Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-29
HAS ADJOURNED.
CONFEpERATES VETERANS As.
SOCiATION CLOSED.
American Loan and Trust Company Bound
to Give the Short Lind n Chance-A Ne
gro Reaches FL Paso, the Only Survivor
Out of Forty Runaways.

Houston, Tex, May 24-The NTH an
nual convention of the United Confed-
crate Veterans association closed to-
day. General John B. Gordon of
Georgia, was reelected commander-in-
chief; Wade Hampton of South Car
LIMA. lieutenant general. department
of North Virginia; Stephen d. Lee OF
Mississippi, lieutenant general. depart
ment of Tennessee. and w. L. Cabell,
lieutenant general. Mississippi
department. The only one meeting op-
position was General Cabell, Texas be-
ing inclined TO favor General Waul. A
resolution was adopted taht the third
of June shall be set apart for the OBJ
servance of memorial services through
out the south in honor of the Confed-
crate dead
The committee on history was in
structed TO memorialize the several
legislatures of the southern states, the
boards of education and all public and
private teachers in the south as we'll
as parents of the rising generation TO
discard the partisan histories mention
ed in the committees report TO the con-
vention and to commend for general
and private use such histories as the
committee has recommended to the as
sociation-
SCHOFIELD TO GORDON.
General Gordon was read The letter
Wa written before General Schofield
left San Antonio. In concluding he
says: Il am sure express the senti-
ment of vast majority of the people
OF the north, not only of the old Union
soldiers, who have shown their con-
fdcnce and sympathy, but of the new
and rising generation in whose hands
the destinies of the country for the
future must be placed. / have long
known that that same sentiment per-
vaded the people of the south and I
have stopped in the south to asure
| them that their loyalty to the constitu-
| ton and to the laws of the nation is
| appreciated by the great mass of the
people of the north, who recognize to
the fullest extent the fidelity which the
southern soldiers have for so many
years displayed to the pledges they
| gave at and after the conclusion OF the
| great contest So that now and
| henceforth there can be no possible
reason why the people of the north and
| south, old soldiers and young soldiers
| shall not unite under the flag of the
| union to promote the best interests OF
! their country and defend her honor
| throughout the world"
The offer of Charles Broadway Rouss
| of New York to donate 100000 to
| fund for the establishment of a per-
| manent headquarters in which the
! historical archives of the confederacy
| shall be kept, was referred to special
| committee, which will report at the
next meeting at Richmond. Va, i'm
1886. The convention then stood ad-
! journed.
Miss Winnie Davis left for New York
! tonight.
Chicago, May 24.-There will he two
monuments dedicated on Memorial day
II was decided today by George II
Thomas post No. 5. G. A. r.. Depart
| ment of Illinois. to dedicate the monu-
ment in lot owned by their organiza-
| ton at Rose Hill cemetery. This is a
sort of offset to the confederate dedica-
| ton.
The monument is solid block of
| granite. feet square and twelve feet
| high, and represents. in fact. the hero
| after whom this post was named. the
Rock Of Chickamagua."