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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-19
SAVED HIS s1RE,s LIFE.

Father Tried to Hang HimseIf-Son
Cut Him Down.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 1S-(Spe-
cial.)-A son of Thomas J. Livingston,
an old resident of Sioux Falls, this aft
ernoon prevented his father from dying
suicides death. The lad found his ia
Their hanging by the neck from a beam
In a shed back of his house, and with
rare presence Of mind cut the rope with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-19

out delay. After reviving Livingston
threatened to make another attempt on
his life If given the opportunity and
was placed in custody He has recently
been drinking heavily.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-19

his voice rang out strong and clear, like
this marvellous head of the church one
could easily afford to disregard the FREE
quent rumors of his feebleneSs and Ill
health
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LAKE PEPIN OPENS.
Mississippi River Again in COndi
ton for Navigation.

LAKE CITY, Mimi, April 1s.-(special.
--;Navigatin on Lake Pepin opened today.
The steamer Spaulding made its first trip.
Rafters are going through
Plans are being made for the erection
OF several new cottages and q summer
hotel at Rest island
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Havana-Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn
contractor, has been awarded a contract
amounting to $550OOO to dredge Cardenas
harbor.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
DEATH OF GEN. UTTERFIELD.

The Grand Army of the Republic and
the country has sustained a severe loss
in the death of Maj.-Gen. Daniel Butter
field, who, after making a long and heroic
struggle against the dread destroyer, final
ly passed away at his home at Cold
Spring, \. Y, July II, at the age of 20.
This event was not unexpected. His health
has been very much impaired for years,
and he was too i'll on Memorial Day to
make the journey to Fredericksburg, and
attend the unvailing there of the splen-
did monument he had raised TO the mem
ory of the Fifth Corps.
Gen. Butterfeld was one of those gen.
erous, public-spirited men of high ability
of which the war period was 50 full, and
he played part Of conspicuous usefulness
in public affairs for over 40 years. He
was born in Oneida County, n. Y, in
1881, and graduated in law, but entered
business. He took strong interest in
military affairs, and became the Colonel
of the 18th y. Y. S. NJ, a splendidly
drilled and disciplined regiment, which he
led to Washington, after the firing on Fort
Sumter. He had previously, about the
time Of the Inauguration of President Lin
coin, enrolled himself under the command
Of Cassius NJ. Clay, in that band Of gal
liant men which surrounded the President
elect and protected him from assassina-
ton.
He was commissioned a Brigadier- Gen
eral Of Volunteers Sept Z, 1851, and com
manded brigade Gu the Peninsula with
great skill and gallantry. Nov. 20. 1862,
he was promoted to Major-General, and
rose TO the command of the Fifth Corps
When Gen. Hooker reorganized the Army
of the Potomac, he succeeded in having
Butterfeld accept the position of Adjt-
General and Chief Of Staff, and he re-
mained in this position until after the bat
tie of Gettysburg. He was transferred to
the West with Hooker, and on the Atlanta
Campaign commanded the Third Division
of the Twentieth Corps.
He was severely wounded at Gaines's
Mill and Fredericksburg, and received two
breyets for gallant and meritorious serY-
ice. He entered the Regular Army as a
Lieutenant-ColOnel,r rose to be a Colonel,
and resigned March IA, 1870 He was
then appointed Sub-Treasurer at New
York. He commanded the great Cen
tennial Parade of 100000 men and was
the author Of several works on military
affairs. At the time of his death he was
President Of the National Bank Of Cold
Spring. When he was about to die he
made application to be buried in the mill
tary cemetery at West Point, which per-
mission the Secretary of War granted.
Gen. Buttertield was a genial, lovabIe
man, and always retained the warnest in
terest in his old comrades-in-arms. He
was frequent attendant at soldier gath
erings, and always received with enthusi-
asm.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
PERSONAL.

Capt. L. ]. Cutter, of Marietta, O.,
commander Of Buell. Post, No. 17S, and
| ex-President of the Ohio Association Of
Union EI-Prisoners of War, and who has
served as Aid-de-Camp on the staff OF De-
partment and National Commanders, was
recently nominated for County Commits
sioner on the Republican ticket on the
second ballot, over four competitors, and
as the county has about 900 Republican
majority, his election IS a feregone conclu-
sion; it is only a question of how large
the majority. There are already lot OF
bets offered that the Captain will lead
the ticket, as his 81 years experiences
as a railroad man and over three
years as proprietor of the st. James
Hotel, and now proprietor Of the
Manhattan Restaurant, the finest dining
hall in the State, has made him very pop
ular with a large number of people. Some
of the leading Democrats will support
him. Capt. Cutter is counted among
Maristta's leading and successful business
men.
The Republicans of Washington Coun-
t., o.. at their convention held in Mariet-
ia recently must have had ''old soldiers
day." as out of seven nominations three
were veterans of the civil war. who all
have fine records as soldiers, viz, F. F.
Dana, for County Treasurer; Capt. L. j.
missioner, and r. E. Hull, for Inhrmary
Director; besides, Hon. G. c. Middle
swarts, who was nominated for Repre-
sentative to the Legislature, and DR.. ].
B. Mcclure, for Coroner, are both sons
of veterans and rising young men in their
professions, attorney and physician, re-
spectively. The Republicans of that
county never had a stronger ticket.
Miss Sadie D. Forman, daughter Of
Alexander A. Forman. 7th Mich, Brook
Iyn. n. Y, was married to Leon N.
Cooper, OF the same city, on June %.
Mr.. Cooper is a son of Comrade Norm
G. Cooper, Lieutenant, Co. E, 24th n.
Y, who for many years was editor of the
Coffee Cooler. He is a member of Ira
NJ. Hedges Camp, Sons of Veterans, and
also belongs to Co. X, 23d N. Y. N. G.
Col. John S. Mosby, the guerrilla chief,
has been appointed a Special Agent Of
the General Land Office. He claims his
present residence in California. He has
been assigned to duty in Nebraska.
Forty years ago Capt. T. D. McGilIi-
cuddy, now of Cleveland, Ohio, was liv-
ing in Hannibal, Mo-, and became First
Lieutenant Of Co: B, Marion Battalion,
an organization OF the loyal sons of the
little town. The ladies of Hannibal made
a beautiful flag. and presented it to the
which entered the o0th ILL.,, and
the flag became the regimental colors. 1t
was carried through the long and varied
service of the regiment, and at the close
Of the war came into the possession Of
Capt. McGillicuddy. Recently he decided
to present it to VIM. T. Sherman Post,
Df Hannibal. The presentation took place
On the afternoon of July II, and was made
4 great public function, with a large at
tendance Of citizens and veterans. Speeches
were made by Capt. McGillieuddy, the
of the Post, and others, and
there was music and singing.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
"whsre'. the o-gee-chee River?o re-

peated 81 i-npatiently.
Dunno; none round hyah. Amt never
seed none"
"Oh. yes you have" put in Shorty, with
suspicion t.nt 81 had not the right pro
nunciation. ne was familiar with the
peculiarities of the southern dialect.
whats that over there?'
That thar over thar?" slowly repeated
the man. deliberately studying the ground
as if new object. wy, that thar's the
mash"
Il know it's the marsh, you basswood
second cousin to a spawned alligator,
said Shorty. But what do you call that
clear water beyondE"
What do l call that thar cpar water
beyant the ma'sh?' inquired the man,
after n few seconds pause TO digest the
question, and frame an answer. Wy,
that thar's the Gitchie.
"Oh, the Gitchie, you call it," said
Shorty. triumphantly. Il told you that
was the river, ST."
But amt the Gitchie up there, toor'
asked 81. pointing in the direction he
thought the river lay.
The Gitchie up thar, too?" repeated
the man, after pause. "Oh. yes; the
Gitchie's up thar. an over thar. an all
round hyah, most down t the Midway"
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

southeast side of the Ogeechee River, but
for hours their impatient progress was i'm
peded by the throng of men and trains
pressing over toward the right to extend
the Investment of the works. They
chafed intolerably at the delay, but had to
submit. There was no cutting across the
fields and through the woods as in the
up-country. Nowhere was there more than
a slender thread of road and dry ground
between the swamps. the flooded fields
and the bitches, and this became quickly
packed with men or teams. Colonels were
too intent upon getting their regiments in
to position, and wagon-masters to get
their trains closed up to care about the
convenience of a squad of mounted men
under the command of a mere Sergeant
Even Generals found difficulty in making
their way along the crowded roads TO
their places.
As for Aids, whom it was every enlist
ed mans religion to dislike and jeer, they
got the hOarSe hoot from all sides.
20, go SWIM" the tired, impatient men
would yell. in response TO their pleadings
to make way, and let them through
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
YEARS WORK OF THE PENSION BU-
REAU.

| hEaO.
The abstract which Commissioner
Evans has given out of his report of the
operations of the Bureau of Pensions for
the year ended July /, has the following
figures:
For the fiscal year ended June 80, there
were 1862 names added to the pension
rolls, of which 44,S61 were original issues,
and 4,151 were reStorations. The Origi-
nal issues included the following: Invalids,
civil war, 20, ,443; invalids, war with Spain,
| 2,I95; survivors Mexican War, 10; sur
! vivors Indian wars, Z; widows, civil war,
! l9,S42; widows, war with Spain, 1,241 ;
widows, Mexican war, 152; widows, In
| dian wars, 49,; widows, ''old war prior
/ 1861" 6; widows, War of 1872, 3: nurses,
%. The increases, re-ratingS, etc, num-
| bered G0,043, making the total of 1O3,-
| 591 in 1900. The increase i'll the number
of pensioners on the rolls of June 80, 1901,
compared with the previous year, was
about $500. The number of claims pend
ing May 81, 1901, was 415, ,409, and on
June 80. 1897. 63J.059.
While there are less claims pending than
there Were atthe end of Democratic Ad-
ministration, there are entirely too many. So
far as these We're claims of veterans of the
rebellion and their widows and these prob
ably constituted nine-tenths of the whole
they show an astonishing mass of
cruelty and injustice. Every one of those
veterans is now in the neighborhoOd of 60
an age at which there can be no question
about his failing physical powers and his
need of the aid which the Government has
always given its veterans as they arrived
at that age, and for far less service than
lion.
AS the mass Of these applications were
under the Act of June y, where the max
imum is but SO a week, the minimum
S1.50, with the average $500. the niggard-
ly injustice and old-blooded cruelty of
these wholesale reflections will be at once
seen.
At the average annual value of S1GS.2S
of the pensions under the Act of June 21,
the $5,000,000 which Commissioner Evans
turns back this year would have put the
enormous number of $4,000 veterans
and their widows on the roll, and come
near clearing off the calendar those long
waiting men and women who have re
ceiyed nothing.
The strong pressure put on the Bureau
during the year has forced little depart I
ure from the tab-keeping on the grave
yards, and so there is the slight increase
of $500 more than would make good the
loss by death.
OF course, the large figures given for
increases" 're-ratings," etc, are mainly
cunning blindages to give show of having
done a great deal of work.
The saving of S5,0O0,00O indicates
clearly that when the full report comes out
we shall find the annual average value of
the pension rolls little if any increased.
1t may be, as has been the case since Mr..
Evans came in, that those under the Act
of June 2T,-the greater part of the roll
have been pared down still further-a few
more cents taken off each of the paltry
allowances made to those elderly men
and women.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
ONCE: Sc Pennsylvania Avenue n. wi.
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE

We have secured room 135. Hollenden
Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, for the headquar-
ters of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
during the National Encampment. This
is directly across the hall from the Ma
tional Headquarters of the G. A. R., w
r. c., and Ladies. of the G. A. R., and all
comrades are invited to make use of it.
They can make appointments to meet their
friends there, direct their mail to be sent
there, and otherwise make it their con-
yenience. We shall be glad to meet there
all the readers of the paper.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

OUR esteemed contemporary, the Wash
ington Post, which is near enough the
fountain head TO see the wheels 90 around.
and independent enough to laugh at the
ceasless humbuggery, cannot restrain the
laugh at times. 1t says editorially:
The Hon. II. Clay Evans has been
awarded a place in the New York Even
ing Posts hall Of fame. The Evening
Post says:
Unlike most men with a public contro-
yersy on their hands, Evans never takes
the first step to get into the newspapers.
Ihc representatives of the press have to
go in quest Of whatever they get on his
side of the quarrel. NOtOriety for its own
sake is something for which he has no
taste. Open TO approach by all, at work
so steadily from morning till night, that
he even has his luncheon brought to his
desk, he is never too busy to be cour-
teous."
1t may lie a triGe difficult for the Com
missioner Of Pensions to recognize him
self in this beautiful garb. As he sits
ut his oyerwOrked desk aid munches his
frugal luncheon he cannot but feel flat
tered by the encOmiums of his New York
journalistic admirer The Evening Posts
compliment is almost two columns in
length and we fancy that some kind
friend VIII take the pans TO see to it that
the committee on resolutions at the ap-
preaching encampment of the g. A. K.
will have a marked copy of the same"
The New York Evening Post has al
ways been one of the bitterest enemies the
veterans have had. AS the spokesman of
the English-toadying aristocracy of New
York, it always felt compelled to speak
with ccntumely Of the fighting in cur
war as compared with what English SOL
diers and English Generals would have
done. AS the representative of the i'm
porting interests in New York, it was al
ways bitterly opposed to pensions, because
they gave an excuse for tariff Naturally
it praises Evans.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

SECRETARY HAY has succeeded in get
ting Leonidas Economopoulis discharged
from the Greek army. The Orderly-S Ser
geant Of the company ought to be mighty
glad of it. Think of having to call that
name, while the rest of the company was
aching to break ranks. 1t is true that il
comes high up in the alphabet, and there
WAS probably an advantage to the lazy
ones of morning, who had more time
to turn out and fall in while the Sergeant
was struggling with all those syllables.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

AT last the papers have discovered a
man who draws three pensions, but unfor-
tunately for them he is a rebel. He is Il.
w. Ward, of New Orleans, who has lust
been put on the pension roll of the Illinois
Central Railroad. Besides this he draws
a pension from the United States for serv-
ice in the Mexican War, and one from the
State of Mississippi for service in the
rebel army. What howl there would
have been had he been Union veteran.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
PICKETT OR PETTIGREw?-THEN NORTH
CAROLINA VIEW OF THE FAMOUS
CHARGE

The North Carolina troops at Gettys-
burg have always felt particularly sore
over Pickett and his Virginians monopo-
Hzing all the credit for the famous charge
They insist that it was mostly North
Carolina affair, and not an exclusively
Virginia matter, as the Virginians would
make out. A pamphlet setting forth the
North Carolina views has been written
by Capt W. Z. Bond, of Scotland Neck,
n. c., and an officer on the staff of Gen.
Pettigrew. This has had a wide circula-
tion in the South. By the authors per-
mission we shall publish some extracts
from it in an early issue of The National
TTihnne
The National tribune., 1901-07-25
To be continued.)

CIGARS are given the italian soldiers
as part Of their rations, but they are a vile
creation, misnamed "Yirginias" and made
up of odds and ends, stuck together some
how, and with broomstraw through the
center, which must be pulled out to Sc
cure draft. They are, if possible, worse
than cigarettes, and almost anything can
be expected Of men who smoke them
daily
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

FREE passes must lie unusually near
Governor and a delegate draws a knife
and threatens TO cut the heart out Of the
Constitutional Convention, unless he can
have the legislation in regard to them that
he desires.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

Talk about having a cinch on an
Office: The Spragues of Massachusetts
have held on to the Consulate at Glib
raltar for 60 years, and the grandson of
the first Consul has been appointed to sue
ceed his own father, who has just died
Yet the Civil Service fellows complain
that our Consuls do not have a sufficiently
secure tenure of Office.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

HoN. JOHN W. BooKwALIER says that
there is going to be a clash all over the
world between capital and the farmers.
In this country the clash seems to be of
farmers slugging capital up against mort
cages, banks. and high-priced farm equip
mgnts
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

Now Austria is alarmed, and justly SO,
lest our factories take away all employ
ment from her shoemakers. The Ameri-
can shoes are so much superior to all
others, and so much cheaper, that there is
no competing with them anywhere.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

THE English papers are at length dis
covering that it will really make no differ
ence whether we are allowed to fortify
the Nicaragua Canal or not, because we
are in shape TO pretty effectualIy dominate
il. one Mav or annfher.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

NOT long ago the Lone Star State
Built all her hopes of growing great
Upon her long horned Texas steers.
But now with oil hes pastures gush,
And heading the petroleum push,
Onward to fortune Texas steers.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

IN THE turmoil in the Virginia Constitu-
tional Convention over the suffrage clause,
there has not been even a faint peep in
SAVIOR of woman suffrage.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

SOME Virginians are urging that every
man in the State who has $500 worth Of
property be given two votes. This would
make sudden rise in the assessment value
of host Of poor farms in the State. If
some Of them could only turn in their
dogs at moderate valuation, they would
have no trouble in making up the $500.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

SENATOR MCLAURIN has been given
another fat appointment in South Caro-
lima, for a Gold Democrat. a third verbal
thunder storm is now due.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

THE Kaiser has bought a blooded Ken
tuclly horse. If he is to play the Man
on Horseback, it viii be some satisfaction
to know that he has an American mount.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

SENATOR W. a. CLARK IS gobbling up
the Russian copper mines, and soon the
great Russian bear cannot get single
red kopeck without his permission.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

IT IS very easy to give a town a big
library fund. But to get people to read
and digest the right kind of books is quite
another matter.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

IT Is so singular that Evans alone
should be honest" and everybody in the
Grand Army so absolutely wrong.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

PAST Commander-in-C Chief John L. S.
Goblin IS said TO have aspirations to come
TO Congress. In redistricting a new dis
trict has been formed, in which Lebanon
County, his home, is united with Cumber-
land and Dauphin Counties. 4 better
man for Congress cannot be found in
Pennsylvania. He has plenty of ability,
courage and convictions, and would tower
up in the House, with few equals and no
superiors, in his knowledge of public af-
fairs and capacity to deal with them. 1t
is surprising that Pennsylvania has not
sent him to Congress long ago.
THE beautiful and scholarly address
upon Our Country" by Maj j-Gen. Wager
Swayne, in another column, will be read
and admired by all. There is no finer
figure among the veterans Of the rebellion
than Gen. Swayne. A young man OF fine
family-his father was an eminent lawyer.
and appointed by President Lincoln Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States-he went into the war as
Major of the 43d Ohio, and after long and
heroic service in the Army Of the Tennes-
see rose TO be a Brigadier General in the
Regular Army and breyet Major General.
He lost leg at the crossing Of the
Salkehatchie. He was placed on the re-
tired list, on account of his disability re-
ceived in line of dlty, and has become one
Of the leading lawyers Of New York City.
No warmer, more patriotic heart beats
than Gen. Swayne's, and it is united to a
brain OF commanding power.
The National tribune., 1901-07-25

The Army Runs Up Against the Siege Works
Around Savannah, and the Boys Start Out
to Find the Slips
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On the Tiareh to the Sea

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The age-herald., 1901-05-11
MAJORITY FAVOR PLATT AMENDMENT The Cuban Convention ReaS-
 sembIes Next Friday CONTROVERSY HAS ARISEN  Cubans Wanted Assurances That Gu ban Bonds Would Be Paid-Real
 Estate Spectators In Isle of
 Pines Uneasy.
CONTROVERSY HAS ARISEN

New York. May IDA dispatch to the Tribune from Havana says:
 'The constitutional convention will re- convene on Friday to discuss the report of the Washington commission. Members who were absent in different parts of the island have returned and there will be a full attendance.
 Some members favor accepting the re- port and then passing a resolution to ac- cept the Platt amendment as understood in the light of that report.
 Sentiment seems to be for early action, but some discussion Is inevitable, and a few radical members will criticise accept ance but will not seriously oppose it.
 ''Twenty-one members are now counted on to support the amendment, but they are not fully agreed among themselves regarding the form in which the conven- tion shall express its position. A majority want to go forward and adopt an electoral law so that the elections may be held in October.
 "A sharp controversy has arisen over charges that members of the Washing ton commission sought assurance from the administration that the Cuban bonds would be paid. They deny that this mat ter was included In the conferences with Secretary Root.
 "American real estate spectators who have been selling land in the Isle of Pines on the assumption that it was American territory, are nervous over the prospect of the United States getting naval stations on the main lands, aban- doning it's claims to the Isle of Pines
 General Wood has given dinner to the members of the Washington commits sion'