Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 6

BLUFFS NEWS. OfMce, 12 Pearl Stroot—11. W, MINOR Mise “Augusta ionn entertalned her Sun- day school class and a other friends at her home on iFifth avenue last evening The sult of Myrtus against White, Involv- ing a small strip of land ar the fth avenus cut, is on trial in the superlor court Lee Richardson, the trick bioyclist of Chi- cago, entertained quite & crowd at the nd hotel last evening with an exhibition of his skili Cards are out_announcing the marriage of | ot Mount age cere- idence of 8. e to Miss Edith Snyder Pleasant, Oclober 22. The marr mony will be performed at the re the bride at 6 o’clock in the mor: Walter Bone, caplaln of the Salvation army, has filed fnformations against Harry Thompson, Levi Julian, A. Hober and others, charging them with creating sturbance at a mee Hober has al rested, and will have a hearing at 9 o'cloc! this morning. J. J. Phelan saloon, who the chary e prosec Carl May th 4 George of burglary ting the y pense of the latter's friendskip, will come up again this morni anthorities will muke an effort to time, he case in which B 15 sceking a judgment for $2 Standard Life and Accide pany of Detrolt by reason tained by her busband, S. P. a fall, was dismissed in federal court ye day. Another petition will be filed same caso later. Some new and very pretty dances have heen especially arranged for the comiag opera of Powhatan, and this promises to be one the most pleasing featurcs of the entertain ment. Watch (he windows for the photo- graphs of the entive cast of the opera, -in costume. The originals will be seen at the New Dohany theater October 18 and 19, G. M. Duncan, ¢ Red Oak as hi home, was arrostad yesterday morning early for drunkeny. At the jail he delivered a_religions homlily of considerable length to his fellow prisoners. When he came to himeelf he begged that nothing be said about his predicament, for he was a clergyman on a bam, and bis reputation would be wrecked If his flock found out where he had been. Rev. T. W. Willlams goes to Kansas next week, to be away m month, but before he goes he desires to clear up, if possible, the error that has obtained in the minds of many that the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of which he s pas- tor, and the “Mormon church’ are one. This will be his theme Sunday evening at the Latter Day Saints’ church, and should in- terest every one. proprietor of the Denver Roper arrested on 1s said not to feel ung man at_the ex- n) Insurance com- of injuries sus- MacConnell, in he ng Farm loans made in western Towa at low- est rateg. No delay in closing loans. Fire and tornado insurance written in best of com- panles. Bargains in real estate. LOUGEE & TOWLE, 235 Pearl St P LA APHS, Miss Mulqueen left last evening for Clin- ton, Ia, to visit friends, Judge Woolson left last evening for Mount Pleasant. After spending Sunday at home he will go to Des Moines to open a term of court Tuesday. United States Marshal Bradley, while stoop- Ing over, yesterday morning, severely strained the muscles of his back and s now confined to his bed. Charles D. Fullen, United States district attorney, left for his home in Fairfield, Ta., last evening, wecompanied by his private sec- retary, Miss Louden. Thomas Johnson of Cumberland county, Missourf, is in the city, the guest of his cousin, G. G. Baird, deputy county clerk, on North’ Highth street POTTER'S PRIC Are Always Lower Than Anywhere * Elwe. Look: Bird cages 50c; copper bottom teakettle 25c; 10-quart flaring heavy tin pail 10c; copper bottom washboller 75¢; 2 quart coffce pot 10c; rolling pins 5¢c each. The Great 10c Store, 318 Broadway. e A large numb-r of notes and judgments running to the Council Bluffs Insurance company. The same can be seen and exam- ined by calling at my office in the Bradley bullding. W. W. Loomis, receiver. Hardman and Standard ‘planos, 113 N. 16th. AFTER THE ATTORNEY'S Killpack an The domestic broils between Henry Git- tins, an aged farmer, and his wife, quite a number of years his junior, threaten to be aired before the public again. This time they break out between the lines of a coupla of petitions that were filed in the district court yesterday by Martha C. Git- tins against her step-daughter, Sarah A. Peterson, and the latter's attorney, W. H. Killpack of Neola, When Gittins and his last wife were married they failed to hitch at all, and many were the divorce sults brought, each suit, until the last, to be fol- lowed by a dismissal and a subsequent pe- riod of turtle-dove-like actions until the next Gutbreak. Finally Gittins turned all his property over to his wife. Mrs. Peterson, his daughter, be- gan to look about for something with which to satisfy a claim which she had against the old man, but found nothing. She thereupon brought a suit to have the old man's deed to his wife set aside. Now In her petitions Mrs. Gittins alleges that in spite of a de- clston of the court dismissing the Peterson case, o far as it sought to recover rents and profits and to reach personal property transferred by the old man to his wife, Mrs. Peterson and Killpack proceeded to have the real estate sold, all but forty acres of homestead, and the proceeds sold to satisfy Mrs, Peterson's clalm. Last Monday, the petitions further allege, the same parties levied on the growing crops on 120 acres of the land which the old man had deeded to his wife, having no probable cause to think that Gittins owned the stuff. Mrs. Gittins demands a judgment of $5,000 against each of the defendants, Mrs. Peterson and Klll- pack. Cold Wave = It you want a good stove to put up before you start your furnace, buy one of Swaine's Alr-tight “stoves, the best made, at 740 Broadway. Why don't you use a g days? C. B. Gas Co. Nothing like it. The famous Crown piano with orchestral attachment leads them all, Bourlclus Music House, 116 Stutsman street, Made No Appearance. Artle M. Goodwin, who commenced a suit to collect $60,000 from the Western Unlon Telegraph company, the Associated press, the United press and the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association about efghteen months ago, falled to appear to prosecute when the case was called in the district court yesterday, and Judge Macy ordered it dismissed. = The ground for the suit the publication of a newspaper story under a Chicago date, giv- Ing an account of the suicide of Mat Good- win, husband of the plaintiff, and a well krown Insurance agent. heater these cgol Huber Bros.' new meat market is tho finest In the city, 112 Broadway. Chambers® dancing academy now open for pupils. Call after 10 a. m. Circulars, The Standard plano next to the Hardman. Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were ls- sued yesterday by the county clerk: Name and Address. W, 8. Boyer, Davis county, Ia.. Anna Larsen, Council BlufYs. A L. Wehrhahn, Councll Bluffs. .. Amanda Bethers, Council Blufts. Alonzo Kay, Omaha.... Laura Mack, Omah; Corner tetes and parlor sultes In curly birch and maho y at Durfee Furniture Co, The Hardman plano wins wany triends. against’ the | of | Tiiton, Manager and Lesses, F oW : Prayer of the Red Onk ex-Postmaster Granted—0t ptences, Richard ex-postmaster ! Red Oak, | yesterday {He had pleaded guilty to charges | | ~-opening a letter that p through | | bis official hands, and reporting $400 worth | of stamps that were sold in 1504 as sold this year, for the purpose .of having his | Ll Yy Increased. sentenced about A FINE, B. Hall, the at noon his two to receive sentence. | a dozen bootleggers, with whom he made a sharp contrast in appear- ‘nflm- and bearing. Judge Woolson stated | that he had been arged, both in person and by letter, by many of the influential men of Red Oak to let Hall off as easily as pos- | sible on account of his youth, family and | previous good reputation. ~ He did not know | whetlier he would be doing right to let the | prizoner off without a penitentiary sentence. | At mention of the word penitentiary Hall, who had all through the court’s talk been | alniost overcome with emotion, broke com- | pletely down, and covering his“face with his hands, sobbed: “Do anything with me Judge, but don't send me to prison.” After | | keeping him on the anxious bench for about | a quarter of an hour, Judge Woolson im- posed a fine of $250 for making tho false | return to the postal department, and $500 for pe & the letter, letting him off without a term in the penitentiary. As soon as the strain was over, Hall retired back of the railing, and laying his head on the back of . gave himscll up to tears is no doubt that the action of the lcourt will be entirely satisfactory to the people of Red Oak, and especially so to Hall himself. In a town where perhaps 75 per cent of the inhabitants are republicans, he, a | democrat, is one of the most popular. citizens. The greatest sympathy Is expressed for his wife and two little chiidren un all sides, An. other reason for the satisfaction which is felt is that Hall 1s not the first postmaster to pad his returns. It is claimed that his predecessor was guilty of the same sort of a misdeed, and that Hall was told by him that it was the proper thing to do. The friends of the former postmaster were conscquently anxious to see Hall get off with as light punishment as possible. Stevens, for whose benefit Hall opened tho letter containing the bid, was the first man to offer a comforting word to his friend. D. D Jeftries, whese bid was in tho letter, states t' at he will now go after Stevens and sec that he loses the Job his trick secured for him. The job 80 far has only pald Stevens $10 a month, it being the rule of the railway company to pay the larger part of the compensation. When Stevens was awarded the job by the government he expected to get the job from the railway company as well, but the officials said they were satisfied with Jeffries’ work and declined to give him up. At the afternoon session Mina Page, the Omaha woman convicted of counterfeiting, received her pill.* She stuck to the story she told when on the witness stand In her own behalf, that she found the bogus money. Tho court told her she talked and acted like an exceedingly shrewd woman rather than a crank, such as she had held herself out to be. In a speech to the court her attorney, Colonel Daily, stated that he never had be- lieved her story; that he had advised her re- peatedly to tell the truth to the court and_she would get off more easily. During Mrs. Page's confinement at the county jail Mrs. Barrett, a notorious Omaha woman, who has had two sons hung and two or three more in the penitentiary, tried to obtain an inter- view, which was denied her. This fact, Coloniel Daily thought, indicated beyond a doubt that Mrs. Page was simply used as a tool by Mrs. Barrett, whom he called “the very worst woman In the state of Ne- braska.” He besought her again, in the presence of the court, to make a true state- ment, but the woman still held back. Judge Woolson imposed a fine of $700 and a term of three years in the penitentiary at Ana- mosa, the stiffest sentence, it it claimed, ever passcd upon a woman in the federal court in this city. The case of Jack Hall, the Creston boot- legger, has caused the court a good deal of trouble, from the fact that Hall displays a sublima Indifference to jail punishment. A good portion of his time, it is said, is spent behind the prison bars. This s the second time he has been convicted of bootlegging. In order to give him his fill of lelsure for once tho court sent him to the county jail at Red Oak for twelve months and imposed a fine of $300. ank Vardemann, the Red Oak bootlegger who threatened to Kill a United States grand juror, also felt the strong arm of the law. For the threat ho was sent to the Pottawat- tamie county jail for six months and fined $350. For selling the liquor without a gov- ernment permit he was glven a jail sentence of 150 days and a fine-of $200, but the latter senfence and fine were suspended. M. 8. Leacox, an engineer at Malvern, re- celved a good stiff sentence. It was his sec- ond offense in the bootlegging line, and he was fined $400 and sent to the Red Oak Jjail for a year. Harold Egbert, the Council Bluffs boy who sent an obscene postal card to a friend of his in Des Moines, pleaded a change of heart in mitigation. He said he was learning the blacksmithing trade now, and had behaved himself ever since his arrest. Under these circumstances Judge Woolson allowed his sen- tence to remain unpronounced until the March term to see how thorough the change had been. The following sentences were also passed: William Meeker, Adams county, $20 and 100 days Imprisonment. Suspended. James Given, $250 and 100 days. George Redding, $260 and 100 days in the Cass county jail. Bert McCune, Red Oak, in the Cass county fail. Charles Allen, Red Oak, $250 and 100 days in the Cass county jall. George Doublin, $200 and 100 days. pended. Cal McLain, $200 and 100 days. Suspended. John Swisher, Red Oak, $250 and 100 days. L subject to suspension if the court, on fur- ther inquiry, thinks best. William Larson, dismlssed, on motion of the government. | 250 and 100 days Sus- Harvest Excursion Via Burlingten route, Oct. 8 and 22, 0. M. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Council Bluffs. Gentlemen, Metcalf’s fall and winter under- wear s open for your inspection. It will satisfy you In every particular. Underwedr that wears, that promotes com- fort and health, that gives satisfaction in price and every other way. Metcalf Bros., the clothlers. Ladies are invited to attend the cooking exhibit made on a Born Steel Range at Cole & Cole's, Saturday afternoon. Coffee and biscuit will be served from 2 till 6 p. m. 0. M. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Council Bluffs. Radiant, Novelty and Elmhurst stoves for hard coal are the most economical stoves made, Sold only by Charles Swalne, 740 Broadway. AUERKEM R MUST SUFFER, After Three Years of Suspense He Finds He Pluyed a Losing Game. William Bauerkemper, son of an aged and well-to-do farmer woman in Lewls township, was tried about three years ago on the charge of having seduced and become the father of the child of one Anna Damitz. After a long trial he was found gulty, but gave a bond and appealed the case to the supreme court. It has been hung up ever since. Thursday the supreme court afirmed the verdict of the district court jury, and a4 procedendo was received at the county clerk’s office yesterday. Bauerkemper was arrested and locked up In the county jail He will be taken to Fort Madison today to serve his fourteen months. A plant thoroughly equipped with the newest machinery, the best work by skilled employes, prompt deliveries and falr treat- ment are among the things that makes the Ea that good laundry.” Telephone 157 Harvest Excursion Via Burlington route, Oct. 8 and 22. 0. M. BROWN, Ticket Agent, Council Blufts. The Hardman plano improves with use, T T T as called h o Judi foolson | was called hefore Judge Woolson | 1151"0¢ apandoned deposits s that ot Jeremiah Just before him had been | THE OMAHA DA ILY BEE: PRATURDAY, FORGOTTEN DEPOSIT Money in San Francisco Danks that Haw Never Heen Called For, Intercating discoveries of lost heirs have Juet been made in the unclaimed bank de- posit cases, says the San Francisco Chron icle. The public administrator, Attorney Os- car D. Shuck, and the legal representatives of the varlous San Francisco savings banks, whore $500,000 are unclaimed, have lately set- tled with a number of the heirs of deposit- ors, but there are several hundred unclaim deposits still In the banks. One of the most remarkable of the long Pendergast, to whose credit there is $12,000 at the Hibernla bank. His helrs are in Ire- land. Very little is known of Pendergast, savo that he was never a resident of San Francisco, though he was here for a short time about 1868, and probably as late as 1876. Thess facts; are known, because the Empire hotel, which he gave as his reei- dence, was opened in 1868 and closed in 1876, For many years there has been a search for Pendergast or his heirs, and Attorney Shuck has just located the heirs in Ireland, and has learned that the depositor was burned to death in his mining cabin more than twenty years ago. Pendergast was unmarried, and lived in an fsolated cabin, where he was burned to death in a fire which enveloped his home while he was asleep. In the remarkable case of Henry C. Benn, Who left §2,400 in the Hibernia bank many years ago, there Is no clew whatever. It is known that he once lived at the corner of Kearney and Jackson streets, but further than this there have been no tidings. The money awaits the coming of the owner. « At “the same bank there is a_deposit of $1,600 in the name of Willlam E. Crosten, who was a sailmaker in San Francisco in 1868. Shortly thereafter he quietly left the city, and has never been heard from, though there are several persons here who knew him well and worked with him at Crawford's sail loft. If the depositor, who was born in Nor- way, s still living, he is 72 years of age. A search for his heirs has been in progress for years, A similar case is that of Charles N. Miles, supposed to have been a seaman. There are 2,500 to his credit at the Hibernia bank. He lived at the old United States hotel. Oscar McEarman left $1,250 at he bank in 1§ refusing to give his address, and has never been heard from since, and about the same time P. D. Molloy left $1,200 at the same bank in the same manner, refusing to glve any particulars about his residence. Thomas Standon of 424 Powell street, but whose name does not appear in any of the old directories, left $1,000 at the Hibernia and has never been heard from since. John B. Casey, who was a carpenter for the South- ern Pacifle, also left $1,000 at the same bank and disappeared In an equally mysterious manner. The following are the names of the depos- Itors whose whereabouts are unknown: Hugh Green, $1,250, Hibernia; William Faughney, $1,200, Hibernia. Ann Holman, $2,000 in Hibernia bank; she worked at the Brooklyn hotel in the early 70s, but no one remembers her, not even John Kelly, jr., who then, and for twenty years or more, Kept that hotel. Richard Corbett, $4,400 in Hibernia bank; registered at the bank es residing at Idaho City, 1dahio, but no one remembers him there or_anywhere else. The same s o be sald of Benjamin M $2,400 In the Hibernia bank, who w: living in Idaho, but declined to be specific as to his residence. Michael Murphy, $1,800 in the Hibernia bank, was living at Dutch Flat, Placer county, wken he opened his account, about twenty years ago. Friends of his in that county recollect him well, but all efforts to trace him have falled. A woman in Michigan has em- powered attorneys there and claims to be the missing man's sister, but she has been sev- eral months trying to answer simple questions in proof of her relationship. The attorney has found in an old record that at Towa Hill, which Is near Dutch Flat, one Michael Murphy lived in early days, ‘and a son was born to him there as far back as 1862, This lead 15 being followed up. Patrick Connelly, $1,200 in Hibernia bank, lived at Empire City, Nev., and Michael Roach, $3,000 in said bank, at Stewart’s hotel, Oakland, Cal. Nothing bas been learned con- cerning either. John Johanson, $1,400 in Hibernia bank, lived at 140 Folsom street, and was probably a seaman, John Taylor has $2,000 to his credit in this bank. He died at sea in 1872, and was a sailor. He stopped at the Union house about 1870 The following accounts are in the old Clay Street bank, now at Montgomery and Sutter streets: John Buckley, $1,500. He had a common name, but thus'far not a single person has clalmed his money as heir. He is as much forgotten as Jeremiah Pendergast. Mrs. Mary Burke, $8,000. This s a phe- nomenal case. The woman might be consid- ered a myth, but that her money still speaks for her. She refused to tell the bank her business or place of birth, or any points for identifying her In future, except that she wrote her name on the bank's book, and they have, of course, the date of Rer de- posit. - She bore herself as a woman of some refinement, and wrote well. The attorney thinks he has found her kindred in Ireland, but they have not as yet been able to fur- nish any of her handwriting for identifica- tion, Glovannia Pratesi, $1,225, was a member of the famous Martinetti troupe of acrobats which performed in San Francisco in 1862. Ho had a personal altercation with Detec- tive Johnson while here, and was badly used. The_ troupe started from San Fran- cisco for South America on November 5, 1862, and narrowly escaped destruction In a storm. They were cast on a desert island but were all rescued. Pratesi is presumed to have remained in South America, as there is no later recollection of him. Search for is relatives Is being made in Italy, Hanuah Maria Mooney, $975, and Mary E. Collier, $760, are cases which seem to defy investigation. The first named was born in St. Albans, Vt., where have been found her nephews and nicces, who have sent Mr. Shuck their power of attorney. But they have no knowledge whatever as to what became of her. She arrived In San Francisco in 1862, married a German named Juhn Adam Sauer in 1864, and he died in San Francisco in 1873 In that year she made her deposit In her malden name. She and Sauer, upon their marrlage, went into the country, for their names are in no city directory. Mary E. Collier's money was a_present, it would seem, from Dr. Benjsmin Tappan, Jr., of the United States army, who placed it in bank for her in 1864, He was killed in engagement with Indians in Arizona in 18 The doctor's relatives are living in Ohlo, Nebraska and California, but there Is no one clalming to be related in any way to Mary E. Colile In the San Francisco Savings Unlon thers is an account In the name of Henry Stewardt, $1,875. Stewardt was a seaman of the old ship Isaac Jeans. Captain Thomas Boyling was captain of this ship for seventeen yea until her loss off Point Reyes in 1850, Adam: Blinn & Co. owned her and used her in their lumber trade. Stewardt had left the vessel before her loss. Captain Boyling died in 1875 Jahn Jahnsen or his heirs‘will have their draft honored on the old Clay Street bank for $3,900. This depositor was a Scandinavian sailor and boarded In the 60s on Davis street, uear Clay. The attorney thinks he has traced him under the name of John Johnson, but there s no helr In sight, ann, also more ARTIFICIAL MARBLE. 1y Used in the Furnl- Trade for ple Topw. Ine-tenths of the marble-topped tables and 50 on—what might be called furniture marble —seen In this country are made of artificial marble, says the Atlanta Constitution. Thousands of tons of this mock marble are made annually, and even men in the trade can scarcely tell the difference between the real and the false article, for the mark- ings, or marblings, go wholly through the block, and are not merely superfi~ial. The basis of the whole is a combination of lime- stone and chalk, which, chemically treated, can be made of any shade desired. The arti- flcial marble in the rough is placed in a ter bath, and upon this is sprinkled a sort of varnish, consisting of sesquioxide of iron, gum and turpentine, and all manner of mar- bled designs are produced when the turpen- tine is broken up by the addition of water. Any pattern of marbling can be produced to order. One such pattern appears, the air is expelled from the block and the colors are fixed by the immersion of the stone in sul- phate and warm water baths, and then an- other bath of sulphate and zine so closes up the pores and hardens the stone that it ac- quires the density of the natural article and | can be cut and polisted in the same manner. HEROES 1N BIE A Young Confedetats’s Strange Premonition of Death, HIS PARTING WORDS HEARD FAR AWAY AND GRAY Cushing's Darlig Bxploit to Dlow Up the Rehol Ran b Vesseln 8tnk Togethe in the Dark. “An active fighter. through the late war— a man who Kept well up with the proc sion of tragedies—naturally witnessed and experienced many melancholy happenings The four years were to me an unbroken chain of instances of man’s inhumanity man and of strange, and, in many cases, heartrending coincidences, Thirty years of active business life have, of course, served to blot from my memory many of these stirring panoramas, but there Is one £0 weird and so full of melancholy Interest that it will re- main with me as long as life lasts.” So spoke an old confelerate soldier to a writer for the Atlanta Constitution. “It oc- cerred way back in '61. We were camped near Lookout Mountain, Tenn. It was the day before the battle of Missionary Ridge. In one of the commands was a handsome yeung lieutenant from Carroll coun Georgla. I cannot for the life of me re- member his name, but I remember distinctly how he looked. He was a gallant, spirited, intelligent fellow. “On the afternoon before received a box from home. He had a wife and five children, and each of them sent gome little remembrance. Among the con- tents was a neat suit of clothes. The lieu- tenant promptly and Jjoyfully entered his tent and donned his new suit. When he emerged with it on his face wore a worrled look, and, in surprise, we asked the cause of his anxlety. ‘Boys,' said he, ‘you all know that I am no coward nor sensationalist but somehow the moment I put this suit on I realized that I would never live to wear the creases out of it. I am as certain to be killed in tomorrow's fight as that tomorrow com We attempted to ridicule Nis notion, but he continued so serlous in his belief that we deslsted and left him to figure himself in a better humor. His mind not having changed the next morning, his company in- sisted on his not entering the fight in the face of his strange conviction. The captain of his company was absent, however, and the lieutenant positively refused to stay out, say- ing an officer should lead his men whenever and wherever his duty called him. At the head of his company he plunged that day Into the thickest of the fight. My company was near his, Almcst at the same instant each of our bodies caught a bullet. We were carried to the ®lde and placed near each other under a tree. It was evident the young lieutenant’s prediction was soon to be ful- filled. Twenty minutes after he was shot he died. But now comes the strangest part of the story, part which most affected me, and which I always hesitate to relate,” continued the colonel. "“In the last moment of that young soldler’s life, while he was lying there dying, with his head in the lap of a poor comrade, I heard him' moan—My wife and five little children! What will become of them?" He died ;a few minutes afterward, just at the noon hour, “My wound was not serious and I was out again in a couple of days. As I was limping around the young Georgla soldfer in whose arms Lieutenant -— had died ran up to me and inquired it 1 had communicated the fact of the soldier’s déath to his wife, I re- plied that I had not; that I did not know cven the name or the residence of the un- fortunate man, and only had a few hours’ camp acquaintance with him. ‘Read this,’ he said, handing me 4 letter directed to the dead lieutenant. It wds written by his wife, and expressed her lutgnse anxiety. It was dated on the afternoon of the dsy when the battle of Missionary Ridge was fought. The loving wife ‘Wrote ‘that at noon of that day as she eat musing miles away in Georgla on the events of those stormy times, she was startled by what she thought was the voice of her husband moaning plaintively.: ‘My wife and five little children! What will be- come of them!" The voice was, she sald, sc distinctly that of her husband that she rushed to the door, and, not finding him thers, searched about over the place for him, Sha wrote that she could not reconcile the cccurrence and that it had added to her anxiety. She begged her husband to hasten a reply, that she might know her fright had been a foolish one. I helped the honest soldier write the melancholy letter advising the loving wife of lier husband's brave conduct and untimely death. We told her all of the circumstances that led up to it, and sent her all of his simplo belongings and the gifts he had re- ceived on the eve or the battle, excepting the fatal suit. That was burned by the sturdy comrades of the unfortunate victim as though it had been a thing of evi SINKING A RAM. On the night of October 27, 1864, Cushing slipped away from the blockading fleet and steamed up the river toward the wharf, a dozen miles distant, where the great ram lay, The confederates ‘were watchful to guard against surprise, for they feared lest thelr foes should try fo destroy the ram before she Bot @ chance to come down and attack them again in the sound, writes Theodore Roose- velt in the October St. Nicholas. She lay under the guns of a fort, with a regiment of troops ready at a moment’s notice to turn out and defend her. Her own guns were kept always clear for action, and she was protected by a great boom of logs thrown roundabout, of which last defense the federals knew noth: ing. Cushing went up stream with the ut- most caution, and by good luck passed un- noticed & confederate lookout below the ram. About midnight he made his assault. Steaming quietly on through the black water, and feeling his way cautiously toward where he knew tlie town to be, he finally made out the loom of the Albemarle through the night, and at once drove at her, He was almost upon her before he was discovered; then the crew and the soldlers on the wharf opened fire, and at the same moment he was brought to by the boom, the existence of which he had not known. '‘The rifle balls were singing about him as he stood erect guiding his launch, and he heard the bustle of the men aboard the ram and the noise of the great guns as they were got ready. Backing oft he again went all steam ahead, and actually surged over the slippery log of the boom. Meanwhile, on the deck of the Albemarle the sailors were running to quarters, and the soldiers wera swarming down to aid in her defense. And the droning bullets came al- ways thicker through the dark night. Cush- ing still stood uppight in his little craft, guiding and contrplling her by volce and signal, while in his hinds he kept the ropes which' led to the, torgrdo. As the boat slid forward over the:bogw, he brought the tor- the battle he to | OCTOBER 12, 189b. | bedo tunt against the sombre side of the huge | | Fam, and invtantly exploded it, almost at the | same time that the pivot gun of the ram, loaded with grape, was fired point blank at him, not ten yards off At once the ram settled, the launch sink- | Ing at the same moment, while Cushing and his men swam for their fives. Most of them | sank or were captured; but Cushing reached midstream. Hearing something splashing in the darkness, he swam toward it, and found that it was one of his crew. He went to hls | rescue, and they kept together for some time, but the sallor's strength gave out, and ho | finally sank. In the pitch darkness Cushing could form no idea where he was, and when, chilled through, and too exhausted to rise to his feet, he finally reached shore, shortly be- fore dawn, he found that he had drifted back | and landed but a few hundred feet below the sunken ram. All that day he remained within asy musket shot of where his foes were swarming about the fort and the great drowned ‘fronclad. He hardly dared move, and until the afternoon he lay without food and without protection from the heat or in- sects, Then he managed to slip unobserved into a dense swamp, and began to make his way toward the flect. Toward evening he came out on a small stream near a camp of confederate soldiers. They had moored to the bank a small skiff, and with equal stealth and daring he managed to steal this, and began to paddle down stream. Hour after hour he paddied on through the fading light, and then through the darkness. At last, utterly worn out, he found the squad- ron, and was picked up. GRANT'S MATCHBOX. __ A matchbox that money wouldn't buy 1s in the possession of Policcman Gould of San Francisco. The matchbox is not worth, ins trinsically, any more than thousands to be found in ‘any large jewelry store, says the New York Press, but its owner will never part with it it he can help it. It was given him by the late General U. 8. Grant. When the ex-president visited the Pacific coast_{n 1879 he had for his bodyguard OM- cer Gould, who attended the distinguished visitor faithfully. One night, after a trip over the ctiy in.a cariage, Officer Gould found on the seat of the carriage a match- box made out of two rifle shells. Five or- dinary matches were in the case, which was made on the principls of a_telescops, one shell fitting over the other. Both shells had been exploded, as the dent of the firing pin was plainly visible. The larger shell bore the mark “F. $8. No. 12" on the end, while the smaller one, which acted as the cap, was unmarked, '~ The matchbox measured two and a half inches when closed. Gould knew that the unique matchbox must bo the property of General Grant, and has- tencd after him to return it. The general was in his room by the time Gould reached his apartments. The orderly carried a message into tha room, and in a few minutes the gen- eral appeared. Officer Gould held out the match safe and told the general that he had found it in the carriage. General Grant looked at it in silence for a minute, and, fn his kindly manner, sald, “You may keep It. Some day you may learn the history of the shells from which I have made this match box. Good night.” The general turned on his heel and entered his rooms without another word, Ofiicer Gould has never learned the history of the shells, but he treasures tho souvenir just as much, A GAME ROOSTER. Two or three belated veterans were seen recently returning from the great reunion out in_Houston, says the Atlanta Constitution. recall a chicken ‘ght we boys had just before the fall of Vicksburg,” remarked Col- onel Mahone of Franklin, Tenn. “‘There was a regiment of Mississippi soldiers and a regi- ment of Loulsianial ch of whom had a chicken rooster. The boys while lying around just before the fighting occurred began to arrange for a fight between these two game roosters. There were plenty of bettors, and many of them put up rather big stakes, too. 1 guess in all there was fully $10,000 on the fight by the time we got ready for the fun. The excitement ran high, each regiment bet- ting on its rooster, “Well, sir, we put the cocks in tho pit and they went at it. Tha second blow from the Louisiana rooster broke the thigh of the Mis- sissippi fellow and he fell over on one side, still looking pert out of his eyes. Presently the Loulsiana rooster came strutting around him and crowing at the top of his volca and pecking at his comb. Of courso the Missis- ippl fellows thought the game was over, and were about to fork over their little dough, when all of a sudden the wounded rooster fluttered up, and by some rara accident the gaff on his other leg pierced through the head of the Louigianz chicken and killed him almogt instantly. There was great excitcment in tho camps, I tell you. But stop, that isn't “No? What next?" somebody asked. “Why, that chicken with its leg broken away up nearly to its body, was taken up by one of the' surgeons, all the feathers were shaved from its thigh and the bone set again. Would you belleve it? That chicken lived and was in many more fights for the sport of the boys before the campaign closed.’ GENERAL CUSTER'S CHECK. The tragic death of General Custer and his gallant men at the hands of the Sioux In- dians in the massacre of Little Big Horn was recalled the other day at Bismarck, N. D., says a recent dispatch from that town, by the forwarding to Mrs. Custer of a check for $1,600 drawn to the order of General George A. Custer in 1876. The check Is dated June 5, and Is signed by B. L. Smith, at that time assistant paymaster of the army. It was on June 25, 1876, that the massacre took place. The check is still unpaid, and soiled and tattered though it be, constitutes a valid claim against the government for the amount tepresented upon its face, which was no doubt intended as part payment of General Custer's salary as an officer of the United army. Where the check has been all these years no one knows, least of all Michael Francis, who found it in the street at Bismarck last February, and who has retained it in his pos- session until now. ~ When Francis picked up the bit of paper it was almost as legible as when it was drawn, but three heavy creases In it showed that it had been worn through. The parts were joined together by narrow strips of paper pasted on the back, and the edges were somewhat solled, as though the paper had at one time been’ dropped in the mud. No endorsement appears upon the back of the check and the face shows the mark of no cancellation stamp, -demonstrating that the check has never been presented for payment. The check was, no doubt, forwarded to the northwest before the news of the Custer mas- sacre reached Washington. Had it reached those in charge of the dead soldier's effects it would have been sent back at once in order that one payable to the heirs could have been sent In its plac It has evidently been under shelter somewhere, and the chances are that it was lost last February and swept out into the street where It was found by Mr. Francis. NATOR SHERMAN KNEW OLD ABE. Senator Sherman of Ohio In a speech at Sandusky during the campaign for Lincoln’s re-election in the fall of 1864 drew this rough pleasant ? PERFECTION IN QUALITY, MODERATION IN PRICE, Echo Answers “Why?”” Why eat Rochelle Salts, Ammonia, Alum, or Lime with your bread, biscuits and pastry? Why use any baking powder that's not healthful or Why pay a more-than-it's-worth price for it, when Calumet Baking Powder is 80 wholesome and inexpensive? $1,000 if you can trace a taint of impurity in it SOLD EVERYWHERE. but acenrate outline of the dent's character “I know Ol Abe; and 1 tell you there Is not, at this hour, a more patriotic or a truer lamented presi- | mAn living that that man, Abraham Lincoln Home say he I8 an fmbeclle, but he not only held his own In his debates with Douglas, whose power I8 admitted, and whom I con- slder the ablest Intellcct in the United States fenate, but got a little the better of him He has been deliberat nd slow, but when he puts his foot down it I8 with the « tormination and cortainty with which our Renerals take thelr st ps; and, like them. When ho takes a city he never gives up, This firm oud man s noble und kind-hearted. He fs a child of the people. Go to him with a story of woe and ho will weep like a child This man, so condemned, works more hours than any other president that ever occupied the chair. His solicitude for the publie welfare is never-ceasing. I differed from him at first myself, but at last felt and belfeved that he was right, and shall vote for this brave, true, patriotic, kind-hearte man. All his faults and mistakes you have seen. All his virtues you can never know. His patience in labor 1s wonderful. He works far havder than any man fn Erfe county. At the head of this great nation look at it! He has all the bills to sign passed by con- gress. No one can be appointed to any office without his approval. Nao o 1 ba puni:hel without the judgment receives his signature, and no one pardoned without his hand. This man—always right, always just—we propos to re-elect to the presidency.” THE KRAG-JORG) N RIFLE. In the killing of the deserter, Coffey, at Fort Sheridan, the United States army has Its first practical test of the new Krag Jorgensen rifle, say the Chicago Record. The eftectiveness of this terrible arm will scarcel be questioned. At fiity yards the nickel- plated conical bullet passed through the head of the victim, through a live tree elght irches in diameter, and, thirty yards be- yord, buried ftself three feet into the hill. side. The dead man's skull was shattered until only the scalp proserved its shape The Krag-Jorgensen rifle was designed in the paradoxical spirit of humanity toward man. This unavoidable but successful test at Fort Sheridan suggests that if the weapon Is to be accepted because of its clean- cut destructiveness, there may be in the future a new distance line established at which armes shall engage in action. The horrible shattering effect of the bullet in Coffey's brain was due to the close range at | which he received it.” It is only beyond 400 or 500 yards that the steel-capped bullet ad- Justs itseM to the effects of rifiing sufficiently to cut a clean wound. Manifestly, then, two armies engaged with the Krag-Jorgensen gun at less range than this are by force of in- ference guilty of barbarism. At greater range the chances of war are perhaps greatly in favor of human targets escaping scot free. i n e sty “New Woman" ¥ an Appetite. “Restaurant men like the new woman, sald one of them, “she eats lots more than the other kind. The way the typewrite and stenographers down town have changed thelr way of teeding in the last ten years is one of the signs of the times. It used to be a cup of tea and a piece of cake or ple for S| lunch; now see the beef and ham and hot [ stews they get away with., And they show the change fn their looks, too; they're not Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. 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