davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newport weekly independent., 1901-12-20

colored, wera
 the 18th. ThN
 non and Kelly
 of the most bf)
 in this state.
 had an altercatiol got the worst of
 mediately to his h double-barreled shot ct full of cartridgeA
 Kelly ahead to enti\ from his house, secret the tall grass near by. worked, and when old came out into his horse Kelly, both men began fl him, killing him instantly
 Lanes wife started with musket to the aid of her ! but, seeing he was dead, ra| to the house and tried to bal it. The two men followed her. non shot her, firing through the\ dow, filling her body with nun 4 shot, and the poor woman ra1 a small table and took refuge und it, pulling the covering down so to conceal her person. The me, then kicked the door down and Gan non, as he confessed, "just knel down and fired at Sallie til he wa tired" The woman was absolutel filled with shot and bullets, Kell using a 30-calibre revolver. Ther were thirteen balls from his revolve in the body of Isaac Lane, in addi tion to the charge of shot from Can mons gun, that broke his neck.
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AN INSANE MOTHER.
she Drowned Her Four small Chil.
aren In a Well and Then Jumped
IN After Them.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 2s.---At Little
York, q station on the line of the
Akron, Bedford & Cleveland railway,
Is miles from here, Mrs. Perry Curtis,
wife Of q farmer, drowned her four
small children in a well and commit
ted suicide by jumping In the well.
Her husband was in Cleveland and
knew nothing of the tragedy until
he read an account of II in the news
papers.
Following are the names and ages
of the dead. Mrs. Perry Curtis, 3s
years: Rosa Curtis, 2 years; Anna
Curtis, 4 years; Harry Curtis, years;
Harold Scuder, o years. The latter
was Mrs. Curtis stepson.
Mrs. Curtis was released from the
Massillon insane asylum recently as
cured, and it is thought that 1t was
while suffering relapse that she
committed the deed. Eugene Roberts,
a ncighbor of the Curtis family. dis
covered the insane mothers crime
when he attempted to draw some
water from the well, and to his horror
found it literally filed with dead
bodies. The bodies were removed
from the well rs soon us possible,
and viewed by the county coroner.
The body of Harold, the oldest boy,
was terribly bruised. lie had evi-
IDENTIFY made desperate struggle to
save himself
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THE YACHT RACES.
The Great international Contest for
AmcricR's Cup Begun at sandy
Hook LiRhtship.

New York, Sept. 27.-One of the big
gest crowds that ever put to sea went
down to the Sandy Hook Lightship
Thursday to witness Sir Thomas Lip
tons second challenger, Shamrock
H., and the white flyer Columbia,
which successfully defended the old
Americas cup against his first trophy
hunter two years ago, struggle for
the yacht supremacy of the world in
the irst of the cup races of 1901. But
the excursion fleet returned disap-
pointed. The great single stickers
went out Thursday morning fresh for
the battle, but the sea refused them
a field of conflict. The wind, never
more than nine and sometimes as
low as three knots, was too light and
shifty to carry the contestants over
the 3O-mile course in the time al
lotted by the rules. At the end Of
five and half hours, the prescribed
time, the race was officially declared
Off, and the yachts were towed back
to their berths inside Sandy Hook.
New York, Sept. 3c.--In the inter-
national races for Americas cup Sat-
urday the Columbia won. The Sham
rock ii. led in the earlier stages of
rhe contest, but the Columbia slowly
gained on its British competitor dur
ing the last stage and finished 40
seconds ahead of the Shamrock II.
Tens of thousands held their breath
to give voice to the skies when the
Columbia's jibboom went spearing
across the line some three lengths
ahead of the Shamrock ii.
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SEVERE DEFEAT.


Washington, Sept. 3O.--News of the
disastrous fight between troops of
the 9TH infantry and the insurgents
In Samar was received by the war de-
partment:
Manila, Sept. 29.-Adjutant Gem
eral, Washington: Hughes reports
following from Bassey, Southern Sa-
mar: Twenty-four men 9th regiment,
United States infantry, wounded,
have just arrived from Balangiga. re-
mainder company killed. Insurgents
secured sll company supplies and all
rifles except 12. Company was attack
ed during breakfast morning Septem-
her 2s; company ~ strong; officers,
Thomas W. Connolly (Captain), Ed
ward A. Buinpus FIRST lieutenant),
DIR. r. s. Griswold (major surgeon)
escaped.
"CHAFFEE.-
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SUNDAY.

J. H. Haverly, the former famous
minstrel leader, died of heart trou.
BILE in st. Marks hospital, Salt Lake.
Utah.
The cruiser Cleveland was launched
at Bath, Me. Miss Ruth Hanna
daughter of the senator, christened
the vessel.
I. Fava. u highly esteemed citizen
of Pass Christian, Miss, avenged his
daughter by killing Alexander West
Negro who had assaulted his six.
teen-year-old daughter
In the international yacht rare the
Columbia beat the Shamrock by thir'
" seconds. The Shamrock had the
lead in the start. but on the home
stretch the Columbia forged ahead oi
her.
The London Daily News publishes
IN unconfirmed rumor that Lord
Kitchener has resigned the post of
,ommander-in-chief. in South Africa,
owing to disagreements with Mr..
Frederick, the war secretary.
Funeral services over the remains
If the late jeremiah NJ. Wilson, chief
'ounsel for Adm. Schley, and one OF
The best known lawyers In the coun-
try, were held at the Church of the
Covenant, Washington. Interment
took place at Oak Hill cemetery.
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
ness Man of Cleveland, Asphyx-
Intcd Htmsclf.

Cleveland, o.. Sept. So.--BeIieving
himself the victim of malicious and
unrelenting persecution. and think
ing that he was ruined through the
efforts Of his enemies, jacob A. Blodt,
iu fit of desperation, killed himself
by asphyxiation in little boarding
house on Perry street early Sunday,
which was his 46th birthday.
For 30 years Mr.. Blodt had been
identified with prominent businesses
IN Cleveland Until month ago he
was universally respected and held In
confidence by the most conservative
business men. He was secretary of
the Guarantee Savings and Loan Co..
which failed few wee]es ago. His
arrest on the charge of embezzlement
followed close after the state au-
thoritics had instituted proceedings
against the company, and he was still
on bail when he ended his life.
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The Portraits Of Our Presidents
With Biographical Sketches
BY
General Charles n. 0rosvenor
Title page designed by Tiffany.

This Inaugural year, when the public mind
10 aroused over Presidential questions, 10 dt-
ting time TO issue General 6rosvenor's book.
It's sale ID already tremendous, and will per.
hsps exceed that OF General Grants Personal
Memoirs.
Every patriotic American desires 10 read
what General Gvosvenor has 70 ssy Of George
Warrington. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew jack
and the other Chief Executives Of the Nation.
Everybody desires to read what General 0ros-
venor, the staunch Republican leader In Con.
grsss, will ssy Of that staunch old Democrat,
Andrew Jackson, the Father OF the Democratic
party. General 0rosvenor has thrown into his
nature. The biography Of Thomas Jefferson =
grand. The biography Of Lincoln u - beauti.
ful - . sunrise over the hilltops. General
0rosvsnor has personally known I'll the Presi-
dents since the time OF James Buchanan. The
Generals book will therefore contain history
from his own personal observation OF thoee
great men. General 0rosven0r has served In
Congress for nearly twenty yesrs, and he has
served his country In war and 10 Congress for
nearly forty years. Tho book contains twenty
four large Photoersyure Etchings q nne e
paper made especially 10 order. These twenty.
four Photogrsvure Etchings are in different
tinta, and are we'll worth % each. These Por.
traits are made from the paintings endorsed By
the family and near relatives Of the Presidents.
Two s:, r. .ssns time and s,s fortune S.vs been e:
complete book u well worth $50, but The price
has been placed 20 low that tho most humble
American citizen can own Il. The biogrsph-
ical sketches are printed In large open type In
two colors the work % 20 BEAUTIFUL That when
sss sss " psssSsns sss az W. &: Az
subscsiber. There q one sdisioh known . The
President Edition do Grand Luxe initial lot
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WIN. M'KlNLEY's WILL.
mis- Estate Left to MS wsfe Dusins
Her Life, Then Goes 20 His
Brother and sisters.

Canton, o., Sept. 2s.--Secretary Cor
telyou came here TO assist Mrs. Nc
Kinley in disposing of matters con-
nected with the late presidents
estate. The trying task Of reading
Mr.. McKinley's will was undertaken
by the faithful secretary. Mrs. Me-
Kinley made heroic effort to bear
up, and succeeded in doing SO, al
though the ordeal was difficult for
her. All legal formalities necessary
for her to subscribe to were disposed
of. Judge Day and Secretary Cortel-
you then went to the Office of the
probate Judge and offered the will
of President Mckinley for probate.
They carried with them the follow.
ing: 81, Ida S. Mckinley. widow Of
William Mckinley, deceased, hereby
declines the administration of his
estate, and recommend the appoint
ment of William r. Day and George
B. Cortelyou as administrators with
the will annexed"
This recommendation bears the date
Of September 81. 1901.
Following 10 the text of President
McKinley's will:
Executive Mansion, Washington,
n. Gel publish the following as my
latest will and testament, hereby re-
voking all former wills.
ITO my beloved wife. Ida s. Nc
Kinley. I bequeath oil of my real
estate wherever situated. and the in
come from any personal property Of
which l may be possessed ut death,
during. her natural life.
81 make the following charge upon
all my property. both real and per-
sonal: To pay my. mother during
her life $1,000 year, and at her death,
said sum to be paid to my sister,
Helen Mckinley. If the income from
my property be insufficient to keep
.,ny wife in great comfort and pay
the annuity above provided, then I
direct that such OF my property be
sold so as to make q sum adequate
for both purposes Whatever property
remains at the death of my wife !
give to my brother and sisters. share
and share alike. My chief concern
~ tiut iIit NIlC lIOih h.s VStutV Suuii
have all she requires for her comfort
and pleasure, and that my mother
shall be provided with whatever
money she requires to make her old
age comfortable and happy.
witness my hand and seal, this
2sd day Of October. 1897, to my last
will and testament, made at the city
of Washington. District of Columbia
(Seal.) "WILLIAM MCKINLEY"
"The foregoing will was witnessed
by us this 22d day of October, 1897, a,
the request Of the testator. and his
name signed thereto in our presence
and our signatures hereto in his pres
ence. &c. B. CORTELYOU,
CHARLES LOEFFLER."
II Is given out on authority that
the Mckinley estate will total 1925,
900 to S25O.0OO, including life insur
ance of $4,000. Aside from the SGT,
900 mentioned, the estate consists oi
real estate here and contiguous tc
Canton. and of deposits in Washing
ton banks.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
The News of The woriA Condensea
and Coilated for the Benent Of
the Hasty Reader.
MONDAY.

Count Won Waldersee. who Is nil
ing, is worse. He suffers from
painful sore Oh the leg and has no
appetite.
The 30th annual meeting of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
will be held in Louisville, KY, on Oc-
tober s and Q.
DR.. Henry Whitehorn, died In
Schenectady, n. y, aged SO years. He
was at one time one of the best
known educators in the country.
A dispatch from Constantinople re-
ports that "a bloody fight has taken
place between Mussulmans and Chris
tians at Beirut, Syria. No details IRE
given.
Lord Kitchener has asked for $4,000
more seasoned mounted men and for
power 10 hang rebels, traitors and
home government.
Rev. DIR. William C. Gray, the ven-
cradle editor of the Interior, Chi
cago publication of the Presbyterian
church, died at his home i'm Oak Park,
aged 10 years.
Empress Augusta Victoria, whose
return from Rominten was earlier
than she had intended, Is i'll and con-
fined to her bed. Prof. Olshausen
has been consulted.
4 proclamation has been issued pro-
,ilng for the sale of properties of
burghcrs still in the field in accord.
ance with the terms of Lord Kitchen
er's previous proclamation.
a pamphlet has been published at
Pretoria under Lord Kitchcner's au-
ihority. containing notice of the per-
mahent banishnent of several Boer
leaders completed since September Ii.
y pitched battle between strikers
and policemen occurred in San Fran
isco. Seven men are known to have
been wounded, one probably fatally,
and il Is thought that several others
who escaped arrest were injured.
The guard at the Mckinley tomb
claims to have been attacked at night.
lie fred a shot, but lfc was diverted
by second man prowling about the
vault whose knife blade was thrust
at him. It penetrated the guards
overcoat and blouse.
At Pittsburg, as result of an nt-
tempt to use oil to hurry along the
Kitchen fire, Mrs. Barbara Sturgen Is
dead, her husband, Andrew, and their
son, George, are dying. Two other
children of the family, Barbara and
Andrew, are very badly burned.
Daniel and William Greenhill. are
under arrest on suspicion of having
murdered Mrs tTren, their sister, and
John Mcloy, suitor for her hand, al
Desoto, Mo. The two were killed
Saturday night at the home of Mrs
uren's father, Robert Greenhill.
A disastrous fight took place be-
tween Company c of the 9th infantry
and large body of insurgents. Tween
ty-four Americans were wounded and
lS silled. The Filipinos secured all
the company's supplies and rifles ex'
cept 12. The captain, first lieutenan,
and Major Surgeon escaped.
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HE REPORTED HIM.
A Hamilton County Convict AS
sauIted Guard Hayden In the
Ohio Penitentiary.

Columbus, O.. Sept. 2s.-Jas. Crow,
q Hamilton county Negro convict, as
saulted Guard Hayden in the hoe shop
at the Ohio penitentiary. He struck
him twice over the head with heavy
iron bar, but failed to fell him. The
guard fired once at the Negro and
missed, but forced him to surrender
at the point of the revolver. Crow
confessed that he wanted to kill Hay
den for reporting him.
The guard sustained a cash four
inches long on the head, and, II Is
feared. is seriously injured.
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BURNED TO DEATH.
NJ. A. smith. Wntclmnn at the MI
nerva Furniture CO., Lost His
Life In a Fire.

Canton, o., Sept. 27.-Fire was dis
covered in the plant of the Minerva
Furniture Co. at Minerva, 20 miles
southeast of here, at o'clock Thurs
day morning. The alarm was given
by Night Watchman NJ. A. Smith, who
blew three blasts on the whistle OF
the power plant and then set about
fighting the fire. When others ar
rived Smith was enveloped in flames
and literally burned up before their
eyes. The property loss is about $2O,-
600, with $4,000 insurance.
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ADMITS His Identity.

Hamilton, o., Sept. 27.-James Boyd,
one of the two men arrested for an
alleged attempt to rob the county
treasury. Thursday admitted that he
Is John Ryan, Of Chicago, who is
wanted for robbing the Bluffs, ILL.,,
bank of $2.10o last October. He served
six years in the Nebraska peniten-
tiary for shooting an officer in 1899.
He refuses to return to Illinois with
out requisition papers.
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w. T. Wesson. Ghoisonville. Va,
druggist, writes "Your One Minute
Cough Cure gives perfect satisfaction.
My customers says 1t is the best reme-
dy for coughs, colds, throat and lung
troubles" w. r.. Smith & Co.
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To Examine shoer..

Columbus. O., Sept. 3O.-The exec
utive board of Master Horseshoers'
Association of Ohio Sunday drafted
q bill for board of state examiners
OF -horseshoers. The bill provides for
a board to consist of a veterinary SUR
geon. two master and two journey.
men horseshoers, and thorough
course of apprenticeship.
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win Invade Londos.

New York, Sept. 2s.--The World
Friday announced that Henry Siegel.
who recently sold his interests in Sic
gel & Cooper, will. engage in part
nership with Sir Thomas Upton, to
establish a big American department
atora In London.
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Preferred Prison to military service

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 3O.--Chas. War
ner and Frank T.. Croak deliberately
deserted from the United States army
because they preferred court-martial
and Imprisonment to serving out their
unexpired enlistment.
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VIII Change HIS Name.

Akron. O.. Sept. 30.-Michacl Czol-
gosz. brother of the assassin of Pres.
ident Mckinley, asked for his pay at
The Diamond match factogy In Bar
berton Saturday night and left town
for good. He declared that he would
have his name changed.
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The wilke. Launched.

New York, Sept. 3O.-The United
States torpedo boat Wilkes was sue.
cessfully launched, Miss Harriet f.
Rankin, 12-year-old granddaughter
Of the late Adm. Wilkes, for whom
the boat is named, being the spon-
sOr
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I'M. Phelps, Eorestdale, VT, says
his child was completely cured of
bad case Of eczema by the use Of De-
wits witch Hazel Salve. Beware
of ~ countemeits. II instantly re-
lleyes paAuh W. r. Smith = %.
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Death Of John ". Wells.

Canton. o., Sept. 30.-.John M. Wells
superintendent of the wood depart.
n,ent OF the Aultman Co., died Sun
day forenoon of neuralgia of the
heart. He was one of the best known
men in Canton.
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Couat Won waIdsrses Alias.

berlin, Sept. 30.-Count Won Wal
dersee, who is aiiing, is worse. He
suffers from painful sore on the
leg and has no appetite, He Is still
near Neckarsulm, Wnrtemburg, on
the estate Of his sister-ip-lsw.
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New Counterfeit.

Washington, Sept. 3O.--The treas
ury department issued warning that
a new counterfeit IS silver certificate
is In circulation. IL 10 one OF the series
of 1899, check letter u, plate number
~, and bears the portrait of Indian
Chief 0neDana
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Toledo, O., Sept. aO.-Albert Brown,
aged 21, took large dose of sugar
Of lead and was only saved by heroic
efforts of a couple of physicians. 1t
Is given out that he took the poison
70 get rid of the attention of a
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To Disinherit Heir Apparent.

London. Sept. 2s.--"It is reported
here" says dispatch from Shanghai
to the STANDARD, "that, on the arrival
Of the court at Kai Fong Flu, the en-
press dowager will disinherit the heir
apparent, Chun, on the pretext that
he is leading life of dissipation"
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DurIed Under Dirt and stone.

Hamilton, o., Sept. 2s.-While wall.
ing in vault at his home at 1880 a.
m. John Westbrook, married, was bur.
led under 12 feet of dirt and stone by
the cave-in of the walls. He was dead
when dug out X
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Guest-Where did you get all these
horrible portraits Of your husband ?
Doctors wifc-Those marked &c.
PIP" Oh, they were painted for him
by Grateful Patients"
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nm ma GoIn man ReIsa.eS.

Chicago, Sept. 25.-Emma Goldman,
the anarchist lecturer was liberated
Tuesday, after two weeks incarcer
tion following the assassination Of the
president, There was no sstdanse
agsinst her.
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Two RevoIvers Found ON q Convie

Columbus. o.. Sept. ao.--Two revol'
vers were found In the possession OF
Tom Carter, who is serving o '20-yea,
sentence in the penitentiary for man
slaughter from Hamilton county
Carter hns bees trusty. and his rec
ord has been very good.
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The Weeks Failures.

New York, Sept. ss.-Failures for
the week number 227 in the United
States. against 204 last year, and 81
in Canada. against IS last year.
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Resismation Of Gov. Dole.

San Francisco. Sept. 2s.--Since the
arrival here OF the steamer Sierra
last Wednesday the story has been
circulated that just before the vessel
left Honolulu Gov Dole wrote hir
resignation.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-23
IN MEMoRIAM.
HALL OF THE GEORGIA MEDICAL
SOCIETY.


HALL OF THE GEORGIA MEDICAL
SOCIETY.
/. Savannah, Ga, Jan. s, 1901.
on the 9th day of December 1900, after
an honored and useful life. and at the
close of a successful professional career
passed away. DR.. William Duncan in his
sixty-first year-not only skilled in the
profession to which we devote our best
years and energies. but full of the kim
ness and sympathy which belongs to no
profession exclusively, but make us hope
full of higher and better things beyond
that threshold at which the genius of our
calling stops helplessly.
He was pre-eminently a Savannahian,
reared under the influences of our his
toric town; in all respects a man. gentle,
lovable, brave, devoted and loyal. Filling
many offices to which the confidence and
esteem of his fellow citizens had called
him. his record was one of integrity and
ability. But his claim upon us and the
people of Savannah rests not alone upon
his civic positions. He was first an0
foremost a practitioner of medicine. At
every can, III every CIlSlS, III Idih anu
storm, in peace and war, in health and IN
pestilence, in prosperity and in adversely,
his prompt answer, his swift step, his
hopeful and courageous presence, meant
ali that any human being could put into
human action when men are summoned.
In these few and simple words of affec-
tionate remembrance let US put on record
our respect and admiration for one who
was not only comrade and friend, but
gentleman, help to the friendless and
an ornament to a profession which stands
before the world for all that is best and
self-sacrifcing in our noble natures.
Be it resolved, therefore,
First, That the Georgia Medical Socie
ty most deeply deplores the death of Dr..
William Duncan.
Second, That the sympathies of this So
ciety be extended to the sorrowing broth
er and sister in their affliction.
Third, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to his bereaved family.
Fourth, That these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of this society and also
published in the Morning News.
w w. OWENS, NJ. D.,
Chairman Committee.