St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 12, 1907

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ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1907

> SIMTES 10 10 PLAN TRUST CAMPAIGN HERE THIS FALL National Meeting of Attor- neys-General Called for St. Louis, Oct. 1. HADLEY LEADING PLAN —— =

Reasertion of States’ Rights Against Federal Usurpa- tion Intended.

LABOR LAW DISCUSSED Compulsory Arbitration Urged by Some of Statae Offi- cials Now Here.

A national convention of attorneys- general of all the states in the Union will be held Oct. 1 at St. Louis, to @onsider a concerted plan of legal ac- ‘thon for enforcing State laws regulat- ing trusts and other industrial combi- Mations cxisting’ by ihe favor or the pecple. ‘Tfie \ Attorney-General of the United. States will be invited to make an ad- | timbers, re'ated functions of the Na- tioral Government and State Gevern- iment in legal actions involving’ the rishts of both. This plan was the re- pult ef «» preliminary meeting Monday hiohiaiy, at the Southern FHiotel of the ‘MDeys-geseral of llinois, Indiana, .. Xus, M ‘asouri, Ohio; Mississippi, Ten- Pefecs «nd Kansas. “hoir conference, scheduled to begin Monivy, was a response by \torneys- -#eneral cf 14 states, to the invitation of Attorney-Genera] Herbert 8. ptiay of Miesvuri. Assertion of Stute's rights, opposed to dress on usurpation of these rights by Federal courts, dating back to the Civil War, Will be the cardinal principle of the con- vention, according to Attorney-General Hadley and other attorney-general at- tending the conference. It is believed that. a community of the people’s in- terests will bring about concerted ac- tion against: industrial and social or- ganizations that evade the law in one State while being compelled to obey it in another State. At the conclusion of Monday morn- ing’s session, Chairman Hadley said the proposed convention would begin ‘Tuesday, Oct. 1, and continue for two Gays. Trusts, specific trusts, railroad regulation, and laws granting fran- chises to public service corporations, to- a * gether with heeded legal action to cn- ferce all regulations enacted by the states, will have the center of the stage. “The call for this convention,” said “will be made by a com- mittee of attorney-generals that have at- tended this conference in yverson. This cemimittee is made up of R. V. Fletcher of Mississippi, F. S. Jackson, Kansas: _ (Charles T. Cates, Tennessee: Herbert S. _ Hadley, Missouri: Assistant Attorney- Texas; Generals Jewell P. Lighifoot, \W. H. Miller, Ohio; T. L. Dempcy,, Ll- inela, and W. B. Foot, Indiana. _ ther states have written indorsing the “The enly invited guests to the con- Six States to Act Together. will be the Attorney-General 5 end assistant attorney-genera!s of the “United States. The action of the on- ‘vention will grow out of discussions of papers along the lines i have indicated. ‘Whatever the convention does by way of resolution will represent the prob- able concerted action of the legal de. - partments of the severa) states for law _enfercement. _ A national arbitration law to compel _. the peaceful adjudication of labor dis- — will probably be considered at the * : “Something ought to be done, and done quickly, to prevent these great said Attorney-General eee James Bingham of Indiana to a Post- on to the present arbitration law, it must be deficient in that it does not & speedy settlement of labor }, if it goes on much longer, will crip- 1 E ie every industry. WOMAN BUILDS | FRE ON TRACK: SAVES EXPRESS

Hears Crash of Timbers Stops California Limi‘ :4 on Chasm’s Edge.

AWAKENED IN NICHT

One Hundred and Twenty (srateful Passengers Collect Purse for Heroine.

By Long Distance Telephone to the Post-Dispatch, HART, Mo., Aug. 12.—Quick and he- roic action by a woman in the dead of night saved the lives of 12 passengers on the California Limited on the Santa i% system at this station, 200 miles rorthwest of St. Louis. Mrs. Minnie Houdeshell, wife of a railroad grader, was the heroine. Pas- stngers on two trains ‘took up collec- tions for her and assured her that she would be recommended for a Carnegie medal. "i The construction camp#in which Mrs.

Houdeshell and her husband live is 50 yards from the Santa Fe right of way. At 3:15 a. m. Sunday Mrs. Houdeshel | Was awakened by the sound of crashing followed by a splash as of ‘some heavy object falling into water. Knew Danger to Bridge. She realized that a small creek spanned by a 26-foot briage had been swollen by recent rains and that the timbers of the bridge had been weak- ened. The bridge must have falien. She knew, too, that the California Jim- lied, carrying men, women and chil- dren from the Far West to Chicago, was due at the bridge at 3:24. She called loudly for help and with- out waiting to cress she ran to the

right of way. By the dim light of a semaphore lamp She could see that there was only a black chasm where the bridge nad stood, Builds a Fire. Men who followed her found her pil- ing brush wood and dry branches on. the right of way near the creek. She had taker matches with her when che left her tent and her bonfire was already bursting into flames. Telling the men to hurry up the track and flag the train, she remained to at- tend to the fire. While the men were prepuring to flag the train it came eround a curve a quarter of a mile away. The bonfire was berni g brightl-. The crgineer saw and brought his train to u stop less than 30 feet from where the bridge had beon. When the passengers found how nar- row their escape had been they show- ered attentions on Mrs. Houdeshell. The women embraced her and kissed her and the men emptied their pockets to re- ward her, The purse given her amounted to $85. ‘Passengers on train No. 5, which had stopped at La Plata on its way west nd which might also have been wrecked but for the heroine, collected $26 for her and sent it to Hart by special méssen- ger. “FAIR AND COOLER” IS WELCOME MESSAGE T0 OVEN-BAKED ST, LOUIS Weather Man Gives Assurance That Sweltering Heat Will Not Continue. THE TEMPERATURES, Midnight .. 80 9

Give thanks, ye swelterers, for Sunday’s weath- er is not to con- tinue. “Fair tonight and Tuesday and cooler tonight; northerly wi:ds, becoming varia- ble Tuesday,’ is the official fore- cast issued by the Government Monday morn- ing. After a Sunday that seemed the hottest on rec- ord, the word “cooler” in the bulletin looks un- usually pleasing. Owing to in- complete advices on account of the telegraphers’ / strike, the AVG. 12, 97. Weather Bureau did not give out its bulletins on the weather conditions throughout the country Monday. The stage of the river is 8. feet ‘Monday morning, a decline of .7 of a foot in & hours. * Temperatures elsewhere at 7 a. th. ‘Were: Washington, Pittsburg and Phil-

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saa Chicago and New York, 70; Indianapolis and Cleveland, OF Bless oul 6; Kansas and |

arbitrate. strikers. at work.

Three thousand New York Western Union operators strike at noon. Officers of the companies issue statements that there is nothing to President Ewing of the operators replies the strikers desire arbitration. No advances from either side and no additional demands made by the The Western Union had 76 men at work and the Postal 30. At the Merchants’ Exchange only three of the 30 operators remained TODAY’S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BIG TELEGRAPH STRIKE At the National Stockyards in East St. Louis all operators were out. In St. Louis: 25 messenger boys employed by the Postal walked out at 10:30 a. m. Forty Western Union messengers quit work at Omaha. Union printers at Columbus, 0., refuse to “set” non-union dispatches. Western Union and Postal men go out at Savannah, Ga. Postal operators have gone out at Denver. The telegraph companies in Chicago claim to have 300 men at work. Company officials refuse to treat with strikers.

FOLK INVOKES NEW LAW TO OUST COUNTY “RING” y= = *

- Gov. Folk requested Attorney-General Hadley Monday to begin ouster proceed- ings against Sheriff Herpel and Prose- cuting Attorney Johnston of St. Louis County because of their alleged failure to enforce the Sunday closing law. In his communication to the Attorney General, Gov. Folk calls attention to the provisions of the derelict officials’ law, which became effective Sunday. The Governor declares that the St. Louis County authorities permitted sa- ‘oons to run wide open Sunday, besides sanctioning a number of _lid-lifting clubs. “My information is that the Sunday closing law is being grossly violated in St. Louis County,” said Gov. Folk to a Post-Dispatch reporter at Jefferson

ea 4 City. “There is nothing for the State to do now but hold to strict accounta- bility those who are responsible for ex- isting conditions.”’ Gov. Folk says that under the derelict officials law, the State can take a change of venue to another courty, so that Sheriff Herpel and the Prosecut- ing Attorney may not be tried In St. Louis County, if Attorney-General Had- ley decides to proceed against them. Recently Mr. Johnston filed a number of suts against ‘‘fake’’ clubs in the county, but these cannot possibly be tried until late in the fall. Sheriff Her- pel’s deputies have been stationed in various parts of St. Louis County, os- tensibly watching for violations of law, but they have made few arrests.

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Pl tt . record of the previous cidental. i. sponding Sundays. ES — shows a lead of Very conclusive evidence that 184 Columns of Paid Advertising Less Cheap Legal, In Yesterday’s Sunday Post-Dispatch The Best Second Sunday in August in the Post-Dispatch History. 22 Columns more than 1906 39 Columns more than 1905 52 Columns more than 1904 the. splendid Sunday was not ac- ‘Thus, for the first two Sundays in August the Post-Dispatch shows an increase of 53 columns over the highest previous record for the corre- Compared with the iii of the other St. Louis Sunday Newspapers published yesterday it 75 Columns over the Republic.

27 Columns over the Globe-Democrat.

Advertising that grows Days

“Advertising that pays grows

“First in Everything.” AGED FATHER OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, KEPT IN HIDING, AND VIEW OF THE OIL KING’S BOYHOOD HOME % » i . ss ; o% telegraph operators in the ie : were followed in a few fr “ oe. by the men working on the Produce Exchange and tes ployed at the Broad street branch of the Western Union. a 0 o’clock the employes of the Postal company struck. It is maf * ted that at least 1000 men are now idle. The operators aid m wait for an order from the union officers, hut'took matters in their” own hands and quit their keys in sympathy with the men ire ade The strike of the Western Union men here, coupled with the > "ae cago situation, paralysizes business both East and West. The gem eral situation is now at the acute stage, and all union operators nas working in the United States are expected to quit their keys "

Men Employed in Merchants? Exchange Quit and Crip-: be The business of the St. tint chants’ Exchange and the Stock © Cuange, except purely local th was practically suspended amet account of® the telegraph as strike. When the markets opens a the Merchants’ Exchange at om was but one operator en duty. . the morning two other operators ¥ assigned to the Exchange wires, ¥ they were not familiar with ie, we and as from twenty-five to tt ators are required to handle the: ia ness of the Exchange, local were almost shut off from aise Neports of other cities. oe Some of the market quotations received from Chicago and New. and a ticker supplied quotations f the stock exchanges of the cities. ° Leased Wires W sre Jedauh aes arte GE ag6 and commission she 14 operators are empioyed were ¥ without interruption Monfay, © F ier ae S Superintendent Frankel of toe 9 a vos ern Union and Superintendent M : the Postal stated that they te handle business fairly well, ! there was séme ee aoa | seunt of the strike. Mr. Fro nkel claim to have 7 men at work, and 3 ia