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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

The question of divorces has been
under careful consideration for many
centuries. The Pharisees tempted
Christ by asking his judgment on the
Mosaic law of enforcement, and re-
ceived an answer direct and funda-
mental 1t has been a serious, a con-
tinuous, a vexatious question from
time immemorial, says Newark News.
All governments, clerical and civil,
have tried to settle It and have failed.
Our own government and each of the
states and all the courts have for
many years been trying to establish
uniform divorce laws, and to discour-
age divorces, as much as possible.
Yet they are increasing instead of
diminishing. A few denominations
will not tolerate divorces, but the civil
laws recognize them. From the point
of view of the latter the innocent
party to divorce proceedings is guilty
of no offense, ought not to be held in
ldishonor and should be permitted to
marry again. 1t is the abuse OF the
divorce laws by immoral, unconscion-
able, undesirable citizens that has
brought the most serious dishonor
upon the dissolution of the marriage
contract The Reformed synod's atti-
Itude with reference to innocent
parties in necessary divorce proceed
ings accords with general public senti-
ment. What should be done to the
guilty ones is yet under discussion.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
GRAND TRUNK TRAINMEN
VOTE TO GO ON STRIKE
Less Than so Out of $3.50 Are Against
Enforcement of Demands
of Men

Montreal, Que. The counting
of the strike vote taken by the
Grand Trunk and Central Vermont
conductors and trainmen was con-
cluded and, according to Vice-Presi-
dent Murdoch of the trainmen, it
shows that of the 5000 votes cast on
the Grand Trunk and $50 on the Cen
trail Vermont less than fifty were
against a strike to enforce the de-
mands of the men.
The strike, if it goes into effect, will
include passenger and freight con-
ductors and brakemen, switchmen and
baggagemen. The strikebreakers have
been recruited in Chicago and it is es-
timated that at least 500 of them have
been forwarded to the various Grand
Trunk points within the past As hours.
Oyster Bay, n. Y. - A report that
Colonel Roosevelt would act as medi-
ator in the Pennsylvania railroad
wage dispute was met with prompt
denial here.
Colonel Roosevelt has not agreed
to act in the Pennsylvania railroad
case, nor has he been asked to as
sumo such a position said Frank
Harper, the coloners secretary.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
FLAMES SWEEP PORTLAND, ORE.
Two Men and $50 Horses Killed in
the Fire.

Portland, Ore.-Two lives at least
were lost, scores of persons were In
jured, $50 horses burned to death and
damage amounting to half a million
wrought in a fire on the edge of the
business district here Thursday. The
athletic field of the famous Multno.
NAH Athletic club was swept by the
flames and the magnificent grand
stand destroyed.
The dsad are: F. r. Price. foreman
of the United Carriage company sta
bic. and helper whose name Is
Prude. Several of the stable en-
ployees are reported to be missing.
The fire is believed to have started
in the salesroom of the Oregon Brush
company
The burned district covered ap-
proximately ten acres, but a large por-
ton of this area was devoted to the
athletic field of the Mulnomah club.
The fire started in the old exposi-
ton building, an immense wooden
structure on the south side of Wash
ington street. extending from Nine
teenth street to Twentieth, having a
length of about 400 feet and a depth
of 220 feet
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
13, INCLUDING A WOMAN,
INDICTED IN RISK Proc Z
Rcck Island Grand Jury Returns TFEe
Bills in The Fraternal Order
Inquiry.

Rock Island, III. - The Rock
Island county grand jury, which has
been in almost continuous session for
the past two months investigating the
alleged looting of the reserve funds OF
the Fraternal TribuneS and a dozen
other fraternal insurance societies,
made its final report to Judge Gest in
the circuit court. Seven true bills
were returned, in which Indictments
against twelve men and one woman
were included.
Those indicted are:
DR.. a. L. Craig, Chicago, former
medical director of the Eraternal Tri-
Dunes.
Robert Reydale, Rock Island, former
secretary of the Fraternal Tribunes.
c. f. Hatfield, Chicago.
NJ. J. Franckel, Chicago
Miss Margaret McEly2in, Auburn,
Ill.
Harold A. Weld, Rock Island, former
supreme treasurer of Fraternal Tri-
Dunes.
Otto l.. Caldwell. Springfield, H.
NJ. B. CARRIER. Washington.
Thomas w. Wilson, Springfield, Ill.
DR.. c. II. Walters. Springfield, ILL.,
S. S. McEl vain. Auburn, Ill
George w. Kenney, Springfield, Ill.
X. NJ. Witham, Aledo. III, former SUI
preme tribune of Fraternal Tribunes.
The indictments are against the
four former officers of the F'raternal
Tribunes prior to the merger with the
American Home Circle, and the four
officers of the American Home Circle
who gained control of the Fraternal
Tribunes by means of the merger and
by inducing the officers Of the Tribunes
to resign their offices; against c. F.
Hatfield, who was, it is said, the man
who brought abou. the deal; George
W. Kenney, who is said to have Sc
cured money on fraudulent notes, and
against three of the witnesses. who
are declared to have testified falsely
before the grand jury here with refer
ence to money received on alleged
loans they made to the Home Circle
and for which they received payment
after the merger with the Tribunes.
Harold A. Weld, H. M. Whitman and
Doctor Craig furnished bail in the ag-
gregate sum of $4,000 each on the
three charges against them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
WOMAN STAYS MAN
WHO ANNOYED HER
Mrs. Stout COnfeSSeS She Killed
John 0'C0nn0r.
FIRES THROUGH OPEN DOOR
Is Held to Await Action of Grand Jury
Without Bond-Husband Arrest
ed on Suspicion-Is
Released.

Springfield. ILL., - Mrs. Frank Stout
confessed that she had fired the
shot which resulted in the death OF
Deputy State Game Warden John
O'Connor
Mrs. Stout is in Jail here and will be
held to await the action of the grand
jury without bond. The woman ap-
peared before the coroner's jury at her
own request
O'Connor was shot Friday night at
his home by some one who fired
through an open door. In an ante
norton statement he declared that
Frank Stout had threatened to kill
him. but Stout, when arrested, proved
an alibi. Later Mrs. Stout was arrest
ed and. in her confession, declared
O'Connor had annoyed her and had
tried to break up her home"
Stealthily making her way to the
O'Connor home Mrs. Stout said she
climbed the high board fence in the
rear of the house and slowly neared
the rear door of the house.
Arriving at the doorway she saw
her intended victim fondling his two
year-old son. AT the sight of this her
mother love for her six children arose
and protested against taking the life
of a father, she said, even though he
stood accused of making improper adj
vances toward her.
She faltered and turned away from
the sight. When her back was turned
to O'Connor and his child she forgot
all about her mother love and the
anger of a wronged woman again
arose in her breast
Going to the doorway for the second
time. she says, she took deliberate
aim at O'Connor and fired. His lungs
pierced by ball from 32-caliber re-
volver he fell to the floor. Starting
to walk slowly away from the place
Mrs Stout found O'Connor had arisen
and was pursuing her. The thought
of having committed murder lent
toward her home. When O'Connor col
lapsed she succeeded in making her
escape.
Woman's footprints near the house
gave Sheriff Werner the clue which re-
suited in the arrest of Mrs. Stout. She
told pathetic tale of alleged wrong
conduct on the part of O'Connor, and
her dramatic recital drew pity from
the six persons who heard it.
Frank Stout, who was first arrested
on suspicion of having slain O'Connor.
was released from custody. Mrs.
Stout asserts that she was unaccom-
panied wien she went to the O'Connor
home, but officers who have been
working on the case believe that she
had an accomplice.
The woman admitted while on the
witness stand that she telephoned
O'Connor few days before his death
and asked him If he intended to quit
coming TO her home. This admission
is taken by authorities to mean that
the woman was in love with O'Connor
and that jealousy may have prompted
her in her act
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21

The bill advocated by the Audubon
societies of the state of New York,
forbidding the sale within this state
of the plumage of any wild bird which
is protected within New York. has
passed the legislature and is awaiting
the governors signature. We trust 1t
will receive his approval. says Roches
te- Herald. For many years the Audi
bon societies have labored increasingly
to educate the people of this state to
the economic as we'll as the senti-
mental value of wild bird life. Their
progress has been very slow. The rural
communities OF the state. even the
Embarrassing sections of western New
York, have been afflicted with almost
incredible ignorance of the usefulness
of birds Farmers boys often rob
birds nests of their eggs, and amuse
themselves by aiming their newly ac-
fuired firearms at birds of every kind.
It is seldom that a word of censure is
heard from the male parent, whose
property the young mischief-maker is
Fastening to Destroy
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21

A Chicago doctor has arranged tc
give the dogs a drink this summer.
He has bought a thousand two-quart
basins and the city council has al
lowed him to distribute them about
the city in front o. stores and houses,
and the tenants Will be expected to
see that they are kept filed with wa
ter for the benefit of the dogs. The
doctor got the notion from the City of
Mexico. where storekeepers are re-
quired to keep such basins at their
doors The idea is a good one, and
should reduce the number of mad
dog scares In Chicago this summer.
There will be less hyirophobia If the
dogs can get water whenever they
want It.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
CLEAR BALLINGER OF CHARGES.
Majority of Congressional Committee
Vote to indicate Secretary.


Washington. Richard A. Bal
linger is a wise, honest, conserva-
tive official, entirely qualified to dis
charge the duties of the secretary of
the interior and fit to be intrusted with
the interests of the people of the Uni
ted States.
This sums up the findings of the ma
jority of the joint congressional COM
mittee which for five months has been
making an exhaustive investigation of
the conduct of affairs of the entire de-
partment of the interior, and also of
the bureau of forestry of the depart
ment of agriculture. The investigators
who concur in these findings will be
be found to be the following: Senators
Nelson, Flint, Sutherland, Root and
Representatives Mccall (Mass.) Den
by (Mich.) and Olmsted (Pa).
Minority reports disagreeing with the
foregoing findings will be made by:
Representative Madison (Kan.), Sem
ators Purcell and Fletcher and Repre-
sentatives James (Ky) and Graham
Qll.
The reports will probably be ready
by September 10, when the committee
reassembles.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
Fatal Ending to Outing Journey.

New York.-Frightened by an auto
mobile, a horse drawing a two-seated
carriage in which John j. Voorhees,, a
leather manufacturer of Jersey City,
was taking his wife and their two
year-old daughter TO ran outing.
dashed through a wooden railing on
the outer edge of the Jersey City
boulevard and plunged to the tracks
of the Pennsylvania railroad, a hun
dred feet below. Mrs. Voorhees, was
dashed head first against a telegraph
pole and instantly killed. The father
and daughter were buried beneath the
wrecked carriage and lay unconscious
while Pennsylvania express thun-
dered down on them. The engineer
succeeded in stopping his locomotive
within thirty feet of them. They were
taken to hospital, where it was said
their injuries are serious.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21

the bearing down. / recommended IL
to some friends and two of them have
been greatly benefited by it." Mrs.
MAE MCKNIGHT, Oronogo. Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
st. Louis, Mo. was bothered
terribly with female weakness and
had backache, bearing down pains and
pains IN lower parts. began taking
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the Sanatiye
wash and now have no more troubles
that way."'-Mrs. AL. HERzoG. 5722
Prescott Ave-, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is a difficult one.
doctors having done you no good
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills. such as in
fiammation, liberation, displacements
fibroid tumors, irregularities. periodic
pains, backache, that bearinp-doyyn
feeling, indigestion, dizziness. and per-
vous prostration. 1t costs but a trifie
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
MAKES PLEA FOR THE SPIDER
Lecturer Explores Antipathy Witt
Which the Useful Insect Is
Generally Regarded.

Henry Hill made plea for the
spider in lecture at the London in.
stitution recently.
What is this great philanthropist-
for surely it is a philantropist?" he
asked. at is always mystery to me
why people should have such a greas
dislike for spiders.
1 ask good many ladies why they
90 not like them, and they generally
give one OF two reasons. They say, 20,
spiders are such terribly ugly things
Of course, that is granted, but it is q
curious fact that the ugliest spiders
are those to be found in and about
our houses.
Il dare say that if cur spiders could
talk they would say Tt is not our
fault; it is due entirely to our envir.
onment.' If we searched in the gar.
dens and fields and hedgerows we
should find spiders as handsomely col
ored as butterflies.
"The second reason given is that
spiders are so cruel Like us. how.
ever, they must eat in order to live.
and must kill in order to eat; but, UNI
like us, they never kill merely to graft
fly their own vanity.
I'm their slaughter they do a great
deal of good without doing any harm.
The gardener who kills a spider has
no business to be a gardener Wasps,
ants and birds eat insects, but they
do a certain amount of harm"
Mr.. Hill detailed the leading char
acteristics of the $50 different kinds
of spiders to be found in this country
by means of excellent photographs.
He said the best webs to be seen were
made by the young spiders in the
cleaning of June evening. AS they
grew older they lost their ideals and
thought any kind of web would do if
it caught flies Garden spiders were
generally born In the spring and died
III the autumn. The house spider lived
three or four years
Mr.. Hill said that spiders were most
interesting pets. and in the case Of
children who are nervous he advised
the mothers to persuade them that the
spiders could not see them. Spiders
that made webs could only see as far
as the end of their feet, while those
that jumred at their prey saw eight or
10 inches.-London Express.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
ROOSEvELT'S ITINERARY OUT.
Former President Will Make Many
Speeches in West and South.

oyster Bay. n. Y While work
working in the hay field, Colonel
Roosevelt declined to talk any more
politics, Jut announced the dates for
his campaign speeches throughout the
south and west.
He gives no indication of the charac-
ter of these speeches. The schedule
follows:
Cheyenne. August 81; Denver. Aug
us< 30; Ossawotamie, Kan. August 81;
Omaha, September 2; Sioux Falls,
September 8; Fargo, September 5;
st. Paul, September 6; Milwaukee.
September 7; Freeport and Chicago.
September s; Pittsburg, September
10; Atlanta, October 8; Hot Springs,
October 10; Peoria, October IL, and a
speech for Beveridge in Indiana on
October 10; the place is not yet fixed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
CANNON is OVERCOME BY HEAT
CoIlapses in Midst of Fervid Speech
in Kansas.


Winfield, Kan. - Speaker Joseph
c. Cannon collapsed while deliv-
ering a speech which he had pre-
pared, attacking the Insurgents in con
gross before the Winfield chautauqua.
Prompt aid prevented him from
fainting, but he was unable to con-
tinue his address, and, speaking with
the greatest difficulty, he begged the
audience to excuse him
The intense heat affected him. and
brought on the sudden sinking spell.
discomfort of people," said
Speaker Cannon, in his address here,
lis not measured by complaints in the
press. 1t is measured in a more sig
nificent manner and makes more in
delihle impression than that of a pen
ny paper bought, perused, thrown
away and forgotten.
Speaker Cannon declared the op-
ponents of protection have misrepre-
scented the tariff, lied about its sched-
ules and resorted to every conceivable
trick to keep the tariff in politics.
"The demagogue," said he. may pick
out an item here and there and say
that duties are too high, but the law
is to be tested by all its provisions
and not by an isolated item here anS
there"
Mr.. Cannon denounced the Insur-
gents in congress and paid his re-
spects to Senator Bristow, declaring
the latter was seeking notoriety.
Somewhat in the way of a reply to
an address made by Senator Bristow
in Winfield week ago, Speaker Can
non disputed the statements made by
the kansan emphatically. Mr.. Bris-
tow had made sensational charges
concerning the rubber schedule of the
tariff bill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
FREED IN SHALE GRAFT TRIAL.
All Defendants Are Acquitted of At
tempt to Defraud CHICAGO

Chicago. = Verdicts of mot guilty
in favor of Contractor Michael II.
McGovern and Ralph a. Bonnell,
former assistant city engineer, were
signed in Judge Albert c. Barnes
court, the jury acting in obedience to
instructions from the court
By the acquittal of the remaining de-
PENDANTS in the ideniic way in which
City Engineer John Ericsson and For
mer Deputy Commissioner of Public
Works Paul Redieske had previously
sbeen eliminated from the case the
trial for alleged conspiracy to defraud
the city out of s45,9S4.20 in payments
made for "shale-rock extras" in the
Lawrence avenue sewer case came to
an abrupt end.
The statute of limitations has run
and there will be no more indictments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21

A porous plaster worth $50 is some
thing CT novelty in the curative
agency line 4 druggist in Middle
town, n Y. Is the possessor of this
valuable article, and he Is about to
send 1t to the treasury department a.
Washington TO be redeemed The
worthy druggist was troubled with a
lame back and had his wife apply the
plaster The lady did not notice a $50
bill which her husband had placed on
dresser in their room, and the note
was sticking TO the plaster when the
latter was put where 1t might do the
most good There was much mystery
and long hunt before the bill was
located. but low plaster, bill and all
will be sent TO the government Off
Gals and something just as good
will be substituted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21

Connecticut is additionally the land
Of steady habits, and perhaps ''whop-
per" of fish story coming from that
1T originated in more sinful source
Anyway. resident of Winsted states
that he found fish in his well. and
when he hooked it he discovered that
1t was a trout SO large that the well
curb had to be removed before the fish
could be hauled out. The saving grace
of this fish tale is that the narrator
docs not attempt to give the weight of
the monster catch
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
PEORIA SHOWS BIG INCREASE
Gains 1o,os5 in Population Over 1900
East st. Louis Doubles.

Washington. = The population of
Peoria, H., according to the thir-
teenth decennial census, is 66.950
an increase of 10,S50 over 1900.
East ST. Louis. ILL.,, has almost dou-
bled in population during the past
decade. figures announced giving that
city 5S.547 inhabitants. against 1866
in 1900.
Belleville. ILL.,. has increased from
17,4S4 in 1900 to 21,122 in 1910, and
st. Clair county, In which both East
st. Louis and Belleville are located.
has grown from S6.6S5 ten years ago
to 1850 in 1910.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
Automobile Plunged Into Ditch,

Wabash, Ind-A motor car in which
DR.. and Mrs. G. II. Brodbeck and their
daughter, Ada. were riding, plunged off
a bridge into creek and turned over,
but wa scaught at the bottom of the
ravine in such manner that the three
fered broken. leg and Mrs. Brodbeck
was bruised, but Dr. Brodbeck was not
hurt. Mrs. Brodbeck was driving when
the accident occurred and pulled too
close to the edge of the bridge in try
ing to avoid loose timber
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
Novelty.

Il thought you told me you had
something original in this libretto."
said the manager. scornfully. Here
at the very outset you have lot Of
merry villagers singing. We are hap
py and gay,'"
you don't catch the idea at all"
replied the poet. YEARLY. The & 10
soft 1t should be pronounced happy
and jay"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
WOULD SUPPRESS PRIZE FIGHTS.
Roosevelt Likes Game, but Says Sport
Should Be Abolished.

New York. Theodore Roose-
welt advocates the suppression of
prize fighting in every state in the
Union in an editorial which will .ap-
pear in the coming issue of the Out
look magazine. Although he says he
numbers among his friends some of
the greatest men the ring ever has
known. and although he admits he
likes the game, and has always done
more or less boxing, still he declares
the abuses which have crept in are
such that the only remedy is the CON-
plete stopping of the sport as far as
the professional end of il is concerned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
Strike on the Grand Trunk Railway

Detroit, Mich.-Local trainmen and
conductors employed on the Grand
Trunk railway system are out on a
strike. Assistant to the president of
the system, A. B. Atwater, announced
that the passenger trains would likely
run according TO schedule, but freight
trains might be delayed. 1t is esti-
mated that more than 800 men have
quit work in Detroit and that the orig
inal figures of 700 or 1000 on the lines
west will be largely exceeded.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
PRIZE COW SMASHES RECORD.
Josephine Beats Six Months Milk
Mark by $50 Gallons.

Columbus, Mo. With one day
left to complete the first six months
of her years test for milk pro-
duction, Josephine has margin over
the worlds record for that period of
Josephine is the prize COW of the
State College of Agriculture and holds
the worlds record for milk produced
for one day, one month and four
months. Josephine produced in one
month 1880 pounds. as against the
previous worlds record of 2,7S3
pounds. Her record for milk in one
day is 1902 pounds, as against the
previous record of LOG pounds.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
RECEIVER FOR COL. J. NJ. eUFFEY.
Democratic Leader in Pennsylvania
Alleged to Owe 100000.

Pittsburg, Pa. The business
affairs of Col James NJ. Guffey,
Democratic leader of Pennsylvania,
member of the Democratic national
committee and one of the best known
oil and coal men of the entire country,
were placed in the hands of re-
ceiver.
The assets of Colonel Guffey are es-
timated at $17,0O0,0Go. his liabilities
at less than $7.000.O0O Inability to
realize on his assets, which consist
largely of coal lands in West Virginia.
is said to be the reason for Mr.. Cuff
fey's embarrassment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-21
1oe PERISH IN BURNING SHIP.
Passenger Steamer Founders in Black
Sea Following Collision.

Odessa. = Trapped on a burning,
sinking steamer, LOG men, women
and children persisted near Kherson.
on the Black sea, according to dis
patches received here today.
After collision with the steamer
Wampoa, the passenger steamer
Lovki. crowded with passengers.
foundered. Her boilers exploded and
not score of those aboard escaped.
Mothers threw their children over
board. hoping to see them picked up.
only TO see them drown.