St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 4, 1895

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Six counties, they announce, out 114 in the State have declared in a silver convention, : ™ittee immediately upon its ar- a quiet search for Chairman armed with lengthy reports tne Various counties regarding the ed convention. Mr. Cook was made of the valuable documents, while cAllester and Mr. Britt set out to the State Democratic Committee's 1an, Instructions were to request Mr. 1 $9 name an hour and day when he meet the committee and examine ‘eports. 3 use of the telephones failed to locate Maflitt and before the committee be- active search it was decided that a formality from the committee might additional effect on the missing Chair- Wang is r of the document ged to Mr. Maffitt: er several weeks of labor we have ded in getting the sentiment of the ; rding the proposed silver con- n. his was done by requesting the s county committees to hold confer- and the decisions were reached by vote. result is that we find a large major- wor of a silver convention. ving that it was your sentiment to »pinion of the people, and to let the rule tn this question, we réspect- mit the names of the counties » to the calling of the convention, 8 Audrain, Barton, Benton, Barry, Boone, Butler, Camden, Carter, loway, Chariton, Christian, Craw- e Girardeau, Cedar, Cole, Cooper, Jouglas, Dent, Franklin, Gentry, How „ Iron, Jackson, Jasper, Knox, Laclede, Lafayette, Law- cDonald, Macon, Maries, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Osage, , Perry, Pettis, Phelps, Pike, Rey- ipley, Saline, Schuyler, Scotland, St. Charles, St. Francis, Sullivan, Jernon, Webster. des which, in addition to the above, irough .conventions or committees, i for a convention are Buchanon, Dunclan, Henry, Howell, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, Mississippi, . Moniteau, New Madrid, Platte, Pope, ci, Putnam, Ralls, Shannon, Texas, e. Kalb, Harrison and Linn Counties are only counties directly opposed to a convention.“ VicAllester denied that the committee ttempted to criticise Mr. Maffitt or ember of the State Committee, or else in the matter of a silver con- — — n nerely say that we have done what ght was in accord with the Chair- ‘ishes as to the course to pursue,”’ “We ask Mr. Maffitt to call the Committee together for the pur- ~alling a convention not later than As sixty of the 114 counties have ie to us as favoring a convention, we have heard from twenty-six indirect- here is a big majority for the conven- The twenty-six counties not included the sixty have, through conventions committees, asked that a convention be „d. These counties have not reported to . McAllester and Messrs.Cook and Britt, tituti the Conference Committee, were at e Pianters’ Thursday morning their address to Mr. Mafftt. p. m. the Conference Committee ed_to visit the Fair Grounds Race 1 at 2 p. m. and find Mr. ALL FOR FREE SILVER. Rickards of Wyoming Sa einer n \ Rickards, Governor of Wyoming, d here Thursday, accompanied by his ders to attend the interstate drill. was seen at the Planters’ Hotel by a Yispatch reporter. question is —_— the people ut up free silv tion and it will be a winning Only twelve of the com- of twenty w present. t-}espectally grief-stricken over her loss, as 1 pagar of the Democratic Central com- mittee of Platte Coun Lante sent to Chairman he call a State convention to take acti the silver question. . WHITE FOR SPEAKER. It 18 Thought He Will Be Elected on the First Ballot. Special to Tre —— Be fo a III., July 4—A caucus of the blican members of the General Assembly has been called for next Tuesday evening for the purpose of electing a speak- er to succeed Jno. Meyer, deceased. Three avowed candidates are in the field. with sev- eral dark horses—Thos. B. Needles of Wash- ington County, Wm. G. Cochran of Moultrie M. White of Whiteside. Daniel Berry of Carroll, who was tempo 8 - er during the thirty-ninth session, is also a candidate and is backed by the corporative influences. His arbitrary rulings during the regular session secured many enemies and he will be strongly opposed. He stands but little chance of ng elected. Needles also ng Speaker and wi has been Speaker of the Legislature, is a capable, safe and con- servative man and will have a heavy fol- among the country members. White, however. the majority. He is one of the leaders of the House, dignified and consistent, and one of the best ced men on floor. Bel from a country most united v city members. A hot for several months by the country members t the element and the big to ty anything else. White will receive some Dem- ocratic votes. fts will be nominated by the minority. e Republicans have a ma- jority of 31 in the Ho and will easily elect the man named next esday evening. The feeling now is that White will be elected on the first ballot. All State officials and many members in the Legislature will attend the funeral of the late Speaker to-morrow at port. MRS., PETERS’ PREDICAMENT. She Gave Her Baby Away- Does Not Know to Whom. Mrs. Mary Peters is still hunting her child, which was taken away from the Day Nursery at Seventeenth and Olive streets Tuesday by two women. She doesn’t seem she declares that the police will restore her child to her in a few days. In talking of the young one’s disappearanwe she at one mo- ment blames Mrs. Owen, the matron of the Day 2 — . she allowed the child to be abducted. Then again Mrs. Peters admits that she talked vately with the two women who call at the Day Nureury and consented to their taking care of the by. From the stories told by Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Peters and a photograph- er it ears that Mrs. Peters carelessly allowed the women to take her child with- out asking their names or addresses, and that Mrs. Owen is in no way responsible for the abduction. : Mrs. Peters’ story is that Tuesday after- noon she was summoned to the Day\Nur- sury, where she met two well-d wo- men. They told her they wanted to take her child and care for it, and that she con- sented, th ayy they allowed her to see it occasionally. Mrs. Peters and the wo- men then took the baby, which is.only 8 months old, to the r. establish ment of J. I. Fitzgibbon, at live street, where its picture was taken. The party then went to Barr’s and, after buying some clothing for the little one, they separated, Mrs. Peters allowing the strange women to take the baby away. That was the las. seen of them by Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Owen, when seen, said that Mrs. Peters had talke privately with the women and she had nothing to do with the transaction. WOODWARD ALL RIGHT. He Is Slightly Wounded and on His way to New York. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 4.—Frank R. E. Woodward, the newspaper man supposed to be lying in a Spanish dungeon in Cuba, has been heard from and ought to arrive in New York to-morrow. His mother this morning received a brief letter, via Havana, dated June 27 Cardenas, on the York, and would arrive July 5. He has had many thrilling meg, oly taper | has been wounded in the arm, but is all right. KILLED WIFE AND BABE. ke Double Murder, Supplemented With | Suicide. MEADVILLE, Mo., July 4-8. A. Fields, until recently of the Post at Polo, Mo., cut the throats of his wife and baby with a ra- zor this morning and then ended his own life in the same manner. The bodies were t zwo hundred yards mother-in-law northwest of here, having edited the years ago. The graphed for. ON BOARD THE ATALANTA. Miss Helen Gould and Party Passing Through the City. George Gould's special car, Atalanta, ar- essenger several has been tele- s party was driven otel, where they break-" lock the visited the eral Man- u they —— f 43 * Grounds, The AE RL oo 1 9 1 5 » - R. H. Stillwell has just announced that he is probably the choice of | THR HANNIBAL = MURDER MYSTERY. ward of $10,000. FOLLOWING A NEW CLEW. Expectation: that the Real Criminal Will Be Run Down and Punished. Special to the Post-Dispatch. HANNIBAL, Mo., July 4—The fact that has withdrawn the reward of $10,000 offered by him for the apprehension and convic- tion of the murderer or murderers of his father, Amos J. Stillwell, has created a sensation and revived the story of the horrible tragedy that was enacted on the night of December 81, 1888, when the wealthy pork packer was killed in his own house. The motive that prompted Mr. Stillwell to withdraw the reward just at this stage is known only to himself. It is said that Mr. Stillwell has experienced a change of mind; that he no longer believes in the robber theory, and that he will now follow up 4 more plausible clew and will be rewarded for his trouble. In an interview with Mr. Stillwell to-day he said to the Post-Dispatch correspondent: “I will do anything in my power to bring the guilty to justice, no matter what it may be. Some day the people will know what my reasons are, and they will see that I am right, but I cannot make them public at present. I believe we will live long enough to see the murderer of my father punished.“ Mr. Stillwell has been accredited with placing obstacles in the way of the detectives and others in ferreting out the guilty party, and the above is his response to the question why he had done so. The Grand-jury will reconvene in Hannibal next Monday, and it is understood that they will make a thorough investigation. The mur derer of Amos J. Stillwejl is nearer to the gallows now than ever before, if the ru- mors here are based on facts, and the public need not be surprised at unexpected developments at any time. It will be remembered that shortly after the murder of Stillwell his widow married Dr. Hearne of this city. Dr. Hearne and his wife now live in San Diego, Cal. Since their residence there they were divorced and remarried. When these events took place the San Francisco Chronicle printed the story of the Stillwell murder, and made statements which caused Dr. Hearne to enter suit for libel against the paper. For the past few months the paper has had agents here collecting facts to assist it in defending that suit. It is surmised that the developments in this phase of the case have something to do with R. HaStill- well’s action noted above. BALLOON EXPLODED. One Soldier Killed and Two Others In- jured. BERLIN, July 4—A military balloon ex- ploded to-day in the shed of the barracks. Three soldiers were injured and one of them has since died. ONLY A BULL DOG. But He Has a Long Record of Chickens Killed. Officers Sheehan and Underwood of the Mounted District, while passing B. H. Moorman’s house at 4013 Papin street, about 3 a. m., heard a noise in the yard. They investigated. As they came close to the center of dis- turbance, “There he goes,” yelled.Officer Sheehan, as something sprang from a shed. Bang! Bang! went the guns of the officers as something white sped down the ley. It was a big bull dog. He had just killed seven of Moorman’s prize chickens. The Dullets never hit him go their murder was unavenged. This dog is an unholy terror in this neigh- borhood. He has a record of fifty chickens within the last month. AN HEIR IN ST. LOUIS. Deposit of $10,210 in Bank to an Insane Woman's Credit. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 4—Kate Welch, an inmate of the asylum at Reno, Nev., has $10,210 deposited in the Hibernian Bank in this city which has remianed un- called for for twenty-one years. In the meantime the bank offi -have traced every woman of that name on the Pacific Coast and several Eastern — 2 ae find the real owner of the tiny a feeble old woman of vr i ta intellect an endea with her h — R. H. Stillwell Withdraws the Re- * — — Said the Syracuse Farmers Who Tried Bob Fitsimm NOT GUILTY, —— A OPENED WITH THE “NATIONAL SALUTE, Imposing Ceremony in Camp Hancock at Daybreak. — CROWDS AT THE CAMP. Independence Day Observed by In- fantry and Artillery Drills and a Sham Battle. | —-— Camp Hancock was awake and stirring by 5 o’clock on the monring of the Glorious Fourth. The national salute was fired at 8 o’clock and preparations immediately be- gan making for carrying out tHe grand ons Yesterday for the Killing of Prize renter Con Reardon. FOUND DEAD IN THE LAKE. Charles D. Sherwood, Ex-Lieutenant- Gevernor of Minnesota. CHICAGO, July 4—CRarles D. Sherwood, ex-Lieut.-Governor of Minnesota, has been found dead floating in the lake at the foot of Peck Court. Mr. d came to Chi- cago last March to higve a sargical operation performed. He was under the care of Dr. Hall of Grand Crossing: He left the Victor Hotel, where he had been stopping, and half an hour later his body was found in the water. Twenty years ago Mr. Sherwood was one of the most prominent politicians in Minne- sota. He came West from New Milford, Conn., his birthplace, in 1856, and settled at Rushford, Minn. He was a doctor by pro- fession, but he abandoned that calilng a few years later and took up the practice of law. As a lawyer Mr. Sherwood was one of the most successful in Minnesota. Mr. Sherwood entered politics early in life, and his rise was almost meteoric. After serv- ing as Congressman from the Rushford district, he was twice elected Lieutenant- Governor of Minnesota. As President of the State Senate he was said to be the ablest pariiamentarian of his time. s ten or fifteen years ago Mr. Sher- wood went to Tennessee, where a town was named for him. His widow and two children live there now. He was president of a lime quarry near Sherwood, and owned large tracts of land in that vicinity. Mr. Sherwood became interested with Gen. Alger of Michigan in land speculation sev- eral years ago, and together they at one time owned large holdings in Tennessee and Minnesota. It is said that Mr. SHerwood acted as counsel for Gen. Alger for sev- eral years. George Sherwood, the well- known book publisher of this city, who died about a year SEO, was a brother of the dead man. For the last six weeks Mr. Sherwood 3 confined to his room most of the Two Ilinois Central switchmen frst saw his body floating in the lake. Papers found on the dead man’s clothing served to identify him. A Coroner’s ju gave a verdict of drowning, but whether Mr. Sher- wood committed suicide or was drowned by accident the jury was unable to say. When Mr. Sherwood’s room was searched an old silver watch was found on the bed. The time-piece had been given to him by Gen. Tom Thumb when the latter first came into public notice ö IV. KIRKCAND'S TRIAL. ' g — Ifthe Charges Are Not Sustained He May Sue the Deacons. Special to The Post-Dispatch. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July ( Charges of um- morality were made by the deacons of the Savannah Avenue Baptist Church a short time ago against the pastor, Rev. R. L. Kirk- land, and the church was closed for a time, the deacons refusing to allow the pastor to enter it. Kirkland was about to resign and avoid anything that had the semb scandal in the church, but decided that he would 2 have 2 88 : will for ation of character. Tee check is 8 | on the su half of the members for the pas and the other half — * SHOT BY A DRUNKEN POLE. John Salomon, an Aged Negro, Receives 2 Bullet in His Breast. Andrew Brolasky, a Pole, living at 18 CRASHED INTO THE SLEEPER. Light Engine Collides With a Passenger Train Near Niantic, THREE PERSONS INJURED. Engineer Higgins and Fireman Smith Not Expected to Recover From , Their Hurts. DECATUR, IIL, July 4.—Wabash train No. 41, which left here for the West last night, one hour late, met with an accident at Nian- tic, twenty miles west of here, by which two trainmen were fatally injured and a num- ber of passengers had a narrow escape. A light engine following crashed into the rear sleeper, jamming it into the chair car. The injured: 5 Higgins, M. L., engineer, Springfield, crushed under tender; fatally injured. ’ Smith, —, fireman, Springfield, fatally in- jured. Dawson, Ell, passenger, cut and bruised. Just as the passenger train was leaving Niantic the light engine crashed into the rear sleeper and buried itself 1 to and past the steam chest. Engineer i and Fireman Smith of the light engine were starting to jump when the collision oc- curred. They were not in time and were caught by the ! mass of falling coal to the boiler and fatally injured. Almost miraculously not one of the passengers was seriously hurt. They were for the most part near the forward end of the car. The sleeper was jammed agen the chair car in front of it, and the tforms between the two were crushed. n the chair car almost every chair was wrenched loose from the floor. Eli Dawson was gers 5 = ry wl car to the slee at the time tha 6 ac- Be te uted. If be bad been @ second he collision was 60 t that he was knocked off his feet and injured. A HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD. : Man to ee Spectal to The Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 4—Guido Egling is the THE: GHAMPION RATER. Admits That He Was Run Out of Seven Boarding-Louses. — — NEW YORK, July 4—X. Fink, a First avenue butcher, is the champion eater just now. Yesterday, on a bet, he started to eat then went to sleep. He ate d skins on, and says there is skins which affected him. “The trouble is that Fink is too said Mr. ss, a neighbor. : Bartlett pear contest here and he ate ninet and then quit because the crowd was too He can't do his best when there are large. a lot of people staring him in the face.“ Tl bet that man can eat forty raw eggs, a bowl of soup and two corned beef sand- — said Mr. another neigh- r „I don’t know about that.“ put in Cham- pion Fink, modestly. “I never tried more than twenty Perhaps I could go thirty. I once drank three schooners of beer, ate twenty-five oysters and then drank a schooner of whisky. I drink tweive cups of coffee every day. Ordinarily I don’t eat or drink to excess, although I have been put out of seven boarding houses.” " 4 - 4 * * * gala day programme. There was guard mount at 9 o' clock, and by 9:30 Capt. F. M. Rumbold was on the parade ground with the first division of attery A, N. G. M., of St. Louis ready, to enter the grand artillery contest. The feature of the day was the artillery, cotest for three prizes aggregating $3,000, reeze after cheer went ad the W ing cannons and good musio by the ooming e zd Regiment Band and the Mt. Pleasang W ~~ 1 . . . N . ef WAN . SAR F 8 MISS LILLIE Tien 1 ~~ CRUSHED 70 DRATE. ees . eh ee ne sas oe Sig