Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-14

Active Career.
KANSAS CITY, No, February 1S.-Gen.
| J. O. Shelby died at his country home,
| eight miles from Adrian, Mo-, at four
o'clock this morning. The end came
peacefully. The patient had been uncon-
scious since early Monday morning, and
/ had been slowly dying since that time.
! Alta consultation of physicians last night
! il was given out that death must come
before morning. and the family had been
/ constant watchers at the bedside OF the
dying general Gen. Shelby was taken i'll
/ ten days ago with pneumonia, and grad
ually grew worse.
Gen Joseph Orville Shelby was born in
/ Lexington, Ky, 1891. At 10 years of age
he went with his parents 10 Missouri.
I Hemp was the great Missouri staple in
/ those DAYS. and when his parents settled
! on a. farm young Joe" secured employ
ment on q rope walk at Naverly. He
became owner of the works and Of big
plantation in Lafayette county, and as
| q consequence he became slave owner.
| When the Kansas dispute came on Mr..
/ Shelby sympathized with the pro-slavery
| element and in the border troubles
which followed, Shelby was leader in
| several of the raids in Kansas. When
actual hostiHues began he was known
among his neighbors as Capt. Shelby.
/ He raised a company Of Confederate cav
/ airy and entered the field. starting South
| to ioin Gen. Price. A few weeks later
/ CAPT. Shelby was commissioned as col
/ onel and ordered back to Missouri TO re-
/ inc wifi his
/ band of 100 men. who had numerous Skin
mishes with Federal bands, Col. Shelby
| quickly organized n regiment, to which
were Joined the three Missouri regiments
/ I'm a cavalry organization known as
| "Shelhv's Brigade" This brigade, under
! Gen. shelby. saw much hard service in
/ Missouri. Louisiana and Texas
/ When the news of Lees surrender came
[ to the Confederate army in the West.
| Gen. shelby found himself at the head of
/ q we'll equipped and disciplined body OF
/ mon. a great many of whom would not
admit that their cause had been lost.
/ shelby. however. succeeded in cOnvinc-
/ ing his followers that further fighting
AGAINST the government would be useless
and when. as an alternative, he proposed
/ TO march to Mexico. there TO espouse the
cause of Macmillan. 1000 men of his fol-
| lowers readily joined him. At Corsicana
/ an election was held and Shelby was elect
| ed commander. receiving every vote. The
! column then moved on to Houston, and
/ then on 20 Austin. the capital Of Texas.
where the Confederate government had
| q sub-troasury. I'm which was stored $780,
| 600 I'm gold and silver Shelbys regiment
] 1, IN, time fN
I this treasury from n marauding band of
/ guerilas under Capt. Rabb, who cap
! tured the treasury building and started TO
/ loot IT, Shelbys men surrounded the place
and after shooting down a number Of the
I marauders. drove them off. Gen. Shelbys
men guarded the treasury until the fol-
/ lowing day.
! From Austin. Shelbys men marched to
/ San Antonio and to Eagle Pass, where
/ they crossed INFO Mexico and resumed
/ their march When they reached the City
/ of Mexico Macmillan had been reigninS
/ for n year Shelby offered TO take inn
mediate service with his band and to re-
crlit an army of 10000 Americans to SUI
/ pcrsede the native troops. but Macmillan
/ was suspicious and his company was
forced to disband. Many Of them settled
/ I'm Mexico. others went TO the Pacific
/ coast and shipped for California, while
| some returned 20 their former homes.
! Cen. Shelby became a freight contrac-
tor I'm Mexico. but in 1861 he returned to
/ his farm i'm Missouri. where he lived re-
tired fife until 1893. when President Cleve-
/ land appointed him United States marshal
for the Western district of Missouri. Dur
/ ing the great strike in 1898, when Marshal
/ shelby was active in suppressing the
/ strikers. ne became involved in n contro-
| versv with Governor Stone. who con-
| tended that United States officers and
| troops were being used I'M violation Of the
/ doctrine Of state rights, the very doctrine
which Shelby had fought so bitterly for
| during the civil war. To Governor Stone,
/ Shelby replied: "The question of States
right was decided by that war and settled
for an time when Lee surrendered at APP
/ pomattoX."