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Show MISSIONARY KILLED BY A TIGER. ' ' It is with deep regret, says the London Lon-don Tablet, that we learn that the report re-port of the killing of a Catholic missionary mis-sionary in India by a tiger, to which we referred with some hesitation a 5 week or two ago, is only too true. The victim was Father Cosmas Glader an Austrian, of the Bettiah Prefecture- Apostolic in northern India. He was killed by a man-eating tiger on the evening of March 1G npar smoa-. in the Champaram district, while on his way to assist his brother, Mr. .Jeremiah, .Jer-emiah, who wa3 repairing the mission-house mission-house at Someswar. When the unfortunate unfor-tunate priest's body was found next morning the neck and spine were broken and the flesh eaten off both legs, whilst his rifle and some money were lying close by. Father Glader who was very popular among ali "; t classes, was only 39 years of age and had spent nine years in India. Thu3 ' Is definitely broken the time honored and pleasant tradition that wild animals ani-mals never attack, or at least never , Kill, $ Catholic missionary priest. That legend must pass to the limbo of other discredited beliefs; yet as a matter of fact, we are under the im- , pression that this is the first record- -ed case of such a catastrophe a fact i which is "itself sufficiently remark- , able. j, X ,. - j J |