St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 2, 1899

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” &4 . ‘i . % Pd P * a a A a ata , % ee SPOON a ~~? eee Ne S me . 2. - ¥ “S unday Post-Dispatch. ; : | holders. tribute for « beh ” % YY i. : a wo me de + ¥ ” ; Yabba Tarr ime et al — : _— = . — ” cs. t y w- ; t, ; CSS Bo VS “*5 4 : : Ruan a Western city, as Mayor and Councilmen. They will be pictured aad described in the next AVERAGE SUNDAY CIRCULATION FOR MAY, 111,903. - TEN PAGES. PRICE{ in St. Louis, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. a ae ee Photographs of Soumnt A scientist has succeeded ia § remarkable experiments. which — Sunday Post-Dispat ch. _ aes e 2 x ? - has described for the next 4 ae ¥ ee - | ce : a a ier ~ VOL. 50. NO. 287 FRIDAY EVENING—ST.LOUIS—JUNE 2, 1899 — TOPICS OF THE TIMES. THEN HE DEPARTED. Fie told ber a wondréus story Of love that was fond and true; Perbaps be really meant it, As young men often do. Ob, passionately he pleaded, And actually tore bis hatr, But the maiden, with never a tremor, Merely remarked: ‘‘Hot air'’’ Il. GOTCHER COYNE. We have heard ‘about heat waves and felt them; we have heard about ocean waves and have ridden on them: we have’ heard about cold waves and have beet , nipped by them: we ha¢e heard about }eound* waves,’ but few of us have seen | thend. | | Yet such things have been seen. Seems impossible, doesn't it? Photographing moving atmosphere! But what else are we to expect In these Gays of bacteria, goat lymph, 18-inch guns ‘and liquid air? Photographing sound? is ai wonderful thing. Photographing the human face used to be considered wonderful, and so. indeed, jt is; but how infinitely more wonr derful it ta obtain a correct likeness of @ substance—air—and a condition—motion— which is not visible to the human eye! This thing a scientist has done. He has Photographed,cound waves as easily as a kodaker might photograph the waves of the Mississippi River. The photographs taken by him will be re- produced by the next Sunday Post-Dis- toh, and the scientiet will explain how ee accomplished this feat. He furnishes the illustrations. ia the season of the cantaloupe. Its ten to one that somebody hae al- ready sprung that old ‘‘can't-elope” gag on you and tortured you with hideous cachin- mation because “‘the melon-choly days have come."’ *After a while thie same fiend will ask if it is hot enough for you. Shortly after that sebody will kill him. | But talking about cantaloupes, I learned something the other day. The Italians were the discoverers of that melon and it got its name from the town of Canteloupe, where it wags firet raised. I don’t chargé you anything for this in- fqrymation, because I stole it out of the of- fice Dictionary, but it is worth remember- ing, just the same. I have also accumulated a large, valuable and varied assortment of facts concerning the cantaloupe as pertaining to St. Louis, ‘They are so interesting that I am tempted to write them all out again and give them you right now, but perhaps you will | 40 wait for the next Sunday , | , whch will handle the can,» taloupe eubject in a highly entertaining manner. Now, wait—don’'t all answer at once! “Is @ preacper a preacher if he has never been ordained?” Theoretically, no. Practically, yes. How @o I know? Because there is in St. Louis @ preacher who has never been ordained to preach the Gospel, and yet he is pastor of ah influential church. No, he is not a lay preacher, such Aas was described by the Sunday Post-Dis- patch a few weeks ago. He is a regular pastor. What its more, he is in great trouble. He is the center of a great controversy. How it will end goodness only knows. The finish is cergainiy not in sight. The story—a truly interesting one, consid- ered from several standpoints—will be one feature of the next Sunday Post-Dispatch. Human blood is a terrible thing when it gets thoroughly stirred up. As long as it ia mixed with the milk of human kind- ness it is all right and will prompt the heart to kind and noble deeds; but when it ie agitated by gall and bitterness and hat- red and all the evil passions have sway, there is no telling What the result may be Because of a few dollars, one man ehot another. Ps Act Is Con- Guilt. PARIS, June 2.—Important evente in the Dreyfus case follow leach other with a ra- pidity that is startMeg, even in. France, where the unexpected is always happening. This morning Paris is told that Du Paty de Clam attempted suicide last night in prison. This is convincing evidence of his guilt. Du Paty de Clam, who was, in 18%, com- missioned to investigate the first charges made against Dreyfus, was arrested yes- terday and -confined im the Military Prison of Cherche Midi, charged whkh forgery and uttering forgery. » Gen. Zurlinden, the Military Governor of Paris, has corsented to the provisional re- lease of Col. Pficquart, who is in prison on the charge of regealing documents con- cerning the national defense on the de- mand of Gen. Marquise Gallifet. Picquart has always stood out for the innocence of Dreyfus, this fact accounting for his im- prisonment. Du Paty de Clam, who, because of his activity in persecuting Dreyfus, was pro- moted from Captain to Lieutenant-Colonel, is undoubtedly one of the main factors in tne conspiracy which sent Dreyfus to Dev- il’s Island. His record in this case shows the brutish nature of the man. Here is the picture Zola drew of him: “A calamitous man has managed it all, has done it all—Col. du Paty de Clam. He is the entire Dreyfus case. It will be fully known only when a eincere investigation Shall have established hts acts and his re- sponsibilities. He app@are as the most heady, the mos? intricat@ef minds, haunted with romantic intrigues, delighting in the methods of the newspaper novel, stolen pa- pere, anonymous letters, meetings in de- serted spots, mysteriofs’women who peddle overwhelming proofa by night. It is he who conceivel the fdem of dictating the _bordereau to Dreyfus; itis he who dreatned of studying ft in a yoom completely lined by mirrors; it is he whom Maj. Forzinetti represents to us med with a dark lan- tern trying to gat s to the accused tw throw upon. his face a sudden ftood efiiight and thus sur- rise a confession of his crime in the con- usion of his awakening. And Ivhave not to tell the whole: let them look, they wili find. I declare simply that Maj. du Paty de Clam, cntrusted as a judicial officer with the duty of preparing the Dreyfus case, is, in the order of dates and responsi- bilities, the first person guilty of the fear- — judicial error that has been commit- ted.”” On Oct. 13, 186, Capt. Dreyfus was sum- moned to the War Department and ordered to appear there on the 15th in civilian’s at- tire. The fate of the man had been determined in advance of even making the charge and hearing his reply. and plane were completed for secreting him in the prison at Cherche- Midi. It would not do to take him there in uniform between policemen, as that would attract attention and interfere with the | policy of mystery that had been resolved upon. Accordingly, his Dreyfus left his home. wife and children on the morning of Oct. | 15, bidding them a casual adieu and having no premonition that many agonizing years of disgrace and imprisonment were to pass before. he would return to that home and that family. He reported at the War Department and pty arrested by Maj. du Paty de Clam. ol. privately to the prison at Cherche-Midi, (the same prison in which Paty de Clam tried to end his own life to-day), where he was buried in a cell. Not a word was al- lowed to leak out about the matter, and at once Maj. du Paty de Clam rushed to the Dreyfus home and in brutal language in- formed Mme. Dreyfus of the arrest, assert- ing that the absolute proof of his treach- ery was at hand. He imposed silence on her. even regarding the family, by tellin her her husband's life depended on it an by threatening her with the Iron Mask. He uttered the grossest insults against her husband. the tone he adopted being ex- ampled by one of his expressions: “He de- nies, but I shall succeed in making him spit out all he hae in his body.” At that time and continually afterward, | during the trial and even after the verdict— the verdict that the general staff and all France has insisted must not be even ques- | tioned—du> Paty de Clam tortured Mme. Dreyfus with his visits, pretending to show her proofs of her husband's infidelity to her in order to induce her to make a confession or to say something tending to show her husband's guilt. ATTEMPTED TO KILL-HIS SON, Alfred Wells, an Insane Indiana Father, Threw His Children Into a Well. THORNTOWN, Ind. June 2—Alfred Wells, the German farmer, who threw his four boys into an abandoned well, and jumped in upon them, is in jail. Two of the | boys are dead and a third will die, the re- sult of injuries inflicted by Wells. The farmer was known to be mentally deranged but was considered harmicss. His sons were with him near an open gan crushing their heads with bricks and throwing them Into the well. Before any of them could escape he had thrown them in and jumped upon them. Their screams were heard by the mother at home, who | gave the alarm and aroused the neighbors. As they approached the well Wells climbed out and started on a run for the river, a mile away, into which he jumped and was about to drown with his pursuer, when rescued. : THIS AIRSHIP STAYED UP. Successful Test Made of an Invention of Arcedas Farmer, an Indiana Scientist. EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 2—Arcedas Farmer's airship is a success. The ship was sent up about @ feet and was kept in » for an hour. The inventor's son oe the ascension, and he moved the ship backward and forward at will. Mt company has ” a 4 ar agg . é : > i é 4 , ts, “yr. . * ”" % a Am ‘ . « 7 ae Henry and a police agentetook him | well | yesterday afternoon when he suddenly be- | Little Roek New Orleans .... Pittsburg . St. Paul Viekabuorg Washington and Moon. Sun sets at 7:19. Sun 4:37. Bun rises at Moon rises fat 1:6 «. m ' Stage of Water. A Pe Pe Py ~ 2. 5 of a foot ie’ th MUST PAY REAL ESTATE LICENSE | (NIFE DRAWN = BY A LAWYER Exciting Incident During the Mazet Inquiry. CAPTAIN PRICE A WITNESS. HE AND HIS COUNSEL ORDERED TO LEAVE THE ROOM. The Captain Testified That Moss and Farkhurst Had Produced Per- jured Witnesses fo Indict Him. 2.—The Mazet Investi- sessions NDW YORK, June gating Commission .continued ite here to-day. Mazet rapped for order Police Captain Price had appeared in the courtroom. He said he was ready to substantiate on the Witness stand his accusations made on Wednesday against Frank Moss. The examination of Capt. Price Mt!mate- ly led to the case out of which grew the aptain’s allegations of subordination of perjury by Mr. Moss. Complaint had been made against the tenants of certa:n fats in Price’s precinct. When this point was reached in the ex- amination Capt. Price shouted: *‘Yes, I saw the witnesses befroe the grand jury. You let Dr. Parkhurst into the ecg jury room tv commit perjury—not willful perjury, but to swear falsely—you d'd.” ‘ Price said that there was ‘‘a job put up” to indict him. According to the attorney for Price, a suit for civil damages was brought by a man named Blessing as an outgrowth of an indictment aga-nst him re- turned by the grand jury in question, and as Moss is counsel for the defendant it would be improper to go into particulars just now. “Against whom was the testimony direct- ed that you say was perjury?’ asked Moss, “Against me,"’ said Capt. Price, “by you. You jut up the job. You were a witness.” “What was the false testimony?” asked Mr. Moss. “I decline to answer that,” said Price. Mr. Mazet ruled that Price and hts coun- sel must leave the courtroom. Mr. Henderéon declined to go, and claimed the right to remain as a spectator. “I direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove him from the, room," yelled Mr. Mazget. “I will not submit to it,’’ retorted the lawyer. “I have a right to remain here.” The Sergeant-at-Arms adyanced toward oi, Henderson and the lawyer drew a clasp nife. “You put that Knife away,” shouted Mr. Mazet. “Il have an absolute right here. and I Will stay here,” yelied Mr. Henderson. Aseemblyman Fallows, in the midst of the confusion, shouted to have it put on the records that Mr. Henderson took a knife out of his pocket. “I did not draw a knife,”’ sald Mr. Hen- derson, still resieting the sergeant-at-arms. “I saw you draw the knife,’ yelled Mr. Ma- zet. Then, turying to Capt. Price, Mr. Ma- zZet said: ‘I ask you as an officer of the law to assist the sergeant-al-arms to as- sist this man from this room.” Amid tremendous excitement and uproar Mr. Henderson left the rcom at the solici- tation of Capt. Price. SPEECHES AT WARRENSBURG. Annual Commencement of the City’s Public Schools. Speclal to the Post-Dispatch. WARRENSBURG, Mo., June 2.—The an- nual commencement exercises of the War- rensburg public schools were held at the Magnolia Opera House last night. The graduates were Mata ‘Terrel, Eliza- beth La Rue, Chas. Rayhi}!, Cora Newcomer, Ethel Pickering, Emma Morrison and Win- fred Reed. The diplomas were presented by W. E. Crissey. BOARD VISITS CENTRALIA. That City Making a Strong Bid for the State Fair. CENTRALIA, Mo. June 2—The State Board of Agriculture, composed of 18 mem- bers, whose duty it is to locate a site for the State Falr;, are in the city. Centralia offers $10,000 cash and the chotce of three locations. The board was enter- tained with a tanquet, carriage drives and oratory. Business houses were decorated and the city ia full of visitors. The board will leave for Mexico to-night. (STOCK RAISER ASPHYXIATED. Ar Arthur Citizen Met Death on a Visit to Chicago. Specte! to the Pour-Dtepateh ARTHUK, IL, June 2—-T. P. Wella, a wealthy firn.er and stock lser o place, Wes\asphys day nigh S Some time before Chairman | IN WYOMING. ‘ 7 ~ ¥ wi ? se “s batt ’ ENGINEER SLIGHTLY HURT BE — # te + 5 : ; oe ; ‘tied at once and with a posse started Im {re lieved that number constitutes the party. ike eet te » he was when the explosion occurred, Bat” as the dispatch says only the engineer was injured it is certain no harm has befallen — a, - + 7 4 * . , » = a t $ og : ak yg ae By ’ Bee The Robbers, After Completing Theis Work, Fled to the Mountains ang ys Engineer Jones was aed reve | 1" = Bo 3 os pita cig Bi ie : F ae FISH FIN CUT CAUSED DEATH. = * , Pps it EARTH SHOOK ON THE COAST. = Sharp Seismic Shock Felt Throughout. ey ey ® ef er. ay ¢ >, im % eS mer 8 2--A champs 98 tirvug@eutt =| o a rm ( a & . a. ‘ < ae R iat, ws he } » a ‘2 7 Peculiar Accident to a Cairo Fishers ~ man That Resulted in F Poisoning. Special to the Post -Dispateh. CAIRO, I'L, Jape 3.-Alexander Noll, @ fisherman living if Bust Cairo, lost his ife yesterday from aff aceident while clean’ fish a few days ago, One of the fing of catfleh pierced his fingerar «ie He a the wound and t : of it until the next day an Ps a? re ey ~} ga Jay