davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
AN OLD MANS SHAME.

His Son Confesses That He Contemplated
Robbery, and Is Probably a Murderer
The Victim of an Unprovoked Assault
Not Yet Identified - The Assailants
Story.
New YORK, Jan. 2.-[ Special. Henry
c. Turner, Jr., the young man who set out
to rob man at One Hundred and Twenty
ninth street and Second avenue New Years
morning, and is suspected of having thrown
him into the Harlem river upon finding his
pockets empty, was committed to the
Tombs without bail to-day by Coroner
Schultz This is the statement he has made
to the police:
At about A. NJ. on New Years day, while
passing up Second avenue, on the west side,
at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
met an unknown man and accidentally
stepped on his foot, when he turned around
and kicked me. / struck him in the face
with nv fist. knocking him down. He got
up and walked toward the bridge, and fol-
lowed with the intention of robping MN:
After crossing Second avenue engaged
in quarrel with him, and struck
him again in the face with my
fist: knocking him down. In falling
he struck on the baclspf his head and be-
search him, and while doing so saw some
men and women coming toward che bridge.
! ran under the steps of the bridge to hide
until they had passed. After l thought they
had gone L went to the man again to rob
him. He came TO, and we fought, all the
time going toward the river. When we got
near the edge of the dock he broke his hold
on me and fell into the water.
Young Turner's father, Henry c. Turner,
Sr., was in court. The young man told him
that the dead man had fallen into the river.
Turner's father is painter. The young
man profeSSes to be paper hanger. He
larv
The fact that the dead mans body foated
all the time that Turner was seeking to es-
cape, and was still aSeat when Policeman
PIatt reached the pier, would indicate that
the man was dead when he reached the
water The body of the dead man had not
been identified when the morgue closed to-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
FASTING NEARLY TWO YEARS.
The Woman Who Has Actually Eaten
Nothing for $40 Days.

ALLENTOWN, PA, Jan. 2-[ Special J.
Mrs Adam Wuchter, of White Hall, seven
miles from here, whose strange experience
as an involuntary faster created such wide
spread interest during the summer and fall
of 1890, is still alive, apparently having
subssted $40 days without swallowing a
morsel of solid food, and a considerable
portion of that time without tasting even
liquid nourishment. She is now blind,
bedridden, paralytic and wasted to a
shadow.
She began her fast April 4, 1890 A year
before that her health had failed, and all
food was reduced to liquid form. But
after April she was unable to swallow
anything at all, except occasionally few
drops of water, until Nov. following. On
that dav the faster succeeded in swallowing
a few drops of orange juice, and, subse-
quently, some beef tea. After that she
slowly mended, but still was unable to eat
solid food. In June, 1891, however, her
condition again grew worse, and her suffer
ings have been terrible. Mr.. Wuchter and
the watchers at the bedside feel sure that
the end is at hand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Obituary Notes.


Ex-MAYoR ROSWELL, of Chicago, died in
that City Friday night of congestion of the
brain. He was Mayor during the great fire.
GENERAL MONTGOMERY C. MRIGs, United
States Engineering Corps, (retired) died yes
terday morning of the grip at his residence
in Washington.
VAN L. FITCH, a pioneer resident of Youngs-
town and a gallant soldier in the war; died
yesterday from an attack of the grip, leay-
ing wlie and six children.
Miss MARTHA SLoAr, of Madison, Pa, died
Friday night, aged 80 years She had been
stricken with paralysis ~ years ago and had
never been able to walk since.
MAYOR JAMES NJ. ALLEN, of Terre Haute,
Ind, died Friday of the grip. Forty years
before his election last spring by the Demo-
Gratis, he was Judge of the Superior Court of
his county.
SIGNoR EDvARDo MAJERoN1. who is dead in
Paris was conspicuous figure on the
American stage several decades ago when he
came here in the support of Mime. Ristori
the tragedlenne. He married a niece of the
actress
Mrs. MOSES SwEETzER, of Parkersburg, died
of grip Friday night. She was born in And
over, Mass, in 1923, and was the wife of
Moses SweetZer, the well-known oil man
Her son is a talented author in Boston. The
remains will be taken to Lynn, Mass, for
burial.
JAMES 5. MATHEWS, an actor and manager
of repute years ago, died in the Oswego, \.
Y, Poorhouse "A few days ago He was of
English BIRTH. For five years lie managed a
Rochester theater. lie studied law after
ward. or late years he had been in dire
poverty.
Mrs. ROSE BLEILL, aged &c, one of the Oldest
residents OF the Southside, died at her home
on Josephine street, yesterday afternoon.
She the mother-in-law of Charles and
Matt Ott of OFT Brothers, and was well.
known throughout the city. The funeral
will take place tomorrow.
MILE. ALBERTINE FoRGUE one of the most
promising young actresses on the French
stage, Is dead, aged "a. She was a prize ira
gedienne of the Conservatoire and made her
debut at the Odeon. Afterward she replaced
Sarah Bernhardt during the concluding per-
formances of Jeanne dare" at the Porte.
St,-Martin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
NO FRIEND OF ELIOT.
0verseer Putnam, of Harvard, Forces
Hot Shot Into the President.
THE DICKEY CLUB BARBARISMS
Attributed Solely to His Liberality in
Tealing With Students.
OFFICIAL ACTION is PROMISED


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM oTHE pIsPATcH.l
CAMBRIDGE, MASS, Jan. 2.-There /:
said to be serious discord among Harvard's
officials on account of the exposure of the
barbarous practices at the notorious "Dickey
Club" and President Eliot's admission that
he knew all about it but was powerless to
interfere. There will be music at the next
meeting of the Board of Overseers, and un.
less there is very decided change of base
on the part of President Eliot and other
members of the faculty there will probably
be an official demand for searching investi'
cation with view to wiping out the evil.
Mr. Henry w. Putnam, member of the
Board of Overseers, savagely criticised
President Eliot's edo nothing policy in
the following sharp letter:
'oThe Dickey Club has become the head
quarters OF the worst dissipation and of the
most barbarous and degrading practices to
be found at Harvard, the disgrace of the
college, and the curse of Cambridge-wholly
within the 20 years
Of President Eliots Administration.
and principally within the last 10 years,
when his policy of non-interference with
students misdoings has been in full force.
This you call President Eliot's slow, sure
way of allowing effect to follow cause natu-
rally"
SIT is Slow certainly, but the only sure
result of it has been the steady increase for
two decades of scandal and Generalization
attending the developments of the Dickey
Club. The drinking at the meetings has
steadily increased during this administra-
tion. If Mr.. Garrison's letter works re-
form it will be not because of, but in spite
of, President Eliot's policy. As graduate
and overseer of Harvard. desire to thank
Mr.. Garrison for doing an immediate SER
vice of incalculable value to my alma mater
and one which she sorely needed. 1 wish
to thank him still mare, however, for strik-
ing blow at the do-nothing policy.
will Propose Official Action.
"President Eliot has made this policy hi
hobby to such a preposterous extent that he
is to-day very popular with the fast set
which runs the 'Dickey,' and which, by the
prestige of that club, draws in and demoral-
izes many good fellows in each class who
should be in different company and about
better business. Nobody wishes to estab-
lish q petty police system by the faculty
over the students, but policy of regulating
and, if necessary, breaking up large and
well-known organizations of students under
the very shadow of the college buildings is
essential to the moral welfare of the Uni
versitv.
Il do not know whether the overseers
will call upon the President and faculty for
any official action in the Dickev matter.
They certainly will have chance to do so,
if live till the next meeting and can be
present, even if am the only member of
the board to vote for such action"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE,
w. W. Vanderbilt.

After long illness W. w. Vanderbilt
died yesterday afternoon at Vallejo Cal. He
was born in New York in 1915 and was for
many years in the service of his cousin,
Commodore Vanderbilt, of New York. lie
was chief engineer of the pioneer steamer
California when she made her voyage to the
Pacific coast. Mr.. Vanderbilt was in the
employ of the Pacific Mali Company from
ls49 to 1869, and for ten years was the General
superintendent OF the Bureau of Hulls and
Machinery. He superintendent the rebuild
ing of the single -turreted monitor Comanche
and the construction of the double-turreted
monitor Monadnock, now being completed
at the navy yard of Mare Island.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
ONE CLERK TOO MANY.
Lively Times Ahead for Mayor GIeason's
Town on Long Island

NEW YORK. Jan. 2.-[Special Rival
city clerks sat on the right ard left
hand OF President Michael f. Claven at the
organization of the new Board of Aldermen
in the City Hall at Long Island
City this noon. The city clerk
on the Presidents right was Thomas
P. Burke. He is backed by the Mayor
and police force. The one on the left was
Thomas Curry. HIS cause is championed
by the new Board of Aldermen. A resolu-
tion was passed recognizing Curry as the
prOrer official; but when the clerk was
ordered TO call the roll Burke's voice far
outsounded that of his rival He was re-
quested to vacate his seat, which he refused
10 do. The sergeant alarms was then or
dered TO remove him. Mr.. Burke gathered
Up his books, and the sergeant-at-arm
marched him outside the railing.
Mr.. Burke was in the City Clerks office
when the board adjourned. and two police
men stood guard at the door. Mr.. Curry
presented himself at the door, but was not
allowed to enter. An action will be begun
in court to compel Mr.. Burke to surrender
the properly of the late City Clerks Office
Curry was at one time Mayor Gleason s
private secretary
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
CAN'T STAND THE CARTOONS.
Why the Boston Public Library Excludes
the Comic Political Papers.


BOSTON, Jan. 2.-[SpecidL There has
been so much criticism of the action of the
Boston Public Library trustees in exclud-
ing P0ck from the library periodical list
that the board feels called upon to make
some explanation, and Mr.. Abbott gives
these reasons for the boards action:
1.-THE children form the great majority of
readers of both Puck and Judge. They flock
in here after school to look at these big
red, white and blue pictures and the effect
is not the best. Judge will be dropped for
the same reason when the subscription now
paid for expires. We object to the carica-
lures of pen holding the highest positions
in this country, which children don't know
how to make allowances for. These men
are not wholly bad, but the children are
easily convinced by these pictures that
they are. We have reduced the age for
persons frequenting the library to 12
wears
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Killed by a Christmas Day Gale.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-[Special. THE
Observation-Disclosures steamer Sparndam,
which arrived to-day from Rotterdam, met
the riotous Christmas day gale when she
was six days out. She shipped innumera-
BILE seas The first big one that topp1ed
over her weather bow struck Seaman Jaman
Yam Kniper, who was on duty on the fore
castle, carried him aft, and smashed both
his legs. He died four days later and was
buried at sea-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
A Fund for Mrs, Justice Miller

ST. PAUL, Jan. 2.-Circular letters are
being mailed from this CITY to various cities
and towns all over the United States, ad-
dressed to judges, lawyers and the many
friends of the late Justice Samuel F. Miller
and his widow, offering an opportunity for
individual subscriptions 10 a fund for the
benefit OF Mrs Miller and for the erection
ola monument. The iamily's objection to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
DIED.

ANDERSON-On Saturday evening Janu-
ary 2, 1892 at 545 O'Clock, SAMPSON ANDERSON,
in the 69th year of his age.
Funeral from the residence of his son
Thomas W. Anderson, 16 Esplanade street,
Allegheny, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, at o'clock,
1nterment private.
BASSETT-On Saturday, January .. 1892,
at IL A. NJ, MARY JANE, beloved wife of
Joseph Bassett, aged &c years.
Funeral services at the residence of her
husband. No. 520S keystone avenue, Eight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Dyspepsia

Caused me almost untold suffering 1 felt
miserable and nervous. My stomach would
hardly digest bread and milk. But soon
after 1 began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla 1
had better appetite, and could not only eat
well, but had
No Distress Afterward.
am so glad am better, for feared never
should get we'll NV nursing baby. too
seems to be better than ever, and 1 tell
folks
Hoods SarsapariIIa
makes him strong, and that he gets more of
IL than do. He is 10 months old, plump and
fat, and weighs 80 pounds" Mrs. F. B.
LEONARD. Soughtage Street, Louisville, KY.
A Questions:
n. B. In view of the great benefit others
derive from Hoods Sarsaparilln, ought you
not to try this excellent medicine?
HOODS PILLS cure liver ills, constipa-
ton, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache,
Indigestion. Sold by all druggists.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
RAIN TO ORDER FOR TEN COUNTIES.
The Kansas Company Using Me1Dourne's
Secret Makes a Proposition.

HURON, S. D., Jan. AT the meeting
of the Commissioners of Hand, Beadle,
Sphinx, Faulk, Potter, Sully. Hyde, Hughes,
Buffalo and Jeraud counties next week they
will be asked to appoint delegates to a con-
vention to be held on January 20 to con-
slider a proposition submitted by the Inter-
State Artificial Rain Company of Kansas to
furnish moisture for those counties during
the coming crop season.
The company uses the Melbourne system,
and representative of the company will be
present and explain the system and the
proposition. The company desires to con-
tract for at least ten counties
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Thornton Bros, Allegheny.

The black silk laces at &c, 10c and 12c
and the Irish point laces white, at &c and
1Oc, which on account of the rush during
the holidays we were obliged to withdraw
from sale, will be on the counter again on
Monday morning; 5000 yards vet to SELL
actual value 25c to 6Oc. The Cash Store.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

SUDDEN changes of weather cause throat dis
eases. There is no more effectual remedy for
coughs. colds. etc. than Browns Bronchial
Troches. Sold only in boxes. Price, D cents. .
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

the subscription was withdrawn on condi-
tion that each contribution be spontaneous,
and that Lothing like soliciting be per-
\ mitted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Spring Goods

Coming in now. Dress trimmings.
REFINING & WILD, 40 Penn avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
viii buy the pick of
any of our fine MER-
CHANT TAILOR
MADE
Tomorrow
and Tuesday.

Some of the very fin
est Overcoats we re-
ceived this season are
still on our hands. They
were originally made
to order for $50, $50, S65,
up to sS5. Your chance
nov to buy an OVER
COAT for S14.50 that
will wear you for many
years. Your choice of
aDV
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07

charged shouts our little captain, and
now we cheer and cheer and charge.
Another shell-but it missed US.
Bullets from revolvers sing about us
"a mighty cheer comes to onr ears
from the brigade left behind-and
now we drive into the smoke around
the gun. 1t had infantry support
perhaps a company-and the gunners
fought us hand to hand. There was
neutrality-suspicious. of pain and
screams of agony-blows with the
saber and thrusts with the bayonet,
and when we awoke from the night
mare the gun was ours and regiment
was moving up to hold the position
we had won.
1 did not look back as we moved
down past the support to reioin our
own regiment in reserve. There was
no need to. / knew the sight which
would have greeted my eyes. I
waited for the roll-call after we had
returned. Nineteen dead and wounded
out of fifty-sixl Over third of our
command left on that spotI
But we were cheered--hundreds
shook our hands--Company &c" had
won for itself page in the records Of
war.-[Detroit Free Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07
A Wall of Crushed Human Flesh.

One of the most appalling mine dis
asters which have occurred in the
United States of late years happened
just about year ago in II. G. Frick
& Co.'s mammoth mine, near Mount
Pleasant, Penn. An explosion of gas
and fire damp killed 107 men in less
than that number of seconds. The
victims were literally blown to pieces.
Heads were found hundred feet from
the bodies that had borne them in life.
A mass of wreckage, in which were
unfortunately mingled the corpses
of men and mules, was packed against
the side Of the fatal heading SO COM
pletely that it was with the greatest
difficulty that the human bodies were
extricated and removed. This awful
wall of crushed flesh had been com.
pressed by the force Of the explosion
until it was almost as solid-as the coal
itself. There was hardly cottage in
the hamlet that did not shelter mourn.
ers. At least six women went vio-
lently insane over the loss of their
loved ones. Two women, widowed
by the accident, attacked Superlnten-
dent Keighley near the entrance to the
mine and nearly killed him with
stones.
In March, 1890, naked lamp on the
cap of mule driver fired "blower"
of gas in South Wilkesbarre penn.
colliery. The timbers Of the mine
caught fire from the gas. Eight men
perished They were slowly strangled
to death by smoke or roasted by the
flames. Every man left widow and
a family.
The disaster in the Lane silver mine
at Angelo, near San Andreas, CAL,
in 1889 gained sadness from the fact
that it came just before Christmas.
Sixteen men were crushed to death by
falling rock. Three of them left
wives and children. Il New York
Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07
Making Medicine Palatable.

The Paris hospitals have practice
which may with profit be commended
to the physicians and nurses of this
country. Some years ago a leading
physician of Paris, noting the strenu-
Gus objections entertained by many
patients of the hospitals to taking
medicine because of it's noxious taste,
conceived the idea that medicine should
be administered in the food of the pa
tients. He began series of experi-
ments to ascertain whether the taste
of drugs might not be so disguised
with food as to render them, if not
palatable, at least less Objectionable.
The oils, such as cod-liver oil, castor
oil and the like, he concealed in soups,
and invented peculiar bread known
as the chaly beate bread, for the pur-
pose of administering iron tonic,
which many persons object strongly
to taking on account of its taste.
Every ounce of this bread contains one
grain of the lactate of iron, and the
quantity Of iron tonic which patient
would take in the course of one days
meals would be quite sufficient for ali
medical purposes, The idea is not q
bad one for our doctors to follow, fos
a patient with weak or squeamisb
stomach is often put to no little incon-
venience or suffering by the abomni-
able taste of some necessary medi-
Observation-Disclosures
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07
HUMOROUS.

A man's deeds live after him. So
do his mortgages.
Coasting is delightful sport for boys
but it has its drawbacks.
Jealousy will create heart burn and
SO will too many buckwheat cakes.
s.Real clevaw fellaw, Baggs is. real
clevaw fellaw." .'But what 10 he
clever at?" "Wlfy, at being so dooced
clevaw, don't chew knaw."
Greenland has no cats. How thank
full the G:eenlanders should be. I'm.
agine cats in a country where the
nights are six months long!
Every man in the world is telling
what he would do if he were woman
and every woman tells of things she
would not do if she were a man.
Doctor-Did you have much Of q
chill? Fair Patient-It seemed so.
Doctor-Did your teeth chatter. Fair
Patient-No; they were in my dress-
ing-case.
Schoolmaster-Sc Scientists tell US the
moon is inhabited. George (from
the bottom of the class)-Then where
do the people go when there's only
half a moon?
A placard posted through country
town once announced the opening OF
the Theatre Royal "under the MANAGE
ment of Miss, newly-decorated
and painted"
Foreigner-I was in yonr Congress
once when the scene was noisier than
that in stable. American-That
must have been when the "Acighs"
were being counted!
A man never realizes Hor p'GeIi
waiting can be done in a n6c- 2tri,
he waits on the sidowa.k for soRs
one who has stepped into = hou5a
"just for a minute"
First Boy Ohreateningly) = Juss
wait till ketch yer arler school Sec
ond Boy advancing de6antly)-Why
don't We take me nowp First Boy
(backing ofi)-Me mind is on me les
sons now.
A professor in the medical depart
mcnt of Columbia College asked one
of the more advanced students:
soWhat is the name of the teeth that a
human being gets last9" "Falso teeth,
of course"
She--But why do you say don't
care for you any more? He-Oh!I l
know I'm nothing more to yon. Only
the other day that puppy died and you
had it stuffed. Would you do as
much for me?
Miss Molly McGinnis-Yes, tobog.
gaming is all very well. but you don't
know whether you will come back
alive or dead. Gus dc Smith. -Er---
you've always come back alive,
suppose, Miss Mollie2
Brown.-Say, Jones, when you come
in late at night don't you always
wake your wifep Jones (pronptly)
Never. Brown (surprised) )-Jee-
hosaphatI How no yon manage it?
Jones with sighl--I don't hare toA
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07

Men who are seeking an opening,
and waiting for something to turn up,
might try the old-fashioned way of
putting their hands to the plough to
open and turn up the soil.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-04-07
A WOman's Temple.

w
Unconsciously woman builds
A temple in this world below,
And day by day stone Is laid
OF little things that come and 90.
So it doth slowly rise above
The tide of years. until its dome
Has reached the glory clouds of heaven,
"A world within ITSELF home
She wisely builds upon the rock,
Far more eternal than the years,
The pavement is of solid truth,
Untouched, unworn by falling tears.
The walls are innocence and grace,
Fair virtue makes them high and strong,
Within they shine with purity,
Resound with muse and sacred song;
The gates are pearls of truth and love,
Whence issue forth bright CLEANS of light
Each stone a little sacrifice,
And kept in place by truth and right.
The pillars are of gentle acts,
That bear the weight of golden beams
Oflife, and bound by cords of love,
And braced by faiths undying streams.
Each nail heartbeat set il place,
Each blow her very centre shook;
The stsps are trials, stepping stones
Where patience climbs with upward look
The throne, her grand eternal soul,
Her hing, the one she loves best;
The altar where sweet incense rise,
Does hold her greatest and her best.
So az bv day stone is laid,
Until the white-capped dome
b hid among the clouds,
And she has reached her heavenly home.
IN. B. Fowles, in Inter Ocean.