St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 13, 1887
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5 FOR SELECTING YOUR CHRISTM Come Marly This Week and Look Through Our Splendia Stock Die cconts Suits and Trousers NEW, mad 40 us for the Holida Trade and each and every lot a 14 we ask for it. A ahop- worn goods are well sold Vor Men, Boys and Children. All W at any price; ; we have no such odds and ends to offer in our Send for ples and Fashion Pla - BROWNING, KING & CO., Cor. Broadway and Pine. 9. C. Young, Manage — — — — w —— —ö ̃ꝗ • KKK —3²Aiñ * * ˙¹³ —˙vßßf ˙ ꝛ˙Q̃̃ʃ ˙? ˙ . Ä * 00 ES. THE TRADE OFT MEXICO. DO THE FISHERY FUSS. A Refuge for Girls, a NO L . HO From Alb Who ls I | INGS IN THE COURTS. 15 Some well-known ladies organized in June 75 4 e e rte 0 Nn — ‘ The Commissioners Agree to Disagree— last what is known asthe St. Louis Institu- U ARE D E A i NC — 7 SOME CHANGES MADE IN THE NEW SPRINE- A PIKE COUNTY ATTORNEY DISBARRED BY Canada’s Unreasonable Demands. tional Mission, a home for girls who have gone L 2 Bernhard Kraussmann of Albuquerque, N. PLAN ALS By Telegraph to the Post-Disratou. astray. The Home is — 8919 South Fifth hes n ay tale M., in the course of a conversation with & A WASHINGTON, D. O,, Deoember 18.— There street. The officers meet every Monday at : Post-DIsPATOH reporter in the corridor of the was not much surprise in diplomatic cireies in | 2712 4 oer — 12 ——- = the — To Provide Against Objections That Might Southern Hotel to-day remarked: read an | The Penalty for Retaining a Client’s Money | Washington when it was learned that the Fish- | make 3 1 A. pubile’ institutions — Be Urged by Persons Interested in De- article in the Posr- Drsraron the other day in —A Warning to several Young City Law- | ery Commissioners acting on the part of Cana- | distribute literature, wearing apparel, e feating the Scheme fer a General and | Teference to the scanty supply of water in the yers—Judge Rombauer's Opinion In the | da and the United States had agreed to disa- Cheap Sprinkling of the City Next Year— Rio Grande, and the impossibility of de- Case—The Union Mutual Policy-Holders | gree, The sessions have been going on in the Hore is — Christmas List: Rattan Chairs, Clocks, Watches, Jewel Street Commismoner Turner's Sugges- | pending upon the supply for anv extensive to Be Paid at Once—A Petition of Bank State Department in this city for the | bums, — & 22 and Stand Lamps, New Steel Engravings, Ope } tions Carried Out—Perfecting Council. , Tstem of irrigation. Ihave had many years Directors Overruled—Toe-day’s Divorce, past month. The last session was 22 T ot — igus’ Regers’ Silverware, ete. Picture ; man Blakely’s Bill. sacs Bee'oet ol the Aseuuien tat cobetey bor |. Deeket Neid dn S, be ene be- to order. Open every nig 2 The members of the Municipal Assembly 1 eventire = Parag 2 A The Court of Appeals ‘to-day rendered a de- ee 1 Bog is 5 * 2 ns ING U ALLS, LS, : 1007 OLIVE STREE | who have taken the street-sprinkling project made. 4 received a letter from El] cision in the matter of John W. Buchanan of E oe wens ent. Geneta”s N Eng. Brea . in hand are displaying laudabie zeal in their | F K e Pike County, an attorney charged. with im- most gotive representative was Sr N efforts to perfect the plan in every detail, an d — dry. Some — 4 above 5 4 — properly retaining his client’s money. The 8 Tupper, a conservative politician, | Sy Chinese Tea Chest — — — 5 — n is ust out of a feverish to remove all cause of objection to ita adop- seen the time when we had to make opinion was written by Judge Rombauer and = aS where the Ssbery disnate tion. In the Council the onty opposition en - . the Bio — oan “al a Judge Thompson concurred in it. Judge formed the principal feature, and who is there- countered came from Mr. Duross, who] water for our animals to drink. To an — Lewis was absent. Mr. Buchanan is removed | fore not regarded as 80 judicial a diplomat as was an ardent worker for the bill now at all acquainted with the country, the idea of | from the bar of the State as an attorney | the occasion demands. Sir Oharies’ TR. 8 and chief reliance has been George Foste — in force, and whose opposition to the new bill „ land with water at law. The complaint against bim was Minister of Fisheries, who has been in this ' | : was entirely due to the fact that he doubted | «another matter that I — — heard exten. entered by John W. Sharpe. On the 8th of | country watching Canada’s interests and who = SD AY TY the practicability of the plan. Instead of for- | sively discussed since I came to the es * June, 1888, Buchanan, as attorney for C. M. has acted on the plan to obtain everything 2 ti N se Canada and to give nothing to America, warding the bill to the Council and hurrying it | Continued Mr 1 1 Switzer, collected trom D. D. Woodward, | joseph Chamberlain and the British Minister, through the Assembly, the Committee on SS beneht “thas the country | Sheriff of Audrain County, $131.50. He Mr. West, have represented Great Britain, nom- Ways and Means of the House has had the bill | at large, Louis in particular, | was repeatedly requested to pay ome nar e representatives of she, United * 5 7 Washin gton Av. and Eleve nth St., returned to them by the House of Delegates will secure by obtaining what is called tne it over, but he refused to do 80. Ww . Putnam of Maine and Prof. Ainsworth and at a session held at 8 o'clock | try from the City ;| When the matter reached the court he of Michigan. — 214 8 8 y of Mexico north, and think I 7 8 N Be : this afternoon added on two amend- | can jadge with oe degree of 9 vase filed an answer to the citation, admitting that Secrets Bayard’s. proposals aa 1 *. enn Have a Large and Assortment of 4 s trade wou mount to. wis cou ments, one to remove an objec n — a 32 he bad collected the money and bad refused the correspondence that assed between tion that has already been urged, and one paramount importance the country and the to pay itover onthe ground that Mr. Switzer | him, Minister Phelps and the ritish Minister 7 nt cup of this Royal Tea i : to meet a possible objection tothe plan. The people whom rf concerns. As regards * was indebted to him for outlays in attending of Forelun — . — — 3 = — 1 ML. 7 — — —— and i invi go 2 5 bill now under consideration simply describes the Oley od lenin, wig eg bw. (Oe to his business, examining records, directing nations our vessels were entitled to enter Ca- atie Ask your grocer for it. 11 * the necessity and character of the amendment | fertile, the land is badly wa- | levies and bringing suits to enforce collection | nadian ports with the same freedom that Ca- to the City Charter, providing that street| tered, remote from communication and [ot the executions in the above sum, and that | nadian vessele were enabled to enter our / 4 BO TELL GROCERY CO. sprinkling shall be utterly 2 — 9 — aay dense pop- | the 2 were reasonably worth the whole . 9 n Hn the “United Staves 5 ulation. utside of its mines the country pro- | amount. RTM PAID FOR BY A SPECIAL TAX LEVIED duces nothing that cannot be found none At the hearing, however, it was shown in ev- | Claimed that its most stringent and disaxree- THE 3 8 r Such as Stationery in Plain and Fancy Boxes, Auto- against the property per front foot. When United States, and there is little chance 2 idence that Mr, Buchanan, upon his own 80- 8 LN — y 9 2 ‘ aph and Photograph Albom Pocket-Books, Card obtaining anything we want from Mexico, 8 | licitation, was engaged to assist in the collec- 4 Ca De mer em te ok SN ane 3 1 “heed be to selling the Mexicans anything, to one a- tion ofa jud ment recovered by John W. | other hand, adhered ey and un waveringly ’ 1 en We i ta, Collar an Cuff orwarded to the Mayor, who will give sixty] quainted with their habits and financial con- Sharpe against James Jobnston and Henry O. to the treaty of 1818 in its original state, with- Boxes for Ladies and — 2 Comb days’ notice of an election at which dition the idea 10 a simply laughable. Nocivil-|McPike, and he was informed at — l — j oo Soe and Brush Sets, 1 Bante Sets. Wee -Boxes, Jewel the proposition to pay for sprinkling ized people world have such | the time that his compensation a nef es yee n 8 11 ey chi. is x Boxes, and a large — — — assortment of simple pa as the Mexicans, and | could in no event exceed 10 | Miles from the shore une and nothing eise— iti 1 7 k by aspecial tax will be voted on. In the they have no money to provide per cent upon the amount realized. An While Canada claimed that the limit meant Novelties — d FRESH ass Goods. This stock is sprinkling — By coy verge wil be ents sro. bane shemeskves 4 with Fp others 82 3 vee 2 22 upon the jadgwent to „ imaginary line running all NOW sae Gall early and make your the necessities of life, even if the the use of © Switzer and it was levie o the citizens vote to adopt the plan the ordi- inclination, which they have not. 57 course | upon certain lands in Audrain County. The] In reterring to the break ap of the Commis- selections before the choicest are sold. nance will be adopted and under its provisions | in the cities, which are very few in number, sale took place and the Sheriff paid over the | 8ion, Congressman Nelson Dlngley of Maine Street Commissioner Turner and the Board of the same general stvie of living prevails asin | proceeds to Buchanan as the attorney for | said ‘last night to the Post-DISPATCH corre- Public Improvements will let out contracts for other paris of the world, but A the country, | Switzer. He did not remit, however, or | spondent: It hae been no secret that the sprinkling the streets for the coming year. and 90 per cent of the population of Mexico is | assign any cause for his failure to do so. vommissioners were unable to agree. On the | In the committee this afternoon an amend- rural, beyond alittle cotton and calico the The Court of Appeals says: No mitigating | three-mile limit I know that Sir Charles Tup- * wigs ment was made to remove a possible objec-| people want nothing at all that we can pro- circumstances have been shown in this ouse, per said no to our proposal. Mr. Bayard pro- AMUSEMENTS. AFTER LONG IEA — . PD DDL —ñ—U OOOO n —ꝛꝛ˙̃ͤͤͤ— x8 . tion. duce, and have nothing to exchange for althoush every opportun ty has been offered | posed that a treaty. Sir Oharles Tupper The ordinances provide that where work is they did. They spin their own cloth, | Mr. Buchanan to adauce them if they existed. | responde t according to the treaty of OPF paid for by special tax against the property| grind their own meal, make their The charge has been established by vacontro- | 181s, he did a proposal to sell us the GR ADD — Sar adjoining the bills shall be made out and own shoes when they wear any, and are as verted evidence and it is therefore ordered | right to fish in Cinadian waters and to let our o ° turned over to the contractor, in payment, for nearly self - su porting as human beings can | and adjudged that John W. Buchanan be and fishing vessels enter their ports, providing we Every Evening f l RM ANN j collection. It is conceded that under this ar- well be. Outs of his land, cattle and horses he is hereby removed from the barof this did certain things. anat‘a’s proposal LL ¶ the Premier rangement the contractors, of whose ability | the average Mexican family does notown $20| State. on one side and Mr. Bayard’s proposal : Prestidigitateur, to organize the city has already had d does not spend a bun- onthe other have been butting each other Wizard and Humorist, tis Struggles of some experience, could seater. bn — e eee tradesman. Te Comfort tor Policy-Holders. over sings the Sommisston 1 * me We * = * The One Original and Only The It aur and 75 noperative. Ss propos a 0 8 f opulat.on being o took the groun iat it we with peo- HUSSEY—Tuesday, December 13, at 8. m., 10 shall be turned over to the Collector —— meee — shenadc ing Ot Judas Lubke to-day granted an order in the | pie allowed Canada with 8,000,000 to enter our 5 — saan 44 te, Assisted by Mmo. Heermana in \Veastne oui, a St. Lolisan Il the Endeavor and not to the contractor. In order to make returns of the Mexican Central Railroad will| estate of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance ports, Canada should not complain. Canada, Funeral. Wednesday, December 14, at 2 p. m., | FATA MORGANA, Magique Improvista, etc. hak 0 7 1 this change legal it was deemed necessary to] show thatthe amount ot freight carried has Company authorizing Supt. Carr, who is which is after a reciprocity treaty and is ad- 4 281 Mill street. Friends And the latest Parisian sensation, BLACK ART! 8 0 ff 9 ampire ee 1 add another proviso to the ordinance defining | been insignificant. I venture to say that the ; justing the fishery dispute, wishes to obtain | from residence. 4% „ S tf | how the bills shall be collected. Another ob- trade of the whole country does not amount to winding up the concern, to pay the fire losses | this greater concession from us but our Com- quested to attend. Matinees Wednesday an 7. the Foy of Sparta, 1 Was € stacie presented itself. The contractors half as much as that of the smallest State in allowed at once. This will consume about missioners have sid that this latter is amat-| yarpyzws—on Tuesday, December 13, at 8 0X? Week—BATE CASTLETON. rae ' MUST RECEIVE THEIR PAY MONTHLY, the Union, and if the United States obtained | $25,000. The petition of the Mer-, ter not to be considered until after the fishery WX. T. M 480 8 th otherwise only the wealthy sprinkling con- the whole of it the effect would be inappre- | chants’ National Bank Directors | affairs are out „f the way. Our Commisston- * m., WX. T. MATTHEWS, age yoass © menue at* His Vitals. cerns would be able to take contracts and | eiable. for payment at once of $15,000, | ers huve said im so many words: ‘We don't and 15 days. : — — . = A — par aes — oe a sum borrowed by the company prior to dis- propose be give you whee. we — 3 have by | Funeral services at residence, 24921 Olive street, = 3 — fo © - 0 solution, for payment of losses on fire pol - e comity of nations.” On this the Canadian ‘ : i ’ ; To-night, Wednesda Thare bey. an ; * You Can Depend On It pay p * Wednesday, December 14. 1887, at 1:30 o'clock 8 nen When Almost Upon the Verge of D —_IN—— would to shut out the poorer contractors ' icies, was overruled and the claim will rank | Commissioners have gone home to consult from competing for the work, leaving a] That when the Globe advertises an article | for payment with the claims of other cred- | their authorities,’’ pennies octane fore anahanentee Gti a Sat B F te M H n of loge shan Balt Gozen | they have it. They are selling children’s | itors. gre court also decided that the claim) {(What will be the upshot?!” | ‘ SCHAPER—Our beloved father and grandfather, y a Fortuna ove He m » Givic- E B. Kimball will a t I ‘It is clear that unless Canada changes her CHAP ‘ m. — * e * A mans 563 8 ee ＋ prin: ** of C. Cucreit and bovebinn we Felde position there can be no — to . N 2 7 ears. eee ee eT e J o n and suits at $1.69. eir $2.50 an 50 su The policy- holders take preced d o you look for any great delay?’ g KYLL AND HYD ngra labor and an expense for clerical hire, which and overconts are sold elsewhere at $5 —s procadence Sader the | ee wil eemne together | Funeral vin take place from residence, 1528 Bon- DR. JEKYLL am. *. a would amount to several thousand dollars an- . again in January. So far as we are concerned, | ton street, Thursday, December 15, at 1:30 p. m. Founded on Stevenson's strange sto One of the happiest men in St. Louis to-day is . To overcome these objections the bills GLOBE, 705 to 713 Franklin avenue. After Twenty-Nine Years. the question is whether we are to have com- Relatives and friends invited to attend. und- BLIND. onsteur. | Sein 8. Newton of 2718 Second Carondelet , made out for 81 months, lete privileges. It is possible that the Cana- — a and placed in the hands of the Collector. A RIDICULED RUMOR. A petition for divorce was filed to-day by | Alan Commissioners will return next month In Chi st 1 7 icht E: F n anticipation of collections the city will pa Ohas. M. Thomas against. Mary B. Thomas, | a different frame of mind. You must under- LZ l : A * * * ris mas. Oa POPE S To-N = * the radical change. Mr. Newton said: ‘I have bees the bills monthly out of a common fund, The Brewers’ Pre d Blacklist Considered | They w ied A t. 1887 the | stand that we do not base our position on the To this plan the Coltector’s office is said to gee n — . » Cae oe treaty of 1818. Then no vessel had aright to Satur great success, | troubled wi ic catarrh f years, du urge the objection that some bundred thousand Very Visionary. separation occurred in August, 188, twenty- enter a foreign port, But times have a 8 5. 0 0 O yore pride 2 "| which time *. aul the dollars“ worth of specia! bills now remain un- nine years later, Mr. Thomas complains that since then. gislation bas softened the ’ s que collected, and thatto heap another hundred Ene Fepord thes She brewers hed Copermiaed his wife leit him without cause or provocation | rigor us provisions of treaties in force then. +r see Cone — — ‘prominent phiyatalana, 2 or two bundred on the force will clog the to blacklist parties signing local option peti- on his part. Nations have advanced in comity relation - n dic witho wheels of that section of the municipal tions was circulated yesterday quite exten- ” snip.’ ty ” SPECTACLES and FYE-GLASSES Next Sunday Matinee—THE TWO JOHNS. tent medicines | ens fe government. Such an objection if seriously | sively in certain quarters. It was investigated Wereqhen Without Cause, As the matter stood last night the Canadian ARE THE BEST. Peer ee bee ood urged will invite an investigation of the A petition for divo has b filed in th Commissioners haye gone home to talk it qe TrANDARD. enial tubes: at times I expectorated blood, duties and work accomplished by the Col- | by a PosT-DIsPaTCH reporter but no evidence. pewsion voree Bas en u the over with Sir John Macdonald, and the sweats and was on the road to lector’s office to ascertain the justice of the | of such a movement was disclosed. Promi- Circuit Court by Elizabeth Luntz against John | chances of reaching an amicable adjustment e Punto to Nightly at 8; Matiness 1 Saturday and argument and the amount of business done by | nent liquor men interviewed scouted the idea | H. Luntz. They were married in May, 188, are in the remote future. | a Keer, gt g q SS Fw nn A = REILLY ü & : WOOD'S : BIG : SHOW. th N OUNCILMAN BLAKELY and said such a biacklist would de and they separated in January, 1886. Mrs. World to-day said of the new epee sling plan which | ridiculous, as many persons are signing the Lunts allezes that her husband deserted her OUR NEIGHBORS, The Largest Venter ie er . ith 50— he has fathered: the amendments 4 — who have no use for robibition, Without cause, and she has not heard anythin -an Burlesq made in the House 2 to-day the bill — d hope at an election the —— spring to | Of him. . BUY A PAIR FoR A CIF + Next week: . Mey me cul meets about every objection that we can see give the question a defeat that will settie it A petition for divorce was filed in the Circuit | Items of Interest and Gossip From the Ad- velty Company. at present. In order to cover possible r some time. For that reason a blacklist | Court to-day by Gracie Short against John P. jacent Towns. ints that may be invoked to’ prevent would be unfair, and moreover would be in- Short. The marriage took place in October, 500 OF T CASES | PEOPLE’S THEATER. ts being - carried into effect, the committee | effective against 5,000 or 10,000 persons in a 1884, and the separation occurred in Septem- Joplin, Mo., December 12.—The ladies of Ww Saturday, Sunda has, at the suggestion of Street-Com missioner — The local eptionise joined in ber, 1886. Gracie alleges that John P. deserted | our Great Tabernacle Church (Congregation- OP ERA“ Teens. Un ot the Gases Young Gomationme.” TT * as amended, forwarded to the Coun: | tests in the Stste the Haven Opera-house on Wednesduy.— * MA 1E VICKERS they say, the opposition — : * zor, IAMONDS.”’ cil, where the amendments willi be concurred | has never thought of ado ting any such nenn Miss Emma Sellars bas left to visit Kansas | N ez senday Night Dec. 18-AUGUSTIN NEUVILLE, — without 2 ory Bay bill will be ordered | scheme, realizing that it might act as a boom- In the divorce case of Wm. F. Gray against * pact Lanyon of Pittsbur ge ag .. 1 oe „The Boy Tramp engrossme © next meeting of the] erang. Mary H. Gray the petition of the husband was 2 tire 1 Randall bas 1 re pee 0 CAGSINO, Fourth and Walnut Streets. Oouncil and House it will be signed by the rés diag * em — Mh abu, of both Now isthe time to buy your holiday pres- | dismissed to-day in Judge Lubke’s court for 1 visiting her —— — 5 ohes and forwarde the Mayor. The want of security for costs and the cro and is happy at his convalescence from sick. ; Monday Evening, December 12, vote onthe amendment to the charter can ee seer: a. eee ee ere ee er * n ness. — 82 Circuit Court continues open and 7 . saTsUNA’s u 0..LD OF NOVELTIES. then be taken during the last week in Febru- | every dollar's worth you buy at the St. Louis —— was dismissed for want of prosecu- | many prisoners have been brouabt from Car- if the amendment carries we will] Clothing Company, Polack’s old stand. The divorce case of Marp E. Smith pgainst thage fortrial, among whom the distinguished pt , ee A, Chas e Spicy Cou | —— t city generally and satisfactorily J Rev. (Break- out) Heuly is conspicuous. Ver- . . : headache ames F, Smith was dismissed to-day in the . nto . „ WILL HOLD THEIR FIRE. Ciroult Court by Judge Lubke for want of | bar Jasper and Jefferson Oley will res enter’ Pip | Admission, G0 and 25e, Matinees Tuesdays, Thar 10 sorte prosecution and failure to file security for | tein him. Ars. Bolkin of Jupiin, bas won 8 g 22 nacious mucous. Mothers Read This Local Optionists Will shoot Off No Big Guns | Costs. ) several awards for high-bred poultry at the re- 22 : ey — wand 5 ca of ma Till the N d. cent exhibit at Curthage.——Business and PS | And buy serisibie presents for the little ones at e e e Es Dissatisfied on Both Sides. Kr ai } : be Carriage: Drivers Society — yen awning a and the St. Louis Olothing Company. No humbng The Local Option Central Committee met Cape Girardeau, Mo., December 11.—Mr. clear the ; roat; expecterations Judge Seddon to-day rendered a decision ? | ; : : ight B. F. Davis, a prominent young lawyer here, I Will give ite first Annual Ball to-morrow (Wednes- with scabs here but real facts. last night and decided motto go abend with overruling the exceptions of both the plaintiff | was — ut Dover, Del. , on Navember 9, ; * * enn. at e bad Sn antes Children’s suits that were sold for any big meetings until after the petitions are and the defendant in the suit of Leahy against | to Miss O. Wapler. After a wedding tour to 9 MASONIC H a LL. jmental” depres am Turner, made some nen es. We expedt the ridiculing the notion, and declared it would | her without any cause. alists), open their annual festival and bazaar billto be reported to the House to- night, | be a playing into their hands. In all the con- to-m rrow, Tuesday, and will continue it at an of wi now $1.50. filled and ready for presentation. The sug- New Lark, Washington, 12 Fulls, to., — Ay: 20 gestion from some that the securing of names | Hermaun, upon which a referee had made 4 they arrived here this week and have taken 50 —— He. a E under ov . na 888 sold tor would de rendered easier by beginning the — ed 87 ie the re. — ote Oe a as Louie 7 1 ices to! AIN T LL Bat. sid ee = we oe. | > 1 5 ees 0 we ae sedan yy a | x — 4 ot . 2 ty 7
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