The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-02-08
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| Col. w. ID. Mann's first venture int
Journalism was the editorship OF Thu
Mobile (Aaa.) j. Register, in the year.
Immediately following the war. He also
ran for Congress on the Democratic
| ticket. but was beaten. when he aban.
doned Mobile and politics, and wen
into the seeepng-car business, to bs
frozen out by The panic Of 1872.
| Representative Pearre, of Maryland
denies that he is having any trouble ir
his district and says that there is but
one dfsaneOted Republican OF promi.
nence, and that he is in Montgomery
County. Ali the other Counties are
| solid for Pearpe.
Arthur 8. Hardy, ex-Minister tc
Spain, denies utterly that his appoint.
ment and promotion were due to the
| influence of the New York Independent
and OF the Bowen family. He says
also, that he did not offend the Presi-
dent three years ago by trying to secure
promise of his promotion.
The allegations are that Israel w
Durham, the Philadelphia boss, made
the office Of Insurance Commissioners
yield him 100000 a year in fees. He
neld the Office six years, but left 1t last
July. when he was succeeded by David
Martin, another boss, and is now In
California trying to recover his health
Whether Richard A. McCurdy and
his interesting family will be sued by
the Mutual Life Insurance Co. for a
restitution Of the enormous amounts
swiped out of the company's funds de-
ponds upon the decision of Joseph H
Choate. The Investigating Committee
has recommended the beginning Of such
suits.
Suits have been begun by the Equi-
table Life Assurance Society against
I q @ Iry1O 90 -
$72,0OO, which represents Hyde's prof
Its in certain syndicates which were
trading with the Society to their own
benefit and the Society's loss. Presi-
dent Morton also announces the begin
ming of suits against number of men
who have been profiting by leases and
in other ways to the Society's damage.
Feb. 1 Maj.-Gen. H. c. Corbin gave
up the command of the Philippines to
Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood and sailed for
Hong-Kong. Quite a ceremony attend
ed the transfer Of the command.
Gov. Pattison, Of Ohio, has been SO
Ill as to be confined to his house, but
assurances are given that the ailment
is not threatening. He has rheumatic
and nervous troubles. due to overtax-
ing his energies during the campaign
sign all official papers and transact
much business at his house.
Lewis P. Schaus Grand Master of the
Ohio Masons, has been acquitted of the
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. This grew out OF the failure
Of the Newark CO.. Savings Bank, of
which he was President. 1t was alleged
that he knew of the insolvent condi-
ton of the bank but still continued to
receive deposits.
Capt Mark Casio, Of the fishing
CO nn 0rfo hi Sfxr
men will receive medals and the sum
Of $4,000 from the Carnegie Hero Fund.
Capt. Casio and his crew, in a fierce
gale on Jan. IA, rescued the crew of
AZ and 10 passengers from the Clyde
liner Cherokee, which ran ashore near
Atlantic City N. J. This is the quick
est work done by the Fund Commits
sion, and the resolution was passed
unanimously. Capt. Casio gets gold
medal and $1.600, or so much of it as
is necessary to lift q mortgage on his
home at PIeasantville, n. J. A special
fund of $1,000 Is set aside for the edu-
cation of Mark Jacob Casio, the nine
the crew get $500, which will be placed
to their credit as savings fund for
two years, the income to be paid to the
beneficiary. They each obtain a medal.
Gov. Folk Of Missouri, uttered q
number OF striking epigrams in his
speech before the Boston Merchants
Association Jan. 90. One OF these was
that the people of the country are be-
ginning to try to get right rather than
to get rich" another was that "politi-
cal parties are beginning to learn that
honesty is, after all, the best policy"
a third was that "a CRATER is q CRATER
ali the same, whether a Republican or
Democrat" another. that every
law looks blue to the man who wants
70 L. hof ic a
cult to get good laws enforced than it
is to enact them" at
Comrade George H. Stottlemire, Co
b, 9th Ohio, is one Of the men who
can recall taking a direct shot at Gen.
Joe Wheeler. 1t was while the 9th
Ohio was guarding long train of
supplies from Chattanooga to Knox
vile. Wheeler suddenly came down
with his cavalry upon the rear guard
and put up a stiff fight. Wheeler rode
in advance of his men on a fine gray
horse, which attracted Comrade Stot-
tlemire's attention, who shot at him,
but the range was too long and the
bullet struck the dust in front of the
horse.
Gustave Conzman, for many years
Cashier of the VigO County National
Bank, has been sentenced to eight years
in the Fort Leavenworth Pententiary
1Of eInDeZEIlIS $ou,UUU ne lOSI the
money advancing 1T to candidates with
view of obtaining deposits.
Brig. A. W., Greedy has been
promoted to Major-General. He has
heretofore been Chief of the Signal
Corps, and attained fame while Ma
jor in that branch Of the Army by his
Arctic explorations. He entered the
service July 26, 1861, as private in
the 18th Mass, became Corporal and
First Sergeant and then received a COM
mission AS a Second Lieutenant in the
81st u. S. G.. Il. He was mustered At
in 1865 as Captain in that regiment,
and received Medal of Honor for dis
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