davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

but Is cents per day. Take from this scanty
income the heavy taxes eXacted by the
Italian government and there is little re-
naming with which to purchase first-elass
food and clothing. In fact. the Italian Is
living on half rations. According 10 es-
Inmates he consumes annually 300 pounds
of cereals and thirty pounds OF meat. while
the American laborer, with a much more
varied diet, eats near 400 pounds Of cereals
and sixty pounds of meat.
Death from starvation is not frequent.
but there is a great lack of food OF a highly
nutritive value. Active philanthropy is do
ing much for the poorly fed. In Milan.
Turin and other cities free noon meals are
provided for school children, and in some
smaller cities We saw kitchens where the
school children could purchase a meal for
about 2 cents.
Education is one OF the darkest chapters
in Italy's social history. and she claims
the primacy OF illiteraey in western Eu-
rope,
This, as well as some other painful con-
ditions. can be traced In part to national
influence or neglect. But 10 the American
observer there is evidence of the dawn of
better things in Italy's Institutional life.
This Is based upon the chaos aud decay of
the old political parties"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

diana State Prison for one TO three years.
Lou Hoyt and Arthur Walker; grand lar
ceny. Eoyt sentenced TO one TO fourteen
years in Indiana Reformatory on finding
Of guilty TO grand larceny, and Walker
sentenced TO one TO three years in Indiana
larceny.
Lou Hoyt and Frank Meyer; burglary
and grand larceny. Finding OF guilty OF
grand larceny and each sentenced TO one
10 fourteen years in Indiana ReformatOry.
NEW SUITS FILED.
Catherine Young VS.. John a. Young. d.
vorce. Superior Court, Room 3.
Agnes Mccarthy VS.. Thomas Mccarthy;
divorce. Superior Court. Room 2.
Joseph F. Thomas ct al. VS.. Nellie Shep-
ard ct al; partition. Circuit Court.
Anna NJ. Petig IS. Herman Petig; divorce.
Superior Court. Room 8.
Ora Maud Kirby VS.. William II. Kirby;
divorce. Superior Court, Room 8.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
PLUNGED FROM A WINDOW.
william Badgers Method of Attempt
ing Suicide.

William Badger. a machinist at the At
kins saw works. made a desperate attempt
last evening at suicide. He jumped from
his workbench on the third floor through
a window to the sidewalk on South street.
When friends reached him he was bleed
ing from several wounds on his head.
His left arm was fractured in two places
and he was injured internally. The City
Dispensary ambulance was called. DIR.
Schenck examined Badger and found that
he probably was fatally injured. He was
pital and DIR. Allen called. Badger was
unconscious. DR.. Allen examined the
wounds He found a fracture of the skull
both eyes. the right shoulder and arm
broken.
What the mans motive was for self
destruction could not be learned. II was
said by his fellow-workmen that he had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
REV. F. O BECK'S LECTURE.


The Rev. Frank o.. Beck, who has re-
Gently spent some time in studying and
teaching IN Europe, addressed an audience
in his church at Napoleon last night on
What an American Student Saw in
Italy"
He said, in part: The income of the
Italians is pitifdlly small. An estimate
made by signor Bedio in 1891 represented
the annual income 10 be about 800 LEILA, or
SIS per capita. Salaries and wage are
low. The professional classes rarely have
an income TO exceed 81. 200. and the average
is considerably below this. The artisans
and laborers receive painfully low wages.
Skilled labor is paid from 80 to 50 cents
per day; unskilled labcr rarely receives 40
cents, and agricultural labor often receives
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
JOHN ARMSTRONG's WILL.
He Leaves an Estate i'm Excess of
O.OOO-Other Court Cases.

The will of the late John Armstrong was
probated yesterday. 1t provides that his
executors shall pay TO his widow, Frances
Ann Armstrong, $1,000 a year in quarterly
instaIlments of $50 during her life. The
remainder OF his property is equally di-
vided between his sons, James w. and Ed
win J.. Armstrong, and his granddaughter,
Jessie A Beatty. The will provides that If
any one of the legatees shall attempt TO
contest the will I'm court. it means their dis
inheritance and the bequest shall be divided
Between the other two. James w. Arm
strong and Daniel Waite Howe were named
as executors and will qualify under a bond
of $4,000. IL is said the estate is valued at
between $4,000 and $50, 1000!
Andrew Helm was appointed guardian of
Dorothy Helm and ave a bond of $500.
Joseph Collier was appointed admins
traitor of the estate of William II. Brown,
and gave a bone OF $500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
Jennings Case to BE Tried Here.

Judge o II. Baker, of the Federal
Court. decided yesterday that David Jen-
nings's suit against citizens of Salem should
be tried in this city. The defendants asked
for a change Of venue 10 New Albany. Jen-
ntngs objected TO this because, he said. the
people in the southern part OF the State
are hardened 70 whitecapping. His charge
against the defendants is that he was
whitecapped and otherwise prosecuted. The
date OF the trial has not been set.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

- 1ANAOA UNI
Room John L. MeMaster. Judge.
George Dawson VS.. The indianapolis
street-railway Co; damages. on trial by
jury.
Room S-Vinson Carter. Judge.
Alexander w. Jameson VS.. City Of In
dianapolts; damages. Jury instructed and
retire.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Henry Clay Allen. Judge.
Christian Reinhardt, naturalfzed.
Isaac Barber Us. Rachel Barber: divorce
BY leave or court plaintiff dismisses cause.
Judgment against plaintiff for costs.
Georgia \. Wood vs.. William Wood: di-
vorce. Defendant defaulted. Submitted TO
court. Evidence heard I'm part.
Sarah Hinkls Us William Hinkle: divorce.
Defendant deEaulted. Submitted 10 court.
Evidence heard In part.
August Waeker vs.. Louise Wscker: 10
convey real estate Insanity of defendant
suggested. Donald s. Morris appointed
guardian ad Item. Submitted TO court
Finding for petitioner. Petitioner author
ized 20 sell. Deed approved. Costs paid.
Georsiana Carter vs.. James +. Carter
divorce. Defendant defauited. Submitted
20 court. Finding for plaintiff. Decree of
divorce, Judgment against defendant for
costs.
divorce. Defendant defaulted. Submitted
TO court. Finding for plaintiff. Decree of
divorce. Judgment against plaintiff for
costs.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Fremont Afford. Judge.
Henry Ragsdale; grand larceny and re-
eeiying stolen goods. Continued until FRI
day morning.
Charles Meyers; grand larceny. Sentence
suspended.
guilty Age thirty-hve. Sentenced to In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
Judgment Against Seymour.

The Farmers Loan and Trust Company
of New York obtained a judgment for 81. 700
against the city of Seymour from a jury
in the Federal Court yesterday. The trust
company Is interested in the m
Water Company and the suit was brought
because the city refused to pay water
rental.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

Jap Miller. friend OF James whitcomb
Riley and mayor of Brooklyn" is one of
the visitors TO the monument dedication.
Riley thinks that Miller is one Of the best
OF natural humorists and philosophers, and
he goes frequently to Brooklyn TO visit his
friend. Mr.. Miller called on Col. Charles
Z. Wilson yesterday at the S~tatehouse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
Ernest Vertrees Arrested.

Ernest Vertrees, colored. who has been
employed at the Denison Hotel as check
boy, was arrested last night by Detectives
Morgan, Kinney and Lancaster. Detective
Morgan said he had received numerous
complaints that articles had been taken
from clothes in the check room. V~ertrees
admitted 10 have taken a number of ar
ticles. He lives at 1915 North West street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
To Subscribers:

On Thursday, May IS, the
Journal will deliver gratis with
each copy of the paper a hand
some ha1ftone engraving of the
Soldiers aud Sailors Monu-
ment. 1t will be printed on
heavy coated paper and will be
o BY II inches in size. The en-
craving is made from the best
photograph tax en- of the
monument since its completion.
Subscribers desiring extra COP
les should place the order as
early as possible with the agent
or newsdealer supplying them.
Indianapolis subscribers can
only be supplied with extra cop
les through news stands or at
the Journal counting We
cannot deliver extra copies by
carriers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

shown no unusual signs during the day.
He was working at a bench. hammering
a piece OF iron. He turned 20 a man work
ing at his side and said: Goodbye, I'm
going The man could not understand
what Badger meant until the latter had
crawled half way over his bench and
plunged over the window ledge 20 the pave
ment below. a distance OF thirty-hve feet.
Badger is forty years old and lives with
mis- wife az 1852 Kentucky avenue. He has
been employed at the Atkins saw works for
a long time. liz is said he has not showed
signs OF insanity. His home relations were
pleasant. IL Is said.
Last night DIR. Allen said that Badger
was no doubt fatally injured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

visions OF the Constitution Of the United
States. I67 Southwestern Rep. CTexas), 51S.l
Telegraph Companies
Mental anguish resulting from failure 20
promptly deliver a telegram is held not
sufficient TO support an action against the
company for such failure. I54 Lawyers Re-
ports Annotated, S46.l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14

The indianapolis g. Vincennes Railroad
Company Is contesting In the Supreme
Court the ownership Of the right OF way
OF the Indianapolis a Martinsville RAPID
Transit Company southwest OF Indianap-
oils. After the transit company had ac-
quired a strip OF land adjoining the right
OF way OF the railroad the railroad COM
pany asserted that IL really owned a right
OF way one hundred feet wide Instead OF
a strip forty feet wide inelosed within its
fence, but the lower court decided against
the contention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
THE COURT RECORD.
COURT.

SIFEfIOH COURI.
Room 1John l. McMaster. Judge.
George Dawson VS.. The INDIANAPOLIS
fury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-14
CIRCUIT COURT

Alexander w. Jameson VS.. City of In
dianapolis. damages. Jury instructed and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
TONNAGE of the South.

The removal of the general freight
Office of the Southern railway to At
lanta has nearly upset that town, al
though it involves sixty-fve wage
earners only, which would not be
enough to equip one end of plant
in this district. But the transfer of the
sixty-fve has led Atlanta to at once
claim itself to be the center of the
universe, and to base upon that claim
all sorts of greatness. 1t is claiming
a trifie too much. The world can not
at present be swung from Atlanta and
that town should recover its equilibri-
um and come down from the clouds,
lest it's balloon collapse altogether.
In the height of it's joy the esteemed
Atlanta Journal publishes map show
ing how the freight business of the
cotton states is centered at Atlanta.
On this map the name of Birmingham
does not appear, and yet the tonnage
arising IN the Birmingham district ex-
ceeds that of all Georgia ten times
over-yes, we repeat it, ten times
that of all Georgia. There are in the
south only three districts that are
great originators of tonnage and these
districts are those of Birmingham,
Chattanooga and Beaumont. There is
no fourth center of the first rank. The
tonnage arising in Atlanta is insignifi-
cant, as the figures of the railroads
readily show.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
COTTON Is COMING In.

From the Selman Times.
The fieecy staple is beginning to roll in
now and already the warehouses are be-
ing crowded for space In which to store
the big bundles of the south's greatest
and most important product King cot
toms formal coronation will not occur
until after September first, but already
the crop is beginning to move and there
is noticeable on the streets a busy hustle
among the local buyers and factors as
we'll as the warehousemen. Yesterday
afternoon Times reporter visited sever
al Of the local warehouses and watched
with eager interest the snowy white bales
as they were unloaded from the farm
wagons and drays. The sight was an in
spring one for whenever cotton is COM
ing in it means lots to the commercial
and business prosperity of Selma. After
a long, hot, dry, dull summer local mer-
chants are beginning to feel the need of
a revival In business, and while the crop
is being marketed they naturally expect
a very general improvement along all
lines. While the prospects for a large
crop this year are exceedingly slim, the
hope of a ten-cent staple is being held
out as an offset. and it is expected that
the short crop this fall will bring fully
as much If not more than last season.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
Receives His Commission.

The honors and emoluments which even
the most brilliant and eminent physi-
clans receive are rare enough to make
such a distinction as that conferred up
on DR.. w. E. B. Davis of Birmingham,
worthy OF special note. This distinction
is none other than his appointment as
delegate from the United States to the
fourth international congress Of gyne-
cology and obstetrics which will be held
at Rome, September 10 to q.
DIR. Davis has just received his COM
mission. He has been signally honored
and his appointment will be of particular
interest to the medical profession since
representatives from the United States
are selected because of professional and
personal fitness. DIR. Davis is secretary
of the American association of gynechol-
ogists and is on boards of medical juris-
prudence in the largest medical societies
of the country. He was appointed a dele
gate to London few years ago and
he was among the distinguished men
from this country at the medical con-
gress in Havana two winters ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
Blrminobom's Humane Society.

No town ever needed a humane so
siety more than this town does. and
some good people have at length come
together and perfected an organization
through which all who have a spark
of love for men or beasts in their
bosoms can act The object Of this
society is to prevent cruelty to per
sons and animals. and 1t has big
task on its hands, for one cannot walk
these streets without seeing acts of
cruelty to creatures of one sort or an
other
This society is to hold mass meet
ing at the assembly room of the city
hall on Tuesday night, and the Age
Herald bespeals a full attendance at
Lat meeting of all men and women
who desire to see the prevalent cruel
ties of this community diminished,
who desire to see present laws en-
forced and new ones enacted to the
end that humane acts may be pro-
NOTED and inhumane acts diminished.
There will be good speakers at the
meeting, and the scope of the work
that the society will undertake will
be fully explained. 1t has an ample
field, and if it can command public
sentiment and public support 1t can
accomplish quickly very much, for a
few cases of cruelty properly punished
would soon teach lessons that should
be well rubbed in in this valley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31

Mr.. T. c. De Leon of Alabama is the
most striking figure of the summer con-
tingent at the University OF the South,
Sewanee. being as usual the mecca for
many prominent people.
Mr.. De Leon is delivering a series Of
lectures at the university. his two latest
subjects being 1.-THE Last Martyr" QMe-
Kinley), and "Under the Chestnut Tree;
An Evening with Wise Fools and Weak
Wits-A Prose for the Prosy." The for
mer lecture is a personal consideration
of the man and comparison with the mar
tyred presidents Lincoln and Garfield.
Mr.. De Leon having known Mr. Lin
coin and Mr. Garfield personally. Mr..
De Icons strength as a lecturer is the
same that has made permanent his fame
as an author-a strength that lies in his
perfect familiarity with his subjects and
his close knowledge of the people Of
whom he writes.
The career Of Mr.. De Leon is an inter-
esting one. Alabama, that is to say Mo
bile, is his home, but Dy birth he Is a
South Carolinian and he is of Spanish
parentage. His preparatory education
was at Rugby Academy, District Of
Columbia. and subsequently at George
town University. At the close of the
war he went to New York where he met
with signal success in the newspaper and
literary world. Returning south, he be-
came managing editor, then editor-in-
chief of the Mobile Register, at time
when his contemporaries, Henry Waiter
son, J. r. Randall, the two Dimetries of
New Orleans and other men of brilliant
qualities, were exerting a potent infiu-
ence towards the establishment of the
south. All during that period Mr.. De
Leon was a contributor TO Harper's, Lip
pincott's, Leslie's and other northern
periodicals.
But Mr.. De Icons greatest ambition
in those days was to become q play
wright His burlesque of Hamlet was
played by George Fox for one hundred
nights in New York, and was one of the
greatest successes of the season. Bar
rett, Clark, Bandman and others accept
ed his plays, his dramatic work bringing
him wide recognition.
For many years Mr.. De Leon has de-
voted himself to fiction and historic re-
rniniscences. His most notable contribu-
ton to literature is -Four Years in Re-
bel Capitals" At the time Of its pub
lication 1t was pronounced to be incom-
parably his best work 1t is still con-
ceded that the generation Of which the
author writes can not today bequeathe
to the present a truer history of the con-
federacy or a more graphic narrative of
that bitter campaign. Mr.. De Leon was
a protege of President Davis, and he was
associated intimately with him in the
confederate capitals. To the student of
the annals of the civil war, of the condi-
lions that confronted the southern peo-
pie, as well as to those Interested In the
story of the luxury-loving south of the
adored past, in it's zealously exclusive
society in what Mr.. De Leon calls Its
delicious memories" there can be no
more fascinating history than the incl
dents of brilliant social life the author
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
cYcLIsT SEASON ENDED.
Major Taylor, Negro BicycIlst, "Pock-
eted" by BedelI and Lawson.

New York, August 3o.-The cyclist sea-
son on the Manhattan Beach track was
wound up today and there was plenty OF
excitement for a time, owing to the de-
liberate pocketing of the colored rider,
Major Taylor, by Bedell and Lawson In
the first heat of the one-third mile ma
tional championship event. Taylor was
so badly pocxeted that he sat up and
stopped riding, while Frank L. Kramer,
who was behind the trio. jumped around
the bunch and won. The team worked
so palpable that the spectators yelled
their disapproval of the unsportmanlike
actions of Lawson and Bedell who were
promptly disqualified on Taylor's COM
plant.
A short time afterwards Taylor was en-
Enthusiastically applauded when he beat
a big field in the five mile handicap in
which Mcfarland. who had announced
his intention of doing team work with
Kramer, was second and Kramer was not
In the first five. Summaries:
Motor cycle, pursuit race-Won by F..
p. Seaman, Mineola, l.. /. C. j.; Arnold,
Brooklyn, second; George Andres, New
York, third. Distance three and "a half
laps. Time 2:32 2-5.
Five mile professional handicap-Won
by Major Taylor. Worcester. Mass.
(scratch). F. A. Mcfarland. San Jose.
CAL, (scratch) second; Plugger Bill Mar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.

From the New York Commercial.
Pennsylvania, New York and New Jer-
sey hold the same relative positions In
the manufacture of locomotives now that
they did during the census year 1890
first, second and third respectively. All
the twenty-eight works In the country
exclusive of railroad shops turned out
27I4 locomotives in the year 1900, valued
at s27, 121.o69, as compared with 240O man.
ufactured in 1890 valued at only $40. 752,-
465. In addition. 272 locomotives, valued at
s3,276,393. were constructed at twenty-six
railroad shops, making a total of 3O46
locomotives. valued at $780, S97, ass. built in
fifty-four establishments during the CEN
sus year 1900. Pennsylvania turned out
almost one-half Of the entire product
to be exact, 1872 per cent-while New
Yorl1s percentage was q.
1t will be noted that the average value
Of these locomotives was much higher i'll
1907 man In the years previous-$9777 as
against $780, an increase OF s157S per To-
connective on an average. This Is, of
course, due chiefly to the increased size
/ OF tneSe Notwithstanding tnat has
been very marked in the past ten years.
Some of the locomotives IN common use
a dozen or more years ago would look
like pigmies now beside the giant ma
chimes seen on our first-class railroads
and this increase In size is said to be
still going on. especially among the west
ern lines.
significant fact disclosed by the
bulletin in hand is that in 1900 we Amer
leans exported 525 locomotives, while in
1890 the number was only 161-an increase
of 364, or 226 per cent. In mechanism, fuel
economies, speed and length of life the
American machines have far distancol
the foreign since the early nineties, and
the foreign demand for them is active
not only where new railroad construction
is going on but on old lines as we'll
If the Britons and the Germans and
the Norwegians are carrying across seas
the exports and imports of the United
States, they have to come to us for the
best machines to do their overland haul
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31

an inning. But If there is to be no
inning for Truth, then Of course we
will bow to the inevitable.
AS a last resort we make one final
appeal to the Richmond Times itself
to undo its work. It has robbed a
well-known Georgian, now dead, of
his best poem. and It has given Stone
wall jackson credit for a piece Of
work that he would speedily repudiate
If he we're living. We see, however,
little ground for hope in this matter
unless the ghosts of the two Jacksons,
both Of whom were eminent confeder-
ate soldiers. should appear to the lit
erary editor of the Richmond Times in
the dread hour of the night and give
him a talk that would turn pale the
famous scene in Hamlet, and also the
editor aforesaid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-31
pronounoinq the Towns Name.


The pronunciation of the name of
this town seems to bother the tongues
of a great many people, but it need
not do so any longer, for The Book
man publishes couplet that sets 1t
right, as follows:
There were three young women of Bir-
mingham,
And know a sad story concerning EN-
They stuck needles and pins
III the right reverend shins
OF the Bishop engaged in confirming en-!
This story may inclucate irrever-
ence, but 1t does not teach us to &C
cent the third syllable of this towns
name. 1t turns us towards correct
orthoepy, even if it does introduce
levity where leyity is out Of place.
The three young women will be ex-
cused If they can show that they do
not pronounce Birmingham incorrect
ly.
The word loses accent from the first
syllable, the first being accented
strongly, the second less so, and the
third not at all. The third syllable Is,
in fact, almost lost in pronunciation.
&c comes out in print, but not from the
correct tongue.