Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 July 1902 — Page 2

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Established October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Telepnone No. 27. OFFICE In Bissell Block. Corner Center an 3 Lap rte Street. Ll)VBTISIN(i BATES will be mad known on ipplici tion. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth, Ind.. second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year in Advance Sx.;o; Six Monthsj7S cents; Three Months 40 cents.dellvered at any postoffice. Plymouth, lad., July 3, 1902. THE STATE TICKET, Secretary of State, DANIEL E.fcTORMS. Auditor of State, DAVID E. SH ERRICK. Treasurer cf State, NAT U. HILL. Attorney General, CHARLES W. MILLER, Clerk Supreme Court. ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. A. COTTON. State Statistician,' BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist, W.S. BLATCHLEY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District, JOHN H. GILLETT, Judges Appellate Court, FRANK R. ROBV. U.Z.WILEY, W.J HENLEY. JAMES K. BLACK, I W.COMSTOCK. W. E. LOBINMN. COUNTY TICKET. Representative In Congress, ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK. Representative, PETER HEIM. "Auditor. PETER D. BURGEN ER. Clerk, FOSTER GROVE. Treasurer, WM. H. CONGER. Sheriff, ELMER E. WILSON. Surveyor. MILTON BECK. Coroner, DR. NILS S. LINDQUIST. Commissioner FlrstDIstrict. GEORGE STOCK, Commissioner Second District, JOSEPH COAR. The excess of governmental receipts over expenditures during the fiscal year just closed was $92,192,390. This is the largest revenue surplus In fourteen years. To know when to impose taxes for the support of the government and when to remove them lor the relief of the people are essential features of successful administration. The republican party understands both. Over 10,000 Oregon republicans scratched their candidate for governor and that enabled the democratic candidate to pull through by 256, official. The republican majority on supreme judge was 17,155. The war taxes are a thing of the past, with the exception of the tax on mixed flour and on tea, and tea will be untaxed after January 1 next. A reduction of $70,000,000 In taxation at one stroke is large beyond precedent, but the republican surplus can stand it. The decision of the bitumnious coal miners in several western states to stand by their contracts is altogether creditable to them. Their position is that while they may aid the anthracite Strickers in some other way. they will not violate their contracts by calling a sympathetic strike. The second :lection of Grover Cleveland, " said Champ Clark, of Missouri, in a recent speech in congress, "was the greatest calamity that has befallen the human race since the fall of Adam." Champ wants the democratic voters in his district to understand that he has not been reorganized. The statement of Mr. Ridgeley, controller of the currency, shews that the currency law of March 4, 1900, has had a surprisingly stimulating effect on the organization of new national banks, no less than 1.061 haying been organized since it passage, with an aggregate capital of $62,349,000. Of these 702 were banks of the smaller class. A report issued by the . Census Bureau on the textile Industry of the United States shows that the capital invested in cotton manufacturing in the Southern States increased from $30,414, in 1830 to $62,623,729 in 1990, and to $137,172,561 In 1900. No other section of the country has had so remarkable -a development of a great industry in the same length of time. The proclamation of amnesty for all political prisoners in the Philippine islands, which it has been decided to issue July 4, will give special significance to the national anniversary. It will be in effect a proclamation of peace and notice to the world that from now on all efforts will be directed to the establishment of civil government and the upbuilding of the islands.' The amnesty will include Aguinaldo and all the prisoners now In Guam who are not charged with crime.

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Superintendent McKim and Engineer ErricKson Confer With the Council. There was a very important meeting of the city council Wednesday afternoon. Superintendent McKim and several other officials cf the Pennsylvania railway were present, and there was a conference In regard to grades and crossings in Plymouth. The superintendent and engineer submitted a proposition to put in a subway forty feet wide where the center street crossing now is just as the council had asked them to do, provided the council would allow them raise their track 1 foot and 11 inches at Fifth street: 2 ft 6 inches where the Vandalia crosses thePennsylvania; 2 ft 11 inches at the crossing of Laporte street; 1 foot 4 inches at Garro street and 3 ft 6 inches where the Vandalia crosses South street near J. A. Molter's. Dr. Reynolds, on the part of the council, asked for further concessions on the part of the railroad and a subway at Third street. The railway men indicated that they would do this provided the city would bear a part of the expense. The council did not agree to this, and decided that they could not give a final answej to the propositions of the company without time to investigate the proposition and the consequences of raising the tracks from two to three and a half feet higher than they are now. It was finally agreed to have another conference to decide the matter. Thursday evening, July 10, was fixed as the time for this final conference. Railroad Crossings In Plymouth. The main points of thePennsylvania Railway Go's proposition should be kept in mind by the council and the citizens. These points are the raising of the tracks. The company asks permission to raise their tracks in this city from two to three feet above where they are now, They ask to raise the track near Molter's hotel three feet six inches. They do not ask this because they want to put a subway at Third street, as is stated by an evening paper of this city, but they ask it even if they do not put a subway at Center street. Raising the tracks is the central idea in every proposition of the railroad company, They raised the track east of Michigan street to the height that they wanted it without asking the consent of the council, and there is neither subway nor crossing east of Michigan street that is worth the name of crossing. When the citizens of southeast Plymouth called the attention of the council to this more than a year ago, they did not act, but the railroad company saw the necessity of prompt action and acted; consequently the people of southeast Plymouth have nothing to hope for in the way of crossings. The council can get good crossings and subways for the people residing west and southwest of the business portion of Plymouth. People in the city and out of the city are interested in this matter, and the action of the council now is a matter of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city of Plymouth. There must be a good subway, forty feet wide, on Center street, a good crossing at Molter's, a good Garro street crossing, and there should be a subway at Third street, but this Is not of so much importance as good crossings on the streets named and and also at Fifth street. No such dangerous crossing as that on Liberty street near the wood rim factory should be permitted. The city should deal fairly with the railroad company should ask only what is absolutely necessary for the good of the city and of the people who wish to come here to buy and sell or transact other business. Railroad tracks should not be raised more than is really necessary. The council has a matter of vital interest to Plymouth to decide now, and on their decision next Thursday evening rests much of the future prosperity ot Plymouth. Arreted In Phihdtlphii. Philadelphia, July 3 Special to the Plymouth Tribune: The wife of Prof. Austin O'Malley of Notre Dame, who eloped with a Yorker while her husband was sick in the hospital was arrested in Philadelphia this morn ing and stolen diamonds were found in her possession. The arrest has created a great sensation. The congress which has just adjourn ed appropriated $138,000,000 in round numbers to pay the expenses of the Postoffice Department. A few figures will suffice to show the remarkabel growth of the postal service. Twenty years ago, or, rather in the fiscal year 1883, the expenditures of of the department were $42,816,790. in 1893 the expenditures were $84,324414; in 1900, 107,740,579; now $138,000,000 is appropriated to meet cur

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D. L Dickinson Surprised. Wednesday was Mr. D. L. Dickinson's birthday and Mrs. Dickinson arranged to surprise him. In the evening Mrs. Warnes, his daughter induced her father to go with her to the 8:45 train from Chicago, on pretense that her husband was coming on that train; and while Mr. Dickinson was at the depot waiting for the train a few of his grand army comrades marched over to his mansion and took posession with the consent of Mrs. Dickinson, who was apprised of their coming. The boys took possession of the north parlor, put out the lights in the parlor and hall, while the family occupied the sodth parlor which was well lighted. Two of the boys were detailed as guards to arrest Mr Dickinson when he should enter , the hall. About 9 o'clock Mrs. Warnes and Mr. Dickinson entered the hall, when he was immediately seized bv the guards and ushered into the north parlor when the lights were immediately turned on, and to his very great surprise he saw seated before him the following comrades and friend:. W. E. Bailey, L. Tanner, W. M. Kendall, W. B. Hess, F. M. Burkett. W. II. Conger, J. II. Bennett, B. C. Southworth, C. T. Mattingly, E. K. Barnhill, C. Manuwal, Smith Pomeroy, Henry Ilauk, J. V. Astley, B. F. Head, C. H. Wilcox, J. C. Kuhn, S. Gretzinger, Miss Angie Houghton, and Mrs. D. L. Dickinson and famnj. Charges were preferred against Comrade Dickinson for dereliction of duty incumbent upon a soldier for leaving the camp without proper guards to defend it in his absence, sentence was suspended until later in the evening, and after the boys all partook of the bountiful repast prepared by Mrs. Dickinson, it was unaminously agreed that as Comrade Dickinson had proved himself to be such an excellent forager, that he should be discharged of the offense with which be had been charged guilty of and that he should be presented with a medal: and Comrade Bailey in a few well chosen and appropriate remarks, on behalf of the comrades and friends present presented Mr. Dickinson a very fine regulation gold G. A, R. charm, as a token of the respect and esteem in which Comrade Dickinson s held by them. This is an occasion long to be remembered by Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson and those who enjoyed their hospitality. Feeding Swine Tor Weight. The Iowa agricultural college at Ames has recently marked 29 especially fed hogs at Chicago, with a view of determining the merits of various kinds of feed. In the experiment were five lots of hogs, averaging 205 pounds at the beginning. They were crass bred, Poland China, Duroc Jersey, Poland China Berkshire, and Poland China Yorkshire. The feeding period covered seven weeks, and the result was phenomenal. The lots brought a uniform price of $7.55 per 100 pounds. One lot, using as a feed Swift's tankage, averaged 317 pounds; another lot, Armour's tankage 301 pounds; Standard stock food, 301 pounds; corn meal, 292 pounds; Darling's beef meal, 308 pounds. One animal gained 154 pounds in 49 days, and a few showed gains that made the corn fed worth $1.12 per bushel. The average gain per day was 2J pounds. A careful record cf the dressed weights will be made and published in bulletin form.

June Weather Report. June 1902, goes on record with the lowest mean temperature and the greatest rainfall of any June of which we have a record. The mean temperature, 65.3 degrees, is 5 degrees below the normal and nearly 3 degrees below the lowest mean for any June yet recorded. At no time during the month did the temperature reach 90 degrees, 89 degrees on the 12th and 15th being the maximum. The lowest previous record was 91 degrees. The minimum, 45 degrees on the 23d, is not unusually low. There were but five clear days during thr month. Rain fell on 17 days and was nearly all accompanied by electrical storms, some of which were severe. The total rainfall was 7:39 inches, which is more than three times the normal for this month, and with the rainfall for May makes nearly half the average annual rainfall. Rochester Tired of It Rochester Sentinel: The editor-in chief is away and nobody in particular is responsible for what is said in this column this week, so here goes; All this talk about (electric roads for Rochester looks like the blue sky. Confound these "capitalists" who have encouraged us to yote subsidies, and held jollifications, and think we are 'it." They are toying with us, and the next one that comes to Rochester had better be accompanied with a load of picks, shovels and railroad ties, or we will throw him into the hke. We have had about all the misrepresentations and false promises our tired old backs can hold up. ousekeepers. Attention! Try a package of Russ Bleaching Blue and you will use noother. 10c. at grocers.'

Carrie Nation Her Mistake. There seems to be no place for Mrs. Carrie Nation of Kansas. Religious societies and reform associations, east and west, have turned toward her the cold shoulder. She has failed as a camp meeting attraction. She has run her course as a summer resort advertisement. Her presence at a temperance meeting cereates more consternation than would a keg of beer. The Dowieltes have served notice that they do not want her in Zion. The Illinois prohibitionists, in convention at Peoria, gave signs to the effect that her absence from that gathering would be highly appreciated. She is seeking congenial surroundings everywhere and finding them nowhere. And yet Carrie Nation is doing the

best she possibly can do within her lights. From the beginning she has carried on her crusade against the liquor traffic consistently, if not wisely. A large part of her time since she began to smash things in Kansas has been passed in town lock-ups and county jails. Her ax has not only shattered mirrors and cut-glass, but it has severed the matrimonial knot and broken the ties of friendship. It has not only hacked and splintered rosewood' bars, but it has chopped down all the bridges behind her and blazed away for her into the trackless waste beyond the outskirts of polite society. Mrs. Carrie Nation of Kansas misunderstood the spirit of the times when she undertook to put into practice the ideas which other reformers had advanced in theory. They had been suggesting for many years that the way to stop the liquor traffic was to close the saloons, peaceably, if possible, but, anyhow, to close them, So she set out s to enfoce the suggestion. She became a strenuous practitioner, and the theorists fell away from her, turned their backs upon her, refused to recognize her, declined to know her. And yet she might have succeeded as a professional reform leader had she smashed reputations instead of looking glasses, good names instead of good furniture. Inter Ocean, The Fourth in Thia County. Argos was the only town that celebrated. Hon. Charles P. Drummond delivered the oration, the declaration of Independence was read, there were recitations, songs and music by the band in the forenoon and sack races, potato races, foot races, bicycle races and other amusements in the afternoon followed by fire works at night. At BniGnTsiDE. The f ourth was visiting day at Bnghtside and is always a bright holiday for the children. Many relatives and friends of the boys and girls were present and there was a good dinner and various amusements; For the evening entertainment Harry Buck of this city donated a fine lot of fire works; Frank Jacox güve a pile of candy and a balloon; L. J. J. Southworth donated cookies for the hundrds of children and there was a celebration worthy of the name. Thare were recitations, dialogues, songs, etc., by the children. Rev. S. E. Barr of Hanover, delivered an address, and then came the feast, followed by the balloon ascension and the fire works. The display was the best made in this county in the year 1902, and will be long remembered by all who were there. Broke the Record. The house of representatives broke a record of 90 years standing by holding an open session on Sunday. It was not really for business although the full paraphernalia of the house organization was present. The session was for the purpose of paying respect to the memory of deceased members. Representatives Cummins, of New York, and Otey, of Virginia. Eloquent eulogies were provided by some of the best talent in congress and the proceedings which go in full on the regular congressional record will contain some of the finest speeches of the whole year. , Big Fire at Shipshewinna. A fire at Shlpshewanna, eighteen miles northeast of Goshen Tuesday night caused a $50,000 loss, on which there is but $5,000 insurance. The village had no fire protection and the first the sleeping inhabitants knew that a fire was raging was when a fire works display in a show window went off with a deafening report. All the business houses are practically wiped out and the Shipshewana Tribune plant burned. The origin of the blaze is a mystery. Fighting Ninth Goes Through. The Ninth Regiment, United States Infantry, one of the most famous of the American fighting commands, passed through Argos Tuesday night going east over the Nickle Plate road on two special trains. The regiment, fresh from the Philippines and in China, was bound for Fort Niagara and Madidon barracks. Two-thirds of Co. C. perished in the frightful massacre at Balangiga, Island of Samar. You will .be delighted if you use Mrs. Austin's Quick Lunch Tapioca. Ready in a minute. No soaking re quired.

MORTUARY

George Linkenhelt. ' George, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Linkenhelt died July 4, aged 30 years, 2 months and 22 days. Deceased was born in Plymouth, and lived here all his life He had been In poor health several months, but was around town Thursday came home Thursday evening, said he was not feeling well and laid down. About 11 o'clock Dr. Elev was called gave him some quieting medicine and left him seemingly in good condition to get through the night all . right. At 4 o'clock Friday morning his mother went to where he was and found him sleeping. Shortly after five when the family got up for the day he was found dead. The funeral was held at the family residence at 3:30 on Saturday. The services were conducted by Rev. O. S. Thornbrry and the remains laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. History of Our American Flag. When the exploration and colonization of the American continent began each ship went out bearing its respective national flag. For instance, whan the Mayflower landed at Plymouth in 1620, it had floating from its mast head the flag of Great Britain the union ot colors, signifying the union of England. For some time, especially so long- as no ill-feeling existed between the colonies and the mother country, their flags were the same. But when dissensions began to spring up and tyranny resulted, and later on when the idea of independence began to grow, each colony selected its own banner, and inscribed upon it some motto expressing the feeling of its people. Hence at the breaking out of the Revolution there were various flags of different patterns. At the battle of Lexington, which formally opened the war which gave to America her Independence, the soldiers wore no uniforms and carried no banners. But a little later on, when the battle of Bunker Hil was fought, the patriots carried banners of various devices, as the colonies or companies might select. "The rattle-snake" flag, borne by the Virginia troops, and the "pine tree" flag of Massachusetts, were the most rioted of the colonial banners. The first union flag was raised by Washington at Cambridge on January 2, 1776, "It was a tri-colored banner," says Bancroft, "not yet spangled with stars, but showing thirteen stripes of alternate red and white in the field and united red and white crosses of Saint George and St. Andrew on a blue ground in the corner." But there is no record showing that this flag was ever adopted by the colonial congress. The first and only legislative action officially on record for creating a national flag is that of June 14, 1777, as follows: 'Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen UnitedStates shall be thirteen stripes; alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars; white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." There is some uncertainty as to who designed the flag. General Washington was chairman of the committee that reported the change to the continental congress at Philadelphia. It seems to be a well authenticated fact that the first flag was made by Betsy Ross, of 339 Arch street, Philadelphia. The design was submitted to her by Washington and the committee from congress and in twenty-four hours thereafter the work was completed. This is often spoken of as "Betsey's battle flag," and was borne, without any further changes throughout the Revolution. ' When Vermont and Kentucky were admitted in 1791 and 1792 it became necessary to increase the stars and stripes. So on January 13, 1764, Congress enacted " that from and after the first day of Äfay, 1795, the flag of the United States be fifteen stripes, alternate red a4d white, white in a blue field. ' ' This was the national banner from 1795 to 1818. During this time five new states were admitted to the Union and required representation on the flag. So congress, on April 4, 1818, enacted: 1 . 'That from and after th e fourth of July next the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and. white: that the union have twenty stars white in a blue field." 2. "That on the admission of every new state into the Union one star be added to the Union of the flag, and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission." There has been no legislation on the flag since April 4, 1818. In the war of 1812 the the national flag bore fifteen stars; in the war with Mexico, twenty-nine; in the Civil War, thirty-five; and the late war with Spain, forty-five. Pennsylvania Improvements. President A. J. Cassatt expects greater progress in the next twentyfive years in the line of railway improvements than were made in the last quarter of a century, writes William E. Curtis to the Chicago Record-Herald, and he is preparing for improvements for the coming two or three years that will cost about $100,000,-ooo.

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