The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26
A TAX ON CLUB DEVICES
HELD TO BE ARMORIAL BEARINGS s
BY THE AUTHORITIES OF
ENGLAND.
SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS MURDERS
Which Battle the Skill of the
Detective Police.

the claims of DR.. Prinzen Garlings turn
out to be what the doctor assert they
are. DR.. Gerlings, government Cffi-
cial of Java, and formerly professor of
chemistry at the University of Amster-
dam, announces the discovery of sim
pie method of converting potato starch
into sugar. He has lodged his descrip-
ton of the method with the French
academy of science, so as 10 secure
priority for his invention.
Yachting circles here are in a flutter
over the inland revenue authorities
summoning the secretary of hte Royal
Mersey Yacht club for using the clubs
hga onth eoffcial stationery. The mag
fstrates decided that the burgee of the
club embossed on the club note paper
constituted armorial bearings, and i'm
posed nominal fine. This is the first.
case of the kind, and it will be carried
to the highest courts, not only by the
yacht clubs, but by the cricket and
bicycling clubs. Tven boys displaying
the device of their schools on their
caps are liable under this luling to lay
an inland revenue fee
The present extraordinary epidemic
OF murders and suicides in London and
its vicinity is unequaled since the DAYS
of Jack the Ripper" Daily for week
past the public has been startled by All
atrocious murder and the alarm is in
creased by the fact that the perpetra-
tors of the crimes have all baf1ed the
police and have escaped without ap-
parently leaving a clue as to their
identity. The murder in railroad car
r1age of Miss Camp, in February last,
the perpetratOr of the crime not hay
ing been discovered. has been followed
by another railroad tragedy in which
Mrs. Bryan, the wife of a DIR. Bryan
of Northampton, has been killed under
circumstances pointing to murder, and
the Rev. DR.. Aubrey Price, a wen
known divine, was killed by burglars
at his residence on Monday. A little
boy has been Kidnapped and murdered
in the suburbs, a rich miserly woman
has been found cut to pieces at her
residence, Bethel Green, and a farm
er's daughter Emma Johnson. has
been murdered at Windsor under pc
culiarly atrocious circumstances. Her
body was mutilated stripped and
thrown into the Thames. The authors
of all these Outrages are still at large
and there seems to be no trace of them
although the murderer of Emma John
son is believed to be a maniac whose
actual identity is not known, but who
for months past has frightened and
assaulted persons on the road from
Windsor to Maiden Head and who has
always managed to elude capture.
The extent of the cricket craze here
finds evidence in the farewell banquet
given to Prince Banjitsinhi, the popu-
lar Indian cricketer. at Cambridge. on
the eve of his departure on a cricket
ing tour of Australia. the seven hun
dred guests present included the may
or. aldermen and college dOns. ana
when the prince retired to his hotel
the vast crowds of people assembled
beneath his windows called him out
and cheered him to the echo. ----a
Queen Victoria will privately visit
the MARQUIS and Marchioness of Sails
bury at Hatfield house about the mid
die of November after the return OF
the court TO Windsor.
Vanity Fair commenting upon. the
10Y experienced by the Duchess Of
Marlborough at Giving birth to di-
rect heir to the Blenheim estates. says:
"Consuel0. who has been nearly off
her head With delight since the fear
was removed of T'adv Randolph
NhurchilTs son succeeding to the DUKE
dom is rapid1v recovering and the
Family is making as much fuss %
though ar heir bod been born to the
throne. They take care that every
hing is put in the papers
SANDOW'S OFFER.
There IS wide interest among oars
-,en at Sandow's offer to train the
0ambridge crew for the boat race of
1QaS with Oxford and to back them to
-vir. Sandow insists that the old
Methods of dieting. living up to hard
md fast rules. and not smoking, is
.rCne. and he proposes. in the event
of Ca,o,hridge not accepting his offer
- undertake the training of one OF the
Henley crews The president of the
N--ford 90 Cambridge hoat clubs arc
both considering the subject. and haV9
l,een in cnronnUnicatior with SandoW,
President Phllins. of Oxford. is keep
mo sharp lockout to see that Cam
bridge does not monOp0lize the adVan-
tages presented hv Sandow.
The medical press warns the pnh'ic
oeainst q probable recurrence of in
huenza. For months past that disea &c
has been raging in severe form in fhe
district of Merv. Turkestan. The
number Of victims is immense. and. al
though there are fewer deaths than
formerly. the virulence of the epidemic
is said to have increased rather than
Iessened. The latest reports show
that the attack of Influenza leaves Sc
we're results. such as heart affections.
paralysis etc.
The French newspapers note with
much satisfaction that the German
military authorities are so exercised
at the progress made hv the French
military bicyclists that they are train
inc enormous wolf hounds to attack
military field men. The papers assert
that daily on the outskirts OF BHrlln
wolf hounds are trained to seize dunn
mics. in French uniforms. which have
boon perched on hicycles.
The growth of London is astounding.
The latest returns on the subject
show that over 1000 houses are erect
ed monthly in tho metronoliS. Between
the months of August. 1895 and Au-
g1,st 1897 1881 houses were built.
The statement is reneated 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 fem
mine er11dition bv cor -ferring . decree
unon Miss Tano F. Harrison the we'll
known Greek scholar and lecturer upon
Greek art and nsneciallv Greek
vase painting Miss Harrison has been
a FREQUENT contribution TO maeazine
1f+era turn ard has published works on
s.Graal5 Vase Paintino" :" etc She won
the Iangua ge scholarship at Cambr dge
STAGE GOSSIP.
Theatricallv the week has been dull.
Heddmondt has abandoned his attempt
to revive rip Van Winlle'' in serious
opera. The presentation was not a
strong one, in spite of the efforts of
a competent conlpanv. and he is now
giving HunperdiclS's "Iensel and Gre
pel." with Marie Elb and Margaret Or
merod leading. supplemented by an
opcretta founded on the legend OF Ros-
! lin Chapel, in which Atallie Claire,
Homer Lind and w. NJ. PAUL shine.