davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1905-08-15
Totals Up 70 Date.

There have been total of 166 deaths
out Of LOIS cases up to last night, max
ing the death rate only 16 per cent
There were So cases and u deaths yes
terday Accepting the mosquito theory
as ali intelligent people here do, this
mortality serves 10 quiet rather than
disQuiet the citizens. When the fever
was announced practically all of the
leading citizens who were away on vaca-
lions hurried home that they might rem
der personal, as we'll as money, assist
ance
The Washington times., 1905-08-15
No Ill Feeling Shown.

g. That the contest was conducted in
a proper and orderly manner. according
TO established rules governing such con-
tests, and the contestants were good
natured throughout Also that there
was no i'll feeling between the contest
ants. or undue feeling shown by the
spectators.
q. That Cohen was defeated and
was taken to the sick pay of the United
States Ship Yankee at the close of the
contest. where he received medical at
tendance, but died about two hours
Ii ter. namely. at l1:=0 p. m. of hem
orrhage OF the brain.
.. That the nemorrhage of the
OF the head given directly by Johnson
or received in falling as a direct Incl
dent OF the contest.
IS. That J. R. Johnson, seaman
United States Navy. is in no way cul-
pable for the death of r. Cohen, coal
passer. United States Navy. as the evi-
dcEce shows that the contest was in all
respects Il lawful one that the actions
Of j. r. Johnson. United States Navy,
were not dictated by malice. and that
il was accidental. and that the injuries
received by r. Cohen. coal passer.
United States Navy, resulted in hts
death
u That no culpability attaches TO
any person for the death of r. Cohen,
coal passer, United States Navy
In the opinion of the court no fur
TIER proceedings should be had against
any person In this case
This opinion was approved by Secre-
tary Bonaparte.
The Washington times., 1905-08-15
Noses August Floor Covering Sale.

ca-pets. reGs. mattiass etc. bargained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19

CHINA A RAILROAD BUILDER.
To Take Over the Belgian as Well a.
the American Concessions.

An Oyster Bay dispatch says: In an in
terview Monday afternoon. after visiting
the President. Sir Chentung LANG Cheng.
the Chinese minister, disclosed China's new
ambitions as railway builder.
He made the remarkable statement that
not only would the Chinese build and run
the Canton ankow road, but would take
possession of the so-called Belgian road
now In operation for 800 miles south OF
Picking. This means that all European and
American interests will be driven out of the
great trunk line extending 800 miles from
Picking to Canton by way of Hankow, leav-
Ing all lines north of Picking In the hands
of the japanese.
Sir Lang however. denied that Japan
was In partnership with China in the new
railroads. When asked what part Ameri-
can capital was to play, he diploma ticalIy
avoided the question.
THE railroad will be built and man
aged In sections by the different provinces
through which the line passes, said Sir
LANG. There Is no opposition now to the
building of the road, and there will be
healthy rivalry in its construction by the
provinces"
The statement that there Is now no OBJ
lection to railroads In China marks a sud-
den and curious conversion. It Is but a
few weeks since the hostility OF the natives
was given AZ one Of the reasons why the
Chinese could never hope to finish the Can
ton-HankoW line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
DEATH OF MAI. MONTGOMERY.
Retired Army Officer Victim of
Bright's Disease.

Maj. Robert H Montgomery, U. 8. A.,
retired, died this morning at his residence.
2021 Q street, In this city. after several
weeks Illness Of Brghts disease. No ar
engagements have yet been made for the
funeral services, but 1t Is expected that the
interment will be at the Arlington National
Cemetery.
Maj. Montgomery was a veteran Of the
civil war and of several exciting Indian
campaigns. He was born in Pennsylvania
and enlisted In the I'd United States Cav
airy in August, 1850. In the fall of 1868
while serving as second lieutenant of the
9TH Cavalry, he was captured by the con-
federates and placed In Libby prison. Rich
mond, and remained there until the spring
of 1865, when with several other prisoners,
he made his escape through tunnel. but
was obliged to hide In the swamps Of Vir-
ginta for nearly a month before reaching
the Union lines. Immediately after the civil
war he was stationed in this city and sub
sequently spent several years on the plains
with the 9Th Cavalry. In March. 1891, he
reached the grade of major OF the 10th Cav
airy and in April. 1882. was placed on the
retired list at his own request, after more
than thirty years service.
Mai Montgomery's wife. formerly a Miss
McKeIden of the well-known family OF that
name, survives him He was a brother-tn-
law of Maj. A. c. Macomb, 9Th Cavalry.
at Fort Riley. Kan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
GOING TO NEW ORLEANS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TELLS
PEOPLE HIS PLANS.

An Oyster Bay dispatch last night says:
President Roosevelt today sent a message
to Mayor Behrman of New Orleans, in which
he said that he had expected to arrive in
that city on October "a. and that he should
do so II the people wanted him to come
then. If they wanted him to come later he
would make second trip to visit Louisiana
and Arkansas.
He intended to do whatever the people OF
New Orleans and Louisiana wish. subject
to the quarantine regulations OF other states
through which he would afterward pass
The President. who Saturday last
opened the diamond exposition given at New
Orleans for the benefit of the yellow feve-
sufferers today received from Mayor Behr-
man the following telegram:
ATHLETIC PARK, New Orleans: La
September 49, 1905.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. President. Oyster
Bay N. Y:
The people of New Orleans thank you
heartily for your expressions Of sympathy
and the help you are giving US. We are
stamping out yellow fever and you are aid
ing Should you come to New Orleans
our appreciation and feeling will be shown
this as the sentiments of the 10000 citizens
who surround me and of all the people of
this city. MARTIN BEHRMAN.
Mayor of New Orleans.
Replying to a suggestion in this dispatch.
Mr.. Roosevelt sent the following:
OYSTER BAY. N. Y. September Is. 1905.
HON MARTIN benTman, mayor, New orleans.
La:
thank you for your telegram of the 10th.
Nothing has been closer to my heart this
summer than the welfare of the people of
Louisiana and New Orleans, and each day
the first Information have sought has been
as to the progress made in fighting the
scourge under which they have suffered.
My trip to the south begins on the 18th OF
October l had expected to arrive in New
Orleans Tuesday, October "a. II the people
Of Louisiana and New Orleans desire me TO
come at that time of course / shall come.
If they desire me to come later shall make
second trip for the express purpose of Wis
iting Louisiana and Arkansas. / wish you
to consider In this matter simply the wishes
OF the people Of Louisiana and New Orleans.
and also, of course, the question of quaran-
tine regulations of other states in so far
they would be affected by my entering
them after leaving louisiana l shall do
whatever the people of New Orleans and
Louisiana wish. subject only to the feeling
Of the other states on this quarantine mat
ter. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
Cenuine-Syrup Of Figs

contest was pretty warm in the after
noon.
The respective leaders of the two par
ties in Baltimore were in constant touch
with their Heutenants in various wards.
Collector of the Port Stone. who managed
the republicans was in his office most OF
the day. Later he went to the Union
League, and remained until the returns had
been counted
Mr.. 1. Freeman Rasin. the democratic
city leader, was at his office throughout
the day. Collector Stone voted in the
twelfth ward where he resides. casting the
forty-fifth vote at o'clock. Mr.. Rasin
voted the ffty-sixth ballot at 0:30 o'clock
In the twelfth precinct of the eleventh
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
PUT OUT A BIG VOTE
CHIEF FEATURE OF JOINT PR
MARY CONTESTS.

A Baltimore dispatch says: The interest
in the primaries yesterday was considered
the greatest shown by the democrats In
any primary in recent years. This was due
to the fact that there were many. contests
among the democrats and but few among
the republicans who put out comparative
ly small vote.
With the opening Of the polls, at a.
m, especially in the third legislative dis
trict, there was an almost steady stream
Of voters. the Linthicum legions being out
In force to combat with the Straus adj
herents.
In the thirteenth and fifteenth wards in
terest in the democratic candidates was
very strong.
Down in the third ward, where William
J. Garland battled against Andrew Burns
for the office of executive, this contest wax
ed hard and fast all day. There were sew
eral arrests made in this ward, one man
being charged with attempting to vote IL
legally. The supervisors of elections were
kept busy during the entire day. but there
was nothing of a serious nature to take
up their time.
Polled Very Large Vote.
At the close OF the polls. at PM. 1t
was stated that the democrats had polled
a very large vote. and that the bulk had
been put in before noon. The day was
clear and warm and 1t was an Ideal one
for an election.
The democrats elected twenty-four ward
executives nominated two candidates for
the state senate, a candidate for judge of
the supreme bench. and candidates for clerk
of the city court city surveyor and sheriff.
Delegates were also chosen for the legis-
lative conventions to nominate twerty-four
candidates for the house of delegates.
The republican nominations for the va
rious offices to be filed at the general cleo
ton will be made in convention at a date
to be settled upon later.
Candidates for the house of delegates will
also be chosen in convention, but the
delegations are like the republicans,
pledged to support the candidate who leads
the list the vote had but little effect yes
terday. beyond showing the strength of
the democratic organization against the
boilers.
In the fourteenth ward the Morrison
forces turned out masse for Mr.. Mar
tin Lehmayer for the legislature, and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
Thirty Days on the Farm.

Leander Warfield was sentenced to thirty
days on the farm by Judge O'Neill in the
Police Court this morning on two charges
of fast and reckless driving. According to
and drove a team of horses hitched to
Dirt wagon at the rate of sixteen miles an
hour from 9th and NJ streets to 9th and
New York avenue northwest. Warfed's
circus drive was enlivened by several col
lSions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
Willard Will Accept.

Lieut.. Gov. Joseph E. Willard has deter
mined to accept the position in the Virginia
state corporation commission made vacant
by the resignation of Mr.. Henry Fairfax
of Loudoun county, Va, rendered him by
Gov. Montague last week 1t Is expected
that Capt. Willard will enter upon the
duties OF the Office during the coming
week. and before he Is sworn will dispose
of all his stocks and bonds In railway cor
porations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19

President John Mitchell announced that
the convention of the anthracite mine work
ers to formulate demands will be held IN
0hamokin, Pa, In December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-19
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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

ing this mode of giving annual divi.
dends the New York Life hopes to
escape publicity, comparison and a
fair accounting all along the line. 1t
is too contemplate for discussion.
"The legislators at Albany, in their
next session will fail of their duty ii
they do not compel two things:
"a Substantial uniformity in pol
icy-contracts, so that there may be a
fairly substantial agreement in con.
tracts issued by different companies.
Thus a substantially fair basis for
comparison will be compelled. The
plain essentials of life insurance can
be best given under the most common
forms of policies and all misleading
names and styles of policies used for
flim-fam should be eliminated. Such
policies have gone by the names OF
five per cent gold bonds, debentures,
consols and the like ad nauseam.
("2) The legislators at Albany and
elsewhere have a second duty which
is to ompel the payment of dividends
annually, returning the over-payment
each year to the pockets from which
they came. These two provisions
might compel the New York Life and
the Mutual Life and the Equitable to
nearly cease business, but it would be
good for the public not to place their
insurance in those companies to any
large extent for the next two decades,
and it would be equally good for the
companies if such were the conse'
quences of their past and present folly
and wickedness.
"The public have a duty which they
are little likely to exercise. These
three companies have inflicted on
themselves wounds from which the
management of the angel Ga
briel could not restore them
in twenty years. The danger is
that the public will forgive and forget
within twenty months and resume CIV
ing to these companies the tremen
dous volumes of business that they
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

have secured in the past. Any man
who would not in ordinary business
act like a financial idiot should not be
misled into any belief that any re-
forms can cure these companies of
the harm done them within the last
two decades, or make these companies
such as warrant the use of hard
earned dollars in the payment to them
of new premiums for policies to be
issued in large volumes after all this
newspaper discussion has ceased.
"And l might say in conclusion that
it is as much the duty of those who
censure wrong-doing in life insurance
companies to commend those com.
panies who have faithfully adhered to
their duty of making 500 of the pre-
MUM payment do the full work OF
800 for the policyholder, as it is the
duty of their journals to condemn rep
resensible practices. There are COM
panies by the dozen, and perhaps even
a bakers dozen, that have not bowed
the knee to Baal and that have been
absolutely faithful to the interests OF
policyholders. They have kept clear
of campaign contributions, or leglsla-
tive corruption funds, of syndicate
transactions with profits diverted to
personal gain, and they have waited
with the feeling, % Lord, how long?'
to see these present disclosures and
the cure of these shameful evils.
"a splndid group of companies has
been faithful to their trust. Let that
not be forgotten of disbelieved by an
angry or incredulous public. Many
companies have known of these evils
all along; they have not been strong
enough to defeat them; they have
lived in the hope of these disclosures
for decades land they ought not to
be compelled now to hang their heads
in shame while they have not parti-
cipated in any manner in any of this
evil-doing. 1t is time for sweeping
reforms, but it is not time for reck-
less condemnation. There is such a
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30

thing as sound life insurance and its
principles are invaluable to humanity.
The principles are almost ideally ex-
emplified by the honorable manage
ment of many life insurance COM
panies."
ARENA.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28

ST. Louis. Mrs. Green's steamboat
makes trips regularly between Pitts
burg and Cincinnati Two of her re-
cent feats of navigation are remark
able. Probably the most difficult Of
all steam craft to steer is. a long, mar
row stern wheel boat in a high wind.
Not long ago Captain Green's steam
boat was in the Ohio river at the
mouth of the Kanawha when sudden
II a fierce squall of wind struck the
Greenland, making her steering gear for
the moment unmanageable Before 1t
could be righted the boat whirled and
plunged into a floating theater craft
that was near. Nearly everybody on
both vessels was scared out Of his
senses everybody but Captain Mary
Green, that is. She was as cool as the
brave and brainy always are. She
spoke d few words that reassured her
own passengers Immediately, she right
ed the steering apparatus, she ordered
the Greenland's boats lowered to take
off the people from the show boat-all
this in breath. In a few minutes or
der was restored and not soul hurt.
Another of Mrs. Green's achievements
was to pilot with her own hand the
Greenland down the Ohio through one
OF the raging floods that periodically
sweep the yellow, muddy river. There
was danger that the boat would be en-
gulfed. but. cool and splendid, the
woman captain guided it into port at
Cincinnati. On both these occasions
her little sons were with Mrs. Green.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28
n OF a bl e
w o m e n
Remarkable Career of
Woman River
Captain

A great poets ideal individual was
the one that blended the mental quail
ties Of the man and woman both-the
father-mother being. If there is today
any person approaching this ideal it
must be Captain Mary Green. com
mander of the Ohio river steamboat
Greenland Captain Green is licensed
as both pilot and commander of. any
steamboat plying the waters Of the
Ohio river from its source to its mouth
and of the Mississippi from Cairo ia
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28
A Black Woman Philosopher.

A fine philosophical sense, also q
sense of humor, as well as a decided
opinion of the masculine sex has Mrs
Sample. the famous negro woman cob
bier of Camden. N. J. So far as is
known Mrs. Sample is the only woman
cobbler, white or black. in America,
Fifty years ago she began repairing
shoes, picking up the trade herself. She
learned It SO well and did her work so
neatly that white people as well as
those of her own color soon began to
patronize her, and she secured most
Hourishing trade. which she has kept
ever since She repairs any kind of
footwear-from an infants shoe to No.
II brogans. When she began her novel
occupation, Mrs. Sample had hus.
band. Ten years she supported him
by cobbling, then turned him loose.
When somebody asked her if she had
taken up shoe repairing after the death
of her husband, she retorted indig-
nantly
death of my husband? He amt
dade yit-not as / knows on. | done
turned him outen de house fo'ty years
ago. / amt seen him since, and I
don't wanter.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28
Al Worldwide Benefactor,

Alexander Melville Bell was man
whose benefaetions to afflicted man
kind will live long after his name has
been forgotten by those whom he aided.
AS the inventor of visible speech" the
system of phonetics in vogue in vir-
tually all deaf and dumb institutions
in this country, Mr. Bell did more than
any other single individual to tighten
the burden of the unfortunates de-
prived of one or both of these faculties.
Coming from a family three genera
tons of which devoted their energies to
developing the art of instructing the
deaf and dumb in methods Of commu-
nication, his achievements in this direc-
ton have left lasting imprint. The
system which he devised enabled those
denied such privileges by nature to
enjoy communion with their fellow be-
ings and has brought joy into. thou
sands of lives. Rarely does 1t fall to
the lot of a man to confer such bless
ings upon humanity. His death will
be a source Of profound regret to the
world, and particularly to those in
whose behalf he laboreds so earnestly
and with such marked degree of sue
cess.-Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28
Honest Toll.

in the old days says well known
player, when | was member Of a
stock company in Chicago, we used
nightly to gather in bohemian resort
near the theater One night just after
the show number of us were seated
at table near the entrance when there
entered to us a lean and hungry look
ing chap very thinly and shabbily clad.
Noticing his anxious gaze, one of the
party Immediately OWNED his purpose
and. anticipating the stranger, said:
g Sorry. old fellow, but as we our
selves are playing in rather hard luck
we have no money to give you for a
meal and nights lodging. We're
nearly broke ourselves.
"At this the stranger smiled pleas
antly. Permit me- gentlemen. to cor
rect Misrepresentation said he. I
was not going to ask you for money. |
merely wanted to know whether one
Of you would not lend me sandbag SO
that | might go out and make a little Z
Harper's Weekly
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-09-28
Not worth His Salt.

When we say man is not worth
his salt" said a philologist, I'VE use
an interesting and classic form Of
speech. We go all the way back, in
fact, to the time Of the ancient Ro.
mans.
s'The Roman workers iii the salt
mines were paid in salt. The salt that
they got In return for their labor was
called their salarium (sal-saIt) or salt
allowance.
4The word salarium, meaning salt
money or allowance for salt, later on
was applied to the fees or tips men got
for odd jobs, For patching my toga.
the noble said, I viii give that fellow
d slight salariurn "a bit of money to
buy salt with.
Finally, ssalarium came to mean
wages. salary, what It does today A
salary Is essentially salt money. and
when we say d man Is hot worth his
salt we mean he IS not worth paying
wages to- St. Louis Globe Democrat