davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-03

He went into the barroom of 7. J.
Kelley, at the corner of Eleventh
and Jefferson streets and began to
eat a roast beef sandwich. While
standing at the bar he suddenly be-
gan choking, and before help could
reach him he fell over dead. He had
been in good health.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-03
CHOKED TO DEATH
That Was the Fate of Coun-
Gilman Harry " Wolf in
Louisville Saloon.

Louisville. KY. Feb. 1.-Council-
man Henry Wolf choked to death
this morning on a piece of meat at
the free lunch counter of a saloon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
HOW HE GOES FREE:

IF a mans relatives sign an affidavit
that they viii care for him and keep him
cut of mischief. they are allowed to remove
him TO private asylum. If in the course
of time, however, they do not pay for his
board and keep or if the authorities deem
him sane, he is dismissed
But Is no one held responsible when the
lunatic is thus allowed to go free through
neglect" he was asked.
Why should any one be responsible for
anotheT's acts? Each man may only be
held TO account for his own actions"
But, DR.. Nammack. you said that an
insane person was a person diseased. Then
why should he not be restrained or quaran-
tined. like person with conta gious dis
ease?'
He is. 10 certain extent but the law
goes as far as TX can. IN view OF the fact
that II regards man as innocent until he
is proven guilty. We cannot imprison any
one, rational or not. on suspicion. We have
no right TO deprive any man of his freedom
because Of things which he might do. That
is the ethieal view of the matter.
In reviewing the legal aspect OF the ques-
ton OF the detention Of lunatics. Judge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

spect and sympathy of all. He was shot
through right lung standing by our battery
and fell back, suffering intense agony,
blood squirting from his mouth. He in
sisted on being put upon horse so that he
could get to Liao-Yang to file his dispatch.
It took him five hours to do the five and
half miles, 1 accompanying as the fire has
slackened. He reached here SO exhausted
and weak from blood loss that we put him
in hospital though against his protest, as
he wants TO get back to the battle"
For obvious reasons, which have to do
with army discipline. the name ofsthe Rus
sian officer who signed the dispatch will
never be public. What happened to the
correspondent was told IN the newspapers
as follows: ''Liao-Yang, Sept. IN. Kfri-
loft. one of The Associated Press CORE
spondents who followed the operations of
General Zaroubaieff's army, was shot
through the lungs yesterday while on the
firing line south of Liao-Yang.
Often danger is part of the cost the cor
respondents pay for the gathering of the
news: fatigue and discomfort and the anx-
iety of friends and relatives almost always
are, when the occurrence to be reported Is
OF Importance.
On the night of Sunday, September 10, of
last year a great storm broke over the Gulf
Of Mexico. Richard F. Beirne, the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent at New Or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

snakes and animals that had been caught
In the flood In town Beirne learned what
the storm had done. Every telegraph wire
out of New Orleans had gone down before
the gale. Every telephones line was down,
except one shaky wire that ran as Tar as
Hattiesburg, Miss.
Then Hattiesburg became famous The
correspondent managed TO get lease OF
the wire altered it to do telegraph service
and sent two operators to Hattiesburg to
forward the dispatche by the regular wires
to Atlanta For three days every word that
came into New Orleans or that went out
passed over that wire.
Beirne and his assistant stayed In their
office without sleep from Monday morning
till Wednesday morning. Joyner and Nc
Fatter, the operators at Hattiesburg. did
not leave their keys. working almost with
out food for two days and nights. The
two men who started to relieve them on the
second day were delayed by wreck. AT
IL o'clock Wednesday night the relief ar
rived Joyner had collapsed. at his key;
McFatter looked up saw the men who had
come, and then dropped his head on his
desk and slept so soundly that he had to
be lifted from his chair. But such things
are all in the process of news getting
II was in that routine publication THE
Service Bulletin of the Associated Press
that this notice appeared a few months
later:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
SICK BUT PERSISTENT.

rhe correspondent was Captain w Robert
Eoran. who won his title in the British
Fast Africa police and knows the country
and the native languages. When the start
came he was fat on his back. and MS doc
tors ordered him to stay behind
He started three hours behind the Roose-
Welt caravan in a litter swung from the
sholders of four tall negroes Behind him
traiIed thirty porters and HIS telegraph
operator on foot.
Two weeks out the captain suddenly grew
much worse Colonel Roosevelt heard OF II
and had him brought TO his own camp,
where Dr. Edgar A. Mearns performed an
operation Two weeks later the correspond
ent was on his feet again
For one happening OF that journey cap
tain Foran will have to settle Handsomely
when he meets his American friends In the
IA p" service After the arrival al khar-
touua the New York office sent by cable a
hint that longer dispatches would now De
welcome. since the correspondent was no
longer supposed to be hanging by his teeth
10 the telegraph wire and repelling eie-
plants at the same time. Picturesque de-
tails about Colonel Roosevelt's reception.
the dispatch suggested, would be welcome
That day a number of American tourists
and correspondents grouped themselves at
the close OF a Roosevelt speech and gave
vent to the cheer that has long been pop
Mar with American colleges and political
meetings:
What's the matter with ROOSEVELT
Hes all right who's all right
''Rooseyelt!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
A CONNECTICUT INSTANCE.

While the commission was investigating
the sanity OF the defendant q similar case
occurred in Connecticut, where dismissed
iunatic in homicidal ct killed a police
man.
This added Incident LED the commission
In its final report 10 express the opinion
that 1.-THE easy manner in which the In
sane, as evidenced in this case, are turned
over 10 the care OF parents or relatives for
an indefinite period has made such an inn
preston on the members OF this commits
sion that they deem IL their duty to call
the attention of this court and leave il
10 this court whether fhe attention of the
state authorities should be called to the
lax way in which the insane, and in this
case. a dangerous and violently insane per-
son. may be taken out OF public insane
asylum after having been duly committed
TO the same on the certificates Of two ply
sicians and by order OF the court and left
entirely in the control Of parents or rela-
tives TO DO with such insane person as he
or she pieases.
The report was sent to Albert ". Ferris.
State Commissioner of Lunacy.
The abuse of letting a man with houli-
cidal tendencies 60 out OF Al asylum
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

leans, had been visiting friends on the
coast He started at once for the city.
His train should have reached New Or
leans at Z o'clock Monday morning; at
o. clock it came to a. stop at Chef Menteur,
twenty miles out Of town, in two feet OF
water.
With ~"another Irishman with job TO
hold down" as Beirne put it, he hired two
negroes and a skiff to ferry across the four
miles. of food water that lay between the
train and. an isolated clubhouse. Half way
across the storm grew too fierce for the
negroes. They turned and rowed back
The two men could take no chances: over
board they went from opposite sides OF
the boat 1t was two miles to the club
Part of the way they swan, and the rest
they waiIowed up to their waists IN mud
the rising waves pounding them all the
while.
The keepers family was roosting in the
attic of the clubhouse. The swimmers
stood on a. floating billiard table and tele-
phoned the position of the stalled train
which grew more dangerous with every
momenrthe water raced over the crumbling
soil. A steamer from New Orleans had the
passengers ashore by nightfall, safe. though
half starved and wet.
But the correspondent had eight miles
more of water TO cross, with more swim
ming and less wading than before. The
flood was full Of the floating bodies OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
zuck Fndurance BrauerY Needed TO Get .Nes0s

.~p.,,.rd Refrne. correspondent At New
o-,..n.. was married In November TO MISS
c.miIIe Penrose a niece OF Senator rem
rose ..,,.
=, ,b. same issue 1.-The Bulletin tens
o-..sv how the September storm was re-
norted Whether the two notices from Ne"
orleans had any closer connection 'neie
q. no of1ciaI information to be had from
The Bulletin" 49,
Tha earthquake in Sicily was covered
NJ a heavy cost to the service Joseph
Pierce, the correspondent at Messina' vas
killed under the ruins of his home Sai-
vatore Cortest. the head OF the bureau at
pome was i'm bed with scarlet fever, so
III that his physicians tried to. keep the
news from him. When he heard OK the
disaster from a servant the medical at
tendants promised that If he lay quiet tor
three weeks he might then work 1or Ell
hour or two a day. He got up that AFTER
noon and directed the whole campaign OF
gathering the news from the stricken ois-
trtct He worked day and night. and MS
three weeks of grace were long past De-
fore he had more than five uninterrupted
hours in bed.
When q cable message came from gan
IA with final news that Theodore Roose-
welt was ready Tor MS l.zu-ihue Joi"''
through the jungle. and that he had aoso-
lutely refused to take correspondent with
his caravan The Associated Press couid
do nothing but order the correspondent
TO got a caravan of his own and go In pur-
suit. Newspapers that would have squan-
dered money on such an expedition hao
no men on the ground who possibly could
have managed one, and decided to rely on
the A. p" as they had done many times
hefOre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

bands which causes them TO sue for d.
vorce.
Suburban living is another danger to
marital happiness. The husband misses
train OF is detained in town by business
and happens upon some one who fasci-
mates him during an evening Of diversion
He begins TO miss trains more frequently
and the end is divorce.
There should be a universal divorce
law, and 1t should be a strict one. New
York has good divorce law, and very few
people get divorces here because of it's re-
strictions A strict marriage and divorce
law would put stop 10 divorces and tend
to diminish the number of foolish mar
riages. honeymoon begun in spectacu-
lar and silly manner IS likely 10 wane and
set in the divorce courts.
"One hears much about the wings OF
dertaken to begin their honeymoons in bal
love This poetic expression has taken to
itself new meaning since couples have I'M
looms. The most recent feat of the kind
was the wedding journey of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roger y. Burnham. who assembled from
Pittsfeld, Mass, in a balloon equipped and
provisioned for three days trip. Some
five thousand persons assembled TO witness
the ascent and watched the balloon rise to
an elevation of twenty-five hundred feet
and drift northward. Next morning Boston
Harbor glimmered below the voyasers.
somewhat nearer at hand than was desira-
BILE for descent. they promptly fioated
down TO an orchard. had second honey
moon breakfast with the farmer who owned
it and continued their journey by train.
having crossed the State of Massachusetts
twice since their wedding al Woods Hole.
first by train and next in the balloon which
set them down not many miles from their
original starting point
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
He STOPPED.

A Philadelphia man who nius .,,.s
amusement in playing ras-tns n'S'9' ,rs
on the piano. received rude sh'N rs
evening last week at the hands - 80
daughter. a sweet little miss OF so'iis .s.ss
teen years IL was warm ana tue AT
was wide open when the fond p ping tire
down AT the piano and began i' ~ vss
worries with unusual ardOr. w hliT ~ roosa
playing his daughter came INTO n,avjng.
with a companion. Daddy, sop sathef
she said Somewhat Surprised. tnS , snter-
wanted TO Know why he should - - nat IN
tanning himself. The little SRI We .sWny,
clined TO explain. Finally she ss. Is
the neighbOrS have lot OF Syhpa,;f, ans
that all?'' commented daddy, w ray
scCrn. We'll. il they don, lns ami 10
ing they can close their wlhdoM.,sd ylscf
attacked the piano with renS,"N'.shfsr -
Yes. but. daddy" pleaded the das 5 NM, hsf
she glitied over 20 her parent Sl!r h VS.
7 playing." That settled il. He s''Pp'
RCralo Commercial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

C. NJ. Hough. of the Circuit Court. said. In
part:
The foundation of the law rests, as 1t
must, on the opinions of medical men.
They vary very widely, but until medicine,
not TO speak of alienism. becomes more
exact science than it is to-day. we shall
have to run the risk of occasional lunatics
at large in order to save ourselves from
having sane persons imprisoned for no
crime.
THE spirit of our laws" Judge Hough
went on to say, is 20 prevent the incar-
ceration of persons who are not really in
sane, and they err, if they err at all, on
the side OF freedom rather than in the iii
rection of protecting the public from posi-
bic maniacs This error is sometimes very
distressing, and examples are not intre-
quent of persons who are quite dangerous
or who may at any time become dangerous,
and yet are allowed to go at large. 1t is
choice of evils. and we have deliberately
chosen to err on the side of freedom rather
than in the other direction"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
Welded IN ICY WATER.

Homogeneous in tents are much the tad
TO- summer tourists. and couples who ENJOY
sports are likely TO add the delights OF
hunting and canoeing TO an open air NE
Only one couple. however. with taste 1of
novelty in beginning welded life have oeen
known TO take what they pleased 70 caii
"a cold plunge into matrimony. Even u
midsummer the waters of the Sacramento
River at Shasta are icy cold. Miss Fioes
Peert, of Colorado Springs and w y
Lynch, Of Fruitvale. Cal. could scareeiy -
spond 20 the questions of the orheiauLs
minister. so much did their teeth chatter Is
they stood neck deep in the water dnlin'
their marriage ceremony.
Another couple with a taste for tnea,lp,a'
effects began the honeymoon at East fseA-
ham. Kent. upon a truck drawn by a .lA1.
ton engine. all gayIy decorated with nas'
and flowers. and followed by a proceS''0'
of friends I'm motor cars
Occasionally people fancy that nohes
moon undisturbed by loverIike deInonstra-
tons is something TO be desired Nss
York woman took such honeymoon ie'
years ago. TO the surprise Of her u'seo u.s..
certed bridegroom. She Insisted lli''
people (who lived in a distant statel eOa--
better make her Acquaintance Il no, %
tracted from this duty by bis preseas
That the acquaintance was mutuaiiy -
factory seemed demonstrated by 'ne -,
that she remained with her new Ms
relatives for two months. -
"A partnerless honeymoon trip can -
be understood IN the case Of wen So
man. an elderly widOwer. who. tne
after his wedding. anectionately TOOK gu
of his young wife and set OFT upo" -.
honeymoon tour for the benefit OF
health. ACCOMPANIED by his daughter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
ORDERED FROM BUILDING.

THE men went out to ascertain the dau-
age. and I was alone in the Office at I.
O'Clock. when soldiers ordered me out. az
the building was about TO be blown I'D 10
stop the fire I moved in a hurry 20 the
Bulletin office. in Bush street and waited
The men had lost the trail Finally COM
menced TO write a night lead for the
morning papers. 7 wrote the story. but
can't remember how il got 70 Oakland.
where the wires were. All i know Is that
IT got there somehow. About dusk Carroll.
one Of the night editors, arrived in a badly
battered condition A wall had fallen on
his house. and he had spent the day being
patched up by surgeon
Our automobile ives confscated by tho
soldiers on Wednesday night. spens
Thursday and Friday fighting for wire
and bunting for an automobile. The news
went to Oakland by messengers on foot, on
horseback and in express wagons
ION Saturday I managed to hire an auto
mobile. and have been struggling ever sincs
20 keep IL from being conhscated by sol
diers. policemen. Red Cross men and other
individuals who were uniforms, scarried
guns and wanted ride
II want to call attention TO the splendid
example of devotion 10 the service shown
by everybody from news men and opera
tors down 10 messengers. Most OF them
have lost their homes and are sleeping in
camps ard on benches They went through
the city at night in imminent danger OF
being shot and no one hesitated when or
dei ed On dangerous duty 1 do not know
how our stuff reads, tor I have not seen an
outside paper. but do know that oar men
here have cheerfulIy given the best that IS
in them"
That IS the spirit Of the "A. p servica
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
k filings BY Inbecile.s .Sbosv
Public Needs More Protection

but the majority of them will never be any
thing but imbeciIes. What becomes OF
them when they leave the schools? They
are allowed to go or to do as they please
Most of them marry and beset degenerate
children-for science has proven almost
conclusively that insanity is inevitably in
herited IN one form or another. Most of
them end in institutions of some sort-re-
formatories, prisons almshouses, asylums
or hospitals-and leave children who will
doubtless do the same. I have some sta
tistics here to show that to grant these
subnormal persons their freedom will cost
tire state in a generation or two threefold
what it would cost to put them into insu-
tutions now, when they are beyond the
school age. There should be compulsory
institutions for those young men and
women whom board of physicians adj
judges to be incurably insane, where they
should be kept families and personal OBJ
jectionS Notwithstanding"
DIR. Charles E. Nammack, one of the at
tending physicians at the psycopathic ward
of Bellevue, on the other hand. is of the
opinion that compulsory confinement of the
insane is neither ethically nor legally justi-
fable. According TO his view, 1t is as wrong
to lock up an insane person as a sane one,
on mere suspicion.
do you mean that no man can be put
under guard on suspicion that he may be
dargerous-that he may be seized with
sudden fit and do harm to q mere passerby,
like that man up in Connecticut" he was
asked.
NO more than can lock you up because
think you may steal my watch for which
you have expressed your admiration. Be
fore the court every man is innocent until
he has been declared guilty-and that ap-
plies to lunatics, we'll as to sane persons.
A lunatic is not a criminal until he has
committed a crime. But when he has COM
mitted crime, and a board of physicians
has declared him to be insane, he is sent
TO the state asylum for the criminal insane
that is, TO Matteawan. If he is later dis
missed as cured, he must answer for his
crime as sane man. Then. if he is found
guilty, he is sent to prison or executed.
So. you sec there is little chance for a
criminal lunatic to be at large"
But how about the Iunatics who have
not actually committed a crime, but who
are regarded dangerous? Are there no
chances for their dismissal escape?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
LEAPED FROM BALLOON.

Another honeymoon begun I'm a similar
fashion met with less success. couple
were married in the car of a balloon and
after the ceremony the balloon began to
soar upon an aerial honeymoon trip. II
required only an ascent OF a hundred feet
to show the bride that the wings of love-
rs selected for this flight. were not stable
enough for her liking. Making a wild spring
for earth, she succeeded in reaching IL only
through the medium of a river. in which
she was nearly drowned before her rescue
was effected
A wouid-be Daniel who ought TO have
come TO judgment. succeeded I'm finding
true mate in q young woman willing 10
wed him In den of lions. Miss Charlotte
Wiberg. of Boston, and Arthur St An
Grassy OF Perth Amboy. y. J.. stood in the
centre of the lions den at the zoo while
a keeper kept the excited animals In one
corner of their cage and subdued ferocious
roars OF protest against the presence of two
strangers inside and many thousands out
side their domicilc. The latter had maid
20 cents apiece 10 be present excspt ner-
haps. the clergyman and twenty bows i'm a
vested choir. who sang professional hymn.
The boys were having the tim of ,b.ir
lives: so was the minister th.. Rev NJ
Reader. who was afterward expelled BY the
dean or Boston University. where he was a
student for conduct unhecoming a minister
OF the Gospel
achtns Is popular for honeymoon trips.
II has advantages over travel on ocean
hners which young couples appreciate II
the honeymoon begins In an atmosphere of
smelling salts and mal-de-mer II Is posi-
Die 10 land at short notice. One also OBJ
'a'hs opportunities for mutual converse
uoh ana freedom from such persecution as
toho"ed Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Gaynor.
VINO we're serenaded in their stateroom upon
''o "a'iaeic oy crowd Of strangers. II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
Pluck,
Some Remarkable AdVenf-
urer UNDERGONE by
Correspondenfs.

The Associated Press gathered the worlo
,,er-e last wear at a cost os s26nooo. so the
,,n,,al renort assured the members and the
n,.f,lic al the associations recent yearly
meeting I'm this city. That cost was dlVio-
cd fairly among the eight hundred and
moro nsuspaners which belong TO the as
ISOLATION and they will take IL out In
,.oas,i,g 10 advertisers about the un-
an,aIsed news service which puts them
1,,;.a o,,t Of the class Of their humber 10
cal rivals.
E,,r another item Of cost goes into gath
ering the worlds news, and IL is not reck-
o,,e5 M IN millions, nor in hundreds. ano
81 never finds its way into the yearly re-
norris What is the cost OF news getting TO
TIE men at the front. the correspondents a,
,be enter end OF cable and telegraph. the
men who co the scouting service of his
tory?
A cable message came to young man In
Berlin late in July last year. He climbed
ont ,,f bed 20 open Il an 2 o'clock in the
morning. and before noon he had kissed MS
voung wife goodby and had gone on his
WAY with a heavy heart The dispatch was
from New York: II CURLY ordered the cor
respondent 10 Barcelona to report the riots
and rebellion that had broken out there-
lie was tired out with worry and sleepless
nights. There were circumstances whlch
made IL very hard TO go-but The Associ-
sted Press was not supposed TO know any
thing about that
At Marseilles he caught a steamer by only
an nour Five minutes before the snip
sailed messenger came running with
telegraphic dispatch from Berlin. 1t read:
Baby girl Mother doing. quite well.