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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
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STOP WILD TRAIN
AN UNUSUAL RAILROAD EXPE-
RIENCE IN NEW JERSEY.
ENGINEER BLOWN FROM CAB
An Explosion Started the Runaway
Freight - It's Perilous Race on
the Rails-Tracks Cleared
in Record Time.

New York.-Railroad men on the Della
ware, Lackawanna &, Western are dis
cussing with much interest the unusual
and perilous method resorted to to stop
runaway freight train which rushed
headlong at a furious speed for distance
of five miles without a guiding hand at
the locomotives throttle, after the en-
CINE driver had been whisked out of the
cab window at point five miles from
Port Morris, N. j., by the force of an ex
plosion.
Train No. 43, laden with milk, and
bound west, was bowling along at good
speed when the accident occurrerd. Pat
rick Forth, the engine driver was in his
seat in big camel-back engine, while
his fireman was out on the tender, pre-
pairing to hook down water spout into
the reserve box when the train reached
Waterloo.
Suddenly the joint of big pipe lead
ing from the engines boilers blew out,
and Forth, enveloped in steam, was
hurled with terrific force through the
cab window. The rattle of the train pre-
vented the fireman from hearing the
sound of the explosion. so he remained
at his place on the tender.
For In landed by the side Of the track,
scalded and bleeding, but he shouted to
a trackman to take word to an operator
that No. 43 was running wild" and to
telegraph ahead and clear the track
HOhOken receiye1 tho message and
sent it on to Hackensack There fast
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Polly as Champion Swearer

Baltimore, Md.-Fcor little polly, a
pet of Martin Krauter, of No. 1649
Barnes street, known to many resi-
dents of northeast Baltimore, died the
other night of old age. Mr.. Krauter
conducted a saloon for about Is
years, and the parrot was a constant
and conspicuous figure In the bar
room and also good customer" The
bird Vas never known to refuse to
take drink with anybody, and con-
sequently frequently got drunk. In its
hilarity it would strut up and down
the bar, and when q customer would
plank down his money the bird would
go for it, carry it to some lofty perch
and give its master the laugh. Polly
was champion swearer in four Ian
guages. The bird came from Loray,
Spain. 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
LEGS BURNED TO CRISP
BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT.,
A Paralyzed Man the. Victim Of Pc
culiar Accident at Cleve-
land

Cleyeland.-A victim of one of the
most peculiar accidents that could hap7
pen, Robert l.. Morris, well-known in:
the vicinity Of Woodland and Wilson,
avenues, is dead. Morris was a con-
tracing painter, and on August Is, 1901,
while working on building on Stan?
wood road, he, with three other men,
was thrown to the ground by the break
ing OF scaffold. The fall was about IA
feet, but Morris landed on his back,
breaking it. He was picked up for
dead.
He was taken to Charity hospital,
and for three months fingered between
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Woman. Held On at Midday

New York City.-1n New York's
most fashionable thoroughfare, at ten
o'clock in the morning, a woman was
held up and robbed of several hundred
dollars, the point of revolver pressed
against her temple warning that out
cry meant instant death. So quietly
vas the whole affair conducted that
not even the driver of the Fifth avenue
stage in which the woman was robbed
-as aware that anything out of the
ordinary had occurred.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
TRAMPLES ALL TRADITIONS
Kansas Attorney Addresses Judges
Of Supreme Court as "You
Fellows"

NaShlngtOn.-Wlth Characteristic
ally breezy eloquencc, A. E. Crane, Of
Kansas completely upset the solemn
ity of the United States supreme court
by injecting into the argument some
of the "ginger" and "snap' peculiar to
his western training and practice.
Dignity gave way to amusement and
surprise when the black robed justices
We're assured that "you fellows must
realize the Importance Of this deci-
sion.' In the easy, goas-you-please
presentation of his case, Mr.. Crane in
tended not the slightest disrespect, nor
was there any disposition on the part
of the court to regard 1t in such light:
but he ruthlessly trampled on all the
time-honored traditions and actually
conveyed the idea that he was not
afraid to speak out in meeting
The case involved an application for
writ of habeas corpus. Mr.. Cranes
client had been convicted of selling
liquor to an Indian and was in jail for
his crime. He was naturally anxious
to get out. and his attorney, in order
" ACCOMPLISH tue ueSlTeu emu. brought
out legal points that had never before
commanded the attention of the court.
Justice Harlan took hand in the
proceedings by asking, so that it could
be heard throughout the chamber, if
"a man could not be citizen of the
United States without being a citizen
of any state" and was promptly in
formed that 1T was impossible, &C.
cording to decisions of the supreme
court of the United States"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
PUZZLED By CHILD THIEF.
Father of Youthful Prisoner Kept
Poor by Depredations Of His
Ten-Year-Old Son.

Chicago.-Poverty has descended on
the home of Marion Szadokierslxi, GAO
Ashland avenue, because of the thefts
cording to a story told Judge Mack
in the juvenile court
The child has become an object of
attention from physicians and scien-
lists as we'll as polt:emen, and an in
quiry has been started by Judge Mack
to learn why he steals.
Superintendent Bodine, of the COM
pulsory education department of the
schools, has been appraised of the first
results of the scientific study Of Ste
phen. 1t was declared in the court
that the lad has been found to suffer
growth asymetries and movement alb
normalities," and the physicians have
still to examine him.
The boy, so police of the Maxwell
street district said, has been stealing
things for year. His father, weeping,
told the judge it had made him poor
to pay for the goods his son had
stolen. He declared, in broken Polish,
that he could not understand why his
son Is dishonest. Stephen smiled as
his shortcomings were told.
whats the matter, my boy?" QUE
ried the judge.
Stephen smiled.
"Why do you steal things?''
Stephen continued smiling. 1t was
his only answer.
To aid the Judge was nrasentod
letter written by D. P. Macmillan, d.
rector of the department of scientific
pedagogy and child study in the
schools. 1t was sent to Superintendent
Bodine and told of the older Szadokier-
skis taking his son to the child study
laboratory to be studied.
Director Macmillan said of Stephen:
ION January 16 he was given psyche
physical examination, of which the fol-
lowing is a brief report:
physically he is below the average
norms of height, weight, strength. en-
durance and vital capacity for the age
given-ten years eight months. He has
number of growth asymetries and
movement abnormalities, but neither
are SO pronounced as to mark him gener-
ically delinquent or of unsocial tend
encies.
Mentally he is bright. In all the
tests given to determine his grade of in
telligence and native ability he stands
we'll within the limits Of any child Of
American parents of like age and social
opportunities"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Unmarried Men Are Happiest.

New YoIk.-"Is there a married man
in all Greater New York who is per-
fectly contented with his LOTT" This
question was asked by W. A. Wood
bury, bachelor, philanthropst and stu
dent of social and charitable problems.
Mr.. Woodbury. does not think there is.
He is willing to wager $1,000 that no
one can prove to his entire satisfac-
ton, and the satisfaction of a commit
tee that may be selected, that he is
absolutely happy in the marital state,
and would not change places with any
bachelor MI. Woodbury. is certain
that the single men of New York are
happier than the married men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
THIS TILTED GIRLS
AIM WAS TOO GOOD.
Seeking Revenge She Threw Turnips
Through Her False Lovers
Window.

st. Paula new and novel way OF
making reprisals for a jilting was adopt
ed by May Lawrence, Is years old, &C.
cording to her own confession in po-
lice court. She was charged with throw
ing a turnip through the window of a
business house on Ontario street, there
by totally demolishing the glass and
causing damage of seven dollars.
On the stand Miss Lawrence con-
fessed to throwing the turnip. Indeed,
she said that she had purchased guam
tity OF turnips with the express intention
OF throwing them. She concealed two
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Held Up by Bearded Desperadoes.

Wilkesbarre, Pam unusual Kind
of assault was made by two men upon
Mrs. Albert w ertman, of Mordansyille,
near here. the other night. She was
going through wood with her little
boy, when two rough-looking men with
heavy boards seized her and rubbed
their boards over her face and neck
until the skin was sore and inflamed.
She managed to break away from them
and after following her for short dis
lance, ley turned and ran the other
way. She is Frustrated by the attack,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
DRINK-CRAZED. MANS y
LEAP FOR llBERTYI
Thomas William Took Window SASH
and Glass Along and Was Then
Returned to Hospital.

New York.-1n sight of hundreds oq
people a man jumped through window
in the third floor of the house at 963
Third avenue, Manhattan, and landed
on his feet on the coping two stories
below, absolutely unhurt. Then, after
desperate struggle with four policemen
he was rescued from his position and
overpowered. Crowds Of people going
into Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street the
alter saw the man at the window gesticu-
lating wildly, and apparently shouting
at some imaginary person. Bicycle Po-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
after the New Years party, he was an
other man Then his wife feared him

after the New Years party, he was an
other man. Then his wife feared him.
HE told me on our way home from
dinner that should never forget New
Years, 1903" said Mrs. Hopkins, and
then, with sob that " as in pathetic dis
cord to the strains of 'Tell Me, Pretty
Maiden" floating over from the woman
quarter, she added, land guess never
shall.
II loved him, and when We were first
married, he loved me-" she continued
THE first day after we were married
went into his printing shop, and have
worked there every day from seven in
the morning until $50 at night missing
only the day when his father was buried.
II don't want to tell about the wom-
an" she said.
Another time maybe l shall. He
never was away from me, never, until
about month ago, when he went hunt
ing and stayed over night.
ION Thursday night before New Year
Invent to bed sure he would kill me- Be-
cause l had called my mother up to tell
her about my sick sister he; was angry.
"Then, when my sister called me up,
he stood over me with a revolver when
l answered the telephone. He beat me
that night and told me he would brain
me.
He never gave me cent for myself.
His father often spoke to him about it,
but that wasn't the cause of our trouble.
'But if he even smiled at me was
happy, loved him so.''
All through her story her love for her
dead husband showed itself. Always she
excused him. Always she did not want
to blame him.
Il knew he would kill me some time.
If l didn't kill him he would kill me.
When l picked him up thought at first
he was fooling. 1 tried to get him to
speak.
II kissed him." she said, at length, and
as she buried her face in her handker-
chief some one across the hall was ham,
mering out Blue Bells on the piano.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Curiosity Cost Doctor $50.

Chicago.-It cost F. A. Hort, a SELF
styled doctor" $50 in Justice Mayors
court for publishing an advertisement
for young women for physical culture
work." Hort was arrested on complaint
of one of SO young women who had
been attracted by his advertisement,
and in court he denied that he intend
eo to operate any school as he had
claimed, but merely had a curiosity
to see how many women would re-
spond to his ad."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Shot Five Bears in Ten Seconds.

Paris.-A remarkable shooting ex-
plot is reported from Aye, Luxembourg
Baron Alfred Coppens. with a repeat
ing rife, was posted at the edge of the
forest when seven boars emerged in
single file. The baron's gun being an
automatic repeater, he was able to fire
Ave times within ten seconds and
brought down four of the biggest boars
in their tracks, the victims remaining
in line The fifth one fell dead 100
yards further.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
HUSBAND
BUT KILLED HIM
THE UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE OF
A WIFE IN CHICAGO.
SHE LIVED IN FEAR. OF LIFE
Story Reveals a DR.. Jekyn and Mr.
hyde Case-Wife the Victim Of
Untold Abuses Borne for
Loves Sake.

Chicago.-Weeping in the hospital Of
the county JAIL where she is held for
murder of the one creature on earth she
loved above all others, and whom, at the
same time, she feared so much she lived
with him in continual dread of losing
her life-this is the predicament of Mrs.
Harry c. Hopkins, who was held by
coroner's jury for the killing of her hus-
band, Ito await the due process of the
law"
No one who talks with Mrs. Hopkins
can have any doubt of her love for her
husband. Neither can the deadly fear
in which she held him be mistaken.
After a silence which she was advised
by relatives to keep until her story
could be told to jury, Mrs. Hopkins dis
cussed the events which led up to the
shooting that resulted in her husbands
death.
In the telling she has made known
some things which even her relatives
will be surprised to learn, things she has
borne for years with smile, giving out
siders the impression she was happy and
contented with her husband, when really
she was living a life of despair with anx-
ious but vain hopes for happiness that
would come with the morrow. But the
morrow never came.
A DR.. Jeky'l and Mr. Hyde is what
Mrs. Hopkins calls her husband. When
he was himself he was handsome, kind
and loving. Then his wife loved him.
When he got the ungovernable fits of
temper which precipitated the quarrel
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Seals Human Crv.

The cries of no animal approach more
closely that Of the human voice than
those Of seals lamenting the loss or.
capture Of their young. They emit,
wailing and affecting cry similar to that.
Of a woman in deer. sriet -: 2s= = 6.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Kidnaped Bow Hunts Kin.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Marshall Smith
Jr., aged q years, has arrived at Paris,
ILL.,, from Montana in search of his
father, Marshall Smith, ST., to versi:>
a story recently told him that he was
kidnapped from Paris when a baby. He
has gone to Chrisman, III. where it is
said hi father now lives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
DIVORCED By AGREEMENT.
Queer Matrimonial Tangle and the
Suit for Damages Grow
ing Out Of It.

Des MOines, lathe sensation in
the Flinders-Bailcy $4,000 damage
suit at Cherokee occurred when Bailey
took the stand and swore that Flinders
had proposed double divorce scheme.
Flinders was to be divorced and marry
his wife's cousin, and he, Bailey, was
to be divorced and marry Mrs. Film
ders
Samuel Flinders is demanding judg-
ment of Asa c. Bailey for alternating
his wife's affections. Flinders swore
that he and Bailey were friends and
neighbors for years, and that although
his wife and Bailey were together fire.
Quently, his suspicious were not
aroused until he found a note which
his wife had written to Bailey.
Mrs. Flinders admitted on the stand
that she liked Bailey better than her
own husband.
Bailey admitted that he and Mrs.
Flinders had not only taken buggy
rides together, but had made several
trips to Minneapolis and Chicago, and
that Flinders declared himself pleased
that she had the opportunity to thus
relieve the monotony of country life.
Escapes Death and sultan's Harem.
Worcester, Mass.-Torn by Turkish
soldiers from the arms of her mother,
who was killed in a massacre in the
palace of Sultan Abdul Hamid, whose
harem she refused to join, dragged
through the underground passage to be
drowned in the Bosphorus, Esther
Blumengarten, beautiful Hebrew girl.
has arrived here. She was rescued
through the efforts of agents EMPLOYED
by the banking house of Ernest Cassel
& Co., at the instance of her father.
Harlem merchant In the history of
the Ottoman empire of nearly 1000
years, this is the first escape from the
sultan's harem on record. Those who
do not die a natural death come to a
sudden end or go through the secret
passages that lead to the waters of the
strait. The rescue took six months of
planning and conspiracy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
Used Music to Pull Teeth.

Paris.-A Paris dentist was fined
25f. five dollars) fo- using music in
extracting teeth. The ground was that
such a specific was not contained in
the pharmacopoeia The dental sur
geon thought he had discovered a way,
both novel and ingenious, to lull nerv-
Gus patients to insensibility by sweet
strains of harmony and the striking
novelty drew crowds of customers.
But often, when the melodious anaes-
thetic failed, the doctor resorted sur
reptitiously to nitrous oxide or vulgar
laughing gas. The court severely
reprimanded the modern Orpheus.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-16
HURLED WITH TERRIFIC FORCE
THROUGH THE CAB WINDOW.

engine, containing all extra engine
driver, was started down the track ahead
Of the runaway train. and in the same
direction as 1t was running. instruction
was given the engines crew to brush
ahead at fast speed and gradually al
low the runaway train to gain on them
until their engine could slow down and
allow the approaching train to jolt into
it. Then the extra engine driver was to
climb over the pilot Of the freight en-
CINE, and, entering the cab, stop the
train.
Meantime the train was plunging
ahead at an increasing speed A way
freight got on to a siding at Waterloo
In the nick of time to escape collision
The fireman on the tender kept his po-
sition until point few miles past Wa
terloo was reached, and. not under
standing why the train hadn't stopped
for water, went into the cab to learn the
reason. When he failed to find the en-
gine driver he promptly stopped the
train and sent back brakeman to search
for Forth. Then, taking the throttle,
he pressed brakeman into service as
fireman and ran the train ahead and
overlook the engine which had been
sent out on the perilous mission of stop
ping the runaway.
Forth was sent to St. Johns hospital,
Paterson. He resides at Scranton, Pa.
Arizona republican., 1905-10-15
A FAIR WIPED OUT.
It Happened in a Very Few Minutes at
 Bueyrus, Ohio.

Bucyrus, Ohio, Oct 14.-While the races at the county fair today were on, the grandstand was discovered to be on fire. A panic followed the first an nouncement. Spectators in the grand stand rushed for the exit and soon blocked the only passage to safety. Ex- cited women, children and men leaped over the front of the stand upon the track, twelve feet, and many were in jured by the leap.
 Those who left the grand stand las, were badly burned. as the big pine building went like finder. Within three minutes after the fire was discovered the stand was wrapped in flames. The fire was caught up by a stiff breeze and was driven across the grounds, communicating from building to build ing.
 The horticultural hall went like pow der. The photograph ard art building and newspaper headquarters were de- strOyed. The second exhibit hall was badly damaged and some of the stables were burned.
 The canvass used by the farm imple- ment people was swept away and mass of flame from the building played upon an acre of implements, buggies and windmills. destroying them. Wom- en in charge of the exhibits in the halls had only time to seize their personal belongings and escape. In less than half an hour the entire fair was wiped out
Arizona republican., 1905-10-15

sonal friends. Immediately on it's ar rival the body will be taken to MT. IT, wings residence.
 Notwithstanding the requests that no flowers be sent, several have been given place on the coffin. Flags were placed at half mast at many of the theaters of London today and the afternoon and evening performances in the theaters throughout the country closed, with the orchestras playing a dead march. At the Queens hall. Cho- pins funeral march was played, the vast audience standing
 Ellen Terry, who is playing at Bir- mingham, is reported to be completely prostrated with grief and did not ap- pear at tonights peroframance A meet ing will be held in London at which a proposition for a national memorial Will take shape. It is understood to be extremely probable that Sir Charles Wyndham will propose the endowment of national theater in Irving's name.
Arizona republican., 1905-10-15
Friends Unable to Locate
 New Arizona Judge
MAY NOT TAKE OFFICE
It is Surmised That His Appointment Was Procured to Get Him Out of Line for the GOvernOrship of Ne- braSKa.

Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 14-(SpeciaL)- Not a word has been heard from Judge Paul lessen since the announcement of Tucker on the supreme bench in Ari- zOna. The judge is enjoying his honey moon somewhere in Washington, and a flood of telegrams has been sent to numerous points in that state. It is not even known whether any of them have reached him.
 In the event that MT. lessen has been apprised of the honor which has been conferred upon him by the presi- dent, it is suggested that he may be unwilling to allow his honeymoon to be interfered with for the sake of re ceiving a shower of congra tUlatiOns but his friends are limiting that his silence may have a deeper signifi- canoe.
 It is known that the appointment was entirely unsolicited on the part of MT. lessen. and it is far from certain that it is acceptable to him. In addition to the fact that he already holds district judgeship in his home Paul lessen is credited with political am bitions which lead in the direction of the governors cEa air at Lincoln.
 When Governor Mickey was nomi- mated by the republican party three years ago. MT. lessen was an active candidate for the nomination. His friends now say that his appointments to the jurgeship in Arizona secured for him by Senator Burkett, is shrewd move on the part of the Burlington railroad interests to sidetrack him from the gubernatOriaI race of next year. MT. lessen, it is pointed out, Ia 2 is certain that he would not be accept able to the Burlington, which is the dominating power in Nebraska pOli- tics.