James B. Campbell

       COL. CAMPBELL DEAD.
Died in Australia While Getting Ready
         to Come Home.
 Information has been received here
of the death of Colonel James B.
Campbell, formerly of Watertown, at
North Melbourne, Australia. Colonel
Campbell was prepared to return to
his home in this city and would pro-
bably have visited Watertown the pre-
sent month, when he was taken sick.
 Colonel Campbell had been in Aus-
tralia upwards of thirty years, and
nothing of his whereabouts was known
until last July, when his daughter,
Mrs. Sherman W. Johnson, who re-
sides in Watertown, received a letter
from him in which he asked that cer-
tain papers attesting to his military
service be sent to him in order that
he might make application for a pen-
sion.
 Colonel Campbell served through
the civil war as a member of the
Tenth New York Heavy Artillery,
which was recruited in Jefferson
county, and won a commission as a 
lieutenant-colonel. Following the war
he returned to Watertown, but soon
went to Chicago, where he resided for
a few years. It while there that
his wife died, and after a time Colonel
Campbell suddenly disappeared. It
was believed in Chicago that he had
been murdered and the police worked
for weeks to solve the mystery of his
disappearance. It was known that he
had a considerable sum of money with
him when he disappeared, and it was
believed that he was murdered for
the money.
 Nothing was heard from him and it
was believed he was dead up to last
July, when his daughter, Mrs. John-
son, received a letter to the three sur-
viving children, of which she was one,
addressed to Rutland, this county, the
former home of the family. The let-
ter was forwarded to Mrs. Johnson
here.
 Colonel Campbell gave no informa-
tion which would solve the mystery
of his diappearance, but said he was
well and enjoying the country he was
in. The family answered the letter
and a correspondence followed, in
which he said he would plan to come
to America and spend his last days
with his family. The daughter, Mrs.
Johnson of this city, and two sons,
James B. Campbell and Robert A.
Campbell of Chicago, survive.
Colonel Campbell was buried at Mel-
bourne.