St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 26, 1902

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“Kansas City, $300,000; J ; Louisiana, FANNY CROSBY, Who wrote “Safe in the Arms 5060 other hymns has written a for tomorrow's SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH. of Jesus” and Spring Hymn THE ONLY ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH {fHE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES.’ VOL. 54, NO. 248, ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1902. PRICK | In St. Lowina, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. DELUGED AND cir) SHAKEN BY WIND Storm From Prairies Swept Over St. Louis. mee ee ee BLEW FORTY MILES AN HOUR APPARATUS OF WEATHER BU- REAU WAS CARRIED AWAY. Precipitation of Rain Was One-Half Inch, Which Was Much Less Than Thet in Chicago and St. Paul. A windstorm which was almost a cyclone Yaged over St. Louis at intervals from sun- down Friday until 5:39 o'clock Saturday morning. It came from the plains of Kansas and from the Missouri valley, and is the same storm which ravaged Concerdia, Kan., Fri- day morning. It passed toward the lakes, and was heard from shortly before nocn Saturday at Grand Haven, Mich. hortly before 4 o’clock Saturday morn- fng the wind gained a velocity of 38 miles an hour. How hard it blew after that time will fever be exactly known, agjhe anemometer, which registers the velocity of wind, blew @way {rom its moorings on top of the Fed- eral bullding. Dr. Hyatt, who had sup- posed the apparatus so securely fastened that a tornado could not move it, is now rigging up another instrument of the same port, with ball and chain attachment. : With the wind came rain, beating agalfst walls and windows with the force of hail. One-Lalf inch of rain fell during the Night. according to the official precipitation records. It was a heavy rain, but less heavy than those experienced in some other cities. In St. Paul the precipitation was 2.86 inches, end in Chicago 1.26 inches. Wind and rain wrought havoc in St. Louis during the night. Trees were uprooted and broken in all parts of the city, fences were blown down and chimneys were wrecked. In gome parts of the city sheds and barns were @emolished. The storm has passed, Observer Hyatt be- Jieves, and he says that the weather will be fair Saturday night and Sunday, and probably Monday, with lower temperature and possibly frost Saturday night. he temperature at 7 o'clock Saturday gnornin was 62 degrees. The frost, if it comes, is guaranteed to be of a mild sort, and not to do great dam- OF enti: J Or. Hyatt say$ that the wind must have reached a velocity of miles an hour or ere to blow his anemometer away. The nstrument’ was constructed of hollow brass cups, which revolve rapidly in the wind. “Twill give a cos and a pleasant smile to anyone who will find my anemometer and return it,”’ said Dr. yatt. ‘‘Per- haps Santos-Dumont might find it if he were here with his airship, for I think {t went along with our +windstorm.”’ CITY DAMAGED BY THE WIND - ot Wires, Trees and Billboards Were Blown Down and Roofs Badly Wrecked. Henry Schmothorst was driving a two- horse ice wagon south on the Broadway tracks at 3 o'clock Saturday morning. The wind had blown a large tree across the Kinloch telephones wires, breaking them and leaving one of the wires across the trolley. The wire hung down across the tracks dnd became fully charged. Schmo- thorst drove into this wire without de- tecting its presence. When the wire came in contact with one of the horses the ani- mal was killed instantly. Schmothrost naged to get the other horse out of the | rness withvut his coming in contact with | the current. The horse that was killed was valued at $200. ‘The plate glass front of Duff & Davis- gon’s grocery at Sidney street and Virginia avenue was wrecked by the wind at 11:40 o'clock Friday night. he damage is esti- mated at $150. Bulletin boards 120 feet long, between Hickory -street and Chouteau avenue, on Grand avenue, was blown down by the wind Friday night. The mansard roof on the _ three-story brick building at 3145 Easton avenue was re- moved by the wind Friday night. The uilding was 35 feet wide, and is owned by acob Kuntz of 3121 Thomas street. The cornive and part of the roof of the Dullding at 2605 and 2607 North Taylor ave- ue was removed by the wind Friday night. he building is owned by Fred Schreer, and ‘the damage is estimated at $300. The front of J. Buckman’'s feed store at 08 North Seventh street wag blown in Friday night's wind and was’ damaged A builetin board # feet long and 12 feet high at Broadway and Penrose street was blown down during the storm Friday after- oon. Robert Thoma, 4 vears old, of 96 enrose street, was playing on the pave- ment near the board at the time. Some of the boards struck hirn on the head, and In- fiicted a scalp woud that was dressed at the North End Dispensary. The wound ds not serious. The wind blew the cornice from the two- gtory brick dwelling at 230% Warren street at 6:% o'clock Friday afternoon. The house owned and occupied by Timothy Calla- n. $550,000 FOR NEW POS TOFFICE Appropriation Bill Providing Pub- lic Building Funds in Congress. Gpecis! to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 2%.—The public buliding bjll was introduced in the House today. It provides $978,000 for new buildings Missouri as follows: St. Louts, $550,000; oplin, $35.000; Ne- 000; St. Joseph, Hampshire and Idaho are the only exceptions to the states and territories pro- for in the bill. The amount ve tated to St. Louis is for a new posto 7 MRS, CABANNE LOST HER SUIT Jury Found for the Transit Company. SHE ASKED $15,000 DAMAGES ALLEGED SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY A MOTORMAN. Suit Was the Sequel to an Encounter Between ‘“‘Dute” Cabanne and the Car Crew Last De- cember. Mrs. D. L. Cabanne’s $15,000 damage suit against the St. Louis Transit Co. was brought to a close at 1:30 o’clock today when the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant company. The most of the morning session of the court was taken up by the arguments of the counsel on both sides. Mrs. Cabanne and her husband were in the room sur- rounded by friends. She was deeply interested in the argument of her attorney, Dan Taylor, who dwelt upon the allegation that a beautiful woman had been maliciously assaulted by a transit company motorman, and that for such un- gallant act on the part of one of its ser- routs the company should be severely pun- shed. Instruction Was Unprejudiced. Judge Hough instructed the jury that in case they found that Mrs. Cabanne had been injured as the petitiqn alleged they were to find for her In the sum of $15,000. During the argument of Mr. Hocher, the attorney for the transit company, Mr. Tay- lor objected to the mention of Mrs. Ca- Dannc’s ayege 4 in the previous trial, in which she is said to have testified that it was the intention of her husband and her- self tu leave the car at Boyle avenue. The center of Mr. Hocher’s efforts was to show that the couple remained on the car after they had passed their destination, and he argued that this was done in order to bring about the fight between Mr. Ca- banne and the conductor, out of which the present damage suit arose. Mrs. Cabanne Watched the Jury. In his argument following the defendant's address to the jury, Mr. Taylor said that Mrs. Cabanne had suffered from a “black eye” and a broken hone in her face. While the judge was charging the jury Mrs. Cabanne watched them closely, and her face bore evidence of the strain she had undergone during the past three days. She smiied when her attorney scored a point in her taver and shook her head when the dcfendant’s attorney made the best of some remark made by her. legal adviser. ; ren-te 2hergury at 11:20, and they were instructed that if nine. of their number agreed to a verdict, the verdict would stand. When. the fina] ballot was taken, the vote stood nine for the transit company and three for Mrs. Cabanne. WOMAN DICT OR COUNTERFEITING MRS. MABEL EVANS AND FOUR OTHERS HELD. The case was BABY WITH HER IN JAIL She Was Arrested in St. Louis Feb. 12 and With Infant Went to Prison in Montgomery, Mo. The federal grandjury made a partial re- port Saturday noon and returned indict- ments against 11 persons. Mrs. Mabel Ivins, who was arrested on Feb. 12 and who carried her 2-months-old habyv to jail with her, is among the persons indicted. She 1s charged with making and passing | ten no less than 5000 hymns, and no other $5 counterfeit gold coin. Her husband, Ben- jamin Ivins: Charles Davis and his wife, Stella Davis, are charged with the same offense by indictment. The four were arrested in their rooms on Pine street last winter. ones gw spon on taking her baby to ; fi er, sayin h e Sonne Marae ying she had no other way Jailer Huebler objected to Allowing Mrs. Ivins to care for her child in the St. Louis jail, and after she and the baby hag been detained in Matren Kintzing’s detention reoms for feveral days the federal authori- tics decided to send the mother and child | i¢_the county jail at Montgomery his was done and the no harm during its prison bars. Other prisoners indicted are as follows: Milton Cooper, two indictments for pAss- ing harles EF. avis, Stella Davis, ma feit gold coin. Charles Ragsdale, counterfeiting. Harry Reynolds, stealing letters contain- ing money out of the United States mails. cerling P, Ragsdale, mailing obscene let- ers. George White, larceny. ELKINS IS A UNION VETERAN. Senator Procures His War Record From Missouri Militia Rolls. Special to the Post-Digpaiich. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 26.--Adju- tant-Genere! Dameron this morning re- ceived a telegram from. United States Sen- ator Stephen B. Elkins at Washington, D. C.. asking for his civil] war record. City, Mo. | child has suffered confinement Benjamin Ivins and! king and passing counter- | making molds for ‘A MAN GETS TO KNOW SOMETHING OF SHO AFTER HE HAS BEEN ON THE FORCE A WHILE Hat: A HALF-SHOT? \ & UNITED BY VOICE ~OF TRAIN CALLER MISS NEVILL MET BROTHER AFTER YEARS OF SEPARATION. SHE WAS STRANDED HERE Man Read of Her Misfortune in Post- Dispatch and Went at Once to Find Her. When Florence Nevill of Owensboro, Ky., came to 8t. Louis to seek employment and met with bitter failure, she little thought that the one she would meet in her need would be a brother whom she had not seen since childhood. Francis Nevill was reading the Post-Dis- patch at his home Friday evening when his eye fell on an item telling of the mis- ree which had befallen Florence Nevill. From her Kentucky home she had come to St. Louis to get work. She arrived here a week ago, and as she was unable to procure employment her money was soon exhausted. With only a few pennies left the woman called on Matron Hunter at Station. ‘If I could only get back to Kentucky,”’ she said, “I would be all right. I have relatives there.”’ Mrs. Hunter advised Florence to apply to the or. roung Inion |. This aha aid and -was.told to.come back Friday morning. “Tl wonder,’ said Mr. Nevill, as he pe- rused the newspaper article, ‘if that could be my sister.”’ 4 He thought over the matter only a short while when he decided to proc at once to Union Station. The girl was strolling two and fro in the main waiting room when Traincaller Ben Brown mounted the steps and announced: “Is Miss Nevlll here?’ There was no immedigte reply and the question was repeated. : As the last notes of Mr. Brown's bari- tone died away a timid Miss Nevill walked up to him. She was directed to the matron’s apart- ments, where Francis Nevill was waiting. They recognized each other at once. When Frank Nevill last saw his sister she was only a mite of a girl. While the two were conversing a telegram came for Flor- ence. It was from Stephen Morrison of Owensboro, Ky., and read: “Come home at once; get money at tele- graph office.’’ An hour later Flordénce boarded a Louis- ville & Nashville train and was on her way to the old homestead. “You'll come and see us, wont you, Frank?” she called to her brother as the train pulled out. SPRING HYMN Fanny Crosby’s spring hymn, the first to which she has written both music and words, will be published in tomorrow’s Sun- day Post-Dispatch. Mrs. Crosby has writ- hymn writer has equaled her success in striking the popular chord. Her spring hymn is accompanied by her own story of her work in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dis- patch. Harry de Windt, a French explorer, is engaged in a novel enterprise. He is at- tempting to go from Paris to New York by an entirely overland route. He started from behind | ‘that date he wrote a | published raised obligations of the United States. | The adjutant-general examined the rec- ords in his office and found that Senator | Hikins was commissioned captain of com- pany H, Seventy-seventh regiment of en- rolled Missouri militia, Jan. 17, 1868, w rank from Dec. 30 mission until it was vacated onger . 126, issued in 1864 A. R. ) member ig supposed to ask for hs wart ..- WATCHMAN KILLED BY STORM. Susie! to the Post-Dispa:ch. ADU . Ps %—Patrick Mc- N ; “years, watchman by special = ’ , 1862, and held that com- | Paris three months ago, engaging to keep | the Sunday Post-Dispatch informed of his progress. On the twelfth day of February he was up in the northeast of Siberia, 2000 miles from the Transsiberian railroad. On letter which will be in the Sunday Post-Dispatch to- morrow. It is of exceptional interest, tell- ing many things of an unknown country. M. de Windt tells of meeting Dr. Herz, a scientist, who is bringing out of Siberia a perfect specimen of a mammoth. The creature was found in the great ice, and even the skin, flesh and hair are a plac? Linen gowns will be t A page in colors will be devo styles in them in tomorrow's Sunday spatch. ge en St. Louisans have posed for tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch in the séason’s styles in men’s clothes. Every man who is: interested in styles will enjoy this page in colors in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. Alexander 8. Chessin, professor of mathe- matics at Washington University, has made mathematical discoveries which will cause ll in their he rage next month. ted to the Post- ‘the great pendulum of Foucault to be swung inp the Roman Pantheon again this year. A story upon this brilliant experi- ment and the St. Louis scientist's theories will be published in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispateh. * George C. Carrie, a member of the choir at the St. Louts Grand Avenue Preaby te- to make him the greatest of of a tenors. Mme. Lilian N . who rec&ntly sang Louisan, pronounced his nost re e had 7 ow ANOTHER KINe OF SHoorTIne OTING SHOOTING! THE SHooTSs, | oe _ TWO FIGHT WITH CAR CONDUCTOR OSCAR JOHNSON ACCUSED OF NOT PAYING HIS FARE. HE STRUCK THE TRAIN MAN His Brother, President of Roberts- Johnson-Rand Shoe Co., Went to His Aid. Jackson Johnson, president of the Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Co., of 1001 Washing- ton avenue, and his’ brother, Oscar Johnson, treasurer of the company, engaged in a fist fight with a transit company conductor Friday afternoon on Washington avenue in front of the company’s store. The fight arose over the conductor's action in demanding fare of Oscar Johnson after, that gentleman says, he had already paid one fare. Mr. Johnson refused to pay and the conductor ordered him off the car. Mr. Johnson refused to leave the car and the conductor, accordirg to Mr. Johnson, made a remark insinusiing that the passenger was attempting to cheat him out of a nickel. struck the conductor In the face. Then he started to leave the car. The conductor followed and renewed the fight in the street. he two men fought over to the sidewalk and to the entrance of the shoe company’s establishment. There Jackson Johnson came to his brother's assistance and the conductor aimed a blow at him. The president of the shoe company dodged and gave the conductor a blow in the face. The arrival of a policeman ended the hostilities. Oscar Johnson says he did not take the conductor’s name and that as far as he is concerned the incident is closed. DYNAMITERS IN» CANADA Attempt Made to Blow Up the Power Canal on the Dominion Side at Niagara Falls. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 26.—A special to tne News from Niagara Falls says an at- terrpt has been made to blow up the power canal on the Canadian side by dynamite. ~— >--~-~- ~- es aii sand army mules. This fs the first visit of the Sepoys to the United States. Who and what they are and photographs of them wil] be published in tomorrow's Sunday Post- Dispatch. Eight hundred St. Louis Germans main- tain the drama of the fatherland in St. Louis. An illustrated story of this interest- ing folk work in tomorrow’s Sunday Post- Dispatch. St. Louis Knights of Father Mathew will make an exhibit at the Cork Exposition. An illustrated story in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. The pike perch will dominant game fish of Missouri. lustrated story tomorrow. Mrs. Minnie Andrews Snell, a St. Louis playwright, claims the honor of having first made a Pope a character in English drama, her own production antedating by four years that of Father Henry Talbot Smith, the New York priest who has written ‘‘The Black Cardinal.’’ Mrs. Snell's play is the subject of an interesting illustrated story in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. There is no such thing as spring fever. story for tomorrow. The United States government is doing wonders with irrigation, causing great tracts of arid lands to become fit for cul- tivation. This is a splendidly illustrated story in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. Paul Vandervort, a former commander of the G. A. R., writes to tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch of the cattle industry in Puerto Principe, Cuba, where he is lo- cated. The women's fraternities of the United States will do their first great work at St. Louls, where they will assist in the con- struction of the splendid Fraternity bulid- ing, which Is to be one of the architectural] be made the pre- An il- A ‘rian Church, has a voice which sromises features of the World’s Fair. An illus- trated story in tomorrow's Sunday Post- | Dispatch tells of this work and shows what womer are prominent in it, St. Loufsans among them. Train your body to rest properly. It will enhance any woman's beauty. An expert will tell how it may be done in tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. Nelson F. Willard, once a weakling, has become the strongest athlete in Columbia University. He has alreaay told many of the secrets of his success In the Sunday Post-Dispatch, and tomorrow he will tell some more of them. The «tory is ‘llnstrated with photographs taken of Mr. Willard tn the various «xercises suggested. His sys- tem is novel for the reagon that he uses no anparesus. | | Tout wifl talk tn tome *. | of the | r =s . faa ax . nd Bee 1 oS Mir, Johnsen. jumped from -his seat and. | “HOLD THE PHONE stg 2 | TAN, ARN DOES ao ‘ 4 . aed a SUCCEEDED BUT WAS BUI MES. LUCY COFFENBERGER WOR! SLEEPING FAMILY. ~~ Dy Fierce Wind Turned Blaze From Om | House to the Other—Parker Mame ufacturing Plant Destroyed | , at a Loss of $3500. BS * 2aaeo 7 ot on which threatened their home, Mra. Coffenberger early Saturday . ; ren through the flames which a furious | wind was sweeping against the house im the reir of 4438 North Fourteenth street. ee The skin was burned from. the I of Mrs. Coffenberger’s face in of fire, but she succeeded in aw the sleeping family of Valter : the next house, just as the fire | ing a foothold there. tt a A few minutes later a sudden cha the wind, which had been bio : ward with almost the foree of a | cane, saved from entire 4d of hovse from which Mrs. Coffer come, and turned the vo flames on the house from falls, aroused by Mrs. Coffenberger,. res ed. When the firemen left the o'clock, an hour and a half Pad - a lies between the two houses, was in _ set and both the dwellings were fr stroyed, that of the Caffalis bel total loss. The entire loss | mostly uninsu All the buildings are o Parker. The house occu falls fronts on Fourteen shop was a oy ee el the | sy ’ Nu ~ fw gpa »" : ns = % , - BS. — s [> 3% : q housekeeper. All the Houses Were Frame. All the houses were frame and both the dwellings were of tories each. SS No one could explain the origtt © fire Saturday. — Parker eaid-@ had gone thr the shop 4a! ¥ Friday night, atin ne BF 7 j a ‘ bef “Pepe ™ been swept torm of @ is ; or ) : t of the east de ran ou a ath was followed a le whose was ior by pers, hurried Her next thought | falis, and such was per home next, “Up to ths time the p ing eastward. tha reversal it now c sverue ah heune wae of the the tctal burning of the eke had 4 \ 4&s ne eae eee Rn t of the Coffall house and € e Parker house. . a When Mrs. Coffen home o A ya ba M t 4203 No that she me yr her c n irons in articles | Soi ta a sheet before er daugter at once saw of the burns on the t d she was sent peicia hk rf i part of te nsu Parker Manufactu 4 a fews days ago The company dealt in District Attorney Bethea. n, he Ww had been placed entirely in the hands | fixtures. ——— Public “Scho Picture Open to all School Children and their parents and friends. Cut out the coupon and vote for your fav- as eee i] painti ter col ve orign ° ntings or wa - ors, NOT reproductions or coples, worth from $250 to each, will be se competent committee com and educators, from the collection of the “Society of Western Artists’ and the “St. Louls Artists’ Guild’ now on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, awarded to the five public schools of Louis receiving the highest number. of catt by the School ldren, their parents and friends. Vote for your favorite school as often as al Childrens Contes ou can. Cut out and the nese <6 | eat ected BY a of ts ving the 6 +-o oo © @ « 4} The paintings will be se lected from the Special Ex- hibtion at the April 18 to May 56. Open dally $:9 to 6 Monday, 1 te & Free days: Fridays, 9:3) to 6. Saturdays 9:30 to 6 Sundays 1:0 ta & ‘Sander in extreme west portion; £9 4 2 ee Cae | ae et i Re est ae +@ Zz -! —e Pile 7. ae i ng eee x —— ee R : : yea ee » P Phe e = J To warn her nearest neighbors of a’ tr yay +