St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 31, 1896

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Narrow Escape of the Passengers on a Cog Wheel Train Going Down the Mountain. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 31.— The first accident on the Pike’s Peak Cog Wheel Railroad since it was opened, five years ago, occurred yesterday, and but for the safety brakes used on all the cars of this line a train load of passengers would have been hurled down the mountain to de- struction. Coming down the mountain the g@ide-bars on the driving wheels on both gides of the engine broke apart, rendering the compressed air brakes on the engine useless. Conductor Guyman applied the automatic ‘ brakes in the passenger coach and soon stopped that. The engineer and fireman were compelled to abandon the engine, which was beyond control, and it went down the 2% per cent grade at a terrific speed for nearly half a mile, when it struck a curve, jumped the track and shot through the air for fully 180 feet, going clear over a boulder fifteeh feet high upon the mountain side above the track. It ploughed immense holes in the side of the mountain and the tender and engine separated just as the engine ex- ploded, hurling tron and steel in all di- rections. ) The train was a special, carrying Man- ager Frederick Harrison and party of the London & Northwestern Railway and Maj. . K. Hooper of the Denver & Rio Grande road. STUNG BY A CENTIPEDE. Sam Lewis Is Turning Green, His Face Is Bursting and Tongue Paralyzed. Sam Lewis, who several months ago went from the Texas Coast to join the Cuban revolutionists, and who tired of am- warfare and escaped in a sailboat, ought with him a deadlier foe than he encountered in s ret, which Was concealed packed He came from New Or- uis, and has been here about in a. cheap lodging house Severe] nights ago, in changing his cloth- ing, he put on a sailor shirt, taken from his val and went to bed. The next morning his lower lip was sore and swollen, and he was badly scared when he saw the many legged, po.sonous spider on the bed. After mashing the life out of the centi- — he went to a drug store, and had a fo on rubbed on the swelling lip, but it to counteract the venom that had been He 0 and in his face continued until the ae use proprietor concluded that if someth were not done pretty soon Lewis would die. Monday an ambulance took him to the Thompson re ed f t is swollen roportions, th@ skin is of a or, and the léft eye entirely 1. * Sta the lower lip and arge quantity of gangrenous pus came from the incision. N Lewis“ lips are so swollen and sore that he can scarcely talk. His tongue is begin- ming to be affected with a numbness that makes it difficult for him to articulate. The sting of a centipede is dangerous, — if treated immediately, but as wis’ is several days’ old, it will take the most vigorous antidotes to save his life. HE STOLE BREAD. — A Well-to-Do Man Charged With Petit Larceny. South St. Louis has a case of what is sup- injected into it while he was asleep. don became too sick to leave his bed, the eee 0 posed to be kelptomania. John Wells, a gas- fitter, living at Henrietta street and Teresa avenue, @ property owner and apparently well-to-Jo, is charged in a warrant issued Monday with petit apes 6 Joseph Ulrich, who conducts a bakery at Geyer avenue, says he has been missing bread and milk in small quantities for some time, His newspapers, too, had a mysterious ractice of disappearing. For a long time rich gould not acount for that shortage. use of Wells’ known financial stand- ing and reputation for honesty he was never suspected. Ulrich determined to watch an n Wells appro Monday ate two Oliceman was called and Wells was caught with the bread in his possession. Wells was locked up at the Fifth District Police Station. A COCAINE WRECK. Ellen Montgomery’s Plea for Mercy Cut Short by Muscular Paralysis. Elien Montgomery, a slave to cocaine, morphine and opium, begged piteously be- — Judge Peabody in the First District olice Court Monday morning not to be Sent to the Work house She has been a wanderer of the streets for years, and every cent she could get she spent for the poisons. She is now such a wreck that at intervals of about ten minutes her muscles become stiff and she cannot While she was pleading with Judge one of these spelis cut short her „ While she was bei led back oners’ cage a fine of $10 was as- THIRTIETH CONVENTION. Many Veterans of the G. A. R. Gather at St. Paul. Sr. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 81L—An ideal Northwestern da v. with just enough breese to watt & welcome to ind e to activity of the first da 9 n er oe ompiete street preparations had been made by the railroads for handling the crowds, and there was no jam, although the crowd was all the time very great. Commander-in-Chief I. N. Walker and staff were expected om an early train, and the 8 Ir 4 a band, were o greet the train, delayed, and not until noon r ans able to welcome their chief. He was at once escorted to the Ryan Hotel, where national headquarters were at once established, becoming the center of Grand Army activities. The Central Labor Union Is Awaiting Official Information. Special to the» Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The Central Labor Union yesterday came within a hair's breadth of hearing the record of Mark Hanna from the lips of a delegate from Cleveland, O. A week ago the Central La- bor Union had instructed its secretary to write to the Central Labor Union in Cleve- land and ask for the labor record of Mark A. Hanna, in order to spread it on the records of the Labor Day Journal. The reply had not arrived from Cleveland esterday, but Isaac Cohen, a member of he Cleveland Central Labor Union, ap- peared. Cohen had not come for that pur- pees. His object was to solicit aid for a ig strike in Cleveland of the employes of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Co. When he referred to the record of Mr. Hanna there was a general request that he be allowed to give details of it, but it was finally decided to await the official infor- mation. BALLENTINE REPUDIATES. He Is Now President of a Bryan Free Silver Club. Special to the Post-Dispatch. COMMERCE, Mo., Aug 31.—A large meet- ing of Democrats assembled in the old Court square and organized a Bryan and Sewall Free Silver Club. Commerce Town- ship will go Democratic in November for the first time since the war. Judge William Ballentine, who for many years has been the rod and staff of the local Republicans here, has at last seen the error of his ways, and joined the ranks of Democracy. The oy was unanimously chosen Per- manent Chairman of the club, William B. Anderson, President of the Farmers’ Bank, Treasurer, and Fred Coffman, former Cashier, Secretary. More interest will be — in the election this fall than ever ore, N PROBABLY MURDERED. Two Mexicans Who Made Bad Liquor Have Disappeared. CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D., Aug. 31.—Last April, two Mexicans who claimed to have — direct from Arizona, located in an obscure spot near the head of Age Creek, in the Bad Lands west of here. As they did not engage in farming or stock raising, the principal industries of that region, much curiosity was aroused as to their oc- cupation and mode of obtaining a liveli- It afterwards developed that they were engaged in manufacturing a curious sort of beverage out of the common cactus. They found a ready market for their product among the Indians on the Pine Ridge Res- ervation. Cowboys in that vicinity soon discovered their location, and have since been accustomed to make frequent visits to the place. Word now reaches here that a few days ago, when one of the cowboys made his accustomed visit, he discovered that the cabin of the Mexicans had been burned and the men had disappeared. As they were known to have quite a sum of money about them it is believed that they have been murdered, and their cabin and con- tents burned to destroy evidences of the crime. An investigation will be made. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Texas Farmer Kills His Wife and Himself With a Butcher Knife. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BRPNHAM, Tex., Aug. 31.—At Washing- ton a farmer named Holney killed his wife and then himself with a butcher knife. were the veter- VHLAS OUT OF THE AACE HE WILL NOT RUN AT THE HEAD OF THE BOLTERS’ TICKET. Mr. Usher of Wisconsin Thinks That Either the General or Watterson Will Be Chosen. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 31.—The city to-day has more the appearance of a con- vention town than it had before. Delegates HANNIBAL FAILURE. The Herrimayg-Curd Lumber Co. As- signs With Heavy Liabilities. HANNIBAL, Mo., Aug. 31.—The Herri- man-Curd Lumber Company has failed. II- abilities, approximately, $110,000; assets, nominal. It is difficult to obtain an ac- urate statement. Local banks were caught tor large amounts. came in on the early trains and the hotel corridors have something of a lively ap- pearance. The Executive Committee has been at work completing the list of dele- gates, as credentials are being received in every mail from those States which hold late conventions. The talk of candidates became more gen- eral as the new arrivals came in, but noth- ing developed early in the day to indicate which way the tide might turn. Florida created some comment by tele- Sraphing to have a banner painted with a picture of Cleveland and the words Our Choice” upon it. There is some talk among the late ar- rivals against making a nominatign, but the indications are that they will be in a hopeless minority, as the temper of the great majority is in favor of a ticket. Among the most pronounced against a nomination is P. H. Larsiter, a delegate from Texas. He says that in the South McKinley will be much stronger if there is no third ticket. Delegate Cunningham of Tennessee is also of the same opinion. The Texan announces that he will vote for McKinley even if a nomination is made. Mr. Bynum, who is the most prominent promoter of the movement here, says that the third ticket will carry several States, and includes Texas and Kentucky among the number. | Perry Belmont, who presided over the New York meeting addressed by Bourke Cockran, was among the arrivals to-day. He came as a looker-on, but will possibly hold a proxy from New Tork. Senator Vilas will not permit the use of his name in cannection with the —.— ere dential nomination is the news to-dey by Ellis B. Usher of Wisconsin, who w at the head of the movement of the organization .of the gold Democrats in the Badger State. “Senator Vilas does not want the nomina- tion in the first place,“ said he. In the second place he is for Gen. Bragg, for whom the State instructed. Her gation will be here in force to-morrow and go to work in earnest for Brage’s nomina- tion. From what I gather of the situation since my arrival it would appear that Hen- ry Watterson will be Gen. Bragg's only for- midable rival.“ Mr. Usher further said he did not be- lieve there was any warrant for the state- ment that Vilas was the Administration candidate. He was asked about a state- ment which was abroad in the hotel corri- dors to the effect that Gen. Bragg had a greenback record which might make him unavailable as a candidate. ‘General Bragg.“ he replied, “was never a greenbacker, but he believed in 1878 that especie payments could not be resumed with- out an undue contraction. He was mistaken and has long since admitted that the views he then held were erroneous. The views he held at that time will in no wise prejudice his candidacy here.“ Mr. Usher said that Bryan would not receive 50 per cent of the regular Demo- cratic vote in Wisconsin. How much of the gold vote would go to the ticket nominated here, however, he thought was problematic. al, as it was his opinion that 40 per cent of the German Democratic vote would be cast for McKinley. Mr. Usher said there was considerable silver strength among the Republicans in the Northern part of the State. More interest attaches here to Mr. Cleve- land’s position, perhaps, than to any other feature of the convention. By many it is accepted as a fact that the President is in sympathy with the purpose of the con- vention. A declaration of some sort from him would not surprise them. rather anticipate something from Mr. Cleve- land. movement, however, are not of this opin- ion. Mr. Bynum said to-day that he did WILL HE BE THE SOUND MONEY CANDIDATE?P | - 1 9 HENRY WATTERSON, EDITOR OF LOUISVILLE \\ oe N * pes GEN. BRAGG IS HIS CHOICE.| | ; 1 0 6 a) j y 571 7. ‘ j hi he — ——— — — 0 N 5 42 8 — Ala a, — er — . Uncle Sam Welcomes Li Hung Chang. From the New Tork Telegram. — think the President would de heard rom. It would.“ he, be entirely unlikely that the Prest t would make a declara- tion in advance of the action of this con- vention. Even were he in sympathy with it, he would hardly indorse its actions in ad- vance, Such a course would commit him no matter what was don dele- | e. There is a decided feeling that one thing stands in the way of offering the nomina- | tion to the President. It is recognized that in case this action was taken that there would be a clamor against a third term, which might be turned to account by the | silver men and prevent some from voting. A up of delegates was to-day discuss-. ing dne matter of candidates and one said there were a dozen different men who would make first-class candidates and that they would be mentioned now but for fear that it might injure their chances and cause them to decline In advance of the conven- tion. It was stated that many men who had been mentioned early had already declined because they felt stronger men might be named. It was also said that the sectional iseue would not be allowed to enter into the selection of a candidate, and whether a man was from Florida or Oregon should make no difference when the ballot was taken. It seems, however, that there was a dis- Northern man is named for the first place ot Alabama for second place. In fact, they | delegates generally oppose it, but Delegate Those who are most active in the sition to take one of the men from the outh, in the hope that it may have in- fluence in the Southern States. In case a there is a disposition to push either Gen. Buckner of Kentucky or Secretary Herbert INCOME TAX. There May Be a Contest Over the Question. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. %31.—There tray be a contest in the Committee on Resolutions over the question of indorsing the principle of an income tax. The Eastern L. C. Krauthoff, of Missouri, is here earn- estly advocating such a plank. “The convention,” said he, “should com- mit the party to this fair and just method of raising revenue. But the declaration should set forth that in view of the con- stitutional objections found against this form of tax by the Supreme Court that the first effort should be to remove this ob- jection by the method proposed by the Con- stitution itself.“ 83 Executive Committee Meets. e Executive Comm. ttee of the so-called National Democpaes party held a meeting to-day relative to the hall, tickets to the éonvention and to settle the routine busi- ness of the convention as far as it could be done previous to the meeting of the Na- tional Convenuon, which occurs to-mor- row. FLOODING THE MINES. The Strike Cannot Be Settled and Own- ers Abandon the Mines. LEADVILLE, COLO., Aug. %31.—The pumps in the Bon Air and Penrose mines, two of the largest properties in this dis- trict, were stopped to-day and the mines are rapidly filling with water. Moffatt & owners of these and several other ines here, announce that they shall pumps in all of them. This will ing of nearly every mine in of the district, entailing a of thousands of dollars in to So the wor me of the ill de abendoned n This ac tio result of the strike w was —— 153 five o and which geems nearer a settlement than when it began. "There have been no disturbances. POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS. Forbidden to Be Made on the Property of the Government. Col. Dalton, Collector of the Port, re- cetved from the Treasury Department Mon- day printed notices forbidding the collection of political assessments in the buildings or on the property of the Government. The notices quote the law making such collec- | THE OTHER FELLOW WAS DEAD. August Link Was Very Much Alive When His Brothers Arrived. August Link, a chef and caterer, who was long connected with the Santa Fe system in the dining-car service, is back among his friends, after some remarkable exper- lence at the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital. During the torrid wave, Link was pros- trated by the heat and was sent to the Alexian Brothers’. He was sent upstairs to room 307. In the rush of receiving patients the brother in charge forgot that there Was another patient in the same room. The day Link was received Dr. Lutz per- formed a capital operation on the other atient and the shock resulted in his death. he patient died only a few hours after Link was comfortably located in the room. When the surgical patient died the nurse in charge of the third floor whistled through the tube and told Bro. Pius, in charge of the office, that the man in 37 was dead. This was sad news to Bro. Pius, as he knew of no other man in that room but Link, who is an old acquaintance. The weather was intensely hot and he concluded it would: be advisable to notify Link’s family at once. He called up his brother, Adam Link, by telephone, and broke the news as gently as possible. A like 8 was dispatched to William, cashier in Collector Zeigenhein’s office, another brother. Without any delay they enga Undertaken Meyer to arrange for the fu- neral and then went down to the hospital to see their dead brother. They got there just as the undertaker’s rig arrived with a supply of embalming materials. When they got to 307 they were amazed to see Link sitting up in bed with an ice- b on his head and a glass of iced claret in his hand. There was a dead man in the room, but he was in another bed and his name was not Link. AT THE GRAVE OF GRANT. Li Hung Chang Lays a Wreath on the General’s Tomb. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The greatest statesman of the Orient laid a laure] wreath upon the tomb of the greatest soldier of the Occident yesterday afternoon in the pres- ence of 20,000 American people, and, bowing reverently at the foot of the sarcophagus said: 0 b “He was my friend; I loved him.” Earlier in the day he had stodd in the presence of just twenty-eight of his own countrymen, who unquestionably loved him, and who, though very much overawed by the august presence, doubtless departed with the feeling that he was their riend This reception by the Viceroy of the visi. tors from Mott and Doyer streets neems to deserve the precedence in the story of Li Hung Chang’s first Sunday on American soil, because it gives a quick insight into the man’s habits of thought and methods. om v. the richest local corpora- m sun on the Viceroy’s yellow j In the afternoon Col. Fred D. Grant drove ed by his 4 gee Uivases 8. within a few minutes and at 3:20 the pro- cession started to the tomb. After arrivi and entering the door, Li stood for a minute with bowed h In silent reverences Then he proceeded. When the Viceroy and those who entered with him had reached the floor of the tomb, the massive wreath of n laurel and white and red flowers tied with the Imperial yellow colors of Ch was hand him, and, assisted by Col. Grant, Li wired it to the end of the sar hagus, after first removing Mrs. Grant’s wreath of white roses and smilax from North Carolina, tied with white rib- don. was placed on the top of the sa hagus and Li's memorial to the dead took its place. Following this ceremony, Li stepped to the side of Col. Grant and beckoning his in- terpreter approach, said: „We were friends. I mourn his loss sin- cerely. Our relations were the most pleas- ant that I can recall in my lifetime. have long looked forward to the time when I could come to the new country and place on his sarcophagus with my own hand a wreath of leaves and flowers. No matter where I have been or whom I have seen, I have thought of this hour, and I am glad that it has come. He was my friend. I loved POVERTY AND LOVE. It Led to the Double Suicide at Leav- enworth, Kan. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Aug. 31.—The mystery of the National Hotel tragedy was cleared away .yesterday when relatives came to care for the young girl in her dy- ing moments and to take away the dead body of the man with whom she sought to die. The girl is still alive, but has not re- gained consciousness and cannot live. John Hartig, the dead man, was but 21 the son of a farmer, who lives at Jeary itation. Mary Bush, barely 19 years old and quite pretty, is the daughter of a hand who works on the Mis- fic lroad at Pomeroy. The outh and maiden h and ‘objected. "Young Harte was without to-day’ devel te it is From s ceveiopmen that the young lovers 3 th erty, the what seemed to them their dark riage and, preferabi prospects, until death seemed to life. * Brazilian Ministers „ Aug. M. -A dispatch to 1 1 — Rio de Janeiro says account of the anti-Italian, Ly. a. Brasil President Moraes accep h resigna- A. de Carvalho, Minis- tions of Dr. Carlos 4Dr. AG. Fen ter ot Foreign Affairs, an ent The delegation consisted of members of reiers, Minister of Justice. Alexander Hamilton Of —— burreney Gontraction, In His Report on the Mint, as Secretary of the Treas- ury, in 1791, Hamilton Said: To annul the use of either of the metals as money is to abridge the quantity of circulating me- dium, and is liable to all the objections which arise from a comparison of the benefits of a full with the ‘evils of a scanty circulation. — 2 — —— % „„ = ‘eatin 5 BIG STRIKE AT The threatened strike at the née 1 „ 3 took place at § o'clock Monday It was more of a walk-out than a * N * ** ** „ Mesker Brothers, who have th The union men fetused to go 2 labor n the former had rivate, of of money a involv e fact that were employers of non-union la . and they would insist on the strict ment of clause T of the contract. 44 oo clause is the product of Cit | hall, and provides that con- tractor shall do not ing to “delay, hinder or retard” the work on the building to which his contract appertains. That is, the contractor shall rform his work on the eight-hour basis. | nt of the contracts on the new contain this clause, and all of contractors there employ union labor. all of them come under the Building Council, except the brick workers, who be- mos to the International Union. pt s contractors for the epainti are & Mook; steam-fitting, the Modern g Company, — ne M. J. Ward; Fas-fittlug. etc., Modern Hea * ed hat th the Lee c tlon “of Chinese They were 3 r L é reais. yuan’ OAS provements Se hued countenances like the beens : ugust able time to conform to them. If they failed to do this he saw nothing do but to declare the tontract void, this is done the Board of Public Improve- ments will have 22 1 the van- n contract and re- we ie lt Steinbiss of the Bullding Trades Council had a brief conference with the Mayor and said that under no consideration would the union men return to work Mesker’s men are at work. Mr. Steinbiss said that neither he nor the wished their action considered as a strike. It was simply a walkout; the men had laid down their tools and gone home just as they were accustomed to do when the day's work was over. cit ounselor Marshall said to Mr. Stein- Dies in the hearing of a Post-Dispatch re- porter that the city would enforce clause T of Mesker’s ccntract. know,“ said Mr. Marshall, that Judge Valliant has intimated that such a tlause as Clause T is invalid, but I drew that clause after careful study, and I shall continue to consider it sound until the State Supreme Court says to the contrary.” es s men are the ＋ ones at w on the building and one of the that they will continue until stopped by the authorities. — is st stop placing of that he that began at ll oel several hours. THE CHILDREN SUFFER. . Mrs. Abrams’ Successor Has Not A A poor widow who has been keeping her 6-year-old son at the Home of the Children's Society of Missouri, 1623 Olive street, while she toiled for a living. has written to the | Post-Dispatch that she had a complaint to make. She says she paid her littl one’s board in advance, thinking that he would be properly Since Mrs. Abrams, the matron, was removed there has not been enough help at the home te give the children the neces- sary attention. gate the widow's complaint. The children ri the new matron come?’ she was me 723 n “Mat ae ry =": « e 8 1 > “9° rf ey * y . B on * a 7 8 * 4 5 Tad ‘ > . >> enh 1 Vs! ten 32 . x ‘2 BY 5 0 3 n ia pie Sivas 5 2 5 2 * 6 iia RE Sie)! 7 keg e pie ‘nine 1 2 ’ . - . * tee 1 *