Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 August 1903 — Page 2

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ADVERTISING RATES made known on application. Entered at the potofiice at Pi j mouth, Indiana, as second-class mall matter. Plymouth, Ind., August 27, 1903. Tut; Yellowstone lark proper is onethird larger than Delaware and the adjoining government forest reserves make an area nearly equal to that of New Jersey. More than five thousand millions of dollars are represented in the largely fictitious capitalization of industrial combinations in the United States within six years. Senator Gorman, of Maryland, said the other day that be had no desire to become President. How can any man stand up and lock his fellow man In the face and say that it will be believed? The N. C. Yellow Jacket says the difference between Bryanism and Clevelandism is that the people dropped Bryanism before they tried it, and tried Clevelandism before they dropped it. From Washington comes the information that at least'twentj-tive more offlcials of the postoffiee department are slated for dismissal as a result of Assistant Postmaster General Brlstow's investigation. Kaiser William is planning an increase of about 40,000 men for the -German army which will give him an army aoout two-thirds of a million strong. The Kaiser is determined to have peace regardless of cost to the tax-pavers. There seems no reason to doubt that vrxr in the Balkans is on. No formal declaration has been made but tint will come later. And there Is also reason to expect shocking excesses in the conduct of a war where the combatants on both sides are little more than half civilized. There is no good reason why the President should not reel fairly comfortable over the political situation, as undoubtedly he does. In the first place he has no effective opposition in his own party and in the second place the party has no formidable opposition in the country. "Organized labor marches in solid procession on Labor Day," says a democratic exchange, "but on election day it marches go-as-you-please J' And '-under the only democratic administration this country has endured all sorts if labor marched to the souphouse and back again three times a day. Ifveuts in Macedonia seem to be drifting towards a religious war that will probably take the form of a wholesale slaughter of Christians by Mohammedans. If" such a massacre occurs Turkey will be responsible for it, and the powers that maintain Turkey in Europe will be parties to the crime. Indianapolis Journal. When in doubt, let well enouga alone" might be applied to the currency situation. With bankers and financiers unable to agree on any plan of currency reform, and with the Senate finance committee unable to get together on the subject, the alleged defects of our present currency system cannot be ve: serious. It possesses many pciats of excellence and its alleged evils seem to be largely imaginary Indianapolis Journal. Thousands of dollars have been secured from negroes of Georgia and Florida by a northern negro named Mitchell, who claimed that be had been employed by Senator Mark Hanna to collect money to be used in passing the Ohio senator's bill to pension the ex-slaves of the South. The negroes, tempted by the prospects of a pens; on, gave readily to Mitchell, some of th2m turning over the savings of years. One negro, E. B. Wilson, who had given $50,. grew suspicious and wrote Senator Hanna. Wilson has received a letter from the senator debouncing Mitchell as a fraud and warning the negroes not to trust him. It is estimated that Mitchell secured t6,C00 during bis campaign. The politicians at Indianapolis find it impossible to Inject any enthusiasm into either political party. The campaign is dragging. Voters do not propose to spend several months fussing airut candidates for mayor neither of whom is the choice of the people. The Bookwalter machine forced an indecently early convention six "months before election, because Bookwalter was afraid he cou-d nol be renominated If the people were givena chance to nominate anybody else." Then the democratic machine succeeded in nominating a can who during his term of cZlce as democratic city attorney made ca unsavory record. Snap conventions end machine rule are rank impositions :-d the pop'e of Indianapolis would tia t.-sll to retuko both p-rties by co:aI J w ..J L.-U-0 - ivr'

The recently nominated democratic candidate for governor of Mississippi describes President Roosevelt as a coou-flavored miscegenationist." An Inspection of the shades and colors prevailing among the negro population of the South is pretty good evidence that about 99.9 per cent of the practical . miscegenationists of the country live on the Mississippi side of Mason and Dixon's line.

Farmers are practically making prices in the grain markets, holding their wheat, corn and oats instead of marketing them promptly, as has been their custom. Editor Burke of the (farmers' Voice, however, predicts i'wbat any combine of growers to force higher prices will be a failure, saying that the law of supply and demand is supreme in the grain markets of the world. In discussing the editorial page of newspapers the Burlington Hawkeye thinks such a page is absolutely necessary to insure success. It says it is not necessary to always or even frequently have the same opinion as your readers. The reader would soon grow weary, the editorial page would soon become positively irritating to the reader, which always exactly presented bis views. By the conflict of ideas and of opinions the interest' in all questions is maintained, and through the din and smoke of this conflict progress is achieved. General Black and the Grand Army. In the election of General John C. Black as commander in chief the veterans of the Grand Army bestowed a worthy honor upon a good soldier, a high-minded gentleman and a model citizen. Endowed with unusual gifts of oratory his voice has been beard far and wide, and whether commemorating events linked with the history of the republic or participating in festivals of civic enterprise his words were always an inspiration to patriotism and good citizenship. Ser.ously wounded while leading his regiment in battle, General Black bears in his own body the evidences of his bravery as a soldier and his devotion to the cause of the Union. In civic life as United States commissioner of pensions, as congressman-at-large from Illinois his official conduct was characterized by the highest fidelity to duty and the loftiest concep tions of business honor. General Black's election can bardiy rail to call attention to the rapidly diminishing number of the survivors of the struggle for the Unioa. The wayering line of blue" tells each year of a smaller band of the flag's derenders. Death is now picking off the veterans at the rate of over nine thousand a year. The inspector general's report shows the membership of the Grand Army to be 255,000 a loss of 9,162. The losses by death during the preceding year were 8,299. From this time on the percentage ot loss by deaths will greatly increase until the last survivor of the great conflict is mustered out. Chicago Record Herald. No Danger In Doing Right. Republicans need not fear the exposure ot frauds and the effects of Investigation into corruption in the coming election, but they may well fear any attempt to cover up rottenness. They need not fear the concentration of the money power of Wall street against them, .but they may well dread any undue domination of public policy by that power. They need not fear the move to inquire Into the Northern merger project, but they may well avoid any appearance of defending the illegal trend of combination. They need not fear the influence of the president's position on the negro question, but they may well dread the results of the almost unlimited immigration. They need not fear a split on the currency unless the policy should tend to a weakness of the present strength, and to a currency that by elasiticity should make thin its consistency. The outside forces are not so dangerous as the Inside discontents, Elkhart Review. China Stands by Russia, The report from Peking that Russia and .China have reached an understanding on the Manchurian question can readily be believed. The recent course of those countries proves that they are acting in harmony. Whether China is or Is not coerced into this attitude of complaisance, there is ho room for doubt that she has, on the surface at least, acquiesced in Russia's plans. As they are the . countries chiefly concerned, it would seem that outsiders have no good excuse to say anything against Russia's acts in Cnina. We will probably hear little hereafter about the evacuation of Manchuria by Russia in October or at any other time. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Very -.Usch Alive. Mr. Quay insists that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated and his statement is entitled to all consideration. It may be pointed out, in confirmation of hl3 assertion, that, whatever may have been cald palest him, notcdy Li3 ever ciiared him with t inr a dead cno.

PLYMOUTH'S WAGON FACTORY.

Plymouth Wagons Will Soon Help to Extend the City's Reputation. Several weeks ago the Tribune called the attention of the Business Men's association to the fact that Mr. Rafferty the owner of the wagon works in this city would probabiy present a proposition worth considering. Mr. Rafferty was in Plymouth Thursday and, at a meeting of the association in the afternoon, said that if Plymouth would raise $500 to buy six acres of land adjoining that already belonging tJ the factory, thetirm of Rafferty & McCallum would proceed at once to enlarge the building and put in a large up to date factory for the manufacture of steel wagons. This proposition was at once accepted and a committee consisting of Joseph Swindell, Prosper Ball, Ed. Hogarth, L. M. Lauer and W. H. Vangilder was designated to raise the money. ' This money will be held in trust and not paid over until the plant is here and making wagons. The amount asked is less than was given for a Fourth of July celebration, and of course will be raised without dfflculty as everybody should be eager to give a small sum for such an enterprise. The company will be incorporated for about $200,000 and there will be a chance for Plymouth people to take stock if they wish, but nothing further will be asked in the way of a donation. Work on the new factory will probably begin within ten days and Plymouth will have a big wagon 'factory before snow flies. Closing Up Cripple Creek, The strike in the Cripple Creek district has something of an Interest for the entire country. All the mines are are closed, according to reports except the Portland and those belonging to the Woods investment company. For the time being production in that gt)ld field is virtually cut off. As that is the richest gold camp of its size on the globe, this closing of the mines is a matter of considerable consequence to the United States, and will have some interest for the world. It is a sympathy strike, to a large degree. The wrongs, or alleged wrongs, from which the miners in Colorado suffer have been committed in other parts of the state, and the mine owners in the Cripple Creek field, except In a few instances, have had no hand in them. On the basis of the" production in the first half of the year an estimate was made that the yield of the Cripple Creek field for 1903 would be about $22,000,000. This is not the highest figure ever touched in that field; The 824,000,000 mark was reached on one or two occasions, but as this field produced about three-fourths of Colorado's annual yield, and as Colorado has led all other United States communities iu gold output in the past few vears, the shut down will be a rather serious thing for that locality. In the neighborhood of $130,000,000 in gold has been produced by the Cripple Creek district in the dozen years or a little over since mining first began there. Aside from the Rand district in South Africa it is the richest gold field in the world, and, for Its area, it exceeds even the Rand diggings. With the mines in that part of the country closed for the time the estimate of an $85,000,000 product for the United States for the calendar year 1903 may prove too high, even though the output in Alaska may be somewhat greater than the figures of a few months ago indicated. The labor contest in Cripple Creek will be followed with a good deal of concern by the country at large. Otto Miles Wants Divorce. Otto Miles, a South Bend street car conductor, well known in Plymouth, has filed sensational divorce proceedings In the St. Joseph circuit court against his wife, Emma Miles.- ne charges her with cruel treatment, alleging amon.rj other things that last June while hs was In bed asleep she deliberately poured kerosene over him, saturating the bed clothes, and then In fiendish glee set fire to them with the desire and Intention of burning him alive". Mr. Miles asked for the custody of their two children. Cod Liver Oil in Trade. Few people realize that as many lives are lost in the cod fisheries to secure cod liver oil as are saved by the oil after it Is extracted and refined. Statistics of the industry prove it. Since the liver oil of the cod came to be accepted, about fifty years ago, as a cure for tuberculosis, many thousand people have been restored to health from wasting diseases. The cost Is seen in the bfjeaved families along the Newfoundland coast. It seems to be life for life. How lcu!d It fit Plymouth? Leonard Crane, of Indianapolis, has a good story. ' " "A patrolman was once advised that the saloons in his district needed a little more careful watching," said Sergeant Crane "and he v?as to report one Sunday as to their condition. That niht ths report read: " dlccns in ay district all did vrcll tc-iy." .

WHITING'S RACE WAR ENDS

A Romantic Love Affair Has Happily s Intervened. A romantic love affair has happily intervened in the interest of harmony on the battle ground of the race war at "Whiting, where the shedding of Olood has marked the rioting between the Hungarian and Servian Inhabitants of the village during the last few days. Mora Panton, the pretty daughter of Jacob Panton, leader of the Servian forces, Is now the center of all interest in the Indiana town because of the efforts she is making to have the flag of truce raised. It so happens that she is the fiancee of Steve Phu, who is in command of the Hungarian faction. That the young people were engaged was not generally known until Sunday night, when she was struck and rendered senseless by her lover during the progress of the war. Owing to the darkness Phu did not racognize his sweetheart when he assaulted her with a board. It was not until after she fell from the blow that he cried; -Oh, it is Mora! Have I killed you?" The young woman was carried to the saloon of her father In the arms of her lover. The first words that escaped her lips after she regained her senses were a prayer to her father to declare peace. She told Lim of ber love for Phu and her pleadings have moved him considerably. It is hoped by the peaceful residents of the village that Miss Panton will be the means of bringing about a suspension of hostllUIes. Valparaiso Messenger. Christian Jealousy His Safety. Jealousy and mutual distrust among the Christian powers are the forces that keep the Turk on the throne. If diplomatic concert shall evolve a satisfactory plan for the partition of his European dominions and if some agreement shall be reached for the neutralization of the Dardanelles the unspeakable one will speedily be driven into Asia. It is only fair to Great Britain to concede that her championing of Turkey's cause has been due to practical rather than sentimental considerations, England holds the murderous Mussulman in power not because she loves him but because she fears Russia. The same thing, is true of all the other powers. Left to themselves it is safe to say that any one of them would gladly undertake the task of ridding Europe of a murderous, barbarous incubus which has no place in the midst of modern civilization. The Turk exists merely through the jealousies of of Christendom. Once those differences are composed his knell will have sounded. It may be doubted whether the present disturbances in the Balkans presage the immediate downfall of Islam in Europe. There is no evidence that Russia means more than a "demonstration" to force adequate reparation for the murder of her consul at Monaseir, and until Russia moves there is no prospect of the final struggle. The action of the small Balkan states signifies nothing. Sooner or later, howeyer, the end will come. Some day the atrocities perpetrated by bloodthirsty and licentious will sting even the diplomatic conscience into activity. When that day comes Europe will enter into an agreemeut to drive the Mussulman a&oss the Bosphorus first and admin?ster upon his estate later. Chicago Chronicle". News of the Churches. The official program for the annual session of the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which will be held at South Bend, Sept. 2 to 9, has been announced. Bishop Isaac W. Joyce of Minneapolis, formerly of Laporte county, will preside. At the Missionary Anniversary meeting on Friday evening Rev. J. II, Cissel of Michigan City will preside. Mrs. Joyce will deliver the principal address on Saturday afternoon at the annual meeting of the of the Women's associations, and on Sunday morning Bishop Joyce will preach the sermon. The appointments will be announced Monday or Tuesday. Bourbon or Argos Whiskey? A couple of gentlemen from Argos were in town Tuesday and called at the hardware store of Metheny & Harris for the purpose of buying some ammunition, claiming that they had encountered a cub bear while enroute to this place, and declared their Intention of returning and capturing the animal. Bourbon Mirror. LucXy Valparaiso Vonun. Mrs. E. N. Norris, Is the name of the lucky Valparaiso lady, who received a check for $1,000 Monday. Mrs. Korris won second' prize, 91,000, for making the second best-" guess on the immigration Into this country for tha year ending June 30, 1903, as conducted by the Farm and Fireside mr-ozine. Her guecs nzz 57,050.

Postal Clerks Complimented. The following letter has been received by E. W. Healy referring to the brave attitude and cool headed way in which railway mail clerks conducted themselves during the recent wreck at Van Wert, Ohio; Referring to the wreck, I liave talked with a number of railroad men of years of experience and they are unanimous in saying that this was the worst piled passenger wreck they had ever seen. When it is remembered that the main car containing five of Uncle Sara's trusty mail clerks, jumped completely over the engine and iu its flight turned end for end and landed on its side, it is indeed a miracle of miracles that none of them lost their lives or received permanent disabling injuries. Upon my arrival at the scene of the wreck the clerks who escaped injury had pulled themselves together and amid the distracting excitement that attended the accident, were hard at work in a systematic and cool headed way, taking care of and saving the mall. Too much praise cannot possibly be given to this crew and it may be that their simple act of heroism and devotion to duty will pass unnoticed in the hurly burly of these hustling times, but it impressed me so strongly that I cannot refrain from mentioning the incident in this report and to observe in passing that this branch of the service is indeed entitled to receive at the hands of the Government all it can possibly spare in the way of salary, promotion and preferment." Very resp't, W. L. POE, Chief Clerk.

Old Lake View Cub. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. II. G. Thayer and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Toan, of Plymouth, are spending the day with Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. D. McDonald at the south end of the lake. The visit is in the nature of a reunion, they being the only surviving members of the Old Lake View club organized in 1878, the other members, Horace Corbin and wife, Joseph Westervelt and wife, C. C. Buck and wife and N. II Oglesbee being dead. The club purchased and erected a large club house and built the cottages on the grounds now owned by the Vandalia railroad company and known as the Lake View hotel. The club existed for fifteen years and was the largest and most noted organization in the history of the lake. Culver Citizen. Wheat Experiments at Purdue. Purdue University experiment station has issued a bulletin showing the result of a test of a number of varieties of wheat this past year. The varieties producing the highest yield are: Tennessee Fultz, 43 bushels per acre; Winter King, 38.3 bushels per acre; Pedigree early, 36.8 bushels per acre; Dawson's Golden Chaff, 36.6 bushels per acre; Perfect, 36.5 bushels per acra; Jones' Longberry 36 bushels per acre. The lowest yield noted in the bulletin is 31 bushels per acre. Farmers would do well to send to the Director of the Experiment Station at Purdue University and obtain this bulletin which can be had free, and contains a great deal of valuable information. Home fcr Orphan Children. nomes for 1,320 orphan children have been found bv agents of the Associated Charities since 1897, when they began to take children from state and county institutions and to place them in private homes.- In the last nine months the three agents of the board have found homes for 223 children. Investigations show that these dependent children are well cared for. and there have been few cases in which the state board has been compelled to remove them because of illtreatment. Big Business In Steel. Last year the United States produced 15,000,000 tons of steel, or more than the entire output of the world nine years ago. It Is 2,000,000 tons more than the combined output of Germany and Great Britain in 1902, and is nearly half of the world's production. Modern industrial expansion is shown by the growth of the world's oütput of steel from 4,000;000 tons in 1880 to 35,000,000 tons In 1902; and iron and steel are an accepted business barometer. Newly Bom Child Has Smallpox, Mr. and Mrs. John Mclntyre and their two year old son, of Springfield township, Laporte county, have had smallpox in a mild form for the past six weeks and last Thursday Mrs. Mclntyre gave birth to a child, which is now breaking out with the disease. The health officers have established a quarantine. River Full of Dead Bodies. According to a dispatch received by the Frankfort Zeitung, In Berlin, the river near Monastir, Macedonia, is full of the mutilated bodies of women and children who have been massacred by Turkish bashi bczouks. List cf teirj. Fairs in this section cf the state will be neld as follows: Laporte, Sept. 15: Rochester, Sept. 922; Valparaiso, Sept. 8 11; North Manchester, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2; Bremen, October, 69; Bourbon, Oct. 13 -16.

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