St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 4, 1886

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es ae n * te i: eet ee 2 8 „ Ye Dawe oe Se : F my . 4 A 7 +P § ——— E. FI. 37. NO. 132. „ to Barclay Sound, Vancouver Island, only way this measure can be ed te by | 9 to the new city of v taking up his bill. It will be rer f as 1 e IE PACIFIC ROADS. | zuarz, steno hah ion 1 line across would 5 d House refusing it, Mr, yey anded pos A STRONG LOBBY PUSHING THE CLAIMS OF | tunity. oie 3 Gas new — — * onse! THE EXTENSION BILL the President will Tavor this way through which the * ue Isl . IRISH AFFAIRS. ines across the he now favors, can be reach THE GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH THEIR sentative Warner on Benton’s Suspension The District Scandal, PRESENT VIGOROUS POLICY. * crag — — —The District Scandal- Washington News. By Telegraph to the Post-Disratcn. | re — mente immediately concerned and which are | By Telegraph to the Post-DIsPATCH. WASHINGTON, D. O., December 4.—**The vires as follows: Great Britain, Canada, Fiji, New| WasHsINGTON, D. O., December 8.—The Pa- tuous are not resenttul. Such is aut W st Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Vic- The Cabinet Meeting Yesterday—Fall of the toria, South Australia, West Anetraita,’ Tas- French Ministry— ——— Announces — = India. It will take some time yet shit 1 the Resignation Himself and Col- before, the Australian Governments can be the members of Congress who are now com- police to keep an eye on the whole class; non yy leagues—The Radical Left to Vote Confi- M co-operation is con- ing into Washington. The measure is before | of them seem to take it serfously. ‘I lend ~ dence in the Gov ent—Peru’s Social ) the House and can be easily reached if enough | most exemplary life, a everybody knows,’ ee ij Sensation—King Humbert’s Gift to Presi- EAST sr. LOUIS. members can be made to believe that it is a life | Said * 9 ex. dent Cleveland—Foreiga News. | wa and death matter with the interests of the eye. and Iam not afraid.’’ a Special Cablegram to the Post-Dispatch. ogi . — . Oficial Test of the New Water-Works—Or- | Government. It is very interesting to watch on ae hoping — — a pa en evre, a member o | e ganizing a New Water- Works. the lñdustry ot the gentlemen in their attempt of the Appropriution Committee, ‘‘so thas nay * made this afternoon in the presence of a large that being virtuous tay Ane concerned. Men’s Suits, Men’s Suits, 30, $85, $40 Presents council yesterday. The Government are ap- parently so satisfied with their present vigor- ous policy and the Irish outiook generally that they have decided not to meet again until after Christmas, unless unforeseen events compel them. Several of them havealready left town for the holidays. Foreign affairs were scarcely discussed at all, as itis understood the Gov- ernment do not regard the rumors about French interference in as serious. FALL OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY. The fall of the French ministry attracts less crowd of citizens,and as it proved entirely sat- isfactory, the works were formally received by the City Council. The test was madeon Main street, between Missouri avenue and Broadway. Six streams were sent out through 150 feet of hose a distance of 100 feet in the _—icair. Among those present when the test was made esides the Mayor and City Council, were Messrs. Charies Thaw and Frank H. Pond, President and Secretary of the Water Company; Mayor Francis of St. Louis and Mr. M. T. Zent, man- patriots who are how working in the interests of the bill. They are hoping to get Congress to pass the measure so that the stock can be unloaded upon the public, In event of the Congress to pass the bill, it would not surprise any oneif the property should be entirely wrecked and pass into the hands of are- ceiver. A gentleman who has recently re- He el ies them as 168 Democrats, 102 Republicans, 4 In? LonpoN, December 6.—The Irish question was n two hotrs at 31 mena The official test of the water-works was | tO protect the interests of the Government. | can’t get their detective eye on me, This is the sole business of the self-denying | in varying phrase ev ngressman XMAS The Fiftieth Congress. a WasHInetos, D. C., December -en. failure ot John B. Clark, clerk of the House of Repre- 5 sentatives, has completed and caused to de printed an unofficial list of members of th House for the Fiftietb Congress. Fi . Pp there are facilitiek 13 ti ishi Mr. Crisp of Georgia, who is the advocate of for making Democratic speeches and for ee 0 ters, entitled Celtio Feudalism, The fires. “ordered ‘by « the | this bill on the floor of the House, has bad tepernieiehs activity,’’ on the ground thathe f te e soci TRASK, Cashier, | | SS Age of Charters, The Epoch of | City Council are expested In A fom dacs aud | Printed here an elaborate statement in tavor | ailing harm. *‘Benton’s specches,’* said he a ' , * © expected in a tew Gays and | ofthe pussage of the bill. Thie statement . were altogether harmiess.’’ N Claims, Appeal trom the Chiefs | When they arrive the Council will purchase | wa, full of misrepresentations. He sald that horses and appoint four firemen, two to each 1 to the Owners, Response ofthe Ownership. Be- reel. One of the reels will be located right rn ony th am Bs . Postmasters. 3 fore the Dawn, Burst of Industry, will be next to the jail. The location of the other has one hundre millions. He makes OTICE—The annual meeti of the: f t yet decided published by Douglass. no den decided upon. : 33 ¢ . Edward Voelker, wno was so badly injured | cate that à/ ag ta SO whet — missions ot sixty Presidential Postmasters of the Carondelet Gas Light Com- don of four (4) directors to serve for ; Macmillan will publis immediatel 4 cate that the two (4) will da 9 volume to be entitled * t M 1 last Sunday morning by being struck by a a second mortgage, could get nothing after | will expire during the present month. On te "se, N en u oney and Vandalia train while crossing the tracks on St. the first mortgage was satisfied. His figures | reassembling of Congress the President will mber 6, Uther Things, by the author ot John Hail- | Clair avenue in a milk wagon, died at an early | concerning the first mortgage ate incorrect. | have the appointment of about one hundred office. No 3 : He 4. ° 0 * x 57 hour thi ing f t — 7 i 4 ay hours of 9 4. m. and 2 b. m. . . tax, Gentleman. juries. At the. time of — — aus The first mortgage bonds of the ae and fifty postmasters made during the recess = 6 Browning expressed himself greatly pleased | named Arnold Reuber was in the wagon with | Hanens Pacific roads are a little less, Sian de send to the Senate for confirmation. a , ow thirty-four millions, of the Central and West-] The president to-day appointed J. E. Loh- a: with Arthur Symon’s introduction to his work Voelker and he was so badly injured that he ' app . 4 ; died in a few hours. Voelk leav ern Pacific about twenty-six millions. Thie] mann Postmaster at Hamilton, O., vice Ferdi- 2 8 just published by Cassell. N or leaves | forty millions of first mortgage boads on the] nand Vanderver, resigned. 5 w St. Louis, on Monday, Board of Directors. JOHN wife and two children. The Coroner! pacifc Railroads have a prior lien upon the — — — — tae Pp 4 * Ay te OF > 1 * 22 K. St. Louls, November 30, 1884.~ 8 — — — ION NOTICES. 4, . bog BS, . ens at ek 4 LOW WATER AND ICE. K. LION BERGER, ; President. tary, : g — ni i. —— e England. — RN 8 maturity of the bonds to those of the Govern- the office of the Recorder of Deeds it will not probably be concluded bef t ment. Mr. Crisp says that upon the maturity Louls, State of Missouri. in ] 8/0 A DETERMINED STRUGGLE. me Re p y onciude erore to- of the bonds whose interest is guaranteed by Dre 0 — Vv a _ AS — 893 December 4.— The Dublin agent ot] This evening Town Clerk William Wheeler the Government, the roads will owe the Gov- | steamers Aground on Apple Creek Bar and B, west, of the City of Bt. Louis, Staté — Pie OO Agee Re aad the Central News telegraphs that the Irish fact is, these roads now owe the encing ata point in the south line : 1 38 ctu ep me So. Meints at the Lutheran Church at Eighth and — . : One hundred aud thirty feet west of RABOTEAL & C0 ———— : : —.— Executive, in consequence r the proceedings | Walnut streets, St. Louis. After the ceremony oa „% 2 Miho | The slowly moving masses of heavy ice fill- with the west Une of North Broad- * —5 —— 41 wt ee > A — there will be a reception at the residence of Government Aerives no * from | ing the river from shore to shore, have nearly — pn the bride’s parents on the Island. the earnings of the branch lines. This state- | caused the ferry and transfer boats to seek as to taxee Opposite Union Market. United Ireland has aiso b decided u b ve not been complied with, now, a \ the Goverament * ä Congressional Contest. by the directors shall receive a vi- the legal holder of, andin pursuance), g In the Ninth © ' Distri dend and interest. By this method the] tinues to decline leaving this morning said deed of trust. I, the undersigned . as me ongressional District contest | Government loses about @ million a year. | but 8% feet of water at Apple Oreek bar as br the above denoted 23 AND F ITTINGS. Germ the conduct of Surveyor Lancaster is per- Take the Oregon Short Line as an example. | found by the pilots of the Anchor Line steam- 2828 ne —j A * The Union Pacific pays the interest on the er City dt New Orleans, which was aground standpoint. His disgust at the result of the] why is this? The directors own $13,700,000| trip, in company with the steamers Oityot will be united in matrimony to Miss Bertha J. erpmens one hundred — * Probability of an Ice Gorge. ng westwardty along the said south t ifty-six feet and one inch; thence THE NEBR National League. Th f feet; thence westwardly al ng — Pio of L * PRICES — — ane — — Re ment is true, and the reason is that the branch safe ice harbors. A narrow channel bas been Dock stieet twenty-seven feet In DEUGS AND ofall League meetings and arrests of promi. PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY. Ithes are owned by the directors of the Union 1, far by th thence southwardly ninety feet, toa " ; Pacific and theirfriends. The branch lines |*°PS open 80 far dy © exertions Castwardly eighty-four feet: thence 714 N. Breadway 2 crea. ty 08 he 3 1 —— f subsidy from the Government for | of steam tugs and the harbor uty t f t beginning. 4 United ireland to believe tas the seizure of | Surveyor Lancaster’s Hand Shows in the their support in order that the securities held boat Elon G. Smith. The river eon i * * rty for or cast : — 6 * niciously active as viewe ti — rr a 4 1 bonds, which entails a loss of $400,000 a year. | there over forty-six hours on her down 0 „ of Missouri between the hours ; J E V E 1. 182 a e I carry an endless variety of Nail Scissors, Pearl, Ivory and Steel Nail Files, Tweezers, Shoe and Glove BERLIN, December 4.—The debate on the Hooks, Powder Boxes, Polishers and Corn Knives, and a beautiful assortment of Manicure Cases complete, | Government 's bill for @ rénewalot the military | election was not concealed. Since then Mr. | out of a total issue of $15,000,000. If the roads Cairo, Sidney Dillon, Mab Clyde, U m., on DAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886, . : a trust. — On Time Payments. containing STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS GOODS, and everything in septennate, or fixing of the army estimate | Glover has been predicting the Surveyor's | had been honestly managed the interests | States snag boat Wright, Willis and —— due the Government could have deen] Louis, While the C. W. Anderson an ‘ ber 20. 1586. * Watches, Diamonds, Chains, Lockets, Etc., official decapitation with annoying con- kept up, but ever since the passage of that | son pl „ 2 se U ri 9 ON Bold on the above plan at cash prices. 5 e 2 fp x remedy {for the above disease , by its use A. LOUIS JEWELRY * AN 00. A — advantage of the Europea crisis to securt an again exhibiting his dis f iv , ; increase in the peace effective fore, ali the op- —— rules. Wulle e a aga * gument of Mr. Crisp that the roads cannot] ville and Hannibal last night, with the rer position parties were expected to discover their | office he is really on the streets prosecuting a | pay what is due under the Thurman act each | four inches below the low water an attitude towards the proposed measure dur- | search for evidence which might prove damag- | year, but that they could pay three times what } Last accounts report the David R. Powell a ing the present debate, which ison the first | ing to the cause of the Vongressman-elect. He 3 reading. Herr Windthorst, leader of the has not concealed his action at all, but has | ing measure, is one that will interest people hopes of relief. 25 Clerica party declines, however, to] openly made his inquiries. At present who are not retained by the Pacifle road The water nere is so chilled t It is liable to explicitly commit himself and followers. In | he s directing his attention towards | lobby. These roads have never dealt honestly | be chocked up by the lightest p- stream wind. to-day’s discussion Herr Windthorst intima- | Central Committeeman Wittenberg, Holsgrebe | With the Government, and their present | This cold wave has brought about a ee. ted that the vote of his party would be given of the Tenth Ward and Erie of the Second who | scheme is simply a new device to evade fur- | sion ofall labor onthe Government > RINE Sx for a period of seven years, was ; resumed in the Reichstag to-day. The present | idence. On the other hand, Lancaster | Thurman act the Directors of the Pacific roads the channel at Goose Island. From kind and of long standing deed, oo strong ismy faith in fees! 410 Washington Av. ce ee es is required under that act under the refund-| aground at Apple Creek, with the have reduced their net earnings by a fictitious | deduction can easily be drawn as to the 3 > BOTTLES FREE, together witha VAL- septennate not expiring until 1888, and the | hashad reasuring communications from those | — 2 Government’s desire being evidentiy to take | who secured him bie appointment, and he > report of expenditures, so that the Govern- | treme low condition of the river between thig \ ment has been swindled right along. Thear- | port and Cairo. The river closed at a: : 1@Give ex. on this disease CUM. 101 Pearlae F — 8 0 DR. 1. A. SLOCU 4. L ISAACS WALL PAPER OO. definitely on the last reading. He added that they had no objection to baving it known, in are supposed to be in possession of informa- tion which may be presented in a damaging ther responsibility, SwWiphur 8 rings. Jim Smith’s —1 i ollow below as evidenced v the Decorators, 7 the meantime, that they preferred having the light 1 b 5 * ’ . ndignant Iowa Democrats. 1 Hard oors , army estimates made for three years, how- ; this morning of hundreds of late employes by we eee Fi * 2 2 — instead of for seven as proposed by the 1 Toman Pom mem of a By Telegraph to the > Gee 5 «ite rail — 34 1 sana Gov 1 eathe Government. WASHINGTON, . O., December 4.—The | steamer n nka aground this r ps. jurymen do not reside in the city and go home 48 morning of the Arsenel with the Miver : Vi“ Excelsior Building, 612 WASHINGTON AVENUE. France. on Friday evening to spend Saturday with | President’s misfortunes do not come singly. | MON NS Steamer Aississippl, in tow. * 1 OLIVE — 2 ed to their their families. For the first time since his inauguration he | Government fleet will be tow HE MINISTRY DETERMINED. Mr. Nathan Frank returned this mornin pees from Chicago, where he was engaged in the has brought upon himself the wrath and in- | quarters this afternoon. dignation of the Democrats of Iowa. The two Medical Collages, — sia — ratte g. Debility, Mental an@ ILLINOIS MILKCO. ikness ; Mercurial and PARIS, December 4.—Premier De Freycinet transaction of some legal business. 2 will to-day inform the Chamber ot Deputies] The statisticians at the City Hall are inclined quarrel began with Congressman Frederick AN IRATE BOSS. 8 that the French Cabinet has resigned and can | to —— — . NW 1 — and bas now spread ore pm entire — a —— ů ů—ů “as working too siowix. ad at party ick was elected to Congress from a Re- ge Skin or Bones, Blood (Trade mark registered.) „ demonem tanta interests will not enter into consideration in — district as a straight Democrat and | Judge Cady per rons bo or Swearing at * a the matter at all. The politicians state that | received a handsome majority, running ahead oung 5 1 — — — Dealers in Illinois Milk exclusively. — ee —— will persistin their deter- the work of simply redistricting tne. city 4 thousatid votes. He is r oe . shou co out- t Democrat ever elec rom the ige Cady 3 Milk received twice daily by railroad. — E S — & C UJ | B — fe S O N The e Left in the side. The commission has not yet established —— — District, and he naturally | this morning for disturbing the peace ot, J any new lines. supposed that he should have some. in his employ. He manufactures vests ,es — — — * produce s Pimp-os on the See, Pera, OFFICE: 2228 to 2231 Morgan St. 2 he ln gy a Seg thing to say im the distribution, of | large tailoring establishment and has in ne- of females, co afte : cided to vote confidence in the Government. 22 N. FOU RTH STR E Er, It is believed that this incident will induce the THE MILLERS the — oll besa pgs 1— of z = ploy a number of girls, his place of business 3 — \. Corner 8th and St. ROME. December 4.—King Humbert has sent to the elevators. The millers claim | Mrs. Thompson, post- mistress at Louisville, | night was two-tenths of « ° thatin view of the storage prices the advice | when the President made as his excuse for the 1 Hess 8 Culbe 180 l, to President Cleveland u copy of the “Shee of the elevator men to millers to enter into | appointment that it was recommended by en-] ore sero. This was North Fourth Street za Seiad Prince Reval. | vas compete with She . sav eattiely auras ; . e lus sup s an invitation go into the | should be left entirely é 22 — = — — while the elevator men have the cards Mexico. stocked. A change in the present style of doing business is considered necessary to The President's Illness. EC ä — — — — December 4—Jadge Man- | ].. K ne PTS" | Br Telegraph tothe Pose. Desrszes. ning, the United States Minister, r po „„ * — cia — ; : @ | are both suffering from — ines 3 ROBBERY AND ARSON. not get up until nearly noon and his v 1 Mannin ng He cannot walk ine! 8 lid G Id W f h t Chamber of Deputies to-day the resignation ’ . , but the best Democratic citizens in office. At Ladies 0 0 9 C 98 a of the Ministry. The Chamber at once ad At a meeting of the Millers’ Association this j City and Cedar Rapids. the two most im- | Ann avenue, lo-t a paper which . Frederick had selected his men and recom- | the testimony of the girl and two © St. Louis, Mo. Hi: f i cE I D is apprehended. Burgi Ransack a House and Then Burn | tiem is very paintul. S who is physician ps It to . Ground. — oa = acane. His right knee is that he had been | painful. Some of his friends are beginning MILWAUKEE, December 4.—A special to the a ink that Evening Wisconsin from Neenah says: This morning at 8 o’clock two burglars entered the 241 : an the Minister, said to- ‘Wholesale Cash Dry Goods House ===" r THE LAXDSTURM BILL PASSED. 8 a A e Plushes, Velvets and Velveteens 5 : i 14115 1 has passed the Landsturm bill. ‘xTaae ~ A ° A 7 2 a i 2 . 9 We have a oomplete stock of Fancy Striped N and Brocaded Silk Velvets, Silk Plushes and ei ‘ = 4h APM 4 1171 at ~ oi 2. 2. y vas o ö Pea? bi ” ™ >. 77... oats Oe ke Re A Nen 9 5 Fe ug n 22 5 ‘ 7 ~ 2 * ~. 1 i - 1 * n N 5 8 oe en * W * 2 e — ; N 1 N. eg > 9 ; A n ‘ de ee 2