St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 24, 1898

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eA ay (COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.) RECULAR wih Tut PEM q fe ats ee 4 a ae ee : CIRCULATION SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1898. TWELVE PAGES. 119,402. —— 7 “VOL. 49, NO. 200. THURSDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—FEBRUARY 24, 1898. PRICE { In St. Louis, Qne Cent. Vutside St. Loais, Two Cents. GEN. LEE Evidences That the Navy Department Is in Possession of Dispatches From the SUMMARY OF EVENTS AS THEY HOURLY DEVELOP. | Lee’s dispatches demonstrate that the accident theory is unten- able. Corclusive evidence that the startling information in his dis- patches are suppressed at Wash- ington. President McKinley admits that this country is preparing for war. He says it is our duty to pre- pare for any future emergency The partial report fromthe Board of Inquiry at Havana places the responsibility for the destruction of the Maine on Spain. | The battleship was blown by a torpedo sent against it with a tow line, or by a submarine mine worked by an enemy. The President.has.considered. plans of action on the final report which is expected to confirm this. The United States will de- mand millions of. indemnity —ten and possibly fifty millions. Spain will be given 48 hours in which to pay. If Spain demurs the squadron will sail across, and oceupy Cuban custom ports to collect the indemnity. If Spanish ships resist naval war will ensue. Every ship in the navy is moy- ing toward Key West. ‘Scovel cables that investiga- tion now shows there is not one chance in a-hundred that the Maine was destroyed by accident This is not idle speculation, but a conclusion drown from facts already established. Everything now indicates that the destruction of the Maine was the work of a Weyler fanatic. —_—_@—- GEN. LEE WILL NOT ) ' LEAVE HAVANA NOW. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. Copyright by the Press Publishing Company, 1808, HAVANA, Feb. 24.—There is no truth in the story that Consul-General Lee will re- turn to Washington. He has had no thought of leaving Havana. SYLVESTER SCOVEL. AN OLD PASSAGE UNDER THE SEA. HAVANA, Feb. &%.—In connection with the claim made by the Cubans that there @re mine galleries under the harbor of Havana, leading from subterranean pas- sages, and known to have existed for years between Fort Cabanas, Moro Castle and this port, the SPaniards explain that for ever a century a subterranean passage about two miles long and eight feet at its Rarrowest dlameter, capable of giving pas- @®age to a column of troops, has existed from the navy yard to Castillo dei Prin- clipe. But, the Spaniards further assert, the existence of this passage wae not known to. the present authorities, or to those who have been in power for many years past. The entrances and exits, it is added, haye been closed for years past by thick walls NOW cvewvered with debris and thelr exact location ig said to be lost. At the same time, it is admitted that records regarding this subterranean passage can be found in old documents contained in the archives of Havana. Minally, the Spaniards insist that this paséage goes not go under the harbor @t any potnt. Under the Surface here there seems to be a deep feeling of unrest. No one believes that autonomy js or can be anything but a name, and there js a still more deep-rooted belief atid tynited States will not suffer CONVINCED THAT THE MAINE WAS DESTROYED BY SPANIARDS. Consul-General. NOT A FACT SUPPORTS ACCIDENT, | Astounding Proofs of Treachery Now Before the Naval. Board as Summed Up By Sylvester Scovel. (Special to the Post-Dispatch from a Staff Correspondent.) Copyright by the Press Publishing Company, 1898, (The following highly important dispatch is sent by the Post-Dispatch staff correspondent in Havana by the Post-Dispatch despatch boat to Key West, and tele- graphed hence to the Post-Dispatch. He was not able to send this information direct from Havana before because of the strict censorship: of matter sent by cable.) HAVANA, Cuba, by way of Key West, Fla., Feb. 24.—There is not one chance in a hundred but that the Maine was blown up deliberately. Whether a mine detonating key was mistaken for a testing key or whether a mammoth contact torpedo broke its moorings by accident, the awful, astounding thing is that up to now there have been discovered fifty actual, positive proofs of the tragic fact. Against it are only a few theories and suppositions. Persons whose information and judgment command respect believe privately, though they may not say it openly, that the Maine was blown up through some outside agency. They point to the fact that the only boilers which had steam up were in the part of the wreck which is intact now. Spontaneous combustion, they say, was impossible in the bunkers, for the old- est coal in the exploded region had been aboard only three moriths. The theory of spontaneous combustidn in the magazines is disproved, these same experts say, for it would have influenced and exploded all the powder cases alike. I shall not rush conclusions. I shall simply present the proofs so far discovered on both sides, quoting naval expert testimony and allowing physical discoveries their just value shall also give the arguments on the Spanish side, and I shall state both as though I were under oath to the President of the United States in a case involving a national cataclysmi or an international war. It is now 180 hours since the Maine’s death throes shook Havana. Of these 130 have been spent-in examining the wreck and wreckage, the things found, and the men who found them, and in subjecting each to experts. Here are the results: It seems absolutely certain—and it is exactly so unless the laws of nature changed Feb. 15—that the almost utter annihilation of the Maine cannot possibly have been caused by the explosion in any manner of‘even 50 times the amount of powder now conservatively known to have exploded in the Maine’s interior. It is well known that the rear group of big and little magazines is intact. Those magazines did not explode. That portion of the Maine is practically un-. injured. Indeed the hull is not badly hurt for the length of 46 feet forward of the after magazines. The navy across-ship steel bulkhead between the two sets of boilers at this point is practically entire. The only explosions in the Maine which could have broken her are much forward of this bulkhead. The big 10-inch magazine—with 190 service charges of 250 pounds each—was 45 feet from it. Had its contents—or half of them—exploded, naval experts say the whole ship would have been pulverized. Yet 45 feet from it the Maine is practically intact. But the damage done is too gre@M for the explosion of the small magazine ad- joining the 10-inch magazine and its shellrom, called the “reserve magazine.” The empty 6-inch and 10-inch powder cases were stored there after the target practice, and it contained not over 2000 pounds of saluting powder. It cotttd not have caused one-tenth of the damage doné even in the 40-foot space between the forward space and the center of the boilers mentioned. A good deal is definitely known about two other forward magazines. were small. One was immediately forward of the big magazine. It was called the “fixed ammunition magazine,” and contained 6-pound and 1-pound loaded shells. Inasmuch as the 10-inch shells in the big magazine, the shellroom and the rear apartment—the vortex of the explosion—did not explode, the little ones surely are intact. Or if they did explode they did comparatively little damage. The only other forward magazine was the service 6-inch powder and shellroom immediately forward of the fixed ammunition magazine. Nothing is known about it, except that, being!so far forward, in the opinion of experts, its explosion would not have effected the total annihilation of the central portion of the Maine. However, these three little magazines play a small part in the Maine horror. They are described simply as a part of the forward explosives which might have aided in the wrecking of the ship. All depends on the big magazine. There have been raised from the forward part two apparently conflicting things. One is a 10-inch powder case, still loaded. The other is an empty one, smashed and burned. But as I am competently informed now that the empty 10-inch cases were piled aiter target practice in the reserve magazine instead. of going back into their holes in the 10-inch magazine, this‘raised, torn case seems to have been a spare or a used case, to which the explosion of the saluting powder it the reserve magazine, or any other explosives, may have given an exploded appearance. Expert authority states that if the ruptured case had exploded, its own iron handles would have blown off. They are on now. Further inspection of day before yesterday's find of a 6-inch case shows that its appearance might have been caused by fire and an outside explosive pressure. A leading member of the Court of Inquiry thinks that neither the six nor the 10-inch empty case found was necessarily detonated. Both almost surely came from the reserve magazine, where both were stored. But these are only weak negative proofs. The recovering of a big 10-inch case with its cap sprung and the unexploded powder openly exposed is direct, absolute, positive proof that no great -proportion of the 25 tons of the big magazine’s powder exploded and every expert, every man of common sense rejects the idea that even one charge of one-half pound or 125 pounds of powder could explode in the closed magazine, holding 380 similar thin copper cylinders, each filled with red powder and each having its eight one-inch hexa- gons of quick-burning, black, detonating powder, without the explosion of all. Had ten exploded the explosion of all would have been absolutely assured under any and all possible conditions. But there is one Raping case of powder which is filled and unexploded. Even if 10 big cases did go and to them were sdded all the saluting powder and They GCQNTINVED ON PAGE TWO | ‘They Convey the % > rr TO AVENGE THE The Whole Force of the Steaming Night and Day for Scene of Expected Hostilities. Special to the Post-Dispatch. . WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 24.—There is a chart in one of the private rooms of the Navy Department upon which the exact whereabouts, if known, and if not known, the approximate posi- tion of every ship in the United States Navy is known. ° As fast as. telegrams and cablegrams are received announcing arrivals and departures, the changes required are made in the positions of the little ships which represent our navy afloat. An examination of this chart to-day reveals the fact that the prow of every national vessel, whether she be attached to the Med- iterranean, the Asiatic, or the South American » Squadron, is turned toward Cuban waters, where, upon the chart, a little flag, half-masted, shows the spot where the terrible tragedy of last week occurred. STEPHEN BONSAL, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. MAINE'S MEN, | By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Secretary Long to-day in answer to inquiries whether the department was suppressing information concerning the disaster to the Maine, wrote the following: “Navy Depar#ment, Washington, D.C. Feb. 24, 1898—No. telegram has been received from either Admiral Sicard or Captains Sampson or Sigsbee since yesterday and the department has re- ceived no information with regard to the disaster that has not al- ready been made public. The department is waiting the result of the inquiry, and public opinion should be suspended until some official information is received. JOHN D. LONG.” IF SPANISH TRBACHERY IS PROVEN THE PRESIDENT WILL ACT AT ONCE. President McKinley says if the Maine was destroyed by Spanish treachery he will act at once on receiving the report of the Naval Examining Board to wat yiect and in a manner to meet the approval of every loyat American citizen. The President made this statement to Gen. William H. Powell. of Belleville. Gen. Powell was in command of the regiment in which President McKinley served during the war. The two have been close personal friends since. As a mark ot this friendship the President recently appointed the General Collector of Internal Revenue for the Southern Illinois District, in spite of the fact that the full force of the State pull was exerted in favor of State Senator A. J. Willoughby. Gen. Powell returned Wednesday from Washiagton, where he went to ascertain what bearing the civil service law had on his office. ; When seen Wednesday night the General said he had discussed the Maine dis- aster and its possible results with the President. “The President stated to me,” said the General, “that he was only waiting for a complete report of the Naval Board of Inquiry and that should it report that our sailors had met their death through Spanish treachery, he was prepared to act at once, and in a manner which would meet the approval of every loyal American citizen.” The General said preparations for war were being pushed with the utmost vigor. Expressing his personal opinion, the Genera! said: “I have no doubt that Havana harbor was mined and that the Maine was sent to anchor over a bed of Official Information That the Accident [Theory Has Be- come Untenable. PROOF OF SPANISH TREACHERY, ¥ : American War Fleet is| Not a Single Hint of Accident in Consul-Gen- eral Lee’s Dispatches From Havana to the Navy Department at Washington. The President Admits That He Is Preparing to Meet the Contingency of War and Is Getting Ready for Any Emergency. -* ness of Men to Enlist in Army or Navy. All Gun-Making Houses Are Working Double Time to Meet the Pressing Orders. Special to the Post-Dispatch. : WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 24, 3 P. M.—There is reason to bes lieve that the State Department has received a detailed report from Consul General Lee. The department incautiously betrayed itself The significant feature of Gen. Lee’s attitude up to this time is that while he has reserved final judgment there is not a word which conveys the expectation on his part that an accident caused the disaster to the Maine. A feeling of profound concern over the Spanish situation has taken possession of every department within the last 24 hours. It is a complete transformation of official sentiment and it gradually and reluctantly forces the conviction on those in au- thority by the accumulating of circumstantial evidence that the accident theory as to the Maine is untenable. STEPHEN BONSAL, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, THE PRESIDENT ADMITS THAT HE IS PREPARING FOR WAR. — By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—The Tribune this morning prints the fol- . lowing special from Washington: “I do not propose to do anything to precipitate war with Spain. Up to the present I do not think war is either necessary or inevit- torpedoes at the instance of the Spanish Officials. Whether the mine was exploded under their direction I cannot say, but Spain’s re:ponsibility is just the same. I consider that it was an overt act of war which the nation should avenge at the | earliest possible moment and thereby serve notice on other nations that the United | States, although a peaceful nation, will at all times protect her subjects and resent | insults. l.am convinced that President McKinley is the right man in the right place and that as soon as Spanish treachery has been proven his policy will be} rigid enough to meet the approval even of the most pronounced jingoes. COMMODORE SCHLEY WILL COMMAND THE NORTH ATLANTIC AMERICAN SQUADRON. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24.—Commander Winfield Scott Schley, now Chief of Light-House Board, will be in command of the North Atlantic Squadron in the event that naval operations against Havana are instituted in the immediate future. Admiral Sicard is too ill to: go to sea. Commodore Schley is regarded as an en- ergetic and efficient officer. Winfield Scott Schley was born in Maryland in 1839 and graduated from Annapo- lis in 1860. He was in several small engagements during the war and distinguished himself at the capture of Port Hudson, La., Dec. 14, 1862. When the war ended he was a lieutenant-commander. He commanded the expedition to the relief of Gen. Greeley’s north pole expedition in 1884 and was captain in command of the Baltimore in 1891, during the Chilian revolution. A number of his sailors went ashore at Val- pariso and were set upon by a Chilian mob. Many sailors were hurt and all were rescued by a party sent from the ship by Schley. He held an immediate investigation on board his ship and reported to Washington in five days. His report was made the subject of a special message to Congress and a large indemnity was collected. He commanded the cruiser New York from the time she went into commission until he was advanced in 1897 to the rank of commodore, when he went to the Light-house Board. : DEPARTURE OF A TORPEDO FLEET FROM MADRID FOR CUBA. Copyright by the Press Publishing Company, 1898. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. MADRID, Feb. 21.—The Queen invited to lunch with the royal family Capt. Villamil. the commander of the Spanish squadron, about to start for Cuba. After lunch the Queen gave Villamil photographs of ner daughters, herself and the King, upon which she had put in her own handwriting: “To Don Alfonso Vil “ amil, from Alfonso and Christina, May God protect him in his journey.” Villamil’s squadron will be comp@sed of three torpedo destroyers, the Plutou, the Terror and the Furor, and the torpedo vessels Rayo, Alcor and Ozor Thess craft will be age gm by the steamer Cadiz, conveying coal and provisions. able. I would be lax in my duty, however, if I did not prepare for the future. The situation is grave, and the policy of the Adminis- tration will be determined almost entirely by the course of events from time totime. There is no necessity of alarming the people, but Congress must be ready to assist the Administration without making too many inquiries as to the course of current events.” To a Senator who called upon him yesterday, in order to ask some serious questions as to the policy of the Administration, President McKinley, with the utmost frankness, uttered the above words, There is now no doubt of the fact that the Government of the United States is actually preparing for war with Spain. It does not follow that war will come, but the activity in both the War and Navy Departments is too unmistakble to be concealed. The President and his Cabinet unite in the belief still, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that the explosion of the Maine was the result of an unfortunate accident, but they recognize the fact that the contrary may prove true at almost any hour, and that if | it is shown, even inferential ly, that Spain had a hand in the catas- _ trophe, there will be but one thing to do, and that will be to seize the Island of Cuba by force of arms. At no time since ‘the war of the rebellion haa the military branch of the Government been so active as it is to-day. It is a significant fact that within the last two days there has been a remarkable change in opinion in the Navy Department in regard to the explosion of the Maine. When the first news arrived here last week, experts at the Department were evenly divided as between an accident and design. ; But to-day, after studying the later reports, and especially the photos sent from Havana, nine out of ten of the officers at De The vessels will stop at the Sameey Islands and also at Porto Rico before reach- ing Cuba. It is officially announced that there is no hurry for their joining the eruisers do and Vizcaya at Havana. — ae, ow © From All Sections Come Telegrams Announcing the Readi- . , OU a to-day in admitting that it had received mail from Gen. Lee. = ag

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C., Feb. 24.—Should the complete report of the Naval Board of Inquiry be of the same tenor as the partial report just received, and there seems no reason to doubt that it will be, the President will immediately demand the Of this $5,000,000 will be actual and the balance punitive ; ; payment of $00,000,000, damages. - It is. not thought that Spain is either able or willing to pay this. The next step of the plan, as developed at an informal Cabinet conference, is for the naval forces of the United States, without a declaration of war and yet with due notice, to take possession of five or six of the most important custom houses in Cuba, and to remain in possession until the full amount of the indemnity is paid. Should Spain oppose this occupation for the recovery of damages, which is sanc- tioned by international usage and law, the next move would be to destroy her navy in Cuban waters. I do not know upon what information this hope is based, but it is-apparent that there is a belief in the Administration circles that the execution of such a policy as above outlined would not be forcibly opposed. Further, it is confidently asserted by those who consider this policy the very best policy for the Administration to pursue, that by the time our occupation for the recovery of the indemnity shal] have.come to an end the government on the island will be that: of the Cuban Republic. To make their losses less bitter, to improve the position of the Spanish ex- chequer, it is stated, that peaceable and orderly evacuation could be secured if the Cubans would consent to shoulder one-fifth, or about $100,000,000 of the Spanish Cuban bonds, so-called. The plan looks well on. paper and is now engrossing the most serious attention of Administration circles here, but whether it will ever be put into execution only time can tell. To my mind, however, the information is chiefly valuable as showing that the President and his advisers are now fully alive to the responsibilities which the rapid march of events and the sudden development of the Cuban crisis have thrust upon them. The rumors which have been and sfill are current, to the effect that Gen. Lee has warned all Americans to leave Havana, are indeed no news to the department. With the full approval of the State Department, Gen. Lee for at least a year, has told every American who addressed him upon this subject that the present con- dition of Cuba made-the island unsuitable either fer visits of pleasure or business and that he would strongly advise all projects of this nature to be postponed to a more suitable season. | All information that can be given publicity without prejudice to the public serv- ice is being given out, and yet, although little attempt at concealment is made, much is being witheld. Sig There were received at the State Department yesterday four dispatches from Gen. Lee, but no information as to their contents was forthcoming.” Apprehension is felt as to the good faith of the Spanish authorities, who are out- wardly so gracious and helpful, and there is no doubt that instructions have been given to both Gen. Lee and to the Board of Naval Inquiry to leave Havana with all American citizens the moment it becomes apparent that the Spaniards are seeking to defeat the purpose of a strict, impartial investigation. For many reasons the necessity for this step would be deplored. One reason is to be found in the fact that, in view of the active preparations with which Wash- ington rings, a month hence we will be twice as strong both for offensive and de- fensive measures as we are to-day. STEPHEN BONSAL, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. NOT ONE FACT SUPPORTS ACCIDENT. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) —™ * ee —— ae — the rest of the forward explosives, the combined explosion could not have burst open the Maine from left to right, a full average of 70 feet away, or have done the actual, awful damage the divers found. I have stated the worst possible case of an interior explosion. The’ general idea of atl experts is that none of the forward magazines, except the unimportant reserve one, has exploded, but that some great exterior force an- nihilated the ship. Again let me say: Without the genefal explosion of the big forward magazine the damage to tke Maine was impossible, except from a big mine or a mammoth—a very maniunoth—torpedo. The big magazine did not explode, because everything on the wreck above and below the water has been hurled toward it. A movable object does not approach an explosion of 25 tong of powder. In addition to the previous description of the main deck being curled over from the port side, while the magazine is on the starboard, and other things seen above water, | can now give more convincing proofs of the innocence of the magazine in the affair. ‘The divers find that 19-inch shells, which were in the exact center of the ship opposite the big magazine, are now partly on the starboard side, about the inésiion Qi the magazine. hey are unexploded and can again be used. They were actually thrown against the shattered magazine. If that had gone pieces of 10-inch shells would have covered Havana’s water front. Another significant fact is that a grate bar from the boilers was found to-day in the forward part of the ship, near the magazine in ‘question. It would have gone the other way had the magazine exploded. : This grate bar is strong proof of my original claim that in al] prohability the ship was destroyed, beginning onethe port side at the center of the Maine. Further proof that no big magazine exploded is found in the fact that bodies are found close in and, not burned. but only pierced by beams and debris. Another proof is that three men who were sleeping 20 feet from the magazine in a cutter—their names were cabled to the Post-Dispatch—were saved. So also were loaded cases and shells from the leading room above the magazine. No 10-inch fragment was found on the steamer City of Washington or ashore. seated so Sao ontop ) psy _ magasine instead Of away from it. at it ' y loaded cases were in the reserve mag- azine, the*significance is taken from the discovery of the collapsed six-inch case found-two days ago. Op the other hand, the place where the Maine lay was one where the ship sel- dom swung when moored to the Government buoy. It would seem to be the worst place to put a Government mine. Besides, the time of night was’ ill chosen, if tot Furthermore, revenge enters in. Phen the action was so fiendish ernment. Probably it w al loss was desired. if war was desired, this was the worst way to bring it, for now as to be too much for even the Spanish Gov- as done by a fanatic or a drunken attache. é SYLVESTER SCOVEL, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. | THE MAINE MAY AGAIN BE FLOATED. (eeeeeeeee COURT OF INQUIRY HAS MUCH LATITUDE. tad + ~ WASHINGTON, Feb, 4.—The Navy De- . Dartment has not been informed as to the probable length of time to be occupled by the Maine Court of Inquiry in its work. Buch a court, it is said, has the greatest liberty of action: much Sreater than a court-martial. which is strictly limited by the nayal regulations, Of course, {t is pos- S.ble that the court will leave Havana the course «f a day or two for Key West sn order to take there the testimony euch of the surviving officers : are now quartered at Key West. ter are not subject to release position until it has concluded testimony, and as many of these survivors are anxious to secure short leaves of absence tn order to see their families and friends it may be. that the court will cut short its stay at Havana in order to accommodate them. It ja be- lieved, however. that in The lat- tt will return 7m that place der to ascertain from the work of tha divers the cause of the explosion. - 2 /and has had the in | of | And men as! from their | the court has declared that. this case unlées | there shouia be unexpe ‘tedly significant de- | . Velopments before the court leaves Havana. | later on in or- | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—In view of the many expressions of doubt concerning the possibility of taising the wreck of the Maine the message sent yesterday to the Navy Department by Admiral Sicard has some weight. The Admiral reported that the Court of inquiry. which is on the spot advantage of opinions of livers, had declared that the most power- ful appliances would be necessary to re- nove. the wreck or raise the ship. The last expression is taken to mean that the court has so far not concluded that it would be impossible to again float the Maine, else the language would seem to have been unnecessary, an unWarranted supposition in the case of expensive cabie- grams. _From the North to the South Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup ts the preventive of cove. Marine. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.—Arrived: Nederland, from Antwer NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Bremen; Germanic, frow stew f Om Bg EATS OF VIOLENCE “"“MADE AGAINST ALE AMERICANS IN HAVANA. “KEY WEST, Fla., Feb, 24.—The arrival here of the steamship Olivette, from Ha- vana, with many American women and children, intensifies the excitement. . It is now known, as the Post-Dispatch has already printed, that Gen. Lee has ad- vised Americans to send their families away. from Cuba. If the Olivette’s passengers are to be believed Gen. Lee and other Americans in Havana have been threatened with violence. All sorts of sensational rumors-are afloat here. A story that 10,000-troops haye been ordered to this station finds many believers. Work on Fort Taylor is being pushed vig- Grousiy. No visitors are allowed inside the works, but this regulation, officers of course gay, is usual. - fhe revenue cutter McLaine arrived to-day_from Port Tampa, and to-morrow will begin taking coal. One of the be!licose rumors is that, in the event of war, the Me- Laine will be us#d in the hospital service. Filibusters along the Florida coast are said to be particularly active just now, the assumptfon being that the naval and revenue service are too busy with other work to watch them closely. : ogee To-morrow will be the third anniversary of the outbrégk of the Cuban reyolption, Preparations are making for a big demonstration by Cuban sympathizers at los Opera House to-morrow evening. It was here that the @gitation for a free Cuba was begun and organized. Torpedo boats have been busy carrying dispatches to the battleships Iowe and New York, anchored near here. It is expected that the Hghthouse tender Mangrave will arrive here on Thursday or Friday from’Havana with the Court of Inquiry on © board. se ‘ Some nervous sojourners jn Key west, influenced by the stories of the Olivette’s passengers, are arranging to leave here for the Bahama Islands, These sojourners al- ready see shells dropping thick and fast in Key West streets. If an outbreak occurs in Havana it will not be the fault of Gen. Blanco, his im- mediate official staff, or the Spanish Government. All of these will do everything in their power to preserve order in Cuba’s capital. But, according to the Olivette’s passengers, the Spanish troops in Cuba, much less the volunteers, cannot he controlled. These troops are bitterly opposed to Cuban au- tonomy, and feel that a weak Spanish Governn@@nt has been forced by the United States to propose it to the Cubans. One American, who returned on the Olivette believes that trouble, if any comes, will be caused by the Spanish volunteers !n Cuba. These volunteers, he says, believe that they, 30,000 strong, can whip the whole United States. - Here is the programme of the Spanish volunteers, as given by the Havana rumor- mongers: They will start a riot in Havana, kill a few Americans and then all other Americans there wil hurry home. Then these valorous Spanish warriors will invade Florida and march on Washington, driving everything before them. But this alleged programme of the ardent, optimistic Spanish patriots will not end with the taking of the Américan capital. The fall of New York City {s to follow, and that rich municipality w‘ll be made to pay an Indemnity of $100,000,000. With this American gold Spain's debts are to be paid, and the 30,000 Spanish con- querors, with unbroken ranks, will pose as the liberators of their debt-ridden coun- try. All this bellicose talk is worrying Gen. Blanco, according to the Olivette’s passen- gers. They say that when riots took place recently, Gen.. Blanco sent his cavalry to suppress them. The soldiers threw their swords to the rioters and did nothing. Another rumor brought by the Olivette is that Americans at the Hotel Ingleterra in Havana have been advised by Spanish friends to leave, as they were fearful a plot was hatching to blow it up. This is the hotel at which Gen. Lee and the American newspaper correspondents stop. Foreign vessels entering Havana harbor are not allowed to come up to the dock. Under compulsory pilot regulations they are taken to certain buoys. Under each of these buoys, according to the Olivette’s passengers, is a mine, such as may have blown up the Maine. These mines, it is said, were planted by Weyler, and are relied upon as efficient provection ‘for the city should foreign warships get past the forts in time of war. Another rumor, revived in Havana, ifs that Cubans induced a man who had the op- portunity to touch off the mine under the Maine with the idea that war would fol- low immediately. Americans officials in Key West, who have made close observations, declare that Havana would capitulate inside of 30 minutes after the United States guns opened fire, There is at the Havana fort but one battery with ordnance of modern construction to oppose American warships. With Havana fallen’ these paper generals declare, one or two American ships might be detailed to keep that city in subjection, while the Cuban patriots could be depended on to drive the Spanish army off the island. Other American warships would sail at once to conquer Porto Rico, and cruise for the Spanish fleet, THR st OW aie eke 8 SP a > ay - * ; ; a 7 W THE DIVERS DO THEIR WORK - ae r AND WHAT THEY Special Cable to the Post-Dispatghs - ' Copyright by the Press Publishing Company; | ; HAVANA, Cuba., Feb. 24.—I have hired a small sailboat, Dut a table in it and spend all the time in the vicinity of the wreck, ree The things that come up and the places they come from aré telling the tale. President Sampson of the American Naval Court of Inquiryis very active, He was aboard the wrecking tug early this morning directing préparations for energetic work on the forward turret. ee 2 a That, probably, will be sought for first. It will tell a good deal, especially if its top is still on. ea It was directly over the big powder room, with the electric light machinery and the hydraulic pumps between. I am informed there are plenty of loaded powder cases still down forward. The divers have been investigating into the causes of the explosion, exploring the forward part of the hull and getting into the wardroom aft. @ A delicate question will be: What is in the interior and what is on the exterior? Thus far the Spanish have only granted permission to examine the interior. No Spanish diver has gone below in the wreck. The divers’ work necessarily is extremely slow, and dangerous too, owing to the upheaval of the forward part of the ship. 3 | The big cranes are expected to get the large obstructions out of the way quickly. The Board of Investigation is preparing the big wrecking tug Right Arm so that Capt. Magee can proceed to lift portions of the wreck. r The tug has the biggest hoisting cable afloat, and the largest engines ever built at Providence, R. I. She has also six pumps, each with its own boiler, and each hav- ing 30-inch suction. She could pump outa vessel the size of the Spanish cruiser Al- ARE FINDING. ie i ~ as Sai EOE kag Ae oe, eee xa! Hi 0h Ee P a 3 ut Ayn Caen Mie iS ej ERR SOT = LE Sa : Liduine Ls TN a ede ea ieee PEEL IIIT — > PPPPPPPPPPPrPpPrrrrrrirc fonso XII. in seven hours. Her captain is proud of fhe boat, and apparently is a very capable man. The. men of the crew are very willing on this occasion. cee; elgg gl Sh . + Fe ‘ - Unparalleled’ a Pee a ARO I pS ae ee te spe 4 ? , & oA PA : " Be Aas eee “Sy Sa oS ee : Siro i . R —~ > 7 = vr & t +. i at s ‘Sete eto ~~ - 5 5 we ined : “ = r? 2", ee aed et > 3 4 é = * Re ae wr % es - ~ 4 a ae E is” ae Sees, 2 “9 aa . Ee “2 We Se z “r : = P ae % »* rs « . 3 ~*~ > 4 - . - my 3 ‘ e > . RIBBONS. Shoe. from 3 to 5 inches wide: have up to 2 yards More than 1000 SHORT ENDS of ALL-SILK RIBBONS, both Plain and Fancy, Friday and Saturday, 15 Cents the Length. * RIBBONS. sold at 25c and 50c the yard; int Remnants; Offering! ° “A ~ - To-morrow we will place on sale one thousand pairs of Ladies’ de- sirable Shoes, Manufacturers’ Sam- ples, at positively half of the manu- facturers’ cost. We do not ‘believe VY tlyat there has ever been such a\’ seHous cut in Shoe prices as this \& The loss is great, ¥° _ KEKE HB KKK KKK KS JACKETS. ! Lot of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Garments; Spring aad Fall Weights; Broken sizes; not many of any one , kind; nevertheless very desirable far asthey go; garments in this lot that sale will offer. = 4 o a DDECSK KEG KSS = or - > @ wr 4 ° ° vw 3 c > ye have sold up to $12.60; Friday and Saturday, cnet © & sa your chance to profit: Ladies’ Hand-Sewed Lace and Button, Turn and Welt, Vici (finest) Kid Shoes, in all the most desirable toes, pat- ent leather and tips of the same material, Oxblood, Tan and Black, §, perfect in fit. A delightful and fA charming relief to the feet after wearing winter boots. Not a pair f ‘ Ce f

value $12.50; > READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS, SECOND PLOOR. Reductions Upon Reductions. THE FINAL WIND-UP PREPARATORY TO OPENING OF SPRING SEASON. ) } ) ) Mixtures, Checks and his ] ] ) } SEPARATE SKIRTS. 150 Black Brocaded “lik signs; very best of work? : manship and Desase: fine percaline; Friday and Saturday, $5 -0O0 BACH. | SUITS. Lot of Ladies’ Talior-Made Suits; what is termed Odds and Ends; assortment of sizes somewhat broken; come In Pialn Cheviote; suits in this let worth §25.00; _ Friday and Saturday, ee® $10.00 sur. 275 Black Broc aded Silk Sep- arate Dbress Skirts, in Extra Fine Quality and Exclusive ined with ) | : regular man skip; values $19 $0 $47.40, Friday and Saturday, $8.68 BACK. worth tess than $4.00-- many $4.50 and $5.00— Cheice To- Morrow THIRD FLOOR SPECIALS. Pictures, Lamps, Curtains and Art Needlework, SUCH AS >>>> =F Ladies’ Hand-Sewed Lace and Button, Turn and Welt and Saddle Flexible Soles, Coin, Piccadilly and Pug Toes, Pat- ent Leather and Slack Tips, twill 7e lining throughout. No wax ends or Colors, tout Frames, in Ex- | Frames, Gilt tensive Variety of { regular price; Colors; . } Friday and | Saturda}, ) 75. CENTS EACH, >> SIHGSFSSSSSSSHSS SSS SISSISSSsssss >>> Art Canvas Squares 86x36; Stamped and Tinted; suitable for ' Pillow or Tabie Cov: { ers; ‘Friday and - Saturday, 25 CENTS EACH. $3 nr . 24524-Inch.... 18x18-inch.... 9x 92-inch 200 Facsimile Water ‘ 300 Facsimile Water Colors, size ex ¢ Passe-Par-}10; Various Subjects, Pink and Blue orners; $1.3 is the Friday and Saturday, 65 Each: Pedesta Friday and Saturday, tamped Linen Center Pieces— TUMBLER DOYLIES, 10 590 ~=Photograva )New Subjects; ) 22x28; artisti )framed; your )selection as to pand molding; ) ) Friday and , Saturday, $2.50 AND UP. lightly | pee Center | ; 6 , $9.00 and; Pillow \ sorted pire Patterns At- ; Em- } } ) 95 EACH, --+- {Be Each ) - «-{Oce Each So Each ) CENTS PER | SET OF SIX. ‘| SSSSSSESSs nails to hurt the feet, all the com- NK $3. 59-- IEBEL: HILLMAN & BROADWAY: ' EIDDD Di fort of and worth Choice C ” & WASHINGTON AVE %? A $3.00 and — $1504 ©’ To- Morrow. .... ! 3 Mn . A THE PARISIAN. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) e beliefthat the Maine was.anchored over a submarine mine. | > rae } The only difference of opinion,seems to be as to whether that mine was exploded by Spanish officers acting under orders or by partinent express th French Liner La Champagne Has Not Yet Arrived. NEW YORK, Feb. %—The overdue French line steamer La ¢, from. Havre, had not been sighted at 9:15 this forenoon, though the weather is clear and some enthusiast. ‘The latter opinion is generally held, but it is said that this does not lessen in any great degree the responsibility of Spain for the horrible ¢atastrophe. ee If the Spanish officers allowed the warship to be moored to a buoy which was attached to a submarine mine, they thereby be- came responsible for the result, whether the mine was exploded by official orders or not. The placing of the Maine in an exposed place in the harbor, if it was done at all, was done by Spanish officers, and if the mine was exploded by anybody at all, they were directly responsible, and will so be held by President McKinley’s Administration. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—President McKinley and his coun- cillors have considered making a degaand on Spain for many mil- lions indemnity and occupying Cuban custom ports in the event of failure to pay within 48 hours, and in case the report of the Naval | Board declares that Spain is responsible for the destruetion of This tug’s cranes are of fifteen tons’ capacity, but they can raise the 25-ton guns | the Maine. by means of her massize anchor chain. . I ' | 3 The strain is telling upon Capt. Sigsbee. He can’t sleep well. Friends are trying to get his mind off the disaster. ; A was identified. have not been found yet. Two more bodies were found. Neit The bodies of Jenkins and Merritt must be got out first. Much wreckage | mond, Va. Jenkins’ stateroam was entered and some personal effects were taken out. His | body is thouglif to be in the junior officers’ messroom, where the hero probably “met | the water,” as Lieut. Holman says, while blindly going toward his station forward. He was a noble fellow, and as the Maine’s intelligence officer had got Havana’s bear- ings “down very fine.” Almost all the bodies which have been seen in the forward part of the wreck have respond. arms upstretched and fingers: extgnded in the exact position of reaching for the handles to jump out of the hammocks when suddenly awakened by the first shock, | and being then caught. Admiral Manterola, in command of the Spanish naval forces in Cuban waters, | , yesterday. West and from there to Havana to replace the Maine. has called on the officers of the Fern. Very favorable comments are made here tpon the Post-Dispatch’s big side view photograph of the Maine, showing not only the intact part of the hull, but also the three plates which stick up im a melancholy manner as the sole remains above water of the forward part of the vessel, the rear one of which is thickly coated with green, anti-fouling paint. Upon these were perched “auras” of carrion crows. There were four of them to-day on the third one of these solitary plates. They faced me, their ugly hooded heads looking over the dinged, mashed, painted side and their draggling tails hanging over the thick sides. They appeared as if perched upon one of the Maine’s bottom plates, eating the dead. I got tloser to drive them off, but the vigilant Spanish patrol] boatealmost arrested ‘me for going too close to the wreck, | | Opened at 107%, slimped to 105%, and then My boatmen were all afraid we would be fined heavily. The fact that Spain has jurisdiction over the water almost stops the investiga. | tions of the American correspondents. Ali that is permitted them is to write about the bodies recovered or anathematize the censor, : | The Maine looks desolate except where the green bottom paint or white spar. | Chicago heavily, in antici paint was not seared by the explosion.| The following Americans left Havana by the stcamer Olivette: Isaac Bernheim, William Powers, G. F. W. Holman, Francisco Del Valle, Montgomery H. Dingee, Joseph Floyd Gordon, Herbert Leigh Moorman, Edward M. Abbey, Julia A. Dudley, | George S. Hyatt. Three more bodies have been recovered, making 160 in all. The divers entered Merritt's room, but difpot find his body. They brought several 6 and 10-inch powder cases, some of them exploded. Holzer is very ill. The rest of the wounded are doing well. 4 SCOVEL, | « &XYLVESTER #, be a OT Pe. aH g ian , eos eee TED GEM ay tm ETT Ree 55. cei a ke | SN SO ne RAR Special to the Post-Dispatch. ‘NEW YORK, leb. 24-—Five ear loads of projectiles were shipped to New York to-day from the Tredegar Iron Works at Rich- * NORFOLK, Va., eb. 24.—The monitor Terror left Norfolk at 10:15 a. m., on her way to gea under sealed orders. On leaving the yard the Terror was saluted by the Franklin’s guns, but did not Her departure created considerable excitement and thousands witnessed it. ne TAMPA, Fla., feb. 24.—The cruiser Montgomery arrived here While here she received orders to proceed to Key —— ae a we ee een nt BIG SLUMP ON CHANGE. COMMODORE BUNCE War News Causes a Heavy Decline All GETS HiS COMMISSION. The serious character of the war news Fi - YORK, Feb, 24.—Commodore Fran- dissipated and paralyzed business on|‘°* “U- Dance of the Brcokiyn sem y Yer ‘Change Thursday. Stocks and grain fell off mahi ng ee ee ee from prod.giously, and the pit was deserted until 2 Rgton oa Nene eal. © has re- ceived no Word from Capt. Eulate of the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya as to the time of her departure from New York harbor. THE VON DER AHE CASE. Bond Secured and He Will Be Out of Jail Bef Evening. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Feb. A—The applica- tion of Chris Von der Ahe foP=-welease on a writ of habéas corpus was refused to-day by Judge Buffington of the Untted States Cirecult Court and ball was fixed at $4000 on an appeal to the Supreme Court. The bond has been secured from the Mercanille Trust Co. of this city and Von der Ahe will be out of jail before evening. It is understed that Watkins, representing the National Leag has deposited about $3,000 with Chris’ bondemen. within five mirfutes of the close. Stocks began it, Manhattan, for instance, allowed the bottom to drop until it regis- tered 98. All other stocks followed in vary- ing degrees through sympathy. Finally the edges of the wave of cline lapped into the old and reliable quo- tations of United States bonds, which va- ried from unchanged to 1% cents off, the last being the longest time 4 per cents. May wheat opened at Wily. Leiter sold on ai.on of war, and down went the price to $1, which was 1%%ec off from Wednesday. But there was no trad- ing, except a few sales on call, Within 15 minutes of the cloge the price went to 9@%c ee a and ciosed at uews of impen Meme TS $ Bg De ee: its, ae fue MO git Ck OS a yo ae ro 4 —_ two steamers have been sighted a consid- erable distance from Fire Island—the | North German Lioyd steamer Trave and |} the White Star steamer Germanic, both bound in. La Chantpagne has been due since Sunday. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it falls to cure, tic. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet, THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR—STATIONARY. For St. Leouls and weinity—Fair Thursday night and Friday; little change in tem ture. For Missouri and Iilinols—Fair Th ay night and Priday. ‘The barometer remaigs low from the Ohio Valley northward and northeastward, and there is also a marked disturbance on the Pacifie | coast, with a barometer reading of 20.42 inches at Roseburg, Ure. Spows were general over the eastern low area, while generally fatr weather prevatied elec where. : The temperatures have fallen from the Obie Valley westward through the Middle and North- ern slopes, aud have changed but little over the remaining districts. School Board Association. Specia) to the Post-Dispatch. MOBERLY, Mo. —~F, of this city, president of the Missouri. States School Board Aesociation, has been authorized by the Executive Committee to announce that the next State meeting of said association will be held y | Cortana, Mo., on Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 23, 1898. DEATHS. BENCHLEY—On Thursday, Feb. 23, 1806, at 8 Dp. m., Miss Willey A. Benchley, of Mrs. Haydee Campbell, after a brief at her residence, 2260 South Jefferson avenue. Funeral announced in Globe Friday. BERRIDGE—Jobn L. Berridge, at 6:30 a. m., Fed, 24, aged 49 years 3 months, beloved husband of Mre. Jobn L. Berridge, No. 2619 Bellegiade are- nue. Philadelphia (Pa.) papers please copy. Due notice of funeral will be given. COYNE—At 7:30 p. m., Fergus Joseph Coyne, aged 44 years. will take place from his late wi venue, Saturday, Feb. 26, a. m., to St. " thence to Cale vary Cemetery. 14 North Grasd avepve. Due notice of funeral will be gives. SENPF—At 8 o'clock a. m., Tues? ~. ' Copstantia Genf, beloved ber’ nee Sehbumana, aged 49 7 days. Funeral will take p’ m., from family f -third etreet. Hels attend. ne ae |

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The answer is no; | distinctly no. » Washington ts a point the Spanish would like to reach in the event of hostilities and one which they would no doubt attempt to destroy. The geographica) position of Washington is greatly in its favor, but at the same time it is on an open waterway wrappers? Remnants of 7 > Point Venise ? Edging and Insertions, Oriental Laces in cream and Rempants of Dress Fabrics—the choicest goods — Cheviots, Two-Tone Effects— Nun’s Vellings, Scotch Cheviots, Fancy Remnants of Fine Net Tep Oriental | aces, white and ecru, Po nt V. nise Edging *nd In- sertions.4l¢ and Byard strips. 6 to 9 ius. wide, actually worth All thet are left of our $1.00 Flannelette Wrappers, on Friday at +o Wye dee seek A few dozen of our 01.3 Wrappers, dark colors; on triday at a el About 100 of our Fine Percale Cotton Hose, ton Hose, doubie kuees BARCAIN SQUARE NO. 4. Worth 10¢ ; 20 to 260—Friday for.... hosiery. — Friday for, .... 10c 50° Ladies’ Fine s 200 dozen Children's 300 doz. Ladies’ knalish Ligle Thread Hose, black boots, faacy top, worth We— Full camless Fine Lisle Fiuish ort- Biack and Colors Full Regular Made Herms- dorf Biack \ot- ton Hose, worth Tubular Brai s, Siik and Mohair Fine soutach? Hraids, Tinsel Effect Tubular Braids. Mohair and Wool Braidsin bisack and colors, worth up —seplic d hee s. worth Weaves of all our finest goods sold dur- ing the past 10 days and values up to 60c per yard —8 great lots on Friday— 49¢ | KS “ere leadire to the ocean and may be considered in the light of a coast city that would be reached and shelled by the gunboats of an enemy Washington Is, however, prepared to give @n invading fleet a very warm reception and in the event of war being declared, it Is said by competent engineers, the present fortifications could be greatiy strengthened in a very short ume. Washington’s defenses consist of gun and mortar batteries located at a sufficient dis- tance down the river to check any enemy before he could get with.n gunshot of the city. There are three eight and two 10 inch uns of approved modern type mounted on isappearing carriages, fully protected from the fire of a foe. in addition to these are the oid guns, which include three five-inch gemooth bores and a mortar battery. The batteries command a view far down the river, and occupy such a position that projectiles can be thrown at pepo s i | ves- fels before the shore batteries could be lo- cated by the gunners on board ship. Only light draught warships of the type of the Helena could enter the Potomac and_ap- proach within range of Washington. Ves- sels drawing more water wou:d not dare Venture up the stream for fear of befng grounded. Upon Fort Point, two sites facing each other from | opposite sides of the Potomac, a few miles below Wash_ngton, are located fortifications upon which the safety of the city depends, | The former is‘a historic point. Connect-| jug the bateries on the latter site with the. wharf is a smal) line of railroad, giving close connection with the c.ty. It is generally believed here that the river has been blocked off and mined so that the | ships of an enemy could be blown out of the water before it would be necessary to use the guns at the fort. It is aiso under- stood that a tunnel has been constructed under the river, connecting Fort Washing- . ton with Sheridan's Point. Work has been going on at the defenses for some years. In addition to the defenses close to Wash- ington an enemy’s fleet must pass the ns pianted at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, where 19-inch high-power guns and 12-inch gnortars in large numbers are located. There is also a range-finding tower at Hampton Roads. THE GREAT GATLING NEARLY COMPLETED. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 24.—Dr. R. J. Gatiing, the inventor of the famous gun which bears his name, has just arrived in Cleveland to conduct the ee touches to the big gun being constructed for the Government here. In an interview Dr. Gatling said: “Yes, I shall make every endeavor to hasten the, work upon the gun, in view of the present situation. Although nothing has yet been eaid to me by the Government upon the subject, I know the feeling and the efforts that are everywhere being made to hasten preparations. The big gun may perhaps be ready to send. East tn a week, and if the lathes are not too busy at Wash- ington, which I 5 Seng fear is ehe case, it may be rifled In about a fortnight. “Of course, what the gun will do depends altogether upon the firing tests to be made when it is finished, but so far everythin is favorable. The tests of tensile strengt of the special steel used for the gun shows it to be very hgh, being 108,000 pounds to the square inch. The steel of the built up gun runs about 90,000 — “The readiness of this country for emer- gencies? I am sorry to say that our prep- aration is not what it should be. Congress should years ago have begun to do what the Government is trying to do now. With the recent guns we have at harbors and by nee the channels with sunken ships ‘ht protect the coast. If we should our might it would take fully to get into desirable shape along try with al} 12 months the coast. Gen. Miles, the head of the United States Army, and other members of the Bureau of Ordnance, will be in Cleveland in a few days, probably next week, to see the final work on the new type of big coast de- fense guns. INVENTOR HOLLAND'S SUBMARINE BOAT. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The submarine boat Holland, which was built by Lewis Nixon at the Crescent shipyards in Eliza- beth, N. J., is now lying in deep water off that place. She has not yet had a trial trip, and Builder Nixon said he did not know when it would take place. He said that his firm had fulfilled its contract nearly @ year ago and that whatever was now done - fine FS 4 Pere | vAil"ot we nad to @ certain extent very | ee eee ee ship was blown up by design. He says in “We have just heard that In all proba- Board of Investigation, which convenes to- morrow, all survivors will be orcered to their homes for a short time. The whéle affair la too sad to write in detall ab¢ut and none of us know the cause of the de- struction. If we do get home, will proba- bly be free here within a week and home in Damage to the Extent of $5000 at , Woodward & Tiernan’s. A bursted waterpipe did $000 damage in Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.'s estab- lishment. 3198 North Third atreet, at 4 o'clock Thursday mo attaches to h k Eo ese Wh “ee b the rank on the roof. Then e urs the water flowed in a torrent ond teaanaen the stock in the basement. A SHORTAGE FOUND. The Accounts of Postal Cashier Chen- wry Examined After His Death. BOSTON, Feb. &—William Chenwry, cashier of the Portland (Me.) postoffice, ee eee ee living in malarial districts Tutt’s Pills are indispensible, they keepthe system in perfect order and are an absolute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa- tion and all bilious diseases. household tubs! lcar load of Wooden Wash Tubs solied, worth 6c, Friday's Price. ... 100 Never-Break Steel Skillets, worth B5c, Friday’s TT Seetete ee ee ee eeee 1 car load Star Paint, ready for use, Friday’s Price rge size Granite Tea and ee Pots, wurth s5c, Friday’s Pst A chnhe : tn bceediaiinoundiin Picture Frames made to order eee ee eee eee ee eee eeeeeeee* «© soe Bay ABEL» “BLY “DEY 19s «RE ~~ CDE : What’s the Use Of paying more when you can get the best for 23 Cts a Pound? Golden Crown Roasted Coffees Is high grade through and through. It is our leader—our own we 4H Fee 255 303 eta SB8 "g Ec of — gi $5 while. Try GOLD WN, *, Grocery Specials For Friday and Saturday. Van Camp's Concentrated Tometo Soup; ene ; per COM. cs ee ee ee cece eeee Puritan White Oates, the best relled oats on the market; a 10-cent package GOP occavcevese eeeeree Cee eeeree 8-ib cons Sweet Potatoes; you won't know how good these are till you try them; lOc per can sen ee yee © *eeee eee en eenee seen neereeeeree per dose Pes AE Best Hominy and Grits, eee eee eweeeeeee Carraway Seed, eee eeemee ee eee eeeee Best Dutch per pound... Rest renee Flour, Fancy Carolina Rice; . the very finest, per pound... ..ssceceseces See What We Can Save You in Our Presh Prime Roast Beef, per pound WS Bc and i0¢ Choice Veal Cutlets, ee eeeeeeee ee ee eowe ee ee per POUR. .. Way cece cceesserenswwenee” ct Fine Old Tennessee Apple or Peach $? PTT TETTT IT ° ‘ Or Whisky, KE . finest oone mash, 1898 goods, 05 re r on eee eeveneeeenneeereere eeneenve a ee Tokay Wine, the wine for invalids; regular price $2.00; our pri 4 " ) O >< 2Er ~SEP <2 Cm 1IEM 13D OE eeeeeeeeeewrnerer per gallon Every ia‘ calling Monday will recetve a emalj can of Van Camp's Tomato Soup FREE Luvies Bros. Grocer C0, $ 516-518 FRANKLIN AY., ST. LOUIS’ GRBATEST GROCERY STORE. “JUST WATCH US GROW.” SCHWIRTERING—Oo Teseday, Poh & ot 4:0 DEATHS. Phillip Brady, beloved busbead of Laure (nee Ford), aged 41 years. | aiden: Cemetery. Friends are invited t0 Re Tutt’s Liver Pills |Sat*y : - # . BRADY—On Tuesday, Feb. 22, ot 2:90 0 Me - a or A : e 2 ¥ § x ea) eid * 4 x Sgt PS Be os ‘at Ste ‘ * g3 + ¥ oe pay eae » rH oe 4g 5 eae “wis 3 tng c ~# ce . a P ee - ee aes . ‘ ~. m ; i | | | oa kes < ee

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Any one who is charged a higher rate than this will please report same 40 06, giving namo of road, or station, and number of train. a icastbers who fail to receive their paper regularly will confer a favor by reporting the same to this office. gt rate all communications to POST-DISPATCG, St. Louls. Entered at the Postoffice at St. Louis as second-class matter. TELEPHONE NUMBERS, Main 665 Editorial Rooms ..........Main 1930 The & C. Beckwith Special Agency, Agent Foreign Advertising 48 Tribune. Building, New York, And 469 The Rookery, Chicago. WHAT NEXT? There is now no reasonable doubt jthat the Maine was not @estroyed by accident, but by treacherous design. All the evidence points to this conclusion. It is the opinion of all Americans on the scene of the disaster. It is reasonably cer- tain that this conclusion has been foreshadowed in partial reports sent to Washington by Capt. Sigsbee and the Naval Board of Inquiry. What next? - The American people, horror-stricken and grief-stricken over the terrible catastrophe, with detestation of the murderous deed and a determination to act as a brave, intelligent, high- spirited people should act, await the decision vf the Admin- istration. It is to the credit of the American people thar they do not believe the Spanish Government capable of such treachery. But the deed was committed in a Spanish harbor while the Maine was in the power and supposedly the friendly care of Spanish authorities. Spaniards threatened the ship and have rejoiced at her destruction. Causes of friction and animosity between the two nations existed. The American people will hold Spain answerable for the disaster. If the Administration demands a money reparation it is only a diplomatic step towards the settlement of the issue involved. It offers Spain an opportunity to declare her posi- tion and her intention. On that declaration, on the attitude and conduct of Spain in the crisis will depend the outcome. The money question is the least consideration involved. The real issue is a question of good faith, of honor, of the safety of Americans and American ships in foreign purts. War may notcome. It is to be hoped it will not come. But the issue of the Maine disaster must be settled right. On this point the American people area unit. To this end the Admin- istration may count upon their hearty and harmonious support. The issue should be awaited with calmness, In a matter of this gravity passion and rashness should not govern our councils. ; = SS fe te 4 The regular circulation of the Post-Dispatch last Sunday was |{|9,402 ceples. 2... i A An ultimatum to the Old Remainder in the Ruined Temple of Truth: Quit snarling over the Post-Dispatch’s success or quit using the Post-Dispatch’s news and pictures. =~ = . i i 2 THE CAT COMES BACK. Senator Hanna comes out of the obscurity into which he was cast by the smoke of the Maine’s explosion to remark that “there will be no war,” and, in the face of all the evidence and the opinions of those in position to know, to express the unqualified belief that the Maine disaster was due to acci- dent. . This utterance of Boss Hanna will please our back-biting Spanish friends, whether it was a sincere opinion based upon superiority to mere facts and conditions or was a diplomatic remark becoming in a Deputy President who carries the weight of governmental responsibility. But to the American people what Senator Hanna says is not so important as the fact that he i@ saying something and has again come into the focus of the public eye. The public cherished the hope that the time for the disap- pearing of the pesky Hanna would be prolonged and the light which beat upon his throne had been permanently turned down. Apparently this was a false hope. The reappearance of Sen- ator Hanna suggests the unpleasant possibility of the finding ofa bewhiskered wanderer named Dole, who mysteriously dis- appeared when the Maine went down, the revival of the burn- ing issue regarding the Prisoner of Pittsburg, Chris Von der Ahe, and the return to conspicuity of the John Smith interro- gation point. On Monday the Post-Dispatch published photographic views of the Maine wreck. On Tuesday the Republic published the Same Views. Wednesday the wreck pictures were published in the Globe-Democrat. The point is obvious to the reading public. . = SS ee i ZOLA’S SPLENDID PROTEST. Emile Zola stands out prominently to-day as the one sane, massive figure in France. He has made a splendid, never- to-be-forgotten protest against military despotism and race Ligotry. He stood alone and defied a government pledged to star chamber methods and a populace frantic with relig- ious and class prejudice. The peculiar genius of French legal procedure, however, while allowing Zola to be dramatic and impressive, prevented him from being convincing. He had satisfied himself that @ grave act of injustice had been done, but when he sought to have it righted by the testimony in court of those who know the facts he found himself checkmated by the ebsurd ruling that it is no affair of the court whether witnesses tes- tify or not. Under the circumstances, all that was left Zola was the right to renew the emphatic protest he had made‘against the sand-bagging of justice in the interests of a military clique. As he says, his condemnation for such a course will be “the seed that will germinate and prevent the French falling into indifference” at a crisis when “the very life of the people is at stake.” But Zola been impos. cedure. Su ¢each thn 1": “tT Jue*iqe been convicted. Such a conviction would have under the Anglo-Saxon methods of legal pro- ve outcome of this remarkable trial ought to aless witnesses can be compelled to testify. Concerning the alleged isolation of the United States, it Should not be forgotten that Great Britain has long been pressing an alliance of the two great English-speaking nations. And Great Britain holds Gibraltar. "= = = TAX INJUSTICE. In an eloquent peroration on the “Obligations of Wealth” ex-President Harrison arraigned wealthy citizens who evade tax burdens as men fwho strike a deadly blow at free gov- ernment. Paraphrasing Lincoln's remark that this country could not exist half slave and half free, he declared that this country could not exist half taxed and half free. But, having arraigned tax-dodging as an assault on free eg “ernment, and, therefore, a crime, Mr. Harrison has no bet- te.,.remedy to offer than an appeal to the patriotism of those who are guilty of it. This is not a promising remedy. It is not to be expected that men whom neither honesty nor patriotism restrains from lying about and concealing thelr possessiona to cheat the State, will rush to the tax-gatherer to do penance at the cal! of a political evangelist. When thieves repent and bring back their plunder tax- dodgers may be expected to render just accounts of their wealth. if the ex-President had no remedy to offer for this great evil he might at least have insisted that the Government keep out of the crime of levying discriminating burdens. If wealth will pot submit to just taxation the Government shov!* -+ % ORE Ge NIN to A> Ypres wae i aie [= ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. « people that courts are powerless to adminis- | benefit of the wealthy. @en Barty nyt ae gee robber protection.;§ = —— - o =" ——— ces i i re regular clecalation of the Post- Dispatch last Sunday was 110,402 coples. i Ae Bd The reason that the Post-Dispatch has led all competitors in news concerning the Maine disaster is beeause the Post- Dispatch has its own special correspondents at all important news points. At Havana is Mr. Sylvester Scovel; at Madrid is Mr. Artbyr E. Houghton; at Washington is Mr. Stephen Bonsal; at New York is Mr. Morton Watkins. All of these correspondents are able, experienced, tried men. Their reports have led all reports in freshness of material, accuracy and readableness. The Post-Dispatch does not have to go into the market and buy news or take it second hand. It gets it from its own special correspondents at the sources of news. NOT FOR PUBLIC WELFARE. - We credit Mayor Ziegenhein with too much good sense to be deceived by alleged evidence of a popular demand for the approval of the North and South railway bil. It is an easy matter to manufacture evidence of a popular demand. The people are seldom represented jn the specific influences brought to bear on public officerg in matters of this kind. Special interests are fully represented, The people must depend for protection On the Honesty ana good judgment of their officers. The question for Mayor Zieg- enhein to determine is, does this measure stand-the test of honesty and good judgment? Is it for the benefit of the people or for the benefit of private individuals? ~ | There can be but one answer to the question; It-is a fran- chise grab passed in defiance of law and at the sacrifice of public interests. It grants franchise privileges of enermous value for inadequate compensation and under conditions: which do not protect the public interests. eee Approval of this bill cannot be prompted by regard for the public welfare. NS SN The alleged difficulties of the President in the Cuban matter are not clear. He has had:only to carry out the platform upon which he was elected. It is mere assumption to say that a recognition of Cuban belligerency would bring on a war. The United States did not go to war with any country that recognized the Southern Confederacy. = SS i Negro postmasters may be objectionable, They are not ap- pointed in the North, where the most intelligent negroes live. South Carolina communities, however, are not justified in’re- sorting to murder to be rid of negro postmasters. The President is now refusing pardons to bank embezzlers. His long list of such pardons having drawn the fire of the press, the embezzlers unfortunate enough not to have applied arly will have to serve out their terms. 2 oo The notorious Allen of the Illinois Legislature’s Allen bill has the nerve to ask for re-election. If Ilinois is to return such offenders to Springfield we will never see an end to dis- graceful legislation ‘there. a O- Why has Senator Hanna refused to testify before the Bribery Investigating Committee? Does he apprehend that he might speak the truth,.the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Public plundering under the pretense of party loyalty is as disastrous to a community as it Is when it is done in any other way. St. Louis wants honest government before ary party. The spoils system is the acknowledged system of the muni- cipal administration. The people of St. Louis are asked to put $20,000,000 into the hands of avowed spoilsmen. ooo Just as Mark Hanna expressed his firm belef in the accident ‘theory the accident theory is blown up. It is a good rule for a Deputy President to say nothing. oe As Mr. j;Hanna says there is tobe no war there sHould be none. The author of the present Administration ought to know just whatJdt means to do. == = li i The people of St. Louis cannot afford to pay the “able workers” of any party for party »work, and they will be ex- tremely foolish to do so. >a. i i The 6 per cent February increase at the St. Louis Postoffice over February of last year is a pleasing evidence of im- proving conditions. ; Nine attempts at suicide in St. Louis in 48 hours ig a horri- ble record. Are we falling into line with New York and Chicago? a wT The French Government will imprison Zola, but it cannot succeed in suppressing the truth or covering ifs own dis- grace. a The explosion of Mr. McKinley’s accident theory is rever- berating with even more force than did that in Havana harbor. a American families are leaving Havana to keep from being butchered. So much for McKinley “diplomacy.”’ +o en All kinds of yellowness in journalism are bad, but the worst kind is the yellowness that comes from decay. > a> r- er There has been a great mixing of red tape with crepe in the Havana tragedy. = = = i i Bob Lincoln’s idea of Spanish responsibiltty is very accept- able to Spain. i Spain is angry, Cuba is hungry and ‘Uncle Sam is waiting for news. ~ 2 sie , POST-DISPATCH SNAP 6HOTs. There was a great fuss over Zola’s trial, and it wagn't a either. The Getcher Gunn regiment of poets should, perhaps, be made artillerymen. Perhaps Billy Mason would like to be looked upon as the Patrick Henry of 1897. In case of war the rush for civil offices will be succeeded by a rush for commissions. The appetite for Florida strawberries will be developed with warmer days and lower prices, The new battleship George Washington will be well named for victory, but a defeat connected with that name would be crushing. The Methodists are to make a three weeks’ campaign against sin in Chicego, when three centuries are necessary for such an undertaking. If there should be war it is to be hoped the Spaniards may be kept out of Washington. We don't want to see them shooting holes i Mr, Dingley’s Tondon hat. Having become converts, the students of Monmouth College now omit their elass wars, rushes and other barbarous demon- etrations. Only the Lord himself can tame the college student. The return of $900 of stolen money through the confessional, as related in a Jefferson City dispatch, will give to 6ome monied men a higher opinion of the value of religion than perhaps they have hitherto entertained, , In deference to the new woman, the Government will doubtiess bulld a woman-of-war and enlist a few hundred sturdy women for the sea service. A battleship well womaned might achieve as much as one well manned. . It appears that a white woman in Montana not only married a full-blood Indian, but igs supporting him by hard work. While many white husbands are supported by hard-working white wo- men, it would be more pleasing to eee our lazy Lo dependent upon & woman of his own color. If Gideon Welles’ spook prophesied on a St Louls oulja board the destruction of the Maine, Mr. Long should lose no time tn making a requisition for oulja boards for the use of the navy. Between the vigilance of dead navy secretaries and the activity of living ones we may be able to hold our own on the seas. These lines are not from Getcher Gunn. They are the hard work of an esteemed contemporary: ita Now, let's take things calm and cool, And wait, without a fuss, For what the Board of Inquiry ' ‘May heave to tell to us, ¢ Dreyfus, S. di, Bes eghany ie ae a; Se. LAA —— — 3 & Ceaadany ey. tatty * ie -—" anime ee 2 ttle ~ = a te AEE ET AE AE IS CE ETE ANA eB = =. 2.8.8.8 -. - * » +e o4 rr er . se a's 2 ®@ n ° ve rere : | = “2.8.8.8. r¢ > . * *¢ ee a bt bs “ea 'a's e « *,' *e . pt bt ee Ay 2 * * . * a tn i ad ¢ > 3,2 ,2. 5 Va a x oo o2 @, Sr ater, and 0 , an earlier than that date, Gymnastics as part of the soldier were unknown until > . > > > = > > > J >. . > >. ’ a ba ba bd be be Pd bd be be et be be be bd be Be Oe Be Oe Be — ~~ aX a + > St eee? 2 ma Vetnteecen: a,8, this soit of thing Sir Heary > > . . . CS LO at which a re revenue for the year had been s‘s*e Spar s ° + * * " > among other things, NEWSY GLIMPSES OF EUROPE: itjvely be traced in Scoftish histo Pete belicved to have been played much ‘aining of the British years ago, although the solciers of other armies had long gone in for Irving presided at the Lyceum at the annual meeting of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund. rt was presented Bowing that the the amount diebursed in gifts £2655 12s, 7d. A suggestion has been put forward to raise the ill-fated battleship Victoria, which sank in the Mediterranean with nearly all hands, by means of, heavy electro-magnets. a of my me to lunch. “4 could have ee and laughed but I told’ her (for which I hope that I was glad she had come Lunch time came at a gall restive. I could hear G e rear part of the house, lid., and th ets and bundles. I could have screamed trying to give her a cordial The | brushed past me without a wo — me vee out of wens me wee empty jage ven o one arrinee POss and ammounced that dhe tea at the same time, God'll forgive me) > and my guest began ge ovr Eg: the swith fae teeth whee Th dto come out Ww e th when e ee ee im front of our little flat and ve old Aunt Miranda got out, loaded : 4. The when I saw her and I was eeting when she and went straight 6. Your use of the expression, “beastly drunk,” brings right in touch with the ancients: deocription is classic. ancients believed la the worst Calitiog f a beasts, and seven yed ua - Ri of érenkasae > named: itshiordtin ta} lively and musical oO ve m runk—who is , floo 1. ; 2 The | abo @)l things to s sheep drunk—who is silent, but filled with mpo ‘ asain’ Martin drunk-who drinks himself sober — of >. > > - a.8° 5.5.8 *a’a’s‘'a* ~ * a os 7 successful raising of the vessel’ would cost nearly D . > > > >. BOCA 7 7 > > > > >. ee > > 7 * = > . ? ° * ~ > > 7. ah > . > > 28,8, 8,8, 8,8, > sisiale la +o a =: 8.8.8 7 sie Ane 2.8.8: > . # * . * a: ele ele le 3,8. 8.8 > 2.8.8.8 > > his 80th: birthday. OUR LIVING PICTURES. * DR. BENJAMIN MORGAN PALMER. This is the picture of the famous Presbyterian preacher of the South. The whole city of New Or- leans was interested in his recent celebration of PIG PENS. Cn? ane e a°s° 6: ee a eats ° 2 tune by his White: Greene: cago. pen. He isn't. Greene: There goes a man who has made a for- He doesn’t look like a literary genius. He’s a pork packer from Chi- SMALL. fashionable bathing-suit. picks at things.—Wew York Press. ? o . “ © Ce OO OOO First Moth: How is your husband to-day? Second Moth: not very well. H's appetite is so poor! Only think; to-day for dinner he ate only one Delicate? Why he only Judge: Prisoner (sobbing): lost my wife, Yer Honor. A SUBSTITUTE. You. are charged with beating a horse— what have you to say for yoursel!? Why, Yer Honor, I’ve just HIS FORTE. Althotigh an artist of renown tatedrawing pictures full of’ THe best was known to all thet By the ease with which he drew hig salary. J. GETCHER GUNN, Post-Dispatch Poet.. % raillery, own 4 4 ba bt bd bt Pe De Pe De De Pe pe ”-orvww i etd O_O CMO > = ‘Well, ee Yn uck, I looked att res. 9 an * oe © oe * oe © oe * oe * oe * e-_* oa * a.8,8.8 5.5.8 Fe ae > a:8.8 a'o' ~~ ow J +o s,s: into the dining room undles. “T just though you might like ia hit rou wes much of nk you ok Save been so kind of Drave in your bad guess you’l) do.” he cakes, jellies, cheese, home-made bread and numerous other things, then T ap Jer aroun ew t ple A herself might i + “What does ail you, child?” she panted,-all out of breath. Aunt Miranda, I never thought good aunt for George as the old lady Ioo into the parlor, she smiled grimly. t a ght you all I co and began to unpack how George wasn’t workin’ classi he goat drunk—who is wanton and | ‘ 7, The fox drunk—who is crafty and PF ie an = » E ¥ doubt recognize this c fication of jags - as | few little things to sort of help d carry. I never a wife for rge, but alist and executed a dance t have wondered at you were a -I guess you'll do.” And , but ed in the larder, then peeped She; Snakes are such gad, melancholy a a ges e: . ~ I don’t know; every time I see them th ey are in the best of spirits. > =m: tee ¢. “os: *.* * =,8,= Sen San Oa eae a 2° alte . » or? 4; a,%. few months. She: The summer girl will be getting ripe in « He: I never knew of one that was green. was at’s tha swallow, ‘if a hose an he, the darlin good for the measles, and they whisky. So I mixed up a punch for the ; though I was afeered anything like that é leaving the taste in his mouth afther. And when s it in, he says: . “‘It’s lemona “‘*What makes it so “That's the color . lemon has been standin’ in it a little God forgive me for me sins. “*Well,’ saye he, takin’ a taste and thin that’s lemonade,’ a | d connect me with ae a oan eet lint.” MICKEY FINN, de,’ say “Wait a minute, Mrs. Murphy, until I you about my little boy, Willie. a7 chair and him red and white all over with measles. + ag “ ‘Go to bed,’ yaye I, ‘sure, you're lendin® a hand *to your own death.’ ; “Then I went to the neighbors end asked what He sat th the the a = I : ° - ” _ 7 mother?’ a . ~ brown? saye : ft do be havin’ the says 0.-a ho All ful Now three th a es - > = re yor de ares Fete oe oe Oe ee 4 ~ CON CH CLC 2,5,8.¢,8.8,% ~ -#.8 FOUR FAT COOKS, (A Carrollesque Verse From en Old Magazine.) ful sight Is four fat cooks, of tarts, like you read in books. in cooks ‘Cause they won't give you jumbles unless I could rhyme itke this for years if some ore would ring my meals in, ' Kindly unlap — folding ears and see if my head has wheels in, always make me 2.2.8.8. 8 2 2a se a ee: ad vie oA y+ oreo >_> . 77? os ss’ s's ss * @ @# @ @ « Notable Men and ‘Women Whose Ca- reers Are Closed by Death. NPW YORK, Feb. 2%4.—Capt. Carl Habich, former commodore of the Hamburg-Ameri- can line, died suddenly at Stettin, Germany, Feb. 21, aged 62 years. Capt. Habich en- tered the service of the Hamburg-American line in 1858, as fourth officer on the steamer Teutonic, on whieh he served several years, until appointed chief officer of the sailing vessel] Donau. While holding this position he was entrusted with the temporary com- mand of this vessel, during a prolonged iliness of her captain, and subsequently was appointed commander of the Germania, He commanded successiveiy the steamers Bavaria, Saxonia, Cimbria, Silesia, Wie- land, Columbia and Normannia. He was appointed commodore of the Hamburg- ) American fleet in 1889.. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—E-duard Saportas, who was lost on the steamer Clara Nevada, which went down off the coas: of Alaska, came of an excellent New York family, and at one time was one of the best-known men in this city. He finished his education in Eu- rope, and was proficient in several lan- guages. He was among the first to realize the great. possibilities in electricity for iliu- minating purposes, and made a fortune out of the electric enterprise. He was a great friend of Thomas A. Edison, With the aid of his former partner, Mr. Puskas, Saportas succeeded in geting a concession from the Russian Government for the Lghting of the Kremlin in Moscow at the time of the cor- onation of Alexander as Czar. . MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 24.—Asa RB. Stowe, one of the pioneer circus proprietors of the country, died suddenly at his home in this city early this morning, of heart isease, aged 73. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Feb. 2%4.—News has been received of the death on Saturday, at Beyrut, Syria, of Mrs. Emily R. Mont- gomery. a missionary, aged 59 years. She went to Turkey with her husband thirty years ago, and had been one of the most de- voted and efficient missionaries in that country. | PARIS. Feb. @.—Simon Iazard, founder = oe banking firm of Iazard-Freres, is ead. ONE DOLLAR DAMAGES. Ex-Pastor of Grace Church Gets a Ver- dict in a $50,000 Libel Suit. Rev. H. J. Mulholland, former pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, was awarded $i damages by a jury in Judge Hirzel’s court in the St. Louls County Circuit sitting at Clayton yesterday, in his libel suit ainst George app & Co., In which he asked for $60,000. The alleged damaging publication waa made in the Republic March Hi, 18%, It urported to be a "Mare of the proceedings n the church on arch 8, at which time it was said Dr. Mulholland scored certain meanhers of the chureh for criticising hls financial management of church funds, The jury was out 40 hours, Given Chairs at Cornell. ITHACA. N. Y., Feb. 24.—The Board of Trustees of Cornel University has elected Charlies De Garmo, president of Swarth- moor College, Pa., to the Professorship of Science and Art of Education, made vacant by the resignation last fall of Prof. 8. Williama, and Prof. Her h 8. G. - bert Wade Hibbard the dg i 3 of Minne ge = Ec ert foe aw WERE PROMINENT IN LIFE. | that To-day ence. fight. oo CUBA’S LONG STRUGGLE FOR HER FREEDOM. New York, Feb. 2. _ a Horatio S. Rubens, Counsel to the Cuban Delegation, Tells the Results to Date ol War for Independence. ,™ . To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. is the third anniversary of the for independ- Cubans’ struggle In these three years we have won nine campaigns and lost none; have won all jarge and important battles, but have lost many of the minor. We have lost in battle nine generals—Mart!, Crombet, Jose Maceo, Antonio Maceo, Borero, Sanchez, Aranguren, Castillo and Queera. Our loss of men has been very slight, while the Spanish officia] figures for the first two years of the war gave their loss as 65,000 from bullets and disease. About one-third of our entire loss was in the prisoners taken by the Spaniards, We have captured between five and six thousand prisoners, nearly all of whom have been released after we had secured their arms and ammunition. The Spaniards have destroyed everything they could; the Cubans have de- stroyed/nothing but that which could be utilized by their enemies. Every one in the patriot army is a volunteer, and our expenses are comparatively slight, while Spain is spending $13,000,000 a month. Spain hag lost but one of her generals, Gen. Gantocildes, who was killed by Maceo at the battle of Bayamo. The Spanish generals direct the movements of their armies from the rear, while the Cuban genera] always is foremost in the This te the record for three years; there wil] be no record for the fourth year. A few months from now the Cuban struggle will have ceased. The war is nearly HORATIO 8S. RUBENS, Counsel to the Cuban Delegation. >_> o_o o-oo? iven out as expected. eign Affairs, and supper in burg being of feeling il ment and he was fo on the followin later the physic case Since resent. Olas and his bea ut for an t is the first that the sove an ughter of the features of Russia ts r to the ere be Sai the caus are pitted by the “What dq at renders the serious in tne case Be gn Saxony. at = ‘ € oa Frey: : Do : : ae Rr * WN ‘ b 7 ~ “t — : . eer = rte Ae, sage cg Piles ; a e ’e : 7 a It is w out c will be —— ae across by eaning of the oom is prelienipary steps in of between $2,500,000 and HANGED IN THE JAIL YARD. A Negro Burglar Lynched by a Meb PADUCAH, Ky., colored, was lynched at 11:30 ig

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Sample Line Parisian Kid Gloves—uanderstand us rectiy now (for we always write care) some are solied from handiing, some slightly fect, others again a bit damaged—fa scarcely detect; come in every color, t up to styles, dressed and undressed and only a pairs o bardiy tase bepene noenp at the scunationnl prieé of oC . Undoubtedly the Best House Furnishings. What You Can Buy Friday for 9c. . Granite Preserving | 1% qt. Granite Tea Pot, Large Half COovered ie i 4.4 ~~, " See Of New Spring Goods and Fresh Remnants—in the Big, Busy Basement and all over the “Busy Corner” store. Those who can should come in the morning—it will pay you. SiSIN PIR MINIRII® >see gree eres TT FASTEST SHOES! 2S WAY AND. aortas: 5S GROWING Good and Stylish Shoes at Prices WASH- day and t- urdGday. STORE see tocthcke gail rege He TN INGTON, ST.LOUIS. Se ae ale aod undone ae MA RECORD BREAKERS. Here they are: : * Vici Kid, Nee- Ladies die and Cota Toes, Hand-turn Button Shoes—all sizes and hon- estly worth $4.00; Ladies’ Ox-blood, Needie Toe Lace Shoes, Hand- L sewed Welt — mostly 1 , sizes up to 6’s and Ee es . worth $4.50; Ladles’ ae? Vict Kid Button and Lace Shoes —colin toe, pat- ’ ent or stock tips—nll sizes and cheap at $2.50; La- dies’ Box Calf, Stock Tip, Razor Toe Lace Shoes, in all sizes, and positively worth $2.50—choice of all Friday, and Saturday if any are left, at the sSur- prise Price of ’ Satin Calf, Heel or sprin Boy 5 Heel Lace Shoes—all sines up to 2's—good, comfortable, handsome, regular $1.60 Shoe 95c¢ — Friday and Saturday ....... .. Dongola Kid, Hand-turn Button Shoes—4 to 8 and Child’s Misses’ and Children’s ye. y = ye. } ? > 4° =, ~~, ‘ aan ai @ ae | ~, >, _ "eer eee Oh ah ot alt Home Again! Oar large corps of buyers have returned aad the resalt of their meath’s stay in New York and the Eastera markets will be plainly observed in our great Bar- gain Basement. eye.) ee | "**eeneaanee® paws — , «+ Oe eee. e@e6eee ee eet Seacseaerrrrs ony TIM. kind and not many kinds—not a pair worth less thas Ee Ser eccsssue: $1.25; most of them worth $1.60 and $1.75, and some Fine KID GLOVB BARGAIN Ever Offered in St. Louis! SHOULD BE THE RULE IN OUR BARGAIN-GIVING BOYS’ Clothing Department Friday. Mark Our Words: Amidst all the babble "bout clothing bargains you'll find the best values for Boys’ and Young Men’s Stylish and dependable Clothing at the Grand-Leader. Compare and decide yourself—intelligent comparison will tell, The genuine bargains printed below are for Friday and up till 7 o’clock Saturday Evening: Pretty and Dressy Vestee and Middy Suits Very for lads from 3 tos. in broken 9 lines—all woo! and stylishly trimmed 4.00 Short Pant suitse— riday choice FP. Young Men up to 20 years and for boys down to 12 'years—Long Pant Ssuits, in broken lines—fashionable all-wool patterns—choice suits that s0)d from. $8.50 to $11.50— your pick Friday for 199,000 yards—(loots big, doesn't it?) —but that’s what goes on sale Friday of Mill Ends alone—and all fresh, and straight from the mallis. : —~Mill Ends of Shirt- P riats ing Prints—re 24c 6c quality—per yard, ° Mill Ends of full standard Indigo Blue Dress Prints, worth regularly 7is0— 34¢ Friday... “* eee revere eeeteraeeee eee —Mill Ends of extra good Muslin 3¢-iach vea Island Muslin, worth 74c— éors Friday *eeeene *eee ee? * Ke —MiIll Ends of best 86. Percale~ tach rancy Percales, 5 regularly worth 1se—Priday ..... Mill Ends of extra. Ginghams geaity Zephyr Dress Giaghams, worth 124%c— 5c Fr iday “ese . wood Large Bieached Sponge. pa Broom. 8 Rolls Toilet . 8 qt, Galvanized Water Pail. i” qt. {te Coffee Pot. = . Articles worth from 19¢ to 25c; your choice 8«, | Flannelette nantsof fleece ined Fila ttes, including ev — 5. ss A 5c What can be santhnap to ise— Pritey | : : ught Frida Pillow Cases “2r¢°, 224 geod § y q y ready for made Bleached Pillow Cases, 5¢ oe @ ee ee seees A. worth 10c—FPr. . each..... **ee8 1 Granite Dish No 8 , large and heavy +P aoe Ooffee No. 8 Steel Griddle, 12-qt. Galvanized slop a! —Ext Towels farxisn Bath Tow- 5c 12-qt. Japanned Siop Pail, Granite Ooffee Boiler els, slightly sofied, but worth up to lic—Frigay........ Japanned Bread Box. No. 7 Tin Wash Boller, Goods °y"* 15,000 yards White of mill ends: In- | articles worth from 28¢ to 2990—cholce At... .. ........--000- 198 dia Linens, Victoria Lawns, checke4 Tubs. Hampers. Flour Bins, or striped Nainsooks and Lawns, lace striped Lawns and many 5c Extra large Fiat Round Clothes Japanned Flour = . Tu en-| Bins,holding 100 wo others, worth up to 15¢; bs, Hampers, made here lariy | tirely of Willowaad| ibs. and worth fancy 06c—~ Friday, worth 08c— Priday — Choice Friday, per yard..... . . ; fatost 7tc 59c 59c 59c Glass and Chinaware. Mill ends of very finest sheer im- ported fancy printed French Organ- dies, in exquisite new 0c aay -ig.cialaete al hae meemndatati stand Salt Di eee See Sees ae Sesitien ek. ee te ee 10c and ft Clear —i—a. 29c ** fa ail 7 - at nce nn Rane esi r a 2 a AS é,4 4 . é. sit wy af ~ | t& Dress Goods Bargains FRIDAY that ae economical lady who desires to dress well will miss—aew aad lovely patteras that you'll be giad to see, aad the modest prices for which’li make you sgladder still. *42—Double wiith Scotch Plaids, Granite Plaids in new and bright colorings— 124¢ Priday Price, per yard o¢i 88-inch two-toned Noveity Dt- Novelty Suiting sonal Suiting. in newest and 25¢ best spring colors—worth regularly 65c—Friday Price. —8s.inch Black Satin Berber, a very Satia Berber rich and beautiful cleth, worthat 29¢ least twice our Friday Price . ... ¥ —46-inch All-Wool French Surah Freach Serge Serge, inevery popular shade of ’98—regular 69c fabric. Friday at —4)-inch Mohair and Worsted Novelty Mehair Novelty suitings—swei emects in black and red—brown ani green—blue and red— 49¢ brown and black—regular price 1s 75c--Friday, per ya. . S li 9 3 At the Grand- Silk e ing S asy Leader Prices. No wonder this big dcpartmentis always crowded! Just look at Friday's couater-crowding prices: ’ k-Jar. Silk—22 inches wide—regular 45c qual- Blac ity — Friday 21-inch All-Silk Black Bayadere—Riack Bayudere Choice Gros Grain—Zlinch Black Brocd#fle Gros Grain Silk—21-inch Black Brocade A!1-Silk Satin 59c¢ Duchesse, worth up to 85c yard—per yard, Friday..... Bi L t Jap, Pongee and China Silks—32, 27 and 24 inches ig 0 wide—in magnificent range of colors, and positively worth up to 7ica yard—suitable for full 29¢ (complete) dresses— per yard Friday ees : filk—21-inch Black Ground Satin Stripe—in 3 Lousienne and 4-colored effects—best wearing silk made—for shirts, waists, etc., and actually 69c worth 9c yard—chwice, peryara, Priday. ....... . Me ea AF _« * “e , worth 85c; Dongola Spring Heel Button Shoes—10to 2’s and wort $1.00—This Sale ........... %-¢ and Women's Bath, Ho Men’s or handy, restful ae Slippers—good, regular 50c quality—This Sale. . 35c Handkerchiefs 15c 200 Dozen—*° more mor less— Ladies’ Fine All Pure Liner ’Kerchicfs—slightly imperfect —hemstitched, lace edge. embroid- ered and scalleped—positively 15¢ worth #5c—whil Ladies’ and Men’s 900 Dozen Hine” white Hee stitched Handkerchiefs—slightly oll stained—cheap at lvc—in Basement—whlile they last Friday , Petticoats. MH %. big specials include 25 Friday ) dozen Black Sateen Un- derskirts — umbrella style, stiffened flounce, 10 rows of cording, 97c regular $1.60 quality— Stripe Petticoats —~ deep flounce, stiffened, velvet Roman bound, umbrella style —rusties and looxs like Roman stripe Silks; also Biack Moreen Skirts, umbrella style, corded and flounce— $I 69 . well worth $2.60— . each, F y : : —Changeable Taffeta Silk Skirts Silk Skirts—all thenew Spring Shades—worth regular $5. 7>— Friday Special a RT White Underskirts. Slightly soiled, umbrella style, dust flounce, hand- somely embroidered, lace ruffles, worth regular $1.00 and $1.25—each, Friday LA | Fh Fh hur $4.25 eeee eee eee eee eeeereet ees Pant —Liberal assortment broken lots of S Boys’ (up to 16 years) All- Wool Short ‘Pants, ina stylish and handsome line of new patteras—regular 3 . 76¢ and £1.00 patterns— choice Friday. .. .. ue tenses eaennenen Bo 5’ to 16 years—short pant, double y breasted—broken lines-- all new patterns—smart, stylish, §5 a:l-wool, regular $4.00 to $5. 50 > suilts—choice Friday Fancy LACES and CHIFFONS. Newest Ideas—just in—in Laces, etc., go on sale Friday morning, and at BOUT HALF PRICE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. 18 Inch St!* Tuxedo and Fancy Mesh Velling, with hand Chenille dots—biack, blue, brown and white—wortnhn regular 19c—per yard, Friday ; —45-Inch, Hand Finish, Mousseline : Liberty Silk Shirriag — 22 inch 100 Pieces de Soie, in black, white 100 Pieces wide—scores of styles— om and colors—beautiful goods, and all colors—specially appropriate for Shirt 69c worth regular 7ic per yard; Friday Walsts—regular $1.00 goods; Priday ; Line Lovely Neckwear, in all ; —50 pleces Embroidered Chiffons, in all Big Sample the very latest fancies—Jabots, Chiffon the newest designs and conceits— Yokes, Collarettes, Ruches and side black, white and colors—especially Trimmings of Chiffon, ailk and Fine suitable for waists and trimmings— 9&c Lace—worth to $3.00; Friday.... worth $#.0u reguiar; here Friday ........... stp wle ale ale ule vle Ve ve Ve ve ve Ve _ AL A”) hah hc tterns; worth 26sec. riday.. Lung Cloth~ tony “trots, ee Salt Cellars in 12-yard rols, — 12%c per yard— 74¢ heoeeee 460008: & coes very closely resemblin uine Out oe stad Glass—worth seguiarip eo— : —Mill Ends of extra Sheetings heavy 1% and 1%-yard Unbleached Sheeting, worth up to 18c— 84¢ Friday, per yard : —Mill Ends of the White Goeds very finest grades including— Imported India Linens, Lace Striped Lawns, 4#)-inch Sheer Lawns, Imported Victoria Lawns, Satin Striped Organdies and many others— _— is no truth In that report that he was going : horse, : Michael makes a success | Michael was the, i ! | assured. this year. ' THE WELSH AREBIT JIMMY MICHAEL ARRIVES IN NEW YORK AND REPORTS TO PHIL DWYER. THE CYCLIST TURNED JOCKEY. The President of the Brooklyn J ockey Club Believes the Boy @ ill Make a Great Rider. The Post-Dispatch three days ago sent out news to the world that Jimmy Michael, the greatest living bicycle rider, had quit the cycle path and gone on to New York to enter the service of Phil Dwyer as a jockey. Bicycle men the country over laughed at the report and many pronounced it a “‘pipe’’ story. This Associated Press dispatch from New York corroborates the report published in the Post-Dispatch and shows that Mi- chael really did leave Chicago for New York to enter the employ of Phil Dwyer, the great turfman and president of the rrooklyn Jockey Club: NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Jimmy Michael, the world-famed bicycle rider, had a con- ference yesterday with Philip J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club and owner of a big racing stable. Though it did not result in any contract being made the littie Welchman is started, neverthe- less, on his new career as a jockey. After . Te > ‘née said: me cone serge Bom 2 the experiment. I have not signed any papers, but Mr. Dwver has agreed to give me a chance and { am going to start at once. I have ridden horses a good deal, though never a race so that I am not aitagether green. 1 shall have to jearn the busi- yf course ~ I am very hopeful of suc- ness, in which oor. Dwyer. while not in any way over- confident, said: “It will certainly be a reat advantage to the turf if a iad like as a jockey. I hope that he will do #0. I see no reason why he should not. Michael is not too old to begin and he told me to-day that he only weighs 98 pounds. “Michael will not give up cycle racing at any raie, for the present. No papers are signed nor will there be for the present. will try the life and see how it He is to go to my stables at to-morrow morning and will take up his quarters there. If he gets along all right .I will g:ve him every possible chance and the opportunity to show what he can do on the best horses in my stable.” George Green 1nd Tommy Ryan. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 8 Green and Tommy Ry)an are both ready for their battie before the National Clud art Wood. ward's Pavillon to-morrow eveiing. Jim McDonald has been selected as referee of the contest and the advance 4ale of seats has been go heavy that a crowded hotse is The demand for seats before the eale onened exceeded that of iny contest eults him. jravesend The Von der Ahe Casc. The second attempt to secure the release of Chris Von der Ahe from the Pittsburg jail on a writ of habeas ae yes the meanwhile Von der Ahe remains iu jail. . a SPORTS AT HOT SPRINGS. — Ball Players and Pugilists in Plenty in Training There. Jake Holtman, long the. heavyweight champion boxer of St. Louis, arrived here from Hot Springs this morning. ‘The ball players down there,” said Jake, “are all putting in plenty of good work and are getting in fine shape. Dowd has pulled off e‘ght pounds and will be tn great shape when the season opens. So will Breiten- étein, Peitz, Beckley, Griffiths, Cy Young, Kelp and all the rest of the professionals who are training there. “The pugilistic world ts also well repre- sented. at Hot Springs just now. Johnny Van Heest. Jack Grace, Nic Burley, Jim Brewster, George Strong and Billy Meyer are all training there. Meyer, I guess, has quit the fighting game for good and Is get- ting rich running his saloon and gymnaé6- ium at Streator. But the rest are training to fight. “Burley is getting in shape to meet Kid McCoy before the Hot Springs Athietic Club. They will come together on March 3.” Holtman was whipper-:n for Starter Curly Brown at several of the big race tracks last year. This season he will start out for himself. He will commence work with the flag at the Nashville meeting, Curley Brown, who wae to do the starting there, being detained at Newport. friends on the turf are legion and in his new position ‘he will carry the well wishes of every one. Good Prices for Trotters. CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—At the Splan-New- gass sale of track and road horses at the Stock Yards the following were the most prominent of the sales: Dorothy Wiikes, ch. m., foaled 1892, by Jersey Wilkes-Estelle Eddy, Ernie Demarst of New York, $1350. Regret, 2:13, ch.m., foaled 1890 by Lord Wellington-Maud §., $1275. Nellie M., 2:10%, ch. m., foaled 1890, by Bashaw-Gyp, $975. ——_ — —s —— Keep in mind that Scott’s Emulsion contains the hypo- phosphites. These alone make it of great value for all affections of the nervous system. It also contains glycerine, a most valuable, soothing and healing agent. Then there is the cod-liver oil, ac- knowledged by all physicians as-the best remedy for poor blood and loss in weight. These three great remedial agents blended into a creamy Emulsion, make a remark- able tissue builder. gue, and Se.00, all draggiote, SCOTT & BOWKER, Chamtom, New Yor, Holtman’s | at the St. Louis Meeting. The revised baseball rules, which have been published !n fragments and. which have already aroused extensive comment and controversy, were given out in fuil yesterday by the majority of the rules come mittee, consisting of Reach of Philadelphia and Hart of Chitago. They are likely to be the principal matter fought over at the St. Louis National League meeting, e6- pecially in that part relating to the enlarged duties and authority of umpires. On this subject Hanlon has drawn the line sharply by his minority report. Most of the al- terations in the rules are improvements in the wording. The first important altera- tions come in the eection governing for- feitures of games. Two sections are added, permitting forfeltures in case of the re- moval of me fr from the game so that there are less than nine playera left, and in case of two games in one afternoon when the second is not commenced within ten minutes of the time of completion of the first . Choynski’s Air Castles. A letter has been received from Joe Choynski, dated Feb. 12, at San Francisco, in which the heavyweight predicts that his meeting with Sharkey March 11 will at- tract a larger crowd of San Franciscoans to the ring side than any ever seen at the Coast City. Joe says he is feeling fine and has gained eight pounds since arrivin there. He writes: ‘Tom Ryan is here an: I am going to second e~” & Green against him. In my opinion it will be a hard ‘go,’ —— ~O* 2S sve@jesl treatment have been cured by the Pyramid Pile Cure—in a number of instances persons who had spent months in a hospital under a pile specialist. It is a remedy that none need fear to apply even to the most aggravated, swol- len and inflamed hemorrhoidal tumors. If you are afflicted with this stubborn diseasé you can master it and master it quickly. | This remedy 1s no longer an experi- ment, but a medical certainty. It 1s manu, factured by ye Pyramid Drug Co. gi Marshall, Mich. Druggists sell it at 50 cents per box. [i is becoming the most popular pile cure this country has ever gists - a ee ee I win from Sharkey and we will ’ 000 purse here. I will be back If @icage about Apri] 1.” The Best Line to Klondike, The Colorado Midland Railway has the best through car service in the West. Pull- man sleepers and free reclining chair cars on all trains. Rates via this route are the lowest. W. F. Bailey, General Passenger Agent, Denver, Colo. BRANDING FUR SEALS. It Is Said That the Experiments Were Decidedly Successful. NDW YORK, Feb. %.—The Electrical Re- view will publish to-day the first authentic account of branding fur seals by electricity to prevent the destruction of the female seals. The article is written by Dimer E. Farmer of the Leland Stanford, Jr., Unj- versity, who accompanied the United States Fur Seal Commission to the Priby- loff Islands last August, when the experi. ment was tried. The electrical] aratus consists of a small dynamo operated by a gasoline engine and a branding cautery similar to that used by physiciana The young female eeais were marked by draw. ing the hot platinum cautery across t back, which resulted In destroying the fu and fur cells, so that even of the Seals were afterward killed the commercial value of the fur would be destroyed. Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni- versity was in charge of the experiment and he states that the electrical method of branding is comparatively painless and even more effective than branding by means of hot irons, Madison Turf Exchange. Trains leave foot of Olive street 1:21, 1:50, 2:20, 2:50, 3:26, 4:04, 4:47 and 6:35. Return 3:20, 4:25, 6:10, 6:10, 7:10. MR. GLADSTONE’S AILMENT. Relief to Be Sought in a Surgical Op- eration. LONDON, Feb. &—The St. James Ga- zette this afternoon says it is informed that Mr. Gladstone will shortly undergo an operation to alleviate the pain caused by necrosis of the bone of the nose, from which, it is alle some of the specialists say he is suffering. Mr. John N.«Hagan, formerly connected with the A. Kurtzeborn Jewelry Co., de- sirés to announce to his friends and the public that he has severed his connection with the above firm and can now be found at the J. Bolland Jewelry Co., Locust and Seventh streets. BISHOP VON AUSER. Arrives From Germany and Is Bound for China. NEW YORK, Web. 4%—Among the pas- sengers who arrived to-day en board the North German Lioyd steamer Trave from Bremen and Southampton was Bis J. B. Von Auser, whose reports on the man mission stations in China have at- tracted considerable attention. Bishop Yon Auser ts passing through this country to aegume charge of his work at Shan Tung. China. It ie &# this section that the Kiao Chou Ray is situated. at which place the Gertnan forces are in control. Bnlist for Cuba! Ané@ befor: you leave the loved ones at home ¢ w arife a dottle of Allen's Hy- everywhere are ordering itor the sienia. kop of Dightheria, . SHOT ONLY. AT THE CEILING, Craps Players Thought They Were Tas« gets and Promptly Surrendered, Eight busy crapshooters were disturbed by Bergt. Houlihan and Policemen Clark and Gheehan in John Anderson's saloon, $1§ North Twedfth etreet, at 3 o'clock Thurs- day morning. They heard the officers en- ter and dashed for lIfberty. Three leaped through a window and their action was about to be imitated by two others, when a shot was heard. The policemen followed with more volleys aimed at the ceiling end the frightened darkies came to a hait, The escaping trio also surrendered. The gamblers waited until after 123 o’clock to start the game, thinking to catch the police off guard. The early morning rackes gathered all the Amazons and sports ef lower Lucas avenue to the scene. ollow cheeks, sunken eyes, and s sallow complezion will defy his best intentions. Beauty is more than skin deep. The skin is merely the su on which is writtes in plain characters the condition of the bedy. The skin is not a thing by itself, and skin diseases are frequently not skin diseases at all. All the lotions and bleaches and creams and powders in the world won’ make a good complexion if the digestion ie wrong. If the stomach is sour, and the liver torpid, and the bowels consti the skin will show it. No use try) treat the skin for such a condition. only way to relieve it is to cleanse the tem and purify the blood. As long as beart is pumping impurities to every of the body, Faust 80 long these ioocaiien will show h the skin. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is good for the complexion because 1 makes the whole body beaith cause it clears and purifies the blood, makes the a st and clears = eee inds. increasing the « of all k y in ng ee

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—, \_. grabbed the man on my right by the collar *. “—whecept the. office.’’ ; “ of my overcoat. - the other made an inrush for my studs. Out of the way the ear hac ee ea on, ee a ee ee a a iy it nea aks ; ‘ ae Sinn ; em vt Pad wis ss Oe ogy ae ae ee ea we - — ——— Yom Furlong’s Eneounter With Footpads. TWO CLOSED IN ON HIM. ONE TUGGED AT A DIAMOND STUD ' AND NEARLY SECURED / | THE STONE. MET VIGOROUS RESISTANCE. ome ee ee Man Who Is Talked Of for Police Chief Used His Fists to Such Ad- vantage That His As- sailants Filed. Two determined highwaymen, who didn’t know a detective when they saw one, un- dertook to rob Detective Thomas Furlong > at midnight Wednesday near the corner of Jefferson avenue and Walnut street and | but for the desperate resistance offered they would have secured abundant booty in the shape of diamonds that glittered in the officer’s shirt-front. “Tom” Furlong has been a detective for 30 years and is even now being discussed for the office of Chief of Police. He ig-a short, squarely-built, stout man, with an arm like an oak tree and a fist like a eledge-hammer. H® would be a bad man to encounter on any occasion where there was necessity for a battle, The detective was doing the society act Wednesday night and was caught without his gun, an omission which required quick work in the fist.cuff line when the waymen held him up. He had passed the évening at the Union Club, and was within one block of his home. “T had on my dress suit,” said Mr, Fur- | jong, after he blushingly admitted the story of his encounter with footpads, “and it never entered my head that anybody “would undertake to hold me up. I thought I was too wel] known for that. “Just before turning the corner of Jeffer- son avenue into Walnut street, where I live. I thoucht I would light a cigar and smoke before retiring.: I smoke _ stogies, that are usually hard to light. I unbut- toned my overcoat half way and threw it! back to reach for a stogie. Two men were coming down the street, and I thoughtless- ly paid no attention to them, but leisurely struck a mat¢h and put my head down to connect the match with the stogie. “There was a brisk wind blowing and I tried to shield the match behind the lapel This put me in a bad po- Gition, for my hands were occupied and my face half hiddeh, my entire attention centered on lighting the stogie, while the flare of the match deflected to my exposed shirt front and showed the glitter of my diamond studs. “No highwayman needed to ask for a bet- ter opening than I presented and the las® thing I could have thought of was danger. “While I stood for a second in that atti- tude the men who were coming toward me parted, one passing on ether side. That fact aroused me at the instant that one of the men grabbed my arm and collar, while “I was unarmed. T threw my ieft elbow into the throat of the robber on my left, and swinging myself half-way around, gave him a smash jin the face. I caught him on the jaw and he fell toward the sidewalk, but I held him up and gave ‘him another hot one. The first robber fled at the first onslaught. The second robber wriggled out of my grasp and ran like a startled deer. “Did I rum after them? I should say not. I am not a sprinter and had nothing to shoot with. Besides, I was glad enough to part company with them. é en I took stock of my effects ¥ found my upper diamond stud had been pulled out the entire straightened length of the spiral, and it hung to my shirt by a catch in the last twist. The other was untouched.” Incidentally Mr. rlong was asked whether he had aspirations to succeed Har- “P as eee of Police. ‘None whatever,” he answered, vigor- ously. ‘““The whole round of goss!p about it ig ridiculous. I would not have the posi- tion if I could get it, and I couldn't get it if I wanted it. Tho place doesn't pay enough. . “Besides, the Democratic party doesn’t Owe me anything. I cast my first vote for Lincoln and have voted the Republican ticket ever since. It la unfair to the Board of Police Commissioners and to me to connect my name with the. chieftaincy when such a contingency has not occurred to either of us. The board will and should appoint a chief from the list of those who have worked their way up to the top— from such men as Campbell, Young and Kiely. ‘Under no circumstances would I A HOG STOPS TRAFFIC. Porker Gets Under a Suburban Car and. Refuses to Budge. It’s tough luck to be saved from instant death by a street car fender and rolled from high- i . Look Here To-florrow in Avenge B! brown—re smail reguiarly sold for 6c a yard. Friday only.. --- Silk aod —worth 1243Cc a yard—also dark checks and plaids: Friday, In the Eastern Boulevard. Remnants of English Flannelettes— 124+c geods. Choice Friday only Lebanon Shaker Flannel—extra wide, worth I2'9c a yard. Friday oaly.. Unshrinkable White Flannel— worth Dea yard, Friday..... All shades of Fancy Siiks for Waists— maoufacturers’ cost 70c a yard, PIO TOF i... waice cee sceee: coccscece ; Waists—2 cut In hait for Friday— Satins, Plain ture, goat Lace Stripe Zephyr Dress Ginghams 5c The Main Chance t for the Mate Chance FANGY CHECK AND COLOR APRON GING- HAM S—red, pink and u- lar 5c kind. Friday OB]Y ..-0% a INDIGO BLUE PRINTS— : m figures and . stripes and fancies— 3e Och 7c ..10c A Sale of Silks i... That Will Crowd Out Late Comers, Sure. 39¢ 4 to.5-yard lengths of Rich Fancy Silks for 50 DIFFERENT PIBCES. Prices 59c to 98ca Yd 4to 12-yard lengths in Black Brocaded Silks, os Crailos, Plain Sa‘ins, Ar- mures, Peau de Soles and Corded Silks—that cost from 9c to $1.75 a yard to manuilac- 59c to $1.00 a Yd D. CRAWFORD & CO. “The Big Store ef Little Prices.” NOTE 4 3 + ie a ~t ede ; 2 oe « fa ne ay 4 > ies : % “ att io Pix] 5 + — = a ” a % oy PAU Re Beet BEE Bp las ME td ‘~? or ‘THE MAIN CHANCE. MONEY IN tp ° ‘ : A FEW OF THE MYRIADS OF OTHER CROWD-BRINGERS FOR TO-MORROW: we ee Pk Oe Cn ee itn ee: $s é ee te é Pair. er Fp Pat ae *: , etd hy é at ie, oe hd ee ee xa a orn “ong yy Rey FRIDAY Avenue A. All Wool Mohair Black Braid—¥, t _ cemec wena Black Silk Dress Pameis...i: a. Biack Silk and Mohair Fouragiers, Very swell. Second Floor. son—Friday, your choice meres also—large sizes only — worth up to $5.00 each—Choice PRIGRS OO Gee G aan cae ic ace choses Froart Eton and Blazer Suits that sold from {6,00 to $8 50— To close to-morrow To ciose Friday. ..... ! 14 years—worth up to 5Wc— Trimming Bargains. 15c to $5.00 a Set Main Chances tn Ladies’ Waists and Suits Odds and Ends (lat ge sizes) of Ladies’ Dress Waists and Shirt Walists, all Worsteds, Plaid and Novelty Mixed Goods, ail lined, detachable collars . —sold from $1.50 to $2.25 during past sea- 45¢ Ladies’ Velvet Dress Waists—Fine Cloths and Cash- Ladies’ Serge, Mixed Cheviot and Ladies’ Cloth Fly Boys’ Flannelette Blouse Waists—for ages 8 to 1 inch widthse— To-morrow—very special— y) 4 ards for 6c Biack suk Yokes..........50¢ to $3. 15 Each $1.25 to $6.50 Each Ant unrivaled assortment. New Line of Black Silk and Mohair Passementeries, [5c to $3.50 a Yard Eleven Enii Nickels do D : i silver bDieach, w Vara, FOP. o-0s worth 75c, for... . Large Size Bed Spreads oe FRIDAY ONLY Worth 10¢ Friday Linen Bargains. vening **Plain Chances’’ to make imes’ Duties. 68-inch Twilled Germaa Table Damask, Unbleached German Linen Napkins, worth 76c a dozen, for Friday only 150 Large Size Honey Comb Bed Spreads, reduceg from s5c to .... -..++-- (RR A RRR Crawford’s Celebrated Old-Fashioned Molasses Taffy-the best made, Bleached Twilled Towel- worth 6c Oa the Third P ——— — ae. ever @ yard, Friday 2st Special for ... jach Check Glass Toweling—worth 6c a yard— Friday for oe Hemmed Linen Huck Toweils—worth 10c each— Tp Friday for... .... German Damask Towels, colored borders, regular !2ziac F kind—Friday only 22x40 inch Liven Hem- — Huck Towels, a ncy borders, worth 224ec Turkey Red 58-inch Table Linaen—fast colors, leaf patterns, worth auc yard, - Friday only.. $2-inch Unbleached Ger- man Table Linea, Dice patterns, worth 25c a yd, —Friday for.... silk parasol, ments— worth $18 00. To-morrow .. worth {8.50, To-morrow. White friday Alice a 1Oc A POUND, 25c. SPECIAL SALE OF BABY CARRIACES : the very best makes—a lot—beautifuliy upholstered —at Lewest made: 28 fine Rattan Carriages, upnolatered in broca- telle or corduror rubber tire wheels, latest improve- 25 fine Rattan Carriages, nice upholstering,satin r tire os $5 98 60 full size House and Yard Carri —worth $1.75. ses + 1 9 Without a Price Precedent for To-Morrow! Sheer India Linen—worth , ; Friday, only. ... .... aa eeses wey 40-inch lodia Liaea—worth 12\¢c a Wem, GUS mass sdbbckoeis Went. 40-inch Bishop Lawas—beautiful sheer dress goods, worth 22c yd. Friday, only Satia Stripe Organdie Lawa—1i0c quality. 68-inch Fine Freach Org dresses, worth 50c a yard. For Friday only ..... Corset Bargain for Friday. **‘Prima Doana” Corsets— ; white, drab and Diack, all sizes— regular $2.25 value. sample Prices 16 Rattan Oarriages, fine upholstering, sat- im parasol, nicely fin- isheda— worth $4. 89. To-morrow ’ 12 tule size Carriages, well made, nicely up- holstered, ruMe par- yon 89,25 rufie 9,93 To-morrow for..... Coods Selling Er ee 9-4 andie — for graduating /19¢ Second Ploor. 98¢ Special for ........... Ladies’ Kid Shoes, pat- ent jeathert lace or but $1.%a pals, Friday they go for, ton, trim tea Shoes, coin toe, worth $2.00, for Friday .. . Misses’ $1.25 Dongola Shoes, patent ieather trimmed, Lace ) Curtains. Five chances to save from 25 te 50% on prices elsewhere to-morrow. patterns, worth $1.00 hom 19¢ Friday for opees Fine Straw from 10c te 30c a y DOMESTICS. A Quintette of Attractions In Avenue - Friday. ‘oe bleached re a Very Special for Friday, 4 Oc aya ayard. For to-morrow oaly... 42-inch worth Mill Buds of Fine U: worth 7lec a yard Heavy 4-4 Unbleached worth 6c a yard, D. CRAWFORD & CO. 4 Ae # : g iroller Gabel. He says we should not aethee the 6 should [ot ex of saving the childr *%. Be , ‘but, my plan will ir very little i ~ Se REFUGE PLANNED, , ATH ATH THAN PRISON cf James McNamara Killed His Sweetheart and Himself. — POLICE WERE HUNTING HIM. COMMITTED SUICIDE AFTER CUT- TING THE THROAT OF THE WOMAN HE LOVED. HAD BUT TWELVE CENTS LEFT. The Man Whose Skull He Crushed With a Shovel Last Monday Is Dying in the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital. If James McNamara had not killed him- self he would probably. now be a prisoner at the Four Courts, with the hangman’s noose dangling in front of him. Charles Leindecker, whose skull was fractured on Feb. 16 by McNamara during a quarrel. is in the Alexian Brothers Hos- pital in a critical condition. One operation has been performed upon him, but it was not as effective as the surgeons hoped, and if his life ig saved it will be due to a second operation, which will be performed Thurs- day or Friday. It was undoubtedly the fear of the gal- lows which induced McNamara to take his own life after the woman he loved had pledged herself to be loyai even’to going to death by his side. Their bodies were found on the bed in the poorly furnished room of the Windsor lodging house, at Sixth and Market streets hursday evening. The throat of each was cut and a razor which lay upon the bed told the story of murder and suicide. McNamara was employed as a puddler in the Helmsbacher iron works at Dekalb and Barton streets. He and Leindecker had words concern.ng a piece of work they were engaged on together, and dur.ng the difficulty McNamara seized a shovel and brought tt down om Liendecker’s head. A compound fracture of the skull was caused, but McNamara never waited to ascertain the result of the blow. He disappeared from the rolling mills, and though the pe lice of the Second District searched high and low for him, he was not seen by them until they i on his distort features in death. hey had tracked h.m from his rooms at 2434 South Second street, and hearing that McNamara had been seen en- tering the Windsor Hotel, Policeman Con- ner and Straughan were on their way to arrest him when they were told the news of the double tragecy. McNamara knew that he was betng hunt- ed, and when at bay, with no friends to come to his assistance and with no money to employ aid, he threw up his hands and surrendered his corpse. f Charnes Lein- decker dies his murder w.ll already have brace, t in the oe thei ‘ra releas ‘ OMe couple went to the Windsor Hotel Tuesday evening and registered as Mr. and Mrs. Wills. They had no baggage and paid for their room in advance. This left them nothing to buy food with, even had Mc- Namara not been a fugitive. They had poverty to face es well as fear of the law nd remorse. wit is supposed that the suicide and mur- der. or rather suicide and self-sacrifice, was committed soon after they went to their room. No signs of a struggle were in evidence, and the showed that it had not been slept upon. The quietness of the room after 2% hours’ occupancy caused the night porter to break in the door, re- vealing the horrible story. Clara Schaller was the adopted daughter of Mrs. Barbara Huss of 201 De Kalb street. McNamara boarded with Mrs. Huss when came to St. uls about a year and a alf ago, end there fell in love with the girl. hs gave up her Dome for him three monihs ago, and the nt to live tn two t 434 South Broadway. wo letters were found in McNamara’s kets, but they had no connection with is recent troubles. 6 was addressed to § Paha | an hte Ii, where Mo- j .terman was locat ; told, unmarried, ‘eyes, a short, stubby black mustache and is ROBBERY OF A TICKET OFFICE — Theft at Phenix, Ariz. not Dis- covered for Two Weeks. | LONG CHASE BY DETECTIVES. ESTIMATED THAT $1000 WERE REALIZED BY THE SALE OF TICKETS IN VARIOUS CITIES, TWO SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST. James F. Callahan and James W. Wat- terman Brought to St. Louis En Route to Phoenix Charged With the Crime. James F. Callahan and Joseph D. Wat- terman are locked up at the Four Courts. They are charged with having robbed the ticket office of the Mariposa, Phenix & Southern Railroad at Phenix, Ariz., of $6000 worth of tickets. They were arrested in Chicago by C. C. Crowley, chief special agent for the South- ern Pacific, and W. 8S. Cain, who holds a similar position for the Chicago & Alton. The prisoners were left in St. Louis Thurs- day and the officers will leave for Phenix on a through train Thursday night. Callahan and Watterman were railroad men and had been employed in Phenix for about six months. Callahan was a hostler‘ in the roundhouse and Watterman was yardmaster. The robbery occurred on the night of Jan, 21, but the loss.was not discovered until Feb, 3, when the ticket office was checked up by the auditor. An entrance was forced into the ticket office by prying open a window. The burg- lars went to the large ticket case, tore off the back and removed the tickets from the rear. They took only through tickets, and when they finished their work they re- placed the back of the ticket case so neatly at no one suspected it had been tampered with, When the ticket office was opened in the morning the fact was learned that the room had been entered. But as the tickets ap- peared to be intact and there was no evi- dence of the case having been disturbed, the robbery was not discovered. Callahan and Watterman disappeared the following day. When the auditor checked up the office on Feb. 3 the shortage developed. Sus- picion was at once directed toward Calla- han and Watterman. Mr. Crowley, whose headauarters are in San Francisco, was wired. and he was given charge of the case, He communicated with Mr, Cain in Chi- cago. and a search for the two men was begun... ; Crowley got on their track by means of the tickets on which they traveled, He fol- lowed them to Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile. Cincinnati and other cities. In each it ig claimed, they had disposed of tickets. They were traced to Chicago, where Wat- in his’home at 6065 Union avenue. He was arrested by Mr. Cain. He made no resistance. At the same hour Crowley was arresting Callahan in the Coomps Hotel, a cheap downtown hostelry. The prisoners were seen in the holdover by a Post-Dispatch pare. They were exceedingly retucent. llahan is th a heav tache and clear blue eyes. be courteous without giving any informa- tion. Watterman is 43 years old, has dark not so resourceful ag his companion. “I do not want to be discourteous to you of the press,” Callahan said, to a reporter, “but we really have nothing to say. We have so badly misquoted that any statement we might make would be used against us, The officers have given you the facts.”’ Watterman interrupted Callahan and for- bade him to speak. en he began talking hisnself. “Il am 43 years old and neither of us have ever been arrested before. You can say we both have always borne good charac- ters up to now. For 2 years I lived in Cago, and for 14 years up to May 15 last I was employed by eB gee Packing Co. I wag yardmaster in th railroad depart- ment. “Then I went West. But I will not taik about that. Of course you think we are guilty, but you have no proof of that, and we are not going to give ourselves away. I am tired of dodging the officers anyway. The police were never looking for me be- fore.’ The officers eay they found none of the stolen tickets on them. It is es the ROBBED, GAGGED. AND BOUND, Mrs. James Sedlak Assaulted in a Cellar. ROBBER SPRANG AT HER. SHE WAS KNOCKED DOWN AND THE ASSAILANT KNELT ON HER CHEST. TIED FIRMLY WITH A ROPE. The Second Thief, Disguised as a Wo- man, Ransacked the House and Sécured $39 From a Cabinet, The robbers who attacked and bound Mrs. James Sedlak and rifled her residence at 5062 South Eighth street Wednesday night have covered their tracks well and the po- lice of the First District are still in the dark as to their identity. Capt. Keeble, who has been untiring in his efforts to run the fiends down, unearthed some important facts Thursday morning. He thinks two negroes were Mrs. Sedlak’s assailants. The robbery was brutal and daring in the extreme. At 6:30 o’@pck Wednesday evening, Mrs. Sedlak left@Mer children, Amelia and Hugo, aged 6 and 4 years respectively, and went to the cellar. She passed through the room used as a laundry, and was passing through the door leading to the cellar proper when a man jumped from a corner and threw his arm around his neck. ' He threw her to the ground violently, an knelt on her chest to prevent her from making an outcry. As she fell Mrs. Sedlak heard a scream Ss the room above. It was little Amela’s o:ice, The terror-stricken woman a final attempt to free herself from her assailant. Then she became unconscious. A few minutes later little Amelia, almost breathless and convulsed with fright, ap- peared at the home of Rudolph Hetzel, halg @ block away. She could only indicate that something had hhappened to her mother. Mr. Hetzel went to the Sedlak residence. In the cellar he found Mrs. Sedlak uncon- scious On the ground. The breath had been literally choked out of her. Wrapped around her neck half a dozen times. was a clothesline, which served as a gag to silence her. The rope was twined about her body in such a way as to bind her arms firmly to her side. Her feet were tied together with the end of the same rope. In telling her story to a Post-Dispatch reporter Thursday morning, Mrs. Sedlak said the ruffian never spoke. While Mrs. Sedlak lay unconscious fn the cellar, a man disguised as a woman entered the house through the kitchen, passed through the room where the children were. and rifled a cabinet in the parlor, getting away with $39. all the money itn theNhouse. The police are Poe on the theory that two men did the job. Mrs, Sedlak says the woman who threw her down wore a black mask. : The ohe described by little Amelia as a ‘big nigger lady” wore a white “skirt,” and his face and head were partially covered by a white “shawl.” Capt. Keeble discovered that the articles of disguise were taken from Mrgq Sedlak’s clothes basket in the laundry. A sheet and a fragment torn from a black shawl were found near the basket. The man who etole the money wrapped ae et sround —_ qua tied the strips over ane. Keeble's {+ . ead, according to uspicion frst attached to a relative of Mrs. Bedlak. but the police found that he was at home all Wednesday event The marke of th s. on Mrs. Sedlak’s neck” site plainly visipie A better place could ve ora robbery, The pa (there “:@ ul c‘netric ph te. hood. _ Mrs. a in an Olive street tatfloring The Widow Must Wait. WASHINGTON, Fed. 4.—A widow holding the position of postmaster in one of ¢ more important smaller cities of the Sou recently as or # years sistant th OY eased pmaor on for THE PENALIY-~ OF HIS SIN Fergus J. Coyne Died in the City Hospital. WAS MURDERED BY A NEGRESS. ADDITIONAL FEDERAL JUDGE Cogent Reasons Why One Should Be Named in the Eighth District, ; The disposition of the Senate committee to favorably consider the bill providing for an additional federal judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit has aroused great inters est among St. Louis lawyers. Severa] petitions have gone from them t Congress, and the measure bas the fu Support of both ciroult and district judi- Similar bills are before the Genate for ad- ditional judges in the : and Gev- enth Judicial Circuits. The Third Cireul comprises Pennsylvania, New Jersey Delaware; the Sixth Circuit Ohio igan, Kentucky and : the Seventh Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinols. But the et REVOLTING CASE OF DEPRAVITY ounel REVEALED BY THE POLICE INVESTIGATION. : REQUISITION FOR THE WOMAN. Georgia Coleman Will Be Brought Over From East St. Louis Fri- day in Time for the Coroner’s Inquest. A heart-broken widow sits weeping in her home at 1818 Belleglade avenue, surrounded by five fatherless children. The husband aud father lies dead in the City Hospital. And such a death! Murdered by a disreputable negro wench, after a debauch in one of the lowest dives in the city, is the r rt made by the police, who made careful investigation. Fergus J. Pag the murdered man, bore a good reputation in the neighborhood in which he lived for ten years. He at- tended church regularly, and to all appear- ances was devoted to his family. He owned a handsome home and was prosperous. For a year or more he has oc- cupied a responsible position with the Pitts- burg Glass Co. Last Saturda yy he was shot and des- erately wounded by Georgia Coleman. She s a negress of the lowest type, living in a tumble-down house on Lucas avenue, t is ~¥ soy that even ¢he police shun late at night. t 11 o’clock last Saturday night a police- man heard two shots fired. ntering the Coleman woman’s house. he found yne dying on the floor. He had been shot in the groin and in the head. The woman had fied. Coyne was taken to the hospital and @ied there at 7:30 o’clock last n.ght. His statement, told in a contradictory, rambling way, was that three women enatched his watch while he was going home frgm his b office and he pursued them to the Coleman woman's house, and was shot while at- tempting to recover his property. Investigation by the police proves all of his statements untrue. He had not been to h's office during the oreune. but left home at 7 o'clock, telling h's wife he would re- turn in an hour. he police aay he went early to the Coleman woman's house and was with her for three hours before the shooting. Both were drinking. The Coleenan woman, now under arrest in East St. Louis, eays Coyne has been visiting her once or twice a week since Christmas. The statement she made of what took place in the eariier part of the evening and of what he did to provoke the murder could not be printed. An officer is In Springfield to-day With a requisition for the murderess. It will doubt- less be honored by Gov. Tanner and tho woman seen over from East 8t. Louis to-morrow. e is a big, black, repulsive looking wench. An inquest will be held to-morrow. NEW CLUB HOUSE PROROSED. Kenrick Club Figuring on an Olive Street Piece of Ground. —_—_ The Kenrick Club ts negotiating for a large strip of property on Olive street, di- rectly west of Grand avenue. The present clubhouse at 3644 Lindell boulevard has been found iw md inadequate for the or- nization’s n S oot the deal under consideration is closed, a three-story clubhouse will be of the w ciub have of from mafy and are eanguine of handsome erect rece! prominent “The § Anetitution is the of the vette Club banded. nancial di dent A. H. Handian, 0 enr ] of ita ari c Iowa, Kansas, Co kansas,” Minmegota. ” Mineou or oO Gian Territory, New el district, both tn numeé States a popaianen, in the Union, dges Caldwell, Sanborn Tha the litigations of 14,000,000 people come duties of the fourth Cire udge another State. The present affords a striking illustra. tion of the need of this legisiation, Judge Henry C. Caldwell is forced by reason of ill-health to refrain from all work. Having no extra Circuit Judge, the Court of Appeals was compelled to break in u the business of the District of Western Mis- sourt, and summon Judge Phillips to the bench in order that the docket might be completed. In his absence from his sit u bench, thus giving the 8&t. work of the whole State, which has been all that two Judges could h with convenience. THOUGHT HEWAS DOWNSTAIRS Old Benajmin Harring Walked Straight Out and So Broke His Hip. Benjamin Harring, 73 years old, f tn the City Hospital] with a broken hip. He lives at $17 North Twenty-third stree@ and eells newspapers during the day ag ae less WANT INSTANT REVENGE. A Mob Preparing to Lynch the Mum derer of Constable Massey. TEXARKANA, Ark., Feb. 21.—A mob is being organized at Richmond for the avowed purpose of poe Page Aiken, B Beare, Whe rook on the nigot of Feh, 12. Massey was w ane te make id to ine of Alken, was arreste. at mond. ’ —— T T 4 Grain-O! Ask you Grocer to-day to show you a of GRAIN.O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee, The children may drink it without | 4s weil as the adalt, All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, end the most delicate stomach receives it. without distress. } the price of coffee, — 15 cents and 25 cents per package, $ Sale ag me OF 2a, 2 Ney 2 See ale 4 a

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What Everybody Requires This ‘Season. a Some Things Are of the Utmost Im- portance to You. This Will Tell You What You Most Need Now and How to Get It. In the spring changes always take place in our systems which require attention. There is a tired, languid feeling, a depres- sion, the digestive organs become de- ranged, the blood is bad, causing the com- plexion to become affected and the per- son feels an inability to work. —_. At such a time a spring medicine is ab- solutely necessary, and Dr. Greene’s Ner- vura blood and nerve remedy is the medi- cine you want. It will overcome all these conditions. It will invigorate the blood, regulate the digestive organs, clear the Pape and make you feel strong and well. EN yf se A oobi N : of Bees ; T se A eas ¢ eo \ me. perv dss ey f Pele Sa AN 4 Sopra EME tal She paee BS og s ih P= oe Meas. x the leading theaters was in the audience and he afterward re- } =F 2 * a: = ee “% - ee Ea ae REX. Kaior on" a EEDA. PILE PEALE ST ABEL TRE EN OOF POEL Db INE: nt iil set to a melod “The Barthly ix a magnificent and dramatic expression of scorn, which is also set forth in the powerful quartette, “They Say the Lion and the Lizard Keep,” etc. The basso has a remarkable song: Myself when young did eagerly frequen# Doctor and saint, and heard much argumeat; This, as given by David Bispham last spring ! recital, wag the Nrst of this work ever heard’ in The music, decidedly Oriental in char- acter, is filled with the mocking —— cism at.all the learned philosophers who come out at the same To set philosophy Bispham’s rendering of these verses was the most popular thing on his programme and brought an enthusiastic encore. mere philosopher; he knows also how to sing of love js is shown in the delightful quar- “Come, Fill the Cup,”’ the dainty duet for soprano and tenor, ‘“‘A Book of Verses Underneatn etc., “Fair Morn of My Delight.’’ the finest thing musically in the work, the ee | and characteristic melody unfolding itself in well hrases, modulating with even more and h more delicious harmonies. odies that the hearer wishes to goon dn ing his dreaming senses in gweet oblivion of all ut love and beauty. As a whole the work is well balanced, the theme being so arranged that proper contrast and regard for climax bring out their beauties to the fullest One only regrets that it was not seored for The first performance of the work in this vicinity —last fall~was in Alton, be the Dominant Ninth Musical Society, whose presidi Rohland, who is simply i thering the cause of the best dn music her own town, in that first presentation were from St. Louis, a reat was its success that it will be repeated at Memorial Hall Saturda artists—Miss Adelaide Jessie Ringe, Mlliam ‘artists’ recital,’ the public are permitted to pur- wi ER. “ . ie ee ER a Se fy, -e Awe Sa ae. 2 ‘ : a Mie soc pyar 3° a ee oP ES — _ 4 ~~} 2 se he aa = " Pipi. Spee 8 ase NP a ¥) > a aie Ps ; he wens ey oe. ee Oe ANY 4 Ps ee a ee - es oe aa - 8 ¥ a “ag Ao Pee Pd - 4 s 4 ’ a . oan P ; ; & by ) >= Re ROOK” ue EO a ae ak _S ete eS ol . Now neartag its 4000th O’ Neill. Prices — Zc, 14th Street Theater. Phone Main TH47A. ADONIS’ == DIXEY. (Mr. Henry E.) , Mimicry. wn. - —_ y. . Mystery The Oniy Laughing Show in To Children’s Matinee Saturday. 33c\_ 2 r25C * SO Parquet reserved, at night, 800. © ee VUG wae’ “ yy at ee ee ee ee en , - ‘ : Anesriy Bah, hy ETE foe sted a RE On fibre Waa! wy oi spo t . 0 TA aN cn tte ah A Sa

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PS el a OT NET OO SES PI. papen eee SER . > ¥ we 2 re 4 ¥ .! - even ai C¥ : pie vie = e. i iss 3 n 4 - . - f v¥ e - > >») 3 ra be Sod = , . J " Ba ge + To P 7 ? 2 _ « "I » er PF an4 - a PR Oe — “ —— 2 ~_ ber “ , Ae ce say ww -. 4 prs ae e co 3 x b rn ig . ” pa va w ak Pp a. - ee P Pay ee = os “D>>dDDdDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ICCC LE CECKK CER E REECE KEELE HESS BDD>D>>e J NEW SKIRTS. 3c r price 12c 2c seer eee eeer te Z Busted Fair price 0c per box ce. eeeereeeee ee eee ee eeeee 2c . A. Few Prominent Leaders as a Fore- runner of what you can expect to find here the coming season--I hese val- ues will crowd our busy store to-mor- row. Remember, all new goods. READ: Meieccadqadeqectdaqeacceteegee, 4 2 >>>> A >>>>> vA >> All- Wool Skirts, full 4 yards wide, in plaids, checks and Scotch mix- tures, percaline lined, velvet bound; all the correct orings binations and col that we will sell later in the for $6.50; to-mor- row we will sell ? 08 just 200 of them $ e Heavy Twill, All-Wool Serge Skirts, in black and the new biue, 4 yards wide, percaline lined, velvet bound, new cut—a positive $5.0C value; to- morrow we will | 98: sell just 100 of $ them Qt «-2 cccce> NEW SUITS. New Spring Suits in fine quality A serge and light-weight broadcloth, allnew styles and new cut skirts; Jackets with revers braided and button trimmed, 20 inches long; colors black aod blue; a full $10.00 value. To-morrow we 5. 9 8 will self just 50 of them at. ..-« NEW WAIS TS. New Silk Waists, made with new blouse front, extra full, new col- lar and new sieeve. Waists lined throughout, Ddeautifully made. This waist comes in black and all the new spring colorings, made to sell at $5.00 regular, to- spam ap a & 49 will sell 1 of them $ n NEW WRAPPERS. &A We wilt also sell $0 dozen Spring J Wrappers, of percaline and A indigo. These Wrappers are made extra width, yoke, collar J\ and sleeves braid trimmed, one i of wrapper lined. They are equal to the best $1.00 Wrapper in the C p market. Choice NEW YORK, Fed. 4—Herman Hing + Texas cow? four was tried in the King’s oO ae ‘oie . of Rte rte . SS wu hot Jaf. 18 im Broalis a diecsarwed. Hing ergued Un was done fs - eh _ - ae , 5 s

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sper sie, . : — - - oF Pie Ae Dyes ee ae oe An ~ ING WORE SLICES OFF PRIEST - é Workren are now at it, hammer and tongs, pulling out ‘our store front. Inside there is mere or less upsetting and confusion—but we will make it richly worth your while to put up with these annoyances. CLOVES. All our Ladies’ $1.00 and $1.25 Kid Gloves —all col- ors—will be offered } Friday at. A Regular Picnic in MEN'S UNDERWEAR. We place on Sale Friday morning a lot of Men's perfectiy made Undergarments, such as All- Wool, Camel’ Fleece-lined, your pick while they last—Friday at Overalls ant Jumoers, 10 dozen pairs Painters’ Over- alls and Jumpers, perfectly made of best heavy twilled material, guaranteed superi- or to any on the market, worth 35c to 50c each 19+ our price Friday only. it Mien’s Socks. 1 lot Men’s Fine Seamless Fast Color Half Hose, in tan brown, biack, white an fancy stripes, ‘excellent qual- ity, really worth lic a pair, our price Friday white, oms, fast 10 dozen Elastic ranted, 815 to 821 N. ID : Shoe Sacrifices. New Spring Stocks arriving—the older lines must go! etc.—not a garment ‘In the lot ever sold before under 75c and some worth $1.560—Take Shirts. A big lot Men's Top Shirts, laundered, fancy bos- chambrays, color worth up to vour pick Friday at Suspenders. improved buckle and war- formerly sold at 20c, Friday, per pair TRIMMINC. Just Pearl and Colored Bead Yokes, Boleros and very elegantiy hand made on silk cord—some in actually worth $10—all in one lot Friday at 25c on the Dollar in—a sample line of Blouse Fronts— the lot s-fiair, Wool Mtxed.|| Misses’ Genuine Vici Kid Spring Heel Lace Shoes, coin and opera toes, sizes 11 to 2, C, D and E lasts, positively $1.50 values, Friday i and Saturday at “4 C Our entire line of Ladies’ Vicl Kid Lace Shoes, coin toes and patent leather tips, sizes 3 to 7, C,«D and E lasts, regular $2.50 and $3.00 shoes, all in one lot for Friday and ~ papain cheviots, Yer etc., 1.00 each, take veoeseeeD GBI 8 All our Ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Welt Lace Shoes, coin and opera toes, stock and patent tips, regular $3.50 and $4.0 shoes, and remember, no odds and ends or job lots, but nice, fresh goods, sizes 3 to 7, C, D and E lasts, g0 Friday and Saturday at Men’s Good Quality CRNPORAOTG, - ENO Just 16 of these large 36x72 inch Smyrna Floor Rugs, handsome designs, regular $4.50 rugs, slightly soiled, to ciose NOTIONS AND SUNDRIES. Good Large Writing Tablets 19% Corset Steels 8¢ Bottles Vaseline 12ec StdocKinette Dress Bhields ........... 6 Ladies’ 10c | Coin Pursos.. ; Glass Dol- lies, each .. . 5c Pat. Hooks or and Kyes. . C _ —Ath ey Wik : _es A iin err * in| og Shee Dia. PATS ¥ bs 7 ‘ r. y AR sh A f & ‘ - = — . ee ae . - ey Saat Ee eT ae ee a Babe eee 19¢ About 600 Gran worth 25¢ and 35 The Tea Pots SN 50 dozen 2-Quart Granite Buckets —usual price 20c and 25c— (0c | fn SE ORR OBL. ok kndikin n.ccecteesnces Pans Pans—usual price 25¢— Priday, OBly At... cocccssce ccosccesecs aie Spoons—usual price 10c and 15c—Friday, only .... +++. nese iponee a. ROYAL BLUE SERVICE B. & 0, S-W. RY, LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI, WASHINGTON, At Course © Counters. New Lenten Celicacies crowd the CONRAD'S.....618 Locust. 2712 Prankita Av. Delmer, sear Tayler. ESCAPED WITH FIVE YEARS. John Hogan, Habitual Criminal, Al- lowed to Piead Guilty. John Hogan, charged with highway rob- bery and with being a habitual criminal, en- court Thursday morning pig hy nina 4 court Thursd oa eae reematiea =i ty the former co" viction would assure. MARRIAGE LICEN BES. ; Pure 18k. wedding rings. Our prices the lowest. E. Jaccard Jewelry Co., Olive and Fred EF. Drews .-ceececeeens Agues .Voigtmann ... New Spring Styles Ss Pee “ Princeton " SHOES FOR MBN. o> Ae ee tO ARS = Y sua Lf . Pa aN Ln . oS i. Aas on vg * Es aps ‘ PS eter ats So + = ; RES Whe SSPPt be 3

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ish bdkck cc ae as so obey fi ee sie e pile ae: + § *y : i “ ¢ oy fend newly furnished front rooms for gents or light housekeeping. EVANS AV., ivhed 2907—Second-story front furn 7 room: gents or housekeeping; terms moderate; pF i vate ‘family. PIF? EENTH 8T., 106 8.—Large front room ie “4 for light housekeeping ; laundry privi vileges FOU FOURTH ST., 508 S.—1 1 large, well furnished front _ room for for couple « or 2 gents. ished RANKLIN- row 821%—Clean, neatly furn FRANK for housekeeping or gents, from m $1.50 up. up. _ dsomely RANKLIN AV., 3432—Near > Grand Han yt me 2d-story front room; private familly; for gentlemen. FRANKLIN, mod. convs.; GARRISON AV., room, suitable for couple or 2 gents. GARRISON AV. 606 8.—4 rooms; $9. Keys at store 602; also 2 "2.room frame in rear; HOTEL VENDBTTA—6 N. 16th st.—A modern European hotel, strictly first class; $1 per day. RADIE AV., 4606~3 furnished rooms, with bath; mits or unfurnished, $10; no children; gice lawn. lawn. ————aa77 ne LEONARD AV.,. 919—1 unfurnished room, with gas and heat. reas. eae nicely — —— end 3310—Handsomely fur. front rooms, complete for housekeeping; pri. fam. fam. 1015 N.—Near Easton, furnished a 1032 "§.—Two “nicely jeely furnished fromt |} A a, i ae wR SP - ae . or 2 ; b, x} 4 et % y wast a — — ** ’ ; “ ; “ae asd 4 wabaisoTOs, AY. cg Pees "Selateny aeanGEOR, AV., 2012—Fime furnished rooms, a ~ th board; first-class condition. WASHINGTON AV. ay a4, enemeene rooms, with b board; Orst WEST BELLE PL., ~ 4001-—Large nicely ly furnished 2d-story front room, with board. a ed COUNTRY BOARD. 14 words or less, 10c. LAKE WINNEBAGO—Ideal tages on lake front; §5 week; ainties; cool; fresh ROOMMATES WANTED. 14 words or less. 10c. arog th WANTED—Young man wants room- tet; $1.50 per week, with Ste. 1827 Vlive st. -_-—— HOUSES, ROOMS, ETC., WANTED. mk 14 words or leas, 10c. HOUSE WANTED—7 or 8-room house or 6-room modern flat; good ay west or central _ferred; not over $25. 4. K 983, Post- Disparch. ROOM WANTED—Furnished room n by young lady; state price. Ad. M 44, Post-Dispatch. . of te price. ROOMS WANTED—2 nice unfurnished of Jefferson av.. north of Market e Morgan st.; we have no children; Ad. R 45, Post-Dispateb. ROOM WANTED—Gent wants furnished room; rr ty price, otherwise answers will be unnoticed. . T 46, Post-Dispatch. ROOMS WANTED-—1 or 2 unfurnished rooms; 4 vate family; west — Garrison; references. F 47, Host-Dispatch om WANTED—Room, with alcove — = ht housekeeping; must not be farther out ¢t 3 st st.: not over §2 per week. Ad. P 46, per _Dispateb . ROOMS WANTED—Two connecting rooms, front and furnished, near Cass av. or Mound City street car lines; $5 per month. 2345 North Mar- ket st. lst floor. — FURNISHED FLATS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10c. WEST BELLE TERRACE, 4565—Modern 4-room flat; large lawn; Baggs ‘gg bene low rent; renter must uy furnit : will sacrifice. en ead DWELLINGS FOR RENT. 14 words or less, 10. BELL A 2923 E.—Nice 6-room house, for col- ored. Kecley & Co., 1113 Chestnut et. LEONARD AV., 620—Pleasant furnished or unfur- _nished room; priv ate fami. y of adults; ail conve. F res Py res a way. rele. Bey wom PIANO—For _brice. Call at PIANOS, _ormane, lo; rented runed. The Estey Con o18 of RENT Soon gag assortment. ; Whitaker's, 151 = — . ’ $190 BUYS Steck Poke Piano; fully warrented, big « GRAHAME’'S a at. satisfaction all sharp DANCING—Ka wocegtie dancing at to: ae ake with IF YOU wish to y Ponty vate jessons 2341 Olive st.. el Be and . aa alana HOUSEHOLD GOODS WANTED. 14 words or less, 20c. FEATHER B _Middleton EDS Swe a HIGHEST = o peices carpets, fea ther beds. ygvt 9 bP nay resi lence or store b, ta KP Ee ae mi HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR BALE. 14 words or less, 20c, ne BENTON ST., 2835—Brick cottage ote rooms. eeley & Co., 1113 Chestnut st ——— N. —Retween Lacas (33d st.), 616 rooms; fine : grates, bath, etc.; private family; $2. 25 a week. LUCAS AY. 3012—Large > unfurnished south r room; suitable for light housekeeping. LEONARD AV., and Wasbington—Newly fur. DOG—Lost, or strayed Sunday evening, Feb. 20, from £049 Olive, rome male dog; brown, smooth hair; liberal reward. Return to above number. “GLASSES—Lost, person who found glasses in gal- ary of Olympic Wednesday night, please return to 1818 Hickory et. LETTE R—Lost. Feb. 22. letter between Olive and Hickory, on 6th st.; finder please return to party addressed and receive reward. Ad. O 44, Post- _ Dispatch. SPECTACLES—Lost, gold spectacles on 21st st., between Carr and Riddle. Return to 1126 N. 2ist et. and receive liberal reward. OR OCEORCH ; : That the Business Man is Convinced of the VALUE OF OOOO P-D. WANTO HELP WANTED MALE... eee ew Oe ae Ads During Last Week In Post-Dispatch Wants, 477 Same Week YearAgo ...., 2/7 A GAIN OF 119 PER CENT. A Growth Without a Parallel | in This or Any Other City. LUOAS AV., 2704—Neatly furnished 34 floor front room; complete 1 for housekeeping; all convs. MORGAN ST., T., 1808—Nicely ely furnished room for gents. MORGAN S&T, 1814-—Housekeeping rooms, §2 and $2.50; also parior. Call to-day.

TO EXCHANGE. 14 words or less, 20c. TYPEWRITER WANTED—To exchanen; fine tim- ber land for a typewriter; Remington or Smith Premier, Ad. . Barnes, Malden, Mo. SEAMSTRESSES WANTED—25 ladies’ underwear makers. Call at once on M. Zatlin, 1838 O'Fallon. SEAMSTRESSES WANTED—6 shirtmakers and 10 good seamstresses. 316 3. 4th s st. STEXOGRAPHER W ANTED—Co om petent rapher for law office; answer, and salary ¥ expec ted. Ad. T 45, stenog- Stating experience Post- “Dispatch. WOMAN—Wanted, by — place to clean offices. Ad. 22 8. .18 ee ee ene woman, WOMAN- ‘Situation wanted by experienced woman in chamber or linen room In small hotel or room- ing house. 1411 Washington ay. WOMAN—Good | colored woman wants offices or rooms to clean .or do housework. Ad. D 054, Post- _Dispatch, STOVE REPAIRS Castings and repairs furnished for 4 stove or range made. J. Forshaw, 111 N. 12th st. = eens 0 HELP > WANTED—FEMALE. Business Anuouncements, 10¢ per Tine. 4 words or less, 10c. COOK WANTED—German preferred, 4242 Lindell. COOK WANTED—at once. $226 Pine st. A 8 OR ets —— COOK w ANTED- -First-class preferred. 1808 Hickory ®t. cook. Ww ANTED—First- clase washing or ironing. 2107 Park a ee te COOK WANTED--Good German 1m girl; muat be good ; cook and @ laundress, suas W ashington” av. cook; German girl German cook; po ay. 6 Ne ne me ee ee em cook WANTED—A No. 1 cook, female, white; must have ability and experience: no dish wash- _ ere need apply. Cafe, ‘02 Chestnut et. COOK WANTED—A German girl to cfok, wash and iron; emal) family. 8842 Pine at. ODOK WANTED—Good German girl for cookluag, washing, lroning. 2618 Tine et. ST ENOGRAPHER WANTED—A lady stenographer with some experience in bookkeeping and general office work: salary $5 a week to begin with. Ad. N 45, Post- Diapatch. TACK KERS WANTED—Experienced tackersa to op- erate Singer machine; also experienced toppers; none others need apply. Loth Jeans Clothing Co., Vth and Lucas av. WAITRESS WANTED—An_ ¢ room girl for restaurant. experienced ~ dining: 2621 Olive st. een encase A LLL ALLL, LL HORSES AND VEHICLES. 14 words oF legs. 20c. Wanted. to buy a nice young entie;: no US% Pine ———— et ee HORSE WANTED—Wanted, “a horse; must be city broke and plugs wanted at any en Apply at st,, room 202, 8 to 10 a. m. es For Sale. BUCOGY—For sale, good second- band buggy; cheap; 5m. aie Dayton st. — HORSES—For aale, tn sound. and small buggy horses, WAITRESS W Ce., aus N. Gt % / ' "a + 2 Ss aA bi, ROS ReGen BE ak BAIL | = free Ara Se ational Bog — o tO TS iin So ae Sa . “We «Siig ULIVE ST., 1724~—Nicely fornisbed rooms, with or without it boaru. $4.50 up; het bath. OLIVE “ST. , 2643 -Front reom, Ist floor, also Gay | board, §2.25 per week. with b _board; OLIVE ST. gas; ‘board if requ OLIVE uT., 1709-—Nice "furnished me, ith rd; aleo day beara” “i 273 Ke: PAGE AV., 4827—Ha&ndeomely furnished rooms: new#, modern house; choice table: Jewish family. Page av. cara. * 2219-2 newly furnished front rooms; ired. * a PAGE BL... 50014-A amall vat with board, a fine suite FT Seer y Shed ange cigpets and ha pie ts; southern : brat, ath, hot water, “eer tal and ‘woentifel: heel references PINE Onis 2018—Large 2 board; + nace terms reasonable. PINE sT.. 2028 Blegantly furnished BS Treetes mee will rent, room farpace etc.; table chol ‘required. om: boca rots, ae , * PE ety RM at MORGAN &8T., 4328—To rent of lease, 7-room resi- dence, furnished or uaturnished. FURNISHED FLATS WANTED. 14 words or less, 10c. FURNISHED FLAT WANTED-—3 of west of Jefferson av.; by couple; no Seularen. ‘Aa P as Post- Dispatch. FLATS FOR RENT. 14 words or leas, 10c. ADAMS ST., 2800—8-room fat; $10. Keeley & Co., 1113 Chestaut st. BELL AV., $448—New, strictly modern flat; fur- nace and gas fixtures. Apply at 8812 Morgan st. at. BELL AV., 3126—Flat of 5 rooms and bath; cheap to adults. Keys downstairs. Cate Sante AV., 1007—3 and 4-room fats, §8 FOURTEENTH ST., 1831-1833 8.—Elegant new 4- room flats; very cheap. Inquire ip rear. FRANOIS ST., 1441, 1st floor—Three-room fiat, gat. water, cellar: cony.; nice +? meg lock from Easton and Grand av.; $11, JEFFERSON AV., 2223 8.—Nice 3-room’ Gat; in- side w. c. Keeley & Co., 1113 Chestnut st. KENNERLY AV., 8928A—Cholce 8-room fiat; only $8. Harris & Wengler, 027 Chestnut st. LINDELL AV., 29408—Five rooms; hall, bath, Fame: Keeley & Co., 1113 Chestnut st. LU CAS AV... 28) 16—Nice flat: 4 tooms and beth. _ Keeley & ©o., 1118 Chestnut et. MAF FITT “AV. ” 4362—4-ro0 flat; bath; $12. &. H. Morton & Co., 1011 C estnot at. MONTGOMERY APARTMENTS—Correr Montgom- ery and Cok man—Conventent to 4 lines of cars: 8 rooms. laundry, bath. storeroom, hot and cold water: bardw finish: fmest fate in city; $15. Also store oa corner. Ki . 1708 Commercial Building. MORGAN S&T., 8812—4 good rooms; apartment; bath, _ laundry; gtable if wanted. Inquire within. OLIVE 2 ST., 8718—Flat, @ rooms, bath, laundry, steam heat, hot water, 2 porches, 2832-—Large front room, with meals, RUTGER ST., 2701-8 nice rooms on sechnd floor. Reeley & Co., 1114 Chestnut st. FURNITURE—For an ‘room e ‘4 moon > te good, joe eta eat ea be HOUSEHOLD 000 Fo a contents a rooms, complete for mousekeeplag; "new a jae HOUSEHOLD GOODS—For onle; cep. 120 much; very PARLOR SUIT—For sale; reasonable. RANGES—For payments; male's 5 tem any STOVES, ca Salesrooms ‘ Ae a Bterege PROFESSIONAL. _ 14 words or leas, 20¢. -s ms i PROF. MOSS, magnet! phyeiaoes ane Be 5 will for the next 5 dese tell wublesa without ates: foun Call's poh Bs th da birth . a MONEY WANTED? 14 words or less, 20¢. for 1 Ad. R 44, DAN WANTED—Tp borrow ear; rreth interest, Dest of fecority: ost- = — ~~ “Sika ee WANTED—Loan of a “edeae dreas G LAWYER'S DESK—A private office in the thing for a an vet, man purchas! a oLe ption Post-Dispatch. running way. attachbmen also good, strong; $3 and $4. Ad. D., SEWING MACHINE—For snrle, wing machine N. Broad- “Famous” hinged cover. discount to d We bare also we ‘Lea 60 dozen of white oak ee awa 7 BUYS THE aa $1.00 “Famity COBBLER. hess Cobbler. Ali hig complete ~~ LASSMAN, 1104 applicant, Prospectus "i. it t —— enn CYCLE—Por sale. § ft eee | ST. FERDINAND AY.. 3002—Nice 3-room fat. | Keeley & Co., 1113 ( Chestnat st. rooms: bath, all conventences; a oe (ST. VINCENT AV., 8451—Compton Hill—Flat of 5 price moderate. _THESODOSIA AV., 5808A— Modern fiat of 3 rooms and bandsome bathroom ; hg and _ water ; splendid condition ; rent $11. WINDSOR PLACE, 3702A—3-room fiat: $10. Keeley & Co., 1113 Chestnut st. ee A Al et Aly i te A TO LET FOR “BUSINESS PURPOSES. 14 words or less. nin CHESTNUT ST... 911—Fine large “etore. . Keeley a Co., 1113 Chestnut st. — ll1—nice store; suit real CHESTNUT , 's ST. estate ofiice. eeley & Co., 1118 | Chestnut et. FIFTEENTH | ST. 41 s. —Nice “store and 4 rooms. Keeley & Co., 1113 Chestnut et. ‘MAIN ST.. 700 N.—About 20 feet front; 4 stories; | or band elevator; §400 per year. OLIVE &T.. 1214—Nice large store, Keeley & Co, 1118 Chestnut «hes 4 “FL. 612. .615—Nice offices tm enites of 2, 4 PINE be Keeley & Co.. 1113 “Chestast et. HOUSE WANTED—To res owner for rent. Ad. ee ee arene” ROOMING houre ; pated. SIXTH wh. 206 8.-For rent, frout part of store for clge ‘ atand: cheap. STORE- root, VICTOR Keeley ee he r rent, goeorl business store, with one p te 16th and Morgas. oe ot.—Nice etere, @o., 1113 Chestwat st. meee pena re orem I FOR BUS. yonrees: nanmomnchee stn >To rent Ges ding pt ag ——— a nae W. t rooming Hi 46, Post-Dis- specialty BICYCLE BARGAINS. Examine «he ‘8 We wheele before buying MME. ANNA, the. be the Weat hos MME. BRLIL writing the country; SOc; ia ae 14 words of less, 20e. AMRRICAN OT CAN STORAGE AND MOVING sayy roe, fini

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Fi & i ah ie 4 { ree Rs hee iF i an vat f , by cd ey a" . — . 1 Be ao 6th : 1a * yi CPs noma ace a * ve P ets yey Pie Z “ag Boy ea PERSONAL—H. # H.: Satisfactory. : NAL—Mab: Did t temember color t , ; a rok make acquaintance. Ad. M 46, Post- PERSONAL Olive: e: Friday e evening. J. ieee ee PERSONAL—Btue Line. ee, pie ane f+ the Biepaten a last evening. nt she poticed will tance. Ad. = - — ee a Would ‘like better ‘acquaintance “with a meal ticket at German restau -, last evening. Ad. D 46, Post- 1 tT Abt a EE Call. rics a S 20: All right. So eee ee ar PERSOVAL- ates ray “Kirk wood: _ ond twit HM call. Ad. D 47, Post -Dinpateb. PERSONAL. Will one of the two ladies who smiled at gent buying paper. Olive and Broadway, ard met geveral times, 1f agreeable, address A 45, Post-Dispatch? . a a a MATRIMONIAL. 14 words or lean. 0c. MATRIMONY. Gent. i oy 4 of means; 45. Post-Dispatch wishes to Ad. F lookin 94. geod matrimony. obje ct, blonde lady, be FE 46, Poset- oe ‘nd addréss Lette SES EA,» tly + - —— a. ee CONFIDE NTIAL LOAXS an furniture and ‘planos; + heme arranged. in any manner desired hy Trower. John W.> Staley, with Charter Loaa _Co., £17 Pine st. EE ence tp epeene nr ee PERSONAL SUNDRIES. 14 words or lees. 20. 4.—DIVORCES—BASY TERMS: CONFIDENTIAL; Recon’ Root taliable attorney. 1002 Olive street, A TAPER WORM CORD-Guargntecd, 4 ane “head or _ oF Da charge, Medical Co.. 107 N ARSENIC WAFFRS cure facial blemishes, pimples, Wackheads, ete... make skin smooth and «oft. Sample package free. Medical Co., 107 N. 9th st. én ——— enti ella inl A A SPECIALIST tre treats free private ailments, pim- om, sores. et-.: elther sex; cure guaranteed; no _ exposure, Call et Medical Co.. 107 } N, Sth st. DR. MARY ARTHUR. Specialist, 2701 Morgan— ‘Roatan pe con : treats female diseases: ladies le call or write; cofsul’n free; low rates, DR. Fl. LA. ‘ALLEN-—-Female ‘spectalist: ladies “{n trouble call or write: 18 years’ enccessful expert- ence; perfect seclusion during confipement. Olive et. DR. ANNIF NEWLAND, 205 S&S. 14th st., home for before and during confinement: | r- ties from any cause successfully treated. ELECTRIC and aleobol ieee tants O sclantifically _ fiven. 1624 Pine. Office hours 6 p. m. m. ELECTRIO TREATMENT by Mrs. Francis, Tervous FA ag wa home hours a. m. to 1001% N Broadway for 6 p. m. ee ee HOME for poor ladies during , confinement; treats all troubles. Mra. Dr. Callahan, 2381 Market st. HYPNOTISM—Lady hypnotist teaches any one ne to control others: ladies learn eep love and con- arp. Ad. A 46, dence of husbands; eary _ Post- Dispatch. Aging by mati. Betiero’s Practical Renaye: ublished; contains complete iastric- iaslectoren sent for $1, Dr. T, J. Betiero, >t S. ; _ Box LADIES®—Only $3 for succesaful treatment: _ out of city write. Ad, L 44. Tost- Dispatch. ° em ee ~~ -—-— those RR ee eres ae + LADIES tn trouble will not ‘regret calling at 2203 LADIES—My regulator never fails; one complete treatment free, Mrs. E. Starr, 2802 Franklin av. ee wae tee ee CA CO ele LADIES in trouble will not regret, ‘calling on “Mrs. Hollan; lowest terms. 1100 N. 19th at. LADIES--Tr. fails; trial treatment free. LADIFS—If in trouble, save time and money by cabing at oxhe Franklin av. . Ma: NICURING, Chtropody and treatment for rheu- _joure 4 A appeerase operator. 1108 Market et.; hours MARRIED LADIES--Mrs. Dr. A. Dale's celebrated Egy mae Female Regulating Ptflls a sold only by f oping Grussiste: 6th & Locust, 9th & Olive, Tith & Pine, 1901-2605 nkli 4 _ ton, , 4068 Easton, High & Biddle: take no other. Annie Newland's Ré@rulator never 206 § S. 14th st. _ MR i. oa oe entbene Midwife—Ladies can find nd board reasonable. Res., 919 Chouteau. = LYSLE of New _xork and Cuba, spivene- ume. and manicure. a Olive st. Hours 10 a. m. to 9 p. > dally sad “Sondare. MBS. L. HOTSON recetves during confinement; treats irregularities; satisfaction gnaranteed; hon- est dealings; information free; experienced in dis- _ ease; ladies in trouble call. 2201 Olive st. MRS. DR. HOGAN receives before and during con- finement: homes for infants if desired; indian call _ oF write; Se 2329 Market st. MRS. RENNEK AMP, Spectalist—Private home be- _ fore a dur. con.; reas. terms. 2025 Franklin ay. e+ ee a ee MRS. BRIDGES—Female irre larities, con., board, _ adoptions ; advice private. 204 Chouteau ar. OLD DR. WARD, 1503 Washington av.—Lady or went In trouble from any cause call or write; 40 _ years experience; guarantee results. PRINTING—Modern printing at moderf prices; not l'a worth for 2fic, but 100 cent’ a. were for $1. I. B. CROLE.& CO., 416 N. 7th ae RARUMATIC bie alcoho! pene tows 8 a. 6p. m. , Mrs, Grey, 50944 Wash st ia veut 3 cards, 2c; noteheada, billbeads. priees. Benton & Co., 620 Locust st LADIES A whine in need is a yriend indeed. If you want a Regulator that never fails, a4. Woman's Medical Home. Buffalo, ADTES! Chichester’s English Pennyroyal Pils agg Brand), ate the BEST. Safe, Re. Take other. Send éc, + ong for ie Meller tor ay eS t Druggists, C R CHEM. ICAL co. My, At Drasat Pa. OLD DOCTOR DAVIS, _ 805 Chestnnt st., the oliest apecialist in the city; 40 years’ experience; expels tapeworms, treats rec- tal "troubles of all kinds; treats private troubles of ali kinds of both sex for $5. ee env's, — a ee or ~--—~ St a etn a TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES, M4 words or lens, as, 20c. HOTEL FOR RENT. A 45-room bouse. furnished, with store room ~ + 4 shop 9 it conpestes in ene of the largest tel cities in Centr entuck ¥ - iematice write — oo AMERICAN zn. “E. AND INVESTMENT Go Commercial Buliding, St. Louis, : tile. ee HOTEL FOR RENT. A very desirable 80-room house, nicely furnished. ith wide hails and high ner ae in one of the beet, liveliest and most enterprising cities in issourl, and now enjoying a commercial and me trade, MR eae will sell his pooxpired lease, Ad. AMERIC AND INV ta koulh a ni ee ee ll PROPERTY OUT OF CITY FOR SALE 14 words or lem, 20e. BARKER, TEX., Is a new town, just starting, In Harris County, Tex. We want first hotel mau, storekeeper, black- ith . livery stable; we want churches: we le; we want you to go and see perty. corsion Feb. 15 and March 1. acres for sale cheap, om easy terms. ma For map and jaf AMERICAN LAND CO., Roe Building, St. Louis, Mo. _ — FREE RIDE TO hye We own Meadowbrook, 000 acres finest cermin and fruit ia “= nt ad. WA ref ex lon, AMERICAN LAND Co. 308 Roe Batldiag, St. Louis, Mo. orn | Pomme — Nee re: FARMS TOR SALE. 14 words or less. 20c. FARMS—Get our liat of fine fat farme in Iifinolis and eeecours at ¥ sent ffee to any ad- Co., Wil Chestaut at. big improved | farm of 200 th Shinde »* enitivation, _- R. Sempers | grass; a “ c =. tera m &. rallanar if Finney av., St. a ee ao wirde or leas, 20c, DO YOU KNOW that we loa: money to empioyes of firms yor corporations without mortcages. In« deraements of security of any kind: strietle enon- fidential; banks ble rate«: we Only cater to the tter element and will not make $5 or 810 loans, brt we will advance any sum from $25 and “upwards to any reputable emplove whose standing jirstifies it. we don't ask for any in- Gorser. Call end see os. Merchants’ Credit Co., 810 and 811 Be: urity Bldg, cor. 4th and Lecust. LE ee een ie LOANS B® negotiated on on furniture. Or apy security, at r cent per #nnum; business _ Strictly confidentis toom m 613% Chestnut et. ee ee ne LOANS on furniture, household £0008, etc.: lotvesrt rates; strictly confidential; call for rates ana terms. New York Finance Co., 208 Odd were _Bidg., Oth and Olive sts., opposite te Post-office MON EY to loan on “household | goods or “or other per- gona! security: low rates. MeNicholé Loan Co.., 1024 Market ot. MONEY loaned oa furniture. chines. bievyclesa: confidential. Co., 1238 Franklin ay. MONEY TO LOAN—Honsehold Loan Co. loans money on furniture, sewing machines, etc. 122% Franklin av., 2d floor. MONEY LOANED SALARIED | PEOPLE holding permanent positions with responsible conéerns upon the!r cwn names without re & easy payments. Solman, room 801, 211 N. 7th, st. MONEY Icaned on furniture, pianos. sewing ma- chines, bicy: les; no removal; small payments ac- cepted and ircerest saved; we give you a discount if loan is paid before uve; est. 1889. 1015 Morgan. "pianos, sewing ma- Eagle Financial You can borrow money from us on your furniture or piano at lowert possible rates; easy payments; no extra charges; you can get the full amount you borrow; business retry confidential. Fidelity _Broketage Co., 914% Olive st.. room 1 ee FURNITURE LOANS. ona. to loan on furniture at residence without removal; lowest rates: business strictly confiden- tial. UNION LOAN CO., 1005 Pine st. ~ EASY TERMS AND LOW RATES. On furniture, pianos and other personal property; husiness. strictly confidential: private toom, No, 210, adjoining main office. Cali or address A. D. Anderson, rooms 210 and 211, northwest corner 10th and Pine sts. SPECIAL SALE. We tave just put in i for n large lot of tajlor misfit and uncalled-for garments, sea- sonrble goods, at prices that should interest ou. FILLED CASE WATCHES We are also overstocked on ladies’ and gen- ¢ tlemen’s filled gase watches. All the stand- os make: of movements and cases. See he prices we will make for you. LARGEST INE OF UNREDEEMED PLEDGES IN THE CITY. THOS. DUNN LOAN. STORAGE AND MEKCAN- TILE CO, 912 FRANKL AV Money loaned on Personal Proper ty. west Rates of Interest. TITALIZED 1 AIR For Painless Extraction of Teeth, NO PAIN. NO GAS. Teeth extracted absolute- ly without pain by applica- tion to the gums. No charge for extracting when teeth are ordered. Guar- A Protective -antee for ten years “m@ with all work. SET OF TRETH......00. BEST TEETH (S, &. tit)... 6 GOLD CROWNS ooh of ‘Cheap Advertising Dentists. We have the lowest prices consistent with first- class work by dentists of long experience. NATIONAL DENTAL PARLORS, 720 oie st, Near Eighth Street. Evenings till 10, Oper Sundays 10 to 4. Full Set of Teeth $2. FREE CLINIC—FREE. '?" IN ORDER TO INCREASE OUR CLINIC, want every mau, woman and child in St. Louis to have their mouths exami : this col'e-e. WE DO 48 WE AD. Sony + AS Without Pain......... FREE Teeth Cleaned.... FREE Silver Fillings FREE Soft Fillings. . FREE 22-k Gold Crowns. $2.65 ALL WORK GUARANTEED. BOSTON DENTAL COLLEGE, 622 otive st. E COR. SEVENTH AN OPEN Y DAILY TILL 9 P.M. SUNDAY 10 to 4 ee terete DR: ‘£.'C. CHASE. DENTIST, SIXTH AND LOCUST Orie! Building. Gold Crowns.....85 Gold Fillings.....82 Plastic Fillings..$1 Best Set t Teeth.. .88 DR. REESE, DE NTIST. - ’ Painess Extracting. “Operations | Patniess. 714 Pine ‘at. ~ J, A. SHOBER, DENTIST. _ 211 N. TT x. SUITE 707, HOt AND BLDG, xe t Gold Crowe, $4 ALBANY RNTAL CO. TAKE EL EY STOR. ~ FOR Ld NEXT 30 DAYS — caeack? a aings sed" St and Sup- ST ee FIN ANCIAL. | Money to Loan at 6% On St. Iouls real estate. Interest and principal pagable monthly, semi-monthly or yearly; also building loans made; NO DELAY. ‘ MARSHALL BROS.. Agents, 318 UNION TRUST BUILDING. =e a a t LOANS | ON REAL ESTATE. ~ MONRY x) LOAN. We cite epecial attention to the isaning of money on St. Louls m make, without delay. loans ranging from $200 to $100,000. Rates. of interest as low as can be ob- tained on this market and with small expense te borrower, All applications answered promptly and money ready as soon as papers are signed. Parties fesiring a joan or a cenews! of existing loan are In- vited to call and see ANDERSON. WADE REALTY 60., Sth and Locust sts. Oe ee ee A MONEY to LOAN On St. Louis City Real Estate, in smati or large sums, at the lowest prevailing rates. RUTLEDGE & KILPATRICK 717 Chestnut Street. MONEY TO LOAN In any amount on city real estate. BUILDING LOANS A SPECIALTY. No de NICH OdeisS- RITTER, iene-ikaie 2292. 713 Chestnut st. $100, $200, $300, $400 AND $500 To loan at 6 = cent on real estate. E. NIE SE N. 705 Chestnut st. MONEY $100 to $10, 000 to loan on city real es.- tate; answer given immediately. Jno. H. Terry & Sons, 621 Chestnut st. REALTY co., .WE HAVE the following sums of money to loan: $10,000, ee tand two $2500 loans. NEWH! SE & SEGER, 118 N. th st. MONEY to Joan on St. Louis ‘real estate: : sums to suit. ADAM BOFCK & CO., 622 Chestnut at. a ee TYPEWRITERS. if words or less, 20¢c. TYPEW RITE! IS Remington, Smith Premier and rented or repaired. all makes bought, sold, G. BANTLEY, Phone, main 32022. 207 N. 10th st. TYPEWRITER REPAIRS. Best facilities afforded by the only fully equipped ndependent) repair department in the city. rompt and perfect work guarauteed. 0, G. BANTLEY, Phone, main 3022. 207 N. 10th st. PATENTS, 14 words or less, 20¢. PATENTS—Atty. fee reduced and contingent a allowance; reg. atty. §. G. Wells, 811 Chemic = 4 —_——_ —— ti ee ee ee ‘STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETIN NG. NOTICH—The annual meeting of stockholders o of the Commonwealth Realty Company, for the elec- tion of directors, will be held at the office of the company, Benk of Commerce vane. Tuesday, March 8, 1898. Polis open at i. THOMPSON, President. _EDWARD MALLING KRODT, Secretary. LIVE STOCK. National Stock Yards. NATIVE CATTLE—Recetpts, 675. Market about steady. No eae ere A eee ee $ vy a oS eae wea TEXAS S CATTL E—Receipts, 1400, darkest steady, ES. No. TDeacriptton. ZB2 steers ..c.ccees an Rl steers . 40 steers . 17 Louisiana steers ee 14 Louisiana cows 44 steers 20 cows 56 Texas steers SHEEP—Receipts, Description. TETRA EL ETE 938 475. Market steady a SALES. 9 lambe .ececce 15 cul's 1 buck No rr "HOGS—Receipts 5050, Market barely steady. 73 215 ..$4 15 205 . 10 ay On OD 00 on on 99 = Silky; $904; pics, market firm. g ~ 30 HORSES AND MULES—Rece! ints. GPO 690. and drivers for export. Southern horses are about steady. The best mules are about gteady. over, S379: market fairly active: steady to strong; light, $3.8504.05; mixed. $3.900M4.07%; beavy, #'s Sed i0 rough, Foot others weak: beeves, §3.! me 55: cows apd helfers, $2.10624.35; Texas steers, # SOs 80; stockers and Receipts, 5.000; market steady: ee a 83 .606M.60: lamba, $4.2 {i8. 60. Official Tre — logs—Recetpts, 40, shipments, 6747. Cattle— Receipts, 18,006; shipments, 4¥20. Shee; ) Receipts, to morrow. fo 000 KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 24. —Cattle—Recel ta, 424.00; Texas cows, 73.75: native steers, £2. 2 Sat 5.20; native cows and heifers, $2.2544.25: gtockers Bocoints . 14.500, Market steady to strong Bulk of sales, $3. Toayit 90; heavies, $3.75474.05; packers, $3.2523.75 Sheep—Re ‘‘eipta, 4000; Lambe, $4.6505.50; muttons. $861 24. mets ~Receipts, head: market «froncer for bes natiy ‘$3.00@4.50; weetern§ sileers, siockers and feedera/ $8.50604 70): 6.00; bolle, etegs. etc., $2. 3n6r8 mii xeal $2806 82%: leht bulk of ealee, BS SOGES S2\ Sheep Rece lp! s. 674.70; do westerns. $3.000 MO o pene and stock sheep, $3.0043.00; lambs, 84.254 host tae IS, Ming., Feb. 24.—Receipte to- “day — Whe cars; corn, 625 cars: oats. 345 cars CHICAGO, Feb, 24.—Ratimated receipts to-mor- ket is strong and active on t¢t beat Market slow on the Lenore kied. CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Hogs—Receipts, 34,000; left $8.854i3.95. Cattle—Receipts. 0.000: Teed steady: feeders, $82.404f4. 40. Shee 74.70; WP aon and shipments vesterday: 18,87 ene 761. Estimated roeeipte hogs 4000; market active, steady. Texas steers, 8: AS and feeders, $8.45; bulis, 2 704 75. Hogse— $3. 594: lights, $5.80er4: Yorkers. 4.75. OMATIA, Neb... Feb. steers, 82 (WIR ): cows and helfers ceiptsa, 5000 head: market stronrer: head; market steady: fair to chotre natives. $3 70 Grain Sept., $1. 13% | ee mS URB MARKET. Louis, 2 a m.—May ‘wheat, 997% uts, PRK C: ealls, ny o1t July wheat, 86+, yA ery puts, 837¢c; calls, 8 Corn- “May, 27%@ : puts, 2744e; calls, 27\4e. Chicago— May wheat Puts, $ £.0014@ 1.80%; calls, $1.06 b. July, 89%e; puts, 85}2¢ a; calls, Vi%e b Corn—May puts, 2956 ; calls, 30¢ b, "HE CHICAGO, $1.03% 4 y Corn—Feb.. 28 4c; s—Feb.. 205¢c n; sk lax—RSohth west, May, $f.25% b, . with the other grains celpta were comparattvely gn mand not g BAw my are, ee - as a some Ume the feeling was weak. beTe Was more tis | Oc opened 8t 270 asked apd was ofwred on cles without a sale before call. July ney te) Some t 24\%ec asked, sold at 24c and were . Louis to-day were 25,885 bush- red with 73,700 bushels a oo ago. f these i R 137 sacks and were local, as conipared with no sacks and 41 ‘care local ear a * Seep grates—On No. 2 oats had 20c bid and pote yashed wi none offered.. The other ote ony were entirely The sample market was quiet, bu % as of- ome, were very light. white oats wee worth 2c and No. * white , oe. Zi~e to 28¥e. No. 3 enlor sold at 44 ¢ and No. 2 mixed oats were worth from 26%c to 27T%c on track. Clearances of oats to-day were 154.817 bu. May oats were offered down to and July po were offered rey to 24%e late the ses- sion RYE. soenigts, 4900 bushels; shipments, 9130 bush- els On call there was no rye offered and no bids. The last sale of No. 2 rye was at We on track, but it is nominally lower to-das. One car of No. 2 rye sold on track at 49 4ec. FLOUR AND FRED FPLOUR—Receipts, 3700 . phils: shipments, bbis. Matket dull and very little doling. Potente call 909 Low to medium a mae = ons grits... we qu $3.75; RICAN Sa rect atiet. but 4 > Rualk bran worth Bye country points and 58 KE ride: sacked ha or a country points, 50@0c: this side. s li nga 2¢ mill at @8c and on , or held at Shipstuffa selling at 63@G5c E. side and 0G 70e this side. Receipta, 360 tons local: 510 tors through: ae Quot a7 tons. Market very dvll and bo Bn 0: uotat ‘ek ae —_ ry ; 1, 80: Ne. opel : “ sont ; we 7.50: Ke =. ‘m: layer a Sf far 8 % ‘$8 ‘Ne choice, over from $6@7.50 per ton for average: choice white elover hay is held at §8.60, bat sot selling. $5.50@6; tye STRAW—Cholee wheat given, — Straw, $6.50@7; oat are PRO Visi Onn. PORK—Market easter. Standard mease New, £10.75, —Market nominal at 5.05¢. for prime; for choice RACON—Jophing sales—Roxed lots: Shoulders, 5.80; extra short clear, 5.80¢: clear ribs, 6c; clear sides. 6 15e On orders. by dealers, Ye higher. DRY SALT—Shoulders, 5.45¢; clear sides, 6.806; clear rihe. 5.80c; ext¥a short clear, BREAKFAST BACON—On orders, 94@lle per nnd. AUGAR- CURED HAMS—9710¥ BEEF~—Mess, $748 per bbl; tongues, §6 per dozen. LEAD AND SPELTER LEAD Market dull and weak; offered at $3.60, with 83.57% bid per 100 Ibs SPELTER—Marke* “steady. _* $3.90 pér, 100 Ibs. ARL The market secinelana meen autet Prices rane from 30¢ per bu for feeding barley to 5S2ec for ¢eboice malting grain. ig OP $114@15e; cEDS. YLAXSEED—Market nominally lower at $1.19 per bu for as Iote on trk. CASTOR BEANS—Quiet at $1.15 per bu. BUC KWHRAT. T0@™c per 100 Ibs. CLOVER—From geal _ 100 Ibs for desirable seed down to $1 for IMOTHY-—-From $280 80 for good down to $1.50 to $1 for aa 100° Ibs for ehbotce THESE mixed, poor ‘Dp TOP— From $8. 50 for [T--German, $1041.30; bs. ON THE STR STREET. (The Post-Dispatch quotations are for car-lots in first hands, unless otherwise quoted. Orders are filled with cvolke goods and are higher. RUTTER AND CHEESE. BRU TTER-— ane ere 15 @15% 13 11% COUNTY BUTTER--Average receipts. °. CHEESE--Quiet. Wisconsin- Fail cream, twins, Oi4c; singles, O%c; Y. A.. 10%c; Southern Wiscon- sin and Illinow—Twins. Te; singies, T%c; Y. phe a skims, 8@5c; brick, from G6%4¢c for noor to 0c for choice; Swiss, N@ ize. Market lower at 11%c for stricthky fresh; cold storage selling for less. Receipts, 8175; shipments, 657( 6570 cases. —- ----@ --—-—- COFFEE. Reported by the Hanley & & Kinsella Coffee and s ‘0. _ ST. LOUIS, Feh. 24. Ist Call. Re Call. 3d Call. . 0.50 6.55 ». dara February: . 4.85 arch April — nh. 0 5. 6h 5.6 b -No. 7 Coffee Exchange standard. 8 mil, wb; exchange, ¢ 3833: receipts, 2 days, 16,000; clenr- ances, U. S., 12,000; Europe, “3000 ; ‘stock, 281, 0v0; market ah: SANTOS—Receipts, 2 days, 26,000; stock, 805,- 000; market quiet. COTTON. LOCAL MARKET-—Steady and unchanged. Sales, 260 bales. Quotations: octnag 4 1-16c; good or- rt 5 3-16; low middling, 5 7- tee: middling, 5 ood middling, 5 in 16¢ ; middling fair, 6 * Tages Wc and stains below white. ' WAREHOUSE STATEMENT TO-DAY. 1897-8, 1 Net receipts to-day Net receipts since Sept. Net shipments to-day Net shipments since Sept. Groas receipts to-day Gross receipts since Sept. (jrose shipments to~lay Gross receipts since Sept } Stock on band 0,! NEW YORK~—Spot dull; middling, Gc; closed quiet. Sales, 201, 000 bales. Closing Highest Lowest Closing Wednesday. To-day. To-day. Thursday. Aare f "6.02 5.99 5.89 fut ures February --O.17 6.18 , 6.15 6.15 Liviitboon Demand fair: prices 1-32d higher; uplands, 3 7-16d; sales, 12,000 bales. Futures opened steady 7 closed quiet and gered February . & 22-4 February and March March an April and “iy Muay and June June and July July and August August and September September and. October October and November MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 24.—-Wheat to-day opened lower in all de partinents May starting at from 81.04% to $1.05, compared with h yesterday’ ® closing price of $1.06. July started at tomy W%e to Vie. Under 4 general selling pressure price ven 1 quickly, May to §$1.04% and July to Ota English markets were weak and lower, Livérpool showing “di de- cline. The weakness was chiefly caused, however, by the bad break in the New York market over -inereasing war possibilities, which demoralized butis more or less and caused considerable long wheat to come or a tg supported market. Cov- ering by shorts on the decline caused a quick rally in May to $1.05% and In July to 91\%c. whieh was followed at once by still sharper reactions Trading was largely professional, and smaller traders let the market alone. A great deal of nervousness was shown and prices fluctuated rapidiy. After a de- cline In May to §1.04% and in July to 90% the market reacted again slightiy, but before, and for some time the market fuctuated within ce range. Northwest receipta wete 264 cars, against 250 last week end 198 a year ago. Corn and outs were fairly active and weak. Mar. kets sympathized with the break in wheat. There was cotiaiderable selling of stuff in beth May corn opened or lower at 30Uc, sold at a10eM sjd}avoy ‘oSg0H 2) ".08 %) Peay liberal—7#25 cars. May oats “i at 26y@20%c aod decilned to were 345 cars. Provisions were rather slow. A weak hog market and the genefal break in grain started prices lower. The decline in pork, which showed the most weak: ness, brovght out some stop-loas bu ing Was not heavy and market was fairly well hen ported later, good reactions resulting May opened Tic lower at $10.75, declined t to $10. 10" en ana reacted to $10.77%@110.80 and ¢ased in to $10.75: May lard ee a shade lower at §5.27% and sold at $5. 250 May ribs o _ a shade lower at 85.22%455 sc and sold at 20. db. 24. — Cash wheat, No 2 red - (Or apri sa + No, 5 ; Ne. 3 : 1.08 Cash corm—No. 2. Quah “c. Cash cate—No, 2, 26%e; No. “AGO, Feb. 24. —Cloee: Wheat, Feb... + May. $1 mat 2° 90%: Sept. 78. Corn 2h\,c; May, 20 %c; July, Sle; Sepe.. haga’ h- ‘onm. a ac ; . $10.60; ay. $10. $5.2); May, , SERNBNBES S22 SH SSM OS bot + oa BESEREL S2LELTE CHICAGO, Feb. HM. Flax Ceab. : May. $1.20%6F1 26: ( ‘ach and Feb., §2.95; ’ $2 97k, PRORIA, lll, Feb. 24-—Core—Rasy, lower; No, 2. Duc. Oats—Fuasy, fnactive; No. 2 white, Rre—Quiet. pomineal Whisky-—No quetations Butter, firm; creameries, ant AGO, Feb. 24. i Salries, | i] iis je oD firm ; ao ze sage ee fi py duc. Mo., Feb. 22%: Nesteicet $1.12%. Timethy— Eloquent Sermon an Pienabel by the Pas- tor of St. Bridget’s Church. “Lent and What It Means” was a subject for discourse in all the Catholic churches Wednesday night and there was an im outpouring of church-goers, all intent rayer and orn for the next #@ dayé. whe. Fathe Byrne of St. Bridget's seus toh a timely sermon, remind- | in 2000 communicants preaent of the. rm duties they were obiiged to form. He called attention to hypocritical Christ- ianity and criticised severely those who wore long plous faces at religious eervices and were unholy sco’ds at home. In par- ticujar 444 he attach the great ev!) of drunk- ennéss. He said a man genseless from h- ong was in the sight of God lower than e wildest: beast of the forest. The reverned preached cautioned his hear- era to observe Lent tn a devout manner, Se le, Ao, RIE I Ti a te PP which he remarked by no means excluded innocent pleasure or amusement. ing the sermon afhes were distributed and the familiar words “Remember man. thou art but dust. and unto dust thou ehalt re- js al prorounced over each of the faith- ul, Gen. Breck to Retire. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Gen. Samuel Brock, adjutant-general of the army. w Il be retired to-morrow on account of age, end it is altogether probable that his successor will be Col. Henry T. Corbin, who its in: direct line for promotion. ee et ee oe ) rregwiar; No. i hard, 90c; No. 2, 88 AST" *; No. 1 red, 04@95e; No. 2, . No. 2 spring, 85457c: No. 3, oe ~ men lye lower; = No. 2 mixed, . Oats very firm: No. 2 white. 2644127 ¢. io. 2, die Hay —— otenay choice choice EE rie, Butter 15q@18e; iry, sSepiec. Eggs at at Abe ORK, Feb. 24.—Butter—Receipts, 3€00 slow and i tluothys, steady; at creamery, > Foliow- | pecteages: firm; Western creamery, 14% @2%; E)- gine, 0c; factory, 1l@l4e. Cheese—Receipts. a packages; quiet and steady; September, S'¢c; October, &@rS'4c;: light skime, ; part skicas, 4@5\c; full akime, se. Eggs—Receipts, 8008 ackaghs ; flym; and Pennsylvania, 1c; restern, 15c, Sugar—Haw, firm; fair refining, I 1-160; centrifugal 06 test, 4 3-ldc; refined, firm; crushed, 5c; powdered, S%c; grapulated, Se. Coffee—Eas sy. LIVERKPUOL, Feb. 24.—Closing: Wheat wae and lower; Mareh, 7s 114d; May, Te Gud: July, 7s 3d: .. O& Td: Dee. . Cora quie d »., 89 6d; Mareb, 30 4 ay, 3s 3'4d; MONEY. The rates of domestic e: exchange, as quoted by cm ui. kiwards & Sons Byokerage Co., are as ollows: New York—@0c discount bid; wee, discount asked. Chicago—10¢ discount bid; sked. Cincinoati—10e discount bid: eer asked. Louisville—l0c discount; par discount asked, New Orleans—10c discount bid; par esked. St. Louis bank clearings to-day were $5,734,801; balances, at 565 UNITED aha BONDS. Coupon. rom Mar Bid. Asked 99! =. reg. .. 48 cp 4 in cola 1907 S. os reg. & in coin 1807 G from Jan, 118% 114 . §. 58 ep 5 in coin 1907 Q from Jan. 114 . »S. 48 reg. 4 in eojin. 1026 frow Mar. : ), S. 48 cp 4 in coin 1925 Q from Mar. ST. LOUIS STUCKS AND BONDS. 24. ST. LOUIS, Feb, ‘STOCKS. American Exchange Bank . Boatmen'’s Bank Mechanics’ Bauk Nat. Bank of Commerce . St. Louia National Bank . Third National Bank oy Louls [rust Co Louis & Suburban Ry. seat U whe. Depot Ky. bonds, 258... . do do 15-208 Giranite Mountain Missouri Electric 2 Brewery bonds Missouri-Falcon Simmons Hardware Co..+«..... Chicago Stock Quotatious. ony by A. G. Edwards & Sons Brokerage 0.: CHICAGO, Feb. 24. a ee ee ee | STOCKS. nen High. Send > Biseult com (le pfe llilnois . ‘s j ov 47 \w) Diamond Match | 139%)! 130%, | 137 West Chicago Street Ky. ; QS',) YS%) 07 137 OT New Yorx Stocks, Corrected dully by Whitaker & Hodgman, bond and stock brokers, 500 North Fourth street, NEW Saar _Fe sb. 24. _ Yoven.| P- | Low. Ketiag Amer. Spirite .. do do pid ' American Cotton Ol) Co; Amer, Sugar Kef, © do do do pfi pfd.... Baltimore & Bur. & Quincy Canada Pacific . Canada Southern .. Central Pacitic Chesapeake & Uhio Chocagu Gas do ist Gen. Electric Co.... lilinois Central lilimois Steel .. atsas & Texas do “de pfd *“ereeee eae Laclede Gas .... Erie & W. e Louisville & Nasiville . Manhattan Con einen my Central Mfesourt Paecttic & Ohio * do do pfd Nat. Linseed New Jersey Central New York N. ¥., CG @ St. rm do 2d pfd Y., Susq. & Western! re do. pfa North American Northera Pacific do do pfd .. Northwest Ontario a Western re Pacific Mall , Pullwan Palace Car ... Heading Kock Isiand slower than | c.¢ 454g. 28c. st. L. & SB. FB. ist pfd.. 24 pid = do 23 , L. $ ice i ie Rtiver ull “tis . Leut Mig is is] am r way...... ge My. ptd..ss+- 2 - , be tevseeces| 1D, BCIBC ceesese we Union Patifie sebeescesal ay U. SB. Leathe? ...ce0es.! Ws, ber ease ecececeteos : 16 . Rub 8. weed egestas ts 65% hi Money on Call. NEW YORK, Feb, 24.—Money on Call, ogpinely See pee cent; prime mercantile paper, cent. Sterjiag exchange hea ness ip bankers’ billa at mand and at $4.8 2 Yo dete ‘Sat: rates, $4.84 «a ; commercial = Ml eaptibenten, 1 om at Witec; bar oh her Mexican dollars, 45\c. saggy = ne weak; new a. Pie epee, Pree 142; +. do ce : ie , do coupen, 113 ‘44s; Pesine der nee. ‘wo, i Silver Quotations. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Siliver fsctticates, 1000 oz at S0%e; har sliver, 85%; esican dollars, ILLINOIS REVENUE BICL. Conference Report Accepted and Ad. ' journment/Is in Sight. pecial to the Post-Diepatch. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Feb. %.—The House accepjed the conference report on the reve- nue measure by/a vote of 78 yeas to # Western ie ree. nays. 126; das ee a ee ee) from Russia “SEND TO ANITCHKOFP PALACE, ST. PETERSBURG, IMMEDIATELY, ONE DOZEN VIN MARIANI FOR IMPERIAL MAJESTY, EM- PRESS OF RUSSIA.” Ordered by the Court Physiciaas. (MARIANI WINS) THE IDEAL FRENCH TONIC, At Druggists and Fancy Grocers. Avold Substite- tions. ~ “DEATH TO ALL SPANIARDS.” A Sign on a Straw Man and a Wild Rush of Police. The telephone in the Fourth District Po- lice Station jingled Thursday morning in ~ such a business like way that Capt. Peter Joyce took off his spectacles, laid aside his | newspaper and walked over to take the ' message in person. “A horrible murder has been committed ' at €21 North Twentieth street,” came over a we “Send your best 'man up here, quick.” The excited speaker rung off before the Captain had time to ask for additional fac The order was given to hurry out the patrol wagon and every available officer im the station house was told to go in pur- suit of the murderer. It was a Quick*trp to 821 North Twen- tieth streets. As the wagon dashed up in front of the house the corpee was eapied In the gutter. It was coverel with a blood- smeared sheet, and throu the body was still sticking a butcher k e, The officers fairly tushbled over each other getting out of the wagon. They jerked the sheet from the corpse and found straw man. His features; were . stal with red ink and tomato ketchup, and the knife pinned to the breast a note which. read: DEATH TO ALL SPANIARDS! The officers returned in disguet, but Capt. Joyee Was not much put out when he was told of the | sentiment on the sign. SHIPMAN BANK ROBBED, -—-—- >--—_— Big Safe Blown Opon, but Little Money Ob‘ained. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SHIPMAN, lll, Feb. 24.—The Shipman Bank was entered by burglars at 1 o'clock this morning. The vault doors were blown open and the big safe shattered. ashier Metcalf gays $10 in pennies was all that was taken. The robbers were frightened away while at work and did not get Into the inner steel safe, nove maps the money. It was Se work of experts tro-glycerine was wu Four explosions were heard. loss is covered by insurance. Sheriff Daven- port came from Carlinville at 5 a. m. = will investigate. GEN. WARNER APPOINTED. United States Attorney for Western District of Missouri. WASHINGTON, Féb, 4.—The President to-day sent the following nonfnations to the Senate: Willlam T. Fee of Ohlo, Consul at Clen- fuegos, Cuba Christian L. Lindstrom, Receiver of Pub- fc Moneys at Grand Forks, N. Ernest Kent, Register of the Land Office at Grand Forks, N. William Warner, Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, SURGEON BAILEY FOUND DEAD. The Attendant Circumstances Point te. Suicide. WASHINGTON, Feb. &.—Passed Aass's- tant Surgeon T. R. Bailey, U. 8. N., was found dead in his room at the Albany this morn! ing under conditions that lead to the belief that he had committed suicide by tak- ing cocaine, He left a letter providing” the distribution of his effects, exp fear that he was about to die from h 'disease. The officer had juat ages bel to a tour duty in China and was assign Washington Navy Yard. DIED OF HIS WOUND Dr. Hartsell Passed Away and His Enemy Is Almost Dead. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb, 4&.—Dr. J. H. reigns who was shot in a shooting affray h Wiltam K. Elifott yesterday, died to. from the effect of the rareee feonvee, z » tag ae was also shot, is at the point of deat WILL BE PASSED FRIDAY. Ward Revision Bill Will Become Law in Spite of Protests. The City Counct! in special meeting Wed- nesday evening gave the ward revision or- dinance its second-reading, and referred it | to the Committee on Legislation, composed - of Thuner, Kratz and Gast, P co ee wie me et rare parneee oy ‘ avora riday night's s“meeting. when it wlll be passed without 4 = There are a few strenucus Ob eotipne to changes wrought by the bill, bu So aoe erally acceptable, and there win be no change in the programme to pans | ST. CHARLES NEWS. Constable Coleman Castilo of township brought a ne named - Ham from Mechanicsville to, place him in . the ete jail here to serve out a sen- cones of days and costs for disturbing Cribben, the 18-year-old riiiame residence _ Wert Mad street nesday afternoon at 3:0 o'clock. been ti] for more than six a a with _typhoid fever. The funeral qill from the contin LONDON, Pet. 24.-Cenecis for money, 112 11-16; for the sccount, You have a thousand dollars, more or less, and «a family to support. You- can buy an established business Ss camem Gaim ert ar: oy

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JUNTESS AS A SEAMSTRESS, Wife of a Wealthy New York- er Found by Detectives. SHE IS NOW IN ST. LOUIS. — HAS BEEN ABSENT FROM HOME A YEAR FIGHTING THE MOR- PHINE HABIT. NOW IS WILLING TO RETURN. —— oer Count and Countess de Plasse Sepa- rated After a Quarrel, and She, Too Proud to Return, Worked as a Servant. Countess Marie de Plasse, wife of Dr. Comte Louls de Plasse of 29 East Twenty- seventh street, New York City, who has been mysteriously missing from her fash- jonable Eastern home for a year, has been Jocated in St. Louls by one of Chief Des- mond’s men. She is at St. John’s Hospital. The firet trace of her was secured at Mr. and Mrs. Wickham’s residence, 27 Vande- vefter place, where she was employed as @ dressmaker. From there she was sent to the Female Hospital and leaving there a week agro ee went to St. John’s, where she is acquainted with the mother’ superior, At this place she is waiting until she can accure a situation, She was known at the city institution and at Mrs. Wickham’s as Alice Murris. A quarrel with her wealthy husband, who is connected with the New York Hospital, and who is associated with Dr. William Bull. the famous surgeon, is the principa. cause of this proud woman's wish to lve incognito, Countess de Plasse claims that the last family quarrel was due to her appetite for morphine. Her husband, she says, is to blame for this habit, as he administered morphine to her fourteen years ago soon after they were married. Later he showed attent.on to another woman, she 6ays, and to drown her sorrow she began to use the drug. Dr. Louis de Plasse, Countess de Plasse gays, is a Belgian nobelman. He was royal physician for the King of Belguim and was quite a figure in fashionable Paris society. Mrs. de Plasse was a resident of Paris. She was then a girt in her teens, though now 32, and was remarkably beautiful, The doctor, who is 23 years her senior, there met her for the first time. Subsequently she heard that he had left for this country. “IT believe that trouble,’ eald Mrs. “Time passed and wealthy Frenchman, ing, Lyon County, Kan., named Francis Boequin. She wrote to me of a wealthy farmer who lived near them and who, she eaid, had seen my picture and had become infatuated with me. “I went to my sister’s and saw this farm- er. 1 couldn’t like him and I soon left to return home. At New York City I was taken sick at a hotel, and a doctor was culled. I] had gaid that I preferred some foreign doctor and what was my surprise to meet Dr. de Plasse drain Jie was king and later said he loved me. He pro- posed and when I secured the consent of ny guardian aunt in Paris we were mar- ried. “A girl baby came. old. Soon after she nurse was called in. She was a Paris- fenne; not pretty, but talkative and co- quettish. I was not pleased with her and when I watched I discovered that she went to the. doctor’s study after I retired. One evening I saw her kiss my husband. I jumped in through the locked glass door and ordered her out. “My heart ached so after this that I felt I could not stand it, and it was then that I sought the relief that I thought would come from morphine. “When my anger wore away and my law- yer had assured me that the doctor had not even seen any more of the woman, and that he had gone su far as to send her back to Paris, I tried to discontinue the use of the drug. But 1 could not. A year ago, maybe it was longer, I became determined ‘to stop and my husband joining with nie, arrange: to have me visit my eister, Mrs. Boequin, at Reading Kan., where I was to take spe- cial treatment, “At this place my pride was injured by my brother-in-law, and one night after bed- } time I slipped away and left the place. I was cured of the thabit, fully cured, but I] had made a new enemy.. My brother-in- law wrote something to my ‘husband, and when I wrote to him and gaid that I was cured and was prepared to return and be a dutiful wife to him and a mother ‘to my adit he replied that he did not want me. “Later I received a second letter from my husband's attorn: y, asking me to come back; then another, off: ring me an annuity and a sum of money if I would Ss.gn away the right of a mother to my child and agree to live separate from my husband. “Not for one million dollars would I sign the paper. This was in April, 1897, and emce I have not written to New York un- th a few days ago. I guess my husband’s a tone what te tells and he ts probably at 8: o tell our many friends. Some H cot ge Save me &@ rec ption at the Waldorf ee just before I left for the West, A week ago I learned that a private detective. with orders from my husband, was looking = me. He had a letter from my hus- an he had some political de Plasse. my sister married a who lives at Read- She is now 11 years Was born an extra “I wrote Monday to my husband, telling What I was doing and where I was, |] told him of the additional trouble he had caused gh Ate detectives shadow me, and dbieadged [to be jet alon : 1 DS cgnge Bd © sO that I could “IT want to write all this out for my ebin s0 that when she gets older she will be Poors coat though her mother erred itn some nes that she was goo and virtuous goed, upright "On the other hand, how nice it would be to return to my elegant home! My ehild, I know, expecta me every dav ané I know that the same friends who gave me a reception at the hotel when I left, be- Neve that IT am still at sister’s and are anxiously awaiting my return.” Mrs. de Piavse said later to the Mother Superior that if her husband would send for her now that she micht return. Thies information was forwarded by Chief Des- mond to Capt. Kipp in New York City together with the location of Mra. de Plasee The Mother Superior at the hospital speaks well of the Countess. we 2 ee — —- ae Officiar facsimile of Medal Awarded DR. PRICE’S - CREAM BAKING POWDER 4 r= 2 . ea na = cnet Mei ( Bias aay tetas b? sivdti. » ———— a + beats ur. F . Ce — oe A te ae = ry ~ » * \ Ue 4” A a Individual Condiment Sets. 8 pleces— brilliant imitation cut giass—looks like the genuine—wortkh lsc — Dumped to Galvanized iron Wash Tabs. Can not rust, Yellow Mixing Bewls. Small size—only ae Imitation Jut 11-inch Cake Stands— worth 28c—Dumped to 4-inch Sauce Plates— each — Dumped to Lace Curtain Stretchers —worth $1,.25— laa & Alarm Clocks —good time-keep- warn st; 57 Dumped to 10c Bean Potsicame as shown in 10c cut,Famous Price, each Worth 48c—for 3%0 Worth S8sc—for 43ec Worth 69c—for 480 Picture Hooks Dumped 3¢ to, per dozen, only ow lroning Boards —same as shown in cut—regu- lar price $1.00— 63c Dumped to 2 10c 10c 3c Glass Vases—only Dumped to 79 -} Men’s and ony Ad Sweaters—worth 7 just completed, is « new and etartling factor tirely new territory, with more exte Castes States 100 busy, bustli T ARTHOR, the new seaboard an ve patura) wns. Thousands of acres d southern terminus, destiaed For full information, descriptive literature, maps, etc., call on or MARMADUKE & MUDD, General Ageats Land Dept., K. C., P. 24.8. R, 305 Union Tract Bidg., St. Louis, Me. ALLOA, belt inte eet be a at Las Sa ae Men’s Furnishings. Bound to make a clean sweep of the balance of this season's stock. Friday and Saturday endsit. Take a hand. Friday—we offer you Men’s Colored Border Han.ikerchiefs— 2c worth 5c—at the Dumped price of Men’s 75c Laundered Percale Shirts—with collars and cuffs attached—also colored bosom 38c white body Shirts—all Dumped to 10c llen’s 50c and 75c Undershirts and Drawers —odd lots—all Dumped pont tg ol at one pr Plen’s Suspenders—the good 25¢ kind have been Dumped Friday to 25c 39¢ 39c ce for Friday—per garment 75c—will be Dumped Friday for a quick clearance to Misses’ School Umbrellas— worth 5c — Friday — Dumped to Shoes Slaughtered — in the wind-up of this great sale. Men’s $2.00 Satin Calf Shoes — half doubie soles — plump up- pers — coin, opera and plain toes—all leather and well made — clean and fresh—sizes 6 to 1l— Dumped - $I 35 to the remarkable price of ° Ladies’ $1.50 Vici Kid Lace and Button Shoes —coin toe—flexible soles—pat- ent tip—all solid —sizes 24 $I 19 to 8—-Dumped Friday to only ws Children’s $1.25 Genuine Dongola Lace Shoes —opera toe—patent leather tip—spring heels—good weight and stylish— 79¢ : : : E : sizes 84g to 1l—Dumped to only —— eee i NEGRO IN HER ROOM, MISS SHERLOCK OPENED A CLOSET AND PUT HER HAND ON HIS HEAD. SHE SHRIEKED FROM TERROR. The Robber Fled, Fell Downstairs and Escaped, Although a Crowd Pursued Several Blocks. Miss Jessie Sherlock, a lodger at Mrs. Graf's boarding house, 1310 Olive street, found a negro in the closet of her room Thursday morning. He madea dash for lib- erty and there followed an exciting chase through the streets, the pursuers being led by a fellow-boarder and two city detectives. Miss Sherlock occupied the second-story front at Mrs. Graf's. She had planned a shopping tour down town for Thursday morning, and after breakfast went to her reom for her cloak, She pasty opened the closet door and reached in for the cape. Instead of feeling the familiar folde of the garment her fingers rested upon something woolly. She threw the door wide open nad peered in. Then she screamed. In the corner was crouched a big negro. With a cry for help Miss Sherlock tot- tered toward the bed, leaving the exit from ihe room unguarded. The robber apprecia- ted this and running into the hall half fell down the steps and rushed out the front door into the street. George Smith, a boarder, responding to the youne woman's call, saw the man leave the house and etarted in pursuit. The negro ran east to Seventeenth atreet, Seuth. Smith gathered reinforcements as he sped along the trail, and soon a score of citizens had joined him, and all cried, “ston thief." At Seventeenth and Olive streets, two city detectives joined Smith. The pursued kept his gait toward the south, and half way between Pine and Chestnut streets turned into am alley. Through an open back gate pe Saahes. up fae gare ~~ into another ; . e went on rou again and pm e j Eh into Pine gtreet Miss riock suffered no ioss further than so small change aeonner. #° that was in her Paintings of Benoist Ancestors Award- ed to Miss Benoist and Miss Bogy. Trouble over the pictures of the Benotst ee ee eae ee Attorney Ottofy and Conde B. Pallen almost coming to blows. It was developed at the hearing that San- uinet Benoist’s daughters, Miss Bugenia enoist and (Mrs, Corinne Bogy, desired pos- session of the paintings in order t@transfer them to Howard A. Benoist for $8,000, in or- der to save their property, from foreclosures of mortgages, some of which were held by Conde B. Pallen. They claimed to ‘have property in the pictures by authority of the owner and that Mrs. Bogy had a lien on them for work in retouching them. A jury awarded the pictures to the daugh- ters and the famous paintings will have to come down from the walls of the Pallen mansion, f BOYS’ SPRING SUITS at one-half of last season’s prices. The only fault they have is that they were made last season. We want to open March 15 with all new goods and therefore we offer good Spring Suits for $2.50 which we sold for $5 last season, ages 5 to 15, Knee Pant Suits. MILLS & AVERILL, Broadway and Pine. Suspected Burglars Arrested. James Wood, who the police say is an ex-convict and notorious “stick up” man, and his pal, John Mattison, were arrested by Sergeant Maher of the Fourth District Wednesday afternoon. They are sus- pected of numerous burglaries. ITCHING inherited Eczema, She received the best medical atten. nina whatever. 8.58. 9, CZEM the disease, so that been saved from 8. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable, tion, was — many patent medi- was finally given, she is cured sound and well, her what threatened and isthe only cure for deep seated ancestors resulted from the repievin eult i trial in Justice Cline’s court Sy ednesday, cines, and used various external and it promptly skin is perfectly clear and pure, to blight her life Jenkins, Litho- | blood diseases. ' applications, but they had no effect reached the seat of and she has forever.” E. D. S S S nia, Ga. paaaan gant 0p Ayes, Dem Agee Cog , BROADHEAD ON THE SITUATION The Former Diplomat Has Little Hope That War Will Be Averted. Col. James O. Broadhead, ex-Minister to Switzerland, in his lecture on international law before the senior class of the St. Louis Law School Wednesday, concerning the Maine disaster and the Cuban situation said: “If itis found that the Maine was destroy- ed by a mine or by a torpedo under the au- thority of the Spanish government or the Spanish officers at Havana it would be/a casus belli. The real question is: How, by: whom and by what authority was the Maine destroyed?’’ f it is found by the Naval Board of In- y sang that the destruction of the Maine was ue to the act of a crank or person not un- der the authority of Spain or Spanish of- ficers there would be no casus belll. ‘I understand that the entire harbor of Havana is coverefl with mines. If this is the case it is hard to see how Spain could be held to have been acting negligently in guiding the Maine Into the harbor, unless it was done with the intent that she should be destroyed. “It was certainly Spain’s duty to exercise the highest degree of care with reference to these mines. If shethas done this the United States cannot claim indemnity for the lose of the Maine. If the Spanish officials were negligent in permitting persons to come in contact with the wires operating these mines and the destruction of the 'Maine could be traced to such negligence then the United States would have a claim for in- demnity against Spain for the loss of the ship and for the loss of the sailors’ ives and it would be a casus belli. “I understand the President and a part BABY HUMORS Instant relief for skin-tortared babies and rest for tired mothers fn a warm bath with Cuticura Boar, and a single application of Curioura (ointment), the great skin cure. The only speedy and economical treatment for itching, burning, bleeding, ecaly, and pimply bumors of the skin, scalp, and blood. (uticura world. Potres Dave re Crum Avery cat Coproagatios, = Hew te Cure , Stories down the elevator shaft last Wed- When oe = -* walled free, HES "cotta T83},”. a. ——_ = of hig cabinet do not favor United States interference in the ‘Cuban situation. It seetmns the people of the United States. and their senators and representatives are rowing more and more in favor of the nited States recognizing the belligerency of Cuba. There is no reason why Cuba shoulg not be recognized as a belligerent. There is a gtate of war existing in the island and the people have established a de facto government. “Some of our representatives and some of our people favor the annexation of Cuba to the United States. I do not see that the United States would gain any- thing by such a step. The Cuban people are @ mixed race, composed of negro, f, - dian and Spanish blood, and could bring et Httle to our institutions and civiliga- on, “I have hope that the between Spain and the be adjusted without little reason, howeyer, I am convinced that the time for America to interfere in the Cuban situation is at hand. For the past few years our com- merce with Cuba has been greatly crip- pled, in fact, almost destroyed. I believe the United States ought to interfere for both for the sake of humanity and for the sake of American commerce.” FOUND A LONG LOST BROTHER. Elevator Accident Leads to a Reunion of Brother and Sister. Walter Shiever of 5347 Garfield avenue, a 17-year-old boy employed by Minor E. Hauser who keeps the cigar and news stand in the Century building, fell elght present yen United States will war. have very for this position. nesday. The accident was reported tn the nts editions of the Post-Dispacch on that ay. The publication led to a reunion between @ brother and sister who had not seen each other for seventeen years. Mrs. Thrasher Hall of 8206 Lucas avenue was a ise Hauser. When she was 13 years old her father died and her brother, Minor, moved iar from Little Rock, where the fanilly live He went to the West, and when years afterwards he returned and tnauired for his sister he could met no trace of her. A year ago e came to St. Louis, not know- Hn his sister had married and settied —_ wall Ay g- name in the item we me an, and there was ST. LOUIS MAY SECURE IT. Grand Lodge of Elks May Meet Here a in 1899. 6 annual meeting of the Grand 4 Lodge of the Elks for 1299 may be securel for at. —— At to-night’, meeting of Bt vis ge No. 8 it will be :lecided wheth not to put forth the necessary effort ‘A commnittee appointed sever] weeks’ - to consider the advisa ty of it will port. and if favorable om is delegates to the Grand meet in May’ at New OLD W. S. STONE Phone, Main 1668A. 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Zeno 1890 Sour Mash, Sweet Cider, per GalleO .«-ssces sense 180 Oolong, Im perial, Belle of Nelson, = = (OC quart Blue Ribbon, bottle, 4c WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. MAILED FREE. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “OASTORIA.” AND “PITOHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK, | J, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusette, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now on every bear the fac-simile signature of < wrapper. This is the original « PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. the kind you have always bought LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is » on the and has the signature per. No one has authority from me to use wrap my name ex of cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is A sasuke Serta tr Do Not Be Deceived. 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