Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-25
WHEEIING. W. TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER Is.
IN OHIO CHRISTMAS STORY.
The beenes. OF which Shift from Mad.
hose to Happy, Reu aited Home In
Youngstown.

The Beenes OF which Shift from a Mad.
hose to Happy, Reu sited Home In
Yoengstewn.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., December 24.-John
Ward, prosperous flax dealer in the vii
lage Of Garfield, this county, closed up his
business there fifteen years ago and re-
moved to Michigan, where he invested his
means in various enterprises, all of which
were unsuccessful. He lost his money and
the reverses in business unbalanced his
mind. His father-in-,aw, hearing OF his
lamentable condition, sent for Ward and
his family, and took them to live with him
in Can6eld. Wards dementia grew more
marked, and his wife became go melan.
choly over his condition that she was on
the verge Of insanity. An effort was made
to have Ward placed in the Northern Ohio
Aslum for the Insane, at Newburg, near
Cleveland, but he having lived in Michigan
long enough t0 gain a residence there, it
was found necessary 10 send him to an
asylum in that State.
On the Day of His Departure
his wife, while wandering about hali-de.
mented, fell into cistern containing about
four feet of water. The shock made her
insensible for time, but appeared to break
the spell Of her meiancholia and her mental
troubles disappeared. Ward was taken
away while she was lying insensible and
left the house under the impression that
his wife was dead. For some months It'd
ings Of Wards condition reached his
father in-law regularly, then suddenly
stopped and nothing more was heard from
him. 1t was supposed that he had become
worse or had died.
Three years ago Hosea Hoover, brother
OF Mrs. Ward, employed in the Jersey City
stock yards, thought he recognized John
Wards face on the deck of steamship that
had just New York wharf on trip TO
England. Hoover, who had thought Ward
dead, regarded the resemblance as mere
coincidence. About four weeks ego he
boarded train in Jersey City and saw the
face again. The resemblance was so great
that he addressed the man asking HIM il
his name WAS not Ward. The reply con.
iirned Hoover expectation and he intro.
GuCfd d himself. He then informed Ward
that
Wife Was Alive and Well,
and hat his son, who had been boy OF IL
when the separation occurred, was cashier
IN u New York grocery house. Ward was
sstoundPd. laviog supposed his wife dead,
out a meeting with his son, to whom HoI-
ser took him, convinced him of the truth
OF HOoScr's story. The meeting between
fstlCr ard son was very affecting The
son ard Mr.. Hoover left at once to carry
4 e rews 10 Mrs. Ward, Ward himself be
ing detained for time by business affairs.
Mrs Ward is overjoyed, and is anxiously
awaiting meeting with her husband,
which will probably occnr within week.
Ward relates that when he was pro.
rounced cured, he, surposing his wife
dead, avoided returning TO Garfield, which
was associated with such unpleasant recOl-
lections. He accordingly went to New
York City, where he secured a position
with q firm of brokers, whose confidential
agent he became and for whom he had
made several trips to Europe. He sent to
bis wife, by his son, several handsome
pTpSentS.