davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The citizen., 1913-06-20
ASSURE PURE MILK
WASP STING MAKES MAN WALK
While In Bed Feels "Hot Needle"
Pierce His Ankle-Leaps to
Floor and Runs.

st. Louis-Charles Wightman, dep
uty county clerk at Clayton, told a
Post Dispatch reporter how he had
just been able to walk without
crutches fer the first time in 3S Of
the 42 years of his life. He fell when
he was four years old and injured
both legs permanently.
He said that a neighbor had told
him a snake story just before he went
to bed. 1t was a tale of blacksnake
ever so many feet long and an incred-
ible number of inches thick, which
the neighbor had said he had killed
Charles woke up in the morning
with the story still in mind He
thought how comfortable it was to
live in a country where one could
sleep in peace instead of in one of
those countries where, he had heard,
snakes sometimes creep in and share
ones bed.
Revelling in the thought, he thrust
his right leg deeper under the covers.
Then something that stung like hot
needle pierced his ankle.
Il sprang out of bed and ran and
stumbled II feet across the room, ,"
he said. 1T was the first time | had
taken SO many steps unassisted since
| was a baby"
And was it really a snake?" he was
asked
No; it was a wasp" And he
showed the ankle where the sting
had swollen it,
The citizen., 1913-06-20
WEARERS Of THE
BLUE AND GRAY
45.O00 Old Soldiers to Be at
Gettysburg.
ANNIVERSARY OF BIG BATTLE
Provision Being Made For the Accom-
mediation OF the Veterans VINO
Took Part On Both
Sides.

Philadelphia for,y-fye thousand
veterans of the CNu War. wearers Of
both the blue and tse gray. have asked
the Gettysburg Anniversary Commits
sion to provide accommodations Tor
tncm durng Tire celebration of the
fftieth anniversary of the famous bat
tie next month These hIare+ We're
given out at Harrisburg by Dr Samuel
&. Dixon. of tie State Department OF
Health. as q final estimate. which does
not include any OF the thou- ands OF
visitors expected to journey go lae mis-
toric battlefield
Under the most favorable conditions
there would be many cases of illness
among these old soldiers during the
encampment. DR. Dixon estimated
But much greater number is feared
because of the heat, the excitement
and the strain OF travel incident to the
pilgrimage Among other provisions
for caring for the sick. arrangements
have been made with hospitals in
cities within a radius Of 40 miles TO re-
ceive cases from the emergency hos
pital to be installed on the field. Har-
risburg. Lancaster, York Chambers
burg and Hagerstown. Nd. will give
aid
An estimate Of the accommodations
which Gettysburg's 5000 inhabitants
can offer TO the crowds Of visitors in
dicates that $4,000 at most can be
The citizen., 1913-06-20
JAPAN READY To
RENEW TREATY
Ambassador Chinda Notifies
Secretary Bryan.
THE FATE OF ARBITRATION.
Senatorial Opposition To the Varl-
Gus Arbitration Treaties
viii Be Over
come.

Washington -Eiscount Chinda, the
japanese ambassador, has advised
Secretary Bryan that Japan is willing
to renew for another period OF five
years her arbitration With the United
States, which expires by limitation
August "a
Secretary Bryan. making the an
nouncement said he not only hoped,
but expected the Senate would ratify
the new arbitration treaties already
signed with Great Britain and other
countries, despite the opposition
against them No date for the sign
ing of the Japanese renewal has been
determined.
The senatorial opposition which
Secretary Bryan is hopeful of over
coming was originally voiced by Sen
ator Chamberlain. who insisted that in
renewal of the treaty with Great Brit
ain specific exceptions should be made
to remove the Panama Canal tolls con
troversy from the field OF arbitration.
The question of arbitrating the issue
with Japan over the California alien
land law has also been a subject Of
discussion among senators opposed to
renewing that arbitration treaty
President Wilson has had frequent
conferences over the arbitration
treaties with senators at the White
House an dat the Capitol. Members
of the Foreign Relations Committee
likewise have been frequent callers at
Secretary Bryans office. Mr.. Bryan
would not say upon just what repre-
sentations he based his expectation
that the arbitration treaties would re-
ceive senatorial approval
The citizen., 1913-06-20
BRYAN DOES THE MARKETING
Every Morning With Basket
on Arm.

Misunderstanding Bryan is
not too busily engaged with affairs of
state to do the marketing for the
Bryan household. Almost any morn
ing the secretary of state may be seen
in a local market place with large
basket swinging from his left arm
Col. Bryan seems to enjoy the mar
keting to the full. He elbows the
crowd and apparently does not mind
1t any more than he did when making
his political campaign tours.
Secretary Bryan's fondness for the
radish of the white variety is now gen.
orally known among marketmen and
they try to keep on hand the kind he
The citizen., 1913-06-20
WORKS FOR PURE SODA WATER
Mrs. Julian Heath Heads Delegation
That Visits Shops to Stop the
Sale of "Poison."

New York.-"We are going after
the soda water fountains and see to
it that customers are no longer sold
poison to drink" declared Mrs Julian
Heath, national president of the
Housewives league.
Accompanied by band of fellow
members she entered several soda
water emporiums on the upper west
side and put the clerks through an
inquisition After admitting that the
sirups, ingredients and sanitary ar
rangements we're excellent, she pro
ceeded to the lower east side.
In several places they found drink
which, Mrs. Heath declared, was arti,
ficially colored and nothing short of a
mixture of alcohol and sugar.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
COL. ]. ]. ASTOR
LEFT S88,OOO,OOO
Largest Ever Appraised in this
Country.
REAL ESTATE S63.OOo.OOO.
Ante-nuptiaI Agreement For Mrs, Ava
Willing Astor, Amounting To ST.
739,ooo, Terminates and Goes
To Vincent Astor.

New York.-The estate OF Col, John
Jacob Astor, who perished in the Ii
tanic disaster, was officially appraised
at close to $SS.000, 600, OF which Vim
cent Astor receives $6S.954,499; Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor $7,67S,S96;
Murlel Astor, S4,S56,75S, and John
Jacob Astor, son by his second mar
riage, $2,922,672.
The estate is declared TO be the
largest ever appraised in this country.
The cost of determining its value was
made remarkably low owing TO an un-
derstanding by which the Astor estate
bore one-half the expenses and the
State of New York the other half.
This made it unnecessary for each
side to employ experts, with possi-
bility OF having to engage neutral ap-
praisers in event of a disagreement
Aside from the announcement from
the amounts that revert to the heirs,
there are two features of special in
terest in the appraisal. One is the
affidavit of the examiners that the
property embraced in the ante-nuptial
agreement for Mrs. Ava Willing Astor,
amounting to about $1,73S000, which
was to have reverted TO her at the
time of her husbands death now ter
inmates and goes to Vincent Astor, for
the reason that the youths mother,
although once Colonel Astor's wife,
was never his widow. Mrs. Ava Will
ling Astor divorced her husband,
whose legal widow is Mrs Madeline
Force Astor.
The second feature concerns the in
heritance tax of Colonel Astor The
estate saved large sum by paying
$3,150,000 to the state last October
within six months of Colonel Astors
death, this payment earning a five per
cent. rebate. The sum mentioned
greatly exceeds any amount ever paid
to any state as an Inheritance tax, it
is declared
The appraisers placed the real
estate value at about $63, 100000 and
the value of the personal property
close on to $25,000,000 The real
estate is located on Broadway, upper
lllu dN GlluO, I1eIl 4SIlls lALC lOA CAANs' bAAS
East and West Sides and in Rhine
beck n. Y, and includes Colonel
Astor's Fifth avenue home and his
home estate, Ferncliffe in Rhinebeck,
part of the old Astor House estate
and of the Waldorf-Astoria, the St
Regis and Knickerbocker Hotels and
other hotel and office building prop
critics. The value of much of it as
fixed by the appraisers is about 20 per
cent above the amount it was as
sessed by the city in 1912.
Including both real and personal
property the estate is divided approx
imately as follows:
Owned by j. ]. Astor absolutely,
$51,90o.O0O
Life interest under trust funds
established by William Astor, S33, ,240,
600.
Ante-nuptial trust, Mrs. Ava Willing
Astor $1,75S,000 (Which reverts to
Vincent Astor).
Two ante-nuptial trusts, Mrs. Made
line Force Astor, totalling $1,450,000,
Property in trust created by William
Astor, life interest by ]. ]. Astor, and
which passed to Vincent Asto~, 1885,
300
The citizen., 1913-06-20
BOAT UNDER WATER 36 HOURS
Submarine, With Six Men, Breaks
Submergence Records.

Long Beach, Cal-The submergence
record for submarine boats was
broken here by locally constructed
vessel, which came to the surface at 5
o'clock, after having been resting on
the bottom of the ocean off the city
for SO hours The six men who made
the endurance test alighted from the
submarine when it was towed in ap-
parently none the worse for the long
stay under the surface of the ocean.
The previous record was "a hours,
made by the United States submarine
Octopus in 1907.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
FAIL IN BIG TREASURE HUNT
Ship That Carried Women Seeking
Buried $18,ooo,ooo Returns SorsY
Disappointed.

San Francisco, Cal.-Failure OF ar
other expedition sent in quest ol .
legendary s1S,OOO,O0O treasure cacne
on Cocos island, in the South seas
was recorded here when the BRUSH
steampship Melmore put into port
These tabled millions. according
dying sailor. were buried on CocO'
island by officials of the Peruvian
church early in the last century Mis
Barry Till and Miss Davis, Engns'
women, were told by the sailor on ~
death bed of his knowledge OF U,
location of the cache and supphe,
with charts. The women succeeuss
in interesting British capitalists a..
the Melmore was purchased Ior 'H'
expedition
Mrs. Till and Miss Davis accompa
MED the party and directed the W"
ations of the fortune hunters
After many weary months OF iau~
with pick and shovel, the seatcn0'
gave up their quest and started lom,
ward. The Melmore put in az f@us
ma. where the two women and QUIZ
of the party left the vessel 10 p
ceed homeward by the most dls'
route. ~
Within the last fifty years q ~
dozen expeditions equipped E'i'n a. H.
pie funds to search for ths eoiu
lieved to be buried there. IA ans @
case the incentive has been the ' sor
the account of some sailor 70 VIM, VIM
had been bequeathed charts snO''
the location of the treasure
The citizen., 1913-06-20
STUDYING BATTLEFIELD.
Army Officers and Troopers Encamped
At Gettysburg.

Gettysburg, Twenty-Five com
missioned army officers, under com
mand of General Liggett, arrived here
for a technical study of the Gettys
bury battlefield They are accom-
panied by an escort OF troopers and
are completing a tour of study pre-
scribed by the Army War College,
where they compose this years class,
The citizen., 1913-06-20
TRIED TO 6RiBE SENATOR.
Man offered Works $1,000 To Appoint
Him Postmaster.

Santa Barbara, Cal-C Ercanbrach
was arrested by a deputy United
States marshal on Federal indict-
ment charging him with an attempt to
bribe United States Senator John D.
Works. Ercanbrach wanted the ap-
pointment OF postmaster here and is
alleged to have written a letter to Sen
ator Works offering $1,000 if the ap-
pointment were procured for him
The citizen., 1913-06-20
GUILTY OF DOUBLE MURDER.
Wife and Mother Confesses To Ter
ribe Crime.

Harrisonville Mo. - Mrs. Arthur
Kellar confessed that it was she who
killed her husband, a railroad laborer,
and their daughter, Margaret, seven
years old, last Tuesday. Kellar and
the girl were slain with an ak as they
lay in their beds The confession.
which was signed by Mrs Kellar
brought to a quick termination the
coroner's inquest that had been in ses-
sion two days in an attempt to place
the responsibility for the murder.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
NOT AFRAID OF Hoopoo 10.
House Adjourns At 1913 P. M. On
Friday, June 13, 1918.

Washington. Congress is not afraid
Of any "13" hoodoo. The House,
marking time on tariff and currency
transacted no important business Fri.
day and the journal of its proceedings.
recorded that it adjourned "at 1913
o'clock on Friday, June 13, 1919"
Sticklers for accuracy among the
Democratic members insisted that the
adjournment was at exactly 13 min
utes and 13 seconds past noon
The citizen., 1913-06-20
BOMB SHAKES PATTERSON.
Explodes Before Home OF Brothers
Who Were Not Strikers.

Paterson, n. j = Paterson was
shaken by the explosion of bono
in front of the home of three brothers
who had persistently refused to join
the silk strikers. The house was dam
aged. but the sleeping occupants were
uninjured, and later they went to
work as usual under an escort of
police. 1t was the second attempt to
dynamite their home since the strike
began.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
THE SUMNER WHITE HOUSE.
Presidential Family To Go To Har
lakender Hall June %.

Windsor. Yt-Word was received
from Washington to have Harlaken-
den Hall, the,summer White House at
Cornish, N. H., ready for the occu-
pancy of President Wilson and his
family by June 2S. 1t was stated that
the President, Mrs. Wilson and their
daughters would arrive in Cornish on
that date, and that they planned to
remain at Harlakenden Hall until
after July 4.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
Horses Fight a Duel.

Harrison N. 1.-Two horses fought
a duel in vacant lot here while sew
eral hundred persons watched the
fight One of the animals finally
dropped with broken leg. A bullet
ended it's suffering, and the other
horse is under the care of veteri-
nary.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
AVIATOR FALLS TO DEATH.
In Blazing Biplane Fell TWO Hundred
Feet

Lima, O.-Andrew Drew, pupil of
Orville Wright, voloplaned to death
here in blazing biplane Drew was
killed as a result of a desire to take
lust little 10Y ride"-his last words
to his partner-in a machine which he
had not thoroughly tested. His part
ner in local school of aviation, J. C.
Brabazen, had urged him not to make
the trip, but Drew wished to try out
the biplane
The citizen., 1913-06-20
CURRENCY MESSAGE SOON.
President Wilson Wants Legislation
Passed At Present Session.

Washington President Wilson has
begun the preparation of message to
the legislative branch of the Govern
ment urging immediate monetary re-
form. 1t is probable that the message
will be laid before the Senate and the
House this week, or about June 23
or "a.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
FIVE DEAD; MANY INJURED.
A Fatal Rear-End Crash At Stamford,
Connecticut.

Stamford. Conn.-Four persons are
dead and many injured, some seri-
ously. as the result OF a rear-end col
lision on the main line OF the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road, opposite the local passenger
depot, when the second section OF the
Springfield express, west bound.
crashed into the first section which
was just leaving the station Accord
ing to an official statement given out
by the railroad. the indications are
that the engineer of the second sec
tion ran by both the distant and home
signals
The citizen., 1913-06-20
25 MEN KILLED.
And More Than Hundred French
Wounded In Battle With Moors.

Algiers.-The French lost 25 killed.
including two officers, and 109 wound
ed, in the recent fighting with the
Moore in the region around Tadia.
Moro, according to a report just re-
ceiyed here.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
AMERICA KEEPS POLO PRIZE.
British Team Beaten In Second Con-
test BY one-Quarter Point.

New America retains the
polo championship OF the world by
quarter OF point. It was the margin
OF a mallet tap, the fash of some play
er's game wits, the inscrutable check
or charge Of a pony none may say
just what-that brought defeat to Eng
land on Meadowbrook Field and con
cluded the second and deciding game
Of the series in which she sought 10
retake the famous Newport cup The
final score was: America, 1-2; Eng
land, Ala.
The citizen., 1913-06-20

Denver, Colo.--Assemblyman Bacon.
charged with the murder of his wife
and step-daughter, ended his hunger
strike OF over 124 hours when he drank
two gallons of buttermilk and ate two
dozen doughnuts.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
tilts the Jersey Niosnullo.

Ridley Park. n. ito rid this town
of mosquitoes this summer the
borough council has placed 100000
pike perch in the lake here so that
they may feed upon the mosquito eggs.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
VlzlER OF TURKEY SHOT.
Attacked In His Motor Car In Con-
stantinope.

Constantinople-The Turkish Grand
Vizier. Mahmoud Scherfket Pasha.
was assassinated by two men armed
with ,eyolvers who attacked him
while he was proceeding IN his motor
car to the Sublime Porte. IDraham
Bey, the aide de camp OF Mahmoud
schefket Pasha, was also killed by
the assassins. Ii is understood thai
the men who committed tine crime are
civilians. It is believed in govern,
ment circles here that the assassina-
ton OF the Grand Vizier was the out
come of a plot against the committee.
of union and progress tYoung Turks
The citizen., 1913-06-20
THEIR SALARIES RAISED.
More Money For Executive Officers Of
Firemen and Enginemen.

Washington.-Salary increases were
voted to all the executive officers at
the session of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
The new schedule was not made pub
lie. A spirited contest is expected to
develop over the selection of perman-
ent headquarters for the Brotherhood
ST. Louis today entered the race for
the next convention.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
II KILLED BY CAVE-lN.
Thirteen Men Entombed In Subway
Construction In New York.

New York.-Eleven lives are believ-
ed to have been lost in disastrous
cave-in so feet underground on the
new subway construction at Fifty
sixth street and Lexington avenue,
when IS men OF crew of 81 drillers
and laborers We're entombed Two in
jured men were rescued, but one OF
them probably will die
The citizen., 1913-06-20

likes. The other day, however, much
to Col. Bryan's disappointment, his ia
vorite vegetable was not to be had.
You know. I'm just crazy about
white radishes,' said the secretary to
a woman shopping beside him. mo
other kind will do"
And he continued his search among
the stands.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
Eighteen Miles of crasshoppers.

Amarillo. TeX.-A column of grass
hcppers five miles wide and is miles
long was reported in northern New
Mexico. Government. state and rail
road experts have combined to fight
the insects with poison
The citizen., 1913-06-20
GIRL DROPS II STORIES.
Desperate BY Discharge, Examiner Of
Waists Jumps From Roof OF Factory.

New York-Desperate at being dis
charged, Pauline Rosen, 10 years old,
OF S71 First avenue. who was employ
ed as an examiner of waists for Casper
Davis & Sons, on the eleventh floor of
As to % West Thirty-fifth street, com
mitted suicide by hurting herself head
long from the roof at the Thirty-fourth
street end of the building. Hundreds
of Mortified shoppers in Thirty-fourth
street and in Sixth avenue witnessed
the girls fall.
The citizen., 1913-06-20
GOMEZ'S NEPHEW COMMITS
SUICIDE.
Government Orders investigation Of
Affairs At Agricultural Station.

Havana. Ramon Garcia Osea, a
nephew Of former President Gomez
and director OF the Cuban Agricultural
Experiment Station, committed sui
eide. The Government Immediately
ordered an investigation OF the affairs
OF the station Oseo held a similar
position under the Mexican Govern
ment until his uncle became President
of Cuba, when he came here
The citizen., 1913-06-20
no..or malees Nem chln fOr eIrE

Doctor Makes New Chm TOT ann
Baltimore, Md-A new cnin' .,oot
posed of different parts of the pa'lyh ~, i
body, was grated upon a niue Tb
physicians at local hospltai' III
child had fallen upon a stove a4 ~ nj
skin upon her chin was seareu nd
bone. When the wound healed sn'
no mouth
The citizen., 1913-06-20

Find $4,000 Lump of Ambets,rr,r rsrd
Sayville, N. Y.-Miss Ethel ,oes j
of this town found large uhaI
ambergris, valued at s5,ovO'
walking along the beach ners'
The citizen., 1913-06-20
Mrs. MarshaII's Many Visits.

Washington.-For calls in 80
minutes is the visiting record estab
lished by Mrs Marshall, wife of the
vice-president.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-19

NY ITH 100000 automobiles in
w use and 100000 miles of
road. it is to be noted that
now in the United States there is
mOtor-dFiven vehicle for every two
miles of highway.
MANY public men have not yet re-
allied the change this class of vehicle
has wrought in commercial as Well as
social conditions" comments Robert
P. Hooper, former president Of the
American Automobile association and
recently reelected for the seventh time
as the head oI the Pennsylvania Motor
federation. Their minds do not seem
to readily absorb the logical resul tants
of the fact that the city "a miles away
is as accessible for business purposes
with motor vehicle, as is the railroad
station ga miles distant. with 2 team
and wagon. mine and fOur-tenthS
miles is the distance OF the average
American farm from its nearest ship
ping point, according 70 statistics
gathered by the U. S. office of public
! rOads)
ct is a fair proposition that large
percentage of automobiles are utilized
in part OF wholly for commercial pur-
roses. There are and can be no cOun-
ty or township lines In traffic over
roads The resident in any agricultural
community does his selling aon buy
ing in The city or village most aecesst-
BILE, whether in his own or IN another
county, or even In an adjoining state
anu IS alIGe14uA4AAl - kNA q NN|'. 49,
of roads. he frequently finds 10 miles
over a good road more easily nesou-
ated than five miles over an unim-
proved road.
"Ceratin roads n every community
amounting. according TO the best an
thOrities, to about Is percent OF the
whole road mileage) are the main roads
over which passes upwards OF so per-
cent of the local travel When a sin
gle county in a given section improves
It's main roads, a vast traffic is at
once diverted to those roads, this null
tiplied traffic requiring systematic and
unusually costly maintenance. The To-
cal community is benefited. Of course.
| but so are the adjoining counties and
neighbOFing states.
"Mecklenburg county. in North Caro-
I lima, is an excellent illustration of this
DroVement Some years ago this pro-
gressiVe county issued bonds and built
an excellent system OF macadam roads.
The initial advantage was at once ap-
parent. Farmers increased their acre
age Of crops; production became much
greater; marketing cost less: and real
estate values We're enhanced from Is
to 100 percent. Then came new traffic
conditions and the through travel OF a
whole section of the state was diverted
over the good roads of Mecklenbure,
county. The travel between the north
and south assumed larger prOpOstions
and it went by way of MeckIsnburg
county because OF its good roads.
As a matter of fact. the Injustice To
I the taxpayers of Mecklenbure- county
! must be apparent TO every fair-minded
man But Mecklenburg county is not