POLITICAL MURDERS IN
RUSSIA INSTIGATED
BY SPIES
HEM • poMieal killing hap
pnan In Bant*, took lor the
•EMM promcatear
This nsstn im fairly J ta
<IM. yet M has ractylloas
Thart are contradictions
and sinister patties.
Things Eaattta are Wpay t
fttrtap from the moral as
sraM as slhar Maadpmats
Ear latest example, take
the slaylag of Premier Stolypia Who
kitted tiia. and for arhat purpose? The
w is aat as option* as aa A mer
it oc Id assume Amaaiagly enough.
«•« tnt-sla. licgnC was claimed
hath hy the gottnartt and by the
reto*utlathu "tie was a cog in oar
machine who went wrong. " assert the
pubea “He was a rewatutioaist who
tei«d oar srders." say the disciples
mt terrorism j
It raguiras thoaght ta appreciate
'he ta-eanai at the dMetcnm which the
wnaatioa presents. especially oa the
“da mt the petit* The odi rials Hod
■ a shads prwterahir to take the
wroag eng stew. and assert that Bo
grwf had a regular permit to enter
the (tenter. and used s reroirer sup
l»Md hy the authorities It Is lest
tajarfcM. ta the poise* ta taka this
slew 'has to admit that they were
«M wilted hy (he enemy, aad that ter
torlMi Is ha wwreeaafal ascendancy. |
There to aa lacreatiac rod la Boa
aia. Belli by the arch betrayer AseB.
»*> helped ta kill a greed duke aad
a ai»t *rr ah tie ta (vwianl eo
r. »' «r«b%aaaa j«raoat a bo awy ;
l- »rlr I ;te or te r* lislu or aortas*
•- 1 t «sair*,:.es mt rerclutKKi
hceat prepo arar. “merit rtewprfcer "
tMirp eel ipy resoltiUoaary spy - j
«•<« ares to be uayl* te aw ehnsi
a.-i s. it ca a« -aatly krtrtel sad ua- *
Otrmmd tint the *tctioeary defim
teua* d» art aatUly ae ispartlai Sn ;
t«ia« there are rathe* la the pbe
*• * <*■ •** ewabed b> the defiat'too*
. s* 'vamiettutuela are eith the diet toe
ry Uke the police, (hey do rot be
*•**• *• * aoab. they asperate
rbe thee* Iras the coats otth a clear *
-at Bae They espial* soet elaborate
ly 'bat a bey le a eheep aad a goat Is !
a Coat Nevrrthddoas. a sorrey H cold j
•***• shoot tUi there arc ooolly guatt I
ahd gestlph eborp Aset. Oapoa. Pe
iro«. BegroB. they harked oa both
•e&SMdhelped aad hart both side,
ddBeatfy la pMrlag <besa
^7--r'-r^rtQ/T+^ ^
tnaay leaders of the revolutionary !
movement disapprove of any revolu
tionist «ntcring the service of the po
lice.
**otne new light on the spy problem
in general and the Azeff case in par
ticular *a» given by l^eonid Menschik
o«. late senior assistant to the chief
of the Third section at St Petersburg. :
Mr. Menschikoff is the original ex- !
poser ot the terrific Azeff and has
supplied evidence against lesser stars
of the inferno of provocation.
A boy of sixteen in a technical high
school at Moscow. Iieonid 4 Menschi
kcff was arrested for belonging to a
revolutionary circle. He was betrayed
by a fellow member of the circle. Zu
batoff. who became an eminent pro
vocateur and chief of police at St Pe
ursburg The young student spent a
"W months Id jail. Then he entered
the police service, rot as a spy, but aa
a kind of clerk or lower official.
lie determined to learn the system
and the personnel and to obtain docu
ments for the benefit of the revolution
ist*.
Mr. Mecscalkoff saw in the secret ;
records that there were thr. j extreme- !
Ij able agents provocateur In the
Third Section One was named Ras
kin. another Vlsogrmdoff, another
Vaiuyskl These men were in the in- j
most continence of the terrorists. They
knew beforehand all the big plots,
even the tlayln* of Minister Plehve
and Grand Duke Sergius This trinity !
"■ talent, strange to say. focussed grad
ually into one personage—a master
traitor mhos-e nagp»* has removed con
alrrable stigma from that of Judas
'o the ta Eds of several million peo
(de.
Mr Menschikoh. regardless of dan
cer to himself and his plans, fell com
pelled t write an anonymous letter to
a member of the revolutionary central
committee. Informing him that a great
terrorist leader was a police spy.
The committee member was asked to
•«!! no one except five of his fellows,
but in h.s as onishiuent he showed the
ictlrr to Eugene Azeff. who was
known *o him by another name, and 1
said:
-Who la AzeffT
“I am Azeff." calmly replied the arch
spy "But there Is a mistake. The ;
guilty man Is Tataroff"
Tatanff. also mentioned in the let
ter. was In fact a police agent. He
was a -andidate for the inner circle
of terrorism, sent forward by bia em
ployers lor the purpose of checking
up Ike activities of Aseff. whose splen
did vtUanles had no supervision. Ta
taroff tried to save himself ty accus
ing his eminent colleague, though he
had no personal knowledge of AzefTs
police position A revolutionary tri
bunal tried Tataroff, condemned him
«o deata and bad him shot in 1906.
Before be was killed, however. Ta
taroff denounced Azeff to the police as
being uks.iyal and engage*, lb terror
istic work Azeff was arrested by
General Grass!moff. chief of police,
and threatened with exposure of bln
double role, whereupon be made a
wholesale betrayal of revolutionists
whom be bad perhaps not intended to
betray. Several hundred were arrest
ed, exiled.*shot or hanged.
Janies Persitz, late an official In the
Russian secret police, now in New
York engaged in writing his memoirs,
gave an account of his adventures as
a spy among terrorists.
"One society which I joined in the
course o. my duty provided me with an
experience which I shall never forget.
By the fierceness of my declarations
and the enegry I d'splayed l rose un
til I was selected to carry out a des
perate deed involving the murder of
a number of prominent officials. Need
less to say, the plot was communicat
ed by me to tbe officials of the secret
police Communication with them
was, of course, extremely dangerous.
1 took the greatest possible care to
cover up the traces of my handiwork,
but nevertheless the anarchist police
outwitted me and secured incontro
vertible evidence that I was a police
spy. Their method of doing this was
interesting.
"The chief of the society wrote out
the details of an attempt to be made
on a certain high official. At a time
when only the leader and I were in the
room he made some excuse for leav
ing me alone for a few momenta In
my eagerness to fulfill my duty I rap
idly searched over the papers he had
left, noting the place and the date
when the scheme was to be put into
execution. Shortly afterward the an
archist chief returned and pocketed
the documents.
"On the fateful night the chief in
formed me that the attempt had been
postponed. As I afterward found out,
some members of the anarchist police
sent to survey the neighborhood had
detected signs of the watching officials
and realized that their plans had been
divulged to the police by some traitor.
Slncfe the chief of the anarchists and
myself were the only two people who
had any knowledge of the intendd
outrag—which, of course, was simply a
sham affair prepared to trap me. I
was immediately known to them in
my true light as a police spy.”
After this, Mr. Persitz says, he was
decoyed to a lonely wood near Mos
cow, bound hand and foot by the ter
rorists and ordered to confess. “At
first, rendered desperate by my peril.
I stoutly refused to admit my guilt,
shouting frantically. ‘I deny It al!!*
But. with many curses and blows,
they told me that 1 was already con
victed. They ordered me to divulge
to them the secrets of the political
police. This, however, I refused to
do. My captors then held a consulta
tion and decided to follow the methods
of the inquisition and wring from me
by torture the particulars they were
seeking. *. . . Pins were forced in
to all parts of my body, each tormen
tor apparently vying with the others
to discover a place which would pro
duce the most excruciating pain.
The lash was applied in addition to
the pins. Then the captors, consid
ering it vain to gain any information,
discussed methods of kilting the trai
tor. A handsome young Polish Jew
ess, says the narrator came forward
and exclaimed:
“ ‘I have an excellent Idea. All the
deaths you suggest are too quick. He
is tied; let us lay him on the railway.
The Petersburg express will shortly
be due, and the cus will hare the
pleasure of lying helpless while he
bees the train coining nearer and near
er. It will give him time to think
over his treachery.’
“The suggestion was heartily ap
proved. With many a curse and blow
I was pn mptly carried off and laid
across the rails of the Moscow-Peters
burg railway, being tied face upper
most to the rails by the ropes that
bound my hands behind my back. After
having brutally kicked me almost into
insensibility and wished me a sarcastic
‘goodby,’ my onetime fellow anarch
ists disappeared in the gathering dark
ness of the night. . . .
“Slowly the minutes passed away,
and, at last, to my horror, I heard the
rumble of the approaching train.
Never shall I forget the unspeakable
terror o. that moment. Nerve racking
though the period of suspense had
been, it was as nothing to this. Pres
ently the rumble grew to a roar, and,
turning my head, 1 saw the lights of
the express approaching. Then 1 think
1 lost ail control of myseif. In a fren
zy of fear I redoubled _ my efforts to
escape, flinging myself this way and
tha*. Larger and larger grew those
glaring orbs of light, nearer and near
er came the ponderous wheels. I real
ized that I bad but a few moments
more t live. Making an effort. I man
aged to lie calmly for a brief second
or two; theu 1 braced feet and shoul
ders and heaved upward with all my
remaining strength.
“The cord parted. With one wild
scream of excitement I rolled between
the rails. I remember a deafening,
thunderous roar and the approach of a
hot blast, such as cornea from the
opening of an enormous furnace door.
Then everything went red, and I
lapsed into insensibility."
Mr. Persitz says he woke up In a
hospital three months lat£r. having
been delirous all that time. On ac
count of the affair he was rewarded
with MOO "gratification money.” an in
crease of salary and a six months' va
cation. which he spent mostly In Italy.
WHO GAME IN VENEZUELA
kin a Jaguar, a species of the tiger
family.
"The Jaguar is probably ore or the
moat powerful members of the cat
family. He has tremendous strength
•a his forelegs, and with a stroke of
his paw caa kill an oi1 There are all
varieties of the wildcat family la Ven
—*a. and they can be round almost
any place la the country outside or
the deles.
"Everyone knows of course that
i eC all varieties of the parrot
bo found
of different
them la the
me
rest in
and wings
beautiful bird
ay in pain and a
Is that while
country. The anaconda la another
huge reptile that la met frequently.
Deer abound In Venezuela and are of ]
all kinds.”
" “Stint- and “Stunt."
Stint la a good word as a noun. Aa
a verb It means something not quite
ao pleasing Do not confound It-with
stunt. however. A stunt le *—rs**ft
quite useless. It la the horseplay of
the mountebank, and has nothing ta
common with honest, prod active labor.
A stint la the warning to the wlao fh»f
something demands 4o ho accom
pli shed; a goad to the taggaid that
time ts-on the wing.—Atlantic.
New Life-Preserver.
A new life preserver, which baa baas
successfully triad, may bo introduced
Into the German navy, writes the
American consul tram Brunswick. The
apparatus, which weighs IV4 pounds,
consists of two awlmtniag «—»
hooad together by straps The cosb
tons Ue upon the breast Sad bock. The
apparatus la provided with a small
taunp fid by a battery.
FIRST PUBLIC AUTOMOBILE TRAIN ACROSS CONTINENT
THIS photograph stows the start, from Fifth avenue. New York, of the first public automobile train across
the American continent. The train comprises five seven-passenger touring cars and one motor truck carry
ing repair outfits. It is expected to make the trip to Los Angeles, some four thousand miles, in abo.it two
months. The governors of the various states through which the tourists will pass will give them official recep
tions.
END OF OLD GARDEN
4
Horse Show Last in the Famous
Old Structure.
Foreign Army Officers to Compete
With Those of Our Eetabliehment
in Riding Ctassee—$40,000
Worth of Prize*.
New York.—New York’s twenty-sev
enth annual horse show, which opens
November 18, will have more than
usual significance, for It will be the
last of these famous gatherings to be
held In Madison Square Garden.
The abandonment of this famous
building marks the passing of many
things written intimately Into the
history of the city, but especially its
loss will be felt by the thousands wbo
for years have thronged its arena at
the horse shows. While a home can
be found for the show, it will take
some of the older patrons a long time
to accustom themselves to new sur
roundings.
For a sentimental reason, tf for
no other, the management of the Na
tional Horse Show of America. Lim
ited, has planned to make the show
of November 18-25 more brilliant than
any of its predecessors in order that
the farewell to the old home literal
ly may be made In a blaze of glory.
Plans to this end have been under
way for months, and as the day for
the opening approaches It becomes
more and more evident that they will
succeed.
One feature that will contribute
largely to the success of the coming
event is the imposing array of prizes,
their total value being $40,000. Among
those who have individually and joint
1 ly offered cups and cash prizes are Al
fred G. Vanderbilt, president of the
association; J. W. Harriman, Robert
A. Fairbain and Frederick M. Davies,
aa well os various societies including
the English Hackney society and the
International Horse Show of London.
Several trophies which must be woo
two or three times in order to be
retained by the winner probably will j
be won permanently during the com ;
ing show. Among these is the $500 <
gold cup for the best mare or gelding
sired by a stallion registered in the
English Hackney Stud book. The cup
is one offered by the English Hackney
society and must be won three times
to be retained. Both J. W. Harriman
and Judge Moore hare two “legs" on
the trophy and one of them will prob
ably win H for all time next month.
Judge Moore and Fairmont Farms ]
each has a leg on the $600 cup of- !
fered by Jay F. Carlisle for park ;
teams
In all there are 152 classes shown, i
the most of them being the same
as last year. An entirely new class
is that for delivery wagon outfits In
actual service to be shown In single
harness. The prizes for this class
were donated by Frederick M. Davies.
Of the total number of classes 26 are
to be judged as breeding stock.
But what wilt add as much as any
thing else to the spectacular features
of the show will be the array of for
eign army officers who will compete
with ^he officers of our own army.
Chief interest will center on Lieut. C.
F. Walwyn of the Royal Horse Artil
lery of England, who last year won
the Canadian Challenge cup donated
by Adam Beck of Toronto He wi!\
defend the trophy this year on Thq
Nut. the same horse that he rode bo
successfully when here before. Lord
Decies. who married Miss Vivian
Gould last spring, will be one of tbe
British team.
LANDSCAPE iNSIDE OF A HAT
Paris Art Dealer Tells Story of Corot
and He Has Headgear to Prove It
—Was an Accident.
Pars.—The old story >t a picture;
painted by a master as the result of
an accident has been revived by a
t-arls art dealer, wbe says he has a
Corot painted in a hat.
The hat in question Is of felt and.
bears the Btamp "Pinaud et Armour.'
89 Rue de Richelieu. Fouraisseurs des
Cburs Etrangeres.”
This story is told of how Corot came,
to paint one of his landscapes on the'
inside of tbe hat: ' One day a visitor
called on Corot at his studio, and. sit-,
tir.g on a comfortable chair, placed his
hat on a stool near the artist's easel.
Corot, who never stopped working
while chatting with callers, accident
ally dropped a paint-laden brash into
the bat
The friend exclaimed: “I bought it
this »-er.* afternoon, and now you have
ruined it!"
"Not quite " replied Corot "Wait a
little and perhaps you will be glad of
the accident" He thereupon placed
the hat on the table and began work
ing around the blotch his brush had
caused on the silk lining. In less than
twenty minutes a landscape with
trees, still water, an old tower in the
background, and a clouded sky of blue
which was formed by the original
color of tne lining, covered the entire
inside of the top of the crown.
ASKS PRISONER BE STRIPPED
Man Who Finds Stolen Clothes Wants
to Wear Them Home—Suggests
Barrel for the Thief
New York.—John Dougherty report
ed to the police of the East Thirty
fifth street station two weeks ago that
a new suit of his clothes had been
stolen from his office at - East Forty
second street, but, having got no re
sults, ,J»e decided to do his own de
tective work.
Passing the corner of Twentieth
street and Second avenue Dougherty
met a tall man wearing a suit exactly
like the stolen one. The clothes
much too small for the wearer. Dough
erty approached him and said:
“You have on my clothes. Take ’em
off."
The man ran Dougherty followed,
and after a chase of three blocks over
hauled the fugitive. In the station
house the man said he was Edward
Marsh, an aviator, living at Mills ho
tel, No. 3. He added:
"These are my clothes, hut I have
grown a lot In two weeks, and the
clothes couldn't keep pace with me."
Dougherty said he bad a'scapular
and a small horseshoe In an inside
pocket of the coat. The scapular and
horseshoe were found. Then Dough
erty demanded bis clothes, explaining
he wanted to wear them today.
"But what will the prisoner wear to
court?' Lieutenant Burk asked.
•'Get him a barrel." said Dougherty.
*'t don't care whether It tits or not."
Marsh was locked up, charged with
grand larceny. Dougherty was told
he could get his clothes aTter the
prisoner had been arraigned In police
court
UNIQUE TRIP OF A BOTTLE |
-— *-l
Latter Make* Journey From New
York to Ireland and Thence Bock
to I to Author in Chicago.
Chicago.—From New York city to
Erta’a ialo In a bottle was the Jour
nuy of s letter wblcb returned to Its
author. Fred J. Butler. 1407 Republic
building. Chicago.
With a party of friends. Mr. Butler
want nfnyH last November. They
tram New York and when two
• days out Inclosed the note In a bottle
and tossed it overboard. For nearly
ton months the glass-encased message
was washed by the waves Then it
area found by P. I* MaoHale of AUie
brack, . County Galway. Ire
land. TT
In • lawtr to tbo Chicagoan Mr.
"In compliance with your request, i
beg to lactose your note—found at
Sbyne Head. U degrees 40 minutes
north and 10 degreee 4 minutes waa»
and remain, yours faithfully.
Tbs letter found was only a brief
note, as follows: v
“To Whom it May Concern—The
Under of this note la requested to
write to the Moose club, 56 State
street. Chicago. 111., care of Fred But
tler."
The letter was dropped overboard
from an Atlantic User on November
6 and the reply, inclosing the original,
was dated August 24. The original
note was darkly stained, the cork of
the bottle probably having leaked dur
ing Its ten months at sea.
Mr. Butler is wondering whether he
will ever receive two other notes
thrown overboard In bottles at the
same time as the one Just returned.
With one of the letters he says be in
closed a flve-dollar bill. With the oth
er be says be sent a check for $100.
payable at a Washington (D. C) bank.
Neither has been heard from yet and
payment has not been demanded on
the check. _ •
Ceolnsss In Extremity.
“Do you think be would be cool in
time of danger r “1 think hlajieei
would.”
NATiVE WOODS TO BE USED
Building by Government of Insular i
Lumber Yard at Manila Means
End of Importation of Lumber.
Manila.—The exclusive use of lum
ber groan in the Philippine islands
in the construction of all buildings
erected by the government will follow
the completion of the lumber yard
to be built near the quartermaster's
reservation by the bureau of supply.
This was the statement made by
Major Shields, chief of the bureau of
supply. Imported lumber has been
usea to a great extent in the past ow
ing to the inability of native lumber
growers to supply the demand tor
seasoned wood. The government pro
poses to buy up the entire wood sup
ply of the islands as soon as it is
taken from the tree, and store It In
the new lumber yard until it has be
come properly seasoned.
f or tae nrst three months follow- t
lng the completion of the yard, it was
stated, the supply of native wood on
hand which had become seasoned dur
ing the construction of the sheds,
would run short of the demand of the
government for timber, and Imported
woods would be put into use. Fol
lowing this period, however, native
materials will be used exclusively, as
the lumber yard, which will have a
capacity of over 4.000.000 hoard feet,
will be Oiled at all times with timber
tn the process of seasoning.
The construction of the new lumber
yard awaits only a final decision on
Its site. Plans are in the hands of
the governor general, however, for Its
location adjacent to the quartermas
I
ter'a reservation. Upon the approval
af the plans work will be began Im
mediately. More than a dozen sheds
will be constructed 40 meters long
and with a width of 16 meters. They
will season from 15 to 20 varieties of
native-grown woods of the first and
second group, which will be held in
the yard* until their construction
qualities are the equal of those of the
best imported materials.
LITTLE SPARROWS ON DRUNK
Drunken Birds Bicker and Wrangle
Be#ore Flying Off on Wings
* Noticeably Unsteady.
Des Moines, la.—The tipsy antics of.
two sparrows unexpectedly offered di
version to the officers of the city
health department the other day.
Secretary James Morgan unwitting
ly destroyed the peaceful tranquility
of the sparrows’ conjugal bliss by
pouring alcohol upon a big and fat
grasshopper which paused in Its aerial
pilgrimage upon the windowsill of the
city physician's office.
Amazed by the unexpected deluge of
the stimulant, the grasshopper jumped
to an adjoining shed, where it was
pounced upon by Mr. and Mrs. English
sparrow.
After gorging themselves with the
Insect the pair began to bicker and
wrangle in truly drunken fashion. For
several minutes the ornithological orgy
held the spectators spellbound, but at
last the soused sparrows staggered
away on unsteady wings.
MRS. WILEY’S “IDEAL HOME”
Wife of <Sovemment’s Pure Food Ad,
vocate Talks of the Service Re
quired of Husband and Mate.
New York.—“The perfect home does
not consist of a husband and wife
with the equipment of a house in
which one has all the responsibility
and the other does nothing, whether
that one be the man or the woman,
but in the perfect home each renders
service to the best of his ability."
This Is the ideal of marriage and,
the home which Mrs. Anna Kelton
Wiley, bride of the chief of the Unit
ed States bureau of chemistry, pre
sented to the domestic science con
gress at the pure rood show in Madis
on square garden.
She praised the work of clubwomen
for the enforcement of the pure food1
law, and urged all to Insist on proper1
weights by keeping standard scales
at home.
Get the Habit.
Telling the truth may become a
matter of habit.
Howmjojn
Methodists Unveil Tablet to
Early Western Minister.
#
ftoek River Conference Erects Stone
to Memory of Man Who Organized
First Methodist Church
i* Illinois,
Chicago.—The memory of Jesse
Walker, the “Daniel Boone” of Meth
odism, organizer of the Methodist
church in Illinois and first Methodist
pastor in Chicago, was honored in a
monument erected to him and his
wife by the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, at Plainfield, this state,
recently.
The monument was formally pre
sented by Rev. \V. M. Ewing of
Plainfield, pastor of the Methodist
church of that village. Master Everett
Davis Weese, a great-great-grandson
of Jesse Walker, unveiled the monu
ment. The acceptance of the monu
ment in behalf of the conference was
made by Bishop J. H. Hamilton. The
final chord of good feeling was
touched by Bishop E. R. Hendrix of
the Methodist church. South, who
made the address.
Jesse 'Walker was born in Vlr
| ginia in 1766 and be was a pioneer
preacher in Missouri and Illiaois dur
; ing the first third of the last century
After he had started the Chicago
church, which was one of the land
marks of the city for yearB. and after
he had served as the first presiding
elder in Illinois he went to St. Louis,
where he continued his work. He
died In Plainfield in 1835.
The monument is of Vermont gran
j ite. six feet high and occupies a con
■ spicuous place in the little cemetery.
It was paid for by subscriptions of
the mmebers of the conference.
Jesse 'Walker was a pioneer in every
sense of the word and his was a strik
ing personality of the church militant.
Whenever a virgin field with especial
! difficulties was to be entered, he was
he man the bisbopa of his church
:fcose for the work.
His natural vigor was almost su
perhuman. He did not appear to re
quire food and rest as did other men.
Monument to Jesse Walker.
No day's Journey was long enough to
wear him out and no fare too poor
for him to live upon.
He was a native of Virginia, Join
ng the western conference in 1892.
He was sent to Red River, Tenn. In
ais first year’s work be gave Peter
Cartwright, the famous circuit rider,
his license to preach.
la 1805 be was transferred to Illi
nois, the entire state being his par
ish. He made a tour of the state on
horseback and reported 218 conver
sions in the first year. Then be went
to St. Louis, where he made friends.
At the end of his first year he had or
ganized a church of 70 members and a
Sunday schooL
Two years later this church was
strong enough to entertain its con
ference. The pioneer then went to
Chicago and preached the first Meth
adist sermon ever beard there He
also established the first Methodist
church at Fort Clark, now Peoria.
FARMER KILLED BY MACHINE
Swiftly Revolving Knives of an Ensil
age Chopper Cut Him
to Pieces.
SL Joseph, Mo.—Drawn upon the
;'ast revolving knives of an ensilage
cutter on his place near here, Andrew
Lendey. a young farmer, met a horri
ble death. His right arm was first
levered at the shoulder. In his strug
gles to free himself his entire left
aide, including the was torn off.
The cutter L^d nearly finished its
work of preparing fodder for the
Lendey silo. Lendey sought to get a
piece of cornstalk from the machin
ery in the knife box. The operators ~“
af the cutter heard his screams, but
were unable to stop the engine in
time. The victim is survived by a
wife, a bride of a year.
Dead Babe in a Box.
Holland. Mich.—Two boys, Albert
Martin and Willie Oostehout, made the
gruesome discovery of a box contain
ing the body of a newly-born baby
gtrl while playing on the banks of
Tannery Creek. The body was wrap
ped In pieces of clpth and linger
marks on Its throat Indicated that the
child was choked to death.
Funeral Songs for Horse.
New Philadelphia, O.—The members
of the family of Theodore Peters were
so affected when the old family horse
was laid at rest that Theron Peters
Sang "Nearer, My God. to Thee" and
"God Be With You Till We Meet
Again."
Has Read Bible 260 Times.
Ithaca, N. Y.—Mrs. Sarah Harty oi
Ithaca, now 96 years old. has com
pleted reading the Bible through for <
the two hundred and sixtieth time.
Mrs. Harty is the sole survivor of a
family of eight and has outlived bar
Husband and two sons.
