... That Was Criminal

MASCOUTAH, Illa., Aug. J.- Blazer Ely, aged 62, a well-known character of Yenedy Station, had been on a three weeks' spree ind nis assoclates packed hls trousers with shavings and live coals of flre, inteniling, it issupposed, to tantalize the old man with the smoke caused thereby. Tha ooals set the shavings ablaze and in a few minutes the would-be jokers found their victim burning to death. The nre was extinguished, but the old man died a faw hours later.