Cholera At Fort Riley
FORT LEAVENWORTH, K T
August 6th, 1855.
The last railroad accident, steamboat explosion,
with sometimes very little damage, is duly reported to you; I consider it, therefore, my duty to give you an account
of the ravages caused by cholera at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory.
Some two week ago, Major Ogden, with four hundred
citizens, mechanics, stone-cutters, laborers, etc.., went out to Fort Riley, for the purpose of erecting buildings
and stables to be occupied during the coming winter by some dragoon companies. Until last Wednesday, the whole
command was very healthy, and got along well with their buildings,when the cholera made its appearance, and in
forty-eight hours—i. e.,
from Wednesday until Friday noon, it took forty-five to fifty persons to a better world. Major Ogden died last
Friday. The wife and two children of Major Woods, the wife of Major Armistead, Sixth Infantry, and forty-five or
forty-six citizens, died. All the troops had left, except the Band and
Staff of the Sixth Infantry, one of which the Quartermaster's Sargeant, died also.
Yours, C. M.
Alton Weekly Courier August 16, 1855 (submitted by Janice Rice)
A TERRIBLE CUTTING
AFFRAY
Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 3 - A terrible cutting
affray occurred at a place called Long Jake's in the southern suburbs of this city, about 6 o'clock Saturday night,
wherein Josiah Hale, a colored man, was literally cut to pieces by four or five unknown white men. All had been
drinking rather freely and a row arose, the result being as above stated. None of the men have so far been arrested,
although the police are on the watch. (Inter Ocean, January 4, 1876, Page 5)
POWERLESS POLICE
North Leavenworth, Kan., Witnesses a Resort to
Mob Law - Negro Miners Attempt to Wreck Vengeance on a Murderer—Authority of the Major and Chief of Police Defied
United States Regulars Called Out to Quell the Disturbance.
Kansas City, April 3
A special from Leavenworth gives a sensational
account of a bloody fight between one white miner and an infuriated mob of negroes in North Leavenworth. The details
of the affair are about as follows: As James King (white), cable-man in the Leavenworth coal mine, was walking
along the street, he met Harrison Young, a notorious colored ward politician, Sam Hedspath and Ben Easton, also
colored. The three negroes were standing at the corner of Second and Dakota streets at the exact spot where one
year ago Hedspatb had knocked down and brutally beaten King. King was accosted by Young and Hedspath, who wanted
to fight. Hedspath drew a knife and sprang toward King. At this King drew a 88-caliber revolver and fired two shots
at Young, who dropped dead with a bullet through his forehead and shot through the heart. King then turned on Hedspath
and shot him in the right groin, Inflicting a fatal wound He then shot Easton in the right thigh. The scene of
the shooting is
in the vicinity of the Leavenworth coal mines. There has been bad feeling between the white and colored miners
for some time, and the report that a white miner had killed three colored men created intense excitement among
the negroes, who compose a large part of the population. In a few moments negroes flocked to the scene from every
direction, carry shotguns, rifles, knives, revolvers and clubs of every description, all clamoring for revenge.
King at once started to run up the river bank, pursued by a constantly increasing mob of negroes yelling at the
top of their voices The mob fired six shots at King, who gamely turned and returned fire. King sought refuge in
the pump house of the water works, where the negroes were unable to discover his whereabouts. While the excitement
was at its height, Mayor Neely appeared on the scene and attempted to order the turbulent crowd back. A dozen revolvers
were pointed at him, and Chief of Police Roberts met with no better success The mayor finally mounted his horse
and started for Fort Leavenworth to get a force of soldiers.
In the meantime the entire police force of the
city had arrived and aided In the search for King. A squad of policemen finally found him crouched under an obscure
stairway He was captured and disarmed after a desperate struggle in which he was shot and wounded. While several
policemen guarded the prisoner, others went outside and informed the excited crowd that King was shot dead while
resisting arrest. A cheer went up from the mob, many of whom were satisfied with the report and in a short time
nearly all had left King was kept secreted in the building until a late hour in the evening, when a company of
cavalry arrived from Fort Leavenworth and he was taken to the fort to prevent lynching. (Grand Forks Herald Article
type: News Article, April 3, 1888, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer)
RUNNING
BLOODY FIGHT
Between a White Man and a Howling Mob of Negroes
at Leavenworth - Killing Three of Them - Cause of the Riot
Kansas City, Mo. April 1
A Journal special Leavenworth gives a sensational
account of a bloody fight between one white minor and an infuriated mob of negroes In North Leavenworth this evening;
The incipient riot resulted in the death of one negro, the fatal wounding of one more white, one negro and white
man were each seriously shot.
The details of the affair are about as follows;
About 8:30 o'clock this evening as James King (white} cable man in the Lavenworth coal mine, was walking along
the street, he met Harrison Young, a notorious colored ward politician. Sam Hedspath and Ben Easton, also colored.
The three negros were standing at the corner of Second and Dakota streets, at tho exact spot where, one year ago,
Redepath had Knocked down and brutally beaten King. King was accosted by Young and Hedspath, who wanted to fight.
Hedspath drew a knife and sprang toward King, while Young put his hand in his pocket, saying: " Let's Kill
the Irish ____" At this King drew a 88 - caliber revolver and fired two shots at Young, who dropped dead,
with a bullet through his forehead and shot through the heart. King then turned on Hedspath and shot him in the
right groin inflicting a fatal wound. He then shot Easton in the left thigh. The scene of tho shooting is in the
vicinity of the Leavenworth coal mines. There had been bad feelings between the white and colored miners for some
time, and the report that a white miner had KILLED COLORED MINERS
created intense excitement among the negroes, who compose a large part of the population of the neighborhood. In
a few moments the negroes flocked to the scene from every direction, carrying shotguns, rifles, knives, revolvers
and clubs of every description, all clamoring for revenge. King at once started to run up the river bank, pursued
by a constantly increasing mob of negroes, yelling at tho top of their voices. Tho mob fired six shots at King,
who bravely turned and returned the fire.
In a short time King hot pressed by his wrathful
pursuers, turned and sought refuge in the pump-house at the water-works. Triumphant shouts went up from the mob,
who now thought they had secured their prize. The negroes swarmed through the waterworks building, searching with
dark lanterns In every nook and corner for King, while the colored women urged them on. The search was unavailing
and it was to his being able to hide himself for one hour that King owes his life. While the excitement was at
its height Mayor Neely appeared on the scene and attempted to order the turbulent crowd back and a dozen revolvers
were pointed at him, and Chief of Police Roberts met with no better success. Mayor Neely made unsuccessful efforts
to communicate with sheriff or deputies by telephone and finally, mounting a horse, started to Port Leavenworth
to get a force of soldiers.
THE SHOOTING OF KING
In the meantime the entire police of the city had
arrived and aided in the search for King. A squad of policemen finally found him crouching under an obscure stair-way.
They ordered him to surrender and the responded by leaping out with a cooked revolver ready to shoot. Policeman
Street then shot him, the bullet entering the muscle of the arm just below the shoulder, inflicting a painful and
serious wound. While several policemen guarded the prisoner, others went outside and informed the excited crowd
that King was dead, having been shot by a policeman while he was resisting arrest. Cheers went up from the mob,
many of whom were satisfied, and in a short time nearly all had left under the impression that King was dead, King
was kept secreted in the building until a late hour tonight.
A company of cavalry arrived from Fort Leavenworth,
and he was taken to the fort to prevent a lynching. He appeared cool and determined, and said he did not regret
shooting Young and Hedspath, both of whom had threatened to kill him, but he was sorry for shooting Easton who
he thought to be a friend of his would be murderer. King bears a good reputation, and has an invention of a safety
brake for cable cars on steep inclines, He is poor, and was going to see a man to induce him to help him got patents
when the trouble started this afternoon. Young, on the contrary, was a noted desperado. Little over a year ago
he killed Ben Thompson, colored man. He had managed to escape punishment for it. (April 3, 1888, location: Texas
Paper: Dallas Morning News, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer)
Son says Father Killed
Sister But Mother Declares Statement False.
Los Angeles, Nov. 11?The disappearance eleven years
ago of a police into an investigation of conflicting stories of a mother and her deaf-mute son, one of whom accused
the girl's father of her murder while the other, denied the story. The girl, was Julia Dinello, whose father, Tony,
is serving a 50 year penitentiary sentence in Lansing, Kas., for the murder of two other of his children. Police
began their investigation after Ernest Dinello, 14, wrote a statement to probation officers accusing his father
of killing Julia after he had been placed in their care following complaints from neighbors that he had been mistreated
by his mother. He was sent to a county boarding school. The boy said his mother, brought him here in 1922 with
his sister, Adeline. He said his father, also known as Patio Bucci, killed two of his younger sister with a hammer
and threw their bodies in the Kaw River. In 1918, he said, the father killed Julia by joking her to death with
a wire, then beheaded her and sank the body in the river.
Faced with this information, the mother at first
denied Dinello was her husband and said her name was "Mrs. Melle." She claimed her husband was killed
in an explosion in 1921. Later she admitted the convict was her husband. The daughter also admitted the identity
and both said Dinello had killed two of her children. The mother contended, however, that Julia ran away from home
in 1918 and said they have not seen her since. They denied Dinello killed her. (Hays Daily News (Hays, Kansas)
Monday, November 11, 1929, submitted by Candi Horton)
CONVICT THOMAS WATERS'
SUICIDE
A convict named Thomas Waters, in the Kansas penitentiary,
who had frequently tried to commit suicide, was successful a few days ago, and the penitentiary surgeon took the
body to dissect it. To his surprise he found two pieces of wire imbedded in the skull, that had probably been there
at least six months. One piece was about two inches long, while the other lacked but little of the same length.
About an inch from where Waters had made the incision with the wire, a piece of glass was found imbedded in the
skull, and had been there so long that the wound had completely healed over.
(Jackson Citizen Patriot ~ October 7, 1875)
THEIR SECOND TRIP WAS
SUCCESSFUL
Frank Scott and Miss Maggie Jacks of Leavenworth
were made husband and wife yesterday afternoon in the office of Justice Betts, at Fifth street and Minnesota avenue.
Scott is a mute, and Miss Jacks is a saucy blond of 10 years. This is their second trip to Kansas City for the
purpose of getting married. Scott's parents were opposed to the match, and an elopement was planned several days
ago, but it didn't turn out successfully. They came on different trains and were unable to find each other. Both
returned to Leavenworth, where they met and arranged for another matrimonial expedition.
They went home happy last night.
(Kansas City Times ~ May 20, 1894)
SHIFTING PRISON GRAVES
A New Cemetery for the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing
Leavenworth, Dec. 6---Warden Tomlinson of the Kansas
penitentiary has a force of prisoners moving the "convict graveyard". This graveyard is close to the
northeast corner of the main prison wall, and within a stone's throw of the women's department. It became necessary
to use the ground and part of the clay in the graveyard for the new penitentiary brick plant. The work of moving
the bodies has been in progress several days, andn if the weather continues pleasant, it will be completed during
the week.
In all 130 bodies of convicts were buried in the
Kansas penitentiary graveyard. Everybody except one is that of a convict. The exception is that of a stranger who
died near the prison walls where he was trying to seek shelter from the cold two years ago.
This graveyard for convicts was first used thirty-six
years ago and contains the bodies of all the convicts who have died at the Kansas penitentiary since that time
who were not claimed by relatives and friends. This graveyard contains the bodies of some of the most noted criminals
of the West. Among them is the body of one of the Blalock train robbers and the body of one of the saddlebacks.
The new graveyard is on a ridge a quarter of a mile southeast of the prison walls, and is a beautiful place overlooking
the surrounding country.
(Kansas City Star ~ December 6, 1899 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
W. H. STACEY KILLS HIMSELF
A Kansas City Insurance Man Commits Suicide at
Leavenworth
LEAVENWORTH, Kas., June 15---William H. Stacey,
a young business mand society leader shot himself through the head this morning. Mr. Stacey rooms on the third
floor of an office building. When a pistol shot was heard at 10 o'clock this morning, it attracted little attention
but half an hour later Stacey was found unconscious with a bullet hole in the right side of the head in front of
the ear.
Mr. Stacey is 36 years old and was for several
years employed in a local bank but of late he has been in the insurance and loan business. He spent much of his
time in Kansas City as a member of the firm of Stacey & Bacon insurance agents.
Mr. Stacey died at 1 o'clock without recovering
consciousness. He left a letter to his brother, Dr. Stacey, stating that he could not bear the strain any longer.
The letter was not given out but the closing sentence says: "I believe that I am going made, pity pity."
It is stated that Mr. Stacey was engaged to a young
woman of Kansas City but was not in a financial condition to get married, and this worried him greatly.
Mr. Stacey's partner here is Walter Bacon, a well
known Kansas Cityan. Mr. Bacon was at a loss to give a cause for the suicide when seen by a reporter for The Star.
He said Stacey went to Leavenworth Monday evening. He was in the best of spirits Monday. No one in the office had
ever heard him complain of any thing serious. He has been a partner of Mr. Bacon about three months but spent about
half of his time in Leavenworth where he has an agency. He told Mr. Bacon he contemplated moving to this city.
He was about 36 years old and unmarried although it is said he was engaged to be married to a young woman in this
city.
(Kansas City Star ~ June 15, 1898)
MOTHER DROWNS HERSELF AND
BABY IN A RIVER
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 17---In the Missouri river
near here a woman's straw hat with the following note, has been found:
"To Whoever Finds This: Please take the clothes
to Journal office and they will send it to 445 North Twenty-sixth street, Lincoln, Neb. This is to mark the place
where I, Mrs. Al Sechrest and baby, have gone to rest in the deep Missouri."
The woman's family lives in Lincoln. The hat was
identified by a restaurant keeper in this city, who says its owner ate several meals at his place last week.
It is believed that Mrs. Sechrest is the wife of
Frank Sechrest, who was killed by Dr. Zorn at Kansas City three months ago in a dispute over a board bill. The
river is being dragged.
Mrs. Sechrest was supposed to have started for
Kansas City to testify in the Zorn case, which was set for today. The killing of Sechrest by Zorn was a sensational
affair and Mrs. Sechrest was the state's principal witness.
(Morning Olympian ~ November 19, 1902)
TOO MUCH FOR KANSAS MAN
Worries Himself Insane Over Edward and Drowns Himself
LEAVENWORTH, KAS., June 25---An unknown man, evidently
temporarily insane from worrying over King Edward's condition, jumped from a bridge over the Missouri river here
today and was drowned. Just before making the leap he inquired about the condition of the king.
(Omaha World Herald ~ June 26, 1902)
HORRORS OF PRISON TOLD
Tale of Torture in Federal Penitentiary in Kansas Is told by Fugitive Who Surrendered
Philadelphia, Pa.---Relating a tale of horrors of imprisonment in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.,
Andrew Tobani, 24 years old, gave himself up to the local police as a fugitive from justice. He "surrendered"
at Broad street station the other evening, after the detective department had been bombarded with a number of telephone
messages instructing the officials to be on the lookout for a man of Tobani's description. These messages, it was
learned, were sent by Tobani himself. Upon being slated at the central station the man gave the name of William
Jackson, under which he claims to have enlisted in the United States army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as a member
of the Fifth cavalry.
It was for an offense committed while a soldier at that post that Tobani claims he was imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth,
after an unfair trial, and he said his reason for asking the police, by means of the telephone calls to arrest
him, was to expose the indignities to which he had been subjected as a prisoner.
According to Torbani's story, he escaped from the prison three months ago in a swill barrel after serving part
of a sentence for the theft of an automatic pistol, which he was charged taking from a fellow a fellow cavalryman
in Texas. He claims that he was railroaded and he did not have time to procure adequate counsel to show that the
trial sprang from a trumped up charge.
In Fort Leavenworth, Tobani says, the water cure, the straightjacket and other forms of torture were employed to
compel the prisoners to perform alotted tasks. At last, the man asserted he gained the acquaintance and friendship
of the driver of a garbage wagon which came daily to the prison doors, and between them the plot was hatched whereby
Tobani escaped in a swill barrel.
(Hobart Republican ~ September 4, 1912)
A Commercial Club
In Linwood
The business men of Linwood have organized a commercial
club. George C. Shefler Is president and R. L. Boggart, secretary. (Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, October 23,
1908, page 3, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer)
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT AND
DEATH
CHICAGO, March 24---A few days since, at High Prairie,
near Leavenworth, Kansas, while John Celf was engaged in cleaning out a well, the walls caved in and buried him
deep in the earth. Everybody thought he was crushed to death, and the process of digging was very slow. Five days
after the accident he was reached and found to be alive. As soon as he was taken out he declared himself all right,
drank a glass of whiskey, ate some food and smoke a pipe. Several hours after he commenced sinking, and soon died
without a struggle.
(Philadelphia Inquirer ~ March 25, 1871)
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN
A COAL SHAFT--TWO MEN KILLED
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 31--- A frightful accident
occurred at a coal shaft here this p.m., by which two men met a fearful death. Four men, while about descending,
two of them were standing on the bottom, and two on the edge of an iron tub used for that purpose, when, by some
action, the engine was not reversed and they were drawn upward until the tub struck the large cylander over which
the cable runs, when the two men standing on the edge of the tube lost their footing, and were precipitated to
the bottom of the shaft, a distance of nearly 200 feet. Their bodies were afterward brought out in a horribly mutilated
condition. The other two, having safe footing, escaped without injury.
(Daily State Register ~ August 1, 1869)
A NEW RAILROAD PROJECT---ANOTHER
STORM
LEAVENWORTH, July 14---A meeting was held today,
to organize the Leavenworth and Gulf Railroad. The people of the counties interested in the road are in earnest
and the work will be speedily undertaken and accomplished. Many leading capitalists are among the incorporators.
Another storm of wind and rain has passed over
this section. It is feared that much damage has been done.
(Philadelphia Inquirer ~ July 15, 1869)
A KANSAS SUGGESTION
A Method Whereby Mobs Can Be Suppressed
Please allow me space in your paper to state a
few facts concerning the burning of the Negro, Fred Alexander, of Leavenworth, Kansas. We, the people of Kansas,
have been petitioning President McKinley in behalf of our brethren of the south, and now we have had the most brutal,
horrible, henious crime ever perpretrated in the history of the state, right here in our very door. What are we
going to do about it? Sit calmly by and see our people tortured to death in this horrible manner and say nothing?
The man may have been guilty, but I don't believe he was for he talked and acted like an innocent man. If he had
been guilty he would have confessed when he knew death was inevitable. But, even if he was guilty, should a mob
take the law into their hands and put him to death as they did? No. He should have been given the protection of
the law and punished accordingly. Kansas should stop boasting of her brave and free sons, and hide her face in
shame until she does all she can to wipe out this blot that has been placed upon her name.
There are som truly noble minds in Kansas and if
we, who call ourselves the upright and, denounce all mean and lowly acts, let this act pass unpunished, are we
not placing ourselves on a level with the element that composed that mob? I do not believe the act of that mob
meets the approval of the majority of our citizens.
Then let them affirm their disapproval by bringing
the leaders of that mob to justice. It can be done if the right steps are taken and it should be done.
The time to strike is while the iron is hot. The
people are aroused and action should be taken now.
Sheriff Everhardy and Warden Tomlinson are both
in fault and should be expelled from office for non-performance of duty and their bondsmen held responsible. Now,
Mr. Editor, you as an educator, as a leader, can do much in helping to bring about justice. Appeal to the people
through the columns of your paper, ask them to organize themselves into clubs and leagues and ask their representatives
to bring this affair to justice. The Governor, our Senators and Representatives will act if we urge them. They
must do their duty. I have written to the Governor, and to our representatives and senator from my district. I
wish to commend Governor Stanley for his action in this affair and hope he will do all he can in the way of justice.
The capital punishment bill is all right and should
be passed; but I think a bill touching on mobing, based on taxation, if it could be made a law would do much toward
suppressing mob violence.
Let the people of a community whether city or country,
where the mob occurs to be taxed from $50,000 to $100,000. Send taxation to be paid to the family of the victim.
A great many times you can arouse a people to action
by adopting financial measures, when you cannot appeal to their conscience.
Some white people will act and act quickly when
you touch his pocketbook. He must have justice some way.
Please do not think I am in sympathy with any rapist
because I talk as I do. This is a crime that should be punishable by death, but let the law have its course, and
not a mob take the law into their own hands.
Jacob Welcher
Four Mile, Kans.
(Plaindealer ~ January 25, 1901)
WILLIAM BAKER, A
COAL MINER, LOSES LIFE IN A MINE
A very peculiar accident occurred near noon today
in the mine of the Leavenworth Coal company, resulting in the death from an electrical shock of William Baker,
a young miner 25 years of age. The mining company employs electrical machinery for mining. At the time stated William
Jenkins had one of the machines in charge, while Baker, who was at least twenty feet from it and the insulated
wires with which they are connected, suddenly dropped dead, while Jenkins and another man, who stood between him
and Baker, were also badly shocked, but soon rallied. They rushed to where Baker lay, but he was beyond recall.
The fact that Baker was not within twenty feet of the wires or machine makes the accident such a peculiar one,
while the volts used are not sufficient in number to cause death, as Superintendent Carr stated that he has frequently
had the full force of the shock. The capacity of the machine is given at 300 volts, and it is thought that it required
at least 500 volts to cause death. The body of the unfortunate man was brought to the surface of the shaft and
there viewed by the coroner and his jury. An examination will be made by the experts of the mine with proper instruments
in the presence of the coroner's jury to ascertain just where the trouble lay that caused the accident.
Baker, the dead miner, lived with this parents,
whom he supported, at the corner of Fifth and Cheyenne streets. He is also the brother of Mrs. Chris Gausz, corner
Ottawa and Fifth streets. The body has been conveyed to the home. Baker's father is more than 60 years of age.
(Kansas City Times ~ February 26, 1895)
THOUGHT TO BE MURDER
Mrs. Lautsch, whose attempt on her life last week
was reported in these columns, still lives, but is, while apparently conscious, unable to speak. She appears to
recognize those about her, but cannot talk to them. There is a strong suspicion that this is not a case of attempted
self-destruction, but is a case of an attempt to murder. There are many suspicious circumstances connected with
the case that lead to this conclusion, but unfortunately the wounded woman is unable to tell the story. Physicians
do not believe she can recover.
(Kansas City Times ~ February 26, 1895)
A BIGAMIST CAPTURED
T. B. Hardin Wanted in Saline County, Missouri
Found in Leavenworth
LEAVENWORTH, KAN., June 12---Today Sheriff Ayres
of Saline County, Missouri, arrived with a requisition for T. B. Hardin, wanted in that town on the charge of bigamy.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Malone found Hardin employed by E. J. Holman in South Leavenworth, where he was arrested
and taken to Saline.
It is charged that Hardin has a wife and children
living at Gentry, where he was in the drug business. Leaving there he went to another town, practiced medicine
and got married. He soon tired of the second wife and went to Marshall, Mo., where he married wife No. 3. Wife
No. 1 soon got on his trail and, though arrested at Marshall, he escaped from the officers ad found his way here
a few days ago, where he worked for his board merely to be permitted to stay a short time. He had no money. He
is about 40 years of age and well educated and a good talker. He thinks he is "in for it."
(Kansas City Times ~ June 13, 1889)
THE LAWRENCE - PARK
WEDDING
On the evening of the 18th inst., relatives and intimate friends assembled at the residence, near Magnolia, of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Park to witness the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ella to Mr. Geo. W. Lawrence, a rising
young lawyer of Galesburg. The guest felt that the union of these two was so fitting that the merry voices in
the parlors tastily wreathed with vines and brightened with flowers, made Old Time stop his hand on the dial, till
the silvery chorus of the wedding march, played by Miss Jessie Wiley of Troy Grove, told that 7 o’clock had come
and turned the eyes to the bridal party entering. Rev. George Woodward of Leavenworth, Kansas and Prof.. McAfee
of Park College, Mo., came first and in the order named, Miss Emma Woodward of Leavenworth, bridesmaid and Mr.
E. Bancroft of Galesburg, groomsman, the bride’s mother with the groom, the bride and her father. Two little pages,
Mitchell Monteville of Kansas City, Mo., and Hallie Parsons of Wenona, placed choice flowers at the feet of the
bridal pair as they stood beneath the marriage bell of tuberoses and white carnations. Rev. George Woodward who
performed the marriage ceremony, assisted by Prof McAfee, has known the bride from infancy to womanhood. He prefaced
the ceremony with such tender words as can only fall from the lips of a reverend pastor and loving friend. He
alluded to his baptismal of Ella when she took the vows of the church. The bride, dressed in a beautiful white
dress trimmed with point lace, orange flowers at the throat and waist, not a piece of jewelry till the wedding
ring was placed upon her finger, looked herself, lovely and true and the groom looked worthy of her.
The following morning the pair took the cars for their furnished home with its fires lighted awaiting them in Galesburg.
With them into that new home our best wishes go.
X.
(The Henry Republican, Henry, Illinois, Thursday,
October 26, 1882, submitted by Nancy Piper)
