First To Show Up

The three Charlies - Charlie Townsend, Charlie Smith and Charlie Blair - logether with about 25 other Jacksumtes were the first van guard to appear upon the battle field for the congressional nomlnation. They arrived 1 ere at noon Tuesday and quartered at the Cook House. Mr. Townsend was looking p&rtlcularly happy. Said he: "We are going to have a hot light but it will be good natured. Just before leaving home I told my wife that I would return with colors ilyir.g whether I am victorlous or defeated. Have the best lot of men with me who ever went' out to support a Jackson candidate. There will be about 50 more come in at 6 o'clock and by tomorrow there will be over a hundred delegates and workers from Jackson county here to help me." "Then you will not suffer for want of applause," was suggested. "Well, they teil me the court house roem is rather small and we caunot crowd them all in." "I might give you the opera house," spoke up Manager Lisemer. "I am a little afraid thai in that case Wedemeyer might ca.ll on the surrounding country and drown us alt out in yellings," said he laughingly. "I feel that I am entitled to the nomlnation this time and am going to put up a big fight for it. Ex-Congressman O'Donnell will place my name before the convention," said he. Aun Arbor's Hero. John Fitzgibbon, staff correspondent of the Evening News, in writing of the battle of Santiago, says: Two or three minutes after the shell burst, Gen. Duffield, Lieut. Wilcox and the News correspondent started down the same track. They did not notice the dead and dying men until they were within 100 feet of them. Stark was holöing up the mangled stump of his arm and calling for someone to tie it up, so the üow of blood would stop. The wounded Americans were carried into the only box cars on the track. It was an hour and a half after Rawson, Curtis and Stark had been injured before Drs. Nancrede and Vaughan returned f rom the front. Before the first shat was flred they went along the beach to the mouth of the river to be ready to care for the wounded, as it was assumed that it was the men in the first rank who would be hit first. Stark's hand was found where he feil, and it wasn't even scratched. It was burled at the foot of the bluft'. Rawson was so enthused by the flring of the New York that he had himself propped up in the hospital car where he could look out of the door at the ship. Stark was feeling so cheerflul that he talked about the engagement and said he didn't want to leave Cuba until the Spaniards had been thoroughly whipped. '