The National tribune., 1903-08-13

! ! Feb. Q, 1850 March 6, 1902
Robert W. Thompson. for four years
Color Bearer of the 12Oth Ohio. died at
his home in Cleveland. July 81. He car
ried the flag through every one of the
engagements in which his regiment par
| ticipated. and came through the fighting
unscathed. He was 65 years old and had
lived in Cleveland all his life. except while
IN the army. The funeral was in charge
of Memorial Post. 1t is claimed that Mr..
Thompson is the last of the Ohio Color
| Bearers to die.
Comrade John B. Quick died at his
home. at Kingsville. Newburgh, N Y,
| July >. of heart disease He was a men,
Der of Co. a, 156th n. Y. and later trans
| fcrred to Co. ID, S5th Z. s. c. T.. as Sec
ond Lieutenant. He was a very good sol
| dier and saw much hard service. After
the war he returned to his profession.
teaching. and achieved much success. He
had been for many years Adjutant of Ellis
Post. J2, Department of New York, was
unmarried. and 4 strong friend and conf
| rade.
Maj. /. III. Burgoon, Commander of
Eugene Rawson Post. Fremont. Ohio, de-
| livered an eloquent tribute to the memory
of Comrade John l.. Greene at the time
Eugene RawsOn Post conducted his fu-
neral. COmrade Greene was the son of
! Hon. John l.. Greene ST.. who presided at
the first war meeting held in Fremont,
and enlisted in Co. G.. Sth Ohio, 10 days
after the firing on Fort Sumter. He was
| Second Sergeant of his company, and next
enlisted in the 169th Ohio, of which regi-
ment he was Adjutant. and then became
| Captain of Co. E., 1S6th Ohio. He was
| one of the earliest members of the G.. A.
r.. and never tagged in devotion to it as
nc hn tIynI 10
mapder of Eugene Rawson Post for sew
eral terms. and was always deeply inter-
eSted in its welfare. He was a fine law
yer and appointed Probate Judge by Gen.
X. B. Hayes. when Governor of Ohio, and
afterward elected to that office, and to the
| Common Pleas Bench, where he served
with great credit. His death is q severe
loss also to the bar of the State.
All comrades will regret to hear that
| Col. John W. Burst, Chief of the United
States Immigration Bureau of the
| Chicago District. has met with a severe
accident to the hip bone of the leg that
was badly shot and had to be amputated
during the war. The extent of his in
| Juries is so far uncertain. but there are
reasons for fear. He is now in the Ger
| man Hospital, Grant Place, Chicago, suf-
fering great pain. The G.. A. r. has no
| better comrade than Jack Burst and
none more popular throughout the Order
Any communications to him may be sent
in care of the German Hospital.
| Gen. A. p. Stewart, who commanded a
corps in the rebel Army of the Tennessee,
and is one of the Commissioners of the
| Chickamauga National Park. is lying crit
ically ill at his home in Chattanooga. He
was born in Tennessee, graduated from
| West Point in 1912, and resigned from
the Army in 1915. He is one of the few
surviving Lieutenant Generals of the Con-
federate Army.
Col. J. NJ. Holmes. one of the oldest
residents of OwensborO, KY. is lying crit
ically i'll at his home. He served in the
Mexican war under the noted Ben Nc
CullOch, and was in the Sd U. S. Cav.
during the rebellion. He has been a lead
ing PrOhibitionist in Kentucky. and several
times received nominations for important
offices.
Mrs. John III. Ketcham, wife of Gen.
Ketcham. Representative in Congress Of
the 21st District of New York, was ter
ribly assaulted by hall boy Aug 8,
whom she caught rObbing her apartments
at her sons residence in New York. She
entered the door to find him ransacking
the bureau drawers. He sprang at her
with a piece of gas pipe, with which he
struck her over the head and body several d,
times, and then tried to choke her to
death. He escaped, taking with him
gold watch and So, but leaving a lot of
other plumber which he had gathered up.
He was a negro IS years old, and the
police are in pursuit of him. 1t is feared
that Mrs. Ketclams injuries may result
seriously. as she is 90 years old.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson. late
of the United States Navy. proposes to
relieve the mOnotony of Ringrule in at
least one Southern Congressional district,
the Sixth Alabama. Failing TO get placed
on the retired list, he has resigned out and
out, and proposes to run for Congress.
His opponent is the present member. John
Hollis Bankhead man who served four
years in the rebel army and was wound
ed three times. has made the most Of his
military record, and is now serving bis
eighth term i'll Congress. into which lie
broke from the position of Warden of the
Alabama Penitentiary. Capt HobsOn
has grievance against Bankhead. whom
lie claims, prevented his being put on the
retired list on account of injured eye
sight. HObsOn also wants to get TO Con-
gress in order to push his ideas of a
larger navy. The District being sOlidly
Democratic. with only formal Repub-
lican vote the fight will resolve itself into
4 personal one in the primaries between
the man with Il flne confederate record
and the one who embellished the annals of
the navy by the sinking of the Merrimac,
and kissing more girls than any officer
now on the active list.
Brighten. \. +. Woodson. q. S. A,
retired. died at his home. in PaOla, Kan,
Aug. Z. aged 81. He had been in the
service II years. having entered May %,
1862. as Hospital Steward of the 1st
Wash. L. He became Il Second Lieuten-
ant in that regiment. and served to the
end of the war. when he was given
First Licutenant's commission in the Seth
L. $. At the time of his retirement he