St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 7, 1907

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PAGES _ TODAY “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.

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_ ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY ‘EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1907 | ™ PRICE ONE CENT. |

GIRL SEES HER DEAD FRIENDS IN 4-GAY TRANCE Lydia Bridges, 16, in Coma, Comes To and Tells of Visions.

IS UNCONSCIOUS AGAIN

Says Two Chums in Other World Told Her How Happy They Are. GRANDFATHER THERE

Says. He Is Living in a Fine Home; Fiance Watches by Her Bedside. Lydia Bridges, 16 years old, lay Thurs- day in a trance at her home, 804 Penn- sylvania avenue, in the select residence section of East St. Louis, while her mother. Mrs. Edmund Bridges, told to wondering neighbors the girl's story of her visions cf dead friends, related dur- ing her only interval of consciousness since last Sunday. For four days,. with the exception of less than three hours Wednesday, Miss Bridges has been in an unconscious state, which the family physician, Dr. Applewhite, describes as a nervous trance. It has been impossible for her family to arouse her or to obtain any sign of recognition from her. Rolla Taylor, 19 years old, who is en- gaged to marry Miss Bridges, is an anxious watcher beside her bedside, waiting im the hope that she will re- cover consciousness and determined to try and not allow her to again relapse, as she did Wednesday. Sees Her Grandfather. While she was conscious, from 11:45 a. mm. to 2.30 p. m. Wednesday, Miss Bridges told her mother and Taylor that phe “geen” two dead friends, Sadie or 2 | and Maggie Farrell, and her grandfather, John Thornton, Sadie An- derson, who was four years older than Miss Bridges, died three years ago, and Maggie Farrell, who was about Miss a9 age, died two years ago. The randéfather died Aug. 5 last. “Sadie and Maggie were floating in the air,’ the gir) related, in a mystic tor@, as if the spell of the trance was sti? upon her. “Waey were clothed just as I saw them at their funerals, except that they wore the thinnest kind of gauze veils. “They told me they were happy and Wanted me and the other girls to be with them, so that we might be happy. “Grandfather Thornton was not with them. He seemed to be in a beautiful home, where I could not tell. He told me he was satisfied and was waiting for others of the family te come and join him.” Mother Hears Story. Mrs. Bridges and Taylor, though fas- cinated by the girl's story, did not ques- tion her about her visions, but talked to her of other matters, wishing to bring her thoughs back to earth and keep her from yielding again to the mysterious spell. They persuadc.. her to eat, and after @inner, when they thought she had been fully restored to consciousness’ she pleaded sleepiness, and asked to be al- lowed to lie down. She went into her ’ bedroom, removed her outer clothes, Tay Gown and was rigid when her mother entered shortly afterward. Dr. Applewhite, coming shortly after- ward, Was able to bring her out of the state of rigidity, but could not awaken her. ¥ Is Found Unconscious. Miss Bridges was left alone for a time in the home last Sunday afternoon and her mother, returning at supper time, found her unconscious and rigid. At times, her mother says, it was impos- sible to move her in bed, but for most ef the time she was limp. Her eyes were Often open, but she seemed to see no one. This has since been her condi- tion. Taylor and Miss Bridges have been . Since last May, but the date for r marriage had not been set. WEGRO CLEANS GARAGE ~~ WITH GASOLINE: MATCH PROVE-IT'S NOT WATER Never Again Will Porter Try Expe- riment That Sometimes E ‘Makes Funerals. William Scott, a negro porter at the garage of the Acme Automobile Co., 994 Olive street, never agair will attempt te serub the floor with gasoline. He knows the difference between it and water ow. A visitor to the garage dropped

|HEAT, COLD, CLOUDS AND cithe St.

Forecaster Thinks Every Tempera- ment Will Be Suited in the Next 36 Hours. THE TEMPERATURES.

Mete orological hash will be served to St. Louis for the next 36 There will be some clouds, some warmer weather, some cooler weather and different kinds of winds mixed into a stew and sePved rather carelessly. This is the fore- cast: “Partly tonight and Fri- day; warmer to- night; cooler Fri- day; southerly winds, shifting to northerly Friday.”’ Two storms are on the map, on2 which moved from Western Pénnsylvania to Lawrence Valley, and another on the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- tains. Temperatures in other cities at 7 a. m. today were: Boston 50, Buffalo 38, Chi- cago 36, Cincinnati 36, Denver 42, Kan- sas City 44, Louisville 36, New Orleans 56, New York 48, Philadelphia 48, Pitts- burg 38, St. Paul 36, San Francisco 56, Washington 52. The stage of the river this morning was 6.5, a fall of .1. ELECTIONS PLEASE ROOSEVELT President Particularly Happy Over Result in Frisco. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—President Roosevelt today issued the following statement regarding the elections held Tuesday last: ‘‘The President regards the result of the elections as extremely gratifying.

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KARATAGH’S DEAD 3400

Only Seventy Persons Escaped Death in Landslide in Turkestan. a cloudy

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) MADRID, Nov. 7.—A violent earth-, quake has occurred at Torre La Ribera, in the Province of Huesca. The earth opened, leaving great fis- sures. The disturbance was accom- panied by subterranean rumblings which caused a panic among the popula- tion. Many houses were shaken down. The number cf lives lost is not known.

at Alleged Wife’s Home, but that he had ever married Esther Caro- will be subject to prosecution for per- her mother’s house eight months, but that she was married to Gerding Jan. CONVICTS SEE DESPERATE FIGHT Special to the Post-Dispatch. VOL, 60, NO. 78. ) ~ | HUSBAND DEFENDANT SUNSHINE ARE MIXED 10 IN DIVORCE SUIT DENIES: MAKE A WEATHER HASH THAT HE WAS MARRIED IN SPAIN . M AN Fred E. Gerding Swears He Lived ; Wasn’t Wedded. A remarkable situation was presented Thursday afternoon in Judge Foster's court, when Frederick E. Gerding denied 4 line Gerding, who ig now suing him for Violent Quake at Torre La reg aware that if it is proved Ribera: Number of Lives that you did marry this plaintiff, you y j ?”’ Mrs. Gerdi ttorney asked. Lost Unknown. esdelcaaia( sn taded radio ‘TT came here from Kansas City with the inten- tion of marrying her, and I boarded at we were never married. I do not re- member that I was ever in St. Charles, where she says the wedding took place.” “Mrs. Gerding’ says in her petition 17, 1905, and she declared Thursday that Rev. Mr. Ely of St. Charels performed the ceremony. She asks for alimony and the custody of her infant child. OF NEGROES IN STATE PRISON One Life-Term : Prisoner’s Neck Slashed by Opponent With Shoe Knife. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 7.—One negro was probably fatally slashed across the throat this morning in the Penitentiary here and another was bad- Huesca province embraces a bishopric with fout dioceses—Jaca, Pampelune, Tarazona and Teruel. The population of the province is 245,000. Its area is about 9,380 square miles. Jinks, a negro serving a life sentence for a murder committed in St. Louis. While going from the dining room to the shoe shop Jinks drew a shoe knife from his clothes, grabbed O. Young, who was in the line in front of him, and slashed his throat. Then Jinks turned and slashed Emmett Hunt, who was behind him, across the face. Young and Hunt are also colored. They were sent here from Kansas City. Five hundred convicts saw the disturb- ance, which created great excitement. Guard Donahue subdued Jinks and he is now in solitary confinement. He has not been mentally sound for some time.

3400 Perished at Karatagh. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 7.—A dis- patch received here today from Samar- kand by the official telegraph agency Says that a newspaper man, who was sent to Karatagh, in the Hissar district of Bokhara, which was destroyed by a landslide following the earthquake of Oct. 21, reports that 3400 persons per- tshed and only 70 escaped.

The legitimate PAID ciseulation of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and its Suburbs is greater than that of No other St. Louls eventug news- tter of hearty congratu- og hen to Mr. , fon on the result in Han —- English Dailies COM-| paper can get Associated Press dine 4 patcnes. Francisco.”’ . nen en

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Gains! 7,/04 Daily 11,182 Sunday Are the actual GAINS of the POST-DISPATCH in PAID circulation for the first TEN MONTHS of this year, as compared with the same ten months of LAST YEAR. The Figures DAILY The DAILY NET circulation of the first ten months of last year was ..... SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR 154,693 162,59 / 7,/04 Average gain per week day SUNDAY Actual net figures for first ten months I nae ee ‘SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR 241,255 292,437 11,182 The POST-DISPATCH is the ONLY St. Louis news- paper, morning or evening, showing GAINS in circulation this year over last year. Average gain per Sunday this year . . All other St. Louis papers, which publish circulation statements, show ACTUAL LOSSES. FIRST IN EVERYTHING Whyr

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|HOW ROBBERS KILLED MAN IN SALOON BATTLE: | OPPONENT THEY SLEW, OTHER BADLY BEA aid

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So IN GROCERY, DUNN FALLS MORTALLY WOUNDED. CORRAL CROOKS, | POLICE ORDER IN CRIME WAVE Detectives Told to .Gather. in Thieves “at Work, at Play or in Church.” __

Detective Chief Smith Thursday issued to his men a crime wave order to bring in all known crooks, following the sa- loon robbery at Fifteenth and. Poplar streets, in which Peter Dunn was shot and killed and Edward Doran-was beat- en to insensibility with the butt end of a revolver, The Chief said to. bring: in the crooks, whether at work, at play or in church. When the detectives reported for their daily assignments at 9 a. m. Thursday Chief Smith called them all before him. “I am astounded at the wave. of crime which has swept over St. Louis in the last few days,” he said. ‘You'll have to get busy. Bring in all the known thieves in the city, whether you find them at work or at play or praying in church. Fill up the holdovers, so there won’t be a crook at large to com- mit crime. “I want you to bring in Edward Car- roll and Edward Gleason who Aattempt- ed to rob the office of the Buss Miilirg Co. in Baden and shot a man there. They have been convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary, but they are out on appeal bond. “The Poplar street saloon job last night looks like their work. ‘I want you to bring in Dick Kerley, too. He was convicted of an icebox robbery and went to the Penitentiary, but he was. par- doned by Gov. Dockery. “Bring in every person with. a crim- inal record, no matter what kind of ‘ives they are leading now. They must give an account of themselves.” Three men entered Thomas Conroy's saloon, in the rear of a grocery. store, at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday. Doran: and Dunn were at the end of the bdar-néar- est the swinging door leading from the grocery to the saloon. William Driscoll, the bartender, was at the other end of the bar behind it. One of the three strangers walked across the room until he was directly in front of Driscoll. Pulling a revolver he said: “‘Hands up.” Driscoll obeyed. One of the other two men stood be- tween Doran and Dunn and covered first one and then the other with a revolver. One Goes Behind Counter. The third man, when he saw: that everyone was covered, returned through the swinging door into the grocery store and went behind the counter. The sound of a bell told those in the other room that he had opened the cash till. Doran and Dunn at first thought that, were in the hands of desperate robbers. See ti boldins Bis waaes high

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Driscoll followed his example, and the five men in the saloon, fighting furtous- ly, pushed their way through the swing- ing doors into the grocery store, where the third robber was still at the money drawer. ‘When he realized that Doran, Dunn and “Driscoll were resisting he aban- doned the till, jumped over the counter and went to the assistance of his com- panions. Doran and the robber whom he had struck were grappling near the front door, when the robber struck Doran on the head half a dozen times with the revolver, knocking him to _the floor. As he fell Doran knocked over a pile of galvanized buckets, “which made a great noise. Under the cover of this nolse one of the robbers fired the bullet which killed Dunn. The three ran out the front door and north on. Fifteenth street. A crowd of boys who heard the noise in the store followed them for half a block throw- ing bricks, but were scared off by the revolvers. One of: the men dropped a No. 7 black derby hat, with a brown sweatband, which bore no mark or labe] tnside. The hat is new and of inexrensive quality. It is being held at police headquarters. Dies in Hospital. Dunn died at 1 a. m. at the City Hos- pital. The bullet penetrated his right temple and lodged in his brain. He was a’teamster, 50 years old, and lived at 421 South Eleventh street. Doran ran to his home at 1502 Pop- lar street and bandaged his head. A few minutes later while he was telling the story of the robbery at Central Dis- trict Station he fainted and was rent to the City Hospital. Thomas Conroy, proprietor of the sa- loon, lives in the rooms above it. He was not at home when the robbery oc- curred. Of $106 which was in the cash till, the robbers got only %. The man who tapped the till is described as more than $ feet tall. The other men were of medium height. Patroilmcn Dempsey and Kountz passed the saloon at 8:20, 10 minutes be- fore the. robbery. -At §:40, walle at Fifteenth and Spruce streets, a block away, they heard of the rotbeSy and telephoned the information te Central District Statiun. Doran called at police headquarters Wednesday, but was unable to identify any of the men held there under suspi- clon of baving been concerned in the robbery. He left headquarters in com- peny with detectives, to whom he said that ke would know all of the three men if he saw them. Ra. at Pistol Point. uward Hawkine of 1637 Franklin ayenuc reported to the police of Cen- tral District Wednesday night thet he had been beaten and robbed by_two

SANTA FE 1 NED S300, 000 OR REBATING Federal Court Imposes $5000 Penalty on Each of 66 Counts.

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7.—Judge Olin Wellborn, in the United States District Court here, today fined the Santa Fe Railway Co. $330,000 for rebating. The company was convicted on 6 counts of granting rebates to the Grand Canon Lime and Cement. Co. an ship- ment from Nelson, Ariz., to Los An- geles. The fine ts $5000 on counts ROOSEVELT AFTER THE PAPER TRUST! Tells Newspaper Publishers — He Will. Order Department of Justice to Get Busy. each of the €

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—President Roosevelt today indicated to members of the Committee on Paper of Amer- ican Newspapers’ Publishers’ Associa- tion that he will recommend to Con- gress the abolitien of the tariff on press paper wood pulp and the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper; also that he will make recommendation to f the Department of Justice that it take immediate steps to ascertain whether the anti-trust laws are being disobeyed by the manufacturers of paper.

MOVE I il Are Ready to Desert the Combine, Cee Avenue Measure Is Expected. — t bi an

INDICTED DELEGATE I$ “STANDING PAT” WON'T make no statement of no kind.”’ 6¢ ner of the Second Ward. when asked whether he woald

ization of the House of Dele- gates. tig A poll of the House of Delegates » by Post-Dispatch reporters, completed, to- day, shows that but three votes are lacking to make sure a re : of the House, which will end the of the body by the present combine.

Warner, now wunder indictment, ~ : throttled legislation since last when it came into power. Eleven members of the Hogs express themselves as being une ly In favor of are satisfied with t present § while two make T combine conditional and one is The 11 delegates declaring th in favor of reorganization are: Fourth Ward;. Eleventh; Wiedmer, Thirteent mene roe O'Brien, Twent! . Twenty-third; Fay, Tw ty-seventh, and Davis, Delegate Kollas of the in favor of @ reorganization. This a total of 12 votes, three leas than be necessary to oust Warner head of the Committee on Public = provements and to dethrone his apne f° members of the combine. McShane and Weeke are the only ewe declaring in favor of reorganization who have been in the combine since bon de House was organized. | Support Is Conditioned. All the others in the posed to a reorganization. Tirte of ) Fifteenth and Bourg of the Sixth, beginning, say they will — it if tt does not do better work. urg wants _ it to pass the free bridge bill for Chou- teau avenue, which ts in his ward, If it does that, he says, he will remain. with it. oe Tirre says he wants the combine te act promptly on all bills that the public are entitled to action on, and if It that he will be satisfied to stay with his old associates. ie | Warner refuses to say what he thinks he is known to be probably mofe eager than anybody else to prevent any such . development. Gevers, of the Eighteenth, — says he hasn't made up his mind how he will vote on @ reorganization tesolu- tion, but the minority are not expecting — any assistance from him. He has been But the real combine leaders, of Warner, make no secret of their aat- ‘Hussey. Gallagher, the two Brennans, — Troll, Tobin and Sachse declare ay selves positively against any change

McShane and Weeks Say They — WAITS ON BRIDGE BILL Prompt Passage of Chouteai The foregoing reply was } made by Delegate Ferd War- | vote for or against reorgan- | : combine, which includes Priesmeyer and who is out of the city, is — xe é : 1 are oon Tey v ¥< ie PHN IN lt: MSE MET PLEIN. 27 RAMEN AR do not express themselves as flatly op- have been loyal to the combine from the s about a reorganization, but, of course, te a loyal combine man throughott . a isfaction with the present arrangement. "Saale 9.09 aT mat iS TON aan cates ainten: ne a CO CTY ET ee ee IA ONE ae ee ” So MSN Alt SS AIM as RARER a eh Pia Ai RE Ss ISIE REE SATE Je ad cet es I AM agg So nay: