St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 1, 1898

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TUESDAY EVENING—ST, LOUIS—FEBRUARY 1, 1898. _ In St. Donut Outside St. ee F One Cent. uis, Tweo Cents. 3 ‘Se The Actual Paid Circulation of the Posts — Double that of any other Daily, Morning . or Evening. cee Thorough investigation of all offices would easily prove this. ROBBED NEAR THE FOUR COURTS Another Attack on the Twelfth Street Bridge. EDWARD BLOCK THE VICTIM. HE CARRIED MONEY BELONGING TO THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. FIFTEEN DOLLARS’ TAKEN. The Assault Was at 5 O’Clock Tuesday Morning and‘the Fcotpads Wore Red Handkerchiefs Over Their Faces. Edward Block, an employe of the Adams Express Co., had a narrow escape from death at the hands of two masked robbers Tuesday morning, and that, too, within hailing distance of the Central Police Sta- tion. Believing that he would be killed if he refused, Block gave up all the money he had, about $15. The robbers took it and cursed bec@use the amount was not larger. “We've a notion to kill you for not hav- ing more,’’ one of them said. * The robbery occurred at 65:15 o’clock Tuesday morning on the Twelfth street bridge, near Clark avenue. Block was . hurrying from his home to his place of business. He carried with him a sack con- taining silver dollars and halves belonging » to the express company. He had passed a little more than half Way across the bridge, when he was at- tacked by two negroes. Their faces were screened from view by red handkerchiefs, tightly drawn, with holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. They approached him from ither side. {Throw up your hands,” shouted one and emphasized the command with a volley of curses. Up went Block’s hands. At the same time the hegro who gave the command placed a pistol to ‘the side of thé victim’s head. He declared that he would mot hesitate to commit murder and that the first outcry would be sufficient provocation. While all of this. was going on, the other negro searched Block’s pockets and the express money bag was easily located. The negroes evidently were aware of the iden- tity of their victim and were of the opin- jon that he carried a greater sum. They looked upon the $15 with disdain, yet they took it, remarking that it was not enough to pay them for getting up so early on a cold morning. As soon as the robbers were satisfied that Biock had no more money, they rele “m and ordered him to hurry away from the scene.. Then the robbers started under the bridge. The police were notified, but the footpads are still at large. Block is a driver for the express com- any, and the money he carried represented is collections Monday evening after it was | . He’ he is not Zender or he would not answer. too late to make a report to his office. ig unable to give an accurate description of the robbers. J NO. MISTERY N HISTORY Is Quite the Equal of This Polyhedral Entity, WHO MUFFLES HIS IDENTITY, AND WILL NO QUESTIONS: AN- SWER, ALTHOUGH WE’RE SURE HE CAN, SIR. BUT NO, HE WILL NOT CHATTER. What Strange Fatality Surrounds His Personality? Is Smith a MythP Who Will Clear Up This Matter? The Chicago papers have now taken up the St. Lou's Four Courts mystery. A reporter for a Chicago newspaper called on Chief Harrigan Tuesday and was after- ward admitted to the jail. He gave his name as Isadore Borwitz, 167 West Twelfth street, Chicago. He thought from the pub- lished picture of the Mystery that he could identify him, and he came all the way.from the Windy City to “scoop” thest. Lou's papers. He got no “‘scoop.’”” He saw that he was mistaken as soon as he laid his eyes on the Mystery. In the meantime “John Smith” is taking his medicine philosophically. He walks the corridor of the jail in a leisurely, dignified sort of way, occasionally munching an ap- ple, and when not so engaged he reads the papers. He is not surly, nor morose, but he has nothing to say to any one unless he is addressed; then he replies briefly, pro- vided the question is a commonplace one and has no possible bearing on his case, but does not encourage any intimacy with any one, “Smith’s” caution in the matter of an- swering questions—or of not answering, rather—is extreme. Pick*any name out of 150,000 or more in the city directory and ask him if that is his name, and he will say, “T cannot answer any questions,’’ presum- ably on the theory that if he continued to answer, the list of names might be sprung on Lim until the correct one was reached. ; It is positively known that he is not Ei Zender of Springdeld, bug you ask hira if ho is, he will smile and say, “I have been iden- | tified as him; I suppose it must be true.’’ It is a curious fact that unlike the average risoner he does not seem to be given to ying. If it does not suit him to answer a question he simply refuses. For instance he will say that he has been in Springfield, Mo., which by the way is strong proof that On the other hand it is reasonably certain that he has recently been in Buffalo, N. Y., WHO IS HE ?- We wonder, John, why it is you are fond of mystifying us, And why your name and history you will keep on denying us? We have no means whatever of revealing your identity, = You polyhedral, nondescript, four-eyed, secretive entity! We much admire your steady nerve and your concise mentality, But much there is we yearn to know about your personality. 4 a 2% Sy ts = WP SETS Ree tS yttog ibe : . ; fey PAPE ree ete se mopem emcee ' Es ane yee. lama ee ‘ £ : pita dtr: Be. os —_ = a The junketers are coming home! Get out the horns and drums, And tear in two the skyey dome With “Conquering Hero Comes”! OUR JUNKETERS. | Let all the people join the song Throughout this mighty city, And chant the praises loud and long Of our far-famed committee. But here’s a warning in advance: Unless they clear this mud away, The junketers will have a chance Ere long to wipe some blood away. because his new white Fedora hat bought at a retail hat store there. Ask him if he has been in Buffalo and he will promptly answer, “I cannot answer that qguestion.”’ It was thought at first that the spectacles guise. This is not the case. They are mag- nifying glasses, and he wears them habit- ually in jail. When he takes them off can readily be seen that he has weak eyes. He wears the cap constantly which he wore when he entered Judge Madill’s office and demanded $5000. He has not put?on the fe- dora hat which was found in his overcoat pocket since he was arrested, RAILROAD. CONSOLIDATION. Proposed Amalgamation of Gould and Rockefeller Lines. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The latest story of railroad consolidation which is going the rounds of Wall street is of a consolidation of some of the Gould lines with the Rocke- feller lines in the Southwest. This proposed amalgamation of interests includes” Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas, Texas & Pacific, In- ternational & Great Northern. Under the management of the Rockefellers the net earnings of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas increased $1,100,000 during the last year. The Texas Pacific has also profited by the bet- ter business conditions in the Southwest. HAVE AGREED FOR A YEAR Settlement Reachei by Plate Glass Makers and Workmen. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 1.—The Indiana Labor Commission has effected a settlement for one year among the thousarpd workmen in the plate glass plants:*in the State. Agreements were entered into in wage and working regulations and articles were drawn up covering a year. It will be filed in the County Court to-morrow and will be regarded as a civil action, violation of which during the year by either workmen or the company will be considered and pun- ished as a contempt of court. NEGRO FLEEING FOR LIFE. Posses Are Pursuing Him With Deadly Purpose. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BURMINGHAYM, Ala., Feb. 1. —John Killo- cat, colored, will probably have stretched hemp before night. from Centre to Fort Payne, a distance of thirty miles, with hounds and posses, Yes- terday morning at Centre he stopped Miss Pearl Roberts, a_ 16-years-old white girl, on her way to school, and drawing a pis- tol was about to accomplish her ruin when the girl’s outcry brought assistance and the negro fled. He is in a country where such as-.he die as soon as caught. AGAIN CHARGED WITH MURDER. Charles D. Etue of Kansas City Placed Under Arrest. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 1—Charles D. Etue has been arrested on suspicion of be- tng implicated in the murder of Miss Emma Schumacher, who was shot and killed by one of two amen who robbed her store one night last December. Etue is the son of Pr. PD. Etue, formerly publisher of a local stock paper. Four years ago he was tried for killing Anton Schuh in a quarrel about a woman. His father, who was well to do, spent his fortune fighting the case which ended in acquittal. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR—CONTINUED COLD. For St. Louis and vicinity—Fair and continued cold Tuesday night and Wednesday. For Missouri—Increasing cloudiness Tuesday night, possibly snow flurries; Wednesday, rising temperature. For Illinois—Fair Tuesday night; Wednesday, partiy cloudy and probably snow furries by Wednesday night; slowly rising temperature. The storm is central off the Middle Atlantic Coast. It has caused general snows from the Lake Region and Ohio Valley eastward, the fall being heavy over portions of New England and the Middle Atlantic States. Cold weather is general, although it is some- what warmer in the Dakotas and the Middle Plateau. The line of zero temperature extends into Southeastern Iowa. ip. m SO. Bicoccveisode Men 3p. Mh ceeesaeeere f was | he wore when arrested were purt of his dis- | He has been chased’ | finally happen ithe dry bed o | out | purpose of his letter was to tell his partner | to organize a party of fifty reliable men, | nlveh BEL SHINING GULD, —_——__— > -—_—_—_-— Wondrous Tale of a Rich Dis- covery in Alaska. IT READS LIKE A DREAM. BUT FIFTY CALIFORNIANS ARE ON THE WAY TO DIG THE METAL. ITS LOCATION A SECRET. ——— - iC The Story Told in a Letter Written by a Reputable Business Man Who Went From Los Angeles to the Kiondike. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—Of the two score and more gold hunters who sailed yes- terday for Alaska on the steamer City of Puebla, at least three have before them a prospect of richés so great as to exceed the wildest imaginings of the most enthusiastic Klondike bdomer. If the story these three men teil and be- lieve be true there is somewhere far up within the Arctic circle, and within the ter- ritorial bounds of Alaska, the dry bed of a river that is literally paved with gold. So rich is the find and so plentiful are the shin- ing nuggets that there is enough and to spare to make multi-millionaires of a hun- dred men. The men who hold the secret, or at least a portion of the eecret, of this wonderful spot are E. H. Turner, Charles Beckett and Charles Crew, all of Los An-| They forma portion of a party of | the personal friends of a Los An-| geles. 50 men, geles merchant whose partner is the alleged discoverer of this greatest wonder in the land of wonderful things. rendezvous at Victoria and there perfect the final arrangements for the perilous trip | to the new Golconda. “The story seems jike a dream,” said Mr. Turner, “but nevertheless it is sufficientiy | real to induce us to risk all we have in the | world, to say nothing of our lives, to prove its truth. “About a month ago a Los Angeles bus!- ness man, whose name I cannot use, be- cause he is the leader of the expedition, and hoids the secret of its destination, re- ceived a ‘etter from his partner, who has been in Alaska for more than a year. In the letter:the writer stated that he had prospected five rivers in the extreme north- ern part of Alaska, and had found gold in variable quartities in all of them. He d upon what appears [to be- fa river, and there he found gold in such quantities that he could take several thousand dollars a day. The who would agree to deed a half interest in their claims to the discovery. The letter was couched in the most urgent terms, and advised the Los Angeles partner to dispose of his business at once and lose no time in starting for the north. The writer said that if the business could not be sold at once to give it away, and if necessary to pay the expenses of trustworthy men who! would agree to the half-interest condition, but who had not sufficient funds to defray the expenses of the trp. “The letter was postmarked Weare, Alaska: but I have no knowledge of the — where it was .written. ceived the letter is my friend, and that he sacrificed his business interests, and is bearing the expenses of some of the mem- bers of the party which is to aseemble in Victoria. It [s sufficient for me to know that he believes in the truth of the infor- mation contained in his partner’s letter. I am willing to risk my life and what little money I possess on it, at any rate. Everything that Mr. Turner said was cor- roborated by his two companions, who aiso believe in the truth of the wonderful tale. SORGHUM MACHINERY SOLD. — A Government Experiment in Kansas That Failed. FORT SCOTT, Feb. 1—The deathknell of the once promising sugar industry in Kan- The party will! Neither am) at liberty to state where the party is to) meet the discoverer of the rich placers. | All that I know is that the man who re-' ——- - - f sas, upon which the Gdieramant spent al- most $250,000 in experiment, was sounded here to-day when the only set of sugar ma- chinery in the State was sold to Nebraska men for shipment to that State. The ma- chinery was from the Parkinson factory here and cost $104,000. It sold for $9,000. This was the first station established by the Government. The industry in Kansas gradually collapsed after the Government removed the bounty on sugar. FROM PAT TO PERCY P. Joseph Shannahan Asks the Court to Change His Name. Patrick Joseph Shannahan made applica- tion to the Cireuit Court Tuesday afgfernoon for the change of his name to Percy Joseph Shannahan. He says he is a conductor on the er avenue division of the Scullin line and tWat in his socfal intercourse with his fellow workmen many jests are made at the ex- pense of his name and the wounding of his sensitive nature, . The application has been aesigned to Judge Klein for a hearing on the merits of the issues. WANDERING IN’ FOREST PARK William Robb, a Sanitarium Patient, Found Almost Frozen. A strange man was found wandering aim- lessly about in Forest Park, Monday night. When discovered by the police he was al- most frozen. He could give no intelligent account of his identity and was sent to the Mounted District Station, : Papers found in his pocmeta revealed his name as William Robb, a patient at the Baptist Sanitarium, to which place he was returned. Robb wandered away Monday afternoon, THE FIGHTING IN INDIA. British Bodies Recovered and “the Enemy Punished. BOMBAY, Feb. 1—A dispatch from Ma- mani-gives further details of the disaster on Saturday last of the Fourth Brigade of British troops operating on the frontier near Shinkamar. Gen. Westmacott, who has just returned to Mamani after visiting the seene of the fighting, recovered 22 bodies of the British slain and _Iinflicted heavy losses upon 300 of the enemy who op- posed him. The British force lost one man killed and had eight men wounded in the latter engagement. Gen. Sir William Lock- hart. who has just been relieved of the eommand of the frontier forces by Gen. Sir Arthur Power Palmer, sails for England on Saturday next. In an interview he ex- pressed the opinion that a spring campaign against the tribesmen will be necessary. NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES. Large Quantities Found in Hay. Buffa- lo and Other Rivers. WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 1—News has reached Reginal that the first party of per- gone bound for the Yukon by the Prince Albert route have found gold in large quan- tities in the Hay, Buffalo and other rivers running into Great Slave Lake, 700 miles from Prince Albert. The news comes through Bishop Pascal and is considered reliable. REMEDY WAS NEARLY FATAL. Mrs. Broom Drank Carbolic Acid for Toothache. Special to the Post-Dispatch. QUINCY, IIL, Feb. 1.—Mrs. John Brown of this city narrowly escaped death yester- day. She drank a quantity of carbolic acid and but for the fact that she was given medical aid promptly would have died. Her mouth And throat are in_a fecrible cond:- tion, being burned so badly that the flesh peeled off. She claims that she took the acid to cure an aching tooth. LIVED TO BE 105. Death of Owen Sullivan, Oldest Man in Wisconsin. : DELEVAN, Wis., Feb. 1.—Owen Sulliva@n aged 105, is dead. He was probably the oldest man in Wisconsin. He was born in Irelanli in 17983 and came to America in Ki He has lived in th‘s vicirity since 1540. ® ied five times a . whom are dead. he never had his pi HUMAN LIVES ON LAND AND SEA TD BLOTTED QUT WITHOUT WARN Ocean Disaster Off the Isle of Jersey and a Hotel Fire at Gloversville, N. Y. British Ship Strikes a Rock and Forty-Four Persons Believed to Have Drowned. : Five Guests in the Alvord House Perish and Many Make Narrow . Escapes. Six Men Make Perilous Leaps From Windows to Escape Froma Burning House in Omaha. : x 4 7 é , aes PLYMOUTH, England, Feb, 1.—There is another marine disaster to chronicle here. Reports are somewhat conflicting as to the loss of life, but the latest news indicates that it has been large. The mail steamer Channel Queen, which ran between Plymouth and the Island of Jersey, has been wrecked. She struck on the rocks during a fog this morning and sank. It is said that 4 lives were lost. When: the news was first announced it was re- ported that the loss of life was heavy, but the owners of the vessel gave out the re- aesuring statement that only two persons out of 65 on board were lost. This quieted the fears of those who had friends on the unfortunate steamer for awhile, but soon more alarming accounta of the disaster came and when it was given out that the fatalitieés had reached 44 there were sor- rowful scenes about the docks and offices of the company. ‘ The company is making every effort to get at the exact facts. Some of the people on board the Chan- ne] Queen, it is known, were brought off in her boats, which were launched with difficulty, one of them being swamped. SPRANG FROM WINDOWS. Six Men Leap for Their Lives From a Burning Building. OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 1—Fire early this morning cut off the escape of six men who were sleeping over the Rose Restaurant, at 1304 Farnam street. So swiftly did the flames run through the building that the men were compelled to leap from tQe séec- ond-story windows before the firemen could raise ladders. J.-P. Murphy, Hugh Pittman and Irving McElroy sustained severe burns and broken bones as a result. They were removed to a hospital. The others escaped with slight injuries. INA COLD GUTTER SHE LAY Pretty Mulatto Girl Picked Up Uncon- scious From Cocaine. Bertha Rohn, a good-looking mulatto girl, not more than 19 years old, was found lying in the gutter at Third and Market streets Monday night, incapable of motion. j Pedestrians clad in heavy clothing, over- coats, and wearing ear-muffs, could not keep warm, yet the girl lay there on the pavement, unconscious, and nearly naked, a calico wrapper alone covering her form. In the First District Police Court Tuesday morning it developed that the girl was not drunk on liquor but in a stupor from exces- sive indulgence in cocaine. The arresting officer described her as a confirmed cocaine fiend, and she is said to be the first victim of the drug ever brought GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Feb. 1—Five lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Alvord Hotel here this morning. The list follows: HENRY C. DAY of Gloversville, bell boy, RUPERT E. C. KIMBALL, WIFE ané DAUGHTER of Indianapolis, Ind. The fire broke out at 7 a. m. It started on the ground floor and shot up through the upper stories with lightning-like speed, the broad stairs and hallways furnishing great flues which carried the flames up. ward. Almost immediately after the flames were discovered the alarm was sounded soon the scene of wildest confusion, There’ was a wild scramble on the part of the guests to escape from the building with their personal property, but many were forced to flee without saving anything. A few of the guests made their escape by the stairways, but the smoke soon cut off this retreat. The next resort of the fmpris-. Oned people was the windows. As their tere. ror-stricken faces appeared the great crowd below watched breathlessly, hoping against hope, that all would be saved. The guests who were thus entrapped did not long hesi. some were rescued from their perilous po- sitions by the firemen. Others leaped from the windows, seyera] be'ng badly Injured. — Findlay Morrew, a traveling salesman for an Albany house, clad only in ghirt L trousers, jumped from a window landing safely in the snow. finding no escape by way of the halls, stepped out of the window and to the nar- the aid of a ladder the hook and ladder men brought them safely to the groud. Mrs, Strauss lost her jewelry and wardrobe, valued at $1,000. 5 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 1—-E. F Kimball of this city, who, with his wife and daughter, is reported to have lost his life in a burning hotel at Gloversville, N. Y., was well known in local business cir- cles. He was a member of the Columbia Kimball and daughter were expected at their home in the “Blacherne”’ in a few days. Both were identified with the charity work here, and it is understood that Miss Kimball wae engaged to marr man in the northern part of Indiana. Mr. Kimball was a traveling agent for a glove concern at Gloversville. a The building and contents were valued at $150,000. NEW TERRITORIAL RAILWAY, Really an Extension of the ‘Frisco, Though Not Operated by Them. — The board of directors of the St. Louis to the police court to answer a charge of cocaine intoxtcation. She was fined $20 and she will have no pportunity to Batisfy her cravings for the drug for 60 days. GEORGIA WOMAN MURDERED. Beaten by Robbers in Her Husband’s Absence. Special to the Post-Dispatch. REIDSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 1—A _ horrible murder was committed about seven miles farmer’s wife wags murdered and his house robbed. Her husband and son were called away and when they returned to the house they found the old lady lying In the kitcheh door, her head beaten and her elothing covered with blood and a large pevol of blood on the floor. The murderer or mur- derers broke open a closet door in the house and secured considerable money. he sheriff and a posse have just left here for the scene of the crime and the county will be scoured in the search. Mrs. Sharp was the mother of Dr. J. R. Rodgers, one of the most prominent physicians of this section. STEWART CASE AFFIRMED. Prendergast’s Slayer Will Have to Go to the Pen. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., ‘Feb. 1.—Divis- ion No. 2, in an opinion by Sherwood, J., affirmed the judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County in the case of State vs. James Stewart. This is a case of mur- der in the second degree and the punish- ment was ngeesed at 9% zou in the peni- tentiary. InMay, 1897, the Walter Block went to the home of an oid man named Prendergast to steal corn. The old man discovered them at his crib and started after them with a shotgun and Stewart killed him. The evidence waa cir- cumaetantial, but of such a character as to make a strong case. Block is yet to be tried. CUT HIS OWN THROAT. Suicide of Thos. L. Thompson, Ex- Minister to Brazil. SANTA ROSA, Cal., Feb. 1—Thomas L. Thompson, ex-United States Minister to Brasil, committed suicide here this morning by cutting bis throat. Despondency is sup- posed to have been the cause. Livery Stable Burned. *patch. Feb. 1.—The old livery r, located In New Len- to the Special to the Poet. HANNIBAL, } stables of Peter defendant and | ’ ; | dicate to make a from here. Mrs. A. J. Sharp, a prominent | * gs in | making such an agreement. ’ : ; ; don, Ralis Cou’ are last nig syndicate, which will build the new railroad from Oklahoma City to Sapulpa, IL. T., met Tuescay morning at the St. Loufs Trust Co., for the purpose of discussing bids ten- dered by contractors. It is probable that the successful] bidder will be announced te- das. The new line, which will be 108 miles tn length, will be practically an extension of the ’Frieco, yet the latter will have noth- ing to do with its construction, owl to an agreement with the Santa Fe by which neither road can build an extension in five years, It is the purpose of the St. Louls contract with the risco to operate it, there being no clause the contract to prevent the ‘Frisco from An estimate of the expense of building pate the cost per mile at $20,000, or $210, —*- WHEN HIS BABE WAS DYING, Matthew Keating Fined for Beating His Deserted Wife. | Matthew Keating was fined $2 by J Peabody, ‘Tuesday, for assaulting his Mamie, who lives at 1908 Pine street. : The wife, cn the witness stand, said her husband went away when their child was. dying. leaving her penniless. The child died and for two ove she hunted for him, found him at o'clock in the morning the third day, and when she asked him i} money he took her tb a hotel ahd left promising to return with money. He not return. him on Monday night he beat and her. and was poundi her with brella when Detective Killian and a man, who were passing om a car, heard. her screams, and arrested her husband. Keaging ts @ bartender. He was well and warmiy ciad and apparently prosperous, He denied striking bis wife and said ft pew an old trick of hers to scuffle with ly ; scream when a policeman Was app : He said further that seven months ago fractured his skull. SKATING IN SIGHT. Post-IMspatch Lake Will Probably Bear Lovers of the Sport Wedr.esday. Twenty-four hours more of the present cold weather will Insure lovers of skating another season of invigorating Injoyment, Monday night a thin coating of tee formed on the surface of all the park lakes. The Post-Dispatch Lake was to the eye a vast expanse of glassy snoothness the tice was thin and treacherous. It thought skating will be In the lake not later t Wed . of warm wave . ‘ . a + % “ a Y through the house and the big hotel was. tate to take the risk of jumping, though — Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Strauss of this city row ledge or cornice, where they stood 10.-__ or 16 minvies awaiting the resctérs: With ~ Club, and the New Engitand Society. Mra. ~ a young . When she again encoun : se t ‘ an Um 3 4 - < : 2