Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — HANCOCK STATUE IS UNVEILED. [ARTICLE]

HANCOCK STATUE IS UNVEILED.

President Cleveland and Senator Pal« mer Eulogize His Services. The heroic equestrian statue of Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, erected at 7th streetand Pennsylvania • avenue, Washington, in accordance with a resolution of Congress, and at an expenditure of $50,000, was unveiled Tuesday—the anniversary of his victory at Spottsylvania Court House —in the presence of an immense throng, which included President Cleveland, Vice President Stevenson and representatives of the Supreme Court, the diplomatic corps, both bodies of Congress and army veterans and colleagues of the late General. The unveiling was preceded by a military demonstration. Four companies of artillery, marching as infantry; four companies of marines, with the Marine Band; Light Battery C, Third Artillery; a squadron from the Sixth Cavalry, the full district militia and numerous military organizations, including the Second Army Corps, at the head of which Gen. Hancock achieved his greatest victories, participated in the parade. Brigadier General Brooke, commanding the Department of the Dakotas, U. S. A., was the grand marshal of the day. The exercises opened with a prayer by Right Rev. James Y. Satterlee, Bishop of Washington. Then President Cleveland made a brief address, delivering a glowing eology en the services of the late warrior. He was followed by Senator John M. Palmer, of Illinois, major general of United States volunteers during the war, who spoke feelingly and at great length of his departed companion in arms. A salute was fired as the unveiling of the statue took place, a grandson of Gen. Hancock, now a cadet at , West Point, having the honor of unveiling the statue. Jieven hundred invited guests gathered at the scene, including many relatives and friends of the deceased General.

Oscar Brinn, a 5-year-old boy, living with his parents near Anna, 111., died from the effects of an overdose of morphine, administered hy his mother. She had seat to the drug store for qninine. The package was properly labeled on the wrapper. A mistake had been made evidently by the packers, and instead ot quinine the bottle inside of the wrapper contained morphine. The two barges cut from their lashings when the steamer Vera Paz went down have been found and towed to a port ol safety near New Orleans. They will be •old fsr salvage. The Vera Paz and barges left Jeffersonville, Ind., March 1 for Livingston, Guatemala. The steamer was valued at SIB,OOO, and the barges at $4,000 each. Carpenters were at work on the scaffold .on which Thomas Punshon was to have been Hanged at St. Joseph, Mo., when a telegram was received from Gov, Stone commuting hia sentence to twenty years in the penitentiary. Punshon was disappointed and said he would rather be hanged than spend his life in prison.