St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 22, 1898

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(COMPLETE MARKET HKEPORTS.) President WeHKintley Gives an interesting interview in to-morrow’s Sunday Post- Dispatch. Practical, helpful, entertaining. 77 THE ONLY ST. { aie in bins 9 eS tbs gh is ; Maks e Ts a se a =n - sy ” Me P : me ie + es aries. ee 4 2 ayer ae # - “ ; ‘ a : : » 4 ~e Se ou “6 ae»? * Aes . ‘ ar ee ¢ oe 3 + Je YR 1 a. ae te oh ve « si, ok ; 4 nah : ; » 7 8 & at oe ; ~ d - “|. * hs > ‘ ; ; af . ; ie hy oe ) pone, . as Di - ’ 2 : ‘ > eat, oma Im. PIS Tee ‘ : > C * i > , -_ f . ve es r * =" Ss $ v aes y - : Se eat ae - % t Pe | Ie ge; S : Jin er ps ‘ . ad o = é ar 38 - a hie ch hae 3 . oe ~* is s ae : ’ a se err ae al, o. yr ‘ aay we 2% - rs ¢ : se 4 7 as oo, Sie TS at Tt * ¢ , f i r " = Ce : ¥ 4 7 w * . af i. ° LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. CIRCULATION SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,1898. - - °° -* = » i -— = F = | (COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS 113,519, day maid _-—-- ee re ee ee a ——— oo ~ VOL. 49, NO. 166. SAT URDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—JANUARY 22, 1898. in St. Louts, One Cen Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. PRICE | Lettiam St Bryan Writes of his recent journey to Mexico for to-morrow’s Sun- Post-Dispatch. A great story! a AN AGED RECLUSE BURNED TO DEATH. Rev. T. W. B. Dawson Perished in the Flames That Consumed His Lonely Hut Near Troy, Ill., Friday Night. Had Been a Baptist Clergyman and School Teacher in Madison County for Half a Century. Cc. E. Ritcher, Secretary of the Wyler Brokerage Co., arrived in St. Louis at noon to-day with news that Rev. T. W. B. Daw- gon, an aged recluse, widely known in Cen- tral Illinois, was burned to death in his cottage near Troy, Iil,, Friday night. All that remained of the queer little her- mit was found in the ruins of his house Saturday morning and taken to the home of his son, T. W. B. Dawson, Jr., at Clay and Market streets, Troy. Rey. Dawson was once pastor of the Bap- fist Church of Troy, and was for many years a teacher in public schools in and @round that town. For nearly 20 years he had lived the life of @ hermit tn his cottage just outside the eastern Iimits of thé ‘own on the Troy and St. Jacobs. road He was active in mind and body, despite his 89 years, and for half a century occupied the same seat ‘in the little Baptist church at Troy every Sunday. | Friday night, shortly before 9 o’clock, resi- dents of Troy saw a light in the sky east of town. E. S. Donohoe started to the fire from his home on Center street. After walking half a mile, without apparently approaching any nearer to the fire, Mr. Donohoe concluded it was farther away than he had thought and returned home. Saturday morning a party from Troy went in the direction where they had observed the light. The cottage was a heap of smoldering embers. The body of Rev. Dawson was found under a pile of debris at the west end of the ruins. It was burned almost be- yord recognition. The house tn which the reverend hermit met his terrible death was a story and a half frame with a gable roof. It had once been white, biit time had changed its hue to a dull gray. It had been the old man's home for years before he became a recluse. He lived there with his wife until her Geath, ® years ago. He was a man of sfrong Intellect and a great student in his younger davs. In re- cent years his peculiar'ties caused com- ment and made him ee talked about for miles around. He arrived at Troy in 1848, a newly or- —— Became a Hermit After His Wife Died and Predicted the World Would Come to an End in 1896. dained Baptist minister, and took charge of the little church, which was then the only house of worship in the town, Two years later he resigned and became the teacher of the village school. Many of the old resi- dents of Central Illinois were grounded in the three Rs by ‘“‘Father’’ Dawson, as he was affectionately called. When a public school system was inaugurated in Troy he took charge of the first school established and was a teacher at various times through- out Madison County. Thirty years ago he bought a 40-acre farm and built the house in which he was burned to death Friday night. After the death of his wife, in 1878, he was a changed man. He became self-cen- tered, avoiding others except when he went to church on Sundays. He had always been a great student. After the change came he was more devoted to his books than ever and spent much of his income from his. farm for literature, He accumulated a splendid library, which was destroyed with his life and his house. Ten years ago the old man, who had been a staunch Baptist all his life, startied the good citizens of Troy by announcing a change of faith. He had pneen reading the literature of the Second Day Advent One Sundhy, in the Httle Baptist Church, he announced that he believed with the Adventists that Saturday should be ob- served as the Sabbath. He would so ob- serve it, though he proposed to live and die a Baptist. After that the little old man passed his Saturdays in seclusion and prayer. He con- tinued to attend the Baptist Church on Sunday. In 1890 he leaped prophesying the end of the world the world would be destroyed by fire 1898. The prophecy tists. into prominence by He said in y coming from Father Dawson caused a profound sensation. It was sent broadcast and was widely discussed at the time, especially by Second Day Adventists. As far as the aged hermit was concerned his prophecy was fulfilled, Within the ap- pointed time his little world, his home, his books, his life were destroyed by fire. When face to face’ with death the awful danger that threatened him may have had no ter- rors for the queer old man, It was for him the coming of the millennium. In recent years the old man, on the few occasions when he talked to anyone, told queer ‘ales of visions which appeared to him in his cottage. On other points his mind was normal, but he became highly indignant when his stories about the visions were ques- tioned. Rev. Dawson “would have been 89 years old next month, He was a weazened little man, 5 feet in height. His hair was white and he kept his face smooth shaven. T. W. B. Dawson, Jr., Is his only Hving relative. He had a comfortable income from his farm, but it is not believed he hvuarded any considerable amount of money. SIEGED BY ThE OTHER MAN Mrs. Smith-Thompson Sends no Presents Back SHE HAD PROMISED TO MARRY JOHN HANNAN, BUT LEARNED THAT HE WAS MARRIED. SO SHE CHANGED TO THOMPSON Her Cottage at Newport Surrounded by Police and Hired Detectives Employed py Han- Special to the Post-Disnatch. NEWPORT, N. Y., Jan: .22.—Joseph H. Thompson, Jr., of New York and Mfs. Charles T. Smith of Newport were married in Grace Chapel, New Yerk, a week ago Thursday. John H. Hannan of Brooklyn was the d's- appointed suitor—a very demonstrative suitor. Hence the bizgest scandal the town has had since New York’s ‘44”" went to town in the fall. And aie moral, ‘f not legal, question i: sprung: ‘‘Has a rejected suitor the right to his presents, trifling and real estate. even if he is a married man rich and fashionab e?" Mr, and Mrs. Thompson arrived in New- port the day after their marr age, and went to the Conkling cottage, on Tour Park. Mr. Hannan arrived here later, and after vis t- ing the office of a lawyer, went to the city detectives’ office. From that time until las: night the Conklin cottage has been practically in a state of siege, watched by the Sherif, Deputy Sheriff a special po- liceman, two out-of-town. detectives, and, occasionally, Mr. Hannan. The constant vigil caused comment on the street and many wen: out of their way to see "the sleuths. Things reached a climax when the guard refused to allow any one to entpr the house, except the physician and counsel! for Mr. Thompson. As to the cause of these extraordinary proceedings, there are many conflicting stor! ne story is that Mrs. Smith expect- ed to marry Mr. Hannan and rece ved from iim, directly or indirectly, many valuable presents, including a house in New York. Later, it is alleged, she learned that Mr. Hiannan was a married man, and so she married Thompson, who had Jong been a suitor. V7 r. es HTiannan’s further action ‘s sald to have been due to a desire to recover his gifts in whole or part, and the recipient thereof did not why she should return Phew. rience siege. A avarrant of some kind ras out and the case might have courts if an amicable agre>?- heen reached last night. All decline to talk to-day. *heo Post-Dispatch NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—At the residence o?” Mr. Hannan. in Brooklvn, h's son said Mr. Hannen had sone to Boston on business eeveral days ago and had not vet returned. Hfe appeared much surprised at the report from Newport and denied any knowledre of the affair. He said he dd not know Joseph H. Thompson, Jr., or Mrs, Thomp- son. He added that his mother js still living and the relations between his parents were nll that covld he desired. FIVE YEARS’ WAGES Awarded Lizzie tay for Twenty-Five Years’ Service as a Domestic. to the Post-Dispatch. . Jan, 22.—in the County Spe the made reached the ment had not those interested Sroctal tr Enpecta } PANA, Il Court had | Miss Lizzie Lay was judgment for $1000 against the estate of Sandford McNutt, deceased. She-had been employed as a domestic in his family for 25 here to-day awarded - ee a ees eeellieenieen diese HOUSE IN WHICH REV. DAWSON WAS BURNED. bere PERSECUTIONS. any of Them prrested and Several Thousand Expelled. ‘*s tN ae Jan, 22.—There great) uneasiness at Van, where the police vat making a house-to-house search for a mman hamed Deroyan, a revolutionist from _ sthe Caucasus. Many Armenians have been | arrested and several thousand of them have IS NOW A MILLIONAIRE. A Missouri Newspaper Man Heir to a Fortune. HANNIBAL, Mo., Jan. 22.—Dow'er B&B. Newberry, a newspaper men of and author of Masonic publications, received a notification to pursue a held by himself and relatives to a large Engiish estate, which has been in Hilgation for years. Urig.naily the proverty involved amounted in vaiue to $878.50, and now it has added to it by the aecumu'tation of British banking compound ‘interest an ~~ that will swell it up into the has claim lye ars and claimed that she had received no wages during that period, though clothing al otper necessities were furnished her. The court held that she could only recover r five years’ B grees he statute of limtta- this city, | ion intervening as to the remainder of the ertiod.,. The hel: s of the estate have given tive OL an appea! Gov. Tanner’s Trip. SPRINGFIELD, Ul. Jan. ner and Mre. Tanner and Hot Springs at 4 p. (ol. and Mre. John W. John Drake, Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Peters, ton. D. L. Littler. HM. J. Hamiine, Soringfeld. They will remain a week. Gov. Tan- leave for party tneludes and Mre pariy m. The (sath, (“ol AND TROUBLE FOLLOWS HER. ‘ , A CITY FULL OF UNHAPPY BOYS. Indianapolis has adopted a Curfew ordinance. At 9 aclock at night the police whistles are blown, and after that hour any boy found on the streets is liable to arrest. [ | t Man in Town. y ov Kid Join the pp *i8't iin ; ; Mess mom Cngers 2 hy Don’; You ~ ‘ » * “~~ 000060 oeOTy THE FIRST TO ENTER } . THE POLITICAL FIELD IN ° : MACON COUNTY. Lorre eeeoeeeooe ne. Qatari: he oy For St. Louls and ricinitys night, with rain, possibly Sunday partiy cloudy. For Misseurl--Snow night; Sunday fatr. , For liltnois—Snow in the north; rain, turn- .he south portion Saturday Saturday pight; clearing and colder Saturday to show, In Sunday colder; ing night; end wolder Another storm has moved up from the Rio Valley and covers the Misslesipp! and extreme Lower M'esourl Vallers, with ite cen- ter Im Arkansas, It has caused general snows avd rains from the middle and southern slopes eastward into the Obto Valley, with heavy raifa and thunder etorms in Arkansas and Ten- Special to the Post-Dispatch MACON. Mo., Jan. 22.—The firat woman in this county to attempt to take advan- tege of the Supreme Cotrt's decision au- thorizing women to hold office In Missouri is Miss Edna G. Johnson, at present 4 suc- cessful ‘eacher in the Intermediate depart- ment of the public school at Atlanta. She announces hereelf in local papers thia week as independent candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk. and her handbille are being distributed widely by the young lady's \ friends a'so. Miea Johneon is about 2. was born in Tonica. La Salle County, lil., and i ceane here with her aera in 1964. She taught school in Salisbury, Chartten Coun. ty two years and has worked in the Post. office here, Through the efforts of herseif . + and sister; a handsome home in this city j; has recent.y been purchased for their par- Grande ressee., A secord marked low area Alberta. The temperatures bave risen in the Dakotaa, the Lower Lake region and the South, and have generally fallen elsewhere, except In Missouri and tbe Middle Pistons. ie aleo central ta ——_—— POST-DISPATCH "THERMOMETER. MISS EDNA G. JOHNSON. reugh'!y businessi{ke. She ill make es eresrting fight ior the office, which the the ear. Then he shoved me out n the street “My hat was off and a policeman saw He came up and asked me what was the matter. We walked back in the bullding, When the policeman rerognised Wheeler and Gould he atked them if they wanted me locked up. Mr, Wheeler aafd no. “Seotng I could do noth!ng there I went to my place of business. I ahall apply for a warrant againet there men and will have them nountehed if possible. Abgem Gould was showing his muscle te frente who dropped in at the Equitable Buliding at noon. His version of the affair wae this: “Il was tens ng the boy about the flowers, erd intended to buy them. I didn't know who he was. But before I stopped my jo the young fellow grabbed my wrist a slapped me in the face. Well, nobody ca do me that way, and not feel the weight my resentment. | was pumme the low when Wheeler came along and pushed the engineer, said: saw the young man on the four floor @is- tr buting flowere—peddling them, as rT told him ines Fay of t & poraan a the " omice. e. ite. replied of} n ‘ngiy that weuld permit. A few m nutes Sinton Oost Sows to the corridor and found the engages in an altercation with Mir. didn’t know what it war about, busines# to — rand p ' and asked if 1 want«d and I ea‘d no one legal work of this county makes a a ents, Mi:a\John on is brigat. vieasant and pecullariy important one replied that r fee ay la) iat eee 2 » £36 TE “% ‘al Gown tater e / i ns Into the geuyees weet aad - : MOY we 4 Ne rd is Panik” ae Ae eee eats as sabato Fantan ee oe Ue a wie tpt matt 8