St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-15
REVEALED IN A TRANCE.
A Beautiful st. Louis Girl Makes a
Strange Revelation While Under
Spirit Influences.
A Spiritualistic Meeting Broken Up
and the Mediums Arrested for
Fraud.
Frank James Preparing to Settle Down on
His Farm, Having Given Up the Idea
of Coming North.
The Missouri Legislature Also Has Fight on
Its Hands Over the Liquor
Question.

Its Hands Over the Liquor
Question.
Correspondence of the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, March 12.-St. Louis contains
1,785 saloons and % breweries, besides
wholesale liquor dealers and importers. The
influence of these interests is now centered
on defeating bill before the legislature,
which by the next convocation of the gen
eral assembly will have branched into pro-
hibition fight The history of the dispute
which now threatens to precoipitate prohibi-
ton is as follows: In 1856 fight was waged
on the saloons and beer gardens for keeping
open on Sunday. This resulted in the passage
OF an act in the nature of local option law,
granting to the citizens of st. Louis right to
vote on the proposition to allow saloons to !
be kept open on Sunday for the sale of ma !
tive wines and beer. An election took place
and it was supposed that the permission was
granted. incidentally the supreme court
has ruled against this conclusion.
The provisions of the law came to be disre-
garded and the saloons have for many years
done business on Sunday as on week days.
A license bill introduced about year ago
had clause closing the saloons on Sunday.
When this passed the police undertook to
enforce its provisions. Nearly a thousand
cases were instituted, but when the cases
were tried Judge Noonan held that the law
of '57 was still in force and that the Downing
law did not affect the saloons in st. Louis.
The question was never taken to higher
court, though the excitement was intense,
and since the decision the saloons continue
open. The prohibition legislators have since
introduced bill repeating the act of 1857,
which would place st. Louis under the gen.
eral law and make the selling of |
liquor on Sunday an offense. SEN
ator McGinnis, the attorney for the
brewers and saloonkeepers' associations led
the opposition to the repeal bill, which. dur
ing the present week, passed the senate with
a large majority. Should it meet with the
same reception in the house the old Sunday
law prohibiting all kinds of work and trade
will go into effect. The saloon interest has
assumed the fight in favor of liberal ideas,
but with questionable success. In the legis-
lature the Donnybrook fair principle, ''when
you see (St. Louis) head hit it, seems to
be popular. Special municipal legislation
does not find favor with the country members
and it is not at all improbable that the city
cause as far as involved in the Sunday
| question will receive black eye during this
session.
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B. Cecilia T. Kelly, wife of Tom Kelly, the
pugilist who seconded Paddy Ryan at New
Orleans, has instituted suit for divorce in the
circuit court. Kelly stands well with the
friends of the ring through the country, and
is always named in arranging details of pro-
| posed meetings. Kelly has lived in this city
| for several years and manages saloon and
boxing school on Market and Sixthistreets, near
| Tom Aliens Rest The ground alleged for
| the divorce is that Tom has introduced his
| profession into the domestic circle. The
| other side of the story has not yet been
| heard. The case will be tried about the same
time that John L. Sullivan will be engaged
in ventilating his family Misunderstanding
in the Boston courts
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Mr.. Thomas w. Miller and wife, Prof.
| Johnson, Frederick Madden and Jesse Shop
| pard, of national reputation among spirit
ualists, appear in the court of criminal cor
rection in few days as parties to trial
which in fact will be an official inquiry into
spiritualism. While Mrs. Miller was under
JuC lUuuGuCc McSSTb hduucu duu SueDpuTU
broke into the cabinet and claim they dist
covered fraud. On this ground warrant
charging the spiritualists with fraudulently'
obtaining the price of admission was issueds
Counter charges of assault and battery haves
been made by the medium, who
has subpenaed Mr.. Britton A. Hill,
Mr.. T. j. Ports of the Gould system and
number of the most prominent citizens
here, who are expected to testify to the
genuineness of the revelations. One witness
swears that when the cabinet was broken
into the medium, who had retired in
street dress, was found wrapped in a
luminous shroud which disappeared in the
garish light of day, leaving the unconscious
medium In perfectly nude state entirely
exhausted. The seance took place at No.
1919 Chestnut street.
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Behind this case comes a still more inter-
estng story which is only limited at by those
who know it, and which it is said will cul-
inmate in marriage in few days. The
spiritualists and the people who study occult
science of all sorts are quite numerous in
st. Louis. In house on Olive street a little
west of Compton aveDue-the most aris-
tocratic part of the city-a num-
Der of ladies aud gentlemen have
been in the habit lately of witnessing
a number of mesmeric experiments. One of
the young ladies, very pretty little blonde
with most kssable mouth and what the
weekly papers call wealth of golden hair,
was the sensation. IShe was mesmerized and
brought, after some work, into the clairvoy-
ant state. One of the young gentlemen
present at the time, purely for joke, told
the young lady that be was Mr.. -, gen.
NH Inn fo ha
her. No sooner had he made the statement
than Miss Goldilocks began to cry, aud said
"Charlie, If you don't keep Nour
promise soon and marry me I
will be disgraced. I am nearly crazy
now trying to conceal my condition. "Despite
the startled attempts of the mesmerizer to
stop the imprudent talk of the girl, she could
not be brought away from the theme, but
kept on describing the broken promises Of
Charlie, and, it is said, described with pitiful
minuteness and detail the manner Of her
fall Charlie was not one of the company,
and when he heard Of the confession which
bad been so Unexpectedly made he tried
very hard to get fight out Of the man who
had used his name. He appears to be a
manly young fellow, however, and the prep
arations for his wedding are being pushed
forward with all the strength Of two frantic
families, which, by the way, are nearly re-
lated TO each other.
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The vagaries of the gas meter is subject
that will interest every householder and gas
consumer. few days ago the meters re-
ceived bad send-off in this city. Private
complaints of exorbitant gas bills are subject
of daily remark among citizens, to which the
gas company pays no heed. A month ago
the st. Louis cotton exchange re-
ceived a GAS hin for S32 The com rnittee