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Show BURNED MAIL RATHER THAN DELIVER IT CHICAGO, April 9. A dispatch to the Tribune from Milwaukee says: Peter J. McBrlde, a mall-carrier, has been arrested ar-rested on a charge of destroying letters given him to deliver In upper Grand avenue, the most fashionable residence j district of the city. It Is charged thai he burned letters containing advertising advertis-ing matter, In a barn of his route, explaining ex-plaining that It saved him work and he saw no need of other people wasting their time reading the letters. MeBride has confessed. He had been on the force eighteen years. |