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...Sings and the On Leongs, the two tongs concerned in the present outbreak, fought in 1910. In 1912 the nephew of On Leong Mayor of Manhattan's Chinatown was killed by two Chinese, both subsequently electrocuted. In 1922 the head of the Hip Sings choked and fell faceforward upon the asphalt of Pell Street, Manhattan, with a bullet in his heart. Another war flickered briefly last year until it was ended by the efforts of Arbitrator Lee Kue Ying, rich merchant. Last week Ying, presumably of natural causes, perished. It was on the afternoon of his death that the wires...
...Sarajevo a bomb blew Francis Ferdinand to bits, and von Hoetzendorf went forth to war. He promptly lost Galicia to the Russians and his prestige waned. But he planned the campaign which resulted in its recapture, and was given the Order of Merit by the Kaiser when Lemberg fell to his advance...
...capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's. The truth can never be known, but assuredly, in the third set of this match, he became what his supporters say he is-the pale resistless nonpareil of tennis. So it fell out that he and Richards took the next three sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the match, the National Doubles title...
...Wortley, England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
...from a Kansas City bank. It's due pretty soon. You think it's going to be renewed. It isn't. Get ready to meet it." Magee had only $25,000. He appealed to his readers for support and within 20 days, when the note fell due he had the money. Some of them brought the money to his office so the New Mexico politicians could not find out who had furnished it. The same thing happened again. Later Magee had to sell the Morning Journal for financial reasons, although its circulation had grown...