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...Axe...
...pointed to the nearest of his teasers, squeezed trigger, put bullet into brain. As the other children scattered, screaming, poor José knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...
Assassin Ratchitch, whom no government deputy had seized from behind, put his fifth bullet with crack marksmanship into the stomach of Stefan Raditch, who crumpled as though felled by an axe...
...will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
...Warren Fordney of Saginaw, Mich., oldtime U. S. Representative (1899-1923), famed for his high-tariff record as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee (1919-23). Looming as competitors for the seat in the primaries and election were two former governors of Michigan, Albert E. Sleeper of Bad Axe, and Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie; one judge, Ira W. Jayne of Detroit; and Editor Arthur H. Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald...