The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-07
AGIrI Whose Life Dlsconntsa Dime Noyel

AGIrI Whose Life DisCOnntsa Dime Novel
AQueer story OF the strangely %eventful
life OF a girl comes from Pennsylvania as
the sequel to what was years ago a much
talked Of mystery in the lumber regions
OF the northern part OF that State. Kate
Hanson, aged eighteen, an intelligent girl
OF good family and unsullied reputation,
but with a fondness for hunting, fishing
and other masculine sports, left her home
in Tioga county with her rifle on her arm
one day twenty-five years ago, and never
returned to it. And MS diligent search and
advertisement throughout the country
failed to bring any trace Of her, her pa
rents came to the conclusion that she had
either persisted in the woods, or run away
TO a life Of shame with Il worthless
young fellow named Johnson, whose
attentions they Ind forbidden her 10 re.
ceive. In the winter Of 1876, however,
Col. Grant Wilson, OF Philadelphia, met
in Cuba Maj. James Hopkins, formerly
from Ohio, who served in Gen. Thomas
division during the war, and spent some
time with him aud his handsome and dig.
nihed wife and two children at their plan
tation in the interior. During his stay
Mrs. Hopkins told Col. Wilson that she
was Kate Hanson, and gave this remarka-
BILE story Of her adventures: The young
man Johnson, whom her parents disliked
because Of his bad character, was n COLI
genial companion TO her, because Of his
skill rs u woodsman, and she rGbelled
against the order 10 cease associating
with him. But after she left her home
on that last day she decided that
her parents were right, but could see
no way to break Off the intimacy ex-
cept by leaving home. She passed that
night in the woods, and the next day ap.
prOpriated a suit OF mans clothes which
she found in the cabin Of some hunters.
Thus attlred she reached Dunkirk, \. Y,
and secured a position, which she liked
well enough, on q lake boat running be,
tween Detroit and Buffalo. But one day
ut Buffalo she saw u minute description o.
herself in u paper, and so fled to CinCin.
natl, and became a rOustabout on IN Ohio
river steamer, where she staid till the wal
broke out, when she enlisted in M Ohio
regiment, was in all the engagements O.
Gen. Thomas division, and was promoted
10 sergeant. One day in 1864, on return,
ing from s~tationing u guard, her cap
tain suddenly charged her with
being n woman, and she WAS sur
prised into telling the truth, and was
taken before Gen. Thomas, who ordered
her to the rear, and to resume woman,
apparel. She then became u nurse in the
hospital, and soon had her Captain as 0
patient, he having been wounded in q
skirmish. \ strong affection sprung M
between them, and after the wal they were
married, though the influential family o.
the Captain, who was by that time Major
refused to recognize his wife. But she
had saved about $500 in her various wan,
behring's, and with this the couple went tc
Cuba, where they have been greatly pros,
pered as planters. And now parents and
children arc preparing for II visit 10 Hates
aged father and mother in Pennsylvania
who are delighted at once more hearing
from their long lost child.