Arizona republican., 1898-02-25
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

A colored youth of Jersey City has discovered a new way of swindling women whose husbands or other male relatives are absent from home dur ing the day. He would find out some thing about the family and then call at the house in the guise of a messen- ger from Bellevue hospital in New York city. The women would be told that the man had met with an acci dent and was in the hospital, the mes senger demanding s3 as his fee for giving the information. The number of complaints made to the police of Jersey City show that the swiGdler | has been very successful.
 Arlington, N. J., has three proud young women, all of them married, and all next-door neighbors. Two of bthem were visiting the third when they saw the wood back of their houses on fire The danger was imminent, but they were equal to the emergency. Tucking up their skirts they formed a bucket brigade of three, and after a heroic struggle subdued the flames, which threatened their houses. They are proud because the Arlington fire company has elected them to honor ary membership.
 That belief in lex talionis obtains strongly in New York has been dem onstrated by the latest trials for mur- der In the Borough of Brooklyn the cowboy Hing, who shot and killed his brother-in-law, was tried and the jury disagreed, only two men favoring con- viction. In Manhattan yesterday the jury in the case of Pietro Barcia, tried l for killing the man who had slain his father in Italy, also disagreed. In the case only two men were for acquitta'. Young Barcia had followed Francesca Cassatta from Italy in pursuit of his vendetta, and was proud of having full filled. Both men will have to be tried again.
 The only man who ever escaped from Moyamensing prison in Philadel- phia, was made a prisoner again after 1 enjoying liberty for thirty years. Soon after his return from the war Evan l.. Bellor was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and sen fenced to six years Imprisonment. He escaped in 1867 and went west. He 1 is now 60 years old and has been an inmate of the soldiers home at Leav- enworth, Kan. He appeared as a wit ness in a civil suit in Philadelphia, was recognized as the escaped con- vict and rearrested.
 Cigarette smoking was the subject of discussion at the last meeting of the New York Medico-Legal society. Since w. H. Garrison, who is an in veterate smoker of cigarettes, defend- ed them at the November meeting of the society, the subject has excited widespread interest. Clark Bell de- 1 tended the cigarette and said that emil nent neurologists and alienists whom
 he had consulted, declared that they
 had never known of case of insan- ity attributable solely to cigarette smoking. The only danger was in the excessive use of the paper and tobacco. International law and diplomatic
 usage brought about a dilemma at the
 Chilian legation in Washington. Senor
 Don Domingo Cana tried to discharge his French butler, who went to the le- l gatlon in an intoxicated condition, but
 the butler refused to leave. The min ister applied to the Washington police for assistance, but was told that the legation was foreign ground, and the police could not interfere. What
 means Don Domingo employed to get
 rid Of the objectionable servant is not
 known, but it was reported last night
 that the butler had gone away.