St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 8, 1899

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,. ~~ fowa and = Nebraska—Partly 7 Warmer; south to southwest winds. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. FORTY PAGES. . VOL. 50, NO. 145. SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS, JANUARY 8, 1899. ~ ROBBER STABB WITHA HATPIN, His Pistol Knocked From His Hand by Two Women. * THEN BEATEN WITH AN UMBRELLA STICK. MISS HELEN DESMOND AND MRS. SALLIE DEEGAN GAVE A FOOT- PAD A SURPRISE. FORMER.IS A COUSIN OF THE CHIEF SLEUTH. Btxs. Deegan Is Emigrant Matron at Union Staticn—Exciting Experi- ence at Night on the Eigh- teenth Street Bridge. * Mra. Gallie Deég@an, Emigrant Matron of nion Station, and Miss .Helen Desmond, also employed there, had an exciting ex- perience with a highwayman late Friday night. Both women live at 1510 Papin street and were on their way home. On the Eighteenth street bridge they noticed a man following them. He was _ walking slowly. They quickened thelr pace. The strange man doubled his gait and overtook them as they were half way across the bridge. “Shell out your pocketbooks and be quick about it,’’ he gruffly commanded. “You'll have to excuse us, eir,’’ remarked Miss Desmond, véry coolly. “I’m hungry and must have money,” in- eisted the man, as he drew a revolver. Mise Desmond is an athletic young wo- man and has a muscle of steel, and her bravery equals her strength. She is a cousin of Chief of Detectives Desmond and has perhaps learned a thing or two from William in handling those who would act contrary to the community’s peace, When the “stick up” man displayed hie pistol, Miss Desmond promptly seized his hand and knocked the weapon to the ground. a) When he stoopéd to pick it up she be- labored him with her umbrella, while Mrs. Deegan pierced him with a hatpin. Thea robber auickly retaliated with his fists. He’ shot forth his left and put Mrs. Deegan off her feet. But it was just for an instant. The station matron arose and, inspired by her friend's courage, joined her in her brave defense. But when he freed himself and reached for his pistol a second time they beat a hasty retreat. They succeeded in dis- tancing the footpad, who seemed to have realized that he had made a mistake. The Eighteenth street bridge is poorly lighted at night and has long been a fruit- ful field for highwaymen. The man who so unsuccessfully attempt- ed to rob the two ladies was of medium bulld, and weighs probably 140 pounds. He wore a slouch hat, which was pulled down over his eyes. “I wasn't the least bit afraid,” said Miss Desmond. “You know all burglars and the like are cowards when it comes to dealing with women. Like a good many others perhaps he thought we were easy, but we fooled him sadly, and I guess he'll hesitate before he attempts to rob another woman. “But after all,”’ added Miss Desmond, “‘it Was nothing more than any others of our gex would have done under the circum- stances.” REMEMBERED THE PRESS Dr. Hoge Had the Newspapers In- formed That He Was Sinking. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 7.—Rev. Dr. Moses D. Hoge, the celebrated preacher, who died yesterday, was a great friend of newspapers. Almost his last thought was of them. When he realized that his condi- tion was growing worse he dictated the following item to his son-in-law and@ had it telephoned to the newspaper offices: "Dr. Hoge’s condition is much worse. He had a sinking spell yesterday and there ia little hope of his recovery.” IS HIM HE OR IS HE HIM? A Kansas Official Sues Himself for Failing to Pay Himself. Special to the Post-Dispatch. FORT SCOTT, Kan., Jan. 7.—County Treasurer David Jennings of Labette County, Kan., to-day instituted the most Unique lawsuit ever brought in Kansas, when he borought suit against himself and asked the court for a temporary injunction festraining himself from levying on his Own property for the collection of a special | tax which the city of Oswego had assessed | The court | Against his »usiness property. Granted a temporary injunction. It Is Qlieged in the petition that Mr. Jennings Made a tender of a certain amount of ‘Money to himself and refused to accept it, the suit against himself resulting. He charges that some of the City Councilmen |. of Oswego were influenced to order a brick | Walk tn front of his business block by a. the | their report will only show one or two, and commission which they received on brick. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR—WARMER. —— eee emer eee Missourl—Fair, warmer; southerly winds. Kansas—Partiy cloudy weather; warmer to east- * @f8 portion; southerly winds. Iadiena and Illinois—Fair, followed by increas- fing cloudiness; warmer: southerly winds. cloudy weather; The temperature has fallen in the Atlantic te and the lake agen it has risen from the * ' court, ie ae trom 10 to 6.0 within % | ois, | mother in the city of Versailles Mo.” paid the parents of the young man /| n 00 SEEK MISSING CHILD Disappearance of a Missouri Youngster Is Mysterious. ALL CITIZENS OF DE SOTO WILL JOIN IN THE HUNT. THERE ARE NO MINES, WELLS, PONDS OR WILD ANIMAIS IN THE VICINITY. THEORY OF KIDNAPPING IS NOT HELD PLAUSIBLE. Nevertheless, After a Week of Minute Examination of the Surrounding Territory No Trace of the Boy Has Been Found. Special to the Post-Dispatch. DESOTO, Mo., Jan. 7.—General wonder and worry prevails over’ the mysterious disappearance of the 3-year-old son of William McAfee, who lives on the western outskirts of this city, which occurred last Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The little fellow was with his father about haif a mile from his home and in company with an older brother, started to the house through a woods pasture. The older boy walked ahead, thinking his brother was following, but when he reached home he mis®ed him and seach was instituted. In a few hours fully 100 persons were out. Next morning, as the news spread, hun- dreds joined in and every day from 200 to 300 persons have gone over the territory for miles around and every possible place that the child could have fallen in has heen thoroughly searched. It is thought by some that the child was kidnapped, but as the parents are in poor circumstances and have no known enemies this theory is given little credence. The country is thickly settled and there are no wild animals of any kind that would carry the child away and no mines, wells, caverns or ponds of water into which the child could have fallen. Mr. McAfee, who is an old soldier, moved to this place two years ago from Min- nesota and bought the little place on which he now lives. The father and mother are prostrated with grief, having been out day and night in snow and sleet hunting for their child. They have issued a call for @ genera] turnout of the citizens and to- morrow fully 500 men from this city will join in a systematic search, added to by severa] hundred other persons from ad- joining towns. FREAKS GROW INDIGNANT. In Convention Assembled They Declare Against That Title. Special Cable to the Fost-Dispatch. Oopyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Company. LONDON, Jan. 7.—The advertising re- sources of Barnum’s Press Bureau, under the direction of ‘‘Tody’’ Hamilton, have never been more effectively displayed than in the accounts published in all the British press of an indignation meeting of freaks, presided over ty the bearded lady, to pro- test against ‘human curiosities being any longer termed ‘‘freaks.”’ A long repressed sense of wrong at the epithet by which the press and people of two continents have conspired to insult Annie Jones and her comrades found ex- pression in indignant protests in which the skeleton dude and the human pincushion warmly joined. They did not explain why the present is deemed a psychological mo- ment for a revolt, nor could they agree upon a term sufficiently comprehensive to cover all their peculiarities as a substitute for ‘‘freak.”’ Some suggested misfits, others, human curlosities and ebnormal phenomena, but the meeting ultimately adjourned until Monday without reaching a conclusion. The most amusing feature of the affair is the unsuspecting gravity with which this clever ruse hes been treated by 8¢v~ eral London papers. BRIBERY BY THE WHOLESALE, Chicago Juries Manipulated to Favor the Traction Companies. Bpectal to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—The traction compa- ‘nies are now charged with jury bribing of /an extraordinary character. and State’s Attorney Deneen says that he It is asserted, has the evidence that the bailiffs in the employ of the Circuit Court have for years “fixe” juries to return verdicts for trac- tion companies in personal-damage euits. James Lynch, a bailiff in Judge Clifford's Court. has been suspended and indicted. John Dwyer, a bailiff in Judge Hutchinson's has also been suspended. It Is claimed that the subtle influence of the companies extende over the Police Depart- ment to such an extent that although offi- cers have been known to take the names of a dozen or more witnesses to an accident, those only such as prove to be favorably inclined to the defendant company. Seven jurors in different cases say they have been offered bribes. TIN PLATE ADVANCES. Trust Has Raised Prices 30 Cents in Twenty-Four Hours, PITTSBURG, Pa., Jan. 7.—The tin plate combine has announced-an advance of 3% cents on each standard 100-pound box and the’ jobbers bave put up prices 80 cents, WAR TO Bt MADE MORE TERRIBLE, Bombs Exploded by the. Ac- tion of Light, AT ANY DISTANCE THE RAYS CAN BE THROWN. NEW USE OF ELECTRICITY DIS- COVERED BY SZCZEPANIK, AN AUSTRIAN INVENTOR. EXPERIMENTS PROVE THE WORTH OF THE DEVICE. -__-— Believes That Governments Using It Will Annihilate Their Enemies and That It Will Revo- lutionize Warfare. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Company. VIENNA, Jan. 7.—Ivan Szczepanik, a fa- mous Austrian inventor, described to a Post-Dispatch correspondent to-day his lat- est discovery, by which bombs can be ex- plode@ by the action of light on land or sea. which promises to reVolutionize war- fare. “In this matter I have only adapted the existing contrivances to my purpose,’’ said he. “There are certain inductors in which the electric current is released by the effect of light. When ultra violet rays are di- HUME RUINED BY MORMON, Frank 8. Lowe’s Experience With the Elders. THEY WON HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTER. TEMPTERS CLAIMED THAT THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE IN THE PRACTICE OF POLYGAMY. LIVED ON THE BOUNTY OF A DELUDED WOMAN. One St. Louis Man Tells How Agents of the Church of Latter Day Saints Broke Up His Home, and Those of Others. There is one man at least in St. Loulg who wishes with all his heart that Brigham Roberts may be sent back by Congress to his multiplied family responsibilities in Utah. He also wishes that all the Mormons in the land were far beyond the Northern seas or in some other inaccessible place, He is Frank S. Lowe. Through the influ- ence of Mormon elders he claims his family has been broken up and his wife and daughter spirited away to Utah. His re- sentment is the more keen because he took in the Mormons and fed and nourished them, and he says they turned and stung FAITH CURE KILLED HER, That Is What Pak Josephine Nedderhut’s Physician Says. THE DEAD WOMAN'S RELATIVES SAY SO TOO. RECOVERING WHEN MRS. JOHN APPEL TOLD HER TO QUIT TAKING MEDICINE. LISTENED TO A HEALER AND NOW SHE IS DEAD. Dr. William J. Pohrer and the Dead Woman’s Daughter-in-Law State Positively Christian Science Caused Her Death. “Christian Science found a victim in Mrs. Josephine Nedderhut of 3733 Olive street, who was buried yesterday,” is the allega- tion made by members of the dead wom- an’s family and by Dr. William J. Pohrer of 2838 California avenue, who attended her. “Throw the medicine out of the window; do not take another drop or another grain of it,”’ whispered a Christian Science priestess in the ear of Mrs. Nedderhut after medicines had drawn her back from the brink of the grave and she was on the — Au CE lc WE ™ > “Mes Mauo Lowe rected upon the cathode the spark flies, ani, by introducing this into a bomb an explo- gion must follow the release of the electric current. I can fire my bombs any distance electric light can reach, certainly three, perhaps five, miles. The bomb is provided with a small inductor or accumulator, into which the current is conducted in the usual way. Thus you lay bombs of any power across the line of march of an advancing enemy. When the latter reaches the place where the bombs are lald an electric light ia suddenly turned on them. Instantly an ex- plosion fdllows. Daylight or any but elec- tric light will not affect the bombs, as has been erroneously stated. “IT have also perfected a scheme for util- izing Marconi’s wireless telegraphy for ex- ploding bonrbs. In this case the inductor in the bomb its provided with a tube filled with metal chips which release the electric current when the electric undulations reach it. The advantage of this system over the other is that the electric current works upon the bombs Whether under ground or water the undulations would be directed upon the enemy, and when he reaches the place where the bombs are concealed these must adenine Wmnints and destroy him. It would be easy to follow the movements of the enemy's fleet by directing the undula- tions upon them when they reach that part of the sea where the mines are laid, which would then explode with devastating effect. Again, by employing an ordinary Selen cell for keeping the ends of the current apart daylight would make the bomb explode, but it is not practical to use the same in this. “There is another way which this dis- covery can be utilized with deadly effect. A wall of light would be directed upon the enemy's position and shelis provided with inductore being fired would explode on touching this tight so that every shell would be utilized and the difficuity of aim- ing surmounted.’ He then demonstrated all of these experi- ments in practice for the Post-Dispatch correspondent, using a miniature apparatus. He is convinced taat there is @ great fu- ture before this discovery. WED BY COMMON LAW. Objection of the Groom’s Parents Is Futile in Sedalia. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SEDALIA, Mo., Jan. 7.—After a fruit- less effort to secure @ license to marry, owing to the opposition of the groom’‘s parents, Newton Lewis and Mary E. Smith of Versailles, Morgan County, were mer- ried under the plan provided for common law marriages. At the home of the bride, in-the presence of numerous witnesses, the following contract was read and sub- scribed to and then placed on file in the Recorder's office: “We, Newton Lewis and Mery E. Smith, enter Into a solemn vow, so long a’ we both may live, to live together as man and wife and never part until death do us sever, in the presence of our God, and the undersigned witnesses and others here assembied et the residence of the bride's him by alienating his wife and daughter. Mr. Lowe lives in a house owned by him- self—1412 Papin etreet. Sitting at his desert- ed hearth last night he told, without the concealment of a detail or an attempt to shield himself, the story of the disruption of his household. ‘The 1st of last March,” he said, “there was not a family in St. Louis happier than mine. My wife and I were members of the Compton Heights Christian Church. My wife was a good Christian woman. She did |} what she thought was right in all things. She was given to research. Any new pre- sentation of real or professed religion en- listed her interest. “One day in March a young man camé to the door. He said he was a minister. My wife asked him to what church he be- longed. He said the Church of Latter Day Saints.—She did not understand. He said they were commonly called Mormons. “She invited him in. He talked about his religion. She asked him about polygamy. He sald it was no longer practiced. “When I came home in the evening she said che was almost persuaded to believe in the Mormon religion. I told her if I caught another Mormon in the house I would throw him out. She esaid she had invited the elder back, and asked me for her sake to treat him civilly. I promised. “Two days later he came again. He was Elder V. E. Candland. He talked plausibly. The next time he came he said the elders had to move from their quarters at Thirty- first and Locust streets to cheaper quar- ters. The first-floor front room of our house wae empty. He asked if they might occupy it. I refused, my wife pleaded, and I con- sented. “Three of them moved in—Candland, Ballard, and Christiansen. This was on March 12 last. Later they were joined by Stookey. ‘They held meetings in the rooms. My wife joined their church and gathered in congregations for them. She became so in- terested in the Mormons that she was in their room talking to them nearly all the time, “When Stookey came they asked for two rooms on the second floor. I at first re- fused and finally gave in. “On April 19 my wife was getting the rooms ready for their occupancy. She aske® me to help her. I would not. She said she would get Brother Candland to help her. I told her not to. “T went about my work. When I came in I went up stairs. I met my wife and Cand- land coming out of the back room hand in hand. “Tt said nothing, but went down stairs. My wife followed me. I asked her what that meant. She said they had been kneel- ing together, praying. “Yl forbade her having any conversation with any of the elders in the future. She promised she would not. Two days later I caught my wife and Candland talkitg earnestly of the stairs. When I came upon ont. nebet Foes mg | way to health, The physician stood by by and heard the injunction against his treat- ment, - “Choose between the science and drugs,” the priestess commanded. Mrs. Nedderhut chose to discard the treatment which had proved efficacious and confided her life to the other. The cause of death was blood poisoning, resulting ‘from Mrs. Nedderhut picking a pimple on her nose. Her sickness was of but few days’ dura- tion. When she became ill, Dr. Pohrer was summoned and prescribed for her. She took his medicines regularly until he pronounced her out of danger. Then followed the dra- matic meeting of the doctor and Mrs. John Appel, a Christian Scientist, in the sick chamber, which ig described by the doc- tor. From that time Mrs. Nedderhut declined to take medicine, it is said. She died next day. It is charged by the dead woman’s daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. Fred Nedderhut, that Mrs. Appel’s influence was all powerful the elder Mrs, Nedderhut, and that neither loving, persuasive methods nor efforts to command were effective against it. It is stated that Mrs. Appel was supreme in the Nedderhut house despite the com- bined efforts of the family. They could not dissuade her from the be- Hef which she cherished. She died tn great agony, refusing the alleviation of her suf. | fering that medicine promised and ap- parently satisfied that death could not be held off if Christian Science failed. Dr. Pohrer sald to a Post-Dispatch re- porter: about 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. Mrs, Nedderhut’s married son, Fred, called me up by telephone and asked me to come to eee his mother. I called there that evening and found her {n a very serious condition, She was suffering from a bad case of blood poisoning, which had developed from ery- sipelas. This had come from so slight a thing as a pimple on the left side of her nose. her blood, “When I saw Mrs. Nedderhut her face was terribly swollen. Her left eye was en- | tirely closed and her skin badly discolored. She had a strong fever, her temperature being 104, and ehe was delirious. I preacribed , for her, giving her medicine to take inter- | nally to allay the fever, and a lotion for ex- | ternal use. Mrs, Nedderhut’'s son and daughter and her son's wife were there at ,are known to be. the time. “Tl called again Thursday mornin and | " | mane and financial, that cannot be ignored. | found the patient greatly improved. Her | fever was almost entirely gone and the | swelling had diminished to an appreciable extent. out of danger and that if she followed my inetructions and took the medicine I would prescribe for her regularly, she would ~ cover. “While I was speaking to Mrs. Nedderhut, Mrs. Appel was standing near the bed, She aid hot seem to relish my vish, and when I had finished my instuctions about taking medicine she leaned over and whispered to Mrs. Nedderhut. with | could remain subjects of Spain and aliens "CAN MPKINLEY ANSWER THIS¢ = . a Ps je SS ee . * we 4 oa ‘ 5 P . ¥ és * STRONG FIGHT ON THE TREA \ Edmunds on Imperialism and Its Consequences. STATEMENT PREPARED | FOR THE POST-DISPATCH. ARE WE TO MAKE THE FILIPINOS CITIZENS, SUBJECTS OR SLAVES? BY ACT OF CESSION THEY WILL BE CITIZENS. Under the Constitution, Ratification of the Treaty Makes Every Former Subject of Spain an Amer- ican Citizen. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Ex-Senator E4- munds has, by request, prepared the fol- lowing statement for publication in the New York World and Post-Dispatch of his reasons for opposing the retention of the Philippine Islands by the United States. Mr. Edmunds while in the Senate took high rank as authority on international law, and was called to Washington by the President for the purpose of giving advice on the policy to be pursued at the time war with Spain was threatened. His views follow: “That the people of the Philippine Islands who were carrying on the rebellion against Spain in order to be free and Independent do not desire to be ‘annexed and to become a territorial dependency of the United States of any kind, and that they intend to resist annexation, appears to be indisputable, This will not be disputed by any intelligent per- son. What, then, in the present state of affairs, is to be done? “Are we to make war upon the people of the Philippines as Spain was doing, in order to subject them to our dominion? “This apparently we must do to make them a7] people whether ¢itizenhs, subjecte or slaves, of the United States. ‘To justify this ‘a decent respect to the opinions of mankind’ should compel our Government to state definitely the grounds upon which we make the attempt. We have assured the nations of the globe in the most eolemn manner possible that we made war not for conquest or extended dominion, but solely to set the people of Cuba free—of whom Congress declared that ‘They were and of right ought to be free and inde- pendent.’ “At that very time the Philippine rebe)- lion was stronger and: better organized than that of Cuba. Recent events have proved that the Philippine rebels are as capable of self-government as the people of Cuba. If we néw begin to conquer (as probably we can at last, although Spain has failed to do it after more than a century of effort), what shall we eay as to the motive of our conduct? “Can we be justified in forcing by the sword our perticular and excellent ideas of government, morality and religion upon these people, as Mahomet did in his re- ligious wars and as Spain did in her early operations on this continent? . ‘‘How will such of our bishops, priests and deacons and religious newspapers as have appeared to favor the scheme, find au- thority in the greatest and best of all books that have ever been given to munkind, the New Testament, for this new enter- prise now proposed for our Repwhblic? “All the peopl of these islands who were the subjects of Spwin will become citizens of the United States by the mere act of cession unless the treaty of cession should provide that those who wished as to the United States. This has been ae necessary rule of international law for hundreds of years. | “But a Republic can have no subjects. Its people must be either citizens, slaves or aliens. + |have | other citizens in the territories, ‘“T was first called into the case . She had scratched it and poisoned | T told Mra. Nedderhut that she was | how many American lives and how much |American treasure ought to be sacrificed United States they that belong to whether on the mainiand or in ishands of the sea. “Tf citizens of the all the rights 'Neither geography nor distance has any- thing to do with it. “In the territories Congress is left free to regulate, subject to the Constitution, the means of government according to its discretion. But fundamental and other privete rights are, and always have been as secure under and by force of the same Constitution in the Territories as in the States. The Constitution secures both, only by different methods of exertion. “Congress, therefore, cannot lawfully pre- vent the migration of any citizen residing ‘in the Philippines (and every Spanish sub- jet therein becomes one by force of the treaty), to our States any more than it ‘can lawfully prevent the migration of citi- zens of the States to the Philippines. It is not well. then, to ehut our eyes to dan- gers of this character that attend such ac- quisition of territories fully populated by such peoples as those of the Philippines ‘There are other considerations, both hu- If the people of the Philippines, both civ- lized and savage, must be subdued to our ‘Christian government by force of arma, to that end? “Rut we are confronted with both a con- dition and a theory. The executive has concluded a treaty by which Spain has eed- ed the sovereignty of the whole Philip- pine beasion of —_- Caucus of Anti-Imperialists © Will Be Held. SENATORS OF ALL PARTIES = INVITED TO ATTEND, PLAN 18S TO PREVENT PERMA NENT SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE PHILIPPINES. MASON’S RESOLUTION MAY BE AGREED TO. It Declares That the United States Wil Not Attempt to Govern People of Any Country Without Their Consent, = Special to the Post-Dispetch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The fight against > , 7 ¥ base aS. be ss Sa the ratification of the treaty of peace ip 4 on. A caucus of the opposition will be held some time next week, when a plan of cam- — paign will be mapped out. This was | upon to-day at a conference between tors Cafferey, Berry, James K. Jones, P. Jones, White, and Pasco. Ther of the caucus is, apart from planning ti campaign, to determine some to the treaty upon which the opposition es unite. The probabilities are that the sev- eral proposed amendments—the amendment, Hoar amendment, and Jones amendment—will merged into one which will have for # object the declaration that the UW States shall not assume permanent s0v- ereignty over the Philippine Islands. ~* The opposition caucus will not be a strictly — party affair Senators Mason, Pettigrew, Perkins, Hoar. and Hale, members of the — Opposite party, will be invited to partici ate and it is not doubted that they we. 0 80. Maine, where he was renominated by ace clamation In the face of his declared pur- pose to antagonize the treaty of peace, visited formed President McKinley of his intention of waging a bitter fight in favor of an amendment to the treaty. Senator Hoar, another anti-expansionist, also visited the that he could not expect his aseistance in the present Instance, The President pleaded with these men to get back into line and support the admin- istration’s ‘“‘close-the-war” policy, but they were impregnable to attack and came away more determined than ever to vote against the treaty. Senator Mason of Illinois, another oppe- nent of the treaty. told the President to-day that the commission will certainly en- counter rough eledding tn the Senate. Coming direct from the White House te the Senate. Mr. Mason made an effort te force the Administration's hand on the pole pines. He hastily prepared and tntroducea the following resolution, which went over until Tuesday when the author wil! address himself to tt. The resolution ts as follows? “Whereas, All just powers of rovernment are derived from the consent of the gov. erned, therefore, be it “Resolved by the Genate of the United States, That the Government of the United States of America will not attempt to g0ov- ern the people of any other country In the world without the consent of the people themselves or subject them hy force to our dominion against their will.” This resolution will prove dificult to eur. mount. If ever brought to a vote, it would undoubtedly be passed by a big majority, but as the friends of the administration will antagonize it by filibustering, if need be, it' does not seem lIikely that a vote can be had soon. Senator Magon has introduced his reso- lution as @ proposition separate and distinet from the peace treaty. It may be that it will be the amendment decided upon by the opposition caucus. Summing up the situation from the stand- point of an impartial observer, the Post- Dispatch correspondent believes the facts justify the statement that the prospects of amending the treaty or throwing it over beyond March 4 were never brighter. The opponents are firm in their determination that the treaty shall not pass as it came from the Peace Commission, and they will move heaven and earth, so to speak, te have it altered. PERILS OF THE PYRENEES. An American , Globo abees Nearly Loses His Life in a Chasm. Special Cable to the fost-Dispatech, Copyright, 1800, by I'rese Publisbing Company. PARIS, Jan 1?.—News has reached here that George Meivilie Boynton, an Amer- ican who was making a tour around the world afoot without money, nearly ended hie life in one of the passes of the Pyreneda, When benighted in the mountains he step- ped into a chasm and fell from a consid+ erable height. The iittle donkey bearing his luggage and provisions stopped just en the verge of the preeipicn. A donkey driver who passed the place shortly after- wards chanced to hear Boynten’s groans: and rescued him. He was seriousty tne. jured and was taken to Murilio. of which she had actual Fl wha "| White House and again told the President icy regarding the disposition of the Philip. — Senator Hale, who has just returned evita at a the White House to-day and in- ~~ * amendment, oe Crs * 4 “2 a yee - el ke a Sa ‘ a Pare eh = AES oes hip ee “= 6 ’ os a a. _" ) a aad y A atin! See me aes ie~ =. » ead A Fh Pe hen Sado fa ‘, oy Peis RS An ite ei eo ia we ae a ; ’ ee he We eg a EP OM Ge ae Sls, BF. RDS a Re 2a Og RI Mee tet gill Sat ami al: i me 4 ERs. 7 Ug. ee oe ai? 4 a? fae Te, . >) rn ae