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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
For Lieutenant ‘Governor,
JOHN S. RILLING,
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
For Congressman-at-Large,
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN
J. C. BUCHER.
Democratic County Ticket.
: JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legislators, ROBERT he FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
The Tariff Bill Will Pass.
Another week bas passed without
final action on the tariff bill. The
struggle between the two houses has
not yet been terminated. A caucus of
the Democrats of the House was
called on Tuesday with the object of
influencing the House conferees to con-
cede to the position of the Senate so
that an agreement might be expedited,
but the caucus adjourned without al-
tempting to dictate to the conference.
Although the caucus took no action
on the issue as it stood between the two
houses, yet the expressions that were
made at that meeting revealed to the
Senate that if it did not want to re-
main in Washington for a month yet,
or take the responsibility of defeating
all tariff legislation, it would have to
make further concessions tothe House.
This revelation had a good effect at
the meeting of the conference on Wed-
needay. The Senate conferees yielded
a point by admitting iron ore to the
free list, but required that coal should
remain dutiable. This was meeting
the House half way on the points that
separated them, as the compromise on
sugar, in which the Senate made con-
cessions, was effected last week. The
sugar schedule, as agreed upon, in-
cludes a duty of 40 per cent ad valor-
em on raw sugar, 40 per cent. on the
value of the raw sugar in the refined,
and one-fifth of a cent differential on
refined sugar. Coal and iron ore re-
mained the ground of difference in the
conference, the Senate insisting that
both should be dutiable, and the
House conferees demanding that both
should go on the free list. The agree-
ment said to have been reached in con-
ference on Wednesday retains 40 cents
a ton on coal and puts iron ore on the
free list, with elight changes in favor
of reduction in the metal, woolen and
cotton schedules.
This is the the reported situation, at
the time of our going to press, of this
long drawn out contest, with the most
hopeful prospects of a satisfactory end
being reached in a few daye.
——1It is remarkable that men who
are regarded as having sense enough
to fit them for congressional duty,
should get such crazy designs in their
heads as the one entertained by Popu-
list Senator ALLEN who has introduced
a bill to appropriate $50,000,000 for
the relief of the worthy poor. This is
paternalism run mad aod is a sample
of the legislation that would prevail
if the the loose notions entertained by
the Populists concerning the functions
of government should predominate.
What a nice scramble there would be
when the fifty millions came to be di-
vided among “the worthy poor.”
When will these light heads learn that
the government is not and neyer was
intended to be a charitable institution ?
—— The veterans of the late war
are passing rapidly away as age and
disease thin their ranks. One by one
they are going to their last camping
ground. The report of the G. A. R.
shows that 7,002 members died in the
last twelve months, a larger mortality
than that of any previous year. It is
in the order of nature that this deple-
tion should increase as age steals upon
the old warriors, and by the beginning
of the next century there will be but
comparatively few left to answer roll
call. They will pass away, but their
fame will live forever.
——The bills for the admission of
Arizona and New Mexico, which have
passed the House of Representatives,
are not likely to be acted upon by the
Senate this session, as the time of the
latter body previous to its adjournment
will be taken up entirely by the coa-
sideration of the tariff bill. It is to be
regretted that there should be further
delay in converting the remaining ter-
ritories into States. Political con-
siderations should not stand in their
way, although it no doubt had its ef-
fect in keeping them out of the Union.
Revising His Views.
For awhile yet, before he sinks into
! obscurity like MarTIN IRONS, the lead-
er of the recent railroad strike will con-
tinue to be talked about. One of the
latest announcements in regard to him
is that he has given his revised views
in regard to labor strikes, in which he
shows that his hindsight is a good deal
better than his foresight. To a news-
paper reviewer at Chicage Dess said :
«I will never again have any official
connection with a strike. The organ-
ized elements of society are opposed to
strikes, and as long as strikes are re-
pugnant to society it is useless to inau-
gurate them. We might start in now
and organize a strike oo the most ex-
tensive plan, but it would end inevita-
bly as this one has.”
What a pity that it did not occur to
this labor leader before he ordered the
strike which proved so unsuccessful,
that society would not tolerate the die-
turbance which his movement was
bound to bringon. If it had been as
apparent to him then as it is now, that
arbitrary interference with industrial
operations, stoppage of railroad trans
portation, general interruption of busi-
ness, and riotous conduct on the part of
excited and lawless strikers, are
things which the organized elements of
society are opposed to and will inevita.
bly put down, with a strong hand if nec-
essary, he probably would not have or-
dered the movement which, after hav-
ing been the cause of great public loss,
signally failed in being of any benefit
to those engaged in it. And why
should not Dems have had sense
enough to see beforehand that or-
derly society would not tolerate
disorderly and destructive methods for
the accomplishment of any object ?
It is very fortunate indeed that so-
ciety is of such a dieposition. Jt cou-
gerves labor's very best interest.
Nothing has done the labor leaders
more good than the lesson taught
them by the total failure of this strike
that arbitrary and violent measures
cannot be resorted to with success as a
means of righting the wrongs labor.
Dess comes to a sensible conclusion
when he says that the working people
must look to the ballot box for the re-
dress of their grievances. That is the
truly American and the only constitu-
tional remedy, if there is a remedy for
the disadvantageous condition of labor.
Much Their Own Fault.
The interviews which DEBs may
have with his followers in the recent dis-
astrous strike are not likely to be of an
amicable character. It is reported
that one of them met him at Danville,
Illinois, some days ago, and after
shaking bands with the discomfited
leader, said to him : “You ordered me
out on a strike and now I have lost
my job.” Upon Des replying that
he did not order him to strike, the re-
tort of the exasperated workman was :
“Yes, you did, you d — —— ——,"
following up the angry exclamation
with a blow, which the man who some
weeks ago aspired to stop the railroad
business of the country, managed to
dodge.
This workman was entirely too
rough on his late leader. By joining
the organization of which Deps was
the chief, he voluntarily put himself at
his command. He knew that it is the
practice of such organizations to effect
their ends by strikes, and he delegated
to the leaders the right to determine
when a strike should be called. When
workmen enter such combinations
they should consider all the conse-
quences, and if they turn out to their
disadvantage it is not consistent in
them to abuse by blows or opprobrious
terms the leaders under whose man:
agement they voluntarily placed them-
gelves. The best way to keep out of
such a situation as the one in which
the Illinois workman finds himself,
and for which he wanted to whip
Des, is not to surrender their inde
pendence by attaching themselves to
organizations over which leaders like
Deas are given control.
SAN
—— It is about time for candidate
Hastings to begin to explain
the wildcat scheme which constitutes
the financial plank of the platform on
which he is running. The people who
have some regard for a eound currency
would like to hear from him, what he
thinks would be the effect of au issue
of twenty-four hundred millions of fiat
money. That is what a $40 per capi
ta circulation would amount to, run-
ning into an aggregate that none but
the wildcat inflationist would dream of.
In trying to cater to the Populist sen-
timent, the Republican convention in-
cautiously ineerted a financial plank
which is calculated to alarm the con-
gervatives of their party, and to explain
which, with any degree of plausibility,
will tax the ingenuity of their candi-
date.
-—= Subscribe for the WaTcEMAN.
There is no doubt that PuLLyaxN
has been an offender in his treatment
of the labor class, but the method of
inflicting pun‘shment upon him for his
offense was ill-advised and irregular.
Another plan is proposed by which it
with the great railroad car monopolist.
It is reported that a rival car building
company is being organized in St.
Louis which proposes to engage Purr
man’s skilled workmen in a body, thus
providing themselves at the start with
a force competent to do the special
work required. This is a better and
more effective way of punishing PuLr-
MAN than by resorting to a process
which blocked the railroad business of
the country and led to riotous and de-
structive disturbance.
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——The constitution of the Hawarr-
AN Republic does not allow the people
to elect its president. That is done by
the two houses of the Legislature.
The great majority of the natives, who
ought tojhave something to say in the
election of the chief magistrate of their
own country, are excluded by
giving that power to the Legislature
which can be easily manipulated by
the ring of foreign adventurers who
claim to have established a republic.
Some fuss is being made about the
Cleveland administration not show-
ing the proper amount of zeal in rec:
ognizing this kind of a republic, but
there is really no occasion to bein a
hurry about it.
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Carnot’s Assassin Found Guilty.
Jury Out Not Half an Hour— The Convict
Wilted.
Lyons, Aug. 8.—Caserio Santo, as-
sassin of President Sadi Carnot, was
to-day sentenced to death by the guillo-
tine for the deed in the assize court.
When the court opened this morning
for the conclusion of his trial there were
very few people around the palace of
justice. The heavy guard about the
court was the same as yesterday. When
the prisoner was brought in he seemed
more defiant than ever, and sat down
with a mocking smile on hia face.
De Blane, the soldier who wasa
fellow-prisoner with Caserio at Mar-
seilles, testified that Caserio told him
that he intended to Kill President
Carnot.
«That is a lie,” yelled Caserio.
Le Blanc continued : *Caserio con-
fided to ma that he was designated by
lot.” ——
«That is untrue,” shrieked Caserio.
«How untrue?’ asked the soldier,
turning to the prisoner. “I said to vou
after you had made that remark, ‘But
who “would be so bold as to kill Presi-
dent Carnot ? Isaw him in Paris sur-
rounded by troops and police.” You
answered. ‘He will be chosen by lot.’
«That is a lie,” shouted Caserio. ‘I
was never chosen to kill President Car-
not. Absolute liberty of action prevails
among anarchists.” :
The prosecuting attorney reviewed at
length all the details of the trial, and
demanded that the jury shouid not
hesitate to do its duty. At the conclu-
sion of his speech there were visible
signs of delight throughout the court
room at the eloquent denunciation of
anarchists.
Caserio smiled with contempt during
the address. He paid close attention to
the remarks of his counsel, M. Debreull,
who based his defense of the prisoner on
three points: First, that there ,was
lunacy in the prisoner’s family ; second,
his anarchist surroundings ; third, the
impossibility of reconcling the assassin’s
religious life with a premeditated at-
tempt at murder. The judge prohib-
ited the publication of part of the ad-
dress.
When the speeches were finished,
the interpreter read, in a monotonous
voice, Caserio’s own statement. It
consisted of the usual glorification of
anarchy, and a reference to his ‘‘high
motives,” etc. The judge ordered it
suppressed.
The jury retired amid a general
movement of relief on the part of the
audience.
Daring the absence of the jury Cas.
erio was removed to his cell. In less
than 80 minutes the jury re entered,
the judge resumed his place and dead
silence reigned. Caserio was brought
in and faced the court for the last time.
Judge Breullaic asked the jury. ‘Is
Caserio Santo Geronimo guilty or not
guilty ?” :
There was some confusion as the
interpreter translated to the prisoner
what was said, but audible over the
interpreter’s voice was the reply of the
foreman of the jury, “Guilty without
extenuating circumstances.”
There was deep silence as the verdict
was translated to Caserio, who received
it with a smile of cynical contempt.
The presiding judge, when the prie-
oner was acquainted with the jury’s
finding, said: ‘The court condemns
Caserio Santo Geronimo to death. You
have three days in which to appeal to
the court of cassation.”
To this Caserio returned a scornful
shout of “Vive la revolution sociale.”
The anarchical cry was bardly uttered
when the gendarmes handcuffed to the
prisoner jerked him toward the door
leading to the cells beneath the court.
The door was opened hastily, Caserio
was hurried through, and as he disap-
peared a feeble cry of ‘Courage, cama-
rades ; vive l'anarchie,”” was heard
echoing from the stone corridor through
which the assassin was being hurried.
In spite of the prisoner's defiant at-
titude his habitual smile disappeared
from his face when the sentence of
death was pronounced. M. Debreull,
the prisoner’s counsel, gave notice of
! appeal, and in so doing asked that the
presiding judge's charge to the jury at
the opening of the session be entered op
the records.
By this time the audience began to
disappear, the door through which
Caserio bad passed was shut with a loud
clang, the door of the judge's room was
opened, and the public vanished.
A Dirty Pension Lie Exposed.
How Republicans Attempt to Prejudice Old
Soldiers.
The WATCHMAN is not given to
wasting space on the many lies circu-
. lated by Republican newspapers for
is more likely that labor may get even
the purpose of perjudicing old soldiers
against the Democratic party and its
pension policy, but gives the following
as a sample of the reliance that can be
placed in most of them.
the Gazette devoted an entire column
to the outrageous treatment and wrong
that had been done to one Jouwn S.
Dopse, an old soldier, by the Demo-
cratic officials at the head of the Pen-
sion bureau. It was a pathetic story ;
a story intended to awaken the sym-
pathy and arouse the perjudice of every
man who ever worea uniform or fol-
lowed the flag, but unfortunately for
the political purpose for which it was
circulated, on getting down to the
truth itis ascertained that DobGE, in
place of being a deserving soldier, is a
liar, a cheat, and a fraud, and so palpa-
ble a one, that the Republican pen-
sion officials, during the administra-
tion of President Harrison, revoked
his pension in 1891, and in 1892 hand-
ed him over to the department of Jus-
tice for punishment for perjury, con-
spiracy, etc. The Pittsburg Dispatch,
one of the most radical and reliable
Republican papers ia the stafe, gives
the following history of this case. It
is pot expected that our neighbor up
town will have either the courage or
honesty to correct in acy way ils mis-
erable lying story of last week. The
Dispatch say :
A tall man who gave his name as
John S. Dodge visited the Pittsburg G.
A. R. headquarters last Saturday morn-
ing and told a story of terrible persecu-
tion by the United States Pension Bu-
reau at Washington. This story was
recited at length in the Saturday even-
ing papers and more briefly in the Sun-
day morning papers. The Dispatch
this morning prints the facts concerning
Dodge’s character and record. Letters
from Pension Commissioner Lochren
and his predecessor, Green B. Raum,
show Dodge to be a consummate {raud
and scoundrel.
Dodge seems to have imposed upon
the men at Grand Army headquarters.
Some of them were profuse in their sym-
pathy and vigorous in denunciation of
the conduct of the Department of the
Interior and the Bureau of Pensions.
They may now see their visitor in his
true light.
TOLD A WOFUL TALE.
The story Dodge told was briefiy
this. “He enlisted in the Fifth Massa-
chusetts, was wounded at Bull Run,
served in the Eleventh Maine, was
wounded in the leg at Antietam, and in
the Wilderness was shot in the head,the
bullet coming out bekind the left ear.
He was attached, he said, to the Wash-
ington Secret Service and gave informa-
tion leading to the conviction of Booth’s
associate conspirators, He applied for a
pension in 1865, it was granted in 1890
at the rate of $30 a month, but it was
suspended in September, 1893.” The
following was the story he told of his
brutal treatment in Washington :
“In January this year he was arrested
on a charge of obtaining a pension by
fraudulent means. He was torn from
his family on Sunday, and $30,000 bail
was demanded. He was handcuffed,
taken to Washington and consigned to
a cell. His wife had followed him, and
she applied to Congressmen to aid him.
The theory set up by the Pension Bu-
reau was that he was putting a drug in
his eyes to make them appear diseased.
FIVE DAYS ON BREAD AND WATER.
“The physicians said that he would
have to be watched for five days to de-
termine thig, and during the absence of
the Warden an order was received at
the jail from the Pension Bureau to
lace him on bread and water diet, and
handcuff him to the door of his cell for
that length of time, placing a guard
over him. This was done and Dodge
suffered untold miseries.
“On the fourth day his wife called,
but was told that the orders had been to
lock him up and allow no one to see him.
The keeper told her what was being
done and Mrs. Dodge went direct to
Judge McComas, who instantly ordered
the treatment stopped, and released
Dodge on light bail.
“The Warden returned to the jail,
however, before the order reached there
and he had relieved him from his fetters.
Afterward the pension officials said that
they had nothing against him and had
made a mistake. They refused to re-
store his pension.”
THE FACT WAS HE LIED.
The official investigations made by
the Government inspectors show this
statement to be a mass of lies. The
story contains two statemeante, ridiculous
on their face, which would not be be-
lieved by any man who would pause &
moment to think about them. It
seems, however, that many persons in
Pittsburg have believed these stories
without reflection. These statements
are, that bail was fixed at $30,000, and
that the Pension Bureau gave orders
bow Dodge should be treated in the
Washington jail.
The letters show that Dodge's pension
was not suspended by (Commissioner
Lochren last September, but was totally
revoked in 1892 by Commissioner Raum
and Secretary Noble. He was not ar-
rested last January, but nearly two
years prior, during the administration
of President Harrison.
JAIL BIRD AND SUNDAY
TEACHER.
It is shown that he has spent a large
part of his time in prisons and peniten-
tiaries, and that he has gulled society
in many lines of scheming, from Sun-
day school work to being a “capper” for
a Chicago gambling den.
It is probable that the letters herewith
published will be laid before the Execu-
tive Board of the Grand Army, and that
the members of the organization will be
SCHOOL
warned against Dodge by a general or- |
der from the Commander in Chief.
Last week |
Charles Hanback, pensioner examiner
at Pittsburg, saw a long article about
Dodge's tale of woe in one of the papers
of Saturday. Hecut it out and sent it
at once to Commissioner Lochren. Yes-
| terday morning he received the Commis-
| sioner’s reply, inclosing a long report on
| the case made by Commissioner Raum
to Secretary Noble, in June, 1892.
| These letters will be interesting reading
| to the local members of the Grand Army
| of the Republic.
: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ]
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, |
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER,
WASHINGTON, August 1, 1894. J
| Mr. Charles Hanback, Special Examiner:
Dear Sir.—I have yours of 29th ultimo in,
closing a newepaper clipping about John H.
: Dodge, an ex-penioner, and making inquiries
about him. He has for years been well known
at the Pension office. He is a criminal, a mal-
ingerer, a liar, and a fraud of the worst type.
I inclose you a copy of a letter written June 9
1892, by my predecessor, General Raum, to
Hon. John W. Noble, then Secretary of the
Interior, giving an account of Dodge up to
that date, as he had become known to General
Raum.
RAUM KNEW HIS RECORD.
The Commissioner’s letter enclosed a
long report made by his predecessor,
Green B. Raum, who was Commissioner
of Pensions during the latter part of the
administration of President Harrison.
The following is General Raum’s letter:
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, |
BuRreAU oF PENSIONS,
WasHINGTON, June 9, 1892.
Hon. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Inferior;
Sie—I have the honor to submit herewith
the papers in the case, Ctf. No. 452,030, of John
S. Dodge, prvt., Co. “G,” 2d D. C. Vol. Inf.
(Washington Agency).
On Februaryll, 1863, this pensioner filed a
claim, alleging that in November, 1862, he con-
tracted a cold at Washington, D. C., followed
by diptheria; that he was sent to Hospital No.
9; that disease of throat was cured, but his
nerves were seriously aifected ; that in Janua-
ry, 1863, he caught cold, which settled in right
shoulder and arm, which have gradually lost
their use, and that he is paralyzed as the re-
sult of diptheria affecting throat and lungs,
and causing paralysis of right side.
The claim filed in 1863 was rejected. He
made no further motion toward securing the
allowance of a claim until September 12, 1889,
when he executed anew declaration, in which
he swore that on or about September or Octo-
ber, 1862, while on a return march from An-
tietam. Md., he contracted diptheria from ex-
posure, aftecting his throat and lungs, and
while in hospital in Washing, D. C., in October,
1862, under treatment for diphtheria, he re-
ceived his throat paralysis, affecting both
sides.
The claim was admitted October 24, 1839, at
$50 per month, from May 1,1889, for disease
of nervous system. On January 23, 1890, he
executed a declaration for increase, in which
he alleges total loss of sight as the result of
disability for which already pensioned, and
introduced his proof in support thereof. On
February 6, 1890, his rate was increased to $72
per month from January 27, 1890, for disease
of nervous system and resulting total blind-
ness. All of these declarations were executed
in the District of Columbia,
SWORN TO COMPLETE PARALYSIS.
On October 4, 1859, he executed his affidavit
in support of his claim before Alfred B.Briggs,
Notary Public, District of Columbia, in which
he swears that he was discharged for paraly-
sis from the Second D. C. Volunteers on or
about February 3, 1863, and that at that time
his right arm was completely paralyzed, and
that he has been, since his discharge, and is,
a sufferer from paralysis in his right arm and
leg, and at times in his whole body, including
his tongue, losing the power of speech. He
swears therein that he has had this complete
paralysis in ’65,'66, 67, 68, "10 to 74, partial
paralysis in 1875 and 76, full paralysis in 77 to
’82, partial paralysis in ’83, full in '8¢ and ’85,
partial in ’86 and full in '87, ’88 and '89—during
which time he could not use hand nor foot
nor move them, by reason of partial paralysis.
His right side is entirely useless, and his
tongue with it, and that he has never been
able since discharge in 1663 to control the use
of his right arm and right leg.
On October 4, 1889, Kate S. Dodge made affi-
davit before the same Notary of the District
of Columbia that she is the lawful wife of John
S. Dodge (the pensioner), to whom she was
married on October 4, 1877: that since that
time he appears to have at times a complete
loss of muscular power, as well as paralysis of
the tongue; that she has had the sole charge
of him at times and is the only one who can
give this testimony; that in ’83 and '84, when
they were living in Chicago, he was entirely
helpless during the greater part of the winter,
and that during their whole married life he
has been almost incessantly a sufferer with
his spine, head, arms and legs, losing the use
of them for months at a time, and that he has
never had the use of his right arm and right leg
completely at any time since she knew him. Both
of these affidavits were filed before the Pen-
gion Bureau October 8, 18°9
PENSIONED FOR TOTAL BLINDNESS.
There will be found in the case other letters
from him addressed to Hon. James Tanner,
Commissioner of Pensions, and Hon. Cyrus
Bussey, Assistant Secretary ot the Depart.
ment of the Interior, having date September,
1889, which are intended to confirm the state-
ments contained in this declaration. The
claimant filed testimony in October, 1889,
through his attorney, George E. Lemon, to
show that he was threatened with paralysis.
When he was pensioned at $72 a month he
was believed to be totally blind, and that it was
due to a serious cerebral lesion, for which rea-
son he received a rating for total Elinduness.
The case was obscure and enveloped in doubt,
and reports of special examiners show that the
pensioner is an expert malingerer, that he is
neither blind nor paralyzed. He was put under
survelliance and it was found that the facility
of his movements and the history and trans-
actions of his whole life were wholly incompa-
tible with the allegation that he was blind and
paralyzed
With the case will be found reports of Spe-
cial Examiners W. B. Grant, E. Williams, J.E.
Jacobs, W. J. Brooks and B. F. Chase, as well
as the reports of specialists in diseases of the
eye and nervous diseases, and reports of the
Board of Examining Surgeons at Boston, Mass.
and Special Examiner Booram. On July 1,
1891, he was dropped from the roils npon the
results of special examinations, and of the
opinion of experts, and of the medical referee,
Dr. Ingram. The Commissioners directed
May 2, 1891, that the pensioner be dropped
from the rolls, inasmuch as there is no exist-
ing disability which muy be properly referred
to the disabilities of service origin.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION RECOMMENDED.
The Special Examiners recommended his
criminal prosecution for having filed a false
claim and for perjuries committed in support
thereof. The case having been taken to the
Qearetary of the Interior on appeal on Septem-
ber 4, 1891, the Hon. Cyrus Bussey, Assistant
Secretary, after an exhaustive review of the
whole case, affirmed the action of this bureau
in dropping the prisoner from the rolls. In
every instance in which he has been cited be-
fore a Board for examination he has used all
means in his power to hinder and to prevent
such examination, notwithstanding his pro-
test that he desired to aid them in the same,
When taken before the Board of Examining
Surgeons in Boston, in March, 1891, he iitterly
refused to permit himself to be examined by
them, saying that he would rather lose his
pension, and such has been his course through-
out.
His conduct in preventing a fair examination
by the Beard, together with other information
furnished this Bureau, resuited in a thorongh
investigation into his conduct, condition and
whereabouts since the war, which developed
the fact that his life has been very irregular
since his discharge; that early after his dis-
charged from the Second D. C. Vols. he was in
jail in Boston for horse stealing, under the
name of Robert 8. Dane; and inthe peniten-
tiary at Joliet, Ill, from December 3, 1869 to
November 5, 1870, under the name of John A.
Dodge, for burglary, and in Cambridge, Mass.,
State’s Prison from October, 1871, to Novem-
ber 2%, 1875, for false pretenses, when he was
pardoned for good conduct while in prison and
for impaired health.
After his pardon, as stated, he again went
to Chicago, where he figured as a Sunday
school worker, detective, lawyer and assistant
in organizing and inaugurating “The Prison-
ers’ Aid Association of Illinois,” for which he
served as agant for about two years. He then
ran a restaurant for some time, figured in the
Cronin murder case and came to Washington,
where he was employed as a watchman, and
later as a clerk, in the Postoffice Department.
He was also at one time employed as a tiavel-
ing salesman.
HIS STATEMENT PROVED FALSE.
During all these rambles and various em-
ployments and confinements no evidence of
paralysis or nervous disease was discovered in
him. He was reported to be a delicate man,
with, apparently, weak lungs; but was at all
times able to attend to his duties. He made
no claim for blindaess until after his discharge
from the Postoffice Department in 1890. He
seems to pass under the names of Henry J.
Dodge, Henry Lyman Abbott, Heber W.
Smythe, Charles E. Leslie, John E. Dodge and
Robert S. Dane. He wasseen on the streets of
Bceston walking without crutch or cane, appar-
ently in full possession of his sight, and the
evidence obtained by the Speciai Examiners
and by the medical experts and the Board of
Examining Surgeons at Boston, Mass., shows
that he is neither blind nor paralyzed, but that
his whole claim from first to last has been a
shameless fraud and imposture, in which he
has been abetted by his alleged wife, Kate S.
Dodge.
The reports of the Special Examiners and
the accompanying papers will furnish all the
data material to this case and to its prosecu-
tion, and the papers are respectfully submii-
ted for reference to the Department of Justice
with a view to the institution of criminal pro.
ceedings against John S. Dodge, under all of
his aliases, and against Kate S. Dodge, his
wife as alleged, for conspiracy to defraud the
United States, and for perjury in aid thereof,
in violation of the provisions of section 5140
and 5392, R. 8. U. S,, and against the pensioner
himself under the provisions of section 5438 R.
S.U. S.,, for making and presenting a false
claim for pension to this Bureau, with intent
to secure the allowance of the same, and to
commit a fraud upon the United States, which
fraud was effectuated and accomplished by
means of his false and perjured statements
and by those of his wife, the said Kate S., as
alleged, whereby he received from the Gov-
ernment of the United States a great sum of
money to which he was not legally nor proper-
ly entitled. Both the pensioner and his wife
reside at their last known address at 16 Morrill
street, Dorchester, Mass.
Very respectfully,
[Signed] Green B. Raum,
Commissioner.
American's Want to Fight.
Many of Them Offer Their Services to the
Japanese.
WASHINGTON. Aug 6.—Several hund-
red letters containing tenders of service
to the Japanese government in the war
with China have been received at the
legation here. They come from nearly
every part of the United States. One
of the latest was from an ex-Confederate
at Greenville, Miss., offering to raise a
battalion, and even a regiment of men,
if desired, at that place and New Or-
leans ; another was from the foreign
legion, of Columbus, O ; a third came
from an individual who was willing to
raise a company of picked sharpshooters,
and a fourth was from a person who
had some torpedo device he was willing
to part with for a consideration. Such
communications as the last mentioned
are turned over to the naval attache ot
the legation to do with as he deems
best. To the others the legation officials
return polite declinations.
It is a penal oftense for Americans to
serve either in the Chinese or Japanese
service while the two nations are at
war, so that the latter government can-
not under any circumstances accept the
offers.
Chinese Brutality.
Japanese Captives Bound and Handled Like
Bales.
Loxpox, Aug. 7.—The Central News
has this dispatch from Shanghai con-
cerning the action of Chinese soldiers
in seizing Japanese subjects aboard
the British steamer Chung King, last
week :
“The British steamer, Chung King
arrived in port today. The captain
says that while his ship was at Tang
Ku, on the Gult of Pechill, Chinese
soldiers came aboard her with the
avowed purpose of seizing the Japan-
ese passengers. They found 60 Japan-
ese, mostly women and children, and
at once began to hunt them down.
They pursued the Japanese all over
the vessel, bound them hand and foot
as they were caught, and flung them
over on the wharf. Li Chang, when
informed of this violation of the Brit-
ish flag, commanded that the Japan-
ese be returned at once to the Chung
King, and that the soldiers who made
the raid be punished severely.”
EL HTT
The Difference Between Them.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
Singerly for great Democratic princi
ples ; Hastings for the political bosses.
For whom will your ballot be deposi
ted ?