Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-14
Col. Slayback Killed by Ir. John A.
| COckrell.

THE FATAL ALTERATION IN THE EDITORIAL ROOMS
OF THE ST. LOUIS PosT-DIsPATCH.
CoLJohn A. Cockrell editor OF the St Louis Post
Dispatch yesterday afternoon shot and killed Col.
| A. W. Slayback, prominent attorney and demo-
cratic politician OF that city, who had gone the
Office to seek satisfaction for publication per-
sonal to himself. Mr.. Slayback was accompanied
| by Judge w. II. Clopton. and as soon as they en-
tered the room where Mr.. Cockrell was in CONVEX
satlon with McGufln. the business manager,
and Cole, the foreman hot words were exchanged,
and In a few moments, according TO Judge Clop-
| toms statement, Cockrell resented the language
| OF Mr.. Slayback by drawing pistol and sending
Its bullet through sayback's heart Death
is that when Slayback entered the room
a saw asked Ps 5@at yng on 3Gr Sockes
rell replied. sit Is for you whenever you want It,"
| At this Slayback covered Cockrell with pistol
but before he could pull the trigger McGunin
that instant Cockrell fired Moore. the city editor
says that he saw that Slayback, when he passed
through his room and was entering Cockrell's
| room, had his hand in his pistol pocket. These
statements are denied, and it is maintained that
Slayback had no pistol After the shooting
COckrell bent down and wiped the blood from his
| opponents mouth and then sent for Doctor He
then washed his hands. and with McGuffin, drove
OF in carriage At IL O'Clock last night he drove
| to the Four Courts and surrendered himself
The trouble which terminated SO tragically orig
mated in the fact that at political meeting
slaught on the POSt-DfSpdtch and its reporters TO
which the paper responded last evening 10y uncom-
plimentary references to Col Slayback, which rem
dered him so indignant that he visited the office
to demand satisfaction.
THE FOLLOWING Is THE ARTICLE
which appeared in the Post Dispatch: s.Mr Alsnzo
w. layback, an individual whose chief claim to
distinction rests upon the fact that he is the law
partner OF Col James o. Brodhead, rose in meet
| ing OF democratic ward politicians in this city
last night. and, without personal provocation.
proceeded to apply string OF vile and yirulent
epithetS to the St-DiSpdtch and Its conductors,
10 N no faI is
is the same A. w. Slayback OF and concerning
whom the following card was written and pub
day OF November, 1881. Mr. Glover recently ran
| as democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th
the democratic voters OF character. Mr.. Glover is
alive yet"
TThe letter referred to above was an open one
by John NJ. Glover, accusing Col Slayback or cow
ardice.]
SKETCHES OF THE PARTIES
Mr.. Cockrel is thrty-Six years old. and native
OF Ohio. He enlisted while q mere youth In his
fathers regiment, and was a drummer boy at the
battle of Shiloh Mr. Cockrell was for about four
years the editor OF the Cincinnati Enquirer, but
threw up the situation in 1876 on account OF III
health and went to Europe On his return he be-
came connected for a time with the Washington
Post and remained with It for year, leaving to
years ago he was induced by very liberal Oilers to
attach himself to the st. Louis Post Dispatch,
owned by Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, and has since been
its principal editor. Mr. Cockren is a brill
liant and sharp paragraphist He Is native OF
West Union, Adams county, Ohio.
Mr. AlonzO W.Slayback was native Missourfan
and not far from nifty years old. He entered the
confederate service when quite young and rose TO
colonel's rank, serving throughout the war, at
the close OF which he went to Mexico with General
Shelby, but soon returned to St. Louis and began
the practice OF law: In legal contests hts de
meanor was frequently violent. but his reputation
as brave man generally sustained him In assaults
which otherwise he would have had to answer for
in some other way Six years ago he was bolt
ing candidate for Congress against ErastuS Wells.
He succeeded in defeating both his democratic
competitor and himself and since that time has
not been an aspirant for political honorS
THE BEST TALL DUTCH CLoCKs were made about
the year 1880, although some very fine ones OF
earlier date. The style or the Dutch is more
ornate than the English, the latter being angular
and severe in form. The moving ships, turning
windmill5, ETC., are peculiar 70 the Dutchman,
while musical chimes and tnlafd cases were made
on both sides OF the North sea- Howard & Co. or
9Th avenue. New York, collect annually In Ho- |
land all the really fine clocks they can md They
have the cases taken entirely apart and put to |
gether again with fresh glue, SO as TO stand this
perfect by practical clockmakerS mot watch |
makers) every defective part Is replaced, and |
when offered for sale they are good as new. AT |
the present time Howard Co. have some thirty |
OF these clocks on hand, Including some which |
play from to twelve tunes, and In rich tnlaid
and mahogany cases No one who lives within a |
thousand miles OF New York should buy q tall |
clock till they have seen this assortment
DAMAGE BY THE CyCLoNR.-Accounts from the
Vuelta ADaJ0, Cuba, show that the recent cyclone
lie n ma decsr nc-