PLAGUE RIOTS,
SACRIFICING A POCTOR.
CALCUTTA, 24th February.
That superstition and danger still accompany plague outbreaks is clearly proved by a recent event at Pallala. So far as can be ascertained it seems certain city people remarked they intended to sacrifice a doctor in order that the plague should cease. Major H. Hendley, medical officer, was apparetly selected as a victim. A door was fastened down on his foot and be was then pelted with brickbats and carled off and thrust into à mass of filthờ" "Ho, managed to take refuge in a house, which was set on fire, and he and his resistants were near ly perishing from suffocation when some 1m perial Service Troops arrived and rescued them. Major Hendley was wounded in nine places and badly burt on the head and right leg and will probably be confined to his house for some weeks. His family had been taken to the Palace for safety and guards were placed on the European homes. About 200 arrests were made but the ringleaders and instigators have not yet been found. Everything is quiet at this. moment iz Patiala.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
spoon, well and good. If David had not been
a shepherd lad, he would never have made so good a king. Cincinnatus was a good plough. man, or they would never have fetched him. from the plough tail to be Consul and Dictator.
1. am the Light of the World," cried a young upstart, who thought that taking and announcing a text was the royal road to preaching
"I am the Light of the World he cried'a second time, but, sad to say, the sermon would
not come..
"I am the Light of the World," he cried yet more loudly, but inspiration tarried,
An old Methodist woman, just in front of the up into the face of the upstart preacher, ear pulpit, quietly mase from her sent, and, looking
nestly said:
thou badly wants suuffing.".
"Well, lad, if thee be the light of the world,
A GAOL, ROMANCE.
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Both prisoners were, it will be remembered, range from 18 to 21, have been condemned to under senteupe of death. Edward Biddle was banishment to remote settlements in Easter a most extmordinary man, with a magnetic 570] Siberin for an extraordinary act of desecration attmation about him which he knew well how perpetrated in the Snamtaski Monastery atto employ when any end was to be served. Kurak. The monastle chapel contained a shrine of the Virgin, which has long had the reputation of working miracles, and around which a crowd of prostrated devotees was always to be seen on Sundays and holy days. The prisoners, who have since frankly avowed that their object was to dissbuse the minds of worshippers of their superstitious belief in the miraculous powers of the image, manufactured a powerful bomb, and by an ingenious ap- pliance of the works of a watch to the concus.
sion arrangement, fixed the explosion to take place an hour and a half after midnight, when the chapel was locked up. The bomb, covered with a cloth, was secretly laid in an obscure (nook at the foot of the shrine during the vesper service, and the explosion duly followed exactly at the appointed clockwork time, shattering the railguard, the pedestal, and the sacred icon,
A LECTURE IN PROVERBS.
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The fact that there was something irresistible about Edward Biddle was seen in the large, numbers of women folk, many of good families, who visited him in prison.
He soon saw that Mrs. Soffel, the wife of the 8301 warden, was an impressionable woman, whom he could bend to his will. Accordingly, in December, be threw his spell over her; the woman became infatuated with the prisoner.
-CONFLICT IN THE CELL..
Mrs. Soffe did everything he asked of her.
Her father was a gaol guard in the prison, and the old man, knowing the interest that his daughter took in the Biddles, carried notes to the cell from time to time, but was always under the impression that they were poetic effusions, Mrs. Soffel being given that way,
The plans for escape were duly completed, and Mrs, Soffel made arrangements to go to Canada, where she was in be joined by the prisoners,
Biddles could leave the cell, put off their pri
Some terrible work had to be done before the sun garb, and don the clothes which Mrs, Soffel had provided for them. Their escape was
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There are people who never think of saving; it is as far from their consciousness as the notion of teaching a cow to sing the Old Hundredth. Their money burns a hole in their pockets, and too frequently it drops into the publican's till. Such pockets ought to be "fire-proofed" with blue ribbon..
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Little 'strokes fell great anks. That is to may, “Stick to it and you will manage it," "] can't his saddened all the gods. "I'll try has astonished and blessed the world.
Can anything be done to alleviate the suffer. inga of those brave men dying amid the throes
of a Russian winter?
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Must the slave always groan beneath his bondage, must his iron chains be forged for ayo"
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proved the stronger through the superior strength of Jack Biddie, who, after settling with QUALITY, his man, had to go to the assistance of his brother Edward, who was on the point of being overpowered.
The plucky warder stuck to his man, but a shot fired by Jack Biddle brought him down. The first warder was stunned very early in the conflict; and now that a second had been settled with by a revolver shot, nothing remained but to set upon the other and knock him unconscious.
CHASE OVER THE SNOW.
This done, the Biddles rushed out of the cell, where the woman Soffel was awaiting
them, and donned fresh clothes. Mrs. Soffel,
who had possessed herself of the warder's key, now opened all the doors, and the prisoners soon found themselves cutside of the prison.
A hue and cry was soon raised, and pursuit was commenced at once by aimed police. The
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A sleigh was handy, and into this they rushed and bounded over the snow-clad plain. The pace" was madly furious. The horses were lashed, the snow thrown up by their hoofs almost blinding the occupants in the sleigh, Bui, unfortunately for the prisoners, the horses had travelled a considerable distance before they got possession of them, and their heavy panting and the steam atiting from them showed that they would soon become winded.
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The police called upon the Biddles to stop and surrender themselves. For answer Edward Biddle fired at bla pursuers, without, however, hitting any of them. The chase them developed whereas with the other exchange books the into a shooting contest, Two of the police fired process would be as follows:-
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The woman, now alone in the sleight, began or to reconvert the dollars into sterling at the
the aleigh swished over the snow. The woman also fell out, being unable through exhaustion to hold fast to the seat.
The Biddles were not then dead, but it, wan soon seen that they were unable to offer fur- ther resistance. They were taken to Butter Gaol, where, after declaring to a priest their innocence of the murder for which they had been condemned, they died last night.
Mrs. Soffel, when picket up, was found to be “No,” said philosophers. "No" said the suffering from a gunshot wound. She is in 2 worldly clergy No," said the modern very serious condition. Her story is not clear. pharisees.
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