St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 23, 1900

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, “Hainted to COMPLETE MAKKET KEPORTS. issouri City Challenges the World on a Peculiar Ground Regular Edition Most sober and efficient officials to be found in any municipality. See the Next Sunday Post- Dispatch. —— awe ee - ~ VOL. 82, NO. | 186 —_ + ——— ——— i —_——- - - 15-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT HIMStLt, a Louis Boecke Will Probably Die From the Wound. HE COULD GIVE NO REASON.’ -——_— —e- ~— — THE LATEST CORRECT STYLES | FROM TRE PRINCE of WA LES ‘YOUNGEST OF ALL THE WOULD. | BE SUICIDES. He Was a Helper in a Tinshop and Had Access to a Case Filled With Weapons That Were for Sale. tired of life or experts h.m- lriday A l5-year-old boy, either acting in euudiden tnaanits Ihe fail it “imperative conception‘ éclf while in his employer's morning. Louis Boecke is the name of the tInterest- ing young wauid-be suicide, Hiis parents lve at 92) Calliornia ‘nue, The iitile mware est: ablishment fT (Charles Zitko, at 7 North Ic Wihs avenue, Was thie scene of , Valls sat Store { irned by the police of : Kighth ) ht, the boy had mo motive firing upon himec.. "Plnere eems no ditation a@hout the act The pistol ne tiaes) Was one [rom the s ock of employer Young Beecke Writ to BY of mental dis:rese. His mother sister say he s.ept soundly retired Thursday eveniiye tn He reached ZitKo'’s shop a! the time iu aid Another erip.Vye, ' "omega Who lives at ZJS36 Manco ester as ue ene ht went to werk, after exocnanag.ts: cUus- temary greetings, tv ur shop in grder for the day's busines: Aly 7:15 gelock Bater stepped oul upol ie- walk. While standing In frovt of he heard the report of a piste. bts and through the elass deor saw Boecke on the floor. The revolver was by his side An open show ‘ated tha the new Weapon had just been tale . the stock. Itauer ran eponse to that he had shot done it ‘because he was bleeding freely Tight side. Kauer Mwing and Laclede man Ansdro, who the station house areund the corner on Manchester avenue. Ansbore returned to ihe station house for aid. @ Be patrol wagon and with Policeman Sullivan drove the injured boy to the Citv Hospital. As they were lifting the boy into the wakeon }ie Peeetes What he had said to Bauer that he had shot himself because he It was but a short drive to the ty Floe- ltal, and the patient was conscious when ited out of the weeon and taken to the operating room. Acting Superintendent Amyx assumed charge of the case, which he saw at once was serious. and celled his entire staff of eurgeons to ald him in per- forming laparotomy. Before going under the influence of anesthetics hoecke, again fin reply to a direct question, said that he had shot himself, but this time he sald he did not know why he did fit ‘The boy was TOO WARS Said wifle to her hubby dear’ “Give me a pinok and a half, 0, For I want to gu to the matinee To gaze on the style of Sapphe.’ oe -_— - — —— 7 - **Nay, nar, you cannot go,"" he sald, And ratsed a mighty storm, 9! “Yond eater @ terribie cold in y.ur head. The bouse will be so warm, ()' OLGA KNOTT. One time Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the new President of the National Woman's Suffrage ‘dation, was on ‘her way to Toicka, Kat... to attend a convention. On tne way she enzaged in conversation with two men, one of them a county judge and the other a newspaper ed.tor. Mrs. Catt is voung ance A few seats in front of them sat an angu.a: Woman of unccrtain age, spectacied and se- verely plain in her gar). “See that Woman yonder?” said the judge “I'll bet Asso n delegate to that rights convention up at Topeka.” “Sure,” sald the editor, ‘That hushand—never could get all the rights she needs, yet {ts gallivanting around the country asking for more." Mrs. Catt smiled changed the ject. When they rea Topeka she said to the judge: “s am Mrs. Cat. the wife of a Chicago banker. very well. She Is out here married daughter. She an suffrage. CGiood-bve. Moral: You can never tel). she's woman has no one—has and sub- ‘hed The lady in front is I know her to visit her many inieresting features of Post-Disputeh will be the love story of Olive Schreiner, the most celebrated woman tn South Africa, and an author of international reputation. She is the nemesis of one of the greatest men on earth, and has caused him end.ess trouble; for this is a story of hate, as weil us love, And a most remarkable story it is in every particular. Aside from Robert Browning and heizabeth Barnett and Shel- lev, the prot, and Mary Wollensveraft CGod- Win, there is probably not another case in Lite world in which two peop ly great were mixed up in a love net even when Edgar Allen Pow the hand of the beautiful poetess, Sarah Hieien Whitman, or when gay old Horace suught the favors of the inimortal Lydiu. Such a story speaks for itself, amd is its advertiser, You wiii tind it com- « ; Among the the next Sunday Sip eset Tillai- affair sought own bes* chal- city a city which produce a set of There is .n Misseour! lenges the world to officials as temperate, moral and as those by whom it Its governed earnest of good Mith it furnishes § the records of each of its officials. The next Sunday Post-Dispatch wlll publish a half- lone pleture of the city’s police force, which is the pride of every citizen Hlow many towns in Mi sour: can make a a milar boast” A St. Louta woman of wide which is now You will learn the next AS an About it and see her picture in Sunday Post-Dispatch. Another feature will be the story of an American gin who was the playmate of Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, and who Was recently a guest at the royal palace. The iast of the series of four articles on the study of vocal music in Paris will be contributed thie week by Miss Almee Mi- chel, a young woman of Brooklyn, who has sung in concert all over this country, and who i now In Paris putting the finishing touches on an already broad musical edu- cation. The half-tones in the next Sunday Post- Dispatch will be particulariy fine, ag well as numerous. Besides a number of indi- viduals and scenes, there will be two nota- ble groups—one of St. Louls women and an- other of beauties from Missouri and other States entered in the Pan-Americar Beau- ty Contest in connection with the Buffaio map ition. 2 is a wink? wns gy a German ecientist, a wink of one second. How and why wa wick will be told by this eminent etu- dent and fllustrated b iss Blanche Bates, actress, in the neat Sunday Post-Dispatch. reputation ! THING Lords last Prince IN HATS. Mtg » Lord Weymess, drove it Tuesday in ges- ot Wales and down over Old hats will be in great demand, And “hand-me-downs" will have a rush, ‘ince Albert Edward has seen fit To cultivate this stvle of ‘“‘crush. a FELL HHUM TC a stylish dresser, | | PIPE MUST BE EMPTIED OF ITS. woman's | A tte ts a — is opposed to wom- (to the efficient | | 10 dJewrees ' usar WATER TOWER, George Cross in the Bottom of a Stand Pipe. FIRE ENGINES WERE CALLED. WATER. It Will Be Hours Before Help Can Reach Him and MeanwhNe Nobody Knows Whether He Is Alive. fseorge Cross of S250 Belleview avenue is at the botcom of tue standpipe at the water tower at Twentieth street and Grand -ave- nue, His fate is undecided, but it is sup- posed that he has been killed. Hie fell into Water at the base of the Sitandpipe. Fire engines have and are pumping tiie been called scene wutler out, Cross is a painter. Friday the water was lowered in the standp.pe until only abeut l> feet remained. Cross was then ler down by means of a painter's small soaffold the Pipe. an tne imside of the tower, woieh ix 140 feet high and six feet in circumfer- eliee between l2 and 1 o'clock he was being he. sted to the top by other workmen The scaffold was near the top waen 1 ropes becaine entangied anil (‘ross Jost h. balinee aml piunged down througa ss the tube to the bottom. Hie struck the water at the bottom of the pripre lt is net known whet Ki.led him or whether he There are ropes Water and it is considers may have caught one of ing to it Walting to be rescued This Cannot lee accomplished until Water is pumped out, be there way of descending Into the inside of Pipe. (‘ross is 34 vears old, has two ehildren. —_—_—— - - —--—™ ? litte ? }y ; hmanping ause He is married ; COLD WAVE COMING RAPIDLY — -- > —— Thermometer Degrees Above Zero by Sunday, So Dr. Hyatt Says. Satisfied his appetit eokhl Wave « Ior. Hyatt has not for winter and has another the way from. the northwest It is due to reach St Louis Saturday night, and the genial doctor predicts that Sunday will be fair, with a temperature of above zero That will be the thermometer'’s jowest point on this part.- wave. “There's a. little low south of us,” the weather man Friday. ‘“‘and I think that we will get a few snow flurries night The high Is coming fast and be here to-morrow night sure. I dont look for lower than 10 degrees. It Is (Oo late in the season for cold waves to amount ty much.” THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. COLD WAVE. Fair Saturday. preceded by srow flu: ries Fridays night. cold wave Missourt—Fair Saturday, preceded by ries in weet portion Friday afternoon and possitly in east portion at night; «all wave lilipneis—Snew flurrica Friday night; fair; cold wave. Here and Elsewhere at 7 a. m. Kansas City LAit.e Rock New Orleans .. St. Loule Shew flur Saturday St. Loutes New York (bicago .. Cincinoatl Cleveiand Denver Galveston Ww sablagten ce eee | Indianapolis .... ....34 ! | MCRE CLERK Will Go Down to Ten | afte ee ay or | will | ; ih}. i t td by the a Pt Er. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SWORN AVERAGE 8UNDAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 142,344. TEN PAGES _ FRIDAY EVENING— ST. LOUIS—FEBRUARY r 23, 1900 PE A 8 RT eet PE Ee ee ee ral Pan ond -_ we, ik _ *€ Regular Edition COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. _ | How to Kill a Man Who Wants to Kill You. By Col. of self- defense Jack Chinn. The science by one of Gov. Goe- bel’s bodyguard. ee ~ — ge - PRICE: | sa a ve a Cente See. the —— ee — -— --- _-- ‘Next ‘Sunday Post- Dispatch. a STAR ROUTES LONDEM: fissourt Postmasters Say the System [s Ve rong. 'WORK OF THE CONVENTION. | ‘ HIRE FOR THIRD) AN] 4 OQOURTH CLASS. | Postmaster Kelly of Mcberley’s Ad- dress Called Forth an Interest- | ing Liscussion of Post- office Work. abd the }? i slow CUNTINUED FROM PAGE THREE. }be practically impossible for Lu:ler to send the Cape Coluny, who are certainiy, new 'enftilading the Liritish | gradually to} . ; . . : : ! wey cone Shelled. The | ©) bush \rible exe ( The Jona Itne py Like veoke t ; Garyaye. TUESDAY'S ARTILLERY BATTLE CONTINUOUS FIRE OF BRITISH CANNON FAILS TO DISLODGE CRONJE’S ARMY. Vivid Description of Monday and Tuesday’s Battle, Showing the Bravery and Desperation Boers. off to the east, presumably engaging the oer reinforcements. Every opportunity was given the Boers to surrender, but when towards afternoon there was no sign of any such intentions, Lord Roberts determined to try to crush Cronjec's army. (on the south bank of the Modder, at a Jey yards, three field bat- naval 12-pounders were (on the north bank end river, one howltser, three naval 4.7 range of about teries and two placed in postition, whole tnree fleld batteries and Buns Were placed Then fol the most wonderful seene ever Was my lot to witness. Once Thessaly I had seen 110-cannon in awction, but never such a number of pow- erful guns concentrating thelr fire upon a spot about a mile saquare. The exploding iyddite sheils raised great clouds of green smoke, completely filling the bed of the river. The shrapnel burst on the edge of each bank, for a «hort space where low em except the proximity of the Hritish infantry made it «dangerous, QOur-shells searched every and every ravine of the river bed The enfilading guns must have done ter- ution. The roar Was deafenirg. of heavy batteries belc'ied while on each elide lay two infantry. whose Maasima i petty beside the roaring big guns. bhoe rs miet this storm of shells with ‘eUN at thelr command, and while the comoardment was at its height their eharp- laxedl their efforts to pick Kunhers of every British battery ‘aANnoes, battilions of peed ‘ra hhever re he Roers suffered is not in the middle of a sleeping ound disturbs the heavy Lbown itn the is seen, not a cry tire] 1ot a tire soldiers. tragio In the atern (‘ronje is hopelessly lmposs ble not to admire his condemn the wickedneag of icing the lives of his brave ifrig (sen, some! Which HOW THE ENGAGEMENT BEGAN, PAAR ES Mh libde. rs Cure stl tie fuestay, Feb. 3—On Siath Diviston and reinforced by the Ninth i" miirehed from Klip Drift te ~) mlies, morning the march con. d Koodoo's Rand. When five nemy Was discovered, lining the fiver, Which at this point “emi-cirevlar bend, At the bend we saw the Boer ite on the north aide, the kopjes overiookwing tne drift, They were also ov- force, estimacved at command of Gen. ~t? st ive pg '? -_ » ow ring tirhue d teow ptart Glhe « tiris ) shel, i > «OTe etieluy Ss ifiebe yl Lines ing parallel with the river e+ meet th Oank The Highianders, We ~0, beesex and Yorkshire Regi- ‘se nheel making for the river in » direetion inio the berid. Gen. oriwade crossed the river exposing the enemy to our infantry then iying ery by degrees drove the our guns coneentrating thelr Kopjes 2h reg .ment seized the drift east langer, cutting the enemy tn half, CveUn, pountes! inf, intry amd horse artil.. om toe following morning, cireulated i 4d south of the kopjes and got between ocemy amt hos iines of re reat. Prench, x ‘rom Kimberley, re.nforced our 1 trix ms ars completed the circie, investing Cronje's posi Uon, oye 7) qfi je teLy Joubert ta sending and tt seems prob- luv at least i048 Boers king distance of Paardeberg,. enthusiasm over HRoberts’ opefe with a ch ll by rumors that eited the General's: te- engagements with has met Off ce in regard to his ronje The war critics and experts placed eon- lence in the report of disas- ter because of the long ttet of killed and wounded officers. including Gen. MacDon- {CONTINUED ON PAGE FWOs siderable cre 7 wt. ew ewe ae ne re