Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 October 1907 — Page 1

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JAMES IN JAIL

James T. Poulson, Who Jumped Bond Two Years Ago, is Apprehended. James T. Poulson, a former saloonkeeper at Tippecanoe, was arrested by Sheriff Shaffer of St. Joseph county, at South Bend, Wednesday, and was brought to this city, and lodged in the county j-iil by Deputy Fred SIroeder Thursday. In October 1903, Poulson was indicted by the grand jury of this county, on three counts-; for selling liquor on Sunday, for selling liquor to minors, ami for keeping a gaming house. His' bond was furnished by John H. Pickerel. A short while after, both Poulson and Pickerel disappeared, and it was rumored that they had gone west. Lately, however, Sheriff Voreis received word that Poulson was employed at Dodge's Mfg. Works at Mishawaka. The sheriff of St. Joseph county; was notified and the arrest was made Wednesday. His case will probably be carried over until the next term of court. Van Hise, Hangman, Will be Out of Job. With seventy-five hangings to Iiis credit having snuffed out the lives oi seventy-three men and two women during nearly half a century of this grewsome service James Van Hise, of Newark, N. J., self-appointed hangman of New Jersey, is soon to be withont a job. He can not possibly hope for. more than two more hangings, and possibly only one more. Hope is used advisedly, for Van Hise is in love with his profession and sees no reason why he should not continue it for the rest of his life, nor why his sons and his son's sons should not follow it after him, as he has followed it after his father and grandfather. It may be that Van Hise has hanged his last man in New Jersey possibly the ,last man anywhere for hangings are going out of fashion, to his great regret and disgust. Under the provisions of a new law. hangings have been abolished in New Jersey and the electrocution chair ha been substituted as a means of capital punishment for crimes commitUd a.'ter March 1 last. Only two men are now waiting in the shadow of the gallows for murders committed previous to .that date. One is John E. Schuyler, of Hunterdon county, who was to have been hanged recently but was reprieved by Governor Stokes, on the ground that there has been found new evidence tending to prove the man's innocence of the killing of Manning Riley, a neighbor. The other is Frederick Lang, of Middlesex county, convicted of the murder of his niece because she rejected his attentions. It is likely that Lang twill be the last man hanged. Van Hise has been hanging murderers practically all of his life. His father and grandfather were hangmen before him and he was training a son to follow him in the work when the electrocution law as passed, in spite of all his efforts against it. He has made a good living out of the deaths of others, charging from $2."0 to $300 for each execution. O te day he hanged four men before breakfast. He boasts that he never had a bungling hanging. He never shows the slightest sympathy for his victims, declaring that murderers ought to be hanged. The electrocution law will relieve the sheriffs of the different counties of the unpleasant task of executing criminals. All electrocutions will take place at the State prison in Trenton, where a death house is now teing built. The principal keeper of the prison will be in charge but may name a deputy fo do the actual work. George O. Osborne, known as the "best keeper the prison ever had," threatened to resign if he had to do 1 e actual killing, and the original law was amended to permit a deputy New Paper at Logansport. . Some of the citizens of Logans port, who evidently have more money than they know what to do with, .have organized a company 'to publish a new Republican morning paper. Thirty thousand dollars have already been put into the treasury, but they will doubtless find it necessary to put up a whole lot more before pay ing dividends, if. indeed, they ever reach the dividend sMge at all. The history of morning paper m this part of the newspaper vineyard has not been very encouraging for new ventures. Of all the business ventures in which to sink a pile of money in a short time, the newspaper affords probably the best possible means. Peru Evening Journal. Suicide by Electricity, What is believed to be the first cae of suicide by electricity has oc curred at Kingston, England. The vie: im was William Brown, a car penter employed in the electric light ing works in London. At the inquest ; ,i..t,....i jViit little while beiL 111 1 I l'VU Vi. X ..-

' fore his death Brown made inquiries

as to dangerous parts of the switch board It was supposed at the time he was anxious to avoid risking his life and the fullest information was suppileJ him. Subsequently he was seen with his hands on two of the terminals, and instantly thereafter he fell down dead. The evidence showed he had suffered from a religious man ia, the recurrence of which he feared

Taft is Chewed as Winner in '08. Secretary of War Taft was intro

duced Monday night as "the next president of the United States' when he addressed members of the Manila assembly gathered at a banquet at Manila in his honor. For five minu tes the partly cabinet officer could not make his voice heard above the deafening cheers which followed Gov. Gen. Smith's prediction of White house .onors for Mr. Taft. A silver loving cup of native make was presented to the secretary who, in expressing his thanks, said he was gratified when he heard President Osmena say the United States had kept its eve-y promise made to the Filipinos in letter and in spirit. Mr. Taft said he assumed the Philippme delegates at Washington would join him in assisting to obtain beneficial legislation. The government he hoped, would reduce the tariff on sugar and tobacco. It was pos sible the import of sugar would be limited to 400,000 tons. "Nevertheless," he said "in reviv ing the languishing industries of the islands I- do not desire the Philip pines to become another Cuba, with foreign owned haciendas and a prole tariat of unskilled laborers. That would not be helping the spread of self-government. Today the Philip pines are M.b divided into innumerable small farms, which favors the development of a strong middle class. I am satisfied with actual conditions i in the islands and I anticipate prosperity and order." Amid the applause of Spaniards and Filipinos Senor Regidor, who was deported during the insurrection f 1872. escaped, and resided most of the time since in London, always urging independence, but who recently returned to Manila, declared that it was unreasonable today to ask for further definition of the political stat us of the islands and wicked to agitate for mdependence, when unIreamed of me isures for self-govern ment were being so generously show ered upon the Philippines. Gov. Gen. Smith, in an eloquent speech, urged a continuance of the present relations between the Philippines and the United States. He declared that the experiment of selfgovernment had so far been most successful. The Missionary's Landing. Along the west coast of Africa a bar extends with occasional breaks for some thousands of miles. It prevents steamships from making land ings at important town on the mainland and necessitates the transfer of passengers and freight in small boats. This transfer $s often dangerous. Father Derouet has written a live ly account of his adventure in July last in one of these boats. He was trying to lard at Sette Cama, a little north , v Congo. Just before the crit.' ent of crossing the bar hi s tb;r Moulin joyously wav ing his ijnd on the shore. Then in a twinkling a mountain of water Struck the bar and the boat was tossed into the air. Father Dero:iet found himself executing a somersault. He came down on his head and would probably have frac tured his skull if he had not landed on the feet of an unfortunate boat man, which diminished the violence of the blow. On the bank Father Moulin saw him appear and disappear three times and, believing him lost, gave him absolution. Ten of the twelve boat men h'ad been knocked into the sea and were struggling in the waves. The boat was soon in shallow water, but still far from land. The two boatmen helped the missionary ashore. In the confusion a wooden chest had fallen on his hips and he was very sore, but his chief grief on landing was that he had lost his pas toral ting. The baggage was fished out of the sea piece by piece, but in what a state! The vestments worn in the church service were ruined and tw were all the presents he had brought for his brethren. Sea water had spoiled them. The accident cost him about $250. But the misionaries of Sette Cama consoled him with this piece of logic as he drew up, with a woebegone air, before their house: "Never mind; do not feel too much afflicted. The principal piece has been saved." A Great Rural Play. Any ptey that can attract an audi ence of intelligent people of a size to tax the capacity of the big New York Academy of Music, that can play upon the heart-strings of humanity wfthout a discordant note, that can compel the tribute of tears 3nd again of the heartiest and heal thiest sort of laughter, certainly must possess merits in abundance and, when it is clean, surely is deserving of praise and words of commendation put into type where those who run mav read and take more time to think. "Quincy Adams Sawyer" succeeds upon the stage because it is full of heart touches, because it possesses the power to grip, as with hooks of steel, upon the affections and when the play does there is small use in hunting for technical flaws. The piece is handsomely produced The scenery is new and bright, the properties abundant and appropriate. and the company as large and com pel eni a? could be wished.

U. S. HITS TOBACCO COMPANY

Surprise) for the Trust. The administration at Washington launched a thunderbolt in its prosecution of the trusts when rt announced Monday the seizure by the government of property in Viginia belonging to corporations allied with the tVmerivan Tobacco company. The seizure amounted to only about $7,000 but the novelty of the proceeding is none the less striking, for it is the first instance in which the federal government has invoked section 6 of tfhe Sherman anti-trust law, although that statute wars enacted more than seventeen years ago. Hundreds of prosecutions have been made by the government under the Sherman law, and some of the most radical measures of the Roosevelt administration have been instituted under its provisions, but up to this time section 6 has been a dead letter so far as any action by the department of justice is concerned. A part of an official notice given out by Attorney ' General Bonaparte late Monday afternoon in regard to the surprising invocation of section G reads as follows: "The collector of customs' at Nor folk, Va., under direction of the sec retary of the treasury, and in con junction with the United States attorney for the eastern district of Vir ginia has seized 175 cases, containing ginia.has seized 175 cases, containing 8,750,000 cigarets, valued at $7,272.50, which were in transit from factories of the British American Tobacco company, limited, located in Petersburg, Va., and Durham, N. C, to New York ami foreign countries. "This seizure was made under sec tion 6 of the Sherman anti-trust law. which reads as follows: " 'Any property owned under any contract, or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy (and being the subject thereof) mentioned in sect?on of this act, and being in the course of ' transportation from one state to another or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and conlemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure and condemnation of prop erty imported into the United States contrary to law.' " The plans for thii seizure were kept a profound secret, and it is be lieved that the American Tobacco company and the allied corporations were entirely unprepared for the step. It is expected that the seizure of angiUe property' belongings to the socalled trust will precipitate an action at law in the courts in Virginia and if the tobacco corporation makes any attempt to recover its property and to prevent its disposition according to the law of seizure many facts of value to the government prosecutors in the principal case against the trust h New York will be brought out. Co-Eds Balk at Cabbage. Because a dinner of corned beef and cabbage, pork and beans, turnips and various accessories was spread before them instead of what ' y chose to term "brain foods," twenty co-eds of the Northwestern Univer sity went on a strike last Friday. They decided to the meals of Pearson hall before trying to make the strike stick. "How coarse!" "Fit for a day lab orer," "Oh fudge!" were some of the remarks which greeted the dinner, just before the twenty seniors and juniors decided to leave the diningroom. Then they went hungry. At C p. m. when they returned to the dining-room, they were greeted by a great dish of prunes and a steaming f latter of corned beef hash in addition to the regulation plates of bread and butter and pots of tea. "Remains of the dinner," said one, ps she sniffed the air. The strike was on. In a body they marched through the streets of Kvanston to a cafe in the town, where they feasted on ice cream, cake, bouillon, canned strawberries and .chocolate eclaires. The strikers -decided to try out the meals another day before deciding on future actionNew Plan to Elect Roosevelt. Senator Bourne of Oregon has offered a cash prize of $1,000 through a magazine published in Boston for the strongest argument in support of the assertions that the people and not President Roqsevejt shall decide who shall be his successor; that Theodore Rooscvejt cannot decline p second elective term nor attenjpt to name his successor without makjng his own personal desires or egotistical opinions paramount to the combined wishes apd intelligence of the Republican party and the electorate of the nation, and that, barring death and illness. President Roosevelt mu. sit and' will be selected and elected for a ''second elective term." Senator Bourn said' "My purpose is to secure discussion. Confident that the overwhelming sentiment of the cwntry, regardless of party, favors the renomination and re-ejection of Roosevelt, I take this method of inviting an expression on the subject." REMONSTRANCE CASE TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT. The Argos liquor remonstrance case was conluded at about 5:00 o'clock Friday evening. The judge took the case under advisement and stated that he would give his deci sion next Thursday.

Bank Law Violation.

R. B. Oglesbee, clerk in the bank department of the office of Auditor of State, says the failure of the Peo ple's State Bank at Huntingburg, which was closed last January and which resulted in the attempt of E. R. Brundick, former president, to commit suicide, offers a glowing ex ample of the violation of a banking law which is not generally under stood by bankers of Indiana. Among the charges returned against the former directors of the bank were those of borrowing funds of the bank unalwfully and of overdrawing their accounts. The laws prohibiting officers of banks from borrowing money under certain con ditions and prohibiting overdrafts are not generally understood by bankers, and one of the tasks of the Auditor's office for several months has been to impress the significance of these acts on the minds of the bank officials. The law in regard to overdrafts was enacted in 1905 and prwides that any officer or employe of a bank who shall knowingly draw or receive payment on any check on the bank when he has no funds in the bank to his credit without first procuring the written consent pf the board of directors shall be deemed gulity of a felony. The penalty is imprisonment in a State prison from two to fourteen years and a fine of double the sum received from the" bank. The law relative to the borrowing of money provides that any bank official who obtains as a borrower any of the funds of the bank without first executing his note or other evidence of debt bearing the written consent of the board of director shall be deemed guilty of a felony. The penalty is the same as that for 'overdrawing an account. Although both of these laws have been on the statute books since 1905 bankers of the State do not fully rey.lize their importance, Mr. Oglesbee says. The Auditor has endeavored in every way to teach their full signifi cance and has been successful in many, but not all cases. Taft Opens Assembly. Great interest was manifest in the speech of Secretary Taft opening the Philippine assemble which was ' delivered in fhe National Theatre at Manila, Wednesday morning. He failed to satisfy some of the American resilents of Manila regarding the policy of the American government. The general impression is that his Speech was pl&ctive. He intimated that misbehavior -would result in the allishmient of the assembly, but it is declared that this contingency is not expected- As for the Fili'pnQs, they expressed no opinion of the speech. In his speech Mr. Tft reiterated his former statements regarding the independence of the Philippine people were unchanged. He did not believe that they would be fitted, to govern themselves for at least a generation, but he -added tht the matter was entirely in thg hands of Congress. The secretary denjed emphatically that the United States had any intention qf disposing of the islands, said he had absolute confidence in the Filipinos, denied that he was disappointed al their ability to legislate conservatively and asserted his belief that they felt their responsibility and acknowledged the necessity of supporting the Anierican government. Mr. Taft refrained from making any suggestion regarding specific legislation on the part of the Philippine assembly, but h recomnrended that attention be paid to thp civil service. At the close of his aWress Mr. Taft formally called the assembly to order. Sergio Osmena, nqtiqnalist, who formerly was governor of the Island of Cebu, ws chqsen president. Senor Osmena is a young man and had no part in the reyöjutiqn. He is held in hjgh esfeein. A!) the ;isseinAlymen were then formally swqrn in The oath included acknowledgement of sqvereijjnty and ajlpgiance to the American government. The delegates showed they had no understanding qf parliamentary law and prqcpdiirp. The new assemblymen and the provincial governors were the guests of Governor General Smith at a grand ball Wednesday njght. Cause gf hp Explqsioq. ' Ttye caise of the terrible explqsjo.t at Fon'tanet, was a hot box friction on a shafting in he gla?ng .nill sending sparks in'p Iqqse pqwd.ef. William Sherrqw, a "workman in the glazjng mill where the first explosion occurred, recqyered consciousness Tuesday and said: "The ex.l.isjon was caused by loose Iqxing on the shaft. The day before we had to throw water on it when thp friction made it hof- This time it got tqq hqt and. sent off sparks that caused the explqsiqnROYAL ARCANUM BANQUETSAlqut twenty members of the Royal Arcanum, attended a meeting ot their lodge rooms Wednesday evening. Robert Head presided as regent, Barney Lauer, the good and trusty secretary. Attorney W- B. Hess, was orator art J" delivered one of his masterpieces on the occasion. After the meeting, tlu members were served with a "bountiful banquet at Hill's cafe and were entertained until midnight, by Mr. Hill's Columbia Grand.

JUDGE GRANTS NEW TRIAL.

Perma. Co. Given a New Trial in the Inwood Damage Suit. Judge Bernetha granted a new trial to the Pennsylvania Co., Satur day in the case of damages which had been granted to D. T. Warnacut of Inwood. This is a suit for recov ery of damages by the latter, for the burning of his livery barn, which was supposed to have been fired by sparks from a Pennsylvania locomotive last year. Greatness Soon Forgotten. A pathetic case is that of Mrs Anna Davies, aged 70 years, daughter of Thomas Ford one of the early governors of Illinois, who has recent ly 'been taken to an almshouse. She is without friends or relatives except a daughter, herself in meager circumstances, who resides i.i Chicago Mrs. Davies is the widow of a soldier of the Mexican war and for the past twenty years has resided in a little village near Lincoln, 111. She was too proud to tell of her destitution, and it was only by accident that her circumstances were discovered. Thomas Ford, her father, was governor from 1843 to 1846 and was known as one of the g'eat men of his time. He had the reputation of having an unusual knowledge of law, yet he was unable to secure muoh law business and died a poor man in 1850. Thus did an honorable gentleman, once chief executive of his state, die in poverty and the same heritage he left to his only surviving child. From happy girjhooj in the governor's mansion to a r enniless old age in an almshouse, for the proud oM lady who con'cealei her destitution as long as she could, must have indeed been a galling experience. - This sad narrative is a forceful reminder of the instability of renown and the perishable nature of public fame and political glory, vividly brought to mind in the course of a recent talk with Tom Hanlon, auditor of Floyd county. He men tioned the fact that four distinguished men of InüSana are buried in the cemetery at New Albany and the graves of none of them marked even with an insignificant slab. These de parted oneF, in their day idqls of the people, are Governor Ashbel P. Willard, in his day the most eloquent orator in the state of Indiana; Michael C. Kerr, for a number of years mem ber of congress5 from the New Al bany districtand speaker of the na tional house of representatives from 1873 to 1877; Cyrus i,. Dunha'n, statesman and soldier before during and after the war for the Union; and John S. Dayies. eminent lawyer and distinguished state legislator. All of these were great men, honored and revered during their lives, but sqon forgotten after death. Js fam.e a snare; is political glory a delusion? The picture is a sad one tqq sad for the writer to dwell upqn. South Bend Tinies.. Farmers arc; 30tf& The flurry on the stock exchange n New York does not seem to have frightened any financiers in Chicago, and it has not affected conditions in the middle west. The general opin ion is that condition's will be greatly improved and possibly placed on a more solid bass after the markft has settled down. This opinion is based on the facts that the farmers, who are the sinew qf the nation, are in good financial shape: that crops have been cxcejlent and that the middle west and far we'st are progressing; hat shrinkages in stock values largely are paper losses and that in reality :tocks are now getting down to a fa'r eve'; that the railroads of the country have more freight than they can haul. While it is tme the losses are argely on paper, that paper will have pretty neariy is real value when the squeeze is qver, a"d wijl be really a etter basis for credit than ever beore. Elkhart ReviewCharitable Institution. Among the reports from the chari table institutions from the count! of the state, the report from Wabash county has some statements of inter est. The farm of the county poor asylum in Wabash county, though not productive, is well situated for health and con enience the bulletin says. Incidentally, the Wabash county poor asylum has the oldest inmate in the state. She ii in her ninetyninth year, and has been an inmate for six years. In this connection it is remarked that the women of the county asylum have such comforts as will be found in any home, and are we',1 treated. Marshall county nd many other counties show good reports in this line, but the repair of county jails and county poor asylums is revommended in many of the counties. Battle With Moonshiners. In a battle . between United State marshals, headed by Arch Meadows, and a party of moonshiners on the Dickinson county, Virginia, barker, near Sergeamit Ky., John Pjnson, a young moonshiner, was killed and n man named Mullius, another "shiner," was- mortally wounded. One of the officers' posse is reported slightly w ounded. Particulars have not been. learned the battle was fought in an out-of-th e-way place in the Cumberland mountains.

uses Made of American Fortunes

Marshall .Held was the world's greaest merchant. He achieved in his calling a position second to none And now his daughter, Ethel Field-Tree-Beatty, wrtll, wiithin the nexs few weeks, be the hostess of the king of England at Inverculd, the Scot tish estate which she and her hus band, Captain David Beatty, of the British navy, have just leased for the unprecedented sum of $40,000 for a term of ten weeks. This magnifi cent country place consists of 50,000 acres of land, the fifty acres immediately surrounding the historic man sion being devoted to beautiful Eng hsh gardens and exquisitely kept lawns. For beauty of natural scen ery the. place is said to be unrivalled in Scotland. Last year the Beattys paid $30,000 for the use of the estate during the ten weeks of the shooting season ns year me canny öcoten owner Col. A. H. Farquarson, demanded $4000 per week and the Beattys either because, as they aver, they really en joy being at the place, or because they would in this way secure a visit from the English king, consented to ray this advanced rental. Many times the owner hag received offers to pur chase the estate, but he systematically refuses to part with it because of its adjoining Balmoral, and whoever resides at Invercauld is assured of a visit from King Edward whenever he shall be staying in Scotland. Hence, it would be "slaying the goose that lays the golden egg" to sell such a money-coining piece of property while there are living American social climbers who are willing to spend a fortune for the purpose of meeting royalty face to face for a few moments or hours. Still, it is said on good authority that the Beat tys 'have made a standing offer for place that it will be hard for the owner to refuse. Mrs. Beatty is the daughter and only surviving child of the late Mar shall Field. In her teens she was wedded to Arthur Tree, son of the famed Illinois judge and American diplomat, Lambert Tree. The Tree family is one of the oldest and most honored in Chicago and Arthur Tree has' always been regarded a worthy son of his distinguished father. Nevertheless the marriage shortly terminated in a divorce, and1 in 1901 the former Mrs. Tree was quietly wed ded to Captain David Beatty, at thai time the youngest officer of his rank in the British navy. ' It Is a curious study.. in. heredity, this: ' Marshall Field descended from sturdy Puritan stock, reared in poverty and by his own efforts, accumulating a vast fortune, the father of a son who djed at the hands of a woman inmate of a disorderly house, and wtoose daughter has no aim in life above partering away her heritage from her father's estate to secure the glory of a few hours spent in the presence of England's king and thus gain the entree to England's smart set. South Bend Times, Kewanna Editor Much Nauseated. We Were in logartsport the other day. A dudish young fellow, with a sweet young thing on his arm, saun tered past us on their way to the court house, says the Kewanna Herald. The wind s-wept a cloud of dut about the-m and this is tfle conversa tion we heard; "Did you get any dust in your eyes, darling?" he asked fondly, holding her closely to htm as though to keep the too eagsr wind away. Yes, she said, searchm for her handkerchief. "Which eye, dearit?" "The right one. love." "Did you get anything in yours?" she then asked, seeing his handkerchief appear. Yes, darling," "Which eye dearest?' "The right one, love." "limy sweet?" she exclaimed with a glad light glowing in her well eye. "Do you suppose-, dearest heart, tb.t it could have been part of the same piece of dus.t that got in our eyes, darling?" "I hope it was," he said, beaming with one eye and wiping the other. "Wouldn't it be sweet, dear?" "Wouldn't it love?" And the wind, howled as though it was in pain and we sneaked awa down in a back alley to the Vandalia depot. Death Due to Blood Poisoning. Caused from Bit of a Parrott. After three months o-f suffering from blood poisoning, William A. Haen of Mishawaka, succombed to the disease on Monday evening. Some three months ago Mr. Hazen was bitten onr the finger by a pet parrot, but gave the slight injury but little thought at the time. Later, however, the wound became infected, and finlly he was taken to Epworth hospital for treatment. The surgeons however, found it impossible to stay the ravages of the disease and last week Mr. Hazen was taken home pronounced incurable. Blow at Three-Cent Fw Judge Lawrence, of the Common Pleas Court, at Cleveland, O., has rendered a decision holding as illegal all franchises granted by the Council for so-called 3-cent fare lines on the East Side, except a small section constructed on East Fourteenth street, which covers about two blocks. The court held that the franchises for 3-cent lines on the West Side were valid because they were granted prior to the date upon which Mayor Johnson was1 alleged to have become financially interested in the roads.

LISTEN TO MR. EDISON.

Says a Laboring. Man Can Have Ce ment Dwelling Built in 12 Hours for $1,000. The laboring man who makes $1.50 a day can have an indestructible three story cement dwelling built in twelve hours at a cost of only $1,000 All the truck horses of Manhat tan will disappear from the streets forever beginning in December. .Marconi will send 1,000 words of wireless telegraphy a minute across the Atlantic within a few years. The Bell Telephone is going to sue the New York, New Have & Hart ford railroad because the , telephone company contends that the railroad with its third rail has trespassed upon the electric .zone, of the telephone company. All of these statements were made Saturday by Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory at Orange, N. J., in the presence of a delegation of 300 mem bers of the America Electro-Chem ical society, which is holding its twelfth general meetincr in New York. Mr. Edison, who usually shuns in terviewers, was as affable and talka tive Saturday as a candidate at ";: dis trict election rally. He took the rerter to the second floor of his lab oratory and showed him the model. 'Next spring I intend to build a house by this model. By means of a system of patent molds it is possible for any contractor to build a house of solid! cement twenty-five feet wide and forty-five feet deep, three stories high, and capable of comfortably housing three families, for $1,000. "The most important- feature of the patent lies in the molds which are of iron, but the material for the iiouse is to be composed almost wholy of a itew composition of mire consiting of one part of cement, three parts of sand, and five parts of quar ter inch crushed stone." Mr. Edison was asked how he was progressing with his storage battery oV driving trucks. "I don't mind telling you that I have at last succeeded in getting the storage battery to a condition in which it is of economic value," said Mr. Edison. "I am turning out 300 storage batteries a week for trucks. fter a three years' test I realized that if I made a battery capable of doing 12,000 miles, when a new plate became necessary, it would do more than the horse was able to do. I de cided that if the battery was able to accomplish 30,000 rrriles without a new plate, that the horse was dead. Next December I expect to begin supplying storage batteries for trucks, and then it will be cheap enough for even a butcher tov purchase it. In Decembr, when we will begin to deliver these batteries, the horse of Manhattan will disappear orever." Mr. Edison was shown a wireless m m w w- a m message from w. w. uradneia ot the Marconi company, saying that the new across-the-ocean wireless system was working at -the rate of twelve words a minute. Mr. Edison's com ment on this was: "Give Marconi ten years and he will be sending 1,000 words a minute by wireless. He won't need any duplex system to do t, either." Uncle Sam and Japan. Those who have been afflicted with nightmare by the thought of war with Japan ought to find comfort in the reception that the United States secretary of war finds in that country. For instance, here is a dispatch rom Yokohoma that says: - "The program of the official recepion to the American secretary of war is -growing in proportions every day. Committees , representing the mperial household of Japan, the war office and the foreign office came down to Yokohama from Tokio, as did a fourth committee, representng the municipality of Tokio. The program for his entertainment will be submitted to Mr. Taft. It includes functions for three days, commencing with an audience and luncheon with the Emperor. The entire embassy staff came from Tokio to meet the Minnesota here and welcome Thomas J. O'Brien, the newly appointed ambassador to Japan." It is true of course, that there is a political party in Japan that in order to advance what' it regards as its own interests would welcome a war with the United States; but the foregoing only tends to confirm what many in this country have known for some time, and that is that the party in power has no inclination to war with this country. . Big Output of Liquor Reports concerning distilled liquors received by Miss Mary Stubbs, chief of state bureau of statistics, show that the year .ending June 30, 107, the output in Indiana was 26,8(5,164.8 gallons. Statistics show that there are. fiftyHiine distilleries and breweries in Indiana, with a capital invested of $10,893,498. The number of wage earners in that business is 1,650 and the amount of wages paid1 was $984,849 in 1906. Card of Thanks. 4 We desire to thank the friends and neighbors who kindly rendered1 assistance during, the illness and death of Mrs. Wm. O. Pomeroy. Wm. O. Pomeroy and children.

IS WELCOMED RECEPTION FOR REV. PALMER Given at M. E. Church Friday Evening.

The official board anfd members of the Ladies' Aid society, of the M. E. church planned a reception for their new minister, Rev. John Palmer and his family. . The reception was held in the church Friday evening and was attended by a goodly, number of the members of the church and their friends. , Music was furnished by the orchestra, Miss Lucrtia. LorLng, a vocal solo rendered by Miss Helen Tomlinson, after which the chairman, Dr. Brown calldd on a number of persons for impromptu speeches, - all of whom responded heartily, although they had had no notice or op portunity for preparation. Mr. Parks welcomed Rev. Palmer on behalf of the Sunday school, Samuel Schlosser represented the official . board. Miss Anna Morrill, the Home Missionary society, Miss Cora Hallock the Ep. worth League and others also reponded bidding Rev. Palmer wel come to the city of Plymouth and to the church and attesting their pur pose to co-operate with him 'in the work of the church, that the coming ear might be the most successful in its history . The joy dt the occasion was en hanced by the presence of Dr. Curnick, the presiding elder, who came rbm his home in South Bend to be present at the reception. He was called upon and responded, speaking in highest terms of Rev. Palmer as nown in former charges. Rev." Pal mer responded to the many words of welcome, thanking those who had poken or their kind words and ex pressing his deep appreciation for. the hearty co-operation and christian spirit already manifested toward him. After the program ice cream and cake was served by the ladies of the church.' " ' Hanging For Muck Rakers Urged , By E. Benjamin Andrews. - Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, presi dent of the University of Nebraska, advocate hanging as -punishment for mock rakers in an address Wednes day at the fall convocation of GeorKe Washington university. Dr. Andre;.s who once found the atmosphere of Brown university too hot for him be cause he chose to follow the free silver teachings of William Jennings Bryan, and who in consequence there of found an intellectual asylum in the commoner's own town4 was se vere not only, upon the man with the muck rake but he defended rich men and decried the warfare being waged against men of wealth merely be cause they were wealthy. "Hanging,' he said, "should be the punishment meted out to a proved beler. "None of the business villanes alleged to be so rife can compare n atrocity with these squalid cam paigns of "libel and libelous caricature which recent months have produced." Dr. Andrews said he did not care or the rioh as suc but that pride. dlenrss, anid doubtful practices of a few rich men -are no just cause for putting rich men in the pillory. He contended that high prices of com modities were attributable to the tolerance of the public rather than U monopolistic tendencies.v Roosevelt Bowls Over a Big Bear. President Roosevelt killed a bear ate Thursday afternoon. The bear was killed after the president and the other huntersi with him had followed the dogs in the. chase through the jungles for four hours. The fact that the bear was killed was attributed to he staying qualities of the new dogs. The news was brought to Stamboul, La., by a courier 'who arrived from Bear Lake Friday morning. The- ex ploit has given heart to the camp and the hunters are now working wit4i renewed vigor in the hope of making a bnTiant finish. It was- announced Thursday that he President had started out earlv anJ that with, fresh and betier dogs, trails had been1 struck in the inornng and were being followed in a ively manner. The bear killed Thursday by the President is the second that has been bagged since the hunters established their camp and took up the trail in the virebrake. The other was slain by one of the ne-gro hunters. Hoosier May Succeed Evans. It is barely possible that Rear Ad miral James Henry Dayton, of South Bend, may sircceed Admiral Robley D. Evans as'commander of the com bined fleet of the navy. It has beei practically arranged uring the visit to Washington of Admiral Evans last week that he shall give up command of the fleet soon after it teaches the acific coast, possibly on its arrival at San Francisco next spring. . He is to go on the retired hst next August and will, therefore not be able to bring the fleet back to. Atlantic waters. The admirals considered in connecion with the succession to the com. mand are, besides Mr. Dayton, Chas.

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