1901 - Reporting History

A sketch of Musolino produced around the time of his 1902 trial

Brigandage Increasing In Italy

Among the fruits of the unhappy condition into which exorbitant taxes, low wages, and other industrial evils have plunged the masses in Italy to-day is an increase in the number and activity of the robber bands infesting various parts of the kingdom. The excuse given by many of those who enter upon a life of brigandage is that the government takes every penny they earn by honest labor, and there is nothing left for them but to rob and plunder or die of starvation. Be that as it may, the brigand army is certainly being recruited at an alarming rate. It is said that in Sardinia alone last year nearly one hundred brigands were captured and some hundreds of followers arrested, including the mayors of several small towns! Southern Italy is infested, and the extent of the intimidation and robbery can hardly be grasped by the inhabitants of orderly communities.

Picture of Theodore Roosevelt standing with a man in front of a train locomotive

Biographical Politics Railroads Travelers' Tales

Roosevelt and the Engineer

The accompanying picture of Vice President Roosevelt was taken at Ogden, Utah, last September, while on his famous campaigning tour of the country. It was just before the start for…

Photo of women sitting around a table in the reporters' room of La Fronde.

Culture & Society

Women Run The Newsroom

Women as newspaper workers are common enough in America, and now and then the entire equipment of a daily paper has been turned over to the management of women for…

Colonization & Indigenous Relations

Uncle Sam’s Porto Rican Soldiers

Lusty cheers greeted the men of a native Porto Rican battalion as they marched along with swinging gait in the parade that supplied the most picturesque feature of the second inauguration of President McKinley. Americans greeted as fellow Americans these men who, three years ago, were subjects of the King of Spain, but now belong to Uncle Sam. Certainly the Porto Ricans have well deserved the reputation of being ardent believers in American imperialism. After the fall of Spanish power in Porto Rico, General Miles reported that on his march to San Juan the people had literally overwhelmed him with their offers of service under the American flag. Had he possessed the arms, and had there been the necessity, General Miles is reported to have said he could have secured fifty thousand natives as volunteers against the Spaniards.

Daily News Local Histories

Fight Fire in a Blizzard

York, Neb., Dec. 31.—(Special)—The York firemen had to fight a fierce fire in the binding department of the York Times late last night, when the thermometer was registering zero and…

Travelers' Tales

Buried Treasure

Tradition That Has Lured Many Adventurers to Seek Hidden Gold.

From the New York Press.

Mexican tradition says that somewhere in the Central West are the ruins of a populous Aztec city, in which Guate Motzin stored the vast treasure which Cortez tried to find after the conquest of Mexico. Expeditions under Mexican and under foreign directions have tried in vain to find this city. The story of one attempt to locate the wonderful city made by Col. H. C. Haddington, a civil engineer In the employ of the Mexican government, certainly is curious. He says:

“The story of a lost city is familiar to all Mexicans, and believed in by most of them. When I visited Mexico for the first time in 1872 I became interested in the subject from associating with Mr. Early, an English engineer, who assured me of his belief in its existence. Before leaving the City of Mexico I inquired in government circles for information to substantiate the story told by Early. I found the officials in different departments ready to credit the reports, which they believed plausible, as at that time no complete survey had been made by the government of that district.

Archaeology Travelers' Tales

Pyramids of Sakkara

Two Colossal Statues of Rameses II.

History of Those Remarkable Relics of Antiquity.

Hypostyle Hall a Wonder of the World.

Other Interesting Things To Be Seen In Egypt.

Entrance gate to the temple of Khens at Karnak

Basle, Switzerland, March 25.

The Pyramids of Sakkara may easily be visited front Gizeh by donkey, but having deferred this visit for another day, we took the train for Bedrashen and from there went over the desert. This little village was formerly the centre of Old Memphis, the famous capital of ancient times, built of sun-dried bricks, made out of Nile mud, Memphis stood on the borders of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms, and was founded by Menes, the head of the First Dynasty, about four thousand years before Christ. The narrow streets of this large city were a half a day’s journey long and extended as far as Gizeh, its several quarters being known as the “South Wall,” the “White Wall,” and the “House of the Spirit of Ptah.”

But as Thebes rose Memphis declined. It was a shining mark for Cambyses, who took it by storm, and it competed for a season with Alexandria; and, at the time of Augustus, though many of its buildings were laid low, it was still a populous city. The Mohammedans appropriated a large part of its ruins when they built their mosques and dwellings on the right side of the Nile, but its vastness could not be used up in a moment and up to the 12th century it is said to have been a wonderland; finally, however, every stone was taken to make Cairo the beautiful city it is today.

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