Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 October 1901 — Page 8

POINTS FOR REFORMERS HERE AND EVERYWHERE

Josiah Flynt, in N. Y. Independent. Mj knowledge of reform in New York was gained some months ago, (luring a ten "weeks' investigation of the police and their collusion with protected crime and vice. It was by no means my first introduction to the police department we have been acquainted for several years but it was my maiden experience with a relorm movement. My interest in the experience was purely a professional one, my duty being merely to make a report concerning certain matters; but it was very instructive to work under the auspices that I did, and a number of now points of view were revealed to rue. The same ex-bank robber who heled me later in Philadelpia was also an assistant in the investigation in New York. When the investigation was finished wc had a talk about our finding, and in the course of the conversation I said to him something like this: . "You have looked over the city pretty carefully from two absolutely opposite sides. You used to know it as an expert thief and burglar, and, as you sav, you helped to make it crooked ni bad. You knew it in Tweed's t me, when the situation was considered extremely criminal. During the last few weeks' vou have had a look at it from a new point of view-. you have leen employed by the relorm side. Now, tell me frankly what conclusions you have come to, after both experiences, as to the best way to go to work and stop public officials, policemen, etc., from grafting. The years when you were a known grafter must have given you some ideas on this subject, and our recent work together has probably also suggested things to ycu." The old man hesitated a moment before replyinr,and it w as evident that he was trving to formulate a careful answer. lie finally spoke as follows: "The main thing I find fault with is that reform gets tired out. I've seen it lie down and go to sleep in every city in the United States. As a rule it never wakes up till just before election time. Mind vou, that isn't saying that the fellows that go in for reform ain't on the level. I know some of 'em personally, and they're honest men.. But they are all so busy with their own private affairs that they ain't got any time to fight graft except when there's a chance of beating the fellows that have got the offices. "My notion of the right way to hurt the graft is that you've got to keep hammering away at It just as hard between elections as when one is on. The grafters don't stop grafting between elections, and why should reform V" "Hut it is verv difficult to get the necessary money with which to fight the grafters after the reformers have suffered a defeat in an election," I replied. "That's true, but it don't spoil my notion," the old man continued. "A lot of people say: 'Let the churches, the newspapers, the charitable societies and the priests fight the grafters. It's their job.' That's all poppycock. Since you and I have been working together, have we heard a single grafter show any fear of the churches or the priests? Not on your life. They're afraid of men like Jerome, in N'ew York, and that young man cabled Ginboney, in Philadelphia. "Why? Because these Jellows get out and fight 'em right in their own hang-outs. If the millionaires of NewYork and Philadelphia would give a lot of fellows like Jerome and Gibboney enough money to fight the grafters to a standstill, and the grafters knew that the millionaires meant to keep on with the battle they'd throw up the sponge. I. know it because I've been a grafter myself, and also because you and I have heard them talk during the reform hullaballoo. I hope the reformers will get the offices this fall, both in New York and Philadelphia, but I'll bet you $50 that the grafters will have the offices again after the next election comes around unless somebody shells out money on a big enor -.cale to scare 'em. Crooked nd office holders are IP ' hi eves they're boK hink you're ' hen thev ver get 1 you Tce Y:

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rea rages. Call on or Address, THE v 4 4 4 4 T 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Wronghursl Roasts. A "Wronghurst fellow named Stair Took in the Bremen fair. He bio wed in his dough At some sort of a private hooehecoochee show, And since then he hasn't been there. Mrs. Jessup is making pumpkin butter. Yum! Yum! Rap Larkins is digging potatoes for the Widow Mack. What will the harvest be? Isaiah Ilaskins came twenty-one last Tuesdav. His mother wants him m to be a preacher, his father thinks he would make a good horse doctor and Ike himself wants to brake on a freight train. Just so he keeps out of the legislature, say we. We will do the best we can to keep this burg before the people, but not much happens here and we may miss a week or two sometimes. If you don't know where Wronghurst is don't inquire at the post office but follow the crowd awhile and then go the other wav. Bud Krout wants to open a boarding house here, probably because he thinks his wife could do all the work, but there's nobodv to board. Better start a cannery, Bud; you've had more experience peeling apples than anv one we know. Lern Asbury has set up a barber's chair in his blacksmith shop and is working on a machine to pull corns out by the roots without pain. If he is busv at the anvil he will let vou shave yourself for half price. Skid Raymond is on the jury this term and goes to the county seat everv da v. He intends to be a lawyer when he gets through and will have his office in one end of the corn crib this winter, corn being scarce. One of the Widow Mack's hens hid a double-yolk egg this week. Mrs. Mack thinks a heap of her chickens and treats them well. Rev. McSwatt came over from Doughface Corners Monday and said he was going to Plymouth to get some hvmn-books for the church. He came along back late in the afternoon and said he couldn't find a hymn-book or a bible or even a tract for sale in the whole town and his feet got sore from walking on the new brick pavement. Ben Davis has saved up $160 and is talking of starting a general store :n the old wagon shed by the blacksmith shop. We never have had a store here yet and think it would be a good thing. Ben wants the people to give him a bonus of $40 to get started, but he wants cash down and they don't want to give it to him until he has been open a year and can prove that he is making money.. Amzi Skidder traded his butting ram to Jake Terwilliger for a wheelbarrow and ten bushels of potatoes, and when Jake went into the barnyard to get it, it sneaked up behind.him "d butted him over three times, grabbed the ram by the horns Me red to beat the band, and Tizi gave him back tnrpu tatoes and kept the ram. 'led a quart of arnica A.mzi he had the he market. . Jake his trade, and wool over " XSTER. ' "Uta. .-. ' -in

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4 Ouf Subscribers: 4 4 PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE, 4 Plymouth, Indiana. T 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 NORTH LIBERTY Prosperous and Favorably Located Town is in Step With the Music of Progress. The North Liberty News, in its latest issue, has a readable write-up 'of the business interests of the town. In speaking of the place generally the paper says: Everv citizen of North Libert v mav m i congratulate himsolf that he is a resident of one of the healthiest and neatest little towns in the length and breadth of the Iloosier state a town with a future of commercial and industrial expansion, limited in extent only by the energy of our people in taking advantage of the opportunities that lie at our door. With the beginning of the twentieth century North Liberty finds herself a small town, yet she can hold up her head and claim to be a good, sound, integral part of the whole. The town possesses superior advantages as a seat for manufacturing enterprises, and there is every reason to believe that she will go on and keep fully abreast of the most progressive towns of its size in the state. Our McKinlev Book. We received Monday the fourth shipment of Halstead's Life of McKinlev, our previous supplies having been exhausted . The price of the book is $1.50, but in our combination offer it is almost free. The time limit of this offer will soon expire aud after that the work will be for sale at the full regular price only. Dixon Lake. Jack Siddle moved in theStansburv house last Tuesday. Wm. Liggct and wife, and Wm. Gibson and family visited at Robert Liggett's Sunday. James Logan and wife spent Sunday in Fort Wayne visiting their daughter, Mrs. C. D. Winget. James Bottorf, wife and little daughter, and Oliver Spi tier and wife came from South Bend Saturday evenjng to visit friends a few days. Robert Liggett and wife returned last Thursday from Illinois, where they have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Chas. Keyser, atid family. Dixon Lake.Oct. 30, 1901 State of Ohio. City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, . G8. Frank J. Cneney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & . Co., doing ouainess in the City of Toledo, County and States aforesaid, and that eafd firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each aud every case( oJ Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to beforcr me and subcribed in my presence, this 6thj day of December, I Seal j A. D. 1883. Q f . A IT , VICSOUU, Hall's Catsrrb Core is .taken Internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces cf. the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Drujst, 75c. . lall's Family Pilla are the but.

RACE RIOTS

Southern Whites and Negroes Clash With Fatal Results. rourteen Dead and Many Wounded In a Disturbance at a CoMed CampmcetIng Troops Called Out and rarmers Farmed - More Trouble ConMg. Amite City, La., Oct. 29. Three white men and eleven negroes killed is the startling news from Washington parish. A man just from Franklinton confirmed this information, but he knew nothing of what has happened since Sunday evening. The first news of the race riot was brought here yesterday by Cornelius Mixou, who, with his mother, came from near Frank -linton in 'trie morning. He said that white men rode into Franklinton at 2 o'clock a. m , asking for help, saying that the negroes were up in arms, threatening to exterminate the whites. The scene of the trouble is near Ball Town, where a negro was burned last week for assaulting a white woman. This was not the cause, however, of the present affair. Mixou saw and talked with many men from the scone, and they said more and worse trouble was expected, as armed men were Hocking to the scene, and it was reported the blacks were equally active in preparing for a battle. P. B. Carter arrived from Franklinton a little after dark last night and said tha't the situation was terrible and more trouble is feared. He said that Joe Seals and Charles Elliott and another white man, whose name he did not know, were dead, and E. H. Thompson, a white man, wounded, and that eleven negroes were dead. At 3 o'clock yesteraay morning a posse lett Franklinton for the scene in charge of Sheriff Simmons and from all over the country armed men "were hurrying to the same place. Mr. Carter said that 500 men were probably under arms now in Washington parish. The trouble occurred . at a ne gro camp meeting. Creer Lott, a negro, was running a refreshment stand, and a constable, a white man, went to him and asked for his license; he had none and became impudent, cursed the constable, and defied him. The constable withdrew and went for assistance. He returned with several white men, when Lott rushed out and fired point blank into tho crowd, killing Joe Seals and Charles Elliott. The whites returned the fire and killed Lott. Then a negro preacher named Connelly rushed out of a house with gun in hand, attempting to shoot, when he and his daughter were killed. In the shooting which followed another white man was killed and E. H. Thompson wounded. and seven or eight negroes killed. The shooting had no direct connection with the burning of the negro Morris in that section last week, but it is undoubtedly a sequel to that tragic event. Since that time it is reported that the negroes have been hold ing nightly meetings preparing to attack the whites. Ball Town is about twenty miles from Franklinton, in a sparcely settled section. It is isolated and almost entirely cut off from the outside world. Franklinton is twenty-seven miles east of this place, and there are no telegraph or telephone lines. FOUND DEAD IN BUGGY The Case Reported Monday as Having Occurred Near Plymouth. Clinton, Ind., October 29 Myron Beard, seventeen years old, sou of John Beard a prominent farmer living five miles north of Clinton, committed suicide Sunday night as the result of excessive cigarette smoking. He had been out 1 riding 'with Miss Mollie McCarty and left her home at 10 o'clock, singing. His home was a quarter of a mile away. He was found dead in his buggy in front of the home at 1 a. m. " The girl says he appeared in good spirits on leaving but said he would kill himself before

he got home. She thought he was joking and heard a shot after he started, out thought nothing of it, as he was in the habit of shooting as he drove along. Myron had told others that he intended to kill himself, as cigarettes were driving him crazy. He preferred aeath to insanity, he said. He shot himself in the forehead His face was powder burned. The revolver, with one chamber empty, was found in the buggy.

This is the case that was reported Monday as having occurred near Plymouth. POLITICAL DUTY An Imminent Danger Threatening the Republic U Popular Apathy. Laporte, Ind., Oct. 28 G. A. Gearhart, of Philadelphia, in a lecture on "The Dangers that Threaten Our Civilization," delivered in this city before a large and fashionable audience, fully three-fourths of which was composed of active church members, produced a small-sized sensation among his hearers by declaring that if the primary and prayer meeting come on the same night, go to the primary. After the people had recovered from the shock the remark was applauded. the pastor of one of the foremost churches leading in the handclapping. The speaker characterized the apathy with reference to politics among what is termed the better class of citizens as being one of the greatest evils of the country and one of the dangers that threaten our civilization. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS TO OCT. 28 1 901 . AS FURNISHED BY CRESSNER & CO., Owners of the only abstract books In the county. Abstracts of title to all real estate In Marshall county compiled promptly and accurately. " "VVinfield Clark and wife, warranty deed to Abncr Q Yinncdge, lots 11 & 12, East Lapaz, consideration $25 Robert Lee Jacoby and wife, warranty deed to Sarah E Jacoby, all W of ditch & X of Laporte road in E of N E J and all N of K R, ex W 18 A of W of X E all in S 6, T 33, R 2. Consideration $300 Elizabeth Steckman, warranty deed to Pennsylvania Company, 25 feet strip S of & adj rt of way across S E of S 15, T 33, R 3. Consideration $160 Leopold M Lauer Adm'r to George F Morris, und 5 of S E 1 of X W i of S 50, T 35, R 1. Consideration $300 Mary Rhodes, widow, warranty deed to George F Morris, und J of S E of S 20, T 35, R 1. Consideration $400 Mary M Sherwood, widow, warranty deed to Isaac X Gerard, lots 4 & 5, Bkl 8 Tvner $250 Steady-Strength-Sleep ! These are Throe Words to Conjure with They are Closely Connected with Dr. A. W, Chase's Nerve Pills so Says a Plymouth Citizen. . Steady nerves-refreshing sleep-renewed strength-thQse are a trio that practically control the enjoyment of life-they are the keystone of the arch perfecting manhood and womanhood to the fullness of life. Mr. B. M. Seybold of Miner St., Plymouth, Ind., says:-" As a general and nerve tonic I can recommend Dr. A. W. Chase's Xerve Pills we got at J. W. Hess's Drug Store. They proved with us capable of steadying and quieting the nerves-of giving restful sleep and generally-acting as a tonic to the system at large." Dr. A. W. Chase's Xerve Pills are sold at 50 cts. a box at dealers or Dr. A. "W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, X. Y. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M. D. are on every package. 2 he Indian and the Northwest A handsomely illustrated book just issued, bound in cloth and containing 115 pages of interesting historical data relating to the settlement of the great Xorthwest, with fine half tone engravings of Black Ilawk, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and other noted chiefs; Custer's battleground and ten colored map plates showing location of the various tribes dating back of 1600. A careful review of the book impresses one that it Is a valued contribution to the history of these early pioneers, and a copy should be in every library. Price, 50 cents per copy. Mailed postage prepaid upon receipt of this amount by W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111.

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NO YIELDING English Sympathizers with Boers Charged with Prolonging the War. Present Policy will be Contiuned He cent Activities in the Field. London, Oct. 30. Speaking at Cupar. Scotland, yesterday, Colonal Secretary Chamberlain said he believed the war in South Africa would have been over long ago but for the action of misguided people in Great Britin, who had led the Boers to believe that ;.f they were ouly persistent in their resistance the English people would grow tired of the struggle and would give them what they asked. Chamberlain aded that great as were the sac rifices' which the British had been called upon to make, and great as still might be the sacrifices demanded of them, They would not abate one jot of their resolution until there was no doubt as to the future of South Africa. A dispatch from Lord Kitchner, dated Pretoria, Od. 28, says he ha? received reports of important fighting Oct. 24, near Great Marico river, when Delarey and Kemp attacked a British force and were only repulsed after severe fighting, leaving forty dead on the field, including Commandant Omstirhey sen. The British lost twenty-eight men killed and had fifty-five wounded. The Boers carried off eight British wagons. ' The Boers appear to have paid special attention to the guns, as thirty-seven gunners and drivers were killed and wounded. Lord Kitchner mentions a number of minor affairs, and says that since his last weekly report on Oct. 21, seventy-four Boers have beenkilled, sixteen wounded, 352 captured, and there have been fourty-five surrenders. Lord Kitchner also confirms the previous report of General Botha's narrow escape from be ing captured. General French reports that the Boers in the eastern part of Cape Colony continued to avoid his columns. A dispatch from Durban, Natal, says Lord Milner, Governor of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony in a speech here said that "speaking in a formal sense the war may never be over, but it is burning itself out "

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