St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 2, 1893
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a as ae iy Re a > ¥ ; - & § 2 ' ’ at: Ny ig ts x ; 5 “he oe sds 4 ay '« A 5° “ B haa » — - Witn the Utah army of gold seekers, alréady numbering 7,000 men, being re- inforced by 300 recruits daily, why should | we worry about the gold supply? om sally tadeninalijnemnaiemetanianel IT is said that the benighted inhabitants ‘of Europe are surprised because 1892 was | @ prosperous year’in America. Have they just heard of the Democratic victory? —_—_—_—__=__e —» —__—_ THE year 1892 is gone, but its memory will be long cherished by good citizens as the year in which American plutocracy | was dealt a blow that sent it staggering to its corner. _— © ——— SENATOR PEFFER’S sonis an ornament | to the Senate’s pay-roll, and his nephew’s place under the fergeant-at-Arms could scarcely be filled if Uncle Peffer were to | and chaos. necessity of more tyranny the Dublin ex- ' call him away. ——__-_ > + —-- Witn nearly §17,000,000 put into new buildings in the past twelve months St, Louis may very properly cail the attention of the world to what is going on within * her busy area. —$—— a -¢ — — HANGING would be more merciful to convicts than giving them over to the bac- teria of an ill-kept prison pen. The old English laws might be revived for their benefit fn the good State of Arkansas. ~~ setfs-—_ -- A DEMOCRATIC Senator from Wyoming is | assured and anti-Republicans will come. from most of the other doubtful States where the plutocratic beneficiaries of Re- publicanism have attempted highway rob- bery. The Senate is safely Democratic aiter March 4. —_— —- >. o -— ss -—_—_—_—_ UNLEss something is done to preserve common rights in common property the gold discoveries in Colorado and Utah will not be of the smallest benefit to anybody but men with money to buy large tracts of land and influence enough to bend the law to shelr purposes. _——_—_-_ o> — 9 -—— > —- Bx-Gov. Bos TAYLOR is oneo! the three r candidates for United States Senator from Tennessee. Ex-Gov. Bob is the most capable violinist in the V~lunteer Sjate, and if,he can get the local solons to face the music, he may tune his fiddle once - more in Washington. ONLY mad sad protectionists can see how the reimposition of ‘duties on sugar would be in conformity to free trade ideas. It may bé thé people have not yet made up their minds about free trade, but it is safe to say that they won’t permit any restric- tions of commercegin sugar by custom ‘pete a pe or low. dt : 9 THE policy of Eastern insurance men in Vpeielalg insurance rates wherever there are - frolley wires is not so unreasonable as the eeetee $10 00 He | _ex-defaulter and the people who voted for | them knew that indirectly they were help- _plosionsare on Tory ment in favor of more freedom. tures, judges and justice. | time. | insured may think. "Between frebugs and | overhead wires the inftrance business has, been put at a great disadvantage. I¢' | would be nice if the trolley-wire people d pay the difference in the rates, but never will. a | ~~ ~~ Gesthiarhea CoLE’s feeling of sympa- thetic tenderness for officials whose failure to perform their duties made the continued robbery of the City Treasury an easy job is natural. He is Chairman of the Coun- cil Committee on Ways and Means, whose duty of counting the cash and canceling the bonds and coupons every month was neglected for a long period of time. — ' ~~ - SENATOR PEeFFER is now so esteemed by both Democratic and Republicap Senators that there is some likelihood that the Peffer whiskers may be generally adopted by the members of the Upper House of Congress. Itis certain that the Senators of Rome wore long whiskers, for are we not told by trythful historians that the barbarians who invaded the Eternal City took turns at pulling them? , a ——- -_ ISABELLA is at last to be, fully recog- nized as the patron of Coiumbus. She ap- pears on a number of the new Columbian stamps that everybody will use and that will be especially wellknown to the great army of post-office employes. Unhappily Ferdinand has to be put on some of the stamps with her, America would never have beén discovered from the deck of a Spanish ship if the Colunfbian scheme had been left to Ferdinand. — THE year 1892 was a disastrous one to the nations of Europe financially speaking, English investors alone losing $600, 000,000 from depreciation of values and collapse of speculations. This, however, may lead to a compensating gain in the future because; theireyes have been opened to certain flaws in the present system of doing busi- ness which will aid them in steering a safer course hereafter. It often happens that things must get very bad before they can get better. -— -——-o—- © en It should not be forgotten that if the ex- clusion of immigrants for one year be rought about by the fanatical deavors. of the authors of that meas- ure a proposal for future unreasonable restriction will surely follow. A year’s embargo would not satisfy them because their objective is not immunity from chol- era but immunity from foreigners. There are ways of protecting the country against this plague as efficient as exclusion of im- which need notserveto nurse — — en- migrants, | the know nothing spirit. —_—_f—-—_ 2 es THE debauched condition of in Pennsylvania is well political morality illus- It can- isthe work of the machine, because membersof the Legis- lature were elected pledged to vote for the ing to confirm Quay’s grip. The machine be smashed in Pennsylvania, just as else, as soon as the can itcan be anywhere people recognize their duty and act upon it. ———————- =. o--— ———-- THE glee of the Tory organs of England | over the dynamite explosion is hardly jus- tiflable even conceding that the outrage | was due to political animosity. generally be found that such acts are not It will committed except as a violent protest against oppression which is too severe to be borne. The protest is usually as violent asthe tyranny has been repressive and blighting. This was notably the casein the French revolution which is the ever living demonstration that vested wrong when it becomes unbearable will breed revolution Instead of being a proof of the logic the best argu- —————$ 9 ————__—_—_——— WuHeEn the Chancellor of New Jersey de- cided that the Reading Coal combine was illegal President McLeod declared that it would make no difference, that it was alla matter of book-keeping anyway and he would find a way to circumvent legisla- He has carried out this threat by putting the coal business of his road in the hands of another com- pany, so that President McLeod of the Reading Railroad is not liable for the acts of his deputy, the President of the coal company. Thisisan old trick and it will be played once too often. The people are in notemper to be fooled with at this They are learning to distinguish be- tween shams and realities. . ee ae Mr. HENRY WATTERSON will deliver a lecture on ‘‘Money and Morals’’ in Music Hall, Friday evening, Jan. 6. Those who have listened to Mr. Watterson, or read his addresses, or watched his career asa public man do not need to be told that he will something to say of real worth on this’ subject. It is a topic which just now is of more than ordinary interest, and the discussion is sure to be illuminated by the Kentucky editor who lights up everything he touches. Asan orator he never fails to reach the popular heart, for he has that rare understanding of the moral aspect of public questions which is always appre- ciated when 9 sad ed on the amp or platiorm, have _ —— . ll WHEN a Methodist clergyman, known as a diligent student of events and public questions, pronounces against prohibi- tion, as the Rev. Mr. Embree of Topeka has done, it is time for the rank and file of that strange party of moralists to stop to think. Mr. BEmbree’s main conten- | —————« r= ‘be enforced, ‘and that one law successfully defied or evaded, breeds con- tempt of all lawand a consequent deteri- ofation of public morality. This has long been cléar to men not blinded by enthusi- asm for an impractical fallacy and préb- ably even the prohibitiopists themselves will some time recognize it. Their party has probably reached and passed ite high- water mark. AT THE MERCY OF RASCALS. The farcical proceedings of the Council in the Foerstel case not only stultify tha body but emphasize the failure of justice and law vindication all along the line of municipal administration. Although the Council exonerated Foer- stei and gave him a clean official bill of health, the little testimony it brought out to force a_ useless plea from Foerstel’s attorney proved the ex-Treasurer to be guilty of the grossest misconduct in office. It is hardly to be expected that a Council which dem- onstrates an official’s guilt only to clear him by an overwhelming vote will take any further action towards fixing resposi- bility for the crime committed in that .Official’s cffice or towards punishing other officials for their neglect of duty. On the civil side the case may be regarded as closed, but does this end it? On the record Michael Foerstel is a de- faulter to the amount of nearly $64,000. His name is signed to false statements de- vised to cover a deficiency in the Treasury and to deceive supervising officials. There s evidence that he knew of the shortage and consented to its concealment. Whether he participated in the crime or aided in its concealment can only be determined by investigation. The burden of suspicion lies against him by reason of his official responsibility. Under such circumstances the law makes it imperative upon the prosecuting officer to institute criminal proceedings against the official responsible for the crime. The Grand-jury is bound to inquire into it and the executive authorities of the city are in duty bound to see thatthe laws are vindi- cated by the punishment of all offenders. Is the Push combine sufficiently power- ful to protect its guilty officials at every point? Can it assure its supporters of ex- oneration for wrong-doing by forcing the nullification of law and neglect of duty in every department of the city government? If such crimes as the robbery of the Citv Treasury and the attempted burning of the City Hall are passed without investiga- tion or punishment for admitted responsi- bility, St. Louis is at the mercy of the rascals. ————-_—- ~— © — —— THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. The present electoral system has iailed, asallother schemes of indirect elections have failed. But the principal vice of the electoral college is not that it does not ac- curately reflect the popular will, but that it gives rise to uncertainties which often grow into serious dangers, particularly in close elections. This was conspicuously the casein 1876, and inthe last election any one of the d sputes over single elec- toral votes would cause trouble had the result depended upon a small margin. The consideration of this question is among the first duties of the Fifty-third Congress. The good luck which has at- tended election disputes in the past can not, in the nature of things, continue for- ever, and no party can expect to be so for- bearing as was the Democratic party in 1876, when a President was foisted upon the country by extra constitutional means who had been rejected by the people. If some safer method is not found the coun- try will, sooner or later, be plunged into disasters which the imagination does not like tocontemplate. It is true that after 1876 anelectoral count law was enacted which remedied some of the faults made prominent at that time, but the root of the difficulty was left untouched. There are many suggestions covering this difficulty, most of which would prob- ably be asufficient guarantee against the dangers which now threaten, but.in those which provide for an election by popular vote of the whole people State autonomy is invaded and State lines ignored. To a people to whom local self government, even in national matters, is held the dear- est of political possessions this would be intolerable The Springer plan now before Congress and the so-called Michigan plan are, how- ever, not affected with this vice. The lat- ter, which is, perhaps, the simplest, was in vogue in most of the States in the early days of the Republic and no sound ob- jection can be urged againstit. It provides for a registration of the popular will as expressed in each Congressional district instead of lumping all the electors on one ti¢ket and leaving the result to the chance of a very small plurality in a vote of per- haps two or three millions as happened in New York in 1884. But it would forever eliminate the ‘‘doubtful State’’ and de- prive corruptionists and wirepullers of that handy lever. But whether either of these two be selected the necessity for a change is imperative and no time should be lost in making disagreeable complica- tions in the future impossible. —_—- eo —w — THE monometaliists will have tojput a@ gag on Senator Allison. What can be more. de- moralizing to fimance than Mr. Aliison’s ad- mission that the value of gold, except as it may be useful in the arts, is fictitious? Time out of mind, huncreds of thrifty wives have gone throughthe pocketsof their husbands in search of gold coins to keep, and for centures the yellow metal has been more orc }ess hoarded by careful people in all countries. Ought these people, atthis late day, to be told that they have been making fouls of themselves? Yet a United States Senator, tion is that grohibliocy lows cannot fresh from the Money Conference at Bras: sels, openly declares that the value of solid money is fictitious. Withthe value of both gold and sliver a fiction,is it not high time for our financiers to be asking themselves, **Where are we at?’’ Ir Mr. George W. Vanderbilt supposes that & man with $25,000,000 can hope to escape those mothers who have marriageable daugh- ters, he is a very much mistaken millionaire. Does he imagine thatevery mamma wants to taketo typewriting when matrimony is the natural state of woman?, Ir seems that a private soldier of the Army of the United Stites ts privileged to appear in pugilistic encounters where prizes are offered for successtul thumping. The popu- lar idea of a soldier is a man with a gun, but we may learn more of military matters by watching the papers. THE impression that bunco steerers would speedily be impoverished by contact with a Chicago man appears erroneous, asa Chicago man has just been done for by twogNew York sharps. Perhaps this Chicagoan lived in the suburbs or had only recently moved into Li- linols. : AS CRINOLINE iscomingit will be “well to remember that both the ‘‘i’s’’ in the word crinoline have the short sound. It Is ater- rible word, bat it ought not to be rendered additionally fearful by a long sound to the **1’’ of the final syllable. THE alarm ‘‘1893,’’ which was sounded by the fire belis at midnight of Dec. 31, might have been the signal ofa burning world, but it seems we are spared to cunjecture a while longer as to when the mighty conflagration Is to begin. JouN JACOB ASTOR’S new home is to have bay windows jutting three feet over the side- walk. Fora man who owns so much ground as Mr. Astor, thatisa good deal of the pub- lic’s ntmosphere to occupy. THE inmates ofthe Poor-house are répre- sented as baving been happy on New Year’s Eve. If happiness has taken up its apode in the alms-houses, let no man longer live in dread of poverty. - — A REPUBLICAN County Clerk in Wyoming omitted the vote of Hanna Precinct, but the Supreme Court speedily discovered what was the matter with Hanna. — — SPACE 1s infinite, Dut not in houses and streets. Let lovely woman refiect on this when fashion whispers to her of the coming hoop-skirts. THE name of the writer of Boulanger’s biog- raphy is Denis. It is hoped that he will not undertake to write the history of the Repub- lic. _ — — ‘*‘WoMEN dcn’t tell men’s stories very wWell,’’ says the Chicago Mail. It is greatly to the credit of the sex that they don’t. ACTING Gov. BARBER Of Wyoming had at last to call the next gentleman, and the next gentleman was a Democrat. - — They Will Wonder. From the Chicago Hef®ald. We have invited all the nations of the earthto come and see us next spring and show us what they ‘have to sell. If our guestsdo not already know they willl soon find out that, while their cards of invitation say we would be delighted to see their goods, the McKinley act says much more emphatic- ally that we are not willing to buy what we see; that while we are quite willingto sell weare not at all willingto buy. They wilil also find out that the American people condemned the McKinley act last No- vember and that there has been a three months’ session of Congress since that time. Then they will wonder why the alleged representatives of the people did not lift a finger in obedience to the people’s com.- mand during those three months, * They will wonder why a representative body which passed a lot of tariff reform bills and framed more during its first session made no sign during its second session. Andethey will wonder still more if they find that the new Congress is not going to begin to execute the task committed to ituntila year after the people issued their first imperative com- mand and three years after they issued their first command, ana will hardly finish their work within four years from the issuance of the first inandate. Value ofan Early Extra Session. From the San Francisco Examiner. .Anextra session next March will enable the Democratic policies to be put in opera- tion a year before the people will be called upon to judgethem, It will permit the ex- ercise of due deliberation, instead of com. pelling all the great measures of reform tu be rushed through the hopper along with ap- propriation and public building Dills. It will relleve the people of hundreds of millions ot dollars of blackmail, which will be extorted by the protected plutocrats in the name of taxation if reform be delayed for ayear. It willenable Congress to legisiate while its popular instructions are fresh and before its members have been subjected to the sinister influence of massed capital. It will convince the nation that when the Democracy was de- manding reformit meant whatitsaid. The Democratic party isin the saddle now. Let it not be afraid of its horses. What Immigrants Have Done. From the Philadelphia Record. if foreign influences could have destroyed this country it would have been sent to the bow-wows long ago by the millions of Eu- ropeans who have landed on these shores in the last two hundred years. These immi- grants and their descendants are the bullders of the Republic. Ths marvelous growth of the West attests what immigration has done in the last twenty-five years, and is now do- ing, inthe development of the agricultural and mineral resources of the country. But if immigration should be arrested, ina fanat- icai spirit of nativism, the wheels of progress would be reversed and an epoch of stagna- tion and decay would begin in the land, Soon to Be Brushed Aside. From the Roston Post. Although the manufacture of ‘‘American tin plate’’ has ceased since the demand for campaign badges came toan end, objection is made to the repea} of the tariff tax on the poor man’s dinner pall, on the pretext that this section of the McKinley law is a contract between the Government and men who want to make tin plate ata profit. They say that this contract runs uatil 1897. We fancy that a Democratic Congress will make short work with this ‘‘contract.’’ Wight Try It with Public Officials. From the Franklin News, Every timea bank én China falls they cut off the bank officers’ neads, ana no bank has failed there for over five hundred years. In this country the general practice is to go through the forms ofa trial and acquit the banker On some legal technicality; or, if con- victed, tosuspend judgment pending &@ mo- tion for a new trial, and pets ee — the indictments on the grounds of some regularity and present the een with a | «old watch. HOT —— The Contest Over the Organization of the Nebraska Legisiature. NO PLAN OF FUSION SUGGESTED MEETS APPROVAL. i The Democrats and Independents Striving to Form a Coalition—Republican Hopes Sinking—Chasing a Furitive County Official—Gov. Flower’s Floral Emblem —The Extra Session. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2.—On Tuesday, at Lincoln, will open one of the prettiest three- cornered fights ever witnessed ina Legis- lative session. Nelther of the three parties has strength enough to organize either House of the Third Nebraska General Assembly without the assistance of the other two, and thus far no plan of fusion or combination has been presented that meets the approval of the parties interested. It seems quite probDable, however, thatthe Democrats and Independents may get together before to- morrow night, In addition to the election of a United States Senator to succeed Senator Paddock, the Legislature will be called upon to deal with important railroad legislation and other matters of vital interest to the State. For these reasons comes the importance of controlling the organization of the Houses that constitute the body, as the party hold- ing the organization can control the legisia- tion. It was suggested last night thatthe anti-monopoly members of the Legislature, irrespective of party, organize tbe body and let the senatorial fight take care of itself. One of the peculiar features is the situation in Knox County. By a decision of the Su- preme Court, rendered Saturday, a Repub- lican Will be sent to the House from that county instead of an Independent. To ac- complish this it is necessary to serve the court’s writ upon the County Clerk of Knox County. When the Balliff reached Niobrara, the County Seat,on Saturday evening, he found the County Clerk (an Independent) had had been warned of his coming and had de- camped. The Bailiff is now chasing the fugli- tive clerk from place to piace in orderto se- cure service upon him. But itistoo late to comply with the court’s order and have the Republican member present at the organiza- tion. Unless the combination last mentioned is made effective, the House and Senate will probably spend the week getting organized. EXTRA SESSION PROSPECTS. CONGRESS WILL BE CONVENED IF THE CONDI- TION OF THE TREASURY DEMANDS IT. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2.—The recent conference between the President-elect and Speaker Crisp was expected to result in some authorized announcement on the subject of an extra session. While these anticipations have not been. realized, as Speaker Crisp has studiously refrained from giving out any statement as to what passed between Mr. Cleveland and himeelf, something in the nature of a statement on ‘‘good authority’’ Its passed around among the Democratic leaders. This runsto the effect that while no final decision will be made On the question ofanextra session of Congress until Febru- ary, by which time the cabinet of President- elect Cleveland will probably have been se- lected, the probabilities are decidedly against an oxtra session of Congress before next autumn, Mr. Cleveland, itis sald, has said to Demo- cratic leaders in Congress that he willl cali Congress together in special session. He also told them, it is reported, that it would not be convoked vefore autumn unless the financial situation andthe conalition of the Treasury made itabsolutely imperative that Congress should meetin the spring to provide the Government withthe necessary amount of revenue to meet itsexpenses. He wished to avoid the necessity of an early extraordinary session. Very soon after the holiday recess the sub- committee of the Nouse Committee on Ways and Means, appolnted to investigate the con- dition of the Treasury, will begin its work. On the result of tts investigation may possi- bly depend the time at which Congress Is called together. A conciusion of the present majority. of the sub-committee that there will be an actual deficit in the Treasury unless additional revenue is raised might induce Mr. Cleveland, it is thought, to alter his views with reference to an extra session in the spring, but no other consideration that will bring about such a resuit is now foreseen. It is the opinion of some of the leading Demo- crats in the House that the investigation will show that the lreasury receiptsand expendl- tures are very nearly equal at present and that there is grave reason to fear an excess ofthe latterinthe coming fiscal year. By the endofthis month the sub-committee’s en of investigation will either concluded or far enough in progress to permit the Democratic mem- ers to acquaint Mr.Cleveland with the situa- tion and their conclusions as to the future, so that his tinal decision with reference to an extra session may be based on full informa tion as to the Treasury conditions which will confront his administration the first year or year and a half of its existence. It Is because of a possibility of a close approximation between revenues and expenditures that some seri- ous attention is being paid by Oemocratic members tothe proposition to intrease the whisky tax. This would be an easy method of raising additional money and Mr. Springer aod his associates will take it under advise- ment if the result of their investigation dis- closes a call for more revenue. MICHIGAN SENATORSHIP. LANSING, Mich., Jan, 2.—Several of the can- didates for United States Senator have ar- rived and established their headquarters. Foremost among them are Sen- ator Stockbridge, who hopes to succeed himself, and , ex-Gov. Cyrus Luce. Both candidates are confident of winning the fight, but if some of the Republicans bolt the caucus, which will be held to-morrow, one of the many dark horses wili,. it is thought, stand a good show for the piace. Whether a uemand for viva voce vote will be made a provision in the call ror the Senatorial caucus circulated for Repubdlican members’ signa- tures is a matter of considerabie specula- tion. The Stockbridge men, while insisting that they had just as soon have an open as a secret vote, say that it is a question to be decided by the caucus after it has organized and they particularly denounce what they callan attempt by out- side persons to dictate totne Legisiature. It is said that If the call cuntains the objectionable proviso, many wiil fuse to si it, while divers Luce men may also refuse to sign a call from which the peovas is absent. Hon. ‘Thomas W. Palmer, President of the World’s Fair Commission, ‘ts expected to ar.- pve here to-day and lend his influence to ce. NEW YORK’S NEW MAYOR, New York, Jan. 2.—At noon to-day Hugh J. Grant, who is how ex-Mayor of the city, turned over the office of Mayor, the books, papers and keyes belonging toit to Mayor Gll- roy. There were no formal ceremonies. There was really no ceremony attending the in- auguration, as Mayor Gilroy took the oath of me ce withia five days after receiving his cer- wk of Fe nage as required la . Mis cae ges & began at 12 o'clock on ere cestetine a fleid sere ly the ‘new “Stnyor., \ariee of these offices to Der annum, sis oa THE NEW YORK ConrEst. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan, 2.—Not more he fifty members of the Legislature were in town at) noon toé*day, although the ana Republican members of the Assembly are to hold their respective caucuses to-night. The rest of the members are expected by night. Charlies R. Deen Reest of bam og sald to-day that Edward Murphy, Jr. not open headquarters here in ‘Albany to contest nis canvass of the State forthe Senatorship, al- though severaiof Mr. Murphy’s friends in Troy have engaged quarters at the Delavan House and will keep open house there untila Senator is chosen. About the hotel lobbies everything is unusually quiet. Sepator Hill received quite a few callers to-day. He leaves for Washington this afternoon, FLOWER’S FLORAL OFFERING. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Gov. Flower was at the executive chamber all day. About noon an immense floral piece, eight feet long, representing the ship of State and named the ‘*Empire State,’’ was placed upon the Governor’s desk. From the mastheads floated two streamers, one bearing the words, ‘‘I don’t care a —— for votes.’’ The other the words, ‘‘No debt, no cholera.’’ It was a gift from James Oliver of New York City, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Dem- ocratic National Committee, and pleased the Governor very much. OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. —_—_—,_ Faction Fi¢hts at Kilseunh With Stones and Olubs— Moonlighters Out. DUBLIN, Jan. 2.—A party of Parnelilites at Kilsuph, who were celebrating the New Year last night, Getermined to wreak vengeance on their political enemies, the anti-Parnell- ites. Tney marched in a body to the rooms occupied by the workmen’sciubds and made an attack with stones upon the building, smash- ing all the windows and doing other damage. The mob gained fresh numbers while the at- tack was going on, and when a proposal was made to attack Temperance Hall it was re- ceived with shouts of approval. In a short time the latter buliding was in as bad a State of wreck as the Workmen’s Club. The polce were absent and the rioters had everything their own way. Gaining courage from the fact that no opposition was offered to their rowdyism, the mob attacked the residences of the town commissioners, who are supporters of Mr. Timothy Healy, ana the houses of other men who have been active opponents of the Par- nellite. The women in the houses were terribly frightened by the rioters, who threatened all manner of evil to them. Towards morning the mob dispersed, and the town, which had been in an uprvar for hours, became quiet, Many of those whotook part in the rioting were known by those whose houses were at- tacked, andto day a large number of the rioters were arrested, Another outrage by mooplighters Is re- ported from Tullan. a small town in County Clare. On Saturday night aband of moonlighters who had a grudge againsta man employed as a servant by the familv of the late Judge Brown, visited the residence of the Browns, which is_ situated a short distance from the town. One of the band who was in disyutse, entered the house and demanded to know the whereabouts of the man servant. The man was absent and the only occupants of the house were the daughters of the deceased magistrate. They informed the moonlighter that the man. he was looking for was not in the house. This information seemed to enrage the moonlight- er, whodrewa revolver and fired upon one of the girls. Fortunately his aim was bad, and thebullet went wide of its mark. He then amused himself by firing at random about the room untill his weapon was empty, when he withdrew and joined the gang that wasawaiting him outside. When they learned thatthe man they wanted was not in the house, the moonlighters withdrew without making any further trouble. ee OBITUARY. JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOOD. LonpDoN, Jan. 2.—John Obadiah Westwood, M.A., F. , honorary President of’ the British Entomological Society, died to-day. Prof. Westwood was born in Shef- in 1865. He was educated at Lycifield and was appointed in 1861 to the professorship of Zool- ogy founded at Oxford by the munificence of the late Rev. F. W. Hope. in 1855 the Royal Society awarded him one of the royal medals for his scientific works andin i860 he was elected to fill the place of the illustrious Humboldt as corresponding member of the Entomological soctlety at Paris. He wrote ‘Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects,’’ ‘*Entomologists’ Text-book,’’ published in 1838, ‘*British Butterfiles and their Transfor: nations,’ ’ in 1841, and a num- ber of other works of a similar nature. re OBITUARY. SturGEoN, Mo., Jan. 2.—Lewis Smith, who fought through the Indian wars tin Florida in 1830-36 and was wounded at the battle of Ochechohe, died here Saturday of heart failure, aged 76 years. “AT THE AGE OF 04, DaYTonN, O., Jan. 2.—Mrs. Elizabeth Bick- ham died this morning in the 94th year of her age at the home of her son, Maj. W. D. Bick- ham of the Daily Journal, She was a native of New York, but lived most of her life in and around Cincinnati. Her surviving children are Ma). Bickham, Mrs. Eliza Biair and Mrs. A. D. Wilt of Dayton, and Mrs, Ae ape Chapin, wife of Maj, Joun W. Chapin of Columbus, oO, ee eer eee QUARANTINE THE PRISON, Result of Dr. Robertzon’s Report on the Death of Arkansas Convicts. LITTLE Rock, Ark., Jan. 2.—Dr. J. J. Rob-- ertson, the penitentiary physician, returned " this mbvrring from 8t. Louis, whore he has been the past week awaiting the result of a chemical analysis of the vital organs of two convicts, whose mys- terious death occurred on Monday. Dr. Curt- man made eight tests, and found no trace of the organs. In his @= report Dr. Robertson he suggested that a bacteriologist be consuited fora further explanation of the ones = arriv As soon as Dr. Robertson this morning, Mayor’s office the penitentiary and that he would go within the inciosure and stay there until the disease was com- pletely stamped out. There are 300 convicts in the prison ama all are in a conditoin except forty-eight, two of whom are dangerously i, two new cases developed this morning. The men were taken with diarrhoea and were at once laced inthe hospital. Every precaution is ing taken to confine the disease to the Penitentiary inclosure, ‘ HISTORICAL PAPERS. ‘ Valuable Documents Stored Away in the Archives of the State Department death. WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—Stored away in the ‘archives of the State Department are @ col- lection of historical papers, the most valua- bie inail probability ia the United States, The frequent handlings which they have re- ceived have seriously damaged some of them, and that they may be preserved for pao, useand informat et guaqpeting om tions of invest bp several 7 been This work Is under The Madison and and partly places then wa- | than } obVIpUsS Weman Occasions a ‘ at the Commercial Hotel. GOING TO SEW YORK TO CONTEST THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. She Says That She Will Easiiy Det “*‘Zucea’’ in the Great Match—A Yor .. ; t ~ 2 ‘am rn Wcman Who Performs Some Ff, a Prodigious Feats of Strength—Catches Cannon Falis. ~ Da Josie Wohlford, accompanied by her man- we. Bs ager, Prof. Blatt, registered at, the Commer- As cial Hotel last night. After supper she went to her room, and shortly after people were Startled bya shock that made the whote © house shiver, and.a reverberation that indi- cated the happening of something unusual, : a | From the crowd in the hotel office there was. a general cry of “another earthquake!’ and a general alarm manifested itself, and then there was a hush as though a recurrence of the startling phenomenon was feared. Only one member of the party was wholly - e ‘unmoved, and that : was Prof. Blatt, who was looking over some mail which he found waiting for him. with an amused look, and after it developed suMcientiv he with the explanation was really no occasion excited or afraid, as it was only ‘‘Minerva’’ doing her dumb-bellact. She always does it before retiring; !f she don’t do it she can’t sleep.’’ This was an explanation that didn’t ex- Plainanything very particularly, and Prof Biatt was urged to be a little more specific. MATCH BETWEEN THE STRONG WOMEN. **‘Minerva’’ is the professional name of Miss Josie Wohlford, who calls herself the strongest woman intheworld. She has just concluded a season In Mexico, where she has been astonishing the people with her herecu- lean feats. Sheison ber way to New York, where she expects to pit Strength and endurance against Miss Fann Dorman, who, under the name of‘*Yucca,’’ has wou a national reputation as a female Hercules. ‘*‘Yucea’’ last sum- merissueda challenge to ‘*Minerva,’’ and ‘*Minerva,’’ who was then in Mexico, promptly accepted it. The match will probably come off early in February. A reporter of the (Post-DisPaTcn inter- viewed Miss W ohlford this forenoon. ‘‘When I get to New York,’’ she said, **I will let those people know who is the strongest woman inthe world, and it won’t™ take long for me to put them to sleep. I mean business!’’ The reporter intimated that a specimen of her prowess would be acceptabie. theference was mMadetothe scare she occasioned last nicht by the ‘‘dumib-bell act.’’ She ex- piained that she usually practiced with dumb-bdells before retiring—weilgching a mat- ter of 100 pounds or so—and sometimes she drops them, just forthe alarm the fall will occasion. She took upa pair, each of which the reporter could raise with difficulty, and fanned the air with themina way that was really cyclonic. SOME OF MINERVA’S FEATS, The fair Hercules is ?4 years old. Shetsa, handsome brunette of elephantine propor- tions. Her weight is 165 pounds and her waist measurement is 4Minches. Seven hun- dred pounds isa weight which the young lady carries comfortably in one hand, whilea dumb-bell of under 100 pounds Is not worthy ofherrecognition. She makes a specialty of breaking dumb-hells with her-bDare hands. This she.does by knocking. them against her hips. Iron chains whith other hands securely are snapped into pleces by her without unusual expenditure of energy. Another featin which Minerva distinguishes herself is performed by placin two chairs three feet apart. She maintain ber equilibrium by placing one foot on each, A halter is then put aroun her neck with a chain to-which 1! attached a 250-pound tron ball. She then lifts her head, straightens herself and raises tnis tov several feet from the floor by the strength of her neck. A 200-pound man sit- ting Ih achair she can elevate to the ceiling ina moment’s notice. But Minerva’s star performance is intercepting the speed ofa eannon ball. When one jis fired at her from a distance of thirty feet she catches it in her hands. The sum of $500 and the champlon- ship will be herreward if she beats Fanny Gorman. When the match between Minerva and Fanny Gorman takes place fifteen feats will be performed by each, and the winner of eight will be entitied to the championship, THE PEOPLE’S FORUM. [No matter written on voth sides of the sheet can appear under this head.—Ev.| Mississippi River Transportation. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: My attention has been called by a number of persons to an article published in your pa- per last month under the ghoulish caption of **That Phantom Ship.’’ I did not consider it contained any argument, and ft was but a feeble attempt to prove an oe q hence lI did not noticelt. It wasa coincidence that the communication refea to was written and siacned Dy a person named Gould—it could scarcely be the tounder of the house of many millions for he had but recent- ly passed into the phantom land himself—but atten pte to de oO a improve existing metunods to such an extent as to make it sivle to load and u ocean vessels of the Lucastype at the wharvesof St. Louls, and receive and deliver frei nt at any shoal or deep water ort in the world, without change or transfer, are Ts to suit in ignominious cere is now safely launched, the p he ssive peop! pe rey and pro ve people o coming to its aid with iiberal subser! tieas* to k and 4 re to stignce reas rg * ' rgonauts of ‘‘fifty yea the © ust begun, by Inviting them to 1 foot of Washington avenue to brand new ocean steamship, bullt Danks of our river, 1 ae miles mouth, with appliances of a hew rotected by letters patent of the tes and other countries, on our - e ensign gaff the. stars and acargo of estern mant- pound for foreign & pout Gould is fe point Pout what is Por ¢ t aoe ae ty w le in this ci y temps con lees systems 0 an a trol, but hi have : lke observed the fright +. her. from te
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