St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-14
WRECKS HIS LIFE.
COL. j. p. SANFORD THE VICTIM
OF A STRANGE OCCUR
RENEE.
He MEETS HIS GRANDcHlLD.
DESCENDANT OF, A WIFE WHO
HE THOUGHT DIED A
BRIDE.
SHOCK MAY PROVE SERIOUS,
Completely Unncryed. 1T T,
Feared He Has Lost His
Mind.

Mind.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Col. James
Pomeroy Sanford, traveller, orator,
writer and humoriSt, is expected to
return to his home at Wheaton to-
day broken in health and mind. He
was stricken with a malady having
the symptoms of poisoning in Col
orado last week and the attack was
followed by a sudden lapse of intel
lectual power.
Col. SanfordS breakdown is traced
by some of his more intimate friends
to strange meeting which occurred
Nov. H.
He was attending a reception given
him at MorristoWn, Pa. The guests
begged the noted entertainer to re-
count some of his personal reminis-
censes. He was asked how he came
to be such a worldwide rover. He
told them he had been married three
times and had been every place on
earth at least three times" and was
then preparing to cross the ocean
for at least the twentieth time.
There was young woman present,
Miss Anna Sanderson, visitor from
T1oga Center, N. Y, whose face
seemed to attract the speaker. and
Who was APPARENTLY drawn to him.
She listened attentively to his story
OF marrying when a mere boy and
going to South America on a tour
and learning while there that his
young wife had died. The trav-
eler said his letters to the family
were never answered, and he had
never gone back.
My mother was born in Steuben
county, New York; spoke up Miss
Sanderson, ''and her father bore exact
ly the same name as yourself
MEETS HIS GRANDCHILD.
Indeed exclaimed
the traveller, with a start.
But mother never saw him-grand-
pa was killed, they said, in South
America before she was born''
The man of the world led attention
TO another topic, then said he was not
feeling well, and, a few minutes later
excusing himself, went to his room.
There was a knock ait his door, and
tine stupefied man opened it, admitting
Miss Sanderson-flushed, short of
breath, and unattended.
nave been thinking it over" the
girl said in voice that bespoke her
agitation, ''and I have come to tell
you that I think you are my grand
father
And 1 have thought, my child. for
ten minutes that you are my grand
daughterr'
Col. Sanford took the woman in his
arms and wept. In a chance sentence
ne learned that his first wife was now
dead. He did not ask how long.
by appointment Col. Sanford met
his granddaughter at Ontario Center
N Y, Aug. q. He was then formally
introduced to- his daughter, Mrs. Wash
lngton Sanderson, a handsome matron
or forty-four years, whom he had not
only never seen, but through the first
1orty-three years of her life had never
suspected such a person born.
line meeting agitated him deepIv
Inc dread was so intolerable that he
dld not learn the exact truth as to his
frst Wife's death. He knew onlv tNhat
she had lived years after he Thought
her dead-that he had never moved to
reclaim her-that he had remarked
BREAK HIM DOWN.
These reflections, Col. Sanfor5,s
friends say, are responsible for bis
waning intellectual power
Col. Sanford's Western enpa penoe en+s
nave been Cancelled, and it is said his
Wi f1oo
bureau of New York, which did not
open till Sept. q, may also he can
| ce1ed. Information as to- the era vit1,
VI ms case or hope of recovery has
| not been given the wife. who awaits
his return with fearful anxiety
Mrs. Sanford's suspicious were fret
aroused by her husbands 1e+tars
Twelve days ago the lecturer wrote
MS wife from Colorado Springs that ho
thought he had been poisoned eatine
! sard1nes. Two days later he wrote he
nao oeen Ill but danger was then over.
Inc Wlfe wrote and telegraphed him to
come home if still ailing. She also
wrote FOR information to John M
Dlckey, of Colorado Springs, under
| whose engagement Col Sanford was
then in the West. Up to last night no
response had been received
In. Col Sanford's succeeding letters
he wrote he did not know what sneI,
had seized him for he could remembnr
no name but hers. The next letter wa
incoherent. Another followed in great
er Jumble, and Friday night a telegra M
announced Col. Sanford's collapse and
said he had started home.
George Sanford, his son, is in the Chi
cago office of the general freight au-
dltor of the Northwestern railroad.
is A GLOBE-TROTTER.
Col. Sanford is known as America g
! greatest traveller. In his wandering
he has been in every country of the
world, and has met an incredible num-
Der of the earth's prominent person
ages. He was described in a London
journal as "the restless American who
looked forward with dismay to the day
when there would be no country left for
him to explore
His knowledge of Russia, Siberia and
| Northern China has been vast, and
upon the Mediterranean countries he
was called an authority. His lectures
| dwelt upon the places and people he has
learned to know by contact, and are
replete with graphic story telling. with
irresistible humor, and when dealing
with the VanitieS of people he deyel-
oped vein of mild and winning sar-
casm.
Col. Sanford is of commanding pres
ence, of heroic stature, with a massive
head and abundant auburn hair, whict,
give him leonine appearance, though
he has an intelligent and kindly face,
He is one. of the most engaging and
magnetic platform humorists
t. I1l IL, i II II
during most of his life, and in 1881
moved to Wheaton. For sixteen years
he was with the Slayton Lyceunn Bu-
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