Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — THE SPOILS TO THE VICTORS. [ARTICLE]

THE SPOILS TO THE VICTORS.

llrutul Prize-Fight for the Hand of a Gir With the Father as Referee. John Paul and Michael Drusko fell in love,with Julia Strowski, a good-looking young girl of Hazel ton, Pa. She did not care to choose between them, and consented, as did her parents, that the matter be settled by a prize-fight, with two lovers as principals., Julia refused to act as referee, but the father consented. No rules of any kind were observed, and In a short time Drusko, cheered on by the girl, had his plucky antagonist almost knocked out. The mother of the girl strongly favored Paul, and each time that he was knocked down hastened to aid him to regain his feet. The referee begged him to throw up the sponge, saying Drusko would kill him, but he would not, saying that he would rather die than live without Julial Drusko determined to knock him out an went at him savagely, knocking him down and then began kicking him viciously in the face. This brutal act seemed to dis* gust the fair prize and she threw herself across the fallen man’s body, crying out that Drusko was a brute and that she would never wed him. This enraged Drusko and he swore he would kill her, but both her father and mother set upon him with stones and chased him for his life. Just as Soon as Paul is presentable he will marry the woman for whom he fought. - Ada Townsend and Elmer Foster, of Galena, 111., whose love was opposed by the girl’s parents, took strychnine, and were found dead together in the same room.