St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 28, 1907

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4 . ak he again revived he freed his feet stumbled into the hall and called ‘for ‘help. Thomas Howell, husband of “Mary Howell, keeper of the rooming house, went to his aid and called the Seemed Ill-Sorted Pair. “Weineke and Crane arrived in St. : TP from Seymour, Ind., at 8 a. m ‘Friday. @ation to the ‘Twenty-second rooming house. They went direct from Unien street had a valise and a _ bundle in a newspaper and Weineke saree a single-barreied shotgun. _ Mrs. Howell says that when they ar- ‘Tivéd she noted that Crane was much though they seemed friendly to each dressed tthan Weineke, and, other, she considered them an ill-sorted ‘At 10 a. m., laughing and talking, 7 sgl left the house and remained away a ot noon hour, When they returned each a bottle of whisky. they went out again, saying going to lunch. aa Farmer «

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MAGNOLIAS KILL TRYSTING PAIR

by Mysterious Double Tragedy.

. ROME, Marchioness Guglicimetti, one of the wealthiest aristocrats Rome, and her wooer, Signor Spalletti, a tenor engaged by Conried to appear next season in New Yerk, were found dead under mysterious circumstances early today in the conservatory adjoin- ing the villa of the young woman's father, in the outskirts of the city. The tragedy was due to parental opposition of the couple’s courtship and to the jealousy of some member of the aged Marquis’ household, it is thought. Spalletti and his sweetheart had met clandestinely in the conservatory. When found they were locked in from the out- side. There were several doors through which they might have left, but all were securely fastened, rendering es- cape impossibie without a commotion which must have a'armed the house. How they died has not been definitely determined. One explanation offered is that, finding discevery inevitable, they in ing | poisoned themselves. The police theory advanced by several ~~ a ee ~ IN ROME CASTLE Romeg and Juliet Affair Ends Dec. 28.—The beautiful young daughter of Un Tht TOGA Governor. Tells Friends Will Wage Campaign in Every County.

During his St. Louis visit, Gov. Folk toi. close friends that he had decided to announce his candidacy for United States Senator in the latter part of Jan- uary. “T anticipate a long and hard-fought campaign for the senatorship,’’ the Gov- ernor is quoted as saying. ‘Senator Stone is able and resourceful and there is no doubt he-has a big following ev- erywhere. It is my intention to go into every county of the State and te make as earnest and active a canvass as the duties of my office will permit.”’ Stone Counts on City. A politician who called on the Gover- nor Friday said that Senator Stone’s friends figured on carrying St. Louis by 25,000 majority. He declared that the Jefferson and St. Louis Democratic clubs and the en- tire City Hall organization, represent- ing 3000 office holders, would be arrayed against him. The Governor received this chilling intelligence with a smile. ' “That's what they said in 1904,” marked the Governor dryly after caller had departed. re- his LIE OVER PH ONE KILLS MAN AFTER HS SISTER DES Hearing That Her Husband Had Caused Death, Broth- er Is Stricken.

CAUSE OF BOTH: SAME Heart Disease Is Fatal Under Dramatic Circum- Stances.

A lie sent four miles over a telephone wire killed George Bickhaupt as surely as a bullet would have done it. It consisted of just four deadly words: “Tda’s husband killed her.”’ Ida Schaller was the favorite sister of Bickhaupt, a prosperous farmer four miles from Mascoutah, Ill.,. 12 miles east of Belleville. Mrs. Schaller was in the kitchen of her home in Mascoutah Friday when she ‘said to her 13-year-old. daughter, Matilda: ‘I don't feel well and I be- neve I will lie down.’ Half an hour later she arose to get a drink and fell to the floor unconscious. Her daughter called Dr. Scheve, but when he arrived at the house Mrs. Schaller was dead. Dr. Scheve telephoned to the home ot Bickhaupt to inform him of his sister’s ceath but was told that Bickhaupt was at the residence of Charles Richter. The physician reached him on_ the phone there and told him that Mrs. Schaller had died suddenly. Bickhaupt hurried to his home. He had been there only a few minutes when his telephene bell rang. He picked up the receiver. Then along the wire from Mascoutah came the fa- tal lie: “Ida’s husband killed her.’’ The receiver fell from Bijckhaupt’s hand. He staggered througn the door and fall dead on the porch. When Mrs. Schaller died, her husband, Adam Schaller, was at work at Rent- shler, Ill., five miles from his home. Hieart disease caused both deaths. TROY” SHOT WITH CHRISTMAS RIFLE BY BROTHER, DIES Bullet From 22-Calibre Gun Punc- tured Lung and Lodged Near Heart. Peter Eisele, aged 12, who was acci- dentally shot with a Christmas gift rifle in the hands of his brother, Jacob Eisele Jr., at 5 p. m. Christmas day at their home, 2710 St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, died in St. Mary’s Hospital at 8 u. m. Saturday. An inquest will be heid Saturday afternoon. The bullet entered his chest, punctur- ing the lung and lodging about an inch back of the heart. The rifle was of ‘2 caliber. ALL CITY EMPLOYES WILL BE PAID IN CASH JAN. | City Treasurer Believes That Fi- nancial Stringency Here Is Practically Endede The 6000 employes of the city will be paid Jan. 1 in cash. City Treas- urér Franciscus, in making this an- nouncement Saturday, expressed the belief that the ease with which he arranged for payments in currency shows that the financial stringency has passed. For December only $170,000 of the $500,000 was paid in cash, the bal- ance going in checks to clerks and heads of departments. The cash was given to laborers. : The payments for January will ba. gin at 8 a. m., Dee. 31, in- order to get all the men paid as early as pos- sible.

HUNTS POISON IN CHRISTMAS GIFT OF CANDY Woman Believes Enemies Sent Package Which Chemists Analyze. SUSPECTS YOUNG M Suitors of Daughter Who Were Repulsed Accused by Mother, A three-pound box of candied fruits Mrs. John Hoehn, 4003 Olive street, ceived Christmas day, re- is being analyzed by the City Chemist for poison, her sus- picion having been aroused by threaten- ing letters before the fruit was received. In asking an investigation by the po- lice, Mrs. Hoehn told of the rivalry of two young men, former boarders with her, for the affections of her 17-year-old daughter, Eva, and of thei’ anger when she opposed their attentions. The box was delivered by an express messenger, and bore a label with the words ‘Pittsburg, Pa.’”’ It was from a St. Louis candy store. Mrs. Hoehn told a Post-Dispatch reporter Saturday that Eva went to the door to receive the par- cel, and that she had an instant suspi- cion that it was poisoned, cautioning her mother and 12-year-old sister, Clara, not to eat it. Mrs. Hoehn has a sister, Mrs. A. N. Neeley, who lives in Pittsburg, and she says the two voung men she sus- pects knew this. The fact that the candy was bought in St. Louis, and that her sister has not sent her a Christ- mas present for years, deepened her suspicton. Told to Leave Home. The two young men left the Hoehn home two months ago at Mrs. Hoehn’s request, she says, and she held their belongings for their board, which she says they failed to pay. She says one of them won the favor of Eva at first, and that later the other’s attentions that she (Mrs. Hoehn) objected to both of them. After the departure of the young men Mrs. Hoehn received several letters, she says, threatening her with death unlass she’ withdrew her opposition to the at- tentions of the young men to Eva. The last of these letters, she says, reached her Monday. Detective Awaits Analysis. Mrs. Hoehn thinks the young men went to Chicago from St. Louis. Chief of Detectives Smith is awaiting the re- sult of the City Chemist’s analysis be- fore proceeding further. The chemist's report is exhibited in a week. WEATHER, HAVING MADE GOOD RESOLUTIONS, WILL BE ALL SMILES SUNDAY Fair Saturday and Sunday, With Rising Temperature Sunday, Is the Forecast. THE TEMPERATURES. Midnight .....50 a. 2

SAY GOVERNOR" TRADING STAMPS AND A PASS OVER OR NEW FREE BRIDGE, OUGHT DH GO WITH . THAT PoLice OM MISSIONSNIP, The weather, having made a number of good resolutions for the new year, is in an excellent humor and will be all smiles and cordiality tomor- row. This is the forecast: “Fair and tonight Sunday; colder tonight; seemed mmoreacceptable te thé girl, but] WASHINGTON, ~ Dec: duty of calling upon the Government of of Nevada against armed froces of the United States violation in would fail to perform its duty under the Constitution. net appear to effert to do its duty by the effective en- forcement of its police functions. peat again what I have already said to you several times, cumstances now existing in of Nevada, ‘1HIS GIRL’S ADMIRER THOUGHT - 10 HAVE POISONED GIFT CANDY en ed tine.) cof ne ee eee we eee oe = Ae Reet: ewe nw we moe aw — ~cocee een eee

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PRESIDENT GIVES SPARKS. 5 DAYS TO OBSERVE LAW} —

Unless Nevada Governor Calls Legislature, Troops Will Withdraw. |

°3. President’ Roesevelt today telegraphed Gov, Sparks of Nevada that the Federal troops” now" At. Goldfield will be ordered to remaih there for a further period of three weeks, provided the -Governor within five days issues a call for a special session of the State Legislature. The telegram was in response to one from the Governor, in which he sets forth the need of armed intervention and expresses doubt whether calling the Legislature wou'd result in the necessary request from that body for Federal aid. The President's telegram read as fol- lows: », Vhite House, Washington, Dec. 28. “Hon. John Sparks, Governor, Carson City, Nev.: “Your telegram of Dec. 26 is recéived. It, in effect, declares tha you fatled to call the Legislature together be- cause, in your judgment, the Legisla- ture would not call upon the Govern- ment of the United States for the use of troops, although in. your opinion, it ought to do -so. “Up to” the Legislature. “The Constitution of the United States imposes, not upon you but upon the Legislature, if it can be convened, the the United States to protect the State domestic violence. You meanwhile request me to use the in the Constitution because, the Legislature of your judgment, “The State Government certainly does have made any serious I re- under the clir- the. State as made known to me, an that FROM WINDOWS +> Two Killdd in Chicago Fire; ) Matron Saves Many, Is : Bee eurned.

children, mafiy of them babies, were thrown One by one from’the windows cf the Norwegian Lutheran Orphan Abylum, Fifty-eighth street and Irving Park boulevard, this afternoon to save them from cremation in the burning building. Two of the chiidren were killed, but it is thought that all of the others were saved. Mrs. Meyers, the matron, was prob- ably fatally burned in her efforts to save the children. With the assist- ance of a nursse, she fought the flames until she fainted. She was revived and then directed the work ef throwing the bbabies from the windows. The dead children are: Iris Crabtree, 3 months old, and Hazel Lee, aged 3 years. The fire was discovered by the mo- torman of an Irving Park car, who saw the blaze break through the roof. He was half a mile from the building and made no attempt to warn the asylum people, but speeded his car te a tele- phone and sent in an alarm. The firemen had to travel more than one mile to reach the scene and the building, a three-story structure, had aoe entirely destreyed when they ar- rived. PUP EATS RAZOR BLADE AS DESERT AFTER MEAL OF SHOES AND BRUSHES Terrier Friskiet Than Ever Since Hardware Diet and Tries to Steal Knife. Special to the Post-Dispatch. STAMFORD, Conn., Dec 2.—Charies Bissell, a well-known tobacco grower of Suffield, Conn., a few months ago gave Michael Keneally of this city, chairman of the Republican State Cen- tral Co., a wire-haired terrier pup.

CHTCAGO: “phe More than 100) CITY LOSES BY REDUCING PAVIN GUARANTEE Cost of Maintaining Streets oe “¥ vards Have | The reduction of the maintenance mS Fa: guarantee on public streets from seven : to five years saddles tract to run for a pertod of 10 years. ig Formerly the Board of Public provements required a 10 years’ antee on asphalt streets. After the tuminous matadam paving was duced in St. Louis under a seven reduce the maintenance term | streets to seven years. mao reduced the guarantee from five years on brick, asphalt and t nous macadam. The reduction 0 guarantee period started after minous comp@ny had entered the lo flel. Must Be Maintained, There are, ewagiced to figures tains’ 100 pane feet. ners a | these figures are correct, 460,950 of paving in. St. Louis, which must maintained either by the city or contractor. While there is no definitely determining exactly » redtiction of maintenance guardntee will amount | a great cost to the taxpayers. 4 To maintain the streets one year, hie the rate: of $1.50 a square, will cost $6i1,325. The Board of Public Improve. — ments has now relieved contractors of - two years of this burden, and has shoul- dered the expense upon the city. There was no reduction of the maintenance guarantee until the bitulithic paving — was laid. The expense of maintainirg the streets — by the city is paid eut ¢ the ont revenue fund. It is cof ing the eity now from $7.0 to $8.50 more te main- tain asphalt streets than it dia before the guarantee period was cut down. the Board had not changed the tracts, but still required ten years” guarantee, this expense would have been saved to the taxpayers. The maintenance guarantee has ee expired on any of the bitulithic streets. Street Commissioner Travilla says the company has expended more | 000 in keeping ite streets in St. Louis. As this*was the city that the Warren brothers to get a foothold in they © point to repair the streets here ly, so that they could get contracts other cities. Many Patches on Street. Thirty-eight patches from afew 8 to many yards square tell story of how well the bitulithic is wearing on Lindell boulevard, tween Vandeventer avenue and street. From Vandeventer avenue Grand avenue hundreds ef patches sisted 1 i Febskie physicians is that they were suffocated in the closely, shut conservatory by the intense fragrance of the magnolias, gar- denias and tuberoses, with which the room was filled. Acting on the supposition that the Sweethearts were locked in by someone who wanted them discovered in each other's company, the detectives have ar- rested the Marquis Guglie:meitti’s wife, formierly the famous prima donna, De Farro rising tempera- ture Sunday; northerly winds, becoming vari- able; minimum teinperature § to- night about 2 degrees.’’ The storm that was central over Lake Superior Friday moved to the &t. Law- rence Valley. There is another storm DINING CARS TO BE “DRY” WHILE TRAINS ARE IN IOWA Liquor Crusade CauSes Action by One Railroad That Others Will Follow. CHICAGO, IIL, Dec. 28.—As a result of the Nquor crusade In Iowa, the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad has 5 ; Gov. Folk’s St. Louis supporters say that he will devote most of his time to the country districts, leaving St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph until near the close of the campaign. According to the Folk tabulati ion, the Goverhor ought te get an even break with Stone in St. Louis, while a few be- lieve he will capture the St. Louis vote by @ rousing majority. “We realize,’’ said one of the Gover- application from the Legislature of the State is an essential condition to the in- definite’ continuance of the troops at Goldfield. Circumstances may change, and if they do, I will take whatever ac- tion the needs of the situation require, so far as my constitutional powers per- mit. But the first need is that the State authorities should do their duty, and the first step towards this is the as- sembling of the Legislature. Since the dog’s advent members of the Kenealy family have had difficulty keeping track of their shoes, wearing apparel, hair brushes and other articles which the terrier cafried off. The pup pounced upon a safety razor yester- day, bit the blade in two and proceeded to masticate it. The dog swallowed the steel blade and wageged its tail in a self-satisfied way The terrier has been under close obser- _--—s«s awe Bottles on Table. 4@ looked into the room while they ~ and saw that a quart whisky and quart bottle of e was on the table between ‘ been put down to keep the palr. There are nine big pat Lindell from Spring avenue to On the half block ef West Pine vard west of Spring avesus 17 putches have besa put down. Gnesi avenue 1) Spring the street beat practical.y resurfaced, and is In a badly worn condition. The entire top dressing ils w West Pine and Lindell boule if

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iF &* iz i iF i a fi : [the tragedy. ** o. The Marquis, an aged widower, wecded Signorita de Farro a short time ago, and his daughter by a former marriage is whe cain to have opposed the match. The stepmother denies caer for

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i | nor’s advisers, ‘that the mere important interests will support Stone. Gov. Folk can expect nothing from the lquor in- terests or the corporations. He has fought both and each:is certain to cor- ral a powerful opposition to his candi- dacy. “Interests” Control 20,000. “It is estimated that the number of voters controlled in St. Louis through the liquor element is 10,000 and that the public service cerporations can add 10, - 000 more to this list. “These two influences were operating against the Governor in 194, but not to the extent that they are now.” Notwithstanding contrary reports, Gov. Folk is said to have been assured that William J. Bryan will take no , in the Missouri senatorial contest. in past campaigns, always | as wZ supported the Stone cause. Next year, issued orders to dining car conductors forbidding the sale of liquor while its trains are in Iowa. The order went into effect yesterday. It is understood that the other roads will take similar ee “pan” MAN PROVES VERY MEEK Expected Battle Doesn’t. Material- ize When Police Make Arrest. Special officers from the Deer Street Police Station who arrested Anthony Dussmann *'riday night at 31038 Lucas avenue were much disappointed in him. Telegrams from Independence, Io., where he is “wanted,” warned the St. police that he was a dangerous and that the arresting officers “get the drop” on him. But he ted without a murmer, and de- he had never resisted arrest must submit elared that s life. in Bi n admits that he escaped from “independence after being ar- sath ae ony as “lookout” during

in the extreme Southwest and low pres- sure in the Northwest. From the Lake regions, the Ohio and Middle Mississippi valleys, the Southeastern states, Cali- fornia, Washington and Oregon rain ts reported. Snow has fallen in Utah and Western Colorado. It is colder in the Lake re- gion, the Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley, the Missouri Valley and the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. It js warmer in the Eastern states. The stage of the river Saturday was 4.6. The temperature in other cities at 7 a. Mm: was: Buffalo and Washington, | 42; San Francisco and Pittsburg, ” Kansas City and Philadel! _ 28 ton, 4; Chi 32; innatl, Denver, 34; St. zero; i Orleans. 62; Louisville, 58; New York 66. The Pest-Dispatch .o. the only

eo. Nheir former stations. Isaues Ultimatum. is apparent from your telegram that the Legislature of Nevada can readily be convened. You have fixed the period of three weeks as the time necessary convene and organize a special session. If, within five . days from thé receipt of this telegram, you shall have issued the necessary notice ‘9 convene, the Legislature of Nevada, I shall continue the station of troops at Goldfield during such period of three weeks, If, within the term of five days such notice has not been issued, the troops will be immediately returned to ed to “PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.” legram from Gov. Sparks, forth the President's tel- It The which cal ¢gram, was made public by him. reads: “CARSON, Nev., Dec. 26, 1997, “The President, Washington, D. C. “As Chief Magistrate of the State of Nevada I have been of the opinion for the past year that a condition bor- vation since, but does not seem to be the worse for the razor blade. In fact, it was more frisky than ever today, and once while the codk was not look- ing it stepped into the kitchen and made off with a steel knife, but it was taken from him before he could swal- low it MAN WHO EXPOSED GRAIN TRUST ENDS LIFE IN OFFICE Thomas Worrall’s Body Not Found for Some Hours After Suicide. LINCOLN, Neb. Dec. 2%.—Thomas

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dering on domestic violence and in- steed shortly before 1 o'clock today. He left} si ¢F Hi } is the waterproof surface of the Warren quick-drying com tions. When this is worn off thie ° and (s ni