St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 4, 1895

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F e n e 4 Er e S MEY oes SN WATS ges So pay n 4 ee 8 ie ps 78 „ Prt 9 1314 . e . N 2 * oA — — — W. * os . 0 = ; = : : * * 4 5 ‘ : ention” Advertisets Showed the Sunday P.- iy ) ~— dSUPPED AND. oa. Box 8 E 5 N | 3 7 * i) ae . r ot eee 5. — * ‘ Sf a — 3 „ 92 7 ? * vee 5 ‘ . « : a. 1 * 9 1 4 * 7 * r * 9 * Horrible Fall of Wm, Becker, a ‘Crippled Painter. DROPPED THREE STORIES, He Hed dust Receversd From 6 Pre tracted Spree and His Nerves Were Unsteady. —— = —— — * et — — , ~ - nanu ~ | books are the “Denyer Tribune Primer,” | yy | a . 1882; „Culture Garland.“ 1351 “Little Book WE 19 a * “Culture’s Garland.“ ; * e x of | ’ °F . sé 0 : 9 _| Profitable tae ec aa ; iin I$ NOTHING NOW | «| gt. Josep 0 Mo. Get. 16, 1873, and had seven “ N ‘ children— well Martin, Mary 9 rer e Ta Save, iy A ulla an oswe : : K Colle te upon Mr. Field the i : as Heart Failure Ended His Life at honorkry. degree of 1 e pe Wicked, Notorious Old Priscilla r eld’s forte, : : , ‘his touching delineation of child ‘life Henry Is De 5 O'Clock Monday Morning, | rr ‘heracter [fis “Latte Bey Blue” and ty Is Dead. l his “Wynken, Blynken and Nod“ deere, will er e the best sranples of ox: ) i s the best ex - AT HIS HOME NEAR CHICAGO. Puisite feeling, wore difficult than all else THE. CAREER OF AN EX-S VE to put in words. In l he had a lar strain of humor, but it was brusque r w > He Was Bora in St. Louis and Was Sinan the subiect was babyhood or child- Pandering to Depraved Passions She own | oct, Hum; . 4 or ihe Satie Amassed a Fortune and Bought Widely Ka asaP poet’s odes into fairly good English verse, orist and Lecturer. Somationed in imitation of the original scan: Her Old Master’s Farm, sion. Mr. Field was a sprightly man, ex- ceedingly dry in his humor of conversation, but ‘nevertheless humorous. He was a wit, CHICAGO, Nov. 4.—Eugene Field, the poet, died in his bed of heart failure about too, and had no mean talent as a reciter of comical or pathetic bits. His home was cheerful and his labrary universal. Priscilla Henry the richest and wickedest wench in St. Louis, is dead. ' She was the keeper of the notorious re- Pedestrians on Thipteehth street and Cass avenue at 9 o’clock Monday morning were horrified to see a man balancing on the cornice of a three-story house, slip and fall. He grasped the ledge as he was going down and a few seconds later landed on the side- walk and was crushed to death. The man was William Becker, a painter, 40 years of age. He leaves a wife and fam- ily at hay Qe tom Broadway. S o'clock this morning, at his home in 8 . Was to Read in Kansas City. soft at 206 South Sixth street, where she Buena Park, this State. He retired last KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Nov. 4.—Eugene | breathed her last at 3:15 o’clock Sunday at- night in usual health and apparently slept | Field had been booked for a reading at the/ternoon, surrounded only by the — soundly till daybreak, when his son, Who] Auditorium in this city this evening. The of the house. occupiea the room with him, heard him 4 — oe * —— * — The 9 — was anc pe the 2 re- . : mar e women o er class that ever groan, and putting out his hand found that was assured. Mr. Field had hosts of friends rg * 425 her class that. ever death had already taken place. in this city, especially among the newspaper | boatmen and traders from New Orleans to Mr. Field leaves a widow and five children. | fraternity, in which he was himself a mem- Minneapolis, and even to those whose avo- He had been indisposed for several days, | ber several years ago, having worked on the cations called them to the most. remote but no serious results were even thought | Star. Elaborate plans for a reception had points in the interior along the turbulent ; : : 7 7 of by his family and immediate friends. | been made by his newspaper friends and ad- issouri, SR / 9 he H. Yenowine of this city was at] mirers and a royal time was anticipated for Born in bondage in 1819 on an immense = by scaled the walle of 8 story bu him. A dispatch was received last night} plantation near Florence, Ala., owned by wit tre hard ; ; John Trump, his employer, put him to ot a slaveholder named Jackson, she was 8 reared in ignorance. She came to St. Louis, work on a three-story residence, No, 1. amassed a fortune, bought the plantation ‘ 2 16 North Thirteenth street. He was paint- on which she and her brother and: sisters N {he ing the window frames in the front part were born, and died rich amid the tinsel a of the garret. He was alone until a few . f and tawdriness of a house of shame. minutes before the accident. Mr. Trump came up and called him inside overlooked spots on the other side of the building. He soon returned and stepped out of the south front window of the garret, and was walking along the ledge to the north window. ‘He was a cripple, one of his being shorter than the other. He swayed m one side to the other on the narrow cornice. It looked as though he would lose his foot- that her sufferings were a heavenly visita- ing every second, but it was only his crip- tion sent upon her as a punishment for her | pled condition that caused him to sway, sinful life: ae ä As he reached the window and was stoop- For forty-six years this woman was a : ing down to open it, his feet slipped on the slave on the Jackson plantation. Her fresh paint, and with a scream he went father and mother were born there and down. 5 reared a family consisting of one son and : five daughters, all of whom are now dead. The old folks died on the plantation just before the news of Lee's surrender at Ap- pomattox was received. Priscilla was the eldest child. Jackson refused to liberate his slaves when the walk. Emancipation Proclamation was ned, ana | A GHOST OF THE DEAD PAST CONFRONTS THE NEW WOMAN... Mrs. Smith of — North Thirteenth street Nancy, the youngest sister of Priscilla, was, se ö * looking . of her = — 2 r saw him fall. 8 n betk's ss Aye : : window. She 2 goes .six nieces, Me vivian, ° . scil h te : an Sa a "> Stee aid — — arms, making journey ¥ Leathe. clin, Carrie. Georgie and Sara Ann a erage ayy “ane a it Sueh is the history of the old negress whose eventful life of 76 years closed Sun- day. The cause of Jer death was indi- gestion, by which she was troubled för nearly six years. For five months she was confined to her bed and during that time she suffered the tortures of the damned. Physicians could do little more than ease her pain and during™the closing weeks of her life she was often heard to remark 5 saw him su w look in his eye as he ed King th. ; 88 powerless to de of ö om @ flat boat soon after.| a large that after the attempted | JACKSON, Miss., Nov. Supreme oo 8 | — peace was declared. f a new will was drawn for her by rt McGuire had Dr. O’Don — Judge Claiborne, her attorney. Will Purvisa,: the n Marion Coun- . of 1427 O'Fallon street summoned. Her life in St. Louis began as a washer- The funeral will be held to-morrow after- | ty white cap who cheated the gallows by 4 found that the man’s spine had been frac- woman in a tumdie-down rookery at Sev- noon at 2 o'clock. A Methodist preacher / a slip of the rope on the former of his | tured and several ribs and the shoulder enth street and Christy avenue, now Lucas | will officiate. ; execution. His execution is fixed for ~ 12. r blade eer Becker died just after the avenue. She was then in robust health, — oa vagy and though black, was a handsome woman. Tiring of her arduous labors at the wash- tub, she soon drifted into a life of shame, and opened a bagnio at Sixth and Christy avenue, across from Union Market. There she surrounded herself with both colored and white inmates, and the place became : the rendezvous of the reckless and lawless : element that followed the river—rousta- —@ bouts, deck hands and adventurers, both black and white. Naturally a good caterer and a woman who wanted to please she attracted the semi-respectable men who drifted to and‘ from St. Louis with the seasons—the gam- blers, the horse-traders, the steamboat cap- tains, mates and engineers, and in time the 1 of Prescilla Henry was known from the delta to the falls of St. Anthony, from Pittsburg to Cairo and far up the Missouri beyond St. Joe and Omaha. Money fairly poured into her purse, and she enlarged her place from time to time until she was finally forced by want of room and the growth of the city to remove to the house at 206 South Sixth street, where she spent the last years of her life. There * ern 5 —— palace of mm, the enast na e estern countr n those days. and Mr. Yenowine intended to start to- from R. M. Field, brother of the poet, The nights were given over to drunkenness, ther for Kansas City, at which place Mr. | announcing the illness of the latter and ask-| rinaldry and debauchery, and no form of eld was to read to-night. Mr. Field had a ing a postponement for a few days of the] sin was too sickening to find harbor under wide acquaintance in the city and the an-/ Auditorium reading. No new date was set! her roof. Mrs. Mary Schroder, who occupies the Detailed Statement of Circulation Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch For the Month of October, 1895. Sunday Edition. First Week 2 Second Week... 85,254 * Third Week Fourth Week.... 85,599 Total 841,240 RUPTORED HIS WINDPIPE. i house where the accident occurred, was Canada Prepares fer Trouble Over atly distressed because she had Washed er sidewa aturday an to rn the Alaskan Boundary. again to-day and swab up the bi at Mr. Trump said Becker had been paint! : ’ for twenty-five years and always boast ' that he never met with an accident. Twe GUARDING YUKON 5 R. dollars, the savings of a life-time. e He vacate s office on the northwest Police Constructing -Fortresses Over- corner of Cass avenue and Thirteenth : — 2 — rae beck to pointing. „ we nown ullding circles and was a looking the Stream, and Are Explor- | member of the Beatherkood of Painters and PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Nov. 4—A 1 party of miners from the headquarters of Sad Fate ornblower Who Tried the Yukon River has arrived from Unalaska gts he al 8 d. ih 55 land reports that the Canadian Government * is establishing well-equipped fortifications ' Spectat to The Post-Dispatch. on commanding bluffs overlooking strategic | NRW TORK, Nov. 4.—During a compara- tively short period of his term of enlist- Week Day Edition. THE LATE EUGENE FIELD. years ago he invented some patent roof ing the Mountain Passes. — noints on Forty Mile Creek, and elsewhere Day for the Month. along the supposed international boundary noes s z line. A large company of Canadian military West Point -_ von Hauschiid at Daily and Sunday . “eee eee 79,178 police is busily engaged in master every the Daily (Week Days Only)y......7 — — * Sun Vv Only... 222222819 * Alaska 2088088 — © ugene Field was well-known in : — having been born here September 2, and was therefore 45 years old at the — — S — . 7 STATE OP MISSOURI } 55 CITY OF ST. Louis, . Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the City of St. Louis, Mo., G. W. Jones, Business Manager of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who deposes and says that the regular editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the month of | October, 1895, after deducting all spoiled and left-over copies, was as above. ö G. W. JONES, Business Madager. Sworn to and subscribed before me the Ist day of Novem- HARRY M. DUHRING, Notary Public, - City of St. Louis, Me. nouncement of his death causes a sorrow- | for the reading, but it was expected to soon She grew rich. Although she spent money ing shock, follow, as the mess indicated that Mr. in her younger days with a lavish hand she Field was only slightly indisposed. had a remarkable capacity for saving, which with old age developed into an al- most miserly desire to hoard her gold, She 1850, 4 BU —— — gene wad hey 208 South Sixth : was the son of Ros- RNED AL street and purchased the two-story brick une A — * Reed Field. His residence at 4262 Garfield avenue, where she wel nts were both natives of Windham 3 Installed her sister Nancy Leathe, who had — Vermont. His father graduated 7 A ae in — — — = —— a — . Dale when only 15 years : y. en she bought the o ackson plan- W ~ „A= tree Horrible Execution of Heretics Re | tation, where she was born. It is now leased in the Vermont Legislature permitting ported From Mexico, to a Dr. Price and yields a handsome year- atheists to testify in courts of law. He | . | ty income. Besides this she owned consider- ‘was Dred Scett's first attorney in the case 0 able property and was said to have which resulted in the famous Dred Scott} CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. 4 —Tt Is reported | money on Dank—the whole estate being val- decision by the United States Supreme nere that by order ot the town judge. ten ae | Persons accused of being hereties were] About the time Priscilla Henry opened Fal ong pene he pee burned alive at Texcapa, a small place in- the house opposite Union Market she met while on the paternal grand-| habited by Indians and half-breedé. The | Thomas R. Howard, now a broker at 307% the original American ant] judge, it is said, claims he was acting ac- — "They . 7 — their 888 for cording to the will of God, manifested to him | nearly twenty-five years. During the greater in an extraordin .vision, accompanied by | part of this time he managed her property certain indications of divine wrath against | and advised her as to the investment of heretics and people leading immoral lives. 2 — 08 July 8 last was arrested on a As soon ag the news reached Molongo, the charge of attempting to Gefraud A ne 1869 h rincipal town in the district, the Municipal | mistress of real estate valu a ' Knog Coles in 1871. President and minor a en preteen escort K n a 2 of over sixty mem arm es, went eed. e property in question was t After finishing his education 1 to N they found everybody in house at 206 South Sixth street where she —— of a 1 in 1872, the public square execu ig grotesque danves | lived, wth a fréntage of about forty feet. ng with the St. Lou with the St. Jo- in honor of the Vitgin of Guadalupe, around | The fraud was discovereé by No Pub- ber, 1895. is next connection was after which he | the ruins of the in which on the previ- lic George Davies when Florence Willams, ’ e e an editorial 83 ae 1 1 the cook at the . 1 — before [Seal] 0 on | Santiago, Jose ’ him, heavily ve 0 , 88 W e n uan fomas, Juan Tomas II., Maria Juana, ella Henry and sign the N My term expires, October I7th, 1899, statt of the Kansas managing edi- | Maria Magdalena, Maria Conception and an accompanied by Howard and John Jor- , that paper in 1881 to become ert de Chi- infant child had been imprisoned and burned | dan, who came to figure as a witness. All tor of the Denver Tribune, alive. three were arrested. another after the cago August 13, 1883, to ance bed on On | Twenty-one arfests were made, although the editorial staff of the Chicago Morning | tne fanatical mob threatened den th to the| One sensation followed 3 arrest of Howard. Ida Leathe, the Priscilla, who attended hout inter- a X.. * , 8 bound 7 ni 0 5 aroun e arms and chained together, were | year-old niece rupee. 11 to gt hie a oe page last) marched to Molongo, where a judicial in- her during her iene, — — 2 “Sharps and Flats,“ was pub shed — — — to if through the instrumentality of Flor- er, t morning, and in it was @ 4 Williams, who was alleged to have Bara fense of Bill Nye and a refusal to — in her food. Howard was ch ' D recent agen on pend —— Ff Pty oon SIXTY POISONED. wie own hand and aleo e ner N. J. er neideno oa m nes tinctur eadly drugs. sion 4 used: n years ago Nye was * Tron came the sensational allegation that th 99 — 1 — he would “ey i salld 4 og had — - — 8 ears 11 N Lea ‘st ' Figg rym — 2 rest of his His esp at that Guests at Social Reception Taken | athe. ° pth Spey oe Pe Ty emt paar before. It was charged that Howard was J un McGrath Die of Injuries In- |} And Wm. 1 Wins». Dulles | m ti meningitis; never since his two; - olen me was ngi insidious. and Vi tly Til. trying to get rid of the entire family by a flicted ESSA SH OOMIGUR AD Total .2,113,287 State Uhive ty of Missouri in * . Ae Re tel 8 tructve disease has Nye been a robust 4 process of slow polsoning in order that he : man.“ n | NEWBURG, N. X., Nov. 4. Mr. and ) Might fall heir to Prisilla’s fort . in e g ble newaparer work, b. dn Thomas C, Brewster, at Washington-| “Coroner Wal tala por in eld, oe aap wrens Comey, 5s Petre Oe ‘and suspicion pointed so to the a as & } tainment.a few evenings ago in honor of murder of Nancy Leathe that the 11 Mer 0 N edding trip ot Mr. fer of iension was Dream the return from * exhumed and the ra taken out. Tal Oc-j and Mrs. Alden Gol 2 na > % 2 2 anes ay 1 ty 8 or analysis in ope of p ©. rann of | the deceased was — 8 ere Mish Dorpthy Fulton. Abe e and it ras fterw rey Rossen tn, an pa * 5 * 7 * * 4 * Las r Sex * age ae * * “J 30 K 2 0 > “rw E ? zs . ** =, 4. at —