davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
CHICAGO TO RAISE
PRICE OF BREAD LOAF
Increase in Cost of Wheat, Say Bakers
Will Add One Cent On ire
Consumers.

CHICAGO. H.. Feb. 23.-The price of
bread will go up TO ! cents loaf and
other bakery goods proportionately, ac-
cordirg to leading bakers I'm Chicago
who are in the local combination.
The increased price of wheat is giveT
as the cause, the bakers asserting that
business is now being conducted at Q
loss. In addition to higher prices fOI
material. II is said that operating ex.
Denses have been increased about pei
cent
At present the wholesale price is q.
cents a loaf and the consumer pays
cents TO the retailer Some Of the mos
prominent dealers announced that tn.
new scale viii go into effect this week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
GOVERNOR OF GUAM ILL
ABOARD STEAMER SUPPLY

Gov. william e. Sewell. Of Guam.
fs critically il on board the United
states steamer supply. which IS now on
its way to San Francisco.
The Navy Department received a dis
match Yesterday from Honolulu an
nouncing that the Supply had stopped
there and Is now on it's way 20 Mare
island. where Governor Sewen is going
for treatment
The dispatch says Governor Sewell is
better than lie was when he left Guam
on the Supply. but is still in critical
condition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
Had Vision on Corner.
DEATH IN A CIsTERN.

HAGERSTOWN. Md. Feb 23-whil9
suffering with temporary mental de-
rangement. it is alleged. Miss Eliza
Meredith. aged sixty years. jumped into
d cistern near her home. at Boonsboro.
When removed ten minutes later life
was extinct. There was four feet Of
water y. the cistern- Miss MereoIth for
a number of years conducted a milli-
merry store at Boousboro. She is sur
vived by one sister and five brothers.
two of the latter being David and Henry
Meredith. both Of Washington. D. G.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23

ping down the long flight Of stairs which
lead up into the apartments where the
minister has his Office. No one except
the minister's most intimate friend IL
allowed to penetrate that region. A few
rapid questions and replies. smile and
handshake from the dapper secretary
and the visitors are quickly disposed of.
whereupon the attache p -omptly repairs
to the mysterious region upstairs, and
there busies himself with the manifold
duties which the war his country is
making upon Russia has entailed upon
him The incident is repeated over and
over again a dozen times a day.
At night very often the lights in the
offices where the secretaries are at Work
burn until the wee hours Of the morn
ing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23

PITTSBURG. Feb. 23.-The national
convention OF coal miners called for In
dianapolis next Monday will be Of great
er Importance than was supposed at
first. At the last meeting Of the spe-
cial committee it was said the conven-
ton would be composed only Of dele
gates from the four States that are par
ties to the interstate agreement, the
scale in other States having been adj
justed
President Patrick Dolan. Of the Pitts
burg district. said last night that every
local union Of the United Mine Workers
in the country will be represented, In
Guiding those in the anthracite field.
One Of the paragraphs in the official
call which has been received reads:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
BOY FUGITIVE RETURNED.

Captain Boardman informed Mrs.
Biondid. Of 1902 Druid Hin Avenue. Bal
imore. that her fourteen-yeaT-old son.
Parker who ran away from home sew
aTal days ago had been arrested b. the
police Of the Sixth precinct on charge
u being a fugitive from his parents.
the mother sent for the boy today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
All Miners Will Go
To Wage Conference
National Convention Called for Next Monday
to Be an important Gathering.
Offers to Compromise.

ct should be distinctly understood
that this call is for the entire organt-
zation as well as for the central COM
petitive coal fields"
1t developed today that at the spe'>sti
conference held last Monday the opera
tors made several compromise proE ISL
lions. One of the most important oEer-
ed provides for signing a scale for a
period of two years. the rate for this
year to be the same as in 1902. and the
rate for 1908 to be the scale of 1903.
This would give the miners a reduc-
ton OF about u per cent for the year,
beginning April ]. and the present
rates based on 80 cents a ton for pick
mining for the year beginning April J.
1905.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
POPULISTS PREPARING
FOR TIER CONVENTION
Leaders Advise Union and Not Fusion
With Other Parties

ST. LOUIS. FEB. 23.-Thirty members
~ The national committee Of the Popu-
list party met at the Southern Hote'
Yesterday to TX the time and place Tor
the national convention.
Mr.. Parker presided ana made orlei
spoech. In which he outlined the object
Of the meeting He declared that the
fusionists and the middle-of-the-roaders
should get together this year ana the
PARTY should on no condition animate
with either Of the ola parties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
INMATES SCREAMED FIRE

When the driver of an ice-cream
wagon knocked at the door OF Mrs. A.
F. Lucas house. 1905 Sixteenth Street
northwest. yesterday evening. the ser
want ard a little girl in the house
screamed fire at the top Of their voices
Some kind person hurried to the corner
and pulled an alarm. The firemen re-
spOnded but there was no fire, only the
iCa-cream man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
RETRIBUTiON SWIFTLY
FOLLOWS A SHOOTING
Two Hou.s After Alleged Murder Per-
petrators Store Burns.

DTNGESS. W. Va, February 23.-John
Stepp. a wealthy merchant. near here.
Is said 70 have shot and killed Elmer
Brewer. a wealthy farmer and neighbor.
Two hours after the alleged murder a
torch was appledito Steps large store,
and a. was consumed. Steps home
vas aIsb fred. but Il was saved from de-
uruction Stepp is in hiding
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
WELCOME THE END
Of P. 0. TRIAL
District Attorneys Office
Accommodating Trouble.
PRISONERS AWAIT HEARING
Half a Hundred Jail Cases to Be Taken
Up in the Criminal
Court.

District Attorney Beach and his as
fsistants arc gladly welcoming the APP
proach OF the end OF the Postofice con-
spiracy case. which. it is expected. VIII
end Thursday.
Since the trial OF the Machen- Lorenz-
Groffs case was begun some weeks ago.
the routine business Of the District At
torneys Office has practically been at q
standstill. Nearly half a hundred pris-
oners are in jail awaiting trial. but 1t
was impossible to give them an early
hearing under the circumstances. IN
Criminal Court No. ?. presided over by
Justice Wright. for several weeks the
time has been taken up I'm the trial Of
the Gait will case-which. by the way. Is
not yet finished. The hearing in this
case. however. has been postponed until
March next. and this will give Justice
Wright an opportunity of devoting some
time to the consideration of criminal
business. In this connection it should
De said that whatever time was avail
able in Criminal Court, No 2, in the past
week. was devoted 10 the trial Of Grim
inal cases.
"Jail Cases" Next.
With the end of the Postotice cases
in sight. however. District Attorney
Beach has already begun preparation
fer the trial OF what are known as
Jail cases as rapidly as the force of
his office can handle them.
In this connection it will not be sur
prising If among the criminal cases
which will be called for trial at an early
date will be those of the street car
conductors who were last week indict-
ed for the alleged embezzling Of funds
of the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company. An early trial of these
cases, II IS expected, win be urged by
the accused. as well as by the officials
Of the Street Railway Company.
Probate Matters.
There are several important probate
matters set for hearing before Justice
Wright, in the near future. and the con-
slderation of these will necessarily oc
cupy his time and prevent him from
continuing the trial of criminal cases
The arguments in the knights OF
Labor cases were concluded SATURDAY.
before Justice Anderson. who reserved
his decision. The question involved Is
the constituJionality Of the organization
Of the Hayes and the Burns factions OF
the order.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
FIRE IN FIFTEENTH STREET.

A defective fue caused a SIS fire ut
the residence Of Jasper Thomas. 1e2z
Fifteenth Street northwest. about J1:20
O'Clock last evening The hrcmCn kept
the blaze confined to the fiue. The loss
is covered by insurance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
Secret Of Centuries.

The secret OF the castle Is known only
TO three persons ut Il time, the holder OF
,ne title. the heir when he becomes @
age AMI the eari's factor or agent. The
secret has never leaked out
The favorite legend OF the country
folk regarding the mystery is that
there is in existence some semi-huma1
monster, born in the family. which IS
still living after centuries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
"FORETTOOLD FIRE
IN BAL TIMORE'
Negro Prophet Now Reads
Title Clear.
HE GIVES OTHER WARNINGS
Further Disasters Promised Mopumen-
tai City, and New York, Too, Ia
on His List.

BALTIMORE. Feb. 23-While the
ruins OF the Baltimore fire are stin
warm. Prophet Jones appears with doc
umentary evidence to show that he pre-
dicted the confiagratiOn-
The prophet. otherwise the Rev. An
drew Jones, while not upIifted by his
prowess as a foreteIler of dire events.
thinks that the Baltimore fire enables
him to read his title as prophet clear,
and is encouraged TO launch forth upon
other warnings.
Prophet Is in Scranton.
The prophet is now in Scranton.
Among his famous prophecies was the
warning he proclaimed OF the destruc-
ton Of Atlantic City a year ago last
summer. The sea did not swallow up
the town on the appointed date. but a
while afterward the big fire occurred
there
Two letters have been received by the
negro clergyman from ministers In Bal
timOre, reminding him that while in
that city two years ago he formally al
vertised the fire Now he AYERS that
further disasters are to befall the Monl.-
mental esty.
Scranton. too. is on his list He had =
Nlsloh not long ago IN Wnlcn ne Sa ~
floods raging IN Scranton and buildings
| falling.
Had Vision on Corner.
"On January %. 1904" says the pro-
phet, Il stood at Twelfth and Market
! Streets. in Philadelphia, and n a vision
saw destruction on every hand"
| It may be that this vision was due TO
reflex action caused by the impression
produced In the prophets mind by the
disordered state Of the streets after one
/ of the snowfalls earlier in the year
An awful calamity, the worst in his
\ tory. is to befall New York is another
of the prophets most recent predictions.
1T will be caused by wind. fire. and
| earthquakes"
| He names no dates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
Her Curiosity Baked.

One Lady Strathmore tired TO find the
chamber by sending some one to every
room TO bang towel out OF the window.
On one Easement no towel was display
cd, but no means of gaining access to
the hidden room could be discovered.
On one occasion a young doctor who
was staying in the castle professionally
found on returning TO his bedroom that
the carpet had been taken up and relaid
He noticed that the mark of the carpet
was different at one end of the room. BY
moving the furniture and raising the
carpet he laid bare trap door, which
he forced open and found himself in q
passage The passage ended in a ce-
mented wall. The cement was still
soft, leaving the impress OF a finger.
He returned to his room and next
morning received an envelope contain
ing a check for his services, with the
intima zion that the carriage was ready
to take him 10 the station for the frat
/ train
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-23
CLAIMS. MYSTERY
STIRS BRITAIN
Lord StrathmOre's Death
Revives Strange Tale.
A SECRET OF CENTURIES
Mysterious Chamber in Castle Thought
to Contain Some Semi-Human
Monster

LONDON. Feb. 23-Stories Of the mys-
terry Of CLAIMS Castle are again rife in
Forfarshire. one of the seats of the
Strathmore family. These stories have
been brought up by the death Of Lord
Strathmore on February 16.
Curious things have occurred at the
castle while guests were staying there.
1t is said that one wet afternoon. when
a party of guests were in the hall. his
lordShip suddenly appeared and said: Il
want to ask all of you to go to your
rooms at once and stay there till the bell
rings" All hurried off, and reassem-
bied twenty minutes later when they
heard the bell but no one made any re-
marks, knowing the existence of the
mystery.
once an inquirer was curious 70 know
what was in the secret chamber, and the
late Earl replied: IF you would guess
even the nature of this secret you would
go dowI, on your knees and thank God
that you are ignorant o. il.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-09
THE GOVERNORS
HILO RECEPTION
(staT Correspondence

HILO. Feb. 2.-Governor Carriers
day was fully occupied by the people
of Hilo yesterday. Beginning early in
the morning with trip over the city
he closed the day long after midnight
at the reception and dance in Spree
kels Hall.
Yesterday morning Governor Carter
was taken over the city by C. C. Ken
nedy and Guy Gere of the Public
Works Department. He inspected the
roads and also visited the site for the
proposed Hilo Park. The roads gen.
orally about Hilo are In splendid con-
dition. No action was taken with
reference to the Park matter.
Governor Carter, Secretary Atllin-
son and Forester Hosmer took dinner
at six o'clock with Mr.. C. C. Kennedy
and Immediately afterward drove
down to Spreckels hall for the recep-
ton.
The hall was artistically decorated
with flags and greens and showed the
results of three days of hard work
which the committee had put into the
task.
The reception began promptly at
eight o'clock and for more than two
hours the Governor and Secretary
stood in the receiving line shaking
hands with the people as they passed.
The reception was the largest affair
of the kind ever given in Hilo. 1t
was variously estimated that from five
to eight hundred people passed in re-
view before the Governor. and the two
c flcials had pleasant greeting with
an apt remark for each one of them.
The Hawaiian residents of Hilo turn
ed out in large numbers and were in
troduced to the Governor by Rev. S.
L. Desha. 1t was probably the largest
reception the natives have ever at
tended for any man, and the Governor
and Secretary were both well pleased
with the society function.
Judge Dole, who was in attendance
at the reception, was also the recipi-
en- of much attention and he was
heartily greeted by many of those who
had come to see the Governor.
Following the reception the people
of Hilo enjoyed a dance, many of the
older residents remaining to watch the
festivities. Refreshments We're served
during the evening and the entire af-
fair was a most enjoyable one.
This morning Governor Carter and
Forester Hosmer rode up to Kaiwiki,
the homesteads above Hilo. l.. M.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-09
HARVARD MEN OF FAME.

| Hawaii's identity through persona
| links with American enlightenment and
| progress, as we'll as Americas storm
and shine, is every now and then crop
! ping up among varied "reminiscences
one of the latest instances appears in
the Saturday Evening Post (Philadel-
phia) of January 90. Discussing First
Scholars as First Men" that literary
journal mentions recent number of a
magazine published at Harvard Univer-
sity as giving a list of the first ten
scholars of each of the classes that
graduated in the sixth decade of the
last century at that institution. The
Saturday Evening Post comments that
the list is itself significant as regards
individuals, land 'also more significant
in respect to high rank in college as
giving ground for the assurance of dis
tinction in life itself"
Many names of leaders in Harvard's
classes of the period stated are given,
with mention of high positions In public
life and as scholars to which they at
tanned. Ambassador Joseph II. Choate,
Governor Robinson of Massachusetts,,
and John ID. Long, Secretary of the
Navy, Member of Congress and Gov
ernor. of Massachusetts, are in the list,
and General A. S. Hartwell, a veteran
of the Union army, whose home has
long been and Is now in Honolulu, Is
referred to in this sentence: In the
class of 1858 are found the names of
Wentworth and Cilley, teachers in
Phillips Exeter Academy, and of Hart
we'll, Justice of the Supreme Court and
Attorney General of Hawaii" The con-
illusions at which the Saturday Even
ing Post arrives are as follows:
The idea has been altogether too
common that first scholars do not be-
come first men in after life. The idea
is on the whole, false. The powers that
win in the law, the ministry and other
forms of public service are the qualities
that win in the classroom. In fact, as
one compares the names of the first ten
scholars of these ten classes of Har-
ward University with the names OF all
the other members of the same classes
II Is easy TO see that among these ten
names are found the names of men of
greater distinction than are found i'm
all the remaining names of any class.
In class, for instance, of ninety MEM
bers the first ten scholars represent
greater distinction than the names of
the other eighty.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-09
The Ukulele.

A quaint musical instrument, which
has captured the fancy of some Brook
Ign women, Is the ukulele. II Is paycx
by the natives of the Sandwich Islands
and Is Il sweet-toned instrument ORf
was brought here by San FranciscS
girl visiting a Brooklyn friend recentiS.
Resembling a small guitar and played
very much like one, 1t is delightful faT
accomplishments, and is so used by The
Sandwich Island girls. This Instrument
may become a rival to the mandolin
Its small size renders II easy to carry
about on yachting parties or for eyen--
ing drives. Accomplishments for bal
lads may be rendered very effectiyeR
on this little instrument.-New AmsteT-
dam Theater Program.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-09
Last Tributes.

The friends of Mrs William Allison
Bryan assembled in Central Union
church yesterday afternoon for a me-
mortal service conducted by her pastor,
Rev. VIM. Morris Kincaid. The hands
of loving friends arranged maidenhair
ferns with pansies and violets about the
urn containing the ashes of mother and
infant daughter, who was not permitted
to live to see the light of a happy home.
There were also carnation leis and other
beautiful floral tributes from friends
and those associated with Mr.. Bryan in
his work,
Mrs. Bryan, in her few years of Is
land life, has made a host of friends
and none who knew her beautiful char
acter can forget her. Unassuming and
gentle, all who came in contact with
her were better for having known her
When MI Bryan leaves Honolulu next
Wednesday, on the sad errand of bear
ing home the ashes of the beautiful
young woman he brought out as his
wife three years ago, he will take with
him the sympathy of large circle of
friends and the knowledge that the in
fuence of a beautiful life will still go
on.
Mrs. Bryan's early home was in Min
nesota, and there father and mother
and other relatives wait the home-com-
ing of a loved daughter. Two years ago
the parents of both Mr.. and Mrs. Bry-
an made a visit of some months at the
Bryan home at Kalim and many will
remember meeting them at
that time.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-09
.hDACH| is
HEARD FROM.
Davis Disbarment Csse
Among Other Fedesk
Court Affairs.

District Attorney II. W. BreckSm-
yesterday morning filed in the Yedera
court an information against Gsorxx
A. Davis, concluding with the Nuysr-
that IL the charges therein be sustHiA,x
the court will remove the ns.um VI
Davis from it's roll of PRACTITIONERS
suspend him from the practice Of iss,.
or otherwise deal with him as may sff
proper The charges are ideNsl,as
with those under which Davis was lis
barred from the Territorial courts fwF
the Supreme Court of the YerrJasy.
Monday next is return day, when sss.,
respondent may have his trial
At the opening of the special nn-m ~,
the Federal court yesterday three lsSs
anese changed their plea of net guilty
in the conspiracy cases BY rrpanssS
of the District Attorney, sentence Wal
suspended for two weeks to permit lts>
defendants to wind up their bustptsss
affairs.
District Attorney Breckons. by Res.
terday's mail, received letter Ts,sns
Adachi, for whose extraditiom ryaoc,
the charge of perjury Marshal HuaSTs
has gone to Japan. Adachi ssI6 t,e
thought there was going to be war ~
home, adding that he would prcis-.
Honolulu to Yokohama for living N
just now. He gave his address 0in
the names Of the people giving hhul
domicile. There is a possibility vi &,
trick being played through Adsahss
writing to the official who wants Ein
back here badly. His alleged pcTJsary"
was committed in testimony given III
examinations of JapsNnses
accused OF violating United SiatrH'
statutes against immortality, peonsye,.
etc.