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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02

rushed into the house and seized the girl in his arms. He kissed her. ,swore that he would marry her, and fought the servants who came to the rescue of their mistress. There were bleeding noses and broken heads and much furniture was smashed In his fury the baron killed Olga's pet dog. then remounting his horse, he rode away. {:
 Ivan Ostrelsky placed guards about his home and half a dozen attempts to kidnap Olga were frustrated.
 On the last occasion the baron was betrayed by a valet. He. the baron. had planned to hold up the Ostrelsky carriage on the way to church and capture the girl.
 When the holdup occurred, the car riage was found to contain five men. who captured the baron and servants and bound them hand and foot They were taken to the 0strelsky villa at midnight and Ivan Ostrelsky told them tudt they Wcit lo uo uciu pTlS- oners until Olga had the protection of a husband.
 The baron and his two companions were placed in a cellar and chained. They were well fed and we'll treated, but they were prisoners without hope of escape until such time as their captor relented.
 Each night they were exercised. At tempts to escape were punished by knouting.
 After over three years imprison- ment of the baron. Olga Ostrelsky has married. and since she departed on her honeymoon the prisoners have been released.
 The baron now learns that he had been judged dead and a kinsman is in possession of his estates. The wives of his servants have remarried. The possessor of the Lupianoff estates has refused to recognize the baron, declaring him to be an impostor. and the matter will now be fought out in the courts.
 Up to date no action has been begun against Ivan Ostrelsky.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02

Pittsburg.-Clara Greece and Mary Owens, of Roxbury. Somerset county. took little journey into the world recently. They had good time, but they are contented to 30 back to the somnolent village of Roxbury. They are both romantic, and when they de- cided to make the plunge to seek a fortune, 1t was to be as men. One night, in the Owens girls room. they performed tonsorial act for each oth- CT which relieved them of their low ing tresses. Then they borrowed g suit ot clothes each from the slumber- ing brothers of Miss Owens. and hit the pike for Conway.
 They remained a week in Conway. They had carefully hoarded their money for weeks to make this plunge. but money does not last forever. Even in Conway 1t costs something to eat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
STRANGE STORY 0F . ROMANCE AND CRIME
FIERY RUSSIAN NoBLEMAN RE-
 LEASED FROM PRISON.
TRIED TO KDNAP BEAUTY.
Merchants Daughter Spurns Love of Baron-Latter Made Captive and Chained in Cellar Until
 Girl Weeds.

London.-Detaiis have reached hero of crime that stands alone in latter day history.
 The scene Is in Russia, and the characters are Olga Ostrelsky. Rus sian beauty; her father, Ivan. mer- chant, and a Baron Lupianoff, owner of vast estates.
 Luplanoff loved Olga ostrelsky with the fiery love characteristic of Rus. sians, and was repulsed.
 He wrote to her, declared his pas sion at every opportunity, threatened her. and swore that he would possess her even if he was compelled to com nit crime.
 In St. Petersburg the baron had gone the pace. He indulged in the widest dissipations, and up to the time he met the charming Olga, he was not only feared, but hated by the peasants.
 Love for her became the passion of his life. He plotted and planned. He found a hundred pretexts for seeing her, and the more he became enamored the more the girl was filled with dis gust.
 Her father warmly favored Baron Lupianoff's suit and encouraged it.. But his love for his daughter was so great that when she told him that she would kill herself unless the baron discontinued his visits and attentions, he took the side of the girl.
 He wrote to the baron and told him that 1t was best that he should not call again at the Ostrelsky mansion.
 A few days later the baron rode up, threw himself from his horse,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
Fought Maniac on Car Top.

P0UGHKEEPsIE. \. r.. July g. With one companion lying dead at their feet and another struggling like a maniac in his deIirium. five Brooklyn boys had a thrilling ride on top of a New York Central freight train during the night For almost forty miles they rode in darkness. well nigh exhausted in frantic effort to prevent the de lirious boy. made 30 by being struck by a bridge. from throwing himself from the top of the speeding train The dead boy vas John Mcdonald of Brooklyn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02

and pay room rent, and near the end of the week they saw bankruptcy looming up ahead. They decided to ap- ply for job, and went to the Conway machine shops and were told they could go to work in the morning as laborc;s at s1.25 per day, more money than anybody in Roxbury had ever earned except the postmaster, and he made $500 year by handling the mall and acting IS borough and county as- sessor and register and sitting on a jury every once in awhile at Ebens- burg, the county seat.
 Buy when informed that they would have to report for duty at five a. m. every day anc work until five p. m.. the fun all went out of 1t. They de-. cided to look for something else. Their
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
M.rs-r at ne-e. N.Y.

ROME. N- Y-. July 2-Anfonio Page. aged thirtysix. died st hospital here from the effects of q stab wound in the abdomen inflicted by Andrew Desver- no. or Summa. as he Is sometimes called The men had been drinking. and It is alleged Delvermo made an insulunz rsmsrk to Page which the lat ter rezented Delvemo fhereapo1 thrust Knife into Paee's abdomen and 1n, naking his epcapa
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
Dogs Eat Five Persons.

St Johns. N. F.-Reports from Lab rador state that five persons were kille1 and eaten by savage dogs on that coast during the winter. These dogs, which have largely inbred with wolves. have frequently killed human beings. One of the victims vas a man s years old. and dNthe others were an elderly man and his wife. daughter and crandchi1d.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02

impossible to avoid . wreck. moved the wagon slowly forward.
 Rounding a curve. whitehead en, gineer leaned from the cab of his fly, ing engine while the whistle shrieked. Holy Moses, exerting every ounce of his immense strength. pushed the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
Reyestvessky Plesas Guirty.

ST. PETERSBURG. July 2 = Ad- nirsl Rojesfvensky pleaded guilty In the court martial called to try him for surrepdering In the battle of Japan sea. Rojesfvenxky. though he says he vas dszed and out of his head all the time. entered . manly plea of guilty becsuse hs tsok so neasures so prsvent ths
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
NOVELIST AND sIMoN-PURE SOCIALIST

We speak of the English writer H. O. wells. the man whom popular fancy pictures as producinc only such thrilling tales as The War of ,hs Worlds. the Invisible Man." etc But one should consider Mir. Wells also socialist and man ol hope in day of indifference and pessimism It Is refreshing in this materiaiistic faithless age to read the words: T have come to believe in certsI. other things in the coherency and purpose In ,ks world and in the greatness of human destinv- Worlds may freeze and suns may perish. but thsrs stirs something within us now that can never dls again."
 And in this age ve like 1t that Mir. v.us should vrite-for the deliverance of aIl our h,or< and speech from those fouier thinrx than eAsss.i slavery. child adoiescenf labor Nr weIls Id member of the famous London Fabian society. sSs most important socialissic society in Enxianf s.s recently censured the society in a paper op ~TIs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-02
WRECK IN ENGLAND. Many Americans Killed by
 Salisbury Collision. TWENTY. SEVEN ARE DEAD.. Prominent Men From New York
 Among Victims. THREE WELL KNOWN CANADlANS
TWENTY. SEVEN ARE DEAD.
THREE WELL KNOWN CANADIANS

American Line Special Express From Plymouth to London, Having on Board Forty seven Passengers From This side Who Had Just Dis embarked From Steamer New York, Jumped Rails at Cathedral Town of Salisbury and Leaping to Another Track Struck . Milk Train While Travelling nt Rate Of Nearly . Mile a Minutc-C0aches Were Torn to Pieces and Pnssensers' Bodies Man. gled Almost Beyond Identification.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
The Ambition of Congressman.

Members of the lower house of con
gress are now engaged in the harmless
pastime of delivering to empty benches
carefully prepared and memorized
speeches lauding their own party and ar
Ranging the other fellows party. These
speeches will in due time come off the
presses in neatly printed pamphlet form
for distribution through the mails under
frank to over-awe the con-
stituent who receives copy by reali
cation of what big man his congress
man is The dissemination of extracts
from the congressional record, however,
has been worked so hard that the people
are beginning to see through it until it
loses much of its effect, says The Omaha
Bee. Yet to have a speech accepted for
broadcast distribution by the campaign
committee seems to be the height of
ambition in certain congressional quarters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Gold for Old Mexico.

Some exaggerated estimates have
been circulated i'm regard to the extent
to which gold might be taken from the
United States for Mexico, but it is re-
ported from the Mexican treasury de-
partment that $l5,OO0,O00 will probably
represent the extreme limits of that
movement, including that which has al
ready gone to Mexico. Owing to the rise
in the prise of silver bullion, and of
Mexican dollars as well, Mexican banks
have been selling the latter freely and
buying gold limitations are that about
one half of the entire reserve of the
Mexican banks will be converted in that
way, and the effect of the creation of a
large gold reserve in Mexico will tend
greatly to strengthen the currency posi-
ton of that country. Mexican authori-
ties express the opinion that within a
comparatively short time the value of
the Mexican silver dollar will be placed
on a parity with that of the gold peso,
or that, in other words, the two forms
of money will be interchangeable just as
is the case with the gold and silver COM
ponents of the United States circula-
ton.
The Mexican government recently
placed an order with the United States
mint at Philadelphia for the coinage of
$5,OO0,OOO in gold pieces, and it is under
stood that au additional order for So
100000 more is contemplated. The MeXi-
can government and the banks of that
country are cooperating intelligently in
the work of establishing its currency
upon a gold basis, and although this
process will involve the further acquisi-
ton of gold, which will probably come
from the United States, the shipments
will in all probability be spread over a
considerable period, so that the demand
is not likely to create any severe drain
upon the United States treasury gold
or the stock held by the banks. When
the Mexican currency is on a sound COLO
basis it will help foreign trade with
that country and make imports easier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Frowns Upon Society Gambling.

Minneapolis society is aroused over
the stand that Mayor Jones has taken
against the gambling that is being in
dulged in by the fair DANES of that city.
He is said to have frowned upon the
dainty bits of cut glass, blue ribboned
perfumery bottles and other tiny articles
that are offered as prizes at card games.
Without any equivocaticn Mayor Jones
has declared that the ladies are as guilty
of gambling as those horrid men who
watch the chips pass at night over the
green cloth. He is said to have told his
private secretary as much. As yet no
edict has gone forth from the mayors
office placing an official ban upon pro-
gressive cinch and bridge whist, and it
is not expected that one will issue, but
his royal executive hopes that moral
suasion will have the desired effect.
Mayor Jones and ''Billy' Sunday, the
sensational evangelist, are of one mind
on this Society gambling" and Sunday
denounces the practice in terms that are
so scathing that it fairly makes ones
flesh creep. Both gentlemen are agreed
that the practice is pernicious in the
extreme and sets bad example for the
young.
However, the ladies at their card clubs
express other views, and hold that their
card playing, even though there are
stakes for the winners, simply is inno-
cent pastime and furnishes a relaxation
from the strenuous household duties
with which they are daily encountered.
They often give vent to their indigna-
tion at such denunciation as Sunday
hurls at the Society gamblers" and
just now Mayor Jones is being grilled
by the ladies. One of the fair ones OF
his own city is alleged to have said:
Gust let him try to interfere with
the way run my house was the
way one of the really prominent mem
bers of the upper ten expressed herself.
"lf he dares to come shopping around my
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Roads Are Worse and Worse.

Never have the country roads been IN
such a frightful condition as they are
at the present time, Farmers find that
it is almost impossible to reach the
creameries, and those institutions are
running short Of milk. Should the rain
fall continue, the supply will be cut off
entirely and the butter factories will be
forced to shut down until the high
ways are made fit for travel.
There is no newspaper in the state
that has had as much to say in regard
to the need of good roads as The Free
Press. From time to time this news
paper has pointed out that which is now
bothering the farmers and urged them to
improve the highways so that they
could be travelled at all seasons of the
year without any difficulty. But little
was done to better their condition, how
ever, and now our rural friends are COM
planning long and loud against the eX-
listing evils. The Free Press repeats that
the farmers have themselves to blame
for the bad condition of the highways.
If they do not wish to be bothered with
poor roads they should set themselves
to work to bring about change for
the better. This can be done by doing
away with the polltax farce, and plac-
ing all the road repairing in the hands OF
the county surveyors, paying cash for the
labor, all of which should be done by
contract The farmers should be up
and doing. They are now suffering from
their own neglect.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Trv the Publicity Plan.

The Free Press is not so much inter
ested in the internal affairs of Russia
as it is in those more important topics
which affect us locally-town building
and how to make greater Mankato
We are content to let the Russians set
tie their own affairs, but we are vitality
concerned over the future growth of this
city.
We are told that Flint, Mich, placed
$2,5OO,OOO worth of factories on $50
acres of land taken up by its business
men and has now a pay roll of about
100000 year. Newcastle, Ind,
placed 81 ,633 900 worth of factories in
the same way, and Peru, Ind, did even
better. We hear that towns are being
built up all about Chicago, and the plan
they followed was similar to that which
gave the cities mentioned their remark
able growth. Winona, according to The
Republican and Herald, is thinking of
following in their wake. The Republi-
,an and Herald says that shrewd manu-
facturers everywhere recognize this
modern way of industrial expansion as
the way to build up cities. 1t is a prac-
teal, business-like and absolutely safe
plan, and is being demonstrated sue
cess in all parts of the country.
The Free Press is in ITSELF manu-
featuring concern employing a force of
nearly fifty persons who spend their
weekly wages in Mankato. This money
goes into the channels of trade and ev-
cry citizen is either directly or Indirect
ly benefited. There are many other con-
Germs in this city that employ like
number and their wages are likewise dis
tributed among the merchants and
tradesmen. But we should not be con-
tent with this number of industries. We
should reach out for more. The city's
light should not be hid under a bushel.
It's advantages should be set forth in
terms so attractive that capitalists will
be induced to invest their money in
manufacturing plants here. Mankato is
richly favored in number of ways.
1t is well situated, it has the railroad
facilities-one of the most valuable as
sets that any town could ask for. 1t has
wide range of territory to draw from
and factories well managed could do as
well here as in larger cities.
Another thing, Mankato should have
more jobbing houses. There is field
here for several institutions of that
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Watch Mankato Grow.

If Mankato with population of less
than II 900 in 1905, can get 500 members
for it's Business Mems Association, who
says Winona can't get a membership
large enough to finance its organization
properly? It's rank treason to Winona
to intimate that her merchants are not
just as liberal and just as progressive
as those of Mankato OF any other city.
We've got just as good people in Vino
ma as any where else and they're going
to bring Winona to the front. Now,
please don't forget that, is the declara-
ton of The Winona Independent.
Winona is nice town, easy going,
rather sluggish, yet pretty and would
make handsome corpse. 1t is not as
lively as Mankato, although it has a
few more people within its limits, some
of whom would be glad if they could mi
crate to greener and more productive
fields. Mankato has set a pace for Wi
hOHd ali oClCl OONllS " DuSU
watch Mankato grow after the new
Commercial club has gotten well under
way.
Mankato has everything in its favor
to become the fourth largest city in the
state. 1t never can hope to become
the third largest, but it should take such
strides that will place it far beyond
either Winona or Saltwater. But this
growth cannot be obtained without work
on the part of her citizens. To sit down
idly and expect something to turn up
will never do at ALL Everyone must do
his share in the work of erecting the
mammonth structure. City building
never has been accomplished by drones
or sluggards.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20

character, and that they could reap the
reward for their proprietorsl there does
not seem to be any question. Mankato
is too modest by far. This city's ex-
cellent advantages are not given that
publicity abroad which they should. Pub
licity could accomplish much for this
favored municipality. Why not give
it trial?
This is the plan adopted by the Flint
business men to build up the town. 1t
is from a description written in The De-
troit Free Press.
"One hundred of the public spirited
citizens each agreed to donate $50 as
sinking fund, if needed and with this
support $50 acres, in and adjoining the
city on the north were secured.
Zone hundred acres of this land was
set aside for factory sites, and the bal
ance made up into building lots, with
the exception of a few acres of beauti
full woodland to be used as a park. At
the first sale of lots $4,000 in cash was
secured and 100000 more from second
sale $4,000 of this amount was expended
in laying out streets and improving the
property.
'On this land many residences have
already been erected; in fact at this
time new residences are going up all
over the city. During the last three years
500 residential buildings were erected at a
cost of $l,535, $50, and still the Buick
Motor company, who contemplate NOV
ing their plant from Jackson, Mich, and
the Weston & Mott company of Utica,
N. Y, for whose new plants the contract
has already been let, are at the present
time wondering how they will house the
1000 employees who will move to the
city ON the completion of the building"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
LIFE OF CHRIST.
Mankato Public Library Contains
Many instructive Volumes.


From Fridays Daily.
The public library contains the fol-
lowing books relating to the life of
Christ:
Edersheim-Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah.
Farrar-Life of Christ.
Fleetwood of Jesus Christ.
Geikie-Life and Words of Christ.
Gillie-Story of Stories
Liddon-Divinity of Our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
McConnell-Christ
Macduff-Words of Jesus.
Matheson-Studies of the Portrait of
Christ.
Peabody-Jesus Christ and the Social
Question.
Proudfoot- Child's Christ Tales
Rhees-Life of Jesus of Nazarath.
Seeley-Ecce Homo.
Spence-Back to Christ.
Stalker-Christology of Jesus.
Stalker-Life of Jesus Christ.
Vallings Christ the Divine
Man.
Ward Story of Jesus Christ.
Watson-Nlind of the Master
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
Mr.. Gutterson Candidancy.

Referring to Gilbert Guttersen's can
didacy for congress, The Rochester Post
and Record says:
colbert Guttersen of Lake Crystal
has made a formal announcement that
he is candidate for congress in the
second district, and will give Mr.. Me
Cleary some little work to keep his
place. McCleary is standpatter of the
most radical type. He can see nothing
in the present tariff that needs changing
except-upwards. Mr.. Guttersen takes
issue with him on this point. In a
statement the new aspirant for congress
sional honors says he favors conser-
vative revision of the tariff; placing
nearly all trust made articles on the free
list; election of United States senators
by direct vote, and the passage of a
national law prohibiting the giving or
accepting of free passes by all legisla-
tive, executive and judicial officials, 'un-
less the giving of such passes by all
common carriers be made compulsory
This is sensible, and will doubtless meet
the views of the voters of that district.
A revision of the tariff is bound to come,
and unless its friends do it, its enemies
will have an opportunity, calamity that
must be guarded against"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
OLD MAPLETON NEWS.

Born, on Good Friday, daughter, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Stevens.
Ole Olson is assisting Neil Darroch
with his farm work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Cornell and family
were guests of Milton wilkins Sunday.
John Hermann is visiting his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Leroy of Sterling
A few from this neighborhood attend
ed the Easter dance at Mapleton Mon
day night.
Rev. X. Kilian and family of Maple
ton spent Sunday at the home of John
RObenhorst.
On account of the rain last week seed
ing was delayed and now the farmers
are very busy trying to get the grain
in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-20
STERLING CENTER NOTES.

Miss Bessie Long is home visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. III. Long.
A party was held at the home of Mrs.
Rebecca Ellis last Friday evening. Pro-
gressive cinch and dancing was the
amusement of the evening. A very de-
lightful time was had. Among the out
of town guests was Norman Dobie of
Mapleton.
Miss Reynolds will board with Mrs. c.
c. Troy this summer.
Mrs Elmer Williams, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
Williams, left last week for Good Thun
der to visit relatives.
Steve Doty and Carl Halves of Good
Thunder were visitors at the home of
E. w. Parks last Friday. Miss Elva
Williams is visiting with her sister, Mrs.
Sprague at Window.