St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 1, 1906 (2)

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1th Edition PAGES , TODAY | SVERYTHING* — JBOLINAS BAY NIRE OF THE FRISCO QUAK

“ORLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. ree a MAY 1, 1906 PRICE ( |One of Fieie Said Husband Would Not Ki iss Her, the Other Said Her Husband Moved too Often

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In St. Loula, Gn e Cent. Outside St. ou. Two Cents. DEAD IN ¢ LLAR FS NEIGHBOR 18 DA \ \ ‘

VOL. 58. I TUESDAY EVENING,

IPS CHARGE BOR RIOTERS Up Procession When| Prof. Knowlton Finds New _Pavaders Sing Revolution- Island Where Were Formerly ary Songs. d Muddy Shoals. 4 TROOPS ARREST HUNDRED ~~ —-

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W, W. Somers, Cashier of the Internationa | Bank of Hull, Ill., Having Left on His Desk Note Confessing Shortage, Himself in Friend’s House Apu 123°

NO DANGER OF FAMINE

Greely Declares Food Supply Sufficient for Twenty- One Days. American Embassy Under Guard » and Soldiers Patrol the fe ? Streets, TAR MAY DAY UPRISING jeutenant Arrested After As- * suring Mob That Troops Will Not aie

CHINATOWN A‘ SURPRISE Police Astonished When Re- markable Chain of Subways Is Exposéd.

‘tises for Dead Man to Come e Back t His Grieving, Ailing Mother. ae ae Special to the Post-Dispatch, | HULL, Ul., May 1.—The- body of W. W. Somers, 37, the International:Bank of Hull, who had been missing slstaaY 12, was found at noon yesterday in the eellar of the home o: next-door neighbor, Charles E. ‘Delaplain, a bullet hole ip his temple and-a revolver lying a his ankles. oN A little bulldog, a favorite of the dead man, kept an 18-day vigil, broken only at wide intervals: by trips home for some ing to eat, at the outer door of the cellar in which his PH A dead. Those who noticed the animal believed he was sick and h: yowls of grief brought no investigation. -- On the morning of Friday, April 13, when the attaches ¢ International Bank of Hull came to work, they, found ' bith a ‘3 ed SS aps 4 4 23 = aoe ] iSue the disturbers of the peace were taken to Jail. seeaniroonts of troops have just tak- “up Positions around the Bank of Robert Vogelsang F court she would probably have lost her a suit. It was just like her mother to. do | He declared that his need was imnera- tive, hinting at a marriage. The order was signed and filed on a legal holiday. If a marriage be the outcome there may be complications. The city’s money and the treasurer's books are safe. When the treasurer and others entered the vault opened yes- terday by an expert they found them- selves walking on a pavement of gold. YelHow coin was scattered all over the floor, having been thrown from its re- ceptacles by the tremblerg The gold, silver and currency “were. in as good condition &s when the heavy doors were incked on the evening preceding the earthquake. The books and records of | the treasury office, kept in the vault be- tween the outer and. inner doors, were |. practically undamaged. Besides books and records, the vault’ contained $5,899,- 000 In coin and cutrency, $300,000 in xe- curities of the German Savines Bank | and unsold city bonds, totaling $12,000,- : 000. Negotiable securities and currency Worth $25,000,000 were removed from|{ the, Crocker-Woolworth National Bank before the flames reached that, building. They were placed of board the revenue cutter Golden Gate, and locked in Capt. Dodge's cabin, with an armed guard at each doer. Two representatives of the hank who ac- companied the securities breathed easier when they saw their precious charge safely out of the burning city. Their ease of mind was short lived. for early next morning ‘the Fire Chief asked Cant. Dodge for assistance. At 4 a, m. the Golden Gate carried a Squad of firemen to Fort Mason. and at 8&8 a, m. proceeded to the foot of Mason street, where the Golden Gate’s pumps Were connected with the three-quarter mile of hose that was used in fighting the fire. Fertune Near! ; of $2000 to the > Burned the tolldwing Length by length the hose was con- "establishing Sumed. By 2 p. m. there was nothing left of it, and: the Golden Gate was almost wrapped In the flames. To the alarm of the. bank Officials, Capt, sae appeared to care as little for Mis $25,000,000 cargo as he did for his Own life. He stayed ° alongside the ; Wharf until the heat, aggravated by urning oil-and gas, became intoler- ji able ¢ “fér the fire-eating Com- mander. 1¢ Order was given to cast off and out fob 4 cool breeze the: ® Steamed, to t 9 ig tn representatives. 3: e5gans és our ia the Golden’ Gat : *: ting fire at the Lombard ont f, and the Crocker-Woolworth Youpataltnttives pad three hours more of Bnreat. ext day the securities unharmed, after prob- gest adventures. ronan ever passed,” and advertised for the son to return to his mother, who was’ ailing. For the past few days Mrs. Charles FEF. Delaptain had been detecting a dis- agreeable odor about the house. At noon yesterday she induced her husband }to investigate. He went to the cellar, which is used only for storage. He lit a match and groped about. In the dim light he saw the prostrate body, recog- nized it as that of his close friend, Somers, and saw the revolver at his feet. The shock unnerved him so that he could barely ascend the stairs lead- jing to the outer air. Entered When Famity Absent. The news of the discovery of the body of the missing cashier caused much ex- citement in Hull, a city of about 1009. There was soon found a witness who had seen Somers enter the Delaplatn cellar on the night of April 12. He had selected a time when the Delaplain fam-7} ily, made up of only his wife and him- self, was out calling, The fatal shet heard by no one. “The Coroner héld an inquest, which was continued this morning. The body was taken charge of by John T. Somers of St. Joseph. .The gps | met it at Decatur with a special car o the Interurban Railroad and took it to}. St. Joseph. The cause of the cashier's shortage is said to have been drink. 1 IB bank, which is capitalized at only $25,000, suf- fered no run as the result fol the defal- cation. Somers was married about. 12 years lady of Champlain ago to a young Count and the marriage was a happy one. it only child is a daughter age: 10.. Widow and daughter accompan d the body ta the father's home. 3 ee John Dooley Accused of. Steal- i oving Pi . The movi pictures of a= rob- bery were the basis for an information |} issued against John, Dooley Tuesday “Ft Jail here some time ago. pursued by posses for ¢ was shot dead near New 1 Smith was awaiting Prtland Jallna « 2% Kiied poltecntan. cms L & escape {rm the ail. tend hit ta aap hemm n near W tg The * eaeens Nee onane to m him. bout” ae ke sally som hia dashing ee the ines of ers, he made

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that. according to Mrs. Vogelsang. who testified that “Mother always came to the front’ when there were bills to be paid and Mr..Vogelsang did not have the money. Judge Foster, after questioning Mrs. Vogelsang sharply, indicated to her at- torney that he didn’t think much of her case. The attorney reverted to testi- ; mony of hia cruelty. The Judge did not remember that there had been anything very horrifying along that line. That was when mother came to. the front #eain. She was recaHe@. to‘the stand and told of Vogelsang’s having attacked ix wife in allocked ro@m and of how it was necessary for Mrs. Miller and fier servant to break the door to rescue Mrs. Vogelsang. Judge Foster then gave her e decree. i “GUT UP” AT WEDDING. . “Eee Woman Given Divorce Says Husband Threw Slippers. Mrs. Ella D,. Cronin was given a di- vorce by Judge Foster after she had told how her husband, -Patrick, ‘‘cut up’ #t their wedding. He fell down the | Stairs, she said, and threw her wedding ‘slippers Into the street and was 80 muddlet at the wedding feast that he could’ not find the handle of the teacup out of which he was trying to drink and it was necessary for his bride to turn the cup around for him. She said that when he was arrested for getting into a fight with a man she mortgaged the pidno to get money to pay his fine for him. When one of Mrs. Cronin’s witnesses, a determined-looking woman, was asked how Mrs. Cronin treated her husband, she said: “She treated him a whole lot better than I ‘would have treated him.” The look on her face indicated that it was a good thing for Mrs. Cronin that he didn't marry her. GOT WIFE BY MAIL. ee ee pnienseneantne antares ell Divorce Denied to ‘Man Who Married in Haste. Judge Ryan refused to grant a divorce | to Charles WW. Ketcham after he had testified that he got his wife through | an advertisement and married her three weeks after he first met her. They separated Feb. 16 last after living to- ye oe oon year. \etcham accused -his wife of flirtine | Willtam Kunze, who: boarded .with em, WOULDN'T BE A DOCTOR. Man’s Failure to: Leave Saloon Business Costs Wife. Edward C. ‘Peters dia not keep his promise to his wife to. give up the $a - loon business and atuay aa or “medi-- cine, and now he. fe. Mra. Ida ~ ig ae told Judge Fost ar grein tora ibaa tee Troops Guard Bourse. . pacsicion to the occupation of the de la Bourse by troops early in day, prior to the opening of the @ battalion of infantry was oned on the terraces of the build- z and detachments of cavalry were; bra Wn up at each of its wings. + The boulevards, the Place de la Con- “0 ‘a , the Place de l’Etoile and the " de la Bourse present their nor- Aspect. Traffic is a eee in the case of cab orkmen are quietly a thering on , Place de la Republique. ‘Troops Muticous, company of soldiers in their quar- a a bastion of the fortification “northern art of Paris amuaéd Singing the “Interna- e “Hoo Hoo, La Calotte, A ae Vaches!". meaning down riests and police. Ysseraud de Lange created onsid “ie excitement when, at a xehan of 2000 people at the Labor cc. nge, he mounted the platform ResForm and spoke in favor of : ists. He leaded with the Lg kers to rematn calm ‘today. He ve army did not desire a conflict r Frenchmen. a question -from ‘hether the troops woul@ fire, | @e Lange ‘replied in the nega- was greeted with prolonged Lieutenant was ar- left the piantform and He probably will APRIL _ Advertising (Less Cheap Legal.) The Post-Dispatch Shatters All April Records Post-Dispatch 3385 Columns ~ Globe-Democrat ae os wey it ty, assisting In the pursw to throw up his hands. opened fire with.a revolyv Sheriff and. the Co

and the posse yas lace with the intention of rt n the morning. When in made in: the morning 8 ee This This happened Sat Saturday. m sack until today. N OTHING INS

Ag Ae see See Republic .. 2... 1616 - Star Chronicle (tim)... a COMPARED © WITH APRIL LAST. Year Post Dispatch Gained 354 ~ Globe-Democrat . Gained. 84 Republic . Lost 192 ~ Star- Chronicle (athe Lost 100 WHY? RESULTS! RESULTS! First a Quantity. First in Quality. Eve

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