Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — GENERAL WM. LUDLOW DEAD. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL WM. LUDLOW DEAD.

Distinguished Soldier Breathe* His las* st Convent, N. J. Brigadier General William Ludlow, U. S. A., is dead at Convent, N. J., of ; consumption. His illness was first noticed on his arrival in the Philip-, pines in May last. He was at once sent home in the hope that the American climate would restore him. He was 63 years of age and was graduated from West Point in 1860. Just In time to take part in the civil war In the engineering force. Contrary to ill precedent congress passed a Joint resolution authorizing General Ludlow, then a major, to accept this position and retain his position in the govsrnment service. He served three year 8 in this double capacity and was then put in charge of the Delaware river improvements in 1883. After these were completed he served as en-; gineer commissioner of the District of Columbia, then for two years and a half was in charge of the lighthouse ind harbor work at Detroit. For the next two years and a half he served as military attache to the court of St. James in London. In 1895 he was made a lieutenant colonel and selected as’ president of the Nicaraugua canal) commission. At the conclusion of the canai investigation he took charge of the Sandy Hook channel aad New York harbor work until called to Washington to report to General Miles for duty in the war with Spain. He was then instructed to accompany the army of invasion to Cuba. He had charge of the embarkation of the troops at Tampa and was active in the campaign about Santiago. DOUBLE DUEL BRINGS DEATH. Texas Affray Due to Quarrel Over a Melon. A fatal duel to all four combatants took place between two American ranchmen and two Mexicans at a grading camp on the El Paso Southwestern Railroad, forty miles west of El Paso, Tex. The Hoffman brothers, who own a ranch nearby, were at the/camp on business, and a Mexican took a watermelon out of their wagon. One of the Hoffmans struck him over the head with a revolver, cutting an ugly gash in his head. The Mexican returned to the camp and enlisted the aid of a friend. With two revolvers each they went out to the wagon and began shooting at the Hoffmans. The latter returned the fire, each using two revolvers, and the fight lasted several minutes. Three of the men were dead when reached and one of the Mexicans died an hour later. The body of each man was filled with bullets, twentyfour shots having been fired and twenty having taken effect. J. S. Antonello, the contractor in charge of the camp, arrived at El Paso to secure new men and told the story. He says that cattlemen of the section threatened to raid the camp and kill all the Mexicans and every one of them left him.