Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State July 5-1893 # 4 The Gettysburg Monument New York's shaft to the memory of the soldiers of this State who fell in the memorable conflict at Gettysburg in 1863, which was dedicated with impressive ceremonies on Sunday, is a very handsome piece of work. The monument stands in the New York section of the National cemetery near the statue to General REYNOLDS. Casper BUBERI, the military sculptor, was the artist. The base of the memorial bears a tablet showing the names of all New York officers killed in the battle with a bronze relief illustrating the valor of New York officers in the field. The structure, which cost $62,000, is of polished granite and bronze. The scenes represented in the bronze relief are the wounding of General SICKLES, wounding of General HANCOCK, the death of General REYNOLDS, and General SLOCUM surrounded by his subordinate commanders. Among the figures, besides SICKLES and SLOCUM, are the New York soldiers, Generals CARR, WEED, GRAHAM, WARD, TREMOINE, GREENE, RUSSELL, BARNUM, BARTLETT, DOUBLEDAY, ROBINSON, BARLOW, KILPATRICK, and WARREN. "Victory," as the statue is styled, is represented by a female figure of pensive mien, holding floral wreaths with which to decorate the graves of the dead. She leans on a staff surmounted by the liberty cap which is present in the arms of the State of New York. She wears an empire belt on which is a solitary star, emblematic of her being one of the stars of the Union, and on her girdle is the motto, "Excelsior." Below the columns are trophies consisting of flags, cannon, shields, the coat-of-arms of the State and the corps badges of the New York regiments which were engaged in the great battle. This Morning's News. The three-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of the settlement of Auburn ended yesterday. Senator SHERMAN, under the circumstances, favors the repeal of the silver act which bears his name. There was an immense crowd at the World's Fair yesterday, the number of people being estimated at 250,000. Ex-President HARRISON made a patriotic address at Cape May yesterday upon the rights and duties of citizenship. Henry STARR and Kid WILSON, two members of the STARR gang of robbers, have been arrested at Colorado Springs. A.J. WARNER, President of the American Bimetallic League, has issued a call for a national convention of the league to be held in Chicago beginning on August 1st. Because of the new York brokers who contracted for Indianapolis's 5 per cent city bonds and refused to take them because money is worth 20 to 40 per cent in New York will pay the city a forfeit of $21,000. Emperor William opened the Reichstaz yesterday and told the legislature that they would receive a new bill immediately regarding the peace footing of the army and that no other bill would be presented until that was disposed of. Edward McCARTHY, a bartender, aged 21, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge Monday and received injuries which probably will result in death. This is the fourteenth case of jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge and the third in two weeks. Frank KRAIGER, a New York piano maker, died on Monday from concussion of the brain, the injury being caused by John SCHULTZ, a cigar maker, who has been arrested for murder. KRAIGER was a Socialist and he angered SCHULTZ by shouting: "To hell with America! Damn the American flag." No Time to Do Anything "It makes me mad," said the old engineer, "to hear people ask why a man don't do so and so when his engine strikes. It all comes like a stroke of lightnin. When we piled 'em up in Whitesville cut and killed eight, I was sittin in my window that night lookin ahead as careful as any one could. We had started on the curve, and she was goin as fast as the wheels could turn, 40 minutes behind time and the deuce to pay if we didn't make it up by mornin. Jimmy HARTSELL was feedin 'er every minute. "I thought I saw a glimmer of light on the bank ahead. It was the flash from the headlight around the other bend of the curve. Between the time I caught that flash and when I saw the headlight swing around the cut as big as a tub it coudn't have been a hundredth part of a second. We were nose to nose before I realized--no, I don't think I realized--but I put on the air with one yank, yelled to Jimmy and fell out of the window. When they threw water in my face, I s'posed I was cut all up. The wreck was on fire, and people was hollerin underneath. I laid there feelin of myself, expectin every minute to find a soft place, but I was all right, and three days afterward I went to Jimmy's funeral. After that I don't want no man to tell me what you ought to do." - National Car and Locomotive Builder. Enemies of the "New Fangled." Some years ago an "auld Kirk" minister who had added a barometer to the furnishings of his house on the west coast of Scotland found that it was not altogether safe to possess such mysterious inventions. During a prolonged storm the women of a neighboring village whose husbands were all at sea marched to the minister's house in a body and requested him to "set the weather guide to fair." While he was trying to explain the nature of the barometer they impatiently took stones and smashed it. Within a few hours the weather changed favorably. Then one Jeanie GORM, the ring-leader among the rioters, remarked: "I tell't ye how it would be! It's just that new fangled whigmaleeries that's settin things wrang in the warld." - Youth's Companion. submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************