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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11

had a successful campaign and re-
Joined the regiment in time to engage
In the fighting In Northern Arkansas
and to assist in the capture of Little
Rock by Gen. Davidson. He became
colonel soon after this and in 1854 left
the army for the federal bench.
Il remember how he surprised me
when he announced that he had been ap-
pointed to the bench He came to me
one day and said:
"'Well, Noble, you can be colonel of
this regiment
81 asked him how 1 could be colonel.
I've just been appointed federal district
judge he replied, and I won't wear
these shoulder straps another day
with that he cut them from his
shoulders and clapped them on mine, and
1 assumed command at once I have
those shoulder straps yet. and some day
at meeting of the Loyal Legion I'm
going to return them to him."
The district to which Judge Caldwell
had been appointed then included all
Of Arkansas and its Jurisdiction ex-
tended westward over $4,000 square miles
of wild Indian country. He held court
at Little Rock and at Fort Smith.
At the latter place the court house had
been ruined by soldiers of both sides, and
Judge Caldwell appealed to Col James
o. Churchill, then United States quarter
master at Fort Smith, and now cashier
for the collector of customs, Charles H.
Smith, at 81. Louis, to repair it. Col.
Churchill repaired the court house. After
the war he became United States COM
missioner under Judge Caldwell.
I'm that day." said Col. Churchill claw
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11

was so violently abusive that Charles
Wickliffe. with whom Clay fought the
duel, called to see the editor. Bennett
had just got up from his sick bed, and
when Wickliffe called he told him that
he could not tell him then who was the
author of the article, but would do 50 the
next day. In the meantime Bennett went
to see the friend who wrote the article
and told him of Wickliffes visit. The
friend was afraid that Wickliffe
would kill him, and he would not allow
the editor to tell who wrote the article
The next day Wic1liffe called at the APP
pointed hour. The editor told him he
would let him know the authors name
at noon the next day. Wickliffe replied:
Very well. l shall be here when the
clock strikes II tomorrow, and want to
know who wrote that article"
MURDER OF EDITOR BENNETT.
He came on the stroke, and. walking
into the office, shot Bennett dead without
giving him an opportunity to defend
himself. Sheriff Redd, instead of taking
Wickliffe to jail, kept him under guard
at the home of Col. Wickliffe. The
political enemies of WIclkliffe were flu
rious, and a large crowd Of them gath
cred that night and went to Wickliffe's
house and would have lynched young
Wickliffe had 1t not been for the plead
ings of a minister, who begged them to
allow the law to take It's course. The
mob left, and Wickliffe, after securing
the best lawyers in the land. including
Henry Clay who was a strong political
opponent of the Wickliffes, succeeded in
getting clear
Another Editor was found for Ben
nett's paper in the person of a little
man named Denton. He never fiinched
from what he thought was his duty, and
he believed his duty was to attack the
Wiclxliffes on every occasion. He not
only assailed young Wickliffe and called
him a murderer but he also attacked
the father and said that he was every
thing but what he pretended to be, a
gentleman. Young Wickliffe4 could not
stand this and he promptly challenged
Denton to a duel. Being the challenged
party, Denton said he wanted shotguus
at five steps. The second sent by Wick
life was horror stricken at this and
exclaimed:
''Why. that would be murder!"
Eyes. and it would be murder for
Charley Wicl1liffe to shoot at me at
twenty steps with pistol. for I am
so near-isghted that cannot see a man
over five steps away"
After much parleying 1t was finally
decided that the men should fight with
rifles at twenty yards. The spring races
the morning young Wickiiffe started to
go to the place OF rendezvous a friend
accosted him, and asked him where he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11

his speech and was growing eloquent over
the curse of slavery one of Browns COM
panlons interrupted him, and CLAW made
some rough rejoinder, and the fight be.
gan. Brown drew a pistol and shot at
Clay. who was not more than twenty feet
from him. The bullet struck the soap.
bard Of Clay's bowie knife and glanced
Off. But the shock was so great that
Clay thought he was shot, and he drew
his knife and began slashing Brown. In
telling of the fight Clay said:
Il thought l had received my death
wound from Brown. felt the bullet
from his pistol strike me a tremendous
blow in the breast and l believed that
had only little while to live 1 did not
know but what he had another pistol and
l drew my knife, determined to sell what
little of life / had as dearly as possible
l was held back by his friends, and could
not get close enough to him to stab hin,
as 1 wanted TO do, SO I had to hack at
him. My arm was long, and l reached
his face the first stroke and laid open his
nose. The next lick I cut off his ear
The next l cut one eye out, and then I
cut at him as fast as I could WELD the
heavy knife. When had made his face
look like piece of raw beef his friends
grabbed him and threw him over the
fence. and my few friends carried me to
nearby house, where an examination
or my supposed wound was made 1t
was discovered that the bullet from
Browns pistol had struck the brass tip
OF the scabbard of my bowie knife, which
L carried in my breast pocket. My enc
mics started the story that / wore a coat
OF mail but that was a mistake"
SHOOTING OF LEW BALDWIN.
A desperate political fight occurred in
lexington fnfthe fall Of 1883 In front Of
the Phoenix hotel. Thomas NJ. Green
a descendant of the Marshalls of Ken
lucky, and one of the most bitter writ
ers Kentucky ever produced, was an edi-
torlal correspondent of the old Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. There had been an
election that summer In which the Dem
ocEats were charged with having prac-
ticed gross frauds. especially in Jessa-
mine. 1t was charged that Lew Bald
win, a prominent Democrat of that coun-
ty, was concerned in these frauds Green
wrote a series of articles which bristIed
with abuse of Baldwin. He also pried
into his business record, and charged
him with crcokedness in money affairs
This incensed Baldwin, and he told his
friends that he intended to kill Green on
sight. They met on the day the monu-
ment to John c. Breckinridge was to be
dedicated at Lexington. The men We're
strangers to each other One of Green's
friends told him that Baldwin was in
town and would XIII him if he found him
Green went TO a pawnbroker's shop and
bought a pistol, which he put in his over
coat pocket. In less than half an hour
afterward he started to go from the
Phoenix hotel to Cheapside, where the
monument was to be unveiled. He had
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was going at that time OF the morning,
remarking that II was too early to be
going to the races. WickliffefI laugh
ingly replied:
'Oh. I'm Just going out here In the
country to kill q near-sighted scoundrel.
III be back in time for the races"
He drove on, and within less than
an hour he was a corpse. The two
men were attended by their seconds and
two surgeons. They were placed as the
proper distance apart and a loaded rife
was given to each. At the word both
nred, but Denton's gun cracked an in
slant before Wickliffe's, and the bullet
struck Wickliffe's heart, killing him in
stantly. Denton escaped unhurt.
CASSIUS N. CLAY'S BLOODY DUELs.
Prior to the Civil war Casslus M. Clay
had several political fights besides his
duel with young Wickliffe. He was
preaching new political doctrine He
wanted constitutional empancipation OF
the slaves. This was very distasteful to
the average Kentuckian, as about every
man In the state who was able to do so
owned negroes. Thus it was that when
Clay was making speech near his home
at q little place called FoxtoWn, in Madi-
son county, number of DULLES in the
neighborhood attacked him. He was
powerful, physically as we'll as mentally.
ana ne fought the entire crowd. He used
his lists, as he had no weapon. Finally
one OF the men drew large bowie knife
and Clay saw that unless he disarmed
him he would be killed. He grabbed the
blade Of the knife In his left hand and
with his right tried to pry open the
clenched fist of the holder of the weapon
He succeeded, but just then 81 Turner
ran in and cut him in the right side with
bowie knife. But now Clay was armed.
and he went at Turner, who was soon ly,
ing on the ground with mortal wounds
Clay was also badly cut, and 1t was six
months before he was able to go out
In the year following Clay was speak,
ing at RusselPs cave, in Fayette county.
He was making a plea for the abolition of
slavery by constitutional means. The OPP
position to Clay had sent down South and
secured noted gambler and fighter, Sam
Brown. who was known all over
the lower Mississippi region as one of
the best pistol shots in the country He
was present, together with a number OF
fighting men the slavery party had hired
to attend him. When Clay got well into
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11

gone but few steps from the entrance
when he INST Baldwin. Green had been
pointed out to Balwin. and the latter ac-
costed him with the questions
''Tg this Thomas M. Greenf"
Yes. sirt it IL. Who are your came
the reply.
Green is deaf, and he put his hand TO
his ear to catch the answer, which was:
II am Lew Baldwin. and think you are
a id scoundrel."
Baldwin then struck Green with his
fist, and at the same time drew his pis-
tot which was hammerless. He failed
to press the releasing spring, and before
he could get his pistol working Green
had his pistol out and was shooting with
went through Baldwin's heart. Baldwin
had got In one shot at Green, but the
latter recovered from the wound
Another desperate hand-to-hand en-
counter was between Col. William Cas-
sius Goodloe and Col. Armstead NJ Swope.
This was in the fall OF 1889. The govern
ment had just completed a new postofflce
building at Lexington. The upper rooms
are used by the collector of internal rev.
enue for the Seventh district. Col Good
loe was then collector. One Friday aft
ernoon about o'clock he came down
stairs and went to his box In the post
office to get his mail. Col. Swope was
standing near the box and talking
through his own open box to one OF the
employees inside. Addressing Col. Swope,
Col. Goodloe said:
You obstruct the way"
Its a matter of indifference If I do"
replied Col. Swope.
Instantly the men were fighting, Good
loe with a large knife and Swope with a
pistol. Swope shot Goodloe in the abdo-
men, and Immediately thereafter Goodloe
cut his pistol wrist, causing him to drop
the weapon. Then Goodloe went at him
and inflicted thirteen wounds, six of
which were mortar Swope died before
any person could reach him. AS Col
Goodioe left the building to go to the
office of a nearby doctor, he waved his
bloody knife over his head and exclaimed
in exuitant tones.
''He beloved like CALI
Goodloe died two days later
The next political killing of note was
the shooting OF Col. John d. Sanford
in CoVington by Senator William Goebel.
the details of which may be fresh in the
minds of newspaper readers. Then came
the assassination of Senator Goebel in the
capitol grounds at Frankfort.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
British at Christians ..

Pretoria, May 2l.-President Steyn,
who arrived here Wednesday and has
been in close conference with the
Transvasl authorities. left for the Free
State last night. Addressing q crowd
on the platform. he urged them to be
of good cheer.
1t is reported that 5000 British
troops have surrounded Christiana, and
the landrost and other off ials have
been taken prisoners.
James Milne, the correspondent of the
Reuter- Telegram Company. who has
been prisoner here, was liberated and
escorted to the border this morning.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24

''Mr. Dolley. won't you let me look
at your watch little while?"
Certainly, Miss Flypp. Do you
want to consult the time?
"NO," replied the girl, as she opened
it and examined its case and works.
81 vas curious to see if water tarnished
gold, or had any effect on the watch's
delicate mechanism"
water? What do you mean?"
"Well, Mr.. Hunker told me you
were in the habit of soaking your
watch. What is the object of such
treatment, Mr.. Dolly?"-Harlem Life.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
Butler Takes Newcastle.

Lon Ion. May 21.-General Butler,
in dispatch to the war Office, dated
Newcastle. May 81, says:
Newcastle was occupied last night,
and today the whole Second division
and the Third cavalry brigade will be
concentrated here. l have sent the
mounted force through Nqutu to expel
a small force of the enemy and to re.
assure the natives. The enemy have
burned the chapel, broken much glass,
plundered many houses and taken cash
from the banks, but otherwise they
have not done much harm. The rail-
way is badly damaged, the Ingagane
and Nkader bridges are destroyed, as
are many culverts and the pumping
station and water works. OF the 1000
men flying before us, about 1000 seem
to have gone to Wakkerstrom and some
by Muller's Pass to the Free State.
The remainder, who are described "A
disorganized rabble, have gone north
and they intend to make q stand at
Laing's Mex"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
MAGINNIS VS.. CLARK.
Governor Smith Appoints Senator to
Fill Vacancy.

Governor Smith Appoints . Senator to
Fill Vacancy.
Butte, Mont, May Ex-Governor
Smith today sent dispatches from here
to Senator w. A. Clark, Senator Chand
ler, chairman of the committee or
privileges and elections, and Senator
Frye, president of the senate, saying he
had disregarded and revoked the action
of Lieutenant Governor Spriggs in nam
ing Mr.. Clark to succeed to the vacancy
caused by his own resignation, and
saying he had named Martin Maginnis,
of Helena, to fill the vacancy. The
governor gives as his reasons his opinion
that the appointment of Mr.. Clark by
the lieutenant.governo was tainted by
cOllusiOn and fraud. The dispatches
are practically the same, that to Mr..
Clark reading:
81 have this day diszegarded and re-
voked your appointment as United
States senator, made by Lieutenant.
Governor Spriggs on the 10Th inst, al
being tainted with collusiOn and fraud.
and have this day appointed Hon.
Martin Maginnis United States senator
to fill the vacancy caused by your resig.
nation"
Those to Frye and Chandler are Of
the same tenor. notifying them of his
action. The governor also sent q
formal protest to Chandler, detailing
his reasons. He has also issued an
open letter to the people of the state,
DENYING he had any knowledge of the
contemplated step when he LIFT Mon.
tana for California. He says he went
to California at the request of Thomas
r. Kinds to look into the title of some
mining property in which Miles Finlen
was interested. He owed Finlen
$4,000, and thought by going he might
earn q fee that would be applied on the
indebtedness. II shall prove by my
conduct in the FUTURE" he concludes,
''that was not guilty OF any wrong
doing or any idea Of wrong"
Miles Finlen is one of the Democrats
in the legislature who voted against
Clark. Martin Maainnis was delegate
in congress for the territory, and. with
Clark, a Democratic contestant for sem
atorial honors when Montana became .
state.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
SERIOUS FACTS ABOUT FOOD,


now ian the Danger from Alum Bak-
ing Powders BE Avoided?
The reported cases of poisoning from
the use of alum baking powder have
awakened the public to the serious
danger which menaces the health of
the people Of this country in the num-
erous alum powders which are urged
upon consumers.
Among the leading physicians and
scientists there is no question as to the
detrimental effects which alum baking
powders produce upon the system. In
many foreign countries and In many
cities of this country. the authorities
have absolutely prohibited their sale on
the sale of bread containing alum.
Even small doses Of alum given to
children. have produced fatal results.
while cases of heartburn, indigestion,
gripping constipation. dyspepsia and
various kindred gastric troubles from
irritation of the mucous membrane, at.
tributed to the continuous use of food
prepared with the alum or alum phos.
phate powders, are familiar in the prac.
tice of physicians generally.
Congress has recently been investi.
eating the subject of food, and in its
official report to the senate the COM
mittee sayss $50 far as the use of
alum in the manufacture of food
product, such as baking powder. is con-
cerned. the committee, in view OF the
overwhelming mass of evidence antag.
onistic to its use, recommends that its
use in food products and baking pow
ders be prohibited by law"
1t is not possible that any prudent
housewife, any loving mother, will
knowingly use an article of food that
will injure the health of her household,
or perhaps cause the death of her chill
dren.
How shall the dangerous alum pow.
ders be distinguished? And how shall
the danger to health from their use be
avoided?
Generally alum powders may be
known from the price at which they are
sold, or from the fact that they are &C.
companied by gift, or are disposed oi
under some scheme. The alum powder
costs but few cents pound to make,
and is often sold at 20 or 25 cents a
pound; sometimes as low as 10 cents.
1t is impossible to name all the alum
powders in the market. but any baking
powder sold at low price, or adyer-
tised as costing much less than the
well known, high class powders, or
accompanied by present, or disposed
of under any scheme, is of this class,
detrimental to health and to be avoided.
These facts should incline consumers
to turn deaf ear to all opportunities
to buy the inferior powders. The wise
housekeeper will decline in all cases to
take them.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
MAY LOSE MILLIONS.
By . Word Being Omitted In Gov
ernment Treaty With France.

ernment Treaty With France.
New York, May 2l.-A decision
just rendered by Judge Townsend, who
is hearing in the United States circuit
court the appeals from the decision of
the board of general appraisers, under
the customs administration act, lessons
the duties on French brandies and
liquors so cents gallon, and in the
particular suit which was brought by
George s. Nicholas, an importer. takes
$45, ZOO out of the treasury of the gov
ernment.
Nicholas, on June 10, 1898, received
from France 80, 900 gallons of the cor.
dial known as "Chartreuse." Col
lector Bidwell assessed the duty on
this importation at $2.25 per gallon.
The importer appealed to the board OF
general appraisers, and they affirmed
the collectors action. Then the mat
ter was brought into the circuit court
and, when the hearing came up, coun-
sci for Nicholas insisted that under the
new treaty with France, made in
1898, year later than the passage OF
the tariff under which the appraise.
ment had been made, the duty should
have been only $1.75 per gallon.
Copies of the treaties made between
France and the United States were pro .
duced as evidence, and in the French
copy the word '1iquers" appears,
while from the American copy the
word '1iquors" is missing. This deci-
sion is in favor of the importers, and if
it holds, means loss of many million
dollars to the government annually.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
Good Till He Took to Drink.

A few years since large farmhouse
on my country place being vacant,
offered, through one of the settlements,
to take some poor woman with small
children who seemed to need it for a
two-months' rest and fresh air. Among
those sent up was good looking and
soft spoken young woman with three
small children. She had just come
from the hospital. and had scar nearly
all around her neck which was just
healing up. Her husband, a carpenter,
had cut her throat in a drunken spree,
nearly severing the juglar vein. She
was taken to the hospita. and he was
tried and sent to prison. ''Was he
always ugly to your" she was asked.
'Oh. no." she replied. ''He was very
good till he took to drink. National
Advocate.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
Panama Canal Plot.

Washington. May 21.-Soon afte,
the senate convened today, Morgan
(Dem. Ala. chairman of the committee
on inter-oceanic canals, offered reso.
luton directing the committee to make
an investigation, sweeping in its char.
acter, of the dealings of individuals or
corporations with view to monopoliz.
ing a ship canal at Panama or in Mic.
aragua, and whether the individuals OF
corporations propose to obstruct the
United States in the construction of an
isthmian canal. Morgan stated that
the object of the inquiry proposed is to
enable the president of the United
States to check and destroy conspiracy
founded on fraud, corruption and ar
rogance, against the highest rights and
privileges of the people and government
of the United States.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24

Memphis. May 21.-At an early hour
this morning the bodies of Henry
Reichman, of Memphis, and Mrs. Lily
Badakin, wife Of . newspaper man OF
Forest City, Ark, were found in the
woman's apartment on Jefferson ave.
nue. Reichman had been shot six
times, while the womah's 3 body received
one bullet. The affair is shrouded in
mystery. No weapon was found about
the premises, and il is believed to be .
case of murder
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-05-24
Locomotive Blow Up.

Ashley, ILL.,, May 19.-Two men
were killed and seven injured, three
fatally, by the explosion of the boiler
of the locomotive attached to south
bound passenger train No. 81 on the
Illinois Central railroad today. The
dead are: Charles Price, engineer. oi
|Centralla, ILL.,, and Tom Wright. OF
Odin, Ill. The fatally injured are:
Sam Ascot, Fred Crawford and John
Hampton, section hands.