The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23
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 Rome. Dec. 22.-Amerfcan tourists in Italy are suffering intOlerable incon- yenience from the curious Kind or strike among the Italian custom ofti- cials, who are impeding the working of their department by an excessively minute enforcement of the regulations, as a means of expressing their griev- ances The officials are infected with the disconteut which is universal throughout the public services, and accuse phe Government of slothfulness
 The customs depots are choked with accommodations of baggage and postal parcels and. tourists passing over the frontier are exasperated by the endless delays. Much smuggled goods. how ever, have been brought to light which would have escaped detection other wise. A number of heavy trunks con- signed to the United States were found to have double bottoms, which were filled with pictures. and obJects dart. the exportation of which is forbidden by law
 Vienna. Dec. 22.-witchcraft still fourishes in Austria and finds people ignorant and credulous enough to pay money for it's charms" and spells. A working women named Maria Nehily has just been sent to jail for two months for series of frauds on poor people whom she made believe that she had magic powers. She was in league with stephen Stefanoyics. a Hungarian shepherd 92 years old, who is weA- known miracle worker
 Nebily did large business in love- philtres and charms against drink. headache, and all, kinds of diseases. For each charm she charged $S.5J and for advice $2.00.
 one woman, the wife of a chauffeur named Hauck, paid Nebily altogether S21 for the benefit of her alleged pew CTS. When Hauck was arrested TOT running over child. Nebily undertook to bewitch the entire court that trleo | him and to cripple all the witnesses. Instead of being bewitched. the court sent FIauck to jail. Previously Nebily had sold Mrs. Hauck a powder she said would prevent her husband from being extravagant if placed In hts soup.
 Morte Carlo, Dec. 22.--Curious means are taken by antl- gamblers to deter in- tending punters from entering the Ia
 nous Casino here. A crank, who says he has lost all his money at the tables has been paradIng up and down III front of the gambling palace with a biR white cross painted on the back or
 
 his overcoat. He is watched with amusement by successful gamblers ana ] with awe by others
 Hidden away on che hills above Monte Carlo is little cemetery where suicides are buried, The suicide of ruined gamblers is very frequent, all though the authorities do their best to suppress all news of such tragedies. The suicides cemetery is one of the saddest spots in Europe. as well as powerful lesson against the passion or gamUling but 1t Is not advertised among the attractions of the Riviera
 Rome, Dec. 22.--After being given murder case to investigate. a young detective, ViOyanni Cantiri. has startled his superiors at Viggiapo by confess Ing that he himself committed the crime. and then shooting himself be- fore their eyes. The victim or the murder was Domenica Vincetti' young peasant girl, whose body. was found mutilated near her parents cot taEe. Cantiri. who had proved himse!I e clever detective. was put on tre'i