davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
CURING THE ..BoozEp.-
Ia Effective system OF Dealing wiz
Chronic DraBkards.

Chronic DraBkards.
Supt. Heine Marks, OF the st. Louis
city hospital, has solved the knottv
problem Of the treatment Of drunk
ards. As q result the class Of men
who are in the habit Of filing up on
their salaries and then allowing the
city to sober them up at the hospital.
is growing smaller every week, and
when they do try the experiment
nowadays they seldom repeat the at
tempt. during the old regime the
badly 'boozed7 gentlemen were con-
yeyed to the hospital, and then treated
with medicines Of one sort or another
until nature in her leisurely way
threw of the poison and the patient
got well and strong enOuglI on city
yictuals olcaye the Institution. This
course was one just to the heart Of
several hundred FOUNDERS In St. Louis.
The result that might b. expected
transpired, inasmuch as this class be-
came an army Of ''reyOlyers,r who
made it a rule to do the same thing
every pay day. Now as Oon as they
are brought to the hospital their
stomachs are washed out az once with
a little rubber tube and the ''drunksr
stay only twelve hours at the city
boarding house and recuperatiye
headquarters.
James BrittOn. a labOTing man, was
picked up by the police at / O'Clock
yesterday morning, dead drunk. He
was so very dead that when taken to
the hospital he could net even tell his
name, and appeared to be breathing
his last. lie was clapped into a bot
bath and ice water was poured over
his head meanwhile. As soon az his
bath was over he was seated in a
chair and a rubber tube was thrust
down his throat about twelve inches
Of its length. At the upper end OF
the tube was a little funnel. This
funnel was elevated a couple Of feet
dDDNt LlC HLAlDA4lAtA1 lEAAtN > utdu
and three or four pints of salt water
poured down. After resting in his
| stomach for a few seconds the salt
water came up in haste and with it
quart Ofdiluted whisky. The patient
self better then, and in a few min
uteS was 50 far recovered that he
COVE his full name and address and
. wanted to go home Immediately. The
days Of the stOmach-pump are past.
Physicians seldom, OF never, use the
old pistoned instrument, as it isa
clumsy, costly and brutal agent A
stOmach-pump costs about sl2, anda
rubber tube ending in a funnel costs
soc. The tube is just as effective, for
when the fluids of the stomach refuse
I'd come up when mixed with salt
water all that is necessary to do is
drop the free end Of the hose lower
than the bread basket and it acts
as a siphOn, cleaning the bag with
wonderful rapidity. But the DRINKS
don't like it.
The City hospital has fewer inmates
now than il has housed for a long
time. About 300 patients now COM
| plete the sum total on the books,
while ordinarily nearly 400 is the
complement. The surgical wards
especially are depopulated. and the
attending physicians fear, with
Otbello, that their occupation will
be gone if a series Of cuttings do not
| Occur.-GloDe Democrat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
HIS BRoTHER's PRISONER.
a War Tale That showed the Spirit
of the Times.

n War Tale That showed the Spirit
of the Times.
Il was once taken prisoner by my
own brother said Captain AdOlph
Feigel, as he Joined the experience
meeting in the corridors of the
Lindell. 1--WE were raised in
Kentucky, and, like many other
families in that State split on the
slavery question. He cast his
fortunes with the Confederacy, while
L became a federal soldier. l was
frequently detailed for special duty
and several times made trips to the
enemy's camp in quest of infor-
nation. l was hanging around
Beauregard's headquarters one day
on a pretext of negotiating for
supplies, when my brother, in the
full uniform of a Confederate colonel
came in. He made an sign of
recognition, and after t"ransactirlg his
business, passed out. When l left
the room / found him waiting for
me. He took me by the arm and
said; You are my brother, but you
are a Yankee spy. Consider yourself
under arrest" That was equivalent
to a sentence of death, for at that
stage of the var a spy could expect
no clemency. WILL said /, believing
that he was joking, let US walk over
to your tent and talk it over He
consented, but l soon found that he
was in no joking humor: he meant to
hand me yer to the eXecutioner.
His love for the Confederate cause
had become fanaticism and he was
prepared TO pay the elder Brutus. /
had made all my preparations to
leave camp and my horse was already
saddled. In fact, l was mounting to
ride away when my brother inter-
cepted me. l was about TO appeal
TO his mercy when he reiterated. with
vicious emphasis: You are my
brother, but you are a id Yankee
spy and should be hanged That
angered me and / replied, We'll, so
be it," At that instant a band near
by struck up Dixie" and the air
was rent with the well known rebel
yell. We were alone in the tent. He
was a small man, while /. as you see,
am no infant. As we rose to pass
into the open air / struck him a
terrific blow with my fist, knocking
him senseless. Ithen walked quietly
out of the tent, mounted my horse
and rode away at a sharp trot. / was
nearly clear of the picket line before
l vas pursued, and as l was well
mounted easily outrode my pursuers.
L heard afterward that my brother
was broken for letting me get away,
but the news did not cause me to lose
much sleep."-St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
esquire pob.s- Marrying Record.

Dubuque Ledger; esquire Bob"
Allison, as he was Familiarity called,
died September 6 at his home in Fair
play, Wis, aged about 60 years. No
man in the northwest was better
known than he. For years and years
he has been a justice of the peace at
Fairplay, and many were the runaway
marriages that he performed. This
he could do without any trouble be-
cause Of the peculiar character of
Wisconsin laws regarding marriage,
and Bob was not the Kind of a man
to give a thing away when he was re-
quested to keep mum. He told our
reporter once, that on a rough guess
he bslieyed he had not married less
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The status of civil service reform
in Canada may be guessed from the
fact that the I~ntercolonial railway,
which is run by the government, is
operated at an annual loss of $500. 600.
Ii Is said openly that this loss is due
TO politics in The roads management.
The Dominion government is o
negotiating with the Canadian
Pacific road to take the In~tercolonial
OF its hands. thus relieving il of its
white elephant.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The recent disastrous avalanche at
Saint Geryais is the ninth serious
disaster of the same sort TO occur in
the Alps during the present century.
Nearly 500 persons persisted In the
a~valane, on the Rossberg in 1896.
Eleven other like Alpine disasters
occurred in the period between the
years 1856 and 1.49 inclusive. In 1918
an avalanche at Plurs in the Grisons
destroyed nearly 2. 500 persons. Since
the time OF Lord Byron, who really
gave the Alps their popularity with
British tourists, many of the victims
have been strangers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
A pEspARArE ADVENTURES.
Preferred Death by Cremation to fstraas

Preferred Death by Crem1ticn
tion-A Tragic Pate.
Columns OF the French press paw
been filled for the past month win
the accounts OF the extraoruinais
swindles perpetrated by a Madane
Apparuti, who, in the ours OF ta1es
or four years, has succeeded In extract.
ing from her dupes nearly 3,vp.'Ve
francs. In her correspondence sp'
pretended to have colossal deaii1ss
with the royal and imperial famiiie.
of Russia and Greece. Finally ..
her creditors entered . claim agai'ss
her, upon which she came 10 hu>sas,
and from st. Petersburg c~ontinuea =
cry and keep up the fable Inv
French courts, nevertheless, gave ."
order for her arrest. and the neceSsai,
formalities for her extraditlon "e'e
commenced. At that time she va
staying at fashionable hotel, "ne.es
finding the game was up Naaah..
Apparuti u~ndreSsed, drenched hefss
with petroleum and set fire TO nesss1'.
1t was discovered that. before sel'aes
light to her nightdress, in order fsoD
ably to make assurance doubly sate.
she had cut the veins of the nos =
her tongue with a pair OF scissJss
Three days later the Russian aatnst'
ties informed the Freuc:h cossus'.tS
that all was in order for her To-
tion. aad it was caiy tllen that ~
facts Of her tragic end become knoe
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS

Prof. Barnard, of the Lick Ohser
vatory has added a fifth satellite Il
the four satellites OF Jupiter dis.
covered by Gallileo in 1916.
Spiegel 4 Co, furni1 of
Chicago, have confessed Judgment for
100000. The liabilities, it is said,
will exceed $4,000; assets about the
same.
The miners in East Tennessee are
again threatening to go on the war
path Gen. Carnes, commander of
the forces at Coal Greek, has issued a
call for volunteers.
The report sent by special cores
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
or SHIRT.
A Drummer's Horrible Dilemma in an
iowa Town.

A Drummer's Horrible Dilemma in an
iowa Town.
Il now carry three dozen Numbered
shirts with me when Itravel, and di-
vide them among half a dozen grips
and trunks as an insurance against
accident, said Clarence G. Steadman,
a commercial pilgrim with he~adquar-
tiers at the Lindel. Last summer /
reached Atlantic, Iowa, the abiding
place of my best girl, Saturday noon.
Ny trunk failed to connect, an eX-
pected remittance did not arrive, and
there l was, stuck, without money to
buy a change of linen, and the young
lady expected m to tea. Ihad moth
ing to do. so conceived the brilliant
idea Of remaining in My room aud
sending my linen to my laundry with
a quick time order. ] did so, and in
ten minutes the porter raped at the
door and told me Miss So and So was
in the parlOr with a number Of other
young ladies, waiting for me. | took
the porter into my confidence, and he
went down and bawled out that Mis-
tab Steadman couldn't come down
COS he done sent his shirt to de wash
Then the girls pounded on the piano
and sang The Song of the Shirt At
this ~juncture the laundry kid came to
the foot of the stairs and yelled out
that the boss say he can't git that
are shirt done afOrc tO-morrer.' Well
L wrapped a sheet around me and
strobe up and down my room, en-
gagged in silent prayer, while the girls
in the parlor hOwled like a female
boarding school on a holiday. There
was a rap at the door and the laundry
Kid, witha suspicious grin, handed in
a bundle. The boss was mistaken.
and my troubles were at an end. /
get into the clothes, but they were
evidently not mine. The bifurcated
garments had a lot OF fizagig trim
ming around the bottom. They were
roomy enough, but the room was not
in the right place. \ mar who
would wear such things, except on
compulsion, should be made an exam
pie of. The shirt was cut low at top
and bottom, had a fretwork bosom
and no sleeves. l thought perhaps
ii was a new style just imported from
POsey county; got into it. tied a
handkerchief around my neck and
was preparing TO descend when an
old maid bOarder at the hotel came to
inform me that her laundry had been
delivered at my room by mistake.
She was in a hurry for it, and in
sisted that l hand it out at once. As
| could not do so she alarmed the
house with a cry Of thieves and the
City Marshall broke into my room at
the head of a mob while | was trying
to find my way out of that lingering
eternity of a shirt. | don't go To At
lantic now. st. Louis Globe Dem
Ocrat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Probably the church that has
changed pastors most seldom since
the country was first settled is the
First Parish Unitarian church in
Gloucester, Mass 1t vas founded in
lo42, and in the two and a hall
centuries since then it has only had
sixteen pastors. This is an average
service for each minister of nearly
sixteen years
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

CHEMICAL actions formed a stone
In the stomach of La MARSHALL. the
famous hurdle-jumping horse OF
Paris He died, and the stone. a
ball nearly eight inches in diameter.
Is in the museum Of a Partisan
veterinary.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The general land Office at Washing
ton has made a ruling intended To
stopthe praeticeof giving blasphemou
and indecent names to mining claims.
TWO parties appeared at the local
ONCE at Watervill, Washington State,
10 file claims designated as "Boly
Moses and "Jumpin jesus The
general office has refused to consider
these applications under those names
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

AZ first it was thought the kite
track helped Nancy Hanks to break
the record, bnt when on the regulation
track at the Minnesota state fair she
beat the kite track time. Knocked
the remaining little fraction OF and
made her mile in 2:07, then it became
evident that nothing but the little
mare, the bicycle sulkY and Doble's
driving did it. 1t is exceedingly
Interesting to note in connection
with this event that Professor
Nipher's mathematical calculation of
the speed TO bereached BIZ the trotter
in 1892 was exactly 2:01,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Apaper in Germany, the Frankfort
IeiIsng, says, The rapid develop
ment of the material power OF the
United States menaces the continua-
ton of the economic and intellectual
supremacy OF Europe" You bet
tx does.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

African travellers tell us that the
white rhinoceros frequently dies
from eating poisonous plants which
have no effect on the black one,
probably because the fine scent of the
latter tells him it Is dangerous.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The watermelon crop of Georgia
brought to the state s5OO,OeO this
season One understands now why
q Atlanta Constitution bursts into
paeans of poetry whose refrain is
The country's SAFE
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
RESCUE OF \ CAPTIVE WOMAN.
A Remarkable story of Cruelty from Ten

A story OF cruelty of woman to
woman comes from the interior of
Henderson county, Tenn. About
tour months since Jesse Sexton, a
young farmer, married MolIie Hard
well, and happiness reigned supreme
until the advent of Beulab Larimer.
the district school teacher, who hailed
from Indiana. Sexton, who is a
school director, met the charming
teacher and loved her. They have
been together constantly, and the
young wife was suspicious. One day
the scholars appeared, but no teacher.
She was lmissing from her boarding
house. Search was made without re-
suit, and she was thought to have
run away. Saturday morning while
Rev. Mr.. Milliken, a circuit rider.
was going through the Black Bottom
he heard cries for help issuing from a
hut. Investigating, he knocked in
the door, found a young emaciated
woman clothed in rags and partially
insane from exposure and ill-trcat-
ment. She related horrible tale of
torture at the hands of Mrs. Sexton,
who, with a degro, had abducted her
from home under cover of darkness
and carried her TO the filthy cabin,
where she was cruelty beaten with
clubs and confined with only a crust
of bread to sustain life. Mrs. Sexton
denies the charges. The affair has
created a sensation among the rural
lists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

A Curious utilization Of carrier
pigeons was recently attempted in
Belgium This was making them
carry ~contraband goods into France.
For a short time "a pigeons were let
on regularly from the Belgian dove
cote, each burdened with a small
coil OF tobacco.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The largest book ever known is
owned by her Majesty Queen Victor
Ia IL is Is inches thick and weighs
% pounds and contains the addresses
OF congratulation on the occasion OF
her Ma.esty's jubilee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

1t was on Friday that Columbus
set sail from Palos, Friday he first
saw the new world, Friday he reached
Paios on hisreturn, the 40Oth anniver-
sary OF the discovery falls on Friday.
and on Friday this country was
christened after Americas yesgucius.
the F1orentine ~discoyerer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The eggs of the alligator are eaten
In the West India islands and on the
west coast of Africa. They resemble
Ia shape a hens egg, but are larger.
and have much the same taste.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Miss Louisa Reichter, a German
girl of Wilkesbarre, Pa, shocked her
friends by marrying a eolored coach
man. The brides explanation is that
the imam suited her if he didn't suit
her relatives
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The Paris undertakes have formed
a great combine, and people who die
there cannot be buried on any terms
unless they consent to pay syndicate
prices.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The news from Europe will no
doubt seriously affect the watermelon
trade 1T is a pity, too, for this is the
greatest watermelon year on record.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

French florists are cultiyating a
plant which bears a flower that is
white in the morning, red al noon
and blue at night.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
ZINC bureau of statistics STATES tha!

The bureau of statistics states that
the total expectation of breadstuffs
for August was s~6,15s.Oe0, against
sl0.2I5.0 900 for the corresponding
month last year. The total exports
for the eight months ending with
July were s60,o24.eoo, against So. $780,
900 during the corresponding period
last year. The expectation OF cotton
for August amounted in value to
81, $4,000. against g. 46i, 900 last year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
HERMANN BIGGS
Ed. DUNHAM.

Adother report on Mrs. Wigman
SAYS: NO reliable conclusions could
pc drawn from the post norton or
biological examination made after
death in this case or of her husband
William Wigman, and both bodies
have been embalmed. We have no
doubt, however, that the cause of
death in both cases was the same.
The biological examination in the
case Of the child, Minnie Leyinger,
who died Sept. IL, also shows that
the cause of death was Cholera
Asiatica."
The news that five deaths had Oc-
Cured in this city from cholera be
came known on the stock exchange
during the last hour of business. IL
resulted at once in a stampede by the
traders and prices fell 1aII per cent.
the trading being very heavy on the
dee line.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Labor should rule capital, but the
iaborer has no more right to rule the
capitalist than the capitalist has 70
rule the laborer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Acids are death to the cholera
bacillus, says DR.. Koch and several
other experts. There is sufficient
acid in the s~ecretfons of healthy
stomach to destroy the bacillus.
Sulphuric acid is one Of the best
p~reyentiyes and d~isinfectants known.
Ii the acid theory of rh, umatism is
true-that it comes Of acid in the
blood-then rheumatic persons will
be the one least apt to get cholera.
Some of the best physicians of the
day believe that diluted sulphuric
acid taken in lemonade in the
proportion of twenty drops to a
tumblerful will surely prevent any
person from getting cholera, if per-
cautions as to absolute cleanliness
and healthful food are observed.
Minnesota paid the enormous SUN
NJ x55 O1O last year for wolf ScalDs-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The Burnham Bros-two poor boys
of Milwaukee-have fallen heirs to
property valued at 100000.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

In England there is a lockout OF
5000 taiIors,r and there is no Nc
Kinley law there to father the lock
out.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

Minnesota paid the enormous sua
Of $4,000 last year for wolf scalps-
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-23
~tN EiNII: FIRE.
a Di-nS'Iuus BIax. Visits There Sun.ia.
E.ruin. Louis Like ucpndiari.m

a Di-nS'ruus BlaE. Visits There SUNDAY
Evening I.o"tS Lik" iucendiari.n.
The Gown Of sun River was visited ny
"A disastrous fire nearly midnight Sunday.
Ii started in Il vacant building owned by
O. G. Cooper and for that reason there
is good ground to believe it was the
dcvilish work pf an incendiary. The fire
soon spread to the adjoining dwelling
house owned by John Dcvine and con
sumcd his saloon and hotel. Mrs. Bulls
house was also burned.
With the mcagcr appliances at hand
for lighting fires tn" citizens Of that
town were fortunate in combining the fire
to four buildings. John Dcvine was the
heaviest loser and it is reported the or
igin of the c~Onilagratiun was laid upon
someone who had IA grudgc against him
and took such Il cowurdiy and inhuman
method Of getting even.
There was no insurance SO the loss
will fall all the heavier on Dcvinr and
the others. The total loss is about
$500. Dcyinc has lived in that locality
Il good many years and was once a sol
der al Fort Shaw. lie j. well KNOWN
here.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-23

stockmen around Great Falls would be
unusually busy then. 1t would come
right in the shearing time and
about at the end OF the calf
roundup which would keep many sheep
and cattle men away who would other
wise attend. He also objected on the
grounds that as the time set for holding
the meeting here came just before that
allotted Deer Lodge, a distance of about
400 miles would have to be unneccssari-
~ travelled by horsemen. Most of the
horses that would be entered would
naturally come from the west side and
as soon as the meeting was over returned
to Deer Lodge.
He claimed for those reasons the date
should be changed and Great Falls
placed after or before Helena so there
would be 10 unnecessary shipping Of
horses. MIR. Naughn's strenuous ohJcc-
tions evidently had the right effect ON
the other secretaries for after he
left Butte Sunday another meeting
vas held and Grcat Falls assigned d
place after Helena and before Dillon.
The schedule as now prepared Will hc
submitted to the different associations
for approval. and if satisfactory 10 them.
will be the schedule for the season. 1t
is as follows:
Glcndivc. June % to %. three days;
Miles City, Junc2i to %. four days; Deer
Lodge. june 30 to july I. four days: Ms
suula. July 6 to 9, four days; Anaconda.
July II ia %. twelve days: Butte. July -
to Aug. o.. twelve DAYS: Helena. Aug. N
to ~. light DAYS: Great Falls. Aug. - ia
u, SIX day: Dillon. Aug. 81 10 Sept. ).
iuur DAYS.