Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 October 1907 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH BUNE I borders' Offtcc tcbOO YOLUME VII PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907. NO. 1

SUBSIDY

By a Vote of 3 to 1 in Center Township, and Over 6 to 1 in North Township,

SUMMARY CENTER. FOR AGAINST 1 34 2 54 3..: 37 4 -57 5- 27 6... V-.-40 7 (Inwood) 2 172 107 71 92 101 16! 132 Total 251 83Ö Majority against 535 NORTH. FOR AGAINST I..: 34 119 2 7 132 Total 41 251 AUj. against 210 Tihe subsidy election passed off" very quietly Saturday. The interurban people bad arranged for boosters but the ones they had werje "dead ones" and if any "pursuader" was given the Plymouth grafters it went to the bottom of their pockets. This election establishes a precedent in the matter of subsidies not only in Marschall county but in the entire state. The time has gon by when taxpayers in Indiana will build railroads for the promoters and schemers and the citizens of Plymouth end, vicinity will get the credit for the move they have made. The subsidy was given its death blow when the grafters publishing what they call newspapers "in the interest of morality in the community" came out in favor of levying a tax against the citizens of Center and North townships. Mr. Coquillard one of the South Bend men interested in the subsid tax requested us to publish a statePresident Hits TraiL All wise bar about Siamboul La. took m the tall uncut Monday. For not only did President Roosevelt start on their trail, but he was guided by Ben Tilley, most famed of all the "bar" hunters of the South. Tilley was in Texas when he received he summons to come for the bijj roundup here. He took the first trail. Ben Tilley is not only a dead shot lightning fast with the trigger but a most devout Christian. He will never h;int on Sunday, Tis said of him that time and agai- he has treed ""b'ar" Saturday right but has stopped even at the foot o. the tree where the quarry hid, at the stroke of twelve, and forsaLn the hunt until midnight Sunday. Great tales of his prowess are un-; folded to the stranger there tales of the sort that make the chills creep up the spine and the hair evince a desire to fashion itself pompadour. Tilley was astir long before the sun rose, getting the horses and dogs ready for the chase. The president wore his (.usual hunting togs the kind made familiar by the photographers aiJ rode a hunting horse. Sund.ywas spent by the president riding and walking. He is living in a 1ft by 10 wall tent with board floor. He sleeps in a commodious bed and is as comfortable as at home. Before smarting Monday he dictated several letters to Assistant Secretary Latta, who had ridden to the camp on horseback. Shortly before the hunting party started Holt Collier, the famed Mississippi "bear" hr.nter, who accompanief the president on his fruitless bear hunt at ßmedes, arrived in camp. The party set out through the cane brake in a drizzling rain. The guides said, however, that the moisture would only make it easier for the dogs to follow the scent. Justice Impartial. President Roosevelt's incisive address at Keokuk gave emphasis to the truth that" while he is chief executive of the nation the law will be enfoced against ul sorts of transgressors, rich and poor, high and low. Republicans and Democrats, with rig? 1 impartiality. He has been asked to suspend the operations of the law against wrongdoers of great wealth, but has refused, and, as he says, he has been sharply condemned in some quarters for doing this. But he made it plain that no amount of wealth or personal influence would l.e allowed to place itself above the law. Tie cry that the enforcement of the law will "hurt husfness" does not impress the president. Like the majority of "Iiis fellow countrymen he believes that obedience to the laws on the statute books will damage no legitimate interest. Warsaw a Dry Town. The remonstnators closed- their work in Warsaw Friday evening with a majority of 56 in the first ward. The second ward went dry some time ago and the city of Warsaw will be dry in the futnre.

DEFEATED

OF VOTE: ment for him denying some of the rumors afloat regarding the election. We published it over his signature. Metsker the unholy published i: as one of his leading double-leaded editorials (for pay) showing as we have often charged, that he was aginst the people, and for grafters. and boodlers, first, last, and all the time. Mr. Pcrley the president of the proposed line should know by, this time that the "gang" he fell in with at Plymouth did his cause more harm than good and that it was a confidence game from start to finish. It is only a question of time when the surrounding community will know this gang in Plymouth as they are known at home. Mr. Perley telephoned to Mr. Camson that the road would be built in some other way. It has not been decided in what -way but it is .more than likely they will ask for a popular subscription. It seems to be the general opinion that a half or three-quarter cent tax would have carried but it 'looks to us as if the voters were after the principle and no tax however small would have carried. NOTES. - Was Pcrley with the "right people?" we wonder. A few of the Democrats voted with the Republicans making it "imimoiis." Metsker will probably call it a rabbles' election and advise the county auditor to place the tax on the duplicate anyway. There were two votes in the Inwood precinct for the tax. Some one suggested that Boys and 'Metsker slipped over to Inwood and voted. The grafter were again routed. What show hVd the promoters Metsker the iholy and Boys the "little fish in the big puddle" advocated the graft. Rochester Girl Tried to Wreck Train For Love. A strange story of a girl's- imperiling the l:ves of manyin her determination to see her sweetheart, to whom she had made repeated appeals to come to her, is told regarding Miss Iva Wagoner of Rochester, Ind., who is accused of attempting to wreck a Lae Erie & Western passenger train so that her sweetheart who was a section laborer, would be called to the scqne of the wreck. About a month ago section men on the L. E. & W. railroad found i pile of railroad ties on the trackabout two miles north of Rochester. When they were removing the obstruction the Wagoner girl who is the daughter of the Rev. J. F. Wagoner appeared on he scene and was overjoyed, at meeting her sweetheart. Suspicion rested on the girl and a railroad -detective was employed on the case. For two weeks' he courted the girl, taking her for drives and walks. Saturday night, according to his story, she confessed to him that she was in love with Frank Steff" a section man, and that he had refused to see her and that she conceived the idea of causing a wreck, as she knew he would be called to the scene with the wrecking crew. Miss Wagoner was immediately placed under arrest, and her father, who is known throughout the county as an Adventist minister, was told that if he did not, plate her in an institution for brain trouble, she would be put in jail to stand trial on the charge of attempting to wreck a train. The father has not decided what he will do. Rochester Sentinel. Voliva to Quit Zion. From the grave John Alexander Dowic Tuesday, through an order in his last will, directed the election of John A. Lewis, hief overseer of Zion. The convention that carried out Dowie's will was composed of delegates from all over the world. Lewis at once took charge of Zion City so far as he could, on account of the receivership, and announced that he would begin . republication of Dowie's newspaper, Leaves' of Healing, and that 'his effort would rehabilitate Zion City along the lines Dowie had laid down. x L'ewis and his followers probably will have 7ion City to themselves, for Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the overseer elected by the people of Zion City, announced at a meeting that he practically had completed his plans for the migration to New Mexico. Voliva urge'! all of Lewis's followers to sell their property iir Zion City and come with him. He said that in New Mexico each married couple would have ICO acres and each single person hO acres of land.

Card of Thanks. We desire to extend thanks to our neighbor. and many friends who so kindly assisted us in our sad bereavement of hustxind and father and for beautiful floral offerings. . Mrs. Wm. Zehner and children.

"Ben Bolt" Turns to Dirge.

A gray haired maker of banjosdiel in the Olympic theater in Chicago Friday night whi'e the music of "Don't You Remember Sweet; Alice, Ben Bolt?" strummed upon the stage on instruments of his own manufacture, calmed the large audience, which had been thrown into semi- panic. J. B. Schall, 53 years old, occupied a front seat in the lower balcony. He had visited the theater especially to hear the playing of Lamont and Millman, musical specialists. Hisi irtercst lay in the fact that they used banjos which had been turned out by his own hand in his South Wter street shop. Suddenly Schall rose his seat with a choking cry, swayed for a moment as if he would topple over the balcony rail into the crowded parquet, and then crumpled dowrf on the floor. Instantly, intense excitement prevailed. Schall's! collapse was witnessed b three-fourths of the people in thehouse. Several women near him screamed. Ushers and attendants hurried to him and carried him to the foyer, where they laid him on the carpeted floor and attempted to restore consciousness. The two players upon the stage had reached a pause in their musical "specialties." Looking across the footlights they saw the man collapse and realized the danger of panic in the packed house. At once, with rare presence of mind, they plunged into a wild medley of music to quiet the ahrm of the audience. Their efforts were successful. While the musicians played merry airs the audience listened in attentive silence, unaware that a man was dying behind the last tier of balcony seats. Once Schall came to his senses. He opened his eyes and said to House Policeman E. S. Baniett who bent above him: "I think I can go home now." Bartlett told him to lie still a moment longer, until he regained his strength. x Just' then the banjos on the stage struvk up, "Don't You Remember Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?" Aa the last bars of the old tune ceased, and the audience burst into a tumult of applause, the old mqsician died. At the close of the performance the audience went home, having enjoyed the comedy on one side of the footlights, but wholly ignorant of the tragedy that had taken placi on the other. Schall had lived alone over his banjo shop. He left two grown sons who live in New York. INTERURBAN MEETING Steps Taken Toward Securing an Interurban for Plymouth. A citizens meeting was held at the city hall Monday night, for the purpose of taking steps toward securing an interurban railway for Plymouth. The hall was crowded, and although no definite action was taken, much favorable sentiment was i expressed, and it is now up to us, to secure the road. Th meeting was called to order at about 8:10 o'clock, by L. J. Hess, president of the city Board of Commerce. Mr. Hess, stated the reasons for calling the meeting,. that communications, and1 a proposition had been submitted by the Interurban people, at South Bend, relative to the rairoad. He f aid that many had expressed themselves as being willing to donate or subscribe an a,id to the road, while being opposed to voting a subsidy tax upon an unwilling neighbor. By motion and consent S. E. Boys was selected to at as secretary to the meeting. Mr. Boys then read the communications and contrac submitted by Mr. Perley, president of the suburban company The contract was to this effect: The aforesaid company expects and intends to build an interurban railroad from South Bend to Logansport. A bank at Cleveland will finance the enterprise to the amount of $400.000, provided that sufficient money is raised in the neighborhood of the proposed road, to show that enough interest is being manifested in the road to make it when built, a pofitablc investment. This amount to be raised by the promoters, was fixed at $125,000, together with the right of way. The piomoters at South Bend have $75,000 and the right of way, leaving $50,000 to be raiised in this vicinity. Their proposition was that they would issue stock to the amount of $200,000. selling at 25 cents on the $1.00. This money not Vo beClaimed by the interurban company until the total $50,000 was subscribed. The proposition met with little approval. Attorneys Logan and Lauer expressed their opinions, that a counter proposition should be made the interurban company, which would provide that this mney, if raised, should be deposited in our banks, and should not be turned over to the railroad company until good faith had been shown by beginning the building of the road, and then only be pat out for construction purposes. Talks were made by Dr. Knott, F. G. Lam son, M. Allman, Charles Mc. Lauglilin, S. E. Reeve, and others, but nothing was attained. We understand that parties interested in the road in this city, have formed a plan, whereby Bremen and Waukarusa be included in our meetings, that arrangements may be made with these towns, to get them in on the deal.

Presidents andl People. No man knows better than Theodore Roosevelt the spirit of the people, but he sometimes forgets. Speaking at the grave of McKinley, he touched upon our duty toward honest and dishonest men in their pursuit of wealth. He spoke of the duty of citizenship in the protection of every man's right to better his fortunes by honest and lawful means. There was no protest, but the eloquent silence which gives consent. Later, the president spoke of the present duty of citizenship in seeing to it that no man shall be allowed to acquire wealth by illegal or dishonest means and his audience broke into enthusiastic applause. It was then he seemed, for a moment, to misunderstand Americanism. "Wait a moment," said he. "1 don't want you to applaud this part unless you are willing to applaud the part to which you listened in silence. I want you to understand that I will stand just as straight for the rights of the honest man who wins his fortune by honest methods as I will stand against the dishonest man who wins his fortune by dishonest methods, and I challenge the right to your support in the one attitude as much as in the other. I am glad you applauded when you did, but I want to go back now and hear you applaud the other statement." His-audience was accommodating and gave a rousing cheer on his rereading of the part they regardedas an American political truism. It rs not many men who could run the risk of rousing the resentment of an American crowd by pulling them back in the harness to yell for things' their fathers asserted in the Declaration of Independence, and which are cardinal principles of American political action. It was because these principles have been violated that the crowd cheered wher.

the president declared the publi: duty of punishing and prohibiting y;olation. The people know the right. What they want is men to see and fight the wrong. Durbin May Enter Contest. There may be another entry 5th in number in rhe race for the Republican nomination for Governor. It is learned from inside sources that there is a very strong probability that ex-Governor Winfield T. Durbin will become a candidate. The ex-Governor, is known to be doing some "heavy thinking" on the proposition! It is? expected that with, in a few weeks, at ths longest, he will give out a statement defining his attitmle in reference to the nomination. The Constitution of Indiana makes it impossible for a Governor of the tatc to succeed himself, but there is no inhibition prohibiting a man who has served a term as Gove, nor from being nominated and elected to that office at the enKt of our years after the expiration of his term. No Governor has served two terms under the present Constitution. - Ex-Governoir Durbin's friends say that he is receiving a grea many letters from business men, who were very favorably . impressed with his "business administration" of ttatc affairs. Another argument in his behalf is 'tbat he is a veteran of the civil war possibly the last one of that honored clan who might be' elected to the governorship. x The movement to induce Col. Durbin to run for Governor is saiu to explain the reticence of Fremont Goodwine of Williamsport. Mr Goodwine has fixed several dates for his formal announcement as a candidate for Governor, but no announcement has been forthcoming. Col. Durbin and Senator Goodwinc are very close friends and the ex-Governor will not be a candidate if Senator Goodwin? should finally enter the race. It U believed on the o:her hand, that if Col. Durbin should decide to run for the nomination, Good wine will keep oit of the contest anid become an illy of the ex-Govetnor. Poasc Determined to Torture Tramp With the declared intention of burning him at the stake armed posses Thursday near Oqirawka, 111., surrounded a large swamp in which i's believed to be hidden a negro tramp, who attacked Mrs. John Hathaway, wife of a farmer, because she would not give him food. The tramp tied Mrs. Hathaway's four-year-old boy to a tree and set him on fire, causing his death. Mrs. Hathaway is1 lying at the point of dea'th as the result of her terrible experience. When she regained consciousn s after being attacked by the negro, she found her l)oy tied to a tree and suffering excruciating agony. The negro had poured oil all over his clothing and then set it on fire. The little fellow died in his mother's arm that night. Driven Irantic with terror and grief the woman mounted one of the farm horses and spread the alarm. Evry man immddia'tely left the plow and, forming posses, scoured the country with the aid of bloodhounds. The negro was tracked to a swamp. The sheriff and a posse also are after the negro, and it is a race to see which gets him first. If the officers get the negro an effort will be made to spirit him away, but fears are entertained that such an attempt will result in bloodshed. The iosses, which include seme of the wealthiest arid most influential farmers of the section, are determined that the negro must be tortured to death.

Sheriff Killed at Winamac.

In a pistol fight with three unknown men Saturday morning, Chas. H. Oglesby, sheriff of Pulaski coun ty was killed and one of his assailants received wounds from which he died shortly after his capture was effected, while another of the men was shot through the shoulder. After the shooting of Oglesby the three men escaped to the woods, but a posse of 1000 men quickly organized and after a three hours' .search through the country their capture was effect ed. It was with the greatest difli culty that a lynching was averted, but they were finally spirited away and were placed in jail. So far the identity of the three men have not been learned, but they are believed to be tramps. Acting upon information received from the telegraph operator at Three Center, InJ., to the effect that three men had become involved in a fight with the train crew of a Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad freight train in which the crew had been worsted, and requesting the arrest of the men, Sheriff Olgesby went to the Panhandle station at 6:30 o'clock Saturday morning to, await the arrival of the train. When the freight train pulled into the station" the sheriff soon located and started towarld them.. As he drew near, one of the men sWddenl pulled a revolver and opened fire on the officer. Sheriff Oglesby immediately drew his' weapon, as did both of the other tw'o men, and a pitched battle waged furiously for some time. A bullet from one of the weapons in the hands of the three men piercdi Oglesby's heart and he sank to the ground. Fearless to the last the sheriff raised himself upon his elbow and fired again from his revolver, one of the bullets striking one of the men in the stomach, while another was shot through the shoulder. The three men then made their escape into the country and before a posse could be organized they had gained considerable ime upon their pursuers. The mob soon grew to a thousand members and all were bent upon revenge an?J it seemed certain that a lynching would follow thir capture, The mob separated into several parties and all of the men were armed and were prepared to fight the murderers if they attempted to resist arrest. The chase lasted for several hours and the men were finally traced to a woods which was surrounded, and as the posse closed in on them they evidently sa-w that resistance was useless and surrendered. A lynching seemed certain, but two automobi' s were pressed into .service and the men were hurried to Logansport instead of being scrt back to Winamac. On the way there the one who was shot through the stomach died He did not make his identity known to the officers, who had effected his capture. 1 It is reported that John L. Moorman editor of the Starke County Republican, headed the posse that were in search of the tramps and that Judge Nye and the county clerk of Pulaski county met the Pan Handle train conveying the prisoners from Logansport to Winamac and held court on the train. The prisoners were bound over :o the circuit court. The prisoners were , taken from the Train at North Judson and from there taken to the jail at Knox for safe keeping. Indiana Will Have Fruit The Indianapolis News, in the course of a lengthy editorial, urges the necessity of the proper care of fruit trees and insists that the next legislature give the state entomologist power and money to fight the plagues that have rendered the fruit industry in Indiana almost a memory. The position of The News is well taken, for until such measures are a'.fopted it will be futile to attempt the culture of tree fruit in Indiana. The scale and other parasites are to be reckoned with today, and will be until proper methods to eradicate them have been utilized. Indiana needs what the fruit-raising states of the West already have, a compulsory spraying law. Indeed, it might not be a bad idea to have such law as riiat in Idaho, where th spraying is done, not by the tree owners, but by the agents of the state, the cost, which is very small, being assessed against the fruit growers and paid as taxes. This law has proved entirely satisfactory as it insures the work being done and done right. When Indiana has a compulsory spraying law and enforces it, fruit culture may again become a profitable industry here but so long as some tree owners spray and some do not the work of thos-e who do is of little value save to their own trees for the single season. What profit is it if one man sprays while his neighbor's trees are the brooderies of pests? Ft. Wayne News. Senator Piatt Wabbles. Senator Piatt of New York, declares that if hi legs were as strong as his mind he would get back into the political harness without delay. But a man -is not always a good judge of the strength of his own mind. Some of tin incidents in the recent history of the New York senator convey the impresss'ion to unprejudiced observers that his intellectual faculties have a wabbliness akin to that of his legs.

To Show Armv Graft.

George W. Kirkman, formerly a captain of infantry in the regular ar my, was Uischarged from the United States, penitentiarv at Fort Leaven worth, Kans., Saturday and immedi ately announced a programme which includes the indictment of Judge Ad vocate General George B. Davis, head of fhe legal department of the army, for drawing a salary contrary to law, and the exposure of gigantic graft in the same de artment. On leaving the prison Kirkman was dressed in the same suit of clothes he wore when he was incar cerated June 22, 1905. He proudly wore his West Point class ring on his finger and displayed the button of Uhe Volunteer Prison League on his coat lapel. "Heretofore I have been a soldier in the army of the commonwealth," said Kirkman in talking of his plans, "but now I propose to be a soldier in the common woe. I shall devote my self chiefly to writing for publication. "I am going to expose the slander bureau of the war department, whose specialty is warring on women and children, as witness the Tucker and Ayes incidents of late. "JiWge Advocate General Davis is at present holding his office contrary to and in violation of law. He formulated the charge against me and placed them under the sixty-first artaicle of war and then duplicated them under - the sixty-second. Officers and soldiers were ordered to search' the universe for material to support the charges against me. "I shall enUeavoi- to have General Davis indicted. A gig-antic graft is being worked in the War Department. Every general staff officer decides that every other general staff officer is entitled to every cent he can draw from the United States treasury. "With particular attention to the year 1900 I propose to give full details regarding involving men in the highest oositions in civil, militarv and religious life and uncover great corruption. I am going to get into communication with H. H. Tucker ind former Senator Burton. "The statements that I deserted and eloped are a fake. In regard to my habeas corpus suits I am going to sue for a writ of mandamus in the United States Supreme Court to force the federal court to render a decision." Kirkman was once with the battalion - that got into trouble in Brownsville, Texas and is very bitter against the men who used to be his brother officers. BANK INCORPORATES. Citizens Trust and Savings Com pany. Fourth Bank for Plymouth The fourth bank for this city, as exclusively mentioned in the Tribune, some time ago, have filed articles of incorporation. The company will be called "Citi zens Trust and Savings; Company." Capitalized at $50,000. The directors are Theodore Cressner, John R. Jones, Frank H. Hoffman, Louis N. Schäfer, Andrew J. Dillon John A. McFarlin, Harry E. Grube, Peter Richard Jr., and William Voreis. . War on White Slave Evil. Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor, and Frank P. Sargent, commissioner general of immigration, have determined to eliminate the "whi e slave" traffic from the United States if possible. On his recent trip through the northwestern and Pacific coast states Secretary Straus' attention was di rected to the increasing importation of women for immoral purposes. The Japanese and Corean Exclusion league informed him that hundreds of Japanese women were being brought to America surreptitiously and held in practical slavery after their arrival here. It wasf stated the women were sold by their importers precisely as if they were so many bales of goods. Secretary Straus ordeced a rigid investigation, and it was discovered that the "white slave" traffic was far more widespread than had been suspected, involving the importation into America not only of Japanese women but of women from France, Austria, Russia and Italy. It is proposed to have a careful inquiry instituted in all the larger cities particularly, grid a rourij up of alien immoral women will be made. Those who have not been in the country three years and are found to have been brought here illegally will be arrested and subsequently returned. Before they are returned to their native lands, however, they will be required to furnish evidence against those who brought them here, and prosecutions will be begun against those who brought them here and prosecutions will be begun against those responsible for the traffic. It is proposed to make examplos of such men and women by securing convictions, if possible, and sertding them to prison. Income Tax Laws. Senator Beveridge devoted much of his time, while in Europe, to study ing the income tax laws in force in England, France and Germany. Some time during the coming session of congress he will disclose his findings a well as his intentions with reference to legislation for this country.

BAD WRECK

One Killed; Four Seriously Injured by Carelessness---Operator May Be Guilty of Manslaughter.

At about 4:30 o'clock this morning a rear end collission of two freight trains occurred one half mile west of Bourbon, in which one man was instantly killed, four seriously and a dozen slightly injured. The news reached this city immediately and the work train stationed here and a special containing physicians left for the scene as soon as No. 36 arrived at about 6:00 a. m. The two east-bound freights passed through this city about a half hour apart. The first freight was left through the Inwood block by Jesse Miller, the night operator at that place, and proceeded to Bourbon where some cars were to be switched off. About a half hour was consumed in the switching. The cars which were to be left in Bourbon were in the middle of the train, so that when the train entered the siding, four cars and three cabooses were left on the main track. Meanwhile the operator at Inwood had neglected to close the block after the departure of the first freight, and when the second freight arrived at Inwood, seeing the open signal, it proceeded toward Bourbon. The run from Inwood to Bourbon, by the second freight was made in exceedingly fast lime, some say in five minutes. Just as the first freight had returned to the main track from switching, and had coupled up its remaining cars it was struck by the second freight. The three cabooses and two flat cars on the first freight were completely shattered, the bodies of the cars being reduced to kindling wood, while the trucks , running gears, etc.. were twisted and broken into a mass, that resembled a pile of scrap iron. The fore part of the engine pulling the second freight, was caved in, half way to the cab. Strange to say, how ever, this engine did not leave the track. The first and second cabooses on the first freight contained two dead head crews which were being returned from Chicago to Fort Wayne, and it was the crews of these that were killed and injured. The last caboose carried the crew of the freight and luckily enough, this crew was working the train at the time of the collision, else they would all have surely been killed outright. The blame for the disaster his not yet been definitely fixed. The crew of the first freight claim that they stationed a flagman behind their train, that he flagged and torpedoed the second freight, but that it did not stop. The crew of the second freight asPowers is Indicted. The Franklin County (Ky.,) Grand Jury late Tuesday returned an indict ment charging Caleb Powers, now being held in the Goebel assassina tion case, and others; with conspiring together with intent to procure oth ers to swear falsely as witnesses in the Scott Circuit Court, to the effect that Henry Youtsey of Newport, now in the State Prison under conviction of complicity in the Goebel case, had admitted that he fired the shot which killed Governor Goebel in January, 1900. Tlfe others indicted with Pow ers are Howard M. Denton of New port, a lawyer; Jennie Gentry, alias Julia Sarsi, of Lexington and Dave Cushing, said to be of Kenton county. The; indictment charges that those above named did unlawfully, wilfully and corruptly conspire, confederate and agree together with the intent and for the purpose of procuring and inducing John Rogerson, alias J. C. Martin, and J. C. Matteson two con victs in the Kentucky Penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky., on a future trial of Caleb Powers, then and now under indictment and awaiting a fourth trial in the Scott Circuit Court, charged with the crime of being accessory before the fact to the willful murder of William Goebel, to faTsely and feloniously swear and give in evidence in the Scott Circuit Court at the coming fourth trial of Caleb Powers that Henry Youtsey, who is a witness and had heretofore testified as witness for the Commonwealth of Kentucky against said Caleb Powers, and now in the penitentiary at Frankfort, in the presence and hearing of John Rogerson, alias J. C. Martin, and J. C. Matteson, in substance and effect did say: "Hocker Smith, got a bunch of keys. We tried them and found one to' fit. I kept that key and the next morning I went in the room and fired the shot myself that killed William Goebel. I alone am responsible for it, an'cl the other persons accused had no hand in it, and what I have heretofore sworn to against Caleb Pow ers was false." Hoppy Place Sold- -Joiliri Bowell sold the old Hoppe place of 18 acres' iust southwest of town, west of the L. E. & W. railway, Friday, to F. W. Harding, of Ft. Wayne, brakeman on the Pennsylvania railway. The consideration was $1285. Mr. Harding will move to this property on Oct 24

AT BOURBON,

sert that they had an open block at Inwood and that they came through that place at high speed---they did not see the flagman from the preceding freight---they saw the tail lights of the caboose but supposed them to be the lower lights of a switch signal. Thus the responsibility rests either upon the Inwood operator, or if he claims that the block was closed, upon the engineer of the second freight who may have been asleep, and neither saw the signal at Inwood nor the flagman at Bourbon. Mr. Koontz, of Fort Wayne, conductor of one of the dead head crew's, aged 45 years, was instantly killed. His neck was broken, his skull crushed, besides body injuries. F. W. Spencer, fireman, aged 33 years, married, wife and three children, home at Fort Wayne, injuries about head and right gluteal; body badly bruised, internal injuries, will probably die. A M. Slagle, engineer, aged 43, Ft. Wayne, married, injured forehead and bruised; will recover. George Ek, engineer, married, 4 children, age 33 badly bruised. C. H. Conley, fireman, married, 29 years of age, wound over left brow and eye, body and limbs bruised. The dead and injured were carried into the Colonial hotel at Bourbon, where they were attended by Drs. Edison, Ratchiff' and Harris of Bourbon, and Aspinall and Halloway, and were later taken to Ft. Wayne where they all reside. Prosecutor Molter was called to Inwood on the early train, to arrest Mr. Miller, on a charge of manslaughter. When he arrived at Inwood, those who preferred the charges would not swear to a warrant. No action will be taken until the details are known definitely. This case will fall under the law in regard to involuntary manslaughter. This is the first wreck that has occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad, in this vicinity, since the installation of the block system. It was declared that with this system, a collision would be impossible. The system in itself is as nearly perfect as human skill can devise, the system is not to blame. The blame will rest upon an individual. All of the parties involved have been called to Ft. Wayne to account. This case is a good illustration of an old moral, namely, that no system or contrivance is perfect when the working of any part thereof devolves upon the frail human mind. Mother to Condemn Son. Judge Kersten Friday caused the drawing of a special venire from which will be selected jurors to try Michael Casey of Chicago, for the mttrd'T of his brother John. Mrs. Margaret Brennan, the aged mother : both meot is the state's; principal witness. Upon her evidence the prosecution hopes to hang Michael, her son, for his unnatural crime. The extraordinary circumstances prompted the court to order a special venire. Mrs. Brennan, heart-broken, but Vietermined to leave no thing, unsaid to convict her only living son for slaying 'her favorite, is ready, to go on the stand and by her words seal the fate of Michael. John Casey -lived with his wife and child at 321 Walnut street, a few doors from the home of his mother. Mrs. Brennan invited the brothers to spend a Sunday afternoon at her (house. . They quarreled over a phonograph and Michael almost cut his brother's "head from -the bddy. Gcwdy for Watson. Captain John K. Gowdy, cx-consul general to Paris, has taken' charge of Watson's campaign for governor. He and Watson are neighbors and close friends. Captain Gowdy was for ten years' chairman of the Rusli county Republican committee and was six years chairman of the state committee. He will be assisted by Col. Thayer of Greenfield, Ernest Thomas' of Rushville and other prominent Republican organizers. Watson's campaign will not lag while he is at Washington performing his duties as congressman. Gowdy and Tlhayer are among the best political organizers in the state. Corn Growers' Annual Meeting Jan. 15th, 1908, at PurduQ University. At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana Corn Grower Association it was decided to hoM the annual meeting of the association January 15, 1008, at Purdue University. The meeting will be in connection . with the annual Corn School at Purdue ivd in this way, will intetest a large number of corn growers. Arrangemeets are being made to secu-e many noted speakers that the people will be glad to hear. All corn growers should plan to attend this meeting. Further information may be had by addressing the Secretary, Lafayette, Indiana.