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  2. "MURDER WILL OUT."

    A murder mystery of three years ago has been apparently solved (says the London "Daily Chronicle") by a sensational confession just made by an inmate of a lunatic ...

    Article : 482 words
  3. SOME REMARKABLE ESCAPES.

    The "irony of fate" was strikingly illus trated in the newspapers the other day (says a writer in "Tit Bits") when one read, in the same column, of a rustic who slipped ...

    Article : 704 words
  4. FATE OF A FORGER.

    The closing chapter in a sad tale was reached on Monday (says "Lloyd's News" of November 30), when John Ayling, J.P, was brought up in the High Court at ...

    Article : 769 words
  5. THE WONDERFUL BALLROOM.

    To describe in the briefest manner the whole history of Welbeck Abbey, where the Duke of Portland has been entertaining the King and Queen of Spain, would ...

    Article : 490 words
  6. "GO-PREACHERS."

    That remarkable sect, the "Go-Preachers," or "Jesu's Way People," or "Nazarenes," have now appeared at Swinden (writes our London correspondent dated ...

    Article : 553 words
  7. A STRANGE THERMOMETER.

    Mr. Arthur J. Burdick, of Los Angeles, California, writes in the "Strand Magazine":—Probably not one person in a thousand would be able to guess the purpose ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 299 words
  8. LOVE AND INTRIGUE.

    In the annals of British crime few events have created more stir than the mysterious death of Mr. Charles Bravo, a well-to-do barrister, who on April 24, 1876, died from ...

    Article : 2,100 words
  9. ON THE LOOK OUT FOR TITLES.

    There is muck laughter in America over an amusing hoax played by an adventurer on the wealthy dames of Pittsburg, who are both angry and ashamed at the ...

    Article : 866 words
  10. THE GHOST WAS CAUGHT.

    A raid carried out by the police on a spiritualist meeting held at the residence of Mr. Samul Rynex, in Bathurst-street, Toronto, furnished some lively scenes, and ...

    Article : 536 words
  11. CHEMIST'S TRAGEDY.

    A chemist's remarkable letters to an actress, written on the eve of suicide, were read, at a Chelsea (London) inquest one day last November, when the death of ...

    Article : 874 words
  12. MEN WHO HAVE DISAPPEARED.

    Wild as the theory may seem, it is by no means improbable that individuals who have incurred the ban of foreign Governments or secret organisations who have ...

    Article : 678 words
  13. ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM.

    After being shut up in Bridgend Asylum for eight years, a man named David Ross escaped, and his case was brought before the Merthyl, (England) Board of Guardians as ...

    Article : 287 words
  14. ANIMALS AND COLD.

    A hedgehog picked up in the curious torpid state which we call "hibernation" has been immersed in water for twenty minutes without being any the worse, and ...

    Article : 707 words
  15. STRANGE POISON CASE.

    Fernand Leborre, an undersized, dull-looking, ugly, and stuttering youth of 20, tried at Blois, France, for having poisoned a chemist, M. Blanc, who employed him as ...

    Article : 534 words
  16. A MAN IN THE BOX.

    Two mysterious visitors came late at night with a large box, which they unloaded from a waggon, asking the proprietor of a cafe in a country town in France if he ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

    Mr. John Whitley, a wealthy capitalist, and director of many corporations, murdered his handsome wife, as she was asleep in the Hotel Belleclaire, New York, one day ...

    Article : 375 words
  18. STRANGE INHERITANCE CASE.

    About fifty years ago the then Prince Delia Pescara married (says a Milan correspondents a girl of extremely humble birth, and immediately afterwards declared ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. THE TROUBLES OF A KNIGHT-ERRANT.

    Chourus of very wicked boys—"Yahooll Bluebeard[?]" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  20. A NEW INVENTION.

    After Professor Korn and M. Edouard Belin, a third inventor, M. Berjouneau, of France, has devised a new "telephotographie" apparatus. He transmits over the ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. THE MARQUIS AND THE LADY

    Madame Coussierat, who is accused of having thrown vitriol in the face of the Marquis de Saint Legier on the Paris boulevards in December, 1906, was ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. A TORPEDO UNDER FIRE.

    Experiments have lately been made with the object of ascertaining the exact radius within which a torpedo-boat becomes visible to a watch aboard a battleship from ...

    Article : 142 words
  23. A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.

    A terrible acetylene explosion occurred in a building formerly used as a casino and theatre at Monteux, a small place near Avignon (France). The building had been ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. LITTLE GIRL DRAGGED TO DEATH.

    A shacking accident, winch had a fatal termination, occurred one afternoon to the little daughter of Colonel King, commanding the Royal Engineers at Colchester, ...

    Article : 74 words
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