Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 August 1903 — Page 2

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Plymouth, Ind., August 13, 1903. Marsball Field is said to be the fourth richest man in the United States.

King Edward's idea of conciliating Ireland combines kindly, appreciative words with a practical lift in material affairs. If this is blarney, it 4s of a new and improved kind.

Eight hundred saioons have been closed in Indiana within a year The advocates of intemperance will be sure to hold this fact responsible for the lawlessness which has disgraced Indiana during the past few months. Schwab's salary as m inager of the big steel trust was $100,000, but his successor." Mr. Corey willgetonly $75,000 a year. Corey is supposed to be a more competent manager than Schwab but the trust has decided that It will have to reduce e penses.

An estermed contemporary styles Congressman Baker's refusal to accept an annual pass on a railroad a bid for notoriety. It that be true Mr. Baker has the bidding to himself, since no other congressman has, so far as known,' returned his pass.-

Some more ''prominent citizens" have been attending a lynching this time out in tne state of Washington. The first time a "prominent citizen" is banged or even sent to the penitentiary for participating in a lynchlog the practice will become unfashionable.

The tales about the immense sums lost by rich men in Wall street during the present pinch souna very big, but are not particularly alarming. They were all paper possessions. There has been no tangible property lost, and there has been very little, if any. loss of general public confidence in the immediate business outlook.

United States Senator William J. Stone, of Missouri, has been drawn Into the Doodling case which has touched all other high places in the state's government, and the distinguished lepresentative of that state in the upper house of congress will be compelled to go before the grand jury and tell all the circumstances connected with" bis election.

The Governor has summoned membe is of the Tolice Board of Marion and proposes to see that the law is strictly enforced there, whether it comes in conflict with strisers or employers. He is gaining a name for enforcement of law in the good old-fashioned way that would make him a popular candidate for mayor in any of the large cities. .

The press dispatches from Russia indicate more clearly every day the wide extent of the labor troubles and the extreme measures the police and the army are taking to keep the upper hand. Many of the large cities are ouw under regulations that are almost equivalent to martial law, and some of them are being handled in a way that would seem probable, even in Russia, did not the authorities live in daily tear cf great uprisings of the people. The day of revolution may, or may not be almost at hand in Russia, but signs are -increasingly stormy.

Modestly Declines. Judge Timothy E. Howard of South Bend is mentioned as a democratic candidate for governor, but modestly declines. The judge is a nice man, but it doesn't require much modesty to decline a democratic gubernatorial nomination in this state- Laporte Herald. . - i - Is It a Nemesis? . The LaGrange Standard pertinently inquiries: "Is it a nemesis? The numerous assaults of negroes on white women is a comment and infuriates, more than anything else could, the existing prejudice against the race. But is it the real negro who commits the outrages? -Are they not all, or nearly all, terrible mixtures of the two races, the products of the white man's lust for colored women? Here seems a w Ide field of thought for the casuist. - Specul Serien ol Ccngrejj. - Congressman Crum packer is authority for the statement that there will be a special session of congress, before the usual time of convening on the first Monday in December, for the purpose of taking up the currency question. Some measure to lend elasticity to the currency system is intended to be enacted Into law. It will be neither the Aldrich nor the Fowler till, but some enactment that will have tho epproval of such men 3 Scatters Spooler and AUIcon and of prcsrrctive Sr;--r Ccnnor, '

John Gilbert Shanklin. The death of Hon. John Gilbert Shanklin, at Evansville, after a lingering ailment of several years, removes from the realms of politics a man of marked ability, an orator of persuasive eloquence, and a graceful writer of high attainment. He was the son of Irish parents, but in his ways he was much more of a German than an Irishman. This may be accounted for by the fact that he was educated in Germany. Mr. Shanklin loved politics not for the gains to be derived therefrom, but because he wanted to impress his views and sentiments upon his fellow men. He believed in fiat money, and therefore earnestly and enthusiastically espoused the cause of greenbackism and the free and unlimited coinage of silver. He was a radical free trader and an ultra civil service reformer. Up to 1894 he was an ardent admirer of Grover Cleveland, and in 1896 he was one of William J. Bryan's most devoted followers. Personally he was a clever gentleman. He did not know the value of money, and never concerned himself much about business. As a newspaper writer he stood pre-eminent; as a newspaper he was a dismal failure. Physically he was a giant, standing several inches over six feet in his stockings and weighing over 300 pounds. That was when he was in his prime. Of late years he approached the emaciation stage. He was almost wholly blind.---South Bend Times. Shanklin and Cleveland. It is said that the late John G. Shanklin was the first editor in the United States to boom Grover Cleveland for president. He named Cleveland immediately after be was elected governor of New York, stood by him through thick and thin, was his spokesman in Indiana at the national convention and did more to secure his

election than any other man in Indiana.

Governor Isaac P. Gray opposed the nomination of Cleveland, but when Gray's friends found that he could not be nominated for president nor vice president they made a deal with William C. Whitney, the manager of the Cleveland interests, whereby Gray was to be taken care of in case of Cleveland's election. This deal was carried out to the letter but Gray's appointment was very offensive to Mr. Shanklin, who considered it an indignity and an insult to himself. Several appointments were tendered him, but he spurned them all. Later on a re-

conciliation was effected between Gray and Shanklin, but Cleveland never received forgiveness from the man whom

he so deeply offended.

The Largest Bank Account Capitalists do not contribute much

to the deposits of savings banks, and

so. when we learn from the report of

the Comptroller of the Treasury that

6,660,000 depositors have $2,750,000

in the savings banks of the country, we have a striking proof of the comfortable circumstance of millions of people who are not classed among the rich, but are numbered with those who depend on labor of one kind or another for their living. This large capital is more than one-half of the total deposits in all banks, so that the the aggregate savings bank depositors have more ready money than the combined business men who support the other banks. Only about $400,000,000 of these deposits is outside of the New England and Eastern States, but the working people of the Central and Western States must be as well paid and prosperous as those of the East. Probably a larger proportion of their savings go into profitable enterprises and property than Into banks. Opening For a Big Lawsuit, The movement by the government to take over the bridge across the Mississippi river at Louis may raise some interesting questions. As the river is a navigable one ' the bridge company had of course to obtain permission from tha government to construct the bridge, and it is said that among the conditions imposed upon the company was one that should it pool Its earnings with another company, consolidate with another, com

pany or have "upon its board of directors officers of another company, its charter, would be forfeited without legal prosecution.. Itjs claimed that violation of this condition has Worked a forfeiture of the company charter. There seems to be'an opening for a great lawsuit. . ' Locking Ahead for O.ficc. Attorney General Charles W. Miller ia credited by the man who writes political gossip for the Indianapolis Journal with having sensatorial aspirations. -The genial Charles desires a reaction to the office he now holds. After that his eagle eye will be fixed cn the seat now filled by Senator Fairbanks, whose term expires on the 4th of March in. the year 1909, It is generally believed that Senator Fairbanks will be a candidate for the presidential nomirition in 1908, and that he will then be Inclined to let some other ambitious republican succeed bid in the cc-ate. This is a ce3 cf lockinj pretty for ahead into Vz2 roll U oil future.

Musi Pump the City Dry. The city of New Orleans, like most of the land at each side of the Mississippi river in the alluvial country, lies considerably below the high water line of the Mississippi river. The whole city would be inundated by the river occasionally if it were not protected by a lavee along the river front. The city is also protected by levees runniing at right angles to the river one above the city and one below it and also by a leyee along the shore of Lake Pontchartraln and by levees along the banks of the various canals which reach from that lake into the territory of the municipality. N ew Orleans is so near the mouth of the river that the land upon which the city Is built is not only lower than the high water stage of the river, but is in part lower than the leyel of the Gulf of Mexico and of the various lakes in the vicinity of the city. Therefore, there is no natural drainage for the land inolosed by the levees surrounding the town. The rainwater that falls upon this area has to be pumped so as to force It into either Lake Pontchartraln or Lake Borgue. The city itself covers a large area, although the major portion of its area is not built up as a city. The part at present chiefly occupied by buildings consists of a strip a mile or so wide along the bank of the river.

Strong Creatures Easily Killed, Whales, elephants and eagles come at the head of the table of creatures which longest survive the ills to which they are heir. Yet a whale has been found dead of a dislocated jaw; an elephant has died of gangrene in one of bis feet, set up by a gur shot. In a Scotch deer fr.rest not long ago a stalking party came across a magnificent goldan eagle, dead, caught in a fox trap. He bad been caught by the center claw of one foot and had died of exhaustion in attempting to escape By his side were two grouse and a partly eaten hare which other eagles bad brought to sustain him in his fight for life.'' If a rat had been caughtCby his leg in a trap either he or his comrades would have bitten off the imprisoned limb and released him. The poor despised toad is not built to stand physical violence, but be would fatten on the imprisonment. Toads imprisoned in rocks for years no one knows how many come to light from time to time, fat and well. Unless microbes carried to them through tie pores of the Imprisoning rock have been their fare, it is certain, according to naturalists, that they have eaten nothing for an unthinkable period. .

Robs Old Preachers. In last week's panic' in the stock market there disappeared the last of the fund of $78,000 used for the.support of superannuated Methodist ministers of the New England conference, Williard S. Allen, one of the prominent laymen in the conference, who was treasurer of this fund,- has fled f jom his home in East Boston and has written a.confession of theft to his pastor, Rev George II. Spencer. Mr. Allen, who has been clerk of the. East Boston district court for twenty-nine years, admits to his pastor that be is an embezzler and that the fund for the relief of- men who have grown old in the Methodist ministry has been squandered in speculation. - Rev. Mr. Spencer, with Alonzo A. Weed, secretary of the Preachers' Aid society, which raised and controlled the funds, opened the safety deposit vault where securities to the amount of about $75,000 should have been on deposit. All of the bonds were missing and there was left only some shares of stock worth $2,800. An Old Editor. Charles G. Powell, of the Laporte Republican, is one of the Oldest and best editors in Indiana. loathe last issue of his paper he says The 7tb day of August has been a somewhat eventful day with the editor of The Laporte Republican. Fiftytwo years ago he came up to. Union Mills from , where Ilanoa is now located and entered a dry good stjre where he remained about five years. Forty-four years ago today he moved the Westviile Herald office to Laporte and changed! the name to the Laporte nerald. Forty-three years ago today, In 1860, he spent at Mr. Lincoln's house In Springfield, 111., staying there from 9 o'clock in the morning until three o'clock m the afternoon. Mr. Lincoln was at the time the republican candidate for president. Tillman's Ranting. With its usual good sense, the Fort Wavne Sentinel (Dem.) says: "On the race question Senator Tillman has nothing to say that is either enlightening or edifying. Everybody knows that in southern states the negro has no constitutional rights that the whites feel bound to recognize, and that occasionally in nörthern states a negro is hanged or burned by mobs. But wliat good can - come of northern audiences sitting under Tillman's blatant approval of southern methods and northern lynchings? The situation is deplorable" and dangerous and calls for the thoughtful consideration of temperate men, not the ravmss cf ths Tillmacs.

W. T. Leonard Interviewed. County Assessor Leonard, while attending the meeting of the state board of equalization at Indianapolis, was interviewed bv Louis Ludlow of the m Sentinel, on the political situation in Marshall county. , Being an optomistlc democrat, Mr. Leonard, of course, thinks democrats will always be in the ascendancy in Marshall county, and he is quoted by Mr. Ludlow as follows: -'Marshall county'' said he Ms in splendid shape financially We are out of debt and our rate of taxation is the lowest in the state. I have succeeded, during my term, in collecting from $6,000 to $8,000 a year of omitted taxes. So far during the present calendar year I have placed $185.000 of omitted taxable. property on the duplicate and I know of $100,000 more that will be added this year. "I think that Harley Logan will be Marshall county's next representative in the next legislature," continued Mr. Leonard, ne is our present county chairman. He is a bright lawyer who is coming to the front rapidly, lie is unselfish, has an abundance of good, practical sense and is successful. We have many strong Brvanites in our county who will not support anybody for president that did not support Bryan. "I notice that some of the newspapers are mentioning Frank Boss of Plymouth for the republican district chairmanship. I think this report Is simply talk. Mr. Boss is a young man who has had no political training. I think that Walter Brown will be reelected to the district chairmanship. It ishardly likely that Senator John W. Parks of Plymouth will be re-elected. Kosciusko county republicans have a majority of votes in the joint district and they are goint co elect one of their number to the senate. I think that sooner or later Mr. Parks will be a candidate for congress.

Crop Reports. Again there are gloomy forecasts for not only corn, but wheat." As the wheat harvesting has been practically finished, however, in 'most of the states these figures of outside experts

can not count for much now. All tne

-ecent indications were that the wheat yield of 1903 would be the largest ever known except in one or two years. In the case of corn, the forecasts may be worth more than in that of wheat, out there are chances in the next month or six weeks to make the crop much larger or much smaller than may be indicated now. Anyhow, the country will keep on hoping that the corn crop will go above the 2,000,000,000 mark.

The Hopeless Democratic Party. If the republican party bad been devising the most effective means of dispoing of its old enemy, the democratic party, and if it had had the power to bring Its most ingenious devices to bear, it could not have expected ten years ago to place the democratic party into so hopeless a condition as that party has brought on itself. Take the second Cleveland administration, the Chicago and the Kansas City platforms, anu he Nebraska pppocrat, and vou have a combination of forces that would distract even an aggregation of archangels, and the democratic leaders are not archangels by a good many degrees.

No Such Grain as -Corn Wheat The Department of Agriculture reports that thousands of letters are being received at the department from farmers in various parts of the country asking about a new grain called corn-wheat," that some bogus seed firm is exploiting. The department advises the farmers that that f-cre is no such grain as corn wheat, and it is probable that no hybrid of corn a od wheat could ever be produced, oi at any rate none that would be fertile. The grain that has caused the agitation is properly called Polish wbea and has some value as food for hogs. Bryan's Two Speeches. W. J. Bryan made two very shört speeches In Indianapolis, one on Monday night aüd. the other Tuesday morning. . . . , Monday night, he droppsd into the Grand Hotel - and said to the clerk: "Howdy, I want u room." . "Tuesday morning 'he said to the clerk: "Good morning. How much ismbill?" What a difference from three or four years ago. But there was just as much in his last Epeeches at the hotel as in any of hl3 former spread-eagle efforts. Indianapolis Sun.

Something About Excursions. The Bourbon Adyance has a column article in which it tries to convince people that the reason the Pennsylvania railroad does not run excursions to Chicago is because the merchants of Warsaw, Columbia City and Plymouth are opposed to them; but in the Bourbon paper we find the following article: - The Sunday school excursion which was advertised to leave Bourbon for Winona Lake vesterday was pulled off by the Pennsylvania road for the reason that they could hot furnish the coaches. Tuesday was then decided on and arrangements for transportation were in progress when the committee in charge thought the time was too short to do the matter justice and Friday was finally settled upon, but tbo following telegram to Agent Tom Twomey knocked that date out cf the question, and at this writing the excursion has been indefinitely postponed.' The telegram is as follows: " Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1903. T. J. Twomey: I am very sorry but we cannot provide coaches for your Sunday school excursion Aug. 7. We tried to borrow coaches from the G. R, & I. on that date but they could not let us have them. C. D. Kimball.

Led by BunKo Man. In a speech before, a democratic county convention at Urbana. Ohio,

Ohio, Wednesday, W. J. Bryan dt J

nied that he was a disturber and said that the trouble with the democratic party began in '92 . when a "bunko steerer" led the party into the net of Wall street just as; confidence men worked Individuals. He insisted that those who had not been loyal could not resume the leadership until they became repentant. The money question, he said was Lot paramount today, but the plutocaiy was seeking to control the party for all its purposes. ' : '

The Sophia Street Picnic, The ladies of Sophia street held their third annual picnic at Pretty Lake Wednesday, ate lunch with the HapDy Go Luckies" at the hotel and had a full day of pleasure that would be hard to duplicate. Those who made up the party were: Mesdames W. H, Vanguilder, Bosworth, Merle and Esther, n. A. Armstrong and daughter, Quincy Kelley, Crawford, J. E. Ellis and son, Will Martin and daughter F. B. Carey and daughter, S. B. Jordan, Frank Boss and son, C. L. Morris, J. W. Hess, L. Artz, J. W. Parksand daughter, Rhodes, Ketchara, Gougb, F. M. McCrory, son and daughter, Chas. Worthington and son, E. A Allen, C. O. Smith, G. W. Protsman. G. Schlosser, son and .daughter, S. W. Jackson, G. n. Jackson, Misses Azela Stein, Geneva McCrory, Emma Protsman, Amy Lameanl, Amy Wile; Mrs. Smith Miller and son, North Manchester; Mrs. .McElwee .and Miss Francis McElwee. Berlin, Germany; Mrs. Trumbull, Englewood. The Joyous Picnic! Now the picnic fiend gets busy, climbing rocks with Sue and Lizzie, and .indulging till he's dizzy in long draughts of country air And his brain with joy is reeling, but he can't avoid a fetling that his sunburnt nose is peeling under Sol's persistent glare. Oh, he mixes work and leisure In this wild suburban pleasure, but his most delirious measure of delight Ts blasted by The remarks when others find him with his coat-tails spread behind him and facetiously remind him that he's sitting on a pie. Buisness Men's Picnic About 75 buisness men attended the picnic at Pretty Lake Thursday and the program was carried out in full with a few extras thrown in A permanent organization was formed and J. N. WilsoD vvr.s elected president, William Everly vice-president, Peter J. Kruyer secretary, and Dr. G. R. Reynolds treasurer. A proposition to buy a lot and erect a building for the association on the banks of the beautiful lake, was discussed. Culyer's Crack Shot. - Last Thursday Ed Gandy and several others went out to George York's farm to kill and and butcher a calf for John Osborn. The calf was in a lot with a number of cattle and was very shy so he decided to shoot it on the spot Instead of trying to catch it and kill it at the slaughter house. So Ed raises his rifle and shoots at the calf, but imagine if you can, his consternation at seeing not the calf but a cow that was standing near fall seriously ..wounded, in the shoulder. Mr. Osborn then purchased the cow and butchered it. -Ed. is the recipient of a lot of good" natured guying. Culver Citizen, An Excellent School For Business. The Huntington Business University has become one of the largest and best I busin ess training schools in existence. Its graduates get good positions as soon as they are graduated. Many of the largest business firms in large cities depend upon this institution for tfceir office help on account of the proficiency of its graduates. It is indorsed by more business and professional men and high officials than any other business college. It occupies Its own businass block, has the largest and best faculty and has gymnasium and basket ball for both sexes. Living expenses in Huntington are very low. Students get board and room in private families for $2 per week. The ' demand is so great for good bookkeepers and stenographers that ambitious young men and women secure positions as soon as qualified. This school sends out a beautiful catalog, free. Persons interested should write tö O. E. Hawkins, Pres.

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