St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 6, 1897

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Advertisers, Observe For yourself the papers in the hands of readers, and you will -see it is to " your interest to Patronize “© Post-Dispatch Ata Readers, Observe The Advertisers who ~ Patronize the Post-Dispatch ae + Loar re And Patronize T. hem, . WEDNESDAY EVENING-$T. LOUIS-JANUARY 6, 1897. or oh a » > - Sa 4 eS” a% ma Ft au ‘ a > a Ms, s rae £ IN ST. LOUIS, ONE ; OUTSIDE ST. LOUIS, PRIC VOL. 48, NO. 150. . | Post-Dispatch Almanac for 97 Out To-Day. ~~ . XTRA COL. JONES WINS IN THE SUPREME COURT. The Decision Handed Down To-Day at Jefferson City. It. Was Written by Judge Macfarlane and Covers All Points. * Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 6.—According to adjournment the Stute Su- preme Court en banc convened at 9 o’clock this morning. The long expected decision in the Jones-Pulitger case was handed down. Jones on all essential points. ' Judge Macfarlane wrote the opinion and it was concurred in by Judges Brace, Barclay and Gantt. The full text of the decision will Dispatch, Judges It is in favor Mr. Sherwood and Robinson Dissent. be given in later editions of the Post- eee eee _ - RYAN SUSPENDED. | ‘A Kansas City Fireman Who Was a Little Too Friendly With the Blue Cut Robbers. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—‘‘Andy” Ryan, # hoseman in No, 4 Engine Company, -has been suspended from the Kansas City ’Fire Department, as a result of develop- ‘ments since the last Blue Cut train robbery. “Andy” is.a brother of the notorious “Bill” Ryan, one of the leaders in the old James band, who was pardoned only a few years ago from the State Penitentiary, where he was serving a long sentence for complicity with the James band in the -Blue Cut robbery of 1880. “Andy” Ryan's suspension results from the fact that Kennedy, the engineer now under arrest and charged with being the leader in ‘the recent robberies, frequently visited him at No. 4 engine-house, previous to the recent robberies, and the railroad detectives have informed Chief Hale that in Ryan's room they found some of Ken- nedy’s effects, including a satchel which contained a cloth mask. On the night of the last Chicago & Alton robbery Ryan was not on duty, it being his day off. Flynn and Bowlin, the Cracker-Neck farmers who are under arrest, and who have confessed, state that there were two other robbers in the band, but that they were heavily masked and that they did net know them. The two strangers were taken to the ecene of the hold-up by Kennedy, they say. Kennedy still asserts his innocence. PRESENT TO THE SULTAN. ‘Figure of a Sioux Chief, the Gift of the sity Smithsonian. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—The Smithso- To Control Chinese Railroad, Tclegraph nian Institution has decided to make the Sultan of Turkey a present of a life-size figure of a Sioux Indian chief. The figure will represent a chief arrayed for a war dance in war blanket and moccasins, with his costume decorated. with a profusion of beads. If the Sultan had picked a war chief at the height of his glory from the band in Dakota he would not have a more realistic specimen than the one prepared for him at the Smithsonian Institution. When Secretary Langley of this institu- tion made a trip to Turkey in the summer of 18%, he was accompanied by Dr. Cyrus Adler, the famous Orientalist. The Sultan presented them with Several albums of fine hotoegraphs and intimated that he. would » only too glad to send a contribution to the National Museum. It was naturally thought proper that these courtesies should be reciprocated, and Secretary Langley came to the conclu- sion that there could be no more appropri- ate gift than one that would be typical of the aboriginal life of this country. Orders were given to construct the figure of a Sioux chief and this, after long care. and study, has just been completed. The figure will be boxed and shipped to the Sultan this week. It will be accompanied by a number of articles used in domestic and martial life by the Sioux. NEWSBOYS PERSECUTED. Forbidden to Cry Their Sunday Pa- pers at Washington. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The newsboys of Washington have been denied the priv- flege by the Commissioners of the District from crying their papers on the streets on Sunday. They will hold a mass meeting Thursday evening to protest against the Commissioners’ action and appeal for a revocation of the order. Five-minute speeenes will be made by the newsboys at this meeting on both sides of the question. They pave gocured Willard Hall, one of the Ja the city, for their meeting. ¢ Ministers of Washington are directly responsible for the edict against the newsa- ®, and, anticipating the boys’ protest, Lok Mle a speeting last ni at te apesce ne and was subject to attacks uf St. Vitus’ dance. There was noth- ing unusual in her demeanor the day she left her home. ' Her brother's theory is that In a sudden attack of nervousness she lost her memory and consciousness of her identity and is perhaps making a living as a domestic en- tirely oblivious of her past. “3 Both her father and brother say her home life was happy. She never gave any indi- cation by word or action that she was dissat. isfied with her lot. i Mr. Lee’s first thought, when her disap- pearance was reported to him, was that she had gone back to the Moore’s. He learned that they had not seen her for some time. He made the rounds of all her acquaint- ances, he interrogated everyone in the neighborhood of her old and new homes, he visited the public institutions. Not the slightest clew to her movements developed. He will ask the assistance of the police to-day. Uniesss she has run off with some one she is still in the city. She had no money when she left her home. BAD COMBINATION. Vandalia, Mo., Turns Off the Lights and Fires the Police. Special to the Pust-Dispatch. VANDALIA, Mo., Jan. 6.—At a meeting of the city council last night the street lights were ordered discontinued. The services of} — night policemen were also discontinued. Lack] jew of money to maintain them is the cause, Af-[ ter to-night the town will be im total darm Governor O'Meara wi ‘last Senate temporarily at their posts of duty. The opening prayer was offered by — Rev. C, C. Hill of Jefferson City. | , After the grief formal preliminaries incl- oy = until 10 o’clock to-morrow. eS, A caucus for the nomination of perma. nent officers will be.heid to-night. @ ~ — --—-—-—_- An Army of Office Hunters the Capital. Bpecial to the Post- JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—The old- ~ > years has there been such an immense crowd in Jefferson City at the opening of a Legis- lative session. All day long yesterday the Madison House lobby was densely pai THE WEATHER sentatives was called to order by Secretary e ‘ ‘ of State Lesueur, with W. J. Chambliss as land County (Dem.) and John L. Bittinger : q of Buchanan (Rep.) were placed in nomina. —__ ha & a o it ". “a 3 * ublicans will ie 7 2 ; oe ; . : it will be submitted ag soon as a permanent — = 4 to-morrow, 14 dent to the opening, the Senate adjourned ~ é x - i ‘2 > zat * ~ ee - : oe ae Price 25 Cents. ~ —= * ‘ LEBISLATUR | : : : : of hed | s ies Rie ©. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Jan. ¢—The ‘ae 88 to 29. § ; escorted to his desk, the House proceeded a to elect a temporary clerk. cask ee over T. S. Kelly of Randolph County (Rep.) a Jess Joplin of St. Louis (Dem,) was elected eg a told her sister-in-law, Mrs. Daniel Lee, that s si ae = y . 7 > * res * . oA — Py . . ieee SO ‘Aw eee oe hy . xe - ; Ponty 4 - f i Be Bie eg ee i Pet — CORRE ° IMS EE VO A ce,

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— Cae: SR ee Lill seething, surging mass of sourians. Bhe d:scordant and incoherent wingt .ef-s0 many voices, way “mot altogether unlike the roaring of a well- stock apiary. The rush and crugh: for legislative posi- ely ‘responsible for the grea adison. Hotel all.day: yesterday And the to excessive hand- ®haking, have aches in their elbows and Wisions of perpetual motion dancing before their optics. Strong men, with lungs of most substantial pattern, have talked them- selves hoarse, and the hovel floors have been ground thinner and thinner by the un- ceasing friction of so many hundred feet. Truly the opening of the Legislature is the event of ail events in Jefferson City and these biennial conclaves of lawmakers and the incidental contingen® of place-hunters, are never-to-be-forgotten epochs in_ the boarding-house and hotel history of the past. : spend the win the disappointe it ! there @re at least five applicants for every place. — i- “There is.one logical conclusion that may be drawn from this great rush for legis; lative employment,’ . said Representative Fitzgerald of Gentry County, to the* Post- Dispatch correspondent, *‘‘and it is that in this gold standard era of ours there is much industrial depression. I am aware that there is such thing as professional place hunters, but the fact remains that a certain percentage of these people—prob- ‘z et one-~half—wowld not be Bere goons if; they cou | > cpaghe ae! otee oH new) is a fascination hout the situation ‘here, invisible, yet po- a Bann to draw,.and there is no doubt that some of the place hunters are In com- fortable circumstances, not really in need of the compensation attaghed to the legis- ve positions.”’ wet rmorting the great crowd moved from the hotel lobbies-to the State House to be present at the opening of the session. To-night the hotel scene will be enacted egain and there will be po, thinning of; the erowd until after the places are all filled and the work of the session has com- menced. THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. employment. No Special Significance Attached to the Thursday Meeting. Special ‘te the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—Chair- man Sam Cook of the Democratic State Cen- tral Committee is in Jefferson City, and will remain to attend the called meeting of the State Central Committee, to be held here Thursday of this week. Chairman Cook has been mingling reeny with ‘the crowd of leg- islators and politicians, and he appears to be perfectly at home in such an aggregation. When asked as to the reason why the spe- cial meeting of the committee was calied, ‘he replied that the object was just exactly what was stated in the official notification of the call—a meeting ¢or the purpose of keeping the organization perfected and to plan for future strength, Rumors have been current here that some other sienificance was attached to the com- mittee meeting, but Chairman Cook declares that such is not the gase. Well informed Democrats say that nothing more than for- mal affairs will be considered at the meet- ing. Representative Farris is one of the Democrats who thus expressed himself. The Post-Dispatch correspondent talked with Gov. Stone about the commi*tee. meet- ing. “I see,” said the Governor, “that a fertain St. Louis newspaper has an article to the effect that I am to take a partin the committee meeting and that I have outlined @ plan for the future success of the Demo- cratic party, or at least a programme for the next four years. There is no truth to this report. I have had no consultation whatever in regard to the committee meet- ing here on the date named, which, | be- lieve, is Jan. 7. Of course, | have heard that a meeting is to be held, but all of this talk abovt a plan of future campaign to be ovwbmitted by me is absolutely false. I really do not know what the commi*tee is going to do. The position of Gov. Stone is so generally ‘known that he considers it entirely un- necessary_for him to tell the State Central Committee anyvhing about it. It is expected, however, that the committee meeting will be somewhat interesting from the fact that a repor® of the St. Louis in- vestigation, the details of which are well known, will be submitted. All sorts of wild and illogical stories have been told here about the probable happenings of the com- mittee meeting, but diligent investigation by the Post-Dispatch correspondent fails to disclose even a semblance of truth. KERENS AND FILLEY. Fight to a Finish Over the Senator- ship Nomination. Special to the Pest-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—Richard C, Kerens, the great St. Louis anti-Filley leader, passed through Jefferson City at midnight en route for Kansas City to at- tend a wedding. The marriage, however, is onty a side issue, according to current rumor here, and if the present programme.is car- ried out Kerens will stop at Jefferson City on the return trip, presumably in order to look after the proposition of his followers to give him the complimentary caucus nom- - jnation of the Republican minority for United States Senator. Kerens was met at the depot in Jefferson City by Maj. John I,. Bittinger, Republican Representative from one of the St. Joseph districts; Lib Morse, one of the faithful from Excelsior Springs, and Charles Smith, Who serves the great anti-Filley magnate as secretary and con- fidential agent, when political questions are involved. In this connection it is interesting to record the arrival of Albert Griffin of . Louis in Jefferson City. A more faithful worship- er at the Filley throne than Griffin never lived, and ét is Known that he is htre to use the whip fn the ‘hope of driving some of the ‘Jukewarm worshipers of Fiiley into line. Filley seeks the complimentary nomination for the Senatorship, and there is no doubt that all of the devices known to his cunning hand will be played to the limit. The Ker- ens-Filley war is on, and some interesting things will happen before the crown is handed down. riefiy told, it is a contest for supremacy between the two prominent factions of Missourt Republicanism. GOSSIP OF THE DAY. Personal Mention and Comment About the Capital. Special to the Post-Dispatch ‘ JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—Prom- inent among 8S!. Louis arrivals 1; te] . " ey uit ast n'gh was Col. Ed Butler. os anxious Mis- ed } A to G, made a composite noise . ~ . © *o% * ee ~ . . i SS => a z : a \* » YS oe "=" So HED, =~ a NY SS « ~\. DWIGHT W. ANDREWS. OT PEAGH UN EA PALS, WHAT TRUE’S MISTRESS KNOWS OF THE BREWERY HOLD-UP. DETECTIVES SWEATED HER. iD They Were Already on the Trail of the Robbers When They Got Hold of Her. Mrs, Etta. James, who gave the informa- tion that landed the Home Brewery robbers in prison, does nof. look like.the paramour of a city bandit, such as Joseph True is. But it may have bt®en her destiny. to be- come such, for her husband. John’ James, who used to keep a. réstaurant on St. Charles street. near Liggett & Myer’s fac- tory, was known to all the tobacco workers as ‘Jesse’ Jarffes. Mrs.-James has two children, left her as a legacy by the restaurant keeper. She is a woman 5 feet 5 inches. high, plain and timid. Her dark brown hair is turning gray and getting sparse. © Her face is thin, wan, featureless and not stamped with the coarseness that characterizes other in- fates of the house at 810 North Seven- teenth street, in which she lives. She is about 40 years old and has had the usual trials of women whose lot is cast amid poverty and crime. Her husband died about six years ago and left her with the children to take care of. She gave up the restaurant and soon after took up, with True, alias McLaugh- lin, alias Schultz, alias Ed Moore. Mrs. James says his name is True, and she ought to know. The police think his correct name ig McLaughlin, but she says he took that early in his criminal career, and that it is his mother’s ma‘den name Mrs. James oscillated between St. Louis end Chicago with True. She always took her two golcen-haired chi-dren with her and for sometime True supported the three by his criminal earnings. A few months before he and Joe Stan- ley, the leader-of the Home Brewery rob- bers, looted a Chicago jeweler’s shop of 32,- 500 worth of diamonds, True got tired of Mr:. Jomes and their ways parted, although both lived in Chicago. That wis three years ago. True and Stanley were caught by citizens before they could get away from the jew- elry store and while he was in jail awaiting trial Mrs. James wrote a sympathetic letter to the man who had not lived up to his name, He was willing to make friends wth her. The two corresponded during his term in Joliet and when he was released last Novem- ber he jo'ned her in Chicago, ‘tth the industry that usually character- izes confirmed criminals just out of prison, True opened a business correspondence with his old comrade, Joseph Stanley, who had drifted to St. Louis after his release from Jollet. The subject of the letter-writing was the pile of money that the breweries of St. Louis of each month. Stanley, who was on the ground, picked out the Home Brewery as a promising victim, and selected his barber, “Billy Wolfe,’ as an associate worthy of himself and True. On Dec. 1 Trué, Mrs. James and the chil- dren came to St. Louis from Chicago and took a room at 1303 Pine street. The plans for the robbery had all been laid in the course of the correspondence between Stanley and True, but Mrs. James says she had no inkling of what was in the wind. To a Post-Dispatch reporter she narrated. Wednesday, all that she knew of the rob- bery and tdid what she had to do with the capture of the robbers. room at 1303 Pine street,’’ sa'd Mrs. James, ‘Billy’ were alw@ys in True’s company. Bera Se in the afternoon of.December 2 True left he was going. About § o'clock the whom I knew ‘Billy’ ran into the room. He was out of breath and greatly exec!ted as The first/oratory of the session was lied 4 Representative Crisp of Kansas | ity, whe made a speech declaring himself not a candidate for Speaker. Indications are favorable for the confirma. | tion of Police Commussioners Bannerman and Foster. Tdéeui.-Gov. O'Meara says he | has no reason to believe that they will no: be confirmed,.and cther authority tends in the same direction. The Burgess Reception... Special to The Post-Thiahateh JEFFE N CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.~—A social event of ate importance was che recep. | thon last might given by Judge and Mrs. * Gavon BD, Bur ess, pony in honor of Gov, | and Mrs, liam J. Stone and Gov.-elect and Mrs, Lon. V. Stephens. The-hatisone | Burgess residence on East Main street was. a »priateiy decorated, One thousand in- | v ons were issued. Among the fuesis w some of the most prominent State offi- Clals and citizens. Wanamaker Knocked Out. | |. HARRIBBURG, Pa., Jan. 6.—The Repub- licang of ‘the Legislature held a joint rau- cus last night and chose Boles Penrose, Quay's candidate, for candWate for. the United States Senate, over John Wanamak- the 215 Republicans in the Legis- were present and voting. ofr - Penrose received 133, ex-Post- master General John Wanamaker 75, Sen- fosun Pant Buberiot' Coun Tutge Chak a or Court Judge Chas, E. Rice of Wilkesbarre 1. Take the Wabash and Land in the Heart — SUp- er. P ‘come and | uD. He asked. whether True and Stanley had yet, and T told him no ce WwW anxious and worried until they the roum a few minutes later. “WAS scon as room; they other, and laugh and go on at rate. Idd noi know what had and Was not jet into the'r secrets, for after they had ecaled off True ft ‘I me ¢ and Woilf began to- hue each a fearfu the room and to take the children with m°e. decor to let me the three men "ach of-them z2ave “When True opened the the. children in agatn were quiet and pleased. me $2 “As long as True and I lived in the room : W bich Wa : Ty 4 ; ' > ‘ for ahout two weeks after . Stanley and Wolf were there every ¢ They read the accounts of the Home Prew. ery robbery in all papers and commen:ed on what was correct and What notin the sto- ries of how the enashier in clerk been held up. They laughed at the Aeserip- tions of the robbers and also at the clews ‘Which the police were satd to be following They thought that all the published clews were good jokes, “True, Stanley and Wolf pad pienty ‘of money. and they talked so fam'‘iarly about the Home Brewery robbery thar they [eft “In fact they @!d not try to conceal from me that they were the men,, aliheugh. taey never told me in so many werds. I rou tired of thelr talk and told them to stop rt. but they laughed and confinued to discuss the robbery and nothing else. | “From the time of the robbery until Mon- day True paid me $5 a we.k for the support of myself and the eniidren About the mid. die of December we moved to 810 Norin Seventeenth street. I div not know that the police were after True, Btantcy and ‘Billy,’ and I dtd not mmform on then! Lest Mon- day evening True came in and suia that he Of New York Grand Central road. Station of the New York ‘Centra) Ratirodd. - : Mand Stanley were gong to Indianapolis. “After we came to St. Lou's and took a/| The new Chairman of the Illinoig State Democratic ong ; courses are proving a 'as they deal with »p usually have in their offices abcut the first | ni amen i came [nio' Stanicy and True got to the ' ’? hapnence | y. | » ; = ae ; ss as nad | no doubt in my mind that they. had done | A Stanley and a man whom TI knew only as | ih eaday mien ; one They had been ygone about half an hour when two detectives came in. “The detectives said that I knew all about the Home Brewery «robbery and had some of the money. They were sure.that True and Stanley were into tthe thing and. I be- came frightened. I thought that I would get into trowble and to save myself I told the detectives all I knew. They wanted to know where the men were and I told them what True had said about going to Indian- apolis. Then they left. “About 1 o’elock that night one of the de- tectives returned to the house and took me to the Four Courts. They would not tell me whether True and Stanley had been ar- rested, but had me repeat to Chief Desmond what I had told them. That is all 1 know about the robbery.” Mrs, James was anxious to know whether ‘Billy’ had been arrested and had con- fesseti. She seemed relieved when told that the three men had told all and had been identified. Deiecsives Tom Walsh and Tom Tracy, who worked on every clew in the Home Brewery robbery case and after many hauls finally caught Stanley and True in East St. Louis Monday night, capped off their work Tuesday afternoon by arresting the third rovber, William Wolf. They walked into Wolf's barber shop, 2633 North Jefferson avenue, and she proprietor, with the obse- quiousness of his trade, asked the visitors what he could do for them. They told him that .Chief Harrigan wanted him and he accompaned them to the Four Courts. Welf. confessed without much urging. He said that he had run a barber shop on Jef- ferson avenue for three years, and that Stanley emd True had forced him into the robbery. He ,only knew Stanley as Thorn- ton. On the day of the robbery Stanley and True entered his shop and asked him to go with them to see a woman. He went with them unwillingly. When they got down onrBroadway they drank a bottle of whisky and True proposed that they rob the tlome Brewery. Wolf says he objected gnd that True told him he would put a bullet through h'm if he did not take part in the crime,’ At the brewery True forced him to go in and tell the men in the office to hold up their hands. Woif says he got $125.of the money. Stanley and True, as tol in the late edi- t‘ons of Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch, made ful] confessions of how they had planned and perpetrated the robbery. . Stanley made a second statement Wednesday t did not dif- fer frcm his first except that he said that he and True reconnoitered the Home Brew- ery for several days before they robbed it. Pictures of Stanley, True and Wolf were taken for the Rogues’ Gallery Wednesday. Stanley and True were already represented in the gallery, but Chief Desmond wished to have new pictures. FARMERS AT COLUMBIA. Greatly Increased Attendance at the Opening of the Winter Courses. Special to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 6.—The short win- ter courses in agriculture and torticulture opened to-day at the University with 4 greatly increased attendance over last year, despite*the hard times among farmers. About twenty-five have been enrolled, large- ly from Northern aiic Central Missouri. Many others are expected during the re- mainder of the week from Svuthern Mis- sour!, Extensive improvements for. instruc- tion in these lines nave been made during the past year, and prominent teachers have been secured, Hon. N. F. Aiurray, Vice- President of the State Horticultural So- ciety, is already om ihe eround These ereat benefit to the farmers and hcmticuliurmsts of the State, ractical questions only. No entrance examination is required and duition is free. STUDENTS SUSPENDED. Missouri Medical College Takes Cogni- zance of Francis, Young and Colby. W. D. Francis and Hiram Young and L. R. Colby, medical students, charged with performing a bungling operation on li6-year- old Charley Probasco, have been suspended by the faculty of she Missouri Medical Col- lege, Colby, who was arrested Monday night While attempting to remove his trunk from ira. Probasco’s house, was released on bond Francis and Young are still Warrants have been «issued for and the police are looking for large. ir arrest the room without telling me where | - bg man | hoy is still in a serious condi. xtremely weak and Dr. Nich- ine him, will not state s out of darrger. WORD OF A NEGRO THUG —— oe The injured *'on. ile , f olson, whois atten . > . hy : ely l¢ pOosli.Vei? t i Weightier With Judge Murphy Than | _ = St. "A motive of pure gratitud d the Testimony of Three Witnesses. Murphy has dem- '@ negro pr scner soetimony of wit- Once more Crazy Judge trated that the word o more welghty than tie resece and the word of the police. Wednes- morning Columbus Mack, a notorious was Gtecharged upon h's own state- ment. Mack was charged with assault to ii]. won Jan. 1 he cut Robert Lane in the

THE DEMOCRATS. Selected as Minority Leader. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 6.—In caucus last night the Democrats of the House se- lected Isaac B. Craig of Mattoon as the'r candidate for speaker. This will make him the Democratic leadér of the House. The two Populist memvers, Robert H. Allen of Randolph and N. B. Bryan of Gallatin.,were present and asked to name the Chairman of the Committee on the Rights of the Mimnor- ity. The request was referecd:to the Steer- Isaac B. Craig TO CURE NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. To Gain Flesh, to Sleep Well, to Know What Appetite and Good Digestion Mean, Make a Test of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. Interesting Experience of an Indianapo- lis Gentleman. ———— ee No trouble is more common or more misunderstood than nervous dyspepsia. People having it think that their nerves are to blame and are surprised that they are not cured by nérve medicine and spring remedies; the real seat of the mis- chief is lost sight of; the stomach is the organ to be looked after. Nervous dyspeptics often do not have any pain whatever in the stomach, nor perhaps any of the usual symptoms of stomach weakness. Nervous dyspepsia shows itself not in the stomach so much as in nearly every other organ; in some cases the heart palpitates and is irregular; are affected; in 'others the bowels are .constipated, with still others are troubled with ' loss of Hesh and appetite, with accumaula- ‘tion of gas, sour risings andj heartburn. Mr. A. W. Sharper of Nol 61 Prospect Indianapolis, Ind., writas as follows: prompts me to write these few lines regarding the new (and valuable medicine, Stuart's Dyspep- sia Tablets. have been a sufferer. from nervous dyspe sia tor thre last four years: 4 have used various patent medicines and other remedies without any favorable re- sult. They sometimes gave temporary re- lief until the effects of the medicine wore off. I attributed this to my sedentary habits, being a bookkeeper with little physical exercise, but I'am glad to state that the tablets have overcome all these obstacles, for I have gained in flesh, sleep better, and am-better. in every way. The above is written not for notoriety, but is based on actual fact.” Respectful oars, A. W. SHARPER, 61 Prospect St., India lis, Ind. It is safe to say that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will cure any stomach weakness or disease except cancer of stomach. They cure sour stomach, gas, loss of Mesh and appetite, sleeplessness, palpitation, heart- burn, constipation and headache. Send for valuable little book on stom- ach diseases by addressing Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. All druggists sell {ull sized packages at o0 cents, ae eames * } , use" " - foie Poy oe i. If you are a SHARP, SHREWD buyer and looking for EX! BARGAINS during the Clearing Sales, in justice to yourself don’t SUIT, WAIST or HAT before looking at our stock, “Enough said” “ - : ~ ¥ J ' ” * > Se ‘ ‘ = * Sy ? a ay i : € i } “58 awl é : xo F ‘ ¥ i ta “ 4 Sig OP at e

BECKER & AAL, ne Se — Senengibaseaniiaesinns ou aD a ing Committee. I’red VP. Morris presided over the caucus, The Democrat:.< Senators nominated Sen- ator Maaoaey fcr Fresitent pro tem. THE MACHINE WON. Curtis Selected in ‘Caucus for House Speaker. ) SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Jan. 6.—The Tanner machine is ontop. E. C. Curtis, the man it selected for Speaker of the Haquse of Rep- resentatives, was chosen“by the Republican caucus last night, and will be Speaker. The caucus then selected the following for per- manent officers of the House: Clerk—John A. Reeve. First-Assistant Clerk—B. H. McCann. Second Assistant Clerk—George K. Adam’, Third Assistant Clerk—G. L, Peterson. Doorkeeper—Capt. Ed Harlan. First Assistant Doorkeeper—A. B. Halleck. Second Assistant Doorkeeper—John F Spaulding. Third Assistant Doorkeeper—George 8. Coughlin. Postmistress—Mrs. Millie Jackson. Assistant Postmistress—Miss Mamie Cow- an. Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk—Charles E. Dole. First Assistant Clerk—S. M. Smy Second Assistant Enrolling and Engross- ing Clerk—Moses W. Porter. Temporary Speaker—Charles A. Allen. CONVENT BURNED. Seven Ursuline Sisters of the Oldest Religious Order of Canada Lost Their Lives. dm and Engrossing ROBERVAL, LAKE ST. JOHN, Que., Jan, 6.—The lives of seven Ursuline sisters were lost to-day in a fire that destroyed the convent of Our Lady of Lake St. John at this place. The establishment was controlled by the Ursulines of Quebec, a cloistered order and the oldest religious sisterhood in Canada. The names of the dead, in religion, are as follows: Sister Providence, Sister Ursule, Sister Anne, Sister Louise, Sister Antoine de Padua, Sister Domique, Sister Paul. The family and Christian names of the dead are: Miss Bliza Gosselin, St. Jean Chrystostome; Miss Rose Gosselin, St. Jean Chrystostome; Miss Emma Lestourneau, Quebec; Miss C. Garneau, St. Foys; Miss ‘Laura Hudon, Herbertville; Miss Bouille, St. Chambault; Miss Louise Girard, Roberval. Uniformed Attendants Meet Wabash trains on arrival at Grand Central Station, New York. They assist and direct passengers free of charge. PENNINGROTH DIVORCE. Judge Spencer Has on Trial a Peculiar % Case. * Christian Science plays a part in the di- vorce suit of Charlotte vs./Henry Pepning- roth, which went to trial in Judge Speu- cer’s court Wednesday morning. The Pen- ningroths are well Known, both in the city and eounty, both being quite wealthy. Their marital troubles pave attracted come at- tention since Mrs. cenningroth-filed her di- vorce suit last March. Christian Science was brougert into the caze when Penningroth filed his cross bill. It was gensational emnou;h without this feature, but the defendant rung into it that in 1890 Mrs. Peniningrvih embraced the be- lief of the faith-heaiers ang straightway became so inlatuated with it that she con- stantly attenied Christian Sciense meet- ings to the “negiect and ruin ef her heuse- hold duties. ’ Penningroth also promised to prove that his wife was a great lover of beer, always provided she could partake of it at an- other’s expense, and that she was so mis- erly that she sold the butter he provided for the table and substituted oleomargarine and plotted to get his property until she succeeded in possessing herself of a $21,000 farm hhe had bought in St. Louis County. Also that she starved Henry, his son by a former marriage, and finally ejected him from the house, because, like Oliver Twist, Henry asked-for-more on one occasion when his dinner was insufficient to appease his appetite. Another allegation was that Mrs. Pen- ningroth failed to provide proper meals, and, in answer to her allegation that he was worth $50,000, that she herself was worth $58,000 in her own name and expected to in- herit largely from’ her mother, Mrs. Hill, of 2017 Hebert street, who was wealthy. Mrs. Penningroth was the first witness, and her testimony during the morning was y in regard to the character of the meals she served her husband. Her grounds for divorce are that Penning- roth was unreasonably critical about his food, threatened to shoot her, threatened to commit suicide and finally deserted her December 12, 1895. The case was recently sent back from te Court of Appeals. Luebke & Muench repre- sent Mrs. Penningroth and Paxson & Dierkes the defendants. } ’ ae CONDUCTORS SPOTTED. . ; ee : M., K. & T, Man Discharged and Flere) May Be Thirty-Two Others. Post-Dispat vb #; $e SED , Moy Jan. 6.—Clem Crawford, a M., K, @:7T. condugtor, wag di: to- day.. He -@eys that thirty-two other con. | duétors in the employ of the same road will be Jefout soon. A spotter claiming re be a ‘telegraph rator has been keeping tab on con ate Ser four months, and as a result of Bis Investigation the offiial ax will be wiel whsparingty. ' * Pays \ nt In Olden Times People overlooked the importance of per- manéntly beneficial effects amd Were satis- fied with transient action; but now that it is generally known that Syrup of Figs will Special td SENATE ASKS INFORMATION. QUESTION PROPOUNDED TO THE . SECRETARY OF STATE. PLAINLY REFERS TO CUBA. Senator Call Delivers a Speech on the Condemnation of Sanguilly by Spaniards. ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Less than a score of Senators were in the Senate chamber when the session convened to-day. Mr. Cullom (Rep.) of Illinois reported ad- versely from the Committee on Foreign Re- lations the bill to grant $1,500-to ex-Consul as to the action of the President or Secre- tary of State touching the. recognition of any foreign people or power as an independ- ent Government, and the corresponding ac- tion of other branchés of the United States Government. . Mr. Pettigrew (Rep.) of South Dakota secured agreement to a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a state- ment of the amount of subsidies paid by 9 9he Union and Central Pacific railroads to the Pacific Mail Steamship Cob. Mr. Call (Dem.) of. Florida was then rec- ognized for as tions introduced yesterday concerning the condemnation of Julio Sanguilly at Havana, Mr. Call referred to the report from the State Department as to the killing of Chas. Govin and said the report omitted many im- portant features, which would have dis- closed that - Consul-General Lee believed Govih thhad been tied to a tree and chopped to pieces: As showing the facts in the case, Mr. Call read a letter from a gentle- man in Havana, who, Mr. Call said, would occupy a responsible place as a member of one of the legislative branches of the Government. The name was withheld. At the close of Mr. Call’s Cuban speech the Senate agreed to his resolution asking the Sccretary of State for all correspond- ence in the case of Julio Sanguilly. The Senate then went into executive ses- sion, Mr. Lodge stating that it was for the purpose of considering two treaties. The joint resolution requesting Great Brit- ain to pardon Mrs. Flerence F. Maybrick was indefinitely postponed by the Senate to-day. POWERS BILL. The Details of the Debate on It Thurs- day Are Arranged. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The House Com- mittee on Pacific Railroads to-day arranged the details of the debate which will be begun to-morrow on the Powers bill. The time will be equally divided by the sup- orters and opponents of the bill, Chairman Powers beginning the debate. Mr. Hub- bard of Missouri will control the time for the minority. Mr. Harrison of Alabama, who is consider- ing the proposal of a substitute or amend- ment to place the statement of the ques- tion in the hands of a commission, spoke of his plan, and one or twe other members said that they considered it a practical method, but thought it to be their duty to support the committee bill to which they were ‘al- ready pledged. FATAL SHOCK. A Musician Dies After Hearing of a Double Shooting. NEW YORK, Jan, 6.—Achilles Errani, an aged musician who numbered among his a years ago Minnie Hauk and Emma hursby, is dead as the result of an attempt at murder and suicide which failed of its purpose so far as its principals are‘ con- cered. | Katie Dunn, a domestic in Errani’s house- hold was shot by her lover Michael Miniter, a laborer while in the kitchen last night. The bullet inflicted a bad wound in the girl's cheek. Miniter then shot himself simi y and fied. Mrs. Errani was called but she did not awaken her husband until after she had gent the wounded girl to the hospital. Then Mr. Errani, who had long been a sufferer from heart disease, was aroused and told of what had taken piace in his kitchen. The gshock was too great for the old gentleman who was taken w‘th a return of his heart difficulty and expired almost instanty.. Missouri Lead Interests. Special to the Post-Dispatch ~ WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—The lead interests of Missouri will have a hearing be- Saturday. Representatives of the ers arrjved.to-day, They are after the fe- finers and will try to cet a change im th schedule so that thé emelling of ores in May be prohibited, ere are six t lead miners and over three h ere, but the refiners have all the! in the present schedule. aah New Missouri | Special to the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. &— retary of State to-day chartered @ r iW. yer a others. * $ rman Guarantee Town Mu Ms ire surance Som aey. of Kansas 3, incor- porators Geo. W, Mickie, B. F. Bye ane others. exton Realty Company ¢ ) capital $2,000; lnoe 4 W. H. Sexton and -. P. Sexton. WICHITA, Kan., Jam sein ‘at ; y ech on his Cuban resolu-} "| tee, fore the Ways and Means Committee next) DEATHS. GREEN—John ¥rancis Green, son of ‘Mra. Mary A. Green _ oe . Green, on Tuseday, ‘tee Seger a. m., aged 2 years. Funeral | ia Tenth. street, Thursday. ‘at . m., to St, Pa 7 *s tw alvary Cemetery. : LAWLOR—On Monday, Jan, ¢ p. m., Mary, widow of the | = ae ae Thomas Stack. The funeral will take place a. North Jelerson Heart Church, bens! Cemetery, Friends Pp. m., Sarah, beloved wife of | Mootz and mother. of Lulu sberg, Alberta Corry and Camelia Moots, 48 years. . ” Due notic East St. ute , and Tex., papers please copy, MAILIA—Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 3 o'clock’ =. at the family residence, 2527 Elliot nue, Margaret Mailia, Funeral from 2527 Elliot aven 9:30 o’cloc A he : 4 “ & i » ety P es + BUSINESS MEN’S L ~ Second ual uet and scatos oar Sean League was held Tuesday evening at Mercantile Club. One hundred and fifty fro count and $4,965.76 fund, @ total of $30,651.73. woes $4,965.76 to te Exchange we seal anid ate can x his report: “One year needed mone the or invita islative Committee. C. F. D. Hirsechberg’s ment Committee’ tis Wor report for rman and prefaced it with a om) Ww and ‘ Second, C. H. Sy hag ame Fourth, W, The League then cast ite wane ty-four members of the The following were chosen: The Diagram Plan. . The plan of using diagrams to illustrate relative size or pager things and makes the pages manac for 1897 interesting reading. ; hundred pages, 1,000 topics, 10,000 5 Thirty-four pages are St. Louls. Price 2% cents. ' ee ee ae ae nee APPEALED TO. The annual meeting of the Business Men’s the — Tnkors.”" "Phe work of MOOTZ—Entered into rest January 5, at 2:30 a 4 .* si z ot ec Comm Re _ - lkinson spoke of the of the Les- + i & i Bos IP AC Re ATES il haat A ME Yat ae ts pene

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Ks ‘= = ay et ie ee =; BB 3 es wae ae y= OO ATES “LAST MESSAGE. — AN EXHAUSTIVE DISCUSSION) OF STATE AFFAIRS. LABOR AND LANDLORDISM, Prison Conditions, thee Revenues, Newspaper License, Corporations and Other Subjects Treated Of. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ; SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 6.—Gov. John r. ‘Altgeld’s message was sent to the Legisla- ure to-day. It is a thorough and exhaust- ive discussion of State affairs. The main features will be found below: PENITENTIARIES. Owing to the severe business depression Breat difficulty has been experienced in all _ Of the States in managing prisons because of ‘the difficulty of finding a market for the product of prison labor. In those Sta*2s in which the contract system still prevails prisoners were offered at prices that were far below the cost of keeping them, but found no takers. The system of contracting out the labor of convicts having ‘been abol- ished by our constitution, the State was practically forced to work the prisoners on ts account 4@s soon as the contracts which had been formerly made expired. A large humber of these contracts expired just be- fore the beginning of the present admin'‘stra- tion, but some did not expire until October, 1894 rmerly as high as from 250 to 400 prisoners worked a* one trade and that with machinery, so that the otttput was enor- mously large and seriously affected the mar- ket in those lines. In order to reduce the competition to the minimum, the policy adopted by *his administration was to in- e uce more trades, so as to reduce the mumber of convicts working in each to about £00 if possible, and also whenever practicable to do so to dispense with machinery and work by hand, the health’ of the prisoners making 19 necessary that they should work, and the law requiring them to earn some- thing toward their support. ' Under this system the industries hav been greatly diversified and the total out- put for the prison is much reduced from what it formerly was. When the contract eystem was most prosperous and prisoners were let at high prices the prison at Joliet was self-sustaining, but balers the begin- ming of this administration this ceased to be the case and the reports of the then Outgoing commissioners, spread upon the records of the institution, showed that dur- ing the four months immediately preced- ing the date when the present board of commissioners took charge, that institution was running behind at the rate of $7,542 per month, or about $90,000 per year, due large- ly, it was claimed, “tto the expiration of high-priced contracts for convicts.’””’ The State account system has now been estab- lished there, and, notwithstanding the Hard times and the fact that all industrial estab- lishments. are having trouble, the prison at Joliet has been brought to a point where it is absolutely self-sustaining under the new system. The report of the commissioners herewith submitted shows that the deficit for the last two years was only $6,387, and they are convinced that even if times should remain as they are there will be no deficit whatever for the future, and that the peni- tentiary requires no appropriations of any kind or character, and asks no money whatever at your hands. Not only this, but there is a balance of $50,000 on the old ap- te gee that has not been drawn, and hat can lapse into the treasury. The suc- cess of the State account system has been established, and it may be remarked gen- erally on this subject that contractors mever go into a penitentiary for the pur- pose of losing money. Whenever times are 80 that they make money, then the State would make money if it were running the institution on State account, and when. ever times get so that the contractors would Jose money in the institution they would manage in one way or another to get out eel throw the loss upon the State any- PRISON LABOR. In a general way the history of prison ibor, or rather of the effort to work con- icts, in this country, may be stated as follows: 1. The leasing out system, whereby the State turned the prisoner over to the lessee an arted with control over him, a system which, still prevails in a few Southern States, ‘and is productive of conditions that are a disgrace to civilization. 2. The contract system, by which the State contracts the labor of the prisoner at some price per day but keeps control of the prisoner, a system which, while a great improvement on the leasing system, has yet been found to be destructive of the prisoners and of the best interests of the State, but which in good times enabled many men to make fortunes out of the prisons. 3 3. The piece-price system, so closely akin to the contract system that in most case? it has been difficult to distinguish it. Under this the contractor furnishes the material and superfntends and the State does the work, but it has to be done under almos¢ the Fame conditions that prevail in the contract system, and therefore it is open to most of the obiections that apply to that svstem. 4. The State account system, under which the State alone comes into c act with the prisoner, and no outside money making agency brings its blighting shadow into the rison. As already stated, tlris system has en established, and is self-sustaining at Joliet, even in these hard times. From a + gg standpoint it involves some risk to the. State, for it Is evident that where so many lerge industries are carried on, there must be ‘bility and thorough integrity, or ihe —onese of incurring heavy losses will be great. But I believe that the time has come when or fine unless he has been granted the op- portunity of being tried by a jury. 2. An act which requires State, Coun- ty, City and School easurers, and all other custodians of public funds, to ac- count for interest on such funds whenever they aré kept in a bank. 3. An act, intended to arrest the sweat shop and child labor evil which provides for inspection of factories, workshops, etc., and aims to prevent the employment of young children in factories, etc. A civil service law for cit‘es. 5. An act to reform the method of land conveyancing in this State, introducing an entirely new system known as the Austral- ian system and intended to do away with the vast expense that now acompanies. the transfer of land titles in large cities. 6. An act to provide for paroling prisoners from the penitentiaries, intended to do away with the gross inequality of sentences which have heretofore prevailed for the same of- fenses, and to make it practicable to keep professional and hardened criminals in the penitentiary for long terms and to release the young and those who are comparatively innocent, after serving a minimum term in prison. 7. An act which provided that a graduated tax shall be paid on all legacies and inheri- tances. 8. An act to provide for founding a pension fund for school teachers in certain cases by a small deduction from thetr galaries. 9. An act creating a Board of Arbitration for the purpose of adjusting disputes be- tween employers and employes in certain cases. 10. An act for making the kindergarten system a pert of our public schools under certain conditions. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. The Insurance Department of this State now stands at the head of all similar de- partments. in this country, and it is be- lieved that our people are better protected against the operations of dishonest and worthless insurance companies than those of any other State. Formerly this depart- ment contributed scarcely anything to the State Treasury from the large amount of fees which it collected. During this ad- ministration the sum annually turned into the Treasury by the Insurance Department is very large, and for the year 1896 will amount to over $170,000, which is the result of a strict enforcement of the law. EDUCATION. It is gratifying to renort that during the last four years the ce#se of education has made tremendous strides in our State, both in public and dn private institutions. Our public schools are being steadily brought up to a higher plane than they ever occu- ied before. oe the fact that it s the teacher who makes the school, and that it is consequently the duty, as well as to the interest of the State, to look after the education of teachers, the facilities in the existing Normal Universities have been enlarged and improved, and two new ones have been founded. The University of Ifl- linois, located at ‘Champaign, has moved forwafd and taken a position as one of the best institutions of the country. - In the matter of civil and electrical engineering it is unsurpassed anywhere. Its work in other departments is of a high order andit now offers many advantages to both young men and young women that are not to be found anywhere else. The institution needs a large gymnasium. Inasmuch as Illinois now leads nearly all the States of the Union in the matter of enterprise and ma- terial prosperity, her educational institu- tions should be so perfected ag to be models for the world. » FREIGHT RATBS. The freight classification thad scarce.y been changed for twenty years by the Ra'l- road and ‘Warehouse Commission of this State and had become complicated, and, in many respects, 'worked an injustice, and the merchants and manufacturers of Chicago found that it was almost impossible for them to do business in Central and West- ern Illinois, because of the fact that the railroads entering the State from the Ea:t had adopted a classification which mide freight rates from Cleveland and Cincin- nati to that section of the State much iower than they were from Chicago. To overcome this difficulty the Railroad and Warehouse Commission performed the almost hercul- ean task of making an entirely new freight Classification, bringing our State more n¢ar- ly in harmony with the States east of ws, and ‘they have thus made it possible for the merchants and manufacturers of Chicago to again compete in territory from wh.ch they were formerly almost excluded. ARBITRATION OF LABOR TROUBLES. For a number of years the conviction has been deepening in the minds of patriotic and intelligent men that some more enlightened and just method of settling labor disputes should be found-than a mere resort to brute force, which in the form of strikes and lock- outs frequently disturb the peace of society, destroy property and do great injury to non- combatants who are dependent upon the regular operation of the industries involved, The conviction has grown that these dis- putes, like all other disputes between citl- zens of a civilized community, should 1n some way be decided by an impartial tribu- nal, representing at least in some degree the State. Apparently insurmountable dif- ficulties are in the way of universal com- pulsory arbitration of these troubles, but ex- perience in other States has demonstrated that a Board of Arbitration, with somewhat limited powers, could adjust many difficul- ties, and has been of great service to the public. During the closing hours of the spe- cial session of the Legislature in the sum- mer of 189% an act was passed to create a Board of Arbitration for this State, but the measure was opposed by some strong inter- ests, and the board was so iimited in its powers as te almost entirely destroy it. Yet during the seventeen months that have elapsed since the board has 7*-= created, it has acted as a mediator in forty-one cases, each of which involved more or less serious differences between employes and employers. In thirty-eight out of these forty-one cases a satisfactosy adjustment was effected and farther trouble avoided. In the other three cases the employers haughtily refused to take any notice of the board or its friendly efforts. In addition to these forty-one cases the board arbitrated two cases which were submitted under the law, and its decision was accepted by bot'h parties and ended the trouble, and I recommend such farther rea- sonable legislation upon this question as will enable this board to properly perform the functions for which it was created, and in- crease its usefulness. The results of its la- bors as above given are most gratifying and show the w'sdom of its creation. In the forty controversies successfully adjusted by the board there were involved as employes this State, which is now in many ways the 5,780 persons, whose daily wages amounted eading State of.the Union, must take anoth- ‘r step forward in the matter of prison abor. There is a principle involved here rhich rises above all consideration of small sonomies, and that ‘principle is that the tate ought not in any manner to enter into ympetition with those who have to make 1elr living by the sweat of their brows, nd therefore the prisoners should be taken ut of all employment in which they direct- ‘ affect the wages of free laborers, and I commend legislation that will bring about iis result, Under this system the prisons vould not be self-sustaining, but it is not clear that in the long run it would cost the State much more money than it does now. Just what the prisoners should work at under such a system will perhaps be impos- sible to prescribe by law, and will have to be left largely to the judgment of the wand-|; en and commissioners from time to time. PARDONS AND COMMUTATIONS. So malicious and persistent an effort has mn made to misrepresent the facts and make a false impression upon the public mind in regard to granting of pardons and commutations by this administration that justice requires a statement of the figures as shown by the records. During the four years just closing, the average number of pardons and commutations pef year has ‘en 79; the average number, per annum, of convicts in the two penitentiaries during that time has ‘been 2,201: consequently the pardons and commutations amounted’ to +8 3-5 per cent of the convicts in prison; and for the twenty years preceding the begin- ning of this administration the average number of pardons and commutations per annum was 83 2-3, and the average number of convicts in the penitentiaries per annum during that time was 1,868, so that there were 4% per cent of the prisoners pardoned or commuted, on the average, each year. In er pare reg ep — number of con. prison, the number of pardons and cOMmmMutations granted each year on the average for 3 ate poste prior to the be- ginning of this adm nistration was 25 per cent — than ae Fay the number of commutations granted by thi administration. While this administration as much more conservative in this than former administrations, it is ® Matter for which it should receive er credit or blame, for the granting of Seite and icial in ch mmutations is somewhat Me pt to _ conscientiously on the merits no th acter and requires the ex. improvements. has no interest -in our institutions or State except to get money out of it, and as im- provements would increase the taxes to be paid, neither landlord nor tenant will make civilization. to $9,537. LANDLORDISM. The, principle of self-protection and self- preservation requires this State to adopt some reasonable legislation for the purpose of guarding against the evils of landlord‘sm. In the was taken of this system, but now its evils are daily becoming more apparent. are sections of the State where whole town- ships, and in some cases nearly half a coun- ast, land was plentiful and no notice There y, are owned by one individual and are occupied by tenants who feel no interest in inducement to make ' no the so'l and have his side, The landlord, on and the result is that some of the best pectiona of the State are arrested “°n their development and must fall behind in The American Republic has de- pended largely upon the intelligent and patriotic yeomanry of the land, who, as a rule, owned the soil they cultivated. There seems to be a tendency now to wipe th's out. to allow the land to pass into the hands of men who Hve in cities and feel no interest in it except to get money out of it, and as opulation and the consequent demand for set increase, the condition of the tenant will be constantly lowered and_in time this must produce a lower class of citizenship that will in no way be equal to the inde- pendent farmers that have been the boast of our country. It is far better for the State that the farmer should own his own land, even though he be in debt for it, than that he should feel no interest in the so!l and see all of his earnings go to the landlord. REMEDY. I do not venture to make any sugges- tions as to the best method of dealing with the subject, farther than to say that noth- ing should be done that would impair the value of the lands in the hands of the resent owners, but some reasonable time n the future should be named after which every individual will be limited in the quan- tity of land which he may own in this he pur ve | Sew st acing en ton Hected next year, have been advanced be- Rs ea ie ay DA TRE EN ae Sete aye) eae? ~ ors: (ri y fs ae Bik: od ges eran ae | 5 : 4 ie. 0%, Sa : > ORE eS “% MEM: ev . s 2s Rat yatstt dae a cee ve . a cause the State was needing the build! and, owing to the low price of material labor it was better for the State to build at once than to wait, and there are now over $300,000 in the Treasury, and as soon as the taxes are collected there will again be a es The tax levy had to be increased for two reasons. One was the extra expenditure already named and «he other was the re- markable fact that the assessments of prop- erty in this State are constantly growi smaller. For example, the total assess value of property in the State for the year 1896 is $16,508,847 less th it was for the zoor 1$95, and is lesg than it has been since REVENUE SYSTEM. Every Governor for more than twelve ars has urged a revision of our revenue aged and pronounced the existing system a gigantic raud. The facts have been so requently stated that it seems almost a mockery to repeat them, and yet nothing has been done. Great concentrations of wealth and unscrupulous individuals possessed of large fortunes in many cases contribute nothing to the support of the government, while men of moderate means and those of large means who refuse to resort to corrupt methods, are obliged to bear the burdens that belong to others. It is no longer a se- qret that the machinery of the whole sys- tem, especially as it — to large cities and to the assessment of some corporations, is thoroughly corrupt and should be wiped out. Corporations in this respect fare like individuals; those corporations whose offic- ers refuse to resort to dishonest methods and who endeavor to meet all questions openly and fairly, are loaded wi®h unjust burdens, while other corporations contribute little or nothing, and frequently it is found that the men who resort to dishonorable means in these matters are the ones who have the most to say about patriotism. There has been so much tation recently upon this question that it is probable that those interests which have heretofore la- bored to prevent any revision of the revenue law will now change their tactics and will attempt themselves to shape the revision, so that while the public demand for a new rev- enue haw will be for the time met, still it will be found that in the end matters have not been much improved. Real estate is usual- ly found by the assessor and where no cor- rupt methods are resorted to there will, as a rule, be no inequality in assessments, So far as real estate is concerned, especially in large cities,the chief difficulty to overcome is to stop the operation of the corrupt ‘*go-be- tweens,’’who go to rich men or their ents and offer to save them from $5,000 to $20,000 in taxes of one year in consideration of cash payment, and who, on the promise of such cash payment, manage to get assessments reduced. But in regard to personal property an entire new system m that now exist- ing must be adopted. Each individual must be compelled to furnish a statement of what he has subject to taxation. The present sys- tem of al mbes the assessor to guess at what the individual has when no report is made, results in no assessment at all. Under it the very rich make no returns and conse- quently escape with little or no taxation. If every man were required to himself sign a written statement and return it to the as- sessor showing what he had, and in the event of his failure to do so he were cited to go before some court to make such a schedule, and the court were required to double the assessment as a penalty, it would add millions to the taxable property of the State, and thus reduce the: burdens of those men and corporations that now are trying to honestly pay their taxes. ) Corporations are assessed chiefly by the State Board of Equalization, and here the greatest inequality has arisen. Most of the corporations of the State, doing a légiti- mate business,-pay their full share of tax- es, and in some cases, perhaps more, while other very large concerns pay almost noth- ing. A sleeping car company, whose of- fice and headquarters are at Chicago, and which has over $60,000,000 worth of proper- ty—whose stock sells in the market at fig- ures which aggregate that sum—which an- nually earns dividends that amount to a high rate of interest on that sum, and which, by reason of the fact that it fs lo- cated in Chicago, should, under the law. pay taxes there on all its personal prop- erty, especially on such as is not assessed elsewhere—is assessed in our State at only $1.561,955. Correspondence with the officials of all the other States in this coun- try, and of Canada, shows that all the taxes that it pays on this continent, IIli- nois included, do not. amount to a fair rate of taxation on $20,000,000, and that, conse- quently, it has over $40,000,000 that should be taxed in Chicago, upon which it does not pay accent. As a rule, other property is assessed at from one-fourth to one-fifth of its market value. If this corporation were assessed in proportion, its additional assess- ment would amount to in the neighborhood of $8,000,000, and its annual taxes on this sum in Chicago would be considerably over half a million of dollars. This money al- though, in a sense, belonging to the public, is pocketed by the owners of that corpora- tion. Two years ago it cost the State a large sum of money to guard the property of this corporation, yet, when it comes to bearing the burdens of the government, it manages to shift them on to the shoulders of-others. BPFECT OF meres ates RESPONSIBIL- Experience has shown that division of re- sponsibility in public bodies is productive of corruption and unjust measures: that when the public can put its finger upon the in- dividual and hold him responsible, he will be more careful and circumspec* in his actions and w‘ll make more effort to keep up, at least, a semblance of fairness than he will if there are ¢ large number of others to share .the responsibility with him. It rarely happens that the Mayor of a city is charged with corruption, while the charge against city councils are very common. These cons:derations, taken in connection with the experience of this State, as well as other States, show that a board of equal- ization, composed of twen‘#-two members, as ours is now, for the purpose of assessing corporations, will never be useful or satis- factory, and is almost certain to continue to be the constant subjeet of scandal and ose — to ‘be se ts ; ya iy Ras eee ore iy os eee aw ea 2 Tas ¥ aoe been adopted by nearly all of the civ. | countries, and similar } tion has been enacted in all of the older States of the Union. This legislation is based on the ground, not simply of humanity and jus- tice, but that # is the duty of the State to take every necessary step for its own preservation. This legislation, of necessity, affects in @ greater or less degree the rela- tions between the miner and the employer, and is intended to prevent his being cheated in weighing and being cheated in the screening of the coal, from his being forced to buy the necessaries of life at what are called truck or “pluck me” stores, main- tained by the employers, etc. Following the line of legislation which had been adopted by, and was in force in, the older States of the Union, this State has, during-the last fifteen years, passed a num- ber of laws for the protection of the miner. Several acts have been passed to regulate the weighing of coal at the mines. 1891, an act was passed to put an end to the truck store system, so that miners should no longer be obliged to accept their wages in the goods of the so-called “‘pluck me”’ stores of their employers. About the same time a law was passed requiring miners to be paid their wages weekly; but all of these laws were nullified by the Supreme Court, on the ground that they conflicted with some pro- vision of the Constitution. FACTORIES. + With the invention of machinery came great factories and great concentrations of population, and as in many cases physical strength was not necessary to attend a machine, factories were soon filled with women and children, because they would work for less wages than had to be paid to men. These women and children stood on their feet and worked long howrs, and the result was that in time the factory popula- tton was found to be stunted and weak, physically and intellectually, so that a par- Hamentary investigation, more than fifty years ago, discovered the fact that as a rule the young men in factory communities were utterly unfit for military service, most of the children born of women who worked in the factories were weak and rarely devel. oped into healthy manhood and womanhood, and that the boys and girls employed in the factories soon grew old, became physically and intellectually stunted and morally weak. It was also found that vs é reason of ma- chinery not being properly guarded, and matters of ventilation and sanitation not be- ing yh ang 2 looked after, operatives in fac- tories were being constantly maimed for life, and becoming charges upon the community, and their health was being undermined be- cause of bad sanitary conditions. The com- mittee reported to parliament that unless these conditions could in some way be ar- rested, the tendency would be to endanger if not destroy the perpetuity of the empire, because there would be produced an inferior race of people who could not maintain themselves e'ther intellectually, commer- cially or martially in the fierce competition with the rest of the world. Out of this parliamentary investigation there grew in the end a system of factory legislation which has been greatly improved and expanded. and adopted by all the civilized countries of the old world, and by nearly all of the older States of this country. It may be of interest to note that both the mining and the factory legislation was opposed by the wealthy classes of England, and for a third of a century met with the opposition of the in- fluential classes who were deriving a benefit from the evils aimed at. But the statesmen of England persisted and ultimately tri- umphed, and some of the great men of Eng- land to-day regard her achievements in min- ing and factory legislation as among the most important things she has done, not only for her own prosperity and perpetuity, but for the world. : Several years ago it was found that the conditions which once existed in England were rapidly ——s up in our State. Shops and factories were full of children and wo- men who slaved long hours and received but a pittance. In many cases dangerous ma- chinery was not properly guarded, and the sanitary conditions were indescribably bad. To remedy these evils an act was passed in 1893, which was far less stringent and less comprehensive than laws which were already in force in some of the older States, and which had been held constitutional The act was l?mited to factories and there, shops. Under this law the abuses of child labor in the factories of our State were greatly reduced and an attempt was made to enforce the provisions of the law which forbade the employment of women for more than eight hours a day in shopsand factories. But the interests which were coining the lives of women and children into dollers and which wanted to escape the paying of the wages of men were powerful. They combined to resist ite enforcement, and the Supreme Court has held a portion of the law to be unconstitutional, and the decision leaves the whole of the act in such a condition as makes it difficult to enforce any of its pro- visions, and including those not employed in factories, there are in Chicago alone over fifteen thousand children working long hours daily, many of them becoming stunted phy- sically and’ intellectually and weakened morally, and what is known as the “sweat shop”’ evil ts spreading at an alarming rate. Other countries have found it necessary to protect themselves against conditions which tend to lower the vitality and the physical and intellectual development of their citi- zens, and our State must do the same. The Constitution was not intended to be an insurmountable barrier to all corrective legislation. Whether a law is or is not con- stitutional is nearly always a matter of con- struction and depends upon the point of view from which the subject is considered, some- times depending largely on the bias or learn- ing of the judge. While the decisions of the Supreme Court are conclusive and final in the cases in which they were rendered they do not be- come a rule of political action. They do not deprive the people of the power to reg- ulate their affairs,nor can they in any way prevent farther efforts to cure the evils that were aimed at. In his first inaugural! message, President Lincoln, in speaking of the Supreme Court of the United States, said: ‘The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, as in ordinary decisions between parties in personal actions, the people will | have ¢vased to de their own rulers, having to that extent practically released, their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.’”” On various ether eccasions Mr. In May, Lincoln declared in public that the decis- ions of the Supreme Court on canstitutional questions, while entitled to respect and while conclusive upon the individuals in- volved in the litigation before them, did not constitute a rule of action politically and did n deprive the people in any way of their power of self-government, and did not prevent the people from proceeding in an orderly manner to bring about in the end the establishment of a principle different from what the Supreme Court had enun- ciated. Neither the executive, the legis- lative nor the judicial branches of the gov- ernment, nor in fact all combined have the power to foreclose the people on a question of government nor to prevent the people from in the end’ enforcing such policy as they deem proper. CRITICISM OF DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF GOV PRNMENT. Iam aware that there are people who will urge that this is a criticism of the cour‘s, but nothing of the kind is intended. I have simply stated historical facts, and have endeavored to make clear a fundamental demg = which the Legislature mus? always eep in view when dealing with great prob- So far as the question of criticisin is concerned, the constitution has divid the government into three departments, and each of «hese departments is alike subject to criticism. It may be said that the life of a republic depends upon the intelligent scrutiny and criticism which the people give to all branches of the government. It has been urged by some of the greatest men of our country that inasmuch as judges are human and possess the same prejudices, passions and weaknesses that other men do, and inasmuch as the public can tmpose its will more easily upon the executive and legislative offices because their terms are shorter, tha? therefore there was all the greater need of thorough examination and ree criticism on the part of the public of the acts of the judiciary. While the public has this right to the fulles? extent there is a question of propriety involved in one®de- partment of Fs mg indulging in mere criticism of the other, but there fs no rule of propriety which ogee either branch of the governmen®? from stating historical facts or pointing out difficulties which must be met by all; in fact the judicial branch has at various times critici the acts of the legislative branch of government with “he. greatest om. ‘While I have thus stated the frenera! prin- all lems. ciple I believe that no serious difficulty will be encountered in enacting necessary legislation without coming into conflict with either the Constitution Or the decisions of the Supreme Court, EWSPAPDPR LICENSES The Legislature owés it to the peo le of ee State os devise : eg e petes- e 3 geame 8 ee ou wspaper ii ae ees which and deters many ane TWOFOR And \ \\’ \ \ s*\ \ WW \\\ \ \\\ \ Ya VY A WAVAN \\ VANES \ INE \\ \AAMA \ NY .\ \ \\\ \ . A\\ me The man who has yet to bu tons, Kerseys and Beavers—Overcoats with fine Velvet Collars—Uisters with deep Storm, Collars— all with elegant warm body linings. Men’s Suits, In the nobbiest, swellest weaves of the season—in Single and Double Breasted Sack Styles—of beauti- ful all-wool Cassimeres, Cheviots, Overplaids and plain and fancy Worsteds, in neat Checks, Stripes, Broken Plaids and the always elegant Solid Colors! The cheapest Suits among the lot we sold at the sea- son’s dawn for $12.00—some for $10.00—the cheap- ést Overcoat or Ulster in the lot was $10.00—and a great many were $12.00 and $13.50— To-Morrow Take Your Pick for........ y his Winter Overcoat is in luck, for the Overcoat and a new Suit besides can be had at ‘‘The Fair’’ to-morrow for what the Overcoat alone would have cost at the season’s dawn! Sizes and Broken Lots make your opportunity. 300 Men’s Over- coats and Ulisters Handsomely made, of really fine Chinchillas, Mel- Broken 449 250 ‘paper! Boys’ Overcoats and Uisters at Just Half Price Remember, we are, good in the store for what we say in the Take your pick to-morrow of any Boy’s Overcoat or Ulster in the house for balf the marked price! Boys’ $2.00 Overcoats/and Ulsters for.. Boys’ $3.50 Overcoats and Ulsters for.. Boys’ $5.00 Overcoats and Ulsters for. Boys’ $8.50 Overcoats and Ulsters for.. Boys’ $10.00 Overcoats and Ulsters for.. ve cecceserss BILOO oe ceccce cces he PD ce vccce. 000-280 orceree eee. 4.25 ve eeeseees 5,00 Boys’ Suits | Feartully Slashed t a Knee-Pant Suit, not a Long- Pant Suit in the house has escaped the Price Cut! mendous Values in Boys’ Clothing you will see them now! Come in to- morrow and we’ ll make your heart glad If you ever saw Tre- \THE TRUTH COOoD ENOUCH ——_—— Government for protection, for a Govern- ment is unworthy of respect that simply im- poses burdens on its people and then leaves the!r lives or their reputations at the mercy of those who shoot from ambush, No meas- ure can be considered which will in any way interfere with he fullest publication of news, or with full comment on current events, and there must be regsonable al- lowance for mistakes honestly made. What should be aimed at is to do away with the anonymous and dark alley features of mod- ern newspaperism. That is where cowards roost and where sneaks take refuge. As yet there are but few great journals in the United States that meet the definition of a newspaper. Many of them are personal and, partisan organs, often used maliciously, and instead of publishing the news fairly they make it their daily business to garble and misstate it. This in itself is perhaps not a proper subject for legislators, but when men, who are ashamed to give their names, hide behind a newspaper hedge and throw mud at people who are walking on the highway, then the public has the right to complain, and has a right to insist that this be stopped, or, if it is imposs‘ble, ‘to stop it, that then it should: be known to the world who are the offenders. It has been urged that this species of journalism brings its own punishment; that anonymous abuse reacts on the author and weakens his character and destroys his manhood; that early in our history when every newspaper writer had to face his fel- low men and be personally responsible for his utterances, the profession produced some of the greatest men in the land who exerted a powerful personal influence on the nation, while since anonymous writing has become the rule on great journals the profession seems to be blighted; that all are reduced to the same level and are swal- lowed. Even if this were so, it does not justify continued license. It has also been urged that public good is promoted by anonymity. It may be a strange coincidence, but the marauding whitecaps in neighboring States have likewise defended their cowardly op- erations on the ground of public good. ™ There is a principle involved here, and that is, that no man can be permitted to set himself up as a public censor and pro- ceed to wrong those whom, for many rea- sons, he does not like. The mere fact that a man is able to buy presses and hire a lot of men who must do his will, does not give him any more rights than are possessed by other people. The existing statute is com- prehensive in defining libel, but it can only be enforced through a prosecution or a law- suit which will last years, and not only subject the individual to additional noto- riety, but will wear him out; so that for the average citizen there is no protection whatever against newspaper abuse. Two years ago an act was passed which provided that when, in cases of libel, it is sought to punish an editor, In addition to making him pay damage, that then he should be permitted to show the facts in the case. This principle is correct, for when a man is to be punished ne should be per- mitted to show all the facts connected with the act for which he is to be punished; but the trouble with all existing legislation {5 that an individual is worn out with delay and expense before a case reaches the point where sentence is to be imposed. It is doubtful whether the possibility of collecting damages furnishes any practi- cal protection to the public. In my judg- ment the public would be much better off if there were no provisions for ultimately getting damages, except in rare cases, pro- vided the authorship of every abusive arti- cle were at once known, for in that case the article would receive such credence from the public as the character and stand- ing of the author would secure for it, and no more. This would tend to secure accu- racy of statement. It is the anonymous ar- ticle which is careless and reckless—which is full of insinuation and invention.. At present there is but little complaint about the country weeklies and small papers be- cause generally the authorship of every ar- ticle is known. en when such a r re- sorts to villification, it makes no impression except what it secured for it by the char- Cheapest, Because the Best GAIL BORDEN’ EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK pest Ae etal ot) . WY. Condensed Milk Ge, 71 Hudson Street, Few York acter of the’writer. It is clear that the pub- lic does not want damages so much as it wants a preventative. It wants less firing from ambush. Any measure that will stop this will be beneficial, and if no other remedy is practical I believe that a meas- ure which would grant reasonable immunity to the writer in all cases in which an arti- cle was signed, while it provided for sum- mary penalties where the authorship was not canelenes, would at least tend to limit existing abuses. ‘ THE REAL ENBPMIBS OF THE STATE. In a monarchy, government can be main- tainel for a time by brute force, but in a republic, government can be ma‘ntained only by justice. Those mén and those policies which bege® injustice are mortal enemies of republican institutions. No government was ever overthrown by the poor, and we have nothing to fear from that source. It ig the greedy and the powerful who pull down the pillars of State. Greed, corruption and pharisaism are <o-day sapping the founda- tions of government. It is the criminal rich and their hangers-on who are the real an- archists of our time, They rely on fraud and brute force. They use government as a convenience and make justice the hand- maid of wrong. We are See a kind of carbonated patriotism which seems to derive its mos? sparkling qualities from re- spectable boodleism. Our country has great vitality, but these conditions must be ar- rested or else we are lost. Only those na- tions grow great which correct abuses, make eforms and listen *o the voice of the strug- ling masses. gtr: DESTINY OF ILLINOIS. | Illinois is yet in the morning of her career. Seated at the heart of the continent the cen- turies are before her. Exceling in resources, in enterprise, in achievement and in the spirit of her people she must lead Y%he way. Destined to be the center of intellectual activity her genius must guide the republic. Directed along the paths of justice and hu- manity no? even the stars can measure her lory. This is the a pe —— Fy ge yh wa eare. Again: “Let us bu or e_cen- turies.”’ JOHN P. ALTGELD. KANSAS BANKS. Breidentha] Says There Are Too Many and Urges Consolidation. TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 6.—State Bank Com- missioner John W. Breidenthal predicts that the number of Kansas banking institutions will decrease materially within the next two years if not be cut in two. He says there are too many banks in Kanegas now for the amount of business transacted, and he is aivising consolidation in every place where it is feasible. “It is simply a question of time whether many of these institutions shall go into voluntary liquidation or be forced to suspend,” said the commissioner, “and in order to prevent the latter I have advised a general consolidation all over the State, especially in the smaller towns.” The over-supply of banks came into ex- istence during boom days and while capi- tal has since diminished there has. been no erceptible decrease in the number of these nstitutions. The deputy commissioners, who have returned from a tour of the State, examining all banks, report that in nearly every town or city the bankers are figur- ing with each other on a plan of conso . tion in accordance with the advice of the commissioner. WITHSTOOD THE RUN. Scared Depositors Could Not Bieak a National Bank at Erie. PRIE, Pa., Jan. 6—The Second National Bank, conceded to be one of the etrongest financial institutions in the State, with- stood a run on it all day yesterday. From 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. a steady stream of de- positors cal upon the paying teller, but every demand was met. It was ¢t ht that the run will not be repeated A but that depositors will return their wit drawals now that the scare is over. the run started is a mystery. Killed by a Woman. HARRISVILLE, Mich., Jan. ¢—Mrs. Rob- ert wife of a wealthy farmer 4 and instantly The Wabash Railroad Is the Western Connection of the New York Central Rall- road, the great four track route FOR US! sT. LOUIS’ CREATEST DEPARTMENT STORE SEE OUR WINDOWS com- PARISONS ARE VERY CONVINCING! Miss Rena Morrison Has Becéme Mrs. Warren Bailey. Miss Rena Morrison, daughter of Mrs. Car- rie Stewart Morrison of Howard County, Mo., was married at 10 a. m. to Mr. Warren Balley, a prominent young business min of St. Louis, at the First Baptist Church at Fayette,"Mo. The bride is the granddaugh- ter of the Jate Alfred W. Morrison, State Treasurer under Gov. Claib Jack and a niece of John L. Morrison, Wafden under Gov. Francis. The bridegroom is a live stock dealer in the northern part of the city, and is well known throughout the State. The young will come to. St. is, where poop they will at home to friends after Jan. 12 at the Grand Avenve Hotel. BALL—BLAIR. A que wedding will take place at 6 m., the bride being Miss Mary Lulu daughter of Mrs. Anna M. Blair, of 622 N Garrison avenue, and the bridegroom Samuel Boyd Ball of this city. The mony will performed in the presence @ the immediate families of the contrac parties and a few felatives, about 25 in and Rev. James M. B es will o There will be no bridemaids or groomsmen, and the bride will wear her going-awa gown of dark blue broadcloth, tailor nak and cerry a bouquet of. bride’ A small reception will follow after the cere- mony, and after the wedding su young couple will leave for the th remain several weeks. Mr. and Mr:. Ball will k house at the residence at present occup! the s mother, while the latter goes South to spend the rest of the winter with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ball will be at after Feb. 1, at 622 North Garrison avenue. | Reduces the Expense and Increases the Light. That is what the improved Welsbach Hght does—uses one-third the gas, gives three times the light, and one is equal to four or five incandescent electric lights. St. Louis depot, 1012 Olive. Pardoned Twenty Convicts. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Jan. 6.—Twenty victa, twelve of them murderers, were doned yesterday by Gov. Altgeld. are Henry Jones, John F. Dixon, John Crowley, Frank Weber, Walker, Charles Robinson, Lawrence ley, Kathryn Kelchner, Gain Harris, Landers and Wm. B 3 t. More Light Needed. CaM at 1012 Olive and see the improved Welsbach—only uses one-third of the gas gives three times the light—one is equal te four or five electric Nghts. ers; Spanish Ex-Minister Dead. MADRID, Jan. 6—Ex-Minister Venancie WEDDING AT FAYETTE: © - - 5 Gonzalez is dead. ¥ eee aed Ute yeti, of: hy BR Be x 3 “ = 2 FHS wets ae * * ‘

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Week day only 10 cents a week. ‘ Remit by money order, draft, or in registered letter. Don’t send checks on your local bank. ‘The price of the Post-Dispatch on all railroad trains and in all railroad stations outside of St. Louis will be 2 CENTS per copy daily and 6 CENTS Sundays. Any one who is charged a higher rate than this will please report same to us, giving name of road or station and number of train. Subscribers who fail to receive their paper regu- larly will confer a favor by reporting the same to this o.tice. AG4ress all communications to POST-DISPATCH, St. Louis. Putered at the Post-office at St. Louis as second: Ciuss matter. e TELEPGONE NUMBERS. Pusiners Office s THE S. C. Seckwith Special Agency’. Agent Foreign Advertising. 48 Tribune Building, New York, And 469 The Rookery, Chicago. ea | tt— . AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. | HAGAN—Continuous. CENTURY—‘The Geisha.”’ OLYMPIC—Miss Georgia Cayvan. IIAVLIN’S—‘*New County Fair.’’ / STANDARD—‘‘Twentieth Century Maids.”’ HOPKINS’—Continuous. FOURTEENTH STREET — “A Town.”’ Temperance MATINEES TO-MORROW. HAVLIN’S—‘‘New County Fair.’’ HAGAN—Continucus. STANDARD—‘‘Twentieth Century Maids.”’ HOPKINS'—Continuous. ee THE CITY’S DEBT. Mayor Walbridge’s suggestion that the bonded indebtedness of the city should be increased, through a constitutional amendment, by at least $10,000,000, should not be adopted without careful study of the present conditions and the probable effect of such an increase. St. Louis’ debt is, in Yound numbers, 21,000,000 on an assessed valuation of $310,000,000. How does this compare with other large cities? New York’s debt is $105,000,000, on a valuation of $1,613,000,000. Chicago’s debt is $17,000,000, on a valua- tion of $247#)00,000. Boston's debt is $35,- 000,000, on a valuation of $924,000,000. Phil- adelphia’s debt is $52,000,000, on a valua- tion of. $770,000,000. An analysis of these figures shows that all the large cities are wonderfully alike in their financial management. The in- debtetmess of St. Lgfais; New York and Philadelphia is in each case one-fifteenth of the assessed valuation. Chicago's in- debtedness is one-fourteenth of the valu- ation, and Philadelphia’s is as low as one- twenty-sixth. It is against the city’s best interest to increase her indebtedness unless there is the gravest need for it. As Mayor Wal- bridge says, the most urgent public im- provements are a new city hospital and bridges across the Mill Creek Valley. The first could be provided for by special tax, and the railroads ought certainly to bear the greater part Of the expense of build- ing bridges across their tracks. It is not proven that additional debt would not add to annual taxation. It should not be undertaken in these hard times unless this is the case. And before it is undertaken, Mayor Walbridge should make a strenuous effort to provide for these pressSing needs by compelling the Street railroads and other tax dodgers to pay the taxeg imposed upon them by law. Labor Commissioner Meriwether has shown that proper taxation of the street railroads alone would add hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to the city’s income. : _ MACHINE RULE IN ILLINOIS. The election of E. C. Curtis as Speaker of the Illinois House through the power of the Cook County machine can be no surprise to readers of the Post-Dispatch who have followed its comment on IIli- nois affairs. Schubert, of Cook County, was a stalk- ing horse whose election was never con- templated by the machine. The machine selection of Curtis means that the ma- chine failed to make terms with either of the leading candidates outside of Chi- cago, and this is the only really surpris- ing feature of the affair. The combina- tion between Cochran, Bryan and Selby, a8 against the machine, was evidently On unselfish lines and dictated by hon- orable public motives, The Post-Dispatch has already said that the machine will run the coming ses- sion of the Illinois Assembly from start to finish. The election of Curtis as Speak- er and the organization of the Senate preve this. The election of Madden will be the first thing .on the programme. Ominous as this will be considered in many quarters it will be the least of the evils to grow out of Chicago machine government. This session of the Illinois Assembly will be the worst in the his- tory of the State. And worse than this cannot be said. A SPANISH POLICY. Many friends of the Cubans have in- sisted that a recognition of their bellig- erency would hurt rather than help them. _ It was urged more than a year ago that recognition would prevent such effective aid as Americans: were disposed to give thent. This was a practical view for many reasona, and it has been supposed. that the Cleveland Administration, refusing to recognize a condition of warfare on the island, has not been activeMin seeking to prevent.the shipment of munitions of war from this country to Cuba. The resolution of Senator Call, of Flor- ida, sets out that the Administration has the entire southeastern coast of Florida patrolled by vessels to prevent such ship- ments. While it refuses to recognize a condition of war it is persistently seeking _ - to enforce neutrality obligations in the pea toregt of Spain. » The farcical character of the effort, un- der such circumstances, to convict the, piracy is clearly apparent: The Cleveland Administration is im an indefensible pos!- tion. Its Cuban policy has been, from first to last, insincere and misleading as regards both Arwcricans and Cuban. From the Spanish point of view it has 'been everything that could be @erired. r > —2 eee | AT JEFFERSON CITY. | The session of the State Legislature ‘will be watched with keen interest not only in Missouri but throughout the coun- |try. Missouri won for herself the proud post of leader of the Democratic forces in the campaign recenily ended. She ‘will now be looked to to show to the i people of the Union what a Democratic victory means. If the session fs abortive in the matter of legislation for the benefit of the peo- ple, as so many recent sessions have been, not only will Democratic supremacy in Missourit be menaced, but the national Democratic campaign of 1900 will be blighted in advance. On ‘the other hand, if such legislation is enacted as will tend to lessen the grievous burden that now presses down upon the people, and to re- lieve them from some of the disadvant- ages by which they are oppressed under existing conditions, the cause of Dem- ocracy will be strengthened, not only in Missouri, but in the country at large. It is absolutely imperative that where the Democrats won a victory at the recent election it shall yield the promised fruits of victory. Gov. Stone says wisely in his message that legislation should not be based upon resentment. There should be no retalia- tion even for flagrant wrongs and abuses, But, on the other hand, with parties as with men, the courage to avail of oppor- tunities for doing right and for fufilling promises is indispensable to the retention of popular confidence. The Missouri Legislature is Democratic in both branches by a substantial major- ity. The State Executive is in political accord with the Legislature. Under these circumstances, failure to’ meet the re- quirements of the situation will bea dis- aster to the party and to the country. i a ae ‘“BLIZZARDS.”’ The misuse of the word “blizzard” is a striking illustration of the tendency to extremism and exaggeration which is one of the most salient characteristics of the times. With some newspaper writers every snowstorm is a blizzard if the snow is deep enough to suspend traffic to some extent, although the storm may be nO Ye ing out of the common and unaccom- panied by the heavy snowfall and the dangerously high, biting wind that makes a real blizzard. “Blizzard” is defined as ‘‘a gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompa- nied with fine and blinding snow; a fu- rious blast.” People who have experien- ced real blizzards will appreciate how foolish it if to apply the name te ordin- ary snowstorms. The true blizzard is not to be trifled with. New York City found that out in the great blizzard of 1892. A number of persons lost their lives in that blizzard. Some who disappeared amid its fury have never been heard of since. What the Globe-Democrat described in its Tuesday issue as the “Sweep of a Great Blizzard” seems to have been no more than a seasonable snowstorm, with some deep drifts that interfered with traffic, but no incidents or characteristics that excused the use of superlatives in describing it. It is in such ways as this that even conservative newspapers are lending en- couragement to the habit of exaggeration referred to above. Nothing is more im- portant in the use of language than ac- curacy of definition and description. It is absurd for newspapers, which make school girls who describe candy they like as “splendid’’ the butt of their jokes, to describe an ordinary snowstorm with the usual accompaniments as a “blizzard.” ss The biennial message of Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, will be found in to-day’s Post- Dispatch. All is given that is not of merely local interest. It is a State pa- per that will well reward close perusal, and contains some suggestions and criti- cisms that are sure to be made the sub- ject of extended and perhaps rancorous discussion. It is evident that the Gov- ernor goes out of office without lowering his flag or surrendering his side-arms. He flings down the gauntlet like a man who knows nothing of defeat. — The Republican “‘something for silver’ is a sham, intended merely to hold those Republicans who are weary of Wall street domination. The East wants nothing done for silver, and the Kast controls the party. That section is never without Western catspaws and time servers. ———————_—_eo-- “Will the General Assembly of Illinois send to the United States Senate a man shown by actual trial to be unfit to oc- cupy a seat in the Chicago City Council?’ asks the Chicago Record. It looks very much as if that is just what the General Assembly has assembled to do. —_—-- oo O29 —e-—— _—__—_— Mayor Walbridge did mot acknowledge in his message the handsome additional revenue gained by the city in the ap- pointment of a Democrat to collect li- ecense money, but the fact of this im- portant increase is not the less known to the tax-payers. ———, Miss Spreckels, an American heiress to many millions, has married an English- man who has no title—a foreigner who is only a “mister.” We may imagine the disgust this announcement will create among the penniless titled fortune huni- ers of Europe. ne ee ene With the official returns all in Mr. Me- Kinley’s plurality is 572,349; his majority, 260,277. These figures may be reversed in 1900. They would be reversed at once if the election were to occur now, while banks are failing and wages are going down. _—_ OO — 2 —e It is strange that Mrs, Grant and Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Garfield-Brown were not invited to the White House on New Year's day. Can it be possible that these ladies have beer hurrahing for Bryan? — _— So successful a warker in the cause of humanity as Matrdn Harris can ill be spared at any time, certainly not now. “The protection sentiment” should have officers and crew of the Three Friends of } at its demands, however, mot be con- } fined to a few interests. . There:igs not one interest anywhere that is not entitled to the same bounty as another. cxliqeiniyscliignedadlyailttlleataiadetinay Mr. McKinley has tpuched the button to-dax to start 160 cars of salt, ®@ut he has yet to find the button that is to start the prosperity that was promised to come at once fh case he was elected. it is to Be hoped that hog cholera may rt ; not break out | Ways and Means Committee is listening in Washington while the to the numerous persons who are going before it for assistance. EINES Ge BA Se TOE So Ben Hur Wallace is making a chariot race for the United States Senate, but his steeds are not Arabian—only Indiana plugs—-and the spectators don’t seem to think he will get there. OO ee ee Curtis of Kankakee awoke to find him- self, not famous, but the head of the House of Representatives of a great State. It is a wonderful machine they have across the river. —_———_ —i-- o———e———— Mr. McKinley js reported as saying that Missouri will hardly be recognized in the Cabinet. The emphasis of the big elec- tion figures from the Imperjal State is still felt at Canton. | i ee ee ee The Prohibitionists have nominated a | city ticket in Chicago, but the Great Dis- | mal Lake will dry to the bottom before such a ticket wins in the thirsty and riotous Windy. ™ oa Gov. Tanner breke his honeymoon to fly to the aid of the corrupt and much de- nounced Madden. The people of Illinois may yet have reason to regret this breach of domesticity, —— OE OS No carrier pigeons are conveying news from Cuba, but Congressman Robbins brings some jnteresting facts. The prin- cipal one is that Spain cannot conquer the Cubans, » It ought not to be hard for any member of the Legislature to understand the St. Louis School Board matter, St. Louis wants relief and the Legislature can give that relief, Pe ee —= —___——_ Col. Ed Butler’s complaint of impassa- ble streets is a just one. There are un- made streets in the West End with a depth of mud that is altogether appaHhing. OE ——— Mr. McKinley, in placing Mr. Allison in the Cabinet, will be doing the next thing to taking a Missouri man, lowa be- ing our next door neighbor. | At “Dead Man’s Curve,” in New York City, the railway is now to be put under- ground. This is much better than putting so many men there. fo - @ — —a ————__— Burton, Tracy and Treloar’s “social visit” to Mr. McKinley is likely to make some of their comrades in politics ex-* tremely unsociable. _—_— Or © -——s - - Mr. Wanamaker will need all his Chris- tian fortitude in this his hour of trial and disappointment. His campaign has been very expensive. = © —s —— Betting on Madden, which was 2 fol, is 3 to 1 since the appearance of the-@€Hobe- Democrat’s declaration that he should be excluded. ——————- -o— — — Many of Mr. McKinley’s visitors are insignificant, though their visits have some political significance. ———— oe —s- In politics it is going to be a year of great expectations and greater disap- pointments. ) eT o—=_-— -- The Senator ffom Maine is Hale fellow well met with the butchering Spaniards, a oe Birdie Allendale will sing at Jefferson City, and she will sing for Vest. + ¢ — A Newspaper First of All. From the Elsberry (Mo.) News. The News for several weeks has published elsewhere the prospectus of the Post-Dis- patch, and it seems fitting that a few more words of commendation should be voluntar- ily added here. Net that the News has never said anything in behalf of that paper before (for it has), but convinced that merit cannot be too fully recognized, it is desired to impress again on the public: mind that St. Louis never had a better paper than ‘the P.-D. is at this time. Under the administra- tion of Col. Jones, and without considera- tion of its political color, he has made it what it never was before—a newspaper. Every Democrat should take it as a reli- gious duty to himself and his party. People of other shades of political opinion should subscribe for it because it is a newspaper. Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Pwress. I wonder why it is that girls that iisp always kiss the nicest. The more shocking a girl says a play is, the less she is shocked. When a man makes his Wife a present, unless it’s Christmas or Her birthday, she gets suspicious. The more determined a man is to stay a bachelor, the more nice things he says about married life. The average woman's idea of religion gets a wrench whem she tries 10 teach her little child that she must love God more than she does her. Irregular Regularity. From the Indianapolis Journal. The Rev. Mr. Wilgus: My good man, do you attend religious services every Sab- | IN THE PUBLIC EYE. / ‘ LADY SELINA SCOTT. bath? Dismal Dawson: I alluz dg when I'm in jail. Stole His Arsenal. From tthe Detroit Free Prees. “I hear, Mrs. Derby, that your husband has two revolvers and a Winchester for any Durglars who may call.” “He had, but they came the other night and got them.”’ A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION. The pessimist who finds a dearth of a tng et this pleasant carth, _° Should now resolve his doubts full swing, North, South, East and West. The trial of this member of the English aristocracy, sued by her son-in-law, Earl Russell, on a charge of criminal libel, was resumed on Monday, after having been postponed, first by the illness of Lady Scott and later by the death in jail of Frederick Kast, a groom and co-defencant in the suit. MEN OF MARK. Prussia’s hizh executioner, Herr Roindel, being about to retire, hundreds of appli- cants for his position have appeared. He gets $37 for each execution and his travel- ing expenses, The Wesleyan Methodists of England have requested the Rev. William J. Brown to visit the United States and Canada, and raise money for a monument to be erected over the grave of John Wesley. Mr. Brown is the pastor of the chapel in London where ,/Wesley once preached. Lovestigation shows the following statis- tics regarding the United States Senate: Lawyers, 66; business men of various kinds, including miners, ship-owner:, stock rais- ers, etc., 13; preacher (studied law), 1; farm- ers (one having studied law), 3; journalists, 2; surgeon, 1; officeholders, 3. Joseph Jefferson has taken up the cud- gel against undue athletic training, which, he says, “‘kills off more people than it cures. The strain undermines the system, forces the heart to a task far beyond its powers, and as a result there is a collapse of the life machinery long before the appointed time.”’ . Lane County, Kansas, which has declared itself bankrupt, is named after Senator “Jim” Lane, the ‘red leg,’’ as his enemies called him. It was Senator Lane who eli- cited from President Lincoln the declara- tion that “in time of civil war every foul bird flies abroad and every dirty reptile raises its head!’ ‘ WOMEN OF NOTE. A woman living in Honolulu claims to be 124 years old, and the historical events that she remembers prove her to be at least 122. She is very deaf, but can see, though very indistinctly. | The Rev. Caroline J. Bartlett, pastor of the People’s Church of Kalamazoo, Mich., was married to a physician the other day. Miss Bartlett’s church ‘has no dogmatic creed, and among its members are Catho- lics, Protestants, Jews, Spiritualists, Chris- tian Scientists, Free Thinkers and Agnoés- tics. Arthur of general For ten years Mrs. Celia M. New York has been a successful shopping and commission agent, and this work, which she does: con amore, has brought her into close relations with so many women in town and out that she has now added to her former business a subscription room for ladies. “The Day of Sarah Bernhardt,’”’ recently held in Paris in honor of the great actress, was celebrated by hundreds of prominent Parisians. There was a luncheon served to 600 guests, to. which Mme. Bernhardt came on the arm of Sardou, und a great demonstration at her own theater, the Re- naissance, in the evening, at which poems in her honor were read by Francois Cop- pee, Catulle Mendes and others. It is announced in London that in her capacity as Governor of the Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice will next summer pub- licly unveil the memorial of the late Lord Tennyson, to be erected on the cliffs at larringford. It gives tthe inhabitants of the island great delight and satisfaction for the Princess tu appear in her official role. and furthermore she is, like the Queen, a passionate admirer of Tennyson's poetry, WIT AND HUMOR. The Wretch.—Mrs. Brown: Oh, de&r, I'm so tired. Woman's work is never Brown: I suppose you refer to that diary vou started to Keep. “Some folks means well,”” said Uncle Eben, ‘“‘but dey ain’ consistent. I, knows er lan'lord dat’ll wish yer ‘happy new year’ wif one bre’f an’ ax yer foh de rent money wif de nex’.”’~-Washington ®tar. done. A Useless Formality.—He had proposed, and after much hesitataion and a show of maidenly modesty, she had said, “You— you may ask papa.’”’ “Whaiis the use of that?’ he inquired. “He suggested the thing himself.”’ Mother: Johnny, when you take jam out of the pantry, do you know you are break- ing one of the commandments? Johnny: Well, teacher at Sunday-school said yes- terday that Moses broke them all one day on a hill, and he was good.—Pittsburg News. In Boston.—Mrs, Bunkerhill: Yes, all of our children have proved a blessing and comfort to us, except our eldest son. He is the black sheep of the family. Mrs. Bean: Why, you don't say? Mrs. Bunker- hill: Yes, he has always turned a deaf ear to all our pleadings and positively refused to wear glasses. FINANCIAL. | By reading the Post-Dispatch each , | Cabinet Improprieties. | From the New York Journal. From that stench administration organ, the New York Times, we cull two su stive paragraphs concerning the “probable, fu ture of President Cleveland's advisers.’ Of the Secretary cé the Interior we are told: “Secretary Francis, like Secretary Lamont, is first of all a business man. While he was earning at the rate of $8,000 a year in the Interior Department, his firm in 8t. Louis was one of the principal operators in wheat.” ~ : It is well enough for a Cabinet officer to be “first of all a business man,”’ but it is not unlikely that a quickening of the na- tional conscience—or perhaps the election in future of Presidents with a nicer sense cf the responibilities and proprieties of the Presidential position—may lead to a com- prehension of the impropriety of having a man ho is first of all a speculator in the Cabinet. : But cé& another outgoing Cabinet officer an evén more suggestive thing is said: “Secretary Herbert has no desire to ‘go back to Alabama. He-ts no longer in ac- cord with his former constituency. Rumor says he may become attorney for one of the numerous corporation interests, Eke Car- negie or Cramps, interested in navy con- tracts.’’ It can hardly be pleasant for the geng man who has been Secretary of the Nay during the period of the somewhat famous armor plate frauds, and by whose efforts a certain heavy penalty assessed against Andrew Carnegie by Congress was largely reduced, to hava this rumor given currency. The administration should pray to be de- livered from its friends, An Influential Ghost. From the Washington Post. “Away with the silver folly!’ shouts the Baltimore American anent “he proposition for an international conference on the ques- ton of coinage. The American describes this proposition as “a very pale and stale old political ghost,’’ and says it has been stalking around so long that one would think these winter nights ‘“‘might have laid it out flat.’’ Our Baltimore contemporary and other Republican papers that are talking in the Same reckless. way would do well to re- member two or three we'ghty facts. This “very pale and stale old ghost’’ had been stalking around for a good many years prior to the assembling of the St. Louis Convention which nominated Mr. McKinley. But i? was sufficiently robust to stalk into tha? convention and get itself into the Re- publican platform. It is there to-day in the shape of a solemn pledge to promote an in- ternational agreement as to a coinage ratio. The men who framed and adopted that platform did not say “away with the silver folly.”’ On the contrary, they called atten- tion to the large amount of silver that had already been put into the currency, prom- ised to keep it as good as gold, and then added a pledge * promote pbimetallism through an agreement with the leading nations, if possible. No party in this coun- try, saving and excepting the little contin- gent of 135,956 that voted for Palmer and Buckner stands on a gold platfarm. DIDN’T COUNT. Chollie: I suppose you are surprised to see me aftaw it was repawted that all on boawd were ijost? ‘ Jack: Not at all; the papers said that nothing was saved. \ Presidential Boys. From me Cinéinnatli Enquirer. The sons of several] ex-Presidents have been mentioned in connection with offices under President McKinley, and there has been some sneering on that account. Why? Have not these gentlemen rights in common with other citizens of the United States? Was it their fault that their fathers were Presidents? Must they always stand back on the ground that their families have had enough? No Flow Anywhere. From the Kansas City Star. Little Comptroller Eckels remarks acutely enough that capital will not flow to the South so long as ‘‘agitation’’ continues, but if he will point to any other place outside New York City, with or without “agita- tion,’’ whither capital is now flowing, it will be easy enough to raise a volunteer crew to go there and stem the flood, The Rights of College Graduates. From the Galveston News. e The Legislature of Alabama will probably pass, a law making it a capital offense for any male person to part his name in the middle or for any female to spell her name M-a-t-t-y-e, M-a-e or P-s-e-u-s-a-n-n-e, What cares the Legislature of Alabama for the inalienable rights of college graduates? Not a fig seed. The Appreciation of/Experience. From the Detroit Free Press. “Why do you think so much more of your father than you did before yeu were miar- ried?’ ‘Because I had never lived with eny other man wp to that time.’ 1897. From the Dyersburg (Tenr.) Herald. There are wonderful dawns in the silent eeps Of the. year that is just before us. Even now we can breathe the sweets they bring, Even now we can hear the skylarks sing, And the spray of their dew is o’er us. There are beautiful evenings of peace and prayer When the shadows are on the clover, When angels are keeping their vestal lights, And the fair star Jess'mine kisses} the night's Velvet cheek that is bending over. There are shadowy dawns in the silent eeps a3 Of the year that is just before us; A minor "earein through our glad heart sw Like @ quiv'ring sob of sad, sweet bells, And the epray of their tears is o'er us. To him who keeps watch where the lilies birds are grieving, content see fas es Young Society Women to Bones and Crack Jokes in Approved Style, Belleville has the histrionic fever. Ameteur theatricals have the right of way over busi. ness and ali other forms of pleasure. In che name of sweet charity all the dramatic taj. ent in the town is to be fanned into active l.fe. One minstrel show has been given, another is on the tapis, ,Damon and Pythias” wi have a second presentation and last and greatest, forty charming belies will rattle the bones, shake the tambourines, sing, dance, crack local jokes and wear burnt cork and sensational] costumes. Among the holiday festivities was the minstrel show of the Emerson minstrels. The performers were scions of the best families. Their performance was really clever ang the.audience which filled the opera house was highly entertained. The artists were Fred J. Paro, . Paro, Will McCullough, Sam Primm, Gus Koerner, Fred Merck, Fred Bartel, L..C. Bischof, L. ' T. Swancutt, Adolph Fuess, Jack Foster, Marshall Weir and Ittenson. The young men have since effected a per- manent organization and will invade the surrounding towns with a revamped gum , formance, Their first engagement will be t Lebanon. } The proceeds from the show went to the Ladies’ Relief Society fer the benefit of the poor. The ladies of this organization have now decided to give another minstrel show which they expect will make an even greater hit. The performers will be young ladies. It is thought that forty of them can be secured withcut exhausting the highest grade of local talent. Their names will under no considerations be divulged. Brilliant cos- tumes will be obtained from St. Louis, the songs will be of the newest,.and the jokes will be almost entirely on local subjects. The performance will take place at Tie- mann’s Opera-house on the evening of Washington's birthday. It will probably be followed by a b given by the young men of Company D, I. N. G. The prime movers in the affair are Mrs. Carrie Alexander, Mrs. C Needles and Miss Johanna Lorey. They had a confer- ence at the home of Mrs. Alexander Mon- day evening, prepared a list of the available i and mapped out the preliminary work. It is not known who will train the young ladies, but it is probable that some man schooled in the ways of minstrelsy will be engaged. : The Philharmonic Society is one of the largest and best amateur orchestral organ- izations in the West. It has upwards of fifty members and gives several concerts each season. It has recently purchased the Kindergarten property and become incor- porated. The other minstrel show will be under its auspices, The principal performers in the first part will be Fred J. Paro and Walter Rhein, first tenors; L. T. Swancutt and Adolph Fuess, second tenors; W, H. Clements, first bassg; George B. McC. Rogers and Frank Herr, second bassos. The end men will be Messrs. Rogers and Herr, Fred Pleischbein, Will Merker. Louis Cc. Bishoff. Will MeCulough, Gus Koerner’ and Sam Primm. Instead of the usual specialties the second art will consist of an instrumental concert y the Philharmonics. The date has not been fixed, but [ft will probably take place in about a month. The play of ‘“‘Damon and Pythias”’ will be produced at the Opera House on Jan. 28, un- der the auspices of the Knights of Pythias lodges. The leading part: will be assumed by Will McC gh, Walter Essler, Miss Maude B. Wangelin and Mrs. Al Baker and -the rest of the cast will be made up of com. petent people. This performance will benefit of the poor. HE FELT A LITTLE QUEER. After Eight Years as a Civil Juuge He Is Sorry for the Law- breaker. also be for the Judge James E. Withrow passed his first sentence on a criminal Tuesday. Having been eight years a Judge of the Circuit Court, with only civil cases before him, the sensation was a novel one. His emotions in depriving a fellow man of his liberty were somewhat different from those of one elevated direct from the bar to the Criminal] bench. Perhaps it was because it was Judge With- row’'s first sentence that the victim received the Hghtest punishment provided for his offense. He was Ferdinand Krome, charged with fraud. Since Judge Withrow was transferred to the Criminal division of the Circuit Court last Monday the attaches in court room No. 9 have been filled with awe of him because he has preserved a stern, unaproachable de- meanor, calculated to make every one trem- ble in his presence. The attaches may as well learn now as later that this is mot Judge Withrow’s nat- ural manner. but merely assumed in order to impress them with the fact that he de- mands strict attention to duty. They might have learned that from Krome’s experience. Here is the way Judge Withrow described the arraignment of Krome and what fol- lowed, including his own sensations over the first exper'ence in the criminal line. “The poor fellow was brought into court cying and stoo@ up before the bar. I’ve for- gdtten his name, but he seemed perfectly apeerenne. I asked him if jhe had any reason 0 advance why sentence should not be passed upon him. That is called the allo- cuthon. “He replied that he had nothing to say, ex- cept that he would like a light sentence, ag it was his first offense. “So I told him I would accept the recom- mendation of the Circuit Attorney and inflict the lowest possible punishment. Then wanted to know if I couldn't atlow him the time he had already passed in jail. I couldn't do that because the law says a sentence for a time jess than that‘proyvided for an of- fense is void and the man woukd have been released in short order on habeas corpus proceedings. So I gave him two years in the tiary.’’ did you fept‘in depriving him of liberty ?’’ ; ' ‘There are times’on the bench which wo call the ‘supreme moment.’ It presents itself in all cases, those,for divorce, in ha corpus proceedings \jand all others where all the isues having been heard both sides are sked if they are ready and the court has to decide for the one or the other. It is a mo- ment when backbone is required. I find the ordeal more severe in the criminal proced- ure than in any of the civil cases I have tried. My eensation when called ——_ pace sentence upon this man was p that of almest overpowering regret, ap- preaching perhaps a momentary shrinking from thé necessity of pronouncing sentence, Tt was the law and the law had to be car- fied owt. A judge cannot permit sentiment tv sway him, so the shrinking caused by the fat that for the first time I was called unon to perform the duty of course paseed off ‘mmediattely.”’ WOMEN IN THE SCHOOL BOARD. Will Hold a Mass Meeting to Further Their Prospects. j There will be a mass meeting of women at the Jefferson Club Friday afternoon to dis- cuss School Board reform. An effort will be made to éniist the SuP- port of the women of St. Louis in securing legislation which will give women @ voice in the management of the School Mrs. Minor Mertwether, who ts tly ) bene the members of the “We have extended a Mr. Bus to be present Mr. Bus s said tt “ s-« gent Whom the City Puts &¢ to Work. — of work after the May cyclone. The sentimental gert, * Various i the es objections were noon at the City tion and receive the ward committees. The members of the they had often against indiscriminate much because there was the unworthy, but because oft destHhute circumstances such a condition before, be the recipients of without renderin the community. There was an animated di resulted in a plan being evolved, — after the next: rrangementwhereb an. 15, every man of the society. on streets. The novelty of the manner of payment. called an to pay a cent, ceive checks on t k. They will be ase steets ief Society. It has not been decided what be paid, but they will be only Pres 0 weep the unemployed from actual e city has been fina employed and at the same time the city’s streets, the ladies have no that they wlll be able to secure e money to enable them to handle the sit easily. propriation for pwblic work, b exhausted. Besides there were tions raised as to its right to is not probable, therefore, that th ties would have done anything th Another meeting will be held ina days to perfect the plans. Men who purchase their own tools will p supplied and every arrangement facilitate the practical plan of relief. The Rellef ganization. In its member are members of all churches and many of leading society women of the city. he officers are: Mr President: Mrs. urer; Miss Marie Challenor, Sec DOERING’S ACCOUNTS. ——_-----— Them All Correct. over the books of Doering. This was in conformity with news of w Dispatch. Messrs. Brenner and Wehmeyer of = neg Mayor Rg and oering were present. Mr. third member of the committee, did pared with the Treasurer’s that the city had in no carelessness or neameence on Mr. Doering feels bitterly members of the Council who into publicity by accusing him gence. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. The Conductors Saw Mr. Doddr ‘ and Departed Reassured, Members of the Grievance | the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Sou! Division of the Order of Railway ia to secure They were in St. Low Pgs t rae es from Mr ory assuranc _Mr. their grievance would be attemted to. ANNOYS DR. NIETERT, itentiary. il Rte FO et ar reece a ww >2 » = x — Pees o La , ee 2% ate J ‘2 a ig A purpose of relieving the distress of the rt. ee Mr. Doering pentane the committee se s * att 4 & Li Es WORK ON THE STREETS. The Relief Society Will Pay the Indie The problem of relieving distress without " ng and converting into paupers ~ — the fecipients of charity, has been solved +7 in @ peculiarly happy manner by the ladies _ Belleville. , > There is a Ladies’ Relief Society in the : town Which has done noble work in past winters and took entire charge of the relief ladies composing it are, of course, 3 charitable, but their charity is not of the A recurrent theme of discussion has al- wees oa the p of giving deserved relief without ts rom the persons helped their selfed - ae been suggested, includ- t of ood but ea etnes ahiok thaem. an service was fraught with dasaer to de 3 and to It was decided to poosess the gf the Mayor and City Council and A an is able to work will be put te work on the et the ty will a The men wilt re Bank. d out of the a: on deposit to the credit of the Ladies’ 3 will as to want. — Last winter the City Council made an ap-~ utit was soon ve a 7 few pet to ociety is a non-sectarian or- included the s. Carrie Alexander, Richard Wangelin, Treas- retary. a’ és Belleville Council Committee Finds The Committee on Treasurer's Report « the Belleville City Council met Wednesday forenoon at the Belleville City Hall to go City Treasurer H. J. the actbon of the Councit Monday, exclual hich was printed in the Post: ear. . ae chers were gone over and com a wit Urer’s December re ~ ma ' * ¥ a y fi ® . ase : ” Lizzie Murray Will Probably Go te. (an x s a ‘ ie te ‘ = ; a “s.. b o¥ re left St. Louis. Tuesday night without fe — vealing the exact nature of their grievance, — ° Ae 5 pally ca edit. wet me RON I 0b Caleta EE eR 5 ~ pice BAS IM A gS uP SP ix —

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he ope, ‘ “ wiz * a CITY NEWS. Dr. E. ¢. Chase. Sixth and Locust. Set of teeth, $8 Nature’s Ideal Remedy | is undoubtedly iron,.manganese and peptone in their scientific combination t6 make pure blood, Diséase vanishes before “SILSBEE'S PEPTONIZED IRON AND MANGAN.” Doctors indorse and druggists sell it. LIVE STOCK INSPECTION. Over Thirty-Five Million Head Exam- ined in 1896. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—More than %.- 000,000 head of live stock, afterward killed for food, were inspected by Government o?- ficials during the last year. The number inspected before being transferred from one market to another was 12,641,000 additional during the same period. This makes the total for the year 35,917,000 head, an increase of more than 50 per cent over the previous year. In 1892 the number of head inspect- ed Was only 3,800,000 and in 1893 it was 4,885,000 DRAMATIC. TEST MADE IN OURT. TWO SHOTS FIRED TO PROVE A PRISONER’S INNOCENCE. CHICAGO POLICE REBUKED. How Attorney Wade Cleared His Client pf the Charge of Intent to Kill. 3 CHICAGO, Til.,. Jan, 6. — Judge Tuthbill’s Court in the Criminal Court building was the scene of as dramatic and thrilling an incident as ever graced the footboards of any theater. The attorney of a prisoner at the bar, before whom the gates of the peni- tentiary yawned, had staked the fate of his client on the explosion of two revolver cart- Tidges, and the test, which resulted in the man’s freedom, was conducted amidst breathless interest, not only on the part of the prisoner but also of the officials of the Court and spectators .whoe crowded the rooma Theré were other sensational features in the proceedings, not the least of which was the scoring by the police by Judge Tuthill for persecuting a man simply because he had been unfortunate enough to have Berved a term in the penitentiary. Edward Murray, alias Charles McGuire, ‘was before the court charged with assault with intent to kilL Late in October Murray was arrested, together with Michael Shev- lin, -but—so the police charged—only after a desperate struggle, during which he tried twice to shoot Policeman Walter Bullis. “He placed the gun against my stomach and pulled the trigger,” Bullis_ testified, “amd when it failed to go off he turned it agiainst my head and again pulled the trigger, but it did not go off.’’ Two cartridges with such indentations, it*was charged, as would have been pro- duced by the hammer of the revolver strik- ing against them, were then introduced in evidence, together, with other testimony go- ing to show that Murray was a thoroughly bad and dangerous man. Murray declared he had made no effort whatever to shoot Bullis. He was trying to throw the revolver away, he said, so as to escape the charge of carrying concealed weapons, He carried the pistol, he said, simply to protect his own life, as Inspector Shea had given orders to his men to kill him on sight. Then it was that Attorney Wade for the prisoner, declared with great emphasis that the two cartridges offered in evidence had never been struck by the hammer of a re- volver, as charged by the complaining wit- nesses. “Your Honor,” he said, “‘so certain am I of the truth of what I say, that I.am willing to stake the case of my client upon it. Let an officer of this court take his revolver and pull the trigger upon the two indented car- tridges, and if they fatl to explode the first time I will agree that my client shall go to the penitentiary and will utter no word of protest.’’ Judge Tuthill took a moment’ to consider the startling proposition, and then, evidently impressed with its fairness, ordered Court Baliff Latis to make the required test. Latis took the revolver to the window and exploded the cartridges without the least difficulty. In discharging Murray, Judge Tuthill an- imadverted rather severely upon the treat- ment of the defendant by the police. The Post-Dispatch Almanac for 1897 con- tains facts and figures attractively arranged and interestingly compiled; thirty-four Sree rowed especially to St. Louis, Price ARMOR PLATE-TOO HIGH, Says Secretary Herbert’s Report to Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—Secretary Herbert yesterday transmitted to Congress his report regarding the cost of armor plate. The present cost is $583 a ton, and Mr. Herbert's conclusion is that the cost of material and labor ts $198.70, and allowing for maintenance of plant, nickel and 50 per cent profit, the net cost to the Government is $00 per ton. He says that there js evi- dently, at least, a friendly agreement be- tween the companies making armor plate to maintain prices, eens OT --- NEW LIBEL AGAINST THE THREE FRIENDS FORESHADOWS IT. AT OLNEY’S INSTIGATION. -—~—- = Names Are Specifidd and the Vessel Is Referred To as an “Armed Cruiser.”’ NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—A special to the Herald from Jacksonville, FPla., says: It is likely that J. M. Barrs, attorney for the Three Friends, the Cuban fi!- Curtis, comand- engineer; Captain John O'Brien, the veteran filibuster, and J. A. Hua and Henry P. Fritot, agents of the Cuban Junta here, will be prosecuted by the (United States Government on a charge of piracy. Such a prosecution is libel which was filed Three Friends by United States District Attorney Frank Clark. The libel is based on the expedition which the Three Friends took from Fernandina on- Dec. 6, and which failing to land the fil#busters, marooned on “No Name Key,” near Key West. While trying to land the expedition, it is said, the Three Friends used two twelve- pound Hotchkiss guns against pursuing Spanish gunboats. It is charged that the men named mounted the guns and provided shells and shot therefor, for the purpose of waging war on the King of Spain. All through the document the Three Friends is referred to as an “armed cruls- er,”’ fitted out by the men named, for the purpose of making war on Spain, in the in- terest of the Cuban.insurgents. This is the first time names have been used im any libel filed against the Three Friends. The present libel also differs from previous ones in that the violation of no particular section of the United States re- vised statutes is specified. Attorneys here think the libel was drawn under Secretary Olney’s instructions, and assert that its terms foreshadow the prose- cution of the men named on a charge of piracy. That the Gevernment ‘will push the case is evident from the fact that five newspaper correspondents who have written much about the Three Friends have been sub- poenaed to appear before the United States Grand-jury to-morrow to tell what they know about the vessel's last trip. owners of the ibuster, Captain C. W. er: John Dunn, foreshadowed in a to-day against the CANOVAS MAY RETIRE. —— Flee Sagasta, the Liberal Leadey, Would Then Becgme Spain’s Premier. WASHINGTON, D. C., vate sources in Madrid the ~ Diplomatic Corps in Washington has learnedsof the strong probability that the Prime Minister, Canovas del Castillo, is about to retire, as public sentiment in Spain is becoming more and more dissatisfied with the present poli- cy of the Spanish Government’ toward Cuba, and there is a vapidly grawing de- mand for a change to the Liberal party. If this takes effect it means the early re- call of Weyler and Campos may be sent to take his place. , The change in policy, it is supposed, will make it easier to treat with Gomez and other Cuban leaders for the cessation of hostilities and the inauguration of legisla- tive reforms. Sagasta, the Liberal leader, has been in recent communication with the Queen. He has outlined the policy which the Liberals will adopt if called to take charge of the Government. That policy is one of conciliation looking to the restora- tion of peace and the granting of home rule in a sense broader than has been talked of by Canovas. Jan. 6.—From pvi- LONDON, Jan. 6.—The Daily News’ Paris correspondent says that rumors continue of an impending crisis in Spain. Senor Sagasta, in an interview, repeats his readiness to ac- cept office and to give’ generous reforms to the colonies, The correspondent says also that the Spanish Government has cabled to Capt. Weyler the charges published by the Im. parcial and other newspapers, and has asked him to make a strict inquiry as to maladministration of departments under his charge. MADRID, Jan. 6.—The Epocha publishes a forma) denial that the Government has any intention of superseding Gen. Weyler as Captain-General of Cuba. SPANIARDS DISAGREE. Weyler’s Order Forbidding Grinding Is Resented by Planters. NEW. YORK, Jan. 6.—~A Journal from Havana says: The Spanish authorities are © undecided Whether planters in the central sugar dis- tricts shall be permitted to grind or not. Though Weyler’s decrees forbidding work upon the estates have not been formally published, preparations begun upon several estates have been stopped by local mili- tary companies, acting under private in- structions. This has served to bring the Captain General into what threatens to be a serious clash with the Spanish element having personal Interests at stake, and led by the Marquis de Apeztequia, the War- wick of the local Spanish politics, President of the Conservative party of Cuba. As a result of certain cipher dispatches forwarded to Madrid via Key West by Apeztequia, Premier Canovas is understood to have privately advised Weyler to allow resident loyalists to make an effort to save the cane crop. -Ex-Minister of Justice Ro- mero Robledo, largely imterested in Cuban plantations, and a power:in Madrid,’ ts working against Weyler in the matter. A formal demand is soon to be made upon the Captain General, If he values the sup- port of Spanish residents of influence and the local Volunteer Corps, the planters will win. Otherwise Apeztequia will go to Spain by the first steamer and endeavor to in- fluence Weyler’s recall. Should the Captain General be sustained at Madrid, a powerful Spanish-Cuban party in favor of annexation to the United States surely will spring into existence, The idea already is ripe. Spanish property ‘holders in Madrid are,anxious that. the war should be brought to a speedy termination. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. special to the That Gomez Put co Death 145 Prisoners. : TAMPA, Fila., Jan. 6.—A letter received here from Cieba de Avila, Cuba, on the old trocha between the town of Jucarro and Moroon, says that,General Gomez attacked that place this week. Gen. Gomez first demanded that the Span- ish Commander surrender the town. He said that he would not, but would fight as iong as he had ammunition. The result of the fight was that the town was captured by Gomez, who took 145 prisoners. All of -these he killed. This was according to a mani- festo he issued, directed to Spanish authori- ties, a few days ago, saying that as t Spaniards had refused to agree to conduc a humane war, it was now an eye for an eys and a tooth for a tooth. AMERICAN CLAIMS. It Is Said It Will Be Ten Years Before They Are Considered. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 6.—"it will -be be years before the claims of American tigens arising out of the Cuban insurrec- _ — tion will be considered.” That is a state- ment of a member of the Spanish Legation, janfl undoubtedly represents the position of delay which the Government of Spain wil! occupy in the future as in the past. The Senate has asked for a list of the claims and the claimants from the Admin- istration. A list is being made up-at the State Department, but the impression pre- vails that it will not be sent in to the Sen- ate al present for various reasons: CAMERON RESOLUTION. It Was Not Taken Up at the Senate Committee Meeting. WASHINGTON,: Jan. 6.—In the absence of Senator Cameron, the Senate Committee oh Foreign Relaticns did mot také uv the Cuban question at its meeting to-day. When the committee adjourned the opinion was expressed by some of its members that the Cameron resoaluticn would not be pressed in the Senate. The committee agreed to favorable reports on extradition treaties with the Argentine Republic and the Orange Free State. BKelping the Mussulmans. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 6.—It appears that the Ambassadors of the Powers in ad- dition to considering the treatment of Christians in the Turkish Empire, are dis- cussing measures to amelioraie the position of the Mussulmans by improving the status of officials and assuring the regular payment of their salaries. This course is proving of excellent effect. ~ PAPERS STOLEN, — New and Scandalous Developments in the Failure of the National Bank of Illinois. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—New and startling com- plications are forthcoming as a result of the National Bank of Illinois failure. Col. W. V. Jacobs, who conceived the Calumet Elec- tric Railway, and was forced out of con- trol in 1893, is umable to push claims against the officers of the National Bank cf Illinols because all) papers and books relating to his connection with the Calumet Electric Railway have been stolen. According ‘to Col, Jacobs the crime was committed by one of his confidential clerks. against whom a charge is now pending in the United States Court. Claim is made that the theft of the papers in his pos* Fixtures 4 for Sale. was dispensed with and a track employe put to blowing the bugle for the races and finally purses were skinned down as small as the horsemen would svand. The sport of kings was in serious danger for a while and tottered on the verge of dis- solution. The Fair Grounds had a close call with every conditfon favorable. What it will do now under adverse conditions is a very deKvate and complicated question, The long delayed election of the officers of the Si. Louis Fair Association was held at the Jockey Club Wednesday afternoon. Cc. C. Maffitt refused to accept the Pres!- dency, the office he has held for many years, and L. M. Rumsey was chosen. The elec- tion of Mr. Rumsey is quite a surprise, as it was confidently expected that “‘Bob’’ Aull would be made President, The officers elected Wednesday were as f0l- lows: L. M. Rumsey, President; C. C. Maffett, First Vice-President; A. B. Ewing, Second Vice President; Charles Clark, Third Vice President: Rebert Aull, Secretary; W. M. Lockwood, Treasurer. GROGAN WAS FOOLED. His Fondness for Oysters and Fruit Cake Cause Him Trouble. Florence MeAuliffe, the plasterer and con- tractor who has a very decided fondness for horseflesh, was heard to tell a story on his friend, Pat Grogan, who trains C. C. Maf- fitt’s string of horses at the Kair Grounds. “Tt was New Year's day,? said Mr. Me- Auliffe, “and my wife had gone to call on Mrs. Neeland of West Morgan street, so I went out to see Pat Grogan. We fooled around and then I says to Pat, ‘Pat, do you know Mrs. Neeland, with the big house over on Morgan street?’ ‘1 do,’ says Pat. ‘Well, they do tell me,’ says I, ‘that that same lady does keep some fine stuff in her cellar which she is very free with to her friends.’ Pat he falls in with the plan, and off we goes to the widow lady’s house, where my wife was. The widow was ali smiles and compliments, which we gave back as good as we got. Nothing uld do the lady but we must si down and have some lunch. Grogan he was as polite as a basket of chips and a bit hungry. The lady brought up a big dish of oysters on the shell and a big piece of fruit cake which she said cost her $10 the pound, We sat up and Grogan takes his fork, afler putting nlenty of salt and pepper and lemon on the oysters, and tries to pick up one of the oysters. It was hard as a rock, being made of stone, or some such contrivance as that. He tries two or three times and gives it up, but never lets on at all. Then he goes for the fruit cake, which is likewlse a piece of rock. He pushes it half across the table trying to stick his fork into it. By this time the ladies were pretty near dead for trying not to laugh, and Grogan was getting mad, so We had a bottle of the real stuff to cool off on. It nin’t safe to talk with Grogan about oysters and fruit cake.” NEW GAME LAWS. A Big Meeting Last Night to Straighten Matters Out. A set of resolutions concerning new game and fish laws was drawn up last night at a meeting of St. Lou!s sportsmen at the La- clede Hotel. AiQll the hunting and fishing clubs here had representatives at the meet- ing. The situation was thoroughly discussed and canvassed. It was the general opin- ion that a new law should be passed by vhe Legislature which should establish more firmly the office of game warden and, at the same time, provide funds for the carry- ing out of his official duties. The best method of: raising money was thought to be the license system ynder which all sportsmen should pay at least $1 a year for the privilege of hunting or fish- ing. The farmers, it was agreed, should be exempted from the license, Resolutions were finally drawn and adopt- ed, and will be sent to all members of the Legislature and the State officials, The sub- stance of the resolutions was as follows: The work of the Fish Commissioner was indorsed and two new hatcheries recom- mended. [t was suggested that the duties of game warden be made part of the official duties of the Fish Commissioner. That the warden and deputies %e paid out of a fund to be accumulated by a license of $1 a year and all hunters for market to $4 a year except farmers, who should be ex- ermpt. The gentlemen present all agreed to use their influence to have a bill passed on the lines suggested. Comiskey Was Caught. Charley Comiskey, Who was so long iJen- tified with the Browns, and who is how owner .of the St. Paul team, was caught in the bank failures which have been sweeping over the Northwest. He had $8,000 in one of the banks which went down and gees no hope of ever getting it back. Co- miskey has prospered since he left St. Louis and owns real estate in Chicago. He has been running a big skating rink in St. Paul ‘for the paet month. He says his ball. playing days are over and he now is out for the job of magnate. Elected Officers. The election of officers of the Central Rowing Club was held at the last regular meeting and the following officers were elected for the year 1897: Louis Herman, President: J. H. Forthman, Vice-President; lL. Guenther, Recording Secretary: D. Stahele, Financial ts ae hh J. H. Brick- enkamp, Treasurer; N. Wallace, Cap- tain; Fox, H. Petschonek, Lieutenant: C. E. C. Hilsman and D. C. Herman, Trustees; L. Herman, J. H. Forthman and D. C. Her- man, delegates to the Southwestern Rowing Association. | South Side Coursing Resumes. The South Side Coursing Club will re- sume its usual weekly meets next Sunday on their course at the South Side track. The nominations made for the even: - poned on account of the weather last Sun- Gey will stand. . Arthur Massey wiil officiate as judge and Ben O'Keefe, Jr.. as slipper. A large crowd is expected to be present. Homing Pigeon Club. The firat meeting of the season In connec. + tion with the Mound C.ty Homi Pigeon held at isto uchidy avenue Club will be Thureday evening, Jan. i, when errange- GO00-BY TO ST. Lou ‘e are going to leave for good on February First. sold at once. Prices are down to nothing. - Clothing, Cloaks, Jackets, Capes, Waists, Silk Skirts, Millinery, Hats, Furnishings Shoes, Gloves, China, Lamps, Gas Fixtures, Etc. Anything and everything at less than its manufacturers’ cost. It isa seething maelstrom of value in a whirlwind of panie-strieken prices. Goods scattered to the four winds—any price, every price. Come and see for yourself. This sale is a hummer withont compare. Hurry! These values are melting like snowballs under a tropical sun. ON MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA AAA MAMA AT SISSSISSISISISS | _ — U D S a ——w ta . ————— ’ ee AMUSEMENTS. __ ” Skates GET GOOD ONES ON. We have — every good kind and sell them for less money than most stores, Skates for Boys, as low as...... ...45¢ Skates for Men, as low as ..........75c Skates fer Ladies, as low as Skate Sharpeners... ... 25c Heel Plates Sc 20) 4 N. 6th YNSON : COMPANY.” St. ) East side, between Olive and Pine. FLESH fy (i) () — GROWER. | The Only Flesh Feeder known, speedily increasing the flesh on any part of the body, developiug the BUST to any size desired. Prevents aad re- moves Wrinkles, Heads, & Flesb Worms, etc. Price, $2 per * bottle, three bottles, $5. Parties calling at office will be given free treatment. Mall orders _ prompt attention. d- ress, with m order. CURES AND PREVENTS. ’ Colds, Coughs, Sore throat, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Swel of the Joints, ATISM tions, P RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, FROSTBITES, CHILBLAINS, HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, ASTHMA, FicULT BREATHING. CURES THE WORST PAINS ta from ove te twenty minutes. NOT ONE HOUR after reading inte Aovertennmnaee peed auyoue SUFFER WIT OF A half to a teaspoonful In half 2 tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure Cramps, speeme, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness, 8 neprenanents Sick Headache, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colic, Flata- leucy and all internal pains. There is not a remedial agent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and all other Malarious, Bilions and other fevers, aided by RADWAY'S PILLS, so quickly as RADWAY'S READY RE- LIEF. 50cts per Bottle. Soild by Druaegists. RADWAY & CO., 55 Elm st... New York. —-—_— ee et A lay STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING. — _ STANDARD |“"Whdhiis. : Matinees every day — Sundays Hol- idays. 10c, 15e and Qe. ww HARRY MORR 20th CENTURY MAIDS. Next Week—Boston Howard Athenaeum Co. THE HAGA Performances Geo Evans, Hartiett & May, Join W. World, Prince Kokin, La Porte Sisters, And 10 others. NOTE—Parquet Reserved, 560c. _| a > CENTURY —Winth and Ole, MUSICAL SUCCESS OF SEASON, THE GEISHAIL Original Company and Production. Next Sunday—DE WOLF HOPPER. HOPKINS Si . Always Clean, New and Stuck Co. In the t Naval Play rg guows | se aa Pi 2’ hee . p nk. tra Bros., 4 a 20 39e und ten others. . theater in the city where you ean reserve the beset seat for 25c at the Tuwes- day. Thursday aud Sat- urday Matinees, Next Sunday Matinee—“SIBERIA.” OLYMPIC. _ MISS GEORGIA CAYVAN: © Te-Night and Thursday, SQUIRE KATSG. Friday Night and Sat. Mat.. Double Riil, “GOBLIN CASTLE” and “Little Individual. Saturday Night. “VANITY FAIR." sunbay,} LD HOMESTEAD, SUNDAY, JAN. 10 _ ARCHIE BOYD as JOSUUA-~ WHITCOMR. Fourteenth Street T nae HOY T’s A TEMPERANCE TOWN. | Richards, Caofeld and Original rs a. Regular Prices-—25e, Soe. jbe, $1. 5 NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING—Notice is hereby given that the anwmal meeting of the stockholders of the Pulitzer Publish! to. will be held at the office of the company, No. 515 Olive ar., in the City of St. Louis, Mo., on Monday, Jan. 15, 1897, convening at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors and for the trarsaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. WM. L. DAVIS, President. Db. W. WOODS, Secretary. St. Louis, Janu. 2, 1897. + ee ee OFFICE of N. O. Nelson Mfg. Co., Sth and St. 7] Charles sis., St. Louls, Mo., Dee. 30th, 1896.—The atihual meeting ef the stockholdere of N. O. Nel- son Mfg. Co., for election of three directors for the ensting year and the transaction of such other busi-* ness as may come before it. will be held at the office of the company on Monday, January lith, 1887. at the houwr of § a. m. Polls for the election of directors will be open from # a. m. till 1 p. m. N. O. NELSON, President. lL. D. LAWNIN, Secretary. _ ——— OFFICE Shultz Belting Company, corner Biamarck and Barton sts.. St. Lonis, Dec. 20th, 1586—The annual meeting of the steckholders of this com- pany. for the election of five ©) directors, to serve for the ensuing year, will be held at the office of the company, on Tuesday, January 12, 1897. Polls open from 8 a. m. until 2 p. m. INO. A. J. SHULTZ, President. B. C. ALVORD, Secretary. THE annual of meeting of the stockholders of the Drammond Tobacco Company, for the purpose of electing a new Board of Directors to serve da the ensuing vear, and for the transaction of suc other business as may properly come before the meeting, will be held at the office: of the com- pany, Fourth and Spruce sts., St. Lonwis, Mo., Mon- day, Jan. 11th, 1897. Polls open from 9 o'clock a. m. to 3 p. m. CLARENCE JONES, Secretary. Dee. 26. 1896 THE annual meeting of the stockboldera of the &. i. Grote Paint Store Companys. for the elect of three (3) directors to serve during the enpseu year, and for the transaction of such other buel- ness a8 may properly come before the meeting, wll be held at the office of the company, 519 and St. Charles «treet, St. Louis, Me., om the lith day of January, 1807, at S p. m. s. EK. GROTR, President. Attest: M. L. ELDRIDGE, Secretary. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 2. 1897, —— NATIONAL BANK OF THE REPUBLIC of St. Louls, Dee. 12th, 1896.—E ‘TION WN CF: The regula’ ennaal election for e ots the National Bank ef the Republic of St. Lonis. to serve duting the ensuing year, will ld ay, Janvary 12th, In the banking room, No. 214 North 4th st. Polls wr from 10 a. m. until 12 e’clock ‘oon. W. H. GRAHAM, Cashier. ee Oe ie Haan! a ae ai son ~~ ments for the spring races will be made, Those interested In homing are expe sted to Ten-Mile Skate. , dan. 6—A 10 mile seratch between Joe Donohue’ an own as the “Terrible ede” the ice skating palace ijast nigtt. won easly .w.th six iaps to spare. Time 3 minutes. a aoe e - we ~ POSS new - -CASTORIA | (148 TEETH SAVED 0,00? Patatose WeEstract Teeth re Wiha Pat D from 10 to 12 and 4toS Oitetion to the gums cian be us Tntt January 6 we wil oe “ua ’ PULLapT OF TRETH for... Gold Crowns, 2k. Pereriiirttt tt Parlors, 720 0 ttendaste. Lady att offices ta the ted @ P. M., . 3. A A A Mm - a = : “ . r Hor pares ao i SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Reopens [bay Oe ee ee wer d . eye o or $ ¥ 17 Everything must be- <q “New County Pair. - - ae a3 ‘3 Bases Re eee Cae 2s vy ene Te a : : , se : Fe g ar re o v ra . 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A Bh : utah ’ wf. 5 WYO — sam PRR Seg. ac) ae , C eee e a a gt 5 EL MN rk ‘ a ; ae ‘ ae - 4 ; Si ee ! yp os ie 5 ans : wre * . ~~ ns 7 “ . Milena a i ; e ‘ ao =e $ ~ 4 : , : : > - 70 oo “i % : - - . "y P « . * : * x r. 2 z Ps pew >» ; > . ts ees ie sm “ : he + od, Site “a . ie a. 7 ry Ae « ee a ‘ ie ‘ dit . Toni | | ine = EMPLOYMENT GROUPING. “TULL Of als el iw BISIRESS? NIRA ARE THOSE WHO ADVERTISE IN P.~D. WANTS. *‘SNAP SHOT”’ taken yesterday on Broad- way. shows one of St. Louis’ most prominent _ real estate agents on his way to close a big deal effected through the Real Estate Columns in P.-D. WANTS. Any Drug Store in St. Louts is authorized to receive Advertisements and Subscriptions for the Post-Dispatch. The Post-Dispatch has Three Special Telephones exclusively for handling this business. ——————— SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE 20 words or less, 5c. BARKEEPER—Wants position; 9 years’ expert- aoe Al refs.; first class mixer; city or country. _ Harry Martin, 2827 Olive st. BOOK KEEPER-—Situation ppg as acekteeoer : clerical work in any capacity, collector o - - office. map here or elsewhere. Add. H 248, this ice ! BOOKKEEPER—Wanted, position by grains ge A man, 25 years of 246, this office. — BOY—Of 18 would like to learn plumber trade; 2 B00'N experience in tinner trade. C. Wollberg, N. 9th st. experienced bookkeeper; 7° “4 _ age; salary moderate. BOOKKEEPER— Wanted, permanent situation; teacher, bookkeeper, business correspondent, bil or entry clerk; rapid, graceful — phonetic shorthand classes. 814 N. 23d st. BOOKKEEPER—Position as bookkeeper, assistant or cashier wanted; 10 years’ experience; thor- oughly aeeiet: ‘bond in any amount desired. hd. M M 255, this office. OOACHMAN—Situation by in man to bo housework or as coachman; references. H. _ 8832 Washington av. DRIVER—Situation wanted by young man as ex- rienced driver; well acquainted in city; or as Riper in grocery; one year's eee. Ad. T 249, this office. DRIVER—Work wanted by married man as driver; sober and steady; will work for reasonable wages. S$ 249, this office. RUG CLERK—Wishes situation; over 12 years’ Ca rience; Ph. G. and re stered in Missouri; A l reference from last employer; salary moderate. Ad. G 260, this office. DRY GOODS MAN—Situation by a No. 1 dry goods man; 12 years’ experience; best of city Bed rences; can trim windows and em an expert salesman. . M 250, this office. eee honest, reliable man wants position; jack of ali trades. J. G., 1617 S. 7th st. MAN—Wanted, steady situation on farm by married man, with furniture for housekeeping; experienced and reliable. Room 5, rear 2112 Franklin av. MANAGER—Wanted, position as manager for hotel, clubhouse or bachelor’ 6 apartments; 30 years’ ex- perience. Ad. H 247, thi is office. MAN—AIll- yee man = factory or store; can do ewe Foe t comes to hand; will work cheap; t of references. Add. 8 243 this office. MAN—Situation wanted by young man of 20; not afraid of work. Ad. T 250, this office. a AN—Situation wanted by reliable German; un- derstands care of horses and housework; best ref- erences. Frank, Wellston, Mo. MAN—Educated family man of 50 desires position as manager branch store or office, correspondent, collector's agent. N. Colebrook, 2213 Ran- dolph st. ‘ MAN—Wanted, by competent man with 3 hours and evenings, any kind of office work. Ad. N 248, this office. , MAN—Wants situation caring for horses, vehicles, COWS, dens, furnaces, etc.; positive city refer- _ ences; e the object. Ad. L 248, this office. ——— = ee ee MAN AND WIFE—Desire situations of any kind; wife a No. 1 cook, wan understands care of horses; reference; city or country. Ad. D 25v, this office. MAN—Wanted, situation by strong man of 19; willing to work; handy with tools; will work cheap. Ad. W 249, this office. PAPERHANGER—Wanted, aperhanging to do; _ ‘will work cheap. Chas. ce, 3711% N. 25th st. PENMAN—Wanted, envelopes. circulars and bill- rae address. by good penman. Ad. P 250, this PORTER—Situation wanted by a young colored man as porter or dining-room and houseman. 2955 _ Atlantic pl. OUNG MAN—Wanted, by young man, gg Per can give best of references. | 35 wthis office. o OUNG MAN—Wants situation in saies he a private family; good references. Ad. E 236, this office. Se ROUNG MAN—Wanted, position by young man of a situation Ad. T 5 18 tu drug store; 4 years’ experience: can give Ad. P 248, this office. UP—Suits and overcoats to order. ritz Tailoring ©o., 8th and Olive. a eh to order. 219 N. _No. 1 $10.0 $2.5 references. Mes- Mesritz Tailoring 8th, cor. Olive, 2d floor. mone = ~ te ammamehnaiaesen HELP WANTED—MALE. 14 words or less, 10c. Bor WANTED—Boy 18 to 16 years of age: must have at least a grammar school education. Ad. 8 248, this office. BRING your own goods and we will cut, trim and make men’s or s’ suite, trousers and over coats at lowest prices; first-class fit and work- manship by experienced tailor. Room 217, Mer- Eeeranene Building, cormer Locust and Broad- ay. ®BAND-SAWYER WANTED—A and planer hand, Linstroth Ohouteau a * agon Co., 2622 Mt agp cae D—Baker, meat and vegetable cook, for hotel; pantryman, waiter. Standard Employ- - ment Co, 919 Olive st. Piprescription VANTED German speaking, good Illinois; able i | Bring registration paper Pekin melt af a week, Write DISHW WAN TED —Colored ? washer. 1015 Washington wey te Cb FREE treatment for all private, blood and rectal diseases. General Dispensary, 1408 Franklin av. aduates ee baer ae “Ie Ie DEMAND for our 8 weeks to complete t outde of of mign-Greee tools —_— f “erase ogue. oler’s B College, ia and Franklin ay. _— MAN WANTED—To make fires in _exchange for ashington a room. Call at 1208 Wash MAN WANTED—Experienced liquor man; salary wanted. Ad. F 250, this office. re men WANTED—10. men, 15 teams (large beds), ma pg, Main and Walnut sts. M. WANTED-—2 men collect and ‘write for al tion. ‘Sal 4 - organiza 1 at 110 N. 8th tt., ey at 2328 earned good al st., ft. ey a PRIVATE LESSONS. fil in votes; $0 8 tackth bmetic, etc. ; & month. WE. Miartsock, B89 Olive - y—~ WANTED—2 erie ale to sell hominy to families. SS se trade; something new; required. See Beene = ‘HAYWARD’S SHORT- Bett Shoes "Belting By 0 oat Pte ie STOVE REPAIRS. x See ad oc * ood band-sawyer s SITUATIONS WANTED—FEMALE. 20 words or less, 5c. BOOKKEEPER-—Situation by a young lddy as a bookkeeper and typewriter; 7 years’ experience; good references; wages reasonable. Ad. K 250, this office. COOK—Wanted, 2307 Morgan st. COOK—Situation wanted by a first-class colored cook; references: willing to assist. with washing. 209 N. 14th st. COOK—Wanted, situation by A _ No. cook, can give first-class city references. ] 234, ‘this office. situation as cook; first class. 1 colored Ad. H COOK—Situation by colored girl as cook in private family. Ad. 2955 Atlantic pl. COOK—Wanted, situation by good cook; city refs. Call at 815 N. 2ist st. COOK—Situation wanted by good cook for general housework; small family. 3915 Evans av. COOK—Neat colored woman wants work of any kind; is first-class cook; private family or restau- rant; I am very much in need; city reference. Ad. R 249, this office. CCOK—Wanted situation by a respectable, settled woman; goed cook; general work: good family, city or cowhtry; no postals answered. 2122 Frank- lin avy., rear door. CASHIER—Wanted Fo mabe by young lady as bill clerk or cashier; thoroughly experienced in office work. Ad. H 249, this office. COOK—Situation wanted by a first-class codék and a room girl; best of references. 1621 Mor- gan st. COOK—A young lady from country wants work in good family; can cook. wash and iron and do family sewing. Call. Miss Y., 1424 Washington av. COOK-—Situation by a colored woman as first- class cook, and a girl 16 to nurse and do li¢ht house work. Call at 1408 Morgan st. coOoK— Wanted, situation by a neat colored girl to cook in small family, or general housework. 2717 Wash st. HOUSEGIRL—W anted, situation as housegirl; man; good refs. _1209 S. Mason st. Ger- _—_—— -— --—-.- - —_ HOU SEGIRL—W ented. situation for general house- work. 1230 Grattan st. HOUSEWORK—Wanted situation for genefal house- work or to go out and do laundry work; best refs. 3007 Olive st. HOU. SEGIRL-~ Situation wanted by a German girl in small family where can go home at night. _ 1921 rl Franklin ay. HOU 'SEWORK—W anted situation by girl 13 years old to assist in housework. 4448 Easton ay. ~~ ee en ———— —— ——s HOU SEWORK- Situation by a ‘colored girl to do general housework in small family. 109 Rankin av. HOUSEG IRL—W anted ‘situation as colored girl in respectable family. 3508 Bernard st. HOUSEWORK- do housework ; HOU SEC HIRL—Situation _ bousegirl. K 249, HOUSEWORK -—Situation by woman with ‘small child at housework, no washing, in a refined fam- ~ Ad. A. C., 1208 Gross av., E ll. HOU SEWORK-— Situation wanted “by first- class: cal. ored girl at house or dining-room work. 821 N. _ Compton av. HOU SEKEEPER—Wanted, situation as housekeep- er by refined young widow with little girl for widower or bachelor. Ad. F 246, this office. HOUSEGIRL—Wanted, situation to do housework and ‘sewing. 1429 N. 10th st. HOU SEG IRL— general housework or housework. st., Mary Thurmon. housegirl by Call or write wanted by girl to 2567 Benton st. -~Situation no washing. wanted by experienced this offic e. ast St. Louis, A German girl wishes a place ‘te de 3308 Rutger LAUNDRESS-— Wants ironer, gstarcher or finisher. office. LAUNDRESS_ Ww anted, work by laundress ‘Thurs- days and Fridays, either at home or out. 821 Room 18. situation: first-class shirt Ad. CC 250, this Market st., ee ee es ——— = LAUNDRESS- First- cleos ‘Spnnirons wants 2 days a week. Call or ad. 2645 Pine st. LAU NDRESS- W hite laundress ‘wants rough- dried clothes to take home; guarantee satisfaction: 4324 North Market st. LAUNDRE SS _F ‘irst-class laundress wauts washing to take home or go out. 4327 Cottage. 3 — ——- LADY'S MAID—Situation wanted by a neat young Danish girl as lady's maid and seamstress with a lady who travels in summer preferred. Ad. Miss Eckberg, Gilmore aud Florissant, Walnut Lark. LAUNDRESS—Wanted, ~"Soentin Laouaunas: scrubbing or housework by the day. Oall or address 1921 Division st., first floor. LAU NDRES S—Gents’ washing. _ ing neatly done. 281% N. ‘froning and mend- 14th ‘st. ee ee ne ee es NU RSE —Ww anted, a position as nurse for children or companion for lady. Call at 3106 Lucas ay. SFAMSTRESS—Wanted, work in families or with dressmaker by a thoroughly experienced person. Ad. Dressinaker, “034 Loc ust Bt. SPWING _W anted, situation to ae light ‘work and plain sewing. te 512 Cc le veland. SEAMSTRESS- ompetent seamstress ‘wishes se Ww- ing, or children’s clothing, or plain sewing by the day or week; reasonable. 3937 Finney av. STENOGRAPHE R—W ranted, situation as atenog- rapher by young lady qualified to take eee posi- tion; $5 per week. Ad. N 242, this office STENOGRAPHER— —Young lady stenographer desires _ any kind of office work. Ad. S 233, this office. SEAMSTRBSS—Situation by widow with 6 months old child as housekeeper or seamstress. Mrs. Reynolds, 29838 Cass av. STRNOGRAPHER--Lady stenographer, sateen | omer x _ tga desires permanent posi- ; references from sent employer. Ad. K 245, this office. te wife 6 Oe ee YOUNG ton tae writi . $s oe riting of any kind. Ad. STOVE REPAIRS. Repairs for stoves and Ria = every descrip- oretin a te Me ey pe a ee HELP WANT TED—FEMALE. 14 words or less, 10c. COOK WANTED-—A girl to cook, wash and “fron. _ Apply after 6 o clock, 3708 Pine st. coos AND HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Two girls, 1 cook, the other for upstairs work assist with children. Apply 513 8. Ewing av. | | CQoK WANTED—For a family of three, 4201 ashington ay OO eee SEED — Experienced; private a town; references ired. Mre. A. Morris, Lebanon, i. eens HELP WANTED—FEMALE. 14 words or Jess, 10¢. | DISHWASHER WANTED—One who can home _ nights. 2628 Washington av. - FITTERS WANTED—Experienced fitters on wom- en's shoes; steady work. Ad. S 246, this office. —_—- —— — ANTED—To learn starching. 1503 Frank- v GIRLS WANTED—Laundresses ehambermaids, cooks, waitresses; all to leave city; general girls. _ Standard Employment Co., 919 Olive st. GIRL WANTED—Good girl; _at nights. 8437 Lucas av. HOU SEGIRL WANTED— Experienced girl for gen- eral housework; no washing; German preferred. _ 3981 Delmar ay. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—A good girl for general __ housework at 5931 Horton pl. one who can go home Hou SEKE EPER WA NTED--An elderly woman for i eeper for a young couple. No. 1504 Frank- HOUSEGIRE WANTED—A ‘girl to wash and assist th housework. 1309 Washington av. HOUSEGIRI, WANTED_—Girl shd—ty rl aie mn tll at | 8758 Page a i ——— for r general house- av. A good girl for general out washing. 3815 Page. HOUSEG IRL colored _Birl $e ee EE ED WANTED—Elderly_ woman or small rl for light housework. 4139 Lucky st. HOUSEGIRL WANTED. Gin) ft —G or general house- Mc yan family, good wages. Apply at 3419 a ge een £ HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Gin] work. 4202 Page a av. D—Girl for general house- HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Good co! colored girl for gen- eral housework; must have cates ge referencés. 2331 Eu- HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Girl for general pn come prepared to stay, 40c as. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Girl for omer : work; small family. 1418 Peamate at. al house HOUSEGIRL WANTED—White girl to assist with general housework; small wages. 2634 Pine st. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—For general housework: small family. 1018 N. Cardinal. HOU SEGIRL WANTED—Good German girl to as- sist with general housework. Call at 1911 Belt. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—To assist with washing and ironing; refs. required. 8517 Morgan st. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Colored girl for general housework. 5120 Minerva av. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Young girl, German pre- ferred, for general housework; flat; small family. Call at once, 6033A Horton pl. Suburban car. HOU SEMAID WANTED—First-class ‘housemaid, with references. Apply before 11 o'clock Thurs- _ day at 3640 Pine st. HOU SEGIRL W ANTED—A girl for general house- work near Clayton. Apply 1602 Euclid. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Girl to do Sumromees house- work. 5014 Raymond ay. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Good, capable girl for peseres housework; references; good wages. 4309 cRee av. LAU NDRESS WANTED—A good woman to take washing and ironing home. Call at 4163 Olive. LADIES WANTED—20 ladies for home employ- _ ment. 2734 Olive st. MAC HINE GIRLS WANTED—Experienced, on shop coats. 1442 N, 15th st. NURSEGIRL WANTED—Young nursegirl. Apply at 4445 Laclede av. house- at once. 3038 OPERATORS WANTED—E€Expertenced operators on power machines to make ladies’. shirt waists. Apply Piemier Shirt Waist Factory, A. Neu- ville, 7th and Market sts. RAPHIEL, 'the great medium, finds you work; brings good luck; he tells everything. Fee 25c; short time. 2328 Olive st. W AITRESS WANTED—Experienced arm waitress for dinner work; short hours; good pay. 621 Le- cust et. WAITRESS WANTED—Neat ‘and spas sree a res- taurant. Call at 117 N. 8th st YOUNG WOMAN WANTED—Of good address, well acquainted jn city, for special work; good salary; ; steady employment if satisfactory; bring refs. A. Rodrigue, Manager, 712 Commercial Building. Ww ASHWOMAN - WANTED— To ‘wash ° for private _ family. Call at 729 Ww alton ay. WOM. AN W ANT ED- For general housework: small Wazes. 1131 N. menpton ay. —_— ~— ee ee ~ AGENTS WANTED. 14 words or less 20 cents, AGENTS WANTED—Agents everywhere for Wil- liam Jennings Bryan’s book, ‘‘The First Battle.’’ AG. J.. Hi. Chambers & Co., St. Louis, Mo. ORGANIZERS: WANTED—First~« class lodge organ- izers. Ad. M : 234, this office. WORKE RS w ANTED-— A few hive. energetic work- ers at onece; good salary to right parties. 2407 N. Broadway, 2d_fioor. PARTNERS WANTED. + 14 words or less 20c. PARTNER—Wanted, with small eee to in- vest in a (first-class saloon. Ad. 249, this office. — em a ee PARTNER WANTED—Partner im a profitable busi- ness. Eddy, 3v05 W. Belle pl. a aan ee oe Lost AND FOUND. 10c, 14 words or less, Lost. BOA—Lost, a boa of black ostrich feathers at Synagogue, Leffiugwell av. and Pine st., during wedding Jan. 5. Return to S72 Cates av. and receive reward. on Sunday, Return Taken from 07 Morgan st. a set of books and coal tickets. reward; -no questions asked. BOOKS Jan. 3, and. ge t Tuesday evening, book from Mercan- tile Library, and laprobe, bine on one side and checked op other, between Ohio and Washington, on Graad, and east on Washington to Vandeven- ter Li ave at Keys & Watkins’ livery stable. BK MOK ry CAR pe ASE Lost, leather folding cardease con- taining about $90 in $10 notes. Return to Harry Mathert, care of Planters’ Hotel; a LUberal re- ward. DOG—Lest, brown and white shepherd dog. Re- ward for information or return to 4266 Morgan. DOG—Lost, large St. Bernard dog; smooth coated. Liberal reward on return to 4321 Evans ay. — ee —_ = — + = -_---- _—_— + — | DOG— Lost, black and white pointer bitch; name on coller, liberal reward. A. T., 3412 Park av. DOG—Stolen, from 609 N, 23d at. water spaniel; answers to name Prince. and get reward; no questions asked. ee small brown Return FOX HOU ‘NDS—Lost, fn pair of ‘black and tan Eng- lish fox hounds; had on new collars. Finder please return to 1608 Park av. and receive reward. LAPROBE—Lost, laprobe. Return to 113 N. 12th _ st. and get reward. “Found. DOG—F ored all over, exce brceat and feck Call at 1530 Morgan st. BUSINESS CHANCES. 14 words or less, 20c. 1 share, paid up, West End Ad. C 236, this —_—_—_- SHARE— For sale, wi eatannent Co.; will discount. office. ———— BUSINESS WANTED. 14 words or less, 20c. COLLECTOR — ~—Man of 40 years owns horse and buggy. has smal) capital, would like a place as collector or to advertise a reliable business house; can take agency; no objection to leav- ing city. Address N. 1I., care East St. Louis ost-o NOTICEK—Ift you wish to acll your ‘business for cash call and give us particulars of it and we will seil it; now is the time to sell. WARDLOW & CO., 110 N _ oth ® BUSINESS FOR SALE. 14 words or less 20 ¢ cents. GROCERY STORE—For sale, ~~? doing nics « sh business; . WARDLO' & co., 110 N. Oth. store, ary 8, 1897, ~ | FOR RENT ROOMS, ETC. 14 words or less. B0¢. ROOMS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. ae et ts ‘513 S$.—Nice, clean — rooms, $1.25, $1.50 per week, with evening BROADWAY, 1 1546 N.—Furnished rooms for light housekeeping, $1.50 per week and up; ballroom, a CAROLINE ST., 2651—Neatly fursished rooms; all _ conveniences ; for light housekeeping; rent cheap, CARR ST., 1909—Furnished rooms for light house- keeping or roomers, $1.25 per week and up. COMPTON AYV., 1106 N.—For rent, nice large front room, suitable for two or three gents. — AV., 2200—Furnished rooms, suitable for or 2; ist floor; all conveniences. DICKSON ST., 2954—2 nicely furnished 2d-story rooms; gas and fire; for light housekeeping; suitable for couple. ” DAYTON ST., 3d-floor front; 2818A—Large unfurnished 2d and southern exposure. DAYTON ST., 28241%4—2 or 3 rooms, furnished or unfurnished, with or without board. EASTON AV. , 4523— “Widow desires tenants for _ neatly furnished front | room. EAS’ STON AYV., back rooms; FAIRFAX . AV", 4143—1 or | 2 ur unfurnished rooms. a ee FRANKLIN AV., 1216, 24 floor—Neatly furnished front room for rent. er FINNEY AV., 3686—Nicely furnished rooms; gas and fire; reasonable. FRANKLIN AV., 2839—Nicely furnished front rooms; southern exposure; gents or light house- keeping. FRANKLIN AYV., housekeeping, 2; 2d floor; stoves. FRANKLIN AV., 1021—Furnished rooms for sleep- ing and light housekeeping; $1.50 GLASGOW AND GAMBLE—Northeast corner—2 nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping; * as, bath, hot and -:old water. JEFFERSON AY... 225 S.—Three furnished rooms, — or en suite; complete for light housekeep- ng JEFFERSON AYV., furnished for light sierra ait room. JEFFERSON fs room, Ist ‘floor; LUCAS AYV., 2715—Furnished rooms for gents; bath, hot and cold water. LOCUST ST., 2131—Family furnished rooms; steam heat; LUCAS AV., room, first floor, ences. 3025—Nicely furnished front and gentlemen preferred. 2°01—Two rooms furnished for heating and cooking 715 N.—2d-story front room, also single 420 S.—Nicely furnished front light housekeeping or gents. Hotel—Handsomely first-class board. 2704— -Front parlor and connecting for housekeeping; all conveni- ROOMS WITH BOARD. 14 words or less, 10c. * OLIVE 8T., 4269—Nicely furnished front room; hot-water heat and board. 1 cenplacitannitean OLIVE ST., 1707—Furnished Tooms, with or with- out boa rd. OLIVE S8T., board. vet 1813—Furnished room, with or with- PARK AV. 2343—Nicely furn! - board, ane 'o y shed room, with gentlemen or couple; references. PINE ST., 3033—First-class board; elegant room; _ Feferences. PERSONAL—C. P. 0. K., F. 3. &. > PE RSONAL—* ‘Namber Tuesday; please. PERSONAL—Netta Cc. satisfactory, make pe afternoon this office, = 2 RN | 114): maké appointment Ad. P a2, this office. or. morning this week. Ad. Letter received tate part week "9% — ee ee Applications received and tment down town seme EK 2, eee LT eee MATRIMONIAL. 14 words or less, 30c. MATRIMONY- lady; loving disposition ; 0 E 251, this office. Young man would meet Ad, ‘Tike to‘ bject, matrimony. PINE ST., 3148—Nicely furnished single and _ double rooms with board: all ‘convs.; reas. PINE S8T., 2634—Warm, pleasant room, with or without board; all conveniences: private family. PINE BOUL., 3694—Elegantly furnished large 2 story room, With small connecting; one suitable for 3 gentlemen or family; southern exposure; excellent table and service; hot and cold bath, private family ; Feferences. ROOM—Nicely furnished 2d-story front room to couple, with board for lady, $5 per week. Ad. 248, this office. \WASHINGTON AV., 3087—Furnished rooms, with good rd, reasonable. ee te eee WASHINGTON AV., 1309—Nicely furnished front and side rooms, with or without board. HOUSES, ROOMS, ETC., WANTED. 14 words or less, 10c. ROOM—Young lady employed wants nicely fur- nished room; north of, Washington. west of Gar- tison av. Ad. F 249. this office. BOARD AND LODGING WANTED. 14 words or less, 10¢. BOARD—Couple desire board in strictly private family; have 3 children ages 1, 4 and 5 years; large alcove ot double room would suit. Ad. R 250, this office. BOARD—Room and board by young lady employed; no room-mate; terms. Ad. H 250, this office. BOARD—Wanted, room and board in refined Jew- ish family by married lady (husband travels) in West End. Ad. G 249, this office: BOARD—2 gentlemen desire room and board in salon family; no other boarders. Ad., with erms, P 249, this office. BOARD—Wanted, board in private family b gent; must be first-class, with modern’ conveni- ences, and on or near car line; references ex- changed. Ad. M 249, this office. BOARD—2 voung gentlemen nished, well-heated room, with connecting bath preferred, and all modern conveniences; first- class bourd required; private family. where there ar’ congenial young people; only answers with terms and full particulars will be noticed. Ad. O 250, this office. desire nicely fur- = LOCUST S8T., 28151%4—Desirable 2d-floor front or snite ot furnished or unfurnished rooms; reason- able terms. DWELLINGS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. MISSOURI AV., 2838—3 fine rooms; low sone for winter. 2000 Wyoming st., 2 rooms, $3.50 CHESTNUT ST., 2642—Convenient 6-room house; bath, laundry, ‘cellar. M. Dougherty, 1200 Pine. MORGAN ST., 2747—2d-floor front room for 2 gents or man and wife. MORGAN ST., 2728—Nicely furnished front parlor for 2 gents or gent and wife. OLIVE S8T., 2210%4—Connecting front and back rooms for housekeeping, furnished or-unfurnished. OLIVE ST., 2829—Furnished room; use of piano free. we > ing ST., 1407—Furnished rooms for housekeep- ng. reasonable; OLIVE ST., nished rooms, OLIVE ST., 2326—Newly furnished rooms for light housekeeping or roomers, $1.25 week and up. OLIVE ST., 2329— papered; water in kitchen OLIVD 8T., in a new corner house; steam heat. OLIVE ST., 2205—1 nicely furnished room for light housekeeping; also back parlor. ST., 2325—2 furnished and 3 unfurnished front south; water in rooms. 2112—Furnished rooms, also unfur- hot or cold bath, electric light. 2 nice,.comfortable rooms, nicely ; $8 per month. —_--—_—- — oe ee _ OLIVE rooms; PINE 8T., 2902—Nicely. furnished front room, Ist and 2d floors, for gents or light housekeeping; hot bath. PINE ST., 2621—Nicely furnished room for light housekeeping. Pp INE ST., PE NDLETON “AY. unfurnished, with all conveniences; PINE 8° ST., 1314—Rooms- for “gentlemen: and “house- keeping, ‘$2 and $2.50 per week. ; 1400 beds, Lie. 2— housekeep- 25 and Up. 1630—An elegant 2d- story front room. 1020—2 See rooms, furnished or po children, PINE S8T., Nicely furnished front rooms; | cheap; PINE sT., 2646-5 furnished for housekeeping ; PINE ST.. _ ing, 1. —_—_—- + ROOMS—E ‘legantly ee. Tooms on side street for’ transient couples. Ad. 230, this office. quiet lady or couple can get 2 nicely rooms for light honsekeeping, with Ad. Er 248, this office. , , 3130— ROOMS—A furnished privilege: s. SHE RIDAN “AY. housekeeping. ee 2 furnished rooms for light SHERIDAN AY. ., 8130. 3 nice unfurnished rooms, $9 pe? my nth; hot and cold water, bath. Ww ASH ST., 1611. _ ront room, with cooking stove, completely furnished for light housekeeping; also other rooms. w ASHING TON AY. 1235—2 furnished parlor bed- rooms, single or en suite; $2.50; housekeeping, $2 weekly. WASHIN¢ —_—— —— a eee -_ — 1300—Furnished front 2d- $1.50; $2.50 per week; ;TON AYV.., story southern rows; c _corne r Souse; furnace. ooo W WASHINGTON AV., 1217- keeping; also front room ; WASHINGTON AV., 1013—Neatly furnished ‘rooms, _ with fire and ‘gas; terms reasonable. -“holce rooms for house- terms re asonable. ’ keeping: eneap. 2TH Ss’ ST... 3m Ne. -Furnished, housekeeping | or Toomers, $1.2 14TH ST., 211 S.—Nicely furnished ‘pack | parlor for light houseke eping:; terms reagonable. 14TH S ST., 211 Ss. —Nicely y furmished rooms for lady that “will | belp to work for rent. rooms for light week _and Pha 15TH ST., 109 S.—Two rooms for housekeeping; cooking stove and hydrant in room. ———— : ROOMS WITH BOARD. 14 words or lesa, 10c. room, with first- class west BOARD—24-story front board; southern exposure; Washington ay., of Garrison. Ad. A 249, this office. DICKSON ST., 2723—Pleasant room, board; private family; $4 per week. GARRISON AV new; rooms and board wee LOCUST S8xr., board. LUCAS AV., 2710—Nicely furnished rooms, board, for 2; convenient; .5O per week. LOCU ST ST., 3025—Nicely furnished rooms; 60. ex.; with excellent board; terms very reas. LAQCUST ST., 2208—Modern room and board, $4 per per ‘week: first- ‘class conveniences; Tefs. LUCAS AYV., 2845—Nice room, with breakfast, sup- + POF and Sunday dinner, fire gas and bath, $32 per month for two. LOCUST ST., 3018—Nicely furnished rooms, single or en enite: extra table; modern conveniences. LUCAS J AV.., 3030—La , well-furnished 2d-st front and back Aerie Os board. si LOCUST S8T., 2307T—Nicely furnished back parlor; furrace heat, hot bath; good table; moderate. — LOUISIANA AY., } e Reservoir Park— - ‘icely furnished front alcove pte board; fur- MORGAN S8T., 2004—Back board; $30. with good v13 N.—Corner Bell—Everything for gentlemen only; $5 per 2814—2 newly furnished rooms, with with parlor for 2, with eTeOURE AV.., ag ol Lafayette Park—2 24 floor heat, hot bath; fehened or unfurnished; gc ; cheap. OLIVE ST., 270 3700— Rooms with or without board; COOK “y ANTED~ Piste 000K ete German pre- fs. required. 316 Wesnlecton, cook to do general lAndell av. ‘ot 8 O18 ‘Barab HARDWARE STORE—For sale, stove, tinware and hardware store, doing a paying business; price, $850. WARDLOW & CO., 110 N. Oth. RESTAURANT For sale, restaurant and lunch. roon’: ation; corner ; good Sosa. Ad. A WO, this | chance for first-class office. peer ST., 2738-—Ni furnished parlor and furnace ce heat; if desired. , OLIVE 8 ST., 17 and ; T., 8115 AND tts —Rooms board, 2100—Newly furnished pen rooms HOUSE—7-room house, either furnished or unfur- nished (Clifton av., Clifton Heights); plenty of fruit; garden, stable and outhouses. Ad. P -246, this office. —_— @neeeeeeen PERSONAL SUNDRIES. 14 words or leas, 20c. A Easy terms: ¢ onfidential. 1,000 RILLHEADS. Be: ¢ Peerless Printing Co.. 9 N. opes, The ; Cat prices.- Ben ALL private, mattcrs. ete., treated free. either _ Small charge for med. DR. _ Speci ial treatment by mail. pimples, Medic al Co., DIVORCES A SPECIALTY. Law office, 1002 Olive. at prices on printing. 6th st. A~—1. 000 biz cards 2 he: noteheads. is, billbeads, envel- Locust. ton & Co., pores, | discharges, cure guaranteed; 107 N. oth. i a uM ARY JOHNSON saesiuee during contiement: 827 S. 18th st. DR. MARY ARTHU R, 2701 dies during confinement; reasonable rates. Morgan st., boards la- treats female diseases. ladies in trouble call or write; consultation oer, set of buttons? others pay for the materia delivered if desired. Call mod-Jaccard Bullding, cor. DOES your overcoat need 4 new collar or a new We will put ft on at the price 1: goods called for and or ad. Room 217, Mer- Locust and Broadway. LADIES in trouble will not Olive st. regret calling at 2203 confinement: female disea incorporated institution. LUSK SANITARIUM—Perfect during phy- seclusion ses a specialty: sician and midwife fn attendance; only reliable, 1630 Pine st. ——-- - LADIES, secnre prompt rel] Dr. A. Dale's No. 2 royal Cotton Root 4 ag cess sure: $2.00 (No. I, A914% Olive, city, ‘or 4966A Easton av. jef. There is but one guaranteed best Oe that regulates’’—Mrs. ner Ratety brand Penny- afety certain; suc- Dale Medicine Co., n n. Pardee, druggist, chiropodist. Mrs. Grey, MASSAGE, magnetic treatment, manicuring and 1628 Pi t. ne s MRS. FRANCIS, 1008% N tion. . Broadway—Massage and magnetic treatment for rheumatism and prostra- A. MAGNETIC treatment, $1, b MRS. DE LA BARR, 2219 matism. y Lady Alpine, assisted | by Miss Pansy Rose. 1513 Chestnut st. Washington av., grad- uate magnetic and massage college, cures rheu- est dealing; information eases, ladies in trouble ¢all. MRS. L. HOTSON receives during confinement; treats irregularities; satisfaction guaranteed; hon- experience in dis- 2201 Olive st. terms. 2925 Franklin av. MRS. RENNEKAMP, midwife: ladies before and during confinement; reasonable private home for MRS. DR. FOGAN recefves finement: call or write; confidential. homes for tnfants if desired; before and during con- as 2329 Market st is — og FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. FURNISHED HOUSE—For rent the handsome fur- niture apd lease of a large modern house in the West End; full of boarders: only first-class pdr- ties need ad. N 250, this office. RESIDENCE—For rent, 10-room residence, elegant- ly furnished, good location for rooming and board- ap) hay pay $50 for our. board. Ad. O 251, this ce WEST BELLBE PL., 5120—Furnished house for rent to a responsible party; 11-room dwelling. FLATS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. FAIRPAX . AV., ‘room flat and laundry; _$18. Apply at "1518 S. Jefferson av. HICKORY ST., 2710144—3-room flat; electric bells, water, hail and closets; $11. M’NAIR AV., 2709—For rent, 6 rooms, laundry, 1 or 2 families, $15. Inquire.1211 Hickory st. PAPIN ST., NEAR 18TH—For rent, 5 modern 4, 5 and 7-room flats; rent very cheap if taken at once. _ Keys at 829 S. 18th st. THEODOSIA AV., 5805—Modern corner flat; threé large rooms and pencnoms bathroom; hot and _ cold water; rent $12 WALNUT ie 2611—New 4-room flat; ocal ; open; rent reduced. gas, bath; TO LET FOR BUSINZSS PURPOSES. 14 words or less, 10¢. DESK Bulldty For rent, desk room, furnished. 404 Oriel Build ng. CLAIRVOYAN Ts. 14 words or less, 30c. ~ ned MME. ANNA. the well known fortune teller of the West. 326 Market sb. Established 1853. ie — eee HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE. 14 words or less, 20¢. ASHTON buys stoves, feather beds. Building. —_—— - eee furniture, Sead postal. 205 old Opera carpets, Hagan ee nee —— + BIG AUCTION SALE- -Furpiture, carpets, stoves. 911 N. 6th st., Thursday morning, 10 o'clock. CLEANING, dyeing and repairin rates. Room 217, Mermod- Tneanet ner Locust and Broadway; FINE E household furniture at auction, st., Thursday morning, 10 o'clock. FU RNITU RE— cheap;. all new; parties leaving city. ney av. FURNITURE=Bed-room set .$3, parlor f » wardrobe, at. moderate Building, cor- 911 N. 6th For sale, farniture of a 8- room flat: 4226 Fip- set $3. sideboard. NITURE, folding. beds, carpets, rds; time payments. ‘ranklify av. STOVES—For sale, Buck's Brilliant base burner. $7.50; Charter, Oak cook stove, $2.75. 2733 Franklin ay, (Sa stoves, side- °7Kagle Loan Co., 1238 Bridges, 1204 Chouteau av. LADIES in trouble won't regret coiling male 2 a loan Fg “Ae ‘Co. toate N. Sth oe ~ iS menue sense loaned on diamonds, er" a Bi, me testhamsenter wid god + and. wail ver bonght: bu oor confidential. a, oo HOU SEHOLD LOAN. est omy business av.,.2d floor. CO. loans money on ture, otc., without removal; lowest rates: private. ~— MONEY te loan on moval. furniture, ete. 810 Security Bldg., cor. 4th ey furniture, ef., withcut call curity Bldg., cor: 4th MONEY—If you wish to bérrow ge F on removal, from We warrant Ne gas. No ‘WE PERFORNM.... All we promise. Full Set of Teeth, - Gold Fillings, $1.00 to $2.00. Alltreatment paiatess. Albany Dental Co., DR. J. A. SHOBER, 215 N. SEVENTH Sh, Manager. COR. OLIVE. Nothing less. our work..... $4.00. cocaiae. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. 14 words or less, 20c. BIG price paid for ladies’ and gents’ cast-off cloth. ing; send postal. Ad. Mrs. M. Miller, 817 Morgan. POSTE RS—Wanted. prices and catalogues of post- ers, with design to purchase same. .Ad. O 249, minis office, “ a ~ MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE. 14 words or less, 2c. CASH REGISTERS—For sale, one No. ‘1 printer, used 3 months, and one total. $2 good as new; half price; muat. sold. . _A. Murmann, P. O. Box 766, St. Louis. ene ELEGANT furniture and car _N. 6th st., tes at auction. 911 Thursday morning, 10 o'clock. FIXTU RES—For sale, cheap, store fixtures of a retired wholesale dry house. Apply at the corner of Washington av. and 7th st POL NG BEDS, furniture, 911 N. 6th st., FURNITURE of handsome residence at auction. 911 N. 6th st., Thursday morning, 10. o'clock. CHANDELIERS. money. », *- irect from the manufacturer. The “Pelle-Hic key Mfg. Co., 706-710 St. Charics. FAY GAS FIXTURE Co., Manufacturers, jobbers and dealers'in gas and elec- tric fixtures, electric bells and wiring. 1126 Olive. PEARL PRESS. For sale; one second-hand Pearl sto," reaton new ; = 7x11; cost when bnew Yo in selling, too small; make an offer f. o. b. hasing Agent, Post-Dispatch. stoves, at auction. Thursday morning, 10 o'clock. TO PRINTERS. COMPOSITION—In a ate, Sal any measure not exc cng a iy pica ems. pecta LODGES. 25e each insertion. terms on largo Post- “« DAMON LODGE, No. 28, K. of P.—Regu- lar meeting this (Wednesday) ) evening at Hall No. 1, Fraternal meena, si ‘oe Franklin cers. Knights cordially gas; $90 for 2 genta | Attest: CHAS. 3. Vuou, Kori snd 8. 904 Olive St. PARKS & BRAWNER... Dentists +. 509 CREAT REDUCTION..... NEW YORK DENTAL ROOMS, OLIVE ST... 14 words or — bai All Size Pi Platina Fillings -- - 60¢ ——ee | N ee en ' MUSICAL. less, 20c. a PIANO—$65 buys elegant carved legs; stcol an PIANO—For sale. 1 equare PU} PILS—Wanted, - pupils fh eer ences a teacher ; this office. square ale cover. 1413 plano; co: will sell erand 1028 8. Sth at. al an ¢x- terms for one-third its } value. Apply to rv the plano very amount you desire, from house; money can for char pape for. J aoc pli MONEY TO LOAN—On furniture and planos; | without + ments and — ae no oF y King. ouey gives Morgan. ae Ben ot some surplus funds Gress 1015 Morgan st. MONEY ON ag eT on furniture, plats, eae Err | RESPECTABLE niture, ete., lowest rates; calling at 904 "ne extra rties can ee easy terms: for papers; = money on fur- Olive st., Reom 2. charges; you ge calls for. The IF YOU WANT MONEY Borrow it on your furniture, p! lowest possible rene tot a pay Lean 14 words or “WE On vecant id tions answerod r ; = al 14 words of AMERICAN Aga Ane Olive—Mor! separate aioe 9 "Tel. the. LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. less. 20c. elty property. hours. sali SF . STORAGE. less, DOe. * ek Ae Nore cone and W or store pamebold ‘irs _ storage. _ Poeom 5 — ae ORK STORAGE GE CO. 510 _N, Fag at.—New NEW Y ‘a private roome for tee eth en OP i ROI ce 4 ee yh t & ™ ates Piha «. ana wat» “tet ee ~ AAS Sill hah ai Sahai: ire se: ied ADELE ISS AN NN EERE A it

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Pes Ee? — Br. Rm MBRRY-G0-ROUNDS “GLOSE DOWN, WINTER RACING IN ST. LOUIS COMES TO AN END. THE GAMBLERS KILLED IT. They Cut Each Other’s Throats and Now Horsemen and Bookies Are Liable to Go Hungry. The gamblers in their efforts to “skin” each other have wrecked their own ma- chine and now there is a small army of bookmakers out of a job and another. army of horse owners and track followers who will have to eat snow balls for a living. All but the bokmakers are flat broke and have nq place to go. 4 The horsemen are all. outlaws and can- not go either to New Orleans. or San Francisco. They would not be tolerated in the first place, and in the second place their horses are not good enough. The only winter track now running is 50 over-crowded that there are about 100 horses entered in each race before the of- ficials weed them out to sizabie fields. The South Side track contingent got con- trol of Sportsman’s Park about ten days ago, hoping to keep the bookmaking game in its own hands. Chris Von der Ahe has been losing money and made a bargain to turn his track over to his rivals for $1, a month rental. The South Side romptly closed up Sportsman’s Park and ran a week at South Side. Monday they opened at Sportsmans Park and closed the other place. Two days at Sportsman’s Park was enough. They lost money—$500 or $600 a day—so they de- cided to shut down ali around, The main cause of the loss was the two ol rooms down-town, one run by John ambrick and the other by Tom Walsh. Both places laid better odds than the tracks and got all the game. Two dollar bets were made down:town where 50-cent bets were rare on the track. The South Side people saw that they and they alone were making it possible for the pool rooms to remain open. Try as they would they could met prevent the down-town bookmakers from getting all the results they wanted, so they decided to shut up the pool rooms and stop losing money them- eelves, ‘We closed up simply because we were losing money,’’ said Charies C. Spink of the South Side Track Association. ‘‘The pool rooms were ruining our business, so we just quit. We got all ‘wise’ money—the owners and jocks—and they got-all the suckers. We soon saw that we had the wrong end of “When will you start up again?’ “As soon | Mt: can see any way money out of it.”’ ‘Ts ‘chere any plan afoot to ] s in to he yay expenses: ree Not that | A ont of. We are acting in- dependently of all of them.” he pool rooms do not know what to do. Hambrick and Walsh both said Wednesday morning that they would have to shut up shop and wait for developments. Any aecheme to run one of the tracks ‘they said they would not go into. The South Side peo- ple might have made an arrangement at the Geotsaine, but it was too late now to talk of it. The conduct of the gamblers has been more effective than the law in closing the l rooms up tight, as far as any open bet- tae is concerned. The police stopped the fareign book aind the gamblers did the rest. hey found a ray of hope, however, in tha action taken on the cases of James Hal- n and John Pafton, who were arvested n Walsh’s room for making a hand book. When these two appeared in the Court of Criminal Correction Wednesday morning they were promptly dismissed for the sim- le reason that there were ng warrants nst them. An investigation was made by a Post-Dis- atch reporter, and the two warrants were Sooued lying on Col, Dick Johnson’s desk, where they had been since Monday waiting for the police to make the ‘necessary affi- davits. ; / ‘These warrants are ready at any time,” said Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John- son, “A young man named Wm. McHale is supposed/to swear to the information, but He has not shown up yet. I cannot swear to the information myself, so there you are. The court did exaetly right in dismissing the two/young men,” Detectives Hatton and Guion, who made to make the arrests, said that Judge Murphy would] not let the officers swear out warrants, and McHale, who is, or was, in the employ of the South Side, could not be found. §So0 nothing was done in the matter. ' The result.of it all is that the hand book- makers have been turned loose to resume their occupations as before. The police have failed to make a case against them, and it was not ten minutes after their dis- charge that they were talking the matter over with Walsh and Hambrick. Walsh insists that he can make a hand book, but does not say that he will. It was the expressed intention of both book- makers to post up the entries at New Or- leans dor the information of their patrons, but whether they will or not is an open question, A decision on the motion to quash the in- formation in the Walsh cases is expected Saturday and until that time ithe bookmak- ers will probably lie low and wait for de- velopments, The only thing they can do now is a little handbooking on the quiet. \ e horse Owners at the two merry-go- ‘rounds are really in a deplorable state. They have been running for $60 purses, which barely paid expenses, and a losing horse was a very bad investment, “Our meal tickets Is tore in two,” is the way one of them expresses it. ‘“‘They was cheap tickets, but was enough to live on anyhow. Now we will have to buy ash carts and go to teaming with our thoroughbreds.”’ There are several hundred of these out- lawed ‘thorges in thjs city with nothing to do. They are too poor to sell for beef and too light to sell for heavy hauling. In fact they a“ urenioes except as parts of a gambling APPEALED TO MURPHY. Mickey Mack and His Pals Know Their Old Friend. Mickey Mack, Billy Canty and Jack Wil- Mams, who have given “he police no end of trouble, were sentenced to the Work-house several days ago by Judge Peabody, who fined them $100 each for idling. .They em- ployed an attorney and an appeal was taken to the Court of Criminal Correction in hopes that the Crazy Judge would look upon their offense with lenient eye. They will be tried by Judge Murphy Thursday. eyattic 4 Mack and Jack Williams have done time” in the penitentiary and have Dean repeatedly arrested, 4: ilitams is noted ag a desperate man to eal with. When last arrested | tectiv iiian he tried to use a knife. big 4 Mack, Canty and Williams erouem, to procat Mig Ke: ey see it. Of rian are sharp | tage of a good thing They Consider the Court Mminal Correction a good thing. FIRE AT TUXEDO. Handsome Residence of C. C. Harris ee Totally Destroyed. ‘The handsome home of C. C, Harris in feG0 was burned to the ground early y morning. The house and con- for the J. .A. a Company, in mac nie: 1 Second street. He lives at v4 . to town to et to’ attend , 2 cil ees ear Re me on the ants ot ike : > ’* : sgt’ , ay % - mg ey a 7 a - a a ee x. ¢ me e : 4 et the pool-. " way and the whole house was soon envel- oped. So rapid was the fire’s progress that little of the contents were saved. Mr. Harris’ house was one of the hand- somest in Tuxedo and was only built two years ago. Tuxedo is a suburb on the Missouri Pacific railroad, about nine miles from St. Louis MR. WISHART’S SUCCESSOR. George T. Nicholson Will Assume His New Duties on Feb. 1. George T. Nicholson, whose appointment ag General Passenger Agent of the Frisco was. published in the Post-Dispatch,gsome time ago; will enter on his new duties on Feb, 1. Mr. Nicholson is well known in railroad circles. He'has been General Passenger Agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe since 1882. Dempster Wishart,-the retiring agent, served the Frisca in that capacity for twenty years. He began his railroad career thirty years ago as a switchman, and in less than ten years was in charge of the passenger and ticket service of the road. He submitted his resignation gey- eral months ago. JUDGE NORTH MADE REPORTER. COURT OF APPEALS APPOINTS HIM TO THAT POSITION, BIGGS DISSENTED. JUDGE Judges Bland and Bond, However, Were in the Majority and North Got the Place, — a The anticipated appointment of Judge John W. North of Neosho, Mo., as official reporter of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, was announced in open court Wednesday morning. Judge Biggs occupied the attitude of dis- eenting judge. ; Late Tuesday afternoon David Goldsmith, who is succeeded by Judge North, handed in his resignation in arcordunee with the written request mailed him Monday night by Judges Bond and Bland. Judge Biggs, as was stated exclusively in Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch, declined to sign the request. The announcement of Judge North’s ap- pointment was Gelayed until Mr. Goldsmith tendered his resignation. When the Court of Appeals convened, the first business after the reading of the min- utes of Tuesday’s session of Court, was the announcement of Judge North’s appoint- ment. It was announced by Presiding Judge Bland, who read the following order: ‘““The resignation of .David Goldsmith, ‘Esq., official reporter of this Court, hav- ing been tendered at the written request of Judges Bond and Bland, is héreby accepted; and John W. North, Psqaq.; of Neosho, ‘Mo., is hereby appointed official reporter of this Court during the pleasure of the Court, by the votes of Judges Bond and Bland; Judge Biggs declining to vote.’’ ; The order was handed to Clerk Lewis to be spread upon the minutes. Judge Biggs was asked by a Post-Dispatch reporter the reason for his attitude in the matter, “I must decline to make any statement,” said Judge Biggs. ‘‘The orders of the Court conveys to the public my attitude. I shall make no explanation of it.’’ Lawyers acquainted with Judge Biggs have drawn the conclusion from the order that Judge Biggs stood upon the ground that in the eyes of the public, no matter what statement might be made by Judges Bland and Bond, the appointment of Judge North would appear as the reward of his having withdrawn as Populist candidate against Judge Bland at the last election, Judge North’s was the only-appointment announced. Whether successors will be ap- pointed to R. C.. Pew, the Marshal, and Janitor Morrissey, is still in doubt, Friends of Thomas Barrett, spoken of for the ap- pointment as clerk, are bestirring them- selves in his behalf. Clerk Lewis’ term, however, does not ex- pire until next April. ALL RELEASED. Seven Persons Who Were Arrested for Leinen’s Death. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Magdalena Leinen, Lena Leinen, Rachel Leinen,. Peter Berg- strom, Gustav Rekow, Henry Geidt and George Peden, all under arest for complic- ity in the supposed murder of John Leinen, a saloon keeper, who was found dead New Year’s Day, were released to-day, the police authorities being satisfied that it was a case of suicide. Mrs. Leinen said all her previous stories as to her belief in the murder theory were not true, admitting that she told them through fear that she would lose her hus- band’s life insurance if it were proven that he committed suicide. Dislocated His Hip. Wade Mack of 4320 St. Louis avenue was puciing up a cornice on a new building at cuclid and Fountain avenues Wednesday morning. He lost his balance and fell *wen- ty feet to the ground. His hip was dislo- cated and his head contused. He was sent home in an ambulance. Charged With Embezzlement. J. B. Boone was arrested at noon at his home, 809 North Fifteenth street, on a charge of embezzling funds that he collected for the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Hos- pital. Boone claims that the money was taken from him by footpads. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is sold every- where, and it always cures coughs and colds, — Maj. Bannerman Improving, Maj. James Bannerman, Police Commis- sioner and President of the Confederate Home Asociation, is confined to his: home by an attack of pneumonia. He was taken ili Monday. He is improving rapidly gnd his physician, Dr. F. G. Parrish, says he wiil be able ‘to attend to business in two or three days. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Pure 18k wedding rings. Our prices the lowest. E. Jaccard Jewelry Co., Olive and Sixth streets. Hattie T. Mo George TAOBCH . cccccresecevess 2019 SS, Eleventh sr Josephine Hirth SUStg Geyer ay George Engelsmann 4027 Castieman av Alice Hermanmn........ cc oess+. Ot) Longfellow av Thomas Ww. Leemon........ss2abd Washington ay Alice Hoban... ces. see +2244 Washington av Henty Lorenz...... Helen Grau Charies L. Paice...++...- 1920 Old Manchester ri Pauline A. Brung...e..2737 Seuth King's highway Daniel Ridgeway.... 1513 S. Second et Julia Murphy. seer seeenrs 1513 8S. Second sat Otto Junge ** 64532 Gravois av Sophia Payliss8..«+s eee eee eeee 34) Morgan Ford rd Willis H. Page..+eeees S121 N. Newstead ay Loulse J. Ciifton 4 Minerva ay John F. Michaels. ..ee-sseeeeses Fayetteville, Ark Edna Udell *seneee eeceece 5123 Vernon ay Abe ee eee ee Sree es Franklin ay Pauline R. Carp. oo eebeccerisvees kaa Franklin ay Thonms Cc lan Tyre oor sserseess., 2824 Park ay Catherine Mckverley....- 2750 Lafayette av Alexander FE. Garvin.....4@-....2049 Sheridan ay Beenie A. Daw KIDS. 0... esse sees. 1400 Glasgow ay iam OOCKOP. 6. +ceecceses ATSIG N._ Broadway F tha nz er teweeseoess«. SORT Lee av Michéel &) B. Bresmahan........ ++. 8920 Lacky st Catherine M. Guesaay....1715 N. Twenty-thind st w. Hetah. ...c-cee+- 4222 BM. Kleventh at Mathiida L. Johnston... 4225 Grove ay Witliam J. Gill. -o-144 President et Annie Freiner... 141 President st Seine Siptermang.-....-- Wee Natural Bridge rd wy PS eer Natdral ; Thomas | sebeeert ee ear ee ee FE. Kill ‘eee oe ee ee ‘ w bis E. Burke. .i...2s..0.-.1@00 N . Sine >» o> — ee ie. le “Batten. . 2227"; Mooe Wacom - Dewiggine. ......++++ 0s .920 N. Bckel ew ee eee eee ee ORD N. MICHAEL L —— mn : $ a = WAS NOT TRIED. LADIES WAITED IN VAIN FOR THE POLICE BOARD MEETING. DR. FORSTER IS VERY SORRY. But the Beard Really Couldn’t Get To- gether to Investigate the Black Maria Outrage. é Policeman Michael Lynam of Black Maria notoriety was not tried by the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday. The Board failed to meet, ostensibly be- cause it was impossible to get a quorum. A number of ladjes interested in the cause of humanity were Board take action in resent to ask that the ha aie to the outrage, but they waited in vain\for the Commission- ers to show up. The Woman’s Humane Society, the Woman's Political Economy a Be: Wes the W. Club and the West End Benevolent Society Were represente Mrs. G. L. Werth, John A. Bowen, Mrs, B. F. Brooks, Mrs. Mrs. Mary Haddock, Mrs. M er and Rey. Ella Bartlett. The ladies sat in the detect 1 nearly two hours, expecting to be calle into the Board room. They were ,told d. The ladies present were: Mrs. Waldo Calkins, Mrs. Mrs. Juliet. Cunningham, Addie Johnson, i inor Meriweth- ves’ room for lait last that the Board would not meet, but were given no reason therefor. Mrs. Minor Meriwether said Wednesday morning that the ladies were much disap- pointed, but would-attend the next meetings of the Board and insist that justice be done to the girls so flendishly assaulted in the presence of Policeman Lynam. Dr. Otto E. Forster said Wednesday: yesterday because there was Major Bannerman is ill and held no meetin no quorum. “We we learned at the last minute that Mr. Lee was out of town. It was too late then to send for Mayor Walbridge to complete the quorum. disappointed. I am very sorry the ladies were I have instructed the Secre- tary of the Board to send each of them a personal invitation to the next meeting. You may say that they will all be admitted to the Board room during the session.” Michael Lynam still has charge of the Arsenal Street Station. CREST NEARLY REACHED. Dr. Frankenfield Says the River Has Reached a Limit. Forecaster Frankenfield thinks that the rise in the Mississippi has reached its crest. The gauge at the foot of Market street reg- istered 24% feet Wednesday morning. Mr. Frankenfield tl the Wednesday reading thought would Tuesday that be nearly % feet, but‘the river is a very uncertain thing and its changes are hard to antici- pate, Mr.’ Fr ankenfield looks for an additional rise of a few tenths of a foot before Thurs- day. The Missouri and its tributaries, the Osage and the Gasconade, are falling, as is also the Mississippi above Graf*on, Ill. The Illinois and the Mississippi below Grafton are still rising. The lowest temperature » degs. Wednesday 9 _ It was 2 p. mM. reached dur:ng the present cold snap was 13 deg., regis- tered at 6 a: m. Wednesday. warmer in the West and colder in the Easy. It is getting in the Weather Bureau at and Dr. Frankenfield looks for a temperature of 40 degs. Thurs- day. FORECLOSURE SUIT FILED. St. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Rail- ' road Made Defendant. The Mercantile Trust Company of New York .began a foreclosure proceeding in the United States Circuit Court Wednesday against the St. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Company. The the trustee Railway that it is pli 1intiff alleges of $810,000 of bonds, issued Feb. 1, 1887, and that the defendant + L has defaulted on dnteres since 1893.” By the terms of the bond issue the principal sum became due when there was a Gefault in the payment of interest. The pbaintiff asks the court for an order of toreclosure. The St.. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Ra‘'l- way is 54 miles long, and runs from Cuba Junction, in Crawford County, to Salem, in Dent County. It has several spurs running. to mines and furnaces in Crawford and Dent Counties. MURDERER HEIMBERG ON BOND. Held Under $3,000 to Answer for Kill- ing August Fick. Frederick Heimberg, who is charged with the murder of August Fick, his next-door neighbor at Pleasant and Kossuth avenues, was arraigned in Judge Wednesday. He waived hearing Murphy’s his court preliminary and was held to the Grand-jury in a $3,000 bond, which ‘was furnished by W. H. Russell. Heimberg is a carpente Tr and he _ shot Fick because the latter would not give him building Was call the contract of Heimberg’s case Tuesday. h ed As he was being is woodshed a week azo taken out of jail he made a desperate assault on the jail guards and on the deputy sheriffs. His case to the City Hospital apparently insan®e. ued and he was sent for observation. Heimberg displayed fight, but seemed right mind. the marks to have He was was contih- of his regained his ELECTED OFFICERS. Merchants’ Exchange Members Have a Quiet Day at the Polls. The annual election of officers of the Mer- chants’ Exchange was held Wednesday. The polls were open from 10 o’clock until 3. interest was taken and a As only one ticket was in the field little light vote was ol] ; The ticket is as follows: President, Henry P Langenberg; First Kennett: Second Vice-President, Vice-President, Ww. ; Chris Sharp; Directors, C. H. Spencer, P. P. Will- iams, B. J. McSorley, rank E, Kaufmann. The Dan E. Smith and udges of election are: James Martin, D. J. Hancock, J. M. Gettys, P. S. Brown, Isanc §S. Smythe, D. P. Williain A. Noyer. | Rowland, Pomeroy, Hupp Tevis, George Baylie a . a nd Hindercoras remove ing a pleasure. L corns easily. 15 cents at druggists. Makes walk- Parker's Hair Balsam is life to the hair. ee LIME COMPANY’S NERVE. Squats on the Mill Creek Sewer and Gets Dictatorial. There is probable Utigation ahead for the city in connectién with the break in the Mill Creek by the Glencoe sewer. Lime The building occupied and Cement Co. is built in part over the sewer right of way. The building is owned by John I. Bl the wealthy capitalist of Blairstown, N. Sewer Commissioner Colby sent him a te gram Saturday evening telling him if Blair, J le- did not have the building removed it would be done by the city. Wednesday Mr. © tice signed by C. W. Cobb, company. It stated that Corby was handed a no- ir. MT. ident of the Miller, the personal representative of Mr. Blair, would arrive in the city against Wednesday evening and the city or any one else possession of the property in the me The ice of the cit unsa v g was x he ime. letter further stated that, acting on y authorities that the e, merchandise ed. It concluded with the : “We believe it to be of all parties that ake place, Pwelfth ed | . nee wee te L 5 . 4 - 5 ie x : / 7 1 1 } md { requesting that , = ‘been’ torn down at any time. Now, howéver, there its for doing 60, ny - | ¢ cave-in and Mr. Corby thiniea the have as much right:to blow up the bul as it would for purposes of cking a conflagration. i At Tuesday's oe of on Board of . : struction cons Saeed the City Marshal be direct- ed to refnove it. It was referred to Street Commissioner Milner. Mr. Colby is wy mo attention to the order to keep off of the property. STEVENS’ FATAL MISTAKE. Took Rough-on-Rats Thinking It Was Licorice Powder, Wilbert Stevens, the man who took Rough on Rats under the impression that it was licericé powder, died at.the City Hos- pital Wednesday morning. Stevens was a laborer, 35 years old and lived at 5301 Arsenal street. The body was sent to the Morgue. | QUARREL ABOUT GIRL'S LETTERS. HENRY M. WIEBACHT WANTS HIS * WIFE ARRESTED. OPENED « cae man of Batesvill entine crop continue amage reports con- condition, Africa the agricultural situation ig acount of the The opening po isonet Renna les were, as follows: » No. orthern unchanged. Cora—Spot firm; 7 reel by the| | fair, ys —_ but steady: passage dull. American wheat “english er French markets 4 coun a PS : - 2,088,503 2,069, 1,444, Corn eeesccooseedes ciel 8 . Oats.. eeveceeeeveeeeee 374,135 68,812 13 Rye ‘eee ee ee eee eee oe Barley .. No 2 white corn. .s.ee No 2 oats ° No 2 white oats.. No 2 rye eee ee eevee Regular Cash Market Prices. |Wed’day. | Tuesday. | Year Ago. red-. ee winter aot leoye tp 19igb| 19% ese@we ee eee ee : 1 174d/17 @i7mp 16% i Wk ceteeeeens, Future Prices. Closed. | "Highest. | Lowest. Tuesday. | To-day. | To-day, WHEAT. + Closed. f Wed'day. Jan ,! May .] July .| 9 bi HO7gbd! T7%b| 88% | n 883, |88%@S8'4 75% | 754d Jan : — 2054n) - |22%@22%a} 20%4a May y ee ee May .|/19%@20 a/i9%@20. | 24a oo ame”? 19a] CHICAGO—Reported by Gaylord, Blessing & Co. WHEAT. 83% |81%@S81% | CORN. 255% | OATS. 193% | 18% |18%@19 PORK. 7 $7.85 |$7.77@80 | $7.80 8.95 May ./83144@83% | May ,| 255% | May ,| 19% | $7.60 | LARD. 3.97 | RIBS. 3.9714] 3.80 | 3.9214| $.8714| 8.95 | 8.95@9718 CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Close: May, 81l%c; July, 76%e. 25144@%ec 8; July, 26%4c, 18% @19ce. Wheat—Jan., 78e n: Corn—Jan., 23c; May, Oats—Jan., 15%c n; May, a es age une REET. St. Louis, 2:30 p. m.—May wheat, 88t4c ced; puts, 871¢c; calls, Kou,e. . ro Chicago—May wheat, 81\%e bid; puts, 80144@%c; calls, S2%c, Corn—May corn, puts and calls, all 2914@%6c. . WHEAT. The market was very quiet at the opening to-day and there was little news of importance. Receipts both hcre and in the Northwest were light, cables were not encouraging and the crop news was generally good. Receipts of wheat at Minneapolis and Duluth to- day were only 120 cars, as compared with 402 cars for the corresponding date last year. The receipts at St. Louis were only 8,450 bu, as compared with 21,131 bu a year ago. Of these receipts 13 cars, or, the total amount was local, as compared with 1,014 sacks and 29 cars local a year .1g0. The demand, both speculative and for spot, was very light, and while the opening was somewhat higher the same -weakness of yesterday was appar- ent and after dragging along very slowly for a while a heavy decline set in. May wheut opened at 91\4c, %e higher than the closing bid yesterday. It sold down to 907Kc, flue- tuated for some time between that price and 91@ \%ec, and then broke and sold down to 90%c, but was weak at that at Call time and sold down to 90c on Call, July wheat opened at 7T7%ec bid, %e more than was bid at the close yesterday, but soon weakened and was offered down to 77\«c, with bo takers before Call. Spot grades—On Call there was nothing Cone and the market was weak and lower. No. 2 red wheat was offered at S9'gc, with 8c bid regular. No. 2 hard was not mentioned. No. 8 red was offered at SStoc Farmers’ and at S7t%ec St. Louls, with 88c bid E: elevAtor. There were no bids or offers on No. 4 winter. The sample market was very dull and about Ic lower than yesterday. No. 2 red sold at 92c¢ on track East side and at 90%c on track this side. Some sacked lots sold at 9l%c. Some No. 3 spring sold at 77¢ and some oft spring at TSe on track this side; 14 sacks damaged wheat sold at 67c. The closing cables were as follows: Liverpool—Spot wheat unchanged; futures steady to 4d lower. Corn unchanged on spot; futures steady to 4d higher. ; Paris—Wheat 10@20 cms lewer; flour, 30@35 cms lower. Berlin—Wheat, 14 mark higher, Antwerp—Wheat unchanged. The Liverpool Corn Trade News soys: ‘Already in twenty weeks the United States has shipped to ex-European countries 12,800,000 bu of bread- stuffs, as compared with 8,000,000 in the corres- ponding twenty weeks in 1895 and 6,400,000 in 11894,"’ The increase of stocks of wheat and flour in the United Kingdom was about 3,000,000 bu more than last month. The clearances of wheat and flour from the four ports to-day were equal to 220,000 bu, of which 67,300 bu were actual wheat. Receipts at primary points were 218,000 bu, as compared with 413,000 bu a year ago. The ship- ments were 83,000 bu, as compared with 95,000 bu last year. May wheat under the flood of bullish news broke again and sold down to 88\c and then at 88} c. July sold down to 75%c and was offered at To%c. January wheat opened at 90@ ape winter, Si@ase: : No No 8 J ay, an., $7.55; May, $3.95. Ribs—Jen., 75. Butter firm: creamer! Eggs firm; fresh, 18¢. No. 2, 87c. bu; oats, 3,600 bu; rye, oats, 62,800 whisky, 771; wheat, 1,800 bu. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.—Wheat dull, nom- hard nominally yy La No. 2 spring, 7 higher; - 4@ bu. Shi No. 2 mixed shade 25%c and sold at 25%c. Oats quiet un- The Not No & Northern spring 8ic. , 20c. Cash oats, May, ‘orn—Jan., 23c; 2644¢.. Oate—Jan., 15%¢ $7.20. $3.85; ash North- Timothy— Ryre—Cash, ey—Cash No. 3, new, 2@ es, 15@ 6.—Dressed r : - keys, lic; chickens, 7@&e: Gucke Dao _ PEORIA, Ill., Jan. 6.—Corn quiet and easy: new Oats inactive and steady: No. 2 white, hisky market steady; finished goods on the basis of $1.18 for highwines. Receipte—Corn, 12,600 bu; rye, none; whisky, 75; wheat, 14,650 D- nove; ; No. 2 white nom- . 32e. a 14 creamery, 17@18c; Cc. .—Butter—Recei!pts, creamery, S@l4c. full skims, 4d lower: Feb., 6s Jan., 2a 10d, unch LIVERPOOL—Dem Uplands, 4d. Sales, firm. Janh., 3 60-64d: April and May, 3 59 bales. Reported by Gaylo Cl JAQRUATF cecececses February DEGTOR coctosceerscc April eeeeeeeaeeevee 7 May eeenreee SANE cocccecccecacls July @eeeeeeereeeete rd. oa1 and good: ¢ Futures 3 58-64d 2,000 bales. Jan, and Feb., July and Aug., eady; middling, 7 Sales, 1 Blessing & Co. LIV E STOCK. No. Description. 2 cows heifer mixed mixed steers steers steers 5 steers 1 steer steers steers steers . cow and calf TEXAS—Receipts, active. No. Description. 10 COWS eecees Be COWS seceeseos 20 cows 49 10 17 97 15 20 on” ~~ ateers eteers ... BLCOTS .ecaee steers active. No. Description. i natives 20 lame 20 lambs yesterday's ing, day's close. 181 HORSES avera Hieavy draft, Drivers .. Saddlers s Mule market not and TERRE EREEELIE LAL ere rae ee@eaeeer ee eee 600 eee eeeeereer eee 775 590 gleers eeeeeeereee Southwest mixed Southwest mixed | ee ee HOGS—Receipta, 7,933. open 72 7 ne aeartet 10¢ it tban LES. eeeeeeeee oe eee ee ee ee . ; for best atock, but supply of this National Stock Yards. NATIVE CATTLE—Reeceipts, 1,840. Market steady on best; lower on wes ALES. sodveenes sone wan eeteoneaeeeev eee 5O eereeveeeereeee 760 docccceceeeess law 1100 sere eee ee @ 145 1,417. Market str SALES. Ar. COWS egeceeteeeeresereee COWS coeeeeeeee eet aeetereeeee 712 Market strong SALES. eer eee seen ee strong and active. swith good So a ae seer eee eee eeeeeeae > eeneeer ee Let IOAGO, J terday, 15,581 3.362; shipments. boos 40, CHICAGO, Jan. a 30,000; left and ste to ; heavy, beeves, $3. nas | steers, §3 an. 6.— ; shipments, 1,292 7, Estimated receipts 6 —Estimated recel over, 1,000 ebade lower; Ti ; Texas 054 . 80; Live Stock by Telegraph. : 3, Cattion teeta, Sheep—Recet pts. ; bogs te-morrow, hogs to- : market t, $3. Ob; . ’ 00D; active, cows, native é Ei ce wm to ce co tete cote tonstote tery sj SSSESRSESS cr & @ to to cote be steady. un- dairy, 6,332 1 ; Cheese—Re > 2,650 pkgs, quiet: State large and small, TuabiOhee: nS, 24,43c. Eg Receipts. 7.759 packages, steady; State and Penn yi- vania, 19@21c; Western, 14@19¢. Sugar—Raw firm; “—— ast. wh ; n. 6.—Closing: - Wheat— Jan., 68 10%44, - pee tie unchanged; March, 7a 1d, unchanged. Maize—Spot —— 114d, Feb 2s 10%4d, unchanged: March, 28 104d, 4d higher. ” COTTON. 71.954 56, . prices hardening. closed : Feb. and March, 358-64d; March and April, 3 58-644; -64d; May and June and July, 3 60-64d; NEW YORK—Spot st Futures closed quiet and steady. une, 3 50-64d; 3 61-64d. 1-16¢. 21,200 Highest Lowest Closing To-day. To-day. Wed 6.90 6. ‘d a B< AANANSS SeASs BESSESASeoT $3 = c — 02 02 20 G2 09 S28O RD BD 2 ZSSRUCLE ght. active = . Atnion Pacific .....- u. & ther, ~~ » n Le . ae wrt an. 2 OSS Tentimer isle, Me I. a 3 : Zz RIDANS TABULES Mr. R. L. Johns of Selma, Als., is in the habit of buying Ripans Tabules at White's Pharmacy at Selma. When interviewed at the time of # recent purchase, Mr. Johns said? “Ever since I was in the army, where I contracted indigestion and dyspepsia from eating ‘hard tack and sow belly,’ I have’ suffered much from those and kindred ailments. A son of mine who clerks for J. N. Harter ina drug store at Winfield, Kansas, told me while home on a visit, over a year ago, to get a box of Ripans Tabules and take them, J did, and in a very short time I was benefited, and by the time they were half gone I was well, and since then I have felt bettes?’ ate more and relished it better. than at any time since the war, and am doing more work now than I ever expected to do again. I tell you, they are the greatest medicine for a fellow’s stomach I ever Stw. This is fora neighbor of mine out by me ig the country. We always have them at home, and I never hesitate to recommend them when a fellow complains about his stomach hurting him. . (Signed), “R. L. JOHNS.” Ripans Tabules are sold by if the prive (60 cents a box) cane Ra TRE als nti = ——- -—— oes So and oma marret opened w : ; bulk of sales, 1g; . $3 st $33 2G: — ue 40 s ght, : pigs oes 2 ments, 600; market s muttons 1 50. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. market 10¢ lower, BXCHANGE—Quoted by A. G. New York—Par bid; 25¢ omnnineguiiiditinaion Silver Quotations. NEW YORK, Jen. 6.—Sil She; no sales, Bar silver, 64%e. ee ae ars, c. : New York Stocks. : : Corrected daily by Whitaker & ~m and stock brokers, 300 North Font a hand re ST. LOUIS, Jan. & oe tes. tof STOCKS. American Spirits eeeeee do do pfd + eee owen Amer. Tobacco com ,. —_ COM «ecccocds 0 eeeevr eee eeeeeene do pre eervreee eee eee ee Chi. & N. W. cumi.ces.. Cotton Ol COM. cesses. do fd eer eer ea eeeeneeae Del., Del. & ck. & Wevecotes pee PTerere tl Hocking Valley. ..--. +. Illinois. Steel Co issour! Pacthe ..es.. K. &. T., pid. se. . ee@evreeeeaereeeree eee eerleee eee eee eeeer eee eerlee eeeteee ‘eee eee eve eee eee eeeee *+evreevrenvevreneee & iron... ere =_—eer ey eae . ee a ee | tt - ee - - rm "ee oe. eee ee Se shee oe wes Mera Dh ln IB +h get — ee ee + cra - ts alle ethan" Ae _

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vad PAA ¢ “ eh ‘se wos WE eRe . Paul. . failures. The cond-tion of the St. Pe Pe ens ee LL ST ny ; " . ke ~ z 6 a te hen OF ee s M, =. Wa Pe ge 5 eee Weyler’s order forbidding the THE QUALITY MERCANTILE ST LOUIS REDUCES ITS BONDED DEBT. —____-— --—_" WE COULD STAND $10,000,000 WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. NEEDED FOR IMPROVEMENT. Mayor Walbridge Talks Finance and Civil Service in His An- nual Message. Mayor Walbridge sent his annual message to the Municipal Assembly Tuesday evening and it was read in both houses, In it he says the administration of city affairs will compare favorably with that of any previous year for economy, prudence and efficiency. The bonded indebtedness was reduced during the last fiscal year $377,000, leaving a total indebtedn&ss of $20,- 647,711.55. Compared on the same basis no other city in the United States has so small an indebtedness in’ proportion to assessed values. On this fact is based a recommendation that some official action be taken to induce the General Assembly to submit to the people an amendmen)? to the constitution in- creasing the limit of bonded indebtedness. Our debt could be increased $10,000,000 ewith- out necessitating an increase in the rate of taxation to meet interest charges. Only in this way, he thinks, can new aes be built across the tracks in Mill Creek Valle and other permanent improvements m , He regrets that the Assembly has not seen fit to act upon his prior recommenda- tion concerning the eight hour law. He urges the adoption of an ordinance which will enable the Executive to enforce the eight hour principle fm ail city contracts. e commends the plan for the regulation of the employment of city employes and sug- gests that it be put into immediate effect by ordinance so that the people may have a chance to observe its workings before be- ing called upon to vote on it. in conclusion, he says he is not conscious of having once departed from the senti- ments expressed in his speech of accept- ance or of once forgetting the solemn re- sponsibility resting upon one who wears the sgnet ring of St. Louls. The message was accompanied by the rTe- ports of the heads of departments. The Council] Committee on Public Im- rovements gave a public hearing on the utter bill Tuesday afternoon. Ellis Wainwright was the first speaker. He attacked the Keyes bill, on the ground of the physical difficulties to which it woula give rise, and its legal imperfections. The physical difficulties were such that for the Board of Public Improvements to pbs sere them would involve the exercise of judici@l functions, which would be alone sufficient tO render the ordinance invalid. The legal question he left to the lawyers and the courts. Wm. B. Thompson and O'Nelll Ryan Urged that the passage of the Sutter Dill peal would be had to the courts, | Judge Henry Priest spoke forty witee favor of the —_ e answered | which would would confer special privileges and create a monopoly. Henry Hitchcock, whe sald he spoke as & a rt eee ED TO THE DOORS—BOEHMER’S MARK-D0' Of All Surplus Stock, We owe an apology to the Ladies'and Gentlemen whom we failed to properly wait upon yesterday and Monday, and also to those whose packages were not promptly delivered. store surpassed our most sanguine expectations. Men’s French Patent Calf Welts, 2. Lace and Button, broken lots, . ~ all sizes and widths, $4 value for Men’s Calf and Welt . Lace and Button, $4 and $3 values for ’ Men’s Enamel Hand Welt, Lace, ee wet Cis. ok shone cmoenn . Men’s Box Calf Welts, new cottage, opera and bull dog lasts, ? 43 1 double sole, box calf, water- proof, AA to E, $4 value for...: Men’s best quality Rubbers Men's Patent Calf Welts, all the new toes, $5 value for Ladies’ Shoes, over 2000 pairs, five styles, ay $3 value for.... soken s Ladies’ Finest Carriage $ Boots, $3.50 value for ..... 1 s 99 Ladies’ One-Strap First Quality Rubbers, 50c value, and THE BUSIEST 4 Ladies’ Felt Slippers, 3s $1.75 £06... 0 cevcve Shove 1.29 For Party Wear— Blue and White Glove Kid and Red Satin Oxfords, $3 value for.... f ibpns thems one . Ladies’ White, Nile Green, Red, Blue and Straw Satin Slippers, C sizes 1 to 3, $2.50 value for .....-- * y SHOE STORE IN ST. LOU 613 and 615 We made special efforts to accommodate an army of buyers—engaged -extra help, etc., for this sale—but the perfect avalanche that crowded our 88" We quote a few prices, taken at random from half a thousand extraordinary values in every department. Boys’ Patent Leather Tan and Calf Shoes, sizes 5 to 6, F $3 value fet... ccccvvevcs ssenue Lace or Button, A to E, : $1.75 value for. The same in sizes 8% to 10966 «eo euee Misses’ Shoes, sizes 11 to 2, $I one oneaPe*® The same in sizes 6 to 8... enon «e+ 89C . OL "| ! » * SS ee - Va ad, ps ae ae.” rivate citizen and a represen ° axpayers’ none pposed the Su on the ground that it was drawn with that its’ rdinary looseness, the placing of the k a ints e other nsisted tha lar session and the bill up on. On wee a of Mr. Hecker ntrod neers to submit designs and p ans tration plant for the water works. of the com ling bill. On the resolution passed by the ropriate money for the Means —— : John. Wayland got a fine. overcoat from Richard K. Drew of 2129 Chip- . pewa street, Tuesday, and t now in | charged with larceny. / as took off his coat to Wayland seized it and fled. A iceman stantng avhities asa ne land and a m. _ & Book for the Farmer. The greatest beok of the century for the faria and householl, price considered, ’ the Post-Dispatch Almana> of 1997, All sub- : jeots pertaining to the farm and hold, of interest of either, are treated in : plain and comprehensive . manner, Then there ‘are other useful bits of Five hundred pages 1,000 topics, 10,000 facte, Thirty-four pages are | esp te St. Louls, Price. Gcenta — Two Euchre Parties. - = . — 2 « ¢ and { bill invit! on 3 RAN OFF WITH THE COAT. © — , 4 : ite 99 ; ate 4 dod , § 512 Locnst Street. - wv & ‘ FINE GOODS ONLY. NO TRASH. Boys’ Uilsters. 7 ——— SEE THAT TEE NAME Teco auanaty ot -ACH CIGAR. . vite le uaD of en before Having Purchased and Imported a large q | Tobscco pu @ “vy i, * a inti. Ua Oe re, 2 je Sakic Ae PRR AP frevidpiihh Pape a, Play pian Sah P= .) BIR i haga Bile Nice » sctlltg es so. tment ‘