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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
CHICAGO.

slight increase in trading defaults
reported is unimportant in contrast
with the substantial progress which
ments through the banks. Weather
conditions being more seasonable,
there are now wider indications of &C
tivity in production and distribution.
Ample moisture and higher tempera-
lures advance the crops satisfactorily.
Farm reports generally carry much
encouragement, there being healthy
termination in late seeding, larger
acreage of corn and spring wheat and
sustained high prices for the bread
stuffs.
Movements of commodities mainly
reach mora extended bulk, although
flour and live stock have decreased.
Retail trade now shows better, the
buying entering broadly into light
weight apparel, footwear. food prod
ucts and furniture. Sales are also i'm
proving in jewellery, art and music
wares and sporting goods.
Wholesale operations make strong
er exhibit in dry goods, clothing, wool
ems and mems furnishings, bookings
for summer and fall deliveries COM
pairing well with this time last year.
Railroad activities stand out con-
spicuously in both freight and passen-
ger branches, and earnings of the Chi
cago steam roads contribute sustained
gains in gross. Furnace docks disclose
meager stocks of ore and an early set
Element of the lake workers strike
would stimulate the vessel interests.
Bank clearings. s273.6o1. 361. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1908
by 1858 per cent, and compare with
Size, sly ,104 for five days in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 90, against "a last week,
% in 1908 and IL in 1907. Those with
liabilities over $1,000 number s,
against 10 last week, S in 1908 and
in 1907.--Dun's Weekly Review OF
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
CHILDREN MADE TORCHES.
Five Burned Perhaps Fatally by Fire
at a Commencement.

Five children who took part in the
commencement exercises of Mrs. B. c.
Boyd's school in Central City, KY, on
Monday night were burned, perhaps
fatally, and the audience was changed
from an applauding crowd to fight
ing mob Men in the audience covered
the flaming children with their coats
and thus saved them. Little Dorothy
Clay was the unwilling cause of the
fire. The children had formed in
circle and had drilled in their white
muslin dresses. Then the lights were
extinguished AID candle in the hand
of each child flashed out The audience
applauded so enthusiastically that Dor
othy became frightened and dropped
her candle. The fame leaped to the
white muslin, and in a twinkling five
dresses were afire. Mothers fought to
reach their children and the children
made efforts to Chamber Over the foot
liehts
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
PAST AND PRESENT
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
1e1eRraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
Of the Many.
Bomb Thrower at Work AGAIN.

The bomb thrOwer who has been
the Nemesis of Chicago gamblers for
more than a year has resumed opera
tons. His last attempt caused more
destruction than any before and prac-
tically wrecked a building in the
downtown district. The entire front of
the first floor, which was occupied by
a gas and electric light firm, was
blown into the street This is the
thirty-first Of a series of explosions.
The object of the bomb throwers last
attack was whist club" on the
fourth floor AS usual the mysterious
thrower informed the newspapers by
telephone that he had thrown an
other bomb.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
THEFT OF sae.55o IS CHARGED.
Cashier In County TreIsureE's o3ice
NJ BuGaIo Is Arrested,


az BuGaIO Is Arrested.
Jared c. Weed, cashier II the coun-
~ treasurer's Office in Buffalo since
1898, was arrested at his home on
charge of grand larceny of the funds
CT the county The arrest was made
on charges preferred by County Treas
urer Fix, following an investigation
which was finished the previous even
ing, Mr.. Fix says, and on checking up
it was found that the total of the al
legged stealings since 1900, two years
after Weeds appointment, were $685..
550.1S, ranging from a few hundred
dollars to several thousands a year
Fix charges that another employe is
implicated. Weed has made a state
ment TO the district attorney confirm
ing a confession made to County Treas
urer Fix. Weed has turned over $780,
600 in cash and Tax Collector Hof
helms real estate, etc., to the value
of $4,000. In addition deeds convey
ing Weeds home to Samuel w Hof
helms and from Hofheins to Joseph
Schaatner, trustee for former treasur-
ers, were filed for record.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
1914 SAVED FROM SEA DEATH.
Woman Among Those Drawing Dan
gers of Alaskan Coast Disaster.

w S-AASe-A AAOoS IL os-AAo o<N-1-
gers of Alaskan Coast Disaster.
With 194 survivors. including one
woman, of the wrecked ship Columbia,
the mail steamer Dora arrived at
Seward, Alaska, Monday. The wreck
occurred April 80 near Unimaka Pass.
The experiences of all on the Columbia
were narrowing in the extreme. There
was no wind at the time, but ter
rifle surf was raging. On the vessel
were Italians, Japanese, Americans
and Scandinavians All were passive
and obedient in the face of danger,
except the Italians, who were in
panic. These ATTEMPTED to seize the
boats, but were restrained at the point
of guns. At daylight the feasibility
of a surf landing was established anu
the boats were given to the Italians.
They made land. Two days later they
returned for provisions and were COM
PEELED by revolvers to take only food
and refrain from looting Two former
life-saving men. Christ Christopherson
and Ernest Anderson, on that day sue
ceeded in establishing a life line to
the shore. On May storm caused
the final abandonment of the wrecked
Columbia. The same day the ship
burned
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
SENATOR BAILEY IN FIST FIGHT.
Texas Statesman and a Correspond
ent Have Mix-Up at Capitol

ent Have Mix-Up at Capitol
Senator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas
and w. Sinker Manning. Washington
correspondent of the New York Times,
had fist fight in the Senate corridor
Thursday afternoon. Bailey used
Mannings umbrella to wallop the
scribe. Neither antagonist suffered
any serious injury. The only damage
was to the umbrella.
The clash grew out of an article in
the Times under a Washington date
line which said that Senator Aldrich,
Republican leader in the tariff debate,
had a number of followers among
Democrats who may faithfully be set
down under the classification of AL
drich men" and that they are head
ed by that distinguished son of Texas,
Joseph Weldon Bailey" Bailey read
this story on the floor of the Senate
and then denied the allegations. In
making his denial he launched into
denunciation of newspapers in general
and of the Times correspondent in
particular, whom he specifically called
a liar, whelp and a coward When
Manning later met Bailey and started
to explain that he did not write the
article the mix-up came.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
&NUS
CT
8P@RT

William Sherring, the winner Of the
Marathon at Athens in 1906, has turn
ed professional.
At Topeka, Kan. DIR. B. F. Roller
of Seattle defeated Hjalmer Lundin in
two straight falls.
Tommy Murphy has added another
slick trotter to his string in Ethel
Mack, by Steel Arch.
The Minnesota-Wisconsin League
opened its first season with good
games and large crowds.
Manager Kelley of st. Paul has
finally landed Orville Kilroy, the for
mer ST. Paul and Minneapolis pitcher.
Pitcher Nagle of the Toledo Ameri-
can Association baseball team, has
been leased to the Lincoln, Neb., team,
of the Western League.
The 100-mile record for horse was
made by Conqueror, Nov. Il, 1853. The
distance was covered in hours, SO
minutes and 55 seconds.
Sunol, 2:0S IA, former queen of the
trotting turf, died the other day at
Newtown Square, Pa, where she was
being kept for breeding purposes.
A single bet of $4,000 to $4,000 has
been laid against the American colt
SIR Martin in the English Derby. 1t
is one Of the largest bets made for
many years.
John Evers, the star second baseman
of the Chicago Nationals, was suspend
ed by the national commission for his
failure TO report to his team at the
opening of the season.
Premier honors were won by the
sophomores in the annual interclass
track meet at Hamline university held
on Norton field, tie second year men
chalking up a total of 81 points.
PAUL, the sophomore distance run
ner of the University of Pennsylvania,
on Franklin Field, broke the collegiate
and intercollegiate record for the two
mile run, his time being minutes and
% seconds.
Young Corbett has received tele-
gram from Promoter James Coffroth
of San Francisco offering him a $4,000
purse for a twenty-five-round bout
with Jimmie Britt some time in the
near future at Colma, Cal.
George Odom's Trance, which made
name for herself last year by her
speed and general consistency in win
ming race after race. made her first
appearance of the season at the PIN.
lico track. Baltimore, and galloped
home an easy winner.
BY winning four games in success
sion the ST. Paul baseball team adj
vanced from the foot of the column in
the American Association to the head
of the second division, with Minneap-
oils at the foot of the first division
and Milwaukee still at the head of the
column.
The spring session of the Board OF
Appeals of the American Trotting AS
ISOLATION announces the list of purses
which aggregate s1,000,000. The purses
offered i'm the Western Association in,
cludes $4,000 by Libertyville; $4,000
by Galesburg; $4,000 by Davenport;
SIS, 900 by Joliet: $4,000 by Kalama
zoo; $4,000 at Hamline. Mimi; $25.
600 at the second meeting at Spring
field, ILL.,, and $4,000 each at Dallas
and Ell Paso, Texas. The handicap
stakes offered on the grand circuit run
from $4,000 to $4,000. Stakes total
$211, 900 and futurities $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03

Desire to obtain revenge because of
the relentless prosecution of boot
leggers" by the Warren County Law
and Order League is said to have
been the motive for two criminal acts
ct Lebanon. Ohio. The large barn of
Alfred Shook, chief detective for the
league, was burned, causing a loss of
81 900 Shook was prosecuting wit
ness in all bootlegging cases. An at
tempt was made to wreck a car of
the Lebanon and Franklin TRACTION
line, loaded with passengers, among
whom were ministers and anti-saloon
leaders The car struck a bowlder,
Earring the passengers and throwing
them from their seats
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
ELECTION Of SENATOR
ENDS LONG DEADLOCK
Short Story of the Great Illinois
Battle Ending in Senator
Hopkins Defeat.
L0RIMER'S RISE IN POLITICS
New Official Is Chosen in Spring
field by the Aid of Many
Democrats.

The deadlock on the United States
senatorship, which ended Wednesday
with the election of Congressman Will
lam Lorimer of Chicago, and which is
without precedent in Illinois political
history in many important particulars,
began Jan. 20, when the first ballot
was cast in joint assembly, Hopkins
receiving SO votes, Stringer 76, Foss
16, Shurtleff II, and Mason 6.
Many attempts were made during
the first month of the deadlock to
break the Ho7kins strength. Frank
0. Lowden sent an agent to Spring
field and unanswered for a month in
the hope of breaking in. William B.
Mckinley and Lawrence Y Sherman
were introduced as dark horses, but
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
CLAIMS o. S. MIsUsED LAND.
Daughter of Famous Song Writer
Makes Complaint In PfttsburE.

Daughter of Famous Song Writer
Makes Complaint in PittsburE.
Claiming that the terms by which
her grandfather donated lands in Pitts
burg to the government in 1872 have
been violated, Mrs. Marian Foster
Welsh, daughter of Stephen C. Foster,
who wrote Old Kentucky Home" and
many other famous songs, is contest.
ing the governments right 1.-THE use
of the property. Part of the property
to which Mrs Welsh lays claim is the
Arsenal Park. Mrs. Welsh claims that
lands donated for an arsenal and
burial grounds for our soldiers for
ever" on condition that if used for
other purposes they should revert to
his heirs, have been put to other uses
as school site and a public play
ground
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
ROB GOTHAM CAFE IN DAYLIGHT

Four Thugs Hold Up Twenty Gus
toners, Collect S3S and Escape.
Four armed men invaded restau-
rant at 444 7th avenue, New York,
held up the twenty customers and
after robbing two of them of $3S es-
capped. One of the robbers guarded
the door, another covered the cashier
with his revolver, while the two 9TH
ers with tevolvers proceeded to rob
the customers. The robbers searched
two of the men and took what money
they had. After warning the victims
to make no attempt to follow them on
pain of death, the robbers disappeared
on the run. They are believed to be
members of notorious east side
gang.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
INDIcTs GOV. HASKELL AGAIN.
Federal Grand Jury Returns New
Bills In Land Fraud Cases.


Federal Grand Jury Returns New
Bills In Land Fraud Cases.
Indictments charging fraud in the
Muskogee town lot cases were return
ed by the United States grand jury in
Tulsa, Okla, against Governor Charles
n. Haskell. F. B. Sewers, w. T. Hutch
ms, c. w. Turner, A. z. English and
w. r. Eaton. The accused men are
charged with obtaining titles from the
government to town lots in Muskogee
by Illegal methods. Bond in each case
was fixed at $4,000 and was promptly
furnished. This is the second indict-
ment for Governor Haskell in the
Tulsa case. The first bills were dis
missed on technicality. The fight
before the grand jury had many SEN
sational features. Numerous witness
es from Ohio and elsewhere testified.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Wheat Crop Is Promising.

Conditions are greatly improved in
the wheat belts, according to report
made up at the Millers' National Fed
Grafton, in convention at the Audito-
rum Hotel in Chicago. The report
shows that on the whole much bet
ter crop is to be expected than last
year. The reserves are not more than
half of what they should be. and this
is what Patten based his prospects on.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Mad Cat Bites Children.

Three children were bitten by a cat
afflicted with rabies in the home of
Henry Meyer in Elkhart, Ind. The
victims are Lawrence and Lenora Mey-
er. respectively and years old, and
Robert Elwell, years old. The cat
attacked other children and was later
Killed by a policeman. Two deaths
have resulted and a number of persons
have taken the Pasteur treatment
since the rabies broke out at Elkhart
early in the year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Ternfna to Re American.

Nine. Milka Ternina, for several
years one of the leading singers at
the Metropolitan Opera House, has an
nounced her intention of residing in
America permanently. After next sea-
son she will become head of the vocal
department of musical school which
is supported by the Metropolitan Opera
directors.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Cantor of John Brown Dies

Maj. Israel c. Greene, aged So, the
man who captured John Brown of Osa-
watomie at Harper's Ferry, is dead on
his farm near Mitchell, s. d., where he
had lived for thirty-six years. Greene
was a close friend of General Robert
r Lee
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
SLAYER OF MRS. GUINNESS?
American Sailor, Held in Norway,
Says He Aided in Murders.

American Sailor, Held in Norway,
Says He Aided in Murders.
A young American sailor is under
arrest at Frederikstad, near Chris
tiania, Norway, as self-confessed muir
derer. He told his captain that he
helped Mrs. Belle Guinness kill four
persons on her farm near Laporte, Ind,
and that he then killed Mrs. Guinness
herself. The man did not impress the
captain as being insane, but as one
forced by his conscience to tell the
truth. The sailor is now under obser-
case has been reported to Fl. II. d.
Peirce, the American Minister to Nor
WaV
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Enemy Kills 500 Peach Trees.

Some unknown enemy of Walter
Holmes, a Huntington county, Ind,
farmer, has killed 500 peach trees in
Holmes orchard by injecting kerosene
under the bark. Locust trees on the
same place have been killed in the
same way. An investigation is in pro-
gress.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
old Manfncturer Ends tie.

A. H. Lotze, head of the firm of A..
Lotze, Sons & Co, well-known manu-
facturers of stoves in Cincinnati, COM
mitted suicide by placing a revolver in
his mouth and firing bullet into his
brain. He was 60 years old. The
cause was dependency over ill health
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Bio Fire In California.

Two thousand feet of the Nevada
grain docks at Port Costa, Cal, in
which all the grain from California
for foreign ports is loaded, was
burned The loss is estimated at more
than 100000. Nine hundred tons of
grain and one hundred tons of hops
were destroyed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
FOUR IN BOAT PARTY DROWNED.
Swift Current Capsizes Launch Re-
turning from Picnic.

Swift Current Capsizes Launch Re
turning from Picnic.
Four persons were drowned and four
others rescued from a capsized gaso
line launch which was carried through
the sluice gates of the dam of the Con-
solidated Water Power Company of
Grand Rapids Tuesday night and
dashed to the rocks below. The
drowned Anderson, Miss Bessie; b.
goger, Miss B.; Forse, Miss May; An
derson, Ralph. The body of Miss b.
goger was the only one recovered. The
party went up the river to place on
Big Island, called Loves Nook, for a
picnic. Upon their return, in attempt
ing to make landing and not know
ing the gates of the dam were opened,
the swift current caught the stern end
of the craft and all were carried to
the river below. Four were rescued
and resuscitated after much difficulty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
TOWN GETS FIRST CHURCH.
Former County Seat Has Had JOS

Former County Seat Has Had Joss
House as Only Place of Worship.
The corner stone of the Methodist
church, the first Christian place of
worship in Hawthorne, New, was laid
Wednesday. A town of 1900 persons,
prosperous. formerly the county seat,
and in the heart of rich mining dis
trict, Hawthorne never has had a
church. The only religious edifce has
been a Chinese joss house, which was
practically abandoned more than
year ago. Several years ago Goldfield
succeeded in taking the county seat
away from Hawthorne-one of the ar
guments being that Hawthorne did
not have a church."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
au,o KIN. u,,,,or.,re,. so,

Merrill, the 12-year-old son of Jo-
seph Trees, millionaire oil operator
and president of the Wabash Gas Com
pany, was instantly killed when he ran
in front of an automobile near his IA
theirs home in North Highland avenue,
Pittsburg. He was found in the
morgue. No arrests were made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Factory Blown Up

A nitroglycerin factory of the Du-
Pont Powder Company located at
Howard Junction, about five miles
south of Bradford, Pa, exploded. Two
men are believed to have been blown
to atoms.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Build Drendnouxht of junk.

Forty carloads of scrap iron will be
taken to Genoa, Italy, by the French
bark Bretagne, now being loaded at
Oakland, Cal. to help build a new
DIeadnought for the italian navy. The
scrap Is iron that went through the
fire of 1906.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Escaping Ga. Causes Death.

One man was killed and three others
were overcome by gas from leaky
CT broken pipe in the Illinois Steel
Companys plant in South Chicago.
One of the victims of the gas lost
consciousness while performing val
orous work in rescuing the other three,
and for a time it was feared that his
life would pay the forfeit.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Texas Hit by Tornado.

A tornado of great fury struck the
little village of Zephyr, in the eastern
portion of Brown County, Texas, and
left a path of death and destruction
seldom paralleled- The death list
reached total of thirty-two and the
number of seriously and fatally
wounded will reach fifty. The storm
formed half a mile southwest of
Zephyr and swept down upon the vii
lage, cutting wide swath through
the residence and business district.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Boy straneIed by Closing Door.

With his head securely held by the
weight of a heavy sliding door in the
barn on the farm where he lived with
foster parents near Marion, Ind,
Lloyd Anderson, 6 years old, was
found dead. Death was due to stran-
gulation, and the indications are the
lad struggled until he ceased to
breathe. Two years ago Lloyd Ander-
son was kicked by a horse and his
skull fractured, but in the face of the
physicians verdict that he could not
live he recovered, only to meet
worse fate
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Twenty Injured i'm Chr Crasb.

A score of persons were injured,
several of them seriously, when a west
bound Belmont avenue car struck an
open switch and ran off the track at
Robey street, Chicago. The passen-
gers were thrown from their seats and
the windows of the car were SHAT
tered
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Canadian Miner. End strike.

1t was announced Monday that the
strike of the coal miners which has
been affecting nearly all the mines of
southern Alberta and eastern British
Columbia has been settled. The miners
yielded on the open shop contention
and the mine operators yielded as to
discrimination against union members.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Negro Who Shot White Lyncbed.

Albert Aiken, negro, who desper-
ately wounded John Spires, a white
farmer, near Lincolnton. Ca, last
Thursday, was hanged by a posse of
about 100 men. Aiken was in jail
The posse broke into his cell, seized
him and carried him into the country
for execution.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Big snowstorm In Dakota.

Following heavy rain for two days,
snow set in Tuesday in the northern
Black Hills. At Portland 1t Is three
inches deep. If the snow reaches the
valleys the fruit crops will be heavily
damaged.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03

Don Morrison. Chicago salesman,
was arrested in New York on the COM
as Mary Kenny. She said Morrison
had sent her an Insulting note on
New York Central train. Morrison de-
nied he intended to insult the woman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Drought Drives Animals Mad.

The drought is so serious in some
sections of Vera Cruz. Mexico. that
many people are leaving. The streams
and ponds have dried up and hundreds
of cattle are dying. Wolves and dogs
have gone mad and natives in a num-
Der Of villages have been bitten by the
crazed animals.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03

A plan to construct chain of ware
houses in the grain producing terri
Endorsed at the mass meeting of the
grain growers and cattle drovers'
branch of the national farmers union,
at Springfield, Mo.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Turkev's claw CAUSES Death.

Frank Hawbrook, age so years. q
prominent farmer of Hebron, Ind, is
dead of blood poisoning resulting from
being clawed on the hand by turkey
which he was trying to capture in the
BARNARD.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
Mistook Wife for BURGLAR.

Mistaking her for burglar, George
w Thompson shot and killed his wife
at his home on East Tenth street in
indianapolis, Ind.
Carnegie Million for French Heroes.
Andrew Carnegie has arranged to
give $1.000.000 for the establishment
Of a hero fund.- in France under prac-
tically the same conditions as govern
similar funds in tie United States,
England and Scotland. Formal an
nouncement of this gift will be made
at luncheon at which Mr.. Carnegie
will be guest of honor.