Lieut. Jossman Died For Country

University Student Who Enlisted For the War.

Wounded In Philippines

Funeral Held In Detroit--His Father's Death Hastened By His Death.

Lieut. A. L. Jossman, one of the Michigan University students who enlisted in the war with Spain and died in the Philippines from a wound received in battle, was buried in Woodmere cemetery, Detroit, last Friday. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock from the Temple Beth El. The Detroit News thus describes Jossman's enlistment and sad death:

Jossman, who was only 25 years old, left Michigan University at the time of the war with Spain, enlisting at Island Lake, as a private in the Thirty-first regiment. He went to Camp Meade, Pa., was promoted a corporal, then his time expiring, he re-enlisted in the Twenty-first regulars and was transferred to Plattsburg and later went with the Twenty-first to the Philippines. In the meantime, he had passed his examination as second lieutenant. He came home on a furlough and then returned to the Philippines. When the islands were reached the cholera was raging and the transport did not land, but took the regiment to Mindanao, where a fierce engagement was fought with the natives in May. Jossman was among the wounded.

The bullet, which was never found, entered his lungs, it is said, and made death almost inevitable, but he lingered from May till July 28. Ten days before the word was received that he had passed away there came a letter from the nurse, to which were added a few lines--his last--in his own handwriting, telling the folks that he was recovering and would be home on the next transport. He was taken to the hospital at Manila, preparatory to the long voyage, but the shock and excitement of the journey home consumed his last strength. At the time the war department declared that his body could not be removed till the winter, on account of danger of infection. Congressman Sam Smith interceded and the body which had been embalmed, was sent by way of Ogden. The expression of the face, after all these long months since death, is still pleasant and lifelike.

A peculiarly sad incident was the death of E. Jossman, the father, unquestionably hastened by that of his son.