Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 October 1902 — Page 2

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SUBSCRIPTION: One tear In Advance $Mo: SU Months cents; Three Months 40 cents, delivered at any postoffice. Plymouth. ir.d.. October 2, 1902. THE STATE TICKET. " Secretary of State, DANIEL E.STOKMS. Auditor of State, DAVID E. SHEKKICK. Treasurer of State, NAT C.HILL. Attorney General, CHAULES W. MILLER. Clerk Supreme Court, ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. A. COTTON. State Statistician, BEN J. F. JOHNSON, ."täte Geologist, W.3. BLATCHLEY. iJudge Supreme Court, Fifth District, JOHN H. OILLETT, Judzes AppellatfCourt, FRANK R. ROBY. ü. Z. WILEY, W,J. I'ENLEY, JAMES I . BLACK, D.W. COMSTCCK. W. E. ROBINSON. COUNTY TICKET. Rf-preeuiativc in Congress, ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK Representative, PETER ;HEIM. Auditor, PETER! D. BURGENER. Cleric, FOSTER GROVES. Treasurer, WM. H. CONGER. Sheriff. ELMER E.WILSON. Surveyor. MILTON BECK. Coroner, DR. NILS S. LINPQUIST. Commissioner First District GEORGE STOCK; Commissioner Second District, JOSEPH COAR. net -" I I - - "ti To vote a straight Republican ticket make a X within the circle which surrounds the eagle, as the one above Is marked. Make no other mark on your r ticket. Any other mark than the X will spoil your ballot and will lose your vote. Use nothing to mark the X but the blue pencil that will be given you by the poll clerk. Should you by accident make any other mark on your ballot. return it to poll clerk and get a new one. Before leaving booth fold your ballot so that the face cannot be seen, and to that the Initial of the poll clerk on the back can be seen. DONT BE A STAY-AT-HOME. BE SURE AND GET OUT TO VOTE. George Fred Williams calls the democratic platform in Massachusetts dishwater," but says he will vote it. Whether the issue he has found is better than none is a matter of taste. Ex-Governor Boies, of Iowa, is not a free-trader but a moderate protectionists, he says, and what he wants is to cut down tte tariff on the articles which aie "crushing Iowa." At the same time reports from that state show tl at the value of farm lands ir creased about 20 per cent, during the past five years, and investors are hunting mortgages with 5 per cent, money. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor, who was the chief speaker on the opening day of the capital and labor convention at Minneapolis, is of opinion that there can be no mutual settlement of the anthracite coal strike. He thinks the strike will collapse within four weeks, and that the men will lose. He also thinks that failure of the strike will be followed by the organization of a separate union of anthracite miners. He thinks this will put the miners on a better basis-for negotiations in the future. The government H about to offer for sale for junk five of the old monitors the cheese boxes on rafts--that once revolutionized naval warfare. The Philadelphia Press suggests that one or more of these vessels of an obsolete type should be preserved for history and future generations. We commend the suggestion. The few hundred dollars that the government would realize from the sale of one of the monitors would not be felt in the Federal Treasury. To destroy the monitors would be to ' destroy a monument. One of the boats should, even at a considerable expense, be kept in commission, and another might - well be hauled ashore and "mounted" as a monument for the benefit of posterity.

' Chairman Brown has declined the challenge of the democratic committee to a joint debate.

As usual, the prohibition managers in this state predict big gains for their party this year, and they intend to carry on a lively campaign, but will do the work mainly by small circulars and will distribute them Überall. But for the United States, anarchy would have prevailed on the Panama isthmus for more than a year past to such an extent that the railroad would have been constantly interrupted. The world is under obligations to Uncle Sam for keeping open that important artery of commerce. Owing to the complaints agalnsj eastern railways of freightrate discrimination between Kansas shipping points and New York, the interstate commerce commission is arranging to meet in New York next month. ' The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, and the Illinois Central roads are affected by the complaints already filed. Washington dispatches says that the republican campaign committee will circulate millions of copies of President Roosevelt's speeches. A curious thing about the speeches is that while they are not in the slightest degree paitisan, they make strongly for patriotic principles and good government, which are the cornerstone of the republican party. It is a fair proposition that every man who receives all the advantages which local government affords public schools, protection of life and property, the use of streets with costly sewers should contribute something to the support of the government which provides these advantages at the public expense. For that reason the poll tax should not be abolished. In one of his recent speeches President Roosevelt uttered these impres sive words. "The man who is con tent to let politics go from bad to worse, jesting at the corruption of pol iticians; the man who is content to see maladministration of justice without an immediate and resolute effort to reform it is shirking his duty and isprepaiiDg the way for infinite woe in the future." The death of Major John W. Powell, directoj of the government bureau of ethnology removes a man who had contributed largely to science and who had made his life decidedly useful in his researches in natural history and geology. He was the author of sev eral important books on the subject. and in his explorations of the western wilds he made many important dis coveries. The true tariff doctrine was present ed by Roosevelt in his Logansport speech when he said: "A nation like ours can adjust its business after a fashion to any kind of a tariff; but neither our nation nor any other na tlon can stand the ruinous poiicy of readjusting its business to radical changes in the tariff at short inter vals." In other word revise the tariff where it needs revision to suit busi ness conditions. This is a plain bus! ness proposition a practical Droblem that solves itself. The postal department has decided to try the experiment of using the re turn envelope and postal card, which has been proposed for the convenience of large department stores which de sire to reach customers and pay postage on their replies when actually made. Under present postal conditions, merchants have to send prepaid envelopes, and often they are thrown into the waste basket unused and the loss falls heavily on the sender. It Is proposed to combine some of the ideas of those who hava devised plans for such return envelopes, modified by the practical suggestions of experts in the department, and the idea will be tried for the benefit of New York, Philadelphia,Chicago and Boston first. If it works -satisfactorily, the scheme will be extended to other cities. In his Logansport speech, after advising against sudden and radical chanses in the tariff, President Roosevelt says: "Yet, on the other hand, where the industrial needs of the nation shift as rapidly as they do with us, it is a matter of prime importance that we should be able to readjust our economic policy as rapidly as possible. and with as little friction as possible, to these needs. We need a scheme which will enable us to provide a reapplication of the principles to the changed conditions." He urged that the question be taken out of politics and that an attempt should be made "to provide for ed earnest effort by non-partisan inquiry and action to secure any changes the need of which is indicated by the effort found to proceed from a given rate of duty on a given article; its effect, if any, as regard the creation of a substantial monopoly; Its effect on domestic prices, upon the revenues of the government, upon Importations from abroad, upon home production and upon consumption,"

The Philadelphia and Reading com

pany will attempt to break the anthra cite strike by reopening its mines in Schulykill county. The cansus of 1900 shows that the farmers of America have more wealth than the steel trust and all the railroads in the country combined, It is sickening to see the democrat ic press quoting from the late Senaator Sherman when, during his life time, they so shamefully abused him. Judge George Hi Durand, the dem ocratic candidate for governor of Michigan, has withdrawn. He was stricken three-weeks ago with paraly sis. Charlemagne Tower and not Bella my Storer gets the Berlin ambassador ship. Mr. Tower is the present min ister of the United States to Russia, and Mr. Storer fills the same mission at the court of Madrid, A treasury warrant for $39,808 was forwarded to Mrs. Ida S. McKinley, widow of the late president, Sept. 15, for salary which would have been due her husband July 1, 1902. This appropriation was made at the last ses sion of congress, Senator Foraker, in a Cincinnati in terview, declared his opposition to trust regulation by constitutional amendment, as urged by President Roosevelt. He says it would come too late to help. Business conditions themselves are the remedy. The Connecticut democracy, In state convention assembled, refused to re-affirm the Kansas City platform. One member of the committee on reslutions bolted on this account. An attempt to bring the matter before the convention was suppressed. The first response to the appeal of Gens. Botha, De Wet and Delarey for funds for the relief of the Boer widows and orphans, and for rebuilding Boer homes, comes from an Ameri can. Henry Phipps of New York, a director of the Carnegie Steel com pany and other large interests, has sent his check for $1000,000 to Gen. Botha. Judge B. F. Birdsall of Clarion will make the race for congress for the re publicans of the Third Iowa district, in place of Speaker necderson. He was nominated on the second ballot by a vote of 88 to 2ff, over C. E. Ransierof Buchanan, and republican lead ers in the district believe he will defeat ex-Gov. Boies and prove a worthy successor to Speaker Henderson. Senator Piatt was bent on having Geo. R. Sheldon, a rich New Yorker, nominated for lieutenant governor. Sheldon belongs to the J. Pierptnt Morgan crow J. Gov. Odell objected and declared he would not stand for re-election if the Piatt program were insisted upon. This had the desired effect, Piatt realizing that if Odell did not head the ticket defeat would be inevitable. Senator Piatt is be ginning to understand that he isn't having things all his way, as was the case a few short years ago. The meat trust has gone temporar ily into shelter, driven there, it is be lieved by the emphatic words of President Roosevelt on his tour in his speeches to the people declaring that the trusts should be placed nnder the control of the federal government and the uo just ones brought to judgment. The packers find this is the sentiment of the country, and that it is useless for them to undertake to form a merg er now. It is hoped this will be the last of the movement and that the failure of the combine .will be the means of reducing the price of meat. Preman Keiser Released. Freman Keiser, who was jailed two weeks ago because he will not allow his children to attend school, has been released. Freman usually comes out ahead, notwithstanding the belief that his mind is somewhat unbalanced. He was sent to the insane asylum several years ago, but it only took him about two days to convince the doctors there that he had more sense than those who believed him crazy, and they sent him home. Since that time he has been doing about as he pleases, interpreting all laws to suit himself, and refusing to send his children to school because he believes all schools, public, private and religious are inventions of the devil. Freman Keiser has a religion of his own. He is somewhat in advance of Do wie or Christian Science so call ed, although like them he believes in healing by faith and faith only, and believes, also, that he has the assistance of a higher power in all that he undertakes. 1 As keeping him in jail did not send his children to school, the authorities became anxious to get him out and he was released with all fines and costs remitted and will 'no doubt enjoy reading what the Chicago papers say about him; for notwithstanding his aversion to schools now, he went to school when he was a boy and learned to read.

Making and Facing Croii. The President in his address to the

Spanish war yeterans at Indianapolis emphasized two points upon whicn the more the American people think the better It will be for the nation. Mr. Roosevelt's first point was that the people do not make a crisis that results in war; they simply have to face a crisis when made. When wai comes, the people cannot avoid the issue; they can simply say whether the outcome is to be victory or defeat. They cannot, by flinching from a great opportunity, destroy, but can simply make good or bad use of it. This is a striking presentation of the war question, and it brings the people face to face with the idea that the making of war against us rests with our enemies and that victory or i defeat m war rests with ourselves. If this theory of war be accepted, it follows that a nation should be prepar ed for war, and in pleading for adequate preparation the President em phasized the necessity for the training of our volunteers, of the men who are to fight the battles of the country in case of war. He would train men not only to wear uniforms and do ordinary duties of the soldier, but would have them know how to march, how to handle rifles, how to take care of themselves on the march, in the open air in battle. Speaking from the experiences of the Spanish war, the President pleaded for that sort of training that seasons men to the activities of a military campaign. Then he would provide the best arms and equipment for the army and the navy, for the volunteers and the regulars, and when a crisis came, face it in the spirit of the men of 1775 and 1861. This is not war talk. It is the sort of argument that compels peace. President Guarded From Congressmen. An incident not down on the program of the committee of arrangements Tuesday morning showed with what watchfulness President Roosevelt was guarded while on his trip. Congressman Charles Landis was one of those on tLe stand and among the first with whom the president shook bands. He had been in public life long enough for most people to know him but that didn't make any difference to the secret service It happened as the President went to his carriage after the speaking that Landis walked near bim. On the sloping, rain-soaked lawn, the congressional feet became tangled and he slid abruptly toward the President, one hand put out to steady himself. The next instant he found himself turning hand springs in the gutter and clutching his Fedora hat in an effort to regain his balance. For an instant, while sliding down the lawn, his momentum had carried him between the secret service man and Roosevelt. That was against the rules and the detective hadn't time or Instructions to discriminate. His elbow was in Land is 's ribs in an instant and the portly congressman from the Tenth district was projected toward the sky line like a Ding-pong ball. Logansport Journal. Indianians in Utah. The Indiana man seems to be considerably in evidence in Utah. At the recent democratic state convention the chairman of the state committee delivered a speech in which he said: "What a convention the republican convention was! It was an Indiana annex, for its principal work was done by carpet-baggers from Indiana. Its platform was written by an editor from Indiana. Its candidate for supreme iudge was nominated 'by a a m ' lawyer from Indiana, the Cuban plank was knocked out on motion of a railroad attorney from Indiana,' and its doctrine was expounded by "The Gentleman from Indiana." When one reads the proceedings he is no longer mystified as to why Indiana is always in the column of doubtful states." It is gratifying to know that Indiana republicans who emigrate to new states remain true to the faith, and it is not surprising to learn that they come to the front. The speaker was behind the times, though, in designating Indiana as a doubtful state. Notwithstanding the large number of republican missionaries and voters it has sent west, it was never a less doubtful state than it is at present. Will Marry a Couple Gratis. For the next thirty days the mayor of Hammond, Ind., A. F. Knotts, will marry Hammond young men free of charge. He will also give them every other help that lies within his means to start a home for themselves. He makes no conditions save that that the men must live in Hammond. Their brides may come from any part of the country. He has made special office hours for the ceremony, but is uncertain as to whether his proclamation may do more than shame Hammend 's bachelor's into matrimony. This novel matrimonial plan is in line with other ideas that the mayor has received from his . studies in social economy. Ministers and judges do not believe jthär hi MheWiiPbe successful. . 1

Pierpont Morgan a Socialist The operations of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, in effecting the combination of the great commercial, manufacturing and financial institutions, are astonishing the world. What the possible, if not probable, result will be has been stated by Mr. Morgan himself. Men who had been with Mr. Morgan in Wall street," says the Springfield (Masss.) Republican, "and to whom he spoke freely remember such remarks as these: I and the others like me are the inevitable organizers of the work of the world. Our proceedings will not be pleasant, but they are necessary. We are doing what must be done, and it Is eventually for the Interests of all the people. When the time comes that the

people resolve to take their own they will find the systematization ready for them. We are instruments of the in escapable development of economy in production, distribution and return. You may call us socialists for that is the ultimate of all we are doing the taking over by the people of the material of their life. Some time, sooner or later, they must do it, and therefore I am properly a precursor of socialism to that degree.' " The coal operators in Pennsylvania, by thencourse in the present anthracite min ers' strike, are hastening the fulfillment of Mr. Morgan's prophecy. Roosevelt's Mixed Blood. At heart the President is nonsectional to an extent that could never be attributed to any other public man. Perhaps it is due to the fact that he has in his veins in equal proportion the blood of the North and the South. He is a manly man a great admirer of courage, and his southern ancestors made reputations for bravery in defense of their country, and if we judge from hisspeeches we may infer that the principal fighting record of the family in the civil war was made in the armies of the Confederacy. A truly broad man ought never to suffer politics to make him seem nanow at any time. Following the promptings of his heart, both sections would claim bim and admire him. Such a man should never so act for a time as to even temporarily forfeit that ad miration. No man should strive for admiration, but all men should en deavor to deserve it. Florida-Times Union. Mortality Statistics, The mortality statistics of the state, as reported to the state board of health, show that during the month of August there were 169 deaths from violence, either by accident or suicide. Of these 99 were males and 30 fema es. In this list 20 wers suicides, 11 being males and 7 females. The methods of destruction were; Drowning 3; ar senic, 1; carbolic acid, 4; morphine, 2 pistol, 3; gun, 2; hanging, 3; cutting throat, 1; not named, 1. The young estsuiciac was a ooy sixteen years old, who hanged himself, and the next youngest was a girl nineteen years eld, who shot herself with a pistol. The oldest suicide was sixtynine. The average age of the suicides was 41.3, showing that the, majority were persons of mature and middle age. Of the remaining deaths by violence 59 were killed in railroad accidents, which includes steam and electric railways, 3 by sunstroke, 3 by burning, 2 by lightning, 7 by poison ing, 3 by murder, 6 by fracture of the skull received in various ways, 4 by falls, 4 by being injured by horses and 25 in ways not named. Meat Dear in Germany. An alarming increase in the price of meat has brought forth numerous appeals from municipal and other bodies for suspension of the stringent rules prohibiting the importation of live cattle into the empire from abroad. The state department has made pub lie a communication received from Mr. Jackson, secretary of embassy at Berlin, dated Sept. 5, saying that up to that time the answers to the various appeals had been refusals "on sanitary grounds." The headline "Fleisschnoth" (scarcity of meat), says Mr. Jackson, is one now seen in almost every issue of almost eyery newspaper, and the demand for more freedom of importation of live hogs is increasing daily. The newspapers call attention to the fact that Russia s at present -the only country from which hogs can be imported into Germany, and from that country only in restricted numbers. One of Plymouth's Girls. nere is a description of a girl in our neighborhood as furnished by a young man: "She can fix her hair in fashion and her manner 's rather dash ing and her dainty little shoes are just in style; she can jabber French and German and expound upon a sermon and she sets a fellow crazy with her smile. In the tastes that are aesthetic and In mixing face cosmetic they say she has no equal anywhere. And in chewin&r tutti fruttl she enhances much her beauty and the settings in her teeth are yery rare. She can thump a grand piano and can sing in great crescendo and her style of elo cution's,' very trim;1 she has a college education, is the pride of her relation but she still persists in saying, "It is

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MITCHELL AND BUER

U. M. W. President Replies to Recent Statements of the Reading President. 0ALL FOR TROOPS IS REPUDIATED Sheriff Says He Asked for None More Cavalry Ordered Out Boston Men Go into Court for Relief. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept 20. Some of the local coal operators, after being shown a copy of the statement issued by President Mitchell yesterday, say it will probably be the last he will give to the public before the ending of the Btrike. They say that his appeal is made up of generalities. At strike headquarters Mitchell's"" latest deliverance is termed a "ten strike," and it ig stated that the facts and figures he presents are irrefutable. The military authorities, Sheriff Jacobs and some of the superintendents of the coal companies in this vicinity held a meeting in the office of one of the coal companies Saturday evening and talked over a plan by which the troops can be moved promptly to scenes of disturbance. Purpose or the Militia. ' It is not the purpose of the military to do police duty, but if any of the companies can get men to go to work the soldiers will give them protection. It is reported again that attempts will be made today to resume work at several collieries in this region which have been idle since the strike began, but the report cannot be verified. At strike headquarters it was claimed that there will be no change in the situation this week, which Is the twentyfirst of the strike; that the strikers are as firm as ever, and that there will be no desertions from the ranks to make It possible for the coal companies to start up any new colleries. Another Troop Ordered Oat. Harrisburg. Pa.. Sept. 29. Governor Stone yesterday ordered the Sheridan troop, of Tyrone, to report to General Gobin for duty in the anthracite strike territory. The troop left Tyrone last evening by special train. Says Ilia Name Was Uuauthor!seU Shenandoah, Ta., Sept 20. Sheriff Knorr, of Columbia county, says he did not sign nor authorize his name to be signed to the telegram which was sent to Governor Stone asking that troops be sent to Centralia, and the miners' leaders here, headed by Terence Ginley, of the executive board, have telegraphed the gowrnor to that effect, and to guarantee the surrender to the authorities of all accused persons. Gohln's Say In the Controversy. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept 29. Governor Stone called up General Gobin by telephone last night and advised him that he had received a telegram from Shenandoah advising him that the call for troops to Columbia county was a forgery. General Gobin replied that the sheriff's call for soldiers was authentic, and that Sheriff Knorr had sent hi deputy to him (Gobin) for troops.

JOHN MITCHELL'S STATEMENT He Replies to Baer's Allegations Relative to the Coal Strike. Philadelphia, Sept 29. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, has written a statement In reply to recent utterances of Baer, president of the Reading railway. Mitchell says in part: "Mr. Baer states that 'the wages paid in the anthracite coal regions are, compared with the wages paid in like employment fair and Just By like employment Mr. Baer must refer to bituminous coal mining. I am willing and prepared to demonstrate that wages in the bituminous coal field3 are from 20 to 40 per cent, higher than those paid for similar classes of work in the anthracite fields." He then present figures to prove that assertion, and adds that the danger In anthracite mines to life Is greater than in bituminous. Mitchell says: "There are other statements of Mr. Baer which are equally incorrect; among these is his assertion that the miners only worked from four to six hours per day, and his further assertion that the lowest scale of wages was 85 cents for boy slate pickers. If Mr. Baer desires I shall gladly furnish him with the names and addresses of thousands of slate pickers, each of whom received much less than 85 cents per day, and I shall be willing to have the returns verified by the companies pay rolls. "The next misstatement of Mr. Baer to which I shall give notice is that which claims that 'for some mysterious reason' the miners restricted the output of the mines. Mr. Baer claims that in this manner the product of the collieries has been reduced about 12 per cent and that in the case of the Reading company it amounted to more than 1,000,000 tons.' " Mitchell then quotes figures from official reports and The Engineering and Mining , Journal to show that this statement is wide of the truth, and that even the per capita output was increased, not diminished. He also denies that the United Mine Workers seeks to interfere with the management of the coal properties, that the organization is lawless, and that the companies cannot pay the increase demanded. He declares that the hired guards are lawless, however, and that their acts are charged to the miners. He declares the statement that the 40 per cent of the coal mined being less in the market than the case of mining misleading, because It leaves out of account the coal that is sold, for which the miners receive no pay. He closes with the declaration that the fight is not so and for the present generation of miners as it is for the little children "prematurely doomed to the whirl of the mill and the noise and blackness of the breaker" to win a life for the child and secure for it a place In the world in keeping with advancing civUizatlon. BTJ1XCTJ REPLY TO STONE3 i . Vlght Alarms la the ZXilltarj CampFreak of a XXIffh Com stable. Scranton, Pa., Sept 29. Late Satur

day night shots were fired by the troop at supposed strikers for the first time snc the troops went afield. At Grassy Inland collery, half a mile from the Thirteenth's camp, two soldiers from Company A were stationed in a patch of underbrush, as part of an outpost to Vi9t camp. A volley of stones descended ail about them, and one of them striking one of the soldiers felled him to the ground The two soldiers shot at fleeing figures, and a relief detail, attracted by the firing, scoured the coun

try for two hours la a fruitless search for the stone-throwers. At 1250 yesterday morning a shot was heard on a hillside near the camp, and a searchlight which Colonel Watres had just gotten into working order was turned In the direction whence the shots came. A man with a gun was descried rushing to the cover of the woods. The rays of the searchlight were kept upon him, and after a short chase a couple of soldiers from the outpost on the hill ran him down. He proved to be Michael Gaughan, the high constable of Olyphant lorough. The only explanation he vouchsafed to Colonel Watres was: "I wanted to try out your soldiers and see If they were to be depended uion." The colonel concluded to let the county court deal with his case. The gun was confiscated. BASED ON CHAPLIN'S THEORY Receiver Ii Aiked by Boston Otiten for the Anthracite Properties. Boston, Sept 29. A committee of citizens, headed by the publisher of a Boston newspaper, Saturday sought relief in the courts from the ircsent coal shortage and high prices by asking for a receiver for the coal companies and coal-carrying roads. A bill inequity was filed in the supreme court against the corporations involved in the authracite strike. The petitioners ask that a receiver be appointfd for the benefit of all concerned., upon such terms and in such manner,, and with such agents and servants, tnd with sucn rates of wages and other conditions of employment and at such prices for goods produced and , sold, as the court shall from time to time adjudge proper. The bill is based upon the legal theory of the coal situation given by II. W. Chaplin, a lawyer. Chaplin sayIn support of his position: "Since " public have a right in the minec right to have coal forthwith mined, j immediate consumption and have a right to have that coal Immediately transiorted out of the mine regions by the coal-carrying roads, a court of equity If no other solution of the difficulty Is open, has authority to, and upon the application of a representative proportion of the people undoubtedly would, appoint a receiver or receivers to take into his or their hands the whole business now in the hands of the anthracite coal combine, and to run it in their place." Why Troops Went to Centralia. Shenandoah. Pa., Sept. 29. A mob Saturday at Centralia intercepted the men who had been going to work at Mount Carmel by trollley. The men all returned to their homes. A little while later a Lehigh Valley passenger train pulled Into the station and the mob crowded Into the cars looking for nonunion men. The mob had been doing this for some days. Want the President to End 1U New York, Sept 29. Petitions are being circulated throughout the country by the members of the various organizations comprising the American Federation of Catholic societies asking President Roosevelt to use his good offices to end the coal strike. Collier Guilty of Poisoning. Bc-dford, Ind., Sept 29. Martin Collier, charged with the wholesale poisoning of his family, consisting of a wife and two babies, and also several boarders, was found guilty. His only plea In court was insanity, although a jury found him of sound ! mind a few days ago. Homier State Short-Cuts. Elwood The McCloy Lamp Chimney company's factory has resumed operations in all departments. raoli Professor Batchelor, of Vernon, has been selected by the school board as assistant principal. Fairmont The Leach family held a reunion last week with about 125 members of the family present Xoblesville The colored people of. Hamilton county celebrated emancipation with exercises in the court bouse. WAS A VERY BRIGHT BOY Got Much Notoriety First and Now Get Pinched for Forgery. St Louis, Sept. 20. Richard E. Mt rphy, o Jefferson, who while a resident of, St Joseph, Mc, gained considerable notoriety as the "boy editor," and who went to Washington and ' secured personal Interviews from Tres-; ident McKinley and a number of oth-, er statesmen, which he published in' his own paper, was arrested here last night on ,the charge of forgery. Recently a money order tf the Pa- : cific Express company was stolen at Campbell, Mo. Murjhy acknowledged to detectives that he had filled out this order for $4S.r0 and had It cashed at the Germania T.mst company. The , boy claims his age to be 13. College Foot Ball Opens. Chicago, Sept 29. College tooV opened Saturday. The prominent j games were as follows: at Ann Arbor Albion 0, Michigan 88; at Madison, I Wis. Lawrence O, Wisconsin 11; at Lafayettte, Ind. Franklin 0, Purdue) 5G; at Chicago Monmouth O, Chicago 24: at Chicago Napierville 5, North- - western 10: at Cambridge Williams 0, Harvard 11; at New Haven Trinity 0, Yale 40; at Philadelphia-Lehigh O, Pennsylvania 12. Why Miss Blgrar Disappeared. New York, Sept 29. A statement; from Miss Biggar given out by Sam-J uel I. Frankenstein, her lawyer, makes the assertion. that Miss Biggar has been guilty of no conspiracy. She says she will not run away, and did notwant to surrender until sure of being' able to furnish bait She insists that; che was legally married to Bennett. Texas Ralm-Caxsed Again. Houston, Tex.. Sept 29. During the twelve hours daylight Saturday there ,was a terrific rain all over the whole octh and portion of east Texas, wticii has done great damage. i

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