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

DITIOM. It! BIN II vCO.Vl FLtIB MA Kr.P..itii.i Wfiat Does a Socletu Woman's Gown Cost Toilette wora by a society leader at a recent reception dissected by her modiste for to-morrow's Sunday Post- Disoatcfi. A Parson Who Encourages his Parishioners to Dance, wVites plays for enUrlainment and nunajn bills for the young folic His story only in the mjrt Sunday Post-Dispatch. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES CIRCULATION SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1893.

112,449. VOL. 49. NO. 152.

SATURDAY EVENING-STLOUIS-JANUARY 8, 1898. One Cent Ontnidc A.uuiu. 'I nu'Onta. THE HANNA STORY UP TO DATE. LAST POS DROWNED A BABE III THE RIVER, MO DEAD ill "BAD LUCKGfiTE." OHIO Ril'ER TQWBOAT BLOWN DP AND EIGHT LIVES LOST, The Upper Part of the Steamer Was Broken to Bits and the Hull Sank in a Moment.

Unknown Man Killed a Child Near St. Joseph. Mysterious Suicide of a Large, Well Dressed Man. BODIES FLOATED DOWN' THE STREAM. Pilot Woods Was Blown High Into the Air and Killed His Son and Captain Jones Badly Injured Only Three Persons Escaped Unhurt.

CUT A HOLE THE ICE. STIFLED THE LITTLE ONE'S CRIES WITH A SHAWL AND PUSHED IT I2ITO THE WATER. TWO MEN SAW THE MURDER. The Police Pound a Shawl Near the Spot, and Believe They Are on the Trail of the Criminal. Special to the rost-Dispatch.

ST. JOSEPH, Jan. 8. James Smith, a young farmer living in the French bottoms, reported to the police to-day that he had seen an unknown man drown a baby in the river a mile north of the city. He had stopped on the railroad track to talk to a stranger, and they witnessed the tragedy together.

The unknown man cut a hole in the ice, and then picked up the baby. Just then the two men on the railroad track called to him. and he looked around. He saw them, but stooned and pushed the baby into the water, stifling its cries with a shawl, in which it was wrapped. Smith and the other man went to the spot at once, but the swift current had carried it away.

They then went in pursuit of the murderer, and Smith became separated from the other man. The stranger and the murderer have not been seen since. Smith reported to the police and they found the tracks and a fragment of the shawl as evidence that his statement is AT "BAD LUCK true. The police credit the man's story and believe a murder has been committed. They are trying to track the criminal.

nv DETERMINATION. TREPIDATION. IT GOES BY ITSELF. A Hannibal Shoemaker With a Perpetual Uotion machine. Special to the HANNIBAL.

Jar 8. A perpetual motion machine will soon be turned out in Hannibal. The inventor is Robert G. J. Sandifer, a citizen of the West Side, whose trade is that of a shoemaker.

The machine will be run, he says, without the aid of steam, water, springs or any mechanical power save its own momentum. The machine consists of but three pieces, but the inventor positively refuses to give any particulars or exhibit his model until he has received a patent. He says: "I am confident that the machine will do all I claim and that when once put in motion will run until some of the bearings are worn out. The machines can be so arranged that they will run any kind of machinery from a sewing machine to the largest sawmill. I have not yet devised any means cf stopping the machine when once put in motion, but expect to have it complete! in a very short time." RECORD BROKEN AGAIN.

Clearing House Figures Once More Eclipso Others. The records of the St. Louis Clearing House Association were again broken Saturday, the clearings for the week being as compared with for the previous week and for the corresponding week last year. THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIRSTATIONARY.

Frr St. I.onis and (Jnnerally fidr Saturday nijilit and Suntbiy; llttie change in temperature. I For Missouri Fair Saturday nleht and Snn-j tiny; cnclcr the extreme southeast portion Saturday nltrht For Illinois Fair Saturday night and Sun-J day. except showers and cooler in the ex-j trome south portion Saturday afternoon and nipht. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER.

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SAVED BY A BABY, I How a Kahoka, Land Title Was Perfected. Special fn the rost-lspatch. KEOKUK, Jan. 8. A little girl baby and heir has come to the home of Charles T.

Llewellyn, Prosecuting Attorney of Clark County. Mo. She has saved the family fortune. The story Is an odd one. The late Jacob Llewellyn of Kahoka bequeathed to his son Charles certain valuable lands in Missouri.

He imposed one condition; that should the young man die without issue the lands were to revert to his brothers and sisters. But should he leave an heir the title was to be vested in him absolutely. In drawing the decree in partition, thi? provision was overlooked and the title was clouded. The matter was called to the t-tention of Judge McKee of the Circuit Court in the last April term. lie that he could not alia the decre to stand un-dr the circumstances and it was set aside.

The court told Llewellyn that he would be given a year to perfct his title. Llewellyn was married, but the rrattle of no children cheered the family hearth. But while in the trial of a criminal case before Judge McKee word came that his wife was very ill. The case wa quickly continued, the attorney excused and the court took a recess, pending developments. They came in a little more than an hour in the form of a baby girl.

The title is clear. The lands are Llewellyn's in fee simple now and the baby is growing under the consciousness cf duty well performed. THE OTHER WOMAN. Ex-I-Iayor Magoan Dscides to tay With Her Now. TRENTON.

N. Jan. yor Ml-gowan has again fooled his friends, and Mr. Barnes-Magowan has demonstrated her absolute control over the one-time millionaire. At tht ieverth hour ist right, when the train which was to carry the ex-Mayor to the Pocono Mountains was abont to pull Out of the station, Magowan suddenly changed his mind about returning to his wife, and declared his intention gain at once to Mrs.

Marnes-Magowun's room. After an interview ho announced to his sons that he would rot leave her. and instructed them to say to theic mother that would never return to her. Magowan's friends had raised for him the sum of with which to "straighten up" and prepare to return to his family. CORPSE HAD ON A CORK LEG.

I DISCOVERED IN ORTH ST. LOUIS BEFORE DAYLIGHT HY -rrr A TrTTT.T A P.TTOT'R.O'W. NO CLEW TO HIS IDENTITY. Pistol Shot Was Ileard at 4 O'Clock, and an Hour and a Half Later the Pody "Was Pound "With a Weapon by Its Side. The third dead man at "Pad Luck Gnte" was found at 5:30 o'clock Saturday morning by rani Shotrow, night watchman for the ('.

LlfHte I.umlicr Co. was nothing in his clothing by which h's identity could bo ascertained, lie v.as well dr- ssed ar es fine looking a fppc'rnon physically as one often sees. He had an artificial leg. of the latest and most Improved patt'-rn. and this will probably furnish the clew leadlrg to an identification.

'Bod Link Gate" has been given Its forbidding soubriquet by reason cf the fact that three men have met death by the side of the tail, substantial post on which the pate swings. The pate gives entrance to the ccal yards of the Craft-Kleine Co. at Ilro.idway and Huchanan streets. The "Wabash tracks, which run on North See-oid street at the western boundary of the yards, have a switch running into the coal yards, and when the switch is closed a large Bite bar3 the entrance. A year ago a railroad man was chopped FINDING THE BODY to pieces by a passing train at the gate, end six months before a switchman was run over and killed at a point not twenty-live feet a.va.

The employes of the Uebke biml" yard, which adjoins the coal yard, iliibted the "1 ad Man's Cute" when the second fatal accident occurred and it seems something more than a coincidence that a. stranger should seek out the spot from other points In a great city 1 ik l.emis, there to send a buiiet intj his brain. North Second street, near the intersection Of Ituchanan street. a gioomy neighborhood at any hour of the rt.iy and at 4 o'clock In the morning it is de rted save cniy for the occasional visits of a night watchmen. The sulci le mtm have known that he took no risk of being interrupted when he hit upon "Pad l.uck Gate" as a plate for his Mrs.

Mary Ileiimann of 3 North Second street Inarl a pistol shot tired at 4 o'clock in the morning, but, thinking it wa.H only a shot by some night watchman to frighten off. a marau.it the lumber or coal yards, she pai no attention the Tom ll.Iinier of Ol 'avenue, a night watchman in the coal j.tr.is. nt'tir-i snot. wa 1st a mote p.ii ff the yard, anl in no furt her tli t. I'e likewise I the iff umstiinri' ttivl.il.

When l'aul pa se 1 the gate (it o'clock nil his wav liU isotae at the I foot of hiiii.tn street be Mumbled across a obstacle, which caused him to str.ko a natch ar.jl Vne obstacie feit lik the of a man. a id win a Shoirow gaxed at features he fairt iigi.t of CO TINUKD ON 1 11 EXPECTATION. MEDITATION. SUICIDE FOLLOWS MURDER. Iowa Han Killed Himself After Shooting His Divorced Wife.

Speelal to the Post-Dispatch. DES MOINES. Jan. 8. Last I night James R.

McCownle of Bedford, a Justice of the Peace atid prominent citizen, accompanied by the Mayor and two friends went to the home of his divorced wife and asked her fcrr the custody of their child, saying he had heard she intended to leave town. She started to leave the room and he grabbed her and sent a ball through her body from his revolver. She fell dying to the floor and he escaped. This morning his body-was found in a yard at Sheriff Long's residence with a bullet through his head. WAR IN AFRICA.

Battle Between T'o Chiefs, Heavy Loss Reported. With LONDON, Jan. 8. A special dispatch from Cape Town says: Lereihodi, the paramount chief of Rasutoland, has attacked Maougha with 15.C10 men. Numbers are reported to have been kil ed and wounded on both siiies.

Feverai villages have been the whol cour.tr- is a ferment and all traders are leaving. KHYBER PASS DESERTED. The British Are Crowding the Natives in India. SIMLA. Jan.

8. Geti. Sir Eindon Blood has made a good beginning in punishing the Bunerwals for joining the Swatis in their attack on the Malakand Pnss. Without serious resistance tie has captured the Tanga and J'ersai Passes. The Afridis have deserted Khyber ass.

NO CIGARETTES THERE, Roanoke, 111., Starts an Anti-Cigarette Campaign. EUREKA, 111., Jan. S. The village1 of Roanoke, seven miles northeast of this city, has passed an ordinance prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes in any public place, with a heavy penalty for its violation. The ordinance aisi requires the puv-men: of JiiO annually for the privilege of soiling cigarettes.

OONT FORGET OtfH weir (f.ijf.e Retail iVIS'W h.ivOi.: Next night he tei! the druggists all much it cheers him to be there; eloquence he tills the hall. IVhile 1 1 applautt divide the air. A PITTSBURG, Jan. towboat Percy Kelsey, owned by W. H.

Brown Son of this city, blew up while going down the Ohio River near Glenfield, about 11 o'clock to-day and six or eight of the crew Were killed and at least four of the others irjured. The boat was commanded by Capt. Leslie Jcne3 of Shousetown, and the crew was made up of two pilots, two engineers, two mates, two firemen, a hambermaid, cook and the deck hands, in all about twelve persons. The Kelsey left Pittsburg about o'clock this morning, with a tow consisting cf seven barges and two flats of coal, and everything was apparently all right till the explosion took place, when the boat was literally blown to eces and the tow scattered and lost. The hull sunk almost immediately and the shattered portions of the upper works floated down the river and covered the water in the vicinity of the wreck.

Tho explosion was mo. terrific and was heard for milee. Ilundieds of rona ran to the river upon hearing the noise and an awful sight met their gaze. Rorlies were down the rtvtr and the debris v.a3 scattered far and wide, but no live person was seen. A few minutes later Capt.

Jones and three others were picked up alive, but badly Injured, and one body floated nslmre near Neville Island. The injured were removed to Capt. Crow's residence on Neville Island, where everything possible was done to alleviate their sufferings. It is beleved the rest of the crew were kilk-d. and parties are now searching for their bodies.

AND HADE UP. Postal Card to a Lawyer That Told of Hr.ppiness Following Misery. In th waste basket of a law firm in the Union Trust Building are the fragments of a divorce petition that was never filed. In a pretentious tight-room residence, 41'i North Market street, happiness has supplant! desolation. Henry N.

Barckers and wife, who were estranged, are now reeoncilcl. Three weeks ago the Post-Dispatch toll the itory of the Pafkers family. At that time Mrs. RarekiTs was at the home of her mother, Mrs. Collins, on North Thirteenth street.

Barckers lived alone in his big house with a pet dog for company. The domestic strife bitter and there, appeared no hope of reconciliation. Attor-n ys Miller Hrct.t had been reta.ned by Il.M-ckers to bring suit for divorce. But nhen Barckers and his wf. and Mrs.

tne mother-in-law, read about themselves in the it set them to thinl.irg. There was a conference nd that conference resulted in a reconciliation. A lew days ago Attorneys Miller Brewer received a postal card faying: "We have kissed and made up. I want that suit dismissed." The postal bore the signature of H. Barckers.

A Switchman Killed. Special to Post l)lspat. h. LITTLE ROCK, M. Par.cy.

a switchman in the Iron Mountain is run over and killed by en ecxine shor'iy before noon to-day. lnncy came to Littb" Rock several years ago from St. lyouis. and up to a year hk served as Justice of the Peace in Argent. ORATOR.

is al.vays a ready talker, but he he winds up in bed, "a sadder it ah. enotnh In n'-'e enough. And loo mucn ne'er a man ran hM; N' n.ttat lie'a 'aklrit ntieou :ir.nk bis ileal mil cure a coi4. Urn The list of oead and injured as far known at 1:30 p. was- KILLED.

Milton Woods, pilot. Alleghany. Pa. a eel Thorna? Piynn. second engineer.

Joseph Iiily, second male-. Lee fireman. Lee Bechto! fireman, and another fireman arc still mlosinv. INJURED. Leslie Jom s.

captain; burned and 1 hurt about the bedy; condition yeri'ius. Percy K. Woods, apprentice pilot; will probably d'e. David Walker, on of the crew; serious. Wandell, steward; serious.

It is not known at present what caused the explosion. The boat's boilers were recently tested and found to be in good condition and the beat was considered one of the bft and stanchest on the river. It was valued at A dispatch just rrcelvt says: from Glenfield When the boat hitw up, Pilot Woods Kits asleep in the pilot house, only a few feet from Capt. Jones. of the crew were also asleep.

The pilot was thrown high in the air and fell right wi.rre a few minutes before the pilot house was. He wa ded-when found and a pitiable s'ht wit Wi son. only a few feet away, injured my badly. He was pleading to his Capt. Leslie Joneg was injured by a bad cut in the head and his back bally eprainei.

The bedy of the fireman was blown ashora right near where the accident -curred. Only three of the crew escaped uninjured. FOILED BY A BOY. Cracksmen Were Alter a Railway Saf at TItokuk. Sp'-tn' to tho I'eot KKOKl'K, Jan.

8. Art Re'd. a Hantk Fc call-boy, discover two crocks tt on the safe ia the Chicago. Port Madli-ert and Des Moines railway office at Port Madison early this morning. He turned in an alarm, but the crocks noticed his lament ami tied.

The door, fastened ith a shon had b-cn forced, th" combination waa broken with a heavy sle.itte and a hole threw 'nches deep dr lied into It. A K. I'no titt'l shop bad bet rebhed of ehlt 1, brace an 1 lets', wh.eh were I- ft in the flight through A hole in the tack fence. COL. MOSES P.

HANDY DEAD. Was American Commiirioar Paris Fxrjcsiticn. to th AUGUSTA. in. M.ij M.ice P.

Han.ly die i at noon The remain will be talten to rlin. for burial. M-iJ-ir Handy v.as prominently (inctc.l with the World's 1'air at fh'cago. lie recently retiirne from Par wher lie w.i Ftnt by the I'n'tel tdt. Jovernment to nr-ing" torta''e at the Parin ijxpoait ion.

He was ill on re. urn bud conipm inej of overwork. TEN CENTS A TON ADVANCE. Demand to Be Made by Ohio Miner oa Tuturc Contracts. COLt'MIM'S.

Jan. -The Ohio minor convention t'eeided to imk for an advance ef 10 rns ion wnen the contract for ti'Xt i is m.id. JUDGE MKENNAS CHANCES. Judiciary Committj Will cn Hia Case Monday. I I ttir Po WASHINGTON.

J.ui -The tienat on Juditir- wiil on Monday ofs'ide whether or not y-Gener Mf-Ktnn i ll at on iir Suprr-r. Coujt Ail the char Re CRatrtal Mt Ketinj have In ti eorej lie and ft with th committee i.iy wl.l be on. ry fw of the haif(. are M.tst tf them rSisn-i- that it -Jitia is not bro.td tiiouB! to n.J a piaei oii" tn- hisht-t Jo The of tb Amr-r can 4 ii a 1 ful lerr I. hit they may have little Wright.

She Is Now Beits? Sud for Jilting a Druggist. IKNVKR. Jan. GalURhrr. a of Shl Ion.

haa fued uit la the liintrlct Court here a(tiFit Mrn. Anlrw Kan'ijn. akltiR JIO.W for aliejfej brt-ch of pri.mUr marnaRf. The eornplatnt tatr fiat tin- l.il' musden name i mni in: g.m and thnt lm ttr-nt net he? tn iM.oci. Io lie city he (spent tl In entei.

taittinR durtna; th.r rurtrtli, nft lwl tl ii l-v of hi huaiaca. Saftrg ct lt li vlait htf. 1 11 THE SAD FATE OF A ST. LOUIS POST-PRANDIAL lie is wcI! known. Everybody has scon him.

Tost-Dispatch reporters have been busy for ten days recording events in which he and his mouth fi-jttred. lie pets in his heaviest work during the holiday season or whenever there is a banquet to be given, at which verbosity is at a premium. Alter making the rounds ct festivities budweiscr man." mm- With Joy comes upon the scene 1 or he of words I neVr a lark. And with delight he cannot lie Pito the groctrs on the I 4 3h Next evening at the fftl board make an effort to rnthiit "With eloquence that he ha atored. The reta.l rcva wao handle thoe Ttie iron worker rlnim him next.

An.l hiie the wine i flo ing rt He lakes St. Louis for a t. jt And Jollies them cxtcnsUeier I i.