St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 10, 1906 (2)

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WORK TO BEGIN SOON. Clearing Way for New Sky- scraper on Fourth Street, Within a few days the work of tear- ing down the block on Fourth street, between Pine and Chestnut streets, op-_| posite the Planters Hotei, to make room for a i6-story skyscraper, will begin. | Tenants are to.ing out and the last of! them will vacate not later than June 3._ Lawrence B. Pierce, one of the pro-' moters of the new bul.cing, says jhat' negotiations are under eg to proyide/ quarters in the structure for the Law | Libevary. If this plan is carried out a pneumatic tube system bi tween the sky- scraper and the Courthouse wil] be tfn- stal.ed. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION Two Workmen Killed in Iowa Tile Factory.

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DROPS DEAD Ih IUILET ROOM OF BROKER'S OFFICE George W. Neer, a Retired Farmer, of Taylorville, Ill., Stricken. acre APOPLEXY THE CAUSE LE ALLL tl Stranger to Attaches of Cella Company’s Office, Where Death Occurred.

HAD LETTER ABOUT JOB Woman Wrote It Telling About Girl’s Long Hunt for Work. ST a A man believed to be George W. Neer of Decatur, Ill., dropped dead in the tollet room of Cella Comrnission Co.'s brokerage offices at Fourth and Pine streets about 11:30 a. m. Thursday. apoplexy caused his death. Members of that the man the Cella company say was a stranger in their establishment and had no _ business dealings with them. So far as they know, they say, he had never visited their ylace before. The man was taken to the City Dis- pensary by oPliceman Tom McCormack. He had been found on the floor in the toilet room, his body doubled up as if he had suffered great pain. In his pocket was found a letter with follows: “My Dear Mr. Neer: Believe if it will | be .as convenient for you, will ask you on the grounds that Gov. Pattison dia | *° call Thursday evening about 8, In- Poor Lizzie had a bad start out tv look for a job. I rode dewntown this morning. We heard that they had nice rooms at the Plaza, which is in the 3200 block on Locust street. I want to go and look at them. It is time to eat, so I will say good-by. “LIZZIE.” Also in the.anan’s pockets were found stead of Tuesday.

a handsome gold watch, bearing the initials, “G. W. N.,” $17.50 in cash, | and a draft for $50 drawn by the Taylor-; the t.. showing that he had paid his lodge finances—you can't | dues up to Oct. 1, 1906, and tax receipts” for $41.68 on property in Nebraska, A’ postal card was aiso found, written trom San Jose, Cal., and notifying Neer | that the writer was safe. The envelope. of a registered letter in the man’s pock-, The dead man was apparently about 60 years old, with grayish sandy hair and mustache, was tall and heavy of figure, and was well dressed in a black coat, black and white striped trousers, a plaited-bosom white shirt, and wore a Lived on His Money.

Miss Anna Thrashtr, a stenographer in the employ of a commercial agency, | was greatly shocked when she heard of Neer's death. She saw him Wednesday night and he was in the best of health. Miss Thrasher said to. a Post-Dispatch reporttr Thursday: “Mr. Neer is an old friend of my: He is a man of considerable | means and comes Ill. The Lizzie I referred to in the let-. ter to him. is my roommate, Lizzie, Geigan, social engagement Tuesday and I’ naturally notified him of the altered, nlans when Lizzie was too sick to keep the engagement. ‘? don’t think that he is married, | and I do not know what his business | is. In fact. I don’t think that he had’ any business; just living on his mon- ey.”’ ‘Neer lived in Taylorville, Ill, until about two years ago. He was a re- tired farmer and was regarded as from Taylorville,! Wt were to have met for a!

comfortably rich. He had a wife, a daughter and two sons. Three or four years ago husband and wife se.arat-'§ ed and she went to California. Ac-' in Taylorville do not know if they have been divorced. The daughter, Beatrice, is a ste-' nographer in Chicago. The sons, ' George and Wilbur, are believed by Taylorville residents to be in Chicago, too. Neer has not been seen in Tay- lorville in several months.

BUCKETSHOPS Grand Jury Summons Entire Legislature Following Law- son’s Charges. BOSTON, May 10.—The rumor that $70,000 was used in improper ways to in- duce the Massachusetts State Legis-

lature to defeat the Logan bill suppress- ing bucket shops is being investigated | by the grand jury at the instance of. District Attorney Moran. The 4% Rep-, resentatives and the 40 senators have a}) been supenaed to testify before the grand jury. | Thomas W. Lawson's offer to District | Attorney Moran of @ $25,000 reward for | the conviction of vue or any of the a}./ scene, but could do nothing because of leged bribers is admitted to have en- hes Legis- 1 bribery. Mm such a re-

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HARRIMAN SAYS “GO SLOW” ON FINANCING NEW SAN FRANCISCO Ms &

wre F No Basis for Credit Has Yet Been Determined Upon—Insurance Payments Likely to Be says H. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 10.—E. H. Harri- man, who has just\returned from San Smaller Than Expected, S. Black.

Francisco, advises New York men of money to go slow on (financing San Francisco ayfairs. He has conferred with several leaders in money matters and today said: “San Francisco will be not restored, About discuss a financial plan until you know what a fellow is going to do with-the money when he gcts it. Nothng of any value can be accom- plished in this case case by hysterical movements. The whole thing is too big. I don't think anything really definite can be dune until we know more about the whole subject and it will take time to develop that. “In the first place, the people of San Francisco will have to show they are en- titled to credit, about this task like men. waiting for the construction They are not of sky- scrapers or steel-frame busines ses | ; P ness houses ' went In this country, but it fs mod- but are | before they begin over again, putting up temporary structures of cor- rugated iron or frame and s‘arting to do business right away. Retail storekeep- ers and wholesale merchants are doing this, and it shows they mean that San Francisco is going to hold its business. | With business it will get all the credit it needs. “T have no settled financial plan of my own for rebuilding the city. Like every fellow, I suppose, I have got a whole lot of plans, but I am not readv yet to explain a single one of them. We will all havé to wait until] the business men of San Francisco and its people them- selves point ovt the basis on which credit can be given.” Mr. Harriman did not enthuse when the Burnham plan for rebuilding the city was mentioned. He said it was theoretical and was looking ahead 40 or 50 years. Undoubtedly, he said. several) f the streets would be widened. Corporation Plan. H. S. Black talked at length. today for the first time of the plan on which he, with Vice-President Vanderlip of the National City Bank, Senator New.- lands, Thomas Magee of San Francis- co and others have been working for financing the rebuilding of San Fran- cisco, “We propose to organize a bond and : ' t corporation,” said Mr. “with either a Federal or a very broad State charter. The capital will ;robably be $10,000,000. his will be paid. in to guarantee the prin- cipal and interest of the bonds we ias- sue. These bonds will be secured by San Franelac6e. —@atate worth at least double the amount of the bond. With a company with this capital we will be justified in undérwriting fay $50,000,000 of bonds. When these have been disposed of or absorbed by mortgage Biack, 'the public, we will take up another | , block and dispose of them. The limit . Of bonds we issue will be fixed by the investing capacity of the public. “The plan is simply this: If you owned a plece of San Francisco real 'estate worth $1,000,000 and wanted to |put 'up a million-dollar building, you would appiy to this bond. and mort- | @age cor, oration for a loan of $1,000,- | and they aie going) 000. We would issue -. $1,000,000 of bonds, dispose of them to investors all cver the country and raise the money in that way. “In adiition to real estate of double the value of the bond, it will be se- ‘cured by the guarantee of this com- pany. This, of course, is an experi- sled on the same lines as a bond ias sue by a railroad corporation. I have ‘sounded banking and bond houses and

they regard the plan favorably. “I should judge tZat in all $3090,- 000,000 will be required in San Fran- cisco for steel construction. Of course, all of this money will not have to be borrowed, and it means that many old-fashioned structures will be re- paces with those of the modern ype," When Mr. Black was asked if the fire insurance companies would not contribute nearly all that might bé pened for rebuilding purposes, he Said: : “The amounts paid by the insurance companies in settlement of losses is invariably overstated. In Baitimore it was originally stated that the insur- ance loss was $75,000,000, but I under- stand only $11,000.000 was’ actually paid. Too much reliance ghould not be placed upon the total whic the insurance companies will pay.” Mr. Black said the bonds would probably be underwritten by’ the com- any on a basis of 6% per cent and of- fered to the public at 5 per cent at par. The face of each bond will $1000. Senator Newlands will return to this city this afternoon. when another meeting will be held.

INVALID. CARRIE FROM FLAMES Woman Rescued in County, but Her Home Is Totally Destroyed,

Mrs. Joseph Schnellman, an invalid, was carried to safety by her neighbors when her home at Luxembourg, &t. Louis County, burned Thursday. The flames started in the barn and were carried by the wind to the h>use. Lying in a snoke-filled room, Mrs. Schnellman was unable to leave her bed, but the rescuers did quick work.

Five children who had risen an hour before the fire esciped without injury. The two-story irame house and the barn with their contents were complete- ly destroyed. City nremen went to the lack of water. ee MRS, HAYES HAS NO WORD OF ILLNESS, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 10. ~—J. Addison Hayes, president of the First National Bank ef this city and sOn-in-law of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, stat- ed this morning that Mra. Hayes had

received no word of the reported lliness of her mother. Mrs. Hayes is at her ome in this city. ‘ » DEFECTIVE RAIL WRECKS LIMITED a Six Persons, Four of Them Pas- sengers, Injured in Train’s Ditching, PORTSMOUTH, 0O., May 10.~The Chesapeake & Ohio New York limited, which left Cincinnati at 9:10 last night, was wrecked near Buena Vista station about midnight. The sleeper was ditched, but of the 16 passengers on that car only four women were injured. Mrs. D. J. McKelvey of Cincinnatt, was seriously {njured, but will recover. The other three women are unknown. The porter, Thomas Gray, and Brake- man Alfred Hinton were badly hurt. A broken rail caused the wreck.

— . eee Embezzlement Alleged. Abraham UkKiwan of 131i Curr street was arrested Thursday on an i men charging embezziement. The ror ; Liquor Co., by which he was em alleges that on Aug. 14, 1906, he collected $145 from 4% customer and diverted the money :o his own use. Struck by Municipal Car. Henry Middendorf ie at St. Mary’ Infirmary suffering from injuries cau by a municipal electric car. which struck him at the crossing sear ‘orth

ILLEGAL VO FOUND. IN FOUR an De ING

Clerks in Wards and First '- es” Evidence of Fraud Discovered by Con ast First, Second, and Thit Precinct of Fou Where Irregularities Were Startling. ai,»

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jury in a few days. wards. other wards to be examined after the Fourth,” said Mr. Hagerman, “I am not alarmed by the apparent loss of Democratic votes which may follow the inspection of the Fourth Ward returns. “In the Fifth Ward it has never been explained how a former Democratic plu- rality of 1700 was changed into a Re- publican plurality of 800. And a revision of the Sixteenth Ward returns is very likely to favor the Democratic ticket. “If I am convinced that I was not hon- estly elected I shall refuse to retain my office—though some persons never seem to believe such a statement sincere.” Miles Precinct a Model. Thomas K. Skinker, member of the Thursday to a Post-Dispatch reporter that there was no possibility of throw- ing out the returns of the entire Fourth Ward, however great were the irregu- laities discovered in the voting “If there were found to be % fraudu- lent votes and one good one in a pre- the election officials to throw out the % fraudulent votes and count the one good one.” “Since attention has been called to the irregular voting in the Fourth Ward,” he continued, “it would be only fair to have the public know that some pre- cincts in other wards were found to be models. One such was the Sixth Pre- cinct of the Third Ward.” The precinct referred to is that in which “Jimmy” Miles was most active at last spring’s election.

et COUNCIL BLOCKS CITY'S BUSINESS East St. Louis Has Technically No Employes at Present. The East St. Louis City Council, at a session lasting 23 minutes, refused by a vote of 9 to & the insurgent Citizens’ party aldermen controlling, to approve the minutes of the previous meeting. By the same vote they refused to allow the claims and salaries of city officials for the month of April. Technically, East St. Louis now has no police force, no fire department, no . The of the old po A gongs BI aig the last month’s service {s unpaid and the insur- gent aldermen even hold that there are no council committees. The old officials and employes are holding over and will continue to hold over until the Council confirms the Mayor's appointmerits and they have qualified The report of the Committee on Claimg 4 Salaries. to which the bills for Aa , amount! to pone sem had been ays Avagpes we ewe yore Poa cla! allow a dermen, Liebig, Anderson and 2 ong had refused to sign the the bilis.

Alderman Whalen moved, O’Maliey. ar Dg 1s = cll an a a the igasmuch as the

‘order because there was a committees and that there id be alid report, the poien A — , cou ipaid without reference to a comm iver Cook declared the motion out of us mo- before the Council, payment bo bills was defeated by 9 to 6. ent was then taken until nent Monday at 3p. m. This eas meeting cost the city #2 § for each alderman. “Skollars” Have Fun.

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audjence at | Keaut forty prominent pave enrolled as “ekolle : p. m. Thureday. and Board of Election Commissioners, se#i | cinct,”” he said, “it would be the duty of | or} Te rw” Collector Hagerman Who Had I55 Votes. | to Spare Says He Has Gained 40 so 1] and Is Sure There Will Be Furthe ditions to His Total. a Evidences of fraudulent voting have been discovered by: the clerks conducting the ballot recount in the First, Second and Third © wards as well as in the First Precinct of the Fourth Ward, where — the magnitude and boldness of the frauds have caused a delay im the canvass. The evidence will probably be presented to the : ee: NA. ” in ; 3 ss 7 = aed — be sy ae as Collector Hagerman, whose tenure of office is threatened by” the Fourth Ward disclosures, said to a Post-Dispatch reporter Thursday that he had been informed that he and other Democ contestees had gained 40 votes in the recount of the first th oe Ae “When I consider that there are u“ o_o -->ererareaeraereoweo How Fourth Ward _ Cast Deciding Votes. — Majority 3 1,808

Men Enveloped When Third in Tank Catches Fire—Inju- — ries Not Serious, Two men were injured in an osion of gasoline at the Chenoweth Dying an@ — Cleaning Works, 1416 Washington ave= nue, Thursday afternoon. ee A gust of flame from a cleaning containing 40 suits of clothes through the F Hahn of 816 of Mo street. Ties oh Semapea tale wards through a one a n y. nnett’ and mustache were i and Gio nni's fter the first flash to the comr

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% : a - ” F . . “ + Rioters Stone Hospitals a nd . Shops During Disturbances in Italian Cities, — ave nature have seseten On ae n connection with the ] Several officers and apidiewe an tendan t the rot ce a n tiona] Exposition. dye: In this city the strikers today att several sh and : windows. eat eS aoe =. ~ oe ‘eo = APPROPRIATION SIGNED. : CBE

Payment of City Employes’ A i ; at 0 a Mayor Wells signed the municipa appropriation bill Thursday and pays ment of city exployes will begin at Preparations have been made in City Treasurer's office for the | me ast em aaa once.

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