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  2. KILLED BY A ROLLING TREE.

    Tired and hot, several tiny school children at their teacher's bidding sat down to rest on a fallen tree. Hardly had they settled themselves when a thin sapling ...

    Article : 775 words
  3. A DOCTOR'S WIFE

    Dr. Walter Horace Goddard for many years a practitioner in West London, petitioner in the President Court of June 25 for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. ...

    Article : 1,237 words
  4. FIGHT FOR LIFE IN A LION'S CAGE.

    Five young performing lions, born and raised in captivity, turned on their trainer in the Santa Fe Railway Freight Yards, near Chicago, on June 24, and after killing ...

    Article : 504 words
  5. LOVER WHO YAWNED.

    Seldom has a romance been ended by a yawn, but this annoying thing has been responsible for parting a young man and woman who figured in a breach of promise ...

    Article : 585 words
  6. YOUNG HUSBAND'S CHIVALRY.

    A new and dramatic light is thrown on the pearl necklace case which startled Edinburgh society three years ago by a document which has been sent to ...

    Article : 546 words
  7. IN DEADLY PERIL.

    A letter received in paris at the close of June from Shanghai China, describes the remarkable resene of a noted and beautiful Parsian actress by a clever ...

    Article : 2,116 words
  8. ONE-ARMED HEROINE.

    How a one-armed girl of but 12 years of age sacrificed her life in the attempt to save her younger sister from drowning in a mill dam at Dean Head bleach works ...

    Article : 455 words
  9. BRIGANDS BATTLE AFTER PRAYER.

    While a squadron of carabinieri were trying to trace a herd of stolen cattle which they believed had been driven into a dense forest on the slopes of Mount ...

    Article : 329 words
  10. TRAGEDY OF WEDDING DAY.

    Two little boys, searching for bluebelis at Anderton, Northwich, had the shock of their lives when they came upon the body of a man face downwards on a pit-bank ...

    Article : 505 words
  11. HIS BERTH CERTIFICATE.

    The First Passenger—"I say, whatever are you patting on a thing like that for? —why, it's a woman's nightgown!" The Second Passenger—"In case of accident, my boy—'Women and children first!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  12. PEARL DYEING BY SECRET PROCESS.

    A commotion was caused among the pearl merchants of Paris on June 19 over a black pearl, the original commercial value of which was £320. The pearl has been ...

    Article : 281 words
  13. A FATHER'S DEVOTION.

    How a father risked his life for his daughter was told at an inquest at Haugaton Mill on June 26. From the London "Daily News" it appears that while a farm ...

    Article : 502 words
  14. SCIENTIFIC SPANKING.

    A movement has been started by a nothers' club, over 100 strong, at Haverford, Pennsylvania, to nationalise and standardise the punishment of children. It ...

    Article : 247 words
  15. THE BERLIN NECK.

    Berlin, of such part of its population as takes interest in social and fashionable affairs is half-aggrieved half-amused, by a Court chamberlain's pronouncement ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. "TOO MUCH HAIR IMPOSSIBLE."

    The colonel in command of a light cavalry regiment stationed near the Eastern frontier is evidently not a believer in allowing the changes of fickle ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. WATCHING MARS.

    Professor Lowell has described to members of the British Astronomical Association some of the work which has occupied the astronomers at Flagstaff ...

    Article : 231 words
  18. ELOPING WITH A CORPSE.

    Thwarted love suggested an amusing bu[?] successful stratagem to M. Gautier, a wealthy man of Mombazin (says a Paris message dated June 25). A girl to who[?] ...

    Article : 204 words
  19. TO INFLUENCE A JURY.

    An extraordinary attempt to influence a jury by mental telepathy is now being made in this city by the Suffragist Society (reports a Chicago dispatch, dated ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. GIRL'S TWO FIANCES.

    The trial began at Elberield on June 17 of a girl 20, named Brunhilde Wilden who is charged with murdering her former fince Dr. Nettelbeck, a law court ...

    Article : 221 words
  21. TORPEDO AS LIFE-SAVER.

    Torpedoes are not usually life-savers, but a diver at Cherbourgm, who was searching the sea-bottom for one of these machines, in a very curious manner owes his ...

    Article : 117 words
  22. THE NOBLE YELLOW MAN

    A great organisation for smuggling Chinamen into the United states his been unmasked at a trial, resulting in sentences varying from six months to one year (says ...

    Article : 212 words
  23. MILLIONS OF FISH.

    Last year the total quantity of fish landed in English and Welsh ports exceeded that of any previous year. The landings surpassed those of 1912 by more ...

    Article : 68 words
  24. THE HEAVIEST MAN.

    Hugo Ostermann, said to be the heaviest man in the world, died at Munich at the age of 38. He weighed more than 34 st. ...

    Article : 28 words
  25. WOMAN'S FOUR LIONS.

    Four liens in a fer minutes was the remarkable "bag" of a young sporting Scotswoman living in South Africa. The story of the expedition is told in the ...

    Article : 246 words
  26. MYSTERY OF WEALTHY MAN'S DEATH

    Mrs. Helen Angle, the Well-known society concert artist, who is still detained in connection with the death at Stamford, Connecticut, of Mr. W. R. Ballon, a ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. ASPHYXIATED IN A WELL

    When descending to work near the bottom of a 30 ft. well in an allotment garden at Wolverhampton, at the close of June. John Leadbetter was heard to cry ...

    Article : 134 words
  28. HE WANTED TO KNOW.

    "The man who wins my daughter, sir, gains a prize." "It's an awfully good idea. Is —er—a cash prize, or just a silver pot?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  29. £600.000 IN GOLD ON A TRAIN.

    Probably the most valuable freight ever conveyed by a single train has been carried on the Lehigh Valley railway from Denver. Baltimore, and Philadelphia to New York ...

    Article : 215 words
  30. TYPHOID-CARRYING LIEUTENANT.

    The medical officers of the American Navy Department are extremely puzzled over the discovery of a typhoid-carrying lieutenant, who, wherever he goes, is ...

    Article : 185 words
  31. ICEBERG'S WARNING.

    "The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around; it cracked and growled and roared and howled like noises in a swound." So spoke the Ancient Mariner. ...

    Article : 153 words
  32. LEANING OVER A CRATES

    Professor De Fiore, of the Vulcanological Institute at Naples, has been investigating the present state of Etna, and reports that the central crater has not altered ...

    Article : 161 words
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