davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-09
of railway accidents are thus


As to other persons, neither employees
nor passengers, many of them trespassers,
the figures show:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
Killed by an Earthquake.

New York, May 12.-Earthquakes are
still shaking the islands of Guadeloupe
and Montserrat, of the Leeward group,
in the West Indies. The Quebec liner
Madiana. which arrived here Monday
from Ieeward island ports, brought
particulars. When the steamer reached
Antigua. 40 miles from Guadeloupe, on
May 1 everyone in port was discussing
the shocks. The heaviest had occurred
two days before, when so colored peo-
pie were killed by being buried in the
rlrins of their houses. In brick church
a congregation of 200 people were
caught by the collapse of the walls and
so crushed to death. Those in the street
saw the houses sway back and forth and
the walls of brick structures crack.
The report also said that 25 or 80 people
had lost their lives at Point-a-Pietre.
Twelve brick houses in Guadeloupe
had been demolished and scores of
others cracked and scanned by the
shocks. From Antigua the Madiana
steamed to Montserrat, arriving there
on May 2. There, too, "a state of terror
existed. On April 80 that island was
rocked like boat at sea. Six houses
were DESTROYED, but no lives lost.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
DOMESTIC.

A ,big crevasse occurred in the levee
at Baton Rouge, La, and many persons
were fleeing from the flood.
A bolt of lightning from clear sky
killed Frederick Pearson. farmer at
New Lenox, Ill.
Fire nearly wiped out the little village
of Marshland, Wis.
Fire that broke out in the plant of the
j. L. Dayton Tablet company in Quincy,
Ill, caused a loss of 100000.
Charles Henry Damsel. since 1868 the
trusted head bookkeeper of the Ma
tional bank of Columbus, o., is alleged
TO be short $4,000 or more.
The May crop returns of the depart
ment of agriculture show decline
from the April condition of LIZ points,
the average being S0.2.
! In Chicago in one day eight boys We're
KILLED in various accidents.
, Judge Day. of Ohio, qualified and as
sumed his office as assistant secretary
of state.
The fourth annual conven ton of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police
of the United States and Canada COM
menced at Pittsburgh, Pa,
The state inheritance tax law has
been declared valid by the supreme
court of Illinois.
At a festival in Longstreth, o., Ar
thur Barber, while drunk, shot and
killed Duncan Christian and his father
Williams, Brown & Co., wholesale
shipping and commission merchants in
San Francisco, failed for 100000.
The grand division of the Order of
Railway Conductors is in session at
Los Angeles, Cal Every state in the
union is represented.
The New Jersey legislature will meet
in special session on the 25th inst. to
consider the bill passed providing for
the submission of the proposed con-
-stitutional amendments to the voters
of the state next September.
T. Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, threatens
TO pardon every juvenile convict out
of both state prisons unless the legisla-
ture at once provides funds for state
schools of reform.
F. The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country were ia
Worable.
/ After almost 40 years of service in the
United States army James w. Forsyth,
brigadier general, has been promoted
by President Mckinley to the rank of
major general.
The twenty-third Kentucky Derby
was won at Louisville by Typhoon III.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings of the Special Session.
The Morgan Cuban resolution was dis
cussed at some length in the senate on the
i0th, but no action was taken. A resolution
was agreed to putting into effect the rear
arrangement of the committees as agreed
upon in the several caucuses A bill was
reported for taking the twelfth census. -.
In the house Mr.. Fowler IN. j. introduced
a bill for the creation of a tariff commits
sion to investigate federal taxation, to rec
ommend changes and to adjust inequali-
ties of existing law. The bill provides for
a commission of seven members at salary
of 5000 per annum, with term of Office
each of q years. The senate amendments
to the sundry civil appropriation bill were
discussed.
! The Cuban question occupied the entire
attention of the senate on the 18th. Sena-
tors Morrill, (Vt.) and Caffery Ua) spoke
In opposition to the resolution; Senator's
Lodge (Mass.) and Foraker (O) advocated
the deferring of the question until further
information could be secured from the
state department, and Senator'S Mills (Tex)
and Allen (Neb) urged the immediate pas
sage of the resolution. No action was
taken... In the house the senate amend
ment to the sundry civil bill revoking the
proclamation Of ex-President Cleveland
setting aside 20,00O.000 acres of public lands
as forests was not concurred in.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) made a statement
In the senate on the 18th relative to his
resolution on Cuba. He said that the COM
mittee on foreign relations had considered
the question of referring the resolution to
the committee and had not reached an
agreement, and the resolution went over
for a day. Bills for public building at
peadwood, S. D., to cost 100000 and one at
indianapolis, Ind, to cost 81, 5000O0 and
granting to Montana 000 acres Of land in
aid Of an asylum for the blind were passed.
Senator Gallinger introduced a resolu-
lion in the senate on the 18th for an APP
.propriation Of So, 900 to relieve the Ameri-
cans in distress in Cuba. The sugar in
yestigation and the tariff bill caused some
agitation. The committee on finance an
nounced that action on the tariff measure
would begin on the oath inst. Adjourned
to the 17th.. In the house the Indian APP
preparation bill was disposed of. Mr.. Castle
{CaI) introduced a joint resolution for the
recognition of the belligerent rights of the
Cubans. Adjourned to the nth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
EX-SENATOR COKE DEAD.
The Distinguished Soldier and States.
man of Texas Passes Away.


Waco, Tex. May 14.-Ex-Senator
Richard Coke died at l so O'Clock a. ~.
[Richard Coke was born in Williamsburg.
Va, March IS, 1929; was educated at VIII
liam and Mary college: studied law, was
admitted to the bar when q years Of age,
and has since practiced constantly when
not in the public service: removed in 1850
to Waco. McLennan county, Tex, where
he has since resided: served in the con-
federate army as private, and afterward
as captain; was appointed district Judge
in June, 1885, was nominated by the demo-
cratic party for judge of the state SUI
preme court in 1866, and elected, and after
having occupied the position one year was
removed by Gen. Sheridan as IAN impede
ment to reconstruction;" returned to the
practice of lawthe latter part of 1867; was
elected governor of Texas in December
1873. by a majority of $1,000, and was re-
elected in February, 1876, by majority of
100000; resigned December 1, 1877, after
having been elected the previous April to
the United States senate as democrat,
to succeed Morgan c. Hamilton, republic
an; took his seat March 4, 1877, and was
reelected in 1883 and again in 1885, His term
of service expired March 3, 1885,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
FOREIGN.

Earthquakes were shaking the islands
of Guadeloupe and Montserrat in the
West Indies. In brick church so per-
sons were killed by the collapse of the
walls and 80 more were killed at other
points.
Greece has placed her interests in
the hands of the powers and formally
adopted the terms of mediation, and
will at once recall her troops from Crete
and fully concede the principle of au-
| tcnomy for that island.
Greece has virtually sued for peace.
The government has seen the futility of
| prolonging conflict that rebounds only
to the glory of Turkish arms, and de-
sires that hostilities cease. With this
end in view a note to the powers has
been drafted inviting mediation.
The town of Windischmatrel, in the
Tyrol, well-known tourist resort, has
been destroyed by fire.
In an engagement near Guines, Ha-
vana province, between Gen. Gomez and
the Spanish troops, the Spaniards were
severely defeated.
Advices say that IA villages between
Toulor and Kastrosykia have been
burned by the Turks, after all the
women and children had been massa-
cred.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed through
out England and Scotland.
The Cubans were making frequent
dashes around the outposts of Havana
with their cavalry, and every morning
from ten to twenty-five wounded Span
ish soldiers were taken into the city
hospitals.
The American steamer Rover, trading
between New Orleans and Honduras
ports, was fired upon twice by gunboat
of the Nicaraguan government.
William J. Calhoun, the special COM
missioner appointed by President Nc
Kinley to investigate the death of DR..
Ricardo Ruiz, arrived in Havana.
The Greek ships of war were bonn
harding Prevesa and the Hellenic troops
were advancing into Epirus, also upon
Prevesa. The Greek fleet has estab-
lished blockade on the Gulf of Volo.
1t was generally believed that the sui
tan would refuse to grant the armistice
demanded by the powers. $50
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

At Washington Secretary of State
Sherman, of Ohio, celebrated the seven
ty-fourth anniversary of his birth.
Capt. Joseph w. King, aged LOG years.
died at his home in Lansingburg. N. Y.
Silver republicans, populists and sill
erdemocrats have decided to hold three
conventions in Des Moines, Ia, June %
to nominate fusion state ticket.
Ex-Gov. Burleigh, of Maine, has been
nominated for congress to succeed the
late Congressman Milliken.
John S. Hoey, the well-known sport
ing man and referee, died at Long
Branch, N. J.
Gen. Chandler P. Chapman, former
adjutant general of Wisconsin, died
suddenly of paralysis in Milwaukee,
aged SO years.
Richard Coke died at Waco, Tex, aged
6s years. He was governor of Texas
from 1873 to 1877, when he became
United States senator, and served until
March 8, 1895.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
RENEWED FIGHTING.


Dokomos, May 15.-The Turks have
retired in the direction of Pharsalos.
Arta,May 15.-The fighting at Griboro
ceased at nine p m. and the Greeks have
occupied various heights in the neigh
borhood. Twenty-Five officers and 400
men are hors de combat.
Griboro is on the road to Phillipiada.
Two brigades of Greeks with many
guns, two companies of sappers and
squadron of cavalry attacked the Turks,
who were almost without artillery. The
Greeks forced the first Turkish line of
defense, but met with stubborn resist
ance at the second.
The gunboat flotilla has been attack
ing Nicopolis from inside the Gulf of
Ambraosia, with simultaneous attack
proceeding from the land side. The
Turkish batteries replied vigorously
and firmly resisted the attack. The
coming on of darkness stopped the en-
gagement.
All the Greek efforts are now concen-
trated upon capturing Nicopolis and
Prevesa before advancing to Pente-
pighadia.
Athens. May 1.-THE resumption of
offensive operations in Epirus greatly
complexities the situation and tends to
hamper the negotiations for peace. The
evident intention of the Greek com
manders is to capture the Turkish DO
sitions there in order to show that they
have not been defeated. In an inter-
view, M. Ralli. the premier, repeated his
statement that humanitarian motives
are responsible for the advance in Ep-
irus, but he did not deny the advantages
which might be hoped for from the
capture of Prevesa and the occupation
of the adjoining Turkish territory.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
HOId-Up I'm Texas,

San Antonio, Tex, May 15.-The
west bound Southern Pacific passenger
train was held up by masked men and
robbed about $50 miles west of here
early Friday morning. Both the
through and the local safes were opened
and the contents secured. The local safe
contained about $4,000 or $4,000. The
amount secured from the through safe
is unknown, but it is believed it will
not fall below $1,000 or $4,000. The
mail was not molestcd by the robbers.
but it was greatly damaged by the
force of the explosion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
Tariff Bill in the Senate.

Washington. May IA. = The senate
committee on finance reached an under
standing Thursday by which it was
practically agreed that the debate on
the tariff bill should begin on Monday,
the gath inst Senator Aldrich will call
up the bill Thursday of next week for
the purpose of making a statement in
regard to the bill, but after this is done
there will be no further effort to get the
bill up until the following Monday.
This concession was made out of defer
ence to the wishes of the democratic
members.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19

Advices from Constantinople say the
sultan resents the mediation OF the
powers and desires to negotiate with
Greece directly. If this is refused the
Turkish demands will be more exact
ing.
Peru and Bolivia have submitted their
territorial dispute to the arbitration of
Spain.
At Auxerre, the center of the wine
growing district of the department OF
Yonne, France. frost did damage to the
extent of $4,OOO,OOO. II,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19

The Traders bank at Lynchburg, Va,
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
900.
Director of Police Abbott says base
ball playing will not be allowed in Cleve-
land on Sunday.
Elmer Clawson, aged 10, was hanged
in Somerville, N. j., for numbering Har-
ry Hodgett, a farmer, on August 20
last.
An unknown man criminally as
saulted the 12-year-old daughter of
Fred Bunte, farmer near Evansville,
Ind, causing the child's death.
Four fishermen were drowned from
the fishing boat Amelia near San Fran
cisco.
Two negresses, Nellie Smith and
Mandy White, were hanged by mob
on the outskirts of the village of jeff,
Ala, for poisoning Joshua Kelly, a
well-known citizen.
Fire at San Francisco in the tan
merry of A. B. Patrick & Co. caused loss
of $450,O00.
A memorial to be presented to Secre-
tary of State Sherman. calling on this
country to do what it can to bring the
Cuban war to close, has been signed
by many bankers and merchants in
New York.
Rhode Island has selected the violet
as the state flower.
The crockery firm of Norcross. Mellen
& Co.. established in Boston 40 years
ago, failed for 100000.
A tipple fell at the mines in Pinkney.
Tenn, killing seven men and badly
wounding several others.
John B. Dyar, for 20 years a success
full business man of Detroit, failed for
100000.
The movement to secure the adoption
of universal postal stamp by the
postal congress has collapsed.
The session in Washington of the
supreme council of the American Pro-
tective association elected as president
John w. Echols, of Atlanta, Ga.
Jim Nance, negro implicated in the
wholesale poisoning of the Kelly fam
lily at jeff, Ala, was hanged by mob.
Mrs. Langtry, the fair English ac-
tress, was granted divorce in San
Francisco from her husband on the
ground of desertion.
The second ascent in the airship con-
structed by Prof. A. w. Barnard was
made at Nashville, Tenn.
The strawboard manufacturers of the
United States have formed trust to
control the product of the country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
Elected senator.

Tallahassee, Fla, May 15.-Stephen r.
Mallory was elected United States SEN
ator Friday on the twenty-ffth ballot.
The vote was: Mallory, SO; Chipley, A;
Call, 1. Chipley led after the roll call
on this ballot, but the changing of votes
gave the election to Mallory.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-19
The English Municipal Service.

Compared with other professions in
England, the municipal service is on the
whole fairly well paid Salaries of town
clerks range from $500 in towns of q
population of 10000 to Ell, $50 paid by
Manchester, which has population of
1000, while municipal engineers are
paid all the way up from e2OO in towns
OF 20, 600 to 81, 600 year paid by each
OF the municipalities of Manchester,
Liverpool and Newcastle.
For these salaries the councils usually
demand all the time of their servants.
A lawyer or an engineer may do better
as private practitioner, but in tho
municipal service he Is sure of his posi-
ton and his pay, and it will be his own
fault II no has not so organized his Office
and trained assistants that he can hold
OH to his position we'll ON into MI old
age. Advancing years may tell against
a man for appointment to municipal
office, but old age is seldom made the
excuse for getting rid of town clerk or
o municipal engineer. Most of them die
in harness, drawing full pay.
The subordinate clerlsships under the
municipalities are not much better paid
than clerkships in law aud mercantile
offices. The reason why these positions
are priced is that in such position q
man regards himself as placed for life
and is consequently in the enjoyment of
that feeling Of settlement and that alb
sence of worry as to the future which
are SO dear to middle class Englishmen.
Excellent men Of their class hold these
positions. Their abilities and their re-
spectability would bring them tho Same
salaries elsewhere, minus only the fixity
! Of tenure which attaches to all grades
Of the municipal service. These subor-
dinates, like their superiors in the paid
municipal service, vote at all elections
like other citizens. They never attempt
to conceal how they vote, but the recur-
ring elections give rise to no pleasurable
expectations or disturbing apprehensions
of any kind on their part They are new
er active in the municipal campaigns
and would as soon expect to encounter
ahighwayman in the town as q collect
or seeking contributions to campaign
fund. -Harper's Weekly.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-19
The Queen OF Greece.

1t is said by a lady who recently Wis
tied Greece and had the honor of meet
ing the royal family that perfect har
mony exists between them, and the k Is,
and queen are devoted to their chilr en-.
The queen is still very beautiful .,nn-
an and the only lady admiral j.. be
world. She holds this rank in the .s,,s-
sian army, an honorary appointmc.. .
conferred on her by the late car because
her father held the rank of high ad-
miral and for tho reason that she is a
very capable yachtswoman. The king
has very remarkable memory, an in
teresting personality, and is brilliant
conversationalist. He goes about tho
streets of Athens without any attend
ants and talks with any friend he
chances to meet. Prince George is very
attractive, and his feats of strength,
Shown often i'll tho cause of chivalry,
are continuous subject of conversation
among the people.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-19
MOTHER GOOSE.
Tho Ieonoclase Throws q big Stone at
Eoston,s Famous Personage.

Tho Ieonoclase Throws a big Stone at
Eoston's Famous Personage.
lconoclastic Boston has decided that
II there ever was Mother Goose with
poetical talents-which isn't likely
She was not the Mother Goose buried in
that city aud whose grave has for years
been haunted by sentimental, patriotic
and more or less literary visitors from
nll parts Of the country. It seems that
tho respectable Mrs. Elizabeth Goose,
whom legend credits with the compost
ton Of all those sprightly lyrics in
which, for no very good reason, chill
drcn arc supposed to take such delight,
had no more right to place among
Americas eminent women than Jack
the Giant Killer has to be included
among our famous generals. She lived
and she died. and that, except the
names of her parents and the fact that
She had some children, is absolutely all
which is known about her.
The story that she wrote, or ut least
collected, the famous poems is myth
invented by one Of the presumably good
lady's descendants. "Merc l'Oye" was
from time out of mind character in
French fairy tales. Tho name first ap-
pearcd i'll English in 1929, when the
prose "Contes de ma mere l'oye" were
translated as ''Tales of Passed Times
by Mother Goose" This book became
the property of John Newbeyy Of Lon
don, the famous publisher CT little
books for children, and about 1866 ho
utilized the trade nano by printing as
companion book 'tMother Goose q
Melodies. F." Tho latter was merely a
collection of old English nursery rhymes.
From England it came to America and
was reprinted by Isaiah Thomas Of
Worcester, Mass, about 1887, then by
Munroe Sc Francis of Boston about 1895,
and now by every one. The fiction
about Mrs. Elizabeth Goose of Boston
was started by John Flint Eliot about
1860, utterly without proof or probable
ity, and has since been repeated, gain
ing imaginary details at every stage
New York Times.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-19
SOMETHING TO DEPEND ON.

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones 6, Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
OF DIR. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case crew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. 1t seemed to
develop into hasty consumption. Having
DIR. Kings New Discovery in store, and
selling lots of it, The took bottle home,
and to the surprise of all she began to get
better from first dose. and half dozen
dollar bottles cured her sound and well.
DR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
do this good work. Try it, Free trial
bottles at Masse's Pharmacy, 100 Jeffer-
son street.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-19
Luck In old shoes

Tho Chinese valuo pair Of old boots
which have been Worn by an upright
magistrate, and the custom of wishing n
friend happy FOOT is still observed
all through Europe. The casual putting
OH the left shoe on the right foot, put
ting it on uneven or crosswise, bursting
the latch or tie, lacing it wrong and
losing button are all bad signs. A
Yorkshire man will spit i'll his right
shoe before putting it Oh, when going
out on important business. to bring luck,
and many an English girl has been
known to hang her boots outside of tho
window on st. Valentines night for
love luck.
Professor Black tells us of singular
superstition existing i'll England, which
insists that if the youngest daughter of
family marries first her sisters must
dance at the wedding without shoes, so
as to insure husbands for themselves.
Old shoe throwing is done for many
purposes. In ireland the election of
person to almost any Office is concluded
by throwing nm old shoe over his head.
Tho gypsies say:
Huro after IN old shoe,
I'll be merry what hero do
In the isle rf Man an old shoe is al
ways thro' ~ the bride, rs we'll as
the groom i''r their homes,
ana III est person on
the pl black. ALWAYS
throws one starting on
q long said that Mime.
fattl anu ~ or high standing
on the stage rrCseliv most carefully tho
boots they were mt tLnir 6pb,1t xvhirh