St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 12, 1897
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Pe oe ye ea . By 4 MONDAY-ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—JULY 12, Ms | > as 5% xt Be. rs Unprecedented Demand for the Sunday Post-Dispat ve —eEa | ch. Newsdealers Tell of How Early Their Supply of the People’s Favorite Paper Was Exhausted Yesterday. To the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: My supply of the Sunday Post-Dispatch was exhausted at 7:30 a. IM. W. H. HALEY, 4543 Easton avenue. | Order of To the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: At 7 o'clock Sunday morning I had sold all of my package ‘of the Post-Dispatch. MICHAEL LEARY, 1505 South Compton avenue. | Zo the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch, | had none of the Sunday Post-Dispatch to sel! after 7:30 o'clock. M. BENSON, 1226 Clark avenue Lo the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: At 10: o'clock Sun- day morning my stand was clear of the Post- Dispatch. GUS MEYER, 810 South Seventh street. } Lo the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: | had sold my sup- ply. of the Sunday Post-Dispatch at 9 o'clock. MRS. PAGE, 1416 North Fifteenth street. To the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: The demand for the Sunday Post-Dispatch was such that I| had none left at 9:30 a. m. DANIEL SULLIVAN, 2141 Cass avenue. WHAT CAUSED THE RUSH? The Colored Cover Did It! your Newsdealer ~~ The Magazine Section Did It! To the Business Manager of the Post-Dispatch: Eight o’clock Sun- day morning saw my supply of the Post- Dispatch gone. m= Fr. BRAY, N. E. Cor. 19th st. and Franklin av. The Unrivaled News Reports Did It! early this week and avoid the probability of again missing a chance to read the Best Sunday Paper Printed in. the West. WONT MARRY BITHBR SHE TOOK TOO MUCH ADVICE. Aunt “Queered’’ Her Milwaukee Beau and a Fortune-Teller An Her Chicago Suitor. Miss Lena Frech, as pretty a little blonde as ever smiled on a suitor, has a complete wedding outfit to remind her of two short- lived, long distance romances. Miss Frech’'s trousseau was to have been worn within the coming week, but a strange combination of circumstances turned her happy anticipations to Dead Sea fruit. Two duennas, two suitors, a Gypsy fortune teller and an abnormally developed bump of superstitiog@changed the current of tne young girl's life. The trousseau is packed away tn the bot- tom of a trunk and the wedding has been called off. Two voung men, neither of whom considered himself engaged to her, are won- der ne what made her love grow cold. Miss Frech was until a short time ago housekeeper for Mrs, Lina D. Hildenbrandat, a High School teacher living at 2909 Allen avenue. She apparently did not encourage visits from young men and Mrs. Hilenbrandt was Much surprised one day to see her at work on some mysterious white things. Questions and explanations followed. Lena owned that she was to be married. “Who is he?’ asked Mrs. Hildenbrandt. “Oh, I don't know that,"’ answered Lena, with a shruyw of her shoulders. Bit by bit she told the story of her strange romances Accord'ng makers were her a husband. An aunt in Milwaukee had found a young man in Milwaukee who she thought would make a desirable hueband., and had introduced him to her through the mall, About the same Mrs. Leonhard match- to to Lena’s atory, two exert'ng themselves time a St. Louis aunt, Hiofmann, of 2623 North Twentieth street, located another possible match in Chicago. This young man also wrote to Lena, who kept up a correspond- ence with both suitors When Lena began work on her wedding outfit, she had a vague idea that she was ong 'O marry one of the young men, but adn't made up her mind which one. Preparations for the wedding had - ressed almost to completion when ea offmann learned of the existence of the Milwaukee young man. She told Lena plainly that she must give up all thought of marrying the man from the city of white bricks and breweries. The pretty blonde was sore perplexed, She did not care to disobey her aunt. yet she was not willing to see one of the strings of her bow so ruthlessly snapped She went to a Gypsy fortune teller and told a little of her story, though she said nothing about her aunt's opposition to the Milwaukee suitor. The fortune teller told her she must on no account marry the Chicago man. The one remaining string of the bow was broken. Lena had already given up her position in anticipation of her wedding and had gone to live with Mrs. Hofmann. After the visit to the fortune teller she tndulged in a good +H fe and decided that she wouldn't marry at ali . She packed her nice white things away in @ big trunk and buried her romance with them, 5 She is atill with her aunt, Mre. Hofmann. Lena, in telling her story to her employer, Would. not give the names of her two Bultors. She stoutly refused to talk about the af- fair to a Post-Dispatch reporter. “IT am not going to get married, though 1 had imtended to,"’ she aaid. “My reasons for omencing my mind concern nobody but nyeself,”’ St. Louisans at Piasa Biuffs. Piasa Bluffa has been a mecca for St. Loulsans during the recent hot spell. Sun- day a crowd of nice people visited Manager Hodge's pretty hotel and spent a delightful day fishing in the river at the base of the bluffs. mong the guests of the past week were: Mr. and Mrs. C. PD. Brooks, Miss Brooks, Mr. J. E. Mateer, Miss Doily Luney, Mr. and M. Hubbard and family, Mr. and L. Moffitt, baby and family: Mr. Newman, Mr. and Mrs. H. Biasiand, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Lake and children; Miss Edith M. Biasland, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Jamison, child and maid; Mr. and Mrs. ©. F. Brace, Mr. Wm. Bryan and Miss Ethel Bryan, Mr. Chas. Hinesman, baby and nurse; Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Kelly, Miss Kelly, Mr. A. F. Kelly, Jr.; Miss Alice M. r Adams, Miss Green, Mias Chase, M as Gunnison, Mr. G. Howard, Mr. lL. Brins- made, Mr. M. J. Buckley, Mr, Hugh Don- nelly and daughter. Many of the male guests of the hotel] went fishing tn the early part of the day, and good catches were made. TWQ,CHILDREN ENDANGERED. Runaway Mules on Third Street Drag Their Owner Two Blocks. Two smal! children narrowly = escaped @Geath In an exciting runaway on North Third street Monday morning about 9 from Ca- a load of a farmer disposed of — produce near the corner of Third and Mor- gan streets, and had placed h'‘s two little girls, aged 5 and 10 years respectively, in the wagon, when the mules became frightened and dashed down Third street at breakneck sped, throwing Cordevent to the ground. He quickly regained his feet and succeeded in catching the bit of one of the mules. He Was dragged to the Washington avenue bridge before he stopped the mules, The children pluckily stayed in the wagon, and did not even scream, WILL KILL HER. ! If Interfered With Again Mrs. Smith Will Shoot. “If that Stubblefield. woman comes here and bothers me any more I shall certainly shoot her,”’ said Mrs. Smith, wife of Patrol- man Thomas Smith of the Seventh Police District, to a Post-Dispatch reporter Mon- day morning. Miss Stubblefield {is the young woman who was said to have sent a blonde emis- sary to Smith’s house, at 4310A Hunt ave- nue, Saturday afternoon. Miss Stubble- field denies that she had anything to do with the visit. She says she knew Smith before he was married and loaned him $26. She acknow!l- edges that, about a year ago, she threw rotten eggs at Smith’s house, but says she has not been near his hoene since. Patrolman Smith says Miss Stubblefield has no claim on him. “So far as I know,”’ he said, ‘Miss Stub- blefield is a good hard-working gril, but her mind must be unbalanced. She cannot pos- sibly cause me any trouble.” He says he does not know the blonde who was put out of the house Saturday by his wife. Mrs. Smith says her husband is the best husband in the world, and that nobody could shake her faith in him. DIRTY ALLEY COMPLAINED OF. Street Commissioner Says He Won't Clean It for Col. Butler. Mayor Ziegenhein received a complaint Monday about the condition of the alley be- tween Eleventh and Twelfth and Olive and Pine streets. It was referred to Street Com- missioner Milner. The complainants say they are not par- ticular what disposition is made of the garbage, just so it is removed. find | expense of the city. for ner ‘s very particular, though. Butler is paid to dispose of that says he will not do his work for him at the Milner has been puzzled to account the down-town alleys getting ‘‘clut- tered up” so quickly after they are cleaned. He understands it now. He was pass ng this very alley Saturday. A second-story window was opened and a large box of waste was spilled out. It wae blown all over the alley and adjacent property. KICKED IN THE FACE. William Smith Badly Used Up for Peeping Through a Keyhole. William Smith of 2248 Howard street, a blacksmith, tried to play the Peeping Tom act Sunday night. He went to the City Dispensary at mid- night. His nose was fractured, there was a hole through his upper lip and he was minus several teeth. He told Dr. Thompson he was peeping through the keyhole of a room adjoining Nat Sebastian's saloon at Eighth and Clark avenue. There was a hot show inside. Smith forgot where he was and applauded. Those within had no use for deadheads. The door opened suddenly. A_ large foot was planted in Smith's face. It straight- ened him up and was followed by two or three swift punches. The door closed with asclam. The show was all over for Smith. Dr. Thompson sent him to the City Hos- pital. MOWING THE STREETS. Milner’s Men Make an Onslaught With Scythe and Sickle. The combined forces of the Street De- partment made a charge Monday with acythe and eickle on the weeds in the city atreets. In places on the outskirts of town the streeta are cosnpletely lost in the wilderness of vegetation. The heat of the last ten days caused them to grow very rapidly. he Health Department has been trying to compel the owners of vacant lots to abate the weed nuisance, but as lore as the city does not clear the streets they have an excuse for ignoring the orders. $13.00 to Detroit and Return, Via Wabash, July 12 and 13. 1897. METHODISTS IN TOWN. Members of the Epworth League Pass Through Here. Hundreds of members of the Epworth League were in St. Louis en route for Tor. onto, where the international assembly wil] be held Thursday. They spent the day in sight-seeing, being booked for departure at 7:30 m. No business @ill be transacted at the Tor- onto meeting. it being s:mply the occasion of a love feast for Methodists. Missouri will be well represented, more than #*) from St. Louls having expressed their intention of removing. Stabbed Over a Can of Beer. George Burton of 710 Morgan street and Edward Bostone living at E whteenth atreet Me. ‘and Chopteau avenue, quarreled over a can of beer Bunday night at Twenty-first and Morgan streets. Bostone piunged a knife into Burton's side, inflicting a serious in- jury. Burton was taken home. Bostone escaped. CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, State Department Looking Into the Protestant Marriage Question in South America. CHICAGO, July 12.—At a special session of the Chicago Methodist Minjsters’ meet- ing to-day Rev. John Lee, Chairman of the Committee on Religious Liberty for Prot- estants in South America, read the follow- ing letter which was received in reply to a communication addressed to President Mc- Kinley, protesting against the discrimina- tion against Protestants in various South American republics: Department of State, Washington, June 21, 1897.—The President has referred to this department your letter of the 16th inst. relative to the marriage law” of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. On Oc- tober 2 last our Minister at Lima re- yorted that the Peruvian bill concern- ng the registration of the marriages of foreigners failed for lack of agreement between the two houses. The Senate passed a bill satisfactory to the foreign element and the House of Deputies amended it by providing for civil mar- riage. The session came to an end before an agreement could be reached. On March 31 last the department ad- vised our legation at Lima of its hope that Peru would adopt a marriage law more consonant with the general prac- tice of modern nations and expressed its ceeeeeeeeee reer ee concern lest thescivil rights of Ameri- can citizens in that quarter might be impaired through the deficiency of the existing law. It was further stated that this Government would be glad to learn that the subject would be revived at the next session of the Congress and satis- factorily disposed of. Copy of your letter will be forwarded to our legation in connection with the instruction referred to. Respectfully yours, WILLIAM R. DAY, Assistant Secretary. FLY WHEEL BURST. It Caused a Stoppage of Street Car Traffic in Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash., July 12.—By reason of ; the break'ng of the connecting rod attached | to the*governor, the forty-ton fly-wheel of a pair of Corliss compound engines of the | Tacoma Railway Co. went’ to pieces, com- | pletely wrecking the plant and building, | causing damage to the extent of $20,000. | » wreck means the total d‘éscontinuance | | Tacoma’s street car traff c for several days; perhaps weeks, excepting by the Park and Edison lines. The power furnished by | the plant to the city for lighting purposes will be discontinued temporarily. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething rests the child and comforts the mother. 25c. Broke His Collar Bone. While playing ballin Forest Park Sunday, Adam Clifford, 1208 Missouri avenue, broke his collar bone by colliding with John Stevens, 1429 Papin street. GOULD IN TROUBLE. Gave Arkansans a Free Love Write-Up and Uncle Sam Is Enlisted Against Him. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 12.—United States District Attorney Trieber to-day or- dered a warrant from United States ona missioner J. T. O’Hair for the arrest of Kel- logge O. Gould, editor and publisher of the | Tribune, a paper published weekly in this | city, on the charge of sending obscene pub- | lications through the mails. The charge is based on several articles published in the Tribune, giving rather free description of an alleged scandal in this vicinity, and also some articles copied from newspapers epg mony et = love.”’ The case is set for Tuesday. The prose- | cution was instituted on Instructions from the department at Washington. Kellogg O. Gould is a printer and news- yaper men well known in St. Louis, where 1e worked for a number of years. LOTHROP IS DEAD. Ex-Minister to a Cold Country a Vic- tim of Heat. DETROIT, Mich., July 12.—Hon. George V. N. Lothrop, ex-Minister to Russia, died at 10 o'clock this morning at the Lothrop Wild Mike, the ugly bald-faced mandril of Edwards & Gray's “School of Natural History’’ at Forest Park Highlands, 54° in his little wire cagé to-day Ike a man the dumps. If the change in had any lasting effect upon his temper he did not show It. The blueish skin of his bulgent forehead wore of a frown, just like that of a human being. He did not fancy the curious crowd eee surrounded his den at a safe and respe’ - distance. When a man or child ph eae? so : step or two nearer the cage than the others Mike would part his thin lips am _— two rows of teeth as even and as Keen- the edged as the teeth of the tiny saws of the in | the weather | fiendish ' wrinkies | 1 diapilay | came;too near me Same size when thes naturally.vicious and that his tantrum 5Sat- intense heat as it | tricks of the crowd that was watching him. - = ~~. sidewise at his spectators and assume a sul- S| sen air that Seemed to say ‘Goon away from me, now, while you are whole: The three men and the kid who Saturday were not the got away as when I tack I'm feeling just as nasty (to- éd them day as I was then. and you'd better not get too fre eh.’ Mike’s ownere contend that he is not during which he tore the gnawed a aa urday afternoon, | ‘ and uring one r.ousiy, was not evishnees from the wae diue’ to The irritating Mike overturned his cage Sunday ached | hospital surgeon. Then he would glance ia fit of temper, When the showmen reach , Mik: Mike, the Mandril, Which Bit People at Forest Park Highlands. him he was frantic and pawing at the bars, throwing his carpet of straw in every d.- rection and shrieking like a demon. The incident was the result of too close inspection by a group of children. Mike had leaped at them from the back of his cage, and struck the front bar with such force that he knocked the wire house from the elevated platform upon which ft stood, The showmen then lugged the cage and to the outside of the tent and placed them to one side in the shade, where there would not be too much of a crowd. Pringard and the other two waters who were bitten by Mike Saturday, were at the Higliands at work with their beer trays ust the same Sunday. Pringard said his leg was still paining him, but that the wounds have not yet shown any signs of inflammation. / seen. residence, Fort street West. He was strick- en with heat prostration a week ago and had been in a comatose condition most of the time since. Mr. Lothrop died tegen surrounded by the members of his family Capt. Henry B. and Cyrus B. Lothrop and his daughters, Mrs. Prall, wife of Rev. Dr. Prall of this city. His other daughter, Baroness Heune, is in St. Peterburg. NOVEL KITE IN TOWN. ” St. Louisans Attracted by a Unique Aerial Climber. The most remarkable kite of all kites has come to town, Its advent crick in is responsible for many a the neck of which St. Louisans , Will complain Monday night. In the morning they saw it fly and they marveled what the object was that slowly mounted upward. Two bands of red, one above the other, was all that could be These bands rose and rose until they seemed short red pencil marks across a cloud of fleecy white. Then two more bands shot into the air and mounted upward and again two more. Thousands saw them sail away from a tall building down town and gain a high altitude. They wondered what manner of kite this could be and all along the down- town streets persons were asking ques- tions. The “blue hill box kite’ Is the name of the aerial climber. Its construction is sim- ple, consisting of two rectangular frames held together by cross pieces with bands of cloth at top and bottom. gracefully and without with it. Cc. E. Wingginton, anyone running urchasing agent for Barr’s brought the kites to St. Louls and they were flown from the top of that dry goods building. DIED OF YELLOW FEVER. Fate of a Chinese Boy Sent a Vessel to Quarantine. SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—The steamer San Juan, from San Jose, Guatamala, ar- rived in port yesterday and went into quar- antine. She had no doctor on board, and consequently the body of a Chinese boy who died on board Saturday morning was taken in charge by Dr. Blue, Federal quarantine officer, and the remains held. Dr. Blue de- cided that death resulted from yellow fever. The vessel will be in quarantine five days. The body of the dead Chinese boy will be cremated on Angel Island. There was no other sickness among those on board the San Juan on her trip up the cosat. On Saturday:last the vessel, in a dense fog, ran upon a rock in Half Moon Bay, but im- mediately sheered off, causing a slight leak- age to the vessel. Sydney, from Panama, came in port to- day with all on board well. The cabin passengers were allowed to land, but the steerage passengers were held. No sick- ness has prevailed on the vessel. CHILD-BEATER PUNISHED. Nebraskans Whipped and Trrred ‘and Feathered Adam Wurebrenner. | BEATRICE, Neb., July 12.—Juat before daylight yesterday a mob took Adam Wure- brenner from jail and, after beating him half to death with a cattle whip, tarred and feathered him. Wurebrenner was arrested Saturday for torturing his erotty 16-year-old step-daugh. ter, Julia Barton, by beating her terr'bly with a cattle whip. Wurebrenner is a mer- chant 34 years of age. He is a son of John Wurebrenner, the founder of the religious sect known as the Church of God. CAPT. ANDRE DEAD. Union Veteran Succumbed to Paralysis and Heat. Capt. William Andre died Saturday night at his residence, 235 South Twelfth street. Capt. Andre was one of Missouri's earliest and best soldiers on the Union side. He raised a company early in the war, which became Co. B of the Seventeenth M'ssour! Infantry assigned to the army of Gen Curtis. Capt. Andre was at the battle Wilson's Creek, Mo., where Gen Lyon was killed. Capt. Andre succumbed gory in the war to disease. He was invalided in June, 1862 and during the remainder of the war serve in the reserve corps. He was also connected with the Provost Marshal's office. After the war he secured the appointment of Justice of the Peace and-Notary Public, and were it not for his disabilities, he might have at- tained higher honors. Three vears ago his lower limbs were par- alyzed. The recent hot weather was a dread- ful drain on his vitality. Capt. Andre leaves a widow, an only daughter, and three grandchildren. The fam- iy is left tn poor circumstances, The funeral took place Monday afternoon. Louis W. Hall. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 12.—Loule W. Hall, attorney. for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and a member of the Board of Visit- ors to the United States Milltary Academy at West Point, died suddenly this mornng of heart disease. Baron Allsopp. LONDON, July 12—Samuel Charles All- opp, second Baron Hindlip, is dead, aged ‘'% years. Baron Hindlip was for many years iden- tified with the great brewing house of 8. Allsopp & Sons. From 1873 to 1880 he sat as member of Parliament for East Stafford- shire and from 1882 to 1887 for Taunton. =e The facsimile It mounts | The steamship City of | of. CAN PAY H —. S Flagg of Loulsians, Mo, ie at the Le- clede. J. BR. MecAtee and wife of Chicago are at the La- clede. EK. J. Riley of Nashville, Tenn., is at the 6t. James. Cc. Elliett of Redford, Mass, is at the St | James. J. H. Marcum of Benton, Ark., te at the &e. Nicho.as. Robert ie at the Southern. Miss Anna Jackson of Bowling Green, Mo., te at the Lindell. T BB. Elliees at the Southers J. Ringling of Chicago, of the Ringling Ciereas, io at the Planters’. : Charles Nibbett of Cheltenham, Fogiend. te at the .t. Nicholas. EK. M. Shepard. « inent benker of Spring- field, Mo., is at the St. James. \. Memke of Hanover. Germany. fe among the foreigs artivale at the St. Nicholas. $12 to Detroit and Return, Via Clover Leaf Route, July Itth and Wth. Ticket offices, #6 Olive st. and Union 6ta- fl. Ward of Thurber, Tex., end wife of Fort Worth, Tes., sre is ou every wrapper CASTORIA.
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