Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-04-16
FORTUNES FOR REVENGE.
Instances Which Illustrate the Ex-
tremes to Which Men Will Go to
Crafty Their Passions

The extremes to which some peo-
pie will go for revenge have seldom
been better demonstrated than in
the case of two rival shipowners in
the north of England, some years
ago. The manager of local col
liery invited tenders for the con-
veyance of large quantities of coal
70 America. and when the contract
was given to one shipowner the
Wreak vengeance, relates the Chi
cago Tribune.
lie first approached the owners of
the colliery and offered to carry the
coal across the Atlantic for shilling
a ton less than cost price, and as this
effected considerable saving to the
colliery, the proprietors countermand-
ell the former contract and closed with
The second offer. The shipowner was
content to suffer loss for five wears
in order to spite his rival, and at the
end of that time he capitulated, for
his revenge had cost him $500.
wealthy London man of indie
pendent means died three wears ago.
after having devoted the last eight
years of his life to taking revenge
upon another man who at one time
had been his closest friend. He con-
fessed that he had spent S1o5.OOo in
this manner, and no doubt had he
lived he would have allowed his re-
Eenge to cost him infinitely more.
He employed a secret detective to
watch his enemy so that he could
thWart all his movements, and when
the victim put up for one of the To-,
cal councils lie. although he hated
the canvass1ng, set up against him.
His enemy got in, but his expenses
were infinitely heavier than they
otherwise would have been, so his
rival subsidized a paper, in which he
used to malign the others public
work, and ended by getting him
''bfackballed" from a political club.
And the cause of this expensive re-
venge was nothing more than a tri-
fling quarrel over one-acre field.
The costly revenge that one firm
engaged in the iron trade took upon
another in 1895 will always find a
place in the annals of British trade.
Both firms were engaged in the same
class of work. and one CHANGED to
clash with the other over the ex-
portation of their goods, which so
enraged' the first firm that they de-
termined to be revenged, however
great the cost.
They began by buying up all the
smelling coal they could procure at
cost of $275,000. but. as this did not
ruin the other firm they tried to copy
their rivals goods. and sold them in
America at a loss of 81, 500 day. The
opposing firm still held out logged
ly, however, and at last the revenge
full parties, unable to stand this Sc
r1ous drain upon their resources, de-
cided to give up the game as not be-
ing worth the candle. This, however,
was only done when their revenge had
cost them over 81 100000.
Some years ago a country solicitor
accused a neighboring parson of
preaching at him from the pulpit, and
Immediately thirsted for revenge. I'm
able to obtain satisfaction in the or
binary way, he erected an enormous
boarding in field he owned at the back
of the vicarage, which naturally
aroused the ire of the cleric, who, how
ever, doggedly refused to betray his
annoyance.
The solicitor next approached the
owner of the land on which the vicar
age stood and bought the property
from him, thereby being able to turn
his enemy out. The latter then built
himself house near the church, but
the solicitor did not intend to let mat
tiers drop, SO purchased the ground
that separated the house from the
church. This he closed to the public,
and the vicar had to take circuitous