Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-05


lying with his heaG upon Candelaria's
DO som.
She was feeding him milk. The
Mexicans rushed in g"d one OF them
drove q bayonet to he clamp into
Bowie's breast. He lied without a
struggle. The point o. the bayonet
in passing deeply gashed Candelaria's
chin, and she bore the scar all her
life. Bowie was unable to offer any
resistance at all, nor did he lay two
Mexicans low with his pistols, as has
been printed a thousand times. In
fact, of all the characters of national
fame who persisted at the Alamo
Crockett was the only one who APP
peared to have been fatal to the last.
Dead foemen were around him two
deep. He died with the baresark
madness on him. Travis was killed
almost before tie place fell. Perhaps
the sincerest tribute ever paid to Bowie
was uttered by General Cos, who COM
manded the storming party. When
the lean and withered body was brought
into the courtyard where the dead
Americans were piled breast high--a
body so emaciated that scarcely a
spoonful of blood had followed the
bayonet strokes the Mexican looked
at it sorrowfully.
Gle was too brave q man to burn"
he said. "But let him so with the
rest"
So Bowie was incinerated along with
y,no vi &c L., L.,
there is bone of him left it lies un.
der the now Federal Post Office at the
intersection of Houston street and
Alamo plaza. The celebrated Pedro
knife, of course, was lost beyond find
ing. Possibly it is still doing duty
far down in Mexico. The President
of the Texas Society in Washington.
d. c., has gavel made from the leg
of the cot on which Bowie was lying
when he was slain.
Leopard Troubles a Gnrkhn's Bath.
About 4 q. m. few days ago
Gurkha soldier who was bathing in a
tank near the outskirts of the city OF
Gorakpur, India, was suddenly at
tackled from behind. Thinking his as
sailant was pig, he (gosh Ike latacb
Sc, as q Hindustani official loftily put
it) grappled with it and both rolled
over into the tank, where they had
bit of rough and tumble. The assail.
ant turned out to be large leopard.
He left the Gurkha something to re.
member him by in the shape of mum.
Der of claw marks, and then proceeded
to invade the city, attacking and
wounding q number of persons on the
way. He finally took up his position
in Kubar house, situated in the
heart of one of the bamars, quite close
to the principal octroi post, the Col
CHAR. Intimation of his presence was
at once sent to Mr.. Innes, the d. S.
P, and to Mr.. W. Calnan, the col
lector. The news also, crept round
the station and a regular posse of
other sahibs assembled. Mr.. Calnan
and Mr. Innes got on the roof of the
house where the animal was, and by
pulling toff the tiles and poking the
animal up with long pole succeeded
in shooting him. He turned out to be
fine male leopard, in most sleek con-
dltion, and messing seven feet three
inches. During his brief career in
the city he had injured no less than
eleven persons, some of them very
severely indeed. The lives of two
men are despaired of; one of them
had, among other wounds, his elbow
crushg1 from bite. Two men had
their eyes dislocated. A few women
w g badly scratched all over the
body. The good folks of Gorakhpur
were all keenly interested in the oc-
currence. Hundreds of them visited
Mr.. Innes's compound to inspect the
carcass, and large numbers also went
to the hospital to inspect the wounded.
Over the Brink.
In his "Twenty Years in the Near
East" Mr.. A. G. Hulme- Beaman mar
rates an adventure which befel him