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SUNDAY AMERICAN’S SPECIAL CABLE. LETTERS RECEIVED FROM ALL THE GREAT CAPITALS OF EUROPE
HUNGER STRIKE
Militant Leader, Again in Cell,
Makes Threat of Suicide by
Starvation.
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HON. FRANCES FITZALAN-HOWARD
SUFFRAGETTES ATTACK JAIL
Wardens Have Difficulty Prevent
ing Band From Entering
With Prisoner.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—“I shall resume
my hunger strike immediately and
shall keep it up until they release
me again. If they arrest me again I
shall continue the process indefinite
ly until I die or the Government gives
the vote to women.”
This was Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst’s defiance as she left the Bow
Street Police Court to-day on her
way to Holloway Jail to complete her
interrupted sentence of three years’
imprisonment.
Free When Health Fails.
The militant suffragette leader was
arrested as she was leaving Dr. Ethel
Smyth’s hcuse, at Woking, where she
has been convalescing since her re
lease from jail on April 12 last. Mrs.
Pankhurst and Dr. Smith were about
to enter an automobile to go to a
meeting of the Women’s Social and
Political Union, which Mrs. Pank
hurst leads. Seemingly, the authori
ties* took it for granted that if Mrs.
Pankhurst is well enough to go about,
she is well enough to be returned to
jail under the provisions of the “cat
and mouse bill.” If she keeps her
threat “hunger strikes” again and her
health falls she will be set free until
she recuperates, and s*o on until she
will have passed three years with
in walls.
A nurse accompanied Mrs. Pank-:
hurst to jail. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst
and many suffragettes in taxicabs es
corted “the martyr,” as they called
her admiringly.
Militants Storm Jail.
Two militant suffragettes tried dur
ing the night to damage the famous
golf links at St. Andrews. Scotland,
and so mar the opening of play for
the amateur golf championship of the
world to-day. The women approached
the seventeenth green, where they
were intercepted by the night guards,
who have been on duty in consider
able force for over a week. One
woman escaped, the other was caught.
She was liberated after being
searched.
When the gates of Holloway Jail
opened to receive her, a score of mili
tants tried to rush the prison and the
wardens had difficulty in preventing
them from entering with their leader.
For a long time they remained out
side shouting: "We will keep on
fighting until we win.”
Lord Francis Hope
Faces Land Problem
May Sell Historic Box Hill on Basis
of 99 Years’ Lease—It Brings
No Income.
Special Cable to The American.
DORKING, ENGLAND, May 31.—
Lord Francis Hope, the brother of the
Duke of Newcastle and former hus
band of May Yohe, if* much concerned
about the famous Deepdene property,
including Box Hill, of which he is
tenant for life. This estate is full of
interest beyond even that which cen
ters round the fact that it was for a
time in this neighborhood that George
Meredith lived and wrote some of his
best-known books.
Lord Francis said recently that he
was extremely uneasy as to the final
outcome of the prepent situation. He
said:
“I don’t want to be assessed for
any property which brings me in no
income and which I throw open, to
the public. This is why I have inti
mated that Box Hill can be bought
for building purposes on 99 years’
lease.”
NOTTINGHAM BARS ALL
SUFFRAGETTE MEETINGS
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 31.—The Notting
ham Watch Committee has decided
that no police protection could be af
forded at any suffragette meeting held
in the city, and sent a communica
tion to all public halls intimating
that to allow them to be used for that
purpose was conducive to disorder
and could not be sanctioned.
The suffragettes had engaged the
Mechanics’ Hall for a meeting two
weeks hence, but permission to hold
the meeting had been withdrawn.
The local branch of the Women's
Social and Political Union sent a bill
to the watch committee for damage
to the hall at a recent meeting, which
was raided by a crowd and wrecked.
The committee ignored the demand.
REFUSING ZOLA $25 A WEEK
MISSED MILLIONS BY
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—Maurice Dreyfus,
one time publisher for Zola, to-day
told how he missed becoming a mil
lionaire through the refusal to pay
Zola i25 a week for life.
After making his first modest
strike.’’ says the narrator, “the au
thor came to us, offering to give as
his entire output if we guaranteed
h m $100 a month.
•‘As we were not enthusiastic. Zoia
said resignedly: T don’t blame you.”'
Three Times, With Wedding Set and Invitations
Out, She Has Broken Troth.
Where is the man who has the pow’er
and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman’s
will?
For if she will, she will, you may de
pend on’t;
And if she won’t, she won’t; so there’s
an end on’t.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—Hon. Frances
Fitzalan-Howard, a beautiful girl of
twenty-one. has been rusticated by
her father, Lord Howard of Glossop.
The young lady seems to have made
up her mind she will not marry Al
bert Leigh Bennett, a persistent sui
tor whom nothing can discourage and
whom her father desires as a son-in-
law.
Three times the fickle girl has ac
cepted Mr. Bennett, three times all
preparations for the w'edding have
been made, three times the invita
tions have been sent out, three times
the variable girl turning with the
zephyr of coquetry has said: “I will
not marry him.”
So her father, a kinsman of the
Duke of Norfolk. England’s premier
Duke, has sent her from his town
house, 13 Rutland Gate, to his seat,
Glossop Hall, Derbyshire. There she
will have time and solitude to reflect
that young Bennett’s persistency at
least deserves to be rewarded. Of
him his triends speak most highly.
But broken engagements are re
warded lightly in London, and seem
to provoke no ill-feeling between the
fickle maiden and the jilted swain
In these affairs Britons show stoic
calm and consider themselves above
resentment or disappointment.
“My Name Is John/’
Says Little Prince
Youngest Son of British Monarchs
Balks at Being Called "High
ness” by an Attendant.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 31.—Prince John,
the youngest son of the King ^ and
Queen, is extremely unconventional
and does all sorts of queer and un
expected things. Mounted on a bicy
cle the other day he tilted at a fence,
was unseated and found a pedal
caught and badly bent. He sum
moned an attendant to straighten the
pedal and then declared he was going
to have another try at the obstacle.
“But,” said the attendant, “you
must ride more carefully, your Royal
Highness.”
“Go on,” was the retort, “my name
is John.”
NEW KING OF GREECE TO
VISIT BRITISH MONARCH
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 31.—The new King
of Greece, in a charming letter to his
aunt. Queen Alexandra, has intlmat^i
his intention of coming over to Eng
land. with Queen Sophie, at the ear
liest opportunity. They will be ac
companied bv the Crown Prince an-I
their beautiful 17-year-old daughter,
whose name also is Sophie.
Sir Walter Gilbey
Sure He’ll Live to 100
“Be Moderate in Everything” Would
Be Centenarian’s Motto for Those
Desiring Longerity.
Special Cable to The American.
ELSENHAM, ENGLAND, kay 31.
Sir Walter Gilbey. who has just cel
ebrated his 82d birthday, declared to
day he would live to be 100.
"Live by a rule,” he said. “Be mod
erate in everything; eat and drink
wisely, work hard, take nil the fresh
air you can and cultivate quiet pleas
ures and you will live to be a cente
narian.”
As for food, the principal items in
Sir Walter’s dietary have been bread
and milk, fish and stewed onions.
Fresh fow'l and pastry of all kinds
he eschews. He is a cigarette smok
er and enjoys his smoke thoroughly.
MODERN DIOGENES MADE
TO MOVE FROM WINE CASK
Special Cable to The American.
MADRID. May 31.—Lady Con-
of Valdepenas, was evicted recently
from a wine cask in which he had
made his abode since being jilted
three years ago by his swee hear
and whence he issued nightly on for
aging raids on farmhouses, ir. which
he was accompanied by a large tom
cat.
Court Orders Mrs. Besant to Sur
render Custody of Boy Hailed
as Near Divinity Threshold.
Special Cable to The American.
MADRAS, May 31.—Judgment was
delivered in the High Court against
Mrs. Annie Besant, president of the
Theosophical Society, in the suit
brought against her by Mr. G. Nara-
yen lycr for the custody of his two
sons.
The latter Krlshnamurthi, aged 17.
and Milayananda, 14 years of age, are
at present studying at Oxford, whith
er they were taken by Mrs. Besant.
Mr. Iyer explained that his action
was based on his dissatisfaction at
the moral influence which had been
exerted over his two sons by W. L.
Leadbeater, to whom at the advice
of Mrs. Bezant their education had
been intrusted.
Mrs. Besant Blames Politics.
Mrs. Besant submitted a written
reply to the allegations against Mr
Leadbeater, which she alleged had
been made from political motives and
from personal malice because of her
efforts to inspire the students of India
with loyalty to the Empire.
Mr. Leadbeater, on being cross-ex
amined, said he had been engaged
with Mrs. Besant, who had spoken
of him as “a man on the threshold
of divinity,” in physical and clair
voyant experiments and he character
ized the allegations made against him
as atrocious falsehoods*.
He admitted that he had given the
boys certain counsel to which objec
tion had been taken by their father.
He had,, however, merely given them
that advice to enable them to es
cape the effect of, certain thought
forms and astral influences, but in
deference to Mrs. Besant’s. wishes he
had agreed to discontinue it.
New Leader of World.
Mrs. Befant.. who conducted: her
own case. s*aid she took the boy
Krishnamurthi to England to trim
him for the spiritual leadership of
the world. Krishnamurthi, she de
clared, was a religious enthusiast, and
she separated him from his associ
ates and removed him from his en
vironments **o that his life might not
be endangered by his being suddenly
roused from his trance.
Mrs. Besant appealed to the court
not to order the restitution of the
boys to their father. She pointed out
that if that were done, the inferenee
would be that the father’s terrible
allegations were true. In that event,
the boy Krishnamurthi would be ir
retrievably ruined, and once back in
India, he would become a social out
cast. . • * .
Mr. Justice Blakewell, in delivering
judgment, held that, while the serious
charges against Mr. Leadbeater had
not been established, the evidence
showed him to be a person who was
wholly unfit to be in charge of the
boys.
M RS. GEORGE KEPPEL,
who continues to enjoy
royal favor in England and has
resumed her residence in the
house King Edward super
vised.
4 Women Convicted
As Witches in Italy
Robbed Graves of Bodies and Made
Love Potion of Crushed Bones
to Aid Matrimony.
Special Cable to The American.
ROME. May 31.-—Four women have
been condemned to six months’ im
prisonment each at Lucera Assizes
for body stealing and witchcraft.
Senora Antonia Nardella, living at
Lesina. was determined that a rail
way signalman should marry her only
daughter. She decided that the best
way to bring this about would be to
bewitch him. and for this purpose
she paid a couple of women to steal
a corpse from a neighboring cemetery.
This they then consigned to Primi-
ana Boffa, who envoys a great rep
utation in the locality as a witch.
Having selected a number of bones
she set to work to prepare a love,
philtre, grinding the bones to powder
in a mortar. She added a quantity
of filings which she had commis
sioned a grave-digger to scrape at
midnight from the big bell of tfie
parish church.
Some peasants who chanced to be
watching while the incantations were
in progress divulged the story to the
police.
ESCAPED FRENCH CONVICT
TURNS INTO A DETECTIVE
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31. A man named
Albert Berge. aged 29. who was sen
tenced to eight years’ hard labor in
1906 for robbery, and who escaped
in 1911 from the penal settlement in
French Guiana, ha*' been arrested in
Paris.
From Guiana he fled to New York,
where he became a private detective.
But his criminal habits clung to him,
and he was caught robbing one of
his employer’s clients. He fled to
France with a young English girl,
but the Paris police were warned
and arrested him in a Montmartre
cafe.
JEWELED HAIRPINS WILL
BE FASHIONABLE NEXT YEAR
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—The hair is not
to be parted; it is to be dressed high
on the head, and any amount of jew
eled hairpins and hair ornaments are
permissible in the coiffure.
This was the fateful decision made
here at the annual hair-dressing fl m-
onstration held at the Criterion Res
taurant by the best European hair
dressers assembled to settle the vexed
question of how the smart women
must have their hair dressed the pres
ent season.
Hopeless Invalid Carried in
Soldier's Arms to Receive
Gift From Regiment.
Special Cable to The American.
ST. PPETERSBURG, May 31.—The
little Czarevitch, Alexis, to-day made
his first semi-public appearance since
the Romanoff celebration two months
ago. A souvenir of the lsmailovsky
guard regiment was presented to the
future czar this afternoon.
When a delegation of the regiment
went to - meet him in the reception
hall of the Tsarko-Selo palace the
czarevitch was carried in by a soldier
attendant.
Although he was able to stand dur
ing the short ceremony, apart from
the organic ailment of his left hip
bone, he has become constitutionally
'weak.
Not Complete Invalid.
Although not a complete invalid,
he still attends military parades at .
the Tzarko-Selo, sitting ull the time I
in his carriage. Although the little
czarevitch will be nine years old next
August he still has no regular tutor
to overlook his education.
The international congress of scien
tific associations is meeting this year
in St. Petersburg. The leading Ameri
can delegate is George Ellery Hale,
the famous astronomer, who comes
on behalf of the National Academy of
Sciences at Washington. The Rus
sian government has announced it
has decided to suspend restrictions
against Je.uits and Jews who may
be chosen . : delegates from foreign
countries on this occasion, but Jewish
scientists have refused to accept any
concessioi.s which are not* extended
to other law abiding members of their
race.
Americans Arrive Soon.
America’s group arrives here to-
j ward the end of the month and will
spend some time in rural Russia
studying the co-operative system as
applied to agriculture. This system
is spreading rapidly in Russia.
Immigration to the United States
from Finland, Russia, to the Baltic
provinces touched higher figures this
month, in the Oesel and Muitel re
gions of Gurl and wholesale emigra
tion has brought a crisis in the labor
market. The immediate cause is a
letter from a workman who w*ent
from Anfekuell a year ago and who
already has sent home to his wife
more than one thousand two hundred
rubles in savings.
Children's Ghosts
Haunt English Home
Little Ones Pursued by Supernatural
Visitors That Leave
Elders Alone.
Special Cable to The American.
DUBLIN, May 31.—A ghost which
resists all attempts to lay it has so
frightened a widow and her children
at Coonen, near Fivemiletown, Coun
ty Fermanagh, that the familj r are
thinking of emigrating as the only
way to escape the ghost's attentions.
Mrs. Murphy, the widow, and her
young children have been disturbed
for some time past by mysterious
noises in their little cottage. At first
the sounds were attributed to rats,
but investigation tended to disprove
that theory, and to show that the
children are the special objective of
the ghost or ghosts. When the chil
dren were taken away all was quiet,
but when they are in the cottage the
sounds follow them from room to
room.
They are scratching sounds, such
as would be caused by rats under the
floor, knocking at the walls, and
sounds of footsteps overhead. Skep
tical neighbors have sat up at night
in the room occupied by the children,
and have emerged at daybreak con
vinced and fearful of the nearness of
the spiritual world.
In one case tw r o hardened farmers
watching by the bedside of a girl were
roused from their dozeful watch by
the child’s cry. “Something is clutch
ing me!” “Where?” they asked, and
for answer she pointed to her breast.
Instantly they w'hipped the clothes
down, but found nothing to explain
the child’s fright.
Vanderbilt Cares for
Beau Brummel Grave
Paris Jockey Club Believes He Is
the Mysterious Benefactor of
Early Day Dandy.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—The newest mys
tery of the jockey club is the identity
of the rich American who keeps in
good condition the grave of George
Brummel, known in history and dur
ing his lifetime as Beau Brummel.
The grave is at Caen, in Normandy,
and a goodly sum is expended upon
it every year. The benefactor is at
great pains to conceal his name.
It is surmised and believed by many
that he is an American who is very
rich and who lives in Normandy. This
American owns a unique collection,
of Brummel’s letters, drawings and
other things which belonged to the
beau. A section of the jockey club
holds that the possessor of the col
lection and benefactor of “Beaus”
grave is W. K. Vanderbilt.
WOMEN TAX GATHERERS.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—The Finance Min
ister has decided to admit women to
the employment of second class tax
gatherers.
Tax gatherers in France remain in
their offices and do not collect taxes
from house to house. Tax gatherers
of the second class are those in small
towns and villages.
Mrs. George Keppel
Voted Most Popular
Woman in London
Both King George and Queen Mary
Are Anxious to See More of Her
in Society.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—During the des
sert at a big restaurant dinner given
lately “paper games" was started (one
of the modes of the moment), and
“Who is the most popular woman in
society?” was asked. When the an
swers were opened and counted 19
out of the 22 guests had voted for
Mrs. George Keppel.
Not only do her movements interest
all society but it is the wish of both
King George and Queen Mary that
Mrs. Keppel and her husband, who
planned to spend most Qf the summer
on the Continent, shall be in London
at least part of the season.
The King lias a great liking for
the quiet, unoffending George Keppel,
whose devotion to his wife is an
example to many who would sit in
judgment on them.
“The Queen and myself,” the King
is said to have remarked on the oc
casion of the memorial dance at the
palace, “hope to see much more of
Mrs. Keppel and yourself during the
season.”
Mrs. Keppel is not in good health.
It is solely for this reason that she
would prefer the quieter season
abroad. She has no fear of facing so
ciety these days, for society is only
too anxious to be Included In her
exclusive invitation list.
She has resumed her residence on
Grosvenor Street, that wonderfully
appointed mansion constructed large
ly on the advice of King Edward. She
will entertain there during the season
Italian Princess
Overcomes Robber
Ex-Soldier Attempts to Extort $500
by Means of a “Black
Hand” Letter.
medal Cable to The American.
ROME, May 31.—An ex-sergeant of
cavalry named Uallerani, posing as a
police officer, went to the palace of
Princess Hercolani, at Bologna, and,
having obtained an interview, pre
sented her with a written demand for
$500, purporting to be signed by a
Black Hand society.
The man demanded that she should
also hand over her valuable jewelry.
As the Princess absolutely refused to
accede to the impudent request, Cal-
lerani fired at her twice with a re
volver. Luckily the aim w r as bad and
the Princess escaped injury.
The Princess struck him a powerful
blow on the chest, and managed to
ring an electric bell for help. Find
ing that the game was up, the man
rushed into an adjoining room, but
this afforded him no means of es
cape, and the Princess kept him at
bay until the arrival of the police.
OaJlerani expended all his spare
cartridges in a fruitless attempt to
smash the lock of a door w'hloh of
fered a means of escape.
When arrested f’alleranl said that
he was out of work and starving.
PARIS GIRL STEALS TO
HELP HER GRANDPARENTS
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31. A young woman
named Blanche Campourcy was ar
rested recently in a Paris warehouse
on a charge of theft. In her flat the
police found goods worth over $5,000,
Examined by the police magistrate,
the girl said she had been driven tc
shoplifting by the fact that her aged
grandparents and her father and
mother w'ere dependent on her. A
first she had struggled to make both
ends meet with the meager salary she
earned as a typist, but had found it
impossible.
HAIR OF NOTABLES SOLD.
LONDON, May 31.—Locks of hair
from the heads of three famous men
were sold at Sotheby’s recently. That
of Milton realized only $14.60. Dean
Swift’s brought no higher bid than
$11, and the hair of Dr. Johnson was
knocked down for $7.50.
Statesman of Empire Declares
Huge Army Pay Roll Is Fault
of Representatives Abroad.
By FREDERICK WERNER.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, May 31.—Very seldom
does It happen that a member of the
German Reichstag makes public t
statement about Germany’s position
in Europe like the one published in
a prominent Berlin daily by Herr
Gothein the other day.
“Germany,” he says with the ut
most frankness, "has no foreign
friends. The people among whom we
choose our diplomats and influential
military officials, the Junker clas:*,
are strangely clumsy as statesmen
and the feelings they arouse abroad
are never friendly towards Germany,
w hile they are ably supported in their
praisew'orthy efforts by a crowd of
political court jesters, who consider
it their chief task to throw s*tones
at the window' panes of our foreign
neighbors, pranks for which the
German people have to pay dearly in
ever-increasing taxes for military
armaments, that we may have an
army and navy stroug enough to pro
tect us against the indignation which
we ourselves have provoked.
Belgium Friendly to France.
"In this respect France has been
most successful in Belgium. Some
of our tactless retired generals, hav
ing nothing better to do, set up the
cry that in case of a w ar with France.
Germany should consider only ques
tions of tactics, not of national rights
And as the French fortifications along
the Belgium frontier are much weak
er than along the German, Germany
should not respect the recognized and
guaranteed neutrality of Belgium. The
enemy must be attacked on the point
whefe his defeat was most likely. To
make matters worse pan-German hot
heads by their demand that the Ger
man language should be made the
official language of Belgium helped
to increase the fear o^ Belgians that
Germany was planning to rob them
of their independence. Under these
circumstances no German should
blame France for impressing’ It upon
the mind of the people of Belgium
that in case of a w~ar their place was
at France’s side.”
More Troops To Be Paid.
The w riter show s that these French
efforts have been eminently success
ful and that Belgian sentiment at
present Is decidedly anti-German,
while all serious statesmen advocate
an alliance with France, which will
probably very soon be an accom
plished fact. He points out that this
will mean an addition of at least
150,000 .troops to the French armies
and denounces German diplomats, be-
Vause they have not come forw’ard
long ago with the open declaration
.that in case of a Franco-German war
Germany would respect the neutrality
of Belgium as conscientiously as Bis
marck did in 1870. as long as France
did the same Had they done this
Germany would now have a friend
in Belgium, whose trade with this
country is far more extensive and
important than her trade with France.
Now the opportunity is lost forever,
because of the amazing stupidity of
German statesmen.
Lady Emmot Will
Exhibit 60 Pictures
Specimens of Her Work to Be Shown
in London—Titled Widow Social
Favorite.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—Lady Gon-
stance Emmot, whose picture, hung
at the Royal Academy last year,
caused a great deal of admiration
among experts, will give an exhibi
tion of some sixty specimens of h*er
work at the Modern Gallery very
soon.
Lady Emmot, a charming widow,
is the proud possessor of North
Bajley in Durham, a fine historical
old place of the Tudor type and, al
though she is an ardent lover of the
country and her ancestral home, she
spends a great deal of her time in
her London residence, entertaining
friends and whiling away pleasant
hours In her studio.
She Is the youngest daughter of
the Eighth Duke of Argyll, and sister
to the present Duke. Lord Emmot,
the under Secretary' of the colonies,
is her brother-in-law.
DOCTOR MUST MAINTAIN
PROFESSIONAL SECRECY
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—A Spanish mer
chant recently brought an action in
Paris for $1,000 damages against his
family doctor for breach of profes
sional <s«ecrecy.
The medical man furnished certifi
cates to a third party concerning the
illness of the plaintiff’s wife. The
defense was that the facts disclosed
were not of a nature to render strict
secrecy necessary and that no dam
age had been caused by their dis
closure.
The court held that the doctor was
bound to maintain professional secre
cy whether the illness was serious or
not. The plaintiff was awarded $2.50
damages.
Hot Water, Toast and Egg for
Breakfast a Meal She Hates,
King Is Careful.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 31.—Queen Mary ■
has become ieriously alarmed at her
i increasing weight, and has now given
up eating potatoes and bread and is *
going through a form of mild exer-
! rises early in the morning. Her
! mother, the late Duchess of Teck, who •.
( was an extremely handsome womai), '
became enormously rtout as she ap
proached middle age, and Queen Mary
is now obsessed by the idea that she
may inherit this tendency.
With the exception of the Duke of
Connaught all the members of the
royal family are very hearty eaters,
and the teas with heavy sandwiches,
which are served at 5 o’clock in the 1
royal residences would stagger most
middle-class families. Queen Mary
has a wonderful appetite, and it is a
positive penanoe to her to drink a
tumbler of hot water In the morning
and to be content with dry toast and
an egg for breakfast.
King George, who daily goes
through Sandow' exercises before an
open window in the morning, has be
come extremely careful about his '
diet, as he suffers now' and again
from painful attacks of indigestion,
but In spite of all his recent worries
and cares he is in far better health
to-day than he was when he came to .
the throne The children are also
being carefully trained in the matter
of physical exercises and the habits
of the late King Edward, who ate
anything and everything which
pleased him, are constantly held up
to them as a shocking example of the
wrong way to live.
English Wheelwright
Falls Heir to $60,000
Poor Englishman Unable to Read
Does Not Hear of Good Fortune
for Some Time.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 31.—A. Matlock
resident (Mr. William Thompson) has
just heard under extraordinary cir
cumstances that $60,000 is due to him
under the will of an unde who had
died in the United States.
Asked how r he heard of his good
fortune, Thompson said: 1
“I am no scholar or I wOhld have
seen that the papers were asking for
William Thompson, wheelwright, for
merly of Belper, heir to $60,000. I
w'as walking home the other day
when a Mr. Smith, of Kirksw’orth, a
stranger to me, said, ‘You are Wil
liam Thompson, wheelwright!’ I said
I was, and thought I was going to
get some work. Mr. Smith then said
he had been to Bath and had lived
neighbor to my uncle Spencer, and •
that the lawyers were looking for me
to give ine $60,000.
Askeu what he would do with the
fortune. Mr. Thompson replied, "I
shall show great kindness of heart. I
shall not change my w r ay of living I
shall stay in ,the cottage for the rest
of my days, but I am going to give
money away, when I get it, to those
who have been good to me.”
GUNPOWDER TOBACCO.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. May 31. — Six-year-old
Walter Legros, of Compeigne, France,
in revenge for chastisement inflicted
on him in school, mixed 1 gunpowder
with his teacher's tobacco. The re
sulting explosion partially blinded the
t€:acher.
DOG NURSES SQUIRRELS.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31. —The baby
squirrels which lost their mother here
found an aiiactionate foster-parent in
a fox terrier owned by Herr Ulrich, '
of Corners, Switzerland, which nursed
the squirrels with her own two pup
pies.
BIRDS LIBERATED IN PARIS.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—In the Luxem
bourg Gardens recently two, men
opened several cages and liberated
400 thrushes, nightingales, robins and
bulfinches, which perched in the sur
rounding trees and announced their
gratitude in song.
The men were detectives, and the
birds had been illegally netted near
Paris.
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