The age-herald., 1900-05-19
HAPPY SEQUEL
 TO A SADSTORY Corporal Tim SuIlivarf Mourned
 as Dead. RESULT OF PRACTICAL JOKE En Route Home from the Philippines He Met His Brother Who Was
 Seaching for His Remains
 A Fake Telegram
RESULT OF PRAC TICAL JOKE

Mourned as dead, as the result of prac- tical joke, Corporal Tim Sullivan of the Fifth United States artillery, just returned from the Philippines, is this morning re- ceiving the blessings of a dear old grey haired woman who betwixt her smiles and tears is pouring out, in all the affections of mothers heart, expressions of joy at his safe return to his humble home in Huntsville.
 The following special to the Age-Herald from that city, which was sent before the joke was run to earth, conveys the state of feeling which existed in the happy little household on receipt of the shocking news:
 Huntsville, May 1S.-(Special.)- )-Cor-
 poral Tim Sullivan, of the Fifth United
 States artillery, died in Birmingham
 yesterday route from Manila to
 Huntsville to visit relatives. Corporal
 Sullivan was soldier nine years, and
 spent two years in the Philippines. His
 term of enlistment expired recently, and
 he was coming to Huntsville to his old
 home. Mrs. Abbie Sullivan is mother of
 the dead corporal. The body will be
 brought to Huntsville for interment.
 The sequel to the uncanny joke is best
 
 man and his brother, Patrick Sullivan, who in answer to the telegram, come to Birm- mgham to carry the remains to Hunts vile to the good old mother, who was prostrate with grief.
 Corporal Tim, accompanied by a friend and fellow soldier, arrived in Birmingham Thursday afternoon from San Francisco en route to Huntsville. On reaching this city he wired his brother Patrick of his arrival in Birmingham, and requested him to meet him here. The message miscarried in some way and did not reach MT. Sulli- van, whose silence appeared strange to the soldier brother, and caused him to com- ment. upon it. It was then that his friend, Reno, conceived the idea of perpetrating a joke and accordingly sent telegram stating that Corporal Tim was dead and asking that his brother come for the re- mains
 This telegram reached its destination and the grief-stricken brother, after conveying the sad news to his gray-haired mother, who had been waiting and watching for Tim's return, began to arrange for the funeral and wired Miller & Co.,, the under takers of this city, to take charge of the remains and prepare them for shipment. He then took the first train for Birmingham and arrived yesterday morning.
 In the meantime Miller & Go. set to work to locate the body, but utterly failed in their effort after having inquired at every possible place, and when the heart-broken brother walked into the establishment ex- pecting to see his brothers corpse he was told that the body could not be found.
 Determined, if possible, to find the re- mains, the half destracted brother started out on a search, and imagine his surprise when he came face to face with the doty corporal near the corner of First avenue and Twentieth street. There was double joy on the part of Patrick, and when mat ters were explained they lost no time in hastening to a long distance phone, oyer which the joyous news was conveyed to the heartbroken mother.
 The happy brothers left on the afternoon train for Huntsville, where the joke has been forgotten in the joy of the moment