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Show I : A SATANIC TRICK. The Mixture of An Acid With Holy Ashes Causes Injury to Many Catholic Ca-tholic Parishioners. All the Catholic pastors of Meriden, Conn., the police and many prominent Catholics have united in an effort to learn who mixed the holy ashes upon the plates of St. Rose's church with a powerful acid. The author of the dastardly das-tardly trick was successful beyond his or her hopes, for scores of the faithful were burned horribly as a result of the mixture. The deed was done between the morning morn-ing and afternoon services on Ash I Wednesday. In the morning all the parochial school children knelt at the altar and received the ashes from the Plate, placing them upon their foreheads fore-heads symbolically without suffering the least pain. In the afternoon the adult members of the church received the ashes from Rector McAlenny and Father Guinan, who conducted the services. Nearly all who attended the services said at the time that they felt a burning sensation. On arriving home they were compelled to wash away the ashes to easa the pain. The next morning morn-ing huge blisters stood out on their foreheads in the shape of a cross where they had placed the ashes. The nn8v'ep? also badly burned, tht k, e doctors ia e city say that the burns were caused by miximr a powerful acid with the ashes |