davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1891-07-31

An excursion up the st. Clair river and
Lake Huron would be refreshing after a
six days session OF the G. A r.. in De-
troit, Call on the Union Pacific agent
for rates
, 1891-07-31

Gods blessing to mankind, say thous-
ands who have been cured by Oregon
Kidney Tea.
, 1891-07-31

AMERICAN .hNNoti"'hp"-
Observation-Disclosures II, Athlct-
les 5.
Baltimore-Baltimore 3, Boston Q.
, 1891-07-31

Go East now via the Union Pacific to
Detroit and return, 1921 5 from July 80
to Aug. /.
, 1891-07-31

Soda water at David,s drug store.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30
Miscellaneous G Items!
PERTAINING TO DIFFERENT SEC
TONS OF THE GLOBE.
A Suspicious Marriage.
Horse and Rider Roll One Hundred
Feet Down an Embankment-
A Big Horse Steal.

The death Of Mrs. Trolling, aged y,
who married about four months ago,
and only few months after the death
Of ter INST husband, was Published a
few days ago. Trolling was aged IS,
AND was q widower with six children
when he married the old lady. When
the ceremony was performed she had
TO oe assisted to her feet. 1t was known
thst she owned property valued at
from $4,000 to SIG 900, and since her
demise, neighbors, especially the wo-
man folk, In the vicinity Of her late
residence. in Tacoma have been guilty
M ndiscr> ct gossip regarding her death.
1naeed. the attention u Coroner Frank
we4 sailed to, the case, but he. saw no
enaence to. warrant an investigation
he*evef, the tongues of the gossips
nave been quieted by the doctor who
attended Mrs. Froling, and the lawyers
who drew. up q deed shortly after she
msrried Foling, bequeathing her EN-
Tire estate to him, provided he took
good care Of her during the remainder
q her life. She had known Froling,
and at the time stated that she did not
expset to live long. Her friends tried
persuade her to give her fortune to
An old lsdies' home fund, but she pre-.
.eFred to marry Froitng, and rs far u
known helived up n the letter aud spirit
" the contract. Mrs. Froling Informed
some OF her friends that she had IN
'dea that a San Francisco niece, who
scarcely knew. her whe,, she was impe'
cuasoas, was anxious to inherit hel
'rne. She visited her niece lest
spfing, but did not feel disposed to be-
questn her any Of her property.
lFlel Cannon, prospector OF many
yesn experience. says the Boise States
man, has recently had very disagree
soAsxperience which nearly cost him
JUS life. About ten days ago he we.
na'ng his horse along the banks Of
Ead river. 10 Boise county, when
e49imA slld Of the trail and went
kesths enbankment moro than q
- test. the rider going with him,
c4a. not relate. The horse was
SHea ~ the fAli, but Mr.. Cannon soon
''c'Vcrctl his consciousness and made
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30
A Sure Cure for Piles.

Itching Piles are known by moisture
lik respiration, causing intense itch
ing when warm. This form as well as
Blind, Bleeding and protruding, yield
at once to DIR. Bosanko's Pile Remedy
which acts directly on the parts affec,
ted, absc-bs tumors, allays itching and
effects p. Nanent cure. soc. Drug.
gists or mail; .,eatise free; DR.. Bosanko
Plqua. O. Sold by Dent l. Butler.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30

his way to this city, not believing him
self to be injured as bad rs he really
was. He stopped at the house of l.. r.
Walter, with whom he had made his
home for many years when not engaged
in pursuing his occupation in the
mountains. Feeling quite i'll, he took
to his bed and procured the services of
a physician. He seems to have been
injured internally and has been unable
to leave his bed without assistance.
Within the past two or three days he
has been getting better and the chances
are that he will recover.
Five car loads of horses, valued at $40,
600, were stolen from the ranch of a.
S. Davis, in the vicinity of Ritzville,
on or about July i. The horses were
shipped from Pampa. a small station
on the Uni, n Pacific, to Chicago by
way of the Chicago & Northwestern
railway. Davis did not learn of his
loss until last week. He then reported
his loss to w. d. Campbell, general
agent of the Northwestern in Spokane,
and to B. Campbell, of the Union Pa
cific. Today Campbell, Of the North
western, wired to Council Bluffs to
ascertain If the horses had passed there.
A reply was received that five car loads
of horses, consigned To Chicago, passed
there on the 18th. The man in charge
Of the ranch was IN the East witt,
horses, and his absence made it all
easy matter for the thieves to drive the
horses from the range without detection.
In communication to the state de-
partment, which has just appeared in
the consular reports for July, United
S'ntes Consul f. l.. Baker, at Bnenos
Ayres. ear estly advises Americans
not to emigrate to the Argentine Re-
public with the hope Of engaging sue
cessfully in business. He says
"Whatever measures have heretofore
been adopted by this government to
, encourage Immigration they have
since the present crisis set in, been
annulled, on account Of the straight
, ened condition of the public finances
The efIlux during the last year has
been greater than the influx, and now
everybody who can make sudden
fortune Is leaving the country"
A Chinese Woman's Home has beer
opened in Portland under the auspices
OF the ladies Of the Presbyterian
churches. The formal dedication cere
monies took place recently. 1t Is thu
object OF this institution to afford M
! fuee for Chinese women desiring to q
bandon profigate lives, and its philan
thropic organizers will make specia
efforts to rescue the young girls who
are being raised for iGmoral purposes
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30
BUCKLIN'S ARNiCA SALvE.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chap ed hands, chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction, or money refunded. Price q
cents per box. For sale by J. @
Monkey.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30

Persons who lead Il life of exposure
are subject to rheumatism, neuralgia
and lumbago and will find valuable
remedy in DR.. J. II. McI cans Vol
canic Oil Liniment; it will Danish pain
and subdue Inflammation. For sale
by Dent & Butler.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30
Sprino Fever.

At this season of the year the most
vigorous and hearty people often have
a feeling of WEAKNESS, tired and worn
out, without ambition to dc anything,
and may break out in pimples and
boils. What you require is a mild ton.
ic medicine that will act gently on the
liver and blood, and for this, nothing
equals DIR. Gums Improved Liver
Pills. They give an activity to the
liver, purify the blood and by their
mild tonic. action, new vitality and
strength to the entire system. Sold al
q cents a box by Dent e. Butler
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30

In the decline of life, infirmi les be-
set us to which our youth and maturity
were strangers, our kidneys and liver
are subject to arrangement, but moth
ing equals DIR. J. H. McLean's Liver
and Kidney Balm as regulator of
these organs. For sale by Dent 4
Butler.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-30

When you are constipated with loss
of appetite, headache, take DR.. J. II.
.ean's Little Liver and Kidney
Pillits, they are pleasant to take and
will cure you, p cents vial. For sale
by Dent & Butler.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11
A GREAT MODERN FORT,
For tho Defense of New York and
Brooklyn in Case Of
War.
Immense Mortar Batteries That
Gould not Be Run by an
Ironclad.
Land and the Plans
Home for the Terrible Twelve
Inch Howitzer.
Written for The SUNDAY 1NDEpENpENr]

Written for The SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Alko of the United States army is per
SXV fectinR the last details of the plans
for a work Of vast Importance, as it will
complete the defonses of New York harbor
against any known power of wal. These
plans are for a great fort of modern NOR
tar batteries. to be constructed facing the
ocean and defending the broad gateway of
the harbor.
The land on which this fort will stand
has been purchased within a few days by
the government. On Oct. l the United
States, fulfilling the oft and earnestly re-
psated requests of the war department, &C.
quirsd fifty acres of Plum island. lying at
the east end of Coney island, paying for the
low, sandy soil $4,000. Here in a few
days the ground will be broken for the most
noteworthy of modern batteries for vertical
fire.
For many years the engineers Of the war
department have been casting solicitous
chances at the most dangerous omission in
the line of defenses about the ocean en-
trance to New York harbor, rendered every
year more dangerous by the improvements
in carrying capacity and destructiveness of
the guns placed on ships of war. This
danger is q secret from no foreign power.
Tho coast survey charts in currency all over
the world show it at a glance and in graphic
figures. Besides the two or three narrow
channels that are navigable through the
entrance in New York harbor in the waters
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them BY gun OF the ships whose attack

they will repel.
The thirty-two great guns for the two
Plum island batteries are to be of the new
pattern of twelve-inch mortars known as
howitzsrs, of which successful tests have
been made within the last ten days at Sandy
Hook. They are breech- loading, and CON
structed on the bulrs-eye plan, steel-lined,
rife-bored and s~teel-hooped. 1t is much
longer than tho old pattern of mortars and
is capable of extreme accuracy in firing.
The projectiles for n OF these monster
cnnnons which. dropped on the deck of the
pierce the entire ship, is of solid bulk Of
steel three feet long, weighing 625 pounds
and costing $500. Eighty pounds of pow
der will drive this large projectile eight
miles. The gun will also throw shells con-
tanning high explosives. Bv this means it
deck to scatter an ironclad into ten thous-
and pieces.
The important work at Plum island will
90 on coincidently with the completion of
the Notifications at Sandy Hook, where
Engineer Gillespie has nearly 200 men now
at work. These Notifications, which are
we'll advanced, are but . few hundred feet
from the remnants of the great stone fort
that was begun during the war of the rebel
lion. The gunless recesses and unfinished
walls of tho old fort. with their imposing
elegance of cut granite, are interesting to-
day only as a monument to a~ntlQuated
methods of warfare. The work on the
Sandy Hook fort was abandoned soon after
the close of hostilities with tho south, when
already the improvement in projeotiles fore
Swallowed the future useless of stone forth
tications. A few hundred feet away from
these grass-grown and sand-strewn walls
stands a great mass of iron and steel, sur
rounded by complicated machinery, der
ricks, cranks, cogwheels, swivels and re-
cording dials. 1t is one of the new twelve
inch howitzers, whose d%etonation during
its test firing the past fortnight has shat
tered windows six miles away, and with a
single shot destroyed $1,000 worth Of armor
Copyright.
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on Plum island. He reported favorably on
the scheme, and proposed the acquisition
of fifty acres of the island to be covered by
mortar batteries. The land was owned by
the estate OF William Engeman, represented
by Thomas T.. Pearsall, of Brooklyn. The
government offered $4,000 for the fifty
acres, for which the Engemans wanted
$l5O.OOO. During the past summer the
question OF the value of the land was argued
before a commission appointed by the
United States district court. By the deci-
sioE of this tribunal the Engemnns re-
$4,000 for the damages that the erection
of the fort would do their adjacent prop
erty.
Plum island is partly in the rear of the
low bar OF sand forming the eastern end of
Coney island known az Point Breeze. The
island has a low slantina beach backed by
a few sand hills and stretches of salt
meadows. Behind, ACROSS Hog creek and
Broad creek, the low meadow land extends
back for many hundred acres. The high.
est spot on the island is not fifteen feet
above mean high tide. During the heavy
seas OF early spring n large part OF. the
island is under water. Its only buildin0s
are three fshermon's shanties, now unin-
habited. No drenrier spot exists on the
ocean shore than this isle of a hundred
acres, whose very air 10 polluted by the
stenches from the fertilizer factories at
Barren island just across the marrow inlet
to Jamaica bay.
Ihs Importance OF the work, which will
soon be begun on this desolate little slip OF
sea sand cannot be overstated. II includes
the entire outlying ocean defense Of the
greatest of Americas harbors and the pro-
lection from bombardment of it's greatest
cities.
A glance at the map accompanying this
article will show the location and strategic
Importance OF the new mortar batteries.
They will command not only the deep water
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11

examination of this pocket with a view to
perfecting tho defenses of the great win
cities. They found that this deep water
could be brought under effective fire in a
circle having Plum island in tho center
with a radius of six miles. They recon-
mended the acquisition of Plum island by
the government and the immediate con-
struotion Of Notifications there. Since that
time several schemes have been proposed
for guarding the entrance of Now York har-
Dor that would include the defense of
this deep water approach to the shore of
Long Island. Soon after the act of CON
Rress approved August 10, 1890, to pur-
chase lands for defensive purposes, Colonel
L. Gillespie, constructing engineer of the
Notifications at the port of New York, was
instructed by tho war department to exam
inc into the feasibility of building defenses
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11

ton. These are mechanical difficulties re-
sultinR from the recoil Of heavy guns that
prevent their firing at an elevation exceed
ing 10 degrees, while q mortar is most often
fired at an angle of 80 degrees and inward.
The large guns forming the armament OF a
man-of-war are only for horizontal Are and
the only vessel equipped with cnnnon for
Vertical fire WAS the Vesuvius, which has
been proved a failure. 1t is, therefore,
safe to say that the gunners who may be
caliea upon TO operate the howitzers In the
pits at Plum island in case of war will not
suffer from shot thrown into tho sky above
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11
could join in the grand conflict that would
arise when they met the guns of the second
fort that stand at the entrance to the upper

While the Plum island batteries will. be
able to render this assistance to the bay
Notifications until the hostile men of war
have drawn within a mile or two of the big
runs at the narrows. Forts Wadsworth
and Hamilton could not drop a single shell
on a man-of-war anchored in Rockaway
inlet, ten miles from their mortar batter
les. From the forts on Plum island a line
drawn almost due southwark will cross the
whistlinR buoy which marks the entrance
to Gedney's a distances of not less than six
nautical miles.
The Plum island mortar batteries are to
be arranged in two Notifications of earth
works standing side by side and facing the
ocean at a southwest angle. Each fort is
to be 600 by 400 feet, according to Henry G.
Abbott, president of the board OF engineers,
pared. The ramparts of the forts are to be
thirty-five feet above ebb tide, and the
gun will rest on a body of cement raised
ten feet above the low water.
The interior of each fort is to be divided
into four pits. each containing four of those
terrible engines of destruction. ~twelve-inoh
howitzera. The gums will be fired out of a
great we'll, as the earth walls of the fort
will rise twenty feet above the level on
which the cannons are operated. The NOR
tars will thus be entirely invisible from tho
ocean. In the deep pits the guns will be
perfectly protected from the impact of the
shot thrown by the enemy, az the mounds
of earth forming the ramparts are to be of
a thickness impenetlable by any known
projectile. Between each pit ia to be a
storage magazine for powder, protected by
masonry and earth, and there are to be ex-
tensive magazines for high explosives, To-
Gated at some distance from the batteries.
The powder magazine for each battery will
hold one hundred tons. In the rear the
two forts will not be paraquetted, but will
be left open.
The only way the Plum island batteries
can be sl!enced in time of war will he to
destroy the earthworks. They cannot be
attacked by mortars from the ocean unless
n problem III naval engineering is solved
that has 30 far proved impossible of solu-
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11
Things Worth Remembering.

That it is dangerous to stand near a tall
tree or spire during a thunder storm; that
the southwest corner OF the cellar is the
''cyclone safety point;'' that there is no
medicine so universally applicable to sick
ness as fresh air and sunshine; that blow
ing out the gas, before retiring is funny-to
everybody except the man who tries it;
hat you may swear as hard as you please,
but 1t will not remove grease spots; that the
Wisconsin Central is the most popular
route to Milwaukee, Chicago, and points
east and south. For tickets, etc, apply to
any ticket agent.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11


between Coney island and Sandy Hook,
there is a pocket of deep water approach
ing the Long Island shore from the ocean,
some miles to the east Of these channels,
that ia nnviRable to any vessel, whatever
may be her draught.
by means Of this deep pocket q man-of-
war could arrive at a safe anchorage in
Rockaway inlet. Less than six miles away
from this anchorage are the outlying wards
of Brooklyn, two miles further is the East
river and another mile beyond il the heart
OF New York City. From this inlet. a hos
tile ironclad could lombard Brooklyn and
New York with a destruction unparalleled
in the history Of bombsrdment, and there
could be no effective reply to this attack.
Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth. guard
ing the narrows between the upper and
lower bays, would be nine miles away from
tho disturber, safely anchored in Rockawny
inlet. and these forts nave no armament
I hat could throw shell such a distance.
In 1882 General John Newton and q body
OF engineers from the army made q critical
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-11

pocket that would allow an ironclad to APP
proach the shore from the ocean but in the
longest ranges of its guns can defend the
trance of a foreign hostile fleet to the har-
Dor of New York. In case a fleet of war
ships succeeded in entering the lower bay it
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-12
CROSS-CUTS.

The measure of a mans real character IS
what he would do if he new lit would new
or be found out.-Ram's Horn.
A man never fully realizes the wealth OF
in information he doesn't possess till his hrst
child begins to ask questions. -Elmira Ga
zette.
books. White-I never learned. Why!
Greene notice you never return any you
borrow.-Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs. de Piscopal-Yes, Marie is very re-
liQious, though quite a society girl. VIM
kle-Ah, yes; what one might term a churcn
going belle.-New York Herald.
If YOU are told that you resemble a great
man say nothing. 1t may be that the re-
semblance will cease the moment That you
open your MULTIPLICATION Globe.
.rrhat picture BY Miss Virginia Oledomin-
ion of a black slave is a great work, isn't
it?', "Yes, and it ought to be. Her father
WAS one of the old masters. Washington
Star.
ssJust think of it, oommuned the
anarchist with himself. II find a nickel in
the street and in two seconds afterwards |
find a saloon. some men are born lucky"
-Fliegende Batter.
81 am very fond of Paris" said Miss
Passee. cit is the only place Tor any one
to live. MY childhood was passed there"
"And have you any recollection OF the great
Napoleon:'' asked Miss Debutante.--Har-
per's Bazaar.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-12
X CHEERS FOR PALMER.

Hurrah for the gallant old general
who will represent Illinois in h United
States senate.
1t was a long, hard and doubtful fight,
but Johr M. Palmer understands That
sort OF contest. He stood before rebel
bullets and won the spurs OF q MAJOR
general, and he has fought his political
enemies with the same success. Since
New Years day he has been found at
the front as the United States senator
elected by the people of Illinois by the
good round majority OF 4O,C0o votes.
The republicans have schemed, plotted
and corrupted to defeat the popular
will, but they have failed. The demo-
cratic guard stood like Leonldas at
Thermopylae, but with a better fate.
When two out of the three Farmers
alliance men came over to the peoples
standard the victory was soon clinched'
The iron hearted old hero will go INTO
the United States senate with b satls-
faction that in at least one instance
the will of the citizens prevailed. The
hardness of victory brings added sweet
ness. For years General Palmer has
been leading democratic hosts in the
| Illinois wilderness. Campaign after
campaign has been fought with the old
standard bearer and honorably lost.
| When light finally broke through the
darkness Of republicanism it was more
than fitting that he should DO first re-
membered. A United States senator
ship which has steddily dimmed in lustre
since the day of Stephen A. Douglas
will be- again made historical by the
man elected yesterday. He will at once
take rank with the ablest men in the
United States senate not only because
of his brilliant record but because he
has proven himself a leader without fear
or %reproach.
We beg leave to tender our copgratu-
lations not only to this old warhorse of
victory but to the men who stayed with
| him and to the people of Illinois Tor the
final result of their expression on Nov. 4.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-12
not one 70 kick that the bid a. that figure
WAS accented.
A GREAT STATE.

Esy. j, M. REEp. Of Montana, In 81 Louis
Globe~D Democrat: Few people have . def
mite idea Of the enormous extent Of the
reservation made for tho National park on
the Yellowstone. II Is sixty-nve miles long
by Afty-Hve wide and contains 1876 square
miles, It il larger than the island of Cor
sica in the Mediterranean. OF than any
kingdom, principality or duchy In the Ger
man empire except Saxony, WnrtemnerR,
Baden or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II Is
about ons-third the size Of SICILY or Sar-
dinia or Belgium, and exactly half the area
of Wales. 1t is o~ne-fourth the size OF
Holland or Denmark, one-ffth that Of
Switzerland, o~ne-siehth the size ef Greece,
one tenth that of Portugal. and has more
natural wonders than all OF them put to-
gether."
RUFUS S. OWENS, of Helena. in the New
York Telegram: Montana isa great coun-
try. and is | | believe destined to be the en-
pire state of the west. Montana 10 pre-
eminently a mining state, and the mining
population will increase three times as fast
as those who depend upon agriculture for a
living. We are to-day operating mines
that we're considered worthless three years
ago on account of high charges OF trans
portation or no railroad facilities At all and
the excessive charges for testing ores. Now
We have railroads through all parts Of the
state, and spurs are being rapidly built to
bring in all the mines. SHELTERS are being
erected in Helena and Great Falls that will
be able to handle all the ores for years to
come. You know a mine that il ten miles
sv.v from a railroad cannot be operated at
a profit, as they have to add to the expense
of mining the hauling of teams across the
country. Another thing in our v IS
that coal of the very best quality is to be
had very cheaply. Around Great Falls are
some of the finest coal mines in the United
States. Land can now be purchased very
cbeauly and settlers are heartily vel
conoaiS