Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 49, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 September 1907 — Page 4

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Only Republican Newspaper in the County. HENDRICKS & COMPANY TELEPHONE No. 27. OFFICE Bissell Building, corner La port e and Center Streets. Catered at the Posto&ce at Plymouth, Indiana aa second class cutter. Plymouth, IncL, September 12, 1907. The South Bend & Logansport interurban railway promoters -will ask free right-of-way through the streets pf the city of Plymouth, they will also ask free right of way along the Michigan road All this, will in all probability be granted ihem. IsA't that a good and plenty without asking the; taxpayers of Center tov.nship to give them $56,000 more? J J J The officials for preserving law and order in Plymouth, are. earning tssy money, it seems. Where are the cily officers, when all these drunken fights and assaults are taking place? Why are crowds of drunks allowed to congregate in saloons, fight and brawl to their heart's content? Is it because they knoiw that nothing is toj be feared from the city officers? jt j Jt The. law abiding saloonkeepers of eyery town must suffer for what the dirty liquor dealers merit. Liquor can be, and is sold, without producing drunks, fights add murders. There are saloons in this city, which are sounding the doom, for all local dealers ins liquor. Remonstrances are now the fad, and they are winning out A few more Mueller, Camp, Zumbaugh and other cases', and Plymouth will be dry. ji J Jß NEW METHODIST PREACHER. Rev. J. M. Palmer who has been the preacher at Covington, Ind., during the past four years, has been assigned to Plymouth for the ensuing year. He is a stranger to everybody in Plymouth, but is said to be one of the strong men of the conference and it is hoped that he will prove the right man in the right place. Plymouth Mefhoidists are said to be pretty hard to please, but they, should no doubt will, give Mr. 'Palmer a cordial welcome. The preachers who have come here strangers have usually been popular. Among these were Rev. L. S. Smith, who remained here five years and Rev. W. E. McKenzie, who went from here to Lafayette. Now Mr.'- Smith, who has done such excellent wojk in Hammond during the past four years, goes to Lafayette and Rev. W. E. McKenzie is made presiding elder of th. Cr-awfor'dsville district. Everybody in Plymouth is glad of their promotion. They are among the best preachers and best men in the conference and if Plymouth's new preacher should be called to a higher position when he leaves this city it will be because of the excellent work he has done here. ja j THE ELECTRIC LINE. The Tribune will not advocate the voting of a subsidy to build the proposed electric line from Logansport to South Bend. The projectors deliberately chose another route in the beginning, and now they tell the Bourbon people that capitalists will not put up money to build an electric line that does not run through Plymouth; then they ask the taxpayers of Center township to vote a subsidy of over fifty thousand dollars to pay them a bonus and pay for what they have lost by trying to get a line through Bourbon. But this is not all. A line paralleling he ' Vandalia , railroad front-Plymouth to South Bend would not be, in our judgment, worth one cent to any business man or any either citizen of Plymouth. We can go to South Bend or Logansport by way of the railroad just as cheaply as we could ride on the electric road. A line from Plymouth through Bremen and" on to Goshen would be worth the consideration of our citizens, beevtse it would open up territory that is now. difficult to reach and return the same day. If the projectors' want to build the road through Plymouth let them build iL We shall offer no objection if they build the road and pay for it; but we shall not advise men to vott a useless tax on themselves or their neighbors. We do not expect to make any noise or bluster about this matter. Voters can do as they please, but we believe that if they doi not allow themselves to be carried away by bluster and catch trap arguments, the subsidy will get very few votes in Center township. The principle of voting tax to help promoters is wrong, and the sooner people quit oting subsidies the better it will be for all communities. The time has come when all railroad lines should be .built on their merits, because if capitalists cannot afford to build a road it will not pay them or the communities through which such roads are built. ' ,

Chinese and Japs at Vancouver Would Strike. A combined Chinese and Japanese organization of Vancouver Monday afternoon made overtures' to the Hindoos to join them in an industrial strike all along the British Columbian coast. The Hindoos refused. Late that night the police made a seizure of fifty Winchester rifles, together with thousands of rounds of ammunition, which had been purchased in New Westminster I by Chinese. The shipment was consigned to Sam Kee, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Vancotuver and a large property owner, whose buildings were damaged by Saturday night's mob. The arms and ammunition are now stored in, the police station. Chinatown and the Japanese quarters tonight are guarded in every direction by the police. Threats made add to the seriousness of the situation. Messages were sent to. city officials notifying them thaf should any attempt be made to burn Chinatown, Vancouver could look for a general conflagration, for both Chinese , and 'Japanese ''would' take ' taeir revenge without the loss of a single hour. The foreign office at Tokio, has received a dispatch from the Japanese consul general at Ottawa saying that the Canadian government will express its regret for the recent race riots at Vancouver in which several Japanese were beaten and many shops destroyed, and take steps to prevent further trouble. An official of the foreign office said: We have the utmost confidence in the Canadian government as we, also have in that pf America. Commissioner Ishili's dispatch says that there is no reason to expect its repetition." The accounts1 of the demonstration published - in the Tokio evening papers, caused - no excitement. The people, like the government officials, regard as foolish the idea of a troublesome complication. No editorial comment is contained in the evening apers. A few of the morning papto discuss the matter dispassionately.

Faults of German Courts Brought Out in Hau Trial. German criminal jurisprudence may be altered materially in the near future as a result of the many defect in the system shown in the. recent Carl Hau trial, acording to Judge Theodore Brentano of the Superior court. Judge Brentano returned to Chicago this week after a three months' tour. He made a study of the German courts. He was present iluring the entire five days' session of the Hau murder trial, and became convinced that American criminal courts compare most favorably wiih those in Germany. Talks with "lawyers there ledhim to the belief that many changes in the procedure would be advocated. " The Hau trial," said Judge Brentano, "brought out the mistake the Germans have made in the methods of their jury practice. The feeling was intense among the people, and every means was used by both sides to influence the jury. Under the law the jury is allowed to read the papers separate at night, and discuss the case with friends. -A juror hears more arguments out of court than he does during the1 sessions. I "As a whole the dignity of ,the court is not maintained any better than in this coiuntry. Many times the spectators broke out into derisive laughter, or asked questions in loud voices. "On looking over the criminal records I found that the sentence imposed for murder and other serious crimes are much lighter than in this country." Miller's Chances. The South Bend Tribune has at no time been a warm supporter of C. VV. Miller in his. effort to secure the nomination for governor. In speaking of his candidacy that paper says: "As a politician it has never been Mr. Miller's disposition to remain quiet. Restive under the opportunities to fight which a political battle offers he goes into rt with earnestness and that is what he is doing now. The result of this intense vigor will undoubtedly serve to array the field against Mr. Miller before the big fight ends. What will follow such a situation no one :an predict at this early day, but it is safe to guess that with all of the other candidates and their friends lined up against Mr. Miller, he is likely to have the fight of his life, and it is not altogether improbable that he will win." Message Brings Husband In the cornerstone of a house now being built in Bourbonnais, 111., will be placed the bottle that began pretty romance that led to the marriage in Chicago of Mamie Fish and A. S. Tegreault, of the little Illinois town. Last year Miss Fish put a note in a bottle and dropped it in the Kankakee river. Tegreault found it in the river near K"uts, Porter county, began correspondence with' the Chicago girl, and two months ago made her his wife. The house, into the cornerstone of which the h ttle is to be placed, is being built bv the bridegroom for a home. Attempt to Wreck Flyer. An alleged aicempt to wreck the Clcavcland flyer on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad on Sunday evening was frusrated by vigilance of Daniel Conners, a section foreman. A few minutes before the train was due at Alquippa, Pa., Conners detected three Austrians placing a large piece of iron across the rails. After removing the obstruction, Conners hastily summoned the police and the three men were captured. They refused to assign; any reason for their deed and were coimmittedi to jail for court trial in default of $1,000 bail.

Ocean Racers Out of Wireless Zone. Officials of the Cunard line said Tuesday that they had received no advices from the new steamship Litsitania since she was reported by wireless late Sunday evening from a fog bank many miles to the westward of Queenstoiwn, with her great engines driving her along at twentyfive knots. That the Lusltania will create a new speed record in her maiden trip to America is confidently believed by officials of the Cunard line, who expect to get word from her when she enters the wireless zone off Cape Race Wednesday. The Lusitania was handicapped by fogs during the first part of her trip, but dispatches received by the company show that the steamship's machinery was: running smoothly and any time lost by slowing down in the fog will, doubtless, be made up later. The west-bound record from Daunt's Rocks to Sandy Hook lightship, which the Lusitania is striving to beat ,is five days, seven hours and

twenty-three minutes, made, by the Lucania, of the Cunard; line, in 1S04. The Lucania left Queenstcwn last Sunday, thirty minutes ahead of her new sister ship, but within üix hours after the Lusiania had left Queenstown she had passed the Lucania and taken the lead in the race across the Atlantic. A new turn has been given to the steamship v rivalry and rate war on the Atlantic by the statement of a North German Lloyd official that in the event of the Cunard liner Lusi tania breakmg the Atlantic record of the North German Lloyd, the latter will at once begin to build a liner with a minimum speed of twenty eight knots. This is equivalent to a speed of thirty-two land miles an hour. Stcamsh'p agents, it is also stated, believe rat the Atlantic rate war will pass through the crisis between now and Saturday. It is expected that the Cunard line will cut the first cabin rates far below the present fixed minimum rate of - the Etruria, which is $62, before her date of sailing. Kermit Not a Beauty. Reports that Kermit Roosevelt had been lost in Chicago during Monday night were set at rest when it was announced from the home of Marvin llughitt, president of the Northwestern railroad, with whose son young Roosevelt spent Monday afternoon, that the president's son had left that nign t for the East. After young Roosevelt's" departure, a pretty blonde housekeeper in the Hughitt family offered o. make a bet that it was not the attentions of women at least of young women with an eye for manly beauty that had driven Kermit to his desertion from the troops with which he was marching. "Women chasing him?" she asked. "Why, I wouldn't chase him,, even if he is the president's son and I am a working girl. He's no picture, and I'd pity him if he ever entered a beauty contest." "Does he look as bad as that?" asked the caller. "Worse," she answered,. "I'll bet it wasn't women that drove him out of the army." Fare Law Invalid, Court's Decision. The 2 cent fare law passed by the last legislature was decline.! unconstitutional by Judges Wilson and Audcnreid in Common Pitas c 'irt at Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday An appeal will be taken immeiiatdy to the state Supreme Court. The case in which the decision1 was given was the suit brought by the Pennsylvania railroad in the lotca! courts to restrain the county of Philadelphia from collecting the fine foi violating the provisions of the act. The hearing in the. case lasted nearly a week, and among the witnesses were President McCrea and several of the vice presidents of the Pennsylvania railroad. The contention of the company was that the law was not constitutional, and that the 2 cent rate was fixed without any investigation on the part of the legislature as to whether the railroads could make a fair profit under the law, which the company asserts it cannot do. All other railroads operating in Pennsylvania also brought similar proceedings in various counties of the state. The decision rendered Tuesday sustains the contention of the railroad company thit the 2 cent rate is unreasonable, and then takes up the legality of the act. It holds that the act does not extend toi interstate commerce and therefore does not infringe on the province of the federal laws. From this point of view the court upholds the validity of the act. Claimed Wreck Injury. Wiliam L. Hall was arrested in Memphis Tenn., and brought back to Indianapolis, having been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Big Four Railroad out of $10,000, which had been claimed as damages for injuries which he claimed to have received in the Fowler, Ind., wreck last January. Tht- evidence it that Hall went to the scene of the wreck, after it occurred, tore his clothes and bruised his arm a little, andvthen laid down by a burning car and was carried on a stretcher to the hospital, where he was discharged a week later. Witnesses testified that Hall was in Lebanon, Ind., when the wreck occurred. Tired of Voting Machines. The St. Joseph county council refused an appropriation of $30,000 for vcling machines. The feeling is generally that these machines have not reached the point of perfection and that it is not safe to make so large an investment as yet. In some places where voting machines have been tried they are asking to have the machines taken out and the old way of voting restored.

The Cough of Consumption Your doctor will tell you that fresh air and good food are the real cures for consumption. But often the cough is veryhard. Hence, we suggest that you ask your doctor about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It controls the tickling, quiets the cough. A W pubUsh oar formulas W banish loohol J from oar mtdi.tan O 10 We nrg yoo to consult your " " doctor One of Aycr's Pills at bedtime will cause an increased flow of bile, and produce a fentle laxative effect the day following, brmula on each box. Sho v it to your doctor. He will understand at a glance. Dose, one pill at bedtime. II da by th J. C. A yr Co., LowaU. Km 5 t FURNISHED BY GRESSNER & COMPANY - Owners of tbe only Abstract Books in the county. Abstract oi title all lands in Marshall county compiled promptly sod accurately. George R. Hoople and wife to Bertha V Eckert, lot 58 Fair View Place Plymouth; $6. Mary L Lickfelt to John F Nutt, e hf lot in Cuäver; $550. Federal Land Co to Elmer Seltenrisht, lot 3 Elliott Tlace Plymouth; $205. John S Bender ind wife to John X Wilson, n 48 ft lot 73 orig Plymouth; $2000. Susan McLaren to Lorenzo D Eley and wife, e hf lot 4G orig Flxmouth; Samuel A Garn and -wife to Dora Morelock, right of way through e 56 a w hf of sw q sec 33 tp 34 r 1; $1. . Samuel A Garn and wife q c d to John Morelock, s hf of right of way thmugh se q seq sec 33 tp 34 r 1; $1. Elizabeth Baker and wife to Bertha E Samuels, lots 15 lf Lee and Dickinson's con add Invood; $S0. Amanda M Stcvick to Francis M Hottorff, nw q of sw q sec 7 tp 33 r 2 also part of c hf of se q sec 21 tp 33 r 1; $2200. Walter A Shaffer and .wife to El mer C. Shaffer, 1G.0S a in ne cor of nw q sec 19 tp 33 r 4; $1700. Court House Items. Allona Davenport asks for divorce and alimony from Wm. F. Davenport. Martha E. Bolin vs. Wm. H. Bolin, divorce and custody of child, is another suit filed. The claims olf Jesse Miller vs estate of Daniel Myers deceased, has been transferred to the circuit court. The claims of Mercia M. Bayless vs. Emma Lord and the claim of Jonas H. Smith vs estate of Emma Lord, have also been transferred to the circuit court docket. A marriage license has been issued to Boyd; E. Boyce and Ixxttie A. Pletchcr. Kentucky Judge Promises Immunity From Arrest. The judge of the Circuit Court at Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday entered an order suspending the warrant" against ex-Governor W. S. Taylor, of Kentucky, now oif Indianapolis, granting him immunity from arrest if he will return to Kentucky and tcs:ify at the trial of Caleb Powers, who is charged with being an accomplice in the minder of William Gocbel. W. S. Taylor, cx-Governor of Kentucky, was inclined to be skeptical about the immunity alleged1 to come from the suspension of flie warrant for his arrest by the judge at Frankfort, Ky. "The suspension of the warrant could be revoked at any time," said Mr. Taylor. "It would afford no real immunity." Asked to discuss the matter further, Mr. Taylor said that his statement given out some weeks ago contained a full answer to. this, as well as other questions that have arisen since. In this statement he asked for a bench of judges, half Democrats and half Republicans, before he would return. To Test 2-Cent Fare Law. . The constitutionality of Indiana's 2-ccnt-fare law and those of other states that have passed like statutes is involvedin a ca-e jus filed in the United States Supreme Court in which the contention is made that under the provisions of the Hepburn rate act all railroad companies engaged in transporting commodities between the states are under the exclusive jurisdiction oif the Interstate Commerce Commission, and further that the states have lost all supervision and control over railroads within their borders. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company has brought this case to the Supreme Court. Laws Gall Fraternal Men. Smarting under the rulings of the Iowa insurance department the Iowa fraternal congress is preparing for an organized political campaign to elect the next auditor of insurance commissioner. President F. R. Korns of Des Moines, has declared that the delegates to the congress will represent 150.OOO Iowans and their organization will be stronger than any political party in the state. The fraternal congress will hold its meetings behind closed doors on the 17th. Did Not Buy. The St. Joseph county commissioners did not enter into a contract to buy voting machines. Graft was hinted at. Four agents, who were on the ground with samples, smooth talk and moneyt have gone.

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and rich design. Ball MARRIED. Sanders Southworth. Two yotung people who are well knownin Plymouth, were married in Marshall, Wis., Tuesday, Sept. 3, at high noon. The groom Frank S Southworth, is a Plymouth boy and received his education1 in the schools of our city, graduating in the class of '03. The bride, Miss Tyra Sanders is well known in Plymouth having been a teacher in the city schools for the last two and a half .ears. Her home is in Marshall, Wisconsin, where her father has been a merchant for twen ty years. She was a graduate of the Marshal! schools and a student of Lawrerce University. Just before the ceremony Bedouin's Love Song was- very beautifully ren dered by Mr. Daniel Senour. Men delsshon's Wedding March was play ed bv her sister, Miss Alice Sander?, and her two little brothers were ribbon-bearers. Mr. Senour acted as best man and Mary Southworth was bridesmaid. Rev. Woodside, of the First M. E. church, officiated. A short ring service was used. The wedding was a rare combination of simplicity and solemnity.. Following the ceremony and congratulations a two-course luncheon was served by the bride's young lady friends. The home was beautifully decorated in green and white. About thirty relatives and intimate friends were in attendance, who remembered the young couple with many beautiful and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Southworth have returned to Plymoftith and will reside in their new home that has just been completed, on Miner street. They have the best washes of otir townspeople for a happy and prosperous life. Bryant Chapman. Howard L. Bryant, a worthy and intelligent young man of Athens, Fulton county, Ind., and Miss Coral E. Chapman, one of the most beautiful and accomplished young women of Argos, were, united in matrimony by Elder J. H. Willey at the home of VM D. Thompson Plymouth, Ind., August 4, 1907. May heaven's richest blessings attend them and may love's beautiful sunshine make briglhter and ever more bright the pathway of their lives as the days go by. Eckert Greiner. George E. Eckert, the well known Linkville merchant and Miss Susan C. Greiner, who has resided almost all her life a few miles northeast of this city, were married at the Reformed church parsonage in this city at nine o'clock Sunday morning by Rev. J. C. Smith. They are an estimable couple and have best wishes of many friends. A healthymarr is a king in his awn right; an unhealthy man is an unhappy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters builds up sound health keeps you well.

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The Statement of Caleb Powem We should think that the statement made a few days ago by Caleb Powers would have the approval of every man in Kentucky that loves fa play and wishes to see justice honestly administered. The Democratic candidate for Governor had said that if he were elected he would neither pardon 'Powers nor commute any sentence he might receive, but that on the contrary Powers should "suffer the full measure of the jury's verdict," in reply to which Mr. Pow ers says: "My case is now in the courts of the State for adjudication, where it ought to remain. Any candidate for the office of Governor who will go before the people of Kentucky seeking the votes of her citizens upon the issue of the life liberty or death, of one of her sons when his case is still before the courts for settlement, de claring in advance of his trial that if elected goverrtor he will not, in any event, pardon him hough his innocence might be . made to shine like the noonday sun, even after conviction and 'asking his opponent what he is going to do about it, is unworthy of the votes or support of Kentucky freemen. ' To appoint judges for the purpose of convicting me and then solemnly declare that I shall not be . pardoned if convicted, is a novel political game, worthy of the serious thought of every Kentuckian. It does .the State, as well as myself, a great injury and injustice. For my guilt or innocence to be persistently paraded in every campaign for political purposes, , as has been done for years, thereby engendering hatred's and animosities among the people and so dividing them upon the question of my guilt or innocence, serves to make a fair trial for me impossible." All of whic"i is true. Powers has been in jail for seven years. As he says, the State has refused to admit him to bail .although it admitted Jim Hargis to bail. Since then Hargis has been acquitted, and without the least difficulty. But Powers, who was not proved guilty in any one of his three trials, is still after seven years, in jail. And a Democratic candidate for governor is trying to make political capital out of his case, and in this effort is interposing a most serious obstacle in the way of the prisoner's getting a fair trial. The only man who has come out of this coil with any credi to himself is Caleb Powers. Indianapolis News.

Reads Papal Message. Rev. Fanher L. A. Moench, rector of St. Joseph's church, MishawaVa, left Friday for Dubuque, la., where he will attend the national convention of the Central Verein of the United States. He is a member of the national executive committee of that great Catholic society. To Father Moench will fall the distinguished duty and distinct honor of reading to 4he convention the papal message. Hitherto this message has been cabled, but this time '.he same is written, and in charge of the Mishawaka rector who will read the letter from Rome to the delegates i

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High School Segregation. The experiment oi separate classes in high school for boys and girls has been tried in Englewood, 111., with marked success. The parents in most instances feel that their children have been benefitted at least in the first year classes. The principal of the school has this to say on the subject of separate classes: "Girls not only learn quicker, assimilate information from others more rapidly, and understand things more clearly, but their faculties develop two years earlier than those of the boys. The physical and mental changes that take place at the beginning of adolescence occur from one to two years earlier in girls than boys, and are passed through more quickly after they begin. This gives the girls a great advantage 'over the boys at the beginning of the high school course an advantage that is discouraging to the boya." Social influences that are apt to have a marked influence at this age are also controlled by this method. Young girls ought to have something of the sheltered life and it is time enough for social functions for both boys and girls after they, are out of high school. Fraternities and soror ities are valuable additions to the so cial life of students in colleges ?.nd boarding schools where these institutions are under direct control of the teachers all the time, but in high school they otnly serve as distraction. It is the opinion of the majority of Englewood paents that so long both boys and girls have equal chances and that there is no difference in the advantages oiFered, segregation seems to be a good thing. It is time enough to begin co-education with college life. South Bend Times. Democratic Politician in Town. Dr. William A. Weiser, of South Bend, was in the city Monday and went from here to Bourbon. The doctor is a candidate for the nomination for congress from the Thirteenth district on the Democratic ticket. If the doctor become"s the nominee of his party he proposes to tear up the sod all over the district during the campaign. The doctor will have prominently pasted on his equatorial bulge the: pflatfoa-m of issues upon which he proposes to make the race. He will stand for pension reform. doJ ing away with ths. red-tape business connected with it; every soldier at the age of 60 to be honorably discharged, .with pension; anti-salary grab; opposed ta ship subfidies; for a revision of the tariff; a (Vxking of two days' salary when a congressman is absent from roll-call, and for retrenchment and reform as a general measure. The doctor gave out the information that if nominated he will go in with a swoop. Jefwish. Holidays Approach. Rosh Ashona,' the Jewish New Year, will begin at sundown Sunday, September 8 ami will continue until Monday evening. Yom Kippur, the period of fast arrd atonement, will begin Tuesday evening, Sept. 16 and will end Wednesday evening following. '

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