davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
NATIONAL BANKS CLUSH.
Trouble in Chicago and Indian
apolis.
The Failure of B. R. Robinson & Co.,
Wilmington, Del.

The Columbian National Bank OF Chicago
closed its doors and Mr.. Sturgis, the bank
examiner, is in charge Its capital is 81, 600
900.
The statement OF its condition at tho close
Of business on May 4th showed deposits of
u, 45S 900, loans and discounts si,625, 900,
United States and other bonds, s34l, 900 /;
cash and sight exchange, s6l6,O00. The con-
Germ held a lot of local securities, which had
been raided to the danger point. 1t was also
carrying lot OF grain for local parties, and
was said to be loaded with real estate.
The concern had been in business about six
years. Itwas formerly the United States Ma
tional Rank bur changed its name. as IL
claimed then, in order to put it higher up in
the alphabet in the bankers directories, and
thus get considerable business which would
not como toit further down the list.
Zimri Dwiggins is the president. L. Eve
bingham was formerly at the head, but re-
tired about the first OF the year. A great
many board OF trade firms carried accounts
there, and the line of grain car led by 1t will
now go to other concerns. I. Eyeringham,
the former president, had but a small account
with the concern, AMI caused the announc O.
ment to be made from the gallery OF the
board that its embarrassment would not az
feet his firm in any way.
The bank had Offices In the Insurance Ex-
change. Rumors that the institute was in
trouble have been current for nearly week.
1t did business with small country banks,
and was not In esteem with the other bank
ing concerns in the city. As to the cause Of
the failure, those who should know say that
collections on loans have been poor.
bia National Bank is the First National Bank.
The surplus and undivided profss reported
In January last were S91, 1853.
INDIANAPOLIS BANK TROUBLE.
INDIANAPOLIS, ISD.--The Capital National
Bauk OF this city, located on South Meridian
street, suspended.
The statement is made that the closing OF
the bank doors was made necessary by the
failure of the Chemical National Bank OF
Chicago last week, which institution owed
the Capital Bank 800, 200. The bank also
carried large amount OF Premier Steel
Works paper, concern which was placed In
the hands of q receiver last Friday
The bank is the depository 70, number Of
buhuiHS aoSVOfsttiOIS- LUG anuOuUCeInenI Oh
the suspension Of the bank came as great
shock to the people, especially In Meridian
street, where the news was q st circulated.
Some persons expressed the belief that the
suspension would be only temporary. A gem
eral feeling of uneasiness, however, was
manifest.
FAILURE OF DELAWARE FIRM.
WILMINGTON, DEL.-The failure OF r. r.
Robinson Co., bankers and brokers OF this
city, was announced. Rumors OF the failure
Of the firm have been on the street for sew
eral days, and the business circles have been
excited. The liabilities OF the company are
estimated at $500, 900, while II is said the as
sets win not exceed slO0, 900. The sheriff
has seized all the property Of the nrm
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
POPULAR SCIENCE.
obsidian is a lava glass.

ODdtUl4Q 10 u 1nfa 3 A91a,H-
Two per cent. Of sea water is comI
mon salt.
At the equator the average annual
rainfall is 100 inches.
The cost M one-man sea diving APP
parstus for depth Of 200 feet is s57b.
The coolest place in the United
States is the interior of Alaska, eighty
degrees below zero.
At depth Of more than four miles
the ocean is without life, without veg
citation and without light
To escape from dangers which mem
ace them, star fishes commit suicide
This instinct of self destruction ia
found only in the highest and lowest
scales of animal life.
Carnegie Music Hall, New York City,
is probably the only building of the
sort which is ventilated by introducing
fresh air at the roof and removing foul
air through the floor.
Comfort for the fat and lean can be
derived from some recent medical sta
tistics, which show that Ct the age OF
thirty-six lean men generally become
satter and fat men leaner.
/, A prominent physician says that the
average cook is absolutely ignorant OF
sanitary cause and effect, and that the
kitchen processes are sources of illness
more often than is imagined.
Fishes are without eyelids, properly
so-called, and as the eye is at all times
washed by the surrounding water that
GLAND which supplies moisture to the
eye is not required, and therefore does
mot exist.
The new waterworks in Havana,
Cuba, which have been building these
ifty-eight years, and which were finally
opened on January % of this year,
have proved immensely successful in
reducing the high mortality of the
city.
An iron meteorite, weighing nearly
ton, and measuring four feet two
inches in length, two feet three inches
in width, twenty inches thick, was re-i
Gently found at Youndegin, Western
Australia, and has been forwarded to
London.
All the species of shellfsh draw the
carbonate of lime of which their shells
are formed from the sea. After the
death of the animals the shells accu-
mulate at the bottom of the ocean,
forming lofty mountains and vast beds
of chalk.
The position of the lamprey cells has
been reviewed by Professor Howes,
who thinks that instead of being prim-
tive forms they are aberrant fish-like
forms which have lost their lower jaw.
their sucking mouth having been sec
ondarily acquired.
BY simple rule the length OF the
day and night, any time of the year,
may be ascertained by simply doubling
the time of the suns rising which
will give the length of the night, and
double the time of setting will give
the length of the day.
Doctor Haffkine, the bacteriologist,
who has been investigating cholera,
writes from India to the Russian papers
that he has conquered the disease by
an inoculative method which he will
give to the world. He regards his
tests in India as conclusive.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

A TORNADO struck saratoga, Ark, wreck
ing number OF houses.
FIX of the victims OF Tho explosion on tho
riiss'ssippi river steamer Ohio, died at Cairo.
Illinois.
Floods in the ST. Lawrence river, between
Montreal and 81: Johns, so miles below, have
done great damage TO farm property.
liPkrER JACKSON, his wife and two children
wero drowned III the Wabash river, near
Harshalrs Ferry, H.. ~ The oVcrturntng OF
q skiff.
The steamer Lain, q. New York from
Bremen, had three Cases OF smallpox on
board. One hundre. and eighteen passengers
tr, IN the Lain wsrc Isolated on shore.
Gus THomAsroN s,i Cornelius Wagner,
Worlds Fair laborers. ard Andrew Olson,
employed In the Pullman car works, while
attempting to board passenger train at
Pullmae, wore struck BY switch engine and
II SANITY killed..
FREIGHT ira on the Ohio River Rail-
rad at Walkers, W. Va, left the track and
fyl down an eIno ,n<ment. Five cars caught
me and were destroyed Two men were
killed, one being burned beyond recognition.
Another was fatally injured.
THE steame- Havana, from Newfoundland,
when nine mics oil Whitehead, coiiided WITH
tie fishing schooner J. A. Silver, bound to
kanso from tn. BANS, ani sunk it. Two OF
tie sehooner's crow were drowned. Tho sur
vvors were landed ct Halifax.
The steamer Gera, whi,h .rriyed at New
FORK, WAS dstain.d .t Quarantine owing to a
case Of smallpox among her stsernge pas
tsASers. All tho s.serage passengers were
6Nnlf.yrrd to Hoffman Island the ship was
a.sinfected and allowed &c proceed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
An Aerial Camera.

An exceedingly interesting English
invention consists of a camera COM
bined with a parachute, especially de-
signed for obtaining photographs of
Notifications and of the camps of
enemies. The parachute is snugly
folded in thin case at the end of
rocket, which is fired to the required
height and burst open by means of
time fuse. The explosion sets free the
psrachutes, which is protected from
injury by means of casing of asbestos.
From the parachute camera is sus-
pended, and string held by the
operator is attached by universal
joint to the bottom of the device, for
the purpose of pulling the parachute
back. The camera is fitted with an in
Simultaneous shutter, operated by
elockwork, so as TO give several ex-
posures at intervals. New York
journal
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
A RICH GOLD STEIzE.
A Lucky Strike That Will Make Two
Brothers Wealthy,

A despatch from Baker City, Ore, says -
One OF the richest gold strikes ever made in
this section of the country, not excepting the
famous White Swan mine, which is yielding
$1,000 day with ten-stamp mill, was un-
covered on Thursday.
The lucky finders are James and Samuel
Baisley. The latter was one of the discover
ers OF the White Swan. Tic new find is sit
uated about three miles south of the White
Swan and Virtue mines. Over o., 900 In gold
was pounded out on Thursday In hand
moran. The ledge in which this pocket has
been found hss been uncovered 100 feet, and
proves to be pay chute for that distance,
and varies In width from 2 to 10 feet.
There is enough rich ore In sight to make
the owners an immense fortune The city Is
greatly excited over the find and people are
constantly leaving to be on the ground and
stake OF claims. sample one of piece
weighing 10 pounds and containing over 500
in gold has been placed on exhibition at the
National Bank and has been viewed by hun
dreds OF people. All say IT is the greatest
find ever made in the Northwest. and from
all indications the mother lode of the Virtue
and White Swan district has been found.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
sculpture at the Fair.

One Of the first delightful surprised
OF the fair is the immense population
of inhabitants whose flesh is plaster,
whose sinews are fax, and whose bones
are iron population as varied "A the
history, traditions, arts, virtues and
passions Of mankind. II recalls thu
days Of Greece, when men thought in
marble, and bequeathed materialized
fancies to all the after time Of the
world These imposing Columbian
people viii not all outliye the days OF
today, although some Of them are
almost beautiful enough to deserve
eternity. Certainly no one could help
wishing that the great statue Of the Re-
public, modelled by Mr.. French--s
majestic woman, who stands against
the columned peristyle looking over
the sea--could live forever, and give
TO the future Of America National
ideal OF purity, simplicity and great
ness. But whatever else these plaster
gods are or are not, they are too many
too many for even the lavish bounty
Of dream They cluster in porches,
they stand in long professions along
the lengthy faeades, doing their decor
ative part with dignity and seriousness;
they pose upon pedestals, they crouch
in architectural corners, or gayly greet
you from cornices and other coigns Of
vantage; or they are hattened into lass
relief, like skins OF statues stretched
upon some rare plain surface. In truth,
all the bigness Of the buildings Is need
ed to repress and keep them in sub
ordination. Gigantic inhabitants of
"a city OF dream, they people it so
abundantly that the small human ele-
'ment is almost an impertinence, or, at
most, something unnoticeable in the
grand company Of its own creation.-
Harper's Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
SALOON MEN USE DYNAMITE.
The Residences Of Three Iowa Temper
anoe Advocates Blown Up.

The residences of three prominent temper
ance leaders of Muscatine, Ia, Postmaster
John Mahon, N. Rosenberger, an attorney,
and E. NJ. Kessinger, retired capitalist,
who have been very active and successful in
the prosecution of saloonkeepers for viola
tons of the State prohibitory law, were CON-
pletely wrecked by dynamite explosions.
Fortunately no one was injured by the
dastardly work, but the families had miracu-
lous escapes from death. The explosions
took place almost simultaneously, although
the three residences were In different parts
OF the city.
The crime is, laid at the doors Of the sa-
loon men. Mr.. ERhon is now serving his
fourth term as postmaster OF Muscatine,
being one OF the frst-class postmasters ap-
pointed by President Harrison whose term
has not yet expired.
He has been editor and publisher of the
Muscatine Journal since 1852 and is one of
the most prominent men in the State. The
saloonkeepers feel very bitter toward him,
charging him with being responsible for the
suits brought against them and the presence
here of j. Harvey, president OF the Iowa
State Temperance Alliance, to conduct their
prosecution.
MIR. Rosenburger has assisted In prose-
cutting the liquor men and Mr. Kessinger
has been individually very active in move
mants against the grog shop keepers.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
WORDS OF WISDOM.
All contempt is irrational.

All contempt is irrational
Where might is master, justice is
servant
Try novelties to limited extent, and
cautiously.
Our deeds are children which will
not be disowned.
A mistake is one of the things that
hould only be made once.
Pad luck is the only kind that comes
to people who trust in luck.
A load of sorrow doesn't wear one 80
much as a swarm of annoyances.
Life is field of battle where there
IRE more retreats than victories.
Character is the color which runs
through the acts of an individual
At no time was the world wickeder
than when it had profusion of gods.
Some people look as if they we're
walking around to save funeral ex-
penses.
To know whether there be true worth
in man, ask how he has dealt with his
enemy.
The man who thinks the world owes
him living is always in a hurry to
levy on the debt,
1t has been said that fool can ask a
question that a wise man cannot answer;
vet both men may be better for the
question.
An action may be 80 clothed as to
change its proper effect upon people;
with most of us sugar-coated vice
seems preferable to pepper-coated
virtue.
1t must be terribly humiliating to a
woman, after she has planned and
schemed to get married, to discover
that her husband is SO mean that she
can't live with him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

The exQueen of Hawaii has prob
ably laid aside snug sum Of money,
upon which she can live comfortably in
her retirement. While she was only
heiress apparent her income amounted
to about $1,000 month, and after her
accession to the throne further appro-
priations and investments raised it to
perhaps $50, 600 year. She owns two
fine houses, and, as she is thrifty We
man, she has doubtless saved neat
little fortune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

Writing to the Newport Evening
Post correspondent says: Among my
autographs tsolicted) is one from the
late James Russell Lowell, sent me
years ago. have never seen it in
print. Ii is characteristic and may
interest your readers.
Leave what TO do. and what 10 spare,
To the inspiring moments care
Nor look for payment
But Just to wear
Inspected "a nent"
--Jemes Russell Lowell
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
FAILURE OF A pELAwApK y1nm.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Ceremonies in Conneotio with the Re-
moyal of His Body to Richmond.

The programme for the reinterment OF
jefferson Davis body in Hollywood Gene
terry, Richmond, Va, May 3ist, has been COM
pleted. The special train will leave New o.
leans Sunday night, May 2sth. The ceremo-
mics previous to the departure will be brief.
1t will reach Montgomery at Q a. m. Monday.
The body will be borne to the capitol and
placed where Mr.. Davis took the oath a.
President Of the provisional Government.
At Atlanta there will be another halt OF
about four hours. At Raleigh, N. c., elab-
orate preparations are being made for q
mammoth demonstration. Richmond will be
reached on the night Of the 90th. The casket,
under the escort of troops and veteran or
CARNATIONS, will be taken to the Virginia
capitol, in the rotunda of which II will lie In
state until the next afternoon. On the
morning OF the 3lst the school children will
place garlands OF flowers upon the bier. The
reinterment ceremonies viii take place In the
afternoon.
Mrs Davis and both OF her daughters, Miss
Winnie and Mrs. j. A. Haynes, will be In
Richmond The Governors OF the States
through which the funeral train will pass
will meet 1t at the lines Of their respective
States and escort 1t TO the edge of their ter
dtory.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

The race of public executioners Is
not wholly extinct in Belgium, al
i Tough the Office. Las been little more
flrn c sinecure for nearly half cen
Il Try. The other day the headsman OF
Brussels was borrowed by the head
manless Bruges to go through with be-
coming solemnity the exceedingly silly
ceremony of mailing to post a SEN
tence of imprisonment pronounced in
default on some petit larcener. Ant
werp almost simultaneously obtained
loan for similar purposes of the ser
vices of Monsieur de Liege," one
Hamel, whose practical acquaintance
with the guillotine ceased in 1865.
The disappearance of condemned
convict necessitated the journey of NJ.
Hamel to the banks of the Scheldt,
where he gravely performed the same
farce as was enacted by his colleague
of Brussels in the city of Memling.
Since 1856 no assassin hes persisted on
Belgian scaffold. Last years cata-
logue of crime in Belgium was long and
terrible; 1898 is still young, but each
week has brought with it some deed of
blood.
Within the last few days the Belgian
press has chronicled the deaths by de-
hberate violence of no fewer than five
persons, some of them being attended
with circumstances of aggravation
which beggar description In view of
this state of affairs the Belgian News
asks whether this long suspension,
amounting almost to abolition, of capt.
tai punishment has or has not been for
the public good, and suggests that in
spite of the great aversion which King
Leopold is known to feel to signing
death warrant, the amended Belgian
Constitution must deal effectually with
state of things which has insensibly
rendered negative and Elusive thst
most salutary clause of the Belgian
Penal Code which should, under other
circumstances, strike terror into the
hearts OF evil doors. James Ga
Zette
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

The story is told that explorers
along the Nile have unearthed pillow
of modern shape, a telescope and
photograph camera, the evidence being
indiBputable that the articles are at
least 5000 years old. This is fairly
good story, comments the San Fran
cisco Examiner 1t might have been
advantageously rounded out by adding
to the collection a nickel-in-the-slo
machine, type writer and telauto-
graph, but then it will do as it is.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

In Germany every servant girl is
obliged to own little blank book for
stamps. Once week the mistress
pastes in the book two-penny-half-
penny stamp, which is purchased from
the Government. When the girl gets
old, or should she fall i'll, the stamps
are redeemed by the Government, SO
that the girl has small sickness or
old-age fund. The custom was ordered
by the Emperor about two years ago.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

A corporation asks at the hands OF
the Delaware Legislature a charter
empowering the company TO net the
little State with electric railways and
to light the villages along the line
The company hopes also to include the
Maryland counties OF the peninsula in
comprehensive railway scheme. This
latter plan would involve a good deal
of bridging, as the whole eastern shore
region is honeycombed with navigable
tidewater streams, and villages five
miles apart in air line are often fifteen
miles apart by road.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

The finest examples Of unpleasant
passports on record are. according to
James Psyn's way of thinking, those
given by the King Of Portugal when
master Of the Indian Seas. Even Moor
ish ships dared not set sail without his
permission In writing, and, a. the
Moors could never acquire the art Of
reading, these permits, for which
handsome payment, of course, had to
be made, generally ran as follows:
THE owner Of this ship is a very
wicked Moor. desire that the first
Portuguese captain to whom this is
shown may make prize Of her. R--Arl
gonauk
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

Here is a sample of Russian methods
instanced by the Atlanta Constitution
Three years ago an educated and re-
fined lady petitioned the Gar in behalf
of the people She asked for suffrage,
free speech and Legislative assembly.
The Gar was so touched by her hero
ism that instead of hanging her he ex-
lied her to Siberia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20

There's hand on the rudder that will not
finch,
There's no fear in the Pilots face
As He guides the worlds, like boats in q
storms.
Through the rocking seas of space;
And whether they make the harbor at last
Beyond the shoals and the swell,
Or sail forever shoreless sea
know that all is well,-
And learn these things from the heart OF
the wood,
From the solemn soul Of the sea -
For never bird in wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
And the soul of man is a sunward bird
With wings that are made for flight,
To pierce to the fount of the shining day
And float through the depths of night
And read these things in that Bible of God
Whose leaves are the spreading sky
And the legible face of the dark green sea,
With the eye behind the eye.
For truth is not closed in the lids of book,
For its chainless soul is free;
And never a bird in a wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
For truth surges into the open heart
And into the willing eye,
And streams from the breath of the steam
ing earth,
And drops from the bending sky;
IT'S not shut in book, in church, or a
school,
Nor cramped in the chains OF creed,
But lives in the open air and light
For all men in their need
But the fish that swims in goldfish vase
Knows not of the sailed sea,
And never bird in a wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
IT'S the Voice that comes from the gilded
peaks,
From the hills that shoulder the sky,
Through the topless heights of man s own
dreams
This Voice goes wandering by;
And who roams the earth with an open
heart,
With an ear attuned to hear,
Win catch some broken cord of the sound
Whenever the Voice comes near.
But not past the prison of custom or creed
Will the Voice or the Vision flee;
And never bird in wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
Sam Walter Foss. in Yankee Blade.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-20
iLOUNT SUCCEEDS STE VEINS.
The Ex-Minister Will Leave Honolulu
for the United States on the Gath.

Officials of the State Department confirmed
the predictions heretofore made that ex-
Representative Blount would be appointed
Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Islands.
1t has been supposed that Minister Stevens
would remain in charge of the legation until
the Gath OF this month, at which time he had
announced his intention OF sailing for San
Francisco.
1t is now shown that Mr.. Stevens has been
instructed to forthwith turn over the legation
to Commissioner Blount, who has been ap-
pointed his successor. There is reason to
believe that Mr.. Stevens was not allowed to
remain In charge Of the legation until the
Gath inst because Of his activity In behalf OF
annexation.
1t is further stated at the Department that
Messrs. Bowen and Sewall, who went to
Honolulu shortly after Commissioner Blount's
arrival have been active in their efforts to
stimulate sentiment ON the islands in favor
OF annexation and are thought to have
created the impression that in 80 doing they
were representing the President
Letters received by naval officers and
others In the Government service indicate
that the Provisional Government maintains a
firm hold. One letter states that the native
sentiment In favor of annexation Is growing.