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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
AUTO KILLS THREE AT RACE.
Car Leaps from Track Into Crowd
When Tire Bursts.

Three persons were killed and three
injured by racing automobiles at the
motor speedway in Indianapolis, Sat
urday. This makes a total of six lives
sacrificed to the high speed mania
since the opening of the tournament
which dedicated the new race course
recently constructed at cost of
100000 and supposed to have been ac-
cident proof. Two of the persons
killed Saturday and one of the in
jured were spectators. The other per-
son killed was a mechanic in the race.
The spectators were run down when
n big car in the 800 mile race left the
track track, plunged through a fence and
into a/croud gathered near the speed
way side.
When the National Six, driven by
Charles Merz, a local pilot, burst the
tire of the right front wheel while ca
reening through space at a rate of
seventy miles an hour, there was a
crash AID the great machine turned
turtle, whirling like gigantic rocket
into the fence around the course. Over
the barrier, jumping a bridge and on
through space the car Travelled like a
catapult, leaving a trail of blood be-
hind.
Fifteen minutes after this fatality
another car skidded near the same
spot, hit a portion of the bridge, and
the driver and mechanician were in
jured. Following this, Referee Stevens
stopped the race, which was for the
Wheeler and Schebler $4,000 trophy,
and in which the leaders had complet-
ed 235 miles. This brought the meet
ing to an abrupt end just when the
prospects FOR successful windup were
brightest With such heavy baptism
of blood it is thought the big speed
way, representing an expenditure of
more than 100000, will never again
be the scene of motor contests.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
NEW YORK.

Jobbing trade and manufacturing
industry tend to expand as the vaca-
tion season wanes and harvest posi-
bilities grow into certainties. From
number of markets, however, come
the reiteration of reports that pur-
chasers take hold conservatively and
that retailers are still cautious buyers.
Currency shipments to the country
are charging and money correspond
ingly firmer. Something like a Sob
ering process has been witnessed in
the security market, which is lower
all around. Perhaps the most encour-
aging features reported this week come
from few of the leading industries.
Iron and steel buying has become
more confident, railway purchasing
being in evidence and premiums are
being offered for early deliveries of
materials intended for manufacture.
The higher range of prices for &C.
reals, particularly winter wheat, has
encouraged the movement from the
farms, and the number of idle cars
has decreased, with talk of car
shortage before the close of the year.
Business failure for the week end
ing Aug. 10 were 1873. against PIG last
week, $50 in the like week of 1908,
1873 in 1907, 155 in 1905 and 176 in
1905-Bradstreets Commercial Re-
port
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
| TWO AUTO RACERS
| HURLED TO DEATH
Driver and Mechanician Crushed
When Car at indianapolis
Skids and Upsets.
THIRD MAN DIES OF INJURIES
$4,000 People See Bourque and His
Aid Thrown Over Fence to
Their Doom.

With three lives sacrificed in the
speed carnival, the first day Of the
automobile races at the new Indianap-
oils speedway closed with two time
annihilating records smashed. On tie
fifty fourth lap of the 250-mile race
for the Prest-o-Lite trophy, the fea.
ture event of the day. death in ter
rible form came to William Bourque,
daring automobile driver, and his
mechanician. Harry Holcomb, when
their big racing car suddenly left the
track while plunging along at speed
of seventy-five miles an hour, turned
a complete somersault and dashed both
men against the fence which sur
rounds the course. Both were almost
instantly killed Their bodies were
terribly mangled. Twelve thousand
persons. gathered in the grandstand
and around the track, witnessed the
accident. Scores of women tainted at
the sight. Others became hysterical
and rushed screaming about the
grounds.
Just why the racer left the track is
mystery. Whether Bourque lost con-
troll of the steering gear or made a
mechanical blunder will never be
known. The machine skidded. left the
track, and with 'undiminished speed
struck small ditch which borders the
speedway. Both front wheels and the
axles gave way, and the car turned
completely over. Bourque and Hol-
comb were sent flying through the air.
Bourque was thrown against a post
and his skull was fractured and both
legs were broken. Holcomb was
throw clear over the fence. His skull
was also fractured and his legs brok-
en-. The third whose life was forfeited
was Clifford LITERAL, mechanician.
who died from an injury received
while on his way to the new speed
way for practice. He jumped from his
own car and was run down by one be-
hind him. Driver Chevrolet had his
eyes seriously injured by dust and tar.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
BURN GAMBLING LAYOUT.
Bonfire Is Made of Paraphernalia
Said to Be Worth 100000.

Said To Be Worth 100000.
A heap of ashes marks the closing
scene in the fight between the State
of Indiana and the owners of the
gambling halls at French Lick and
West Baden, respectively Gambling
parapbernalia to the value of $50, 900
was publicly burned in the street at
Paoli by officers of the law There
was a crowd of nearly 1000 persons
present when the expensive furnish
ings went up in smoke. Three years
ago deputies raided the two casinos
and made number of arrests. The
State confiscated ali the furniture, in
Guiding the gambling apparatus, but
the courts held that there must be
conviction before the property could be
destroyed. The cases against the ar
rested persons, who were the alleged
agents for the owners, dragged along
from term to term. A compromise fin
ally was effected by which two of the
indicted men should plead guilty on
condition that the State would exempt
from destruction such furniture as was
not actually used in gambling. The
pleas of guilty were entered, and the
order to burn the gambling apparatus
was issued.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
'FORTY-F|VE SAVED
As STEAMER BURNS
Fifteen Are Rescued After Being
Thrown Into Illinois River by
Breaking of GangpIank.
OFFICERS STOP A PANIC.
Modern Jim B1udso Sticks to Post
After Being Badly Injured,
Then Escapes in Rawboat.

Forty persons, half of them women
and children, narrowly escaped death
the other afternoon when the steamer
Fred Swain was burned to the waters
edge in the Illinois River near Peoria
Two men were seriously injured. With
the flames sweeping over the deck the
passengers became panic-stricken and
threatened to crowd each other into
the river as they fought for places in
row boats, which were put out. To
add to the confusion and danger the
ropes supporting the gang plank were
burned and fifteen persons, most OF
them women and children, were
thrown into the water.
The steamer belonged to the Peoria
and LaSalle Packet Company. With
Captain Verne Swain in command ii
had left the Peoria port on its way
to La Sale. Twenty-Five passengers
and crew of fifteen were on board.
At 1920 o'clock the flames were discov
cred issuing from a stateroom on the
second deck Captain Swain, real.L-
dered Pilot Martin Huston to beach
the boat and instructed his crew to
deal out life preservers. The smoke
and flames meanwhile had been OBJ
served from the shore and a score of
row boats were hurried to the scene.
Women were shrieking and children
were crying as they waited for the
boats to take them away from the
threatening holocaust.
The packet had been piloted into
willow trees when occurred the acct
dent that dumped fifteen persons into
the water from the gangplank. The
men and women were able to make
their way to safety, but four children
who were among them would have
persisted but for two men, who half
carried and half-swam with them to
tree stumps, which protruded from
the water, to await the arrival OF the
rescuers. Captain Swain and Engi-
neer Casrider were the last to leave
the boat. After guarding against an
explosion, Casrider went to his pumps
and remained there until the flames
licked him about the face and body.
A row boat had been left for him, but
when he finally abandoned his station
the boat had caught fire. He got into
the boat, and, beating the flames from
him and rowing with all his might,
managed to get to shore.
The loss is estimated at s35, 200, of
which $4,000 is on the vessel. Several
passengers lost all their personal be-
longings. The Fred Swain was built
at Clear Water, Mimi, Line years ago,
and was one of the finest packets ply
ing the Illinois River.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
CHICAGO.

Dunn's review of local trade condi-
lions says: Evidences of the improved
state of trade generally become more
distinct. The most notable feature is
therapid accumulation of forward work
in the principal industries. Some COM
plant already appears that supplies
are not promptly delivered, and there
rs also some fear that transportation
facilities will be found inadequate to
handle the increasing freight offer
ings. In both the volume of pay
ments through the banks and the rec
ord of trading defaults are found sus-
tanning indications of a healthy con-
dition in credits. Heavier movements
appear in grain, raw materials, fac
tory outputs and general merchandise,
and there is more production in iron,
steel, wood and leather working. The
come extended, and the discount rates
for choice commercial paper are firm
at Az to per cent despite the fact
that many large concerns as yet seek
little accommodation.
Hot weather raised some alarm as
to its effect on corn growth, and this
forced moderate rise for the leading
grains, but -four has remained weak
and late advices indicate that temper
atures now favor agriculture Visit
ing buyers from many sections throng
the jobbing district and there is con-
siderable activity in dry goods, foot
wear, clothing, food products. furni-
ture and house needs. Bank clearings,
$253,1SS,504, exceed those of the cor
responding week in 1908 by 17.6 per
cent and compare with 1921 ,123, 655
in 1907 Failures reported by the
Chicago district number seventeen,
against twenty-nine last week, twenty
four in 1908 and fourteen in 1907.
Those with liabilities over $4,000 num-
Der six, against seven last week. six
in 1908 and two in 1907.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
s7,77S,00O,OOO IS
VALUE OF '0S CROP
Secretary Wilson Shows that Unit
ed States Holds Worlds Rec.
ord in Agriculture.
BIG INCREASE IN FARM TRADE.
Agricultural Balance Has Grown
Over rs Per Cent Within the
Past Twelve Years.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
thinks those who have been plying
the farmer had better wake up to the
fact that during the past year-that
is the crop year of 190S-there was
net gain in the value of crops which
raises the total valuation of farm prod
ucts up to the astonishing total of
S77S,000,000, the biggest in the
worlds history. The value of farm
product this year is 10000, 900 above
the value for 1907 and s3,O61 ,O0O. 900
above the census amount for 1899.
In the last twelve years, the period
covering the administration of Secre-
tary of Agriculture James Wilson, the
agricultural balance of trade in the
United States increased from yearly
average of s234,00O,0OO to SAIL, 900 900.
or 75.7 per cent, according to the de-
partment's year book just made pub
lie. This wonderful development Is
only in keeping with the progress
made along the lines of agricultural
activity. Conditions affecting the
lives of the farmers have advanced in
even greater ratio until many unde-
sirable features of farm life have been
eliminated Many innovations have
been introduced and developed into
potential forces for the betterment OF
farm life. Never before has the work
OF state agricultural colleges and ex-
perimental stations been so intimately
related with the department as now.
There has been a great diversified
ton and geographic extension of prod
ucts apart from the cultivation of new
land. Although there has been de-
creasing production per acre of what
was only recently virgin soil, there
was an increased production per acre
of the entire country. Within ten
years the production of corn per acre
in Ohio increased lis per cent and in
Virginia 1873 per cent Oats increased
17.9 per cent in Indiana. Wheat in
creased 1872 per cent in New York
and 45.9 per cent in Nebraska, SINH
lar advancement was made in the yield
per acre of other products.
From 1895 to 1906 farm wages in
creased faster than did prices. In
wage increase the farm laborer has
Jared better than the workingman en-
ployed in manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
MEN IN MINORITY IN CHURCH.
Census Report Shows Women the
More Religious Sex.

More Religious Sex.
Standing out as a conspicuous fea-
ture of bulletin issued by the census
bureau entitled Census OF religious
bodies" is the fact that cut of a
church membership in the United
States in 1906, of nearly 100000 men
formed considerably less than half of
the total. OF the total church men,
bership reported by the various relig-
ious bodies and classified by sex, All
per cent were men and $50 per cent
were women. Among the Protestants
the difference was greater, only 1913 per
cent being men, while in the Roman
Catholic Church the men formed 493
per cent of the total membership. Few
er men than women were found among
the Latter Day Saints, the Lutherans,
Disciples, Methodists, Baptists, Presby-
terians and Protestant Episcopalians,
the percentage of men members de-
creasing in the order shown, and t-ere
being only 35.5 per cent men among
the Episcopalians. Among the Chris
tian Scientists, only 27.6 per cent were
men. and of the Shakers, only 21.3 per
cent, but in the Greek Orthodox
church, 93.9 per cent were men,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
TRAINS HELD BY WATERS.
Great Delay and Inconvenience Due
to Colorado Floods.

Great Delay and Inconvenience Due
to Colorado Floods.
Trains blocked in lonely mountain
passes, tracks washed away or in some
instances pitched into canyons hun
dreds of feet below, people driven from
their homes to seek safety with their
belongings in higher places-these
were the scenes revealed along the
overflowed Arkansas River in Color
ado
The famous Royal Gorge, walled in
by rock 1000 feet high, was washed by
a torrent for about forty-eight hours,
and the railroad tracks have been de-
stroyed. Trains on the Colorado Mid
land. the Denver and Rio Grande and
other railroads, most of them carrying
eastern tourists, have been detoured
over circuitous routes. One road had
to detour its trains by way of Ala
mosa, Colo, in the southern part of
the state, distance out of the regular
travel of more than 800 miles. Not
only the Arkansas River, but almost
all of its tributaries are overflown.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
.N%R6Es'jNzzf

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to s7.65; hogs. prime heavy, $3.50
to sS.25; sheep, fair to choice, s4.25
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, S1.03 to Sl.05;
corn, No 2, &c to Csc; oats, standard,
40c to Ale; rye, No. 2, CSC to Tic; hay.
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, &c
to 26c; eggs, fresh, lie to 21c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 40c to 45c.
Indianapolis-Catt shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good to choice.
$3.50 to s6.15; wheat, No. 2, S1.0S to
s1.10; corn, No. white, tic to 73c;
oats, No. white, CSC to 39c-
st. Louis-Cattlc, $500 to s725;
hogs, $500 to $50; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.05 to Sl09;
corn, No. 2, Csc to &c; oats, No. 2,
35c to Gee; rye, No. 2. zoe to nc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to s5.65; hogs,
$500 to $50; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No.,2, s1O7 to $1.09; corn, No.
2 yellow, 72c to 73c; oats. standard,
39c to Ale; rye. No. 4, &c to 6Sc-
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
$1.3O to s1.33; corn. No 3. CSC 70 csc;
oats, standard, Ale to 4Sc; rye, No. 1,
73c to 74c; barley, standard, 63c to
Soc; pork, mess, $21.50.
Buffalo = Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to $500; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $3.50; sheep. common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $500.
Cincinnati = Cattle, $500 to s6.40;
hogs. $500 to $50; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.0S to s1.10;
corn, No. mixed, 69c to tic; oats,
No. mixed, &c to Csc; rye, No. 2,
FAC to 75c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to 1885; sheep, $500 to
$475; wheat, No 2 red, s1.09 to Ill;
corn, No. 2, 79c to soc; oats, natural
white, 47c to soc, butter, creamery,
23c to Csc: eggs, western, 22c to
25c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, S1.07
to s1.0S; corn, No. 2 mixed. zoe to
tic; oats, No. mixed, CSC to 40c;
rye. No 2, Csc to 69c: clover seed,
81 90
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
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The Ontario handicap, the feature
event at Windsor, was won by Lady
Sybil.
Johnny Summers. the English light
weight, defeated Jimmy Britt. of Cali
fornia, in nine rounds in London.
At Saratoga w. Clay's Ocean Bound
easily won the $4,000 Spinaway stakes
for FLIES years old at five and a half
furlongs.
Bonnie Kate captured the Canadian
Steeplechase at Fort Erie recently.
bles. She defeated the favorite, Wa
terway, on a heavy track.
At the weekly matinee of the ST.
Paul Driving Association at Hamline,
Glen. owned by j. III. Bohrer, was the
winner of the final event of the free
for-all elimination pace for the silver
cup.
worlds record for the 100-mile race
when he finished that distance in
16:07:43. This is 2:43:1 IA better than
the previous time claimed by Albert
Cory.
The United States Golf Association
has announced the program and con-
ditions for play for the amateur golf
championship of the United States,
which will be played at Wheaton, ILL.,,
from Sept. 6 to IL of this year
George NJ Webb, whom horsemen
considered the peer among those eX-
hibiting light harness horses, succumb-
ed after long illness at Minoga Stock
Farm. Chestnut Hill. Pa. Mr. Webb
was employed by Edward T. Stotes-
bury for the past ten years and had
won an international reputation.
The $4,000 Merchants and Manufac-
turers' stake at Detroit for 2:24 class
winners was carried off by Margin
who took all three heats in easy fash
ion, making the first heat in 2:061@
Margin is owned by Alonzo McDon-
old. the Boston reinsman. who last
year captured the Readsville handi-
cap.
r. Fl. Mclaughlin and U. NJ. James
of San Francisco won in the doubles
of the Northwestern tennis champion
ship at Deephaven. Minnetonka. The
winners defeated T. c. Bundy and H.
S. Sinsabaugh of Los Angeles in three
out of four sets.
A cable dispatch received by the
Oakland Golf Club of Bayside, Long
Island, reports the winning at F;arls-
bad, Germany. of the international cup
for the third time by the Oakland Golf
Clubs team. The cup now becomes the
property of the club The team con-
sisted of John Il. Mcdonald, Judge
Henry A. Gildersleeve and Patrick
Francis Murphy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The Bell Telephone Company has
purchased the controlling interest in
the Chippewa Valley Telephone Com
pany The line extends from Barron.
Wis, to Prentice, Wis. along the 500
line.
The barley crop of Minnesota is un-
will not be heavy. Rye is better.
Wheat will be a very heavy crop and
corn was never better than it is at
present.
The small grain of the Dakotas and
Minnesota is maturing rapidly. Barley
claimed the attention of harvesters ear
~ and the work was pushed strenuous
ly in anticipation of the ripening OF
other small grain.
The corn crop of South Dakota is
expected to be the largest ever raised
in that State. The corn made rapid
strides during the hot weather. Farm
ers in the vicinity of Sioux Falls re-
port that their corn has reached a
growth of six feet.
The New York Aerial Manufa curing
and Navigation Company, of Brooklyn
has been incorporated to carry on the
transportation of freight and of pas
sengers by airships The capital is
$4,000. 1t is the first company of its
kind to incorporate in New York State
Reports from all parts of Mexico in
dictate that the sentiment in favor of a
strike in sympathy with that of the
trai i'm dispatchers. by the engineers and
conductors of the merged railroads oil
Mexico, is rapidly crystallizing.
In Missouri there are about 1000, O0C
hogs. worth, at market prices, nearly
s45. 900, 900. Hog cholera costs the
growers of that State alone more thar
a million dollars every year, and the
loss is sometimes more than $4,000, 900
a contract has been let to the New
York Foundation Company for IN,
sinking of new mining shaft on tn,
Scranton mine, one-half mile south
west of HiDblng.
The promoters of the Y. NJ. c. A
building association succeeded in rails
ing $4,000 in twenty days at Charles
city. Iowa. The prospects are thai
when returns are all in more than that
amount will have been subscribed foi
the purpose of erecting a Y. NJ. c. A
building.
Encouraged by the unanimous in
dorsements accorded by the four com
mittees from St. Paul, which have in
vestigated the plans of their line, the
managers of the Dan Patch Electric
line are focusing all their energy or
pushing the work of survey and con
struction upon the line from st. Pau
to Lakeville, MINI.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
HUSBANDS MAY "CUss, WIVES
Judge Says They Can Get Drunk,
Too, but Mustn't Beat Mates.

Judge Says They Can Get Drunk,
Too, but Mustn't Beat Mates.
Can wife cause the arrest of her
husband If he uses profane language
to her? Can she have him arrested if
he threatens to desert her? Can she
have him arrested if he returns home
intoxicated?
Municipal Judge Gemmill, of Chi.
cago, says no, and emphasized his po-
sition by refusing to issue a warrant
to Mrs. Giuseppe Tolino. She said her
husband came home intoxicated and
swore at her. mo wife has a right to
cause the arrest of her husband unless
he beats her." said the court THE
statutes read that wife cannot tes-
tify against her husband. except in
personal violence and desertion cases,
and l won't issue any warrants for
husbands unless one of these are the
grounds. If husbands swear at their
wives, the latter cannot have them ar
rested"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-26
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Ielegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Many.
Fire Less a Million at Decatur, Illinois

HC -Coo miitiOU dt OcCdtuTs flilnOiS.
Fire at Decatur, ILL.,, destroyed a
block of buildings, causing loss esti-
mated at 81 100000 Following the
fire Decatur faced a water famine. 1t
became necessary to shut off the resi-
dence districts. the supply of water in
the reservoir being low. While the
fire was in progress blaze was dis
covered in the engine room of the De-
catur Hotel, situated half block west
of the district that was being de-
stroyed. There was a panic among the
guests, who realized that the firemer
had a bigger job on their hands than
they could handle, but prompt work by
the hotel people extir suished the
flames In response to a call for help
Springfield sent an engine and fire
crew, and this gave the city four en-
gines with which TO fight the flames
The department was crippled by fall
ing walls covering several hundred
feet of hose. The burned buildings
face on East Main street, Merchant
street and Water street, and are in the
very heart of the business district.
Moorehouse & Wells, in whose build
ing the fire started, occupied modern
six-story building. Their loss is COM
plete and is estimated at $500 0OO
Other losses range from $4,000 to
$4,000. The work of rebuilding the
burned district will begin at once.