St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 7, 1897
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Fortin was well known in St. Louis and in the county, having filled various official positions here before the city and county were separated. For the last eight years he has lived in Clayton. His closest friends noticed a change in| his manner nearly six weeks ago, but were not prepared for Sunday's sensational de- nouement. Michael Fortin was born in Florissant, Mo. His father was wealthy and left Mi- chael one of the finest farms in St.Ferdinand Township. e young man prospered, until he got into politics. He cast his fortunes with the Democrats and ran for office sev- era] times, unsuccessfully. He got in debt and his property slipped from his grasp. | In 1884 when John Belleville, now Mayor of Florissant, was appointed jailer at St. Louis he made Mike Fortin his chief deputy. Fortin in those days was a good-natured, big-hearted countryman, and he made many friends. The advent of Maxwell at the St. Louis jail wrought a change in the deputy. He | unbalanced. _ the courts for protection, and he was placed ! ' } ' | had watched the case closely with a sort Of | fascination, and took a strange interest in the meek-looking English prisoner. He spent much of his time in Maxwell's cell, and often in the evening he would play his violin for the murderer’s entertainment. At first he openly avowed his belief in Maxwell's innocence. As the trial pro- gressed and the damning evidence against the Englishman developed the deputy’s opin- fon changed. He became so convinced that Maxwell was guilty that he asked for per- mission to hang the accused in event of his conviction. The hangman usually employed in those days was Bob Humphreys, now dead. It was no part of Fortin’s duty to officiate at a hanging, but he was so persistent that he was given the job. During half of Maxwell's last night on earth the man who was to hang him on the morrow played his violin in the con- demned man’s cell. On the morning of August 10, 1888, the volunteer hangman was frant.cally anx- fous to perform his self-imposed task. Like Dumas’ “Milady’s Son’’ at the scaf- fold of Charles I. Fortin was eager to has- ten the exit of the condemned. The word of command had _ scarcely been uttered when he sprang forward and gevered the yt with one blow of his axe. fter that he was a changed man. For awhile he glorified himself for his part in the ghastly scene in the jail yard. But be- fore long he saw, or thought he saw, that people shunned him on the streets and about the Four. Courts. People would point at him on the streets and say “There's the man that hanged Maxwell.”’ Fortin commented on these remarks bit- terly and came in time to think that he was being persecuted by Maxwell's friends. This wag a hallucination which never left m. When hig term as deputy expired he would not accept a reappointment. He re- moved from §8t. Louis to Florrisant and later to Clayton. He opened a saloon in the latter place in e frequently talked of the Maxwell case and argued hotly with those who con- tended that the man wag innocent. After these debates he was always morose and melancholy. It was not until five weeks ago that his Mental malady took a serious turn. A friend who was in Fortin'’s saloon saw him writing on slips of paper and throwin the slips on the floor. The friend wait his opportunity to gather up the slips and read them. On each of them was written 5o sh ali traitors to the great cause.” This was the legend pinned on the mur- dered Preller’s breast when his body was found jn e trunk at the Southern Hotel on — 6. ortin repeated this performance several times bketa hee tat, followed ans his 0 watc m closely. to last Thursday he was malanonsi ; 7 talked of his business reverses an the awful legend on pieces of paper. On Thursday a great change came over him. He was as jolly as he was before the a non AR, really in very moderate su he wae ow agen d valthy. oes _ “I've got millions now,” he said, “and people won't dare point at : pe more. : me on the street ay rtin came to 8t. @ wide ewath for a couple .o,* oe He went to James A. Wrigh ris e wag oe _—e = $800 . ‘Lam e Fortin, the richest m Louis County. You can just send ‘the — ‘Tiage out C. O. D.,” he said to the sales- Man. m Wright's he went to Nicholson’ ordered four cases of champagne om che oat alcrmea & Jaccard’s ermo accard’s he selected a lamond and a $1,200 diamond aed Ng en he went back to Clayton and told his friends he was going to have a great Dem- ecratic love feast at his resort Sunday afternoon and was going to treat every. body in the county to champagne. When I ted that he was too to such luxuries he became vio- t. aberration traveled Lis) vient when Lis] ] @ quiet down s Ra De Linis / q knew of a big building in St. was for sale at a bargain. Mealy ons Hin a tne Mer fan Br say one Bk tal. Fortin is there now, Seake uipangpabente forthe nan bespital, He has a wife and of the latter is the wife , in “yr . f of Johr 4 7 ee ’ sete E. 4 - te aches ef Dias ttn was nt pt ¢ a ¥ : ” ° ’ CHARLES BARBER'S | JOUBLE CRIME. — SHOT MISS SQUIRES AND COM- MITTED SUICIDE. THE LADY WILL RECOVER. Barber Was an Erratic Washington Lawyer, Who Had Threatened the Young Woman. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—The throng of Government clerks and others hurrying up Pennsylvania avenue near Four and One-Half street, about 10 min- utes of 9 o’clock this morning, were startled by the attempted murder of Miss Dorothy E. Squires and the suicide of Charles Barber, a patent attorney, who had attained much notoriety of late by his eccentric actions. Barber shot Miss Squires and then, turning the revolver on himself, put a pistol ball through his brain, causing almost instant death. Miss Squires was shot in the back of the head, but at the Emergency Hospital, whither she was taken, it is said that the wound probably will not result seriously. Barber had considerable of a patent prac- tice, but had been growing more and more eccentric for several years and of late many of his friends thought him mentally Miss Squires formerly worked for him as a stenographer and upon leaving his em- ploy he annoyed her with his attentions, threatening to injure her if she would not permit him to call. Finally the matter be- came-so serious that she had to appeal to under bonds to keep the peace. He seems not to have desisted, however, for since then the girl had received several] threat- ening letters from him, in the last of which he announced that he would do something which they both would regret. Barber also came before the Washington public in another but similar role, a few days before, being brought into police court for an assault case with some sensa- tional features arising out of a struggle for a fine dog he possessed, He came to Washington from Ptattsburg, N. Y., and was associated in a few cases with the late Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, the one- time Presidential candidate. CEMENT TRUST. Importers’ Association Trying to Pre- vent a Tariff Increase. Special to the Posf-Dispatch. NEW YORK, June 7.—Chrystie and Jan- ney of this city are said to be organizing a cement trust. They confess to be ex- amining the question of doing so, but will give no particulars. At the same time an effort is being made by the Cement Import- era’ Association to prevent the increase of tariff on cement, as at present only high grade Portland cement, which cannot - made in the United States, is imported. The increased tariff, they say, will cut off all revenue and advance the price of the home made articles. KICK ON CLARK. Republicans in the First District Ap- peal to Kerens. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MACON, Mo., June 7.—The Republicans other injuries. JOHN WANASIAKER. He Again Arraigns Republicans for Ante-Elec- tion Premising Speeches, Which Were ‘‘Only Empty Shells, Without Kernels.” NEW YORK, June 7.—John Wanamaker has no apologies ob offer for his re- cent speech before the business men of Philadelphia, in which "he arraigned the Republican spellbinders for their false promises of coming pro 4 rity if McKinley should be elected. On the contrary, he has rubbed salt into Republican wounds in an interview published in the New York Herald. In explaining hig“position he said: “I chose two arguments to convince them that they should keep on working for the public good. “First, because of their ante-election promising speeches, which should be kept in good faith. “Second, because of the creeping paralysis of business and bitter want of the unemployed. ‘ ‘hat I said was addressed to Pennsylvanians, and much of it bore solely on State politics. Much as I love quietness and peace it is not possible for me to be indifferent or silent in the present condition of affairs. Neither can I take nor give opiates. “In these times campaign speeches are only empty shells, without kernels. However well meaning, or whoever it is who thinks he does good by them must be forgetting that a million of workmen and their children gre hungry. The man who looks for bread in such speeches will not have much fo éat. “The public heart cannot be fired by eloquence in this way Just now, for the powder of patriotism is wet with the tears of suffering unempolyed. Give me hold of somebody’s hand who will do something, not talk about it month after month. “To keep work for the six thousand and more persons in my employ and turn away from the several hundred who apply daily and beg for the privilege of labor to keep the wolf from the door drives me into a fever, and I must speak out. Any citizen has that right. “I cannot sit on a fence with a stiff wind blowing and whistle for prosperity, vanished bird of beautiful plumage, to come back. “We ought to have a new, a better tariff; but if we cannot get it, let us settle down on the old one and adjust ourselves to it as best we can. If we cannot move out of the old house, we might build a wing to it or add ¬her story.” (This reference to the “old house’ is a dig at President McKinley, who re- minded Mr. Wanamaker in a recent speech that “we cannot move out of the old house until the new one is ready.’’) — “A Republican House has been in session since last December, and its riddled tariff bill still tosses about at the other end of the Capituvl. “If to be impatient is unpatriotic, when the delays are so protracted and seemingly unnecessary in adjusting these two great questions mppermost in the public mind, then I must ask to be forgiven for miscounting the pulse of most . of the people that I meet. “There are not a few who believe that since the war no such exigency fell upon the country as that which preceded the election of November, 1896, “The spirit which moved the people then is still alive. It will neither be ignored nor dallied with. The tariff, money, economy of expenditures must be arranged fairly and promptly if we are to find contentment or prosperity. “Gathering ourselves together on the monetary question cannot be done too soon, There is no use of sending delegations to foreign nationgewntil we have some Gefinite proposition to make. “Let authority be given immediately for a monetary commission to deter- mine what the United States want to do on the money question, and then let us BLEVATOR FELL. |V|GTIM OF |} HYPNOTIST Half a Dozen Persons Received Inju- INFLUENCE CON- ries, Some Serious, at the New TROLLED GEO. FEIFERLICK. stand up and York Post-Office. NEW YORK, June 7.—The elevator on the TRAN Park Row side of the Post-office, which is S GE used for carrying freight and employes, fell from the fifth floor to the basement to- day. The accident was caused by the break- ing of the elevator rope. The injured, ac- MURD cording to the police reports, are: ERED HIS BROTHER JOE. Capt. J. J. Cox, Post-office Examiner, in- ternal injuries. , George Daly, Post-office clerk, interna] | Hadn’t Been Right in His Head Since injuries. Jonn Murphy, laborer, broken ankle and He Was Hypnotized in San Francisco. Joseph Luffer, broken back. Thomas McGovern, Brooklyn, broken have asked Col. Kerens to hold up Maj. C. N. Clark’s candidates and to ‘help Park ana others appoint their candidates, broken leg. Joseph Feiferlick, who was stabbed in the ack. Frank Birdsall, railway postal clerk, side by his brother George, died at the —— Xe: Hj letters changed. an Y by | 425 even \@! TAL } \ AN i GENERAL AZCARRAGA OF SPAIN. Lieutenant-Genera] Azcarraga is a in office nor seeking office, but is the most accomplished intrigueuer of the Spanish Court. He brought about the recall of City Hospital Monday afternoon. The tragedy was enacted Sunday night in the dead man’s home, 865 Allen advenue, George-is in jail, charged with murder. From stories told by the relatives of the dead man and the imprisoned brother to a Post-Dispatch reporter Monday morning it \ A would seem that another is responsible for \) \ ‘ the crime. It is one more case into which \ N ; enters that mysterious power termed hyp- \\ \ ) notism. AW The Feiferlick family is one of the oldest \ \ in St. Louis, and thére are many of that \ name—all related—living on the South Side, » \\ Joseph and George wetfe born on South a : his hands to- e spell is broken, d completely. He o res A left the poe in a dazed condition and | Ah a » ee yer since. The writer ad- a” — deg be sent for; that he ff with relatives near him. would be better 0 hi Mrs. Korper is inde = far as t - Spaniard of ancient descent, who is not | World's goods 80 S0s. ores “and in Novem. : spare. She sent for George. 2 member of the family at his arrival he insisted being mad Campos from Cuba and has kept Weyler @ to poison there, alth aft f hisown. He is spoken of as th aithough @ failure, for purposes 0 po © possible an efoly one be would trust his at in case of a revolution and his his being sent to Cuba as Cap greatest danger is in the possibility of } TP > - _ ‘_~ hol ’ ’ 4 af ; apis ‘9 i tele PF 4 - 4 - +z ENOCH ARDEN M’KINLEY WATCHING FOR THE GOOD SHIP PROS- PERITY. —From the New York Evening Journal. THE RISE IN BEEF. The Armours Deny That the Trust Is Responsible. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, June 7.—The Dressed Beef Trust officials deny that it is responsible for the rise in prices of beef in New Jer- sey or New York. Cattle are higher now than they have been for several years, said J. Ogden Armour. They are getting scarcer and farmers are receiving good prices. The week’s receipts of cattle at the stock yards shows a shortage of 4,000. Mexico is taking advantage of the situation and shipments this year exceed last year’s record ful] 80,- 000 head. The prospective duty on imported cattle is a factor in this condition of affairs. A MARINE SCORCHER. Wonderful Speed Shown by the Tor- pedo Boat Porter. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, June 7.—The torpedo boat Porter is a wonder. She left Brooklyn yes- terday, sped down to Scotland lightship and back, making the forty-two miles in an hour and fifty minutes and a few miles of the trip at the rate of thirty-two miles an hour, and crowned her glory by making a circle in five minutes about the steamer Sandyhook, which was traveling at full speed, nineteen knots an hour. At no time was more than 200 pounds of steam pressure developed, and that for only a short time. MARK TWAIN’S BIRTHPLACE. The Old House in Monroe County Be- ing Torn Down. MEXICO, Mo., June 7.—Florida, which Is near this city, has recently lost a very sig- nificant. relic, the birthplace of “Mark Twain.” The old structure is being re- moved preparatory to building a new house, Numerous calle have been made upon Mrs. Roney, the owner of the house, by ad- mirers of the humorist, for sufficient tim- ber to make a cane, or even a shingle or a brick. Tourists who visit Florida in the future will see only the ground where once stood the birthplace of the man who has made millions smile. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR AND WARMER. —_—— For St. Louis-and vicinity—Fair Monday night and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday. For Missouri—Fair Monday night and Tues- day; stationary temperature. Illincis—Fair and cooler Monday aight and Tuesday. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. 7 a. MT. .cececeeeees OB li a. TR. ccccccosccdocee 7 a. BB. cocccescecec de 13 BR. « cesdoceceeocoesn + a. TR. ccccccccccee Ge 1 Pp. GR. cccccccevecc 10 a. Oh. ccoosseovecetee | P. BB. cocccesececec ta BURIAL PERMITS. The following deaths have been reported in the city during the twenty-four hours ending at noon: ORA DEAVER, 8 213 Natural Bridge; hepatitis. CHAS. J. MAHNKE, 4, 523 Salina; con- sumption. : VALLINS IN COURT. The Pinkerton Scheme Is to Telay Ac- tion Until He Is Qualified Under the Law. Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 7.—Under the order of the State Supreme Court Chief of Police Vallins must appear before that body to-morrow to show cause why he should not be removed from office on the ground that he ts Ineligible because he was not legally a resident of the State at the time of his appointment. Police Commissioners Searritt and Greg- ory, who appointed Vallins, are managing his case, and their programme is one of delay. The counsel they have employed to represent Vallins will ask to-morrow for a postponement of the case; and if it is postponed they will ask for another post- penement when it comes up again. Their plan is to delay court proceedings until Vallins has resided in the State long enough to acquire the legal residence required by the constitution and the law. If they are unsuccessful in getting the case postponed often enough and long enough, then their intention is, if Vallins is ousted, to make an ad interim appoint- ment of Chief of Police. The new appointee is to hold gffice until Vallins has acquired residence, when he is to resign and then Vallins is to be reappointed. Vallins came to Kansas City last *Jan- uary, so that it will be next January before he has acquired a legal residence. The de- sire of the Pinkerton Police Commissioners is to keep him in office in spite of the law until he has acquired a legal residence and if they cannot do this reappoint him as soon as he has acquired it. They have no intention of yielding to the popular demand for Vallins‘ removal and they care nothing for the fact that his appointment has split the Democratic party in Jackson County through the middle and that it threatens to become an tissue throughout the State that will be disastrous to Democracy. BOOTH-TUCKER’S CASE. He Claims the Poor Are Being Dis- criminated Against. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, June 7.—The liveliest inter- est is manifested by members of the Salva- tion Army and also outside sympathizers in the terms of the sentence which is to were greatly disturbed by the singing and d-playing which frequently lasted throughout the night. The trial resulted a conviction, ; BOUND OVER THE GRAND-JURY. HE SHOT WILLIE SMITH, Judge Murphy Says It Would Have Been Manslaughter Had the . Boy Died. The case of Dr. Richard Metcalfe, Bleventh street and Park place, charged with assault with intent to kill, was called in the Court of Criminal Correction Monday morning. The physician, who is 70 years of age anda quite wealthy, was arrested on the evening of May 2, charged with shooting Willie Smith, aged 8 who lives at #19 North Eleventh street. The boy was the first witness. He is an unusually bright lad and answered every question intelligently. He said that, on the afternoon of May 26, at 1 o’clock, he was sit- ting on the stone wall that skirts Dr. Met- calfe’s yard, after having walked along the coping. While seated there he heard a report }and fell to the pavement. He went to school, but suffered great pain and left s recess. He 4id not know he was shot he reached home. David Murphy, e je4 of 11, of 4241 North Broadway, testified that he saw Willie fall from the fence and at the same time «a puff of smoke come from a window of the house. Fred Reese, another schoolboy, told the same. Dr. W. H. Badger, 1511 East Grand ave- nue, described the wound and sald the bul- let extracted from the shoulder was of 2- caliber. Mrs. Viola Smith, head cashier at the Famous, the boy’s mother, was the next witness. “I went to Dr. Metcalfe’s home and told him my son had been shot,” she sald. “He assured me it was a mistake. “Why,” he said, ‘I have been here all day, and noth- ing of the kind happened.’ ‘‘Later in the afternoon he called at my house and admitted having told the hired man to shoot at boys who were picking flowers. “That evening I went to the police station, and the sergeant sald, pointing to the doc- tor: ‘This is the man who shot your son.’ The doctor nodded his head.” A policeman testified that the physician first denied all knowledge of the shooting, then later admitted that he had fired the shot. The defense put on but one witness, the doctor. He admitted having fired the shot, but said he aimed at the ground “to fright. en so:ne boys.” “That’s our case, your honor,” said Mr. Fauntlei oy. Judge Murphy at once ruled as follows: ~ “Here’s a boy who has been maimed by an act of culpable negligence. Had the boy died it would have been manslaughter. I think a case is made out against the de- fendant under section 3,491. Such careless firing in a large city is lable at any time to cause a death, I think it is a case for the Grand-Jury and will hold the defend- ant. The bail will be $500.” The aged physician was very nervous during the Judge’s ruling. His hands trem- bled and tears came to hig eyes. ODD-FELLOWS ABROAD. International Gathering at London This Week. LONDON, June 7.—The annual conference of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, including representatives from Great Brit- ain and the United States, assembled to- day in the town hall at Bolton, Yesterday, Whiteunday, the Odd Fel- lows participated in a church parade, in which many other societies were repre sented. Among the delegates are five past Grand Masters of the order, including J. Melee conse he! Philadelphia, represen the Unit ates. Ro. row even Col. Do the oar +f tender the Mayor of Bolton, tes and corporation a grand banquet, |'ing the remainder of the week & | be taken to Blackpool and a drive to bridge of the Manchester ship canal, gether with many other excursions, order of Odd Fellows has a mele membership in Great Britain and | States of 000 and over 30,000 fem bers. HAD PLENTY OF MONEY. An Old Man Taken Up as a Vagrant m= New York. NEW YORK, June 7.— James J. Keating, an octogenarian, was picked up by a pelice- man last night as @ vagrant. Keating ap- pears to be feeble-minded. He stated in court to-day that he came form Cincinnati, where he had lived ever since, as @ boy, he eame from Ireland. He had « note for 1,700 pounds drawn by the Bank of Ireland on the Bank of England and a leather bag ty-t Sov containing ye y Ne scolens Get in the Post-Dispatch. — Iq DR. METCALFE «% a — & ¥ ‘ pe ee pet ie Fe ae ae re ee a ey Ain Tn ll Re ee Ly RR ee ter reiorn
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Sa ROR I HRP 5 ha a ee = st baa 3 PREETI! . FEO mT ER, ETS TR fe HE o PCa WEE mw: eo > : 4 ‘ Plonday— St. —— ——_— =. ee oon Mi. WARNER IN OPEN REVOLT — ——_ . TO HAVE HIS SHARE OF PATRONAGE. —-_—_— o_o ULTIMATUM TO COL. KERENS. The Major Will Go Over to Filley Un- less He Has a Whack: at the Pie. PROPOSES “ Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—Uniless Maj. Wm. Warner is allowed what he con- siders his proper share of patronage for the | Western District of Missouri, he will come | out openly against the dictatorship of Col. | R. C. Kerens, Republican National Com- , mitteeman. This is said to be the ultima- | ‘tum which Maj. Warner left behind him the other day for Col. Kerens to reflect over at his leisure. Maj. Warner was very circumspect while here. He saw the President in the gloam- | ing at the White House and had a long talk without any Kereng man as witness. Then he folded up his ‘brief’ and hied @way just before Col. Kerens arrived. Maj. Warner is especially insistent that he be allowed to name postmasters at Kan- eas City and Westport and he also wants to have a voice in saying who shal) hold the offices of United States District Attor- , Surveyor of the Port and a few other things. For Postmaster at Kansas City, he in- ists upon C, E. Washburne. He will listen ono suggestion of Geo, J. Baer, who has always fought him, and who has the in- dorsement of Webster Davis. Bert Banta is his candidate for Postmaster at West- ort and that ancient political fossil, John . Blake, is said to be the man he is after for Surveyor. If he fails to secure, recog- nition, Maj. Warner is quite ready to orm the proposed alignment with the Fil- yites and to head the fight against Ker- ens. 7Re Filleyites have made a liberal prop- osition to him. Crafty always, he has it yet under consideration and is holding it e 2 club over Col. Kerens. Whether the t e can afford to let Warner go over to e Filley camp is yet a debatable question. at thie is a near contingency is not de- mied in the Kerens camp. Maj. Warner will deny it until it suits his purpose to let the truth be known. The commission of Worthington C. Ford of the Bureau of Statistics will expire June 6. Maj. 8. Brock of Macon is makin e vigorous effort to get the place, whic e held under the Harrison administration, ae has decidedly good backing for the ce. GAGE’S SCHEME. Wants to Retire the Greerbacks as Fast as Possible. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—Secretary of the Treasury Gage is preparing a finan- cial measure to be submitted to Congress next winter. In pursuance of this plan he has sent out a letter to 200 leading bankers and merchants inviting suggestions for placing the currency upon a sound basis. In outline the scheme will embrace the gradua! retirement of the greenback and substitution of national bank notes there- | for; allowing national banks to issue to | the full limit, instead of 9) per cent, as now; reducing the tax on national bank cir- ¢ on from 1 per cent to one-fourth of 1 (ed cent; limiting the denominations of ank notes and all other paper money to 10 and substituting silver for all below $10. here will probably @ provision for ranch banks, and there is a suggestion that states and municipal bonds may be used as a basis for not to exceed 50 per cent of the note circulation. Secretary Gage has, in fact, already com- ‘menced to carry out his scheme for retir- ing greenbacks as far as possible under the | present law for locking up in the treasury greenbacks and treasury notes. These geen of notes have greatly increased since arch 4, and on June 1 there was held in the treasury of both classes about $6,000,000. THE HOUSE. Adjournment Taken to Thursday After a Short Session. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—The House to-day passed the Senate Dills to amend the act to authorize the construction of a steel bridge across the St. Louls River and to authorize the construction of a Dridge across Pearl River, Miss. By a vote f to 79 it then adjourned until Thurs- day, the mocrats oppos ng an adjourn- ment in the Interest of the Cuban and bank- ruptcy questions, ' that all the shots his | jar story. laudanum taken with suicidal intent. Hospital told,of the operation on Maud Devere, and the unsuccessful attempt to find the ball means of the X to! Tl He said the wou ; and ‘added th u from a logs of bi M perere ha pap tmes 8 abe mornhage @ a efore it was not voperted until 11 o’clock that night. He thought that with proper treat- ment earlier jn the day the chances of death would have been considerably lessened, Dr. Weiner, interne at the hospital, told of Maud Devere’s progress from the time qne was admitted until the day of her ea Mr. Martin, Mrs. Campbell’s attorney, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that he did not in- tend to let his client testify before the Cor- oner. He said he preferred to examine her first before Judge Murphy. The case was set by Judge Murphy for Monday morning, but Was passed to the end of the docket, until the inquest could be held. It will probably come up late Monday afternoon. Another point upon which the defetse will dwell at length is the evidence of Ida Vance, who lives at 18 Center street, where the shooting took place. Ida Vance said she was present part of the time that Campbell and the Devere woman were in a room together and that she knew Mrs. Campbell! was concealed in a closet. She said Campbell's wife and Maud Devere were perfectly friendly. Campbell himself sa'd that Maud Devere had thrown herself in front of him and wife fired were in- tended for him. . When Mrs. Campbell was asked if she wished to take the stand she replied she had 'no statement to mak ake. The fury retired at 12:30 o’clock and at 12:49 o'clock returned a verdict of homicide, | declaring that death was causéd by hem- orrhage of & septic wound, resulting from a gunshot wound infiifcted with felonious in- tent by Mrs, Campbell. NOT LOOKING FOR CHARITY. James Tisdale Refuses to Ledve a Filthy Death Bed. Health Commissioner Starkioff réceived three letters Monday, all tdalling attention to the condition of James Tisdale of 1404 Pine street and urging his removal to the City Hospital. One was addressed to the department one came in Chief Dispensary Physician Jordan’s mall and the third was turned over to him by the Humane Society, to which it had been addressed. - The handwriting of each was different from the others, but the contents indicated that the writers had been in collusion, All three stated that Tisdale was lying sick behind a partition at the grocery store at the number given, in filthy surroundings, had been sick two months, had received no medical attention and was sure to die ina few days unless removed at once. His wife was called a ‘‘perfect devil,’ who had plenty of monéy, but would not provide suitable accommodations for him. An ambulance was sent, but the man re- fused to be removed, and his wife backed him up, declaring she was able to take care of him where he was. The names signed to the letters were Geo, Davis, Wm. Johnson and Walter Edwards. When a call was made at the grocery store, both Tisdale and ‘this wife denied knowing anybody with those names. They professed to have no idea why the letters were sent, but Tisdale told a pecul- He said he drew up his will Sat- urday. It was signed by John Shoette and John Drake. They came to the store Saturday night and sitting down on the edge of his bed seemed to take a great deabof interest in his condition, making suggestions about the ventilation and other things. hey went away but returned in half an hour. Mrs. Tisdale thought they acted so strangely that she refused to admit them. Tisdale said he remained where he was from choice and his wife said she wanted to care for him. His bed is in the corner of a little apart- ment partitioned off at the rear of the store. He lies in the midst of the greatest squalor. Boxes and barreis and kitchen utensils are piled around the bed and dirt is everywhere. Tisdale has diabetes, but days is able to attend to the store part of the me, Drake, one of the signers of the will, lives at 1504 Pine street. He said he did not write any of the letters, but admitted he had an idea who sent them. He insisted that his only interest in Tis- dale was a humanitarian one. SORG A CANDIDATE. Wants the Democratic Nomination for Senator in Ohio. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CINCINNATI, O., June 7.—Ex-Congress- man Paul J. Sorg, the millionaire manu- facturer, to-day threw a bombshell into the camp of the friends of John R. McLean of the Enquirer by making public announce- ment of his earnest candidacy for the United States Senate? to succeed Mark Han- na, short term appointee. ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. Wm. Laurie Doesn’t See Why He At- tempted Suicide. William Laurie ts recovering at the City Hospital from the effects of a big dose of He CALHOUN'S REPORT THE SAME AS LEB'S DR. RUIZ WAS AN AMBRICAN CITIZEN AND DIED IN JAIL. 'FONDESVIELA NOT FOUND. When Guanabatoa Jail Was Inspected It Was Suspiciously Clean and Neat. NEW YORK, June 7.—Wm. J. Calhoun, who was sent to Cuba as a special commis- sioner to investigate the circumstances of the death in prison of Dr. Ruiz, reached this city on his return to-day. He was accom- panied by George W. Fishback, his secre- itary, and Chas. M. Pepver, a Washington newspaper correspondent, who went to Cuba ‘ with the Commissioner. Ramon QO. Williams, formerly United ' States Consul General of Cuba, came on the sam: steamer. Mr. Calhoun said that the Commiss®n held three sittings between May /20 and June 1 at Havana, Regulus and , Guanabacoa. The papers examined in the case were chiefly mliitary records. The final nepors will be made to Washington by Gen, Lee. Mr. Calhoun declined to give his opinion on the cage. 23 “At the sessions of the commission,”’ Mr. Calhoun said, in response to a reporters questioning, ‘“‘we examined several witness- es, but when you ask me if.they were plen- tiful, I can only say that they dd not run after us and we had to use no force to keep them away. They were composed of Spaniards and Cubans. The Spanish wit- nesses, and, in fact, all of those who testi- fied, were eo surrounded with safeguards that it was impossible to get at the naked truth. One person whom we would have liked to hear could not be found. This was Fondesviela,who commanded the Span- ish in the Guanabacoa terr.tory. He dis- appeared and it was impossible to find him. Capt.-Gen. Weyler did not put in an ap- pearance at the investigation. We inspect- ed the jail at Guanabacoa and when we, were there it was suspiciously clean.” “We learned that Dr. Ruiz was arrested some con- | i on Feb. 4, charged with havin nection in an assault which took place ina LINDENWOOD COLLEGE. Opening of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Commencement Exercises. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ST. CHARLES, Mo., June 7.—The sixty- ninth annual commencemént exercises of the Lindenwood College begin to-day with the “Class Day’’ exercise at 2:00 o'clock p. m. The “annual recital” takes place at 8 The gracuating exercises will be is a machinist and lives at 1427 O’Falion street. His girl went back on him and he wanted to die. Laurie was ashamed of his weaknees Monday and refused to talk. He wanted to get well and said life was too sweet to attempt-to k!ll himself again. BRAZILIAN UNREST. Demonstrations Being Made Against the President. NEW. YORK, June 7.—A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says: —_ Fucsday June 8, at 10:30 a. m., at which time i be nine graduates. Hon. ual address. Miss Aurelia McDearmon of t. Charles will address the alumna. 4 J. Niccolls of St. Louis, Geo. resident of the confer the diplomas. The graduates are Miss Mary H. Burness, ichmond, Va.; Miss Clafa Jaspering, St. | uis; Miss Maud Luscombe, Carthage, ' et Mi ss Frances Mahon, Mount Carmel, -; Miss Anna C. McCabe, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Emma Arde!le Nixon, Columbia, ll.; Miss Ernestine B. Rauch, St. Charles: is ae years, a? Plata, Mo.; Mise Mau » Unionville, Mo. he class ess will be read b “4 Mrs. M. N. Mc} principal at Lindenwood College for the t six years, has resigned to accept the résidency of Washingt on Female Seminary = Washington, Pa. She will be succeeded y Miss Jennie C. Thomas of Adrian, Mich. INQUEST ON MAUDE DEVERE. May Campbell’s Defense Will Be an Attack on the Surgeons. Coroner Wait began the inquest on the Geath of Maud Devere Monday morning. The woman died early Sunday morning in the City Hospital from the effects of a pis- tol shot in the leg inflicted by Mrs. May Campbell on Muay bs, while Mrs, Campbeil’e hus nd, Thomas J. Campbell, was a caller ~ Bsn Devere woman's room at 18 Center Miss Emma Ardelile Nixon. ampbell was an indifferent listen- er Monday morning as Coroner Wait inter- eaten a wine an vere! times «he > er us : story with all the chea ge of dinguat was’ one nit well Seacrised = ot we . The enee in the pearmee. Devere died direct! ehe received in the - cetres = May resente artin & Bags. ohana Dr. Baumgartner, a young interne at the City Hospital, who “aponge * at the opera- tion by . er, testified as to the in- senone — in — Devere’a leg | . tempt to te the y+ ty Ae that the lnokeinie A, tygith deep and d th ted in the un- Ger side a thigh, ll testified as ¢t . eeting with ud Devere and the ~ Be scr in her room, r. Wolfort, the post mortem physician ag the Coroner's office, said in answer to oo Watte's To question, that of the lly: large. aud now warrant: fight immed | | arrant- fe. answer Dg place and ali wae hit on the h au isterne at the City | ries are not dannenue ee oY Ww jelds of St. Louis will deliver the an- ' Rey, | rd of Directors, will address the Class | } , pondence with France in regar illin, who has been the lady | ewagger of a | Serious threats ,and demonstrations against President Moraess of Braz'!] have been made in Sao Paulo, according to a cor- respondent in Rio Janeiro. In several in- stances the military were ordered out to ald the police tn quelling. the alsorder. Much disorder has occurred in the Bra- willan Congress over the diplomatic corres- to the dis- puted territory of Amapa. The agitation was caused by the refusa! of the Minister of Siate to communicate the details of the cor- respondence to the chamber. The Government military school has been closed as a result of the insubordination conned by designing politicians and army A BROTHER’S VENGEANOE. ~ He Cuts Off the Sars of His Sister’s Maligner. NEW YORK, June 7.~A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says: The report reaches here from Sucre, Bo- livia, that Senor Argandanos, a young man of good family, whose sister had been ma- ligned, a8 alleged, by one of the attaches of the Chillan legation in Bolivia, cut off the ears of the offender. The Bolivian War Minister has been com- missioned by the Government to visit Eng- land for the purpose of buying arms. SOUTH AMERICAN GOLD. } It Has Been Found in Paying Quanti- ties by Americans. NEW YORK, June 7.—A diapatch from Buenos Ayres gays: The American expedition, which has been exploring in Terra del Fuego, has been successful in finding gold 'n quantities ' which will yield a jarge profit fo - ing. A syndicate with 4 large amount nf capital has been formed for the exportation of wheat. It is believed that with the ma- terial furnished them by the Govern- ment the farmers will be abi extensive crop. © to raise an Fractured Hall’s Skull. Frank Hall is at the City Hospital htly fractured ekull, ,» $+ Ba, is | + up at the Sixth District for inflicting _ the pisry. Both are colored. Andrews en- li's residence at Natural Bri a Lexing avenue and insulted ts is ' Ties are not dangerous, railroad train between Guanabacoa and Havana. He was placed in solitary confine- ment, or, ag it is known there, he was in- communicado, Thirteen days later he was taken out of his cell on account of his mental and physical condition. It was then found that he was suffering from a severe wound on the head and he died two hours afier he had been released from the cell in which the secret of his injury is buried. The question of the deceased doctor's American citizenship was never denied. The autopsy showed that he died of con- estion of the brain.’ His remains are in- erred at Guanabacoa. We had no positive or direct proof of any assault whatever, and the conclusion arrived at must be based on the detailed evidence in the re- port of Consul-General Lee, which is now on its way to Washington. I, myself, will make no report, and I prefer not to say anything as to my idea of the affair until the report is made public by the _ proper authorities at Washington. I shall go to Washington to-morrow.” Mr. Calhoun said that he had been treated courteously while in Cuba by all those with whom he came ir contact. Mr. G. W. Fi) back, who is Mr. Cal- houn’'s secretary, was reticent when spoken to in reference to his trip, but he made a significant statement: “We did not go with- in the insurgent lines, but al! the insur- gents, however, are not in the lines.” Mr. Williams said he had been traveling through Mexico and had a very enjoyable trip. When informed that his name had been mentioned for the Spanish mission he expressed surprise and said he had not received the offer. CALHOUN’S GUIDES. Two of Them Arrested Charged With Inciting to Rebellion. HAVANA (via Key West, Fla.), June 7.— Now that Mr. Calhoun has left, the. Spanish officials are displaying their wrath against those who befriended or aided him while here. Two Cubans, Mirandez Lario and Francisco y Manilles, who gave him gen- eral news and who acted as his guides at one time into the country, have been ar- rested and summarily thrown into Cabanas. They are charged with “inciting to re- bellion,’’ which, in this island, means a good deal and is very broad, Fondesviela, who is a pacifier of the Weyier type, last week killed eleven pacifi- cos near Guanabacoa, and their corpses were exhibited on pikes by his troops to “nacify the other people of that section.” It is reported, too, that in the camp were ten women who have not been heard from since, The process of killing pacificos is called by the humorous Spanish officers a ‘“heart- warming’ or ‘‘patriot making”’ process. More trouble is reported from the army, the paper money being the cause. At Guines two officers have been killed by the soldiers, and the Mallade battalion near Cardenas killed its Colonel and Major in @ riot, on account of their refusal to pay the soldiers in coin, the same as they received. Starvation reports come in daily. At Ar- temisa the deaths are now over fifty daily. The town is infested with beggars, and took with | solution somewhat dangerous. ingu- | Canovas every bit of food that can be found at the refuse heaps is eagerly devoured. This adds to the spread of disease. At Santa Clara over 600 deaths occurred last month, and the epidemic of small- pox, dysentery, etc., is carrying off the poor reconcentrados at a rapid rate. GUERRILLA MURDERERS. They Hacked to Pieces a Party of Cu- ban Pacificos. Special to the Post-Dispatch. : NEW YORK, June 7.—At Rincon del Pa- razo, province of Puerto Principe, a sharp battie was fought between the column of Gen. Jimenez Castellanos and several in- surgent bands, says the Sun’s Havana ca- ble. The Spaniards had all the advantage until Maj Torre was killed by the side of Gen. Castellanos. The Spanish soldiers, be- lieving that their general was killed, re- treated in disorder, and the Cubans harried the Spanish with their machetes, Castel- lanos retired, carrying his wounded men, who numbered 110. Another crime by Fondesviela has been added to the bloody list near Guanabacoa. Eighteen pacificos were gees mangoes ty. sweet potatoes, each with Fondesvie- la’s signed permission, when 200 Spanish guerrillas began to attack them with ma- chetes. To the cries that they were there with Fondesviela’s permission the assas- gins answered that they also had orders from Fondesviela to kill them. The eigh- teen pacificos were hacked to pieces. In the outskirts of Santa Maria del Ro- sario, Havana province, two boys, one 8 and the other 7 years old, were asked if they were Spaniards or Cubans, The ys an- swered they were Cubans, and for this crime the commander of the guerfillas or- dered their Wmmediate death. They died like heroes, crying “Viva Cuba Libre.” Two guerrillas were so horrified that they de- seried. “ The Spanish forces attacked a Cuban hos- pital at Ojo de Agua, near Clenfueros, kill- ing many sick and wounded persons be- sides two physicians and two nurses. The case ia officially reported here as the cap- ture of a prefecture, and the report says that the surgical instruments and medi- cines were sent to Clenfuegos. Near the city of Santa Clara nine Cuban country women wére assassinated by the Spanish guerril- las after having been assaulted. SAGASTA DISSATISFIED. He Thinks the Solution Dces Not Solve. NEW YORK, June 7.—A. dispatéh from Mae's gays: he solution of the Cabinent crisis has caused an enormous serisation herfe. Pre- mier Canovas keeps the game Cabinet Min\s- Seen, and he also retains Weyler in office. An impression prevai's that recalled at a very early date. Senor Sagasta said in an interview: ae ya Ry ges = me — at tne crisis, whic consi or simey © our The dissident Conserva ves consider the himself at the Ca necessity of } Weyler eyler will be* council fore- patiataction. hintin gat a in Min- sters of foreign affairs and the colo at x éarly Sete, -_ x a it nera ' ts } that’ Canovaw rema ae fost circles here One Supperts Governer-General Wey- ley to whom vig By opportunity will eres ogy to gi ect to his promise to my By eastern provinces of Cuba The Queen Regent mad ffort to arrive at othér conclusions, but failed. Be- e Canovas was returned to wer on i oe cates all the leading nomen gg affairs in’ Cut commutation in rers, the Marshals of ¢ m ” one, probab! . Campos, sent out to pacify the island and forestall any action on the art cone ment. P of the United States Gov DOES NOT FEED THEM. Cubans Held Practically as Prisoners Not Even Fed. CHICAGO, June 7.—Special correspond- ence dated Havana, Cuba, June 2, says: Spain holds the rural population of Cuba as prisoners of war in prison camps. Unlike any other nation which claims to be civilized she does not feed her prisoners of war. There is no means of learning the exact number of the Goncentrados. An American consul who has made a careful study says it is more than 250,000, A Spanish officer told the correspondent there were more than 150,000 of ‘“‘those starv- ing country people,’ The best opinion pisces the number between 190,000 and 200,- In not all the places are they hemmed in by trochas and barb wire fences as at Campo Florido, but they are everywhere under military guard. CANOVAS IN POWER. He Is Confirmed With His Cabinet on Better Terms. MADRID, June 7.—Senor Canovas, the Premier, and the Cabinet will remain in power with authority unchanged, if not somewhat augmented. The Queen Regent had, previous to taking the step, consulted with all the members of the Chamber of Deputies and with the three Marshals who had advised the with- drawal of Weyler from Cuba. The idea is now that the Premier, after satisfying himself as to the vindication of his own personal attitude, will begin to make gradual changes, tending toward the execution of his policy. It is an assured fact that, no matter what else is done or not done. Weviler will go. WASHINGTON, June 7.—Spanish Minister Dupuy de Lome to-day received a cable- gram announcing the result of the Queen’s decision in the matter of the Spanish Pre- mier and Cabinet Ministers who recently tendered their resignations. Mr. De Lome declined to discuss the possibilities of reten- tion in office of the present Ministry, in re- lation to the policy to be pursued with re- gard to Cuban affairs and the incumbency of Capt.-Gen. Weyler. RIVERA TO BE RELEASED. Report That He Will Be Allowed to Leave Cuba. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 7.—Ruis Ri- vera, late commander of the Cuban insurg- ents in Pinar del Rio and recently wound- ed and captured by the Spaniards, will in a few days be lIberated from Cabanas prison by the Government on the condition that he will forever remain outside of the dominion of Spain, This announcement is contained in an official letter to Lieut Fe- lixa y Cordova of the Spanish army, who has for several days been sojourning in this city on leave of absence. According to the information Rivera will be released from the Cabanas Hosp’tal on the 24th inst. He will go directly to New York and thence to White Plains, where his wife is stopping with Mrs. Estrada Palma, wife of the Cuban delegate to the United States. PERSECUTING PRIESTS. Spanish Government Charged With Brutal Torturing. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 7.—The officers of the steamer Hupeb, which arrived yester- day from the Orient, state that when in the Philippine Islands, on the'r last trip, it was learned that the Spanish Government had captured twerpty-five Roman Catholic priests supposed to be in sympathy with the rebels, and had roasted fem. Conditional Release. CINCINNATI, ©., June 6.—A special to the Commercial Tribune from Evansville says: Wendell Phillips, the Cuban war eor- respondent of the London Chronicle. was, with several other newspaper men, released from prison at Matanzas this morning, where he has been confined ten days, on a an that he will leave Cuba and never return, Turkish Brutality. ATHENS, June 7+-It 1s. officially an- nounced that the Turks have committed serious excesses in Epirus, violating wom- én, defiling churches and engaging * gen- eral pillag®. The Turkish irregulars, is is also an- nounced, have committed similar excesses in the villages around Larissa. WILL FOLEY ON TRIAL. Charged With the Murder of His Moth- er and Sister. LIBERTY, Mo., June 7.—Wm. 8, Foley, charged with the murder last November of his aged mother and his sister, was placed | on trial here this morning. The courtroom | was crowded and the trial, because of the prominence of the Foleys and the atrocity of the crime, promises to produce a iong array of sensations, Over one hundred w t- nesses will be called. Foley is 30 years old, and prior to his arrest bore an enviable reputation. If convicted, it will be on cir- cumstant.al evidtnce, which, however, js very strongly against him. Evidence tends to show that he Kiiled the victims ag they lav asleep and that his motive was to se- cure a quick divis'on of the Foley farm. The family is one of the most prominent in Clay County. TOBACCO TRUST#CASES. Officers and Directors to Be “ried for Conspiracy. NEW YORK, June 7.—The trial of the indictments found against the officers and directors of the American Tobacco Co, for conspiracy to restrain: trade was to have begun in the Court of General Sessions to- day. Owing, however, to routine business coming before the court an adjournment of the case until to-morrow wWas taken, The defendants are James B. Duke, Presi- dent; Wm. H. Butler, Vice-President; Jo- sfah Browne, Secretary, Charles G. Em- ery, Treasurer, and Wm. A. Marbur Lew- is Ginter, George Arents, George W. Gail, Benjamin Duke and George W. Wallis, p:: rectors. Counsel for the defense are Jos, H. Choate, W. W. Fuller, ex-Surrogate Daniel G. Rollins, L, Oudin and Ralph Oak. ley. St. John’s M. E. Church Incorporated. Judge Fiitcraft granted a pro forma de. cree of incorporation to the St. John’s wy. E. Church, douth, Monday. The applica: tion was granted on the statement of the trustees of the church that they desired to amend their articles of association to make the church a corporate body. Threatened to Burn the House, arrested Sy Josephine Lynch wag, dy ee niey street. He said » en ran out of the urn the place. ospital for ob. 50 as suddenly became house and threatened [0 She was sent to the City servation. Allen Bill Hearing. arguments fo | street railw been signed ee WILL DISCUSS THE NEW. ASSESS- MENT PLAN. LOSSES IN MEMBERSHIP, Annual Session Issues ' That May Can.. front the Lodge During This Week. —_—_— The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, the pioneer of the fraternal insurance or- ders, will meet in annual session Tuesday at the Southern Hotel. Supreme Dictator John Mulligan of New York will preside. | At the session held last year in Louisville a decided change was made in the assess- ment plan, which change went into effect last October. ‘The order was divided into two classes, A and B. Those who were members prior to July, 1892, composed class B and those who joined since that date were in Glass A. The new, or step-rate plan was operative only in class A, while class B members remained under the old plan, but were at liberty to transfer to the new class | at will, Thousands of them did transfer because of the more equitable plan and the limit of one assessment a month, but many of those who remained in class B, eapecianly members advanced in years, are inclined to protest against the increased number of as- sessments, which lately have reached as high as three and four a month. The present Supreme Lodge will be called upon to pags on this new scheme, and the result of its deliberations is awaited with interest. But this f#@ not the only question to b considered. Supreme Reporter B. F, Nel son, of St. Louis reported last year to the Louisville session: , “The comparative statement of member- ship shows the past year has not been one of prosperity. The decrease in our member- ship has continued.” . According to the statistics presented, the total membership Feb. 1, 1896, as~* 117,- 233. The total number of members contributing to assessments Nos. 418 and 419, due and payable by members Jan.1, 18%, was 119,785. he tatal number of members con- tributing to as®essmets Nos, 452, 453 and 454, dus and payable by members Jan. 1, 1896, was 115,215. “This shows,”’ oays Mr. Nelson, “a net loss in beneficial membership for the year 1895 of 4,573, as against a net loss for the year 1894 of 3,569. During the four months ending April 30, 1896, there were filed in the office of the Supreme Reporter 4,484 new ap- plications, as against 3,763 for the four months ending April 30, 1895.’’ There were 42 new lodges organized in 1895. as against 58 in 1894, and 73 in 1893 ‘‘When we look for the causes which have led up to the condition of things which con- fronts us,”’ port, ‘“‘we find there are several. The con- tinued business depression and hard times unquestionably stand first as a cause, Then the increased number of deaths occurring during the year, which added three to the number of assessments for the payment of death claims, follows a close second. “Of the forty-two new lodges which were organized during 1895, seven have already gone out of existence. Of the fifty-eight or- ganized in 18%, thirty no longer exist as or- ganizations. Of the seventy-three lodges or- ganized during 1893, forty-seven have gone out. “Grave questions confronts us, and if we would continue the grand work of benevo- lence and charity so well begun by this or- der, we must meet them and overcome the obstacles they present.’* The Supreme Lodge of last year under- took to respond by making several notable changes in the methods and business of the order. One of them was to render void all insurance in cases of suicide, except where the deceased was under treatment for insanity. Losses by suicide and consump- tion have been a great bane to the order, as it is to nearly all fraternal insurance s0- cleties. The Knights of Honor’s dealings with the National Bank of Commerce of St, Louis, which is the supreme depository, amount to $4,000,000 a year. The bond of the Su- preme Treasurer, Joseph W. Branch, is for $100,000, with Charles D. McLure, Nathan Cole and W. H. Thompson as sureties. It was this society which appropriated $1,000 for the relief of the tornado sufferers in Illinois and Missouri last year direct from the Supreme Lodge. Following are the officers who will be present at Tuesday’s session: John Mulligan, Supreme Dictator,, Yonk- ers, N. Y.; J. Warner Goheen, Supreme Vice Dictator, Philadelphia, Pa.; John P. Shannon, Supreme Assistant Dictator, El- berton, Ga.: B. F. Nelson, Supreme Re- porter, St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph W. Branch, Supreme’ Treasurer, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. H. M. Hope, Supreme Chaplain, Richmond, Va.: John H. Hancock, Supreme Guide, Louisville, Ky.; J. R. Cole, Supreme Guar- dian, Sherman, Tex.; Frank B. Sliger, Su- reme Sentinel, Helena, Ark.; George S. fallmark, Supreme Trustee, Pensacola, Fia.; Frank N. Churchill, Supreme Trustee, Bridgewater, Mass.; W Robinson, §Su- preme Trustee, Erie, Pa.; Marsden Bella- my, Past Supreme Dictator, Wilmington, N. C.; Dr. H. C. Dalton, Supreme Medical Ex- aminer, St. Louis, Mo. Members of thé@Advisory Board—Noah M. Givan, Harrisonville, Mo.; Samuel Klots, _— N. J.; J. C. Sheppard, _—e VICTIM OF A HYPNOTIST. CS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. aunt, and he asked her to taste his food for him at each meal. “If I could only cross the seas,” was an expression he often used,” said Mrs. Korper Monday morning. “At _one time I thought I would take him to Europe, but last winter he became more rational, and I thought t'me would cure him. “This spring he became possessed with the idea that his brether would injure him. ‘Joe is at the bottom of it all,’ he frequently rald. “What makes you think so?’ I asked. “ j aot we é At This Store.... CASH OR CREDIT, ~ St. Louis House Furnishing Go,, 906 Franklin Av. lowest. Bixth streets. Joseph Williams Wm. ©. Graves .. Miunle F. Arnold ....cececeeeses Joseph Minnie “James ©, Grymer ... Henry C, Lillie M. Differences about his own; ¥ age he was playing at the foot of Wyan-j BOOTH—Thomas Booth, Sunday morning, June 6, aged 87 years. Funeral from late No, 4387 Washi tén boul 8, at 3 welogk p. avard. Tumeday,” June BURKE—Suntlay, June 6 at 8 O'clock 4. m., Lizzie ca eg a aoe > pha to Calv —w. etery ) are in- vit “attend. i. ere Mrs. Margaret Cochran, of Robert and Annie Cochran, Mrs. J. Finley, Mrs, W. Ferlie, Mra, P. Kileul- len and Mrs, J. Hannon. . Funeral from family Biddle street, Tuesday, a. m. to St. Br'dget’s to Calvary Cemetery. vited to attend, COCHRAN—Sunday, June 4 at 6 p.m. beloved mother , 227 une 8th, at 9 pads’ are te ROBESON—On Sunday, June 6, at 5:30 p. m., James C. Robeson, aged 8 months and 6 days, beloved son of Fdward and Mary J. Robeson (nee Caine). Funeral Tuesday, June 8 at 2 . M., from family residence, #16 Gratiot Bieeet’ WASHINGTON—On Sunday, June 6, at 6:15 a. m., Elizabeth Washington, the be- loved daughter of Mary Washington. Funeral from Thomas etreet, on a- Friends invited to attend. MARRIAG# LICENSES. Go. 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Mrs. Booth is op- posed to honorary pall: bearers. Mr. Booth’s death occurred some time be- tween 11:30 and 12:30 o’clock Sunday morn- ing. He had intended going to church with his wife, but changed his mind, as a little boll on hig face was troubling him. His wife went to church alone. She returned shortly before 1 o'clock. Her brother, Mr. Philip Warren, was sitting on the veranda. ‘Where is Tom?’ she asked. “I don’t know,’”’ Mr. Warren replied. “I couldn’t find him upstairs, and thought he had changed his mind and gone to church with you."’ ’ Mrs. Bocth entered the house. A minute later Mr. Warren was alarmed by his sis- ter’s frantic cries of grief. He rushed up . » Wi Lae Ke ‘ Re oe Wh AD 4 o— Ree Vi eovied Al Z Va Pa /, M Lb ay Ts nd af Whar {| Vie, , if bi hy THOMAS BOOTH. stairs and found her standing at the bath room door. She was weeping hysterically. In the room Mr. Warren saw the dead body of his brother-in-law. It was sub- merged in the water that reached almost to the rim of the tub. Only the grey head and a part of the forehead were above the water. Mr. Warren led his sister to her room, called for help and dragged Mr. Booth's body from the tub. Dr. F. C. Witherspoon, the family physician, who lives in the vi- cinity, was summoned. He saw that life was extinct, but worked to induce artificial respiration until he was exhausted. Meanwhile young Tom Booth, a nephew, Was summoned from his house at 4012 Del- mar boulevard. He notified the coroner. Deputy Lloyd reached the house about 8:30 o’colck and made an investigation. He examined Mrs. Booth, her brother, Mr, Philip Warren, Mr. Tom Booth and Dr. Witherspoon. The doctor opposed the theory of suicide, but Deputy Lloyd returned a verdict of suicide committed under tempor- ary mental aberration. He based the ver- dict on the fact that the bathtub was too full of water to support the theory that Mr. Booth had fainted while in the water and had been drowned. Another point against such supposition was that after filling the tub to its utmost capacity, Mr. Booth had turned the water off. These facts alone support the theory of suicide. Everything else is against the a a Dr. J. W. Kenney, a nephew of Mrs. Booth, said Monday: “There is no way of establishing how Uncle Tom came by his death. It seems almost unreasonable to believe it was his own act. When he in- tended going to church he always bathed early, and when he made up his mind to stay at home he took his bath while his wife was at service. He spoke yesterday at breakfast about a drive they were all going to take in the afternoon. He seems to have made deliberate preparation for his bath. He removed his collar and necktie in his own room and placed them on the dresser. As he took off his clothes in the bath-room he arranged them im an orderly way. It ems to me that if he intended taking his ife he would have left some word of ex- planation. “He was always bitter against those who took en y 4 in self-destruction. Quite a number of ‘his friends have killed themseives and in discussing their act he always de- mounced it as cowardly and unfair. Per- son, the Chicago banker, who killed him- eelf a few days ago, was a schoolmate of his. He spoke bitterly about the act. He had nothing under the sun to burden him except a constitutional ailment. I did not attend him and knew little of the extent to which he suffered from Bright's disease, but saw nothing to warrant him taking the affliction seriously. He has been in re- ersasy good spirits lately and was taking een interest in preparations for a summer ~_ and a journey abroad in the fall.’’ r. Witherspoon said: “If Mr. Booth took his own life, I am one who cannot be- lieve it; he did it unpremeditatedly. Sat- urday night, about 9 o'clock, he came over to my office and asked me over to join him and Mrs. Booth and Mr. Philip War- ren in @ game of whist. Mrs. Booth and I won and he laughingly said he and Mr. Warren would get back at us within a day or two. He was in real good humor.” Mr. Thomas Booth, nephew of the dead man, and vice president of the J. W. Booth Commission Co., says that on Saturday his uncle held a long conversation with him and ma pps out business plans that showed he could have had no thought of early death. His business affairg were $00,000 and ‘his life is ineuron’3 ’ an e nsured for ‘ considerable sum. quite. @ Mr. Tom Booth gives the clew to hie un- cle's unaccountable action. He says that an attack of grip two years ago resulted in Bright's disease and otherwise impaired Mr, Booth's constitution. The fact that he had an incurable malady affected him and : at times he was quite melancholy, Lately e had complained greatly of insomnia and dizziness. On account of the state of h‘'s health . he was gradually closing out all hie busi- nese interests. Mr. Booth was born in Clarksville, Pike Co., Mo., March 17, 1840. His father, the ey James W. Boo | ie Louis in . ; tna in good probably .; Geo mil wes & practica!) Christian and worshipped at Central Presbyterian Church. Mr. Booth ed a Miss Louise Warren ggg Her brother William ng at that place os ” 5 4 ny 4 7 fig 4s wife oa pet at a . f / ° RAS SA dias? wv. g™ PAP Lm wf ,! s tay ’ ? > Rs op’ ny OMe eee he a Sr en cot ae | fy ae tis ad de Res wr aan % MOUNT VESUVIUS AGAIN IN ACTIVE ERUPTION AND PEOPLE TERROR STRICKEN. The flow of burning lava already covers an area a mile and a half long and 600 yards wide and is increasing rapidly. It is extremely dangerous to approach near the mountain, and one woman‘and two men are reported to have been burned quite seriously. Villagers dwelling near the foot of the mountain are removing their household goods and fleeing in terror to a safe distance. The present eruption is regarded as the worst since that of 1872, when sixty lives were lost. ister. Mr. Booth’s brother, George, who re- sides at Clarksville, Mo., has been tele- graphed for. ‘Exchange Will Close. At a mesting of the Merchants’ Exchange Monday it was unanimously decided to close the Exchange at .12 o’clock Tuesday out of respect to ex-President Thomas Booth. WOLVES AND COYOTES. Rewards for Scalps in Southwestern Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan., June 7.—The cattlemen of Southwestern Kansas have found it nec- essary to raise a fund and offer heavy re- wards for the scalps of wolves and coyotes. Hundreds of calves and eheep have been killed by these pests. A bounty of $12 for grown wolves, $ for whelps and $1 for coyote scalps will be paid by the associa- tion. Sportsmen are requested to present the ecalp and the right frent foot of all animals and an affidavit that the person claiming the bounty was the actual slayer thereof. Several packs of greyhounds are en route to the cattle country and will be turned loose to-morrow. The sportsmen expect to make a big haul both in wolves and bounty. POOR FARM SCANDAL. Ugly Facts Laid Before the State Board of Charities. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 7.—The State Board of Chanties met here to-day with Gov. Stephens, ex-officio president, in the chair, and all the members present. Con- sidering that there are two women on the board, the discussion of the Vernon County Poor Farm was not pleasant. The investi- gation showed that out of fourteen idiotic women confined at the poor farm, seven have given birth to illegitimate children. Rev. A. E. Rogers, secretary of the board, said this condition of affairs did not only exist at the Vernon County farm, but also at many others In the State. He also said that the board would recommend to the next Legislature that the present system of letting the farms to the lowest bidder be abolished. MAMIE LAMMERS MARRIED. Joe Nester and His Child Sweetheart Get a License. What was thought to be an aggravated case of child abduction on Saturday has taken on a matrimonial phase. Saturday the police raided a house on Seventh street, and found a man named Joe Nester and a young girl, not yet 4 years old, hiding from a father, who wanted-.to send the child to a correction institution. The child was named Mamie Lammers, and she lived at 4540 Pennsylvania ayenue. Her sister is married to a brother of Joe Nester, and in that way Mamie came under the Nester influence. When young Miss Mamie was found in company with Nester, the father concluded that the only thing to do was to have the pair married. It had been said that Nester was already married, but this was shown to be untrue, Monday morning the father, Lammers, Nester and the girl, accompanied by an of- ficer, appeared at the marriage license of- fice and took out the necessary paper. ARKANSAS DUEL. Two Citizens Shoot Each Other, One Being Fatally Hurt. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 7.—A bloody street duel occurred at 9 o'clock Sunday morning at New Lewisville, Ark., in which the participants were two of the most prominent men of the town, R. B. Cryer, constable of LaGrange Township, and C. M. Morgan of the firm of Morgan & Hat- ten. The men had trouble over a lawsuit ang when they met on the street, began shooting at each other. Morgan’s wounds are fatal, but Cryer will probably recover. THE JOHN H. WOODBURY Dermatological Institute Removed to 163 State Street. John H. Woodbury, the famous dermatol- ogist and complexion specialist, has re- moved ths Chicago branch of his business to the handsome offices on the first floor at No. 168 State street. The old quarters in Chicago, at No. 15 State street, were found to be entirely inadequate for his large Chicago patronage, which is constant- ly on the increase, eeping with the spread o1 the dermatologist’s fame as a master of his art. At all times of the da are to be found men and women in his of- fices, undergoing treatment for every con- celvable sfigurement of countenance. Each and every one, no matter what their affiiction, are sent on their way rejoicing. No other institute of its kind is so thorough- ly equipped with scientific appliances Tor the removal of facial disfigurements. Most of these are the Dermatologist’s own in- ventions, and are the result of his twenty- six years’ experience as a moulder of the human form and features. The age of miracles is not past. At this institutio also at the New York, Philadelphia an Boston offices, noses are l all kinds re- s work, and it uae et: w chat of great benefit to humanity. 3 To Begin Operations. POTTSTOWN, Pa., June 7.—The Universal Mill of the Pottstown Iron Co., the Valley Mill of the Glasgow Iron Co., and Glendale Rolling Mill, all this place, will start opera- ations during the present week. Grain Elevator Burned. Neb., June 7.-— totally evator, AV Melectric ‘light figs ot Omaha, tad the ‘A DBATH-BED WEDDING SEQUEL, VALIDITY OF MRS. ANNA HER- MANN’S WILL ATTACKED. DIED ON HER MARRIAGE DAY. The Dying Bride Willed Her Wealth to Her New Husband and His Daughter. By the filing of a petition tn the Circuit Court Monday the story of a death-bed mar- riage is recalled. Fred W. Beyer and Ed A. Beyer have brought suit against William Hermann and Martha Hermann to have the will of Mrs. Anna Hermann, their de- ceased sister, set aside. It is charged that undue influence was exerted in order to in- duce Mrs, Hermann to execute the will. April 9, 1896, so the petition alleges, Will- iam Hermann, a widower, caused the name of Mrs. Anna Berger—a widow and a sister of the plaintiffs to the suit—to be attached to an application for a marriage license. Mrs. Berger was fatally ill at the time the license was issued. Two days later Her- mann secured a justice of the peace. To- gether they went to the residence of Mrs. Berger. There, on her death-bed, a mar- riage ceremony was performed. Mrs. Ber- ger became Mrs. ermann, wife of the principal defendant in the will contest. Immediately after the marriage, the petl- tion recites, the dying bride executed a will. She bequeathed $2,000 to Martha Hermann, daughter of William Hermann by a former marriage. In addition to this, she willed valuable realty and other holdings to Her- mann, the bridegroom. She died on her wedding day, not many hours after the solemnization of the ceremony. The brothers of the deceased woman, who appear as plaintiffs in the suit filed Mon- day, set forth that at the time their sister was married and made the will, she was not in possession of her mental faculties. It is on this ground that they attack the validity of the will. Martha Hermann had lived with Mrs. Berger for some time, hav- ing been adopted by her. THE URBANA LYNCHING. Gov. ‘Bushnell and Gen. Axline Stand by the Militia. COLUMBUS, O., June 8.—Gov. Bushnell makes this statement: “The members of thre National] Guard at Urbana did their duty, and are entitled to the support of the State. Lamentable as the results were, their efforts were to main- tain the majesty of the law, and they should be upheld by all the people. = S. BUSHNELL.” Adjt.-Gen. Axline’s statement is as fol- ws: lo “A careful examination of the service of the National Guard at Urbana fails to show that their conduct was anything but that of courageous and obedient soldiers, and when the public is in the full possession of all the facts and complications that sur- rounded that service, the unwarranted crit- icisms that have gone out to the world will be speedily corrected. The miscarriage, of the service is not the fault of the troops. It is the duty of the State to uphold and care for the guard, and the spirit that seeks to revenge itself on the guard for the dis- charge of its lawful duties is of the same deplorable and unlawful character as that which incited the mob to take vengeance on the condemned criminal, and deserves the same censure. The State can not and will not allow its military to become refu- gees, and compelled to seek safety by abandoning their homes. They must and will be permitted to return to their places of residence and business without delay. “H. A. AXLINE, Adjutant-General.” URBANA, O., June 7.—Gen. Axline spent Sunday in Urbana and while here called on Mrs. onard and assured her that Capt. Leonard would be protected. There is no feeling against members of Company D, the people generally believing that they only obeyed orders, but Capt. onard has been severely censured for giving the orders to fire on the mob and !t was well for him that he was out of town while the indigna- tion against him was at its height. Leonard has always been an efficient and popular officer until this unfortunate affair occurred. The deciaration of Gen. Axline that he would be protected is approved by the ma- jority of the best people, who desire that things shall return to their normal condi- tion as quickly as possible and further bloodshed be averted. Sheriff McLain still comes in for considerable unfriendly criti- cism and is not gaining in popularity dur- nce. ‘ “4 be = ell, the young man who was shot through the right temple and instantly killed the night of the riot, will be buried this afternoon. New Missouri Corporaticns. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY Mo., June 7.—The Secretary of ae to-day chartered the fol- companies: — of St. Joseph, St. Joseph; oapste’. yet incorporators . Barrett, 5. B. n, H. F. Walters and others. The Retailers’ Co-operative Co., of St. Louis; capital, $25,000; incorporators, A. W, Baton, M. Corral! and C. W. Merkel. Ww. 8. Mitchell Grain Co., of Kansas oaty capital, . $75,000; inocrporators, H. F. Hall, J. F. Robinson, N. 8. Mitchell and others, Floods in Switzerland. BERNE, June 7.—Heavy floods are re- orted from various parts of Switzerland. hey have caused considerable damage to the crops. The railroad near Brienz is covered by debris, brought there by the river, which also caused the disastrous floods of 1896. Knickerbocker Special, 18 hour train, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, Big Four, | A GRY OF DISTRESS Goes Up From the State of Ohio Be- cause of the Terrible Decline in Values on Every Side. CLEVELAND, O., June 7.—James Cree]- man, the correspondent, who has been going carefully over the commercial and indus- trial situation in Ohio, the McKinley-Hanna State, gives a very discouraging report of the conditions prevailing there. Mr. Creelman says: “Cries of industrial and commercial dis- tress go up from every county in Ohio. It is impossible to exaggerate the distress. Everybody sees that the new tariff will help the Sugar Trust and kindred combinations, but nobody sees how the agriculture, in- dustry or commerce of Ohio is to be helped. Farms have actually shrunk to half their value, and figures show that since McKin- ley’s election values have shrunk not less than 10 per cent. The depression is so ter- rible that the loan institutions are holding thousands of overdue mortgages, which they do not dare to foreclose because prices have sunk so low that farming land fre- quently fails to bring the price of the mort- gage at auction. “From the figures already in my posses- sion, I am satisfied that the list of assign- ments, foreclosures and transfers of prop- erty for debt since the beginning of this Republican year of prosperity in Ohio av- erages more than half a million dollars for each of the counties, and that the total for the State is more than $50 , 000. “The official figures, so far as they are obtainable, for President McKinley’s home county of Stark show that from Jan. 1 to June 3 of the presen’ 2eer there have been thirty-five assignments, In the same period there have been fifty-four foreclosure cases filed in Stark County, representing a total of $76,828.07. “But shocking as these figures may be, they only faintly shadow the real situation. Wages are being cut down in all directions, factories are running only part of the time. and usually with reduced forces. Thousands of idle workmen join with the ruined farm- ers in the cry for the prosperity which was. promised. It is impossible to separate the situation from the political movement. The free silver movement is increasing by leaps and bounds. Everybody knows it. No- box Y, denies it. “There has never been anything like this in Ohio before,’ said Mayor Rice of Can- on. “““The factories are cutting down wages and reducing their forces. any of them are not opera ae more than three days a week; most of them are running without promt. Farm land that has been worth $100 an acre, cannot be sold for $30 an acre. It is almost impossible to borrow money on real estate, because prices sink and sink and sink.’ “In Cuyahoga County, the home of Sena- tor Mark Hanna, the number of assign- ments filed between Jan. 1 and June 3 this vear is twenty-four, and the total amount involved is $155,000. The number of fore- closures for the same period is 140, and the amount involved is $1,410,650. ‘‘Real estate mortgages filed in cuyvanhegs County this year aggregate $4,585,900. The chattel mortgages filed in the city of Cleve- land this year make up a total of $906,900.” DEFYING THE POLICE. City Attorney Clover Will Not Prose- cute Slot Machine Keepers. City Attorney Harry Clover seems de- termined to save the keepers of slot ma- chines from prosecution, even if the Po- lice Captains disobey his orders and make arrests. On May 29 Special Officer Scully of the Fifth District arfested George J. Busch for maintaining a gambling device at his saloon, 2023 North Broadway. A “bicycle wheel’”’ was secured from the cigar stand as evidence. The case came up in the Sec- ond District Police Court and was nolle prossed. Saturday afternoon, under instructions from Capt. Phillips, Scully again arrested Busch and again took the machine. Monday morning, at the direction of Mr. Clover, Acting Assistant City Attorney Sidener, at the Dayton Street Police Court, entered a nolle pros. for the second time, and the case was dismissed. LARGE EXPORTS. The Business at Philadelphia Has Been Brisk. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 7.—The vol- ume of business transacted at thts port dur- ing the past six months has been phenom- enally large, the exports of petroleum dur- ing that time having reached 27,193,093 gal- lons in excess of the corresponding per‘od of last year; the corn exports are 10,000,000 bu and wheat shipments 1,000,000 bu greater than during the first six months of 1896. Still further increase of business with cor- Shipping men predict an era of prosperity at this port such as has never been known in the past. MISTOOK EACH. OTHER. ————— Licensed Watchmen and Fishermen Fight a Duel With Guns. Tom Sutton, son of Judge Henry L. Sut- ton, and Charles Murphy, both well-known fishing ex They or hands, an encountered h urphy was shot in the ht the fusillede gn in the right breast. Rein- hold Budeck was hit by a bullet, but his suspender puckle saved his life. ——— WITTENBERG BILL 10 BR RAILROADED. THE PUSH MUST HAVE MORE STREET JOBS. The Order Is Out and the Imitation of the Uthoff Bill Is Go- ing Through. The Wittenberg bill reorganizing the Street Department and depriving Street Commissioner Milner of authority over his subordigates, will be railroaded through the Assembly. The House of Delegates met in special Session at 11 o’clock Monday to hasten the bill toward The bill wags introduced by Mr. Witten- berg Friday night as 4 substitute for the unspeakable Uthoff bill. It was given a second reading Monday by title and referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Just before adjournment Speaker Lloyd had Clerk Martin call the roll. *“‘When your name fs called,” the Speaker said, ‘‘you will come up and receive a copy } of the Wittenberg bill.” Each man had to walk up to the speaker's perch. Mr. Lloyd handed each two sheets of typewritten figures. To each he gave a whispered explanation. When the House adjourned it was to meet at 5 Pp: m., Tuesday, two hours earlier than usual, The programme is to — the bill and send it te the Council in time for first reading that night, A spoctal ayers | will be held Wednesday hursday and the bill will be passed Friday night. The type-written sheets were not the rWittenberg bill, but a comparative state- ment cf the cost of the department under the present arrangement and under the “Uthoff” bill. Mr. Lloyd said “Uthoff’” was a misprint for ‘‘Wittenbersg.”’ Mr. Lloyd was asked for a copy of the bill. He said there were only enough to go around, but loaned his own long enough for the figures to be copied. According to these lists the present cost soa and under the new bill will be Mr. Lioyd was asked who prepared the lists. He said Deputy Comptroller Gabel prepared the one showing the present ex- pense. It was nobody’s concern who pre- pared the other, but he had verified the ey and was ready to vouch for them. t is admitted that so far as the Prot. ive officers are concerned there will no increased expense under the Wittenberg bill, but the bars are left down for as many “day men” as the district superintendents choose to appoint, and there is no doubt that as many of the push will be given jobs under it as under Uthoff’s. e Ways and Méans Committee will give the bill a hearing at 11 a. m. Tuesday. COULDN'T GO TO PICNIC. Willful Katie Meyer Took Carbolic Acid and Hoped to Die. Katie Meyer, 17 years old, pretty and will- ful, swallowed a spoonful of carbolic acid Monday morning. She wanted to die be- cause her mother would ‘not allow her to go when and where she chose. Meyer, at 2335 Chouteau avenue and is em- ployed at the Standard Packing Works, at Eleventh street and Chouteau avenue. The works had shut down Monday in order that the employes might attend a picnic. Katie had been out Sunday night and did not returm until late. She refused to tell her mother where she had been or who her companions were, Mrs. Meyer scolded Katie and as a pun- ishment refused to allow her to attend the picnic. Katie went to her room to cry it out. Presently with tears in her eyes and cry- ing with pain Katie rushed into her mother’s room and said she had swallowed a spoonful of carbolic acid and would die. The pain, she said, was intense and she hoped she would dig soon and escape further suffering. Her mbdther sympathized with her and hastened to pour a quantity of sweet oil down her throat. Then she caught Katie by the hand and ran with her to the Lafayette Park Police Station, where she told the Sergeant in charge what had occurred. Katie was bundled into the patrol wagon and hurried to the City Hospital. Dr. Reder applied remedies and said the girl was not seriously injured. ECHO OF STEIGERS DIVORCE. Husband’s Suit for Real Estate Knocked Out by Demurrer. In the Circult Court Monday the demurrer filed by Rose M. Butler and James J. But- lerto De Witt H. Steiger’s petition, alleging violation of contract, was sustained. Mrs. Butler was formerly Stetger’s wife. When she secured a divorce from him, she agreed, in consideration of $250 alimony and ceriain personal effects, to waive her right to a down-town interest in certain real estate owned by Steigers. Steigers’ pefition set forth that Butler and his wife threw op- stacles in his way when he tried to sell the property. As the petition was thrown out Monday Mr. Steigers will have to file another suit or adjust the matter outside of the courts, EXPLOSION IN A MINE. Three Hundred Men Rescued, With Only Minor Injuries. MONONGAHELA, Pa., June 7.—By an explosion of gas in the Black Diamond mines of the Brown Coal Co., two miles south, this morning, several men were in- jured, but none fatally. The explosion oc- curred about 7 o'clock, and a rescuing party went immediately into the mine and all of the men were taken out before they were overcome by the deadly after-damp. The gas is said to have been ignited by an open lamp, and the escapé of the 300 miners was remarkable. MULLANPHY BANK DIVIDEND. Receiver’ Stone Instructed to Pay 33 1-3 Per Cent. Judge Valliant Monday authorized Receiv- er Stone of the Mullanphy Bank to pay a dividend of 38 1-3 per cent to the depositors, There is $210,283 to be distributed under the order. appraisers’ report was proved and =e each, 2 llowed e court ap- ty A urchase of warehouse receipts at foreclosure sale. receiver's report of claims paid was approved a was authorized to pay the premiums on a $10,000 insurance policy assigned to the bank by F. W. Schwartz, FIRST DISTRICT FLECTION. Official Figures Place Lioyd’s Plural- ity et 6,651. to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 1.—The of- ficial vote for the apecial election held in the First District is as follows: James (f. os 900; Chas. N. Clark » 13, ee: Dem Juiler { .), 107%. Total num- ber of votes cast, ; Lioyd’s plurality, 5,651; his ty, Mrs. Mildred King Gets Alimony. Mrs. Mildred King was ted temporary ood Monday. Her hus- qlimony by at King, was ordered to pay for alterney & NO DELAYS ARE PERMITTED.| Katie lives with her mother, Mrs. Rose ‘ * Sreev RANGE CONRAD'S SPECIALS ror... MONDAY ana TUESDAY GRANULATED SUGAR, $I 00 FOR THIS WEEK. -« No. 1—Soda Water, assorted flavors, per of 2 dozen bottles sheets f . 4—Red Cross Shoe Polish, worth 10c.. Se ‘o. 5—Pepper Mangoes, large size, doz...... 15e (o. 6—Genuine Imported Caviar.....e.+++..18e . T—Large Fresh Pineapples.......... oe+- 140 . & Perfumed Ammonia, per bottle Yo. 9—Caramel Cereal dc o. 10 -CANDY SPECIAL—FRENCH MIXED CANDY, regular price, 18c 12¢ CONRAD'S, 620 LOCUST, 2712 Franklia Avenue, Delmar, near Taylor. Try Conrad's 39c Bon Bons and Chocolates. SPECIAL SESSION. The Illinois Legislature Will Probably Be Called to Pass Revenue and Reapportionment Bills. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, June 7.—That Gov. Tanner will call a special session of the Illinois Legislature is reasonably certain. While he has not admitted as much, still he does not deny that this will be his course. Gov. Tanner wants a senatorial and congressional reapportionment and he will make the excuse of a special session that the revenue laws must be revised to meet the demands of the people of the State. It was the Governor on the last day of the session who caused his friends in the House to hold back the two revenue bills until the fate of the apportionment meas- ures was known. When the senatorial bill was called up Martin B. Madden, who was betrayed by the Tanner-Hertz-Lorimer machine, was on the floor of the House. His friends began to break from the machine bill as soon as the roll was begun, and ‘his face wore a complacent smile. Then Tagner gave or- ders to kill the revenue bills, and it was done, the Democrats falling into the tra and voting against the bills. Tanner will now have an excuse for his extra session, but he will nardly call it before fall. His plan is t> let the unsavory oo of this general onan evaporate before calling cme Aitentean of the people ta the gang again. ‘ When asked by the Post-Dispatch corre- spondent as to whether hé@ would call an extra session he said: “I have not yet de- cided as to a special session. There hae been a great clamor for revenue legislation and during a regular term this seems im- probable. I am not ready at this time to Say that there will be an extra session.” IN GREEN’S INTEREST. Eastern Capitalists May Buy the Fourth Street Lines. Thomas C. Barr of Newark, N. J., and F. N. Roebling of Trenton, N. J., arrived Monday morning. These movements _ will be closely watched by those interested in the future of the People’s and Fourth Street and Arsenal railway properties. Mr. Barr is a wealthy street railway man and a bondholder of both the lines. Mr. Roebling is a cable manufacturer and bridge-builder of world wide fame. It is said that Barr and Roebling are here to buy in the roads in the interest of Receiver Green. The roads have been or- dered sold by the court. Mr. Green is anxious to buy the property on his own account, and it Is believed that the Eastern visitors will furnish him the necessary funds, taking a new issue of bonds as s¢e- curity. They wll furnish the materials to change the power of the People’s line from cable to electricity if the deal goes through. A number of the bondholders also desire to buy in the roads and there is apt to be hot rivairy at the sale. Mr. Bart and Mr. Roebling nefused to dis- cuss the purpose of their visit and Receiver Green is equally reticent. Mais,” free. fees. 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Anyone who is charged a higher rate than this will please report same to us, giving name of road, or station and number of train. Subscribers who fail to receive their paper regularly will copfer a favor by reporting the same to this office. Address all communications to POST-DISPATCH, St. Louis. Butered at the Postoffice at St. Louis as second- class matter. TELEPHONE NUMBERS. Business Office. .........ccceecccccvecsceees ove nag +. - 4084 Editerial Rooms. eee eevee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeteece 4085 The 8. 0. Beekwith Special Agency, Agent Foreign Advertising, 48 Tribune Building, New York, And 469 The Rookery, Chicago. HE POST-DISPATCH is now admitted to have the largest circulatioh of any St. Louls newspaper. The City Circulation of the Post-Dispatch is more than twice as great as that of any other St. Louis newspaper. oe AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. UHRIG’S CAVE—‘‘Cavalleria Rusticana’” and *{acia di Lammermoor."’ KOERNER’S PARK—‘‘Clover.”’ BOYTON GARDEN—Vaudeville. BUBURBAN GARDEN—Vaudeville. FOREST PARK HIGHLANDS—Vaudeville. FILLEY CONGRATULATES HIM- SELF. “I would rather have Charlie Wenne- ker’s office than any Federal job in B8t. Louis,” said Boss Filley at the Koerner’s Garden reunion of Der Schmierkase Ve- rein on Saturday. Why not? Of course there is not as much “in it’? as there was in the days when that office collected, or was sup- posed to collect, the liquor licenses, and the city lost over a million dollars, due it in license fees, in five years. Nor is there as much “in it’’ as there was before the office of General License Commissioner was created. But a City Collector who will use all his opportunities to violate the law can still make more money than any Federal office in St. Louis can pay him, and be in line for election as Mayor by the people for whose benefit the law has been violated. And then it must be remembered that getting the Federal offices nowadays is not what it once was. Nearly all the subordinate offices are under life tenure. Perhaps Boss Filley is lucky in not hav- ing to face the disappointed “spoilsmen” seeking minor offices in the Federal de- partments here. Perhaps he is willing to let Mr. Kerens have all the government patronage here and take the conse- quences, In “Der Schmierkase Verein” he has a machine which knows no law but that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils.” + _-¢ — ‘TANNER AND BOUDLE BILLS. As Governor Tanner, of Illinois, has signed the Chicago Gas Consolidation and Frontage bill it is safe to assume that he will also sign the street railway consoli- dation and perpetual monopoly bill. The only power that can constrain Tanner from ‘giving legal force and effect to every infamy enacted by the Repub- lican Assembly is that of the courts. Moral influence will be lost upon him. Public sentiment he cares nothing about. Tanner has been a creature of luck and he will trust to luck to save him from the results of his own criminal subservience. The Post-Dispatch has never felt any doubt as to Tanner’s participation in any infamy of which the Assembly might .be guilty. There is reason to hope, however, that if the Supreme Court is appealed to against a law 680 clearly opposed to pub- _ Ne right and policy as this Yerkes-Allen bill, it will interpose whatever rightful power it could exercise to defend the peo- ple from monopolistic and legislative epoliation. Tanner invites Republican ruin by signing these bills, but Tanner has so often tempted fate for his party and es- caped disaster for himself that he has become a fatalist in his politics. It mat- tere little to him that 22 of the 26 retiring Senators next year are Republicans, while 8 of those holding over are Demo- crats. There is something ominous in this fact for a politician like Cullom or one like Cannon, or Hopkins, or Hitt; men who have wrought out their political fortunes by force of merit and genius for politics. But Tanner, the child of fortune, trusts to luck, and takes what the pass- ing moment offers. DOES SPAIN WANT WARP Canovagis to remain at the head of the Spanish Cabinet. The resignations of himself and his associates, growing out of the affray between the Duke of Tetuan and a Liberal Senator, are not to be ac- cepted, and the Conservative party is to remain in control of Spanish affairs. Whatever may be done with Weyler fs not a matter of importance. Weyler or no Weyler, Spain will have to get out of Cuba. With a Ministry open to reason she could have gotten out with honor and in- demnity. With the Castilian Premier and Castilian party still in the saddle she will continue to ride for a fall. And she will get a hard one. The chances of ultimate war between Spain and the United States are greatly increased by thie holding on to power of the ‘Spanish Corfeervatives. The act, in iteelf, is almost one of deflance to us, would be a most disastrous conflict, by superseding Weyler with‘a Gowernor- General who will conduct war on the gules of civilized warfare. That done, the impelling motive to our interference will be removed. VALLINS IN COURT. Vallins, the Pinkerton Chief of Police of Kansas City, is to appear before the Supreme Court at Jefferson City to-mor- row, to show cause why he should not be removed from office on the ground that he is ineligible. A dispatch from Kansas erton Police Commissioners, who are try- ing to retain him in office in spite of his being ineligible. The people of Missouri have their eyes fixed on this case. Ag yet, there has been no reason to doubt the good faith of At- torney-General Crow. He has redeemed his promise made to the labor people to bring the matter before the Supreme Court as soon as he was furnished with the proper evidence. He will now be ex- pected to push the case with proper vigor and to defeat the Pinkerton programme of delay. a If Attorney-General Crow does his duty, it is hardly to be supposed that the judges of the Supreme Court will permit themselves to be used as instruments for violating the law. If Chief of Police Val- lins is ineligible under the law, it is an outrage upon the people of Kansas City for him to hold his officg one day. If he is not ineligible, it is due to himself and the Police Commissioners who appointed him to have that fact determined and proclaimed. ‘Any attempt at delay means simply a design to evade the law when its open violation is challenged. There can be no good reason for delay in the Vallins case. The issue is plain and extremely simple, and the evidence ifs available. All the questions of fact in-| volved can be determined in 30 minutes. The question of law is already settled. ——————_-2—— _____——- A SAMPLE OF “PROSPERITY.” Among the industries whose employes were expected to shout and march for “McKinley and Prosperity,” none was more prominent than the jron and steel industry. Yet, after six months of Mc- Kinley, instead of having felt the stim- ulus of prosperity, some of the iron man- ufacturers are now contemplating with satisfaction a prolonged shut-down as the best thing that could happen. The Cincinnati Corrugating Company, a large manufacturing concern at Piqua, O., speaking for the trade, sends out a circular to its customers announcing that “our rolling mill and all other sheet mills will close down July 1 for repairs, stock- taking and adjustment of wages.” How wages are to be “adjusted’’ under the gold standard and “prosperity” is in- dicated by the circular, as follows: This shut-down will be for not less than two weeks, but may be of very much longeér duration, as the men are demanding ad- vances in wages and, if they insist on their demands, this will doubtless cause a shut- down of all sheet mills indefinitely, AS NOTHING MORE DESIRABLE CAN OC- CUR NOW FOR THE BENBFIT OF MANe« UFACTURERS THAN GENERAL CES- SATION OF PRODUCTION. At present low prices there are unusual grounds for expecting a prolonged shut-down. What do the wage-earners think of this situation, and especially of the cold- blooded manner in which it is taken ad- vantage. of by the manufacturers, in face of their pre-election promises? “Nothing more desirable can occur now for the ben- efit of manufacturers than general cessa- tion of production.”’ Nothing more desir- able than starvation for the workers un- til, in spite of gold standard prices,*the stocks on hand are reduced and prices take a slight upward turn. Was ever a bunko game more shamelessly carried out or more heartlessly commented on? _ - An apparently “inspired” synopsis of the note to Spain which President Mc- Kinley is preparing contains the follow- ing paragraph: Next, and perhaps of greatest importance, it will point out that Spain has threatened to search American vessels on the high seas as well as in the waters of Cuba. It will be declared # be the duty of Congress to at once support the Administration in prepar- ing to resist with the utmost vigor any at- tempted invasion of American sacred rights. It is evident from this that even Mc- Kinley has gone back on the Globe-Dem- oorat. That paper was asserting the other day—and repeated the assertion after the Post-Dispatch had corrected its error— that in case belligerent rights were grant- have the right to search American ves- sels on the high seas. President McKin- ley announces that he will “resist with the utmost vigor any such attempted in- vasion of American sacred rights.” ee? ————— CC Pittsburg is no longer a hive of indus- try. Alfred Henry Lewis writes from there: I find work scaros and pay small, and many idle men. No concern is crowded with work. Some have no work at all. In the’best and briskest pay is small, for there are two workmen to every one day’s work; and save where labor unions are strong enough to secure @ yearly rate and hold it, competition | among work people for a day’s ‘work Is sharp. Pennsylvania’s enormous vote for a gold standard and high tariff administra- tion was clearly an enormous blunder. —F- i ee ae The Missouri Legislafure will have to give heed to what Mrs. Ingalls says of the shortcomings of our prisons and charita- ble institutions, The fact that insane peo- ple and imbeciles are bearing children ought to be sufficient to arouse State and county authorities to work for a system which shall forever put an end to evils so monstrous. The supply of paupers in- creases sufficiently without breeding in public institutions which are costing so heavily. The hard times administration of Mr. McKinley is relying-upon large crops to restore prosperity. It is to the farmer, whose interests are never considered, that the country is looking with hope. If our farmers will only raise great crops, and Europe will buy these crops, we shall get on very well. The atmosphere of Springfield will be improved, but the rest of the State will be contaminated by the dispersion of the aggregation of thieves and boodilers that has recently been fn session in that city under the alias of a State Legislature. It is explained that the gold in the New York clearing-house is there because it is easier to handle clearing-house certif- | City discloses the programme of the Pink- | But Canovas can avoid what to him4@cates than gold. This admission of the} inconvenience of gold coin is very preper. It seems never to be too inconvenient for shipment to Europe, however. oe One of the best antidotes for hard times is judicious advertising. The Post-Dis- patch offers to advertisers the largest newspaper circulation—a __ circulation among intelligent, thinking people, who know a good thing when they see it. 7 Mr. Kerens’ neglect of Missouri patriots in the interest of Pat Egan is deplorable. The Missourians need whatever Mr. Ker- ens can reach for them and ‘there are among them many better men than Egan. —_ 1 2 —__—_—_——_ No party has ever had a better oppor- tunity for municipal reform than has been offered Our Republican friends in St. Louis. The records show how little attention has been given this opportunity, Exclusive use of the afternoon reports of the Associated Press enables the Post- Dispatch to give its readers a better tele- graphic service than any other evening newspaper in St. Louis can possibly have, ee With 8t. Louis doing a $25,000,000 busi- ness in fire brick, as shown by the Sunday Post-Dispatch, we are prepared to warm to any condition of substantial prosperity the future may have in store for us. og ee simist Butterworth, there is Pessimist Wanamaker. These are all -prominent men of Mr. McKinley’s own party. Does he deny that they are patriots? In his “creeping paralysis of business and bitter want of the unemployed” Mr. Wanamaker is rather besting Mr. Mc- Kinley, who is not a business man, but just an ambitious politician. Punishment for the violation of election laws is one of the first steps toward clean city government. Every city that does not search out and imprison election law violators must suffer. It is said that small interest is being taken in to-day’s Judicial elections in Il- linois. What ts the state of our civiliza- tion when the most important elections excite least interest? _ oO -— OO //—___——_—_—_——— The very best service that Gov. BSte- phens can render the Democratic party of Missouri at this time is to promptly re- move the Pinkerton Police Commission- ers of Kansas City. OO Emperor William heard the hoarse hoot of his dissatisfied subjects last week, and some women frightened the Empress. A great republic may not be far off in the Fatherland. —_—* — It is the “leading citizen” described by John M. Harlan that produces the apathy among honest voters who would other- wise unite against hoodlum municipal government, ie —- &- — - There are some politicians so suspicious that they suspect Czar Reed to be carry- ing out the McKinley programme because he knows that it is certain to wreck Mc- Kinley. ——_—-—--—_ © ——_—____. With two Uncles to keep up with in St. Louis, the Republicans are going to get things more or less mixed. The great uncle, however, seems to be Uncle Filley. Se ee ened Fitzsimmons now finds himself sued as an actor. But Fitz is not the only person who has been mistaken for an actor since Shakespeare wrote. —_—- ->- eo —s __ —_—__—_ The humiliation of the great State of Illinois by its boodle Legislature is the saddest event in the political history of the year. The Kentucky Democrats are not divi- ded. They are united and Sstanding squarely on the Chicago platform. ——— ——— i 2 ————— In the public mind Speaker Curtis bears a large proportion of the tattoo marks of the recent Illinois legislative session. —_—~ It is getting to be decidedly less offen- sive to be called an “Anarchist” than to be called a “leading citizen.’’ ——— —-_ © ————_— The Federal appointments are the sour- est grapes Uncle Filley has ever longed or, $$ _— --—___ The postal savings banks should be ready when the prosperity wave arrives. _ - ——— The President is not crusty. He has not enough pie to go around. - —— —— __ '- Uncle Filley’s reference to star-routers ed to Cuba, Spanish war vessels would |J8 full of meaning. ~~ > ——_——— Reflections of a Bachelcr. From the New York Press. Now Barabbas was a gasmeter inspector. Lots of women get married before they can afford it. When a girl has pinned a flower on a man’s coat, she always tilts her chin up and looks at it sideways. When & woman moves to cut down ex- penses, she always says it was because the other house wasn’t good enough. A woman never will believe any good of a widower who doesn’t go around all the time with a pathetic look in his eyes. A woman has to get indignant just about so often. If she can’t get indignant at her husband, she chooses the liquor traffic or the government, A Mistake. Front the New York Press. Mother: stant! What can you be thinking of to go on the beach in such a shanieless bathing dress as that! Clara: Why, mother! How could you im- agine such a thing! This is only my new bicycle costume! Sad Effect of Prohibiiion. From the Larned (Kan.) Chrq@noscope. For years we have been drinking whisky made from concentrated lye and rain water, and beer that tastes like printers’ paste smells. JUNE. From the Lotus. Before the green wheat turneth yellow, Before green pears begin to mellow, Before the green leaf reddeneth, Before green grasses fade in death, Before the green corn comes in ear, Then is the keen time, : Then is the green time, Then is the green time of the year. Before young thimbleberries thicken, Before young grapes begin to quicken, Before young robins flutter down, Before young butternuts embrown, Before young love has grown too dear, Then are the long days, Then are the song days, Then are the young days of the r. } ETHELWYN WETHERALD. r. \\ | UNS Ss we WARNS NUNES \N \ » \) ah SS Y" ‘ BARONESS HIRSCH. This is a picture of the widow of the Hebrew multi-millionaire whose generous gifts and extensive charities are well- known, She has not only képt up her late husband’s reputation, but has even excelled There is Pessimist Harlan, there is Pes- | his benefactions. One of her latest gifts was that of nearly a million francs to the poor of Paris, just following that of a g'ft of a million dollars to the poor of New York. Her charity takes in the whole world. MEN OF MARE. The Duke of Sutherland wwns 1,176,454 of the 1,297,846 acres in Sutheriand County, Scotland. , Lord. Wolseley proposes to begin reform in the British army by abolishing the cocked hats and feathers worn by staff officers. Ex-Senator and ex-Secretary of State William M. Evarts of New York, who has been ill for some time, is reported better and his physicians have hopes of his re- covery. Henry Marion Howe of Boston, the son of Julia Ward Howe, who has been ap- pointed Professor of Metallurgy in Colum- bia College, is a cousin of E. Marion Craw- ford, the popular novelist. Carroll D. Wright, chief vf the national bureau of labor at Washington, was recent- ly nominated president of the American Unitarian Association. This position was held last year by John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. The distinguished electrician, Prof. Forbes, has been employed by the Egyp- tian Government to make a study of the feasibility of utilizing the power of the cataracts of the Nile for generating elec- tricity, and he reports the general circum- stances of Egypt to be exceptionally wel] adapted for its use as a motive power. WOMEN OF NOTE. Handkerchiefs were made fashionable by the Empress Josephine, who had bad teeth and held a handkerchief before her mouth when she laughed. Mrs. Addie W. Buzzell, who runs a farm near Waterford, Me., although she is not more than 80 years of age, has had seven husbands and tells a correspondent of the Lewiston Journal that she thinks of mar- rying again. 4s Maria Theresa’s equestrian statue, recent- ly unveiled by Emperor Francis Joseph at Pressburg, is said to be the finest monu-~ ment erected in Hungary to a sovereign of the Hapsburg line, which has ruled over the country for 371 years. Miss Gordon Cumming is raising money in all the principal cities of England for the purpose of teaching the blind in China. She will found a large blind asylum at Pekin, and is doing this in cémmemofa- tion of the diamond jubilee. The Murray system will be taught. Apart from being 112 years of age at the time of her death, there are several unusual circumstances surrounding the career cf the late Mrs. George Stepnens of Houghton, Canada. She was born in 1785, In Pennsyl- vania, and a son by her first husband is 76 years of age. She outlived two husbands and married as a third a Brant Indian. She both chewed and smoked, and, before turn- ing the century mark, after bearing her three husbands ten children, was known to go outside her hut in the coldest weather in winter and chop wood without either shoes or stockings on. A LITTLE AMUSEMENT. ‘Goodness, Jimmy, what’s the matter with your cheek? And where did you get that black eye?” ‘“‘Me an’ Sammy Dix has bin havin’. a pound party!’’—Detroit Free Press. An Age of Miracles.—The Hostess: So- Clara, go into the house this in-/| clety possesses a power that is almost mag- ical. Guest: It does, indeed. How easily, for instance, it transforms an ass into a lion.—Life. | Filial—Wealthy but economical father: | Do you know, my son, what strict economy 'would do for you? Robert: I know what it has done for me, father, and I respect /you for it.—Harlem Life. He: Where have you been? She; town, looking over some bonnets, ‘Look- ing over some bonnets, did you say?’ “That's what I said.” “Then they were not theater bonnets?”’—Yonkers Statesman, Irate Customer: See here! That suit of clothes I bought of you yesterday is full of moth holes. Dealer: Das is all recht, mine frient. Moths neffer eat cotton, an’ ven ladies an’ shentlemens see dose holes dey knows you vears only high-priced all-vool | goots.—New York Weekly. Easy.—“I can always distinguish between this vin ordinaire and red ink,” safd the regular diner at the table d’hote. “How?” asked the casual customer. “By the label on the bottle,”’ fiendish grin. This shows the importance of judicious advertising.—Judge. THE RULING PASSION. Down —_= ee —— = 5 Rafferty: So yez won't speak ¢ Clancy: Not me—when yer | wheel! Legislature. said the regular with a‘ County to Jefferson City. . He regarded this remarkable circumstance as only a com- monplace event. In fact, it was nothing new to him. He had walked over the same road several times before. Capt. Snidow has distinguished himself in the Legislature by voting “no’”’ on almost every proposi- tion. He is well advanced in years. Mrs. John N. Edwards, Supreme Court Librarian, is writing a biography of the late Gen. Jo O. Shelby, which will be pub- lished in book form. Mrs. Edwards is peculiarly fitted for this work. Her hus- band, the late Maj. John N. Edwards, famous as a Newspaper writer, was the historian of the celebrated Shelby Brigade. Maj. Edwards and Gen. Shelby were or terms of intimate friendship—in fact they were as devoted brothers for many years. The work of Mrs. Edwards will be read with much interest. Representative William I. Cox of Lewis County, who died a few days ago, was noted as the tallest member of the Missouri! Representative Cox stood 6 feet 6% inches. He was of robust physique and his sudden death came.as a surprise. From Jefferson City comes the news that Gov. Stephens is becoming an expert at bicycle riding, He learned the art of wheel- ing while at Hot Springs, tn April. Now it is related that he can “‘scorch” or “coast” as well as wheelmen of many years’ ex- perience. Holt County has a citizen who has an unusual war record. His name is Joseph Lewis, and he fought from the beginning to the end of three wars—the Black Hawk War, the Mexican War and the Civil War. He is somewhat advanced in years, yet re- markably active, and it is his boast that he is still young enough to fight. G. L. Reynolds was Postmaster at Higbee during the last campaign. He had so much American manhood and independence in his' make-up that he espoused the cause of Bryan and bimetallism. He was especially prominent in denouncing the Palmer- Buckner decoy duck ticket. It is a long way from Higbee to Washington, but the story of Reynolds finally covered the dis- tance. There is now a new Postmaster at Higbee. He is a McKinley man. ’ A BUSY PENMAN. ~\ S a. a nV ¥ 3 ¥ AS : First Author: How are you, old man? Second Author: Oh, I'm all write, just now. The Versatile Protective Principle. From the New York Journal. When the Senate began to discuss the sub- ject of carbon for electric lighting on Tues- day, Mr. Caffery ventured to ask why the 20 per cent rate established by the McKin.- ley law would not be sufficient now. Mr. Aldrich thereupon explained that in 1890 we produced few manufactures of carbon, and the aim was evidently to get the_article cheap, but that since that time the industry had developed rapidly in all parts of the country and now asked for fuller protec- tion. In other words, there were few American consumers of carbon to be taxed In 188, and consequently it was hardly worth while to take the trouble.to go through their pockets, but now the consumer has waxed numerous, and therefore promises tempting rewards for a hold-up. By Mr. Aldrich’s own statement the carbon industry has flourished under a moderate duty. It has “developed rapidly in all parts of the coun- try,” and having grown to its present pro- portions without excessive protection, it asks for more protection as a simple grat- uity. The tin plate industry asked McKinley to protect it because it was not yet in exist- ence, and could not be born without help. The carbon industry asks Aldrich to protect it because it has grown so big without pro- tection and is so very well able to take care of itself. With this example of the beautiful elasticity of the protective theory it need cause no surprise that McKinley raised the tariff to cure a surplus and that Dingley and Aldrich are raising it to cure a deficit. —————— McKinley Bimetallism. From the New York Journal. Our wandering monétary commissioners are taking in the sights of gay Paris and making every effort to relieve the distress which is #0 prevalent throughout the country. MOTHER AND CHILD. ai wae oe My child is lying on my ees ; The signs of heaven she reads; My face is all the heaven she sees, Is all the heaven she needs. I mean her well so earnestly, , Unchanged in changing mood; My life would go without @ sigh To bring her something good. I also am a child, and I Am ignorant ert eg ™ I gaze upon the st - And then I must not speak. For all behind the starry sky Behind the world so Behind men’s hearts and souls, doth The infinite of God. Lo! Lord, I sit in Thy wide space, My child upon my knee; Bhe looketh up Into my face, jequality. That same detested Kansas Pop- the world the priceless boons of Uberty and ulist has, as a rule, devoted years to the study of economic questions where the ape who imitates the silly twaddle of hireling Eastern newspaper mendi¢atits has yet to learn that a science like political economy exists. Where the latter fawns and cringés and crawls, the Kansas Popwlist stands erect, and where the Kansas Populist howls with fog-horn voice charged with evidences of rich, robust and vigorous manhood, his monkeyish derider gives utterance to the thin, pitiful piping of the emasculated eunuch of the Sultan’s harem. The howling Kansas Populist cannot be coerced, bull- dozed, bullyragged nor driven, He never licks the dust, nor is he subject of nor lackey to the richest nor the most pro- fusely titled man on earth. He is a peer, possessed of pluck and individuality, even if he does wear a slouch hat, long whiskers, Overalls and jumper and rawhide boots on sockless feet. We confess we have a liking forhim. ‘We sometimes think he is the real simple reason that if is seat t out rag 2) : patriot, Not From a Mugwump “Tomb. From the New York Journal. It lg noteworthy that amid all the claim- ants and their lawyers who have arisen to attack the last will and testament of the late Senator Jamies G. Fair of Nevada, not one has asked for a share of his millions on the ground that there was anything wrong with the old gentleman’s head. Though the Senator was weak in the lit- erary refinements, being given to writing of “them fellows” and announcing that he “had went;” though he achieved no renown as an orator, never having made a speech during the whole six years of his term; though he seems to have had confused no- tions as to meum and tuum, and imperfect acquaintance with most of the command- ments, the clarity of his sanity is suscepti- ble of indisputable proof. No man with even the slightest taint of lunacy could have so calmly and exhaus- tively analyzed the character of the Presi- dent under whom he served as did Senator Fair in a letter which has just been posthumously contributed to the history of his time. “I have been very anxious to know,” wrote Fair to a friend who wanted office, “if you have any good hopes from Cleveland. I fear the old, selfish brute for- gets all the favors done him and his party.” Whatever may become of the pile of booty from which honest death parted Sen- ator Fair, that estimate of Grover Cleve- land will remain a permanent monument of his acumen as a stateman and skill as a judge of character. The Spurt in Personal Taxes. From the New York Journal. The State Board of Tax Commissioners the assessment of personal proporty at ‘ts full value, and apparently with much tem- porary success. The effort will be useful as furnishing a gauge by which the extent of future evasions may be measured, and it may be of service for a time in increasing the revenue, but there can be no doubt that before long the assessors will fall back into the old ways, and the great bulk of personal property will again escape tax- ation. This is so because the permanent collec- tion of our personal property tax is in its nature impossible. The leading citizens who protested against the national income tax, on the ground that they would have to commit perjury to evade it, will not hesi- tate to evade as many State taxes as they can. They cannot evade the taxes on ‘and, but no assessor can tell the value of the stocks and bonds in their tin boxes, or estimate the worth of their diamonds and pictures. The only man who will pay his personal taxes in full will be the one who, like the farmer, has only such visible and easily valued personal property as common household furniture, agricultural imple- ments and live stock, The Passing Soldier. From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The nation is now nearer to &@ government of the army. and navy and civil affairs ad- ministered by men who have not known service in war than it has ever been be- fore. From the end of the Revolutionary war to the outbreak of the war of 1812 was a period of twenty-nine years, in which the high places of administration were flled with men identified with the first momen- tous conflict. From the close of the war of 1812 to the Mexican war was a period of thirty-One years, during which the heroes and veterans of the former struggle were conspicuous in the military and eivil ser- vice. From the Mexican war to the out- break of the Rebellion, fourteen years, the trained and experienced soldier wag not time we are near to the point where this can no longer be said, A Saw for Iron. From the Boston Globe. twe-inch bar and try it. Evidence Wanted. From the New York Journal. which will throw some light on And I look up to rag GEORG MACDONALD. , . -& . . 22 Be? is making an energetic attempt to enforce / is To the Editor of the Post-Diapateh. The Socialist school of and supervise the source and mac all ghee ge , that such : telligent factor in the produéer—or sch ground of its ~ pointed out tha | widely and that to su this i oe to t w and Edward Beilamy is righ ernment is going to dény to indiv or any combination of individuals the to control thelr own indus aff they want to. If the Government wishes to go tnto the business of producing bicycles, for instance, I would not object after the land question is settied, but I would most strenuously object to the Government taking on Ty ex- clusive monopoly of that business. It has done so in the case of produ stamps and the sale thereof never been established as a | ciple. At least the department has not ex- tended it to the money order and small pages’ qneretng business, in both of which tis engaged, nor do I believe public ion would permit It to be so extended. To conclude,first free the source of wealth —nature’s storehouse—from trol, then let the Governmen functions if the people will, | individual free to compete with ean freeze the latter out and to accept service at the public right, but this is not the theory ¥ " m. St. Louis, Mo., June 6. Disarm the Vicious. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. The only way to stop this reign of riot and outrage and bloodshed is to disfranchise and disarm the ignorantand vicious, “Rev- » going backwash” te th trary notwithat . ling. WOR CLARKE. St. Lou une 5 The Battle Is Still On. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Jonathan asks if I propose to wait four Gees. te ee . - fret cee ts ea: ad
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HELD WITH HIS GLITTERING RYE. HOW OWNER FOGG HYPNOTIZED HIS HORSE BENAMELA. HAS HIM UNDER CONTROL NOW. Fogg: Has Something About Him That Animals Dislike and Dozens of Dog Bites Attest It. With the horses at the Fair Grounds speedily around the track clipping off halves, three-quarters and miles, with own- ers and trainers standing about in front of the grand stand taking time, observing the work of the horses, and instructing the boys, the most interesting sight in the morning is not there, but over on the north side of the track where Joe Howell, the veteran trainer, breaks in te the gate the sulky and unruly beasts, and here the peo. ple who congregate outnumber those who stand about the track in front of the grand stand and watch the speed trials. Tuesday morning the trainer had his hands full. A brown 2-year-old filly, with a stout black stable boy up, caused most of the trouble. Three times ‘as the gate went up did the filly rear, lose her balance and topple over. backwards. Three times the boy got his feet clear of the stirrups and rig tags OS mye edeke 4 a the filly. After s she was finally w as the gate went up. oi Create The most vicious and unruly horse at the gate among ali the 800 quartered at the grounds is a fe Gold Top, a three- year-old colt in Hicock’s string, and there are few boys at the track who can be in- duced to mount the beast. He not only balks at the gate, shies, rears and falls over, but is a mule with his heels, and a devil with his teeth. Tuesday Fucon, the well-known jockey, was engaged to help break [n Goid Top, and the fight between the horse und his rider was a pretty battle. The jockzy and Mr. Howell finally won and, after a dozen , the vicious horse, conquered for a time at least, was sent away as the gate jumped up. The third great battle of the morning the tamer had with J. F. Fogg’s Benamela, This horse faced the gate twenty-one times in California during the past winter, and never once gave the starter any trouble. Since his arrival in St. Louis he seems pos- sessed of a hundred devils, and his owner could do nothing with him. The horse was entered last week and-sulked so at the gate the field was nearly half an hour in being sent off, and when finally given the Bas Benamela was sulking and standing Mr. Fogg Was given to understand that Benamela’s entry would be refused until he learned to get away, and the book- makers told him there would be no betting on the horse in his next race. With Fucon on him and in blinkers Benamela was put po A —e a and coaxed by the ner, an inally sent .away i é good shape. Seesaw a that horse,’’ said Mr. Fogg, the owner has given me more trouble gince I came to St. Louis than was ever given by the highest class stake horse that ever looked through a bridle. He has a bad leg and that may be the cause of his mean temper. At first the horse walked his stall every night. [ put a bale of hay in with him, and that stopped him. Then he varied the proceedings by trying to kick out of his stall from dark to daylight. I got a goat and put the anima! in with the horse. In ten minutes he had kicked the goat into a corner and had half killed him. We sent @ boy in to rescue the goat, and the boy was nearly killed before he could scramble out of the window with the goat. My trainer was the only man that horse would permit about him until I saw Senator O’Brien, who advised me to go into the a — the horse’s eye, and hypnotize » Qe were, with the firmne sternness of my look. reg aera I was doubtful about taking his advice I had never been able to enter the stall. but had daily gone around to the rear of the stable and examined the horse through the window. I took O'Brien's advice and entered Benamela’s Stall in fear and tremb- ling.: I took good care to have the window open, and was prepared to jump for it, thus having two avenues of escape. As I got in the horse’s ears went back, he showed all — front teeth, pawed the straw and started Sg me. I got his eye and transfixed him. e horse kept on coming to me, but instead Bre es ML my SOLO. as I had half ex- ’ 7 r phoulder piy rubbed his nose against my “I was the more surprised than I been in my life, because horses Ta gp btned taken to me, and I,had never been able to Oe phx thing with them. ma are like women: poems for their likes and Bg ee Bog one Of those they dislike. This dis- e is not confined alone to horses, The samest and gentlest house or stable dog in the world w.ll bite me if he gets a chance ot me, I suppose dogs have bitten me fortv times on race tracks in the last twenty years. A few times I have been hurt, but generally I escape with the loss of a pair of breeches. I am afra!d to gO near a dog, wat het er ei acrais of horses un- easant exper > | Benamela a day or two ago. oo ‘Two of m of animals On Ppy was standing fift be ry behind him, the dismounted boy hold. ng the bridle. Howell called ‘‘whoa!”’ to another horse he was working with. His voice was loud. Cappy heard it, and trotted up to Howell es geontle as a circus ring horse and stuck out her nose to be stroked, After that Cappy won me three races and the fourth time got inside the eerie te : ow it,” concluded the horsemarm e ’ "Howell has one k'nd of influence upon orses and animale and I directly the op- wane? It must be something inherent in PO em For inatance, I wouldn't dare wash my face and hands in ordinary cold water in the middie of June. The wate ment always be heated. Cold water woul c . me and probably throw me ‘nto con- eae that would cause my death. Sev- fee’ eee ane my younger a rs, I have wt near death simply through cold wa- reenter A FAST SKIFF RACE. oe ee, It Was Won by Messrs. Henry Weeke and Fred Ohrmann. A four-oared skiff race for a good-sized purse was rowed on a diagonal course in the Missouri River Sunday afternoon at st Charlies. The contestants were Henry Weeke and Fred Ohrmann in the “Idle Hours,” against Pa Harry May in the “Cary.”’ he 4 stance was one and one-quarter miles, and was won y the “Idle Hours’ crew by three boat ngths in seven minutes flat. The time is arkably good under the conditions, the Stats baving _— bullt wit © view to y rather an speed. a t eatisfied that their sucnantes A Big Purse. spree et Matai “ats as up for th a puree of $1,000 e in- ‘CASTORIA For Infants and Children. vitation race. Five hundfed dolfrs will fe to the winner, $350 to the second, $150 to third. . Ti Ol ) mo Kiser, bald Cooper ond Mekeon ve been in- vited to take part. THE CLERKS WON. They Defeat the Diels in a Good Game at Belleville. The Diels and the crack Belleville clerks met yesterday in Belleville for the first time this season, the clerks winning by the score of 8 to 3. Tt wag a hard fought battle all the way through up to the ninth innin when two costly errors by Scheller an Rodgers clinched the game for Belleville. The clerks have not lost a game so far this season. The Diels put up a fast game Ermans first base play, Granville’s at third and Kanes base running being the fe while iow eeoney and Fairbank oOo COrKH wo e@-- oh ClO CRORE 3 Totals ..38010 Innings— a4 5 Diels .cccsees bceedoges 0090 2 0490 90 On| = cow | 3 tr" 4; prrete. Ry ™ 7TANVILie. balls—Off Crinnion. 2; off Feehan, 2, _ Double plays—Kane to Erman; McSweeney, Mulconnery and Fairback. Struck ort—By Crinnion, 4:. by Feehan, 1. Stolen bases—Fox, Zoellers _ stein, Rodgers, Erman, Kane (3). Umpire-Wm. O'Keefe. Club Standing. Baltimore Cincinnati Boston ...cccees wrrre gevewsar 23 Pittsburg CNICABO sccsevseeses Washington Be, DeDWiBe sc ccccddedsccdssscsese 8 To-Day’s Games. St. Louis at Baltimore. Pittsburg at Boston. Louisville at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Philadeiphia. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Washington. INDIANS VS. SPORTING NEWS. Defeated Sunday, the Mexicans Desire to Play Another Game. Notwithstanding the rain, there was .a fine exhibition of ball playing at South Side Park yesterday afternoon, and there is promise of another this afternoon, as Man- ager Dix of the Mexicans, believing that he was given the worst of it by the um- pire, made an offer last night to Mr. Charles Spink to play his team another geame for the entire gate receipts and $50 a side, provided another umpire handles the indicator. The score by Innings: Sporting News 0 Topo Chico 0200 1—3 The folowing will tting order for the game to be played by the Mexicans permet the Sporting News at South Side ark: Topo Chico. Paulino Moreno 0011 4 Positions. Catcher Pitcher Arguijo First base 8 DRE ARE Second base Montez Sporting News. wkend 4iebas ‘arney Schwarz or Crinnion Short stop field ENN cs keene Center field De Leon Right field Jockeys Play Base Ball. There is a great deal of base ball talent among the jockeys and trainers at the Fair Grounds and several good nines have been formed. Sunday Johnnie Schorr and John- nie Murphy got their Meadowthorpe team together and beat the Typhoon II. team at Forest Park by a score of 36 to 32. Butch Covington captained the Meadowthorpes and played second base. Kennedy and Ox was the winning battery. Johnnie Schorr covered short and Johnnie Murphy played in the outfield. Burlington Victorious. The game between the Burlington Route ‘nine’ and Wabash ‘Locals’ was played in the rain at O’Fallon Park Sunday after- noon and resulted in victory for the Bur- lington Route by a score of 15 to 2. Burlington battery—McDonald and Coch- rane. abash—Fiynn, Dooley and Rielley. Umpire—Henry Lyter. Col. Bruce Improving. LEXINGTON, Ky., June 7.—Col. Sanders D, Bruce of New York, who was stricken with vocal and facial paralysis, is some- what improved. He is entirely conscious, but suffers much and cannot speak. hy- siclans say he may recover the use of his organs and is in no immediate danger. South Side Entries. First race, four anda half furlongs: Mary Bell 10|Palm Sunday de eeinanek 6a 112 eevee 112) Baldur .... 1 112\Little Abb ..........112 Seth Thomas...,....11 Second race, four and a half furlongs: BPtack 98iGreen Prewitt ......112 ..110;\ John R.(Buck -Wal- Post Maid .........110| ton : Tony Mack . .-112)All Ablagwe .......... 112 Silver Dick ........ 112;|Frank Hawkins....112 St. Nicholas .......112 Third race, five and one-half furlongs: ..115/The Surgeon 107 115) Li 115|Trilby’s Slipper ...100 110 Queen Faustus. ....100 Alex Labold 110; Fourth race, five furlongs: Fannie Wolf 98;Victor Karl, Pimeretto 112) Volero His Nibs Mont Campbell ...-112\Jim Donlen , Barney K 112 Fifth race, sx and one-half furlongs: Miss Kirkendall...110;\Dick Huffman......112 110) Peter Jackson ,.....112 112/Monk Overton ... ? Willis sess. Little Cliff Turf Gossip. With these weights the best ridden horse should win, and a battle royal between the improvised jockeys is expected to result. In the South and West in the past races with gentlemen riders have been very pop- ular, and just now there seeme to be a movement for a revival of th's style of racing. In Louisville, at the recent meeting, the gentlemen's race attracted the most fash- jionable crowd in attendance, and Mr. Aull expects great interest to be taken in the race Wednesday. J. Cc. Cahn recently gave ryt, a racer for which he had refused $70, to Joseph Howell as useless from viciousness. Flute is now as nes A acta as any horse at the Fair Grounds. Wednesday ‘s expected to be one of the most interesting days of the racing searon, The crowd, in addition to the usual patron of the sport and those brought out by al good cards, will doubtiess,be largely made up of society people attracted by the nov- ty of the gentlemen's race. ; eeman expects to to ride the horse in the race. It ae Massie’s first start since Nashville rn second for the season. e uld result from the Mera- mec. Stakes of $1,500 carded for Tuesday . oon. About %5 horses have been amed to start, and ten or twelve are ex- pected to accept the weights. t will ree-quarters of a mile, an ° °c. at th winner, the most in it. e track are | Ex" pounds : : ae top. weight 0 | Aw & general rule owners are slow about | entering thetr horese ora i means catch we rites minimum ot ft h 160 pounds, too much nee to carry. ay eS quarters of 4 ere horses in it* dre * fiaee young St. and the sixth by gentleman om ork, E. J. ,.now visiting friends in this clty. e will have the mount on 8 om Biniore. mgpert Ne an will rie yrue, Lee ickham will be on King m ee Wickham on San Bilaé. Gervais binson will be gorgeous and daz- ziing in purple, canary and blue on Cour- tesy, and Henry r will have the mount on nver. Among the Amateurs, The ck Spring’ Turne efeated the Sou t. Louis fers Sunday morning by a score of 13 to 12. The reorganized Consumers defeated the Meacham Arms Company yesterday in a finely contested game by a score of 10 to 9. The Trilby Juniors defeated the Chouteau Place team by a score o to 12, and would like to BA of all other clubs of 14 reate: Address Wm. Ward, 3923 St. Ferdi- The Marions defeated the South St. Louis Turners Sunday by a score of 8 to 2. The Marions would like to hear from all clubs in the nd 16-year-old class. Address wh eg a ‘i. 1722 South Third street. e Siege!) lllman Shoe Department Base Ball Club defeated a picked nine from the Joel Swope & Bro. and y* ie Rosnmer tee ee by a score of 23 to 22. e feature o @ game was e battin of the Siegel Hillman Club. a . The Scarritt Base Ball Club defeated the Frank Fish Co. Team by a score of 15 to 6. The feature of the game was the pitch- ing of Henry Huelsebush. They would like to arrange a game with any furniture com- pany in the oy Address Joe Breitenbach, care Scarritt Furniture Co., 612 North Sec- ond street. St. Malachy’s Jr. K. F. M. defeated the Stodard 18 to 3 on Saturday, and on Sunday they did it again to the Cheltenhams in five innings in the rain. The score was 16 to 4 when the game was called. The St. Malachy’s want to hear from all good ioame in the 12-year-old class. Address alachy Ryan, Captain, 2143 Adams street. The newly-organized Quick Meal Base Ball Club defeated the strong Green Tree Brewery team Sunday afternoon at O’Fal- lon Park by the score of 16 to 7. The Quick eal Stove Co. team are cutting uite a “swath” in the local amateur ranks, aving won the three games played by them this season. The Green Tree club bears the distinction of being one of the best uniformed clubs in the city. KICKING BICYCLISTS. Conover and Kriedler Claim the Tim- ers Were Wrong. The end of the Forest Park road race Sat- urday is not yet. The evening of the race E. A. Kriedler, who was announced as the winner of the third time prize, gave notice to Referee Clifford B, Allen that he intended to file a protest, claiming that the timers had made an error, and that he, and not J. C. Conover of Kansas City, had won sec- ond time prize. His formal] protest and claim were filed with Mr. Allen Monday morning. At noon Monday J. C. Conover, who os- tensibly won second time prize, walked into the office of Referee Allen and made formal protest against the first time prize being awarded to Arthur Stockhoff of St. Louis. Conover claims that he made the best time in the race and that there was an error made in the figures as compiled by the timers, A. C. Davis, H. B. Davis, Dr. W. B. Kingsbury, H. W. Belding and Charles Vanderwater. Both Kriedler and Conover claim they rode the race several seconds faster than the finding of the timers shows. Mr. Allen has secured all the papers and the tally sheets and time cards in the race and will carefully investigate the claims made by the two kicking cyclers, BICYCLE TAG NO. 13. Commissioner Saunders Explodes a Hoodoo With Disastrous Results. That glittering, curved plate of aluminum, bicycle tag No. 13, has a naughty little twinkle in its eye this morning. It brought woe to three hopeful racing men who éen- tered the Forest Park contest, and its pres- ent owner, Charles Knower of the Century Club, is looking about for somebody to take it off his hands, The plate belonged, two weeks ago to Election Commiss.oner Saunders, who got it by choice, when he went to the office of License Commissioner Kalbfel and paid his dollar for a tag. Mr. Saunders said he in- tended to have some rider in the Forest Park road race carry it on his wheel and watch the result. So he gave it to his brother-in-law, Cecil Stone, who was then training hard for the race. Stone wired the plate on his wheel, and a malign satisfac- tion beamed from the polished surface of a) (ee fe et It waited for three days. Then it steered Mr. Stone into a gurrey as he was sprintin around the turn in the park just west o the bridge near the Wabash tracks on Union avenue. Stone’s ankle was broken. He was carried home and watched the race Saturday with his leg in a cast, sitting in a buggy with crutches beside him, He gave ee P. No. 13 back to the Election Com- missioner, who looked at it dubiously, and then asked his cousin, Charles Barber, who was also entered in the race, if he would like the mascot. “Why, yes, I'll ride with it and break the hoodoo,’ said Barber. Mr. Saunders deliberated, reluctant to ex- periment further with members of his own family, put the mischevious plate in his ocket and went down town. He met Char- ey Knower, who is one of the cracks of the Century Club, and was expected by many to win the race. e told Knower about the late and that rider offered to buy it from m, “You may have it,” said Mr. Saunders. The hoodoo was exchanged and Knower had the baleful plate screwed on the head of his racer. Mr. Barber made loud pro- test when he heard that he was not to have the plate. “Oh, just imagine you have it, and it’ll have the same effect,” said the Election issioner. ; "Er tee imp of the bicycle _ had dou- ble duty to do Saturday. It attended to Knower’s case first; made him collide with a man on Nigger Hill first and then as- sault him violently, an act most uncharac- teristic, as this racing man is commonly well-behaved and gentle in manner. Hav- ing put Knower out of the race the genius of Bicycle Tax Paid No. 13 went after Rarber. Knower on his wheel dropped out of his class and overtook Barber. Within a quarter of a mile Barber ran up to a man in front, struck his rear wheel and both fell. Barber’s tire was punctured and he dropped out of the race. Knower rode over the finish tape with the very last man and a sunny gleam of delight came from the head of his wheel. A PREY TO DESTINY. BY ELIZABETH L. GOULD—(COPYRIGHTED). There was much excitement in Box- bridge when Uncle Simeon Potter an- nounced that a small house, long vacant, on the “ma’sh road,” had been hired by a fortune teller. “She made the bargain with square anklin in my hearin’,” said Mr. Potter, addressing a group gathered on the steps of the corner store, the r ized mart of news. “She came along up to the Square as we were consultin' together about the prospects for the fall ‘lection ght to her p'int; sa'd she'd ben told by a boy on the way that the little house on the ma’sh road belonged to Square Franklin, and the boy had de- scribed him so’s she knew she was speakin’ to the right person.” “Was she a short, dumpy woman, carryin’ a buigy bag?’ asked r. Amos Sprawle from fis seat on the lowest step. Unele S'meon nodded. “She told right out what she was,” he said, gravely, ‘‘and the Square informed her he was afraid she’d find business pretty dull here. But she’s hired the house for three months and she paid Square $ on the spot. I saw the money pass between ’em. I suppose more’n likely there will be fools enough tn Box- bridge to go have their fortunes toid and put money in her pocket, so she’ll lay by something.”’ Uncle e5imon looked, as if by purest chance, at little Mr. Sprawle, whose smail face was working with excitement. Mr. Sprawle accepted the challenge, knowing it to be one, instantly. “T shall g6 hear what she’s got to say, if you mean me,” he said with with unwonted spirit. ‘‘Land knows it ain’t often anybody comes to liven up this town a mite. I in- tended to take what little there is, Simeon Potter.” The arrival of the coach with the evening mail put an end to all discussion for the time being. Mr. Potter walked in the cen- ter of the straggling line that wended its way home from the store when the scanty mail had been apportioned to its few re- cipients; he felt the public pulse and shrewdly questioned here and there; but Mr. Sprawle, whose way led him off toward the marsh road, was not among the rank and file. ‘“There’s one thing I want to say,” re- marked Uncle Simeon, as he stood with his knotted hand on the gate latch, “and that is, whoever goes to that fortune-tellin’ creatur’, you will never hear of Simeon Pot- ter’ stoopin’ to any such foolishness—no, He shook his head impressively at the neighbors brought to a standstill by —_ the first halt on the honmieward way. I seemed for a moment as if the fortune tell- er’s tricks pitted against his wisdom, would go for naught. The house door opened and a pair of sharp eyes peered out into the night. “T'm comin’ right in, Mrs. Monroe; there wa'’nt anything but the paper,” said Uncle Simeon, neste and hobbled up the gravel walk, all his impressiveness departed in a moment, “If the Widder Monroe sets out for him to have his fortune told, I reckon he'll change his tune,” said one of the young men, as the crag ling line moved on some- what more hastily than before, and the laugh which followed the words reached Uncle Simeon’s ears as the Widow Monroe closed the door behind him and locked it for the night. As:.the days went by, it became evident that the fortune teller had been by no means short-sighted in hiring the old house on the marsh road. No family in Box- bridge failed to send at least one repre- sentative to test her powers. Important events of the past and future were dis- closed upon the payment of 50 cents. No formality marked the fortune teller’s re- ception of her customers, nor were there any foolish strictures as to special hours. The bold visitor at high noon and the timid one who chose the hour of dusk were alike welcome. Mr. Sprawle was the first to call upon her. When at the end of his visit he joined the knot of men and boys who ea- gerly awaited him a few rods down the road, he was greatly excited. “She told me all sorts and descriptions 0’ things,” he gasped with an awestruck face. “She referred to days past and gone, and to my state o’ mind and character, an’ what all. And she took a look into the futur’, too,” he added, suddenly straight- ening and gaining firmness of tone. a won't tell what she said, for it might sound like bragging; but if it comes true, you'll see that Amos Sprawle won't al- ways be situated as he is at coheggen 20 Vague as was the information obtained from Mr. Sprawle, it served to whet the edge of Boxbridge curiosity. At last of all the town, Uncle Simeon Potter alone had made no attempt to hear his past history or future fate. Three times had the Widow Monroe, re- turning in her best shawl and jetted bon- net from the house on the marsh road, seated herself ee Mr. Potter at the old ; claw-legged table in the foreroom, and la- bored with him on the subject of his indit- ference to the opportunities of life.’ “You act as if you didn’t take any inter- est in your own welfare,” said the widow at the close of the third session; “but I can tell you one thing; she’s warned me that something’s going to happen to you October third! She Knows all about you, and she said if you went there, most likely she could advise you how to guard against it. Oct. 3 is her last day in town; it’s three weeks from Wednesday. That’s all I’ve got to say, Mr. Potter.’’ The Widow Monroe gathered up her shaw] and swept out of the room past Uncle 8:m- eon, who muttered something unintelligible and shifted uneasily ‘n his chair, but kept his eyes fastened on hts new8paper til) she had disappeared. ‘The widder is a good housekeeper,’’ he muttered cautiously to himself, “but I don’t intend to let her man- age me; a man’s got to be independent! If that fortune teller told me ‘twas my fate to marry the widder, where'd I be? a‘n’t lived single sixty-nine years to be married out o’ hand like a yearlin’ boy! But if them two wimmin leagued in together, I dunno but they might do some o’ this hyp- ertizin’ I hear so much about, an’ marry me before I come to a realizin’ sense.”’ The subject wae not against referred to until the evening of the second day of Oc- tober. Then the widow broke the vy os choly silence which she had preserved dur- ing. the intervening time. morrow, Mr. Potter, Not that I know what is a you, but it will be something, and my nerves are so worked up tng tee over | from this house. | I'm my cousin Mary's over ° bury for the day, startin’ ut § and > tin’ home probably about 9 at night. sorry if it seeme unfri in me, but have to guard my own h and nerves, Mr. Potter.” “Why, certain, Mis* Monroe, fit; don’t consider me, marm,’ Potter, a spoonful o r way on its journey to hws oin’ to keep in the house ay, for my rheumaticks have 0 up @ mite lately. I guesé I shan't come to my end settin’ right here to home, Mis Monroe.” He strove of pass the matter igh , but his heart had sunk to his boots. e weeks which had brought him much drift from the fortune-teller’s sea of knowledge had great- ly weakened this citadel of scorn. Further- more his housekeeper had chary of her references w village, and Mr. Potter plainly saw that he was regarded by all as one recklessly brav- ing fate and Hable to suffer much tn conse- quence. He rejected advice and scoffed at fore- bodings still, but In spite of himself he felt uneasy. He was beyond all doubt in the lowest of spirits as_ he stood at the window on the morning of Oct.3. The Widow Mon- roe had stepped nimbly up into the Follet’s high buggy and driven away without a backward glance. The c. was overcast and promised rain, but the widow paid small heed to weather at ahy time, and a steady downpour would not have sufficed to keep ‘her at home that day. “Plague on that fortune teller an’ all her works,’’ gaid the deserted householder, un- consciously bev ger bene | a reference to the originator of all se - “the widder hasn't one off for a whole day like this since I unno when. She’s a domineerin’ woman, If she was nd an- neccupied women ceptin’ ther’n eat her cookin’ I'd la fteen years . “the widder is. — be good for another twenty years, wit press care, 0’ course. As if anything could happen to me, sittin right here in my own house! What in tine did the lyin’ creature mean, anyway? A drizzling rain set in at noontime; the [. Potter foreroom was a scene of wild disor- der. Old newspapers had been taken down from the files on the shelves and scat- tered here and there as Uncle Simeon found one after another etale and profitless. The chairs had been shoved about and the two footstools were in positions irrecon- Silable with any theory save that of vig- orous kicking. As night drew on Mr. Pot- ter’s mood grew darker etill; he ehuffied about from room to room, droning “China.” At last a little before 6 o'clock, he betook himself to the kitchen pantry. She ain’t set out any preserve for me,” he said in an injured tone. “Well, I guess I can go up to the attic and get me some. Whose grapes made that preserve? I ain't goin’ to be set down to bread an’ water while she’s off pleasurin’.”’ He stamped out of the kitchen and up the two fiights of stairs to the garret. He flung open the door of ths room in which the widow kept her abundant stock of pre- serves, and hastily seized a tumbler of the inestimable grape. Then with a feeling of mingled _ and satisfaction he closed the door softly and started down stairs. Exactly how it happened Uncle Simeon Potter never knew, but by some incautious step came his undoing. é slipped and fell, preserve jar and all, bumping and scraping to the bottom of the flight, and there he lay helpless and groaning. The widow Monroe returned somewhat earlier than she had expected, and opened ths front door to be confronted with abso- lute darknes. She stood in the middle of the entry mat and raised her voice in sepul- chral query. ‘‘Mr. Potter,” she called, “‘are you dead, or have you thought best to sit without a single lamp lighted till this hour 0’ night? It is now close on to 8 o’clock.”’ ‘I’ve had a kind of a fall, Mis’ Monroe,” feebly called the Boxbridge cynic and phil- osopher from the floor above. It is hardly to be conceived that the widow was not alarmed and sorry; yet her features bore a look akin to triumph as she surveyed Uncle Simeon’s prostrate and dejected form. He had managed to drag himself, with many groans, to his bed some time before; and there he lay, lavishly orna- mented and perfumed with grape preserve, still groaning. The Widow Monroe set her lamp on the bureau and went to work. She soon dis- covered that her patient had sprained one of his rheumatic ankles, besides acquiring many a bruise. She promptly summoned the doctor, and smiled grimly when he said: “‘What you need is somebody to look after you, Mr. Potter. I shouldn’t encour- age Mrs. Monroe to go off on junketings if I were in your place.”’ She had no intention of going off again. She married Mr. Potter in December and took excellent care of him. No details of Uncle Simeon’s part in the courtship were ever known; his spirit was never again so resolute and bold as before his accident, though he seemed not wholly unhappy in his new estate. Strange to say he was oftenest seen with Amos Sprawle when his long housing ended, and their talk not in- frequently turned on the fortune teller. “Amos,” eald Mr. Potter on one occasion, speaking as one inured to calamity in eve form and with little left to hope or dread, “what that woman knew, fur be it from me to say. The widder—I would say M.s’ Pot- ter—put great faith in her an’ she appears to have had some reason. But I would like to know one thing, do you s’pose that wo- man foresaw that I’d marry M's’ Monroe that was within two months 0’ fallin’ down them stairs?’’ Mr. Sprawle had been three times wed. He looked away from his questioner, down the snowy road. “I shouldn’t be a mite surprised,”” he said slowly, “if she'd told the widder the very day you’d be married, not a mite.”—White Rabbit Publishing Co. TRIAL POSTPONED. Correspondent Shriver’s Case Laid Over for a Week. WASHINGTON, June 7.—The trial of John 8. Shriver, the correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, indicted for contempt in connection with the Senate su- gar investigation, did not begin to-day, District Attorney Davis this morning as soon as court opened asking and obtaining a postponement until Tuesday week, on ac- count of the absence of two important wit- nesses. Baron Dickson Dead. STOCKHOLM, June 7.—Baron Dickson, the Arctic explorer,.died yesterday at Hfo, weden. ; THE EVENING PAPER. It Is the One Which Goes Into the Homes and the Women Are the Buyers. Mr, OC. ¥. Jones, advertising manager for Siegel, Cooper & Co. of New York, who have made a phenomenal success since their opening a few months ago, largely due to Mr. Jones’ work, fur- ‘mishes the following tribute to the evening paper when asked: “Do you use morning or evening papers?” “Evening and Sunday papers only. I never touch the morning papers, as my theory is they are taken by the men to the offices, while the evening papers go into the homes. The women are the buyers, you know.” DUNKARDS’ CONFERENCE. Nearly 4,000 Assembled in the Mary- land Convention. FREDERICK, Md., June 7.~The annual conference of the American Baptist Church of the United States, otherwise Known as the Dunkards, which began here this morn- ing, has brought together no less thah 4,000 men, women and children f@om points out- side of Maryland, and promises to most interesting meeting in the history of the organization. -Twenty thousand stran- gers were in the city yesterday and services were held in all the churches. The missionary and tract board has made up its report, which will be submitted to } the general conference to-morrow, The to- al D> natn were $17,400; the disbursements Through the endowment fund the assets of the committee were increased from $175,- 886 to $224,017. The earning power of the increased assets will much more than can- cel the expense. BURIAL PERMITS. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. LEONARD NEIL, 8 months, 1231 Linden; bronchitis. ALEX MARKS, @, 8317 Lucas; tubercular bronchitis. JOHN F. HARTNETT, 8, 83% Oregon; hemorrhage. HEDLEY WATERFIELD, 2%, Mullanphy Hospital; titanus. HANNAH NICKERSON, B®, 144% North Eleventh; gastritis. HARVEY C. DILLON, 4 months, 18 Hereford; bronchitis. LOUIS H. HUDSON, 2, 566 South Sixth; hemorrhage of lungs. PAULINE DOROTHY YOUNG, 1 month, $321 Franklin; enteritis. WALTER J. ACKERMAN, 1, 201 North Ninth; broncho-pneumonia. MARY V. CULLITON, 3 months, North Sixth; cholera infantum. Knickerbocker Special, 18 hour train, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, Big Four. Si Page : transfer, Boston at 10:45 a, m. Folding Bed... Woven wire bottom, ... antique finish, $3.65 Brass Trimite enamel.----- 9200 Willow Rockers,iarge seyeee 6 5 extra high back, only . master ts $1.06 ) Ouve. Pay as Yeu Can. Walker's PI > Our line inctudes the celebrated v : ? FVERY ONE OF + . 7 4 year takes an ab- 4 sorbing interest in ineappleice. This 4 > j j 7 Dr. Lyon’s | PERFECT Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUX*RY. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. QUICK MEAL GAS STOVES GEN STOVE CO HOT KENTUCKY A Relative of W. C. P. Breckenridge Shoots a Horse Trainer. ] LEXINGTON, Ky., ridge Payne, descendant leg of Kentu ceiver ana | CLEVELAN LEADER OF THE WORLD! ALSO THE HALLADAY, IMPERIAL, FANNING, AND OUR MATCHLESS MEDIUM CRADES AT LOW PRICES. We are offering better values than can be obtained elsewhere. CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS. E.C. MEACHAM ARMS CO, : 306 and 308 North Fourth St. Po Largest Spo rting Goods House in the World. ic fe ice Mi en Mic al, Ox i i Si Mi, One De Call and see NEW SERVIC™ Via BIG FOUR ROUTE In addition to the world-wide Famous Knicker- bocker Special to New York and Boston, com- mencing June 7, through. sleeper to New York City daily at 8:25 p. m., Depot 7 o’clock second morning without ferry Regular sleeper from St. Louis reaches arriving Grana Central Ticket Office, Corner Broadway and Chestnut St. RACES—St. Louis Fair Association —RACES FAIR GCROUNDS. A HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE CARD OF SIX WELL-FILLED RACES. RACING BEGINS 2:30 O'CLOCK. 50c—ADMISSION, Including Grand Stand—50c ————E—— ————————————— EEE AUCTIONS. BY CATALOC An Important and Extensive Private Collection Oil Paintings OUR WEST END GALLERIES, 3218 Olive St. In this collection are some of the GREATEST WORKS by the FAMOUS FRENCH MASTERS, vm te Dupre, Renner, Royeet, Jacquet Grolieron, Etc. Sale Commences This (Monday) Evening AT AUCTION, abet sat i SE ar cs TERMS CASH, R. U. Leonori, Jr, & Co., Auctioneers. AMUSEMENTS. THE... | THEATER ae |e Cer. Grand Av. and Hebert. Gat Shooting the Chutes EL Cc et ogi FroUR THE GREAT TROYs, MLLE. AMER, And Eight Other Acts. UHRIC’S CAVE... helms SM ee CAVALLERIA RUS" LUCIA Di LAMMERMOOR, NEW SCENERY! Gereral Admissioa Comme Best eee ee ee eee ee ee ee eee et re ee KOERNER’S PARK THEATER, The Handsomest in the United Ststes. ro.miaHT: | CLOVER|“sx.2 Py age raya ee i Py oe oe -
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' . y Ye) > » Tacwnne Pitt ire ee : - " . feta OF “EOE gay Sy pe ROH Ree Le gE a ey Ree eR Tw eH eS ee Te ee bai ii i eit BE Og er oo . ae Hlonday— St r whe is a a EMPLOYMENT GROUPING. Is not always crowned with suc- cess, especially if one is not competent in his particular profession or business. To competent and successful! be, Come get a good job through WANTS P.-D. Avy a - } eel SITUATIONS WANTED—MALE. 20 words or less, 6c. SITUATIONS WANTED—FEMALE. 20 words or less, 5c. «-_— BAKER—Wanied, a situation by a baker (single) | COOK—Situation wanted by a first-class cook. Ap- country or ony reason- 027 N. 14th at BAKER—Sitnation wanted by a first-class baker on bread and cakes; city or country; can furnis Tefs. Ad. W. Cc. _Mauzy, Marshall, Mo. BAKER—Situation wanted by first-class German baker on bread, cakes, pastry, also cake orna- menting; city or country; moderate wages. Weber, 817 Clark av. BARBER—Young oan, 21, single, wishes stcady place; good habits; K. fellow from K. C., Mo. Call at 3: 30 P. m. at 5 N. 6th st. as bread and cake baker; able wages: good ref. BART ENDE R—Wants position at moderate > i & years’ experience as manager of saloon. Ad. 1022 Chouteau ay. CLERK—Wanted, | ‘situation a as 8 night clerk in a rooming hotel by middle aged man of good _ Character. Add. L 811, Post-Dispatch. CLERK Yous. man, unemployed because of the discontinuance of a musical agency, desircs a sition as clerk or bookkeeper. Ad. D 812, Fost- _Dispaten. % Oe COL LE‘ “"TOR--Wanted, position as collector on commission; reference and bond. Ad. James, 2708 Liicas av. Hou SEMAN— Wanted, with fine references; single. Ad. N Dispatch. Mpbstagerete MAN-—Wanted. work for’ Mondays only. Ad. G 834, Post - t-Dispaten. MAN— —Wanted, steady, middle-aged man. patch. MAN- of good habits; best of refs. _ Dispatch. MIAN Ww anted, sit. in a private place to attend horses and do housework; good references. Ad. N 712, Post-Dispatch. MAN AND WIFE-—Situation wanted by a colored man and wife; no bad habits; any kind of work, good fireman. 1601 Clark ay. MAN—Wanted, situation — in office or Srisiag ng de- livery wagon by married man; sober and reliable; good education. Ad. G 795, Post- Dispatch. MAN—Rellable, around store, sniali wages. ay. sit. as houseman, German, i 718, Post- work of some kind in forenoon by . B 807, Post-Dis- Ww anted, work of ‘any kind by young man Ad. § 812, Post- aged man desires steady "place business place, office; good refs.; Add. Pillins, 4506 San Francisco MAN— Wanted, situation; experienced with all out- side duties about gentleman’s place; latest refs.; answerers must bave horses. Ad. T 813, Post- Dispatch. PORTER—Wanted, Ww. Beott, 202 4 PORTER— Situation wanted by young man 4s por- ter or driver of delivery wagon. Ad. W Sil, Post-Dispatch. . situation as porter. Ad. Geo. arr. PORTER-Situation wanted by middle-aged man as porter ot janitor, or to work in grocery; can furnish the vest of veferences. B., 1203 Missis- _ Sippi ay. PORTER Wanted, position as porter, janitor or driver for light wagon: handy with tools and paints; sober, industrious and good references. _Ad. T 811, Post- “Dispatch. WATCHMAN- Wanted, position as nlght or day watchman or ¢lerk in grocery, or bartender; 5 _yeare” experience. Add. K 801, Post- ‘Dispatch. YOUNG MAN—Wanted, situation by young man; willing to do most any kind of work. Ad. E Stark, 4849 St. Louis ay. YOUNG MAN—From country, wants position with private family to care for horse, cow, lawn; can milk: Ad. R 798, Post- Dispatch. YOUNG MAN—Young gentleman, speaking English and German fluentiy, wishes work at anything; not particular about wages. Ad. D 800, Post- Dispatch. YOUNG MAN-—Wanted, situation by sober young man to take care of horses and cows; will work for his board for awhile. Apply 1308 [Tine st. _ Tuesday at 4 D. m. $10. (() UP —Suits and overcoats to order. Mes- =p Tailoring Co., 8th and Olive. $2.50 ° am Mesritz Olive. —Pants to order. Tailoring "Gon. 219 N. Sth. cor, 2d floor. ply Monday, 4368A Gibson av. COOK—Good cook would like to get a place; ean give good refs; no washing or ironing; yuung woman. 604 N. 15th st. COoOOoK—Wanted, sit. first-class cook; willing to assis good ref. Call at 1220 N. 16th st COOK—An experienced colored cook, with refer- ences, wishes a place to cook and wash in private family. Ad. H 812, Post- Dispatch: © DRESSMAKER—Wanted, dressmakin to take home, or will go out. 1115 DRESSMAKER—A first-class dressmaker wants sewing: will go out or take home. 2604% Glas- _ gow av. by an elot with woman; t with washing; and sewing ontrose ay. DRESSMAKER— First-class dressmaker desires a few more go eng in families; references in cutting and fitting. Ad. E 812, Post-Dispatch. GIRL—A young woman wants house-cleaning, or washing or egg omrngae f will work reasonable. Ad. Miss Birdie Jones 426 N. 7th st., rear. GIRL—Situation wanted by meat colored girl; housework, office work or sewing by day or wreck Seener tailoring. Call or add. 929 . 16t HOUSEGIRL—Situation wanted by a gees girl in a small family. Call at 4611 Emily st HOUSEGIRL—Wanted, sit. by a girl ae general housework. 2904 Lemp ary., second floo HOUSEGIRL-Situation wanted by a woman to do housework or cooking; home more than wages. Please call 815 N. 2ist st. HOU SEKEEPER—Wanted, sit. by a colored girl as housekeeper in a small family. 3014 Fairfax av. HOUSEKEEPER—Young widow wishes a position as housekeeper or day work. Apply or address Mrs. A. Johnson, 4307 Obear av. -~-—_- —_— HOUSEKEEPER—Situation by a steady young lady, industrious and neat, as housekeeper in sinall family; no washing. 1719 Olive st. LAUNDRESS—Wanted, washing to take home. Mrs. Terry, 40383 Fairfax ay. ‘ _UD- “stairs. LAU NDRESS—W ‘anted, to do laundry or house- work by the day; references. 2651B Olive st. LAUNDRESS—Wanted, washing and ironing or rough washing to take home. 8914 Fairfax av. — | LAUNDRESS—Wanted, home by white woman. 2218 Biddle st., family washing to take 2d flvor. LAUNDRESS—A good colored laundress wishes to o out three days in week; good ref. 1919 St. Sharles st. LAUNDRESS—A colored woman wants washing to do at home or to wash out by the day. 3707 Vista ay.; can give ref. LAU NDRESS—A first-class white laundress wants washing and ironing to take home. Mrs. Grcen, 1120 8S. Compton ay. LAUNDRESS— German woman wants small wash- ing to take home or will g° out by the day. Please call | or address 1510 13th st. NU RSE—Would like position as wet-nurse; call at Female Hospital. Carrie Priest. NURSE _Competent nurse wants care of infant or children. Call Monday, 923 N. + Teresa av. NU RSEL to nurse children and do housework. Ad. 15th st. Situation wanted by experienced woman 024 N. NURSEGIRI- Situation wanted by colored girl to nurse or housework. — (2248 Lucas ay. _— --- SA LESLA DY—W ented, enced salesiady. Ad. 4" “position by an experi- W., 721 King’s highway. SEAMSTRESS— Plain sewing neatly donc; reason- able. 4126 Fairfax ay. SEAMSTRESS—Wishes work by the day or week; $1 per day; special attention to children’s clothes. Ad. D., 1212 Pendleton | ay. TEACHER—A thorough ‘aclentific, teacher of plano, theory, harmony, ear-training, etc.. wishes posi- tion im a smali school; wide experience: ‘testimonials; salary small. Ad¢ R Dispatch. WOMAN—Wants situation for housework. 8739 Olive st. highest 812, Post- Call at HELP WANTED—MALE. *4 4 words ia oF leas, 10c, ARM WAITER WANTED—Call after 6 p. m. 1115 ‘ af st BARBERS WANTED—Men to trade; only 8 weeks required; with each atudent;: _ free. learn the barber tools and jobs given iliustrated catalogues mailed Moler’s Barber College, $21 N., 11th st. BOYS A AND GIRLS —Our 10¢ package sells so fast ree can earn a high-grade wheel in one month. he Cere Coco Co., room 44, De Menil Building, 7th and Pine sts. ee eee onecte e CUTTERS WANTED—First- class cutters for men’s work. Deanoyers Shoe Co., 3d floor ELEV ATOR BOY WANTED—Grand Laundry, & 8040 Chestnut st. ower FREE treatment of all private, blood and rectal a lseases. ‘General Dispensary, 1408 Franklin av. ~_—) oe re - —-- HORSESHOER WANTED—Only sober and exper!- enced man wanted. Apply to 4218 Sarpy av., after Pp. m™. MAN ating run a . peddier'’s 1 wagon. 1820. MEN AND TEAMS WANTED—At Westmorel _». and Lake av. John Whealen. ome Ox. BLOOD TAN—Looks and feel ‘like a $5 shoe; choice of 18 we shapes, $2.95. _ man, 520 Pine st. , rn er SALESMEN WANTED—$100 to $125 per month and exp.; staple line; position erm.; pleasant one desirable. The W bitney Co., 167, “hicage. G@ALESMAN " WANTED—For ‘outside work; must be energetic; salary and commission paid; perma- nency guaranteed to right party. Apply at &: ee sm. uesday at 21038 3S. Jefferson ay. SKINNERS WANTED—And ‘wheeler holders, o } , on Forest Park boulevard and Grand av. +» and men and teams on Page, bet. Whittier and Pendle- ton, lay morning. John A. Lyne bh. BTEAM FITTERS WANTED Fifteen —_ ste - ters and ae Apply between 10 and i2 a. ~4 “Caieago, Ti 12 Chamber of Commerce Buildiug, TEA MS WANTED- day morring. contractor. St teame. with big beda, “Tues 1616 Frank!in av., W. sy nan, Tues CPHOLSTERER Daten. er. 1118 2 aes upbolster- mp thing ts KA—Who can be Palct hte their rater, prize WOODTURNER WANTED_A 2046 Scott av. ai pply to Crotty & Son, 82 POUNDS best Rastere granulated guaranteed); is the che (tail weight apest sugar every knows: also 5 ands he Prec” oe p= ba $1; wate one rept pure za Tea we a bea Teplita vase free. The Geor Gth and Market sta. ” ” STOVE REPAIRS. Tp Nee f Sag asiae Tee Ce, WOMAN—Wanted, situation by widow with boy 5 years old for general housework. 1219 §&. Broadway. WOMAN—Wants work; washing and froning to take home; also by the day; house-cleaning. 1217 8. Broadway. avOMAN— Wanted, situation to do general house- work in small famil ay reliable person. Oal! at 11098 Wash st., 24 you! NG LADY—Wants situation to learn office work; can write good hand. Ad. © 812, Post- _ Dispatch. STOVE REPAIRS. Gag, soline and cook’ stove repairs; ° stoves fred to Durn gas. J. Forubaw, 111 ee ne HELP WANTED—FEMALE. 14 words or leas, 10c. BUTTONHOLE OPERATOR bah” A ~. ep geen _ Apply Lx B. Joslin Shoe Co., 1183 Collins st CARAMEL WRAPPERS Ww ANTED—25 seein tate: caramel Wrappers ab once. 20 8. 8d « soline . 12th. “Olive 8 WANTED—Good cook ; COOK WANTED—Good German cook; Oatholic preferred. - Call at 1012 Biddle, cigar store. COOK WANTED—A young widow woman to assist in in cooking at restaurant. 803 S. Broadway. COOK. Wa! ANTED—A_ German girl for cooking and _ housework; ref. required. Call 3631 Finney av. COOK WANTED—Good girl to cook and do down- stairs work; references woe . 4856 West Belle. GET De MORTEN’S written ¢ delineation of your child's talents and propensities. 3961 Finney av. GIRLS WANTED—Machine outs and basters on shop | coats. 1442 8. 15th s colored woman. 825 Morgan st GIRL WANTED—Strong white girl ¢ b the month at Fraternal Bldg., fn ith and Franklin A ee ete HOUSEGIRL WANTED—G work. 6147 Mills ay for general house. HOUSEGIRL WANTED—G work. 38022 Delmar ay. irl for general house- GIRLS. [NANTED—Basters and o ae mperatets on vests. LL sn HOUSEGIRI, WANTED—G _ work. 1216 N. Market — - oan house- HOUSEGIRL WANTED—Strong housework. Apply 2085 Lacas uv’ “* Seneral aovenerae so NTED—Girl _ wees for general 1224 8. 8th st., lower floor. noute- HOUSEGIRL WANTED—A girl ouse- work; small family. 4204 fees ae Mia cep >
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yee ba Ge x = et Pe ee Fare Z, = Navigation of 2% oe t ones un val | falting off off ak vo 1a “AN-AUCTION SALI RIN THE AUCTION * 2&2 & -& PLL PS DOODOCO SS x come out, not have atory enough to resist strengt THE GRAND-JURY HAS WORK 10 DO, THE PUBLIC OFFICES WILL BE INVESTIGATED. ADOLPH €. ERKER FINED. He Thought Court Convened at 11 O’Clock and the Brror Cost Him Fifty Dollars. The June Grand-jury was impaneled Mon- day morning and will continue in the sefv- ice of the city until October, Incidental to the tmpaneling it was de veloped that Judge Zachrits not only had a bad cold from Filley’s “We've Got "Em” party, but was also in a Draconian humor, Adoiph E. Erker of the optical firm of A. E. Erker & Co., had been summoned to act as a juror. When the panel of thirty was called Mn Erker was absent. Judge Zachritz sent a deputy sheriff out with an attachment for Mr. Erker. After twelve of the twenty-nine names had been selected Deputy Sheriff Becker brought Mr, Erker in. The Judge called for a stenagrapher, and after Mr. Erker had been sworn the Court put a few questions to the delinquent Grand-juror. moe trker admitted nese had been served with a summons, but had an: sion that he was wanted at ll oeiock in- stead of 1. “I dd not know,” said Jud Zachrits, “but you thought the Grand-jury could get along just as well without you. f you were not a wealthy man, I would sentence you to ten days in jail, but as your money is valuable to the State than your time, I wi fine you 3%. Mr. t the prisoner — the At 11: a Jud oh gee from the She of on 'm that unless the noon, within five minutes, he would be to ed | 1. Mr. Erker produced a check book and signed a check for $0 payable to the Clerk of the Criminal Court But what makes Mr. Erker angry ts that he will also have to serve four months on the jury. Martin Medart of the Medart Pulley complained to he Judge that he was a I't- tle deaf. So when Mr. Erker came in Judge decided” to excuse Mr. Medart place Mr. Erker in his seat on the jury. “This is rubbing it In," Mr. er said, as a Deputy Sheriff took him to the “Grand: jury room. The Grand-jurors who have four months’ work ahead of them are: James E. Cowan, John H. vartin B. Joa, Mott, aa ee na. ee — neg e arsha tS made at the addition are now completed Wer nry J. haste oye. Sie tion. ts being offered as medium priced property in order to bring about a speedy winding up of the affairs and the terms are most vantageous to parties of limited capital. The telford streets, granitoid walks, curbed gutters, are all of a superior char- acter. Mr. Gray says that he wil! have his usual amusement features, including the | famous creole quartette and Alabama jubi- lee singers. There will be a large tent erected as a | Julius J. Schotten, T Chouteau place is of a high character, but | 440lph Rosenthal. James E. Cowan, the insurance appointed foreman by the Court him instructions to appoint a Among the jurors on re some of ihe rgest taxpayers, all are in com- mercial pursuits and each is « representa- tive citizen. Judge Zachritz's qherge oo. @ to the jury, 'which was approved by t generat | Circuit Judges in session | covers six pages of typewritten paper gave task an arduous 8 rovision against rain and reserved seats ™&king the Grand-jury’s he ladies. all A dispute arose at the table and the boy » ee. trolley trains will leave R First the jury ie ec of Faia to le made for the old man with a butcher-!/| and Wainut et 2p. m. sharp Thossdes = Se eae ie of siney. are ~ re to exam knife. Neitert defended himself with a soup | Friday and Saturday, for which tickets wilh’ ine all of the a..e4 ~x orotate bone. be ‘esued at the office of the Nicholis-Ritter the public’s money. Co., who control the property. Refresh- | })/."). done once & co a year ys but it has Collins was fined $10 in the Dayton Street} vents will be served, {igs Zacntica wok asia Police Court Monday. TUXEDO PARK ADDITION. . of homicide as rous of RIVER ‘SULLETIN. ST. LOUIS, J 7. - Datiger. Gauge. a 3 Lots There to Be Sold to Highest Bid inl oe 1 ; ders Next Friday and Saturday. Rutledge & Kilpatrick announce an auc- tion sale at Tuxedo Park next Friday and Saturday. One hundred and twelve first selected lots, each 30x150 feet, will be offer- ed and positively ld to the highest bid- cer. The sale wilt begin at 2 p. m on each day, and there will be music and other entertainments. Tuxedo Park is one of the most beautiful residence sections in the suburbs, being just outside the city limite and thirty-five minutes’ ride . = downtown business The section tion | facilities now include the Migsour' trains and a twenty- lings, $2.75@3.25; Mediterranean (sweet), $3@3.50.| | SORQHUM Dnt, CURR grape fruit, §6 per box. St. Loos, 2:80 MARKETS. LEMONS—Market steady; receipts, —~; ship- P. m.—July wheat, 9c; pute, | ments, 121 boxes; $1.50@2 per pee for poor; §2. “fet wore nt r paid for choice to §3.50 for fancy. @3 . afte nellers ; PEAC per 1-3-bu box; 20@40c for There was no life hag he trading %e nominal; Missisaiyp! 1 peck boxes. Receipts, 23 cars; shipments, 9 cars. On orders: Medium bunches, T5c@$1; choice large, Diorning. as there were no Was closed. The market was $1. tx, 1.50, pte MS—Very er ot 50@70c per case; wild goose, Local rec®ipts were light Northwest were upusnally light. 1.25 ver 6- Crop newR was conflicting, but on Silver Quotations. with a bone and a knife Sunday night, NEW YORK. June 7.--Silver certificates, COO%®@ 60%c. Bar silver, 60c. Mexican dollars, 47\e. Wall Street. June 7.—Soeme irregularity was initinl dealings on the Stock Fx- but In the main the tendency was level. The pressure against the Quotable at 10@20¢ per gal. pt to quality. PRAS--Green jobbing at 70c per bu. Sentch. SNe: anit. $1.05 PEANUTS- In fair request. Red, 1144@1\c gr ib: white, 22ic. HEMP—Missourl, undressed, ST0@S80 per ton. BAGGING—On ordera (large lots less): 1%-!d. B%c Bs: Ih: 2-Ib, BYc: 2%- wb. 6'4e. Tron ties, Gc. HONEY—Extracted. in. cans, 6@O%e: in bbls, | noted in th 4@4%c por Ih: choice white comb, 11@12%c; am- cearenn O-Gay, ca ber. 04P10c; dark, 7@8ec etapa a lower Rock Island yielded a F NEA ‘PLES—-Ploridas, $343.25 por half crate. EMPTY RARRELS—Coal of}. gasoline A tur- | strangers was quite severe. oc ; pentine, ec: vineear, KOc; lark off. 49c: Tard ail, | point and Burlington %. The coucesssons otherwise on the whole the 40c; gugat, 32%c: | Were moderate and such improvements as occurred pews was rather more bullish than it has been COCOANUTS—Selling at $25 per 1,000 tel STRAW BERRIE S-—-Home-zrown berries coming in : linseed ofl, 65¢; ee ie Bhie: aanerkrant. were unimportant, aside from Chicago Gas, w hie runnt a tea. 40. rallied %, following a break of \&. The variations iungatian cop dant peat, and this By NEW YORK, noted in the in the pit thi cables, and Chicago firm and bi gher. aud receipts in the Stations. | Pittsburg | Davis Island Dam Parkersburg Cinecingmatl ..ccccceeeeees Louisville eeeeeteeeeeeeee Nashville eee eeee eee ener Chattansoga Florence Fvansville | Johnsonville st. Paul Dubuque img “tr in good condition, but demand oply ; : ; te ~ soni selling at S5¢ per 3-gal ttay for Urescents, Ke: ; —" 0RtG0e for b+ agg et mane v arfield and Downings, dishes nace dyer . et ocks we mixed, some wing . for rach ) © some Kealizations the chief impetus to the early | ‘ ASPRERRIRS —$1. ho <t S-gal case selling rst aul) dg Rene abe ease wiih which these 008 bee nia Ee nike Seabee 7 = liberal offe rings wi re absorbed induced a change | HUCKLEBER!| " ES 75 ~ °. ea ot ve of front on the part of the traders, and valavs CALIVORNIA Reins ins~Won at socasi 10 partially recovered, Southern preferred acored Ib per 10- iN decline of 1% per cent on the oe. a 3 legal coer id be instituted to se Ue eo nvide tle consolidation of the-ayetem under a State Beglected. T “Fecelpts offered at xT Ay ge law forbiding acyuisition by a company of a com- per sng g ee peting line. Kome shares resisted the inital re- wv weir: Bn isd 820 té s30 4 ° } acton and regts 1 marked gains. Rubber pre- T ELON lling slowly at té $: ferred cot ‘o"ana Palmen and Spirits peng 1 PM DRIED FRUITS—Slow. We quote: Evaporated rings, point each. Trading was im large volume, with | Hannibal fancy (white and 4 Sige; choice, 8e; fair See beta cad einen | ~~" ec; cores ngs, ic; ¢ " heavy biocks of many shates changing hands OM | Peoria ....sscerseerssres narow variations. The market rule ee ~ | Sioux ¢ ried quarters. choice, Uright and lor te fatr. 1 for each missing hoop BROOM CORN- ~iaaee: unchanged. Quote aa fol- lows’ New stock at 25 = ton for common to ROARK te $50 for ancy. OOK Re Chates i eached, $.1012 per ton: partly se ae. juok, $9: slaugbter- house MET AL—Tron—Wronght. cast steel and matien le. 10¢. Braee—Light, lead, $2.50: sine, WHITE, feaNs— Steady. Country sell at 408 65e per bu; weevlly less. Eastern hand-picked, tum, fobhing at Se; pea beans at @5@T0c; oe beans. CQOPR ReTUP PS ghe ed flour elm, —, insect received o be a a Minoe lis and Dulut 2uv CY) eumparel w ith @ 5 ear ten were only 8,250 to-day with a A ago. Ofer ae compared estimate is below that of t damage FIGHTING OVER RAGS. Ely-Walker Debris an Issue Court. Joseph Mayer and Thomas Kelly are ing for the possession of a portion of the debris of the Ely-Walker Gre. were year bu, as Of Nwshye With 23 cars | Ric per 100 Ie: beav ‘ burnt. et See Po se 50, Copper. $8; t Be, “ic bigher than 4; heavy, 2h: n sold at G8%c, up to = y SS “Det then back to Ske. o ~ Dut there Was very ttle 1 ra ee ned at 6TuKjc bid and then had eae bid, ge! Bieher than then Saturdays ¢ losing bid, but traces call. q September wrieat opened at - bid, the Asked at ~g close Saturday, but was and és gt ti Offered ates, Se Cabasted | elctedibs ste mtr i ) aj O+ SQGt Seer woe: P cenebetakevcss Om b seer eeteeee feverish at for the Grangers, but ¢ maha Kansas City Boonville the rall general list held fairy steady at the expiration of the first hour, with purebases of Sugar stimalated | by an advance of 1 1-16¢ im some grades of the | | product. No quetations were received from Lon- | Bagnell . don, owing to the general observance of the Whit- ri on suntide holiday. as quite erratic and | St Loulp .......cceeeses The s peculation W changes ne pronounced in a number of | Chester ...6,++++- shares after 11 o'clock, The tndnestrials displayed | ne ++. rene ral strenet h. Sugar rising to lilt U\% and Lead, nei er al F le < ‘tric and Tobacc« o enc h gaining a mnt. Chica ro Gas was exer ptiona: lily heavy and vielded Little Rock ahout point from the top level. The grangets pe ksburg Were pre -ssed for sale on ramors of damage to | Shreveport crops in the Noerthwest. The heaviness in this |New Orleanc o ovement ?. the other ! | seer oh Ot. ‘Louis will remain nearly sta- ne aud will provably commence to Call $843 50 ee one *eeeeevr er eee eee co alt bhie Ba . his ogy im_(6- foot). De. 15; pork a. Sill Flour hnts, $4 0 $14. cosine hes; brown nixed, onyubttae: ack, K, 2c; XXX. BELO mA WHOA we wrOEe. POTATOR eee bh 1 entta " £2: sant alf f bbe, a8 60: 8, , bu; $22: shipments, \ py © 800. be. nee a a lard tes, BA kegs. ages x, er sy 30@4 rural, wea 1 1%; oy ee at foes, 24@2%e; Hebron and iPeeriess, | ; ae brown mi ‘ anie Rone machine- ea TOES— ek at $1.75 dbl. XXX ws S sks end. bu: ; selling at Herwig eveeeee ban every benefit of both city At the price of a %-foot lot in the c'ty,one may secure 100 feet where taxes are at a minknum, where there are churches, graded schools and every desira- ble inducement — by the city itself, | Only $10 earnest y will be required at of pu $10 per Meath on *eeeeeeee COFFEE. as” “eis by Haniey & Kinsella Coffee and Spice TAUB, J 7. int can 2d «all. 84 Cail, July See eT CROC eee eee eee ts ehbipments, 1 pet crate; heme- Smead SERoeS ESA y, Bhacr: | coud B SS. - +e wuomanee: ; Day group served to retard % & St. L. sagged 1 Tuilroad shares and ©., Cc. t sidetion. The imternation- | tionar at the low tered Oregon soma - : haad yer per ceat on renewed liqut ale received some sere
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aoe Pa ny ee ETT CN ee ai a a la Slr POPS PON Ir Es erie er Pere se peer ty ROBBED ALL WHO CAME THEIR WAY. DRUNKEN NEGRESS AND HER FRIENDS HAD FUN. TACKLED THE WRONG MAN. Be Punched the Virago’s Tace and She Lay in the Street Crying “Watch.” A drunken negress and two male com- panions caused no end of excitement early Gunday morning in the vicinity of Fif- teenth street and Washington avenue. Two hold-ups and two desperate fights are in the record of three hours. With the exception of the last fight ope- rations were confined to the south side of Washington avenue. Shortly after 1 o’clock, the trio stopped @ laborer and got a few cents. No weapons were presented. The men held the victim’s arms while the woman deftly searched his pockets, The laborer was under the influence of li- quor and made but feeble resistance, The three then fled to Lucas avenue, An hour later the woman wag found prostrate in the gutter on Washington avenue. She had attempted with no assistance to rob a wayfarer. The neighborhood was eroused by the woman’s screams and curses. She was seen struggling with a man. Suddenly he struck her three blows in the face. With a cry for the police she sank in the Gree, while the man passed rapidly from fashington avenue along Fifteenth street to Locust. A number of persons saw the woman in the street, and say it was fully half an hour before she received any attention. The police were nowhere in evidence. Then two men ._who were with the woman earHer eventually took her off toward Lucas ave- nue. At 4 o’clock the same woman stirred up another rumpus, bringing the residents of the neighborhood to the windows in their night clothes. ‘She was standing with the two men on the northwest corner of Fif- teenth street and Washington avenue, when a young man came from the east. As he stepped on the pavement the woman confronted him. She accused the newcomer of striking her. He denied it, and with an oath she made a vicious pass at his face. The blow was parried and the stranger moved off. Cursing him the woman fol- lowed, making ineffectual efforts to reach his face with her fists. Her male friends net pa leisurely behind enjoying the situ- ation. Once the ey man and the negress mixed, falling on the steps. One of the men here placed a few blows and kicks on the white man’s back. The combatants were separated and the pouns man moved farther up the street, he woman following. He stopped midway of the block. The negress attacked him again. Finally she stuck her face close to his and made an insulting remark. The next instant she was lying in the Street, loudly calling “Watch!” Day was breaking and the early risers were getting on the streets. The negro men assisted the woman to her feet, and the trio disap- peared down Fifteenth street. HAS A NEW SUIT. Yulius Biesman Is Arrayed in Clothes That Dazzle. Yullus Biesman, the Four Courts profes- sional bondsman, has a new suit of clothes. It is as near white as it can be. He has pointed, yellow shoes, a white Fedora hat and a tie of crimson hue that rests calmly on an expanse of gorgeously checked shirt bosom, his ig all to show that Mr. Bies- man’s business is not so “rotten” as it is cracked up to be. Yulius has for two years worn a suit that would hardly be approved by Mrs. Brad- ley Martin. Soaked with grease, ragged and to that suit was the landmark of Yulius. Any one asking for him was told to find the tramp in the First District Po- lice Court, the one that hovered near the desk of the property clerk. He refuses to say why and how he got the guit. It has been supposed that Yulius was saving his money for a rainy day. The supposition still obtains. Perhaps some one whose case he “fixed” in Police Court 6g ye pe 8 6 a mystery worthy of the municipality's attention. . A. Bhelby of Little Rock, Ark., is at the Lin- @ii. E. P. Curtis of Smithville, Texz., is at the La- clede. . ©, Goodno of Parsons, Kan., is at the La- Sc M. Bryant ef Dennison, Tex., is at the La- ciede, Rs Ra Travers of Hiawatha, Kan., is at the La- clede. T. H. Howard of Hot Springs, Ark., is at the St James. G. A. Stanard of Poplar Bluff, Mo., is at the St. James. John 8. Acklen of Ridgeway, Colo., is at the Lindell. W. H. Barrow of Providence, R. I., is at the Southern. Thomas McNeal of Gonzales, Tex., is at the Southern. E. E. Woodcock of Potash Sulphur, Ark., is at the Southern. Dr. BR. W. Steger of Hot Springs, Ark., is at the Southern. Oharles F. Solomon ef Solomoavilie, Aris., is at the St. Nicholas. J . Me, & at ask ee * sll MO bit Bagene Soper, 6 wife, Rg hs at at accompanied Planters’. ” Thomas ©. Barr, a prominent cap! and street railway owner of Newark, N. J., poe eee W F. N. Robling, another capitalist, of Treates, *- J.. i at the Southern. John Mulligan of Yonkers, N. Y.. tator of the Knights of Honor, is Southern Mr. Mulligan is here to a ing af the Grand of his venes Tuceday. If you want to buy nase, oF RS “ares | -Dispatch “Wants.” ws oe Fis q 24 y a <) - itw Fe pe ie Fame: uw, eee wee eee Sy a” Bs at oa ity eae * Wao ee Re + wee oe WS ‘0... 89.75 J ‘i ‘ Su.75 _ BOYS’ $5.00 ALL-WOOL KNEE To Springs, Mountains and Se Big Four Route and Chesapeake & Ohio ROUND TRIP TICKETS now on sale, good sath October 31st, and to stop off anywhere on the Chesapeake : oo Railway going and comin THROUGH SLEEPERS and Dining Cars to sorts. The best line to Carolina resorts. : Be, 3 all Virginia re LOU NOON * the heart of the Alleghanies and take supper at the csieon aa rs gage checked th h to all $2.50 CHEA from resorts house. R TO NEW YORK than by any other noon- day train, and yoa can stop at White Sulphur Springs and ten days at Washington. AN OCEAN TRIP. aad ocean steamers from St. One-way tickets via Old Point Comfort Louis to New York $23.50, Boston $27.25, including meals and state-room on steamer. BIG FOUR TICKET OFFICE, BROADWAY AND CHESTNUT STREET)! Cc. & O. ‘ DIVORCE: BETTER THAN BEING SOLD. HUBERT EKAULING SAYS WIFE TALES. HER VOICE IRRITATES HIM. The Man Whose Wife Wants Him Sold as a Vagrant Sues Her for Divorce. Hubert Kauling, who is offered for sale by his wife under the provisions of a stat- | » ; ce : : rf ian = M8); fi ~ idiput : “fill WAH | | \ | ' HE SHOWS WHAT HE KNOWS. ute placed on the books by ante-bellum legislators, does not want to be sold. He prefers a divorce. Kauling has engaged Attorney Percival Adams to procure his release from the tiles that are presumed to bind. The divorce petition relates a harrowing tale of do- mestic turbulence. If Kauling’s version is correct, he might very appropriately be designated a “hen-pecked” husband, with whom the celebrated Mr. Bowser could never compare. Among the auiegations specified by Kauling is that his wife fre- quently talked to him in tones that grated harshly wBle sifting through his ear-drum, He also charges that her language in ad- dressing him was not always characterized by chastity and that as a climax to the domestic storm he was thrown out of the house by his wife. In short, he charges BIC 4, is a failure and is trying to cast off the The best. lat sequently danger of belng sold. Gov. Charles z. Johnson has never been a white man sold In ——. However, many ones ago the law er which Mrs. Kauling is proceeding was fre- the interior of was the u advers uently ap tate. the § DISTURBED HIS WIFE. Charles Krispan Fined for Threatening to Do Murder. Charlies Krispan will languish itn the Work-house for three months for calling on his wife Mary, Sunday. Charles and Mary once lived happily together, but Charles took to drink and was so shi Mary withdrew and went to enue, where she earns Charies was warned to f/) that she will not allow him to live at home. Under these conditions he thinks rriag’ Compare it in ness with cove ques. Seat new ber . +. i oe - 4 oe ’ oss bf Seen oe Se ee ra OP ye ‘ rT egeN Blew OC aaa Awe = ete, Papy he a ae Prvey gh nye