St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 11, 1907

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VOL. 60. NO. 21. LLL CARDINALS AND [PUBLIC WOULD CUBS FIGHT OUT | BUY BONDS IN eo eerr: «| DOUBLE HEADER) SUMS OF S101 Champs Anxious to Get Re- venge for What Happened in St. Louis.

BRIGHT, BALMY DAYS LIKE INDIAN SUMMER WILL WARM ST, LOUIS Ideal Weather for Thirty-Six Hours to Drive Out Memory of Chilliness.

ee ~ LUSITANIA 1S i NG ANEW ) OCEAN RECORD : : New Queen of the Seas Com- municates With America , by Wireless. MOTHER WHOM SHE BLAMES FOR HER TROUBLE,' 1 oe OUT OF WINDOWS IS WE TER ty » »

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ersville Woman, Fatally Hurt by Plunge. Denominations of $1000 Have Had No Offers in More Than Year. A sort of half- i; breed Indiansum , GEE, THESE mer—noet the gen- uine full-blooded KGAS GRATES RE EXPENSIVE !

species—is on its way to St. Louis as @ successor to nbs Acme warrior TWO (GAMES HERE TOO BANKERS HOLD BACK HOTEL DOOR SMAS brilliant sunshine | : pose Se Sires. 5 Rae? SOS EEN mm a ae ae Sak eS and mild air will ee I ee . a a . =e head penamael Bailey of Texas (Not the Sena-| They Want City Officials to Sight of Armed and Vengeful tor) Will Be Given a Increase Interest to 4 Matron Terrifies Man’s x Trial. Per Cent. Companion, a

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- } Present Speed Will Bring Her Into New York at 1 A. M. Friday. a_i mature season, if the Weather Man reads its trail aright. The Wednesday: tonight Thursday ; er tonight: south- erly winds. The coo! wave has moved eastward and southward, but west of the Missts- sippi River ,the temperature is rising. The storm central Tuesday over the Ohio Vailey has moved to Ontario, ac- companied by rains. The temperatures in sore other large cities at 7 a. in. Wednesday follow: Cin- cinnati, Kansas City and Louisville, 58; New York and Philadelphia, 74; Boston, 64; Chicago, 56; Pittsburg, 69; San Fran- cisco, 54; New Orleans, 68, and Wash- ington, 74. dinals this trip and both will be run off The river gauge showed 11.8 feet, ajin rapid order this afternoon, unless continued fall of .5. the weather professor cuts in once more. The Cubs have had two days of rest and it has done them good after their recent jumping over the country. Chance says they will buckle down to business now, with but one object in view~—that of winning the championship of “he world. The first game today was started at 2 o'clock, so that there will be plenty of time to hold-both contests before dark. While the Cubs were in St. Louits last week they were rapped a bit by these same tail-end Cardinals, and there were a lot of people in the country who laugned. The West Siders feel sure of laughing last and laughing best by cop- ping both games today. TWO GAMES AND ALOOK AT ANEW: PITCHER HERE TODAY St. Louis fans get their first glimpse of pitcher Bailey, fresh from the Texas League, today. Bailey warmed up before the double header with the White Sox, and Me- Aleer decided that if anything hap- pened to either Howell or Pelts to put the newcomer in today. A great midweek crowd was on hand this afternoon. The opposing pitchers of the opening game were Pelty and White. ALLEGED THIEF HIS OWN LAWYER, GETS SIXTY DAYS Insists There Something Wrong With Evidence, but Judge Can’t See It. James Colie, 25 years old, a negro, de-

forecast ae Fair and A M ER ICA N LEAGUE. warm- VA , 1 “ : , ; . AT ST,

ee Comptroller Player stated to a Post- ispatch reporter Wednesday that he would be in favor of asking the indi- vidual citizens of St. Louis to buy the $3,000,000 of bends issued for public im- provement purposes in the denomination of $100 if he had reasonable grounds to believe that the bonds could be sold that way. Although an issue of $11,000,000 of bonds has been authorized, only bonds to the value of $3,000,000 have as yet been offered for sale by Comptroller Player. This sum was agreed on by the administration officials as the amount that would be necessary to meét probable requirements for one year from April 1, 1907. The bond issue ordinance specifies nine purposes for which bonds may be issued and names the maximum amount that.may be expended for each. . The largest of the amounts is $3,500,- 000 for a municipal bridge. The $3,000,- 000 of bonds offered provide partially for all of the other public work speci- fied in the bond issue except the mu- nicipal bridge. Mr. Player. explains that an additional million of bonds for this purpose will probably be placed on the market the next time the $3,000,000 are publicly offered for sale. again. No Bids for $1000-Bonds, Since March 18, 1907, the $3,000,000 of securities has been offered for sole fr $1000 bonds with no bidders. The bank- ers and brokers of St. Louls have fre- fused, or at least failed, to buy any of them. ‘ ‘ The reason assigned. for their refusal to purchase any of the bonds ig the fact that they. bear only 3.65 per gent inter- est, whereas, the Mayor and Comptrol- ler are authorized to increase the amount of interest to 4 per cent. This they refuse to do. In view of this situation the Post-Dis- patch has suggested that the Comp- troller and Mayor resort to a ‘“nopu- lar sale ofthe bonds, offering to the public the privilege of purchasing one or as many more of the individual bonds as he may desire, in the denomination of $100. Citizens Could Subscribe. In this way tiie intimation that St. Louts {s unabie to sell fits bonds could ve effectively disproved and the argu- ment of certain mer:bers of the Munic- ipal Assembly that public improvemerit legislation may properly be held back because there is no money in the city treasury to execute it, be refuted.

EE [FACTS ABOUT RECORD FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN World's Record. Cherbourg to New York, 3054 miles, in five days, 11 hours and 54 minutes, made by the Deutsch- - Jand of the North German Lloyd in 4 3790. Average speed, 23.15 knots ‘an hour. Voyage wrested the speed supremacy froni Great Brit- ain and transferred it to Germany. Pe Best British Record. 7 Queenstown to New York, 2780 miles, in five days, 7 hours and 23 minutes, made by the Lucania of *the Cunard Co., owners of the Lusitania, now trying to regain the apeed record for Great Britain. = pi The Lusitanin. — 3 Has covered about 1655 of the | § 2780 miles between Queenstown and | § Wew York in approximately 70 ne _ hours, an average speed of a trifle 4° ever 23% knots per hour.: If she : 1 can maintain 25 knots per hour, her eredited speed, during the run _ through the easy waters from Cape Race to Sandy Hook, she will reach the entrance to the port of New York at 1a. m. Friday, beating the ‘Lucania's record by 18 hours and wresting the championship from the Deutschland. re COUPLE LIVED AP

fees | > Rival Caused Separation Aft Six Years of Married ~~ Life. : stat Miss Lucy Logsden, 4 i 2e5

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Me Re BRIDE BLAMES MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR TROUBLES Mrs. Lily Magers Tells Story of Her Unhappy Mar- ried Life. THE WIDOW MCRAY WANTS TO WIN OHNE * yy

yd Fal | a Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-Only two games were scheduled with the St. Louis Car-

ville, Mo., when Mrs. Arch Feaman, re= volver in hand, burst open the door © her husband’s room and found @ young woman in his company. - a As Miss Logsden lay on the a. below, fatally injured, tho wife pocket- — ed her revolver, deciaring to the co ing man beside her: “It wasn't you T was after. She has punished herself now for breaking up my home.’ x, Long distance telephone messages t@ the Post-Dispatch Wednesday fror Caruthersville, which is on the Five 220 miles south of St. Louis, stated that Mrs. Feaman was arrested and leased on bond. Miss Logsden, physicians Bey, cannot recover.. Her left leg was. ol k in two places, several ribs were Sf8¢="— tured, and she suffered severe nternel injuries... . of Sean. Couple Had Se} Feaman, who is one of a ,2% ye 4 op ty * eo > sameeis 4

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Snow Storm in Indiana. ; FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 11.—The first snowstorm of the season occurred here yesterday. The flurries lasted for five or ten minutes. “DIARY OF A LADY” OFFENDS ROYAL FAMILY OF SAXONY Leipsic Police Confiscate Publica- tion Which Exposes Bavarian Court Scandals. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. Copyright, R dg ig Bit by det Co. BERLIN.. Sept. 11.-The...poisce.. of | Leipsic have confiscated the entire edi- tion of a book entitled “Diary of a Eady.’’ The confiscniion iho instance of the. Bavarian Governmen:. The ‘‘diary’’ deals. in a «ery free wan- ner with certain allege] scandais « on- nected with the courts of Bavaria and Sexony and members of the 1val houses of those countries. doth the King of Saxon: and iis di- vorced wife the Countess vf Montig- noso, fill. prominent roves ia tha con- fiscated book. It is reported from Dresden that there is no truth in the London ru- mor that the Countess is contemplating Matrimony with a Florentine pianist. Her allowance from the King of Sax- ony is to be increased from Jan. 1 next to $5000, but this and her entire allowance would be forfeited were she to remarry. The tutor with whom she eloped has since married another.

7 But He Must Be Neat and Reni His House to Get Her as Prize.

DR.THOMAS F. MAGERS LIMBURGEA I ‘ARBITER SCHERINGER

Mrs. Jenny MeCray, 5560 Lee avcnue, & widow who has focused the wiles.oi the world tn an experience of “not fifty years,’ warns Charles Rohne, the 67- year-old seeker of a wife, to beware of females who think so little of their sex modesty as to call upon him witnout waiting for Justice Werremeyer to ar- range a meeting. Mrs. McCray spices her application for consideration as a prospective help- meet with what Mr. Rohne must do to meet with her approval before’ she would consent to share his jife. Her application is directed to Justice of the Peace Werremeyer of Clayton, who is acting as matrimonial agent for Rohne. “I have been reading in the Post-Dis- patch of Mr. Rohne’s wants and hope thant I am not too late to have a chance with the rest who, I think, may not be suitable,”’ writes Mrs. McCrav. She believes that she will be exactly suitable, then goes into a detailed de- scription of herself, mixed with much philosophy. Is Not Fifty Yet. “T am not 50, nor near it, but always have had a preference for older men than myself. I have been a widow eight years, am 5 feet 5 inches tail, have As a warning to other girls and to all mothers-in-law, Mrs. Lily Magers of $423 franklin avenue, wife. of Thomas I’. Magers, a former St. Louis dentist, | related her alleged marital expertences 'to a Post-Dispatch reporter, She has brought sult against. Mrs. Ellen) Magers of New Loudon,:Io., the dentist’s moth- er, for $8000 damages on five cennts, alienation »f her husband's affections, essault, false imprisonment, conspiracy, and slander. “I am willing to tell the humiliating story of my married life,”"’ Mrs. Magers said to a Post-Dispateh: reporter, “‘be- cause I feel that.I may help some other young woman to escape a similar fate. ‘“‘We were married June 15, 196, short- ly after Dr. Magers graduated. On our wedding trip we went to New Lon- A pound of limburger cheese caused don, Io., to visit his mother. She had a fight and has ‘resulted in charges returned to her home after we were being filed against. Policeman Scher- married, but as we went on a boat and zinger and his suspension .from duty | she on the train, she was at home when pending an investigation by the Police| we arrived. This visit was the begin- Board. ning of all our trouble. I was her That pound of limburger, and why the ,son's bride and a*guest In her house, policeman came to notice it in the hands but she was jealous of my love for my of Fred Bauer, anu why Bauer hur’ed husband’ and began to make trouble be- it at the policeman’s head, will all be tween us, even on the first week of our aired before the Police Board Friday } marriage. ie

ss (BY “ASSOCIATED PRESS.) | CAPE RACE, WN. F., Sept. 11.—The Cu- / mard ine stcamer Lusitania, whore | maiden voyage,aunogs_ the Atlantic. Is ) “ekpected to eclipse All ocean records, “eame in touch through the wireless tele- i ie SES Ke Rees graph with the American continent carly - teduy. At 6:20 o’clock this morning 4 eee 3, 9 e was received from the steam- —s @& saying that the vessel was 223 miles "+ goutheast of Cape Race at that hour. ___—«s-Phe indicated position of the Lust- _ ¢ania when the message came was about “= $125 miles from Sandy Hook, so that the Pig steamer, if she can maintain the rate of % knots, her credited speed, she will 0 reach the entrance to the port of New - York about 1 a. m. Friday, which - would make the time of the voyage _ gbout four days and 18 hours, more than ‘38 hours better than the record trip be- bs _ tween Queenstown and New York of five days 7 hours and 23 minutes, held by the Cunarder Lucania. ee Would Beat the Germans. Such time would also wrert the best

thei because of Migs Logsden, who ts @ waitress. They have been married siz years and have no children. ae Early Tuesday morning Mrs. man followed. the waitress to the Wilson Hee tel, where her husband had a The place was silent and deserted, 4 ‘the clerk dozed at his desk. As Logsden went upstairs the wife fol aye her, clutching a revolver. — Be, The young woman entered Feaman’s ra room and locked the door, Mra. Fear — man then climbed on a chair and looked : through the transom, seeing, she ‘Et an’ affectionate greeting between husband and his visitor. A Mrs. Feaman then knoeked loudly the door. There was sudden lenee within. Knocking again, the wife whispers and footsteps. Drawing revolver, she broke down the door confronted the two.

Wise at Fred Bauer Threw Cheese at Policeman and It Crum- bled on His Head. Vie cal : ? ‘ “ M Anti Btitution, ac ° ing se y Ittner, the Particular promin¢cnce is given to St. Loius failure to sell its $3,000,00) issue at 3.65 percent interest up to date by the fact that New York yesterday sold an tesue of $40,000,000 in bonds bearing 4.50 rer cent interest. For this issue bids were received for $150,000,000, the bids coming from all parts of the country-- St. Louis Iincluded—and the bidders of- fering from 100.35 to 102.59. New York was only able to atiract this volume of bids by raising its rate of interest. It was unable to sell the issue at 4 per cent. The banking inter- ests would not buy until they could get what they wanted. Now, it appears the banking interests are treating St. Louis the same way. They do not want 3.66 rer cent securities. That is one reason why the Post-Dis- patch urges @ popular sale of the bonds. It is believed that there’ are enough persons in St. Louls and elsewhere to buy the entire issue if the denomina- tions of the bonds be made = smal! enough, to save the municipality from heing “held up” by the financial inter- ests. Mr. Player Is Doubtful. “rt would have no objection to the ‘popular’ sale of the bonds if I had rea- sonable grounds to believe that the, bonds could be sold that way,” Mr. | Player said. “But my present informa- | tion on the subject is not sufficient to | justify me or to justify the city, in my’ opinion, in going into. bond selling in just that way. This method was tried % years ago in the original issue of the $2,000,000 of bonds which we afe now reissuing. The city’s experience then was that the bonds could not. be disposed of readily and the brokers who bought them lost money trying to find purchasers for them. “It js my own opinion that compara- tively few of them might be bought by individual citizens if placed on the mar-

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ket in $100 denominations. I have had some experience lately in selling bonds at private sale. “T have sold’ $818,000 of the $2,000,000 re. issue that way. Out of the about one undred arid twenty purchasers of these bonds at private. sale, only about ten of them asked for bonds in denomina- tion smaller than $1000." No Need fer Hurry. Mr. Player here stated that there was no absolute necessity for the city to dis- pose of its bond issue at once. ‘ “re there were.” he said, “1 would

Cena taking extreme measures to sell black eyes, brown hair, weigh 150 pounds and flatter myself that I am of nice appearance. “I love home and would know how to make it pleasant for Mr. Rohne, pro- viding he does the right thing by me. But I would want him to do his part."’ She tells the Jugtice that she will not support any man wholly, as so many men expect who get a wife by adver- using. She assumes that some men are not worth their salt. adding, “But I am sure you are, else you had better stay single.’’ He Must Be Cleanly. “Also your houses will have to be rented before I would marry you,”” she writes. “You must be-npeat and clean. I would not have @ man around who was untidy. I hope I have not lessened my chances by being so plain, but truth is the best in all cases, and no after- effects causing trouble by false repre- sentation. “I do hope you will either call or write. I really could not call on you. The ladies who do so are in my opinion ‘awfully hard up.” They are after your property, not after you.’ She concludes with a hope for an early reply. Other letters received by Justice Wer- remeyer, in the interest of Mr. Rohne, are from Mrs. Delia O'Connor, 3938 Lin- boulevard, and from Mrs. Rose Lorentzen, 143 North A street, East St. Louls. The first correspondent says that she can furnish references after an interview with the adveftiser. Mrs. Lorentzen writes that she has raised a family of two boys and one girl, entitling her to experience as a housekeeper. She has been a widow 14 years, is #& years of age. RUNYAN SOES 70 SING SING FOR 7 YEARS; STOLE $100,000 Court Passes Sentence on Bank Teller Who Confessed His Crime. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Chester B. Runyan, paying teller of the Windsor Trust Co., Who confessed to stealing $100,000 of the company’s funds, was sentenced today by Judge Whitman itn the Court of General Sessions to serve seven years in Sing Sing Prison. In his confession Runyan said he was influenced to commit the thefts by Mrs. Laura Carter, who was responsi- bie for his arrest. :

| tomobile Peetteen ‘wing morning. Capt. Hanna of the Wyoming Streer District facetiously remarked Wednes- day: “That limburger cheese will be strong evidence before the Board.’ Was Taking Cheese Home. The cheese, neatly wrapped in brown paper, was being carried home by Fred, Bauer, who lives at 385 South Broad- |, way. Edward Scherzinger, the police- man, was sitting with William Hick- man and Henry Ost in front of a butch- er shop at 3859 South Broadway asj| Bauer and the cheese passed by. Just what Scherzinger said about the cheese is one of the matters of dispute which the Police Board will be called upon to settle. But at any rate, Bauer felt that both he and the cheese had been in- sulted and he hurled the limburger at the policeman’s head. It struck fair in the center of his helmet and crumbled. Friends Run Away. The two butchers fied. The. po- liceman made a motion as if to draw his revolver. Bauer rushed into his | house ard came out with a hatchet. When the policeman saw that he ran into the butcher shop, closed the door and escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer both made af- fidavit to the charges filed against the policeman of unbecoming conduct. In! suspending him Capt. Hanna said that | he should not have quarreled. with | Bauer, but should have arrested him if he had been insulted without} cause. FIRE DESTROYS CUDAHY CO.’S PLANT IN PHILADELPHIA Cause Attributed to Spark From Locomotive; Loss Is About $200,000. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. .—The large plant of the Cudahy Packing.Co., Ninth street and Girard avenuc, was destroyed py fire today. The loss is about $200,- 000. Tweety Ave Saquayne pounds of

| caused by a spark from a passing loco- motive. * Pays $10 for Speeding. John H. Fawbush, 3812 #£=Detmar boulevard, was fined 310 by Justice

ee eS Se ' x ‘ " r v S a ¥ f ‘We returned to St. Louis and took a flat, but the mother-in-law would not leave us in’ peace. Later Dr. Magers opened his office over a drug store at Belt avenue and the Suburban tracks. We went to board with Mrs. Taylor, at 5423 Vernon avenue. His mother came back to St. Louis and took a room there,. too. She would not }.t me visit my husband's office. Boarded With Her Mother. ‘‘Last March Dr. Magers decided to go to Texas and gave up his office and we moved our household goods to my mother’s home at 34273 Franklin ave- nue, and my husband arranged with my mother for our room and board. I stayed at home while he went to Texas and stayed two weeks. He spent all of the money we had. He came back ana we lived with my mother without paying her a cent and ‘we were deeply in debt to her for cash leans beside. She loaned me as much as 9100 at a time at my husband's request. “In the first part of July Mrs. Ma- gers sent money for my husband to go to New London to ‘talk over busines with her. He went, and because loved my husband and wanted to with him, I went there, too.” Mrs. Magers sald that on Sunday, Aug. 4, she was choked by ler husband and that she was held prisoner in the i house for three days while she was sub- t jected to the influence of a man called Capt. Taft, who tried to hypnotize her. On the following Wednesday Mrs. Magers said, she returned to her moth- er’s home in St. Louls.{n an extremely nervous state. Harold Johnson is at- torney for Mrs. Ma«ers. Dr. Magers brought a replevin suit last Monday afternoon to get posses- sion of an itemized list of household ef- fects stored at Mre. Mager’s mother’s home. The list mentioned wedding pres- ents, furniture, bedding, dental instru- ments and clothing. The officers satis- fied. the attachment with the doctor's clothes and instruments. .

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With a scream, Miss Logsden to the open window and leaped The wife, not looking out to see her jured rival, sat down and talked to he husband until 1, aroused by the falling woman’s sur ek, rushed excitedly to the room. ee inmates of the

PARK FROM LEY Commissioner Scanlan Says Space Should Be Cleared and = 2 Graded. St. Louis will need four more rt of Park Commissioner "de public Wednesday. “Sa One of these should ts made by com- structing a plaza urth street to the river front, between Ci at nut and Market streets, Mr. level with thinks. He says the river as a town hotels. He gives no estimate o

satan $e eit, oh < , &. i even after the five now In prospect iP = oe completed, according to the annual fe . «Pee ¥ oh Sag