Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — Cripples Carried to the Polls. [ARTICLE]

Cripples Carried to the Polls.

It has been many years since, by the “Crime of the Nations,” Poland wasdestroyed and divided up between Prussia, Austria and Russia; but the national feeling of this noble race is alive and strong to-day. This fact was brought out at the recent by-election at Schwetz, Polish Prussia. The struggle was characterized by extraordinary bitterness. Polish workmen who had left the constituency since 1893 were brought back at the expense of the Polish landlords. Cripples and confirmed invalids were carried to the polls, and even a dying man who had partaken of the last sacrament was borne to the voting urn. where he deposited his ballot. A sanguinary encounter took place between a Polish nobleman and several German electors who attempted to stop his carriage. The nobleman drew a revolver and severely wounded two of his assailants.—Buffalo (N. Y.) Express. In Brooklyn, N. Y., there are 846 suits pending against street-car companies, brought by persons injuwd in trolley accidents.