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JL SECRET OUT. A GOOD PAYING BUSINESS IS GAINED BY REGULAR ADVERTISING IN THE THE REST, THE GBEflTEST, WITHOUT A MATCH. THE UNEXCELLED 8DWI PDST-DISPjllGJi. YOL. 301.

ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1839. PRICE, FTYE CESTS. ET CAREIEB TWE5TI CEST3 A WEEK. I A "DUI UT mi-i rvm TINvmrii lng the wine portion of the boose to pieces, and knocked the main part about eleven feet THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

the whole neighborhood Is excited. The little girl's life is despaired of. A petition will I A li III I 111 I KD JL COUNT THOMAS A. EDISON THE AMERICAN ELFCTR1CIAN H0X0EED BY PI 1 i irrui-i" 1 1 111 i I ii I Phi I U1AXJJVX UU111U1I SALE Their Prices Cut in Half and the Goods fire Going! THIS IS HOW WE SELL 'EM! Appier Hodge's 50c Balbriggan Half Hose for 20c Appier Hodge's 35c French Lisle Half Hose for 17c Appier Hodge's $1.50 Night Shirts for 75c Appier Hodge's Full-Dress Vests for $3.50 Appier Hodge's $5.00 Flannel Coats 'for $2.50 Appier Hodge's $1.75 Ascot Scarfs for 50c Apoier cc nodge 50c Linen rianakercniels lor oCi 25c Linen Handkerchiefs for 13c Appier Hodge's 40c Embroidered Collars for 20c Appier Hodge's 50c and 75c Suspenders for Aren't the Abovs About the Biggest Bargains You've Heard Of? Broadway, Washington Avenue and St. Charles Street.

t-t Famitsre, Garnets, Stoves AT PRICES LOWER THAN ANY Cn the Time-Payment II Stiaus-EmeiiGH LARGEST TIME-PAYMENT 1121, 1123 and 1125 Flan OLIVE STREET. liARGxIXS THIN WEEK a be sent to Paquin. asklnj him to visit Mason's farm and order the remainder of bis horses A veterinary surgeon of tbi city says there is hardly a county in this fctate that is free from disease. TO THE BOLLIN9 COMPANY. A Mortgage Filed on the Municipal Elec tric Lighting Co.

Property. Some time ago tbe Post-Dispatch announced tbat the Snter-Mnniolpal Electric Lighting Power Co. bad sold Its issue of J750.000 of bonds to the Holl is Co. syndicate of New York, purchasers of the Laclede and Gas Trust agreement gas properties, and also of the Heisler electric light patents. This report was very vigorously denied at the time, but still It attracted a great deal of attention, and was generally believed in gas and electric cirelcs to be correct.

This was proved to be so this morning when tne Municipal Electric Lighting A Power organized with a capital of filed a mortgage in the Recorder's ofbco transferring all their real estate, buildings, machinery, franchises and assets to the llul-lins Trust Co. to secure the issue of $750 bonds of J1.000 each, for twenty years at 6 per cent a year. This does not give the Uolllns syndicate control as long as the company can pay 6 per cent per a un urn on the bonds, but it gives them a voice of considerable influence, and if tbey have a good holding its the stock, as it is reported tbey have, will enable them to dictate the policy of the company In every way. There Is now opposing the Holllus syndicate only the Missouri and Thomson-Houston Companies. The latter is in a partially different held, but it is stated on good authority that Hollins Jt Co.

even have a strong representative in it. SAFE IN JAIL. A Black Fiend at Attempts Assault a White Woman. Telearanh to the Post-Dispatch. to Paris, August 19.

About 2 o'clock this morning Mrs. Yondertwer, a German lady, who runs a restaurant on Clarksville street, was awakened by some one coming to her bed and taking hold of her. She screamed and a negro man named Bark, who works at the place, ran out. The inmates of the place were aroused and a policeman came and went to where Bark slept and arrested him. The negro was awake when found.

After be was arrested a German girl working there said that he had entered her room twice during the week. The lirst time she had frightened him away, but the next time be had criminally assaulted her, but she had been alraid to inform on him, us he had made threats against ber if she told it. The negro Is in jail. A FKIGUTFIL FALL. John Owen Drops Thirty-Five Feet and Is Seriously Injured.

John Owen, a tinner in the employ of Merker ft while engaged In placing tin on the court side of the Mermod-Jaccard building at Braadway and Locust street, fell from a scaffold at 10:50 this morning a distance of fifty feet. He bad himself fixed the scaffold on a fifth-story window sill, and when the scaffold gave way he struck a skylight about thirty-five feet below, and then fell to the roof of the first story, fifteen feet lower. When picked up ho was conscious, but bad a gash four inches long across the left side of the forehead, which was fractured, bad a fractured thumb aud other injuries. Patrolman Ed Fox summoned an ambulance and bad bim removed to the City Dispensary. Owen was about 32 year of age, unmarried and lived with his mother on Ninth, between Biddle and O'Fallon streets.

Earlier in the day a scaffold gave way with another workman, but he caught bold of the sill and saved himself. Kelilons Notes. The Young Men's Hebrew Association pic nic at Normandy Grove yesterday was largely attended-and a success In every way. The athletic sports were particularly Interesting. The Feast of tbe Assumption was celebrated with great solemnity at tbe church of that name on Ninth and Sidney streets yesterday.

Bev. F. V. Nneent. President of the Cape Girardeau College, preached an eloquent ser mon.

The bells of the new Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor were blessed yesterday with much ceremony. Very Hev. Henry Muehl-siepen pronounced the blessing, assisted bv rut hers lallon and abbe. lather Scblecter, S. made an eloquent address.

At the union meeting of the Carondelet So cieties of Christian Endeavor last night a tribute was paid to Rev. Lyman Allen, the pastor of the Carondelet i'resbyterlan Church, who has accepted a call to 1'ark Church, Newark, N. and will soon take his departure for that place He will preach his farewell sermon on the last Sunday In September. Obituary. Asisurt Park, N.

August 19. Mrs. Jane Ralston Price, aged 63 years, of Auburn, died on Saturday night at the Knowlton cottage. Ocean Grove, durlug a severe coughing Spell. VaNdalia, Angust m.

u. M. poge. one of the oldest citizens of this town, died last night. Ke was at one time one of the wealthiest men In Central Missouri, but died so poor that he was buried bv publ charity.

Ptttsbcrg, August 19. Geo. Glass, a well-known oitizen and one of the highest and most prominent Masons In the State, died last night alter a brief Illness, ine accessed was 67 years of age and married. Died in a Calaboose. Chicago, 111., August 19.

Frederick F. Scbaeftler, a man about 22 years of age, was found dead in his cell at the Harrison street station this morning. He had been drinking heavily during Saturday and Sunday and was taken to tbe station by his friend. David 1'eteikin. Both men live at 1500 Michigan avenue, Detroit.

and were on their way to Long Island, with a load of horses. On tbe road to Chicago Schaetller acted strangely and frequently attempted to throw himself from tbe car, and It was only by superhuman enorts tnat reterkm prevented deceased from killing himself. The Buffalo Associated Elevators. Buffalo, N. Y.

Angust 19. The business of the Associated Elevators, in which the grain shortages occurred nnder the management of S. F. Sherman, bas been thoroughly reorganized by the owners. Geo.

S. Gatchell, late General Superintendent of tbe Western New York A Pennsylvania Railroad, has been appointed man. and ex -Postmaster John M. Bedford secretary and treasurer. A Wicked Pair la Custody.

By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. Texarkana. Angust 19. The woman Mrs. Brown, who left a S-t eks-old child In the alley back of the West Hotel a week ago, was arrested at Gainesville and brought back laat night.

The man In the case is already in jail, and both will be held to answer tbe charge ot attempt to murder by exposing the Infant to probable fatal surroundings. Hon. Charles W. Jiate Dead. Ca'ssopolis, Chas.

W. Cilsbee, aged 56, ex-Judge of Barron and Cass circuits, died this morning, after a lingering) Illness. Mr. Cilsbee was Secretary of tbe republican National Convention of IhsO, 1nS4 an IxsH. He also held the position of Heading- Cierk of tne National House of Hep-reseatay vea for six years.

The P.ithraond Hlot. Galveiton, August 19. Got. Boss Is at Ricbiriond and everything is quiet there. Tbe troops have not yet been recalled.

Frost, one of ti leaders of tue Jaybirds, died yesterday morning. As Sheriff Garvey Inst his life la tbe riot, no arrests have been made. ftarffaint art Mwayt Jdrerti4 tm Ih Stmdag from the foundation, cracking the plastering nil over the house, ine tatniiy had all gone up from below but one little girl who narrowly escaped being killed. 6ue was quite se riously injured. A Switchman's Presence of Mind.

BALTIMORE, Md.t August 19. A serious loss of life was averted by the presence of mind of a switchman on the Northern Central this morning. A shifter engine was standing on the main track at Lafayette Sta tion, near Calvert mock raruo, when the Philadelphia ixpreis, known as train 92, was sighted. Opinions differ as to the action of the sbilter. borne say the en-ginee.

reversed the lsver and jumped for his life; others that the passenger train struck the shifter and sent her on her backward journey. The shifter flew at lightning speed through the tunnels, through Fulton and Union stations. The Pope's Creek train was just nulling out well tilled with passengers. The switchman at Center street, seeing ti locomotive running wild, opened the switch. The sbilter crushed into a locomotive and two cars driving them through the wall of a large meat-house occupied by Nelson Morris A of Chicaero.

No meats were stored at the time. The two locomotives and cars are a total wreck aud the damage to the meat-house is about $5,000. The total damage is estimated at Attacked by a Vicious Bull. By Telegraph the Post-Dispatch. Helena, August 19.

Mr. N. F. Bruce oi tnis county, tue son or Key. u.

A. Bruce, a prominent episcopal Clergyman, met with a very distressing accident Saturday after noon that may cause his death. Mr. Ilruce was leading a very line bull to water. In passing around the corner of a fence the animal turned suddenly nu atuckea nun in a very vicious manner.

lie got him lammed up azaiost the fence and prodded bun in the stomach, injuring him in ternally. He then rescued down, caught his norn in tne lower part oi the body of Mr. Bruce and threw him over his head. This time the horn entered the body aud almobt literally ripped open the unfortunate man. A Fatal Overdose.

Trot, N. August 19. Miss Mary W. Case, a practicing physician of this city, died suddenly at her father's residence in Lansing-burg this morning from an accidental overdose of a drug taken for heart trouble. She was a graduate of the Woman's Medical Col lege of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Cornelia Simpson of Hoosic Falls died suddenly this morning. She had complained or neauacue shortly oeiore expiring. An Incendiary Fire. By Telepranh to the Tost-Dispatch.

Texarkana, August 19. St. Paul African Methodist Churcti, the finest institution of the sort In the city', was destroyed by fire last night, the work of an Incendiary. The loss, including the parsonage adjoining, is placed at no insurance. You Can Learn French ten lessons by joining the large class of readers of the Sunday Post-Dispatch.

A CONVERT 103 TEAKS OLD. Jack Balnea, a Centenarian With a History, Joins the Methodist Church. Among those who went lorward to the altar in Centenary Methodist Church, on Sixteenth and Pine streets, last night, to announce their conversion, was a gray-haired old man, who did not appear to be particularly feeble considering his aged apnea ance. "This man," said l)r. Matthews aloud to the immense congregation, which had assembled in honor of his return, "is 102 years old." This statement, as may be Imagined, created a flutter of excitement.

Everybody was anxious to see the individual alio had lived lor over a century, and tueir curiosity was so great that numbers stood up aud leaned over the pews. When the services were over the centenar ian was surrounded on every side and Ques tions tired at him from all sides. His name Is William J. Haines, but he hu alwavs been known, be said, as "Jack" Haines. He talked Intelligently and with mueh fluency and delighted his listeners witii reminiscences of bis life.

He had no authenticated rec ord of his birth, he said, but knew bis age perfectly well. and would be 102 years on next Christmas His conversion was brought about by Mrs. Flint, the lady with whom he and his wife board, at 13J0 Pine street. She Is a member of Centenary Church, and has long been anxious to get Mr. Haines to Join.

Yesterday Dr. Matthews was at her house to baptize several babies and she brought Mr. Haines down to tne parlor to see him. The pastor of Centenary became very much interested in the old man and asked him to visit the churcli last night. He promised to do so and (ullilled his pledge.

When he had heard Dr. Matthews preach he expressed a desire to join the church, and went forward to the altar with the rest of the convert. To-day a Post-Dispatch reporter called at his boarding house to see him and was Informed by Mrs. Flint that he was at work. He worked everv day she said, in the Fagin building at bis trade, which Was that of an engineer.

The Fagin building was visited and the old man found at his post of duty in the basement. "Yes, ft Is true," he said, "that I will be 102 years of age next December, and what is more, I have never to my knowlege been sick a day in my life. I served In the war of 1812, and was an Orderly on Gen. Jackson's staff. I was in the battle of New Orleans, when Gen.

Jackson defeated the English forces under Packenham. The officer who I was immediately nnder was Capt. Gregory. After the war 1 became an engineer on tbe river and ran the first steamer tbat ever came to St. Louis.

Afterwards 1 took to railroading, and ran the first engine in Illinois and the second in Missouri. During the time I was engineer on the Iron Mountain road I traveled 300. OuO miles, although operating engines all my lite, I have never had an accident of auy kind. It seems as If whenever there wan aanger a voice whispered mv ear be careful, and by heeding it I have escaped any Injury." A Consultation at Deer Park. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch.

Deer Park, August 19. The law firm of Harrison. Miller Elam sat down to dinner yesterday in the Executive cottage. When they last broke bread together not one of them Imagined that the senior partner would, within a couple of years, be the Chief Executive of this great land, while one of his colleagues would fill the highest legal oftice in the land. Attorney-General Miller arrived here In tbe morning from Indianapolis for consultation with the President concerning tbe lerrv affair and Justice Field.

Upon learning of the shooting of Judge Terry by Deputy Marshal Nagle the Attorney-General instructed the United States Marshal to investigate the affair iu the most thorough manner, and to forward a Jll report as expenditiouslv as possible. The Attorney-General and the President canvassed the case very fully yesterday and determined to take no oflicial action before the receipt of the Marshal's report. The Department of Justice bas already requested the officials of the State to use every precaution to prevent violence to the person of Deputy Nagle and no apprehensions are entertained by the Attorney-General on tbat score. Mr. Miller and the President are both of the opin Ion that Judge Sawyer's action In Issuing a writ of habeas corpus, thereby bringing Nagle to San Francisco, is fully warranted, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court extending over Nagle'a acta bile in tbe performance of a special duty.

Tbe arrest of Justice Field does not disturb either the President or tbe Attorney-General. Should he ever be brought to trial, which la not probable. Mr. Miller Is confident that any court would take tbe view expressed ry even isutier, iq bu, vuumi u. no conspiracy on tne part of Justice Field and Marshal Nagle to make Terry strike the Justice." THE Grand Grove of Missonrl, AnclentOrder of United Drnlds.

have cueu a special meeting for to-night at Druids' Hail. Ninth aad Aiarket streets. Bel-Kooiti Suits. Parlor Snits Wardrobes oiding Beds. KedsUads Springs Bfihy Carriages.

Carpets. 8 Brussels Carpets. And onr entire stock at i Special inducements to parties starting THE KING OF ITALY. Three Men Killed In a Colliery Explosion at Hanley, England A German Editor in London Shoots His Wife and Children and Suicides Financial Panic at Turin-Manifesto of tbe Swlas Anarchists. Paris, August 19.

A special envoy of King Humbert of Italy to-day presented Thomas A. Edisou, tho famous American electrician, with the Insignia of a grand oflicer of the crown of Italy. Mr. Edison thus becomes a count and his wife a conntess. Italy.

Tcrin. August 19. The National Bank, tha Milan Savings Bank and the Bank of Naples have advanced 24,000,000 lire to two Turin banks to arrest a panlo caused by the suicide of Signor Copello, one of tbe leading bankers ot this citv. RECEPTION AT THE VATICAN. Rome, August 19.

A reception was held at the Vatican yesterday, it being the feast of St. Joach im and the Pope's fete duy. His Holiness entertained his visitors In his private library. His health is good and he exercises for an hour daily in his garden. In September hn will Issue a new encyclical when ha receives the French pilgrims.

England. London, August 19. Three miners have been killed by an explosion in a colliery at Henley, Staffordshire. AN EDITOR'S CRIME. Herr Lachmann.

editor of the Lfruionrr-Journal, a weekly newspaper published in German, shot his wife and child to-day and then committed suicide. Wales. London, August 19. The Iron workers In South Wales have demanded a 10 per cent Increase In wages. At Pembroke two tithe bailiffs were hunted by an infuriated crowd jnd dotrs were set upon them.

They were and compelled to swear that they wouid abandon their calling. Switzerland. Berne, August 19. A manifesto is In circulation signed by Swiss anarchists which violently attacks the Bundesrath for instituting a political police aud public proso-cutor. A SCCCESFLL KAIU.

The Detroit Police Capture the Inmates of An Opium Den. Detroit. Angust 19. At 12:30 o'clock this morning Patrolman 1 en ton passed Han Sing's Chinese laundry. No.

40 Fort street, east. He beard a loud noise Inside which seemed to indicate the presence of a number of quarreling Chinese. The officer peeped Into the middle room, back of the laundry, and saw eleven Chinamen sitting around a table, part ot them engaged in gambling. Some of them were gazing nt a woman sitting on a bed smoking an opium plue. Tho oflicer summoned Patrolman Nies from tbe adjoining beat and then both enteredthe joint.

There was a great scramble lor the door, but nobody was allowed to escape. linn ting and the woman, who proved to tie "hit" Prefctun, were taken into cu.to!y after lie place had been searched for amok ing paraphernalia. One pipe, stem and bowl, and two other bowls, half a pound of opium, lamp and other utensils were captured. Died Without Medical Attendance. Mrs.

Michael Carroll, a married woman, did suddenly at her home, V2'A North Eighth street, yesterday morning without medical attendance. She had been attended In tbe early part of her illness by Dr. Wm. Beilly. but be had been discharged on last Friday because, so the husband states, bo wanted to perform an operation to take out an ovarian tumor, and neither the sick woman or ber husband thought operation necessary.

Afterwards, so Mr. Carroll says, he tried to secure two other physicians, but for some reason or other they tailed to visit tbe hoube. and his wile died without men leal Dr. Ueiiiy says that Mrs. Carroll's death was not due to the tumor she bad, but to diarrhea.

I'urse Snatcher Caught. This afternoon at 2 o'clock as an Olive street car was going west, a boy boarded it at Eighth street and asked Mrs. Schuyler, a widow, residing at 2004 Olive street, and a lady companion. who were passengers. If they did not want to-buy a certain afternoon publication.

They replied In the negative, and he snatched Mrs. Schuyler's purse out of her hand and jumped oft the car. Dr. Justin McCarthy vltnested tbe act and pursued the boy, catching him at tbe alley between seventh mid KiKhth on olive etreet. He turned turn over to the police, who took blm to the Four Courts.

The pocket-book, which contained something over S. was found on him. lie had a companion, but the other boy escaped. Passed Counterfeit Money. Two more arrests for passing counterfeit money were made to-day.

John M. Dieterle, keeper of a saloon on Market, between Sixth: and Seventh streets, was arretted on a cbarga of passing a counterfeit half-dollar on one of his customers. Frank Muhrtnan of isouUi Second street was arrested on the charge of passing a bogus dollar on Mike Marrlon. An Advance In Pig-Iron Kales. Pittsburg.

Pa August 19. Circular Xo. 1,019, just Issued by the Joint Committee of the Central Traffic Association, announces an advance In the pig iron and special iron tariff to) 23 cents for car-loads and 30 cents for loss than car-loads. Tbe advance takes effect on September land Is between New York and Chicago, both wava. 'ibis makes the rate from Pittsburg to Chicago cents and 15 cents, whereas it was formerly 11 cents and 14 cents.

Proved Ilia Inaocenco. By Telegrsph to tne C'ARROLLTON, August 19. Charles Frost of Kay County, whose arrest on tbe charge of horse stealing was mentioned In rL'SHAT'a Post-Dispatch, upon examination before) Justice Grant this morning, was discharged. lis innocence oeing cieariy proven. Determined to Die.

By Telegraph to the Pout-Dtsp at. Carbollton, August 19. All Black made two attempts at suicide by jumping Into the water from the Wakenda bridge. She was fished out both times, aud Is now confined In the jail at this place, as she say he is determined to end ber life. A Small Klre.

A firs started In Meier A I'ohltnan's furniture factory No. North Second street at o'clock this morning, but It was extinguished without damage to stock or building. Aa alarm was turned on from box No. -ri. A Lumber Deal.r Assigns.

Chicago, August 19. Thomas AIcFar-land, dealer In hardwood ltim'x made an as.ivnmeot to-day. His liabilities are placed at jo.buo and nts assets at bait tuat amount. liana ways From Kansas City. New York, August 19.

The Charity Commissioners of this city have under lijelr car James Dwjer and John Wilson, two runaway boys from Kansas City. A PROSPECT OF EARLY CHANGES IN THE TEEASUBY DF.PAHTMENT. Reported Selection of Col. Switzler's Suc cessorSecretary Wlndom'i Policy Politician Growling About the Proposed Civil Service Law Amendments Trial Trips of the Sew Cruisers Washington News. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch.

Washington, D. C. August 19. It Is learned from what Is considered reliable authority that within the next two days there will be a large nnmber of changes In the Treasury Department, and that among the appointments will be a Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. Other selections have been made, it is said, for the more Important places under the First Comptroller.

It is stated that It is the policy of the Secretary to retain trusted chiefs of divisions who have become acquainted and skilled in their duties, after years of training. and this action will be generally approved of here. Among the many, however, there are some changes necessary. Representative John T. Ilead of Missouri bas taken up his residence on New Jersey avenue, where he formerly resided during the last sesston of Congress.

The New Cruisers. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch. Washington, D. C. August 19.

Tbe board Of which Commodore Walker is president, to witness the trials of tbe new cruisers over a measured mile in Narragansett Bay, has so far not been flattering In success. Only two of the vessels have been sent over the course tbe Boston and Atlanta. and each has been disabled. The damage to the lioston has proven to be more serious than at first anticipated, and it will take at least four weeks before tiie vessel will be entirely serviceable. Whether the accident was or was not due to the ignorance of Capt.

Kane regarding tne locality ot tins par ticular rock, can only be determined by the verdict of the Court of Inquiry, which will reach here to-day. The machinery of the Atlanta was so badly damaged and her supply of coal ran so short that it was rendered necessary for the ship to proceed to New York. The question naturally suggests itself, what possible good can accrue by sending these ships on this particular duty. The Boston, Chicago and Atlanta were contracted for years ago, and were accepted by the Navy Department after a trial of horsepower and speed, certified by a board appointed for that purpose. '1 he Chicago, the remaining cruiser, has been building seven years and three years of tbe me have been spent at the navy yard.

New York. Tbe ship is In commission, it is true, but ber only duty was to participate in tbe naval parade ou the occasion of the centennial In New York las: April. It will be the turn of the Chicago to go through the process of turning, speedng and backing over the course next week and in view of tbe disasters to the Boston and Atlanta there are many in navy circles tbo secretly hope that tbe orders for the ship to proceed to Newport will be countermanded. The Yorktown, the only one of the new cruisers completed within the last three years, will follow the Chicago. While it is always desirable to have a warship tested In every possible way, it is becoming mors and more apparent that the tests at Newport amount to nothing and have resulted In tbe crippling of two of the finest vessels in the navy.

In every case the requirements of the contracts were complied with, and as matter of history tbey exceeded them. -Uiatead of keeping them hanging around navy, yards it would be well to order them to jo.n aoine station- The European, Pacific and Asiatic Stations are without flagships, and it would seem the better policy to send the new vessels to sea rather than have them destroyed by bumping ou rocks, which line Newport Harbor aud of which nobody seems to be iwtre. Politicians Growling. By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatcii. Washington.

D. August 19. The report that there is a plan on foot between the Civil Service Commission aud the President to amend the civil service rules so that chiefs of divisions will be brought within the classified list is causing great annoyance to politicians. There are at present here a number of gentlemen ho first applied for places of more importance than these, but who, from the pressure of necessity, have been compelled to reduce tbelr requirements. These gentlemen are very emphatic In denouncing the proposed change.

It is regarded as practically settled that the change is to be made or the idea would not have been broached in advance, and now the hangers-on in the hotel lobbies are growling over the prospects. One of them said when he heard the news: "The only thing left for us is to apply for places as cleaners of cuspidors, and when we get them we may reasonably hope to climb up the ladder as far as watchmen before tbe Administration changes." It is believed thatthe President has virtually sanctioned the chanze in the rules and that it will be formally announced from Deer Park this week. Wnile the politicians are dis- gruntled over the prospect, tue men in tbe departments who have succeeded in reaching second place in their divisions after years of faithtul service only to see some one appointed over them In pay for political work, are correspondingly pleased. The result cannot be other than beneficial to the departmental service, and the advocates of real reform in the civil service say tbat the change should have been made long ago. An Application Refused.

Washington, D. August 19. The Treasury Department has refused the application of an Oswego (N. Company for permission to give bonds for the re-exportation of a propeller wheel to be attached to a Cam- dian vessel at an vjswogo ui uwu. ua i-partment holds that as the wheel Is intended to become a part of the vessel, no entry for Its exportation could be perfected with due regard to the condition Imposed by law.

Tbe Agricultural Department Closed. Washington, D. August 19. The Agri cultural Department was closed to-day out of respect to the memory of ex-Commlssloner alts, wno aieu recenwy st noio, THE INDICTED "PUGS." Champion Sullivan En Hosts t-ast Jake Kilraln Decides to Surrender. Pittsburg, August 19.

John L. Sullivan and party passed through Pittsburg on the limited this morning, en route East. Sul livan was sleeping, and Matthew Clune would not allow him to be disturbed. Clune said it was true tbey were going to form acomblna tion. and that Kilraln will probably be in the company.

Kilraln Caves. Rt Telerraph to tbe Post-Dispatch. Jackson, August 19 Gov. Lowryhas received telegram from Agent Chiles at Baitl more, stating that Kllrain'a attorney advises him not to resist extradition, and that he start with his man to-day or to-morrow. A STKANGE CASE.

A Little Girl at Greenrldge, Suffering From danders. Bv TelerraDD to tbe POST-DISPATCH. Sedalia. August 19. The 12-year-old daughter of a farmer named Mason, living near Greenridge, this county, is suffering from an attack of slanders, contracted from ber father's horsse.

Three ot Mason's horses have died to tbe past few days, and other are sick of it. Tbe horses were driven along the pnblio highway Just before tbelr Usata aad A FIREBUG'S WORK. Early Morning Blaze, in a York Tenement House. New Nine of the Inmates Smothered or Burned to Death. Timely Discovery of the Fire by Two rot ice.

men Prevents a Terrible Holocaust- Sixty Lives in Dancer Rescue of all tht Inmates lint Mine by the Firemen Ori gin of the Fire A Restaurant Keeper Under Arrest Charged With Arson to Ob' tain a Small Amonnt of Insurance List of the Victims A Parted 1 rain's Flight Casualties. EW YORK, August 19 Early this HiiHbfl morning a lire broke out in the .1 kitchen of the res taurant on the store floor of the big five-story ten ement at 306 Sev enth avenue? Nine of the elxty odd occupants of the house lost their lives, and it is a great wonder that more did not perish. The building was occupied by thirteen families, who have been made tem porarily homeless by the lire. The llames did not do very much datuage in the various de apartments, but burned out their strength in the hallways. The pecuniary loss will not amount to more than $10,000.

The fire orlgl nated in the rear of John Snyder's restaurant at an hour when all the people in the house were sleeping soundly. Just how the fire started Is as yet a mystery, but as the restau rant's cook is missing, It is fair to presume that an accident occurred while he was mak ing the fire in the big range. The awful speed with which the flames swept up through the building suggest the use of kerosene BT THE CARELESS COOK. The door leading from the kitchen to the hallway was found open and the great volume of flames rolled out Into the passage and swept up the stairway so rapidly that families living on the first floor must Inevitably have perished without even so much as warning. but it so happened that the rooms directly over the restaurant were an occupied on account of the heat which seemed to sift through the flooring from the mammoth range underneath.

Less than half a block away, on the corner of Twenty. eighth street and the stood Policemen Warner and UcCullagh of the Thirtieth Street Station They received a warning from a cry of pain which came from the building, and looking in the direction whence it came, saw a wall of tire beating against the front windows of the restaurant. By the time a realizing sense of what the trouble was broke over them a forked tongue of fiance shot out from the roof and LIGHTED UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD. With their clubs the two officers beat in the front door, but a spiteful blaze shot out and warned them back. They tried the next door and in that way found an entrance.

There was no sign of life in the building and the officers hurried from one door to another to arouse the inmates. Murmurings at first were beard, then a buzz of many voices, which finally changed into a wall of terror and agony from men, women and children, struggling for their lives in the death trap. Fire escapes leading from the burning building to tho, as yet, untouched tenement next were soon filled up with half naked people, frantic to reach the street. In the meantime the fire department bad arrived and bad begun work on the flames and were assisting In rescuing the frightened inmates. The flames were extinguished easily enough by the firemen, and the people on the fire-escapes were all landed safely.

Not one person escaped down the stairway, and the names of the few who tried it are found in the list of the dead printed below. The search for the dead was begun as soon aa possible. The first body fonnd was that of old William Glennon. The remains were discovered by the side of the bed in his room on the second floor. Be bad risen to fly with bis sons, bat bis old legs were not nimble enough and he perished.

The boys were taken to the hospital. They were badly burned on the feet, caused by walking on the hot iron bars ofthenre escape. In the rooms of the Wells family was a sight which can not easily be forgotten. In the middle of the floor knelt the mother, Mary Wells, and in her dead embrace were her children, Jane and Thomas. They had been smothered, mercifully enough, and not a barn or blister defaced the pallor of their countenances.

The nine dead bodies were placed in ambulances and taken to the Thirtieth Street Station, and later Coroner Hanley gave permits to friends who claimed the re mains. THE DEAD ARE: William Gussos, 60 years, burned to death. Nellie McGeoghan, 20 years, smothered. Mart Wellb, 31 years, smothered. Jane Wells.

4 years, smothered. Thomas Wells, 2 years, smothered. Bertha Listig, 40 years, burned to death. Wm. McKke, 47 years, burned to death.

Jank Jeffrey. 65 years, smothered. UXISOWX Woman, 45 years, smothered. THE LIST OF INJURED IS William glennon. 19 years, badly bnrned.

John badly bnrned and Injured. Snyder, the keeper of the restaurant In which the fire broke out, bas been arrested on suspicion of being responsible for Its origin. A policy of insurance for $1,000 oa bis stock fonnd in his possession, and one of his employes states that be found fat scattered over the floor of the restaurant. A rarted Train's Flight. Owatom.

August 19. While a gravel train on.the Northwestern Railway was backing Into tbe gravel pit near this city to is morning. part of the train became uncoupled from tbe on top or tue graae ana me imu wens flyTng down the incline, up again on the other side running clear across the road, striking ii luunn'i bouse, a distance of about teTs'a tods ixona tho cud of tiia trauk, shatter. housekeeping. Open until 9 p.m OF yum aM Houselioia GqoQs OTHER HOUSE IN THE CITY, at Cash Prices, at Dullillli IIOUSE IN THE WORLD, regular price, $15.00 ib.uo; regular price, 2.i.0 5.G5; regular price, 17.00; regular price, 1.05; regular price, regular price, 4.50; regular price, 4.75; regular price, regular price, 10.00 25.00 3.00 2.00 7.00 S.0.1 .30 .65 resular price, equally low prices.

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ELECTION NOTICES. -i qjc VAfa 1st sks-aa nv sn "thai the re.ular annual meeting of stockholders of the xaora lv.li. onea from 9 o'clock a. m. to i cioc Poua open njiZLH, President.

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