Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-20

10 the reception room upstairs. lie
quickly disappeared ~ the. velvety
stairway. and we resumed our con-
versatiou. Pretty soon there was a
commotiOn at the head Of the stairs,
aud &c usher up there sang out;"Come
up here, Kolb. quick" | bounded up
stairs and into General Grants fice,
and there was the Congressman ges.
ticUlating wildly, talking loudly, and
following the President about the
apartment in very excited manner.
The President was as col as
DoEther, but there was an angry
CLEAN cut OF his eyes. Pat this fell
low outn be commanded. imperative.
ly, and as | seized Mr.. Congressman
he quietly resumed his seat and con-
ti0urd his work a though nothing
hsd happened. After brief strug-
gle got the fellow TO the head Of the
stairs and told him | would throw
dowa if be did not go peacefully. He
went 1t was several days before |
learned the true cause Gf the disturb.
ance. la the meantime the President
rebuked me for not being more care
tul who admitted into the building.
i am not afraid of such fellows,' he
said, 'but they annoy me and occupy
valuable time, all of which you could
avoid by not admitting Them Had
l known at the time wdat The fellow
did | would have banded him over 10
the police | learned the particulars
from one of the children. He came
in and claimed that he bad been elect
ed to Congress from the Baltimo ore
district by l,000, 900 Republican maj
ority, and Notwithstanding that fact
his seat in the House was occupied
by a Democrat. He wanted the
President 10 go to the capitol with him
at once aud demand that the Demo
crat be ousted forthwith The Gen.
eral not only refused to do this, but
be touched the button and summoned
the door keeper La the meantime,
before my arrival ON the see ne, the
crank followed the President about
threatening the most dire vengeance
unless be went to the capitol with
him at once. have always believed
that General Grant narrowly missed
being assaulted or perhaps assassina-
ted on that day, as the crank was in
a white heat rage when l fred him
out of the White House"
The detective also described how
the late Secretary OF State Freliog-
huysen was grappled by a cranky
German, who wanted to be made
special envoy to England and Canada,
for the purpose of working q secret
scheme to overthrow the English
Government. raise the stars and
stripes oyer st. James Castle, aud
declare England, Ireland, Scotland,
Canada and other provinces to be ad-
dilions to the Republic of the Uni
ted States. When Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen ordered this fiery and extremely
cranky diplomatic from his Office the
latter seized him by the lapel of the
coat, and would haye assaulted him
but for the presence of door keeper
and messenger, who hustled the fell
low out.
Kolb said o crank called on Secre.
tary Lamar and wanted 100000
acres of land in the West to establish
a new "Land of Canaan" where the
followers Of the "unborn lamb" could
worship in peace, away from the vice
of civilization. He termed himself
the High Priest of the new order.
Secretary Lamar jokingly informed
him that the festive red man was still
a predominating feature in the wild
West, and that the followers of the
unborn lamb might find the scalping
knife slightly more unpleasant than
the vices Of civiiz alton