The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 02, 1906, Image 3
IN A STEEL CASE;
Body of Russell Sa^e Goes
Down into Grave.
GHOULS ARE DEFIED
Fear of Grave Robbers Leads Wife
of Dead Financier to Take Extra
Precautions?Coffin and Case
Cost $23,000.
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Encased in a hermetically sealed
copper envelope placed within a solid
mahogany coffin, the body of Russell
Sage was Wednesday placed in a
chilled steel case, four inches thick,
riveted with steel bolts, locked with
a lock which can only be opened
from the inside and lowered into a
grave at Troy, 'N. Y. The grave was
carpeted and lined with evergreens
on which the clods were heaped and
the mound built The steel case weighs
three tons.
Immediately after the steel box and
contents were lowered into the grave,
electrical connections were made and
immediate warning will be given if
any attempt is made to tamper with
the remains.
Extraordinary efforts to thwart pes
sible grave robbers was sanctioned oy
Mrs. Sage and her closest friends.
Expenditures in this direction will
be greater than ever known in the
burial of a private individual.
The coflin alone of solid mahogany
with its copper inside envelope, trimmings
and handles, cost approximately
$1,000. The steel case and its patent
unpickable leek cost $22,000.
It is called the burglar prccf coffin
and it 2s ascertained that even without
the added precaution of electrical
protection or guards, it weuld be impossible
for the most expert grave
robber to get at the body.
Mrs. Sage, It is said, bas had a
dread of the violation of the sepulchre
ever since the stealing of the
body of A. T. Stewart, and she readily
consented to the proposal for safeguarding
the grave of her husband.
The steel case Is of such hardness
that It would take two expert safeblowers
to break the outer shell and
then only by the employment of specially
constructed tools. There is no
visible lock to be attacked. Once the
lid is closed down, a self-locking mechanism
clamps it inside at twenty
points and not the slightest opening
is left for the insertion of a wedge.
The corners are all rounded.
The body of Russell Sage was
buried in Oak wood cemetery beside
the body of his first wife. The body
arrived in Troy in a private car attached
to a regular train from New
York.
The words which are to be engraved
on the Sage monument are:
"I have done the best that I could
by the light of the day."
The funeral services proper over
thp hodv of Mr. Sage were held in the
First Presbyterian-church at Far Rockawajr
Tuesday afternoon. A number
of prominent citizens were among
those who were present to pay a last
tribute t^ the memory of the aged
financier.
After the services in Far Rockaway
the body was placed in a special car
and sent to New York city, where
it was taken to the Sage home in
Fifth avenue. The casket was placed
in the front parlor and so arranged
that the friends of the family who
called might have a last iook at tb<*
face of the dead financier.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT FILED.
Memphis Firm Seeks to Recover $600,000
from New Orleans Brokers.
A suit for $600,000 was filed in the
United States circuit court at New
Orleans Wednesday against Gibert &
Clay, a brokerage and commission
house, who do a cotton business there
with connections in several southern
cities.
Armstrong & Co., brokers and commission
merchants of Memphis, Tenn.,
brought the suit, claiming damage*
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RECORD-BREAKING DOCTOR FEE.
Physician Who Attended Millionaire
Field Demands $25,000.
At Chicago Dr. Frank Billings has
filed in the probate court a sworn
claim for $25,000 against the Marshall
Field estate. The bill is for seven
days' professional attendance on Mr.
Field in a New York hotel when ho
was suffering from an attack of pneu mrmio
thoi- rinsed his death. The fee
Is believed to be one of the largest
ever charged by a physician in the
United States for services that did
not include the performance of a surgical
operation.
RUSSIA BORROWS MILLIONS.
Loan is Presumably for Purpose of
Carrying on Civil War.
A St. Petersburg special says: Presumably
for the purpose of carrying
on probable v.*ar against revolutionists,
Russia Wednesday borrowed
$250,000,000. The loan was negotiated
from the Mendelssohns. As a result
prices on the bourse recovered somewhat.
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j GIVEN DAILY RESPITES.
I Peculiar Legal Tangles Ward Oft
Noose from Neck of Convicted
Murderer in Alabama.
!
j Members of the legal profession oi
j Jefferson county, Alabama, are in a
' quandary over the most novel action
j in a criminal case ever taken in the
! state. Thursday night Judge Samuel
; L. Weaver of the criminal court in
! Birmingham, granted a writ of habeas
| corpus in the case of John Williams
| of Cullman, Ala., just twelve hours bei
fore the time set for the execution
| of the prisoner for the murder of
i State Senator R. B. 'Hipp. The writ
j was made returnable Friday. The pris- <
j oner was convicted in the circuit
' court of Cullman county, and the supreme
court of Alabama affirmed the
. sentence. Williams was removed to
! the Birmingham jail for safekeeping,
j The petition for the writ of habeas
! corpus was made on an insanity plea,
and the question which was argued
by oounsel all day Friday in the
criminal court was whether a Jefferj
son county official has jurisdiction
| and authority to issue the writ Meanj
time the hour for the legal execution
' had expired, and it was thought a
i new date for the hanging will have
! to be set in case of failure to sustain
; the insanity plea.
\ The governor, however, came to the
j rescue and granted the prisoner a
: respite until Saturday. He will grant
. respites from day to day until the
i question is settled.
! Sentiment in north Alabama, where
the crime was committed, has not
! been so thoroughly aroused since the
! famous Hawe3' not in
! It has developed that Friday night
! Sheriff O'Rear of Cullman county, ao!
companied by several deputies, en[
tered the Birmingham jail to secure
| Williams. The prisoner seized a sec'
tion of iron pipe which he had torn
i loose from the sewer connections in
his cell, and with it threatened to kill
| the first man who attempted to enter
I his cell.
| He said that he realized that re!
moval from the Birmingham jail
' meant his death, and as he had to die
: he would as soon die there as elsewhere.
Not one of the officers dared
enter the cell. Finally after a coni
ference a quantity of ammonia was
| secured and dashed on the prisoner
i through the bars. The fumes of the
j drug overcame him and the officers
i were able tc handcuff him. However,
' his resistance caused such a delay |
i that the officers missed the train on
! which they expected to take Williams
to Cullman.
j PROPHET DOWIE LOSES OUT.
j
Neither Fake Elijah or Manager Voliva
Get Zion Properties.
Neither John Alexander Dowie, the
i founder, nor Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the |
i present general overseer, is owner of
! the properties of the Christian Cathi
olic Church in Zion, including Zion
j City, 111., and said to be worth from
j $12,000,000 to $21,000,000, according
i to a decision handed down in Chicago
! Friday by Judge K. H. Landis of the
j United States district court Judge
! Landis declared the property of Zion j
t City to be a trust estate, and named
1 John G. Hately of Chicago a member
of the board of trade, receiver of the
| church's property, and ordered the
i election on September 18 of an over!
seer (trustee of the church's propj
erty) by members of the church at
1 Zion City. Judge Landis will decide
; later what compensation Dowie will
I ha allowed for his past services to
' the church.
i The court ruled that the capital of
i ZIon properties, contributions of prop'
erty and money from various persons,
j was given to Dowie in trust for the
. church. Judge Landis declared void
the conveyance of the Zion City property
to Alexander Granger by%Voliva
under power of attorney from Dowie.
The adjudication in the bankruptcy
proceedings against Dowie was also
set aside so that pending litigation
j against Dowie may automatically be
! restrained until the entire litigation
| is ended.
j Receiver H&tely's bond of $25,000
was approved late in the afternoon
by the oourt, and Hately went to
Zion City at once and assumed charge
of the property.
BLOOMERS ARE THE THING.
Dean of College for Women suggests
Elimination of Petticoats.
In a lecture at the Wisconsin state
university, Miss Abby S. Mayhew, the
dean of women at the university, condemned
peek-a-boo waists, tight lacing
and petticoats. Large shoes, low necks
and round garters were favored. She
said:
"We are never going to be free so
long as we wear petticoats. Woman
will never have perfect freedom uni
less she wears a gymnasium-like cosj
tume."
j SOUNDS DOOM OF GUILLOTINE.
Salary of Public Executive Cut From
French Budget.
A Paris dispatch .ays: The government
budget committee, in taking
up the estimates for 1907, Saturday
struck out the salary of M. Diebler,
Jr., the public executioner, thus foreshadowing
the disappearance of the
guillotine.
RUSSIA IS REELING!
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Troops Revolt and Peasants
Engage in Outbreaks.
MUTINEERS SEIZE GUNS
Government is Enforcing Rigid Censorship
to Prevent News of Upheavals
Reaching the
AAiiaril Dlihlic
A grave outbreak occurred Saturday'
In the Sevski regiment, at Poltava,
Russia, following the arrest of a private
of the first battalion, who was
discovered with some other soldiers
in a shed, where the revolutionists
are in the habit of holding meetings.
After the arrest the entire first battalion
accompanied by a large crowd#
paraded the streets in defiance of thd
military authorities.
The soldiers proceeded to the artillery
barracks, where they seized;
several guns and marched with them
to the prison where the political prisoners
are confined. At this garrioners^
are confined. At this stage all
the remainder of the Poltava garrison
was called out ' The loyal troops fired
on the mutineers with macrnne guns
as they were engaged in breaking
down the gates of the prison. Sev.
eral men were killed or wounded. The
outbreak was not suppressed until 2
o'clock Sunday morning.
Dispatches of the occurrence have
been suppressed at St. Petersburg,
and only scanty details are obtainable
by the foreign press correspondents
through the regular telegraphic channels.
The situation at Shusha had become
so tense that the governor divided
the quarters inhabited by the
two race.3 by a "dead line," which
neither faction was permitted to cross.
The Tartars violated the order not
to cross and commenced a battle. The
garrison interferred when the combat,
became general and bombarded without
partiality both camps with twentyone
guns. The town is said to have
I been, to a large extent, destroyed.
Rebels Force Printing of Manifesto.
A party of men armed with revolvers
forced their way Saturday into
Boussel printing establishment in St
Petersburg. They made the foreman a
| prisoner and prevented the compositors
from leaving the building. They
then had printed 150,000 copfes of the
Viborg manifesto of the outlawed low
er house or parliament, strangers
calling at the establishment . while
this work was being done were detained
to prevent their giving alarm.
A rumor was current in St. Petersburg
at a late hour Sunday night that
General Trepoff had been killed. It
could not be confirmed.
Death Sentence For Mutinous Sailors.
At Sebastopol Saturday morning a
naval court-maitial passed sentences
upon the seamen who were arrested
for complicity in the mutiny of
the Black Sea fleet of November, 1905.
Four men were condemned to death,
one to life servitude, thirty-two to v^
rying terms of penal servitude, and
fifty, to imprisonment. Six were acquitted.
Big Sum of Money Taken By Russia*
Robbers.
The postal car robbed on the Warsaw-Vienna
railroad near Warsaw Sat
urday night contained a package or
$60,000 in cash from abroad, and at
least $50,000 additional funds. The
actual amount taken by the robbers
cannot as yet be definitely stated, as
the documents attached to the money
parcels are missing.
CHAMPION FAT BOY DEAD.
Wat Nineteen Years Old and Tipped
the Scales at 406 Pounds.
Provie-Henry, of Arcala, 111., knoe*u
throughout that section as the "Atwood
fat boy," is dead. He was 19
years old and weighed 406 pounds.
His waist measurement was 73 Inches.
His parents are under the usual size,
as bis father weighs but 140' pounds.
His death was due to fatty degeneration
of the heart.
A KNOTTY LEGAL POINT.
Chinaman Draws Color Line and
* Sues Street Railway Company.
Alleging that while a passenger on
a street car July 14, he was ordered
twice by tlie conductor to vacate his
seat in the center of the car and move
back into the section reserved for
negroes and upon the refusal was
forcibly ejected from the car by the
conductor, Hong Kon, an Atlanta Chinaman,
wants $5,000 damages from
the Georgia Railway and Electric com- j
pany. Hong Kon alleges that he is no
negro and is entitled to all the courtesies
and considerations of a whito
man.
IMPURE MEATS CONDEMNED.
Health Inspectors at Philadelphia
"Clean Out" Cold Storage Plants.
Inspectors of the bureau of health
at Philadelphia "Wednesday concluded
the condemnation and destruction
of 33,000 pounds of impure meat3
found in the cold storage plants of
the Delaware Freezing company. The
stuff was carted away as fast as it
was condemned, and turned over to
a fertilizing plant
PITIFUL STORIES TOLD
By Fleeing Men Who Allege They
Were Held in B.ndage at Lumber
Camp?Chased by Bloodhounds.
With big welts and bruises all ovei
their arms and bodies, some of them
as large as a finger, and with clothing
torn by the fierce attacks of
bloodhounds, which had trailed and
caught them, three more men arrived
In Pensacola, Fla., Thursday from
the camps of the Jackson Lumber
company at Lcckhart, Ala., and asked
for protection.
The men are John Cook and Harry
Lyman, Amerir?is, and Vendal Kclvershult,
a German.
"We tried to escape last Saturday
night," said the men, Vbut they put
the bloodhounds on us, and we were i
J 1 *1?3 MAnfimA/f on/7 1
LTSJlbU UUW H fliiu ^Aptiu VU|- auu m
back-to the camps."
"What did they do with us?" , replied
Lyman, In answer to a question,
"Well look at my arms and
back.
"They answer the question," he
said, as he bared his' arms, showing
welts as large as a finger and terri;
ble bruises.
"We were given forty lashes each
and taken back. The bloodhounds
would have torn me to pieces, but i
fought for my Mfe, and saved myself
by a hard fight Here, look at my
coat, you can see where the fangs
of the animal sunk as he made a
jump for my throat and missed me.
Our second attempt to escape was
more successful, and we came on to
Pensacola to report the matter."
The Jackson Lumber company, replying-to
an article in the Pensacola
Journal, giving an account of the
affair, demanded of the paper that it
send a .representative to investigate
conditions and that it retract the reports
concerning itIn
reply the paper wired that the
beat manner to conduct an invest!ration
of the affair would be for the
company to surrender three of their
employees who, It is alleged, recently
followed a Polander who had escaped
into" Walton county, where they kidnapped
him and took him back to the
camps.
NEGRO TROOPS BARRED.
Will Not Be Allowed to Take Part
in Texas Maneuvers.
Adjutant General Hulen of the Texas
state militia has given notice that
no negro troops have been or will
be ordered to take part in maneuvers
at Camp Mabry until after the militia
leaves, if at all.
It has been* the understanding In
Texas that the negro regular troops
are not to be sent to Camp Miabry
at Austin during the time that militiamen
are in the camp, and that
they wohld be kept on the border
until such time as only the regulars
remained in camp. Adjutant General
Hulen - represented to the war
department that this would be the
11 fVjof
WlS0St course, tia it waa ivai vuu?
trouble would arisee if negroes were
in camp with white militiamen from
Texas, Louisiana or the teritories.
TOOl^ GALLOWS ALONG.
Maryland Sheriff Outwits Threatening
Mob in Novel Manner.
William Lee, the negro who was
sentenced to death in Baltimore three
weeks ago for assaulting two women
in Somerset county, was hanged on
Thursday on Smith's Island in the
presence of deputies and a few witnesses.
A mob that had threatened
to burn Lee at the stake was outwitted
by the sheriff, who went
aboard a vessel and took with him a
gallows, which had been borrowed
from Baltimore county, and also a
coffin, and was prepared to hang Lee
on the deck after reaching the waters
of Somerset county, should there
be any signs of a mob on shore.
hNS TWO THOUSANDTH COUPLE.
Tennessee "Marrying Parson" Has a
Great Record in Tying ttnoxs.
A. H. Burroughs of Bristol, Tenn.,
widely known as the "marrying parson,"
married his two thousandth couple
of runaways on Thursday. He
made this record in sixteen years.
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GOOD SHOTS ARE WANTED.
! New Qualification For Positions in* Internal
Revenue Service.
Marksmanship and calmness in time
of danger are qualities which the
civil service commission holds at a
premium. In examinations to be held
at Asheville,- Charlr'te, Statesville,
Salisbury and Louiston, <N. C., on August
29, for positions in the internal
I revenue service the militant qualities
; enumerated above will count as much
i as spelling, arithmetic and report
writing. Ex-soldiers and scouts of the
regular army are desired.
FLIES SPREAD CHOLERA.
Disease Laid to Hordes of Winged
Pests in the Philippines.
The outbreak of cholera in the Philippines
is due to the unusual number
of flies in the islands, according to
advices received by the bureau of insular
affairs at Washington. Dr.
Heiser head of the bureau or healtn
in the islands, says the flies are chiefly,
if not wholly, responsible
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CHEATHAM ADMITS' I
Aiding a Friend to "Buck"
the Atlanta Bucket Shops. *
PLACED SEVERAL ORDERS I
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Secretary of Southern Cotton Association
Acknowledge Acting As j.
Agent.?Slated Investigatidn i
is Postponedi * -
Secretary Richard Cheathap, of the
Southern Cotton Association, admits t
that he acted as agent of one Mike n
O'Gxady in placing the orders for cot- *
ton futures, stating that he was mere- ,
ly serving a personal friend that he
had no pecuniary interest in the deals,
and that when the orders were placed
with W. R. Fagan, the Atlanta representative
of the New York cotton ^
brokerage firms, he stated to him 0
that these transactions were for
O'Grady. ?
The investigation of the charges of
Representative Anderson were postponed
twice Monday, the latter time
to Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. J
When the time for the slated in- j
vestigation in Atlanta arrived Hon. W. *
L. Peek of Conyers was the only one |
of the committee present. State
President M. L. Johnson wired from
Cartersville that he would arrive later
in the day, and the hearing was post- r
poned till 3 o'clock in the afternoon. T
President Johnson missed his train
at Cass station and so notified Presi- i
dent Jordan. The latter then got a a
definite statement over the telephone s
from the former that he could be on t
hand Wednesday morning.
President Jordan stated these facts
to the assembled parties and press j
representatives at the afternoon sea* t
sion and the meeting dispersed. j
The presence of Mike O'Grady, of ^
Chattanooga at the association rooms t
added considerable interest to this all* \
absorbing topic in cotton circles
anent the recent Anderson charges. J
O'Grady was one of those referred to I
through whom an officer of the South*
em Cotton Association was alleged T
to have dealt with the bucket shops. 1
At the association rooms O'Grady 2
stated to a Constitution reporter that ^
he had requested Secretary Cheatham,
his personal friend, to make certain
deals for him through the exchange
in Atlanta, as for business reasons *
he did not wish to make them him- t
self in Chattanooga, that for these ^
reasons he wished to keep these ^
transactions secret and entrusted
fhem to Cheatham, but not until he j
had to urge him to do so, ana xmat t
Cheatham consented finally very re- l
luctantly. O'Grady regretted all this i
publicity and bringing his private af- t
fairs into such notoriety, and he stat- i
ed to the Constitution that he would 2
seek a.well known Atlanta attorney,
naming him. and see if there was not
some redress at law against the New
York and New Orleans houses making
public his private affairs.
The houses througfi which these I
deals were made are Gibert & CTay
of New York and New Orleans, and
Charles D. Freeman & Co.. of New (.
York. Secretary Cheatham, acting ^
for O'Grady, at* tie latter's urgent i
solicitation, O'Grady says*,' had made j
these deals with W. R. Fagan, the s
Atlanta representative of these houses.
"Cheatham had not a dollar's interest t
.in the transactions," O'Grady said, t
"and was acting solely as my agent." y
He came down here of his own voli- 1
tion, he said, to set this matter right r
when he saw the publicity his pri- *
vate deals had been given, and he
was going to take the matter up with *
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the Wew York nouses ior exposing
name.,
P. A. Lee, the other man referred
to by Representative Anderson, did
not materialize, but it was said that
he would be on hand. O'G-rady is connected
with the Wakeman Distilling
Company of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
said the amount of his dealings with
the bucket shop firms was $2,000. He
had brought along statements from
these firms to show that the transactions
were his own. and not Cheatham's.
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alleged slaves testify.
Men Charged With Peonage on Trial
at Pensacola, Fla.
The preliminary trial of Robert Gallagher,
wood superintendent, and J.
Porter, bookkeeper tor the Jackson
Lumber Company at Lockhart, Ala.,
on the charge of pe*-iage, was begun
at Pensacola, Fia., r.ionaay munnu.j ?
before United States Commissioner t
Marh, the men having surrendered. <3
themselves to the federal officers in ?
accordance with promises. Six wit- *
nesses were heard, all of whom testi- *
fled to the cruel and inhuman treatment
according those who incurred
the displeasure of the camp bosses.
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CALLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, "t
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Directors of Southern Cotton Associa. 1
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tion to Meet in Hot Springs.
i President Harvie Jordan has sent
out a notification tc- the executive .
i
committee of the So^rnern Coton As- s
sociation to meet in Hot Springs, Ark., ^
September 6, 7- and 8, at which meet- *
ing there will be discussed many sub- t
jects that affect the cotton interests. J
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"t*&WzWG~S I 1
Reindeer are mare numerous in
Norway than horses.
The modern telephone, the invenion
of Alexander G. Bell, is said to .>1
lave been developed from principles
iscovered in 1864.
"Friends of Germany in America" . j
lave presented $25,000 for the sup>ort
of the Germanic museum at 'im
larvard, in honor of Emperor Willr.m's
silver-wedding anniversary.
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The only venomous bird known is
he "death bird" of New Guinea. '
['he bite of this bird is said to cause -A
ntense pain in all parts of the body, %||
oss'of sight, convulsions and finally
[eath. ,
In China women have some
'rights" they do not have with us.?
?hey have the privilege, for instance,
if going to war, and in 1853, no '
ess than 500,000 women were marhailed
as soldiers, under women ofIcers.
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It is stated that the best managers, 'Jj
?attern designers and dyers in the
Lancashire cotton mills, tempted by ;jaB
tigh wages, are going out to Indie i ^9
ind Japan to take charge of mills j- Jr
here. Great quantities of textils
nachinery are also being exported. JfaB
If one were asked to' name the
nost patient man on earth, the reply rpjg
rould probably be?Paul Cinquealii.
The famous feat of throwing 'gM
in a Tion'fl pp-c and catehfnsr ft on . ;>&9
i plate without breaking ft neces- -*J|
itated nine years of constant pracEuropean
newspapers hare been
>rintlng advertisements declaring it
o be to the advantage of Count ^?3
ifontecucoll to make known his
^hereabouts. At last he was brought "jMt
o light in Siberia, acting as a railray
guard. Broken by wildness'and
ixtravagance, he had had to quit the
Austrian navy and flee. Going from.
>ad to worse, he -had taken the low-.
?st rank on the Siberian railway. It
ras now his lot to learn that his
mcle, head of his house, had died ^9
ind left him enormous estates and ' ?1|H
11,000,000 a year. J|
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An up-to-date dog Is one that an*
iwers the telephone. The senior ^
>artner of an influential London firm
las taught his dog not only to guard >|H|
he office during his absence, but also fB 3
:o report "All's well" during the
ime the premises are closed at week
>nds. One of the old-fashioned tele)hones,
which does not require that JgH
he receiver should be taken off its
lolder, is fixed up in the office, and .
mder this the dog stands. His mas- Jj| i|
?9 A ? n/I stolid .
-ST niigb 11 jJ tilt; UllltC auu tugu vaiAo '
mtil the attention of the' dog Is ,
iroused, when the canine caretaker yjg
arks loudly to show that all is well ;v?J
"ith him and with the office.
WILD BOARS IN ENGLAND. -".J
)nce Abundant?Attempts Made to \.'3 ^
Reintroduce Them.
Among the exhibits at a meeting of
he Zoological Society last evening y|B
^as the almost perfect skull of a wild ' -cjH
loar which was recently dug up durng
building operations in James y^S
treet, Oxford street. <Jj
Like the beaver, the wolf, the
ear and the reindeer, the wild boar,
hough long extinct in this country, ':?gj
ras formerly very abundant in the "jB
arge forest lands which once sur- *,jB"-'?
ounded the site of London, and its
emains are not infrequently un- <$j
larthed in and around the metropois.
It is not certain when the last
vild boar was killed in England, bnt/^||B
t was probably in the reign of v|9
lharles II. or soon afterward, for in
he book of accounts kept on the
^hartley estate is the following JSB
ntry, dated 1683: "Paid the cooper |
or a paile for ye wild swii^e, 2-0." J&B|
t*. nt rt/Mirao nnssihle that the
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did swine alluded to were merely \\Wt
ndividuals preserved in Chartley j,;
>ark, and that the boar had been exerminated
as a really wild animal
ong before, but whether the swine
vere preserved at Chartley or not it ;'.<9
s certain that another species of
vild animal?the white cattle?
ound a sanctuary there, and it was
tot until quite recently that the herd
hat descended from the original
tock preserved in the park, was distersed.
Attempts have been made to reinroduce
the wild bo_i into England,
iut they have had to be abandoned,
tartly because the forests which they
* ? 4 ? ara nnw cnlti- '
taunted in past a&ca ^ ~..
ated lands and gardens, and partly
>ecause the havoc these huge and
lestructive beasts commit among -''vm
;rowing crops is not to be tolerated 'vJm
)y our already oppressed agrlcul-* urists.?London
Daily Graphic.
Iiofty Post Offices.
Among the Alps tffiere are several
>ost offices at a height of 6,000 or _ |8
',004 feet. One letter box, from
yhici' the postman makes four col- fjm
ections daily, is nearly 10,000 feet ''^JjS
kbove the sea level. .
Bridge, it would appear, is not
tuite so modern a game as has been > f^
upposed. A writer in the London ^||
iaturday Review mentions a letter
le has received in which it is stated - -f?
hat the game was played as far back
.s the seventies by the Greek colony -wj
n Manchester. /