St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 24, 1897

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Read the Remarkable Story in the Next Sunday Post-Dispatch. n’s Servant. laces the shoes of a pluto Z 4 FIFTEEN THOUSAND PERSONS WILL FEAST AT THE GREAT SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS*DINNER \ \ The Post-Dispatch Promised That the Charitable Undertaking by the 6 Noble Band of Willing Workers Would Prove a Success, and It Certainly Will. LASSIES WHO SKATEB ON Roast Beef. Mashed Potatoes. Tomatoes and Corn, Roast Turkey. Stewed Chicken and Roast Duck. Pies and Cakes. Apples and Peaches, Coffee, Bananas, LIEUTENANT MEYERS. BILL OF FARE FOR *- TO-MORROW'S DINNER, Soup, Cold Bolled Ham, Roast Pork With Apple Sauce. POST-DISPATGH LAKE Beans, Turnips. ea EEE Oe en ee ee ee ae ee ————EEO—— ill ill ti —e CADET MORK, Forty Cooks Are Now. Cooking Food by the Ton, and Eight Hundred Persons Will Be Seated at a Time in the Great Hall— A Happy Christmas for the Poor, NER. Miss Horspool ......s..+00 avenue I oo. eis ot COSC EPO Heer se eesearesseee . - PRUE caceccceses boosene 6606008 ° ‘“~ * . A. L. Rankin eevee ese*eever - AUBUSTIMNEG coscesessees eserves e Knights of Pythias H,. G. Plummer Walter and Howard Golden Mrs. John O'Fallon - . O'Fallon eee eee et eww ea eee wee eee omer rere! . Lindley Supply Co ...... . Brown — oe and Miss . Mrs. E. Cc. Robbins @eeesssese weeeeeseese . Mrs. Eliag Michael eescccecesccecssssess Total nee See RECEIVED THROUGH THE POST-DISPATCH: Aa - | eevee ec eee OP 3 a au. Pew ieee” BOF ci fee bdccease chess Antoinette Ee. E. B Mrs. M. ° Gentleman Friend . Gash. aacececsre nae we Cash eeeteee een eeoeereree eeeeeeneeneeeee eeeeeee * Cash : 4*Lady Friend”’ eeeeeeeeeeeneeerer eer eee eear ee $43 38 $402 95 Grand total Value of SOLED E SOLE O GOGH GOPOGO OOO HTH OOO EDOL OOO re | A LETTER OF THANKS. and lassies, armed with contribution boxes. It was @ repetition of the plan inaugurated last Saturday. The results were highly gratifying. Although only thirteen solic'- tors were out, $11.27. This, added te the contributions previously acknowledged through the Post- Dispatch, fully meets the expectations of Maj. Miles. The solicitors appeared on the street cdr- ners shortly after noon Thursday. Money fairly rained into their contribution baxes. The amounts ranged from one cent to one dollar. Half-dollars were the most numer- ous, but there was coin of almost every denomination. A Post-Dispatch reporter was in Maj. Miles’ office, 1411 Franklin avenue, when the solicitors made their returns, and assisted in counting the money. It was a joyful scene, The unselfish workers were as much elated as if the generous outpouring of coin was oo their individual use instead of a public charrty, Mrs. Maj. Miles stood at Sixth and.Locust streets. Hers was the banner collection— $24.09. Cadet Monk came next with $17.41. Mrs, Miles declared that she couldn’t help taking in the money. ‘“‘The Post-Dispatch made it easy for me,” she said. Mrs, Miles relates a pathetic story of her afternoon on Sixth and Locust streets. “A frail woman, thin and pinched by hun- ger, stood on the corner selling papers,” said Mrs. Miles, ‘“‘and as I watched her I thought that she ought to be invited to our dinner. Many people bought papers, and a smile played about the wan face. Toward the close of the evening, the poor woman dropped a small coin into the contribution box, I told Editor Post-Dispatch: Dear Sir—Words cannot express the deep gratitude we ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4%. fo @ of @ ofo-oo8s feel to the Post-Dispatch for the truly getierous manner in which you have come to our help in the Christmas Dinner scheme. have given to it, the dinner is now an assured success. 9,000 tickets were im the hands of the poo?, and a steady stream of applicants still ° come and will probably continue until the dinner is over. Donations of provisions or. cash still come, and are still wanted. The blessings of the poor will follow you, and every Salvationist will earnestly pray God's blessings your staff, while the glad knowledge that the Post-Dispatch has secured bread to the hungry and comfort to comfortless will surely bring to you all a most Happy Christmas, Heaven's blessings be yours. Sincerely yours for God and the Poor, f Thanks to the wide publicity you At 9 o’clock this morning * ‘e co o- upon you and > > 7 C. AND 8S. MILES, SPO ar © eho Oar s8o © alo tio Oar OH HOO O OH Oro 400 © 12r-O soo © Sr Halo © 4-H 009 OH OH Ole ooteg The Salvation Army Christmas dinner will be a success. The Post-Dispatch prom- jsed that it would be. It will be a big suc- cess. Fifteen thousand hungry men, women and children will be cheered by a great din- ner. The bill of fare embraces all that is | a goodly sprinkling of, eubstantial, with luxury.. Maj. Miles, the head of the noble Army In , Missouri, announced Thursday night that everything was assured, The ambition of the Post-Dispatch has been realized. At Ninth and Market streets Friday for- ty men and women are busily engaged cooking. A dozen gasoline stoves were set in place early in the morning and the cu- linary work promptly started, Capt. Gregerson, a cook of many years’ experience, is the chef in charge. He di- rects his forty helpers with a wave of the hand or a mere suggestion. There is per- fect order. Everybody knows his or her duty. And that duty is executed, The great dinner will be served on the gecond floor of the building at the north- west corner of Ninth and Market streets, The hall is one of the largest in the city and table room has been arranged so that 800 persons can be seated at one time. Should the crowd be so large as to necessi- tate more room, the army will throw open another of the several halls at its com. mana. Briefly stated, the fund is complete, the : dining hall is in order, provisions have been purchased, the cooks are at work and the great Christmas dinner, so fully ex- plained in the Post-Dispatch, is a_ cer- tainty. “Contributions came with a rush toward the close,”’ said Maj. Miles, “and the suffer- ing poor may thank the Post-Dispatch for alding the army in its effort. The Post. Dispatch made the appeal and a generous public responded.”’ . The Saivation Army’s Christmas dinner will, beyond all doubt, be the greatest char- ity dinner ever g-ven in St. Louls. All of the town is talking about ft. The occa- sion has been thoroughly advertised, and it is likely that even more than 15,000 people will be fed. The invitation is open to all who are worthy. And the Salvation Army, by reason of its resources of investigation, is able to dis- ‘tinguish the worthy from the unworthy. _ _The army was represented on prominent afternoon by jads her not to do it, because I knew she was not able. But she insisted that she was. She said she had read of the great dinner in the Post-Dispatch, and that she had sold so Inany Post-Dispatches during the afternoon that she could afford to give her mite,” Following is a list of Thursday’s street collections; Lieut, Kaler Cadet Mobaca Mrs. McNeely Cadet Yates Cadet Mork Cadet Spencer Mrs. Maj. Miles Cadet Smith Capt. Lackey Cadet Collings Cadet Lowe The work of cooking will run well up into the night. The tinisning touches wil] be put on Christmas morning and at 11 o’clock heaton — open. Dinner will continue 80) persons at a time, until every “ant has been fed, ——— PROVISIONS RECEIVED. Helier & Schert ’ ; C > eranberstes Nn Commission Co., 1 basket of bd J. sruckner, 1 barrel of apples. Gerber I rait (o., 1 box oranges. MG, oe abi oa Co., 1 bunch bananas. _, “4. &renning & Sons, 25 pounds dried felt me % kin 4 pounds coffee. ee an . » ” NI . wa insella, 707 Spruce street, 25 pounds F, Smith & Co., 2 pounds coffee. - Conner, 802 North Sixth street, § pounds L.. Meyer, 20 pounds meat. coffee, Sweet & Co., 1 ham. Friend, 1 sack meal. Friend, 1 small bag beans. wriend, 1 small bag rice. ary a re . GOS Market street, 1 pail! candy. he whe ettys & Son, 113 North Main street, 1 - Benner, 421 South Seventh street, 1 pail . M. Bieckert & Cc OT ° pounds dried apples” North Main street, 100 ©. Hollmas > 4 bushe? ‘sae gg & Co., 23 North Malin gtreet, Self-Oulture Society, 870 loaves bread. Jobn Kulser & . : pounds suger. Co., O01 Franklin avenue, 20 Boettler, Morgan hetw streets, 200 leaves bread Seventh and Bighth som inney, Franklin and Sixteenth, bread. rag oh Morgan and Sixteenth, cakes. r. Young, 1100 Morgan, lot of provisions. in ge Begeman Jonesburg, Mo., barrel of _ DERVISHES ON THE MOVE. Are Marching Against the Anglo- Egyptian Forces. CAIRO, Dec. 24.—The Dervishes have left Shendy and Metemmeh and are marching ue object - — oe ‘ dent ee ee bitrate ene Bee ay tee AR, 7 a 2, Le wm the collection aggregated Stocker Bros., 1109 Franklin avenue, 5 pounds ST. NICK'S AID S UNCLE SAM, “It’s the Greatest Christmas in Twenty Years, Sor.” p LITTLE OLD MAN GAVIN KNOWS. HE HAS HANDLED THE PRESENTS IN THE POST-OFFICE FOR A DECADE, MAIL BAGS BULGE JUST NOW. ‘There Are Scenes cf Human Interest at the Great Postal Repository, but System Makes Order Out of Chaos, “Mr. Postmaster,” said the woman with seven parcels, addressing Assistant Super- intendent Caffrey, ‘how much is it an ounce to send a doll and two Noah’s Arks and a tin horn and two sets of dinner dishes, one vase and a winter dress to Shawneetown?” “Cent nounce merchandise; cent two ounces print matter, cent four ounces news- papers, sealed at letter rates, go through on one stamp when letter-paid, pass up your packages, madam. Next!” ‘“Wha'd he say?’ she asked of the line of twenty-seven impatient men and women standing at the Post-office windows. ‘‘He said to hurry up!”’ shouted a fiery lit- tle man at the end of the line, who looKed as though he did all the shopping for his family. “No, he didn’t say-that.”’ * “Well?” said Caffrey, smiling. “Tain’t well, neither,’’ responded the woman. “I want to find out how much these things weigh and what'll cost to maii , m?’’ ‘“‘Ah, take them to the man at the table in the corridor.”’ The woman dropped out and a great sigh of relief went up from the waiting people. It was the day before Christmas. The great post-office of the city was up to its eyes in business—having what Mr. Brady would call ‘‘a run for its money.” Bushels, baskets, pounds and tons of Christmas presents were passing through the metal chutes into the basement, over- whelming the expert and rap d workmen who dispose of such matter under the class- sification describ'ng them as raters. ed the metal chutes. Little old Mike Gavin, who has been Iis- tening to the music of that chute for twen- ty-five years, looked up in dismay. “Well, begob,”’ he said, ‘‘when them tin pipes was made they didn’t count on 8t. Nick, and that’s a fact, sor. An’ ye talk ‘Rattledy, bang, siz—z—g—boom!”’ shout- TWO PERSONS WERE KILL —_ In a Series of Explosions in Jersey City. THREE MORE WERE INJURED. THERE WERE FIVE EXPLOSIONS IN ALL, FOLLOWING THE BURSTING OF A BOILER. NEAR BY BUILDINGS BURNED. Considerable Damage Was Tone to Property Near the Acid Factory Where the Accident Occurred and There Was Much. Excitement. en NEW YORK, Dec. 2#4.—A succession of explosions at the United States Acetylene Liquefying Company in Jersey City to-day caused the loss of two lives and $20,000 dam- ages to the works. : The dead are: THOMAS FOWLER, assistant engineer. MAX GRIMM. There were only three other employes in the building at the ‘time of the accident and they sustained injuries. Their names are: FRED BURR. ee 2. FRITZ EPSQL. ' CHARLES WHITE. } | James Leeb, who was working half a biock away, was badly injured by a piece of the- boiler. A-fragment of the boiler ‘tore the roof from a trolley ear some distance away. There were in all five explosions. Windows were broken for a distanee of a mile from the works. The building burned to the ground and an adjoining paper mill caught fire, It is said that the first explosion was due to the boilers bursting and as the fire spread to the various acid tanks there was a succession of deafening reports. Near- by buildings, as well as the Central Rail- road of New Jersey trestle, caught fire, but the losses were not serious in those in- stances. The machinery of the local electric I'ght- ing the electric lights in various buildings to go out. Max Grimm’s body was blown through a window and torn to pieces, The 0) SANTA CLAUS AS A LETTER CARRIER.. about no money be'n’ in the country—look at pe 1 gee will ye?’’ “Rattledy, bang, siz—z—z, boom!” the metal chutes again, é ie “What'd I tell ye?’ said the little old man,as he grasped his big rake and plunged into the mountains of packages, and went stamping away for dear life. In a few minutes he paused again. I seen euch a Christmas as this. blizzard of good things for everybody.” “Mr. Gavin,’ said a Post-Dispatch re- porter, “you are cancelling stamps at a rapid rate there. How do you know whether the postage is sufficient?’ . *“Bense,’’ said the old man. away. He threw out a cidknted ae weighs 32 ounces,"’ he said, quickly, “and it's underpaid.” 2 I fh a know?" “Senge,” he said. “Weigh it an sad The package weighed 32 ounces » Regn Ae against the Anglo- tlan fore with Berber as their aie onin a CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. > 2 Be ERS ee Ap toast = ae * ‘ Hs x ae fx ¥ “Not in twenty years, sor,’’ he sa'd, hoy | A reg'lar , Johnson, on trial for killing —-» body of Assistant Engineer Fowler was found in the ruins of the wrecked bullding. WENT CRAZY IN COURT. Ida Johnson, When Being Tried for Murder, Loses Her Mind. GALESBURG, Ill, Dec. 4.—While Ida her husband, Was on the witness etand yesterday after- ‘noon, her attorneys suddenly interposed a plea of insanity. The WOMan’s evidence was vague and incomprehensijye and she frequently gave way to outbursts of te ‘and refused to answer alto ether | |Glenn excused the jury and the 1.2 ‘both sides argued the UeStion |partially decided that both the 4, sanity and guilf would be sub jury. % mper Judge © lawyers on ing company was affected by the jar, caus- [ SUICIDE AT THE INSANE ASYLUM, Crazy Patient Hanged Him- self at Midnight’ DEAD WHEN THEY FOUND HIM. CORPSE FOUND ON THE FLOOR WITH A TOWEL AROUND HIS NECK. HIS NAME WAS FRED ELZE. Made a Noose of the Towel and Fas- tened It to the Window With a Wire Hook. A crazy patient hanged himself in the In- sane Asylum at midnight.!' His name was Fred Elze. Elze shared a room with August Wahle. A few minutes before 12 o'clock Peter Eiswirth, the night nurse, went into their room, Elze was awake, The nurse spoke to him. “Don’t mind me,” said Elze. “I’m all right. Dun’t stay on my account.” The nurse went out. In a little while he heard a gurgling noise, like water running out of a bottle. The nurse went from one room to another trying to locate the noise. Wahle poked his head out of the door and shouted to the nurse. Eiswirth ran to him. Stretched on the floor was Elze. The nurse lifted him. His face was black. The nurse put his ear to Elze’s breast. The heart didn’t beat. He was dead. There was a towel tied tightly around his neck. To the towel was fastened a wire hook. Elze, after making a noose of the towel, had fastened it to the hook in the window and then jumped from his cot. : The hook held him until he strangled to death. Then it gave way and his dead body feil to the floor. The noise aroused Wahle. Elze was 28 years old. He came here from New York and last lived at 2605 Wal- nut street. In September last Elze filed a suit in Jus- tice Haughton’s court against an employing shoemaker on Jefferson avenue for wages alleged to be due, He was not present when the case was called and it was dismissed. Later he sought to revive it, but was una- ble to give security for costs. The justice permitted him to sue as a poor person, but he failed to appear at the second call, and the case was again dismissed. A few days later he made an open and dan- gerous attack upon the Court. Justice Haughton directed that he be removed from the room. One of the deputy constables un- dertook the task and found it the toughest job he ever tackled. . As fast as the constable threw him out of one room Elze entered by another, and not until the man was reduced to a state of pulp could he be subdued sufficiently to arrest. Elze was takén to the Dispensary a raving maniac, From there he was sent to the City Hospital, and later removed to the Insane Asylum, UNCLE SAM WILL PURCHASE. Arcadia Rifle Range Recommended by Secretary of War Alger. The Arcadia rifle range is to be purchased by the War Department. Secretary of War Alger in issuing the order for the pur- chase dwells at length on the favorable location and advantage of the range. As to its healthfulness he says: “The consensus of opinion of fourteen residents who have lived in the yv:cinity of this range for upwards of forty years, in- cluding six physicians who have practiced there for many years, is that the locality is absolutely free from malaria or typhoid fever ands one of the most healthful re- sorts ‘n the State. Their testimony on the salubrity of this location is further cor- roborated by citizens of St. Louis having selected it for their summer homes.” Gen. John W. Turner, Col. 8. W. For- dyce, C. H. Spencer and D, M. Houser, who went to Washington to prees the improve- ment of the barracks, have returned highly elated at the success of their visit to the Secretary of War. ‘ ALL RIGHT, IF IT COMES TRUE A Proper Sort of Christmas Weather Promised Us. Clear skies, bright sunlight and crisp, bracing air at just the right temperature is Dr. Frankenfield's Christmas gift to St. Louisans, The genial doctor's present will arrive Friday night with Santa Claus and be in use throughout the day. Even the early worshippers have been remembered and the severity of the weather will be so modi- fied as to render the morning outing :n every respect agreeable, The mercury will reach the freezing point, but heavy overcoats will not be found too warm. Sleighing will cont:nue good along e boulevards and in the country. art Missouri and the Western States will participate in the enjoyment of this spe- cial weather prograeme, while the East, sarticularly north and east of the Ohio ever, will remain mga cold. The warm temperature will come from the West and Northwest, but its intensity ia not expected to be such as to seriously mar outdoor winter sports in any locality, “Ror the first time in five years,”’ said Dr. Frankenfield Friday ‘‘we will have snow on the ground at Christmas. In 1882 the precipitat.on Was light during the day, so this year we shall establish a new record, “Mair and milder weather will come in to-night and remain with us at jeast untii morning.” Oe euanty cold weather continued along the Great Lakes. The coldest place Friday morning was on the White River in Canada, where the thermometer registered 42 degrees below gero, It was 12 below gero at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich, at 7 o'clock, making that lace the coldest in the United States. Pin St. Louis the temperature was 16 de- giees above Friday morning, and the weath- OL Tau : et for the evening will not differ from that | ag oe MRS. BALLINGTON BOOTH, The Shory of Her Early Life ABUSE HAS BROKEN THE HEART OF MS, BALLINGTON BOOTH. _—_—_- =—_ For Years She Has Devo- ted Her Life to the Bet- terment of Man- kind, DYING IN A HOSPITAL, In Her Delirium She Moans About the Men in / Prisons. and Work in the Ranks of the Salvation Army. ‘ee Special to the Post-Dispatch. | NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Mrs. Ballington Booth it the most discussed woman in America to-day. Her husband says she is dying of a broken heart; her physicians call it aneurism of the heart, caused by grief or shock. They say she has a chance of recoveiy, but little more. Few women are so beloved as Mrs. Booth. Her life in America has been a continuous and b-autiful devotion to mankind, yet she hus been the mark for the most brutal assaults from relatives and former friends. Her heart was broken, literally, after she had read a line in a letter inflexible as fate, written from London by her elder Sister, saying: “I stall never soil ink again by using it in writing to you.” Sensitive as she is, the amazing phrase might have grieved her only intensely, but it came only after a long series of heart- rending ificidents, so comstant, so refined in their cruelty, borne by her with such angelic iesignet.on, that its torture was like that of the heated iron crucifix on the lips of the martyr. She could not resist it. In Chicago her meetings were interrupted, it is said, by Salvation Army men. She complained to their superiors,.and was told thai the accused denied her charges and her word wes not good as theirs. At London, in the Training Home, girls receiving instruct'ons for a trip to Rew York were told to avoid Mrs. Ballington Booth as a woman of lost reputation. At Mont Clair, N. J., in the Children’s Home, was a girl whom Mrs. Booth pro- tected. An officer of the Salvation Army wrote to this girl a letter so disgraceful in its references to Mrs. Booth that the ma- tron suppressed it. Anonymous letters, full of absurd charges Seeing Mrs. Booth filed her mail every ay. Commander Ballington Booth received from leaders of the Salvation Army persist- ent appeals to leave his wife, accusing her of an infinity of defects catalogued in part with rare ingenuity. Mrs. Booth was ostra- cised by the Booth family, by friends whom she admired, by acquaintances whom she esteemed, by persons in whom she had con- fidence. Her crime was irreparable, un- pardonable. She had quitted the Saivation Army. Mrs. Booth was Maud Elizabeth Charles- worth, daughter of an English clergyman. She was 16 years of age and had been in- epired by ‘‘Les Miserables” of Victor Hugo. She determined to be a lageie. Commander-Ballington Booth’s sister was exhorting the destitute and the abandoned in that terrible district of Paris, the “Car- rieres d’Amerique,” and the young English girl joined her. They teld extraordinarily picturesque meetings. Daudet, the novelist attended one, and wrote “L’Evangeliste’ from the impression which it produced upon him. In its pages is a charming description of a young woman whose large, limpid eyes subdued the roughest attendants, whom her voice afterward conquered. The original of this slight seketch was Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth, Ina few years she met and married Ballington Booth and came with him to America. Her work here is known and spplauded at every fireside, It is this noble, pure and beautiful woman whose heart has broken. In her delirium and at other times she worries about work among ye she “has caring for. “ keeps crying out. ‘ my boys when I am lying here.”” Who are her “boys?” Why they are the abandoned convicts of Sing Sing prison. There are more than 1,000 of them, and twice a month she has gone to see and pray with her aay They love her above all persons on earth. She brings them hope and good cheer, and when they are released ehe lodges them at a released convict’s home in this city, Fift of them to-day asked the prayers of people for their foster m Army has issued the followin . in reference to the attitude of the | tion Army regarding Mrs. Booth's “While realizing that this is not, the ment to enter into | argument, versy or defense, yet, in case our should be misunderstood, and in view the statements made by the press, I constrained on pehalf or our people all ov the world to say that there but feeling in our hearts regarding the of Mrs. Booth and the consequent and anxiety through which Hallingron Booth is g. That is love which would find expression tn ceasing prayer, Consul Mrs. Booth-Tuck the assurances of his prayers.”’ Mrs. Ballington Booth passed a fairly comfortable n ght, but there was no appar- ent change in her condition this morning, and she is still in a critical state. PRAYING FOR HER RECOVERY. Maj. Miles Grieves Over Mrs. Balling- ton Booth’s Condition. Relative to Mrs. Ballington Booth’'s sof. rowful plight, as detailed in to-day’s special telegram to the Post-Dispatch, Maj. C, Miles, the head of the Salvation Army 19 St. Louis, said: “T have read the story of Mrs. Booth with a great deal of interest. 1 am sorely grieved and there is universal sorrow among our people throughout the world. ‘I must say that there is no truth in some of the reports of alleged persecution, by reason of the division in our army. I am assured from a reliable source that the Chicago incident amounted to nothing. Mrs. Booths meeting was not disturbed, stated, although it is true that some our lassies were at that meeting. As to annonymous letters mentioned fn the dispatch, I feel sure tha Army officer ever countenanced action. The letters must have bee by outside parties, for which the army tis not respons'ble. Of course, there is bound to be trouble on account of such divisions as we experienced. But much of Mra. Booth’s distress was caused by persons who have nothing to do with the army. “lt have known Mrs. Booth personally for seventeen years, and I know her to a good woman. In Bt. Louls | hold special prayer services, pray for the recovery of Mrs. JOKE ON BRIDE AND GROOM. “Nail Any Old Thing Here”—Advice of a Tag and Its Results. Special to the Post-Dispatch. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 244.—B. M. Johnson, deputy clerk of Madison County, Indiana, and Miss Etta Slater of Clinton, just north of here, were married at the bride’s home Tuesday morning. They had been corresponding for a year, but yester- day was the first time they had ever met. He proposed marriage, she accepted and the nuptial knot was tied. On the afternoon train fromthe north OPEN DOOR MISSION. Food to Be Distributed by the Baskets ful Christmas Day. The Open Door Mission will distribute food on Christmas morning te or: nn By 9 A Donations are coming ia from all parts of the city, and many fame ‘Hes will be made happy. All donations eent to the misison will be distributed to needy persons. Food, clothing and provisions hav® been received as follows: | J. Doherty, oranges. c An ex-convict, Bibles and oranges for pens tiary. "; Stanion, 100 books for penitentiary. they came to this city and made the trans- fer to the Big Four depot to take the train for their future home. Some wag had put a label on the trunk: “B. M. Johnson and wife, Anderson, Ind. We have just been married. You may nail any old thing to this trunk. We don’t care. The trunk was a sight. Before it left the station everybody had tacked eomething on it and there was reasonable ground for an excess baggage charge. POLITICAL NEW YEAR GIFT, President McKinley to Enlarge the Scope of Patronage. Special to the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. “&.—President McKinley will probably have ready for the tepublican Congressmen, when they re- turn, a pleasant New Year's gift. He is considering a modification of the blanket ord of Mr. Cleveland, which will release from civil service in the neighborhood of 15.000 offices. The modifications will in- cluddé deputy collectors of customs and in- ternd] revenue, deputy Unl ed States mar- shais, chief clerks in the executive depart- ments, certain clerks in the general land office, pension examining beards, special agents of the treasury and pogteeffice in- The order may be made during | Grocer, vegetables. Merchants, vegetabies. J. Wolf, grocer, groceries. Sash 25 cents. Cash, 4 cents. iT ewie, literature. _ lothing. lier, food and clothing. food. T Dunn, one es" THE WEATHER FORECAST. . 7 o 7 > @. DWaiceeeeeerrrr* The cceeernerre® coat | - _? a A in od wo Fe A286 yO Se 7 SRI ire gemma yo age aartermnncg: ap te: Heer Ste, syste pli erte 4 ir Oh b bo = . my boys, my boys,” — Whe will take care : M,.-2¢y q 7 > ‘, WARMER. * eke -~ ha * » > - . a ws . .f m.* 7 d 4. i i ee