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Serious Insubordination on American Clipper

LONDON, April 24—The American clipper-ship Sovereign of the Seas, Warner, of New York, from Melbourne, reports that a serious affray occurred on board during the passage from Melbourne, arising from the insubordination of some of the crew, who are at present confined on board in irons.

On the 17th March, the ship on the Equator, long. 32, a quarrel took place between two of the steerage passengers, of whom there were seventy-six on board, and one of the crew. The mate interfered, and ordered the seaman on deck, but he refused, and became abusive, when he was put into irons by direction of the captain. After the lapse of about fifteen or twenty minutes, all the crew mustered aft, and demanded of the captain the immediate release of the man, an Englishman, or they said they would take the ship from him, amid loud murmurings and threats. Previously, it should be mentioned, reports had reached the captain of a contemplated attack to seize the ship.

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Car Strip Gang Roundup On

FOUR JAILED IN OPENING DRIVE

Six Autos Found Monday With Parts Removed; Officers Get Busy.

Throwing the entire force of the sheriff’s department into action. Sheriff Jim Stevens and his chief deputy, Alfonse Newton went out Monday to round up the biggest car stripping gang which has ever operated in San Antonio.

Finding of six cars Monday morning which had been stripped down to everything but the frame, brought about the determination to clean up the gang. Four arrests were made during the forenoon.

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“Little Italy” Gang Kills 41st Victim

Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands.” Deportations Asked.

CHICAGO, February 24. —As immigration inspectors prepared deportation proceedings against a dozen aliens taken in raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up next week, a man, identified as Baldelli, the Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today.

He was the forty-first victim of gang warfare in recent years.

The man had been shot and apparently carried to the spot in an automobile. In his clothing was found a notice that his application to be a policeman had been filed.

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Breaks Into Basement of Bank of England

Intruder Makes History by Entering Impregnable Financial Institution.

By the Associated Press.

LONDON, January 30.—The bank of England, hither-to considered impregnable as the Rock of Gibraltar and absolutely burglar-proof, was broken into some time after midnight on Saturday.

History of a sort was made in Police Court today when Timothy Phillips was arraigned on a charge of “breaking and entering the premises of the Bank of England with intent to commit a felony.”

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Says Vaudeville Sketch Drove Woman to Crime

A well played sketch on the vaudeville stage in which a woman purloined everything in sight and escaped detection was the Influence that caused Rosa Buser, alias Mary Moll, the “woman Raffles,” to abandon a life of rectitude and embark on a short-lived career of crime, according to the story told by her to her attorney, George F. McCullough, and which, it is believed, she will repeat when her case is heard finally in Judge Davis’ criminal court.

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Infuriated at Loss of Favorite Pipe, Philadelphia Man Runs Wild

Seventy-Year-Old Fighter Holds 40 Policemen At Bay For Two Hours—Throws Tear Bombs Back At Officers—Finally Dies After Ten Bullet Wounds.

By The Associated Press.

Philadelphia. July 31—Riddled by ten bullets after he had held 40 policemen at bay for two hours in his home last night. Joseph Marino, nearly 70 years old, died early today. Marino became incensed at missing a favorite pipe, his wife said, and chased her to the street with a revolver, firing wildly.

He retreated as police arrived, and barricaded himself in a pool room in the basement of his house. With half a dozen weapons he kept up a rain of bullets at all who approached.

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Chicago Hotel Bandits Slain or Captured in Bloody Battle

HOTEL CLERK IS ALSO KILLED IN BOLD ROBBERY ON GOLD COAST

Death Penalty Will Be Asked by Crowe for Pair Captured After Spectacular Holdup.

CHICAGO, July 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—In movie thriller style, a robber crew, masked and bristling with pistols and shotguns, invaded the exclusive Drake hotel In Chicago’s “Gold Coast” at tea time yesterday, enacting scenes of killing and sanguinary gun fighting that extended subsequently for an hour over northside boulevards.

When the spectacular affair was over, of five robbers, two were dead and one captured; a hotel clerk had been killed; two women Imd been injured: two robbers had escaped with $10,000 and as a finality early today, one of the escaped holdup men was found and the one previously arrested confessed fully.

The robbery was staged within a stone’s throw of tho residential mansions of Chicago’s 400, while hundreds of guests thronged the lobbies and heavy traffic crowded adjacent Michigan Avenue. A dozen policemen were within call.