St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 28, 1907

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} VOL. 60. NO. 38.

ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. __ ST, LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1907 | ‘PRICE ONECENT |

FOUND A BABY ~—ANDGNE IT T0 ~ Police and Others Refused to | Help A. G. Stapp Dispose of Infant.

| ®RESTED IN THE BUSHES % Every Authority, Even Asy- tum, Declined Little One; _ . Lack of Jurisdiction. og ae EStaN + ee + .¥ MGAVE IT AWAY THEN a3 Bes fat > gg +. 4 Wet Kindly Couple in a Drug == , Store Who Took Little -, One Off His Hands. _. @aken from the stork’s nest, where it | jpras nice and warm, placed in a gunny | pack, plied with whisky and left in a ‘pelump of weeds in the chill night air, a \@iny 2days-old baby, rescued by A. G. Wtapp ef 12991 Delaware avenue, could ‘fond no home because of official red . pti take it because it was found wputside the city limits,” said the police “Can’t take it because the County : Mourt isn’t in session,” said officials of jt. Leuis County. % For four hours Friday night the tiny ignite cf lmanity was bandied about from one place to another and in all the great city and the county adjoining Mt no guardian for the babe could be found. Finds New Parents. Stapp after trying in vain to induce city and county authorities to take the ‘baby, gave it to a young married couple whom he met in a drug store. He says he does not know their name or their address, except that they live some- e Py Pa Va, Hostetter Slid for Second.

TODAY’S BASEBALL REPORTS

AMERICAN LEAGUE. 1 2 8 4 5 6 AT NEW YORK. St. Louis. FIRST GAME. OOOOODOO New York DQQHOOOHOOO) Batteries—St: Louis, Dineen and Spencer; New York, Castleton and Thomas. Umpire— 7

AT BOSTON MODDOOOOO Boston. QOOQ@OOOOOO Batteries—For Chicago, Altrock and Sulli- yan; for Boston, Winter and Shaw. Umpire — Sheridan.

T WASHINGTON, Cleveland. P@OOOQOO Washington. OC@OOOCOO Batteries—Cleveland, Leibhardt and Bemis; Washington. Oberlin and Warner. Umpires— Hurst and Brown. Philedelphia-Detroit game postponed on 4c- count of rain.

ee ee — a - NATIONAL\ LEAGUE. i 3 4 5 6 7

PITTSBURG. ittsburg Batteries—Boston, Flaherty Pittsburg, Leifield and Gibson. Johnstone and Ruddeshill. and Umpires— eS

count o Chicago-Brooklyn game postponed on ac- f rain.

BROWNS LEAD IN

“O,SEE THE BLAZE SAD THE (DLE RE FIGHTERS os Belleville Department Could Not Work Outside the Limits.

WENT BACK HOME Order Suspended by Mayor, but It Was Too Late When They Returned. When the top works of the Muren Coal Mine caught fire the Belleville firemen went out, but it turned right around and came right back again, because the fire was two blocks be- yond the city limits and therefore be- yond the pale of the firemen’s inter- ference, under a general order of the administration, enforced for the pur- pose of encouraging annexation. “O, see the fire,’’ was all they said. When Mayor Kern heard about it he suspended the general order and issued a special one directing the firemen to proceed to the fire, But by the time the firemen arrived the sec- ond time the fire had consumed every- thing about the place, to the extent of $10,000. Charles Emery, superin- tendent of the Southern Coal and Mining Co., owners, says that the buildings could have been saved if the firemen had gone to work the first time they came. As a result of the delay and the consequent destruction of the build- ings, 175 miners who ‘would have gone to work Monday after being idle the greater part of the summer will be kept out of work for an additional indefinite period. The mine is nearly two miles from the center of town, but when the alarm sounded at 8 o’clock Friday evening the firemen made a good run and when they arrived the flames were confined for the most part to the blacksmith shop, in which it or- iginated. The fire was so near the dead/line that the firemen were torn by doubts. They took their bearings and decided that it was beyond the SAW FRIEND SLAIN, HE DIE WA DELIRIUN rr

John Hartwig Passes Away Soon After the First Tragedy. MOMBU ELECTROCUTED Hartwig Had Forgotten to Turn Off Electric Switch at Ice Box.

Believing that his carelessness caused the electrocution of a man, John Hart- wig of 3221 Barrett avenue died in de- lirlum at the Lutheran Hospital. Hartwig was employed in a butcher's shop at 1432 Salisbury street. As a pre- caution against robbers the icebox had an attachmént by which anyone who touched it at night would receive a severe shock. It was a part of Hartwig’s duty to turn off the switch each morning, so that the current would not pass through the metal work of the box in the day- time. Three weeks ago, one morning, he forgot to do this. Harry Homan, de- livery wagon driver for a packing com- pany, caught hold of the handle of the box. The floor was wet and Homan received the full force of the current. It grounded through him and he fell to the floor unconscious. Hartwig ran to pull Homan away from the box. but he slipped and fell, the back of his head striking an ice pick and he too lay unconscious on the floor. Homan was dead when picked up. Hartwig continued at work a week, but he was greatly worried because of Homan’s death. A week ago he became ill and it was thought that he had typhoid fe- ver. Four days ago he became de- lirious and constantly cried: “Turn off the switch. turn off the switch.” Physicians at the hospital say that though Hartwig had a mild attack of typhoid fever that in itself was not sufficient to have caused his delirium. YOU WILL NEED A TOP

- Indiana Prohibitionists KeeD Vice-President From Going to Methodist Episcopal Con- ference as Lay Delegate.

SHOWED WEAKNESS ON FIRST BALLOT

His Strength Waned as Votinz They Withdrew His Name.

Forty cocktails on the cover, Seen a moment, gone forever; Fairbanks didn't have ‘em bought, Loeb was guiltiess of the thought— But what's the difference what they did, The Methodists have clamped the lid! —Manhattan (Cocktail) Baliads. Special to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 23—A Man- hattan cocktail with a chery in it was the cause of the downfall of Vice- President Fairbanks before the Meth- odist Episcopal lay electoral confer- ence held in this city. The Vice-Presi- dent was a candidate for delegate to the general conference in Baltimore next May and he was snowed under by Prohibition delegates to the meet- ing here. One reason for his defeat was the story that he served cocktails at a luncheon given in honor of Presi- dent Roosevelt at the Vice-President’s home in Indianapolis on Memorial day. The Vice-Presidenc’s campaign- mana- ‘ger in this race was the Rev. Joshua ‘Stansfield, pastor of the Meridian Street Episcopal Church of Indianapo- lis, of which the Vice-President is one of the trustees. Some time ago the Northeast Methodist Episcopal confer- ence in this State selected Gev. Han- ley to head the list of lay delegates to the Bultimore conierence, and the Methodists of this conference thought it would be a great hit to have their delegation of lay» delegates headed by the Vice-President. He Feared Defeat. When first approached about the mat- ter the Vice-President was somewhat chary. The cocktail story already had gained currency and it had~ been «re ported that the temperance members of the conference would knife even the

Proceeded and When His Friends Saw Defeat Ahead | ae FAIRBANKS BEATEN BY THAT COCKTAIL

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IMMERSION

DRIVER KI IN AUTO RACE Car Ledves Track in New York

a. —_ PLAN OF ROBBERY DRAWN ON WALL — ‘ * weed” he te eng EE er t nt ET Michael Schwartz, in Breaking Into.

oat Rin ak A Sy, Oe a AR ae a 2 ‘ ‘(ae ee y ! sp Se SS j s Y 4 a ae ae me 4 Dr. > a F + he ome é i 2 4 4 y bat | A we ae a ©. F i ye : t é PA 4 * * pee ie sf eS Moe a a . . 3 a 4 Ry a 2 : 7 , ake i te en % TRAITOR; MUST. ELIMINAT —N. Y. World. Newspaper Publishes Open Letter to Union Pacific = Railway Directors. = “a ——— Valentine. The World begins by ealling atten- tion to the fact that at a time of re- markable industrial prosperity the public confidence suddenly has been destroyed and business credit impaired by the exposure of the methods of men in control of great transporté- tion, financial and fiduciary concerns. The World holds responsible for these conditions the men who have committed grave wrongs, not the men who have exposed them. Unless there had been wrongdoing to expose, The World points out, President Roosevelt could have had no foundation for his denunciations; and unless the public had heard the story from the lips of the wrongdoers themselves, they would not have believed Mr. Roose- velt. sa Taking up the record of Mr. Har- riman, The World recites the history of the looting of the Equitable Life. It recalls how Mr: Harriman—as he himself confessed before the New York legislative investigating com- mittee—got control of the Equitabies assets by playing upon the vanity of James Hazen Hyde, whose inherited stock ownership placed the $413,693,-+ 021 policy holders’ assets at his mercy. It recalls how Harriman ex- ercised this power to his personal profit and to the policy holders’ loss— — a story that is familiar to all who followed the sworn statements of the witnesses who appeared before the bee a investigating committee. Hyde's Awakening. The World continues: man, which led te Mr. Harriman's res ‘ a gt Society if i GPEGES fe i : :