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Kansas City, Mo., February 1—Taking the cue from Baltimore, an ordinance has been introduced in the City Council segregating the colored people to certain neighborhoods. The proposed measure which is modeled after the Baltimore law provides that white people shall not move into colored neighborhoods and vice versa.
Life Is Still Gay in Luxor and the Titled Visitors Are Many
Luxor, Upper Egypt—The golden sunshine and balmy breezes prevailing, Luxor, fringed with its great ribbons of green vegetation, is just now at its heydey, even though the curtain is being slowly rung down on the Egyptian season. It forms the busy passing point for hosts of tourists who are returning from the upper Nile and those belated travelers who are hurrying up to Assouan, Wadi Halfa and Khartoum. Belgian colors are in favor everywhere for King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians have been among the noted visitors of recent days. The queen is accompanied by Countess von der Steen and her sister. Princess Rupprecht of Bavaria, who has come down from Assouan.
Parade a Feature of Barnum & Bailey Exhibition
The circus parade is evidently here to stay. A few years ago a couple of the big shows thought they could draw the crowds to their tents without sending their glittering wagons, animals, clowns and steam calliope through the streets, but apparently they found that the plan was not a success. They are all back with the morning procession again, much to the joy of the small boy and his parents. too.
An Experience With the Customs Officials at Kermanshah.
In eastern lands the collecting of customs dues is attended with perhaps more than ordinary fraud. In his book, “‘From Batum to Baghdad,” Mr. W. B. Harris has told his experience with the customs officers of Kermanshah. The incident had Its comical feature as well as its serious lesson:
Two hours later than I had Intended we made a start and, proceeding through the long tunnel-like bazaars, emerged from the town. Here fate had annoyance in store for me. At the local custom house the guards wanted to search as and make us pay duty on our scanty baggage.
Woman’s Body is Stolen — Coffin of Mrs. Anna M. M’Collom, Relative of Family , Found Empty — Police say They Are Hampered in Efforts to Fathom Mystery.
Erie, Pa.—Ghouls have broke into and violated the mausoleum of the late William L Scott , who was a congressman from this district, a millionaire coal and railroad magnate and an intimate personal friend of former President Grover Cleveland. Much mystery surrounds the case, which first became known publicly Thursday morning.
The mausoleum, in the Erie cemetery (a magnificent affair which cost at least $50,000), was found shattered by some women who chanced to be walking through the burying place. Soon after this discovery it was whispered about the city that the body of Mrs. Anna M. McCollom, a sister of the late Mr. Scott’s wife, had been taken away. Mrs. McCollom was the wife of a prominent naval officer and was well known in Philadelphia society. It was also said by some that Mr. Scott’s body was removed from its vault. Whether it was stolen or not is a question which has not been satisfactorily answered.