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Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...
...account of the murders agrees in the main with other reports, but sheds new light upon the unlovely incident. Hitherto no one has been able to explain the discovery of the religious icons which were found some distance away from the pyre upon which the bodies were burnt, and the failure of various investigators to find any teeth among the ashes. The icons, which were worn around the necks of the Imperial Family, were evidently displaced by the act of decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads of the Tzar and his family...
...years. It was one of the casualties of the War. Two generations ago the famous weekly carried the cartoons of Nast, which kindled the flame of public wrath and eventually consumed the corrupt tinder of the Tweed Ring. The New York Times was high priest over that burnt offering to the god of politics. But Harper's Weekly held the torch. Today a ghost of journalism has returned, announcing itself as the New Harper's Weekly, an " International Illustrated Journal...
Like most despatches from Russia, this one is annoyingly vague. The number of killed and wounded is not given, neither is any reference made as to which of the two opera houses was burnt. If it was the Marinsky, Russia lost one of her greatest treasure troves, for in it were some of the greatest of Russian art masterpieces. The other house is called Narodny Dom and was completed just before...
...Dromahair, County Leitrim, a band of republicans burnt the court house and looted the stores, carrying away quantities of foodstuffs and clothes. A fight at Headford, Galway, resulted in four rebels dead and four Free State troops wounded. At Glencar, South Kerry, another clash was reported, resulting in five rebels being killed and two being taken prisoners...