davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Three Packages of Money
Stolen From Railroad Depot.
AGENT FEW FEET AWAY
Bundles Taken From Behind the
Ticket Counter.
DETECTIVES WORK ON CASE
Believe Robbery Was Work of One
Man Who Knew Where
Treasure Was.

OIL CITY, May 19.-Three packages OF
money, containing $32,O2424. were stolen
from the Pennsylvania depot here at S::sC
o'clock this morning while John J. TRULY,
the station agent, was loading baggage
onto a Battle-Ground train. The money
was being shipped by the Adams Express
Company to Philadelphia.
The railroad detectives investiga ling
the robbery are Of the opinion that the
theft was the work Of one man, unaided
the depot and who knew just where il
was located.
Left by Pay Car.
The Pennsylvania railroad pay car ar
rived in Oil City late last evening and
turned over to the day station agent there
packages, wrapped in manila paper. con-
tanning $32,O24.24. which were receipted
for in the name of the Adams Express
Company. The money was consigned to
the treasurer's Office Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in Philadelphia.
The packages proved to be too bulky
for storage in the small depot safe and
Night Agent TRULY placed them under
sack behind the ticket counter, covering
them carefully. There was no one in the
depot at the time.
At $50 O'Clock this morning Buffalo
bound Pennsylvania train pulled into the
station and TRULY stepped to the plat
form. closing. the Office door behind him.
The door is self-loclking. While about zoo
feet from the depot Office. TRULY saw
by the light of the station platform lamp
that the Office door was not closed. Hur-
rying back, he ran into his Office and
Immediately discovered that the three
packages Of money were missing.
Hurried Search Fruitless.
Shouting loudly. he attracted the atten-
ton of five policemen. who were within
block Of the place. A hurried search
OF the train and vicinity Of the station
was made, with no result.
Express company and railroad detec-
tives arrived here this morning to aid in
the investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19

NEW YORK, May 19.-It was learned
here tonight that the marriage of Miss
Mary Hartman. daughter of the late
E. II. Hartman. and Charles c. Rumsey
of Buffalo will take place on Thursday.
May 26. in the Episcopal Church at
Arden. near the Hartman estate. The
wedding will be very quiet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
HARDY SENTENCE coMMUTED.
Murderer Will Not Be Electrocuted.
Imprisonment for Life.
Speciai Dispatch to The star.

SUFFOLK. Va, May ia telegram
received here from Ben p. Owens. jr.,
Gov. Mann's private secretary. says the
governor today communted to life inn
prisonmert the sentence of Sam Hardy.
who was scheduled to be electrocuted to-
morrow for the murder Of Tiberius Grac-
chus Jones at Holland octoberA26. 1908.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Sunday Advertisers:

Advertising patrons are
urgently requested to fur
nish their copy for next
Sundays Star by Friday
evening.
Many Sunday advertis-
ers are now doing this to
Our mutual advantage, and
it is hoped that practically
all will do so in the future.
Display advertising can
not be accepted later than
7 o'clock Saturday evening
for publication Sunday
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Reception Breakfast" Given.

ITO make British delegates feel at
home at once in Washington. as DR..
Wilbur F. Crafts explained, "and to in
troduce their leaders to some OF the
American delegates and to some Of the
moral leaders IN Congress-" q reception
breakfast. such as is common in Great
Britain. was given this morning by the
reform bureau in its build
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19

ing adjoining the Library OF Congress.
In addition to the speech Of DR.. Crafts.
addresses were made by DR.. Munro Glib
son of London, by Justice ]. ]. McLaren
Of Toronto and by Senator +. ]. Burkett
and Representatives F.. Fl. Gillett. r. r.
Hobson and j. NJ. Miller. The speeches
were on the Sunday school as j social
force, a contribution to the brotherhood of
man and the humanizing OF society.
Attention was called to a 'four-in-hand''
of interstate bills that delegates. 1t was
suggested. should support by interviews
while in Washington with their own rep
resentatives and senator's: First the Bur-
kett-Sims bill. to prohibit interstate trans
mission of race gambling bets: second. the
Walter Smith bill. to prohibit interstate
transmission of pictures and descriptions
OF prize fights; third. the Curtis-M Miller
bill, to protect dry" territory against
The federal shield of interstate commerce:
fourth. the Mann bill, to prohibit interstate
traffic in girls. which last has passed the
House and is pending in the Senate.
Reference was made to the fact that all
legislation tends to become International
even the social evil having been made the
subject of international prohibition and
President Taft having invited many ma
year to consider a proposed prohibition OF
opium the world over. except for guarded
medicinal uses. Flags Of many nations
cooperating in this movement were used
for decorations.
or the foreign delegates there were
present. besides those who spoke, Judge
Seth Leet of Montreal, Mr.. Cary Bonner
Rev. Percy Waller and Mr.. Shipman OF
England.
Two Meetings Yesterday.
A meeting was held at the First Con.
gregaticnal Church yesterday afternoon
Rev F. B. Meyer. president OF the con-
vention. made an address. The meeting
was for pastors and was largely attended
He urged worldwide evangelization.
In the First Presbyterian Church las,
night Rev. Frank Higgins of Michigan
made an address. Long before the meet
packed to the doors.
given at the Cairo. from 4 to 6 o'clock. fol
the delegates from Great Britain and the
British colonies. Representative ministers
Of Washington will serve as members OF
the receiving committee.
Delegates Assigned to Quarters.
In Calvary Church this morning the
hosts were registering and being assigned
to quarters. As the day wore OH the ar
| rivals increased in numbers. All were
eager to get to lodgings. to get ready fol
the opening session.
Intermingled were keen-visaged Ameri.
CONTINUED. on Second Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19

PRINCETON. n. j.. May 19.-Prof.
Henry Norris Russell of the astronomica,
department of Princeton University In a
signed statement today declared that bas-
ing his calculations on the width of the
comets tail early today as compared with
previous mornings. the earth was not
uear enough to pass through the tail Of
the comet this morning. but very likely il
will do so some time tonight. ~he state
ment says:
AT am. today the sky was brilliant
" clear without trace OF moonlight or
dawn.
The comets tail was conspicuous In the
east as a band OF light about eight de-
Srees wide and quite straight. about as
bright as the fainter branch of the milky
way between Cygnus and Aquila. Its cen.
tral line passed about midway between
the stars Eapha and Gamma Pegasi. and
It's end was lost in the milky way In
Aauila.
NO trace Of the tail could be detected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Width Greatly Increased.

Width Greatly Increased.
and three times as wide as on the morn
Ing of Tuesday, May IL. II its real width
has not changed. it must still have been
fully one-third as far from us on the 10Th
as 1t was two days before-which would
make the time Of the earth's passage
through it come on the morning OF the
Goth. If this is the case. the central line
OF the tail. where the earth's orbit cuts
1t. is about 1000, 600 miles behind the
prolongation of the line joining the sun
and the comet. and the line from the
comet to this point (which may be taken
roughly as the line of the taiD makes an
angle Of about 20 degrees with the line
just mentioned. The TAIL II viewed from
point outside its plane, would appear
comet when 1t could be SO observed in
1885
Prof. Morehouse Astounded.
DES MONIES, Iowa, May 19.-Prof. D.
w. Morehouse head of the astronom-
ical department OF Drake University.
was astounded when he discovered the
tail of Halley's comet in the east at
2:45 o'clock this morning. For half
hour he and his classes discussed the
uulooked-for sight. Prof. Morehouse
was also surprised because the tail
tapered to a point instead of assuming
the fan shape. as heretofore. 1t is
Prof. Warehouses; theory that the earth
may have passed through a portion of
the tail. and he doubts whether the
earth will strike the main appendage,
because Of the curvature, which here
toIore he had not thought existed.
Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena,
Cal. May 19.-'Dr. enry n. Russell Is
an authority whose views are entitled
to consideration" said DR.. c. A. Faith
of the observatory corps here when in
formed early this morning of the Prince
hasi not passed through the comet tal
Il am quite agreed with him in regard
to the curvature OF the tail of the comet
More than that we are not absolutely
certain of at this time. Because Of the
strong moonlight which has prevailed
all night we have been unable to detect
anything
Seen in Arabia.
ADEN, Arabia. May 19.--.At 4:3O O'Clock
this morning the tail Of Halley's comet
appeared as the rays of a gigantic search
light. The head was invisible.
WILLEMSTAD, Island OF Curacao.
May 19-Crowds congregated in the
streets and witnessed between 4 and D
o'clock yesterday afternoon a change IN
the solar disc much like that observed
before an eclipse. The phenomenon was
prOnOUnced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19

beyond the milky way and no illumination
could be seen in the western sky. in spite
of careful search under very favorable
conditions. The codiacal light was visible
in the southeast, separated from the COM
cts tail by a dark interval about ten de-
Rrees in breadth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Hurried Search Fruitless.
Korean Assassin Sentenced to Die.

SEOUL. Korea, May 19.-Yie Chain
Yong, the Korean who stabbed Premier
vi in an attempt at assassination De-
cember % last. was today sentenced to
death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Taft to Welcome Delegates.

Interest incident to the first days az
fairs attaches to the great meeting in
Convention Hall, at 7:3O o'clock this
evening. when President Taft. in behalf
of Mort. America, will welcome the
delegates to the capital of the United
States.
A welcoming address on behalf Of the
Sunday schools of North American will
be goven by John Wanamaker. The
welcome for the District of Columbia
will be contained in an address by Rev.
DR.. Samuel HI. Greene, pastor Of Calvary
Baptist Church.
The response will be made by Rev. DR..
j. MonrO Gibson of England, who will
speak. for all Europe; Bishop Yoftsu
Honda Of Japan. who will speak for all
Asia, and Bishop Joseph c. Hartzeil of
Africa, who will speak for the dark con-
tinent.
The House of Representatives will ad-
journ at 4 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
in order that members may witntss the
big parade. resolution to this effect,
introduced yesterday by Representative
Hamlin of Missouri, was adopted by the
House tOday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
Rulers Three by Three.

In ranks of three there will ride. the
kings OF Norway. Greece. Spain. Bull
garia. Denmark, Portugal and Belgium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
TAFT TOGREET THEM
Worlds Sunday School Dele
gates in Session.
SERMON BY DR.. F. B. MEYER
President to Welcome Visitors at
Convention Hall Tonight.
ALL NATIONS REPRESENTED
House of Representatives to Adjourn
for Big Parade-Reception
Breakfast This Morning.

Gathering from all corners of the earth,
the delegates to the worlds sixth Sun-
day school convention, thousands in num-
Der. are in Washington today.
The first session of the convention
opened with a service Of prayer in Con-
vention Hall at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon. Rev. DR.. Earl Cranston, Bishop o.
the Methodist Episcopal Church. read
the Scriptures and pronounced the OPEN
ing invocation.
Rev. Dr. F. B. Meyer of England, pres
ident of the Worlds Sunday School AS
sociation, preached the convention ser
mon.
The report of George w. Bailey, chair
man OF the executive committee, was re-
ceived. The convention was formally or
ganized for work by the appointment Of
a number of subcommittee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19

CONTINUED. on Second Page) !.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10
Mr.. w. c. (Buck) Morton Dead.
The Owensboro Messenger says:

The greensboro Messenger says:
William c. Morton, one of the best
known citizens of this city, died of
general debility at 1870 O'Clock
Wednesday morning at his home at
1905 West Second street, after a
lingering illness since May of this
year. He was highly respected and
one of the oldest citizens of Owens
boro.
He was born April II, 1910, in
Ohio county, KY, and when forty
years of age he removed to this city
where he lived until his death. He
was married to Miss Sallie Dix, who
survives and five sons also survive.
The children are w. d. Morton, Of
DeKoven, and Henry L., Thomas,
Sam Helm and John c. Morton and
one daughter, Sallie Lewis Morton,
all of OwensbOro.
For many years Mr.. Morton was
engaged in the internal revenue
service in Greensboro and was at the
time of his death in the service of the
Government. He was a union soldier,
and served three years in the 26th
Kentucky infantry, the same reg
iment in which Squire ]. w. Rus
sell, of greensboro and John Stef-
fen, deceased, were members of.
Mr.. Morton was a member of the
First Baptist church and also a mem
Der of the James S. Jackson post,
Grand Army of the Republic. The
local post will have charge of the
funeral services.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10

ty of prohibition, he expressed his
views on another occasion as follows:
Il am a friend of temperance, and
want it to succeed, but | don't think
prohibition is practical. The Ger
mans, you see, prevent it. Look at
them! They have just invented a
method of making brandy out of saw
dust. Now, what chance will prohi-
bition have when a man can take a
ripsaw and go out and get drunk
with a fence rail? What good is
prohibition if man is able to make
brandy smashes out OF the shingles
on his roof? Or if he can get the de-
lirium tremens by drinking the legs
off the kitchen tablet"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10

pendent proof. 1t does more; it af-
fects the presumptive or probative
weight of the instrument in dispute.
II is not the case of a promissory note
issUed'in the exercise OF explicit pow
er; but still We should not as at pres
ent advised without regard to the
question made touching the form of
the Instrument be inclined to hold
that mere substitution of evidence
OF just and valid debt should require
the formality of a new suit based on
the original evidence of the debt"
The opinion is concluded by the fol-
lowing paragraph, which seems to for
ever take Baird out of Court with no
chance of recovery:
I'VE are not convinced that the cir
cumstances attending the delay in
commencing the action on the note
in suit, augment the evidential char
acter of the instrument or of the
official acts upon which its execution
was based; especially is this so in
view of the testimony of the only
surviving officer who signed the
note, and of the surviving members
of the court who were in office at the
date of the order. Nor do We appre-
ciate the legal hardship said to be
cast upon plaintiff through the APP
parent loss of the claims, since ap-
propriate secondary evidence would
in that event be admissible. We do
not pass upon further assignments of
error.
THE judgment must be reversed and
a new trial awarded with COSTS"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10
They Have a Definite Purpose.

Foley Kidney Pills give quick re-
lief in cases of kidney and bladder
ailments. Mrs. Rose CHASER, Terre
Haute, Ind, tells the result in her
case. After suffering for many
years from a serious case of kidney
trouble and spending much money
for so-called cures, found Foley
Kidney Pills the only medicine that
gave me a permanent cure. was
laid up in bed with severe backache
and pains, but after taking Foley
Kidney Pills for four weeks as direct
ed l am again able to be up and at
tend to my work. shall never hest
tate to recommend them" Sold by
all druggists. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10
What is a Neiehhor2

A neighbor is one who viii lend
you anything that you call on him
for, If he doesn't need it. He will
also return what he borrows Just like
he borrowed it. When the doctors
horse and buggy are hitched at your
gate he will come to see what is the
matter before you have to send af-
ter him to close the eyes of the dead.
When he has surplus of apples
and can't sell them he will not let
them rot on the ground before giving
them to you when the little children's
mouths are watering for them. He
will not give milk to the hogs and let
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10

had been gone the hour | had been
allowed for climbing. looked at my
neioid barometer and saw that |
had gone up the 6,10O feet Knaben-
shue had told me 1 had to go. /
looked at my gasoline gauge and
saw that the indicator was smack
against the bottom.
The Motor Skipped.
was still going upward when my
motor skipped, but l had to bring
myself down to a level so that the
gasoline would flow back from the
corner into which it had been tilted
to the center where the guage would
catch it. l fell while l was doing
that, and it was just as I fell that
got across the base line. The instru-
ments showed me 5000 feet up; then
the correction to 6,175 was due to the
allowance that had to be made for
the location of the instruments, but
had been 100 feet above that point
when l got to my apex.
But l had done enough for one
day, anyhow. had gone as far as
had made up my mind to go. l had
gone nearly 1850 feet higher than
had before, which was 500 feet
higher than any other man had ever
gone in a heavier-than-air machine,
so l started for home.
How He Descended.
went in wide circles at first, cut
ting two or three of them, l can't
remember which, until got down
about 500 feet. The reading Coffyn
took from the beach showed that l
was down to $3.50 feet, when shut
of my power and began to coast. l
came on in those wide circles until
was about $500 feet up, and then,
instead of the wide circles, l came on
in one sharp turn.
When l was still 600 feet up saw
the Million Dollar Pier below me. l
was still so we'll out at sea that l
had to come in sharply, and that was
where made a curve that brought
me in to the beach. Just as picked
out the place where l would land l
turned on my power again, and If
they had lifted the rail would have
stepped out on the very spot from
which rose.
think what did showed me one
very interesting thing-that a
machine will go just exactly as high
as its supply of gasoline will take it.
That was all that stopped me where
did stop. for every other condition
was perfect for climbing still further.
The next time l start I'll have more
gasoline.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10
Life on Panama Canal

Has had one frightful drawback-ma-
laria trouble that has brought suf-
fering and death to thousands. The
germs cause chills, fever and ague,
biliousness, jaundice, lassitude, weak
ness and general debility. But Elec-
tic Bitters never fail to destroy
them and cure malaria troubles.
Three bottles completely cured me
Of a very severe attack of malaria, a"
writes VIM A. Fretwell, of Lucama,
y. c., land I've had good health ever
since" Cure stomach, liver and kid
neg troubles. and prevent typhoid.
soc. Guaranteed by James H. Will
liams. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-08-10
HOW ONE FEELS
A MILE IN AIR
AS Described by a Man
Who Sailed Up.
AN AMAZING CLIMB OVER SEA
And Land-COld Was Fearful
Motors We're Only
Noise Heard.
VERY THRILLING NARRATIVE

Atlantic City, Aug. 4.-Walter r.
BroOkins, who flew 6,275 feet up in
the air in a Wright aeToplane, is be-
ing made the lion of Atlantic City.
Indeed he would not talk about his
fight until he was fairly cornered.
The official figures show that
BroOkins reached a height of 6,175
feet, but it became known to-day
that he actually went 100 feet higher.
Here is BroOkin's own story as
told by him for the World:
could see nothing but gray mist
below me, but If it had been the dead
of night l would have known that |
was over the sea. There was no
surf to tell me that; the pounding of
my engines and the whirr of my pro-
pellers behind me killed every other
sound and after the first five minutes
of my climb l had no other sound
with me. You feel water below
you, just as you feel your climbing
angle.
When l was over the land l could
see the streets closing up, the houses
on either. side of them seemed to
draw closer together. The only 9th
er sight that was conscious of was
great splashes of red. But out over
the ocean l had no background to
carry my sight through the mist. 1t
was a great bucket of emptiness.
There was not even a cloud in
sight. wished there was one, so
/ could get an idea of what was
doing, but / had nothing to show
me, by contrast, either the direction
or the angle OF my movement. There
was nothing before me but the nose
of the machine.
Sun Like Ball of Fire.
saw the sun about this time, a
great ball of fire that seemed to be
hanging out in space, not disk in
the sky as it looks from the ground.
men L saw IL IL hiuot nave pCOh DS-
low the horizon, as the horizon APP
pears on the earth.
was a mile high then. I'll not for
get it very soon, either. The cold
was a dreadful thing. My knees
knocked together as fast as they
would go. and / could feel it on my
cheeks and my ears. My teeth
chartered till thought I'd never
get them stopped again.
The air was getting rare, too.
yawned and yawned, and painted as
breathed, sort of prolonged gasp
every time I inhaled. grew still
more conscious of how utterly alone
was, and the pounding of the engine
became an awful racket. 1t was just
at my elbow, and there was no other
noise in the whole universe.
Then my engine slipped. two explo-
sions. was over the Heinz Pier.
looked down to see. When that hap
pened I did three things at once.
looked at the watch on the frame
work In front OF me and saw that