Abrams was a cowboy before he started herding turkeys, about five years ago.
“The range was all fenced in Colorado,” he said, “and it was up to me to find some other job besides running cattle.”
“Big May,” Circus Lady, Dead.
Christiana Sinclair, who traveled with circus side shows as “Big May, the tattooed woman,” is dead at her home at Baltimore, Md. She weighed three hundred pounds.
Eyewitnesses Tell How “Audacious” Sank.
According to witnesses of the sinking of the great British dreadnaught Audacious, off the coast of Ireland, there was only one fatality. Naval men in New York unite in praise of the work of the crew of the steamship Olympic, in effecting the rescue of nearly nine hundred men of the sea fighter’s crew. All those not taken off by the Olympic were rescued by the British cruiser Liverpool.
Whether the Audacious is still at the bottom of the sea or is being repaired by the British admiralty and may again see service is now the only mystery connected with reports of the vessel of the first line of England’s naval defense falling victim to a German mine or torpedo. It is the general opinion that the Audacious struck a mine.
Two men who arrived in New York on the steamship New York, from Liverpool, confirmed the stories of the loss of the warship that had previously reached here, and added numerous details. One statement they made was that the Audacious was blown up by the cruiser Liverpool at nine p. m. on the day it was disabled. This has not been confirmed.
The men who told the story were James Rupert Beames, leader of the orchestra on the White Star liner Olympic, which rescued the crew of the Audacious and made fruitless efforts to tow the battleship to shoal water, and Hugh Griffiths, one of the orchestra musicians.
The story of Beames, who was helped from time to time by Griffiths, substantially was as follows: