The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1901, Page 2

— SURPRISE FOR WILL.’ WONDERFUL OLD MAN. Obio Patriarch, 108 Years Old, Says That He Expects to Live Seven onger, Years Young Married Woman Wears Stripes to See Husband. { ( Jeremiah Gleeson, who lives in Mon- roe township, Knox county, is the old- est survivor of the civil and Mexican wars, and is probably the oldest man in Ohio. Gleeson was born near Londonderry, Ireland, in 179 At the age of 20 he left his native country for America on Goes Joyously to Prison to Be Near the Man She Have a Pleasant and Enjoy- able Time. Loves—Expects to zapee, Ta. pag other Oey OS eer i his home state for more than Seueee SF es oe ee at. | so years. He was captured by the In- “I am going to surprise Wi she said to a New York Wor g where spondent. “Il am goi see my husband now and the Her eral ro wee intervals will n than liberty. to e is released. expect become time s devotion to her for one of the Peummer's husband gave jail de.iveries on ree- 1 most dramatic P} desperate grocery in Sioux City, jail awaiting transports Ana mosa last spring, his planned the escape. She arranged for a horse and bug which she hitched near the jail. She secreted ef men’s clothir pected to d revolver, ca to of guilty West whi ion to a a and if bed JEREMIAH GLE (Works on n the buggy a suit in which ex- herself, bought a ed at the jail one even- ing and saw him alone for a few mi utes ir she zuise s he aptors. s “Uncle Jerry,” rly known, fought un- w Jackson. The two friends, their friendshiy more grew Dur Later ; as Plummer came out with the revolver { concealed in a roll of the prison bathrooms. clothi Mrs. Margaret Plummer, ane account of the oppression of the Irish | her face aglow with joy, steppe¢ |}. the English. His desire for a wild into grim penitentiary at Ana- | );+. jrought him to Ohio, which he has dians and held prisoner by them for} C'™b. One evenir THE WASHINGTON VICTIM OF A CURSE. Louisville Wonders at Weird Proph- ecy by Seeress. Cursing Woman Brought Death to a Popular Young Physician anda Female Prophet Foretold ] the Catastrophe. } Many are the strange causes of de ath that have been aseribed by cor- \ oners’ juri es, but none, says the Chi- ¢ago Tribune, can equal that given by Louisville for the inex- le death of Dr. Alfred C. Lem- of t t a seeres ger, mat- For t city. t h ever occurred un “A woman up with a ecu the heart red phetess. n fora a true is Pp know tha ea re court of Is reason, 3 w , but God e who knows the facts in 1 ean dou a his -hunt- ago he was He was a m a well-known ng p sat at ard table with a ber of friends he said, between 3oys, I wil within two weeks if the prophe day »f a woman made to- comes true.” went, pai fa tion to seek gold his oldest The son w 1 his wife but they r with the road and joinec the e away, ji ur got were their son accom- s lost in the bu pany gy was abandoned after an accident. | famou rold mine. With aj Another vehicle was secured, the 1all fortu rned to his fam- young wife coming back to Sioux City | ily in what is now Monroe township. disguished s clothing to get When the civil war broke out “Uncle it. They Jerry took up arms for his serving three years He wan ed to en- sur like ( ny tempered “Unele ndl acter not un- in Joel s of the South.” ers” r Harr He was seen by a Cincinnati Enquirer | representative ently and was able | to give in detail the story of his re- ; markable career. \ his £ tive He was working on m with a team which, compara- the] speak was as old He sa to be 115 ye as t he expects to live | driver. JOHN F. CARROLL. Rumor Has It That He Will Succeed | Croker as Dictator of Tam- | many Hall, w we nex an ¢ w € t v was a They aft h release she tion as husba i, wit a wrong, | s Dictator | Carroll is in+| st, din th in no want of w and appears Ith. iis p period of : » with Tammany. | nning of his. political | to be liti record covers a John Taylor, and eer. He took me nd Wis- years In the life Minnesota a associated | consin. 1 see, he was work for | with Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of | railways and lumber camps. I tramped | New York. Carroll was soon made aj ed so I cou ehalr rom the | many during the absence of the’ time s 14 until when m ‘boss in Ettrope. papa six years ago, I married ow 3 ars ago. Good Country for Women. two years ago. 2 Fe ining ¢ r some 80 miles “I am not in the least sorry I a , in western Austra from Coc re k Nis eid — to be fy husbar a carpenter died and his widow had of- : the ba twice a week “ doe : a the batt w fers of mar from the doctor who Se attended the deceased, the undertake pane the cle an who read the buria ry who made ved for the A Chance for Plain G apothec a Most of the school-teachers in| up the medicines preseri Fredericksburg, 0., have been pretty | departed, and the custodian of the —so attractive in form and feature | cemetery where he was interred, like- wise from about a score of mine man- | | agers and miners. She did not accept § one of the suitors and departed for her home in Melbourne. a ee eee that they soon marry. Now the school board is determined to stop this, and the members are hunting for ugly school-teachers, ' leaped upon the jailer, felled him} lasting eneral’s death. with a powerful blow and got out | When the with Mexico broke through an open corridor into the (| out Gleeson enlisted and served under } street, a shot or two as_he| Gen. John C. Fremont. After the war | and Idn’t sessions. In the city campaign four it a », I could use a re-| years ago he was Croker’s chief ad-| ¢ volver, and he has had charge of Tam- From that time on the physician’s friends gave o pes T yled him * -ader, ONE MAN TOUCHED HIM. met him without inquiring as to his Ww ng even str: on he went about | he war ecy was » looked at en would 1 } ‘ e about a “I don’t belong said to him- self, Two days ; » died the colt caug ied. Next day the last ho F and never | returned. Dr. Ler er took every preca n. One day he went fishing but le areful advice at home as tc every step he shoul and when he should return. He never went out alone at night. The ninth day came and drew to aclose. That night the physician sat in in the card game ughed own presenti- } | men “Honestly, I fe as he d t pitch. tor was picking it came to him he ” he said, me was doe- When one locke The de ing agai g vacant- ly. Dr. Lem- rophecy had wit and rr rorseback. and made his district “Oh, yes, wh ten years old mmany stronghold. n was made it I could d ] arrow as well was made clerk cf the showed her 1 jury, and was subsequently | peer ud smile. “Wh k of the Seventh district civi| y first deer, bu rt and lq k of the general | then that evermore.” Dr. I erazy ar valuab 2 ful- be led/and a tl, and Louis ville is won where the seeress and the sing women got their pow- et or their knowledge f WHO’S IN THE GRAVE? Oran M. Fletcher Returns to His Home Just One Month After He Had Been Buried, Oran M. Fletcher startled his par- ents, who near Pa., by walking into their home when they thought him dead and buried He had been miourned for almost a month. That their they do not doubt, but they wonder who it live Greenville, he is son was that they buried. On September 2 William M. Fleteb- er, who lives about two s north of town, received a telegram from Cleveland announcing that his son Oran M. Fletcher, had fallen dead < AT THE'MORGUE. in a restaurant. 1 The telegram was: by the son’s wife. Upon his in Cleveland he saw the body at the morgue, and, al- though there that it his son the identification by the widow wa so posit signec arrival was a suspicion in his mind might not be e that he became satisfied He brought the body here and the funeral was held at the family home After the funeral Fletcher's wife and three children came here to live with the parents. This week Mrs. Fletcher received a letter from a ter in Cleveland saying that her husband was alive. She left at once and was not here when her husband arrived. Fletcher refuses to tell where he had been. He s that the first he knew ceived writt ing whe his wife was, as she had not answered letters he had s in Cleveland. The resemblance of the dead man to Fletcher was remarkable. There was a patch on the clothing, neatly sewed, which Mrs. Fletcher said was her work. CAMEL VERSUS TROLLEY. A Ship of the Desert More Than Holds Its Own in a Unique Street Race at Cincinnati. of the affair was when he re- answer to a letter he n to his wife's had sister sent to her They banish pain and prolong life. No matt:r what the matter is, one will do you good, and you can get ten for five cents, A now styte packet containing TEN RITANS FABULES im & paper carjon (without glam! pon seperation fetes am snow to my tabules) oan be bad by mail by sending forty sight ang ice Street, New York—or « single carns gu! ever made since the world was created Ow for aly TELEPHONE OALL #: R. 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