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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-13
THE A. 0. U. w.
rem Lodge Convention VIII BE-
gin To-day.

TIL Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order
of United workmen will open is annual con-
vention this morning at 9 o'clock in the nan
of the House of Representatives at the
Statehouse. and will be in session until the
first part of next week. There will be about
two hundred and fifty delegates present.
A great deal of legislation Is to be done.
A reception will be held tonight. The Work
men will gather at the Grand Hotel and
escort their officials TO the Statehouse. May
or Taggart will welcome them on behalf OF
the city, and w. T. y. Neal will respond
for the Grand Lodge of Indiana Mrs. Kate
Blewett and Mrs. Emma Curtner will speak
for the women's branch of the order. DR..
Houser. OF this city. and w. 8. Robson. OF
LAGRANGE. Tex. will also deliver addresses.
Besides the business to be done during the
convention a number of social functions are
to be given for the delegates.
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OSTEOPATHY

W.. r. GEORGE. ~. D., d. o.
Sixth Floor, Stevenson Building.
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Tn case against Henry ID. Pierce for vio-
lation OF the revenue law in his refusal TO
afix a stamp TO a deed rests with the United
States district attorney and that Official is
20 say whether or rot the government will
demand trial When a warrant is issued
Dy the United states commissioner. IL goes
20 the district attorney and Is only served
after that official has Endorsed Ii. IL Is
OPTIONAL with the district attorney as TO
whether a warrant shall be served and the
offender taken before the commissioner or
whether the warrant shall be held and the
case presented directly 10 the grand fury.
District Attorney Wishard has the warrant
IN his possession and as he il out OF the city
AZ IS not known which course ne will adopf.
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Baaehau Notes.

To-day's game will be called at 1892. 10
give the teams time to catch their trahs'
The wise men have picked Boston as ne
pennant winners this year. ST. Louis Is
placed second.
The Pittsburgs lead the National League
in long hitting. but the Brooklyns nave the
more home runs.
Linton defeated Sullivan Sunday for the
third time by a score of 8 to 2 Bat,erfes :
Lewis and Robertson; Mason and keiiums.
The team has lost four games and won six
in the series which will end this afternoon
and has climbed from sixth place to second
in the meanwhile.
The putting out of Isbeli at second in the
second inning was a good object lesson on
the utility Of an experienced man In the
catcher's position
President Brush, of the Cincinnati club.
said there was not even a rumor back OF the
story printed in an afternoon paper yester-
day that Watkins was to manage the Gin
cinrsatt team. The idea had not even oc-
CURED to him.
President Dreyfuss. of the Louisville club,
ar that he has released First Base
nan George Decker and farmed out Croft
TO Syracuse and Leach TO Worcester. Mass.
Ii is also announced that one of Louisville's
star catchers will be released this week.
Whether II will be kittridge or Powers il
is not yet known.
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Claimed the stock wor,b,c..

Joseph Hamilton is suing Walter j. Hub
bard for 500 damages. the action growing
out OF a trade the plaintiff made with Hub
bard in February last. The plaintiff owned
a farm OF seventy-four acres in Morgan
county and traded IL to Hubbard for a farm
Of forty acres In Monroe county. He also
received 500 In cash. a lot I'm Brightwood
Wall-plaster Company. Of this city. He
says that after the trade was made Hub
bard offered him stock In the Indiana WALL
plaster Company, instead Of the Diamond
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A Little Depo,v Acciae,,

Elizabeth William began an action In the
Superior Court yesterday against the Chi
cago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway
Company. the Citizens Street-railway Com
pany n the indianapolis Street-railway
Company. The plaintiff brings suit for SIS
coo damages on account of personal injuries.
"A Tenth-Street car, on which she was a
passenger, was struck by a train at the
crossing near the Observation-Disclosures
depot. The plaintiff says she was thrown
with great violence against the side of the
car. She says she was permanently injured
and suffered from nervous prostration as a
result of the accident. She is a widow. she
says. with two children dependent on her
for SUPPORT.
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New IL. League Schedule.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, jun 12-Manager Poor.
Of the Wabash IL. League team. went to
Anderson to-day and will attend the man.
ayers meeting tomorrow to readjust the
game schedule. Nation having been ad-
mitted. it is the purpose now to hav the
eastern Indiana teams play all three of the
western cities-Terre Haute, Danville and
Mattoon-on each trip west, thus e~ffectins
a saving in railway fare. The Illinois clubs
and Terre Haute will then on their eastern
journey play Anderson, Muncie and Wa
bash. 1t is not probable that Bloomington
and Springfield, Ill, will be admitted to the
late of the Fort Wayne Interstate League
team, signed by Wabash two weeks ago.
have been notified by Manager Poor that
unless they play better ball they will be re-
cidedly unsatisfactory to the public, which
is literally patronizing the game here.
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building

Charles NJ. Ryder. frame cottage. South Merid-
ian street. near Raymond street, $500.
Louis III. Levey, brick business house. Maryland
street. between Illinois and Meridian street.
$1,000.
8. NJ. Porter. veranda. 72s North California
street. sl5.
NJ. p, Rafet. addition. ga West Michigan
street. $50.
Mary NJ. Conner. addition. zoos UdeIl street.
500.
Emily Coppay. frame dwelling. corner Twenty
second and Alabama streets. $500.
Mary f.. Lynn. frame house. corner Park ave
nue. and Twenty-thIrd street. $1,000
George w. Lntz, frame house. Us North Ala
bama street, tLao.
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VITAL STATISTICS-JUNE IL.
Deaths.

Anna Marie Prahm. sixty-four years. az North
Noble street, uraemia.
Minerva smith. sixty-fve years. COS Bright
street. tuberculosis.
Agnes Tomlinson. twenty-five years, 22 Detroit
avenue. broncho-p
Elijah Horton. ~sixty-six years. 1895 Bloyd ave-
nue.. valvular insufficiency.
Margaret r. Hadley. twenty-four years, 2519
North New Jersey street. phthisis.
Katherine Ensey. sixty years. 94 East ST. Clair
street, cerebral hemorrhage.
Frank NJ. Reid. thirty zone years. AL Virginia
avenue, tuberculosis.
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Louise Vessel, Of Chicago, who is the In
ventor OF a grass curling and baling ma
chine, yesterday brought suit in United
States Court against Bert Lightcap. OF
North Judson, and Harry L~ightcap,- OF
Michigan City. She says she granted 10
Harry Lightcap the right TO operate the
machine in this State and that he assumed
TO sell or transfer the right TO Bert Light
cap and she wants an accounting.
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Arrangements have been made for running
q special train 10 Columbus to-day on ac-
count OF the state Sunday-school convention.
II will leave the Union Station at 1880 d.
m. will stop at all stations and arrive al
Columbus at 1:45 p. m. in time for the
opening session OF the convention. Tickets
one fare for the round trip will be on sale
at all stations. good returning until June Is.
fare from indianapolis and return Is
&-3- All persons going TO the convention
Via or from indianapolis are urged 70 take
this train. as one hundred passengers had TO
be guaranteed
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strong. and are in a position to lessen the
attendance at the games to a considerable
extent.
The condition of the cigar makers union
was next taken up. and was reported by
Delegate German as being anything but
f1ourishing. He said that 1t was almost i'm
possible to get the local tobacco dealers TO
take any interest in union-made goods. and
that. unless the other labor organizations
gave their assistance TO the fight against
the nonunion cigars. the local union would
go to pieces. The following new delegates
John f. White. f. p. Barry, John Kerr.
Harry Slough. B. F. Chittick. L p. McCor-
mack, Rudolph Henning and Frank Mona
mara. Carpenters Union. No. 6EE. Schu-
Ter, Charles Newman and Thomas
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company. He at first declined to receive
the stock, but was assured by Hubbard
that the shares in one company were as
good as those in. the other concern. and that
the same men controlled both companies.
On this representation. the plaintiff says.
he took ten shares. but afterward found
that they were worthless He learned, he
says. that the Indiana Wall-plaster Com
pany had no assets and had transacted no
business for years.
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M,ucr. nurchea Tbe,r u,,..

DETROIT. June 12-The Millers punched
their hits and won out in a very interest
ing game. In only one inning, the fourth,
was Parker hit hard. when six singles
netted five runs. Score:
r. II +
Detroit 4. ......0 o 05 l o o 0 O-6 10
Minneapolis - o 0 1 o 0 4 o o. 9 2
Batteries-Cronin, Frisk and Buelow:
Parker and Fisher
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BicycIist Sues a Driver.

In the Superior Court. August Walker Is
suing William w. Hall for damages. The
plaintiff says he was riding a bicycle on
North East street and that Hall. who was
driving, ran into him. He charges that
Hall was driving at an unlawful rate OF
sUeed. and was to blame for the accident.
Tie plaintiff was injured and emand dam
ages in the sum of 5000.
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en-, 3.
Struck out-By Foreman. Burke. Shugart,
Glenalvin; by Fricken, Mcfarland.
Wild p~itch-Fricken.
Two-base ~hits-Foreman, Geier.
Three-base hits-McFarland, Allen, Hog
riever.
Sacrifice hit-Kahoe.
Double ~play-Shugart and Isbell.
Left On bases-Indianapolis, 6; ST. Paul. IL.
Umpire-Mannassau.
Time-1:50.
Attendance-1,2 200.
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Robert Furna.,s VIII.

The will of Robert Furnas was probated
Yesterday. He left one hundred and twelve
acres each 10 three Of his children. John. w.
and Charles Furnas and Addie F. JessuD:
To his son Wilson Furnas he bequeathed
about eighty acres and $1,000 in scash.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-13

Sarah Lesley, as Administrative OF the es-
tate of Clarence Lesley, brought suit in
the Superior Court yesterday against ]. c.
Veney. ID. r. Marshall and j. d. Hoss,
sewer contractors, and the City of Indian
apolis for 1900. Clarence Lesley was the
while at work in a sewer on March 3. last.
Veney, Marshall and Hoss were the con-
tractors and the sewer was being built Tor
the city.
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Brewer. Barely Escape n shut-out.

COLUMBUS, o., june 1.-THE Brewers
had a very narrow escape from being shut
out to-day by Briggs, whom they slaught-
cred most numerically In the few innings
he pitched yesterday. After the first inning.
when they made their only run, not a man
reached third base. Score:
r II E
Columbus :. 80 o 0 o o / ] o "a 10
Milwaukee =. III o 0 o o 0 o o OIL 4 .
Bstteries-Briggs and Sullivan; Rettger
and Speer.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind. June 12.-The Kokomo
ball club was arrested this evening for the
Sunday game here. The grand jury met to-
day, and to prevent trouble the players
pleaded guilty before Mayor Armstrong,
who assessed a fine of 1 cent each and costs.
The small costs were paid by ManagerLaw-
son. The visiting club was not molested.
The visitors wore Wabash College Y. NJ. c.
A. uniforms.
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Danville Team Now Over a
Points I'm the Lead.
Muncie Get. One at Anderson.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON. Ind. June 12.-Muncie had
revenge at the ball park to-day. Bruner.
recently released by Anderson. was in the
box. and, after the second inning. shut out
the locals without another hit. In the Sec
ond he was touched for three. resulting in
two scores. Coons. for Anderson, was hit
at will and retired in the seventh. Muncie
goes to Wabash. and proposes to wipe out
the sting Of three straight losses If posi-
BILE. The score:
r II z
Anderson 40 o 0 0 0 0 % 5 2
Muncie ..........0 2 3 0 2 0 0 o - II I
Batteries-Coons, Hibrand and Ryan;
Bruner and Kellner. Attendance-2M. Um-
pire-Daily.
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Coodin Case IN August.

Prosecuting Attorney Pugh says he has de-
cided to bring the case against Mrs. Maud
Goodin TO trial again this summer and. ex-
August.
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CoMIsKEY's TRIBE ADDED TO THE
LIST OF UNHAPPY VICTIMS.
Fourteen Base Hits by st. Paul Scrap
pers Bring In Only Three
Small Runs.


Western League
st. Paul at Indianapolis.
Milwaukee at Columbus.
Minneapolis at Detroit.
Kansas City at Buffalo.
National League
Louisville at Cincinnati.
Boston at New York.
Brooklyn at Baltimore.
Pittsburg at Cleveland
Philadelphia at Washington.
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CHICAGO, June Ex-senator w. B. ALL
son. of Iowa, is in Chicago. He says the
Republican leaders of the West are becom-
ing satisfied the presidential nomination will
come west next time and that Henderson
has won the speakership fight in a walk.
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DETROIT. June 12--Sherif Stewart has
procured warrants for the arrest of the
Detroit and Minneapolis ball players en-
gagged in yesterdays game. One of the de-
PENDANTS Will be tried as a test case.
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Blues Batted GRAY Hard.

BUFFALO, n. Y, June 12-The tail-end-
ers landed on Gray hard enough in the first
and second innings TO win to-day's game.
Gear pitched good ball, but his support was
poor. Score:
r III +
Karsas City....4 I 0 o 0 I o 0 % Il 4
Buffalo ....-.....1 o 0 o o 1 0 "a s !
Batteries-Gear and Boyle; Gray and Nc
Auley.
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Marriage Licenses.

Thomas Smock and Mary Kuechler.
Elmer 8. CIeary and Cora A. Kohnle.
John s. Jett and Kate Walker.
Otto Dumnnd and Ella Hogan.
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Interstate League.

AT Fort Wayne, Ind r
Fort Wayne IL I Q ! o Q ! IA 5 5
Mansfield 800 2 O O 0 2 O 2 SO 10 5
Batteries-Foreman and Bergen; Smith
and Miller and Belt.
AT Wheeling, w. Va r E
Wheeling 40 l 2 0 4 0 0 I 0IS II l
Grand Rapids...1 0 5 0 0 0 o o 06 IL 5
Batteries-Parvin, Parrott. Wells and
Twineham: Altrock and Cote.
At Toledo, o. r z
Toledo ..........0 o 0 o 8 40 20
Youngstown 80 o 0 D o 0 0 o. 5
Acknowledgment and Arthur: McFar-
land and Lattimer.
AT Dayton, o. RI
DAYTON .........1 0 l o O / Oil 2
New Castle. 81 / 2 O o 40 10 IA Q
Batteries-Carter and Donahue; Figge-
mier and Graffus.
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NATIONAL
Boston Scored Eleven Runs I'm Three
First Innings or Cnrrick.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE New Yorks
were easily downed by the Bostons to-day.
The champions scored eleven runs in three
innings. mainly through Carrick's ineffec-
tive pitching. Coakley relieved Carrick aft
er the eight runs were scored in the third
inning and from then On not another Boston
player connected with the plate. He only
allowed three hits. Nichols was hit hard,
but when hits meant runs he was very
steady. He was also ably supported. An
error by Long was responsible for the New
York's brace of runs in the seventh. Score:
III
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Sheriff IHeberge-. OF Terre Haute, was In
the city yesterday on official business. He
- promoting the mineral resources OF yigo
county, which he thinks in the way OF coal,
natural gas and OIL viii prove Almost equal
% Is agricultural resources.
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Bison. and Cowboy. Acquitted.

BUFFALO. June 12-The members of the
Buffalo and Kansas City baseball teams.
who were arrested at the close Of yester-
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New York 80 O o o o 2 o o. II
Boston =. ...3 0 S 0 o 0 0 0 oil II

Batteries-Carrick. CoakIey and Warner;
3. Stolen bases-Gleason, Stahl CD Two
base hits-Nichols. Gleason. Three-base hit
Duffy. Double plays-Long and Tenney;
Lowe, Long and Tenney: Wilson, Gleason
and Doyle. Bases on balls-Off Carrick. 2;
off Coakley, /: off Nichols, 3. Struck out
BY Carrick. /; by Nichols, /. Passed balls
on bases-New York. II: Boston, 3. First
base on errors-New York, q; Boston. 1.
Tfme-1:5S- Umpires-Lynch and Warner.
Attendance, 1,GO.
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DanvilIe shuts Out Terre Haute.

Danvflle Shuts Out Terre Haute.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
DANvILLE, ILL.,, June 12.-Danvilie is
playing in great form now and shut out
Terre Haute to-day. The score:
Danville .........1 1 o o I o I 0 o. z 0
Terre Haute....0 o 0 0 o o o 0 90 z 4
Batteries-Lyon and Abbott; Eiteljorg and
Mitchell.
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CLEVELAND, Jun 12.-Cleveland inc
Pittsburg played a pretty even game to-
day, but the visitors did the better work
in the field. There was good hitting on both
sides. Score:
RHE
Cleveland .......0 o 2 o 1 0 0 @ 0-3 IL 4
Pittsburg .......2 o 1 0 o 0 2 0 0 IL o
Batteries-Hughey and Schreckengost;
Sparks, Lever and Bowerman. Earned
runs-Cleveland. L; Pittsburg, 1. Left on
bases-Cleveland 6; Pittsburg, s. Two-base
hit-Dowd. Sacrifice hits-McCarthy, Will
off Sparks, 3. stolen asesIouin Ne.
Carthy CD, Clarke. Double play-Schreck-
engost and Lockhead. Time-l:40. Umpire
Gaffney. Attendance-1OO.
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.

p. NJ. time is in BLACK fgures-Trafns marked
thus: daily, S-Sleeper. P-Parlor Car. c.
Chair Car. D-Dining Car. t-Except Sunday.
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Warrants for Tiger. and Milrer..

days game for violating the Sunday law,
were acquitted by a jury this afternoon.
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STORAGE,

e~TORAGE-The Union Transfer and Storage Com
pany. corner East Ohio street and Bee-line
tracks; only nrst-class storage solicited. Graf
A SPECIALITY.
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HERS INDEED A SAD STORY
MRS. TOMKINS' LIFE HAS BEEN
FULL OF BITTER TRIALS.
Literally Sold by Her Father for 60 Acres
of Land-Matrimonial Experience
Has Been Anything but Rosy.

Tacoma. Wash. April Mrs Mille
Tomkins, who has been arrested on a
charge of abducting her own child in
Seattle. tells an unusually sad story
She says that in 1888, when she was
but IA years old, she was sold by her
father at Miles City, Mont, to Joseph
Cantzeler for 60 acres of land. 1t was
zeler was many years her superior and
she abhorred him, but one day her
father and Cantzeler got her into a
room and compelled her to sign a pa
per agreeing to marry him. For this
inhuman act her father received from
Cantzeler deed to SO acres of Yellow
stone bottom land. The laws were
loosely enforced on the Yellowstone in
those days, and there was no one to
protect the helpless girl, For yeafs
she lived with CantZeler and bore him
three children. At length, in 1889. his
cruel treatment forced her to fee to
friends for safety, and she secured
divorce at Helena, being awarded the
custody of the children.
Mrs. Tomllins went to Butte to live,
and in order to fit herself to earn
money for the support of her children,
commenced taking a course in steno-
SfapnN anu LII July {,
1890 Cantzeler came to her pennileSs
and she fed him. He hung about sew
eral days and frequently took the two
eldest children out for a walk One
day he suddenly brought them west TO
Seattle. Thither she followed him and
made a fight in the courts for their pos
session, but as she was practically
without funds the judge ordered them
sent to the orphans home.
She married a real estate dealer
named Hattabaugh and had two more
children He ran off with another Wo-
man. She secured a second divorce and
resumed her maiden name of Tomkins.
In 1895 Mrs. Tomkins decided to go
back to Butte and went to Seattle to
bid her children goodbye, but was re
fused permission to see them by Cant
zeler's wife, he having married again.
Mrs Tomkins remained in Butte I'M
til last August when the desire to see
her children became too strong to be
resisted. En- route west she became i'll
and spent several weeks in a Missoula
hospital. She finally found her chill
dren and says CantZeler abused them
by making them sleep in beds made of
gunnysacks.
Last week she brought her 13-year-
old daughter to Tacoma and intended
returning soon for her son. For this
act of filial devotion she is now under
arrest
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the close of the war he went to the
Asiatic station with the sloop Hart
ford.
His first command was the steamer
Wyoming of the same squadron, serv-
ing on her for one year. then returning
to this country. For two years he was
stationed at the Portsmouth navy yard,
during which time he was commander.
Sea duty alternated with duty at Ports
mouth for the 10 years which followed.
In 1888 he was commander of the Hart
ford, which carried the English and
American eclipse expedition of 1883 to
the Carolines.
From 1888 to 1890 he commanded the
ship Wabash at the Charleston navy
yard, finally being transferred to Ports
mouth as captain of the yard, and later
as commandant. He received his COM
mission as commodore in 1898 and as
rear admiral year later. AS COM
mander of the Asiatic squadron in 1894
he saw many of the naval movements
of the China Japanese war. Under
his orders was fired the first and only
shot by an American man-of-war at
a Chinese ship, thereby enforcing the
demands of this government and avert
ing the impending breach of relations
between the United States and China.
His action was commended by our gov
ernment.
Admiral Carpenter was retired in 1896
but during the Spanish war was re-
called to act as commandant of the
Portsmouth navy yard in place of
Commodore Remy. Admiral Carpenter
leaves a widow and family, one son
being assistant surgeon in the navy,
D. NJ Carpenter: another son is with
the Cramp ship yard and third lives
with Mrs. Carpenter and her two
daughters at Portsmouth.