St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 26, 1900

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+ a «° : _ is - Regular Edition THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. R op Ls ularEdition — COMPLETF MARKET REPORTS. COMPLETE MARKYT UEPORTS. wt al al Greatest Number of SWORN AVERAGE SUNDAY CIRCULATION FOR DECEMBER, 142,165. Will send your Ywants rT TEN PAGES. To the P.-D. ! _____FRIDAY_EVENING—ST. LOUIS—JANUARY 26, 1900 ARICE] 9. S.2tv tke Ses ce OFF — ~~ eee ee eee - — ee eerste — —_—_—_———_— = es — - — a _ — a ee ee eee SEVEN RESCUED THAT {CHICAGO FILTH RUNAWAY TRAIN 'RRITISH ER BYAPOLICEMAN,| 1S DIFFERENT, HAS ARRIVED, BORE OYNAMITE a a a Delegate Julins Lehmann and | This Is One of an Honest Man Windy City *ewage Now at| Explosion Follows a Collision ; Had Been Led Into Family Saved. . and His Wife. St. Louis. in the Yards. . | fF a Trap —_—--- WERE IN A BURNING HOUSE.|B. F. SMALL PAYS HIS DEBTS. | | FIVE KILLED: EIGHT INJURED Ra? Sy aK WATER IS DIRTY AND GREASY. ) i A TARGET FOR 40 CANNON. -- — ee — —_— OFFICER LAWRENCE SCULLY AR- | LEFT ST. LOUIS UNDER A CLOUD,| ,,.0y waTERWORKS: SUPERIN-|SIX LOCOMOTIVES AND SEVENTY | a - ’ FREIGHT CARS WRECKED. ; Unable to Mount His Guns G NEARLY $27,000. RIVED IN TIME. OWIN 757,000 TENDENT GIVES WARNING. aus OER ti ) ‘ | : Aa While Shells Rained on —_—- — ory Burn Now Mrs. Small Is in the City, Meet- : : " yee : . tan “me ta ¢ = Faby Me gia in ah Obligations lina b aie ene Baginer Jones Byticed the ee eee g : whet ina: g- His New Position u ng, £nt ng a ss of $40,- 4 y Change in Color and Menon the aged and Many Persons Hurt, One : Oey 4 . Man Being Thrown on a 000—Firemen Busy at Third Her Husband, Paying Inter- PC, ae | and Chestnut St est and Principal. River Front Confirm His ss co eee | — e nk? oe | u reets. Report. Hot Stove. on 2 ' 7 AMOUNTS TO SEVERE CHECK, =——_—-_ —_— —— —— - Officer Lawrence P. Scully of the Fifth Three years ago Kenjamin F. Small de- . — — ae . 7 iy . hy tye . ey - ) ° ohes -' W li,K ERRARRE ’a . Jan ~~? ive riety ,. éeb* EFFECT ARREN parted from Sr la? 11s and left a great li‘ ee Ww p's as a i “ w ao iain et) me 6 a all ) seid ,, rh san Seiten 7’ “" /f , THE OF WwW Ss BRE prt avior olf ne Alton aterworks pe ‘pape ate ditt ' ms tht ' '§ ' ' ' : +: . | ‘TIREMENT REGARDED MIN Police District eaved the lives of Delegate many debts behind him Some said the ; eee “a TENSORS ee Julius Lehmann and Mr. 1 ahmann’a ?am- , 5 ‘ apc . , hi ; . discovered eaariv Mridas m) irning that it as tlre reesuit ol tile PuUbaw ay ‘oT bs train gr = en sree Home of bis debtors | a. fowing by that place and the explosion of dynamite that followed “ad , sg \§ LIGHT OF A SERIOUS : on t Central Rafiroud of New Jersey, ‘s ' . BRITISH REVERSE. iy, six persons, from fire in the Lehmenn | thought his business methods had not been Expert river men who examined the ¢ur- J ae- , i Ashley st migiit ne compiete dist of residence, S817 North Twenty-thhed street, | correct and mone of them expected ever to t} Ii) a . y ta , ; rent on le sinois shore Opp ste Sti he : follows * len ; sea him or hear from him directly again. aPeec? at 3 o'clock Friday morning. dnd rried Louis, at noon Friday, stated) positively ‘ran McLaugislin brakemat mma Apenbrinck, an invalid, from poasi- They have net seen him, but they have that the sewage was plainly visible tle y ; ee a Ld | OT Ne Og he sowane was plainly Vide na | ihe, tra, brakeman, sed 2 Ay 2B on lly BOERS WILL BE JUBILANT, ble danger in the adjoining house. a me wife, and through + Giese Water Commiasioner Flad was surprised ‘ P . , > . -« ‘ ‘ : apt,¢ sri as ‘ ’ : The fire wrecked the house and destroyed ee ee Sr NeaTe nm -{t aac hia hianes the factory bullding adjoining, whieh waa glad. me = rsa gg Papen ages peony : on ’ , my - , ; occupied by the St. Louis Carriage Wood Mrs. Small has returned to St. Louis. She hast . ' Spat “e Preps é aney nt to the engine house ¢. if yA an z : Work Company and the Bemen Box f has brought a check-book with her and sha] MOMent’s thought and a rapid calculation, | th wstead of Boing | } Ae 1 a i ! According to Buller’s Report He Has OX TAC- lis writing checks for the amounts in which | he said it was very Ukely the sewage had HOO, 3 - * | agl | Not Suff d Great Loss in M tory. The total loss is epUmated by Mr. | her husband was indebted when he left 5t,/ reached Alton early Friday morning ne ar ee ( .* ' fa ; Ve utrerea a ea s in en, Lehmann at $40,000. Louis. She has come back to prove that : ‘ a ; ' torig. engineer, © Saag} os , i her husband ja an honest man He was surprised at the information, An fowls, rsev (it a Se - $a i; y : . But All England Is De- That every member of the Lehmann fam- It is said that it will cost her something | because the report of his man at Grafton, EECUEy SIOISStSs, ERENCE, Of Aan J. a a4 i : +: 4 oF : OF? 4 pressed Over the Situ- George Ottens, was that the sewage had pega ayn ph oa oe ee ‘Es go (Th w i en - Bich am adial ‘ i ‘ 2% , hs A 4 { 7 ‘ 4 s : 7 ' , , ‘ , , ation. L.at : ere FP Pl eeeet ‘ ? > ee ee eee not reached that place Thursday night. John Ruhf Hiugh. flreman La Brown, tlreman, - roundhouse e Webs ) Jae ¢. aye Pre Ne q ‘ J P 7 @ a - d . wl Pi wv 2 hie at once called up (“ty Chemist Teich- bai wared renee enge mann by telephone and asked him if he ’ “1 if had Mavovered anv ind! ‘ations of the gew- evs : if he ‘in ir 7 a \ ta heir Z - ke / v ) Totals ope evoke eanen eine 14 , : The London War Office posted the above Total loss gatlicece 0000 006s obesdeb be céaeeeen ae bulletin from Gen. Buller at 11:10 a. m. ;, e Ay ‘arn! o the peo- | Robert Carroll were in the caboose of the today (Friday). would nie an official warning to the peo freight engine and had narrow escapes eee ee Oe Xe ee Se oe Te Ke Se Se ee Se De oe Oe Xe oe Oe ke Ke OX Bk oe oe ple of St. Ifuls against the 7 inger of It Ww il} take two day «s for the w recking —_ — 8 eee OOO EO = y Special Cable to the Poat-Dispatek. drinking unbolled or undistilled water, crews to clear away the debris.. The ac- LONIXON, Jan. &.-—-The British have beet He said, also, the pumps at Chain-of- | cident was due to a long train of freight | which has been running @ince last Sumdlay, Rocks would probably be stopped for aj] Cars running age | ws dod a —— srade SUGGESTIONS has attracted widespread attention and is | driven from S8pion Kop. Gen. Buller adds locomotive near the = no details to the bare announcement that —~>--—__—— goo « and crashing into#a Li, being generally read It ts acknowledged time ae soon as it was known definitely : ; that the sewage had reached there. roindhouse Phe shee exploded thirty +03 , . a by erities to be the most notable book of the | “Gen. Warren's garrison, I am sorry to The first warning of the arrival of the boxes of dynamite in one of the Care. : : A QUERY season, and {tt should be remembere] that] say, I find this morning, had in the night eewage came to the Post-Dispatch from = Ce en ee ee ae Rays nt . teed ager be nal ARMED MEN LEAVE FRANKFORT If I were Mr. Roberts, |} the Post-Dispateh has sécured the exclusive | abandone} Spion Kop.” since the drainage canal was opened And you ‘were in the House righ: to publish this story in St. Louis. It is assumed that no decisive battle was Judge Caldwell, presiding, Judge of the] fought for the possession of the Kop, or Acres | morning he found a very pro- Because I am a Mormon : ; United States Court of Appeals, will have |] Buller would have reported the fact. Hie nounced change in the appearance of the |#Greater Number of the Visitors Who water. A caveful examination of it con- Three times a lheving spouse, - ik vinced him that the change was the result Affrighted the Capital Go Home by Would you dig up my record something Interesting to say in the next] dispatch gives the impression that he knew ; , Sunday Post-Dispatch about the evils of | nothing of the retirement of . Warren's | of the arrival of the filth from Chicago And kick me in the bbouse, Advice of Republican Leaders. ’ ( 1@ blouse koverument by injunction. He holds a life | troops until the fact was discovered Thurs- —_—- eo —-— To make the matter sure,, he had En- s 1 gineer Jones examine the water Mr. sesntciiaiesiilieigioes were Mr. Roberts 77 , , . position, amd, afier he shall have reached, qday morning. The conclusion then ia that Jones’ opinion agteed with Supt. Taylor's = Er Ee pis on And you were in the House? Dp.» ype Pant Supt. Tay-or, “Is dirty ; poem gt Ky Jan. %».—The ace the age limit, he will be retired on a pen- Ww en found the apot for which he has asy . . . ‘ ¢ ’ 4% i piluatio We WIe@t nis ‘ at ( “gr . wel ‘ Tes » o he ‘ 7. , rea e, oe a ike a ae . = iad ection’ ik, th > is ‘Ae sie “hp d.© ile ‘ if ‘ ’ j ‘ *r ~~ , - ° ‘yu e « sale . >» . ry™h. Fore : pas black. dirty dishwater. I am positive this } sense of relief, after a night that had The second, first or third. Wiey h | hould be pre fJardile el. There’ “er bris week a target for every tate wun within Sota ae ses ages Rage the mixture. of Chi- | Segoe tO be me we wf — ny mgpen ooen ae Would wicked thoughts against me talk will be accepted as ee ee from | range and that he had. after all aa . cago sewage with the river water.” ie resolutions ailaoptles y the arme: Rv envious ones be stirred * the first word to the last. udge Caldwell] GN . pain The filth of the Windy City was @Alis- visitors from the mountain eounties in ww ) ld In t , | has been suggested as a good running male been led into another Boer trap—en lium cernible in the Mississipp! River here Fri- | front of the Cap tel yesterday will be of- ou not be a lady- °: ithe 7 im es Rica tina ' ing-looking position that It was impossible day — It ag detested by Old river fered to both Houses of the Legislature tu- Now, tell me, on your word ey, or William J nig “ ‘ eal sh aga s te hold Plainly. he was unable te rme men, Who are quick to notice any change | 44) Though I were Mrs. Roberts nominated for (he Presidency by the Demo- |) | , ‘nike in the river. About (0 of the %O men who arrived on , Lisle erats im 1900 any guns on Spion Kop while under the It was first noticed by H. C. Lee, an old [the special train yesterday left last night, The second, first or third ae it r miributed rain of shelia from the enemy's cannon. . ; r es ‘7 ‘ : rr oan ‘Ff " > , . ao ._Y ‘ "4 ‘ rf ne . mower, ogy has been * ee agi el with Ri ring buck over the route on which they THE PoOST-DISTAT’ HW Por? ; gy ‘ mine mt wr € oy be ‘ " u with i, eau an state mh 8 atti adie river tra ’ or the past orty years eame the following special articles : ? | , The sewage is floating Along the Illinois The deetston to send them home waa “Party Spirit the Foe of Progress’ by to drag heavy una up t he rocky sides of : an African hill, but when the elevation is h ; the curren ring ‘each@! aio a conference o fepublte: Matinee idols don't marry matinee girls o7m...1 snore it pr diag e rr nt throw inige it oa h Reg Be a ‘ ; d S. ey , n | ) " ' re «I Is Samuel M. Jones. Mavor of Toledo. O . . on that side le CO1OT of the water. sat at oe LC tWO Tepres ry mives treks ' Statistics of the the itrieal profession show GED , » Kr: j i e in direct range of #4 air ®@ cannon, the feat viewed from boat landings on the Missourt | te) woud Varte malust Tuvior retaining The Dawn of wu New ara n er ar side, is a durk green, his seat if the men were kept The change in the color was noted and sen itor de Bow a J pera} | hy ngure here peachy and romantic damsels who think low ' State (tolls ge remarked upon by dock labogers, who at is Morning, conerring Republican there is nothing on earth tke an actor. burt 1 ’ a) ore the time did not Know the mn 7: ae he aderve whe ; 8 | = | Cor, “For What Is England Fighting by Rev. the Britioh - loubt: while the Manan: . : . ‘ ‘ ° FS ei tpere ' > 4 > "|. +} - - i . } s ‘dp «tte rT , - re) however, the change is not BO pronoun,» At the Opening of the | m-ession tne can t re Pei it } Iments In evi Kdward Everett Hal ~ ‘ as to be easily lets ected by persons \ iit Nie te? [ke rry i’ ie on dence show that the matinee filols nearly a Pr Brad Women of the Stage te. by Olea if they hal accurately Ineasured the disa- therou hly . ‘quainted with the river (county being ; prers Por i alWwavs marry actresses, You will find al: Nethersole tances from tts summit to thelr trenches noon the coloring Was more pronounce MR, A COMpProm.se between ft : , pettus ; . et; bend, . : ) , © next Sunday Post-TDienat«} : . which for miles face {t | j . -cire Prom a Photograph an } it is Quite likely that bY Friday r r hy "4 ‘i ‘ ! Pw ‘a i? al rit it if} th tT x . in ! ; I »s I> pa ‘‘f iw re Nie Ww Kleres ‘ ‘ harces Agauins? I)r. ‘ ’ ba | ‘ Re ri irc le. a0 POLICEMAN LAWRENCE SCULLY countless millions of Chicago's microbes |b! adeptiar fa? dution that the Hiere are three stories of weaith ~e Motiffert.” dievussed by himaelf that when the Hritiah took the bait, the ° will be ‘‘within our midst.” “™ : howl © the pi rts are 1 (1) ond r. the richest ‘ { +} a “small garrison fled.’ as Kuller put in his . . . Se vy : : , . b ‘ a jig # rle* 7 t man itn [ e ae ae by ar 6 . 2 ‘ata ' j the Boer . . I He Saved the Family of Julius Lehm ann. rt ports ite omimitter of ; ) range EFrce Pia a tile a ; y hole, not less tha ‘nty and not more world, lo omiade Sl 00 iu South Af- y Sir Charles Ditke, M. F., the dispatch, eras: the Hritish inte what . ee t an ofiftw minut eingw alle +d for dis- rica as i partner of Cec) Rhodes. and tinguished diplomat in Marope pros mi to be a death trap CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 cussion and argument w) le far ani Sines a “ Where aid Wounded: Officers, 12, non-commisstonedg family and carried out Miss Josie Laeh- by St. Loule people. le came here five o rt mine 3] ROBBERY . Kinds Dad mene if expending , officers and men, 142, missing, 31 men mann, who fainted under>the excitement. | %'X years ago fie Was a New York man : Wa “te Se a UsSseau I"); cart I mrderful It ts supposed that these josses include The perll was #0 great that no member of pel gy sh . ' oo ni pete 2a i LN THE Po en ‘ MM find all three of these remarkab’, anid , le anil he has never | those sustained In holding Spion Kop the re Se 'srories In the ‘xt Sura: bioss-To} tch a snaiie pee P the Mite) Rtates You wii | ene day that Warren was [tn possession, but it le possible that they refer only to the family attempted to drees. Ali Ned in | somewhere o iw West Hie is said to =e Yee: their sleeping garments, and ran acrose the | Pave come direc 4 113 amet ep bi ite bins . CITY OY See ; _ Inthe Untied 8: ‘Ss tmete 7 bWhiee TS 1 firaed nap of the terpitory he has covered, eireet to the home of a relative. He Bil es rg Nan) “4 mot Fin cn cogggye + a 2 SUR i gape a ee ; the head of a family of 6 m , ‘th a half-tone picture Of himself, from | ‘ore seaulting from the flighting prior te The Apepbrinck residence was tn tmmil- | had extravagant echemes for the making REA 4 eiije of the factory and adjoins it. The but they coud 7 het plek out a single trans- > 3 time he made his n is then teh Shammetr. Bj : Apenbrinck residence is the next to the ee ese Serm to be thoroughly _ q : : Qepedhon rs Cag Sap oR | | ni i , ewever unfamiliar or | or ified ' iieiiiiel dala 5 what can ie Lehmann home, separated from it by «a Mr. and Mrs. Small had been living ' . ra on i therefore aspeaks from aut} She 4. f et ¥ fe "a Re yy - pe ne - 7 hewkeml at every Harsow strip of ground. Both residences | iehly in a fashionable apar ment Np eg i ve? 4 2 Pt =, | wisites]) Manila. I].} ul thes ff py Must] $j ; 5 ve iis reverses Wil #. [nepire the are frame buildings, two etories each. The the West hand Mss Samasl had been active ee as " ee aS ; ‘ J fh — ee towns. and was ae ony it) va 1 ' - be ve ' mas take the offensive eg factory was brick, two stories. a ie wane hes tn, fashionable = = E. > — Ya Gi 27! band dodged bull mt ¢ «| THE WEATHER INDICATIONS ba ' sto reform hie postin, The fire originated on the first floor of! a very talented wo: nn on hy. a} stain een ee “2 / 3 . : 41 : ~~ | ry well er tis Kine : o : and drive hit acre or into the Tugel, , ' . ; S Wes own T nhlere . . 4 . Ay , , ; —— , - ; - va or el gil | rtd oe. ee Sebo ¥ oA eT s ae ¢ will be. profusely iiustrated | THREATENING AND WARMER. | |! ** 80 abparent that Butler's unimpeded ’ a he nter They were left almost penniles | , “at : J ht F : ; ome] de nm « . ide ee" ' Kiver Was jpurt of tion of the alleys in the rear of the fac- Simian thea hike arte co ee me had | : a“ So 8 | | ;, , - mit ee ok — —e ee ate 1 _ vid me | ti! , Mt wee plan, that they meas tory building, when he discovered the fire ple. They went to New rk a =. Le . , Sd. \ : ; ; 1 a Crips sat’ r; wa rt ght z> " practi ally tmpret He ran throught the Alley into Twenty- | nataeageod ry: au ho teed on 3 oa \- eo ‘ Z a 44 y >. 3 oa ace s rowed . (*} ' © tires ' : nble. a: a force larce enough te third street and to the Lehmann home a a eort. wna ping Ne . 7§ ; ‘> a i 4 ad ot ’ aA tise atols re 4 vine thi el @ | the , sea? hres , , , atunday. fa: , tie! oree and ut off tte ree The, house Was on fire. The flames had! availed himself of tts OVibsios cai b. hen 9 +o ew” . Whit den etalla Be tr ewept through the factory and ignited the though nobody Rape iit ch a Sie) os ‘ ’ | 7% ; a Fecnonil “ \¢ , ’ ns | ' | PWT furmitio hout eoe-third of @ mite the eaves. A cloud of smoke poured our ws 1 ay off his St. Lou: $y dy Phas A, , — ~~ ) me sirikine ture of they ment § Be prin -cp% | a ae | rouds converge, and miles (rom Ladgemith, ED ON PAGE FOUR. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE The Post-Dispatch Poet. Sunday Post-Dispatch, This great siory,] Indieaapelis . mt —_ ——— ~< thee mG abet ee ae ee a li nt Ce. AOR Gee RP RONNIE. oma? ~< nor arnevene eR. RP “eg " = ee ee ee pen 3a SO - ba