The National tribune., 1906-04-12


| promoted from Lieutenant Colonel of
! Engineers. was last week placed upon
the retired list. Born in Illinois. he
enlisted in the 9Th Wis. one Of the
fighting regiments" and was promot-
ed to Corporal and Sergeant Ma jor In
September, 1863, he received an ap-
| pointment to West Point from South
| Carolina, and graduated four years
later at head of his class. He reached
the grade of Lieutenant-Coloneli in jan
| uary. 1904. and was for a term Engi-
neer-Commissioner for the District OF
Columbia. where he made a wide circle
of acquaintances. He retircs on ac-
count Of ill health.
Capt. George f. O'Neai, who be-
longed to the 30th Ohio. is now living
in retirement in Steubenville, o. He
was for many years a pilot Of the first
class on the Ohio River When volun-
teers were called for to take the trans
ports past the batteries Of Vicksburg
Lieut.. O'Neal and nine men from his
company were accepted and took
charge Of the steamer Silver Wave. in
| which they made the trip successfully
| only one shot striking the boat. After
the army made it's crossing at Grand
Gulf Comrade ONeal, with his men,
reJoined his regiment in the rear OF
Vicksburg. He was one Of the selected
storming party of $50 men on May %
and succeeded in planting the flag or
the goth Ohio on the rebel fortifica-
tons. In this engagement he was struck
four times. but all were flesh wounds
Ex-senator Thomas Kearns. Of Utah.
with some other managers of the King
anu 1xnC
100000 for unlawfully taking ore, and
1t is possible that other claims will
bring the amount up to several millions
Of dollars.
Mrs. Mary SELF. of Washington Town
ship, Morrow County, O.. was left a
widow three years ago with three small
children and nothing to support the
family but an old-fashioned grist mill
upon which was a mortgage. She was
then 33 years old. She took hold Of
the mill. has managed it most success
fully and does most Of the work her.
self. only hiring assistance in the very
busiest season.
Representative Hull has given notice
Of suit against George L. Dobson. his
competitor for the Congressional nomi-
nation, because Dobson declared in
opening his campaign that Hull had
used the Office for his personal enrich
ment; that he was in league with
Rockefeller and Wall Street, and had
corruptly used money to secure his
denomination two years ago. Capt. Hull
says he does not propose to make any
reply 10 these charges. expecting an
appeal TO the cOurts to do him justice.
Hon. Allen Smalley, formerly a COM
mon Pleas Judge. and prominent in
Ohio politics and the C. A. r., died near
Bloomdale. o., April 6. of pneumonia.
The affairs Of Zion have eliminated
in the unanimous action OF those in
authority TO Dust the Reincarnated
Elijah, John Alexander Dowie. from all
connection with and control OF the COM
munity. The news was communicated
to Dowie in a telegram which accused
him OF extravaganza. hypocrisy. mis-
representations, exaggerations, tyranny,
injustice, polygamous teachings and un-
endurablc squandering Of the communi-
tvs money. This dispatch was signed
by Wilbur Glen Voliva. General Over
seer; William Hammer Piper. Overseer
for Chicago; Harry Eugene Can.el.
Oyerseer for United Kingdom: Harvey
d. Braseiield. Vice President Zion Uni
versity: Overseer John Excel. General
Ecclesiastical Secretary. and John q.
Speicher. Overseer for Zion City.
Dowie protested. and sent a telegram
deposing Voliva, but this was treated
with contempt. and he was informed if
he resisted at all that exposures would
be made which would blast him for
ever. 1t is asserted that Dowie squan-
dered $1.000.000 belonging to the COM
munity. and that he reduced thousands
to suffering by his Encouragement. His
wife and son have turned against him..
Mrs. Dowie says that she has had an
awful time for two years. and frequent
ly called upon her husband to repent
and tell the people how he had wronged
them. Gladstone Dowie is said to be
ready to make startling revelations. All
OF the household effects of Shiloh
House, including DoWie's horses, car
riages. library and even his bed, have
been taken. The physicians say that
he is very sick from paralysis, dropsy
anu pulmonary troubles.
Col. Edward NJ. Mobley died at Ha-
gerstown, Md, OF paralysis, aged 81
He was born in Frederick and was the
son of a man who served as drummer
in the War of 1912. He was one Of the
loyal Marylanders of the mountain re-
gion. and raised company for the 7th
Md. Of which regiment he became Ma
jor and brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. The
7th Md. belonged to the famous Mary
land Brigade, which served in the
Eighth Corps, Armies of the Shenan-
doah and West Virginia. until July,
1868. when it was assigned to the Army
Of the Potomac, finally bringing up in
the Fifth Corps. The regiment was
terribly shattered in the fighting in the
Wilderness and at Spotsylvania.
The death at Portland. Ore, OF Lieut.
Col. Theodore j. Eckerson, U. S. A.,
retired. takes from the Army list pos |
sibly the man of longest service upon |
it. Col. Eckerson enlisted in 1888 in |
the Sd U. s.. and during the next 10
years OF service was promoted to Cor