The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-06
CRIMES
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Because she spurned
CRIMES his attentions, it is
AND said. w F. Daugh-
CASUALTIES erty. a former police
man of Tulsa, Okla,
shot r arr hayes at her res fIfenge, size
soon expiring; slightly wounding an
ex policeman. Grant Pil5inton. who
endeavored to prevent him from TAX
| ing the woman's life, and then killed
himself
Manchurian bandits made a raid on
the town of New ChWang, at the mouth
of the Lao river, and,carried off ff
teen Chinese merchants to be held for
ransom. according to advices received
at Victoria, B. c., brought By steam
er Sado Maru. Brigands stole $50, 600
from bank and also secured large
stores of arms and ammunition Bri-
gands retired 40 a stronghold in the
mountains near Antashien, where at
last accounts they were surrounded by
600 Chinese troops and also number
of police from Haicheng and Lao
Yang.
Miss Lucy Burton of Dover, n. j.,
will probably be blind for life as the
result of the practical joke OF a youth,
the son of a neighbor. Miss Burton
was ascending in an elevator in dry
goods store when the practical joker
threw tube of red pepper into her
face. She screamed and sank to the
floor of the elevator. She has been
unable to see since the occurrence and
oculists hold out little hope that her
sight can be restored.
Kneeling in the midst of bonfire
which she had made of religious
books and magazines and saturated
with coal oil with her own hands Miss
Mamie Mccarthy, eighteen years old,
slowly burned to death in the rear OF
her home at st. Louis while she was
praying. The girls action was a sud
den inspiration. Religious books and
magazines with which she made her
funeral pyre were taken from center
table in the living room. where she had
been sewing.
Carl A. Badsing, a young Chicago
confectioner, was arraigned on charge
of numbering his second wife and held
to await The coroner's report, and also
to enable the police to continue inves-
tigation of the death of the first wife
of Badsing. Professor w. s. Haines
reported to the police that he found
arsenic in the body OF the second wife
Body of first Mrs Badsing was ex.
hurned and investigation for traces OF
poison ordered
Agnati Rinti's friendship for Ttali-
an squad of the New York city detec.
tive bureau, of which the late Lieut.
Petrosoni was formerly in command.
is believed to have melted members OF
the Black Hand to attempt to assas
sinate him by hurting a bomb at him
from houston He was rendered IN
conscious, but escaped serious injury
Similar attempt was made OH Rinti,s
life three weeks before
a running revolver fight between the
occupants of two automobiles at New
York city occurred IN one of the fash.
ionable residence districts of the Up
per West Side. Fully fifteen shots |
we're fired, and from bloodstains that
marked the course taken by one of the
machines it is believed that at least
one man was wounded Despite quick
pursuit BY police both automobiles es
,aped
Edward Thomas, sixty three years
# age, who was employed in the
slant Of the BartlesvilIe tOkla. link
company, was caught in the machinery
ind ground to death He leaves a wild
nv and nine children.
Plant Of the American Olive com
Sany at Los Angeles. Cal, saidto be
he largest of its kind in the world.
vas destroyed by Gre. Loss is esti-
mated at $50. 900.