Courier Gazette : July 31, 1897
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Rockland^Gazette The Largest Rockland Tribune Circulation Union Times In Eastern Maine Consolidated March 17, 1897 T he Courier-Gazette. ■----------------------------------------- ----------- ------------------------------------ — TW ICE-A-W EEK . TUESDAY AND SATURDAY. Two Dollars a Year Rockland Maine Saturday July 31 1897 Vol. 52. N o . 5 0 DISPOSING OF COOLIDGE. ! the body was disinterred for the third time, main. a. tho.e of Coolidge, this schoolmate j MARTHA'S VINEYARO SUMMER INSTITUTE IN A CORNER OF THE LIBRARY IF YOU ENJOY ______ | forty days after death, a portion of those must have been on Dr. Mann's committee, ______ hich made the exhumation two days earlier. I a Roeklantl Tcncher Tells of This Fan Mr. Vote C'nrefnlly Sifts anti Reviews the idge; that a body was smuggled into prison Mark Twain and his daughter will spend A Cup of Coffee Evidence In Thin Cause Celehre—He This fact nnd the circumstance of the grave Hot W entlier School. to represent Coolidge and that he was that was opened not being in the family plot, the winter in Vienna, in order that the latter I .eaves No Apparent Ground For Any given his liberty; that he was subse CottaoB CiTfi Marr., July 24, 1807. may receive musical instruction. Other Conclusion Than That Coolidge together with the reported weight of the body That satisfies. that makes your Breakfast the quently seen and recognized in Cal first exhumed, would give color to the suspi Dear Courier-Gazette: Summer schools Col. Hay’s speech on the unveiling of the Died In Prison. ifornia wheie he lived for a number of arc becoming such well-established and im delightful meal of tho day ask your Did Valorous P. Coolidge die in the state cion that Dr. Mann dug up the wrong corpse. bust of Sir Walter Scott in Westminster g ro ce r fo r years; that he died of small pox and was However, I do not regard this as material, for portant facts, that a few words anent the same Abbey has been put into immediate publica prison at Thomaston, on the iSth of May, nursed through his illness by a Mrs. Parker. considering that Coolidge had been dead more from the birthplace of the. Summer school tion. 1849, or did he escape (a corpse beinR sub Are there any names given of the many per may not prove entirely uninteresting to your WINSLOW, RAND & WATSON’S than five weeks the body might naturally be The Klondike gold strike imparts a high life stituted to deceive those not in the plot) and sons who are reported to have seen Coolidge supposed to fail to afford nil the marks of numerous readers. ()n the island of I’enikese, live for years in California and ultimately die one of the Elizabeth group, was opened the peculiar value t.i the vivid picture of Iwinanza W $ Ft: in California? None, except that of Mrs. identification that might be sought. days on the Comstock, presented in C. II. “HIGH LIFE” there? Parker. Ate there any affidavits, or state Of all the many men who are claimed by first Summer school in the world. Its great This is the question first mooted by one Dr. ments over signatures, from Mrs. Parker, or founder was Louis Agassiz, Teacher, as he Shinn’s fascinating book “ The Story of the Packed in 1 and 2 lB. air tight tin cans. Re Dr. Perkins to have seen Coolidge in Califor Mine” which is published by D. Appleton & Mann of Skowhegan, in June, 1849, with re other persons who claim to have seen Cool nia, he seems to be unable to give a local styled himself. His school was established tnrnaBle if not satisfactory. gard to the identity of the body buried as that for teachers and students of natural science Co., who also publish Miss Scidmore’s “Guide idge alive after May 18th, 1849? None. Is habitation and a name to any one of them; Book to Alaska.” of Coolidge, which has been debated in your there any evidence of a corpse being taken into nnd his assertion that “for years every traveler but did not survive its distinguished founder’s IF YOU WISH FOR~^. columns during the past two months, and the Maine prison on the 17th or 18th of May, from California brought similar accounts” death. Nelson’s famous autobiography, consisting which has been revived and discussed 1849, or of a body being sought or obtained (namely of having met and recognized Cool Shortly after the death of Agassiz there of twelve pages of manuscript, was sold at rr h . t e a several times, at considerable intervals, since for this purpose? None. idge) is to say the least a gross exaggeration. originated in the fertile brain of Col. Homer Sotheby’s the other day with some of his it was apparently given its quietus by the Then, there is nothing competent or tan The Flint confession and instructions given B. Sprague, Ph. D., then head master of the correspondence. The lot brought 1,000. Ask for Winslow, Rand & Watson’s affidavits of the prison officials, more than gible that is presented or suggested in sup by Coolidge to the convict Brown, would at Girls’ High School in Boston, the idea of a An important "Commonplace Book” of forty years ago. port of the contention for the negative, noth first sight appear to have no bearing upon the Summer school for teachers, lie tried to es Robert Burns wns sold nt tbe same time for The last time this issue was raised (until ing that can he received as evidence, and question as whether or not Coolidge died in tablish his Summer school on the site and in Z365- Apparently history has still a claim ROYALTY CHOP Dr. Perkins again revived it a few weeks ago) therefore judgment must he that the affirma prison. But it will be noticed that it was the buildings formerly occupied by Agassiz’s over poetry which collectors will not ignore. was in the Spring of 1892, its occasion being, Choicest Blended Formosa Oolong, in 1-2 lB. an d 1 lB tive is fully established by unimpeached and only a few days before Coolidge’s death that school, but the owner refused to sell or lease. There are thousands of readers to whom so far as I can learn, a brief article in the Not at all discouraged, Col. Sprague selected tin cans. ReturnaBle if not satisfactory. competent testimony. Brown delivered these papers to Col. Allen. the name of Captain Charles King at once Tuolumne, Cal., Independent. Now, let us examine some of these matlets Now’, il there was a plot to let Coolidge escape on this island a suitable spot, created an inter suggests reminiscences of delightful stories of I have now before me copies of the articles a little more in detail. by the substitution of a dead body, he must est in the scheme, put the plan in operation adventure, full of the clash of war and the W inslow, Rand & W atson, and communications named below pertaining At the outset, it is to he kept in mind that have been aware of it nt or before the time of and carried it forward until the M. V. S. I. color of romance. Indeed there are few to this discussion: the question is not whether Coolidge died of was incorporated under the laws of the Com American writers who h.ivr made a more di BOSTON. Brown’s confession. That being the case, he 1. The article of the Tuolumne Indepen poison, or of cholera-morbus, or of some would not be likely to be at the same time monwealth of Massachusetts and became an rect appeal to the hearts of their country Sold By all the leading vrocors. 29 dent referred to above. other disease; whether if he died of poison, taking the desperate chance of another mur interesting and highly useful institution. Thus men and to the spirit • f pitriotism. Captain 2. A column atticle from the Dover, it was by suicide, accident or murder; whether der and a bogus confessipn. And that he was established the first Summer school for King, who is known in military circles as Maine, Observer of May 5, 1892, suggested by in such case, the poison was prussic acid, or was plotting so desperate a scheme is suffi teachers. Looking upon the incomparable Brigadier General KJng, cm write stirringly the article in the California paper. other deadly drug, carried in “his silver pen cient warrant for the assumption that he was roadway, the Vineyard Sound, having close at THt MAIIWE STATE FAIR, Lewiston, 3. A communication to The Courier- cil tube” or otherwise. Or is it material not expecting release through the bribery and hand Cottage City, the most unique Summer Gazette from Mr. I. J. Burton of Warren, whether Drs. Buxton and Rose were correct malfeasance of the prison officials. resort in America; situated on historic Aug. 30, 31; Sept. 1, 2, 3. | dated March 31, 1892. in their judgment as to how many minutes It is reported that Coolidge’s father and ground; including in its faculty the most 4. A communication from the present Coolidge had been dead when they first saw sister were among those who declared that eminent educators in our country; it is no Horseless Carrlnffc Ruces. Firem en's Muster. writer dated April 2, 1892, and published in bis corpse. All these minor matters are be the body exhumed at North Livermore was wonder that the Institute has become what it Everything New, Novel and Interestlnif.