davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-19
PUERTO RICO WAS FLOODED
TWO THOUSAND DROWNED,
DROWNED.
an Disastrous Storm-Ponce Suffered
Most-Large. Number of Lives Lost
Business Is Practically Ruined-Aid Ia
Needed-An Appeal for Help,

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Aug. 1.-THE fer.
Eltic wind which accompanied the recent
storm destroyed the crops and demolished
a number OF houses on the higher ground,
while the floods destroyed bridges and
houses and caused a great loss of human
life. a large number Of cattle were killed.
The storm was most severe in the central
part OF the island and along the southern
coast. Many hundreds of bodies have been
buried IN the city OF Ponce, and it is
estimated that 1000 persons were drowned
in the Ponce district. The number of
people OF the lower classes lost is not
known, but it is certain that there were
few fatalities among the persons CO the
better class and none among the Amer.
leans The work of clearing away the
debris progresses slowly. During the prog
ress OF the storm the municipal hospital
was wrecked, and its patients were re-
moved to the military hospital
Saturday Bucoaya, Adjuntas and HUI.
macoa were devastated, and in some i'll
stances entire villages We're swept out of
ported to have been killed ON coffee PLAN
tation. Everybody is ruined, pestilence
threatens and many months work is need.
ed, and newspaper appeal has been made
Tor relief. The calamity, with the COM
mercial depression, has produced terrible
condition of affairs. a cavalry patrol has
been established.
Whole Port Was Inundated.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. l4-The
port of Arecibo was destroyed during the
late storm, the place being inundated by
water from the ocean and river. Two hun
dred bodies are in the morgue there, and
hundreds of persons are missing. A num-
Der of citizens who lived ON plantations in
the suburbs were drowned. The com-
manding officer of the district has ordered
that the bodies of the victims of the dis
aster shall be buried where they are found.
San Juan has been applied to for supplies.
According to the latest reports from
Yabucoa, 80 bodies were buried there one
day last week, while the remains of 200
victims have not been recovered. The
church is the only building left standing.
1t is reported a number of American
soldiers were killed at Mayaguez.
Promises of Relief.
Washington, Aug. l4.-Responses to the
appeal of Secretary Root for aid to the
suffering and destitute in Puerto Rico are
coming in from the mayors of different
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
CITY CHAT.

Bicycles at Hynes'.
Register tomorrow.
Leaf lard at Gilmore's.
Reidy Bros, real estate.
Buy a Chase Bros piano.
Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
For insurance, E. j. Burns.
Be wise and smoke Kinship-
For real estate, Z. j. Burns.
Tomorrow is the last day for regis
tratiOn.
The Retail Merchants association
meets tonight.
Attend Young & McCombs' grand
millinery opening.
When others fail to fit your feet
give us trial. Dolly Bros.
Volk & Co. will begin tearing down
Hawthorne school tomorrow.
For up-to-date shoes just look in
our show Window. Dolly Bros.
b. Winter has just received car
load of Waukesha mineral water.
Millinery opening at Mrs. Tewkes-
burg tomorrow and Wednesday.
Miss f.. May Plumb is to sing in
Dav, nport, her old home, April 10.
Beardsley & Bailey are now at their
new location, 217 Eighteenth street.
Deputy l.. X. Eihl collected internal
revenue last week aggregating 81, 2o6.
Easter week, special Easter mer-
chandise, tempting prices at McCabe's.
Special spring opening. Young &
McCombs. All are invited TO attend.
Grand spring opening Gnformal)
Tuesday evening, 1880 to 1880.
Young * McCombs.
Gentlemen. wear the Stacy Adams
shoes, makers of none but the best.
Dolly Bros. have them.
New mattings at McCabe's season s
late. Prices to move mattings quick
". Read ad, third page.
See to it not later than tomorrow
that your name is registered in the
poll book of your voting precinct.
Every body invited to compare our
line of millinery with any millinery
in the country. Young IL McCombs.
Attend the millinery opening at Mrs.
Tewksbury's tomorrow and Wednes-
day. Everybody invited to attend.
On account of the lecture Tuesday
evening the Handel OratOrio associa-
tion will have its meeting this even
ing.
There is no need of breaking in a
shoe. In perfect fitting shoe you
haze comfort from the start. Dolly
Bros.
A snap in a lot located in the best
block on Third avenue. The early
bird gets the worm" Read want
column.
Grand opening at Miss Byrnes, We'd
nesday and Thursday. The Chicago
Miss HICKMAN has charge of the trim
ming room.
Don't be fooled into buying narrow
toe shoes. They are a thing of the
past. See Us for nobby footwear.
Dolly Bros.
For a limited time the Peoples
Power company will sell lump coke at
81 per ton, and crashed coke at 81. 20,
at the works.
The policy of expansion is all right.
Anti-WashbOard soap is absolutely
the best and is made at home. just
expound on that idea.
Three splendid groups of hats and
bonnets. three money-saviDg prices,
So, $3.50 and so at McCabe's millin
ery-opening Tuesday and Wednesday.
Easter millinery opening tomorrow
nj Ottesen's popular millinery empo-
rum, 222 West Second street, Daven-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
Horre owner. Attention.

We want 800 horses to clip by
power machine clipper Leave orders
at shooting shops of V. Dauber, John
Gibson. William Martindale or Smith
" Hause.
JACK RABBIT X JIM MARSHALL,
Experts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27

Pneumonia is the quick agent of
death Fully one-third of recent
deaths have been from pneumonia fol-
lowing Ia grippe Pneumonia cannot
follow the use of Foley's Honey and
Tar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
SPEND THE EVENING
At Young q McCombs' Informal Opening
Tomorrow Night.

The following musical selections
will be rendered from $50 20 1890:
No. March. Mount Gretna' SamT Hasreld
No. 2-Overture -Cymbcline 90 X Green " aid
no 3---Japane>e Lantern Dance 49,.
-.--.-.--.-- j. ". Bratton
No. 4-wa'tz. -ESpauita' '....--.-.George Rosey
No 5-Medley Select n. The Boomer
ang- 800 -...-. --....-.- l. .. Dewitt
No. 6-CaSe Walk Doc Brown 's---.-----
No s-OVerture. Poet and Peasant SUM pc
No. Hungarian. Jo PajtaS n II Thiele
No. g-TwOStep 'Whi>;liog Rufus 5000. Mills
No IO---Narci>Sgi>' ..-... .Schlepegrell
No. II-Cappficco. Fair Ns>sarr. TODani
40. IS-Marsh. RE Minute Man '--.-.- .Catlin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
Hard Coal, Coke and Wood.

Indiana block for furnaces, camel
for crates, Gable and Athens lump
and nut for stoves
E. b. MCKowN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
Licensed to Wed.

Alfred Carlson ---------- ----.---- Moline
Mis-. Rosa Bell Carrissa $500 n olinc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
Her Health Restored

SE~HE misery of sleeplessness can only De
realized by those who have expert
enced 1t. Nervousness, slceplessness,
headaches, neuralgia and that miserable
feeling OF unrest, can surely be cured by Dr.
Miles Restorative Nervine. so certain Is
DIR. Miles % this fact that all druggists are
authorized 10 refund price paid for the first
bottle tried, providing # does not benefit
Mrs. Henry Bruins. wife OF the well known
blacksmith at Grand Junction, Iowa. says
Il was troubled with sleepIessness, nervous
ness, headache and irregular menstruation;
suffering untold misery for years. 1 used
various advertised remedies for female com
plants besides being under the care OF local
physicians, without help 1 noticed in Dr..
Miles advertisement the testimonial OF q
lady cured of ailments similar TO mine, and
I shall never cease TO thank that lady. Her
testimonial induced me to use DR.. Miles
Nervire and Nerve and Liver Pulls, which
restored me to health. 1 cannot say enough
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27

for Dr-MIicS'Renedics
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee. first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases OF the heart and
nerves free Address.
DE MILES MEOICA
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28

the wagon did not stop. People laugh
ed at her as they passed along the
street, and some boys called out, tom
tboy!'" Not until the sprinkling cart
had made the circuit Of the block and
reached the spot from which it: started,
did she have an opportunity to get out.
AS she came through the back gate,
wet: and bedraggled, holding her doll,
from whose cheeks the bloom had for
ever departed, her aunt appeared on the
porch. with the memorandum, in her
hand. ~'~ T. -
''tor PHYS sakes, child, whatever has
happened?' she exclaimed, aghast at
the change that had taken place in her
dainty, trinity dressed little niece.
Il rode around the block after the
wagon, and it turned on water and
nearly drowned mel" sobbed Marguer-
lite. "And my aprons dirty, and my
dress is spoiled-and you'll never trust
me to do an errand or anything
know you won't and you oughtn't to!
And you ought to punish met
you've been punished enough, my
child,' said Aunt Mary, taking her in
her arms. Come and get on some dry
clothes-and then we'll see about the
moth balls. Our Little Ones.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
Picture of George Eliot.

George Eliot was at this time about
fifty, but looked years older. She wore.
as she always did, plain silk dress. to-
night having white shawl about her
shoulders and light gloves in her
hand, being indeed dressed for the op-
era. Some people have talked and writ
ten of the ugliness of this great wom-
an; this sort of criticism recalls fam
GUS scene in "Middlemarch." "Mr. Cas-
aubon has wart on his nose," said
pert little Celia to her sister. II dare
say he has," was Dorothea's dignifed
rebuke, when certain people look at
him." And thus George Eliot in some
eyes was ugly because, forsooth, she
lacked dimpled cheeks, round eyes, and
pretty mouth! If hers was ugliness,
would we had more of it in the world!
When in speaking her large, usually
solemn features lighted up, positive
light would flash from them, lumin-
osity irradiate, not her own person
only, but her surroundings. A sover-
eign nature, an august intellect, had
transported us into it's own atmosphere
Miss Betham Edwards Reminis-
cences.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
Bismarck's Banker.

Bismarck's money was invested prin-
cipally with the famous banker Bleich-
roeder, of Berlin. A story is told that
at the ending of the Franco German
war, when the money indemnity de-
manded by Bismarck threatened to ter
inmate the peace negotiations, Bis
marck telegraphed Bleichroeder to
come to Versailles. Give milliards
war indemnity! exclaimed Jules Fav-
re. "That is an outrageous demand.
Does monsieur lie count know how
much that is? 1t is five thousand mil
lions of francs, and if man had be-
gun counting this sum from the birth
of Christ, and continued counting to
the present day, he would not yet have
his task completed" ''That's what I
thought" said Bismarck. Il therefore
sent for my friend Bleichroeder. He
can count back to Adam, or at any
rate, to Abraham"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
Marguerite's Ride,

Nov, Marguerite" said Aunt Mary,
would you like to go an errand for
me? You won't get lost, will you?
John wants the camphor balls right
away. It's the first big store after you
cross the street car track; the one you
said yesterday looked like your new
hall at home"
"No, of course won't get lost going
that little way, auntie," replied Mar
guerite. I know just where it is. Do
you want me to go right away?"
''No, I have a list of several other
things that I think I'll make out" said
her aunt. "You can go out into the
yard and play with Fred's go-cart till
I am ready. 1t will soon be time.
Don't soil your apron, for you know
you want it fresh for cousin Hattie"
"I'll be CAREFUL called out Marguer-
tie, picking up her doll and running
into the yard.
She was elated with the thought of
going out alone on the city streets.
What would the girls say when she got
home and told them that her aunt had
trusted her to do errands for her! She
was impatient to be off.
"The first big store after you cross
the street car track" she repeated to
herself, wheeling her doll up and down
the little plot of grass. She thought of
the five cents her uncle had given her
that morning for candy, and wished
her aunt would hurry.
Suddenly a brilliant thought came in
to her mind. While she was waiting,
she would tie the go-cart to the funny
wagon by the back gate and ride
around the block! She had heard the
driver tell some one that he would be
back in two or three minutes--jus as
soon as he finished the block, what
ever that meant. s.,
She did not stop to take her doll out,
but, hurriedly pushing the cart out
before her, slipped out of the gate, and
j in another minute was fastening it to
the wagon by some Irvine which hap
pened to be tied around the handle.
va what a funny looking wagon" she
said to herself as she climbed in and
sat down. by Imogene, her doll. ''Looks
something like that new plow grand
pas got, behind-but what Is that big
5 barrel on top for?" She did not have
time to wonder long, for just then the
i wagon started, and splash! splash! a
shower OF cold water came pouring all
over her. $z -: 2.s% hi 4 :: .s I:Es 3s 7 i.
{. ooh! OH" she cried, Il didn't know
it was like this. Please, Mr.. Driver, let
Q ~ a
on and the cold water came down with
greater force than ever. .-.zs5ss
4 Let me get out I" she screamed. bur
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
A Young Writer.

six-year-old Paul Harper is the
youngest historian yet heard from on
the war with Spain. He expresses him.
self in the Evanston Index: This war
is prty sirius, and this is why it is; at
first the Spanish used bad words about
Mr.. Kinerly; and the next sirius thing
was the Main, and I visit Guild a seen
that explotion. And then the starve-
ing Cubins are prty sirius to. And now
we have begun the war and many COM
RAIDS will be dead. PrhapB Their wont
be, man left in town, and many a
muther will morn for. her husband.
They will lay dead on the hatfield, and
there stand Their muthers weeping for
their husbans. They take the wounded
to the hospitls and the dead to Their
graves, and meny spanish ships will
sink and few American ships will sink
and we will fife on land and on sea and
our flag waves over the Filupeens
ilends this day. - s
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
Five Little Brothers.

LAW A1GC10 bTOGQ0f0s
Five little brothers set out together
10 journey the livelong day,
IN curious carriage, all made OF
leather,
They hurried away, away!
One big brother and three quite small,
And one wee fellow, no size at all.
The carriage was dark and none too
roomy,
And they could not move about,
The i've little brothers grew very
gloomy,
And the wee one began to pout.
I'LL the biggest one whispered, what
do ye say?
Let's leave the carriage and run
away!"
So out they scampered, the five to-
sether,
AND on and away they sped
When somebody found that carriage Of
leather,
On, my, how she shook her head.
Twas her little boys shoe as every
one knows,
And the five little brothers were five
little toes.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
OR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
3'5s JUNIOR READERS. II
Whom Mother Sits Down by the Fire
An Ideal Mamma as Seen by q Girl
of Eighteen Years--!Two Little Misses
ss5--Marsuerite's Ride. -,

When Mother Sits Down by the Fire.
On, the five o'clock chime brings the
contest time,
That is found in the whole of the
=. day,
When Larry and Gus, and the others
+" of us,
Come in from our study or play;
When we push the big chair to the
hearth over there,
And pile the wood higher and higher,
And make her a space in the very best
place
And mother sits down by the fire.
There's great deal to say at the close
of the day,
And so much to talk over with moth
er;
There's comical sight or a horrible
plight,
Or a ball game, or something or
other.
And she'll laugh with Larry and sigh
with Harry,
And smile to our hearts desire
AT triumph won or task well
done
When sitting down there by the fire.
Then little she'll care for the clothes
that We tear,
Or the havoc we make on her larder;
For the toll and the strife of our every
day life
She will love us little bit harder.
Then our lady is she, and her knights
we would be,
And her trust doughty deeds will
inspire;
For We long then anew to be generous
and true
Wnen mother sits down by the fire.
Martha Burr Banks in Independent.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
Korea Taught Japan.

It was the Koreans who taught the
Japanese the art of making the pottery
for which Japan is now justly famous,
but this was also a curse to the Ko-
reans, as all the artisans, as we'll as
the finest specimens of their work,
were forcibly carried away to Japan.
For five hundred years none of this
fine ware has been produced, but the
footing of the royal tombs caused some
most excellent specimens Of this rare
work to be removed from their place
of concealment, where they had lain
for six or eight hundred years, and
two or three collections have recently
been made in Seoul.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
ALLEGIANc CT oF coNoUERoRE (,
International Law Bearing ON Our N.uv
$&s5 Colonial Relations *4# r.

International Law Bearing on Our Ne
! Colonial Relations. n ..*: s. rs Il
The approaching peace between
Spain and the United States makes 1t Of
some interest to consider the legal ef-
feet of the cession Of territory by one
state to another. II Such cession has
many important Consequences Ia rela-
ton to questions Of international re-
lat1ons and constitutional law Many
controversies have arisen on such
questions, but some general principles
can be extracted from the tangle OF
diplomatic correspondence and jur1s-
tic writings. There can be no doubt
that the inhabitants of conquered ter
r1tory become subjects of the states
to Which it is ceded; but treaties Of
peace commonly give them right to
retain their former allegiance, though
seldom Internationally. The laws Of
some countries do not allow aliens to
hold landed property, and as a matter
OF rolicy states may object to the pres
ence on their coil Of large number
of persons owing allegiance to a for
eign state. Therefore in treaties of
cession it is often provided that all
inhabitants who wish to retain their
former allegiance must quit the coun-
try within certain time, som etimes al
so dispose of their property. When
Alsace and Lorraine were ceded to Ger
many the inhabitants who wished to
remain French subjects were Obliged
to leave. They were, however, allowed
to retain their landed property. When
California was coded by Mexico the
United States were more. liberal to the
inhabitants. BY the treaty Of Guade-
lupe Hidalgo they might within year
elect to- remain Mexican citizens, and
no restriction was put on their right to
reside or to retain their property.
Naturally all public property in the
coded territory belonging to the state
is transferred to the new sovereign.
AS regards obligations, it is commonly
agreed that in the absence Of express
treaty stipulation no portion of the
general public debt is transferred with
the territory. There are, however, sew
eral instances of a proportionate share
of the general public debt being trans
ferred by treaty. Other considerations
apply to local debts, and the better
opinion is that they should be taken
over with the territory.-London Law
Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-28
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Probably owing to the fact that tho
duchess of York's wedding jewels were
largely composed of turquoises- IA
vorite stone-the turquoise has been
coming more and more into fashion.
One of the latest developments is to
carve heads and initials on them.
1t has become quite the fashion now
for bridesmaids to carry baskets of
flowers instead of bouquets Special
baskets are made, generally Of white
chip, with tall, slight handles. A bow
of ribbon can be added at the top and
the flowers are securely fastened in
position by means of needle and
thread.
American ladies, says an English
writer, have a new fad. They carry
about with them living mascot" or
charm, in the shape of black kitten.
the idea being that it will avert catas-
trophe to friends or relatives taking
part in the war. The kitten is some
times carried in bag. It is absolute
ly necessary that the animal should be
| black. How the idea originated We
are not at present informed.
The duchess of Portland is very
keenly interested in temperance and
has done some good work to the cause,
though, no doubt, her natural reserve
| would make her shrink from the pub
licity it involves. In spite of being
the wife of one of the richest men in
England and mistress Of one Of it's
finest mansions, Lady Portland does
little entertaining. She is, however,
we'll calculated to shine as society
hostess, for she has great charm Of
manner and stately sort OF beauty.
She is tall and graceful, with dark hair
and q lily and rose complexion. Her
maiden name was Miss Dallas York,
and she is the daughter Of Yorkshire
squire. It is said that the duke of
Portland first saw her at railway sta
ton and was then and there captivated
with her dignified beauty and her
charming manner. Afterward, meeting
her by chance IN . London drawing
Room. he began that acquaintance with
{ her which led to marriage. .5 I