St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 5, 1899

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WANTS. | est eshic the month ee March a pg nvm P RICE} tN ag p mn nf of the Mi bm a March, 1897, to 103,03 arch, 1899, SUNDAY CliaCULATION. ot oN ae 34,000 New Subscribers added in two | = years. 53 per cerit gain at 5 cents per copy. grows.) WEDNESDAY EVENING—ST, LOUIS—APRIL 5, 1899 MS re wihhe Mp? oe © _ . ee ae 3 Ro ' ail 4 at A 4 an ¥ mat to eee a ‘: ae. 3 abe dy - ’ , - awa 4 : ae (No reduced price ——— APIUIM SOLD HAS AGUINALDO ANIAC IN AN ELECTRIC CAR, VEAN CASE; = IN Tht Pe) LOST CONTROLS —_- ard Clegg Struggled Mad-/ gt, Louis Postal Officers Have | Remarkable Story Teld by an} Rnmor That the Leader Has ANOTHER RS ly With Five Men. Another Puzzle. Ex-Convict. Been Turned Down. — — oe ee et ee ee Pe re a ‘ oe ee ee eee ~ Se - e ———— a ee ee ee RESEMBLES THE ——————s { % a a ” = we s + ihe * ‘ aN b4 * be » * Ne OF A CHINAMAR, _ £ pain Celestial’s Body Found Under an Oil Tank. FOR ZIEGENHEIN PART.|GEN. LUNA IN ~ POWER. THE HIGHBINDERS SUSPECTED, | /ANTED TO KILL HIMSELF.) THis TIME AT SPRINGFIELD.|SUBSTANTIATED IN THE MANACLES ON HIS | cHicaGo EXPERT ON HANDWRIT- | HIS APPEARANCE HE PRESENTS | THIS OFFICER IS SAID TO BE A WRISTS AS WBHAPONS. ING SUMMONED. AS PROOF. TYPICAL BELLIGERENT. — —_______. ‘ HE IS SUPPOSED TO HAVEBEENA CHRISTIAN. ee Police Theory Is That Some Sect 5 Chinamen Killed Their Fellow Because They Thought He | Was an Informer. _ Louis Man Who Was Being | school Director Watson Charged by | Dennis McCabe Says He Became &/| Fear at Manila That the Commission’s to Belleville to Be Pro- Indictment With Having Sent Slave to Narcotics Through the Proclamation Will Not Be Per- need Insane Gave His Annoying Letters to Miss Easy Means of Procuring mitted to Reach the Fil- Guards a Battle. Looney, School Teacher. the Drug. ipino People, a » Three boys. found the dead body of @& Chinaman under a Waters-Pierce Oil Come | Pany's tank at Thirteenth’ and Gratiot streets shortly before noon Wednesday. The Chinaman’s head had been battered sichard Clegg of East St. Louis tried to] Tne postoffice officials of St. Louis are Dennis McCabe, a two-term ex-convict, MANILA, April 5, 6:30 p. m.—There are commit suicide on a crowded Suburban! pusily engaged trying to unravel an anony-|has told the physicians at the City Hos- | persistent rumors to-day that Aguinaldo,the electric car, between Belleville and East! mous letter-writing case in Southwest Mis-;| pital that opium, morphine, cocaine and | insurgent. leader. has been Supplanted in St. Louls Tuesday. souri, which in many respects rivals thatjlaudanum are openly peddled to prisoners |the control of Filipino affairs by Gen, An- Five men found it difficult to keep him/ of Mrs. MceVean. Chief Inspector Dice as-jin the Missouri State Penitentiary. Mc- ' tonio Luna, Commander-in-Chief of the Fil- ' from throwing himself out of a window or | signed Inspector Williams to inquire into, Cabe’s allegations, the hospital physicians ipino forces. Luna is described as being a sors bed heen ae butting his brains out against a trolley | the facts, and the Jatter has developed a think, are partially substantiated by the typical belligerent. A, ; : | work had been done. > gh | ERO The police confess they are all at sea pols. remarkable series of facts which will prob- Supervisor John Wheeler of East St. Louis ably be heard from the witness stand this was taking Clegg to Belleville to have his! week jn the Federal Court at Springfield, mental state pussed upon in the County! Mo., where the case is set for trial. Court. Clegg had been very violent of late,| J. F, Watson, a school director of Law- and knowing that Wheeler would not be! rence County, is the nominal defendant, able to contro! him if he becume excited, having been indicted several weeks azo. the demented man’s father and two-broth-, 7e¢ indictment charges him. with writing ers and another man went along with him. When the parity got on the car at East Bt. Louis Clege was docile and sat quietly until the car Was speeding across the bot- tome Lke a railroad train Suddenly it Seemed to dawn on Clegg | that be was being taken to an asyium. | With a shriek he sprang up and threw himself nearly through «a window, which | had been opened to humor one of his whims. As he was going through the window Wheeler and the other men & tzed his legs. His body was entirely out of the window. The car was running at the rate of 25 miles an hour, The maniac kicked and gshrieked and tried to swing himself out, so that his head would strike the tro.ley boles set close to the track. Finally, when the speed of the ear had @lackened, the five men succeeded in drag- « Clegg back through the. windon. Then ° Was ® desperate strug@): in the car, aniac fighting with the «strength and a denon. * Unally overpowered and forced nm @ seat and mannled. That be not altogether a Wise move. fought desperately with his man- ds, and the handcuf’s imade his re eae ‘ , J, sh) Suave ira@ntuc effort w 4ct ome of the ° on Tew car he plunged hls manacled hands through _ MISS ‘' me LOONEY. ane of the large window panes (from a sketch mde at Springfield, Mo., He finally succumbed througn sheer ex- Tuesday for the Post-Dispatch.) eg lly held down the rest of the annoying: otters t Miss Sue Looney, dis- : ; ct school Ww. > oO aawrence County. whe car was filled with passengers, Many The character of: mt letters prevent their f whom were ladies, and these were panic- : tricken, but nobody was hurt. 4+ 9 auth _ » . ‘ y ae P . ~ of unesand onty Court Cleese was declared o¢ such importance that Prof. J. H. Tol- H Ww -*, Res man of Chicago, who\ has figured in numer- ugo angelin, and will De taken to the : ’ ~ , ; asylum at Anna ous criminal cases ag an expert in detect- . ing handwriting, ge ae employed to ap- pear at Springfield when the case comes to ORINCESS SAL SALM Wi BO trial, which will be Within the next two » NN days. | Inspectors McAfee, Williams and Sullivan E> of St. Louis are in Springfield to push the Widow of the Titled Austrian Who | Prosecvt.on. 4 ; Although Mr. Watson\is well advanced in * Fought in the Civilian War Has years and is the fath)pr of a family, it will be hinted in the yjfrosecution that he Arrived at New York. was in love~with the schbolma’am; that her failure to reciprocate hig affection imbued . ; . — euere 4 him with a spirit of revpnge, and that he NEW YORK, April 5.—The Princess Salm- | wrote the unpleasant let@ers to annoy her. Balm of Bonn, Germany, arrived on the If Miss Looney believés this about Mr. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, is to spend two | Watson, she doesn’t say it. She knows she , was humiliated by the ‘ceipt of anony- months in this country, most of the time at | mous letters, and that cael dentinued to re. the home of her brother-in-law, Co}, Eds | osive them for a long while, but she fs not mund Johnson at Vineland, N. J. They ee to say she belleves Mr. Watson ulity. . Princess has not been in this country for | a fact, it is predicted that the startling many years, Wille here she will visit Wagsh- | feature of the case is yet to come—that ie, ington, where a reception will be given in | the tntroduction of proof on the part of the her honor by Mrs. Chamberlain. rities regard the case Constantine Alexander John Nepomucene | prominent citizen of Lawrence County, Saim-Saim of Anhait, whe came to this | Whose name does not now appear on the country and fought on the Union side dur- | official records, although it is quite freely ing the war. He became a Hrigadier Gen- | handed about in the current gessip of the eral and his wite, fof her services in be case. half of the Union soldier, was commis- That the wirter of the letters was in love sioned a Captain by viov. Yates of Iilinovis. |}With the interesting young school teacher, She received the pay of the rank, but gave | there seems to be no doubt, for through the it for the relief of sick and wounded sol- |missives the observant reader can detect Giers. Her husband subsequentiy went to | @_strain of jealousy. Mexico and became chief of staff to Maxi- It is related by the defense that the prom. milian. He lost his life in the Franco- |inent citizen whose name has not yet been Prussian War. For efforts to save the life |taken up by the Federal authorities, once of Maximilian the Princess was granted |met Miss Looney in the road near the eg by the Avwstrian bEmpero: jschoo!l house where she was a teacher and ‘he Princess brings with her three flags ‘begged her to marry hien. She declined. of the old Sixty-eighth New York Vojyun. | Soon thereafter she commenced receiving Seers which were presented jo her husband | the letters, and they Kept coming for a and which will be @iven to the veterans of | Year or more or as long as she remained in KXiy-eighth, She has aiso three flags “slonged to/the bighth New York “ORV OW! whidgA her husband was for i'when this case had its origin. While Miss ;}Leoney was teacher of the school, Mr. Wat \ivnel. These she it} son Was one of the district d.rectors and a e she will retur , a wimeéni. me SO served the board as clerk. Miss Looney confided to friends about the letters she was receiving. She was advised to consult TRAVEL | the postmaster That offi ial tried td solve , 4 the mystery, but failed. Through him the a case reached the office of the chief post- | i office inspector In St. Louis. ip * : spent much time in following clews. At last ke Their Way From Kansas he caused a great surprise in the nelighbor- to hood of Miss Looney’s school house by ar- Maryland. resting Director Watson. Soon after that 7\i omens Miss Looney left there. She has passe USTA, Me., April 6.—Charles Rob- much of her time in Springfield .and is well $ years old, hi and favorably known there. Of late she ' ; ; 5 Wile and three chil. has been teaching s hoo! in the In lian Ter- save arrived here, after having made (ritory, but went to Springfield at the open- way from Clay City, Kan., over 1500 Ing of the Federal] Court. ; HN miles of t) ane over sirce his arrest, Mr. Watson has d on foot Sire Fee having been | peen before every session of the Federal IOMAS twins rs. hoverts is 63; John Court, anxious for trial, he claime, but thefe ier father ar os ene Jeane fm 38. has always been some reason for contin- eir. backs _ = Udren carry pacKS vance on tne part of the government. This s, bedaing a wen =6contain § cooking time, Major William Warner, District At- : hake - oat BOC ClO Aitag, rail torney, proen ises Mr. Watson that the case iw vatl ¢ cone OF farming, they shall be disposed of. « ' . : i they were as poor et M . At Stuy +] want to go to trial at once,” says mn being ji) | » two of the! Mir, Watson, “for Iam tired of being drag- ; and Robe! ts found fiat ' wed here to eourt term after erm. I id nat Anish the Journeys y raiiroad, know who wrote those letters to Miss L,00- | and so does every one else who lIives aD «initia , OLD ON TRE KASKASKIA. in my neighborhood. It was a mystery at! first, but the secret Was given away’ by a, } sent to us by friends on the outside. sof Dirt From Near Shelbyville | 8°" of the man who did the writing. He be- Run $6.7 to the Ton. ABY VILLE, i, : Air! > ol in fact Ben We 2 o y, and the brothera **] ahall have no trouble in proving myself nave Teceive} ireturns of assays of linnacent. 1 would have been cleared o ken from the ankse of the K askase | this long ago had I been permitted to go to ere 0 NOWS near Sheibybille whien trial. I bave known Miss Looney a long hat the sample contained KO while, and 1 regard her as a most estimabia ve OF S670 per-ton, and wii! ‘young woman. Of course I bave scme feel- > per ton o mine. A companys ing in thie matter. What man could avaid to Khown as the Shelowetite | feeling, tf he suffered such a base calumny and ‘cling Co.. whick will at} @8 has been thrust upon me?" gin © Of OF AN eXtensive scale Mise Looney declines to discuss the case -— statement concerning the letters which. upon investigation, we found to be founded aint GF. She is greatiy grieved because she has; been brought Into undesirable publicity anc oldiers in ¢ f n Cube ie reserving her statement until she is . om- pelled to make it in court. " The purpose tn brineing forward the ex- 3 ‘hit, K ters on ved by Afog to exbibit cens rece Looney | alongs o ‘ kept r W ‘ when h , ves was “clerk fo a em id of , ‘fact that he is a physical wreck from the use of narcotics,” when he was discharged from the Penitentiary only last Friday. The convict charges that the drugs men- tioned are furnished by certain guards to a few favored prisoners, and that the latter extort enormous prices from the drug’s ‘Victims, and divide the profits with the fuards.and petty foremen of working gangs, who make the traffic possible. He says it was easier to procure opium in the Penitent.ary than on the outside,and for that reason he willingly returned to the prison after a brief te:im of liberty,. al- though the return to the drug mean a re- turn to all the hardships of a penal colony. McCabe charges that the sale of narcotics has been going on in the Penitentiary for years, despite the efforts of Warden Siarke and his deputies, Bradbury and Tolen, to stop it. Men known to be peddling tne stuff have frequentiy been caugnt in the act and punished, besides having their sup- ply of narcotics confiscated, but the prac- tice continues, for with the aid and con- nivance of under-officials the use of the stuff could not be blotted out, While the statement of a convicted felon is ordinarily listened to with doubt as to its truthfulness, there is this to voucn for a part of McCabe's story—he is an opium fiend and he was released from the peni- tentiary only a week ago, after being im- prisoned there during the preceding 15 months. He could not have become the wreck he now !s by any practice pursued only since he gained his liberty. He may have been supplied with the drug while behind prisen. bars, The. penitentiary has been-+ quarantined nado all owtsiders for a month and more past. Not even new prisoners were admitted and no visitors were allowed, on account of the smallpox scare. It would seem from this that no outside means of getting the drugs into the penitentiary were available in the recent past. McCabe's case is trily a pitiable one. ‘'] learned to use the stuff in the penitentiary,”’ he says “A man doing his first term up there is easily led by the old-timers. The habit hecame so strong while I was there the first time and it was so easy to get the stuff that 1 was glad to go back for my second tcrm, “I was sent up for 18 months for bur- giary in the early part of 1896,"" he said. “That was my first term and it made me dafense to show that the letters were not; The Princess is the widow of Prince Felix | written by Mr. Watson, but by another) i; me a Dit. It was easy for Doosenberry ‘then, and he knew it. l took the stuff -the offered me. It was crude opium, about ‘the stuff he raised the price. that neighborhood. It was four years ago | , -and in that way he would get a chance to | 7 = a Inepector | r, His Witte and Three Children | Williams, who was assigned to the Case, | eame angered at his father and made a | ‘bury and Tolen knew what was going on. 'They tried many ways to break it up, but ‘the men could not be kept from using feel pretty tough. I was only 21 years old then and had not had time to get into stealing very deep. Being locked up all tne time and made to work like a slave taught me quickly that there was nothing for me in going against the law. I made up my mind that 1 would reform when I got out. Well, that idea didn’t last long. An old fellow named Doosenberry, who was what we call a ‘hoosier,’ that is, a convict from out in the country, began to tell me how much easier the work was for the men who used a little ‘dope.’ “I had more sense at that time than to listen to him. But he kept on coming around. Other convicts all around me were using it, and it did seem to help them out, “Finally I got a bit sick and had a fit of the blues. The work seemed tough those days and the foreman wouldn't let up on like putty. He told me to roll it In little pills and take one a day. Well, the stuff fixed me up nicely. 1 recovered from the blues and the work didn’t bother me any more. Pretty soon I didn’t care whether I was in the penitentiary and I rather liked the place. “At first the dope was cheap. Doosen- berry sold me enough for two days for 10 cents. But as soon aS I began to like The gang told me that was the way he always did, ‘“Doosenberry worked in shop No. 5, where they made shoes, while I worked in the saddle tree department in a different building. Doosenberry stood in with hie foreman, who used to let him report sick come through our shop or stand where our line would pass him. “TIT found out shortiy that there were oth- ers besides Doosenberry selling dope, and that they got it through the guards and foremen. The only fellows selling it were hoosiers. The guards were afraid to trust any fellow from the city, for fear some Wise guy would get into the secret and make good use of it. “You know the habit increases, and more and more is required to satisfy a iend. Doosenberry raised the price grad- valiy, He would eell a small lump for 2 cents, which gave him from $3 to $30 a! pound for it, aithough we knew it cost him only $ a pound. Others besides Doosen- berry sold it, too. There was a fellow named Dantels, a hoosier, doing 20 years, who sold it, and Sly, one of Marion Hedg- peth’s pals. None of these people used it themselves. They were too wise. And the guards were too wise to seli it themselves. “Fully one-fourth of the convicts were flends. The guards bought some of the stuff at a drug store out In town but they had to sign for it there and they became afraid of being caught and for a long time all of the dope has been bought in St. Louls and shipped to one of the guards. Some of the convicts were sent to the hospital sick from an overdose and lots of them went there sick from not getting their regular allowance of dope. money earned by working overtime or ‘The Warden and his deputies, Brad- dope,as long as it came into the place. Shey are selling all sorts of dope up there now—opium, morphine, cocaine, laud- anum or anything you have money to pay for. When I got out the other day I made up my mind to straighten up. bat was how I came to be +3 to the hospital. I became almost crazy from cutting off the supply of opium too suddenly. I drank &@ gallon o, \whisky, it seemed to me, but the stuf would not supply the piace of opium. MeCabe Was released from the hospital Wecmesday Morning on his own demand, It wasafte be left the inatitution that he mad4 the abeve statement. He wi ‘hin, nerv c ve) eR mee : aaa — We bought it with ' Hie Wan wa tumbler of whisky at 1 e¥ um i, “ Be: ned to gloat nim ee THE WEATHER INDICATIONS, RAIN AND COLDER. St. Louls—Rain Wednesday night or Thuraday: colder Thursdays. Missour!—Rain Wednesday night with warmer extreme wuorthbeast portion; Thursday, rain with colder extreme west portion. Illincls—Rain Wednesday night and Thureday: warmer Wednesday night. Indiana—lIncreasing cloudiness and warmer Wed.- toes. nesday night; probably rain Thursday; easterly winds. Kaneas—Rain or snow Wednesday nicht, with colder in west portion Thursday; partiy cleudy with colder in southeast quarter; southerly, ebift- log to nertheriy winds Sun and Moon. Sun rises at 5:40. Sun sets at 6:27. Moon rises eat 2:43 a. m. St. Louis Temperature. Wednesday startes.1n with the mercury a trifte above the freezing , Int: by 7 o'clock the Govern. ment thermometer r@tstered 34 degrees, and there Was a slow rise th) }ughout the day, In Other ities at 7 a. m. Ete took HM ur ¢ ANOTHER APRIL SNOW STORM. NOW SEEKS DWORCE, ALL —~—— — ae: —-» DORA H. NICHOLS ASES SEPA TION FROM HER HUSBAND. MAKES MANY ALLEGATIONS.' PERHAPS MURDER AND SUICIDE. Frank Nichols Arrived From Alabama, but Declined to Discuss the | Charges Gn “File ~ = i Dora H. Nichols instituted proceedings for a divorce from Frank B. Nichols in the Circuit Court Wednesday. ness, and also alleges statutory grounds against him, The plaintiff says she was married to the defendant Dec. 10, 1890, and lived with him until March 8, 1896. She claims that from February, 1892, to March, 1896, he was al- most constantly under.the influence of liquor and made her life unpleasant by cursing and abusing her. She alleges that on the few occasions when he did go to him home in a sober : condition, he would become morose anc faultfinding upon taking two or three, drinks of liquor, which was his invariable | custom. She says he frequently drank to such} ' excess as to be incapable of caring for him- lself and his affairs and worried her to | [such an extent as to cause her to be} 'se'zed with an attack of nervous prostra- ition. as a result of which she was com- pelled to go to a sanitarium in Cincinnatt| -and remain there a year for treatment, She charges that, betweer the date of her marriage to the defendant @nd their sepa- ration. he procured from her a large amount of stecks, bonds and cash, under the pretense of managing them to her it- terest, but that he has persistentiy re- fused to return them to her, although she! has demanded them from h:m, She asks the custody of their only child, | Bruce Saiyvears Nichols, aged 4 years. Mrs. Nichols has a suit pending in, the Cireu:t Court to compel Nichols to restore hte her the property belonging to her which he ts alleged to have in his possession. It ‘was filed a year ago, and was taken to the l’'nited States District Court, and then re- turned to the Circuit Court on a question of citizenship. The petition estinmfates the » of the property at 30.000. Nichols is a doughter of John W. Harr eon, President of the Shickle, Harri- son & Heward Iron Works. Her marriage to Nighols, Dec. 10, 188, was an important society event. Nichols visited the Sheriff's office | Wednesday, shortly after his wife’s suit was filed. He real the petition carefully, but declined to say what action he would | take. . | Mra) Nichuls is at present stopping with an aunt. Mrs. Dr. Leete, at 356% West Chest- nut atreet. The defendant, Frank B. Nichols, is a son lof William Nichols, Vice-President of the State National Bank of 8S‘. Louls. Helsa resident of Bessemer, Ala. His father stated Wednesday that he knew nothing of the causes that led to the suit and did not know his son’s whereabouts. NOBODY WANTED THIS BABY. A Waif Without the Usual Number of Fingers and Tces Cannot Find an Asylum. —_—- ll An &8-day-old baby with no toes, few ‘fingers and no name is having a hard time finding a home. Nobody wants it because it has not the usual number of fingers and At 19 o'clock Wednesday a large, good natured woman carried the baby to the of- fice of the Board of Health and offered to donate it to the city of St. Louls. Secre- tary Max Kaufman approaached her warily. | The woman tried to piace the baby in arms. He cried “help” and fit. iwoman hung the baby acrom t! iand laid the nursing bottle on Kaufman's | deak. The Secretary ventured back and there Wae a pariey. The woman was Mrs. M Arthur, who keeps a lying-.n establ.«hment at .23008 Morgan street. She said ashe had offered the child to all of the asylume. None of them woul4 take it in because of ita deformity. Secretary Kaufman took her and the baby over to the Dispensary and held a consulta- tion with the staff of physicians and Clerk Pearsall, It was found, that the Fem’ ay ey 11 not reeeive infan\!s. A a long conf —_— to « until a. here EAD TOGETRER, BCDIES OF MAN AND WIFE AND BABE FOUND IN BED. Theory Is That the Young Man Was ' _ Demented by Worry Over Loss of a Position. é the body. instantaneous in each case. It is belleved that Jackson first shot his wife and child and then himself. The deed was done during the night. The only other occupant of the house was Mrs. KE. E. Richardson, Jackson's grandmother, who was not awakened by the shots. Was a young business man of | high standing and married Jane Godwin, a leading society girl, a little over two gears recently he was cashier and bookkeeper for supposed that he brooded over the loss of his position and killed his family and him- of insanity. ALBANY, Ga., April 5.—Walter R. Jack- his wife and their three months’ old . baby were found dead in bed this morning. She charges him with habitual drunken- ss ckson and his wife each had a es) shot in the head, while the child was shot Death was evidently warehouse firm. RUBBED AT UNION STATION. Iron as he alighted. crowd and before he knew trousers’ pockets were picked. the booty already mentioned the bers got raiiroad baggage checks, a pocket | knife and a tie pin. the robbery committed, culprit seen to escape from and the authorities belleve the work of a professional pickpocket. thieves have been operating | around the etation of late.. Several persons have reported tollet rooms, The minal officials will take precautions to pre- vent a repetition of Wednesday morning’s to Pueblo, Colo. don’t know what $40, a Watci and Chain and Other Valuables. ome ee eee cee ee Pajano. an Itallan emigrant, | Was robbed of $60 in currency and a watch worth $0, at Union Station Wednesday morning. The robbery occurred just stepped from an was acompanied by his wife In his «rms he carried a small child. A score cf persons were standing around Pajano was jostled in the it hia vest and | In addition | without a cent in Through an interpreter he said: “I lived at Ethel, La., and am now going | have a job tin the mines We haven't got a penn I will do Nol haven't I have been in this country | hort time.” '| The money lost represented the savings WAS EQUIPPED FOR BURGLARY Harry Adams Arrested After He Tricd to Enter a House on Washington Avenue. The police think they have a strong case of attempt burglary against a young man iving his name as Marry Adams, even if hey can not prove that he is connected with ny of the recent burglaries. Patroimen Clark watched Adams for 0 He saw him enter the yard at 31M Vashingtor avenue at 12:3 o'clock Wednes- The fellow tried the front and back duors and the windows. When taken to the Seventh District Po- lice Station and searched it was found he nad a loaded revolver, knife, a candle and a chisel. \ Adams is only about 17 years old. . H e clothing, bot It bas been —_, <7 gre = ues- ang fro at ia re . ye came from New York, lie la a music teacher. for —— after Pajano Mountain train. and family. it was the loss of y left, and I a wire-culter, 4 as tothe crime. They admit thata murder - has been committed, but they are totally at “a loss for a clew. The police gay it is probably the wohk of the Highbinders, but who or what the | mysterious organization is, is a question — the police cannot answer. Fis About 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning Charles McNorman and Charles Hatfleld, boys of 13 years old; of 1764 Austin street, and James Dutton, living at 2206 Ble piace, were playing at the corner of THit+ teenth and Gratiot streets. One of t bors went behind one of the ofl tanks to hide. The tank stands about two feet ubove the ground. The boy laid down on tfe ground to keep out of sight. His eyes perred under the tank and he saw the form of a man. He at first thought it was of hiv companions. But in a few mo his eyes became accustomed to the | ness and he saw the body was that man, and that the head had been batt out of shape. The bey fied, horror-stricken, and called to his companions. They saw 8 . liceman McKenna and told him of their find. The policeman called the dead w . and, drawing the body from its place” concealment, sent it to the Morgue, The age of a Chinaman, even in life, is hard to discern. This Chinaman’s coun- tenance is so bedly battered that {t ts still harder to arrive at any conelusion #* te his age. He swas comparatively welt dressed, in a guit of blue flannel. Mise queue had been cut off andhis long black ha'r was matted. His pockets were quite € ; Ber ia breast was round a sheet of gel- low paper covered with Chinese charact &, What infu. ation this might convey ca only be surmised. No one cennected with the Police Department is versed in Chinese lore and the characters were perfectly un- intelligible to them. e paper was taken in charge by the police and will be care- fully kept and submitted to a Chinese in terpreter. : The police think the Chinaman was ™"r- dered for revenge. The fact that is was missing, they think, es.«dlishes tu. fact that he was a Christianized Chinaman and as such had fallen under the ban. of some Chinese sect, . Recently certain Chinamen have poen Se formed on and cases instituted againat t in both the Federal and Police Courts, Fan tan has floulshed in Hep Alley and than one place has been raided. The po- lice theory is that the dead Chinaman may have incurred the enmity of some of th: Chinamen by fnforming on them and he nas been murdered for turning traltor, The dead Chinaman was identified at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon as Joe Chung, who had not been in the city longer than two months. The identification was made by Jeu Tom, a Chinaman, who said Chung was couein, a Christian, and that he had ene- nies. Jeu Tom refused to give his own address or that of Chung, declaring he was afraid. He also pretended he could not. read the card found on Chung’s body. ' Chief Campbell said he would have the card translated during the afternoon. WORLO'S FAIR BILL PASSED,” Under the Emergency Clause It Will Become a Law When Signed by the Governor. At Jefferson City Wednesday the Senate Committee on Louisiana Centennial Cele- bration reported favorably the bill provid- ‘ing for the incorporation of the St. Louis | World's Fatr. In aceordance with a motion of Senator Morton the rules were suspended and the bill, with the emergency clause, wnar mously passed. Under the emerge clause which the bill carries it will! come a law as soon as signed by the ernor. ‘SMALLPOX PATIENT CN A TRAIN, Amelia Erget Escaped From the City to De Soto, Mo., While Suffering With the Disease. The paseengers on one of the trains which left #t. Louls for DeSoto Wednes- ‘day morning had a smallpox victim as @ fellow-traveler. Amelia Ere«et, a white woman, suffering with the disease, left 12330 North Eightn etreet Wednesday morning with the an- nounced Intention of going to DeSoto, Chief Dispensary Physic'an Jordan was notified by Dr. Raphael 8. Guidone of 83% North Kighth street that the worman wae fll wits the disease in her room on the seco in the rear of 1239 Nofth Evghth street. When Dr. Jordan went up there was told of the woman's rture for . All the occupants of the house were [@- ken to the City Hall, where their clothing iainfected. “the Dx Soto authorities were notified, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, Col. Bluffinton Promoted and Succeeds