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Show THE BAD As It Tins lUiirshit-ledl iu Tiiurs- New York, 17. A special from Boston Bays the killing o; Bacon is still the subject of comment. Several dentists interviewed to-day say even where Bacon knew dentists to be without a dollar he began suits against them, and often drove them out of business. In other cases ho began suits where there was no reason for it, and besides making defendants pay up put them to unnecessary legal costs. Dentists using celluloid, a compound also used lor plates, were, it is claimed, mercilessly hounded and put to all kinds of trouble hy Bacon, who came to be known as "Old Si" Bacon. It is alleged that every person per-son knowu to get a new set of false teeth was sought alter by him, with a view of getting the name of the dentist, den-tist, and if rubber was used and the dentist furnishing the teeth had railed to pay hia royalty or had not a license, then his hour of woe waa at band. In several instauceB it ia said "Old Si" induced women wearing false tneth to have a new set made by dentists den-tists whom he susptcted ( f playing uaarp uu uiui. iu euuu uaaes ue furnished the women with the money to pay fur ihe teeth and wnen they were made and delivered the dentists were sued. Threats to kill him had been made by some of the dentists of thia city. They say Bacon waa a good-beartod man, and if he erred at all it was iu his honest purpose to do his duty to bis employers. Some of Hie Jjournala 'discusa Ihe Bacon shooting allair. The Sun says of the two men who faced each other in that hotel room last Sunday a second before the pistol went otl, only one is alive to tell the story of the shooting. The other cannot affirm or contradict it. The Herald remarks how familiar sounds the explanation of the man who shot Bacou. He thought it was j not loaded. ! Tbe Sun says of the attempted assassination of Nathan. A woman deliberalely shoots a man, iu the presence pre-sence of witnesses, aud with the evi dent intention of killing him, then she walks quietly away, and after a lapse of two weeka there is no indica-, indica-, lion of an intention to arrest her, or , even officially investigate the crime. , Thia waa not in Texas, where friends of the murdered actor. Porter, deem it uecestflry lo subscribe money to secure the punishment of Currie, but the poinis staled are peculiar ones ol the Barrett-Nathan case. Chambersburg, 17. Hezekiah Snuffer, who murdered his wile on February 21, 187S, was hanged in the jail yard to-day. He waa earned to the ecallold in a blanket, the loss of blood consequent upon his attempt at suicide on Munday reutlering him unable to walk. Alter hanging twenty minutes life was pronounced extinct. He declared hia innocence to the last. Hustings, Neb., It Arguments before tne jury iu the Olive trial have closed. Too jury has b?en out fife hours. Tucro ia a probability of disagreement. dis-agreement. Yankton, 10 Dr. Livingstone, ex-Indian ex-Indian agent has been acquitted ol one of the principal charges on which his prosectuiou and removal waa based. Montreal, 16. Peter Dwyer, the converted minstrel ol Borrow street mission, who left his wile in Niw York, two weeks Ago, U here. He says tie wm return nimtuiatey. London, lo. A Berlin dispatch reports re-ports that Sobvicfl hue Baid he waa appointed by lot to shoot the czar. Vienna, 10. N ir ilisia abducted the governor of CharkofJ on April 31 aa a hostage for leniency tu prisoners. |