Show THE OPHOMORE I ARK LEA VING TOVN A Joke That May Yet Land Them in Jail TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT BENTON HARBOR All Over a Little Tiff at the Breakfast Break-fast Table Bandit Evans is Now Behind the Bars for Life He Regrets That lie Did Not Fight I Out Instead of Surrendering Sontnj SmilcH Grimly as He Sees Evans Making His Way Toward the Barber Shop Other Crimes and Criminals Ithaca N Y Feb 21The upperclassmen classmen of the Cornell University have a serious matter on their hands i as a result of what was taken to be I only a boyish prank I Last night the freshmen held a banquet I ban-quet at one of the public halls There I j was a general rush by the upper classmen class-men which resulted in a free fight that i took place as the freshmen entered the I hall and it took the whole police force of the town to handle i even then I with poor success I Soon after the banquet began one after af-ter another of the freshmen was overcome t over-come and taken out of the banquet room Later it was found that the seniors had contrived to insert a tube I through the wall of the banquet room through which they injected chlorine I gas which was the cause of the trouble trou-ble It was not thought at first that it would have any serious result but j about midnight Mrs Jackson the colored I col-ored cook who catered for the freshmen I fresh-men died 1 A coroners jury was impannelled j this morning but after viewing the I body of the dead colored woman adjourned ad-journed till tomorrow The police are still investigating with the chances of finding the culprit good Large numbers of students are leaving leav-ing town |