The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21
or whole year. This

for a whole year This has
exceedingly grieved the owners, WHO fear
ing the poor tenants viii be permanently
harmed by such transient prosperity and
perhaps take TO drink and thus bring dis
credit on the jubilee, to the shame of all
loyal subjects have proceeded sorowful-
ly but firmly to give all their tenants no
tlce to quit, and out they will have to go
long before the jubilee day. in order to
make room for their betters. Tae peo-
pie who have hired windows from the
poor tenants have no remedy but 10 grin
and bear it, or to make terms with the
mean men at about 800 per cent advance
upon the tenants prices. 1t is claimed
for the owners, however that they can
not be wholly vile, for in many cases they
nave graciously permitted their tenants
to remain on condition that they abandon
their sordid money-making schemes and
give up possession of the premises for a
week before and a week after jubilee day.
What all this means to the owners may
be judged from a single instance, where a
house le to a monthly tenant at an an
nual rent of $780, was let by the tenant
for jubilee day for 800. But the owner
stepped in, gave the tenant notice to quit,
and now offers the house for the day for
$1,000.
Rev. DR.. John Watson, otherwise Ian
MacLaren, is likely to soon be in hot
turing tour Of the United States growls
were heard from Scotland as to his al
legged unorthodox doctrines and general
worldliness. These mutterings have al
most deepened into a roar since the pub
lication of his last book, which, in the
opinion of many worthy, if narrow mind
ed, Presbyterians, is distinctly Unitarian
in its teachings, if not downright hereti-
cal. Above and beyond specific offenses.
however, the dssentients object to min
lister of the Presbyterian church engaging
in the sinful work of writing novels and
they propose to ask the offender to give
explanations and express contrition a
synod convened to meet at Sunderland at
the end of April.
If the attention of the European world
was not absorbed by the threatened march
of great events popular interest would be
directed in a large measure to the as
founding revelations which are being
made this week in the criminal courts of
Hungary and Austria. A dozen women
are on trial in one town for poisoning their
husbands, and it is freely admitted that
theirs are only typical cases, which illus
trate what is almost a national custom
in the country districts of that region.
Husband poisoning, 1t was coolly
announced in court, is as common a
calling as midwifery and the public pros
ecutor declared that he only proceeded
with IneSe rev cases because the culpIllS
had confessed and he desired to break up
the practice. trial in Vienna, which
ended in a sentence of death yesterday,
showed what on important part arsenic
plays in the domestic economy of the in
habitants of Styria. A peasant named
Schmallefoer began shortly after his mar
riage in 1891 to have intimate relations
with a servant named Marie Penisipp,
with whose assistance he poisoned his
wife by mixing arsenic in her food He
married his paramour and on her foster
sister. Katherine Aillek, then only IS
years old entering his service In 1885, he
also became intimate with her and muir
dered his second wife, as he did his first,
by sprinkling arsenic over pieces of meat
on her plate, which, while she was away,
were turned over in order that she might
not see the powder on her return to the
table. Two children, girls, of 2 and 3
wears. asked their mother for more meat
and as she gave it to them from her own
plate, the father had to sit by and see his
children eat poison He managed. how
ever to keep silent in order not to betray
himself. The children recovered, but the
mother died. Suspicious being aroused
an exhumation of the body of the first
wife took place, and speaking OF 1t in
court a chemist made the remark that all
the village cemeteries in Styria were full
of arsenic