St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 30, 1906

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_ Seventh Edition | [ PAGES TODAY HT mM n | tll 37. LOUIS POSI- ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. > TI ALLA VOL. 59. NO. 9. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1906 PRICE (in,.8,,teute One Gent, BRYANHOSTS CHEER (COUNTY JUDGE |*). -P ent ,

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NIN hy NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—In the midst of their preparations for tonight’s colossal tribute to William Jennings’ Bryan at Madison Square Garden, the Democratic hosts paused to applaud the ar- rival of Missouri’s reformer Governor, who reached town: this morning to participate in the festivities. ee - Gov. Folk and his State delegation were cheered heartily wherever the boedle fighter-was-reeognized: * Phe Governor went} to the Hotel Gotham, where he was given an impromptu reception. the facts for a few days to prevent a run on the bank.”’ The Coroner also stated that when he arrived at the Hipple residence last Fri- day he was met by the son of the de-| — ceased. The young man did not at first} cide. It did not take the Coroner long to discover the cause of death. Hipple had placed the muzzle of a revolver in

as pany. When I discovered that he had j : Which committed suicide, I decided to suppress ines of ederal Office Holders Attend, Hears From ‘Republi- x ings of $40,000. : : On that night she and Hazel went to i

William Randolph Hearst, who is reported to be somewhat un- friendly toward Mr, Bryan, has not called upon the Nebraskan since his return. When asked if he expected Mr. Hearst to call, Mr. Bryan replied briefly, ‘‘I can’t say.’’ Dunne of Chicago, at the head of the lroquois Club; Ryerson W. Jennings with 23 Philadelphia delegates; Gov. Stevenson, Senator Martin, Senator Daniel and Congressman Flood from Virginia; Gov. Warfield of Maryland, 21 delegates from New Hampshire and a delegation from Minnesota. Today is “Bryan Day” in New York, and apparently the entire city is pre- maring to give tie returned Nebraskan the time of his HUfe tonight. Mr. Bryan, after spending the night aboard Col. Goltra’s yacht Illini, today went aboard Lewis Nixon's houseboat loudon, which is anchored off the Ocean Yecht Club pier at Stapleton, 8. I. One of the early callers on Mr. Bryan was Mayor Johnson of "Cleveland. Mr. Bry- an will go aboard the Illini again this afternoon for luncheon. At 3 o'clock the yacht will start for the battery and will land Mr. Bryan at 4 p. m. Just a little before noon today Mr. Bryan received the newspaper men aboard the houseboat. His first word to them was that he would not talk about politics or persons. “How about Speaker Cannons can- dfdacy for the presidency?’ Mr. Bryan was asked. “As Cannon is both person and poli- tics.” Mr. Bryan replied, “I cannot dis- cuss him.” He was next asked to discuss the Philippines and the spirit of Ameri- eantiam that has taken hold of the is- land. He anid he could not discuss that, as it was political. 7 “How about Russia and the Duma?’ Mr. Bryan was asked. “No one can speak with any degree of - eertainty.”’ he replied, ‘as to what the immediate future of Russia will be, but we can speak with certainty of the ul- timate result. I might illustrate in this way: If you ask me in February what sort of weather we will have, I cannot say whether it will be snow or storm or sunshine, but I can say that in a few months we will have summer, No one can say what experiences Russia will pass through in the next few years, ee but it is possible to say that she is g0- ing to have % constitutional form of ee Mr. Bryan positively refused to dis- a cuss New York politics in any way. Mr, Bryan entertained several callers yesterday evening, among them Burton s of them asked Mr. Bryan what he - thought-of the phonetic system of spell- ing, and he said it was most interesting. - fle remembered a boy who had once welled church “‘schurtch,” and said he t ht boys like him would be espe- dally pleased with the idea of spelling by sound. ne ol BE NOMINATED. tal to the Post-Dispatch. tHIC AGO, Aug. %.—According to the w ‘York correspondent of the Chi- YTribune, Willian Jennings Bryan, pie first newspaper interview since he Nee ee vee ° 3: 1 By ve 3 Sy eee 3

States, declares] the City Clerk of Democratic candidate for dency. When pressed for an extended state- ment, Mr. Bryan replied: “I don’t think it will be necessary for me to maker any announcement now, further than that contained in my let- ter to former Senator James K. Jones, in which I said I would accept the nom- ination under certain circumstances.’’ “Has your atiitude changed any since you wrote that letter?’’ Mr. Bryan was asked, ai pe When asked for his opinion in regard to Democracy’s chances in the coming fight, he said that, in his opinion, the chances for Democratic success were improving all the time. “But,” he added, “it is not easy to fix a time when the principles of Democracy shall triumph.” “Do you think President Roosevelt's administration has tended to increase the prospects of the Democratic party's success ?’’ “The Roosevelt administration has done much to educate the people.” “Some persons are saying now that Mr. Roosevelt is more radical than you are,”’ . “That seems to be the conclusion some people have arrived at. What some people call conservatism and other peo- ple call radicalism is. a matter of per- sonal opinion.’’ “Are you going to make public own- ership an important Democratic issue in the coming campaign?’ Mr. Bryan declined to answer this question. He said he would not discuss any issues until after he had delivered his speech at the Madison Square Gar- den reception tonight. BRYAN’S RECEPTION NOISY AND SUCCESSFUL. NEW YORK, Aug. %.—~William Jen- nings Bryan is the happiest man imag- inable. | After a noisy reception, in which the tooting of whistles, the singing of songs and much hand-shaking played & prominent part, Mr. Bryan went on board Mr. Edward D. Goltra's steam yacht lini and was at once conveyed to the country home of Louis Nixon at Grand Hill, Staten Island, where he will remain until 4 o’clock this after- noon, The Nebraska deeigation had things all their own way. There was appa- rently no other State represented in the marine turmoil which followed Bryan's arrival. The red-badged Westerners had the time of thelr lives unocorking their bottles of political fizz which they expect to ‘see froth from now until 1908. They had hired the two big tugs, Eu- gene Moran and Julia Moran, and had quartered them at West Twenty-second street pler, where they were loaded with al] the good things usually included in a Western bill of fare. . “Tie ll have to break one of those repes or come to us,”’ said Dan Butler. Omaha, to a group of the presi- sry . ¥? ee er 'NIRD < Schnellmann’s dance hall, south of the city limits. She said they were accom- panied by a young man named Gilport, who had left them at the dance hall about 11 o’clock and had gone home, She and her friend left the hall to- gether, she said, when the dancing ceased. According to the testimony ot the proprietress of the place, this was about 11:45. Says He Closed ‘Her Mouth. As they left the hall she said they were joined by Robert Duffy and John Mehrtens, who walked with them a short distance until they were opposite the gate leading into Horn's Grove. Here, she said, Duffy, who was walk- ing with her, threw his arm around her, and, placing one hand over her mouth, forced her across the street in the direc- tion of the gate. She called once to her friend, she said, and her month was closed and she was threatened. When they were inside the gate, she said, Duffy was joined by two other men and the three carried her to a dark place, 200 or 300 yards from the gate. She testified that she struggled with her captors and pleaded with them to let her go, appealing to their sense of honor. ‘They jeered her and threatened to beat her if she did not keep quiet, she testified, She said she was struck and knocked down by the vouths who had carried her into the grove and by 10 or 12 others who joined them. She testified that after be- ing knocked down the first time she suc- ceeded in getting up, but was again knocked down. he said three men brought Hazel Jackson to the place where she was lying on the ground. They put Hazel down near -her, she testified. and deserted them. With the assistance of her friend she got up and the two started at once in the direction of the city limits, both be- ing very weak, she said. At the bridge across the River des Peres she said they met Sergt. O’Brien and a police- man and called to them for help. They were both nearly fainting and _ their clothes were torn, according to their own testimony and that of the sergeant and policeman, Hazel Jackson told the same story as her companion with the exception of. some of the details as to the way in which thev were taken into the grove. She testified both she and Miss Cross were nicked up before they were inside the gate and were carried the entire distance to where their captors were joined by their associates. She said that the other men came in answer to a whistle given by one af the youths who had carrted them from the gate. Policemen Their Witnesses. The girls had no witnesses except two St. Louis policemen, who met them at the bridge across the Rives Des Peres and later arrested four of the men whom the girls said were following them from the scene of the attack. Three of these men were held on being identified by the girls. The cross-examination by the four at- torneys for the defense was severe and the crowd frequently cheered when the dafense seemed to entangle the accusine witnesses. There wus only silence when the story of the girls seemed to fix the guilt on almost all of the young men ac-

cused. The State concluded its case at 3 py. m. and the defense began. One of the attorneys made a plea for the d‘s- , missal of his client, W, B&. Robertson, , on the ground that there was no evi- | dence against him, except that of) Mamie Cross. which, he alleged, had been impeached by the conflicting tes- timony of her companion, Hage] Jack- son, His address was che*re4, but his gc! sage was denied by the Court he defense of E. J. Reilly, Witiam McDonough, W. Robertson and Fred Naesens was an alibi and the'r cases were taken up before the others. McDonoueh said that he could not have been In Horn’s Grove at the time of the attack. According to two witnecse« he was at Mannion’s Park at 12 o'clock. and two policemen testified that thev -_ rong a ee gree ~ near there 15 minutes er. 8 is half ' ‘ the erove, 3 & mile from everal witnesses were in prove that Robertson, Reltly Ah ert ens were at Mannion’'s : attack occurred. These wit testified that the three men left the

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Wernse Asks His Partner to Do as He Would Be Done By. Henry H. Wernse, prominent. broker and former president of the Merchants’ Exchange, who died Aug. 27, left the bulk of his large estate to his widow, Mrs. Emma Wernse, according to his will, filed in the Probate Court Thurs- day. He bequeathed $2750 to charity and provided that if his brother, William F. Wernse, attempted, either directly or indirectly, to contest th ill, , - his. ara wite and va Xs py relating some of his summer ex- quest to his brotner’s wife and ta should be revoked. ‘The brother is dere, | in the will, but at his whic . death he is to be possessed of what remains of the bequest to her. The testament closes with a request that John D. Dieckman, Wernse’'s part- near and executor under the will, ‘‘do unto me and mine as ne would have me to do unto his under like conditions.’’ The request is also made of the execu- tor not to hasten to liquidate the as- sets of the partnership existing between Dieckman and Wernse at the time of the latter's death. The first clause in the will bequeaths $50,000 and all of the Wernse household goods, his books and his watch to his widow, Mrs. Emma Wernse. The next clause leaves $40,000 with the St. Louis Union Trust Co. and John H. Dieckman to be invested as the trust company and Dieckman deem best, the income from the investment to be paid annually to the widow. If she so desires the pay- ments may be demanded oftener than annually by her. If at any time she de- sires $2000 of the $40,000 principal she may demand it and receive it upon 30 days’ notice. The widow is to dispose of this bequest in her will. Louis Barklage is to act in Dieck- man's place if the latter is unable to serve. A provision for two $6000 an- nuity policies for the widow is also made. All of the bequests to the widow are io be paid first and before any other beneficiary under the will is awarded his or her portion, To his sister-in-law, Mrs. Minna Wernse, wife of his brother, William F. Wernse, Wernse leaves $5000 and $10,- 000 in trust with the St. Louis Union Trnst rn, To his nieces, Annie, hiattle, Winoaa ani Minna Wernse, is left $1000 each. Mati'!Ja Heinz of Stuttgart, Germany, is to get $1000; Emma Von Dersten of O1rk- land, Cal., $1000; Harry 8S. Rein of St. Louis, $1000; Harry Wernse Wahlert, $100; cages | Wernse Summers of Phila- delphia, $100; Dr. Charles Hasebrock of Wamburg, Germany, $100. The charitable bequests are as fol- jows' $600 to the St. Louis Provident Ass ciation: $500 to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Louts; $500 to the German Protestant Orphans Home on the St. Charles Rock road; $500 to the German Altenheim of St. Louis; $500 to the Jewish Alliance School of St. Louis in care of the trustees, Ben Altheimer and Elias Michael, and $250 to the Hu- and Elias Michael, and $250 to the Mis- gouri Humane Society. To his partner, John H. Dieckman, Wernse leaves all of his right, title and inverest in and to the lease of the Se- curity Building to the firm of Wernse ‘& Dieckman, and the office furniture and fixtures and the nominal value of $100 and represented by that item on the accounts of the partnership. All the rest of the estate is left to the widow. Dieckman is appointed executor without ‘bond. The exact value of the estate is said to be unknown. The will is dated May 17, 1906, and was witnessed and attested by G. E. Dieckman and Alden H. Little.

MORE than ONE MILLION people in the city of St. Louis and contiguous territory READ the SUNDAY Post. DISPATCH EVERY Sunday. “Firet in everything.” .

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can Leader That Folk Is ‘‘Making Good.’’ Vice-President Fairbanks, the tall and stern aspirant for the Presidency, has become a golf enthusiast. The man re- garded as one of the most reserved of Americans spent three hours in St. Louis Wednesday night and surprised a score of Republicans by a free and light conversation which never ceased until his departure ‘for the West. He avoided a discussion of his boom Missouri this fall, among them Dolliver, and, probably,

| Committee, Congressman would send some of its best speakers to Secre- tary Shaw, Senator Beveridge, Senator Speaker Can- mon and Congressman Longworth. Among the guests at the dinner were National Committeeman Akins, Survey- er of Customs Gallenkamp, Postmaster Wyman, Internal Revenue Collector Al- len, United States Marshal Morsey, Sec- retary McCoy of the State Republican ; Committee, Chairman Howe of the City Coudrey, and of politics generally, except in pri- Former Mayor Walbridge, Chase Mor- vate talk, preferring Gov. Folk. During an informal dinner to discuss golf and | Sey, Capt. Henry King and Joseph Mad- son. Mr. Fairbanks departed for Ossawat- given him in the Union Station cafe, he: omie, Kan., to attend the celebration of asked if Folk was so Fa , ur- ; “ . Governor, and the banqueters were s i City prised when n editor said Folk was ‘making good. The Vice-President enlivened the even- for the reunion of the G. will return to Indianapolis there will go to Concord, N. H. SUNSHINE AND

-riences, and, taken as 4 candidate, he was far different from Fairbanks, Vice- President. : Although the Vice-President ways his Western visit is merely one of “pleas- ure,’ he is said to plan other invasions if the vaccination takes this time. When questioned by 4 Post-Dispatch r regarding his candidacy and as 1er he thought President Roose- his frequent dec- accept a Fairbanks St. Louis. The reporte to whetl velt would abide by laration that he would not third-term nomination, Mr. Ss + , mo would be out of place for discuss that question anyway in of the existing circumstances. Federal Ofifce Holders There. arrived from at. 2 es ao and re- leaving for the West. n by all of the

FR-R-R-JENDS. R-R-ROMANS AND MILLIONAIRES, ] GRRR-EET YOU MEH' P-PEE PUL. How ‘.S THAT FOR THE BOY ORATOR! and St. me to ViOw Weather says. He cast like greedy like this: Che Vice-rresidetn Washington mained until 19, ft . was met at the tra Ho Louis Federal office holders and Republican jeaders. He was escorted to the cafe at the Union “ tion, where an elaborate dinner was ges the time the Vice-President owe down at the table until he left, a con- versation, in which he was the chief master of ceremonies, never ceased. After the dinner Mr. Fairbanks enthusi- astically related his experience a8 a golf He told of playing at Mackinac tice Day Inited States Supreme Jus peat : few weeks ago. He er ves “he first game of golf I played was the best and the remaining five games were correspondingly worse. The Vice-President entertained the banqueters jwith a story of how he was aaeiit alone in the rain several miles yt his hotel in Mackinac recently. He : find no conveyance and wealthy ed in carriages with empty t the owners, gy momen "president, did not offer to share conna The statesman was compelled to along unti) a longshoreman and his wwhte and child in @ narrow buggy drove man offered the lonely trav- not knowing that he was loe-Rremcen Rp Fig oro ld have to sit in r. air- Nee os tee. The Vice-President gladly neented and rode to the hotel in the Seoweadl buggy. The longshoreman nev- er discovered that he was hauling the Vice-President. Says Missouri Will Stay. Mr. Fairbanks optimistically told Sec- retary McCoy of the State Republican Committee of his belief that Missouri remain in the Republican ranks pt ge tls He said that he noted the change in the sentiment of the voters of the State on his last visit here two years ago, when he made speeches in e. ne Bt ice- President promised the Re- sublican leaders that he would return to Missouri about Sept. 23 for a speech in St. Louis and several in the State. He aiséd said that the National Comunittce — and night The og. Bt: many parts country, the says, player.

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Clerk oD Donald Atk the Deer Street Police Station Atkinson is 24 years old and ployed at Young's 4 morning Miss Henzelman told of the store at 10 p. m. Wedn that he refused to return it

the city of St. Louls and territory HEAD the SUNDAY DISPATCH EVERY Sunday.

“ i ood” as! the fiftieth anniversary of John Brown's MaAnIng © . From there he will go to Dodge Pini Thang a well-known Republican | and thence to Boise City, Idaho, to speak at the Nationa Irrigation Congress. and from He COOL BREEZES Not a Gloud on the Sky for charming mixture of § fall summer now enjoyed by ; Louisans is to continue, the Man hand- ed out his fore- Thursday taffy chil d— to a “Fair weather moderate temperature and day. Light, vari- able winds.’’ immunity to- Fri- Louis from rainstorms, fre quent in other of the is due, forecaater to the fact that there is no storm area in the territory west of the Mississippi River. In the East and South the tem-_| of the West and along the Atlantic Coast rain has fallen during the past % hours. SAYS HE KEPT RING, Young Woman Causes Arrest of Larceny Charge, nson, a drug clerk at Cora and Easton avenues, was locked up at Thurs- day, and is held on the charge of having embezzled a diamond ring from Miss na Henzelman of 1917 Cora avenue. An- store. Thursday Police- man Hanlon that while she was in front his mouth and shot himself. The ball passed upward and lodged in the brain. room. Mrs. Hipple was not aware that her husband had killed himself until the arrival of Dr. W. C. Powell, the family physician. ee Suspended Bank to Resume, Directors Say. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—That the receivership will only be a temporary one and the Real Estate Trust Co. will shortly open its doors and resume busi- ness is the belief of Receiver George H. Earle Jr.. who took charge yesterday, and one of the bank’s directors. Receiver Earle qualified with a bond One of the meetings held was attend- ed by Adolf Segal, and later it was learned that he had sold the town of South Altoona, Pa., which he built with money borrowed from the trust con- pany. The purchaser, it is said, paid $500,000 for the various properties. Adolf Sega! said last night that seme days ago he had placed in the hands of officials of the Real Estate Trust Co. $7,000,000 worth of bonds, in order te make his borrowings absolutely secure. “There were no conditions attached,’’ he declared. ‘““They were to be used to the best advantage of the company. I! feel I have done everything in my power to relieve the Real Estate Trust Co. Tt was rumored that 1 intended leaving town,’’ concluded Mr. Segal. “I intend to stay right here and seé this matter through.”’ Church Securities Safe. Jonun H. Converse, director of the company and one of the foremost Pres- byterian laymen in the country, upon whose petition the receiver was appoint- ed, said he was satisfied that the se- curities of the various Presbyterian Church boards are safe. The Presbyte- rian Hospital. of which Mr. Hipple waa treasurer, today elected the idelity Trust Co. as his successor, dnd through that concern learned that the Institu- tion's securities. amounting to $1,590,- 000, are intact. While it is believed that the securities of the Board of Trustees of the General Assembly are equally safe, it will be necessary to elect a new treasurer before the fact can be de- termined. It has developed that Mr. Hipple had on deposit for various Presbyterian Church organizations $150,000 in cash. Included in this was the sum of $10,- 000, deposited by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, to be used in re- building the home for rescued Chinese a earthquake. : ne Radebie Earle completes his in- vestigation the exact condition of company’s affairs cannot be told. receiver however, exp that the trust funds are intact. Plans for Resumption. There js much talk among certain financiers and others of the possibility of the rehabilitation of the company, but no feasible plan has come to light. What vulge. lt is thought, however, that hig plan would be to cg the numerous en- <i more than 95 0.000 from At-jicial ! kinson admired the ring. She took it off and handed it to him, She declares MORE than ONE MILLION people In contiguous POST- te any plan on its feet. . Converse is authority for the statement thal the loans made to in- terests other than Segal’s. even if they had campany in the least. The ure

The shooting took place in the bath- |. of $1,000,000 and went to work. . a majority slave girls in San Francisco destroyed the e the belief his plan is, Receiver Earle will not di- been bad, would not have affected

ary Writ in Republican Factional Fight. ; 4 writ of certioram, temporarily re instating 11 deposed members of the Re= : publican City Central Committee and granting them the legul right to attend and vote at meetings of the committee while the writ endures, was issued by Judge McDonald in special Thureday. The writ, a tenyporary one, is returnr able in Judge Sale’s court next Tues-- day at 10 a. m., when that Judge will hear the plea for a permanent writ. = __ The action of Judge McDonald fe stores the Ludwig faction te member ship, on the ground that the Howe fat-— = tion did not have the legal right to oust the Laidwig men from the committee. — The writ commands the’ Howe faction to deliver to the Court all of the reso- lutions, proceedings and papers bearing on the expulsion of the Ludwig mena. - Three separate. suits wes@-Tileq by © members of the Ludwig faction “a of the Howe committee — Thursday, asking the writ of certiorerh The Court was also asked to restrai the Howe members from interfert e with the plaintiffs in sitting with a enjoying the privileges of the commite tee, The plaintiffs in the suits are Willian H. Ludwig, deposed chairman of — ity Central Committee; George 2 shon, secretary of the committee, and Norman I... Fiorshetm, representi Fifteenth Ward: First; John P. Besch, Tenth: & I. ry Twenty-third; © A. Day, Twenty-second: Samuel F. erson, Twenty-cighth. The defe are Charles H, Witthoeft, Nicholas lito, Robert Walker, Joseph L. Schult Louls Becker, Harry Baer. Fr ecker, Edward Koeln. Wiltlam Sanders, William Budde, Henry L. Weeke, Goorge Riechmann, Herman er, Fred Smith, Louts Yengst and Jeptha Howe, present chairman of the commit+ tee. They compose a majority of the committee. ¢ ¥ Exhibits filed with the petition the charges filed by the Howe | against the Ludwig men, before the ex«. ulsion of the latter. These charges are, mn the main, that the Ladwig men conspired with others outside the cone mittee to hinder and defeat the come mittee’s action. Ete: According to the exhibits filed in the suits for a writ of, certiorari ¥y Willitam Owen, Sixth: bai fail entirely due to the °o loans mgde to regal. ents