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npgllP ' $? " OUR NOBLE DEAD" Memorial Erected in Ohio to Coafederate Soldiers Who Died * i DURING WAR IN PRISON Dedicatory Exercises Held on John* c ? son's Island Wednesday.?-Monu- a ment Unveiled by Daughter of a Noted Southern Patriot.?Culmi- ' I nation of Movement. In the presence of several hundred 11 Southerners, representing nearly all ' of the States in the Confederacy, a 1 c monument to the memory of 206 j, Confederate officers and privates, s buried on Johnson s Island, Sandusky j Bay, Lake Erie, was dedicated Wednesday. f The monument, erected by the ^ Robert Patton Chapter of the United i: Daughters of the Confederacy, of j Oinciimatti, was unveiled by Mrs. g hiary Patton Hudson, of Cincinnatti, e daughter of Robert Patton, a noted e Southern Ranger. o The dedicatory address was delivered by Gen. Geo. W. Gordan, of t Memphis, Tennessee, commander-in- s chief of the United States Veterans, f Other addresses were delivered by s Gen. Bennett H. Young, of Loui6- n ville; Joseph A. Mangus, of Cincin- n /natti, and Sir Moses Ezekiel, of n Rome, Italy, designer of the monu- ti ment. Sir Mobcb Ezekiel was a sol- i> dier under Gen. Robt. E. Lee. The movement to erect the staue w originated with the Robert Patton i> Chapter of the United Daughters of o the Confederacy, of Cincinnati, Ohio, a The chapter purchased the come- a tery in 1908, when it was found that the spot around which so many his- tl torical memories clustered was be- p ing negiecieu ana pracucauy anan- ti doned. Its only visitors were the S| veterans of a Grand Army Post, who ni every Decoration Day held memorial services for their former foes. Prior to this, however, one effort had been made to save the cemetery from the neglect into which it had fallen. In 1889 a party of editors and officials of the state of Georgia visited the island. They saw only broken fences and weed-grown tc mounds. Stirred by the sight, th^y tj returned home and raised a fund, which provided headstones of Georgia marble for each of the 206 ? graves. It was then found that 54 of them must remain nameless, for the memory of the buried had van- m ished w Lieut. Col. William HofTman, Fed- hl eral commissary general of prisoners, leased forty acres of land on John- l( son's Island in the fall of 1861 from ai L. B. Johnson. The intention was to * use this land solely for the accom- 111 dation of Confederate officers and, although during the subsequent years of the war small bodies of privates 01 were from time to time sent to the w island, it was usually through error and they were invariably promptly drafted to other prisons. The island lies in Sandusky Bay. about three K miles from the town of Sandusky, a and the post who known officially as \\ "Depot Prisoners of War, Johnson's A Island, near Sandusky, Ohio." ni The greatest number of prisoners b confined on the island at any one ei time was about 3,000. This was G just prior to the close of the war. All In all, about 10,000 officers and 'soldiers were imprisoned there and ir 220 deaths were recorded. Fourteen f( of the dead were budied on the main- land. t< When the first prisoners died Mr. tt Johnson gave his consent to their b burial on the island, and the ceme- ri tery was laid out under his personal tl direction. No lease on the land was ei ever executed, and no compensation st given for its use. Subsequently, at the close of the war, Mr. Johnson, tl at his own expense, built a wire ti fence around the plot and kept it N in repair for several years. Later rr on an officer from the Columbus Fed- E eral barracks visited the island and h had the original fence removed and hi a more substantial one erected in pi its stead. . b; For many years afterwards the ai cemetery was allowed to fall into tc decay, until ip 1881, the Veterans of McMeens' Post, Grand Army of tl the Republic, of Sandusky, Ohio, paid ei a generous tribute to the men who fa had fought against them. They had C the cemetery weeded and cared for, ri and on the Memorial Dny following st held services there similar to those T held over the Union dead in Oak- fa< land Cemetery, Sandusky. se Every succeeding Memorial Day up ta to thrno voara a wa t \\ x* v /.a V V.. . w I. I CT upvr val I ICU V/Ul similar services. As the veterans cc were all men in advanced years they bl were forced to discontinue their trips le to the Island. "They decided also In tc view of the fact that up to that time O practically no interest had been m shown in the Confederate graves by dl either the relatives or friends of is those buried t.here, there was no Si demand on them to continue the ei services.. This action by Grand Army post became widely known and drew the ai attention of the various Confederate M organizations throughout the conn- M try to the neglected conditions of one of the most memorable landmarks tJ of the great struggle. The Daugh- T WARNS THE DAGOES COMMANDER HINES INI>UIXJE8 IN STRAIGHT TALK. ie Threaten* to Annihilate the Xtcaratcuan Forces If American Vessel is Molested. There seems to be some danger if a collision between the American ind Nicaraguan forces at Bluefields. 'At the first shot fired against the American flag or an American vessel, will level the bluff." This is the reply made by Comnander Harold K. Mines, commandng t.he American gunboat Dubuque, o a threat made by General Rlvas if the Madriz force holding Bluelelds bluff to stop by force any vesel8 of whatever nationality enterng the harbor. General Rivas had practically deled the United States, declaring that le will disregard the proclamation ssued from Washington on May 31 o the effect that the United States government will deny the right of ither faction to seize American ownd vessels or propery without consent f recompense to the owners. He has warned Commander Hin-?s hat he will prevent by force reardlcss of flag, any further vessels rom entering the harbor. In reponse to this, the American comlander at once sent him the above lessage, which would mean the anihilation of the handful of Madrix roops now remaining in this neignorhood. A serious situation has thus arisen hich may involve the United Stater, ut the Americans here are of the pinion that General Rivas will not ttempt to make good his threat in n effort to collect custom duties. There are constant rumors of ireats against the liie of Thomas . Moffatt, the American consul, and le whole situation fet Bluefields, Intend of quieting, has assumed a lore serious aspect COLD IS DUE TO COMET, sheville Weather Prophet Predicts Frost Every Month. John P. Arthur, an Asheville hls>rian and student, after an invesgation of the weather conditions of 835, and oomparing them with those f this year, says: "Frost will occur every month of te year in which Halley's comet akes its appearance. In 1835 there as frost every month, and there as been frost every month cf this ?ar. In 1835 the crops, due to i )!d weather, were a total failure, ad starvation of the inhabitants i as prevented only by heroic efforts l hauling from Charleston, S. C., i aough foodstuff to tide them over alley's comet is undoubtedly the luse of the extremely unreasonable eatlier this year." Murderer Arrested. Dispatches from Bowling Green, y., tell of the arrest of a man who new era the description of Joseph "endling. wanted for the murder of Ima Kellner. The police say the lan talked incoherently of having lood on his bands. He had been mployed as a laborer in a Bowling reen mill only a week. It is predicted that trolb-y fares lust rise, but as almost everyone ?elc that they can afford automo>rs of the Confederacy became inTested. The campaign was headed y the Robert Patton Post, which Used the funds for the purchase of le cemetery and then issued anotiir appeal for a fund to provide a .1 itable monument to the dead. Money was liberally contributed iroughout the South, and a substaual amount was also raised in the orth. The commission for the lonument was given to Sir Moses zekiel, who executed the statue in is studio in Rome and shipped it ere a few weeks ago. The first holographs of it will be copyrighted y the Daughters of the Confederacy ad sold, the proceeds to be added i the monument fund. The statue occupi* s a position on le shore of Sandusky Hay, near t.he it ranee of the island cemetery, and ices to the south. It represents a onfed' rate soldier in uniform The ght. hand clutches a musket, the ock of which rests on the ground, he left hand is raised to the forefad, shading the eyes and the figure terns to be peering into the far disince, toward the southland. The statue rests on a pedestal, mstructeil of South Carolina marie. upon which is engraved in large Iters "Krected by the Robert Pat- , >n Chapter, United Daughters of the onfederacy, of Cincinnati, Ohio, in envory of the Southern soldiers who led in the Federal prison on this land during the War Between the tates. Dead, but sceptred sovergns who rule us from the dust." On the base is this inscription, The stone upon this was incrlbed ad placed by the Grand Lodge of llsslssippi, In remembrance of the lasons who sleep here." On the ends of the base stone are le words. "Confederate Soldiers, hey were Masons." LIKE OLD TIMES i Details From Indian Massacre State That They Committed HORRIBLE ATROCITIES The People Were Forced to Flee From Their Hom??s, and That the Savages Tortured Their Victims Before Massacreing Them in the II...1.I u 1*1 U UU .'lniilllT. With telegraph wires cut and operators murdered or forced to flee for their lives, definite information Is lacking as to the present situation at Valladolid, Yucatan, the scene of & bloody massacre by Indian insurgents several days ago. Meagre advices received by the government authorities estimate the number killed at forty. j More than two thousand Indiana are said to have been engaged in the attack upon the towns. The insurgents held Valladolid at last accounts having fortified themselves in the jail and other buildings. A force of federal and 6tate troops and volunteers numbering more than 2,000 men. was concentrated at Dritas, a short distance from Valladolid, and was about to march upon the rebels. Those engaged in the uprising are chiefly Indians who never have been submissive to authority. Reports as to the cause of the outbreak are conflicting. Some declare that it began with a protest against certain orders issued by the civil officer In charge of the municipality, known as the "Jefe Politico," while others say that it was the result of a drunken spree. Whatever the origin, it appears to have had some semblance of organization and is said to have been led by political malcontents. Col. Honilla Montenegro, formerly at the head of the civil government of Valladolid is said to have been in command of the raiders. The first attack was made upon the building where all public offices are located. The mob was armed with machetes, pistols and guns. After sacking this building the rioters turned their attention to the Jefo Politico named Regil. The battle had begun in the night, and it was 2 a. m. when the attack was made on the building where Regil and many citizens had taken refuge. A bloody butchery followed. The wife of Regil left her four children and went to the assistance of her husband, seeking through her tears and prayers to reach the hearts of the infuriated raiders. Regil was cut down before her eyes, and his l>ody hacked to pieces. The wife, also is said to have been murdered, as were all the men in the building, numbering some twenty in all. Later the five or six gendarmes in the town met a similar fate. The people of the town were terrified. Many fled in the direction of Merida. The mob surged through the town, crying for blood and pillage. Victor Ojeda, judge of the first instance, fell into their hands, and was assassinated. Other victims were Florentino Scharretta, commander of the police; Jose Maria Hernandez, second in command; Pedro Hernandez, mayor of the town. Jose E. Triav, chief of the telegraph office at Vallodolid; Alonzo Vannuvia and Demetrlo Rivero, merchants, whose stores were also sacked. It is said that Triay, chief telegrapher, was put to death after suffering horrible tortures. FATAL TRAIN CRASH. Three Men Killed and Twelve Are Hadly Injured. Three men were killed outright and twelve injured at three o'clock Thursday morning when Iron Mountain fast mail train for Texas, which sarried no passengers left the tracks near St. Louis, and crashed through the brick wall of a manufacturing plant. The bodies of Engineer W. It. Douglas, of DeSoto, Mo., and Fireman R. D. Shepard, St. Loius, were not found until long after firemen who had responded to an alarm arrived to aid the survivers of the crew. The body of Mail Clerk Jasper L. Lasater, of St. Louis, was found In his car, which .had been crushed by another car. ax aggressive campaign Wholesale Liquor l?ealers Lay Plans for Defeating Prohibition. An aggressive campaign against sumptuary laws was planned by the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' association in Cinclnnatti on Tuesday at a conference of state presidents of the organization. Previously delegates to the annual convention of the body had listened to addresses in which it .v <s argued that the association members had remained too long on the defense and that a firm stand wo i.d be taken for the enactment and enforcement of regulatory statutes by whlc-h. disreputable saloons might be eliminated. REPUBLICANS ARK SCARED. Democrats Stand Good Chance of Capturing Maine. A dispatch from Portland. Maine, says as the two big State conventions draw near?the Democratic on June 25, and the Republican on June 29 ?coservative Republican leaders, admit that this rock-ribbed Republican State 1b in doubt. The Democrats are especially hopeful of carrying the first and second congressional districts and are working hard to elect their candidates to the next Legislature which must choose a successor to Senator Eugene Hale, who has announced his retirement. At the Republican State convention Govenor Fernald in all probability will be renominated by acclamation. Before the Democratic convention at Augusta, there will be two candidates seeking the gubernatorial nomination, O. Gardner of Rockland and Frederick W. Plaised, the preBenc mayor of Augusta. No Democratic candidate for Senator has been named. BOUGHT WAY IX. Former Senator Says Fifty Per Cent, of Seats Purchased. "I believe that 50 per cent of the seats in the United State senate can be said to have b<ren practically purchased." This statement was made recently at Chicago by former United States Senator William E. Mason, in the course of an interview. Mr. Mason denied a report that he had said he heard at Springfield, before the elction, that the senatorial toga would go to the highest bidder. "I have two democratic state representatives who will give important evidence before the special grand jury in regard to the alleged bribery in the election of William Lorimer as United States s- nator," said States Attorney John H. Wayntan. ESCAPED AN AWFUL DEATH. / Indians Getting Heady to Torture a Sup|M?sed Witch. Driven by fear of death at the hands of her tribe whose members believe her to be a witch, Mamie G. Holmes, a Indian girl, sixteen years old. Jiar walked for more than a hundred miles from the Coachila reser vation to Santa Manuel reservation near Highland, Cal. The girl was taken in charge by Indian Agent Hoyce, who says he learned several days ago of preparations to torture and kill her. She will he sent to the government school at Phoenix. Sufficient proof to the Indians that the girl is a witch were the facts that several on the reservation became ill. a pumpkin withered after the girl's shadow had fallen on it. and a dog chained up in front of her parents' shack howled all night. She was shunned, and one evening when she saw the aged braves gather on a hill at sundown and indulge in strange rites she slipped away and was four days reaching the Santa Manuel reservation. In fear of being pursued she would hide in the daytime. She was found by officers of the reservation as she was about to redeem herself from "witchhood" in accordance with one of the superstitutions by Indians by bathing in the waters of the Arrowhead. Killed for Nothing. Apparently without cause, Ben Harper fatally shot Isaiah Jackson, near Langley, in Aiken county, Saturday night. It is stated, by other negroes present, that Jackson asked Harper to let him see his pistol, whereupon Harper pointed the pistol at him, saying, "do you see it?" and fired. Jackson died almost immediately. Fifty-nine handsome granite monuments, with bronze tablets, are being placed on Confederate avenues to take the place of the iron battlefield markers which have marked the positions of suut.hern brigades at Gettysburg. The new brigade markers cost approximately five hundr> d dollars each. Goes to Liberia. President Taft nominated William D. Crum, of South Carolina, to be minister resident and consul general at Monrovia, Liberia. Crum is hhe j <ve>u nuuK,' tt|i|iui uiiin'iir i?y .Mr. Roosevelt as collector of the port at Charleston raised such a storm of protest in South Carolina. Held Live Wire. ? In sight of a younger brother with whom he had gone hunting young birds, Harry Eulerg, 17 years old, was electrocuted by coming in contact with an electric wire when he ' climbed a pole to get a nest. The accident .happened in Chicago. OonfesM's the Crime. At Seattle. Wash., a negro soldier. ' confessed that he was the one who ^ had assaulted Airs. Redding. He ( said he was drunk when he attacked her. He plead guilty and was ( sentenced. * THIS CURIOUS INK PISH. *"* Fbe Veracious Seaman Relates Soma of Its Wonderful Doing*. "You talk about fights with sharks and sighting sea serpents," said Third Officer Carl Ducks, of the German steamship Alleghany, as he leaned orer the chart table. "Do you see that spot on tbo map in the Bay of Bengal? Well, we were becalmed there for a week when 1 was working before the mast on the full rigged ship Arethuaa ten years ago. There bad not been as mmh as a breath of air stirring for a week and all of us lay around despondent and nopeless, tor the Bay of Bengal ta not the happiest plaoe in the world to be becalmed In. "The skipper had no orders to give, so didn't give any. and no one of us In the fo'cs'le knew what to do with himself. On the seventh day when this Idleness got on our nerves and we were lazily drifting with th? currents, the man at the wheel suddenly discovered that the Arethusa as being pushed over to port, notwithstanding that he had his wheel hard over endeavoring to kenp the vessel In a straight course. "None of us could understand It, for there did not seem to be as much as a small current In the sea and there surely was not a puff of wind In the flapping canvas. "Suddenly Metzger. the bos'un, leaned over the starboard rail forward and polnteu excitedly to the water below. All of us ran to him and there dimly visible and almost entirely submerged, was a huge Infer fish close to our starboard side. Si CARVTNO THE IN'vKISH. "Because the Ink flu* had spread her peculiar coloring on the waier bout her we coald hardly make her out. It is a peculiarity of the Inkflsh, this spreading; of a haze around her. I think here you call the Inkfish an octopus. Whichever It is, ours was actually pushing our 3.000 ton ship over out of the course to which the helmsman was trying to keep the Arethusa. "The captain ordered a harpoon brought out and the hook was dropped right on top of the lnkflsh, catching the monster amidships, and she a as. with the aid of a block and tackle, rigged to the foreyard, soon high and dry on the fo'c'sle deck. "One of th? boys was Investigating the monster which weighed every ounce of seven hundred pounds wnen suddenly out shot one of the dozen tentacles from the lnkflsh. When that was withdrawn another would shoot out, and in this way the lnkflsh bent our foward stanchious, twisted the rat! Into * shapeless mass and llirAfift PlHn AVwl Hnmnor-. nil ' v ? - m>u huu uaumgc ail UYCI IU? forward section. "Darmsadt, the carpenter, had a bright tuggestlon. None of us couU get near to the Inkflsh whose arms were about twenty or twenty-flv* feet in length, and which were now swaying ail around, keeping the crew at a safe distance. The carpenter brought an axe and when the first arm reached his vicinity off came five feet of tentacle. He kept this up with each tentacle in succession until the dozen arms of the inkfish had been shortened by five feet. Then he got nearer and again mads the 'rounds' as the arms were shot forward toward him. "Finally, when the inkflsh had only a dozen stumps left and Darmstadt could get close enough to the monster, he gave It one blow between the little doorknob like eyes and that was the end of the Inkflsh on the Arethusa. As the final blow was struck home that inkflsh gave forth a squeal just like a rabbit. 1 never knew a fith to be able to utter a sound. But the death squal of that octopus inkfish will never leave my ears.'* Surprise for an Oyster Shucke*. As George Schuck was opening oysters in the Susquehanna House, Catawlssa, he opened one that gave him a surprise. It was apparently as BOlld and as sound as any he had opened, but when he removed the bell he found therein a entail tUh about two Inches In length and a small hard-shell crab, the top of whloh was three-fourths of an Inch In width, ^he fish was plump and life-like, though dead, but the crab was as lively as a cricket. There wag no sign of an oyster In the shell, which was 2*^x4 laches.?Philadelphia Record. The Pet Dogs of Paris. In Paris dogs are treated as well as human beings are. They wear automobile togs when they go motoring, they hrve s hospital, and they even bavo a good-sized cemetery, with monuments and heact tonea, and lnacrlptlona and mortaary wreatha. ' | AN EXTREMELY S | PARTICULAR & The woman wit fa the strlpea wool* s shawl tied round her chin took Prom her mouth the last sample of cal'.co she bad been chewing and oarefully Inspected U to sec If tbe color had run, says the Chicago News. It had not. but she was not ent rely satisfied. "I'm In no rush," she observed te the storekeeper. "I reckon I'll look around for a spell afore ] settle oa tt. 1 may glt better suited." The woman went, nevertheless. *'8he's like Clav Hulbut." remark* ed Washlngt >n Hancock." Clay was one of them feilora alius wanted to look around fer a spell afore he gav# up any of his good money. I reckon Clay never bought a thing or made a trade tbe first time of as** In In his hull born days. He ha?t an Idea he'd glt better suited somewhere else whatever It was he UiCk Of CQ IUI , "Seems to me like hoss sense not to Jump at the first thin' at's offered," said Sol Baker. "That's what Clay said when Silo Fetors offered him $2 for $1.75," nld Hancock. "Slle had a bet uj> on It. Clay come into the bank to see If he couldn't git a chattel mortage blank for less'n five rents, which was what the recorder wanted to charge him. an' Slle told him that he couldn't let any go at less'n 18 cents or two for a quarter. 'I'r? got some |2 bills here that I'll let you have cheap, though. Clay.' ho ays. 'They're a leetle might woro an' I've more o' them In stock than 1 need. If you'd like to take about 50 of 'em off my hands, you caa have 'era for 1X7.50.' An' he handed out a bunch with a paper band pasted around them. " Seems like that's reasonablo enough,' suys Clay, after sludyin' awhile. 'Tell ye, though, thero ain't no hurryln' rush about this. I'll go over to the Drovers' bank an' Be? what Keating lg offerln' 'em for. If he can't make a better tlgger I'll come back and take these. You keep em to one side fur me.' "Then he went over to Keat n| an ast him what he was selling $2 bills for In lots o 50: That's tb? honest truth." "If Keating was alive now, he'd bear me out." said Hancock. "You can write to Sile Peters If you like, an ast blm If It wasn't bo. He's la St. Joe now, If be hasn't moved away since I last heard of him. "1 remember standln' behind Clay at the t'eket seller's stand me tlmo when the clrcja came to town. 'Hoar are you a-sellln' tickets today?' say* Clay. " "Two b'ta gen'ral admission an* reserved seats 60 cents,' says th# feller. 'How many do you want.' " 'That the best you can do?' sayU Clay. " "Heln It's you, I'll make It half a dollar fur reserved Beats 'an 2S cents general admission," says th? feller, wlnk.n at me. " 'Well,' says Clay, puttln' up ht? weasel, I reckon I'll look around A fell fust.' " "That's all right." maintained Hater, "(if course there's such % thing as pushln' It to fur. but sup* pasln' Kufe, here, bought his goods from the fust drummer 'at corns along 'thout Inqulrln' round to ses what the others was a-sellln" an* what they charged. If you want to buy a cow. you'd look around a spell, too. wouldn't you?" "Not If you come to me an" told me the cow you'd got was kind an* gentle an' young an' a good milker an' worth tha money you ast for her." replied Hancock blandly. "Clay would come to town after groc'rles an' put In the hull day lookln* around an' then go home ihout ?o much us tlllln' his m'lasses Jug. Hs put ofT buyln' his seed p'taters till It was too late to plant 'em, even If there'd been any left to plant. Most gen'rally he'd pay two prices for what he could have bought at half price If he had the gumption to snap at a bargain. "He was over 30 years old afor# he got married, he wns so hlame pernickety an' partlckier about th* kind o' gal he wanted. He'd go around and set up with fust one an* then another an' flgger on what kind o' ..omen they was likely to pe an' how much money they had. an how good lookln' they was, an* tnen nea nrive over to Tarkla an" * see what they had there, but h? couldn't never make up hia mind an' the further he got In the woods the crookeder the sticks was until fin 'If there wasn't nobody leff but Levfl Hostlck's gal Helle. "1 reckon Helle Bost'ck was about the homeliest critter that was ever raised on corn pone. She'd bees give up to be a old maid fur tea years afore Clay seen her. Her folks was poor as cistern water, too. An' Clay might have had a'most anybody when he fust started out If he'4 made up his mind an' stuck to It, They got on tol'rable well together though? 'bout aH well as a heap er oiner married rolks." "Why didn't he look around i while longer?" asked the store* keeper. "He didn't have to take her. did he?" "He didn't take her." said Hancock. "She took him. It was the last ohanoe she had an' she knowed \W.