The National tribune., 1900-05-31
PERSONAL.

PEkSONAL.
Last week the War Department gave IN
ali hopes of Maj Chas. n. Rockefeller. 9th
U. >, who disappeared in the PHILIPPINES
lass aprll, and ordered his name dropped
from the roll. He entered the service in
1861, as private in the 7th N Y, and
was mustered out in 1866, as a First Lien
tenant in the 18th N Y. He was COM
mlssloned the next year a Second Iieuten-
ant IN the 9Th L. s.. and remained in tha
regiment 81 years, rising to the rank Of
Captain, when he was promoted to Major
IN the 9Th L. s. He went to inspect out.
posts and was never heard Of certainly
again. Various reports came back of his
haVIng gone insane, committed suicide.
been murdered, and of having been can
tured by the TagaIs. Should it still turn
out that he is a prisoner in the hands Of
tne reneis, Congress will restore him his
, rights as an officer, as it did in the cele,
oFated case OF Capt. Bonneville, who dis.
appeared IN 1888 and was dropped in 1884.
he was captured by the Indians and re-
NAMED IN their hands for years He
nnally escaped, but it was a long time be-
iore ne could reach an army post and be
Identified Congress restored him to the
rolls. He did good service in the Mexican
War, and was brevetted a Brigadier-G Gem
eral IN 1865, for long and meritorious SER
vice. He died in 1878.
Second Lieut.. George l.. Jackson. 47tb
Vol. Inf, died at Manila on the 21st inst.
OF Brights disease. Lieut.. jackson was
born at Bellefonte, Center County. Pa.
July 30 1869. and served during the
Spanish War as First Lieutenant of Com
pany B, 5th Pa.
May 10, Maj.-Gen. J. H Wilson. who
has been at Wilmington, Del, attending his
wife's funeral, started back for his post as
| Military Governor of the Province of Ma
| tanzas and Santa Clara, Cuba. He was
| accompanied by his daughters, Katherine
and Eleanor Wilson
April 30 Comrade Lambert NagaeIe, Of
the Montana Staats-Zeitung, of Helena,
Mont, completed his half-century of active
| newspaper work. He migrated from
Germany in 1S49, when II years old, and
IN 1850 began work in the Office of Vir-
gtntd Stddts-Zeitung, at Wheeling, ".
Va. He married in Wheeling, and 1857
migrated, with his wife and child, to the
distant frontier of New UIm, Mimi, where
he established the Pioneer, a German
paper. He had q very hard struggle of it,
but had succeeded in making the paper a
paying enterprise when the war broke
out. He and his partner sold their paper.
and enlisted in the 1st MINI. Battery.
just after he had gone through the battIs
of Shiloh the news reached him of ths
Indian massacre at New UIm. Fortunate
ly his wife and three children were among
the few who escaped to st. Paul. He was
sent home to join the relief expedition, and
after that, taking his family back to Wheel
ing, he rejoined his battery and served
out his enlistment and four months over.
In 1865 he returned TO New UIm and re-
established his paper, but saw larger
field in Minneapolis, whittier he removed.
and established the F'reie Presse, which
he conducted for 20 years, and built up to
wide influence and large circulation.
In 1889 his health failed, and he sold out
and removed to Helena, Mont, where, in
conjunction with his two sons-Frie6-
erick and Lambert, he established his
present paper He has one son President
of the Germania Bank of Minneapolis,
another Assistant Cashier in the same bank,
and still another is connected with the
Northwestern Telephone Exchange Com
pany.
Goth Ohio, went to Florida some years ago,
and bought a five-acre tract near Avon.
De Soto County. He built himself a cozy
home under the spreading branches of a
majestic hve-oak, and has now 500 orange
and grapefruit trees on his place. all of
choice varieties, apd which give abundant
promise of rich retilrns for his labor. He
has also peach trees. gIIavas, several
varieties of grapes, Strawberries, dew
berries. Pineapples, several kinds of nut
trees, and is devoting some attention to the
raising of ginseng, which he thinks he can
make very profitable.
In the assault on Mission Ridge the 9th
Wis, of which Gen. Macarthur was then
Adjutant displayed great gallantry and
suffered severely. Mai. c. z. Baumback.
commanding the regiment. said of the
young Adjutant in his official report:
Il would most especially mention Adit
Arthur Macarthur for his bravery When
the color bearer was exhausted, he carried
the flag in the front of the regiment, cheer
ing the men to follow him up to the summit
OF the ridge.
Gen. Thos. L. Rosser. the one-time
Savior of the Shenandoah Valley" has
executed another political flop. He is at
one time the most unreconStructed rebel
and at another the most radical Republican
to be found south of Mason and Dixon's
Line. He is now out with a card announc-
ing himself as candidate for Congress
from tile oeNS1llIi ES ilIt DlStTlct, ana MS
platform Thorough accord with the Ad-
The principal towns in the
District are Charlottesville and Winchester,
and it is now represented by James Hay, a
Democrat who at the last election re-
ceived 9.S51 votes, to 2,931 for D. c.
OFlaherty, a Gold Democrat.
Comrade Joe. Davis, who served two
years in Co X, 3Sth Wis, is officially
listed on the rolls of the Green Bay, Wis,
Indian Reservation as "the son of the Hon.
Jefferson Davis" There is said 10 be no
loubt as to his paternity, and he was
born about go years ago, while his father
was Lieutenant in the Regular Army,
stationed at Fort Howard. His mother
belonged to the Menominee tribe. Com
,ade Davis lives with his wife and family
1t Little Oconto. belongs to the GAR
Post on the reservation, draws pension,
md is a quiet, well-hehaved. intelligent
nan, deVout Roman Chatolie, and gen.
rally liked by all who know him.
The Secretary of War has directed Lieu
jol Webb G. Hayes, 31st Vol. Inf. upS,
lis arrival at San Francisco, to proceed a
lis home at Cleveland, o., for honorable
discharge from the service.