September 4, 1898

About fifty orphans from St. James Orphanage in Benson at the Expo last Tuesday ... They were given special treatment and courtesies by all. [SB]

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Civil War Veteran recovers photograph lost in the mail years before. J.J. Gorman of the Omaha Street Railway Co., had sent it from Indianapolis to South Bend, while serving with the 86th Ind. Inf. It has been in the dead letter exhibit for 35 years. At the end of the war over 5000 such photos were unclaimed and Post Office has used such exhibits in hopes of identification. Up to now 2000 have been claimed. His daughter identified the photo on Aug. 13 and claimed it [SB]

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Over 100 postcards mailed at the T/M undeliverable because of no address...nice messages on back, but people forgetting to put addresses. One of the interesting specimens in the exhibit is a bomb addresses to Senor Eulate, commander of the Spanish ship Vizcaya, to be delivered when the ship is at anchor in N.Y. harbor. It was sent in the cause of Cuba's freedom. Another is a revolver in a box, so connected that the weapon would discharge in direction of the person undoing the lib...it was mailed by a rejected suitor of a Baltimore lady. [SB]