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JACK CUDAHY'S PLUCKY FiGHT. ’ NEARLY THE LAST. In Five Year» lie Hu» Paid 91,500,000 Indebtedne»» and la Now ou Top. Kx-Senutor Reagan, Who Wa* a Mem ber of Jeffereon l>avi*’ Cabinet, Grit and resourcefulness are well ex emplified In the career of John Cudahy, of Chicago, who raised himself from a penniless t>oy to a multi-millionaire and who since a few years ago, when he sank into bankruptcy, with an indebt edness of $1,500,000, has recuperated, paying all bls obligations, and now holds his head high among tlie finan cially strong men of tlie country. Six years ago Cudahy was rated at $4,900,1100. Six months later he was rated at nearly $1,000,000 more, through a daring detd in pork and provisions. Five years ago, August 1, his fortune was swept away in one day in the wildest scramble ever seen In the Chi cago Board of Trade. When the smoke and dust of that fight blew away, John Cudahy was something like $1.500,000 poorer than penniless; he owed that sum above hls fortune. To-day he is once more on top. There has been a peculiar feature to John Cudahy’s operations ever since he was a boy of 14. Five-year periods have been most marked in di that he has done. He was born in Callan, coun ty Kilkenny, Ireland, on November 3, 1843. Early in 1849 hls parents came to tills country. When he was 10 years old they removed to Milwaukee. At 15 he entered Edward Roddls' big packing bouse ami In a few years was a trusted employe. Five years after he began work for John Plankinton. He rose to the position of manager and In one more cycle of five years became a part ner, just as the war broke out. Then a number of changes were made, until 1876, when he went to Chicago and be- j gan packing ami speculating. In five years he was rated os a millionaire and a leader on the board. Five years later he had reached the apex, cor- John Henninger Reagan, nearly the last living distinguished Confederate, 1* a gentleman of the old school with modern Ideas. He Is nearly 80 years old. He was Iwrn In Tennessee. As a boy he chopped wood and drove a flat- boat As a young man In the Texan war against the Cherokee Indiana be was the favorite of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Before he was 30 he was a surveyor in Indian Territory. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and became a probate Judge. Later Texas sent him to the Legislature, and then he was elected a district Judge. He was flrst sent to Congress In 1856. Four years later he aided In the secession of Texas and became a member of the cabinet of Jefferson Davis—postmaster general and secretary of the treasury. As a prisoner of war be was confined at Fort Warren. During the reconstruction N February, 1853, both branches of I ere Pluton and Terror. The Colon made the Spanish Corte»—in which Cuba the longest run. but was overhauled by had forty-three representatives—unan the Brooklyn and the Oregon. One imously passed a bill brought forward by I American sailor on the Brooklyn was kill Señor Abaruza. a Cuban, to establish in ed, while of the Spanish 600 were killed Cutía a liberal regime which should virtu and 1,100 taken prisoners, including Ad ally confer autonomy, or home rule. This miral Cervera. was in response to the demands of the Tlie bombardment of Santiago was bo- autonomist Cuban memtiers of the Cortes. gun, and on July 14 Gen. Toral, recogniz Ten days after the enactment of the re ing the hopelessness of further resistance, form law an Insurrection was tiegun in surrendered the entire province and all its the province of Santiago. Their purpose, garrisons of 25,000 soldiers, the United M ile posts of the war . it has been stateti, was to prevent the suc States agreeing to send them back to cess of a reform which would content the Aptfl 21—Sampson's squadron Spain. dorxl to Cuba. people and render them indifferent to the Gen. Miles, who arrived in Santiago April 23—Call for 125,000 volunteers. idea of Cuba libre. before the surrender, prepared immediate April 24—Dewey sails for the Philip A republic was proclaimed and Cuc ly to lead an army against Porto Rico. It pines. hitas was made the capital, but the civil April 24—Spain declares war. landed near Ponce on July 25, the day April 25—Congress declares war government was imaginary. The chief that the rumor went abroad that Spain Maj’ 1—Spanish fleet at Manila command and entire local government was ready to cry enough. Gen. Merritt etroyed. was in the hands of Gen. Gomez. He, reached Manila on that day also. The Mayl3—Flytng squadron sails. with Maceo and others, gradually extend May IS—Santiago bombarded. binding in I'orto Rico was without I ohs May lit—Cervera In Santiago harbor. ed the rebel operations over the whole and with no engagement other than a May 25—Second call for volunteers. Island, destroying everything outside the skirmish at Guanica, ending in the hoist June 3—Collier Merrimac sunk. towns. Stealing in srnull bands through ing of the American flag over the town. Juno 14—Army sails from Tampa. the bush and traveling by night, they June 22 and 23—Shafter's army lands. Spain made its direct appeal for peace June 24—Fight at La Quaslni. eluded the Spanish troops and burned and through Ambassador Cambon on July 26, June 20 — Flrat expedition urrtvtw at plundered everywhere, driving the rustics but suggested no terms. On July 27 the Manila. into the already congested towns. To pre public learned of tlie outbreak of yellow July 3—Cervera's fleet destroyed. vent the rebels from living off the rustics July 14—Santiago surrenders. fever in the camp before Santiago, and July 25- Mlles lands In Porto IUco. the Spanish forbade agriculture in ex on that day Ponce surrendered to Gen. j July 20 — Spain sues for peace. posed districts, thus also adding to the Milea President McKinley sent terms July 31—Spaniards surrender Manila. congestion of population in the towns. of peace to Spain on July 29. Aug 3—Spain accepts terms of peace. The wretchedness of the reconcentrados. Aug. 12—Protocol signed by Cambon. The second battle of Manila was fought JOHN HENNINOEB BEAGAN. McKinley proclaims peace. Imputed to Gen. Weyler. became the chief on July 31, on a Sunday, as was the first. I burden of the cry of inhumanity raised period he was the adviser of Andrew It was a hind attack under cover of dark- | against Spanish rule. ness by the Spaniards, and its purpose I Johnson and Secretary Seward. Texas By cutting the island into several isolat was to turn the American flank and drive sent him to Congress again In 1874, and ed sections by means of trochas and by the Americans into the sea. It was re made him a United States Senator In following up the rebel bands pertinacious pulsed. The American loss was nine kill 18S7. With Senator Cullom he drew ly In the restricted areas Gen. Weyler had ed and forty-five wounded, the Spanish the Interstate commerce bill. In the at length by December, 1897. virtually loss In killed and wounded was 600. Senate he was a member of the Coast freed the island from all ravnges except Army Ordered North. Defense Committee. Since 1891 he has in the two easternmost provinces, where The generals of the American army at ! a desolate mountain country gnve the in been chairman of the State Railway Santiago surprised the country Aug. 3 by I surgents impenetrable retreats. The na Commission of Texas. He is a Demo a “round robin” letter declaring that the ture of the jungle was such that the com crat His work In the United States army must be moved north away from plete extinction of the rel>el bands in San Senate was marked by a close atten yellow fever or it would perish. The ar- I tiago was impracticable so long as they from Rio Janeiro telling of the safe end on May 25. It numbered liJlOO men. my was ordered north the following day. j tion to the material Interests of the na received supplies and encouragement from wonderful voyage of the battleship Ore Doily bombardments of the forts at the Spain sent an evasive answer to the I tion. He has never been known as a abroad. Their operations wore on a small gon on its way from San Francisco to entrance of Santiago bay continued. United States on Aug. 5, and it was re “rancid” partisan. In Texas he Is one scale and unimportant except so far as join Sampson’s fleet. Though Cervera was bottled, it was ceived after much delay in transmission j of the most popular of the old school the existence of their movement—even on feared that a storm might scatter the on Dewey’s Great Victory. Aug. 9. President McKinley respond liemocrats, who found at all times the a small scale—afforded a basis for the On Sunday, Muy 1, the first great sea blockading fleet and give him a chance to with an imperative reiteration of the growing disposition at Washington to in liattle of the war was fought Commo escape from his harbor prison. Accord ed needs of the nation greater than the original terms, and with had grace Spain terfere to exclude Spain from her pos dore George Dewey made himself Rear ingly it was concluded to sink a vessel in JOIIX Ct'DHAT. hue and cry of partisan politics. at last, on Aug. 11, gnve permission to sessions in the West Indies. Admiral Dewey and won undying glory the narrow channel between Marro Cas Cambon to accept them in its behalf. The j nered pork and Lard, saw hls millions In December, 1806, Congress signified for the American navy by leading his fleet tle and the Estrella battery. An Iron col was signed on Aug. 12. President j vanish ami himself reduced to prac GRANDSON OF BRIGHAM YOUNG Its purpose to recognize Cuba libre until into the mined harbor of Manila and, un- lier, the Merrimac, was selected, and the protocol McKinley issued a proclamation declar Secretary Olney, instnteted by Mr. Cleve •der the guns of the fort «n Corregidor perilons work of destruction was assigned ing a cessutiion of hostilities and the war | tical penury. In another five years He Commanded the Utah Artillery in land, let it i>e known that in the Presi Island and the heavy fortifications defend to Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob with Spain was at an end. he paid off all of his obligations and is the Glorious Fight Near Manila. dent's view recognition was an executive ing tlie arsenal and navy yurd, destroying son and a volunteer crew of seven men. rich again. In tlie tight at Malate, in the Philip function exclusively and action by Con the entire Asiatic fleet of Spain. The In the early morning of June 3 the ves John Cudahy's revival of fortune will pines, in which the American soldiers BOY HERO OF SANTIAGO. gress would be ignored. Mr. Cleveland's Olympia wns his flagship, and his remain sel wns guided into the channel under a please hls many friends. In all hls fought so gallantly and repulsed the position, as indicated by his representa ing vessels were the Baltimore, the Bos terrific fire from the Spanish guns. One daring operations—and few men ever Sjianiards with great loss, one of the tions at Madrid, wns that the plan of au ton and the Raleigh, protected cruisers; shot disabled its rudder and rendered it Thirteen-Year-Old Yonth Carried excelled him In this regard—be was Interesting figures who took part In the Water on the Battlefield. tonomy embodied in the Abaruza law of the Concord and Petrel, gunboats: and nearly uncontrollable. It was driven by Bronzed by tbe sun of a southern ' popular among all hls associates. Men engagement was Capt. Richard W. 1895 and much broadened in the decree the McCulloch, dispatch boat. With this its engines, however, into the narrowest of February, 1807, should 1 k > given a trial force, equal but not superior in armament part of the channel, and the attempt was clime, and In his ears still ringing tlie i In other walks erf life, poor laborers Young, commander of the Utah Light and the United States would not inter to the Spanish fleet, far inferior when the made to swing it broadside to tlie en whizz of Mauser bullets which he heard 1 whose dally bresul was earned In the Artillery, who Is a grandson of Brig fere until it was shown by experience that land hatteries lire counted, lie sunk, burn trance. The force of the current prevent at the battles of j plants he ran or was interested tn. all ham Young, the late Mormon leader. the new home rule scheme wns n sham ed or blew up eight Spanish cruisers, six ed success, as wns shown by the passage San Juan nill and recognized in him not only a man of The Utah Artillery drew forth the com and failure. of the Spanish fleet nronnd Its hulk at a gunboats and three transport». Santiago, there ar- j great skill and daring In finance, but mendation of Gen. Greene for their With the beginning of tlte McKinley ad- , The sea victory was followed by an at later day, but failure did not detract from rived in New York a man with a heart for bis less fortu hrave work In repelling the Spanish at ministration a lees patient policy was fav tack on the land fortifications, which the bravery of the exploit. Hobson fired nate fellows. Charles Escudero, ored and the idea of getting Spain to with were razed. The arsenal at Cavite was the torpedos which blew out the liottom draw from Cuba by friendly insistnnee also captured, and before noon his guns of the ship, and, with his crew, took to a 13 years old. who EVADING THE LAW. wns entertained. Congressmen who wish commanded the city of Manila. In the l>oat. surrendering in an hour to the Span marched by tlie ed to recognise Cuba's Independence were engagement not one American life was ish admiral, who complimented him for side of his father, Newsboy Sells Ihipers to Streetcar nt once advised that studi result could be lost, while in killed and drowned the Span his bravery, and sent a message to Samp a regular army Passenger» from a Bicycle. attnined in a (tetter way. Recognition ish loss has been placed between 500 and son telling of his safety and that of his soldier, during the The ruling of the Kansas City Street men. was staved off. Meanwhile Spain was 900. campaign in Cuba. Railway Company against boys hop asked to make various concessions, as re In the flrst week in May the definite di The order was given June 8 to prepare j This lad carried ping on and off moving cable cars, in spects the removal of Weyler, the recon vision of the ships of the American navy a landing place for the army of invasion, I by his side during terferes with tlie newsboys. But one centrados and an armistice, etc. All were in Atlantic and Cuban waters into squad and on June 10 Col. Huntington, with a The flying force of marines landed at Guantanamo, granted. The hots’ was entertained that rons and fleets was made. the tmttles a can newsboy has found a means whereby with Blanco favoring conciliation, the re squadron. Commodore Schley in com- ' established Camp McCalla, and for five teen. which he re- he can sell papers to passengers and at concentrados provided for and peace offer mand, was formed at Hampton Roads, days fought a body of Spaniards superior plenslhe d from tbe same time not trust himself to the ed the rebels, a way would be found for the vessels being the Brooklyn, flag in numbers and protected by impenetra time to time with giving Culta n government as free as that ship; the Massachusetts, the Texas, the ble brush. The Spaniards were repulsed cold spring water, of Canada. The retention of a nominal Columbia and the Minneapolis. Admiral in every attack, but the marines lost sev drafts of which he sovereignty was now at length all that Sampson in the blockade line at Havana eral men. gave to those who Spain asked. It was resolved not to con had with him besides his flagship, the The fleet, with the aid of the marines, cede tilia and on April 11, 1898, President New York, the battleships Iowa and In demolished Fort Calmanera and captured were active in bat McKinley asked Congress to authorize diana, the cruisers Cincinnati and Mar Bnqulri, which wns to be the landing tle or lying help him to interfere in Culai with force. Con blehead. and a dozen torpedo craft and place for Gen. Shafter’s army, which left less and wounded gress assented on the 19th and an ulti gunboats. Matanzas was bombarded for Tampa in transports on June 14. on the field. matum was sent to Spain demanding the a second time May 7. Shafter appeared off Baquiri on June 22 boy's home evacuation of Cuba. The first American cnsualtlee of the war and two days were occupied in landing. CltABLES ESCVDEBO. The ¡n Columbus. O. were on the torpedo boat Winslow, off Juragua was captured ou June 24, and Destruction of the Mirine. Hostilities were precipitated by the sink Cardenas harbor. The killod were En the advance toward Santiago began. The Ilfs father has been In the regular CArr. BICHABD W. YOUNG. ing of the battleship Maine in the harbor sign Worth Bagley and five seamen. The Simnish resisted, and Roosevelt’s rough army many years ami was stationed at of Havana in February. The vessel sank Winslow attacked three Spanish gun riders and the Tenth United States cav Madison Barracks, Sockets Harbor, tack. Capt Young is a West Point after an explosion, the canse of which has boats and the shore fortifications, and in alry, In the van of die American army, N. Y„ with the Ninth Infantry, when j graduate and was connected with ths not been ascertained. It is not known disregard of peril the boat was run too found themselves engaged with a superior the war broke out. Charles was visit artillery branch of the army. He re far inshore. It was crippled by the tire body of Spaniards. The enemy were whether it was the work of a Spanish fan ing at Sockets Ilorbor when the regi sign«! from the army to practice law and the men were killed before other driven tsick by the furious charge of the atic, animated by Wind hatred of the ment was ordered south, and he went j In Salt Lake City, having been gradu- boats couki come to its assistance. The Americans, but the loss wns heavy, the United States, or of a Cubiti patriot anx with them. He descrities his exi>erience ! ated from the Columbia University ious to embroil Spain and Culm. The ex Spanish gunboats were disabled by the greatest of any of the conflicts of the war as follows: Larw School. When the war broke out plosion of the Maine, whatever the cause, re-enforcements and the batteries si ut> to that time. Thirteen were killed and “Tlie fellows, the boys of my fath he volunteered hls services and waa sixty wounueX. bred popular resentmeut against Spain. lenced. Admiral Sampson appeared before San placed In command of two batteries of Sevilla was ompied on June 26, and on er's company, asked me to go along, There was a loud demand for revenge, ami “Remember the Maine!” became a Juan, Porto Rico, on May 12, and bom the last day of June 13,000 American and I dkl; that's all. They said I’d be artillery from Utah. He is an able THE BICYCLE SEWS11OT. barded the forts for three hours. Morro trooi»s were before Santiago, 5,000 more their mascot We stayed at Tampa two popular cry. j lawyer as well as a good fighter, and Is was imrtlully reduced. Sampson was in on their way from the coast, with 3JJ00 months. I worked as ‘helper’ to the clutches of conductors, He sells from ; the author of a standard pamphlet on Ding before the declaration of war our warships were assembled in large num search of Cerrera'* fleet, known by this Cuttans near nt hand. cooks. Then we took the Sautingo to a bicycle. the use of the military power In the time to hove left the Cape Verde Islands bers at Key West, near Havana. War Assault on Santiago, Cuba from Port Tamiuv We landed This boy rides close alongside a mov suppression of mobs. existed before the formal declaration on and to be well on the way to Cuban wat The general assault began July L El In the sand in Siboney. We stayed there ing car. Ills stock hangs In a canvas April 25, and the congressional resolu ers for its famous game of hide-and-seek, Eiderdown from Norway. tion took cognizance of the situation by and he made no pronounced effort to re Caney living captured at severe cost The one day and then moved up six miles bag at his side and he guides hls wheel The rearing of elder ducks for their statlug that hostilities dated from April duo« the fortifications. One American Spaniards retired from their trenches tie- the next day, and then we got Into the with his left hand. When a customer 21. On that day the Buena Ventura, a was killed In the attack, while the Span fore the American advance, but the last tight That was the liattle of San Juan Is found the boy draws a paper from down is a novel industry on the Nor of the outworks were not in the [xisses- II IlL Only one man in our company the hag. passes It Inside the aur and re wegian coast Islands, which are owned Spanish ship, was captured by the gu il ish loss was heavy. On the following day the flying sqnad- sion of the American army until the even ion t Nashville. Lieut. Washburn com by private individuals. The birds are was wounded. ne was hot In the foot ceives the 2 cents In payment for It. mander, and on the same day President ron put to sen to aid in finding Cervera, ing of July 2, while on one side the before we got into battle. Where was naturally wild, but, being fed when McKinley ordered the North Atlantic who was reported then to be at Curacoa, heights of San Juan were still untaken. Oti Duty. necessary by the keepers, who also pro Gen. Lawton's division assaulted San I? Why, by my father's side most of squadron under Admiral Sampson to sail off Venezuela. The two fleets cut off Cer Inquiring Person— M hat time did the tect them from the ravens and eagles, from Key West to inaugurate the Cuban vera from Havana and on May 18 it was Juan on July 3 and carried the heights in i the time, but 1 carried water to all the hotel catch fire? lose much of their shyness and come blockade. The fleet left the harbor the reported that the Spanish admiral had the greatest charge of a great liattle. San- j fellers. I kept filling my canteen. I got Fireman—Midnight. at feeding time in great numbers, at tinge wns surrounded and Gen. Shafter ' water from a spring. Why. the further following day. On April 23 President taken refuge in Santiago hay. Inquiring Person—Everybody got out tended often by a train of gulls and Fchlejr Trill» Cervera. demanded its surrender. The American we marched, the further aivay the McKinley called for 125,090 volunteers, wild ducks of many varieties. The In Commodore Schley, with the flying loss in the three days’ battle was 231 spring was. Say, the Sapniards had safe? and ordered Commodore Dewey nt Iloug Fireman—All except the night watch dustry is highly profitable. Kong to "find ami destroy the 8|>anish I squadron, reached Santiago before Ad killed. 1.283 wounded and 81 missing. sharpshooters up in the trees, but we fleet " % miral Sampson, ami it is known now the Convinced that the city must fall, the man. They couldn't wake him up In Clear Enonzh. Spain declared war rm April 24. the day arrival waa Just in time to prevent a dash Madrid authorities, who were in cable got on to them, and the negro troops time.—Tld-Bits. “Why Is it that we never hear any which saw Dewey’s fleet weigh anchor by Cervera for Cieufuegos or Havana. communication with Santiago throughout Just hunted those sharpshooters like thing about those reconcentrados any and ateam away for Manila bay. On The presence of Cervera in the bottle was the battie, ordered Admiral Cervera on squirrels," A Dead Waate. April 26 militia esmie were formed in known to n certainty in a few days July 2 to moke a dash from the harbor. more?” “ Hedwig, the actor, who enlisted with A man can never realize how time nearly every State of the Union. through the daring trip of Lieut. Victor He carried out his instructions on the “You might as well ask why It is we the Tough Walkers, died gloriously, I drags as a woman can. for the reason Matanza* waa bombarded on April 27 Blue, who made a circuit of the t>ay, even morniug of July 3, and two hours after believe," said the wanderer on the never hear anything more about the that he never gets Interested in a con by Admiral Snmpeon with the New York, entering Santiago. Admiral Sampson ar the Maria Teresa led the way past the j people whose names are on the grave Rialto. the Cincinnati and the Puritan. Great rived, ami the combined fleets Iwgan their sunken Merrimac his vessel* were hulks. ' tinued story. “PshaW" exclaimed the chronic stones out in the cemetery."—Cleveland damage wns done the fortifications. Cien- kmg wait for their prey. lying at intervals along the bench for fifty A lawyer Is as enthusiastic In speak press agent: “what good is that adver Leader. fuegos was bombarded on April 28. and The invasion of the army to (»operate miles. on that day, also. Admiral Cervera be with the fleet at Santiago was planned as Admiral Sampson with the New York ing of his client as a young man is In tising going to do him?”—Philadelphia Being good at figures never made a gan the series of maneuvers ending In the soon as Cervern's whereabouts waa had gene to consult with Gen. Shafter thinking of his sweetheart North American. man rich. Santiago bottle, by leaving Spanish shores , known. President McKinley issued a when the Spanish ship* were seen coming Some people always have time to at Women <1o not look well when they with hi* fleet, en route to the Cape Venie second call for 75,(MM) volunteers on May from the harbor, but Commodore Schley, Wise men change their minds occa Islands. 25. The demand was instantly met by with th* Brooklyn, Oregon. Iowa, Texas, tend celebrations. are comfortable. sionally, but fools have none to change. The Cabanas latterie* were silenced by th* men who had failed to secure a place Indiana and Gloucester, were more than 1 Home-made bread is mighty good, A picnic that Is put off a week is use- a bombardment from the New York on on the first calk The first expedition to a match for the Maria Teresa, Cristobal Cut th* amount of money you expect April MO, the day which brought word | re-«nforce Dewey at Manila sailed also Colon, Oquendo, Vizcaya and the destroy-. but It is becoming a great rarity. ally given up altogether. I to get square In two. I