St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 28, 1907

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T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. om VOL. 59. NO. 311. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1907 PRICE one cont | GIRL ASKS FOR LOVE NOTE: COST HNN WHIPPING WAS THEIR WEDDING PRESENT mp | AGENT CALLS FOR POLC i i SAYS IN CTANG Miss Traunmiller So Vexes John P. Hermann WITHOUT : AV That He Has Her Sent to the Four Courts— Jucege at Whom Rosa Fired in Miss Adele Traunmiller, aged 19, of ysaid that the leter had heen taken from : | He Acts for Her Sick Father. : South Dakota Farmer Wakes Court Saw Nothing rra- 4253 West Pine boulevard was taken by | her home. Up to Find He Is a Merchant tional About Them a policeman to the Four Courts at She is the daughter of Joseph Traun- and Not an Agent. roon Friday from John P. Herrmann’s mille, a patient in St. Vineent’s institu- aoe real estate office at 1011 Pine street, | tion in St. Louis County. where she had gone to demand the re- {| When she did obtain the letter, she INSULTED ONE SAID turn of a love leter trom her fiance, to} talked in a manner so displeasing to SUES 7s. LOUIS FIRM ’ — she referred only as “Tom. ‘ she Herrmann that he ordered her Lo leave: sscaiesliiiti } = “Get out, or I'll have you put out,” he told her.

“FIST IN EVERYTHING.”

FEDERAL PROBE. FOR POSTAL AND. WESTERN UNION Roosevelt Orders Official Ine vestigation of Alleged Tele- graph Trust =~

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ooo i Wants the Donnell Manufac- turing Co. to Return His Cash Bond. Woman is Defiant. Angry at Decision in Estate SUMMER 10 BE MORE. “You'll have to put me out, then.” Suit They Planned Murder SUMMERY THESE LAST said the young woman, and she on : 4 RARE DAYS IN JUNE tinued to talk. Herrmann then went and Suicide. . out and summoned Policeman Dela.vs y. . } . tee Herrman followed the pe'ticeman and Fair ; and W arm With \ ariable Miss Traunmiller to the Central District Winds Prediction for Tonight and Saturday. Inquiry Must Open the Door for Possible Criminal —— Prosecutions,

Station. There he told Lieut. Hess of the scene in his office. ry “The policeman didn’t see the disturb- ance,” said the Lieutenant. “You'll have to apply for a police court summons.” Miss Traunmiller was then told that |local agent of the company, he received ae... es. she might go home, and left the sta- Be s-d ss « tion. Herrmann went -to the old City 3 Pp. m. Hall, but had to make a second visit that. he was not the company’s agent, When Edward D. Quinn, farmer, Wa- tertown Postoffice, S. D., sent the Don- nell Manufacturi:z Co. of St. Louis a billhead on which his name appeared as ZRII fy) BOTH ARE ON _ TRIAL

THE TEMPERATURE. Midnight O28 Bills Will Provide for Goverfie ment Ownership of Tele- graph Lines, Judge Testifies They Tried to Keep Nephew From Share | of the Property. @by return mail] the startling information

but in business for himself; that he had bought $1006 worth ia |tefore finding Assistant City Attorney T BELIEVE JILL St. Louisans ping - King heard Herrmann’s compiaint an Jua J A. McD er fe A TRON should thank tcok the anplication for a sammons og udage esse . cvona 00 e K a] ; stand Friday in Judge Williams’ court OR ER. EYRE ALWANS HIT did not send

of vanilla extract,

chil] tonic, wash blueing and other sun- Sa SER oo Res 53 un- BRON ac ge ae Bat See. $ pes ; : the Weather | der advisement. dries, when he thought he was merely Bt y. Saaceeaes ” cn eapgPP OR ee 2 se CHICAGES aaa s jal to ao BAS S Re ety X ba , mo pec a After returning to his office, Herr- | putting up a 01000 cash bond to obtain a : | ‘ Ten- hy Spiteist - i at sai Tribune from Washin : cvenue de os aa a TING THE. HIGH mann said to a Post-Dispatch reperte: job at $150 a month and 5 per cent com- “It today daccbamiaat ak ee Presi« . | ° : . , them the boil- “I shall do whatever seems necessary | Mission on sales. his courtroom Jan. 2. because he ren- C -" { 3 ary dent Roosevelt instructed Labor Come: dered a decision adverse to her, and con- PLACES. SEE. ing temperature |to prevent further annoyance at-my of-| These facts are all set forth In a suit missioner Nei]} to go to New York ' mutes his seotinanty aaa ARO GRE of 112 which was [fice, an dI suppose I shall prosecute } filed by Quinn against the Donnell use his good offices in bringing about @ cation by the si caiiaiilian that beers registered |Miss Traunmiller if the. summons is! Manufacturing Co. in which he seeks to settlement of the telegraphers’ tata Miss Rosa nor Miss Clara Weil, both Thursday in | Issued Ihave the contract-revoked and to recov- he also ordered Commissioner of Core | ef whom are charged with assault to Yuma, Ariz., and Has Been Annoyed. | er hia money. porations Herbert Knox Smitii’ te em kill him, is mentally unsound... The de- because he has ‘Since Mr. I'raunmiller has’ been in-| Accompanied by his attorney, N. P. L. range for an immediate investigation of fense of the young women is to be emo- promiged them capacitated have been in care of his | Rosch, Quinn visited the Federal Build- the relations between the telegraph tional insanity. fair weather to- | business affairs, and have been annoyed | ing Friday and maae complaint to the companies of the United States. “FY saw - nothing abnormal about the night and Satur- | greatly by ‘requests that I violate my “This investigation will be conduit é day. It will be | trust to favor Miss sta ct of either,’ Judge ; in such a ma giving ce sn sc deen ones to ie at warmer, 29; Dut | mother. any company ar ones eptia : ne Aig light, variable “I have refused these requests, as I iia thy —..% by Henry Walsh, attorney for. the tiie will tem- | did today. A on wba oa Courts to iay the matter before immunity from prosecution in case a per the heat we that I. bate ety? “ao ee | career Aelorney. eee et ee a : ‘ ) violation of the law should be distov- asm pay their bills, have gone) Quinn, after vainly trying to sell the Soe ee as ee pee aS — iS oe 2 ered. young women. “The only unusual thing The official | into my wastebasket.’’ . ae ‘ y WaReusesct oods that had been sent hin at the a oceania “The investigation will determine the was their persistent determination to bar Marcus Hennepine, their nephew, | Bet o —s forecast: Fair Joseph Traunmiller, who was manager!..,.. ; ; : nature and Bow 4. and warmer to- |of the Excelsior Brewery, was remoned [Prices named by the St. Louis concern, TICE a —— extent of the agreements ex- > Excel: 37 y, Was ( sting ween the telegraph companies, HARTMAN. Man because he

postal authorities against the Donnell ‘ lla hiar ‘ ‘ ridegroom in the photograph as Vennie Fourtesneny see We? vi : wr now. | More at 16q5, Raut Swe See Smith’s investigation. The results are. perched on a car near the front of the !}(orman. who represented himself as La Bracht and his bride as formerly Hartman left the Oppenlander home at| has been giving tickets to his cus- train, saw that a catastrophe Was near! »anager of the company. Gorman took | Miss Mary Flynn of St. Louis. 9:30 a. M., saying he was ill and going| tomers with merchandise, and holding | ¢=Pected to start a movement tn Con- a shysician His bride-to-be left a - | gress for a supervision, at | t. of the and leaped from the top of the car for | ihe contract and passed it over to Jchn The photograph was introduced sev- |‘? ® ai for wade Mrs! Oppe niander Sey Cee en ee operations of the telegraph companies. : ‘ > . ure 9stens 4 ) ° *Thbe : _ oniinine . " ‘@ his life. He fell in a sort of quagmire |W Donnell, the plaintiff charges, and |¢Tal days ago at the first hearing of the putts | for think to retail foe Glnnert oo i. “empresa that he) "3. w. Donnell, speaking for the Don- : . “ne ¥ - , s Farce ; , . beside the track, and an overturned Ca¥ lthat. about five minutes later he and|case, but Judge Allen deferred judg- wre inesday evening. She made inquiry would hold 5 dives Se wee but} nell Manufacturing Co., said the firm of the derailed train fell squarely ON|Monnell signed a paper which he sup-|;Mment until after hearing witnesses to amet eetahhown and heard rumecet rn enor F policeman that if be <i had performed their part of the con- os :, a R secon arriage. La Bracht: ow | 2 subnet re : him. posed was the contract he nad just eat tc ne pre joe — \ ee ee hie that aroused her suspicions. She thought : ian. a iis tract and that Quinn failed in his part. The soft mud gave so that none 0 read. ime sis : Betes, Cal., with A'S | (6 ner married daughter and hastened On Friday he ca yrs nm Assistant) yr, denied all of the allegations of ir- Fugh’s bones was broken by ihe The paper purporting to be the orig- second wife. ° there to find the bridal couple. Prosecuting Attorney Falkenhainer to regularities in Quinn's petition, weight on him. His body was pressed j/inal contract was folded up, placed in Mrs. La Bracht, No. 1, testified that “Tt’'s all settled; we are married now,” into the mud. face downward, his ros- 4 sealed envelope, and Quinr started| she was married Sept. 20. 1893. and ask what he could do, trils being forced into the earth, cut- back to Watertown, without tuking the separated from her husband May 15. Falkenhainer did not inform him WILL ASK GOVERNMENT T0 whether the plan constituted a viola- ting off his breath. trouble to payen it again. On his way]|1898. Her husband’s second marriage OPERATE TELEGRAPH LINES By spasmodic efforts Pugh managed home he read jt, and says he Was great- | sho represented had taken place July tion of the laws against gambling, but advised him, in view of the police Special to the Post-Diepatch. turn his head partly to one side, |*) SUrprived to find it was not the same’ 18, 1905, when he ‘used the warning, to call the drawing off. He! CHICAGO, June 2.—Measures provid- ond gradually altered: his position so contract he read in the company’s of-] preck. left in great perplexity. ‘ing for Government ownership and con- that his nose pressed azainst the side fice. father, George O. Julian, at 1507 South the steps two at a time to get away A device known as the “calendar | pune FP 8 + Meee wit wee of the box car above him. In this po- Office Opened for Him. Eighth street, she heard of the second rede Mrs. Oppenlander. The brid could game,” by which the name days of the | grap tro- sition he was able to get a breath of} By the time Quinn got to Watertown | Wedding. not escape so easily and got. a good week and the number of days of the | duced at the coming session of Congrens feul air. he found Gorman there waiting for him. Meeting her sister-in-law on _ the whipping. month are drawn for, a prize being iby elther Representative James McDar The engineer of the train nad seen | Gorman had already rented an office for | Street by chance she was told of the] yy, Hartman is a singer. During the| awarded for two’ which corre spond ini mott of C hicago or by Representative Fugh jump and knew about where he | Quinn, fitted it out with a flat-top table | escapade. She says that she found World’s Fair she sang at the Old St.|the current month, !s also forbidden Cary of Milwhultes. ‘eth Gonaveesill lay. Neither the engine nor the caboose |/and two chairs. Quinn says he com-|the bridemaid, Miss Henson, and ob-}) ouis concession at the World's Fair,| by the police. aia members of the Commercial Tele- Was Overturnea, and thcir ocevpants eS- | plained to Gorman that contracts had | tained the photogr nner anes her stage name being Minnie Lotta. It has been used tn connection with graphers’ Union.

Derailed Car Falls on Brakeman, a manufacturers’ agent and had put ei: a “Government ownership of the tele~ but He Sinks in Thick a cash-bond, he at length concluded

neath an overturned Chicago & wastern Bigamy. Near-gambling mercantile devices

Illinois freight car, . F. Pugh, a brake-

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Attorney Walsh, on cross-examina-! tion. confined his efforts to an inef-! he would be arrested. 7] i

aw said Hartman, when he saw his new mother-in-law. Bridegroom Ran Away. “Oh, it is settled, is it?’ she exclaimed , mame +e as she seized him by the collar. A min- en ee ae ene Ve Bet ute later Hartman was bouncing down ~

Qoo,UCwmR opinion that Hennepin was entitled to a { — share of the estate. S j p t Di t h he said, until the day the shot was fired. He was hearing motions from Weil with a revolver in her hand, | Page leveled at him, but that in an instant!) The Latest Wonder in St. Louis Trappist Monastery, and What He Found There Miss Clara Well purchased the 24 Nurse 1 Ownership Now St. volver for the shooting, and was Tunicipa P yw in Swains Against St. Louis ~ paid when arrested. Wl : “hts } Car Frederick Lehmann identified a Jet. Yachtsmen Oo ry Off the ‘Where Are You Going, My Pret- mann said that he had no knowledge | ty St. Louis Maid?” “Goin

‘Moses Fraley, president of the United Jewish Charities, testified that he had ‘balled the Weil sisters out of Jail sim. ply by virtue of his position as officer of a benevolent society. He said that . . they seemed to be laboring under great » mental excitement caused by brooding over fancied wrongs. He concluded by ay ~ gaying that he had asked Nathan Frank % about the charges made by the girls and Mr. Frank had told him he did not _ know them. re ve | _ Visited Nathan Frank. ae Nathan Frank testified that he did not know the Misses Weil, therefore he had ever done them either good nor harm, | Sega visit made by them to his ‘ice, hie, they asked him What One St. Louis Do A Florodora Girl in the British How the eckste inat Their Legs; a Good- Night Story for Young i . Great Train Wreck That Didn’t Happen (in colors).....10

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caped unhurt. They joined in a ¢s- perate effort to save Puch before he was suffocated in the mire. It was nearly 15 minutes before a tun- nel was scoofed out of the mire to the spot where Pugh lay, unconscious. A rope was fastened about his body under his shoulders by one of the men, who crawled into the tunnel, and it was pulled thus to fresh air. Pugh wag soon revived and it was found that he was a mass of bruises. He is under treatment at the Granite City Hospital, His home is in Arthur, Ii. The legitimate PAID circulation of the Post-Dispatch ic 5St- Louis and its

Suburbs tn that of ALL other Engl ater ice, COMBINED. been ‘“‘switched’’ on him, and was told that a mistake might have been made, but if it was it would be rectified. In the course of a few days the com- pany began shipping large quantities of vanila extract, chill tonics, pine tars, baking powders, perfumes and among other. things 2328 packages of wash blue- ing. These were shipped to. him, the { iters stated, In response to his “order,” which Quinn says he had never given. In a short time Quinn had received goods to the retail value of $1666, which were charged up to him at $1000, as he was to get a discount of # percent from the retail price. As there are no chills and ague in Quinn’s part of South Dakota he shipped back the chill tonic that had been sent to him. ‘Black and White S WOMAN’S GARMENTS NE NEAR RIVER hirtw aist Found 2: Foot of Lynch Street. Charles Mulligan of 20 Arsenal street and John Hill of 162 Louisa street re- ported to the police Friday that they found a woman's shirtwaist and an un- derskirt on the bank of the Mississippi River at the foot of Lynch. street. The waist was of black and white check pattern and the skirt had stripes of red and blue.

the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and its Suburbs is areanter than that of ALL

ether English Dailies COMBINED.

The legitimate PAID circulation of |

The young people were angry at Mrs. Oppenlander because she had criticised them for remaining out Sunday untill midnight. They threatened to leave, and Mrs. Oppenlander told them to do_as they pleased. Plans for the wedding fol- lowed.

Negro Taken to Face Child, MONTGOMERY, Mo., June 28.— Chief of Detectives McNutt obtained | requisition papers from Gov. Folk this morning and started for Des Moines, Io., with Sam Anderson, a negro, wanted there to answer a charge of attacking Irene Stubbs, an 11-year-old white girl. When caught In the woods near here the negro was armed, but

Sheriff Earnest caught him cad sur- a number of small stcres, and has teen extensively promoted. Several hundred dollars’ worth of printing is said to have been put into this scheme. The calendars are of elaborate embossed de- sign. Cigar slot machines in a number of drug stores have en ordered out. It is the purpose of the new order to re-; move the element of chance from mer- | cantile transactions. and to have cus- tomers get what they pay for and noth- ing else. Trading stamps, not being In the nature of a iottery, are not ob- jected to. , The Post-Dispatch ts the ONLY evening sewepaper in St. Louls that receives or publishes ASSOCIATED | PRESS NEWS.

Congressman Cary, in conjunction with Mr. McDermott, ls now at work on @ bill which will call for a con inquiry into the affairs of both. the Western Union and the Postal Beam graph companies. The bill will provide that Go ‘ownership shall ultimately be renor'ed | to as a result of the, ee practiced by the com pee Congresaman Cary arent is an wuts member of the unfon. He ts a Repub- wan and made a picturesque campaign last fall against « man ‘wito had held the position several terms. Mr. bmn a made his fight under the slogan, “Put | a live wire in Congress,” and hia an- _rounced policies tncluded Government ownership of telegraph lines, oi