The log cabin Democrat., 1908-02-27

ceived samples of the hair and hide of q mammoth, probably the only sample of the outer covering of that extinct animal now in America. They are from Elephant Point, Alaska, a place where various re- mains of prehistoric animals have been found. The elephant IS sup posed to have originated in Africa and to have travelled to all parts of the globe, developing hair for which the mammoth is noted in the cold regions of northern Asia. The first mammoth was discovered in Siberia nearly a century ago, and since that time remains have been found Tn Alaska, presumably having floated across Behring sea encased in ice. The only perfect specimen of the mammoth is in the museum at St. Petersburg, having been found ice encased in Siberia.
 The Pullman Company has decid- ed to discontinue the sale of liquor on its cars in every part of the Uni ted States, the order to go into effect as soon as the liquors now on hand can be disposed of without loss. An order to this effect was sent out from Chicago several days ago to va rious district superintendents throughout the United States. It is expected to begin in the East and work Westward, and the order be- comes operative in New England and the middle states about March l.
 That the notorious bigamist, Arthur Hyne, who was sentenced to seven years in the Assizes, Bristol: England, Is Dr. George Witzhoff: alias George Wolf, alias Dr. Ed mund Reiter, Muller and a dozen more names. who married and de- serted more than fifty women ln America, James Carroll, house de- tective at the Hotel St. Regis, New York, is certain.
 Night riders late Sunday night visited the farm of V. Mckinney, in the northern part of Christian county, Kentucky, broke open his tobacco barn and rolled out two wagons heavily loaded with tobacco. Under one of the wagons they built a fire and the wagons contents were destroyed. They placed dynamite in the other wagon, but it failed to ex- plode.
 The Country Club, one of the most exclusive organizations in the South, numbering many judges and social leaders in its membership, and having one of the finest golf courses in the South, has been in- dicted at Montgomery, Ala, for selling intoxicants without license, it being against the law to sell liquors in the county outside of the city of Montgomery.
 Humane Officer Jackson has sworn out warrant in New Phila- delphia, Ohio, for Miss Clara Ster- ling, 24 years old, a teacher at the county children's home. Jackson de clares Miss Sterling confessed to him that she drove tack through the tongue of S-year-old Simpson Fowler, an inmate of the home.
 Third Engineer William Davis, one of the men suffering from vel lew fever on the steamer Crispin in Galveston roads. three miles from Galveston, Tex, died early Monday morning. Third Officer Pritchard the other fever patient, was report ed as being slightly improved.
 With a force that shook the en- tire bay region like an earthquake the packing house of the Hercules Powder Works, at Pinole, II mile; north of Berkeley, Cal, blew up al 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon and ir the explosion four white men and 24 Chinamen were killed.
 In a heroic attempt to rescue her C-year-old companion, David Rog- CTS, from in front of an approach ing train at Gainesville, Ga, Mon- day, Lllie May Klein, 12 years old, was struck by the train and with the child in her arms, both were crushed to death.
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