The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-11-29

remember years ago there was .
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Wilmington. located at the south:
west corner OF Third aud Market
streets. There had been ugly ru.
n,ors set afloat for some time that
soldiers who had enlisted were not
being treated right, that they were
made to give up to the man in
charge. who at that time was Ed.
ward Wilmer. who held the position
as Provo Marshal. Mr.. Wilmer on
being charged with the rumors
that had been set at1oat about the
doings in his office, Indignantly de.
MED them and asked for an inves.
tigation. He declared he would
show mis- defamors that he was
much injured man and would make
those who had vlllitied him repent
in sackcloth and ashes. The inves.
t'gation was in due course Of time
held and so thorough was it that
the Provost Marshal was found
guilty and sentenced to Fort Della.
ware where he did time for robbing
the >oldiers and died in disgrace.
Now Mr.. Wilmer would never have
been Investigated If be had not he-
mandcd it, There were others
with him at the time but they very
sensioly did not wish any investi.
CATION. They handed In their res.
ignation to Uncle Sam and that
ended the affair astar as they were
concerned. We do not know whether
Mr.. Wilmer was guilty of the
charges which had been preferred
against him. But this much we do
know and that is that his viudlca.
tion ended in his having 10 do time
at Fort Delaware.
= No innocent man need fear an
investigation Of his official deeds
at any time and if asperotIous
have been uuius,ly cast upon him
or his official actions he owes it to
himself to clear his good name as
soon as possible. No whitew ash.
ing should be done and the investi.
CATION should be open aud free Tor
the newspaper reporters to attend
and report the proceedings.
ONE Of the most shocking acci.
dents occurred on the Wabash
Railroad near Seneca. seventy
miles from Detroit, Michigan. on
Wednesday. The accident is SAID
to have been caused by the disobe-
dieuce OF orders. As a result emf.
grant train No. lS. westbound.
with two engines. gong at the rate
ot 45 miles an nour, crashed into
eastbound passenger train, No 4,
with seven coaches and between
IS and 100 persons were burned
to death. One OF the coaches OF the
passenger train was tcicscoped.
The wreck to add 10 the horror.
caught fire immediately alter the
collision. 1t hardly appears posi-.
Bile that such accidents can take
place during these days ol modern
rallroading and safety appliances.
But accidents viii happen and
numerous careless ones every dav
on nearly every railroad system in
this country. Evidently railroad.
ing has not rca ched that perfection
that modern appliances can so reg
nlate the moving OF trains over. .thelr
tracks so that accldcnts would be
reduced 10 minimum.
YESTERDAY, Thanksgiving Day,
was an ideal dav and numerous
football games were PLAYED all over
the country. Thousands of enthu-
slastic football admirers watched
the different games. sitting and
standing for several hours out in
the cool weather. The day was
cold and the thermometer was dowa
to the freezing point. But the all
while cool, was clear, crisp aud in-
vlgoratin.. Pennsylvania eleven
was unable TO stand up before the
Curreil eleven, old Penn suffering
a defeat OF 3 to b. Basket bali is
gaming in popularity aud some in.
interesting games are now coming
of between crack basket ball teams.
The game is equally as scientific
a. football but nothing like as
rough and being played under
cover is more enjoyable to the spec