Evening star., 1946-03-24
Fifty Years Ago

Pedieu oA . Speelai from Lander,
Wyo., by way of Den
Shoshones yer, Colo printed in
Stirred Up" The Star of March 1s,
1896. The Indians re-
ferred to, it seems, had fair reason to
be excited. Jim Washakie, a grandson
OF the venerable chief of the same
name, had been shot through the
body and thigh" in a vain endeavor to
prevent Dick Lemoreaux and Cal O'Neal,
halfbreeds, and Frank O'Dell and Bill
Roberts, white men, from stealing his
wife and carrying her over the Mon
tana line. The abductors, apparently,
escaped with their victim, but "the doc
tor of the agency reports that the
wounds suffered by Jim are not neces-
sarily fatal and Capt. Wilson is scour-
ing the reservation in search of his
assailants." Meanwhile, the Shoshones
continued somewhat pardonably agi-
tated.
"The departure of the Queen on
Monday for the south Of France" ex-
planned an Associ-
Queen Victoria ated Press dispatch
In Distress from London to The
Star for March IA,
1896, "has drawn forth a pathetic ac-
count of the increasing feebleness of
her majesty. 1t is said that she is
evidently grieving greatly at the loss
of Prince Henry of Battenberg, who
was never tired Of waiting upon his
mother-in-law and who, no doubt, had
sincere love for the aged sovereign.
She was carefully wheeled on
board the royal yacht in a specially
constructed chair" Arriving at Cher
bourg in dismal fog, "she was escort
ed ashore, figure of woe, an
almost heartbroken woman mourning
her dead and seeming to take but little
interest in her surroundings, the fu-
neral aspect of which added consider
ably to the depressing nature of the
scene" The leader OF an infantry band,
Victoria was told, had composed "a
piece in her honor" and wished to have
it played. but her majesty would not
allow it."
In The Star of March 16. 1896, there
was published a story relating how:
Rev. Rodney
Fomous Evangelist Smith, more COM
HoIdine Forth monty known as
Gypsy Smith, be-
gan yesterday a two weeks revival
service in the Metropolitan Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the opening
meetings were attended by crowds"
The celebrated preacher, it was insisted,
"is a genuine English gypsy" and, ac-
cording to his own account, was con-
verted at the age of l6 by wandering
into Methodist meeting in England
and being SO impressed that he secured
Bible and learned to read"
"A footnote to the chronicle of the OBJ
servance Of the day sacred to the pa
tron of ireland was
St. Potriek's Doy printed in The Star
Incident for March II, 1896, in
the words: Cardinal
N1lDUOllS OCCuplcO d oCdt III Tile DcIlAtC
reserved gallery today in his cardinals
hat and robe. He was accompanied by
Rev. Father Gloyd Of st. Patrick's
Church" Perhaps his eminence on
that occasion, as on many others, re-
membered how he had begun his career
as q priest at st. Patrick's in Baltimore
in 1861, when he was 26 years Of age.
Consecrated a bishop at 34-the young
est in the universal Catholic hierarchy
and made archbishop at 43 and given
the red biretta at 50, he was 81 Just half
q century ago and had exactly IS years
and one week Of useful labor remaining
to him before he died on March "a, 1921
The Dictionary Of American Biography
says about him: "Of medium height,
slender and graceful. with well-shaped