New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
July 17, 1878 · Page 5 of 8
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Goodnight. amount of my sentences reaches sixty-three Then 1he rain means relaxation the the Grand Trunk completely in his power On a certain occasion King CadwaUs years. tension in nature and in all the creatures and that road cannot be anything but a local met a Saxon army? In order to distinguish Good night! Hildebrand states that the finest piece of is lessened. The trees drop their ripened road, having no Western outlet- whatever, his men from the Saxnns he Now the weary rest by right, ay Gould is undoubtedly aicing Vanderbilt, work ever execnted in the United States (of fruit. The tree itself will tall in a still, placed a leek in each of their hats and And the busy lingers bending coarse he was not engaged in it) was the robbery damp day, when but yesterday it with- in considerltionof not being interfered with Over work that seems unending, having gained adecisive victory over their of the Falls City bank in Louisville. his scheme to 'control all the connections Toil no more till morning light sstood a g*Te of wind. A moist south enemies, the leek became ever after the The burglars gained an entrance Saturday Good night! and rivals of the Union Pacific. Mr. Vanderbilt wind penetrates even the mind and badge of the Welsh. night, into an insurance office immediately, has been interviewed regarding his makes its grasp-less tenacious. It ought above the vault, took up the carpet, sawed 1 Go to rest! schemes, but his answers are evasive, and to take lesb to kill a man on a rainy day out the floor, took up the bricks until they *k I Close the eyes with slumber prest indicate nothing. Yet he does not conceal A Horsewoman's Harrow Uscape. 11 reached the vault then, from 4 o'clock Sunday than on a Clear. The direct support ot the streets the silence growing. his hatred towards the Grank Trunk, and Wakes but to the watch horn blowing, morning until 1 o'clock Monday morning, the sun withdrawn lite is undor a cloud The Denver (Col Tribune describes an says he will crush it if it does not maintain Night makes only one requestGo they succeeded, but not without the a masculine mood gives place to someting the ratesthat is, if it does not abide by his accident which recently happened to Mrs. 1 to rest! hardest kind of hard work, in drilling 194 like a feminine. In *tbis sense, rain dictation. The officers elected to-day are as E. J. Mallett, of Canon City. Mrs holes through the chilled steel top, threequarters is the giief, the weeping of nature, the follows: President, W. H. Vanderbilt Mallett is an excellent horsewoman, and Slumber sweet! of an inch thick, and lifted the plate 1 i Blessed dreams each dreamer great relief of a burdened or agonized heart, treasurer, Cornelius Vanderbilt secretary, having great confidence in her riding out. Then they had nothing to encounter He whom love has kept from sleeping Bat tears from nature's eyelids are alwavs E. D. Worcester executive committee, W. skill, started out with her husband and except plaster-of-paris cement and soft In sweet dreams now o'er him creeping H. Vanderbilt, Augustus Schell, Cornelius ramedial and prepare the way for brighter, other friends on horseback, to visit the iron. The haul realized them $325,000 in May he his beloved meet Vanderbilt, Samuel F. Barger. No action purer skies. John Burroqhs, in, Scribtier canon. Oi all the wonderful canons in currency, bonds and diamonds. Slumber sweet! was taken respecting the working officials of for July., Colorado, the Grand Canon of the Arkansas Hildebrand further states that in the cases the road, that subject being left for future Goodnight! is the most awe-inspiring. The i of county treasury robberies, where combinations consideration. Vanderbilt and party leave Slumber till the morniug light, walls are 2,000 feet high at places,and almost have been opened, treasurers are here to morrow morning, and will be in Slumber till the new to-morrow ViNDEKBlLT'S EMPIRE. perpendicular. Before operations often unjustly accused of complicity. Men Comes and brings its own new sorrow. Chicago in the evening, to go back by the i can be found, and without much difficulty, were begun within them by the railroad We are in the Father's sight Lake Shore. It Has Been Extended So as to Include the who will disclose combinations for a certain i men, no one ever attempted to pass Goodnight! 1 Mlchiqan Central RailroadThe Aims percentage of the "swag." In the case of From The German of Theodore Korner. through the gorge, except during the of the Railroad Potentate. the recent Clermont county, O., robbeiy, at A Famous Ratter winter, and tl en on ice. The laborers Batavia, the combination was given to the [Detroit Special (June 24) to Chicago Times.] have, however, made paths in the very PROUD OF HIS CRIMES. The annual meeting of the Michigan Central thieves by an outsider, well known to Hildebrand. That was a famous ratter that a St sides of the immense precipices, and it railroad, which was held here to-day, Clair street man purchased last week. He was along one of these that Mrs. Mallett resulted, as was generally expected, in a The Record of a Noted Criminal Turned couldn't remember, he said to his wife, and her friends were traveling. She rode Vanderbilt victoiv, and the road is now his Red Rlbbonite as Related by Himself. just how many rats that dog had slaugn An Irish Test of innocence. a trusty horse, and was as composed as own as much as the New York Central or [Knightstown (Ind.) Correspondence Indianapolis tered at one inning, but it was something the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. He any of her party. They had proceeded Journal.] marvelous. There was no doubt about During a riot, known as "the battle of holds a majority of the stock himself, and to a point beyond the horse trail and Your correspondent attended a meeting of it, for he learned it from the man of he can, therefore, do as he pleases with the Magheracloon," I was suspected of having were descending a steep hill. the Red Kibbon club in this city a few evenings property. Mr. W. H. Vandeibilt was present whom he bought the dog, and surely he killed a peasant upon my estate, since, and listened to an address by The path was a narrow one, the walls at the meeting and personally directed ought to know. The dog was industriously wham, in reality, the police had shot. Charles D. Hildebrand, a reformed drunkard. of the canon shooting far up toward the the operations. He had with him as aides polishing a bone while his owner My wife happened a few days after, while At the conclusion of the address the blue, clear sky, and down tor hundreds and adjutants his two sons, William K. and was showing and holding forth on his driving in a pony-carriage, attended only speaker promised his audience, if they would of feet until they dipped into the disturbed Cornelius Augustus Schell, director of the good points, when a rat was observed to by a single servant, to pass the chapel only come to hear him the next evening, New York Central and Lake shore J. Tillmghast, waters of the rapi I rolling Arkansas. come out from under the house, and go where the riet bad taken place, and being that they would learn something in relation president of the Canada Southern It was at this dangerous spot sniffing about, after the manner of its a stranger there,and ignorant of the roads, to the close connection of whisky to crime, John Newell, general manager of the Lake that Mrs. Mallett's horse stumbled and race, on the hunt for something to eat, she stopped near the chapel yard to inquire the inner history of penitentiaries, and the Shore & Michigan Southern E. D. Worcester, fell. There was no room for the least and gradually drew near the famous the way to Carrcikmacross A lady treasurer and secretary of the New York punishment received there which would falter. This was, therefore, a fatal step. ratter. driving herself in a pony-phaeton was Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern astonish them. Mrs Mallett, with almost incredible Webster Wagner, manager of Vanderbilt's not a very common occurance in those "Now watch him whispered the owner, The bronzed face, the nervous glance of presence of mind, disentangled herself sleeping-car lines Capt. J. H. Vander unfrequented quarters, and as she con while his eyes lighted up with the the eye, so often seen in criminals, and the from her horse Below her ten feet, bilt, brother of the departed Commodoie versed with the people who lived near excitement of anticipated sport! "ju peculiar bitter tone of the speaker when he was a shelving rock, about fifteen inches and several others. Of the opposition, none the chapel, a crowd soon collected keep your eye on him!'' referred to prisons, attracted my attention, wide. This she struck and caught with of the prominent members except Mr. R. G. around her. Having mentioned that she "Why, the dog doesn't seem to see him and an indefinable something in his general Rolston, secietaiy of the Michigan Central, her hands. With nerve that would have was my wife, the recent battle became does he?" said the lady of the house. appearance led me to believe that his life and J. F. Joy, were present, and they were made the sterner sex proud of manhood immediately the subject of conveisation, had been a supremely bad one. So, after That's nil right, he is laying for him. all sufficient, for Vanderbilt had everything the lady held on the end of the lock and she, anxions to calm their feelings, he resumed his seat I handed him my card You'll see some fun directly. There, he so neatly arranged that if no one of the old dangling in the air, gripping it with despeiation. and invited him to accompany me to my entered into the whole case, and allowed sees him now." management had been present it would have Had she let go. her lodgment room at the Shipman House. He consented, them to tell her the whole story from beginning been just as well. After the meeting had "Ye*, but what makes him stick his would have been on another shelf fifty and, after we were comfortably seated, he to end ani she expressed deep been organized by the election of Mr. tail between his legs that way, and bristl leet below. To hold on was her only resort. 'did a tale unfold," which, if true, entitles Augustus Schell, the voting commenced. sympathy with them at the death of thr up so?" With all the dispatch possible, him to a place in the annals of time, alongside The Vanderbilt interest placed their proxies unfortunate man who had been shot. "O that's all right. I guess he does Mallet and others came to her rescue, and in one hat and the Sloan interest another. of Claude Duval and Dick Turpin. that because he's mad. Don't say a They seemed gratified by hsr sympathy succeeded in taking ber from her peri, The Sloan hat filled u^ veiy lapidly, and, to HELDEBBAND'S STORY. word!" and general kindness of manner, and by ons situation almost uninjured, but oi the uninitiated one, it seemed to be a suie I was born in Detroit, Mich. When only The rat approached nearer and nearer her trusting herself alone in the midst oi indication of Vandeibilt's defeat. But that course very much exhausted from fright ven months old I was stolen from my to his doom the dog trembled with excitement gentleman remained serene thioughout, a crowd of rather wild looking men at mother's bosom by a neighboring woman, Now comes the stiangest part ot the and anxiety to get at his game knowing that he had them dead suie. such a timp, and at length one of the pari who, with her husband, joined a tribe of story. Tl}e horse fell also, and lodged at least that's what his owner said When the hats were turned over the fact Indians living in the vicinity. I lemember ty said, "Maybe your ladpship would just* on the same shelt to which his mistress was revealed that Vanderbilt's side had 99,- when the cheeky rodent, after getting little or nothing of my childhood, come yourself into the chapel yard. aDd was clinging. In falling he had tuined 665 votes, electing as the new board Messrs. within about a foot of the bone, skipped except that when I was seven years old see the place where the dead man lay it completely around, but there he stood William H. Vanderbilt, Augustus Schell, the woman whom I had called mother, on up and seized it, and shot back into his would be kind in you to do so. as we aie on the narrow ledge of stone, hugging Cornelius Vanderbilt, Samuel F. Barger, her death-bed confessed to her attendant, an hole as though he had forgotten something, sure you feel tendeily for the poor man the wall, and evidently realizing his William K. Vanderbilt, Anson Stager, W. old hag, that she had stolen me, and gave while the famous ratter let out a whose blood has been spilled by the po- L. Scott, E. D. Worcester, of New York, and position, it a horse ever realized anything. the name and address of my parents. She shrill chorus of yelps, and nearly flipped lice." She was naturally unwilling to leave Ashley Pond, of Detioit. The old board, He did not stii a muscle, hardiy also obtained from the nurse her promise to his disgusted owner up in shooting her carriage and go into the chapel yard composed of Samuel Sloan, Moses Taylor, see that I was, sent home. This promise bieathed for an hour or more, until around and between his legs .to escape amongst the tombstones and graves, escorted Geoige F. Talman, John J. Astor, Isaac Bell, was never kept. ropes stiong eaougn to take him out legions of imaginary rats. R. G. Rolston, Nathaniel Thayer, Edward by the wild-looking crowd of was sent for and obtained at a camp a I then fell into'the hands of two piv fessional Austin, and J. V. Barrer, received but 54,- stranges, but they evidently wished foi mile distant. By the time these anived, tiheves, and was taken to Paris. Since 124. and pressed it so much that she felt un that time I have served in eleven penitentiaries, fifty men or more, who were engaged in TVhy I Pays To Read. willing to disappoint or refuse them, and eighteen years' close confinement, the canqp, had gathered along the trail, having naturally a high courage in any not including short confinements in numerous One's physical framehis bodyhis This revolution was not brought about because and as many as could make themselves station-houses, city prisons, and county difficulty or danger, she at once got out handsis only a machine. is the the stockholders were dissatisfied with useful, assisted in lifting the animal up jails. My first sentence was in Paris, France, of her carriage and walked with the people the old management, or because they believed mind, controlling and directing that He seemed to lealize fully that steps two years in prison for pocket-picking. Was that they would fare better if Vanderbilt to see the spot where the dead man machine that gives it power and elficiency. were being taken for his relief, and dicl released after three month*,' confinement, on had control of the road. On the contrary, had lam. There was a little heap of The successful use of the body depends not move to make lesistance until he wat, account of my extreme youth, being then the fact was that some 900 shareholders, straw lying where he died, and both the wholly upon the mindupon its placed upon a suie footing in the path. only 9 years old. Was sentenced next to representing 53,125 shares, voted for the straw and ground under it were saturated abilitv to direct well. If one ties his six months' imprisonment in Bailey Prison. old board, while only about 100 shareholders, with his blood. Her courage came to her arm in a sling it becomes weak and finally London, for the same offense. There I lepresenting 99,665 shares, voted foi aid, and she was able even in the midst of powerless. Keep it in active exercise, learned the alphabet for the first time. I the Vanderbilt party. .No one has any confidence An Obtuse Man. the somewhat excited crowd to look and it acquires vigor and strength, then went to Canada, and was sentenced to in Vanderbilt, and his getting control calmly down upon the ssickeniug spectacle and is disciplined to use this strength as one year's confinement in the Kingston's of this pioperty is generally considered She was a stylish young lady about and having again heard Penitentiary for burglary, and for refusing desired. Just so one's mind by active a misfortune. Vanderbilt needed this road ighteen yeais old, and to accommodate friend she took the baby out for an to obey prison orders was confined during them recount all the circumstances of exercise in thinking, planning, studying, to carry out his scheme to control the whole the whole term of my sentence in a dungeon, the battle, she quietly left the spot, looking railioad system east of Chicago, and dictate observing, acquires vigor, strength, power airing. She was wheeling it up and and for nearly 365 days I did not see the such terms as he shall choose. He went steadily at the blood and straw as of concentiation and direction. Plainly aown the walk,when an oldis'i man, very light of day. When I was released from into the open market and purchased outright she lefta secret though undefined feeling then, the man who exercises his mind daf. came along and inquired for a cerden Canada I begun my regular occupation, viz: 80,000 shares of Michigan Cential coming over her that she ought not in reading and thinking, gives it increased person supposed to live on that bank and county treasury work. This was stock. The other 20,000, which were voted to quail even at this painful sight, lest power and efficiency, and greater ability taieet. She neaily yelled her head ofi my particular line of business, and I seldom for him, were purchased and owned by his it should appear to the people that her to direct the efforts of his physical frame trying to answer him, and he looked did any work outside of this, which is decidedly friends. The fight for the control of this husband had been guilty of having spilled his workto better results, than he the best branch of the profession. around, caught sight of the baby, and road commenced two years ago, and Vanderbilt the blood. The peasants watched her can who merely uses his muscles. If a said: would have obtained control last year From 1852 to 1854 I served in Alleghany, closely and attentivelytalked rapidly man reads a book or paper, even one he had he only felt his way sure. But some ''Nice child, that I suppose you feeJ Pa., where I learned to read and write. Went amongst themselves in Irish for awhile-e knows to be erroneous, it helps him by difficulties in regard to the control of the proud of him?" then to Havana, and received a sentence of and then followed her silently from th Canada Southern had to be overcome first. the effort to combat the errors. Of all twenty one years for a red-hot bank robbery "It isn't mire!" she yelled at Mm. chapel yard, with a softened, respectful, Your correspondent came into the possession men, the farmer, the cultivator, needs to was released after three months, "Bov, ehh Well,/ he looks just like of facts yesterday which show conclusively and altered manner. They assisted her read more and think moieto strengthen through the intercession of the American you." what Vanderbilt aims at, and what into tne carriage, crowding anxiously consul. his resoning powers, so that they may "It isn't mine!" she yelled again, but his intentions are. The facts are that some around to show her any little attention In 18561 was sentenced eight years to the help out and make more effective, more he nodded his -head and continued years ago Messrs. Daniel Drew, W. L. Scott, Nashville, Tenn., State prison, but I was in their power, and just as she was leaving, profitable, his hard toil. There can be Twins, eh! Where's the other one?'' Jay Gould, and others held a controlling interest "flush," had some powerful friends and good cne of them said to ber, in an earnest no dcubt that the farmer who supplies She started off with the cab, but he in the Canada Southern. When they lawyers, and served only thirty days. In voice, Well, Mrs. Trench, I am glad himself with the reading the most of followed, and asked: purchased it, it was their intention to use it 1857 I was sentenced four years to the Louisiana ye came to look at the blood ye never other men's thoughts and experiences, as a through connection with the Erie. They Did it die of colic?" State prison at Baton Rouge, but the could have looked at it as ye did, if you will in the end, if not at once, be the were not successful, however, and the plan Despairing, of making'him understand same influences which secured my release or yours had any hand in the killing of most successful. was then conceived to go into partnership by word of mouth, she pointed to the from Nashville were used with like effect in the poor boy that's dead and gone. We with old Commodore Vanderbilt, who, they Baton Rouge, and I saw the inside of the baby, at herself, and then shook her believed, could make it a paying property. all acquit ye of it now. The blood would walls only two months. Origin of Great Britain's Emolenig. head. They presented him with half of the stock have welled up in your face if it had been My next sentence was in 1858, for three Yesyes, I see, 'tother twin in the on condition that he guaranteed the balance. ye that had done it!" Mrs. Trench drove The intestine wars whish so long devastated years, in Illinois State prison at Alton. house. Their father is fond of them, oi He accepted the bait, and afterwards bought quietly away, the people all exclaiming, England were carried on under I was afterwards transferred to Joliet, and it course?" $10,000 more of this stock, giving him undisputed "Safe home to' your honor, safe the symbols"of the Red and White Rose took me seven years to serve my sentence. I She turned the cab and hurried the control. When the old Commodore home." And never once did she receive escaped four separate times, and was recaptured The adherents of the House of Lancester other way, but he followed, and asked died this property was inherited with each time. My partner, George Chase, an unkind or uncivil word from any of chose the red rose as their i mark of distinction, the rest by William H. It was an unprofitable Do they kick around much nights" was hung at Joliet for killing Deputy Warden the people of Farney. -TroncKs Realities whilst those of York chose the piece of property, and the bondholders I tell you 'taint mine!'' she shouted Clarke. Clarke was a brutal fellow, and of Irish Life. white. This frarcidal war continued until wanted Vanderbilt to guarantee their looking very red in the fact tyrannized unmercifully over Chase. For the union of the roses by bonds, as first agreed. Vanderbilt proposed the marriage "I think you're wrong there," he an some trifling disobedience Clarke undertook to do so if the debt and interest were reduced of Henry VII. with Princess Elizabeth, swered. "Children brought up on the to whip him, and when he took hold of him Bain. to figures more adequately representing daughter Edward IV., in 1486, since to lead him to the whipping-post, the convict bottle are apt to pine and die." present values. A majority of bondholders which time the rose has continued to be drew a slung-shot, which be had made Sne started on a run for the gate, but The first water,how much Ht means! accepted, but the scheme could not the emblem of England. of a stone and some leather, and killed Clarke before she had opened it he came up, and Seven tenths of man himself is water. be carried out unless the Canadian parliament When St. Patrick landed in Ireland to with a single blow. I was released from Joliet asked: Seven-tenth fo the human race rained down passed an act appioving it. The bill convert the Irish, in 432, the pagan inhabitants Feb. 13.1866. but yesterday! It is much more probable was introduced, and it is asseited that Vanderbilt "Have to spank 'em once and awhile, I were ready to stone him. He In May, 1866,1 made my escape from the paid a certain member of the parliament that Caesar will flow out of a bung-' suppose?" requested to be heard, and endeavored to Indianapolis jail, where I had been locked up the sum of $10,000 for lobbying the ho that any part of his remains will She made about twenty gestures in explain God to them as the Trinity of bn charge of a bank robbery, and the Indianapolis bill through. How much more he paid is ever stop one. Our life is indeed a vapor, half a minute, and he helped the cab Unity but they did not understand him city court was the only place where I not known. The Grand Trunk and Great a breath,*a little moisture condensed up through the gate, and said: ever gave my true name. until he plucked a trefoil, or shamrock Western managers did their best to defeat on the pane. We carry ourselves as in a "Oar children wereal twins, and 111 In the fall of 18661 was sentenced for five the scheme, knowing that it would enable from the ground, and said, '-Is it not as phial. Cleave the flesh, and how quickly send my wife down to give you some advice. lye are Wisconsin State prison at Waui Vanderbilt to crush them, but Vanderbilt's possible for the Father, Son, and Holy we spill out! Man begins as a fish. You see" pun, and for refusal to work I was confined gold was too powerful with the Canadian Ghost to be one, as for the three leaves to and he swims in a sea of vital fluids as But she picked up a flower-pot and flung legislators, and the bill became a law. This in a cell four feet by seven, with a ball and grow upon a single stalk?" "Then," says long as his life lasts. His first food is it at him. He jumped,back,, and as she enabled Vanderbilt to secure fall possession chain to my foot, for four years, four months Brand, "the Irish were convinced, and milk so is his last and all between. He of the Canada Southern, and put him into a entered the house he called out: and seventeen days. Was released March became converts to Christianity and in can taste and assimilate and absorb nothing position to scoop in the Michigan Central, 1871. "Hope insanity won't break out on the memory of that event thev haye ever since which he could not have done if the bill in but liquids. The same is truo o4 I was sentenced at Terre Haute twins!" worn the shamrock as a badge of honor regard to the Canada Southern had not been throughout all organic nature. 'Tis 4,flesrs' confinement in the Indianapo*lis When the Danes invaded Scoland, on passed. The money with which Vanderbilt State prison at Jefferuonville, but had the water power that makes every wheel To Choose at Physiciam,.To choose a purchased the Michigan Central was borrowed one occasion, they resolved to adopt a "sentence curtailed four months on account move. Without this great solvent, there by him in Europe a year ago. He physician, one should be half a physician strategeni, and in order to prevent the of good behavior. Was released Oct. is no life. I admire immensely this line went to Europe again a short time ago, and one's self nut this is not often the case. Scots from detecting them they marched 23,1877 of Walt Whitman: it is claimed on good authority that this time The best plan which a mother of a family barefoot. Th3 Danes thought they should I was arrested in Indianapolis in 1872, on The slumbering and liquid trees."'*?. he made the trip for a similar purpose, an adopt is to select man whose educacon l-^charge of complicity ievidence the Meridian street reach the camp in a few minutes, when ^ban robbery, but no was offered The tree and its Iruit ar* like a sponge namely, to borrow $8,000,000. He succeeded has been suitable to his profession on a sudden, a man who went iorward which the rains have filled. Through in his mission, and with this money, iwhich could hold me. I was immediately tihose habits of life are such as to prove was wounded by a stout Scotch thistle, so it is said, he will purchase the Great Western them and through all living bodies there taken to St. Joseph county, Michigan, on wat he continues to acquire both practical that he could not help crying out loudly of Canada and the Detroit & Milwaukee goes on the commerce of vital growth, J, ^charge of robbingthe county treasurer's safe. and theoretical knowledge who is with pain. This noise roused the camp, railroads. It is positively asserted that he tiny vessels, fleets and succession of fleets 'Cl trumped up a charge against my captor, neither a bigot in Old opinions nor an enthusiast the Scots flew "to arms, and the Danes has now virtually control of the latter. With laden with material bound for distant Detective John Funday, got him in jail, and in new and, for many reasons, were vanquished. This thistle was afterward the Great Western in his possession, he k*? shores to build up, and repair, restore leared myself. I was never sentenced twice not the fashionable doctor of the day. adopted as the insignia of Scotland. 1 nder the same name, and the aggregate the waste ot the physical frame. J^ i^UC ^ttPWM* mmmmmmm ^mmmtmmam riaawfon