davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The evening times., 1899-02-09
HURLED HIGH IN AIR.
Two Men Seriously Hurt by a Pre-
mature Explosion.

Sharon. Pa. Feb. BY the premature
explosion of charge of dynamite at the
Portersville quarries yesterday James
Burke and Michael Gallagher, employees,
were blown thirty feet. Burke sustained
fatal injuries and Gallagher was seriously
hurt.
The men were standing directly over the
blast when il went off.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
OUR FIGHTING STRENGTH.
Figures on the Militia and AvaiIabI.
Men In Various States

The Secretary of War has transmitted
to Congress figures showing the present
strength of militia organizations in the
various States, and also estimates of the
total number of able-bodied men available
for military duty in the United States.
The evening times., 1899-02-09
GOES TO CHINA TO WED.
Miss Ives VIII Sail for the Orient
Become a Bride

Become Bride.
San Francisco, Feb. 9.-Miss Charlotte
Ives, OF Chambersburg, Pa. is in the city
on her way to China. accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Merrill. of Boston.
She is going 10 the Orient to wed John
Risley Putnam, son of John NJ Putnam. a
judge of the appellate division of the SUI
preme court of New York State. His
home is at Saratoga Springs n. Y. bur
he entered the consular service of the
United States Government some time ago
and he is now stationed at Ching Kfang.
China
The evening times., 1899-02-09
A FATAL COLLISION.
Simon GeiEer, a FIagman, Killed mt
Indian Creek.

Indian Creek.
Cumberland, Nd, Feb. "a collision
between train II and a local freight oc-
CURED on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at Indian Creek Tuesday night. Simon
Geiger, fiagman,, of Connellsville was kill
ed, and H. E. Bittner, conductor injured.
The evening times., 1899-02-09

The States omitted made no returns for
the present year. Other States show small
totals because many of their troops are In
the national service.
The evening times., 1899-02-09

PERSONS WISHING to borrow On second trusts
other collateral can DO 80 on the most
liberal terms Address ROOMS and 4, 1905 +
st. fe9-1t
The evening times., 1899-02-09

cDCnIhI M0TInC we invite Offers from dealers
vi IUiHI HU lULlAH offers must be in writing.
The evening times., 1899-02-09

MONEY TO LOAN ON APPROVED COLLAT,
ERAL-No delay CHARLES A. BAKER
Rooms 40 to Al, Metzerott Building ITO st.
iel2-tf
The evening times., 1899-02-09
OLD DOCTOR WEST.

50 years specialist in the treatment OF CA
TARRH and PRIVATE DISEASES. both sexes;
(24-HOtR CURE for men. gualan;eed}; impsd-
iments removed; lost vigor restored; consultz-
tion free; services, including medicines. 81 per
week 62i st. Iw. Pacific Building, Room No.
81. fe4-7tem
The evening times., 1899-02-09
DR.. BLAKE'S
La Grippe Tablets

cures all forms of Grippe and Colds. 25c
ACKER IL AFFLECK, Agents, Pharmacists,
1929 Pa. ave. fes- item
The evening times., 1899-02-09
MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN.

WANTED-s2O0 for one year; good security Ad-
dress LOAN, this office. fe9-3t
The evening times., 1899-02-09
Dr.. Ledthermdn,
m ~ c. THEO,

Medium and Card Reader. Washington's most
famous Cairvoyant and Palmist Consult her on
business. love, and family affairs, leunites the
separated; removes spells; causes speedy
riages, and gives good luck Open daily. German
spoken; 25c and Soc 92e III st nv. fe3-Tt
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
DEATH IN TEXAS FLOODS.
Thousands of Miles of Farming Land
Under Water.
Millions of Dollars in Propertv nestrorsa
-ovor Two Thousand Wagon Road
Bridges Washed Away.

AUSTIN. Texas (speciaD.-Heavy rains
have caused great floods in central and
southern Texass TFfoods have inflicted
loss asd9s aggregating hundreds OF
lol-kds Of dollars to the agricultural
interests as we'll as caused the loss OF
many lives. 1t is the most remarkable
period of weather ever recorded in Texas.
Ihe sea OF water extends from the north
central part OF the State to the Gulf, a dis
lance OF 800 miles and more, and with an
IVeraSs width OF about seventy-nve miles.
rue suffering OF the people In the inacces-
sible localities, who are completely cut off
! ON communication with the outside
World, must be severe. Every possible
eHort Is being made to rescue the untortu-
nate men, women, and children thus situa-
ted.
Railroad officials can do nothing to i'm
prove the situation. Many costly bridges
nave been swept away, among them being
thGt OF the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
TOAD over Little Brazos River. All traffic
over that division has been suspended.
Freight n passenger business is at a
.standstill, and in addition to the actual
losses by washouts, the daily loss of earn
lngs aggregates an enormous sum,
Arrivals from Chapel Hill state that
scores OF houses have passed down the
Brazos River, nearthere. The lead bodies
OF hundreds oil cattle, horses and other
1--we stock have also passed. Judging from
the number OF residences In the river there
must have been much destruction OF prop
erty at points above there.
The earlier reports OF heavy loss of life
In Robertson County caused by a meeting
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
Dreyfus Euew nothing of the events of the

Dreyfus Enew nothing Of the events Of the
last two years.
The weeping wife acknowledged the
courtesy with which she had been treated.
The gendarme who was ordered to be
present at the interview carried 1Lr
strnctions and kept alta discreet distance.
Captain Dreyfus is weak, bent, and a pre-
maturely blauehed old man, who has lost
the use Of words, or at any rate, of sen
fences. Since four years he has not been
allowed to speak to any one and his brain
Is In a measure paralyzedq
1t is thought that little by little, with en-
forced rest Ia prison and the visits, few
though they are, which he will be allowed
to receive, the exact meaning Of words will
come back to him.
On the third visit to her husband Nine.
Dreyfus found him much better, He re-
ceIved her with smiles instead OF tears.
Overdoses of q~ulnlne while In Devils Island
left him with a serious indigestion. He
expresses himself convinced that he will
be acquitted.
Captain Dreyfus is credited, on good
authority, with the following utterance:
"My condemnation and sentence were the
symbol OF anti-Jewlsh odiUm, My judges
were in~voluntarily deceived. May my I'M
deserved expiatiOn put an end to all racial
or religious feuds In the army and in that
France which l have passionately loved and
served"
Nine. Dreyfus has the uniform her hus-
band wore at the time of his public degra-
dation, with the gold lace restored which
was torn from the uniform.
The prosecution has cited thirty-seven
witnesses to appear In the Dreyfus court
martial trial.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

of the waters of the Brazos and Little Bra.
EOS Rivers have been confirmed. The in
formation received here from Calvert, which
is in the midst of the scene of destruction,
is Neagre, but Is to the effect that over sew
enty people are missing. Some bodies have
been recovered, The foods of the two
rivers came up SO suddenly that the heroes
living between the water courses had no
opportunity of escaping. They were caught
in a trap and drowned.
1t is estimated that over 2000 wagon road
bridges have been washed away in the
countries comprising the flooded district.
The loss from this source alone is very
heavy. In some counties as many as 200
bridges are gone. 1t is roughly estimated
that the floods have caused loss to crops
and railroad property to the amount of
81, 500, 900, but when the waters subside it
may be found that the loss will exceed the
present estimate many hundred thousand
OF dollars,
1t Is the first time in the history OF Texas
that all the railroads in the State have
been practically tied up on account of
floods. There are II few lines in the north
ern part OF the State that are still uninter-
rupted, but On all tho principal roads traf-
hc is completely suspended. Many costly
steel bridges, long stretches OF trestle
work, and scores OF miles of track and
roadbed are washed away. When the
waters subside, 1t will take the roads sew
eral weeks to make the repairs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
Curious BaII-Bearing Shears.

A Connecticut man is the inventor
of a ball bearing shears for use by
BARRIERS, t%ailors, etc, which is at least
a curiosity. Two annular series of
balls are disposed in the pivotal con
n~ection of the shears, which pivotal
connection comprises IN annular ball
seat, from the centre of which pro-
jects a short ''boss" interiorly thread
ed to receive the pivot screw, thehead
of which is formed to serve a partial
ball channel. When the two shear
members are secured together there
is a double series of balls involved,
which removes friction and increases
.he cutting capacity of the instru-
ment. They can be readily adjusted
to any touch, and it is claimed for
them that they will not become
clogged or ''wobbly." They are said
to heye worked well in the expert
menta! shears that have been made
and used to some extent in this New
York City.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
DRBYFUS MEETS HIS Wife
She Says He Has Aged Greatly But
His Health is Satisfactory
TOUCHING SCENE IN THE PRISON.

Mime. Drcyfus Issues From the Cell in a
State of Collapse-He Appears to Have
Lost the Free Use of LansuaGe-AttTi-
butes His Condemnation to Anti
Jewish FceIing-uis Composure.
RENxEs, France (By Cablel-Captain
Dreyius was safely lodged in tie Military
Prison here and three hours later his de-
voted wife was admitted to his cell. Nine.
Dreyfus was allowed to exceed her visit OF
one hour by fifteen minutes, and although
she is only authorized to see her husband
three times a week, she was allowed the
first day to visit him again in the after
noon.
The Governor of the prison sent Nine
Drevfus the news of the arrival Of her nus
band. and she Immediately went to the
Governor and asked permission to see me
prisoner. Leave being granted the lHltl-
full wife entered the prison almost uhoo-
served, and was conducted to cell No. $50
accompanied by Nine. Havet.
The meeting between the ionS-parted
husband and wife can better he imagined
than described. Naturally 1t was most
touching. Roth Dreyfus and his vile we're
deeply affected. They remained long
claspedin each others arms, tears and
smiles intermingling with tender endear-
ments.
Nine. Dreyfus issued from the prison in
a state Of collapse. She found her husband
much aged, with beard aud hair whitenei
and body shrunk and stopped. she SAID
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
The Labor World.

A large garment workers union has been
organized 10 Cincinnati.
Tho bricklayers Of BinGhanton, N. Y,
have organized a union.
The city Of Lowell. Mass, has voted 5000
toward the Labor Day celebration in the
city.
Labor unions 10 Canada complain that
owing to better times landlords have raised
rents.
The street laborars' strike at Rochester,
N. Y, is over. The mon will receive Sl.5)
n day for eight hours.
The strike of $4,000 textile workers at
Brunn, Moravia, after lasting two months,
has been settled by u compromise.
Bostou's iourneymen horseshoers de-
manded $40 per week for hremen aud SIT
for hoormen, with an eight-hour day.
They went out for 1t and got it.
The bricSlayers' strike at Berlin, Ger
many, has been settled by a court OF arbt-
%tration, and the men will get an advance
In wages in September and December of
next year.
1t took Just ttfrty-six hours for 400 ma
chinists at Blddeford, Maine, to enforce a
demand OF yard hands and furnace men
for an increased wage scale. The machin-
lists walked out In sympathy.
1t present there are only twenty-three
cities In the United States and Canada in
which carpenters work ten hours per day.
One hundred and Ave have the eight-hour
rule. and 42i work niue hours a dav
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

The demand for iron and steel seems to
have no limit.
One hundred and sixty-three million
acres OF land are under wheat.
In five years American trade with Aus.
traiia in leather goods has quadrupled.
A low ebb may be said to have been
reached in failures, current embarrass.
ments being the smallest and least lmpor.
tant noted for many years.
The crop prospects are good in all eoIp.
tries except Austria.
English and German spectators have
acquired rights to land In eastern Seryia
where the Romans are known to have
found gold, and where, accordingly. min.
ing works are to be started.
Cotton mills are doing we'll In spite NJ
the fall in cotton, as the demand gives
Them enough to do at current prices.
Machine shops and manufactures ~
structural steel are refusing beth FOREIGN
and domestic orders because they cannot
I'LL orders already in hand.
The smaller yield of winter wheat seam,
likely to be partly made up for by an in.
creased yield of corn, and spring wheat
prospects, though impaired somewhat hv
TOO much rain are regarded as eneourag,
Ing.
Good weather throughout the eountrv
has allowed a rather better outturn In win,
ter wheat than was looked for earlier. and
general rains throughout the South have
helped the cotton crop situation, while rice
and sugar nave also measurably improved.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
floods Saa4ab0iM

%aLI5IIw

In the last Senatorial campaign in
Kentucky the opposing candidates ir
one of the Southern districts, DR..
Harrel and Mr.. Clark, who were con
Quoting a joint debate, had an anus
ing experience. When they went to
Keysburg to fill their appointment to
speak they found nobody at all to hear
them. Everybody had gone to Red
River to fish. The candidates fol-
lowed the way the people had gone,
and when they came to the river found
quite an assemblage OIL the opposite
bank. Harrel mounted a stump and
began to address them at long range,
but soon found that his voice would
not hold up at that distance, so he re-
quested them to wade out into the
river and draw nearer. Instead of
doing this, they sent a skiff and fer
ried the candidates over, and then sat
patiently down and listened to the
speeches. When the speaking was
over the candidates were informed
that they had been speaking in Ten
nessee,
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

1 have see1EBut few people on my
way up the &pazon. Para, at the
mouth, is thS5netropolis of the whole
region. 1t 6as 100, 900 population
and is a big HasiEess center. Oby.
dos has about800 people, although it
is put downE3h the books as much
larger. Ther8are a few other scatter
ing towns, such as Santarem and Porte
Allegro, but nene have many people.
Along the banks you see here and
there cut oht of the woods a clearing
just about big enough for a hut and a
garden. The hut is made of poles
and palm leaves, and the garden con.
sists of a few banana trees, an orange
tree or so and some palm trees. The
huts are matched with palm leaves.
They are so rude that the wind whis.
ties through them and the roof merely
serves to keep out the rain and the
sun.
They are built close to the river,
Naked babies play on the shore in
front of them, and bare.footed men
and women stand and look at the
steamer as it goes by. The most of
these people are rubber hunters, a
few own cacao orchards, but all seem
to be thriftless and poverty stricken.
Frank G. Carpenter. in Washington
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
The National Game.

Burkett still leads the St. Louis team in
batting.
Washington and Chicago are the two
League teams without a lett-handed
pitcher.
The release OF Catcher Kittrldge by the
Louisville Club comes in the nature of a
surprise.
Kelly. of Hartford, now leads the East
ern League with the stick, having an aver
age of .4O7.
Pitcher Maui, Of the Brooklyns, is at his
hom. in Philadelphia trying to get into
conaition. II is reported that he has
agreed not to draw salary until he is able
to earn 1t.
Elmer Smith says League pitchers kill
themselves of by resorting to too much
curve pitching.
Tannehill and Lever have pitched more
finn half the games the P~lttsburgs' have
played this season.
Amos Rusie is putting in the summer
nitchlne for mi-professional teams neal
his home in Indianapolis.
walters. OF Providence, and Frlsbee, oil
Worcester. were the first men In the East
crn League to make fifty hits.
Ths most talked of player in the League
,o-dS undoubtedly is Laloie, the ball
hrsakiug second baseman of the Philltes.
The Bostons miss Hamilton, their star
mn eetter. lie has Il bad leg, which has
hothsred him all season and has kept him
out Of q mpicritv OF tho games
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
WORK OF A NOBLE CHARITY.


The Children's Aid Society, of New York
City, has begun its summer work for poor
children. The summer home at Bath Beach,
which had been closed during the winter,
was invaded on the opening day by some
800 little children from as many miserable
homes in the tenement districts. The cot
tage for crippled children received twenty
four of these little unfortunates.
The building which they occupy was COT
structed especially with q view to their
comfor and happiness, and nothing Is I'M
thought of during their stay that will colt
ribute to their enjoyment. 1t is the desire
OF tie Children's Aid Society to send sew
eral thousand little girls from the indus
trial schools during the summer to Bath
Beach, and as many boys to the Brace
Farm, at Kensico, Westminster County.
The Health Home at Coney Island, in
tended for sick infants, accompanied by
their mothers, has also been opened. This
aforementioned branch of the summer work
of the society is most beneflcent in its re-
suits. The lives of hundreds of young
children are saved annually by means of
that fundamentally, and the rest and
recreation afforded their tired and ex-
hausted mothers is a boon OF priceless
value.
To carry on these various branches and
TO enable the Children's Aid Society to ex-
tend their operations so as to include as
large n number as possible Of poor and
helpless children, liberal contributions
from the charitable and fortunate are
necessary. Checks may be sent to G. Lor-
ing Brace, Secretary, United Charities
Building, corner Twenty-seeond street and
Fourth avenue, New York.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
BURNED HOMES OF MINERS.
Non-Union Negroes Fake Revenge For Al
Attack on Them.

.~CAnBoSDALE, Ill. (SpeciaD,-Union City,
a small town built and occupied by union
miners near here, was burned after a bat
tie between the union men and imported
negro miners who were fired upon at Free
donia.
Seeking revenge for the killing OF II wom-
an and the wounding OF twenty men in
their party, the negroes raided Union City
at midnight. They opened Are on the
homes OF the union men. The latter
promptly replied. Tho battle lasted until
the union miners were driven from their
homes and took refuge in a clump OF tim
Der close to the village.
The non-union men at once applied the
torch and the village was destroyed. The
negroes then advanced on the woods,
where the union miners were concealed,
and until daylight a fusillade was kept NJ
between the factions. No lives were lost in
the engagement. Reinforcements went to
the aid of the union miners.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
TRADE BALANCES IN OUR FAVOR.
Exports to Germany Exceeded Imports by
S131,13s.OOO In 1898.

WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special).-The Ger
man Government has issued a memoran-
dunn relative to the trade balance between
Germany and the United States, intended
to show that the former official estimate in
favor of the United States vas by far too
low.
This last statement shows that In 1898
tho United States imports into Germany in
creased by S42, 900, 900 over those for the
preceding year, while Germany's exports
to the United States diminished S17, 000, 900
in the same time. The actual excess of
trade in favor OF the United States was
$131 1873 900, a remarkable fact in view OF
the statement that only five years before
the balance was in favor of Germany.
Moreover, the United States exports to
Germany last year were larger than ever
before, while Germany's exports to the
United States were lower than any year in
the preceding ten.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
FIG SYRUP co.
sAN FRANCISCO, Cal
LOUISVILLE. Rv. NEW YORK. N. z
Cost of War News From Manila.

Few persons realize the cost of the
war news sent from Manila each day.
The regular rate of the Eastern Tele.
graph Company from Manila to New
York is $3.50 II word, and a dispatch
filing one column of the usual length
would cost about $4,000 simply for
cable tolls. When a large number OF
newspapers use the same dispatch; as
in the Ease of matter distributed by
press associations, the cost of 1t to
each paper is, of course, much re-
duced, although the annual expense
of collecting news has been increased
for all American newspapers by the
country's oriental expansion. 1t is no
more than fair for the reader to credit
an expansion paper with unseliish mo-
tiyes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
CHILD TRAIN WRECKERS.
Three Urchins Arrested For Causing the
Death of a Fireman in a Wreck.

suAMoKIN, Tenn. (special) ,-Levl Korb-
lsh, aged nine years; his srother, Michael,
aged seven years, and John handbook,
also seven years, were committed to Jail
on the charge OF manslaughter, because OF
tho death OF Fireman Rollin Morgan, Of
Reading express train No. 8, which was
wrecked at Buck Ridge a few days ago, a
nut having been placed on the track.
Michael Korbish confessed to Coal and Iron
Policeman Frank Smith, when arrested
that handbook found the nut as the boys
were returning from a swimming pool and
that shortly before the train was wrecked
handbook put the nut on the track. Before
Justice Rowe, the boys said they were not
guilty.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

Mrs. Bramble-"Don't you remem
Der, Will, how you used to rhapso-
die over the thought of just you and
I living together in a dear little cot
tage somewhere, far from the madding
throng? You used to say that would
be paradise, but you don't seem since
we are married to hold the same opln-
ion."
Mr.. Bramble-'No, I gave up the
idea the week you were without a
girl. You see, if we lived that way
you would have to do the cooking for
us right along."-Chicago Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

DIR. W. J. Herdman, of the medical
faculty of Ann Arbor University, has
discovered a new use for electricity.
1t is f%attaning pigs. There is no joke
about the experiment. He has used
two cages of guinea pigs for the ex-
pertinent. The pigs in each cage were
the same age. Around one cage he
hung electric wires, which were
charged daily. The pigs in this cage
gained ten per cent. more in weight
in a given tia;s than the pigs in the
cage where there was no electricity.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
SUGAR ORCHARDS RUINED,


BELLOWS FALLS, vt. (SpeciaD,--Investl-
CATION shows that the damage done the
maple sugar trees by tent caterpillars is
very serious. In some sections the trees
have suffered to an extent that threatens
total destruction to some OF the best or.
chards in the State.
The Vermont maple sugar makers Or
ganization expected to handle this season
over 10000 gallons of syrup. They have
received less than 5000 gallons. Unless
some radical remedy is discovered the pest
may ruin the entire maple sugar industry
OF the State.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07

"When l wrote to You | was very
sick, had not been well for two years.
The doctors did not seem to help me,
and one said | could not live three
months. had womb trouble, falling,
ulcers, kidney and bladder trouble.
There seemed to be such a drawing
and burning pain in my bowels that l
could not rest anywhere. After using
Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Sanative Wash and follow
ing your advice, | feel well again and
str~ongerthan ever, My bowels feel as If
they had been made over new. With
many thanks for your help, l remain,
L. G., "a ANN ST.. NEWARK, N. j."
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-07
What aLittIe Faith Did
~, FOR MRS. ROCKWELL.
Ilrrrrs TO MRS. IskHAn NO. 6,,ss4l

E|IFE" ~ ~ VgINVI
81 was a great sufferer from female
weakness and had no strength. 1t was
impossible for me to attend to my
household duties, | had tried every
thing and many doctors, but found no
relief.
My sister advised me to try Lydia
f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which l did; before using all of oue
bottle felt better, kept ON with it
and to my great surprise | am cured.
All who suffer from female complaints
should give it a trial."-MRs. Rock
WE'LL, 1909 S, DIVISION ST, GRAND
RAPIDS, Men.