St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 27, 1899

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NEW Was the reply received from and newsboys by many persons yesterday ne wsdealers seeking a copy of the Sunday Post-Dis- patch. Order eariy this week to avoid THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH | 4 er" > THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. SWORN AVERAGE CIRCULA TION FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR OF 1898S—SUNDAY, 107,200; DAILY, 93,537. aye 7 it Brad ’ ics 33 A Bee - - , Z * COMPLETR MARKET kEroRTa. Many of the newsdealers and Ee VOL, 50, NO. 196. ~ MONDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—FEBRUARY 27, 1899 | PRICE} in St. Louis, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. were sold out of Sunday Post-Dispatches by 11 o'clock yesterday was # “ ~ disappointment n_ Hex be ys & be retin ap fur: Sd eed fier bz “, bp eae a . more of the Gambile-Smith box-car party from Cairo. The negroes at quarantine hospital have severe attacks Of the disease, said Dr. Jor- dan Monday morning. Little Brackenridge Clemens, who was removed from his mother’s apartments in the Hotel Beers, last Tuesday, is improving as rapidly as could be expected. A big ambulance driver its stationed at main entrance to the Dispensary to keep clearly developed cases from wandering in. Each person as meget himself for treat- ment is carefully scrutinized by the sen- try. If there are no signs of smallpox he is allowed to go in. If the case looks at all doubtful he is sent upstairs to. the isolation ward to be examined. Some of the doctors who are out vacci- 22.000 85,080 3,410 20.000 500,000 2%), 200 15,600 26,540 26,040 17.080 22. 700 *. Anguste Chouteau Willam §& Albert G. E Elizabeth “T.. Eliza RK. Patrick Devlin George IR. Jackson Sol Levy William Cc. William Schroeder William Schreiber John W. Denning . J. Flnegger MeKittrick Sells Jacob Wuertenbaecher Walter Schefer William W. John TD. Perr nating the citizens are having all kinds of hard time. Dr. Hughes went into a coal "the day's storm wrought great damage in this | locality. The terrific rain, causing the sud- Ind., Feb, 27.—The experi- | ‘sudden change in. its history, rising 16 feet farming land is under from one to five feet of water, stretching for miles on either | side, LONDON, Feb. 27.~It is runiored that. RR RE es ¢ oe 5 ' er in aa 4 mJ : ‘ c as ee es a ie. dl wa eee if ’ Pa Ry af | | ay Ae ery " Ret the . yard on Biddle st. Sunday afternoon and. told five men that he was going to vacci- | nate them. When the doctor looked up | from unpacking his Httle black handsatchel | he found the five men had unpacked their pistol pockets. With the nozzles of the guns pointed at the doctor they told him to ‘gret.”’ The doctor “got,” but he soon re- turned with two policemen, and then he had the pleasure of vaccinating all five, and he didn’t go very lightly about it, either. Dr. Vogel set up a temporary vaccination bureau in a barrel house at Eleventh and Morgan sts. ‘Monday morning. Two of the biggest policemen on the force stood out- side and beguiled everybody who came along to enter. “hen they entered two other big policemen coaxed them, after the usual persausivé manner of big policemen, to be vaccinated. ‘ One colored amazon hit upon the sanitary proceedings as an instrument of sweet re- venge. She went up and down the street, and into the byways and hedges under pre- tense of burying the hatchet with any of her old rivals and enemies. After making friends she would propose going down to barrel house to cement the newly- mended ties with a tumblerof whisky. Dr. | Vogel did the rest after she had “steered” | them inside, while she had the cruelty to sit on the door step and jeer at her victims. LARGE TRACTS UNDER WATER All Waterways in ‘Western Tllinois in a State of Flood and the Farmers’ Losses Will Be Large. Special to the Post-Dispatch, HDWARDSVILLE, Il., Feb. 27.—Satur- | den melting of one of the heaviest snows ef the winter, has placed all the creeks and small streams in the country in a state of freshet. Cahokia Creek made the most in & hours. From Carpenter to Poag the The new Water Works dike below this place and 4 number of smalier levees were cut by the water, the flood rushing over thousands of acres of seeded ground, entailing the partial or total loss of crops. Rallway roadbeds were imperiled and gangs of men were Out all last night patrolling the tracks. A‘ Nitsche's bridge, above here the water rose to within a few inches ~. the Wabash rails, a height never before at- tained. The total loses to farm property cannot be estimated ALARM FOR MRS. LOGAN. Second Attack of Grip Has Rendered | Edwina John Charies FE. | Jowepbine Koenigsberg .... Edward W. Mary E. Charles A Barbara Fink Minnie Kerksieck Marty atzold Wm. » Creswhite Geo. F. Sidney R. DeOourcey BK. Heury Buehler Peter Siemers August F. Zelle Octavius Lamaghi Will'am Stroh Punice D. Pattee Marv A. 8 Lindsley. ... —————— ROLAND B. MOLINEAUX. The identification of Molineaux by Heck-, man was dramatic. After the testifying to his business and | that he had rented a letter box for one) month to a man who hwo given the name of H. C. Barnet and that this man had calied for letters about sixteen or twenty times. Mr. Osborne asked the witness: ‘Could you recognize him again?’’, “Yes,” said Heckman. “Who is he?’ Hieckman answered: There he is.” Molineaux heard the Accusation without changing color or a trace of agitation. He demanded Mr. Osborne. “Mr. Molineaux. Angusta Holtkamp Peter Obernier John Haas Oo Jshbn ©. TMemever 5.00 Tun | Ciaus Vietha Bo Frank H. Jonun © a Marianne Bauman Thomas Howard Ke ; Philip Hartman 500 | Silvester Gaeng eo eee Herman C. WG. Hugh Rogers James Lupe Frederick Nitehans Anton Griesedieck John A... Kieselhorat George W. Updike .. “~~ on“), Luyties.... 'Gerbard Henry Elbrec Frederick W. Gronemar.. ‘Jemima Lindell 'Marie Schennuit Daniel R. Garrison T. Howard Fdward Brede}l! Sarah E. DPD. P. Sta Susan Elizabeth Spear Stephen Glass James F. Julla A ‘lizabeth : ajnadet-"s room. he was moved into the bedroom ya ll a ee z Bie ay a sill Z : THE ARMY BILL: PASSER a “2 1° ea rues Lower House of ¢ WASHINGTON, FOB. Pini . be * * 7 . 2% -r a“ a. é , 2 ree ? re 2, F ds fe. exis ‘ . ‘ " > = «A et ey 3