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Show iMmlisthelpus The Demand For Funds Mad by the Republicans. The Challenge Made by the Liberal Against Governor West's Eieht to Vot Is Exploded, and Is Followed by Another. An-other. Special to The Dispatch. i Salt Lake City, July 129. The prj lice committee to-day concluded the; investigation of the charges maoj against the heads of the police depart ment. Of course they will not repoji their findings until after the election. I It is stated to-night on good author lty that the Republican committee h: sent letters to all Republican federal Officials, demanding that they contril-' ute to the Republican campaign funf "or take the consequences." f Madame Button, milliner hnj :,si signed, and the failure is a bad ont; Owing to her peculiar methods of cor ducting the business, it is impossible ti give the assets or liabilities, but tin! 1 itter will greatly exceed the former. ; The Liberals have challenged ex-s Marshal Solomon's right to vote on the ground that lie is guilty of incest. The matter will be investigated to-day, ant-there ant-there is possibly as much foundation t(" the charge as there was in that of tin non-residence made against Gov. West; which was exploded to-day. Horrible Maltreatment of Jews. ; Boston. July 30. Russian .To,. -r,ri arrived yesterday tell pitiful stories ofj the cruelties of Russian officers, whd! ordered all the inhabitants of the town of Slabotky to leave their hones. Tht ews became so enraged at this wholesale whole-sale injustice that they set fire to theii houses, destroying them. For this many were sent to Siberia and others were subjected to horrible cruelties. One man was suspended by his wrists j for two hours. Others told harrowing stories of general atrocities practiced upon the Jewish race bv Russian soldiers, sol-diers, and of extremely unjust lasvs in lorce against Jew s. Any Russia- Christian who wishes to possess himself of the property of a Jewish neighbor can obtain it by paying pay-ing one-tenth of Its value to the mayor or gove-nment representative, who will thereupon give him authority to expel the Jewish owner and instal himself him-self as the proprietor. It is an ordinary occurrence for a Jew's house to be burned over his head or a Jew to be stoned in the streets, and it has become a common saying in that part of Russia "kill a Jew and pav twenty rubles." (810.) No other punishment is ever inflicted for the murder of a Jew and even this fine is seldom imposed. im-posed. Some Jewish soldiers in the Russian army who complained because their families had been maltreated by Russian soldiers, were all placed under arrest. THE DEADLY KICKOSENE CAN. Another Chapter In the Almost Daily Tragedy of H Woman's Impatience. Cheyenne, July 30. Mrs. John Kurtz, wife of a Union Pacific employe, poured kerosene from a can into the cook stove yesterday morning jo hasten the fire, 1 he can exploded with terrific ter-rific force, shaking all the houses in a tenement block and creating a panic. Mrs. Kurtz, with hair burning and clothing aflame, ran shrieking into the bedroom where her husband was asleep lie was paralyzed with fright and scarcely able to move when the crazed woman threw herself on the bed. A lodger cams in from another nxun nl lrnpfaT llitTlHelf tOO.i, - A "ymg io tear il clothing from the suffering woman. ' In her great agGny Mrs. Kurtz struggled strug-gled desperately and finally bi. ke from the room and ran into the back yard, her clothes still burning fiercely, and the flames then reaching her fiesh. Here she met a big colored woman. The latter's great strength and good nerve came into go.d play for she grabbed Mrs. Kurtz and, despite tlie movements of the burning woman, stripped every stitch of clothing from her in half a minute. Mrs. Kurtz was carried into herj house and a phvsician called. She is i burned and blistered on every inch of her body, and cannot recover. Her sufferings are frightful; and all who visited her were profoundly shocked by her condition. The lodger mav lose one or both hands. Kurtz and wife came here from Baltimore Bal-timore last October. The woman is but l'J years old. |