St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 18, 1899

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Rhodea, long regarded as oie of the most success- ful operative builders in Philadelphia, has decainped, leaving behind unpaid debts anfounting to $1,00,000. His victims include poor as well as wealthy friends and rela- tives us well re business acquaintances, Women as well as men, and tradesmen in- numerable. His house has been closed for several weeks and be has succeeded in baffling the detectives, frequently visiting the city with- in the last fortnight, though warrants had been issued for his arrest, i‘hree of Khodes’ Victims parted witth more than $100,000, halt a dozen others loaned him from 9§4),uW00 to $40,400 each and a@ score are poorer by from 31V,0W to $20,000, The missing builder was well connected in this city. He and ex-Gov. Robert E. Pattison margied sisters. Mrs. Rhodes and chilaren are’ now staying at the residence Of ex-Gov. Pattison at Overbrook. Rhodes came into prominence 10 or 11 years ago and since then has built more tnan luv dwellings in tais city. tis buiid- ing operations have involved an outlay of several miilion dollars. He lived luxurious- ly and was reputed weaichy. Henry KR. Shock, a prominent builder who loaned Khodes $12,500, of which only $l4w Was repaid, said to-day: “I consider Rhoaes not a prince of Mars, but the king of that tribe. He was the smovothe-t and most plausible fellow that [ ever saw, It was because of my great con- fidence im him that I advanced him the morey, “But 1 am not alone, there were others who were caught just as neatly as my-ell. hie seems to have stuck everybody around here. There are two men who parted with at least $100,000, and a whole company of eople who gave up anywhere from 3iv,0w O $5,000, : “his: fellow is evidently a match for the | whole force of detectives; and gince his disappearance he is sald to have been in Philadelphia two or three times, and one -¢ a = ga he dodged no less than four détec- “At that time one officer shadowed my house, another watched the house in whica Rhodes formerly resided, another gtood in none ot ae Sens of my attorney and a 1 Watche : :@ ra ; rd el ad the house of Rnodes ‘I understand that he is now in New York, but that he is said to have been ata a Sa : roe city only a few days ago ere he registere i Witminerone tered as Wm. H. Groves of Rhoaes could tell the most astounding tales in a way that One could not doubt their truth, but they proved false just the Same, It has not been very long ago that he came tO Me and said that he had put Up $75,000 on a piece of property. He said that unless he could raise $12.50 promptly he Would lose the first named amount. , I loaned him the money and afterwards earned that the story was not true. He did pay back $1400 of that amount but that so ah ever returned tome. - ; nanner of Setting the money me was sensational. He told me that irl would advance it he would be willing to let is soul burn eternally, and his wife and children should come to want if he failed to return the sum in 48 hours. » Rhodes was the picture of oe Cenwried across the ca _ S. “ey he went on his knees to beg ome © money. I asked him if he meh gn rp security in writing, and he white uid, and I have it in black and et, that ae in which he resided is mine a mw did not prevent him from going apaeree pao and securing a loan of $1u. K00— mortga nt she had. saved—giving her a eno ohn On my house.. But he was slever “Wh ‘ tO get that mortgage back. eine he : levied on the furniture in his friend e had a bill of sale executed by a and ghtained tise it to a friend of mine wee and not ig Soods when they en I le; > I would spen ened of that 1 misery, and rpet in my house told him that d $100,000 to put hin an then he blandly told me that if thee ~e BO he would rreven furniture away t men from hauling the “I can not make ‘ public the ag nin cirone who have leah games enous a. eir misplaced confidence {in this set ne man, a wel] known woo] mer- . told me that his los y $125 000. S§ Was about _ “TIT have been informed Bingerly advanced $100,000. {the ry Seating de hy zo tee known in public life who - five dropped about $65,000, and I har’ heard, re inquished known firm of auc 1 about $5 tloners “ that the list of Rho several schoo] teachers. WADE A MILLION WITH Gage Broker Edward B. Talcott’ cess in Wall Speculation. - con- include des’ victims s Quick Suc- Street Special to the Post-Dis ’ -Dispatch NEW YORK, } an. 18—Edward B. Talcort @ Well-known y - Falcott, OUng broker, 40 vears oid.’ * tepe from Wall street last Saturday with 0 Which he hae made in the stock nd et since August 1 last. He went out ; nthe to rest for several months and will 6 0 return to active business. He ® membership on th : change however. etieomadis Mr. Talcott ha He says wb ans from the various eh he haa been identi ey de sufficient for all his purposes. h intimate friend of Mr. Talcott told ispatch reporter that the success- Oker made his million out of the rise nion . Pacific ¢ on and preferred; erred . urlington, People's slan nhandle and 8 taken his success calmly. interests with fled for years, that | , * , | Mr. Baye Catlin was seen at the “State va oT eS . ore, im a ‘eis ae ee WILL NOT SACRIFICE TREES FOR A RAILROAD. THEY OBSTRUCT THE VIEW. Riverman Who Claims the Trees Says the Railroad Must Pay Before Cutting Them Down. The engineers of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. will still have to keep a shary lookout when making the turn at the foot of Ferry street. At this point of the road the view of the track is obstructed by two trees, which make it impossible for the trainmen to see an engine approaching from an opposite di- rection. A collision may happen there any time. The directors of the St, Louis, Kansas City & Northwestern Raiiroad. as this branch of the C., B. & Q. is called, made an effort to have the trees removed, but the men ordered to cut them down were stopped by Henry Long, a riverman, who claims to own the property end trees. Long told the directors he would not allow the trees removed unlees the company bought the property on which they are. The com- pany had the city make measurements so as to determine the ownership of the prop- erty. As a result of the survey it Was an- nounced that the property which Long claims belongs to the Harbor and Wharf Department. The ralroad made applica- tion to Commisioner Stone of the Harbor Division for perm’‘gion to cut down the trees. and received his consent. Long still insists that the trees are his, and says he will make things warm for the persone who attempt to cut iem down. The trees not only obstruct th? track but block a switch. The switch is the property LONG WON'T GIVE IN, WEDNESDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—JANUARY 18, 1899 | RAGING FLUUD AT CLEVELAND Torrent of Water From a Break in a Dam. THIRTY LABORERS IN PERIL. ALL ESCAPED WITH NOT A MO- MENT TO SPARE. The Dam Was a Temporary Structure, Under Wilson Avenue Bridge, to Hold the Surface Water of Recent Rains. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 18.—About 1:15 this morning a dam under the Wilson avenue bridge gave way. Back of the dam was a body of water a mile and one-half long, hundreds of feet wide and in places 25 to 30 feet deep. The break in the dam has allowed torrents of water to pour down on the flats below it. Along the line whence the flood flows are the big plants of the Standard Oil Co., the Cleveland Paper Mills, the Flick slaughter house and other manu- facturing plants. There are but few peo- ple living in the track of the flood and these were all warned and have sought safety on higher ground. The cause of the flood is the recent heavy rains, the melting snow from the hillsides and a pond of several acres overflowing. phd - ¢ > _ ‘ VE " , > "5 _2 ‘ $4 f ay . :?. , ch. 2 * y ; Py rs . A“ i my 4 * 4 I Z 7s ’ - . a 3 ¢ ‘ “% ‘ fi . “prt 92 ss 7 Zz 3 . i at at rf fy a f, a 5%, A, ie - ; 7 et ‘ f fe ~ > . 4? . . — 3 + . ys QP y S > ‘ “AS were at the very brink at 10 o'clock. he earth ts slowly but surely giving way on all “ - ote* errific collapse of the earth on the aouth side of the dam, near the abutments, occurred early to-day carrying away 15 feet of earth, and carrying several telegraph po.es along with it. A few moments later the water undermined an embankment 180 feet high and 50 feet In area, sweeping it down with the raging flood. Shortly after 10 o'clock the sixth abut- ment of the big bdDridge gave way. The atructure sagg@ed, and then, with a tremen- dous report, snapped in two. About 19 feet of the bridge formed an incline plane to the ground. : At noon the water had fallen 12 fect tn the dam from its highest point, and it was then believed that the danger to the farc- tories in the lower valiey was practically MAMIE MINEON” HELD. ———— CLAIMS SHE STOLE TO FEED HER STARVING CHILDREN. DEFENDED -BY MISS BARBEE. Pathetic Side of a Case Which Resem- bled That of Catharine Campbell Except in the Result. The course the law took In the separate cases of Annie’ McKeon and Catharine Campbell, though both were arrested on similar charges, was so @ifferent that they bave attracted much comment. Mrs. Anna McKeon was a defendant be- fore Judge Willis Clark Wednesday on the charge of grand larceny; and was held to the grand jury tn a $500 bond. When Mrs. McKeon entered the court room she carried her 22-year-old baby girl in her arms. The woman is perhaps 3% years old and not physically strong. She d‘d not appear at her best, for her eyes were red from much weep!ng and she was so humiliated she could not hold up her head. Her eyes sought the carpet and pitiful little sobs broKe the silence occasion- allv. This woman might have been without counsel had not Miss Daisy Barbee, the woman attorney, volunteered to appear for her. Miss Barbee in compassion for the woman and moved by her condition sought to have Prosecutiag Attorney Clover enter a noile prosequi. Though the prosecut- ing witness, Charles C. Prescott, consented to this course the prosecution was insisted upon. Mr. Prescott of 5564 Vernon avenue was put on the stand, He told how Mrs. Mc- Keon came to his home on Dec. 28 and ap- plied for a position as domestic. On the 6ame night she disappeared. At the same time some of his wife’s wearing apparel, some bed clothes and catables also dis- appeared. He reported the facts to the po- lice and had them search Mre. McKeon’s home at 5852 Wells avenue. On the stand, in response to a question propounded by Miss Barbee, Mr. Prescott said that in view of the fact that Mrs. McKeon had three children he did not care to prose- cute. Patrolmen Cooney and Davis testified. “I went to the McKeon home and searched the premises,”’ said Cooney. “I found the property described by Mr. Prescott. I searched carefully but faund no food gave that which had been taken Prescott’s home. There e no ve and the furniture was ree. }no duel that I could see’. Miss Barbee did not put her client on the stand. Mrs. McKeon had already admitted to the police that she took the property. She said her children were at home starv- ing and she did it for their sake. When Judge Clark announced that all he could do was to hold her to the grand jury the woman turned about in despair and walked back to the cage. She did not cry aloud, nor make any scene. She said not a word. Attorney Simon Bass approached Miss Barbee and offered to go on her bond. The offer was accepted. ut when this was done only part of a perplexing problem was solved. Mrs. McKeon has no home. She is in such a condition she cannot work. What will become of her pending the ac- tion of the grand jury is the problem now puzzling Miss Barbee. Mr. Prescott said before he left the Four Courts that the finding of the court was just. The woman was unquestionably guilty. The pathetic part, he said, was that three children would be made to suffer, perhaps more than the mother. BURGLARS’ BLOCK AND TACKLE New Style of Kit Adopted by Thieves Operating in a Mis- souri Town. ré was INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Jan. 18.—Bur- glars tried to rob the Chrisman-Sawyer Bank in Independence last night, but with no success, They used a block and tackle to enter the building. Despite these most unusual proceedings and efforts, they falled to get anywhere near the money and the only thing they got for their pains was the knowledge of the vault’s security. Efforts to break the safe in the blacksmith shop of Robert Wilson were as futile. The attempt on the Chrisman-Sawyer Bank, the largest in Independence, was as unique as it was unsuccessful, The bank is on the southwest corner of the square, in the full glare of an electric light. The vault is in the rear of the first floor bank- ing room, is built of steel and concrete, and extends from the basement to the second floor. The burglars tried to break into it from the top by cutting through the floor and drilling through the four feet of concrete to the steel ceiling. Instead of going up the stairway to the second story, however, the burglars rigged up a block and tackle, and one wee hoisted to a win- dow, about 15 feet up, which window he broke and entd¢red, and then he evidently hauled up his companions. Why all this trouble, with a stairway just at hand, with much less chance for discovery, is incon- ceivable. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR—WARMER. lor St. Louis and vicinity: Fair Wednesday and Thursday; colder Wednesday; warmer Thursday. For Missour!—Fair Wednesday night and Thurs- day; warmer extreibe west portion to-olghbt; warmer Thursday. For Illinoils—Generally fair Wednesday night and Thursday; warmer Thursday. The rivers in this section will cbanges. The temperature fell in nearly all sections ex- cept the Northwest, where it rose decidedly since Tuesday morning. show elight Sun and Moon. Sun rises at 7:16. Sun sets at 5:07. Moon sets at 12:07 a. m. Post-Dispatch Thermometer. In Other Cities at 7 a. m. ow York...-..--« rr cur eee ewe aa A one oe os ew UT ni, Phot 2 vrneeewwes ag Ma eTpBE ” 4 s. jf on* e i Bis %y. a oa FELL WITH A SCAFFOLD. Two Painters Seriously Hurt While at Work. ANDREAS ROTH -MAY OIE. HE RECEIVED SEVERE INTERNAL INJURIES. E. A. Strickland Cut and Bruised— They Were Repainting a Dwell- ing House on Wash Street. Ed Strickland of 443 Hunt avenue, pain- ters, fell from a scaffoid at Twenty-eight and Wash streets Wednesday afternoon. Roth was seriously hurt internally. Strick- land was bruised and cut. Both men were taken to the City Hos- pital. The men were at work in a dwelling house at 2718 Wash street. The fall was from the height of the second story. AGAIN BECAME CRAZY, WOMAN WHO WAS WITH THE DUESTROW HOUSEHOLD. Miss Rose Sadttele of 2824 Missouri av- enue was taken into custody by the police Wednesday on complaint of her brother, August Sadttele of 2312 Pestalozzi street. She was the servant of Arthur Duestrow, at whose trial for murder she wae not per- mitted to testify on account of her mental condition. Miss Sadttele lives with her stepfather, John Weick. According to the police she was once confined in St. Vincent's Asylum. Tuesday night she suddenly became in- eanhe, and attacked her. stepfather with a r of scissors. Mr. Weick, who was sick n bed, was umahie to defend himself, and might have been injured but for the inter- ee of another ee the —. e young woman was taken to the bo of her brother August for eafé-keep'ing. Sher became mdaritacal a and t up her brother's 4-year-old son, Fr je, saying she would put him in the stove. The child was taken from her before she had time to execute her threat. Wednesday morning she wae left alone a few minutes; and seized the opportunity to escape. She stole stealthily through the kitchen and took an ax from the woodshed. With this she went down the street. She was tearing her clothes and wielding the ax when two policemen captured her. he was taken to the City Hospital, where she is held for observation. CHILDREN ATTACKED BY RATS. Little Fannie and Louis Boeckheigel Seriously Injured While in Their Own Home. Rats attacked two small children in a South Broadway home Wednesday and in- jured them seriously. Fannie and Louis Boeckhelgel, children of a baker at 1733 South Ninth street, were the victims. But for the timely assistance of their father they might have fallen easy prey to the rodents. The children, who are two years and one vear old respectively, were seated on the floor at play in a room adjoining the ba- kery. Their mother was upstairs at- tending to her household duties and their father was in the store, Mr Baeckheigel heard a succession of piercing screams from the room where his children had been laughing in glee a few inutes before. What he saw terrified him. Half a dozen large rats were crawling over and around the children biting at their faces and ehubby arms and legs. He rushed into the frighten the rats away by stamping the floor, but they_ were undisturbed, finally beat them off with a broom, Dr. Ehrlich found that Fannie had been hitten three times on the face and once on the arm. Little Louls was bitten on the face and legs. The wounds were cauter- ized. Dr, Ehrlich says they may not prove serious unless blood poisoning sets In. He fears, however, that the little ones will be disfigured for life. The rodents were sewer rats of the larg- est and most aggressive kind. ———E } LOST IN ARKANSAS WOODS. ‘Philip Faudi of St. Louis Became Sep- aratei From His Com- panions., of Philip Faudl of 249 South Second street, who were hunting with him in Arkansas aleng the White River, re- port that he became separated from them in the woods and as a result Peter Faudl, his son, left Thursday for De Witt, Ark.. to see whether he could find any traces of his father : George Andrews, a drummer for the Ex- eelsior Brewery, brought the story of the disappearance, which took place on Jan. &%. John Rinkel and Geo. Marks of North §t. Louis were in the party. FAGAN COURT NOT SELECTED, The War Department Looking for Of- ficers of Proper Rank to Compose It, room and tried to on He Comradee WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—It was stated at the War Department that no announce- ment would be made to-day of the detail for the court-martial in the case of Cogm- missary General Eagan. It is Hkely that the Department is in telegraphic corres. pondence with a number of officers of high rank who as Mere gy 4 u Nicholas Roth of 4045 Hunt avenue and | Kkriow nething of the reported deal. PAUL JONES” SIGHTED YACHT THOUGHT TO BE GROUND- ED NEAR HORN ISLAND. PASSENGERS MAY BE. SAFE. Harbor Master at Scranton, Miss., Be- lieves He Has Located the Missing Vessel. MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 18.—A spé@cial to the Item from Scranton, Miss., says: “The Harbor Master reports having seen a yacht answering the description of the Paul Jones anchored off Horn Island Pass Jan. 11. The weather was very foggy that day and the pilot thinks she is grounded east of Horn Island. STREET RAILWAY SYNDICATE All the Local Lines Except the Sub- urban Passing Into the Hands of Eastern Capitalists. New York financiers are credited wits having secured options the effect of which will be the merging of all the street car systems of St. Louls except the Suburban line in one syndicate. Brown Brothers, the bankers, who paid $8,000,000 for the Lindell Railway, were the organizers of this gigantic deal by which, ro a story in brokers’ circles runs, the Lin- dell, Missouri, Hamilton and Southern Elec- tric lines are consolidated. For several weeks the negotiations have been in prog- ress. They were begun by wire and cor- respondence, but a week ago Eastern capi- talists arrived in St. Louis and since then conferences have been held daily. On Saturday €. H. Spencer and Walter Orthwein gave an option on the Southern Electric Railway. Then, it is said, John Scullin relinquished control of his prop- erties, yielding to tempting offers. Hithérto he had held back because he could not bring the Easterners around to his figures. His persistency won in the end. President Charles H. Turner of the Sub- urban and the syndicate have not come to terms. The Central Traction Co.’s franchise, un- der which street cars can be operated over all existing lines, has been secured by those interested in this syndicate, and the grip on the city’s-transportation facilities is teen oatiete ot the lines irsist pet hes will not even admit that an option has been secured. ANDTHE CAT WAS FOUND DEAD She Had Been Locked Up Over Night With Eagan’s Embalmed Army Beef. -_o Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. : NEWPORT, R. IL, Jan. 18.—‘‘The em- balmed beef’ controversy im the army re- calls the sickness in the Fourth Artillery, which returned early last fall to Fort dams ym Santiago. Oe eae after their arrival at Fort Adams the battery mess, W46 served with canned roast beef, and within four hours about fifty members were either under treatment at the post —- or had been supplied with an antidote. teen of the canned beef was made at the post hospital by confining a cat over night with a good sized vwortion of the beef which had made «60 many of the men ill. -The next morning the cat, which had eaten some of the meat, Waé dead. HIS BRIDE A GENTILE. Harry A. Cohen Surprises the Hebrew Society of Sedalia. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SEDALIA, Mo.. Jan. 18.—The Hebrews of Sedalia are not a little agitated to-day over the marriage of one of their number last right toa Gentile. The groom is Harry A. Cohen. Jr.. member of the Cohen Coal ("o., while his bride is Miss Zidda A. Keaton, who was raised in the Baptist Church, The wedding was a complete surpree and not until after the ceremony had been per- formed by the Rev. J. 8. Bitler, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, were the relatives of the contracting parties aware that the step was contemplated. MORE COMPLICATED EVERY DAY Republican Senate Will Not Recognize the West Virginia House. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 15 The Howse attempted to notify. the Senate of its organization to-day, but the upper body without recognizing the House committee. The Governor still lenores the House organization and has sent in neo communications whatever, Republican deputations talk of making an organiga- tion of their own and appealing to the Governor for recognition unless the Demo- erats accede to their demands that the two Republican in the House Sate CEPEW’S ELECTION RATIFIED. Vote of the New York Legislature in Joint Session. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan.. 18.—The Senate and Aasembly ir joint seasion to-day for- mally declared Chauncey M. Depew the successor of Hon. Edward Murphy. Jr.. as the representative of the State of New York in the United States Senate for a term of six years adjourned COnNLES Lees Bill Introduced to Limit the Charge to Two and a Half Cents. Representative John W. Smith of &t. Louts introduced into the Missourlt Leste lature Wednesday morning a bill ing street railways to charge not more than 2% cents for one continuous passage. COCKRELL’S ELECTION. FOUR BANDITS PAID A TOWN, 4 ee £ a® aw Te - ey - > é ; cS — es i. = be F ns * a xe ae 53 » . q “0 m5 eet 2 g ‘i ro) Successors to the Notorious Mose Miller Band. INTO VIAN, THE SAFES OF TWO LEADING STORES BLOWN OPEN. ROBBERS RIDE — 7 Joint Session Ratifies the Votes Re- W. Jones was to-day ineugurated Governct®, corded \ esterday. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. —At noon ~~ - Pe ee ee Bs th F | a sccond time in the presence of the | ral Assembly t orats & ‘ as ‘ . + + '« en a> @ 4 4 . a —— 3 mp , 5 Pi “a as ses