davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
Foreign.

Gen. Gonzales Valencia has renounc-
ed the vice presidency of Colombia.
The prospects are bright for President
Reyes government.
A fire at Kharkoff, Russia, supposed
to be Of incendiary origin, destroyed
shops to the value of 100000. Nine
persons were severely injured.
Dowager Empress Marie Foedorov-
ma of Russia will Dor leave St. Peters
burg for Denmark at the urgent re-
quest of King Christian, her father.
A sealing fleet Of twenty-five steam
ers. carrying $500 men, sailed from st.
John, N. F., for it's annual hunt for
fur seals among the ice foes along the
coast.
According to a semi-oficial state
ment given out at Schwerin. the mar
rage of Crown Prince Frederick Will
lam and Duchess Cecilia will take
place in Berlin on June 6.
An automobile in which President
Palma of Cuba was riding ran over
and killed a Spanish boy. The young
ster ran between a street car and the
auto and was run down.
The newspapers at Madrid energetic
ally oppose the governments proposal
to give Gen. Weyler a pension Of ST.
600 and the Grand Cross of the Order
of San Fernandino in recognition OF
his services as governor general of
Cuba.
The London Times Russian CORE
spondent states that a batch OF eight
submarine boats Of the latest Ameri-
can type have just been laid down at a
secluded spot at Sevastopol and are
being built by skilled American work
men.
The correspondent at st. Petersburg
of the Echo de Paris states that he
learns that the French and Russian
financial agents have been unable to
agree regarding the proposed Russian
loan, whose issue in consequence has
been postponed.
Fire In the extensive coal and wood
cellars under a wing Of the new palace
at Pottsdam was extinguished only
after six hours work by the Potsdam
fire department. Two firemen were Sc
yerely burned. The imperial family
a in Berlin at the time of the fire.
President Castro of venezuela is said
to have mounted a number Of French
guns at Porto Cabello and La Guaira
within the last six weeks. Venezuelan
exiles in the island OF Curacao are HOP
ing the United States viii make war
on Venezuela 50 they car return to
their country.
Emperor Francis Joseph has sent q
letter to COUNT Welsersheimb. the re-
firing Austrian minister of finance.
thanking tm or his twenty-five years.
Of faithfu SERVES. The new minister
Of finance, Herr Schoenaich. will entsr
upon the duties Of the Office at once.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Apparently Mr.. Alexander and his
fellow-directors regard Mr.. Hyde as
too Frenchy and frivolous for the
presidency Of a great life Insurance.
corporation. Query: Were they in.
vited to the $1O0,O 900 ball?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
KILLS CLIENTS HUSBAND.
Indiana Attorney Fatally Shoots Ex-
Councilman.

vincennes, Ind, March 81. A. J.
Taylor, ex-councilman, vas shet and
fatally wounded by Louis A. Meyer, an
attorney, during a fight in front of the
postoffice. Taylor died later. The
shooting was witnessed by many per-
sons Meyer had acted as attorney in
a suit brought by Mrs. Taylor against
a woman on the ground of alleged mis-
conduct. When the two met on the
crowded street a fight followed a brief
argument, and Meyer was roughly
handled. Freeing himself from Tay-
lor, he drew a revolver and fired three
times. two bullets taking effect. Meyer
is under arrest.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

why should any one be surprised
because p. T. Barnum's autograph
sold for three times as much as Henry
Gays? Henry Clay never ran such a
big circus as p. T. Barnum did.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

II the garter purse is generally
adopted 1t will become popular to take
street car rides on the chance Of 9 g
ing 4 party Of ladies quarreling about
who will pay the fare.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
RAISE CAUSES STRIKE.
Trammers Strike Because Their Raise
lie Less Than Miners.

Houghton. Mich, March 21.-At the
the Quincy Mining company Informed
it's employees that wages were raised
from March / to $65 a month for min
ers and $50 for trammers. %whereupon
the TRAINERS struck because they
were not given the same wages as the
miners, something never done at any
mine in the Lake Superior district.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Down In Maryland there Is q man
who has the euphonious name OF
Freezer Fry. He ought to live in St
Louis, where the people are under the
necessity Of doing both.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

/! One would not care. We should
think. to go through a severe civil
service examination in order to be
placed on the Russian grand duke eli.
gible list.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The venerable Captain Adrian G.
Arson says batting is a lost art, but
the veteran Colonel John L. Sullivan
may be trusted to prove him wrong
~ getting on another one.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Apparently the Russian students
think a xemsky sober will be entirely
too tame an affair to give satisfaction
after the riotOuS times to which the
neople over therb have become accus-
stpmed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Fire IN a New York theater. the
other day. caused a lot of chorus girls
who were dressed only in tights to
rush to the streets. They are report.
ed to have been greatly embarrassed,
hut most Of them are glad now that II
happened. They can all demand lead.
ing parts on the strength OF the ad,
lsertising they got.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

1T is essential that a woman's arms
should be pretty" says a fashion ex-
pert. And that a mans arms should
be strong!
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Carnegie is to receive $3.50 a day
for going to Cleveland as a witness.
The possibility Of his being able to die
poor Is becoming nor and more re-
mote.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

II Herr Hoch had as much presence
Of mind as Adam had, he would put ON
an innocent look and declare that he
wasn't to blame-that all those women
married him.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The Nashville American denounces
sfhe comic valentine with its "atroci.
hes Of conception" as q cheap, wit
yess and spiteful a~bomination that IL
sxtuptdity condensed. That editor must
v received . skillfully selected
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

That French physicians "oyster
cure" requiring patients to eat six
dozen OF the bivalves daily, should b
Z great thing for the health OF the
oyster dealers.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The Chicago poet who has offered to
write 5000 poems for a dollar apiece
will be the envy of thousands of other
poets If he gets the job.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

This is certainly the G of big things.
~ Is proved by the fact that a blotch
on the suns face $4,000 miles in
diameter is called a spot.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The original of Dickens Little
Dorrit" Is still alive, at the age of 90.
But she has changed SO you would
scarcely know her.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The suicide who wrote to an under
taker, LAY this body on a shelf in
your back room and I'll get it later"
had q grim notion of humor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

The weather bureaus monthly re-
port has a learned dissertation on
mean" temperature. Everybody knows
what it means.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
LEAVING THEIR N

Reservoir Threatens to Break y
Drown People Of Pennsylvania Town.
Latrobe, Pa, March 22.-TIe large
reservoir at Chestnut Ridge is said to
be on the point Of %collapsing as the
result of heavy rains during the past
twenty-four hours. The residents of
Baggaley. a mining village near here.
are leaving their homes and moving
their valuables to a place Of safety.
The village of Lycippus was vacated
yesterday.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
FELL UPON A FORK.
Brain Of Iowa Farmer Boy Pierced by
Tine Of Stable Tool.

Iowa Falls, Iowa, March 22.-Geskee
Tjarkes, the nine-year-old son of Aaron
Tjarkes, a farmer living in Ellis town
ship, was instantly killed last evening
while doing chores. He slid down
from a hay mow into a manger, his
head striking an upright %pitchfork, enc
tine penetrating his left cheek, and
passing back of the right eye, piercing
his brain.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Mrs. Chadwick is now said to have
$1,000 900 cached. The only surprise
contained in this piece of news is the
smallness of the amount.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

A New York man who gave his
horse a pint Of whisky has been fined
$25-presumably for wasting whisky
on a horse.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
OF the Week
Crimes and Criminals.

Crimes and Criminals.
Robbers blew open the safe OF the
Renfrow bank at Renfrow, Okla, and
escaped with SO, 500 in ca 5h. An armed
posse is in pursuit.
julius Stevens, a negro imprisoned
in the Jail at Long View, Tex, charged
with assault upon Carl Anderson, was
yesterday shot to death in his cell by
a mob.
Mrs. Bertha Berck of Bloomington
tied her ten-year-old son to a rope and
drowned him in a c~istern. where the
body was found by Mr.. Berck on his
return home.
Miles Willis, a director Of the Kane
County National bank, shot himself in
the head at Elburn, H., dying instant
ly. Dependency over i'll health is as
signed as the aus
In a room filed with gas in the
Queens hotel in Chicago, a man was
found dead and a woman unconscious.
The police believe that a double sui
eide had been planned.
Sixteen prisoners made a desperate
dash for liberty from the county Jail
at Hot Springs, Ark. One Of them,
Silas Lowe, was shot dead, and anoth-
er, Dick Hastings, escaped.
The jury at Helena, Mont, after hav-
ing been out nineteen hours, returned
a verdict of not guilty in the case of
E. C. Christie, who was accused Of a
sensational holdup there last July.
Ed and Will Ptomey, negroes, who
shot and fatally wounded Prof. Claude
Hardy at Selma, Ala, were captured
by a posse of citizens. They were inn
mediately taken to a swamp and
hanged.
After writing letters to the coroner
making provision for his cremation,
Gustave jacob, 4S years old, a tobacco
expert, turned on the gas in his room
in New York and was found dead in
the morning.
Thieves blew the safe in the Bank of
Benton, KY, and got away with $4,000,
during the night. The robbery was not
discovered until the bank opened for
the day. The robbers are supposed to
have numbered four.
The vault of the Genoa Banking
company Of Genoa, Ohio, was blown
by three unknown men. who escaped
in a stolen buggy and later on a hand
car. A posse of citizens is in pursuit.
All surrounding sheriffs have been no.
titled. The thieves are reported to
have secured $4,000 in cash and $780,
900 in negotiable paper.
The Rev. DR.. John Watson Clan Mac
Laren) has resigned the p~astorship of
the Seton Park Presbyterian church,
Liverpool. In his farewell address DR..
Watson said he is worn out and can
not go on. He never has been strong,
he says, and had to do his work with
hindrances from bodily WEAKNESS, and
now his strength is nearly exhausted.
Joseph Steffel, who has been on trial
for two weeks at Milwaukee, charged
with the murder of Hans Tritchler, an
East Water street saloonkeeper, was
acquitted by a jury in Judge Braces
court. Trichtler was murdered in his
place of business Dec. 80. There was
nothing but circumstantial evidence in.
troduced, and the jury brought in a
verdict after several hours delibera-
ton.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

In this country last year. You didn't
read more than half of them, perhaps.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

It is the privilege OF the talker to
misQuote. The writer has to look it
up In the dictionary of quotations.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

It II soldering to learn that the
Elks are exterminating the elk for the
sake of its teeth.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24
PASTOR SENT TO PEN.
Maximum Penalty Is Imposed on Elop-
inc New Jersey Preacher.

New Brunswick, N. j, March 21.-J.
F. Cordova, the %unfrocked minister
who twice eloped with Julia Bovine Of
South River, and who was convicted
of abandoning his wife and three chill
dren and assaulting his wife, was sem
fenced to serve four years In prison.
Cordova was convicted after TIVE SEN
s%ational trials and the sentence Inn
posed was the maximum penalty nro,
vided for the ofense.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-24

Iowa has a young woman who says
that she a feed a nan properly on 3
cents q day. Is she married?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

active list of the army officers who had served forty years, including ser vice in the Civil War. These officers are ligible now to retirement as briga- dier generals and it is not the purpose of the administration to make them brigadier generals on the active list. The secretary said there were approxi- mately forty of such oiicers, all or whom would be permitted to retire as brigadier generals or to continue to serve in their present gade at their option. The adoption of this policy will open the way for the appointment as gribadier generals of many younger officers than heretofore have held that grade.
 Postmaster General Cortelyou said after the meeting that. although de-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

ono of the most Interesting in It's nis- tory. The necessary business, sucn as tbe payment of annual dues, contripu- ring to worthy causes and etc. was with all haste, so tha' every possible moment could be given tn reading from and discussions ot the recently published "reminiscences or Mrs' Clay Clopton. The parlors ana recep tion hall were filled with members anu guests, all anticipating. from the pre- yiously announced subject, something nnnsual. Mrs. Clay Clopton has sever al warm personal friends ana ihahy warm admirers in Auburn.
 After a finely rendered plano SOLO, "snrine Notes" by Miss Drake, Mrs. B. R Ross introduced the literary pro- pram by a tribute to Mrs. Clay Clopton' A1abama's Daughter, of whom the en- fire State feels justly proud. The "Dauehters" then sung, with Miss Allie Glenn as leader, "Suwanee River" when the President of the Chapter selecteu A Belle of the Fifties" as the subject of the February meeting, she wrote the author and in reply not only re- ceiyed a charming personal letter. put the gracious lady sent a greeting to tbe Semmes Chapter, which Mrs. Ross read. Every one present felt the thrill of enthusiasm that enanated from the authors love letter, as it were, to the Chapter, and the inspiration of her words opened the way for the discus sion of the subject for the afternoon.
 The "Belle's" life from childhood un- tj1 her marriage with MT. C. c. Clay was graphically recounted by Mrs. Annie Williams. A number of passages of ever increasing interest were read namely her first theatre. and ball, the desperate love affair with MT. Jesse Clemens and also the frank and rather novel affair with Col. McClung. In Rrewer's Alabama" we read that Mrs. | Clay Clopton was one of the brightest ornaments of Washington society in | the fifties Miss Ella Lupton told gracefully and pleasantly the charm l ing story of this period of the author life. Illustrating her account with Inaraerapns fro mthe "Reminiscences. l Mrs. Alexander Averyt reviewed most lannreciatively "A Belle" during the l IConfederacy and later, dwelling espec- | ially on MT. Clay's Imprisonment in Fortress Monroe. MT. Garrett in Pub II,c Men of Alabama" writes thus:- After tolls and bafflings which would have crushed d less heroic woman, and after many interviews with the Presl- dent and Secratary of War Mrs. Clay succeeded. after MT. Clay had been for months imprisoned in q damp, dark cell. which nearly cost him his life, in having her husband restored to her. The scene was morally grand. Ro- nance can furnish nothing superior to if In firmness, consistency and devo- ton
 Each of these ladies in the discus sion showed a thorough familiarity with and appreciation of the book. ex- plaining in turn, that it was difficult task to select from the abundance of fine material
 During the social hour which Mrs. Lirscorb made most agre cable. the fascinating author and her new book continued to be the subject of pleasant converse.
 After accepting an invitation to meet ,,,i,h NIrs Steadham next, the Semmes Chapter adjourned until March 21.
 Letitia D. Ross,
 President .semmes Chapter U. D. c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

The best of all the Gladstone Dis raeii stories tells how once at a Lon- don dinner party the ladies at the ta- ble were asked which they would mar ry if they had to take one or the other. the great liberal or the great tory. All leld save one, who hastened to explain that she had rather wed Gladstone that she might elope with Disraeli and so break her husbands heart. This hap. pening was. of course, retoId to Dis raeli, and so pleased was he over it that he suspended cabinet debate on the chances of a continental war in order to relate it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
COLD CAUSED BY MICRoBE.
Popular Notion That It Is Caused by
 Exposure Q FaIlncy.

The common theory that all colds are the result of exposure of some sort is great mistake. Exposure is not the dire.t cause of the disease. Sci- entists say that colds are caused by a hostile niicrobe. which gains foot hold when vitality is lowered by ek- posture, and that if one is inured to exposures he has an effective remedy against the microbe of cold as well as many others. There arc many evil dences to prove this theory. There are many places where 1t Is impossible to catch cold, because there Is no cold to catch.
 Nansen and his men. during the three years they spent in the arctic re- gions, were immune from cold, though they were constantly enduring expo sure of every kind. They passed day after day in clothes so saturated with precipitation that by day they froze in to solid mass, so that they cut into the flesh. And at night, In their sleeping bags, the first hour was spent in thawing out They returned to civ ilization none the worse in health, but soon contracted severe colds upon reaching there.
 Then there is the remarkable in- stance of St. Kilda, that lonely, rocky island which was visited by Dr. John
  ing their famous tour of the Hebrides. There are about 100 inhabitants on the island The coasts are so precipitous that for eight months of the year 1t is practically inaccessible. Several ves- sells from the mainland call there dur ing the summer. And, strange to say. whenever ship reaches the island from the mainland every inhabitant even to the infants, is seized with a cold. This fact has been known for more than 200 years and was of great interest to Dr. Johnson. who was skep- tical concerning 1t.
 The question of this St. Kilda cold long puzzled men. who never dreamed that it was an infectious disease and that without the possibility of infec- tion 1t is impossible to catch it, no matter what the exposure may be- That Is to say, it is due to micro organism, and without the presence of this micro-organism the disease can not be contracted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.
General Policy Agreed on at Meeting {
 Cabinet.

General POAicy Agreeu on at heettng Ob
 Cabinet.
 Washington, March 10.-A general policy as to federal appointments was determined upon by the President and his cabinet today. At the conclusion of the meeting 1t was announced that for the present at least the uniform policy would be to retain incumbents in office during satisfactory services. This policy will hold, it was stated further entirely irrespective of the length of service of the incumbent.
 The policy announced is to apply generally to all departments of the government. It is in precise line with the determination reached and an- nounced some time ago regarding post masters. The announcement was that the case of each postmaster would be determined on its merits and 1t would make no difference necessarily whether the incumbent had served one or two or more terms.
 In line with the general policy of civil appointment Secretary Taft said it also had been determined not to appoint as brigadier generals on the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

in times of frost and snow the mum Der of sleepers and snorers is abomin- ably increased.
 Society In Washington seems deter mined to introduce the Continental Sunday" and ministers and laymen are struggling against the movement. Sun day dinners are becoming more and more popular, and there Sunday theatre rarties for evening concerts, followed by gay supper gatherings. Perhaps th1 chief influen ,a in favor Of the new order of things is found in the diplo- matic corps.
 The library of the late John Scott, d prominent Scottish ship owner whose home was at Halkshill in Ayrshire. will l., sold ir London March 27 In inclutes nearly a thorsand books on ship-huild- ing. shipping and naval affairs, which will be sold in one lot.
 French horticulture in the eXperl- mental gardens at Bordeaux, has accli- matized for Europe one of the sweet pC tatocs of Western Africa. Excellent counts nrc given of thH agTicultu --l value of the new tuber. which besides cropping well can be profitably used it. all it's parts. Even the leaves are said to be no bad substitute for spinach As for the tubers besides their high nutritive qualities as a food highly relished by cattle, they contain 17 per cent of sugar. which Is higher than that of beetroot. and also alcohol.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
Sophie Bibb Chapter.


 The. regular meeting of Sophie Bibb Chapter, was held on March 1st, at the home of the President. After the Lords prayer had been repeated in concert. the Treasurer made his report which was accepted with thanks and qualification over the results.
 Arrangements were then perfected for the Shiloh monument entertain ment to be given at the Hall of Repre- sentatives, Capitol. on March 6. Mrs. Elinon made a motion which was unanimously carried, that a committee be appointed to confer with the Cover nor and ascertain when the Confeder- ate flags would be returned to the diff ferent states, also to express a desire that Sophie Bibb Chapter with other patriotic organizations meet the Ala bama flags at the depot and escort them to the Capitol to be tenjerly de- posted in the historic archives.
 The Secretary was instructed to write to the Hon. John Lamb M. c. ex- pressing appreciation of his successful business for the year 1904. being com pleted, the election of new officers fol- lewed:
 President. Mrs. Andrew McNiel; Vice President, T. I. Hewlett; Record ing Secretary, Mrs. J. l.. Holloway Corresponding Secretary, Miss Annie Maude Davison; Treasurer, Mrs Morti. mer Futile: Registrar, Mrs. Eugene Besson; Director, Mrs. A. c. Forbes; Historian, Miss Andrews.
 Mrs McNeil declined the office and Mrs Garner Wade was then elected. The social hour was spent in the enjoy ment of delicious refreshments and ex- tending sincere congratulations to the retiring President, Mrs. G. H. McCombs for her very efficient and judicious ad- ministration.