The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-05-02

numerically. He found some excuse sor
Mayor Strongs Street Cleaning Commits
sioner in the fact that President Cleveland
in his annual message In 1898 said: "Thou-
sands OF nsigborh0Ods have their WE'LL
known fraudulent pensioners" In closing he
said that for few days the Secretary Of War
had been looking mp the military history OF
Col. Waring. and could not discover that bs
had ever been under fire. or figured in any en-
gsgement whatever. The sharp denuneiatiou
Of Waring was received with applause.
During tho past Winter one OF the familiar
forms about West Point has been Col. T. C.
Upper. now retired. His father was in the
war of 1912. He is a grandson Of Samuel Tup-
per, militiaman at the age Of IS in the Ameri-
can Revolution; a descendant of Thomas Tup-
per, one OF the original proprietors of the town
OF Sandwich. Plymouth Colony. Col. Tuppe
entered the 9th o. s. Cav at the time Of il
formation, in 1861, with which regiment b
served over 30 years, participating in the en-
gagements OF his regiment during the civil
war. In the Shenandoah Valley he was fire.
quently verbally assigned to duties as Acting
Aid-de-Camp. He accompanied various CON-
mands under special instructions from Gen.
Sheridan, and carried the Generals dispatches
from the battlefield of Cedar Creek during the
night after the close Of the battle, and delivered
them at Martinsburg at sunrise next morning.
After the war he was brevetted First Lieuten-
ant. Captain, and Major He received the bro
vet Of Lieutenant-Colon for leading cavalry
charge against hostile Indians at Red River,
Tex, over 20 years ago. In 1891 he rescued
troop which was corraled by Sioux. Soon sfte-
the termination Of the campaign the members
OF the rescued troop presented him with beau
tiful service saber, inscribed, Presented to
Major Tullius c. Topper Sixth United States
Cavalry, by the members of Troop K, Sixth
United States Cavalry, as a testimonial Of their
appreciation of his gallant action in engage
ment with Sioux Indians, White $.-A<S South
Dakota, January LIST, 1891"
A comrade in Arkansas sends Us the follow
ing: Seeing in the last issue of The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE an article in regard to the longevity of
Senator John NJ. Palmer's family and that you
thought 1t would beat any other Revolutionary
record, what do you think of this3 My father,
Wells Clark, was born January, 1881: enlisted
in the Revolutionary army at the age Of Is;
was one Of the captors of Gen. Prescott; was
one OF the few that escaped from the massacre
at Stony Arabia near old Fort Stanvix sm
his youngest son; born in 1921 enlisted in the
Union army right after the battle Of Bull Run.
Our two lives up to date, 134 yearo How Is
this?"
Comrads John r. Beebe, formerly of the 4th
Mich. Cav, wears pair of heavy gold-rimmed
spectacles which belonged to JEFF Davis at the
tine of his capture. He bought them for 81
from = comrade who picked them up. Comrade
Beebe owns fine fruit farm near Kellogg,
Allegan County. Mich, and is now in his T7sh
year, but vigorous enough TO make it very
dusty for any of the youngsters who attempt
to do days work alongside of him.
A Free Methodist preacher named Thomas
Parker, who, it is claimed, deserted from the
Army, and who lives near Sand Lake, Mich,
has been making himself unpleasantly active
by sneaking reports against the pensioners in
his neighborhood. He was discovered by
letter from him to the Pension Bureau, in
which he gloated over his success in having
pensioners dropped, getting into the mail Of
another man.
The following is from the vevay Qnd.) Re-
reille, April II, 1895: capt r. E. Hall. of Gen.
ter Square, called yesterday, and through rs
renewed his subscription for The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE Washington, the soldiers greatest
paper, which he has taken from the time is
was started.
Gen. Horace Porter delivered an eloquen'
and touching enlogy on Gen. Grant, at the
Middlesex Club, Boston, when it celebrated
the latter's birthday, April 81. Gen. Porter
reviewed his career from the Galena cabin
through the stormy period of the rebellion,
eight years in the White Honse, the trip
around the world, to the death at Mount
McGregor, frequently moving his veteran
by Senator Pritchard, from North Carolina, who
was received with cheers. Congressman Tay-
lor and Smith also spoke.
D. c. Kendig of Strong Vincent Post. 81
Erie, Pa writes that his Post will have in liza
representation at the next Encsmpmsnt the
man who sent the first shot from Fort sum-
ter that trained on Cummings Point battery.
The oldest captured horse will also be brought
along
The new Republican Mayor Of Chicago, Mr.
Swift, is Scotchman. He was put in nomina
ton by n Scotchman, and he has selected
Scotchmen for his first three appointments.
There are $500 Scotch voters in Chicago, ex-
elusive of the Canadians of Scotch descent and
the north of Ireland men, who vote usually in
American politics with the Scotch.
George w. Bostwick, who died last week at
his home in Brooklyn, was National Secre-
tary of the Naval Veterans of the United
States. He was born at New Haven. Conn, in
1916. where he resided until 1861, when he
enlisted in the Navy. serving in the United
States frigates Sabine. Niagara and Savannah
until the close of the war; when he was honor.
ably discharged.