Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 October 1901 — Page 1

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nnTUT YMOU I u ; WEEKLY .EDITION. VOLUME I PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY,, OCTOBER 24. 1901. NO. 3

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SENSATIONAL STAMPHOBBERY

Chicago Postoffice Loses $75,000 Worth of Postage Stamps Taken Through Tunnel Almost in Presence of Employes. Chicago, Oct., 22. One of the most daring and cleverly executed postoffice roberies ever committed was carried out at the Chicago postoffice Sunday night. Seventy-four thousand six hundred and ten dollars' worth of stamps of different denominations were taken from the big 'burglar proof" vault in. which they were kept, and no one about the office had an inkling of what was going on, though several hundred employes weie in the building, some of them within a few feet of the spot where the robbery took place. The manner in which the deed was committed, however, made it impossible for the workers inside the building to know what was golsg on "When the employes of the stamp division arrived at the office Monday morning there was nothing to indicate that evervthing was not right, and not until the huge vault where the stamps are kept was opened did was loser to the extent of nearly $75,000. Immediately upon opening the vault a hole, large enough to admit the passing of a large man, was found in the floor of the vault, near the center. A hasty examination showed that stamps were missing and an inventory showed the amount to be $74,610, 82,060 of which were special delivery stamps, 4,722 "due' stamps, and of the !69,898 remaining 4,828 worth was PanAmerican stamps of 8 and 10 cent denomination. The first trace of any kind that was found and which is expected to prove an important clew was the discovery of wagon wheel tracks leading to and from the southeast portion of the long structure and at a point where the burglars made their entrance and exit. Lieut. McWeeney is working upon a clew that may throw light on the robbery. Several "dry batteries" were found about the vault, bearing the trade-mark of the Manhattan Electric company, with offices on 5th avenue. While the vault was surround.ed top and sides by heavy stone masonry, there was nothing under the floor of the vault but earth, and tunnels under the building made it possible for the burglars to come within a few feet of the vault. The remaining distance had been tunneled by the robbers themselves to a point just under the middle of the vault, and then a section of floor had been taken out with the assistance of drills, and the rest was easy. The work was apparently-done by experts. They even employed electric drills, worked by dry batteries, in their work. Having constructed their own tunnel from the intersection of one of the tunnels under the building to a point under the vault, they drilled small holes abouta half inch apart along three sides of a square, and broke the interstices . with a sledge, and then forced the piece of steel flooring down and broke it off, thus making the opening through which entrance was obtained to the vault; Through this opening the stamps were taken out and taken through the long tunnels under the building to the opening under the carpenter shop of the postoffice at the extreme southeast corner of the building, and from there loaded into awaon and taken pway. It is estimated that the combined weight of the stamps taken is over two tons, and the robbers must have had a wagon to take them away. It is the habit of tho employes of the stamp department to lock the vault at

night and it is not reopened til

morning, enough stamps for the use of the night force being given to them at their respective desks. In this case, the vault had been locked since Saturday nisrht, and it is probable that part of the work connected with the robbery was done on Sunday. Big Insurance Policy. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 22 The writing of an insurance policy for 820,000,000, perhaps the greatest single item of insurance ever issued in the west, and covering all the property of the Northern Pacific railroad subject to fire, has been secured by local agency. ON TRIAL Charles Dunn Faces Criminal Court in Ft. Wayne. Ft. Wayne, Oct. 22. At ten o'clock this morning Charles Dunn, of Wallen, was placed on trial for the murder of 10-year old Alice Cothrell, daughter of his neighbor and employe. The trial is held in the circuit court room, before Judge O'Rouke, and all day yesterday the sheriff's force and court officials were busy preparing for it. The large unoccupied court room across the corridor is used for the accommodation of the venire men and witnesses, and 150 chairs were placed therein yesterday. Special bailiffs have been appointed to maintain order in the court room. All week Sheriff Stout and Deputies Huguenard, Reichelderfer and Daseler, have been busy serving summonses on the veniremen called for jury duty. There are eighty men, representing every part of the county, from whom the twelve good men and true to try Charles Dunn will be selected. The state will examine ninety witnesses and the defense about forty. That the trial will last at at least ten days is admitted, and some believe it will be a fortnight before the case will go to the jury. The day has been occupied in examining jurors. Held for Criminal Carelessness. Warsaw, Ind., Oct. 22 Coroner J. M. Stinson rendered a verdict last evening after making an investigation on the death by burning of Vergie Gordy, who perished in the flames of the Gordy dwelling on Wawasee lake, while the mother was away attending a dance. In the death of the child the coroner charges criminal carelessness on the part of Mrs. Gordy in locking the children in the house and going away, leaving a gasoline can near the stove, which caused the building to be destroyed. tittle Heroine Cremated. Appleton, Wis., Oct. 23 Bertha Ludeman, eight years old, rescued two babies from death by fire, but was herself burned to death. She was the daughter of a farmer living near Clayton. Her father had fired a stubble field, warning the children to remain, away. Two of the smaller children, aged four and two years, ventured too far out, and their sister by desperate efforts, dragged them to points of safety. Thoroughly exhausted by the effort, she sank down in the field and was burned to a crisp. Prize Winner Dead, Lawton, Ok., Oct. 22. James D. Wood, who drew the capital prize in the Lawton land district at the El Reno lottery last August and settled a claim valued at nearly $50,000, is dead of typhoid fever, after a brief illness. Before his death all the contests against his quarter section claim adjoining the town of Lawton had been . disposed of by the interior department, and his widow will come into undisputed possession ot the property.

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Mrs. Piper, the World's Greatest Trance Medium, Exposes Modern Spiritual ism and Declares Nothing Supernatural in It New York, Oct. 21. In a syn dicate letter published yesterday Mrs. Leonora E. Piper, the most noted spiritualistic trance me dium in the world, admits that she has never had communica tion with the spirit world and that none of her so-called mani festations have been super natural.' Moreover, she acknowl edges that she has always known this to be true. She announces her resignation from work in the Society for Psychical Research. For nearly twenty years learn ed men of international fame have been studying her miraculous claims of ability to receive and transmit messages from be yond the grave and in that time she has amassed a fortune from fees paid her by people desirous of talking with the ghosts of the departed, but she in this letter scatters the theory to the winds. She still claims possession of a power that she does not herself understand, some manner of un censcious cerebration, but says that she never heard of anything being said by herself while in a trance state which may not have been latent in her own mind or in the mind of some other person in mental communication with her. Mrs. Piper accepts the tele pathic explanation of all the so called psychic or spiritistic phe nomena and agrees with Dr. Phil lips Brooks, who said to her that there is no back door into heaven and that if there were he pre ferred to go in by the front door. She adds that she must truth fully say that she does not believe that spirits of the dead have spoken through her when she was in the trance state, and that she has never had any convincing proof of the possibility of spirit return. Recounting some of the best known and most remarkable manifestations of apparent spirit control in her experience, Mrs. Piper says: "I do not see how anybody can look on all that as testimonv from a person in an other world. I cannot see but that it must have been an uncon scious expression of my subliminal self, writing 'such stuff as dreams are made of.' " Again, she says: "For my own part I cannot see how it can be scientifically proved that we can hold communication with the so-called spirit world. As St. Paul says, spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned, much less handled." Her conclusion is that the world has not derived a sufficient benefit from the many years' investigation of her case to warrant her in continuing in it, and so she with draws. The great medium in her long letter exposes the mystery of her impersonation of "Pelham," "Dr. Phinuit," "Imperator" and others that she made famous in her trances and about whom many books have been written, and says that in deciding to release herself from them she does not wish to antagonize any student of psychical phenomena, but that she does not believe the genuine spirit of science can be antagonized. "Because the spiritistic theory does not appeal to me after my experience," she de clares, "I do not deny to any mortal a perfect right to accept it, if it seems consistent." She declines to act longer as a "human telephone to the next world. " Concerning the theory of thought transferrence by uncon scious telepathy Mrs, Fiper speculates as follows: "The wonders of wireless telegraphy and the use of the X ray developed of late years in the realm of physical science make me feel that it would not

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be becoming for me to say what may or may not be possible in transference of thought in the subjective mind by laws not yet formulated. My reading has not shown me that all the laws of the objective mind are under stood. "I have said that if the knowl edge of facts stated by me while in the condition was not latent with me or with any of those present in the room with me at the time of a sitting, it might still have been in the mind of some other person alive some where in the world. It might have been latent, or it might have been active knowledge, and have been transferred to the mind of one of those in the room, then to my subjective mind, then automatically uttered or written by me. I do not find it as hard to grasp this theory as that of a disembodied spirit telling the things. "If thought could be uncon sciously transferred to me from person in the room, I do not see any reason why that person could not have received a thought message irom somebody at a long distance, and then tele phoned it, so to speak, in thought direct to me. If telepathy is possible between two people, why not among three, just the same as with telegraphy?" While Mrs. Piper is exceed ingly careful to avoid any possible smirch upon her character for honesty in her career as a medium, her declarations virtu ally amount to a confession and her statements convict the herd of trance mediums, clairvoyants and other similar charlatans who hrive in every locality. Her ex pose ' leaves it clear that so far he spiritualistic theory utterly fails to account for the tricks of so-called mediums and leaves us no room for hope that a union can ever be formed between the indi viduals of heaven and those of earth by any such finite ; means as the hocus pocus commonly used to play upon the credulity of enthusiastic dollar payers. . Ambitious Aeronaut Paris, Oct. 23 The Figaro yesterday states that if SantosDum oat, the Brazilian aeronaut, is successful in hi3 proposed trip across France to Corsica and Algeria, he will endeavor to cross the Atlantic ocean in 1902 in a balloon larger than the present one.

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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,- T 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Plymouth, Indiana. T "ALICE" A SUCCESS Virginia Harned's Production of Maurice Thompson's Work. Cleveland, October 22 In "Alice of Old Vincennes," the dramatization of Maurice Thompson's novel, Virginia Harned achieved her stellar triumph at the opera house last night. The production was socially and artistically a brilliant success. The play is almost a transcript of the novel. It is always sweet, dainty and sometimes thrilling; for instance, when "Alice" reads to her British admirer, while her patriot hero, the man to whom she gave the flag she made, escapes. The comedy of the novel is all utilized, and of the sterner dramatic material only so much as is needed to tell the story. Miss Harned never seemed sweeter or more simply charming. She was the simple country girl of the novel, a heroine in gingham gowns that she wore simply ana naturally. The novel has baen made into four acts for I the play, the first laid in the fall, i in front of the old Rbusillon house, the second inside the bouse the day after, the third being six weeks later at the colonel's headquarters at Port Sackvillo and the final act a week later, showing the yard of the Rousillon house in the winter. The scenery is fitting and artistic, but simple. There is little, in fact, to distract attention from charming "Alice" of the play. Aside from the fact that it introduces a delightful new star, the play is principally notable as showing that the state of Indiana and the town of Vincennes in 1778, the time and place of the play, may be included in the scope of the colonial fad, which had been mostly confined to the eastern edge of the continent as to locale. Mrs. Maurice Thompson and her son and daughter, the family of the dead author of the novel, were present. The proceeds of the performance $1,288.75 go to the McKinley memorial fund. Much Gold from Nome. San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 23 The steamer St. Paul arrived from Nome last night with $1,250,000 worth of gold. Threequarters of a million belonged to the Pioneer Mining company, composed of three Sweedish sailers, who discovered Nome.

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Law of 899 Against Election Frauds Lustained. Henry Baum of Crawfordsvllle Dis franchised for Twelve Years foi Selling His Vote at the Last uJecritn and the Verdict is Confirmed. Indianapolis, Oct. 23. A judgement disfranchising Henry Baum, of Crawfordsville, and rendering him incapable of hold mg any office of trust or profit for a peroid of twelve years as a punishment for selling his vote, v n m was amrmea oy tne supreme court yesterday. Baum was one of a number of persons who ac cepted money from the demo cratic county committee, for which they signed receipts ac knowledging that it was paid in consideration of promises to vote the democratic ticket at the last presidential election. These. re ? i - t i i i ceipts were aiierwara. usea as evidence to obtain the conviction and disfranchisement of the voters who had given them. Judge Dowling wrote the opin ion of the supreme court affirming Baum's sentence. He said that the errors relied on by the appellant were the alleged m sufficiency of the information and the unconstitutionality of the act of 1899, prescribing dis franchisement as a punishment for selling votes. The constitutional objections were, first, that the crime defined by the statute was not an infam ous crime, and. therefore, not subject to the punishment of dis franchisement; second, that the law granted immunities to and protected one class of citizens, while punishing another class, when both were guilty of the same crime, and, third, that it prevented the freedom of elec tions. After an extended review of the authorities, Judge Dowling declared that it is evident that corruption at elections has from the earliest times been regarded as an infamous crime, subject to severe penalties, and frequently punished by depriving the guilty person of his right to vote and to hold office. The offense, being so under stood and stigmatized, he said, it follows that the legislature had constitutional power to de fine the crime of vote sellinsr or bribery at elections, and to affix he penalty of disfranchisement. xne oiner constitutional objec tions were declared to be groundless. He asserted that the act granted immunities to no one and protected no class of offenders from punishment, and so far from preventing the freedom and equality of elections, it tends in the strongest manner to promote them. The objections urged against the affidavit and information were that no candidates were named and the purpose of the election and the place where it was to be held were not mentioned. These averments, Judge Dowling said, were not necessary. It was sufficient to charge the offense in the language of statute, and the judge suggested the ofiense might be committed even before candidates were nominated or the places for holding the election were fixed. SHIP AFIRE Jersey City Ferryboat Burned to Water's Edge and Beached Without Loss of Life. New York, Oct. 23. The Jersey City ferryboat Elizabeth, of of the Liberty street line, was burned to the water's edge yesterday, and her charred hull now lies in the mud on the Communipaw flats. The boat was nearing the Jersey shore with a dozen passengers when Fireman Jacob Oleson discovered flames near the crank pin of the walking

beam. He called up through the speaking tube to Engineer William Young and was driven to the deck by the flames and smoke. The fire spread rapidly, and the flames shot through the deck before the boat touched her slip. The passengers, who had gone as far forward as possible, tried to climb over the gates but were advised by Captain L. B. Smith to keep cool until she was made fast. As soon as the gates were opened the passengers rushed off. The Elizabeth burned for an hour before the battle to save her was given up, and she was towed to the flats and beached. The ferry officials and detectives of the railroad company were busy all afternoon investigating the fire. It is said that the fire may have been started by an explosion caused by the firing of oiled waste. The ferry officials say the loss af the Elizabeth will approximate 125,000. The boat was practically rebuilt last jear at a cost of 65,000.

END DRAWS NIGH Tuesday Morning Set for Execution of Lzohjosz. Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 23. Leon F. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, will be executed at six o'clock next Tuesday morning. The condemned man refuses to see the clergy and spends the greater portion of his time in silence. He eats his meals with apparent relish, and while he shows no evidence of breaking down, some of the officials who were in charge of the assassin before his arrival here declare he will be carried to the death chair a rav ing coward. Warden Meade went to Albany to consult with Superintendent of Prisons Collins as to who should be admitted as witnesses to the electrocution. As the law of the state onlv nrovides for v x twenty-six. this proved to be rather a perplexing subject to deal with. He returned however, with the twenty-six names and on Thursday the invitations for the execution will be signed. Great secrecy is being ob served in the final preparation for the electrocution. The per sonnel of the witnesses will not be made known until after the electrocution. Neither will any of the arrangements be made public. Warden Meade told Superintendent of Prisons Collins that as the time for the electrocution draws near hundreds of letters are pouring in upon him from all over the country asking permission to be at the death scene. Father Szadinski is Appointed to Attend Condemned Man. Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 23. Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinlev. who is awaiting electrocution in the prison here during the week commencing next Monday, has asked for spiritual consolation and yesterday afternoon received a visit from the Rev. T. Szadinski, a Polish priest of the Roman Catholsc cnurch. Czolgosz's request for a priest of his own nationality was made known to Warden Mead v esterday morning- Father Szadinski, who is pastor of St. Stanisiaus church, Rochester, was in this city attending the forty hours' de votions of St. Alphonsus church, and was asked to visit the pris oner. Yesterday afternoon he went to the prison and remained here about an hour. -The interview between priest and prisoner proved very unsatsfactory to both. Father Szad inski urged him to renounce his belief in anarchy and rev-urn to the laith of his early years. Czolgosz declared his inability o do so and he was informed hat unless he could the consolaion of the church would be denirjd him.