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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
1
A father recalls a Civil War story where the army exiles a condemned boy. Abraham Lincoln intervenes to spare the youth, who then earns advancement and finally dies heroically after carrying the regimental colors at Fort McAllister. The tale ends with a blessing and a relic bearing Old Abe.
Lincoln first met Ann Mayes Rutledge in 1882 when she was 19. A New York arrival, John McNeill, pursued her amid engagement plans but marriage was delayed due to Ann's youth. McNeill departed for the East claiming he would return with his parents, and his real name soon emerged.
The article recounts Lincoln's sorrow after Ann Rutledge dies and his decline into grief at New Salem. It notes McNamar as an impostor and later deviation of Lincoln into solitude, his recovery aided by Bowl ing Green and Nancy Green, and Ann Rutledge being buried at Concord Cemetery seven miles northwest of New Salem.
William Flood of Philadelphia recounts his dramatic June 1865 eyewitness account of Lincoln's assassination aboard the steamship Teaser and the theater scene at Ford's Theatre, detailing the shot, the assault, the cue from Laura Keene, and the bloodstained effort to aid the President before authorities moved toward the navy yard.
In September a party of colored soldiers from the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry rode bicycles from Fort Missoula toward Helena, carrying rations, tents, and ammunition for a simulated campaign. The 1100 mile journey tested durability over rough terrain, with no wheel or rider failing, led by Lt. Moss who calls the expedition a success and envisions a bicycle corps in every regiment.
At the Stanley cycle show in England new wheel designs are on display. The most noted is a triangular framed wheel with hind bars behind the saddle, creating a bolt upright or hygienic riding position. Origin credited to a New London inventor.
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