Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 March 1903 — Page 2

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Plymouth, Ind., March 19. 1903. The democratic party has reached a stage where It would rather trust its fortunes to a smooth man like Gorman than to a boy orator capable of making thirty speeches a day.

The Czar of Russia has issued a decree granting religious freedom to all his subjects and proinisiog to improve the conditions of Tillage life and those of the local nobility and peasantry.

On3 of New York's get-rich-quick-ers will now have a year in prison to thick up new schemes to make people think be can show them bow they can live without working. And he will probably succeed.

There is a scheme on foot to build a socialistic school with 1,000 rooms oo a fine high piece of land out inKansas. The statement included in the annoucement that the establishment is to be located on a big bluff should not be misconstrued, however; it is a matter of topographical description,

he senate has adopted the Cuban reciprocity treaty with an amendment jproYidicg thahe treaty shall not take effect until It Is approved by the house as well as the senate. This will make the treaty non-effective until after the meeting of congress in December unless the president calls an extra session.

Senator Ankeney , just chosen from the state of Washington to the highest legislative body in the land, is jo German descent. His father was named Schmidt and died on his way across the plains in the early days. His widow soon afterward married a man named Ankeny, and her son by her first marriage, the present senator, changed his name to please his stepfather.

A combination of oyster growers and dealers, representing invested capital of xat $3,000,000, and the largest in tli j oyster trade of the country, has beeuJ formed under the name of the Rhode Island Oyster Growers' Association. The extensive Karragansett bay interests, as well as firms in Connecticut and Massachusetts, are in the new concern The announced purpose of the company is to lessen expenses. It is asserted that prices will not be advanced. N

If the law permits coal miners to combine 2nd fix the price that shall be paid for mining coal, how can it prevent coal operators from combining and fixing the price at which coal shall be sold? This is the question we should like to have some of our wise contemporaries, labor leaders or eminent lawyers answer.

The friends of Graeme Stewart, in Chicago, are not only enthusiastic but exceedingly saDguine. Already they claim that their man will beat Carter Harrison by at least 40,000. Several organizations that hitherto supported Harrison have declared in favor of Stewart. Harrison, however, has In the past proved himself a great runner.

Indianapolis financiers are happy because of tfce approval by Governor Durbin of House bill No. 407, known In financial circles as the "home market" bond bill. For many years there has been agitation of the removal of taxation from state and municipal bonds, and this has been successfully accomplished in the bill sighed by Governor Durbin.

Harry A. Garfield son of the martyr

president will be the republican candi

date for mayor of Cleveland as the competitor of Tom L. Johnson. Harry

Garfield Is credited with shrewdness and ability, and if he beats Tom it

will pave the way for higher honors, while if be goes down in defeat before Johnson it will be only what some very able men have done, consequent

ly Mr. GarQeld probably has nothing

to lose by making the race.

By an act of the legislature 'our

counties in Indiana must use voting machines. The four are Vigo, Marion, Allen and Vanderburg. Other counties of the state will watch the work of the machines with interest. There is a feeling of uncertainty about the use of voting machines and for that reason, no doubt, the legislature felt disposed to give them a trial first in a few large counties, after which if they piove a' success, their use can be extended.

Russia, hitherto a pig-iron importing country, exported to America this year over 32,000 tons of pig iron; Germany sent her immense quantities of pig iron and manufactured steel; even France contributed supplies and Cleveland, west coast hematite and Scottish pigs owe all their advances and their present 'stability entirely to America. To Germany this unexpected demand must have proved an unmixed blessing,, rescuing her from what was( approaching a commercial crisis, pays the Edinburgh Scotsman.

The expressions of the Canadian press against the character of the commissioners who have been appointed by President Roosevelt In the Alaskan boundary case show that they have no hope of being able to hold their own in the negotiations. If England selects any reasonable men - on her side the Americans ere sure to win. Canada wants to name all three of the representatives of the British side. If this permission (were given (the rccult vculd tz a deadlock, which vrould leave the matter just where It lz C0T7. YItzl til ths ccuntrlc3 concerned want i3 a ccttlemcnt, tad th3 cccncrthlj ceres ttz tetter.

f Sane Man in Mad House. Michael Kennedy, of New Carlisle, will bring action for heavy damages against members of his own family, alleging he was unjustly confined in a mad house. At the request of relatives Kennedy was kept in close confinement at the asylum, supposed to be dangerously insane, when it seems that his reason and sanity were beyond question. He has already recovered judgment against a son In the sum of $1,400. Swamps Have Become Valuable. Pulaski county, atone time said to be the swaapiest county in the state has rapidly come to the front as an agricultural county through the systematic drainage of swamp lands.

Over seven hundred; mile ot dredging

and ditching have beeü completed at contract prices aggregating $225,000.

As a result, swamp lands that sold ten years ago for $1.75 an acre and were covered with musk rat houses are now finding a ready market at $75 an

acre.

The Magistrate Discharged Him. Two roystering young New Yorkers entered a cafe on Broadway and jostled against a sallow-faced little man wearing a sombrero. He turned expecting an apology, and was insulted by one of them. The little man's right fist shot out to the swell's jaw., lifting the Insulter oil his feet and and knocking him senseless. The assailant was arrested and in court told the magistrate that be was Wounded Buffalo, son of Chief Running Elk of the Mohawk tribe. He learned to box at the Carlisle school, where be played with the football eleven. On hearing the circumstances the magistrate discharged him: '

THE IRONY OF FATE

Great General Who Was Always Placed Where He Could Not ' .Carry Out His Plans.

Old Chief Lost! Last Acre. Gabriel Godfrey, aged ,72, chief of the remnant - of the' once powerful tribe ot Miami Indians, has just disposed of his last bit of real estate and is now a poor man. The real estate consisted of his residence and 22 acres of land near Peru and is the last of 500 acres he oned 20 years ago. His impoverishment was due to a kindly heart that kept him from refusing calls for aid and the going security for whites as well as Indians. He has a wife, bis third, a niece of the late General John A. Logan, and also nine children. The old chief deeply feels his present sad extremity. Of course, the skunks he befriended wop 't worry any. Indiana's New Lottery Law. The lottery law of Indiana as amended provides that whoever sells a lottery ticket or tickets or share in any lottery scheme'or gift enterprise; or acts äs agent for any lottery scheme or gift enterprise or aids or abets any person or persons to engage in the same; or transmits money by mail or express, or otherwise transmits the same, to any lottery scheme or gift enterprise for the division of property to be determined by chance; or makes or draws any lottery scheme or gift enterprise for a division of property not authorized by law, or knowingly permits any building, tenement, wharf boat or other water craft owned, leased or controlled by him to be used or occupied for any of the purposes above named, on conviction thereof shall be flned in any sum not mere than $500 nor less than $10.

The death of General Franklin In nartford, Conn., recalls the military career of one of the ablest soldiers in tho Union army, but whose connection with events over which be had no control deprived him of the prominence to which his ability and zeal entitled him. ' ' He was a classmate of General G rant at West Points One of his misfortunes was at Antietam. He secured a position in the battle where he was confident he should attack, but the officer who ranked him would not grant him permission. He then appealed to General McClellan, who refused to give the order. Subsequent information made it clear that if the attack had been made as he desired a body of troops would have been driyen from the field which baffled the Union forces at the front for a long time, In the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg Gen. Franklin's corps crossed the Rappahannock south of the town and vzas in a position to assail Lee's left and rear and force him to evacuate his strong position, General Franklin took in the strength of his position and urged upon General Burnside the advantage of his plan. GeneralBurnside was so impressed that be said it should be put in execution, and that he would send ac order for the movement of the troops about midnight. The order did not come, because General Burnside changed his planst Another order was sent which called för? an Impossible movements

It was undertaken by General Franklin, but while be Inflicted a heavier loss upon the enemy than he suffered the purpose of General Burnside was not accomplished. The blunder of Fredericksburg over, Gen. Burnside wrote General Franklin a letter of thanks. Soon the former was called to Washington to testify before the committee on the conduct of the war, where be placed the responsibility of the defeat upon several generals, including Franklin and Hooker. When Burnside resigned the command of the army of the Potomac, by the same cruel fate which followed that army during tnat year General Hooker was placed in command, and General Franklin, a soldier much better qualified, was transferred elsewhere. Then followed the disaster at Chancellorsvllle and the resignation of Hooker on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg. . It seems to have been the irony of fate that General Franklin, the skillful soldier, and sturdy fighter, should have closed his fighting career as a subordinate of Gen. Banks in bis series of unaccountable blunders in the department of the gulf. Indianapolis Journal.

Glass Blowing Machines a Success. Advices from the gas belt continue to indlate the practical success of the glass-blowing machines. The machines are adpated to blowing bottles as well as window glass, and their introduction will displace a large number of skilled workmen. This will be a temporary hardship on the men. and the public will sympathize with them, but it is one of the inevitable incidents of progress; The companies claim that the hand blowers have compelled them to introduce machines by their arbitrary and dictatorial methods. There has hardly been a year when the glass blowers, well pafd as they always have been, did not have some sort of quarrel with their employers. It seems Impossible for some people to understand that it is poor policy to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Richest Man in the World. The late Cecil Rhodes cut so colossal a figure in the affairs of South Africa that he quite overshadowed In public attention his partner in a great enterprise that made both of them immensely wealthy. This obscurer man is Alfred Beit, who was connected with Rhodes in the working of the fabulously -rich diamond mines of Kimberly, which have yielded $10,000.000 a year, Mr. Belt, who has been dangerously ill at Johannesburg, with an apoplectic attack, from which it is believed; he will entirely recover, Is thought by many to be the richest man in the world. His wealth is estimated as high as nearly a billion dollars, while even a conservative reckoning makes it at least $300,000,000. He own3 meet of the Kimberly diamond field, controls the cutting industry in Hamburg, and 13 Interested la many other enterprises paying

A iTonun's Gift. Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, wife of Abraham A. Andersorf, the artist, has given $1,000,000 to Barnard college for the purchase of additional land adjoining the present college buildings. Mrs. Anderson is said to have given away some $3,000,000 in about a dozen years for charitable and educational purposes. It id gratifying to know that women give in proportion to, their means much more than men. Mrs. Anderson is credited with giving away more than one-half the amount she Inherited from her father. And she has always taken precaution to avoid publicity, but seemingly without aVail. Philadelphia Press. " Unique figure in Politics. Ex-Congressman Jehu Baker of Illinois, who died , recently, was a unique figure in the politics of his native state. He was punctilious to the point of eccentricity in xhe smallest affairs of life. It Is related, for instance, that he voluntarily paid 6 per cent, interest on small accounts with tradesman, no matter how short a time the bit's were allowed to stand. He also .refused to . accept railway poeccs, and on one occasion get off of a street car' and walked becexsa the, conductor, knowing him to be a ccn-

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: ' Reaction Sets in. The coal operators o? the east who brought about a stringency In the fuel market and forced prices way up out of sight, are now reaping the right kind of reward. That is, they are getting their just deserts. They very much overdid tne thing. Barges containing hundreds of tons of the best anthracite bought up by speculators and held for still higher prices side the New York harbor, were held a little too long, and the enterprising operators who thought to realize immense sums off of the suffering public are now compelled to sell the coal at auction in order to get enough to pay for the freightage. The barges were caught in the ice and did not get into port in time to bring the wished for results to the manipulators. It is said the coal will not bring more than $3 a ton, and many provident people are after it in order to fill their bins thus early in the spring for next season. Criminal Coal Operators. Indiana coal operators on trial in Judge Chetlain's court for conspiracy are said to admit haviog entered into a formal agreement to fix the price and restrict the ontput of fuel. If it 'ye true then there seems no excuse whatever for failure to punish them

under existing laws .for violations of

common r'srats. decent business

w ' methods, imposition on the public and

general cussedness. A set of men,

who, in time of stress like this winter! can bring themselves to squeeze the pocr and endanger business and industry, and lessen the earning power of men who were liable to be thrown out of employmeat by the stoppage of work, are as morally criminal as any

set of men to be found. Elkhart Re-

View. Reform in Russia. The ukase of the czar issued Thurs

day is the most notable political event

that has occurred' in the Russian Empire since the emancipation of the serfs, and it is one which Nicholas has been contemplating for several years, but could not accomplish because of opposition from his ministers. Russia

has made greater progress toward j

civilization and civil and religious liberty during the brief time that he has been upon the throne than during the entire reign of any of his predecessors, and it is largely due to the Influence of the czarina, who was the favorite grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, and is a wise, intelligent and good woman. Seldom ha?, a better woman ever sat upon a throne, and, although her marriage waf. reluctant, it has proved to be a happy one for the czar and his wife, and an unmeasured blessing for the Russian people. " From the beginning of his reign Nicholas has shown a disposition toward lilrality and progress that has never before been 'exbibi ted by a member of the Romanoff family, and his wife is- credited with inspiring his policy. He has introduced free schools throughout a large part of the Russian Empire and is expending from $12,000,000 to $15,-000,000-a year in building schoolbouses and providing means of education fcr the peasantry. The proclamation of religious liberty as announced Thursday, affects about 12,000.000 people, or 29 per cent of the population of European Russia. It is "estimated that of Russians 10 per cent are Roman Catholics, 9 per cent Mohammedans, 5 per cent Jews, 3 per cent Protestants, 1 per cent Armenians. But it is the Jews who "are directly interested in the new arrangement, because they have been the object of persecution and iie subject of restrict! ye laws and regulations that have not been applied to the other denominations which accept Christ. i Big Money in Hogs. W. C. Friend, of Perrysville, Miami county, J. F. Beck, of Fulton county, Frank Fites, of Macy, ?ad Frank Gragg, of Roann, changed cars here on their way home from the great Northern Indiana circuit of sales of fine hogs, March 10, 11, 12 and 13, which broke the world's record for tine hogs sold in four days. The sale of Link Lukens, at Disco, was March 10. Sixty-two fine Poland China hogs brought an average of $118 each, one sow selling for $450 AtNorman Ohmart's sale' at Roann, March 11, 40 hogs brought an average of $56. At Mahlon NcNutt's sale at Roann; March 12, the Poland China boar Majestic Perfection sold for $8,000,' breaking the world's record. Thirtynine sows sold for an averge of $125 . At John Castle man's sale March 13, forty-six hogs "were sold at an average of $78.00. Most of these men began tbe business of raising fine hogs, with smail capital; all of them have made big money and some of them have become wealthy in a few years. Stitr.p true Recalled. The new two cent stamps, ecently issued by the postofflce de'. irtment are to have a short life, for they wii be called in. They have proved unsatisfactory in that the design is considered inartistic and clumsy and has been the subject of some sharp criticism from the public which i3 always quick to commend or to condemn new

MORTUARY

Mrs. F. W. Sievers.

Pauline, widow of Frederick W. Sievers, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Young, at 2 o'clock Thursday morning, March 12, aged 44 years. Deceased was for several years a resident of Valparaiso where her husband died fourteen years ago, she resided for a time in Fort Wayne and was at the time of her death a member of the Fort Wayne Hive, Lady Maccabees. During the past six years her home had been with her sister, Mrs. Young, which was also the home of her only daughter, Miss Lura Sievers. Her death was caused by complication of diseases, which had confined her to her home during the past six months. The funeral was held at the Episcopal church at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Services conducted by Rev. W. S. Howard.

A Righteous Veto. During the closing hours of congress the president sent in a yeto which, though ridiculed by the polticians, should entitle him to added respect from the people and the members of the Grand Army of the republic. The vetoed bill proposed to restore to the rank of captain of infantry and place on the retired list, one Edward L. Bailey. Notwithstanding the notorious record of Bailey, this bill bad passed both houses of congress and been sent to the president. In his veto message Mr. Roosevelt points oue that Bailey served in the army 26 years, during which time he was court-martlale i seven times, convicted of almost every breach of the regulations of which an officer could be guilty, including embezzlement, drunkenness, insurbordination and disorder and finally dismissed from the service. His dismissal from the service had been ordered by court martial in 1874, and the sentence mitigated by executive clemency and Mr. Roosevelt refused therefore to permit the bill to become a law. Lafayette

Journal.

President May Call Congress, Senator Lodge declares positively that the president will call the senate back if it adjourns without action on the Cuban treaty. The president is determined on this point, and senators realizing the fact are using every effort to persuade their colleagues to remain until the treaty is disposad of. Mr. Roosevelt told one or two friends that if the Cuban treaty is ratified by the senate with the amendment requiring approval of thd house he would call an extra session of the the Fifty-eighth congress about Oct. 1 to secure the passage of the joint resolution putting the treaty into, effect. It can be said that he has even considered calling an extraordinary session this spring. The sugar crop is bandied in the late autumn, however, and congress, by promulgating the treaty early in October, would give the Cuban planters a chance to send their crop to the United States under the reduced rates. This matter is close to the president, and he is determined not to be thwarted, if calling congress together is the only obstacle in his path. He cannot compel congress to act, but he can and will provide the opportunity. A Clerk's MistaXe Costs $200,000. Former Attorney-General Taylor says that the mistake of an enrolling clerk probably cost the state $200,000 a year, as he believes the governor would have signed the inheritance tax bill if the word inestate" had not been used for intestate." In his last report as Attorney-General he recommended the enactment of an inheritance tax law. He drew the ibill and submitted it to Representative Stechhan, of Indianapolis, by whom it was introduced. There were no mistakes in the bill that I drew," said Taylor. "The printed copy was correct when it went through the house and senate, but some enrolling clerk made the change that rendered the bill' invalid. That mistake cost the state at least $200,000 a year, as an inheritance tax law would be worth that much annually. Those Good Boys. The teacher had come early to school in order to put some work on the board, The boys had also come early, in hope of finding some mischief to keep them busy and happy. The teacher paid no attention to them and finally dropped down on her knees to write at the bottom of the board. Then she. heard a mutter, a sort of intoning, and looking around saw the hoys with their heads on their desks as if in devotion. She rose hastily to her feet, shocked at their performance whereupon they all chanted in chorus "Amen I " . . :

Early Opening cf Navigation. Those who go down to Lake Michigan in ships are pinning their faith to the robins and blue birds and wild geese and opening the navigation season earlier than usual. But the feathered prophets are 'no more infallible than the oöclal prrphet up in th3 tower when it comes to foretelling the weather.

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