Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1895 — Page 6

Democratic Press. DECATUR, IXO. Democratic Press Co., • Publishers. CIRCLING THE GLOBE. CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS' DOINGS. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World, Embracing Foreign Affairs and Uome Happenings of an Important Nature. A BLOODY CLUB. Postmaster George M. Singer Brained by Murderous Burglars at Dunfee, A murder most fuui was eoinmittcd Tuesday night at Dunfee, Ind., a station on the Nickel Plate ten miles west of Fort Wayne, on the Whitley County line. George M. Singer, the aged postmaster at that place, was clubbed to death iu his bed and robbed of all his valuables. The motive was robbery, and murder in Bold blood was committed to accomplish the daring work of the heartless pluuderseekers. All the old man’s money is missing and the postoffice was ransacked from top to bottom. The postage stamps were scattered about on the lloor in a confused pile. It is not known how much was taken. Alter scouring the plunder the men escaped without detection. The job was carefully planned, but was executed in a bungling manner, as the thief or thieves had no idea of committing murder or even disturbing the old man in his sleep. Suspicion points directly toward local talent, and arrests may be made a-- ■. Whitley county officers conclude their inquest. The last persons who talked with Singer were J. F. Cunningham and Chauncey Romick, two young men of the neighborhood. who were in the store at 8 o'clock in the evening w hen Singer counted out his money. sl<i, and retired. lie said he was going to Fort Wayne to buy goods for his store. A BiG FIRE. Mammoth Plate Glass Works at Alexandria Almost Destroyed. A special from Alexandria, Ind., says: The American Plate Glass works, of this city, eaught lire at 8 o’clock Wednesdaynight and at 10 the main building. 600 feet long, was enveloped in flames. The plant was built in 1892, and has been idle nearly all the time since as the result of depression and complications in which the Depauws of New Albany, former owners, became involved. It was reorganized thirty days ago with a capital of $1,000,000, with Major C. T. Doxey of Anderson, as president. The plant is the largest of the kind in the world. Last week the works started with about 150 men, and it was the intention of putting on a full force soon. This meant the employment of about 500 workmen. Maj. Doxey arrived from Anderson on a special train with a lot of fire hose and at midnight the fire is under cont rol. The furnaces and buildings containing the grinding machines are not injured. Maj. Doxey ordered all debris to be cleared away immediately- and rebuilding will commence at once. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO. New York Republicans. Tlte New York Republican State Convention, in session at Saratoga, made the following nominations: Secretary of state, John Palmer, of Albany: comptroller, James E. Roberts, of Erie; state treasurer. A. B. Colvin, oil Warren; state engineer. C. W. Adams, of Oneida; attorney general. F. E. Hancock, of Onondaigua: judge of court of appeals, Celora E. Martin, of Broome. The platform demands the enforcement of the Sunday liquor law. and the preservation of the Sabbath: scores the Democratic administration for failing to defend the rights of American citizen.', resident or traveling in foreign countries, and for permitting foreign countries to encroach on America: i demands sound money and endorses Morton for President. Got His Deserts. Isaac Edwards, of Hocking eounty, Ohio, was hanged in the penitentiary annex at 12:11 Tuesday morning. His neck was broken and the body was cut down .. minutes later. He murdered Mrs. Mary ■ . Sailers, of Murray City, who had cared for his motherless children, because she would not desert her husband ami live w itlrhim. Edwards exhibited remarkable : nerve. John M. Butler Dead. Hon -tJoiiii Mi Butler, an attorney of Indianapolis, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Mr. Butler was one qf the best-known lawyers Indiana has ever | produced. He was for many years the , partner of the late United states Senator Joseph E. McDonald. Mr. Butler was 61 years old. lie left an estate valued at between $30".000 and $400,000. Celebrating at Rome. Rome special: The enormous influx of people from all parts of Italy to witness fetes in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the triumphal entry- of the Italians into Rome continues, and the city is greatly crowded. King Humbert and Queen Margherita have arrived and were ! received with great warmth and euthu- i siasm.Railroad Wreck. South-bound passenger train No. 224, on | the Erie A Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad, ran into an open switch at Sharpsville, Pa. Every- ear was derailed including the engine. Several of the passengers were slightly bruised, but all escaped serious injury . Miners Hold Out. At Ishpeming, Mich., the miners’ union Voted almost unanimously to continue the strike to the bitter end. Fight with a Burglar, A man giving his name a. Frank .Smith broke into Joseph Emiqon’s house at Elwood, Ind., and became engaged in a desperate conflict. A sick child was scared to death, and Kmjuoiis presented a sickening sight when rescued by officers. Smith is tn jail, and is playing insanity. The Porte Conies Down. St. Petersburg special': It is learned '' that the porte has accepted the demand of j the powers with regard to reforms in Arnienia.

A BURNING STEAMER. Six Passengers and the Stewardess Are Burned to Death. A special from London says: The steamer lona left Leith with a hundred saloon passengers and fifty second-class passengers. The part of the boat ire which the second-class* passeagers slept was used as a saloon during the day and at night it was divided by*, a partition into sleeping compartments to: women and mon. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning fire was discovered in the ladies compartment on the port side. The flames spread so rapidly and t)>e clonds of smoke were so stifling that the crew were prevented from rescuing allot the passengers, being several times driven away from the burning part of the ship. The tire was gotten tinder control about 4 o’clock, w hen the charred i bodies of seven persons were found in their I berths so badly burned as to he unrecognizable. The cabin on the starboard side of the ship, was only slightly injured, the spread ■ of the flames to that side being cheeked by ' the protecting steel deck. During the I progress of the flames tlie wildest excitement prevailed among the passengers. I The saloon passengers, men. women, and children. ruJied on deck almost naked, the women screaming aud the children [ crying, aud it was not until the flames were subdued that; they could be pacified. 1 The ladies’ cabin was completely demolished. Some of the killed appeared to have fallen from tljeir berths in their efforts to escape, qnd their bodies were found lying almost in ashes on the floor. The fire originate! in the lamp room, which adjoined the cabin. —*- SIX KILLED. A Family Run Down by an Engineon * a Southern Railroad. Six persons were killed as the result of a ‘ railroad crossing accident at Lawyers station, 117 miles bdow Lynchburg. X a. A vehicle contain ng -Ox persons supposed I to be Joseph Callahan, of Rustburg. Camp- J bell County, Ya., two women, a girt about i 16. aud two small children, was crossing I Hr tracks of the Southern railway when it 1 was struck by the engine of No. 3$ south ! bound passenger train. The oceupants of ' the vehicle were killed outright, and the ! young girl was so severely injured that she ' died shortly after: »r ls. The parties are ' unknown in the v cirtity of the acoident, i and it was only with difficulty and some; uncertainty that they were identified as ' the family of Callahan, of Rustburg. The j railroad officials are at a loss to understand I how the accident occurred at the place nam'd, as they say the track is visible for a a distance of 200 yards or more, and the occupant- of the vehicle could easily- have seen the approaching train. A SET-BACK. Which May Mean Much or Nothing According to the Outcome of Crops. R. G. Dun A Co., in their Weekly Review of Trade, says: “A slight set-back w hich may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this season. If th government crop reports were correct, the situation would not be encouraging. But not much confidence is placed in the reduced estimate of corn, none at al! in the estimate of wheat, and even the most enthusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government report as to cotton. The fact is that we are beginning to market not far from 2,200,000.000 bushels of corn, though only about 500,000,000 bushels will be moved from the counties where it is grown; about 450,000,000 bushels of w heat, of w hich the farmers are on wiselyholding back a large proportion: and about 7,200.000 bales of cotton, if the later indications are not erroneous as they very easily may be, to add to the stocks carried over.”

ROASTED In Mid-Air By a Thousand-Volt Current. Wilmington (Ohio) special: While Harry Taylor, son of Henry Taylor, Superintendent of the electric light plant, w?s at work on a pole, on the corner of Locust and Mulhnrry streets, he slipped, grabbed a live wire and was instantly killed. The wire was cliarged with over 1.OX) volts at the time. The scene was a most sickening one. For more than five minutes before word could reach the power house he hung suspended about thirty feet above ground, his left hand and tbe right side of his neck in contact with the live wires, slowly roasting under the great voltage. When taken off the pole all the burned flesh peeled otf. The current was turned i. jby tbe father at the power house without ' warning to the sou on the line, and J the father is almost crazed with grief. The deceased w as about 23 years old, aud learned. HORRIFYING Torture Inflicted by Children on a Playmate. Allen Baker and John Berry, 12and 13 years, murdered Philip Simmons, aged 10 years, in a horrible manner at Ta)lah.a*ee, Fla. Tlie boys Squarreted wh.le playing and Simmons struck Baker and Berry and ran. He was ptfrSueil arid caught, and Baker and Berry proceeded to murder him. They tied the child to a small tree and cut him to pieces with their pocketknives. They cutoff his ears, split his nose, and slashed his breast a dozen times. The young fiends then mutilated their victiai in a nameless mannet-xnd lied. The child was found tied to aiuTxincbuscious. but revived sufficiently to tell tbe stary before death. Baker and Borrj were arrested ami jailed.t The young devils say they were only harms, fun ajid didn't intend to killi’hilip.« In spite of their youthfulness there are threats of lynching them. MRS* BURNETT. The Authoress, Separates from Her H us band. Washington special: A sensation was caused here by the statement that Mrs. Frances Hodson Burnett, author of “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” who has drayn so many pretty portraits of the of domestic life, has at last to admit that marriage has been a failure in own case aud will hereafter live apart from her husband. Mrs. Burnett is now in London, but her husband is in Washington and admits that a mutual separation has been agreed uixm on the ground of incompatibility of temper. In anticipation of Mrs. Burnett's home coming, he has abandoned the family home on Massachusetts avenue and taken his personal effects elsewhere. Spanish Outrage. Key West < special: Officers of the steamer Mascotte, which arrived here from Havana, report a high-handed act upon the part of .Spanish officials recently. Shortly after the steamer arrived at Havana a package was carried off the vessel, which, upon examination, was found to. contain cartridges. Threatened by the Spanish officials the person who

had the package ssuu that it had been given to him by one Lopez, a fireman on tlie Mas-cotte. The Spanish po.ioe then came aboard the steamer, arrested Lopei i and took him ashore. It is stated the matter v. ill be laid before the State Depart- ■ incut. : EacapCd Postoftice Robber Captured. Iltnry McNeely, a postotfice robber, who , issupi>osed to be one of tha four men who escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail, July* 14. was arrested at Williamsport. Penn., . after a running fight. lie was discovered I blowing open the Postoffice safe by Joseph I Bowers. As the latter gave the alarm Mc- • Neely rushed out of the building. Bowers j had his revolver and shot four times at the robber. Two citizens joined in the puri suit. McNeely turned six times and shot at his pursuers. He was getting away i when a farmer came along w ith a fast 1 horse and a shotgun. McNeely refused to I halt, and the farmer fired, filling the robI tier's legs with buckshot. Strange Accident.

A special from Elyria, Ohio, says: A ' remarkable fatal accident occurred at Avon, during a terrific thunder storm, Anson Jacox. Jr., had been sent after the eows by his father. He mounted his bicycle and hurried away. The storm came up rapidly and young Jacox not having returned, his father made search ami found him in the road insensible, with his wheel lying twisted and broken by his side and blood oozing from his mouth. He was carried home, when it was found he liad been struck by lightning while on his wheel. He died an hour after reaching < home. i Found His Brothers's Body iu a Medical College. I Charley Brooks, a furniture manufacturI cv of Goshen, Ind., found the body of his i brother, George Brooks, in a pickling vat at Rush Medical College, Chicago. It was ■ the first time he had seen or heard of his I brother since the latter left Goshen three ; years ago. heart-broken because his brother I had run away and married. He had died i at tiie Bridewell, where he was being i treated for delirium tremens. The remains ’ were taken to Goshen. Shot Dead in His Cell. Irvine Tansey. a negro prisoner, was I shot and instantly killed by A. B. Hutch- ' ings, one of the guards at the Work-house, |at Danville. Ky. Hutchings entered a cell I to stop a row in progress between Tansey and another negro, when Tansey turned upon him and was shot. About a week ago a plot to kill another guard and escape was discovered, and Hutchings, after entering the cell, believed that such a thing was about to be attempted. Carlisle to Speak in Chicago. At a request of the leading officers of the various labor organizations in Chicago, Henry 3. Robbins, president of the Honest Money League, has written Secretary Carlisle, asking him to deliver an address on some date in the near future, before the wage earners aud laboring classes of that city. Cholera in the Navy, Dr. Rupert Blue, of the Marine Hospital Service in San Francisco, has received a letter from his brother, who is an ensign on board the United States Ship Bennington, stating there had been five cases of cholera among the crew of the Bennington. One death had resulted. Raging Forest Fires. A forest fire is raging near Halcomb City, Ohio, a small boom town on the C., I’. and V. Railroad, where several new industries have recently been started. The town is threatened with destruction, and the people have turned out for miles around to fight the flames. A Youthful Mother. Lulu Seedam of Anderson. Ind., aged 11, gave birth to a perfect boy. she experienced but little trouble. Medical books do not show a younger mother for this climate. The father is over 21 years of age, but his name is withheld by the parents, who are trying to arrange matters. Put Off the Cars and Killed. Indianapolis special: Jno. Cravens was brought here from a point sixty miles north, where he was run over by a Monon train. He died soon alter he had been taken to the City Hospital. He and his brother were riding without tickets, and were put off. The G. A. R.

The Twenty-ninth National Encampment of the G. A. R.. in session at Louisville. elected Col. I. N. Walker of Indianapolis, Commander-In-chief. They decided to hold the next encampment at St. Paul. Minn. Crushed to Death. At -Otway, pl.io. Henry Dorn, aged 65, was picking stone in the quarry of H. R. Smith A- ''Oils, beside a high bank of earth, wliem .without warning, a huge mass fell, crushing Ijim to death. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Un ttle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; h >gs, shipping grades, $.1.00 to $4.75: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00: w heat. No. 2 ted. 56c to 58c; corn. No. 2,31 cto 33c: oats. No. 2,19 c to 2uc; rye. No. 2. 37c to 39e; butter, choice creamery. 10c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 25e to 35c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush. 2> 2 c to 4L>: per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to S'kOO; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; s!.< -p, common to prime. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,57 cto 59c: corn. No. 1 White, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to SG.OO; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75: wheat. No. 2 red, sbc to GOC; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 w hite, 19c to 20c; rve. No. 2. 37c to 39c. Cincinaati—Cattle. $3.50 to $6.00: hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. G2c to 64c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 21c to 23c: rye. No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. 52.00 to $3.75: w heat. No. 2 red, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 34c to 36c: oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24e: rye. 41c to 43c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white. 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 41c to 43c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.25; bogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $1.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 62c to 63c: corn. No. 2 yellow . 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 while, 25c to 26c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 57c to 58c; corn. No. 3. 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c te 23c: barley. No. 2. 42c to 43c; rye. No. 1,39 cto 4Oo; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $6.00: hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 62 to 63c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; egg*, We*teru. 15c to 17c. ,

TO AMERICAN HEROES DEDICATION OF MONUMENTS ON CHICKAMAUGA'S FIELD. Most Brilliant and Stirring Demonstration of Patriotism Since the Civil War-South Wild with Enthusiasm—Park Has No Counterpart. After Thirty-two Years. Patriotism and pleasure held sway in the South. From the Grand Army cncampment at Louisville to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was a solid streak of red, white and blue. Everywhere along the route the hundreds of thousands of people joined the scores of thousands of visitors in one grand burst of patriotic enthusiasm. Chattanooga, the pretty little Southern Tennessee city, caught the spirit, and for the five days devoted to the dedicatory exercises on the famous field of Chickamauga she was gay with flowers and bunting.

The South and its people turned everything loose aud went in for a period of festivities and freedom, with the dual desire to celebrate the dedication and to honor the stars and stripes. In short, it was a holiday for all the people and they went into it with an enthusiasm that insured great enjoyment. But the exercises were not without a serious side. The dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park upon the thirty-second anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga, and the accompanying State and society celebrations.

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constitute tlie most brilliant aud stirring pageant and patriotic demonstration the Country has seen since the civil war. It Jtouk place by an act of Congress, and under the direction of Government officials. It was national in character, and Included both Union and Confederate characters and organizations. Its object |s the fostering of friendly and reunion Sentiments. The patriotism of the nation was assembled on two adjacent battlefields, one of which saw a victory for ,the Confederates, and the other a victory for the Union arms. . As Qie dedication was a national event and as the- ceremonies and proceedings were under the immediate 1 direction of Se<(retnry of War Lamont neatly every prominent official of the Upited States Government and rif the different States were prosont. A ihong them were th inet, the Justices oi he Supreme Court of the United States, m? Vice President and twenty United States Senators, the Speaker of the House and thirty Representatives. Lieut. Gen. Schofield and Maj. Gen. Miles, accompanied by a large body of regular troops and Admiral Gherardi and Admiral Walker, of the United States Navy. There was a large attendance of patriotic military organizations, some cf which purposely arranged to hold • tllelr regular annual celebration at the sapie time and place as the dedication exercises. First among these was the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. The Array of the Cumberland entertained as its special guests at Chattanooga the Society of the zYnny of the Tennessee, OXE OF THE EIGHT SHELL MONUMENTS MARKING THE SPOT WHERE BRIGADE COMMANDERS WEBE KILLED: CHICK VMAtGA. which held its twenty-seventh annual reunion Sept. 1G and 17, at. Cincinnati. The Confederate Society of the Army of the Tennessee was also present In force. A large delegation went from the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Louisville. It is estimate,! that 75 per cent, of the veterans found their way to Chattanooga. There was also a large attendance of the Sons of Veterans. Gen. W. S. Rosccrans was ill In California, and sent word that he could not come. Gen. James Longstreet, of the Confederate army, attended upon condition that he be not nek-el to participate in the exercises. He was accompanied

by Gen. A. P. Stewart, one of his brigade commanders in the battle. The dedication exercises proper occupied the first two days, and opened and closed with a salute of 100 guns. The official program was as follows: First dav—Grand parade of veterans, North and South. Dedication of the Chickamauga section of tbe park. Exercises at Snodgrass Hill, opened by Secretary Lamont. Orators. Gen. John M. Palmer of Illinois il iiioni and Gen. John B. Gordon of Georgia (Confederate!. Ei’ht p. m., at Chattanooga, exercises conducted by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee (Union) and the Army of Tennessee I Confederate). Gen. Granville M. Dodge presiding. Orators. Gen. O. <>. Howard, U. S. A., and Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama. Second day—Dedication of the ( hattanooga section of the park, exercises beginning at noon at Chattanooga. (Orators, Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio (Union) and Gen. William H. Bate of Tennessee (Confederate). Eight p. m., at Chattanooga, exercises ‘-omlucted by veterans of the Army of the Pot mac (Union) and the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate), Gen. Edward C. althall of Mississippi presiding. Orators. Gen. Orlando Smith aud Gov. William C. Oates of Alabama. The dedication ceremonies at the park were under the direction of Secretary of War Lamont. Bishop Hunt of Tennessee delivered the invocation and Bishop Keane of Richmond gave the beneiliction. Speeches were made by Gen. Warner on behalf of the committee, end by Gen. Dodge for the Army of the Tennessee. The Chickamauga ami Chattanooga National Military Park is the grand, -t reservation of its kind in the world, and in many respects the most comprehensive

f! ud extended military object lesson. The .*■ ■ s, - ltcs Government has spent on it 5.u0.000 since its establishment was authorized in Islst. nnd various State Governments about §500,000 more making a total of §1,250,000. The plan was to restore the old lines of the Chickamauga ami Chattanooga campaigns 'Sept. 19-20 and Nov. 24-25,1863.) as thev were when the battles wore fought, no mark all the points of attack or defense by either side, to set up monuments to commemorate the tr-.ops which fought, and so far as practicable restore the fields to their original condition; and this design has been carried out to the letter. iTte Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns wen- in a measure represent ~ tive of the whole country. Chiekanrauga is held by military experts-to have been the best demonstration of the plmk endurance. prowess and strategy of' the American soldier ever given and. measured by percentage of losses and the duration of the fighting, the deadliest-conflict ol modern times, while its spquel and c..mpanionpieee. Chattanooga, is considered to have been the must spectacular engagement. Os the ten square miles constituting the area of the park something over 5,000 acres are forest and about 1,000 acres open farms. A central driveway, passing through and overlooking all the heavy fighting ground, has been built twentv nuko, long Forty-two miles of the roa-Is of the battles have been reopened and improved in a substantial and endurin ’ manner, and new roads have been closed up. Many of the minor roads have also been cut out and graded, so that there are now about sixty miles of driveways in the park, all of them al..ng the roads pf the war. The removal of underbrush ami the clearing out of the new growth of timber have opened the forest so that carria-es can drive through it in all directions, ami th- • ppearance now is like that of an mimeuse area of forest pasture in the Blue Grass region. The Chickamauga portion of the park is connected with the Chattann-ga end of it by national driveways. Within the park the Government has set up 400 historical tablets and will set up 1,600 more hereafter, each three or four feet, consisting of oast-iron pfates, glazed blaek, fastened to iron posts set in concrete. On these f mi''l fl enllK> ’ s « J wh i‘-e letters are set forth briefly and impartially the historic details of the six battles-Chiekamauga Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain F^ rd T?° b> and LmTh J? 67 w BO mark ,he of army headquarters, corps divisions and b ?*?'*' '“'th i nion and Confederate and the parts taken by each organization’ nre concisely stated, without censure and without praise. Resides these tablX the Government has erected nine hand' some granite monuments, all different i' a ' h ° f th<? or * aniz *t>on» of regnlar troof.s engaged ir the battles It has ssajjfiia-a

Union officers and four Confederate officers killed in action. In addition, the Government has built fire tall observation towers of iron aud steel seventy feet high, two on Missionary Ridge and three on Chickamauga field, from which the landscape below is seen cl- afty and easily recognjzaWe frqm its tnaffiinga. And. finally , the Government the most imponMt fighting p sgions I.«cupie-1 by;ea< h 1110 thirty.Uli •' ? OBSERVATOBY TOWER. CHICKAMAfGA. five Union batteries and thirty-nine Confederate batteries engaged in the battles by 4(>O mounted caution of ri»e types and uppenrauce then used, giving to the fields an impressive element of realism. Two guns mark ca. h battery location, and, inasmuch as oonie of the batteries occupied several different positions and did notable fighting a- . erent points in the fields at separate stages of the battles, many positions have had to lie duplicated, thus utilizing in all 400 cannon to locate the spits occupied by the seventy-four batteries.

The only private monument yet contracted for is to be erected to cominemmorate the valor of George W. Landrum, a lieutenant of tbe Second Ohio Regiment, who was sh„t on the afternoon of Sept. 20, l'(>3, by some men of the Third Tor.ness:'" R"g!me»it, while carrying a verbid message from General Thomas to General Rosecrhns. His dying words were: “I an: clad to hare shed my blood in so noble a cause.” But while the national government has marked these positions it has been left to the States having troops iu the battles to erect monuments to State regiments and organizations and to the military societies to eommemdratethe particular services of their membership. Twenty-eight States had organizations iu these battius, a mure general representation than appeared upon any other battlefield of the war. Five States had troops on both sides—Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, West Virginia and Maryland. At Chickamauga Rose ran - bad 121) regiments of infantry and enough cavalry and artillery to make up a total of I*2 organizations. Bragg had 138 regiments of infantry. 33 of cavalry, and batteries. Still, despite the genera! representation, four Northern States fnrnisbed the bulk of the Union troops. These were Ohio with 35 organizations, Indiana with 37, Illinois with 33. and Kentucky with 17. On the Confederate side Tennessee had 5B organizations at Chickamauga. Alabama had 3d, Georgia 24. .Mississippi ”1, and Arkansas 16. In the Chattanooga movement Grant had 220 regiments of infantry and, with his cavalry and artillery, 2(11 organizations, Bragg had Hsj regiments of infantry, 33.regiment# of cavalry and 4G batteries, altogether 212 organizations. The distribution by States was a little wider, hut the bulk of the troops were furnished by Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, Ohio having (>!• organizations there, Illinois 53, Indiana 34. Missouri 17. New York 16, Pennsylvania 12, lown 11, and Wi- onsin 10. On the Confederate side Tennessee furuishol 54 organizations, Georgia 50, Alabama 44. Mississippi 13. and Ckfolina 15. The States have as a rule provided one mt* morial for each organization, uuiking a sjiectacle which has no counterpart on any other battlefield In the world.

BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. Most Remarkable and Sanguinary of Modern Wars, It wa« on the afternoon of Sept lS<k3. that the first shot was fiyed. All that day Bragg. who had been flanked out of ( hattanooga. had been trying to get his army between Rosencrans ,and the ■■ , «Mr«wcvr!jaisr<[ /" scrid •’’H’-'ioXwfe'.v < SPECIMEN MONUMENT TO THE VJTITED states < avat.iiy.--J it 3 of ( hattanooga, and Itosecrans. who had sent his army South in pursuit of Bragg, having discovered Bragg’s design, was making an equally desperate effort to concentrate his scattered divisions betwpen Bragg and the city. At that time the forest was primeval in denseness, and the underbrush so thick that it was impossible to see more than 100 yards ahead. Ignorant of each other’s* exact location, the two armies came nearer to each other. At daybreak on Saturday morning. Sept. 19, they came face to face in tlxis forest of pines and Indian-like jungle of underbrush. and by 7:30 o’clock that morning the most remarkable battle of the civil war was raging in all its fury. The losses were appalling. In the next i^r* ? hours 26,000 men v. and neither side had won. At the end of two days both armies withdrew from the field. General Rosecrans retaining possession of Chattanooga, the objective point of the campaign. General Ro secrand had in action thirty brigades of in* fantry. fivc of cavalry* one of mounted infantry and thirty-three batteries, aggregating 56,160 officers and iiieii. General Bragg had thirty-five brigades of infan* try. b-n <>f. cavalry and about thirty batteries. aggregating probably 65.000 men. The percentage of mortality for the time of fighting is claimed to be greater than known in any battle in ancient or modern history. V orth is dead, but his son continues the business—a clear case of the survival of the fittest.