The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-04-09
PERSON AL.

Maj. Eric Bergland. of the Engineer Corps,
has been placed on the Retired List, at his own
request, under the 30-years law. He is na-
tive of Sweden, and served through the war
as Lieutenant in the 57th Ill. He then en-
tered West Point, and graduated from there in
1869. He has been in charge of the Fifth and
Sixth Lighthouse Districts.
There is an improbable story that Gen. Har-
rison is about to become an Episcopalian.
A little while ago we mentioned that the
people of Lebanon, Pa, believed that one of
the Uitlander prisoners in the hands of the
Beers was Maj. B. Frank Hean, formerly
Parliamentary of their County, and who disap-
peared last October, after a shortage of $500
had been found i'm his accounts. Since then a
letter has been received from the Coroner of
Osborne, Australia. stating that man name
Frank IIean, 81 years old, hEi been found
dead in suburb of the city, having committed
suicide with a revolver. He had b. +. II"
aud an American flag tatooed upon bis left
arm. Comrade franklin T. Miller. of Lebanon,
who was q member of Hean's company Of the
93d Pa. says while the latter was Sergeant
he (Miller) tattooed the initials and flag upon
iio lt4ucstt Iu uEtcE tO ptoVtuo
means of Identification in case of being killed
or wounded.
Senator John M. Tburston had q most en-
thusiastic reception by the American Repaid
lican College League at Chicago, April ).
A handsome monument will soon be erected
TO Gen., w. 4. Sherman at Mansfield, o. his
birthplace .,
Gen. Hugh Cameron, who has recently come
again into public notice on account of Senator
PETERS presentation of his petition to make
Easter q National holiday, is one of the most
striking and eccentric characters in that hot
bed of eceeatricity, Kansas. When he went to
Kansas no enc exactly knows. The Army Reg
lister gives his birthplace as New York, but
when the first settlers went to Kansas they
found him there. and accepted him as as much
of Kansas product as the prairies aud the san.
flowers. He was Free State man, aud when
the war broke out enlisted in the Cd Kans. Cav,
in which he soon became Sergeant, and a Lieu
tenant and Captain before the endsof 1861. lie
continued with his regiment until the begin
Hingaof 1864, when. having 'helped raise the2
Ark. Cav, he became its Lieutenant 1t Colonel
and at the conclusion of the war was, breyetted
service When the war over he retired to
his farm at Cameron Buff, near Lawrence, and
resumed his former habits of hard work during
the day and study and writing at night. In
1870 he emerged to public view as one of the
participants in a Labor Union Convention. In
1894 he announced himself as a candidate for
Congress, and rode nearly all ever the Second
DISTINCTION his faithful old mule, appealing 10
the people to break the chains OF slavery to the
old parties and vote for their best interests.
He failed to legally register his nomination
papers, and got but few votes He is strict
vegetarian goes barefoot until the cold compels
him to put OH shoes, aud never cuts his hair or
whiskers. Both hair and whiskers nearly reach
the ground when they are loosened, and are
J nearly white. He has never married.
The Department of Georgia has unanimously
Endorsed Comrade A. E. Sholes for Junior Vice
COMMANDMENTS Chief. He has well earned this |
testimonial from his comrades. He served |
with credit in the 4th r. /. till the end of the |
war, and for the last 10 years has been,a rest |
dent of Georgia. and all the time been an en-
thusiastic worker for the GAR No man in |
the South has done more than he to keep the
Camp6res of Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty |
brightly burning in Dixie
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's younger sister was /
married to brilliant but rather erratic Ken,
lucky lawyer named Ben. Hardin Helm. When |
the war broke out he, without much reason,
decided to go with the rebels. He was from |
Union portion of the State and had never been |
a Democrat, even, and Lincoln tried hard to 4
keep him loyal. But he raised regiment and /
Joined the rebels. He rose to the command 4
of brigade, and was killed at Chickamauga |
Some years after the war his widow was ap- |
pointed Postmaster at Elizabethtown, Ky, and |
retained the Office through all the Administra-i
tions until 1884, when President Cleveland
appointed man named Joplin her successor.
Confederates generally in Kentucky, were
angry at this, and Senator Blackburn sue
ceeded in defeating Joplin's confirmation. At /
the conclusion of the session President Cleve-
land promptly reappointed him. So far the
Senate has taken no action on the appoint
mont, and it is probable that it will again fail,
and Mr. Cleveland will be under the necessity
of again reappointing him.
The Republicans of the Eleventh Congress
sional District of Massachusetts are unanimous
In their desire for Gen. w. T. Draper to accept
denomination, but he finds that Justice to
his business associates must compel him to de-
cline.