St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 20, 1891

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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19, 1891, stationary temperature. HOT! I ve got lots of things that are L! COOL! cker Coats and Vests at $7.50 nd Vests at $5. Our hundreds COST. Straw Hats—what’s ing. Boys’ Flannel Waists ced prices. Also many lines of Knee-Pant Suits, sizes to 14 ; $5.50 to $10; just the thing is. You will find them in Our 117 REY & CO da Pine. 9 — — — — MISSES FEET e slang of the day, find gular Pienicꝰ g them this week at Ne & Brother's orth Broadway, lation of the finest and most ‘Slippers, in small sizes, regu B63 to $5 a pair, will be sold at rom 1, 133 to 25. Give this goods will go quickly. — 2 --— r in Summer Styles. = END SALE! Buy Coods at Price. | Now. it—Come Now. urself or boy - Come Now. t- Come Now. urnishing Goods—Now is Odds and Ends for about SHOE AND . CLOTHING CO. trRANKLIN AV. nes UntiliOP. M.; Saturdays Until li P. N. ’ filled. — - JUDGE POLLARD PRESIDED. Thich Came Upinthe Second Dis- trict Police Court. Je™ Pollard dispensed justice in a „ impartial manner in the Second ie ‘(ourt this moening. Judge with several contusions on ‘stained In boarding a Broad- urt, Monday. who works ing is “entitled to all the And respect in the world. . ‘gnot ber virtue. If it were mand babies I would give i willl give you $25 and costs. raus manner in which rebuked Mrs. Clancy, a big, 1 “oman for disturbing the peace Hunt who lives at 1401 North Sixth n delicate hard working works from 7 o'clock in the at night. She broke ls when this it appears ‘lancy $8 which she has t from her. That is the f Yesterday Mrs. Clancy er vile names and im er cl ter. Mrs. Clancy said the rum ip for spite. Court i that light. Mult a copper-colored negro with a battered nose and f court plaster on bis head. is appearance a front he iracas transpired in use last evening and Jake Hensy and John ete arrested as bein among his as- > ia 13 hard for ’ in it | 1 itthe evidence a ust them was ut strong. hey were P ind Nellie Donnelly, neither of creleftat bome alone dy ‘tileht. They invited some 1 1 and rushed the can, They , and Nelife claimed truck her witha beer glass. It (that Nellile was the cause of all *, 2NG she was fined . Her little 118. irgeq uin infringed on the sacred i james Hardy yesterday and ‘hout a city permit. Sanl- 1 1 ; ‘UnnDiInghnam ap ing, and he was fined ard Reagan, Ted Priteh- MirTreilin uty were fined 610 each for . urs. ‘© “eather caused the down- an, Frank Oorruga, e280, Fred Lermert and John each fined $6 for being : — 5 Row in a Ticket Office. “rey, a clerk in (laude 's ticket Poplar etre et, and Joseph Tappao : lex, had a a last q : ticket. Int 1 5 an was struck . 7 Do. NOstrument and knocked y enh were arrested. : — * kin oA cars the Standard, ‘Se W 1S Tat! Subscribe for the POST-DISPATCH DAILY AND SUNDAY. FIFTEEN CENTS PER WEEK BY CARRIER. ost Di You get. your them in the which goes into more homes in St. Lowis than 9 All the Other English Papers Combined. --POST-DISPATOH HINT — — VOL, 42.—NO. 280. * ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20. 1891 at PRICE, FIVE CENTS. — CAPRIVI MUST GO, Sr Sg HELD UP AFREIGHT|2.torweccue” "=" |AT BAY AT LAST. [tern tcrscecememr@ SCAFFOLD HORROR The Emperor Reducing the Importance of the Chancellor’s Office. 9 PRINCE HENBY TO ATTEND TO AFFAIRS OF STATE. Rumors That the Chancellor Will Resign— Queen Victoria Views the French Fleet in Osborne Bay—The Italian Financial Situation—Chili’s Revolution—Foreign News. nent, Aug. 20.—There are strong rumors afioat of Caprivi’s approaching resignation. The Chancellor has for some time past been on formal terms with the Kaiser, owing to bis dtsapproval of measures that the Kaiser approved, and it is sald thatthe Kaiser is willing that Caprivi should go, but does not wish to drive him away. The Kaiser is gradually reducing the ‘he office of Chancellor to less importance, it being his purpose to have Prince Henry his chief representative, and to put the Prince to attending to some of the imporlant functions now discharged by the Chancellor. It is claimed in behalf of this change that Prince Rismarck when Chancellor exaggerated the office and arrogated duties that belonged to royalty. Theinterview between the Kaiser and Caprivi on Wednesday is said to have been attended with unusual warmth, al- though Caprivi immediately afterward went about the business of the empire as if nothing had occurred, A PUZZLE TO ITALIANS. IN SPITE OF THE BIG TREASURY DEFICIT ABUNDANT CROPS. Rome, Aug. 20.—The papers are now declar- ing that the deficit for the last fiscal year will prove to be 90,000,000 lire ($18,000,000) or 20,- 000,000 lire ($4,000,000) more than so far om: cially reported. The new economies proposed are expected to restore an equilibrium for the year 1491-2. But these are of such a nature as to call forth the remark that they seem to be attempts to stop an infinite number of spig- got holes while the bung is left wide open as required by the engagement of the Triple Al- Uance. The financial situation has become still more trying because of the recent fall in Italian bonds and the rise in the price of gold. Whythis has occurred just at the present time when there is a prom- ise of abundant crops—when all the real con- ditions of finance, of the Treasury and econ- omy should warrant an advance—isa puzzie to Italians. The balance of trade is more fa- vorable than for years and yet the premium on gold continues toadvance. There are all kinds of speculation as to the causes of these fluctuations. The supporters of the Govern- ment claim that itis purely the action of bears on the Stock Exchange. The supporters of OCOrispi allege that it is because the Government has not made the arrangements that he was accustomed to make to insure support at Berlin when Italian funds were attacked in Paris. All parties apparently fall to realize that France is and has been for years the natural outlet for a large proportion of Itallan exports and that Paris has been the money centeron which Italy has relied and must continue to rely as a market for her bonds. No one seems to understand why the renewal of the Triple Alliance and the negotiations for the formation of a com mer- ciel alliance for the express purpose of iso- leting France commercially, as the former was to tsolate her politically, should have the slightest effect on the Paris market for Itallan bonds. THE DECLINE IN RENTES. Itmay bea mere coincidence, but itisa fact that the declinein Italian rentes began atthe time announced for the commence- ment of the negotiationg at Berne for the formation of the commercial alliance. Com- petent observers think that many causes contribute to the present monetary situa- tion. But it is certain that lack of confidence at Paris, the great money center of Conti nental Europe, is one of the chief causes, and that this confidence can be only restored by the policy of those in power. The currency of Italy is theoretically gold and silver, but really it is an inconvertible paper currency. Gold and silver (s franc pieces) command a premium varying from 1 to 2 per cent. Exchange on Paris commands about 2 per cent premium. It is claimed that the eagerness of the banks of issue for gold isthe cause of this premium. Though the public cannot obtain gold except by selling bank notes, the banks (of issue) themselves have trouble to collect all the bills of other banks they canfind, and then they can de- mand their own bills or gold in exchange. Thig position has led toa scramble for bills on other banks, and all means have been em- ployed to secure them so as thereby to secure gold at par which is wortha premium in the street. A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE. — ſ— QUEEN VICTORIA VIEWS THE FRENCH FLEET IN OSBORNE BAY. Losponx, Aug. 2.—To-day the Queen, ac- companied by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Connaught, viewed the French fleet in Osborne Bay. The spectacle was one of the most magnificent ever seen in English waters, the British squadron of escort, how- ever, furnishing most of the magnificence. The vessels, both British and French, were Splendidly decorated, while their armaments were in the best possibleorder. Satlors lined the yards, and officers in gold lace and brilliant uniforms were cons picu- ous amid the more somber attire of the rank and file. Queen Victoria looked brighter and happier than during the Kaiser's visit, perhaps because she had re- covered from the slight cold that then troubled her. In military and naval matters Queen Victoria is never perfunctory. She always shows a genuine interest in battal- ions and battle ships, and she made many inquiries as to the French vesseis, their com- mandersand armament, while the Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Connaught were not less Inquisitive. Owing probably to his being the brother-in-law ofthe Czar, the Dukeof Edinburgh received ap extra share of French cordiality,a fact which did not escape the attention of the British. Inthe evening Ad- miral Gervaisand some of his officers will dine with the Queen at Osborne. FRENCH PRESS COMMENTS. PaRIs, Aug. 20.—The Republique Francaise, commenting upon the visit of the French Heet to England and its cordial reception, attributes the warmth of the greeting to a Gesire onthe part of Great Britain to show her independence of all political ties on the continent. The events in Portsmouth Har- bor, therefore, have an important political significance, according to the writer. READY FOR BATTLE. THE REBELS MARCHING ON PRESIDENT BALMA- CEDA’S STRONGHOLD. New Yorn, Aug. . I have just heard from your special correspondent in Cum,“ telegraphsa Herald correspondent at Lima, Peru, His message is dated Antofagasta, — eleven days for his message to come from condition of the country and of the efforts made by the authorities to prevent any news getting to the outside world from impartial observers. His message contains im- portant war news. It is to the effect that the Junta’s transports and warships, in- cluding the Huascar, Abtao, Esmeralda, Amazones, Dio Bio, Almirante Cochrane and Magallanes were to have left Caldera on or about Aug. 15 with 10,000 well-armed men. Their object is to either effect a landing in San Antonio Bay and march by land upon the southern stronghold of Balmaceda, or the attempt to engage the forts of Valparaiso. In the event of the latter plap being carried out the insurgents would receive as good as they gave, for the forts are well defended and in a position to hold out for a longtime, What- ever course is taken by the Junta's fleet a flerce fight is expected within a few days. The feeling in Antofagasta and in all the in- surgent towns against the United States on accountofthe Etata continues to grow in bitterness. It is beyond the understanding ofthe insurgents why that vessel should be detained so long in California. When the Etata left here it was thought that she would be promptly released as soon as she reached an American port. Now the people grow an- grier and angrier as the days pass and word reaches here that the Etata is still held and that there are very small chances of her im- mediate release. The Government forces in and around San- tiago number 12,000. Great interest is natur- ally manifested by the insurgent’ in the movements of Balmaceda’s two new war- ships, Pinto and Errazuriz. Every bit of news about them excites eager comment. It is rumored that attempts will De made to prevent their reaching Chilian Danger may lurk for them in the islands of the Strait of Magellan. THE HOLY COAT OF TREVES. A GREAT MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE VIEWING THE INTERESTING RELIC. Trevrs, Aug. 20.—The public exhibition of the holy coat, said to have been worn by the Savior, was begun to-day. The exhibition was inaugurated by a solemn pontifical serv- ice conducted by the Bishop, after which the people of the Parish of St. Gangolph in Treves opened the series of pilgrim proces- sions. The coat was in a glass case on the high marble staircase behind the high altar. A cross luminated by gas has been erected over the place where the relicis shown and five flags are hoisted on the roof of the Cathe- dral. A great number of people were in at- tendance tosee the holy coat, and physi- cians are overrun withapplications for cer- tificates on the present health of pilgrims who wish to touch the garment with the hope of being cured of disease. Neither the dio- cesan authorities nor the great and increas- ing throng of pilgrims apparently pay any attention to the charges affecting the authen- ticity of the holy coat. THOUSANDS EXPECTED. BERLIN, Aug. 2).—The railway officials ex- pect an enormous passenger traffic in and out of Treves next Sunday, and have prep- arations made to carry 50,000 pligrims. The burgomaster of Treves thinks that 800,000 pilgrims will visit the city during the exhibi- tion of the coat. He thinks that most of them will bring their own food, so the problem of furnishing provisions for the throng will not be a serious one. The Provost of the Oathedral has declined the assistance of the military in Keeping order. The exhibition will probably last six weeks. The guard of honor will consist of volunteers from Catho- lic patrician families and pupils of the priests’ seminary. GENERAL FOREIGN. IMPORTANT MUNICIPAL REFORMS IN ZANZIBAR —GLOOMT CROP PROSPECTS. Lospow, Aug. 2.—Dispatches received here from Zanzibar announce that important municipal reforms have been inaugurated in that sultanate. The owners or occupiers of all houses have been ordered to display a light outside their dwellings between sunset and sunrise. This step has been taken in order to put an end to the frequent assaults upon pedestrians which take place between the times mentioned. HAYTI’S BUDGET. PORT-AU-Prince, Aug. . — 4A special com mission has been appointed by the National Chamber to examine last year’s budget. It is reported that there is a deficit of $2,000,000. It is proposed to arraign the members of the last cabinet over the matter, and especially Firmin and Lechaud. Both of them ask that this be done. GLOOMY CROP PROSPECTS. CALCUTTA, Aug. 20.—Dispatches from Ran- goon, the capital of British Burmah, state that the harvest prospects almost throughout Burmah are of the gloomiest description. LABOR NEWS. The Strike on the Lake Erie & Western Road. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 20.—Owing tothe strike of the freight men on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad General Manager Bradbury has ordered the shut-down of all the shops of this road. This action throws about eight hundred men out of work. The general manager states that he will give the freight men until 12 o’clock to-night to return to work on the old basis. When things are in It would seemthat he has been un- is 30 Reece, ven running order again he will take up the grievances of the strikers and try to reach a satisfactory settlement. PENNSYLVANIA FEDERATION. LANCASTER, Fa., Aug. 2.—The following officers were elected at yesterday’s session of the Federation of Labor: President, Chas. A. Miller of Harrisburg; Vice-Presidents, John H. Driver of Philadelphia, George H. Ulrich of Philadelphia, W. A. Johnson of Punzsutawney; Secretary and Treasurer, J. 8. Johnson of Alleghany. Chester was se- lected as the place for the next meeting. The Federation declared themselves opposed to affiliating with a political party as a body and decided not to recognize the Socialists Labor party or the Farmers’ Alliance. After approving the course of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, the Federation adjourned sine die. THE PEORIA SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE. PRORIA, III., Aug. 20.—The Sheriff yesterday swore in twenty-five deputies in expectation of serious trouble with — 3 ot the switch yards. The trouble is expected to begin with the arrival of the seventy-five switchmen employed to take the piace of the strikers, and who are now on the way here from Indianapolis and Dayton. Trainmaster Gast was assaulted and injured yesterday by strikers. Yardmaster Bell, against whom the strike is directed, tendered his resigna- tion yesterday, but the Peoria & Pekin Union Co. refused to accept it. THE BOSTON BOILER-MAKERS. Bosrox, Aug. 2.—At the meeting of Lo- cal Botler-Makers’ Union last evening a com- munication from the National Secretary was read stating that every employer in the United States had been notified that the union would demand that eight hours should constitute a day’s work on and after May, 1892. A secret circular from the employes was also read, calling upon them toorganize for mutual protection. Antofagasta, an evidence of the unsettled Desperate Deed of Two Masked Men Near Harlem, Mo. THE CONDUCTOR ROBBED AND ONE OF THE BRAKEMEN MURDERED. Kansas City Detectives After the Despera- _does—Progress of the Gray Poisoning Case—Conspiracy of Hotel Employes— Killed for a WNickel—Murdered His Wife—Other Orimes. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 20.—Freight train No. 18 on the Kansas Citx, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs road was held up and robbed at Murray’s Switch, jast the other side of Harlem, at 2 o’clock this morning. H. I. Cassie, the conductor, started to ring up the watch tower at Harlem, when he was held up by two masked men, with revolvers. The robbers took Cassie's watch and told him to signal the tower, to learn if the track was clear. Therear brakeman, Ed White, was ordered to get of by one of the outlaws. The two men accompanied Cassie to the way car, when they again commanded White to get off. As he stepped toward the ladder the revolver of one of the robbers was discharged. White dropped dead. The ball entered his ſeft tem- ple. Conductor Cassie signaled the engineer and got into the way car as soon as he could. The train started and the two robbers climbed ontothe topof the way car. They then climbed down the side ot the car and ran into a thicket. When Hariem was reached the engineer and forward brakeman were informed of the robbery. The conduc- tor immediately made his report when the train reached Kansas City. The authorities have been notified and every effort is being made tocatch the desperadoes. White was 86 years of age and leaves a wife who lives in St. Joseph. é TO HANG AT MIDNIGHT. MURDERER BLAIR FACING DEATH IN THE OHIO STATE PRISON. Coleus, O., Aug. ®.—Eaward Blair will never again see the sunrise. Soon after the stroke of 12 to-night, tolled by the prison clock, he will be hangedin the penitentiary annex, which is used to carry out the sen- tences of the courts in cases of capital pun- ishment. On the sth of August, 1889, Blair was received at the State prison here to serve out a seven-year sentence for burg- lary, committed in Highland County. On Dec. 9ofthat year he was taken back to tes- tify in a case in which one of his pals was the defendant. On the way down he jumped from the train and escaped. On the night of March 17, turned up at Hartsburg, Futnam County, where they planned the robbery of Station Agent Arthur Henry. The latter was alsoa clerk in the village store, and they decoyed him to the store on pretense of making a purchase. When they entered the victim was covered with a revolver and ordered to open the safe. He refused and was shot dead. Blair’s confederates turned State’s evidence. Blair has had a bad record all his life. For some days the prison officials have kept a close watch upon the doomed man, to pre- vent his carrying out a threat of suicide. On last Tuesday night Warden Dyer hada pre- monition that something was wrong and could not sleep. At 5 in the morning he ordered Blair taken from the cell, that search might be made. Blair refused to come out and showed fight. He was finally pulled out by force and taken to the death cell, in the upper row. A search of the bed clothing was made, d in the pillow was a rope made from a sh¢get, and in the bed-tick wasa brick. A search was made of some clothing taken from the cell Friday, and a knife found which Blair had secreted. FRIGHTFUL CHILD MURDERS. THE HORRIBLE CONFESSION OF MARCELLO MEDINA, A PEON. New Tonk, Aug. 20.—Phe mails just in from Trujillo, by way of Panaina, under date of July 25, bring the details from the village of Lomos de Samora,in the United States of Colombia, of the frightful series of child murders committed thert vy the peon, Mar- cello Medina. His wife and daughter Remi- gia are accessories to if not accomplices in the külmg of thirteen infants. Medina, who been forced to makea full confession to the Commissary of Police, Osvaldo Gueri, takes his detention very coolly, and says that he killed his own ten children because he was too poor to support them, and killed his three grand children to hide his daughters shame. He has, in spite of his wholesale infanticide, six sons and one daughter in his family, and it appears that they all knew of his murders and deprecated them. But, although his people claim to have hated him and although his neighbors in Lomos de Samora, where he has lived since 1871, knew of his action all along, no complaint ever found its way to the ears of the police until July 18, when he went to the town to invoke the aid of the police in bringing back his daughter, who had run away witha lover. Her muscuiar strength was valuable on his ranch and he wanted her back. She was arrested in Quilmos the next day and in revenge told of her parent’s crime. The old man’s confession tells with great detail the various ways in which he murdered each one of the thirteen infants, from 1859 to 1891. Hekilled them all when they were less than 5 months old, some of them puta few days old. Between 1674 and 1882 he raised the seven children he now Nas. Excavations made on Medina’s ranch have disclosed the skeletons of several of the ba- bies. The brute’s favorite method of murder was to squeeze in the children’s chests by pressing them against his own. THE GRAY POISONING CASE. berTy, Kemper and Nipong, all testified the facts that Gray The defendant it | | is 2 PERE 1 l 1890, with two confederates, he d CORTLAND, N. I., Aug. 20.—Jobn A. Givens is missing and foul play is feared. His parents left him a quite a fortune and he de- termined to go tothe Pacific Slope. In Feb- ruary he got as far as Syracuseon his journey, but was there robbed of his ticket anda considerable sum ot money. He set out again April 15, and has not been seen since. The last heard of him was at the Brooklyn Hotel, San Francisco, April 27, E. T. Squires, a cousin of Given, wrote to the hotel manager and regelved answer that Given suddenly disappear from the hotel after stopping four daysand without paying his bill. He had over $1,000 with him. A MERCHANT MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED. den, Hunted Down, FOUND CONCEALED IN THE BARN oF HIS VICTIM’S FATHER, A Posse of Citizens Surround the Place and Demand His Surrender—The Des- perado Fires on His Pursuers, Wound- ing One of Them-—How His Capture Was Effected—The Tragedy. HANOVER, N. H., Aug. . — Hanover is again wild with excitement. Frank O. Almy, the murderer of Christie Worden, has been found, and found, too, strange as it may seem, like another Dugene Aram, haunting the spot which is the scene of his atrocious crime, Every man, woman and child in the community is afield to-day watching the outcome of the strange turn events have taken since the brutal mur- der of Miss Worden on the lonely high- way near the village. Monday evening Mrs. Worden, while looking for some chickens in the barnyard, discovered a small opening in the underpinning of the barn which she thought might lead tothe chickens’ hiding- place. She removed a small board and found on the inside an empty jelly tumbler, and further in, twelve cans which had recently contained salmon, oysters, peaches and other substantial eatables. There were also empty wine and beer bottles. GUARDS ON WATCH. Mrs. Worden was greatly frightened by her discovery, but supposed that the cans were left there by some marauders. She immedi- ately reported the fact to her husband, and neighbors were called in to help solve the mystery of the unusual incident. Sheriff Brown was apprised of what had occurred andhe at once advanced the theory that Almy might have returned to the Worden homestead and secreted himself under the barn waiting a favorable opportu- nity for the commission of another crime. A party of watchers was at once formed, headed by the sheriff and Prof. Whitcher of the college. They were deter- mined men and resolved to effect the capture of the mysterious visitor, should he prove to be Almy, at any cost. Well armed, in small groups, they secreted themselves nearthe barn soon after night- fall last evening, and about2o’clock this man cautiously creep out of the opening under the barn, peer about him carefully, and then skirting the picket fence, partially concealing him, walk into the orchard ad- joining and proceed to fill a bag he carried in his hand with apples from one of the trees. IT WAS ALMY. As the man started to return tohis hiding place he crossed an open space between the barn and orchard, As he stepped into this space the moon shone full upon his face, which at the moment was turned toward the group at the corner of the barn in which stood the Sheriff. There was no mistaking those features. It was the man who had so long defied pursult and capture. It was Frank ©. Almy. He was haggard, ragged and barefooted, An exclamation which one ofthe watchers could not suppress, at the discovery, made the murderer to start like a hunted hare and in a he dashed into the barn.It wag observed that he was armed, having a pistol strapped toa belt at his hip. The watchers decided to in- crease their force and wait until daylight be- fore storming the criminal’s refuge. Forty citizens swelled the Sheriff’s squad and that most fascinating of all pursuits—man-hunt- ing—began. THE CAPTURE. A council of war was held as to the mode of proceedure. While many favored burning the barn to drive Almy out the majority favored entering tne barn, and volunteers for this purpose were called for. Twenty- two men immediately responded. As the party went into the barn Almy’s voice was heard. He asked that John Fuller be sent to him as he wished to talk with him Sherif Bridgman and Mr. Fuller went into the loft and after conversing with Almy, Sheriff Bridgman returned and mounting a ladder leaning against the house said tothe crowd: Fellow Citizens—Ailmy has been found. Now I law and call upon you in} the name of the ood order to jrestrain your anger fer the law take this foul murderer. I say request of the county officials, men whom we ch by our votes to act for us. e all have confidence in; shem. We have as good courts as there are on the face of the earth. ; Then turning to County Solicitor Mitchell he said: k Ican assure you that these 1,500 people 4 whom I know personally, will consent to let the law take its course. These remarks were greeted with cries of „Ves, yes, let the law take its course. Mr. Bridgman further said: Almy is at this moment concealed under twenty f „ He says: ‘Ifyou don’t give me pro- a. will. sell my e dearly as ssible and then kill myself, but if you D 2 me r — John M. Fuller ll give my arms and come out urn law-abiding spirit of the people was put to a severe test, but the feeling soon be- came strongthat Almy should die decently after a verdict of guilty shall be brought in from a regularly constituted jury. Mr. Bridgman, perched onthe ladder, said that Almy shail be dealt with ac- Your assurance * Ip ioe that you law is satisfactory. ao pave 60 opportunity to see im. Form in lines each ide of the road and he shall pass along between the lines. Almy, fearing he would be lynched refused to come out. The officers finally at- Winches - MISS WARDEN’S MURDER. THE TRAGEDY ON THE ROADWAY NEAR THE FARM-HOUSE—ALMY’S CAREER. Frank C. Almy had deen an employe on the farm of Mr. Andrew A. Warden near the Above the sphere of an ord was well reed in his rough farm clothes. was that of a gentleman w customed to associations with the and most cultivated society. those features was his continual fear covery. He was always on the always carried two large army his pockets. When asked why he heavily armed he would tha lived several ears in where 9 — revolvers. ‘Yet he was evidently afraid that of his past life would become known. that was nobody knows. He never his past life except once, when he en the Warden household. * 1 that his mother married not like his step-father. according to Almy’s story, step-father over the head with then cleared out. Almy did not say where this occurred, but he did say he did not know whether or not he killed his step-father. Among the proofs that Almy was very anx- ious that his personal history should not be- come known was the manner in which he ro- ceived and kept secret everything rela to his mail matters. He had a box at the . office and gave the Postmaster very explicit directions to allow no other person to take anything from his box. At the Warden home he always kept his letters secreted. hen Almy became convinced that his efforts to secure the hand of Miss were useless, he became sullen, and shortly left the farm to seek other employment, MURDER OF MISS WARDEN. A short time after his Gepertare, on the night of July 17, as Miss Christie Warden, accompanied by her mother and her sisters, Fannie and Louise Goodell, was returning on foot to their home, a mile from over, at a late hour, simy jumped into the road in front of them and, seizing Christie by the arm, said: I want you.’’ The mother and sister attempted to defend her. Almy fred at them, but missed. They ran for assist- ance. It was midnight before the news reached Hanover. Sheriff Foster was aroused, the fire bells sounded an alarm, and the whole village was on the streets. The students of the college turned out, anda posse was at once organized to hunt down the perpetrator of the crime. A party of armed men, ided by the frantic mother and sis- ers of the girl, hurried to the spot where the attack was made, but Almy and his victim were not to be seen. A search in the bushes, which skirted either side of the roadway, revealed the form of Miss Warden still in death. Her body had been stripped of nearly every article of wearing appa and her head showed two gaping wounds made by the entrance of pistol balls. Almy had ev- idently dragged his victim to the thicket after the fight of her mother and sisters, completed his murderous purpose. One of the shots from his revolver had tornout the left eye of the poor girl andthe other had en- tered through the cheek. But the murderer had fled THE PURSUIT OF ALMY. Large rewards were at once offered forthe apprehension of the criminal and pursuit has never siackened since. Twenty-six 4 answering the blished description of the murderer have been arrested at different times and places, and even Canada has furnished her quota of supposed Almys. The Dest detective talent in the country has been engaged onthe case, stirred to extra Vigilance by the rewards and the fact that from time to time the fugitive has himself seemed to offer clewsto his whereabouts by writing letters to the Boston papers and in other ways inviting though defying arrest. — EAST ST. LOUIS AND BELLEVILLE. St. Louls Negroes Arrested Across the River—Notes. Four very light mulattoes from St. Louis, who had crossed the river ina skiff, were holding high carnival with the railroad men about the I. & St. L. round-house iast night. when the police came on the scene and stopped the picnic, beer canning and all, by arresting the quartette. They were taken to the lice station, where they registered as Hattie Smith, Mary Booker, Camelia Smith and ‘‘Baby’’ Budd, but were released on bonds furnished bya friend of the ral. road men. This morning they were arraigned befor Justices Bunyan and Tissier, who fined them $10 each. Chief Walsh says these „parties in the railroad 82 have become annoyingly frequent and he proposes to stop them now. Deputy Sheriff Samuel McBride of Dayton, O., arrived here yesterday in search of John Grabner, whoin August last was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for robbery but escaped a a rehearing o his case. Detectives Kinney and Ryan lo- cated the man atthe Venice glucose works, and arrested him. Taken by surprise, he or- fered no resistance, but afterwards told Chief Walsh he would never have been taken alive if he had not been caught unarmed. The cattle dealers at the National Stock Yards expect to be recing their fast horses on atrack of their own within a short time. 2 have commenced the construc- tion 0 1 half-mile circuit in the rear of the Exchangt and propose to have races there at least once 4 week. One match has already been arranged between two sprinting animals, to be run next Saturday. This race willbe a quarter- mile dash for $25 a side. Mozart Council, No. 106. American Frater - nal Circle, mot last night and appointed a committee to arrange for an excursion, take place on the Grand Republic next Mon- day evening. J. M. Boggeman . Kurrus, Joseph Weick, Jr., ©, B. Geary, J. Beiger and F. Schwartz compose the com- ittee. In the City Court to-day Louisa Graves com- menced sult against Jennie Woodin for sian- der, alleging that the latter publicly classed her as a dem!i-mondaine, and claiming that her character was injured to the extent of $5,000 thereby. Acommittee of members of the Turnge- minde met last night at Baughan’s Halland made preliminary arrangemsnts forthe cel- ebration of German Day. Belleville. Another meeting was held at the Court- house last night to further the electric ral way project. A committee previousiy ap- potatos reported a long list of conditions to attached to the subscription papers forthe protection of the subscribers. is expressly stipulated in these conditions that the ay on Illinois street to the limits, west on Main lines shall fun from the Public Square resigned, and. Jose — Eicewort, Frightiul Scene at the Hanging of Conway in Liverpool. THE MURDERER’S HEAD WRENCHED FROM HIs BODY. Blood Poured in Streams Upon the Prison Floor—Hangman Berry’s Brutal Work —The Doomed Man's Confession on the Gallows—Story of the Killing Known as the Dock Mystery. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 2.—John Conway, the steamship fireman who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of the boy Nicholas Martin, whose body was found an May last floating ina sallor's bag in Hardon Dock, this city, was hanged this morning. There was a sensational scene on the scaffold, As Berry, the hangman, was draw- ing the Diack cap over Conway’s head the latter shouted: Hold on, I want to say something. To this request Berry replied: ‘‘You can’t speak now, and was about to proceed with the execution when the priest, who was in attendance upon the criminal upon the scaf- fold, hastily interposed, pushed the hang - Manonone side and held Conway’s hand, while the condemned man in broken toneg asked forgiveness for his sins. Only when the unfortunate wretch had done speaking and when the priest had replied to his plea for forgiveness did the latter permit the hapeman to proceed. This incident caused intense excitement among those present at the hanging, but it was nothing compared to the horrible scene which was to follow. In due course of time the drop fell anda Conway disappeared from view. Almost immediately afterwards the priest began to read the confession ofthe hanging man. In this confession he said hewas intoxicated when he murdered the boy and that his reason for taking the boy’s life was that he had a morbid curiosity to observe the pro- cess of dying. Conway in the document said he did not outrage the boy as was first sus- pected. While the priest was reading Con- way’s confession a streaming sound was heardfrom the scaffold as if a quantity of water was failing. A hurried investigation was made by the hangman and by the prison officials and totheir horror they found that the sound was caused by blood which was pouring upon the prison floor from Conway’s | neck. The fall, it appears, had been so severe §that the criminal’s head had been practically torn from his body; in fact, the head was only held tothe body by the mus- cles of the neck. The murder of the boy Martin was so atro- cious in its detalls as to rival the work of Jack the Ripper. On May 19 last early inthe morning some dock laborers saw a newly painted black bag, similarto those used by sailors to hold their blankets, oll skins and other parts oftheir sea wardrobes, floating in the Handon dock at Liverpool. e dock men proceeded to haul the bag out of the water, and after landing it they saw that upon its outside were inted, evidently a sallor, the ritish and Nor wegian ensigns crossed. Beneath these em blems were the initials T. A. M. Girvin’’ roughly inted. The dockers opened the bag and found the body ofa boy apparently not more than iS} years of age. Further in- vestigation showed that the boy’s throat had been cut from ear to ear, and his legs had been removed from below the knees, evi. dently to enable the man who placed the 2 in the bag to be able to pack it therein. Inside the bag were also found a new knife anda saw, h portions of tho flesh still hanging to them, showing that they had both been used in killing and dismembering the The saw and knife which were found in the bay were seized by — ae and on May 234 cutlery dealer nam Johnson identified them as being ‘bought from his establish- ment bya fireman or stoker named John Conway. The latter wastaken into custody and evidence against him accumulated rap. idly. The identity of the murdered lad was never discovered. Conway maintained his innocence all through the trial, and his ton- viction was secured on circumstaatial evi- dence entirely. AN EXCITING INCIDENT. Sparking Under Difficulties in Caronde let—South End News. About 12 o’clock last night an interesting little episode took placein the fashionable quarters of Blow street, between Pennsylva- nia and Virginia avenues. About the above hour a night patrolman happened to be on Minnesota avenue and saw 41 young man 1 to , oung Man was very . 2 ané had a beautiful snow white in his possession. As the officer his appearance, the man behind the lad cere discovery and detection the bull g made 4 grab for the The officer jumped back Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Miller of South st. ae ead brat ed the twenty-fifth an- Doring of Station B jaunt to the Rocky filled by advertising — 4 *