidents of
horror the fire outranks any similar
calamity which has occurred in Gin
cinnati in many years past The fire
occurred in building which was &C.
cupied by about one dozen families. 1t
was caused through the upsetting of a
kerosene lamp in hallway on the Sec
ond floor All the occupants were
asleep and before the fire was discov-
cred all egress was cut off TO the I'M
fortunates who lived in the upper sto-
ries. One of the most tragic incidents
which occurred was when an unknown
woman, clasping her s-year-old son in
her arms, sprang from third floor
window and both were instantly killed
in the fall to the sidewalk below. The
loss of life is attributed to one cause
alone. The jewellers in the tenement
were so overwhelmed by panic that
they rushed headlong into the flames
to their death. The fire was extin-
guished with slight trouble, with a to-
tai loss of about $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
CHILD's MURDERERs GET LIFE.
Hattie Zinda's Slayers Sentenced at
Milwaukee After Confession.

Carl Wojciechowski and Adam
Pietrzyk, the confessed murderers of
14-year-old Hattie linda, were taken
into the Municipal Court in Milwau-
kee unexpectedly the other night and
pleaded guilty. The men were about
to be sentenced for life when Pietrzyk,
who confessed that Wojciechowski
committed the murder while he him.
self stood guard outside. asked for an
attorney TO make a plea for clemency.
This request was granted. After n
hearing, lasting three hours, both men
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
and arrangements were made to start
them to the state prison before day.
light.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
GRoCERs CHARGE CONSPIRACY.
Government Begins Investigation of
High Prices of FOodstuRs.

High prices of foodstuffs are being
by the United States Dis
trict Attorneys Office in New York,
because of complaints by the largest
wholesale grocers that there seems to
exist a conspiracy among some man
ufacturers to maintain prices to the
consumer. 1t is learned that several
leading manufacturers of food prod
ucts have been called before District
Attorney Wise and informed that the
contracts they have been using TO
force wholesalers to keep up prices
are in restraint of trade and viola
ton of the antitrust law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
"PATv SHEEDY IS DEAD.

Noted Gambler md Sporting Man
Succumbs to Complications.
Patrick F. Sheedy. known on two
continents as a gambler and sporting
man and in recent years the proprie-
tor of an art gallery, died of compli-
cation of diseases in his home, at 161
West 34th street, New York Surround
ed by the friends of old days, among
them Handsome Dan" Murphy, Pat
Sheedy withdrew from the game of
life, silently as was his wont, smile
on his face and with no fear in his
eyes. Speak kindly of him, If you
can," his widow said to the reporters.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Mrs Frank NJ. Dickerson, 80 years
old, was found stabbed to death in the
doorway of store and fiat building
in Detroit. Her husband, charged with
her death, is suffering from probably
fatal wounds self-inflicted. About four
months ago Mrs. Dickerson left her
husband on account of alleged cruelty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Another Cashier in Jail.

Charged with the embezzling OF $780,
900 from the Peoples Bank and Trust
Company at New Haven, Conn, Cash
Ter Robert d. Muir was arrested and
locked up in default of bail. Muir, 1t
is alleged, took $4,000. but officials
of the bank obtained security from
him to the value of $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

The Presbyterian Synod of Nebras-
ka has voted to consolidate the college
at Bellevue, suburb of Kearney.
institution is to be cailed Bellevue Col
lege and will have an endowment of
100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
BOYS SEIZED AS MURDERERS.
Two of Trio Arrested for Robberies
Are Identified as Slayers.

Are Identfhed as SIayers.
In the arrest of three youths, aged
II, 10 and q, the Kansas City police
believe they have found the perpetrat-
ors of numerous holdups. Two of the
boys, Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye. were
identified by a witness as the men
who shot and killed NJ. A. Spangler
saloon during an attempted holdup.
His son. Samuel Spangler. was shot
in both arms. The third prisoner,
Harry Shay, was identified as the
youth who accompanied Dye and Clyne
on several expeditions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

The w. c. Richardson, a big steel
freighter, sank at point five miles
up the lake from Buffalo harbor and
fivs members of the crew persisted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
OIL Defeaf Halts NIerGeP

The recent Standard Oil decision in
the federal courts is said to have
changed the plans of the proposed COP
per merger and there may be some
delay in effecting the combination.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Slain by ImbeciIe Son.

August Helmquist, a farmer residiT g
in the township of UrneSs, in Douglass
County, Minnesota, was shot and killed
while asleep in his barn, by his feeble
minded son, who also shot and seri.
ously wounded his brother.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Millionaire Mining Man Dies.

w. s. Dean, millionaire contractor
and mining man, died at Superior,
Wis. as the result of a third operation
following appendicitis. Until recently
he was president of the Butte-Ealak.
lava Copper Company.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Kills an Ohio sheriff.

After holding his family at Shreve
Ohio, in a state of terror all night
Roy Lee. who is believed to be insane
shot and killed Sheriff Jacob Bell. e
Holmes County, when the officer at
tempted to place him under arrest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Arrests I'm linda Murder.

Karl Wodciechcwski and Adam
Pietzszak were brought to Milwaukee
from Blaney, Mich, as suspects in the
Hattie linda case. Both disappeared
from Milwaukee about the time of the
murder
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Eorm Indiana Tobncco PooI

The tobacco growers of Indiana have
formed a pool. under the name of the
Indiana Tobacco Growers Association,
and have opened warehouse at Dale
Tie pool offers So to s14 for Burley
and 81 to $3.50 for dark tobacco.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Victims Of skatino Season.

Five deaths resulted from the inaug.
uration of the skating season in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. Four of the
victims were boys and the fifth a fa-
Their who was drowned after rescuins
his 12-year-oid son.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Miss Bertha Rosenthal saved the
life of q 3-year-old child that fell from
a moving train on the I'd avenue line
in Brooklyn. The child lay near the
deadly third rail when the young wom-
an jumped from the platform and pick
ed it up as another train approached.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Couple Die I'm Suicide Pact.

Dr. and Mrs. A. c. Smith, an aged
and wealthy couple of Tulsa, Okla.
were found dead in their residence.
apparently the victims of a suicide
pact The couple was last seen by
neighbors the other morning, when
they appeared in jolly mood.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Two Killed I'm Factory ExnIosfou

George A. Fowler and his brother.
Robert Fowler, were crushed to death
in an explosion of an acetylene tank
in the safe factory of Stiffel & Free
man, at Second street and Lehigh ave
nue., Philadelphia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Assaulted by Ruffians.

Louis Lanvermeyer, a prominent
farmer living on Mt. Tabor, while re-
turning from Aurora, was assaulted by
unknown parties, the bridge of his
nose being broken by a rock thrown
by one of the ruffans.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Mother and Three Children Burr

Myrtle j. Johnson, years DID, was
burned to death and her mother and
two younger brothers were fatally
burned in fire which destroyed their
home, at Conneilsville, Pa.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
AIRED widow Is Abbreviated.

Mrs. Caroline Bryant, widow, 7f
years old, was asphyxiated at her
home in Columbus, Ohio, and her
daughter. Miss Ellen Bryant, and a
maid had a narrow escape from death
The pressure of natural gas in a fur
mace filled the house with deadly
fumeS
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Broker Buddeke Gets Two y..-.

Charles j. Buddeke. the broker re-
Gently convicted on a charge of en-
bezzlement after Jury trial in the
Criminal Court, was sentenced in Gin
cinnati to serve two years in the Ohio
penitentiary at hard labor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Fire Drill Safely Removed Children.

The roof of the North High School
building in Tell City, Ind, was Gem-
aged by fire recently, due to a defec-
tive flue. The fire drill brought out
500 children to safety and school was
dismissed for the day.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Gar Cousin Rules Firms.

Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholajevitch
second cousin of The Russian Emperor
has been designated to take full and
direct charge of affairs in Finland.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

After ne had killed Sheriff Jacob
Bell and terrorized the countryside, O.
E. Boley, an escaped patient from the
Massillon Hospital for the Insane, was
shot down and captured near Shreve,
Ohio. He died of his wound.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
NIAGARA Falls Theater Burned.

The International theatre burned at
Niagara Falls, N. Y. The house had
just been cleared of its scenery when
the fire started. The loss is $125, 900.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Uncle Sam grew financially fat of
Industrious inventors last year, the rec
ords showing that revenues in fees
from this source were sufficient to pay
s1,SS7,443 in expenses for running the
United States patent Office and leave
a surplus of ssS,476-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
Mrs.. Groves Fifth.

Jacob Bruner and Mrs. Bette Grove
of Evansville, Ind, were married at
Henderson, KY, recently. 1t was the
9th wedding for the bride.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16
chiId's Dead sody Found in a Well.

The body of an unidentified Swear.
old girl was found in an abandoned
we'll on the farm of ]. p. Harrington,
seven miles south of Sandusky; Ohio.
Nobody has been reported missing
from the neighborhood and it is be-
lieved the little girl may have been a
member of a band of gypsies that en-
camped near the Harrington farm last
summer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Machinery and small tools valued at
$4,000 were destroyed by fire which
burned the plant of the Boston Gear
Works at Norfolk Downs. Mass.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Fire that originated in the basement
of the First National Bank Building in
Colorado Springs. Colo, caused a loss
of 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

David Simpson, prominent and
wealthy planter of Mint Hill. ~. c.,
was shot and killed by Will Harris. a
neiEhbor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

Beach Hargis' life sentence for the
murder of his father. former Judge
James Hargis. was confirmed by the
Court Of Appeals in Frankfort. Ky.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-06
FEAR STEAMER ROSALING
WAS LOST IN STORM

HALIFAX, n S., Dec 5.--It is
feared here tonight that the Red Cross
liner Rosaling, commanded by Captain
Smith and bound from New York for
st. Johns, y. r., was victim of the
furious gale which swept the seas off
She had large passenger list.
The steamer, which sailed from here
for st. Johns on Tuesday. was last
heard from by wireless Wednesday
morning, when she reported terrific
gale and a hard passage, Since then
the ships whereabouts has been I'M.
known, despite the fact that she should
have been in touch with one or moro
wireless stations, The run from Halifax
to st. Johns is usually made in forty
eight hours Thus the steamer at mid
night WAS 100 hours overdue
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-06
DIME WILL TAKE PLACE
OF THE STRANDED PRAIRIE

PHILADELPHIA Dec. 5.-Despair-
ing Of quickly freeing the auxiliary
cruiser Prairie from the mud flats at
Pea Patch island. in the Delaware river,
where she has been stuck since last
Thursday. marines and stores aboard
the stranded cruiser today were re
moved TO the auxiliary cruiser Dixie.
1t is probable that the Dixie will get
under way tomorrow and continue TO
Colon, the original destination Of the
Prairie.
Vain attempts were made today 10
free the Prairie. Lighters removed 200
tons of coal and the 100000 rounds OF
ammunition. Half a dozen tugs strained
and pulled in an effort 10 get the
Prairie to deep water at high tide.
The warship did not bul ge from the
shoal and when the tide began to re-
cede again the work of removing addi-
tional stores aud the 500 marines TO the
Dixie was begun. This work continued
all afternoon and at food tide this
evening FIVE tugs and steam drcdge
were attached to the Prairie and an.
other effort was made to pull the vessel
clear. This attempt failed
The cruiser Dixie, which Will prob
ably sail tomorrow. Is sister ship 10
the Prairie and has been in readiness
AT The Philadelphia navy yard for some
time.