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A STATE MYSTERY. At the London School af Economics recently, Sir Martin Conway made a statement regard ing secret diplomatic papers that! will cause speculation. A friend! of mice," he said, "has certain) papers which I have seen. These papers contain-] cannot call it! secres history--but they contain facts relating to a very important turning point in the history of a certain country, some 10 or 50. years ago. "Nobody has the ghost of an idea about them, and although histories have been written there is no suspicion in anybody's mind that a
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"It is a point neither he nor I can reveal, that very important political event which is having an important effect and is de termining history in one way, though history says it is de termined in another."
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A picturesque, but pitiable, figure is missing from Church life in Cotberidge, Worcester- shire, where the Rev. Frederick Thomas Minchall, the vicar, was recently found neglected and dy-}| ing from want and exposure. Mr.
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vicar of the parish. He lived five miles away in a small cottage, and tramped to his church and back again twice on Sundays and once on week days, carrying at
With! night a stable lantern. battered at, dishevelled hair and beard, boots anlaced, and maddy clothes, he presented a forlorn appearance. His stipend was only £10 a year, and he enjoyed the rent of a few cottages. At] the inquest evidence was given that he had been eccentric
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A BIGAMY TANGLE. Samuel William Hill a soldier who committed bigamy with Louisa Eston under remarkable circumstances, was sentenced at the Old Bailey recently to three months' hard labour. Bill had married Louisa at the request of his brother, Edward Robert Hill, in order that she might draw the separation pay. Louisa had been | living with Edward Hill as his wife, and on his going to Francé the authorities demanded to see To the marriage certificate. meet this, Samael Hill married Louis, his own wife-Ada Hill being actually a witness to the wedding! Edward Hill was sentenced to six months' im- prisonment, and the two women ware bound over.
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NEW DAY ON ST. LAWRENCE. The account given in the American technical press of devel- opments in connection with the St. Lawrence River Power Com- pany contains several features of interest. Powers have now been granted to construct a submerged weir in the South Sault channel of the river, adjacent to the com pany's canal leading to the power house at Massena. Although the question was raised that the constraction of the weir would interfere with navigation of the river this objection wasover-ruled by the fact that the erection of the weir is necessary to incresce The the output of aluminium. State of New York maintained that title to any structares in the St Lawrence river should be vested in the State, and that although there would be no objection to waving these rights
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