davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

FORCIBLE POSSESSION.
During all of said journey across the
water said Fowler was in the forcible pos
session and charge of three persons, strang-
ers to said Fowler, but employed by the
respondent for that purpose; that said YES
sci reached the outer harbor of New York
on or about the 18th of April. 1908, when it
was met in the outer harbor by a tug that
said respondent had secured for that pur-
pose, and said Fowler was by said respond
ent and his employees by force and violence
removed from said vessel to said tug. and
thereon secretly. hastily and without any
notice to the friends relatives of said
Fowler, or to said Mr.. and Mrs. Duhme, or
either OF them. carried to the city of Eliza
beth. in the State of New Jersey, where he
was held by said respondent and those in
his employ by force. and against the will
of said Fowler. confined and held for a
brief period, when he was again removed
10 the city OF Paterson. in the State of
New Jersey. where he was likewise held and
by said respondent, by force and violence
taken 10 the city of Chicago. in the State of
Illinois. across the State of Ohio, of which
said Fowler was. as aforesaid a citizen and
resident. and from Chicago brought on the
10th of April. with like force and violence
TO the city OF Lafayette, Ind, where he has
ever since been held by said respondent in
confinement. restrained of his liberty, his
friends and cQuaintances. denied all ac-
cess 10 him or all opportunity to commune
cate with him. and especially has the OPP
portunity been denied to his aunt and to his
former attorneys from having any COM
munication whatever. and he still is in con-
finement and restrained of his liberty by
said respondent; that by reason of the vio-
lence inflicted upon him by said respondent
and his employees. and his being separated
from his friends and his domicile, and the
terror occasioned by the manner and meth
cd of his seizure and transportation there
has required to said Fowler. in an acute
form. the malady that came to him In 1895
as aforesaid. and that returned I'm 1900 as
aforesaid. and since his arrival in Lafay-
cite. and at this time. said Fowler is a
person of unsound mind. but his insanity a
not dangerous In character either to him
self or to others. and II is Of such a char
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26


detention by said respondent
PRAYER TO COURT.
Your petitioner further shows that by
reason of the manner in which said Moses
Fowler is restrained of his liberty by the
said respondent and his employees. and by
reason of his forcible denial of admittance
to said Moses Fowler of his friends and
relatives and his former counsel. and by
reason of the condition of mind that has
been superinduced and brought about by
the violence. force and wrongful acts of the
respondent. ii has been and is now imprac-
ticable and impossible to obtain access to
said Fowler for the purpose of having him
apply for writ of habeas corpus, even IL
he were in mental condition sufficient to
enable Kim to make such application, his
said mental condition, as aforesaid. having
been brought about by the wrongful acts
with the approval of said Mrs. Duhme, with
whom, since 1899, as aforesaid. said Fowler
has made his home. and of whose family
est and for the benefit of said Fowler, this
petition is now presented and submitted to
the court.
Your petitioner. therefore. prays your
honor 10 cause a writ of habeas corpus to
be issued against the said respondent, Fred
erick 3. Chase, TO produce before your
honor in open court or In chambers. as
said Moses Fowler, whom said respondent
enormously designates and describes as
Moses Fowler Chase. at such time within
the next ten days as your honor may di-
rect. then and there to abide BY and per-
form the orders and judgment of your
honor and of this court. and that upon such
hearing said Moses Fowler may be restored
to his liberty and that the respondent be
prohibited from in any wise restraining the
said Moses Fowler OF his liberty. or from
attempting to deprice said Moses Fowler OF
his liberty, contrary to the provisions Of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
BIeached Oysters.

q notice that Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick of the United States navy has written a letter to one of the New York papers protesting against the bleaching of oysters" said Mobilian last night
 "The maltreatment of the American oyster has become a live issue among the coasts. So extensive is this bleaching pro- cess used by the oystermen that many people in the inland cities never taste a perfectly natural oyster. The oyster is ruined in order that it may have an un- natural pallor, which the oysterman ap- parently thinks makes it more salable.
 "The oyster by this process is placed in fresh water until it is puffed out of all semblance of true oyster nature. This re- suits in a total destruction of flavor, ac- cordng to Rear Admiral Chadwick, and forces on the public an unhealthy ob- jeet which must be unwholesome.
 "The navy officer closes his letter by saying that it is impossible to believe that the public demands this pallid and taste less product rather than the natural oys- ter of dark color and salty flavor. He urges that steps be taken by the restau- rants as well as the dealers to stop the iniuditVn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
Public Decency Gaining Ground.

The Moulin Rouge has been discon- tinued in Paris, and there is not to be in New York another French ball. Two gold bricks, as one New York paper ex- presses it, have passed away. Neither ball was patronized by Frenchmen, and tourists of all sorts began to discover Athe transparent thinness of the two travellers were for a time attracted to them, but even such people tired after a while of the common scenes after nightfall. They may have been con- tent to witness 1t, but they at length were unwilling to pay entrance fees when they could see like scenes with out fee in the streets of the two cities.
 The passing of the two disreputable spectacles is gain to public decency at any rate and perhaps the movement may extend to the theatres and various other assemblages of great cities Even the lesser cities are not free from public spectacles that are discreditable and radically impure, and the passing of the French ball is notice to them that they should heed. The public should in fact render public vulgarity llnnrOfit hla fnr the hOx office ic npvor appealed from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
UNCLE sAM's PENNY CROP.

From Leslie's Weekly
 According to advices from the treasury department the government mill at Phil for a time there being now surplusage of this kind of currency in the country. During the past five years 5000 GOO, 393 pennies have been shipped from the Phil coins the one-cent pieces, to various parts of the country. Between July 1, 1902, and June 1, 19O3 s9,6O0. GOO cents were coined. If this five-year output were collected in a heap it would make a sizable stage mountain at least Placed side by side in a straight line 5000. 900 pennies would make ribbon over twenty-three thou sand miles long, and would come pretty near grdlng the earth. Piled on top of one another they would reach up toward the stars for a distance that would take good many Eiffel Towers to equal for it would be not less than o400 miles--far out beyond the point where the force of gravitation is supposed to be of computation there are supposed to be about 200 OO0, 900 children in the world un- der 10 years of age, Uncle Sam would be able from his present stock of pennies to give each child on the earth ten cop per keepsakes and have enough left over to fill a good-sized savings bank besides. So much for the penny crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
Our First Centennial.

Alabama has entered upon her eigh- ty-fourth year, and she has sixteen years to grow in before she will eel ebrate her centennial anniversary. In 1919 she should have a great celebra- tion, and the long-talked of exposition in this district should be held in that year.
 In 1919 a second additional census will be nearly due, and in that census Alabama will be credited with just about three millions of people This is perhaps four hundred thousand more than the regular rate of growth in sur rounding states would call for, but Ala bama can be trusted in the next six teen years to gather in that many more than the natural increase.
 The anticipated extraordinary gain will be largely due to the development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
An Educated Piu.

T have seen many kinds of trained animals, but I think the white pig l saw tonight in front of the hotel was the most interesting of all" said salesman "The little white pig was in charge of a negro man and it was very interesting indeed to see the animal obey the com mands of it's master. They say pig or hog is the hardest of all other animals to train, but this one was completely un- der the control of it's owner
 Horses and dogs are said to be very easy to train, but other animals require a great deal of time and patience. Last fall l saw a trained bull on exhibition. and thought that was the best of all, but this trained pig is the first I have ever seen of the hog family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
The mutabIe, rank-scented many.
 Julius Caesar.
Sea Strenqth in the Orient.

The Russians were to leave Manchu- ria on October 8. They are still there, and they intend to stay there, and it begins to look as if the delay in the nego .iations is wholly due to a desire to gather in the far east fleet large enough to meet the fleets of Japan. It is not believed that Russia has any intention of coming to terms with Japan, but it is believed that she is fighting for time in which to gather her ships in the orient.
 Last year at this time Russia had in the far east ships which aggregated S7,000 tons. In March last this ton mage was swelled to 93,000. In May vessels were added to the Russian fleet carrying it up to ITO, 900 tons, making the total number of battleships and cruisers seventeen. Three more were added in October, the total tonnage being about 1S0,000. A Russian squad ron is now gathering at Bizerta, a French port in the Mediterranean, with a view of starting soon via the Suez canal for Port Arthur. This will in- crease the Russian fleet in the east to 23, or 24 battleships and cruisers, and raise the tonnage to about 100000
 The entire tonnage of the Japanese navy does not exceed 250,OOO, and the ships of the two highest classes do not aggregate over 175,000. Russia, in other words, has delayed negotiations until she has gathered sea force as large as Japan can muster all told.
 But then comes in the question of qualty-can the Russians who have no sea record fight ships as well as the Japanese, who are born sailors, and who have had experience in one naval war? The Russians will of course do better than the Chinese did, but will they prove good antagonists when they encounter the Japanese on an equal or neariy equal footing? This is the problem, and 1t cannot be answered until the two fleets meet in the shock of battle, which now seems imminent and inevitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
RirmlnqI1am Attracts.

It was remarked at the number of peo- pie who came to Birmingham for the pur- pose of spending Christmas day here. A glance at the hotel registers revealed the fact that many men with their fami- lies from towns ranging from 50 to 100 miles away spent the day in this city.
 The attractiveness of Birmingham is apparently far reaching as travelling men from other centers are registered at the hotels who could have remained at such places until after the holiday season. These men. however, seem to prefer this city, as many are here enjoying them- selves at the different places of amuse- ment
 As business will probably not resume until Monday, the hotels will benefit cor respondngly.
 Among the prominent men of the state who are spending the holiday season in Birmingham is J. II. Cranford, mayor of Jasper, and head of the Cranford Mer- cantie company, which company is re- sponsble for many public improvements of Jasper MT. Cranford is accompanied by his wife, two children and Mrs. B. Lyon, who is Mrs Cranford's mother. This party has engaged a suite of rooms at the Hillman and will remain in the city for a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
Msrdi eras at New Orleans.

The railroads have commenced to send out literature giving information rela- tive to the New Orleans Mardi Gras eel ebration of 1904 which will take place in February The Southern Pacific railroad has issued a neat booklet giving the dates of pageants tableaux and balls.
 The carnival season opens with bail and tableaux of the Twelfth Night Rev elers at the French opera house Wednes- day night, January 6, and closes on Mardi Gras night, February 16, with the pa geants and balls of Rex and Comus. There will be many other balls and pageants in the interim, and the festivities of the carnival season of 1904 bid fair to exceed in gaiety and brlliancy any heretofore experienced in the quaint old carnival city of New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26

of this district through the opening of the Warrior and the digging of an isth- milan canal, both of which will be ac- eomplished facts before the state IS one hundred years old. Both will then have been in use so long that the peo- pie will wonder how the state ever prospered at all without them.
 No one can measure the prosperity and activity of this district when it possesses the advantages of water transportation to all parts of the world. The Warrior is the key to this district, and from this time onward all large enterprises in this district will be planned looking to it's opening A canal to the Tennessee will also be dug by 1919, and this state will start upon it's second century equipped for a grand career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
FROM THE ROME REPUBLICAN.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Our little burg was today the scene of the grandest fete that it has witnessed for many moons. Nero, our beloved Elm peror, celebrated his thirtieth birthday in befitting style, and it is safe to say that never was monarch greeted with great CT ovation than him-he.
 Time sits but lightly on the brow of the greatest Emperor that ever wielded scepter Of course there are wrinkles, but they are the wrinkles of thoughts and intelleet-not of senility. Ye editor, who was an honored guest at the palace, told him that he never looked younger or handsomer, and he seemed touched by the compliment.
 His majesty was in excellent spirits. True. he seemed a little distracted while we were engaged in giving him thirty belts over the back, but he told us when we were through that we were the best editor that ever pushed pen in Rome.
 In the evening Nero was the victim of a pleasant little surprise party that was perpetrated upon him by the Colonial Danes and the Womans Relief Corps. and right royalty did he respond, inviting all the guests to partake of feast fit for the gods, to which one and all did ample justice. The evening was spent in play ing games, and was one of unalloyed en- joyment save for one unpleasant incl dent. During a game of "spat 'em in. spat em out Marc Antony was ob- liged to kiss his wife, who is living sep arate from him, pending the settlement of their divorce case It was painful moment, but the Emperor. with his cus- tomary tact, gayly remarked that Marc might as well kiss his Vile as Cleopatra, and in the uproarious laughter that fol- lowed the happening was forgotten.
 Th: palace was a blaze of light, a large rur. Der Of Congregationalists and Dowie- ties officiating as fuel, and taken all in all, the occasion was one long to be re- membered. The party broke up in the wee, sma hours, and all present joined in wishing his majesty many happy re- tl-rns of fhe day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
THE ALABAMA PRESS.

Prattville Progress: Alabama needs an immigration bureau. It is far behind other states along this line.
 Cullman Democrat: When Senators Morgan and Pettus get after Teddy and his sehemers there's something doing
 Union Springs Herald: If that Chicago anti-wash crusade assumes formidable proportions, woe unto us of the black belt.
 Gadsden Times-News: The calamity howlers of Gadsden are out of job, but they are growing now because the town is prosperous.
 Montevallo Sentinel: If the world is to come to an end this year as claimed by some, there is some satisfaction In know ing that Rockefeller will be the principal loser.
 Canbrake Herald: The Birmingham dis trict is very enthusiastic over its St. Louis exhibit next year. Birmingham is great and can get up an exhibit that would be creditable. to any industrial center in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
Cotton Prospects and Possibilities.

'It seems to be quite clear" says the New York Commercial, that if by the year 1910 the south cannot supply 15,000,000 bales of cotton year, some other country must inevitably supply the lacking four or five million bales ' This states in the fewest possible words the problem as it stands to- day, and the problem is one that touches every interest in this country, because the balance of trade is tied up in it.
 All recognize the deep importance of the problem, but no one has solu tion to offer. Instead of telling the south not to grow too much cotton, all stand ready to tell our farmers they must grow more if this country is to retain it's preeminence as a cotton growing country. All feel that there is imminent danger of too little cot bOii ldluCT IIdH lOO UluCu
 This newly-found fear is due chiefly to the fact that the size of the crop seems to be stationary. We are grow ing less cotton to the acre cultivated. The yield per acre last year was but .39 of a bale In 1898 the yield was AS of bale Nor is the acreage in- creasing. It stands at about 27,000,, 900 acres, not falling below 26,000,000 acres. It must be admitted that the prospect of a material increase in the crop is not by any means assured. |. If Texas were not afflicted by the boil weeyil the increasing population of that great state might largely add to the size of the crop, but the boil weevl practically renders any increase in that state impossible, and it be- comes a question whether she can maintain her present average.
 What then will be the nature of the problem if every state Tn the cotton belt becomes similarly afflicted? Be tween the boil weeyil and the limita- tions of southern soil and southern labor, the south is indeed face to face with a problem full of doubt and diff ficulty. No one in this section fore sees a solution. No one sees how the older cotton states can grow much more cotton than they have done until the tide of Italian immigration is turned this way. If the Italians can be brought to see that there "is money in cotton" they will come where the eli mate Is agreeable and where cheap lands await them The Italians are the only solution in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
lieutenan; Goinu.

Lieutenant Dick Going, United States cavalry. son of MT. James A. Going, this city, has returned from the Philippines a second time and is now stationed at one of the eastern posts
 It will be remembered that Lieutenant Going was with the Jefferson Volunteers In Florida; then attached himself to a command of volunteers for service in the Philippines and served several months there with distinction Returning home and being mustered out, he stood credit able examination and was commissioned a lieutenant of cavalry in the regular army. His regiment was once ordered to the Philippines and he went to the archipelago for second time.
 Lieutenant Going's friends will be glad to know that he is back again on Ameri- can soil, perfectly well, and happy in his life as a regular American soldier. Dick is Birmingham boy and was educated in the public schools of this city. The young officer is to get a furlough in the early spring and will spend the time with rela- tives and friends in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
Boil Weevil Remedies.

''rhe present high price of cotton and the rumors of the future ravages of the boll-weevil has stimulated the invention of the faNirs to reap rich harvest out of the pest" said a planter, and already preparations are being made to launch upon the market certain mixture with a guarantee of its efficacy.
 This mixture consists of the following deadly poisons; Lime, salt coal dust 3and pulverized slag, and will be sold to farmers at the rate of 5000 a ton. It's alleged effect will be two-fold-to kill the insect and fertilize the land, whilst its real effect will be to induce the planter to mortgage his farm to buy the remedy
 ''It is to be hoped that farmers will not allow themselves to be duped by these fakirs or else they will find the last con- dition worse than the first.
 ''The United States government has ta-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-26
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

messed. Russia can call attention to the fact that as many as 25 American citizens have not yet been sentenced to prison for burning negroes at the stake.
 Although Parsifal was presented in New York under the most dazzling auspices and all New York has not ceased to won der at its stupendous character the ques- tion of dressing for the occasion has not been solved and probably nevr will. As was to be expected, various people clothed themselves as it suited their various tastes and there was little harmony in the effect. Society had a pain over this momentous question and its individual brains are still wrecked by the effort to arrive at a conclusion. While no one de- nies that it is very commendable to wear the proper clothes at the proper time it must be remembered that improper clothes are certainly not as bad as no clothes at all If a man is decently garb- ed he need have no fear of looking his fellows straight in the eye, even if he does wear evening dress at the opera be- fore the fateful hour. of o'clock
 i1HleIpTlSl0S 1eXaS ClllZenS are uOluS u fine bushes just now by suing the rail- roads and collecting damages for real or fictitious personal injury. Within the past ten years an enormous increase has been registered in the amount of money paid out by the railroads in such cases. There is a perverted public sentiment which tends to the belief that everybody is jus tiied in getting everything possible from the big corporations and as a result the complaining litigants have been remarka- bly, successful. In ten years the sum paid out by the railroads in Texas to persons claiming personal damages has grown from s295, 900 to $l,765000, which Is the to- tai for 1903. This represents S16646 per mile and is an item not to be overlooked in current expenses. In the last three years railroads in the Lone Star state have paid out $4,200OO0 in judgments be- sides the cost of litigation, and 1t Is safe to asume that part of this money was extracted fraudulently. In spite of the fact that people talk so much of the grinding trusts and big corporations not yet trusted" these enterprises have a hard time winning cases in the law courts simply because there IS an abiding laltn in most juries that monied interests must be mulcted at every oportunity.
 Daniel J. Sully, the famous cotton bull" is inclined to be exceedingly lavish with his enormous earnings in the cotton market, probably from the fact that his money was so easily made. In addition to investing a large sum in a $3,O0000C hotel he has now given his wife a $300,0OC residence in New York as a Christmas present. It Is noticeable that, although MT. Sully must be considered as one of the most successful spectators the market has ever known and he made his wealth at the expense of others less fortunate he is remarkably popular in all part; of the land and instead of being cen sured his success is looked upon witt great admiration Mir Sulley is what i' known as "wise one," and he has toe much sense to risk all his money again although he continues to dabble in th feecy staple and keep the market scared
 P. c.