davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21

The powder used in big guns is
queer looking stuff. Each grain is a
hexagonal prism an inch wide and
two-thirds of an inch thick, with
a hole bored through the middle OF it.
In appearance it resembles nothing
SO much as piece OF wood. If you
touch match to it it will take seves
or eight seconds to 60 of.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21
Noutains m the Sea

The bed Of the North Atlantic con-
sists OF two valleys. separated by a
mountain range that runs from the
Azores 10 Iceland.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21

Barrier reef is a coral reef extend
ing along the northwestern. coast o.
Australia for nearly 1900 miles.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21

So should We live that every ho.f may
die as dies the natural hower-a self-re-
viving thing of power.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21

The cuckoos are getting closer to
gether day by day, and the reform
Democrats are leaving the old party.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21

liz you are true reformer you will
keep out of all silver primaries,
''sound" money primaries or any
meeting called by the leaders OF the
Republican party. or of the divided
Democracy. All true and sincere re-
formers will come to the Peoples
party.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-28

witnesses whom the judge had examined
before he called him had said. or what
those whom the tudgs would call after
he had gone would say. SO hs relied or
his tale that he killed the student In self
defense. and pointed 10 the self-lnA!etea
marks on his throat 20 prove how the
student had tried 20 XIII him. Ss could
ace taas his story had some effect.
That night he was taken 70 the central
prison. after the Judge had told him that
he would be held for trial.
In the central prison he was confined
three 6svs Toward the evening OF ne
third DRY Pierre was removed from tbs
central prison % tbs conc.ergerie. Ths
concierrsrls IS gloomy Old stone Pile.
The older part OF tx dates from long Be
fore the revolution. and played a hor-
rr,fv important part 81 that terr.5ls
struggle New serious offenders are
taken there ssn DAYS before trial aad
some OF re ces.s are occupied BY those
who have been srvtctsd ard sentenced
- short terms ptsrre's cell was not FAR
from hat which Nss once occurls1 BY
Marie Artosuette. This 70 ROW one Il The
show places % re prsSon. The old door
s.flf remains through which - small
door was cut b. the citizen taslers n
craer that n passing through Z: the proud
queen -ight BE .o~ce5 n stoop a. y bow
Nne see Ns~e3 them. As tAav waited
within ire cell - watch her hun ria Hon
re aueez turned about ans passed n
eael<var -. 80 that the bow Which she vas
compelled to make vas - re empty cor
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his throat. and Of tho generally injured
appearance of his neck. whereupon Pierre
congratulated himself.
When all this had been done Pierre was
taken into the bath room. Here he was
ordered to divest himself Of his clothes,
which he placed on o bench, ali carefully
tied together with a bit OF official cord,
which had been given to him for that
purpose. Then hs stepped into zinc
shower bath, where he had soft soap
handed to him with sruff orders to use it
freely before the water was turned on.
While he was scrubhing and cleaning
washing away the blood from his guilty
hands with the other accumulations-an
attendant had taken his bundle Of clothes
and thrown Il into hopper. from which
another attendant In another room ex-
traeted Il and placed IL in q great cylin-
drical oven, where the heat was intense
enough TO kill every known disease germ
which might have been gathered IN the
Rue de Venice. and TO destroy even the
vermin OF Partisan thief.
After the bath was finished and the dis
infected clothes had been donned again
Pierre was once more locked up IN bare
stone cell
From thence, after an uncomfortable
night. he was conveyed 10 the office OF
one OF the forty judges Of instruction 70
the palace of Justice. Here. alone with
tbs Judge and his secretary. without
lawyer ana without knowledge OF what
had or had not been discovered Pierre
was examined IN every detail OF his life
and OF hts crime He dared not lie very
much, for ne had no notion OF what the
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Then. for the first tina. he began 20
think about his owr defense. He must
secure as light punishment for his ls.ls
pleasantly vita the s-G5e1t as pess.ole-
Il would be impossible for him 20 deny
that he had killed The fellow. Ter tae
gems d'armes had literally caught nin u
the act lie mus. pretend that &c oio u
II seit-6eferse--thst 10 was mercy ths
end OK a struggle provoked oy ne SUI
dent Bu. there were 20 marks on Els
ovn body 10 STOW where ths student nao
injured him. Quick as thought. alc VITA
q cunning trust that because he cou.a
see nobody. nooedy could see him, Pierres
hands were al lis own throat with q Ter
rfbEs grtp-a grip that pinchsd and tnro.-
tied and bruised as severely, as rs cared
He cd not wish 70 kill himself
His face had scarcely recovered rom
the livid hue which the self-afninistered
choking had given 70 II before he was
summoned. A guard. not without . curl
Gus glance or two az the prisoners neck,
on which ten great blue fngsr-marks
were plainly visible. conducted him 70 the
Identified ton bIreau, where by means OF
many strange measurements and exam
nations al the De .uIiarittes OF MS oo1y
were forever written among the criminal
records OF France. An instanrs Compare
son OF these measurements showed thar
Pierre had been arrested before. although
ne denied II ard gave q different name.
His photograph. taken IN two positions
on the former occasion. were even held
up 70 hts amazed gaze. and all this within
less than ninety seconds. Il seemed Ike
magic 70 Pierre ard added to his respect
for the law The official in charge did
not fail 70 make q note OF the marks on
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p..n tne blood which hsA co-,. 49,
.-~.as u1krsown sazher-ar.a.ssAs F,v- 80.
- o. wfsseA jealousy was h~~s-
80 - - pu4se ard beat TIE nuar-~a -z-.A
oFef was brief. A krs<e s-yr4 . 49,.
tF~, 1se lovers life short e. <hs sayns
TT And The knife was Pierre.
pretex< On which Pierre. ~-~
H%%Gcs1 20 go into tire rssA 81 v.-s-.
e SOP before ard fl-.a..y er,.e- a.,
- JACK doorway was a ss~nua. or.. -.
- A-so The means OF gr.z.r~.ar vrss~,
aeovsd after ts had hsn, .Sev.
Fierr.'s greedy fingers. tsyr.~-sr.v
- - NC ra<adfry Of s-eeI about TIE th-r.a.
80 . victim would have been sussrsarr.
-. mo. the student managed to er%.se one
=. sansA gurg.tng. penetrating cry.
~. - CITY. which. first, brought ou.
tne knife. and. second. the oo;5~s D..
wnon the esndarrnes carr. Ire s.,,s..-,
a., cea9, ard the blood which Pierre RAJ
Inherited from his father was sanrs1g
"a -o.sn nss veins. having been for TIE
nrss time satisfied
no gen1sr-nes OF Paris are TO. azrx,.-
80. .oas 70 make ssng.e-handed captures. 90
- g OF them. each armed with his short
~ap sWoru, were concerned in rhe can
s o. fferre- They bore h4rrl orr-aa-raos.
aoo n1na--,o the police stattorA bar. not
ou.o.e It's Knife had prscked an ruuIeas-
80 nose IN one OF them All the way 70
s'fe station they tried TO force hin, =, con-
lcss II sirould be understood thar IN
france The American method IN reversal
prisoner Ii considered guilty Until he
proves himself innocent This has had on.
eiect AZ least It has put many men who
were not guilty into French prisons be-
osuse they could not prove that they were
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-28
PIERRE OF THE SLUMS
The Story Of q Typical French
Thief and Murderer.
CHILD o. TIKI GuUEh
Rssred In . state Founding Asylum
How the Paris Authorities
Deal With Criminals.
i CHILD o. rHE GUTTER

l \ 10. uly A.
Pierre Poulier was
. thief. He was
born In the Sums
Of Aontmartre
somewhere. There
be many who do
not know their
fathers; Pierre
does not know
either his father
or his mother. The
first acknowledged
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~ which Pierre had not offered TO her-
discovered sentiment 10 her. Then she
went with a student and became one OF
'he horde % iS-yesr-old grtsettes VINO Ter
tares Or four fervtd years help 70 make
the Cafe d'Ifarcuurt bright at Midnight.
VINO make a journey TO some less brilliant
Gaze as each new line comes upon thear
taces. and who. when they are old arc
sviakle5 should they haft's despair snc
We Seine 50 long). are consistently FOUND
sneng the hevT1hls hays of the Chateau
Rouge CRed House, ana other like places
FieFTo's girl went with a student ana
~ rs loss OF her Pierre was aroused
nsEone that she had been only an eEs'scsdS-
Naea he lost her she Instantly became
1sessity. Pierre did not know he loved
VIII be b>>ane tealouS He sesrcAed her
W sss1 learned Why T. was that she pre-
.$rea re student 70 himself. THE student
saa money and was s'Jie 20 give her
o~VSlsosne morn and handsome c5ofhes %
sea- n - PIERRE instantly promised her
ae sane. and sire went back with him.
a order % keep Ms premise he was roTcea
sss2 raore perslstent.y than he had ever
seoAen before. and thus run greater fssNs,
eat Re enjoyed .: 8 vas IN his hood. ny
Ard BY. though. re got caught and went
70 rrssoa Whea ne was released tie ri
vas again with the student. Now that ne
CAD been Grrest 81 and imprisoned cocs ne
szsew taak he was less likely - ssss-sre de-
sec'toa - TIRE future Tie could not give
oe az 80 many things. and. teeEeEof1'
- wog.o not q second tine return % nisn-
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7 A. Nadeau. general agent % the
Northern Pacirc railroad. IS expected
bone from Spokane today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
WIDENING G. STREET.
Property Owners Think the Railroad
Company Should Pay for 1t.

Pr0pcrty Owners Think the HHllrOnu
Company Should Pay for 1t.
A hearing was given by the Commissioners
today to Messrs. w. c. Dodge, A NJ. Clapp.
H. NJ. Dellinger. H. NJ. Copp and F. W. Dom.
a delegation of property owners on G he
tween It'll and 9th streets, which called to
urge the widening of the roadway of that
street, but to protest against the property
owners being made to pay one-haf the cost
for such improvement. The street had been
narrowed by virtue of the street railroad
which ran along it, and Mr.. Dodge thought
the street railroad should be made to bear
the expense of widening it.
1t was, he said, The occupation of the rail-
road which brought about the necessity to
widen it, and the railroad company should
be made to pay for it.
He called attention to the appropriation
act of last year. which compelled the citi-
Zens to bear one-half the cost of widening
G street between 10th and 14th streets, and
said he did not think the Commissioners
should have insisted upon any such bill be-
ing passed.
Maj. Powell said that 1t was entirely the
work of the interested citizens. The Com
rnissioners, he said. were in favor of tax
ing the railroad company with the cost of
widening the street, but the interested
property owners thought that they had
more chance of having the street widened
by bearing one-haf the cost themselves,
and so the bill majority of the prop
erty holders had recommended was passed.
In the present case the Commissioners
promised to give the matter due consider
alton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
His Physicians, However, Have Lit
tie Hope.
TEE VIRGINIA LEADER STRICKEN
His Picturesque Figure and Re.
markabIe Career.
CONDITION OF HIS CASE

Gen. William Malone, ex-United States
Senator from the state of Virginia, was
yesterday stricken With paralysis IN his
bed at Chamberlin's Hotel in this city.
which he has made his home for several
years. Gen. Malone, who will be sixty
nine years of age on the 1st Of December
next, has been in excellent health up to
within few hours, and this attack Is a
great shock to his intimate friends. He
left the city about the 1st of July and
spent the summer in Virginia, returning
here two weeks ago today and going, as
was his wont, to his old headquarters at
ChamberliE's. He was exceptionally bright
Sunday evening. and chattei pleasantly
with many of his friends who CHANGED to
meet at the hotel. He retired in usual Or
der at about mid alght, and appeared to
eep soundly. His son Butler. who calls
on him daily. found him IN bed yesterday
morning, and few minutes later went
down stairssand told Mr.. Long, the mana
ger of the hotel, that his father was i'll
and unable to talk. He did not then ap-
pear to be in a dangerous condition. and
his SON left the hotel. Mr.. Long went ur
to the room shortly afterward and found
lion. He had been vomiting and was Who'll
ly helpless. DIR. Wales. the eX-surgeon
general of the navy and a personal friend
Of Gen. Malone, was sent for at once, but
he was not at home at the Tine. DIR. r.
w. Baker was summoned, and Immediately
pronounced the case one OF paralysis. This
diagnosis was shortly verified by DIR. Wales,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
Washington Stock Exchange.

sales-regular call-l2 O'clock m.-Metropolitaa
Railroad 6, $1,000 at l12lS Washinston Market
Ist 6s $1,000 at 1l3h. Washington Gas. Z at
Government Bonds.-U. S. As. registered. l1lx
asked. &. S. As. 1925, 1a2 bid. U. S. s.. 1904.
1884, bid.
IS. 1901 currency. lie hid. Water stock Is. 1908,
Miscellaneous Bonds; washington and George
lsS bid $50 asked Metropolitan ,, Railroad cGny cs
asked nst id EeEnson Railroad g. 100 I'D o Sa
Railroad Gs, 100 bid. Ill asked. Washington Gas
g. ssE: m lid I'D Ga:
Company conv. 6s. 125 bid. Z. s. Electric Light
psane I'D @ fs
+. and A.; 100 bid American Security and Trust
M Is: 81 bid bid MaTss
pany imp. IS, Iislt bid. Washnston Market Com
Id Id U.s. 100 bid Masonic Han Association '' ~.
National Bank s.ocks.-Bank Of Westminster. 2sa
bid, 300 asked Bank of the Republic $40 bid.
Metropolitan 2s5a bid. Central. 27o hid. Farmer
and Mechanics. $50 bid. 1873 asked s, seco ono ,so
Traders. ids bid, Lincoln: % bid. Ohio, 50 b,d
Safe Deposit and Trust Compani.s.-Natonal Safe
Deposit and Trust, 125 bid. Washington Loan and
Trust. 12l bid American Security and Trust, .isIh
Eailroad Stocks-Metropolitan % bid, 101 asked.
Columbia IS bid lexington. Is bid.
Aoi. hid 50il asked Georgetown Gas, SO bid U.
8 Electric Light. .I34 bid 1886 asked.
Insurance Stocks.-Firemen's, IS bid. Franklin.
20 hid METROPOLITAN. 20 bid. Corcoran. IS bid.
Potomac, IS bid. Arlington n. 40 bid lSs asked
I'n,nn 10 bid is asked. Columbia, ID bid, 10
asked Riggs, ~ bid. 81 asked Peoples, 5x
bid, 81 asked. Lincoln, ~ bid, sla asked Com
ms rcial, Az bid, 81 asked
Title Insurance Stocks Estate Title. 1o7
hid Il5 asked. Columbia Title. bio, asked.
DIs,rc, Title, . bid, 10 asked.
Telephone Stocks. 'ania 3s bid. 80 asked
Chesapeake and Potomac - b,d, 90 asked; Ameri,
carriage, SO bid, 81 asked.
Ais, cIIaneo,is Sto, Washington Market, u
hid Great Falls Ice. 100 hid. l40 asked. Norfolh
and Washington Steamboat. l0o asked Merger.
th1ipr Linotype. 2oS Did, 80 asked.
sex div.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
SIX MORE BOATS.
Bids Opened for Constructing Steel
Single Screw Vessels.

Bids Opened for Constructing Steel
Single Screw Vessels.
Bids were opened at the Navy Depart
ment today for the construction of six
new gunboats for the navy. four to be
single screw vessels, with full sail power,
and two to oe twin screw vessels. with out
sail power. All of the boats are to be COM
poste. with steel frames, covered with
wooden planking and .sheathed with cop
per. They are to be of about a thousand
tons burden and of twelve feet draft.
TIE bids were as follows: Lewis Nixon,
for one of the single-screw boats. sos. 300,
on his own designs, and S1G70 deducted il
the auxiliary steam apparatus Is excluded;
Union Iron Works of San Francisco, one
single-screw boat. on the department de-
signs. for $4,000, with $4,000 deducted for
the auxiliaries; for two boats Of this class
the b:d is $4,000 each, with correspon ling
deductions for the omission of the auxjli-
aries: for one of the twin-scr.w boats,
21IWn. with corresponding deductions on
account of the omission of the auXilaries,
and for two of this class. S2O9UoO each, with
deductions. If necessary.
The Detroit Dry Dock Company bid FOR
one of the single-screw boats $21j, 100 with
deductions of $500 If the aUxiliaries are
omitted: two boats of the same class,
$429,UW each Ga mistake in the bid. as eX-
planned. which should have read for Doth);
foE one of the twin-screw boats, S2l3, 100,
OF si2I.oD for both, with similar deduc-
tiors.
The Bath Iron works of Maine bid for
two sini;le-screw boats, 500. 400 each.
John Dialogue of Garden. n. l.. two of
the single-screw boats. for S46n,UO. This
last bid was received after the time fixed
in the advertisement, but before the OPEN
ing Of the other bids
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
Dedication of McNahon Hall With
the Pope's Blessing.
SCOPE OF The new SCHOOLS
Unfolding Of a Great Plan for a
National University.
FACULTIES OF SCIENCE

The stars and stripes were floated to the
breeze this morning from a tall flagstaff
on Mcmahon Hall, and all was life ard
activity about the building, in preparation
for the formal dedication this afternoon.
The opening Of the new hall, with its
ohools OF philosophy and social science,
marks an epoch in the development of the
great Catholic University. 1t is just six
years ago this fall since the divinity
school, which formed the nucleus of the
university, was thrown open with elaborate
ceremonies. Archbishop SatoIli. who has
since been made the apostolic delegate,
represented the pope on the occasion of the
opening of the university and conducted
pcntifical high mass. He made an eloquent
address in Latin then. as he did this after
noon. Since that time the university has
made lapid strides along all lines of pro-
gress, and tie addition of the two impor-
tant schools has vastly increased its OPP
portunites. Rarely has an institution of
learning opened its doors so thoroughly
prepared and with faculty of such stand
Ing ard reputation as the new Mcmahon
Hall.
The dedication of the new hall is an event
Of great Importance in the educational
world and In the development of Washing
ton as an educational center. Realizing its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
THE LITERARY ASH RARRE1
When 1t Becomes n Source of Rexe,,
to the Author.

"nen 1t becomes n Source of Revenue
to the Author.
There is a great deal to read and very
li'ie worth reading. complained the Critic
ana he began to go round Just to find ont
why.
He had not gone far when he came unon
an old man with a swelled head s,tt;n.
on some Laurels-which are not such mn
comfortable things to sit on as Won MIGHT
II INK. This old man was fat and Well
dressed and looked complacent His orc,,.
l'sa,.li was somewhat remarkable. He was
emptying out an ash barrel marked n w
L. That means Declined With Thanks
you know-and Is what Is written on verses
and stories when the editor and the writer
and stories.
The things that the old man emptied out
o. ms barrel were some of them yerv
moldy. Nevertheless. people went up to
ttem. He had no trouble in disposing of
them. The Critic went on and found sew.
eral oldiSh men and some women all with
ash barr IS and all sitting on Laurels-
plying thu me trade.
He went up to one old man.
What are you, anyway he asked.
am successful author" answered the
old man, continuing to sell moldy things
from his barrel. which contained a lot
And what are you selling out of that
barrel?' asked the Critic
Ash Barrel Literature" answered the
old man, winking at the Critic for he saw
ink the Critics finger, and people in
the same line of business do not try to
humbug each other.
What is Ash Earrel Literature?" asked
the Critic.
Things that the publishers refused when
I was young my innocent interviewer
answered the busy old man.
But how can you get them to buy
things that they refused before, now that
they have gone moldy?" asked the peril
nacious Critic.
because" answered the old man, laying
his finger against his nose archly, Il have
made name. When once you have made
a name you can sell moldy things, and
you're very silly if you don't. They are not
is only that they have been kept too long.
They sell because they're all marked with
my name"
why don't you get up and hustle and
make new thrgS to SELL" asked the Critic,
instead of sitting there on that heap Of
gieen stuff, selling moldy ones?"
Because" answered the old man, my
head sweiled up at my first real success
that 1 have lost the power to think of new
things now. What I an doing IS much
easier. Besides, just see what I'm sitting
Iaurels when you see them? And take my
word for it. my boy-the best use for
I.aurels is, to rest on them"
And the Critic went quickly home and be-
psn to stock ash harrel--Whch is not
ditticult-but he has not gained the Laurels
yer and until he has them to rest upon,
he can't empty his ash barrel. Which is a
good thing, for there are good many ash
barrels being emptied just now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-01
MAUD srElDEL FOUND.
The st. Joe Girl Discovered I'm "a Chi
cngO Convent.

cngO Convent.
CHICAGO, October MAUD Steidel if
teen years old whose mother lives in st.
Joseph, NO., spent last night at the Harri-
son street annex. She was arrested at q
West Side convent by officers from St Jo-
seph last evening. 1t is claimed she was
abducted from the Missouri town at the in
stance of Catholic priest. Albert Elandt Of
1Ol4 Diversy street was arrested early this
morning by Desplaines street officers and
locked UP at the station on charge of alb
duction. He Is a brother-in-law of Father
Dominick Wagner. who. the friends of the
girl say. spirited her away from the Stein
macher School in ST Joseph.
1t Is charged that father Wagner persuad-
ed the girl. who is good looking and large
for her age, to leave St. Joseph and come to
Chicago. Elandt went to st. Joseph and
brought the girl toChicago and placed her In
a Catholic school on the West Side. He said
any abduction and had only done what
Father Wagner had asked him to do
The police have In their possession guam
tity of furniture. which. 1t Is said was ship
seems to give an indication that he expect
cd to set up housekeeping in Chicago
An anonymous letter received by the
mother of Maud last week gave the police
thc outS cue 10 HeT whereabouts. The
letter threatened the mother with severe
punishment for the trouble she has caused
Rather wagner Of st. Joseph, and said that
II she had not made the accusations the
girl would have been at her home before
this time.
The kidnapping Of Miss Steidel created a
Chicago was strengthened by the state
ment that Father Wagner had friends
here. Father Wagner has been crazed by
the strain on him
Nothing further has been heard of Dora
Kennedy. who disappeared shortly after
Maud Steidel was missed. under similar
circumstances. and the mystery surround
Ing her disappearance is as deep as ever.
The kidnapping of Miss Steidel created a
furore In st. Joseph two weeks ago. The
whereabouts Of the girl was mystery
and 1t was only last week that Father
Wagner was suspected. Last Wednesday
night a mob of friends of the girls father
gathered about the parish house and
threatened TO lynch the priest. He escaped
ny back door, however.
Miss Steldel will be taken home today by
her uncle