St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 28, 1897

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7 : ro aOR ee. ar yk Le p ‘‘“—e a a. + f ere) = ae ee, es be. ‘ a’ GO oars vn we INDTc ». ° 5 my ie pm, 4.04 d Pa AR s« &- ? —_ . ~ ye ied : as) ea R , He. LS aap tay Se eae : . 4 7 4 7, ‘>? _ : Falr and stationary. EDITION. morrow’s Sunday the Nevt. Wonderful cure of a Southern | traveling man, accomplished by a mysterious agency, told in to- Post-Dispatch. | ST. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES wr wee ee = the Land VOL. 49, NO. 39. SATURDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—AUGUST 28, 1897. la St. Lowis, One “eat. Gateide St Loais, Iwo Cents PRICE} Concerning of Gold. about the Alaskan land of ter- ror and wealth is told in 16 pages of to-morrow’ s 50-page Sunday Post-Dispatch. OO quae, AVED WITH FOOD IN SIGHT. Miss Ida Owens’ Lingering Death by a Stricture of the Esophagus. A LS T_T cr ATE NOTHING FOR WEEKS. BURGEONS WERE POWERLESS TO COPE WITH THE GIRL’S PE- CULIAR AFFLICTION. Se eee eee HUNGRY ALL THE TIME. Bevere Attack of Grip After a Sunday- School Picnic, Fo\lowed by One of the Rares: Aiiments in Medical History. For eleven weeks Misa Ida Owens of Belleville was slowle starving to death. Her frantic relatives provided every dell- cacy. She was not sick. Her faculties were alert. She craved for food. It was set before her in abundance. She tried to eat it but could not. Her stomach was sealed. No nu- triment could enter it. Three months ago Miss Owens was a buxom girl, weighing 14 pounds. In her twenty years of life sickness had been un- known to her. She was pretty, amiable and accomplished, and a favorite in the circle | left h's gun in his room at his hotel. in which she moved. The Sunday-school of St. Pau! ’s Church | tective force. @ave a picnic at Elmer's Hill. It was a raw, | chilly day. Miss Owens wore a thin white Gress. She caught cold and had a severe at- |Trobbers would have taken it away from me, tack of grip. A few days afier she recov- ered she experienced pain in her chest, and there was apparently an obstruction to the passage of food through the esophagus. | | was walking alone down the south s'‘de of Dr. C. G, Rayhill was called in. He made! Walnut street towards the St. James Hotel, HELD A GUN TO AN ACTOR'S HEAD, Two Big Highwaymen Rung Down on W. J. Deming and Took His Pile. ——— — DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO YELL. AFTER MAKING THE QUICK TOUCH THEY LEFT HIM . BTRANDED IN AN ALLEY. LUCKY THEY WERE A DAY LATE. a That He Is Good to His Folks the Only Thing That Saved the Player Losing a Large Bundle of Greenbacks. W. J. Deming, who plays the part of the doctor in “A Milk White Flag’ at Hay- Iin’s, was held up by two bold h'ghwaymen last night. The robbery was done in one of the busi- est. quarters of the city. At the point of a pistol Deming was made to disgorge $1.50, all the money he had. 4 *- > . - ) BB § Atagnos's of stricture of the esophagus. leven weeks ako the obstruction became complete. rom that food en- tered her stomach. Miss Owens was in all other respects per- fectly healthy. She suffered no pain frem the obstruction. She was simply hungry. She experienced no distress except the constant crav ne for food up to within a ew days of her death. The beautiful girl ad dwindled away to a living ekeleton. prature at last bewan to give way. Ske ad fainting epells lasting at times for bours, and from which she was with aim oul’ aroused She lapsed into one of theée Spelle Thursday and never. regained con- Bclousnersy. time no toned up my coat, thus hiding my diamond. Between S xth and Seventh streets I crossed a dark alley. in front of the Standard and Havlin's thea- ters, |Street happened to be deserted at the time. shop. Before I could step aside a pisto! was An autopsy was held Friday by Drs. Waeh- | Charles The ington West. George H Igard and Gowene, assisted by Charies Harrison Stricture was found two inches above entrance to the stomach. The canal was 60 nearly obliterated that a darning needle could barely be passed through, and clear water had to be forced through @ #yr'nee The funeral waa held this afternoon the residence to Walnut Hill Cemetery. The rvicea were conducted by Elder Will'am Facaues of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. An of people at- tended. with from immense crowd even , + } second man jJumpéd out of the alley and 1 | _In a vest pocket I had a silver do! Seventh street and the highwaymen had to be ae hurry. That is why my diamond es- caped, I was afraid of taking cold and had but- Electric lights were burning each less than a square away. The “Just as I crossed the alley a big man stepped from the doorway of the barber- pointing at my nose, and it was only two inches away. “ ‘Hands up! commanded the robber. I didn't have time to get my hands up. A ran at me from behind. He threw his arms around me and pinioned my hands to my side. The first robber, with the gun still under my nose, went through my pockets. lar and two Saarenrs. The thieves took this money, a gold pencil case and a pair of go!d- rimmed eyeglasses. Two men were crossing "MEW" BRADY ~ CONDEMNED, -_—_— Official Action Taken by the Twenty-Eight Democratic Clubs of St. Louis. EMPHATIC AND OPEN PROTEST. — HIS APPOINTMENT WOULD GIVE THE STATE TO THE REPUB- LICANS AT NEXT ELECTION. RUIN THE PARTY IN THE CITY. —— ee The Twenty-Eight Presidents of Dem- ocratic Ward Clubs Ap- pointed to Confer With Gov. Stephens. The St. Louls League of Democratic clubs, representing every Democratic ward club} in the city, held a meeting Friday night at Eleventh street and Franklin avenue and expressed in unequivocal language the sentiment of the local Democracy upon the application of Hugh J. Brady for appoint- ment as Election Commissioner. It placed on record the official condemna- tion of Brady and Bradyism, and appointed as a committee to confer with Gov. Stephens the twenty-eight presidents of the twenty- eight ward clubs of St. Louis city. The following was offered and unanimous- ly adopted: “Resolved, That the appointment of Hugh J. Brady as Election Commissioner of the City of St. Louis will be a detriment to the interests of the Democratic party of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, and will be a slur upon the decent, law-abiding citizens of this city and State; that it will cost the Democrats of said city at least 10,000 votes in the next election and will lower the Democracy of the city in the estimation of the people and pave the way for a Republican administration at Jefferson City after the next election.” There was an unusually large attendance of the league, and the hd¥mony and en- thusiasm on this subject were pronounced. Henry W. Hoel presided and Joseph Hoff- man served as secretary. plan of procedure was agreed upon, and embodied in a series of resolutions, which .were unanimously adopted, as fol- tows: “Whereas, A vacancy is about to occur in the Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louls, sald vacancy to be filled by an ~~ cen of the Governor of Missouri; and, “Whereas, The Board of Election Com- missioners has supervision over all elections in this city, make all official counts of bal- lots, and decide all questions regarding the vote of the people; it is, therefore, very necessary that a Democrat who is known to be honest, competent and trustworthy be placed in this high position of trust: and “Whereas, The St. Louis League of Reg- ular Democratic Clubs has a membership of over 4,000 true Democrats, who are in- terested in the purity of the ballot and de. mand that a man be placed in this position who will protect the rights of the common people; therefore, be it “Resolved, That the twenty-eight presi- dents of the twenty-eight ward clubs of this league are hereby constituted a committee to call on the Governor on his return to St. Louis and advise with him whom to appoint to this position; and be it further “Resolved, That in case the Governor should not return to St. Louis by tember 1, thaf the chairman shall ¢all his committee together, and it shall have the power to take any action it may deem ad- visable in the matier.” Under the provisions of these resolutions the following will serve as the committee to confer with Gov. Stenhens: Thomas Lever, M. J. Murphy, Henry Koettker, George W. Fuller, Charles 8. Yaeger, Edward Guenther, Jacob Werner, J. Herz, I. M. Schetbe, E. H. O'Hara. Ed- ward Hogan, George O'Mara, Joseph §S. Dunwoody. John T. Wilson, W. A. Rran- denberger, C W. Cassilly, J. T. Appler Emil J. Schmidt. Henry Hoel, R. J McKen-, zie and Verde V. Hardcastle. NEGROES STAB A HORSE Fiendish Act of Two Boys Passing Where the Animal Was Hitched. Sep- A horse belonging to Richardson & Co.. soja water manufacturers at 919 North Eighth street, was stabbed Friday night tn the forehead by one of two negro boys who passed the place of business where the horse was h tched. The cut was two inches long and g half- inch deep, but {s not serious. The negroes | escaped after the cutting. BLACK BURGLAR WNDER THE BED, Little Madge Malloy Found What Her Sex Has Long Been Looking For. WAS PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK. HID TO GRAB AT HER LITTLE SISTERS, WHEN SHE WAS CAUGHT HERSELF. NEGRO TRIED TO HOLD HER. She Broke From Him and Scared Him From the House by Her Loud Screams for Help. Now let the cynics rage. Miss Madge Malloy has settled the great sex problem. Friday afterndon, all unawares, she estab- lished the reality of “the man under the bed.’”’ Miss Madge is a chubby-faced youngster of 10 years, diffident before strangers and not at all.conscious of her sociolog'cal prominence. Madge lives with her parents at 2419 Rob- avenue. Their home is In Walnut Park, northwestern suburb beyond Calvary Cemetery. The little cattages are isolated from one another. The mounted policeman is only an occasional passer-by. Friday at 1:30 o’clock Mrs. Malloy left the cottage and walked across the fle'ids to where her husband, a carpenter, was work- ing on a new house. She left her eldest daughter, Madge, 10 years old, in charge of Rose, 5 years old, and the baby, a toddler of two years. The little omes were playing about in the front yard. She could hear their happy shouts as she walked across the flelds. Meanwhile the youngsters tired of playing in the sun and went at hide and seek. Madge was to secrete hersélf and tho little ones were to find her. She went into the bedroom and -crawled under the bed. The cottage is three rooms deep, parlor, bedroom and kitchen. The middle room is dark. as it has only one window and this is closed off by the back of the bed, which is one of the high, gld-fashioned oak affairs, like grandma used to sleep in. When Madge crawled in she noticed no one in the semi-darkness. Her idea was to wait until the little ones passed, then reach out and grab for them. Instead she was surprised to feel someone grab her hand. She pulled loose and started scrambling from under the bed on all fours. She saw to her horror the form of a man, a negro at that. He grabbed for her hair, but got only a few strands of yellow curls. Madge was quicker far than her burly assailant and was soon in the middle of the floor calling lustily for mamma. The negro crawled out, but made no fur- ther attempt to molest her. He went as he had come in, through the kitchen door, and cut across the flelds tcwards Baden. Madge sent her little si-ter Rose to notify her mother, while she remained in the house alone to watch the baby. When Mrs. Malloy was told there was a man at the house, she thought it was only a tramp looking for food. ¥Findine Madge in tears_and learming of her experience, she saw that things wore a different aspect. She locked the children in the house and hurried back to her husband. He called his fellow workmen together and they put away their tools and started in pursuit of the negro. All the idle men about the park were pressed into service. In half an hour a hundred men were searching the country side.. The search was prosecuted as far out as Jennings and into Benton, but no trace of the fugitive was discovered. Madge described the negro as tall and slim, dressed in rageerd trousers, tattered shoes and a weather-beaten slouch hat. One of the boys of the neighborhood saw the negro jumping a fence on the way into Baden. Hie answered the description of Madee’s assailant. The mounted police have his description and are making efforts to locate him. Mrs. Malloy th'nks that the fellow was a tramp who came to the back door look- ing for food. Finding the house deserted, he walked in, but, before he could secure any thing. the entrance of the children persed tim to secrete himself under the bed. Little Madge is shy about discussing her experience, ‘I didn't see him when I crowded in,’’ she said. ‘lt was just going to grab Rose when he grabbed me. I don't know how I got loose. It was dark under the bed back where he was. 1 guess that’s why I d'dn’t see him, because I went under head first. “TIT saw him when he came out and I would know him again.” in a NOT IN THAT CROWD! FOL Roo CAsi - mA \e SMBET wren JUDGE WITHROW: Miss Justice, I am about to open court. You will please put on the customary emblem of impartiality. Justice, like love, is blind. MISS JUSTICE: Not on'your life, Judge. The last time this gang was in court I went it blind and lost my best pair of scales and all the glass jewels that bestudded my sword. , “No,” said the Goddess Justice, as she took her bandage off, “I’m not inclined to murmur, and I’m not the one to scoff, But I have had experience, and solely on this ground I’m going to protect myself with pool-room sharks around.” CAUGHT BY A MOUNTAIN LION.| WILL BE SOMEWHAT SHORT. Sed Fate of a Little Child in Wyse: | An Expert Gives the Result of His Study of the Apple Crep. ing. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BOONVILLE, Mo., Aug. 28.—The crop of summer, fall and winter apples will not be nearly so large in this (Cooper) and adjoin- ing counties as was expected a few weeks ago. The Post-Dispatch correspondent in- terviewed Col. C. C. Bell of this city, who is Secretary of the State Horticultural So- c.ety, and one of the most extensive apple buyers and shippers in the State. and he says that after, traveling through sever] counties in the State and carefully examin. ing the apple crop, he feels warranted in saying there will be only one-third of a crop in many localities, the condition there. of being better In the counties north of Cooper. Col. Bell ig thoroughly qualified the baby was gone. It had awakened and | to Judge as to the yield and quality of toddled off in its night dress. A sear was! apples, and his opinion will be of interest to at once made for the little one, and its! apple growers and buyers. He matntains bare feet tracks were found leading\to “! that the partial failure in certain localit es spring nearly a mile away. Near the spring | is due to a lack of culttvation A large per were found aiso fresh tracks of a uge cent of the apple crop is afflicted with w ee mountain lion. No other trace of § the}is called scab, which ts a rough pot on the baby has been found. There is known to; surface of the fruit. This disease, Col. Rell be a den of four lions on Casper Mountain. | says. is prevelent In ali the orchards ex- No hopes are entertained of finding the baby | amined and on account of It the apple alive. / crop will fall short of a Klondike yield. FARMER STABBED BY ABOY. | THE WEATHER FORECAST. Four Wounds Inflicted and No Ho FAIR AND STATIONARY Recovery. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WARSAW, Mo., Aug. 28.—Last even! Fristo, twelve miles -south of here, CASPER, Wrvo., Aug. 2.—A 2-year-old child was carried away by a mountain lion on Casper Mountain Thursday morning. A fruitless search has been made by herders of flocks and miners day and night to find the baby. The little one is an orphan whose mother died last year, and whose father had put it {nto the care and keeping of a fam ly | by the name of Henderson, who is herding | sheep ten miles from Casper at the head of | “Cy” Canyon, At daylight Thursday Mr. Henderson | arose an followed his flock, leaving his wife | and the orphan charge sleeping im camp. When he returned at 8 o'clock for \break- fast the woman was still fast asleep and For St. Louls and vicinity—Fatr Saturday night and Sunday; little change in temperature For Mis*our!—Generally fair Saturday nicht and Sundays; cooler in the northwest porticna Sunday afternoon For liinols—Unsettled but generaliy fair weather Saturday night and Sunday: warmer ia the central portion Saturday night. knife Z. F. Mitchener, a,prominent far with whom he had been living. wounds were inflicted and there is no of his recovery. Byram was arrested. | JUDGE PEABODY 10 BE MURDERED, His Friends Claim to Have Information of a Foul Conspiracy. THWARTED ON AN EXCURSION, THE LITTLE JUDGE SAVED BY STICKING CLOSE TO HIS EKNOWN FRIENDS. HIS SON HAD A CLOSE CALL. While Frank Peabody Kept an Eye on Jeff Storts a Desperate Char- acter Quietly Kept tho Drop on Him. Friends of Judge Thomas W. Peabody have in the last few days claimed to have information of a conspiracy to assassinate him at the first favorable opportunity. Judge Peabody is said to be aware of the contemplated attempt on his life and goes constantly prepared to meet it. The policy pursued by the littl Judge towards a certain class of criminals has | made him many enemies, several of whom have openly expressed their intention of wreaking vengeance on him. It is from an emissary of this element that the danger ts said to threaten Peabody. Dr. Rader, Coroner Walt's clerk, says he was informed of the alleged plot against Judge Peabody's life a few days ago, while in conversation with a number of politicians. One of the politicians, whose name Dr, Rader refused to divulge, startled the greup by announcing that he had rece!ved posi- tive information that an attempt would be made to murder the Police Justice at the first opportunity. “He told us,” sald Dr, Rader, “that the plot had been revealed to him by a member - of the class of criminals who are so bitter against Peabody. “The opportunity sought for was thought to have arrived on the occasion of the re- cent excursion on the river attended by Judge Peabody—the Press Club excursion, I think it was. Had the boat landed either up or down the river, or had Peabody be- come separated from the crowd, even on the Levee here. the chances are, my in- formant said, that he would have been slain.”* Dr. Rader’s statement, which was made to a group in the Coroner's office, refreshed the memory of one of his listeners, who re- lated an incident of the trial of Matt Kelly in the police court a week ago. It was during this time that Judge Peabody was so perturbed over Jeff Storts’ threatening remarks that he carried a revolver to the bench with him. “T remember during this trial,”’ said the interested listener, “that Frank Peabody, the Judge’s son, occupied a position direct- ly behind Jeff Storts, and it was an open secret among the court officials that he was there by his fathers’ orders, with iInstruc- tions to shoot Storts the instant he made se threatening movement. The enemies of the Judge were fully aware of this, although they did not let their knowledge become known. They had a ‘nervy’ man planted within easy reach of young Peabody, with instructions to fget him good’ before he could pull trigger on Storts. Dr. Rader positively refused to divulge the name of his informant, as the story was told him on that condition. He said, however, that neither of the Storts brothers was implicated tn the conspiracy, so far as his informant had been able to learn. “T have heard these threats from time to t:me,” said the little Police Justice, “and have rece'ved a number of anonymous threatening letters. couched in the most vi- c'ous language, at various times during the past two weeks. I have a suspicion of the identity of the sender of these missives, or at least of the identity of the individuals respons ble for them, but for the present I prefer to keep my suspicions to myself. All my friends are aware of the identity of the men, and a close watch is being kept of thelr movements. r , ¢ J Cc . oe ; “Onkle” Henry would advise you to drink plenty of butter Preise wos. : cold water baths. » me. ae ee ee ‘~o ies ’ ss " ee ae « ji a , nani ibs j 1 - ys ‘ith ad ‘tints : . _ “y er ai 5 , . bil ts es ar . LM NOT SI Se ey. mC: gla AO am i: IS a Pe 4 ~~ I 7? 7 ~ T eS eI e eee meena Dr. Sutter believes in frequent wy. 2 . : 2 ‘ ee ae Pte (eA RE Rear él Bane i ee The banker advises you to take Don’t do any work things easy. and don’t think _— a The brewer would recommend you to drink all the beer you can. COOL THIS WEATHER. w