St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 19, 1906

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5 ee E 4 ne Se fest ° ° : - oe nies . Se f ; Ps a Sy Re en ae Se EN oe . a a fe eo a > " . fe — > 2 we 3 4 9 ae iri ‘ioe eee " Bee SP me .* . ix 3 , 7 * % bape : ae es Me? ‘s bert * “i . had been sacrificed by diverting P Chicago's sewage into the Mississippi, a Missouri was entitled to a judg- » ment in her suit. a iPtoago has alwars contended that @ emptying of the canal into the Tili- River really made that river purer » it was before. The drainage canal d forced by law to carry 300.000 cubic of water from the lInke as a diluent ‘the water which comes through the ago River. P canal has greSter cross- -section di- s than any of the world's great pways. Where it cuts through rock o oh ‘460 feet wide. In the earth sections FYE slopes from 210 to 200 feet at the bot- t n to from 200 to 300 feet at the top. e prism is from 30 to 3% feet deep, the ni depth of water is 18 feet—suffi- for ocean-going vessels. dream is for the government to ‘a deep water canal from Hennepin the Tilinois, 60 miles southwest of jockport. so as to make a big ship way rom the Gulf to the Lakes. % AYOR TO CONFER ~~ ‘WITH COUNSELOR. ayor Wells was informed of the de- son by a Post-Dispatch reporter. He forward Both Mail Cars Upset. After waiting for Eastern mai! con- nections the train left Union Station 25 minutes tate Monday. It was composed of the engine, an eight-wheeler. two mail cars and a baggage car. Only the baggage car remained upright after the wreck. There is a double track at the point where the train left the rails. The train was on the west track. The engine bumped along on the ties for 100 feet after leaving the rails, then leaped into the air and landed squarely on the rails of the east track. The coupling between the engine and the forward mail car held firm while the engine and cars traveled on differ- ent tracks for © feet. Then it snapped and the shock upset both the engine and the two forward mail cars. The engine, tipping astward, rolled over on its left side and the cars, turn- ing in the opposite direction, landed on their right sides in @ ditch west of the track. The rails of the west track were torn up for nearly 100 feet and those of the east track were bent and twisted ved Siornes-Genecel. " by the impact of the engine, which 1it- Attorney-General Hadley, when told} erally Jumped upon them from the other | SS 2. : wee the could not tell until Besides the engi es COD 14 read the Supreme Court’s de-; ductor and Brakeman Frank Gibbons of 110 Russell avenue, there were nine mail clerks on the train. Of these six were injured through being thrown against the sides of the toppling cars. Five of them were in the fory and four in the second. None of them except Lewis, was pinioned the fhe city has been co-operating with “State in this case, and the City mselor has worked with the Attor- ral in it. What course will be spsued as to the future will have to oleae by conference. I will 1 with the City Counselor, and we bly confer with the Governor

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ol 1 Oahill Not Guilty. n Cabill of 2743 Chouteau * Sai d with disturbing the peace of Bevons ve 2733. Chouteau avenue, Monday in City Hall some boys an- a shoe st in

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When Iron Mountain fast mail train, | 'G. J. Steigerwald Tells How Subsidiary Companies Posed in Missouri.

STANDARD GOT PROFITS

Agents Were Directed to Ap- pear as Fighting Rocke- feller Concern.

REPUBLIC CO0.’8 ORDERS

Publicity Secures Many New Witnesses for State, Says Hadley.

A story of the dual life of the Stand- ard Oil Co. in Missouri, its subsidary companies posng as trust fighters in the State, while they sent their profits to the home of Standard Oil, 26 Broadway, New oYrk, was told to Attorney-General Hadley at the Southern Hotel Monday by A. G. Stiegerwald when the taking of testimony in the case of the State of Missouri against the Standard, the Re- public, the Waters-Pierce and the In- ternational O!l companies was resumed before Commissioner Anthony. Stiegerwald is traveling representative of the I. G. Clark Co. of Cleveland, ca. 2n independent oil concern. It was as purchasing agent and traffic manager of the Republic Oil Co. that+he gained his knowledge of the methods pursued by the Standard Oi%l Co. in overcoming opposition and néutralizing the effect of popular sentiment against the Oil Trust. Handling Disatisfied Trade. H{e told how a large number of pur- chasers of oil in Missouri, resenting the high-handed methods of the trust, came to be known as ‘‘the dissatisfied trade,”’ and how, when they would no longer buy oil from the Standard, new compa- nies alleged to be Independent were formed to get their business. These companies were instructed to openly fight the Standard, but the money which they made went into the trust coffers Stiegerwald was a willing witness, and few questions were necessary to bring out what he knew of the Oil Trust's methods. He said that he business since 1891, way up from office boy to head book- keeper for Schofield, Shirmer & Teagle of Cleveland. He became general man- ager of the Scio Refining Co. of Scio, O., which was controlled by Schofield, Shirmer & Teagle. In 1901 these interests were trans- ferred to a new corporation, the Re- public Oil Co., of which the first presi- dent was George B. Wilson of the Stand- ard Oil Co. of New York. W.C. Teagle was vice-president and general manager and Steigerwald was purchasing agent and traffic manager. <A short time aft- erwards W. C. Teagle was made a men?- ber of the Export Trade Committee of the Standard Oil Co., with headquarters at New York. “I saw Teagle at 2% Broadway and talked to him there several times,”’ said Steigerwald. ‘‘He issued the instruc- tions to the executives of the Republic Oil Co. had been in the oil having worked his Where Republic Got Orders, “Those instructions were that the Re- public Oil Co. was to continue to so- flicit the trade formerly controlled in Missouri by Schofield Shirmer & Tea- zie. We were told that there was much ‘dissatisfied trade’ in Missouri, and that we were to go after this trade. Ap- parently we were to fight the Standard. “In reality all of the money which we made went into the Standard treas- ury, and all of our reports were made to Standard headquarters in New York. Under the surface our dealings were on a most amicable basis. We did net actualiy sell to customers which the Standard was able to hold and they did not come into real competition with us. “The Republic Oil Co. bought all of its oil from the Standard Oil refineries in Cleveland, Lima, O., and in Pennsyl- vania.”’ The cross-examination of Mr. Steiger- wald was conducted by Mr. Hagermann for the Standard Oil and Mr. Johnson for the Waters-Pierce company. The witness went over his previous testi- mony, repeating many of his former statements, and adding nothing new. After the had told about the close re- lationship between the Standard O!)] and the Republic compames, Mr. Johnson asked: “How about the Waters- Pierce?’ “That is the same as Oll,’’ was the answer. “How do you know it is?" “Tt is generally’ understood among oil men,’ said Mr. Steigerwald, “that the Republic, Standard Oi] and Waters- Pierce compantes have divided Missouri into three districts, and that one cgn- cern never invades the territory assigned to the other.” Mr. Hadley said before the hearing that the publicity given the hearings in New York had been invaluable, as he has re- eently received hundreds of letters from persons who volunteer testimony. Some of these volunteers are employes of the Standard Oll, others are or have been employed by subsidiary companies. They promise to reveal much of the tnner workings of the Oil Trust. Other let- ters have given tips regarding where in- " | formation a be obtained, the Standard ee

IRON MOUNTAIN FAST MAIL UPSET IN CAROAD LFT AND ENGINEER RURLED 50 FEET OVER FENCE

ADOLPH BRENNECKE. |

NEGRO HUGGED WHITE WOMAN

Miss Doerr Says He Stepped From Doorway and Em- Miss Rose Doerr, 18 years old, Spring avenue, police that she was hugged by a neg? 0 | while walking on Spring avenue near | North her home braced Her. of 725 reported to the Sunday night. She says that the negro stepped from a dark doorway around her. frem away She can and threw his arms She screamed and jerked him and ran to her home. give no description of the negro except that he was tall and wore a black soft hat. ee ee oe Snowballing Students Fined. John Harden, William eph Orchard ents in a tury Buildi Hall Police Court Monday of disorde their guilt. day while roof of the str est, Hewitt, and Willian Hans, stud- business school in the Cen-| ing. were fined $% each in City | ona charge! They admitted were arrested Batus.| Jos = conduct They rly throwing snowballs from the the building at pedestrians ial

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Minimum Temperature Monday Night 47 Degrees. Warmer weath- A LITTLE SPRING °” Will be here PRACTICE. _— Monday night, - but it will ee no aa stay long. Tuesday even- ing there will be a change for the cooler. In the interim there whl be show- ers. The

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official forécast: ‘'Part- ly cloudy, with showers Monday night ot ‘Tues- day; warmer Monday night cooler Tuesday right; southerly winds; lowest temperature Monday night about ® de- grees.’

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Suffers DUBUQUE | Speaker David B. fered another has deprived him of h's sight. he recognizes, general condition is worse. It Is believed the end is near. THIEF TOOK TELEPHONE. Robbed Nickel Box and Left Ap- paratus in Rear Yard. brand of burglary was that of the thief who stole a telephone from Wiliam A new Bisham, lating since Feb. 1. rear vard. etees

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Another ORMER SPEAKER ND Paralytic Stroke and Death Is Be- lieved Near. lo., Feb. paralytic stroke, the only person

of Sunday e wall in the grocery 2903 Olive street, was a pay e box broken open was fcund phone! to notre. the police. telephone with a box in which nickels had been. accumu- The telephone with 19.—Former Henderson has suf- which His wife His night. little in the Mr. Bisham used somebody

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Sunday ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPERS In the Advertising

(Yesterday, Sunday, February 18th) Post-Dispatch - - 209 Columns Globe-Democrat Republic 200 Columns - 126 Columns

Compared With Same Sunday One Year Ago

Post-Dispatch Gained 31 Columns Globe-Democrat Gained 15 Columns Republic .... Lost 9 Columns

SUNDAY CIRCULATION

Actual bona fide, over 10,000 IN EXCESS OF First in Quantity. 14-MILLION First in Quality. “First in Everything.” so SELF WHILE PUPILS PRAYED IN ADJOIN ING ROOM

William Hemphill, though Still Living ployment. “° ——— | Discharged Employe _ “ae of St. Michael’s Parochial School, Al- There, Ends His Life After Grieving a Week Over Loss of Em-

, - LATER Call Police. his left breast and fired. shot. When she saw the children start i Hemphil) died an hour after There was something commanding in the way in which she made the invoca- tions and the frightened children con- tinued their responses. Between the room in which the chil- dren prayed and the one in which Hemphill shot himself there was a door. The key was on the schoolroom side. Quietly and deftly the sister turned this key. Then she sent one of the older boys, Willie Burkhart, for a -po- liceman. After the prayers were finished the sister told stories to the children to keep their minds oft the occurence ifn the next room. Hemphill, until a week ago, was a *, » ae DIED AN HOUR AT HOSPITAL te Teachers Tell Children Stories While Others Learn Cause of Shot and Carry Injured Man Out of Sight, One Pupil Hurrying to” While 50 children, their heads bent and eyes reverently closed, were praying in a room on the second floor of St. Michael’s pa- rochial school at Eleventh and Benton streets Monday afternoon, William Hemphill, 41 years old, in the next room, put a revolver to He could hear the voices of the children at prayer as he leveled the weapon. The sister, who was leading them in prayer, heard it, too. They heard the sound of the involuntarily at the unusual sound she lifted her voice and continued to pray the louder, he reached the hospital. janitor at the school. He wea dia. cy. g charged, but while he was looking for — another position he was permitted to , occupy: the hall room onthe second | floor which had been his home during a long term of service at the school, He often told the sisters that he bad no relatives or friends. Worry over the loss of his position is belleved to have been the motive for hig’ deed. He was unconscious . Fa:her James McCabe, Michael's Church and | parochial sthool,.. when he learned that’ his had attempted to take his li ried to the City Hospital to. the sacraments to wenaranis 2 BP

LORUDORA GIRL UUED 10 LORD Frances Actress, Becomes the Bride of Ashburton. PARIS, Feb. 19.—Lord Ashburton was married. here today to Frances Don- nelly, an American actress whose stage name is Frances Belmont, formerly of New York and one of the original “Florodora’’ sextet of 1901. The wedding occurred at the ree hall of the Passy district. Only few in- timate friends were present. The couple departed on a long honeymoon trip. Lord Ashburton, who is a widower,

eo stsiae sate i ia nS ee See Is a descendant of the signer of the ‘famous Ashburton treaty with the United States. \KIELY GETS WEEK DELAY Defense of Suspended Chief Not Yet Prepared. Chie? of Police Kiely, who is under suspension, was granted a continuance by the Police Board until Tuesday, Feb. 27. The trial was docketed for next Tuesday, but the Chief urged that he ' coukd not prepare for trial by that time. | He is being assisted in his defense by Attorney W. H. Saunders. Seventy-nine men will be asked by Chief Kiely to testify in his defense, They includeGov, Folk, Harry B. Hawes, bankers, prominent wholesale manu- -facturers, city officials and judges. The prosecution wiil summon almost as many witnesses, and it is expected that several days will be taken up. i Chief Kiely Says that aithough the | board refused to allow him to be ref | resented by counsel at the session, they | could not refuse him the privilege of 1icgal adivice. He intends that the at- torney shall be present at the hearing. Numbers of patroimen who walked beats in Central District during Kliely's ciieftaincy will be summoned to testify along the line of the charge that ini- proper characters were tolerated, Gov, Folk, whose name beada the list of witnesees whom Chief of Police Kiely has announced that he will ask to ap pear in his defense at his trial begin- ning Tuesday, is waiting for a Police Board subpena. If one is served on om he will then decide whether to obe summons to appear as a witnees be a court composed of his own Soinaaine. He is not sure that he i lg ae ancfined required to this, and he | Monday to say whether he would be ; Witness if the subpena were issued. + “I @o not know for what purpose my ' testimony is wanted,”’ sald the to a Post-Dispatch reporter at Jeffer- son City. “I have never seen @ Police Board

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'subpena for a witness, and have never investigated the ‘enforce subpenas sides the Governor, the iat of witnesses summoned includes t mem- fare of the board to bers of the last Police Board, six ont Bye | judges, numerous city officials and nuteber of financiers and ww merchants. Chief Kiely spent Sunday with an at- | terney, whose name he refused to give. He said that although the rd counsel at the session, oe serene ie refuse him the privilege o vice. He intends that the pt BF ne an shail be presemt at the hearing

Donnelly, American vernor 79 re- fused to allow him to be represented br FIRE SHS nate Gen. Rafael Reyes Fails.

BULLETS HIT CARRIAGE ee Five Strike the ‘Vehicle, ba oe. Its Occupants Escapes,

——_ ing of Feb. 109 an atiempt was ecureaents the Republic of Colombta. Eight shots were fired at him, tve of which struck his carriage, but te escaped uninjured. SECRETARY STOR

Gov. Hanly’s Demand | in Party Interest, INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—Durtm a heated conference which just « at the-statehouse, Daniel E.: Secretary of State. tendered to Gov. Hanly hie resignation, which ™ é‘

An Attempt Made to Assassi-. f § Unharmede' J cag, WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—News has — reached Washington that on the mérn- assassinate President Rafael Reyes ot gt a Indiana Official Yielded e.8 i ck Be 8 neat cane elle 0 ati a" . © BR ge” hl tin ceaagentind ity: A layin