St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 31, 1897

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

- e - os ae ' . : ee » ee me id eee , cs tos ‘+ ¥ a ry £7 i ae BaF ST EDITION. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. . . ad . > 7. . . . > . . . . eo” . . i ee gl od . eee “ —-—— — Barney Weber’s Cuticle Has Be- come Fish-Like From Poison Ivy Eruptions. As she came near the boys they separated, two going on each side of the road. When she was right upon them the oldest of the boys called to her. Mrs, Lucke stopped short. “Give us a Nft,”’ eald the oldest boy. @re going to Alton and are very tired.”’ Mra. Lucké did not have time to say yes or no. Before she was aware of what was taking placetwo of the lads approached the wagon from each side and a third ran to the old nag’s head and seized. the bridle. The fourth atood by to help along the highway fobbery in any way that presented Itself, “Throw up your hands,’’ said one of the two boys who etood on the ground, as he and the other lad produced pistols. Mrs. Lucke was paralyze with fright. The bar- reis of two pistols were pointed at her. The range was too ciose for safety, even though the hands that held the weapons were hard- Threw the Girl to the Pavement and Searched for Money and Jewelry. THEN CUT OFF ALL HER HAIR. —_—_—_—_ —_—_. .... __. LONDON, July from St. A girl of 16 was knocked down by a negro at the corner of Twelfth and Morrison Streets at 8:30 o’clock Friday night. While she was prostrate on the pavement he tore open her waist and her sleeves, then | her shoes, saying he wanted her purse. Not finding it he threw the girl on her face | and with a knife severed which Strangers in the City Run Against was in a long plait, from her head. “Big Mitt’? Weber. Then he ran. John Sponcler, a farmer from Central, O., The girl is Mamie Schmidt. She lives at | ¢ey) ints the clutches of Ernest Weber, a 12770 South Third street and is employed at | “‘bie mitt’ ‘mam at the Union Station Satur- | 1208 St. Ange avenue, noon. Weber represented himself as At that hour she was going from the si stranger from the oll regions, asked place where she works to her home to see 2 | gponcler to have a drink, and took him dressmaker who lives ‘at the same num- into a saloon on Fourteenth and Chestnut ber. 'streets, where he was fleeced out of $10, Miss Schmidt was rendered almost un- all his money, in a dice game. conscious by the blows struck her, but Patrolmen Platzer and Flanigan arrested finally staggered to her feet just as a|Adam Ostheimer, Weber and a man called “Red” McCue, who were identified by Spon- passer-by came to her assistance. Spon- He helped her across the street. the corner they found her hair, which the to cover her hatir, | i ; |day an'mals, beat the cage of the Lons with her trunk until the kings of beasts were In Cages in the menagerie were overturned, Sion advertised for five-year contracts anil : _—— tracked and near! mitted was found the little deserter. He now want the book men to sign poss of tkeepers and trainers a 2 ‘ non ae said he was James Earl, 11 years old, of ; es - killed and residents of the neighb« “" City Hospital Physicians Unable | were aroused to find themselves penned In The boys at first denied that they had if the books do not prove satisfactory t} . seen any woman along the road and that) HE FIRST TRIED TO ROB HER. |} contracts may be annulled at the wish: of to Acount for the Ex- : d woulda the road side thev had stolen anything from payoeny: | ' the commission. It is understood here that The monkey, one that was tame and w ’ They sak ‘y Wer n their way to visit | = ‘ , , . , e ni. “Get in your wagon,”’ then commanded peg eo Ser ee : | |most of the book agents expressed an un- traordinary Case. net ao pen “sl poapn with an orchard to which he would give } ? =e tent, Ele spent ali o - promi 0 between her head and the pistol muzzles, | them access. ae m — ‘ng the big female elephant, one . Mrs. Lucke scrambled up the step and into| The Constable took a wre oe with him and sent for Mrs. Lucke. She IN AT KER] CH ’ ’ Worcthing- her seat, .| |the worst cuticle that. ever was brought to |"° one but her keeper, Wiliam . “Drive like the devil and don’t stop for| and the four bare-footed young meaperasoes that Institution. ton, to ge mear her. over the . > oc , $ ; fa Sts were . ’ . e u y an ls ot sacd cu lentean TS nO icaent aly benite- oO H ] i ives | His skin is a mass of scales and ertp* el M bas bound aft to the ground road agent. “‘We have other men posted tion she identified them as the bunch that ne un red and Fifty Lives | tions, and not a square inch of the entire along the road and if you dare tell of this! had frightened her out of her wits and Sat . surface of his body has escape : h ephant would doze off to sieep : ‘ av a as ped the afflic- | _When the elep ; until you get home they will shoot you. “ non mye d "onl nyse One told Said to Have Been Lost. | tion. There are scales an inch in diameter | the Ae eo or 8 ya RN. e boy en beg rez , : —— f | : . trunk. 1e elepha ‘ e one story and the others gave different ver- until about daylight, then, with a migh'y kill, Git!" . j S1.—A special dispat His face and head, body and limbs are |lunge, she broke the chains The monkey Mrs. Lucke’s old white horse never moved | being used Ag ny Fe PD wget Enraged Because He Found No) Petersburg says that the Novosti ' swathed in bandages, and his hands and | ‘00K refuge under the cage which held three " yea ris a ‘ : 7 r “i , ° . ‘ oT his rheumatic legs as fast since he was a oo delle en gh sy let Costello and carie Money. ft] Brute Grabbed | estimates that at least 150 persors have per- | feet are strapped to his cot to keep him nves scaaiataer the monkey the elephant colt frisking in the meadow as he moved go. Walker and sremmel Se ees = in’ é 9 ie rute mravpver ished in the recent floods ai Kertsch, in the from scratching and increasing hjs discom- | upset the cage and the lions, also — ; . > . . > a , ta en tt Cc ayv- % * . ‘ri : oe * | : PsEGe@ Nolan ae eee cnet wy anglers comet pow He took the names of a { lub and Hit Her patna —— | fort. | a pant ul nnen the bare. re i fing | Farle and Costello as witnesses, and made ILertsch is a fortified town, on a tongue of Weber’s miserable condition is the result By this time the menegerie was awake, over his back again and again, making a/ them promise to be on hand whee he no- on the Head. . cloud of dust rise out of the venerable an-/| tified them by letter of the examination o noted for its mud volcanoes, on the Strait of |. ; ( e asta were deafen ng. imal’s hair as he galloped up the hill. their companions. : 'Yenikale, connecting the Sea of Azov with ‘V¥- He was working with a railway con- oe = the lion’s brought blood from the Just at the top of the hill Mrs. Lucke Little Costello and Earle reached town. | the Black Sea. Its site.is that of the am- struction gang, and a bunch of poison fv ’ hat made her wiid and I | a \ P Y | elephant’s head That came face to ‘= with a farmer who tw about 11:30 last night. They were afraid to cient Panticapaeum, the residence and brt- brushed against him. Ino few days the | with her trunk she twisted the bars of the driving toward the city. He thought the ae ey ly large enough the buts of the lot on Washington street, near the engine modern town is of very recent orig.n. In 1827 Pelson had thoroughly permeated his entire the lions fell to fighting among themselves pistols, alighted from his ris _— ———, Mrs, wane. Rhy - ay nee this ~epey once ‘it was‘declared a free port. The Government and the weaker fell a victime to the more , a Lucke’s horse by the bridle as it sped past} telling his mother a « erent tale o 8 ad- has established a naval yard there. | ahes eg: eri sf Mrs. Lucke !s not as agtive as she used ny : ‘iia meas Fy | Skin began blistering and peeling off. There err ies eace over and over Bringing the horse to a standstill, he was . . ’ ; light. He admitted that promptly when the head bandit commanded farm house last night . a. story of the robbery came out. The farmer] Walker and Trennell had tried to rob an | neal on P ay ee . e lown Cass atreet and her bee crawl off the perch. advised Mrs. Lucke to go on home, while | old lady, but said he and Karle had nothing nails drew blood and lacerated the fe: h. nial eae xl attempted to stop it “Now come up with the coin,” sald the | he drove to a Constable’s home in the]! to do with ft. Farle says Costello was one That afforded no relief, and only added he was hurled to the ground and woul! have oldest boy. Mrs. Lucke declared that she | Pelghborhood and reported the road agents. ‘ ew ngs FG > er eee me |to his discomfort. A physician treated him, | heen gored to death by the elk had not eda ani e ne tnree orne aas ec e re . » f . " ; taken to the woods with their spotis. The]| saw a man driving down the road behind ous ie wae Sees Se ee him away “You haven't got no money—nit,” said the youngest of the four became frightened | Mrs. Lucke after she had been held up. - ‘From the elk’s place the _Uon's cage was I.very year since then, when the hot | rolled over to the tank that held the rhin- weather arrives, Weber's old ailment reap- | erocerous and to keep from being crushed pears. This yeas he says it is worse than the water, went under the tent, and aston. weer ished his audience by striking a 2°38) pace over the street that led to the Misseourl case of ivy poisoning. He can give no rea- river, s0n why Weber should be so susceptible , it, for he is a powerful man with an to a a en Sone Oe on ins ae CORR Cee. Se See ee | after nine and he was captured in @ clay than a couple of months. Even if no other bank on the Council Bluffs side. troubles appear. He fears erysipelas may Bet in, and the result be more serious than ever. a bloody conflict. 2119'g Carr street contracts. These contracts are to read ‘ob , . ie | : ; . by a multitude of wild beasts. Walker's uncle, who had a @garge farm the leader. Glad enough to put distance willingness to simn these centeaetn , who will allow Barney Weber 's at the City Hospftal with killed four or five men and é drove over to the Constable’s house at dusk "We "" was the next command of the before the big brute could swish her trunk. They thhave orders to shoot, and shoot to and one scaie has closed his left eye. sions of the robbery. The Constable, not | 7 land forming a peninsula of the same namp, | of contact, fifteen years ago,, with poison jand the howls, yells, bellowing and roaring — go home and spent the night in a vacant ial place of the celebrated Michridates. The cage. into cols and knots, While doing that old white horse was running away, so he : system, and he was frightfully swollen. The to be, but she descended from her seat | Costello said he and Earle had slept ina - ' mae a was a terrible itching sensation, and he was | ee ¢ | uck the stake to which an elk wae ee ene ticenee FLEECED AT A DICE GAME. | unable to_refrain from scratching. His chained and liberated the horned animal of the leaders. He says he became frighten. Nad no money In the meantime the youthful bandits had the pursuit of several keepers frightened could be controlled. the big, clumsy animal scampered out of Dr. Sutter says he never saw so s@vere a He reached the river, after knocking sev- see how he can heal the eruption in less The lion's cage lifted a steel wire netting cler as the men who got his money. cler will prosecute them. Earlier in the day a stranger Charles Wilson complained to the from thé ground and released half a dozen ila monsters, score of rattlesnakes and a whole bed of tarantulas and” scorpions, where on named same eath., = —_ aes “ es ‘ 4\\ Wy JOY vi wT ae’ ohm \ OI MBS, LUCKE, HELD UP BY FOUR BOY BANDITS > don no fee darkey had dropped in his flight. Then he pointed the way to the Third District-Police Station. She reached there a few minutes later. Her clothing was torn, her face was bru'sed and the flesh under her eyes was commencing to | turn black. In her hand she carried her plait of hair, another evidence of the as- sault. She told the story of her terrible experi. | ence to the desk sergeant and he at once eent men out to look for the man. She described the negro as tall, slim, with a mustache, He wore a straw hat, an white shirt and Ight-colored An examination of the girl's wounds at the police station showed that the negro | must have used a club or knurks on his victim as fists could not have Infiicted such injury. She was sent to her home and a physi- clan summoned. A Post-Dispatch réeporter saw the Saturday afternogn at the residence Race, l28 St. Ange avenue. She is a slight, pretty girl, Just past 16. This is the way she related her terrible experience: “TT left here at 8:15 o'clock to go home. At twelfth and Morrison venue I passed youns nezro standing on corner thought I heard some one call and I look: around. The man was still standing there. “The next minute he clutched me by the back of the neck and siriking me a light blow on the forehead bore me to the ground. He demanded money. I told him I had none He searched me. Finding nothing he turned me over on’ my back and taking the hair pins out of my coll of hair drew a razor “ait 1 ‘ if oft the piait | “ ‘Now, I've got your hair,’ he sald, ‘and I'm after some other girl’a.’ “He had a revolver. too. ; ' threa to kill me if I Cr.eqd , ‘ Ort he } '? ryy ran eouth on pped ‘ ut of h s ' . 5 rie ' } ae i went hom id told my parents, FAIR; COOLER SUNDAY. . This morning L.report police. YOUNG PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE. Proceedings of a Branch of the Evan- gelist Association. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 31.—A boat ride on the Monongahela River took up the time | of the di legates to the b'enntal ~onvention | the Young Peopie'’s Allianeea of the nigat and ’ t Ass “lat officers that he had been and Pine streets by two men, suppose cumstances the city to prosecute, REWARD RENEWED. George Taylor. } |Special to the Post-Dispatwh. Stephens . ward of $200 for the arrest of George Tayloar aipaca coat, the Carro.] County murderer. trousers ~_— - — THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. (On the street, in the shade.) For St. Louls and vicinity—Generally = Saturday night and Sunday; slightly cooler Su day afternoon For Missour!—Partly cloudy Satarday night and Sunday. with probably showers in the ex- treme nertherm portion; slightly lower temper- ature by Sunday afternoon For lilipole—Uneettied and mfinwe wo Ne Taska heart h- (he seSSiOn Wie ft eT it ’ [in i Pair weather Preval wept In the ical by Rev , ‘ ievelar ’ te’ } ee : ©.. on “Th nm Urder North the Ublo Valley easiward. whete there were ecattered showers west aod from to Carry Out the Aims of the Organiza- The temperatures were high {no ali Gistricts ton” except those covered by the ralna. swindled out of $230 in a dice game in a saloon at sede hing gor to be Ostheimer and Weber, under similar clir- Wilson could grot remain in |Missouri -Is Still Anxious to Capture he reward offered by Gov, Stone expired April 13, 1897. | JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 31.—Gov. ‘ing of Campbell Confederate to-day renewed the atanding re- | ment to the effect that Kenney had served | _ time In the Leavenworth Peniientiary there | Was a lively row among the iitigantes, | business around the Finch home and fined oop aD Si 8 r REBELS DEFEATED. All these scaitered in d fferent THE CONFEDERATES AR and none have| been captured, in conse- | «| quence of which the people of this city are -— — - — ai Gaal mE arppeiy wry se * ide Ye the tent. “Lifting the Camp last) canvas with het trunk she dashed out and night it was decided to take no part as ain doing so the/lion was carried off by the hody In the Wilson Creek reunion. The tent poles that| scraped along the the big Grand Army objected to the carrying of a! brute’s back. r t Special to the Post.Di«patch. Confederate — in the parade, and the ex-| The lion fell Ip a nest of guy ropes, from ‘Tu Confederates refused to take part if the fag | which he could not disentangle h.maelf, was.cut out, | The other lion that dashed from the cage was cougat in the same ropes in his pur- PUZZLED THE JUDGE. » elephant. The third lion lay ont oie tae. hed came. the victim of his Claims of Relationship Figure in a Police Court Trial. | Judge Stevenson tried for an hour Satur- Gay morning to discover whether Mrs. Maggie Finch was the half-sister of George H. Kenney, as she claimed, or was no re- lation at all, as he asserts Finally, becoming hopelessly entangled tin conflicting affidavits and muddled festi- mony, he ruled the whole question of rela- tionship as immaterial, and tried the case like any other charge of disturbing the peace. Mrs. Finch, supported by her and numerous neighbors, stated Kenney cane to her home, 2124 North Eleventh street. Thureday night looking for tr: uble. She fired a revolver to attract the police. Kenney, his wife and a witnesy testified “Tn tueniee a dorner several blocks down, the elephant struck a frame house hroat- side. asleep on ‘he second story porch. from the ele] bant waa “~A® merry oveTfe sleeper was (thrown out in he street : ag Foe Worthington finally cornered the elephant be'ween two huge tanks at the gua works. To get her out It Was hecessary to release the gas from one of the tanks that the top of it would come to the level ° re ad. “the nn while the elephant was getting away, the « raffe broke from his peu and reached the street. He had barely reached a good rate of speed, when his neck, ust below the head, struck @ trolley wire, le not only re pived a mee at rendere | “i piek or ani out ut he #u 7 a ir ae wes Tames Uy taunting re- bin Siete becks and blocks of trolley marke by the Finches wire This created no end of exictement it- “Is it true you Lved with Mrs. Finch as Soy ner husband?’ Judge Stevenson asked Ken- |" With a depleted caat in the menagerie the my r nounced that the performances “Yes, sir, and her husband knew it all will be given as usual ohn B The miscPievious monkey, who escaped a John Burke of 3112 Sheridan avenue tes- harmed, will be caged. ° tifled that Mrs. Finch was a vixen WHILE SEEKING WORK. When Finch attempted to get in a state- | Two Arkansas Boys Supposed to Have en | Been Murdered. porelinceertndtietn Baw | SPRINGDALE. Ark.. July 3L—L. W. Har- iper and George Tucker, young men of Hindeville, Mar'on County, were found Jead near Seligman, Mo. They were dle- covered lying pear the rafiroad tracks yA two iittle gtiria The vworenpera ver iict murder. vucker was o student of the A. . ov The beys left Hindeville Tuesday morn ng aaniins fee wae, each L, money on Ving home, bul none Thetr remaine have for ‘billed by 6 sup husband Judge Stevenson decided Kenney had no a ee AE eens: ecg a Geer land Engaged in Revcit. LISBON, July 3l.—An official dispatch nalives iocst ‘