Evening star., 1941-03-09
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The world of half a century ago was
not at all dull or tedious place Casual
inspection of The Star
Miscellaneous for March 9, 1891,
Matters serves to show that
there was no Gearth Of
exciting news. AS usual a cable from
London concerning political turmoil on
the Continent of Europe was featured
on page l. This mornings adviceS
from Westphalia,' it was declared. ARE
OF an alarming character. Several So
cialists have been arrested by the police
on the charge of inciting the miners TO
break their agreement with their en-
ployers. and a considerable body of troops
are stationed in that district, ready 10
subdue any serious outbreak $50 A SOL
der in Breslau has been sentenced to
long term of imprisonment for express
ing an unfavorable view Of the KalSers
military abilities. Partisan dlplo-
mats and politicians are still discussing
the recent visit of the Empress Frederick.
Count Won Munster the German AM
bassador, attributes the moral check sus-
tanned by Germany to the influence OF
Baron de Mohrenheim, the Russian Am
baSSadOr in Paris. A Vienna dis
patch says that eX-King Milan is hypo-
critical in pretending not to know the
facts of the execution of Helen Marko-
vics and another woman, who attempted
to kill him several years go; that it was
by Milan's own order the women were
strangled to death in prison, the fact of
the execution being afteward reported
to the King, who said that if they had
been men he would have had them
broken on the wheel, a penalty inflicted
in Servia under Milans reign"
From Rome it was reported that
jerome Napoleon was dying. The
prince the cable explained, has re-
peatedly and positively declined the re-
ligious consolation which has been prof
erred" Meanwhile, a sardonic comedy
was represented in special correspond
ence from Nice asserting that with the
deathlike certainty with which the own
erS of games of chance recoup them
selves if the winners will only continue
playing, but sooner than usual, the ad
ministratiOn at Monte Carlo are now
having their innings after last weeks
run of i'll luck Samuel Lewis, the noto-
rious London money lender who few
days ago won nearly S35,O0O = : thereby
breaking the bank. has since lost all that
he won and nearly $4,000 besides"
For colorful drama, however. the most
~ ,,i- FYyI
tale of IAN Englishman, the heir to
baronetcy," and Count Pryzenski, "a
colonel in the Russian Army and the
husband of a young and very beautiful
wife" They had been friends. Becom-
ing mortal enemies, "a duel followed.
The weapons were pistols. At the first
shot the Englishman was desperately
wounded He reeled and fell to the
ground, but by a supreme effort man.
aged to raise himself on one knee and
in that position fired and shot his oppo-
nent dead"
The Heraldo of Madrid, The Star OBJ.
served, had printed "an article protest.
ing against proposed scheme of the
United States Government to annex the
island of Cuba" 1t was stipulated that
Spain e " would shed her last drop of
blood in resisting any attempt to de-
prive her of her colony, fearing neither
a Cuban revolution nor a war with the
United States"
From sources nearer home there were
reports concerning blaze in baggage
car of N. Y. C. and H. R. R. r. train
near GAINESVILLE, N. Y, and the burning
of printing house at Omaha. caused
by boy smoking cigarette in the press
ROOM" the announcement of 10-year
prison sentence for R. w. Thompson,
who forged the will of Thomas Denny"
Albany, N. Y; the accidental shooting of
12-year-old Pittsburgh boy by Harvey
Bankert, aged II, who displayed a re-
volver in church and Sunday school"
These are but samples of the varied
reflections of human experience which
filed the columns of The Star on an
average day in an average year of an era
when those readers who now are ola
were young.