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A Statesman's Views. Mr. Taggart is in favor of giving

Mr. Bryan a solid delegation tram J Indiana. Mr. Tagagrt knows hi? business pretty well. He does not care much who is the candidate or who is President what hewants is to retain control of the machine in Indiana. He is a statesman of rather limited outlook. To him Indiana is the world. So loyal is he to the State that it is hard for him to sec anything outside of it. Before long we shall be called on to elect a Legislature, and that Legislature will be asked to enact a high license law, ar.d to do many other things that Mr. Taggart and his partner, Mr. Crawford Fairbanks, do not wish done. In such an emergency'it will be convenient fox him to have a machine or organization with which to do business. Naturally, therefore he wants to name the State chairman, to outline the lecal policy for bis party, to build up an organization to be used in getting1 the "right" men in office, and to protect the Indiana interess of himself and his fnends. He is therefore, for Bryan, a he would be for any other candidate that the party seemed to want. The great mant as we have intimated, is not much interested in national politics, though he is- the Democratic national chairman. He is interested in himself and those with whom he is associated in business. In this' he is not peculiar, of course. But it is strange that a man of such "homekeeping wits" should be at the head of the national organization of the Democratic party.' Four years ago, it will be remembered, Mr. Taggart undertook to wrest this State away from Bryan. He succeeded, and also succeeded in keeping his grip on the machine. Nw he finds that it will be difficult to defeat Bryan and at the same time to save himself. So i he is going to work loyally for Bryarr. though really in this State no work is necessary. We look to see Indiana line up good and strong for Bryan -and Taggart. Then whatever happens Taggartx will be the dominant force in local Democratic politics, and in a position to make a great fight for himself, Crawford Fairbanks and other patriots. That is the Democratic situation as it now stands. It isi not likely to be changed. Taggart is "it." which ie as it should be. Bryan is sure of th? Indiana delegation. And when he i? defeated a year from next November the Taggart-Crawford Fairbanks machine will be in the field to prevent any legislation by the next General Assembly hostile to their "interests". And we suppose that the Democratic party will again fall in behind Taggart and be only too glad to hail him as its leader. To paraphrase the great poet "Defeat can not wither nor fall-down stale his infinite variety." We simply sugges' that in all his moves Taggart is never out of his own thought. He will hold the' State machine. Indianapolis Star. Thef Old New Carlisle School. Judge W. B. Hess and John N. Wilson attended a reunion on Thursday of the students of Carlisle Corlegiate Institute. This is the first reunion which they have attended since they were students of the Institute', about 44 years ago. Some 0 enrolled themselves in response to a call for this reunion. A permanent organization was perfected for futur reunions, by the election of Eli Miller, president; Judge Hess, vice president; F. D. Warner, treasurer; A. N. Compton, secretary; and' Mrs. F. M. Williams, corresponding secretary. The next meeting will be held at New Carlisle Aug. 23, 1903. Judge tless and Mr. Wilson report tht all present enjoyed themselves in relating and listening to many incidents' which took them back in memory forty years to their school days. The evening exercises consisted of short speeches, recitations, music and personal rcminiscenscs. The Commander-in-Chief. The city papers state that several self-important congressman have delegated to themselves the authority of demanding that President Roosevelt give an explanation, a reason for or dering the Atlantic squadron into Pa cific waters, and venture the instruction that such maneuvers should not be made without congressional consultation". This appears like sticking noses where they have no business. The constitution of the United States, given to the country by the wisdom of our forefathers, makes the President the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, and a ich Commander, President Roosevelt should politely inform these congressman that the disposition of the squadron is none of their business, or words mighty strongly to that effect. Governor Hanly Will Speak. Governor Hanly has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the Jamestown exposition upon th? occasion of the celebration of the gift of the Northwest Territory tc the Uiiion by Virginia. The date for this celebration is September l::. The Indiana chief executive will also deliver an address before the national convention of the Anti-Saloon Leacrue, to be held at Norfolk, Va . on September ID. Governor Hanly has been doin considerable speaking this year, cs pccially at Chautruquas where he has been pepular as an orator. He has spoken at Clarinda, la.; Omah3, Neb.; Elkhart; Clinton, 111.; Ottawa, III.; and other points.

Told in Few Words. Secretary Root, after a course of treatment, is said to. be a new man. But he docs his thinking im the same old way. Since the beginning of the present year Standard Oil has paid $30,000,000 in dividends. The settlement of the fine would leave the company without car fare. The widoiw of Stanford White, the New York architect killed by Harry Thaw, is to be married at London to Charles McKim, her husband's partner in business. Senator Tillman of South Carolina, discussing political conditions, declares that Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri will soon be strongly Republican as formerly they were Democratic. The directors of the tri state fair, which was to have been held at Evansvillc from September 3D to October 5, decided to abandon the project, because the city council had intimated that no beer could be sold on the grounds this year. Fifteen persons were killed and fifty injured in a head-on collision between an express train, consisting of a motor car and trailer, and a single traction car on the Charleston and Mattoon interurban line at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning one mile west of Charleston, 111. Federal Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago, granted a temporary restraining order against fourteen railroads from adopting and putting into effect on Sep. 1 certain rates on creamery products, to and from the middle west and northwestern points. The earnings of the railroads in iMnnesota are greater under the twocent law than they were with the fare nt three cents. The railroad maragers will soon be complaining of the hard work counting all the money. ' John Haddix, a Louisville and Nashville railway switchman, was shot by his wife, after a quarrel, the bullet tearing through the man's lungs. Haddix was drunk and was giving her a severe beating when she shot him. Three years ago Canada placed a poll tax of $500 on every Chinese laborer who enters the Dominion, and

t nly forty have come in since thc'1 passage of the law. Montreal's colony of 1700 Chinamen has been staionary since 1004. Twenty States have either reduced rates on passenger traffic in the last year or have taken steps preliminary k -tmnfT V ä Aiirf Ain Vioif a enacted a flat 2-ccnt rate for their principal lines of railroad. These facts are revealed by reports received by the Interstate Commerce Commission. A Rome dispatch brings a story of :.: attempt to sell children in the ma-ket at Avellino. A peasant and .lis wife brought two of their childitn, twins, four months old and in open market offered to sell them foj ?40 each. The babies were plump and healthy and were bought by a man who offered the price required. He was taking the children away when the police stepped in and arrested both buyer and sellers. A linen collar saved the life of Edward R. Connerly at Glen1 Summit, Pa. He was doing some work along the railroad track and was run lown by a Lehigh Valley locomotive. .He fell directly before the front wheels, but a projecting bolt caught his collar and held his head a few inches above the rail while the locomotive dragged him 300 feet. He was half choked and fainted when released by the train crew, but specdil recovered. ' Aside from a few bruises he is unhurt. Professor Bernard Moses, of the University of California, returning from a year's rip in South America believes there is no reason to fear a South American alliance against Tis. Richard Mansfield, the actor, died Friday morning at his summer resi dence near New London, Conn. His death caused by disease of the liver, agg: avated by complications. llis demise removes one of the foremost actors from the American stage. Three thousand merchants and bankers, representing all sections of the United States, report a good u:ncss outlook. Can a Woodman Drink? Can a member of the Modern Woodmen society take a drink of liquor and if so how many can he take without losing his rights in the insurance company?" This is a question which will be decided in the courts of Kane county at Aurora, 111., Some months ago Thomas Rogers, a window dresser, died in that city. He was insured in the Modern Woodmen for $2,000. Mr. Rogers is alleged to have enjoyed a drink of liqnor once in a 'while and the company refuses to pay the insurance money, claiming he was intemperate. However, attorneys who have been retained by the heirs of Rogers contend that the officers of the insurance soitty knew that he had a liking for an occasional glass of beer and that for ten jears they accepted his monthly assessment and are liable for the policy. In the Modern Woodman policy, as in nearly every fraternal insurance company in the land, is a clause which says- the fraternity is exempt when the holder is intemperate and the question1 involved in this case will be most interesting to hundreds of thousands in this state who hold policies n other companies. The case will be fought through to the supreme court for a decision.

Atlantic Fleet is Cause of Wrangle. Democratic members of Congress say it is certain that as soon as the new congress is organized, the fi-st Monday in December, a resoluii-m will be offered by the minority liking for information from the administration as to why it is deemed necessary or advisable to send the great battleship fleet to the Pacific ocean. Representatives of the administration say that if such a resolution should be introduced and passed the President would decline to give any reason for his action in ordering the fleet to make the long, hazardous and expensive journey. Congress will assemble on the first Monday in December and as the fleet is not scheduled to fail from Hampon Roads until D member 13, Congress will have opportunity to discuss the wisdom of the President's mrdcr before the fleet sails away It is becoming evident that the order of the Prcsidnt will arouse a good !c u of discussion, both in Congress and out of it. Many of the Eastern papers, irrespective of political attachment?, are oooosing the proposed trip of the fleet. The New York World, independent Democrat, is screaming its opposition forging that the President is playing politics, that he i sending the fleet to the Pacific coast with the view of pleasing the people of that section of the country on the eve of the national convention of his party. The New York Sun. Republicar, in a double-leaded editorial declare the fleet will never imkc the trip. It says there is a "higher power in this country than President RooscveU ' ard insists that if the fleet is ever ermited to start on the long journey it will be recalled. Other paper-, demand to know why the long joutney is to be undertaken. It is understood at Washington, in the absence of the Tresideni and the members of his Cabinet, that while the resident may eventually, f"i;sibly in his annual message to Congress, having something to say abo.nt the order for the fleet's movement he will not give the real reason that actuated him to order, the gr.?at fleet to the Pacific. , Fersons on the inside at Washington know that it is the Japanese qucstion that is influencing the chief executive to move the fleet. He believes the way toi prevent a war with Japan is to maintain in the Pacific a 'lot larger than that maintained by Japan. The probability is that the fleet A'ill not return to the Atlantic. It will.

certainly not come back within the next year. Franco Will Send all the Soldiers Needed. In announcing the government's attitude of the Mbroccii'i question, Premier Clemenccau of France de dared Wednesday ths t General Drude, the French commjnder, would have all the troops he needed io carry out tee mission with which he was charged. The announcement was made in ihe course of the first Cabinet meeting held since the Moroccan1 cri.vs has arisen. M. Clemenccau did not explain the orders given to the general, but said the government had propounded a number cf questions to the French commander who had not yet answered them. The minister's declaration was regarded as important, following as it does , the interviews bftwecn the Premier and King Edward and Ambassador Cimbon end Chancellor Von Buclow. M. Clemenccau further s'afed at the Cabinet meeting that the government had no. confirmation of the rumor that the sultan of Morocco had been assassinated and also was ignorant of the real purpose oi Mulii Hafid, the Sultan's brother, who recently was proclaimed Sultan of Morocco City. The Premier, discussing the strength of the French forces '.i Morocco, said General Drude ha 1 more troops than he had ardced for, adding: "Whi'c at Karlsbad I. took he initiative and advised that more men-of-war and an additional battery of artillery be sent to Casablanca." Women Dress Men in Suits of Tar. Havard. Iowa, i worked up to a high pitch of excitement and the en tire town is speculating as to the identity of a gang of women whitecaps, who administered a coat of tar add feathers to six drunks picked up in the streets. As the climax of a bitter prohibition fight, a town drunk ard received a sticky coat last week and the ultimatum was sent broad cast that similar treatment would be the portion of every man who allow ed himsxdf to become intoxicated. . The. women have banded together in a law and order league and! it h said that more than half the wives and daughters of the town belong Tickrts sighted the wabbling men, they were quickly surrounded by a good-sized crowd of veiled women and hustled off to a romvenient spot Alter summary treatment trie men were sent home with a promise of similar punishment if they got drunk again. Gave Indiana Bad Name. Lou Hcaucnamp, a lecturer, in an address before the Richmond Chau tauqua, said that no state in the union or country on the face of the earth could compare with Indiana in its lax marriage tics. He declared the percentage of divorces to marri ages- in Hoosicrdom exceeds that of any fhthcr community that is callec civilized.

War Over Pop Receiver

Creditors of the Pope Manufacturing Company, whose claims aggregate approximately $750,000, were represented at a hearing before Judge Case in the Superior Court Wednesday oiii the confirmation of Albert J. Pope as temporary and ancilliary receiver of the Connecticut assets of the company. It is expected as a result of the proceedings that opposition may eventually develop against making the present receiver permanent. J. R. Sheffield of New York, representing a number af shareholders, said that, for the first time, Tuesday the creditors he appeared for were apprised of the receivership appointmnt and he sought to have ratification postponed until some later date. When the question of the appointment of appraisers was reached the co.urt suggested that the creditors and their representatives talk the matter over among themselves in an endeavor to reach a satisfactory agreement. The court then withdrew. Three names were stiggestd: John R. Hills of Hartford. F. C. Billings of Hartford and F. F. Vandervort of New York. After a long discussion over the qualifications of the nomi nees, only two of whom could be appointed, it was found necessary to call in Judge Case. He was enlight ened regarding the disagreement, the New York lawyers contending that the outside creditor should have at east one of the appraisers. The court served decision on the appraisers and issued an1 order that the hearing be continued until Sept. 1G; that the time for filing claims be limited to four months; that the temporary receiver continue the business of the company and that on Sept. K he file verified reports of his doings from Aug. 23 to Sept. 1G. A report filed by the temporary re ceiver Wednesday of the affiairs of the. company from the date of his appointment showed nominal profits of $13,000. A Faithful Negro. The Louisville Herald de.l.ires that just before the evacuation of Richmond, in 1SG5, Jefferson Davis gave into the keeping of his negro bodyguard and valet, James H. Jo.ics, the great seal of the Confederate States, with instructions to hide it and never to reveal the hiding place. Jones did as he was told, ,says theHerald. "He was recently approached by three leading cx-Confedeir.ce's, offering him $15)00 to reveal the spot where he had hiiden the eil. But no.mojiey could tempt him tr betray the trust reposed in him by Jefferson Davis. The secret will be buried with Jones, who tells: "When Mr. Davis realized that it was only a short time until Richmond would fall, he sent me with Mrs. DavisGod bless her memory and the children to Charlotte, N. C. I had about $13,000,000 under my care, and hauled it around in a freight car from one point to another in the South until Captain Tarkcr of Newberry, S. C, relieved me of it at a po'nt near Washington, Ga., where it uas bur;ed." Commenting .pji the neuro'? fidelity to his trust, the llcialdays: "Vardaman of Miss-.-ippi. and. oiher fire-eating Southern bureaucrats of the passing hour, li larc Mat l:ej have no use (cur the negro. Jefferson Davis, an infiinitely greater man than those masquerading Southerners, placed absolute confidence and reliance in a colored rerant. Jones has now a position in th: ?rvice of the United States Senate. Large as the sum offered for the seal by the ex-Confederates, a much larger might be had from odhcr sources. But Jones will, for the sake of his old master and adored 'missus' carry the secret of the seal's resting place to a grave tlia: fidelity v. ill consecrate." Secret Mission Hurries Canadian Ruler to London. Lard Strathcona lord vhigh commissioner of Canada, sailed from New York on the steamer Oceanic Wednesday enroutc on a 'hurried trip from Montreal to London. He de clined to disclose the reasons for his sudden trip. He said: "When I went to Canada seventy years ago, it was one tremendous wilderness. By the close of the century, if not hong before that time, she will have a population equal to the presnt population of the United the present population of the United countries side by side, living, I hope, in the same position of amicable re gard that characterizes their rela tions now. "The greatest strides that Canada has made have been in agriculture The great northwest, once the prop erty entirely of the Hudson Bay company, to be exploited merely for the furs it could supply, is now cut up into small farms and ranches. In 1S70 there was no wTicat grown in the northwest. Last year the north west produced mo,rc than 100,000,000 bushels of wheat and more than 200,000,000 bushels of other grains." A Large Reunion. The Jacoby and Ray reunion held in the Fair grounds adjoining the city oif Plymouth on Wednesday August 2sth, was attended by 120 relatives and frior.ds and was an en joyable affair. Those from a distance were Henry Bartlmg and wife, John Grile and wife and Mrs. Christina Leonhard of Portland. Ind.; Mrs. Dr Fish of Tahnat Ind.; Arthur Jacoby and family and Mrs. Comfort Blod gett of Chicago.

Operäting a Railroad in North Car

olina. In general the cost of operating the Southern railway, in North Carolina was shown Tuesday in the North Carolina rate hearing conducted before Master in Chancery Walter Montgomery, at the Southern railway offices, to be higher than in any other State through which the system is operated. A. H. Plant, controller of the Southern, testified that of the total of 7,515 miles in the system the mileage in Norh Carolina is 1456, including 867 miles of through lines and 500 oi local lines. Mr. Plant said that practically all of the traffic, both passenger and freight, was handled on through trains. He explained that as; the cost of handling of through traffic in 'North Carolina was low, it has the general effect of reducing the general expense of operating the sys tem. Mr. Plant explained how he arrived at the earnings of the system in North Carolina, which were 64.56 as an operating ratio an earning ratio being the cost' of earning $1. In response to an inquiry by Cap tain Thorn, general counsel of the Southern, Mr. Plant said: "There is no method known by which the cost to do interstate busi nessman be determined with mathematica! accuracy. The local business costs far more than the system busi ness. "In, local business the expenses are in excess of through business. A maximum of traffic is carried on through trains, while on local trains a minimum of traliic is handled. Through trains make approximately three times the mileage of local trains, yet it is necessary at all times to keep maximum forces at all sta tions, whether there is business or not." Mr.riant explained that there were a great many local lines: in Noxth Carolina and that the local traffic generally was distributed over local or branch lines. Much of this traffic requires three or four handlings, so that the cost of handling the inter state freight is notably higher than it is in other states traversed by the Southern system. What witness termed the station cost of the traffic was 3.S8 cents on the whole system and nearly 9 ce'nts in North Carolina, that is, nearly three times as much in the State as on the system. Mr. riant further explained the dif ficulties of dividing the cost of freig? I and passenger traffic, but .-.aid that they could be approximated in a general way so as to show the cost of each service. His Shoes Cause Suspicion, Asserting that he had reached Chi cago on the "blind baggage" of a Pennsylvania train, and that he was sick and in need of medical atten tion, a man registering as T-epcn Marino, aplpicd to the police Wednesday morning for aid. He was removed to the Cook county hospital. where an examination of his clothing gave the police a suspicion that he was connected with the Schräder murder at Gary, Ind., and he is held under surveillance, pending further investigation. This conclusion was reached be cause the hob nails in his shoes rep resent the initials "T. M." which were printed indelibly on the murdered girl's arm by her asailant. Several efforts were made to question the man, but without results. He wears a long, drooping mustache and his skin is tanned almost the color of a negro's. Lieutenant Gusty, c the Chicagm police, reports that the letters "T. M." can be plainly traced, but Tolice inspector Kelly asserts that the soles are so covered with nails that any letter in the alphabet can be seen with little difficulty. Lit tle credence is placed in the supposition that he was connected with the Schrader affair. The prisoner is in the last stages' of consumption. Rockefeller Gets Witness Feeu Joihn D. Rockefeller will receive $73.9.") Jrom the United States as his witntss fee for testifying in the recent hearing before Judge Landis in Chicago. A month ago United States marshal Hay received a letter fn?m Mr. Rockefeller saying that he desired to collect what money was due him. A blank affidavit was returned to him, and he returned it this week, after swearing that he had traveled 1,449 miles to appear in the court room before Judge Landis. The government will allow him 10 cents a mile for his tra cling one way and $1.50 for his witness fee for one day. The check for $7..9." will be sent to Mr. Rockefeller as soon as he has signed! the pay roll, which has been forwarded to him. Last Township Goes ''Dry. One of the most exciting temperance contests in the hisitory of the State closed at Stincsville, Ind., and the result is a victory Vor the antiliceisc people by a majority of about fifty signatures. In all there arc nriG voters in the township, and altogether r.00 persons signed the remonstrance, but there arc possibly fifty withdrawals, which were filed Wednesday night. The applicant is Edward Snooks. This remonstrance will take the last "wet" town out of Monroe county, and after September 1 there will not be a licensed saloon. The closing contest was attended with more oxcilement than that marking any political campaign ever known in the county.

Missouri Republicans.

At the presidential election of 1904 the Republican vote of Missouri was 321,449, the Democratic vote 296,312. In last year's congressional' elections the Democrats were; only 5000 ahead in the 000,000 vote cast in the state. Missouri is cloise. The prospect is good that it will be Republican again: in the presidential contest of next year, though the issues are not yet made up. A Missouri State Democratic convention indorsed Bryan last year, and the party is confident that Bryan v i 1 1 not only carry the state but will pull through any Democratic state ticket that may be nominated. This talk is mere assumpion. Bryan's "plurality; in Missouri fell off over 20000 between 1896 and 1900. Since he last ran 130,000 young Mis.sourians have become voters. The Missouri of the free silver craze is a thing of the past. Bryan's strength in Missouri is unknown. Republicans are not convinced that he is the strongest Democrat that could be placed at the head of the ticket iit this or any state. Missouri Republicans feel confident that they will elect the governor in 190S, which is something they have not done for thirty-five years. They feel reasonably sure that they will also gain the Legisalture on joint ballot, a result that would give them both senators. Organization, work and harmony will bring about this result. The new state primary places new responsibilities upon the whoJe body of, voters, who, in August next, must name the state ticket by direct ballot. Candidates must have their petitions filed early in June, and each petition must be signed by several thousand voters of the candidates' party in at least six counties. No State conventions will be held except to select delegates to the national conventions and to name presidential electors. Globe 'Democrat. End of a Gocd Fellow. Former Mayor Faul Barth of Louisville committed suicide after his removal from the office he held for irregularities in its administration. No evidence pointed to his having received any part of the corruption fund proved to have been raised and expended fo.r the municipal control of Louisville, but the evidence was conclusive that he had permitted a loose administration of public affairs that he had tolerated violations of law by his political and personal friends, that he was aware of corrupt practices and that he had failed in the discharge of his sworn duty in not removing and prosecuting the men guilty oif them. He could not have been convicted of boodling, but he was already convicted of being" a "good fellow." Mr. Rockefeller once advised the young men of his church against being good fellows. He hoped that none of them woAild ever conduct himself in such a way as to be called a good fellow. . Mr, Rockefeller himself has never been known as a good fellow, and he an point to the greatest individual fortune in the world as a conclusive proof that there is money in it. As a matter of fact, it is not the good fellows who get the money for the work they do. The real good fellow rarely sells out the people. He only gives them away. Chosen to public office because he is a good fellow, his good fellowship carries him into giving away that which is not his, but which has' been placed' in his charge by people deluded into -thinking that such a good fellow could never betray their confidence. No Antagonism to President Rumors have cropped up in Washington from time to time that Secretary Root was dissatisfied with the president's policies' towards big cornorations and railroad maunates. It (has been suggested that his legal relations with Ryan, Harriman, Belmont, and other New York financiers had led to warm friendships, which caused him to look with a hostile eye upon the president's efforts to put them in jail and curb their business activities. A member of the cabinet who is almost as close to the president as the secretary of slate said a few days ago that the general public would be surprised to know that Mr. Root heartily approved of what the president has done and proposes to do. "Mr. Root," he said, "took the government for his client when he asisumed the duties of secretary of state, and he is looking after its interests alone. The policjcs of the president are as earnestly supported by him as they are by Secretary Taft." Hugh Edible Mushroom. George T. Howell merchant of Rockvillc, Ind., who! gathers mushrooms as a pastime, and who knows more about them than any one in this part of the state, found a remarkable specimen Monday afternoon, and has since exhibited it in his window. It weighed twenty-five pomnds and is of the Polyporousi Berkleyii variety and edible, .though coarse in texture. The growth is thirty inches in diameter, and has five pilei, or leaves, similar to an immense cabbage. The leaves are very thick and the mushroom is of a brownish-yellow color. Last year Mr. Howell found one of this same variety about one-fifth V as large. The wet season has made wild mushrooms1 unusually abundant and Mr. Howell has found every sort known to exist in this part of the State, , . ; I

Rocks Boat and Dies. Because he rocked a boat to scare Nels Rasmussen, 55 years old, of Chicago, is dead The skiff in which he and Miss Victoria Harkin, aged 15, were riding Thursday, capsized when he stood upright despite the girl's protests. His exertions in trying to save himself caused his heart to give way before rescuers could reach im. Miss Harkins clung, to the craft and wai saved. The accident took place about a mile from shore, opposite Grace street. Miss Harkin told the Town Hall poJice that Rausmussen stood up in the boat and rocked it, just to hear her scream.

"This was when we got about a mile from shore," she said'. "The lake was very rough, and I was dreadfully frightened. He did it just to scare me, I guess. I begged him to stop, but before he could do so h last his balance and fell into the water, making the boat turn over." Miss Harkin said she succeeded in clutching the boat, and, as soon as she got her breath, began screaming for help. Frank Johnson, who was on the beach, heard her cries, and, with John P. Nelson, rowed out toi the rescue. Rausmussen, meanwhile, had gotten hold of the gunwale of the overturned boat, but before the rescuers reached him his strength gave out He was sinking for the third time when he was pulled into Johnson's boat. Efforts to Revive Rasmussen were vain, and wien they reached the shore he was dead. It is the belief ot physiciaas who examined Rasmussen's body that he died from heart failure brought on by his exertions to' get hold of the boat after falling into the water. Columbia City Suodi Spurgeon R. Markley, a clerk in the dry goods store of Clugton Bros & Co., at Columbia City, Wednesday filed a complaint in the circuit court aginst that city to recover $5,000 damages from the corporation for mental and physical suffering and the Joss of the index finger of his right hand ocasioned, he alleges, by the negligence of the employes of the city in not inspecting the city's electric lighting apparatus. The accident occurred early in the morning of January Sx 1907, Mr. Markley having gone into the base ment of his home to replenish the furnace fire. Taking the bulb of an incandescent light in his hand he sought to light his way about the cel lar but the moment his hand, closed upon the bulb he was shocked into insensibility and lay Jielplessi upon the cellar floor until his wife discov ered the situation and summoned a neighbor, who turned the switch off at once and rescued him from his peril. The index firlger of the hand was so seriously burned that it was found necessary to amputate it. He was incapitated for work for six weeks and now has a maimed hand. The complaint avers that the trans former, had not been inspected for ten years and that there was no groiund wire to carry off the extra current, allowing a current of great strength to enter the house wire and making the accident possible. Enormous1 Increase in Railroad Earnings. The gross earnings of the railroads of the United States during 1906, according to the fortieth annual number of the Poor's Manual, issued Tuesday, made the enormous increase over 1903 of $234,442;51G. The net earnings increased $104,728,224. Thi was done in spite of heavy increase in operating expenses due to higher wages and increased cost of material. Over 71,000,000 more people traveled by rail in 190G than in the preceding year, while the railroads moved 1,610,099,829 tons as compared with 1,435,321,748 tons the preceding year. The total assets of all roads 'are reported as $17,534,381,633, or more than six times the total money in circulation in the country. The average receipts per passenger per mile in 1906 was 2.011 cents, as against 2.028 cents in 1905. The average revenue per ton per mile in 1906 was.766 cents, as against.784 in 1903. The average revenue per ton per mile irr 1906 was .766 cents, as against .784 in 1905. The total assets of the steam railroads oi the United States in 1900 increased $1,241500,810, and the surplus assets over liabilities was $7'16,014,237. Texas New Seeics $1,100,100 Fine for Harvester Company. One of the most important liMitrust suits "started in Texas was filed at Austin late Thursday afternoon. The suit was filed at Austin by the attorney general's department in behalf of the state against the Interna tional Harvester Company of Amer ica, which was organized under the laws of Wisconsin. The petition alleges that the defm dant concern? has violated the anti trust law of Texas and demands pen alties in the: sum of $1,100,000. It is further alleged that this con ccrn has formed an unlawful combine with the following companies: Mo Cormick Harvester and 'Machinery Company. Deerinp- Harvester com pany, Tiano Manufacturing company. Warder, Bushnell & Gle.Vsner company, Minneapolis! Harvester company, D. M. Osborne & Co., and Aultman Manufacturing company.

NOW FOR STUDY.

Pupils Again Assemble for Anther Year of School Worte The persuasive tones of the old school bell again sound the admonition that school has commenced and study is at hand. The teachers are all here, some of them new, to whom the pepole here are strangers. But the most of them were former teachers who have returned bright rudy and healthful from their summer's rest. The Tribune is pleased to' welcome the new teachers in behalf of the people of Plymouth, and expresses the hope that their residence here may prove to be among the most prosperous and enjoyable years of their lives. It is due from the citizens of Plymouth to extend to them the courteous recognition and attention that becomes their calling as teachers of the children of our homes. The school board, with the assistance N of the school ' superintendent, has been liberal in its provisions for improving the condition of the school rooms and in the complete renovation that has taken place.' Visitors to the schools will be impressed with the excellence of equipment throughout the entire system. Those who have been more or less closely in touch during past years with school affairs will be especially, interested in the general progress toward perfect conditions that has been carried for ward for seme time. Improvements have not been limited to a single department. The furniture throughout has been renovated, blackboards re paired and many minor requirements attended to. In the basement a new system of closets has -been installed that remoives the possibility of off cnsiveness from this source. But it is with the high school that the most important changes have been made changes that make the commodities of our h'gh school the equal of the best in fnw state. The old high school asscnbly room, re vered for its earlier associations, from whose rostrum were graduated many of the alumni of former years, has) been partitioned off .into three excel lent recitation rooms making seven recitation rooms, including the lab oratories. The new assembly room is declared by Prof. Frye, the new prin cipal, to be one of the most cheer ful study rooms he has. ever seen. The commercial room, that was for merly occupied' by Miss Morris, has been fitted up nicely for that depart ment, which is in charge of Prof. Carey. The Gregg system of shorthand will be employed, which, Mr. Carey say's, has the preference in the Gem City business college of Illinois, over all other systems. Its difference from lhc Pittmanic and other sys tems that its basic principal is found ed on elliptical curves, instead of the geometrical signs as in the former methods. The advantage of forming characters on the c'liptical curve sys tem. Prof. Carey says, is that the elliptical curve is more nearly like that of the common long-hand system of writing, therefore, more nat- ; ural and more easily acquired.' The system has no positions, such as above, upon and below the line, as in the Pitmanic systems; has no shaded letters, and is claimed to be more legible. In the shifting of teachers, Mrs. Willcy takes Mr. McKesson's room, who goes to the Webster school; Miss Crowley takes Mrs. Willey's. old room, and Miss Johnson takes Miss Crowley's former room. Several N important books will be added to the reference library of the high school. Several fine pieces of apparatus, were purchased for the work im science. Among them isf the "Optical Disc," an instrument, by means' of which, all the es-scntkls of the study - Vf light may be demonstra ed accur ately. This instrument consists of a large graduated disc of metal, mounted in an upright position ' and provided with a circular metal screen, to which different diaphragms may. be adjusted to regulate the entrance of light across the face of the graduated disc. A scries of lenres, prisms, and a sphere of glass; a refraction tank, plane, concave and convex mirrors, color plates, etc., are rrovided and can be attache! to disc in the proper position for study of the various phenomena of optics. It is one of the finest instruments made. Another is the Atwood machine, that Jemonstrates the laws of falling bodies. Several instruments were added o the list for studying dynamics ot solids and fluids sound and electricity. Among the latter is a dissectible machine that may be adjusted to form a dynamo, a motor, .an electric bell, a telegraph instrument,, a buzzer or an induction coil. One thing that will especially delight the students" of the high school this year is a beautiful piano, a new instrument and of the best quality, that has been purchased and placed in the assembly room. The old piano will be consigned to inocuous desuetude. Women in Fight; One Killed. Following a quarrel Mrs. Tzarbcla Iagockski and Mrsi Alice Vaworski cng?ged in a fight Tuesday at South lieird, which ended with both oi them rolling dowstairs locked in each others arms. As the result of he- injuries Mrs. Lagoscki is dead. Mrs. Vaworski has been ordered arrested on a charge of murder.

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