davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
OUR BUTTER FOR EUROPE.
First Step in an Effort to Extend the Mar
ket for the American Product.


ket for the American Product.
The first experimental expectation OF
butter from this country has Just been made
from New York City, when the Govern
ment, through an agent sent by the Agrl-
cultural Department, shipped three quar-
tiers of a ton Of selected butter for sale in
Europe. The result OF this experiment is
of great importance to the agricultural in
t~erests, as 1t Is the first step in an effort Of
the Government to extend materially the
market for American butter and gain some
OF the trade with Great Britain In particu-
lar which Denmark practically controls
with considerable profit. An incidental
object is to determine what improvements
are needed In transportation facilities.
Some butter Is now being sent abroad by
private firms, but 1t Is alleged to be Of in
ferior grades. Unsatisfactory storage in
crossing the ocean and carelessness IN leav-
ing the shipments on uncovered piers at
southampton before being loaded into
freight cars, thus making the butter soft,
nave further deteriorated its value In the
English market. =
The butter sem comes from the Iowa
Agricultural College and q creamery at
Windsor, vt. Subsequent shipments which
will be made during the summer at inter-
walls will be Of butter from other places. To
build up q high standard only the best
grades will be shipped, md the butter will
be sold at the prevailing market prices.
The present shipment went on the steamer
St. Paul, and will be kept at q low tempera-
ture. The cargo is made up of packages Of
different sizes to determine which is most
satisfactory. A Department agent will
meet the ship at Southampton, England,
and take proper care of the product and at
tend to its sale. The appointment Of but
ter agents by the Department at New York
and Southampton to take care Of these in
| forests Is possible.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
KENTUCKY C. A. r. eNcAMpMENr.


hHe StEtIuOltitH.
The State Encampment, Grand Army OF
the Republic, at Lexington, was the most
remarkable ever held In Kentucky, from
the fact that ex-Confederates took the
leading part in tho exercises, and only one
Union soldier made a set speech.
Captain Stephen G. Sharp, an ex-Con-
federate, was the Chief Marshal Of the day.
Colonel William G. P. Breckenridge, an ex-
Confederate, made the address Of welcome.
Judge Jerre r. Morton, an ex-Confederate,
presented the encampment In a neat
speech with a gavel made from wood grown
on the battlefield OF Chickamauga.
The only Federal soldier TO make an ad-
dress was General Samuel E.. Hill, Adiutant-
General of Kentucky under Governor Buck
ner. He accepted the gavel on behalf Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic. He made
what was considered the best speech OF the
afternoon, and when he spoke of how the
old soldiers had buried the Ratchet he asked
Judge Morton to rise. They clasped hands,
and in this position General Hill finished
his address amid deafening and prolonged
applause. Then Ave hundred school chill
dren sang Dixie"
About 1000 persons were in attendance.
The parade was participated in by all of the
larger Southern military organizations.
The encampment was held at the Chau-
tauqua grounds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
Foreign.

William j. Calhoun, the special commits
sioner appointed by President Mckinley to
INVESTIGATES the death OF Ricardo Ruiz and
other matters connected with the Cuban In
surrection, arrived at Havana.
A series of earthquake shocks have been
felt In the mountain districts OF the State
OF Jalisco, Mexico. AZ San Gabriel some
damage was done. The shocks were felt
distinctly.
New gold mines have been discovered In
| the Province Of C~arabaya, Department OF
Puno, Peru. 1t is believed they will yield
The Ambassadors Of the Powers at Con-
stantinople asked the Porte to suspend hos
tilities in Greece pending the conclusion Of
a permanent peace. turkey at hrst de-
clined the request.
A dispatch from Naples announces that
two large streams OF lava have been how-
ing down Mount yesuvius and have unlted
with the deposits from the eruptionsrpf
1895. The activity in the principal q Ter
Is normal.
A hattie has been fought in BechuSna-
land. South Africa, in which six whites
have been killed and thirteen woundeN
At the City OF Mexico gold is seningS at a
premium Of los.
Asevere seismic disturbance took LRlace
In south Australia and Victoria. The sMpck
was intermittent and continued for SCI gal
minutes .
This anonymous subscription Of ga boo
to the Charlie Bazaar Epnd in Paris a
known to be the collective donate II
members Of the Rothsck ild family,
The Qnebec provincia s~sction II Can
d resulted In a compYsIe &tefthq ow Of
probably nave afty-three A9ees4fN. %Prainst
twenty.
The town Of windisehmar 81 Al ria. a
weIl-known tourist resort, 5<f de-
stroyed by fire. A woman Ssd 10
death.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14

Chang Yen Hoon, head Of the Chinese
Imperial Treasury and special Ambassador
to the Queens jubilee celebration, arrived
In New York on his way to England.
Edward H. Dodge, aged fifty years, com
mitted suicide at Worcester, Mass. He went
to DR.. Rice's house, where he met DR.. Rice,
n presented a pistol to the latter's head.
The doctor induced him to lie down In an
adjoining room. No sooner had the doctor
turned his back than Dodge fired O bullet
into his head.
Gerald Peters, q West Indian colored
leper, stole q boat and escaped from North
Brother Island, New York City.
A late break in a lap.sAena lovee will
cause some OF the rlchestsugar lands in
that State to be submerged.
The Grand Jury in New York City In
dicted Commander ~Booth-Tucker, OF the
Salvation Army, for maintaining O public
nuisance-the Fourteenth street barracks.
The new Flower telescope and observa-
tory buildings of the University Of Pennsyl-
yania were dedicated at Philadelphia in
the presence Of about fifteen hundred per-
sons.
c. G. Baldwin, Naval 0flcer of the Port
of New York, died in Newport, II. /. He
was born In Anne Arundel County, Mary
land, in 1884, n when the war broke out
entered the Confederate Army from Balti-
more.
Ten-year-old Mamie Cummings, who was
arrested at Mount Vernon, N. Y, April II
for stealing a bicycle from Charles McKen-
zie, was sent to the Catholic Protectory at
Westchester.
One of the worst failures known in San
Francisco, Cal, for several years occurred
when Williams, Brown & Co., who did a
heavy trade In canned salmon, wheat n
fruit with Australia, failed for $500 600.
The firm was established FIVE years ago by
William Brown, son OF Cashier Thomas
Brown, of the Bank Of California.
Rumford Falls, Me-, will o o have the
biggest paper machine In the world. IL
produce paper $50 inches wide, beating tho
worlds record by two inches.
Professor Shaffer, OF the Rochester On.
W Theological Seminary, fell out Of a
window and was killed.
Owen Bowie asked Charles Smith, a farm
hand. for a chew Of tobacco at Frederick,
Nd, and upon being refused shot Smith
with an old army musket and made his es-
cape, Smith died. Both are colored, n
Bowie is known as a desperate character.
Frederick Jackson Cunningham, a young
man Of good family and high social posi-
tion, is in prison at Atlanta ca; charged
with intent to kill.
Fifteen students of Grove City College,
one of the best known schools in Western
Pennsylvania, have been expelled by the
college faculty for riotous conduct.
C, H. Damsel, general ~bookkeeper at the
National Bank Of Columbus, Ohio, is found
TO be short $25, 900 in his accounts with the
bank. He fed.
In anticipation of the duty of ten cents
per pound provided for In the Senate
amendment to the tariff bill the price of
tea has been advanced in New YORK markets
from three to five cents a pound.
The sealed verdict of the jury In the ease
Of r. A. Roekafeliow. the former banker.
who was charged with embezzlement, was
opened in court at Wilkesbarre, Penn. The
defendant was found guilty with q recon-
mendatIon to mercy.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
NEW MOTIVE POWER USED.
Electricity Tested on the New England
Railroad.

The directors of tho New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, In
conjunction with the directors OF the New
York and New England Railroad Company,
have begun the most important experiment
ever undertaken by those who believe in
the ultimate supremacy Of electricity over
steam as a motive power. A train moved
and controlled by electricity developed at
a central power-house was run from Ber-
lin, Conn, to Hartford, on q regular sched-
ule between two trains drawn by steam
locomotives, in the ordinary way. The
electrically equipped train did not in any
way interfere with the passage Of the train
drawn by locomotives. This Is important
as showing that railroads On which there
Is a large and constant volume of passen-
ger traffic may be gradually changed from
steam to electricity without any interior
enee with the comfort Of passengers.
Colonel H. II. Heft, the chief electrical en-
gineer of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, demonstrated that a
direct current of electricity can be sent
without serious loss from leakage for a dis
lance of nearly thirteen miles from
the central power station. Taking In
this case, Berlin, Conn, as the centre, 1t
will be possible to replace steam locomo-
tives and cars for Hartford, New Britain,
Meriden, Waterbury, Middletown, Walling-
ford N other cities of The Nutmeg State,
comprising a population Of over 200, 900 in
habitantS,
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14

At Cheltenham, England, there lives
q retired admiral and his wife, who
have a favorite monkey. One day re-
Gently the lady, hearing a strange noise
in the dining-room, looked in to see
what it was. The sight which met
her eyes was a ludicrous one. Seated
in the armchair, with the admiraps
smoking cap on his head, and the adj
miral's spectacles on his nose, was the
monkey, and in his hand was the open
newspaper, which he shook and patted,
while he iabbered and gesticulated with
great emphasis at the cat, which lay
blinking on the hearth rug. 1t was a
clever and carefully stndied imitation
of the crusty old admiral's tone and
manner when reading to his wife solnc
passages from the newspaper which ex-
cited his wrath or Indignation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
MOB LYNCHES TVOG GIRLS.
CoIore1 Servants Hanged to a Tree
in Alabama.
THEY HAD POISONED A FAMILY


One of Them Confessed-Had Killed One
uu s,ore-
Fe'so" M" e"
The Lynching Was the Work of About
r~.,.v Man and Their Identity Has
~
Not Been discovered by the sherin
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (SpeciaD.-Moiiie smith
and Amanda FRANKLIN. two Young colored
as a,,hra.t "wednesday
"o"en' "ete Aounu -
morning swinging from a tree on the roao
between jeff and Huntsville, in Madison
c,,n 1ha trentv men who had lynched
~ "a a.
them nad oisappeared. Inc girls p"iu 'mo
penalty Of death for poisoning the family
OF Joshua O. Kelly. a prominent citizen Of
- -, h.no hoo, made 10
'eh. oe'erai "''eihp's nao DoeA
poison the Kelly family. The first was maze
two months ago, Mr.. Kelly and his family,
oons,ot,n, =, a,.,,an nar.ons arose from the
unnsr tabia ona ni,bt snfIe,ing from terri
bIa peins ma the nsytd av Mr. Kelly died in
senic hsd cot int tho Coffee INT n was
tbnn,bt tban that a. was an accident.
1890 narson 90 ~ ,,ith Tho hodv ~ MI.
Eallv tbe niabt a,,aar his death, Toward
mid1,.ht tbaS nsrtooI ~ aims sausage and
~ onas haoawa M, EortunateIy there was
\ rhSsician - M. naanca and no fatality
r Ia Iast Erida., oil tha membera 81
tha r@arnit, a.osa srcm 49, hraaLfost tnble
,vith tarr;h,a oramns In tba ston..nb Al
thon,h nona hoo rat died several are still
~ = ono n". s,tion Th;s t,na n de-
naauad that AZ on,aan wa - tba hread
spo,cinn mesp thon diracted 70 Mollie
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
OFFERED UP HIS BOY.
A Colored Preacher Sacrificed His Son
Like Abraham.

Oscar willidms, q country colored preach.
err, residing in a settlement our miles from
Elba, Ala, left home with his ten-year-old
son Isaac. He told a neighbor as he passed
that the Lord had appeared to him in a
vision and commanded him to sacrifice his
boy.
The neighbor thought but little of the old
mans remark for the moment, but q half
hour afterward recoilected that he had the
Sunday before preached IN the story OF
Abraham and Isaac with singular earnest
ness, and expressed his willingness to obey
the Lords command to the extent that
Abraham had DONE.
He followed the old man and came upon
him In q thicket standing over his sons
dead body, which was strapped to q log.
He had a bloody knife in his hand and his
eyes were raised heavenward. Blood still
flowed from the boys gaping throat, which
had been severed from ear to ear. When
asked why he had lone the deed, the
maniac declared that the Lord had com
manded him to do so, and then turned and
walked away, his neighbor being too dazed
to ston him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
THE MEN WHO LOSE.

Here's to the men who lose!
What though their work be e'er 80 nobg
planned
And watched with Jealous care,
No glorious halo own their efforts grand;
Contempt is failures share.
Here's to the men who lose!
II triumph's easy smile our struggles greet,
Courage Is easy then;
The king is he who. after fierce defeat,
Can up and fight again.
Here's to the men who losel
The ready plaudits of a fawning world
Ring sweet in ~vietor's ears;
The vanquished's banners never are I'M
furled-
For them there sound no cheers.
Here's to the men who lose!
The touchstone of true worth Is not sue
cess;
There is a higher test
Though fate may darkly frown, onward to
press,
And bravely do ones best.
Here's to the men who losei
1t is the yanquished's praises that l sing,
And this is the toast | choose:
"A h~ard-fought failure is q noble thing.
Here's luck to those who lose"
George II. Broadhurst.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
THE NEWS EpIToMlZEo.


Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury Theo-
dore Roosevelt will investigate charges
that ave been made against various de-
partments in the New York Navy Yard.
The President nominated Brigadier-
General james W. Forsyth to be MAJOR
General.
Senator Allen introduced a resolution re-
quiring Broker Chapman, Of New York, 70
appear before the bar and purge himself OF
contumacy as a preliminary to Executive
clemency. Senator Hoar thought the reso-
luton would let the case go out OF the
Senate's Jurisdiction. He favored punisn-
ing Chapman and also probing the issue 10
the bottom.
General Wesley Merritt has issued an or
der refusing to appoint a court-martial TO
try charges against Lieutenants O'Brien
and Bamford, preferred by Captain Romeyn.
In dismissing the charges against oBrien
he says that the charges grew out OIL
feeling of personal spite, and that military
tribunals could not be made vehicles OF
private revenge.
The Senate confirmed the nomination OF
Cornelius Van Colt to be Postmaster oil
New York.
Members Of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee inspected reports on Cuban al
fairs at the State Department, which are
said to strengthen the cause of the In
surgents.
President Mckinley decided to accept no
invitations to take part in Memorial Day
exercises outside Of Washington.
The House refused to concur in @ Senate
amendment to the Sundry Civil bill appro-
priating $50. 900 to improve Pearl Harbor,
In the Hawaiian Islands.
President Mckinley appointed Albion ".
Tourgee Consul at Bordeaux. Sidney u.
Everett. of Massachusetts, Was named to
be United States Consul of the United
States at Batavia, Java. Henry p. Cheat
ham, of North Carolina, was named to be
Recorder Of Deeds, District Of Columbia.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs. Sherman
held a large reception In honor OF the
seyenty-fourth birthday of the former. Six
hundred invitations were sent out, and the
guests included the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley, Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart,
members OF the Cabinet and the Diplomatic
Corps, with ladies and other friends.
President Gordon, of Leland Stanford
University, has been appointed commission
er to investigate the condition of Boring
Sea seal herd the present season.
The report that secret negotiations of
great Importance are being carried on be-
tween Spain and the United States In regard
to Cuba Is denied at the State Department.
W. L. Seruggs, formerly United States
Minister to Venezuela and now senior coun-
sci Of that republic, arrived with the APP
proved boundary treaty with Great Britain.
The notifications will be exchanged In
Washington.
United States Senators signed q petition
asking the President to pardon e. r. Chap
a convicted of refusing to answer ques-
lions before the Senate sugar scandal COM
mittee
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
BOY MURDERER HANGED.


Elmer CIswson the Youngest Person Ever
Executed In New Jersey.
Elmer Clawson, a boy of nineteen years
Of age. was hanged Wednesday in the Som
erset County Jail at Someryille, N. J., for
the murder of Harry Hodgett, hts former
employer. He was the youngest murderer
executed In the State, and next to the
youngest person convicted Of a capital crime
In New Jersey. The drop fell at 1907
o'clock, a. M, and in nine minutes the
young murderer was pronounced dead.
Before the execution he admitted his guilt
and expressed contrition for bis crime.
He was attended by Rev. J. o. Wiener of
the Methodist Episcopal Church OF Somer-
Vile, who said that he had baptized the
condemned youth.
The crime for which Clawson paid the
death penalty was committed at 6 o'clock
on the morning of August 20. 1896. The
victim was his former employer, Harry
Hodgett, an Englishman, thirty years of
age, the owner OF a small farm at Pluck
amin. Clawson demanded work and a
quarrel followed, Hodgett accusing the
young mar Of having robbed him while in
his employ a year before. During a quar-
rel the youth shot Hodgett. The murderer
then rode away on his bicycle, but was
overtaken by two men in a buggy.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
GREECE ACCEPTS PEACE.
Confdes Her interests to the Hands
# the Great Powers.
EXODUS FROM CRETE BEGUN.

Greek Government Acceues "
the Proposal of Autonomy From tho
Island-A Sense of Relief In Athens
The War Has Cost Turkey e25 100000,
Which She viii Expect Greece to Pay.
ATHENS, Greece CBy Cable).-The Powers
have offered and Greece has accepted
mediation. The note OF the Powers was
presented by NJ. onou, the Russian Minister,
as dean OF the diplomatic corps, to NJ
s~kouloudis. the Greek Foreign Minister.
Following Is the full text OF the note
"rbe representative of France, Italy.
Great Britain, Germany n Austria,
charge N. onou, the representative OF
Russia and the Doyen OF tho Diplomatic
Corps. to declare, in the name oil their
resneetive Governments, that the Powers
are ready to offer mediation WIN
the view to obtain an armistice and smooth
the difficulties actually existing petWeen
Greece and Turkey, on condition tna' Ine
Hellenic Government declares tHasl WI
here ormally to autonomy for Crete,
and accept unreservedly the counseis
which the Powers give IN the interests ol
peace" ,,os
The reply of the Greek Government was
as follows: "The Royal Government, IN
taking the note and declaration OF the nus.
sian representative acting in the name OF
the Ministers of the Powers, declares that
n will proceed to recall the royal troops
from Crete. adheres formally to
for Crete and confldes the interests OF
Greece TO the hands Of the Powers
As soon as the reply OF Greece was re-
ceiyed the. Ministers t~elegraphed gne uo
cision to h representatives Oh inc LoWeae
nj Constantinople, with the request may
thew Obtain an armistice with the view OF
arranging for permanent peace;
The Goyernment notified the Greek army
NJ The action taken. There is a sense OF re-
lief here at the prospect of an immeolate
end to the war. There is no excltenen'
and no popular demonstration is anticip"'
ted. n,t ,ba
powers will Intervene in time to avert
further bIoodshed. 1t Is reported that Yer
many will insist upon Greece abandoning
turkeys terms for peace are payment OF
a war Indemnity and the cession OF mes
saly, Greece hopes, through the rowers,
to ESCAPE the Indemnity. As to giving up
tTbessalv the sentiment Is that not an inch
of territory should be coded while a man Is
Fonr thousand Thessalian and Crete
-rofnoees are fed at Athens daily and 7ouO at
pfrgnus. Public and private buiidlhgs u
Athens are swarming with l0og wounueo;
Ia all there are $500 wounded: Inc coso oi
the war to Greece up to date Is ABOUT siV''-
900, 600. III,
Greece are estimated at S25, 600, 600, which
Greece will nav, as an indemnity, In annual
installments, guaranteed by the Thessalian
revenues.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14

Siam has n railway.
Waterproof paper gains favor.
America has s65 900 coal mines.
Rhode Island has 1900 factories.
London has GOO railway stations.
There are LOG kinds of car eouplers.
United States have 1000, 900 cattle.
Mexico is the richest mineral country.
Ohio has Just witnessed its frst electro
eution.
There are more han 900 golf clubs In the
United States and Canada.
sixty-nve million dollars is the yearly
value OF the potato eropof the United King
dom. EE
A large increase In tobacco acreage over
that of last year is predicted In Pennsyi-
vania.
Earl Gray Wilson, the newly-elected
Mayor Of Morrow, Ohio, is said to DO only
twenty-one years old.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14
HUMOROUS.

A baby in a buggy is a good thing,
but no man likes TO push it along.
'Do Won know, Tom kissed my hand
last night" "He always was discrimi-
mating"
Leola-Do you think you could ever
learn to love a mani" Hazel-Bring
on your man.
The Manager Ito the Living Skele-
ton)-Well, Bones, here goesi May
your shadow never grow less!
When a man is sure his friends e
talk about him behind his back, it is
sure that all his friends are dead.
Gam l too late?" asked the physi-
clan, as he hurriedin. ''Yes, doctor he
died peacefully half an hour ago."
He-I wish / had Benderlee's soft
snap. She--Don't you, though. His
brains make a good living for him.
Kean-Isn't your wife afraid to drive
that horse? Steam-Not at all. It's
the people she meets who are scared.
'Melicent-Aren't bicycle lamps an
noying. Miriam (vexatiously)-Yes;
mine goes out every time l run into
anybody.
The man who said repeatedly when
he was young that he would never
marry, wishes occasionally when he Is
old that he had kept his word.
"'There is one thing about me {; ] am
not afraid to say just what | think"
"Of course, you are not afraid, but
you ought to be ashamed"
A school teacher lately put the ques-
ton /: "What is the highest form of
animal life?" ''The giraffe r respond
ed a bright member Of the class.
'eWhat are you crying for, Nellie?"
sob, it's nothing, Lucy. | want my
husband to buy me a new bonnet to-
morrow, and l am simply practising a
little"
81 noticed the doctors carriage at
your door yesterday afternoon. Wa
it anything s%erious?" Serious? 1t
is absolutely mournful, Cries all the
time it is awake"
Dyspepsia Specialist (irritablyl -
But, madam, you must chew your food.
What were your teeth given to you
for? Female Patient (calmlyl-They
weren't given to me !; / bought 'em.
woman-Dresses are going to better
ribly expensive this season. Another
Woman-Yes those very simple
gowns that are coming in will take
such a quantity Of material and work!
She-There were ffty-six signers of
the Declaration of Independence.
Lord Ninkumpupe-H How very remark
able! In England, doncherknow, You
can get thousands of signatures to al
most any sort of document.
'fThis, " said the schoolfriend whohad
not seen her for a year, ''this is the girl
who vowed to me that she never would
belong to any man, eh?" 81 don't"
said she who had been married the
matter of some few months OF so. "He
belongs to me-"
Little Chick-What do you let that
ugly little thing come under your wing
for? Old Hen (who had inadvertently
Matched a ducks egg)-I can't help it,
my dear. We've got to put up with
the creature because she belongs to
set, you know.
'1n accepting marriage, George,
dear, l do so not because l am anxious
to be married, or that l prefer you
particularly to all the other men in the
world, but because my dearest friend,
Susie Rivers, has a perfectly divine
engagement ring, and 1 would like, to
wear one like it,"