davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The record-union., 1896-10-14
Work of IncendiarieS.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Oct. 13.-News
has just been received of the burning
Of Quintano Brothers store at Poso,
thirty miles from here. The building
was totally destroyed, including $4,000
worth of general merchandise. It was
fired by incendiaries, who looted the
place and then burned it to destroy eyi-
deuce.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
IreaSurY Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-The treas
ury gold reserve declined to-day to
S123 130, 1872 The days withdrawals
at New York were S616,9OO.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
Two Outlaws Killed

FORT SMITH (Ark), Oct. 13-In a
fight between posse headed by Marshal
Heckthomsa and the Green gang Of out
laws at Oolagh, Indian Territory, last
night, two of the outlaws were killed
and the others captured. The dead men
are Jim Green and his brother VINO
We're members Of the worst gang of
outlaws in the Territory.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
A Steamships Captain Missing.

LONDON, Oct 13.-The British
steamship Cordoba, from New Orleans
September 23d for Havre, which passed
the Lizard to-day, signaled that Cap
tain Beven, who was in command of
the Cordoba when she sailed, disap-
peared on the night of October 9th.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
Mutiny on a Spanish Warsilip.

MADRID, Oct. 13.-A dispatch from
Ferriol says that a mutiny has occurred
on board the Spanish warship Alfonso
MIL, lying at that port Four gun
ners rebelled and attempted 20 seize
the boats and go ashore. A fight be-
tween the mutineers and the marines
and others on board the ship ensued,
with the result that the revolt was
suppressed and the mutineers put in
irons
The record-union., 1896-10-14
Good News for the WOrkmen.

WALTHAM (Mass.), Oct. 13-The
following notice was posted to-day in
the American Waltham Watch Fac
tory:
ION and after October 10th and until
further notice the factory will run fif-
ty-four hours a week
&c. c. FITCH, Superintendent"
The factory has been running on half
time only all summer and employs
1000 hands.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
Comptroller EckeIS.

WASHINGTON Oct. 13.-Comptroller
Eckels will leave here tomorrow for
his home in Illinois. where he is booked
for a political speech Friday night.
The record-union., 1896-10-14
MASONIC GRAND LODGE
Meets in Annual Session at San Fran
cisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 13.-The Ma
sonic Grand Lodge of California con-
The Press., 1896-09-03

The test hurts, else it was no trial.
The Press., 1896-09-03

 struction of aviatory machines no such success has been reached. In 1852 Henri Clifford constructed balloon which he propelled by 8 steam engine actuating a screw and succeeded in obtaining so much space as was necessary to give steerage way. His balloon was of ellipsoidal form, and his experiment will always be famous as the first of it's kind in the an- nals of aernautics. M. Dupuy De Lowe, in 1872, used man power to propel bal loon, and M. GastOn Tissandier adopted the electric storage battery to propel a balloon in 1881. The machine of the last named inventor obtained speed of from seven to nine miles an hour. Renard and Krebs navigated the air in a balloon in 1884 and made a practical success of it. It was impelled by battery invented by M. Renard, dynamo and a screw seven feet in diameter.
 These machines, however, are not fly ing machines proper. Early legends indi- cate that artificial flight was regarded as @ possibility by the ancients, and it is re- corded that previous to 1860 claims were advanced that flight could be effected. Borelli, about 1880, proved that the skel- eton of man is not suited for flight, and that his muscular system was unequal to the task of aviation by it's own energy. Elmerus, monk of the thirteenth cen- tury, is said to have succeeded in imitat- ing the flying squirrel, and Besnier, a locksmith of the seventeenth century, is said to have passed over houses in his flight. Pettigrew, Marcy and De Lucy made a study of the laws of bird flight and attempted to apply the result of their studies to the problem of the flight of man, with no great success, however. Many aeronauts believe that the use of the dirigible balloon will lead to the per fecting of the motor and that ultimately the flying machine, without supporting gas bag, may come into use. But the flying machine proper is far in the dis tance. Professor Lilienthals machine will carry @ person for short distances at not great attitudes, but it's success is not yet assured. Still man will keep on try ing. The death of one man will not dis courage others.
The Press., 1896-09-03
Number 23.
changing his gold-colored coat for a white

changing his gold-colored coat for white one.
 But the "crime of 73"-demonetizatio of silver" What was it2 It discontinu- ed the dollar of 412t grains and authorized the trade dollar of 42O grains, making it legal tender. In 1876 1t took away It's le- gal'tender quality, and for about two years silver was demOnetized. But all that was changed in 1878. "Coin's Financial School" has misled many thousands, who, by its teachings, have received the i'm pression that the law of 1873 has never been changed.
 Speeches in national conventions would lose all their point if the hearers of them were told the facts as they are. Here Is the law as it was passed on the 18th day of February, 1878-passed over the veto of President Hayes by two-thirds ma iority of both houses of our national con- gress. give also the title:
 "A7a Act to Aut7t07'Ss6 tt6- Coinage -Qf- -t6e Standard SI10er Dollar, and to Restore cts Legal Tender Character
 "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America That there shall be coined at the several hints of the United States, silver dollars of tho weight of 4124 grains Troy, of standard silver as provided in the act of Jan. IS, 1887. on which shall be the devices and subscriptions provided bv said act, which coined, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States, of like weight and f1neness, shall 6e legal tender Gt thei9 7o0a1i71n Vnlue for Gl1 debts and dues, public and 17TUGte except where otherwise expressly stipula- ted in the contract"
 The exception which is here made is a very proper one. If man agrees to pay in wheat, or land, or gold, or anything else, he is held to his contract, but other wise, he may pay any debt, to any amount, in silver dollars. The smaller coins are legal tender to the amount of five dollars, but the silver dollars have all the paying power they ever had. In other words, the law of 1878 remonetized silver, and that law stands to-day-it has stood every hour for the last eighteen years. This fact should be kept before the people. In the legislation of 1890 it was especially declared that "gOld and silver" constitu- ted the primary money" of the nation. The whole drift of Harvay's writings is to make false impression as to the facts in this matter. He knows the law of 1778, for he quotes the exception in an article in an endeavor by "hook and several crooks'' to deny the legal tender quality of our silver dollars. Such argumenta- tion is worthy of demagogue or crim- of the essential part of the true statement is fraud. J. N. ENo.
The Press., 1896-09-03
(Hartford Post.) FLYING MACHINES.

Inventive genius has long been attempt ing to overcome the difficulties lying in the way of flying, but thus far without success. The fate that has just over taken Professor Otto Lilienthal, the Ber- lin inventor, who was killed while Oper- ating the flying machine that he had in- vented, renews interest in a subject that has always possessed peculiar fascina tions for restive, ambitious men who are not satisfied with the apparent purpose of the Creator to hold man down to the earth which he was intended to rule. It looks so easy to fly. The movements of the bird are so graceful and the act of flying accompanied by so little appar ent effort. Man looks at the fish and proud ly says that he, too, can swim, but when he looks at the bird he is filled with envy and despairs of ever being able to fly. In almost every other sphere of science man has conquered, but in aeronautics he is not yet complete master.
 The art of ballooning is of course we'll understood, but it is comparatively modern art. It was in 1783 that balloons began to navigate the air successfully. Stephen Montgolfier sent up balloons in June, 1783, and Messrs. Charles and Rob- ert successfully operated balloons inflated with hydrogen in the same year. Man thus succeeded in sustaining himself in the air by buoyant floats, but in the con-
The Press., 1896-09-03
THE FREE AND UNLIMITED
 COINAGE OF SILVER.

The demand is that this government shall provide for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. This is one demand; but 1t is not all; it is, however, all we have time or think 1t wise to consider
 Now we want to know just what this means; and we want some one to tell us who ought to know, and whose word we can rely upon. We turn to the director of the mint, MT. Preston; he ought to know, and he can tell us. He says that 'the free and unlimited coinage of silver means that our hints will receive and coin into money or bars, free of charge, all the silver of standard ffneness which may be presented, unless by legislation the amount be limited to American silver only"
 The New York Sun tells correspond purchaser of silver bullion shall be per mitted to bring it to the mint, in unlimit- ed quantities, and have it coined, free of charge into dollars" We think these definitions will be generally accepted. Now look at a point or two and be in structed. Now this law is in the interest of owners of silver bullion. A man who hasn't silver mine or bullion isn't bene- fitted only indirectly; but the 'silver baron," as the silver mine owners are sometimes called, have Uncle Sam to "bull" them on th9 market, that is to raise the price of their commercial article, silver bullion. Uncle Sam has done this before; but he has no .mo1e business to do this than he has to "bull" the wheaV, or corn, or other articles of commerce. This is horrid "class legislation" It is directly and primarily for the benefit of silver, whether it is so intended or not. Every man who is in for the free and un- limited coinage of silver is boomer of silver mines. He thinks it will pay him to be; but how? See the pathway of the silver. From the mine to the smelters from the smelters to the hints; from the hints to the silver owners; from the sill yer owners to the large cities, where the great bulk of the money is now. Then what? The cotton planter wants it; the wheat raiser wants it; the corn farmer wants it; the cattleman wants it; we all, who are scattered throughout the country, want 1t; but how are we going to get it ? Is there any other way than that which is always open to us? Free coinage may be a good thing, but how about the free cir culation? Can you get it unless we ex- change something for it? There is lots of money in the money centers; but we want to get it away from these, or we are just as bad off as ever. O.P.CHAMPLIN.
The Press., 1896-09-03
The Pity Of It.

Dear Union Signal: When Miss Will lard wrote of our Training School Settle ment, in the kindness of her generous heart, she seemed to feel 1t "pathetic" to find an old-time friend at work in the tenement house region." l wonder if she saw the depths of pathos in which we live? The pity of our having to live here is swallowed up in the infinite sorrow that there are such places, so many of them, and so few to care.
 It Is reported that there are twenty five hundred "'lost" girls in little strip of the city bounded by the Hudson river and Fifth avenue, and 31st and 33d streets we are on 33d, you will remember.
 Some of the poor children drift in here and try to give their hearts to the Lord Jesus. Pretty young things who in other surroundings, might make a father proud and set a mothers heart bounding for joy. Here they are Submerged" We ask them if they go to school. No, they have to work. 'Fathe1 hain't been work
 
 many to feed fur me to go to school"
 "Where do you work ?"
 "In cigarette factory"
 'How much do you get a week ?"
 1.-Two m half or three dollars. That helps with the rent. It don't leave me nuthin' for clo'es. Baby died las' month. We all give every penny we could rake'n scrape to pay the undertaken; 'cos moth CT couldn't bear to have the city bury her. She was a awful cute little thing, baby wuz."
 "What do you do in the factory?" after the lump in the throat had been swallow ed. Human, like ourselves. A decent funeral is a comfort when death takes away our hearts treasure.
 ''What do we do? Why, we put up the boxes of cigarettes that the rest makes " Then came the ugly story that they have to put "mean pictur'' into every box to lure into vice the boys that smoke. Putting that beside what an old habitue of this locality had told us, that many of the cigarette factory girls became drunk ards from constantly inhaling the fumes of tobacco, we caught glimpse of the in- finite pathos of it all. No wonder twenty five hundred girls are going down under the dark waves, and the boys-there are always two to one more Host" boys than girls.
 The really pathetic part of the case is the fact that Christ wanders alone and uncared-for through these streets. Good, comfortable Christians have become dis couraged about doing anything for these people, and they "pass by on the other side," unheeding His warning cry, "Inas- much as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it not unto Me-"
 Oh, the privilege and blessedness of sharing our Lords suffering in seeking to save that which is lost, and the glory we may hope to share hereafter.
 J. FOWLER WILLING.
The Press., 1896-09-03

CoNDENsEDT TESTIMONY B. Hood, Broker and Manufacturers Agent, Co., lumbus, Ohio, certifies that Dr. Kings New Discovery has no equal as Cough remedy. J. D. Brown, Prop, St. James Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind, testifies that he was cured of Cough of two years stand ing, caused by La Grippe, by Dr. Kings New Discovery. B. F. Merrill, Bald winsville, Mass, says that he has used and recommended it, and never knew it to fail, and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs.
 Hemming, 222 E. 18th St., Chicago, all ways keeps it at hand, and has no fear of Group, because it instantly relieves. Free Trial Bottles at E. K Taft's Drug Store.
The Press., 1896-09-03

1t is our intention to print under this head, from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
The Press., 1896-09-03

BUoKLEN's ARNIoA SALvR.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands. chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded
 Price 25c per box. Sold by E. K. Taft
The Press., 1896-09-03

Detroit Free Press "Dobby tells me that he can carry immense sums in his head" "Perhaps so, but he never car ries over fifty cents in his pockets"
The Press., 1896-09-03

BEFORE you purchase a
 Carriage, call and ex- anime the Largest Stock ever shown in this town. l have on hand, Surreys, ConCords, all prices and styles. Business Wag- ons, Democrats, Traps, Farm Wagons, &c., also a good assortment of secondhand work.
 My facilities for repair ing are unsurpassed, and prices the lowest.
 All work warranted as represented.
 JOHN c. WIGHTMAN,
 Stafford Hollow
The Press., 1896-09-03
VV9o%nKa

Is never done, and 1t is especially wearing and wearisome to those whose blood is impure and unfit properly to tone, sus- tain, and renew the wasting of nerve, muscle and tissue. It is more because of this condition of the blood that women are run down,s
 Tired, Weak, Nervous,
 Than because of the work itself. Every physician says so, and that the only rem edy Is in building up by taking a good nerve tonic, blood purifier and vitaIizer like Hood g Sarsaparilla. For the troubles Peculiar to Women at change of season, climate or life, or resulting from hard work, nervousness, and impure blood, thousands have found relief and cure in
The Press., 1896-09-03

Which is worse, imprisonment for life or lifelong disease, like scrofula, for example? The former, certainly, would be preferable were it not that Ayers Sarsaparilla can always come to the res cue and give the poor sufferer health, strength, and happiness.
 To clean straw mating, wipe it off with cloth dampened with warm salt water.
The Press., 1896-09-03
w. C. T. U.
 Daily"

"Charge not myself with the weight of year, Child of the Master, faithful and dear; Choose not the cross for the coming week, For that is more than He bids thee seek. "Bend not thine arm for to-morrow's load Thou mayst leave that to thy gracious God. Daily only He saith to thee,
 Take up thy cross, and follow me-"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-19

rubbing. which should have been uneeas-
lngly practicei from the beginning taking
care not 10 interfere with the means en-
psoyed 10 produce breathing. Thus the
limbs OF the patent should be rubbed, a.
ways IN an upward direction toward the
body, with tirm-grzspsng pressure and en-
ergy. using the hare hands. dry danness
or handkerchiefs. and continuing the fr4c-
ton under the Blankets or over the dry
clothing. The warmth OF the body can
also be- promoted by the application Of hot
aannels TO the stomach and a-mplts. bot
ties or bladders OF hot water. heated
bricks. etc, TO the limbs and soies OF the
feet
Rule L After treatment Externally:
As soon as breathing is established. let the
patient be stripped OF ali wet clothing,
wrapped in blankets only. pnt 70 bed COM
forsabiy warm. but with free circulation
OF fresh air. ard left 10 perfect rest. In
terna1ly. Give a little brandy and hot wa
ter. or other siImuiant at hand. every ten
or fifteen minutes for the first hour. and
as often thereafter as may seem expedf-
enf. Late manifestations: After reaction
is fully established there Is great danger
of congestion of the lungs. and III perfect
rest is not maintained for at least forty
eight hours IL sometimes occurs that the
patient is seized wl.h great difficulty Of
breathing and death is liable to follow I'M
less immediate relief IS afforded. In such
cases. apply a large mustard plaster over
the breast II the patient gasps fer breath
before the mustard takes effect. assist the
breathing b. carefully repeating the arti-
ficial respiration
An eminent authority. DIR. Labordette.
the supervising surgeon Of the Hospital of
Lisiegx, In France. appears to have estab-
iished that the cflnging OF the Jaws and
the standardization OF the fingers, which
have hitherto been considered signs of
death, are. in fact. evidences of remaining
vitality. After numerous experime nts
with apparently drowned persons. ard
also with animals. he concludes that these
are only signs accompanying the first
stage Of saffocation by drowning. the Jaws
and hands becoming relaxed when death
ensues. The muscular rightly Of death
trigor mortisl occurs later. after the tenn
porary relaxation here referred 70. This
being so. the mere c.inching of the Jaws
and standardization OF the hands must
not be considered as reasons for the dis
continuance of efforts 10 save life. but
should serve as a stimulant 10 vigorous
and prolonged efforts 10 quicken vitality.
In number of cases DIR. Isabordette re-
stored TO life persons whose jaws were so
firmly clinched that, TO aid respiration.
their teeth had to be forced apart with
iron Instruments.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-19
You Can't Sleep.

all thinking;
vhn in
something
Send fothe
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Uses for Old shoes.

Old shoes are not waste from the
standpoint Of modern industry. After
they have done their service and are
discarded by the first wearers, a sec
ond-hand dealer restores the worn
shoes to something like their former
appearance and they are sold again, to
be worn little longer by poorer peo-
pie. When the shoes are finally dis
carded by them they are still good for
various purposes. In France such
shoes arc bought up in quantities by
rag dealers and sold to factories where
shoes are taken apart and submitted
to long manipulation, which turn them
into paste, from which the material is
transformed into an imitation
of leather, appearing very much like
the finest morocco.
Upon this material stylish designs
are stamped. and wall papers, trunk
covers, and similar articles are manu-
factured from it. Another French in
dustry is using old dilapidated shoes
in the transforming of old into new
foot wear. This is the principal oc-
cupation OF the military convicts i'm
prisoned in the fortress OF Montpelier.
There the shoes are taken apart, all
the nails are taken out, and then the
leather is soaked in water some time
to soften it. From those pieces that
can be used are cut the uppers for
children's shoes and part OF the soles
are similarly used. The smallest pieces
of leather are applied in high Louis
w, heels, which were in style few
years ago. Even the nails of the old
shoes are used again. They are sepa-
rated by a magnet which attracts the
steel nails, while the copper and brass
nails are carried on further. '
The price received for the old cop
per nails alone almost pays for the
first cost of the old shoes. Clippings
and cuttings Of the leather are ulso
used, being turned into paste, from
which artificial leather is made, and
what is not good enough to serve for
this purpose is sold with the sweep
ings to agriculturists in the neighbor-
hood, who use this paste with great
success as fertilizer. st. Louis
Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Artificial Diamonds.

1t is the impression that the dia-
mond of all precious stones deies
successful imitation, yet Francis Cap
rim OF Havre, France, at present n
guest of the St James, assures us NJ.
Moriseau, n countryman of his, has
discovered method of transforming
carbon into the queen of gems, says
the Washington Times. There are,
however, two reasons which will pre-
vent the artificial stone from entering
into composition with the miad ar
ticle. In the first place, they are 80
exceedingly minute that they have no
commercial value, and secondly, the
process is 80 expensive that it costs
more to manufacture diamonds than
to import them from the mines. The
essence of the discovery is the idea of
obtaining tho requisite pressure by
utilizing the quality possessed by some
OF increasing ia volume as they change
from a liquid to solid state. The
chemist placed quantity OF silver
and charcoal of sugar in an electric
furnace aud fused the metal to the
boiling point By this method the
silver was made to absorb q small
quantity of carbon. The whole mix
ture was then thrown into cold water.
forming shell OF solid silver. After
few moments this was Withdrawn
from the water and allowed to cool
slowly. As it did so the kernel of sill
yer contained in the outer shell ex-
panded. precipitating the form OF mi
croscopic diamonds. There can be no
doubt as to the validity of this dis
covery, as the French Academy oi
Science has examined the diamonds
produced by this process, and has
pronounced them the same in every
respect as the natural ones.