Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 January 1908 — Page 1

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PLYMOUTH' FRIBUN Recorders' Office febOG linib VOLUME VII PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908. NO. 14

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THIEVES GET BUSY

FRED HILL IS TAKEN WITH GOODS AT LAPAZ. HIS ACCOMPLICE JESSEX HAYES, HAS FLOWN. Roboers gained entrance to the Thoenix Cigar store, on Laporte street, owned by .Charles McLaughlin, presumably late Sunda-' night, and departed wfth $53 n cash, besides a couple of valuab'e pipes. The theft was not discover d until Monday morning. It was then found that the thief or thieves entered by one of the round windows, in the west end of the building. These windows were closed but not locked1. Scratches on the bricks, and on the cue racks inside of the uuilding, proved the manner of entrance and egress. Only about $4.00 in change, of the money stolen was in the registar. The remainder was contained in a sack, which was deposited; in a small secret drawer under the counter ami supposedly known onlv to the clerks. It had been customary for Mr. McLaughlin to leave, about tMs amount of money in the store, all of the time. Fred .Hill, the notorious Marshall county thief, has been captured with ' half of the Phoenix robbery booty on his person. He has confessed to the theft, but tries to put the blime on Jesse Hayes, another disreputable character, who has been in this city or some time ; The morniig after the Fhoen.x cigar store was burglarized, Policeman Daniel Jacoby, knowing that these two characters had been loafing around the bowling alley and opera liouse of late, at once suspected them If fhe theft. Upon investigation he -found that both were missing fron? yhe chy. Officials at South Hen J fan the surrounding towns wert totified to watch for them. Later it was ? earned by telephone that a character mswering to the description of Hill, was at Lapaz. Chase lcLaahtin and Constable Chas. Miles, immedi ately drove to Lapaz and found Hill at the Sherland hotel in that town He had $24.0 on his person, and was smoking one of Mack's $2.50

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ydnce and told how the deed was done. Hill said that Jesse Hayes had been fleeping at Rockhill livery barn. Sunday night Hill stayed with him. Late in the night Hayes left the ban, went into the opera house, and sel cured a ladder with which he gained admittancc into the cigar store through one of the small windows in the west end of the building. After securing the money Hayes came to I the livery barn and divided the money with Hill. Hill says that this division was made before Lester i Plummer who .was employed at the j barn. Hayes then took the 2:50 a. m. Penna. train east, expecting to I change cars, at Warsaw, enroute to 1'rean, Mich., where he has two brothers. HilPwalked to Lapaz Monday morning and Aas about to take j the evening Jrain to South Bend 'j Young Plummer slays' that both! j Hill and Hayes staid at the barn ) Sumfay night," that they might have I left about midnight, they were both there at 3:00 a. in. He denies that v any money was divided in his pres- ' ence. Hill has been placed in jail, and efforts are being made to capture -! Hayes. ! This robbery is only a fulfillment of what has been expected by many residents of this city It shows the weakness of oar police protection. It U only luckily that the theft lid not amount to a larger sum. Furthermore it has been said by many that it would be a difficult task to find a policeman on the streets after 11 o'clock, and an impossibility after 4:30 a. m. Odd Coincidence in Deaths. A sträng;: coincidence exists in the deaths Sunday night of Engineers P. D. Collins and Thcmias Keefe of the Chicago and Northwestern, at Clintonlowa, veterans' who entered the servire. of the company; at Fulton. 111., and who retired on pensions last October. Keefe had been wkh the company for fifty years,, forty-two years a engineer on the Iowa lines, and Collins had been for thirty-eight years on the Galena division. The men were lifelong friends, and during the last ten years' of their railroad careers ran he same trains. Nos. 13 and 14 ,on their respective divisions. The death of each was t'ue to internal cancer, Keefe dying suddenly after the receipt of the intelligence that his old friend could survive but a few hours. Keefe was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers forty years and treasurer of the local division for thirty years. Sees Bright Future. Cardinal Gibbons has expressed his opinion of the outlook for the new year in the following words: "The prospects for 1908 appear fair. The most reasonable way to judge of the future is by the light of the past, ;ind we find that if Almighty God has infliicted upon us some trials the blessings be has vouchsafed 1ways have exceeded them. This ;ras been the experience in the years gone by, and, I think, we may rely upon the same goodness and protection in the one upon winch we are now entering. There may be some thines that probably will appear to certain minds discouraging, but under the will of Divine Providence I am sure we may hope or the best."

Fight for Fairbanks Clean and Dignified! No aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination is making a more dignified campaign than Vice President Fairbanks. He may not win the nomination, but at the same time he is not likely fcp lose much sleep over the contest.' Our Vice President is essentially a man of dignity and he has refused to enter into a mad scramble for delegates. He has made no effort to force himself upon the attention of the country. During the recess of CVgress he has accepted some of the invitations to make public addresses, that have come to him in the ordinary course, but he has not resorted to the wellknown and oft-practiced method of having his friends arrange dinners and procure invitations for him. Nor do his enemies, if he has ajiy, deny that when he has spoken he has spoken with good taste, dignity, and effectiveness. There is much favorable comment in Washington on the manner in which the Vice President has carried himself, as beo.nis his office and his character. In addition to being one of the best presiding officers the Senate has had in re:ci.t years, as a candidate far the presidency Mr. Fairbanks has so far escaped criticism and won onlv praise. This does not mean that :he Vice President and his friends have been id!e. They have not. They havd.ecn at work. The truth is, and it may as well be told, more work has been done for Fairbmks than most people are aware of. Bot it has been quiet work. It has not been hunting delegates with a bras band. Mr. Fairbanks himself is a skillful practical politician. He knows1 what strings to pull and how to pull them. He has been assisted; by a number of friends and agents who have quietly traveled about the country seeing this man and that man and dropping a little seed where it ma sprout in June. Mr. Fairbanks1 has given particular attention to the South, and his efforts there have not been unproductive. Record Herald.

Spending', As Fast as Getting. For several years every person willing to do any kind of work, easily found employment at good wages. Yet, notwithstanding this, we are told that there are now walking the streets of Chfcago fully 75,000 men seeking work and begging to vet something to eat. In New York 100000 unemployed are reduced to a similar condition. What conclusions are to be drawn from this? Were these people spendthrifts when work was plentiful, o" were prices of commodities run up so high by trust influences that very little couldylfe saved? Those who have given sirch matters special attention unhesitatingly declare that in a majority of cases the spendthrift propensity was stronglv developed during flush times; that laying up a little something for a r;iiny day was not thought of; that entirely too many squandered their earnings and liCed altogether too high. Of -course, crying over spilt milk, or chiding those who oursued this ruinous course, will not mend the mistakes of the recent past But the Vlesson which recent events have taught ought to make a lasting impression, and lead to thcladoption of saner methods. Some will nev r learn. But manv can learn if they tvill only settle down to solid thinking and sensible acting. South Bend Times. Moral Standards Now High. That the people of this nation in private ami public life conduct business of all kinds on a higher moral plane than ever before was the belief expressed by Senator Jonathan P. Dollivcr of Iowa, in an address to the Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn Sunday. "At the beginning of the civil war a famous gambler named Pendleton, whose house was near the capitol, was the leader of the lobby," said Senator Dollivcr. "His gambling-hou-e was the vestibule of Congress. Sens; tors and representatives met thei.- respective houses' during the day and gathered under his roof at night. "Within his gambling-house could be found nightly memebrs of the cabinet, generals of the army, admirals of the navy and diplomats-. When Pandleton died, a few weeks before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for the first term, Freslident Buchanan was one of the mourners at the funeral. His pallbearers were members of the cabinet and United States senators. Second Thaw Trial is On. Harry K. Thaw Monday was placed on trial for the second time for the killing of Stanford White. In regard to the selection of the jury, the case is proceeding far more rapidly than did the first one. Nine meuwere found out of the first fiftyseven examined, who appeared to be satisfactory to both sides. They weTe pla'ced in the jury box, but were not sworn, it being desired to obviate the embarrassment which followed the excusing of five jurors after they had taken the oath in the first trial. All nine men are subject to peremptory challenge, but judgment from the progress made it appear likely that the jury will be completed in much less time than was the first one. The examination of talesmen was conducted by District Attorney Jerome for the state and by Attorney Martin J. Littleton for the defense.

THE JURY DISAGREES.

Couldn't Conclude That Powers Was Implicated in Assassination of William GoebeL After being out more than fortyeight hours the jury in the case of Caleb Powers, tried on a charge of complicity in the murder of William Goebel, Saturday reported for the second litre that its memibers were unable to agree upon a verdict and was discharged by Judge Morris. This was the fourth trial of Powers. In two of the former trials Powers was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment r.nd in the third trial he was also convicted and given a death sentence. " After the discharge of the jury court was adjourned until afternoon to hear the motion of the defense for a new trial. v Judge Morris overruled the motion for bail. He fixed July G as the dae for the next trial. The jury stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. J. L. Price, the foreman, and J. W. Renakcr the Harrison county furor held out for conviction. Powers was showered with congratulations. He said that he woul 1 make a statement later adding: "I am pleased." There came near being an acquittal Saturday. Mr. Renaker made the proposition to Mr. Price to vote for acquittal. Price held out, although a sick man, and Renaker said he would vote with him. C. J. Marshall first voted for conviction butsoon changed. The jurors were much wrought up, there being much ill feding. and two of them shook Powers by the hand. . Powers actualW cried. There was no money in the treasury fund with which to pay the jur . The last chapters in one of the most tragic events in the history of Kentucky was reached Saturday on the completion of the four trials of former Secretary of State Caleb Powers, indicted eight years ago as accessory before the fact to the murder of William Goebel, Democrats contestant for governor. It has been one of the most stubbornly contested criminal trial in the history of the American jurisprudence. The present trial has covered more than seven weeks, with forty-six actual days of court proceedings. There have been 177 witnesses examined 73 for the commonwealth and 101 for the defense. In addition three sets 'of depositions have been read and the testimony of six witnesses who died since the last trial, was admitted. Powers was the chief witness for the defense. Henry E. Youtsey, who is now a life convict, was the leading witness for the state. The first trial was held in 1900; it resulted in conviction. The sentence was life imprisonment. This sentence and verdict were reversed by the court of appeals on the grounds of misconduct upon the part of Attorney Thomas C. Campbell during the trial judge In forcing too speedy a judgment and sentence in order to have it entered in the. time provided by the criminal court. The second trial came about a year later and resulted in a life sentence. This verdict was also set aside on the ground that Judge James C. Cantrill had refused to vacate the bench upon a motion filed by the defense, supported by an affidavit charging him with partiality. At the third trial, in 1903, Judge J. E. Robbins, of Mayfield, presided. It again . resulted in a verdict of guilty, and this time the death penalty was imposed. Following this sentence the case was taken from the state courts by Judge M. J. Cochran of the United States district court, and the accused became a federal prisoner and was confined in the Newport jail. This was done on a motion that the federal courts take jurisdiction of the case under the constitution, a jurisdiction which Judge Cochran assumed. The case was carried to the supreme court of the United States, but by tint tribunal was returned to the state courts, and Powers once more brought bick to the jail at Georgetown The Aldrich Currency Bill. Senator Aldrich has completed his emergency currency bill intended to prevent financial stringency and has introduced it in the serrate. The bill has received the approval of the senate finance committee. It provides for the issuance of additional bank notes i times of emergency to the limit of $2'0,000,000. Its retirement, when the Emergency ceases, will be provided for by means of a 6 per cent tax on the entire issue. Approved state, county and municipal bonds are to form the security upon which the emergency notes may be issued. Ex-Senator Stewart of Nevada say's currency reform is the easiest thing in the world. Mr. Stewart held the same opinion of free silver. In a word, the way to inflate is to inflate. Thd Democratic Situation. Stokes Jackson and J. Kinby Risk each claim five committeemen in their race for chairman of the Democratic state committee. If one of the two committeemen not tied up votes for cadi of fhem it will leave a tie with Stevens voting for Barnhart "first last and all the time." If a compromise candidate is agreed upon Mr. Stevens, the committeeman of the Thirteenth district will have no voice in the matter as he has to vote for Barnhart from start to finish. '

WALKERT0N IS WET

REMONSTRATORS LOSE OUT IN SUPERIOR COURT DECISION. The question of whether or not the town of Walkerton shall be "dry" for the next two years was determined in a decision made Friday by Superior Judge Van Fleet, when he decided in favor of the applicant in the case of V. W. Hardenbrook, who had been refused a license by the commissioners and appealed. A remonstrance was the cause of the refusal and as a remilt of its failure to finally prevent the issuance of the license, costs to the amount of $1500 will be left for the remonstrators to pay. The decision was based on the legality of raking names from a remonstrance and re-sigming them prior to the hearing. No notice of an appeal has yet been given. Former State's Attorney George E. Clarke ami D. F. Brooks appeared for the applicant, while Charles Drummond and Slick & Curtis represented the rcmons'trators. Japs Attitude May Halt Congress in . Coolie Act. Further information than that afforded Thursday relative to the contents of the 'communication from Ambassador O'Brien in transmitting from Tokio the Japanese reply to his memorandum dealing with the important question, was refused at the State Department at Washington on Friday. It is expected, however, that the Japanese Government will, in some informal manner, register its purpose of preventing the further migration of coolies' to the United States, and when the assurance on this: point has taken satisfactory form, the administration will see to it that Congress is acquainted with the fact and thereby relieved from the necessity i enacting any legislation looking to the exclusion of Japanese immigration as a whole. Attempts in that direction already have been made by the Pacific coast representatives, and if the President is able to convince Congress that the Japane-.e government is in good faith endeavoring to do by internal regulation .what is proposed to do here by statu! Dry law namely, to stop the influx of Japanese coolies he will not find it necessary to veto any such legislation. Japs Quietly Preparing to Quit American Shores. Many Japanese reserve army 'men have been ordered to Tokio,, according to a report current at Vancouver Sunday. ThJapanese themselves refuse to discuss the question, but it can. not be denied that several hundredien have arrived from the south side of the international boundary line and are making ready to leave for Japan. Japanese Consul Merikawa has gone to Japan on a furlough SDIUDp J3.U10DUEA "! 33"J PUB any knowledge of the matter. The gathering of the Japanese is being carried out with much mystery. No less than 200 landed Sunday morning from a small American steamer which slipped in and out of the harbor at Vancouver before daylight, and neither entered nor cleared from the custom house. Since Friday there has been a steady stream of the brown men from the logging camps. No Japanese in the c:ty of Vancouver will admit the coming of the order for the return of the soldiers, bivt officers of the Asiatic Exclusion League declare tli they have absolute information thar this order has been received in Vancouver since the departure of rhe American fleet for Pacific waters. Pettibone Goe Free. Georcre A. Pettibone Saturday was found not guilty of complicity in the assassination of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, of Idaho. The jury deliberated from 8:50 o'clock Friday night until shortly before noon Saturday. Their deliberation continued through the night without a break for sleep. After the verdict had been read, Pettibone was surrounded by friends an ! showered with congratulations. Pettibone had been so weak that he had to be carried into court, but the verdict seemed to give him new life. He had spent Friday night in a hospital and was taken back there from the court room Saturday. Judge Wood's instructions had been considered more favorable to the Mate than were the instructions in the Haywood trial, but it was the general opinion after the verdict that the jury had freed Pettibone in the belief that Harry Orchard's tale of blood was not to be believed. The state concluded its arguments Friday evenipg and the defense followed its announced program of submitting the case without argument. While no action has been taken in the Moyer case, it is certain that there will be no prosecution. Moyer will be released from bail at once and he and Pettibone will return to Denver. Lawyer Found Guilty. John Graves, of Warsaw, must spend thirty days in the county jail and pay a fine of $100, a verdict of guilty having been returned against him on a charge of embezzling $1,200 and a certificate of sale to forty acres of land belonging to the ArbuckleRyan Harvester Co. The trial occupied the entire week last week.

Yankees Poor Riders. Thirteen photographs from life, illustrative of hair-raising exploits in horsemanship, form the unique exhibit sent to Congress by direction of the President to accompany recommendations from himself and the chief of staff for the betterment of army riding. These pictures are intended to show how7 far ahead of

American military men are European horsemen in the art of equestrianship. One of the most thrilling pictures riding over a twenty-foot perpen dicular cliff, the photographs' being taken in series to illusrate the sa gacity of the horse and the skill of ' the rider in maintaining a poise with in the center of gravity in different stages of the descent. There are pic tures of German student officers ap parently leaping from hill to hill, of fat majors and lieitenant colonels of ti'c same nationality wallowing through bogs and swamps and over hedges; of French constables ridin; of the famous drag hunt of the Ger man army, and stirring pictures of the hounds in full cry on boar hunting. The official correspondence with these pictures consists of a letter from the President to the secretary of war, Dec. 3, last, requesting him to secure legislation to make infantry captains mounted officers and establish remount depots, saying "both of these measures are essential to the improvement of horsemanship in the army." Another letter from the President to the chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs transmits a report from Maj. Gen. Bell, chief of staff, explaining the photographs; the President saying: t . "The field officers of ar army can not be held exclusively responsible for the poor riding which has been frequently observed among them. The quality of our horses does not equal that of mounts used in foreign armies. Furthermore, though all infantry captains in European armies are mounted, an infantry officer in our -service has little opportunity to practice riding until he becomes a field officer. France is' For Peace. The erably cabled French government is considexercised over the reports 'to some American newspapers last week in which it is represented as secretly des-iroirof a war between Japan and thtr United States and the destruction of the American fleet, with the ultimate objecV of witness;rg the internalization of the Panama canal. A statement Monday says that nothing could be farther from the truth. France is the sincerest friends of Ixrth countries, and she is extremely desirous of seeing the present difficulties' settled amicably. It was for this reason that France, as long ago as last spring, made an unofficial tender of her good offices' in case she could be of service. On the 4her hand, a growing nervousness regarding the outcome is to be seen in diplomatic circles in Paris. A representative of one of the great powers said in this connection: "While I am optimistic regarding the immigration question, unless there should be a recurrence of the unfortunate attacks upon Japanese in California, I am distinctly pessimistic concerning the settlement of the ultimatte issue, that of commercial supremacy in the Pacific. America stands for the open door; she has stood quietly by while Japan pro ceeded tö monopolize Korea and Manchuria. When she-seeks to, enter China, as she will, America must rither call a halt or abandon the doctrine of the open door, which has been the keystone of her policy in the farHast." Gets None of Thaw Wealth. Announcement of the filing of the Countess of Yarmouth's suit for annulment of her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth is perturbing England less on account of the scandal than as a result of the discovery that the marriage settlement was such as to render it impossible for the earl to retain any of the Thaw wealth. The amount of the settlement has never been known except to members of the Thaw and Yarmouth families, but it is certain that it exceeded $1,ooo.ooo, besides which the Countess has given her husband large sums to satisfy demands incurred through gratificaion of his expensive tastes. hough the Yarmouth suit has been' set down among the defended cases in the divorce x court, it is not expected that there will be any serious resistance. Physicians, it is expected, will be the only witnesses. Indiana Man Has Narrow Escape. John M. Young, a Terre Hau e man who recently went to Lone Beach, California, had a narrow escape from seriou injury late Monday evening at Dead Man's Island, when he was attacked by a huge devil fish which he had pried loose from the rocks. The octopus, which measured eight feet across, threw one of its tentacles around Young's rijjht leg, and only by a quick stroke with his knife, which severed the tentacle near the central portion of the monster, was the Indiana man able to free himself. When the devil fish was finally subdued, Young started back toward Long Beach surfeited with excitement. The octopus, with seven tentacles remaining, is on exhibition at Long Beach, Cal.

GARY IN SAD PLIGHT.

Goes Dry With Vengeance. Gary has gone dry with a ven geance, and in addition is deprived of its electric lights, owing to an acci dent in the transformer in the Gary Water and Electric Light Plant. The r.ccident occurred last Saturday after noon and no repairs are promised un til Wednesday. In the meantime the Garyites are going about unwashed, and in their homes they are burning candles. The candle stock, too, threatens to run low, and nobody is prepared to burn coal oil lamps. Dishes in the restaurants and in the hotels are piling up and the bar ber shops have closed down. The laundries, too, are out of business, and a car load of washings was expressed to Chicago Monday. People walk about on the streets in the evening carrying lanterns and often fail to recognize each other owing to the unfamiliar appearance of some of their dirty friends. Thomas -E. Knotts, the president of the town, is the only man who has a pump" on his premises and it has been kept working overtime. The 6alaon keepers are the only ones who have been profiting by the water famine. At the Gary Hotel all employes are given buckets an hour before meal time and sent to Lake Michigan a half mile away, in order to carry water. Earthquake Shakes Island of Jamaica A heavy earthquake shock was felt throughout the island of Jamaica Saturday morning. It is expected much damage was done. Stewartstown was the chief sufferer in the North. The Episcopal church which had been badly shaken in the big quake of las year, was reduced o debris. Other buildings in the town were dimaged. . There are reports that much Inarm was dortp in Kingston and other points on the south shore. There is a heavy rush at the telegraph office, in Brownstown, Jamaica with inquiries for the. safety cf relatives and friends and1 with messages giving assurances to anxious ones. The superstititious ones among the inhabitants of the island, particularly the negroes, are m; a panicky state of mind. January has been called the fatal month, since the great earthquake of last year. The coincidence of a solar eclipse whrchwäsdueSundäyrnwn an earthquake, had added to the fears. Saturday morning's earthquake, which was violent, had a movement from east to west and lasted' for more than twenty seconds. There was increasing vibna'tion, which culminated in two sharp shocks. Padrewsfci's Close Call. While being shaved by his vale: Pederewslci, the great Polish pianist, sustained a severe gash acioss his throat th'at narrowly missed being a fatal injury. The valet was attending the tem permental virtuoso aboard his private car at Cincinnati, and was in the midst of the shaving operation when the vehicle was bumped by the freight engine. The jar sent the razor into the musician's throat, but an accidental turn of the vakt's wr: prevented its sinking deeply. Considerable cuticle was removed. The pianist was so affected by the accident that he had to lie down to recover his nerves. ittle Trouble in Muncie. The backbone of rioting in Muncie is broken. Cars were run Sunday from early morning until duslc over all lines, and with the exception of a few scattering stone throwing at tacks, which occurred on the outskirts the cars were unmolested, not withstanding they were manned y mportcd strike breakers and un guarded so far as deputy sheriffs or troops were concerned. Maj. Gen. W. J. McKce, in com mand of the troops, takes a cheerful riew of the situation. He said: "Things were much beter and I feel sure there will be no further outbreaks, except those brought on by small boys." Gold Output Shrink?. The production of gold in t'i Uitd States vas $4,753,401 less "n I:mI7 than in 190C. The amount of silver produced' was increased by over one million fine ounces. Alaska's gold production fell off a little more than $3,000,000, according to the preliminary report of the director of the mint, issued last week. Colorado led all the states in 1907 in gold production as it did in 100G. The amount, however, was reduced from nearly $23 000,000 in 190G to nearly $21,000.000 in 1907. Montana leads in the production of silver with 12,118,000 fine ounces, with Colorado and Utah only a few thousand ounces behind. Hitchcock Asks More1 Money. The annual report of First 'Assistant Postmaster General Frank II. Hitchcock has been 'made public. The revenue collected through the postoffices during the fiscal year 190t amounted to about $10000,000, a gain of more than $13,COO,ooo, and the report sitates that this growth was continued in 1907 when the ag gregate was $183,000,000. In order to meet this continuous growth of, his bureau -Mr. Hitchcock makes an appeal for larger appropriations.

Tuberculosis Hospital Discussed in Report. The project of a tuberculosis bospital is discussed by Dr. J. N. Hutty, secretary of the State Board i Health, in his annual report, and high tribute is paid to the legislation by which money was appropriated to start this enterprise. There are a number of private tuberculosis hospitals' in the State. These are patronized by residents of the State, and

in addition many Indiana patients take treatment in hospitals in the East. Dr. Hurty, however, believes that a State hospital supplied with sufficient money for all necessary equipment will be a boon' to the peo pie of Indiana. "A State tuberculosis' hospital is in sight," says the annual report of the Health Board. "After yeiars of effort on the part of many citizens who de sired to promote the economic af fairs and happiness of the State, a law has been passed creating a hos pital where a few hundred lives may annually be saved from the all-de vouring consumption. The Assembly of 1907 provided an appropriation: for the purchase of a site, but left to the succeeding Assembly the duty of giv ing a proper sum for buildings and for maintenance. Ten thousand per sons will die of the disease in the meantime, but finally the rescue work will begin. It will be a proud day for Indiana when it begins the work of saving precious oung people from the most destructive of known pre ventable diseases." Dr. Hurty, in discussing the tuberculosis malady, emphasizes the economic as well as the humane side of the situation. He calls attention to the fact that the expense of tu'jerj culos s in Indiana during the last years has been almost $30,000 a dav, to say nothing of the sorrow it has cost an dthe orphans that have been left. One notable fact in connection with tuberculosis' statistics in Indiana during the last year is that the death of women has exceeded the death of men. The number of mothers! between the age of eighteen and forty who died in 190G was 917 while there were only 253 fathers of this age. Comparative figures of this kind have not been compiled for 1907, but it Is known the death of women exceeded the death of men. It js also shown that of the total number of consumption deaths in 1907, 76 per cent were n the age period of fifteen to fift"-fAT'rs.Uh-.osJuL period Jn life. Women for the Postoffices. Senator Clay of Georgia is entirely in the right in opposing the discharge o f women postmasters m the smaller ffices in the South. The village postfiice is coveted by storekeepers who wish to have it in the country store o attract customers. It also has its political importance, and the postofiicc is often the' gathering place of the local politicians, where they, exchange views and agree upon men and neighborhood affafrs and delegates to county convention and what not. Because of these gatherings and nhe smoky atmosphere of the many country stores, the posfcaffice domiciled therein is not always the most attractive place for women and children to- go for their letters. When the postmaster is a woman everything is different. Some storekeeper has usually been deprived of the office and misses it in his business. It is no longer a congenial place for the district politicians to assemble and smoke. But it is' clean and fit for women to e rtt er. The mail matter is disposed of in aa orderly way. There is always some one present to wait upon people, and, as an almost invariable rule, there is the strictest honesty and accuracy in accounting foi the governmen't funds. The office of rural posmaster is one which can be filled mosit acceptably by women, and usually without taking them from their home duties. These, appointments ought not to be restricted to men. The more women employed in them the better for the public and for the government. Baltimore Sun. To Marry "Sight Unseen". Emil Lauritizon of Winsted, Conn., is going to Joplin, Mo., to marry Miss Lo tise Adcock, whom he has never seen. Miss Adcock, whose father is a prominent poultry fancier, wrote her name on an egg that was among those going to market. The egg came East and reached Lauritizon's bakery by way of a cold storage plant. He wrote to Miss Adcock and she replied to his letter. Correspondence went on until marriage was proposed. Miss Adcock accepted him, but her father insisted that he should come to Joplin before the wedding w'as positively agreed upon. He has sent him the money for his expenses. Curraw---Kuhn Nuptials. Adolph M. Kuhn, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kuhn, of this city and Miss Alice M. Curraw of Chicago, were married at the home of the latter, Saturday, Jan. 4th. They left for Oklahoma Tuesday, where they will visit with his brother, Dr. John F. Kuhn. They will make Chicago their future home. The bridegroom is a Plymouth boy, well known here. He has been employed at Chicago for the past five years, and is now a traveling salesman for the Towle Manufacturing company of that city. The Tribune joins with his hosts of friends, offering congratulations, and wishes of success.

BANK GETS READY WILL OPEN ABOUT MARCH 1st. .ELECTS DIRECTORS.

The tockhold ers of the Citizens Trust and Savings Co., which was organized with a capital of $50,000 in September last, nxt Monday afternoon, and selecteJ the following directors for the coming year: John R. Jones, Frank , H. Hoffman, Argos; Louds N. Shaffer, Argos; Andrew J. Dillon, Rochester; John A. McFarlin. Harrv A. Grube. Wm. Vnrc'. Argos; and Peter J. Richards. Jr. vommrttee on location: George Marks, Hiram Shaffer and John McFarlin. , This bank expects to open for business m the Cressner building about March 1st. Two Townships! in Laporte County Indebted to Plymouth Orphanage. , In the January apportionment of common school revenues for tdition for the first half of the year 'l908, which has just been made by Fassert A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, the. sum of $1,148,369 is distributed among the ninetytwo counties of the state. The amount for school purposes collected from the counties in the December settlement of taxes was $1,193,870.01. The amourist-already in the treasury from all sources was $12,091.41, ' making a otal amount on hand January 1 in the educational department treasury, of $1,203,961.41. The fcpportionrnent of school revenues per capita is $1.48. Various school corporations of the state hare sent, or permitted to be sent, school children to a custodian institution for dependent children situated in Center township, Marshall county, known as "Brightside." According to certified statements from the authorities of this institution, the tuition fees for the year 1906 and 1907 for many of these children have not been paid. A statement has been made by Superintendent Cotton with reference to the indebtedness of the school corporations; to "Brightside and county aiditors have been instructed to note the corporations' so indebted and to deduct from their apportionment accordingly. Pleasant township, Laporte couaty, is indebted to "Brightside' in the sum of $13.96, while Michigan City owes $37.80. Laporte Argus Bulle tin. " " ', Employers' Liability Act is Held Unconstitutional, The supreme court of the United States - Monday declared unconstitutional thle "employers' liability act," passed by congress in 1906, at the. solicitation of the president. By this law it was sought to abolish the doctrine that the responsibility of a fellow employe for an accident relieved the employer from suit for damages for , the death or injury of another employe. The decision wtas by a vote of 5 to 4. . In rendering the majority opinion, justice White said congress could deil with the relations of master and servant, as found in interstate commerce but by act under considera tion not only interstate but intrastate commerce were reguiatea. justice , !ay concurred in this view. Justice Peckham rendered an opinion ,that the law was unconstitutional because congress did not have the pow.T to deal with the relations of master and servant as applied to interstate commerce in the way in wheh it did) in this act. Justice Moody, former attorney general, rendered a dissenting opinion, moved, he said, by solicitude for the maintenance of the law au thority of the national government. Justices Harlan, McKenna and Holmes also rendered dissenting opinions. Cure With Meningitis Serum. In a new ceTcbro spinal meningitis case brought to the attention ot Johns Hospital from Atlanta, the doctors in charge have again used with success the serum which Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the Rockefrller Institute for Medical Research, New York, recently discovered. Th patient, Irving Hall, is a young man. Before 1eing brought to the hospital the disease had been runnintr five weeks and showed all the malignant symptoms which develop such as high temperature, rapid pulse and rigidity of muscles, 'The success of the trial of the -serum is regarded at Baltimore as a noteworthy tribute to the value of Dr. Flexner's discovery, which has been thought by some of the profession to aid only in incipient cases. The patient is now out of danger. C. A. R. Installs' New OfScers. The G. A. R. met in regular meeting and the 'ollowing officers were installed for thi year 1903: commander, Emanuel Price; Senior Vice, Morris Agler; Junior Vice, Joseph White; Adjutant, F. M. Welsh, Quartermaster, W. H. Conger, Chaplain, W. E.. Bailey; Officer of Day, Simeon Wilson, Officer of Guard, G. W. Kaufman; Standing Committees, Council of Administration. C. Fisher, Charles Andrews, Wm. Craig. Relief Committee, L. Tanner and F. M. xBurkett. After the installation the Ladies of the Relief Corps yerved a sumptous repast Vhich the old boys did their best to devour, but there was plenty and to spare. All in all it was a most enjoyable affair.