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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, December 15, 1902.
MRS. U. S. GRANT
Died Sunday Night in Washington.
MRS. SARTORIS AT HER BEDSIDE.
Heart Disease, Aggravated by Bronchitis, the Cause of Death—The End Came at 11:07 o'clock.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, wife of President Grant, died at her residence in this city at 11:07 o'clock last night.
Death was due to heart failure, Mrs. Grant having suffered for some years from valvular disease of the heart, which was aggravated by a severe attack of bronchitis. Her age prevented her rallying from the attacks.
Her daughter, Nellie Grant Sartoris, was the only one of her children with her at the time of her death, her three sons, who had been summoned here, all being out of the city. The maiden name of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant was Julia Dent, and her birth place was St. Louis, Mo. There is no prettier romance in the history of American life than that of Mrs. Grant and her famous husband. A high strung Southern girl, used to all the luxury and refinement which social life in St. Louis afforded before the war, she gave her heart to the impecunious Union lieutenant; she bore with unfaltering love all the trials which his lack of means entailed during their early married life; she was at his side to counsel and to cheer him during the dark days of the titanic struggle from which he was to emerge with military glory such as has been attained by few men in the world's history; she shared with him his civil triumphs, being the inspiration of a home life which was as beautiful as any the White House has ever known and when, upon Mount MacGregor, he fought his last fight she was by his side to give him that consolation which she alone could give.
Mrs. Grant was born on Jan. 26, 1826. The home of her parents was located on the old Gravois road, a short distance out from St. Louis. Her father was Frederick Dent. Frederick Dent was the son of Capt. George Dent, who led the forlorn hope at Fort Montgomery when it was stormed by Mad Anthony Wayne. On her mother's side she was descended from John Wrenshall, who came from England to this country to escape religious intolerance, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.
At the age of 10 years Miss Dent was sent to a fashionable boarding school in St. Louis conducted by a Miss Moreau. She remained at this school until her graduation, seven years later. It was soon after her return home from boarding school that she met Lieut. Grant, then of the Fourth Infantry, stationed at Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis. It was in the spring of 1844 that she became engaged to him.
During the civil war Mrs. Grant passed much of the time with Gen. Grant near the scene of action, he sending for her whenever opportunity permitted. She was with him at City Point, in the winter of 1864-5, and accompanied him to Washington when he returned with his victorious army. She saw her husband twice inaugurated president of the United States, and was his companion on his journey around the world.
Mrs. Grant had four children born to her—three sons—Frederick Dent, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse, and one daughter, Nellie. Frederick Grant is now a brigadier general in the United States army, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse are business men in California, and Nellie, who became Mrs. Sartoris, is living in Washington with her children.
During her later years Mrs. Grant visited around among her children. She was very fond of her grandchildren, and they in turn were devoted to her.
Most of her time had been spent with her daughter Nellie in Washington. Nellie was always the idol of her mother's and her father's heart, and the misfortune of her marriage was the greatest sorrow of her mother's life, as it was also of her father's. She married Algernon Sartoris, an Englishman, from whom she separated some years before his death, in 1892.
THE KIEHL INQUEST
Begun this Morning Before Coroner E. M. Santee.
SEVERAL WITNESSES ON THE STAND.
Mrs. Maude Kiehl Subpoenaed—Drs. Potter and Braman of Homer Testified—Lillian Kiehl, Sister of Adam and William, an Important Witness.
The inquest in the matter of the death of William Kiehl, brother of Adam Kiehl, was begun this morning at the office of Coroner E. M. Santee, but was later taken to the grand jurors' room at the court house. Maude Kiehl, who was held by Coroner Santee at the close of the inquest into the death of Adam Kiehl, has not yet arrived in Cortland, but she has been subpoenaed to appear at the inquest into the death of her husband, and will come to Cortland later.
Dr. Potter.
Dr. Leman W. Potter of Homer was first called. He testified that he was called to treat William Kiehl Feb. 7, 1902, two days before he died. His temperature was then 102, and pulse about 115, tongue thickly coated white; face red and congested. He saw him the next day at about noon. His temperature was then 100, and pulse about the same as before, but weaker. He had less of pain and did not vomit as much as upon the previous day. His wife was present, and was eating dinner with Adam Kiehl while he was prescribing for William. He did not see William Kiehl after that. He had been asked to come the next day, but said he could not on account of the condition of the roads. He diagnosed it as a case of grip, with bilious complications. He found the respiration over both lungs free and clear, except on the lower border of the right lung where dullness was found. This was attributed to the enlargement of the liver. Nothing abnormal was found about the heart.
Lillian Kiehl.
Lillian Kiehl, a sister of William and Adam Kiehl, who lived with William from Dec. 1, 1901, to Jan. 30, 1902, testified that she was present at several differences between William and his wife. On New Year's day Maude brushed her brother Adam's clothes, shined his shoes and cleaned his watch. This so angered William that he refused to reply when his wife spoke to him. William talked to witness and this angered Maude, who went to her room and stayed there. William drove to Preble, and when he returned he went to her room for an hour. When they came out they had evidently made up. She never knew Maude to clean William's clothes or shoes. She was at the Hiscock farm Nov. 16, 1902, and saw the coroner take an old comfortable that was on the mattress of the bed, that had been identified as having been on the bed when William died.
Dr. H. S. Braman.
Dr. H. S. Braman, a physician and resident of Homer, was sworn and said: I knew William Kiehl in his lifetime. I was called to treat him professionally on the day of his death, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1902. I arrived at his home that night about an hour before his death. I found him lying in bed in a bedroom on the lower floor west of the diningroom. He was in a very weak condition, pulse hardly perceptible and rapid; his breathing rapid; he was expectorating every two or three minutes and evidently in a dying condition. There was a tenderness in the right side, and dullness on percussion over the liver and portion from the right lung. There was a soreness and tenderness through the abdomen. The bed was not m a very clean and orderly condition. He gave me a history of having been sick for about a week with a cough and that he had been feverish. His wife was present at the time. When I told her that her husband was dead, she acted in a dazed manner; she went over to the lounge on the other side of the diningroom with her face turned toward the wall. She took no notice of anything that was passing in the room, or anything that was said to her for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes. After that time she seemed to take more interest in what was going on and talked with the rest of the family about the funeral arrangements.
When I first went there, there were present the two Powers boys, Maude Kiehl, Adam Kiehl, who came after me, and Fred Shearer, was either there or came soon after. I examined William Kiehl three or four weeks before his death, when I examined him for life insurance. I found his physical condition perfect. I diagnosed his case at the time of his death to be pneumonia. He was restless, uneasy, did not lie quiet in the bed, moving around and expectorating every minute or two. I had a case of arsenical poisoning in which the symptoms were continued vomiting and abdominal pain. The expectoration was a whitish mucous, not the rusty expectoration you would expect in pneumonia; it was not characteristic of pneumonia.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Holding Sheriffs Responsible.
There is in Indiana a law which provides that when a sheriff allows a prisoner to be taken away from him and lynched he thereby loses his office and can get it back only after proving that he used all his powers to prevent the crime. The recent lynching of the negro Dillard has brought Sheriff Dudley of Sullivan county, that state, within the terms of this law, and Governor Durbin has done his part by notifying the sheriff that he is now a private citizen.
It will be interesting to learn what happens next—that is, to see how this rather unusual statute works when put to the test of practical application. That the sheriff will have any difficulty in securing witnesses ready to depose that he was unable to defend his prisoner is highly improbable, particularly if his acquaintance among the lynchers is large, and—well, sheriffs do usually know most of their neighbors, and it would require no very desperate exertions on their part to convince the participants in a lynching that he had done all that could be expected of him in the way of resisting the mob.
However, if such a law as this in Indiana could be generally enforced in states where lynchings are of too frequent occurrence and sheriffs and their deputies be held strictly responsible for prisoners it might be an important factor in lessening the number of these outrages upon justice. If the sheriffs were given to understand that they would lose their positions if they lost their prisoners, they might make somewhat more strenuous efforts to outwit and, if necessary, outshoot the lynchers than appears to be the case in many of these illegal executions.
THE PREBLE APPEAL.
Writ of Certiorari Obtained by J. & T. E. Courtney.
SERVED ON CLERK ALGER SATURDAY.
Order Granted by Justice Mattice—Will Act as a Stay in the Proceedings—Bill for Costs Cannot be Included in This Year's Taxes.
A new move was made in the Preble, N. Y. appeal case Saturday afternoon when Clerk E. C. Alger was served with a writ of certiorari issued by Justice Burr Mattice of the supreme court at an adjourned special term in Oneonta. The writ was obtained by Attorney T. R. Courtney of the firm of Courtney Bros., attorneys for the town of Preble in the action. The writ will serve as a stay in the proceedings and will prevent including the costs in the action which were assessed against the town of Preble in this year's taxes.
The writ was not served upon the clerk until after the adjournment of the board, Saturday, consequently no action could be taken in reference to the matter.
Kellogg & Van Hoesen, attorneys for the board of supervisors, said this morning that the writ was not in the nature of an appeal but was simply for a review of the proceedings to ascertain if such proceedings were conducted according to law and that there could be no review of questions of fact involved in the proceedings before the state tax commission.
Attorney T. E. Courtney was seen in reference to the matter and refused to discuss the situation. He said that the attorney for the board had said there could be no appeal from the decision of the state board of tax commissioners and he did not care to express any opinion but would let the proceedings speak for themselves.
Section 2140 of the code of civil procedure referring to the questions which may be inquired into under a writ of certiorari says:
The questions, involving the merits, to be determined by the court upon the hearing, are the following only:
1. Whether the body or officer had jurisdiction of the subject matter of the determination under review.
2. Whether the authority, conferred upon the body or officer, in relation to that subject matter, has been pursued in the mode required by law, in order to authorize it or him to make the determination.
3. Whether, in making the determination any rule of law, affecting the rights of the parties thereto, has been violated, to the prejudice of the relator.
4. Whether there was any competent proof of all the facts, necessary to be proved, in order to authorize the making of the determination.
5. If there was such proof, whether there was, upon all the evidence, such a preponderance of proof, against the existence of any of those facts, that the verdict of a jury affirming the existence thereof, rendered in an action in the supreme court, triable by a jury, would be set aside by the court, as against the weight of evidence.
TIOUGHNIOGA TEACHERS' COUNCIL
Held its First Regular Meeting in the Normal Building Saturday.
The first regular meeting of the Tiouhgnioga Teachers' council was held in the Normal school building Saturday Dec. 13 from 10 a. m. until 4:30 p. m.
Business occupied the first three quarters of an hour. Following this Commissioner Luke J. McEvoy presented a paper upon "The Needs of the Common School Teacher." The moral standard of teachers especially in the country districts was particularly emphasized. Teachers should study to improve themselves if they are to expect to improve others. Although the state has done much to foster rural education a startling lack of buildings, play grounds and apparatus is all too evident. The general tendency of the common schools today is toward a higher standard. This paper was valuable and helpful to every teacher present.
The discussion following was opened by Mr. Holmes of Homer. Miss Libbie Sweetland of Dryden made especial mention of the social relations of teachers and students, that the teacher is acting largely in the capacity of parent is beginning to be recognized. Others who responded to a general call for volunteers were Prof. P. R. Parker, and Supt. F. E. Smith. The future of the common school and its relation to village and town schools proved an interesting subject.
The afternoon session was opened by Dr. Cheney who introduced Dr. J. R. Street of the department of pedagogy of Syracuse university. "The Psychic Life of the Child" was the subject presented. A genial smile and pleasant allusion to the perseverance of the audience despite the storm made all feel personally responsible for the very valuable paper presented. The stages of the development of the child's life were classified according to our best psychologists and then Dr. Street made what he considers a perfectly natural classification following his own views of the subject. These followed easily from an evolutionary under current which characterized the lecture. Heredity, environment and particularly ''instinct" were each given their share in the growth of a boy or girl. Just as in the construction of a building we expect to see first foundations then walls, beams, girders and shingles so in the development of the child should we expect to find transitional stages. Periods of growth, physical and mental, follow one another in rapid succession, sometimes aiding sometimes opposing one another until about the twenty-fifth year. To arrest what nature has made inherent may lead to mental or moral derangement, to graft upon the instinct side of the boy's character right principles makes the man. Hence the value to all teachers of such knowledge as the foregoing.
Teaching is an art and not a trade. It will be a difficult matter to secure a more valuable address from the teachers or parents' standpoint.
At 3:30 p. m. a stereopticon lecture was given by Wm. Booth in the science department.
It is intended to secure the services of three prominent educators during the remainder of the school year.
Cortland is pre-eminently an educational center both from the fact that it is sending out many teachers and that many families include teachers. It is therefore hoped that the new organization will receive a generous support. The next meeting will be held in February at the Normal building.
SATURDAY'S STORM.
Eighteen Inches of Snow Now Covers the Ground.
The snow storm which began early Saturday morning continued unabated all day and until about 10 o'clock Saturday night. The ground is now buried under nearly 18 inches of snow which is distributed evenly over the surface and is not yet piled in drifts as is usual in the case of snow storms in this vicinity. The storm was more or less general in all the northern states. The area of the storm was extremely large and had the snow been accompanied by winds it would have been a genuine blizzard. Trains on the local railroads were all able to get through Saturday and Sunday but were running behind schedule time. In the northern part of the state traffic was more delayed and trains in some sections were abandoned.
There is no indication at the present time that the snow is liable to go off in a hurry. In fact the forecast for tomorrow indicates more snow. Everywhere the sleighing will be fine when the track becomes beaten down and unless the storm is followed by a big blow it will make ideal Christmas weather.
The street railway people have been extremely busy, but by prompt and continued action have kept their tracks clear and the cars moving.
The storm seriously interfered with Saturday's business in the city. The merchants were looking for a large trade on account of the approaching Holiday's but the number of shoppers who ventured out was limited. The city letter carriers and those on the rural routes were delayed by the snow and found it one of the worst days of the season for their business.
The storm was quite similar to the one which occurred just one year ago and which caused the disastrous floods of Dec. 14, except that last year it came down in rain instead of snow. The amount of rainfall at that time was more than 3 inches. Saturday's snow was very light and dry and it is estimated that the total would be equivalent to not more than an inch and a half of rain.
BREVITIES.
—Regular meeting of Grover Post, G. A. R., tonight at 7:30.
—The Woman's Relief Corps will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
—The Talmage case, which was started in city court Saturday, has been adjourned until Dec. 22.
—The Y. M. C. A. basket ball team [sic] was badly defeated by the Cornell team at Ithaca last Saturday night in a practice game. The score was 42 and 8.
—The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. F. M. Ingersoll, 82 Railroad-st., Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 3 p. m. The ladies will please come prepared to sew.
—S. N. Gooding and John H. Corcoran [former policemen convicted of assault—CC ed.], who had been on the jail limits for several weeks, were discharged from the custody of the sheriff last Saturday by order of County Judge Joseph E. Eggleston.
—The new display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Cloak department sacrifice, page 6; S. Simmons, Christmas gifts, page 6; Buck & Lane, Carpet sweepers, etc., page 5; Baker & Angell, "Sorosis shoes,'' page 4.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M., will confer the third degree in full form at their regular communication Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. After conferring the degree light refreshments and a ''smoke" will be enjoyed, W. S. Farmer of Syracuse, dist. deputy grand master of the twenty-seventh Masonic district state of New York, will make his official visit at this time.
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