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Show WHOLE REGIMENT CAPTURED. Judge Allen Relates Story of less Victory. a Blood- Judge Henry Clay Allen, of circuit court, participated in the capture of I regiment of confederate soldiers, and there was hardly a shot fired in the whole performance. "If It had happened during the Span the people of the conn try would never have got through talking about It, and yet It was not bo common In the days of the civil war for one regiment to capture an other without the Bring a single shot. But in those days there were too many things for the newspapers to talk about, and the incident was barely mentioned," said Judge Allen. "It was near Alexandria, La., In MM. A lot of us fellows, NEWS SUMMARY men In the bull pen' along with the confederate captain and his M mounted picked men. "When we were through with these fellows we proceeded to capture the battery, and there we had some real fighting for a little bit, but it didn't last long. One or two of them had to be convinced with bayonets and there was some firing. Hut we got the battery, tnen, guns and all. "That firing at the battery awakened the officers who were sleeping In a big house a short distance away, and one of them, I think he was a colonel, came running out toward the battery. Some distance away he called: " What's all this shooting about?' "But he did not wait for a reply. He saw what had happened and he hurried back to the house. He has come out there in his night clothes, and I suppose that he must have grabbed his clothes as he went through the house again, but whether he got them or not he took to a dense woods the other side of the house and we never saw him again. Hut we got the rest of the officers. "And when all the men were in the bull pen there must have been 500 or 600 of them all told we matched them back across a little creek a short distance away and established a camp there so that we would have advantage of the bridge in defending our camp In case reinforcements happened to be on the way to this point. Hut we had no such trouble. We got away with those prisoners and It was all because that confederate captain advanced to give the countersign Instead of ordering us to send a man to him, as he should have done. I really would like to know whatever became of that captain." all infantry- man, had been mounted on old nags we picked up away down South there. W were advancing cautiously and sort of beating the confederate out of the bushes, when suddenly we came upon a battery In the road ahead of UB. And there we stopped. "That night we mounted those old horses, 30 of us all told, with Captain Jake Smith In command, and made a long detour by which we were to come up to the rear of the battery. We were followed at a distance by a regiment of infantrymen on foot, and we had orders to sui round any sentry HOWARD ON GRANT. we might meet and to hold him as a 30 us So of the rode along prisoner. In a row, ten feet apart. It was so Former General Gives Characteristics and Incidents in Life of the dark that We could not Bee the horses Great Commander. to us. next "On we rode without encountering Gen. Oh'arles H. Howard, in his talk any one until we heard what sounded at the Appomattox celebration of Colike a whole regiment of mounted men coming down the road ahead of us. lumbia post, told of many traits and We hailed and waited. When they Characteristic! of Gen. Grant, with whom the speaker served In the army of the Tennessee. While testifying tc reserve in speech ol the Gen. Grant, his former associate said lhat the great general was by no means an urwocial man. "Gen. Grant was thoughtful of the comfort and the feelings of the offi cers anil men with whom he was in contact," said Gen. Howard. "He was pot, of course, loquacious, nor was he silent and uncommunicative. He talked well and IntelligenU.v, and took his as sociates into his confidence as much as was desirable or wise, for one in his position. In battle he was a study in the cool and sane conduct of the situation. "At the battle of Lookout mountain was carrying orders between him and my division, and I was struck with the perfect appreciation he had of the real You Move and I'll Blow Ycur Brains State of affairs In every part of the field, a field which stretched, reniem Out. ber. over miles of country. He never were close enough Jake called a half forgot, when gave him news, just how the part' of the movements I re"'Advance and give the counterported had stood an hour, or two sign,' he commanded. "Well, sir, It was the moat foolish hours, before. "The whole progress of the engage thing I ever heard of an officer doing, but the captain in charge of that tnent was clearly in his mind, from its squad of confederates obeyed that orbeginning to the moment, and you may der. We learned afterward that the be sure it was well outlined also as to men In charge of the captain were on the succeeding hours and events ot their way to an outside picket line. the battle. "As the captain approached he sup "Grant was never profane in his posed, of course, that we were confedspeech. In all of my associating with erate soldiers, .lake got the magic him and I was closely associated with hint I never heard him use an word, then the confederate captain felt a revolver pressed close against oath, or swear at all. His repugnance his temple to vulgarity in language is well known "'You move and I'll blow your He would not endure It in his pres brains out!' Jake said. ence. His regard for others was "The man surrendered his com strong, and lfe was a patient man, but mand We approached and surround there was a limit to his patience. That id his men. There were HO of them limit was reached, and he quickly as many as there were of us. And showed it, when any one began wag they were the maddest lot of men you glng a loose or profane tongue in his ever saw in your life Hut the captain presence. surrendered them. They called him a "Although Grant was of direct, situ 1 have coward. often wondered since pie speech and manners, careless In that time what ever became of him his dress and never u stickler for etl "We ordered thetn to give up their quette. he had a natural and quiet dig arms, and for a little hit there BHrned nity which was felt by all with w hom to be trouble ahead, for when the men he came in contact. He never had to reached for their carbines we heard assert himself. What he was showed It was sleeting the guns cocking too well." and raining, and suppose none of the As listened, delighted, to the rem guns would have gone off if we had iniscences of the gallant Howard,' in tried to do any shooting, though one his earnest, unassuming little talk, of our men. a boy of 17, did level his writes Ada C. Sweet. In Chicago Jour gun at one of them who refused to nal, I was reminded of a storv ot surrender, and he pulled the trigger, Giant, a happening after he had left but the gun failed to go off. Hut the:' the presidential chair. He was always Anally dropped their guns in the mud the same man, wherever he was. or handed them over and si or eight At the time of which I speak, a dinof lis marched the SO back to the reginer had been given in Grant's honor, ment The regiment formed a sort of and while the after dinner cigars were hollow sipiare the 'bull pen.' we call smoked, story felling was going on A ed It and we marched the SO into thn story teller, toward the end of the session, with a leer around the room, said, len as a preface to his contribution to the Regiment Falls In. "Then all of us marched on Into the entertainment: "There are no ladles Get present, I believe, aud so I may tell camp Jake had the countcrsu-.ting ft. was easy. And when we tot this Utile story." Into camp It was all too easy to he "But there are gentlemen here!" called war We simply ordered the protested Grant, and the abashed story I men to fall In' and they did shall teller withdrew from the arena. never forget how one of those fellows acted. 1 told him to 'fall In' and he To Europe Via Hudson Bay, Htarted to oley, but he Insisted on The Manitoba government is pre-- l leading a bony old horse with him aring to finance a railroad line from Finally I turned to him and said: Winnipeg to a port on Hudson bay, "'Fall In here! Hurry! Don'l you making a short route to European know you are a prisoner ' markets. Some of the people of Man "He looked at me like he had awak lloha assert that the line would mean He ha a- ened from a dream ;ie a .aving ol several million dollara an- uucstlons. He supposed we were con- uually, the water route being a much federate officers and that tic nunD heapor way to ship to Europe than was to be moved. I suppose All the long train haul ueross the contithrough that performance then uj-- . nent Reports from explorers who io have spent much time in Hudson hardly a shot tired and there little noise that some of the GOBlMt) there Is open water lor at least ates who hail been left on picket duty ;l months In the year. The railroad didn't know that the regiment lhe) fata Winnipeg would be 600 or TOO miles long, through a country difficult belonged to had been captured. "We marched the whole regiment tor railroad building, owing to many bank to our regiment and put the Bl jughs and rivers Half the business section of tlca, N. Y., has been wiped out by Orer in the Salmon river meadows in Idaho, ranged a wild and country, The extreme heat whlci has precow bunch of woolly vailed In Cleveland, Ohio, the pas-fewhose knowledge of the punchers, days has resulted in a number of world was confined mainly to trips prostrations. after cattle into surrounding counties Two men and two women, while Into this reckless but verdant comboating In the lake at Muskegon munity there came the smoothof a wild Mich., on Sunday were drowned, the tongued representative who hired several riders west show, boat capsi.ing. at a high salary to do a Trachoma and not bubonic plague act, the chief ature being that they is responsible for the order forbidshould appear to be thrown from their ding 1,000 Japanese to land at the horses and dragged by the foot. After they had practiced in a corral pott of Salina Cruz. one of them loosened Luclen Baker, former United States for a while himself and rising from the dirt, dissenator from Kansas, died at Leaven heveled and dazed, inquired: worth on the 22nd, after a month's "Say, mister, ain't this ruther danIllness, of Bright's disease. We might git killed." gerous' "That's all right," chirped the Typhoid fever is again epidemic in cheerfully. representative The disease is said to be show's Pittsburg will go on just the of a more virulent type than last year "Your salary same." Lippincott's Magazine. is and the mortality greater. Six hundred men of the Seven THE REORGANIZED NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. who teenth Infantry, mutinied and marched to B"ziers under arms, have The new Board of Trustees of the returned to their barracks at Odge New York Lite Insurance Company, France. chosen by the policyholders under the The Japanese In the Los Angelea Armstrong laws, has taken charge of the company's affairs and has begun public schools have been officially classified as "Mongolians," notwlth the work of reorganization. In choosing the principal officers of standing their objection to such class the company, the Hoard has adhered ification. comMore than one hundred persons to the idea that a life Insurance should be managed by life inwere drowned by the flood caused by pany surance men. The new president is the overflowing of the Iothos river, Darwin P. Kingsley, a college bred which inundated the town of Trikala man of good New England stock, who in Thessaly. has been in the company's service in a H. L. Iaing, an attorney of Colo variety of capacities for a period of was rado Springs, drowned while nearly twenty years. In the parlance In the surf at Ocean Park of life insurance, he "began with the bathing rate book" and has advanced step by Cal., being overcome by the breakers step up to his present position. His body was recovered. The first vice president of the comItonaldo Chavez, a Pueblo Indian pany is Thomas A. Huckner, who has aged 17, a member of this year's served the company for more than a graduating class at Haskell Institute quarter of a century, indeed has lyawrence, Kans., was drowned in the never had any other business connecMakarsa while swimming. tion. Associated with these men are The derailment of a work train near others long trained in the company's Detroit, Minn., caused the death ol each an expert in his own deBrakeman Lentmen and Engineer service, of work. Wm. E. Ingersoll, partment Charles Anderson. Engineer W. C who has for many years had charge Greenbaugh was seriously injured. of the company's great business in Using for rope the bandages with Europe, is one of the second vice preswhich his injured foot had been idents, and will continue at the head wrapped, John Harvey, 42 years old, of the company's office in Paris. Rufus W. Weeks, who has been in of New York, committed suicide by the company's service for nearly forty from of himself the his door hanging years, ranks next to Mr. Buckner as room. vice president, and continuous as chief Four deaths and a dozen prostraactuary of the company. tions on Saturday mark the record The policyholders have expressed for the hottest day so far this sum- their belief in this company in no unmer in New York. Street thermome- certain terms. The upheaval in life inters registered as high as 95 shortly surance within the last two years has after noon. resulted in a great deal of misunderWilliam Roule, a carpenter of De- standing and policyholders, alarmed on matters which were not very clear to troit, cut his wife's throat and then have been disposed to give up them, slashed his own with the same razor, their contracts at a heavy sacrifice. and both died where they fell, In the This has not been true in the New York bed room where their two children Life to any great extent. The comwere sleeping. pany had $2,000,000,000 insurance on The chief of police of Vilna has or- its books when the life insurance indered all Polish shop signs to be re- vestigation began, and while the laws moved. The owners of shops are now of the State of New York now do not to write over obliged to paint their signs and pub- permit any company $150,000,000 a year (which is about lish their advertisements in the Rus- one half the New York Life formerly sian language only. did), the company's outstanding busiAlbert Lan.endorff, a San Francisco ness still exceeds $2,000,000,000. policeman, shot himself through the Policyholders generally will be still brain because he was unable to sleep. further reassured by this action of the He feared that he would lose hU Board, as it places at the head of the mind and would be compelled to re- company to protect their interests men of thorough traiuing and unexceptionsign from the police force. able character. There will be no stiike of the packfor house teamsters of ing Chicago, The Mules Understood. some time at least. The men have A story is told of Senator Knute accepted the offer of arbitration made Nelson, who spent some of his early by the packers and will remain at years in a logging camp. He there work pending the arbitration. discovered the necessity of certain The jury in the case of Mrs. Emma emphatic language in order to make "All of varieties" a wealthy woman rjf mules move. Kaufmann, Sioux Falls, S. D., accused of the tongues were in demand in that camp: German, Italian but murder of Miss Agnes Polreis, her Scandinavian, none of the used seemed to words a returned verdict servant, have the explosive force to adjust of manslaughter in the first degree. the temp" of the mule to the desired A sheriff's jury has determined that pace. Along came a strapping IrishJames Bartlett Hammond, president man, who used some popular expleof the Hammond Typewriter company, tives, usually indicated In print by is Incompetent to manage himself and blank, blank, or The mules his affairs, and will so report to the moved! "There's a language all supreme court. His estate Is valued amies understand," said the Irishman at $800,000. "and It's not me mother tongue, ayther." Joe Mitchell Chappie, in Mrs. Annie Besant of Adyar, India National Magazine. who has just been elected world presIdent of the Theosophical society Home, Sweet Home. will attend the annual convention tc The wife of a naval officer attached be held in Chicago In the middle ol to the academy at Annapolis has in September of the American section ol her employ an Irish servant, who rethe society. cently gave evidence of nostalgia. "You ought to be contented and Mrs. Uussell Sage has sent to the not pine for your old home, Bridget," Lincoln Farm association a contribuof the house. "You are tion of $25,000 to the fund for the said the lady is good wages, your work earning preservation of the Abraham Lincoln' everyone is kind to you, and light, Farm aud Log Cabin and for the you have lots of friends here." memorial building that will he put "Yis, mum," sadly replied Bridget; up on the farm eventually. "but it's not the place where I be that The strike which has been ia makes me so homesick; It Is the ptr cress at the Wyandotte yard of the place where I don't be." American Shipbuilding company M Rations for Troops In Alaska. Detroit, since March 12. was settled On the recommendation of the comSlimH-imAft MMIimlnn lha wmw num un missary general of the army, the field iwiihiub n..t. der the same conditions which nre- - rations of the troops serving In Alaska vailed before the strike. will he 16 ounces of bacon, or, when The Russky Vledmostl, the veteran desired, 16 ounces of salt pork or 22 Liberal organ, has been lined $300 for ounces of salt beef; 24 ounces of publishing an article inimicable to fresh vegetables, instead of 16 ounces;, ounces of three and the government. Four other s vegetables, instead of fwo and were lined sums running iim two fifths ounces, and S 25 ounce of $250 to $.VI0 each, and nuinem.is r.her can lies. ins' wim e u third Russian papers have The governor of Novgorod, Count Yards of Sausage. Twenty-OnModem, has caused to be posted itl In the rivalry to make the biggest the cities and villages of the province sausage some wonderful specimens an order announcing that tevsM are being produced by Germans In measures will be taken to suppress The latest record-breake- r disorders, and warning the luliali-itant- Pennsylvania. Is the work of Jacob Acker-mantuat the tmcpi will g of Lineport it is 64 test eight Inches loug. hair-raisin- f- - . 1 , More or Less Glittering Bait Held Out to Cow Punchers. long-haire- 1 bay-sa- t J JJ g g fire. well-know- . LITTLE CAUSE FOR WORRY. - j two-fifth- s des-icate- tiewa-paper- , j JJ ) f EXAMPLE OF TRUE CHIVALRY. Q Modern Lover Proves Himself Equa.' to Heroes of the Past. Rich strikes in the Seven Troughs district are occurring so frequently of late that they are becoming com- There was a moment of profound silence. He was the first to speak. "You are richer than I am," he faltered, with emotion. She bowed her head, replying nothing. But now the true nobility of his character manifested itself. "Yet for all that I am no better than you are'" he cried, and folded her to his breast. And when, her conscience accusing hsr, she tried to tell him that not only her father but four of ber uncles were Pittsburg millionaires, he sealed her lips with kisses, and would hear uothirc- Puck. mon. There are few Nevada camps, if iny at all, that can show so many working and shipping properties as the camp of Good Springs. It is announced by the managers Df the Utah coal companies that preparations are being made to avert a repetition of the coal famine of last winter. Dugway needs water, and it needs a railroad. Nothing else is retarding the giowth of what should be one of 'he banner lead and copper producing sections of all the state of Utah. The report that the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company has been forced to abandon all the old Mexico mining field is absolutely untrue, and is looked upon as humorist. a joke of some would-bWord has been received in Rhyo lite from the Panamints that an assay from the Eddy discovery shows $1,000 ore. A rush is on for the new it will camp, and it is predicted prove the sensation of the summer. While all the men who can be obtained are being put to work at the coal mines at Rock Springs, Wyo the daily output is only about sufficient to meet the daily demands. No coal is being produced for the railroads for storage purposes. At Mountain Home, Idaho, last week, Deputy United States Marshal Bryan sold the property of the Crown Point Mining company to satisfy a Judgment of $11,377.85 granted in fa- vor of B. P. Hutchinson by the Inderal court last March. In The Weimer copper property, Idaho, contains a ledge of copper ore that will average 6'2"Per cent copper. The mine is opened by adits and open cuts and sixteen cars of ore in all have been shipped, which brought about $:!,000 per car. There is a mine in active opera tion not far from Salt Lak that produces 40 per cent copper and runs It is 20 ounces in silver to the ton. situated In Morgan county, about seven miles southeast of Morgan City, and is owned and operated by the Chicago-UtaCopper Mining company. The Ontario group, near Ketchum, Idaho, has recently been sold for a large sum. The Ontario, an old producer, yielded over $1,000,000, paying $t6 per ton for smelting charges on r ore, closed down with the slump in silver after demonetization, fias a complete mill for concentrat- - Injury from Mosquitoes. New Jersey has many places ideal In situation and accessibility, and one such place developed rapidly to a certain point and there It stood, halted by the mosquitoes that bred in the Country surrounding marsh lands. club, golf, tennis and other attractions ceased to attract when attention was necessarily focused on the biting or stinging pests that intruded everywhere, and the tendency was to sell out. Hut the owners, were not ready to quit without a fight, and an improvement society was formed which consulted with my office and followed my advice, in one year the bulk of the breeding area was drained, mosquitoes have since been absent almost entirely; one gentleman, not a large owner, either, told me his property had increased $50,000 in value, and new settlers began to come in. This year one of the worst breeding areas of the olden day was used as a camping gorund, and 100 new residences are planned for next year. Prof. John B. Smith, in the Popular Science Monthly. e Good for Evil. One Sunday a teacher was trying to illustrate to her small scholars the lesson, "Return good for evil." To make it practical she said: "Suppose, children, one of your schoolmates should strike you, and the next day you should bring him an apple that would be one way of returning good for evil." To her dismay one of the little girls spoke up quickly: "Then he would strike you again to get another aunle!" Advanced. "Hiram," said Mrs. Kornkob to her husband, who was reading the Weekly Screech, "they say that Jones man who has taken the farm next to ours Is mighty intellectual." "I guess he is," replied Farmer Kornkob. "He knows four different almanacs heart." Milwaukee by Sentinel. h lead-silve- Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and eure remedy for infants and children, and eee that it ing. the rvfter protracted negotiations mine operators have at last secured fright rate concessions from the Salt Lake Route, and it is generally that the Denver & Rio Grande will follow suit. The concession is that in future rates will be based on ihe net valuation of tonnage instead of the gross, as heretofore. Three rich strikes In as many different mines were made in the Pearl :amp, in Idaho, last week. The richest find reported Is in the Whitman, vein of ore where an eighteen-incto ton was encoun the $435 assaying tered. Another strike of an eighteen-foo- t ledge with vaiues of $37 to the ton was also made. Goidfield is getting back into her production form. There were ore marketed 2.991 tons of during this last week, its approximate value being $480,600, or nearly were 1,712 half a million. There 789 tons shipped to the smelters, tons handled by the Nevada Goidfield Reduction works, and 490 tons treated at the Combination mill. It is reported that the Honerine company, at Stockton, Utah, is making arrangements to sink from 400 to 500 feet lower than the present tunLocal circles expect that nel level. the Honerine at depth will open up some very rich copper ores. Fort Hall mine, near Pocatello. Idaho, has been opened by a crosscut tunnel, which has been driven 4,500 feet, cutting the first vein at 2.50C feet from the portal and other vein were intersected at points farther In r It is a proposition The district mining recently brought into existence by the discovery of rich gold bearing quartz by Scott Hickey in the Toquima range some fifty miles from Manhattan, has been named Mayne, after C. E May ne, Manhattan's foremost mIniu.L' man. The Moonlight mine, located ten miles northeast of Pocatello, Idaho Is developed by over 2,000 feet ol and work) mostly adits and cross-cuts- , has a contact vein, between a porphyry footwall and a conglomerate hanging wall. The ore goep 8 pet cent copper. The big mill at the Montgomery-Shoshoneat Hliyolite, Nevada, Is but it apidly nearing completion, will probably be the middle of August liefore the plant will be In operation. The electrical machinery has beep and should shipped from Pittsburg arrive shortly. The May coinage of the Unitei: States mints amounted to 8,tf4S,0OO, 5f which $7,208,360 was gold, $1,016,. i00 silver and $233,550 nickel There a. so coined l,728.no P''-'30.0nii .'ii ventavos and 66.000 for Ihe Philippines and 1 $00,000 for Mexico. a Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kmd You Rave Always Bought. con-eede- d Temperature and Water. At sea level water boils at 212 degrees, F.; at a height of 10,000 feet at 193 degrees, F. 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