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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-05

to appeal the case. The late Col. H.
Clay Tompkihs, one of the South's most
eminent lawyers, advised that no effort
be made to disturb the judgment of the
trial court. Baldwin finally accepted
the sentence, His head was shaved and
he donned, the convict's striped suit.
His education. quiet demeanor and
gentlemanfys ways won for him the
position of .1Iusty" His acquaintance
with medicine gave him practice and
rendered him of especial value at the
"stockades' He was soon transferred
to Mitylene, where there is a stockade
and where two hundred conVicts are
employed to work in the large lumber
mills Baldwin was made physician for
these convicts.
1t is there that Miss Eugenia Rays
personality entered into the story. Miss
Ray is a member of one of the best
Her father is large planter, and Is
also connected with the oil mills and
other industries of Montgomery. He
owns handsome home at
Highland Park, one OF the FASH
ionable suburban towns, and his
three daughters have been mem
bers of the most select coterle
Eugenia, who is the second daughter,
was graduated with distinction at
of 1896, and Immediately she was pos
sessed of fad popular among South
ern girls-to teach a village school.
Mitylene is a small village, but MISS
Eugenia went there.
It was a lonely life at first for this
young girl just from the social gave
ties of the sweet girl graduate.
There We're no young men OF her set
in the village, but in the home of
neighbor Baldwin boarded as "trus-
ty." Baldwin excited the pity of the
young woman. Frequent were the OPP
portunities for the meeting of the two,
and gradually the girls pity changed
to affection. The little school had
not been in session many weeks be-
fore Baldwin was a daily visitor to
the class room. To and from the
fringed path together. They were con-
slant companions.
Then came the school vacation, and
Miss Ray returned to her home. That
was in the summer of 1887. Letters
continued the love assurances between
the convict and his sweetheart:
AaCoNVICT HERO.
Next came the yellow fever. The
restrictions of quarantine law forced
Miss Ray to remain in Montgomery.
She could, not return to the village
school at Mitylene. Thousands of per-
sons were fleeing from the dread
plague to the North. The parted low
ers longed for3each others companion
ship in the trying days of the cpl
demic. -.
Love led, Baldwin to heroism. AS a
medical student he represented that he
was an unusually competent nurse.
The convict inspectors testified to his
\ l.: toll 6rryty,
volunteered to nurse the yellow fever
patients at Montgomery. At such an
hour such an offer was valuable to the
state It was accepted.
An extraordinary course was pur-
sued. Gov. Johnston. with the consent
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-05

An Alabama woman of culture and
personal attractions married hero
convict few days ago, and two states
are now agog with the story of the
nuptials, says the New York Herald.
1t is an extraordinary narrative this
romance of the Southland-of the clay
hills of Georgia and the black belt of
Alabama. Even Opie Reads stories of
Dixie life are tame beside this tale of
truth.
A more dramatic wedding cannot be
pictured. In the center of rude dis
pensary, close to a convict stockade a
felon, melancholy in his prison garb,
held the eager hand of fashionably
attired woman, whose fair face doomed
out from the somber background like
a cameo. In front of them a burly
| magistrate, with one powerful arm
thrusting back a frantic interrupter,
hurriedly read the marriage ceremony
and pronounced the queerly mated
couple man and wife.
Such was the wedding of DR." w.
S. Baldwin and Miss Eugenia Ray, at
Dolive, in Mobile county, Alabama on
Jan. II. But this marriage forms only
one chapter in the remarkable story of
love, heroism, tragedy and pathos
Stretching back over a period of sew
of the most prominent families in Ala
bama and Georgia, and reaches for it's
details into courts and capitols, schools
and churches, hospitals and death
rooms.
BEGAN WITH A KILLING.
In the spring of 1895 a university
student went from Cuthbert, Ca, to
visit his cousin at Fitzpatrick's Sta
hn A 10 oy q
read, nineteen miles south of Mont
gomery. In the midst of the cotton
growing section, where the plantation
lifts of the working negroes keep time
with hoe and shovel, this young Geor-
gian found much to please and inter
est him. There was a petite, coy
Southern girl, Gena Hutchinson, whose
brown eyes won the visitors heart
He decided to esta blish himself at this
growing village of 200 souls.
There was another sutton for the
girls favor, however, and Ba1dwin's
path was studded with thorns Miss
Hutchinson seemed to find Frank Ed
son more attractive than his Georgia
rival. Bad blood sprung up between
the two men.
Baldwin had studied at the Univer-
sity of Maryland and at the Vanderbilt
university. in Nashville. Three courses
in medicine had fitted him for a ply
sician's practice, and the neighborhood
looked up to him as man of unusual
education. Still. some ugly stories were
told about him. 1t was said that Ed
son found it convenient to tell some of
these tales himself. Back at Nashville,
it was rumored. Baldwin had wooed a
Louisiana girl and won her hand. This
story went on to say that he married
at the brides Louisiana home, but that
after few weeks he left his young
wife. In after months Baldwin ac-
knowledged this report was true, but
declared a divorce had been obtained.
One bright Sunday afternoon Bald
win, Miss Hutchinson and Edison met
in the little postof1ice at Fitzpatrick's
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famous by playing travelling laborer for
two years and writing books on his
experiences, 1s now professor at
princeton, and these two young men
are members of his class. They want
ed to practically test their teachers
teachings.
The students were Charles A Foster
and Alfred T. Fitzgerald. That is to
say, these are the names they gave
out. Their tramp names" were
Hump and Mack
They left Princeton on foot and got
their first meal at a farmhouse. Then
they boarded a railroad train and
"bummed' their way to Monmouth. On
the train, which was freight, they fell
In with some 'hobos" and got glimpse
Of their life there. At Monmouth they
were challenged by the police and
spent the night in the city Jail. Near
Perth Amboy they fell in with a big
particularly striking. OF him one of
the Princeton men says:
Il asked him why he did not settle
down. In his reply there was the logic
of the ancient Phoenician philosopher:
Why work when one can subsist on
the labors of others?' He was intelli-
gent. yet seemed to lack that ambition
that turns intelligence into practical
use; capable of effort, yet too lazy to
profit by it; we'll read, yet unable to
make use of 1t.
''He was a great admirer of Kipling,
and, to my amazement. quoted several
selections of his verse, the 'RecessionaP
especially. with much spirit. His reel
tation of 'Sestina on the Tramp Royal
brought the whole crowd about him."
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SEVEN FEET OF SNOW.
Colorado Has Never Before Expe
rienced Such Storms.

Colorado Has Never Before Expe-
rienced Such Storms.
DENVER, Feb. 4.-Trains are again
yer to Como, on the South Park road,
but beyond Como the rotary is still
bucking the snow drifts in the efforts
to open the road to kokomo and Lead
vile. Between Dickey and Leadville
are twenty-five snow slides, each twen-
ty-five to 200 feet long and eight to
ten feet deep, and at the present rate
of progress Kokomo will not be reach
ed until tomorrow. At Wheeler a
freight train loaded with merchandise
and two locomotives, stalled since last
Thursday, was discovered on a siding
with the train crew still It's occupants.
Slides before and behind had pinned
it in. The train had been snow-bound
for ten days. Division superintendent
Zeninger, of the South Park branch Of
the Colorado & Southern, said today:
I'VE have had seventy-one consecu-
tive days of snow and storm between
Como and Leadville. In all that time
there has not been single day free
from snow storm and high winds. The
old settlers state emphatically that
this winter has been by all odds the
most severe in twenty-five years. The
snow is seven feet deep on the level
from Boreas to Climax, and in many
places drifted to more than twenty
five feet. The snow is Sic and grad
ual and drifts easily There has been
no suffering from lack of provisions or
fuel, unless it be at Kokomo. We have
the road. open between Denver and
Como and within twenty-five miles Of
LeadVille -
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THIS CAT DRINKS AND SMOKES.

William Thompson. of Glenwood Pa, has
the most remarkable cat in PENNSYLVANIA.
The cat came to Mr.. Thompsons house one
stormy night year ago. He looked SO for
Torn that he was taken into the house. The
cat was so afectonate that he was adopted
After awhile the cat betrayed a strange
fondness for the smoke that Thompson
pulled from his cigar. 1t became SO notice
able that Thomas foster father regularly
shared his after-dinner cigar with the cat
giving him the smoke
For joke the cigar was put into the cats
mouth one day, and to Thompson's great
establishment the cat sat I'D on his hind
legs and pulled away compIacently. There
was only one drawback to his success. His
teeeh were SO sharp that they bit of the end
OF the cigar. To remove this, Mr. Thomp-
son mad wooden cigar-holder made fer
Ihonlas and now he is able to indulge his
taste for tobacco.
.. Another accomplishment of the cat is his
eHects. Beer now forms one of the cbief az,
tcles Of the cats diet 80
Undoubtedly Mr.. THOMPSON of Glenwood
mas mas wonder III the feline species, but there
aie many Things his bet Thomas can learn
from precocious little pussy owned nv n
IaGy VINO lives on one of the most fashion
acle thor0ughfares in Evanston The many
az noeoTntpiishments of this infant cat, residing
~ Ohicagos classic suburb, would neveT
have have been referred to by her orcinar ~
,m"n mistress had not the prowess of the
aisnWood Thomas been bruited about the
country by the public press
AS an Illustration of the wonderful pifts
q nvans.on,s tabby, who is known by The
Ne ecia a. name OF Wa.lops it may be stated
.aat II regularly takes its place on a LITTLE
sea- hear the piano in the morning. after
par.aaihlng OF its cracked wheat. ana s;nes
eaog several Of the odme airs to the
fayorits snnes OF ! her mistress Among her
1 1Eurn Uncle, The Cat Came Back and nd
o Down in Hogan's Alley Her voice nv ~
eof, Is not of the fortissmo sort, vet it is
followed in a quiet room. ' '''' We readily
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-05
ICE FROM NOZZLE
DID More Damage at McTague Than
the Fire Being Extfnguished.

DID More Damage at McTague Than
the Fire Being Extinguished.
From the Chicago-Times Herald.
when the wind was blowing a gale
and the thermometer was Is degrees
below at McTague, Wyo., a fire
place. The guests of the house escaped
without injury and saved nearly ali Of
their effects. -
The feature Of the fire was that the
extreme cold made 1t an exceedingly
difficult matter for the department to
cope with the flames. The water was
forced through the pipes to the nozzle.
put as 1T left 1t it was quickly frozen
into cakes of ice. These had no effect
on the fire. and the frame building was
allowed to burn to the ground.
An effort was then made to save
adjoining buildings by giving them a
very thorough ducking but the own
ers objected. on the ground that the
ice was doing more damage than the
water was good The chief of the fire
department refused to desist PLAYING
on the buildings, giving as his reason
that If he stopped pumping the water
would freeze in the hose and render it
useless. He declared that the only thing
he could do would be to pump water
until the weather moderated.
In the meantime the street from
curb to curb had become a sea of ice.
and an impromptu skating rink was
presented to the citizens. Fortunate
ly. the wind abated and the fire en-
CINE was stopped and the only dam
age done by the fire was to the hotel.
In the meantime, however, all traf-
fic is suspended on the main street,
and in its stead the whole population
of the city began to block business
by enjoying the winter pleasure of
skating on an improvised rink A game
Of hockey was begun yesterday, but
the police interfered after half a dozen
plate-glass windows had been broken
by the enthusiasts.
The loss on the building was about
$1,000. but the damage to property by
the unusual conditions presented will
exceed several thousand dollars
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sign the petition for pardon. Undis-
| mayed, Miss Ray pleaded personally
with the governor for executive Glenn
ency. Her eloquence was in vain.
Again and again she visited the capt.
tol, but Gov. johnson was firm in his
| refusal.
In the meantime Baldwin was trans
ferred to the stockade at Dolfve, in
Mobile county. On Jan. 9 Miss Ray
made her last visit to the governor.
She was accompanied by her mother.
But Gov. Johnson remained obdurate.
On the following Wednesday Miss
Ray left home on the pretense that
she was going to visit a girl friend.
Thursday, Jan. IL, she told this friend
she was going to McGehee's Switch, a
! nearby point. Instead, she boarded
| the train for Mobile.
There she spent the night. The fol-
lowing morning she was met by friends
| Of Baldwin and escorted to Dolive.
Another friend had meanwhile OBJ
tanned a marriage license at Daphne
and forwarded it to the convict. Con-
Wet Lessee John D. Hand intercepted
the envelope containing the license He
thought this would prevent the mar
riage. But the lovers had enlisted the
sympathies of Justice of the Peace
Burns. This Observation-Disclosures ag-
gressive and weighing fully 800 pounds
himself procured a duplicate license,
and declared that, the couple willing,
the marriage would be performed.
THE DRAMATIC WEDDING.
The bride-elect was met at the ra l.
friends. The couple embraced each
| other and FASTENED to the shack in
which Baldwin had been conducting a
dispensary for the convicts. But Les
see Hand, learning that he had been
outwitted, fastened to the scene. He
| reached the place just in time to see
the couple take their positions in ont
of the magistrate. Hand grabbed
Baldwin by one sleeve Of his prison
garb and attempted to jerk him out Of
the ROOM The powerful justice Of the
peace showed Hand back and thrust
himself between Baldwin and the in
terrupter. The magistrate fumed for
a moment, stamped his feet, said some
harsh things to Hand, and then de-
| clared the couple married. Baldwin
| was taken back to the stockade.
The convict's girl wife remained at
Dolive until the Thursday following.
The couple were kept apart, however,
the Intervening time. Mrs. Baldwin is
now at her parents home in MontgOm-
cry. thoroughly gratified over the mar
riage and confident that her husband
will yet prove the nobility of character
which she is convinced he possesses.
The Ray family is much chagrined
over the affair. They refuse absolute
Iy to talk about it. Baldwin enjoys
something of a practice as an I'M
licensed physician, and he may be able
to support his wife with some degree
of comfort during the remaining six
years of his term as a convict. He will
not be permitted, however, to enjoy
the society of his wife during that
!, period.
Baldwin's father is a physician at
Cuthbert, Ga. He serves as a surgeon
for the Central railway Of Georgia. The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-05

at Webster, Rice county. Of this state.
In 1857 he taught in ST. Alias academy,
Milwaukee, a Parocial Institution. A
year later he taught for term the
district school at Holland, Michigan,
and the following term at Berlin,
twelve miles distant from Grand Rap
ids. The following year MIR. Donnelly
returned to his parents at Milwaukee,
and in the fall he came to ST. Paul, and
later organized the first high school in
Anoka county, at Rosemount, and one
of the first in the state His work was
highiy commended by the state super
intendent and in 1872 the ST. Paul
school board elected him principal OF
the Rice school, which had just been
completed in what was one of the most
promising portions of the city.
In 1880 West St. Paul was annexed
to st. Paul. and three small schools
were opened up by the school board.
Prof. Donnelly was elected the same
year as superintendent of these
schools. In addition to teaching his
own school, he was obliged to visit
once q week the other schools, which
oftentimes required his leaving his own
school without any teacher. He was
very successful in this. however, and
never experienced any of the little
school instructions which were at that
time looked upon almost as certainty
in every district school. One of the
three schools was held in the town
hall, the second on the Dodd road and
the third the central school, OR Flat
school, stood on the present site of the
Lafayette building.
In less than year Mir. Donnelly re-
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been as conspicuous in all school mat
tiers as Prof. Donnelly He has at all
times been prominent in the ST. Paul
Tea cheers association, and has shared
ideas, which he has been frank to ex-
press. He led the opposition to the
movement of the teachers association
To sue the city for back salary last fall
He believed that the school board was
bending its best efforts to do the right
thing by the teachers, and such action
on the part of the association would
eInbarrass the board. and in the end
gain nothing. Although his following
on the subject was in the minority, a
stubborn fight was made against such
action. The associat ion finally decided
TO bring suit against the city for the
back salary due them, and the supreme
SQUIRT handed Gown decision last week
deciding against the teachers
MI DOnEelly belongs to the old school
Of educators, but has kept abreast Of
the times hy the adoption of modern
methods in his school work. His school,
Which is located in distinctively wage
earning community. is regarded by the
board as orc of the best in the city.
despite the meager facilities offered by
1t as ore of the older buildings The
German school is the only graded
school in the city which has an alumni
association and literary society both
OF which are active organizations. The
latter is comprised of the scholars of
the seventh and eighth grades, who
meet every Friday afternoon and give
an original programme under the di-
Iection of the teachers. Mr.. Donnelly
believes in combining the ideal with
the routine in school work Meetings
of the Alumni association are held
regularly, and as an evidence of the
practical results emulating from the
association it has undertaken several
new departures for the good of the
school. The school has nearly SOC
scholars
The professor is wrapped up in his
school work. 1t has not alone been of
an educational nature, but he has al
ways had the welfare of the commu-
nifty tributary to the German school at
heart The hard times weighed very
heavily on the constituents of his
school, and in many cases he has been
the means of assisting families to keep
their children in school. and at the
Same time to keep the wolf from the
door
Prof. Donnelly is a man Of very quiet
ha bits, and of unassuming disposition
He goes about his work without any
ostentation whatever. and is a regular
visitor at the high school building.
Hardly day passes that he does not.
aAtei MS Scnool Work. VlSlt the Superin-
tendents office. in the Central high
school. He takes an active interest in
all that pertains to the schools of the
city
Prof. Donnelly was born at Six Mile
Cross, County Terone. Ireland. His
father was a well-to-do merchant, but
at an early age young Donnelly con-
ceived the idea of coming to America,
the land of promise across the sea- He
received his early education in the ma
tional schools of Ireland. except two
years that he remained in Ireland,
when he attended a private school,
Upon coming to this country he en-
barked in number of enterprises, and
hrst entered the educational field in
1856. when he taught a country school
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ALABAMA LOVERS WHO Welded IN A CONVICT SHACK

and at the advice Of the board Of con-
Wet inspectors, released Baldwin on a
thirty days parole. The convict went
to Montgomery. He was allowed to
wear citizens clothes. At Hammer
Hall, the seminary where Miss Ray
provised for patients suspected of af-
Fiction with yellow fever. There Bald
win made his headquarters during
that month.
He had the freedom of the city, and
1t is related that the fearlessness with
which he thrust himself into contact
with peril of death, the readiness with
which he sought yellow fever patients,
showed the courage born of heroism.
But that month also afforded the
hero convict many opportunities to see
his sweetheart He called frequently
at the Ray residence and made the
most Of his companionship with Miss
Eugenia When the months parole
had expired Baldwin returned to his
prison stripes.
AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED.
Baldwin was assigned to what Is
known as Prison NO. 4, on the Coosa
river. near Wetumpka. Meanwhile
definite understanding had been ar
rived at between the lovers. Baldwin
appealed to Gov Johnson not to in
terfere with the issuance of a marriage
license to him. But the young people
knew the Ray family would never con-
sent to the marriage.
An elopement was planned. Miss
Ray went to Wetumpka, ostensibly to
visit a friend. After her departure
from Montgomery an acquaintance
warned her father of a suspicion that
she intended to marry Baldwin. Mr.
Ray hurriedly shitched fast horse to
light buggy and drove to the house
where his daughter was visiting 1t
was g ross-country drive of twenty
miles through darkness over uncertain
roads, but the excited father reached
Wetumpka at midnight and in time to
prevent Wedding. Miss Ray was TAX
en- home. q
1t now transpires that President S.
B. Trap, Of the board Of convict in
spectors, warned Miss Ray then that
he would not permit the marriage In
deed he threatened to deprive Baldwin
of his privileges as a "trusty' if the
efforts at matrimony were persisted in
Miss Ray turned her attention to-
ward pardon for her convict lover.
Industricusly and with the persuasive
powers that only a charming young
woman canEexercise, she got up one of
the most voluminOus petitions ever pre-
scented to an Alabama governor. But
against her work were massed the eff
forts of dead Eidsons friends The
prosecuting attorney and the jury who
considered Baldwin, case declined to
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station. No effort was made by either
man to conceal his bitter enmity for
the other. A few heated words were
spoken and Edison reached for his hip
pocket. Even before the Albanian
could draw his gun Baldwin's revolver
spoke. There were three shots, and
Edison lay mortally wounded.
In the court proceedings that follow
ed there was little to show that Bald
win was either rewarded by Miss
Hutchinson's love or that the Georgian
had stood between the girl and Edison.
The latter died.
Baldwins relatives fastened to his
side. Money and influence, plentiful
and extensive, were forthcoming to
urge his release. An effort was made
to secure Baldwin's liberty on a writ
of habeas corpus. This was unavail-
ing, and finally, after a few months
delay, Baldwin went to trial at Union
Springs. in Bullock county. Some of
the ablest counsel in the state were
engaged in his defense. They were
gratified by a verdict fixing the prison
er's penalty at ten years confinement
in the state penitentiary.
Baldwin's father. however, was eager