davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
AM { RICANS ESCAPE
DEATHFOR MURDERS
Three Convicted in Mexico of Killing
Two Men Get Executive
Clemency.

Chihuahua, Mexico, Dec. 3.-The
governor of Chihuahua yesterday com
muted to 20 years Imprisonment the
death sentence passed on DR.. Charles
Harle, c. J. Richardson and W. F.
Mitchell, who were convicted of mur
dering two Americans, whom they
first induced to insure their lives
heavily in favor of the trio. The gov
ernOr was influenced by the recommen
dat4se~.ef-ciemeifey-maae by Mexican
Ambassador Enrique c. Creel at Wash
ington.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
BOMB FOR CABRERA
HEAD OF GUATEMALA
Exploded Under Presidents Carriage
and Demolished Vehicle But Did
Not Injure Him Seriously.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 3.-An al
legged attempt to assassinate President
Cabrera of Guatemala two weeks ago
reported by the passenger steamer An
selm, which arrived here yesterday
The bomb is said to have exploded
under the presidents carriage, killing
the cOachman and badly wrecking the
vehicle, but not seriously injuring Ca
brera.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
Document Lengthy but
Not Particularly Wor-
thy OF Note. r
REAFFIRMS POSITION
Intimates Prosecution OF Bio
Wrongdoers viii Still be
One of Chief Missions.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The house as
sembled today with but one object in
view, which was to listen to the read
ing Of the presidents message, and
adjourn. Printed copies of the docu-
ment were distributed among the men,
bers, who made a close scrutiny of the
message while the reader plodded
along apparently only for the benefit
of people in the galleries.
Quick Action I'm Senate.
The annual message of the president
was received by the senate at 12:13
today, and within a minute Secretary
Bennett had begun reading the docu-
ment. The secretary read with delib-
erativeness and distinctness, and was
followed closely b. many senator's who
held printed copies of the message.
The galleries were crowded, and many
visitors gave close attention to the
reading.
Little New or Navel.
In the main the document contains
little that is novel; nor does it indicate
that the president has changed his poi
icies. Frequent references are made
to his speeches hitherto delivered, out
lining the presidents wishes and de-
sires for corporation regulation.
The message recommends currency
legislation and reform, but the presi-
dent does not suggest any specific
form of legislation. He points out that
he recommended currency relief in his
last message to congress, but. as on
the former occasion, he takes no stand
on how to provide the necessary elias.
ticity to the currency problem.
Rap at Money Hoarders.
That the president takes cognizance
of the present strained condition OF
the money market and the nervousness!
of bank depOsitors is evident by his
reference to the money hearders. He
calls attention to the great natural re
sources of the country and provides
statistics to show how prosperous the
nation is. He urges that people have
confidence in the banks and that they
not hoard their money.
The president again urges further in
telligent development of the supervis
ion over interstate commerce and asks
for legislation permitting pooling un
der interstate commerce supervision.
Good Need Not Fear.
In the message the president take!
up the questions of irrigation. drainage
and canals in the localities where the,
are most needed. He again discusse:
the good corporations, and reiterate
that they need not fear legislation. HI
refers to his previous speeches wherein
he has promised that the wrongdoer
shall be punished.
[Note.-President Roosevelt's mes
sage to congress appears in unabridg
ed form in another part of this issu
of The Argus.-Ed.1
Bryan I'm Senate.
Washington, Dec. 3.-William J. Bry
an spent an hour or two in the marbl
room of the senate today, the time be
ing principally devoted to an exchang
of courtesies with senators. Most @
the democratic members of the senat
called during the time to pay their rC
spects, as did number of republ
cans.
Names Paymaster General.
Washington, Dec. 3.-The presider
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
Scalpers Hit by Court.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The supreme
court of the United States yesterday
decided the case of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company against
Marcus r. Bitterman and others, in
volving the right of the defendants to
engage in scalping the tickets of the
railroad company, in favor of the com.
pany, the decision being handed down
by Justice White.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
What President in Message Asks
Congress to Do.

full federal
railroads
the Sherman to
prevent monop
oil in the necessities
a
governing to
Kee till after
inheritance axes
imi o to +.
the
accidents.
conditions of child
water imp
steps TO greatly the fore treserv
duty OF products, articuIar ywoodp
the parcels post
Make ons
Increase
senior TO merit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03

meyer president of the American
Sugar Refining company, is seriously
Ill at Commack, Long Island. He is
suffering from an acute attack of in
digestion and several physicians are
n constant attendance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
CONGRESS- HEARS MESSAGE
FROM THE PRESIDENT READ

today sent to the senate the nomina-
ton of Charles H. Whipple, assistant
paymaster general, to be paymaster
general of the army to succeed Gen
eral Sniffen, who retires Jan. l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
ESCAPED BALLOON is SEEN
La Patrie Appears in Scotland Travel
ing in NorthWesterly Direction.

Glasgow, Dec. 3.-Telegrams receiv-
ed here declare the French military
balloon La Patrie, which accidentally
got away from Verdun, France. Satur-
day, passed over Clyde Bank, Dunbar
tonshire, Scotland, this afternoon, 60
ing in a northwesterly direction. There
was no one on board of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03
Judge Explains Law.
New York Blaze Catches Firemen.

New York, Dec. 3.-One man was
killed, another seriously injured and
three firemen overcome by back drafts
in a fire which caused a loss of $45 900
to building in Bleenker street earlr
today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03

Havemeyer Is Seriously III.
New York. Dee. 3.-Henry o. Have
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03

She was Immediately surrounded by
men and women from among the spec
tators, who pressed upon her their
congratulations. She returned to the
cell from which she had come to hear
the verdict, and there she received q
few visitors. She thanked them for
their congratulations and expressed
her relief at the conclusion of the
trial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-03

NHmes I'Hymuster Ucncrai.
Washington, Dec. S.-The president
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
Queer Collections.

There seems 10 be no end to the
queer things that people with the col
lecting fever pursue. Pewter has long
been extravagaatly high-that is, if
you price it in any curio shop-and
IusteTware is way, way up. One col
lector brought several Landseer de
signs that had OTnamented the covers
Of china pots, had them framed in
turned ebony and hung them in tri-
umph on the cream colored walls of
ner drawing room. Another buys all
the pretty old round and oval gilt pic
.ure frames she csn lay hands on, has
a board covered with black velvet
made to fit into chem, and on this
hangs miniatures or antique jewels or
small knickknacVs of one sort or an
other. Yet a third has found that old
mahogany wasbs;ands when polished
and remodeled rIske capital tables on
which to display silver trinkets and
ether small objecis of virtu.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
RETURNS AFTER 25 YEARS.
Long Lost Wisconsin Man Appears
and Contests His Sisters Will.

Kenosha, Wis.-One of the most re-
markable cases ever known in Keno
sha county came to light the other
morning when Charles J. Glover, of
Chicago, supposed to have been dead
for at least 25 years, flied contest
against the probate of the will of his
sister, the late Nancy Glover, who left
an estate valued at $4,000
Forty years ago, when the Glover
family lived at ManitOwOc, Charles
Joseph Glover ran away from home
For % years no word had been heard
from him and the members of the
Glover family had never told any one
in KenOsha of the existence of the
wandering boy. In his objections to
the probate Of the will Glover declares
that his sister was of UnsOund mind at
the time the will was made and that
she did not know that he was alive.
Glover admits that he had not com
municated with his sister In a quarter
of a century and that he first learned
of her death through the newspapers.
Glover claims he is the sole surviving
brother of James P. Glover, the late
wealthy Kenosha lumberman, and it is
thought that he will also institute
contest against the viii of the brother.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
Reverse Sides of Peary Medal.

notably the expedition of Commander
Peary and the ascent of Mount Nc
Kinley by DR.. Frederick A. Cook, of
New York, who was a guest of honor,
sitting next to Commander Peary.
At the tables were seated 400
guests. Willis l.. Moore, of the Ma
tional Geographic society, presided
and the committee assisting included
Alexander Graham Bell, w. J. Board
man, Edward Everett Hale, John w.
Foster, Arnold Hague, Rear Admiral
Colby NJ. Chester, Gen. William Gro
zier and John B. Henderson, Jr.
The medal is of fine workmanship
and was modelled by Tiffany experts.
The star near the top of the medal is
a Montana sapphire, placed at the
point where Peary planted the Ameri-
can flag.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
HAS ODD FOUNDATION
TOWN OF CRIsFlELD, ND, BUILT
ON OYSTER SHELLS.
Houses, WharVes and Business Places
Erected on Great Stratum in Ches-
aPeake Bay-Residents Live
by Catching Crabs.

delphIa.-Crisfeld Md, pre-
sents a problem for the thoughtful
man. This is it: If the first man to
eat an oyster was hero what kind of
a man or community of men is it who
will build a town on oyster shells?
The secondary foundation of Crisfield
is the bottom Of the Chesapeake bay
and between the bottom of Crisfield
and the bottom of the bay are oyster
shells to the number of millions
probably hundreds of millions.
On this great stratum of oyster
shells stand houses, wharves and bus
mess places; a railroad runs along on
it; bridges cross its dividing places;
men walk and talk and do business;
steamboats, and sailboats-yes, hun
dreds of sailboats-have their land
lngs alongside it; merry boating par
ties put off from the shore by moon
light and fish and crab and return in
the early moTn-all to this great bank
of oyster shells sunk in the blue water.
Crisfield lives by oysters and crabs
not by eating them, for Crisfielders
rarely ever eat either, but by catching
them, boiling them, packing them,
shipping them, selling them. He who
would know the crab can best learn it
by visiting this wholly and solely crab
town on the Chesapeake. Men in
boats quickly fill barrels With crabs
and bring them ashore TO the fac
tories"
Here they are counted, sorted,
steamed, packed in barrels and ship
ped until one wonders who can pos
sibly eat all those mountains and
myriads of crabs. There are many
people in this country. A crab apiece
for them all once a year in the season
would mean some crabs" At least
one of the crab dealers put 1t.
Crisfeld has, however. still another
aspect in which oysters and crabs
play less part
Further up on the mainland is a
town built like other towns and filled
with houses and stores and the usual
things that prevail in small cities.
The Odd Fellows hall is a large and
imposing structure on the main street
Homes and business places are as neat
and cOmmodious as elsewhere on the
eastern shore, though the fact that the
railroad runs through the spine of the
town somewhat affects the district i'm
mediately adjoining it.
, At the further end of the town is
the large wharf at which the steamers
plying to and from Baltimore have
their landing. and here is the evidence
of another business which helps make
Chrisfeld prosperous-the fruit trade,
represented in the season by tremen-
dous shipments of berries, peaches,
pears, plums watermelons and all the
products of a fruit country of unex-
celled fertility.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
BIC TUBERWAREHOUSE
NEW MAINE BUILDING WILL HOLE
100000 BARRELS OF POTATOES.
Great Wooden Structure at Stockton
Fast Nearing CCmpletion-Has
Electric Conveyor System and
Other Modern Appliances.

BOstOn--The largest potato ware
house in the world is rapidly ap-
preaching completion at Stockton, Me-,
the new tidewater terminal of the Ban
gor & Aroostook and Northern Maine
Seaport railroads, the channel through
which flows the products of the vast
farming regions of northern Maine,
and particularly the great potato ttelds
of Aroostook
Before the completion of the con-
Meeting link the Northern Maine Sea
port railroad, making the "ArOoHtOOk
to the sea- line a reality, all OF the
AroOsstOok crops were shipped all rail,
as there was no other way. Now wa
ter shipments will be made mostly
from this great repository, which is
situated at the shore end of the i'm
mense Cape JellisOn docks.
Into this house the potatoes will be
unlOaded as they come in the cars
in bulk They will be stored ia the
200 separate bins or rooms, and when
ready for shipment will be bagged and
iOouD0 Ol OAS0iAlClo vi SsaiAallE3 FCGoCAO-
This warehouse when completed
will be 800 feet long and 125 feet wide.
The great pressure of the crops watt
ing to be moved has caused the build
ers to stop work at 600 feet this fall
but next year the building will be ex-
tended the full 900 feet.
In its present capacity it will hold
100000 barrels of potatoes, or 1900
barrels in each bin, which is in real
ity a separate frost-prOof room.
The warehouse is a great wooden
structure built as tightly as a dwell
ing house and designed to keep the
potatoes from freezing without the
use of artificial heat, although Cape
Jel1isOn is one of the cOldest places
in New England in the winter Much
insulating material Of hair and ashes
tos has been used in the construction
and it is believed that the tempera-
tuTe viii not drop to the freezing
point.
The building is equipped with an
electric conveyOr system, which is
portable and available in every part.
The potatoes viii be shoveled from
the cars into the conveyor and taken
to any of the 20O compartments. When
ready to ship a cOnveyOr autOmaticaE
ly feeds itself from any particular bin,
carries the tubers to a scale, which
automatically fills the bags with the
exact weight and when the bags are
sewed takes them out on the wharf
and into the hold of the steamer. All
this is done with far greater speed
and less bruising than by any other
method.
Hundreds Of different combinations
may be arranged with the conveying
system and the carriers made to run
in any direction and in any place.
The building is lighted by electricity
and has every modern Improvement
known, making ii not only the largest
potato warehouse but the most com
pletely equipped in the world,
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12

His political opinions are an enigma
so far as the public is concerned. He
and his manager have devoted their
entire attention for years to the Iegis-
latye ticket.
Last year he gave to the state
school ofmines Guggenheim hall, cost
ing $4,000 He always gives a news
boys Christmas dinner. These, with
ms contributions, are the sum total of
MS claims on the tOga His friends.
when asked why he should be chosen
answered. Why he saved the party
l Colorado"
Guggonheim is 80 years old. He
came TO Colorado in 1889. but it was
not until II years ago that he moved
rom Pueblo to Denver and began lay
ing his wires for the senate.
IN 1898 Guggeuheim was nominated
lot governor of Colorado by the silver
Republicans He also had the indorse-
Leaj Of the Peoples party, but he
-e--let although he would have
o5aa elected lie made an effort to
Itlame @ coagressman, but the sen
ATE was the prize he always has COW
etel.
'lsgeuhcim is one of seven broth
g.s alown as NJ. Guggenheim's Sons.
--ey dominate the smelling business
VI lle country and practically con
-o. l-s silver output and a considera-
~e portion of the copper production.
--ss own the Guggenheim Explora-
1o~ company, which has developed
immense mining properties in Mex
.-O and the far west, and which has
vast enterprise now under way for
making the mineral wealth of Alaska
accessible.
SIMON Guggenheim has been the
western representative of the family
~. nearly a dozen years. He has a
knowledge of the smelling business
--~ is Tegarded as one of the ablest
-,.Ilas experts in the country. So
..-o.4ols.y has the wealth of the
,-I'--s multiplied in recent years that
.,'- familiar with the facts hesitate
~ ~ say any figure, fearing to expose
-s--se.Ees to charge of exaggera-
N. ,.-. They assert that the combined
,g"'-l OF the seven brothers runs
mo The hundreds of millions.
'-e coming senator is next To the
~, --"s5s1 OF the seven brothers. He
,o as % porn In Philadelphia December
H. H. ISe' He was educated in the pub.
~y schools of Philadelphia and grad
49, 80 from its high school, and was
rl Isl sent abroad by his father to
rr. rD up "a knowledge of foreign Ian
Ss Susses and the business methods of
CsFent C,-sFent European countries Mr.
fnsS.,l- SeglAsin reads, writes and speaks
1'-y French. Spanish and German.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12

could long since have bIossOmed into
a belle, but she would have none of it.
She has been a bookworm from a child,
devOuring subjects far beyond her
years, while other girls were yet with
their dolls and their toys.
DR.. Bullard graduated from Wads-
worth high school, RadfOrd, where she
was born and reared, at an early age.
She attended school at Madison,
Wis, afterward taking the profession
al course at Farmyille, teaching three
years in the public schools of Pulaski
after her graduation. But the science
of medicine, to which the child had
been attracted, now lured the girl,
and, broadening her studies as her
years advanced, she in time obtained
her degree as a doctor of medicine.
To achieve this end she became a
trained nurse, practicing her prOfes
sion at the bedside of her patients for
several years with great success.
Her medical education began at
Boston Medical School, where she
spent one year before entering the
medical school of the University of
Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After three
years at this institution she was grad
uated with high standing, after which
she practiced for two years in Bir.
mingham, Ala. Later she returned to
her native state and took up her life
work among her own people. She is
called into consultation in important
cases by the oldest and wisest practi-
TONERS in Pulaski county, all of whom
hold her in high regard because of her
learning and ability as a physician
DR.. Bullard is the youngest daugh-
ter of Mrs. Meta G. Bullard, and the
late Daniel Bullard, who settled in Vir-
ginia prior to the civil war Though
a native born Virginian, she comes
from Puritan stock, uniting the energy
and progressive traits of the Yankee
with the warm-heartedness and gener.
Gus impulsiveness of the south.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
BANK PLANNED FOR CHINESE.
Branches to Be Established in All
Large Cities on Continent.

New YOrk.-Plans for the establish
ment of a Chinese bank, with branches
in every large city of the United
States, Canada and Mexico, are being
perfected by leading Chinese mer-
chants of this city and San Francisco.
The scheme, which was originated
by Joseph E. Singleton, president OF
the Chinese Refo-m association, has
received tLa ~0C0era-iun and indOrse-
ment g. CL.Ae5c merchants throughout
the country. The bank will act as
fiscal agent in this country of the Chi
nese government.
At the annual meeting of the Chi
nese Reform association recently, Mr.
Singleton, who for years was the Chi
nese interpreter at the customhouse,
was reelected president for the third
term. He received 1000 votes, his op-
pOnent, Yung Tong, of San Francisco,
receiving only 5000.
It was unanimously agreed to open
the principal office of the bank in Mex
leo City, where a large building will
be erected. A branch office will be
opened within a few weeks in New
York. The capital of the corporation
will be $1,500 900. More than $400 600
of this amount has been subscribed by
merchants in this city.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
MONKEYS AN AID TO SCIENCE.
Discovery Made That TembIekan Is
Antidote for Strychnine.

Amsterdam-The Dutch colonial pa
pers report a remarkable case of ami
NAL instinct The people of the viii
lage of Negowo, in the Jayanese prov
inee of SaIatiga, suffered by the raw
ages of an immense horde of gray
monkeys which destroyed the planta-
tiOns-
The Dutch subgOvernOr recon-
mended that they try strychnine, and
the favorite fruits of the monkeys ac-
cordingly were collected in quanti-
ties, heavily dosed with strychnine.
and deposited in wood
The monkeys ate freely and many
we're violently i'll, but none died. Il
was then discovered that the monkeys,
when they felt the effects of the poi
son, went in search of and ate tenn
bIekan leaves, a certain weed which
grows profusely in the archipelago.
It was also found that the animals
too i'll to seek the weed themselves
had it brought to them by their less
suffering fellows.
The Batavian authorities now are
conducting a series of experiments
with the view of ascertaining the true
curative qualities Of temblekan.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
Freed: TurtI, Mot an Animal.

Bridgeport, Conn. - When Capt
Charles E. Ducross, CT Darien, an old
sea captain, was arrested because he
punctured the fippers Of a sea turtle
and made it fast to his boathouse on
Long Island sound, he declared that
he believed the justice of the peace
who fined him seven dollars and costs
for cruelty to animals was wrong, and
appealed the case. He maintained
that the turtle was not an animal, and
that punching a hole through his flip
pers and tying him up was no more
an act of cruelty than mailing a shoe
to the hOOf Of a horse. The charge
was nolled and Capt. Ducross left the
courtroom elated.
The Washington bee., 1907-01-12
TROLLEY ON THE HIGHWAYS.
electric Roads Without Rails a Sue.
cess in Germany and France.

Washington.-In districts where the
construction of permanent tramways
would be ont of the question owing to
prohibitive initial cost there are in
use in Germany and France electric
transport systems running on the or
dinary roads. These draw their sup
ply Of electricity from overhead wires
similar to those in use in tramway
working.
Provision is made for passenger
traffic by means Of omnibuses run
singly or with a trailer, while freight
traffic is handled by motor vehicles
drawing two or three trailers. TIE
first of such lines was op ,ned in 1901
and since that time quite a number
of services have been inaLgurated in
different districts. The routes are Tor
the most part comparatively short.
One Of the longest lines is that of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES near Lyons,
which is worked with six motor cars
of a seating capacity of SO passengers
each.
A line is also working between the
towns of Neuenahr, Walporthian and
Ahrweiler. A line is working regular
" in connection with an industrial!
center in the neighborhOod of Wurzen.
Germany, over which 80 wagons are
taken either way daily.