Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 November 1906 — Page 1

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SUPREME COURT OPINION.

If Binding It Wipes Bolters Off the v Earth. The Supreme Court in affirming the decision of Judge Bernetha and refusing to mandate the election commissioners of Marshall county to print the Gam ticket under the emblem of the eägle said: "What we decide is that a call for a local convention which is issued by the county central committee selected and organized pursuant to the call of the State central committee and acting pursuant to its rules,, is the call of the regularly constituted party authorities. r ' ' ' "Those who see fit to separate themselves from the regular party organization cannot claim the privileges which attach to it. As between a dissenting local organization and the representatives of the general body in the locality, the courts, recognizing the fact that those who thu separate themselves are dissenters, deny to them the rights which belong to the regular membership. "The rule ist even in the case of an adhering minority (in controversies within churches), hat it is those who adhere and submit themselves to the regular order of the. general organization, and not the seceding majority, who are to be recognized as the representatives of the general organization, in the locality. Merrill Moores the attorney for Gam, says this is simply an opinion given outside the case and given on a statement of one side only and is not law in the case which has been on trial in Rochester this week. He is piobably correct but the above shows that the supreme court does not believe that bolters have a right to the party emblem. The opinion declares that seceders have no rights in a party or a church no matter how large a majority they may have. The court says the men who remain in the regular organization ,are entitled to every thing that belongs to the organization . whether they are a majority or a minority. Mr. Moores says the rule prohibiting mass conventions has nothing to do with either of the conventions in Marshall county because both conventions were called before the rule was enacted--He says this is the most foolish rule ever adopted by any state committee he ever heard of because if i: is recognized as law the Republicans of Indiana have scarcely a dozen legal township tickets in the state. lr. Moores came to this conclu sion after witness after witnesss ha'i teen put on the stand to prove thai ihe affidavit of Mr. Schlosser declar ing that he had been nominated by a delegate convention was false and his statement that the convention of September 15, was a mass convention, was also false. After this had been fully proven Mr. Moores saw ihat he and his clients were in danger of indictment for perjuryand he ask cd the court to allow him to amend the complaint and state the facts The court allowed him to do this by writing on the margin of the, complaint that the changes were made after the trial was begun. Mr. Moores also admitted that J F. Garn and Samuel E. Medbourn had been illegally removed as committeemen of Union township, con sequently they are toda the, legal committeemen of that township. Mr. Moores only used five minutr to make hin argument for the Garn ticket. He did not say one word, as to the evidence that either side had produced. He utterly ignored the Iacts and the opinion of the supreme court and referred to an opinion of the supreme court given several years ago in a case in which there -was no controversy and threatened that if the Gam ticket was not placed under the eagle he would ask the supreme court to declare that no election had been held in Marshall county, and the men now in 'office would remain in office two years longer. It was an attempt at intimidation pure and simple. An attempt to scare the election commissioners and Judge Bernetha and get the decision that Moores wanted, without reference to law or evidence. Everybody knows that the Hendricks organization is the regular Republican organization ind the Garn faction seceeded from it. .The supreme court says it does not make an;- difference how large such a faction may be, it is not the Republican party. Standard Grabs New Field. The Standard Oil cornpany habought forty-two acres in the Cadd City field, twenty miles north o Shreveport, ami will begin operations at once in the development of the property. There is one flowing well on the property and to handle thf product a, complete pumping! station, a pipe line and storage tanks will b . erected. It is the intention -of the Standard Oil company to ship the crude oil lo its refinery at Beaumont until the field is fully developed, when a refin cry will be erected in Shreveport. Bank Robbers Fled to Goshen. The handcar on which the Shipshewana bank robbers made their escape has been found 'on the Yoeman farm, a mile and a half from Goshen, by the side of the Goshen Battle Creek line. . v It was covered with grass. The sextet of bank .robbers evidently walked into Goshen and caught a Lake Shdre freight train for another point .

Thanksgiving Proclamation, The time of year has come when, in accordance with the wise custom of our 'forefathers, it becomes my duty to s'.-t aside a special day ' of thanksgiving and praise to the Almighty because of- the blessings we have received, and of prayer that these blessings may be continued. Yet another year of widespread well-being has passed. Never before in our history or in the history of an other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material . prosperity than is ours a prosperity so great that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride and least of all a spirit of heedless disregard of our responsibilities, but rather a sober sense of our many blessings and a resolute purpose, under Providence, not to forfeit, them by any action of our own. Material well-being, indispensable though 'it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true nationa greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon' this foundation then our national life will be as meaning less and empty as a house where only the foundation has been laid. Upon our material well-being mus. be built a superstructure of individual and national life lived in accordance with the laws of the highest morality or else our prosperity itself will in the long run turn out a curse instead of a blessing. We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction. Accordingly I hereby set apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and supplication, on which the people shall meet in their homes or their churches devoutly to acknowl edge all that has been . given them and to pray that they may in addition receive the power to use these gift iright , ' In witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the independence of the United States the one 'hundred and thirty-first - Theodore Roosevelt. By the President: . Elihu Root, Secretary of State.

Death of Mrs. Shrider. Mrs. Margaret M. Shrider died at her home on Sophia street Friday morning after an illness of two months. On Sept. 6th while on a visit among relatives in Kosciusko county, she was taken seriously sick with peritonitis and though for a time her life was despaired of, she so far recovered as to be brought to her home Oct. 15th since which time she seemed to be improving slowly and Thursday evening was brought to the table for supper with her family. She was in the same state of health Friday morning and her husband was near Valparaiso superintending the work of his gang of men when she, after eating some breakfast, complained to Mrs. Biddle, her faithful friend and attendant, of feeling so much worse and died in a few minutes. Mrs. Shrider's maiden name was Van Keuren and she was born and grew to young womanhood in Kosciusko county. She was for a time a resident of Ft. Wayne where she united with the Baptist church remaining a consistent member until death called her to await her reward. She was united in marriage with Ira Shrider May 26, 1903, who with their sweet little daughter Evelyn, is left mourning over her untimely taking off. Her sudden demise was a severe shock to her many friends, but the fact remains that He who guides the destinies of all and notes even the sparrows fall, has left us the comforting knowledge that, "As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive," so our sorrow is not without hope. The remains will be taken to Kosciusko county for burial. Funeral notice will be given later. Increase in State Collections. -The fiscal report of the Secretary of State's office for the two years ending Wednesday, shows total collections, to the amount of $263,800.59, as compared with collections to he amount of- $226,131.02 reported two years for the preceding two years, a gain of $37,644.97, during the last two years. The receipts for the last two years were divided as follows: Fees from lomestic corporations, $230,163.30; foreign corporations, $18,046.57; miscellaneous fees, $11,206.35; motor ve hicle registrations (since April 1, 1905), $4,253; interest on. deposit since April 1, 1906, (when Secretary Fred Sims came into office), $137.37. The ' report of . this office for the quarter just ended shows the total receipts to be $18,416.97, divided as follows: Fees from domestic corpor ations, $14,270.50; foreign, corpori tions, $894.80; miscellaneous fees, $1 383.70; motor vehicle licenses, $464.50; sales of court reports, $1,363.50, and interest $34.97. . -The expense account for the last Man Who Had no Hair. The late John Humphreys, 73 years old, who died and was buried at Fair view, Ind., was known as the 'hair 1 less man." There was not a hair on his body. When but 13 years old he swallowed a strong dose of patent medicine, which resulted in all of his hair falling off. It was never renew ed.

Epidemic Hysteria. At the recent meeting of the American Association of Railway Surgeons in Chicago Dr. A. R. Mitchell of Lincoln, Neb.t said that an epidemic of hysteria was sweeping over the country and threatening to do incalculable damage. Dr. Mitchell did not use the word hysteria in a figurative sense. 'Thc educated physician knows," said he, 'that hysteria is as much a disease a smallpox. It affects all men and women alike. Innumerable examples of the inectious and contagious character of the malady are recorded through all history. Men and women are but children led hither and thither by emotions which appeal to the present only. Under such leadership personal responsibility is cast aside

and in groups under like influence do things which not one as an individual would think of doing. This is well illustrated in the violence of mobs and in the enactment of unwise laws which but for better executive re view would still further encumber our statutes." Dr. Mitchell developed the subject at some length and his views were supported by Dr. R. W. Corwin, president of the association, who suggested that physicians should use less of the material and more of the spiritual in the treatment of hysteria. He was not a believer in Christian Science, but he believed it had done much good in case of hysteria. There is undeniably an epidemic of anger at wrongs which exaggerates real wrongs and invents imaginary ones. There is an epidemic of disor dered emotions, and the disorder manifests itself in a variety of ways. a number of which were mentioned by Drs. Mitchell and Corwin. The fact that these gentlemen are physicians may have predisposed them to diagnose the disorder as hys teria, a nervous disease which may either excite emotions abnormally or be caused by an abnormal excitement of the emotions. The phenomena mentioned as manifestations of the disorder, such as mobs of lynchers, strikes and their attendant excesses, denunciation of "trusts" and hostility toward those who possess riches, are undeniably present to an extraordinary extent a' present. They may be indicative of hysteria or merely of undue excitement. of natural characteristics of the human race. ' In either case the disorder is certainly communicable, and it may become epidemic and dangerous. In either case it is a disorder of the emo tional nature, which becomes epidem ic and dangerous because of the gregarious nature of man. Most men are naturally followers They are easily swayed by appeals to their emotions and when their emo tions are excited they are easily de ceived and easily induced to do things which in their calmer moments they deplore. Whether they go wrong or go right depends on the character and intelligence of th rsc who get their attention and possess the ability to sway their emotions. In short, it all depends on the character of their lead ers. If their leaders are intelligent and good their emotional excitement may rise even to hysteria without any very serious consequences. If their leaders are bad there is no assignable limit to their evil excesses. Record Herald. Low Fare Demand Grows. Passenger officials, especially those of western lines, are concerned over the spread and increase in strength of the agitation for a two cent passenger fare. There are few northern states east of the foothills of the Rocky mountains in which the rate is more than two cents in which there is not a well organized effort 1 1 get it reduced by statute. ' . A-deluge of two ceot. rate laws is expected to come with the meeting of the slate legislature this winter un less a decided change is wrought meantime in public sentiment. In order to allay the. popular de mand for a two cent rate in'Pennsylvania and Indiana the central railway' will put all their rates east of the In diana-Illinois line, on. a basis of two and a half cents" or less'.. Few officials believe, however, . that the reduction will prevent' the legislatures of these 'two states from passing a two cent rate law. . . Telephone War to Begin. Official notice that the lndependen! Telephone interests htve leased the telephone franchise of the Illinois Tunnel company, .thereby securing entrance into Chicago, was given out Tuesday by the general counsel of the Independent interests. This official notification'marks the beginning of the telephone warfare between the Chicago Telephone company and the New Independent Telephone' company which had been threatened so long. It is the intention of the Independent company to invest between $15,000,000 and $20.000,000, in developing the automatic plant. 4 . Say Kentucky Has Diamonds. With a view of mining diamonds in Elliott and Carter counties Samuel Pearson of Scranton, Pa., and W. J Rice of San Juan, P. R., have organized the Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Company with a capital of $100,000. Pearson, who srent years aan engineer in the diamond fields of South Africa, says, that the indica tions for diamonds are better, in Ken t'ueicy than in South Africa.

THE. WHITE

BORN JASXji 13, 1906

Property of Hendricks & Company and the Grand Old Republican Party.

. This is the elephant that has worried James P. Goodrich and Carl Riddick into political fits. It is the elephant that sent cold chills up the spins of A. L. Brick. It is the elephant that rattled Merrill Moores and John W. Parks until they were unable to draw a complaint that would stand in any court. It is also the elephant that made these men correct in open court the lies they had prepared and their clients had sworn to. It is the same elephant that caused Ed Garn to get so shaky that he Could not climb the stairs into Kuhn's hail to attend the meeting of his committee. To sum all up in a few words, ft is the elephant that crushed the bolters of Marshall county, smashed Congressman Brick's political machine and saved the Republican party.

. Places for 60,000 Men. . ' Inability to find laborers is hampering the railroads all over the West in carrying out contemplated impVovements. At least 50,000 men are wanted, railroad managers say, with practically none in the market, , despite the fact that the railroads ar wil'mg to furnish transportation and, in some cases, to pay as high as $2.51 daily! Here are a few systems in t!.c market for help: - Western Pacific, 8,000. men. 1 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 0,C00 to 7,000 men for its extension to the coast. ' Southern Pacific, 6,000 for its extension northward through California to Portland. Chicago &0 Northwestern, 4,000 to 5,000 men. ... North Coast Line, large force for road from Walla Walla to Seattle, fin addition to, new construction nearly every Western road is doubletracking and .building cutoffs and similar improvements The Northern Pacific wanted to. double track its Washington main line m time for the heavy fall and winter , traffic, but failed through lack of of labor, with the re suit that it has 10,000 loaded cars o.i its side tracks for lack of main track facilities. , Texas, where more railroad build ing is being done than anywhere else in the West, is not complaining so bitterly, because, railroad men think, laborers prefer the South to the North during the winter, even in Tex as, however, the labor supply is inadequate. A Protest from Japan. The action of the school board at San Francisco in segregating Japanese from white children has raised a storm of protest in Japan. Indeed, the Japanese government has gone so far'as to. instruct its minister at Washington to enter formal complaint to the United States government. The action of the San Fran cisco fchool board was taken in response to the demand of labor unionists, who, to a large extent, dictate the government of that city. The exclusion of Japanese from equal right with white childen is in violation of the treaty between Japan and the United States, and Japan is justified in protesting! There are in, the situation grave possibilities of strain-d relations between the two countries. President Roosevelt has sent to San Francisco Mr. Metcalf, .secretary of the department of commerce and labor, who -is. (rom California, to endeavor to secure an adjustment thit will appease the Japanese. The situation, illustrates the perils which may be caused by the extreme demands made by organized labor in some places and the attitude assumed by some labor unions of seriority over the government' and contempt for its agreements with foreign nations. Boucher Case at Kokomo. Concluding his divorce complaint with a sensational paradox declaring in one paragraph that his home life was a "hell on earth" and in the next that his home was "an iceberg which froze his very life and soul," Ferdinand Boucher beseeches the Howard circuit court to grant him relief in a suit which he filed on change, of venue from Grant county against Mrs. J. Boucher. Boucher further charges that his wife twice shot at him and to preserve his life he had to flee from home.. His wife in a cross 'complain does' not admit that her liege was favored by her conduct so as to bea the coal triist in winter and the ice trust in- summer, but charges that most of his" woes proceeded from too much drink, and while intoxicated he threw dishes at her head.

ELEPHANT

Three Generations of the Hoar " Family. The death of Congressman Rockwood Hoar of Massachusetts takes out of the federal congress the Hoar family, which in the last seventy years has been represented there by four members, whose united term of service , covered over half of th period. If one could count public service in Massachusetts along with public service in the federal government, one would find that for threequarters of the period one or more oi the members of the family have beet in important office. Samuel Hoar, the grandfather oi lITe Rockwood Hoar who has . just died, was a rncnr.ber of the Massachusetts state constitutional conven tion in 1820, was twice a member c. the state senate arid was a member of congress for , one term. His elder ron, E. Rockwood Hoar, was, with a gap of three years, for twenty years in service as a judge o the Common Pleas and Supreme courts of his state. He served for a year or two as Attorney General of the United States, was then a member of the high commission which framed the treaty of Washington in 1871 and later served in Congress for a term George Frisbie Hoar, his younger brother and the most famous membe of the family, was twice a member of the state legislature, was sent to the lower house cf Congress in 1869. where he served until 1877, when he was elected senator, which position he held until his death in 1904. i His son, Rockwood Hoar, held many official positions in Massachus etts before his election to Congress. Which followed immediately upon his father's death. This is one of the unusual record; of American public life, and is mem brable even more for the quality of the public service rendered bythe family than for its length. Senators by Direct Vote. The progress made by the move ment to give the people a direct voice in the choice of United States sena tors may be seen from t!te lact that 12 of the 30 mentioned vacancies to be filled th is season have already been provided for by primary election. In Georgia, Texas, Lou'siana, Mississ'p pi, Alabama, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas in the south and in Illinois and Oregon In -the north primary election nominations have been made, and South Carolina will be added to the list when the election is held - in November. In Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota the primary election laws do not include senators, but the popular tendency is nevertheless in, evidence as the state conventions declared who would be elected if the next legislature in those stales shall be Republican, and in these states the sanatoria1 question is practically tetlled. In th? other states the old methods still ob tain, but all the signs indicate that the old methods will not much longer continue. If-the people cannot obtain the disired amendment to th.? federal constitution by which senators may be elected direct, they will insist upon having what is regarde! as next best. President's Message. A Washington telegram says:" With the exception of a few minor matters the president has completed a message which goes to congress next month. On account of his trip to Pan J ama next week, the president had a complete document prepared during October .The menace of inherited wealth will probably occupy more space than any other subject."

Who Gets the New Gold? Who is getting the great quantity of i gold that is coming out of the mines? This is a 'question that is engaging the attention of financial .writers these days. The reports of production show that the mines are turning out gold at the rate of over $400,000,000 a year. The statisticians who have given their attention to the subject are convinced that the output during the last twelve months has been fully. as much as that. The returns from the great European banks show that during the twelve months ending in the middle of September they lost in round figures $49,000,000 of gold. These arc not all the important banks of Europe, it is true, but they comprise the ten great national banks which hold most of the reserves and which in the middle of September last year held altogether no less than $1,878,000,000. The loss was not a very large proportion of the total something over 2 1-2 per cent but the remarkable thing is that there was not a gain instead of a loss where the quantity of new gold was so great. It is assumed that other financial institutions in Europe could not have gained what the

great reserve banks lost, not to speak of their taking from the output of the mines. Hence it is argued that the new gold cannot have become a factor in European banking. Turning to the United States, it is found that the national banks have lost nearly $6,500,000 in about the same time. But the reports of the United States treasury tell a different story. They show that the treasury holdings, including those against gold certificates, increased nearly $101,500,000 during about the same period. The treasury therefore, gained about $46,000,000 more than the great reserve banks of Europe and our national talks lost. So that much of the twelve months' output from the mines is accounted for. But that is not much more than one-ninth of the output. What has become of 'the other eight-ninths? To begin with, it is found that Great Britain has imported over $46,000,000 of gold more than she has exported Then it is loosely argued that if Bri tain absorbed that much into general circulation continental Europe may easily have taken $100,000,000 more. This is far from convincing and all the further from .the fact that it is assumed that allthe net import into Britain went into circulation and none tno manufactures. Then it is loosely estimated tha. the sum of $20,000,000 has gone' to Mexico to supply requirements under the recently adopted gold stand ard and that India and Argentina have each absorbed about the same sum for a like purpose. There remains about $140,000,000 still to be accounted for, and that is charged up in a lump to manufactures. We may be a little more exac when we recall that in this estimate account has been taken only of the loss of the national banks and the gain of the treasury in this country But that does not tell the whole story. During the last fisoal year we imported nearly $58,000,000 more gold ;han we exported, besides keeping all of our own production at home. As we imported nearly $17,000,000 more than we exported during July and August, it is safe to say that during the period under consideration we im ported fully $03,000,000 more than we exported. Our mines during the same period must have yielded fully $90,000,000. ' We had, therefore, taken no les than $153,000,000 of the world's output which, of course, includes our own up to the 1st of September instead of $95,000,000 figured in the foregoing estimates, or $58,000,000 more. This, will serve to fill in some of the vacant spaces in that estimate How to Raise Fine Peaches. The Wenona (111.) 'Index says: A farmer residing south of Pontiac his turned his attention to peaches, and has succeeded in raising varieties that have heretofore baffled the skill of Illinois people. In the fall he uses a solution of lye sprinkled on the ground about the roots to kill the in sect enemy of the peach. In the spring he uses , some more, and washes the trunk of the tree with the same stuff. He has raised peaches of fine quailty and recommends planting seeds in October, using those thaUhave not been dried too much. Illinois is not a bad peach state, though the trees winter kill easily. On the other hand they grow fast and constant planting . insures plenty for Jable use. Pontiac is in the same latitude with Plymouth, and the conditions which apply in that section are identical writh those here. Fix New Balloon Record. The baloon Centaur, having on board Leo Stevens, Captain Homer, W. Houge. and Lieutenant F. M. Butler, all of New York, which made an ascension from Pittsfield, Conn, at 4:30 Saturday afternoon, Isndcd at Short Beach in the town of .Cranford at 7 o'clock in the evensmT. The trip was remarkable in the fact that the speed atta'ned his not been equaled in this country,. f r the air-line distance of .12r miles was covered in two and a half -lOMrs.'and also of note in the fact tint the aeronauts, sighting Long Island, dropped the balloon a distance of 3.000 feet in one and a half minutes. The balloon landed on the very edge of the water.

Our Fool State Committee. In frantic .hurry the RepubEcan State committee flooded Indiana newspapers with telegrams Tuesday afternoon, seeking to correct an error whereby voters who desire to vote a straight ticket were practically instructed to "stamp the rooster."

The committee's Press Bureau sent out to every Republican paper in the State several days ago, a page of "boiler plate" political matter. Two columns were devoted to instructions on how to mark ballots. These con tained the following: "If you want to vote a straight KepuDiican ticket make a cross with in the circle at the head of the first column of the ballot. ihe word "first was the error. The committee went on the assump tion that Republican candidates' names would be in the first column, when the Indiana , law requires that uemocratic candidates occupy the first column on every ticket. The mistake was discovered only after half of the Republican news papers had used the misleading mat ter and George Lockwood, head of the Press Bureau, immediately wired to every newspaper to scratch that word "first In many instances the matter had already appeared. Even Lockwood's paper, the Marion Chronicle, used it conspicuously'on the first page. Gen erally follov. ed, . the error would cause many Republicans to vote the straight Democratic ticket. Church Noted in History. On the day Mrs. Jefferson Davis died the announcement appeared in the Washington papers that the Church of the Epiphany would be placed on the market and sold if an other and suitable site could be found upon' less valuable ground within the confines of the parish. The coincidence called up many recollections of the dim and faded past in the minds of people who have lived there since the days when this church was some times referred to as the "rebel" church of Washington, the most striking of which had reference to Jefferson Davis himself. The church of the Epiphany, which stands upon a wide and deep lot on G street near Fourteenth street, in what is fast becoming the heart of the business center of Washington, was the church regularly attended by Mr. Davis during all the years he served in Congress. He retained his pew there until the very last, but on the night of the day he was elected President of the. Southern Confederacy somebody, whose identity has never been disclosed, broke into the edifice and tore his silver name plate from the pew and carried it away. Whether the deed was perpetrlted by a friend or an enemy has likewise remained a secret. Red Hot Keatucky Democrats. Governor Beckham and' United States Senator McCreary are .having a red hot time of it over in Kentucky. Both are aspirants to the senatorship, both are delivering speeches to large audiences, and both indulge in unsparing denunciation of one another. Each affects to feel confident of securing a majority of adherents in the legislature. That, ar a result of this bitter warfare, the party is badly demoralized in Kentucky, goes without saying. But for the fact "that the Republican forces have been very badly handled during the past six or eight years, Kentucky would no longer be a Democratic state. Woman Roasted Alive. Paralyzed to such an extent that she could not help herself, Mrs. Richard Hunter of Bluffton, was literally roasted alive Wednesday while seate i in her chäir at .her home. The fire was started by a match which ühr struck on the bottom of her chair in an effort to light her pipe and she was unable to extinguish the flames which were communicated to her clothing Her aged mother who heard her screams" was unable to lift the suffering woman from the chair but dashed water upon her until the flames were subdued. Nearly all of her clothing was burned frornher body and death was inevitable. Married. Mr. John Beatty and Mrs. Nellie L. Milner were married at the home of the bride's parents Thursday evening, Nov. 1st at 6 o'clock, Rev J. J. Coleman, of the Wesleyan church, conducting the ceremony. Mrs. Milner is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ritchey, and a very highly respected and accomplished lady. Mr. Beatty is bookkeeper and stenographer at the Indiana novelty, a most amiable and popular young man. They took the ten o'clock train for the East, and will visit at Mr. Beatty's home in Pennsylvania. They will reside in Plymouth. Brings Suit for $10,000. Harry L. Jarrell of Walkerton. St Joseph county, as administrator of the estate of Edward Hill has filed suit in the Federal Court against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for $10,000 damages for the death of Hill. He alleges that Hill was run over and killed by an engine at Walkerton on January 11, 1906, that the engine was running in the yards at the rate of twenty-five miles, an hour without giving warning of its approach by either bell or whistle, and that Hill could not hear its approach because of the noise of another engine standing near.

TWO , REPUBLICAN TICKETS.

Democratic Election Commissioners Put Bolters' Ticket Under the Eagle. Democrats of Marshall county are n a quandary. After the bolters had ben defeated in every court to which they hed appiied, and had denounced Everly and Jones as dishonest, and had made affidavits in three courts that, these men did not intend to put their ticket under the emblem of the eagle, the election commissioners met at 7:30 Thursday evening and placed the Garn bolters tkket under the emblem of the eagle, and the reggular Republican nominees of ' the convention held September 15, under the emblem of the elephant and under the name of ""Republican Reform Ticket." This was done after the election commissioners had spent over two days of the previous week in hearing evidence which proved conclusively that the ticket nominated June 2, was not the regular Republican ticket Instead of deciding the question Saturday they waited r.ntil Monday and then announced that they had decided and would, announce their decision at 7:30 Monday evening,- but did not do so. j Attorney Logan was not there and that was given as the reason. He was in the city. Why was he not present at that meeting? Logan went to Knox Monday morning. He told the commissioners before he left if they received any notice from the bolters not to act until he came back. Wby did Logan expect such notice? i j Then a notice that an application for mandate would - be sought in Judge Bernetha'? court at Rochester Tuesday evening was given the commissioners. They appeared; dilatory" tactics were rursued by Parks and Moores and only one witness was examined at 10:30 o'clock at night when the Court adjourned. ;; Examination of witnesses began at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning and in the afternoon when it became apparent that the judge was goinj to throw the case out. of court Attorney Logan for the election commissioners joined the attorneys of the bolters and waived all errors and technicalities of the complaint ! Charles Kellison had been employed by Everly and Jones and had been old what they intended to do and authorized to state the facts in his Opening argument which he did but Logan refused to .llow the commis- ! $ioners to testify and they acquiesced jn his objections. It was then apparent that the election commissioners and Moores, Parks and Holman were 11 working together to get a mandate from Judge Bernetha for the Garn ticket But Judge Bernetha heard the evdience and it seemed evii dent that no mandate to place the Gam ticket under the eagle could be obtained. The election commissioners then went home and made the i decision as given at the head of this article. Why did they do so? is the ques tion. B. F. Shively wants answered. Why did they not decide Monday evening? Why did they not decide Tuesday afternoon, as they had prom ised? Why did Logan go over to Garn's side of the case when the bolters had not a thread left to sustain them Unless Logan and the election commissioners would assist them? Why did the commissioners wait until al! the weekly Democratic pap ers in the district were printed and could not inform Democrats in the county of this action? These and a number of other ques tions are being asked. We do not intend to answer. Look at the space between the lines of this article and read between the lines. Files a 1C3 .Year-Old Paper. A legal doevment more than 1C0 years old whicl was found "necessary in the probate court of Middlesex county, Massachussetts, to complete the record in the division of the estate to Abraham Hill of Cambridge was mailed Thursday by Edward A. Hill to the clerk of the probate court of Middlesex county, Massachusetts. Mr. Hill, who is secretary of the Chicago Grain Door Company is a direct descendant of Abraham Hill, who ded nearly two centuries ago, and the paper mailed by himis.the commission of Judge Danforth, who appointed commissioners to arrange a division of the estate of Abraham Hill. The property owned by the elder Mr. Hill at the time of his death cm braes a large tract of land near Boston. The commission is dated April 7, 1746. Some weeks ago Mr. Hill furnished the same court with the original report of the commissioners, which was dated Nov. 21, 1746. Both papers are yellow with ae.

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