St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 7, 1897

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* | Ry es Vaw We Can All Wear Diamonds. A Swiss scientist discovers the long sought secret of making pure gems by the peck measure. IN NEXT SUNDAY’S P.-D. St. £onis Po for Summer Fishing. The effect of the floods on the favorite fishing grounds affefted by St. Louls Waltonites. IN NEXT SUNDAY'’S P.-D. —E | — VOL. 48,. NO. 271. FRIDAY EVENING-ST. LOUIS-MAY 7, 1897.-TEN PAGES. PRICE Skis HSN caer —— Not Yesterday’s Happenings, but To-D ’s Happenings, You Get in the P.-D. | TURNERS AT TRE FAIR GROUNDS MANY THOUSANDS WITNESS THE FIELD CONTESTS. DRILLS WELL WORTH SEEING. The Great Fest Promises to Be One of the Most Successful in the As- sociation’s History. The Fair Grounds presentéd a beautiful sight Friday morning. Countless groups of Turners were out drilling as early as 6 o'clock and from that on until 7 o’clock the time was spent In practice work. Some of the drills are very beautiful and to those who have no idea of the German system of developing muscle the exercises are a revelations The calisthenic drills are conducted precisely like a military drill with arms. A steel nickel-plated round bar weighing five pounds takes the place of the musket, and every movement of these “wands,” as they are called, brings into play some muscle of the body. All the early morning hour whole companies of Turners , _ for the beginning of the class competition was 7 Brrr but it was after 8 before the classes got to work. The judges were also late in arriving which was another cause of delay, much to the discomfiture of Director Muegge and General Manager Stechter. At the hour of beginning there were not many people in the grand-stand, but as the forenoon wore away they came in large numbers. It is to be regretted that better and more compact facilities have not been afforded for the acquiring of information. Even the turners are greatly at sea. Delegation after delegation wander about the grounds hunting their places, and though there is a nominal bureau of information it has lit- tle or no information to give. There are no accommodations for the En- glish press and no general press headquar- ters. There is a press telephone, but it is located in a small booth which is locked, the key in the pocket of Dr. Preetorius, and the doctor is home in bed. At 8 o’clock the bugle sounded and the various classes in competition drill began to assemble on the green sward in front of the grand stand. The classes were di- vided into three groups. Group I consisted of classes numbering from 8 to 18 men, and operated under the direction of Emil Woerner and K. Backhusen. Group II consisted of classes numbering from 19 to 38 men, and were under the direction of Otto Boettger and K. Keck- rith. Group III consisted of classes num- bering from 39 to 58 men, under the direc- tion of Albert Nathan and Oscar Ernst. The competitive work of the morning@on- sisted chiefly of the prescribed exercises with steel wands; putting the = sixteen- pound shot, right and left, two throws each, best throw on each side to count; the high far jump, and, lastly, the 100-yards ae The drill with the steel wands by the various classes was by far the most pictur- esque and interesting. These varied exer- cises took up the time from 8:30 until noon, and were engaged in by perhaps 2,000 turn- ers. That it was hard work and well fitted ~~ F ‘- ’ ‘ M/) CLASS EXERCISES ON THE BARS. EE | were out on the green sward going through the drill. Their wands flashing in the bright sunlight, their bodies swaying in the evolu- tions with military precision, afforded a strikingly beautiful picture. Thursday’s physical exercises had to be materially curtailed because of the lateness of the hour at which they began. The girls’ Symnastic exercises were omitted and the relay race, from which so much was ex- pected, was also unsatisfactory. The first event of the day, the mass ex- ercises by the boys of the different schools, was due to begin at 3:15 o’clock. It was ulmost an hour later, however, before the signal for starting was given. About 1,300 boys, ranginy in age from 9 to 12 years, took part in this event. The flag drill was followed by exercises upon the bucks by the boys. he young- eters were formed in thirty rows and the bucks were placed directly in front of them. The foremost thirty boys would start at the sound of a gong, leap onto the bucks, and at another signal down they would drop and hie away to the rear of the column. The next row of boys would then go through the same performance, ‘until all had been over several times. The relay race may have to be run over again. The crowd on the grounds was very large and very inconsiderate, for it pressed 4 on the racers and interfered greatly with em. Nine heats were run, six societies taking part in each. Fifty-four societies and 324 men participated in the races. The course was yards in length, and to each con- testing society were allowed six representa- tives, each one of whom was supposed to run 100 ards. At the end of that distance find a substitute waiting to relieve was given the starter, who, upon running his 100 yards, would pass it on to the man walting to relieve ‘him. The second man would then run with it for another 100 yards, and hand it over to the third one, and s0 on until the sixth man reached the ; 1. The contesting societies in the relay «+: e were as follows: First heat—M-Keesport, Pittsburg, Pa.; North Side, Milwaukee, Wis.; Covington, Covin on, Key. Social, St. Louls; Washing- : ; 0.; Vorw - beth. ag rwaerts, Eliza ‘sentatives of the Social Turn “t. Louls, won in 75 seconds, jualified because some of the ot 2 ae » | Of yesterday's heats will itted a. . each other for the final cine est later during the meeting. It may be however, that the judges w''| decide to run the Whole r.ce over again« vccount of the mu 6 Tor Complaints. to-test powers of endurance nobody can deny. The culinary arrangements on the grounds are quite complete. The mess hall occupies the old carriage hall. The bare room, with its rough columns, has been draped with the colors of Ger- many and America and the emblems of the turnerbund. Three long benches, run- ning almost the whole length of the room, have been built. On each side are benches which are expected to accommodate 2,000 at a sitting. The cuisine is in charge of Gus Gundelfinger. He has four assitants and fifty men waiters to serve the meals. Twelve cooks will be required to make the soup that will be served, and sixteen dish- washers will be employed to make ready for relaying the tables. Very plain meals will be served. One kind of soup, one kind of meat, potato salad and green vegeta- bles will comprise the menu. There will be no coffee, no dessert and no napkins, either. Three hundred gallons of soup and 1,800 pounds of meat will be provided for each day’s dinner. There is very little drinking on the grounds—none at all by the working Turn- ers. They have no time for anything but muscular energy, and plenty of it, Director Muegge its a stern disciplinarian, and dur- ing the forenoon kept the classes in every group right up to their work. To a lay- man it is difficult to understand the points to be contested for. In fact the whole per- formance seemed so enerally excellent > soa the judging must be a difficult mat- er. As a side fesue of the morning, there were competitive exercises in recitation and pee speechmaking in the upper Hall of Comfort on the grounds. The ex- ercises pag? gehen tet over by three judges, but there did not seem to be much inter- est in this feature of the programme, for there were only four. or five contestants, and less than a dozen people in the audi- ence. Two of the elocutionists were men and one a lady. The selections were all ee * + edgy and seemed to im- press @ judges favorably. At ll o’clock there were probably 3,000 ectators in the grand stand, and the ap- plause which greeted the more successful of the contests was liberal. As these lattter Were distributed all over the field, the judges were also scattered, and there was no possibility of learning who or what or- ganizations excelled in the drills. But the scene from the grand stand when all the groups were at work was inspiring. As at every other great public gathering, there are innumberable catch-penny nui- sances,. Chief among them at the Turners fest is the merry-go-round, with its _in- terminable steam machine made music. The and’) me engineer started his fires at 6 o'clock and CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE, A LYNCHING. 1) EXPECTED, FARMERS ARMING TO MARCH ON _ CLAYTON. NEGROES’ NECKS IN DANGER. Brutal Murder of Michael Prendergast Near Bonfils Likely to Have a Tragic Sequel. A mob is County. - It fs reported there will be a march on the jail at Clayton Friday night. The farmers of Bonfils, Bridgeton, Fergu- son and St. Charles declare they will lynch the murderers of old Farmer Prendergast, who was killed while trying to protect his corn from midnight marauders, Two men are under arrest charged with the crime. They are Walter Black and Jim Stuart, negroes, of Sand Town, who have huts almost under the shadow of the St. Charles bridge. The evidence against them is circumstantial but it is so strong that few in the County doubt their guilt. There came near being a lynching Thurs- day afternoon and Deputy Sheriff Atten- reith does not yet know what a narrow es- cape he had with his prisoners. The in- quest was held at the home of the mur- dered man at 4 o’clock. The house is on the River Bottom road, half way between Bonfils and St. Charles. At 4:30 the deputy sheriff started with his prisoners for Clay- ton. There is a litttle jail at Sand Town and the farmers thought he would take the negroes there for the night. Fifty of them laid in wait behind some maple trees being formed in S8t. Louis ‘on the River Bottom road, but the deputy took another direction and passed through Bridgeton on his way to the county seat. Again Thursday night the farmers came within an ace of taking the law into their own hands. At 10 o'clock over 100 of them had gathered at the home of the Prender- gasts and a proposition was made that they go to Clayton. William Hahn favored such a step, John Brennan was not averse and Austin Tushie also urged immediate action. But there were many. womelf Folks in the. house and they got wind of the proposed trip and begged the men not to take it. They said to wait until the body of Michael Prendergast was underground and asked the men not to leave them while the corpse was in the house. So the lynching bee was postponed. It was a strange scene on the River Bot- tom road last night. The house where the dead man lay has four rooms and an attic. It is surrounded by maples. The body, wrapped in a sheet, was placed beside an open window in the little sitting-room and was in full views from the road. With the arrival of night, farmers and their wives came to the little home from all over the county. Those who were Catholics came to wake the body; the Protestants to offer sympathy to the widow and her daughters. The men folks, Catho- lics and Protestants, discussed the pro- posed lynching bee. The lowlands in this vicinity are still under water from the Missouri overflow, and from out this swamp land came a deaf- ening chorus as bull frogs and tree toads joined their garish notes. Light from the new moon glinted through the maples and showed the hundred and more farmers who were seated about the yard. They had made a number of benches by rigging up planks with kegs and pieces of wood as supports. Their teams stretched yp and down the road. Some of the horses had been taken out and turned loose; others were hitched in harness. Every farmer was there to remain until after the funeral Friday morning, and then they would orgah- ize the county for the march on Clayton, This was the decision at ll o’clock Thurs- day night. While the men folks were thus discus- sing’ the matter outside the women were gathered in the sitting-room. Candles were burning brightly at the head of the body, and all could be plainly seen from the road. Crime has been rampant in the county all winter and early spring. There have been innumerable thefts, hardly a farmer having escaped without losing something, from a valuable team to a chicken or a sack of corn. The murder of Michael Pren- dergast was the direct outcome of this thievery and his death at the hands of midnight prowlers is therefore brought for- cibly home to the hundreds who have suf- fered from depredations. “Shot down while trying to save his prop- erty!"’ was an expression frequently heard Thursday night. “It might have happened to any of us,’’ another would say and then would come a more unanimous decision than ever to lynch the murderers. No man was better known in the Bottoms than Michael Prendergast. He had reared a large family and four of his daughters are married—two to farmers in that vicin- ity and two to men in St. Louls. He was CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. ro me Was mors elaborate, | Soaelar work. Th. hour set ! IAYTON, OHIO, TURNE aie Wa : : ; : . Aas oy AE bey 7 a ae 2 Tae) DRILL. | os te 75h 1m . 4 ae eae 144 MBL yo er SRY a eee —-" Aer 4, s, ar fy” 7 A WT, A Y, ‘ie TURKISH TROOPS HOLDING A VILLAGE AGAINST A GREEK ew RAID. ROBBERS BEA AND BOUND HIN YOUNG ORVILLE CALE’S ADVEN- TURE IN A STABLE. HE GOT A NOTE OF WARNING. Son of the Frisco Traffic Marager As- saulted Because He Shot at Two Burglars. dau » 5 The house of George W. Cale, Freight bTraffic Manager ot ‘the Bt. Louis & San F o Rallway as entered by burglars two months ago.. Thursday night the burglars returned and beat young Or- ville Cale till he lay insensible in his father’s barn. Then they bound him hand and foot and left him. Mr. Cale’s residence, 3047 North Taylor avenue, igs somewhat isolated. It is sur- rounded by spacious grounds, and the neigh- borhood is not thickly settled. One night Orville Cale was awakened by a noise downstairs, and told his brother, Charles A. Cale, he believed there were burglars in the house. His brother laughed at him, but Orville investigated. Although but 17 years old, he has plenty of courage. He went downstairs and searched the parlor from which the noise seemed to come. His brother laughed at him more derisively than ever when he returned without having found anyone. Five minutes later Orville heard the noise again, but it seemed to be in the yard. Cautiously raising the window and looking out he saw a man standing near the house and another crawling from the dining-room window, Orville’s shot-gun was in the room, and seizing it he returned to the window. The two men were running across the lawn toward the barn. As they reached the barn Orville fired both barrels. One of the men yelled, but they continued their flight and escaped. The gun was loaded with bird shot. The report of the gun aroused the mem- bers of the househoid and the few neigh- bors of the Cales. The dining-room was found to have been stripped of all the solid silverware, but it was found on the lawn between the barn and the house, tied in a table-cloth. Orville was the hero of the day, but the episode was about forgotten, when a note, found pinned to the barn door Sunday night two weeks ago, brought it to mind. Orville and his brother attend to their horses in person, On going out to the stable that night they found the note where it had been pinned in such a way that it could not es- cape their attention. It was in an uncouth hand and with misspelled words. It read as follows: Dear Orvall: We know now that you are the one that shot us that Sunday night. We will be back. Look out for your skull. ag The boys showed the note to their father, who turned it over to the policeman on the beat. . The police apparently paid no attention to it. Thursday night the house was crowded with guests, and Orville went out alone to attend to the horses. It was later than usual, about 8 o’clock, and quite dark. As he entered the barn door two men seized him. Orville made a desperate strug- gie, and was able for a time to defend himself, as he is something of an athiete. Finally one of the men succeeded in pin- foning his arms, and the other dealt him a blow over the left temple, which felled him. Then one of the méen caught h'm by the throat and choked him so it was impossible for him to cry for help. Then they kicked him till he lost consciousness. When he revived he was being bound hand and foot with a rope by his assailants. One of them told him if he made an outcry he would be killed. “You shot at us,” one of his assailants ite “and we will get even with you for The men withdrew a few feet and held a whispered conversation. Orville could hear their voices but he could not distin- uish the words. The voices were evidently isguised and he could not recognize them. After a few moments the men returned. e barn was in total darkness and though the — strained his eyes he could not meee ef their faces. The horse moved uneasily in his stall and kicked against the door. Orville, with rare presence of mind, cried, “There's father, now!" The men were thrown off their guard and BURIAL PERMITS. ———$— The following deaths have been re. ported in the city during the twenty-four hours ending at noon: SARAH C. YOUNG, 78, #31 Morgan; can- er. NETTIE WILLIAMS, 4. 2235 Carr; ure- ce = at CONTINUED ON beat a hasty retreat through a rear door. The boy waited until they were out of hearing and then cried for help. The barn is some distance from the housé, and the noise did not arouse anyone. For more than three-quarters of an hour the boy lay on the barn floor unable to move. He tried to free his hands, and the cords cut into his wrists until the blood came. He was almost exhausted, and had about reconciled himself to an all night's stay in his uncomfortable position when re- lief came, His father became uneasy at his son's prolonged absence, and went out to see what was keeping him. As he entered the barn he stumbled over the prostrate form of his son. At first he thought the boy had been murdered, but Orville spoke and reassured him. After Orville was helped into the house he speedily recovered from the assault, with the exception of a bruise on the right side of the forehead. He did not know whether the men had used a weapon or _— He was able to return to school Fri- ay. Mr. Cale reported the assault to the po- lice of Capt. Campbell's district shortly af- ter it occurred. Young Cale, however, could give no description of the men, hav- ing been unable to discerm in the dark whether they were white or black. There. is no clew to their identity save. the fact evidenced by the note, that they were ac- quainted with the young man and had means uf ascertaining that it was he who shot at them. Mr. Cale stated Friday that no attention was paid the matter by the police at the time he turned the threatening note over to them. “Even the sergeant knew nothing about the note when I reported the assault last night,”’ said Mr. ‘Cale. ‘‘Hee said he had been told that the police- man to whom I gave it had handed it to the captain, so he did not bother about it himself.”’ GOT ‘EM GOING. Ohio Republicans on the Run Because of Cincinnati Stealing and the Spiritualists. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CINCINNATI, O., May 7.—Republican politicians here and in ,Washington are greatly wrought up over the recent develop- ments here that seemingly indicate whole- sale corruption among Republican munici- pal leaders. It is feared that a systematic, searching investigation will result in dis- aster to the Republican party in Ohio this fall. Another peculiar phase of the apparent situation is an announced determination on the part of the Spiritualists to vote with the Democrats in certain close counties be- cause the Republican representatives from there voted for the medical diploma ex- amination law, which shuts out Spiritual- ist physicians from practice in the State. The Hon. James B. Townsend of Lima, O., one of Senator Brice’s*lieutenants, who is a radical Spiritualist, is quoted as say- ing that the following counties will thus be thrown to the Democrats at the fall elec- tion: Delaware, Marion, Knox, Highland, Franklin, Hardin, Summit, Preble, Morgan, Noble and Adams. The Republican State Centra] Committee will meet in Columbus to-day. Maj. Dick, who comes as the representative of Hanna, has held a conference with Gov. Bushnell, and it is said many of the points of dispute have been tompromised. MEXICAN CONSULATE. Hung Up Now on Account of Conflict- ing Claims. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.—The ques- tion of whether or not appointment of Con- sul-General to Mexico is to go to Missouri; Illinois or Michigan seems to be involved in much doubt. Editor D. M. Houser of the Globe-Demo- crat thought he had the place insured for his kinsman, A, . Barlow, until Editor Kohlisaat of Chicago came into the game. Although the Missourians are standing pat the general impression is that Barlow will be, Renta se is pore, eee that does not seem to mend matters. ppoint- ment seermis to be tied u Pes “ the chances In favor of winning the decision. BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. No New-Fangled Wash Basins for Gov. Leedy. 8 Special to the Post-Dispateh. TOPEKA, Kan., May 7.—Gov. Lebay has boycotted the porcelain lavatory th its patent appliances In his office. Yesterday he set the water flowing, but was unable to shut it off, and he and the floor were del- uged. Immediately he directed his private secretary to purchase for his tin wash ‘ NDON, May 1.—The Daily anos tid Sus itnd thas Ts | Seaifies Atte Wing ne" Moses use a4} HUMPHREY VOTES ARE IN DEMAND, ALLEGED OFFER OF $2,000 FOR ONE. SENSATION AT SPRINGFIELD. Illinois House Employe Says He Was Mistaken for a Representative and Offered Money. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 7.—A. L. Ham- ilton, a committee eletk of the House, ac- cused W. C. Garrard, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, of offering him $2,000 for his vote on the Humphrey bills. Gar- rard, Ham!lton says, mistook him for Rep- resentative Flannigan of McLeansboro. The accusation created the greatest excitement and the confusion among the members was so great that the House adjourned in a few minutes. Garrard stoutly denies the accusation of Hamilton and says he does not know the man, Senator Landrigan introduced some man to Garrard this morning under the ap- prehension that it was Flannigan. Landrigan is a member of the State Board of Agriculture and is interested itn the bill appropriating money for the State Fair. He is also interested in a little bill which con- templates the removal of a dam ut Skillet Fork, in his district. This dam also affects land in Flannigan’s district. Landrigan was not acquainted with Flannigan,so Represen- tative Williams introduced them. They talked some minutes about the ih and separated and Landrigan left to go to the Senate. He says he met Garrard, who is lob- bying for the State Fair bill, and told him he should see some of the members, and especially Nohe, who was active against the measure. A page was sent to Flfnni- gan’s seat, but he had left, and Hamilton was seated there instead. Hamilton, not knowing that he was mis- taken for Flannigan, followed Landrigan, who tntroduced him to Garrard at the door of the House and left them. Hamilton's story is that Garrard called him into one of the side rotundas and after a preliminary talk on other bills asked him point blank if he would vote for the Humphrey bills. ‘“‘We have more than 77 votes for the bilis,” Garrard is reported to have said, “but we want 9. If you vote for these bills there is a little present of $2,000 for you when the Governor signs them.” Hamilton gaid that he made no answer, but turned and walked away. He returned to Flannigan's seat and told Representative Bailey that he had just been offered $2,000 to vote for the Humphrey bills. “Why didn’t you take it?’ asked Balley jokingly. “The proposition was that I was not to get it until the bills were signed.”” was the an- swer. The news soon spread. Ham'iton and Gar- rard were brought together and Hamilton accused Garrard of making the offer. “You are mistaken,’ said Garrard. never met you in my life.’’ Haanilton stoutly maintained that Gar- rard was the man whom he met and whe tried to bribe him under the misapprehen- sion that he was Flannigan. Senator Landrigan voted against the Humphrey bill in the Senate and has al- ways opposed them. He says that Gar- rard asked to meet Flannigan to talk with him on the State Fair appropriation bill. He introduced some man to Garrard, but does not know if he made a mistake in the men. Flannigan says he never met Gar- rard, and this would give color to Hamils ton’s statement. .Hamilton lives in West Chicago and has been a House employe this session, ae | “ Excesses by Turks Denied. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7.—An official communique reiterates that the excesses at- tributed to the Turkish troops at Larissa are infamous calumnies, and that the al- leged Turkish evacuation of Trkkala is unfounded. King George Very Sick. pea ee oh 4 a get j ‘ ‘ ee ebe « ae sul Plage aE AY AI : —— ee ee vats - b & 7 % [ A FF KS AR . . HAR | PR ESSE}. as ‘ = PURSUED FROM PHARSALA BY TURKISH CAVALRY. SMOLENSKI IS AT ARMYRO. A Turkish Brigade Marches on Volo and Will Probably Capture That Town. WASHINGTON, May 7.—Minister Terrell, at Constantinople, under date of yesterday, cables the State Department that a tele- gram has been received from Edhem Pasha, saying that he captured Pharsala on yes- terday and that he was pursuing the Greek army to Domokos. The mountain passes be- low Domokos could be easily defended, but it is reported that the Greek army is great- ly demoralized, and that it will offer but slight resistance, if any, to the advance of the Turks. The proposed mediation of the Powers be- tween Turkey and Greece is viewed with favor by the Turkish Government. Another batch of men who have been on trial charged with participating in the mas- sacre of Armenians in the streets of Tokat, District of Sivas, have been sentenced. Three of them have been condemned to death and four others have been sentenced to terms of from three to ten years’ impris- onment. : The authorities of Erzeroum have been ordered to hold eleven regiments of the fa- mous Hamidish cavalry in readinéss in case they are wanted for service in Thes- saly. A battalion of Rediffs has been sent to the Island of .Mytilene as a precaution against a possible landing of the Greeks there, The Turkish government last night re- ceived the following official dispatch from Pharsala: — “At dawn, the imperial troops having at- ° tacked the enemy oceupying Pharsala, from which place a part of the Greek troops had already begun to retreat during the night, defeated them and captured the town, “A division of cavalry pursued the ene- my on the road to Domokos, and the divis- ion of Khari Pasha has been ordered to advance In that direction. The Greeks left ammunition and provisions at Pharsala.” =, bill RETREATED SOUTH. Gen. Smolenski’s Brigade Has Arrived at Armyro. ATHENS, May 7.—A dispatch just received from Armyro announces that Gen. Smolen- ski’s brigade arrived there this morning, after having effected a retreat from Veles- tino in good order. A panic prevails at Lamia, on the Gulf of Lamia, which is now the base of supplies for the Greek forces at Domokos. Many ‘of the inhabitants are fleeing from the place, fearing it will be attacked by the Turks. Three vessels brought refugees from Lamia to the Piraeus yesterday even- ing. MARCHING ON VOLO. The Turks Expect to Take That Town in Short Order. LARISSA, May 7.—Many wounded Turk- ish soldiers were brought in here last night from the front. They confirm the report of the capture of Velestino by the Turks, where the fighting was severe. A Turkish brigade is marching on Volo, which is ex- pected soon to be in the hands of the Ot- toman troops. Everybody speaks of the, re markable courage displayed by the Alba- nians. Greek Reverses in Epirus. LONDON, May 7.—The Dally Mall's corre- spondent at Patras, under date of W ednes- day, says: The Greek battalion to-day at- tacked the Turks near pplada. Greeks fought well, but their ammuni was soon expended and they were com to retire. Officers and men in true are bitterly displeased with the headquarters staff, and tely the soldiers have been plundering their compatriots. A very uD satisfactory condition of things exists, Sir Ellis Bartlett’s Detention ATHENS, May 7.—Sir Ellis Ashmead Bart- hose schooner Was detained by the ted or on the assumpticn that itish Legation Greek Shells Were BALONICA, M —_ _! aia el at reeks did Rat EATHER fleet Turkish no harm. a landing. THE W PO ee ee agi 9 eo a - . os 4

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aad SSR OE ee ae REMY 9245 IN CITY, ted W om oR o- n c. ve isteach Ba es Friday—St, Louis Post-Bispatch- » + ¥ > Ne «2 _ 7 . a ,» + & “2 Nee HAD MURDER IN THEIR HEARTS FOOTPADS PUT AN UNCONSCIOUS MAN IN DEATH’S WAY. —— HE WAS STRUCK BY A CAR. But the Motorman Saw Thomas Brady in Time to Keep From Killing Him, Thomas Brady was sandbagged and robbed by two men at 10 o'clock Thursday night. After beating their victim into dnsensibflity and rifling his pockets the footpads placed him across the Suburban tracks to be mangled by a motor ¢ar. The police have made no arrests. Brady is a stranger in Bt. Louis. He i{s a laboring man, but not of the hobo species. He arrived from. Toronto, Canada, and looked al] day for work, but was unsuc- cessful. In the evening he went out tn the West End, where he hoped to get work as a gardener. Again he was unsuccessful, and he started down-town. He was unfamiliar w:th the city, and when on Gambleton place, within a few blocks of the Suburban tracks, he asked some one to direct him down-town. He was told to walk to Etzel avenue and take the Suburban car. As he was passing a dark alley near the tracks he saw two men emerge. They ap- proached him slowly and one of them stopped and spoke to him, asking him the time. The other walked on, As Brady was talking to one he glanced around just in time to see an arm with a sand-bag in the hand descending. The blow landed on his temple and he knew no more. Riis assailants went through his pockets and took everything he had of Value, An east-bound Suburban car had just passed Gambleton place and Etzel avenues, going at full speed, when E. M. "est, the motorman, saw in the middle of the track a man lying prostrate. Over him were stand- ing two other men. The men, when they saw the car approaching, ran. The car was going at such a speed that it was impossible to stop it before it struck the min, though a a was reversed and the brakes ap- piled. The car struck the prostrate man and knocked him from the track. The car was stopped and the motorman and the, con- ductor, L. H. Moyers, ran to the man’s side. Dr. Eegers of Horton place and Hodiamont avenue was called. He found that Brady’s left arm was broken,’ his thight badiy cut and bruised, and that he was suffering ser- lous internal {njuries. Brady was put on a west-bound car and taken to the Baptist Sanitariuin, where the physicians say his condition is serious. o. M. West, the motorman in charge of car 166, which struck Brady, said: “We were going east and had just rounéed the curve beyond Etzel avenue and Gamble- ton place, when I. saw three men on the track. One man was lying across the track and the other two were putting his pockets back. They had been turned inside out. Ag they saw the car coming they left the man in the middle of the track and ran. I tried to stop the car before it struck the man, but tt was going too fast. “The men evidently left Brady on the track to be killed. His shoes had been re- moved and his hat was missing. I could fee tliat the man’s pockets had been turned inside out and the other two men were putting them back when I first saw them.” Brady was conscious Friday morning, but could throw little light on the affair. He said it was dark when the men accosted him and he did not get a fair look at either of them. He was not thinking of danger and did not suspect any harm was intended until he saw the man behind him in the act of striking. The blow knocked him senseless and he knew no more until he was restored to consciousness at the Sanitarium. He said he was looking for work and that he was not drinking. He had $6 in his pockets and his could not be found when his clothes rere searched at the hogpital. He says he can not give a description of either of his assailants and he does not think he could identify them. Brady is 30 years old and unmarried. . “LINGLE PARDONED. People of Hts County Asked for Clem- eucy,. Special to tho Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY; Mo., “May 7.—Gov. Stephens to-day pardoned Oscar §. Lin- gle, who was sentenced at the April term 189%, of the Supreme Court on an appeal from Atchison County for defiling a female under 18 years. His pardon was recom- mended by the trial judge and nine of the peg who stated that they thought the aw had been fully vindicated. The peti- tion Was also signed by a great number of ladies of the highest character in Atch- ison County. New Missouri Corporations. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 7.—The Sec- retary of State chartered the following companies: Francis Street Hotel Co. of St. Joseph, capital $106,000; incorporators, G. T. Stock- han, James Kettner and 8S. J. Whitmore. A. Schalz Furniture and Carpet Co. of St. Louls, capital $6,400; incorporators, A.Schalz, de wy LD. Biesterfeldt and Fred W. Han- peter. Chapline Realty and Construction Co. of St. Louls, capital $25,000; incorporators, Geo. G. Chanline, Henry J. Parson and Samuc! ; A. Keeley. ° Lowenstein Realty and Investment Co. of St. Louis, capital $10,000; tneorporators, Jen- nie Lowenstein, M. B. Lowenstein and Sam M. Lowenstein. Turpin Granite and Cement Co. of St. z “tis, capital $10,000; incorporators, John " Young and A, L, Berry. ' aving and Construc- Dital $5,000; in- T. Boyd, N. M. -— ee Gov. a«.. sintments. SPRINGFIELD, Il., May 7.—Gov. Tan- ner this morning sent to the Senate the following appointments: ‘ublic Guardian for La Salle County~— Harry G. Cook of Ottawa. ’ -. QO. he ecg of Oregon, to succeed omas dgway as trustee of th ~ ern (llinois Normal School. =_— W m ©, Egrert of Chicago to succeed himseif as Commissioner of the West Chi- cago Park. Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library—Hiram W. Beckwith of Danville to succecd Lambert Tree, resigned; Ed- mund J. Hames of Chicago to succeed Rob. ert A. Gray, resigned; George N. Black of Springfield to succeed Wm. H. Snyder, re- signed. ow - we He Consented to Talk. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, LL, May 7.~The Special House Committee which is investigating the rain office in Chicago brought Felix senf! before the bar of the House for con- tempt, Senff refused to answer questions propounded by the committee on the ground that it was IUlegelly created. He consented to-day to answer the committee's qucstions and was released. Supfeme Court Proceedings. Epeciz! to the Post-Dispatch, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 7.—The Su. preme Court met en banc this morning pur- suant to adjournment, The following pro- . ceedings were had: Louls Fischer, appellant, vs. M. C. John- pee and others, respondents; submitted on rieta, State ex rel. J. J. Spaulding, vs. Henry Peterson, appellant, eubmitted., respondent argued and Peter Graney et al., respondent, vs. 8t. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway Co., appel- lants; argued and submitted. Oil Inspector Appointed, Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFE ; ° 7.—Gory. aed : BLOODY DEED — —_- KILLED MAN AND WIFE WOUNDED TWO OTHERS ESCAPED ON A_ BICY Pursuit and Determined on Lynching. and what may yet prove a quadruple der occurred at the farm homie of Al corner of the township of Waukesha ly this morning. The victims were Harris, his wife, hired girl and hired The dead and wounded are: night. - aged 45 years, Alexander Harris, outright. Mrs. Harris, aged 44, killed. wounded. William Pouch worked for Mr. own request ing, Pouch arose from the table and st to walk toward the door. man realized what was about to ha he wheeled around and shot Mrs. Har pired soon afterwards. The hired girl chance of recovery. About 5 o'clock Mrs. agg Sy and the man arose and went to the yard to ing breakfast. and going to the yard where the men bade them good morning. Harris an hired man were sitting on stools near evil doing Pouch drew a revolver and at the farmer. killing him. then shot the hired man, inflicting pro a fata] wound. The terrible sight did not unnerve the walked leisurely to the kitchen of the house. There he met Mrs. Harris an hired girl and chatted pleasantly with for a few minutes. He said he would partake of his breakfast at s¢emed to relish the meal. After finishing his bloody work the derer mounted a bicycle and rode the Mukwonago road. is in hot pursuit. The farmers are greatly excited an lynched, the man {s either insane or that committed the terrible deed in hide evidence of another crime. ord The arranging his plans. Mr. farmers in the county and was quite to do. Pouch had worked for him enmity hetween them. about 5 feet in height, 20 years of age, a mustache and has blue eyes. The of the hired man is Nelson Holt. years of age. aged 26. to Canvass It. Special to the Post-Dispatch. Bland, Dockery and _ Benton, Stone, David A. Ball of Pike and Edg Richmond of Macon have agreed to vass the First District. bal to-morrow to fix dates and placs the speakers. Efforts are still to secure’ Blackburn and Altgeld. NELSON MORRIS WON. & Overstreet. a claim of Nelson Morris & Co. for against Stewart & Overstreet of St. Several years ago Morris purchased worth of cattle from the St. Louis firm. other party claimed the cattle on a age, make the amount good. Steamship Movements. nic, New York for Liverpool. OF A TRAMP, AND CLE. A Posse of Wisconsin Farme:s in Hot MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 7.—A double mur- exan- der Harris, who resided in the southeast , ear- Mr. man. The crime was committed, it is supposed, by a farm-hand named Wiliam Pouch, who had been sheltered by the farmer ovet killed Helen Vesbach, hired girl, fatally wound- pd. é Nelson Holt, hired man, probably fatally Harris about two years ago and last night at his was given lodging over night. After concluding his breakfast this morn- r arted Before the wo- ppen, ris in the breast and then fired at the hired girl. The farmer's wife fell to the floor and ex- has a hired milk the cows, Mrs. Harris and the girl prepar- Pouch left his room quietly were, d the each other and before they were aware of any fired The murderer bably man, for he left his victims where they fell and farm d the them Mr. Harris would not be In for a few minutes and that once, The women waited upon the murderer who mur- away. He started in a southwesterly direction over A posse of farmers d en- raged, and should they get ho'd of the man before the officers he will undoubtedly be The supposition of the authorities is that he has er to man- ner in which the murders were committed , show plainly thet he had been deliberate in Harris was one of the best known > wel] some time during the summer of 1895 and nothing occurred, so far as known, to cause any He is described a8 wears name He is 25 The girl is Helen Vesbach, IN THE FIRST DISTRICT. Ex-Gov. Stone and Others Have Agreed MACON, Mo., May 7.—Congresmen Clark, ex-Gov, ar M. can- The Democratic Congrerzsional Committee meets in Hanni- ‘s for in progress Judgment for $15,000 Against Stewart CHICAGO, May 7.--A jury in the Federal Court to-day brought in a verdict susta‘ning $15.00) Louis. $15,600 An- mort- and Morris & Co. were compelled to QUEENSTOWN, May 7.—Arrived: Britan- POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. SUITS for BOYS. All Visitors To our city should call and see our store, the handsomest Cloth- ing Store by far to be found in any city in the Union. It will also pay them well to look through our Elegant Spring Styles eve UTE ataes, For Men, Boys and Children. Beautiful designs, MIDDY and *ADMIRAL SUITS, for small boys and an elegant line WASHABLE Broadway Browning, King & Co., and Pine. _— ee SENATOR HANNA BREAKS DOWN. CRUSH OF OFFICE-SEEKERS TOO GREAT FOR HIM, WILL GO HOME FOR REST. — aN He Has Insisted on Running the Whole Patronage Machine and Has Wrecked His Health. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.—The first victim scored by the onrush of the army of office-seekers is no less a person than Mark Hanna himself, and the junior Senator from Ohie, after standing the strain of-a long political campaign, has broken down under the rush of applicants for office. Following out his plan of campaign, Mr. Hanna has ‘kept open house at the national » headquarters in the Glover building, at his apartments in the Arlington, and even at the Senate itself. From early in the morn- ing ‘until late at night the applicants for office have camped upon his trail, and the most humble of them have succeeded in gaining access to the all-powerful chair- man, Mr. Hanna has been engaged not only in looking after the preliminaries of his own Senatorial campaign in Ohio, but also in adjusting differences in other States and in fulfilling multitudinous vague promises made even before the convention at Bt. Louis. But mortal flesh and blood were not created to bear up successfully against the persistent demands of the seve BLA horde of office-seekers. The result has been that Mr. Hanna, who is the picture of health, has at last breken down under the strain. While at the office of the National Com- mittee Wednesday he was seized with a vertigo which prostrated him for a short time. It was not a serious attack, being in every respect like one with;which he was visited in Clevelard during the early days of the campaign last summer. The usual restoratives were applied, and Mr. Hanna, in spite of the protests of friends and physicians, was driven to the Senate cham. ber to cast his vote in favor of the arbitra- tion treaty. When this duty was accom- plished Senator Hanna returned to the hotel. He was obliged to Keep to his room until late in the afternoon, but announced to his close friends that he had determined to go back to Cleveland Friday or Saturday. When he arrives at his home he expects to be able to take a needed rest for a week or so, The prostration which came here is not a serious one in any sense, but it Is the direct result of overwork. His physicians have warned him, that he cannot continue to hold receptions for all office-seekers in the United States, and in response to their suggestion he will leave Washington temporarily, but will return in plenty of time to participate in the long tariff struggle in the Senate. PERMANENT TARIFF COMMISSION The Idea Favored by Senator Cullom of Illinois. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.—In reply to inquiries as to his views on a permanent tariff commission, Senator Culiom has writ- ten the following letter: “WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6.—Mr. Sam- uel B. Archer, Secretary the Tariff Com- mission League, Newark, N. My Dear Sir: You have asked me two or three times whether I have been and am now in favor of a permanent tariff commission. I have for many years thought that there ought to be some means devised by which we could avoid these constant and extreme changes in tariff. legislation—first going so far in the direction of a high tariff, and on the occa- sion of change of politics, going as far the other way. “I believe that through the judicious agency of a permanent tariff commission composed of experts, statisticians and busi- ness Men, such changes could be made from year to year by Congress as might be in- dicated and clearly shown to be wise. “This would save the necessity of requir- ing a change of the whole tariff system by whatever party came into power. “Certainly we cannot continue indefinitely as we have been doing with reference to that subject, because the business on the contrary will not tolerate it. I hope sin- cerely that this Congress may provide for some kind of a commission which will aid in changing the situation, and I should be glad if an amendment of the sort indicated were to be incorporated in the bill now be- fore the Senate, known as the Dingley bill. Truly yours, Ss. M. CULLOM.” PROCEEDINGS SUSPENDED. Sheep Pasturers on Cascade Reserves Get a Rest. WASHINGTON, May 7.—Commissioner Herrmann of the General Land Office has recommended to the Attorney-General the suspension for the present of legal pro- ceedings growing out of sheep pasturing within the Caseade range forest reserves. The Attorney-General is requested to in- struct the United States Attorney for Ore- gon to stay all proceedings in these cases until further orders, in view of legislation now pending in Gongress and of probable early action of the department on the ques- tion. The recommendation is due to the representations from Oregon that great hardship and los& have resulted fo sheep- owners of the State by their exclusion from the grazing lands within the boundaries of the reserve, on which they have been de- pendent for years past. TO SAVE THE BUFFALO. Buffalo Jones Makes an Offer to the Government. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.—Buffalo Jones of Oklahoma, who is at present in the city, has made the Interior Department a proposition to corral the remnant of the once mighty herd of American bison. Prac- tically all of these animals left in a wild state are in the Yellowstone National Park, and Mr. Jones says they do not exceed thirty in number. He is an authority on buffaloes, and he says that if the remain- ing animals are to be preserved they must be gathered at once, as the game in the park has been mercilessly slaughtered the past two years. Mr. Jones says the superin- tendent of the park has abandoned all hope of preserving a single specimen. The Sec- retary has not acted upon the proposition, Job for Longstreet. Special to the Post-Dispatch GAINESVILLE, Ga., May 7.—Gen. James H. Longstreet has returned from Washing- ton and brings with him the positive assur- ance from President McKinley that he wiii be appointed Railroad Commissioner to suc- ceed Wade Hampton some time this month. Gen. Hampton's term of office expired near- ly six weeks ago. TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Said to Have Been Renewed for a Pe- ‘riod of Six Years. LONDON, May 7.—A dispatch to the Dally Mail from Rome says that the compact of the powers constituting the triple alliance was renewed Thursday for a period of six years. The right to withdraw, under the terms of the original agreement, expired on May 6,.and Germany has succeeded in per- suading Italy not to exercise the right of withdrawal. RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS. Annual Convention of the Sixth Di- vision at Peoria. PEORIA, Ill., May 7.—The annual conven- tion of the Sixth Division of the Railway Postal Clerks’ Association began in this city this morning and will continue till to- morrow morning. To-night delegates will be tendered a banquet. There are fifty in at- tendance so far. This morning Mayor Warner delivered an address of welcome, to which response was made by C. L. Schaffer, President of the division, and an addréss of welcome was also delivered by Edward Simpson, President of the Peoria Division. Remarks were made by Capt. L. L. Troy, Superintendent of the division. He urged members to persevere in working for reclassification, Garrard 5. Morgan of Peoria read an original poem, “Old Sam's Last Run.” Committees were appointed. Won the Contest. Those All-wool Clay Worsted Suits for Boys up to 19, sold elsewhere at $7.6, Globe, n. w. cor. Seventh and Franklin av. sell for $4.9 thousands of beautiful patterns. Children’s Suits 9c, $1.45 and $1.95, easily worth double. See that beauty of Junior Suits, handsomely trimmed, $3.50 value, at $1.95. Legislative Proceedings. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 7.—Bogardus’ bill providing for the teaching of deaf and dumb children in public schools was ad- vanced to third reading in the Senate and made a special order for Thesday. ; for the transference gad... en the State Reforma- tiary ° Inthe House Morris Pin providing chat no judge of a county or probate cours shall practice in his own court was passed. For Over-Indulgence Take Horstord’s Acid Phosphate. Rss pres otomaeh ‘o _ All-Wool, Undisputed Fact That St. Louis tailors stand at the top of the profes- sion in America, far excelling those of other cities, Especially is this true of ours, carefully chosen for , their superior skill, working under the best sani- tary conditions in our large, well-lighted factory, | and aided by the most modern machinery and ade than-anywhere-else prices at through and the year round. Our Men’s All-Wool Suits at retail anywhere at any such low prices. Are immeasurably better than any to be had 2. Your purchase kept in repair free. Cuarantee goes with every garment—l. Money back on request. , RETAIL SALESROOM ON CROUND FLOOR OF FACTORY. See our ad in this paper ev- ery Priday. eer -—— = — rege iT is AN eee” vanced methods known to the tailoring industry. THE SPLENDID RESULT IS SHOWN .. . In the exceptionally high grade of Mien’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing produces, and the lowers which we sell direct to the wearer without the intervention of large-profit-seeking Sixth and St. Charles Streets. retail stores. As soon as the finished suit leaves the hands of one of our tailors we put our lowest price on it—a price less than any retail house can afford toname. We sell at these low prices, not as a matter of advertising pretense, but in reality. We need no special ‘“*hurrah” sales. We sell at the lowest factory prices the season at $5, $8 and $10 | Our Exclusive Double Open Evenings till 6 O’ Clock, Saturdays till 10 ILO LLL DEPARTM BUEHLER-PHELAN PAINT MFG. CO. EXTERIOR HOUSE PAINTS— HARD FINISH FLOOR PAINTS—LA DRESDEN GLOSS ENAMEL—Feor Iron Beds, Furniture, Etc. Car and Bridge Mineral Paints. Varnish Stains for Floors and Borders. ; For Sale by Leading Druggists and Ha AMPLE SORE CAERECTOANOCE IN Now is the time to Beautify Your Homes by the : PA INT SUGGESTIONS-==-wkcn and use of a MANUFACTURERS I ne IRSHECALLED 36s HER A STRUMPET. THEN THE JURY MAY GIVE A VERDICT AGAINST MRS. HILL. THE COURT SO _ INSTRUCTS. Sensational Damage Suit Brought by/ Miss Dyer Is Almost at an End. The fifth and last day of. the Dyer-Hill damege suit brought the usual jam to Judge Filitcraft’s court Friday. The evidence was all in, but the curious wanted to hear the closing arguments of the attorneys. Mrs. Hill was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Allegeier, and her niece, Mrs. Pettie. Miss Dyer appeared in a mannish manilla straw hat. She was gowned as usual and was accompanied by Mrs. Mc- Connell and Mrs, O'Neil. Judge Flitcraft had net finished his in- structions and retired t6 complete thém. When court resumed he addressed the jury. The instructions seemed to strongly favor the plaintiff. He said that if the jury found that on Dec. 6, 1896, defendant had said to plaintiff, “You are a strumpet. You were with my husband in an assignat house on Mor- gan street;’” or if they b@ieved that enough of the words set out had been proven to substantially constitute the charge set forth in the petition and that they were falsely spoken, they were to find for the plaintiff on the first count. The second instruction was that if the words were spoken the law implied malice and it was not necessary for the plaintiff to prove malice in order to justify a re- covery. “By malice as used in these in- structions,”” said the court, “is meant a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse.”’ The assessment for compensatory dam- ages if the finding was for the plaintiff should be such a sum as the jury would consider a fair compensation for the in- ony received, the plaintiff's condition in ife, her mortification and distress of mind to be taken into account in determining the amount. The jury was instructed that they might in their judgment punish the defendant through exemplary damages, and that in this connection her pecuniary condition and social standing could be taken into ac- count. The fourth instruction was: ‘‘On the other hand, you are instructed that although you may find that defendant said to plaintiff ‘You are a strumpet,’ yet still if you find from the evidence that the words were merely used as a term of abuse or reproach and were not intended as a truth, that is to say, were not intended to charge as a fact that the plaintiff was a strumpet in the ordinary meaning of that term, and that said words were understood by the hearerg as mere terms of abuse and as not being intended to charge as a fact that plaintiff was a strumpet, that then the words were not slanderous, and you should, so far as the use of said words is concerned, find for the defendant.” The fifth instruction was that if the jury found that the defendant had reasonable cause to belleve and in good faith did be- lieve that plaintiff had been unduly intimate with her husband and was acting under such belief when she went to plaintiff's house and used the language complained of, for the honest urpose of ter- minating the suppos intimdcy, then no malice could be charged against her. The court also instructed that plaintiff was entitled to recover on the first count oy for what was said on the morning of ec. Evidence of later statements, the Court said, was admitted and was only to be con- sidered to enable the jury to determine whether or not the defendant was actuated by malice. The Court further instructed along this point, saying that such evidences was admitted only for the pu of show- ing with what motive the defendant spoke the words complained of. Such evidence, though, was not to be arded as a de- fense to the action or to diminish the ac- tual or compensatory damage, but could be considered n mitigation of punitive dam- s. Inder the second count the judge held that only nominal damages could be re- covered under the second charge, as no evidence of actual damages was intro- duced. Compensatory damages for-mental Flood’ Are much in little: always * ready, efficient, patisinc- tory; prevent a cold or fe | ver, cure illa, sick- pain and poaers damages could be as- sessed. The jury was instructed in all instances to separate their findings. hen the instructions were read Mr. Johnson renewed his motion to make plaintiff elect on which count of their in- dictment they would stand. The judge overruled him. Mr. Estep opened the argument for he Plaintiff. e said that every: man’s most sacred right was to his reputation and much dearer it was to woman than to man. As Bacon said, it should be to her like the coat worn by the Savior, without seam. Mr. Estep reviewed Miss Dyer’s business career, showing that she had taken up a means of livelihood entirely new for women. He in- ferred from this that she had acquired 4 }manly way of meeting men and was not, inclined to pay overmuch attention to the little conventionalities of intercourse be- tween men and women. She worked in Mr. iked her energetic business lped her until her health hrough the intercession of a young woman tn the ‘office he toaned her small sums of money. Mr. Estep read the letters between Mr. Hill and Miss Dyer that led to the trouble. He showed from the dates and postmarks that they controverted the statement that Mr. Hill had purchased a dress with Miss Dyer at Nugent’s on Thursday and ac- companied her to an assignation house on Friday. Mr. Johnson's reply was a master] lece of defensive oratory. He was in a delicate position in that he feared to lose the jury's 4+, al by attacking Miss Dyer’s repu- tation. He devoted himself to the law points of the case, and after he had made the road clear he boldly declared that he would not charge Miss Dyer with undue intimacy with Mr. Hill. He agreed with Mr. Estep on the sacredness of a woman's reputation, “It Is far more precious.to her than a man’s,” he said, “and therefore she has to guard it far more carefully.’’ He said that if Mrs. Hill had accused Miss Dyer of impropriety she had no one but herself to blame. He showed the conatruc- tion that a wife would place on the letter from the young woman, asking her hus- band for money to buy clothes, saying she hoped that she was not exorbitant in ‘her demands, and apologizing for forgetting that “there were others,’ ’ He spoke of the incidents of the buggy rides with Mr. Hill while Mrs. Hill wae out of the city, the money borrowing, the whisky buying in the New York Life office, the trip with Mr. Hill to Mexico. Slowly and ekilifully Mr. Johnson weaved circum- stance upon circumstance together until he was prepared to claim that Miss Dyers statements were not trustworthy, and that her own actions laid herself open to the im- putation of sustaining improper relations with the husband of the defendant. Mr. Johnson reviewed the scene in the New York Life Office when Mrs. Hill dis- covered her husband’s unfaithfulness. He spoke of it as the tragedy of her life and made quite an affecting passage on the sacredness of marital] affection. Mrs. Hill helped out the effect by weep- ing copiously. he speaker worked along this line to his climax, reviewing the confession Mr. Hill made to his wife during the night. It meant the breaking of home ties, the end of thirty years’ companionship, the bitterness of disappointments in requital for years of wifely love. It was an excuse for almost any outbreak. Mrs. Hill be- lieved her husabnd. Miss Dyer'’s letter was substantiation, What she sald to Miss Dyer she had reason to believe was_ true. hat had been said was in Mise Dyer’s own home. Only her friends heard it. The girl herself had given the thing publicity. Mr. Alex Young closed the case for the plaintiff. He opened platitudinously with ree from in- he ad- soon was Hill and her fuss attorney. was not broken or that she t confession, “She told the speaker, “that |! Mr. Hill had violated every time she caugh a d she in ay well for it an Ege no aay scrape. ae ne So ko Bee: = the e, a ° So a the stand that . Hill gave his wife 900,009 ip > + RETAIL SALESROOM, ” _ : wTritittitiiiiitttit yt. WE FRAME i wverVeVe"9 * 409 LOCUST. PREPS PSEP SPSS CEO. N. LYNCH Where he bas fitted a handsome funeral room for the sccommedaientl the friends of those dying 2 dene _ il Fornish inister, organ, cholt, nient flats. ™m pall-bearers, ete. Private . Lady attendant. Union Station work a ty. the 9th inst., at 2 p m., from family res- idence, No. 12% North Sixth street, to St. Patrick Church, thence to Calvary Cemetery. Friends are invited to at- tend. Troy and Syracuse, N. Y., and Chica- go, lll, papers please copy. BURNS—Thomas Burns, beloved son of William and Maggie Burns (nee Carrol), after a lingering !liness, Thursday, May 6, at 2:30 a. m., aged 2 years 2 gn © on Sun uae ho wre os — from family Tenth street, to eet Lae Nort alvary Cemetery. Friends are invited to attend. COMER—On Thursday, May 7, 1897, at 11:50 o'clock p. m., Miss Jane Comer. The funeral will KIRBY—At 12 o’clock, at his residence, 4333 © Evans avenue, J. C. Kirby, beloved hus-— band of Bridget Kirby, and father of Edward J., Frank T. Kirby, ond Mra, J. H. Ely. Due notice of funeral will be given. LOUREE—Mary J. Louree, wife of Charles Louree, on Thursday, May 6, at 1:99. : Funeral Saturday, at 2p. m., from rese — idence, 2169 College avenue, oa VERDON—John Verdon, May 6, at 10 p. My aged 6 years. Ras fr famil ence, _ Funee) from Semiy See Holy Church, tery. invited to attend, Ks 3% ~ ate we ae edn - —- ~ —" I AALS EQUITABLE CF very easy task whetber ge -

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AT THE vr FAIR GROUNDS. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. t 7 the machine began to grind out seven rs of a waltz and kept up those same eeven bars until sundown. The only relief was at noon, when the engineer-musician stopped to pump some water into his boiler and a schooner or two of beer into his own abyss. It was a re- laxation to overtaxed nerves, alltoo tem- rary. The horde of fakers were also an annoyance, but they were nething compared to the eternal grind of that awful steam music machine. The competitive work was in the pre- ecribed exercises with iron wands, right and left puts of the 16-pound shot, high far jump and 100 yards run. These com- petitions lasted well into the afternoon. As the time wore away the crowds became larger and the } ge 90 loudly cheered the achievements of their favorite societies, especially in the wand exercises. The Grills took place on the main race course and on the inside track, while the field wns used by the turners for practice work. Several games of base ball were played there. Each group in the wand exercises had judges and scorers and some of the best work ever seen at turnfests in this line was done during the morning. The big societies got the most applause at _ the wands, notably Concordia of St. Louis, 58 strong; the Chicago Turngemeinde, with as many, and the Dayton (O.) Turners, with 42 men. The work in class competition in this line shows how it was possible for a body of turners to make such a magnifi- cent showing as was done by those 144 men at Music Hall Thursday evening. All the competing classes did some excellent work with the wands, but the three socie- ties above enumerated will, it is thought, lead the work in the third group. In the first group Louisville’s twelve turners made a splendid showing. As the classes marched off the track with their wands, they were given a _ half- hour’s rest and then put at the games, shot-putting and Jaen ng. At the shot- Anka | Kd Sauer of Dayton distinguished imself particularly, making 37 feet 6 inch- es on his right throw, and 27 feet on the left. He had heard that two St. Louis Concordiz men could put the sixteen pounds of tron 38 feet at any time they pleased, and they were the only men Sauer feared. Tt is thought 38 will be the best throw if 87 feet 6 inches does not stand. The score is made up from the aggregate made by each of the men with two puts each. ere ton turners were confident they would be ahead in this work. For the shot-putting fron hoops are sunk into the ground The turner stands in the ring and puts the shot, right-handed first and then left. Measurers stand with tape lines to mark the flight of the ball. As the groups finished they were given time for rest and then went to the jJump- ing apparatus. Medart’s machines were used, length and height over the poles to count, each contestant being allowed two failures, knocking down the pole, before being counted out. Twelve points, about seven feet in length and three and a half feet high, is considered the average jump, but much better work than this was done, the Dayton man taking the 14 point mark and the Topeka, Kansas, Turners did not stop on 16. In their group there were half a dozen light weight, long legeed, shifty looking athletes. They would sprint down the board, clear the ground at the end and go over the hur- dles like Kansas grasshoppers traveling through the air. It is thought these Kan- “sas men will be well up in the jumping scores, They did their work in the amphi- theatre, where there were but few specta- tors until after the big brass band went in there and began to play. Then the seats fillled up, but the people were too late to see the fine jumping of the grasshoppeers. The jumping machines were on the race tracks, and in the horse ring and the cheers and applause of partisans marked a par- ticularly fine jump. As each group finished jumping the men were marched to the track in front of the rand stand where the ground was laid off or the 100 yards sprint. _ most remarkable body of turners round are the Dayton Turnge- “or ten years they have won the first prize at each succeeding turnfest, and a - - — ~~ HORIZONTAL BAR. they have bright hopes that from this morning's work with the wands and in shot-putting and jumping that they will again take the champlonship back with them to Dayton. Their success is all the more remarkable because they have a emalier body of men to choose from than in some of the larger cities. In big cities the best men at the various games are picked out and sent as a group into the competitions. The Dayton turners put in ali their forty-two men, and the good ones pull =: those who are weaker. Phey take reat interest and pride in their work, in- ividually and collectively, and this ex- plains the success they have achieved. In the mane ff pad this morning Ed Sauer, a well-known Dayton athlete and the Ohio’ state champion, put the sixteen pounds of iron 37 feet 6 inches with his right hand and 27 feet even with the ieft. He is the champion swimmer of Dayton and is an all-around athiete in the top notch at everything. He is the teller of the Concordia Bank in Dayton and spends his winter evenings in the gymnasium and ope of the summer in the swimming August Hollenbach of Louisville Cy headed the excursionists from the Falls City. There are about 20 of them but mostly they are passives. The active dele. gation consists of but twelve men. but they are picked athietes and expect to take home ood accounts of themselves. The active elegation is notable for the absence this frou of Billy Woeflin, one of the finest all- ON THE und athletes In America. He won the t prize for general individual excellence @t the Cincinnati fest, and has for years & most dangerous man in all individual contests. He is a small man, very near- gishted, and in citizen’s clothes would not Picked out to put the shot, but he was ®mong the top notchers even at this. He is & Watchmaker in Louisville. Several years ago he retired on his honors, and pone ie nan noee e waonive, He came e Kentuckians and marched a their head in Thureday’s parade. ' , of Chic , chairman of the Physical the bE Cukure Committee of the Chicago rt upon hi t ay pore ope pon his return. He ex- resses vy gawd ae oe en ot what he ia , and Pp eularly Inspir y the foasal of Thursday night's exhibition in to early their firet There HECKLEKHDDDD AIF MEN ONLY KNEW..... And when they know they will _come_ in crowds. We have ready for sale to-morrow 5000 pairs of Men’s very fin- est $5.00 Shoes in FRENCH PATENT LEATHER, OXBLOODS AND... BLACK FRENCH CALF, GUARANTEED FIVE DOLLAR SHOE, neath U dese 2.05 Women Know Values Consequently standing room only is the order of the day in our ladies’ shoe store. ON SALE TO-MORROW. 1500 pairs of Ladies’ Tan Lace, turned sole extra quality Kid and fancy cloth top, the regu- $5.00 kind, pe at... SIEGEL, HILL- MAN & CO.’S New Shoe Store A vA yA cA >>>>>>>>>>% CMEC KEKE DH 55555N55>5>>>>>>>> A NEW PAIR FO EVERY PAIR THA GOES WRONG. To give all an opportunity to see the finest shoe store in America and to celebrate the opening week of our new buildings we will keep our establishment open Sat- urday evening till 9 o’clock, and continue this phenome- nal sale till that hour. ORG tee \Y COME IN AND HAVE \4 YOUR SHOES POLISHED Y/ \y FREE. : BICOL DDS SS ae eee Se R T V ELLE CKEKEKEEDS 55555 5555>55>55>5>5>>>>> They are the public THE GLOBES Happy Calamity Sale! Happy Because We Found a Clothing Manufacturer Who Needed Ready Cash. HAPPY BECAUSE WE HAD IT. Happy because we were put in a position to sell you 1,500 Irrepressible High-Grade Suits, any one not worth a cent less than $15.00. All to go at the SMALL CALAMITY PRICE of.... atest line of Fine Suits ever laid before the St. Louis such small prices, They consist of Fancy aad Colored Clays, Bangockburas, Checks, WE ADVISE YOU TO CET ONE QUICK. Thibets, Cheviots, Mixtures, etc. would-be tailors to sleep. SUITS TO ORDER. WE ARE LEADERS IN THE LINE. We are daily convincing hundreds of our customers that we are putting up the best, the nobbiest and the finest Suits in St. Louis, considering the style, fit ani finish, not to say anything of the many handsome materials they are cut from. We put those made by Prices range from........ 9/40 Men's $2.9 Stiff and latest shades and Colors. ...«««++«««++ Children's Straw Sallors, bluc, brown and WHILE. .... cecccescoscooes Boys’ Golf and Yacht Caps.....«.«++.+0+.- We Boys’ Se Cloth Turbans...........+e000-.+. 1Be Children's Tam O’Shanters, crash and duck ' Children’s Leather 45c Tam CP enmneee... . coca ce ecececeeunsbecou Boys’ Tic Golf and Eton CEDG, ccccccccccccccccesesocscossoseses yeeees Hats, $1.45 25c 45c seeteeenesnmmeeneadl $7.50°$15 C 900 Strictly All- Wool Children’s Suits, 4 to 14, in Worsteds, Chev- ® iots, Checks, , Cassimeres and Plaids, in plain and fancyeffects, 25 patterns to select from,real- ly $4.00 and $5.00 values, slashed C FREE tering o: Walking Cane, Sterling Silver Mounted, with ev- ery Man’s Suit at $7.45 and above, Solid FRE —Elegant souvenirs and Base Clothing Department. Ball Outfit given away in our Boys’ “ 2s Checks and Cassimeres, regular $10.00 suit, slashed to 90,00 S’ CLOTHING. SATURDAY’S SLASH. For Youths 14 to 20. 23 styles Handsome All-Wool Worsteds, Cheviots, Plaids, al Cassimeres, Saratoga MEN'S PANTS. Another Bonanza. 700 pairs All-Wool Mixtures, Overchecks and Worsteds, the] real $4 and $5 kind, slashed to 92,40 BOYS’ PANTS. Lulu Values. We still continue to sell those Odds and Ends Boys’ Pants, sizes 4 to 8, } that you have 6 Plaids, ‘ | > ‘ ay ee: aa “ t r yt ' od OEE, Cieteeiaeaptes 550 ° - SS - ee ee PLUMP GIRL IN A BLUE WAIST AN ATTRACTION IN THE STEW- ART MURDER TRIAL. | EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE. Experts on Poisoning and the Lawyers Get Tangled on an Invcived Question. A mysterious novice tn the art of stenog- raphy has created considerable comment during the trial of Bertha Nixon and Liz- zie Henry for the murder of William H. Stewart. The stenographer wears a solid blue shirt waist, in which her plump figure is shown to advantage, and she takes off her hat just like a man when she enters the court room. ; Deputy Sheriff Max Ruler asked her what She was doing at the press table. She said that was her own business. To Deputy Sheriff Becker, although he is not as hand- some as Ruler, she explained that she was studying stenography, and came there to practice on the testimony as it was given. he reason she is causing comment is the nature of the trials at which she chooses to ractice. She was at the trial of Ed Mce- ulty, charged with assaulting Miss Daly, and at similar trials. But she is wélcome in the court-room, for she is pretty and neat = ee e defense opened Friday by putting Dr. J. C. Falk of the Missouri Medical Collese on the stand as an expert. He testified that he had had considerable practice with pois- oning cases, and he was positive that five drops of laudanum was not sufficient to cause death. The State proved that five drops had been given to Stewart. Dr. Lloyd Simpson was the next expert. For a number of years he was a physician at the Dispensary and the City Hospital. He said that five drops of the tincture of laudanum was not sufficient to produce death. He had treated many cases of a poisoning, and had experimented On the~ cross examination Circuit JAt- torney Eggers created a little sensatio by springing on the witness a question~ ich when written out in short-hand by the court stenographer, occupled three full pages. This one question asked about respiration, gastric juices, hot and cold baths, effects of beer on the.stomach and nearly everything else that is mentioned in the family doctor book. Dr. Simpson staggered, grew white and weak, and finally Judge Zachritz came to his assistance by asking the stenographer to read the question. “I don’t think so,” was Dr, Simpson's mystifying answer. That was a good place for the defense to get in an objection and the attorneys were all tangled up over the lengthy question when court took the noon recess, The jury is becoming impatient, having been locked up for two nights and three days, with little prospect of getting throug before Saturday night. THE DUC D’AUMALE DEAD. Shock of the Duchesse d’Aiencon’s Death Killed Him. May 7.—The Duc d’Aumale died at Zucco, Sicily, of the shock ex- perienced upon hearing of the death of the Duchesse d’Alencon. The immediate cause of death was cardiac apoplexy. The relationship of the Duchesse d’ Alen- con and the Duc d’Aumale was that of un- cle and niece by marriage, the Duc d’Alen- con having been the second son of the ae de Nemours, brother of the Duc d’Au- male. The Princess Clementine of Orleans, wife of Prince Auguste of Saxe-Coburg and Go ha, and a sister of the Duc d’'Aumale. at whose villa at Zucco she has been stay- ing for some time past, is very ill. The Princess is 80 years of age and the shock caused by the sudden death of her brother, following closely upon the tragic death of the Duchesse d’Alencon, may prove fatgl. Twenty victims of the fire were buried day. The churches where the funeral cer- emonies took place and the routes trav; ersed by the corteges were thronged wi people. The crowds displayed the deepest sympathy for the relatives of the victims. The First Step Into Society. Geo to the Globe, mn. Ww. cor. Seevnth and Franklin av., and procure one of those swell Baltimore Tailor-made Sults, to order or ready-made. Latest materials, $7.0 to PARIS. yesterday 95¢ to $1.95 —— ae Oe eee — Men's Lace and Co all styles, Best on Tan ‘nud Oubiood Lace Shoes ........B1.99 Don’t overlook those Men's Tan and Ox- blood Russian Calf Lace Agescn a all styles eee eer eee eeewe Ox ords, $2 values eeteereeerr rere eeeeeeeee One lot Ladies’ Patent Tip Button Shoes, 200 pairs Ladies’ Button Shoes, small sizes, $3 to $5 values ........cesen+> 300 pairs more Ladies* Samples, all styles, smal) sizes. $3 to $5 shoes ......... he doadeud Great line of Ladies’ Kid Patent Tip Shoes and Oxblood Oxfords........ 260 pairs Children’s Kid Patent Tip spring heels, sizes 9 ly, regular nd. Good values are those Men's 50c Dongola Slippers + seeeceseoeses See the great line of Youth's 19¢ Lace Shoes, 12 to 2, At..ccsecccccceecevecee SHOES —SENSATIONAL VALUES. Shoes, rth *seeeeeveeeee $1.00 $2.98 7 eee Te irs Ladies’ Tan Blucher 4to 8 Bs oo Lace, 89c to FREE! 40c to 50¢ for, at. *eeeeve Handsome Shirt Waist with every purchase §5 and above in our La- dies’ Departments. ee ee ee ee ee ee Ee i I FIRST DISTRICT CAMPAIGN. | Chairman Cook Says Democrats Have a Walk-Over. Chairman Sam Cook and Secretary Tom Love of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee are at the Planters’. They sat in an obscure corner Friday morning and talked in a confidential manner. their visit to St. Louis had no nificance whatever. “‘We just eon to meet here,’’ said Chairman Cook, “and I made Tom buy my breakfast.” “You ought to be up in the First Dis- trict,”’ said Mr. Cook. “‘and\see what. kind of a campaign is going on for the special congressional election. The Democrats are going to elect their man in & Manner most triumphant. Mr. Lloyd is making a splendid organization. He is one of the st organ- izers in the country. The Republicans are making a still hunt, but their tactics are well understood, and they will be unable to make much of a showing on election day. Judge Sam Harrison “of Hannibal is the Congressional Committeeman, and he is a g00d one, too. ‘Some of the best orators in the party have agreed to make speeches through the district. We expect ex-Gov. Stone, Congress- man Dockery, Silver Dick Bland, amp Clark and others of nationel fame.”’ The special election, which is for the pur- pose of filling the vacancy caused by the oath oe Congressman Giles, will be held une 1. ’ CONCERTS AT THE PARKS. Commissioner Ridgley Will Advertise for Musicians Who Can Vote. Park Commissioner Ridgley will advertise in a day or two for bids for furnishing music at the parks the coming season. The specifications will call for twenty-five expert musicians, who must be registered voters. This is in anticipation of the passage of a resolution which has been introduced in the House of Delegates forbidding the em- ployment of non-voters on all public work. There will be fourteen concerts at O’Fal- lon, Hyde and Benton Parks and twelve at Forest and Carondelet Parks and 8t. Louls place. At each place the hours will be from 4to 7 p. m. ’ The concerts will be given at O'Fallon Park every Monday, beginning June 14; at Hyde Park every Tuesday, beginning June 15; at St. Louts place every Wednes- day, beginning June 16; at Benton Park every Thursday, beginning June 17; at For- est Park every Friday, beginning June 18. and Carondelet Park every Saturday, be- ginning June 19. As bids are only received from union mu- sicians they are usually all the same. The Commissioner merely makes a selection of what he considers the best bands. The Lafayette and Tower Grove Park concerts are not under the control of the Commissioner. BOHANNAN IN JAIL. Coverless Umbrella Orator Locked Up for Not Paying a Fine. William C. Bohannan will not be seen on the streets with hie skeleton umbrella and dignified tread for several days, He was lodged in jail Thursday for failure to ay a $20 fine on the ciuarge of loitering. he fine was imposed by Jud Peabody about a month ago when Mr. Bohannan was arrested at Broadway and Pine street while delivering a speech. He appealed to Judge Murphy, who sustained the lower court Thursday. Bohannan has been a familiar figure on the streets over tWo years. He is a single tax advocate and delighta in addressin Open air meetings on the most crowd thoroughfares. e dressés neatly, but his distinctive claim to notice is the frame of an umbrella, guiltless of cover. which he invariably carries opened and elevated above his head. He uses it when addressing a crowd to illustrate some of his theories. He will appeal his case to the Criminal Court. B. P. |. DOINGS. First Step Taken in the Cora Avenue Sewer District. The Board of Public Improvements Fri- day located the alleys in the Cora Avenue Sewer District between Taylor and Euciid avenues as the first step toward the begin- ning af work. The district embraces about #8 acres. The sewer will empty into Harlem creek at the St. Charlies Rock Road. A communication was received from Man- ager Durant of the Bell Telephone Co., say- ing that a disagreement had arisen with the Kinloch company over minor detalis of con- dult construction on and ust street, near Fourth street. The board will try to adjust the matter The marble work for olitical sig- the new $15. A positive saving of $2.50 to fi. es the 54 They declared Co Lseoosesesesosesooeseress NEW SHOES Rees FOR SUNDAY... These Oxblood Tans we talk so much about come in every stylish toe shape—coin, bulldog, London, French, and new needle. They have black, burnished soles. They are fitted with agatine eyelets and finished with biack laces, The shoe for you, at $2 9 5 e+ **e eeeree ° HARI The $4 Stoe Man, j 020 PINE. Burlington Houte BEST LIN 4 Ci St, J0S8 oil, wou have pengies, wennnted BE orany similar ailment, see J. H. Wood , 127 W. 42d ae Facial Soap. It is pu Beauty Book and sam bury's Facial soap or WANTED — Experienced Salesladies. Apply at PENNY & CENTLES. —— eecesces cocesoonsesen, REFRICERATOR ee LITTLE FEAR OF DISASTER. The Levee Line in Louisiana Has Been Greatly Strengthened. The following changes in the rivers in feet and tenths have occurred: Fallen—Dubuque, 0.8; Davenport, 0.4; Keo- kuk, 0.5; St. Louls, 1.1; Memphis, 0.3; Viele burg, 0.1. Stationary—New Orleans, 8.3. NEW ORLEANS, 7. weather has permitted the eteenethoning tl now there is f disaster. However levee Nintiusg ets nace tae ge

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HAVLIN’S—“‘Uncle Tom's Cabin.”* HOPKINS'—Continuous. HAGAN—Continucns. MATINEFS TO MORTKOW. RINGLING BROS.’ CIRCUS. HOPKINS’ —Continuous. HAGAN-—Continuous. HAVLIN'S—‘‘Uncle Tom's Cabin.” | nn sel THE WAR IS OVER. The Powers have decided that the war between Turkey and Greece shall stop. They have issued a collective note to that effect to both the contending States. And a fleet is to ride at anchor in the bay of Athens to give force and effect to this decree. The Greeks are as clearly defeated as any nation engaged in warfare could pos- sibly be. But the Powers, having selfish interests to serve in the maintenance of the Greek Kingdom and the ascendency of the Greck royal family there, are quick to control the Sultan and order him to cease a war of conquest. This illustration of the ability of the Powers to control Turkey is only proof, where none is needed, that the exercise of that power in behalf of the Armenian Christians would have put a stop to the massacres very soon after the first mas- sacre was known to have occurred. If England had exercised her power and influence in protection of the Armenians then as quickly and as resolutely as she has exercised them now in protection of a King related to her own royal family, the crowning disgrace of this century would never have occurred. —_—_————__ _ ga - NEW ENGLAND IS SAFE. Congressman Grosvenor must not be understood as speaking for President Mc- Kinley when he dencunces the Senate tariff bill because it discriminates in favor of New England industries. Mr. McKinley, when he drew the tariff law of 1890, also discriminated in favor of New England. He gave to New Eng- land one thing which the Senate bill de- nies that section, namely, free hides. And he did this against the protests of rep- resentatives of the West and South. The fact has been established that Mr. Mc- Kinley’s plan of making a tariff law was to allow New England and Middle State manufacturers to fill in the schedules. If Mr. McKinley is not satisfied with the Senate bill it is not because it favors New England. He may object to the enlarge- ment of the free list, and it is entirely possible that he may not want to arouse the hostility of the Brewers’ Trust by in- creasing the tax on beer. But he will not object to New England subsidies. If the President has any serious ob- jection to the Senate bill, the public will never be advised of it. The public pat- ronage will be used to make the meas- ure conform ‘to executive ideas. Civil service reform will go on crutches as a result of the adjustment. But New Eng- land will be cared for, and may, in the round-up, keep hides on the free list, where Mr. McKinley put them seven years ago. Whatever happens, New Bngland will not lose. As to the beer tax, that too may go, under executive influence responding to the pressure of the Brewers’ Trust. And for a deficit in revenue—well, the Presi- dent has power to sell more bonds, i o- ——--———-- THE TIME TO DO I?. The Humphrey bills have been taken out of their ordér on the House calendar at Springfield and given a first reading. This action was on the motion of the op- ponents of the bills, but the result in no Way indicates the final disposition of them by the House. A motion to sus- pend the rules to force the reading was ruled out by the Chair, but if it had been put to a vote it would have failed to receive the necessary two-thirds, as a mhumber of the men who have been “youched for” as against the bills were atill absent. The reading was made possible by unanimous consent, the sup- porters of the bills not caring to raise the issue at this time or in that way. The second reading of the bills was made a special order for next Wednes- day. Whatever amendments are to be offered must be offered then, as the sec- ond roading terminates the opportunity for amefdment of any measure. Next Wednesday, then, will in all probability determine whether these bills of infamy are to fail or to become laws. if they are amended, although the amendments will not remove any of their Objectionable features, the number of Votes they will receive on the third read. ing, when called up for final action, will be considerably larger than If they are left in their present shape. The proposed amendments do not change thelr charac. ter or Purpose tn any vital way. They ere offered only for the purpose of af- fording members who want to make a “al with the corporations an excuse to aS bills should be polled against their amendment. If there are ninety men opposed to their passage the bills can be knocked out on second reading next Wednesday. And that is the time to do it. is dangerous. } KERENS AND FILLEY. Chauncey I. Filley} having gobbled the Civic Federation and perfected arrange- ments for annexing the new School Board to his machine, has gone to Washington to try conclusions with “Dick” Kerens in the field of national politics. Before he returns it will probably be determined which of them Is to be recognized by the National Administration as the Republi- ean boss of Missouri and the dispenser of Federal patronage. As far as Democrats are concerned, they will naturally desire the success of Kerens, for that would mean easy Demo- eratie victories in Missouri—and prob- ably in St. Louls—as long as Kerens’ headship was recognized. With the aid of the Federal Administration Filley would undoubtedly give the Democrats of Mis- sourt trouble. He is an arrogant boss and an unscrupulous politician. But in organizing a party, in managing a cam- paign, and in devising tricks for the dis- comfiture of an enemy he is without an equal in either party in Missouri. Kerens, on the other hand, has not 4 single one of the qualities of leadership. He is as ignorant of the methods of or- ganization as the average janitor of a building. He has no following except among those who rally around him. as the means of manifesting their antagon- ism to Filley. It is doubtful if there are a dozen Republicans in the State who fee] towards him the sentiment of per- sonal loyalty. There is not a town or county in Missouri in which he could be elected to the smallest public office by the votes of the people. Kerens has money and nothing else. He has not even ability. It is the custom to sneer at Filley’s ‘‘typewriter.’”’ Separate Kerens from his “‘secretary’”’ and he could not produce in a week such an address or circular as Filley will hammer from his typewriter in the space of half an hour. It is also the custom to poke fun at Fil- ley’s speeches. Yet Filley can make off-hand a better speech than kKerens could produce in a fortnight locked up in his “library.’’ The silk-stockings sneer at Filley as an ignoramus. There is scarcely a department of human knowl- edge in which Filley could not tell Ker- ens more than the latter could learn in five years, and in the matter of politics Kerens could not learn in his entire life- time what Filley has mastered—not be- cause he is any better than Filley in any respect, but because he has not the brains to comprehend it. The plain truth is that if Kerens super- sedes Filley as the Republican boss in Missouri, it will be a plain case of Money downing Brains, In the contest for lead- ership it is Filley who stands for real “respectability,” because it is he and not Kerens who possesses at least some of the qualities that secure political leader- ship. Kerens is an ambitious igno- ramus who relies upon money and noth- ing else. And the most contemptible, the most ignoble and the most dangerous of all the sources of political influence is money, A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES. Mr. Franklin Ford, a former editor of Bradstreet’s, has written an article for “Textile America,’’ which the latter jour- nal is sending over the country, and which doubtless embodies the opinion of those who oppose the regulation of rail- ways and look upon the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Trans-Missouri Freight Assdciation case as a meddlesome interference with com- merce, The article particularly emphasizes the Delay interests is a natural and inevitable growth, and that legislation and the courts will be powerless to prevent it. The decision of the Supreme Court is treated merely as a form of obstruction, temporary in its character. Says Mr. Ford: “Happily, the Supreme Court de- cision and all other forms of obstruc- tion will go to further self-regulation for the railways.” Mr. Ford defines the issue as one “be- tween the ‘Government at Washington’ and the railway association as an organ of self-government.” Although the Su- preme Court has decided that the work of the railway combine was illegal, Mr. Ford further defines the railway asso- Clation as “the new legality” which has its own “inherent law.” And as showing the autocratic attitude of the modern “communism of wealth” towards popu- lar government, as opposed to govern- ment by Trusts and railway magnates, he adds: “‘Congress may give registration to this law when determined by the ac- tion, but it can do no more.” In other words, the Trusts and railway combines are, according to Mr. Ford, a law unto themselves. They are wheels of government within the wheel of pop- ular government. And to the railway and Trust magnate the popular govern- ment is a fifth wheel in the cart, whose present purpose is merely the registra- tion of the Trust's edicts. When the Trusts acquire a little more power and have perfected their “unity of interests,” {doubtless they will decide that the “reg- istration” is no longer needed. A law unto themselves, they will proceed to ad. minister Trust and railroad “law” to the people, nn a I ee Says Senator Elkins: “Wages in Ameri- ca must go down. Wage earners do not wish to see it @r believe it, but it is so. Wages in America stands agdinst a re- vival of business.”’ Senator Elkins should get his answer in the next Congressional elections, and it ould be repeated in every State of the Union tn 1900. ee ll A eet We are shipping butter to England in the hope of establishing a market there for the American product and crowding out the Scandinavian article. But how are we to secure thin trade when we shall have enacted a law to keep out from our. selves nearly all products of other coun- tries? a oo In the past ten months there having been an increase of $15,000,000 in Govern- ment expenditures, it is no wonder that the deficit which began under Harrison and continued under Cleveland has grown some more under McKinley. een i Mie ee The proposal of a ten per cent rebate on ] crats, view that the combination of railway* An ¢ ; BEA : €.-% “- to | ae : sig ee ee iy ‘ receive much support from the taritr | tinkers, even if it were practicable under existing treaties. The true high tariffer wants no imports whatever. ————-—— -———— @- Now that the partisan Illinois law for- bids the fusion of Populists and Demo- the Populists and Democrats should unite on one ticket and rebuke such infamous legislation. Indeed, all op- position parties should unite against the tyranny of the partyin power. It should be driven out and its iniquitous work be undone at the first opportunity. i Aa The ten-State oratorical contest last night was won by Missouri. The subject of the home orator was “The Basic Law of Progress,’”’ a theme quite in keeping with the rapid educational progress of the Imperial State. eg Secretary Muckenfuss says the St. Louis Browns have been killed by “roastings.”” Instead of allowing them- selves to be discouraged by “roastings,” they should have warmed up to their work. 9 When Gen, Grant expressed a desire for universal peace it is not likely that he wished his country to substitute a com- mercial war for an armed strife. Our trade may be killed as well as our peo- ple. The airships should concentrate at Washington to take home the great num- ber of citizens who are to be disappoint- ed as soon as the tariff is out of the way of appointments. _ OO — Or Russell Sage has found that railroads can be constructed for $8,000 a mile, This should give us more roads, lower rates and a more rapid development of the country’s resources. a Greece and Turkey are ordered to be quiet. The, big boys have stopped the fight between the little boys. It will be very unsatisfactory to the boy who was on top. se The best and most popular of all the Sunday newspapers in St. Louis is: the Sunday Post-Dispatch. It outshines and outcirculates all other Sunday publica- tions. << - _ — The Rockefeller clock is wonderful and will attract the attention of many of Mr. Rockefeller’s fellow citizens who are liv- ing on tick because of his insatiable greed, ee It is to be hoped that the Transvaal war may not break out before Uncle Paul Krueger has an opportunity to jubilee with the Queen, which he has proposed to do. —_ We are soon to have a new Architect of the Treasury. His first duty should be to draw a plan for a Treasury building without any outgoing chute for gold, The Dingley bill has driven Canadian buyers to England. We are going to lose a good many customers through this session’s tariff tinkering. —_-- @- The personal resemblance of Maj. Bit- tinger to Mr. McKinley should have has- tened his recognition as a Republican de- serving of a good office. 0 Advertisements must have readers to be: effective. The Post-Dispatch gives them many more readers than any other St. Louis newspaper. —— Eastern insurance companies have taken $22,000,000 out of Kansas in twenty- six years. Yet the East is still abusing the Sunflower State. ———— —_— The last ex-President was vigorously denounced in the Senate yesterday. It takes a long time to recover from the dislike to Grover. i. - —, With the high wool tariff the American moth will have to cultivate an appetite for cheaper cloth for his annual ban- quets, — oh Oo Out of respect for Mr. Blaine’s memory there should have been just a little reci- procity in the Dingley bill. — oe 2)? Comeoff Pasha seems now to be the most conspicuous of the Turkish lead- ers, Ds a _ | Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press. No woman cares very much for a man who has no brutality in his make-up. A woman never feels really helpless till she gets a mosquito bite under her corset. Kissing is like eating mushrooms. You never can be sure what will happen till af- terward. If the flood had lasted a few days longer Noah’s wife would have made him put itn the fly screens. The average man’s idea of a faithful wife is one who will put the bone buttons in his shirt for him. A man can always tell by the way a girl kisses whether she has ever kissed a man with a full beard. As Wise as a Serpent. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Doctor, how can you be so reckless ag to ride in those open cars?” ‘Hush, my dear, your hubby knows his business. If I ride in the open cars others will think [!t safe for them. Just answer the telephone, dear. Yes, I thought so. Another pneumonia patient.” — A Chicago’s Political Blunder. From the New York Journal. The Illinois people feel like hanging a number of their legislators and bankers. Yet the gentlemen engaged in these two professions were working hand in hand last year to preserve the stability of the currency and Chicago turned out in enormous hum- bers to encourage them in it. Only Waiting. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “You get through the paper mighty quick.” ‘“Yos, I read it by the headlines.” “Any headline in particular?’ “One; ‘Nominations Sent to the Senate.’ ” WHEN SUSY LEARNS. From the Louisville Times. When Susy’s “Maw’’ is on the wheel lam a wretched creature; Such pangs of agony I feel, Recause I have to teach her. She wobbles and ehe. hobbies, She leans upon my side; My muscles ache for Susy’s sake— i wish “Maw” wouldn't ride. When Susy’s self is on the wheel l am a happy ¢reature; Such sentiments of joy i feel, Became I have to teach her, Though she wobbies ay Foy hobbies, InN PUBLIC EYE, ee Sh) i\ ‘\ CAPT. E. G. PATTON. This is a picture of the newly-elected Su- perintendent of the Ex-Confederate Home at Higginsville, who will take charge of that institution June 1. MEN OF MARK. Capt. William J. Clark, the latest survivor of the John Brown raiders in Kansas, died in Hobart, Delaware County, N. Y., last week. Burr Churchill Miller, the son of Warner Miller, hag had a bust of his’wife, formerly Miss Helen Reynolds of Wilkesbarre, Pa., accepted for this year’s Salon. The fact that the sculptors received only half the customary space makes this all the greater honor, The reigning Grand Duke of Luxemburg, admittedly one of the richest sovereigns in Europe, is indebted for the major part of his fortune to the percentage paid to him by the farmers of the public gambling tables of Wiesbaden, the capital of his former duchy of Nassau. Whatever fortune his sis- ter, the Queen of Sweden, possesses has the same origin. Washington papers note the fact that a curious friendship nas sprung up between Senator Foraker and Senator Tillman. Al- most daily, when business lags and both men have looked over their mail, Mr. Till- man walks over to the Republican side and sits beside Foraker. There they spin yarns, and the South Carolinian relates his early boyhood experiences and his latter-day poli- tical battles in a manner peculiarly his own. WOMEN OF NOTE. Mrs. J. H. Mills is President of the State Bank of Croswell, Mich., one of the directors of which also is a woman. Mrs. Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) is to be married soon to an Englishman, somewhat her junior, the owner of a fine estate in the Isle of Wight. On June 14 next Sir Henry Irving will un- veil the new Siddons statue on Paddington Green, London. It is hoped that Sarah Bernhardt will also be present on that oc- casion, The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, the accomplished horsewoman and the sovereign of a court whose aristocratic prejudices are of the strongest kind, delights in her fame as a pastry ‘cook, and her daughter, the Archduchess Valerie, is proud of her ac- complishments in the methods of the an- cient and modern cuisine. Queen Louisa of Denmark is next after Queen Victoria the oldest of the sovereign ladies of Europe. She was born in 1822, Princess Louisa of Hesse-Cassel, and on her father’s side is related to the royal family of England. In 1842 she married Prince Christian of Denmark, who ‘ater came to the Danish throne under the title of King Christian IX. . FUN. An Infantile Scientist.—‘Why do you put those woolen slippers on the baby?’ ‘‘So’s he can shuffle his feet, sir, an’ fill hisself up with ‘lectricity, an’ draw a spark on th’ dog’s nose, sir.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Boardem: How do you find the chicken soup, Mr. Boarder? Mr. Boarder: I have no difficulty in finding the soup; madam, but I am inclined to think that the chicken will be able to prove an alibi.— Richmond Dispatch. “Oh, deah!"’ sighed Chollie. “I wish champagne was as common as beeah.”’ “Then you would just float in it?’ asked the common person. would not drink it at ali. It goes to my head so.’’—Indianapolis Journal. to his heart. “I love you madly!” he ex- claimed. “I love but you! I have never loved before!’ The typewriter inclined her head. “Very well,”’ she replied. ‘‘More than one copy, sir?’’—Detroit Journal. “Yesuh,” saia@ the proud Vine street father, “it weighs ten and a half pouns, an’ it’s as fine, healthy a boy as evah yah see, an’ it was bo’n on the very day Gen. Grant was buried over again, an’ Ah'’m goin’ to give ‘im a name that'll be ap- poperate.”” “You'll call him Ulysses 8. Grant Johnson, I suppose,” said the friend who was hearing the news. “No, gah; =—Buffalo Express. ~ EXCESS WOE. ‘ Uf, Vi, dey husband is keeping from me"—~ Her voice tn keen anguish rose. + Her dearest friend quickly murmured, “Some dark secret, I suppose. She only sighea and shook her head; no at all like that! "kekeeping from ms the New York Journal. ‘The article in the Forum by State Comp- troller Roberts on the Graduated Inheri- tance Tax bill, now awaiting Gov. Black's signature, is of great interest and force, Practically the father of the bill, his cita- tion of statistics and his cumulative force of argument show how thoroughly he has studied the problem which the bill attempts ‘to solve. The Dudley bill has been de- nounced with almost hysterical outcries by the capitalistic organs as a long stride toward socialism and anarchy, as a piece of almost insane injustice, and as most dan- gerous demagogism. This denunciation has been in the teeth of recent investigations in court, which of necessity only touch the skirts of the evil, showing persistent perjury in tax-dodging on personal property and scathing com- ments of judges on the collusion of asses- sors. Comptroller Roberts, recognizing the base love of their riches on the part of the rich even to cheating the Government out of its dues, proposes to remedy this by assess- ing the ultimate inheritance to make up for these defalcations in the gross. The writer recalls that “there has hardly been a report of a State financial or assess- ing officer in the United States in the past twenty-five years that has not discussed in a tone almost of despair the wholesale es- capes of personal property from taxation.” This has been in spite of the mogt stringent attempts to avoid evasion; everything, .in In New York State the evil has been greater than elsewhere, for the reason that the con- centration of personal property wealth is so enormous here, especially in New York City, the great financial center of the country. In statistics drawn from the reports of the Comptroller’s office, he proves in detail that the total amount of personalty in 107 es- tates, which after death summed up $215,- 132,167, was assessed during the lifetime of the owners at $3,819,412, only 1.77 per cent of actual value. Of these, thirty-four, ranging from $54,559 to $3,319,500, had been assessed at nothing. ‘‘Why not,”’ he goes on to say, “levy an inheritance tax, which shall be approximately a payment of back taxes, evaded or not imposed during life?’’ Mr. Roberts, who seems to have deduced his figures with great care, estimates, after every just allowance is made, that there Is in the State $5,321,660,940 of personal prop- erty which rightfully should be taxed, and yet totally escapes the tax collector. If this calculation is even approximately true, it sweeps away every argument against the imposition of a graduated inheritance tax as a cold, naked fact of business. The rich man can easily lie about the value of his property while living, but in the very nature of things it cannot escape the scru- tiny of the Surrogate’s Court. No sound logic can brand such a law as discrimina- tion against wealth. It is simply an appeal from Philip living to Philip dead, and ap- plies a touchstone in some approximate measure to the losses which the rich man has inflicted on his governmental creditor by long continued deceit and perhaps whole- sale lying. -_—— oo “COMING TO THE POINT.” In Mourning. From the New York Press. Countless funny stories are told in Wash- ington on the Chinese Minister. Here is one of the best: The monthly bills of the Washington Gaslight Co. are printed on yellow paper, which happens to be the exact hue of the Chinese emblem of mourning. They are left regularly at the doorg of all the houses in the city, and at the Chinese Legation along with the rest. Just after Yang Yu became Minister one of these bills was found in the vestibule, and, being carried to the dignified Celestial, affected him profoundly. He accepted it as a noti- “Deah me, no! I. | left at the Legation’s door it must indicate f the firm pressed hi official life. The member o p s hand LS eee ' ulation of them all. fication of some one’s death, and as it was the bereavement of some family high in He gave orders at once to close The usual paraphernalia of mourning were brought out, the shutters were closed and for the rest of the after- noon and evening passers-by were regaled with those strange noises which the Chinese make when engaged in bewalling the dead, Deserted Kansas. From Letter in the United States Investor. We rode through four towns, Woodsdale, Moscow, Springfield and Fargo, in one day, and saw just eighteen people, the total pop- In eixty miles thréugh Seward and Stevens counties we saw just nothin’ so common as that for my boy, | one man at work, and passed just seven Ah'm goin’ to name ‘im Mausoleum, sah.” ‘occupied houses. Seward County had a pop- ulation in 1880 of five souls; in 1890 of 1,503. Stevens County in 1880 was occupied by extensive as the rise in the previous decade. The towns mentioned which now have a population of eighteen, contained ‘over 1,100 people in 1890, barely seven years ago. IN SOMERVILLE ON SUNDAY. From the Boston Post. Should Nature start to lay the dust In Somerville on canis oray Would hyper-pious To have her stopped till Monday? The most refreshing shower must meet With their disapprobation, How could the straight-laced count It aught But Sabbath desecration? All growing things—the flowers, the|trees, The grasses—may be gangeneni But O, by such a sinfu ont. The “unco guid” are saddened! ¢ She gives these thirsty things a drink? The upright must agree, then, That—since it’s done on Sunday—she's No better than a heathen. — pegan. Nature, whe were on— alas! no Seteabost [Raa fact, short of a graduated inheritance tax.. twelve persons; in 189 by 1,418. The fall | since 1890 has been as rapid and almost as | | DECKER THE CHAM! , hat ‘3 e a COLUMBIA, Mo., May %—Pearl D, Decker of’ Park College, Mo., won the first: prize last night in the interstate oratoricafl contest. His oration was on “The Basic Law of Progress; second prize went to PEARL D. DECKER. whose subject was “Statesman and Na- tion.” L. N. Booth of Minnesota came third. The subject of his oration was “The Needed Element in Present Reform.” The judges were: On thought and com- osition—Walter Miller, Leland Stanford Iniversity; Barrett Wendall, Harvard University; President J. B. Angell, Arbor University. On delivery— . Reed, Denver, Colo.; President R. H, Jesse of the Missouri State University; ex-Sena- tor Ingells of Kansas. PORT ORCHARD DRY DOCK. Costly Structure Reported in a State of Collapse. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 7.—A dis- patch from Tacoma to the effect that the new Port Orchard dry dock, recently con- structed, at a cost of $1,000,000, was in a state of collapse, and that as a result of the dock- ing of the battleship Oregon the basin had Settled in an alarming manner, making it necessary to float the war vessel out again in a hurry, created a.sensation in naval circles yesterday. The telegram also stated that the foundation of the dock was laid on Slippery quicksand, that the whole country in the neighborhood was filled with subter- ranean springs, which made the ground soft and treacherous, and that the selection of the site was brought about by a private corporation, composed of real estate men, who had cleared half a million dollars by the whole transaction. Commander J. C. Moroty, United States Navy, who resides in this city, was in charge of the Port Orchard station before the dry dock was built, and stayed in command there till after the United States steamer Monterey had Seen floated in and ons again. He expresses disbelief in the story. SEATTLE, Wash., May 7.—The battleship Oregon will probably leave the Port Orchard dock at the high tide on Saturday night. It may be two months before the repairs can be made to the ship and the authorities de- termined it would be better for the Oregon to be in the water meantime, owing to the strain the ship would be subjected to dur- ing so long a stay in dock. ON MARRIAGE BENT. But an Obdurate County Clerk Inter- posed. A young couple on marriage bent called at the Court House in Belleville Thursday afternoon. In the corridor they bought a Post-Dispatch and eagerly scanned it, seemingly to see whether angry parents were on their trail. Finding nothing bearing on their case, they entered the County Clerk’s office. Deputy Bruegel sized them up for “kids,” and asked them theirages. The youth said he was 21, which seemed to be at least th ears beyond the truth. The girl shif er chewing gum and said her experience covered 18 years. She was nota day over 16. He gave his address as St. Louis, and hers as Washington, Mo, Deputy Bruegel, in his diplomatic way, told them he thought they were lying about their ages. The youth gwelled up and wanted to clean out the office, He refused to give their names. C. F. Bell of the Colorado State University, : £25 . 4 . ; a aes a ‘ ten Leask se Re tk ee re) i Led 735 - % -TO BE SURPRISED, conduct of the Gould Louisiana branch. both eadquarters in St. tions, therefore, he s Mr. Warner says: ‘ tion in the business or Missouri Pacific Railroad. condition, and, asIs in store for the bears. “T know nothing of any : tween Mr. Gould and Mr; Sage t tion of the telegraphed story dence here. There may be a opinion between Mr. and at have no knowledge of the | ure. : “In short, there is no trouble at of the line, and we expect this year to dee : 3 2 sarees amount of business than ever ore."’ The intimation of Mr. Warner that itisa bear movement Missouri Pacific wili throw a dampening ect statements sent out from New and the further information that will be surprised” by forth reports of the road’s condition and lends additonal interest to the situation, NEW YORK, sey 7.—Rusesell characterized as utterly pees we that he and George Gou ing out over the Missourt tion account, and in re to ment of other properties in- Mr. Gould have any ne or statement to the bonds mentioned, that no 2 Hapa pe, Agee AE gy ciflc and that the re w culated the conve uae oaths George Gould is out of the city not return until Monday. however, indorsed the denial of Mr. DYING OF HYDROPHOBIA, — “Gus” Gunderson Was Bitten by a Yel low Dog a Month Ago. CHICAGO, May 7.—“Oh, I wish I had « drink of water,” cried Gus Gunderson a the County Hospital. : , But his attendants, kngwing that watel even the sight of it, would make his hy _ drophobic spasms worse, had to deny hi — request. And so, writhing, barking, spll ie ting and famishing, poor Gunderson mus. die, * About thirty days ago Gus Gunderson wa bitten by a dog. He was making prepar#s tions to go out on a farm for a few month and a friend gave h:m an ordinary yello’ dog which he nad picked UR. half starve: a waif of the street. This he was to tak as his only companion to his new life o the farm. But during the night the ct aroused the household by his rking an Gunderson went to him, endeavoring 1 quiet him. The dog snarled and when a effort was made to make him lie down — jumped and bit his master in the face. was only a siight scratch and no seriot thought was given to it. The next mornin; however, Gunderson shot the dog and the went to his farm life in La Salle County. Wednesday morning the first sympton of rabiea showed itself. On attempting take a drink of water he found that ? could not swallow it. He was immediate seized with a spasm and gageing and tea ing at his throat, and realized that he hi hydrophobia. He gradually became won during the day, the spasms coming often: and harder toward evening. Yesterday he was taken to the Count Hospital and placed under the care of tl Officer Gruenewald followed the couple to the Air Line Depot and questioned them. hie gun and coat and submit to a drubbing. station. Chief Obst looked up the statutes, and, wees | noweng to fit the case of elopers, turned them loose without asking their names, They returned to St. Louis on the next train. NON-SINKABLE SHIP. George Shone’s Invention Will Make Water Travel Absolutely Safe. An inventor who promises to do much for travel both on land and sea is George Shone of 705 Collinsville avenue, East 8t. Louis. His latest device is a non-sinkable ship. There are two hulls, one ten feet within the other, and both made of the stoutest material. etrated the second hull would be sufficient- ly strong to withstand the broken shock. It is also claimed in the event of a leak the water will not wetgh the vessel down on one side, but will fill in event <n the space between the hulls, keeping the craft level. Mr. Shone says his invention goes further, and with his improved mechanism a ship can cross the ocean in three days, and claims he can run steam engines six times faster than at present with one-sixth less cost for fyel. e refuses to describe his invention until a patent Is Issued. AGAINST ORGANIZED LABOR. Henry Scherf Is Stubborn and Makes Trouble for Forest Park Highlands. It is to be a war to the finish between the labor organizations and the Forest Park Highlands amusement resort. Col. Henry Scherf, the Republican politician, has re- fused to remove the non-union men at work on his saloon, and the organized workmen are preparing to retaliate. A last eff was made to straighten out the — Fhe ay n he id Se the ttle difficulty’ wae the herf. In e hitt te Co., when herf was a Thompson e 7 oe gy was active in labor's oases. the Bullding Cou votes of thanks. Hts and the workmen say Children’s Day Tent Services. jidren’e da mM celebrated the bis a et mnasttnee, Gear avenue tod “Wind. noon at 3 o’cloc! candidate for labor's cause. 1 ‘ “4 both the Executive Boa : rd Ri was } not them now. ce, Saturday aft ; “" ‘o. Smith pro | the Hac an and J : The youth invited the officer to lay aside | They were both arrested and taken to the | will onl Should the first be n- | house .physician and eurgeon. Everythir possible was done for the suffering man, bi nothing known in selence can help him ; this late stage. He has been ven mo hine in large quantities, but his suffer.t 3 so great that it has but little effect. hasten hie death, which mu come before the day is over. Hils condition last evening was somethir. itiable. Strapped roy and feet to his be writhed and tw. and tore at the b clothing, begging the time for the doct to kill him and end his misery. Then : would nore 2 — et ~ bog would be ectly ration only to bree gain’in hie terrible cry for “Wate pine a lucid moment he called for minister and Rev. W. M. D'eh! of Asblar Bovlevard Methodist Church was calied. “Say something to a wicked sinner he moan as the min‘ster entered t) room. “My time is over and I want to r minister consoled and prayed wii i tefecen ame sp the room es spasms a last farewell was PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. ‘Said to Be Pending at W age With Reference to Cuba. — oe NEW YORK, May 7~—A special 18 ‘Journal from Havana says: i i ndent is able. upon nh at pe. te the Journal's recent War as to negotia rm. The the penitent man. har e = a ae De Lo peaceful solution by ,of the Cuban que | Re ate ae ot Diario de | gam sounds an omince ntima | Prem ; will be le pay ! cannot tinue to me

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Y _Frivyy—S1, Louis Post-Bispatch, ee AN OPEN LETTER | To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE woRD “CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. / DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-simile signature of on every wrapper. © This is the original «PITCHER'S CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, onthe and has the signature of LGA Head wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. CB ak GPAd an ‘Dr Do. Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF ? Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You WK CENTAYUR COMPANY TT BURRAY STREET, NEW VORA CITY. ALL HERE! a ee —_— * OUR SPRINC STOCK. By | y TABLES, SIDEBOARDS, CHINA CLOSETS, BUFFETS, ee ee eee TESTIFIED FOR THEIR MOTHER. M’CLOSKEY’S CHILDREN DON’T APPROVE OF HIM. WENT INTO HIS CHARACTER. ee eee eee The Dirty Linen of a Bickering Family Aired in Judge Spencer's Court, In Judge Spencer’s court Friday morning was presented the unpleasant spectacle of a family of children taking the witness stand in turn and testifying against their father, who could do nothing but sit still and look uneasy while tho mother, who after years of bickering and quarreling hopes to get a divorce from him sat behind him, occasionally shedding tears and then bracing up for a few minutes. The case was that of John McCloskey against Nellie McCloskey in which there have been several petitions and cross bills filed. The case sas been on trial from time to time for a week, and all the family squab- bles aud differences have been pretty thor- ough aired, ‘re are seven children in the family, . Of them bright and intelligent looking. -x Or more than two years the mother and father have not spoken to each other ex- cept a. quarrel, but they conveyed in- numerabie messages to each other thro the children, 4 = rhe father would take it upon himself to tell the children what bad women their mother and grandmother, his mother-in- law, were. He told them that their grand- mother was always stealing things from the house and would beggar them all if left to her own devices. The mother, on the other hand, worked equally as hard to win the children over to her side of the fight. The children were put on the stand Fri- day as witnesses for the mother and told at length of the fights at their home. The son Willie told of how the father tried to beat them one day and their moth- GET WELL AND STAY WELL GET RID OF WHAT MAKES YOu SICK AND STAY RID OF IT. ’ It is 80 simple to be well that we wonder why there are so many sick people. Come te think about ft, must be because they Gon't know what's made them aick. If they knew that, they could prevent it, and when they were sick, in some cases cure them- Svives, But, so idpg as we don't take more care of our health, we shall always be more or less sick. The simple rules of health are: Keep clean, take exercise, eat good food, scour out your stomach. This last means: Don't tolerate indigestion. Cure it with Shaker Digestive Cordial, A stomach ful) of undigvsted, fermented, putrid food is the un- bealihiest thing you can think of. Half our diseases and troubles come from the poisons of undigested food. More than half of them could be cured with Shaker Digestive Cordial. More thaw half, because often when we think we are‘sick we are only weak, and a course of pourishing feed digested without effort by the stomach (with the aid of Shaker Digestive Cordial) would reinvigorate the whole system and make us well. A tep-cent tr‘al bo tie will prove it. At drug- gists. Write for interesting book to The Shakers, 80 Reade m.. New York. : Rae. : ? (ee ee ee ue pRat gpa a) eet Ae ee POLY heer BE EONS, Aa Mee RE Ss Es i xa My a3 a ‘e x >'> PARLOR AND BEDROOM SUITS. Dainty Rockers, Rattan Suits, Chairs and Couches our Ladies’ Desks, Dressing Tables and Chiffoniers. 412-214 North Fourth. rnitenes been beaten enough that day. The father, Willie said, then proceeded to beat her with a stick until they all jumped on him and ulled him off. The oldest boy, John, said is father had frequently dnstructed him while at work at the candy counter not to oe a whole pound of candy in a pound box, ut to just fill the box up, as it held less than full weight. He told also how his father cut off the soda supply of a rival soda fountain hy » disconnecting the pipes, saying he had to make money some way. The testimony of the children against their father took up the entire morning session, and nearly everything they said was ad- mitted as evidence in spite of the vehement protests of Lawyer E, A. B. Garesche, coun- sel for McCloskey. Virgil Rule, for Mrs. pig Ge stated that he wanted to give the court a clear idea of the. state of things in the McCloskey household. The case was tried by the court, there be- ing no jury. MRS.NEWCOMB ASKS A DIVORCE Sequel to the Row Between Her Hus- band and Howland. Lottie B. Newcomb, wife of C. B. New- comb, filed a suit for divorce in the Cir- cult Court Saturday morning. She says she was married April 15, 1889, in this city and lived with Newcomb until April 28, 1897. She says that he nas made her life intolerable by his constant ill- humor and bad temper, and by constantly accusing him of infidelity and other 2f- | ¢ forw fenses. She asks the custody of her two infant children, Ella M. and Myrtle C. The suit for divorce was the result of a row a week ago between Newcomb and a cousin of his, Frank N. Howland, a clerk in the Post-office. Newcomb is a young man who has rela- tives’ more or less prominent in St. Louis, Howland ts a particular friend of Mrs. Newcomb’s. Newcomb says Howland told his wife he (Newcomb) had been seen going into a ques- tionable resort with another woman. Af- ter Howland told her this she immediately packed up her possessions and left, saying she would not return again to his house. She left him a 2-months-old baby to wean. The absence of his wife troubled him on account of the wear he had over the young baby, so he hunted up Howland for the purpose of asking him to patch up matters with Mrs. Newcomb. Instead of fixing things the two quarreled. and Newcomb claims Howland shot at him. Then New- — hit him a rap in the face with his st. The partisans of Mrs. Newcomb tell one story about the baby, and those of Mr. New. comb tell another. Mrs. Newcomb’s supporters say Newcomb would not let her have the baby when she asked for it. Ingalls Sells Quick Meal Gas Stoves, | 82 a month. Connections free. Lovely iron beds, pretty carpets, refrigerators. Just what you want, and fair dealing, at In- galls, 1108 Olive st. SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. Registration Books Show a Falling Off of 14,880. Secretary Saunders of the Board of Elec- tion Commissioners made a computation Friday which shows a falling off of 14,889 in the registration for the School Board elec. tion, as compared to that for the presi- dential election. he registration Nov. 3, 189, was 131.362. The additions for the asprin 15,646, and the erasures 21.7 election were | &, The additions for the School Board elec- tion were only 1,921, and the erasures 10,722, leaving the total registration for the School rd election 116,4k2. The decrease is mostly due to removals of persone who do not take enough interest nh the schoo! election to reregister. Babe on the Doorsteps. Matron Rice of the Mission Fr Sc at 33 North Ninth street, ureday tee eg lug, found a three weeks’ old female in- leaving 127,- | ant on the ate of t | erwarded to at Ann's Ae It ed | FIRE INSURANCE _ HEN IN SESSION, WILL PROBABLY RE-ELECT THE PRESENT OFFICERS. WELCOMED 10. ST. LOUIS. President Waterworth of St. Louis De- livered the Address and a Kansas City Man Responded. a The National Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents is in session at the Planters’. The convention was called to order at 11130 o'clock Friday morning and the proceedings will continue until Saturday af- ternoon. Nearly 200 delegates are present, Almost every State from the Atlantic to the Pacific is represented. President Waterworth of the St. Louis Board of Underwriters dejivered an address of welcome. In making his speech President Waterworth not only appeared on behalf of the insurance men of St. Louis, but as a representative of the Mayor. and of the whole people. His address was well re- ceived. Response was made by Milo E. Lawrence of Kansas City, Second Vice- President of the association. Vice-Presi- dent Lawrence is a veteran in the insurance business and his address gave evidence of a thorough knowledge of his profession. He is a plain talker and does not hesitate to express his opinion. “There are some insurance men,” sald the speaker, ‘“‘who are like Potiphar’s wife, not above suspicion.’’ This remark brought a storm of applause. Continuing the speaker entered into details and talked of matters that concern insur- ance- men. The local agents are the great army and navy of the insurancé world, he said, and he thought the association ought to be a power for good. If its'efforts, aims and acts are always for mutual interests of the members, it will live and prosper. Following ‘the response to the address of welcome came President Simrall of the as- sociation with a report and address. The President,ssaid that some insurance man- agers look upon the association with dis- trust, but he saw no occasion for such feel- ing. “‘This association was born with.a fixed determination,’’ said the President, ‘‘vet it does not propose to antagonize the interests of the companies so long as they do not deviate from what we believe is right. We will not, however, be a party to any unjust procedure either against our- selves as agents or the people to whom we look for patronage.’’ The most important feature on the pro- gramme for the Friday session is the elec- tion of officers for the ensuing year, late Friday afternoon. The remainder of the day is being taken up.in discussion of pertinent topigs and in hearing reports from various offigers. The Saturday session will be ‘de- voted largely to the reading of papers bear- ing.on insurance subjects. The growth of the association’ has been phenomenal. The original organization was effected in Chicago last September, -when a constitution was adopted and temporary of- ficers were’ chosen. Since that time. the order has grown until it now has a foot- hold in a large proportion of the States of the Union, and its total membership reaches nearly 15,000. The primary object of the or- ganization is to encourage better practice in the forms and principles of underwrit- ing, and for the promotion of mutual. pro- tection and social intercourse among its members. It is likely that the officers elected at the Chicago meeting will be retained, ‘“Their work has been so satisfactory,”’ said a a,yreporter for the Post-Dis- patch, “that I feel like keeping them in the harness.”’ , There is one woman delegate to the con- vention. Sheis Mrs. H. A. Norton of Mont- rose, Colo., and it is related of her that she can write as much insurance as any of the agents. Mrs. Norton had not arrived at noon Friday, but it is understood that her coming is certain. To-Morrow’s Real Estate Auction. At the auction sale of lots in “Gibson Heights’’ Saturday afternoon at o'clock all classes of buyers can find something to sult. Along King’s highway, Arco, Gib- son and Park avenues, opposite Forest Park, are some of the most elevated and desirable residence lots in the city, and they undoubtedly have an excellent future for choice home sites. Further south there is desirable ground not quite so expensive, with all street improvements made, and south of Manchester road there are located lots with less improvements but very de- sirably located for modest homes for work- ingmen in the manufacturing district of the great Mill Creek Valley, where small homes are in demand, About four-fifths of the entire subdi- vision has already been sold and is build- ing up with the best class of improvements. It is the intention of the owners to close out the remaining lots at this sale in order to wind up the subdivision,and to do so they propose to offer bargains. Parties in search of home sites or speculators should attend this sale. The terms are remarkably easy; one-fifth cash and balance on or before one, two, three or four years after date. Sale begins on the premises at o'clock. Three street car lines make the property easy of access. Prospective buyers can take the Suburban electric cars on Locust street and go over the Sarah street di- vision directly to Gibson Heights; or the Chouteau avenue electric line, which also runs directly to the property; or any car of the Lindell system, and by transferring at Finney and Taylor avenues, pass Gib- son Heights. CAUGHT BY TURNERS. German Athletes Run Down a Pocket- Book Snatcher. As Mrs. Kate Burkhardt of 278 St. Vin- cent street boarded a street car near the Fair Grounds at 4p. m. Thursday James R. Long was standing on the platform. She had a purse containing 75 cents in her hand. Long snatched it and jumped over the dashboard of the car. Otto Smith of 2907 Victor street, Sullivan of 2818 Adams street and Curtis Jenkins of 2834A Chouteau avenue, all at- tending the turnfest, saw the theft and with several other men pursued Long. Long ran into the loop of the Lindell street railway, next to Sportsman's Park, and was caught. At the Fair Grounds Police Station he was identified by Mrs. Burkhardt as the man who stole her purse, and Friday morning a warrant was issued charging him with petit larceny. HIS SPINE FRACTURED. Thrown member to 9 = 9 — James Thomas Flynn, a Teamster, From a Wagon. , Thomas Flynn is at the City Hospital with a fractured spine that will keep him ‘n bed for several months, if it does not prove fatal. Fiynn is a teamster, employed by Hogan & Moran, at the quarry at Garrison avenue and North Marked street. He says he was driving tn one of his employers’ wagons, with Mr. Moran, at 11:30 o'clock Thursday night, on Montgomery street, near Glasgow ave- nue. The horses ran away and Fiynn was thrown out, The police tell a different story. They claim Flynn stole the wagon and team. James G. Walsh of 411 Montrose avenue called at the Four Courts Friday to col- lect some witness fees. Now he is in jail. Walsh claimed he had been sent by George Edwards to claim some fees. When questioned Walsh admitted he had no right to the fees. The clerk called Detective Denny O'Connell. Walsh was locked up pending an invest:gation. A Missing Husband. Mrs. Mary Cregan has asked the police to locate her husband, Patrick Cregan. Patrick is 40 years old and has been missing from his home, 1806 Cass avenue, since Thursday noon. Hindercorns makes comfort for the feet and easy walking by removing the corns, l5c Parker's Hair Balsam is life to the hair. ‘man of, 25, A LYNCHING EXPECTED. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. 70+years of age years had lived in thi# little house, miles from St. Charles : vy adja~ ph = , farming the land At one time he’ was well to do, but the price of corn fell until there was no money in it and his land was frequently wasted out by floods. Six months ago his eyesight began to fail and he was compelled to hire @ man for he could not see to plow. _ visited an oculist in St. Louis : several times and paid out considerable money: The result was that in March he found himself for the first time since he became a farmer with practically nothing save the farm and a crib full of golden corn, Upon this corn he depended until another harvest. It meant food and clothing for himself, his wife and one unmarried Saughter and money for taxes. As time passed his eyesight failed rapidly and a week ago day became night to his vision. He could only distinguish forms indistinctly, He frequently talke about the corn and expressed apprehension lest it be stolen. He had heard of the man thefts in the county and feared his eri would be visited. Early Wednesday evening he was alone in the house with his daughter. Katherine one George Falls, the. hired man, Mrs. Prendergast having.gone to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leon Mareschall, for a Visit of a few days. About 8 o'clock a wagon drove up the road and the old man asked who was in it. Falls replied that he made out two ne- groes and remarked: Bétter look out for your corn!” An hour later all went to bed. It is evi- dent, however, that the septuagenarian had no intention of sleeping. He partly un- dressed and rested on the bed, his shot- gun held in his arms. Although he could not see he could hear, and toward midnight one sense, rendeted more acute by the loss of another, told. him that some one was stealing his precious corn. He slowly groped his way downstairs, maxing no noise, slipped out the back door and moving between the trees, every one of which he had watched grow from sap- lings, he soon arrived at the corn-crib, “xactly what happened may never be known. Two shots rang out. They were heard by Katherine, who jumped out of bed and called ‘her father. There was no answer She ran fo his room. He was gone and so was his gun. Clad only in her night dress and bare- footed, she ran into the yard and in front of the corn crib saw a wagon, into which two men were climbing. She ran out to them and, not heeding where she went, stumbled and fell acrogs something. A groan came from the object and she repeg: nized by the aid of the moonlight her old father, who pressed his hand to his left side. Jumping to her feet the girl ran to the wagon, screaming, “You thieves! you murderers! you've killed my father!” Strange to say the men had not driven off and the white-robed girl tried to jump into the vehicle. One of the occupants thrust Seon in her face and told her to “get Still she tried to clutch them—she a wo- unarmed, even undressed, wished to avenge that murder in some man- ner. One of the men laughed and struck her on the stle of the head. She fel] to the ground 'a- second time and they lashed their horses.into a gallop. By this time the hired man, who had been cowering’ in’ the bem came trembling to her assistance; Together they lifted the farmer,and.bore kim into the house. Then Katherine told Falls to run to the house of‘ John Brennan, her brother-in-law. Thé place was a quarter of a mile distant. The man demurred, evidently afraid, put at last he started, and Katherine was left alone with her dying father. She sat on the floor and held his head in her lap. He must have been in at Bae ‘agony, but he tried to allay his daughter’s fears by saying that he was not much hurts They were there. to- gether more than twenty minutes, and dur- ing that time the girl tore open her father’s shirt and endeavored to check the flow of blood with her nightgown. When John Brennan arrived the wounded man was so near-death that he could not speak. Ten minutes later he ceased _ to breathe—his head was still resting in his daughter’s lap. 6 da for thirty-eight ’ Nothing could be done until daylight save summon the neighbors, and so the hired man was sent to all Houses within a mile, and when the sun rose.a score of farmers had gathered. Then a messenger was sent to break the news-to Mrs. Prendergast, who is 65 years of age. Another went to the city and told the daughters, Winnifred and Margaret. The former is married to Charles Mareschall and lives at 4014 Fair- fax avenue. The‘latter is the wife of John Watson, an employe of the Mound City Express. Daybreak saw the arrival at the house of the two married daughters, Eliza and Dora, the former the wife of Leon Mareschall, the latter of John Brennan. At 8 o'clock the aged widow was brought to the home. She was so weak she had to be carried indoors. It is thought she will soon fol- low her husband to the grave. Meanwhile John Brennan and a neighbor had started on horseback for Clayton. They returned with Deputy Sheriff Autenreith, at 11 o'clock, and then began a search for the murderers. In the corn crib were found three sacks, which had been filled with corn and lugged to the door. Two of them were tied at necks with fish lines. On the floor was a curiously-shaped knife, resembling a pruning hook. The door was riddled by a charge of buckshot. The old man’s gun was empty. Though blind his aim had been true, as direeted by sound. Whether he fired first or last is not known. The two reports were almost simultaneous. Castle Black, a negro, lives a mile up the road from Prendergast’s. He told the deputv Sheriff that Walter Black and Jim Stuart had been at his house playing dominoes all evening. They left shortly after 11 o’clock. They were in a spring wagon, and their way home to Sand Town lay directly past Micn- ael Prendergast’s door. Castle Black was shown the knife found in the corn crib. He said it belonged to Jim Stuart. He recognized it by the curved blade and notches in the handle, and had seen it in Stuart’s possession while they were playing dominoes, Castle moreover said that when his visitors left Wednesday night they tried to borrow a lantern. AS it was moonlight he asked what they wished it for They replied that they might meet a mad dog, and laughed. The Deputy Sheriff went to Sand Town. He found Stuart and Black at their homes and arrested them. In the huts were pieces of fish line corresponding to that with which the sacks were tied The men denied all knowledge of the crime. They were hand- cuffed and taken to the Prendergast home. There Katherine said she thought she rec- ognized Stuart as the one who haf struck her, but was not positive, as the moon was shining full in her face. Coroner Rouse arrived from Clayton at 4 o’clock. He made an autopsy and found that a revolver bullet had entered the old farmer’s side below the heart. An inquest was immediately held and the evidence related above was brought out. The Coroner ordered that Jim Stuart and Walter Black be held for the murder of Michael Prendergast and they were hurried off to the County Jail. Funeral services over the remains of the murdered farmer were held at the little house Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Fr, Winkle. mann of St. Mary's Church, Bridgeton, said the prayers for the dead. There were nearly 300 farmers present, and all followed the hearse to the cemetery at Bridgeton. Half these men had been at the house al night The others came in as the news of the murder had been carried about the county After the body had been lowered into the grave the men a7} on the street corn- ers at Bridgeton, and the talk of lynching was renewed. It was decided to wajt yp. til night, and then, if a sufficien;: force can be mustered, @ march will be made on Clayton, Friday noon there was éyvery on dication that there would not only he enough men to successfully assay); jail. but to capture the town if necessary The mob will not lack for leaders Mr Hahn, a wealthy farmer, expresseq ;, “ reporter for the Post-Dispatch a Perfect willingness to head the avengers, 4 vai. uable team of horses was recently stolen, from him, and a few nights ago, while chasing some thieves, he was shot at “! think there will be a lynching he said, “and if there is I will in it’ Austin Tushie is another who is anxious to pull at a rope and avenge his uncle’s death. Tushie was the leader of a lyn ty in St. Louis in 1892 when an at made to string up the assailant of an old woman on Boyle avenue. He was arresteg and imprisoned for several days, having been caught by a sergeant just as he was pulling on a rope which had been fasteneg around the criminal’s neck. John Brennan also expresses a willing. ness to accompany & Mo». The reporter talked with fifty men who pring par. *mMpt was nfils,, Ferguson and ton id to turn out Ra r. Hahn says he has assurance that the towr people of Clayton will rise as one Man and aid in the lynthing. arrants were issued at Clayton Friday an Walter Black and James Stuart, charg- them with the murder of Michael Pren- dergast. The men are locked in separate cells at Clayton. Prosecuting Attorney Hel- dorn hopes to secure enough circumstantial evidence to gain a confession from them. A number of farmers visited Clayton Fri- day, and Sheriff. Kerth took the oppor- tunity to warn afl favoring a lynching that he would defend the captives to the last. No extra guard has been placed at the jail, but it would take a battery of artil) force an entrance into the brick and iron structure. Rumors of a contemplated attack on the jail reached Mr. Kerth, but caused only a smile from that official. “T would like to see a mob get into that ail,’ he said. “An army could not do-* it. he two heavy iron front doors would have to be first. battered down, and then the lynchers would only be itn the vestibule of the cell room, Two more barred dors would have'to be forced to reach the prisoners, Then they would have only one of them. The other one up stairs would have to be reached by the same difficult way, and where do you suppose I would be with my deputies all this time? Well, I guese not. “Those men_are every bit as secure out here as if‘they were !n the St. Louts elty “yy And we are going to protect them, e added grienly. ' To all appearances the Sheriff's estimation wer of the structure is ercest onslaught. é jail buildi he westside of the Court House, the two onnected by the “Bridge of Sighs.” A passageway does duty as a scaffold on angman’s day. The windows are secured two sets of fron bars. Prisoners only ve access to these during the exercise hpur in the morning and afternoon. he cells are arranged in tiers throu the center of the building, facing the north and south windows. Entrance is through an areaway that divides the north section from the south. A heavy iron door, worked by a combination in a locked iron box, guards the entrance to this alley, and is the only way a prisoner can be brought out. The key to this combination box is always with the jailer. The two prisoners are on different floors, Black, the younger being above. Neither were inclined to talk much when visited by a reporter for the Post-Dispatch in com- pany with the Sheriff. Stuart was sullen, and averred if he had any defense to make he would do it at the proper time. He de- nied all knowledge of the crime. When he passed Mr. Prendergast’s, he said, every- thing was quiet. After they had gone half a mile he heard two shots, and said to his —~ (mae “there's somebody shooting ogs.”’ In a few minutes, he claims, a light sprin wagon with two horses attached dashe past his vehicle. He noticed three men in it, but»could not tell their color, although he distinctly remembers one wore a small black cap. He said he drove on home then, and knew nothing of the murder until sum- moned to the inquest. He had a 38-caliber revolver with him, but never removed it from his pocket. He took it along for protec- tion against dogs. The wagon and one horse belonged to him. Stuart is a gruff-looking mulatto, about 5 feet 10 inches, and says he is 2% years of age. He has a dissipated face and his ha- bitual scowl makes him repulsive. Black is a full-blooded negro, four years younger than Stuart, and not quite so tall. He corroborated his companion’s story in the main, but got slightly mixed on de- tails, declaring neither had a gun, and the mysterious wagon containing three men passed them nearer the scene of the murder than half a mile. The knife found and identified as his he disclaimed, saying hahaa lost.one: like it about four months ago. Widened His Mouth. An unknown negro cut Henry Taylor's cheek from the mouth to the ear Thurs- day night in a house at Twelfth and Mor- gan streets. At the Dispensary it was found an artery had been severed. Taylor is also colored and lives at 1112 Morgan street. BURIAL PERMITS. _ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. JOHN F. WHITE, 33, 1434 Collins; pneu- monia. JOSEPH ALGER, 55, City Hospital; pneu- monia. * MATTIE LONG, 37, City Hospital; pelvic abscess. SUSIE TAYLOR, 23, 9381 North Eleventh; hepatitis. PATRICK DONOVAN, 68, 3992 Sarpy; pneumonia. KLARA NORDEN, 1, 328 Russell; cerebral meningitis. HENRIETTA JEHLE, 6, entero-colitis. ELIZA BREWER, 89, 3039 Locust; old age and paralysis. B. H. ALLEN, malarial fever. CATHERINE COLEMAN, 58, 535 South Ewing; cancer. WILLIAM ASTERHOLT, 4, City Hos- pital; accident. ANN McDONALD, 67, St. John's Infirm- ary; heart disease. LIZZIE HEMPERS, 8 months, 2921 Calli- fornia; marasmus. GEORGHD M. HELLER, &, 2029 South Broadway; accident. ARTHUR RUSSELL, 11, Water and Bow. en streets; pneumonia. CHARLES ZYTOWSKI, Broadway; bronchitis. HATTIE T. HOLDSWORTH, 14, 4431 North Nineteenth; pericarditis. GEORGE HENDERSON, 23, 708 North Thirteenth; consumption, WILLIAM LIEBRAS, 658, 2855 McNair; hemorrhage of the brain. HENRY STRATTMANN, 55, 1815 Mont- gomery; edema pulmonum. 19099 Obear 31, 2825 Gamble; typho- 49, 1706 North VISITORS IN THE CITY. G. S. Irwin of Chicago is at the Planters’. E. L. Burtweli of Boston is at the Southern. J. J. Garth of St Joseph is at the Pianters’. E. W. Howlett of Peoria is at the Planters’. Wm. H. Rehm of Chicago is at the Southern. Mark D. Kider of Chicago is at the St. James. Frank Pleeter of Chillicothe is at the St. James. Herbert Hackney of Topeka is at the Southern. Rhett Goode of Mobile, Ala., is at the Planters’. . Long of Louisville, Ky., is at the Laclede. . Bartlett of St. Joseph is at the Planters’. . Melton of Trenton, Mo., is at the Laclede. . Keuey of Pittsburg, Pa., is at the South- . Edmonds of Mexico, Mo., is at the Plant- . . Elilott of Meriden, Conn., is at the Sonth- ’, E. Gill and wife of Peoria are at the Plant- . O. Simmons of Virden, Ill., is at the Plant- Wm. Carlisle of Atchison, Kan., is at the clede. Cecil J. Baxter of Nauvoo, Ill., is at the clede. Rese B. Fuller of Charleston, Ill., is at the ciede. Eugenes HK. Trott of New York is at the James. T. A. Lane and wife Laclede, J. P. Sharp and wife of Chicago Planters’. , we Joseph Fader and wife of Memphis are Planters’. Lesiie Warner of Nashville, Tenn., is Planters’. : J. C. Stewart of W Planters’. : edd City, Mo., ts Mra. C. St. James. E. J. Becker and Southern. a wife of Galveston are at Mr. and Southern. of Kansas City are at at at at at C. Foward of Cripple Creek is at the nll Mrs. E. G. Snow of New York are at oe Weber of Farmington, Mo., is at ominent merchant of Batesville, said they would join & lynching party, Friday afternoon men were riding gu over the country in the vicinity of 2 Kossuth W. he Laclede 5. A. Hail, a co" is at the Lindell. . Holbrook, Mo., te at ae See wesc 8 ts ara: Pereiess and wife of Milwaukee ate at Wgaties, Denier and io'here to attend: toe great p- et a here to a AD gathering. HE SECURI ON EASY PAYMENTS ...-. ¥ HE WESTMIN ON EASY PAYMENTS .-... SE, COR. FASTIDIOUS DRESSERS. . . $35. a ELEVENTH AND OLIVE STS. Will do well to examine our stock of fine Merchant Tallor-Made Clothing. Our stock embraces all the Novelties of Spring 1897. largest and most select line of Clothing since we have been in the busi- ness; as for styles and patterns, you can be easily convinced if you will come and see our beautiful window display. everybody. We own the The prices are in reach of Spring Overcoats made to order for $20.00 we sell for Spring Overcoats made to order for $25.00 we sell for Spring Overcoats made to order for $20.00, $45.00 and $40.00, we sell for for $20.00 we sell for Spring Suits made to order Spring Sults made to order for $25.C0 we sell for...... ~ «.«- for $80.00 we sell for Spring Suits made to order Sprin ror .00 we sell for Suits made to order —_--— — OUR STOCK OF — } Trousers, Pants and Pantaloons Surpasses anything we have ever shown. 2-00 to $7.00... Madc for two or three times the money. Remember, tablishment. Money cheerfully refunded if you want it, Prices .from . _.MISFIT PARLORS... as ~~ ee ae Nee . L . ; : A 4 , + “beet — a eee FRYING PAN TO FIRE. Burton Out of One Scrape and Into Several Others. TORONTO, May 7.—Horace Greeley Bur- ton of Sandusky, O., was arrested in this city about two months ago and sent to St. John, N. B., to answer to the charge of stealing $2,500 from a New York publish- ing house for which he had been acting as agent. To-day word is received that ag uO

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SMS ELMO, Sar tt A act RSA — 40.00 Wicels, “BICYCLES ON SMALL WEEKLY PAYMENTS To Parties Coming Well Recommended, Continuing Our Generous Offer of Last Year. 1.25 Down and $1.25 Per Week. $60.00 and $70.00 Wheels, $2.50 Down and $2.50 Per Week. GHUCTEN’S Bicycles on same Terms--LOW Prices. Every Bicycle Backed by the Strong Guarantee of This Company. Sale will continue until further notice. CODROOREOOOO EC, MEACHAM ARMS CO, 306 and 308 N. Fourth St. | | THE GREAT BICYCLE AND SPORTING GOODS EMPORIUM. RACING AT THE PAIR GROUNDS. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MEET- ING NEARLY COMPLETED. ENTRIES FOR THE INAUGURAL. Prospects Indicate One of the Most Successful Race Meetings of the Year. Final arrangements are progressing in a manner most gratifying for the opening day of the spring meeting of the St. Lou's Fair Association, now less than ten days distant. Finough nominations have been made for the rich stakes of the coming season tO assure well-filled fields in all the sterling events, and it is known that a eufficient number of high-class performers will be in attendance to fill all races that the management may want to place on the card with animals of the very highest class, Especial attention will be paid to the track, and it will be worked until the course is as fast as it is possible for skilled Operators to make it. Should the weather between now and the opening day, Satur- day, May 15, continue favorable, the con- testing horses will have as firm and speed-' conducive footheld in the first race as they will have at any time during the meeting. The handsome buildings necessary to the Tracing adjunct of the Fair Grounds resort are being placed in attractive condition to welcome the large crowds that are an inva- riable feature of the legitimate St. Louls facing season as conducted on the splendid course north of the"Natural Bridge road, here are several] stables using the track now for training purposes, and the rail- birds and others interested are using their most earnest endeavors to get a line on the chances of the prospective contestants jn the Inaugural. This rich event wil be run on the open- ing day. It is a handicap sweepstake for 8-year-olds and apy $10 to accompany the nomination; $15 to be paid on accept- @nce Of weights, which acceptance had to be made by April 10, and $# additional to start. The club adds an amount suffi- cient to make the value of the stake $2,000, of which $1,500 to the winner, $350 to second and $160 to third, A winner of a race after gesecation of weights, the total adver- value of which is $1,000 or more, to carry five pounds extra. One mile. 6 Owners of the following list of speedy racers have accepted the weights assigned to them under the conditions of the event: nals O6 sone. mies Thornton ., . cs) seGhE MO, ok ck te arry McQouch..102 eS gas a ee | Re . 88 88 in oe oe ‘. +* ** ** ©* ee ese +» oses MHlOur Bishop.. There are no crustaceans in the abov e lis -* fast performers, and the beagle is A wa gent. It is thought that the weights are iciously distributed, and that the race be_a bruising affair, with a hammer - rAtle Ne BICYCLE! Have You Visited : Our Riding sal 0k days § a. m. to 10 p. m. the Wonderful Trol- ley System. mted. We do all kinds of re- f the dependable kind. ALES SAOLEY 0 x ‘ PCycling Clubs, will accept weights to make the field an un- usually large one, sufficiently so to stamp the winner as Queen of the Filly 2-year-olds, Prospects for a successful meeting are most flattering. SOUTH SIDE ENTRIES. Special Mile Race to Be the Feature of . Friday Night’s Card A large crowd with a turneresque tinge and speculative sagacity attended the South Side races Thursday night. By gpe- clal request of the sportive set attending the Turnverein a long distance race will be the feature of the card Friday night. Eleven aspiring Luke Blackburns will sport silk and endeavor to gain a record for themselves and lucre for their owners, The following are the entries: First race,.one-half mile—His Nibs, Imp. Connemarra, Bud Alexander, Trenton, Joe Highley, Red Elm (Glen Ekin), Volero, Willie Dexter, G: W. Parker, Loule Young, Volunteer II., 112 each. Second race, one mile—Miss Kirkenda!l 107, Ed Beaman, John R. (by Reber), Monk Overton, Jimmie R., «Victor Karl, Craft, Baldur, Bill Arp, 109 each; Carovan, Moses Solomon, 111 each. Third race, five furlongs—Frank Haw- kins 90, Shadrach, Queen Faustus, 100 each; Billy Duff, Mascot, 100 each; Bonneville, Uncle Lew, 108 each; Little Ell, The Pryor, 110 each; Zach Lusby, 108. Fourth race, five and one-half furlongs— Roger O’Malley 110, Cassa La Belle France, Say When, 110 each; Dick Huffman, Pacolet, BE. A. Ray, Oakview, Silver Dick, Arthur H. Taylor, 112 each. Fifth race, six and one-half furlongs—The President, Castalia, 99 each; Arian, Trifa- cial, 100 each; Echollee, 104; Elwyn, Ber- narder, Alcibiades, 110 each; Danton, La Gartia, 113 each. IT’S WAR TO THE KNIFE. California Seceders From the L. A. W. Are Jubilant. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 7.—The gauntlet thrown down by the national of- ficers of the League of American Wheel- men to the California cyclists who have seceded to form an organization of their own has been taken up with a will, and hereafter it is to be war to the knife. The members of the California Associated under whose banner the seceders have ranged. themselves, are ready and willing to begin the Battle at once, and they point with pride and confidence to the fact that several hundred men have already geet the new organization as individuais and pledged themselves to sup- port it. They have no fear of the reprisais that are threatened, or that the secession movement will be disrupted by anything that the Eastern people may do. Ex-Chief Consul Kerrigan has shown his confidence in the new organization by joining. He is outspoken in his bellef and predictions that the California Associated Cycling Clubs will soon usurp all the func. tions and power of the division and that it will open a new era for California wheel- men. “The new organization is bound to suc- ceed,’’ said he yesterday, ‘““hbecause we have the strongest wheelmen in California in our ranks and our cause Fie Look at the progress we have made. Within thirty days over 500 wheelmen have joined the associated clubs, and several clubs in this city and interior have sént in their ge ‘enn M Pp “We eha ve r. Potter and the rest of the L. A. Ww Officials all the fight they want, if that is What they wish, and it would appear from the dispatches that they mean to down us if possible. The day of Eastern domination in Call- fornia wheeling matters is past, and we See the dawn of a new era.” ROAD RECORDS ALLOWED. The Ladies Make a Good Showing in Trietenstein’s Bulletin. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 7.—Chairman Will BE. Krietenstein of the Road Records Committee, Century Road Club of Amer. has eens | hae following bulletin of Ca, road, recoras plow ; re. A. B. enhart, 2% centuries | thirty Gays, Oct. 17 to Nov. 15, 1896 ; Colo- rado State record. Mrs. A‘ E. Rienhart, 46 centuries in sixty days, Sept. 27 to Nov. 25, 1896; Colorado State record. Mra. A. E. megnner, 2,628 miles in thirty days, oe 1896; Colorado State miles in sixty days, 1886; Co Stat O'Connor, mi Juiy ONDERFUL and Water Damaged Men’s Shoes | Almost Given Remainder of Krause’s Smoke of toes, such as Krause sold at prices ranging up to $3.50, will be swept out at leather; while they lastat..... Tan Shoes, worth as high as meee will be cleaned out Mi DAGhes ks bi Rbininke? Cues. 0 rees EN’S Oxblood oes, in razor toes—sizes 6 to 9, (solid everywhere “ $%,0v), Will be cleaned out coin and square toes, sold nowhere under $3, 50, go in this sale at We Ruin the Prices Just the Same! LADIES’ Oxforts,in oxb!ood and tan, our regular $1 line; in this sale at YOUTHS’ Lac? Shoes, from sizes i2 to 2, would be cheap anywhere at $1.25; Sale Price Bale Price ... . St. Louls, intended to sell at $2 and $2.6v; in this sale LADIES’ | green slioes, lace and button styles tan, chocolate, tende« to se!l under $8.00, some tor $4.00; choice in this sale eines 6 v HAT’S LE of Krause's Men's Un- weary bhdes In Diack and tan, all styles WHAT'S LEFT of Krause’s Men’s sh wien he sold at prices ranging up tossen comprising almost every style now made, in every kin cal $1 37 + A LOT of Krause’s Men’s Fine Black ana 51.69 Genuine Russia Calf A LARGE variety of Men's Tan, Chocolate and Oxbiood Hand-Sewed Bals,in razor, $2.50 These Are Not Fire Shees, But 79¢ MISSES’ Chocolate, Tan and Oxblood Lace and Button Shoes, in sizes 12 to 2, sold everywhere at $1.50; 1.09 LADIES’ Oxfordsin oxblood, tan, choco- late and black, made by the best factory in oxblood and in all the latest up-to-date toes, most of them hand-mad3; nota pair in the lot ever in- these! manly form! price of Children’s Clothing At Prices That Put Competitors To Shame. Is a ridiculous price for such Suits as When you look at the 30 odd patterns—note the beauty and finish of the fabric—the style—the lining and trimming—you cannot deny them a place of honor on your Cutaway Suits—Sack Suits—all latest in style—all per- fectly tailored—intended by Ernst to sell for $12.50 and $15.00—you get in this cyclone for the absurd The town is wild over our amazing values in Men’s Suits! The 3,000 lot bought from Max Ernst so far below value are melting away! The first few days’ selling resulted in causing a heap of talk,and now men are coming in steady streams for the Biggcst Snap St. Louis has known (even at “The Fair”) for years! $7.85 , Never bought such a Suit as you can have in this sale! pattern among these 30 odd styles! Not,a faulty garment—not a: thing you would ask for better if your tailor charged you $30! | If you see a particularly well- dressed man, nine chances out of ten he’s got on one of these elegant Suits of Ernst’s, made to sell for $12.50 and $15.00, that we are selling for SUIT SAL Fi Not a poor sho | MEN’S AT s*eeee¢ same as sold nowhere ene (union label in every hat); Saturday Special at..etsec 90000001027 2 Batteries: Pittsburg—Hawley an r ritt: Cincinnati—Rhines and Peitz. Ho kaa 123456789-R.H.E Boston... .. «2 ee » TIFF eS pe BS Washington... .. -- 0 Batteries: Bosto Washington~ merce rille , | ragga AS S:. Louls postponed by agree- ment to Friday. Lord Rosebery’s Filley Wins. May 7.—Lord Rosebery’s bay aur pe ol won the one thousand guin- eas stake at Newmarket to-day. His Lord. ship was especially congratulated on win- this classic event on the anniversary of his birth, May 7, Realty Men as Ball Players. The real estate men have organized « base ball team composed of the flower of the fraternity. Even President Bd Wolf of the Exchange is said to be ambitious to become a pitcher on the team, and Harry L. Haydel hae so vigorously inaisted on be. ng short stop that the managers have felt bliged to accede to his ur he will pl Sat. i ) T f Comuittes is composed meet the first time this season at the open- Harry L. Haydel, E. B. Wolff, Albert T. Terry and Henry R. Weisels. General Sporting Notes. Miss Edna B. Dean of Chicago has been chosen referee of the big road race held under the auspices of the Cook County Cy- clists’ Association. Charles H. Kilpatrick, the American run- ner, {s training at Leeds, England. He has accepted Baker's challenge to run two races, one of 1,00 yards and the other of three-quarters of a mile. Johnny Van Heest defeated George Hunt, the Oklahoma Kid, at Lexington last night in the fourteenth round, George Siler, who refereed the Corbett-Fitzsim- mons fight, officiated, and at the conclu- sion said it was one of the best contests he had ever seen. The Century Road Club of Missouri will run to Valley Park Sunday. Capt. ea- cock wants all members to turn ‘out and promises them that the pace will not be too fast, as it Is his first run of the season, as well as other members. The start will be made at 8:30 o'clock. If the grand circuit light harness race meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Ct., next August proves successful, and the quality of the entries seems to assure it, Messrs, O. A. Jones and A. J. Welch talk of offering a stake of $20,000 for trot- ters. The eligible horses will probably be those in the 2:14 class. ‘The Earl of Dunraven,” says the Field, “will fit out the Audrey, fifty-two foot rater, for racing this season, and up to the resent it looks as though she will be alone n the south in the early part, as Penitent will not be raced unless she finds a new- comer, and oe is known at present as to the intentions of Mr. Howard Gould with regard to Niagara.” Following the untimely death of John V. Crum comes the news that the other phe- nomenal sprinter, B. J. Wefers of George- town University is ill at his home in Law- rence, Mass. He is said to be in a very weakened condition, and is under the care of three physicians. Some of the rumors concerning his illness are rather startling. One is that he is a victim of consumption and another is that he has a severe attack of malaria. Johnnie Payne, the ex-telegrapher, who has for several years been one of the lead- ing bookmakers on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River from Cincinnati, threatens to go to the courts to compel the Newport track to stop running at the end of its scheduled meeting, It is said that Payne and some other Covington pool-room keep- ers own stock in the Newport track to the extent of $25,000, Pat Tebeau is nothing if not tricky. In the opening game with Cincinnati he had the right side of the batter's box filled with soft earth, so that the right-handed bat- ters, who are in the majority on the Cin- cinnati team, could not secure a firm foot- hold. This trick lasted through one game, when Mr, McPhee, who was acting as captain in the absence of Ewing. insisted that the earth be packed solid ince then it has been discovered that the foxy Pa has had the base paths leading to first an third graded so that bunt hits made by the Indians will all roll fair when bunted right. The outside of the line ts said to be at least three inches higher than the inside and a ball to roll foul would have to travel up-hill. Base Ball Notes. “Cupid” Childs of the Clevelands, who in- jured himself in the last game here with St. Louls is hurt eo badly that it ts feared he will not be in the game for some time. Boston has signed a new pitcher in George A. Mahoney of Georgetown College. He is a six-footer, and weighs 200 pounds, and has been very effective in the box, besides play- ing well at times as change catcher. Here's a chance for some shrewd manager. Sockailexis bei the hit of the year in the matter of “finds,” an portunity is af- forded for some one to pick a good thing from the college ranks. In the ball game Tuesday between the University of Ten- nessee and Grant University at Athens, the former defeated thé batter in a score of 18 to 2 Newman, the pitcher for Tennessee University, struck out 21 men and gave no bases on balls. and did not hit a man with the ball during the game. Very Low Rates To-Day and Until May 12 Via the Burlington Route to the West. Kansas City, $4; St. Joseph, $5.15; Den- ver, $21; Salt Lake City, $39; second-class, $4: Pacific Coast, $4; second-class, 34; Butte and Helena, $39; second-class, $34; Other Western points !n proportion. Fam trains of compartment sleepers; free chair cars. 8. W. cor. Broadway end Olive A VISIT 10 THE CIRCUS HORSES SLEEK STEEDS THAT HELP EN- TERTAIN THE POPULACE. THE MAN WHO BOSSES THEM. Ringling Brothers’ Stable E£uperin- tendant, S. Delavan, Talks About His Four Hundred Charges. Ringling Brothers Horse Show was a fea- ture of the Circus Thursday evening. When the performance was almost half over some 250 or 300 horses and ponies paraded around the hippodrome track. They marched in fours, with a groom to each quartette, It was rather a new experience to them, but the docile creatures took it in good part and pranced slowly before the admiring multitude as though conscious of the hit they were making. The draught horses came first, then the racers, then the ring performers, then the ponies, then the trick donkies, and bring- ing up the rear with his proud head held high and his symmetrical hoofs spurring the springy earth, came Silver King. The other horses aroused admiration, but this magnificent cream colored stallion, ex- cited adulation. He looked every inch a king. There was grace in every line, cour- age, intelligence and gentleness in his eye oe the refinement of blood in his noble ead. An impression exists that Silver King is an Arabian steed. He fulfills all the re- quirements of the ideal. He might pose as a model for the steed of Saladin or the destrier who died in battle with the great Ear] of Warwick. But as a matter of fact the King is a Kentucky thoroughbred, born of cream-colored mother, whose chief characteristics were an aristocratic bear- ing and the temper of a fiend. His sire is not known. In this the King is like the original Morgan horse, of whom it was said that the proof of his pedigree was in his progeny. The King has many physical traits of the Morgans—thick, curved neck, small ears, delicate muzzle, broad fore- head, round hoofs, deep chest, short back and fine though luxuriant mane and tall. He is 5 years old and has never felt the weight of harness. His only task is to ap- pear twice a day in the ring and show how well he understands English as she is spoke by his trainer, Edward wry The inglings’ horses and stables are under the care of 8. Delavan, who is known to nearly every horse dealer in America. A saurey, middle-aged man, with a keen, though kindly eye, and the placid manner that men who are much with horses usu- ally take on, Mr. Delavan is as much of an institution with the Ringlings as they are with him. For nine years he has had control of thelr stock, and they would no more think of buying a horse without his approval than they would of letting the lions run at large in the horse tents. He buys all the horses, orders their provender and is chief surgeon as well as superin- tendent. He is as watchful of his charges as though they were ladics, and when a hostier shows bad temper that hostiler is forthwith out of a job. The horse tents of the circus are one of the Interesting features of the establish- ment. They are three in number—one for the draught horses, one for the menage, ring and race horses and one for the po- nies and donkeys. Supt. Delavan showed a Post-Dispatch re- porter through the stables tn the early morning. An enormous wagon was being loaded with the stable sweepings. This refuse is a fine fertilizer, and the circus people would be glad to give it away, but the truck farmers do not seem to appreciate its vaiue, and it is hauled several miles and dum into the river. The first stable visited was that set apart for the draught horses, about 300 in number. They are nearly all of Percheron and Nor- man blood. “IT don’t like the full-bloods as well as the five-eighths or three-quarters for our pur- .” gaid Mr. Delavan. “They are apt to Be clumsy. Take this fellow for instance,” placing his hand on the rump of an iron gray. “He weighs 1,00 pounds and is three- quarters Percheron. He never misses a meal and is always ready to work. A draught horse is ready for business when he is 56 years old, I buy ours in Illino's and In. diana, most of them from the traders in Chicago. I generally select five-elghths bred Percheron or Normans. I prefer them to the { 1 Clydes, use they mature earlier and, I "one GPE seme er gs pee rs of the Bineros, Welsh and Shetlands. Binero he pointed out as the fastest thing for his size in the world. ’**Rosin-backs,”” ih racers and the menage horses. horses are of the same quality as draughts. train one for bareback tricie-seeiine. and even then he may get stubbora and have to be rele rosin oh from slipping is removed once a week With ter thoroughbreds, and some of them are very fast. breds in the lot, one with a record of a half mile in 48 seconds. He is a chestnut colt, 3 years old, and looks good enough to be on a regular track. said Mr. Delavan. than any other breed. well-bred Kentucky horse anything.” with the show. Two shoers are k looking after their feet, to say nothing of the army of hostlers. is the average given each horse a day be- sides all the sumption of hay a day is three tons. Satisfactory Winding Up of the Na- Special to the Post-Dispatch. thirds of the depositors in the suspended National Bank of Illinois had called for and received idend declared by Comptroller of the Cur- rency Eckels. It is only four months since the bank suspended, and in that time div- idends amounting to 6 per cent have been paid: This is a record never previously reached in winding up the affairs of any lapsed bank and supports the contention originally made that if the bank had been given assistance at the time of its trouble the collapse might have been avoided and the institution been well on ita fee With the assets still on hand, which clude an entire electric street conway —_ tem, there is no question but that the - positors amount standing on their pass-books, while, in addition, ey will remain to aff stockholders a ing to 50 per cent. The amount pald out this wou by the receiver was half a million dol- ars, awaits dilatory depositors. Exploring Party Fitted Out by Morris exploring party, Prof. Frank Boag, is about to undertake an extensive systematic exploration among the inhabitants of the North Pacific coast, be- tween the Amoor River, in Asia, end the Columbia River, in America. The fwaids for this important undertaking have bein gen- erously provided by Morms K. Jesup, who has done much already for the advancement of science and for furthering the work of the American of this city. The expedition will be a costly one, Mr. $100,000 for the development of the scheme. In 18% he fitted out the Peary relief expe- dition, which extended need Lieut. Peary, and thu additions te our know! Greenland and invaluable contributions to the museum. Ingalls Sells Quick Meal Gas Stoves, $2a month. Connections free. Lovely iron beds, what you want, and fair dealing, at In-. galls, 1108 Olive st. ‘ Killed a Fellow Prisoner in the Indiare 1 Rance i CITY, Ind., May %—Henry shortly after midnight for the murder of « fellow convict named Thomaa, who testified against him at the trial which resulted in his risen no signa of fear at hie fate, and went to the scaffoid without a tremor. was private, as required by law. oad Fe eae" Fem ote eran One The Ringlings raise their own ponies. In the next tent were the ring horses— { circus par ncee—the ] The ring the It takes about three years to ted to the wagon brigade. The their backs ton eep the riders Ipe clay. It is an all-day job for an expert ostler. The racers are most of them three-quar- There are several! full thorough- “The menage horses are all Americans,” “They have more sense You can teach a There are nearly 4@ horses and ponies t busy Three pecks of mixed oats, corn and bran ay he wants. The tota] con- ECKELS’ GOOD RECORD. tional Bank of Illinois. CHICAGO, May 7.—Up to to-day two- their checks for the fourth div- to-day. in- will eventually receive the full ord the vidend, probably amount- and another hundred thousand NORTH PACIFIC COAST. K. Jesup. NEW YORK, May 7.—The World says An under the leadership of Museum of Natural .distory esup has piedged himself to give assistance to resulted in important edge of Northern pretty carpets, refrigerators. Just CONVICT HANGED. ’ State Prison. di ones, colored, a convict In the Indtena tate Prison, was hanged in the prison leat sentence to p Jones showed he execution at 75c—We clean ’em out be Men’s Furnishings for Next to Nothing. The Krause Fire Stock contained about dozen Men’s Neglige Shirts — some with collars attached--some with extra ars and cuffs—He sold these 39c urday at .....5 +0. cerene see: This Is Shameful ! Men’s very finest quality derwear in all sizes and colors—(from the Krause fire but not damaged )—so fine that an Ur- can guarantee them worth 50c¢ garment—in this sale while they last at.....++e+s saccee coon Depot of GETZ EXTERMINATORS, ALEXANDER’S DRUG STORE, 518 Olive St, Getz Roach and Ant Exterminator, 25c and 50c Getz Bed Bug, Files, Fleas, Etc;, Ex- terMiMAtor — ..... eens cece eens SC ONE BOG CONTRACTS taken to Exterminate Roaches and Bugs, and guaranteed for one year. ) W. d. HUSSUNG. Mitr. RUFUS VASSAR ARRESTED. Charged With Embezzlement hy d Wo- man in California, SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.—Rufus P. Vas- sar, grandson of the founder of Vassar Col- lege at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., ie under ar- rest here, charged with embezzlement. The complainant, Maud Essington Stewart Mitchell Duggan of Chicago, alleges that she entrusted him with a $200 diamond ring and $80 in coin and that he appropriated the same to his own use, Vv however, claims that there {s assar nothing criminal In his transaction with the lady and states that they mainiained a community interest in race track specula- tion and that the ring and money do not nearly counterbalance the amount advanced on his account. The fair complainant came here ostensibly for the purpose of securin a divorce from John ward Duggan of Gault place, Chicago, to whom she was married in 1398 at Racine, Wis. decree tas granted ril TO CURE NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA, To Gain Flesh, to Sleep Well, te Kaow What Appetite and Geed Digestion Mean, Make a Test of Siuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. Interesting Experience of an Indianap- olis Gentleman, No trouble is more common or more misunderstood than nervous People having it think lost sight of; the stomach is the organ to be looked after. erveas dyspeptics often do not have any pain whatever in the stomach, nor per- haps any of the usual symptoms of stom- ack weakness. Nervous dyspepsia shows itvelf not in the stomach so much as in rearly every other organ; in some cases the heart a aeceg and is irr ; in others the ki the bowels are constipated, with head- aches: still others are troubled with loss of flesh and rs intgame, ewe er gat , sour risings a eartburn. “ag A. W. Sh of No. 61 Prospect St., Indianapolis, Ind., writes as follows: “A motive of ¢ gratitude ompts me. to write these few lines regar 7 tee and valuable medicine, Stuart's Tablets. have’ been a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia for the last four years; have used various patent medicines other remedies without any favorable re- sul They sometimes gave temporary relief until the effects of the medicine wore off. I attributed thia to my gee A habits, being a bookkeeper, with physical exercise, but | 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.” Tablets will cure any or disease except cancer of appetite, ee urn, consti Send for valuable little book on en direuing Bune te - ea r=. 2 7 a £ : f 2a oe ee AY ol a ee oe o 2 eS te ay oe gt vs r ~ as 5 a - a > bP ng 5 me ie * . te ae SS Bi ny 3 Y . ia tr ey > Ps 4 Pe oe er 4 aw! i i pa ge Cae ar Siege de I A - . on) os“ a” Sate . : g re Cry + & ta - 3 : _ 4 « P ~- Sls $i 4 a; Cree ads Pal et he ve pees a Oe us 7 aaa.) CEP Ba et MESS, mee wie NE ae ae Oe FF vp pau &. ogee SE . ‘ 7 Pa, ee eet : 2 ' ; j x * , - ee . — . 8 Ge 3 9 es eo te a lias ¥ rs \# svg Sod J : we 7 “Ka ie! 1 MN, Gah Diet Ae hens a OR he: + ae are not cured by nerve medicine © neys are affected; in others

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ar a hades tbat 9 Re Fea, MAN Ww anted, ‘ ve ee WANTED. ‘A Gret-class machinist on Sry—St. Luis Post-Bispatch —Waw ¢ EMPLOYMENT GROUPING. Threw Her Diamonds |] In the Fire!____ The other day a know-nothing, careless Chicago domestic tossed Mrs. Katherine Kirk’s diamonds into the fire. Moral: ‘“Where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise.’’ If you would have a CAREFUL GIRL, In Any Drug Store in St. Post-Dispatch. P.-D WANT AO froo~ 1 OT : Louis is authorized to receive Advertisementa and Subscriptions for the The Post-Dispatch has three telephones exc lusively for handling this business. PPPDPDAL LP PLL LSS day or night, 365 days in the ‘5st. and Remember that your Druggist serves you at all hours. especially when you are in distress. When you want anything in his line, patronize him Ea SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE. 20 worda or Teas. fic. BOY—jood, honest boy of 17 wants a rituation where he can leatn a trade.or advynnce in: bust- ness. 4428 Cottage av. BOOK KEEPER age 25; fou cashier two banka. BARTENDER. young man; ences. Ad. G 602, Sitnetion wanted by. do general house or porter’s work: ences Ad. 8508 Couzens av. And office man wants a situation; years’ practical experience; refs.; Ad. K 604, this office. Wanted, situation as bartemier by i years’ experiences; best of refer- this _offie e. a ee eee ee eee colored boy of 19 to can give refer- BOY- Sit. wanted by A colored hoy as porter « or dining-room boy. Add. J. Porter, 2142% Walnut st.; can furolsh refs. BOY- kind. BOY- “Situation wanted by a relinble boy ‘of 17 to to do office work or work of any kind where there fs a chance for advancement; good references. Ad. A 670, | this office. BOOK- KEFPER-— Wanted, situatton as assistant hook-keeper or as clerk; not afraid of work. Ad. Hiss, 1833 S. 12th st. BOY Reliable. boy from countey. aged 16, wants situation in a store or office; Ee refs. Ad. P ; this office. vy of 15: work of any sucky. Wanted. situation by Call or address 4112 ————— ‘Kennerly ay. COOK- -A first-class onal desires situation to work by the day. 14183 W ash, in rear. WOMAN WANTED—For house-cleaning at 1300A Olive st., wpeterts.. _- a AGENTS WANTED. 14 words or less, 20c. a AGENTS WANTED—In each locality. If you are a hustler you can make $10 _ day. Call or ad- ate 318_U Union Trust Buildin ng. ee a ‘CANVASSERS. 14 words or less, ‘2c. COOK—Wanted., cook and housekeeper; S, Beaumont st. place in private family by good elderly woman. Call 230 COOK Situation ‘wanted 1 as anak or to do general house work. can furnish reference from former em- Ad. L 698, wi Wanted, b nd dining-room ol : this office. S11 (Y RAPHER—Expert stenographer desires po- t | family; 692, this position in’ private work. N WA S Wanted, “posit ion as e xperie: need tray i! at hotel or restaurant. Ad. 8S 602, this om) WOMAN-—Sith: cleaning or days in the av., 2d Soor ion by colored woman at house ashing and ironing two or three veek. Ad. J. North, 2731 Laclede ironing or house clean- ing aay day in the week. 1916 N. Vandeventer ay. WwoM AN- Sit. wanted by a woman to do ‘work for room reat, 3222 Clark av. wom AN Warts position to go ‘traveling with lady or childern. Ad. N 6u1, this _ office you NG La DY— Baucated ye young Indy, good pen- man, Wants office work, Ad. F 603, this office. STOVE REPAIRS. GAS, gasoline and cook stove repairs: gasoline \. 12th. stoves fixed to burn gas J. Forshaw, 111 N. ee ee HELP WANTED—FEMALE. 14 words or less, 10c, 600K WANTED —German preferred; emall fam- lly. 83624 Pine at CANVASSERS WANTED—On house to house work; $6 a week and 20 per cent commission. 311 N. lith st. — $$ —— TO PRINTERS. We are prepared to do Com- position in Agate, Nonpareil, Minion, Brevier, Brevier Ionic, Small Pica, Any Measure. Special prices given on large orders. Address =PQST-DISPATCH. PARTNERS WANTED. 14 words or less, 20c. PARTNER—W anted, facture new patedt; selling every day. Add. + 604, to manu- goods ate with emall capital, aone investigation; this office. ROOMING- HOUSE- _Gentleman, with furniture, etc., for 12 rooms, will take partnership in room- Ps house, Add. D 6%, this office. LOST AND | FOUND. 14 words or less, 10c. Lost. BOA—Will party who picked up marten fur boa = Euclid av. Thursday afternoon return to 4707 St. Louls av. and receive teward? DOG- -Lost, a fat pug dog. ‘fe male, near Lafayette Park; answers to name of Trixie; reward for re- turn or any information. 2103 8S. Jefferson av. HORSE—Lost or stolen, from Ringling Bros.’ cir- cus, Thursday evening, May 6, black horse and surrey; horse 17 hands high, sore on back size of half dollar, barbed wire cut on left frond leg; open-top surrey, carpeted, contained African rug and a feather pillow. Finder return to 4222 Kennerly av. and receive reward. POO KETROOK- ‘Reward of $15 and no questions asked for return. of pocket book containing certifi- cate of deposit on Bank of Commerce; lost about _ April 25. 304 N. Garrison ay. ee ee os POC KETRBOOK- ~—Lost, _ pocketbook containing $55 in bills. Return to Walton-Knost Express Co. Lib- eral reward. SPECTAC L ES Lost, gold spectac les. Finder please leave with J. R. Timberman, 1519 Market st. err | ee eC; WATCH AND CHAIN—Lest, lady's gold watch and chain Thursday noon on Washington ay., bet. 9th and 7th. Reward of $5 if returned to 819 Washington av. | FOR RENT ROOMS, ETC. ROOMS FOR RENT. 14 words or less. 10c. : CHESTNUT ST.. 3 3011—Two rooms and kiteches; nice for small family; water free; rent $10. CASS AV.., 2513—24-floor th -window room, furnished or unafurp se ae _~ CLARK AV., 2134—Large front room, elegantly ” furnished, for man and wife or two gents. OHOUTEAD AV., 1423—Two lovely furnished ore: , for housekeeping; southern exposure; $3.59; two F rear roums; $3 a week. die EASTON AV., 3025—Nicely furnished parlors, sin- le or en suite, and two rooms for light house keeping; terms reas. EASTON AV., 2030—Fine, airy, all conveniences: arranged to tenant. FRANKLIN AV., 2023—2 newly furnished rooms for housekeeping: water convenient; $9 and up. FARRAGUT ST., 1903—North St. Louls—2 sunny rooms, with water in kitchen, to couple without children ; price $7 per month. eS iteestilliannentinne JEFFERSON AYV., 715 N.—Farnished room, $6 per month; also room for light housekeeping. JEFFERSON AV., 1689 S.—Second-sto front Tooms; neatly furnished; geotiemes only. LOCUST ST., for 2 or 4 gentlemen: $2.50 and FF oe ncaa aaa LOCUST ST., 2816—Handsomely furnished 2d-story room for gentlemen; terms reasonable. LEFFINGWELL AV. complete for light house keening; LOCUST ST., 2631—Nicely furnished room; south- ern and eastern exposure. large 2d- LOCUST ST., 2636—Nicely furnished, story front and other rooms. LEFFINGWELL AV., 10 N.—Furnished front room for ladies or gents; $7 per month. MORGAN ST., 3039—Handsomely furnished rooms; all conveniences; 8 lines of cars; reasonable. MORGAN S8T., 28232 elegant furnished rooms for light housekeeping; r references required. MORGAN ST. 3045—Delightful 2-story room; southern and western exposure; summer rates; private family. MARKET ST., 2361—Nicely furnished rooms for one or two gents; terms reasonable. furnished room, suit desirable furnished rooms 1420—Large. ~ nicely a $1. on, each. —j room, furnished 214 8.—1 room, fu week. OLIVE ST., 2651B—Furnished room for light house. keeping, 24 floor front. OLIVE ST., 2913—Nicely furnished front or back rooms, $2.25 and $1.75 per week. OLIVE S8T., 1222—Neatly fur. rooms; suitable for one or two gentlemen; $2 and $3 per week. OLIVE ST., 2838—Choice, light rooms in double house, single or en suite, furnished or unfur. OLIVE ST., 1324—Nicely furnished front rooms; al- so rooms for transients. PAPIN ST., 1430—Front room, furnished for house- keeping, $1. 75 per week; also $1.50 per week. PINE ST., 2028—Two large 2d-story front rooms, unfurnished; private family; $11 a month. PINE ST., 2005—2 beautiful rooms for housekeep- ing, with alcove and southern exposure. PINE ST.., 2026—Neatly furnished light housekeep- ing rooms. PINE ST., 3330—Nicely furnished front room; §3 per week. ROOMS—4 rooms, with bath and gas; three hand- somely furnished; will rent the same for $25 per month. Ad. M 691, this office. THOMAS S8T., 2841—Nicely furnished and connecting rooms, 5, single or en 8 WASH &8T., 1611—Handsomely furnished room; also hallroom ' WASHINGTON AV., 2717—Nicely furni with all conveniences; southern expos WASHINGTON AV., 1900—Furnished front room; 50, $1.75 per week : rge front te; cheap. - rooms, i4 words or less, 10c. ted, use of parlor to receive classes Pile oars a eS gg og French or Ger- lessons. BOOMS-—Want or 2 rooms, unfurnished, West a sated, 1 Louis; wi I setnapcesncatiee: Mrs. ©. Walker, is01 Wash ROOM—Wan et ee ot Gun cst Ad, ax ae ee HOUSES, ROOMS, ETO., WANTED, transient couple; this office. DELMAR AV., 4067—Modern, completely furnished, for year or jess at reduced rates. FURXISHED }HOUSE—West End, &8-room hoovse, with porch: completely furnished; low rent. Ad. a 604. thi this office. FURNISHED er ee, leaving city for ished modern home summer will rent og = Ba to young men; 4 cool ms on 24 floor; Olive, west of Grand. Ad. F e02, ‘this office. FURNISHED HOUSE—For rent, an e! tly fur- nished 10-room house; fine location. Ad. 692, this office. Y RNISHED HOUSE—For and — cows, fruit; = Parca | connections; Wood) Temple Bidg. or Box 66, Kirk HOUSE—Furnished house, nine rooms possession May 20; Lindell boul. Ad. W 690, th this office. WASHINGTON AYV., 3909—Furnished house, r rooms, complete, to responsible parties; er- ences uired 50. summer—14 rooms; DWELLINGS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. TO-MORROW AFTERNOON AT 3 P. ut We hold an Auction Sale in Gibson Heights King’ way, opposite the southern end of Forest gy The pte are closing out remaining lots tn this beautiful , subdivision in or~ der to wind up the deal. Four-fifths sold ang improving nicely. They are going to endeavor to close out at THIS AUCTION, and Bargains will be had. The property undoubtedly has an excellent future, and parties with a little money can find nd safer Place tn St. Louis to invest their money. Tefms only one-fifth cash. Sale begins at 2 p.m. See advertisement elsewhere, | This is “Bargain Day,” so speculators and others should attend. ANDERSON-WADE REALTY CO., Eighth and Locust. PERSONAL—WIIl the wer | be left Suburban ca at West Cabanne pl. kindly send her ad a, # gentleman who spoke to her through wind at ant M his office. [2 >) =. Theredey MATRIMONTAL. 14 words or less, 80c. s MA TREMONTAL~O6aSio-0ges gentieman would Hr eon, a young lady; object matrimony. Add. CHESTNUT ST... 8415 W.—Handsome 10-room ee Fug, dern improvements; newly papered and painte HOWARD ST.. 2808—Nice 5-room cottage, newly pemred and decorated: rent $15. Mathew Kiely, 28 Dickson st. LEDUC ST., 4831—7 rooms; bath, furnace decorated; Easton and Washington av. cars. pay ST... itedate §.—3-room cottage. FLATS FOR RENT. 14 woris or less, 10c. FRANCIS ST., 1447—Beanutiful 8-room flat: gas, water, cellar; conveniences; fine wt . Ry block from Easton and Grand; $11. FOURTEENTH S8T., 1829 TO 1835 S.—Elegant new 4 and 8-room flats; very cheap. FURNISHED FLAT—Nicely furnished 6-room flat; all modern conveniences; in West End; to family of adults. Ad. D 602, this office. MERAMEC ST., 2723A—Fine 4-room flat, 24 floor, newly decorated; new building; fine yard; new 2-story shed in rear; rent reduced to $12. Gam- brill & McDowall, 1107 Chestnut st. MATRIMONIAL—Bachelor. 40 and homely PERSONAL SUNDRIES. , desires past ON FOREST PARK Bt NORTH SIDE, 300 FEET. widow; stout; this office. ——_— 14 words or less, 20c. DIVORCES office, 1002 Olive st., second floor. (Both between Vandeventeray. ind Sarah st.) IN LOTS TO SUIT, ; A SPECIALTY: easy terms; confidential. Law ALL private matters, etc.. treated _ small charge for med. imp'es, sores, discharges, “yp = eure peaeaasees: free; elther sex; i Co., 107 N. 9th. Medica ON LINDELL AVENUE, DR. MARY JOHNSON receives ay A ——- ment; special treatment by mall. Numbers 350! and 3503 18th st (Northwest corner of Theresa Av.), rates. DR. MARY ARTHUR, 2701 Morgan st., boards la- dies during con. troub'e cail or ; treats female diseases: ladies io write; consultation free; reas. TWO* STONE-FRONT HOUSES, 2 STORY. 8 ROOMS, e a DYSPEPSIA CURED—Grover Grabam’s remedy iow instant relief; permanent cure & hang rah LUSK SANITARIUM—Rellable and perfect seclusion before and ile te 630 Pine et. epectific; artd. h, 7th & Locust, $0 & Market. Write . Newburgh, N. Y., for pamphlet. ted; confinement. UPON THE PREMISES, SATURDAY, MAY 8. LOTS AT 3 O'CLOCK. HOUSES AT 5 P. M. MORGAN ST., 2732—An elegant 5-room fiat, with all imp:ovements. NEWSTEAD AV., 4120 and 4118—Splenaia order ; 4 rooms, bath and laundry, ist or 2d floor; fine location; green flelds; pure air; 30 minutes’ to 4th st; "tis nonsense to pay $18 or $20 when you can rent these that are just as good for $14; come out and gee them; take Lindell or Union cars to door. OLIVE S8T., laundry; two porches; janitor; water. Evans, 915 Locust st. PARK AV., 1214—4 rooms and bath. THEODOSIA AYV., 5808—Modern flat of 8 large rooms and handsome bath-room: hot and cold Water; splendid condition; rent $1 20TH ST., 38940A N.—T-room flat; nearly new; de- tached; all conveniences; $20. 20TH ST., 1812 N.—3 rooms. 21ST ST., 1113% N.—3 rooms, orated. Keys on premises. 8719—Apartment; 6 rooms; bath; steam heat; hot 24 floor; newly dec- MASSAGE AND BRATHS—2602 Olive. 9 a. Pp. m. Scientific operators. Treatments, $1. c TERMS ONE-FOURTH CASH. — A PLAT, m. to 11 MAGNETIC TREATMENT, $1; by Lady Alpine; lady expert. manicuring given 1518 Chestnut st. MASSAGE AND MAGNETIC pectmees for rheum- atism and nervousness. 1624 Pine st HENRY HIEMENZ, JR, MME. BARTHOLOMEW’S magnetic treatment is highly recommended: rheumatism, paralysis, kidne ousness and other troubles. 1 H. L. SUTTON, Auctioneer. 614 CHESTWUT, also restores the system; and liver; nerv- Chestnnt st. IMPROVED PROPERTY FOR SALE, MASSAGE. Magnetic treatment: ing, chiropodist. Se bathe, ee Mrs. Grey, 1610 Pine MRS. ANNIE NEWLAND. midwife. confinement; eall or write 916 8. 14th sat. boards during terms reasonable; ladies in trouble ‘UNNGHESTER AY. LOTS. MRS. BRIDGES, 1204 Choutean av.—Reliable home for ladies durin won't regret calling; reasonable. nehester avy. (New Manchest anne of “King’s highway, we will tg a to-morrow some choice lotsa; business confinement; those in trouble MRS. RENNEKAMP~—Most reliable private home for ladies before and during confinement; reasonable. 2025 Franklin ay. 2 street car lines; at tra parses in the great “Mill k Valley Oontneee diesen These lots, together with other Rn lots. also some cheap work! be terms — corner house. WASH ST., 1811—Nicely furnished room, conve- nient for light housekeeping; southern exposure; low prices. WASH ST., 1813—Two connecting rooms for three gents or light housekeeping. ee ee 7TH ST., 2800 S.—One furnished front Ttoom u stairs; corner house; one of two gents; also hali- room; convenient to four car lines. 16TH ST., 21 S.—Front hallroom; also large rooms, with porch; $3 per month HOTEL ANTI. Newly furnished rooms for nts only; 612 Franklin av.; everything new and clean; $2 to $3 per week. TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES. 14 words or less, 10c. HOTEL—For rent, hotel; June or July 1; desira- ble location; good investment; good reasons for > Stag bear investigating. Ad. 688, s office. OFFICE—For rent, an elegant private office; well 7) — aa second floor; cheap. Ad. P 603, this office. MRS. DR. HOGAN receives before and du confinement; dies call or write; confidential. sold +t -morrow afternoon ary ay Heights tion \ genuine clearing-out gale, and rare gains .ill be bad. Terms -_ ——s ance on or before 1, 2, 3 a homes for infants if desired: la- 2829 Market st. 1,000 BUSINESS CARDS, $1. H. B. CROLE & CO., Printers, 815 Locust st. ers or any desiring a lot snoald “attend. * mean it; ba ne aan at this sale ANDERSON-WADE REALTY ©0., Agents | FAY GAS FIXTURE CO., Manufecturers, jobbers and dealers in gas and tric fiatures, electric bells and wiring. CABANNE PLACE IS THE PLACE AFTER elec- 1126 Olive. WHITTIER ST., 1024—Completely furnished ice cream patior or unfurnished. MUSICAL. 14 words or less, 20e. ROOMS WITH ‘BOARD. 14 words or less, 10c. BENTON ST., 2017— Wanted, child to gia home of widow lady; good home; no children BOARD—Young widow having nice home in North St. Louis wishes gentleman to take room and board; $20 per month; home comforts; no other boarders ; Broadway or Mound City car line. Ad. R 692, this office. CLARK AYV., 2715—Good rooms; southern exposure; excellent board; $3.50 and $4 per week. FINNEY AV., 8748—Large, elegantly furnished room, with or without board; private family. GARRISON AV., 1011 N.—Second-story front, with good table board; terms reasonable; for two. GRATTAN ST., 1202—Rooms with excellent board. HICKORY ST., 814—Room for married couple or gents, $7; with or without board. KENNERLY AV. "., 3900—Nicely furnished front room, with good board for couple; terms reason- able; modern improvements; four blocks south of Fair Grounds. LOCUST ST., 2827—Elegantly furnished rooms: southern exposure; first-class table and service. LOCUST ST., 2710—Two nicely furnished 2d-story rooms, with good board; reasonable. LOU jISIANA AV., 1 1900—Op site Reservoir—2 nice front rooms; board if pe red. 1706—Elegantly furnished rooms; Ist- LI ICA Ss PL. . required. class board; refs. LOCUST ST., 2810—Elegantly furnished rooms and good board; cheap. LOCUST ST., 2630—Desirable rooms; terms reasonable. LOCUST ST., room, with board; references. OLIVE ST. with board; PINE ST., 2700—Nicely furnished front rooms, with board; eas, bath and large lawn. good board; 2804— Desirable second-story front gentlemen or couple, with 4269—Nicely furnished front room, southern exposure. ee eee: PINE ST. ; , 2720—Nicely furnished rooms, with or without beard; cheap; all conventences, Call. PAGE. AV. ” BBs 24—Nicely furnished “foome: excel- lent board: $4 per week. ROOM- -~Flegant 2d-story front, co furnished room; small family; West of Grand: for quiet _ couple; will board lady. Ad. B 604, this nis office. ROOM “Delightful front room; couple, this office. WASHINGTON AV., 3220—Room, with board; 2 _ young men; $40 per month; private home. — ann 1 second- story southern ex exposed $40; West End. Ad. M 688, HORSE—Found, a sorrel horse 15 hands high; bald ott 4 Ras eet. Col at G007 os Manchester, - Se BUSINESS FOR SALE. 14 words or iess, 20c. sales $11 daily; seil CIGAR STORE—Downtown; price $125. at tremendous sacrifice; cheap rent; Williams & Willin, 804 N. 8th st. CONFECTIONERY—With soda fountain and cigar stand; fine location; only parties meaning busi- ness need apply. Ad. C 692, this office. RESTAURANT—For sale, steady trade; investigate. restaurant; good chance; 1012 Locust st. WASHINGTON AV., 80387—Nicely furnished third- story front; good boa board; reasonable; to 2 2 gents. WASHINGTON AV., 2013—Newly furnished 2d- floor front room, with board, in private home; references. w FAL NU T ST., front and back rooms ; bath; gas. iaTH ST, 1000 S.—Newly furnished rooms, with board, in private family ad emabie. ROOMS AND BOARD WANTED. 14 words or Jess, 10c. 2720—Nicely furnished 24-stor 1 board; $3.60 to $4: hot —— SALOON—For eale, the well-known and best ea- loon in South St. Leuls; Rakow Station. In- tilt. at pemies: ne ee re eR re ~ = eee ee ee re nee aR HOUSEHOLD Goops FOR SALE. ia words or less, 200. re owe — ee — - FURNITURE—For sale, rernttere, carpets, orwing machines, folding beds, wardrobes, sideboards. _ Eagle Loan Co., 1238 Fraoklin av. ——E ae ee FU RNITU RE—Lot of fine furniture, am ape édam- aged by fre, for sale cheap. 3346 Cook av. FURNITURE—For sale, bousebold furnitare at a bargain. 1631A 8. Jefferson av. HIGHEST cash prices | ald for wre carpets, stoves, feather beds. olf, 18 &. 1ith et. SEWING ACHINES—Few more > lHlomes, Whites Se eaiaien Auto- matics, i to gis. 620 N. en ot. ROOM— Wanted. furnished room, —_ or without board. with widow; no other roomers Ad. E 693, this office. ROOM— Two young room, with break ast and evenl with sout exposure pref conveniences vane first-class —_ or small eS , te Olive st. Grand ay. and conven o . cream, etating terms and full particulars, W 03, is ntlemen desire well furnished a room modern SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR RENT. 14 4 words or le less, I 10. PICTURESQUE bot heme « on = the phate, @Tucker Mansion; tories KIESELHORST'S, 1000 Olive st., sell and fent first-class pianos very cheap. % gst AT HALF PRICE! =. wechee a 50, 100 or 20x! 50 or 1002128. Biaine av. is now being ip bargain see oo HERRMANN, ‘127 _Chestant aww? oem - . For aale, Tesla Place, at Glendale: electric lines; 75x150 —, “¢ $4; easy Chas. A. Robinson, 106 N. h st. a MONEY WANTED. 14 words or less, 20e. Uator in the world at and safest R ail to remove all irteg- by us—testified to by thousands. ceo $2.00-—No. 3, $3.00. Dale Medi Louis, C ity trons may Easton av. or 1731 8. Jefferson av. ee a DANCING. 14 words or less, 20c. a Profs. DON'T FAIL to attend the testimonial benefit of H. Blattn worth Hall, May 7, 1807. Usual pri ces. INVESTORS | or? at Chats nested to note the fact that we. | ae § and ing. i7th — Olive ste., F PRIVATE lessons in dancing, SOc each; all hours; select receptions every Tuesday evening. Prof. _ De Honey's Academy, 1902 | Ulive at. ee ae UP-TO-DATE big show given i oo Century Com lane at + “ball Bell f., pat AMERICAN STORAGE — MOVING ©O., Olive— Moving. pene aes separate President. NEW YORK STORAGE CO., 310 N Warehouses, ship or store housebold for storage. | STORAGE Ro “Abo, Ve fiabie: clean rooms, eet our rates; ing, i shipp! ete.; ' ce pack ye., ome Ce. 1219-1221 Ol 2315 8 OPE Tete storage ~ x. Teh at.—New : Wash sta saa snd aioe a private rooms and 2820. Phoaes } 161 lar storage, hbeuse Lm trunks, boxes, for furniture, ete.; safe, te

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Frday—St. Fonis Yost-Bispatch—Way 7, 1897; HOLL START ER?” (COPYRIGHTED.) ANDERSON-W ADE REALTY co. N HEIGHTS Ste TO-MORROW, 2 P. M. WINDING-UP SALE! Owners desire to close out remaini KING’S HIGHWAY, opposite southern end of Forest Park, BEAUTIFUL RESIDENCE LOTS. Choice high Lots overlooking Forest Park. Grow. Street improvements all made. Cheapest first-class property in St. Louis, ing portion of city. CHEAP HOME SITES. South of Manchester Road we will sell some cheaper property for modest homes for workingmen. ‘*Mill Creek’’ valley. Rare bargains will be sold here. In the CITY’S GRANDBEST DRIVE. King’s Highway, which passes in front of this property, is soon to be made a Grand Boulevard connecting Forest and Tower Grove Parks. A RARE OPPORTUNITY .—The owners propose to close Bargains will be had. no better place in St. Louis to invest money either as a home site or We recommend our friends to attend this sale. out remaining interests at this sale. St eculation. There is or before 1, 2, 3 and 4 years. Park should double in value in a few years. locality certain. Its completion will double in value every lot in Gibson Heights. Now is the time to buy. ‘ THINK OF THE TERMS,—Only 1-5 cash; balance on This beautiful property opposite the No risk to run; BARGAINS ing lots and wind up deal. LOCATED ON NGS HIGHWAY seve in FOUR-FIFTHS OF ENTIRE SUBDIVISION SOLD AND BUILDINC UP. STREET CAR LINES Three Car Lines run to Gibson Heights. Take Chouteau Av. Cars of Lindell, Lindell Av. Cars, transferring at Taylor to Euclid Av. Line, or Webster Cars of Su- They all reach the property. burban, or any Warranty Deeds will Off Each Lot, TITLE PERFECT The Title is Absolutely Perfect and $25 Earnest Money Required on Bidding be given. be had and purchasers at this Sale will make big money. S- CALL OR SEND TO OFFICE FOR PLAT. -@@ Sale Begins at 2 o'clock, Builders, Speculators and Home Build- ers should be on hand. Rare bargains will ae DWELLINGS FOR RENT. ‘4 words or less, 20c. A MODERN ROCK FRONT 8-ROOM HOUSE went uamiton avenue. For rf Re nt. Will rent for $37 per mo. iftaken at once. See on Keys at 5924 Horton FLATS FOR RENT. Mm words o1 or Jess, 20¢. Place—opposite, FOR RENT—FLAT. 4215 OLIVE ST. Six rooms: ist floor; this flat has been put in Brat-class order and the rent reduced to Bag fay ____ sERAL DIN BROS. & CAT ‘ES, 808 N j. 8th ‘et. Rent Free to June |. 4255-57-59 Cozens av.—Nice 8-room flats, newly poomee and in fine condition; water free; ashes auled; entrance ty ee av; rent only $11. Keys at 4861 Coze GAMBRILL x Mo ‘DOWALL, 1107 Chestnut. rte a STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETIN G. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING—Notice is hereby pve to all persons concerned that in ursuance of a resolution adopted by the board of irectors of the Bell Telephone Company of Mis- sourl, at a meeting of said board held on this twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. 1897, a special meeting of the etockholders of said Bell Tele- phone Company of Missouri is hereby called and convened, to be held at the office of seid com- pany in the Telephone building, soutbeast corner of Tenth and Olive streets, in the City of 8t. Louis, Mo., on Thursday, the ist day of July next, 18097, at the hour of 9 o'clock in the fore- noon of said day, the object and purpose of which meeting is to submit to the stockholders of said company, to be voted on by them, a proposition to increase the capital stock of said company from its present amount of ($400,000) four hundred thousand dollars, consisting of (4,000) four thou- sand shares, each of the par ‘value of ($100) one hundred dollars, to a total amount of ($2,000, 000) two million dollars, to consist in all of (20,000) twenty thousand shares, each of the par value of ($100) one hundred dollars, or to such other amount as said stockholders ‘at said meeting may determine. St. Louis, Mo, April -, ak NRY B. STONE Preattestt of the Bell Telephone Company of Mis By order of -. wears of Directors. est: FE. A. SMITH, Secretary. MEDICAL, “Grossman's Specific Mixture, With this remedy persons can cure themselves agen the least exposure, change of diet or change application to business. The medicine contains _s ng that is of the least ery to A cousti- — Ask your druggist for it. Price §1 «a THE MARKETS. ST. LOUIS, May 7, 1897. The weather map shows clear, mild weather al- most everywhere, just the most desirable condi- tions at present. ‘There are light rains in Northern California, where they were most needed. Some experts are predicting that the Government crop report for May will make the condition of winter wheat under 80 per cent. Advices from Kansas state that the wheat is im- proving wonderfuily and the early-sown wheat is in fine condition, and the yield will be heavy. The fine rains and warm weather have also im- enwed the condition of the late-sown wheat great- and given it a good start, and from the present Redheatiene the yleld will be heavy. e Chicago Trade Bulletin estimates the world’s visible supply of wheat May 1 at 121,400,000 bu as compared with 189,000,000 bu last month an 161,000,000 bu a year ago. The rec eipts of wheat at caverpens for the past three days were 304,04 u, as compared with 184,000 bu the previous three days. Of these re- ceipts only 72,000 bu were from America. Chicago reports moderate cable acceptances of wheat and some buying of July against them. Foreign crop advices, except from France, are more encouraging, but the weather is showery in England. It is estimated that the stocks of wheat at Du- luth will show a decrease of 1,300,000 bu Monday. London cables that all markets advanced on the practical ending of the war. The a cables were: lAverpool—Spot wheat steady and unchanged; fu- tures quiet, but steady, %4d higher. Corn—Spot quiet; futures steady ndon—Cargoes of ‘wheat arrived off coast firm; on passage rather firmer, 3d higher, Corn cargoes off coast firm; on passage rather firmer. English country markets steady. French country markets quiet. Paris—Wheat unchanged to 10 cms higher; flour, 10 ems higher. erlin—Wheat, 1@1% marks higher. Stocks of Grain in St. Louis Elevators. Frfday. Thursde Year Ago. Wheat OSes 0-08 Cree me a's 827, O76 30, 808 984.095 Corn oe 00 00 00 209 60 00 O51, 995 B77 161 25,189 13,334 nn 116,654 hard winter... 98,009 ee. .019,768 wg COTD. «0-6 10,375 ats « 10,812 hiee oats. “7 eee 1,027 Tye. ee ee eee ee ee & 7,682 Regular Cash Market Prices. Friday. | Thursday.| Year Ago. WHEAT. 90 b/ 67%en 04 b ee ewe o~ewreer weeee ~ CORN. 21 {21 27% 19%4a OATS. snes) 4 @21'4b 25 b eeee- wae ee6e 19%,b 19%4b) Meranenss +4 i 9 Future Prices. “o CURE YOURSELF! Use Big @ for unnatura) discharges, infammations, surtsa tions or ulcerations mucous membranes. Painless, ond not astrin: THEEVANG OuEmioat Oo, €¢2¢ or poisonous. Sold or sent in Pin wrap b ress, paid. tot $1.00, or 3 bott es, 2.70 roular sent on request. Gaylerd, Blessing & Co. %% OLIVE ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. BTOCKS AND BONDS bought and vold for cash or carried of margin. Also Cotton, Grain and Pro- vision futures, We charge the regular rates of commilsrion prescribed by the rules of the various Exchanges, with which we are conn BPECIAL LEASED WIRES. oe 7 We also execute orders in local securieles and ne- gotiate loans on collateral secirities. em _— A a ta ge RIVER BULLETIN, ST. Daamee. “AD IS. May 7. a Gauge, Change. 0 , 1 STATIONS, Pittebure ......... Davia Island Dam. Parkersburg ...... ve Cinclunati #uteville ... Nashville ...... Chattanooga Florence Evansville e+e Johnson riile ee St. Paul prebuqee Keoku a as S¥iice * oor: oe 4 eeete ee te eee eee ee eee eerbhoeeeeeee > — Pate BaD seer ere eee aeeBerve "ere eee eeeaeecee *teeetd secede: of s+ ee _~ >= Moines Rapids...... nibal eee eee eee eeaees eee ere eee ee + eee ee ii hen. ee ne . See; &; of . * to oe OD MODS BeOS wee at pooeed dant qm ss-glncesa’ pi antbhedsetntesamisceiandla eee eee eee eer ees iu vm Pee eee he eeeee i MN dieatnandocence Chester +@ee cee eee eecees Cairo + +* O00 Oe oe 8 ces oes SMMMMD vutocodsccsne eee eee seers * ee © © ee oe eee oe Ar . > a + | OM OG + mS: HOE: w Sees eeee- Orr e , OOo; | oad poudoe. oo column indicates fall; art staat, | Cinsed | Highest ! Lowest Thursday.| To-day. | To-day. ~~ WHEAT. Friday. TO%Dd CORN. a4 eaito| OATS. Sept . May eitp! 20 a! 20 4 20 a July . 18%4b 19%b/ 18%b 18%b _CHIOAGO—Reported by _Gaylorda, Blessing & _Co, WHEAT. CORN. a «| OATS. : PORK. $8.6714| LARD. 4.0714) 4.0714) RIBS. 4.65 | 4.70 | 4.02%9@65) ay | Tied May .| May .| 28% | 23% | 23% May «| 17 | 16% | 16% July .| 68.62%! $8.57%| $8.65 405 | 4.07% July .| July .| 4.70 » CuIAAGO, May T. “ae. Titec b; July, Ee e Sos A c Soran -—M ay, be’: Beye, 28" ye b. Oatse—May, at Fy 8; July, OURB MARKETS. 7 St. Le 2 80 p. m m.—July wheat, 76%c; puts, go—July wheat, salts, 7 Titec bid. Corn—July corn, puts and calls, WHEAT : eb; Bept., 17% uls, 75 op calls, T7 4c. 7O%c; puts, GDdY@ se; was lower on account of lower curb Northwestern re- celpts were “heavy and the crop pews Was gener- ly good 2 te practically over and to depress the market. ig and Duluth to-day were oy oe. down from ye It sold up to T7 dowh to T7 tee ap to 7Hiye and thea down to 77 te wheve it at ned at Tike bid and Tic asked. It down 2 7 yesterday. becere yc lower and was at that eT Te Fe Spot Grades—On call No. 2 red wheat was offered at Y¥7c and bad 90c bid regular. There was noth- ing else offered and no bids on any of the other grades. The sample market was quiet and steady. No. 2 red wheat sold at 96c switched East side and No, 8 red fold at 94@95¢c East track. No. 2 spring- was held at 78@s0c and No. 8 spring sold at 75c switched East side. Clearances of wheat and flour to-day were oe to 122,000 bu Closing cables were: Liverpool—Spot wheat 1d higher; futures steady to 4d higher. Corn—Spot steady and unchanged; futures steady to 4d lower. Paris—Wheat higher; flour, 85445 cms higher, Berlin—Wheat, %@1l4 marks higher. Antwerp—Wheat, 5 ems higher. The receipts of wheat at primary points were 865.563 bu and the shipments were 263,780 bu. After call July wheat sold down to 764%4@%séc, up to 76%c, down to 76\4c, up to 76%c, down again to 76\%c _ then up to 76%c, where it stood for some tim August wheat sold at 74%c and was then offered at 74%. September pas was offered down to 74%%c and had 74%c bid December wheat was offered at 98c and had 961, There was a little more activity in the market at the close. July wheat closed at 7T6%c asked, August at 74%4c and May at 93c. September wheat closed at 744oc asked noe ie’ 4c bid. There’ was little life in the market in this option this morning, but the feeling was firm. cal receipts were fairly heavy and the cash demand continues good. Cables were steady and crop hews was generally encouraging, but specu- lation was light. The receipts at St. Louis to- day were 46,200 bu, as compared with 45,700 bu a year ago. Of these receipts 26 cars were local, as ta treee with 360 sks and 31 cars local a year ag May corn was not seetioned ‘te the pit before Call. July corn opened at 22%c bid, but sold at 22%c, a shade higher than the close yesterday. Sept. corn opened at 24%ec bid, the same as the close yesterday. Spot grades—On Call No.*2 corn sold at 2le B. side. No. 2 white sold at 27\c regular. No. 8 white was offered at 25c regular, with 23c bid E. side. Se. 8 corn was offered at 19%c regular, with no bid : No. 4 white corn was offered at 20c and had 18c The sample market was quiet, but firm, as dry corn is still in good demand. Some choice dry No. 2 corn sold at 24c on trk and No. 2 white corn sold oa trk at 27c to 28c. Low grades were not wanted. Clearances of corn to-day were 787,540 bu, of which 1,900 bu were from New Orleans. Receipts of corn at primary points to-day were 320,455 bu and the shipments were 297,963 bu. After Call July corn had 22%c bid, with 22%@ Yec asked, but later it was offered at 22%c. May corn was offered at 2lc, with 20%c bid, and Sept. corn sold down to 24c. The weakness during the latter part of the ses- sion was in sympathy with wheat. The close was steady at 20%c bid for May, 22%c asked for July and 24c bid for September corn, OATS. This option was entirely neglected in the pit be- fore call and there was not a single bid or offer in the pit. Local receipts were heavy, but there was little other news to affect prices. Receipts at St. Louis to-day were 34,100 bu, as compared with 15,650 bu a year ago. Of these re- ceipte 23 cars were local, as compared with SU sacks and 18 cars local a year ago. The sample market wae firm and higher. No. 2 white oats sold at from 23'¢c to 24c on trk, No. 8 white at from 2le to 22%c and No. 4 white at from 19¢ to 20%c. May oats were offered at 20c. offered at 18%c, with sone bid Receipts, 1,400 bu; shipments, 900 bu On call there was not a siugle bid or offer on any of the grades, but No. 2 rye was worth nominally $2c. FLOUR AND FEE FLOUR—Receipts at St. July oats were D. Louis, 8,980 bbls; ship- ments, 2,050 =, Market firm, - a doing. Patents .... ..$4 70G4 85 Extra fancy Seer eeeeeeeeer ne eee eePeetee 4 854 bo Fancy eeoeeeeseeeeeeeeeereeeeaeeereaee eed : 75@3 vO Choice ee See etree err e eer eee ree seeeseeeoe 3 15q8 25 Rye TOUT ceccceerseeeeeeerstaaseaarese 2 40G2 60 Cornmeal . 1 OS Pearl meal hominy and grits.. BRAN—Market quiet and is doing. Bulk bran worth about 438@44; bran East trk worth nominally S2@O5c and 47@48c for East side country points. This side selling at from 67@58e at mill. Receipts, 445 tons; ket in general steady. Quotations: en 1, $10@11; No. 2, Brairie—Cholee, $7. 60@S.50; x 2, 0. 50; clover- mixe $6 or common to $7.50 for choice. STRAW eo a wheat straw, §5@5.50 per toa; PROVISIONS. nce oa be steady. Standard mess pork, 1% per bbl for new and §8.72% for old. on orders, 50c per bbl higher. LARD—Market lower; 3.85c for prime and 3.90c for chance e, but purely nominal. BACO Jobbing sales—Boxed lots: Shoulders, Sige; ex: = oat clear, S%c; clear ribs, Sige; clear sides, 5.62 D. 8. MEATS— Shoulders, 5c; extra clear sides, Sec short clear, 5c; On orders by dealers BYU@loe per poun BU GAR- CURED HAMS-—-On orders, 19@11 BE $6.50G@8 eee etearcte 1 6 Y. shipments, 106 tons. Mar- R ag or ae Hef 1, $6.04 50g, “No. rye straw, oxed lots: clear ribs, awe ce higher N- On orders, ~~-« neal BAC EF—Mess per bbl; dried, “p@11; -— 50 oe at 4%c for pure in SEEDS AND CASTOR BEANS. ere and desirable seed, ary SEEDS—Cl ag * - poe pounds. Timothy—De- “00; fair, $2.8042.40; poor, ca ; red-top, $1@18, rome te a 48 per bu for prime in car rc bu for car lots on track, ER. °FLAXSEED—T8e per AND SPELT Duil, but firm at $3. LOELTER--Market mee at $3. 07404. ON THE STREET. (The Post-Dispatch quotations are for lots in frst hands, unless otherwise quoted. Orders are filled with choice goods and are higher.) FRUITS. APPLES Sect. —— bbis; ~ ments, 283 bu. 3 FS Wuowrwie $2. rsd. we -~. sells sirable aees, 5O@2. 25. 1. and millet — ———— fornia seedlings, $2.50@3; Mediterranean (sweet), | $8@3.50; Valencia, $3.50@3.75. LEMONS—Market steady. Receipts, 240 beneei shipments, 855 boxes, Messina and Palermo, $2. @3 per box for choice to $8.50@8.75 for fancy. PAN ‘_ANAS—Receipts, shi ments, 1 car, $ crate. CAULIFLOWER per bu ho EGG PLANT—$1.75@2 per crate; $5Q7 per bbl; r orange box. » . an . —_—- prices Tennessee, doz; small ARPARAGUS—Pint bunches, $1 per ost bunches, §2; Southern hand bunches, 75c@$1.25 per bu nches, “oe per doz. GREEN PEPPERS—$2.50 per bu crate. CUCUMBERS—Dull at 25@650c per doz; small and ellow neglected; bushel boxes, $1. 50@2: per bl. BEETS—Choice or orders, $1.25@1.50 per bbl; new, 10@35c ey doz A geaerty some poor stock sold as low as CARROTS —wew., Saikano. on orders, 25@35c per | doz bunches; $1.25 perf bbl. PARSNIPS“Home-grown, choice washed, on or- ders, ver bb HORSERA ISH— “Wine-grewn, on orders, $3 per bb}. SAUERKRAUT—Cholce new city hand-made from first bands at $2.25 per %-bbl and $3.75 per bbl. On orders higher. ceiptsa, —— pkgs; shin- ments, —— pkgs. TOMATOES —E xpress receipts, $2@2.50 for choice; poor as low as $1@1.50 per 6-basket crate. Receipts, 2,529 crates; shipments, 937 crates. NEW POTATOES—Scarce and firm; selling at $3. per bbl for Louisiana white to $3 ae com- mon, $1q@1. _ per bu box for choice large; 93@3. 50 per bbl for home-grown; 7Oc per ty nox ook PEAS—Bushel boxes, 90c@$1.10%; %4-bu bask 50@s0c ; -bu, 3dc. eRHUBARB10@i8e per dozen bunches for bhome- " RADISHES—25@40e per doz bunches for Mis- sissippl. PARSLEY—25@40c dozen bunches. SPINACH—Dull at 40c per bu. LEEKS -15@20c per dos bunches. ‘KALE—90c@$1.25 per bbl; home-grown 50c per bu. BUTTER AND CHEESDB. BUTTER—Quiet and lower. CREAMERY. Extra Migin...14 ein Firsts ... 13 Secoods 11 | Seconds ..... ROLL BUTTER—Choice, 54@T¢; fair, “gate: GREASE BUTTER—Average receipts. 8c. CHEESE—Quiet. Wisconsin—Full cream, twins, lic; singles, 11%c; Y¥. A., 12c; Southern Wis- eonsin and Illinois— sayy = 8%c; singles, 9c; A., 9c; skims, 5 e; ei — Gigc for poor to Ye for choice; a. r29 scene Kansas and Nebraska~— Bright and medium Light fine Texas, Aebenins. Medium ediu , 8 to i2 months ... Fine, 6 months Sandy and heavy Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, etc.— Medium Fine medium . Light fine ... Tub-washed— Choice “air Coarse and low 65c per 100 Ibs. Old rubber, arctics out, $3. hoops, 25c; half bbls, bbls, 19¢; 70c; half b 7T0@T5ec E. side SORGHU M—Dull. eet to DRIE ery Boe. “bn ta ANUTS— fair request. Ibe “hae: @2 HE MP—M oe, undressed, 2-lb, S%c; —Extracted, ; choice , 0@10c; dark, EMPTY BAR RRELS—Coal ol 5%c per lb; 8) in pentine, 80c; vin negar, 65c; lingeed oil, 65c; whisky, 60c; do \%- bbls, pickle, 40c; Broken staves or heads, for each missing hoop. BROOM CORN —Siow, lows: molasses, COOPERSTU F FS—Shaved bbls, $4.00; country, $3.00; elm, 25c higher; ork, bbls, $5.00@6.00; Staves—Flour bbls, $4.50; bhis, $3.00@3.50; pork bbls, beer kegs, — 60@16.00. 8@8%c per set MOSS~-Gray, 6@1%c; ; blae my " Country, " 4c. BONES—Choice bleached, eg $10; skinny, 9 sto $S@9. SCRAP IKON AND 85c per 100 y 4.700; July; 4.70c; Sept., CAGO, May 7.—Rye— ash en May, . "Baries—C ‘ash No. 8, 2 cash Northwest, 7c; Timothy—May, July, See, : Sept., 83c. Flax—Cash, 77 TTQ@TT; 2.50. CHICAGO, May 11@15¢c; dairics, SHICAGO, May keys, ec; celesen EOR a Iil., 23\c. Oats irregui quiet; nominal. sky, i a50 bu; oats, wheat, 1,200 b B40. July, T7%4e; 7. 8@ 18c. —-; wheat, 80,800 bu; Mae ; Sept. , Tihge. 7. —Live s, Tc; ducks, 0c. " ar; No. 1,800 bu. Sic; No. 2 spring, T7@S0c; a y lower; ye—No. $0 choice’ loc lower. at 13@14' fresh, Tic. NEW toh market 17¢; igins, l7e; p coupes, 1,778 ac ‘ka ra jee do ‘smal, 10%@11%c; Eggs—Rece pts, “state non ovr lvania, full vg lie; Southern, 8 efining, ae crush granulated, 4 9-16c. LIVERPOOL, steady; futures July, 5s 11%d, % er. Shed 4d lower; Jun 0d, unchanged; Sept., fairly active; Oats steady; fairly active; ’ Hay firm; rairie, $7. ec; dairy, 9@12c. ulet; actory, s 12¢. ges: quiet : 70¢. 5 3-16¢; w Coffee eaav? No. May 7.—Closing: ulet. lower; Sept., Corn—Spot steady; futures steady. , 4d lower; Sol’ 3 ad lower. May, 2s 7 2s 1 e, d d, LIVE STOCK. No. 1 Northern spring, Closing: Wheee as 71\%e; MGSiNe: $8. ore. Lard— ; $. The. —Butter steady; Eggs steady; my <4 ateady; May 7. —Corn steady; new No. 2, white Rye Vhisky market steady; goods on the basis of $1.19 for highwines. Re- = ts—Corn, 45,700 bu; oats, 21,950 bu; rye, ——; Shipments—Corn, rye, ——; whisky, ——; to 2 mixed, ne No, 2 white, ‘choice timothy, Butter—Creamery, YORK, May 7.—Butter—Receipts, Western creamery, tate lar art skims, : fu 9.711 10 Sugar—Raw stron dered, 5a 11d, %d lower; 5s 10144, Dee., 251 Ribs— ~ May, creameries fresh, 8@ tur- 22c. finished Bei ‘Ss be. Eggs steady; 8,482 Ch nee Re- ‘packages; ; Western, fair 4 3- 16¢c; Whea at—Spot ty at qa Pas eer er eee eeeweer) MBBS on .ccecccceete- Nettie ere ee ee eee ee Stock eee eee eee ee © de do 24 os Manhattan Elevated... Northern Pacific com... New York Central | t. Western ...... ( pues com ‘eer eee eee e ] Wale NEW YORK, May 7.—The —— ro variations either way Internationa cneres peonite’ lower Business very light ative issues. The marked heaviness 4 Omaha led to sympathetic market, except for Northern aba. fell tod’ was confined to the more — oa oa ines in yes by the traders. “the Gould securities, to recessions in the G cite coal shares Bg steady at yesterday's ‘clone. level with few exceptions, operations invited bear strongly applied on t its preferred was ex per cent on settlement of long favorable terme the improvement ext Sales of stocks to noon Ww Noon— Money on call, rime mercantile rmer, with actua 4.874404 .87% for sixty ae posted a ay Gt idcnien e1geivge = bie. Ta peas. Bes 4 47 account, . il A GUN FIGHTER DISAPPEARS. August Bethege, Who Shot Seven Men, Can’t Be Found. The police have been asked to locate August Bethege. His wife, Mrs. Kate Bethege, fears he has been either murdered or has committed suicide, Wational Stock Yards, NATIVE CATTLE—Receipts, 510. Market steady. SALES. No. Description. cows and calves calves CALVES .ecees eeee belfers eenereneeeee heifers ..ceccesss helfers heifer ..... to —s IIo eS Soe © bo 5° TEXAS—heceipis, Description. o teers SHEEI—Receipis, Market steady, but ames ean 12 natives 15 culls 25 208 HORSES about stead Southern. cows and calves... 420. SA 1185 Market steady. LES. AY. “eee #2880087 80808870886 TRO 591 8.911. slow. ute Mostiy sent ’. a 3m direct. Price, $4 00 1 75 HOGS—Receipts, 5,549. Market a a stronger. SaLES. 92 09 Ge 52 te BS2s8 5 = A } Rece on best Eastern stock and slower oa o change in the mule market. LIVE STOCK BY TELEGRAPH. eae: May 7.—Hogs—Oficial rece day, 25,008 ; parpmens. 5,791. Oatctal yesterday, 8,012; shipments, nr ter nt -75; lamba, CHICAGO, 000; left over, $3.80q@4: mixed, and barel; beifera, $1. ote Catile--Otidal re ce 2,85 ‘ Shee nd I ,* = _— a am market rg. Western, §3.00 "shay 7. a 2,000; steady; aaa 3b; Roeser nd feeders, to-day, y active bt, Kive, ant 2,500; quiet 10; cows and 8,000; KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 1.—Cattio— Receipts, 5.000; market steady to st $2. 25: Texas-cows, 82 marke gs 75; ple market steady: ; Bea st 5 Nae i ock sheep, tive heet ateers, Westerns, 2 Rt MONEY. cont call and 4 Ost. Lewis < les, okseg- tana $3G6, sutton os to OMAHA, Neb., May 7.—Cattle—Rece 73; oa ts 2.500; aoe ed. ~ gre rates at ste Sxpe eent at 7 bank KSaccnees today, $4,468,191; Bethege was the private watchman who shot and killed ex-Policeman Mahon a few months ago. Mahon and Oscar Miller, a tamale man, were quarreling, when h- ege took a hand. was exonerated the Coroner’s Jury and was not indict His license ag watchman was ml an since then he has been ont of . omer ae. Bethege lived at North atreet. He left home iast Seusten morning a T o’clock and has not been heard from « — He said nothing about going anywhere took nothing with him. The police have been furnished the fol- lowing description: Has a glass eye, pug nose, «gray mustache, short ehin w iskers, is a small man with broad shoulders, wore a light, broad-brimmed hat, gray suit of clothes, wees 9 overcoat, has a jong scar of head eis known to havé numerous ¢ hen ‘. t Mahon's inquest “a Lg t n. he. ob i killing Mahon and . he lost B. wife thinks Fr has drowned himselt. HUGE ROPE SWINDLE. . Bank of England Forgers Said to Have Bought Car Loads on Bogus Notes. St. Louls detectives believe that Edward Noyes and George McDonald, who were im- plicated in the celebratgé Bank of ae forgeries, have recently “ied to work extensive fraud in this city. It is claimed the men ordere4 several loads of rope from a New York broker paid for the shipment with notes - w the name of Chatfleld & Woods o nati was forged. Detectives have ascertained thet Mo. Donald had a room at 46 Houser b and pegeed there as a broker under the John It is — the men 4 of s uane- The po are investie tity of the rope. gating. To Consider the Flour Grade Petition Monday afternoon at & o'clock the Board of Directors of jhe Merchants E will consider the petition presented for abolishment of grades of Rour. All ge interested are invited to be present, submit their views gutented i Ge the President Langenberg he a to the A Ea Tour. -sseseeecommoes paiagatnti, Be Series Bente: nomen ae ite Somee Sone Sows a ard — oe ew ee ee eeteseeeen eee et ee ee ee -

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a Friddvry—St, Fouls Post-Bispatch, BASEMENT SPECIALS. Carpenters and ay 3 Builders, Attention. Maydole Hammer, No. 11% ~ worth 65«, 33¢ Henry Diston‘s D-8 Saw —26 inch stze—- | 19 Saturday only ° —worth $1.4— Saturday only Staniey’s Try Square—S-inch size ~ metallic handie—steel bdDiade—worth 45c— 19¢ Saturday only............ Balley’s No, 27 Jack Plane 89¢ Saturday only... FOURTH SEASON. Oa Our Broadway Baad Balcony, By Well’s Concert Band, You are cordially invited. 2nd GRAND BAND CONCERT seeu880 ee ee oa ee we De ee wt SATURDAY EVENING, FROM 7 TO 10, Ae WM. WEIL, Director. bas SESS SAGOSOSCPOSOSOP SE OOESOeeeeseusese LO Po P eeee KXODOODOODOOOOIO OO OD ODDO DOOD OOODOO00O OOOOOOOOO ON BROADWAY AND MORGAN > > Of 0 a OP Ok LDP Pl a ‘ WEY YY OOOO OOOO OODODIIOO THE GREAT CLOTHING SC It’s the event of events—the sale of sales. It’s revolutionizing prices. It’s playing havoc with clothing values. It?s monopolizing the attention of all present and prospective clothing buyers. We bought outright every dollar’s worth of the Spring and Summer Stock of SAMUEL HAMMERSLOUGH & CO., 696 Broadway, New York, makers of Men’s Finest Suits, and the entire stock of M. SAMPTER SONS & CO., 15, 17 and 19 East Fourth Street, New York, manufacturers of Boys’ and Children’s Swell Attire, The price we paid was about 55 Cents on the dollar. Think what this means to you—$120,000 WORTH oi the very finest kind of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing thrown on the market at the very start of the season AT ABOUT HALF the prices usually asked and expected. Is it any wonder that our Clothing Floor is packed day after day with Throngs of Shrewd Shoppers? Is it any wonder that nearly all the Clothing Selling in St. Louis should center here? Extraordinary preparations have been made to wait on all promptly to-morrow, so we will not have to ask you to wait, as we were compelled to last Saturday. READ ON! EVERY LINE RINGS WITH THE ELOQUENCE OF TRUE ECONOMY—HIGHEST QUALITY AT RUINOUSLY LOW PRICES! aa eae a Cher Re ng: LS err eye. od igs =a PT AO got Maen es nites - . - : . - ad - ag ie, a RE be Py —-— oe e. " ‘ wh ot ry y CF vives 3 Sete s - SS We Will Remain OPEN TO-MORROW SATURDAY EVENING As late as may be necessary to wait on our army of Saturday patrons. if you can’t come du the day, come in the evening. ere ee ee © Oe ee ** Norrell's oan 1 Caw Set— Saturday | a : — ’ we te eee me ew ——_ - . = — — a Men’s $2.50 Hats for | $1.50 offer you to-mor- row—‘atur- day, Men’s Fedora and Stiff’ Hats— late colors —silk- trimmed— worth $2.50, for .. si - $1.50 Men’s and Boys’ Fedora Hats ~In black, brown and _ fancy colors—well made,siik-trimmed They are identical with those others ask 41.50 O8c for—Famous’ price. .... Boys’Golf Caps—Al! colors—sat- in-lined—best grade—the regular 7ic kind—Satur- 49¢ day at Famous eres Boys’ and he nae st Straw Iiate—Ail the n styles and late colorings—TO® start the selling we offer you the Bie kind at Famous Sat- 19¢ urday for.... nas ia ws Children’s Fancy Straw Hats —and Tam ’Shanters ina great combination of colors and trimmings—the kind that usually sell for $1.25 we offer you for only.. Children’s Crash and Duck Tam O’Shanter Caps—fmmense variety—detachable bands— prices absolutely impossible outside of Famous-— saturday the 85c qualit 2Ic Se NG ah bsavosdes cause ; Opening our new Summer Neckwear— For Ladies and Gents— Men’s all- silk Tack Scarfs, Band Bows, Club- house Ties, 4-in-Hands, actual value, 2c. Famous 10c Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Neck- wear, comprising Ao ager, | new and attractive—Band an Shield Bows—Club-house Ties, etc.—actually all 50c goods—at Famous 25C TE Ube ees. dh ache. bosteacis To Make Our Suspender De- partment extremely attractive we offer Saturday all of our Men's extra fine kid finish high grade Web Ssus- penders, worth 85c and 40c, at Men’s and Boys’ All - Wool Sweaters, with striped satior collars, worth 59c $1.25; Saturday ..... ..e.. Men’s Leather Belts, worth 35c; yours at of | : i 7 : | : : , Hammersloug Hundreds of pairs of Strictly All- Wool Pants, in hair lines or solid oughly well made and trimmed— perfect fitting; usual price $3 and $3.50; in this greatsale at .. This Entire Purchase of Hammerslough’s Men’s Suits Has Been Divided Divisions— Thus: \ \ Division No. 1. ‘A\ *- =5 Division No. 2. Here you have a very extensive variety of Men's High-Grade Sack and Cutaway Frock Suits to choose from—elegantly tai- lored—fashionable fabrics — Hammerslough intended that they should retail for a cent less than $15.00 and $16.50. in OE sad Division No. 3. In this grand assortment you will find Men’s Suits of an extraordinary degree of perfection—every conceivable shade and color—the most desirable fabrics of the season— sizes 33 to 50-inch chest measure—seldom have equal qualities been offered for less than $18.00 or $20.00, and NEVER — NEVER at the price we nuw ask for them.. Division No. 4. The crowning achievements of the tailor’s art—Sack Suits, Cutaway Frocks and Prince Alberts, so perfect in workmanship—in fabric—in fit as to please the most critical and fastidious dressers. $30.00 and £40.00. & Co. to retail at $22.00 and $25.00, and now offered to you at the marvelously low price Your choice of the lot this epoch- making sale Equal to first-class tailor’s work at Intended by Hammerslough neat pin checks, colors—thor- — elegantly $2.20 This Division comprises an immense assortment of Men’s Nobby Sack Suits—well made—strict- ly all-wool materials—made by Hammerslough & Co, to retail at $10 and $12, and worth every cent of it. Your \ unrestricted choice of the lot in this great sale at... 9a" never Into Four Grand $6.85] $9.40) $11.90 $1.29 $2.19 $14.35} $3.15 h’s Men’s Pants Ceme expecting to find Wonderful Bargains and you will not be disappointed. Hundreds of pairs of Men’s Dress Pants—Cheviots, Cassimeres and Worsteds of the finest grades— allthe newest patterns—silk sewed tured by Hammersliough & (Co. to retall at $5.0) and $6.00. All go in this great wreckage of values at $4.6 $7.00 Fine tailored — manufac- be a revelation to you. Yorkshire styles. breasted styles. our prices you can buy two Suits for about the price you usually These garments must really be seen for you to fully appreciate the royal values that they are. pay for one Suit. and $15.00. P ar ents, It’s a Golden Opportunity! We have divided the entire stock of M. Sampter Sons & Co.’s Boys’ and Children’s Knee Suits Into five great assortments, and marked them at prices that will The stock includes every conceivable style, fabric, pattern and design—in endless variety. Ages 24 to 16 come in Middy, Junior, Reefer, Sailor, Admiral, Vestee and Ages 7 to 16 come in single and double- All are beautifully made and For choice of Assortment No. 1—Comprising an immense lot of Boys’ and Children’s Knee Suits—strong—durable and well made—not one in the lot worth a cent less than $2.00. Gives you choice of Assortment No. 2~—Over 1200 Knee Suits—every one finely made of pure wool goods, and intended by Sampter Sons & Co. For choice of more than 2000 Knee Suits—every one “a bandsome gar- ment—serviceable—durabie—stylish. Co. to retail at $5.00 and $6.00, and worth it. —At this price there is open for your selection nearly 1500 Knee Suits— every garment made in Sampter Sons & Co.’s very highest style, and not a one worth less than $7.50, while most of them are actually worth and intended to retail at $8.00 and $9.00. and $8.00 for Knee Suits that you would consider reasonable at $12.50 They are the finest garments that money can buy. If you should pay twice as much elsewhere, you could not get finer fabrics—higher styles or more careful workmanship. They are the near- est approach to perfection that human skill has yet attained. to retail at $3.50 and $4.00. Made by M. Sampter Sons & trimmed, and at Lot No. 1— at Lot No. 2— Lot No. 3— here at......- Lot No. 4— side and out. or $20. offers them at Sampter Sons & Co.’s Entire Stock of Young Men’s Fine Long-Pant Suits.... Go in five grand lots at the lowest: prices ever named on équal high qualities. Ages 13 to 20 Years— | 29 to 36 iaches Breast Measure. These values are a masterful, powerful— convincing demonstration of Famous’ triumphant leadership. More than 30 styles to select from—every one pure wool—finely made and trimmed—manufactured by M. Sampter Sons & Co. to retail at $7.50 and $8.50 —choice of the lot in this record smashing sale Over 60 styles to choose from—all elegant, up-to- date goods—finely made and trimmed. you seen their equal for a penny less than $10 or $12—all go in this wonderful sale at........ About 70 different styles for your selection—the newest, most fashionable fabrics of the season— splendidly made and finely trimmed. M. Sampter Sons & Co. made them to retail at $12.50 and $14 00, and they are worth every cent of it. Over 80 styles—every prevailing style—every up- to-date fabric, pattern and design—all the newest ideas in fancy tailoring—made by M. Sampter Sons & Co. for nobby dressers, and intended to retail at $15.00 and $16.50. Choice of the lot in this great = Over 60 styles in the lot—all made of the swellest fabrics, absolutely perfect in every particular—in- Never have equal qualities been of- fered by any house in the United States under $18 Famous lets down the price barriers and and wi cuffs— Famous’ Pric@ss so -cseee.s Wadies and. z Collars on earth at sou. etistinc wok rassnel OC 4.90] $6.70] $7.85] Never have Now $9.25] ‘ene eee @e ee 1,75 19 at i ons Bummer Under: $3.35 ) BALL AND BAT FREE *"™ bAeiadintindidtitint tt th han paanaanaaraanand es Boys’ and Children’ on Saturday for s Suits. | Men’s Bicycle Suits—Special. We have just received, and will have ready for your inspection to-morrow morning-—an elegant variety of Bicycle Suits. They come in the very nobbiest pat- terns, in all-wool Scotch Piaids and mixtures—tall- ored equal to any custom made garments — with extra hip, side and watch pockets and golf cuffs. These suits were made to retall at $12.30, and when you see them you will certainly say the Just for a flyer we give you choice of this $12,560 line ow na Ladies’ on-ons lorie ore solid steriiak silver trim- med Congo twist handle—in- — — is 98c¢ charge— . 6. Saturday only 5 ; pants are worth it. Famous Diiiis we se edeebeseueetescee‘esessnmns OTHER GIFTS TO. - MISS MARY BROOKE. ur. PANT DEEDED SEVERAL HOUSES TO HER. HER HOME ON MORGAN STREET. ce ee ee A Long and Romantic Friendship Hon- ored in a Generous Manner. Mr. George J. Plant's bequest of $50,000 in cash to Miss Mary EF. Brooke of 3220 Mor- pan street did not exhaust his apprecia- tion of her friendship. Miss Krooke’s home fs an unpretentious - " — a The Best Clothing in the World. Retalied by the | TRUEFIT Clothing Co.. 62! OLIVE STREET. Bargains in Every Department. See our line of $10.00 Suits, etrictly Ali-wool, good value; going now at See our tine of $15.0 Bults, Plaids, Stripes and Checks; going now at See our line of $2.00 Buita, Clay and French Worsteda; going now at 00 200 pairs of All-wool Pants, worth $3.00, 4.0 and $%.0; 3,000 pairs of Tatlor-made All-wool Pants, worth §5,00, $6.00 and 97:0; at Elegant line of Tow Linen Bults at..... We make a specialty of fitting laraze men. Call and see these bar- @ains at 621i Olive St. TRUEFIT Clothing Co. Scotch two-story brick, of very modern ture. It occupies comparatively small space, is set back in the yard, and has its entrance on the side. The yard is just now beginning to turn green with Hlac bushes and other plants. This house was deeded to Miss Rrooke during the lifetime of Mr. Plant, and she has occupied it for several years. Just adjoining are three houses, covering the corner and of similar style of architec- ture, but they are built up from the pave- ment, and the two adjoining No. 3 on the west are tenantless at present. It is said that Miss Brooke also received these houses from Mr. Plant prior to his fatal illness. Miss Brooke is a fine-looking, middle-aged woman, with only a sprinkling of gray in her hair. She hag been lll ever since the death of Mr. Plant, and her house is closed to all visitors. But the neighbo say she has always been exclusive, neither receiving nor pay- ing calls, and holding herself in almost per- fect seclusion. When her home was first Dbulit the neigh- borhood was rather pretentious, and still bears evidence of aristocratic surroundings. Persons in the vicinity had come to Know Mr. Piant by reason of his frequent ap- yearance in that eection of the city. His arge bequest to Miss Brooke, however, following upon the already handsome gifts made to her, occasioned considerabie sur- prise, and there is no end of gossip over what she will do with the fortune. It is the general impression that the will be contested, tn spite of contradic- made by her attorney, though on what ground, it would be difficult to say. JUST A HABIT WITH HIM. Chris Schawacker Asks His Old Enemy Starkloff for a Favor. Chris Schawacker's nerve is not his weak- est point. It never deserts him an@ he does not permit it to become atrophied for want of exercise. He strained it the other day without tangible result. He went to the mortuary office to get a shipping permit and nonchalantly dropped into the office of Health Commissioner Starkiloff. “I've got a man down here in the ward,” he told the Commissioner, “who wants a ob. He's a good feller and a hard worker or the cause. Can't you put him on as an ambulance driver?’ When Starkloff was making a scramble for the —arerssty nomination Chris was worki with all his might for Ziegenhein. Stark remembers things. oked steadily at Christopher for an in t and then ted him on his nerve in lan- LUMBER STATISTICS. but St. Louis Is Active. The statistical report of the Lumbermen’s Exchange for the month of April has just been issued by Secretary George E. Wat- son. It shows rail receipts 6,485 cars, against 5,780 cars in April, 1896; river receipts 2,172,- | 000 feet, against 2,285,000 in 1896; and ehip- ments 3,459 cars, against 3,368 cars during the corresponding month of last year. There is a gain of 600 cars on March rail receipts, and 400 cars on March shipments. The floods kept the April receipts 300,00 feet below those of March, when April should show the largest increase of any single month, To the lunibermen the situation has im- proved but little The water is still high enough between Cairo and Vicksburg to close out nearly every mill in the territory. It will be nearly 60 days before much green stock can come out of the valley, and much longer before the shipments of cottonwood commence. Yellow pine manufacturers report large receipts of Canadian lumber, being hurr ed to this side of the line to escape the taxa- tion préposed by Mr. Dingley. The local trade is the only in the St. Louls. lumber business. say they find nowhere as much bullding as in this city. “Things can really be said to be rushin here,"’ said Secretary Watson. ‘The loca building trade is in better shape than In nearly any other part of the country. The outlook is bright for a good business here in St. Louts all summer.” There is a great kick among the yellow ine dealers over the prevalent low prices, hey @ay sharp competition has brought on rufnous figures, and as St. Loults ie the eon ore: for overstocks, almost an price will go here. The wholesale deal- era meet at Little Rock Saturday, and will endeavor to form a compact that will give prices the desired boost. VEHICLE LICENSES. Commissioner Kalbfell Will Begin Their Collection Next Monday. License Commissioner Kalbfell will begin Monday the collection of vehicle licenses under the new ordinance passed by the last Assembly, which pee bicycles in the list of taxable vehicies. Mr. Kalbfell has been asked by many whether bicycle-riders living out of town would have to Any pn they eould visit the city on eir . One of the bills introduced in the Assem- exempted such Ww bright spat e | bringing their wheels here. Floods Continue to Depress the Market, | avelers | } break of the last his warrant the Commissioner will not re- quire visitors to put up a. dollar before Mayor Ziegenhein has applied for license No. 1 for one of his hildren and will get it. WILL NOT EXACT A CONDUIT. City Will Yield That Much in the Lighting Specifications. When the electric lighting companies are again asked to step up and bid on the city lighting, the city will not be in the position of a suppliant. At the former letting the companies 4id not bid. The chief reason given by them was that the specifications were prohibitive. They gave the city the alternative of modi- fying them or going dark. It was supposed that the Board of Pub- lic Improvements would defer to them to the extent of meeting their views in such particulars as it could without jeopardizing its own interest# ., It will do nothing of the kind. The speci- fications will not be changed exceept per- aps in one particular. The guccessful bidder may not be required to put the wires under ground all over the city, but provis- ion will be made and conditions laid down under which the change from overhead to underground can be enforced after the lapse of a certain time at the pleasure of the clty. Water Commissionér Holman, Chairman of the Lighting Committee, does not think the objections to universal conduits are well founded, but he is willing to make this concession if the companies insist upon jt. The .committee is at present wrest) with the difficulty of aor SS a unit o illumination measurement. is is some- thing which has tg to be figured ovt. The great trouble is the unevenness of the result from the lamps now in use. It igs this which makes arc lamps unsatisfactory, The light is not evenly distributed. There is too much directly under the lamps ana too little between them. The Iris of the eye is constantly contracting and ex. panding to accommodate itself to the gra- dations of light. As it does not do this rapidly enough the vision is dim. Mr. Holman has hopes that a unit will be arrived at before letting. Murat Halstead’s Lecture. Hon. Murat Halstead lectured on the “Journeyings of a Journalist’ Thursday evening at the Fourteenth Street Theater. He related many incidents of his years In journalism and gave an interesting descrip- tion of Cuba as it appeared before the out- Ilion. The lecture was auspices of the St. Louis Association. ractical he next Baptist Hospital Big Four Route to Cincinnati, via Mer $685 | “LOVE, POWDER AND PATCHES.” | Operetta by St. Louis Girls Success- fully Produced at Union Club. “Love, Powder and Patches,” produced be- fore a fashionable audience at Union Club Hiall Thursday evening, was thrown to- gether hastily by the librettist, Miss Alice Mellmers, and the composer, Miss Rosaline Balmer Smith. It was intended only as a skit, but its performance gave promise that the authors will, with more serious effort, produce a noteworthy work. The audience did not expect what they got They anticipated an amateurish produc- tion; instead they were treated to an oper- etta with plot cleverly conceived and wittily unfolded. The music was sprightly, original and full of melody. It was unfinished music, a as there were rough edges in the ibretta, but the operetta was not offered as a finished work. The best musical amateurs of the city were in the cast. Miss Jessie Ringen, Mrs. James lL. Blair, Mra. Wm. A. McCand- less and Mrs. W. A. Bonsack had the lead- ing female roles. They were —im- ressively gowned. The action was aid inthe ye riod of “The Pompa- dour,” and their acting was anil- mated. The minor female roles were taken by Mrs. Taylor Bernard, Miss Emma Tauesig, Mrs. C. Luyties, Mrs. Pwell Buckner, Miss Marion Ralston, Miss Ches- ter Mode and Miss Anna Cone. Mr. Charles Humphrey had the leading male role. The sweet-voloed: tenor im- roved in acting as well as singing during bis trip abroad. The other characters were well handled by Mr. James D. Grant, Dr. Malcolm Robb, Messrs. Waiter Kemplin, George M. Ravold, J. Clarence Taussig, C. P. Hutchinson and George Vieh. The chorus was composed of the follow- ing society folk: Mrs, Ida Ringen, Misses Mildred ellogg, Marie Jones, Grace Taus- sig, Lois Page and Hattie Ringen; Messrs. Hugh L. Weber, Conrad Roeder, Jim Bar- nett, C. T. Whittier, J. K. Lord, Sterling P. Jones and F. J. Taussig. Miss Alice Pettin- git! and the composer, Miss Rosalie Balmer mith, presided at the plano, and Mrs. Hous- ton Stevenson was director. Mr. Ben Becker was responsible for quite an elabor- ate stage setting. A picturesque feature of the entertain- ment was the seating of the audience by Misses Damon, Margaret Woodward, Har- riette Learned, Beatrice White, Jane Goode and CC. E. Taussig, who acted as Yshers dressed in quaint Pompadour costumes, with plenty of powder and patches. Operetta was given for the wt oy of the South Side Day Nursery. Westminster College Alumni. 70 banquet of the Westminst the er Association of St. wae the tile enjoyed ets an ; 4s 5 “ . 4 uel ¥ > > o3 , i £5) hy we ee > SHB THAT THES NAMB IS STAMPED ON Having Purchased end rte an ported a uan mee i Weyler’s order torn ath ihn gxsort af pobaces yane fobacoe —— A WILL BE KEPT UP TO THE STANDARD. ee ~~ ee TRY ALBRECHT’S $1.99 SHOES. When buying Men’s Shoes is what interests =e every man. You can buy $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00 Shoes in all styles, qualities and widths — $2.47, $3.00 "$4.25 At ALBRECHT’S, for which other stores ask $5.00 and and think they are selling them cheap. New and LADIES’ AND MEN'S SHOES MADE TO ORDER, FOR 408 N.6ST RESIS Sue A. ALBRECHT, 408 - Ee RE — A PERFECT GAS RANGE, ste $16 10 oven $1.50 Down—S0c a Month, ‘ipe BACKVUS BVUILDI | —- a evening of song and merrymaking. Old yells were given at the conclusion of each speech. The election of officers for the ensuing yee resulted in the selection of Gen. George H. Shields, President: Sylvester J. isher First Vice President; C. O. Bishop Becond ‘ee-President; W. F. Broadhead, Third }- Vice-President: J. E. Crawford. Secretary; Harry Atkinson, Treasurer, aod W. K. Kay- anaugh, J. M. Carpenter, Jr.. W. P. Ken- nett and John H. Wear, Executive Com- mittee. PREACHING FOP , HE PEOPLE. — The World Comes to an End. Prepare yourself with one of those ele- gant Baltimore Suite. 7. to $15. Beautiful materials, to order oF ready-made, $2.8 to % than elsewhere.