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Suspecting a religious feud between Sikhs (dissenters from Brahmanic Hinduism) and Hindus (Sant Ram Pande was of the Brahman caste), police combed East Indian colonies up and down the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The day following the discovery of the body, three Sikhs were found hiding in a barn near Fairfield, 15 mi. from the scene of the crime. Also in the barn officers discovered a harrow with a wheel similar to that found with Pande's body. At Pande's cremation two Sikhs quarrelled, one was stabbed...
...story, as last week resurrected by American Kennel Gazette: On the stormy night of March 9, 1891, Jack, Fido and Tip heard three safecrackers chiseling into the brick-wall of the car barn that then held the safe of the defunct Haight Street Cable Car line. They barked, vigorously attacked first the chiselers, then the poisoned meat which the chiselers threw them. A wary nightwatchman, barked to attention, emptied a pistol at the poisoners, saved the safe, could not save faithful, greedy Jack, Fido...
...alternative plan. The problem really is, how best to spend the eight hundred thousand dollars the alumni have raised. The memorial should be useful and fitting, and if there is anything at all to be learned from Harvard's experience in the past, it is that neither chapels nor barn-memorials fill either of those requirements...
...admit it, went his narrow way more feverishly than ever. When he had succeeded in taking the joy out of Ab Carver's happy and occasionally lecherous life, Bruce cheered up. staked everything on Ab's imminent conversion. Then one morning Ab's body was found hanging in the barn: Bruce had driven his simple mind to suicide...
...gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...