davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
NUMBED The BRAIN
Was This an Attempt at Double
Suicide?

TIFFIN, Ohio, Nov. 2S.-Early this
morning Effie Frankenfield, a pretty girl,
was found dead in her apartments in this
city. Lying partially across her body
was the unconscious form Of Otto
Kerschner, her sweetheart. All symp-
toms pointed to morphine poisoning and
yet there was not a clew that would In
dictate whose hand administered the fatal
drug or for what cause.
The couple had spent the day at the
girls home in Melmore, little village six
miles from Tiffin. They returned in the
evening" and, according to Kerschners
incoherent story, ate sparingly of apples
and candy, purchased at the little coun-
try store in Melmore. He, however, IS
but partially conscious, and, unless he
RECEIVERS which Is quite improbable, his
full version of the affair will never be
known
AS is usual in such cases. where the
circumstances are clouded In mystery,
all kinds of rumors and theories have
been advanced. The most common theory
is that 1t was case of attempting to
commit double suicide.
Another theory Is that the poison might
have been administered by some design
ing third person. Still another is that
instance. There Is absolutely no known
motive.
The affair seemed destined to remain a
mystery until this evening. when the po-
Ilc0 SuCcceUcQ ullcONeI1HS CERTAIN CiF
cumstances that indicate that the girl
died of broken heart.
Until three years ago there lived near
the home of the Frankenfield parents a
young man. He and Miss Frankenfieid
were sweethearts and were said to be
engaged. He went to the Wood county
oil fields and his letters finally ceased.
Two associates say the girl threatened
to commit suicide. 1t was thought thai
she had forgotten the old love when
Kerschner's attentions were received and
apparently reciprocated.
1t is thought that the girl has recently
attempted reconciliation with her for
r1er sweetheart and failed. Not caring
to live without him, she sought surcease
from her troubles in the fatal potion
But why Kerchner, her present sweet
heart. should also be a victim Of the
same Inflated love, is a mystery I'M
solved.
The stomach Of the dead girl, with its
contents. was sent to a Columbus chemist
for analysis this afternoon.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful It Is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that charcoal
is the safest and most efficient disinfec-
tant and purifier in nature, but few real
ize its value when taken into the human
system for the same cleansing purpose.
Charcoal Is a remedy that the more
you take of 1t the better; it Is not drug
at ALL but simply absorbs the gases and
impurities always present in the stom-
ach and intestines and carries them out
of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking. drinking or after eating onions
and other odOrouS Vegeta bleS
Charcoal effectually clears and improves
the complexion, it whitens the teeth and
further acts as a natural and eminently
safe cathart1c.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which col
lect in the stomach and bowels; it disin-
fects the mouth and throat from the poi
son of catarrh.
or another. but probably the best Charcoal
and the most for the money is in Stuart's
Absorbent Lozelges; they are composed
of the, finest powdered Willow charcoal
and other harmless antiseptics in tablet
form or rather in the form of large, pleas
ant tasting lozengeS. the charcoal being
mixed With honey.
The daily use of these Iozenges will soon
tell in much improved condition of the
general health better complexion sWeeter
breath and purer blood, and the beauty OF
it is. that no possible harm can result
from their continued use, but on the con-
trary great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of the
benefits Of charcoal. says: 1T advise Stu
arts Absorbent Lozenges to all patients
suffering from gas in stomach and bow
els, and to clear the complexion and pur-
fly the breath, mouth and throat; also
believe the liver is greatly benefited by the
daily use of them; they cost but TWENTY
five cents box at drug stores. and al
though in some sense a patent prepare
ton, yet T believe get more and better
charcoal in Stuarts Absorbent Lozenges
than in any of the ordinary charcoal tab
let's"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
THEY FAVOR SEATTLE
Army Officials Believe in More
Steamers to Manila.
Globe Special Washington Service,
t5 1417 G Street.

t5 1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 28.-
The war department officials would
welcome the establishment of first
class passenger service between Seat
tie and the Philippines. Only two
large steamships are equipped to carry
passengers between Seattle and Ma
Mia, and those have only just been
fitted out for this sevrice. Complaints
have been made about the discrimina-
ton on the part of the war depart
ment between Seattle and San Fran
cisco, and there has been ground for It.
There has not been as much ground
for it, however, as there would have
been were it not for the fact that San
Francisco is unquestionabiy in bet
ter position to handle the passenger
business.
One officer of the war department
who has no prejudice in favor Of San
Francisco or against Seattle, so far
as the government transportation bus
mess is concerned, is Col. Clarence Ed
wards, chief of the insular bureau.
Col. Edwards said today that he would
be highly pleased IL 1t were possible
to send passengers to the Philippines
at convenient sailing dates from Seat
IL
venient to send these passengers by
the northern route. but there are no
accommodations on most Of the YES
sells sailing from Puget sound direct
to Manila.
On the other hand. the war depart
ment is afforded three Sailings every
month by merchant ships from San
Francisco. One of these monthly sail
ings is direct to Manila, and the other
two are by way of Hongkong, with no
extra charge for passengers carried for
the war department to Manila.
Many civil employees and other per-
sons are carried at the expense of the
government between the Pacific coast
of the United States and the Philip
pines. The transportation of these
persons is not under the control of the
Quartermaster's department, but Of the
insular bureau. An extremely favora-
Bile rate has been obtained from the
Southern Pacific railway and the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company, the
rate applying to persons carried from
widely scattered points in the United
States. The rate has not been made
known publicly.
Col Edwards would be glad to see
the time come when passengers can
be carried by way of Seattle at fire.
ouent intervals, for this would mean
competition between transportation
lines and possibly lower rates for the
government. The number Of persons
transported to Manila under the
auspices of the insular bureau aver
ages sixty or seventy a month.
Walter E Clark
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
FOURTEEN PEOPLE ARE
KILLED BY SAVAGES
Result of the Mate of a Wrecked Vessel
Landing on the Wrong Island.

DAMARISCOTTA. Me-, Nov. ga
letter received today from the wife OF
Capt Hoelstad, of the ship Ben Sewall.
wrecked in Formosa channel, partially
confirms the report that boatload. in
Guiding Morris, the first mate, twelve
men and a woman, were killed on Botel
Tobago, an island inhabited by saw
ages. The letter says that the men, in
Guiding a Russian, Japanese and Fill
pino, were found, and seven men and a
Japanese woman, wife of Mate Morris,
were missing. 1t is thought the writer
meant that the bodies of the five men
were found.
The letter says that the mate landed
on Botel Tobago contrary to the cap
tain's wishes. Capt. Hoelstad kept on
to the south cape of Formosa. where
his party was kindly treated by Jap
anese.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
HUMAN SEMAPHORE
AMUSES BROKERS
Broad Street Tenants Watch With In
terest Strange Antics of Signal Man.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-Wan street
brokers, with offices in the Commercial
Gable, Blair and Johnston buildings,
overlooking Broad street, have been
able to relieve the tediun of recent
dull days watching the antics of a
mysterious individual stationed in the
main entrance of the Mills building,
The mysterious one, man of about
thirty, with an unshorn face and red
nose, goes through a continuous per-
Torrance between 10 and o'clock,
which is highly edifying.
This human semaphere, for the nlys-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
COILS HUNTINGTON'S
WEALTH rs REVEALED
VIII Is Made Public and the Widow Is
the Chief Beneficiary Hereunder.

NEW YORK, Nov 2S.-The apprais-
al of the estate of Coils P. Huntington,
who died on Aug. Is. 1900, shows that
he left net real and personal estate
in this state valued at $28, ,765. The
gross personally amounted to $35,594,-
586, from which are deducted the debts
due by the estate, the expenses of adj
ministration and the executors COM
missions.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
More Useful Than Medals.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 2S.-At
the suggestion of Gen. Crozier, chief of
ordnance, winners in department or
other authorized competitions in small
arms firing hereafter will be awarded
revolver or rifle of superior finish,
instead of gold medal, as HERETOFORE.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

terious one Is sort of relay signal
station between a confederate on the
exchange and some bucket shop-loca-
ton as yet unkonwn-has an interest
ing code of signals. Occasionally he
hops and whirls like dancing Dervish,
again he blows his poor red nose furi-
ously. Another signal is a vigorous
scratching of his left ear, still others
are furious Juggling at the lapels Of
his coat and the smoothing down of his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
To Aid Destitute Blacks.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov %. =
Charles Felix La Fon, president of the
National Afro-American league, has
issued call for a meeting of the exec
utive committee of that organization in
this city Dec. next to consider the
distress and des titution of the negroes
who emigrated to Liberia
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
INTERNAL REVENUE
RECEIPTS FALL OFF
Loss of 100000, Due to the Reduc-
ton of Taxes.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 28.-
John W. Yerkes, commissioner Of inter-
nal revenue, in his annual report, shows
that the receipts of his bureau for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, were
$3.50, 740,925, at cost of collection Of
2.07 per cent. The receipts for the last
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
Carter is at Liberty.

LEAvENWORTH, Kan, Nov. Is
This morning Oberlin M. Carter, ex-
captain of engineers, walked out Of
the portals of the federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth free man. He left
here for Chicago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
No More civil.Life Lieutenants.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 2S-No
additional designations will be made of
candidates from civil life to be ex-
amined for appointment as second
lieutenant in the army.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
Peary Is Back.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-Commander
Robert E. Peary, who arrived today,
said he would probably leave here In
July and try to reach the north shore
of Grant Land and camp there until
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

: fiscal year are about $41, 000,000 less
than for the year 1902.
This decrease" says the commits
sioner, sis not due to a diminution IN
the business movements and CONNER
cial transactions of the country, but en-
tirely to the reduction Of the internal
revenue taxes. The receipts for the
first three months of the current fiscal
year show gratifying increase and IL
is estimated that the receipts for the
fiscal year ending June 80. 1901, win
aggregate 1926, 000, O00."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29
Dire Effects of Full Dress.

A small hotel in the Juras has the
following notice posted on each Of the
bedrooms: Strange gentlemen will
please not to dress for dinner, as this
custom fiutters the hearts Of the maid
folk and no work is accomplished."-
Oxford Varsity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

the coming Of spring, when the dash
to the pole will be attempted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-28
In the Vice Presidents Chamber.

AHalrs at Washington, by Joe Mitchell
 Chapple. in The June National.
 There was something cool, restful and serene in the atmosphere the morning sat in Senator Frye's room at the National Capitol. The midsummer heat had just begun to indicate itself in the weather recorders at the entrance of the marble room. The air of quietude con trasted sharply with the busy scenes which this room witnesses during a Sen ate session. The struggling groups of tourists peeped in. after they had taken sweeping glance at the Senate chamber and sat in the Vice Presidential chair. To me. this Vice Presidents room, just across the inside corridor from the Sen ate chamber is one of the most interest ing in the Capitol In one corner is a bust of Lafayette S. Foster of Connecti- cut, who was President pro tempore of the Senate during the Johnston impeachment trial. and who would have succeeded to the Presidency had Johinson not escaped by the narrow margin that he did. i'm pea chment and the loss of his high sta tion. Alas. such is fame in public life how many today remember Senator Eos ter? These events took place before the law regulating the Presidential success sion was changed, so that the line now runs down through the Cabinet. following the Vice President regularly elected by the people.
 The $200 silver inkwell on the table is q work of art, symbolic of a reunited North and South, a silver eagle surmount- ing the whole, breathing defiance This is altogether the most handsomely furnished room in the Capitol The portrait of Wasn- ington in this room-painted by Peale in 1S25-(Peal had known Washington and painted this portrait from memory main ly)-was exhibited in Europe in 1883 and then purchased by a member of the staff of Gen. Wilson Peale. son of the famous artist. It was in this room that Vice President Henry Wilson died during Grants administration. The mirror over the clock was the occasion of a three days debate in the Senate, because some members thought Vice President John Adams had been grossly extravagant in paying $40 for the Iirror ito gratify his pesonal vanity" The mirror surmounts a q, 900 clock. whose beautiful chimes sound the quarter hours. and which displays also the signs of the zodiac. This clock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-28
Gossip from Washington

Washington, May 2.-(Special)-Very | few persons know that uncinariasis Is 1 specific zoop8 rasitic disease. Indeed, very | few are aware just what uncinarfasfs Is, but there are many folks who have this affiiction who don't know that It is noth- | ing but uncinariasis that is ailing them. l They do not even know that the maiady | Is sometimes designated anchylost stomiasis. | but they do know that they have symp- toms including mopiness. goneness, dizsi- ness, palpitations and colicky sensations. all of which are distinctive features Of a IT. melancholy condition the anatomy of which has never been undertaken until | just now Some months ago the public was informed that this uncinariasls, an- chylostomiasis, or hook worm disease was going to be investigated by the Govern | ment The Government has kept its word.
 Charles wardell Stiles, Ph D.. of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, chief of the division | Of zoology, has. under instructions from surgeon-General Walter Wymaf' com pleted an exhaustive report upon the dis ease which he has been studying ir kts habitat In certain parts of the Southern States. It should be remembered that this is the disease which 1t has been said in scientific circles was largely responsi- ble for aziness in some Southern people. Be that as it may. pr. Stiless report,
 upon the prevalence and geography of
 the malady, is exhaustive and curiously
 
 He first traces the geneaiogy Of the
 hCokworm disease to the ancient Egyp- tians about thirty-fve hundred years ago. The kind of people the disease soon- est attacks Is given as persons whose daily life brings them into contact with damp earth, such as children, farmers, miners, brickmasons and excavators. AL though Dr. Stiles does not say so, it is possible that the Egyptians who dug the foundation for Cheops suffered severe anchylostomiasistic pains without having made of their cases proper diagnosis.
 pr. Stiles boldly takes the position that the parasites which cause uncinariasis are worms belonging to the 4nematode family Strongilidae.
 The first hookworm discovered and clas- sifed was by German preacher, Rev. MT Gerze, who christened 1t "der Haar- runwurm'' (the hair-round worm). few years later another Teuton, Herr Froe- lich, found a similar worm which he designated the "Haakenwurm.' because 1t was armed with two hooks. Half century later a Dago in Milan found a worm which he said was a parasite in man. A picture of the dorsal bursa of a male hookworm which accompanies this part of the article very much resembles a ping pong ball with a drawing upon It's surface representing a soft Q ell crab with whiskers on its feet. It is inter esting to note in the differentiation of sexual peculiarities that the male hook worm clasps the female with "an um- brella-like structure"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-28

The genus uncinaria." Dr. Stiles says, contains blood-suckIng worms of the worst type. They are not over an inch long and no thicker than a hat pin" A little further on we learn that the hook worm disease Is by no means new. The oldest medical document known, written S.15o years ago ago, embraced the knowl- Egyptian teachers. The earliest pub lished reference to it in this country was by pr. Pitt, who says that along the Roanoke River, North Carolina, dirt eating prevailed among the poor whites and negroes. The same lowly habit is remarked by Chabert in Louisiana in lSI. Cotting wrote of dirt-eaters in Richmond County, Georgia. in 1886, Lyell also wrote of dirt-eating as common in parts of Alabama as well as Georgia. SCme research was undertaken jn Texas and as late as 1891 was discussed in the Texas Medical Association.
 The disease prevails more or less throughout the Gulf States, and is as i'm portant to eradicate as malaria, and in sorne respects more hurtful and distress ing. Stupidity, a vacant stare pallor and pot. or buttermilk, belly describes some of the external symptoms.
 Take given area in the sand district" says Dr. Stiles, with an infection of in- cinariasis. and assume that 100 farm hands are employed. It is not an exag geration to say that these 100 people are not doing the work of eighty or ninety hands. Thus there is a distinct loss of 10 to 20 per cent in the wages and cor responding loss in crop returns In some places I estimate the loss at even higher percentage, say an average of 25 per cent while in several families which I have examined I should say that in- cinariasis Is reducing the iaboring ca pacity, hence the production of the fam fly, to as low as 30 to 40 per cent thus entailing loss of 50 to 70 per cent
 Much of the debility and aenemia in the Gulf States Is found to be errone- Olis1y attributed to malaria and perverted appetite which belong to the hookworm disease.
 Dr. Stiles contends that the strongest people would become no account living under the same careless and unsanitary conditions of existence common to the hookworm victims.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-28
LOOKING BACK.

When a man who was reared in this tlessed Southland of ours becomes idiot!c and goes North to live, he Is almost sure finally to regain his senses and regret his want of appreciation, and if he does not. like the Poet Keats, sigh flor heaker full of the warm South" he will be ready to say, with the poor lsraeliters who were hungry for taste of something other than mamma: We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. That is somewhat the feeling experienced by the man who left Due West, s. C., and went browsing and starving up in Pennsylvania. Says he:
 The people are kind all right, but hom- iny and corn bread are unknown luxu- ries I resided in Due West as long as l had any sense, but being seized with a desire to see the world came North.
 How often it happens that a man doesn't know when he is well off! Espe- cially is this true of a genuine South erner when he finds himself in a region where he cant get corn bread and hominy, for these articles, at taeir best, seem to be fast becoming but a memory, especially in the North and Cast. There is no valid reason for thk. Corn is a staple crop in Maine and other New Eng land States. just as it is in the South. but good corn bread is fast becoming only memory up there, We are told. To tell the truth, it is hard to obtain in the South. Made of good coarse meal. prop- erly seasoned and baked in an oven, it was bread sure enough, but it is fast dis appearing The swiftly running, fast grinding millstones, the bolting machin- cry and the cooking stove have sounded the funeral knel of good corn bread in most sections. The bread that the old time cooks made has departed.
 Nor is the case much better when we come to hominy. It ought not be be strictly a Southern dish. The name is evidently from the Algonquin Indians. ar perhaps from a tribe farther South. but the article itself should be made of good corn in any part of the United States. We are not sure, right here, that we shall not be jumped by one of our highly esteemed Virginia contemporaries and given to understand that the ancestors Of old Pokomoke made the first dish of hominy that was ever eaten, but let that pass We don't care who invented it, nor where it was first made. When prop erly made, 1t is not only good but very good, and no one should blame the lonely exile from Due West if his memory and appetite hark back to the good and sim- pie dishes of earlier days. There are none like them.