New Richmond Record, Volume 19, Number 2, New Richmond, Montgomery County, 16 July 1914 — Page 4

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MAD RAISES A RUMPUS IH t TAXI

BRAVE GIRL SMITES ALLEGED ‘MASHER’

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oil convinced her that he had no ordl-i nary talent She felt warranted In asking him to lunch, and when he went on his way little Flo made him promise to come and see them when he returned' from his sketching tour of the lake district, some twenty miles distant

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Blackens Eye of Man She Says Annoyed Her; He Denies the Charge.

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If the young artist ceased to remember the fair maiden with whom he had spent those delightful hours, not so lola. A new-comer in town, a Robert Wilder, came pretty regularly to see her, bvit lola took little interest In him. He had bloomed forth In the village as a young man of fortune on a vacation. Mr. Buncombe had met him at the town club and took quite a fancy to him. This was, however, because as his partner at whist the talented young man won most of the games from their adversaries at cards. One evening this delectable individual met Jim Carr, a servant at the Buncombe home, in a secret way. Judging from their conversation, these two bad known one another in a sinister way in the past. Further than that, it appeared that the vaunted young man of wealth had some hold on Jim. "See here, Carr,” he said on the present occasion, "you know what I’m after: a rich wife. If old Buncombe has the money I think I wouldn’t object to becoming his son-in-law.” "You want to be spry, then,” advised Jim.

Victim Was the Fiance of the Woman Who Owned the Animals.

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“Oh, man! —do you want to do some work?”

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New York. —With his eyes blackened and his lips so swollen that he could hardly speak, Nicholas Slciken, a prosperous young wholesale fruit dqnler, was arraigned in night court the other night charged with disorderly conduct It was said he had attempted to flirt with Miss Viola Nlomas, twenty-one years old, of 105 East Forty-third street.

It was little Flo Duncombe, a pretty child of eight years, who shouted the words at a young man passing the fenced-in garden where she stood with her sister, lola. The latter, eighteen and beautiful, was rather sorry that her impetuous companion had so familiarly called the passer-by "man” —for he was a man, indeed—straight, athletic, bronzed and carelessly dressed, but under the surface the clear eyes and intelligent face proclaimed the gentleman. “Work, little one?” smiled the stranger, pausing and at one glance at the lovely face of lola, becoming interested. "I am always glad to work. What is it?”

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Flung Itself Against Door and Then Got Up on Hind Legs and Scratched Furiously at Roof of the Car — Scratched and Bit Attendant.

College Graduate Wffo Wanted to Be an “Animal Man”—Regular Keeper Warned Him of Great Danger Without Avail.

Patrolman Steger of the East Thir-ty-seventh street police station had Siciken in charge, but it was not he who had battered the young man’s countenance. That had been the work

Paris.—A leopard, still only partly trained and rather savage, was driven in a taxi through the Paris boulevards, and manifested great annoyance at the noises of the motor cars and motor buses. He was held in a leash by M. Hachet Souplet, who describes himself as director of the Institute Of Zoological Psychology. Madame d’Argos conceived the plan of an original music hall turn, in which she impersonated a mythological ‘huntress, and pretended to wound the leopard with arrows, and then to cure him by her art. In the end, the leopard crowned with roses, like the tigers of Bacchus, follows the beautiful enchantress. The leopard was not docile, and it was decided to take it to another part of Paris to complete its training. M. Hatchet Souplet had suggested a cage for the transport of the leopard. Madame d’Argos would net hear to it.

Chicago.—A coroner's Jury returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Emerson D. Dietrich, who was killed by lions here the other day. Dietrich was a Cornell graduate and son of a Brooklyn (N. Y.) architect. He was torn to pieces and partly devoured by five young lions caged in an animal car on a siding in a local railroad yard. The beasts were the property of Miss Adgie Castillo, who was to have appeared at a local theater In an "animal act.” The victim was her manager and fiance.

Dietrich’s death was one of the most tragic in recent police history. He was known among his associates as a daredevil who had ambitions that went beyond the field of business. In addition to advance agent there lurked within him the longing to be an “animal man." Besides, he had made pets of several of the lion cubs, especially Teddy, the cub that led the assault upon him, and Trilby, the old lioness. It was three o’clock in the afternoon when George McCord, in charge of the beasts, left the car' to procure milk for the quintet. The sun was blazing down upon the car and the animals paced their cage, growling, with lolling tongues.

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“Rose leaves axid down!” chattered Flo excitedly, important and eager. "I fear my little sister has been presumptuous,” spoke Miss Duncombe, going nearer the picketed fence. “I — I needed some assistance.”

"And I am glad of an offer of wjork,” declared the young man promptly, doffed his cap, cleared the fence at a bound and stood awaiting orders. Miss Duncombe showed a puzzled, irresolute expression in her fair face. She could not quite estimate this brisk, willing stranger. He carried a portfolio under one arm. Was he a canvasser? He did not look it. lola could not exactly analyze him and as she regarded him there was a pleased look on his face, as though he read her thoughts and was whimsically pleased to act the man of mystery, lola was obliged to say something to relieve the unnatural strain of the situation.

“The work is less arduous than tedious and painstaking,” she said and she led the way towards an ornate summer house. It was quite a complete structure of itself, being supplied with doors and windows, but these so arranged that in summer time they could be lifted out of view, making of the pagoda-like edifice an open air pavilion. As she neared its door the young man Instantly understood the allusion of little Flo to rose leaves and feath-

"Why is that?” “There’s a young artist fellow who has been around for an evening or two. He met Miss lola about a week ago, it seems, and, on his way to the city, has decided to stop in the village for a week or two. My opinion is ho is in, love with the girl.” "Oh, well, I’m pretty solid with the old man,” boasted Wilder. “See here, I, want you to do something for me and I’ll pay you well.” “All right—what is it?” “I want you to act as my dictaphone. In other words, could you manage to overhear what conversation goes on in the house; like what old Buncombe says about me, and how the girl regards me?” "Sure,” replied Jim readily. “Then report to me day after tomorrow,” and at their tryst Jim appeared at the time appointed. “I’ve got some news,” he advised Wilder. “Let’s have it.”

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"I have a better idea,” she said. “Let us take it there in a taxi.”

The promise of a noble pourbolre induced the chauffeur to agree to drive his novel fare. Everything went well till the Place Vendome was reached. The leopard was kept quiet by bits j of raw meat, administered frequently ■ by his mistress, which it gulped down | voraciously. But the blast of a motor : horn during a short delay at the Place Vendome told on the leopard’s nerves, j First it flung itself up against the door, then got up on its hind legs on j the seat and scratched furiously at the roof of the taxi. They did their best j to avoid standing on its tail, but the Inevitable happened. The leopard scratched and bit its two attendants. It was an anxious moment, for they had by that time reached the boule-1 yards, and had they escaped it would have meant letting the leopard loose '

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When McCord returned Dietrich was changing his clothing. He announced briefly that he was going into the cage to “tidy up.” - He had done so once or twice before and McCord, consenting, dropped on a couch in the car, lighted a cigarette and started to read. He noticed, however, that Dietrich carried only a broom. "Better take that fork,” he suggested. “They haven’t eaten since last night and they might cut up.” Dietrich laughed, entered and snapped the gate shut. McCord, however, came forward and seized the prong. He stood beside the cage and watched.

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She looked with cool scorn at the prisoner, with his face swollen, his fashionable clothing awry and his fingers nervously working along the twisted rim of his smashed straw hat. Miss Niomas said she left her home about seven o’clock to go to the bakery of her uncle, at 583 Third avenue. She had turned from Lexington avenue into Forty-second street, on her way to Third avenue, when, she said, Slciken approached and said: "Hello, dear! Won’t you take a walk with me?” She Ignored him and hurried to Third avenue. She swore that he followed her and eventually grasped her arm at Thirty-ninth street and Third avenue.

“There’s a closet I managed to hide in just off the library, where I overheard a good deal. Night before last I heard Mr. Buncombe telling what a capital fellow you were.” “Good!” commented Wilder.

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Within, the lions paced sullenly. Teddy glanced at Dietrich, yawned and

“Excellent —go on, Jim,” directed Wilder.

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“Last evening, though, a stranger called. He was Inquiring about you. He is a detective from the city looking you up for a swindling game there, and he told Mr. Buncombe all about it.”

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Then she smilingly recounted how she had Immediately set to work with both fists, and, amid a cheering crowd, had pounded Slciken till he bawled for mercy. Steger rescued and arrested him.

"Zounds! then I’m done for,” exclaimed Wilder, "I reckon I’ll make tracks from town before I’m picked up,” and Wilder started to move away. "There was something more,” ad* vised Jim. "That artist fellow,”

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Slciken Indignantly denied he was a masher and demanded an adjournment of his case that he might get a lawyer. Magistrate Freschi granted his request, but fixed bail at $1,000, unusually large for a prisoner held on a minor charge.

“Yes—well, what about him?" questioned Wilder irritably, "He proposed to Miss lola this afternoon.” “The mischief!” "And was accepted.” (Copyright, 19H, by W. G. Chapman.)

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Door of Huckster’s Crate Flew Open, Fowls Flop Out and Horse Runs Away.

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“I—I Needed Some Assistance.”

Got on the Seat.

Logansport, Ind. —Charles Shanks, a huckster, stopped his team In front of a grocery in Walton and started to unload a crate of chickens.

crs. The walls were formed of rough plastering. To every minute projection of this attached myriad particles of soft filmy down. The light feathery fragments covered the furniture, the pictures, ledges, cobwebs in the corners. A minature snowstorm seemed to have broken loose. Outside, beyond an open window a line of laurel bushes were deluged with the down. Upon a stand in the center of the place was an empty silk pillow, partly made. lola said;

If anything is more wonderfully fraught with chance than history, it is undoubtedly the collection of historical materials. The rich mine in which Assistant State Librarian Swem of Virginia has been delving for manuscripts concerning the Old Dominion, Kentucky, and the Northwest, Is calculated to make the growing tribe of western antiquarians green with envy. His zeal and industry in tabulating the mass of material that he discovered in the basement of the library are undeniable; but how Its exploration was left for him is a story paralleling the finding of the Jesuit Narratives and Kaskaskia records. Mr. gwem’s report, "A List of MSS. Recently Deposited in the State Library by the State Auditor,” enumerates among the accumulated state and county papers of a century and a half nearly t00,000 pieces of value. Records of property rJone are estimated "to constitute the most authentic and comprehensive source material for the economic and social history of Virginia from 1782 to the close of the war between the states.” Items abound scarcely less interesting than the following: "Clark, George Rogers. Seventy packages of letters, accounts, orders, captured papers, and miscellaneous documents concerning George Rogers Clark nnd the Illinois country, 177S-17S3; 300 pieces per package.” Nothing of more interest to the growing army of curious concerning the opening of the Ohio and Mississippi country has been recently brought to light, though the work of investigators among buried materials has been a rising monument to the ability of a new historical perspective to bring forth new Columbuses. —New York Evening Post.

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on the boulevards. All they could do was to cling to the leash and to keep out of the range of its claws as much as possible. The leopard bacarae furious, and seemed about to tear through the roof of the taxi when they reached their destination and were able to get out. M. Hachet Souplet explains that the leopard really did not intend to do them any harm. In the midst of Its excitement the beast really did its best not to ipaul them. This, concludes the naturalist.—is a proof that even wild beasts are not so vicious as they may seem when at their worst.

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The door of the crate flew open and the chickens flopped out, making so much noise that the horse bolted. Claude C. Baumgardner sprang into the road to stop the horse, but was knocked down and trampled. Mrs. Bashie Davis, eighty-one years old, was sitting on the porch, saw Baumgardner knocked down and she screamed, fainted and fell off the porch.

The Cubs Sprang Upon Him.

advanced, shaking a paw at him. Then he rose on his haunches and struck at the outstretched broom in the young man’s hand. Dietrich commanded him to drop. Dietrich then called for the for£. McCord handed it to him. Dietrich let his eyes wander from Teddy. The cub sprang and landed on his shoulder. The young man went down. Paws sank into his neck. Blood came and the cub was a pet no more. The dther cubs saw the blood and they, too, charged Dietrich.

“Some ono opened the windows Where X had been working last night, a strong wind came up and you see the result. The rose leaves were sent me by a friend from California. I have managed to gather them up, for they were blown off the table in a he p, but the down —I fear it is not worth the labor gathering it up.” "You might try,” suggested the young man. “If you would get me a pillow-slip or a deep basket I will see what can be done.” Miss Duncombe went to the house and brought out three baskets. She and Flo set about the same task as this “hired help.” She learned that his name was Archie Blair. His manner was so courteous and respectful that they became quite friendly. Little Flo took a rare liking to the brighthearted young man, who said and did all kinds of merry things in chasing down the butterfly-like down, making of work real play.

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They Surprised Restaurant Man by Hatching Out a Flock of Little "Peeps.”

But what the young cubs had done Trilby, the lioness, tried to undo. She stood over the prostrate form of Dietrich, still conscious, glaring at the blood maddened beasts. She was old, though, and no match for the powerful cubs.

New York. —Frank Wolf, who presides over a popular lunch emporium at the Staten Island ferry house, awoke a few mornings ago to find that he was responsible for eight more living objects and their upkeep. The living objects were young chickens which had just pecked their way into the world. Wolf deems it remarkable how they happened to escape being fried egg sandwiches. The restaurant man, who is as ful and frugal as a Holland housewife, thought he had emptied a crate of eggs which he received some time previous, and he used the box as a receptacle for old rags and the like.* Inadvertently he left an entire layer of eggs In the bottom of the crate. The box was placed against a radiator and in close proximity to the cooking stove. Eight chirping chickens sounded a greeting when he Unlocked the doors for the day’s business and with true motherly instinct he is coddling them in a blanket and ministerial to their every want,

McCord meanwhile Vas jabbing at the Hons with his fork. It was short, though, and the sharp prick meant nothing to the infuriated beasts. He threw ft toward Dietrich and told him to defend himself while he got help. Dietrich reached despairingly for the prong. The cubs charged. Trilby was thrown aside.

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New York. —Roxey, for 15 years mascot of the Long Island railroad. Is dead. This dog had a bank account, had free access to all passenger trains and is mourned by thousands of commuters. A tombstone will mark his grave.

McCCrd besought aid in vain. Finally he stopped a street car and explained to the passengers. The police were called.

It took two hours to gather up most of the scattered down. Then lola said:

When they reached the freight car they saw the cubs with muzzles red with blood nestling in a corner. Dietrich's mangled body was In the center of the cage. Trilby was whimpering in another corner.

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“I was just going to speak of that,” declared Archie. “If you will allow me to sketch some of the beautiful surroundings here, with this little fairy and yourself in the picture, I will feel fully compensated.”

Pottsville, Pa. —More than two hundred women whoynttended an afternoon performance at the hippodrome discovered that they were glued to their seats when the performance was over. The Intense heat melted the varnish on the chain.

Bacon—Why does a woman look so worried when she sees a telegraph boy approaching the house? Egbert—Because she thinks the tele* gram la cowing •'collect,” I suppose.

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Some of the police wanted to shoot the animals to get the body, but an undertaker sprinkled It with formaldehyde and It wm taken out.

So he was an artist, reflected lola, and several little sketches o t his pea*

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