Hankow, Sept, 28.
"Little Liu" thought that he had! found a way to get rich quick. He discovered that the company which supplies the Chinese City with electric light had been searching for persons who were stealing cur-Tent, so he suggested a plan to two of his friends. "Choosing a time when the men were likely to be out, he entered a house and spected the meter, The inspection finished, he accused the ladies of the house of using the current without paying for it. They evidently knew nothing about such matters, so the brave "Little Liu" demanded a thousand dollars. The ladies offered fifty dollars, "which was all they had in the house, Just at this juncture, a married daughter arrived to. see her mother, Dut, heaving the disturbance, she acted' as a stranger just looking in, and, noticing that one of the men had a weapon under his coat, she rushed to the nearest policeman. He blew his whistle and ina fow minutes the two comrades of "Little Liu" were captured, but he slipped away. As he is reputed to be well-known to the police, he may_ soon join his friends in prison.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.