Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
SOME CHRISTMAS
TINE TRAGEDIES.
III London ScantiIy Clad Poor
Parade Fashionable Streets
Shouting, ':We Want Work"
DEADLY DUEL WITH KNIVES.
Fought in Dark Room FOR Girl
Denver Man Preferred Death
TO Poverty.

Eontlon, Dec. 25-Thc dark side of
The English Christmas is the great
number of unemployed and the dis
tressing prevalence Of restitution and
suffering This is seen principally
in London and at Glasgow and along
The Tyne and other ship-building CEN
ters, where many establishments have
been closed and thousands Of men arc
out OF work.
A small band of shabhily-dresscd,
MISUNDERSTANDING unemployed persons
have paraded tho fashionable shopping
streets during the past week, thread
ing their way among the lines Of mo-
tor cars and the crowds of aristocrat-
= ic Christmas shoppers. The police ac-
companied the band as 1t marched in
order to prevent disturbances. Its
members shouted in unison as they
marched. I'VE want work"
More than q thousand homeless men
assembled on the Thames cmbank-
mcnt every midnight to get tickets to
Salvation Army shelters.
The Army, however, is able to accom-
modatc but half the crowd and the
others dispersed. many of them being
obliged to spend the nights out Of
doors. The newspapers daily record
cases of men being sentenced to i'm
prisonmcnt for stealing food, who
plead that they are starving or have
families suffering from want. The
appeals to charitable organizations for
help We're never SO numerous or ur-
gent.
The Salvation Army and other charit-
able organizations today gave din
ncrs to many thousands of destitute
persons but these Christmas dinners
We're not q drop In the basket when
compared with the needs of the I'M
employed.
DUEL WITH KNIVES.
Cleveland, Dec ga duel to the
death with knives in Il dark room
Christmas eve between two suitors for
The hand of l4-year- old Julia Pice,
resulted In the death of Powell From
icll and the serious injury of Michael
NIilanovitch. who Is under arrest on
the charge OF murder. Fromichs
brother was probably fatally stabbed
when he attempted to separate the
fighting men. The girl was struck
by Milanovitch and badly hurt.
Both Fromch and Milanovltch had
pressed their suit and hoped to marry
the girl. She refused each In his turn.
Each thought the other was the cause
Of his& rejection Both men were
boalders in the I'ice home.
MilanoVitch is said to have gone to
E'romich's room and accused the lat
z ter of stealing his sweetheart
Il am going to kill YOU" the police
say he threatened. Then ensued the
fatal fight, The men rushed at each
other and also ut Fromichs brother
when ho tried to act as peacemaler.
DISCOURAGED, COMMITTED SUI
eide.
Denver, Colo. Dec. 25Downhearted
and discouraged because he was out
OF money and could not make his wife
happy with Christmas presents, Thomas
tIamliu, a plumber, killed himself last
night by sending q, bullet into his brain.
The suicide was committed in tho
presence Of his Wife, who had just
given him a small Christmas remcm-
brance.
Touched by her thoughtfuness of him
and his inability to return her kind
ness, he broke down and cried.
This Will be u sad Christmas for
you he said, and walked into another
room. drew ~ revolver from a suitcase.
placed the weapon to his head and
flied
He fell TO the iluoor and died 10 min
utes later without regainlng conscious
ness.