The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-29

his body the scars of wounds received a
Port Hudson, July IA. 1868, where hi
was taken prisoner, which put an end t.
his military career in the 4th Wis. which
he Joined at the breaking out OF the war
Senator Nelson tells a good story, and Is
one of the best-,iked men in the "Ameri
can House of Lords
Here is an oddity in claims. Among the
many thousands now pending before Con
gress is that presented by Jacob Ritters'
bach, 4 stage carpenter IL Fords Iheatei
| Oh the night of Lincoln's assassination Ii
is for the loss of his kit of tools. when
| he SAYS was stolen Immediately after the
tragedy.
Rittersbach il veteran of the war OF
| the rebellion. He was member OF Co:
II, 121th Pa. AS Booth, the assassin OF
Lincoln, leaped from the Presidents box
to the stage. and was running toward the
exit leading to the rear alley. Rittersbach
claims that he seized the flying man by
the throat, and tried to stop him. Booth,
however, continued his flight, pursued by
the stage carpenter.
| Rittersbach was promptly arrested as
Government witness after the tragedy,
and was incarcerated for 30 days IN the
| old Capitol Prison. 1t was while thus
| confined, he says. that his property was
stolen from behind the scenes Mt the thea
ter. In the course of the trial of Mrs.
| Surratt and other alleged conspirators,
Rittersbach was guarded back and forth
| from the prison to the court by two SOL
.diers with loaded muskets and fixed bayo-
nets. The claim has been presented
through Representative Grosyenor, OF
Ohio.
-
rI,. Coo,o∨o. af tho Dopracouto al iyaS
in Congress have organized themselves
into n social club. The men Secretaries.
Be it known many of the Secretaries to
congressman are women. and they are
very bright women, too. These are not
members of this new social club. One
of the brightest of these women, when
asked if she was going to join it. replied
with shrug of her shoulders and de-
cided mo. / have no time for social du-
ties,' she said 81 am occupied with my
work for Mr.. y. every waking minute, and
a good many that l ought to spend III
sleep" This bright woman is not slow,
either. She knows her Representatives
State like a book, and he entrusts to her
many of the more delicate duties of his Of
fee, because he says she has more iinesse
than he has. though, Of course, it is al!
Pension ma tiers, and "old business" on
claims which have to be pressed before
the War Department.
The rumor that Commissioner Ware is
to resign from the Pension Commission
ership is declared by Secretary Hitch
cock to be absolutely false. MIR. Ware
is not to leave the Bureau" he said. land
there has been no thought OF such a
thing"
Miss Alice Roosevelt has just been in
formed that a deaf mute baby, the daugh-
ter of deaf-mute parents, in Baltimore,
has been named "Alice Roosevelt" in her
honor. Such is fame! Miss Roosevelt
wrote the parents a very pretty autograph
letter acknowledging the intended honor,
and fraught with good wishes for the
health and happiness Of her namesake,
and everybody is happy.
A milkman named White died of ny
drophobia in Washington, few weeks
ago. He was bitten by two bull pups be-
longing to Mr.. Keenan,, proprietor OF
the Gordon Hotel, where he was deliver
ing milk at the time. His widow has
sued the proprietor for $4,000 damages.
The complainant does not state whether
or no her husband was trying to make
the dogs drink the milk he was delivering,
when. they developed the rabies, which
made them attack the milkmaD.
Miss Helen Miller Gould was a guest
in Washington last week, attending the
Y. NJ. G.. A. Convention, to whose inter-
ests she is particularly devoted. Miss
Gould is a little dark thing, not pretty,
but most charming personally. and as I'M
affected as possible. She might be the
daughter of a well-to-do business man, SO
far as looks go, and she wears fewer furbe-
hon tt,a cbpp Girl Sha 10
intensely in earnest in everything she
does, but she is very quiet about it. Her
charities amount to millions each year,
but Helen Could is ;iot blazoned ON q
single dollar of it. She literally follows
the Scriptural injunction TO "let not thy
left hard know what thy right hand
doeth." She seems to be as ievel-headed
as her father was before her, and is just
as transformations about it.
Miss Gould is adored by the younger
soldier element, for whom she did so much |
in hospitals, libraries, and in many other
ways during the Spanish-AmericaE war.
Just nos she is especially interested in the
Y. NJ. G. A. work. In n little interview
the other day, Miss Gould declared that
every army post and navy station where
floats the Stars and Stripes should have
an Auxiliary Branch of the Y. NJ. G. A.,
n.
Continuing, Miss Gould said:
ITO some it may seem superfuous and
inappropriate that women should be en-
gagged in work for the benefit of man, and
yet, with the conditions ruling in our coun-
try, it seems to me particularly fitting that
some of our efforts should be directed
toward his welfare.
''In the United States women are ac-
corded nriyiipVQc and nnnarfuuitioc fl,au
are given nowhere else in the world. They
have greater protection before the law,
and many of them have beautiful leis-
ure, which they highly prize. All these
things have come through the chivalry and
the ardent self-sacricing labor of our men,
and it seems peculiarly appropriate to me
that we should show our appreciation of
all we have received by devoting some of
our time and thought to movements that
benefit the men of the country. One of
the finest among these is the Young Mems
Christian Association, which recognizes
not only the physical and intellectual ma
tHre, but the spiritual as well, and holds
up as an example the ideal man-Jesus
Christ"
Comrade George p. Condict, 18th N. T..
bennington, Wyo., is in the city with ref |
erence 10 his business with the Post-office |
department, he being contractor for one
oil the routes in that city. He is ranch
man by profession.
Gen. Haywood has n little interpecine |
war on in his celebrated Marine Band. |
A discharged member, an freshman with |
an Italian name, declares that Leader
Santeimann makes the band play more
German compositions than any other. and
lie objects. He has with him Italian,