Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — BOILED ALIVE, [ARTICLE]

BOILED ALIVE,

It is reported in letters from Persia that the Shah ordered Abdullah Khan. Governor of Mazenderann, charged with stealing the taxes, to be boiled alive, and that the sentence was carried out. A letter from Calcutta reports thrfr a herd or 100 wild elephants has been captured in Mysore., Also that there were 6,0(0 deaths by snake bites in the northwest provinces last year. In Madras 10,0 0 cattle were killed by wild animals and 1,642 ' perrons lost their lives by snakes and wild 1 blasts. _ In China the inhabitants are counted every ten years in a curious manner. The oldest master of every ten houses hss to count the families and has to make a list, .which is sent to the imperial tax house. Last year the whole number amounted to S79,3B3,sooUibabitants. ___ - _