The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-03
Marie Tempest Quits Being
Philanthropist After
Trial.
ALL RESIDENTS ARE GUILTY
But Despite Their Pleas
Jury Frees Them For
Lynching Laborer.
Cuts Muscles Of Ears to
Escape Service in German
Army.


London, January 3.-Marie Tenn
pest has given UP trying to be a
phllanthropist She is playing in
"The Honeymoon" at the Royalty
theater, and she was told that the
100 odd sandwich-men employed
about the cattle market to adver-
tlse the show received only thirty
six cents day
what these poor fellows need"
said Miss Tempest, "is a coffee stall
on wheels which can follow them
about and at which they can get cof-
fee and tea and food"
She had the coffee stall made, and
then learned that there were GER
tain formallties to be observed be-
fore the work of bringing sunshine
into the lives OF the sandwich-men
could be commenced
She went to the board of guardians.
The board said committee would
have to be appointed to consider the
project. Also the borough councils
had to appoint special days to in
vestigate thoroughly in the exact cir
cumstances OF sandwich-men. Statis-
tlcians were called in to give illumi-
mating figures on the longevity
and mortality Of sandwich-men.
Also, a permit from Scotland Yard
was necessary. Experts i'm criminol-
ogy were consulted as to the advisa-
bility of feeding sandwich-men on tea,
coffee and buns Was there not dan
ger of pauperizlng them?
Miss Tempest kept on. BY and by
she had a bushel basket full of Of
fetal permits and other documents
sealed with red wax and tied In blue
ribbon.
A er about n month she said ?
can take the coffee stall out nowT'
ssCertainiy not.i There are further
formalities'a HuF 81 fut g4Mra -4r
aoo"And how long will they dtale ?" 2
ed"Abouti three months. And, you
understand, of course. that the stall
will, under no circumstances, be al
lowed, in the roadway during the
hours that the sandwichme!nl are on
duty"
Then Miss Tempest quit. 'I've no
time for "a Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce
suit" she said. v'w Hlt
Vienna, Jan. 3.-zAH the male resi-
dents of the village of Ribnick, COM
posed Of twenty-four farmers. plead
cd guilty to "lynching" a Czech la
borer but were declared mot guilty
by a jury despite the fact that they
had killed the wrong man. For some
time the village had been the scene
, of incendiary fires A Czech laborer
was seen lettering around barn.
Immediately n mob was formed and
the unfortunate man was beaten to
death with clubs. Among those who
participated was fourteen-year-old
boy ana man seventy years of age.
The jury freed the men on the ground
that they were so excited that they
did not know what they were doing.
The incendlary fires continue.
Berlin, Jan. 3.-A German court
has decided that letting your father
in-law starve to death is doing him
"bodily injury" and sentenced man
and Wife to a term in JAIL The old
man, 1t developed, had died for want
of proper nourishment The court
did not say whether 1t was a crime to
let mother-in-law starve to death.
Geneva, Jan. ~3.-steps have been
taken by the National Council Of
Switzerland, to purchase the st. Gott-
hard Tunnel railroad, the only rail-
road in Switzerland not owned by
the State. 1t Is necessary TO get the
consent of Germany and Italy which
have a heavy interest in the road.
Bremen, Jan. 3.-In order that ho
would not be eligible for military
service because he was the sole sup
port of his paralyzed mother and. a
seventy -five-year-o grandmother,
whom he kept on his daily wage Of
38 cents, Muslkateer Hoppe, cut Oft
the upper part of the muscles of his
ears soon after he was ordered to
join the Bremen Infantry regiment as
recruit. For this the high court
martial of the 18th Army Division has
Just sentenced him TO one year i'm
prlsonment the minimum penalty, be-
cause in the opinion of the courtmar-
tial Il was "child love" which prompt
ed the act At the same time, the
courtmartial held that Hoppe had an
"honorless mind" in having tried to
avoid military service by gripping
himself 1t developed that Hoppe be-
came very despondent when he was
drawn for military service and learned
that his aged mother and grand
mother were in dire want. He con-
sidered that his ear muscles were the
least necessary to him in earning a
living.
London, Jan. 3.-A deputation had
arrived from India to lay before the
British public and government a
grievance. It is that, In order that
British troops in India may have beef
to eat. The COW. the most valuable
possession OF the tiller of the soil in
India, is being slaughtered too free
ly. AS the natives use the bulls as
beasts OF burden for plowing, the
result Is that only cows are offered for
slaughter. Now II Is contended that
cows have become scarce and that the
milky supply fails far short of the
demand.
4a3 Killed ON N. Y. Streets.
New York, Jan. 3.-Statlstics show