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J . iff V 0 l I I lil H 1 I! if wlfj ! PI n n '1 k'i m 8 1 1 ill is! - . , , . ftueo a Yesr, In Advanc. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Slegte Ccy 5 Cast, L " ' " " ' " . '"1". ". i n.-.. iiw ii .ii ., i i. ii i mi h.,.-...,.. ".-'!"-"-"""' . , .i in .I, i- i .iiiwi n. i . I, i m ,.,,.,.. i.i . iiinw i im ii mrnms,. VOL. XX PLYMOUTH, IN, C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1909. NO.24. i t Assignations being Accepted and Arrests Being Made Company Helps to Ferret the Guilty. New York, Special. Evidence, which is confidently expected to re- veal the "man higher up" in the .-sugar weighing frauds unearthed dur-ing-;4jie term of Henry L. Stimson as United States disirict attorney for the Southern district of New York, ?as been placed in possession .of the government, it was authoritatively -stated Thursday ' and is being used fps the basis of a Federal indictment, l-oon to be filed against one of the officials of; the American Sugar Re fining Company. Since surrendering the duties of "United States District Atlroney Mr. .Stimson, acting as a special United States attorney general has had in hand the work of building up the -government's ease against the custom house weighers and the employes of the American Sugar Refining Com pany who are charged with having conspired together to defraud the United States of $2,000,000 of sugar duties. Ir. Stimson himself refused to dis cuss the nature of the new evidence but it is learned that the evidence, furnished by one of the implicated .A" GIUL BORN BLIND MADE TO SEE AT 23 YEARS. Ann Arbor, Midi., Special. rn Wind, Miss Lottie .Sheldon of Mount 'Pleasant, Mich., 23 years of age, has been made to see. This is the re sult of months of treatment and a delicate operation which was per formed at the Homeopathic Hospital here. When she was a babv the phy sicians told the girl's parents that she was - suffering from congenital cataracts and that she would never be able to see. Because of her affliction she has Tjeen able to perforin only the ro-icb-st and crudest kind of labor, and for many years, day after day, she "has scrubbed floors and done other housework. At times her week's MOB THIRSTING FOR MORE . Cario, 111., Special.- Henry Salz ner, white' a photographer who kill ed his wife last July with an axe, was taken' from jail at 11:40 o'clock Thursday night by a mob and hang cd to a telegraph pole and his bedv riddled with7 bullets. This lynclg followed closely on the lynching Jot. Will James, a .negro, who earlierV'in the evening had been Ranged for the murder of Miss Annie l'elley. The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage, as it was an en tirely steel structure, but after a half Jiour of telling blows upon the door. It gave- way and Salzner was se cured. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jail, which is in the basement of the court house, around the building, through the vard and out into Washington avenue i .RESIDENT TAFT GOES EAST AND IS MADE AN LL. D. Hartford, Conn., Special. Presi dent Taft added New England to his long Western and Southern trip Fri day by visits to Middletown and Hartford, attending in the former city Friday morning the installation of Dr. William A. Shanklin as presi dent of Wesleyan University and .participating in this city Friday night in the dedication of the magnificent new State arsenal and armory. The President left Friday night for Wash ington, going direct to his train from ;a State ball in the armory. The President's reception in Mid- THE LATE -STORM HITS JAMAICA HARD AND IS STILL ON. Kingston. By Cable, Via Holland Bay, Jamacia. From the fragmen tary reports that are arriving here from the country-side, the damage re siutling from the storms and flood which have raged throughout the island since last Friday is enormous. The greater portion of the railway f.iid tlie co:i;-t line on the north side of the island have been seriously damaged. Landslides . are numerous ANOTHER. WOMAN TO TELL Cincinnati, O., Special. The mys tery which envelops the relations of Charles L. Warviner, the def.-uutinir local tr'-asnrer of the Big Four Rail road, with the two women and a man whom lie asserts have system atically blackmailed him for several years, was deepened late Thursday when it was learned from one of the railway officials that another wo man, whose name has not been pre viously mentioned, was involved. This official, who has bn speeial-J government weighers was regarded as conclusive enough to make practi cally certain the indictment' of a high official of the American Sugar Refining . Company. W. M. Thomas, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, speaking of the government investi gation said; "Our company is just as anxious as the government to bring out the facts in the sugar frauds. ' We are doing everything in our power to aid Mr. Stimson in his investigation." Resignations of James F. Bender nagel, the superintendent of the Wil liamsburg' plant and several other de partment heads in the plant were ac cepted Thursday, it is said, and other changes are contemplated in the house cleaning that the company lias strartcd. Bendernagel has been ar rested. Henry L. Stimson, special counsel for the government in the sugar fuaud cases, denied a statement pub lished here that the true losses to the Federal treasury by short weigh ing of imported raw sugar would total $30,000,000.- earnings would not totaL more than 50 cents, but every penny was hoard ed, and at last she had enough money to enter the hospital and the time for the operation arrived. When this was completed she was led to a window and given her first' sight of the world. It was no more than a glimpse before 'the bandages she will be forced to wear for several weeks were applied, but that glimpse amply repaid her for the years of darkness and suffering. Her joy . is almost boundless, not alone because she is now able to see, but that that fact enables her to work and provide money for a like course of treatment for a little brother who has also been blind from birth. BLOOD KILLS ANOTHER.. and up to Twenty-first street, which is in a prominent eoimer and has a public square. He cried and begged piteously for his life and was met by cries and blows from the nob. ario, 111., Special. With Arthur Alexander, the last of the persons ar rested in connection with the murder of Miss Annie Pel ley, safely out of town and the Fourth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard on guard in the streets and about the jail Friday night, the mob spirit that kept Cario ablaze with excitement for four days was quelled. No crowds were allowed to gather at any place and every known dan ger point was occupied by troops. Bayonets held sway where twenty four hours before the rope, the torch and the pistol had- been in evidence. dleton Friday and in Hartford at night was in keeping with the enthu siasm that has been displayed else where on his journey. As a part of the installation exer cises at Wesleyan University, degrees of doctor of laws were conferred up on President Taft, Vive President Sherman, Senator Root and others. Arriving in Hartford in the after noon, the President went direct from l his train to the new armoy where he ; was presented by Governor Weeks. ' Several other speakers had attempted in vain to hold the attention of the big crowd which was constantly on tiptoe, endeavoring to catch a glimpsa of the President. j on the main railroad and communica tion has been completely cut out. Many bridges also have been carried away. Property in and around Kinston has suffered severely, the damage sustained thus far being estimated at $500,000. The recorded rainfall frfem November 0 to November 10 was 48 inches. There are no signs yet of the weather breaking. OF WAHRINERS FRAUDS. ly detailed to investigate the $843,000 shortage, confessed to by Warriner, slated' that the woman who enters as a new factor into the case, had, as far as fie knew, no criminal connec tion with the embezzlement, but could give important information in regard to the disposal of the stolen money. Her name has been given to Prosecu tor Hunt. The reports of Mr. Warriner 's breakdown in health were reiterated and it was generally conceded the accused man is in a very feeble ii not proariou "nJon. WASHINGTON NOTES ww iaV In an opinion by Justice Holmes the Supreme Ceurt of the United States decided against the complain ants the case of the 13,000 Choctaw j and Chickasaw Indians who asked J for redresa for being excluded from the citizenship rolls of those nations when they were prepared by Secre tary Ilitchoek, of the Interior De partment, on March 4, 1907. Since the German naval strength : in the last year has jumped over that I of France in tonnage afloat and over j the , United States in tonnage afloat , and under construction the - cmestion as to whether the United States should increase her building program will be taken under consideration at once by the General Board, with Captain Andrews, naval adviser to the Secretary of the Navy, partici pating. . Capt. William A. Marshall, who has commanded the armdred cruiser North Carolina since that vessel was placed in commission two years ago, has been selected by Rear-Admiral W. P. Potter, Chief of Navigation, as commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard. It is expected that the selec tion will be approved by Secretary Mever and orders issued this week. The production of 78.8 per cent of a full crop of peanuts for 1D09 is estimated by the Department of Ag riculture in a crop report issued Monday. This is a decrease of 4.2 per cent, from last year's crop. Among the ,first questions which will be presented for the considera tion of Congress when it convenes will be the change of the date of in auguration Day, Commissioner Henry B. F. MaeFarland, chairman of the national committee, announced. Backed up by the Governors of 46 States, by strong popular support of " the movement and a batch of photographs which would give any Senator past the age of 40,' a pul monary shiver, Mr. Maefarland will begin the assault with heavy ammu nition. The committee will also pre sent statistics showing the death toll from pneumonia contracted by vis itors and the soldiery last inaugura tion. The local members feel that their efforts will meet with success. The recommendation of the joint army and navy board that Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, he made the great naval station in the Pacific was approved Thursday by President Taft. In doing this it was decided that a temporary naval station only would, be constructed at Olongapo and that the proposed im provement of Manila harbor be aban doned. This will leave the protec tion of the Philippine islands to the army. British capital practically has cap tured the South Ameiican commercial field and American business men will have to exert the most strenuous ef forts to overcome the lead the Eng lishmen have acquired in that section of the world. This is the warning issued by Alfred A. Winslow, United States Consul at Valpariso, Chile. He reports to the Department of Commerce and Labor that the amount of money invested by Britons in South American industries has reach ed the enormous sum of $3,290,023, 300, which is divided among invest ments in Government and municipal bonds, railroads, commercial interests and banks. The prospects for busi ness there are unlimited, but Ameri can manufacturers and business men must seek it earnestly and furnish better goods than their European competitors to capture it. Engineering problems as present ed in the construction of the Union Station and the Connecticut avenue bridge here were studied Saturday by the members of the Appalachian I i-i : :4.:: j e ' -jiiginei'i ing .jvssuciui mix in u umv v: sightseeing about the city, spent in examining engineering wois and dis cussing topics of interest with mem bers of the Forestry Bureau, Geo logical Survey and other Government establishments. Leading officers of the naval militia of various States discussed at a con ference here Saturday a plan of cam paign to induce "Congress to extend to the tnavai militia of the country the provisions of the Dick National Guard law. Those attending were: Capt. Warren F. Purdy, Illinois: Commander Joseph M. Mitcheon, Pennsylvania; Capt. James P. Parker, Massachusetts; Cap. Edward M. Peters, New Jersey; Capt. S. W. Stratton, District of Columbia, and Commander Charles C. Marsh, of tho' Navy Department. . SENTENCED TO JAIL Sheriff . Shipp et al. to Serve Term. END OF FAMOUS CONTEMPT CASE As the Result of the Lynching - at Chattanooga, Tenn., of a Negro Who Had Been Convicted of As saulting a White Woman and Sen tenced to Hang, Former Sheriff Shipp, His. Jailor and Four Others Must Serve Terms For Contempt. . Washington, Special. For the first time in Ajnerican history, six men are in prison 'for contempt of the Supreme Court of the United States For the first time, too, the Federal government has placed men behind the bars as an outcome of the lynch ing of a negro. At the LTnited States jail in this city, Captain F. Shipp, former sher iff at Chattanooga, Tenn., Jeremiah Gibson, his jailer, and Luther Wil liams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett and William Mayes of the same city, Monday afternoon began serving terms of imprisonment imposed a few hours before by the Supreme Court of the United States. Shipp and Gib-son had been found guilty of failure to protect from a mob Ed Johnson, whose legal execu tion for rape had been stayed by the Supreme Court until it could review the case. The others had been found guilty of participation in the lynching of a Federal prisoner. Shipp, Wil liams and Nolan were given sentences of 90 days' imprisonment each, while Gibson ( Padgett and Mayes each re ceived GO days. As the big barred doors of the jail swung open to receive the prisoners Monday afternoon immediately after sentence -had been imposed, Warden MeKee stood before them. -4 "At least we are in the hand of a soldier," exclaimed Captain Shipp, as he espied a G. A. R. button in the lapel of Warden MeKee 's coat. Then turning to his five fellow prisoners he said: ''Boys, it will be all right" Warden MeKee has inaugurated methods of punishment at the jail as humanitarian as the various classes of prisoners will allow, and he was prepared for the reception of the six men from Tennessee. About a year ago, during the im prisonment of an unusually large number of women, the warden had fitted up a store room on the fourth floor of the jail as quarters for4 fe male prisoners. It was in this large room perhaps twenty by thirty-five feet that he locked the six prisoners. Origin of Case. The case originated in the court's decision in March, 1906, to consider the appeal of Johnson, from a ver dict of the Tennessee courts holding him guilty and sentencing him t be hanged on a charge of assault. Tho night after the determination of the Supreme Court to review the proceed ings was wired to Chattanooga, a mob stormed the jail, took the prisoner out, and lynched him. The court" was much incensed by the lynching, and at its instance the Attorney General instituted proceed ings against Sheriff Shipp, Jailer Gib son and twenty-five others supposed to have been implicated in the lynch ing, charging them with contempt. Many of the accused were exonerated, and in the end only six were found guilty. The Lynching. In investigating the case, the Su preme Court found that Johnson was removed from Chattanooga to Nash ville before his trial, because of fear that he would be lynched. He was brought back for the legal execution! When the Supreme Court stayed the execution, the. court has held, Shipp made no effort and gave no orders to have the deputies or others guard the jail, but left the night jailer, Gibson, there alone. That evening a. white male prisoner was renioved from the upper floor of the jail, leaving only Jabnson and a white woman on that floor. The court pointed out that this same man had been removed in the same way at the time of the first attempt to lynch Johnson, which had been frustrated by the removal of the negro. Imprisoned Miners Dead. Cherry, Hi., Special. The three hundred or more miners v. ho were entombed in the St. Paul coal mine by last Saturday's fire arc dead. Some of the bodies lie buried beneath thousands of tons of earth which caved in upon them, and it is doubt ful whether many of the bodies can ever be recovered. This was the opin ion expressed Monday night when rescue work ' was temporarily aban doned. Fires in the mine, which broke out with renewed fierceness early Monday made further descents by rescuers impossible. PRESIDENT JAFT AT ROME Ends Great Tour With a Day of En joyment in Bichniond Visits Places cf Historic Interest and Outlines Some of His Coming Mes sage to Congress. Richmond, Va., Special. "During my sixty days of travel there has been a moment or two of deliberation and during that time I have been studying what is the duty of an executive to recommend to an in coming Congress in respect to future legislation and when I think of the number of things that Congress ought to do, I am staggered lest it may not find time to do them." In the final speech of his 13,000 mile trip through the West and South before an immense audience Wednes day afternoon, President Taft thus prefaced a preliminary statement of some of the recommendatioiB his first annual message to Congress would contain. ) He declared himself in favor of the reclamation of arid lands in the West, and of the issuing of bonds for the purpose and of some government con trol over waterpower sites and coal and phosphate lands, "so that they may not come, into the hands of one controlling corporation, but may be retained by the government, with the power to restrict the prices at which coal, or at least at which the powee is sold to prevent the absorption into one command of all the power on the continent." The antitrust law, he declared, needs enforcing, and the interstate commerce law an amendment -'in order to give the interstate com merce tribunal more power to pre vent the delays which are now in cident to appeals to the courts." He voiced his favor of a postal savings bank and declared that "we must improve our legal procedure so as to make it both in criminal and civil cases more simple, more rapid and less expensive, and I mean to recommend to Congress the appoint ment of a commission to take up that subject." Mr. Taft said he believed the time had come for the organization of a Federal health bureau. During the morning he visited Old St. 'John church, where Patrick Henry made his famous "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" speech, and -went from there to St. Paul's church, where. Jefferson Davis, Presi dent of the Confederacy, received the message from General Lee, saying that the Confederate forces must evacuate Petersburg and leave Rich mond' unprotected. He also visited the Confederate museaum. Tie made the comment there that the picture of Jefferson Davis which belonged to the museum did not compare in ex cellence with the one in the War De partment at Washington. The mu seum officials said they probably would apply to the Secretary of War for permission to have a copy made of the painting at Washington. The President's talk to the. negro delegation W33 devoted mostly to the subject of erlucation. He said he would attend a meeting of the board of trustees at Hampton Institute on November 20 and felt a very deep interest in the work of that institu tion as well as the Booker Washing ton school at Tuskegee, Ala. The in fluence of those two schools in the importance they were giving to in dustrial and agricultural education the President said, was beginning at last to be felt throughout the South. The President lunched at the Jef ferson hotel., delivered his principal address at the city auditorium, and left at 5:15 p." m. for Washington. A Washington dispatch says that after an absence of more than three months duriirg which he made a 13, 000 mile trip through the West and South, President Taft slept Wednes day nijlit in the White House. Boiler Explosion Kills Two. Palaika. Fla.. Special. A boiler at the plant of the Palaika Gas. Light and Fuel Company exploded Tuesday afternoon at 0:30 o'clock, killing two negro firemen, almost completely de molishing the plant and causing the city to be in darkness Tuesday night. Houses for Macks around were shak en almost off their foundations, and window panes nearby were broken. Hurricne in Jamca. Colon, By Cable. Communication between this place and the Bull hay cable station, Jamaica, was re-established for a short time Monday after noon, but was lost airaiu and there has been no word from that point since. The sea here is very high and another storm from the north seems to threaten. It. was 'reported here Wednesday night that Porto Rico and some of the other West Indian Islands besides Jamaica had been cut off, which would seem to indicate that perhaps another earthquake had oc curred at Jamaica. 400 MINERS PERIS Terrible Disaster in IHinoIs Coal Mine. A SMALL FIRE IS THE CAUSE. Explosion in the St. Paul Coal Com pany's Mine My Prove One of tha Greatest Tragedies in -the List of Mine Horrors. Charry, III., Special. Many offi cials of the St. Paul Coal Company mine where an explosion occurred Saturday say that four hundred men are dead in the mine. Twelve bodies have been taken out. Six of these were heroes not employed in the mine, who gave their lives in a furtile. ef fort to save the imprisoned workers. Mine Superintendent James Steele stated five hours after the explosion that it was almost impossible that any of the miners still imprisoned could escape death. , The mine had a day shift of 484 men. Of these fifty left the mine at noon. Twenty-five or more escaped after the fire broke out. , The others are believed to be dead. The entrance to the mine has been sealed up in the hope of checking the flames. The. building above the pit entrance was blown up to permit this Despite the frantic efforts of the of ficials and the scores' of volunteer as sistants in the little town of Cherry it seemed assured at C o'clock that only bodies of the dead would be taken from the mine. Until Sunday morn ing when the covering will be remov ed and rescuers endeavor to pene trate the smoke and gas choked shaft and veins the fate of the inmates cannot be learned. The fire " causing the explosion which may prove one of the greatest tragedies- in the list of mine horrors had an origin almost trival. A pile of hay allowed to smoulder too long and before the workers realized their danger the mine was filled with smoke, gases and flames and all exit were impossible. Heroism such as is rarely exhibited was shown by officials of the mine and residents of the town of Cherry. These men, who were outside the mine when the fire originated, con tributed five to the list of twelve known dead. TERRIBLE OCEAN CALAMITY. Boats Aflame and 100 Go Down 61 Rescued With Great Peril. Singapore, By Caple. The mail steamer La Seyrie of the Messageri.es maritime service, running between. Java and Singapore, and on her way to this port, was in collision early Sunday morning, with the steamer Onda of . the British-India line, and sank within two minutes. Seven Eu ropean passengers, including Baron and Baroness Beniczky, the captain of La Seyne, five European ' officers and 8S others comprising native pas sengers and members of the crew, were drowjied. The rescue of Gl persons, practi cally from the jaws of shoals of sharks, formed a thrilling incident of the wreck. The accident occurred at 4 o'clock in the morning in a thick basse. The vessels were steaming at good speed and the La Seyene was cut almost in half. The majority of those in board were caught in their berths and car ried down with the vessel. The force of the collision brought the Onda to almost a dead stop and her engines were at once slowed and boats lowered. The rescue work proved thrilling, for not only were the rescuing parties impeded by the dark, but schools of sharks were al ready attacking those clinging to pieces of wreckage in the water. Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated steamer were finally dragged into the boats and brought by the Onada to this port. Many of them had been bitten by sharks and several are se verely injured. Three Die in a Fire. Pittsburg, Pa.. Special. Three un identified men, all foreigners, are dead; five ethers are seriously injur ed, and twelve men ami women arts suffering from bruises and shock, the result of an early morning fire in .1 Polish lodging house on. the river front Sunday. When the fire broke out at 4 o'clock, about thirty persons were alseep in the building. Firemen aroused the occupants' of the place and carried the women and ehillrea to safety.