The National tribune., 1906-03-01

Ex-senator Billy Mason says that
the contest, between Yates and Cullom
for the Illinois Senatorship Is going to
be much closer than most people ex-
pect. For himself, he is keeping strict
ly out, but two years hence will give
Senator Hopkins the run of his life, and
believes that he can carry 80 out of
100 Counties.
II A monument will be erected on a
bluff near Shepherdstown, w. Va, to
James Rumsey, who first successfully
applied steam to the propulsion of YES
, sells. He built q model in 1888, which
worked successfully upon it's trial on
the Potomac between Shepherdstown
and Harper's Ferry. The West Vir-
ginia Legislature has appropriated
$4,000 toward the monument, and an
association is collecting additional
funds. Rumsey was a native OF Cecil
Co, Nd, and a protege Of George
!. Washington.
Every little while somebody starts up
a story about some one being 1.-The last
of the '49ers." They forget that e. w.
Pettus, Senator from Alabama, after
serving as Lieutenant in the Mexican
War. came back to Alabama. was
elected Solicitor, and then resigning his
office on account of the Gold Fever,
rode with party of neighbors across
the country to California, in 1849, but
after a few years of mining decided that
Office holding in Alabama was an easier
life and more profitable, and returned
home to be elected Judge.
A meeting of Missouri Republicans
was held at Ozark, Feb. 10, at which
the Administration of President RoOse-
welt was strongly Endorsed, the election
of Maj. William Warner as Senator ap-
| proved and a resolution was adopted
reciting that the boom of the Senator
for President will not down and that
1t - a. 41x H.
i 1908 will forever place Missouri in the
| Republican column.
Albert Douglas who was nominated
for Congress over Gen. Grosvenor, is So
years old and a lawyer at Chillicothe.
He was a Presidential electoral large,
| President of the Ohio Electoral College
in 1896, defeated for the Republican
has dominated the politics of Ross
| County for years. He is a fine orator,
and his friends think that he will make
a brilliant member of Congress.
/ Maj. A. ]. Hammond, Sth u. S. Cav,
| died at the Preside of San Francisco,
Feb. 81, an event which gives deep sor-
i row to many friends around st. Louis,
where he served as second in command
1 Of the Jefferson Guards during the
Exposition. He was well known from
his having been stationed at Jefferson
| Barracks with the Sth u. s. Cav. He
Saw IL great uSdi OIL service Tic
l Spanish American War in Cuba, and
creditable reports were made as to
what he did. In his earlier service he
/ was in command of a troop that chased
Big Foot back to Wounded Knee
Creek, where the last great Indian fight
occurred in December, 1890.
Gov. Higgins denies that he has any
ambition to be Senator from New
York.
Prof. Gustavus r. Knabe died sud
denly at Knoxville, Tenn. Jan. 20, at
the age Of 80. Prof. Knabe made much
reputation as the leader of the band of
the I'd Ohio H A. When that regiment
went into East Tennessee it found him
living there dressed in homespun but
ternut, ;ands.iearned that he was a Ger
man., who had migrated from Germany
with his family to seek health In the
mountains Of Tennessee, but had been
i reduced to poverty nv. the war. He was
a graduate OF the Leipsic Conservatory
/ Of Music and a musician OF high repu-
tation. He showed such capacity for
| managing q band that the officers be-
came strongly interested in him, and
he was given a commission as Lieuten-
ant in the regiment. BY the time the
4 war ended the band OF the I'd Ohio H.
A., under his talented leadership, had
| made a reputation as one Of the finest
| in the army After the war Prof. Knabe
located at Knoxville and founded the
Academy Of Music, which he made a
i distinct success.
Mr.. Scott C. Bone, who was for many
i years managing editor OF the Washing
ton Post and made Of it a paper of the
highest class and interest, has accepted
an offer from William r. Hearst to be-
come managing editor Of the Chicago
Examiner. Mr.. Bone Is gentleman of
ly manifest themselves in the wider
field to which he has gone.
i Brig. Gen. James Ketner (retired)
died at his home in junction City, Kan,
last week Of grip and old age. He
| fought through the civil war with dis
tinction. He was a practicing attorney,
was prominent in Kansas Democratic
/ politics for many years, and once was
offered the nomination for Governor.
He was IS years old.
i William r. Warren, City Auditor
Of Ottumwa, Iowa, and one of it's best
known and highly-respected citizens,
| died Feb. IA. He was born in England
In 1913, but was brought here at the
age Of three, and at the outbreak Of the
war enlisted in Co. c, 9Th Ind. He was
severely wounded at Chickamauga. but
recovered in time to take part in the
i Atlanta campaign. where he was tax
| en- prisoner at New Hope Church, and
entered Richmond. He went to CT
tumwa in 1869 ana engaged IN the coal
business. and In 1904 was elected City
j Auditor. He was devout Methodist,
and an active worker In the Grand
| Army Of the Republic.
Ex-Congressman Robert Baker, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, says that the success
or failure Of the Democrats in New
York this Fall Is entirely question Of
men and method. If the reactionary
element Of the party controls. as in
i 1904, there is no hope of success. He
thinks that John Dewitt Warner or
4 Judge Samuel Seabury would lead the
i party to victory, but the logic of the
situation points to William r. Hearst.
Alfred NJ BARD, nephew of the mil
lionaire Ex-senator Bard, Of California,
was murdered In Brussels, 1t is alleged,
by beautiful French girl when she
found that he was about to leave her
and return to this country. Young
4 Bard was IN accomplished violinist, and
went to Brussels to take further in
4 struction. and became entangled there
with the girl. who was also q student
of music.
i The Grand Jury of the United States
District Court at Ashville has returned
two bills against q. Spencer Blackburn,
L Representative from the Eighth North