St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 1

-i I VI EVERT niesel paid on the 3-for-5 basis means a contribution of cents to two newsboy padrones. WEATHER? Rain Tuesday HlgnfrHBS Wednesday; colder Wednesday. i Post-Dispatch, Daily and Sunday, Post-Dispatch Delivered by Carrier to any Part of the city, a Week. VOL. 46, NO.

TUESDAY EVENING-ST. LOUIS JANUARY 15, 1895. TEN PAGES. PRICE. 1 CENT.

Use a Pos ard if You Want to Order the Ome-GeM Post-Dispatch 'J Gent talG BOTH GONE PURSUED HER. GOT THE GANG. NONE KILLED, LAST EDITION LAST EDITION MINE HOKROB. flred. The bullet struck him square between th eyes and he fell dead in his tracks.

Peering out from the windows of the grocery John Vogt had seen the last act of Banker, and with a sigh of relief he once more slipped out into the open air, followed by the crowd. Some gazed morbidly at the dead man and others went back into the saloon. Among the latter was Gillham, now thoroughly cowed by the result of his quarrelsomeness. When the stricken blacksmith saw him all his anger for his condition vented itself upon the man who started the trouble and raising himself To his feet with the blood still gushing from his wound he kicked and cuffed the fellow until he was exhausted. Gillham was badlv disfigured.

AN INQUEST HELD. Coroner Kinder of Edwardsville, aws notified of the shooting and went straight to Mitchell. This morning the inquest was held and a verdict returned in accordance with the facts. German's condition is considered hopeless. Dr.

Parker, who is attending him, holds out very little hope for his recovery. The bullet took a downward course and is thought to have penetrated the lungs. mulhattofs walk And Suffering Was Brought Into a Benton Home. Rev. J.

W. Lee, Pastor of Benton Presbyterian Church, the Cause. HIS MISCONDUCT HAS BAISED SUSPICION AGAINST A MISSING YOUNG GIBL. Despite Parental Orders and His Promises to Desist in His Attentions He Met the Young Girl Who Is Now Judged so CrueUy No Evidence at Hand That He Was Culpable Beyond This. Rev.

J. W. Lee, who has been pastor of the McCausIand Avenue Presbyterian Church at Benton for ten years, resigned his pastorate about two months ago. He remained at Benton up to two weeks ago, arranging his temporal affairs. He then left for Sacramento, Cal as he toid his friends, with a promise to write to them frequently and keep them advised of his plans and whereabouts.

Not a line has been received by his staunch supporters, as far as learned, to-day. Prior to the pastor's departure his conduct had caused reports to be circulated concerning attentions to a very estimable young lady. He denied that his resignation was In anywise the result of this gossip, which was so painful to the girl's family, who were all strict members of Dr. Lee's church. On Oct.

1, one month prior to the doctor's resignation, Miss May Riche, the young lady, a pretty brunette who resided with her parents at Benton, and was a member of his church, went to Louisville to visit relatives with the consent of her parents, who trusted that the visit would result in the improvement of her health, which had broken after three years' faithful employment as typewriter and stenographer with the Werthelmer-Swarts Shoe Co. of this city. Miss Mae wrote home dutifully two or three times a week up to a week ago. Since then not a letter has been received from her by her family. Her mother was much alarmed Tuesday morning wnen sne received a letter from her at Louisville, where Miss May has been visiting, notifying her that her daughter had left for Birmingham, a week ago Thursday, and that she had heard nothing from her since her departure.

Mrs. Richey said that her daughter had no relatives in Birmingham and no occasion to go there. "I have heard," said she, "the cruel gossip which has been going around Benton for some time about my daughter May and our former pastor, Dr. Lee. I had every confidence in Dr.

Lee up to two weeks ago, but I am pained to confess that I have come to the conclusion that his conduct has been unchristianlike and imprudent, and that he has cloaked his conduct from me and mine under the guise of falsehood. I can not believe that my child, who is dear to us and all who know her for her sweet disposition and Christian principles, is with Dr. Lee, but I would be relieved to hear from her. When the first whispers of this talk, which afterward became common, reached me and my daughters I went to Dr. Lee and told him that while I regarded him as worthy of the confidence of myself and all Christians I wished he would not meet or walk to and from the depot, in Benton or St.

Louis with May. "She, of course, could not see harm in these attentions. Friends of the two families advised Dr. Lee to the same effect. Talk is always to be avoided, and it was to avoid this bandying about of the names of my daughter and her pastor that we interfered, and not to protect my girl from harm.

It was a cruel blow to me when evidence was presented to me that I must accept that Dr. Lee broke his solemn promise and met May, not only on her way to the depot in Benton, but on the streets of St. Louis. "I have carefully kept all this talk from my husband, G. W.

Richey, who is a pilot on the Government boat, now on the Lower Mississippi. I was afraid to have him know it. I do not know what he will do when he learns about it. My husband not only trusted Dr. Lee, but was fond of him.

Lee ate his Christmas dinner at our table, which was presided over by my husband. It may be that May has gone to Florida, for she seemed bent on spending a month or two in that State, thinking that she would be benefited by that climate." Mrs. Richey gave way to tears as she discussed her daughter's unexplained disappearance and was so overcome that she had to be assisted to her bed. Her daughters suppressed their sobs to lovingly minister to their stricken mother. In the hope of clearing up the mystery of the girl's departure from Louisville many Inquiries were made of her intimate friends.

They were all of one opinion, that while May admired Dr. Lee's intelligence, she was not mindful of the fact that her association with him might cause gossip. When this dawned upon her she was so shocked at the unklndness that it affected her health. She went away on the visit to friends, but on the revival of the gossip caused by Mrs. Lee's departure for Appleton City, and Dr.

Lee's for California It reached her again at Louisville and in flight from it she cut off communication with her family and went to some personal friends of her own in the South. Of course there are those who are less kindly in their interpretation of the happenings in the little circle, but they are not of the number who kny Miss Ritchie and who speak no word buv -ess. 5 CORUMGATHEREDIN How a Verdant Walkiag AdvertlBemtnt Came to Grief. KANSAS CITY. Jan.

15. John Co-rum, a Kansas farmer, who came here to find employment, is in trouble. He answered the advertisement of a local firm. He was Informed that he would have a snap, simply walking up and down the streets and looking ridculous. A- bargain was struck" and the farmer was -turned adrift on the streets.

He wore a long white night gown embroidered in red braid, a night cap and a pair of white trousers with heavy flounces about them at the bottom. On the back of the gown, was a black sign advertising his employers. As the day was cold. Corum rushed along at a rapid gait. Pedestrians gave him the right' of way, thinking he was an escaped insane patient.

At the corner of Ninth and Main a policeman gathered Corum to his bosom and he wu taken to the police station. A writ was issued for his employer, and both will be tried to-day. Highwaymen Who Have Ke-ently Kobbed Citizens. Michael Reed and John McCul-i lough Identified by Victims. SOME OF THE ARTICLES STOLEN FOUND ON THEM.

Three More 'Men Who Are Thought to Have Figured in Recent Outrages Caught One of Them Makes a Bold Break for Liberty Some Daring Hold-TJps. The police believe that they have arrested the gang of highwaymen that has been terrorizing the West and North End pedestrians for some weeks past. On Monday afternoon Detectives King and Kelleher arrested at Fourteenth and Biddle streets four young men, who are well-known to the police, and whose names are Richard Stack, Andrew Canton, John Glblin and Willie O'Keefe. They are suspected of being implicated In some of the recent robberies, the officers learning they were keeping rather late hours. At the patrol box, Fifteenth and O'Fallon streets, Stack broke away from the officers and was pursued to Ninth street and Cass avenue, where he was recaptured by Detective King after a lively chase through back yards.

The quartette was then locked up to be held for further investigation. BOLD "HOLD UPS." Their detention did not state the robberies, however. About 10 o'clock Monday night, William Comfort of 2506 Mullanphy street, was held up by two men at a revolver's point in front of his own door, and, in lieu of valuables the robbers took his overcoat. Afterward they returned the garment. The same two robbers, evidently, a short while afterward accosted Gustav Guehne, a Jeweler at 2306 Cass avenue, on Cass avenue in front of the Kenrlck Seminary.

"You're a Jeweler; we know you," said the robbers, as they poked a revolver under the jeweler's nose. "You ought to have money," they said, and they searched his. pockets. They found $2 and an old silver watch, and then turned the victim loose. About an hour or so later William Modell of 1802 North Eighteenth street, was passing Sarsfield place and O'Fallon street, about a square from the jeweler's hold-up, when two men stopped him, one putting a revolver on a level with his head, telling him to shell out.

Modell was searched and relieved of 75 cents in change, after which he was allowed to go his way. CAUGHT THE RIGHT MEN. About midnight Detectives Gaffney and Crowley of the Third, and Detective Sullivan of the Fourth Districts, were passing Sarsfield place and Cass avenue, when they saw two young men Michael Reed, aged 27, and John, alias Piggy, McCullough, aged 21 standing on the corner. The pair having a bad reputation among the police, they were taken into custody on suspicion. At the Third District Sub-station they were searched and on Reed was found a loaded revolver and a knife, and a couple of other articles were found on McCullough.

At an early hour in. the morning, Modell, Comfort and Guehne, together with John Reed, of 1129 Washington avenue, who was robbed on Twenty-first and Olive streets, Sunday night, called at the police station, and positively Identified McCullough and Reed as the robbers. The knife found on McCullough was Identified by John Reed, and he also recognized In McCullough's pal, the man who on Sunday night held the revolver on him, while he was searched? After Reed had identified them, Gus Huckert of 2206 Madison street, who on Sunday night, was robbed of a silver watch and an overcoat, at Twenty-second street and Cass avenue, by two men, dropped into the station and recognized McCullough and Reed as the men who waylaid him In addition to these alleged victims, there are a number of others, men and women, who were held up and robbed in the vicinity of Union Station and Eighteenth and Olive streets. One of them, John Hughes, who lives at 1816 Gratiot street, was robbed on Sunday night of a. small sum of money.

Reed and McCullough are neighbors. The former lives at 2305, the latter at 2304 Dickson street. The Third District Police say they are daring young criminals. THE WEATHER. Rain or Snow' This Evening and Colder To-Morrow.

For St. Louis and vicinity: Rain or snow, probably snow, Tuesday afternoon and evening, clearing during the night or Wednesday morning, colder Wednesday. Illinois: Local snows to-night: Wednesday local snows and colder, variable winds, becoming northwest Wednesday. Missouri: Local snow to-day and to-night, colder to-night in west half; Wednesday, fair and colder; northeast winds, becoming Arkansas: Rain, warmer to-night, fair and colder Wednesday, northeasterly shifting to northwest winds. The barometer is highest this morning In Alberta and on the South Atlantic coast.

It Is lowest In Manitoba and on the Pacific coast. There is also a slight area of depression in Southern Texas. A general snowstorm is in progress in the West this morning and rain is falling In the South. During Monday and Monday night there were light snows in the Central Valleys and lake region. The temperatures have risen decidedly from the slope region eastward and have fallen in the West.

SMALL-POX PATIENT. A Jockey From Roby Brings the Disease With Him. For the first time since last spring there Is a small dox patient at quarantine. Nealey Shaffer. lockeri 16 years old and employed In a stable It the Fair Grounds, was taken sick last Sunday.

He was examined by Dr. Priest, who regarded bis svmotruns as suspicious, and sent him to the Oty Hoapltal for observation. Monday his symptoms developed into small pox. and ha was removed to quarantine. Shafer recently came from Roby? I ad where amall pox is prevalent.

All the stablemen at the Fair Grounds have been vaccinated. FOB $13,771.74. E. R. Roe Confessed Judgment In Favor of Charles Dexter.

E. It. Roe confessed Judgment In the sum of $13,771.74. In favor of Charles Dexter, In Judg billon's court late Monday afternoon ONE MAN DEAD Another Is Dying and a Third Is Badly Wounded. Horrible Tragedy in a Little Village Across the Hirer.

A Toms Farm-Hand Shoots Two Men an Then Kills Himself. AfX. geew out of a game of cakds AND TOO MUCH DKINK. The Quarrel Started When Bill Glllham Knocked a Pipe Out of Joe Hanks Mouth Frenzied With Liquor, Louis Banker Drew a Revolver and Begran Shooting Brave Phillip German Was the First to Fall Louis Andreas Shot While Defending a Helpless Woman From the Maniac's Deadly Aim. The little village of Mitchell.

Madison I1L, was the scene of a horrible tragedy Monday night. Almost without an impelling motive, Louis Banker, a young farm hand, was seized with a wild passion for murder, and after fatally wounding one man and shattering the arm of another with his revolver, he turned the weapon upon himself and blew out his own brains. Philip German Is the man whose death the maniac has probably caused, and Louis Andreas Is the other victim. Mitchell Is about ten miles from East St. Louis.

The affair occurred about o'clock In the evening in Fred Martin's saloon, a popular resort for fishers and hunters Banker, who was employed on a farm by his half-brother, John Wacker of Hush's Corner, had been in Mitchell all day. Ho apparently was On his usual frame of mind and had put in his time rolling ten pins and otherwise innocently amusing himself. His reputation was good and no one anticipated that before the evening was over he would be dead toy his own hand. PLAYED CARDS AND DRANK. Banker went into Martin's place about 6 o'clock.

He had with him another young fellow. Will Gniham by name, a farmer living a few miles north of Mitchell. The two sat down with others and played cards peaceably enough for something over an hour. Then the drink began to tell on GIU-ham and his mood changed. He became uglji and quarrelsome, and those in the saloon saw plainly that a fight was imminent, yet they never dreamed that Banker would be mixed up in it, for he was still quiet and well disposed.

Joe Hanks 'was one of the men in the saloon. He was sitting by himself in a corner, calmly smoking a pipe, saying a word to no one. Gillham got up from the card table and seeing the pipe in Hank's mouth, knocked it to the floor. "Don't you do that again," said Hanks, warnlngly. as he picked the pipe up and put it back between his teeth.

THE FIGHT BEGINS. Gillham took the dare. He brought his hand around again and the pipe flew across the room, but had hardly touched the floor before Hanks' fist had sent his tormentor sprawling on his back. When Banker saw his friend thus knocked down he sprang to his assistance, but bystanders held him until matters quieted a little. Nevertheless, the insult to Gillham seemed to rankle strongly In Banker's bosom.

He paced the floor excitedly and then crossing over opposite the bar he placed his back against the wall and defied the whole room. "I am going to run the house," he shouted, and he held his revolver ready to make his boast good. There were fifteen or twenty men in the room, and naturally they were startled by the desperate front Banker was making, and almost without provocation. John Vogt, the bartender, however, started toward the infuriated man, but when he saw the weapon pointed straight at his breast he weakened and fell back. TRIED TO BE 'A PEACEMAKER.

Then Philip German, the Mitchell blacksmith, a big, brawny, brave man stepped out from the crowd. He knew Banker well, and he hoped to calm him. As he moved a step or two forward he asked th now maddened man to 'give up his weapon. "No, no," -i outed Banker. "Stand back or I'll kill yV but the fellow kept right on advaiing.

Then there came a flash from the revolver, a shot rang out and German fell with the blood spouting from a hole In his neck. The whole roomful of people were instantly in a frenzy of excitement. Some tried 6 get out of the room, others rushed forward to disarm the young farmer, but there he stood, cursing in his rage, with the deadly weapon still out before him. and their courage was not equal to the task. SAVED A WOMAN'S LIFE.

There was one woman In the room, Mrs. Martin, the wife of the rioon-keeper. She was pale and trembling and she stood beside the bar, and for some reason the wrath of the young demon was directed against her. He turned his gun towards her and fired, but before the bullet reached its mark Andreas Welch had bravely stepped between her and the would-be murderer, and the bullet plowed its way into his right arm, shattering the bone. With a shout of frenzied Joy and rage Banker then drove the panic-stricken mob out of the saloon into the open air.

They fled precipitately into the grocery adjoining and barred the doors against th wild man. leaving him alone with his victims, who were lying in their blood upon the and forth like a wild beast, drunk with rage aJ blood he strolled, brandishing his revolver still in his hand and shouting at the top of his voice that he was the ruler of the house. LAST FRENZIED ACT. -And then a change came suddenly oyer him. He must have realized then what a terrible thing he had done, for all his manner changed, and walking slowly onto the porch ho put his weapon to his head and H.

G. Jamison, a Hotel Clerk, Comes to Grief. Miss Annie Sterling Charged Him With Mashing. HE CHASED HES AT MIDNIGHT ON OLIVE STBEET, And Landed in an Officer's Arms-She Was Going: Home From a Wake and He Saw Her on the Car She For got to Get Off at Her Destination The Pursuit and Capture. H.

G. Jamison, a rather dudish young man. who is the swell clerk of the Hotel Rozier, was arraigned before Judge Morris at 10:30 a. m. and was fined $10 for disturbing the peace.

The prosecuting witness is Miss Annie Sterling, a pretty black-eyed brunette, who lives at 2634 Olive street. On Monday night young Jamison, it is said, became rather hilarious while down town and boarded the Olive street car about 12 o'clock at night, homeward bound. Miaa Sterling, who had been to the wake of a departed friend, happened onto the same car. She sat opposite young Jamison. On the way out, it is said that the youn? man eyed Miss Sterling considerably, and to her mind he was trying to mash.

All went well until the car reached Jefferson avenue, and there quite a crowd of passengers left the train. Among those who got off were two passengers who sat next to young Jamison. This left quite a space next to the young man, and when the train started off again, it is alleged that he signalled Miss Sterling to take a seat beside him. Quite abashed at this audacity. Miss Sterling shook her head, and thought that was all that was necessary to be done.

FORGOT TO GET OFF. However, she claims this did not stop Jamison trying to flirt with her, and so annoying was his alleged misconduct that she claims she completely forgot her destination and rode absent-mindedly as far as Thirty-second street. Here she stopped the car and got oft, 'and. started to walk home, glad to think she wa rid of her alleged tormentor. She had not gone more than half a block or so, however, when, she says, she saw Jamison get off the car and start after her on the "double quick," whistling and calling after her.

She quickened her pace and the young man, she says, did likewise. VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER. He was much the best sprinter of the two, for Miss Sterling said he was Soon, beside her and had her by the arm. "Where are you going?" she claims he asked. "I'm going home," she said.

"It's too early to go home," she says Jamison said, and at this she tried to pull away from him. As he still held her, she called a policeman and Jamison was arrested. IN HIS OLD CELL. Duestrow Brought Back From Union on an Early Train. Arthur Duestrow arrived in St.

Louis from Union at 8:25 a. m. He was in charge of Deputy Sheriff Edgar Terry, and was on the same train which brought back to town ex-Gov. Johnson, Charles T. Noland, Circuit Attorney Zachritz and many others interested In the case.

During the ride the prisoner sat in the smoker, puffing constantly at his adored cigarettes and chatting pleasantly enough with his keeper and others who addressed him. Sometimes his conversation was sane enough and sometimes he went off on a tangent into observations about hypnotism and other recent hobbies of his. Upon his arrival in the city he was taken to the Four Courts and put in his old cell. Circuit Attorney Zachritz will immediately begin the work of getting evidence In rebuttal of the defense's position that Duestrow Is insane. He declines, however, to state his plans in detail.

Duestrow seemed rather to enjoy his trip to Union than otherwise. His quarters in the jail were pleasant, and according to his own statement he received better traet-ment at the hands of Sheriff Terry and his deputies than he did In the St. Louis jail. He slept very little last night, as the morning train for St. Louis leaves Union so early.

As a result he consumed an Immense number of cigarettes. In the evening he was furnished with 25 cents worth that is, nve boxes containing ten cigarettes each, and there were out few left at train time. He kept a piece of candle burning all night from which to obtain "it is thought that the insanity case will occupy about four or five days next week. If the defendant is adjudged insane by the jury he will then have to be tried for the killing, but this case will not come up until the March term, as Judge Hirzel has to sit in Clayton after Jan. 28.

If adjudged insane Duestrow will be sent to an asylum until such time as he may recover his reason, when, If such an event comes to pass, he would have to stand trial. The Issues as to whether he was insane when the deed was committed and as to whether he is insane now are entirely separate, and have only an indirect bearing upon each other. FORD INQUEST. The Pocahontas Stockman's Death Attributed to Accident. Deputy Coroner Bull held the Inquest on the remains of James Y.

Ford, the Pocahontas (Ark.) stockman, whose mangled remains were found Friday night In the tunnel at Clark avenue. A verdict that death was due to an accident was returned. The only new features of tha mystery surrounding the death of Ford were the discovery of his hat and heart about 100 feet from the spot where tlie tody was found In the tunnel. Besides this it was brought In evidence that the west-bound Vandalia, No. 1, which was the last train from the East through the tunnel Friday night, had evidence in the shape of blood stains on one or two trucks of coaches that it had run over some living creature.

The locomottvo which pulled this train through the tnnnel was examined, but no blood could be found on It. The police are at work on the case still, and are trying locate the whereabout! of Ford after ha left Lef-fier's saloon. But Many Persons Hurt in the Riot at Brooklyn. Twenty Cars Running on the Front Streeiliine. EACH GUARDED BY FE0M TWO TO TWENTY POLICEMEN.

Tracks Obstructed by Upsetting Barrels of Ashes-One Car Sent Out Under Guard of Fourteen Patrolman No Attempt Made to Impede Its Movements Mail Cars Started at 9.23 a. m. Petition May Be Presented to Mayor hiron. BROOKLYN, N. Jan.

15. It was reported about 2:30 p. m. that a serious riot among the striking street car men, idlers and spectators had occurred at Twenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue. Many persons were said to be wounded, but none killed.

A mall car on the Fifth avenue was captured by the strikers. It was released by the mounted police. The steamboat squad was ordered on strike duty. BROOKLYN. N.

Jan. 15. Both sides in the electric street railway strike show a determined front to-day. On the Court street line twenty cars are being run at irregular intervals, each guarded by from two to eight policemen. Strikers or their friends have obstructed the tracks by upsetting barrels of ashes.

The rubbish was cleared away by the laborers from the power house on the Flat bush avenue line and a car was sent out. It was preceded by six mounted policemen, while eight unmounted policemen rode in the car. It passed through a district where are reported to be In a more reckless mood than elsewhere, but the manner in which was guarded evidently overawed any who might have been Inclined to lawlessness, for no attempt was made to stop it. Untted States mail mr on the Flatbush avenue line were started out at 9:23 o'clock and the company announces that It is determined to run the mail cars ail day, no matter what action the strikers may take. The strikers contemplate presenting a petition to Mayor Shiron to-day, asking him to end the tie-up by virtue of his official power, and will cite the action taken by Mayor Pin-gree of Detroit in 1891, when he said that railroad companies had violated the ten-hour law and warned them that if the strike then in progress was not over In twenty-four hours he would declare their charters forfeited.

A meeting of the strike committee of the surface lines was held early to-day. They refused to tell what action had been taken. NO SYMPATHY STIilKE. Street Car Employes in New York Not Likely to Quit. NEW YORK, Jan.

15. Talks with the employes of the Metropolitan Traction syndicate and of the Third avenue cable road of this city prove that the grievances of the men are not such as to bring about a general strike in sympathy with the Brooklyn trolley road employes. The Metropolitan Traction syndicate employs 6.000 men, on its Broadway, Columbus avenue and many cross-town and belt line roads. President Herbert Vreeland said that he felt very certain there would be no trouble whatever on the various syndicate lines and that the men were well satisfied with the treatment they received. Samuel Gompers, ex-President of the American Federation of Labor, said: "I hope the men will win.

This trip system is abominable and outrageous. I think the company will find considerable difficulty In filling the places of the strikers. The demands of the men are so reasonable that the companies will find It more advantageous to concede them than to break in a large number of new men. I don't think it will be a long strike. The companies will be compelled to see the false position they are in." The four principal trolley companies In Brooklyn are the Brooklyn Heights, the Atlantic Avenue, the De Kalb Avenue and the Jay and Smith street roads.

There were employed on these lines before the strike about 4.800 motormen and conductors, of whom 2,500 work for the Heights company alone. The employes are organized into District Assembly No. 75, each of the local assemblies sending its quota of representatives to the main body. WRIT FOR A PRIEST. Attachment Issued for Rev.

Shea to Appear as a Witness. An attachment was isued in the Criminal Conrt for Rer. E. J. Shea of St.

Kevin's Church. Fr. Slwa is a witness in the case of Mitchell H. Johnson, alias Harold Johnstone, whose case on a charge of Digamy was bpftnn in the Criminal Court. Johnson is chanted with marrying Nora Grimes of 71)8 South Kltrhtwntb street on Nov.

23, 1SU3, while bavins another wife Fr. Shea is said to have ierformed the first marriage, on Oct. 26. 1887, when Johnson is alleged to have married Mary A. Rose.

When the witnesses in the case were called Fr. Shea failed to answer. An attachment was issued and placed In the hands of Deputy Sheriff Thomas to he served. The case was passed down for the time, but was taken up later. NO SLANDEK.

To Be Called a Cat Is Not Actionable. Jndfre Dillon sustained the demurrer to the amend-ed petition of Mary Menaush against Mary Butler for $10,000 damages on account of alleged slander- complaint was that Mrs. Batler noised to he? on Jnoe 25. 1894, and spoke of her "dlrtv old cat." In her petition Mrs. she belleTed that "neither mind nor ctn erV "he gret Injury." She 'i Alleged to have- been used by Mrs.

uUoemtSLtefSe. the plaint! was an nn- as a Person, stating that husband lived apart and was hardly able to nnort hlniself: tbat she had a young child and w.Tdenendent on the kindness of poor relations. "AecauS of my helpless she added. "I amrsented, maligned, scandalized and Injured by 'algn-ture is that of a well ed- CThe dCmrVer set forth simply that the petition dtd not state facta sufficient to warrant action for slander. Diglake Colliery Is Flooded From Old Workings.

About 150 of the Men and Boys Eescued, BUT BETWEEN 90 AND 120 EE MAIN IS THE PIT. Believed at Least Twenty of Them Have Met Horrible Deaths by Drowning Work of Rescue Being Bravely Pushed, but Little Headway Being Made-Water Hard to Reduce Pumping Has Little Effect. AUDLEY, England, Jan. 15. Throughout the night relays of men worked desperately at the Diglake Colliery, where a large number of miners were entombed at about noon yesterday by a sudden rush of water from the old workings.

By 5 o'clock yesterday 150 of the men and boys employed in the mine had been rescued. Of those who remained below it was thought that twenty were in the lower workings when the mine was flooded and that they were drowned. From the time the disaster was signaled the rescuers did their utmost to save those who remained alive and to recover the bodies of the drowned. The work of rescue, however, had not made much progress by this morning and it was believed that there were still between ninety and 120 men and boys In the mine. The sorrow-stricken wives, daughters and other relatives of the imprisoned men gathered around the pit as soon as the news of the disaster reached them.

There they patiently faced the cold winds, and many of them went without food for many hours. All of them brought dry clothes for the men below and stood in groups hoping and praying for the safety of those dear to them. The water so constantly fluctuated that the rescuers were well nigh discouraged. They found the bottom of the shaft choked with plies of timber swept there by the torrents of water which poured into the mine. All of this timber had to be removed before the entombed men could be reached.

The greatest fear was expressed that the water would so undermine the galleries that there would be a cave-in. The rescuers worked with difficulty, standing in four feet of water, and only fifteen yards' progress was made during the night. Hordes of miners arrived at the colliery from other collieries and they all volunteered to go down and assist In the work of rescue. Fresh gangs of men were thus supplied to go down every hour. THE CABINET CRISIS In France Promises to Become a Grave Affair.

PARIS, Jan. 15. The newspapers without exception are of the opinion that the solution of the ministerial crisis (the Cabinet having resigned yesterday) will be a large and difficult matter. The Radical and Socialist organs though jubilant at the fall of the Cabinet show anxiety in regard to the appointment of their successors. The Monarchist organs assert that the Republic is passing through a period of difficulty which may assume grave proportions, and which may even involve the Elysee.

The moderate Republican press pays unanimous tribute to the correctness and clearness of the attitude of ex-Premier Dupuy, who has fallen, it Is asserted, only because he V8S determined to safeguard constitutional principles. Many persons blame M. Barthou, the ex-Minister of Public Works, for not having shown the same reserve as M. Dupuy, and they reproach M. Barthou with having caused the Cabinet's downfall.

The consensus of opinion is that the only possible solution of the difficulty is a Republican concentration under M. Burgeois. WHERE IS BANKS? Many Farmers in Pettis Couaty Anx ious to Met Him. SEDALIA, Jan. 13.

There are many country merchants in. Missouri surrounding Sedalla who are anxious to learn the whereabouts of J. R. Banks of the firm of J. R.

Banks dealers in eggs, poultry and butter. The firm opened its doors about ten days ago and closed them last Saturday. Banks has failed to show up at the request of many country merchants who have come to Sedalla to collect for produce consigned to him. The firm offered much more for produce than the same was bringing on the regular market, and in that way was overwhelmed with business, upon which they immediately realized by shipping to the large cities. OPEL'S ALLOWANCE.

Mr. Opel Has Not Decided whether Will Continue It or Not. Louise Opel has not decided whether he will make his divorced wife an allowance, or not contribute at all to her support. It is not a question of sentiment with him. and he will be guarded entirely by the advice of his counsel.

When asked iff he were not disposed to be generous in triumph, the shoe merchant chuckled as he replied that he had promptly paid the amount agreed on between himself and former wife and their resectlve attorney while the case was pending: that the application of. Mrs. Opel for alimony pendente lite and final alimony had been denied by the court, and that he was released by the dweree from all obligation" to suptiorl her. He said that be would consult hla attorney about continuing th allowance of a month, and would do In this and all things connected with hl divorce cut' and its result Juat as Mr. Kehr He Locked Ronfb, bu Was tkt Same Old Cheerful Liar.

LOS ANGELES, CaL. Jan. Mulhatton arrived In the city from Arizona and will leave this morning for San Francisco. Contrary to his custom he looked serious and instead of wearing fine raiment, he was made up as a tramp and declared he had just for amusement traveled from Arizona as an amateur brake-beam rider, and he looked the part to a dot. He wore five-day-old whiskers, a coat that might have adorned several generations of "Dusty Rhodes," a pair of trousers that not only bagged at the places where the knees ought to be, but were not, and a hat that would have delighted Dr.

Daily. It was the hale old cheerful liar, Mulhatton, however, and he had a joyful day calling on old friends from New York and Louisville. Col. Tom Lewis, the Assistant Postmaster, chaperoned him, and Mulhatton drew up a menu for a French dinner that would have made Chauncey Depew speak for an hour. ALMOST STARVING.

Deplorable Condition of Miners' Families in Hocking Valley. COLUMBUS, Jan. 15. State officials and citizens are moving promptly in the effort to relieve the suffering of the needy families of unemployed coal miners in the Hocking Valley. The hungry are to be fed and the ill-clad are to be supplied with comfortable.

-garments within the next twenty-four hours. Four car loads of food and clothing are to be received by the Uesti-tutemlners and others in enforced idleness Jju th Hocking and Sunday Creek Valleys. Already assurances have been received here from Gov. McKinley that the Queen City would furnish two car loads of supplies by to-morrow night. Columbus is to send an additional car load and the people of Nelsonville are to have one as a result of the thousand dollars raised among the citizens of this city.

Three additional relief stations are to he established to-morrow, 'and by nightfall many suffering people will have been supplied with the much-needed necessaries of life. The car load to be sent to Shawnee from Cincinnati will be devoted to the relief of the people of that immediate vicinity. There are several hundred needy families at that point, and all of the car load can be readily utilized there. The Glouster Station, beside supplying the needy at that point, will also afford relief to the people of Buckingham, Hemlock, Trimble and Jacksonville. Another car load will soon be needed at Glouster, as the committee here estimates that the one to be sent there from Columbus will last but a day or two.

The miners of Buckingham and Hemlock are in a very serious condition and will require assistance. One of the most extensive coal operators in the Shawnee Vallley was In the city yesterday and made the statement that the suffering In the valley was terrible. Investigation develops that all of the large contracts have been secured and are binding until May 1. The contracts which can be secured will not keep the miners and their families from suffering, and he is of the opinion that assistance will have to be forthcoming at once and continue for several months. CEMETERY PONDS.

Nightly Invaded by Crowds of Fearless Skatirs. Skaters will take advantage of anything that affords them an opportunity to enjoy their favorite winter sport. Even the graveyard, with all its gloomy surroundings, fails to escape the skaters' attention. Calvary and Bellefontaine, the two leading cemeteries of St. Louis, are both adorned with small, but well-kept lakes, which "nestle down amidst somber looking monuments and tombstones.

The western boundary lines of both cemeteries extend along Florissant avenue in North St. Louis and the two lakes can be seen from the thoroughfare mentioned. Of late years this portion of the city has grown up and become populated to a considerable extent. The new residents out there are behind Comptroller Sturgeon in his fight for a lake at O'Fallon Park. An appropriation of $5,000 for this improvement to the big North End Park was made by the city fathers, but the city has not got the available funds for the purpose.

Consequently the lake was postponed. The result was the North Enders had no place to skate when the cold snap set in, and skating became the rage, until some of the more courageous suggested the lakes in Bellefontaine and Calvary. Of course, it would be impossible to skate there in the day time, but the superintendents are not so careful after night-fall, especially on cold evenings. That's how it came to pass that both lakes have been comfortably filled with merry ice-gliders for several nights past. SKATING AT NIGHT.

Travelers along Florissant avenue first noticed the unusual scene of skaters enjoying themselves in the shadows of massive vaults and imposing, but g.loomy looking monuments and tombstones and it was a most peculiar state of affairs. Many of the skaters were mere children and it is no exaggeration to say that they would not enter a graveyard at night under any other circumstances for any consideration. Even the shadows of the big monuments, which are thrown across Florissant avenue, on moonlight nights, have been enough to frighten the children heretofore. All has been changed since skating became the rage, however. Even the children have forgotten about ghosts and ghouls.

Like the disbelievers In Santa Claus, they have unexpectedly become "wise" and will never again be frightened by any grave-yard ghost stories. At the down-town office of the Calvary Association, it was denied that outsiders were allowed to skate on the cem-tery lake. The Secretary said that some of the Superintendent's friends may have done so, but he did not think the surrounding residents would take chances of being arrested by going into the cemetery without permission at the Bellefontaine Association office. It was said that no skating was allowed on the cemetery lake during the day time. This rule would not stop the sport at niht, though..