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  2. WHEN CREEK MEETS CREEK

    A mother left her money in equal portions to her six children, with the difference that the share of one son, an insurance agent, was loft to his son Leonard, ...

    Article : 747 words
  3. A LONELY LIFE ENDED

    The tragedy of a lonely life, of which the story reads like a page plucked from a book by Charles Dickens, was discovered in chambers belonging to Mr. Isaac Parker ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 651 words
  4. IN A BURNING SHOP

    A disastrous shop fire occurred in Brix ton, London, in the early hours of the morning, the third which has broken out on the same premises—those of Mr. ...

    Article : 1,157 words
  5. TERRIBLE ORDEAL IN A PIT.

    The curiosity of Peter Rigby, a shoemaker, led to his spending three nights and two days in a disused coal pit shaft at Holland Moor, near Ormskirk. and ...

    Article : 565 words
  6. CRIPPEN'S DEFENCE

    The London, correspondent of the Paris "Matin" has obtained from Mr. Newton "Dr." Crippen's counsel, a remarkable. statement of the line of defence that will ...

    Article : 2,515 words
  7. A FIGHT FOR LIFE

    In passing sentence at the Central Criminal Court, London, on September 14, upon William Simpson for the attempted murder of Mr. William Samuel Frost, Mr. Justice ...

    Article : 622 words
  8. UP-TO-DATE BURGLARY

    Scotland Yard officers accompanied by two Birmingham detectives, have effected tae arrest of three men in connection with the sensational burglary which was ...

    Article : 878 words
  9. THE BOOK OF JOB

    An interesting fact familiar in scholars acquainted with the wonderful achievements in the deciphering of the cuneiform writing of ancient Babylonia and Assyria is that ...

    Article : 630 words
  10. SMOKED OUT WITH PEPPER

    Drastic measures which were resorted to by the Leeds police recently to effect the arrest of a betting man were condemned by the stipendiary. The case was that in ...

    Article : 439 words
  11. POWER OF SUGGESTION.

    The influence of suggestion on certain types of mind was remarkably illustrated in stories told at two London inquests recently on men who committed suicide while ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. FATHER'S KISS BANNED.

    Sterilised out of house and home was the allegation of the husband of Mrs. Eleanor Tanner, when the lady, who is a millionairess, secured a divorce at Los Angeles on ...

    Article : 375 words
  13. TILLING WITH DYNAMITE.

    A new use has been found in Kansas, U.S.A., for dynamite. It is being experimented with in the tillage of clay land and as a substitute for the plough. One of ...

    Article : 188 words
  14. FERRYBOAT DISASTER.

    Dispatches received at New York report one of the worst disasters in the history of Lake Michigan, which occurred early one morning when the car ferry steamer Pere ...

    Article : 196 words
  15. HUMAN OSTRICH.

    The following articles were removed from the stomach of a man named Prank Wilson who was operated on for appendicitis in a hospital at Cairo (III.):—A ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. SOMETHING NEW IN FUNERALS.

    In accordance with his dying wishes, Hr. John White, of Cardiff, the father of a local amusement caterer, was drawn to his grave in the churchyard of St. German's, ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. MAN HUNT IN HUNGARY.

    In the neighborhood of Grosswarde. in Hungary, a search after a murderer is being actively carried on. The details connected with the affair are of so romantic ...

    Article : 173 words
  18. ENDED AT LAST.

    A family occupancy of the New InnBrickleigh, Devon, of more than two hun dred years has been ended by the death Mr. John Strong. ...

    Article : 28 words
  19. THE POLICEMAN'S LOT.

    Constable Leighton, who has just retired after 27 years in the Hull (England) police force, kept a diary throughout his service, in which it is recorded that be has walked ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. LOVE TRAGEDY.

    The sequel to the elopement of a German ex-lieutenant of artillery and a pretty London milliner was told at Berlin when Alexander Erdmann Jesnitzer was ...

    Article : 255 words
  21. THE POWER OF RAIN.

    "Rain is the finest of all nature's chisels," said Mr. F. Martin Duncan in a lecture at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition in London East. "As ...

    Article : 51 words
  22. UNEXPECTED FIND.

    Being afraid of burglars, of banks, and of everybody on the earth, the owner of a small house in the suburbs did not know (says the Paris correspondent of a London ...

    Article : 243 words
  23. A BIG WHALE.

    The enormous Rorqual whale, which, after swimming the seas for probably over a hundred years, was cast ashore on the rocks at Cloughton Wyke, sis miles north ...

    Article : 211 words
  24. PERSUASIVE MEASURES.

    Usher—"His lordship wishes to know if yon have arrived at a verdict?" Foreman (the Bermondsey Bounder—heavy-weight champion)—"Shan't be long now. There's only one juryman to knock out." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  25. TOOK HER LIFE.

    The remarkable circumstances attending the death of a 15-year-old girl in a lane at Crosby, Lancashire, were made known at an inquest ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. A STRANGE ROBBERY.

    A highly romantic story is now occupying the attention of the Vienna police. The widow of a hangman, named Sellinger. who died some years ago. is susnected of ...

    Article : 166 words
  27. MARTYR TO SCIENCE.

    Mr. Ernest Wilson, who has been for 12 years radiographer to the London Hospital, has undergone an operation on the right arm. necessitated by a condition set ...

    Article : 148 words
  28. WOULD NOT FOLLOW HIM.

    Chedomir Milkovitch, a Belgrade police man, committed suicide after his sweetheart had informed him she could not leave her situation to follow him on his ...

    Article : 32 words
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