The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-29
or. were not ignorant Of the widespread inter
est and search for 4l' ifg ffftitt PIs

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1il f{t4 III BEL THE LOFT BALLOON, a,fai
and Ut once decided the corpse was one of the
party connected with it. The mans apparel
consisted Of white shirt, striped cashmere
pants. silk-mixed British hose, and merino un-
dershirt and drawers. s5fa ,tff
The socks and sleeve buttons were marked
"B. and collar button was marked q. b.
in monogram. From this I'LL were convinced
that the remains of George Burr had at last
been found. =
The fostering body was taken back a short
way and covered with boards to protect it from
the sun and tho myriads of flies that buzzed
and crawled about merrily, The stencil quick
y grew sickeniDg, but the clothing was care
fully examined, with result Of finding 329 in
paper money. . bunch of Office keys, q four
bladed knife, various pieces of foreign money.
and copy Of the st. Louis Glo6e-D Democrat.
Thomas Bowers took charge of matters and
the coroner Of Lake came up this afternoon.
photographic communications with st. Louis
mad been opened 1T once, and from the person.
al effects parties there had ahpa u ,NG0H'
5a$&Y dTGt FULLY IDENTIFIED sss -
the body IS that of the late teller of the st.
Louis National bank. The road from here to
the place where the body lies is very rough,
ana considering the lateness of the hour when
the coroner got through looking over the
ground and conversing with persons in any way
conversant with any facts, it was not thought
oest TO do anything other than remove the re-
mans to the town of Lake, which is q few
miles from here, on the Fort Wayne road, for
an inquest on Monday. w. e. Burr, of st.
LOUIS, brother of the dead man. was notified
oy telegraph of the action of the coroner, and
WILL be made acquainted with the result Of the
inquest. Word was received from him that q
the corpse from Lake TO- st. Louis. and would
arrive early in the morning. XIV l..,.~f-
s,4 f. INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES z. WISE. .E :c
t4...a. m lSt. Louis Special Is.erf
The Times correspondent had an interview
tonight with Mi. Charles E. Wise, son of Prof
John Wise lost with the Pathfinder. He has
always maintained that the voyagers would
turn up all right. Mr.. Wise finds it difficult to
understand why his father kept the balloon
gong when he and Burr came in sight If Lake
Michigan. They must have seen the lake at
least thirty miles before they reached it, he
says, Tor 1t was clear moonlight night on the
s @s t1 shore OF Lake Michigan that night.
ne knew as well as any man living that the
balloon would not keep up long enough to pass
oVel the lake. and that it would be almost certain
death to both for the balloon to descend into
the lake. Then why didn't they descend be-
tore reaching the lake? The question can not
No matter how high in the air the balloon was.
even how dark it might have been that night,
the water in the lake should have been seen
some time before the balloon reached the lake
time enough for the aeronauts to descend.
Young Burr might have been DESTROYS of
continuing the journey over the lake,
being willing to run the greatest
risks in order to make sensational trip of it,
but Prof. Wise himself would most certain
~ never listen to any proposition of that
KIND. With the quantity of gas the balloon had
when leaving Lindell park and the amount of
ballast taken it could hardly keep more than
SIX hours, and the six hours were up when the
balloon reached Lake Michigan. Prof Wise
knew all this, and why shonld he attempt to
SAL over the lake He (Charles Wise) knew
well enough that his father would not have
undertaken such thing. Before making the
ascension the professor had told Mr.. Downey
that he could not go very far with the balloon,
and IN tended to descend at the first good place
he came to.