Show A POLICE SCANDAL Unearthing of a Gang of Counterfeiters Leads to the Suspension of n Chief WEST SUPERIOR Wis Dec 22The discharge of Captain McRae of the Superior Super-ior police force has led to startling developments devel-opments Details of the story have not yet been obtained but there is no doubt of its importance For some time the United States government has been in active pursuit pur-suit of the largest and most daring gang of counterfeiters known in the past twenty years For the past few weeks silver dollars and half dollars well executed exe-cuted have been floated in immense quantities quan-tities Thirty secret service officers have been employed on the case No arrests have yet been made but they are expected soon Among the men said to De involved in-volved is one of Superiors prominent business men Chief of Police McRae was suspended it is said for indiscreet use of his knowledge know-ledge of the above affair and a police scandal of big proportions is promised A New Jersey Execution JERSEY CITY N J Dec 22 Edward W Hallinger was hanged here this morning morn-ing for the murder of his mistress May Peterson Hallinger is as black as coal but claimed to have been born in Ireland of an Arabian father and a halfbreed American Indian mother He was at onetime one-time a Baptist preacher but later a professional pro-fessional prize fighter He killed the woman with a hatchet in a fit of drunken jealous rage hacking the body horribly Blew Out ELis Brains MiLWAtrKEE Dec 22A special from Antieo Wis says E N Mellor of the firm oiHoxie Mellor which failed two years ago for half a million suicided this morning by blowing out his brains A Fiendish Crime BRENHAM Tex Dec 22 Last night an unknown negro entered the residence of Joseph Branmer a German farmer near Burton beat Braumer into insensi i tillty and attacked and outraged tile farmers daughter The fiend then I robbed the house and escaped The young ously injured lady and old man are both seri |