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Fhe Omaha Sunday Bee TART TWO WANT AD SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE TART TWO EDITORIAL SECTION PAGES ONE TO TWELVE Political and Social News by Cable and Correspondence from the Old World ! i - - OMAHA. Sl'NDAY MOKXIXCJ. MAKCII -JU. V.)h SINULK COPY F1VK CK.NTS. 4 RIGHT OF ASYLUM. FOR AXAR0U1STS Piagui of Ko-Lw Propagandists Ii Spreading Under Liberality of Great Britain, SEVERAL GR0UP3 OF THE CULT Averted There Is No Closely Knit Organization. BOTH VISIONARIES AND FIGHTERS " Great Many "Sons of Rest" Supported by Women. DANGER IN INNOCENT BEARING KU l,rr la HmkarrMwd aad la Inclined to li Prookfd at tar Praooul for Present Fran f!rree. BT r.M'U LAMBKTII. LONDON, March 2T. PpHal to The line ) The anarchltlo plague in spreading under the. fostering care of what has Ions been known "the right of asylum." There are anarchists and anarchist, and any notion that there is a closely knit gen eral anarchistic organisation may be dis missed at once. Anarchism covers many shade of thought. We have at the one end the mild anarchism of M Tehertkoff. We have the anarchism of Prince Krapot kln the anarchism of study. The anar chists from a aeries of groups, some little more than debating societies of visionaries. Others reed fighting organizations. Pome of the, most effective of the latter work on j the "circle" system, as the Fenians dirt. The "circle" plan was adopted largely both by Russia and Polish groups. l"ndr It no member, save perhaps the "bead center." knows over of more than, at the most, twenty of hla "comrades." This is to re duce the, risk from traitors to a minimum. Many are "sons of rest" and are oared for by strong armed female companions who keep them supplied with tobacco and beer money. A great change has come over the anarchistic propaganda here. There is no secret about anarchism in I.ondon. The different groups meet mainly at two clubs, the "Workers' Friend" club in Jubilee, street. Whltechapel. and the Communist club In Charlotte street, off the Tottenham court cuad. There are smaller organizations around London of which that at Kdmonton Is among the strongest. In the provinces the most sctivs center Is at Liverpool. (.'alt Flonrlshes I ad latarhed. The murder of three policemen by an archist baa forcibly directed public atten tion to the fact that, in spite of Kngland's CAMORRA TR1ALWNG STUNT jQERMAX RULL1ES j LOGUE ON MIXED MARRIAGES jUE MEDICI QUEEX ,HAVY ESTIMATE SANCTIONED OTer Six Hundred Witnesses Under Summons to Testify. POPE PIUS SEES AN AEROPLANE Watched Airship Fir Aronad Dome of St. rrtrr'i wilt Keen Joy nt a Itoy Robbers l.ootlna Palace. LOSE THEIR UllIlVrc,vpl,'! Officers of Army and Nary Cannot Any Longer Insult Civilians With Impunity. WANTED AMERICA FM,ible IIY CI.EMKNT BARRETT. HOME. March 25. -(Special to The Bee ) It Is believed that the trial of the Camorr assassins at Vlterho fr the murder of Genaro and Mario Cuorcolo. man and wife, will last until July, as ? witnesses are to be examined. The government is deter mined to put an end to the criminal or ganization to which the prisoners belong. The crime, one of the worst ever com mitted by the criminals, is rendered doubly atrocious since the woman had never done anything which even the most degraded member of the gang could construe into an offense. It is thought she was killed to prevent her from becoming a witness. Pope fees Aeroplane, i The pope, who Is concerned In nearly everything of human Interest, the other dsy from the window of Ins library for the first time in his life saw sn aeroplane In flight. For the first time In history' an aero plane encircled the cathedral of St. Peter's. The aviator who achieved this feat was a Frenchman, M. Fischer, who made a flight which was watched by thousands of people. The holy father watched the course with as much eagerness and apparent pleasure as a boy would look on a new or wonder ful toy. Beaatlfal t'onntess Arrested. Countess Zola Delltala. said to be the most beautiful woman in Sardinia, has been arrested at Sassarl. Her husband was found murdered In a field last June. Soma months later the police arrested a married couple, named Nuronl. and shut them up on the charge of having assassin ated the count. They are now said to ad mit the crime, but allege that their serv ice were hired by the countess. Her pretty lS-year-old daughter, it is said, was deeply in lova with a young military' officer. Her father. Count Delltala, ttefused to sanction the match. The countess, however, per suaded that this marriage would seal her girl's happiness, and It took place. It has long been thought the count was murdered by the Mafia, whose public enemy he had long been. Slabbers Loot Palaces. Robbers have been devoting their ener gies recently to looting places where works of art or articles of historical value are to be found, as there is big money In selling LIEUTENANT HAS FACE SLAPPED Tries to Kill Man Who Hit Him, But Is Restrained. POLICE CHIEF JAGON HAS GRIEF Husband of Actress-Alleges Chief Was Indiscreet WROTE LETTER TO THE WOMAN Practice Firing; at Drad Ilodlea by ioldlrra t.lics HUe to nclallt Protest, t.oadly Voiced la Ike Reichstag;. HELD TO BE A SACRED CONTRACT Caart-a laslata oa Right ts Prescribe Conditions for Sacrament Jast aa the State Deea la Civil Contracts. HV MAbfOLM CLARKE. BKKI.1X. March Ji. ( Special to The Fee.) Heretofore an army or navy officer mlpht Insult or assault a civilian with impunity. Such Is no longer the case. Reitntly a naval lieutenant at Wi:helms haven had words with a commercial trav eler In a bar and was struck In the face by, him. The officer endeavored to re turn the blow, but was restrained by an other civilian. He thereupon procured a pistol with which he fired several shots at the traveler, none of which struck him. thugh the barmaid was slightly wounded. He threatened to prosecute the civilian, who declared he wouldn't let the empersr I himself hurl an Insult at him. llrrr Jiiow la Limelight. i A few months ago two petty naval of ficers were sent to prison for fiendish treatment of an enlisted man and now Herr Jaguw. our unique and eccentric po lice chief has been at it again. He Is the man who caused the slashing of American newspaper men who were sent to cover the now historic Moablt labor troubles and thought this akin to a Joke. Max Relnhardt's latest play, which turns on the accidental dropping of a lady's garment, was censored by the poice. Af ter alterations, the play was allowed. The police president attended the dress re hearsal. and there made the acquaintance of Tilla Durleux, a star at the Deutsche theater. Next day ba wrote to her that as he performed the functions of dramatic censor he wished to get in touch with stage circles, and, therefore, begged per mission to call oa her. Fran Durteux handed the epistlo to her husband. Paul Caselerer. art dealer, who wrote an la' BY THOMAS KM MKT DIBLIN. March IS. (Special to The Bee) Cardinal Ix.gue, the Catholic primate of Ireland. In his Lenten letter discussed the position of the church on di vorce and mixed marriages at great length. Sreaking cf the agitation of the Presby terian church against the pone's recent decree relative to mixed marriages, the cardinal says: "One thing, however. It Is not ia easy to gather from the discussion how the de cree 'Ne Temere' affects the settlement of the case. The avowed object of the agita tion Is to prevent, through the interven- j Ition of the civil power, tile pope's writ, at 'least cn the marriage law, from running !n those islands. A penal enactment, de slgiied to fetter the conscience of Catho illcs. would leave matters Just as they 'stnnd. It could never force them to ac knowledge as valid a marriage declared ' ...... I i ,1 V. . !.,-. n. A , V, . - nhnrnh far Instance, the remarriage of divorced per sons. It seems needless, therefore, to urge the civil authority to assume powers with which It Is sufficiently armed at pres ent. "The teaching and practice of the Cath olic church with regard to marriage art? pictty generally known and easily under stood. It holds that marriage among bap tized Christians Is not a mere civil bar gain, but a sacred contract. It was re called by our Lord, from the laxity which . ! had crept In under the Jewish law, to Its primitive Institution of unity and indis solubility. He raised It to the dignity of a sacrament, endowng It with sacramental Finding of an Old Manuscript in France Indicates Catherine Was Very Ambitious. -.aa-asaa-asa SHE HAD NAMED TWO VICEROYS They Were to Take Possession of American Continent BAD FORTUNE DEFEATED PLANS Death of Leaders Put an End to the Great Project. ACADEMY CATERS TO NOVELISTS Attempted Slnaghter of a PI agree- able Parrot Resalts la Kllllaa of a Woman by the Owner of the Bird. BT PACL VILLI ERS PARIS. March S. (Special to The Bee.) What Is regarded as an important histori cal discovery hss been announced by most respectable authority. A librarian of the Ribllotheiue Natlonale, the "Bemaine Lit teralre," announces seriously that they re cently came upon a document which en abled him to guess "le secret de Catherine de Medlcls." This was nothing less than the conquest of the two Americans. Tha document In question is a map. dated 1384. in which both North and South America were marked out as being French colonies. This discovery put the finder on the way to obtain some proofs of the projects of this ambitious queen. Bhe had named two viceroys. Trolle de Mergcnez was to con quer the north of the continent and Ad miral Strozzl was to take possession of Brazil. The two viceroys sailed, furnished with secret orders, but an unkind fate ordained that Trolle should be shipwrecked FOUR DREADNOUGHTS PLANNED Abnormal Head of Trolee Peasant tat from Body a ad Delivered ta Scientific laatltatr, aa Per t oa tract. BY EMIL ANDRASSY V IKN'N'A, March IS (Special to The Bee 1 Austria-Hungary evidently does not Intend to be caught unprepared should war be tween this country and Italy or Turkey be declared. The Hungarian delegation adopted the navy estimates on Tuesday without modification and this sanctioned the pro gram according to which H.lfil.W Is to be spent on building four dreadnoughts, three fast cruisers, and a numbcy of torpedo boats during the next six years. An acute conflict Is being waged between the Austrian delegation and Admiral Count Montecuccoll. owing to the divulging of a secret agreement made by him promising I Hungary specisl contracts for supplying much of the new navy. During the debate on the naval appro priation some of the speakers declared that itji other European countries and leading nations of the world building navies Austria-Hungary could not afford to be un prepared to defend Itself on the seas. Knallsb Vlaltora of Note. The news that the lord mayor of Lon don, with the sheriffs and a number of i name of M. Stolypin. the prime minister common councillors. In resonse to the in CZAR NICHOLAS Sl'KIXUSUKTKlSE Avows He Desires to Complete the Work Begun by His Grand father, Alexander II. WOULD ELEVATE THE PEASANTRY Desires Thev Should Be Land Owners, as Well as Free. MAY LEAVE PEASANT COMMUNES Russian Ruler Advocates Improved Agriculture. HAS CONFIDENCE IN HIS SUBJECTS Wolves Raa Pons Wcddlna Party of One llaadred and Twenty and Only Trro K.scape to Tell the Story. BY C.EOIIOK FRASER. ST. PETERSni'RH. March S (Special to The Bee.) The czar of Russia has taken In his latent Imperial rescript the most forward step ever taken, perhaps, by a ruler of the country. Tt Is the fur therance of his work of reform bogun a few years ago. The czar took occasion to declare his policy for the betterment of 'the peasants In an Invperlal rescript Issued In the them. One of the most curious robberies of ar- kabitual immunity from anarchist outranv' t'stic objects ia that . Just discovered in I false conclusion dlgnant letter to Jagow. The latter sent ! mentable example of the pernicious con- a friend to glva explanations which would .sequences to which suoh usurpation leads .prevent me nusoanu irom jumping. iu a i civli iavr ot divorce. It sets a pre- tho cult af anarchy nourishes mor- $rFeiugla. In front of th cathedral Is ' a lass undisturbed Irt Lc.ndon. Apjuircttlr i Tine statue of .I-oi-e Jul'us III.' the worfe tha perpetrators of the. Houndsdltch crinp of Vlncenzo Dartl. a boy. who carved' it ssrera no ordinary burglars, but rather -de- over five centuries ago. Some days Hfn ' aeradoea of tha red revolutionary tyie It wss discovered that ths hood of the cane ajvto. being In Dead of funds regarded the i which envrioied the figure had been re packing of -a Jeweler's shop as the most j moved. It is suppovfl -this treasure ha promising; method whereby their coff rs , ben carried off to America. might b refilled grace to enable those who embrace the and 8troxxl defeated and killed in a battle married state to bear Its burdeus and dis- off the Azores. The death of both the, leaders brought the royal project to naught l-nd nothing would have been known of it but for the diligence of the learned librarian. 4 Arademy Caters to Novelists. Owing to the fact that a great number of Its members made their name by novel writing, tha French academy has decided to endow an annual prize of tZJtO for the best novel of the year or other work of the Imagination in prose. It seems that hitherto novelists had beer, rather left out In the cold by the academy. Eloquence, poetry, history, criticism were richly re warded, but not romance writing. The new prize Is obviously a counterblast to the Qoncourt annual award of half 'the amount made under Edmond de Goncourt s will by the academy which he founded. nd which, by h!s express wish, ra jst never Include a member of the Academle Fran calse. Theater Rioting Condemned. The riotous demonstration at the Theater charge Its duties with Christian fidelity. What Cbnrch Claims. "The church has always claimed and ex ercised the exclusive right to prescribe conditions for the validity of the con tract. Just ss conditions were prescribed even In the old law by the Institution of certain Inabilities, and 'as conditions are prescribed by the state for the validity of civil contracts. The state may legislate, within the bounds of justice, for the civil effects of marriage; but where It touches the essentials of the sacred contract It goes beyond its province, usurping right. to which it has no claim. We hare a la jmlum on conjugal infidelity, leads to the Foasht a Wildcat. A fight between a wild cat rind a peasant la reported from Sassarl. Sardinia. N'lcolo Pemartls, - returning horn from labor, In the fields, was annoyed to find his frugal store of cheese, bacon and meat diminished. Although he carefully secured the door of hla habitation the thefts continued. Finally he resolved to get to the bottom of the jystery and arming himself with a gun he hid in a clump of bushes. He had not to wait long before he per ceived an enormous wild cat approach the cabin and disappear through the window. Cautiously opening the door, he found the animal devouring his provisions. To aim and fire was the work of a second and the It was up again In a moment and. springing at the peasant's throat, bit at him and tore him ferociously. After a struggle Demartts managed to free himself from the beast which he finally killed. Unfortunately, however, the second barrel of his gun was exploded and the charge entered the peasant's thigh, wound ing him severely. He now lies in a serious condition, caused by the terrible lacerxt'ons inflicted by the wid cat. Tha leaders of the extreme revolutionary movement, the world over, axe men who would be the last to be suspected of advo cating violence and who w ould probably be mistaken for profeaalonal gentlemen. Per haps therein Ues the greatest danger. . Their organisation la remarkable. Noth ing l ever left to chance and once a coup is determined upon every detail In connec tion with it Is worked out with the great est exactitude as though It were a math ematical problem and not a scheme of cold blooded murder. Time is no object. It only provides opportunity for rrttltr pre cision. Traitors there are. sometimes; generally ine agents provocateurs oi sum i.jt.., n beast fell to the ground Kuce lurc-r. iui m ruc iuvj io de tected and then played with as a cat amuses Itself with a mouse, till the day dawns when they are found dangling from a beam. In some empty house, a grim re minder that the Iron hand of the anarchist is far-reaching. Aseff, Lapoukhine, Qapon. are names which occur to one names of hideous mystery and of dally juggling with death. Finally, the militant anarchist Is content to leave his own nest undisturbed; in other words, he I prepared to pay for his free dom from active police Interference by not practicing his methods upon the people amongst whom he lives. Hence the usual Immunity of England from terrorist out- J rage. It la believed trial me ponce win at the existence of these criminals since their malice la directed against monarchs and officials outside of England. One Typical Noble Lord. Lord Wlnterton has been In the House of Commons ior ear. The only thing he baa done In all bis legislative career has been to roar "Hee-ah, nee-ah!" He has a voice like a megaphone and a nose as red M a beet, lie Just alts la bis seat and roars every time any tory member says aomethtnf against progress or human rights. Hla "lordship" la aafully perturbed by the fact that after visiting Pentonville prison Mr. Churchill advised the exert-Ue of the royal prerogative to reduce a num ber of sentences on prisoners- Wlnterton thinks that the home secretary strolled one day Into the prison, talked casually to a few prisoners, and than remitted their sen tences as an act ot self-glorification. Mr. Churchill made It clear that he went to the prison for tha specific purpose of in vestigating the cases of all the youthful effenders, and that his action was the re sult of careful inquiry. In each rase he -a I1 the offense bad been of a trivial na ture, "for which, if the noble lord had committed them at college, he would not hae been even rebuked." Casslerer declared hlmseir satisfied. There , run of (mMea Bni outrages public Is now- another development fo the incident. ; morality. In some states of America dl Csssrerer is publisher of a weekly paper ! vorce Is granted with such facility that called "Pan," and Jagow, as literary cen- j there Is one dlve-rce for every twelve mar sor, recently ordered the impounding of an ; rlases, Kome time since I have read of a Issue of this periodical on the ground that'jude in France who granted ninety-four exUucts which it printed from the diary of I decrees of divorce In. Itss than two hours (Jusiave Flaubert were indecorous. .It 1b clear that this usurpation of the civil Now the conductors of "Pan" have ob- authority threatens to reduce marriage to talned possession of the correspondence be- mere sham, a mere compact between the tween Jagow and Herr Casslerer and de- parties to live together Just as long as they clare their Intention of publishing It. tnd It convenient. If the pracUoe pro- presses, as It has done up to the present, jit will soon reach a point when a man 'may change his wife or a wife her hus Iband with as much ease as they would viiation of the Vienna burgomaster, will visit this capital in September. Is received here with unusual demonstrations of sym pathy. The entire press mentions the visit, adding many friendly remembrances of former Interchanges of courtesy with Eng land. The visit of the distinguished Eng lishmen Is pointed to by the press as a mark of friendship between the two coun tries. The Neue Frele Presse. after declaring the visitors will receive a warm welcome In Vienna says: "In the lord mayor and the sheriffs of the city of London Vienna will at the same time welcome part of the history' of English self-government. It can only be to the advantage of both countries to recall the circumstances of friendship, to dissipate misunderstandings, and to re vive natural sympathies." Bis; Head for Dlaseetlon. Carrying out the purchase contract, the head was severed from the body of Johann Rleser. a Tj rolese peasant, after his death snd delivered to a pathological Institute The headless body was burled at Zillerthal. Reiser had bargained his head to the In stitution before his death for 62 it-'o.Sl.) The institution purchased the head because of Its abnormal sixe to study for scientific reasons. Great aaday for Marrlagei. Carnival Sunday In Vienna was marked by the largest number of marriages ever recorded in the city In one day. More than 1.000 couples were married. In some churches as many as twenty couples were married with a single ceremony. T e minister- would have the couples arranged General Smuts Submits Plans for African Defense Easily Mobilized Forces to Be the MAin Feature Under New Parliament. Klac la xCaBfearra rd. Kng tieorte Is said to be provoked and rr- much embarraxd by the scheme hl. U has been set on fool tor the purpose ot collecting subscriptions from all male persons bearing the same Christian name s himself. He appreciates the sentiment animating the majority of his subjects who were christened tieorse. but. llkmany fiber tplr, he realizes that some of the mpporters of the projec t are merely desir ous of deriving self glorification from It. And that is the sort of thing which King George thoroughly detests. Moreover, there are rumors that certain wideawake and dishonest Oeorgee some of whom have unite recent')- adopted the name are or ganising subecrtptlon a. heme lists of their 'Hi of alilch they may. or may not. ren der accounts before tha coronation. CAPETOWN. March K -(Special to The Bee.) In the South African Union Parlia ment General Smuts has outlined his Scheme for home defense, and set forth three main points The first la the pro vision of small striking forces, easily mobllted. on the basis of the existing Cape Mounted Rifles. Theee forces would per form police duties In peace and would be equipped with their own artillery. The dif ficulty of this system would be the pro vision of a reserve for war times. Sec ondly, General Smuts indicated the estab lishment of citizen forces on the lines of Lord Kitchener's Australla'n universal ser vice scheme. He proposed dividing the union Into districts, superintended by In structional officers, with yearly camps for all men between the ages ot IS anj 26. Enlistment is to be voluntary where possible, otherwise b ballot. , Regarding the coast defenses, (ieneral Smuts indicated that considerable sums would be asked for the adequate defense of Capetown and Durban, which would be manned partly by Imperial troops, ulti mately psJd by South Africa, and partly by South Africans. He paid the highest tribute to Lord Methuen and called him "almost a Boer htm&elf." which evokel lound nationalist cheers. He anticipated the eventual withdrawal of the Imperial troops including reserves, would at no dls tant date be 100 Ood strong. HURLIMANN TRIBE NUMEROUS Alaaeet Half af Total PaaaUtlon af a SKlaa IllUgf Bear the Same -Naasa. GENEVA. March (Special to The Bee -ln the village of Walchl!,' Swttser lar.d. out of a population of I 044. no femer than its persons possess the ram of Hur-ItmanB. Practiced Firing; at Corpses. In the course of a debate on the array estimates In the Reichstag. Major General Wandel, director of the War department, declared. In reply to a question whether tt was true that corpses had been shot at by soldiers st Spandu. that some years ago firing experiments were carried out on corpses with the objec t of ascertaining the penetrating power of modern rifles. These experiments, which. moreover, were made on anatomical exhibits, not on naked corpses, were, s&id Wandel, essential in the interests of army surgery. None of the soldiers who were shooting saw any thing of the exhibits, which were wrapped In linen or hidden behind linen. The social ists . severely criticised the experiments, saying "it was dastardly to inflict wounds on a dead body unless it was on a dissert ing table. Hoael spoke Too Ulantly. A curious Incident is reported from Wurz burg, Bavaria, in connection with the cele bration of the Soth birthday of the prince regent. Prof. Rogel ot the local geographi cal Institute was assigned the role ot call ing for three cheers for the kaiser. His speech, however, contained such references to his majesty that many army officers snd officials gsve vent to their disapproval. The professor declared that It was an "obnoxious necessity" to have to call for three cheers for such people as the kaiser, "about whom there were so many objectionable things." Legacy um Affliction. Much amusement has been caused among members of the Reichstag, by the his tory of a legacy left to a socialist mem ber by an admiring fellow socialist. This man. a humble tailor, left all to the poli tician, having no relatives except his widow, and desiring to mark bis esteem for the principles ot socialism. The total value of the estate was proven to be about S&0, which was duly handed over to the ! legatee. Then his truuhlen began. 'Ine widow, who bad been separated from her husband, claimed half of the estate; and though her legal rights were nil the so cialist gave her SITS, for which she asked. Shortly afterward the authorities came forward and informed the legatee that as the tailor had received poor relief for some time past there was an amount of l!00 due from the estate. This was there upon handed over, leaving the socialist member with only ST6. , His troubles, however, were not yet ended. One day there arrived at his house a large case, for which he had to pay the sum of STIM. Refusal to accept the case was impossible, a it was ex plained that it contained an um In which were the ashes of the deceased tailor, who In accordance with hla expressed de sire, had been cremated, with "the result that his estate was liable for the crema torium fees, snd the legatee was properly the owner of 'he ashes. The socialist mem ber has thus found his legacy reduced to HOB and as there is still some stamp duty to be paid he will probably find himself out of pocket before the matter Is ended, while there appears always to be the risk of fresh claims being put in. A novel method of cutting doan trees has been patented here It consists in the use of a fine steel wire, which is looped around the tree and saaad back and forth by an electric motor. Francsls during performances of M. Bern-lout ,fi "r and standing In the center or the semicircle would unite all as If mar rying but a single couple. v Most of the marriages were among work ing people who celebrated the day by mar rying. When T0 couples were married on Carnival Sunday a year ago It was thought to be a record that would stand, but this year the number was surpassed by more than 200. change partners in a dance. Always Condemned Divorce. "Even In these countries, where divorce has hitherto been the lusury and ths dis grace ot the rich, an attempt Is being made to bring it within eas reach of the poor. So much for the Interference of the state In a sacred contract and the usurped au thority to rob it of permanency with which it has been endowed by divine institution. The evil has come to be generally acknowl edged and unanimously deprecated. I have often been asked in the I'nited States what remedy I would suggest for this social plague and I could only suggest one, restore the Catholic teaching on the unity, indissolubility and sanctity of marriage. From the earliest time the church con demned divorce. "The pope has merely withdrawn a prlv. liege which he has every right to with draw. Even If the decree be regarded as an act of fresh legislation, the pope has still legislated for his own subjects, pro hibiting them under pain of nullity to enter Into marriage with non-Catholics, except on the conditions prescribed by the church. The non-Catholic party Is not forced to en ter Into the contract. He is quite free. In fact the church would much prefer that he should keep to himself; but If he enters into it he does so with his eyes open and I a full knowledge of the consequences. A Catholic cannot be reasonably axpected to enter into a contract which does grave, sometimes irreparable violence to his con science, cutting him off from all the aids and graces of his religion, opening up to him a life cf discontent, misery and re morse by which the happiness of both par ties Is Irretrievably blasted. One ail vantage has resulted from the late agitation. It cannot be alleged, aa has been, that the law exposes non-Catholic girls to the dan ger of being deceived and surprised into an invalid marriage by unprincipled Catholics. There can no longer be either surprise or deception." stein s "Apres jloi" have elicited a letter of protest from some distinguished literary men. Including four members of the French academy, who have Issued an address say ing they protest in the name of art against the violation of the rights to public per formance of which a dramatic work is the subject, and which assails no particular persons or convictions. Boy Marderer Aeqaltted. One day last week the Astlze court ac quitted a boy accused of having murdered a man to defend his mother. The man had repeatedly ill-treated the boy's mother, and on this occasion he had been particularly violent. The boy killed him. At the trial the lad explained. "He beat us every day, and often threatened to shoot us with a revolver that lie kept under his pillow." One Boy Kills Another. A little boy of 10 was recently killed by a lad of 15 years of age at a Breton vil lage. They were walking along together when the bigger boy began to molest the smaller. wMo protested. The bully took a j knife out of his pocket and stabbed his companion seven times. The child's cries brought several persons to his rescue, and while some wrested the knife from the young ruffian's grasp and held him, others carried his victim to his home, where he expired an hour afterwards. When the villagers heard that the little fellow was dead they would have lynched his mur derer if gendarmes had not arrived. Linguistic Pnrrot Caaeee Tragedy Crasy Man AttarWa Family. A Budapest dispatch gives details of a shocking tragedy In the Croatian town of Varasd. In which a carpenter named Ignai Kavor, who had presumably become sud denly demented, attacked with an axe his father, mother, sister and brother, all of whom were asleep at the time. The father was so shockingly injured that he expired immediately, and the madman also infllctefl ghastly wounds on his mother and sister, but his brother was only slightly hurt and took to flight. Kavor surrendered himself to the police, still holding the blood-stained axe In his hand. Our Meat Trust is Not Popular with Australians Frontier Raiders j Given Hard Lesson British Commander in India Has an Effective Method of Stopping Outlawry. CALCUTTA. March S (Special to The Bee.) Ken reached Lieutenant Colonel bir George Koss-Keppel, chief commissioner of the northwest frontier of India, who was in camp at Charaadda. that a band of thirty raiders, under the notorious outlaw, Hakim Kahn, was hiding In a cave near AbazaJ. Sir George at once preceded with hit escort of ?jQ men ot the Eighty-second Punjabis and fifty troops of the Guides cavalry, with two mountain guns, and sur rounded the raiders, calling on them to sur render. Next morning, as the outlaws refused to yield, the guns opened fire upon them. Hakim Bey and twenty-two of his fol- leaers were killed and seven were cap tured, too of these bring severely wounded The troops suffered no casualties, but a villager was wounded. Agents Sent to That Country Will Be Prevented from Getting a Look-In. MELBOURNE. March KSii.i A parrot called Plato, remarkable as a The Bee.) The following memorandum has heen Issued to the press by the Common wealth Minister of Customs: "For several months past It has been an open secret that representatives of the .American meat trade have been visiting Australia with the ostensible object of ex tending Its operations. The government Is determined to take Immediate and drastic action to aiscourage, and ir necessary to prohibit, its operations In Australia. It is not proposed to wait until the combination secures a vested Interest In the country. The minister of customs Is consulting the Attorney-General with a view to bring ing the full force of the present law Intj operation, and, If necessary, to obtain fur ther legislation. The action of the govern ment will extend to trust operations In Australia whether conducted directly or Indirectly. It will not permit a repetition in Australia of the scandals and merciless methods characterising monopolies in other parts of the world." Greek and Turks Fight on Frontier Authorities of Several Nations Axe Taking Drastic Measures to Keep the Peace. CONSTANTINOPLE. March S -Special to The Bee.) During the last few days there have been many reports of encount ers on the frontier. Fights have taken place between Turkish and Greek frontier guards, between Turk sh troops and Bul garia bands in Macedonia, between troops and Albanian bands near Dlbra, and be tween troops and Montenegrins on the Montenegrin border. The authorities are said to be taking drastic steps to clear the European Hayes of bands, but it Is doubt ful whether their measures will be success ful. In Mscedon s bands form themselie of linguist, was the principal character in a recent local tragedy in Paris. Vincent de Carvallo's landlady is In a hospital. Plato could utter military commands In Spanish, make charming speeches in several lan guages, demand sauerkraut, beer and men tion the kaiser in German, and also talk French with uncanny fluency. M. Csr vallo was very proud of his pet, and w hen he returned from his lectures he spent hours teaching the bird new phrases. It ap-ars, however, that Mine. Mauchunel, his landlady, disliked the parrot and she urged M. Carvallo to get rid of it. While at breakfast one morning Carvalla noticed a murderous look In the landlady's eye when Plato amicably Invited ber to come out and pick violets with him. Car vallo left to attend a lecture, but became uneasy and returned an hour later just In time to see ber wringing the parrot's neck. In madness he threw her down the stairs. She was taken to a hospital to die and he to prison. In which he pays a tribute of Kratiturte to all those who co-operated In Alexan der IPs great work of the emancipation of the serfs and lays stress uim Hie spirit of self-sacrifice manifested b the Rus sian nobility. The czar declares that he has set l tore himself the task of completing tlii work of his grandfather and of trans forming the Russian peasants Into n it merely free but economically strong land 'owners. This, the czar states, can be achieved by affording them facilities to leave the peasant commune and b. the Improvement of agricultural s.ien He expresses his conviction that the in stitutions to which the execution of peasant reforms are to be entrusted will maintain civil order among the country population of Russia. Waives Devoar Wrddina Party. Run down on the snow field and de voured by hungry wolves was the fato of a wedding party, but two out of 1J0 escaping to tell the story. In Asiatic Rus sia. The severe weather has been the cause of many minor tragedies In which the wolves have played a part, but per haps none has ever been known so ter rible as that now reported, since In this Instance no fewer than 118 persons are said to have perished A wedding party numbering 130 persons set out in thirty sledges to drive twenty miles from the village of Obstlpoft te Tashkend. The grouTid"was 'thlcTLly '"covered with snow and the progress was necessarily delayed. At a distance ot a few miles from Tash kend the party was frightened by a black cloud approaching over the snow. its nesrer approach showed it to be hundreds of wolves, yelping furiously and evidently frantic with hunger, and within a few seconds the hindmost sledges were surrounded. Panic seized the party and those In the van whipped up their horses and made desperate attempts to escape, regardless of their companions. The pursuit, howexer, never slackened, and the sickening carnage went on until only the foremost sledge that containing the bride and bridegroom remained be yond the wolves' reach. A nlnhtmare race was kept up for a few hundred yards and It seemed as though the danger was being evaded, when suddenly a fresh pack of wolves appeared. The two men accompanying the bridal couple demanded that the bride should be sacrificed, but the bridegroom Indignantly rejected the cowardly proiltlon. The men seised and overpowered the pair and threw them out to meet a horrible fate. The two then succeeded in rousing their horses tu a last effort, and though attacked in turn, beat off the wolves and eventually reached Tashkend. Both men were in a senii demented state from their exiwrience. second llonndsdlfrh Ha I tie. Six were killed in a battle between policemen and two burglars at Tver, which recalls the circumstances of the Houndsdltch murders. Policemen tried V arrest two suspects at Blezhltsk. The men opened fire, killed a policeman and h police sergeant, wounded another police man and then took refuge In a bum bouse, whence they fired on the assem bled cordon of police. The singe laated the whole night and another sergeant waa wounded. In the morning the desperadoes were found dead. They were the auifiors of an armed burglary at the house of a neighboring village priest, whose wife they left for dead, and had afterwards murdered a cab driver. Woman Aiced llandred Sixty-Five. Among the peasants are persons of very great age. Nina Turatavllorf, a peasant woman at Teley, in the Caucasus, is probably the oldest person In the world. Recently she celebrated her 166th birth day. Though she Is now quite incapable of using her limbs, she U still in posses sion of her mental faculties. BELGIAN THIEVES KILL PRIEST Old Man and Hla Servant Mardered la Search for Concealed Treaaare. BRUSSELS. March 15 (Special to The Bee.) A terrible tragedy has been discov ered In Dampreray, a Belg an village, the old and popular priest and his aged ser vsnt having been murdered by thieves, who had been watching the house for some das. The men entered ths houe by the garden, and broke Into the room where the piiett was lying asleep. Having awakened him. tbey tied his hands and forced him by threats to reveal ths place of his sup posed hidden wealth. After ransacking every room, one of the thrives struck the priest on the head with an axe. killing him Instantly. Th noise i woke up the servant, a ho speedily shared j automatically v.henever the severity the fate of his master. The murderers the authorities drives the peasants to ths the fled, and are stilj at large, I mountains. Married Women in Swiss Republic Are to Be Marked Peculiar Loophole in Law Likely to - Besult in Drastic Measure Against Fraud. GENEVA. March Zi.t He, lal to The Bee. According to I -a Suisse. Swiss mar ried women may ere long have to carry an identification mark tattooed m their wrists. The reason for this is that, ac cording to the present stale nf the Swiss law, a married woman can break a-y legal contract by stating to tin- curt that she had not the permission of her husljani to enter Into such a contract A few days ago the Tribunal Federal at Lausanne upheld this m,.ih ,f the law and a Zurich bank lost l,y the ver dict. Curiously enough. Imewr. an un married girl above twenty years of aKe la held responsible f ,r her s gnature. In order t rnedv this s'ate of thii.g. the tattoolnx idea has been suKueMtei) a the best means of providing a mark hereby a aornan mar be rec-ogniz.d as inaril 1 by persons with a horn she is do ng b J I near
