The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-07
TELEGRAPHIC HASH.
The Story of Young Man Who
Was Hayward.
A Theatrical Unpleasantness----A
Bose Of Corrosive Sublimate---
The Lizard Yarn---Enter-
estins Paragraphs.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan Nv. irving Lanteii,
the young Philadelphian who died in Licking
ton, KY, on New Years day from the effects
of hunger and cold, was the son of ".
l. Landell, Of 1905 north Eleventh
street, and grandson of W. Irving
Landell. president OF the Kensington
national bank. He was 81 years
OF age, and up to the early part of last No
vember he was a student in the HahnemGnn
Medca! college, in which institution he ma
circulated i'll the latter part of 1882. The
unfortunate man came of an excellent
family, but being possessed of rather way
ward disposition, caused his parents good
deal of anxiety. Eos such young man his
career has been an adventurous one.
After being admitted as a student TO the
college lie took great delight in relating how
he had a few years ago run away from home
and shipped as a common sailor on board q
vessel bound for China. Arrived in that far
Off country, he became i'll, and for several
months lay in a hospital, lowering between
life and death. When he recovered he
obtained another berth before the mast
and returned to America. He had run
away once before that, and his where
abOuts was unlluownfor weeks He took great
delight in telling Of his different escapades to
his fellow students, and neglected his studies
so often that he was frequently reprimauled
by his preceptor. Once he brought into the
coliegea revolver priced by his father as q
trophy captured from a Confederate soldier
curing the war, and created such an excite
ment that he had TO be threatened with dis
inissssl unless he would promise to give up
such Dranks and settle down to bard work
bs an in
formed several of his college chums that he
Intended giving up the study of medicine in
order to go to Mexico, where he expected TO
take charge of u gold mine for his father
Then he applied to the officials of the insti-
ton, asking for return Ct portion of the
fees paid by him, on the ground that he
needed the money to pay the expenses Of the
"Trip. the request was refused, although
young La nden declared the journey TO be
of urgent Importance. He was not seen
again, and it was really believed that he had
gone to Mexico. The next heard OF him was
in a dispatch from Cincinnati, which stated
that Washington Irving Landell had been
arrested in that city on the charge of carry
ing concealed deadly weapons and that he
hal been fined, released, and the weapon
coptscated. This was the same pistol
that he had shown in Philadelphia As to
how the young man managed to live during
the last runaway trip nothing is known He
had very little money when he left the city,
and he must have been in sore straits for even
the necessaries of life. Aprivate message to
the family stated that death was due to
apoplexy, and not exposure. Landelrs father
left for Lexington to secure his sons body and
bring it home for burial Mr. Landen, of 454
Marshall street, says that the statement
made about young landau being ac-
eompanied by his l2-year-old brother is I'M
true