Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-04-12
EUROPEAN RAILWAY. VENTURE.

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]. EUROPEAN RAILWAY VENTURE.
They Don't Call It Train Robbery, but the
Results Arc Equally Unpleasant.
very entertaining. book, says cor
respondent, might be written by mar
rating in plain, matter-of-fact style,
the wonderful adventures, romances,
comedies and tragedies, that the most
prosaic OF men and women are continu-
ally experiencing during their incar-
ceration in a railway carriage Some
time ago, for instance, well-to-do
merchant entered frst-class compart-
ment in Vienna for the purpose Of
reaching BUDAPEST early next morn
ing. It was II o. clock at night when
the train started, and there was only
one other passenger in the compart-
ment. who, having pulled his travelling
cap over his face, had slowed himself
away in the opposite corner, where he.
was nearly invisible to the merchant.
The latter, who had some portable
articles of value in his valise, did not
feel at all comfortable, and ardently
longed for the arrival of other passen-
gers to neutralize the suspicious APP
pearance Of this one. At O'clock in
the morning a gentleman finally ar
rived. carrying two trunks and as soon
as he had ensconced himself comforta-
bly, in one of the vacant corners and
laid back to enjoy doze the merchant
mentally CALCULATED heartfelt. thanks
giving and dropped off into refreshing
slumber. When he awoke he was con-
slderably nearer to his journeys end,
but was no longer in UGH hurry to
get there, for his valise had disap-
peared, and with it the third passen-
ger. The traveller whom he had found
in the compartment when he entered
was still snugly nesting in his corner,
generously snoring. The train was at
once stopped, and it turned out that
the two travellers who had arrived first
and suspected each other of being rob-
bers or miscreants, were both respected
citizens and very old friends, while the
tourist who joined and comforted them
so much by his soothing presence that
they freely abandoned themselves to
sweet slumber was dangerous crimi-
nal, whose wooden trunks were filled
with stones.
DR.. x, Vienna physician who re-
Gently undertook q journey to London,
has now returned with an unpleasant
but less costly experience to relate.
He lay for a considera BILE time under
cloud of suspicion, being taken for
member of an international gang of
| railway thieves 1t came about, he
says, in this way He left Vienna in
Pullman sleeping car, in which there
were three other passengers-a man
ufacturer, an Englishman, who got
out at. Munich, and librarian from
Erlangen. After the departure of two
of his fellow-travelers he found him
self alone with the Elberfeld manufac-
| turer, who suddenly made the alarming
| discovery that twelve hundred German
marks in bank notes and eight hum
dred Austrian guldens, as we'll as
diamond pin, valued at eighteen hum
dred marks, had unaccountably disap-
| peared. The authorities were commu-
nicated with in twinkling and
| criminal official joined the train to
| investigate the matter to the bottom.
Asked as to whom he suspected of hav-
| ing committed the crime the man un-
hesitatingly mentioned the conductor
who had charge of the sleeping car
riage. But against him nothing could
| be proved. Then came the Doctors
turn. He was taken before the official
the train meanwhile flying rapidly
forward-and subjected to a sharp
inquisitorial and odious cross-ex-
animation, which was shaped on
the assumption that he was the
hardened thief they were looking for,
At last he coald stand it no longer, SO
he proposed to drink the cup of humil-
iation to the dregs At once by submit
ting himself to a personal sea rel. His
pockets were thereupon ri1ed, his
sleeves carefully inspected, felt and
shaken, and a number of other little
devices resorted to, which only past
master in the detectives art would
dream of employing, and which caused
the physicians gorge to rise. Then
the question arose as to the identity of
the other two travellers who had pre-
viously left the train. DR.. X, having
received from them their visiting cards,
was able to satisfy the police officers
curiosity in this respect. After having
exhausted the resources of his invent
ivencss without any tangible result the
criminal official finally left the train.
A few days later both he and the
robbed man heard the end of the
story. During the personal search and
the cross-exalninat ton in the train one
of the other passengers who had left
before {the librarian), on entering the
Bavarian station for which he was
boolzed was astonished to find in his
winter overcoat the letter case belong
ing to the manufacturer, with the thou
sands Of marks and diamond pin, safe
and sound, OF course he at once de-
posted them with the police. The
manufacturer himself, in fit of alb
straction, had slowed away the case in
the pocket of the wrong coat-London
Telegraph.
VENTILATION OF CuPBOARDS.
Clothes Should be Thoroughly Aired to
! Keep Them Sweet.
The cupboard, so long the cherished
object of the housewife, and so evil
dently necessary to a well-ordered
house, has at last found an enemy in
the modern hygienist who condemns
all such stowaway places as recepta-
| cles of close. foul air. While it would