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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22

ments from Argentina are short and
Argentina has been shipping principal
ly to Liverpool. This increased the Liy-
erpool demand for American ship
ments.
1t requires five bushels of wheat to
make a barrel. Taken at $1.29 per
bushel the wheat in each barrel of -four
costs $6.45. Add to that 40 cents for
sacks or wood basins, 20 cents for
freight, 10 cents for delivery, 8 cents
for storage and % cents for selling
and carrying accounts. That will make
the cost price of flour $3.50. from
which deduct 40 cents for "off-alls" or
the bran and other products saved from
the wheat, which makes the price $40.
And in some instances the freight, de-
livery, storage and other expenses are
higher than those given. 1t would not
be surprising i'm the light of present
existing conditions and in the face of
the outlook for the future that -four
would go to SO per barrel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22

ITO the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives: L transmit herewith a COM
munication from the Secretary of War
inclosing one from the chief of the bu-
reau Of insular affairs, in which is trans
mitted a proposed tariff-revision law for
the Philippine Islands.
"This measure revises the present Phil
ippine tariff, simplifies it and makes it
conform as nearly as possible to the regu-
lations of the customs laws of the Uni
ted States, especially with respect TO
packing and packages. The present Phil
ippile regulations have been cumber-
some and difficult for American merchants
and exporters to comply with. Its pur-
pose is TO meet the new conditions that
will arise under the section of the pend
ing United States tariff bill, which pro-
vides, with certain limitations. for free
trade between the United States and the
islands. 1t is drawn with a view to pre-
serving to the islands as much customs
revenue as possible and to protect in a
reasonable measure those industries which
now exist in the islands.
THE bill now transmitted has been
drawn by a board of tariff experts, of
which the insular collector of customs.
Col. George r. Cotton, was the president
The board held great many open meet
ings in Manila and conferred fully with
representatives of all business interests
in the Philippine Islands. 1t is of great
Importance to the welfare of the islands
that the bill should be passed at the same
time with the pending Payne bill, with
special reference TO the provisions of
which it was prepared.
II respectfully recommend that this
bill be enacted at the present session of
Congress as one incidental TO and re-
quired by the passage of the Payne bill.
'WILLIAM III. TAFT"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22

SIC. WlLSON. IL L. 10
correct there is n serious shortage in
wheat in America. If Secretary VIII
son is cororect there is no shortage at
all, but only an artificial famine en-
gendered by Mr.. Patten for speculative
purposes. Also, if Secretary Wilson is
correct. Mr.. Patterns deal will 20 to
smash soon.
The Secretary of Agriculture insists
that the governments report to the eff
feet that there were 143,000,000 bush
els of reserve wheat in the farmers
hands on March l was strictly correct
and that he knows where the wheat is.
I'VE do not get our information from
postmasters - exclaimed Secretary
Wilson angrily when the Patten state
ment was shown him. 1--WE get it from
farmers who are reliable, conscientious
men. We have been perfecting our sys-
tenn for gathering informa ton for the
last twelve years, and it Is as correct
and thorough as it is possible to get.
To corner the wheat market success
fully nowadays you have TO keep buy
ing and buying and buying. Finally
the time comes when you can't buy
any more. and then the smash comes" .
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
TAFT IN TARIFF PLEA
President, in Message, Asks Con-
gress to Revise Philippine
Revenue System.
PAYNE BILL FORCES CHANGE
Recommendations of Secretary Dick
inson and Gen. Edwards Are
Transmitted with Act.

The President sent TO Congress n
Philippine tariff. The message trans
mits recommendations by the Secre-
tary of War for a revision of the Phil
ippine tariff so as TO permit as much
customs revenue as possible for the
islands and at the same time to extend
to the islands the principle of pro-
tective tariff for its industries.
Under the conditions which will
arise from the enactment of the tariff
bill pending in Congress, which pro-
yides under certain conditions for free
trade between the Philippines and the
United States, the revenues of tn ISL
and will be considerably affected, and
numerous protests have been received
here on this account. The proposed
amendments to the bill are to interfere
as little as possible with these free
trade conditions and at the same time
permit collection of ample revenue.
The message and accompanying letters
of recommendation from Secretary
Dickinson and General Clarence r. Ed
wards, chief of the insular bureau of
the War Department, with copy of
the proposed act, were submitted to
both houses of Congress shortly after
they convened.
General speaking. the bill submitted
by the President makes slight in
crease in the rates of duty now pro-
vided in the Philippine tariff. but its
trainers say its tendency is to insure,
as far as practicable. the benefit of the
Philippines market for American man.
ufactures and products. The bill
makes some additions to the free list.
There will be an increase in internal
revenue duties by which it is hoped
TO make up the loss which the Philip
pine Islands will sustain by the opera
tons of the free-trade provisions in
the pending Payne traiff BILL The in
ternal-revenue laws for the Philippines
are enacted by the Philippine assem-
bly
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
SOLDIERS OF SULTAN
START A REVOLUTION
Two BattaIions i'm ConstantinoPie
Surround the Parliament
Building.
DEMAND OFFICIALS GET OUT.
Panic Rules Turkish Capital and
People Shut Shops-Mutiny Due
to Young Turk Movement.

Serious disturbances of a revolution
airy character have broken out in Con-
stantinople The situation is grave.
The mutinous troops made demonstra-
ton against the building of the Turk
ish parliament. Panic has seized the
people of Constantinople. and all
through the city shops were hurriedly
closed. The cabinet resigned and it is
reported that Kiamil Pasha, the former
grand vizier, has been charged with the
formation Of a new ministry.
The present grand viZier of Turkey
is Hilmi Pasha. He was appointed
Feb. IA in succession to Kiamil Pasha.
Hilmi formerly was minister of the in
terror. and before holding this office he
served as inspector general of Mace
donna. Ali Ria Pasha is minister of
war and marine, and is grand master
of artillery.
The changes in the cabinet in Febru-
airy showed the absolute control of the
political situation by the Young Turk
party. or committee of union and prog
ress, which virtually imposed on the
Sultan a ministry of its own nominees.
The committee publicly repudiated any
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
BASEBALL SEASON OPENS.
Great Crowds in Several Cities At
tend the First Games.


Immense crowds thronged the big
league ball parks for the opening
games of the baseball season Wednes-
day. The Cubs played to 10000 peo-
pie in Chicago ard over 1000 fans
watched the Sox at Detroit. The Cubs
won, 3 10 /, and the Sox lost, 0 to ,.
Pittsburg won from the Cincinnati
Reds and the Boston Doves trimmed
Philadelphia The only other Amer-
can League game was at st. Louis,
where Cleveland won, 4 to 2. Baseball
got a banner start on what seems to
be its most prosperous year.
The largest crowd that ever wit
messed the inauguration of a baseball
season in Cincinnati was out to see
the Cincinnati and Pittsburg teams
play. The Pittsburgs secured a lead
in the first inning and gradually in
creased it through timely hitting and
FrOmme's wildness. Cincinnati had
men on bases in nearly every inning.
home The Pirates scored three runs.
Before one of the largest crowds ever
assembled in Washington Park, Indian
apolis, champions OF the American As
ISOLATION. defeated Toledo in the open
ing game. Opening the season at ST
Louis with Cleveland, before one of
the largest crowds that has ever wit
messed a spring game, the st. Louis
baseball team went down to defeat by
a score Of 4 to 2.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
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President Taft has promised TO attend
the national funniest of German Turner
societies at Cincinnati in June.
A party of California turf magnates
has gone TO the City of Mexico to open
negotiations for the operation of a race
track at Tia Juana, Lower California,
which is Mexican territory.
Senator Agnew's bill designed to pre-
vent the publication of race tips and bot
reported by the Senate codes committee
of the New York Legislature.
One of the prettiest finishes of the
Santa Anita season at Los Angeles came
in the Campus handicap, when Gar and
Glorio finished so close together that no
one but the judges could determine which
was the winner.
Billy Delaney, manager of Al Kauf-
man. has covered the $1,000 posted by
Jack Johnson. Delaney states that he
had decided to let Kaufman meet the
negro champion. providing johnson would
make a side bet of $4,000.
With a splendid squirt of fast billiards,
making an unfinished run of 167 poil is,
George f. Slosson, the New York vefer-
an, won a game of 1872 in the world S
championship series from Calvin Dema
est, of Chicago, by a score of 800 to 2C7.
The final run was made mostly by cen
ter space nursing and was completed in
thirteen minutes.
Dave Deshler, of Cambridge, fought
Packey Mcfarland, of Chicago, twelve
rounds to a draw at the Boston Armory
Athletic Association. and on announce
ment of the decision Mcfarland assault
ed Referee Jack Sheehan and knocked
him down.
The longest trip ever made by college
| base ball team will be covered by the
| Brown University nine, which has accept
ed an invitation to participate i'm a series
of games to be held in Seattle. Wash. be
ginning July |. 1t is understood that six
teams representing the colleges of the
East Middle West and Pacific coast will
| take part in the series.
A revival of interest in track athletics
such as the West has not seen in years
is indicated by numerous applications fol
membership in the Central Association
of the Amateur Athletic Union durins
the present month. Over 5000 clubs hav,
applied for membership.
The races at Jacksonville opened witt
a series of mishaps. In the second race
Brannon on Oronooka, and Mathews. OF
Rose F., were thrown. but neither wa,
hurt. Guy was suspended for three day.
for rough riding in this race Minneha
ha, in the third race, ran into the fenc,
on the back stretch, cutting a tendon S,
badly that her days of usefulness ar,
J puax.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT.
Flour May Go to $40 Barrel, Say
Millers

Rise in the price of hour until the
mills in America are selling spring
wheat flour at 81 a barrel, or $1.30
more than a year ago, is brought to
light as one of the effects of the pres
ent condition of the wheat market and
the country's supply of the cereal. Ac-
cOrding TO the Chicago Daily News,
managers of the Washburn- Crosby
Company, the Pillsbury-Washburn Com
pany and the Northwestern COns0li-
dated Milling Company, which operate
what are declared the largest mills in
the United States, and practically fix
the price of -four, say there is no re-
lief in sight from present conditions,
and every indication is that the price
of flour will continue to soar and may
go to SO a barrel The rise in the
wholesale millers' price is being fol-
lowed by rise in the price to brokers
and consumers and will result in ma
terially affecting the price of bread and
bakery goods. The price of rye flour
and other breadstuffs has also been in
creased, the rise in the price or rye
-four per barrel being about 80 cents in
less than a month.
The managers of the milling compa-
MES deny that there is any combination
to increase prices or to control the
business. They insist that the rise in
the price of -four is due to the scarcity
of wheat and breadstuffs in Europe
and other countries, to the insufficient
supply in the United States in the light
of the demands which are now being
made and to the general wheat situa-
ton.
The price for wheat will be stiff all
through the summer. the miilers de-
clare. The United States has grown a
larger crop than year ago, but the
worlds supply is short. There is a
wheat. flour and bread famine in Next
co. The price of Argentine wheat is
S1.25 per bushel and of Winnipeg or
Canadian wheat about S1.27. The ship
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
Agree AIcohoi Is Poison.

That alcohol can not be considered
as food that its use even moderately
decreases the efficiency of muscles. affects
the glands seriously, and wrecks the ner-
vous system. causing III health and in
sanity, was the unanimous opinion Of
the meeting of the American AssOciati ton
for the Study and Cure of Inebriety and
Alcoholism, in session at Washington,
ID. c. One member even went so far as
to assert that alcohol is dangerous as a
medicine, as all its effects are not yet
known to science. Another said that 60
per cent of the tubercular patients treat
ed with alcohol died, while only 20 per
cent of the cases not treated in this way
were fatal. The use of alcoholic bever-
ages was called a common cause of de-
generation and disease among the ne
groes and illiterate classes in the South.
A New York physician asserted that the
psychic treatment of the inebriate was
recognized as the most successful
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
NUBBINS OF NEWS.

4 tax claim for per cent, with cents
interest. which had been due since 1875,
was paid to New York City by Long
Island real estate NAH.
Thirty steel machines have been in
stalled in the new department of me-
chanicotherapy at the Vanderbilt clinic
of the College of Physicians and Sur
gcons in New York. The machines will,
lessen the period of convalescence 30 per
cent.
A fellow passenger of ex-President
Roosevelt from Naples TO Mombasa will
be Richard Tjader. a noted naturalist,
who will hunt in the same country as the
President for specimens for the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York.
Chief Croker of the New York fire de-
partment wants soldiTs who have been
honorably discharged from the United
States army to enter the fire department.
Mai Gen. Leonard Wood is cooperating
with Mr.. Croker in an effort to obtain
these men.
The trustees of the Peabody education
fund have decided to give S1.O00.OQ0 out
right to the Peabody College for Teach
ers. affiliated with the University of Ten
nessee at Nashville. The money is TO be
used for preparing teachers for the South
ern States.
Beware of soft drinks I" is the warning
issued by DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, govern
ment food expert. He says many such
drinks contain caffeine and other drugs.
1t is announced that Jacob ii. Schif
has given the famous Iissot collection of
water colors of Old Testament paintings,
| which cost him $4,000, TO The Chicago
public library.
Three Belgians and four men from
| other countries are to judge the essays
| submitted for the prize of 5000 offered
| BY King Leopold for the best description
| of "The Progress of Aerial Navigation
and the Best Means to Encourage It."
New York officials believe they have
unearthed a new system of smuggling by
I, mears of sleeper" trunks which are left
| unclaimed for indefinite periods on piers
| of ocean liners.
Theodore Roosevelt is the only Vice
| President bust of whom does not &C.
| cupy a niche in the Senate chamber Mr.
Roosevelt's bust. however, soon is to be
| placed in the chamber.
President Eliot of Harvard University
has wired TO Cambridge. Mass, from At
lanta, Ca. denying that he showed in his
/ speeches a lack of appreciation of citi-
zens sprung from Irish and other foreign
stocks. In his message he commends the
| Irish for their advancement.
Col. Archie Hughes. who recently re-
signed as postmaster at Columbia, Tenn
has asked President Taft to appoint Mrs.
L. w. Carmack to the position. Mrs. Car
mack is the widow of ex-senator Carmack,
who was shot and killed by Robin Cooper
in Nashville, Tenn. Nov. o, 1908.
Mrs Cynthia Croeley, widow of Pow
ell Crosey, the builder of the first tele-
graph line between Sacramento. Cal.
and Salt Lake City, is dead as her home
in Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Crosby wa.
born near Cincinnati, Oct. "a. 1922 She
was married to Powell Crosley in 1852
and started West on her wedding tour in
prairie schooner drawn by a yoke o.
oxen.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND IS TO BE.
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Complete.
Black Hand outdid shyIock

Alleged to have outdone Shylock in
actually having cut portions of flesh
from the breast of a man who refused
them money, Salverto Roberto and
Nicolo Digliotti were held for court
without bail at Braddock, a suburb of
Pittsburg, Pa With his wounds band
aged, -. weak from the loss of blood,
Joseph Guglioto appeared at a Brad
dock bank in company with the two
foreigners and asked to draw out
$500. The teller called the interpreter
and was told the story which resulted
in the arrest and holding of the two
men. At the hearing, Gugliotto said
he had received several Black Hand
letters demanding money, but ignored
them. He said he was aroused from
a sleep to find the two accused men
standing over him. He said they de-
manded $500 and that when he re-
fused one of them held him while the
other slit his arms and face with a
stiletto. Still he said he refused to
comply with their demands until one
of them began carving pieces out of
his breast. Then he promised to get
the money. The arrest followed when
Bank Teller George Todd suspected
from the bleeding mans appearance
that something was wrong.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
MANY DIE IN BURNING HOTEL.
six Bodies Found, Others still i'm the
Ruins of san Francisco Building.

Six bodies recovered and PROBABLY eight
or ten others buried in the ruins; six
injured. one fatally. and property loss of
$4,000 are the results of an early morn
ing fire that destroyed the St. George Ho-
tel, clearinghouse for laborers. and
eight other small buildings in San Fran
cisco. The bodies taken to the morgue
were so charred that Identification was
impossible. The hotel was three-story
frame building and burned so rapidly
that none of the 200 occupants had time
to dress, and many escaped by jumping
to the roof of an adjoining workshop.
Scores clambered down the ladders of the
firemen and the fire escapes. and four
Jumped to safety into the net held b. the
fire fighters. OF the regular boa 'ders
thirty are unaccOunted for, but it is be-
lieved that many of them escaped in the
confusion and have neglected to report
their safety.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22

intention to overthrow the Sultan or to
establish a military dictatorship, but
the crisis did not promise well for the
stability of the throne or the success
of parliamentary government. 1t has
been a question how the moderate ele-
ments of the empire would regard this
assumption of absolute power by an IT.
responsible committee.
Two battalions of troops CHARTERED
in the ministry of war marched out
headed by their officers. and wert by
way Of Divan and John streets to the
Mosque of st. Sophia, from which point
they surrounded the building of parlia-
ment. They demanded the dismissal Of
the grand vizier, the president of the
chamber and the minister of war.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22

one year in the bridewell were upheld
by the United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals. Miss Grey was found guilty
in the District Court and was SEN
fenced by Judge lands for conducting
a soul-mating business from whose de-
cision an appeal was taken by the ut
torney for the matrimonial agency pro
prietor.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
James Oliver Estate Settled.

Notice of the final settlement of the
estate of the late James Oliver and of
the discharge of the executor, Joseph
ID. Oliver, has been issued from the of
fee of the st. Joseph county clerk, in
South Bend, Ind. In the settlement Of
the vast estate not one claim was filed
In the clerks Office against it. The es-
tate was estimated at $60,000,00O
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
sTRAWBERRIEs CAUSE ILLNESS
CaIifornians Poisoned by n Solution
Used 10 Destroy Insects.

Scores of persons in Los Angeles, Cal.
have been poisoned in the last few days
by strawberries shipped from Japanese
gardens near Gardena and from several
other districts. None of the cases have
been serious. Complaints were so numer-
Gus that Chief of Police Dishman sent IA
letter TO the Horticultural commission.
asking its members 10 stop the use of
poison 10 kill insects on strawbe FRY
plants. The Japanese practically are the
only offenders, according to reports Ear
ly in the season many worms appeared. as
a last resort the gardeners used a pow
erful solution to destroy them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
400 SLAIN AT ADANA.
Slaughter of Christians Continues,
Two Americans Reported Killed.


Two Americans Reported Killed.
Moslem fanaticism has broken out
afresh at Adana, thirty-six miles from
Mersina, Asiatic Turkey, where large
numbers of Christians are said to have
been killed. 1t is reported that two
American missionaries have been murder
ed, but no names are given and the re-
port has not yet been verified. One re-
port says 400 Armenians have lost their
lives and that many houses have been
looted and burned. The British consul
is said to have been wounded. The troops
are powerless to control the situation and
some of the soldiers are joining in the
pillage of the city. The city has been
afame for four days and horrible massa-
cres have been carried out in the streets.
The foreign consuls have requested that
war ships be sent to Mersina. Disorders
have commenced at Tarsus. the little town
between Adana and Mersina noted as the
birthplace of the Apostle Paul, and many
houses there were reported TO have been
burned. The number of victims at Tar
sus is unknown.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
HER NAME IN STOCKINGS.
Buyer of Hosiery Finds WOman's
Address-Cupid Does the Rest.

Charles j. Hall Of Reading. Pa, an
nounces his engagement to Miss Annie
Harrison of Cincinnati. About six months
ago he purchased a pair of socks at a
department store. Upon removing them
he found piece of writing paper neatly
written in ink. Answer to Miss Annie
Harrison, 614 Cleveland avenue. Cincin-
natl, Ohio Correspondence was opened.
and now they are engaged.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
BREAD COST RISES.
New York Fears Famine Rates il
Wheat Corner Is Not Broken.


Wheat Corner Is Not Broken.
With -four up 40 cents a barrel and
the prospects apparently good for a fur
Their rise. New York City is now facing
tie possibility of bread at cents a
loaf. What will appear to hundreds of
thousands in the poorer quarters like
famine rates for this staple bid fair to
be forced as a result of the recent rise
in the price of wheat The Ghetto of
New York has already felt the effect of
the buoyancy of the Chicago wheat pit.
Six cents a loaf is the price now charg
ed by some bakeries, while the proprie
tors of hundreds of others declare that
they cannot continue selling at > cents
much longer. with flour of the better
grades costing from 81 to $720 a bar
rel, against $500 TO $3.50 a few days
ago. They add. moreover. that with
-four permanently up to the rates recent
ly quoted even 6 cents would not give
them any sort of a profit.