Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — TALES FROM BIG CITIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES FROM BIG CITIES.

Whatever <e Animal Is the Dogs Don’tlAe It WINONA, MINN.--Roaming to the wooded land where it evidently has a hidden place in which to hibernate is a large, strange animal, so ferocious that it has caused men ordinarily frightened at nothing to flee to great fear

at the sight of the beast, according to advices from Pickwick, to the lower end of Winona county. So aroused over the reports have the residents there become that the woods three miles south of Pickwick at the upper end of Big Trout valley are likely to be invaded by a force of armed men determined to rid the community of the invader. ReportS'of seeing the beast have persisted for several weeks. What it

is none who has seen it oan say. The .; . most reliable information thus far Is said to hate been gained from Carl Nelson, a farmer residing on the edge of the infested woods. Nelson swears he saw the beast plainly and that it was light gray In color, striped and about as large as a yearling calf. David Huffors, a retired merchant, went into the woods with two good hunting dogs and a high-powered rifle. Several miles below Pickwick his dogs picked up a trail. They followed it to a heavily wooded place which backs into ft Focky Che dogs began to bay, then suddenly broke and fled to their master, tails between their legs. Huffors turned around, and went home. He said be didn’t see the animal—didn’t even have a desire to see IL The fear of the dogs satisfied him, he said. Others who have sent dogs on the trail of the beast declare that they become greatly excited when the trail is first picked up, but after following it for some distance break for home, displaying unusual fear. Farmers around Pickwick believe the animal escaped from a circus, has worked its way to the Mississippi river and is unable to cross IL f .r * Life Burdensome to This Woman Typhoid Carrier CHICAGO.— This .city has a woman typhoid carrier, whose story is a tragedy. Her name is suppressed by the health department. She has been isolated for the safety of the public. She has tried to kill herself and has to be watched. “If I die my crippled husband will

have SI,OOO life insurance,” she said, her voice iquavering, “and that’s better than nothing. “I have been making S3O a week keeping boarders, and now they show me a list of persons, some of whom lived at my house, and tell me I was the cause of their illness, of bringing some of them close to death. So 1 can’t keep boarders any more. I don’t know what I can do. I can’t live with

my son and his family, because that might endanger little children. I never felt better In my life, but the tragedy of being deprived of the only way I have of making a living at my age, with none who can give me anything is too much for me. “We have been paying for our home on time. It is about half, paid for. We will have to lose that. , - < »' “If I had anything to do with my becoming a typhoid carrier, T could understand this punishment. But I had typhoid 14 years, ago. 1 can’t believe I am a menace to the community. “We used to be well off, but speculated and lost what we had. My husband being a cripple, I had to do some kind of work to keep going, so I took boarders. “It seems cruel that the city can take away our only means of support, - forbids us to be elose to .those we love, and gives us nothing in return.” jggjg Doctor Bundesen* says that Chicago now has the lowest typhoid rate to the country; that there is but one way to keep it down; that the carriers must be kept away from other persons. Last yearithe Chicago death rate to typhoid awes was 1.4 per 100,000. ‘ * '•* 7 '' L I ' r / — ■*■■■ ‘ - —-"v ' Have Greenwich Villagers Nevgr Read “Lazarre?” New YORK.—Did Louis XVH, the famous Dauphin of France, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, survive the cruelties inflicted upon him when he was a prisoner in the temple in Paris? And was the Dauphin brought to

New York incognito, here to grow to manhood and marry a New York woman of social position? There has long been a tradition that the last king of France, “the king who never reigned,” lived in a fine residence just north of Judson park, .that he died and was buried in a vault in St. John’s burial . ground. *'' .. vk-J;", . - In 1795 there arrived in New York from Europe a ‘man of distinguished appearance, accompanied by a vener-

able French abbe and a boy of ten or _ .4 eleven years. The younger of the two men selected and* bought a nne estaje in Greenwich village. The boy was known as Louis Leroy. The boy, according to the tradition, was Louis XVII and the guardian Count Axel Ferwr When Louis Leroy (le roi) grew up be took his place in New xorr society. He married a New York society woman and founded a family. Apparently the Greenwich villagers never read Mrs. Catherwood’s “Lazarre which is interesting enough to be true. 1 _„ nn a When he died his body was placed in a vault in St. John s burrni grouno. The vault bore the single word “Leroy,’' surmounted by a dolphin carved la the stone. When the city made a park of the burial ground, some old residents of that neighborhood went into the Leroy vault They reported that t|e coffin in the vault showed traces of what had no doubt at one time been en|pele<| fleur-de-11s and that it bore the name Louis. - — College Professor and Skipper of a Joy Chariot? • ' • T5 —~ tfLWAUKKE.— Was Prof. Donald <3. ofthe University ofW’lscotsin scholar, erudite essayist «rfrl friends In a the rest of the time “Skipper Armstrong, who came for his a

green touring car and had the reputation of being the best of. “good fallows?” ’• * This seems to be the only available of the mysterioung disappearance and equally mysterious * return of the professor, and the explanation of his Jekyll-Hydteh adventures brings into the case theaam^ of MM May Meyers, pretty stenographer and former coworker of the professor and\ • Following the mysterious map*

pearance of Professor Keister some time ago, with the subsequent storym he was a victim of the dread malady of forget fulness, aphas a, caine sen reports that he had been injured ip an automobile accident; that ne■naama $25,000 In securities which he took with him when he na lost the new automobile in which b« hadtoft „ , a On Thursday, November 22, according to his own story, Prose left Milwuakee intending to auto to Pittsburgh and Mount wa father, said to be a wealthy minister, and hfe mother his wife, Edith Morrison Keister, Uvea at Mount Pteawnt. , • Nothing more was heard from him until recently ni»au.Qruey !«« from tte prolwsor walked Into Ma attonWa law oftea la MM and crtodt 80 they are tooting for Mian Meyers to find out what ahe'>4to«*i- JI — - ——- —' ‘ . * iS < “ -7.*. - .» • WB