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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
LIFE ON A STREET CAR.
Sweet-LoOking Ladies Burden the Driver
with Irrelevant Interviews Long
Drawn Out.
Allegations that the Fair Sex Ignores Nat
ural Philosophy in Ahghting from
the Cars.
searching for a Stray Nickel Against
Heavy Odds--SsGosh but She's
Lively!''
The Ills that Beset the Pathway of the
Man that Holds the Refns over
the Mules.

ITO. MS car go On st. Peter street?"
''NO, ma'am."
'.What car does go on st. Peter street?"
Don't any"
Cars don't go on st. Peter street,"
''NO, ma'a am"
GLOW near ST. Peter street do cars go?''
Zone block
''Well. what cars go within one block?"
''This car"
''Amt there any cars that go nearer St.
Peter street than this one?'
''NO, ma'am."
''If | get in this car how far will have
to walk to 90 to Mo-, st. Peter
street?n
Zone block"
And there amt any cars that go nearer
No than this one?"
mo, ma'am."
q thought cars went on St. Peter
street,"
"They don't"
well, suppose I'll have to take this
car"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

A driver on ST. Paul car said to n
GLOBE reporter that in ST. Paul the driving
was very Omplicated-much more SO than
when conductor is aboard. He has to at
tend to switches, drive his two mules, make
change, answer questions, put on the
brakes, for many of the lines run on sharp
grades, ring his indicator, watch both sides
of the street forpassengers, and keep
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

The two little mules attached to the st.
Anthony hill car had kicked flies vigorously
and tried to start once. while the driver and
a lady in a gossamer cloak had held the
above conversation at the corner of Jackson
and Fourth streets one Of those hot days
last week. while it was still sprinkliug
from the shower that had just passed. No
body. within the knowledge of the reporter,
knows who the lady was, but she came
from the Merchants hotel and was appar-
emily a stranger in the city. A reporter had
been sitting by an open window in the car
and had heard the whole dialogue,
and watched her every movement.
And she didn't look like lady that walked
crOsswiSe the grain with the world, either.
She had a pretty face and figure
and great BIG eyes. She had her hair ar
ranged in becoming way about her shapely
forehead, and when she undid her gOSSa-
mer in the car and pulled little lace hand
kerchief from her belt and wiped away two
or three stray rain drops that had spattered
on her cheek. bracelet flashed on her
pearly arm, and a sort of attar-of-roseS per-
fume. that you could almost detect and then
you couldn't, foated all through the car so
that even the business man, four seats
away. pulled his feet from across the aisle
and adjusted his necktie and beard. She
was a sweet, pretty lady. and if some one
had told any man in that car that she would
stand in a muddy street, polling an UNI
brella at the driver of horse car while the
above conversation was held. he would
have taken off his coat and called the nara
tor liar. But she did.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
WITH HER UMBRELLA.

On the sam e
line Of cars, on
Wabasha street
another day, q
lady stood wait
ing for a car. 1t
was in front of
the pOstoftice, and
she was talking to
another lady. She
hailed the car
with her parasol
w h en- it wa 5
nearly half a block
away. The driver
saw the thrust OF
the DaraSOl. and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

a place is burglarized we can ten pretty
nearly what time it occurred. and then
there is starting point 10 work FROM"
The officer then began the work of Shak-
ing the doors. As the journey was
made from door to door the officer slowly
related the little historical sketches
connected with the place and that
For instance he came TO a clothing store
and said. ''This store was burglarized one
night about three years ago and a lot of
clothing taken. They got in one of these
back windows. The thieves were cap
tured. however. short time later, and are
now in Saltwater serving out their time"
At the rear of another store the officer re-
lated the facts of another burglar getting
pinched in the very act Of making away
with quantity of valuable jewelry.
The most interesting Of these incidents
was one showing the difficulty an officer
had one night in trying to arrest sus-
picious character. 1t was dark and the
copper was without any lantern. AS the
man seemed harder TO catch than a ghost
the officer pulled his revolver and fred
three shots. AS the little pop went of the
man got frightened and fell some distance
cutting his arm severely on nail. He at
once swore he was shot in the arm and
would perhaps have made case Of it, but
that the officer proved that he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
FIRED IN THE AIR

by the three holes punched in the platform
overhead. Now look where throw this
light and you will see the holes yet" said
the guide. The reporter said he saw them,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

eOIVed. u SOmt Say HEELS TUIHB HORSES
it's because on leaving the car the right
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

Five out of seven
did it, and one that
was a little later
neary got a fall, as
the car had started.
Whether it is that
they can handle their
articles of dress. the
trials of which men
know not of, to bet
ter advantage, or
whether because the
rail on the rear Of
fers a firme hold for :.
the hand, or whethe.
because it is naturai
to do certain things
differently from mel
has never been
= -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02

WIlen ne ndu G6acn6U bn6 Iaflller crossing
had halted the mules and stood looking
through the window of the front door to see
when the lady was safely landed on the
platform. For ten seconds he looked through
the door and then he looked around
the outside. He saw the lady balancing on
one foot and the heel of the other while
she poked the nozzle of her parasol at the
lamp post three feet away. She was talk
ing with her friend and apparently didn't
know there was car in sight. The reinS
were lOosened, the mules had gone five
PAGES, when there was vision of French
heels and high inSteps at the extremity Of
something dark blue with silk stripes
worked in it. fluttering about the car steps,
and a minute later nickel dropped in the
box. and a middle-aged man with button
of the Loyal Legion in his lapel. arose and
gave his seat TO a lady. A small boy on
the rear of the car said Gosh, but she's
lively"
A man once wrote in Chicago news
paper an article in which he said that the
great majority of ladies alghting from a
car did so face to the rear of the car.
thereby greatly increasing the probabilities
of a fall. He further asserted that this
regularity was confined to the female sex.
A chivalric professor in an institution OF
learning there at once asserted that this
was a SANDER on the sex. and said to his
wife that he would prepare an article and
send it to the editor Of that paper refuting
the SANDER.
"How do you know that 1t is not true?''
said his better half.
Il will watch and see" said he, and he
did. In going distance of eleven blocks
that day on a car he counted eleven ladies
alighting from his car. Ten of those did
so with their heels toward the horses, and
the professor never wrote his article of ref
utation.
Just to see if this applied to Chicago
ladies alone, or was as it were an inherent
trait, an instinct of the sex, a GLOBE re-
porter counted in st. Paul the ladies alight-
ing from ear on Wabasha street, between
EOurth street and tha fltrn off ". no
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
A TERRIBLE REVELATION.
A Father Who Kept the Body of Dead Child
Under His Bed for Twenty-Five Years.

MANSFIELD, O., July 4-Since the arrest of
Newton Gikison on the charge of assaulting an
eight year old child, facts are coming to light
that make this mans history sound like border
novel. Gilkison, who is aged about sixty years,
has been resident of this county nearly all his
life.
He first came into notice before the public in
the year 1860. He had son aged about ten
years, and one day gave him terrible beating
few days afterward the boy suddenly died.
and his remains were IN TERED in the Mansfield
cemetery. The body was allowed to remain in
the grave during the winter, but in six eight
months after the burial the father expressed a
desire to take the body up.
Gllkison was known 10 be a man of great
eccentricites, and the trustees of the cemetery
refused to allow him to disnter the remains. He
armed himself, however, with a large revolver,
and, taking grave digger along marched to the
city of the dead. Under the circumstances the
cemetery authorities concluded not to cross him
for fear OF disastrous results, and with his own
hands the father helped relieve the grave of its
dead.
The water in the grave had somewhat pre-
served the remains. The hair the child S
head had grown to nearly foot in length. The
body was taken home by the father and placed
under the bed in the coffin. A casket was made
according to his directions, and into 1t the re-
mains were placed.
For twenty five years this zinc sepulcher with
its hOrrd contents. remained under GilkisoE's
bed. The father rather seemed to enjoy the
constant but awful reminder of the presence of
all that was earthly of his child His action
could be explained by no other theory than that
he was prompted by remorse.
| There was little round glass in the casket
through which he would take frequent peeps at
the contents. Not many weeks ago physician
happened at the Gikison household, and by
permission of the wife put his hand through the
hole into the coffin. He grasped handful of
dust, and few bones ratified he touched
them, indicating that in twenty-five years the
body had not entirely moldered away. A short
time ago the ola mans daughter died, and this
seemed to break the spell. The daughters
mains were inferred in the cemetery and the
remains of the boy, on June 49, of this year,
were taken from the bed-clamber and laid to
rest beside those of his sister, and here ends
this remarkably story which was only brough to
light by the developments in the case now before
the courts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr. Frank p. Weadon, for some time connected
with the city press, leaves tonight for Mime
apolis.
Mrs. Will H. Hubbard and Mr.. John Kurtz
have returned from Bairsville Pa, where they
called by the illness of their father The
latter returned with them, conyalescent.
Miss H. Lee, of Indianapolis, played mazurka,
from GODDARD, at a recital given in West Newton,
Mass, June %, by Miss Anna Maynard Butler
and her pupils The Boston Transcript says:
Miss Anna Maynard Butler gave private con
cert Wednesday afternoon for her pupils Miss
Lee. one of the most advanced of Miss Buffers
pupils, acquitted herself with much credit"
H. B. Gilman, Miss Jennie Felton, Terre Haute;
Fred Sweet, Greencastle; j. A. Larnard, Ander-
son; j. M. Jones and wife, Richmond: r. T.
Hazelrigg, U. S. Martin Greensburg George
Deprez, Shelbyville; H. Fl. Glenn. Crawfords-
vile; M. r. Sibbett Greencastle; J. G. Stokes
and wife, Peru; T. J. Chatham, Nashville, and
j. j. Jones, New York, are at the Grand Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
The Wild Man of Burke.

Waynesboro Ca Citizen.
A friend of mine asked me yesterday if
wond like to the Burke county outIaw-the
Bill Redmond, of Burke. l, OF course, was very
anxious to see the man | had heard so much Of.
The man had been pictured the terror of Briar
creek, who is silent as a moving shadow and
as desperate as Frank James. | accepted the
invitation of my frirnd, and in an
hour Or two we were at the place known
as the old bluff-or the haunted hill of Briar
creek AS we walked through the dismal
swamp, we heard sound the dreary
chirp of the ''catydid," and and then the
boot of owl In moment we looked upon
the mad waters of the creek as they lay boiling
and surging beneath the su!try sun of a June
day. When, ali at once my friend SAID, Look
there" looked-aEd there, standing top of
the hill, about two hundred feet above u.s.
| saw a man about six feet tall.
dressed in coon skins from head to foot leaning
his chin upon long rifle as if contemplating
what to do with Thus appeared our hero
l wanted to go, but my friend said: "Ah, no! he
only hurts terrapins and catfish. Don't be dis
turbed; he won't trouble u.s." who is he!'
said |. ''Well.' said my friend, she is the young
man who was once Familiarity known as Major
but since he has been living here he has grown
wild, and insists upon being called the Outlaw
of the Haunted Hill"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1885.

authors name. When her representative came
in and saw the proof black mark was put
against the offensive line. and it was taken out
Nothing that savors of sensation is permitted"
lis IL true that costly copies are being pre-
pared for the exladies of the White Housed"
Eyes, copies similar to those which we pro.
pose to present to Miss Cleveland are being
made for them, and one copy will be forwarded
to Queen Victoria. Miss Cleveland has nothing
to do with this; it is our work. One copy will
also be sent to the President 1t is the first time
In the history of the country that the first lady
of the land has been an author, and we are no.
unmndful of the fact The women of the
country are too well pleased over the matter to
pass it by as unimportant"
Are the advanced sheets ready2"
Yes and they are to be furnished to the press
in day or two. We are working to secure the
utmost impartalty in the matter, and will try
to send out copies so that they will reach all at
the same time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
A MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
Coming Home After Twenty-Five Years Alb
sence to Find His Wife Wealthy Widow.

HUNTINGDON. Pa, July About twenty five
years ago Mr. E. NJ. Gilbert married Miss Eliza
beth Martin. an attractive young woman of
twenty, and settled in the village of Pine Grove,
Center county Their life together was not the
happiest, and in about year Gilbert abandoned
his wife without making any provision for her
maintenance and went West Soon afterward a
daughter was born to her. She never heard of
him afterward, and as years rolled by she began
TO believe him dead. She left Pine Grove, and,
coming to Huntingdon, creditably supported
aersef and daughter by serving in private
families. She soon gained high reputation as
a careful and thorough housekeeper Her
daugh. grew up and was comfortably married
to a c zen of this town.
Am ag the oldest and most respected resi-
dents here three years ago Bachelor
Christian Colestock. the last remaining stem
of q once large and influential family. He
lived in substantial dwelling at Fifth and
Washington streets, and possessed considerable
property AS the feebeness of age increased
upon him he came to feel the need of some one
to relieve him of the care of his household af-
fairs, and accordingly the deserving Widow
Gilbert was secured. Soon after this Mr.. Cole
stock, although then seventy six years of age,
made proposal of marriage to his faithful
housekeeper She hesitated at first fearing that
her husband might still be alive but finally
accepted. On Dec. 10, 1882, this somewhat in.
congruous couple were welded The gossps
wonderingly asked one another, What if Gilbert
should come backp But he did not come back,
although he was alive, and is said to have known
of his wife's second marriage
Old Mr. Colestock died on Dec "a, 1884, little
over two years after his marriage, aud thus the
obstacle in the way of Gilberts return was re-
moved. This week he made his appearance in
town, sought out his wife of long ago, and, after
bewaiiing his wild wanderings, renewed his
attachment to her. Mrs. Colestock is sole heir
TO the Colestock property In law she bears no
relation to Mr.. Gilbert, as the seven years linn
atation has long since expired. AS soon as her
estate is settled it is their intention link their
fortunes together again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
TIE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is paper of twelve pages, sold for five cents,
the same as the Saturday Journal. The SUN
DAY JOURNAL reaches every town and city
in Indiana and the surrounding ter
ritory. The circulation of the Sunday
edition is the largest and best of any
Sunday paper printed in Indiana, and it
has made itself the Peoples Paper. The
SUNDAY JOURNAL is without coynpet-
itor in the State in the character and variety
of matter it presents its readers. The best
writer's in the State and the country freely
contribute to its columns. In it's enlarged
and improved form it will be absolutely with
out rival or peer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL
(WEEKLY EDITION

kWbEhL4 EDl1lONI
Is the best secular paper published in the
State. 1t is complete compendium of the
news of the week, with special features of late
and trustworthy market reports and depart
ment of industrial and agricultural intelli-
gence carefully prepared by an editor of long
experience In these respects the WEEKLY
JOURNAL is superior to any mere agricalt-
ural paper for the field it covers is infinitely
more extensive than that which can be oocu-
pied by any special class publication.
SPECIAL TERMS
Are made to agents and canvassers, and for
clubbing with other papers. For all details
address the publishers,
JNO. G. NEW s. SON,
Corner Market and Pennsylvania Sts.,
indianapolis, Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06

Increasing Curiosity to Peruse It's Pages
Two Editions Exhausted.
New York Special.


New York Special.
1T will be relief to us ALL" said member of
the publishing firm which is bringing out Miss
Cievelands book, to-day ito have it on the
market" The number of letters sent us regard
ing it is astonishing, and the majority of them
are letters requiring the personal attention of
the firm. Many are letters from people rarely
given to seeking information about canvassers'
work, and not a few from ladies' who are more
enthusiastic for a great circulation for the book
than for the commission they can earn by selling
it."
The publisher went on to say that though Miss
Clevelands book was not subscription book
and had never been announced, canvassers
from all parts of the country had asked for il,
and were eager to sell it, despite the fact that it
was to be sold also by the trade
when will it be outl' was asked of him.
ION Tuesday morning next, and without fail
We have been delayed by the necessity of COPY
rightine the book in England before we put it
in the market here and. again. the demand was
SO great that the first edition was exhausted be-
fore it was completed; now the second one
is sold, and Monday, day before
a single copy is issued, the third edition
will go to press and the Indications are that it
will be gone in few days. Miss Cleveland has
insisted, and we have carefully observed her
wishes, that there should be no sensational ad
vertising done. Why we had window card
prepared which announced the book with the
line BY the lady of the White House below the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
ATTEMPTED Suicide.

Charles Coats thirty-fve years DID, married
man and the father of two children, attempted
suicide yesterday afternoon at his home No 81
English avenue, by taking morphine. He has
been employed at the Panhandle yards for some
time, but was recently discharged, and this act
is supposed to have been caused by the discour-
agement occasioned by the discharge. Last
night his life was despaired of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
A Lucky Find.

RACINE, O., July 5.-Whie Adney Larson. who
lives on farm seven miles back of here, was
planting piece of newly cleared ground, he
unearthed pile of old coins, mostly foreign
some dating back to the year 1900 Most are
five-franc pieces. with some Mexican pieces and
a few rare American coins. Larson has acknowl-
edged to finding $1,000. Traditions of money
having been buried in the vicinity have foated
around the neighborhood ever since its settle
ment but without defniteness. The farm was
In the line of Moreans retreat in 1863, when
treasure is said to have been buried by his men
in the neighborhood but that would hardly ac-
count for the peculiar kind of money found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
TIE CITY BRIEF.

Annie Wech. deaf mute an inmate of the
City Hospital, died suddenly Saturday night, and
Yesterday post-mortem examination of the
body made Death was found to have been
caused by paralysis Of the heart
The successor to breckenridge, driver of the
patrol wagon, will probably be appointed at the
meeting of the Police Commissioners to. day.
Sim Coy is pressing the claims of Goose" Eden
for the place and his appointment will be agree
able to that great man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
LEES SURRENDER.
General Grant Once More Describes in a Few
Words the Circumstances.


Denver (Col.) Tribune
Below Is printed a letter from Gen. u. S.
Grant. 1t was written in 1880 to John w Will
son, now of Denver, but then of Saginaw, Mich,
and settles the oft-recurring controversy as to
how General Lee surrendered to General Grant
at Appomattox When Mr. Wilson was living
in Saginaw he read the following statement of
an EYE witness" to the surrender:
SAGINAW CITY, Dec. ., 1880.
Mrs. Charles Doughty:
Madame-Please find inclosed a piece of the
celebrated Appomattox apple tree, under which
General Lee surrendered his sword to General
Grant, April 8, 1860. Madame | had the pleas
ure OF Witnessing the first meeting between the
two generals. | stood about twelve rods
from them. After they talked about fifteen
minutes General Lee drew his sword and handed
1t to General Grant The latter received it and
examined the blade. He then returned it to
General Lee with the remark General keep
your sword; 1t cannot be worn by n drawer man"
Many a time | have been offered money
Tor 1t, and l have been asked
several times to donate it to the State but
could not part with it. But in view of the noble
work you are engaged in. | have made up my
mind to donate it to the Home, all in his name,
and, like the widows mite, hope it will be of
some help III worthy object Yours, very re-
spectfully, GEORGE DOUGLASS,
Saginaw City.
Late OF Company A, Sixteenth Michigan Vet
eran Volunteer Infantry, Fifth Corps, Army
of the Potomac
Mr. Wilson cut this letter ont of the newspa-
per in which he read it, and, attaching it to the
upper margin of letter head, wrote the follow
ing letter to General Grant:
EAST SAGINAW Mich, Dec. 2, 1880
Gen. U. :. Grant New York tlty:
Dear Sir-Did General Lee surrender his
sword to you the inclosed indicates, and was
1t upder an apple tree, and were your remarks
to General Lee as claimedl Very truly
JOHN NJ. WILSON.
In due course of time answer was received
from General Grant in autograph letter, writ
ten at the foot OF the same letter head, as fol
lows:
The above is all romance / met General
Lee in house. | wrote out the terms of the
surrender. and they were accepted These
terms gave to the officers their side arms-
swords, etc. and private baggage and horses,
IT $ GRANT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
Louisville, 1S; Metropolitan, 8.

LOUISVILLE, July 5-Louisville defeated the
Metropolitans this afternoon in one of the
heaviest smuggling contests ever seen here. Five
clean home runs were made on the grounds
covered WITH thick turf. Of these, four fell to
the share of the home team aud one to the visit
ors. The fielding on both sides was very close.
The Metropoiitans were unable to bat Baker to
any extent. Orr's home.run hit being the only
earned run they made. Following is the score: