Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-02-10


the most remarkable disappearin,
feat of our generation. His ability t,
break through a Gordon of New Yorl
reporters and drop, for such period
completely out of human ken at
time when he was as much In thu
limeHght as the president himself, ant
Just when the minds eye of the entire
civilized world was holding a very
vivid image Of his features, has beer
a feat almost as wonderful as would
have been his much Dragged of discov
cry of the "boreal center"
Our last previous mystery of dis
appearance-one of which yet remains
unsolyed-was that of Leon Ling, the
Chineman, who Is alleged to have
murdered Elsi Sigel, granddaughter Of
Major General Franz Sigel, and to
have packed her body into the trunk
wherein it was found last summer in
room over a New York chop suey
house. 1t has now been more than
seven months since this Oriental dis
appeared, and, despite the fact that
his photograph and complete descrip.
ton have been published broadcast
in the newspapers and are in the
hands of every police official in the
civilized world, his eclipse from the
sight of man remains as complete as
though the world had swallowed him
up. But Leon Ling had a running
start some days before the public be-
came acquainted with his crime or
his physiogomy, and his detection was
rendered unusually difficult by the in.
ability of our race to readily disting-
ash one Oriental of a given tyne
from another.
IT we should attempt to recall all
of the mysterious disappearance of
the past year we would soon have
several newspaper pages full and no
space left for the really remarkable
cases OF other years. read the Other
day that in year over $4,000 people
had been reported missing in London.
and that only one half of them, or
1880, had been accounted for; and
IL Is not unsafe to say that a like pro.
portion OF New York's population is
annually lost to sight within the
span of twelve-month.
Is Lost Grand Duke Here?
The most looked for of all of the
noted disappearers of the past years
is the Austrian Grand Duke Johann
Salvador, who, after falling into dis.
taVor at court by contracting a NOR.
ganatic marriage with Ludmilla Stu.
Del, a pretty Vinese comic opera
singer, mysteriously disappeared with
ner in England in a big ship, the
santa Margarita, in which he and his
beloved sailed away as plain "Mr and
Mrs. John Ortiz" They put out for
south America, touched at Monte.
video and July IL sailed thence for
Chlle. This departure from Monte.
Vedlo was the last authentic news the
world has had of the mysterious pair
some Shippers of the South Seas be.
heVe that the Santa Margarita was
wrecked while trying to round the
f1orh, while others have been SIRE
that they have seen her refitted and
sailing under another name
former soldier under the Archduke
mas confessed" to having met the
couple In Los Angeles and to have ar
copied bride to keep silent as to
the meeting, while various other an
tnorities have identified Johann Sal
Vator as Admiral Yamagata. hero q,
the Cnlna-Japanese war, as the com
mander OF troops in the Chilean rev
oiutlon OF the early nineties, as a
ranchman in Argentina and as the
leader of New Thought" sect in
Tacoma. In June. 1902, he was "posi
uVely seen" in London, while las,
summer his mystery was SOLVED" nv
a Chicago newspaper which devoted
the entire front page to story of 8
machlnlst working in a shop a,
Palneville, Ohio, who Confessed" tha,
ne mad come to America after his be
loved Ludmilla had been killed NV tbe
eruption at Mt. Pelee. Wherever To
mann Salvador may he, his cousin
FRANZ Joseph of Austria. believes hin
TO be still alive. He lately issued ar
edict that the large estate which
awaits the runaway in Austria be held
intact until 1917.
TWO Vanished Naval Officers.
Inc mysterious disappearance o.
TWO OF our naval officers troubled tbe
public for three years prior tn the
vanishing OF the archduke. Februar,
IL, 1887, Lieutenant Edward w Re
mey, brother of former Judge AID
vocate General William B. Remv. anf
OF Rear Admiral George C. Remev
walked down the gangplank of tbs
steamship Roanoke to be swallowed
In the mazes of New York City ant
never heard of more. Had he been j
man OF irregular habits there might
nave been some suspicion as to The
cause of his disappearance. hut he
was sober, highly esteemed anf
popular officer. with an irreproachable
record. Detectives of the world owe,
nave searched for him without AVIAN
Our other vanishing naval ofica,
was ex-Passed Assistant Eneinee,
Richard H. Buel, Son of Rev. Samue
Buel. then dean of the General The
illogical Seminary in New York. The
Younger Beul had served in the ctyi
war with distinction, and was a wei,
known figure in both naval and enyi
neering circles. December 90. 1889 h.
started from New York to Boston
but has never been heard of since. il
spite of the diligent efforts which hi,