Birmingham state herald., 1897-03-21

to quit and out they will have to go long before the jubilee day in order to make room for their betters. It is claimed for the owners, however that they cannot be wholly vile for in many cases they have 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 let to monthly tenant at an annual rent of $500 was let by the tenant for jubilee day for $400 but the owner stepped in, gave the tenant mo- tice to quit, and now offers the house for the day for $1,000.
 Rev. Dr. John Watson, otherwise "In- dian Mac Laren," is likely to soon be in hot water. Long before he went on his featuring tour of the United States, growls were heard from Scotland as to his alleged unorthodox doctrines and general worldliness. These mutterings have almost deepened into a roar since the publication of his las. book, which in the opinion of many worthy, If narrow minded Presbyterians. is distinctly Uni tarian in it's teachings, if not downright heretical. Above and beyond specific offences, however, the dissentients ob- ject to a minister of the Presby yterian church engaging in the sinful work or writing novels and they propose to ask the offender to give explanations and ex- press contrition at 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 astounding revelations which are be- ing made this week in the criminal courts eff Hungary. A dozen women are on trial in one town for poisoning their hus- bands, and it is freely admitted that theirs are only typical cases which illus trate what is almost a natural custom in She country districts of that region.
 Husband-poisoning 1t was cooly an- nounced in court, is as common a calling as midwifery, and the public prosecutor declared that he only proceeded with these few cases because the culprits had confessed, and desired to break up the practice. A trial in Vienna, which ended in sentence of death, yesterday, shows what an important part arsenic plays in the domestic economy of the inhabitants of Syria. IA peasant named Schmale- foer began shortly after his marriage in 1891 to have intimate relations with a ser want named Marie Penisipp, with whose assistance he poisoned his wife by mixing arsenic in her food. He married his par amour, and on her foster sister, Rather ina Mfllek, then only 15 years old, enter ing his service in 1895, he also became in innate with her. and murdered his second wife as he did the first, by sprinkling arsenic over pieces of meat in her pla'e, which, while she was away, were turned over in crder that she might not see the powder on her return to the table. Two children 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. The children recovered, but the mother died. Suspicion being aroused. an exhumation eff the body of the first wife took place, and, speaking of it in court, chemist made the remark that all the village csm- eteries in Styria were full of arsenic.