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juvr r€OKaniCK tells' of aPRANK OF WATT ADAMS AND COMPANION WHICH CAN BE TOLD ONLY AT TKttiS SAFE DISTANCE—THE “I NDERGROI ND” RAILROADIrishI By JIM McCORMICK)In this article I wish to tell cf one of the most complete stampedes that ever took place around the old public square, and 1 am giving as my authority one who was not only one of the instigators of it, but is living today to laugh most heartily aq, he! speaas of the occurrence..Fifty years ago the firm of ‘‘Ewing, Gieseke Awenius” was in active working order. Its business was hJaeksmithing and wood-working. Thomas Ewing was the master blacksmith, with Henry Gieseke, (still 11 v-1 ing), as bis blacksmith partner, j with Peter Awenius, the boss woodwork man, and bis brouier, Charles Awenius—‘“Uncle Charlie,” also still living in this city), as his assistant. A blacksmith workmen, the firm had Wadd Adarrts, now a resident of this city, and the late Tom Harrington. Adams and Harrington were quiet fellows, but each had a streak of sly | devilment that would once in awhile creep out, and it was these two who caused the big stampede.In those early days these workmen went at their labors as searly as ; o’clock in Jhe morning and many'a night worked as late as 9 or 10 o’clock—and thought nothing of it. Such athing as “overtime” was never thought of,' but so lqng as they Were needed at the ^shop they stayed and worked. Now a few words as to this old shop and its location: The building now being remodeled by? Sprowl Bros, was once the G. N, Jerauld store site, and the presentLONDON: March . 20.—The conference attended .by Sir James Craig, Lord Londonderry. Micheal Collins and Arthur Griffiths began today Winstno Churchill presided and Lloyd George was not present. Collins, it was expected, would immediately take up the subject of murder, of Catholjcs in Belfast while Sir James Craig will tell of border troubles and Sinn Fein raids into Ulster.Speaking in commons late last night Winston Churchill said five members ofithe Ulster cabinet and four representatives of the lris.li free state would attend the'conference today.iHELD BY POLICE(Continued on Page Eight)BERLIN, Mar. 29.—Hundreds of suspects in what Berlin ppliee believe.. to be . a world-wide lioint of czarist sympathizers' to murder Russian revolutionaries, were arrested here today. All railway stations were blocked and the mysterious automobile believed to contain czarist ^officers implicated in the attempted assassination of Prof. Paul* Millukoft was being trailed by secret police on motorcycles. Louis Bork, ares ted for the shooting last night in which an atempt was made to slay Miliukoff, proudly confessed he fired' at the former Russian foreign minister. “l am sorry I missed hinx,” he said.J. Edgar Burton, of Indianapolis, was here today oh business.
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Princeton Daily Democrat
Princeton, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 29, 1922
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