The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 3

STRANGE CASE OF MR. BRADLEY. Forsaking Home and Comfort, Late in Lite for a Hard Incognito. The strange disappearance of Milton Bradley from his home at El Dorado, Kan., three years ago, was a local Sensation of the hour. His confession of identity and his death at Parsons recently revive the interest in the old story, though they do not solve the mystery of his disappearance. Bradley was a prominent man in Butler County. He was wealthy, own- ing several farms, and when elected County Treasurer moved to El Dorado, the county seat, where he lived and served two or three terms. When he left the farm he developed a great passion for fishing. He, with State Senator Murdock. and M. M. Murdock, of the Wichita Eagle, and four or five Say in the litle country town, were ey On the Walnut all the time fishin; vy SATURDAY A ae! See are found euananntey ia p. 1 : sede the clear, green, rock-bottomed river. <7.N.W., WASH. D C. Bradley hitched up his cov- ered spring wagon, and some cooking wagon, <jng farnisned on appli vivertisements will not e. All ren.ittances , posta! money order vtar rded vi tbe sender’s risk. amount and what it is for y stated. bs sd-dressed should BLISHING, CO. Washington D.C all tent J i in the with his fishing pole, shot gun put a si utensils yr BEE CAN BE HAD ~ 3 detreet, se. and rations, ae ean ae a three ee « | Weeks’ outing trip. ter he left the gost, corner 18tn and 3 | Hideo across the Walnut at El Dorado ; t er seen there again. The se, 38 Penn. Ave. DB. Ww. avines of the Walnut might have ie S44 street, n. We lowed him up, so far as any clue . as to his whereabouts was concerned. iY as Ww. |He was a prominent Odd Fellow, and c WRK CITY that organization spent several thou- NEW YORK C 2 sand dollars trying to find him. The jun Ave, “flint hills,’ twenty miles east of El Dorado—a_ wild tch of country wherein there is a ead man’s gulch” IEC. 16th, 1893. and all sorts of cairns and gulleys— T \. DEC. 16 93 4 rched. The Walnut River was ee ragged for his body. But wagon, gun, Se tent, man and dog were completely Tocals. obliterated, it seemed. . The ne apers contained detailed c \ has desk room in | descriptions of the lost man. A wan- . Calvin Chase, 400 | dering man found in Arkansas— the usual Arkansas wild man of the woods—but he was not identified as Bradley by the searching party from El Dorado that treed the crazy man near Bentonville. Another wild man turned up in Arizona. The County Commissioners of Butler County sent Mrs. Bradley down there with the Sheriff, but the trip was useless. Every litde while photographs of some strange man would appear at El Do- rado to be identified as Bradley, but none of them tallied. As the months wore by into years the matter was dropped, and Bradley was given up for dead. His estate Was probated, and, though he held thousands of dollars in trust for oth- ers, every cent was accounted for and no one suffered the loss of a penny. His son and daughter and his wife mourned him dead. And as such the community accepted him. As such he w to his former life, after he left the bridge on the Walnut. From that moment he began another existence. He went to Parsons, where he began life anew as a farm hand. He was then a man of nearly sixty years, but manual labor, though he had not been used to it for twelve years, did not discourage him. He did not breathe of his identity, of his social position and his political influence in Butler County, but persisted in his new life. He read the story of his own disappearance, of the search for him, of the mistakes of his friends, of the grief of his wife and children, and was silent. A few moments before he died he revealed himself to his new-found friends. But he did not explain his departure. That was his secret, and, being always a silent man, he died with it unspoken. His wife identi- fied the remains, and they were in- terred in the bleak little graveyard on the wind-swept hill overlooking the little town where the people ¢«vho knew him wonder and surmise and gossip about the cause of the strange deed is in North Caro- 1 his new book of ad- be published. [te ies is still doing Dusi- . w., Capital Savings igs Bank and the Association are two » institutions in the ments in the BEE t first class goods for io patronize them. yard 722 7th st. w.. to 69 cents pe to buy your candies. is one of the best nd the wholesale ) send in your names for ve to and advertise in r jasiness houses which n this paper. somswith Beard: In firs Shouse and i» a popular part ty, Cars pass the dor ; 922—11 st no. ot the Bex ‘must vertisements, in the 3, Marriage 8 persone ed anless it furnished room for n. W. 81.25 te Baltgmore, December 9, the Balti] which marked his latter days.—Kan- Jhio will sell excursion |8as City Star. Washington to Baltimore ‘A Queer Craft, ns, at $1.25 for the} Capt. ——, aa old river man, cre- ated quite a sensation by the peculiar- — ity of the craft in which he once navi- Moke AND OHIO R. R.]gated the Missouri River, says the nO Kansas City Times. He was quite a sportsman, and on one of his hunting 4 cok excursions his skiff was stolen or got Blauca corer of | aarift, leaving him near a small town . Bt. about twenty miles above his home. rains 11:30. ™., . He disliked to walk that distance and Si Louis and Indianapolis, |concluded to make a raft and float down. He lashed together four small logs five or six feet long in the form of a square, laid a piece of plank across, and then placed a discardei nail keg in the middle; then he got a newspaper, and, lighting his pipe, shoved off into the stream. Floating swiftly along he passed in front of a negro cabin. The old negro stood on the bank and hailed him: “Whar’ yo’ goin’, cap’n, on dat t’ing?” “Goin’ to St. Louis!’ “Goin’ on dat kag?” “Fo’ Gord!’ was all the astonished negro could say. The Captain, rather wondering at the negro, looked at his feet and found that on account of his weight and the water-soaked condition of the logs they had disappeared beneath the sur- face of the water, leaving nothing but the keg to show upon what he was riding. Not at all disconcerted, how- ever, he continued his voyage and ar- rived home in safety. Asbestos. Some of the common ideas concern- Ing asbestos appear to have resulted in mistakes of a serious practical na- ture. Thus, the usual conception that it is in no wise affected by heat is true only to the extent that, though infusi- ble except at very high temperature, it is a fact that only a very moderate degree of heat—heatinp to low. red- ness in a platinum crucible, for in- stance—is required to entirely destroy the flexibility of the fibre, and render it so brittle that it may easily be crumbled between the thumb and finger. Another mistake is that relat- ing to its high non-conductivity or pow- er of resisting the action of heat—the assumption being that because asbes- tos is infusible, it must, of necessity, be a good non-conductor. The con- trary assertion to this is made and proved on good authority, namely, that by placing a vessel of water on a sheet of asbestos cardboard and ap- 3) p.m. expr 8s 1:50 Cleveland 10 p.m. taunton, 11s express m., 12.15 and 31 p.m. 1.30, @.m., G15 14,80 75.30, Stown, #1130 a, m, and 75,30 p.m. way points, #7, . ™m. z and way pots, . T1244, FBS, $4.33 a 46,00 7.0: Junction and way points, “Yee Xpress trains Stopping igs $4.30 45.30 p.m. i FOR NEW YORK ADELPHIA. ’, New York, Boston, and > 00, (10,00, a, m. ex. Sup, ” Dining Car). 3.00, v0 1130p, m., Sleeping Car, ek. # all day trains. ty, 10 00 a.m. and 12.00 noon 100 y, *Daily. @Sunday only. x Express trains. e and checked from hotels y Union Transfer Company ul Licket offices, 619 and 130i venue, and at depot. CHAS. 0. SCULL, mila Gen. Pass. Agent liclmes touse. “STAUR CAT & LADIES U3: » IG PARLOR bin, bs Choice Branuaies : in ase le proof still, by placing a piece Old Whiskies. vrood on a sheet of asbestos millboard Te) me > on a hot stove. If, however, asbestos OLMES, PxopitEs0B |js teased out and worked into fluffy : ass, there is thus obtained a non- » Sovthwest ES material, but it is the air inclosed by the fibres that is the real nor-conductor, the asbestos serving simply to entangle the air—New York ~- BOARD, first w. Termsr Mrs. A. M. Black. plying heat from below, or, more sim- . VIOLEET IN THE FERRIS WHEEL. A Visitor Strangely Affected Until Blind- folded with a Woman’s Skirt. A gentleman and his wife, who later gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wherritt, of Covington, Ky., bought tickets for a ride around the wheel. It seems that the gentleman had hesi- tated about making the trip, as previ- ous experiences in ascending to great heights had aiways affected him strangely. After the first sickening, fainting sensation, he always became possessed of a desire to throw himself off into space. The doctors had told him that many people under the same circumstances were similarly disposed —in fact, that the desire sometimes be- came uncontrollable. They classed it as a distinct brain disease. Mrs. Wherritt had, on a previous visit to the Fair, been up in the wheel, and she declared to her husband that the floors were so level and the ascen- sion so gradual that it was hard for her to realize that she was going up. She also expatiated upon the loveli- ness of the scene from the windows and its extent, and advised that he try it. So they both tried it. They obtained seats in the car and placidly moved along until the upper turn was reach- ed, when Mr. Wherritt complained of feeling ill. He almost fainted, but there was no way of stopping the wheel. The car was half full of peo- ple, principally women. The man be- came crazed with excitement, and be- gan to pace excitedly up and down the car, driving the women, whom le had no intention of hurting, before him like scared sheep. He jumped up on the sides of the car repeatedly, and was so powerful in his paroxysms that he actually bent the iron bars. The attendant—one goes round with every car—grappled with him, and assisted by two or three other men, attempted to hold him, but their strength proved inadequate, for he threw them off easily and made for the door, which fortunately is always locked. He shook it violently, but only succeeded in breaking some of the Wherritt continued unmanage- able until the car had almost reached the landing, then he became calmer, and breaking down completely, laugh- ed and sobbed convyulsively. The wheel always makes two revo- lutions before the occupants of any car are allowed to get out. The at- tendant thought that as the car went by the landing he would open the door quickly and shove Mr. Wherritt out, but the motion was too rapid, and the passengers prepared for another scene and struggle. Some of them wards that Mr. Wherritt’s te appalling when he realized he that Was going up again. He implored that the car be stopped, and then begged that they throw him down and hold him. There was some hesitation in doing this, as the men in the car had had experience of his strength during the first trip. The three men grappled him, however, and strained every nerve before there was any occasion f force, while women huddled in a cor- ner and looked at him. The tops of the houses of Midway had hardly been skirted before he he- gan to try to tear himself loose and dash against the bars. The men who were holding him, having exhausted themselves when he was peaceful, did not know now what to do. Just at this time a woman, who would not give her name, came to the rescue. Fling- ing modesty to the winc for the nonce, she unbuckled her skirt at the back, stepped out of it, and threw it over the crazy man’s head. And she held it there until they were permitted to leave the car at the station. Under this treatment Mr. Wherritt became as quiet as an ostrich under similar handling. The lady was allowed to put on her skirt in the car, and thus ended what might have been a tragedy. Molasses. Old-fashioned molasses, the genuine dark brown, saccharine, deliciou junct of the corn pone and the jack, has become a scarce article late years, and is likely to become searcer still. In fact, the old-time molasses is scarcely produced nowa- days, for, as sugar-making machinery is improved and the production of sugar increased, the quantity and qual- ity of molasses decreases. Many plant- ers can remember the days when, to separate the sugar from the molasses, the boiled cane juice was placed in barrels bored full of holes; the molas- ses drained out and the sugar remained in the barrel. The centrifugal machin- ery now in use separates the ir so thoroughly that but little molasses, and that of poor quality, is left. The boun- ty on sugar has also operated greatl, to reduce the production of mola The planters have made every effor! during the past season or two to pro- duce the greatest possible guantity of sugar for the sake of the bounty, and the molasses has been of so poor a quality at times as to be unmarket- able. The most of the molasses made is now sold to refiners and reboilers, who manipulate it and place it on the market under a _ variety of names. Many of the West Indian planters do not market molasses at all now, but turn the product into the rum stills, Dealers say that the trade in molas- ses, for the country at large, has been decreasing greatly every year.—New York Sun. For Blowing Up Invading Ships. The United States Enginecr’s office stopped work for the season on the new torpedo casement in the west en- trance to Narragansett Bay. A case- mate is a large underground room out of range of dv enemy’s guns. In it is placed electrical apparatus for firing torpedo mines in the approaches when hostile ships are over them. Case- | mates are ordered for New York, Phil- adelphia, Baltimore and San Fran- cisco. Luther’s Scheme of Popular Education. In 1528 Luther and Melancthon drew up a scheme of popular education which was followed in German schools | H. Friedlander & Bro., Clothiers, Halters and Furnishers CHILDREN’S Southeast corner 9th and E sts., n. w. A WORD TO HE WISE IS SUFFICIENT TCUTOMY are being offered in footwear ever known 1u the history of the shoe businiss 1n Washing‘on. Call and Examine for Yourselves! Note The Skin Slippers Gur Cor ' for seventy-five years. The first class | learned to read, write and sing; the second class studied Latin, grammar, music and the Scriptures; the third, arithmetic, Latin and rhetoric. Damaging Aldermanic Sensibilities. “You may say what you will, but Gladstone is the Pen man ick his tury,” said one gentleman to an- Saad a restaurant. “H-u-s-h! Don't speak so loud! There is an alderman sitting at the next table over there, and you might hurt his feelings."— ‘Pexas Siftings. -_-——=8 P.A. DICKSON !s. © 5 Tip Bugton 98e., Lac tent Tip, Buttor Common Sensi Patent Tip, I Youth’s V Calf Bluchers $1.50, Ladies —WITH— ONE PRICE SUITS A SPECIALTY. WA HINGTON, D. C. 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Men’s Solid Leather, Work- Ladies Dongola, Pattent s Dongola, Paz- J.asies Dongola, Ladie’s';Dongola ce $1.25, Boy's and ; Lace and Button only Men’s Buff, Congr and Lace Ladies’ Dongola, Patent Tip, Dongola, Patent nse Button $1.50, Famous Crest Lad es’ Shoes, all Sizes $2.00, La Patent .00, Ladies’ Hand Welt, nd Patent Tip $2.5 Men's U.S. 1, Lace 50, Men’s Soles, Hand-S wed, Lace $3.00, Men’s French Calf,Hend-Sewed, Cork Soules, Congres: $: ’s Patent Leather Blouchers, only $3.00, Men’s Patent Leather Pumps Many other lines and; styles too nunerous to mention, at prices rang- ing correspondingly low. All goods Guaranteed as Represented 1,00) double headed ents for chil- dren given away Saturday Dec. 16. MORGAN, VIOLET & COMPANY, 706 Seventh St, N. W. Washington, D. Cc. E, ROSENBERG, ? e TO ACQUL wviciocin CS Tip and Common s es THEM ON TERMS AS THESE P73 Incumbrances, per annu Rurnifure Exchange. 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