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LAST EDITION. HOW STANDARD TIME IS An interesting account of how the (synchronize! clocks are daily regulated simultaneously from Washington. Illustrated. In To-Morrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. LAST EDITIOtI CHRISTMAS IN THE ASHLEY How the day was observed in St.

Louis largest tenement noiwe, where voung Frlia Km met born. Illustrated. In To-Morrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. VOL. 48, NO.

139. SATURDAY EVEXING-ST. LOUIS-DECEMBER 20. 189G. 1 fi T7 in ions, on cfnt.

afc-i-VX- OUTSIDE ST. LOL1S. TWO CENTS. In Calculating for the New Year, Put Down a Subscription for the PostDispatch. In 10 DOG III SWIFT WORK OF LYNCHERS.

HE MM BE LYNCHED FOR IT. one. and news of it did not become public until to-day, when the musician and his bride returned from a short honeymoon trip. There were present only the parents of the bride and groom and Carl Uhlig, who acted as best man. The engagement was two years' standing.

Miss Fleming, who is a resident of Los Angeles, met the musical director three years ago while she was contralto in the series of concerts given by Walter Damrosch in New York. The following year Miss Fleming cast her fortunes with Theodore Thomas. When Hinrichs organized his Opera company in Philadelphia his present bride was th? leading TIT ERE'S NO FIGHT IN HIM. From the New York Evening Journal. ROBBERJjAUGHT.

Saline County Authorities Think They Have Captured One of the Blue Cut Gang1. Special to the rost-Pispatch. MARSHALL. Dec. 25.

The Saline County authorities think they have one of the Blue Cut train robbers. Christmas day a man was arrested at Gillian for burglary and larceny. He gives his name as Tom McDonald. He looted a store there and a constable took 'him in. He wore a good suit of clothes undtir a ragged one and had on his person several kinds of money and lots of it.

He Is in jail here. His examination, will occur on the 31st. WHITE PAPER POOL. Wisconsin Manufacturers Are Anxious to Enter the Combination in the East. NEW YORK, Dec.

27. The Evening Post says: A delegation of Wisconsin paper manufacturers, headed by J. A. Kimberley, has been in this city for several days past conferring with representatives cf Eastern manufacturers of white paper used by newspapers, with a view to entering the pool now forming. It is believed that the most prominent firms of the West will agree to proposed combination.

Allotment percentage are the main questions. ar.d The trade in the West differs from that in the East, and the prospect of an open an open marKet for concerns iuiated at a distance from the is Itclieved to be one of the grea? center objects of 'the proposed union. All tnai now remains to complete tno un-ou i manufacturers seems to be formal action concerning questions of contract, agreement, although most of fhe manufacturers are identified with the production of other lines of pajwr. it is positively that the negot now pending concern the newspaper grade only and have nothing to do with the manufacturing of other kinds. The work of organization has been syte-matized by a series of committees.

MARY LYNCH MISSING. Only Seven Years Old and Her Mother Cannot Find Her. Christmas day at 2 p. m. Mary Lynch, 7 years old.

left her home at South Ninth street and has not since returned. She visited I.ura Knapp. a schoolmate living at South Broadway, and remained at 'Mrs. Knapp's house until 5 o'clock, when she started home. She never got home, though some of the neighbors say they saw her in the alley back of her 'home as late at 5:30.

The Lynches are very poor and the police think that Alary may have left home vo.un tarily. Airs, i-yncn noes not trunk so fears the child has been kidnapped. She COAL SCHOONER LOST. She Went Ashore, but Her Captain and Crew Were Saved. PORTLAND, Dec.

26. The three- masted schooner Robert I. Carter, Capt. Nathan Towne, from Perth Amboy. N.

for this city, with 1.200 tons of coal, went ashore off Alden to-day, and will be a total loss. The captain and crew were brought ashore. NEGRO GIRL ASSAULTED AND MUEDEE2D AT JEFFERSON. BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED. Half-Witted Tobe Lanahan Is Under Arrest and Negroes and Whites Are Much Excited.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY. Dec. 2C The 14-year-old child of Ed Gaines, a negro of this place, was found outraged and murdered in 'the back yard of Stampfli's undertaking establishment by Jim Meyers, an employe of the place, about 6 o'clock this morning. The body was horribly mutilated.

It was evidently the work of some drunken brute. The girl was sent to the drug store last night about 5 o'clock, and that was the last seen of her. A search was made for her last night, but no trace of her could be found. Tobe Lanahan, a half witted negro, who has been working for Stampfli, has been arrested on suspicion. The evidence against the suspected man is only circumstantial, but it is very strong.

Lanahan'a record is also against him. He was arrested once befoire for an attempted occult nn a. voimsr negro girl, and he has been in jail for various other crimes. Lanahan's does not agree with the police story. He says that he left Stampfli's place at 6 o'clock Christmas night and did not return to the place any more that day, and that he went to see a negro named Horace Bolton.

The police have two witnesses who saw him go into the alley connected with Stampfli's building about 6 o'clock and saw him come out again about 9 o'clock. Lanahan was the last man seen with the dead girl. The negroes are very much worked up about the and some of the most prominent of them have told Sheriff Stone that as soon as. it was announced for certain that Lanahan is the right man tiey will lynch him and nothing he can do will keep them from it. The white people of the city are also strongly In favor of lynching.

KILLED HIS MAN. A Montana Ranchman Creates a Sec-dnd Sensation. GREAT FALLS. Dec. 2fl.

Peter Welcome, a rancher of Kibby township, forty miles from here, shot a neighbor rancher, Vieru, through the heart and then rode to the town of Belt and gave himself up. Welcome claims that Vieru was trying to break into his window with evil intents. There has been a feud of long standing between the two men over, a disputed tract of land." Welcome was given considerable notoriety in the Chicago papers last summer. He went to Chicago to srea.1 a child from the woman who was his wife, but from whom he separated some years ng-o. She caught Welcome just as he was escaping with the little one, and he had to come back to Montana.

SERIOUSLY STABBED. Two Missourians Fall Out One Uses a Knife. Special to the MOBERLY, Dec. 26. About noon yesterday J.

M. Wililams stabbed Reese Hardin, just over the heart, the wound penetrating the cavity. The difficulty was over business. The parties are related, nnd both stand well in the community. The cutting took place- at Renick.

six miles from here on the Wabash. Hardin may die. No arrests as yet. 5 "I THE EST END. F.

A. STEER'S PET FOX TERRIES ATTACKED WITH RABIES. IT BIT THE COACHMAN. Several Dogs Were Also Bittan and Care Is Being Taken to Prevent an Epidemic of Hydrophobia. The extreme West End Is threatened with an epidemic of hydrophobia.

A dog whicn is known to have bitten one man and nev-eral other dogs was killed Friday. It had all the symptoms of rabies. F. A. Steer, the haberdasher, who Uvea at Lindell boulevard, had a pet fox terrier of which the members of the family-were very fond.

A few days ago It began to act strangely. Formerly docile. It became very ferocious, attacking viciously every dog which came within Its reach. The family became alarmed and the coachman was ordered to lock the animal up In the coach-house. In attempting to do so the man wjj bitten.

The skin was only pinched, not punctured. A blood blister formed but it is not believed that he is in danger. The dog was finally panned In the coachhouse and Dr. C. W.

Crowley, the veterinary surgeon at 910 Chestnut street, was telephoned for. He went out and viewed the actions of the dog through a crack in the door. lis thought the animal was mad. but was not sure, and advised that It be kept In a box until it died, in order that all doubt might be removed. For this purpose, he sent out a box by one of his men.

This man understood that the dog was to be brought back. He lassoed It and got it Into the box and took it to the office. When the doctor came back to the office, he heard dog tearing around in the box and as the latter was none too strong, and there was danger of the dog getting among the horses in Amot's stable, he started to roll the box Into the alley. -m The dear hai almoet Kaawed thromh eae of the slats, and almost broke out, but the doctor turned the weak side tip and held the slat down until a board was brought which he nailed on. By that time another slat was nearly gnawed through, and while the attention of the dog was attracted with an Iron bar, which It bit at fiercely, another board was nailed on.

The box was sent back to the boulevard house, but the family refuse! to let the dog be brought on the premises again. A policeman was called and he shot It. Dr. Crowley called at the Health Depart-ment'Saturday morning and requested that a healthy dog be inoculated with brain and spinal Juices from the dead one, in order tto learn with certainty whether or not It was a case of rabies. City Chemist Telchman will make the test and if he finds that the dog wa mad step will be taken to discover other dogs which were bitten and confine them or kill them.

The pug dog of Mr. Steer is among those known to have been bitten. It will be confined until the time Is past within whtch rabies may develop. DAUGHTER'S SEARCH. Miss Thaxter of Missouri Hunting for Evidence of Her Father's Death in Oregon.

PORTLAND. Dec W. Mies Mary Kllen Thaxter O- Bedalla, 1 here endeavoring to obtain confirmatory evidence of the death of her father, Thaxter If he be Indeed dead to expedite the distribution of a half million collar estate In fit. Louis. In which he la nU the extent of Ten years ago Mr.

Thaxter lef-'. tooeue, coming west and the last five lexers M'. Thaxter received from him were -ved "Oswego, Ore." That waa about five or six years ago. Then corTCupondence between father and daughter ceased. About that time Thaxter i known to live the neighborhood of Oawego.

proepectir.ir. and otherwise laboring having as a chum, one- Frank Merrick. In the fall of Merrick circulated the etory tnat nis pnner i.n.4 hiuk to his home In Missouri. Til's wa credited up to three mor.th iS'i. dewphe the faet that Thaxt.r'a few at- ousntancea never again nnuu well and suspicion pointed to Merrick, was.

however, killtd accidentally a i time ago. DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA. One of Eight Baltimore Boys Bit a Mad Dog. BALTIMORE. MJ-.

Dec 2S Ephera. one of the eight boya who ten by a road dog a month mso, msU ward treated at the I'aateur InnrtJtut York died thla morning at hi Woodbury of hydrophobia. Ephera second to succumb to the iJrearf diee A iohrt I'erry ia nwu.lfeattng ay torn lead to the belief that he will a AH these lvv were bitten about and face. Those who were Mtten I prta of the body appear to be dotni KILLED AT A DANCE. An Early Morning Murder la County.

peelal ti the IM I ripat-. DONIPHAN, Dee. 2 -At -hour thie morn in Elijah Cotton s-d instantly killed by William dance. Cotton ha for two year twa Circuit Clerk of Ripley County en very ppur ymn Hits ALFRED HOLT TAKEN FROM 0W-ENSBORO JAIL AND HANGED. RUSE WORKED ON THE JAILER.

The Crime for Which the Negro Paid the Penalty Was the Murder of Officer White. OWENSROIIO, Dc. 26. Alfred Holt, Blias Alexander, colored murderer of Pclice Officer A. White, was taken front Jail by a moh, at 2:30 o'clock this morning-, and fcanged to a tree In the Court-house yard.

The lynching -was the most quiet and orderly, perhaps, ever conducted in the State, unci few persons, save thoe having business on the public; square at the time, knew anything- of it. About 2:13 two men knocked at the jail doors, and in res-ponse to a question from Deputy Jailer John Ashby. who demanded who had knocked, said they had a prisoner they wished to lock up for safe-k'-eplng. Thu thrown off his guard, young Ashby the door, only to face two big revolvers, lie was overpowered before he could inter a cry and ithe keys were taken from him. Pleading for his life.

Holt was taken out of the jail through the courthouse yard, to the pisi side, facing the Rudd House. He was given ample time to pray, when a rope was placed about his neck. At the word of command he was swung high in the a and in ten mimK-es was dad. He had strangled to death. When the mob had made sure that their work was complete, they mounted their horses in neighboring streets and alleys and 1 town as quietly as they had come.

While there was much mob talk at first, it was generally accepted that after such evidence haH Iwen brought against the law ivmiM he allowed to take its course. The moo's coming was. consequently, entirely unlocked for this morning. llpli's crime was crrnmitted on fhe morning of Nov-11. er White was killed with his own pistol, which was taken' from his pocket by a negro named George Rasket iind handed to Holt.

Holt escaped, but was captured shortly after at I.ouisvine, three ecks ago. His trial was begun early t-his ivrck. and the Commonwealth rested on Thursday, after producing conclusive evidence of the negro's gu It. FRANK FORT. Dec.

2fi. Ccmmon-vcalt'h Attorney Rnwe this morning made iippllcali to Cov. Bradley, asking hmi to offer a reward for the lynchers of the negro licit, who was mobbed by eight nii'n at Owenstv ro. HAPPYREOHI0. John Crim Left Heme Brok.3, Stayed Away Eleven Years, and Came Back Rich.

PHEhHYVILLE. Dec. years ago John G. Crim went to his home In Flat Rock from the village store and Informed his wife that he had made an ffort to secure something for their babies for Christmas, but not having the money she merchant refused, and the little ones would have to do without any His tfe told him not to grieve, saying that she had a few trinkets laid away for their chil- nen aim jimi iney toum get aiong until tne sawmill again started up. About midnight the husband arose, kissed his wife us she slept, as he did their children, wrote a note asking his wife not to worry about him and to raise the children mid to await hi-s return home.

Nothing was ever heard of him by his wife or friends until last night when a well-dressed man walked into the store at Flat Rock. It aa John Crim. He asked the direction to Mary Crlm's residence. A boy. 12 years old.

stepped forward with the remark that he would show hltn 'to his mother's house. Crim recognized his child and damped him to his hreaet and almost carried him to the house. Crim hal been In 1-tritlsh Columbia for ten years engaged 1n mining and had ama-sed a fortune. The reunion of the family was a happy one. ESCAPED MANY PERILS.

Survivors of the Sailor Boy Reach California. PAN DIEGO, Dec. 2fi. The steamer Carlos Pneheco, Just arrived from Enseneda. brought Ca.pt.

Charles Peterson and Wm. IJndley, who were on hoard the ichooner Pallor Boy. when she was wrecked last month near Ellda Island. The men escaped In a small boat to the main land walked to Rosario, fifty miles distant. The country traverse! is almost a desert and thev were almont starved when they reached Rosarlo.

KENTUCKY NEGRO SHOT. He Tried to Kill a White Man With a Razor. Dec. 2fi. A colored people's Christmas celebration began at Big Bone Springs Wednesday night and continued ail night.

Charles Ewalt. a mall carrier, while passing the pla.ee yesterday morning, was neeaulted by Harvey Foster, colored, armed with a raeor. Ewalt shot Foster dead. He at Big Flon Spring end ihas not been arrested. Ewalt's reputation i good, of Foster very bid.

MUSICIANS MARRY. Gus Hinrichs and Miss Fleming Wedded in California. 8 AN FRANCISCO. Dec. Gustav Hinrich.

the well-known musical director, and Katherine Montgomery Fleming wre married at the home of the parents' of lha groom. In Alameda, on tha evening-fti Deo. 17. Th ceremony wm aulai 3 TOREADOR MRS. MARY BELT'S LITTLE MYSTERY.

ASSAULTED "WITHOUT CAUSE, THEN DISAPPEARED. POLICE CAN NOT FIND HER. They Say, However, That Her Divorced Husband May Be Able to Explain. The Third District police report a. mysterious 'assault on Mrs.

Mary Belt, in which she received a bruise behind her left ear and a cut on her throat. Capt. Young says the assault was made by Mrs. Belt's divorced husbanJ. Mrs.

Belt is 35 years old and lives with her sister. Mrs. Joseph Walter, at 1201 Missouri avenue. As she was passing the mouth of the alley on the east side of Jefferson avenue, between Lafayette avenue and Whittemore place, at 6:30 p. m.

Thursday, a man sprang upon her. She screamed as he struck her. Fred W. Braun of 2350 Whittemore place ran to the alley. By the time he reached the woman, who was prostrate, the man had tied.

Mr. Braun assisted the woman to her feet and escorted her to Hickory street and Missouri avenue, where she insisted that lie leave her. She woulil not tell him her name and refused to give her address, say ing she feared the matter might become public. When Mr. Braun picked her tip in the alley she was bleeding from a cut on the throat and there was a large lump back of her left ear.

She said that a negro she did not know had attacked her without provocation. There was no attempt at robbery. Mr. Braun left her when requested, but followed her to hr home, 1201 Missouri ave nue. opposite Lafayette Park.

Then he reported the matter to the Third District police. Sergeant Hess and Patrolman Rodemich found 3hat 1201 was the residence of Mrs. Joseph Walter, sister of Mrs. Mary Belt. I the woman who had been assaulted.

Mrs. Walter, Faid that her sister came home Thursday evening at 7 o'clock and said I that she had been assaulted, but would not sav by whom. She deft the house fiftjeen minutes later and, without expla ning where she was going, said she would not be back for several dais. After the officers had talked to Mrs. Wal ter for some time she said she wonlrl hn sure to bave her sister at the house at noon The officers called rlaay.

but the house was deserted and the neighborhood said the. famliynaa ierc -i a- ana said they would not be back all day. rapt. Young made personal investigation and reported to Chief Harrigan Saturday that indications were that the assault had been made by Mrs. Belt's divorcer! hus band.

He gieanea tnat rrom conversations he had had with the neighbors. JUDGE KERR DEAD. The Minnesota Jurist Breathed His Last in Texas. ST. rATTi.

Dec. 26. Charles D. Kerr. Judge of the District Coui of this district, la dead.

Telegrams from Mrs. Kerr to Judge Brill and Judge Otis dated this morning at San Antonio. Texas, made the simple announcement of Judge Kerr's death. Judge verr was well Known as a juu-lst throughout tne SUNDAY WEATHER. Dr.

Frankenfleld Says It Will Be Fair and Slightly Warmer. "There Is no prospect of a great change in the weather during the tiext 36 hours" said weather observer Frankenfleld Saturday at noon. "There Is no Indication of snow, and the clouds will probably disappear to-night. The weather Sunday will be fair and slightly warmer. The temperature will be about oegrees." BOSTON STRIKE RESULT.

Young and Other Members of the Con ference Committee Discharged. BOSTON, Dec. 26. Examination of the list of employes dropped by the Wes End Street Railway management, as a re suit of Thursday's strike, shows that Pres ident Young and all of the other eight members of the Conference Committee, who promised a delay of the strike and whoee action In so doine- nrompted the Indignation THE LOCK OF A GROCER'S CLERK. HIS TITLED BROTHER IN GE.R-: MANY SENDS FOR HIM.

POVERTY PUT TO FLIGHT. Henceforth Charles Goldschmidt Will Live in -Luxury on the Family Estate. was amcrry flay for least one St. Louis family. Charles Goldschmidt, his wife and four little children celebrated It by a family reunion in Breslau, Germany, where they arrived a few days before the holiday.

The object of the Goldschmidt family In journeying across the ocean was to take possession of a large fortune and estate, the property of Baron von Goldschmidt of Breslau. Charles Goldschmidt was, until the last of November, a struggling young grocery clerk. He was employed by Speier Friedman at 3 North Boyle avenue at a salary of $15 a week. He lived at 1510 Mississippi avenue. GOldschmidt came to this country from Germany about ten years ago.

He was the second son of the family and had to give up everything to his older brother, who succeeded to his father's title. The brother in trermany is rapidly nearing the position in life when wealth loses many of its charms. He decided to do something to help his brother. Last month Charles got a long letter from his brother asking him to come to Germany and setrtle on the family estate. Inclosed was a money order for Yotinr Goldschmidt wrote his brother, saying they would come at once.

Goldschmidt got his few belongings together and on Nov. 1 left for Baltimore with his family. There they boarded a steamer for Hamburg. Thence made all hitste to Breslau where they were me by the older brother. Baron Von Goldschmidt Is 70 years of age, and in a few years his title and great wealth will pass to the young man who in St.

Louis was known simply as Charles Goldschmidt, grocery clerk. THE WEATHER FORECAST. mm "7 AIR AND WARMER. The Weather Bureau forecasts are as follows: For Pt. Ixrnls iI rlrlnlfy Fair Saturday Dd Sunday.

Etlgbtiy warnr Suoday. Saturday nifht and Foa-ojt SUlKbtly warmer frunday. Illlnola-Fair Saturday oisbt Su-day. Slight rh.ngra Id temperatni. Generally clear weather feaa rrralld ta ,11 aectiooa, with modrrate temperature.

t. warmer In the lVntf.1 Vallrya and eoldlr i tb. Kt and North- WT preaaar. everywhere Ms, but XL- A strike, are among those discharged. When this fact became known this morning, a wave of excitement equal to that which precipitated the strike swept over the employes, and it is feared that further trouble may result.

TELEGRAPHER'S SUICIDE. He Was in California and Out of Employment. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 26.

D. W. Bar-ricklow. a telegraph operator formerly employed in Kansas City, committed suicide yesterday by taking morphine. Barricklow became despondent because of his inability to obtain employment.

His father is a resident of CoffeyvUle, Kan. MINER SHOT DEAD- Patrick Carney, a Leaser, Instantly Killed by a Missouri Man at Leadville, Colo. LEADVILLE, Dec. 26. About 2 o'clock this morning, four Missouri miners.

mployed at the Bison mine, who were on their way home from down town, met Tat- ick Carney and his wife, who had been at- ending a ball.The Missourians called Car ey across the street and talked to him a few minutes. Then one of them shot him. iliing him Instantly. Carney was an elderly man, well known camp, and a leaser, working on the Star mine. The Missourians were all arrestea.

but it is not known yet which one fired the fatal shot. From the standing of Carney In the com munity It is feared that this murder will cause considerable trouble as the Miners Union people are highly incensed over it. MINE ON FIRE. The Spring Hill Mine of Halifax, Scena of a Former Disaster, Being Destroyed. HALIFAX, N.

Dec. 26. Another great disaster has overtaken the Spring Hill coal mines. Just five years ago the mines wera wrecked by a great explosion and 130 lives i lost. It took the best part of a year to get the colliery in working order again.

It was splendidly equipped, pave employment to 1.000 men in the pits, and had an output or 375,000 tons a year. From the meager dis patches received, it appears that fire has complete possession of the underground working of two or three slopes. Ahor.t 5 o'clock Thursday evening the coal mines at Spring Hill were discovered to be fire. The fire originated in the p.pe way of the east slope in the -foot level. It soon ate its way into ie levelopcd into a raging furnare hen overnmemt wspwiui as issuing from every opening of the mine.

Two cupokas were the hank head nan to irc miners worked hard to save livelihood, but all their efforts in that direction were fruitless. They tried to pre vent the air going into tne imn Pins up every air way -Mr. unpin naa to caai ihb work, as it was attended with great risk to their lives, should an explosion occur, which might be expected at any minute The flames shot 1W feet into the air. ine reflection being visible at Amhersr. ine oYtont nnt known, out tne most disastrous' consequences are 'rJrt- ine loss of the east slope is ut-n- be complete.

The machinery will ne ruined. At 4 p. m. Friday the west slope was re-ached all right, but the men will have hard work to save It. The fire caught from an overheated steam pipe connected with the idrivlng machinery.

The men worked up to the time the mine caught fire and got out in safety. The mine has threa slopes, north, west and eaju TWO MEN ANDA GIRL A Mysterious Case That Puzzles the People of Warrensburg. Special to the roist-DIepatcn. WARRENSBURG. Mo, Dec.

night a man giving the name of R. G. Johnson, aged about 50, brought a girt scarcely i to a warrensburg boarding house. He said the girl wa- his wife. On Thursday a greatly excited younr man called at the boarding house ZZ.Fl'?S- girl named Lizxie Brown, uhmson wi fitted the des.M-iptkm to i but denied th D.ut wanted.

A little later Johnson Ued of IRS uimp miu iiirr inn ui we IT further has been heard of them w. Uke an abduoUon or a very aSiiV elotie! sjj V' BISHOP MAOHACHINA ORMANIAN. This Is a faithful portrait of the Armenian patriarch who was recently 4 C-u, n.iiiiaoJaJ. A i 1.