St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-24
NOT TO BE BURNED.
The Body of a Wealthy Cremationist tc
Be Food for Worms,
Because He Left No Stipulattons Re-
garding the Matter.
An Amusing Case of Mistaken Lep-
rosy--Fraudulent Sptritualtsts.
Correspondence of the Globe.

rosy--Frauduient Spiritualtsts.
Correspondence of the Globe.
| ST. LOUIS, May 22.-We have all been
very anxious to know what was going to be
done with Albert Todd, a philanthropist and
a very rich man, who died here some four
weeks ago. The question has been settled
at last, however He is going to be buried.
OF course this will not at first glance seem
! to bea very remarkable cOnsummatiOn, but
it is. Mr.. Todd was an enthus-
iastic cremationist. Whenever one
called at his house, or met him
| elsewhere, the conversation was sure
to come sooner or later to the ACCESSIBILITY
of burning the dead. Mr.. Todd used to
! take morbid pleasure in recounting his
opinion of the barbarism which could find
| it in its heart to preserve body as center
of infection and all the rest of it. When
| he died a most exhaustive search was made
among his effects for some scrap of paper
! indicating his desire to be burnt, but none
| could be found. The funeral was put off
| to the longest possible limit and still nothing
could be found The remains were then
taken to Bellefontaine, cemetery and put in
a temporary vault and third search made
| The widow has now given the matter up
| and has decided to bury her husband, so
that the question may be considered settled.
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/ We have very strong society of
cremationistS in ST. Louis, all of whom are
most anxious to be burned into ashes when
| they die. They are subscribers to the Penn
| Sylvania crematOry. The livery stable
keepers and undertakers, however, are Bit
| terly opposed to the idea. So much so that
they will not furnish either hearse to bear
the body or carriages to bring the friends
when a corpse is to be taken to the depot
| for shipment to Lancaster. This looks like
a large statement, but | am assured that it
was strictly true in the case of doctor who
died here recently. The livery stable keep
| ers form one of the strongest guilds in the
country.
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To continue on funereal topics, Mrs. Rey-
nOldS, a woman very well known here, took
last week, according to the sworn statement
OF Prof. Luedeking the chemist, enough
arsenic to kill 500 people, She died, nat
| urally. When the autopsy was made a ball
of arsenic, about the shape and size of a
small orange. was found. 1t is believed
handful 1t is very fortunate for her
husband that such great quantity of
poison was found, for after her death there
were number of suspicious circumstances
which caused the arrest of MI. Reynolds,
| his father and her servant girl by the
police. Of course it was plainly impossi-
bic that anyone could have administered
the dose which Mrs. Reynolds took and a
| verdict IF c1licida was rendered
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The society of physicians here have been
| Investigating a case of alleged leprOSy for
some time past. / am told that the story of
the case was not without its ridiculous side.
| The case was discovered by one of the
| young doctors who has chum also doc
tor. They read up On leprosy and worked
ON the case with an enthusiasm which it is
| impossible to commend too highly. The
! history of the case complicated it. The
| woman had come from Louisville. After a
| time, to their horror. first one and then the
| other of the young Galens began to exhibit
symptoms of the dread disease. The matter
was referred to the next meeting of the
| society," and there one of the older heads
| at once called the turn on the leprOSy He
stated that it was bit of mistaken dag
nOSis, that the disease was ScObies ScOtorum,
vulgarly called the Scotch itch. / am told
that there will be two shingles taken down
about the end of this week and moved out
in the country.
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The Korte- Hoffman breach of promise
case is dragging it's slow length through the
courts, with very little of interest to apollo
gise for its longitude. Mr.. Hoffman is an
elderly German. a partner in the chair fac
tory of Heller & Hoffman. His wife died
some time since, leaving him a
house full of grown up daughters.
Miss Korte was a dOmestic-a very
buxom domestic-in the family and
when the first flush of his grief passed by
Mr.. Hoffman began to make eyes at her.
She AYERS that he kissed her and called her
Birdie" and other like terms of endear-
ment and finally promised to marry her.
His statement is that this promise was con-
ditional upon her securing the consent of
his daughters. The testimony goes to show
that Miss Korte tried to get their
consent and succeeded with some,
while she failed with others. One of
| the young ladies swore that PA was just
dead set on marrying somebody, and l
would Just as soon have him marry Mary as
somebody we didn't know" Another
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| could do better, as Mary was sick pretty
nearly all the time. However,, the elder
| daughter, who was an anti-Korte, pro-
duced widow with some money that she
knew. and in week the widow was Mrs.
Hoffman, and Miss Korte was left to enact
| the role of the maiden all forlorn. which
she has done as appeareth above. No YER
dict has yet been reached.
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| The affair Zacharoff, of which I wrote
you last week, is not ended yet. He was
discharged from the management of the
Main Boudoir Car company for introducing
st. Louis courtesan as Miss Morse. A
number of pictures of Pearl Clifford, the
| lady in the case, have been sent on to
Louisville for purposes of Identification and
In the meantime Mr.. Wychoff, Count Zach
arOff's confidential secretary and factotum,
has taken advantage of the general confll-
| sion and disturbance to levant with all the
company's funds at this point. He only
took couple of thousand, as it was all he
could lay his hands upon. He is said to be
| in Canada.
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The grand jury yesterday indicted the
| spiritual mediums, Mr. and Mrs. Miller fol
fraud Ten minutes later the circuit attor-
ney nolle pressed the cases, despite the fact
that new and damaging evidence has been
discovered against the NIillers, who are
humbugs of the worst description. DR..
Watkins of this city attended one of the
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