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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890..

BIRTH,

At Mulberry Grove, Pootung, Shanghai, on

of a daughter.

The Hongkong crash

THE GAMBLING PROSECUTION

FIASCO...

months,"

playing or gambling, or shall permit any person to play within such house, room, DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, the 6th instant, the wife of J. GRANT MACKENZIE, boat, vessel or place on land or water, shall be liable to be imprisoned with hard LIMITED,

labour for any term "not exceeding six

Surely there was no reasonable doubt in the magistrate's mind that the Hing HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1890.|| Kee Club was other than a hopse kept "That it specially for pabilo gambling? was common gaming house," said his Worship, "there is every evidence; but I am only dealing with the charge of public gambling, and although there is much in the evidents before me to show that the hours was a public gaming house, I must dismiss the case." Mr. WODEHOUSE says that common gaming, as distinguished carried on by limited numbers, and in places where the general public have net access, and it is not prohibited in this colony. The essence of public gambling, which is forbidden by law, is that the house kept for the purpose is a house where any of the public have access freedom to gamble, and not merely limited number. We accept his Worship's definitions and would remind him that the

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BISMARCK is reported to have said: "The Emperor decided to try to induce the Socialists to maintain a peaceful attitede by means of concessions, but he (Bismarck) believed in fighting them as blackmailers. The sooner they were defied the better. The time would come when Socialism would be found to be military question, and in place of the present mild state of siege there would be a universal state of war,"

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CHARLES, COUNT POrow, is once again in THE P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, trouble. He arrived from anton this afternoon with maifs, &c., from San Francisco to the 23rd in custody of Detective-Sergeant Melver, on autto., has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave charge of obtaining money under false prétences for this part on Friday, the tath inst. from the agents of Messrs, Gibb, Livingston & Co. at Macao. Full particulars of this latest Ir is said that the Capliol of the United States, enterprise will come out when the Count faces in Washington, is unquestionably the finest and the music at the Police Court to-morrow morning. | largest building of the kind on the face of the FROM the Singapore Free Preis, of September earth. Of course it is; isn't it Yankee? What and Raub shares are recovering from the next sudden collapse that occurred in connection with the telegram from the mine that crushing pros. specls were "Indifferent." Shares are today. mentioned at a dollar, and they are being looked upon with some small return of confidence, Three additional Australian miners go up to-day to join the parly nt Raub. There appears to be some belief that Mr. Bibby will come down to Singapore himself with the result of his first crushing, whatever that may amount to. If so, be tight arrive from Pekan on Monday morning, TO-DAY Mr. Robinson's attention was taken up, case of a daring thief who was nailed" by Gunner Wakeman just us he was walking out of the Naval Dockyard at Kowloon with three pounds of brass filings under his jacket. The the service of the culprit had been in Naval authorities, ns a labourer, for the past three yohud, and it was supposed that he had been augmenting his salary by retalling odds and ends for some time past. He industriously doing his "trick" at the crank in admitted the charge, and was jailed for a month, a with hard labour, during which period he is to be placed at the Dock-yard gates for the space owe solid bours with his legs jammed in the

A TELEGRAM was received yesterday afternoon from Saigon, in which Capt. Duhme, of the steamer Taicheong, reported that the vessel had been ashore on the Paracels, but had got off. without assistance, and had arrived uninjured at that port The Taicheong loft here on Monday week.

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THE Singapore Free. Press of September and reports: The seamship Telemachus arrived here this morning from Liverpool, in Jeddah, having on board 740 pilgrims, 165 for Penang, who were landed there, and 575 for Singapore. During the passage chelera broke out on board causing the death of sixteen passengers and three of the crew The Telemackus proceeded to the Quarantine grounds and was visited by the Deputy Health Officer.

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RE cannot be the least doubt that Mr. H. E. WODEHOUSE, in giving judgment in the Chinese gambling-house fiasco at the Police Court yesterday, was fully justified in his severe censure of the police authorities

without sufficient evidence to ensure conviction. We venture nevertheless to entirely differ with his Worship's decision, and think he completely stultified himself by dismissing the defendants after having acknowledged that there was much in the

evidence before him to show that the

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house was a public gambling-house-any evidence in that direction was enough to warrant a conviction; but that is no excuse ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and for the failure of the police to make Hing Kee Club was a place where the THE Kelung correspondent of the Shanghai following-Science has been directing its

assurance doubly sure when they had the thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific opportunity. Furthermore, in an important issue of this kind, e question in which almost the whole of the respectable Chinese community are more

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general public had free access, as was very satisfactorily proved by the four constables who obtained admission without the least difficulty; and as the Club was

a hive of ugly germs were discovered, thur or less deeply proved by the books produced, and admitted

Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL... interested; the prosecution should not have to be nothing but a gaming house, the only take charge of the Government coal mines, and

Hongkong, 1st September, 1890.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

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been left in the comparatively inexperienced hands, so far as legal matters are concerned, of a police officer, Mr. INSPECTOR STANTON is well-known as one of the ablest and most intelligent officers in the Force, but it was too much to expect him to supplement his special duties as a detective with

far.

TEN years penal servitude was the sentence the other week at the Norfolk Assizes by Baron- Huddleston on Thomas William Poiter, aged 33, grocer, draper, and sub-postmaster at Soothery, for embering money received for We live and learn. A new clars of "snatcher savings bank deposits, forging and utterlog an has turned up in the person of a wiry-looking order, and falistying his books of account. The Canton, wharf. The innovator was spotted in Philbrick, Q.C., be prosecuted, said the Govern. the act of snatching a gamp from a lady me

ment would have to make up to deposilors. The passenger upon the arrival of the Powan here prisoner, a leading member of the Wesleyan yesterday afternoon, Iron: Casten. As 8000 25 Methodists, bore an irreproachable character he got it he bolted down the Canton until his fra dare discovered. How does wharf closely pursued by a cake hawker, who, this sentence pan out" when compared with caught and gave him in charge, with the result the three years meted out to Birradas for exactly similar offer.cei? There was a difference between that this new species of society parasite is now

the two criminals-namely, the Hongkong H. M. Gaol, whither he was sent for a term of

embersier made away with over $50,000* 14 days by Mr. Robinson, who interviewed him

whereas the Wesleyan Methodist fraud's stealings only totailed about $750, but we at the Police Court this morning.

nevertheless consider that Acting Chief Justice Fielding Clarke's lighter sentence waS more sensible, more reasonable and lo keeping character of the times in which we live, of Baron iban the merciless "ten years Huddleston, Long sentences have proved a miserable fallure and, thanks to the initiative of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, the Bench have generally recognised that important fact and acted on it with most beneficial results, if recently published criminal statistics count for anything. MESSRS, WHEELOCK & Co.'s Shanghai freight market report of the 5th inst. saysSince our last circular was issued on the 2zed ultimo there has been no new feature to note, the homeward freight market bo for London and New York having been maintained Cargo for London still remains very scarce ; steamers continue to Heave with very little space taken up, while for 'For New York It is almost the reverse. Nagasaki-Shanghai the market has declined con siderably, and as low as $1.10 per ton has beca weshall not see any improvement in rates forsome little time. From Newchwang to the South the demand seems to have ceased, and we hear that several of our local liners are seeking business; this dullness may be attributed to the fizil rates asked for produce in the North and to the anticipation of shipments meeting a slack market in the Soath, as is usual at this period of the season, The American ship Pactolus and the British barque Rothiemay have both left in ballast, the former for Puget Sound under charter effected here, and the Inter for Royal Roads under orders from bome; this leaves only one disengaged vessel in port. For London, via usual ports of call and Suez Canil :-The Mutual Co.'s steather Pingrury left here on the 31st ultime with a very small quantity of cargo. She is being replaced by the same company's steamer Wing chow.. Holt's have the Agamemnon loading. Owing to the inclemency of the weather her date will be followed by the Stentor, to leave on the 14th instant. There is nothing else on the berth but the Malls, and rates remain unchanged, vis from Japan on the 18th instant to load for London 35. per ton. The Carmarthenshire is due and the Continent, at 355. per ton. Fur New York, vid usual ports of call and Suez Canal The departure of the Gleneagier on the 27th ultimo, and the Beniarig on the 28th left the berth entirely vacant, but the Albany, due to-day, takes their place and is booking cargo at 355.

source of disease; and the result is, scientifically Mercury writes und date the 2nd inst:-"This analytic eye on the finger nails as a possible with the nature of the offence and the altered time there is absolutely nothing of gene al

bebind about a hundred Italian nails have been interest to tell you, except that the Governor taking, appalling. The impurities concealed. not at all going to leave Formosa, as has been examined and classified in the bacteriological stated recently in some papers. His Excellency laboratories at Vienna, with the resul: that quite is well now and has his hands full with the in- stallation of the new company, wh se managers

36 kinds of micrococel. 18 bacilli,

3 sarcina, the many different public works that are going ont. Commissioner Kopsch has left for Chin-and many other objectionable things, including hang and Dish M. Hapchefs of ten the spures of common mould. From such Customs in Tamsui. Happer. been

scratch a serious matter. Science here shifted from Tamisui to Ningpo, and is relieved bacterial ness comes the poison which make, a by Mr..Hinrichs." This correspondent has been chancing his arm" and has come to grief.

emphasises the wholesome rule of keeping the nails clean--not necessarily be scratching The statement in the Hongkong Telegraph that Governor Lui Ming Chuan was anxious to leave purposes. Formosa was perfectly true, and has been con firmed by the pub'leation in the Peking Gazette of his Excellency's memorial to the Emperor, The Mercury's requesting leave to retire,

possible reason why these strangers were received was that they should join in the gambling. But they did not gamble, and after a while the managers, noticing this unusual circumstance, became suspicious and a general stampede resulted. We confidently submit that the mere fact A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. the not casily to be acquired technical that outsiders

could

freely obtain (ESTABLISHED À.D. 1841.)

experience of a police court lawyer. We admission into this house where gaming HONGKONG.

were under the impression that the Colony was constantly carried on, was prima facie TE invite attention to the following old had a Crown Solicitor, who is specially Levidence that it was a public gambling Kelung 'foreign' correspondent had better try hair, but actually their flesh and blood. The accepted; tonnage is very plentiful, consequently WE

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retained and paid for his advice and services in cases where points of law and difficulties as regards evidence are involved; if that is so, why did Mr. A. B. JOHNSON not prosecute for the Crown yesterday? Had he done so there can

house within the meaning of the Ordinance. Mr. POLLOCK, it will be remembered, in the case against the Tung On Club in Hollywood Road' two years ago, refused to convict because there was not, in his opinion, sufficient evidence to show

again.

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can be no question about the Hing Kee Club being practically a public place, it was never denied that it was a house kept specially for gaming, yet Mr. H. E. WODEHOUSE acquitted the defendants, who were arrested in flagrante delicto, because

THIS is the kind of temmyret that Mr. James Gordon Bennett thinks fit to cable from London to the New York Herald: The ignorance of the rest of the the provincial Englishman world is truly astonishing, was in a railway carriage the other day, not twenty miles from London. Two rather noisy but well-dressed asking questions about the war at Buenos Ayres, which they thought was in the United States. They then asked how often we had wars there, and received in perfect good faith the statement that at regular intervals the Indians were accustomed to get fire to the praitic grass around New York city, which fire causes immense herds of buffalo to stompede through the streets, killing a large part of the population, after which the Indians sweep in and ilemen o expressed admiration of the system by which New York is lighted by a single huge off well in the centre: All of this sounds incred

A NEW but dangerou fashion bas (says Woman) lately been adopted in Paris. The ladies there now perfume not only their clothes and their practice was started by a lady who is in the babit of using morphia injection. She noticed, after a particularly strong injection, that her whole body was distinctly perfumed with morphla, Out of curiosity she put a few drops of patchrol into the syringe and injected it, and was delight- ed to find herself immediately pervaded with a strong smell of patchouli Enchanted with her discovery, she determined to keep it a secret, for her use alone. But her maid "had an eye to business, and, in a few days, A- subcutaneous perfume syriage" was to be found on every toilet'e table. The fashion, however, has turned out a dangerous one. Several ladies have become ill, some from infusing impure perfumes into the blood, and others by using extracts which are distinctly poisonous. It is said that the Paris doctors intend to petition the Legisin lure to make the practice punishable.

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decision would have been entirely different.. The facts as well as the law of the case appear to be simple enough. Nothing can be more certain than that the so-called Hing Kee Club was a common gambling house, quite open to outsiders, and that public gaming had gone on there unchecked for two years. It was also clearly proved that four Chinese constables in plain clothes, acting independently of each other, at different times walked into the room without the least hindrance, took their places at the paikau and fantan tables, and watched the proceedings without taking any active part, in much the same way as is frequently done in the licensed according to credible Chinese authorities remember it, is a son of old Bennett, the Aber apology is tendered, We wonder if Sir Heaty per ton; having received a fair quantity her stay

he considered it was not public gambling. under those who are left. One of these gen-IT is a very rare thing to find a Supreme Court of departure is postponed until to-monow, and sha

1.00 fantan establishments at Macao. They were entire strangers to the managers of the tables, they had actually never been in the house, before, and yet their presence elicited no remark of any kind. What is the reasonable inference that any sensible man would draw from this? Why, that the house was open to anybody who liked to come in, and that strangers were $4.50 constantly coming in-for what? It was not even contended by the solicitor for the 12.00 defence that the so-called club was used for any other purpose but gambling in its

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This gambling question is of far more importance than the mere acquittal or conviction of a number of scoundrels who in England would have been sent to gaol, but is the literal truth." Mr. Bennett's as rogues and vagabonds. There are said to be about three hundred Chinese gaming houses in full swing throughout the colony at the present time, and

teral truth is, in plain English, a series of stupid lies. It is no great marvel that Americans imbibe auch erroneous notion of England and the English people when one of their leading sewspapers stuffs them with such nonsense as this. And James Gordon Bennett, we blush to

deen printer.

will be short, and she will be followed by the Port Phillip at time of writing we hav not heard of her departure from Japan, but he is booking at same rate, The Glenorchy le to be the next beat, arriving here about the for Luson is still loading at 145. for twa nnd 235. middle of the month. Pia the Capes-The general cargo. The Nancy Fendicion is also on the berth and asking 22s. 6d. for all cargo. Quotations are Newchwang to Swatow, 19 Mex coats per picul, nominal; Newchwang to Amoy 20 Mex cents per picul, nominal Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.10 per ton of coal dett, for both steamers and sailing vessels. Settlements during the fortnight :—Vorwaerts, MADAME VITA advertises that she will give at German steamer, 613 tons register, Nagarald to the Theatre Royal, Shanghai, on Saturday the Shanghai Arsenal, $1.35 per ton coal, if to Farewell Performance, kindly nosisted by lady port :-Tifan, American ship, 1,1761ms register. and gentleman amateurs, introducing the most extraordinary theatrical novelty which has ever been witnessed, not only in the east but perhaps act the principal character in the celebrated

judge appearing as prosecutor in a criminal action for libel against a public newspaper, but we have just come across an instance in Wearem Australia. Sir Henry Wrenfordsley, who is at present acting as Chief Justice of Western Australia, has commenced criminal proceedings against the Perth Daily News for certain references in that journal which his Honour considers of a libellous character, and threatens to go on to the bitter end unless a satisfactory will act as judge and prosecutor at the same the demoralization these infamous dens

time! Judges have done that before now-in a way. Particulars of the alleged libel pre not are causing amongst the community is THE great increase in the tonnage of large ocean

steamers during the last 25 years has brought published, but we imagine they don't amount to very much, as the Journeyman judge,Sir widespread and appalling. The spirit of about a correspondingly remarkable change in gambling is keen in the ordinary Celestial, the size of modern sailing ships. It is quite a Henry Wrenfordsley is satirised by that title and its effects are only too plainly seen masters of over 2,000 tons nett register in the Lon-

common sight now-a-days to see fine four throughout Australasia-is an eccentric, indivi- dual who hits never shunned public storiely in the daily records of our criminal don and Liverpool and other docks, and although By the way, Sir Henry was Chief Justice often courts. It is these common gaming houses some few years ago it may have been thought that and Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Western 2,000 tons would be very near the limit for sailing Pacific, in October, 1832, when Mr. Fielding which bring ruin to the shroffs, clerks, shop-vessels, we have now several British vessels Clarke, our present Acting Chief Justice, was The largest Attorney General of that dependency of the men and others, and in too many cases registering 3.0co locs and over. starvation to the hard-working coolies and merchant ship afloat is the big four-master British Crown.

Liverpool, belonging to Messrs. R. W. Leyland their families. The Chinese merchants of & Co. of Liverpool. Her dimensions are 333 the colony have petitioned more than once

feet 2 inches, in length; beam, 47 feet 7 inches; reglacis, 3.330 tons nett She is running between Calcutta and Dundee under the com- mand of Captain J. Calder. The Liverpool was built by Messrs. Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, in january 1889. The Americans, bow, claim the honour of possessing the largest in advertising the superior, size and wonderful wooden ship afloat, and are by no means modest details of this ship. A Philadelphia paper states that the Rappahannock; for such is the much br gged-about ship's name, was built at Bath, Maine, and cost $125,000. Her dimensions are 287 feet long, 48 leet beam, and her, total tenage 3053 nett. The Rappahannock is the heaviest sparred ship that ever carried the Stara and Sripes. The ship has a steel bowsprit, which is an innovation, but she has no jibboom Her spread of canvas is 15,000 yards. TREL & C. Express anys ! →

lowest and most pernicious form, so that against these crying evils being allowed to and depth of bold, a6 feet 6 inches. She 30th September, "a Musical and Dramatic Arsenal $1.65, despatch. Disengaged vessel in

exist, but nothing effective has been done to remedy their grievance, and the efforts of the police have been rendered nugatory by either the Inadequacy of the existing law or the mistaken notions of the It is now time that the magistrates.

the object of visitors was obvious enough, And in the face of this, supported by the 1.25 evidence of the constables, which was not 1.50 even attempted to be contradicted, where Is the appositeness of Mr. Caldwell's comparison of this low gaming den with the Executive took decided action to stamp out this wholesale incentive to crime, reputable European clubs of thecolony? Can Mr. CALDWELL seriously imagine even the which is such a disgrace to the colony most remote possibility of four utter If it is the opinion of the legal adviser to strangers, unaccompanied by members, the Administrator that Mr. Woprнopaz 0.75 walking up to the card-room of the has correctly interpreted the Gaming Hongkong Club, the Club Germania, the Ordinance, a new law to effectually meet 6.75 Club Lusitano, or the Masonic Club, and the difficulty should be proceeded with at

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TELEGRAMS,

DESOLATING FIRE IN TURKEY,

LONDON, September 8th.

A destructive fire has occurred iù Salonica i the whole European quarter has been completely destroyed, Twelve million (sic) persons rendered homeless. Two hundred and fifty acres laid waste. Consulates, mosques, churches he pitals, and archives of great value destroyed,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The Messagertes Maritisans steamer Irdonaddy which arrived this morning, reports that she had to stop for twelve hours owing to typhoon between here and Saigon. We are informed by the agents of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Melpomene, from Bombay, Jeff Singa pore to-day, for this post.

We regret we cannot at present oblige our Bestow friend by altering the form in which our Share List is printed, nor do we really see koy necessity for publishing dally a lot of particulars as to the number of bares in each company, paid-up capital, amount of last dividend, ete know all these details by heart. Some day we may change the style of our list, but not just now.

Communitacions intended for publication rent be scopated Tom, boat, vessel, or place of any kind, as those really interested in shares must

by the same and address of the wrkers, not memarly for

publication; but as evidence of good faith.

The Admiralty have decided to recommission the composite gun-vessel Rattler, 6,715 tons, 1,200-horse power, for another term of service on the China station. The Rattler was built in 1886 at the works of Armstrong & Co. side by side with her slater ship the ill-fated Wasp, and hoch were commissioned at Sheerness in May, 1887, for service on the China station. A new crew will be despatched to Hongkong for the Rauler at the conclusion of the naval

manœuvres,

The cruiser. Sapphire, 1,970 tons, the last wooden cruiser built for the Royal Navy, bas been condemned as unfit for further service, and orders have been issued for her to be placed amongst the obsolete ships of the Medway Steam Reserve, as a preliminary to her being sold out of the navy. The Sapphire was constructed at Devonport in 1875 at coat of 86,999, since which £47,189 has been expended upon her She returned to Sheerness a year ago from the China Station, Ann

Admiral Sir William Montage Dowell, K.CH., late commander-in-Chief at Devonport, has been placed on the retired list of his rank, in accor- dance with the Order in Council of 1870, having Attained the sixty-fifth year of his age. Entering the service over half a century ago, the gallant officer took part in the China War of 18gr and subsequently worked in the trenches at the siege of Sebastopol, where he was wounded. He was present at the capture of Canton in 1857, and at the talding of Shimonoseki, Japan, In 1864. He in December 1888 was appointed to the post was on the China Station from 1884 to 1885, and which he has now relinquished.

in the world. A child of scarcely six years will.

to

EXTENSIVE FIRE LAST NIGHT,

MANESTIMATED damage $40,000, comedictia A Cup of Tes" (from the French "Une tasse de The"). After all this wo rise to

Adjoining the site of the proposed Hongkong ask if there is not in Shanghai a society for the

Hotel anusar, on the Praya, is a large building, prevention of cruelty to children Madame the ground foor of which is occupied by Mears. Vita's six-year-old actress may be "the most

Blackhead and Co., abip-chandiers, the frent extraordinary theatrical novelty which has ever part being the store and the rear portion stocked been witnessed," but the nursery, not the public with a large quantity of general articles, from stage, is nevertheless the proper place for this anchors to finced goods. The place was locked latest phenomenon. The principal character in up as usual last evening. Mr. Hohnke, the A Cup of Tea" is a lady who is placed fa au manager, himself seeing, that all was right. equivocal position with her husband owing to About F5 pm several persons in the dining. a series of stupid, albeit suggestive, blunders in room of the Hotel noticed imoke curling out of which a comic flunkey plays leading part. Is the gratings over the warehouse doors, and as it this proper schooling for child only six years grow thicker and thicker an alarmi was raised, of age) We venture to think not, and sbali About the same time Mr. Duer, from Messra, await with some interest the action of the Russell & Co.'s office,, on the other side of the Shanghai public regarding what we cannot hat Black, had seen the smoke, and in fact had smejt consider lamentable lack of good taste and burning all day. He ran down and pulled the. godown shutters open, which permitted the judgment.

denise volumes to roll out, Mr. Tucker, the A DISPATCH from Denver, Col, dated July 30th, manager of the Hotel, ordered the hose to be got out and attached to the water supply, and an American contemporary, 987 P-Mri: Ransome, alias Astelle, the notorious English Mr. J. M. Laing at once commenced pousing woman who was connected with Sir Charles stream into the interior of the building, whilst in a few minutes the Government Fire Brigade, Dilice and Lady Colin Campbell, and the Hughes Hallest case a few years ago, by virtue ander Mr. Wedehouse and Mr. Horspoel, of which she was compelled to leave England arrived, and very soon three Government steam forever, disgraced, is here is a scandal suit fire engines were pumping water from the against her husband, charging him with threats harbour into the warehouse, and to kill. Fourteen years ago she married in pump of Messrs. Blackhead's launch also got to London. She shortly afterward deserted her work No flames were visible, but it wa busband and married a ragu named Ransome evident that extensive combustion was going on in Birmingham By George, South, san of known to include large stock of tarted rope A year afterward she left inside, and as the contents of the godown were bim and the famous veterinary surgeon. She was not several hundred gallons of all, tame casks of legally divorced in either case. It was while tar, paint, and many other inflammable sub. Hving with South at 9a Cromwell Row, London stances, considerable anxiety was felt for the near Dilke's house, that she became connected safety of the adjolning buildings, especially the with the Dilke case. She came here a year ago Hotel. For some time no diminution of the and, after securing possension of, all of South's volume of smoke could be seen, and the clerks. money, about $20,000, she threw him over and in Melchers & Co.'s office, which is on the first ordered him never to come near her again. He door, got ladders and basily removed the books, went to her house for his possessions and a row Just as the flooring was beglanlig to burn. TEO was the result,, and she had him arrested for outbreak in that direction was quickly checked assault an faterview she and the what beyond that nothing could be done except- securing a divorce from all three of them and to fundate the ground floor." At eleven o'clock would marry a gambler in Helena, Mont, Bhe bright flames were seen flashing through the, †savéral civilians," that the fire did not embrace some work for high-toned people." She will go labors of the firemen, duosgenically, assisted by by way of San Francisco and Sydney. expect to go to Londen in September to do reke, and it was only through the strenuous

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