St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 6, 1896

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: é > ¢ -* “1? =~ mts, + = Was called. to order. Dr. Woodson of 8t. Joseph at once moved to limit nominating and seconding each for nominations for State Auditor. nominating speech whs the best of the con- vention, 4 Thril ling adventure of two-seamen in mid-ocean, who were attacked by a _ monster sea bird. Illustrated. In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch. > “hte oe, hii 4 | In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch. oo : 4 ie Bas fe : a y . pe Cale ak! > oe £ & f } “iene ae “Gye a2 a Bicycle Page ty features. Striking illustrations. - —— _ = VOL. 47, NO. 362. 1896.—TEN PAGES. Pe — i — THURSDAY EVENING-ST. LOUIS—AUGUST 6. ~ ." i WORE GROW “NOMINATED NAMED FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL AFTER A HOT FIGHT. STEPHENS FOR GOVERNOR. Bolte, Lesueur, Seibert and Pitts Also Drew Prizes on the Demo- cratic Ticket. The Ticket. GOVETNOL.....000++s0eeeeeeeee-L0n V, Stephens IAeutenant Governor.............-A. H. Bolte Secretary of State............-A. A, Lesueur AUGITOP.......0.ccccceeeee-.-0ames M. Beibert TROABUTOEL ..ccccccccccccsceseesss ..Frank Pitts Attorney-General..........Judge E, C. Crow Gpecial to the Post-Dispatch. JBFFPRSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 6—At 9 o'clock this rning, the hour to which the convention" adjourned, Representative Hall was not half filled. . The oppressive heat of the night session and the sultry way in which the day opened combined to make them late. After the convention adjourned at 1:20 o'clock Thursday morning many of the delegates adjourned to the grassy lawn sur- rounding the Capitol, and there passed the remainder of the night. When they finally reconvened Thursday it’; Douglass, Dunklin and Dent, Franklin and was with the firm intention to rush the business of naming a State ticket to speedy completion. The convention has made a good start. Lon V. Stephens has been named for Gov- ernor; A. H. Bolte for Lieutenant-Governor, aoe — SS Es i. and A. A. Lesueur for Secretary of State, and the platform has been adopted. The first contest on for Thursday was that or State Auditor. James M. Seibert, incum- and A. H. Kallmeyer and J. C. Brown he candidates. 9:30 o’clock when the convention were It eeches to ten minutes for date. It was promptly laid on the = — motion of Champ Clark of Pike nty. Then the roll call of districts was begun Arnold, ex-Congressman from the urteenth District, nominated James M. of Cape Girardeau. Mr. Arnold's The Seibert forces made a great demon- ation for their candidate when Arnold 4 concluded his eloquent presentation of ibert’s claims. | Champ Clark of Pike followed Marsh rnold. He nominated A. H. Kallmeyer of ontgomery ina apeeen that was witty and faustic. In his vigorous fashion he spoke or a new deal and new men, and struck the keynote of the fiE.t against Seibert when @peech. what he called For many years, he said, there had been a few Democrats who had been parceling out in Rictomce-nolters in Jefferson City. , he urged that Kallmeyer be nominated be- cause while he had never held an office, he Was pre-eminently duties of the position of Stat given an opportunity. » he said, had changed the scriptural Sext to cf ad “hold fast to the offices and ualified to arge the uditor if “Rotation in office’ was the burden of the ‘It was spolled by his attack on “the office-holders’ ring.’’ Tight of the convention was on, and ev- its heart Dryden, had gone to the city from the farm and had taken high rank at the bar. ‘ make their speeches short. applauded by the “sultering ‘re eltering in ei Coo St. — Cit aye ca of nominations Peck of the T 2 . ) oye By ooapeetion a ieee e had no rig Q and ’ repudiated yy eee t, the district t was o’clock when the balloti gan. It was started under intense Hh og ment. The counties in the Southeast stood by Seibert. Boone County gave him 8, and Buchanan 9. Caldwell stood by Brown. Cal- his nomination looked certain. Chariton was solid for Seibert. So was Clark. Clay County gave Brown its entire vote. So did Clinton. Cole was solid for Seibert. Kall- A. H.BOLTE. (For Lieutenant-Governor.) meyer was showing no particular strength. | Gasconade were solid for Seibert. Grundy, Harrison and Hickory followed in the Seibert band wagon. Jackson County gave Brown nearly its full vote. The Brown men tried to make a stampede on the strength of Jackson. But Jefferson, Madi- son, Miller, Laclede, Marion, Moniteau and Lewis voted solidly for Seibert. St. Louls County gave Seibert 7 out of 8. Saline gave him 9 out of 10. When St. Louis City was reached Selbert was nominated. The city went for him nearly solid. That settled it for the fourth place on the ticket. Before the roll was completed, Silas Carr of Montgomery withdrew Kallmeyer’s name. Fyke of Kansas City demanded a new roll call. It was overruled. Lincoln tried to change ite vote to Seli- bert. It could not be done under the rules. The ballot resulted: Seibert, 335%; Brown, 138; Kallmeyer, 62%. Ed Orear moved that Frank Pitts of Mon- roe be nominated for State Treasurer by ac- clamation. It was done in ten seconds. Nominations for Attorney-General were called for at 11:20, and great confusion in parte of the hall ensued: ~The principal erybody in the build!ng knew it. When ex-Congressman R. P. C. Wilson of Platte County took the stage to present the name of Morton Jourdan of Carroll, Jourdan’s friends made a noisy demonstra- tion, which the partisans of Crow tried in vain to check. Mr. Wilson’s speech was expected to be sensational. It had been whispered around all morning that it would be. He congratulated the party_on being again united ard harmonious. The office of Attorney-General was not political, declared the eulogist. No people could be free without a just and impartial enforce- ment and interpretation of their laws. The Attorney-General was an important mem- ber of the Board of Equal zation, before which an irrepressible conflict between the corporations and the people was always raging. If aman suspected of being under the influence of corporations were nomi- nated for the office the people of Missouri pee repudiate his nomination. Jourdan as owned by no clique; he owed allegiance te no corporate wealth. H's whole record srowed it. ‘ At this point the Crow rooters tried to howl the speaker down, and Col, Wilson, rowing r in the face, exclaimed that he ud faced corporate opposition before and was not frightened by it. Sterling P. Bond of St. Louis was eulo- izen by Nat C. Dryden, who appealed rom the lungs of the convention to and brain. Mr. Bond, said Col. ——-- ——___— oe es S25" 'THE COOL WAVE laway gave Seibert 8 Others followed, and. UD NOT COME, —" IT STRUCK ALL AROUND US, BUT MISSED ST. LOUIS, ANOTHER HOT DAY ON HAND. Dr. Frankenfield Can See No Prospect for Better Weather, Owing to High Barometer in the South. ; SPM! | 96 | 20M} 11 96 1PM ) 96 12M |i) 95 114M 93 OAM) || 91 SAMI! o1 _8AM/1| 86 = 82 6 (Made by A. 8S. Aloe & Ca. ia, co 22: : waiatie 2: er@es ~~. Claee e - sty a! ~ e722 - al —_—> WAN ‘~~ = obs MANAGER AND [IAN. —From the New York Journal. FORTUNE FAVORS THOSE WHO USE P.-D. “WANTS.” * -. TWO BULLETS IN IS HEA Fo bd Scene of a Mysterious Trag- edy at Night. the body of a man, apparently about morning. gion of the heart. The bloéd had dried os the shirt, showing that the man had be dead several hours. A revolver with two exploded cartridge shells lay on the bench near the man’s right hand. f The Dozier Schoo) is at the northeast cor- ner of Maple and Goodfellow avenues, in Cabanne. It is surrounded by a low picket fence. It has been closed since the end of the last school session, but on the lot on the east an addition to the school is being built. When the builders reported .for work Thursday morning the body was placed in a wagon for removal to the Morgue. None of the men recognized the suicide, thus contradicting the surmise that he was one of the men employed on the new bullding., Information as to the tragedy is some- what vague. No one saw the man in the neighborhood Wednesday afternoon or ev- ening, but it is pretty sure that the fatal shots were fired about 9\o’clock Wednesday night. ' They were heard by S. E. Lewis and J. 8. Smith. The former lives at 1015 Goodfellow St. Louls was the hottest place in the/|= —- | avenue and the latter at 5647 Maple avenue. country at7 a.m. It was then & according to the Government thermometer in the Fed- eral Building. This is not pleasant to contemplate, but it doesn’t show that Old Sol has any particu- lar rod in pickle for us. This is the first time here able weather, that we have started off in the lead, so there is no particular kick com- ing from this section of the epltere. It’s apy our turn; that’s all. St. Paul, up where they are supposed to have a. fine line of cool lakes, had to take 100 degrees on Tuesday, and as for Chicago, report has it that all the asphalt streets have run into the lake. Dr. Frankenfield is buried about 5,000 feet under the weather just at present. He} made a few remarks Wednesday about a fall in temperature. It was a sad mistake. There is no show for it. The only fall that is liable to occur around these parts is one which some irate customer is liable to take out of him for than $8 Thies fs Weath come sailing u _ | Sees no prospect of it this summer, during the really uncomfort that’a few cloudswill keep the thermometer .8 the point ' the record of the ye There is lees humidity in Wednesday and thus tle heat is less op- This is absolutely the only grain of comfort the weather prophet has to offer. pressive. md burn us up. is no e he THE WEATHER. Fair Thursday Night and Friday Little Change in Temperature. er Bureau forecast: : For Sst. Louis and Vicinity—Generally wler weather un- yometer now up locally and } po 7 ell the air than WEATHER AND BEER. The Combination Made Jacob Stoltz of Belleville Try Four Ways to Their Ground and Fired Upon i Bimeselt. - | — _ the Soldiers. Jacob Stoltz mixed too much strong drink with the hot weather and manifested such strong symptoms of temporary insanity at his home in Belleville that his family sent for the police. Chief Obst and a patrolman went to the house and got him and took him to the ’ station. } By careful handling he was quieted, but the officers were afraid he would make a Scone when they attempted to lock him up, son, employed at the Brown Works, lives. and yelled like Indians. the disturbance and rushed to the scene. dozen men stood at bay with revolvers and running cool bluffs on a long-suffering com- munity withont just provocation. He swears he played in hard luck. The cool wave struck about every place he said it would except St. Louis. It never touched us. Kansas, Nebraska, Western Missouri, Iowa, Michigan and a lot of other highly uninteresting localities experienced the prei.cted fall of ten degrees, but St. Louis was not in on the deal. The mercury stuck above 80 all night long, and people lay on hot sheets blistering their backs and discounting the future happi- nees of their immortal souls by calling down the wrath of all sorts of gods on the Weather Bureau. It is pretty hot weather to be bothering with causes and effects, but it may be in- teresting to state that the reason for this renewal of sulphurous atmosphere is an area of high barometer on the Guif Coast. It’s the same pesky condition of the atmos- heric currents that caused all] the trouble efore. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. | In consequence, the hot winds of the South e fattest offices among themselves. He the name of Lon V. Stephens in connection with State offices: he heard the name of James M. Seibert of Alex A. Lesueur in that connection. : Democratic office-holders at Jeffer- @ fat.est.” Rotation tn office meant t the offices were divided people. Now it meant that men among offices. There were 8,000,000 the State, he continued, outside Clark proceeded, he “roasted” Section south of the river, which had years, he said, n getting all and yet aereneing on that part te north of the ssourl River. State was reliably was reliably Demo- effort was ts’ stampede ‘ire as to stam e the Sway from Seibert. The ap- demonstrated that the what he said. lolph seconded the Valley. Kansaé, Missouri pital. years old fair Thursday night and Friday. \ | change in temperature. Se Missouri and _ Illinoils—Generally Thursday and Friday. Stationary tempera- where fair weather prevailed. An Unionville, Mo., the rain-fall was 1.07 inches. HEAT PROSTRATIONS. Th: Number Is Not So Great as Were Notwithstanding the terrific heat of Wed- nesday, when the mercury in the thermome- ver ascended to the 9%8-degree mark, and broke the season’s record, there were not so many cases of heat prostrations reported as on Thursday of last week. ee 4Jeath at the City Hospital is re- ported, and Dr. Sutter says the rema nder in from this cause are not in a serious condi- An uaknown man, supposed to be George Herne City Hosp'tal at 7 o'clock Wednes- day night. He was overcome by the heat at Broadway and Chouteau avenue. died at 2:45 o’clock Thursday morning. Everett Masterson, a stranger in the city, was overcome 1616 Chestnut street and was sent to the hos- rew Madurathak was overcome by the neat at Third and Barton streets Wednes- day afternoon. He was sent home. s Joseph Breramith (Poe seen, —}iso he was decuyed int fired at the militiamen. The soldiers re- and the See tereed on von “at first be plied with rifle balls and then the men took his incarceration quietly, but finally | 5c@ttered. In the melee, Private Perkins A REGULAR OLD SCORCHER. Little fair ture. Warm weather. still prevails over the greater portion of the country, although there has been a fall of from 2 to 10 deg. in the Lower Missouri Valley, Kansas, Nebras- ka and Colorado and the Upper Mississippi Low pressure again covers the Northwest, and the pressure in the South and East has risen slightly. There have been thunder storms in Iowa, | parties live, Nebraska and extreme Northern and over the Upper Lakes. Else- Afflicted Last Week. his institution suffering about 50 years old, was received He by the heat at his room at He is 20 and lives at 1238 South Third was ovércome by the oon at Bighth and he became violent and» tried to kin him-| 0f Co. B was shot, but it is not known was accidentally shot while loading his revolver , whetting it on the bars of the cell it was taken from him. t d, however, by others that He then tried to impale his neck on a at is claime y hook in the wall. and when dissuaded | 2¢.”#s wounded In the Luther street skir- from thie, got hold of a fork which had : een le m the cell oy accident, and began to gouge at his wrist. . MET THEIR MATCH. tone ee aod Officer Kauffman en- oe ere e cell and took the fork from him. ani It was supposed he had exhausted his re- Republican insurance Comp aes sources, but a short time after he was found bleeding profusely from a number of wounds in his body and limbs. He had got possession of a piece of broken crockery and used it on himse He will recover. lf desperately. Strike a Snag in Colorado. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 6.—It is announced that State Auditor Parks, who is ex-officio Insurance Commissioner, is about to spring a surprise upon some of the leading insur- ance companies. Several companies, it is said, have recently been sending circulars to their policy-holders containing the asser- tion that if the Democratic party is suc- cessful in the coming election their policy will be worth but half the amount on which the premiums have been paid. It is said Mr. Parks has been quietly securing a collec- tiun of these circulars, which he claims are evidénce of insolvency on the part of the companies, and he now proposes to cancel the licenses of all such companies which are now doing business in this State. It is claimed that the Auditor’s judgment in such cases is final, and that if he ins'sts upon this course the companies will be barred from doing business ‘n the State. BURNED A MURDERER. LYNCHING THREATENED. A Whole Family in Danger at Find- lay, Ohio. FINDLAY, O., Aug. 6.—Amos. Decker, the boy murderer, gave himself up “of his own free will. He Says he ran the first night to Bluffton, 16 miles away, where he lay in a cornfield till dark. Then he went ;into town to get something to eat and was (told by a friend that his victim, George 'Miles, was dead. He immediately deter- mined to return and give himself up. After | getting a hasty lunch he left Bluffton and ran towards Findlay for nearly eight miles. _His feet hurt him and he took off his shoes pand ran barefooted. When half way home he met two acquain- tances in a buggy, who greed to take —_ - gig br any possible mob , He claims he fired the revolver ; Miles, not to shoot him. ee The Mayor has released Decker's father }and three brothers, who were held as accom. |plices. This action has so enraged the residents of West Park, where all the that they threaten to again Infuriated Louisianians Make Short Work of a Rapist. ST. JOSEPH, La., Aug. 6.—Several days ago a white woman, employed as a domes- rominent family on the borders a Prankin Parish, was found murdered and outraged. Bloodhounds tracked the murderer, who was a white tramp, and an infuriated mob tied him to a stake and the whole family, unless they are again burned him. placed under arrest. PLPPAOVD OPA Of John J. Ingalls on Gold. [Opinion of the ex-United States Senator from Kansas. } “No people, in a great emergency, ever found a faithful ally in Gold. It is the most cowardly and treacherous of all metals. It makes no treaty that it does not break; it has no friend it does not betray. Armies and navies are not maintained by gold. In times of panic and calamity, ship- wreck and disaster, it becomes the agency and minister of ruin. No nation ever fought a great war by the aid of gold; on the contrary, in the crisis of the greatest peril it be- comes an enemy more potent than the foe in the field, but when the battle has been won and peace secured, gold re- appears and claims the fruits of victory.” /-MILITIAMAN SHOT, A Dozen Cleveland Strikers Stood CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 6—A militiaman was shot on Luther street in the East End early this murning. Between midnight an@ 1 o’clock a crowd made a sudden attack on a building where a man named John- Hoisting They broke in the windows The soldiers heard Part of the crowd was scattered, but a self. noes Pole gn te taken away w= He first tried his knife, but { oo.) ambulance. o obicial statement et Cas dull to do any damage, and Sime ee fas. Whitney's headquarters is that Perkins The neighborhood is very quiet and lonely and when the two men heard two shots In rapid succession they concluded that high- Wwaymen were at work. Both ran out to investigate. They search the entire neighborhood without pArersinm whence the shots came. The bench against failed to notice the ody. They concluded that the shots had been fired by some drunken pedestrian and returned to their homes. ‘ The policemen at Cabanne have extensive way uncil 6 o’clock Thursday morning. It was then broad daylight. The officer who found the body telephoned to the Morgue for the dead wagon and then mounted guard Meanwhile he searched the body for some clew to the identity of the dead man. He wore a black alpaca coat and in the in- | side breast pocket was a letter written in German, without envelope and unaddressed, The letter indicated that the man had com- mitted suicide: that his name was WI! S. Schmidt, and that he had recently : rived in St. Louis from Chicago. Following is a translation of the letter: LyA ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3, 1896. Dear Friend—Having arrived in this be- loved city, where the great heat rages, I had to suffer a great deal, and don’t know whether I can stand it@n St. Louis. I don’t believe I can go to works" It is not much better than Chicago. “Rich people go from one pleasure to an- other in the whole world wherever I have been. Nothing is greater than money to those who have it. God does not reign any more, and the people only look out for them- selves. Everybody looks after himself. I have seen enough of this part of the world. I have seen many people and many sinners, but most of the latter. “The present social system, according te my opinion, 1s worse than the one that pre- vyailed at Sodom and Gomorrah. The social question is the mountain which we will have to climb. Politics is the greatest humbug in the world, especially in th great country. “IT have seen this great humbug for six years, and everybody In it wants to make money, and the ignorant working people still believe in it. “IT could write you much more, but I am disgusted. One thing I want to tell you is that a general revolution will take place which will change the system, but will not improve it. “If something should happen to me and I should depart from this world, you can have my trunk and tool kit. The tickets are in my coat. WM. 8S. SCHMIDT.” The dead man was a German, about SS years old, 5 feet $ inches in height, and weighed 140 pounds. He had brown hair and his fate was smoothly shaven. He wore a white shirt, black coat and blue-striped trousers and white straw hat, but no collar and no vest. The revolver found by the body was of French pattern. The police accept the theory of suicide and are not considering any other. MURDEROUS GUERRILLAS. te #@ ol4 lives 2 g-}- +. to —— Sere rene Pe S Pram Tee ee -. ed A MAN SUPPOSED TO BE WMS, LETTER INDICATING SUICIDE, — Dozier School Yard in Cabanne the Half recumbent on a low bench against the west fence of the Dozier Schoo vars | years old, was found at 6 o'clock Thursday There were two bullet wounds in the re+ the school fence was in a shadow and they beats to patrol and no officer happened that | over the corpse until the wagon arrived. © ee RICE SoioP BUN coment 3) ae ea* ha". toe oa eS we See hoe - $ 7 i, - . n a 7 - * ” a a as. 4 ~ *% “oe F RY 6 eS ot aft aa aes 4 ise 3 - - LS oa aig ‘k 5. re wey iy : oY Ee ibe. . te Be me