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Deplored Labor War. "Tbere should not and need not be any conflict between capital and labor since both are necessary for the public good and the one depends upon the co-operation of the other. A Icontest between the employer an'd the employed is as unreasonable and as hurtful to the social body as war between the 'head and hands would be to the physical body. Such an antagonism recalls the fabled conspiracy on the part of the members of fhe body ägains the stomach." In htese words his eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons sums up his vuws of industrial strife. In an article his eminence outlines the relations which exist between the employer and the employed and makes a serong plea for peace -between the forces of capital and labor. In the course of his article his eminence says: "Whoever strives to sow discord between the capitalist and the laborer is an emeny of society. Every measure should be, therefore, discountenanced which sutains the one at the expense of the other. Whoever strives to improve the friendly relations between the proprietors and the labor unions by suggesting the most effectual means of diminishing and even removing the causes of discontent is a benefactor to the community. "I take it for granted that all unions and other societies of American laboring men are disposed to array themselves on the side of peace and order and are strongly opposed- to violations of the law as other citizens. Hence they should exert their influence to see that the law is uphtld, if they are to maintain the respect with which they are regarded by their, fellows. "It is not only a question of patriotism but of interest which deeply cencerns them. Their experience has fhown that strikes' are at best a very questionable remedy for laborers' grievances. "They paralyze industry, they often foment fierce passions and lead to the destruction of property; and above all, they result in inflicting grevio-is injury on thr laborer himself by keeping him in enforced idle-rte-. during which time his mind is clouded by disccntent while brooding over his situation, and hrs family not infrequently suffers want of the necessaries of life. "The loss inflicted by strikes on the employers is not much more than half as great as that which is sustained by the employed, who can much less afford to bear it It wou!d be a vast stride in the interests of peace and of the laboring classes if the policy of arbitration, which is now gaining favor for the settlement of international quarrels,, were also availed of for the adjustment of disputes between capital and labor." n A Demure Waitress. i The model for the face used by Augustus St. Gaudens in his design for the xpper cent, $10 gold piece and doutll eagle -was Mary Cunningham, a demure little Irish waitress in the little country town of Cornish, Vt. The proofs' of the coins, although approved by President Roosevelt arfd praised by artists generally, have not been accepted by the directors of tbt Philadelphia mint, because on accor.n of their high embosing, they, cannot be stacked. The designs may be modified to obviate this fault, but it is possible they may be rejected altogether. Mary Cunningham was "discovered" by St. Gaudens when the great sculptor, who died recently, visited the Vermont village on a summer trip. She appeared befor him in the dinirg room of the village inn with a bowl of vegetable soup, and it is said that the artist was so struck with he'r beauty and the possibilities of her face as an adornment for the coins he had just been commissioned to design that he forgot to eat hi dinner. He finally persuaded her to pose for him. She has a fresh, pink complexion that reminds one of roses and cieam. It speaks of country lanes and blos-s-.r-mg hedges and sunlit mevlos. There i nothing that could possibly remind one of the city and it confined life and its more tinged atmosphere. Her figure is plain and gracrr-.-.l ?nd she moves with ihe easy und dignity oi one who was born to be beautiful. She has dark brown hair, w'.ii.'h she wears combed up from the h:gh, white forehead. Her eyes are of that cerulean blue over which artists rave, but which they never paint because Viv ran't

Mary Cunningham was born in Ireland twenty-six years ago. She cam to this country not long ago. She worked first in Boston and finally came to Vermont. Eighty Killed in the Alpa. The toll of summer victims of Alpine accidents is the heaviest eveT recorded. Eighty persons were killed and twenty-two injured in ninety accidents this year, as agairst the previous record, sevey-six fatalities in 1906 in seventy-one accidents. Thirty-fight of the eighty p:rsons killed wore guides, thirty-one were persons Spending vacations in the Alpine Tass ami the remainder were native flower gathered, etc. Three-quarters of the fatalities" were caused by falls aver precipices. The others were due to avalanche ' snowstorms and lightning. 1 ; I

Gary's Wonderful Growth.

The steel trust has become so thoroughly convinced that the new city of Gary will be the steel headquarters of the world, that it has decided to spend $45,000,000 on the place, in addition to the $73,000,000 first appropriated. The record of the last fourteen months shows that Broadway, the principal business street, has been constructed far a distance of three miles from' the Grand Calumet to the Little Calumet river, paved with conctet for the gi eater part of the distance, lined its entire . length with concrete sidewalks and bounded for two miles on each side with brick and concrete business blocks. A complete sewerage system has been constructed covering all the business district and the residence area of the city arid is now in use. A water works system, which is constructed on the basis of a city of 500,000 inhabitants, is in service. The water now is supplied from eight artesian weMs, which will suffice pend ing the completion of a tunnel two miles out into Lake Michigan. Gas mains have been laid all over the city, and the plant will open operations Oct. 1. The electric lighting plant is now in commission and the power is carried through a modern system of underground conduits, all of which have been completed. In the resklence districts more than fifty of the superior homes are rapidly nearing completion, and will be ready for occupancy within thirty days. Orders have been given to the field marshals on the ground that homes must be in readiness for 50,000 persons by the time the steel plant begins operations. Nearly $1,000,000 will be spent in covering the sand of the residence lots with an excellent quality oi Illinois black dirt. This work is now in progress, and l',400 lots in the better district wil be so treated. Business already has opened in the s.tores which line Broadway. More than 8,000 inhabitants now have their homes in Gary, and mercantile establishments -were the first to be consin. ctcd. One department store is to. occupy a three story building 123 feet square, constructed of concrete, which is practically completed. The new five story hotel is under roof, and the two elaborate bank buildings are nearing completion. Work on the construction of a $150,000 theatre will be commenced at once. Will J. Davis is to have control of the theatre. The business firms which border Broadway now represent twentythree states, and it is said that in walking one blojck on Broadway on pay night one can hear almost every language spoken. The street car proposition is the serious entanglement which now confront the town. The steel corporation has been balked in its desire to obtain the franchise for the car lines in its own town and fears serious delay in its completion. How to Kill Canada Thistles. The experiment station of Wash., received a letter from J. A. B. of Everett, that state, asking how to exterminate Canada thistles. Prof. W. S. Thornber, horticulturist, replied as follows: "The - Canadian thistle is a hard plant to fight, but by judicious cutting and cultivation you can eradicate it. The plant must be kept from forming a growth above the surface of the ground for at least one year in order that your efforts for its extermination may be successful. "The plant spreads by underground stems, or roots,, which are thrown up at distances of from three to six feet from the parent plant, so merely destroying the mother plant will not kill the weed. A good careful cutting during the month of June, followed by other cuttings in the latter part of July and on through August will check the thistle materially, and may destroy it entirely. It is gener!y quite difficult to eradicate the plant in pastures and fence corners, since a small residue will be left undrstroyed. which will grow during. the following year. There is no spray that will kill it. Sometimes it is helpful to cut the thistle off about three inches below the surface of the ground, and applv salt to the cut surface, -which causes the root to rot by drying out. In cultivated fields it is usually advisable to rake out the underground stems p.ud allow them to dry thoroughly before plowing again." Suit Adjudged Insane. Frank Suit, a former newspaper reporter on the Plymouth Tribune, who v3ä arrested, on a charge of arson, has1 been adjudged insane by a !?nacy commission at Koktomo, arid will be committed to the Central Hospital for the Insane as soon as the papers can be prepared. At the inquest Suit was more composed than at any time since his arrest. He stuck to hrs original story that he did no start 'the fire in the Citizens Bank building and that he knew nothing of the origin of any of the other fires that have occurred recently in the business district. When the testimony of Suit's wife, his intimate acquaintances and the police was taken, hoiwever, the commission was overwhelmed with evidence of his mental unsoundness and announced its decision as soon as the hearing was concluded.

' Insane by Witchcraft. Mrs. Christian Schultz, of Springfield township, Laporte county, whose daughter, a comely girl, was recently committed to the insane asylum, has issued a statement in which she brands Fred Pocpke of Michigan township, a sorcerer, and whose practice of witchcraft is alleged to have driven Robert Scberginski, a young man living near Roeskeville, to the mad house. Mrs. Schultz c'eclares that her daughter did not lo.;e her faculties as the result of infatuation for Scherginski, but that her present mental condition is the result of over study. The story of Mrs. Schultz which is long and quite minute as to detail, relates that her daughter stopped at Poepke's place about three -tars ago. Pocpke is saKI to claim to possess the gift of prophecy,. and told the young woman's future. He told Miss Schultz according to he'r mother's statement, she would soon have a lover, that he would be a tall young man, of light complexion, and would drive to her home in a rubber tired buggy drawn by a bay horse. Poepke thus lifted the veil of the future. ; Two months later a young man, answering the description of the fellow described by the alleged seer, appeared at the Schultz home in Springfield township. His actions were mysterious. He entered the house, greeted the family with salutation, "How do you do," remained three hours, and then left as strangely as he came. Six months later the man of strange actions came again. This time he lengthened his sltay, but the mystery of his coming was still unsolved. But when he came again, several weeks later, the silence was broken. He told Mrs. Schultz that Poepke, the seer, the exponent of witchcraft, had told him her daughter was to be his wife. Poepke said she would be his bride for the simple asking. Their marriage was fated by a destiny which he shapeVt. It . then dawned upon Mrs. Schultz that the strange man was possibly the victim of dementia as a result of Poepke's alleged practice of sorcery. He was told that Miss Schultz did not intend to get married, but would remain tingle. He drove away, evidently brooding over the unkind decree of fate. The next time he came it was with the demand that Mrs. Schultz reimburse him for the money he claimed to have paid Poepke for the practice of his arts. The demand was refused. It was at this juncture that the young man whose ways were mysterious, and who proved to be Robert Scherginski, was taken: into custody by the police. The young woman for whom he formed an infatuation is insane, while Scherginski is awaiting removal to a mad house.

New Hat Gives Youth. The fountain of eternal youth has at last been discovered. But not by the scientists with their resorts and test tubes. The milliners, catering to femine vanity, arc to restore the lost hope of the race. For, they declare, perennial youth peeks from the curved brim of the accentuated mushroom hat that Dame Fashion has decreed shall be worn by all -women this season. But the -woman who wears the new hat sagging in the rear 'like a disheartened flapjack had better beware, if she arises in the m'orning with a strained feeling at the base of the brain. Mmc. Hunt, president of the Milliners' association, in session at Ch'krago, fears that the spinal column wjs never interfiled to maintain such a mountain of superstructure as is coming ito vogue, and she believes that unless they are very careful their carriage will suffer. From President Perley. In a letter to Otto Fries, secretary of the Bremen Improvement Association, President Perley writes: "We fully appreciate what you have done and arc doing, and will say we have not abandoned the Bremen and Bourbon line, but have three routes under consideration at present: One through Bremen arid Bourbon, one through Bremen to Plymouth, and one through Lapaz to Plymouth. While we rather favor the old line, we will be largely governed in the selection of the line by the financial people." That looks like the thing is offered to the highest bidder, merely for the sake of the subsidies, with little regard for the future of the road. If the people of Center township have been told that capitalists will not build the road unless it goes through Plymouth that it must go there in spite of the fact that German and Bourbon townships have already voted heavy subsidies it would certainly be the height of folly for them to dig up $30,000 and present it to the company. Bremen Enquirer. Taft Sails for Philippines. William H. Taft sailed for the Philippines at 1 o'clock from the harbor of Seattle, Thursday, on the steamship Minnesota. The last public appearance of the secretary of war was in a speech that he made at the meeting thai morning of the state mc'Jical association. The secretary was In fine spirits and chatted and laughed in an animated way with the members of his party aboard the Minnesota, while a great crowd looked on from the docks and waved the heartiest of aureus and good wished to the Ohioan.

A Card from Prosecuting Attorney

Molter. To the Citizens of Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana: Up to the present time I have refrained from answering any of the many vicious, false and slanderous articles published about me by C. W. Metsker, the publisher of the Plymouth Daily Independent, but the article published in said paper on September 11th, and published in the Democrat of September 12th, l'J07, in my judgment calls for a statement of the facts which I will proceed to give: The difficulty between Mr. Mor. sches and John Sebell, which is mentioned in said article occurred in the afternoon on Sept. 10th, and I knew nothing of it until Marshal Jacoby brought Sebell toj my. office at about 4:30 o'clock p. m. on that day. Mr. Morsches when brought into court, through his attorney Adam E. Wise, asked for a continuance, which was granted; and I, having been informed that Mr. Morsches was not ta blame for the Sebell trouble;that Sebell had been looking for trouble all afternoon, and that he made special efforts to start to racket prior to coming ta Mr. Morsches' place with one John Flosenzier, I went to see Mr. Flosenzier, and on my return to my office in passing Mr. Morsches' place of business, I was called in by him, he requesting me to listen to a statement of two witnesses who were present and heard the difficulty which occurred between John Sebell and himself. While I was listening to their statemerit, William Rish came in and called for a drink. Mr. Morsches waited on him and after drinking, Rish refused to pay for it, and thereupon Morsches grabbed a large revolver and came around the bar, arid as he passed me I then and there caught Mr. Morsches and took the revolver fnomf him pushing him back. I then turned to Rish, who was cursdng and swearing, and asked him kindly to leave the house and no; make any further trouble; he refused and called me a vMe name and as I put him out of the room he ma'dc. the remark: "I'll get you before you get home." I paid no attention to the threat, but turned to the two witnesses and heard the rest of their sitory, and then went out. This was at least five hours after the trouble had occurred between Sebell and Morsches-. When I got out on the sidewalk, Rish rushed out from Hill's front door or the stairway near, and struck me and at the same time kicked mc. " I grasptd for him, and the same time struck at him and knocked him down, arrested him and took him to jail and saw that he was locked up. Now if Mr. Metsker keeps on kicking me in his vile litle mud-slinging, dog fennel sheets (as Judge Hes chriitencd them,) I shall have to be obliged to knock him down and if I do, I shall certainly be no respector of persons, for as between Rish and Metsker, Rish is the better citizen; and wäll safely lodge Mr. Metsker in jail, where in my opinion, he ought to be all the time. Now I do not publish this in fear that the article in the raid papers will Vlo me any injury, for the truth will out, and the time hat ; long since passed when any reputable citizen pretends to believe anything they see in the way of news in his papers, for they know that he has been successfully impeached, adjudged a gambler, and indicted by a grand jury composed of Democrats, for grafting. And it has been a settled fact among the business men of the community that he filled the bill as one of President Roosevelt's undesirable citizens. The following named citizens were present and saw the whole trouble between Mr. Morsches and Rish, and they will vouch for the truth of the foregoing Charles Kaufman, Mr. Winrott, Jesse Ellingcr, Omer Ellinger and Benjamin Barber. Now, as to the oither charge made by'Mr. Metsker, that I was caught in a house of ill-repute, by the officers. Mr. Ed Garn and myself own a certain house which was rented to strangers. Soon after the house was occupied we learned from John F. Myers of Leiters' Ford, Ind., that the house was being used foir unlawful purposes, he mentioning the same to me in the evening just as I had completed two indictments for forgery, they being the first indictments that I ever prepared. I at once prepared a notice and on my way home stopped at this house and served a notice to them tb vacate the premises, and while there the officers came and arrested the parties (I knowing that they were to be" arrested that night for Myers so informed mc.) Now Mr. Metsker well knows that I not only served the notice, bin T drove theni out of town, he also knows that Justice Young held their furniture for the fims. Now Mr. Metsker's abuse of me comes from the fact that he came to me white the grand jury that indicted him was in session, and tried to intimidate me, and requeuted the to intervene in his behalf with the grand jury, to prevent indictments against him, and when I refused so to do he then and thexc threatened! to do just what he has been doing in his vile newspapers. 'The prosecutor who does his duty invariably incurs the ill-will of all criminals, and hence. I have incurred the ill-will of Metsker. Dated this 12th day of Sept V.07. J. A. M liter.

No New Constitution.

President Edmund J. James of the University of Ilinois spoke on Illinois day at Jamestown last Saturday. His topic was "The need of a new federal constitution." He arguefl "that we have come face to face in our national development with problems of such complexity and such magnitude that they cannot be solved with a large co-operation of the federal gov ernment; and this co-operation cannot be extended within the limi s of the constitution as it is unless indeed we are willing to adopt new and enlaied principles of construction which would practically nullify the .most important provision in the constitution and convert it from are instrument delegating certain limited functions, into an instrument vesting an unlimited and ever-widening authority in a government, which by its very magnitude would become ever more irresistible." This is in general the view of a great many people who from differing motives want a new constitution. One class wants it to centralize power, another to diffuse it; one class wants it to narrow the trend of all industry and commerce, another to give these elements of national prosperity fuller play; one set of advocates wants a constitution that will enable expansion of the social and national life, another desires to fix the -boundaries of individual prosperity within narrow limits. The advocates of a new constitution have so wide range of idea as to what the nation needs for a houndary to prevent encroachment of federal power upon the state, or the surrender by the state of powers that should inhere- in it, that a new one by any modern convention would in likelihood be such a jumble of provisions that no court could construe it,, no supreme authority compel its enforcement. In our opinion it is safer to trust the disposition of the courts to construe as liberally as full justice will permit the great article under which we are acting, and to trust all needed expansion to amendments than to attempt any new draft. When the constitution was made those who drafted it were students of statesmanship, of governmental principles, of individual and common rights, of adjusted liberties, of related privileges. Now if a new constitution were to be framed it "vould be done by those seeking to establish policies not principles, arid those policies would he such as related to bu iness, tradc commerce, industry, cl.,- or moral theories that are more unstable than politics, not the broad principles, nor even policies, that underlie democracy and make the foundation of its stability-. Our present constitution may need amendment, when the disturbances that have roiled the social and political conditions of today have precipitated the crytsals of new principles, but these will come naturally if needed. .To remodel the present great paper would be to erect a new and untried standard, to build a now and insecure fom dation for the union, to inextricably mingle established principle with unproved policy in such a manner that the courts could not urt tangle them, and justice and equity would grope in vain for a basis of construction. Amend the constitution, but do not attempt a new one. Elkhart Review. Gigantic Deal in Coal Lands. A gigantic coal combine, which will merge coal mines valued at $12,OOO.ooo and bring together tmder one consolidated company more than thirty of the richest mines of Illinois and Indiana, is in process of formation. The merger will include twentyfive mines of the Danville and Clinton districts in Illinois and the properties of the Kelly, Oak Hill and Peering mining companies in Indiana, George T. Buckingham, an attorney, and William M. Bridgett, an investment broker of Danville, are conducting the icccssary negotiations. W. S. Bogle, a large coal dealer of Chicago, has gone east to arrange the financing of the proposition. He is expected to return to Chicago soon, and before the end of the week the deal probably will be consummated. FindJ a Rich Vein of Gold. The Klondike goJd fever has broken out anew at Sitka, Alaska, according to Brigadier General George F. Elliott, commandant of the United States Marine Corps, who has just returned from a trip of inspection in the Northwest. General Elliott says a rich vein of quartz has recently been uncovered on an island fortyfive miles from Sitka which yields a heavy percentage of leaf gold. The -story of the discovery, as told to General Elliott, is. that two Indians while fishing noticed particles of goild. They told the news to a Presbyterian clergyman at Sitka. A company opened the vein and succeeded in mining and transporting to Sitka In canoes ninety tons of ore. This one sUiipmcnt yielded after payment of freight more than $10,000. The knowledge of the find soon spread, and the island now is practically all staked out by gold seekers. Married. Frank Hagar and Sarah Ryan were united in marriage at St. Michael's church Tuesday morning. The couple arc both well known' in this city and will make their home here. They left for Fort Wayne Tuesday and expect to be gone a couple of weeks.

When the Farmer Prospers;

Those whose products are from the soil constitute one-third of the 'pop ulation of this country. Their pros penty mdans more proportionately than that of any other class of pro ducers. When the earth has yielded its increase, and the farmer has gar nered the added results of nature's .forces coaxed by the carressing hand of toil and by the allurements of sci ence, the sum of human sustenance has been measured. If this is enough to feed the hungry who toil at other callings the farmer counts his profits and the world bows at his feet. In its review of the crops of the year, The American! Agriculturist says the earnings of our farmers in 1P07 will be upward of $1,000,000 more than in 1906. Farm productions this year will be about 10 per cent less in quantity than in 1906, but will fully equal the average yields for five years prior to last season, and prices are considerably higher. The same authority estimates that the income of farmers for the five years ending with 1907 will be great er by over $20,000,000,000 than during the five years, 1893-7, inclusive, and as the va$t industrial prosperity of the past fifteen years has been based upon the agricultural revival which characterized 1893-7, it predicts an even better era of good times now than in the recent past because of these marvelous gains in agriculture. It says: "The farmer was never in so healthy a position as he is today financially, socially, politically, mentally, spiritually. The increase in the value oi his real estate has been prodigious. He owes less money than ever before. He has greater assets than ever. Again, the farmers' wants are greater. He is in the market for more and better breeding stock, farm implements, household goods and other merchandise. He recognizes the extra profit that accrues from the use of better equipment and better methods in his business and in his home." The wheat crop this year will approximate 025,000 000 bushels, 150,000,000 less than last year. But there is still 25 per cent of the former crop still unmoved, and the prices are considerably higher, so 'that the farmer is better ofl in the wheat crop for the two years than with a larger crop. Corn promises ta be within 5 pe cent as much as last year, arid with but two or three exceptions the biggest yield in our history. The yield of oats will be about 12 per cent less than last year, but there will be nearly the usual quantity of rye, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed and potatoes. The hay crop will exceed last year's a great deal. The cotton crop will be around 12,000,000 bales. Apples, the chief fruit of the average farm, will be much more plentiful than last year, and prices will be much better because of the failure of fruits: that are the products of special cultivation. And with the farmer's prosperity comes a blessing to all the people. While prices are higher, the wages of tail are higher. The only participant in this augmented prosperity of soil and toil who is uncertain of the profitable results, is the capitalist, large or small, who ventures his capital in anticipating the needs and wants of the great body of consumers. He trades on hope, but he meets an element of uncertainty .all the time. Elkhart Review. New Interstate Rates Held Up for Present. Promulgation of interstate passenger rates based on 2 cents a mile in territory east of Chicago was expected at the present monthly meeting of 'the Cetntral Passenger Association', but postponement has' been taken. Announcement has also been made that the new schedule of rates will not be put into effect, if at all before January 1 next. Interstate fares between Indianapolis and Chicago and Indianapolis and Cincinnati are now on a 2-cent basis, but fares from other points in adjoining 2-cent fare States have not been reduced. One month' ago rate clerks were instructed1 to hold continuous sessions until they had completed the work of making the interstate rated square up with the sum of the locals, and it was thought that unifortnity in passenger rates would be brought about at the September meeting of the Association. The present decision, however, upsets all previous calculations. This is a condition that none oi the railroads like, but the decision of the Pennsylvania court to the effect that a 2-cent rate, in one portion of the State at least, is illegal, changed the complex-ion of the situation materially. Representatives of the Pennsylvania road urged h!at the Eastern roads boar with the present situation patiently, and not reduce thedr interstate rates with needless haste. The hope was expressed that the Pensylvania decision would be upheld, and would ultimately be extended to take in the entire State. Thayers- Return from Europe. Geo. H. Thayer, Jr., left for New York City, Saturday noon; to meet W. II . Young, who is due in that city the same day. On Saturday, Sept. 7, Mrs. II. G. Thayer left Havre France,, for America. Mrs. Thayer arrived in Plymouth at 0:00 Saturday evening. Mr. Yoking will remain in this city for a few days and will then return to England.

Fairbanks Talks at St. Joseph. Eleven hundred were present Monday night at the second annual banquet of the Berrien County Republican Club, at St. Joseph Mich.,, at which Vice President Fairbanks was the principal speaker. The Vice President said in part: "Our Union was never sronger than it is now. There was never more who would willingly place all upon the sacrificial altar to preserve its integrity and its honor if fate should" so decree. The people in all portions of the republic are eagerly striving to increase its strength and to lift it still higher in the esteem of the naions of the world. We look upon the past, notable for achievements for human liberty in the development of splendid national character, and we face a future limitless in its opportunity, full of confidence arfd full of hope. We have questions which press for solution,, and we are bringing to their consideration the same intelligence and high purpose which inspired our fathers and which enabled them to solve successfully; and well the serious problems which confronted them. We are taxed with new questions, many of which will be of serious moment. . We will have no difficulty in their settlement, for we will bring to their1 determination those

fundamental principles of right which have been the foundation of our progress from the beginning. Other speakers were Congressman Foss of Chicago, former Governor John T. Rich of Michigan, ex-Con gressman Henry C. Smith, of Adrian, Mich.; State Senator Fred C. Wetmore of Cadillac Mich., antf C. A. Palmer of Manistee, Mich. Fire on Battleship Indiana. The report to the navy department Wednesday that the battleship Indiana undergoing repairs at the League Island navy yard, had narrowly escaped destruction by fire last Thursday caused surprise. The captain of the Indiana, through a representative, said he "knew nothing about it," but it was learned from other sources that the fire did not amount toxmuch. The fire was started, it is understood, by spontaneous combustion. The Indiana is lying "in ordinary" at one of the docks with plenty of fire protection about. The fire was never beyond control and as a precaution some of the ammunition was removed to a place of safety. According to one report, the two magazines and the shellrooms became dangerously heated and were flooded to a depth of twenty inches. Lieut. Commander J. L. Sticht directed the fire company consist in? of Gunner L. C. Hull and nine men, who entered the magazines and removed the ammunition. Rear Admiral N Pendieton com mandant of the navy yard, said: "It is true there was a fire in the coal bunkers of the battleship Indiana last Thursday. A report of the occurrence was submitted to me and forwarded to the navy department at Washington. The t magazines are located close to the coal bunkers and the first thought of the officers and crew was to remove the ammunition and powder as soon as possible in or der to prevent an explosion. I do not think the ship was at any time ingreat danger of destruction. The fire was in all 'probability due to spontaneous combustion, Purgatory isf Frozen and a Woman Is Going to See About the Matter. "Purgatory" a cove only a few miles from Worcester, Mass., many of whose mysterious by-paths have yet to be explored, is attracting the attention of scientists all over New England because of the failure of Miss Lucia S. Thompson, of Boston, a well known mountain climber, to penetrate the cavern. Miss Thomp son found herself unable to proceed much beyond the entrance, as it was icebound. No one has had the courage to penetrate the farthest depths of the cave, and such an attempt is admit tedly fraught with danger, for at the bottom is an unexplored lake or river. There are scarcely three months in the year in which it is possible to enter the opening. Miss Annie Peck, whose feats of mountain climbing have given her fame, will try to explore the cavern. Has a Tree-Climbing Canine. Just because he has a seeming ha tred for groundhogs a large dog be longing to Schuyler Menzie, residing near Piercetom, jumped from the ground to the first limb of a tree, a distance of six feet and then climbed from one limb to another, a distance of twenty feet above ground, in pur suit of a groundhog. The smaller animal crawled out on a small limb and the dog followed They both struck the ground together, the dog right side up with the groundhog's jieck between his teeth. Mr. Menzie vouches for the story. Challenge for Cup Race. The Royal Irish Yacht club Friday afternoon notified the yacht club that a challenge for a series of races for the America's cup will be maile'd on the Umbria. The races arc to take place next year off Sandy Hook. No particulars will be given omt by the Dublin club until after the reply of the New York club is received. It is understood that -k the challenge comes from Sir Thomas Lipton.

Will Build a Country Home. C H. Geist, the gas and electric light magnate, whose interests are strung from Chicago to Philadelphia and include the Plymouth and: Valparaiso Lighting company plants has chosen Indiana for his new home and is now planning for "the creation of an estate which is to be crowned with a mansion that will be second! to none in northern Indiana. . The exact location for this dreamland has not been definitely deefded upon with the exception that it will be in the neighborhood of Valparaiso, says the Hammond Times. ThaV Mr. Geist will move his place of residence from Philadelphia to the west is a settled fact and in order to await the completion of the estate, Mr. Geist has rented a place in Chicago which he will occupy until his Indiana home is ready for occupancy. Mr. Geist's plans for the country home includes such' luxuries as golf links, stables for blooded horses, kennels, a garage complete in appliances, a fish pond, fine trees and paved drive-ways. The mansion to be erected on the place will be built for elegance and comfort, with a strain of the artistic to run through the whole. In coming to Indiana for his future

home, Mr. Geist recognizes the vast business opportunities of this region. Through his new location he will be in close touch with his interests in Chicago, Valparaiso, Hammond "and Michigan City. His new home irr Porttr counly will comprise 500 acres. State Fair Yields Profit. The Indiana state fair earned $79,504, according to figures prepared by Treasurer Jasper Lagrange and submitted to the state board of agriculture. He said that this might be an I underestimate by a few hundred dollars as the secretary had not turned in all of his receipts, and the final total may run slightly over $S0,O00, or about $15,000 more than the fair has5 earned in any other years. The chief increase is in admissions, although the fair shows some increase in every department. The board has a place to put the money. When it built the live stock pavilion it had from the state an appropriation of $100,000; the building, the plumbing and the broad cement walk around it ran the total up to $120,000, and the state board of agriculture will pay the $20,000. This item alone would take the profits of the fair. Wedding Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Miles, of 705 South Rush street, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary at their home Sunday, Sept. 15th, 150 guests being present. An elaborate sixcourse dinner was served from 1 until 4 o'clock. The bride and groom of 30 years received many beautiful gifts in pearl, gold and silver. The gucstf from out of town were Dr. an'd Mrs. Loring of Valparaiso, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Eaton and Mrs. E. M. Frank of Chicago; Mr. ami Mrs. Lowe, of Kentland, Ind.; Mrs. Van Vactor and Mrs. Wright, "of Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Kollar and Mr. and Mrs. Plummer of Lakeville. Congratulations nd regrets were received from many friends in and out of the city. " The guests departed at a late hour, wishing Mr. and Mrs. Miles many more happy years of wedded life. South Bend Times Petitions for Railroad' Subsidy. The following are the names contained in the petition to the commissioners praying for an election to determine whether a tax shall be levied in aid of the proposed Logansport and South Bend Electric railway: W. B. Corl, Miles VanVacor, Wm. Starr, Peter Weatiitrbolt, D. C. Knott, E. M. Geller Jacob Jordan, Geo. T. Cole, F. J. Goss, J. M. Wickizer, Fred Corse, Willis Koch, C. A. Bondurant, C. O. Yarrick, Ed Gibson, M. Allman, W. H. Bollman, L. Tanner, H. E. Buck, M. E. Soice, P. J. Richard, A. C. Richard, F. H. Kuhn, J. R. Losey.'Gco. Vinall, W. F. Suit, Chas. W. Humphreys, A. J. Ball, J. A. Ball. W. E. Bailey. H. L. Hielman, F. H. Jacox, Albert Savage, John Freed, C. Q. Rust. Sues for $10,000 Damages. Dcahl & Dcahl and Harley A. Logan of Plymouth, counsel for Edward S. Laudcrman, admr. of the Jess Leeper estate, have sued the Russell Co. -and the Arbircklc-Ryan Co., of Ohio and Indiana tor $10,000 damages. The Arbuckle-Ryan Co. sold Wesley Delcamp of Marshall county a traction engine, made b; the Russell company at Massilon, O. The engine, it is alleged, was repaired at the Goshen branch of the ArbuckleRyan Co. and was so defective that it was nearly rusted through. It blew up and killed Leeper, who was an employe. The complaint is in three paragraphs and is one of the longest ever filed here in a damage case of this' character. Goshen Democrat. Motor Cycle Tour Passes Through Plymouth. . Alout fifteen motor cycles passed through this city Saturday afternoon at about a "40 mile clip." They were participants of in endurance tour froan Chicago to Indianapolis given by the Federation of American Moior C3-cles. The tour started Saturday, morning and is due at Indianapolis Sunday ( night. From 40 to 50 have entered the contest. . .

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