St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 3, 1907

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st-Dispaich Today—66 Pages. \ SECTION, 10 PAGES. Ws SECTION, 10 PAGES. | fHIRD NEWS NEWS SECTION, 16 PAGES. {I DIRECTORY, 16 PAGES, JNDAY, MAGAZINE, 10 PAGES. ‘ything ” THREE. COMIC SECTION: 4 PAGES. S MAYOR FGHBOR'S ARRESTED —_,. — aa jlows Them Here juQuoin, Ill.,— ad in Hotel. —~ BREAKS: DOWN annion Hides Face ind Confronts Police Station. IS A MERCHANT Is Her Attorney ‘ce Suit; Both ocked Up. ", Pope, Mayor of Du- Mrs. Ida Mannion, wife t implement dealer of » found to gether in a ck this morning at the l, Sixtennth and Market police. ested at the instance of iband, who with a friend i them from Du Quoin 1 traced them to the ‘ergeant Walsh and a i the door to the room n and woman to head- Manion confronted Oo make any statement s. in charge of the sta- 1.communicated with ‘man, President of the roke down and hid her husband's gaze ag he railing in the station Hess questeloned fier. it would say nothing 1@ sergeant's qi atinos, 24 years old and a very m. She was elegant! sented a bedraggled ap- tgeant Hesss that Pope ‘and had filed divorce: et Oe oe a ee ae ae ee ee eee ae BANDIT DALTON PARDONED |W.CT.U, WOMAN AFTER 15 YEARS IN PRISON eae y=. ™ re Gov. Hoch Yields to Entreaties of Prisoner’s | Mother; Sentenced to Hang for Murder After Cofieyville, Kan., Bank Raid. a —" Special to the Post-Dispatch. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 2.—Emmet Dal- ‘ton, last of the Dalton gang of train rob bers and bank robbers, is free aft- er having spent 15 years in Lansing pris- on. Gov. Hoch-issued a pardon to him tonight. His release is due largely to the. un- remitting efforts of his aged mother. who lives in Oklahoma. She has spen his pardon. a prisoner also counted in his favor. For ‘yvears he has been a “‘trusty.’’ He was under sentence of death, but, accord. ing to custom jn Kansas, the death sen- tence is never inflicted. Emmet Dalton was captured in the Dalton gangs raid on the banks of Cof- feyville, Kan., In October, 1882. In the same raid two of his brothers and tw» other members of the gang were slain. Several citizens also fell. Dalton was recently paroled for three months to undergo an operation. When the parole expired a few days ago he returned voluntarily alone to the prison. He had promised the Governor he would do so. He received the pardon at the Executive Mansion. He came to Tope- ka on the Governor's summons. Hoch Has Faith in Him, Gov. Hoch, after granting the pardon, fave out a statement which foliows in part: “I have given a great aeal of thought and much patient study to the case ot Emmet Dalton, and I do not believe any unprejudiced person can study the case as I have studied it without reaching the conclusion that this young man has in him the elements of good citizenship. kivery otficer of the institution in which he has been confined for the past 15 years with whom I have conversed shares this opinion and expressed it in the strongest. possible language. “He has made a model prisoner and has given every evidence that he has done to from considerations of character anu manhood, and not for policy’s sake. Hie has been a ‘trusty’ and has never betrayed the ‘trust. “The unfortunate affair in‘ which he ‘was invcived 15. years ago can be held in no greater shorror by anyone than by me, but his elder brothers who led in this affair pala the penalty on the spot ‘his wife against him. ne Cause of the trouble with his wife’s visits iing on his person at arrest but $44. He car- brought to the station. statement to Sergeant mded to apply for war- from the Prosecuting was locked up in the irs. Mannion wa ssent : Room, ’ the - Police Headquar- He refused to give the ad whom he said had id Mrs. Mannion to the his reason the fact that ‘imply acted in his be- s ? UT | 10 CALL i SESSION eaters Think Con- 5 Could Restore “Confidence ¥ ASSOCIATED PRESS.) HI 'GTON, Nov. 2-—It “today from undoubted - President Roosevelt ig DOW 1 to call an extra session of © deal with the financial situ- Edcaeangl comes and repre-. t of the leaders in the. “who: have represented tion as one compelling “aracter which will at. ' cate all ground for sus- cican industrial metn- has been assured from. irces that there will oe: whe part of the great in-. duntry to the enactment laws to carry out his : Control to the extent ‘expounded them in his erances. ‘are made at this time as been represented as yas situdtion which bas country during an ex- on sees 18, the seem. | of confidence based ea in business Connecticut—Town 1 , are ie ten tere ocal option, % no ne of separating the! found. {will have been His: own model conduct 88) the last years of her life working for | with their he es, one this young mE, | —-_ mee parla natt na Se aw ___~... BMMETT DALTON, : still in his teens at the time, has without. complaint pa he penalty. of a prison | life of more th 16 years.”’ In presenting the pardon, the Governor | said: "IT belleve, Emmet, that you will make : a good citizen, and With this belief’’—— the Governor took from his secretary | the parchment bearing the State’s seal, ' which means freedom for Dalton and started to hand it to him. At that moment the lights went out ahd left the room in darkness, but without hesita- tion the Governor continued: “with this belief, I extend you this pardon.”’ Dalton said: “Governor, the trouble is that there is no way for me to oxpress my grati- tude. But I certainly thank you with all my heart and soul. I wish to say this, however, tha’ you nor anyyne else will ever have reason to regret what you have done todzy. I shall do every- thing in my power to live a useful life and bo a good citizen.” In the Coffeyville raid the gang, under the command of Bob Dalton, rode. into the town in the daytime and some of the members entered each of the banks. The plan was to seize all the ‘money they could and ride away before there could be any resistance. But the alarm was given and the men of Coffeyville rushed™to th defense of the banks. There was itched battle in the streets, Then the battle was over eight nen were dead and many moré wére { —— % ANTL-WHISKY WAVE SWEEPIN WHOLE NATION A More Than 33,000,000 Ameri- cans Now Live in “Dry” Territory. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 2.—Predictions are freely made that if the prohibition of the liquor traffic doés not become a na- tional political issue within a few short years it will be because the issue itself eliminated, legsilation rendering the manufacture and sale of liquor impossible. the country in an irresistibie wave and goon, it is asserted, no whisky will be The temperance movement is sweeping sold in the United States, except in the larger cities. The trend is toward en- forced abstinence and the makers of; liquor are plainly alarmed. The Pro- hibition party does not poll a large vote but 33,600,000 Americans live in prohibi- tion territory. Every little while a preacher from | i dred ‘and nineteen counties dry. t ay owa—Sixty-five out of ninety-nine counties dry. fansas—Prohibition since 1880. 7 Kehtucky—Ninety-one out of one pun- Louisiana—Seven-eighths of the coun- ty districts dry. Maihe—Prohibition law enforced in nine-tenths of.the State. Maine was in 1855, the year it went dry, one of the most drunken and poorest of states, In 1900 it had.more banks and _ $22,000,000 moré money deposited in them than the wide open State of Ohio with its six times as many people. ‘Maine Has No Whisky Revenue. Maine, without $1 of revenue from the saloon, has: more schools to every 1000 of her people and more teachers in pro- portion to her school. population than . St. Louis W. C. any other of the 4 states. Massachusetts—Local option by cities and towns, 250 being dry and 10 wet. Michigan—County option with a few dry counties. Minnesota—License with village lo- cal option, 122 dry municipalities. Mississippi—Seventy out of 75 coun- ties dry. Missouri—Forty-seven out of 115 counties dry, as against three dry counties in 19065. Montana—License, Nebraska—Village and city option. Nevada—License with little restric- tion. New Hampshire—Sixty per cent of population in dry territory. New Jersey—Local option law. New York—Town and township op- tion, 300 dry towns. England or Atlanta or New York comes: and an.-'| 'nounces in an interview or a sermos | that Chicago is synonimous with Hades | Yet, even tn Chicago 300,000 out of 2,000, | 000 people live in prohibition territory. | ‘Kentucky is famoug all over the work , as the State of beautiful women, fast ‘horses and fine whirkv, According to the chronic joke of the | comic papers the entire adult white. male population of “Old Kaintuck” coo-. _Sists of whisky-loving, water-fearirg : “Kunels."" But 1,500,000 out of the 2,22- | 000 people of Kentucky have chosén :o | live in dry territory, 97 out of 119 coun. | ties are prohibition. Condition by States. The conditions of the prohibitbn ‘movement in the various states is as ‘ follows: Alabama—Majority of ewtaities on Arkansas—Two-thirds of populatbn live in dry territory. License majorty of 62,000 in 18% has changed to an eg- gregate majority of 16,000 for prohbi- tion in 1906. California—Four dry counties md ‘ much dry territory in other counties. Colorado—Precinct and township -p- tion law secured this year. license to 72. oense wns. : Delaware—Half a « 1 dry towns Fiorida—Thirty-sev adty co out of 4 Gov. Bro. 4d out for prohibition. «go aden ate Idaho—License. to Chicago, walks down South State 1899. was street on a Saturday night i and forty out of 1376 townships dry. | nicipalities out of 38. North Carolina—Few saloons. North. Dakota—Prohibition since j treat me right.’”’ Ohio—-One thousand one hundred ‘Seventy: per cent of municipalities dry and 360,000 people living im dry res- idence districts in wet. cities. Oregon—Twelve dry counties and 170 dry municipalities in other coun- ties. Peniieviveania-—Licenes Rhode Island—Sixteen dry mu- South Carolina—County local tion. South Dakota—Large op- section of ‘never led her to believe that I intended ‘to marry her. regularly. The less said about it the . better. State dry. Tennessee—Saloons excluded from all but three municipalities. Texas—Two-thirds of State dry. Utah—License. Vermont—One hundred and seven- teen of 140 townships dry. Virginia—Much dry territory. Washington—Only 50 dry towns. West -Virginia—Thirty dry coun- ties out of 55. Wisconsin—Local option. DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC IN ILLINOIS INSANE HOSPITAL Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANKAKEE, Il., Nov. 2—Official an- noyncement by the authorities of the Illinois .Bastern. Hospital for the. In- sahe of the malignant diphtheria epi- Sone meates three of lis main Dbuijd-. Na grave ro agg today “kakee residen ST. LOUIS, SUN DAY r MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1907. oR ee EF ew ar: ae ee ae 26 eee ine euboubennies aes me ee te Oe SUES DECTORFOR BROKEN PROMISE Mrs.. Eva Johnston Wants $10,000 Damages From Dr. L. J. Linder. SHE IS. A. DIVORCEE They Became Acquainted Five Years Ago and He Took Her to Church. as Mrs. Eva Johnston of 413 North Thir- teenth street, East St. Louis, a W..C. T. U. worker, filed suit in the Bast St. | Louis City Court yesterday afiernoon against Dr. Louis J. Linder of 1301 St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, for $10,vu0 damages for alleged breach of promise. Mrs. Johnston is secretary of the Eust T. U., a member of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the First M. 4. Church, and a worker in tite East St. Louis Anti-Saloon League. She is 23 years old, a divorcee, and has a daugh- ter 5 years old. Dr. Linder is 3 years old. He has an office at 137 St. Clair avenue in addi- tion to the one at his resideuce. He is reputed to be wealthy and has been prominent in East St. Louis society. He denies that he ever promised to marry Mrs. Johnston. Met Five Years Ago. Mrs. Johnston says her acquaintance with Dr. Linder began five years ago, when she was living with her husband. ase was her physician and attended her, when her child was born. ! Seven or eight months after that she obtained a divorce and went back to her father, James Coplinger, a retired mer-.: chant, living on a farm near Crossville, ! I. | She remained there a year, when se became engaged. Her fiance, she says, gave her money and sent her to St. | Louls to buy her trousseau. She was doing her shopping, she says.: when she met Dr. Linder. She declare; that he persuaded Ler to break the en-. gagement, send the ring and the money , back to the young man and remain in St. Louis. Returns to Her Father. After a time she returned to her father’s house, but she says that -she returned to St. Louis twice.’ The: last time was two years ago. In the méan- time, she states, she became engaged to the doctor. Heer father advised her against return- ing. She persisted, and he told her that if she left his home she would never be permitted to come back and that he would disinherit: her. Mrs. Johnston came to St. Louis, bringing her little daughter. She says Dr. Linder had promised to make her his wife in the spring of 1906. When spring came, she says, he put her off by saying that he wanted to go to New York and complete his studies. He told her, she says, that the wedding would be in the fall. When the fall came, he suggested that, in view of the advanced years of his mother, they wait until spring. ‘In the spring he told her, she says, that he had planned a trip to Europe in. the: fall, and if she would wait until then, he would take her, and it would be their wedding trip. Was Willing to Wait. “I ‘told him,” she said last night, “that I would Wait till judgment day for him if he Would be true to me and During all the time she lived in St. Louls Mrs. Johnston says that Dr. Lin- der frequently escorted her to society entertainments fh Rast St. Louis and in- troduced her as his fiancee. A few months ago she removed to East St. Louls, While she lived in St. Louis he had be¢n wont to accompany her to the Second Baptist Church Sun- day evenings, she says, but he did not take her to church in East St. Louis. Dr. Linder said last night: “I never promised to marry Mrs. Johnston and She is insanely jealous of another woman who does not exist. 1 am not going with any other woman I will make my defense in court.”’ MALONEY’S DAUGHTER MUST LIVE APART FROM HUSBAND MILAN, Nov. 2.—Rome has been | sounded informally on the matrimonial : mplications of the daughter of Martin Maloney, the American multi-millionaire. The negotiations have been conducted through friends and relatives of the young woman. “The Post-Dispatch is informed by one of the chief canon lawyers of the Papal Court that should formal appi'cation be made to the Roman congregation {n the affair, his Holiness, Pius X, will insist. as an indispensable preliminary condi- tion, that Mr. Maloney's daughter sol- emnly undertake to live apart from her husband, whether there be one or more. until such time as the Vatican decides the issue. The Maloney suit may, according to circumstances, ‘occupy any time between six months and W years, as there are. ‘wiready less complicated marriage ar-| fairs under consideration in the. Romap ‘ Ecclesiastical courts since the beginnl: of the present omnney: still: undectd- ——e enw PURGE Gumane oud amit —e. amcowenmues wwe. + ecm ww — oe weer we ob tee 8 ee oe WANT D 3 SUNDAY MAGAZINE, 10 19 “Sirst in Everything.” COMI C RECTION. ‘ pikkrcad ‘PAG BS 1-16 1—16 | DIVORCEE AND W., C. T. U. WORKER SUING DOCTOR FOR $10,000 FOR BROKEN ROMANCE ecJoHNS TOM HURRAH FOR REILLY, THE CHAMPION: RED-SNAPPER, _PIE'AND IGE CREAM EATER!) Defeats Gastronomic Banner al in an Ostrich-Like Contest. J. J. Reilly of Alton won the eating championship of Madison County in a duel with the former champion, Charles Roennicke. The weapons were mince and pumpkin pies and ice cream at two yards, and the seconds were employes of the Alton restaurant where the strife of stomachs took place. Both participants were still alive last night. Roennicke has.for.several years held the county championship. Recently Reilly, seeing a good chance to get a lot to eat, and possibly the glory of the county championship, challenged him. The restaurant manager who had the honor of entertaining the contest pre- pared enough red snapper, potato salad, lettuce and bread to feed a football training squad after the season’s end. He intended to give them so much of these that they would not. get to des- sdrt. But they .were out for all the courses, and when they had devoured the “fish and potatoes, clamored for a chance at the pies and ice cream. The restaurant man passed out a mince and pumpkin pie to each contest- ant. They disappeared, and two more minces were given to each. Reilly scored an advantage here by crumbs left on Roennicke’s plate, but when ice cream was brought both were ready for it. Each ate two dishes and six pieces of lemon cake: Reilly ordered more. Roen- nicke confessed that he had had all he cared to eat just then, and the cham- pionship belt, seriously stretched by his gastronomic exploits, passed to Reilly. BOY SHOOTS AT MIRROR AND HITS HIS SISTER Special to the Post-Dispatch. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 2.—When Walter Irwin, at Dugger, Ind., a min- ing town, saw his. 99-year-old sister, Laura, holding a hand, mirror above her head to see the effect of washing her hair, he got a shotgun from an- other room and, without attracting her attention, fired at the mirror. His aim was bad and the charge of shot tore her hand to pieces. The wound may make necessary amputation above the wrist. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Walter Ir- win, on her arrival wome from another town, Was prostrated by nervous shock and the physicians say her condition 48 critical. WOMAN LAWYER WRITES COMPTROLLER’S DECISIONS ‘ WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—Miss Clare Gunson, a young woman from Michigan, who has been employed in the Treasury department for several years, was today the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury at a salary of $2000 acyear. She practically writes aj) the decisions of the Compi 's the first -wom- an ever to ,Upon the efage when their cues were promoted to the position of law clerk in ! SHERIFFS SEIZE SHEEHAN OPERA; AUDIENCE SENT OUT > 936 * Housé Packed at Matinee, but There Is No Per- formance and at Night Crowds Are Turned Away—Receipts Taken. Five thousand ticket. holders.were dis- appointed and angry when deputy sher- iffs seized the box-office receipts, cos- tumes and scenery of the Joseph Shee- han Opera Co. and -prevented yester- day’s matinee and evening performances which were to have’ been given at the Odeon. Instead of nidliotinas the celebrated tenor sing “Cavalleria Rusticana’’ at the mati- nee performance, the audience, which packed every .portion of the big play- house, were treated to a somewhat cruel and coarse exhibition of deputies forc- ing pretty chorus girls to surrender their resplendent costumes, and the same ot- ficers of the haw tearing down the ecen- éry and loading it into moving vans. saardly hac the audience been seated, when Mr. Snechan, with tears in his | tenor voice and minus everything that | even remotely resembled his. opera cos- tume, announced that he was very: sor- ry that deputy sheriffs had been so rude as to seize all of the company’s para- phernalia, thereby rendering it impcs- sib'e for the actors to go on ‘with the performance. Tapped the Till, Too. Mr. Sheehan also informed the audi- ence that the Sheriffs had tapped the till of the box office and made ‘a get- away” with all the coin, cashier's checks, and Il. O. U.'’s that had been taken in by the ticket.’ sellers. Mr. Sheehan didn't see anything the audi- ence could do but to go home, and.they went, but not without protest. There was nobody in. sight to make ex- planations or to return the money paid for the tickets. Crowd Gets Angry. The crowd Was very angry. Between 7 p. m. and $:15 several thousand peo- ple visited the’ Odeon, not having hedrd that the deputy sheriffs had grabbed ev- erything in sight. Mr. Sheehan and his manager, Ed- ward M. Beck, who have been living at the West End Hotel, left there about 7 o'clock last night, but they did not go to the theater. The scenery, costumes and trunks were removed to the Sher- iff’s office. Descend on the Chorus. The deputy sheriffs .thoroughly en- joyed some features of their work. The 3 chorus girls, all pretty, of course, were arrayed in thelr opera costumes when the Sheriffs made the deacent on the Odeon. They were in the wings and dressing rooms ready to-bounce out given, but Instead of the expected sig- nals they heard the gruff voices of the deputies commanding them to forthwith and tinntediately get out of the inside of the costumes, » ‘ ‘how dare Get girls, bolder than the rest, you invade our dressing rooms. out, quick.”’ But the deputy sheriffs, instead of get- ting out quick, made the shapely girls get quickly out of the costumes. As fast as the garments were stripped from the chorus singers they were bundled up and tossed into the vans. The girls hastily i slipped on their street dresses, and after the situation was explained by Mr. Shee- han and Mr. Beck, they went to their boarding houses. One an Alton Attachment. The seizure was made on attachments in favor of the Chicago & Alton -Rail- road, and other creditors of the Shee- han Opera Company. The railroad holds a bill for $256.20 for 61 round trip tickets to Springfield, Ill. The sheriffs not only took everything they could find belonging to the Sheehan Opera Com- pany at the Odeon, but seized the moneys,and other property at the down- town office. Neither Sheehan nor Beck, upon their return to the West End Hotel at 11:40 p. m. would make &ny state- ment ge ye the seizure of the pruperties or eir future plan. “it was reported by members of the cho- rus that Mr. Sheehan sold his dia- monds to raise money to pay their salaries. CLOUDLESS SUNDAY WILL MAKE YOU FORGET COAL SEASON IS APPROACHING The Weather Clearing House will accept bou- quets at their face value in return for the surplus of sunshine and warmth which i InL TAKE A LITTLE THAT HOME MADE MONE PLEASE. bit like winter, the forecaster says, and not a cloud will mar the aky all Sunday long. It ov au oF, ly witids. Woulds't that put a crimp in “You horrid things,” etn dee on the & ; i g odtinh 30-000” ILO DOLLAR Only Records Saved at Nelson " » Morris East Side Pack- — ing Plant. “ be WALL FALLS NEAR M™* Crowd’s Shouts. Mak. Fighters Scatter at Mor of Collapse. MULE MART IN DAD Five Hundred Hee-I Animals Driyen to S! of Horse Pens. , NI i e S destroyed the main building of the elson Morris packing plant, a seven- story brick structure, 38 feet long, st! the National Stockyards, East St. ea late yesterday afternoon, causing ‘oss which the management estimates more than $1,000,000. The office of the company was second floor. It is belleved thr books and records were the only saved. Employes remained in the i ing building to place sthem in a firey vault. At 8:15 last night, while the f-~- still burning flercely, the east ¥ inward. Ten minutes later 2% F Louis firemen had a “arrow esci death when the west wall fell The firemén were on the } freight shed adjoining the bu. tne west and running the ful. of the plant, 100 feet. Crowd Shouts Warning A shout of warning fror toid the firemiém thee the tering. They fled along the si) thelr margin of escape was * that several of them were bruised by falling bricks, ‘Th. worn by one of them was ‘sma: The wall carried with it trol electric iight wires,’ causing the to seatter. The current was @ turned off to prevent injury to tors and firemen. | Mike Donohue of Engine Louls, was bruised later by fall from a ladder, and was tak automobile to his home, 196A ¥ street. The fire started at 4:30 p. m. o top floor, where were stored | quantities of stearine, 4 refuse Thai rial obtained in making lard, and se eral thousand feet of lumber used making packing boxes. One hundred employes fied acen.} ‘ stairways, pulling fire alarm hooks they went. The fire was fought by the two eng companies of East St. Louis an * from St. Louls. There was so m flammable material in the bulldiv.¢., it was impossible to check the fam Pickled Meat Biggest Loss. The heaviest loss was on the tf fourth and fifth floors, where 6,00 pounds of pickled beef, pork and ot meats were stored in vats. Each vats contained 1500 pounds, valued cents a pound. Their total area, several acres. The loss on these floors alone, — cording to a statement given out Manager J. F. Appel, was $660,000. On the sixth floor, Appel said, t were 3000 tierces of lard, valued a a tierce, a total of $106,000. On the ~ floor and in the basement were ~ hides, worth 4.50 each, an aggregn’ $67,500. On the first floor was the loadl and the wholesale market, ane portion of the second floor wr age room for meat. The 4 these departments is estimats 000, bringing the total to $1, cluding the cost of the bulla When it was seen that th could not be saved, the firer to prevent the flames from st the Maxwell & Crouch mule the Horse and Mule Market, street. Mules Led to Safet From the Maxwell-Crouch loudly hee-hawing mules w to places of safety in the hor block north of the burning bu Ordinarily 100 persons, map women, ar’at work at the the Gre started. Only 2 men ate yesterday, the o having = & half-holiday. No woken be } * es