St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 28, 1909

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VOL. 61. NO. 251.

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MURIEL Walt MARRIES COUNT —-SHERR - TRUSS Be-

Ambassador’s Daughter ‘“omes Prussian’s Bride in Paris.

Alo DOWRY PROVISION

Contract Stipulates “Regime ot Separation of Prop- erty.”

CiVIL CEREMONY FIRST

Her Father Refuses to Attend Catholic Marriage, as Pro- test to Cardinal.

&pecini Cable From Paris Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. PARIS, April 28.—Miss Muriel White, daughter of Ambassador White, was married today to Count Hermann Scherr-Thoss of Prussia by the Mayor of the EFighth Arrondissement, in which the Ambassador resides. This civil ceremony which alone con- siitutes a legal marriage in Franc~, \vas performed at noon by Roger Allon, the Mayor, in person. Miss White wore a simple gown of blue voile and a large black hat. Ambassador White and Wm. H. Buck- ler, secretary of the American Legation at Madrid, acted as witnesses for the bride, while Count Sherr-Thoss and Prince Von Radolin, the German Am- bassador to France, did the same for the bridegroom. The others present were Mrs. White, Count and Countess Montsaulin, W. K. Vanderh¥t, Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Rutherford, Miss Buckler, Jack White and the members of the American Em- bassy. . At the conclusion of the civil cere- mony the party returned fn automobiles to the American Embassy, where lunch- eon was served. The cereniony consisted of a recitation of the laws of the French republic de- fining the obligations of husband and wife, and the subscription of the cou- ple thereto. The Mayor then delivered a brief ad- dress in which he expressed his good wishes for the pair, and referred to the distinguished career of the bride's father and the ties uniting France and the United States. Gifts on Displicy. The wedding presents, which cyme from America, Germany, and Italy, were displayed at bassy this afternoon. The religious ceremony will be per- formed tomorrow at St. Joseph's Cath- ollie Church, and the Ambassador will Miss White's family de- sired to have a Protestant as well as a Catholic service, and the bridegroom's family were in sympathy with this plan, since the Whites are Protestants But Cardinal Koll, Bishop of Breslau, would not consent to this. As a protest against the Cardinal's decision, the Am- bassador decided not to attend the Cath- olic ceremony. ha ve France the em- “T feel it is only just to the Americans in Paris that the marriage ceremony of the daughter of their official repre- sentative should be conducted in the American church,’’ Ambassador White said, In explaining why he refused attend the Catholic service. “Tf this was a matter of doctrine 1 should not protest, but as it is a mere matter of discipline I feel that the re- quest I have made to have a ceremony in a Protestant church, as well as in a Catholic church, should bave been granted. There are many precedents for such action. Proved He Is Not Bigoted. “ft have repeatedly shown my friend ship and respect for the Catholte church. I entertained four cardinals when I was Ambassador at Rome, be- ing the only Ambassador accredited to the Quirinal to so entertain. Only re- cently I had the pleasure of entertain- ing Archbishop Ireland here. “I very much wanted to have a cere- mony performed in the American churci on Avenue de l'Alma, which I attend reguiariy and which is recognized as the church of the American colony In to Paris. is free from all religious It is a country of religious So I felt that I should pro- test when a dispensation was refused for a ceremony in a Protestan church, especially since there have been severa! recent precedents in Paris for it, includ- ing th marriage of the niece of Mr. Fustis, a former American Minister.” Her Nicew te Be o Bridemaid. The bride will be given away by her brother. Jack White. Count Seherr- Thoss has four brothefs in Paris, but none of them attended the civil service today. Mis«x White's niece, Miss Margaret Rutherford, the daughter of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, and Miss Lucy Buckler, daughter of Ambassador White's step. brother, W.-H. Buckler, secretary of the American Legation at Madrid, will “Ameri A domination. toleration. det as bridemaids at the religious cere- mony. mgrriage contract. which was at the German Consulate, stipu- that the property of each shall m& ‘separate. The contract contains no e)@ aie he ak Pk ASE 7 nf

LITIACALLED 0 KEEP PEACE N‘DRY' ELECTION

Police Chief in Chillicothe, Ohio. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHILLICOTHE, O., April 28.—A option today county loca! election he officials campaign and ‘re with the managing the “dry” the city officials manag- ing the “wets,”’ necessitated the of the of a company of militia as special deputy sheriffs. A warrant has been sworn out for the arrest of Chief of Police Pendergast and Sheriff Swope is searching the city for him. Women has use members patrol in front of each poll- the town and an army of detectives is working for the ‘drys’ to prevent any fraud. the city is in citizen's working for the The Rev. C. ing place in Kvery policeman of clothes and is ““wets,’”’ W. Eldredge, tendent of the. Cincinnati division of the Anti-Saloon League, who has been active in the campaign and who was re- cently rotten-egged bv ‘“‘wets’’ while he was speaking at Adelphia, was arrested this morning, charged with violating the 100-feet limit at a polling place and Spent several hours in jail, “Drys” Are Locked Up. The police arrested several workers on the same charge. When J. D. Wilhgott. secretary of the Local Option Committee, called at the City Jail to see the Rev. Mr. Eldredge, it is said by the “Drys” that he was as- saulted by Chief of Police Pendergast. Municipal officers refused the ‘‘drys’ admission to the jail to the ‘‘dry” workers, Hiabeas corpus suits brought on their behalf. Police Captain Schaffer, when he heard that habeas corpus proceedings Lad been started for release of “dry” prisoners, weakened and turned ali pris- oners loose, Bribery Is Charged. “Dry” detectives swore out warrants for arrest of five ‘‘Wet” charging them with attempting top bribe voters. The “Wets" pleaded not guilt: in City Court and was held for the grand jurv under $300 bond. The Rev. Pake of mouth, O.. Who was assaulted “Wet last night On the street was in- jured worse than he was. at firs, thought to be. His left temple bone was laid bare by a blow with knuckles. Women>are :,ear doors of ing cameras. Miss Myra arreste@ by a city policeman and camera taken from her. ROOSEVELT WILL START ON FIRST LION HUNT TOMORROW Whole Expedition Is at Sir Alfred Pease’s Ranch Ready for Big Game. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NAIROBI, British East Africa, Apri) 28.—The members of the Roosevelt par- ty will start tomorrow from the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on their first hunt- ing expedition after lions. The remain- der of the Roosevelt camp was moved superin “dry ’ see were the workers each George I, Ports by stee! the front and and are Powell was he patrolling all saloons, us

4 ,| this. morning from Kapiti Pisins to the Sheriff With Warrant Pursues : AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER AND COUNT SHE WED IN PARIS . Count HERMANN OCHER®P -THOSS OF “LE-RiussiaA.

GHty) GAGS GIRL iN BED, CUTS tH nln White Child Struggles and Black Woman, Hearing Footsteps, Flees. the years

bedroom of old, at 3214 A negress crept into Elizabeth Zabb, 14 Henrietta street, gagged her with a handkerchief and cut off an 18-inch braid of her golden-brown hair between 5 and 6 a. m. Wednesday. The child told. the police was awakened as lay in touching She looked up and saw a who was black, bending over The gress seized her, pushed a handkerchief into her mouth and said, ‘““Now scream all want to.” Elizabeth struggled with the negregs, and the handkerchief was partially shaken from her mouth, enabling her an outery which was heard by mother, who ran to the girt's and the negress, Nearing the footsteps, fled through the rear door. I- was found that the braid had been cut close to the head and that the ends that hed she by started she her. woman, her. someone very ne vou ta make her bedroom of the hair were Jagged and uneven. The Holice ‘think that the negress used a Knife that over She told the police the black shaw! the back o? head and shoulders, a dark biue and a checked gingham apron said that last October a bralfd had been cut from her hair while nome, She was iwakened that time and did not Wie attacked her No report of tha’ occurrence was made to the police then by the familly. Emil Zabb, the girl's father, is a ha- ker. Hie went to work at 5 a. m. and left the rear door unlocked. The poiice that the negress entered = the by that door, as she left tha: negzress Wore a hie r skirt She aiso she wae aslee p at nar fee belleve house way. Fliowers Given With Newspapers, SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., April 28. —There is a newspaper war on in this City. The price was cut until the dealers gave them away. Then one aggressive dealer commenced to give a three-cent carnation away to each female purchaser of a two-cent news. gtk Vaile yas ae # y ras . o .

| $18,000, and that what ‘charge, | that, the penalties of the | McPherson says in | recital this Court cannot ; Ze-cent passenger rates would be fixed 'for the stronger roads, the others. ‘lature, _course, when I said as above

—— — m5 f, ee DERAL JUDGE USES TO FIA PASSENGER FARE McPherson Thinks 2'42 Cents Right for Some Roads, 4 for Others.

LEGISLATIVE QUESTION Lawmakers Must Determine After Receiving Reports of Experts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 28.—A sup- plementary decision in the 2-cent fare and freight-rate cases, involving the 18 railroad operating in Mis- souri, was the Federal Court here today by Judge Smith McPherson of Red Oak, Io. Judge McPherson declines to recede from his first opinion, rendered March § last, either in the matter of division of the costs of the proceedings or change original holding that C‘ourt cannot fix rates. In effect; the decision means that the railroads and the State must each pay one-half of the costs, which aggregate the Court refuses the roads’ petition that it state specifically passenger rates they’ should companies filed in to his the AS was the -contention -that error in its original to in the Court opinion, in statutes ren- them Judge McPherson now der void, | bolds that this section of the State stat- /utes imposing penalties is void. Thinks 24 Cents Right. On the peint of fixing the rates Judge part: made my opinion act, “Complaint is in legislative because of the that ‘“‘it being a and not a judicial one, fix rates. If it could, and three for But that is for the Legis- acting itself with experts such the State employed in these cases, or through a commission with like as- sistance. ‘My statement that ‘it being a legisla. tive act, and not a judicial one, this court cannot fix rates,’ is not contro- verted by any one. This being so, as of is obiter But because it is dictum, is no as dictum. reason whatever for not saying it, and | still less a reason for now eliminating it from my opinion. “] believed it proper to say that the strong roads should have 2% cents per passenger per mile, and the weaker roads 3 cents. I could have fairly stated i that the St. Louis & Hannibal, and the Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield rail- roads should have 4 cents or more per passenger per mille. “T still adhere to those views, and en- tertaining them, I know of no reason for not stating them, with reasons for believing it was my duty to state them. Passengers, like consumers, have rights. One of these rights is to have fares fixed reasonably low. But the term rea- sonable is a comparative one. It must be in proportion to what it is worth, and the better the service, the more it is worth. And the public is entitled to have, with the right to demand, ef- ficient service, provided always such is paid for. Needs of Labor. ‘Much in argument was said by coun- sel on both sides as if an arbitrary flat is that is involved, regardless of service and regardless of all other things. Whether the trains are expensive or inexpensive, daylight or night trains, through or local trains, main line or branch trains, roads through the hills of Central Missouri or the Ozarks, over the prairies, and whether’ the trains carry few or many passengers, are matters largely passed over of no importance. rate or as if “To me they seem of great importance. So it is as to the greatly increased cost of materials compared with ten vears ago. The average fare puid per year, aside from the low Patek: is less than $6 per year, commer- cia! travelers excepted. To reduce that to $4, thereby saving $2, is, of course, ot importance. So are other matters of importance. ‘Aside excursion from having efficient service, to be paid for at remunerative rates, the labor men, the elnployes, Thev have the right to be well paid for their work, in day time and night time. sunshine and storm, during the exces- sive heat of the summer and the rigors have rights. of winter. “Their hazardous and most dangerous service entitles them to remunerative compensation, Which they cannot with meagerT earnings of the roads. “Evidences of humanity and Kindly feeling for their fellow men need not be wholly displayed toward the man who pays $6 per year for passenger fares. A kindler disposition would suggest an equitable division of sympathy. Thou- sands and thousands of them have al- ready been ‘let out’ because of de- creased earnings, and more are to fol- low, with diminished compensation for those from necessity retained.” Attorney-General Major made public vesterday a letter written to the execu- tive heads of Missouri railroads, stating that he, as the State's legal representa- tive, would not treat Judge McPherson s pronouncements &8 final, and warning them not to Increase the rate above 2 have cents. Post-Dispatch is the only evening news iin St. Louis that receives or . as: e

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CLERKS FATE 10 REST WITH TAFT If President Refuses Pardons Sentences Can Be Deferred at Intervals.

William A. Smith, Gray and George F. bank clerks, the formerly were ar- United States Judge raigned together in District Court before Dyer Wednesday morning and pleaded guilty to embezziement. As they stood before the bar tears flow#d freely. Their moth- ers wept audibly and tears coursed freely down the faces of both the young men, while the eyes of even the law- yers were moist. With Gray were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gray, and Dr. Harris H. Gregg, pastor of the Wash- ington and Compton Avenues Presby- terian Church, who has taken a great interest in the young man’s troubles, When the youths had pleaded guilty District Attorney Blodgett addresseu the Court and made an appeal for them. He said he did not belleve, with au- thoritics, that when a man. pleaded guilty he should get the maximum pun- ishment. He asked that sentence be de- ferred. some Sentences Suspanded, Judge Dyer said he believed, as they had never done a criminal act before. they should be given a chance to re- trieve their careers, and he would sus- pend sentence until the November term of court. This will give their friends an op- portunity to lay the case, with its ex- tenuations, before President Taft and plead for a pardon for them. If the pardon is not forthcoming by that time the sentence may be deferred from time to time until five years have expired, and their sentence dated back. Both are 21 vears old. Gray nail clerk in the National Bank Commerce, and embezzled $875. Smith was mail clerk the Third Nationa] Bank and took $1200 worth of coupons, which he deposited in a Cleveland Trust Co. to his credit under a fictitious name. The surety companies, which were on the bonds of both, dropped prosecy- which led to the belief that thev had taken had been The prosecution was under- the instance of postoffice in- was of in the re- tion, money turned. taken at spectors. SELLS WIFE'S KISSES AT S10 A MILLION; SHE DIDN'T KNOW iT

Purchaser Learns Love Letters From Woman Were Written by Hus- band and He Prosecutes. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 28.—Cheste M. Hemesher. in the Federal Court here has pleaded mujity to ing his wife's name to love letters whic) he wrote to Neil Johnson, a man of Atchison, Kan., and sentenced to a year in jail. The Postoffice Department could have made no obfection if Hamsher had no: been so mercenary in his motives. “Please send $10 by return matil—here are a million kisses for you''—that was the objectionable part of the letters ty the eyes of the Federal officials. The correspondence lasted six month« and Johnson was mulcted of nearly $50 before he became aware of the decep- tion and put the case before the Post. a charge of sign Wen thy has been LL POLICEMAN ~ IWAN ON CIT Logansport (Ind.) Patrolman Slays One Before Dying in Duel on Bridge.

LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 28.—A pa- trolman, Joseph Kroeger, and a pick- pocket, whose name is unknown to the police, were killed in a duel with re- volvers late last night. A second pick- pocket, Charles Pierce of Scranton, Pa., Was captured this morning by police- men chasing him on.a handcar, six miles north of this city, and is charged with having fired the shot that killed the policemen. After a night performance of a circus, the thugs raided the crowd with re- volvers in their hands. Two of the crooks established a_ station on the Third street bridge. They not only robbed the passersby, but they forced their victims to line up against the rail! to see their successors despoiled. Patrolman Kroeger charged upon then and one of the thugs shot him. The po- liceman fell, but was able to draw his revolver and reply. One of the men went down. The other fled. The po- liceman, carried into a_ restaurant, moaned, “I’m dying. Call my wife and baby.” He lived only a few minutes. The pickpocket died this morning In St. Joseph's Hospital. Priests and nurses tried in vain to get a statement of his identity from him. As he was dving a priest bent over him with a last appeal. Summoning all hts strength, the man shouted: “You go to hell."" He fel! back dead.

—_-_-_—__- WE WIN SOME SHOWERS ALL RIGHT, BUT WILL WE EVER, - EVER WIN ANOTHER GAME? TEMPERATURES, noon) Pp. mm. 3 ip. THE Midnight “LT guese Abdui Hamid feels all cut up over the loss of his job as sald the

Sultan, ° bacheiot “seu 80603 pretty bad. but tue worst is yet ‘9 come,’’ replied the married man. “How's that?’ “Well, those wise Young Turks put off the revo- lution until after Abdul s 400 wives had the'r epring outfits. lust walt until they send the bilis 'o Abdul. Theuw his real troubles will com-

mence,* The office! forecast: Unsettied weather, with showers tonight and Thursday; warmer Wednesda, night: “Outherly winds; minimium temperaturs tonight, 6 degrees. The river is at 222, a fall of 4

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(BEACH HARGIS IS SENTENCED 10 AVE LIFE TERM Mother Hears Son’s Fate After Night Vigil at Jury- Room Door.

IRVINE, Ky., April 28.—Beach Hargis today was egentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his father. The jury had been out eighteen hours, during which time the voung defendant's mother waited in the courtroom to hear the fate of her son. The attorneys for the commonwealth finished their argument at 6 o'clock evening and the case went to a jury for a second time. Mrs. Hargis passed the night in court With attorneys Young and Redwine for the defense and Byrd and Kash for the ‘commonwealth. Early this morning the courtroom was crowded by those anxious to hear the, outcome. Mrs. Hargis had passed all her time and spent most.of her fortune in her behalf since her husband was slain. She was at the defendant's side constantly during the two trials and took the stand in an effort to justify the young man‘s crime. In the first trial the jury disagreed. me a ae a ee ee ee CABANNE GETS BUY; 10 STAR HOME AT ONCE Child Kidnaped by Branden- burg Is Restored to Father in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.—James S. Cabanne IIL, who was smuggled out of St. Louis by Broughton Brandenburg, was today taken from the detention home and given to his father, James Shepard Cabanne Jr. of St. Louis. Mr. Cabanne expects: to start home with his son this evening. INTER-INSURANCE BILL PASSES HOUSE, NOW GOES TO HADLEY ee ae -ewemees Authorizes Persons, Firms or Cor- poration’ to Enter Into Mutual Insurance Arrangements. JEFFERSON CITY, April @&—The House today passed the intersinsurance bill and it now goes to Gov. Hadley for his signaiure. It authorizes persons, firms or corporations to enter into mu- tual insurance arrangements. This form of insurance ta to be exempt from all State laws and taxation. John Kennish, State Insurance Commissioner, opposed the bill. He says agents will desert the old line insurance companies and go into the inter-insurance business in erder to escape lawa for the regula- tlon and taxation of Inauranc>. son's

Hane ‘Yetes fer Income Tax. JEFFERSON CITY, April &—By a vote of 1 to MB, the House today

Vv PROFESSOR | Wood Experiments With Mit Pickering Proposes. Up to $50,000. oe * FORT WORTH OUT OF s ny Correspondent Acted With Authority. Special to the Post-Dispatch. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, practically agrees to the establishment ae of an observatory at Stamford, in West The citizens of Stamford have to put up whatever bonus Prot. Wee needs, not to exceed $50,000. ae Prof. Wood, in his dispatch, says th experiments with his ®-inch r mirror are still in progress, and he completes these, it would be to build a giant mercury miror, be glad to carry on his experiments in West Texas. ae The editor of the Star and the Tele nied today that those publications undertaken to raise $10,000,000 to out the experiment planned. by. Pickering ‘of Harvard. Bt: thorized to use paper, wired Prof. the names of the two papers. lug’s reply was that he would cuss the matter in a letter. eo---—_-- SIGNALLING MIGHT LAST YEARS BEFORE A REPLY Special to the Post-Dispatch. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apri) 2#.—Even if Texas newspapers have $10,000,000

an inswer in time for any particular edition. . astronomy in Harvard, said today thagt the flashes of light from his propose reply from the there are any, though he is open conviction on the question. a Prof. Pickering has replied to the patch received by him purporting te and the Fort Worth Star, by notif carry out his proposal if the money provided. But, he added, it would ces only one-twentieth as much, and mig to build a great observatory on plains of Western Texas. Observatory Needed Auywey. making further expenditure sary. cided to undertake the $10,000,400 sige nalling experiment, t's catch the replies. pa, Peru, in 1892," sald Prof. Picke At that time I had not much idea it would ever be carried Into effect, I proceeded to forget about it. I tures on Mars, but never thought seems to be attracting now, ‘The acheme is thie: To fix rors, each mirror 3% feet square, Gn aj telescope. Each large mirror should be made up of 1 little ones, two & shafts, thus bringing the total ft ber of large mirrora up to Moo. I¢ mate that each mirror would cost including motors, labor, att etc... thus making a total exp it a quarter of a mile square of mirror, “The shafts would be mounted | é allel to the axia of the earth, & caused to revolve by in a direction opposite

vations should show signs that intelil-~ aes it would attract the attention which %€ | .. = § » ; ; * aie i it, ve at> eee. ae > el ol ee William Henry Pickering, professor of © 2.00 mammoth mirrors might have to be kept up several years before eliciting @ iians. That is, supe + posing there are any Martians. e Pickering is not even convinced thas =| . come from the Fort Worth Telegram 7 s mentioned it now and then since tn lec rors Much Smaller Than ©” Raise Any Sum Required, ©” eee. Ce es ass S a & ¥ Vu ee FORT WORTH, Tex. April %— | oe Texas, which will be used in an effort” to communicate with the planet Mar = wae 5 - as Stamford agrees to furnish, 100 feet — in diameter. Prof. Wood says he will — gram, Forth Worth newspapers, d@- A. W. Grant of the Telegram da local newspaper correspondent, not ee the name of either i Pickering, signing ~~ Picket~ ee ot .. 4 z message received here today from Roky _ ) : ert W. Wood, professor of astronomy in ¥ ae e ready for the experiment of signalling ~~ to Mars, they mustn't expect te get 7 Pp ae, > “a ‘- ors “hed - <= “py * ae ex, t a a tae ». Py 7 those publications that he is ready to © eS * be better worth while just at present, — = te ES: “4 Ki - “g gent life existed, and it were then de ~ observatory gy | would be needed anyway, in order t et ~ Al $ 3 f = < Se = An observatory at that point might ~ give a view of Mars which would show ~ definitely that it is not inhabited, there ~~ by shattering a very popular belief and ~ unneces= | On the other hand, if the obsers “My scheme for sending signals to - Mars first occurred to me when I was at the Harvard Observatory at Arequiy — A PES $e, mon ~s =~ a A? yee <a shaft like the polar axis of an equator — its of $10,000,000. This, would make in ali one-half feet square. There should be Prk F a ho be is .