People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — NOW HE’S MAJOR OSGOOD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW HE’S MAJOR OSGOOD.

Pennsylvania’s Famous Football Player Alive and Kicking. Captain Henry B. Osgood, CJ. S. A., of Boston has reoeived word from the Cuban juutu in New York oity denying the truth of the rumor current a month ago to the effect that his son, Major Win Osgood, had been cut down and killed ut the head of his command in an engagement with Weyler’s troops. In the battle in question young Osgood’s boot was grazed by a Spanish

bullet. The ball tore off the sole of his boot, but without inflicting any wound. Major Osgood has reoently been transferred from General Garoia’s division to t that of General Gomez. He is now in command of

Gomez’s artillery and has probably seen servico of the most active sort during the past week. Major Osgood, it will be recalled, is the famous University of Pennsylvania football mfcn who went to Cuba on the Commodore with a captain’s commission. Shortly after his arrival he was promoted for gallantry in aotion to the rank of major. By an odd coincidence his father, Captain Osgood, has also been promoted to the same grade, his commission as major in the United States army goipg into effect in a few weeks.—Boston Journal.

w. D. OSGOOD.