St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 26, 1909

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H BY HIS INCE BEES i) FU PUNISHED 2 Win Robbed Girl Asks ee > to Revoke His o * * Parole. [anil | > UNABLE TO. SLEEP *) : —— ward Ryan Declares He N us + Serve Sentence for His Crime. iS FIRST OFFENSE i * ed Purse on Street and rt Suspended Punish- bg He Surrendered. ee f by the memory of the only - committed, the theft of a ’s purse on the street, Ed- a ‘Republican judge of elec- , bes my that he be ‘sent to the work- Pac tttioat ¢ b vse $ heen * Pe ' a 3 ee oman. Sa ip ‘pend! a * : ALY. aside from ’ z

a ozer ® dy gett te, pene ey 4 ‘ae my . IN MAVILIS as RNNCUINCING LOST.CASES SANDERSON, Wil WRECKED AUTO 4 WEEKS AGU, OUT Supervisor of “City Lighting Resigns His Place, to Take Effect Dec. 31.

Nearly four weeks after the midnight Halloween accident which wrecked a city automobile in which he was riding in Forest Park, Harry Schley Sander- son, Supervisor of City Lighting, sub- mitted his resignation to the Board of Public Improvements Friday. Sanderson said that his action was not caused by the accident, or by Comptrol- ler Taussig’s refusal to pay for the re- pairing of the automobile. He also de- nied that friction with President Reber of the Board had influenced him in his decision. He said he intended to go into private electrical business. Before his appointment in 1907 by An- drew J. O’Reilly, then president of the ard, Sanderson was in the business of adjusting consumers’ accounts with Electric Light & Power Co. It has been known at the City Hall for some time that Sanderson and Presi- dent Reber were not in harmony. San- derson explained, after the recent acci- dent, that he was riding through Forest Park to make sure that the gas lamps there had not been put out of service by Halloween pranksters. His wife and another woman were with him, and. the guest was injured. The resignation takes effect Dec. 31. The vacancy will be filled by Presi- dent Reber, with the aproval of. the board. Sanderson is a relative of Rear Ad- miral Schley. ASKS GOVERNMENT INQUIRY INTO FOOD-PRICE ADVANGE Head of People’s Institute Cites Armour’s Large Earnings as One Reason. : NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Charles Sprague Smith, head of the People’s Institute, says that the advance in the prices of the necessaries of life calls Government investigation. He > 3 that after his Thanksgiving dinner yes- terday he was handed a slip df paper on which was printed the following true statement: ‘for the year ended Oct. 23, Armour & Co. earned, over and above taxes, €x- penses and interest on its bonds, $7,127,- 924, which is equivalent to about 2% per cent on its $20,000,000 stock.’ It is known that Armour & Co. gave these startling figures to the Stock Bx- change. They had never before made public their earnings. But when they desired to list $30,000,000 bonds, the cor- poration, under the rules of the ex- change, was forced to make a watery of its earnings.

LYNN, Mass., Nov. 26.—A high wind, which blew down

MAN WHOIS EDITING NEWSPAPER WHILE SERVING 60 DAYS IN JAIL electrical companies, chiefly the Union} Wind Closes Damper; 2 - Asphyxiated, | the chimney and{n closed the dimper of a parlor stove, | 8 _| caused the deaths by coal gas asphyx-|0U { |iation of Charles ae on. si nis

ILIENEN I pSAPPONTED I A CHERRY HERD “I’m Not What I Said Last Night,” Says Prisoner. Responsible for - When ‘Harry McGee was escorted frem a holdover cell into the reception room of Central District Police Station Friday morning, the office force was a reception committee, lined up at the desk rail awaiting his coming. When arrested at Union Station Thursday night McGee announced he was one of the 20 survivors of the Cherry (Ill.) mine disaster. **Let ® shake hands with -you, old man,’’ said Sergt. Mike Drissell, “Much obliged,” replied McGee. “Guess “you had a pretty tough time of it, eh?” said Drissell, - “T did that, you can bet.”’ replied MeGee, recalling his experience of the night before, when he was taken into custody’ for having too much liquor aboard. “Couldn't you .get any water drink?” asked the telephone boy, great admirer of Explorer Cook. “Only a drop now and then on the side,’ replied McGee. “Of course, he didn’t get much wa- ter,” said the clerk, as he picked up two pieces of rock McGee was carry- ine when arrested. ‘“‘Here are the stones he used’ to squeeze moisture from the earth,”’ “How did you get here from Cherry?” asked Drissell. “T didn’t come from Cherry,” said Mc- Gee. “I came here from Witt, Ill, and I’m on’my way to Glouster, O.” “Didn’t you work in.the mine at Cher. ry?” asked Drissell, in surprise. “T should say not,” replied McGee. “T worked on @ farm at Witt.”’ “Well, you told everybody around Union Station last night that you were rescued from the mine at Cherry,” Drissell. “T’'m not responsible for what I said last night,” said McGee. A moment later the stones which had been prized so highly all night by ‘the Central District office force were ly- to a

| Daniels, near Daniels’ ithe river to this county, and the other

PRICE ONE CENT KENTUCKY AE OOS EO ALEPPO LO AEE “¢ ns J ae % tiie = ge 7 \ - % 4 vi a S a “4 . a * A = . f a £ 3 3 % at ‘ - K - % x : % be ‘ ‘ s i 3 ~~ a * They Are Shot to Death by 1 Bent on Arresting Older Wor - an’s Husband and His Brott

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Special to the Post-Dispatch. WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Nov. 26.—Mrs, Charles Ds her 16-year-old daughter were shot to death by 1 sheriff’s posse as, firing shotguns from the doorway of 1 tucky home, they guarded the retreat of Charles Daniels & brother, James, feudists. One of the members of the posse was wounded in t the mother before the others fired a volley on the two 3 she fell, the daughter fired her shotgun for the last t shot, rising in the air, scattered over the members of The women’s resistance gave the men time to: are now at large in the foothills of the lan The two Daniels families lived near, you,” shouted 8 ve Ww Ransom, Pike County, Ky., across the] iff and . ; Big’ Sandy River. County, W:. Va., families named Christian, with whe: one of the Daniels families was connect- ed by marriage, A feud broke out between the Daniels: and Christian families, and after se eth y and fir od to hostile demonstrations, George Chris-| ; | . fret. 1 er 1 tian was killed three weeks ago "7 Jim , er h e ud body home. SR Eos esis gece omai og nani Christian’s body “was sent across tah” sage _ members of the family swore venge- ance. Neighbors discouraged them from trying to avenge the killing, and some of the Christians, heavily armed, went across the river a few days ago to Kentucky, and swore out. warrants against Jim and Charles Daniels in Pike County. Charles was accused of having been an accessory to. the killing of George Christian. Called Upen Posse. The Sheriff asked a posse’s aid in serving the warrants, and the Christ- lans and a number of their friends accompanied him. At the home of Charles Daniels, the posse saw both the brothers in the yard. As the Sheriff was about to approach them with the warrant, the wife and daughter appeared in the doorway, leveling shotguns at the party. “Keep out of here, or we'll kill TWO FAMOUS. AR PILOTS DI | IN A BALLOON Dr. Brenckmann and Hugo Francke Killed Sailing From ‘Berlin Suburb. men who were in the wor women they did not nett suit. Send Ponti ould: da Most of the Christian family ¥ ave turned to their homes on™ this s the river. The Sheriff of Pike believed their presence, after pened, would make it more diffici deal with the paattiven. and asked th

By Associated Press. BERLIN, Nov. 2%.—Dr. Brenckmann and Hugo Francke, the two most daring members of the@Aero Club of \Berlin, have been killed through the collapse of their balloon ‘‘Kolmar.”’ Their bodies were found today near Fiume, Austria-Hungary. Near by was their balloon, a huge rent in the en- velope telling the story of their death. Brenckmann had been the third person to insure his life with the newly formed company, which takes air navigation risks. He was connected with the char- ity hospital of Berlin and Francke was | an architect, Their aerial exploits in the