The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-03
come to avoid the rush on Monday. There

come to avoid the rush on Monday. There
were among the arrivals repre-
eentatives from posts in Iowa.
ONO. Illinois. Kansas, Nebraska.
Louisiana and California. who had come
ahead of the regular delegation In order TO
see concerning quarters. The delegations
are expected TO commence to arrive to-day,
and telegram was received by Wm. ID.
Hickman. officer of the day. that the four
q A. X. posts from Albany. N. Y, were on
the way with 800 veterans
q. K Washington. colored. commander
OF j. A. Logan Post. No. "a. at NatcheZ,
Miss, arrive d yesterday afternoon. and re-
ports that there will be twenty-five dele
gates here from Mississippi ana Louisiana.
The delegations from Etfingham and
other places In Illinois. along the Vandalia
to Terre Haute. will arrive In a special
train Monday afternoon.
MAJ. j. X. Hit. of Greensburg was at
the depot a large part of the afternoon
and he made the acquaintance of every
veteran that it was possible for him I'D
greet. Major HIT belongs TO Pap Thomas
Post, No. 5. and three hundred Of the mem-
bers will arrive on Tuesday morning
Albert Oliver. of Culbertson. Neb.. who
had Just entered the main waiting room of
tie depot from the train, had falling fir.
to which he is~subject. he was seen
TO suddenly throw up his. hands.
and before assistance cenld arrive
the floor. He sustained very hard fall.
and was unconscious for several minutes.
After he was placed in a chair stimulants
were given him. and In abont balf IN hour
he was able TO be taken TO the home of his
son-tn-law. Big Four conductor. whose
name could not be- ascertained.
Mrs Eleanor &. Ransom. who in Feb.
ruary, 1868, went from this city as an army
nurse. with twenty-three other ladies. ar
rived from Los Angeles. CAL. yesterday
afternoon. Her home vas at Moore's Hill.
this State. and the nurses were in charge
of Mr.. Merrill. The nurses went fret TO
Memphis. thence to New Orleans. and Mrs
Ransom was on board the ship America.
that sprung leak during voyage along
the Eastern coast and 19i persons were
drowned. She was rescued by small
bargue going from Cuba and commanded
by Thomas L. Libby. of Portland. Ore, ana
afterwards she was transferred to vessel
and an taken to New York. Mrs;
the close of the war and then sbe
T returned to her former home at Moore's
Hill. She afterwards went to Cincinnati
and In 1876 she removed TO California. She
belongs to stanton Corps. No. Is. and is a
past department. chaplain. Three weeks
HGO she stepped on banana peeling and
fell down, breaking her left wrist. but she
was determined TO come TO this encamp-
ment. in spite of her accident. She is over
eighty years of age.
There were large number of the veter-
ans who left the city yesterday afternoon
and evening to visit frlends ever Sunday
In towns in this State.
The spectacle fake man was again at the
Union Station yesterday evening. trying TO
sell the veterans speetacles having the ap-
pearance of being gold trimmed. The last
man known TO have been ap-
preached by this man heard his
story and then went for tho
police but the swindler bad disappeared
when the officer arrived. The man is de-
scribed as being dressed IN q gray snlt and
is of German descent. He is rather small
IN stature. with n smooth and large face.
When he approaches q man he asks IL he
is n Judge of spectacles. and at the same
time pulls pair from his pocket. which
he claims to have found. He tries TO con-
vince the man whom he Is attempting TO
fleece. that the rims are of gold. and hav-
ing found them, and not wearing glasses.
he asks very low sum for them. The
glasses prove 10 be of very poor quality,
and the rims never were washed In gold.