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LOUIS NOVEMBER 4. 1895. PRICE ONE CENT iioi ii in ri fe fln Did You Note the66 ''Attention9' 'Advertisers Showed the Sunday rmn nrnirmn books are the "Denver Tribune Primer," 1882: "Culture Garland." 18S7: "Little Book SLIPPED AND FELL TO DEATH. SODDEN DEATH OF EUGENE FIELD. Heart Failure Ended His Life at 5 O'clock Monday Morning, AT HIS HOME NEAR CHICAGO.

He Was Bora ia St. Louis and Was Widely Known as a Peet, Hum- -orist and Lecturer. CHICAGO, Nov. 4. Eugene Field, the poet, died In Jus bed of heart failure about 5 o'clock this morning', at his home In Buena Park, State.

He retired last night in usual health and apparently slept soundly till daybreak, when his son, who occupied the room with him, heard him groan, and putting out his hand found that death had already taken place. Mr. Field leaves a widow and five children. He had been Indisposed for several days, but no serious results were even thought of by his family and immediate friends. George H.

Yenowlne of this city was at Mr. Field's home when he died. Field 1 i OF THE DEAD PAST CONFRONTS THE NEW A GHOST property goes to six nieces, Melvina, Ida, Priscilla, Carrie, Georgie and Sarah Leathe. It is said a former will left Howard a large sum and that after the attempted fraud a new will wan drawn fnr er bv Judge Claiborne, her attorney. rne runerai will be held to-morrow afterr noon at 2 o'clock.

A Methodist preacher win nmnaie. Purviss Hangs Dec, 12. Special to The JACKSON, Nov. 4. The Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence of Will Purvis3, the notorious Marion County white cap who cheated the gallows by a slip of the rope on the former date of his execution.

His execution is fixed for Dec. 12. nun hmliji IS NOTHING NOW. "Wicked, Notorious Old Priscilla Henry Is Dead. THE CAREER OF AN EX-SLAVE Pandering to Depraved Passions She Amassed a Fortune and Bought Her Old Master's Farm.

Priscilla Henry the richest and wickedest wench in St. Louis, is dead. She was the keeper of the notorious re sort at 206 South Sixth street, where she breathed her last at 3:15 o'clock Sunday af ternoon, surrounded only by, the inmates or tne nouse. The deceased was one of the most re markable women of her claes that ever lived in fat. Louis, and was known to steam boatmen and traders from New Orleans to Minneapolis, and even to those whose avocations called them to the most, remote points in ine interior along the turbulent Missouri.

Born in bondage in 1819 on an immense plantation near Florence, owned by a slaveholder named Jackson, she was reared in ignorance. She came to St. Louis, amassed a fortune, bought the plantation on which she and her brother and- sisters were born, and died rich amid the tinsel and tawdriness of a house of shame. Such is the history of the old negress whose eventful life of 76 years closed Sunday. The cause of her death was indigestion, by which she was trouhlpd fnr nearly six years.

For five months she was confined to her bed and during that time she suffered the tortures of the damned. Physicians could do little more than ease her pain and during'-the closing weeks of ner me sne was oiten Heard to remark that her sufferings were a heavenlv visita tion sent upon her as a punishment for her sinful life. For forty-six years this woman was slave on the Jackson plantation. Her lamer axia motner were born there and reared a family consisting of one son and five daughters, all of whom are now dead. The old folks died on the plantation just before the news of Lee's surrender at Appomattox was received.

Priscilla. was the eldest child. Jackson refused to liberate his slaves when the Emancipation Proclamation was Issued, and Nancy, the youngest sister of Priscilla, was. born in bondage a year before the struggle, ended. Priscilla brought her to St.

Louis, a babe in arms, making the Journey by -easy--stages on a "flat boat soon after peace was declared. Her life in St. Louis began as a washerwoman in -a tumble-down rookery at Seventh street and Christy avenue, now Lucas avenue. She was then in robust health, and though black, was a handsome woman. Tiring of her arduous labors at the wash-tub, she soon drifted into a life of shame, and opened a bagnio at Sixth and Christy avenue, across from Union Market.

There she surrounded herself with both colored and white inmates, and the place became the rendezvous of the reckless and lawless element that followed- the river roustabouts, deck hands and adventurers, )oth black and white. Naturally a good caterer and a woman who wanted to please she attracted the semi-respectable men who drifted to and from St. Louis with the seasons the gamblers, the horse-traders, the steamboat captains, mates and engineers, and in time the name of Prescilla Henry was known from he delta to the falls of St. Anthonv, from Pittsburg to Cairo and far up the Missouri beyond St. Joe and Omaha.

Money fairly poured into her purse, and she enlarged her place from time to time until she was finally forced by want of room and the growth of the city to remove to the house at 206 South Sixth street, where she spent the last years of her life. There she opened a gilded palace of sin, the finest in all the Western country in those days. The nights were given over to drunkenness, ribaldry and debauchery, and no form of sin was too sickening to find harbor under her roof. She grew rich. Although she spent money in her younger days with a lavish hand she had a remarkable capacity for saving, which with old age developed into an almost miserly desire to hoard her gold.

She owned the houses at 206 and 208 South Sixth street and purchased the two-story brick residence at 4262 Garfield avenue, where she installed her sister Nancy Leathe, who had married in the mean time and reared a family. Then she bought the old Jackson plantation, where she was born. It is now leased to a Dr. Price and yields a handsome yearly income. Besides this she owned considerable property and was said to have money in bank the whole estate being valued at $100,000.

About the time Priscilla Henry opened the house opposite Union Market she met Thomas R. Howard, now a broker at 3074 Pine street, who, "she said, became her lover. They continued their relations for nearly twenty-five years. During the greater part of this time he managed her property and advised her as to the investment of her money. Howard on July 8 last was arrested on a charge of attempting to defraud his old mistress of real estate valued at $25,000 through the instrumentality of a forged deed.

The property in question was the house at 206 South Sixth street where she lived, wth a fr6ntage of about forty feet. The fraud was discovered by Notary Public George Davies when Florence Wlllams, the cook at the Henry resort, came before him, heavily veled, to impersonate Pris-clla Henry and sign the deed. She was accompanied by Howard and John Jordan, who came to figure as a witness. All three were arrested. One sensation followed another after the arrest of Howard.

Ida Leathe, the 17-year-old niece of Priscilla, who attended her during her illness, charged that Howard attempted to poison her aunt on June 12 to 15 through the instrumentality of Florence Williams, who was alleged to have put poison in her food. Howard was charged with having administered the poison with his own hand and also with giving her medicines tinctured with deadly drugs. Then came the sensational allegation that Howard had caused the death of Nancy Leathe, sister of Priscilla, who died in the house on South Sixth street a few weeks before. It was charged that Howard was trying to get rid of the entire family by a process of slow in order that he might fall heir to Prisilla's fortune. Coroner Wait began an investigation, aided by the police and several detectives, and suspicion pointed so strongly to the murder of Nancy Leathe that the body was exhumed and the viscera taken out.

This was turned over to City Chemist Teichman for analysis in the hope of proving whether the deceased was poisoned. A test was made for arsenic poison, but none was found. The other test was made and it was afterwards charged that opium was the poison used. The case had to" be dropped. The charge of fraud against Howard is still pending.

Bv the will of the dead woman all her 1882; "Culture's Garland," 1887; "Little Book Profitable Tales." 18S9; "Second hook oi Verses," "With Trumpet and Drum." 1S92: "Kchnps From the Sabine Farm." 1S93. Mr. Field married Miss Jillia Comstock of St. Joseph. Oct.

10, 1873, and had seven children Roswell Martin, Mary tf rencn, Melvin Gray, Eugene Frederick Skiff, Julia and Roswell Frances. In June, 1893, Knox- College conferred upon Mr. Field the nonorarv degree or A. JH. Mr.

Field's forte, both in verse and prose, was his touching delineation of child life and character. His "Little Boy Blue" and his "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" are the work of a master hand. Many of his child pieces will last as the best examples of exquisite feeling, more difficult than all else to put in words. In apposition he had a large strain of humor, but it was brusque rather than polished and delicate, and had far below the infinite tenderness of his verse when the sublect was babyhood or childhood. Mr.

Field was an admirer of Horace and has done some of the Latin poet's odes into fairly good English verse, sometimes in imitation of the original scansion. Mr. Field was a sprightly man, exceedingly dry in his humor of conversation, but nevertheless humorous. He was a wit, too, and had no mean talent as a reciter of comical or pathetic bits. His home was cheerful and his labrary universal.

Was to Bead in Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 4. Eugene Field had been booked for a reading at the Auditorium in mis city this evening. The demand for seats to hear the popular poet has been remarkable and a crowded house was assured.

Mr. Field had hosts of friends in this city, especially among the newspaper fraternity, in which he was himself a member several years ago, having worked on the Star. Elaborate plans for a reception had been made by his newspaper friends and admirers and a royal time was anticipated for him. A dispatch was received last night from R. M.

Field, brother of the poet, announcing the illness of the latter and asking a postponement for a few days of the Auditorium reading. No new date was set for the reading, but it was expected to soon follow, as the message indicated that Mr. Field was only slightly indisposed. BURNED ALIYE. Horrible Execution of Heretics Re ported From Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. 4. It Is reported here that by order of the town Judge, ten persons accused of being heretics were burned alive at Texcana, a small place Inhabited by Indians and half-breeds. The judge, it is said, claims he was acting according to the will of God, manifested to him in an extraordinary vision, accompanied by certain indications of divine wrath against heretics and people leading immoral lives. As soon as the news reached Molongo, the principal town in the district, the Municipal President and minor officials, with an escort of over sixty men, armed with rifles, went to Texcapa.

where they found everybody in the public square executing grotesque dances in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe, around the ruins of the Jail, in which on the previous Saturday, Nicolas Hernandes, Martin Santiago, Jose Manuel, Caspar Hernandez, Juan fomas. Juan Tomas Maria Juana, Maria Magdalena. Maria Conception and an infant child had been imprisoned and burned alive. Twenty-one arrests were made, although the fanatical mob threatened death to the authorities. The prisoners, securely bound around the arms and chained together, were marched to Molongo, where a judicial investigation will take place.

SIXTY POISONED. Gutsts at a Social Receptien Taken Violently 111. NEWBURG, N. Nov. 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Brewster, at Washingtqn-vllle. Orange County, N.

gave an entertainment, a few evenings ago in honor of the return from their wedding trip of Mr. and Mrs. Alden Goldsmith. The husband is a grapdson of the late Alden Goldsmith, awell-known horseman. Mrs.

Goldsmith was formerly Miss Dorothy Fulton- Shortly after partakings of the elaborate supper sixty of the eighty guests -were taken ill. It is supposed thit they were- poisoned by something in the' food, but what it was is not known. I Horrible Fall of Wm." Becker, a Crippled Painter. DROPPED THREE STORIES. He Had Just Recovered From a Protracted Spree and His Nerves Were Unsteady.

Pedestrians on Thirteenth street and Cass avenue at 9 o'clock Monday morning were horrified to see -a man balancing on the cornice of a three-story house, slip and fall. He grasped the ledge as he was going down and a few seconds later landed on the side, walk and was crushed to death. The man was William Becker, a painter, 40 years of age. He leaves a wife and family at 1206 South Broadway. He had been drinking during the past week, and although he was sober Monday was hardly fit for work.

A month ago he scaled the walls of a seven-story building without a tremor, but a hard drunk changed his physique. John Trump, his employer, put him to work on a three-story residence. No. 1414-16 North Thirteenth street. He was painting the window frames in the front part of the garret.

He was alone until a few minutes before the accident. Mr. Trump came up and called him inside to point out some overlooked spots on ihe other side of the building. He soon returned and stepped out of the south front window of the garret, and was walking along the ledge to the north window. He was a cripple, one of his legs being shorter than the other.

He swayed from one side to the other on the narrow cornice. It looked as though he would lose his footing every second, but it was only his crippled condition that caused him to sway. As he reached the window and was stooping down to open it, hia feet slipped on the fresh paint, and with a scream he went down. Black finger marks show where he made a death grab to save himself. He actually dug into the wood with his finger-nails, but there was no holding place and his wolght carried him to death on the granitoid walk.

Mrs. Smith of 1412 North Thirteenth street saw him fall. She was loulclng out of her window. She saw him slip aw the wild look in his eye as he grabbed the cornice She was only twenty feet away, wa8' powerless to be of any assistance. Patrolman McGuire had Dr.

O'Donohl of 1427 OFallon street summoned. found that the man's spine had been frac-X tured and several ribs and the shoulde? blade broken. Becker died Just after the doctor arrived. Mrs. Mary Schroder, who occupies the house where the accident occurred, was greatly distressed because she had warmed her sidewalk Saturday and had to turn in again to-day and swab up the blood Mains.

Mr. Trump said Becker had been painting for twenty-five years and always boosted that he never met with an accident. Two years ago he invented some patent roofing material and barked it with a few thousand dollars, the savings of a life-time. Three months ago he gave lr up as a bad Job. He vacated his office on the northwent corner of Cass avenue and Thirteenth street and went back to painting.

He was well known in building circles and was a member of the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America. RUPTURED HIS WINDPIPE. P- i Sad Fate of i Hornblower Who Tried to Rival Roland. Special to The Fost-Dlnpatch. NEW YORK.

Nov. 4. During a comparatively short period of his term of enlistment as a member of the Military Band at West Point, Otto Hauschlld attempted to master every instrument In the band's extensive collection, and now he is drawing a pension from the Government. Otto's rase is particularly unfortunate. He is by profession a cornettlst and a very good one; but when, in his obedience to orders, he undertook to exceed his powers, he blew ho.1''? 'I1 hi and twisted his windpipe Into knots To sum up his affllc- exP'a'nea bv his frlendB, he can drink beer, but not soup, and he can talk, but cannot blow his horn.

In a masterful attempt to play a euphonium he ruptured his windpipe. This affliction brought on deafness and, when the hopelessness of his position became apparent, he applied for assistance from the Government and was allowed X2a a month. His case has excited the Interest of the medical fraternity, and he frequently comes to this city to submit to examinations by physicians. PAGET-WfllTHET. Preparations for Another Swell Wed- ding- in New York.

Special to Tbe Teat-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Nov. wedding- of Miss Pauline Whitney and Mr. AJmerlo Hugh Paget, to take place at noon on Nov. 12.

in St. Thomas's Churcn, will be. la some -respects, the smartest nuptial event of the autumn. Some novel features will be introduced In the church decorations, which are to be gay bright and gorgeous, and for hitney will be escorted up the aisle by her ftiM VSecretanr vVlllam C- Whitney? Her bridal gown, as weli as the gown of her brldemalds. were made in Paris.

The ma- iVi Jt1 "k.1 V't, white satin. The skirt, which falls in a long train. Is trimmed in front with a wide flounce of superb lace, with the pattern running through It in a. design she selected. Tfci is of garlands and little roses end simulated emplra bow knots.

The flounce does not fall directly on the material, but is over a full chiffon frilling, which sets It off. The trimming of the high corsage Is aa artlstlo combination of chiffon and lace. SHOT TO DEATH. An Arkansas Mob Kills Albert England for 8ttaling. WYNNE, Nov.

4 Albert England, a white man with a bad record, after being examined for breaking1 into a store at VUona, and stealing- $25 Worth ol irooo. was taken from the officers bavins him in charge at 1 o'clock yesterday morn, tax a mob and shot to death. Detailed Statement -of Circulation Of the St. Louis PostDispatch For the Month of October, 1895. v.

'Mm. Sunday Edition. Week Day Edition. I 78 236 xirst weeK THE LATE EUGENE FIELD. "I :4 it i 1 1 i oo, 03.01 Week.

85,599 341,240 Average Per Day for the Month. and Mr. Yenowlne intended to start together for Kansas City, at which place Mr. Field was to read to-night. Mr.

Field had a wide acquaintance in the city and the announcement of his death causes a sorrowing shock. and Sunday 79,178 (Week Days Only) 78,269 Only 85,310 2 78,512 7Q aio xmra 4 78 67o Fourth 5 76,965 6 7 77,263 8 76,764 9 77,545 10 75,155 11 77,356 12 76,174 13 14 77,379 15 77,770 16 78,349 17 78,134 18 77,708 19 77,713 20 21 77.858 Total STATE CITY OF Daily Daily Sunday OP MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, BUILDING FORTS ON THE BLUFFS. Canada Prepares for Trouble Over the Alaskan Boundary. GUARDING YUKON RIVER.

Police Constructing Fortresses Over-lotking the Stream, and Are Exploring the Mountain Passes. PORT TOWNS END, Nov. 4. A. party of miners from the headquarters of the Yukon River has arrived from Unalaska and reports that the Canadian Government is establishing well-equipped fortifications on commanding bluffs overlooking strategic points on Forty Mile Creek, and elsewhere along the supposed international boundary line.

A large company of Canadian military police is busily engaged in exploring the country for mountain passes both in Alaska and Canadian territory. The loop of Forty Mile Creek runs into British territory, and to reach the most valuable mines It is necessary for American miners to pass through a small portion of foreign territory. The river is very narrow and the have erected on over-towering cliffs Impregnable fortresses which completely guard travel on the river. At several other points breastworks of substantially built stone have been erected. On the whole, the actions of the police would indicate that preparations are being made to accommodate large squads of militia at various points along the boundary and particularly in the vicinity of the placer mines.

However, the police are very kind toward American miners, rendering them every assistance possible and in many other ways they bestow small favors and endeavor to allay suspicion or unpleasant inquiries as to the objects of such warlike preparations. In the entire area of country in the British territory small detachments attired in citizens' clothes have visited all important mining camps, reconnoltering the surrounding country. What their object was, they would not state. On the British side are stationed customs and Judicial officers and a good system of municipal government is maintained. The miners bring the news that the country last spring was flooded with fully a thousand inexperienced men, who rushed into- the mines and were bitterly disappointed, and now they prophesy that before the approaching winter is over much suffering will be experienced.

There is not enough food in the mines to last through the winter. Last winter provisions ran short and hundreds of miners became afflicted with scurvy and three died. The miners have not been very successful this season, no big strikes being reported. THE WEATHER. Rain Monday Night, Growing Much Colder Tuesday.

For St. Louis and vicinity Increasing cloudiness, followed by rain, commencing Monday night or Tuesday morning; colder Monday night; considerably colder Tuesday. For Illinois Cloudy, with showers- in northern portion to-day and to-night: much colder Tuesday. For Missouri Generally fair to-night and Tuesday colder. 'kOV nna! this morning, except in the extreme North and extreme West.

It Is hlghtftt on the North Atlantic Coast and In Alberta and lowest in Utah and Northwest Minnesota. Fair weather has continued except in Minnesota and I'tfth and Western Montana. The temper ures have risen considerably ie lLteri' -d are falling rapidly In the 22 78,218 Personally appeared before me, a Notary 24 7l'il2 PnbHc and for tbe City of St Loui8' 25 79,652 G. W. Jones, Business Manager of tbe ss.

Post-Disnatch. who denooea and the editions of the St. Dispatch for the month of 1895, after deducting all spoiled tupics, was as auuvc. 0. W.JONES, Business Manager, so 77,589 st I nuis 27 28 79 877 sys that 29 79'049 Louis Post i II'f2I October, v.

v-. auu Total .2,113,287 Sworn to ber, 1895. and Seal My term expires, October I7th, 1899, icu-uvcr subscribed before HARRY me the 1st day of Novem M. DUHRING, Notary Public, City of St Louis, Mo. Eugene Field was well-known In St.

Louts, having been born here September 2, 1850, and was therefore 45 years old at the time of his death. He was the son of Roswell Martin and Frances Reed Field. His parents were both natives of Windham County. Vermont. His father graduated from Mlddlebury College when only 15 years old, became a lawyer and introduced a bill In the Vermont Legislature permitting atheists to testify in courts of law.

He was Dred Sctt's first attorney in the case which resulted in the famous Dred Scott decision by the United States Supreme Court. The first American ancestor of the name of Field came to this country between 1630 and 1640, while on the paternal grand- mother's side, the original American ancestor Was James Smith, who settled at Plymouth in 1626. Eugene Field's mother died in 1857. He was then put under the care of his cousin. Miss Mary Field French, at Amherst, and for thirteen years she superintended his education and was his foster mother.

He attended illiams College in 1868, Knox College in 1869 and the State University of Missouri in 1S71. After finishing his education he adopted the profession of a newspaper writer, beginning with the St. Louis Journal in 18.2. His next connection was with the fat. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette in 1875, after which he returned to St.

Louis to take an editorial desk on the Times-Journal. In 1880 he was on the staff of the Kansas City Times, but left that paper in 1881 to become managing editor of the Denver Tribune. He went to Chicago August 13, 1RS3. to accept a position on the editorial staff of the Chicago Morning News (now the Record), and his connection with that paper continued without interruption until his death. Mr.

Field last contribution to his department on thtS paper, "Sharps and Flats," was published Saturdav morning, and In it was a characteristic defense of Bill Nye and a refusal to accent as to the cause of the recent assault on the humorist at Paterson, N. J. By a strange coincidence this expression wai used: "Ten years ago Nye was In shocking bad health, and at one time there were fears that he would be an Invalid for the rest of his life. His malady at that time was meningitis; never since his two years' affliction with that insidious and dtstructve disease has Nye been a robust man." In addition to hl newspaper work Mr. Field has found time to perform much extra labor In the literary field, and had established a reputation as a powerful and clever writer of stories and verse.

His last poem of pretension was "Dream 6hipf, written for and printed in the Oc-tober Ladles' Home Journal. He was especially adept In the poems and stories i of child and his printed books now number half a dozen volumes. He -has also made himself famous to the public as a reader of his own utorles and verses, having at different times appeared jointly with Edgar Wilson Nye and James Whit-cosb Riley. Among hia better known I IN AN AMAZON'S CLUTCHES. John McOrath.

May Die of Injuries In-flicted by a Regress. John McGrath, a laborer, was found with a fractured skull, broken jaw and crushed left hand In an alley near Broadway Market streets Sunday. When he regained consciousness he said that before daybreak Sunday a powerful negress lured him to her room near Ninth and Market streets. Sh tried to rob him and he ran. She overtook him, dragged him back and after beating him with a bludgeon robbed him.

He made his way to the place where he "was found unconscious. He ma CURSED A WHITE MAN, And Win. Mason Has a Bullet Wound in His Chest. William Mason, colored, brushed against Thomas McMahon and Thomas Reardon as he walked down Market street near Fourteenth early Monday morning. Mason was drunk and began swearing.

McMahon demanded an apotbgy. Mason contiued to curse and McMahon drew a revolver and shot the negro fn the tit, la-flirting a dangerous wound. McMahon and Reardon were Both men are laborers and re 81 South Sixteenth street. Uv Market street..