St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 6, 1909

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fy BLIND FOR EIGHT raCnTHS! OE Miss Ruenzi of St. Charles, Given Up by. Spe- cialists to Sightlessness, Restored in a St. Louis Hospital. a f attorney Is Guilty of Contempt. . Assistant Attorney- 1eral Declares Suit _ Was Justified. = oad IS QUOTED y Says Court Formally. r 'D dclared 2%-Cent Rate

eed ne aha : Is Fair. eae CITY, Mo., May 6.—Judge - MePherson, in a statement y the bench in the United States r Court here today, indicated the recent suit ed the State courts and Sitnte } from proceeding against the ?, in the present litigation. re Judge added that, on the other a. . he did mot consider that any : Of Attorney-General Elliott W./ jor =p te this time could be con- a jo not want to prejudice tihs case,” said, “but my present opinion at “Circuit Attorney Jones has in-, cE epon the jurisdiction of this i remarks of the Court came at the Pad the argument on the tempo- ' oa ee

‘talking ab Aboot the point of opder proceed in Tr and Payne fere, but Cs he had ‘ink Rucker Interrupts Speaker “Philips Should Have. Rucker of Missouri had a word or two to say, which were “that Judge Philips should have been impeached 20 years ago. ” “Mr, Speaker, on May 3 I introduced inte this Howse my reselutien asking for an investigation of the conduct of Judges McPherson and Philips in regard to the 2-cent passenger fare reduction rate law of that Sta “T also asked that the conduct ef Judge| Philips generally, as Judge of ‘the Western District of Missouri, be inves- tigated. That resolution, by my Court ‘st Ansa mt Non Anal that law. “The | and at precent : mai Loud ‘ Dee si a er + AS we C the st a : & « 4 eR oy os det ot that poe ae >) s. ' rs Naa eS ra GR SS Ban Re Be te BE 2 . ols 73 w, e # . = to. 3 a Sara * FS ¢ $h2 4 ; + * - » , e tion, was referred to the Committee on id Rules and it asked the Speaker point a committee to make that inves- as to whether it has authority to pass upon that matter, and whether or not a point of order would not lie to their re- port when it came in. a? “I shall investigate this further anc present it in my own way and good time. But this resolution in the preamble re-| views the rate situation in that State. In the Re eid an ae General what was as the freight rate law, which Ll rates on commodities in that State. “Shiai dens te oenreage ONE by! railroad companies represented Frank Hagerman ~— — ut ; Mrs.. Roberts was a widow pwhen | she became Boyd's wife. She is still oceupying the Garrison avenue home. She has dark hair and eyes, and 2 com-]} manding presence. “One for her household’ duties was that «ne why she didn’t have time]. was too busy as a member of ladies aid ' societies, missions and sewing circles,” said Boyd. ferred Rtg nn ‘oyin I | petition for a divorce.”

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