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Picnickers Take
Over Cave Lair
From Pirates
By Ed IIahey . -
, . Cave-In-Rock, 111. tilt A lare
cave which has become a popular
spot for Sunday school picnics
once sheltered bloodthirsty river
pirates and some ol the most dan
gerous criminals in the history
of the middle west.
From their cave hideout, pirates
foraged along the unto river,
plundering rich cargo boats bound
for New Orleans. Cutthroats like
the Harpe brothers of North Car
olina, the Samuel Mason gang
and dozens of less famous out
laws sought refuge hero.
Cut in a limestone bluff over
looking the river, the cave is 25
feet wide, 35 feet high and 150
feet ' long. Geologists believe it
was formed by water which per
iodically empties out of big sink
holes nearby and drains through
underground channels.
The cave was mentioned first
by a French explorer who came
down the river in 1729 and it lat
er provided shelter to colonial
traders and passing mound build
ers. ; Near the close of the 18th
century, however, it became no
torious as a haven for renegades
that even the most turbulent riv
er communities didn't want. '
Many Murdered ;
Its notoriety sprang from a
"Liquor Vault and House of En
tertainment" inside the cave
which lured thirsty river men. A
surprising number of them left
feet first and their bodies were
taken downstream and dumped
into the river from Hurricane Is-land.-.-
The "Liquor Vault" was closed
eventually by popular demand.
Then outlaw gangs, numerically
superior to any local posses, holed
up In the cave, where they could
get a good look at passing river
traffic. The boats that appeared
lucrative were plundered and the
passengers usually killed.
The Harpe brothers, Wiley and
Micajah, outdid all the other vll
Hans who inhabited the outlaw
refuge. They once . crept up be
hind a pair of young lovers-who.
were sitting on the 40-foot bluff
overlooking the cave and pushed
them to their deaths. Later, they
tied a man to a horse and drove
the horse .off the bluff.
Their "pranks" were too vicious
even for the : . other murderers
among the cave dwellers and the
Harpes were soon asked to take
up residence elsewhere.
Battle Casualties
In Korea Total
79.823, Announced
Washington, July 26 (IPi The
defense department reported to
day, that American battle casual
ties. In Korea now total 79,723,
an increase of 584 over the last
report a week ago. . -;
The total casualties reflect the
number whose next of kin have
been notified through last Fri
day; and not necessarily the num
ber of casualties that occurred
through that date.
It requires one to three weeks
to notify next, of kin.
The total casualties included.
13,340 deaths, 54.248 wounded, 10,
634 missing, 159 captured, - and
1,342 previously reported missing,
but returned to military duty. ,,
A breakdown by services
showed:
Breakdown Given
Army 65,221 casualties, 11,080
deaths, 42,837 wounded, 9,867
missing,-156 captured, 1,281 pre
viously reported missing but re
turned to military duty. ,
. Navy 921 casual ties, 157
deaths, 687 wounded, 73 missing,
4 ' previously ; reported missing,
but returned to military duty.xz
Marine Corps 12,880 casual
ties, 1,903 deaths, 10,696 wound
ed, 261 missing; 20 previously
reported missing but returned to
duty. .', '
. Air Force 701 casualties, 200'
deaths, 28 wounded, . 433 missing,
3 captured, 37 previously -reported
missing but returned to active
duty.
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THURSDAY, JULY ?$, 1991
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' when he gets vp against the world's largest Incandescent light bulb,
50,000-watt giant that produces as much light as one thousand
100-watt household lamps. Built by GE as a stunt In 1929,,for
"Light's Golden Jubilee," no practical use was found for the bulb, i
until it was used recently in the fuming of a circus movie under;
... the big top.
Letter of Martin Luther's
Thought Foun d in Finland
, EXTRACURRICULAR
Coventry, Eng., July 26 ilP
Professional beer-taster Richard
D. Bell was fined $56 yesterday
for drunken driving.
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Helsinki, Finland' IP) An old
Finnish forester foraging through
an antique trunk is believed to
have found a letter Martin Lu
ther wrote to his wife in 1541,
five years before his death.
Two Finnish experts said tha
letter, oh grey, hand-made paper.
appeared to be genuine. How it
came to Finland was a mystery
because the text nas appeared
before in books and Luthur's let
ters published in Germany. ,
In the letter, dated Sept. 18.
the great Protestant advised his
wife to remain calm, apparently
in the face of the threat to cen
tral Europe by tne rampaging
Ottoman forces of Suleiman I.
which captured Budapest only a
few weeks oeiore.
The letter, like most letters be
fore and since, complained that
Frau Luther had not written him
for soiua time. . -
lext of Letter
The letter said:
"To Kaethe Luther, "Oeutsch.
Wittenberg the 18th September
1541. - -V ... .
"G.U.F. (abb re vat ion for
Gnade und Friede grace . and
peace).: V 1 v
"Dear .Kaethe, I herewith have
Urban run to you so you shall
not be frightened If clamor from
the Turks gets to you. And I
wonder that you do not write or
(one word untranslatable) al
though you well know that we
ar not without worries for you,
because Melnz,' Heinz and many
of the noblemen of Meissen are
very cultivated. Sell and order
what' you can . . . and God will
meet our sin, with the rods of
his anger. Herewith God bless
you. . 1 ' .
"Amen. ' -
"Sunday after Lampertl 1541.
, "M. Luther."
The two experts who studied
the letter said it probably was
the original rather than, a copy.
The paper was old and hand-processed.
The text of the letter, they said,
was contained in a book. "Mar
tin Luther's Brlefe in A u s w a h 1
Herausgeben von R ein h a rd
Buschwald, Zwelter Band," pub
lished in Leipzig in 1909. It is the
second volume of a collection of
Luther's letters. The experts be
lieve the letter had also been pub-
iisnea in tne eany laws.
The letter was written when
Luther was 58 and some 24 years
after he posted his famous 95
tneses on tne door of a Witten
berg church to protest what he
felt were abuses of Papal Indulg
ences dv tne catnouc cnurcn.
A. Eroberg, the 77-year-old for
ester who 'found the letter in a
collection of okl papers, said he
was sure it had been in his pos
session vtt least since 1918.
He was unable to explain how
he got it. He said it might have
been brought from Germany by
his grandfather, Erik, an advtn-
tuerer who , was fighting in Ger
many in 1813-14.
Children Use ;
Outdated Coins
Melrose, Mass. (IP) The Ice
cream peddlers were running out
of humor. So were the children.
1 The youngsters were trying to
buy ice cream witn two-cent piec
es and other outdated coins, some
of them 300 years old.
Police investigated. They dis
covered the coins were part of a
collection, apparently stolen,
which had been dripped behind a
tenement house.
They believed the thief was a
youth about 16 who had been
scattering coins for the young
sters for several days. No one
seemed to know the youth. To
add to the problem, no one had
reported a coin collection stolen.
Approximately 94 of the
American population are living in
Homes provided wim electricity.
YES! WE'LL HAVE IT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd!
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signing Into the Yankee chain
and the next season was able to
nit four points better for Victor
la in the Western International
league.
By the time he arrived at Beau
mont in the Texas league last
season he was at the spot where
many managers might have tink
ered with that stance. But he was
fortunate enough to play for Rog
ers Hornsby; a pretty fair country
hitter in his day, and the Rajah
left Gil strictly alone. It was a
page right out of old Connie
Mack's book from the 'days when
he made his coaches leave Al
Simmons' big hoof smack in the
bucket.
All Gil did was hit .336 and
win the Texas league's most val
uable player award.
Receives Break
That won him a trip to the
Yankees' spring training camp at
Phoenix but Gil was tagged for
Kansas City. That's when fate
stepped in and gave Gil a break
-as well as the Yankees.
Johnson, the man- who -led the
Yanks as a rookie in 1943, was
regarded as the regular third
baseman. But in March he was
injured arid McDougald took over
at the hot spot, even though he
was a second .baseman. Then Dr.
Bobby Brown came pack. In the
meantime: Gil had shown his
stuff. ,
So it wasn't McDougald who
left, but Johnson, as the Yanks
sold him to St. LouU. And Gil,
alternating with Brown at third
and filling in at second for Ger
ry Coleman, hag been too valu
able with the stick to keep out of
the lineup. . 1
Gil, a father of three at 23 who
proved a good hitter In every
league, has a ready explanation.
His hobby is "steaks." .
"And In the minors," he grins,'
"you don't get 'm. Here with
the Yankees they're a steady
diet." . , ,
ONCE TOO OFTEN
Detroit, July 26 (in Mrs. Marv
L. Lane, 26. charged with drunk
driving, told Traffic judge George
T. Murphy that "my husband lets
me nut by myself only once a
month."
"You haven't seen anything
yet," Murphy replied and sen
tenced her to 10 days in jail
yesterday.
NO RESPECT FOR POLICE
Salem. Ore. UK-Prowlers climb
ed over a steel fence and stole
two storage batteries from the po
lice department's radio transmit
ter site.
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Unusual Accident
Results in Injury
Prineville, July 26 Clifford
Foster, 35, and employed on the
Sugar creek ranch of Earl Laugh
lin above Paulina 70 miles south
east of here, recently suffered a
severe lacerated aim in an acci
dent. He and-Meiie Bushnell, who
is operating the ranch, had turn
ed on a motor driving a grinding
wheel they were about to use in
sharpening sickles for hay har
vest. Revolving at high speed the
wheel exploded, and particles,
hurled by centrifugal force, strip
ped the shirt from rosters leu
arm and tore away flesh.
Foster was rushed to the Pio
neer Memorial hospital here,
where it was repotred last night
that he was recovering.
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