Josephine’s dream of wealth came true when she was awarded $16,000 by a jury for injuries sustained several years ago when she was hit and tripped by a live wire which was dangling from one of the Boston elevated poles. She was so severely burned about the head, face, and hands that the marks will remain on her body for life.
“It is so much money that I don’t know what to do with it,” she said. “I think I’ll put it in the bank and then be a real lady.”
Spain Faces Hunger Peril.
The economic situation in Spain is becoming steadily more serious, notwithstanding the efforts of the government to find a solution for the difficulties which confront the country. It is feared that conditions will soon become so bad that they may lead to a conflict fraught with grave consequences.
Dispatches from the provinces tell of numerous riots resulting from the high cost of food. In some interior districts and in the Canary Islands the people get food only every other day. Many families are said to be living on herbs and roots. A woman said to have been driven mad by privation, drowned herself with her children at Lazaretos.
Fierce rioting resulted at Lacele from the increased price of bread. The civil guards are reported to have fired into the crowd, killing one and wounding many.
Hen Egg Like a Goose Egg.
Miss Alma Brewer, of Como, Miss., is proudly exhibiting a common hen’s egg which she recently found in a nest which measures six and three-fourth inches around and seven and five-eighths inches the long way.
Russian Pillager is Hanged.
A more favorable view of the discipline in the Russian army in Galicia than prevailed during the autumn invasion of East Prussia is given by Leonhard Adelt, the war correspondent of the Tageblatt, who recently visited Neu-Sandec, on the Dunajec River, a short time after it had been evacuated by the Russian army.