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TOWN POISONED And Wiped Out of Existence by Modern Lucretia Borgia. , FAIR YOUNG FIEND Poisoned l(oi* ?i<h Old Husband So Slio Could Marry a Young Iaiwyor, Whom She Also Poisoned. Then With Another Woman She Went Into the Wholesale Poisoning buslne?*. The village of Kneez, in the county of Temesvar, in Hungary, ha-s been revealed to the world as a community of poisoners. Within a year, it is estimated, one hundred persons have died of poison in this village of 1,000 inhabitants. The imagiantion reels aghast at the condition of things that prevailed there, as now unveiled by officers of the law. Husbands poisoned their wives, wives poisoned their husbands j parents poisoned ^heir children, chil-! dren poisoned their parents. No re-1 iation, not even that of lovers, was a bar to murderous designs. The poisoning habit had taken a permanent hold on these people. Whenever one person could obtain anything by the removal of another poison was resorted to. It was a terror that stalked by noonday and in the night time. The cheerful cup of coffee handed to a husband by his smiling wife at breakfast time might contain the fatal dose, or, perhaps, it was the glass of native wine poured for him at supper after his long day's work in the fields. Often the victim knew his or her danger, but there was no escape in a village where everybody was related to everybody else and had acquired the poiscmjng habit. The only resourcewas to poison the person you suspected of trying to poison you, and thus it came to pass that Kneez was filled with persons seeking to poison one another. The arch poisoner was a woman named Martha Petrubany. She is a handsome young woman of the rich Hungarian type of beauty, with abundant black hair, flashing dark eyes, clear cut features and ruddy j cheeks. biie married a wealthy farmer some live years ago solely on account of his possessions. A young man of talents and good prospects, J who was the leading local lawyer, became her ardent admirer. Mine. Petrubany's highest desire was to see her oid husband out of the way, to marry the lawyer and combine his superior social station and the old man's property. Petrubany was very slow dying, j and lus wue decided to hasten the I process. The old man suffered severe-' ly from malaria, and he believed that ' a certain kind of drug, made of hot wine and other ingredients, afforded him most relief. He used to take a pint every evening, This complex | and highly flavored beverage, with its mixture of spices, sugar and so forth, afforded an admirable opportunity for introducing a certain quantity of powdered arsenic. His wife j used to prepare the poisoned drink every evening, with seeming loving hands, and see that the poor old man drank it down to the last drop, in *u. ? ,i,?l ;? i,:m; u: I i/ius> way sucwcuuu in tviuin^ nun by a process of slow poison in three | weeks. At the time he was buried there was not the slightest suspicion ; of the cause of his death. Then a shock awAed the widow. ! The lawyer, probalV having an ink-1 ling of what had happened, did not care to marry her. Mme, Petrubany's love changed to fury, according to the well-known ; rule. The lawyer was removed by arsenic, as the husband had been, j His servant, Sarah lla/ok, assisted Mme. Petrubany in carrying out this crime. Then these two women formed a sort of poisoning bureau for the henfit of wives who wished to get rid of their husbands. They obtained arsenic in whosesale quantities to kill the rats in the barns on the farms. Every wife who had been ill treated 1 1 11 1 I .. A I J Dy ner. nusnanu or vvno wan tea to marry another man t^uld be sure of obtaining assistanceMine. Petrubany and her accomplice. They never refused assistance, because that would have led to complaints. They furnished the poison and gave crafty advice as to how it should be administered. They pointed out that the best way was always to put it in medicine, in case the victim happened to bo ill and that had been ordered for him by the doctor. They charged as much as they could obtain from those who needed poison, but as they never refused help their price sometimes fell as low as $5 to poor women. The husbands learned what was going on, and some of them sought help from Mme. Petrubany in removing their wives, and obtained ic. Then the poisoner, who knew all the family affairs of the villagers, sent an assistant among them and offered to remove obnoxious persons. Kreez was rapidly liAbming de-! populated by poison, arawiany fled from ii in terror. At last a woman named Poskar, j who had resolved to kill her husband and had bought the poison from Mme, Petrubany, accidentally killed her child, Then she became con- j science-stricken and went to the au-1 thorities at Temesver and confessed what she had planned to do and what she knew concerning other things that had happened in Kneez. At first the authorities refused to believe that such wholesale enormities could be possible. They regarded their informant as an insane woman and sent her to be examined by the doctors. Then another woman, who poisoned her husband and had been unnerved by her daughter's attempt to poison her in retaliation, confessed to her deed. This made the authorities feel that the circumstances warranted inquiry. An expedition composed of doctors, representatives of the public prosecutor and policeman, was sent to Kneez and began operations in the local graveyard. The grave of the last informant's husband was opened and his remains were found to contain arsenic in such quantity that it had clearly caused his death. Astounding scenes followed. All day long the investigators dug up new graves, taking them in order, beginning with the most recent ones and not considering whether there was any definite information regarding the doath of the occupants. The earth was strewn with decomposing remains. The inhabitants endeavored : to interfere with the operations and a regiment of soldiers was summoned to guard to graveyard. Out of the first twenty-five graves opened the remains of thirteen bodies revealed arsenic in sufficient quantities to cause death. This satisfied the authhorities that crime in Kneez had progressed to a point beyond anything they could have imagined. iu v.AliN A fUKTUNK. The woman Petrubany and her accomplice were arrested at the outset of the investigation. Then the village doctor was arrested, for he had apparently signed a certificate of death from natural causes in many cases which he must have known were not natural. He has since confessed his offence, and has explained that he would have been poisoned himself had he refused to acquiesce in the crimes. The village butcher was arrested on the charge that he had sold sausages mixed with arsenic to those who needed them. Wholesale arrests followed these. Four husbands and eight wives were arrested for poisoning their spouses. Two of the women poisoned two successive husbands and one of the men poisoned three wives. A peasant named Valassa Ardelan was charged with poisoning a rich j aunt in order to obtain possession of the fortune which she had bequeathed to him. Nicholos Glass, a widower, is said to have poisoned his neighbor, Anton Braun, so that he might marry the latter's widow. Katherine Bider is charged with murdering her son-in-law, Michael Kuhn, becaase he was a drunkard, She is also suspected of murdering her father and mother, with whom she was on bad terms. They died suddenly, but their bodies have not vpt llPPM pvhnmod ?-io ) lunr U'li'" J . . .... v....v,v., ct.7. NUit I'VVII dead three years. Lenka Bogyck poisoned her husband, Aeon, because he would not remove to another village, where her married daughter lived, In many eases the poisonings were committed from the most trivial motives, Julia Wuicsitch poisoned her husband because he could not buy her a new dress. The crimes are of such a wholesale character that it seems impossible to deal with them according to ordinary standards of justice. It is not considered advisable to execute half the inhabitants of a considerable village. The Petrubany woman will be prosecuted relentlessly, but in many of the cases no action will be taken. Probably Kneez will be deserted by its remaining inhabitants, and in that case a great many of them will go to the United States. Allen LeRoy Locke, a Philadelphia negro is to get the Rhodes scholarship allotted this year to Pennsylvania. The Charleston Post wants to know if Perkins will be paid. We beg to inform our cotemporary that Perkins has already been paid. As to how he was paid the article published in the next column tells you. H. C. Havemeyer, the sugar king, of New York, just concluded the purchase of three large tracts of adjoining land in Hampton county, which he will convert into a hunting preserve. The price paid was $85,000. We wish these rich fellows would buy their hunting preserve some where else. Charles Gomillion, colored, who killed a young white man named Dorn, was acquitted by a jury in the hYJgefield court on Thursday, the jury being out only ten minutes. And yet you hear it said sometimes that the colored people in South Carolina have no rights that the white man is bound to respect. The mail clerks on the trains in the West do not like to ippix up with the negro, and have petitioned the department to arrange matters so that they would not be compelled to eat and sleep with the negroes. The department says that it cannot take cognizance of the difference in races, and refuses to do anything in the matter. Such occurances as this only hastens the time when the negro will be eliminated politically from our affairs. HIS FAITH I'NSHAKKIf. There* Could Be No Mistake MIm# the Bible Was Authority. A clorgymau happened to tell hi* on ono Saturday afternoon what leason ho would read in church th* next morning. The boy got hold of his father a bible, found the lob.sou'a place, and glued together the connecting pages. In consequence the clergyman read to hla flock the following day that "when Noah was 120 years old he took uuto himself a wife, wh? was"?hero he tinned the page? "140 cubits long, 40 cubits wide, built of gopher wood and covered with pitch In uud out." After reading the passage, the clergyman read it again to verify It. Then, pushing back his spectacle^ he looked gravely at the congregation and said: "My friends, this is the first time ? ever read that In the Bible but I accept it as evidence of the assertion that we are fearfully aai.l wonderfully made.?Argonaut. An Ill-Wind. T. P. O'Connor, the Irish leader, began a brilliant after-dinner speech tn Philadelphia in this way: "I must confess that I dread t* make after-dinner speeches. At th? most sumptuous dinners, even at Biich a dinner as this one. if I know tliut at the end 1 must make a speech 1 am nervous, 1 have no appetite, I fnl little to admire in the best eff ?it.s of the chef. "In truth, gentlemen, 1 can readily Imagine Daniel, it' he was ut all of my mind, heaving a sigh of relief at tli" lions drew nearer to devour him ? heaving a sigh of relief and murmuring: ' "Weil. If thero's any after-dinner *?i a!;inn' l<> be done on this occasion, at 1? usi it vson l oe done by me." l'rcneel Iicr a Flirt. n - - ooimiur rvtii UHe, ill me lie: I ICQ t lOil of I'ennsy Ivania's splendid capitol at 1 lurrisburg, said of a certain speech that had b?*?*n made ill a private dinner before (he dedicatory ceremonies: "That, speech was pregnant wit'i meaning. It revealed in every sentence its author's character. Urb f md full and illuminating, it remi dul me of the beautiful young ! ly who murmured to herself one af. rnoon, iis she paused uncertainly o.t a street corner: " 'What a bore! For the life of me I can't remember whether I'm to meet Morrjs in Tusker street or Tasker in Morris street.' " A Darwinian. ?}s\ ?Awfc&? "Yesterday I was looking up mj ancestral tree?" "Did they throw any nuts?" She .Misunderstood Rim. Recently a bashful young womai from a backwoods county In Virgin! i .vent into a local store carrying lhree chickens, says Lippinootts. Sh > inquired the price of chickens, an 1 at. the name time put them on th? co inter. "Will they lay there?" asked th clerk, who did not know that th* chickens' legs were tied. She bit her handkerchief in embarrassment a moment, and said. "No, sir; they are roosters." Was Evidently Tainted Money. The big touring car had Just whizzed by with a roar like a gigantic rocket, and Pat and Mike turned to watch it. disappear In a cloud cf dust, relates a writer in Success. "Thini chug wagons must cost n hapo uv cash," said Mike. "The rich is fairly burnin' money." "An' lie the smell av it," sniffed Pat, "it must be thot tainted money we do be hear in' so much a boot." No Choice. A bereaved farmer was visited by another farmer's wife in the flrn stages of his grief. "Dan'l," said she, "ro poor Mary'? gone! Was she wlllln' to go?" "Well, I don't know how willln* she was to go, but 1 do know she wai obleeged to." Just n Family Jar. Tic found ills dinner very cold. lie kicked with caustic vim, Ami when he started In to scoWl She made It hot for him. 1 ?Philadelphia Prose. They Would Miss Mini. Algy? I am always sorry when there's an east wind. It kills everything green. Fred- Oh! Algy we shall rolsa >ou!?Illustrated Bits. IO MAKE WAR MORE HORRIBLE. ots of Inventors at Work on Qr?at and Gruesome Devices. This government expends a small uui each jear tor Uov.ug now do. t?_os ol a possible military vuiue. l be board of Ordnance and r ortuicaiioa ts supposed lo ita.o tue 01 en oouruguig inventors and usbisiiug it* the ucvelopmont ol U.e?r invent, -as. Last year only *.>,ovd was expeu ted by the board, wliieli, with its ucomutilated aliounents ol previous year w has now on band more Hutu $loU,oui Comparatively few experiments ai? made, says Harper's W'eealy, and the vasi number of suggestions are a? , arently shelved wiiuout much more attomion than polite acknowiengiuent lo the authors. Nearly all the devices suumitted are intended to increase the terrors of war by adding to the efllcacy ol the means of lighting. I'erhaps an exception should be made in favor oi an ear protector, the invention of a New York man, adapted for use by those who are on dFuty in the turrets of l>a* tloauips and those stationed at the coat t tortihcat ions. Ordinarily the blast of a big gnu lias an effect upon the drum of the ear: it is at best unpleasant, and sometimes it proves disastrous, as iu the instances of men who have lost tli dr hearing. The ear protector is % lit tie celluloid bulb so pierced that it may be placed iu the ear and protect it from the noise and snock while uot interieriug with the hearing, an advantage, of course, over the crudtf method of at u fli u g the ears with colton so that tioiliing eun be ..card a.ij when oidrrs < an ouly be appreciated bj pantomime. Some of ine other inventions which have been favorably received may u? regarded as having a tendency to encourage peace siru:e they would introdife into warfare factors of devastation which would by their diabolical results promote international disarmament. Of this class must he considered those bomb dropping devices, which, if successful, would destroy whole at mies; the intlaniinahie proje< tile capable of burning up a camp; ttie nitroglycerine missile; a nchem* fur pouring burning sulphur into trenches, and kindred metnods of wholesale oblitoration. There is, too. the usual proportion of armored ears, including the highly protected motor which shui. pencil ate ti e etie?n>'s lines and afford i.s steel shielded occupants a chance to pick off tiie opposing marksmen and incidentally strew high ox plosives along a death dealing route. Une of i.a e i art ling ears makes the la mod .1 u:.',gc: n..Ui look like a nursery toy. ( i.e of the conditions wnicn seems to be fully met by incipient invention is ii'o use of smoke tor various purposes, including that of a shie.d w ii11-ii wiii permit approach upon an r.wiu.uui ms discovery oi mi KU V itaCC. 'I l.t country does not lark yet, with n>l thr cry for universal peace, the i*c .ik ol increasing the ravages of ? ar. Uses of the Kincmatograph. The kincmatograph has demonstrated its usefulness to the science or medicine in more ways than one. }>r. W. G. Chase of Edinburgh used it 'o procure tilms illustrating the eou.11. ens accompanying an epileptic V. The thoroughness with which tiit uUjcct lias been pursued may be judged from the statement that the hlnis exhibiting epileptic seizure* measure l,5f?o met and contain nearly 23,000 minute pictures of atUiuuea assumed during tie eiflivulsions. The value of such reec.its lies mainly in using them to instruct medical students. so that they may recognize the character of a lit when encountered by .actual practice. It seems very possible that the kincmatograph will hi used extensively in the future to make permanent record, but only of hlicit seizures as those described, but that diflicuit and unusual surgical operations will be thus depicted. Among Buried Treasure.!. Near tne Luerine lake, to tne north of beautiful Raiae, Haiy, whore the villas of Roman* of imperial times crowded each other to the waters edge, and where, In consequence, to this day the ground Ih full of archaeological treasures, a very line mosaic was recently discovered. In form it is a parallelogram, measuring about ; at da by nearly 10 yards. The piece represents a hunting scene, in which '.(Pie are many wild boasts and several hunters, the favorite subject for large mosaics In those days. It has been bought for $1,500 by tne Ministry of Public Works for ir.e decoration of the great monument to Victor llnimanuel in Ro.no which i? ?lr?wiv taking form and will eventuauy dominate all old Koine. The Best Selling B6ok. "Our host selling book?" said the feeler. "This is it, this fine-print volrne in the flexible black binding -Ms Bible. Kvery year there arc over S,000,000 Bibles sold. "The Bible is the only book with A'lr'ch one can never get overstocked. We keep a certain number ??t presses ng steadily year in and year out on '"hies, and if we find we have 100,000 r so topffs on band it causes us no * s'lioss. We keep the presses go* nsi the same we know all will FINDS MH- BABY. But Ho Had G ?' and Drives < H r* REALS Lif\L i lUlON. Ilin i >11II l.ri: and WCnt V Yeurs A^o, ... Ik'i America ant. I' in* s ,>?> by Advertising in the Xe For Him. Forty years have rolled by since the day big L>?in c'arngan swung his baby brother Mike to a perch upon his shoulder, kissed hint good bye, and left the old homettead in Ireland to seek his l'ortune in the wilds of Australia. The year that followed were iuil of ad\entuie tor , Dan. He struck into the bush country upon landing in Australia and became a sheepman. So for a while he almost forgot little Mike in the old country. There were no letters from home to keep him in touch with the old times. His life was severed lioin all that pertained to Ireland, All went but j the brogue. 1 hen the years began A4.ll I V "'I ' m umi upon nun. w rule crept into! his hair. Ho was not so oroet as in the early days. The solitudes of 1 the hush country wore conductive to dreaming. j Dan dreamed of little Mike, and : wished to see him again. There had j been a letter once lroin Mike, a little hit of a letter telling of his coming to America, and of being a coachman in Highbridge, the Bronx. One day while looking over the plains over the backs of thousands of grazing sheep Dan suddenly resolved to seek his little brother. ' It was characteristic of Dan to ' act quickly. That was less than a 1 month ago. Dan is now in New York, and Thursday he found the little brother, a little brother no longer, but a big, hale man not un- . like the sheep herder. The meeting 1 of the two after the lapse of forty I years was affecting. An advertise- , ment in the "Ldst" column did it. On arriving in New York Dan had J gone to the home of Mrs. Bella Volger, at 216 East 40th street, whose < IH> i ? ? l> A ?n.?4 ??? ? 11?? uiuvvi Iiv n Ail a VI VII / \ lir* L I <11 Id . | It was on the advice of Mrs. Voider that the bit? sheepman advertised for his brother. The method was a new one to him, but he was willing to give the newspapers a chance to locate Mike. Mike Carrigan was at breakfast Thursday morning with his wife and son at their home, 239 Fast 51st street, when a neighbor ran in with a paper in his hand and showed him the advertisement. Mike did not wait to finish eating. He just grabbed his hat and left the house on the run. The son followed, They were breathless upon arriving at the home of Mrs. Volger. | "Have you a stranger here?" he asked, as Mrs. Volger appeared at the door. "Why yes, and you look a lot like him." she replied. "Let me see him, quick!" exclaimed Mike, and was led into the parlor, where sat the sheepman: "Say, is that you, Mike?" Dan shouted, as the younger brother advanced with outstretched hand. With one spring Mike was upon Dan and had his arms about the sheepman's neck. "And can my eyes be serving me aright?" said Dan, returning the hug with interest. There was more exclamations and excited questions. Then the two men began to cry. The emotion was too much for them. Mike's son also began to cry, and Mrs. Volger, not wishing to be thought unsympathetic, cried too. For a while nothing was to be heard in the room save sobs. The burst of emotion over, there was a wordfest such as is only seen when two glib talkers from the '.Old Country" get together to tell the personal gossip of forty years. Mike's story came first. He had left home ten years or more after Dan went away, had come to New York, and had become a coachman. He is still on the box, and now drives a hack. He told Dan of the family history, of the death of their parents and of their sister. And them came Dan's turn to relate some chapters from his life in the wilds of Australia, where a man's life is not worth much to himself, or sometimes to his neighbor," as Dan ex' pressed it. 1 His was the story of mam another , man who has chosen to h\e tne life of a sheepman in a v?i.d country. There was danger, plenty of it, and the hairbreadth escapes of the Irish adventurer in the bush were many. He said that money was plenty there, but that to get it meant work. He became an expert sheep shearer, and sh< a :ng time was able to make $100 a week, he said. Dan then made a confession. He used to look too often upon the wine when it was red, and his money went over the bars of munv m in Ausfrnlia r??/vnn V v* . ?? ' " - - v. V?UU) X t VIII Sydney to Perth. Sometimes when i earing for the herds, Dan would not I receive his pay for a year. Somei times he would not see his boss, the ! owner of the herds, for two years, j There was much solitude and few friends. Often his dogs and the sheep were his only companion s fo months and months. Hut in spite of all that, Dan likes the bush. He will return there some ( ay. But first he will go to Mexico, he says, and to Texas in order to see how they rabe sheep there. Maybe there will he a Mrs. Dan Carrigan u hen he starts back to Australia. No, he has no particular damsel in view. Put, cc< tding to Mrs. Voider, he is "'ooking around," and has a very ft spot in his heart f< r American gir!>. Dan is a little ashamed of the la< that he is a bachelor, and apoloi by saying that he has not had tin e for courting. When Dan arrived here he wore the usual outfit of a bushman?widebrimmed sombrero, woolen shirt and heavy trousers. Mrs. Voider made him take them off and don more cit\-like attire. Dan refuses to sleep in bed. He has become so used to camping out that he cannot rest well unless rolled in blankets. He sleeps on the kitchen floor at the loth street house of his hostess. One of Carrigan's peculiarities is the tea-drinking habit. He brought his teapot with him, and takes a little cup of it about twenty times a day. Otherwise he is on the water wagon, he f-ays. Mow I'rrUtiiH \\ ms I'atltl Of course evory one believes that when a large corporation make* a contribution to the campaign fur of a political party that it does so ori the promise that it will be benefitted by the election of the candidates of the party to whose campaign fund it his ... ... i MM. voiui huium, j ins prom list* may fx* expressed or implied liy the manager of the political party that gets the contribution, but it is made clear anil unmistakeuble. These political debts are paid in a round about way, and the public hardly knows when it is done, not being versed in the tricks of the politicians, who handles the money given by the corporation. The New York American one day last week gave a specific instance proving that this belief is well founded. The evidence is from the public records and is therefore unimpeachable. The two men involved as principles are known throughout the nation. One is (ieorge IT Cortelyou, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, afterward I'astmaster-deneral, and at present Secretary of the Treasury. The other is (ieorge W. Perkins, then vico-nroui dent of the New York Life Insurance Company, now American manager of the International Mercantile Marine Company, and then and now partner of .1. Pierpont Morgan. The sworn testimony in the Armstrong insurance investigation shows that in 1904 Perkins paid from the funds of the New York Life to the Republican National Committee, the sum of $48,702.50. The records of the Post Oflice Department discolso that in 1905 Cortelyou, as Postmaster-General, made a ten-year contract with the International Mercantile Marine, of which Perkins was and is American Manager, giving that company, for carrying the mails $762,(528.40 per year, or $7,626,284 for the entire time. The records also disclose that when he made this con tract Mr. Cortelyou had before him reports from his own superintendent of foreign mails that this service could have been obtained for onethird the money. Records of the amounts paid other companies show that for similar services they received less than twolift hs of what was given the Perkins company. For the ten years for which the contract was given this would make a clear gift to Perkins and his associates of about live million dollars. So it will be seen that Perkins' contribution of over fifty thousand dollars of the money of the policy holders of the New York Life Insurance Company to the Republican campaign fund to help elect Roosevelt paid him very handsomely. This is about the way all the contributorsto the campaign fund of the Republican party are rewarded. That party holds up the people and let those who put up the monev to elect its ojirnh'flut^ plunder them, as is clearly shown that Perkins was allowed to do for his constrihution. If the legislature throughout the country don't let upon the railroads they will be glad enough for the government to buy them up. John Alexander Dowie, self-styled prophet and one of the greatest humbugs of this or any other age, died on Saturday in /ion city---a city that he had founded near Chicago. He was bO years old. The news comes from New York that the physicians up there have discovered that man's soul weighs one ft! l 1*1 "e uumjtr. me r lorence limes says it. does not know what sort of people the doctors have been experimenting with, nor how they get it, but there are some people whose soul would not weigh half that much if that is the average weight. TiiKClinton Chronicle says "one of the dispensaries in the lower part of the state opened the other day for the first time since the Carey-Cothran bill went into effect and reports its sales in one day at 1 ,'JiH) worth of whiskey.."It must have been a thirsty crowd where that dispensary is located, but still it was better for the money to have been spent in the dispensary than in blind tigers as they do in the so-called dry counties. V