St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 17, 1898

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(COMPLETE MARK Ero , . . . a > cam \ Fig : ' 828 Ahead Same Week 1896! THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. CIRCULATION SUNDAY JANUARY 16,1898. - - -*- - = = WANT ADVERTISEMENTS Printed last week in the POST-DISPATCH. 113,519. YESTERDAY'S CIRCULATION oF THE SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH. As vast as the vast Southwest. In St. Louis, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. ~ VOL. 49, NO. 161. ___ MONDAY EVENING—ST, LOUIS—JANUARY 17, 1898. - PRICE A SENATORIAL CANDIDATE THAT IS NEVER BEATEN. As popular as popular can be. GRAND JURY CAN RID THE CITY OF DANGEROUS MEN, Circuit Court Judges Agree That It Lies Within the Province of That Body to Enforce the Habitual Criminal Acct. SOME LIFE SENTENCES AS A WARNING. This Action Would Cause Burglars and Footpads to Forsake St. Louis for a Place Where Laws Are Less Rigid and the Officials Lax. DEFENSE OF AMMAN WHO STABBED — ANOTHER OVER A HUNDRED TIMES, Charles L. Draper’s Plea in Extenuation for the Mur- der of Charles L. Hastings Is Dual—His Attor- neys Urge Self-Defense and Also Insanity. we The prisoner for the first time describes the terrible struggle in Judge Kirby’s office, relating every detail to a Post-Dispatch re- proof should be presented to them plainly, and then it is the duty of citizens sitting The presence tn this city of numerous ha- bitual criminals, who seem to have no ter- ror of peace officers or the law, requires | as jurors to pass upon the evidence. Jurors Immediate action at the hands of grand/are influenced sometimes by individual juries and the ertminal courts. cases of hardship, as where they inflict a Footpads and burglars have worked away | strong punishment for the actual second At their pleasure and leisure, passing in | crime and are then moved to leniency on procession before the constituted authori- | the accumulative charge of habitual orim- ties with but small interference. Arrests | inal behavior. are frequent, {t is true, but the rock-pile “Juries have in several instances acqult- ls geherally the punishment inflicted and {ted men of being habitual criminals after from the rock-pile they reappear in their | having convicted the prisoner of a second old haunts, better prepared than ever fora | offense. The law is there. I think the resumption of their violence, courts will do their duty, It rests largely When Graham, the wienerwurst peddler, | with public sentiment, as represented in killed McDonald, the footpad, last week, | the grand and petit juries, to carry the en- One of the first arrests of McDonald’s as- | forcement of the law forward to comple- Bocilates was one Murphy, who had been { tion.” but a few hours from the Workhouse. The Judge Flitcraft of the Criminal Division habitual criminals herd together, and a | of the Circuit Court says, with judicial cau- large proportion of arrests are of men | tion: a ia te te ee ee a Te en es Om a ae Oe i Se a a HABITUAL CRIAINAL LAW, If any person convicted of any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, or of petit larceny, or of any attempt to commit an offense which, CHARLES L. HASTINGS, All Jacksonville Wants the Man Convicted, and the Feeling There Is Intense—Six Prominent Lawyers Are Fighting for His Life, and Five Are Working on Behalf of the State. The trial of C. L. Draper for the murder praser sane and stabhte to — = _ | life. e wounds on ° of C. L. Hastings was resumed at Jackson | their location and character will be held up ville, Ii, Monday morning. The State’s as proving this rather than the flendishness case was closed Friday evening. A recess of a murderer, Great stress will be laid on ote »*+Oe * « oo “ > ° + ‘the fact that only a few of the stabs were ° > *. > + charge, he shall be punished as follows: for life. : : : ; 4 >> years. . > who have been convicted one or more times of criminal offenses. They seem to have fallen into a jolly round of Police Court, jail, rockpile and freedom, beginning again with fresher and larger crimes. Under a recent decision of the Court of Appeals the police may now arrest for ‘minor offenses without a warrant and , Without having witnessed the crime. Herds of idlers and professional petty thieves are aang rounded up, given hours or sent to the Workhouse. But the real terrorizing form of punish- ment is rarely invoked. It is only tem- porary relief to send hundreds of vicious characters to the ee ae the Workhouse is now s0 crowded™Mhat hun- dreds are turned back upon the community a@gain by means of wholesale pardons, in order to accommodate a full share of the , most dangerous prisoners. Over and over, day after day, men are before the courts of this city who have been prev.ously convicted of crime, not only ‘once but half a dozen times, For some reasons, to which a number of excuses are added, the habitual criminal law has not been rigidly enforced and criniinals with records a yard ipng are let off with small sentences when they could be gotten rid of for life. Here and there tn the long process'on of ,; vicious persons a man with no friends and fa general outcry against him is given the ‘limit of the law, but as a rule few indict- ‘ments are found under the second offense law and fewer prosecutions syccessfully pressed, Once g've the habitual criminals of this city to thoroughly understand that for every second crime they will have their punish- ment quadrupled or extended to life impets- onment and there will be a conspicuous re. ‘duction in offenses against the law. Long ‘sentences to the penitent‘ary at hard labor ‘phould be the penalty wherever and when- lever second convictions are obtained and when this Is done /sthe familiar faces of thues and thieves ill disappear from the prisoners’ docks of the city’s courts. “l} am of the opinion,” says Judge ‘!1- liam Zachritz of the Crimina!] Court, “that a rigid enforcement of the habitual crim- inal law would tend greatly to the decrease of crime. “I do not know that it would have any gpecial effect upon our crowded jail and workhouse, but it would commit to the A New Yorker Kills Wife, Children and Himself. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A case of what e@ppeared to be triple murder and the sul- cide of the murderer was discovered to-day when the bodies of John Matthews, his wife and two children, a boy of 10 years and a girl of 12 years, were found dead in the Matthews home on Columbus avenue. It is supposed that Matthews murdered his wife and children and then committed sul- cide by shodting. -Matthews was 3% years old and the wife 30. PUSHED THROUGH A WINDOW. ---- —}-- ~ George J. Timmerman’s Joke on John Deuler Costs $5. George J. Timmerman fommemorated the Sabbath by shoving 12-year-old John Deuler through a plate giasa ndow at Cottage avenue and Montgome * street. The boy ecut and bruised. *orge explained to ge Stevenson Mor ay that the glass 2 « . He just wanted if perpetrated, would be punishable by imrisonment in the penitentiary, shall be discharged, either upon pardon or upon compliance. with the sentence, and shall subsequently be convicted, of any offense committed after such pardon or dis- First, if such subsequent offense be Such that, upon a first conviction, the offender would be punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, or for a term whi-h, under the provisions of this law, mfght extend to imprisonment for life, then such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary s Second, if such subsequent offense be such that upon a first conviction the offender would be punishable by imprisonment for a limited term of years, then such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for the longest term prescribed upon a conviction for such first offense. Third, if such subsequent conviction be for petit larceny, or for an attempt to commit an offense which, if perpetrated, would be punishable by imprison- ment in the penitentiary, the person convicted of such subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding five POLO LOLOL eee Pere er OOOO PO Pore hoodredrecrededronrecport PeOe & > 7 and ¢ « . +> ho-o-+ ) . +o, o + + ek tet tete tee tad ) o- * . ° ’ “There is a statute of this State provid- ing for the punishment of habitual crim- inals, in addition to the statutes providing ae for the commission of crime. t is the duty of the grand jury to act, and it is the duty of the Judge to call the grand jury's attention to the law. “Frequently the grand juries are not aware of a -ahggeaenele past record. Just as frequently the record is hard to prove in court. “But I believe the enforcement of the ae ore gy 9 Statute would do a great owar ecreasin he c i crime.” g the commission of homas B. Harvey, ex-Jud - oe wat, Bays: . seb ntnctea ese “The second offense law is an old on comparatively few convictions have aon had umder it. By many it is considered ap- plicable only to extreme cases, where a man has been conspicuously violent or has shown absolutely depraved tendencies. My observation as a judge and as an attorney is that cumulative punishments are difficult of infliction because the in- dividual case appeals to the jury as being one of hardship. A petit jury is inclined to think, in the average case, they have done enough when they have convicted for the actual crime and are always inclined to let the crime habit go by as a measure of possible reform. This is sometimes erring on the side of mercy. The law Should, as a rule, be generally and vigorously enforced.” Fs ag cok ang ae Police Department , in reply to inquirie y r a discus y q s and with a growl “It seems difficult juste now to kind of prosecutions on any con The Police Department is discouraged. We have done our duty in oresenting the records of men charged wit second offenses. Let the prosecuting officers do theirs and there will be no troubie about enforcing the ha- wig criminal law. “In my experience a goodly prono men arrested for serious pre Mod mtg, previously convicted of crime. The Jaw does not make any exceptions. The ex- tenuating circumstances are for the courts | re Sonsider. R A ynite be of great benefit | e police the second-offe , p 1 pgp enforced.”’ ae were “It sometimes happens,”’ sald Detectiv Tracey, who was acting Monday in ae lace of Chief Desmond, “that we do not earn of a man’s previous record until it is too late, but such instances are rare. The record generally is clear and easily accessible. It rests with the prosecuting attorneys to present the facts to thé grand juries. There would be fewer dangerous characters in this city 1f the law were enforced as it should be.” ee aietetestiogs GREAT COLLIERY DISASTER, Seven Men Are Dead and Fears for Twenty-five More. BERLIN, Jan. 17.—A dispatch from Glet- witz, Prussian Silesia, announces a terrific collicry disastfr at Zaborze. The Koenigen Luise colliery caught fire vest 4 erday and of the 15 men brought to the surface seven died. It is feared that 25 others whose €s- cape Was cut off, have perished. THE WEATHER FORECAST. CLOUDY—RAIN OR SNOW. For St. Louis and vicinity—Cloudy Monday night, with light rain or snow; Tuesday, partly cloudy and somewhat polder by evening. For Missouri—Rain Monday night and prob. ably Tuesday; warmer in the east portion Mon- day night. For Ilinolis—Threatening weather, with snow or rain Monday night and Tuesday; warmer Monday night. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. ‘ee © &@& «@ eosevees sr eeseess. 4 ** Pe ®ve ee ee eee 49 eee eh ee ee eee 45 . see eeeeeee 34 eee Pe ee © a6 87 eee m R m. . | Sarre r eee eee m. la. 7 BOATING PARTY DROWNED. Seven Lives Lost, Including a German and an American Consul. COLON, Jan. 17, via Galveston, Tex.—A boating party, consisting of the United States Consul, W. W. Ashby; Dr. Hafe- mann, the German Consul; Master Me- chanic Mott and four others are supposed to have been drowned. The body of the boatman has already been recovered. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Consul-General | Gudgeon, at Panama, cabled the State De- partment to-day, announcing the drowning of William A. Ashby, United States Consul! at Colon, No details were given. Mr. Ash- by was appointed to office only a few months ago and had been well known in this city and Virginia as a newspaper man connected with the Norfolk (Va.) news- papers. Robbed by a Negro. Speelul tc the Post-Dispatch. QUINCY, Il., Jan. 17.—Mrs. Sweeney, while on her way home Saturday night, was dragged into an alley by a negro and robbed of a basket of groceries and a small amount of money. The highwayman has not been arrested., “TRAMP” BERRY IS NO MORE. The Reputed Millionaire’s Leg Was Broken and He ‘Never Re- covered. Special to the Post-Dispatch. PADUCAH, Ky., Jan. 17.—James A. Berry, known as the millionaire tramp, is dead. He expired at 4 o'clock this morning at the New Richmond Hotel, where he had been for three weeks with a broken leg, sustained by falling off a platform while drunk. He began to grow worse and last week divining that the end was near, sent for a minister. known here. His brother in New York has been telegraphed and the remains will be held for instructions from him. Berry was not conscious for several hours before dis- solution. Berry was born at Glovereville, N. Y. When he was 15 years old he ran away from home and was gone 81 years. He drifted all around the country, doing any- thing that came handy that was not crim- inal. Much of his time was spent in IIli- nois. A good many years ago he rail- roaded on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and after that spent much time in the vicinity of Vernon; Ill With the aid of Henry Thompson, a bartender, he purchased a pruning outfit and made a little money in Southern Illinois counties as a nursery trimmer. Early last spring, according to his own account, he was herding cattle in Texaa, near the Mexico line. All of a sudden and unaccountably, after an absence of three decades, he became homesick and started to “hobo” his way back to New York. He found that his father, a physician, was dead, and that his brother, then wealthy, resided in New York City. Berry made himself known and was let into his share He had about $500 when he came here and whether or not he is worth more is not! JAMBS A. BERRY. of the estate. The exact amount he would never reveal. As soon as he received his money he started for the West, bringing $15.000 with him. He cut a wide swath and immediately became known as the tramp millionaire. He had money to burn and he was fond of smoke. He didn’t do a thing but have a hilarfous time. He left a zgigzag crimson streak wherever he went, and scorched the varnish off of the furniture whenever he dropped into a hotel. He tore up $100 bills for pastime, and made the eyes of the holi- pollol bulge out by the reckless manner in which he handled his dough. He didn’t need it. Berry made his appearance in St. Louls during the summer and melted the pave- ments along “Broadway. But his flight was meteoric. he next heard of him he was back tn hig native town in New York. Rut he couldn't stay away from the West. He returned to Mount Vernon, where he was married, and after that was constantly on the wing. A few weeks ago he went to Paducah, ppe peere went on the spree that cost him e, | GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY. A Dozen Men, Including Dick Brandt, Escape From Bentonville, Ark. SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark.,Jan.17.—Through a wholesale jail delivery at Bentonville last night a dozen prisoners gained their liberty. Among them was the notorious Dick Brandt, supposed train robber, burglar, horsethief and murderer. He is wanted in Texas and Indian Territory. Two other prisoners with criminal rec- ords were Jim Merrill and Lum Carter. They battered down one of the prison doors and made good their escape. randt stole a horse just outside the to lanits and made for the Indian Territofy. He is a desperate man and is supposed to belon to a gang of Territory train robbers, Of- ficers are in pursuit. DUSTER PROCEEDINGS BEGUN. The Attorney-General Starts the Suit Against Judge Bland. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 17.— —_— Fred Whoff Didn’t Wait for the Men to Rob Him. Fred Whoff of 5821 Magnolia avenue be- lieves in the extermination of burglars at all hazards. About 3 o’clock Monday morning Whoff saw two men prowling around in the rear yard of his premises. He promptly fired half a dozen shots at them. The men fled. CHICAGO DRIFTING BACKWARD, An Old Heathen Religion Taking Root There. CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—A faith, practically a novelty in the New World, but which has existed tn the Orient since long before the Christian Bra, the Abrahamic doctrine, Is goon to have a place of worship in Chfcago. The new church will be called the “First Assembly.” only preacher of the Abrahamic faith In America, came to Chicago from New York some time ago. and soon had a number of students who, in time, became converts to the Syrian religion taught by the man from the Orient. His converts in this city now nunyder 600. he new religion, according to Its apostie, differs froen ail other faitha in three partic- ulars, These particulars the doctor “h lines as follows: “No biind acceptance of anything is quired. “The teacher cannot receive remunera- tion, as de believes the truth should be free. “Only, true seekers are taught, not the masses. : * , » 5 ‘ nh ee i f ‘ : ies ee ‘ 3 F.. >. ee oe Dr. Ibrahim G. Kheiratla, the | was taken to Monday to permit the attor- meys for the defense to confer and pre- pare. The real battle for Draper’s life will be fought this week. It will be a battle royal. A sextet of the greatest criminal lawyers in the West will struggle to draw the ac- cused man back from the shadow of the | gallows. Pulling against them will be a quintet of lawyers less distinguished, but strong and able men, end a community which demands an eye for an eye. No man ever took the Mfe of another and had fewer apologists at his own home and among his own friends than C. L. Draper. “The People vs. C. L. Draper’ is not a mere legal form in his case. The issue is clearly joined. It is between the people of Jacksonville and C. L. Draper. Jacksonville is a wealthy and cultured city. Personal and civic pride are marked. The people abhor crime committed in the city as though it were done in their homes. They feel a pegsonal resentment toward the man who yiolateg the peace and dignity of the community. The circumstances surrounding the kill- ing of Hastings were so horrible that al- though aimost a year has pagsed since the tragedy they cannot be recalled without a shudder, Jacksonville, the seat of culture, became Jacksonville, the scene of crime. Draper killed Hastings and brought to the city a shameful fame. The city de- mands his life. So strong and general is the belief in his guilt that few who believed him [nnocent have had the courage to say so. His at- torneys urged this prejudice as cause for a change of venue, for which they petitioned the court. Judge Shirley did not grant it because State’s Attorney Miller presented a stack of affidavits that the defendant could get a fair tral in the county, where- as the defendant's attorneys could only get a few to the contrary. They found scores of people who freely admitted the existence of strong prejudice, but “it would hurt us in business or socially’ was the excuse given for faye to sign affidavits. lt was the work of several days to get a ury. The taking of testimony began last Tuesday. In his opening address to the jury Col. D. P. Dyer oytlined a “double- barreled’ defense of self-defense and insan- ity. The main purpose of the attempt to prove Draper mentally trresponsible is to excuse his presence in the office of Judge Kirby the night of the tragedy. The fact that Draper was a trespasser in the office has weighed more heavily against him than anything else. “If that fight had occurred anywhere else,”” said Attorney Dyer Monday, “Draper would never have been indicted for mur- der. They are trying’ to convict and hang him for burglary on a charge of murder.” The skill of the defense will be exerted this week to remove the bad effect of this circumstance, The exctise offered for the presence of Draper in the office will be daring, but it will be urged with dexterity and eloquence, Draper will be depicted as a man whose troubles and persecutions, real or imagined, had unbalanced his mind to the extent of inculcating a conviction that, while the books in the office belonged to Judge Kirby, their contents, on which he had worked like a slave, 17 of the best years of his life, were his, and so firmly did he believe this, it will be contended, that although a re- ligious mam, and a man whose integrity had never been questioned, he thought it no wrong to open locked doors and go through the combination of a safe in order to get to them and use them to make a living for his familly. Members of his family and his physfrian will testify that for a year before the tra- gedy his mind seemed to be effected. His |etrange actions after the killing will be brought out stromgly, and it will be con. | tended that they are inconsistent with a presumption of sanity. Hastings was killed in the abstract office of Judge Kirby. Draper had been em- ployed there 17 years. He had left Judg@ Kirby's employ a few months before be- cause of trouble with Hastings. On the night of March 31, Hastings caught Draper in the office taking notes from an abstract book. The next morning Hastings waa found dead on the floor. He had been stabbed 127 times. The twe men had strug- gied all over the room apd blood was everywhere. The evidence against Draper was overwhelming. He did not attempt to cover U is tracks. He did not even fre- move his bloody clothing But he denied his guilt to the coroner. Afterward he admitted the killing, but claimed self-de- fense. The defense will try to show that when Draper was surprised by Haatings he tried to eacape, but was confronted by Hastigpgs, who cursed him and grasped him by the throat. That ¢t there wae a terrible struge? in the dark, Hastings trying to raper by his greater strengih anc : : a i a | speech. in the regicn of the heart and only one, the: last one made, presumably, was of a neces- sarily fatal character. It will be contended Draper did not know where he was striking or how often he was striking. The Ho mages oe A of medical men the last week, while claimed by the State to greatly | strengthen its case, showed, according to the defense, one significant fact. When the body was discovered both wrists were cut in such a manner that it Was supposed the tendons were severed. It was believed that these cuts had been made as soon as Draper was seized by Hastings, and the latter rendered helpless. The testmony of the doctors was to the were not severed at all and of the left only partially. The trial of the case has excited ex- traordinary interest in Jacksonville. The large courtroom has been densely crowded at every session. After the seats were all filled as many as were alluwed atood around the walls. The gailery was reserved for women. It was crowded at every session by fashionably dressed matrons and maids, many of whom stood throughout the day. Notwithstanding the great crowd the still- ness has been like that of a church, there would be no surprises and no dra- matic periods in the trial of the case. The defense wanted the whole truth brought out because they believed the whole truth would vindicate the accused. marked by demonstration or incident either within or without the railing to disturb the dignity of the court. fierceness of the battle of the lawyers and the strong feeling of the people. The introduction of Hastings’ clothing on Thursday caused the only sen- sation of the week. The clothes of Draper were introduced Saturday. It is hoped by the defense to prove by the smearing of the blood on the front of his coat that the two men were struggling in each otbers arms when the stabs were itnflicted. The only unexpected testimony was thet of a man named Q. Ryniers. le teatified that he saw Draper enter the bullding the night of the tragedy and the knife in his hand. The defense will ney try to show the jincredibility of tis. bloody Attorneys for both State and defense pro- the State’s case. The theory of the State is that when Draper was surprised by Hastings in the act of copying from the ab. stract books he decided to stain his soul with murder to save himeself the di*grace of exposure. With the purpose of burning this conclusion into the minds of the jury- men every detail of the terrible iife and Ceath struggle in the dark has been brought out as strongly as poxsible. The attorneys of the defense have been + ae with this. They think that by mag- nifying the horrors of the homicide their theories of se.if-defense arfd inganity are strengthened rather than the State's of de- liberate murder. The State brought out vividly the conduct of Praper after the commission of his crime, his denial of his guilt while wearin clothing saturated with the life blood Hastings, and all his strange actions, The defense is also well nlieased with thts, This week Draper's conduct after the kiil- ing will be even mere searchingly gone into. The witnesses for the State brought out that Hastings was standing on the op- posite side of the street watching the office when Draper entered. The defense ite p.easel with thie. as they think it shows that Hastings was the agereessor. Draper ma'ntains the absolute composure which has astonished the people of Jack- sonville. Throughout the week he sat ig hia chair watching the proceedings closely, but seemingly with no more at stake thaa with his chin resting on his clasped hand He often wrote suggestion on slips o paper and p them to Gov. Johneon, especially when the evidence was on the position of the body when found and he frequently whispered to the other altor- neys When the bloody et es | was pro- duced he looked at it ovriously, but mani- feasted no emotion. The people of Jacksonville do not believe sociable. Sometimes he was em but oftener he wae tactturn and short He was regarded as ecrupulousiy just tf hie dealngse and exacted escrupue 2 he from ali with whom he had deal- ne*. His only 4iversion, and it was characteris- tic of him. was chess playing, at which he was expert. was an interesting but not an ett personality. His wife and daughter were respected by everybody, and now have the sympathy of everybody. rter saw him in the jail at J "hs was brought into the jall office. ‘) pallor was on his face and he traces of t week, but otherwise he was The bore pete ec AP aS oo ene é ” effect that the tendons of the right wrist | In his opening address Col. Dyer said. The proceedings thus far have not been | Tremendous intensity | has been the only thing to indicate the, that he then held | fess to be entirely satisfied at the close of | any spectator. His favorite attitude was. Draper is ineane, bot they have always . regarded him «as “peculiar.” He waa not - He had few friends, but few enemies, His | Draper never submitted to an imterview until yesterday, when «4 Post-Dispatch i he terrible mental etrain of the the same im-. = 4 ae s 3 | ee, , ee : ON PAGE T¥a P ' eos = PS wigs > A ? ‘ £ ~ i a x - ~ ¥* Te oe AMM AN 5 ee a2 aL OM EI te AI eS ’

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ee a 4 Cae aS ye Ta ee, ee ‘ is a F ~ MONDAY—ST. a | DEFENSE OF A MAN WHO STABBED TRIPI E MII ATER ANO THER OVER A HUNDRED TIMES. | CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. that had crowded upon him, he became ab- AND sHit| i | sorbed tn the recital and seemed to become ° 7 pe netrable etoice the people of Jacksonville | oblivious to the preeence of others. He nar- nad seen pass up and down the Streets for! rated his history from his birth and told of a) years. |@ great many incidents in connection with John {Matthews Kills Wife, Children and Himself. a a NEW SYSTEM SOMEWHAT TAN. GLED UP BY THE RUSH oF MONDAY’S BUSINESS He at first spoke with the greatest re-| his i7 years’ work in Jacksonville, which luetance about his case, but as he fro-' he now believes were bearing him onward ceeded, detailing with characteristic care! to the culminating tragedy. Following is the persecutions to which he had been sub-. his description of the tragedy in Judge Kir- jected by Hastings and the other troubles | by’s office: DRAPER’S DESCRIPTION OF THE DEATH STRUGGLE IN JUDGE KIRBY’S OFFICE. I did not mean to do Judge Kirby a wrong, and it did not occur to me. that I was unlawful action. I had |} : g i a } / A ee INSTRUMENTS ARE ALL. RIGHT, : i E Z } Mii h j nh if y, J pe Me? : But the Operatives Fourd Actual Work AAA Ae : + | More Difficult Than Experi- mental Tests, H SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD. 3 again, and we struggled all over the room, striking against the desks and walls, over- turning chairs and failing on the floor. cannot give any connected account of the struggle—it was so sudden—I was dazed doing an AFTER HACKING HIS FAMILY TO PIECES WITH A HATCHET IN A HORRIBLE WAY. tributed so largely in making his books as complete as they were, that it did not seem so very wrong that I should avail myself worked in that office so long and hag con-' and bewildered and my fright and excite- / ment were So great. I rece'ved cuts on two of the fingers of my right hand, that I supposed at the time were from his knife. and which bled freely, but except that and If the old telephones in the business dis- trict had not been silenced forever they would have sa‘d, “I told you so” with em- phasis Monday morning, when the new in- of the valuaije information contained in those books. I had a vague impression that while the books belonged to Kirby, a had acquired an-interest in their contents. ——- strumepts were given their first real test. In one respect the new system was in- augurated under most trying circumstan- ces. Monday is the most busiest day of the week for the telephone company, owing to the rush of business after the Sunday holl- THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT. oe remedy, Wills’ Engl the severe choking and striking my head gestion, equalize the against the wall I was not injured. Gut for the place in which this occurred ae preparation will reach. On the dizziness, headache or feverish not delay a momen t. Both Husband and Wife Understood What Was Going to Be Done, as Clearly Shown by Letters Left Behind. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—John Matthews, a retail grocer, some time between last Satur- day night and this morning, murdered his wife and their two children, a boy, 10 years old. anda girl, 12, by hacking them to death with a hatchet. Matthews then,com- mitted suicide by shooting himself im the head. Before dying, it believed, he turned on the gas with the intention, that asphyxiation should complete his murder- ous work. The crime was gommitted in a emall bedroom in the rear of the store kept by Matthews. The wife and her two children met death while asleep. It is sup- posed that Matthews had become despon- dent from pecuniary difficulties, The tragedy was discovered through the odor of escaping gas by a milkman. On the floor of the sleeping room the officer, who was summoned, found the corpse of Matthews. In his hand was a revolver, and there was a bullet hole just above his mouth. There were two beds in the room. On one of these lay Matthews’ wife. Her head was chopped and mangled almost be- yond recognition. On the other bed the two children lay side by side. Their faces, too, were frightfully cut and hacked. That the murders and 6euicide were meditated was evident. Maithews waiied until his wife and children asieep. Then he stripped himself waist, took the hatchet in his brained his wife. After that he hia children. ‘rom letters left !t was ascertained that for some time Matthews had been intend- ing to end his own life. He had been in the dry goods business further up town and had failed. A few months ago he opened the grocery store and had met with litle success. His wife, a pretty little woman, had recently undergone a severe operation, It was these things evidently that prompted Matthews to write this letter which was found open and unaddressed: “It is a terrible thing I have to @o to keep my word. I promised that all shall go is pre- had were to ilie hand and attacked with me and delay is no good. If I could only h@ve died alone. I love my wife and little cnildren. I told them I did not want to g0 in any business, that my mind was gone and [I guess that my nerve is all that is left. For five yéars we have talked the thing over. I always wanted to go out in a boat and accidentally capsize. I knew amy otherwise I would have a hard ‘ime of From a letter left by Mrs. Matthews to a friend it Was gathered that she was a party to a suicide agreement. Mrs, Matthews left instructions as to the elothes in which the dead children should he buried and signified the place of inter- ment for the entire family as Highland, N. Y. Matthews was 30 years old. SUUTHWEST PASS SURVEY. —_———— -} aetna Promise That the Work Will Re Start- ed in Three Weeks. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Ex-Congress- man Cobb had a conference with Chairman liooker of the River and Harbor Committee of the House to-day and secured a promise that he would at once introduce a resojution fp] ropriating $4,000 for a preliminary sur- vey of Southwest Pass in the Lower Mis- Sissippi. Chairman Hooker said that the resolution would be adopted and work Started within the next three weeks, as the committee is in favor of the project. MERRY AND SMITH. ee ¢----~ Opening of Their Trial on Charge of Murder. CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—The trial of Christo- pher Merry and James Smith, the peddlers os — TRIAL OF DR Ne ' ~~ ._* Salas = SAY } wth ff ie fo ji ~=nagy iy ' 1¥ He ANY / a>: f - A. a ‘yy , t Sketched in Court by a Post-Dispatch Artist. yeaa 2a APER AT. JACKSONWILLE. busily engaged at my office all day, and came home very tired, after supper was over, although the supper things were still waiting for me. I was feeling badiy and had no appetite for supper, but had the servant girl, Lizzie Rawlings, make me 2 cup of tea, which I drank and then lay down on the sofa. My wife and daughter were going to prayer meeting and asked me to go, but I .told theen I did not feel well enough, so they left withcut me @ little after 7 p. m., and I fell asieep. I awakened before they returned, and had an impulse to visit Kirby's office, which was in the same block, and nearly the whole ‘length of the block west of my own. It was about 9 o'clock when I left home; the night was dark and there were no street lights ‘burning. On my way I passed the Bradley homse on Collegg avenue, where Hastings had a sleeping roe being a front room in the second story. I saw a bright light in his room, which assured me he was there, and would not be at Kirby's office again that night. I passed on to my office, got my lantern, then went to Kirby’s office, which I entered with my keys, first the lower front door, then the back office door upstairs. I lighted my lantern and opened the door of. the vault, the combinat‘on to which I well knew. My light was poor, being made from lard oiland lamp wick. So I opened my pocket- knife (which the Coroner has) and with the sharp-pointed blade, raised the wick of the lantern so as to makea better light, and them laid the knife open on the desk. I then took from the vault the first volume of the grantor and grantee index and laid it open on the desk next to the vault. On Wednesday, March 31, 1897, I had been|I would have immediately informed the au- thorities and surrendered myself. My con- science was clear that I had only acted in defense of my own life, but I knew the question would at once be asked, “Why were you there?’ So I concluded to con- ceal my connection with the matter as long-as I could. I relighted my lantern and after gathering up everything that would identify me and replacing the book in the vault, got out of the office as soon as pos- sible, locking the doors after me, It is not necessary for me to mention my subsequent arrest and indictment for the willful and malicious murder of this man Hastings. I claim that I was justified in doing as l did on the ground of self-defense. tending to show that I was laboring- under a kind of insanity for months before this tragedy I show that Thomas Jemison (Kir- by’s first clerk) became insane from over- work in his office and died in the insane hospital. H. O. Carroll, another clenk, broke down from overwork and died of a form of paralysis; and there is good reason for saying that Hastings was not in his right mind, caused by the nature of the work in Kirby’s office, in which he was employed altogether some 18 or 20 years, his failures in business, his losses at gam- ing, his intemperate habits in the use of liquors and tobacco, his taking the gold cure and said diseased mental condition be- ing indicated by his greatly changed man- ners, treatment of old friends, etc. For several years I have been much trou- bled with headache and by frequent pains over my right eye, and behind my right ear to Which all my family can testify, and I have frequently got medicine from Dr. , I wished to find the record of a deed to Martha A. and her husband, John C. Crabne, were charged with the murder of Merry's wife was begun in Judge Horton's court to-day. The courtroom was packed and hundreds | were turned away, The crowd outside was as great a8 at any time during the first trial of the alleged wife murderer, Luet- wert. Marshal MeNutt of Eddyville Ky and Marshal Wiison of Princeton Ky. who arrested Merry and Senith, were in court, DORA CLAY AT HOME. She Is Again Under the Wfng of Her Aged Husband. VALLEY VIEW, Ky., Jan. 17.—Dora Richardson Clay succeeded yesterday in reaching Wuitehall, after many tribula- tions. She tried to walk there the day be- fore, but after going a mile she gave it up and returned to Mrs. Kelley's. Then she tried to borrow a horse, and after much difficulty succeeded in finding a farmer who was wiliing to lend—Sqittre J. J. M. Mas- ters. She rode toward Whitehall alore, but her brother, William, who lives about a mile from Gen. Clay. saw her as she passed his house, and accompanied her from there to the General's. Gen. Clay was overjoyed at seetng his! wife alive. He rushed to her and took her | in his arms and kissed her repeatedly. He} wept with joy and thanked God thai she had been spared to him. She seemed giad to see her husband, and it is likely that ¢he will not leave Whitehall again. She had not returned to Mrs. Kelley's Mrs. Kelley thinks her bitter with Clell and her narrow e death at his hands wiil cause main away from her relatives. ' Clell Richardson has kept his house bar- | ricaded, and no response has been made to} repeated knocks on the cab'n door, It is) ossible that he has left Valiey View, fear- ng the wrath of Gen, Clay, who, it is said, in.ends to prosecute Cleli for shooting at Dora. BENT ON SELF-DESTRUCTION: In a Delirium a Young Wonan Piunges Into the Icy Ocean. TACOMA, Warh., Jan. 17.—Miss Elizabeth Vah Wyck Anderson, a niece of Mayor Van Wyck of New York and caughier of Gen. Anderson, who was during Ms life ehief engineer of the Northern Pacitic Ratl- road, while delirious from fever, eluded her watchera and fied from her house to the sound and plunged in. The distance to the sound is fully tw®e miles, and when the young woenan left the house she was but thinly clad and bareheaded. How she suc- ceeded in making her way to the oid town wharf without.being intercepted is a mya- tery John Burne, a policeman, heard her eries for help and jumped in and rescued the young woman, Miss Anderson is well known in Chicago and New York society circies, e young women i# now at the Th e physicians have hopes that yg will Oe atally. t result ¢ j ; ' SCA DE her * 0% , lost my head, and | was aware that only a with hos- | about to convey to Michael Kenny, the de- tails of which transfer had taken up a} large part of that day, and the papers for | which I was to have ready by 7 o’cilock the next morning, and | had not had a chance to look for the deed at the courthouse. I had hardly laid the book on the desk when I heard a noise at the lower front door, like some one was entering. I listened a moment, and having the door open I started to get out. I had not considered the pos- sibility of being found there, and had made no plans for escape. Though it was not my intention to commit any crime or offense, I felt that exposure would be very humil- lating and painful. In my dismay and confusion I completely moments were allowed me to think The window near by never oc- curred to me, It opened out upon a iarge skylight about six feet wide that lighted the storeroom bélow, and possibly I might have crossed the skylight and then escaped over the one-story building to the ground below, The only feasible means of exit appeared to be by the door leading to the washroom, and to reach that door I would have to pass in front of the door opening from the front hell. l hurriedly ext'nzuished my ) light, dropped my knife, oven as it was, nto my r.ght overcoat pocket, and few and act, Crabnhe for 8) acres, which she | kK. Jones for the same. These spells would tolerable pains in my head, preventing all sleep, followed by vomiting in ‘the morning and loss of all appetite, and generally going ‘off during the day. This I attributed to the use of coffee, of which 1 was very fond, and wis led to quit the use of it entirely, but, although since then ‘the spells have not been so frequent or violent, they still oc- cur in a modified form. I mention with deep regret my frequent fits of irritability and bad temper towards my family, without any cause, giving them great unhappiness and filling our home with gloom, and due, as I must believe, my unhealthy mental condition, produced with gloom, and due, as | must believe, to my nature is to be a loving husband and fa- ther. Frequently I have talked with my wife of the mean treatment I had received from Hastings and Kirby, etc., and she would tell me not to talk or think about it tha: it did no good, but only harm, and { would be so unjust and cruel as to tell her that she had no sympathy for me in my troubles, and cared nothing for me. _-* ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT. Six Prominent Lawyers for the Defense and Five fur the State. Draper's attorneys are ex-Gov. Charies P. Johnson and Col. D. P. Dyer of St. Louts, ad- vanced as rapidly as the intense darkness would permit towards the front, hoping to rench the cdcocr leading to the washroom | before the person approaching should enter | Judge | Stat the office whert I was. Gut IT hed just | arrived ovpes'te the door opening from the | | front hall when, opened, a match instantly struck, and I saw | | it was Hast-negs. to my consternation, it was Me at the same moment recognized mae. and calling my name se xed me by the throat and began choking me. Hie was a tail man, fully 6 feet h gh. much longer arms than stronger man in every way than myself. I had on an overcoat and he had I dropped the lantern and with my hands’ tried my best to remove his grasp from my throat, but without success, lt was as datk as pitch, I knew the man’s hatred towards me, and supposed he was armed, and had no doubt 1 would greatly injure, if nor kill me, if he could In my strugelc I was thrown down aga'nst the west wall, striking my head and falling upon my knees, my opponent still grasp'ng my throas and putting his knee upon me, In my fright and desperation I seiged the open knife and used it as hest IT could. not know’ ng how or where 't was taking c¢ffect, and by a deaperate effort [ rose to mv feet and threw him from me. lie seized me \ KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. oer ee A House Bill Prohibits Marriage of First Cousins. Special to the Post-Dispatch. FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 17.-The House paMmed an act to-day declaring marriage of firat cousins illegal. ne On Die ee ee Sy Fo eels oath, MONETARY CONVENTION. Chairman Hanna Perfecting Arrange- ments for the Meeting. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 17.—lHugh H. Hanna, Cha.rman of the Monetary Exec- utive Committee, has arrived home after a week spent in Washington. During the present week he wil devote h'mself to per- fecting the arrangements for the conven- tion, Jan. 2%. He said that be had found nothing tn Washington to discourage him, and that all feports indicated the l velf st possible interest in the question of mon- etary reform. While there are different views regarding the efficacy of means to he employed, he said, there is no difference of opinion as to the necessity for action, and he believed the com ng convention will give an impetus to the movement that will prove irresistible. The citizens’ committee on entertainment of delegates will be appointed this week. The hotels are receiving requcsts for quar- ters by every mall. . SNORED HIMSELF INTO JAIL. Andrew Adonis Chapman Fell Asleep on Mrs, Morris’ Doorstep. Andrew Adonis Chapman, a_e cclored heavywe ght, was dreadfully sleepy Sunday night. He was returning from “de teatur,”’ and before he proceeded half way he guc- cumbed to Morpheus and dozed off on the front part of Mrs. Lucy Morris’ house at Sixth and Wash streets. Mre. Morr’s heard loud snoring, and peep- ing her head from an upper window, called: “Who is that?” Receiving no answer, she yelled “police! Patrolman Thornh!ll heard her. Adon:'s was charged with trespassing, and in the Second District Police Court the Monday he was fined $10. FIVE YEARS FOR A FOOTPAD. John Neudecker Robbed a Man Last July and Was Convicted. John Neudecker was sentenced to five years in the pen‘tentiary by Judge Zachrits morning on a plea of guilty of highway robbery. Neudecker held up Frank J. Schrautmey- er, 1929 Montgomery street, the night of July 2%, and took from him a goid watch and chain and $1.9 in cash. second case of highway tod against Neudecker was continued generally on his pleading gulity in this case, oe ee More Commissioners to Omaha. Special te the Pvst-Dispeteh JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 17.—Gov. Steohens to-day appointed the following named additional members of the Board of Comm is«.onpers from M' secur! to the Trane- misstasipp! and international Ex be held at Ormaha; Col. John H. I'niornville; Jeane Frank Freytag, St. 4 DEVOY & FEVERBORN <<. 318 N,. Seventh St. -_- Tooth Brushes. e kind—large varieties, Special our choice regular saie to-morrow. 2éc Brushes at 19c, or 3 for &0c. Drop¢n and see them. Leland Miller Drug Co., Lesns.en¢ ead ~ KREBS FLORAL CO. Cut Flowers, Floral Design: and Funera! Decorations Our may 602 Oltve St. Opposite Barrs, Phone ° —— re em omy ee DEATHS. AHEARN—Monday, Jan. 17, at 6 a. m, Johanna Ahearn (nee Dillon), wife of the late James Ahearn and oar beloved mother, af the rest dence of her daughter, Mrs. C. Block, 1828 North Nineteenth street, Due notice of funeral will be gciren., Washington (D. C.) and Hagerstown (Md) papers please copy. eee ee wm DEMPSEY—Frank P. Dempsey, 6:30 a. m. Sun- day, Jan. 16, beloved husband of Kate Demp- sey (nee Barbara), and brother ef Ifattie, M. E. and Jas. F. Dempsey. Funeral Tuesday, Jan, 18, at 2 o'clock, from residence, 1008 North Market street. FMends invited to attend, DONNELLY—On Sunday, Jan. 16, p. m., John M. Donnelly, at years. Funeral from residence, 4043 Fairfax avenue, , Tneaday, Jan. 18, at ¥ a. m., to St. Anves Charch, thence to Calvary Cemetery. 1898, at 10:45 the age of © DOUD—On Sunday, Jan. 16, 1808, af 1:45 o’cléek p. m., Jobn Proud, brother of Thomas and Katie Dond, aged 32 years. The funeral will take Tuesdey, 18th fnst., at 1:30 o'clock p. m., from residepee, No. 255 Faston avenue, to St, Bridget’s Church, thence to Calvary Cemetery, Friends ure invited to attend. ; FRAUENTHAL-On after a afternoon, at & ifiness, Abrahaw Siumlay lingering ih) years. o’eloek, Franenthe!l, aged Fueeral Thursday, Jan. 18, 1808, at Oa. Mi, from hia late reaidencee, 41044 Finney avenue, Member Frank I Blate Post, No. 1, G. A, R. Member Laurel Ledge, A. F. and A. M., White liaven, a. —_—_—— JORDAN—On Sunday, Jan. 16, at 2 @. @., Simona Jordan, aged 40 years. . The funeral wil! take place from the resi. dence of hia sister, Mra, P. Conghiin, 1249 (‘arr +. on Toesdey, Jan. 18, at 2 o'cloes rp mm, to St. Lawrence O*Tvole’s Churel, thence to Calvary Cemetery. MATHEWS ~-On Seterday, Jan, 15, after a shore ilinexs. Paul Meibews, beloved husband of Aun Mathewr igee Killacks), aged O8 years. Funeral wtll take place from family resi- dence, 1413 Saree! £%, , dan. at 9 a. m., to St. liridget’s Church, thence te Calvary Cemetery, Friends of the familly la vited to attend, Deceased was a member of St. Eridget’s Rranch, No. 126, ©. K. of A. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Pure 18k. wedding rings. Our prices the lowest. KE. Jaceard Jeweiry Co., Olive and Sixihi aetreets. — torinoder Pee ee és assests John A. Rosalle G. Ceel Axel Welg ... Mary Whiills Peter Rothwell Mary liankap Theodore Kiose ...- Ailrlwa C. Joerding .«... “Marine. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.--Arrived: Oufic, Liverpoal. NEWPORT NEWS, Ve., Jan. 17.--Artived: Ag pomattos, from ‘ : —_ BABYS Locust at owned 4. Tth a 1821 Papin a wl Hickory «8 avccecss+ QO Chonteas a . ccecceee S10 B. Rowing av eveweeewwrreere ’ Hiudson, Keo veeccccees A481 Chambets of —_—_ In all the world there is no other treatmens BO pure, 60 sweet, sO yet ane for gerving, purtfytug, aod beaut sey the scalp, sod hair, and e | wee Fans ’ (oine , baths with C ro Powtapan oft BS gh ihe erexrt akin ease, ew 2 , 2 ®

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ss . 2S i ae ie re 2 éAi% afSe ’ 4 x So eee > Show That the City Is Quiet. MAINE IS AT KEY WEST. THE BATTLESHIP WILL STEAM TO CUBA IF NECESSARY TO PROTECT AMERICANS. TALK OF AN ARMISTICE. Pressure Brought to Bear on the Presi- dent to Demand Cessation of Hos- tilities on the Island for a Period of Sixty Days. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—No message has been received from Gen. Lee at Havana this morning. The last news from the Cuba capital stated that the city was quiet. The battleship Maine lies near Key West and it is said she will remain there until conditions change. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on President : (ee y ‘« = 7 x Ms a e ad aes . rs , “os - Seb cS 7 BT ae hes 05 i= "453 ae : ae a sheer Cig : By Wp fet he SY Ae 5" te nes ’ te oe te a) ee ee > : as ~~ 9B Sa — f f Sd : . ss % " ¥ ” . “4 : > « i . ; ay -e.4 a, 4 h ey . , * . ce * 7 e - . of. oa ist Py 7 ‘ : ~; -—, > «= . ‘ a eta. 4. eich Let em C. i. a ae, eb ee P 3 ae na >. = i y “ * a. SP ied 4 7 _ % *) we t& es pabtt’ Kerth — “a e ens ae " id » - Bruns- 1 - When People Are Suffering From Rheu cation, and I constantly recommend it in all circles of my acquaintance. sa More men, women and even little children have been suffering with rheumatism and neuralgia the present year than ever be- fore, Statistics from all over the country show this—doctors’ reports prove it. Pos- sibly the unusual weather has had some- thing to do with it, but there is one great reason back of it ail. The great cause of rheumatism and neuralgia. or even mus- cular cold, is because there {s uric acid in the blood. This urie acid should be thrown out of the system, and can be if the kid- neys are only in a strong and healthy con- dition, but, being weakened, these great or- Bans are not able to throw the uric acid from the system, and so it gets into the biood, poisons the blood, settles around the joints, inflames the muscles and causes what we cal] rheumatism and neuralgia. Is this not clear? Can you not readily see that there is only one way to cure these troubles, and that is by keeping the kid- neys in a strong and healthy condition? If they are kept strong and well, and drive the uric acid from the blood, there will be no more rheumatism or neuralgia. In every quarter of the globe, including India, Africa and Australia, it is acknowl- edged that there is but one discovery which can or ever does fight the battle against Usic acid, and drive it from the body. That discovery is known universally throughout the worid as Warner’s Safe Cure. In writing upon this subject, Mr. William Edward Rosbon, surgeon of the Royal Navy of England, said: “I conscientiously and emphatically state that I have been able to give more relief and effect more cures by the use of War- ner’s Safe Cure than by all other medicines in the British Pharmacopeia.”’ Dr. N. Byer of Wurtzburg, said: “I have prescribed Warner’s Safe Cure constantly to those suffering from kidney or liver diseases, and especially rheuma- tism and neuralgia. In some instances where the case seemed hopeless. I have seen the sufferer restored to complete health, greatly to my surprise and gratifi- Germany, @Ye Prof. J. Poiraud, B, A. B. Sc., of Parts, ys: ‘After weeks of suffering from inflammma- steadily developed and I rapid! er, I resorted to the use of to Know of a Discovery Which Is “World-Wide.” tion of the bladder, during which time, al- though under noted specialists, the disease i WARNER?S ? \ > 2 ~ — *. . . FAs." ¢ + s> .. . »s . The Man Who Coaxed Her From Home Left Her Soon After Their Arrival in This City. Woman Helped to Arrest One Thief and the Child Did the Same for Another. O, how can I bear this trouble?” sobbed a pretty little woman Monday morning as she was led into the Central Police Station by an officer. With her was a man, also in custody. Both were stylishly dressed, and bore an air of refinement. “This man and woman were quarreling at Twenty-third and Market streets,”” said the Policeman James Healey of the Seventh District was assisted by a woman and a schoolgirl in the capture of two negro lead pipe thieves Monday morning. Last Tuesday the vacant house, 3012 Chest- nut street, was robbed of all the pipe. This rendered the policeman on the beat alert and he kept a close watch on the other vacant house in the neighborhood. Stealing Sunday Post-Dispatches. Judge Peabody placed himself on record Monday as being hostile to newspaper thieves. John Walsh, better known «as ‘‘Work- house Red,”’ was.caught stealing a bundle containing 50 copies of the Sunday Post- Dispatch about 5 o’clock Sunday morning. Harry Ray, a newsdealer, pursued Walsh and recovered the papers after a_ lively skirmish. Walsh bit Ray's hand/ and created a loud disturbance. Walsh was @rrested. Monday morning W. L.~Austin of the Post-Dispatch circulation department ap- peared against Walsh. Ray was also_pres- ent. he defendant was tried in Police Court on the charge of disturbing the peace. He was fined $100. Walsh was recently re- leased from the Workhouse, where he has served several terms. DISTURBED HIS PEACE. Principal Fertig of the Gratiot School Asks for a Warrant. Principal J. G. Fertig of the Gratiot echool applied for a warrant Monday morning against Mrs. Sophia Sheridan of 1506 Bil- Jon avenue for disturbing his peace. Mr. Fertig suspended Maud Sheridan, the daughter of Mrs, Sheridan, for the awful ‘erlme of stealing a tablet of paper valued ‘at 6-cents. He suspended her without giv- 'jng any explanation to her mother, and she ‘went down and “raised Cain” about it. She expressed her opinion of him in such vigor- ous language that the professor's peace of mind was badly fractured. Mr. Johnson fs- sued the warrant. ROBBERS HAD BEEN THERE, Christopher Weiss Returned Home to Find It Had Been Ransacked. Christopher Weiss and his family went out to dine with relatives Sunday evening and when they returned to their home, &22 Russell avenue, shortly after 7 o'clock, they nd everything in disorder, cadets tal t in the back entrance and ransacked fhe house from cellar to -garret. Drawers had been taken from bu- | yreaus and the contents dumped in heaps. A ‘gold watch and cha‘n, a diamond pin and a diamond ring were taken. There is no ‘clew to the robbers. AFTER OFFICER HEALY’S STAR, Four Men Charged With a Hold-Up Prove Themselves Good Citizens. Fred and Joseph Dauernheim, Edward ,Mueninghaus and ‘Thomas Mallory are g@fter the star of Patrolman James Healy of the Seventh District. They were arrested _by Healy a few days ago. The officer claimed they had disturbed the peace and resisted arrest. It was also dnt'mated that the defendants Were sus- pected of being implicated in a hold-up. The case came before Judge Peabody and numerous witnesses were examined. The evidence was highly favorable to the de- fendants and they were discharged. ST. LOUISANS AT BOSTON. The Good Streets Comngittee of the As- sembly Arrive af the Hub. _ BOBTON, Jan. 17.—Th - P > i es, . an's from States Marshal J. C. Postoffice admitted her guilt. lorn victims totals about $7000 in cash, she says. _ airs. Brunsman was living with her hus- street, Chicago. West Madison street and was pre open a photograph Raines that name she was 13 years old at San Antonio, Tex. He got a divorce from her. She married Brunsman two years ago. “Grace Lewis.’ man’s Bank. be opened by the person to whom they were ‘Houston. — (Mrs. Lulu Brunsman is the Raines wom- real name. She was brought back Chicago Sunday night by United Cope and Assistant Inspector J. DW. Sullivan. She Her recéipts from love- There was also jewelry worth $8000, and and 12-year-old boy at 24 Aberdeen She had rented a room en ge to gallery. The name from a photographer by is taken Brunsman married when Mrs. She is 25 now. Brunsman has been arrested. He_ Was ’ The $7,000 is in the Boat- Inspector Dice Rad been holding the bun- dles of letters add¥essed to Lulu Raines for the last 10 days, and he had to await her ar- rival from Chicago in order that they might addressed. There were about 150 of the let- ters and Lulu Raines opened them in high glee, reading them to Mr. Dice with such quaint comments and eupplementary re- marks that the “aweating’’ process became more fun than a circus. Loud sounds of iaughter, led by the animated Lulu Raines herself and heartily joined in by Mr, Dice and Inspectors Sullivan, Swift and Reid, frequently were heard over the_ partition separating Mr. Dice’s private office from the big room used by the inspectors at the Federal building. It took just three hours for al Ithe letters to be opened, read and explained by the daring adventuress. “Aren’t men the biggest fools fn the world,” she archily said, when she con- cluded a letter from Philip Houston of Fort Walla Wall, Wash. “He sent me ring after ring and I'd find fault with each one. Then I proposed swap- ing three —_ for a diamond bracelet, but e said I needn't do that as he’d givé mea bracelet if 1 wanted ons He sent the bracelet quick, too.’ Lulu might have talked on indefinitely about Mr. Houston had her risibilities not got beyond her control. She almost went into hysterics over the good joke on poor so badly. “Those Hunter boys in Savannah;- Mo., were good things, too,"’ she said. when shoe had recovered herself. “‘You know about the horses they sent? Well, here’s some- thing you don’t know. I wrote John Hun- ter that my horse had run away and broke my phaeton and busted my handsome har- ness all to shoestrings and he made good right away with a check.” Each letter opened in Inspector Dice's presence fairly reeked with love and devo- tion. Many of them were written on scent- ed paper of various hues and evidently at reat pains, w.th a pocket dictionary near ‘i ‘Dandy Jack’ Stanley of Pitteburg came near ‘doing’ me, though,"’ simpered Miss Raines. “He answed my advertisement and promised to marry me, but he wanted me to send him $00 for his expenses. I had to laugh at that, so I wrote him that he was as wise as [ and that we were not suited for one another. When the opening of the letters wae con- cluded the woman wee taken back to the Four Courts. The United States Commis- sioner in Chicago, before whom she was ar- t after her arrest, placed her =f tl April ail, Sh tog the cash to put up for bones it it will he : . Pe aie shor ee eh tee. ta aaa : the kindness that you have always shown me and he will treat you with the kindness for which he is reputed in his own circuit, I am sure that you will all look back upon this occasion with pleas- ure.’’ Judge Valliant then read a batch of de- cisions. Judge Klein’s division, No. 1, was ad- journed until next Friday because Judge Klein is sitting this week for Judge Zach- ritz, according to an arrangement made some time ago in general term. He {gs to try the case of embezzlement against ex- Constable Reed, HELD UP BY SEVEN MEN Two South Side Citizens Badly Beaten by Highwaymen. with Seven footpads ‘held up two men at Eleventh street and Geyer avenue Sunday night, ‘beating the citizens with clubs, and only desisting when frightened away by th pistol shots of an eye-witness. Joseph Adamek and William Wencara of 1329 Geyer avenue were walking slowly east on Geyer at 7:30 o’clock Sunday even- ing when they met seven men and were or- dered to throw up their hands, They refused to comply and were beaten over the ‘head with clubs until they were helpless. The footpads were leisurely ge the pockets of their victims when John Tobian stepped from the door of his buteher shop, at Eleventh and Geyer, and began firing a pistol in the air. He said he Was not quite sure what was happening, and he intended the shots to summon a po- liceman : The highwaymen were frightened and ran away. Adamek and Wencara were taken to the office of Dr. Rinders, where several _deep scalp wounds Were dressed, The rob- bers got no money. WILL CUT OFF CARRIERS. Postal Authorities Demand Retrench- ment, Fearing a Deficit. Postmaster Carlisie is in receipt of a com- munication from Washington which !s caus- ing much uneasiness in the ranks of the letter carriers who operate in the residence districts, The order comes from the Postoffice De- partment for a retrenchment in expendi- tures. In consequence the carrier force will be diminished, Among the residences where there are now three deliveries there will be but two =e hoes morning round will be discon- inued., oe ee will set to work at once engthening routes and curta’ wherever possible. — - toes. - ~ = high ek ey Soin & dase At breeders and owners of horses, meat cattle, . tary boards, representatives of stock yards. : ’ : : f : Heavy Losses Incurred at McKeespor® : ' :

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Se te oe WEI. ; PRL BO Cppmer ne pacts =e Fee Es ican eT ees » * Ps. Eis» Se SY a a Py ak 4. oe foe ye a4 aL wi Rs = SOR ie PE ke bce 2 = 4 g —— "ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER. PUBLISHED BY THE PULITZER PUBLISHING CO. Office 553 Olive Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY CARRIER, ST. LOUIS AND SUBURBS. y and Suaday—Per Week 10 Cents ly and Sunday—Per | Sunday—Per Month.... | : BY MAIL-IN ADVANCE. and Sun Daily and Sunday by carrier, in towns outside of St. Louis, licentsaa week, 6) cents a month. Week day only, 10 , Cents a week. Remit by money order, draft or in registered letter. Don’t send checks on your local bank. The price of the Post-Dispatch on all ratiroad trains and fn all railroad stations outside of St. Louis will be 2 CENTS r copy daily and 6 CENTS Sandays. Anyone who is charged a higher rate thanthis will please report same to us, giving name of road, or station, and number of train. subseribers who fall to receive their paper regularly will confera favor by reporting the same to this office. Address all communications to POST-DISPATCA, St. Louis, Entered at the Postofilce at St. matter. stot TELEPHONE NUMBERS, ey US POPOT EC TT TITTY TTT TT jesuee chie Main 665 Editorial Rooms The &. C. Beckwith Special Agency, Agent Foreign Advertising, 45 ‘iribune Buliding, New York, And 469 The Rookery, Chicago. THE DREYFUS CASE. The news in yesterday’s Sunday Post-Dis- patch of the developments in the Dreyfus case Suggest several important questions. If Dreyfus is guilty why is he so carefully guarded from all communication with his friends and the public? Why did the French authorl- ties peremptorily refuse to let a correspondent of the Post-Dispatch and the World interview him? Why have the proceedings in the trials of | Dreyfus and Esterhazy been kept profoundly se- lcret and all government investigations carefully guarded from publication? Why are the men who are moving in behalf of justice persistently persecuted under the sanc- ‘tion and encouragement of the authorities? The flashlight of publicity thrown upon the case by the Post-Dispatch and World places the French Government in a suspicious position. \It cannot evade the issue forced upon it by the facts, and the arguments of Dreyfus’ friends. = = ™ — a No newspaper west of New York competes with the Post-Dispatch in its achievements of ‘art. Artists and readers alike acknowledge the superior excellence of the big Sunday Post-Dis- patch’s remarkable illustrations. They are a constant surprise among cultivated newspaper readers and they please everybody else. = = ™ i i A CHAMPION FOR CUBA. How is it ‘that no Wendell Phillips has arisen to pour out a flood of eloquence in behalf of per- secuted, slaughtered, starving, dying Cuba? Was there anything in negro slavery so de- testable, so horrifying, 80 appalling, as is daily being done in Cuba, Was that cause more urgent than this? Half a million men, women and children have been done to death at our doors since Spain under- took to crush out the aspiration for liberty in Cuban hearts. Half a million more will follow them to the grave within the next two years unless America awakes from its cruek apathy. And now Spain charges the United States with hypocrisy in sending aid in money to pre- vent a few Cuban civilians from starving to death. Where ts the man with a tongue of fire anda heart of flame to stand up and arouse the sons of Washington and Jefferson to a sense of their duty? Where is the Wendell Phillips of to-day who will paint the Cuban horrors as they are and stir his countrymen to stay the oppressors’ hands and let the captive go free? Where is the orator who will supplement the work in behalf of Cuba of the Post-Dispatch and other independent newspapers? = = ——- = * Every Congreseman is well aware that high freights check trade — even kill !t, sometimes. We may reasonably expect that Congress will ‘look to the welfare of the country by amply ding for the improvement of the Missis- ipippL Louis as second-class = = ™ i id SWEDEN'S TRAMP CURE. There are few tramps in Sweden. We never hear of great strikes or labor disturbances in that country. And when Swedes emigrate to other countries they are always welcome. They are usually found to be industrious, in- telligent, handy men, who can make themselves useful in many branches of industry, The reason for this is probably to be found in the “sloyd” system of education which has been so long in operation in Sweden. A writer in the January Outlook shows to what an ex- tent the teaching of “sloyd”’ is carried in the public schools of Sweden. By it the children are taught to make for themselves everything conceivable Yor use in daily life—all articles of clothing, furniture and conventience—and to -cook well. They are also taught how to make first-class tools. The one pitiable thing about our American work-seeker is his utter helplessness when cast on his own resources. He is not a “handy” man. He can do nothing unless he is put in the ranks and supplied with tools and “‘bossed.” Tf he had a school education which includes gloyd, he would have acquired self-reliance, in- 4ustrial habite and skill in self-help. Less faddism and more practical education of this sort in American schools would be good. -—+-¢ © o—-- -—-_-—---- Independence pleases the Cubans, Autonomy , pleases nobody. i i THE WAGES OF SIN. Preachers might preach for 10 years and then not be able to present truth more forcibly than it is set forth in the life story of Burglar Harry Neville, told by himself in the Sunday Post- Dispatch. At the age of 28 he is dying in prison, ‘For more than half of his life ne has been 9 criminal and much of his time has been spent behind bars, He has stolen as high as $10,000 in one year. Yet, at the end of a misspent life, he sums up the eituation by saying: “There is gothing in it." The game is not worth the candle. _ No newspaper feature of recent months sur- passed the great etory by Maurus Jokai, “A Drop of Blood,” which was published complete, with striking illustrations. "The page devoted to ‘Rev. Sam Jones and other evangelists was read with absorbing interest by thouse ds. The the strange narrative of Murderer W'S" . Roberts, who Jaughs in the face of de most in- sredible, though told by hir - 7 Die eee ys a eee the sumptuous colored picture of the bicycle girl of 1898. “Night has a thousand eyes,” and the man would need all of them who should at- tempt to scan all of the interesting features of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. a Lp Lp i is St. Louls’ percentage of gain in rea] estate transfers is larger than that of any other city in the Union, There is a great deal of pay dirt in the Mississippi Valley metropolis, notwith- standing the surplus of mud which has accrued from bad municipal management, _—_— = i i A AN ADMIRABLE POLICY Attorney-General Crow, through ‘the Post-Dis- patch, gives the people of Missouri gratifying assurance that he intends to proceed with vigor to enforce the anti-trust laws and the Julian law, and that he is confident of his ability to smash the trusts and the franchise grabbers. This confidence is based upon a belief not only in the efficacy of the present anti-trust stat. utes of the State, but in the efficacy, if they should fail, of proceedings under the common law. The anti-trust law of this State has been amended under the supervision and in the light of the experience of Secretary of State Lesueur and should be effective. That the common law is effective has been proved by Attorney-Gen- ¢ral Maloney in Tllinois and by proceedings against trusts and combines in other States, Attorney-General Crow’s position in this mat- ter is highly commendable. If he carries out the policy of vigorous prosecution of lawless combines and franchise grabbers, he will do good service for the people of the State. He will greatly increase the dignity and value of his office. TT It is a curiously tragic coincidence that on the same day death should have come to the fami- lies of two Kentucky statesmen whose names are so familiar to newspaper readers every- where, who have held the highest offices in the gif’ of the State, and who were bitter antag- onists in the late presidential campaign. = = The Cider and Vinegar Makers’ Association also appeals for pure food and believes that active work against adulteration should begin at once. The prompt enforcement of all laws for the protection of the public in so important a matter as that of their daily sustenance can- not be urged too vigorously. The great Huber fruit farm at Seneca, with all its apples, peaches, plums, berries and pecans, has passed into the hands of a St. Louis pur- chaser. In all parts of the State a new interest has been developed in fruit, and the large fig- ures now shown by Missouri are likely to be very much increased. a A _ — = If the voter is to select his ballot and hand the unused ballots to the Judge, election secrecy is certainly at an end. How is it that the American people have been voting so long with- out having yet invented a system by which every voter can be protected in expressing him- self at the polls? Mr. Dingley must be in great agony over the wickedness of those sharp Boston Yankees who are getting mineral water into the country free by importing it in the form of ice. How is Mr. Dingley to produce prosperity when there is so much treason in his own New England? The Bering Sea matter has been so badly managed that we have to pay British subjects $463,454.27 on account of seizures of their ves- How is it that we knew so little of in- ternational law ag ‘to permit these seizures? sels. ——______—_#¢o --___ —__-— It was Macaulay who believed that American institutions would perish through the mob and it is Gladstone who now apprehends the de- struction of the British Government by discon- tented workmen. The annexation of Hawail, with the provision that any of its people shall not emigrate to the United States, is ridiculous. If the population of Hawaii is not fit for immigration, it is not fit for annexation. a, Adi — — It seems that Grosvenor’s political life has also ‘been full of “‘treason.” He may now be en- deavoring to forget it in cuckooing for the big boss, who has just bought a seat In the Senate. atti = = — a The threat of refusal to pay taxes because the city authorities have failed to clean the streets is another evidence of the popular feeling that has been aroused against the city government. _—_ -— — The Agricultural Department wants to buy se- rum for hogs. Some sort of serum that would make cleaner pork of the political polyhog is one of this country’s great needs. Europe is trying to wait for Argentine wheat. Mr. Leiter might further enrich himself by adding a’few million bushels of the Argentine crop to his great cereal heap. i, hi — As neither the Spaniards nor the Cubans have desired autonomy there should be an end of fhe farce to which the Administration at Washing- ton has lent itself. If it is to take all the money Great Britain can get in peace to keep up her “little wars,” it is possible that some savages may be left un- civilized, > Le. a i A short session of Congress will be very much too short If the needs of the Mississippi Valley are to be neglected. The demands of commerce are urgent. a ee Even Europe is convinced that the Cuban war should be ended. Why has it been so hard to convinee the President of the United States? + -- ---— -- 0 © @- — How does the strike of a quarter of a million New England workers strike Brother Dingley? - ooo Logical Consequences. Frem the Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat, Some of the St. Louis franchise grabbers are alarmed at the prospect of the enforcement of the Julian law and the chance that their franchises will be declared void. But they are entitled to no sympathy. When they deliberately induce a City unci!l to violate the law and themselves accept a franchise that is granted Ulegally, they must ac- cept the consequences uncomplainingly. Sage Observation. From the Gpringfield (Mo.) Repubiican. The Post-Dispatch observes that mruddy streets make dull trade. Biacksmiths have observed that dry streets made dull horseshoes. Tried and Convicted. From the Kansas City Times, Hugh Brady has a re eee ee the . pe fe Nwever, wd Fok ry We ” 2 ee Kr ACLS LE TN cB IIS: OB eee Ne en. wee oem SeT P35 , PR aire ‘ ’ t} te “+ Vandusan: Don’t you think Miss Yellowleaf takes after her ancestors very much? Susan: Yes; the family is a very old one. RABBIT SKINS AT A PREMIUM. Rabbit hunting as an industry has been estim- ulated in parts of Kansas by advertisements of firms who offer to pay 2 cents each for jackrabbit skins (half price for damaged ones), 3 cents a pound for pieces and 5% cents a pound for cottontails. The fur is wanted by hat manufacturers, ee — ee eee “A CORN LULLABY.” “lark to the summer rain in the corn, (Hush to sleep, my baby.) As faint as the call of an elfland horn; (Hush to sleep, my baby.) The winds blow fresh from the rosy west, The birdie swings in his little brown nest, "Tis time for baby to go to rest, (Hush to sleep, my baby.) ‘“Tlark to the crash of the hail in the corn; (f4ush to sleep, my baby.) It leaves the stalks all stripped and torn, (liush te sleep, my baby.) The birdie is under the downy breast Of the mother bird, whose beaten crest The hail drives hard. by storm winds presse@ (Hush to sleep, my baby.) eigh of the wind in the corn, ty sleep, my baby.) The storm is dead and the calm is born— (Hush io sicep, my baby.) Now snuggle up close to mother’s breast, And ride away through dreams in quest Of the silent, stormless lands of reset. (Hush to sleep, mw baby.)’’ WM. REED DUNROY. “Hark to the (Hush WHAT SHE SAID. Mr, Willyboy (waiting in the parior): Say, Bobb what did your sister say when she got my note thee other night saying I couldn"t come because I had caught a cold in my head? Her Smali Brother: She said she wasn’t surprised you caught something in it when you went around with itempty and your mouth open. OUR LIVING PICTURES. HENRY K. BOYER. This is the picture of a man who is about to pre side over untold millions. He is the newly ap- poinited Superintendent of the Mint at Philadelphia. CAN CATS TALK?P Do cats have a lancuege of their own? Dr. Walthier, a irench scientist, thinks they have. He believes they have certain cries with which they express certain emotions and that these expressive meows can be tabulated in regular musi- cal notes. If this daring Frenchman is correct in his assump- tions we may yet see a cat opera, not of the back fence variety, but an opera in which the score shah be a series of notes written directly from feline models with musical voices. Dr. Walthier has noted a few of the cries which, muvically interpreted, mean something, and the icture shown herewith is the tomeat’s warcry. layed on the piano this fragment sounds more like a bit from some Chinese chorus than from any other human thing. Dr. Walthier has announced his intent’on of pub- lishing a book on tomcat language some day. He means to be to the feline tribe what Dr. Garner was to the monkeys. His success in convincing us of the absolute accuracy of his theories will, of course, depend largely upon the facts he brings in evidence. “Qh, yes! He is a football player, you know.” MARY WAS CAUTIOUS, A highly respectable lady of Epfscopalian tenden- cies, who lives on Pacific avenue, San Francisco, was informed by her cook that she proposed to get married. “I hope, Mary, you have given the mat- ter serious consideration’”’ “O, I have, ma’am,” was the earnest reply. ‘I've been to two fortune tellers and a clairvoyant, and looked in a sign book, and dreamed on a jock of his hair, and been to one of those asterologers, and to a meejum, and they all tell ime to go anead, ma'am. I ain't ene to mar- ry reckless like, ma‘’am.”’ — —- ee A TRIBUTE. To part with thee, I freely own, Would causé me deep regret: Thy breath is like the hay new-mown, Ah, how could I forget? All n ght I sigh—a weary while— And when at morn I wake, The earth is brighter for thy smile And dearer for thy sake. ee I'd rather fast one hour Than feast with them a day. When madness seizes on my brain And life seems bare, at best, Thy smile, like sunshine after rain, Streams o’er my troubled breast. To part with thee and live alone Would cause me deep regret. Oh, come to me, my love, my own, My soulful cigarette! J. GETCHER GUNN, Post-Dispatch Poet. bw +rHE TOM CATS WAR CRY POST-DISPATCH SNAP SHOTS. Tie doesn't belong to Gideon's band; He doesn’t train in Gideon’s ranks; But he’s in the Saturday “procesh” That lines up at the city banks, telegraphic account of a Kentucky with “The end is not Wihy does a shooting yet?” President McKinley is sitting for a clay bust of himself. He will be lucky if it isn’t turned to mud by the tide of events. The master plumbers of Missouri are organizing, and if they can the Weather Bureau we may have no more mild winters. always conclude influence Breathing the filth of the lawless smokestack and wading in the mud of a soft winter will keep people neither healthy nor good natured, As the burglars have made a raid on ex-President Cleveland's liquors, ex-President Harrison’s demi- john should now be carefully guarded. The peasant girl of Kentucky has returned to her hero and statesman husband, and once more the gun shines bright on an old Kentucky home. “The best time, except to-morrow, is to-day,’ says Mr. Depew. As Mr. Depew is in good health and draws $50,000 a year, no doubt he is right. In his excess of piety Mr. Hanna may build a new church for some of the Washington congrega- tions. They should see him before his religious fervor cools. So much is now being said about the unhealthful. ness of kissing that the testimony of a Chicago edi- tor may be important. He says that “it makes a man better every time his wife kisses him.’’ The bicycle girl of 189, in the big Sunday Post- Dispatch of yesterday, got the applause of every- body who rides a wheel, and thousands who know bothing about bicycles joined in the enthusiasm. Not only is W. K. Vanderbilt a fascinating dan- cer, but a cake-walker of the first class. With so many attainments in additbon to his great wealth, Mr. Vanderbilt must be a wholly irresistible person in society. If itis true that the Chicago police schemé retires able-bodied policemen on pensions tn order to make room for other able-bodied policemen, the Windy City has a police scheme which other municipalities will doubtless hasten to imitate in reforming their charities. . The patient who ‘will die anyway” seems to be the only one upon whom the setomach-removing surgeons should yet practice, and then only with the consent of the eufferer. Possibly there are dyspeptics who will insist on having their stom- achs taken out, regardless of consequences. Lie heiresses It is to be hoped large number of mar- British this year may Keep penniless foreigners out of the United States. Who is to be the next Governor of Texas? Will Sayers run neck and neck with Crane, and will the result be a joke for or upon Jester? What are Wyrne’s chances of winning? ———-—- —-- --@O@ | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. that riageable ce} titieU M. M. PURDY, Golden City., Mo.—Get “Hoyle’s Book of Games.’ T. A. G.—The first day of the St. Louis Fair in 1897 was Sunday, Oct. 3. xccCxX.—The first day of the twentieth century will be written “Jan, 1, 1901." A READER—Consult advertising time payment house selling jewelry. ROSE F.—Your jetter to Mr. S. cannot be for- warded, as we do not know his address. A SUBSCRIBER.—The per capita of money in the United States for 1897 was $34.2; per capita in circulation, SAM 8 —Your communication is of too technical a . This problem can, of course, only be discussed minutely in a medica) journal. A SUBSCRIBER-—The month's salary being $83.33, that is $2.97 The six days’ “lay-off amounts to this from total gal- ary leaves due the officer. columns for The proper time in the even! ie after her “little prother™ The time to LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. (This column is open to everybody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, infor- mation to give ora subject of general interest to discwss, or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the idea into less than 100 words.) School Board Economy. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Why is it when economy is s0 strenuously preached to the teachers, that it ie not practiced by the board? Why do the principles of some suburban , schools get $1500 a year when the grade of the school calls for only $900. The salaries of suburban teachers were reduced years ago, why were not the principals reduced? Why should the board decide to build four new rooms to the school in Cheltenham when there is one vacant room at the Roe and two at the Clifton Heights School, both in close proximity? The board promised, years ago, to restore the 7% per cent taken off the teachers’ salaries to pay expenses, but have never done go. The teachers were supervised nearly to death be- fore. Now three (3) new supervisors have been added, at a total salary of $3700 yearly. This is retrenchment with a vengeance! The public school teachers naturally feel the slur on them that the chief supervisor of the three was taken from out- side the public schools. Why is all this thus? St. Lonis, JUSTICE; NOT A TBACHER., Advice to One Who Was Jilted. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. If the young man, just out of his teens (where do we get our boys from?) will bear in mind that the girl who flung him to the breezes for a hand- somer fellow knew exactly what ehe was doing he will feel better. The best thing that my young friend can do now is to find another girl, for “there are others.” Use better judgment next time, and don’t lose any more sleep over such an entanglement, BACH, St. Louis. “There Are Others.” To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, There is fringe upon my trousers And my last shirt’s on my back. My shoes have lost their patent gloss, And I’m on the downhill track. But I’m not out of work from preferences Not an 18-karat tramp, Or I would not be penning this effort By the light of a chimneyless lamp. Iam young, with a good education, Brought up aes the best in the land, But adversity has its hand on me, And the weight of my cares I can't stand, Has anyone work they can give me? Any job that is honest will do. And I guarantee I can convince them That I’m staunch, sturdy, ready and true, U. N. EMPLOYED Care Post-Dispatch. eee eee Other Fish in the Sea. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. I noticed that letter from a young man that Jost his lady love. Let me give some advice. If she ts £0 fickle as to turn him down for one more hand- some it is better for him; and then there are so many other girls that he will soon find some one else who will not cause him so much worry. Noth- ing but trouble can be the resuit of the courting of such a girl. He will yet meet many perhaps prettier than she is and should not fal in love with the first girl he meets, for if the does he willl be like the writer. AN OLD BACH, St. Louis. St. Louls. Clipperton Island. To the Faditor of the Post-Dispatch. The American flag should mean something. We deplore its use in ads for soap or in third-rate melodramas to help out a play which will not stand on its own merits; but when it is used by a private corporation to cover a very doubtful grab of pri- vate property, at the risk of involving the United States in a quarrel with other friendly countries (solely for the benefit of the said corporation), I think it is time to call a halt. Mr. occupation. which the coast. Many countries own islands hundreds of miles from their shores, scores of which are un- inhabited. In the Barcelona incident I think Spain should be compelled to make apology and ample reparation. But I think this Clipperton business is a horse of another color. JOHN HEDLEY. St. Louis. The Public and Its Servants. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. I see by the paper that the little girl, Grace Rey- nolds, died at St. John’s Hospital. Well, I have only this to say about publio ger- vants, for I am one of them, the only way to cor- rest these accidents by the railroad companies is to discharge all hands immediately or as soon as the trial comes off. The fact is, public servants don’t care a straw about the people or their interests or convenience, simply because the public is so mean, contemptible and exacting in their treatment of them. They always treat them as inferiors. What do they care it they run over a few people a year; the railroad don’t know but what they have tried to avoid it, and they themegelves lie out of it and retain their jobs. If they lost their jobs it would be different. £t. Louis. A SUBSCRIBER. Peace Pensioners. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. I read with much interest your article in last Sunday’s issue in regard to the punishment inflict- ed on three soldiers at Jefferson Barracks by order of Maj. Wessels. He compelled them to stand out in the cold and for nearly all day they were ex- posed to the inclemency of the weather, etc. No doubt the punishment was deserved; but the Major will undoubtedly come in for his share of censure ehould these men file applications for pension on the ground that they contracted rheumatism, bron- chitis, etc., at the time and tn the line of duty. If they prove that such was the case, and there were undoubtedly hundreds of witnesses to the fact of their exposure, there ts no way, except through a ruling of the commissioner that the Se peneens could avold placing their names on the rolls. The practice of the Pension Bureau ia to con- sider a soldier in line of duty when performing an act in accordance with the orders of his superior officer. Under the laws, soldiers of the regular army dis. abled in a pensionable degree in time of peace, while in the line of duty, are entitled to pension. That ermy numbers 23,00 men and that has been {ts maximum strength for years, yet the records show that nearly 33,900 claims have been filed since the close of the civil war, by men, or their heirs, who had chosen the military profession as a vo- cation. In constdering this matter the fact should be taken into consideration that In the case of war veterans the beneficiaries are men who volunteered for the defense of the country when its existence was at stake: in the other the profession was chosen in time of peace and generally as a means of tivelihood or a desire for military life. If it is “an outrage, an tnirvestice,”’ etc... to pension the former, how about the latter? Mvy opinion ts that both the volunteers and the regulars are entitled: but those who were not “in it" object generally for the reason that they have done not™ing that entitles them to recognition in the matter. St. Louis. H. DD. O'HRRIEN. The Ailing German Empress. From the Chicago Record. She has been deecribed officially as having been prostrated with an attack of influenza, but it ts manifest from the anxiety In the reigning family and in court circles regarding her condition that her malady has been of a more serious character. For the first time since the Ka'‘ser’s accession to the throne the court has remained at Potsdam over the new. year and {ft is doubtful if her condition wil] permit of its betng moved to Berlin at all thie win- widespread feeling that she could ill be spared. It ‘e felt that her influence upon the Kaiser's do- ; THOMASVILLE, Ga., Jan, 17.—Benjamin Butterworth, Commissioner of Patents, died. here Sunday afternoon. He leaves a widow and four children. They were all at his bedside when death came. Uraemia follow- i neumonia caused his death. The will be sh to Wa — Benjamin Butterworth was born In War- ren County, O., Oct. ber of the State Senate from Warren ler Counties In 1873-74; was elected from First Ohio District to the Forty-sixth, ty-seventh, Forty-ninth and 3 pone and was re-elected to th ongress as a Republican. Maj. Butterworth’s first with law was made in the office Ward, then a successful Cincinnati. During the war he attained the rank of Major in an Ohio regiment. He was Commissioner of Patents first during the administration of Garfield and Arthur and his record then and subsequently had great weight with President eKiniey in selecting him for that position. OR. SCHENK IN. DEMAND, Family Broken Up Because of a Girl Baby. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 17.—A Dr. Schenk is needed in this city. A girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chastain a few days ago. They had ardently desired a son, and Mr. Chastain was so disgusted that he absented himself from home, swear- ing that he would never look upon his wife's face again. Mrs. Chastain finally caused her husband's arrest for desertion. Upon his promise te return home he was released; but he has not become reconciled to the girl baby. Chastain’s desire for a son had me a mania with him. As the time for the event approached he grew restiess and peintely anxious. He kept away from his ome and was absent when the little stranger came. A friend brought him the word and congratulated him. Then he swore that he would never look upon his child’s face or that of his wife. So far as known the Chastaing have never had any other cause of difference. FIFTY WILLIONS IN GOLD. One Man Has Sanguine Views of This Year’s Klondike Output. . Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHBYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 17.—Ex-Sherig Ira L. Fredenthal arrived here to-day from Dawson City. He left there on Dec, 2, mak- ing the trip to Dyea in thirty-iwo days, The journey was made without hardship, ai- though the thermometer was often 77 degrees below zero. Fredenthal says there is $8,000,000 in gold dust stored at wson, and that this K ee >: output will be $50,000,. ooo, Fredenthal will return within a month and expects to make the tri Dawson in twenty 3. food supply in Dawson and vicinity ple to carry the 8,000 le there th h the winter, and that the Gove ent 4 expedition, if it ever reaches Dawson, will be laughed at by the Kiondikers, who are not awae they need relief. LOGAN CARLISLE'S DEATH. He Was a Son of the Ex-Secretary of the Treasury. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Logan Cariisie, son of ex-Secretary of the Treasury John — G, Carlisle, died suddenly Sunday afternoon at the home of his father, He had been in poor health for more than a year, and ree — cently had returned from a fruitless search — for relief at Hot Springs, =. _ Logan Carlisle wae chief clerk in the — Treasury Department during Clev &% Kan. He wae active in in the campaign of 1892. chief clerk in the department in 1892. He held that position until after the, © inauguration of ident Monsey. Last month Mr. Carlisie came to New orn goimes his father’s rye The body aken to Covington for IT SOUNDS VERY NICE. J. P. Morgan’s Co-Operative Coal Min. ing Syndicate. NEW YORK, Jan, 17.—J. Plerpont Morgag has a eceme to establish « vast bituminous coal trust to control the entire output of the mines in Penneyivaa, West Virginia, Ohto, Indiana and lilinois. The most interesti feature of the — a echeme is a st that is now told abou Proitsharing plan, in which the miners will be allow to co-operate. The im- portance of this plan if serious will be seen when it is stated that 20,00 men will be er g to Mr. Morgan's pian, the ecordin . t tored to a / 6 was it is ral ‘ There is to be a uniform atic, religioue and even political life is exceed- jaaty Bee ay She furnishes a much-needed ele- ment of common sense and sobriety, while many of the kindly and generous actions hat have placed to hie record originated with her. Indeed, were he to loee her his mental and physical con- dition would become more than ever before a source of terrible anxtety to hie family and to his subjects. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THE CENTURY—‘The Adventures of Lady Ur- euia.” OLY MPIC—"‘The Gelseha.” FOURTEENTH STREET—"“At Piney Ridge.” scale of governing each of the different d and the differences between the tricts will be adjusted by a state organization, whic cago to-morrow and wi tives from all of the local The output of soft coal in the mento was about 1® 1997, and an eaves

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jo THE INDOOR CHAMP, JAY BATON, THE CRACK BICY- CLIST ARRIVES IN S&T. LOUIS. ‘THE NEW COLISEUM TRACK. {tIsa Beauty, Sure Enough, and Lo- cal and Visiting Riders Are Delighted With It. The new bicycle track in the C .seum Is a “bute.” At least that is what Capt. Jack Prince calls it, and having built all sorts of tracks, he ought to know, The new track will be completed by to- morrow night and on Wednesday the local and visiting cracks will take spins over it Jay Faton, the famous indoor champion whose race with Wiilie Coburn is to be the big feature of next Saturday night's tourna- ment, arriveg this morning from New York. He stopped at Chicago en route here sim- ly to interest the boys there in the St, uis tournament. He says that several of the Chicago cracks will be down and that they will make the St. Louis fellows look to their laurels. Everything seems to Indicate that Jay Paton, indoor king, may be among the many other riders who may attempt the middle distances in '98. He has discovered an abil- ity to follow pace by using-2_} gear dur- ing the past season, and vélieves that, pro- vided he may obtain the backing and a pacemaking outfit, he will prove the middle distance game the best and find money and renown in the ranks now populated by Michael, Taylor, Chase and a few other good ones. —o— There is room in that eclass for good men, and Eaton, Gardiner, Johnson, Wenzel and Louis Callahan are possibilities. Titus, Mc- Duffie and Starbuck may even try it again, but it is probable they will have to take on contests with the newcomers before again attacking the champion in order that they may build up a reputation. EKaton Is pleased with the St. Louis track and thinks some great time will be made over it. Coburn, ‘too, likes the looks of It. It will remind those who see it of a bowling alley, its surface is so solid and smooth, Among those training for Saturday night’s racer are Frank White, Alex. Lane, (harley McCarthy and others. The '98 meet goes to the Hoosier village and next August the wheelmen will gather in the’ beautiful inland city situated on the banks of White River, the metropolis of Hoosierdom, the home of Benjamin Harri- son, James Whitcomb Riley, ‘‘Kid’’ McCoy and a host of other celebr.ties. The pro- gressive Irndianian is nothing if not versa- tile, and when it comes to entertaining the Vast army next summer, the visitors will be given just what they they want. They will be permitted to gaze with an ex-Presi- dent, talk with a famous poet or exam‘ne with critical eyes the manly proportions of a champion prize fighter. A.. ©... Mertens, the five-mile national champion, is enjoying needed rest at his *home in St. Paul. He skates and occasion- ally rides over the snow to keep his form up to standard; Mertens is determined now to go into middle distance work next sea- fon, and gymnasium work is also being done to bring the entire body up to the necessary standard for the more severe strain to which it will be put. Mertens is credited with being a ‘‘hog’’ for work, and in his new field he will find ample oppor- tunity to train to a sufficiency. Eddie Bald, the champion, declares that under no conditions will he race Lehr, the - German champion, should Lehr ride Eaton, the indoor king, and be defeated by him. Lehr’s stand taken some time ago outlined just this possibility and he accordingly re- fused to race Waton or Kiser until he had taken on Bald. The champion says more- over that he will not race Lehr until the epring in the North, and this position of the two champions will put match races out of the question in consequence until the early spring. Meanwhile Lehr ‘is trainin steadily with his teammates, Kaser an: Gardiner, -in the South. He will probably enter the open competition before racing Bald, and much interest will be taken from the match race when it does occur in con- sequence. Jimmy Michael gained six pounds within five days after he let up on his training. The champion was down fine when he quit his season, weighing but ninety-seven pounds. He will now go up to 114 without much trouble. His trainer, O, L. Pickard, gays that Michael seldom rtses now before noon and that he eats enormously at dinner and supper. There is a echeme on foot to ther all of the cycling clubs in Greater New York into one club organization. This combina- ‘tion, if effected, would mean that almost twenty thousand c'tizens will be together for one aim and will work as a unit for the interests of the wheelmen, politically and socially. This great horse has been bought by Jam +. | ¥ * , ce Adee f “ah 4 . ty. es R. Keene and will be Sent to England. apolis mext August. McCoy ‘s an enthusi- astic wheelman and a member of the L. A. W. So is his brother and manager, Home Selby. —--— CENTRAL SHARPSHOOTERS. They Had a Royal Time at Their Range at Bobringville Yesterday. The following scores were mado by mem- berg at yesterday’s opening of the “Gold Medal Championship” shoot at the rang at Bobringville. Wm. Roesler won the A medal, Ek. W. Hawkins the B medal, Chas. Mueller the C medal, and Louis Obert the ID medal. Horace Kephart was high on the honor target, with a score of 70 points. All scores were shot off hand, 200 yards, on the German ring target, and were: Andrew McBean.......... 223 L. Schwieghoefer.......... 218 ie ts Be, 406 ccascens: SN Frank Kurka........ sendeia Ilorace Kephart.......... ; Roesler ’, Hawkins M. Vv. Re porn M. Reinagle ..... R. Ww. BtRiey ... cccesveces Edward Wright......... ee Chas, Mueller .......- ese Aug. Mende . M. A. Hausen eeecseeser oe . Stumpf agement of the Central Sharpshooters’ As- sociation, and was the most stccessful ever held. The Southern Champions. Bob Walthour and Burt Repine, the crack Southern bicyclists, who are coming here to take part in Saturday night’s tourna- ment, are expected on to-night’s trains, Willie Coburn Looking Well. Willie Coburn paid L. A. W. headquarters a visit this morning. The local crack, who is to meet Eaton, the indoor champion, Saturday night, ts looking well. The roads have been so bad he has not had a chance to do much work, but he will put in some hard strokes commencing Wednesday morn- ing, by which time the track in the Coliseum will be ready. Oaks Defeats Glasgows. Tn a football game at old Sportsman’s Park yesterday the Oaks defeated the Glas. zows by a score of 2 to 0. This was the sixth game between these two teams this season, the Oaks being victorious in four and the other two games being a tie, The Oaks would like to hear from teams aver- "Kid" McCoy will, in all probability, at- lend the "98 méet of the lL. A. W. in Indian- aging 140 pounds, the ‘Manhattans pre- ferred, Address P, Richter, 2828 Bacon } Merry Prince, 6; Michael III., 3; street, ' ii, — AULL RETURNS HOME, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST. LOUIS FATR ASSOCIATION BACK FROM THE SOUTH. WENT THERE AFTER ENTRIES. The Outlook and Prospects for the Spring Meeting of the Jockey Club Are Most Favorable. Col. Robert Aull, president Louis Fair Association, was at his office of the St. in the Fair Grounds this morning and was busy opening entries to the spring stakes of the St. Louis Jockey Club. “I’ve Just got back from the South,” sa Mr. Aull, id “I went there, of ¢ourse, in the interest of our association, looking up en- tries and all that sort of thing. “f visited Memphis, Gallatin, and other reports everywhere. Nashv!] le points and met with favorable I brought back a bie bunch of entries and I judge from my ex- perience that we will have the biggest lst for our opening we have ever had. “While I was at Nashville and Memph! s 9 Johnny Hachmeister was at New Orleans. He will be home to-night and we will know then what he did there. “Our interests in California are being looked after by our secretary, Joe Murphy, who is now out there.’ Mr. Aull will robably not make the St. Louis entries public until next Sunday, al- though mail and all other entries closed at 1) o’clock this morning. Billy Sippy will ship. the Merry Monarch stubles to Little Rock this week. oe ee ee Following are the entries for the Brook- lyn Jockey Club Handicap of $10,000 to be run at the spring meeting; and a quarter miles: Algol, 4; Ben Brush, 5; Holliday, 5; Rox, 4; Buddha, 4; Clelland, 6; Caldron, 4; Don d’Oro, 4; Catlett, 4; Dr. Sheppard, 4: Great Bend, Handball, 3; Howard Mann, 5; Isidor, Lakeshore, a.; Lehman, a.: 4 Bramble, 4; Macy, 4; Meadowthorpe, Monega distance, 3; Ogden, 4; On Deck Johnny, 4: Plaudit, 3; Premier, 8; Royal Stag (imp.), 5; St. Bartholomew, Schiller, 5; Semper Ego, 5; Sensational, Loki, 6: I one Ben Eder, 5; Ben Byron Me- Sir 3° 4; ul 4: n, , 4; Ornament, 4; Our 5; Previouag, 4; O« Vy, Sly Fox, 8; Typhoon II., 4; Tilo, 4; Trav- erser, 8; Ulysses, 5; Winged Foot, 6 Mr. Joseph D. Lucas is golng to send his Stable of 2-year-olds to the meeting and they will be given their fir trial there. “Jack” Kenny, Little Roc st the jumping race ride ‘k r, writes from Lexington that he has eight horsos belonging to a rich man there and one of hig own. The latter is a 3-year-o! land estate. name of the “rich man.’’ — — d, which he secured from the Byron McCle Kenny does not mention the ? i- Joe Martin is still in town and still hust- ling in the Jockey Club. interest of the Little meen | ——_ IT TURNED OUT ITS FIRST PRET- TY WORK YESTER- DAY, TOM TRACY AND BOB DOUGLAS. Those Two Corking Lightweights Matched to Box Eight Rounds in St. Louis. There is going to be a sure enough baitle in St. Louis in the very near future. Bob Douglas, the best fighter this city has turned out in many a day, has been matched against Tommy Tracy, the crack lightweight. They are to come together in the Oriental Theater for a purse of $300. The affair will be conducted under the management of Parson Davies and will Te brought off early next month. Corbett has broken his promise about talking no more prize fight. As soon as he reached Chicago he began putting ques- tions to George Biler, relating to that fight at Carson City, Siler is in Cleveland, but he will be back in Chicago before the week is out and will then answer Corbett’s ques- tions. Parson Davies says that Peter Jackson’s boxing days are over and that he should not be allowed to enter the ring with Maher. Kid McCoy has posted $1000 in New York and wants to fight either Corbett or Pitz. The Kid, in hs challenge to the two big fellows, says: ‘T know I can beat either or both of you. I am not going to fight any other man or men but you and no amount of evasion or excuse that either of you can offer will deter me from my determination to pursue you until I achieve my object and win the heavy-weight champ_onship of the world. “T am not going to indulge in any black- guardism or billingsgate. The public is dis- gusted with those methods and they are not and never were mine. “T give you credit for all that e‘ther of you has accomplished, but know I am your master as a fighter, and my challenge is sincere, “Ag a further evidence of my sincerity, I have deposited a check for $1000 in the hands of Samuel Austin, and I stand ready to post an additional $1000 upon either or both of you signifying your acceptance.” Having gone into the show business, Mc- Coy is evidently trying to keep right up with Corbett and Fitz. For a _ beginner, judging only by his first effort, he is doing qu:-te well. They say that Jack Burke, “the Ir‘sh Lad,’’ was drinking champagne when he died, Jack will be remembered well as the pugilist who tried to stop Ed Kelly in four rounds. ‘They met on thestage of the Casino, now the London Theater, in that ylace’s palmy days and before a packed louse. Kelly stayed the four rounds. “The worst. thing that could happen to Corbett,.”’ says a man who does not admire the talking champions, ‘‘would be a fight with Peter Maher. Peter thinks that if there is one man he can beat it is Corbett, and John Quinn, his manager, is @ very per sistent man.,.”’ Mysterious Billy Smith wants to box Dan Creedon, and is willing to make a match for 10 or 20 rounds. Kid McCoy’s Pick-Up. “Kid McCoy, it is announced, has made another pick-up. This time he has been matched with Vernon Hardenbrook of Walkerston, a little town near Mishawaka, Ind. The Indiana man, who is well known in the Northern part of the Hoosier State, agrees to to take the “Kid's” punishment for five rounds without being knocked out for a purse of $500 and a side bet of $250. The match is to come off either in Cleveland or Chicago. Dixon aud Hopkins. The Olympic Athletic Club of Buffalo has agereed to give a purse of $1753 for a 20-round bout between George Dixon and Joe Hop- kins. The only obstacle In the way of a match is that Hopkins ts figuring on meet- ing Ben Jordan of England. Yesterday’s Football Games. In the football games yesterday at Sports- man’s Park the St. Teresae beat the Cy- clists by the ecore of 4 to 3 and the Cap- pels and Shamrocks played a tie game. At Cc. B. C. campus the Lynch Ryes beat the Globes and the C, B. C..’s defeated the Wolf Tones, both by the scores of 2 to 0. Trot Him Over, Harry. Harry. Weldon says he has a first-class man who is willing to buy the Browns. Trot him over this way, Mr. Weldon, please. Madison Turf Exchange. Trains leave Washington avenue 1:15, 1:34, 1:58, 2:20, 2:50, 4:04, 4:47 and 56:35. Return 8:20, 4:25, 5:10, 6:10, 7:10, M'COV'S TYPEWRITER, THE SCHEDULE: MEET, THE NATIONAL LEAGUE WILL HOLD IT IN ST. LOUIS IN FEBRUARY. NICHOLS’ WORK AS A PITCHER. -_—— ° | oe Ml | ll Pearline saves wear —saves rubbing. No washboard needed. Nothing but soak- ing the clothes; boiling; pee SE Millions Pearline. According to the Figures He Has Done Wonderful Work and Will Do Even Better This Year. The schedule meeting of the National League will be held at the Lindell Hotel, in St. Louis, the last week in February, and interest in that mecting is on the in- crease all over the circuit. All the baseball men are now talking about the echedule and all say they are determined not to get the worst of it. A report comes from Washington that Presi- dent Young has made two drafts of a schedule for 1898, and promises to make a third, so there shall be plenty of oppor- tunity for the magnates to discuss ell the points of most interest in the errange- ment of the dates. The fact that Sunday baseball may pre- vail, instead of being a rarity in the League ‘his year, will be of invaluable assistance in schedule making, as dates can better be arranged on a@ system of odd days. The third and seventh days come in handy for clubs to travel from point to point. Freedman of New York claims he was given away the worst of the deal in the schedule last year and this year he wants to make up for what he lost a year ago. He wants the schedule so arranged that the. Giants and Bostons will play their first games together at home. The Pittsburg uniforms next season will be white shirt and pants, with a blue cap. The a will be red and blue ring stripes; each stripe of red will be two inches and the blue will be one inch. This will be a gay color. The sweaters will be red and biue also. The traveling suit wiil be the same as the home one, except that the pants will be blue instead of white. The belt will also be blue. On the front of the cap and the front of the shirt will be the letter “‘P”’ in red color. The blue will be dark or navy blue. Out of the hundreds of pitchers who have been employed by the National League clubs from 1890 to 1897, inclusive, there are but two who are credited with eight years of consecutive work in the box, and these two are Nichols of the Bostons and Young cf the Clevelands. The appended table gives the percentage of victories of each pitcher dur- ing each of the elght years, and also the totals of the victories and defeats they pitched in and the total percentage of vic- tories for the eight years of service: Nichols. Young. 5ST .58S In the face of these figures to talk of Nichols being likely to be a failure in 1898 is rather farcical. The seven-year pitchers include Rusie, Rhines and utchison. Killen and Esper pitched in the League for seven consecutive years. Singularly enough, Rusie’s best rec- ord was made in 1897, after he had refrained from pitching for a year. The veteran pitchers of the contrasted league, which began its history in 1892, are Cuppy, Stivetts, Dwyer, Taylor, McMahon, Carsey, Kennedy, Meekin, Daub. EE WEST END LEAGUE. The Games of This Organization Well Played and Well Attended. In the West End League yesterday the Ack Juniors defeated the St. Matthews by the close score of 1 to 90. The Visitations defeated the Kensingtons by a score of 2to 1. The standing of the A variety Cordray Gouches “83° some Styles «as low as $5, Heavy White Enamel Iroa Beds at $2.74; Fancy Parlor Rockers, in up-to-date designs, $1.68; Stair Vilcloth, this week, only 6c a yard. Walker's Plan—-Pay as You Cana. 7 ~~ sss7T be A ed hed A MAN CHUCKLES With delight when his 3% breakfast includes cakes SKT OF TEETH ... ......--0000+-84.00, BEST SET .00 PAINLESS EXTRACTION ......: SILVER FILLING..... National Dental Parlors, o: Largest office in the city; at constantly attendance. la OPEN DAILY; SUNDAYS ® to 4; Take elevator. _|NO MORE DREAD OF THE DENTAL CHAIR, r= : 22-k. GOLD CROWNS.........++. A guarantee given with ali work for tem years. st. _ fh eftics ree, Wattendante, Tarr and his skilled eta i tn lr. oo . AMUSEMENTS. — made of SQUIRREL clubs in this league, including the games played yesterday, Is: Clubs. Won. Tost. Tied, Visitations ...... secaenece 8 0 0 Ack Juniors . St. Matthews Core eeereces Kensingtons The winning team of this league has de- cided to play the winners of the Junior League. Gardiner. the Visitations’ goal keeper, is a “peach.” At least that is what onlook- ers said at Sunday's game, The West End Junior League meets Mon- day night at 8 o’clock at 4547 Page avenue. All club managers will please attend this meeting, as considérable business will have to be transacted. St. Matthews will please have a repre- sentative at this meeting. Pet. . 600 PANCAKE FLOUR. For sale by all gooi Gro- cers. Trade suppilied by OLYMPIC |i? o'siier. BIG HITi!! THE CEISHA, From Daly's Theater, New York peny of comic opera celebrities, aden, by 8 comms! turday Matinees. MS : Next Sunday—‘‘One Round of Pleasure. e The Grocer, He Knows "3 What kind of Baking Powder pleases his best patrons. That’s why he likes to sell JACK FROST the light, pure, sure kind, sold at the fair price of 2ic a pound. OLYMPIC. TO-NICHT, BENEFIT OF TREASURER BUD MANTZ. ie 6.88 Oe ime Cold Crackers Little > CURES A COLD IN ONE NICHT. 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Three-handed poker is a cut- | throat game and mighty uncertain, Brent | layed it in various ways. I was out nearly 1000 when he began a sertes of fool plays. He raised Hurd three times, running out of big pots on bluff hands, which he showed down with a grin each time after winning | the pot. Hurd swore softly and intensely. Again Brent ratsed him $200 and Hurd raised back. Brent was game for another $20, and | than mine. Hurd, th.nking that he was bluffing, jumpe him again, I had dropped out. Brent jollied the thing along skillfully, and when Hurd | finally called him on a $1,400 pot he showed “You are sir,’ said the health officer | proudly. down four jacks and took the money. “That was when 1 didn’t biuff,” he said, ‘We went at the game the next after- noon, and with much the same result. Hurd and I won at the start, and then Brent got all of the cards. We both watched him closely, and the knew it. He dealt and han- died the cards always above the tabie, and there could be no suspicion of his cheat- ing. It was a novel experience for Ua to be gambling for high etakes, but I had fost s0 much that I kept on in the hope of get- ting it back. Aa for Hurd, he came out in his true colors. He was a gambler at heart. Brent pugzied me. He seemed to as elated a3 a boy with his good fortune, and Hurd «said to me that he thought Brent was a tenderfoot playing in great luck, and | that we would have our revemge before we | reached Nassau. I was poker crazy and | @0 Wag Hurd. On the night before reaching Nassau we both played as (f we were mil- Monaires. About 2 in the morning | went broke. I waa $6.000 out of pocket, and I knew that I had been a fool. Hurd wanted to keep on and finally be and Brent began Diaying show-down for %@ a hand. Brent still had the luck, and Hurd finally threw the cards down with an oath that as first applied collectively to all of his An. cestors and then individually, winding up with his own once of himag)f. k ¥ said. “"‘Oh! I'm bigger fool,” eald Hurl. ‘I risked ee or that money I have lost, and think I'4 better overboard.’ ,pliot came aboard and just after daylight | we found ourselves anchored in the harbor, | Wretched as I felt over my loss. _ pers on his wrists and said quietly: ing orders from the bridge. It was nearly daylight and our steamer was outside of Nassau harbor waiting for a pilot to take us in. A red rocket was sent up and then another one. in the distance we heard the rattle of oars and the ‘Humph! humph! humph! of the negro crew that was bring- ing the pilot out tous. Brent watched Hurd like a cat as he stood near the rail, The with the town a mile distant and the bot- tom of coral plainly outlined below wus through the clear water. The health offi- cer came out on his tug to look us over. which I could ill afford, the scene interested me. Besides there was sone comfort in the thought that Hurd’s josses were gréa‘er “ "Doctor, we are now in English waters, aren't we, and under the English flag” asked Brent. “*Then,” said Brent, ‘I have an unpleas- ‘ant duty to perform,’ and before the rest of us knew what was happening he had jumped on Hurd just as the young man was making for the rail, snapped a pair of nip- “*l arrest you, Capt. Blank.’ “The name by which he addressed Hurd was that of a young Englishman who had committed a series of forgeries in London three months before and disappeared with “ je amount of money. He had visited New York before his disgrace, and as an heir to an old titie he had been received by fashivnable people and made much of dur. ing & season at Newport. When his for- eries became known the details were pub. ished very fully in the New York pers, and hence I had no difficulty in placing the name. All this flashed through my mind in an instant and I watched the moh pe of the arrested man. He was trembling and very pale, but he didn't flunk. “*¥You have me all right.” he sald, ‘and I was a foo] to come down here where I could be arrested and taken back without the necessity of extradition popes. 1 should have stayed in the United States, if you had arrested me I could have to send you that cable. I don't know where the woman whose name was signed to it | & “Well, with your poker winnings and your reward for my capture you have made a big haul on this trip, that has ended 20 | unfortunately for me.’ “*I don’t get the Brent, and, handing eaid, ‘If poker mm Xs ina eco of ba ag ou will coun r,¥ find that It la the exact amount that f from you.’ “ "What do you mean by giving it back? [ asked in surprise. “ "Why, you see, sir, you were tn the came with Captain Blank here, and I couldn't rangé it eo aa to win only from him.’ “*Do you mean to say that you have cheated” I asked. "Nearly every hand,’ said Brent, pleased smile, ‘and I think 1 wae slick about it. The truth of the that Captain Blank’s money was the / of his forgeries, and he wee euch a slippery * customer that 1 wanted to ae my | of it, but I'm going to turn it over te : father. As for you, sir, let me as an old hand, not to play poker chance acquaintances, You'll t the lesson, I'm sure.’ | handa before we landed. I chea never felt #o realized that And no matter how careful you are, the constant wear of the wash- board weakens the fabric, thins it — out, makes it easy to tear and to pieces. You can't help this wearing process, even with the ' most conscientious washing. 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Ofc per ry ral : 15e to B0c; fallen Tb. a to quatity and a me | DERRSKINS, —Deerskins quotable at 18¢ | :; per Ib for prime, damaged balf price; antelope, 10c; ; , goatskins, 10@20¢ each. REESWAX—Prime, dull at 25c. TALLOW—Market quiet; prime country ren at > INVESTMENT OFFERINC. ST. LOUIS, Jan, 17. | The sample market was very dull and the feel- Stic; No. 2, 834/3\%c; oleo stearine, 4%c; cake, Shc. | wien . 2 par ad weno pet ems Ligerpool cables state that offerings 0 & Medium clothing : MATTER BEFORE THEM. AUTHORITIES TAKE ACTION. tiné wheat are much lighter to-day rt call May corn soid down to 26%c, up to Braid and low..... eoceeorece i.” / ; The visible supply of wheat in the United States | 26% ang then at 26%@%‘c, but the market was Aght fine and Canada east of the Rockies shows 4 ere very quiet. tae Slightly burry for the week of 1,025,000 bu. Corn increased 1,621,- January corn had 25l4c bid and 25'%ge asked. Hard burry ; 000 bu, Oats increased 755,000 bu. J'ly corn was offered at 27*4e and sold at 2c. Southern and hard b EVIDENCE. The Official figures make the amount of wheat on . . sea. as urry INCORPORATED.) Close was very dull. May corn closed at | Io., _ MANY TRUE BILLS RETURNED.|SAYS HE HAS jibe Official figures make the amaans ype and | aonaeyclone, Was very dull. May corn closed at | 1o..' Wis., alin. General Office—401 and 414-17 Bank of Commerce Bldg , At 28e. j oom ; - daora 360,000 bu. corn ¢]l u corn on passage decrease 1,360,0U closed Medium 7 | Chicago wires: ‘Since Jan. h caiy 16 oon = The : OATS. a ST. LOvuUIsS. + : . | contract wheat have been recesvee i P market in this option was quiet,\ but firm, forth and South Road Bribery Cases If Prosecuting Attorney Heidorn Re At that rate the arrivals of contract all through | and there seemed to yma Pht for sale, although is January will not exceed 250 cars, which would | higher prices were bid, Local receipts were a little | Texas, Arkansas. Inai enn Are Not Referred To in the fuses He Will Appeal to Circuit make about 200,000 ba.” heavier than they were a year ago, but the cash | Fall clip medium... a Document. Judge Hirzel. This Company has purchased U. S. Patent protecting to it the exclusive use for the U. S. of America, a Chemo-Electrolytic Process for the Reduction and Manufacture of Aiuminum, The Process has been commercially demonstrated by Aluminum having been made thereunder. Authorities state that in a short time the demand for metallic Aluminum will be 10,000 tons perannum. (Based upon the present selling price.) This may to some seem Chicago papers estimate the Leiter holdings at | demand continues fair and offerings were light. Fall cli 15,000,000 bu, including 1,000,000 bu cash Wee | anny oats had 24%c bid, Ke higher than Satur-| j F mee Minneapolis, the same at Duluth, Gay 8 Closing bid. January oats had 23%4c bid. bu at. Buffalo, 9,000,000 : Receipts at St. Louis since Saturday were 62,400 balance May wheat at Chicago. 3 ate af tm £8 compared with 56,100 bu a year ago. Of Prosecuting Attorney IF’. A. Heidorn of St. Beerbohm's cables make = —, ss roma a with Graal = cars were local, as compared or the week 5,800, yu, Dut oth n 4c ¢ ; ‘k Louis County has been asked for three war- hn eg og wache-n ahhemnaiee as follows: American, Spot Grades—On “call Now 2 oats had 23%c bid oat a rather small estimate, hence the following explanation: } by Judge Zachrits. The Té port Wis brief, rants ‘ harging the murder of Philip 5.125.000 bu; Russian, 1,685,000 pu: Danu nah, regular, witb none offered and No. 3 oats had 22c¢ emell sks, Re: quitly 10,000 tons (2,000 Ibs. per ton )—20, 000,060 ibs. at 35 cents per Ibd., $7 . 000. 000. * “The December grand jury made its final } report Monday morning, and was discharged ents of corn for the week were ¢ corn for the week f ' Seer ereere eee eee “ene @#@eeoeneenreenrtereeeeeeeeneee &©# 8 *® @h ee @ “They wanted her there without Philip— that is the sercet of the attack. “She was tn the scheme with them.- Since my brother’s death she has shown né grief; on the contrary, she proclaims her relief at his end.”’ No. 2 TYCO... seeeeseee T9,741 76,133 clear ribs, 5.25c; extra shert clear. 5c. BREAKFAST BAOON—On orders, 9@10%e per SUGAR-CURED HAMS—8%4@10c. BEEF—Mess, $7@8 per bbl; dried, 11%@165e; tongues, $6 per dozen. Opening %d lower, that market at 1:30 p. m. had not only recovered thiw decline, but had advanced @%d besides. This caused marked strength at the start, here, May opening at 90%@0%(c, against Saturday's closing price of 90%c. A few scalping sales caused a temporary reaction to 90Z@00%c. Five per cent Redemption Fund with U. S. Treasurer.... .. *“eeeneeeerteeeeeeeee secceeceessee 3,907,617.45 11,702.59 4.321.169 8$ cinenes poi debe cone vbes bue+ es Qa, OMe samae LIABILITIES. DRIED FRUIT. ro = became mee gy —_ ~~ APPLES—Evaporated rings from 5%c to Tc; } advanced slowly to Qlc. *rivate Liverpool ad- S oan es quarters from aioe to 5%c; peelings and cores, 2c; | Viccs said Argentine offerings were decreasinr, So se Paid in e | coe gas ole anaed jo Ae ae | Dey salted, om also control as large a portion of the industry and market as the unlimited capital they Se aes, ae pes Geenuiting casiver of ha a his father, Fred Niére, were un- | | Parle-Wheat unchanged: straig | Dry salted, No. 2... expect to command in due time will enable them. It fs held by good authorities and metal e North St. sk 9an AF®- —— a saat Riga npr > h ¢ ner. ic 2 wets nya a ee an See ae Deputy Sherii Autenrieth’s.visit to Ball- pica commtty Ree eth kk Co., London, crcnaitupe ate dete. eae men that when the selling price of Aluminum will be reduced one-third of its present price EE dee eating “cobhderss. men ane (wit wae unproductive of results. The rr eee tkinson of Ross T. Sty ange to-day. He 1 es@1 7 ull, uncured. Te, and part cured ike less, that Mn demand will exceed 100,000 tons per annum, equaling i value about $40,000,000. ; a @] . ~vme re .{ ors of foul pay could not be traced an 6]. : si -* f MW. Kehlor. Rye flour... 8 U5@S 20 MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS. e exceptional f ; ; ‘ee 1 vow gs Sammon Ft vee ap pated, were Beta Bema persistency with which they were advanced es scene 6 ecrrLy OF GRAIN. BRUCK WHEAT FLOUR—New Western, $3.75; RAGS, OLD ROPE AND RUBBER—Rags, T5e per a Ss h sommes me Investment as regards profit combined with Sntety Knd burglar, was iedictad and ao was Lip- |80 puzzied the authorities that they decided Jan. 15, "98. Jan. 8, "98. Jan. 16, bof Eastern, $4. * | 100 lbs.’ Old rope—No. 1, $1; No. 2, 60c. Old rub- | FeCommend it to the most careful investor, large or small. man Epstein, the man who bought the {to lay the whole maiter before the Prosecut- | Wheat .....,..37,888,000 52,549 pod KRAN—Market continues firm. Bulk bran worth hy out, $3.50. ; Lists are now open and applications will be received for a limited amount of Treasury \ silverware he atole. The self-confessed | ing Attorney without comment. | tiond Corn 1,18: #4621 000 ere ome esate te Fo Wewin Len a Ps > per Ib; Western, | Shares of $1.00 each full paid and non-assessable, at 25c per share, same to be payment . , ff 2 ay lt ; a eeoeereoees t : ; 0, Vas,’ u e, ‘ ff L y “i, aC; ; a hy 4 she » &ytte sy. - 2 egy Par ge Soe Win atenad ug ons Po fa 3 Poa yee rie tale. he toate At hiv SERRE 0 oe 51000 oS eee 56c. Shipstuff selling at 75@7s5e E. side and S80c ms einen aaa fair deanna: Red, 1%4@1\%c per} in full for the steck subscribed a nd subject to no further call or liability. , one ERE . ws 8 Bileged accomi~ | tana oft Bae oh Wh 582, ( 3,877, this side. ; White, 1%@2c. | egg nM eget Murphy and tang of Apirn es ng tot stat eh vip tere y ae seeere Woerther, | Barley ....... 8,582,000 odie TAY. sd CHESTNUTS 4@ fe per Ib. For full information, Call or Address, e latter was once a member of the Legis- | @_brother o ep Gea rt Receipts, 245 tons local, 170 tons throngh; ship- SONES—Choice bleached, $14 per ton: partly. lature, Woerther asked that warrants, charging Future Prices, ments, 300 tons. Market continues very quiet and bleached, $10@11; skinny, $9@10; slaughter-house Following are the indictments returned: murder, be issued against Edward Niere, the feeling easier. stock, $810. Assault with intent to kill: Sam Johnson. | his father, Fred Niere, and Philip’s widow, | Closing | Highest | Lowest | Closing Quotatious: ‘imothy—Chotce selling at $10; No, HICKORY NUTS—Large, 25@50c: shell barks, a \May Ethirage, John Healey. "| Magge.e Woerther. , os th : | Saturday.| To-day. | To-day. | Monday. 1, $9@2.50; Me aa'sh: Ne. . or BOT ee Prairie | 75c per bu. Kxmbezzlement: Hen ones. There was a long conference in the at- . firm; choice $8@8.50; No. 1, $7.50; No. 2, $7; No. | COOPERAGE—FEast track—Flour_ bbis, 5 eioy red anbiine. 7ones torney‘’s office and at noon Mr. “eer WHEAT. 3, egy te clover —% $6 for common to §8 for ott gre. = hoops, 26c; half bbis, 20¢; OR THE CO.’S FINANCIAL AGENTS, \ iret degree robbery: : | F To- | With an armioad of law books, deserted the . , 24 choice. Clover from a) per ton for average; $8, 24c; produce bbls, 22c; lard tes, $1; geph te 4 ind ome ieteer “hedech adie Courthouse for his private office. oe aj ana + Baron oe) 03% n choice white e:over bay is beld at $¥, but not sgeill- | tes. 80¢ ; pork bbis, 89@O00c per bb] this side and THE INDUSTRIAL SECURITIES co, Hdward, Shannon, Charies Sheldon, Frank | He said he had the request under consid- | 707 - we 4 at 7 “| 78 b sng. ; P Tecan ne site. 401 ahd 414-17 Bank of C Buildi i waward, on, e868 Sneidon, /rar anes 1 decision for a {JVs - i8 al ; | STRAW —Choice wheat straw, $5.50@6; rye} WHITE BEANS—Outet. Car lots, $1.00 for ank oO ommerce Bulid Ng, St. Louis. Stetson “ne William CC. Thornton alias grape but could reach no deci = straw, $6.50G@7; oat straw, $4.75@5. hand-picked on trk, 95@08e for screened: old, 8c @Monnore, Kugene Mohrman. ew hours. CORN. Hise," é SEEDS lower; country $08 - Jim 39 2.75 Ne see yates i tales Fa AIO He IME ah iS MORE Cae. : : . se : ; S 4/7. ’ , M85 per ton; lima, $2.60@2.75 ’ Receiving stolen yroperty: Linoman E = Mr. Heidorn does not want to issue the ‘'LAXSEED—M ‘ket unchan 1 100 11 BF on mage de Potent oy pert) MP | warrants,” said. Henry Woerther, “but if|yas_.. 514] BY4b | 25i4b| 25 oct LAXSE] D—Marke ged at $1.16% bid per 100 1 NGL pennies utiles aniiebs GEO, A. BAKER, President. GEO. W. PARKER, 2d V.-P. F, E. MARSHALL, Cashier, raud: J. W. Gleason, George Goss. he does not, I state here openly that I will |May . 26% (26% 020% GRASS SEEDS—Timothy, £242.40; clover from | Scotch, 90@95c; split, $1.20; old, 5c per bu less. JOS. M. HAYES, Vice-President. J. A. LEWIS, Asst. Cashier. (Grand larceny: John Wilton, alias John | cause him some troubie. If he refuses my - “— 1$5 for desirable seed to $1.50 for poor; red top EMPTY BARRELS—Coal oil, gasoline and tur- Wise; John Slattery, Joseph Cass, Charles | demands, I shall appeal to Judge Hirzel. ete _.. | frown $1 to $4 for ordinary receipts; choice seed as | pentine, 85c; vinegar, Tic; black oll, 40c: lard ofl, STATEMENT OF THE Hoes, “I think I can establish a sufficient motive M | 4th |245e@24 a 124% @24I40 | Lich as $10; hempseed, $1.65 per 100 Ibs for | 65c: linseed ofl, 65c; do %-bbls, 35c; sugar, 12K; e : ‘e Burglary first degree: Charles Parker, | for the crime, one that will implicate the — ; Ain 8 Wine aster eR tac Pita BE m 08 49 whisky, $1; do %-bbls, 75c; wine, 70c; sauerkraut, George Hawkins, alias Keller; Jameg Nolan. | person I want arrested.” Core AT 70ak0e cer 100 Iban eo te | 25c; pickle, 40c; molasses, S0e; lard tes, 40c. On Ime;n a : al ionad afl Burglary second degree and larceny: He was especially bitter against his Louis E: tor BUCKW “‘panturain Broken staves or heads, 25¢ off, with 2c discount James Jones, Frank S. Orr, Richard Walsh, | brother’s wife, accusing her of being re- Stocks of Grain in St. Louis H.evators. c yb yg Wee caee mianag. been. mes Jones, Frank S. Orr, Richi alsh, | brothe Witt, sccusing he g PORK—Market strong and advancing. Standard | BROOM CORN—Quiet. Quote as follows: New of St. Louis, Close of Business, 15th Day of January, 1898. Joseph Dard.s, Frank Keily, Jacob Schafier, | Sponsible for Philip’s death. Monday. Saturday. Year Ago. | ..24, pork—Regular, $8.70; new, $9.20 per bbl. Or- | stock at $25 r ton for common to 50@65e for : W = am Hoy ghee “ih mag ohdonee ge apa her in jail once,’’ he sald, “and you | Wheat ............-2,447,142 yy hye apt et ders, 650c per bbI higher. choice ” RESOURCES. Attempted burglary: Edward Harris. Will soon get a confession that will clear up yacht 12h es prt. LEAF LARD—In tes, 544c on orders, POPCORN—T5c@ 1 per 100 lbs on the cob 960,548 Grand larceny:. Joseph Arno, Carlos Pas- | the mystery. When the Nieres discharged 163,928 342,558 LARD—Market nominal at 4.47%c for prime, pot asthe dnc: Loans and Discounts ae oe Ne en ee a ee ene ae $ 4, “ 26 quine and Louis Roux, alias Pascal. Philip last Tuesday they didn’t send his 4.5744c for choice. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 64,032.52 “ae and grand larceny: John| wife away or push her out of the house, r ° — SE Se ~ - 7 epee) —— ee rem nee eee The Central Police District is infested leged swindler.” Muerea’ Ryan ae the al- ‘with a gang of burglars and Capt. O’ Malley ‘About two weeks ago,’ sald Howard, has ordered his men to exercise extraordi- | ‘1 Saw an advertisement by the. Ryan eee ‘wiatban. woman, calling for a business partner. I answered and, to make a long story short, | May .| BO% | Several] burglaries have been reported my experience with Mildred Ryan cost me ; within the last two days. Saturday morn- | 86 North High street and I was to be her CORN. ing Meenach’s grocery store, 2044 Market | business partner. But there’s nothing in the Mt “~ street, was looted and a wagon load of business and [I am simply out my cash. {* ay 29 20% | staple groceries hauled away. The money was given up by me on the in- VATS Sunday night Farrell's shooting gallery, | 8tallment plan.”’ - 1616 Market street, was ransacked, E\very-/|, It is said that Howard had a tender feel- | May 23% | 23% | thing of value was taken. ing for the Ryan woman. The police are —- Another Sunday night burglary occurred | Paying no attention to the case as they PORK. at 2207 St. Charles street. A rooming house | cannot see how the woman's action can be $9 3214) $9.4244) 9.80 | was broken open and clothing to the value | construed as a crime, even if Howard's allegations are fully verified. ST. CHARLES NEWS. The ladies of the Jefferson Street Presby- reemeEg 4.65@51 4G) | terian Church, St. Charles, will give one of . FREE MEDICINE FOR THE POOR their enjoyable socials in the lecture-room | ° 4.70 » | Of the church to-night. viiipeaipsendiiin ey Miss Minnie Schmidt will leave to-morrow CHICAGO CLOSE. Zia | for Chicago, accompanfed by ker brother, The Health Department Co-Operates Prof. H. O. Schmidt. Miss Schmidt will re- aan eae AE kan ih dee —_ a ere bbi; Oregon, $1@1.25 per 40-lb box; Some areere, main in Chicago about a year. * MGT D, SY, SURE COTD-Iab., aoe 1? | 80@50e per bu loose. Inferior and slack packe With the Provident Association. Mrs. James EB. White of West Madison | May, 28%@2vc b; July Cate amt sate nt | 208 etreet and her sister, Mies Madaline Crib- Nocthwoet ti a0% : May Bye. ids aa SWEET POT \TORS ielag 34 55@S80c per bu, | to : , be AV 7 2) . ver: The 4 ’ ern ao pa: he N TER’ ( d OES—Se hi at oo: , , , . Beginning Monday, Jan. 17, the Health | °e?, who have been ill for several weeks CURB } $292.75 per bbl; top for red Nansemond on orders, | May, from 27c to 30c per bu for feeding barley to 4¥c | Were very dull, with only a narrow scalping trade for choice malting grain. doing. Both markets were eteady with whent. Watch Out for the Operators. Tracy how he (the farmer) had been/| No 2? dpenataer sy an ody ewin led by a woman No 8 eee eeee eases 22 b} 2244b —_ the morning. ceipts were 205 cars. do 4 per ct. ctfs 82%! 84 83% | ‘ ; — 2 e FRUIT—$6.00G@7.00 per box. Reo ORE. ORs PE. er? re Xx-Div. 2 per cent. BANANAS—On orders: Medium bunches, 75¢@ KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan, 17.—Wheat generally tEx-Div. 2 per cent. Mining Securities a Specialty. $1.00; choice large, .$1.25@1.50. about steady, slow; No. 1 hard nominally 8&c; No. CALIFORNIA PEARS—$1.75@2. 25 of box. 2, gg ~ yp eB ae en one ee Wall Street S21 PINE ST. MALAGA GRAPES—$5.00@7.50 per , oN), ed BO uy vac, : ~ Mile >. wo y ‘ : — APPLES—Bellefleur, Huntsman's Favorite, Jona- | 87@80c; No. 2 spring, S1@S82c; No. 3, ~e om NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—The week opened with BRANCK-70! WASHINGTON Av. than and other fancy varieties, $3@4.25 per bbl; | Some sales \ec lower; No. 2 mixed. 244 G24 Cc. the bullish feeling in the aseendency, owing to the | ——___—_—neueeeeesee —— Roman Beauty, Winesap and Willowtwig, $2.25@ | Oats firm, but slow ; No. 2 white, 24200. Rye | receipt of improved London prices, owing to man'p- 3.50; Ben Davis, $1.50@3: Geniting, $1.25@2.25 per | steady; No. 2, 42c. Hay active, firm ; choice tim- “ulation in the high-priced specialties. Manhattan February .. ose+..%. othy, $8.50@8.75; choice prairie, $7@T.25. Butter was in exceptional demand and advanced 1% to | Marth about steady; creamery, 14@17c; dairy, 12@14e. | 117%. Sugar and New York Central figured for April Eges weak on heavy receipts; fresh, lige. , | about a point and the appreciation in the standard | May LIVERPOOL, Jan, 17.—Closing—Wheat steady. ¥ | shares was also important. June January nominal: March, Ts 814d; ae ees . ° mann = apt yng ~ July rsbian Pes % ; . a ci ra oo wc gh fluctua tec equently within the radius of a polnt, —_-—»——_- Department will fill all prescriptions at the if | is Ewan beige r, are convalescent. St. Louis, 2:° . m.—May wheat, 9$4c. Puts, ONIONS—Steady at 75@S85c for fancy red globe; rhe rest of the list hardened materially under the Di : rhe offi lals o the W éestern Railway of 93%c; calls, 9414¢. 70@7h for vellow to 50@60c for small and inferior influence of liberal purchasing of Vanderbilt stocks LIVE bd spensary which come from outside physi-| Alabama arrived here Sunday'in thelr pri- Chicago-—May wheat, Sic. Puts, 00%c; calls, 91%c per bu, according to quality. 17.—Cash wheat—No. 2 red, | and marked manipulation in the local transpoerta- — clans that are indorsed by the 8St. Louis/ vate car to inspect work being done for | bid. Corn- May puts, 20¢p4%c bid; calls, 28%aeve CABBAGE—Quiet. On orders, $1.75 per crate; Ni4c; No. 8, 84000; No. 2 apring, Re; No. 3, tion shares. Metropolitan Street Nallway galned Provident Association, that road at the St. Charlee Car Co. sellers. Holland seed, $12.50@13 per ton for choice. S0U90c; No. 2 hard winter, 85c; No. 8, 83e; No. 1/6, Manhattan and Third Avenue rose | polnta, National Stock Yards. return the association will investipate onuauermane WHEAT. TURNIPS—$1 per bbl, 20@25c per bu, 25c per | new spring, 92c. Cash corn—No. 2, 2TA2T%KC : No. | and Brooklyn Transit 1%. Other leading spectal- . vYE CATTLE—Recelpts all oases that apply for dispensary treat- Grain Receipts. The market opened very quiet at a shade higher | gozen : $, 26G26'gc, Cash oats—No. 2, 28¢;, No, 8, 21%@% | tles made improvements of 14% points, Incinding a" : a : aa Seed hos hasnt ae oe financia] CHICAGO Jan 17 Receipts to day: Wheat 28 than Saturday's close, but there was go ae NEW POTATOES -Louistana, $1.75@2 per bu a eR ni j f 17 ioen siecle: Ne ° O70 pe see te _ evepas ro snd aeortn of ‘he rong. etan 1 an € y o receive such ald : ‘ . , —— a wel . ’ trading. Opening cables were higher ante the box. +} . the, an. — 9 ave. ’ ss. Norlin weetern hes. ew ork epntrait and Milenhi ™ are j oubt. MENNIDA ae a tn, 205 cars. world’s shipments were heavier than anticipated, ‘CARR TS $10 per ton: 20@2he per doz bunches. Oats firm ; No, 2 white, 23\c. Rye quiet, nom- gran C‘entral made gains of over 2 points. Sales gS ca ema Such persons as are found to be unworthy | Wheat to. I ILIS, : Minn., Jan. 17,—Receipts— but the beavy decrease in the visible supply gave BEETS—$1 per bbl; 25¢ per doz bunches. inal. Whisky market steady. high-proof spirits, | of stocks to noon, 247,815 shares. Sy will be placed on a black list book ; . heat to-day, hos Cars. the market a little streneth te nporarily, Loca! CELERY—Se per bunch fer eommon to 50c for $1.18. Receipts—Corn, G2, 250 bu; oata, 16,950 bu; The bond market showed diminution tn the volume m : » INn- OHICAGO, Jan. 17.--Sheep steady; native sheep, receipts were heavier than they were a year ago ~: Onlifornia celery. 50@60c rye, 600 bu: whisky, 225 bbis; wheat, 600 bn of dealings, but there waa no abetement of the re- dexed for reference, and their name ap- | $374.60; Westerns, $3.6004.40; lainbs, $445.75. cad Fendinte Ga: the artiiweat were ales heavy carr ERY ROOTS s0q60c per Shipments—Corn, 87.250 bu; oats, 26,900 bu; rye, | cont strength. Seattle, Lake-Shore and Eastern peari on this black list will prevent their KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 17.—Receipts, wheat, Little foreign busts cha whe ‘reported and there a ——; whisky, 1355 bbla. firsts trust receipts jumped 5 pointa to 70 om the obtain ng any Assigtance at the dispensary, 108 care, . ASPARAGI . and Pennsylvania, 22@ |ing railroad stocks displayed considerable resist. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner gavé an in- . ter months, and he hopes tha . ‘ hh eatery ty i pet ioe ppg th lin agi, _. hours were 525 cats as compared with 313 cars | gog. for homegrown, 65¢ for amall bunches. 2574 pkgs; strong: State will result. ey * Great good | formal re eption Sunds 2 eee ae for the corresponding 48 houts last year. ’ ory a » *,? > : ; ae shipments to Europe, 865.000; shioments te erm sempie. delivered, ret AND CHEESE. ] ; PLANT..$1.5002 ner dozen: $4@6 per box. I . 4a cp.. 4 10 coip 1925 Q. from Mar 128% 120% | ———— Silver Quotations. a ae : 15 NEW YORK, . 7 ertifie nT lat sold at Digc, swit mat and i@our to-day were equal | “inst }Pirete .sscoes 13 Corrected daily by Whitaker & Hodgman, bond | peu, peas cee SY. ee a ee wheat & — =~" | Seconda 17 @18 | Seconds A aii and stock brokers, 300 North Fourth street. *| , Oa i —y , ee S Mande echen tehent were: *Cneitiad 4?) bit--Average receipts, 8@4c. ST. LAOUIS, Jan. 17. ‘eens —. 4 hig 3 " poe if yn preny je SESE—Quiet. Wisconsin—frull cream, twins, — a ——— British Consols. ge oe ye Tne gge ag Se res eee oe Lag) oe: Y. A., Oe; Southern Wiscon- , 24, as Sc; singles, Sic; Y. A., from 6\4c for poor to be ‘m2 ete.,, ——. Purchrars—United St@ties, 39,000: y J. sas ; ieoten and G. B. Whee ler of Pop- No 2 hard aold at from Sir to Stic. ‘ ; iv Eases Oo BPs 0.0 0s Bae és 08 HORSES AND MULES—Keceitpte, 1000. Market opening up artive, with a gi force of tuperes eh and indications faverabie for lively week's trade. ing at Rio for Europe, ofie. si¢ale Sunday 14 SANTOS—<Good average Santo, 8 mil, 600; Santos = iM ale wERURY evel receipts, 19,000; stock, SIS,00C0; market steady; r. EK. Parker of Kansas City is at the Santos shipments to United States, 26.000: to | Southern. urope, 77,000, Purchasea-—United States, 20,000; } . ee te — Teeth} Europe, 21,000. Freight per steamer tu Havre, se | the P 4 bia of Marbie “a, a¥as : strong and healthy as us a and 10 per cent primage. Steamers loading at | Aes ‘siyigt agli Closing cables were? Sep : me Santos for United States, three; for Kurope, tour. | J. FB. McCormick of Sedalia, Mo., is at the | _Lverpoet—Spot wheat quiet, ‘gd higher; futures, Victoria shipments to United States, 12.000. Ba- | Planters’. steady, weld higher +? fdtares phd ht bia weekly rereipta, 10,000; stock, 37.000. Ship- Renuns were '- . ; Corp : cuer: ia ee. fr" higher. ' ments to United States, 10,000; to Burope, 11,000. eenson Of Annapolis, Mo., is at the After call May Ww t 2 irom | 7 down | Cleared from Rio, Jan. 15, steamer Callice, 16,- rin, ir for the account, 112 15-16. oe | ‘sient igh oak igre | LONDON, Jan. 17,—Console for money, 112 13-16: ’ American Spirits ; *American Tobacco com. COTTON. POULTRY, GAME AND VEALS. Atchison com .. | 2 | Re LIVE POULTRY—Market continues firm. Quota- do pfd seek: @ Mig) % | LOCAL MAHKET—Dull and unchanged. Sales. CHICAGO, Jan, 17.--Hoge—Recetpte, 40, ne: Chickens -Hlens, GlyaTc; roosters, 34%c. Tur- GO GB wecsevas bel Ik bales. Quotations: Ordinary, 4%c; good onlin. | OVeT. 926; - and firm‘at SleqQe for hens and 7%e for | do Adj. 4s.. sal ; & ne v4 ary, 4%c; low middling. Sige: middiing, ny lower; light, $3.45¢63.66: mixed, #, Geese from Be for thin and rongh to Sige Canada Southern : guod middling, 4c; middling falr, Ge. Tinges $4.45603.70; rough, $3.45495.00. ; pigeons, Sue per doz; ducks, S\y@0c per lb. Chess. & Obie com and staine %e below white best steady, others poultry —~Chickens, Giow@7igce; ducks,64@8c; | Chi., Bur. & ame WAREHOUSE STATEMENT TY-DAY. beeves, $1.00¢—5 25: cows and hetfera, ., ms Chicago Gas Tr 1897-98. Texas steers, $3 4.25, c ‘ ‘ LIVE STOCK BY TELEGRAPH. Jd. A, Kecs lower at tc * strictly fresh. Lindell, to OMAN, ; Migeiide, and sold up st ‘ . . 15, ateamer Cab- J. B. Osburn o fanens (Uty he ; 000. Cleared from Santos, Jan. 15, ai er Oa ms rn of Kansas City ts at the Jauusry wheat was of ¢ Cs no | t : Z bids. nering, 24,000 - i. M, Cra'g of High Hill. M ‘ he July wheat had TSe bid and 7S%ec asked. ‘gr. LOUIS STOCKS AND BONDS. Moser. E . _ is 5 te ’ The close Was &s duli as the balence of the sea- fur Pe] " ¢ ++. . . son , sion ° . Miller oO; Sintec Yr. M : ‘s at the L.a- Muy wheat closed nt 40 bid, February at Ode EE) Fee ce oe oe . undrawa, Ge; drawn, U4 “| 8 wr} ; ka ¥ bid, January at Wi \c homigal and July at TSe bid. Market very siow, but pesoee unchanged. », O, ©, & Bt. oc eee bee ; Net receipts to-day ae 45 $3.5504.55. Sheep se niet Ah te eeeerene CORN | Chatce k in fair demand; prices’ were as fol- | Cotton O11 pfd ih eee eee 2 Net receipts since Sept. 111,457 BURIAL PERMITS The market in this option was very dul! ab the owe: Squirrel, S0@40c per dozen; rabbits, firm at Del., Lack. & W......| 208 [..... — Net shipments to-day I hes tial . opening to-day. ‘Trading Was very light and prices | SE90¢ per dozen; mallard ducks, $3.26G38.50; Edison General ‘ - Net shipments since Sept. Sheep— Kecel pt ; * the game as ait the close on Saturday. but ai wing and $2.00 for green: othet _ Hecking Valley (jrosa receipts to-day... .....ee6. : 2. mated recelpte te-Merre ‘market was barciy steatiy. , . $1.75 per deren; canvasback, $4. redheads, Dlinols Central (jrosa receipts aince Sept. 1 7 f (IMAHIA, Neb, Jan, 7. lL receipts Were aguia heavy, and cnblee were degen; anpipe, $1.75 per dozen. Oposaum, | Jersey Central Qrows shipments to-day 4,°2A steeds; nwati¥e encouraging Both Rugsia and Argentine mace leita each; fack rabbits, $1 per dozen; capons, | Laclede Gas com (jross shipments since Bept. 1... .564.190 : shipmedta of corn, and the increnae tn the 2'.c for dressed Ktoeck on hand.. scene O28 sippiy was heavy. The cesh demand con- VEALS—Chotee fat steady at S45%c: medium, | ' LIVEMINMH,-Qatet e@nd eteady. unchanged r. iirdige: poor, Sige. Lake E@e & W. pfd....| | Uplands, 5 7-32¢. Sales, 10.18%) bales. Futures Receipts at primary points since Saturday were ROASTING VPIGS-—$1@1.25 each. Lead com sa beas epened very quiet and closed £05,021 bu, as compared with G19,.714 bu a yeas FURS ao pray , January ng. Shipments from these points were 625.845 Merket entet at the folew Missourl Pacific , January and Pebruary buy. aw compared with 618.714 bu a yeay age. Raccoon- M Me... K.| & Tex. pfd.. February and March Kecelpts at St, Louls since Saturday were 220,425 : Bag Ne do do @ , os March and Aprti ‘ bu, as compared with 292.815 bu a vear ago a ’ = arr : *| de de eteiia » Sea . ; Apett OE Bi bec cde kdvces naeac ; , Me 3 theese receipt’ 10 sacks and 260 cars local, as com * | Michigas May and June KANSAS CITY. Mo... Jan. 17.4 ett June and July.... séucaesean am). arady lower; Tetas ~~ are | Afjertcoar ieeua , % Joly and Augast , és “4.25. Tesas cows, $2.2553.20) nat \. Augnet end S@ptember 3 tbs «2: pative cowe and beifere, | September and Octeber paeeteeten ss feeders, $5. 10674. } : ' | ate 1S 12 1s | Oerteber and Novrembet Ry colipts, 17.000; /N ee mtral..... 3 . TIR%) NEW YORK-—Spet eteady: middling, G4: cleeing Weak; turce closed dal! Males, €2.0%) bales : Closing Highest Lowest Toeeday. Te-day. ay. January ...... -5.@ 6.73 fetal recetptea hogs yesterday, STOCKS. Cattle—Heceipta, 419; : A320 shipments, Mechanics’ Rank Te National Bank of Cemmervce.. John W. Moore, 2. 4042 Orf®gon: croup, Bt. Louts Nationa! Vietor W., Nemara, ey “ al roe Mississippi! Valley Trust Co....) ! ) Witiam Jd. Dinean’ &7 gihouse; emilepay. Lindell Rallway bonds | 333 7 : | ation. , a1 . By ¥; lo do stocks BAS ub jieriman St. Louis & Sub. Ry. bends...) Prank Wieee, $4, 8731 Case: nortiontth do do SNS kin b's «69.4 00 be eed . : f, lx ater vans, yw. patent Station: sect i Taylor Avenue Ry, bonds © ot i Segre PM eo ig eee OO Miseourt Plectrtc ee ee ee eee : : (i Rellly: pepbritia. do do late *. ‘ : Nellie Denton, OO, Taptiet Lloapitel: abscess, Cotton Compress bonds. .... | Kriedel, <3, 1012 Manchester; consump- Qi teat £. Paul Mathews, SS, 1415 Sarefeld: ursaemia St. Joe Lead i». ee ee eee ee ‘ : Katherine heeXer. ) 1215 “Sheds : neumon! Bimetaltlic Mining... ..«++++ " e Anua Rantan ti. RIN, 4] en diphth rin : «t : a ere osecees Join M,. Donnelly, 65, 4043 Fairfax; heart dis- a Sy) - opened at 27: Bold down to 20%, up | ton n see ee ee eeeee sbeoaees eare. to 2Gptasie apd then to 2titee, where It stood at Rit ; , 125 Slines; gangrene. , tft ing quotations: ink- én We N : “me Maphatt Prime black, SSe; short stripe, 46c; n » 20880e; broad stripe, 10c: round lots, | ihe ' ‘ Oposstin Good everage, 39°5¢. Muskrat : The other months were not mentioned before eo! | Lele. Wolf--Prairie, 154@40c; timber, SO0cq31l If you would like to take or give dancing Spot Crades tin “79 i} No 2 eorn eoid at a | Wildeat. ae civet cat, 1OGE LSe ; house cat. hg lemeons try Post-Dispatch wants. Four- | Farmers’ and had 25%¢ bid regular. No 2 white | 10¢. Otte, — ig = 6.50 for ‘yt to MWe corn Waa offered at 270 ¢, with po bide, for poor, Fox en. it a, gray, . wine ote teen words 20 cents, Any drugstore. In] x. 3 mixed hed 244: bid, with none offered. SHEPPSKINS--Market doll; green salted, long- | Pac potageas es a few hours your desire will be gratided. BHGWe 1 .« pered with 246 sacka and 252 cars local a year aco. ri- American Brake Co...,.. ee oe wt a The other grades were entirely neglected, wooled, G5@60¢; small, each; dry, adiog... cess

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MONDAY—ST. ee ee en, See ee eee sear iy gE a oi cia we A ee Ne Pa gs} he ae eee ; ry ge aunt Ka Fo od : c ' ae re my A a ; a LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—JANUARY 17, grr 1898. : Re Mee 7 Hh aby ef Bes nat + « Sey 2 -—SWEFPING, REDUCTIONS I “WAGES OF COTTON MILL. WORKERS, Not a Spindle Turning or a Loom in Motion in the Cloth Fac- tories of New Bedford To-Day. BEGINNING OF THE GREATEST BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE !NDUSTRY. —_——_———— ow ~~ A STRIKE IMMEDIATELY AF- FECTING ALMOST 100,000 MEN AND WOMEN. HAO IOIOL AAI EXTENT OF THE REDUCTION. ' . Following are the mills and number of operators affected by the reduction: Knight, Goddards and Chase mills, Connecticut Lowell Mills Lewiston Fail Biddeford and Saco Other Maine mills Nashua Mills in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, other than Manchester and Nashua Worcester County Holyoke Mills Vermont Mille Miscellaneous mills ROSTON, 18.—The thousand or more skilled operatives employed in about Jan, ninety seventy of the chief cotton mil's of New England States will to-day come under the eweeping order of a mew wage scale, which entails a reduction of 10 per cent or more. This reduction w'll bring on in New Bed- ford, Mass., Lewiston and Biddeford, Me., labor strikes which may prove the beginning of an industrial battle greater in extent and more disastrous in effect than any in the previous history of cotton manufacturing in the United States. The battle against the corporations un- doubtedly would have been fought every- where had not the voice of men and wom- en who are ill prepared at this time of vear to go into idleness been heeded by the conservatives. As it is, the great ma- jority of persons employed in nine copora- tions in New Bedford and one corporation each in two Maine cities, will take upon ' themselves the task of forcible resistance to the reduction. In New Bedford the nine corporationa rep- resent 22 mills, giving means of livel‘hood to nearly ten thousand persons. The strikes . will be directed by the labor unions, the lead being taken by the Mule Spinners’ Union, the National Executive Committee of which has sanctioned the strike of op- position and prom's.v4 financial aid. The begun, except at New Bedfrod and Lowell, and asking that all strength be concen- trated on the former place. Lowell opera- ' tives held in abeyance a decision to strike, pledging their support to the other city. The strikes in the other places mentioned have vet to bd? offictally sanctioned by the governing labor body. There is one feature of the labor troubles and cut downs which may manifest itself, and that is the return to their Canadian homes of hundreds of families, who speak French, who flock to the States in winter to secure employment, The table given above is an estimate of the pumber of operatives affected by the cut down, but the actual result’ will scarcety be seen until the new schedule of wages is tried. The strike vitally affects over half a million persons. NOT A SPINDLE TURNS. spinners and weavers are practically the only branch of operatives which have main- tained an organization. One striking feature of the preliminary agitation against the cut down and the Strike talk was the plea of:the national All the Mills at New Bedford Are Idle To-Day. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan, 17.—A‘shut- down, the most complete‘in the history of the cotton mills of New Bedford, began 1®*s morning. Not a spindle was turning nor a loom in motion in the factories of the cloth corporations an hour after the usual time of beginning work. Between forty and fifty operatives went into Bristol ‘Mill and twen- ty-five or thirty into the Whitman, but aside from these no mill made any show of running, and these two soon shut down. Nine corporations operating eighteen mills, in which upwards of 9,000 hands are em- ployed, are invoived in the strike. The cutdown is uniform all over the city—10 per labor bodies interested that no strikes be cent. The total payroll of these corpora- tions is estimated at $70,000 weekly. -_-—— +o re eee SEARCH FUR A WILL, PHILADELPHIA RELATIVES OF ALFRED W. FLEMING SUR- PRISED TO FIND A WIDOW. SECOND MARRIAGE A SECRET. a ee Its Validity Was Questioned, but Doc- uments Were Produced, Proving the Legality of the Ceremony. A legal contest of more than ordinary in- terest will probably be made for possession |of the $500,000 estate left by the late Alfred - Walton Fleming, who died last week in his ) palatial country home near Kirkwood. Fleming was regarded as an eccentric character by his neighbors, especially dur- ing the last five years of his life, as he shut himself in from all social relations and _kept closely ta his home. He had a young | wife, a wight #year-old son, servants in —— + them, 27 vears ago, brought back with him a fair bride to enjoy the luxuries of his St. Louls Cotinty home and his fortune. She was a widow, formerly Anna Dilks Foster, only 2&4 years old, and had a daughter by her first hueband. This daughter * grew fo womanhood, and was a charming member of sotiety for a year or two after her edu- aor was finished. She died at the age of U Shortly after the death of Miss Foster, Fleming and his wife made a summer trip to Dubuque, Io., and this seems to have been the beginning of their troubles, for in less than two years they were divorced on a pe- tition from her, which he allowed to go by default. During the visit to Dubuque the Flemings made the acquaintance of a spiritualist named Ackerly. Mrs. Fleming became greatly interested in Ackerly, as he made her believe he could communicate with spir- its, both dead and alive. The result was that Mrs. Fleming had Ackerly take up his abode in her country home, where he was to receive $100 a month to carry on spiritualistic dialogues between the mother and the departed daughter. Ackerly’s presence in the house created trouble from the start and in a few months the breach between Fleming and his wife had widened to the point that caused her to sue for a divorce. As stated, she se- cured it without opposition, received °$90,- 000 in cash as alimony and a few monthe later she married Ackerly. Mrs. Fleming died in 1890 and her fortune was divided among her sister, nieces and nephews and Ackerly. The latter received 30,000, and it de¢ sald he is now a wealthy aundry owner in an Iowa town. During the happy married life of Fleming and his first wife a frequent visitor at their WR:.AND MRS. FLEMING AND THEIR CHILD. '} plenty, lovely flower gardens, orchards bearing the best of fruits, fine horses and iearriages, and plenty of money to gratify hia every Wish. The exclusiveness of Fleming during the } Jatter years of his life Was not marveled at /@o much by those who knew him for nearly half a century, because he was never a. j}gocial neighbor, did not mingle with other ' people, kept his business to himself, and ‘took no interest in the doings of those about him. He was born in Philadelphia tn 18238. When quite a young man he left Philadelphia for ‘est and invested his money in land PS Lows and St. Franc.e Counties. There were lead mines in the latter county which ‘proved a Kiondike to him and when he disposed of these properties some eight or ten years ago it was said he realized fully $500,000 from them, His tract of # acres on the Manchester road, three m les from + Kirkwood, is one of the best cultivated and i most beautifully adorned country homes in | che county. The house, @ spacious frame of 'a4wo and one-half stories, with broad veran- ‘Sas, wide hallways and big rooms, cost 600 and the furnishings quite as much ei home was Mamie Cecilia Quan of St. Louis, the daughter of a well known hydraulic en- gineer. After the first Mre. Fleming went away the wealthy county man, who had not, it was said, even looked a woman in the face for nearly three years, renewed hig ac- quaintance with the pretty Miss Quan, and all unawares to their acquaintances, in (Oc- tober, 1892, they slipped over to Springfield, Til., and were married by Circuit udge Jacob Fouke in open court, to the St. Louls County bhhome and since that time Fleming seldom mingled with his nelighbore. He would drive initio Kirkwood occasionally to do marketing, return home and then not be seen off his premises for weeks. He did not inform his Philadelphia rela- tives of his second marriage and they were eurprised when.-informed of his death and reached here to find the young Widow Fieming and her 4-year-old son established in the grand home of their eccentric kins- man. he réjatives who came on to the funera) are Mrs. Ravanelle, a sister, of Phil- adeiphia, and her son, Thomas Parker, lawyer of LAnnvilie, N.C. There are sev- eral other kinsfolke in Philadelphia These relatives are inclined to doubt the validity of Fleming's second marriage also it strange that he left no It Was understood that he made a A\ search through ;, oa the “weal of the banks and truat | ny Mm ny to produce the docu- | heirs @ employed ithe. “eM \ ; They returned | T tuosos in the world. violin. Later the | BRUNO STEINDEL, CHORAL HE Choral Symphony concert Thursday night will introduce Bruno Steindel, who is solo cellist in the Thomas Orchestra and one of the leading ‘cello vir- He was born in Zwickau, Saxony, his father being 4di- rector of music in that city and under whose direction he began his studies on the SYMPHONY SOLOIST. ‘cello was taken up, it always hav- ing been. his favor- ite instrument. He enjoyed the instruc- tion of the best teachers .in Ger- many. Although he is still quite a young man, Mr. Steinde! was for three years soloist of the famous Philharmonic Or- chestra of Berlin. under the direction of Hans von Bulow. for which position he was. selected from among 56 ap- plicants. When Mr. Thomas started out to organize his new Chicago orchestra on a scale. that should surpass all his other efforts he quickly selected Mr. Steindel, who was then at the Philhar- monic in Berlin. From the first he has occupied a large place in the admira- tion of Chicago mu- sic lovers. Mr. Steindel has a very large repertoire, it embracing ail the most important ‘cello compositions. He is also the hap- py possessor of one of the rarest old Italian ‘cellos, a ‘“Carlo Bergonzi” made in 1742, which he secured in Eu- rope very recently. He will play at the =—_ 4 ‘ ——- | = = _* « - 2 @ > jwon A ere eee” == —se i ner’s brilliant Huldigungs Marsch. coming concert a beautiful fantasia, with orchestral accompaniment, by Servais; & berceuse by Godard, and a Spanish dance by Popper. The orchestral numbers will be the Symphony Pathetique by the famous Russian composer, Tschaikowski; Handel’s ever popular grand “Largo” for violins, and Wag- I i > + —— — ss) = & EASES > > ae GG See =~ Se WAS S eee = > Attorney John F. Lee to look after their interest and see if it is not possible for them to be awarded at least a fair share of the estate that produces an income of $2000 a month. Fleming owned considerable real estate of high rental value in Philadelphia besides large Missouri investments. It seems that he kept no account with any St. Louis bank and the question is where he kept all of his money. A few weeks before his death his Phila- delphia agent sent him $15,000, but he re- turned it with instructions to reinvest it there. Mrs. Fleming pronnens the marrtage cer- tificate signed by Judge Fouke and de- clares she can also furnish living witnesses besides the Judge to their marriage at Springfield. Attorney Lee, in behalf of the Eastern relatives, will continue the search for the supposed will, but if that cannot be found, the Widow Fieming and her 4-year-old son will have a prima facile right to all the vast property left by the deceased. . HIS ASSAILANT NOT KNOWN. Alexander McAllister Cannot Tell Who Struck Him. Alex McAllister, a carpenter, 48 years old, living at 1923 Whittier street, knows no more about who hit than than the great American public knows who struck Billy Patterson. , McAllister was found wandering about early ema morning with a severe scalp wound on his forehead. He was unable to tell anything about how he was hurt. He knew he was drunk, and thought he had had a few fights. The wound might have been made by a fall, or he may have been hit with a club. The fact that he did not have a cent led to the theory that a high- wayman may have taken a crack at him. Monday morning McAllister was still un- able to give any intelligible account of him- self. Between the effects of whisky and a slight concussion of the brain, his wits were hopelessly befogged. He was in a semi- stupor, and monosyllabic and unmeaning relies to questions were all that could be obtained from him. A man named Mike Kelly, who was said to have been in his company, was arrested on suspicion, and is being held at the Sixth District Station until McAllister’s brain simmers down. INSANE WOMAN'S DELUSION. Mrs. Ryan Believes Her Husband Was Changed ror Another. Mrs. Margaret Ryan of 22 South Leffing- well avenue was taken to the City Hospital Sunday afternoon for observation as to her sanity. She was creating a disturbance ‘in front of her house. She said she was persecuted by her children, and threatened to stone the windows. Her children caused her to be ar- rested. The woman labors under all manner of de- lusions, not the least remarkable being that some one changed husbands with her, and that the man who claimed to be her husband was not the father of her six chil- dern. Because of this she hated her chil- dren and the relatives of her husband, who has been dead six years, The woman has been regarded as insane by her children for two years, but they tried to control her until she developed a violent disposition. Her son, a young man of good address, called at the hospital Mon- day morning, he woman's insanity was manifest, and she will be committed io the asylur Boy Bitten by a Dog. Thomas Scarry, 15 years old, was pain- fully bitten by a dog while playing the alley in the rear of his home, Thomas street, Sunday. The the left leg. Th om Plato and has been killed. Fifth Ward McKinley Club. The regular meeting of the Fifth Ward McKinley League Club will be held to-night at the South St. and (Carroll streets. Resolutions proval of Mr. Bartholdt’s record in Con- gtess will be introduced and the report of the Entertainment Committee will be sub- mitted, Receiver’s $18,543.70 Commission. Judge Valliant Monday made an order in the case of the assignment of the Mullanphy Rank. allowing Receiver William J. Stone 2915 a a commission of $18,343.70, being 5 per cent | ief the sum collected and disbursed by him, i'which he reports to be $366,274.39. Call at Wabash Ticket Office, '§. BE. cor. Broadway and Olive, for informa- ‘tion and literature about Klondyke. Bad Boy Sent to the Refuge. Harry Bien, 17 years old, who steals nick- els and dimes from his parents, who live at 3814 Oregon avenue, and refusd¢s to go to school, was committed to the House of Refuge by Judge Zimmerman /|Monday THERE IS A CLASS OF PHOPLE Who are injured by the use of coffee.) Recents there has been placed in ail the grocer# stores » pew preparation called GRAIN-O, ma@ of pure grains, that takes the piace of coffee. Gelicate stomach receives it without but few can tell it from ST. FRANCIS XAVIER DEDICATED. Imposing and Impressive Ceremonial Marks a Day in Catholic History. St. Francis Xavier Church was dedicated Sunday. It stands at the corner of Grand avenue and Lindell boulevard, adjoining the St. Louis University of the Jesuit Fathers, Its architectural! lines are pleasing. Some experts in ecclesiastical edifice-building say it is the prettiest church in the world. In this city of handsome edifices devoted to sacred worship it is probably without equal. The ceremony attending yesterday's dedi- cation was impressive. The University Cadets, in full uniform, accompanied Father Grimmelsman, president of the uni- ‘versity, to the residence of Archbishop Kain. Lieut. Johnson, U. 8S. A., and the Cadet Lieutenants on horseback, and 170 boys in the ranks, headed by the Cadet Drum Corps and Band, made an inspiring escort. The Archbishop’s appearance was greeted by a bugle note. His Grace wore the pur- ple robes of his sacred office. Entering the carriage beside the university president, the procession moved down Vandeventer ave- nue to Olive street, to Grand avenue, to the church. The cadets formed a cordon around the church to prevent the crowd from interfer- ing with the ceremonial. ‘The procession formed in front of the university and was headed by the cross and candle bearers, who marched three abreast, After them came 40 acolytes. Some were dressed in o2urple, some in white, and some in red. hey were followed by 6 Jesuit students. Then came 65 St. Louis priests, and after them came Archbishop Kain. His gown was supported by four acolytes, dressed in red. With the Archbisho was Father Grimmelsman, who held the vessel con- taining holy water, into which the Arch- bishop dipped a palm branch as he moved around the church, sprinkling its founda- tions and repeating the church's solemn blessings. for the occasion. The Jesuit scholastic choir chanted in the procession ‘‘Miserere,”’ “‘De Profundis” and ‘“Levavi.”’ In the procession were these Presidents of other Jesuit colleges: Rev. James Foley of Dertoit College, Detroit, Mich.; Rev. James Boeffer, St. Ignatius’ College, Chi- cago, Ill.; Rev. Leopold Bushart, Mar- quette College, Milwaukee; Rev. Michael J. O’Connor, St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati; | Rev. Jesse McCabe, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s Kan. Besides the Presidents there were Bishop John Janssen, Bishop Maurice F. Burke, Bishop John Joseph Hennessy, Bishop Thomas Bonacum, Very Reverend Theodore Arentz. O. F. M.; Right Reverend Mer, Muehlsiepen, V. G.; Very Reverend Ferroll Giraradney, C. . R.; Very Reverend Francis V. Nugent, C. M.; Right Reverend Mer. J. Bessoun, pastor of the Church of St. John of gees wal Right Reverend Mer. William Walsh, pastor of St. Bridget's QOhurch; Brother Paulian, F. C. 8., President of Christian Brothers’ College; Brother Felix, also of Christian Brothers’ College, mle | of the diocese. 'vieve, Mo.; Rev. P. H. Barrett, C. SS. R. of | Kirkwood, and two Passionist fathers from and Rev. H. Van der Sanden, Chancellor Among the out-of-town clergy were: Rev. J. Laughlin of Hannibal, Mo.; Charles L. Van Touenhout of Ste. a LEO FISCHER BOUND He Will Probably Be Tried for the Murder of Doering. THE EVIDENCE NOT STRONG. IT IS BELIEVED, THOUGH, THAT A CHAIN OF CIRCUMSTANCES CAN BE FORGED, THE BOY’S WONDERFUL NERVE. He Admits Saying He Killed the Old Man, but Says It Was Only a Brag and Now Claims He Is Innocent. Leo Fischer, the 18-year-old boy arrested last Thursday charged with the murmer of John G. Doering at Belleville on Dec, 31, had a preliminary hearing Monday and was bound over to the grand jury. The evidence against him, while not strong, was deemed sufficient to warrant holding him. Several additional bits of evi- dence have been brought to light, which strengthen suspicion against him, but their bearing is as yet indirect and their value is uncertain, Last Wednesday Wiliam Althoff of Swansea found a boy’s coat under a small culvert behind his stable. Supposing it had been left there by some boys at play he took it out and hung it on the fence.: Shortly after he saw Fischer near hig house. Mr. Althoff notified the police Sunday of the finding of the coat. They went out and got it. It was wet and covered with mud, but on making a careful examination they found stains under the collar, on the lapel and on the left breast of the coat which looked very much like blood, The coat was shown to Fischer. He was asked if he had ever seen it. He said: “Yes, I saw it hanging, on a post at a house in Swansea last Wednesday. I start- ed to go into the house to ask for some.uin to eat, but _I saw a man in the yard, an as men very seldom give a fellow anything to eat. I went away and came back later.’ The man was not there then and he was given a dinner. He insisted the coat was not his and he had never seen kK except that once. The detectives have not been able so far to find anybody who ever saw him qwear the coat. hey have failed also tq prove hie owner- ship of the briar pipe which wag found on the table in Doering’s house after the mur- der. The boy's associates say he always smoked cigars. Tho trousers which he wore under his overalls will be sent to St. Louis to find out if the stains on them are human Fischer says the trousers were given to him a day or two after Christmas by Hermann Herchner and he had never noticed any — bs them. ohn Vetter, a saloon keeper on h Richland street, told the police Sunday that he had given Fischer a brown overcoat about Christmas. Fischer was asked what he had done with it. He said he had left it near the dump at the Crescent nail mill. Henry Bien, the fireman, says he found it lying there and burned it. He did not no- tice whether there were any staing on it. The boy has not yet satisfactorily ac. counted for his whereabouts between 1 Pp. m. and midnight on the 3ist. He says he was at the mill all the time and slept on the boilers that night. About midnight, he says, he awoke and heard the fireman ask the engineer if he was going to blow the whistle to welcome the ive Year and the engineer said he did not think he would, os was mee’ of steam. Ss now known that the old killed between the hours utes oa Brueggemann and his son came forward a few days ago and stated that they had passed the house between 12 and 1. o’olock and saw Doering in the yard. It was an hour later when the grocer’s boy, Finke called at the house and heard the voice o ‘a young man inside. He says Fischer's voice sounds like the one he he 3 Fischer has said all along that he a not know Doering. A boy was found Sun ay who said he had seen Fischer car ing in coal for the old man, but when ¥ was taken to see Fischer he said he was not the one he had seen. _ If Fischer is guilty he has marvelous nerve. He has been sweated by the hour but has not made a vital admission and still with the greatest coolness maintains his innocence. If given half a chance he Bays he can prove an alibi. He made his first statement to a Post. Dispatch reporter Sunday. He gaild: “T came to Belleville about 10 days before Doering was murdered and left here on Wednesday after the murder. I went to East St. Louis, then to Effingham, where I remained in the police station over night and was then run out of town. From there I went to Vandalia and then back to East St. Louis and to Belleville. I reached here about 1 o’clock in the morn- ing of Jan. 12. I came back because there was a warm place at the Crescent Nail M11) where I ‘could sleep. “I heard of the murder New Year’s morn- ing. Gust Herbig told be about it. I have not been near the house since. I was a the nail mill all afternoon and night Dec. 31. “IT smoke a pipe, but I lost mine sometime ago. The one found at Doerirg’s ig not the one I lost. “I did tell Emil Agne that I would get away with his mother the same as I had with old man Doering, but it was only a rag. “T earned money at Tiemann’s bowl! alley New Year's night and bought a shin at the Fair. Sunday I went to the nail mi and put on the one in the fire. F'scher {9 a wayward gon of Dr. Fischer of Germantown. His mother ant Normandy, St. Louis County. To the left of the sanctuary was a raised throne of deep rich red, with canopy. On one hand of the Archbishop's throne sat wound is on | belonged to Charles | ; William Walish, Louis Turner Hall, Tenth | of ap-| Right Reverend Mgr. Hessoun and at the n~ | o-her Right Reverend Mgr. Willlam Walsh. in | Opposite them, on a@ smaller throne, sat Right Reverend John Janssen, D. D., who celebrated the pontifical high mass. With him were his assistants in the mass and est, ceremonies. These assistants were: Ass!stant pri Very Rev. Thomas 8. Fitzgerald, §., Ly as- ‘sistant deacons of honor, Very Rev. Mer. Very Rev. Mer. Joseph Hessoun. Officers: Rt. Rev. Mer. Henry Muehlsiepen, V. G., assistant priest; Very Rev. Theodore Arentz, O. 8S. F., and Very Rev. Fereol] Giradey, C. SS. R., deacons of _ honor; Very Rev. Francis V. Nugent, C. M., deacon cf the mass; Rev. Charlies Ziegler, | subdeacon of the mass; masters of cére- |monies, Rev, M. 8, Brennan and Rev. F. | Bechtel. a. 2. } A special choir of 50 voices, with Prof. Ot- ten, director and organist, closed the cere- | monies with the “Hallelujah” chorus. ' Archbishop Kain’s dedicatory sermon was based on Luke ll, 21. It considered the divine humanity of Christ and the absolute certainty of Peter, the rock upon which the Catholic Church is built, when he said, “Thou Art Christ, Son of the Living God,” as compared with the uncertainty and grop- ing outside the Catholic fold, The life work of the illustrious apostle to the Indies, St. Francies Xavier, was re- called, and the history of the “Old College Church’’—the first St. Francis Xavier’s— was reviewed. ABOUT TOWN. “RILLY’ HOWARD DEAD.—Billy How- ard, an ex-theatrical and newspaper man, at one time an areonaut of worid-wide fame, died of morphine poisoning at the City Hospital, where he was taken after set.ing fire to his bed in the Waverly Hotel. Sallie Jackson, the le goddess of lower street, accepted a fine tevenson Morgan Judge peace this throne the Archbishop took his seat. At | ' ; brother were in Belleville Sunda were dissuaded by the detectives from bi 'ing the boy on account of his unclean ap- | pathies of the audience. pearance. Mrs. Fischr said Leo had left home and become a vagrant without cause and she thinks he is not mentally responsible. She does not belteve he is guilty. SUING FOR A BAD SHOT. Police Were Firing at a Mad Steer and Killed a Boy. | The suit of Henry Tolch against Chief of Detectives WiHiam Desmond went to | trial in Division No. 5 of the Circuit Court before Judge Ellison at 2 o’clock Monday. The morning session of court was entirely taken up by the selection of a special jury to try the case. Mr.Tolch is sutng for the death of his who was shot on avenue in March, 1892, while the lice were trying to kill a mad steer which was running wild about (the streets. | Chief Desmond, among others, shot at the ‘steer from the Four Courts building, and Toich thinks {t was a bullet from Desmond's pistol that killed his boy. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Childrea teething gives, quiet, beipful rest. Twenty-second Ward Democrats. Chairman Wm. J. Kelley of the Twenty- second Ward Democratic precinct organ- ization has issued a call for a meeting of that organization at ton avenue Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. “CASTORIA’ new shirt, throwing the old —" c%.’ ‘ed » v3 f 4 A LATE EXPONENT HATS AND FURNISHINGS Less Than Makers’ Cost. Special Shirt Sale This Week, oe rh 2S Pee ee Series Reh, 5. a ae . Py , rf a a Ee ‘ : “ ~ - a Z ’ Z | (a . j [y Ohi MANLY ART | Says the body blow is the thing. wentel livering body blows—to bargain-hunters who want good clothing for little money—that are selling during our January Clearing Sale our own make of Fine Suits and Overcoats cheaper than High-Grade ~- Clothing was ever sold in St. Louis befon . This means for Man, Boy or Child. ‘4 > - - , 2 = «5a Pw be a Rt J Sameer. 4 et Bers oe & + ae + .¢ f 3 “puts a crimp in their bank rolls.” We 4 = ie) ° ) THE THEATERS. “The Geisha” is not a novelty in St. Louis, It was here last season with a St. Louis girl, Dorothy Morton, in the leading part and it was then just from its successful run at Daly’s Theater, in New York, a fact concerning any attraction generally accepted in advance as a mark of high value, It came back to St. Louis last even- ing without the St. Louis girl and out of the control of Mr. Daly. Men who passed on the excellence of the Japanese musical comedy when it was here at first and who saw it the second time at the Olympic last night said without hesitation that it was better this season than it was last. One of the largest Sunday night audiences the Olympie has had this year received the ‘piece warmly and generously accorded each of the principals from two to four encores on every number, and thus incidentally lengthened the performance until it was 11:30 o’clock when the final curtain rang down. Mark Smith plays the Marquis of Imari with genuine unction. Laura: Mil- lard, who will be remembered in connection with the Uhrig’s Cave Opera Company three summers ago, is Mimosa San, the Geisha girl. She sang sweetly last night and her second act solo, “The Jewel of Asia,” was exceptionally well given. Linda da Costa, blonde, petite and frisky, with a wink that outdoes the celebrated wink of another frisky young lady who came to America in another London musical comedy, sings the part of Molly Seamore, and she is a most fetching Molly. The other characters are in capable bands. The costuming is rich and the chorus girls are pretty and well drilled. An incident of last night was a musical peal of laughter which rang through the theater after one of the Marquis of Imari’s jokes. The Marquis said: “O, marriage strikes me as being such a selfish institution.’’ “Why?” he is asked. “Because only two people can really en- joy it.’ . Then that musical laugh was heard. It was traced to a stage box and the woman who laughed was Edna Wallace Hopper. —_o-—- A new play by a new author, who takes the leading part himself, is to be seen at the Fourteenth Street Theater this week. The play is “At Piney Ridge,” and the author-actor is David Higgins. After you have seen the performance you will want to know how Mr. Higgins has managéd to keep himself in the background as long as he seems to have done when he has had the stuff in him all along to write a play like “At Piney Ridge.” His play of Ten- nessee is strong in situations, finely drawn as to the characters it portrays and is full of human interest. It has some weak points, to be sure—it’s a remarkable play that somebody can't pick a flaw in. In certain lines Mr. Higgins resorts to rather commonplace wit to make the mountaineer, Joe Rose, a different sort of mountaineer than is generally seen on the stage, and at other times during the action of the play there seems to be an unnecessary amount of talking. But interest is kept up the while and the audience goes home satisfied that the love tangles have all been straight- ened out, even though it took an uncommon lot of words to do it. “At Piney Ridge” deals with two babies, who were changed ‘by a mulatto woman, an ex-slave, during ‘the war. @he leaves the baby of aristocratic birth in the mountains and restores to its parents her own child, who is whiter than herself. After they have grown to man- hood they love the same girl and to win her the real patrician, who is thought to be Joe Rose, the mountaineer, is branded as a “white nigger’ by his rival, who is the : ‘mulattto woman's son. The troubles of the ‘lovers begin and the remainder of the play ‘is given to the fight of Joe Rose to prove his ancestry and to run down and expose the villainy of Mark Briarson and his mother, Dagmar. There is 4 suggestion of “Pyddé’nhead Wilson” in the idea, but it is treated differently and exempts Hr. Hig- ‘gins from any suspicion of appropriating | another's property. Other characters are | weaved into the story, one especially, that of ’Cindy, an unfortunate girl of the moun- ‘tains, which almost comes first in the sym- With a company ot good actors and actresses “At Piney | Ridge” is a show which most theatergoers will enjoy. Mr. Higgins makes an excelicnt Joe Rose, but the real hits of the perform- ance were scored by Miss Georgia Waldron as ‘Cindy and Miss Loulse Rial as Dagmar, the mulatto woman. Zeb Lane, ‘Cindy's father, is played well by B.J. Murphy. In appearance, voice and dialect he is the typical East Tennessee Mountaineer. —_o—— The Imperial Stock company, with Law- rence Hanley again a member of it, is _ giving another of Shakspeare’s tragedies this week, and judging by the two audiences drawn yesterday afternoon and evening |Manager Gumpertz’s idea to give Shaks- ‘peare at popular prices was little short of /an inspiration. “Romeo and Juliet” is the | bill, and ag the Imperial following is about levenly divided in its taste between love stories and plenty of sword clashing and fiery word passages “Romeo and Juliet” is an offering that can’t be improved upon. The piece. is given 4 setting and is cos- tumed fully up to the standard set when the Imperial began {ts season. Mr. Hanley played Romeo in place of Mr. Brinker, who is il] with typhoid fever at the Laciede Hotel. Hanley was greeted poisterously when he made his first entrance and he bowed and smiled in return, as much as to say: “It’s all right; the trouble has been patched up and I'm giad to be with you Molasses Mints Are Gee ‘ A wholesome, delicious cand) made of finest molasses anu ppermint. Regular price Lic a Ib; 1 rT this week es CONRAD’S....618 LOCUST 2712 Franklia Av. Delmar, sear Tayler. role of Peter and the audience so thoroughly | enjoyed his scene with Juliet’s old nurse. played by Mrs. Dickson, that they laughed i long after they were off the stage, often et; the wrong time, greatly to the discomfort, of many others in the theater. Miss Bate-~ man was a pretty Juliet and was as dain in her love scenes as she was effective. her dramatic tits with her father and the tomb. Charlies FE. Burnham was Capulet and Lady Capulet was accep played by Miss Terry. —o-—— “The Electrician,” a strong played to standing room only twice at Hav- lin’'s yesterday. The company is one of artists, among whom are Anna Ward Tif- fany and P. Augustus Anderson, who was for years a member of the company which supported Lotta. The attraction at Hav- lin’s next week will be Marie Wainwright, in a piece called “Shail We Forgive Her?” —_o—— Hopkins’ Transeceanic Vaudeville Com. | pany and the stock organization in “Rip Van Winkle” is the offering this week at Hopkins’ Grand Opera House. Harry Jack- son gives a clever portrayal of the lovable old vagabond made famous by Joseph Jef- ferson. Papinta is the feature of the vaude- ville bill. 9m The pretty girls and catchy songs of Fred Rider’s Moulin Rouge Extravaganza Com- pany pleased two large houses at the Stand- ard yesterday. The music ts good, but most of the jokes have been heard before. The performance opens with a burlesque en- titled “A Hot Bor,” and closes with «a midway dance done by a woman billed at 300 pounds and tagged “Big Egypt.” Chas, Harris, Jack Bernard and the Uriine Sis- ters are the clever people of the organiza- | tion. — N- W. EF. Mants, treasurer of the Olymplo, will take his annual benefit this evening, “The Geisha” being the attraction, —o-— The Century Theater will open thig even. ing with EB. H. Sothern and Miss Virginia Harned in “The Adventure of Lady Ursu- la,” another play by Anthony Hope, who wrote “The Prisoner of Zenda.” This will be among the most notable engagements at the Century this season. Nothing but en- thusiastic praise has been heard wherever the new piece has been given and ft fs said that the talented Miss Harned, who is Mra, Gothern, has an opportunity for better work than anything she has yet been seen in. Post-Dispatch wants are in every sense the rich man’s directory and ‘the pocr man’s guide. MRS. WOODWARD’S DEATH. A Lady Given to Ghurch Work and Charitable Acts. Mrs. Mariah K. Woodward, wife of W. H. Woodward, president of the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., died at her home 4083 Westminster place, at 11:15 p. m., Sun- day. Mrs. Woodward was @ mem of Grace Episcopal Church and a 4 tress of the Episcopal Orphans’ Home. She was born in St. Louls County fifty-seven years ane. She was married in 180. Seven chile dren mourn her. Her sons, Howard, Walter and Louls are in business with their father. Julius is at sohoo! at Culver. Institute. Her daughter are, Misses Sallie and Grace ane Mrs. —-. hte Hy now on her way from uquerque, N. ‘ ive, Woodward was a_ eister of Rev, Knight of Ferguson, Mrs. Dan Kernan Mrs. Dr. C. H,. Dixon. Brooks Art Exhibit at Beers’ Hotel. Commencing to-day and continuing throughout this week, an exhibit will be made at Beers’ Hotel of antique and moderna furniture, materials and designs for interior decorations, lace curtains, da- masks, brocades and tapestries, cretonnes, chintzes, etc., fine and rare foreign wall pa- pers and other high art decoration fabrics, This exhibit will be made by the Brooks Household Art Co. of Cleveland, O., whose work is well known in St. Louls. An ine spection by those interested is invited. BICYCLE LAMP EXPLODES. up. Ro«gers from the bicycle. He lamp’s lurid biase * street. Several buc quired to extinguish It. Parker's Headache Powders Cure any headache quickly. Price Wc. Safe and eure. Al) druggists sell them. Fell, Dragged and Bjected. ’ '