The record-union., 1897-09-26

cious Murder, and the Perpe-
traitors Have Escaped Without
Leaving C1ew TO Their
Identity.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-(Copyrighted
1897 by the Associated Press 1.-The
present extra epidemic of murders, SUI
icides and outrages upon women in
London and it's vicinity is unequalled
since the days of Jack the Ripper"
Daily for a week past the public has
been startled by an atrocious murder,
and the alarm is increased by the fact
that the perpetrators of the crimes
have all baf1led the police, and have
escaped without apparently leaving
clue as to their identity.
The murder in a railroad carriage of
Miss Camp in February last. the per-
petrator of the crime not having been
discovered, has been followed by an
other railroad tragedy, in which Mrs.
Bryan. wife of a DR.. Bryan of North
ampton, had been killed under circum-
stances pointing to murder, and the
Rev. DR.. Aubrey Price, a well-knOWn
divine was killed at his residence on
Monday. A little boy has been kidnap-
ed and murdered in the suburbs.
A rich miserly woman has been
found cut to pieces at her residence,
Bethnal Green, and a farmers daugh-
ter, Emma Johnson, has been murdered
at Windsor under peculiarly atrocious
circumstances. Her body was mutt
lated, stripped, and thrown into the
Thames. The authors of all these out
RACES are still at large, and there seems
to be no trace of them, although the
murderer Of Emma Johnson is be-
lieved to be a maniac, whose actual
identity is not known, but who for
many months has frightened and as
saulted persons on the road from Wind
sor to Maiden Head, and who has al
ways managed to elude capture.
The extent of the cricket craze here
finds evidence in the farewell banquet
to Prince Ranjitsinjhi the popular In
dian cricketer at Cambridge, on the
eve of his departure on a cricketing
tour to Australia, the 700 guests pres
ent including the Mayor, Aldermen and
college deans, and when the Prince re-
tired to his hotel the vast crowds of
people assembled beneath his window
called him out and cheered him to the
echo
Queen Victoria will privately visit the
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
at Hatfield House about the middle Of
November, after the return Of the court
to Windsor.
Vanity Fair" commenting upon the
-
Marlborough at giving birth to a direct
heir to the Blenheim estate, says: Con
suelo, who has been nearly off her head
with delight since the fear was removed
of Lady Randolph Churchufs son sue
ceeding to the dukedom, is rapidly re-
covering, and the family is making as
much fuss as though an heir had been
born to the throne. They took care
that everything was put in the papers"
There is wide interest among oarsmen
at Sandow's offer to train the Cam
bridge crew for the boat race of 1898
with Oxford and to back them to win.
Sandow insists that the old method or
dieting, living up to hard and fast rules
and not smoking is wrong, and he pro-
poses, in the event of Cambridge not
accepting his Offer to undertake the
training of one of the Henley crews.
The Presidents of the Oxford and Cam
bridge boat clubs are both considering
the subject, and have been in commu-
nication with Sandow. President Phil
lips Of oxford is keeping a sharp out
look to see that Cambridge does not
monopolize the advantage offered by
Sandow.
The medical press warns the public
against a probable recurrence of influ-
enza. For months past that disease
has been raging in a severe form in the
District of Merry, Turlestan. The num-
Der of victims is immense, and although
there are fewer deaths than formerly,
the virulence of the epidemic is said to
have increased rather than lessened.
The latest reports show that the at
tack of Influenza leaves severe results,
such as heart affections, paralysis, etc.
The French newspapers note with
much satisfaction that the German mil
itary authorities are SO exercised at the
progress made by the French military
bicyclists that they are training enor-
nous wolf hounds to attack militant
field men. The papers assert that daily
on the outskirts of Berlin, wolf hounds
are trained to seize dummies in French
uniforms which have been perched on
bicycles.
The growth Of London is astounding.
The latest returns on the subject show
that over loo houses are erected
monthly in the metropolis. Between
the months of August, 1896, and Au-
gust, 1897, 1851 houses We're built.
The statement is repeated that the
Prince of Wales viii shortly visit the
Italian court.
For the first time in its history, the
University of Durham is about to mark
its appreciation of feminine erudition
by conferring a degree on Miss Jane
E. Harrison, the well-known Greek
scholar and lecturer on Greek arts, par
ticuiarly vase painting. Miss Harri-
son has been a frequent contributor to
magazine literature, and has published
work on Greek vase painting. etc. She
Won the language scholarship at Cam
bridge.
While the general health of Munkac-
sly. the famous painter. who is in an
asylum at Bonn, is excellent. his brain
is hopelessly gone.
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