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  2. THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT ROPER.

    Time has done nothing to solve the mystery connected with the tragic death of Lieutenant Percy Roper at the Brompton Barracks, Chatham, on February 11, 1881 ...

    Article : 1,524 words
  3. SIX DAYS BURIED ALIVE.

    An extraordinary case of intentional live burial is reported in the "British Medical Journal." It occurred in the Betul district, C.P. A man named Dama was tried ...

    Article : 274 words
  4. THE SKELETON IN THE BARN.

    For twenty-five long years the mystery that hung over the murder of the rector of Oddingley, a little Worcestershire village, remained dark and impenetrable. Then ...

    Article : 2,022 words
  5. THAW MURDER CASE.

    Harry Kendall Thaw is about to be placed on trial for the second time, charged with the murder of Stanford White. Some contingency may arise (says the London ...

    Article : 1,262 words
  6. MEN WHO HAVE POWER.

    Plenty of men are possessed with the ambition to wear a crown. Lebaudy was a case in point. He spent a deal of money in advertising himself, and in endeavoring to ...

    Article : 1,032 words
  7. POISONING CHARGES.

    A woman, named Peillon, and her husband, who live in the village of St. Cyprien, near St. Etienne, France, have been arrested on the terrible charge of having ...

    Article : 245 words
  8. FIRE HORRORS.

    Two fire disasters of the most terrible nature occurred in America in November, some twenty-seven people being killed and many injured. One took place in a great ...

    Article : 748 words
  9. STRANGE DOINGS.

    The long arms of justice stretch even into the Indian reserves of the still wild regions of Keewatin. Stories of open strangulation committed by the leaders of ...

    Article : 485 words
  10. WALKING ON WATER.

    Various inventors have brought out "boots" for walking on the water, but needless to say they have never been extensively patronised by the public. Quite ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 125 words
  11. A NUBIAN CUSTOM.

    Among many savage races the power to bear pain without flinching is looked upon as a virtue. This is so among the Nubians, who are found in that part of Africa ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 212 words
  12. PEARLS IN A MATTRESS.

    Four months ago a dealer in precious stones in the Rue St. George, Paris, lost a packet of pearls worth nearly £3,000. Though he consulted the police nothing ...

    Article : 286 words
  13. RECORD OUTPUT OF RADIUM.

    The scientific world will be interested to know that three grammes (about 46 grains) of radium were recently made in the university laboratory at Vienna. This ...

    Article : 215 words
  14. AN OLD MAN AND HIS WIFE.

    Having started on his matrimonial career rather late in life, as he was already 80 years of age, and having, moreover, married a pretty midinette some 60 years ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. NEW WATERFALL.

    An important discovery has been made in British Guiana by Dr. Carl Bovallius, the managing director of a rubber concern known as the New Essequebo Exploration ...

    Article : 265 words
  16. THE EARLIEST WALTZ.

    In 1813 (writes the London "Daily Chronicle") the waltz shook all England to its foundations. In 1815 Lady Jersey and Count Aldegarde, Lardy Harriet ...

    Article : 640 words
  17. A LOVE TRAGEDY.

    Details have arrived (says the Paris correspondent of the London "Telegraph") of a terrible village tragedy in a small place near Perpignan. A farmer, aged 28 years, had ...

    Article : 161 words
  18. EXCITEMENT IN AN HOTEL.

    After staying for a night at one of the hotels in the centre of Paris, an English-speaking traveller woke up in the morning with, murderous ideas and started through ...

    Article : 129 words
  19. HIS DIFFICULTY.

    The Prosperous Person—"There is no occasion for you to envy me, my man. I have as many troubles as you." Dismal Dawson—"I dare sav you have, mister. But the difficulty with me that I sin't. got nothing else." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 40 words
  20. TAUGHT TO STEAL.

    Daniel Cleary (48), a market porter, of Scovell-road, Borough, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labor at Tower-bridge Police Court, London, for inciting two sons to ...

    Article : 256 words
  21. BANKER GOES MAD.

    A scene of extraordinary excitement was witnessed in one of the principal thorough-fares of Munich. A banker named Herr Josef Alt suddenly lost his reason in ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. A PLOT THAT FAILED.

    Marcel Laurent, aged 17, was sentenced at Nancy (France) one day last month to eighteen months' hard labor, and a fellow-student, Emile Vincent, to ...

    Article : 267 words
  23. A CURIOUS WILL.

    Mr. John Robert Pringle, of 308, Stanstead-road, Catford, S.E., England, who died on September 30, aged 75, left estate of the gross value of £8,049 3/3, with net ...

    Article : 206 words
  24. CHILDREN AND THEIR FATHER.

    A terrible story comes from a small place in France, where a girl, aged only 14, and her brother, aged 17, are said to have savagely beaten and killed their ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. BOAT WITH WINGS.

    A new hydroplane (a boat sitting lightly on the water and drawn forward by an aerial propeller), invented by Signor Foranini, has attained a speed of 44 miles an ...

    Article : 144 words
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