davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-12-07

Don't fail to see the Xmas
handkercniefs at Purdon's.
Mrs. G. Hennes is receiving
treatment at the Wahpeton
Hospital this week.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
SAW THE HUMAN SOUL.
Tells of Many Experiments He Has
Made ut Deathbed.

DR.. Duncan MacDougall, of Haver-
hill, Mass, who has been long stu
dent Of physico-psychical phenoma,
declares his belief that the human
soul weighs from one-half ounce to
nearly an ounce and a quarter, and
further that the soul substance is
blended with the plotoplasm OF the
brain and spinal chord in life.
DR.. MacDougal says it has been his
experience in a dozen instances to
stretched on bed that was part of a
delicately adjusted scale, and to hear
as the patients last breath leaves the
body the noise of the dropping
weight. ...
Again sitting in a darkened room,
he has watched the strong ray OF
white light rest along the body of a
dying man, converting him like a
silver bar from head to feet and over
the face. DR.. MacDougal and his
assistants has made closese obser-
vation of the light to sec if that in
tangi-shape in cloud or in wavering
tints see man or woman from he
outworn body.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
THEY WON'T GET RICH.
The Scale of Wages Paid the Work.
men in the Orient.

Clarence Poe, in the July Worlds
Work, gives some Interesting figures
concerning the pay Of laborers IN
various oriental countries. In China
member of the emperor's grand
council told me that the average rate
of wages throughout the empire Is
probably IS cents ] day. In japan 1t
is probably not more, and in India 1t
is much less.
The best mill workers in Osaka
average % cents aday; the laborcrs
at work on the new telephone line in
Peking get 10 cents; wheelbarrow
coolies in Shanghai, 81 a month;
linotype operators in Toxic, only As
cents day; presmen, SO cents; po-
Hceman, 40 cents; the iron workers
in Hankow average about 10 cents
a day; street car conductors in Seoul
make 35 cents; farm hborers about
Nankou about 1 0 cents.
The highest oriental wages are
paid in the PHILIPPINES, where the Or
dinary laborer gets from 20 cents to
SO cents day.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29

Carolina Constitution and Index ,
soc; Wallaces United States and
South Carolina Civil Government
(Combined), 75c. .E,'
W. H. Wheeler G Co.-(Basal): j.:
Wheeler's Graded Primer, 25c;
Wheeler's Graded First Reader, Csc;
Whee!er's Graded Second Readar,
35c.
World Book Company-Primer of
Hygiene, 35; Primer of Sanitation,
"a complete official list of all the
10c; Human Physiology, 60c.
adoptions has been furnished the R
l.. Bryan Company of Columbia,
which firm will serve as manager of
the central textbook depository. Un-
der the textbook contract the man
ager Of the central depository was to
be selected by the publishers and ap-
proved by the State board of educa-
tion. All local dealers in textbooks
should therefore communicate at
once with the R. l.. Bryan company
in order that arrangements may be
made for introducing new books re-
Gently adopted.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
MANY FOOLISH WOMEN.
Man Who Made Bigamy a Business
Sent to Prison.

In sentencing George William Lu-
cid, alias Leslie, Moran and Lay, to
seven years penal servitude for big
amy and heartless frauds on large
number of women, Judge Rentoul, at
the Old Bailey. in London, the other
day declared:
Il think the earth never contained
more Infamous scroundrel than
YOU"
A clerical looking, plausible man
of thirty-nine Lucid, through matri-
monial advertisements, became ac-
quainted with many women from
whom he received sums varying from
IS to $500 by promising to marry
them. In his rooms were found no
fewer than 200 letters from more
than seventy different women. At
one time he was sending love let
tiers interlarded with appeals for mon
ey to thirty women.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
FATAL FAMILY FIGHT.
A Man and His Wife Killed in Gen.
eral Kentucky Row.

In family fight, at South Quick
sands, four miles from Jackson, KY,
Sunday two persons were killed and
another seriously wounded. The vic
tins were William Simms and his
wife, Mrs. Eliza Simms, who were
killed, and AlonZo Allen, who was Sc
riously wounded. Norman Allen. a
son-in law Of the dead couple and a
brother of the wounded man is at
large. The Aliens, it is said. attack
ed the old people. Simms fired and
wounded Alonzo and in the fight that
followed he and his wife were killed.
Mrs. Simms was foremost in the
shooting, according to Alonzo Allen,
who was carried to a Lexington hos
pital Monday suffering from four bull
let wounds.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
WANTED TO KILL EVERYBODY.
Hindu With Rifle Ran Amuck il
Crowded Chicogo Street.

While the police were planning
to send him to an asylum for crimi-
nal insane, N. Hausin, Hindu, and
former member of the British army,
who wounded five persons and caused
panic in Chicago's crowded down
town street Wednesday by discharg-
ing a rifle at the passing throng, sat
in cell and jeered at his guards.
II bought the rifle to kill all the
bad people in Chicago" he said, Il
hate all Of your white American
faces. You have been cruel to me,
and I wanted to kill everybody
Hausin came to this country from
India four years ago, and worked in
a steel mill in Pitsburg before COM
ig to Chicago. Poerty and lonell-
ness are believed to have affected
his mind already possibly deficient
from wound he sustained while a
soldier
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
STRANGE MARRIAGE CUSTOM.
Practiced by Natives of Dutch New
Guinea.

Describing the work of the expe-
dition to Dutch New Guinea, Captain
G. C. Rowling. at meeting Of the
Royal Geographical Society, at Lon
don, gave his impressions Of the ma
tives. During a years sojourn with
them the travellers obtained consid-
erble insight to many of their Gus
toms. Marriage was only witnessed
on one occasion, in this instance the
men who escorted the bridge up the
river betaking themselves to their
homes, while the bride, preceded by
an Cd woman. crawled through the
mud and up the bank on her hands
and knees, and in this degraded po-
sition disappeared into her future
home. Neither in marriage or in
birth were any festivities undertake
en-.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
Widow Gets the Money.

At New Haven, Conn, Burr S.
Peck, a wealthy retired manufacturer,
aged so, who recently eloped with a
pretty waitress, Miss May Bryne, aged
20, is dead. Peck created a sensation
when he eloped with the waitress.
They lived together a few days when
Peck instituted divorce proceedings.
The suit was afterwards withdrawn.
An estate, valued at 100000 goes to
the young widow.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
Very Old Town.

Near Osimo, in Italy. Professor
Dali 'Osso, has discovered the re-
mains OF an important Gallo settle
ment dating back as far as the year
1900 B. C. The buildings are circu-
lar in shane and contain numerous
domestic utensils, weapons. earthen-
ware objects, etc, denoting the pas
sage from the neolithic to more ad-
vanced stage of civilization.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
Praise Southern Press.

Mayor Gaynor told a number Of
editors, representing the Georgia
Weekly Press association, who called
Monday in New York, that the pa
pers of the South we're we'll edited.
you tell the TRUTH he said, "'and
your papers are moderate In tone"
The mayors secretary took the par
ty to Coney Island on big sight
seeing automobile ride.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
Three Were Drowned.

Charles Dixon, of Kansas City, his
son, aged 16, and daughter, aged IA,
we're drowned by the upsetting of a
canoe in Lake Michigan at MacataWa
Park late Monday. One son, aged
II, was rescued in time to resusci-
tate him.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29
White Gets Parole.

Governor Blease has paroled John
White, a former penitentiary guard
who was convicted in Richland county
in 1908 as accessory to the killing of
Eber Ashford.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-29

ROtlaOle ana dVOlu the ueCeSSlly VI
paying heavy lawyers fees each and
every time a title is passed upon.
The following preamble and reso-
lutions were adopted in honor Of DR..
Seaman A. Knapp:
Whereas, since the last annual
meeting of the State Farmers union
death has claimed that devoted la
borer for the public veal and true
Christian gentleman, DR.. Seaman A.
Knapp, the head Of the United States
farm demonstration work; and
"Whereas DR.. Knapp was the first
man to hear the call of distress from
the cotton belt states when the boil
weevil came and preceded forthwith
to organize and put into operation
the most effective work for the cause
of agriculture ever attempted in the
nations history, a work which is to
continue it's onward and upward
movement for ages to come; and
Whereas, it was this illustrious
patriots most cherished desire oft
expressed to live long enough to make
South Carolina the object lesson
State of the South in agriculture;
now be it
rResolved, That the State Far
mers' Union of South Carolina deems
1t a special privilege to inaugurate a
movement among the States Of the
cotton belt indeed in the whole South
for the erection in Washington, d.
c., the.nation's capital, of monu-
ment to the man and his life work in
the cause of humanity and asricul-
ture.
"Resolved further, That commit
tee of three of the South Carolina
State Farmers union be named to
take this matter in charge, communi-
cate with the officials of the other
State unions, and urge their vigorous
activity in support of this moement.,
Resolved, further, That the State
union urges upon eery couny and
local union in South Carolina, active
work in behalf Of this movement.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
M BEAT
Y

Fresno. Cal. Dec. s0.-A Warren
automobile has put CALIFORNIA; most
famous express train to shame. On
Christmas day a Warren as" smash
ed the record Of the Southern Pacific
Owl limited between San Francisco
and Fresno. doing the zoo miles in S
hours n 4 minutes. which is Is min
utes faster than the Owls scheduled
time between these two cities.
The Warren. which was driven by
p. Efchner, participated in what Is
believed to be one Of the widest au-
tomobile rides ever taken. 1t Just
happeners that there has been a feud
between automobile dealers Of Fresno
to hold the record from San Francis
co here. The Warren was the first to
establish the record several months
ago. A little later a Buick clipped
10 minutes off the Warren record and
for a long time there was great iov
In the Buick camp.
But. the Warren people got busy,
and on Christmas day the C. W. Hob
son company. Fresno. determined to
gain back the Frisco.Fresno record.
So, they sent Eichner after the prize.
He. made good in one Of the most
daring and furious c~ross-country
drives ever taken. He was driving a
Warren stock "35" car. 1t vas not
stripped for racing but was equipped
with the regular stock body and s ga
gear. Eichner reached a speed Of 65
miles an hour at times during his trip.
Automobiles of California were
dumbfounded when he arrived in lust
Is minutes less time than the Sou.
thern Pacih's schedule says the ia
nous Owl Limited shall take to do the
distance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
CAPITAL CITY IS
MAD

Bismarck, N. -. Dec. 30.--rhere is
some excitement in the capital city.
Tonight and Monday nights will be
red letter occasions in local sporting
circles. On those dates the famous
Triple r basketball team 70 Billings,
Mont. Will appear here in two thrill.
ing games.
For three years Bismarck has beer
interested in basketball. The success
of the local quint has been more or
less fuctuating. But on these dates
Bismarck will have on the floor ono
of the crack teams of the west. The
local team has been greatly strength
aned for the occasion. -four ex-coIlege
nlayers having been brought to tho
'apital ia play in this series. TIL.
am%bination which they make ..-es
the city a band Of formidable repre-.
s%entatives which will make the west
ern champions think they have
jumped into a small sized blizzard.
'Ther Will he something doing the
the whistle blows for the first
toss up.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
BIG SMOKE MAY
MEET jim FLYNN
Will Probably Fight Ten or
Twenty Rounds in the
Near Future

Chicago, Dec. 30.-Whether Jack
Johnson can be induced to fight Jim
Flynn either ten or twenty rounds
will be decided at a meeting on Sun
Gay IN which johnson. Harry Pollock,
representing New York, and Jack
Curley. who Is said to have the back
ing OF a number of western mining
men. will be the principal figures.
has received messages from
Pollock and Curley stating they will
be in the city at that time.
II Curley cannot offer johnson $780,
600 for a 20-round fight there is no
use OF Flynn's manager coming east.
negro's manner led listeners to he.
lleve he could be induced to fight
Flynn ten rounds for half the price,
although he would not say just how
much he wants for his a~ppearanc
Those close to johnson asserted
Yesterday that Pollock is coming west
as the representative Of prominent
fight promoters in New York who
hope that johnson will agree to fight
FIvnn IN Madison Square Garden.
Who is behind Curley no n seemed
to know.
Many critics profess to believe that
johnson is setting his price beyond the
reach OF the promoters so that he will
not have to fight. Others think a
match will result from the conference.
johnson is having trouble in get.
ting two Of his car from he custom
house. Rather than pay the extra
duty demanded by Uncle Sam, Jack
he would take the case to court,
Wnere experts say he would be almost
sure to lose his contention. The
champion was sued Yesterday for
s74.sS by the Elite Laundry. The bill
covers January. February. March and
April.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
NEWS OF SPORTDOM
CLARKE STARRED
FOR MANY YEARS
Started at the Game Eigh-
teen Years Ago and AL
ways Made Good

Fred Clarke. who has decided to re-
tire as an active player and n
the Pirates from the bench, has had
eighteen years of big league expert
ence. and for eleven years has played
IN left garden for Pittsburg.
I am through rs a ball player. but
! Will manage the team next year from
the. bench. The reason / am quitting
active service in uniform Is that l am
almost forty years old, and the wear
and tear is too hard on my system"
says Clarke.
In the retirement of Clarke baseball
loses one of its real stars and one Of
the greatest players that ever stood on
spikes. During a career that covered
. period exceeding by many years the
playing life of the average ball tosser.
Clarke piled up a record that is sen.
satlonal IN the extreme. taking part III
nearly 1900 games and standing out
IN every department as one Of tho dia-
mond marvels of his time.
AS an outfielder he vas without an
equal, and as a base n n run get
ter and batsman he has nearly every
year ranked with the leaders.
Born In Iowa.
Clarke was born October 3, 1872, in
Madison county. Iowa, and began
playing ball in April 1892, with the
tGoii VI VIC 4NcUI dShd SIdlc
league. He remained with that club
only Q April. until July. when he
Joined the st. Joe Independents and
finished the season with them. From
April until June. 1898, he played with
the st. Joe club, in the Kansas State
league. and from June until September
he was with the Montgomery (Ala.)
club of the Southern league. The fol-
lowing season., 1894, he opened with
the Savannah (Ga.) club, in the South
ern league, and, after playing there
from April to June, he was picked up
by the Louisville National league club.
and has remained in the National
league ever since.
On Louisville.
He played with Louisville until the
close of the season of 1899, went to
Pittsburg in the big Pirate-Colonel
consolidation, and has been manager
and left fielder for Pittsburg from 1900
until now.
Following is the wonderful record
Clarke has made in batting and field
ing since he entered the National
league:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
LEAGUE TO
INVADE CHICAGO
The New Organization Will
Put One of Clubs in the
Windy City

Chicago. Dec. 80. - The third
league magnates declare they're com.
Ing into Chicago. After considerable
effort a man was found in Chicago
yesterday who claims to know some.
thing about the local end Of 1t as well
as \ scheme to invade other cities OF
the big leagues of baseball. The man
Is John Powers. who gained a bit
Of baseball publicity In the past as
chief organizer of the Wisconsin Illi-
nois league. Of which he was presi-
lent for a short time.
According to Powers there is sure
to DC league baseball played on the
north side in Chicago next summer
even II the plans Of the United States
league. formed last week in New
proposition fails Powers claims the
way will be opened locally by forming
a minor league of cities near Chicago
n granting one franchise to be put
on the North side. Gunther Park is
TO be the location Of the Chicago club,
n Billy Nefssen. manager Of the
Gunthers for many years. is expecting
to be president of the new club.
William A. Whitman of Reading. Pa.
who was elected president Of the
United States league. formed last
Week mas been In communication for
some weeks with Powers regarding
the situation in Chicago and will
come here next week to Investigate.
Powers, that there is ample capital
to nance the organization. Hugh
Mckinnon ts the man granted the
Washington franchise and is said to
nave a lot of backing. Ambrose Hus-
sey Is the man In Baltimore, and Will
liam Urton has taken 1t up in st. Louis
claiming to have a fortune back Of
him. ] do not know who Is the Kan
sas City man. but 1t is not Johnny
king as many suppose.
There have been several confer.
ences among club owners Of nearby
minor league towns who are contem-
plating the invasion Of the north side.
One meeting was held here last sun
day. and 1t is practically settled that
league baseball will be played at
Gunther Park e. season. Whitman
has written me that he is coming here
next week. I suppose he'll go on to
st. Louis and Kansas City too. There
seems to be no difficulty at all to get
new league"
So far the third" league talk has
brought out the names Of no great
money men. and until someone with a
few millions is cited it is likely to
cause no worry to the magnates of
organized baseball. There's hardly a
possibility that league baseball can
be played IN the north side with the
sanction Of the two Chicago clubs.
II it is tried it will mean
a baseball war. and unless the "third.'
league a produce a lot Of fight
money it cannot hope to progress for
any length Of time when opposed by
the two big leagues.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
MAY MEET
SAM M'VEY NEXT

Chicago, Dec. 30.-Jack johnson.
champion and Sam Mcvey will fight
for the heavyweight championship of
the world at Sydney. Australia, on
Easter Monday, If Hugh Mcintosh the
Sydney promoter approves the agree
ment made here Friday by his repre-
sentative and johnson.
Tom Andrews. Milwaukee,, McIn.
tosh's American representative agreed
to give johnson 100000 win lose or
draw. $4,000 training expenses and
four round trip tickets to Australia.
johnson agreed to fight with these
provisions.
"Mcvey is the logical candidate"
Johnson, He got his place by beating
sam Langford. I stopped him in six
cleaned him at the end Of twenty
rounds. He will be soft for ma now.
1t won't take much training but I am
going in fit. SO as not to be surprised.
Ill begin work at once"
Andrews said he expected cable ap.
prevail of the terms from Mcintosh
Immediately.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
Sporting lettings
MISCELLANEOUS SPORTS OF
ALI SORTS
CAN'T STAND THE EXPENSE.

Ndliace foley OF East Grand
FORKS. captain Of the 1911 football
team at Manchester and n of the
members of the basketball auint,
states that there is small probability
Of Manchester playing a game with the
University Of North Dakota this year.
Here Is what he says: Manchester is
without q gymnasium suitable for
basketball and all Of our games have
to be played in the Y. NJ. G. A. down
town. Because Of that fact we are not
able to get the crowds out for the
games that We should. The expense of
getting the North Dakota team to Ma
calester would mean that we would 20
IN the hole at least $50 or $50. The
board feels that there Is no use in
paving as much money out as that
when we can get games with Hamline,
St. Thomas, Carleton. st. Olaf, the
Minnesota Aggies and a number OF
other schools, for little more than
carfare,"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
FREAK PLAY WAS
CAUSE Of VICTORY
-
Minneapolis Player circled
on a Measly Little
Blunt

Baseball is filled with freak plays,
ones that sometimes bring about
seemingly impossible feats. OF course,
there's a lot Of fun in them when they
9" with the home team. but when
they're against the home club you bet
they're far from funny.
Whenever a bunch Of ball players
gets to talking baseball, something
that doesn't often happen-for the
majority of them like to get away
from the national pastime as much as
possible when they are not actually
IN the game-thc subject often turns
to freak plays OF the diamond. Ac-
cordfng to an exchange. here is the
story: n Of the freakiest on record
happened in Minneapolis some sea.
sons age.
The Minneapolis club had as its
sf1ortstop Andy oyler who was a
corking good fielder. but wasn't much
on the heavy hitting. He was one Of
the smallest men in baseball, and, to
make It worse. when he stood up to
the plate he crouched all up in a knot.
II was horrible on the pitchers to have
to throw to Oyler.
Rivalry Was Keen.
One day Minneapolis was playing
st. Paul. There was deadly rivalry
between the two teams. and the game
was for blood all the way through.
1t mad rained the day before the game,
and the ground was sopping wet. The
base unners %fioundered around like
chickens with their feet tied. Minne-
Oyler came to bat.
Andy crouched down in his peculiar
way. and the pitcher wound up. Bing!
He LET a hot one go straight for Oyler's
head. Andy ducked down, bending his
Knee and leaning his bat. over his
shoulder. The ball hit the bat a
crack. and everyone at the park heard
1t.
Where the ball went no one knew,
1t hadn't gone up in the air. for the
81. Paul catcher was gazing around
the sky and wishing for a telescope.
The first baseman was looking under
the bag to see If the ball got stuck
there. h pitcher was shouting unin-
tellfgtble things at everybody and the
third baseman was accusing the UNI
Fire OF standing on the ball. Every.
one on the st. Paul team was crazy
mad.
Ball Didn't Go Far.
What was Oyler doing: He was
going like a streak Of lightning around
the bases. Some N in the bleachers
yelled. Hes got it in his pocket:'
When the second baselnan on the
st. Paul team heard that he started
after Oyler, who had just rounded
second OH the dead run. Andy had
the start. though. and he left the Sec
ond baseman so far in the rear that
people hogan advising the latter to
hire q taxi. Oyler rounded third at
top speed and pulled up at the home
plate. scoring the winning run.
What are YOU trying to do?"
BALI"
II amt got tho ball. There 1t ia
right in front Of the plate. l got a
home run on a ball that didn't 60 two
feet"
Sure enough, there was the ball
sticking in the deep mud in front Of
the plate: 1t had gone off oyler's bat
so quickly that no n had seen 1t
land bat Oyler. The umpire, Of
course. had to allow the homer. for
the ball had hit on fair ground.