St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 16, 1897

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Fee tiny = i ‘Wao — INDICATIONS: Fair: stationary. ST EDITIO The Poet’s Corner, (A New Department, ) A Conducted by Alfred Austin, in the Next ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. THE ONLY ST..LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES .» Results of... Vy Compulsory y Marriage. 2 Cartoon by | McCarthy, |- VOL. 49, NO. 7. MONDAY EVENING-—ST. LOUIS—AUGUST 16, 1897, PRICE} ta St. Lewis, One in the Next Ceat. Outside St Louis, Iwe Ceats. a Sunday Post-Dispatch. AV. y- Sunday Post-Dispatch. NA 200 @@ee-- | SCANDAL COMING TO LIGHT OVER THE TARIFF BILL ———_—_—— The Charge Made That Certain Important Words Were Smuggled Into the Measure Before Its Final Passage. TWO MEN SUSPECTED OF THE TRICKERY. The Section Which It Is Said Has Been Tampered With Re- fers to Duties on Goods Imported Through Canada or Mexico. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatel. WASHINGTON, D. C., Ang. 16.—Before | o¢ the old law. Then the vital words are in- section 22 of the new tariff bill is finally d!s-/ terjected and the rest of the section is posed of--the section which imposes a dis- | copied from the old law. criminating duty of 10 per cent agatnst aed This explains, no doubt, the reason why goods brought: into this country from Mex-! wr. Dingley, hastily glancing at the sec- ico or Canada, when the goods have been | tion, pronounced it identical with the old mace in another country—a great national | law. Scandal is I'kely to be uncovered. Busp:cion That the change in the law was smugg ed Citta haplatt-a98 op , neatihat a ‘into the bill seems without question, If evidence 1s j ans show thr at sec- | Ho : . yak ; ond xn. Sse oe that | there had been nothing crooked about it the the ful effect of ite provisions was not | new section meenaa tory of on re one known to Mr, D’nagiey argent (me Dy | would. It appears have been 0 rere as an . od : _|amendment and understood by every one. Senator Allison, or that both Mr. Dingtey | It is believed that the new words were {n- me omy Peerage Banga “ nied | terjected either as ‘“‘a clerical amendment,” wg or in such a way as to convey the impres- of both men ~ Nld seem to st poo rm n that no change of importance was being Jatter theory. It is also clear that neitner es Ret House Senate ca = harsh the signini- | MAC . cane of the change which had been made in It would be interesting to know what the law. Proof of this is to be found in the | member of the conference committee fa- report in the Congressional Record of the} thered the amendmenf in that committee discuss. on which followed the preseniation and who was the person who imposed upon of the confeience re por... him. new law follow word for word the reading The first few lines of the section of the| Suspicion points to two men. WEEK, THE CRUEL LAW WRESTS PRETTY TOMMIE HICKSON FROM HER HUSBAND. _ — — WIFE FOR OX a SHE WAS A 12-YEAR-OLD BRIDE. Without His Sanction She Penned Her Father’s Name to a Request for a Marriage License. Bpectal to the Post-Dispatch. PARIS, Movo., Aug. 16.—The romance of “Tommie Hickson, the 12-year-old bride of Ernest Crosswhite, came to an end Satur- day by voming in contact with the practical head of Monroe County's Probate Judge, who decided that Tommie, however much she loved, must remain vet awhile in her father’s home. When he gave the decision the girl, who is beautiful indeed, arose and cast a look of agony af the young man who but a short hour ago was her husband, and burst into a torrent of tears. The father was determined and coid, and seizing her drag- ged her bodily from the Court-room and down the street, while she begged and cried piteously. The legal battle over the posses- Bion of the girl was spirited. The incidents leading up to the marriage must be first nar- rated before the decision ean be understood. Crosswhite came to Paris Monday with a friend, Henry Parker, and applied for a li- cense, presenting what purported to be the Written permission of the girl’s father. The Recorder, Mr. Creigh, refused to grant the Neense except with the proviso that it be delivered sealed to the girl's father by Parker to be signed. The license was subse- | Jesse T. Rodgers Didn’t Jump From the calculated to create a breach of the peace. 't¥5imen Simcox and Downfhg Sufiday af- ternoon just as he went on Eads bridge with the intention of jumping off. and precautions were taken that the police should not interfere. posed leap had been in Capt. Joyce’s pos- session a week and he had special officers on guard. just after paying his toll. fitting, blue serge bathing costume. In thig THE POLICE STOPPED HIM. Bridge. Jesse T. Rogers will be tried on August 17 in Judge Stevenson's court for conduct Rogers is the young man arrested by Pa- The affair had been carefully arranged But news of the pro- The young man was arrested Underneath his dark guit was a tight- JESSE T. ROGERS. quently procured by the girl and the father’s name forged and the couple married. The counsel for Crosswhite applied for a. 41 writ of habeas corpus to the Probate Court On the 12th, which was granted and directed to Thomas H. Hickson, the father, and to- Gay the father made return of the writ, de- Nying the legality of the marriage and setting up that he was the father and en-| titled to possession. On trial of the issue the counsel for the newly-married couple, ground that the marriage was a legal stat- ground that there was a common-law mar- riage. The Court held that no legal license Was issued by the Recorder of Monroe County for the reason that at the time it left the hand of the Recorder it gave no au- thority to any one to solemnize the mar- Tiage between the said parties, and for that Feason no legal Statutory marriage was S0lemnized between the two, and gave the custody of the girl to the father. Judge Hurd incidentally remarked that there was ot ney and valid common-law marriage, cl & pretty, vivacious brunette apes: the proceedings with tearful © was borne triumphantly away by the father : at noon, hundreds o Mockiug €8round to wate 4 Keene ntl alates toa h the scene. ENGLAND'S EASTERN TROUBLE The Afghans Forbidden to Join the In- Qian Rebels. BSIMLA, Aug. 16.~The Ameer of Afghan istan has issued a firman forbiddin his subjects to join the rebels who are nae : arms against the Indian Government. a “ the Afghan Governor of Khost weg Soca ordered to punitah the Afghans who ae been raiding camels belonging to the Tochi Punitive expedition. : European and native reinforcements been ordered to Kohat, immediately, in a to overawe the Afridas. It ie rumored that the Orakzais ha risen in arms. ses wind was very strong and it turned me over. master of ceremonies, and with him were the Busch boys. and two skiffs were pick me up. ithe outs'de that tet ane if I did I was to get $500. That IS a the Messrs. MoAlister & Farrell, stood on the | !"_!t for me, I was to jump from the middle span, turn /; one complete somersault, hit the utory marriage and made no claim on the head first and come out unharmed.” he was to make a world’s record by leap- | ing from the middle span of the big bridge. “I don’t know whether I would have imped or not,."’ said Rogers Monday, ‘‘the might have Prof. Bill Clark wae the The Anheuser-Busch tug, under the bridge to “Prof. Clark made some heavy bets. on I would go through all would have been money there that The condit'onae were water a Mrs. Susan Foster Fired Four Walked Off a Moving Train While She home at ll a. m. Epworth League excursionists and had oc- cupied a berth in the sleeper of the 10:40 Dp. m. clad only in night gown and stockings and body was terribly mangled, as three or four teau contained two baggage about $9 in money. got up out of her berth about 3:30 a. m. ana walked out the rear door of .the sleeper, probably when in a somnambulistic state. NEW LOW RECORD FOR SILVER. The Price of the Metal at New York ver fell again to-day to a new low rec- ord. The fall in London since Saturday for bar silver was % of a penny to %% pence and in New York the price declined %& to 54%. Mexican dollars compared to 42 cents on Saturday. ’ TRIED TO KILL HER NEIGHBOR, -Ineffectual Shots at Mrs. Katie Norborg. QUARREL IN THE BACK YARD. MRS, FOSTER CLAIMED THAT MRS. NORBORG WAS CARELESS WITH HER GARBAGE. HAD HER REVOLVER READY. When Mrs. Norborg Talked Back Mrs. Foster Opened Fire and Lincoln Av- enue Women Thought Mur- der Had Been Done. Mrs. Katie Norborg of 398 Lincoln ave- nue walked into the warrant office Monday and tossed a flattened bullet on Prosecutor Braden’s desk. “But for the iron knob on a screen door this bullet would have been buried in my body,”” said Mrs. Norborg. Then she related the details of a thrill- ing experience. At 9 o'clock Monday morn- ing, she said, Mrs. Susan Foster, her next door neighbor, living at 3906 Lincoln avenue, shot at her three times in the rear yard of the Foster flat. Mrs. Norborg was standing on her back | porch when the first shot was fired. She fied into her kitchen. The first ball im- bedded itself in the brick wall. The second struck the screen door knob just as Mrs. Norborg rushed inside. The third shot went wild. Mrs. Norborg ventured out on her rear porch and picked up the flattened bullet that had struck the doorknob. She is keeping it as a souvenir. The origin of the trouble, according to Mrs. Norborg, was a dispute over an ac- cumulation of rubbish and waste paper in Mrs. Foster’s back yard. Mrs. Foster accused Mrs. Norborg of put- ting the debris there. Mrs. Norborg denied the charge. Angry words were exchanged. Then Mrs. Foster is alleged to have reached ‘nto the myster'‘ous folds of her dress. She drew forth a pistol, and the shooting fol- lowed. The neighborhood was aroused and Mrs. Norborg was advised to prosecute. A war- rant charging assault with intent to kill was issued. “Neither of the three shots struck me,” said Mrs. Norborg to a Post-Dispatch re- porter, “but I was horribly fr'ghtened. Just think! That woman, standing less than six feet away, pumping lead at me as fast as she could. My neighbors tell me that Mrs. Foster is mentally deranged. I don’t know much about her, except that she has nerve enough to pull a trigger. I never harmed her, and all she could have against me was the belief that I put the rubb'sh LET THE TRAN RUN OVER HIM Frederick Wilde Said He Might as Well Be Dead as Idle. HIS BODY GROUND TO PIECES. SAW THE MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN COMING AND DIDN’T GET OUT OF THE WAY. WHEELS BATHED IN BLOOD. A Striking Miner Killed at Howard Station by the Train That Slaughtered His Cousin Three Weeks Ago. Frederick Wilde was run over and hor- ribly mangled by Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 8, at Howard Station, Monday morning. He was dead when picked up and his body was taken to the Morgue. Wilde was 26 years.olé. He came to St. Louis from Mount Olive, Ill., fiVe weeks ago. He was a coal miner and one of the strikers. For several days he had been despondent. His money was giving out and he had no prospect of obtaining work. Monday morning he made his final effort. He went to the Howard Pipe Works, but ‘ was told there was no work for him. Leaving the office he walked west along Il the railroad track. The through train from Kansas City was in plain view nearly a Wilde quarter of a mile down the track. was facing the train and must have seen it, but he walked straight ahead. - her back yard, and I was innocent of 1at.’’ After the shooting Mrs. Foster put her gun in the house. She went away before the police arrived and has not been founa., MISS BOWMAN'S AWFUL FATE. Was Asleep. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CORDER, Mo., Aug. 16.—J. E. Bowman of Zif. Warren County, IIll., brother of Miss Mary Bowman, who was killed by the cars Friday night, arrived here Sunday morn- ing and claimed the body and left for Miss Bowman was one of the returning east-bound train. The body was how she left the train is a mystery. The trains had passed over it. Her portman- checks and Indications point to the fact that she had Has Declined to 55 3-8. NDPW YORK, Aug. 16.—The price of sil- were quoted at 41% as FREDERICK WILDE. He kept the track until it was too late to stop the train. The air brakes were applied, but the train was still moving rapidly when it struck Wilde, His body rolled over and over and then passed under the locomotive. When the train was stopped the wheels of four coaches were bathed in the young work- ingman’s blood. Conductor Merrifield and two of the passengers carried the mangled body into the office where, five minutes be- fore,-Wilde had asked for work. From there it was taken to the Morgue. Walker Johnson, Who formerly worked with Wilde, was notified of the accident. He visited Wilde's boarding place Monday morning and advanced the theory that Wilde had deliberately permitted the train to kill him. Johnson said that Wilde had been despondent for two weeks and had re- marked that a man might as well be dead as out of work. Wilde was a cousin of David Sumpter, who was killed by the same train at Spring avenue three weeks ago. | = T WHEAT JUMPS 10 93 344 Cf i, Highest Market That Been Known Here in Many Years. I Has ALMOST A PANIC ON ’CHANGE. PRICE FOR SEPTEMBER WENT UP 21-8 CENTS IN LESS THAN THE BULLS CARRIED THE DAY. Spéncer-Haarstick-Francis Syndicate Puzzle the Speculators by Selling and Buying in the Same Pit. The wheat market was nervous and at times almost panicky Monday. The bulls and the bears had the best of it by turns. There was a bulge, followed by a break, after which the buyers again boosted the price and kept it around 92c. At the opening the market showed un- mistakably signs of strength, the quota- tion 91%c being 1%c above Saturday's close. Trading was lively during the first hour. As usual the early news was all bullish. Cables were higher and French news for the first time in several days cut an im- portant figure in shaping the course of the local market. It was reported that the French were buying heavily owing to the poor crop outlook in that country, New York reported heavy acceptances for foreign shipments from that port, janother indication of the continuance of the Euro- pean demand. With this news as a leverage William Haarstick, Tom Francis, E. B. White, the Orthweins and C. H. Spencer got under the market and boosted it to the highest price of the year—93%c. The opening advance was steady to 92%c. There was an inclination on the part of the bulls to realize, but every such attempt was seized on by the bears as excuse to run the price down. A few sales of the kind sent the market as low as 92c. Many of the big traders would make hand- some profits if they could sell at the pres- ent prices, but heavy sales would knock the bottom out of the market. Members who have been watching the big fellows closely say the bulls will boost the market sev- eral cents higher and unload gradually. Whenever the market shows a tendency to break they will quit selling and bid the price up again,, These tactics were followed closely by several of the big traders Monday. When the market dropped to 92 cents they put on the brakes and sent it back to 92% cents. The bears, however, wére undaunted. Much of the late news was in their favor. There were two bearish features which would have broken a weaker market. The first of these was the report of the world’s shipments. The figures given were 7,284,000 bushels as against 5,020,000 bushels last week and 5,035,000 bushels the corresponding week last year. This, the bears argued, refuted the state- ments of the bulls that the world’s crop was short. The report on the visible supply was equally reassuring to the bears. he bulls had confidently predicted a decrease of 1,500,000 bushels. he figures posted Mon- day showed a decrease of only 424,000. On the strength of these figures and the fact that local receipts were heavy, the bears ran the price down to 9lc. The big traders, though anxious to real- ize, were unwilling to sell at this price and again bid the September option. he market was at 91 cents when the raid began. In less then three minutes the Spencer, Haarstick and Francis contingent ran it up to 98@93%6¢c. They did not intend that it should stay there. They simply wanted a chance to unload a few lots and take profits. When the market reached the top notch, they be- came sellers and practically took the bear side of the argument until the price slumped off to 92%c. Not a trade was made for half an hour and lack of interest caused a drop to 91%¢c, though it advanced later to 9$2c and was again stationary. A new record for cash wheat on this crop was also established Monday. Saleq were made on track at 965c. Just before the close the dial marked 93 s. A second later the hand pointed at 4, then 96. Still higher it went to 97 and finally to 98. There was almost a panic on the floor. Men did not know what to make of it and rushed wildly about. Finally it was learned that either some- thing was the matter with the electric dial or somebody had been “monkeying” with t : During the excitement it was announced that the official quotation was 93% cents and the dial could not be relied upon, Just before the close the bears made a determined raid and forced September wheat from 93%c down to 924, the closing figure. CAN HENRY J, PATE CLEAR UP THE ZOE WATKINS MYSTERY? Says the Beautiful Society Girl Was Murdered ix His House in St. Louis by a Medical Student. SHE WAS CHLOROFORMED AND ASSAULTED, Electrician Arrested for Beating a Woman Tells a Circumstan- tial Story of a Famous Tragedy of Fifteen Years Ago, Then Claims He Lied. Henry J. Pate, electrician, made himself suddenly famous Sunday night by declar- ing he could tell all the facts connected with the disappéarance of Zoe Watking in 1882. Monday morning he denied all knowledge of the case and declared he had concocted the story to effect his own purposes. Zoe Watkins was a young woman well known in the best soclety of St. Louis, She was bright and beautiful and had financial prospects. One night she was missing. For more than a week the city was searched from end to end, but not the slightest trace of her could be found. A few days later her body was given up by the river at the foot of Chouteau avenue. locked him up in the Seventh District Po- lice Station. After his incarceration he told Sergt. Johnson he knew why and how Zoe Watkins disappeared. And this is his story: Im 1883 Henry J. Pate was living at 1704 South Second etreet, with his wife and family. He married, Jan. %, 1877, Mary Rodden, by whom he had several children. On the night of March 17, 1883, he went to his home and found his wife in tears. She refused for some time to tell him the cause, but at last confessed that during his absence, on the preceding night, a young medical student she had known in previous years brought a beautiful and richiy dressed girl to the house and demanded a, room. The medical student and the girl ZOE WATKINS. (Society Girl Who Disappeared in 1882.) The mystery remains unsolved to this day, although Zoe's parents offered large rewards for the unraveling of the affair. During al! these fifteen years, Pate said, he carried with him the explanation of the sensational affair. The uniformed police are inclined to believe he knows something of lk. that he ts telling a falsehood. The story is full of dramatic details and, as told by Pate, has much of interest, de- spite the fact he afterwards denied having any such information. Pate got drunk Sunday morning and late in the afternoon went to his home, 218 Washington avenue, where he attacked his wife, dragged her across the street, and threatened to kill both her and himself. She screamed for help and was rescued by | Patrolman Head, who arrested Pate and “Police must drink.” When he upon the bar his coin may slap A POLICEMAN’S LOT IS NOT (?) A HAPPY ONE. (The Board has ordered officers to buy and drink liquors, so as to qualify themselves as witnesses in excise cases. The expense of same is to be charged Oh, what a perfect snap! Pray, where's the man who would not be & copper, And ry the barkeep to remove the stop- “Police must drink.” The city pays the | freight; The cop may get a warm and lovely jag on— A brannigan of such enormoug weight They'll have to cart him homeward in a Wagon. the department.) Oh, mamma! A peeler with a thirst delightful, glowing! I'd drink as much as ever I could-hold, And shake the town, when once I got to I'd | ha And charge the city up with my expenses. ; going. Would I were a copper bold—. INN OO | I'd take my grammar and before the bar “Drunk” I'd decline in all {ta moods and tenses, throw discretion to the winds afar | EE ae aa — “Police must drink.”” Well, if IT were a cop, 1 wouldn't do a thing—I wouldn't, surely. | From off the houses I would blow the top, | Just like a gun exploded prematurely. j a. JAGHOLDER., | . had attended a ball at a public hall on Soulard street, and had evidently bees drinking. Pate declared that his wife further con- fesased that while the couple were there the medical student assaulted the girl. She proved too strong for him, even in her The detectives express confidence | gem{-intoxication, and he resorted to chlo- roform. With this he accomplished his pur- pose. Then the doctor discovered that he had administered too large a dose of the anes. thetic and that the girl was dying. He exerted himself frantically to save her life, but she died while under the influence of the chloroform. The body was atili in the house. Three or four nights later, Pate said, the young medical student, whose name he learned and which he gives, came to the house In a covered wagon. The news- papers meanwhile were printing columns about the disappearance of Zoe Watkina, and by this means Pate ascertained the dead girl's name. He had been bound to secrecy by his wife and maintained it in order te save her. But he drew the line at handling the body or having anything to do with the affair himself. The reappearance of the doctor, with his covered wagon,, changed his mind, for, he says, the man drew a pistol and compelled him by threats of instant death to put the body of Zoe Watkins in the ve- hicle, From the home at 174 South Second they rode north and dumped the lifeless body of beautifal Zoe Watkins Into the river—at the foot of Miller street, he thought. This ls the point where Chief Desmond be- . gins to disbelieve the story, as the body must have floated north—an impossibility, Desmond thinks—to be found five blocks above where Pate says it was thrown in the river. In addition, Chief Desmond saya that an examination of Zoe Watkins’ body by physi- clans had been made on her, there only ap- pearing a few bruises, probably caused by & passing steamboat. Still, the story of Pate was confided s-¢- cretly to others before his public decilara- tlon made Sunday night. The woman at SIS Washington avenue, who says she is Pate's second w fe, and to whom Pate declares he “as never married, told the same story to the police, Monday morning, as having been previeusigy tel 2 ae ae? Ph nae ME“ , ot ew _ a | om . eye? iy? , - . © ¥ — ae " . = wei Sane — ee ee , Che. 2p. —_ ‘ a ee TY ; gia ve