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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
KIDNAPPER'S CAREER.
Marian Clark's Abductor Accused o
Wrecking Building in Little Rock.

A prominent Chicago man, formerly
a resident of Little Rock, Ark, is in
timately acquainted with the life of
George Beauregard Barrows, the kid
napper of little Marion Clark, who has
just been sentenced to imprisonment in
the Sing Sing penitentiary.
Barrows' father was formerly prose-
cutting attorney in. one of the southern
Arkansas districts, and after his re-
tirement moved to Little Rock, where
the family became prominent in both
politics and society. Young Barrows
grew up tall and straight and was a
magnificent specimen of manhood.
His Grecian face was exceptionally
handsome and he became lion in So
ciety.
In 1893 he made application for ad-
mittance in the Athletic club, patron
lied by the elite of the city, but to the
surprise of his friends as we'll as him
self he was blackballed. Nothing fur
Their was thought about the matter I'M
till three weeks later, when an attempt
was made to blow up the club build
ing with dynamite. The explosion
was only partial success, but the
building was badly shattered and in
vestigation proved that had all the
dynamite that was placed under the
building exploded, the clubhouse would
have been blown to atoms.
Indignation was aroused to the
highest pitch, and detectives were de-
tailed to arrest the perpetrators. It
was discovered that enough dynamite
had been expressed from St. Louis by
young Barrows order to wreck a dozen
buildings. It was openly charged that
Barrows sought to blow UP the club
house to revenge the insult to his hon
or in refusing him admission as a
member.
There were many persons in the
clubhouse at the time of the explosion,
and public feeling ran high against
BarrOws. He was arrested. All the
influence that could be brought to bear
was used to prevent his conviction, and
the matter was finally dropped, with
the understanding that Barrows would
leave the city. This he agreed to do,
and forthwith he moved to New York
and opened law office in the World
building.
Barrows made many promises of re-
form, and the citizens of the town
came to regard his act as a hasty ex-
Inhibition of temper, and hoped that his
reform would be permanent. How
ever, his former townsmen were not
greatly surprised when the news of his
latest escapade was flashed over the
wires.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
THE KISSING BUG.

Close the doors, pull down the win
dOws,
Wear a mask when you're asleep
C}alk the cracks and all the keyholes'
So it may not inward creep.
Never mind the frightful weather,
Be forgetful of your ease'
So YOU foil the melano-
Lestes picipes.
oh. an awful fearful terror
Is this naughty little bug;
And it's eyes are sharp and cruel,
Hideous is it's little mug"
Put your head beneath the cover,
If you would escape all these,
SO you foil the melano-
Lestes picipes.
Never mind the tOrrid weather,
Do your sleeping on your face,
Just imagine it's a Turkish
Bath that then is taking place.
If you dream that you're IN Hades'
Let one thought secure you peace,
That you're safe from the melano-
Lestes picipes.
Dick Dicer in Quincy Wing.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
THE DESPISED SPARROW.
Is a Great Friend of the Husbandman
and Farmer

81 s'pose you are one Of them people
that says the sparrow is good for moth
ing" said an old settler, as he accosted
friend yesterday. "Eh? Yes-thought
so. I amt I used to think so myself
once. But l haven't lived here 81 and
a half years for nothing.
"The sparrow, he's all right. Less
than five years ago when he used to
knock around on the top of my house
by the hundreds, I used to cuss him
pesky hard. Couldn't for the life OF
me see what the onery critter was here
for. But then I commenced to calcu-
late, and now I've got the whole thing
solved.
'Been out in the country lately?
around somewhere, most any place
within 10 miles, and see how things
look. Caterpillars in plenty. Trees in
danger. Don't see that here in town,
do you? Trees in the city just as nice
as can be. What of it? No sparrows
out in the country, that's it. If you
remember back a few years you will
TGHuSHU6I IudL IuG IlOOS Ill L1S City
didn't look as slick and nice as they do
here now. But after the sparrow
came there has been change. I've
figured it out that one reason why the
sparrow gets so many is because he has
had plenty to eat in the city. Cater
pillars is great feeding for the sparrow.
All you've got to do to prove it is to
put bunch of the worms in a tree
near your place some day. Look for
them in few days, and you won't be
able to find single one.
For the last three years things have
not been looking very nice in some
places in the country near here. You
can find patches of trees that have
been destroyed because the caterpillars
have eaten UP all the leaves, and the
same thing is going on this year.
'qMy opinion is that if the farmers
want to preserve their trees, they
should coax some of the sparrows to
stay in the country"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
THE DELICIOUS TRUFFLE.

Mushrooms and truff1es bear about
the same relation to each other as milk
and cream. In this country at least
truff1es are never common, though in
some states there is a fixed supply.
A truff1e is as rich, sweet and altogeth-
err fascinating in flavor as a perfect
walnut. 1t grows entirely under
ground, is in shape akin to various va
rieties of mushrooms, and in appear
ance sometimes suggests tripe-the It's
sue forms reduced in size. AS milk
has more uses than cream, so mush-
rooms may be more freely INDUCED in
than truff1es, because of their rela-
tive richness; but dish of truff1es is
something to be remembered if prop
erly prepared.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24
THE MAKING OF MAN.

And the high gods took in hand
Fire, and the falling of tears,
And a measure Of sliding sand
From under the feet of the years,
And froth and drift of the sea;
And dust of the laboring earth;
And bodies Of things to be
In the houses of death and of birth;
And wrought with weeping and
laughter,
And fashioned with loathing and
love,
With life before and after
And death beneath and above,
For a day and a night and morrow,
That his strength might endure for
a span
With travail and heavy sorrow,
The holy spirit of man.
-SWinburne
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24

The English battleship Renown
made the trip of 5000 miles from Ber-
muda to England at the rate of Is
miles an hour, and John Bull is as
proud of it as Uncle Sam is Of the
Oregon's much more notable per-
Torrance.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24

of San Francisco is by George Drake
Rudy, whose wife is the poetess and
author well-known to Wisconsin peo-
pie as Ella A. Giles, formerly of Madl-
son.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24

In New York Surrogate Varnum ad-
mitted to probate the will of Mary
Johnson, giving $5,OOOOOO, to religious
societies.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
Capt. Allen Rejoins,

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I ask the
courtesy of your columns to reply to Zone
of the boys who was there" who seems to
seek to prove that 1 was untruthful in my
statement that the 7th Ohio Cav. was
engaged in picket duty on Duck River at
the time of Hoods advance, just prior to the
battle of Franklin.
1t matters little or naught to me, or to my
comrades, living or dead, what is said, but
the cold blooded truth remains just the
same that the eth Ohio Cav. was there and,
furthermore, we lost one entire company,
commanded by Capt Ketterman, most
gallant and capable officer. His company
was captured by Forests cavalry coming
upon them from the rear, while they stood
picket on Duck River; Forrest having
crossed the river at some point above.
A large portion OF this company when ex-
changed was en-rOute to the North on the
Sultana when that steamer exploded her
boiler on the Mississippi River. cannot at
this late date give the number, but not less
than 80 soldiers of the 18th Ohio Cav. i'm
Guiding the much-loved Capt Ketterman)
gave up their lives through this great disas-
ter, the misfortune leading to their untimely
death dating from their capture while on
picket or Duck River at the time stated.
If your unbelieving correspondent is not
willing to accept my word for it, and Is not
willing to accept the evidence of my dead
comrades, which appeals to the sense of
justice of any man, fancy it will not be
worth while to produce the abundant evil
dence OF the living, Of whom there are yet
many. who can and Will bear evidence to the
truth of my statement, and will bear further
evidence that | am not the sort of man who
is given 10 untruthful or even misleading
statements.
l wish to deny in unequivocal language
any intent to disparage, either by word or
suggestion, the acts of others, which your
correspondent lays at my doOr.-THEoDoRE
F. ALLEN, Captain, 18th Ohio Cav. and Brevet
Colonel, L. S. v, Wilson's Cavalry Corps,
Cincinnati, o.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
A Terrib|e Accident.
A FRIGHTENED team OF HORSES
RUNS AWAY.
Dashes into Preceding Conveyance in the Road
and Young Lady is Seriously Injured.
From The Advocate, Crestlinc, O.

there is not q single incident re-
naming more vivid In the minds of the peo-
pie IN this locality, than the accident which
befell Miss Fannie Thoman, young lady
nearly twenty years old, residing about three
miles west of this city, while out riding one
day in May. 1894. In conversation with n
friend recently, Miss Thoman told the story
concerning this horrible affair and the results
from it.
She said al was working in a dressmak-
ing establishment III Gallon, Ohio. and one
day while out riding with my friends, we
were overtaken by team of runaway horses
and the carriage in which / was riding was
badly wrecked and / was thrown out, receiv-
ing q hard fall.
"I was taken to my home, and physician
Was called and upon examination told me
that my right kidney had been affected. He
gave me medicines which relieved me some,
but which never helped me as they should.
az WAS weak aud whenever / attempted
to do light work about the house, | would
become Frustrated. / was very dizzy and
frequently pains would dart through my
back in an indescribable manner. In fact
Ey whole constitution was affected. | had
very sallow complexion with seemingly no
color in my face at all.
II remained in that condition for over two
years and nothing seemcd to relieve me.
happened to read in paper how some peo-
pie had been cured by the use of DIR. Viii
liams' Pink Pills tor Pale People. One case
described was similar to mine, and l called
The National tribune., 1899-01-12

the attention OF the other members of the
family, and mamma suggested 1 should have
box at once.
"Of course I was anxious to get well and
box of these pills was secured and tried
When / had taken the pills one week I
noticed an improvement In my condition.
A better color came IN my face and lips, [
became stronger, had an increased appetite
and the dizziness in my head was relieved
81 had often read of these pills but gave
no attention to them until the day procured
my first box. Since then have taken twelve
boxes and have been greatly relieved. My
blood is in o better condition, / have gained
IN flesh and my entire system has been built
mp. [ most certainly recommend DIR. VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People to any one
troubled with kidney complaint"
An analysis of DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People shows that they contain, in a con-
denSed form, all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness 10 the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are an unfailing speei-
fic for such diseases as ocomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, st. Nitus' dance sciatica, neuralgia.
rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects
of la grippe, palpitatiOn of the heart, pale and
sallow compilations, all forms of weakness either
in male or female, and all diseases resulting from
vitiated humors in the blood. DR.. Williams
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price, 80 cents
box or six boxes for s2.50-(they are never sold
in bulk or by the 100 by addressing DR.. VIII
hams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
stopped "a Bullet.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In late
issue of your paper | read the experience of
a comrade who was wounded at Cedar Creek.
This experience was so like my own that it
brought the memory of that battle wildly
to my memory.
Our brigade, Second OF First Division.
Sixth Corps, drove the rebs in front OF us
back, after a sharp encounter, but we were
thanked out of our position, and fell back IN
confusion about mile think. What was
left of the regiment formed III sunken
road. but were soon ordered back, and were
in full retreat when suddenly another order
came, and IN less than minute we had
changed retreat to advance upon the enemy.
We moved through piece OF open woods
for over half mile and halted for half an
hour or more. We heard cheering far TO our
left, which kept moving swiftly nearer to us
down the line until Phil Sheridan appeared
on the brow of low hill near us. Then
our regiment broke out into wild cheering,
such as they had not INDUCED in for months
before that
We soon advanced again, and just as we
saw their skirmish-line jumping behind the
stone wall that sheltered their main line, we
were ordered to halt to fix bayonets for a
charge; but before | had time to take my
gun from my SflOuluST l. WIS SIEuCh ny IL nut
ball that shattered one of the bones OF my
right forearm.
/ walked back to the field hospital, and
the next day was taken to Winchester.
Thence we were loaded on army wagons III
which little straw was placed. The train
was kept well closed up, for fear of Mosby's
guerrillas. and when our wagon got a little
behind the teamster would drive ut a fast
trot over that rough road, to Overtake the
rest of the train. You can imagine how
pleasant that was for wounded men.
| was finally taken on the cars to York,
Pa, where | remained for about six months,
and only got to the front in time to hear the
diving groans OF the Confederacy, for
although we made a hard march to Danville
to head off Johnston, we saw no more fight
ing.
Our regiment lost nearly one-third of its
men at Cedar Creek, in killed and wounded,
including Col Hamlin, commanding the
brigade, wounded, and utCol. Higgn-
botham, killed Capt. Fisk was in command
of the regiment at the close of the battle.
EDWIN CROCK EFT.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
c0Rp'L PIXIES UHTIMELY FATE.
Died from an Accidental Gun-DischarGe
After a Remarkable Career of Danger.


Editor National Tribune: l took part
against the Indians on our frontier,
and when / think of the brave men killed
in frontier work after such a war as '61-'65,
il makes me feel bad, at the age of 10
The great trouble with us was we under
rated the fighting qualities of the Indians.
We had new mode OF lighting to learn.
But what was the. upshot of all the from
tier fighting from 'b1 ito '6S2 1t gave an
empire to the United, States, from the
Missouri River to the Pacific. No nation
or people can stand against the Anglo
Saxon race.
Corpl Pike, scout, and member of the
4th Ohio Cav. got commission in the
LIST U. S. Cav, ordered out to Oregon q
think in the Spring of &c, with the I'd
battalion, 23d L. S.
At the time of the death OF Lieut.. Pike
was Acting Quartermaster-S Sergeant,
Headquarters of Expedition, Camp Wat
son, Ore. Brevet Col. Baker, LIST Z. 3.
Cav, was i'll command; Capt. Barry,
QuartermaSter. Lieut.. Pike was sta
toned at, think, Camp Logan. All
these camps were in the heart of the
hostile country.
After one of the fights all hands were
breaking up Indians guns. Lieut.. Pike in
the act of doing so, having the gun by the
muzzle. struck the breach over rock,
and the piece went off and the shot
struck him Ct think in the groin. lie
lived but few days.
AS was customary, his effects were
brought to Quartermaster's Department;
His request was to send his papers and
passes used while a scout TO some town
in Ohio, to his father. ! think he was a
printer. Those passes were in silver
tube, and were signed by Sherman, Grant,
etc Capt Barry kept, ut his request,
brace Of fine pistols. | get claw-banl-
mer that he carried when scouting, to
shoe his horse with! etc.
Lieut.. Pixies effects were put lii charge
of a Quartermaster Clerk named West, to
forward. - Robert Bruce, ex-Sergeant, co.
+, 23d u. S.. Pendleton, Ore.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
The Work of a Battery.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | saw in
your issue of Dec. letter from one George
Collins, 18th Ind. battery, which in some OF
its statements is so much mistaken as TO call
for correction. He says: AT Knoxville,
when Burnsde's army moved after Long
street, Benjamin aud Edwards Regular bat
terry was ordered to turn horses and harness
over to the 18th battery. In order to keep
the field, the Regulars remained in Fort
Sanders, at Pulaski, Tenn. The 22d Ind
battery was obliged to transfer its horses to
the 18th; and at Columbia, Tenn, on Nov.
81, 1864, the Odd Ind. had to turn over their
harness to the 18th Ind. battery. The 22d
and Odd were sent North by rail; the 10th
kept the field"
The 18th Ind. battery was very good one,
as we'll know, having served with it. But
the comrade is very much mistaken in regard
to the Odd Ind. battery turning over any of
its equipments to it or to any other battery.
We certainly did nothing of the kind.
Neither were we sent North in the cars, but
remained with the corps the entire campaign.
We went North with the rest of the corps by
foot to Cincinnati in the latter part of Janu-
airy, 1865, and with them to North Carolina.
The Odd Ind. battery kept the field the en-
tire Winter of 1S63-'64, and also the Winter
of 1876.
The service in East Tennessee was very
hard, especially with the cavalry, but we did
it with six horses to each gun and caisson,
and so did the 18th Ind. battery, WI jch
served with Wilder's Brigade.
/ might say that the second and third sec
lions of the 23d Ind. battery were in quarters
at Knoxville from the latter part Of January,
1864 to Spring. The first section, to which
belonged, left the field, being temporarily
attached to Sheridan's Division OF the Fourth
Corps.-VALENTINE d. NICHOLS, 23d Ind.
battery, Brandon. Mimi.
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
Another Mule Story.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: My story
in The NATIONAL TRIBUNE of the team OF
six bald-faced mules on the march from
Atlanta TO the sea does not seem to have
stirred the blood of any of the veterans of
the 1st No. Engs. to the writing point; so,
with your permission, I'll tell another true
mule story, and if it fails to wake up the
bows have one more story in reserve.
On Feb. Is, 1864, the 1st Mo- Engs.
marched out of Nashville, Tenn, 1,200
muskets strong, with 43 six-mule wagons
and three ambuances. Our route was the
Charlotte pike When drawn out in line of
march the regiment and train covered con-
siderable pike. Twenty miles from Nash
Vile the command came to the Harpeth
River. There being no bridge, and the water
toe cold to ford, the regiment was halted on
the pike while a detail of men built a foot
bridge.
While the troops and wagon-train were
thus stretched out, with many officers,
mounts, ETC., scattered about, some citizens
came along on their way TO Nashville with 4
drove of 80 or 40 loose mules. The mules
meandered through the regiment and train.
After passing the entire command the drovers
discovered that they were short one mule.
They came back and searched through the
whole train, but no trace of the missing
mule; so on they went sadder by one mule.
1t afterward developed that some transfers
had caught the missing mule, clipped and
reached it, and with shears had cut the
brand u. s.; harnessed aud saddled it, and
when the owner inspected the team it was
'on the wheel" with a sturdy engineer
teamster in the saddle, and its ears were
dropped like a veteran of many hard cam
paigns. Query: Is the American soldier
deteriorating John N. MORTON, Quarter
master-Sergeant, LIST Mo. Engs., Hamilton,
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
FIGHTING THEM OVER
What the Veterans Have to Say
About Their Campaigns.

THE Editor would Do glad to receive from
the veterans Volunteers and Reg 8iarS) articles
of from 500 to 1000 words. written exclusively
ton i'm the Fighting Them Over department, or
articles of about 900 words for special publea-
ton. The subject should be of interest to veter-
for historical accuracy of statement. Narratives
of the behavior of some particular regiment
brigade, or division some field wherein it
di, tinguished itself, in some campaign in which
it took a prominent part, in some siege wherein
it acted Extensively or defensively; reminiS-
cences of prison life, the march, the battle or
the camp-all such are solicited. The nasal
veterans are invited to give narratives of taeir
service i'll various enterprises. The Editor
especially desires for publication outside OF
the Fighting Them Over columns sketches
of personal adventure or of humorous Incl
dent, connected with wartime service. Articles
Will receive prompt consideration. and II avail
able be inserted. Stamps should be incloScd IL
IL is desired that the manuscript be returned it
unavailablel
The National tribune., 1899-01-12
CAPTURING A REBEL BRIcHDE.
And Something About the Rebel Batteries
Taken at .Jouesboro.

ana something ABOUT the ReDei batSeTies
Taken at Jonesboro.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: 1t seems as
if the whole of Sherman's army want the
credit Of capturing Govan's Brigade at Jones'
boro. Now, if there is one place more than
another of my army life that / remember
about it is ,Jonesboro. ] left a foot and a
piece of shin there. | remember on that day,
Sept. / about l O'Clock in the afternoon, our
First Brigade of the Second Division, Four
teenth Corps, was composed of the 18th n.
Y, Goth and 10th H., 10th and 14th Mich.
On the morning of Sept the army was
ordered to close in on Jonesboro where How
ards Corps had been fighting Lee and Har-
dee all day of Aug. 81.
Our division having the shortest route to
march came in on the exact time that we
were ordered to and formed on the left OF
Howard. AS / remember, we were marching
south We formed with our right on How
ard, our left on the railroad. We were
ordered by our division commander to take
the rebel works with cold STEEL which the
boys did handsomely.
| made brilliant charge, flank move
ment, and turned a sOmersault when about
40 yards from the rebel works, and was
carried back to the dead-pile, where the
usual amount of saving was performed on
me that was generally performed on soldiers
of Sherman's army, with the ordinary saws
our Surgeons had to work with at that time.
AS to capturing the two four-gun batteries,
the old Second Division got one of them, and
/ know the Goth III. and 18th n Y, 10th and
14th Mich. and 10th Ill. were in that charge
from start to finish, without a gun loaded,
but taking one of those batteries with the
cold steel. | have no desire to pluck one
laurel from the brow OF any cOmrade, but
when a comrade says that charge was made
at nearly shutdown he was not in the charge
or was moon blind, for know my boys came
back to me. after helping to take the rebel
works, and had me carried back to the field
hospital before shutdown.
Now, want the boys Of the old First Bri-
gade who see this to write to The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. S. c., Captain, Co. III, Goth
H., Box 30, Olney, Ill.