St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 1, 1907

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® street, bast ts the entrance to the WHERE YOU MAY SEE THE VEILED PROPHET HE procession will start from . 1 the den at 2120 Walnut street at 7:15 p. m. It will move east.on Walnut to Twenty- first sttreet, north on Twenty- first to Market, west on Laclede avenue to Grand avenne, north to Lucas ayenue, east to Compton avenue, south to Washington. ave- nue, east to Fourth street, south to Elm street, west to Broadway, north to Leeust street, east to Fourth street, south to Chestnut Merchants’ Exchange. ' If rain or threatening weath- er should cause postponement of the parade, a wagon with a pla- card armouncing the postpone- ment will be driven over the line of march. ~ FEDERAL JURY

dence involving the railroad criminally

Manhattan, Martfui, old fashioned,

Plain gin, Angustura; Pechaud, cham kre _the | governors of Kentucky and m, {> say nothing of the rulers of oe es South Carolina, say oe jortk 4 Me ay Substitute Ts Found, ht as he lay on his heated pil- " the matter over in his ry great light broke upon M. Bole. as if the room had been suddenly ih i by a great white light. et Pigret M. Bole was startled, but he ‘ ized that his brain had only a ‘ c oe * Ft ps ¢ a ie ts the way inspirations strike all ra fiises. r olla! , I have it! : ‘Ze grand concep- on! | Ze stroke of genius!” *To tittilate the jaded appetites of their hs liencies there will be a small glass, very small glass, kn a to the wise: ~ of Spain, a sum- an aft- , “blossom, | orn, Nght in. alcohol, th of a oe ear wit as sweet as the first ‘ ® Sherry is s thus, by ; e@ dip . circumvented ‘a situ might have become ex-. “ereding!y distressing, and has prevented Sus jssuance of a national demand, “Who piered those cocktails?” from being | nl sted upon St, Louis, and, indeed, pn the whole West. . j ii, honor to M. Bole; likewise viva! Three wines only ‘will be served at the ncheon, to-wit: the delicate sherry, | | ne wine, and the bub- . fluid pnts to the vulgar as oes the clubs and low. Mexico, stopping goes asked what he of the ‘substitution of a for cocktail. i “Well, Md wiaiv! gy 1 gen the President ou mean ti iden drink cock- a aie:

death of H. Douglass Fowl freshman from Galveston,’ mystified. the community. ganized rush r Wednesday night; but was. Pparently uninjured. His roommate boy was not mauled or s TRAP CATCHES | BIRD OF JAPANESE SULKS AT PAYING LAWYER’S FEE WHEN FINED

Insists Counsel Did Not Earn His. Fee When He Was Not Set Free. Not satisfied with getting the mini-.« mum fine, $10, Tuesday morning, Tom Mokgl, anese restaurant keeper, in Judge Tracy's court a Jap- arrested for ON EBATIN President of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Must Explain Statement. HOLLANDS SUBPENAED Chicago Jury Wants to Ques- tion Chiet Rate Clerk of the Alton. ee

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) CHICAGO, Oct.-1.—James A. Moffett, president of the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana, Went before the Federal grand jury today to his statement that. other firms: besides: the Standard Oil Co, had been guilty of rebating with the railroads at Whiting, Ind. Mr. Mof- fett was ordered summoned before the explain grand jury by Judge Landis, who re- cently fined Mr. Moffett's concern $29,- 204,000. : When the grand jury took luncheon recess Mr. Moffett was still being wage tioned. A subpena was issued for F. Hollands, chief rate clerk for the nie Railroad. It is declared that if Hollands, as agent for the Alton Railroad, gives evi- in other cases than the Standard Oil case he would obtain immunity for him- self, but not for the railroad, the Alton having been granted immunity only in the case of the Standard Oil Co. It was rumored that the summoning of Hollands followed a statement by Moffett that agents and officials of the Aiton were responsible for the rates granted.

~ HOODOO MANS: | | NOT HELO FOR YOUTHS DEATH Coroner’s Jury Finds Andrew Pflumm: Died of Con- - sumption. |

HONEY: WORDS REMEDY

Sentence Written in Saucer and Peddlers’ Medicine the Treatment.

At an inquest held Tuesday it was de- terfined that Andrew Pflumm of 1520 Mallinckrodt street, died Sunday of con- sumption. He was 19 years old. J. Rossman, who treated Pflumm with prayers and medicines which he bought from a street peddier, will not be ee cuted. At the inquest Tuesday aan ad- mitted that he had nevi> studied medi- cine and had no diploma to practice it. “I do not practice medicine,”’ he said. “I learned from a book in Austria and from a man there how to heal the sick by prayer and the laying on of hands.” Agatha Pflumm, sister of the young man who died, testified that she paid Rossman $3 a bottle for medicine for her brother, and that he guaranteed to cure him in 10 weeks. The ‘bottle of medi- cine, half emptied, was introduced In evi- dence. ‘“Rossman’s Sacred Writing.’’ The “sacred writing,’”’ which Rossman gave also, was introduced. It read: “Write with honey in a dish or saucer, pour over it of the drink which the pa- tient is used to drink: ‘‘Heal thou me Almighty. “Brus I will be healed. Help. me, thu 2 shall be helped, for Tohu @rt mine. Rest.” Miss Pflumm explained that she dipped a toothpick in honey and wrote these magic words upen the inside of a glass saucer and then potred hot ceffee into , de dish and that her brother drank it.

ae i : Senge Pee ie For an hour uset walked’ in 5 wa. Police Court cells, declaring he would not pay his fine, although he had nearly $60 in his pocket. backed up to return him to the hold- over that he consented to. pay. It was only. when the wagon: Mogi. was arrested Moyday morning in Manchester avenue, and Kel- ak wwe

MYSTERY IN THE DEAT OF A CORNELL STUDENT

Texas Boy Was in Glas#Rush Last| Week and Died fee Special to the Post-Dispatch. 13 ‘i ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. 1. Fowler was a participant ih t near the last Saturday Fowler becathe f ~ Ee was} rushed to the Infirmary. Dr. man was called, but convulsi and: the boy died Sunday. : mortem examination showed ‘that the cause of death was paralysis, dué either to meningitis or: cerebral hemdbhawe. No contusions were found on reer 5 body, # te or ine | FIREMEN “LET nUsEvEL L Chief Swingley’s Picture. Saved § set in post-

Engine House Fire. |. When fire burst out ‘Tuesday amdng the decotfations on Engine House No ' on Fourth streét, near’ Eads B the firemen were confronted with # ithe . tressing dilemma. : iL The pictures of Chief Swingley and President Roosevelt hung side by |-side, threatened by the blaze. Then wasn’t time to save both. ria ihe chief, and the President perishe n ‘Pflames. 4 The firemen

There are some electric incandes . rung among the bunting and Hhes at at sed. a “short -'reuit” cause the’ are, : age; tothe building, _ bh was extinguished without A A GOED ee ene. ~“

Hoot, mon! “ : What show it. to ; tinar citizen mate fc noise" we sae | * > oI tt * a: am for directors. e sudden | Cornell | ee her says an owl sag

| “He destin the § Beat to. Rossman’s 0 ri oJ vevinane She said her brother ae wery sick i aire said. na I went > him my “Drother wae in Br ‘They Are Retired From -Direc-| torate at Meeting in Chicago.

Special to.the Post-Dispatch. ' CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—The annual meet- ‘ing of the Chicago & Alfen Railroad Co. was held at its general 6ffices in ‘this city today. Presidént 8. M. Felton presided and 340,316 shares were voted Robert Mather was elect- ed to succeed himself and B. A. Jack- son and Edwin Hawley were chosen to succeed E. H. Harriman and James Stillman of New York. Year's Receipts $12,809,426. The financial statement of the Chicago 1& Alton for the year ended June shows the gross receipts were $12,809, | 426, an increase of $1,223,332 as compared | with the previous year. and géneral @xpenses were $8,024,452, an Increase of $206,648, leaving net earnings of $4,784,974, an increase of $1,017,784. ‘ The surplus for the year, after pay- ment of preferred stock dividend and all other charges, was $1,010,229, an in+ crease of $815,256. Harriman Was Caught Nappin. Edwin Hawley was formerly with the’ ) Harriman roads, but is now one. of Harriman’s most bitter enemies. He is the first man in the railroad game toe catch Harriman napping. As stated in the Post-Dispatch Sept. 5. the granting of immunity to tHe Alton by Judge Landis of Chicago in the Standard Oil rebate cases mage certain a merger of four lines—the Al, ton, Minneapolis & St. Louis, Leaf, and Iowa Central. The Alton ahd M. & St. L. will first consolidate, #c- cording to‘the plan of agreement, and the others will come in aerate KANSAS CITY JUDGE TO PUT LID ON SUNDAY res Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CIry, Mo.,

Oct. - | Wallace of the Crimmal ‘Court, | ae PRLS lecharge to the gtyend jury, be Notch that the lid be puf on Sunday 2" F}ances at the theaters. ‘| gests that the man playhouses first ' giver Y er tice and that #@'they fle with the law indictin” : }and told myee | Friday, he ve Pijbim-to ¢ome. | ‘| “He refused @ a; ime io: go " the sau- S were mes- | too mu¢ch* bus : fon giving him) the, cer. He said © Sages direct surely heal ! oy Warned me not to call in af | I ¢ame home iL mother, can’t crying out: fe Ao stop this Pe he you do something’ | pain? Go after t . avn that She for Prof. Bim to come and | | Wenld not come. He a’he would come | Saturday. ER ELI / ; eat he at fre C38

> The operating | ‘er Clover} Siow and told me eine at a drug | Rossman said he did not fmm any thing for * m - this. medicine. you i tron & peddler, one of > walk arcand selling it.” —. i for?” po led to cure = TREY al, gor of diseases.” for Bi Cents Sold for $3. wo she had paid him *betties of this medi- ereran had bought for Dg frou & street vender. bu tell Miss Phumm not to H ‘fyenteda her brother, but . wieght the medicine of a drug- me eS.ed. 5 My tela Ber that,” he answered.

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fectares If Business Can’t Survi 4 ; His Policies, Former Must. Go to the Wall.

WILL CONTINUE FIGHT $0 | LONG AS HE’S PRESIDENT

proved---Starts for ¢ Has Been Interested in Waterways T09, 1 Says; and Thinks They Should Be Ir St. Louis Escorted “ by 20 Stepeners.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. KEOKUK, Io., as he is President.’’ He declared interésts could not survive his must go to the wall. ~ President Roosevelt said: “During the last few years we of the United States have been forced to

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Harm and Do Not: Mind Ground Hogs. a Farmers near‘ Alton are planning | to enlist the aid of the Dlinois islatul in their war on fats. They complair that the rodents do. more -damagt their farms than. crows and ¢roui together, end will ask thet ‘4 bounty be provided for Pat Rats have become ‘so: “numerous and voracious about ‘Alton, the fatmers de- clare, thet their — bins abd barns suffer hundreds . dollars’ pr every year.

olf At promeet WA Sk prOliting 'for a bounty on crows ahd groundtidgs, but the farmers say the harm the crows

eco hard luck related to him Sal * introducing himself as Abe wine Say: Crows Do More hoe. 5 Good: ‘Than Fred Campbell's Machine, Which 1 do is offset by the good they do, and}. me oe os THIS AUTO CANT BE RUN aT LESS THAN 20-MILE SPEED

Will Not Obey Law, Causes - Fine of °$25.° Fred Campbell, a dealer in rubber, tires at 712 Morgan street, told Judge ‘Tracy in the City Hall, Police Court Tuesday that he just couldn't make his luutomobdiie run less than ‘twenty miles Campbell was arrested on between Channing aventie | ~~ hour. 'Pine street, Tunning at a speed of 28 miles an: hour. Campbell professed ignorance as to the speed laws of the city, and seemed the fof” ‘the. ‘tw ler the poor, who wished to plu and Beaumont street, Monday night, for} attempt to deal with the relations national Govérnment—that. 1s, with the relations of the péoplée of the country—to’ the huge and wealthy cor- porations, controlied for the most part by a few very rich men, which are en- gaged in interstate business pecially the great railway corporations. You know my views on this matter. You know that I believe that the nationa)

ple, should assume much the same, su- pervision and control over the manage- ment of the interstate common carriers that it now exercises over the national banks. You know, furthermonre,: that I believe that this supervision oe ak should be exercised in a spirit. fairness toward the eee re ing justice from them on behal people, but gtving then. oF tial in re-. turn. No Warrant for ‘Pensinsiom. “Recently I have beri reading the work. of the eminent Italian scholar, Ferrero; on. the history of the Roman Republic, when the life of the Aoman state had become that ofa complete and luxuri- ous industrial civilization. I am happy. to say that: the differences between that civilization and our own are more strik- ing than the resemblances; and there in no warrant for our being drawn into any pessimistic comparison between the civilizations. But there is every reason why we should study carefully the past in order to draw from it les- sons for use in the present. One of the most striking features of the years which saw the downfall of the Roman Republic’ was the fact that the political life of Rome became split between two camps, one containing the rich, who wished to exploit the poor, and the oth- the rich. 3 ‘Naturally, under such circumstances, the. _ public man who was for the mo- Lment successful tended to be either a Violent reactionary or a violent dema. gogue. Any such condition of political. it was then. IE belleve so implicitly in! will po more tolerate government by 4 mob than ‘he wiltoelerate government righ man and poor man alike. We are nét trying to faver gf man at the

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with him to modify his methods because they were injt the country’s business interests, but he said he believed hey : right, and he made the direct statersent that if the — * consider very aes in certain me mating Government, in the interests of the pcd-| —or's — : Oct. 1—Twenty thousand persons massed i= Rand Park today heard President Roosevelt deliver as strong a des fense of his policies as President as he has ever attempted in r Paying but seant attention to the condition of the, land waterways which, ostensibly, he is out this way to’ sti« . gate, Mr. Roosevelt dived from his brief peroration into a 4 = sion of his executive policies, promising to continue them ** ti that prominent men had p yee 9S a ; a tt a. * then istered. We can get such taws L administration only if the go sik pare ee tie'ty ace Bie! Nee Ske Sete ee ‘else will be. This is just | as true o lie Hfe as of private life. If we < master ourselves, control fet rooner er later we shall have to subs to ontside control; for there ibe : control somnewhere, “One way of cxercising | through the laws of the governittign* of liberty, but | ah Ah

by a plutocragg} that he desires to sea/ justice Gone to and justice exacted ftom. life is as hopelessly unhealthy now as: tho future of our people, because I be- | lieve that the average Americar cttizes |