The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 21, 1907, Image 5
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
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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
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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
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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 <
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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
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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.
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