St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 27, 1910

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_ Andictments Against ‘New “York World Quashed on J urisdiction. | eae ter ro _ FIRST CASE OF KIND eee x ene against es Cee ‘Was Brought Through Spe- cial Message to Congress by Roosevelt. iss CASES PENDING - Authorities Undecided What to Do With Indictments » Found i in Washington. i Vet” Wire From the New _ York Bureeu of the Post- Dispatch. NEW YORK, Jan. 27—When United States Circuit Judge “Hough quashed the indictment | _ obtained by the Government at the instance of former President charging with) Siedes which the ievedinesa, elected to proceed, and every ob- ~ VOL. 2, NO. 160. jection pointed out by The . World was sustained by the view advanced by the Court. - As the matter now rests, the The ‘World: has n ‘sent back to the Govern- th the suggestion that it “to another market. Just the 2 ape will eave notice that ihe Gov- t would appeal from the n of Judge ‘Hongh, but it —. at all certain that such: a | of the Dasarcenes of Jus- are the other indictments |. oe The World and some of S iployes for the offense al- ged in the indictment quashed ; os iy. “There remains one indictment found at , - against the. Press sone ing Co., Mr. Pulitzer and | o editors of The World and , e against” an employe found in th Government, both end in the defeat eine Government and a victory for . final two heen and fitty- t ae 8 ot the battle Which The

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ae * 5 AL . 2» , : wa ae hon > rats” . : nas Palaae ‘dé ‘la Concorde, Shows the Louvre. on, the left, wits the Quai de Lowvre'and a stretch of ‘the River Séine ex its or » beneath. _. beneath. the’ To flood... = “IBOY 16, GIRL 14, LL THENSEL' ~ FOR THEIR LOVE} When-Parents Refuse ‘to. Let Them: Wed’ They. Die: To- gether: in *Buggy. 8 1' tothe Post-Dispatch. .MOINES, ‘Io., Jan.. 27.—Because their: ‘parents would. not let them mar- ry, Vernon’ Barr, aged’ 16, and Lina Ammer, aged” 14; vosncgh aa oe to- Their bodies were feund near Mon- fo¢,,in Vernon's buggy, in which they were riding! heme from a*dance. The girl's arms were around the boy’s neck, and his arms held her close. i They | were sittifig upright as they had been. when life fled. On: the girl's -lap rested a cup. partigily ‘filled with strych- nine ‘and’ water.” They had both drunk of this and then waited for. death, which’ was not long in*coming.* ~* Their horse,:unmindful of the tragedy: that‘had deprived, him; of a. driver, :pro- ceeded ‘on his’ way and “stopped at ‘the gateof the girl's home. There ‘her parents, alarmed .at her, continued ‘ab- sence, started to hunt for her , when they discove the ‘sad ending of, the etrl s love 7: f UNSETTLED WEATHER, WITH. | whine AND- TEMPERATURE AT if WEEZING, IS THE. OFFERING at. is j eocewtieat ase all’ about this time?” ‘asked the « opera-geer. . ’ “It isn’t to build ' the boy's body. The Quai has collapsed ‘FREMAN CLINGS Q ENGINE AST “MILLS BROTHER Tries Vainly. to Crawl.Along ‘Running Board of Locomo- tive to:-Save Victim. Thomas :Gaghen, 18 years’ old, fireman. on the’ Southern Railroad, stood help- lessly -on the. side of the engine on passenger train 2303 coming into East St. Louis at 5 o'clock Wednésday eévei- ing, @s the’ wheels of the locomotive passed over the body of -his half-brother, Eddie Hannon, 7 years old, who had been playing on the tracks. . Fireman Gaghen say the child with three other. boys in the middle of. the tracks as the train advanced on them at & speed of 20 miles an hour.,Jump- ing through the window ‘of the eab, he tried to run along the side of the locomotive with the wild: hope that. ne would be able in some,».way to reach the bpy. before the'.wheels caught: him. He had not made hajf. the distance, however, . when ‘he .stopped . still and élung,to the railing to.keep from fall- ing. He\saw the other ; children scurry to safety, and he saw his half-brother suddenly shut off from his view by the front of, the locometive,. the boy, still standing in'the middle of the track. The engineer had.also perceived the danger to the children and stopped the train .with such abruptness that only _j the wheels. of the locomotive passed over Fireman , Hannon, was the first’ to reach the ‘ground. ‘and, ‘he pulled ' the decapitated body out from under the trucks. With his fellow employes on the train, Hannon carried the body: tothe home of || his parents, Mr. arid Mrs. Patrick Han- non,’ one, block distant, at 718 North et street. en re soc ‘2, 5 stag? : eo 3 é whey if a ce > a obits ; toe a ~~

OO — aa ALL GH! BOARD:NEAR NAPLES Unidentified: "Steamer Believed ito ss Founde' ber “et ¥ : fa, Oe ge ates z —————— ee Se tale of disaster. “SE 10 RISE , )| INCHES; HIGHEST NOW SINCE 1615 Parisians’ Joy T oy Turned to Hor- ror When Halt in Stage Proves Temporary. — ARE CAVED IN Water Rushes Through His- toric Buildings and Under- mines Famous Plants. EPIDEMIC IS FEARED People Are Warned Against Drinking Water, Polluted by Wreckage. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. PARIS, Jan. horror this afternoon when was turned to the Seine, 27.—Joy which had remained stationary at noon, inches at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Late today the Fluvial clared the flood which has left death and disaster in its wake would increase eight inches before recorded a rise of two Department de the crest was reached. The stage of the water this morning exceeded all records back to 1615, and .up to noon the river continued to rise at the rate of three-quarters of an/‘inch an Then the Seine was stationary hour. came the report that in its upper reaches and the people rejofced, only to learn that the rise was continuing and that the end had not yet been reached. U. S. Ambassador Forced Out. The water was forced back above the Pont de L’Alma and *poured into the Cours-D’La-Reine, which, now is‘ sub- merged to..a depth. of, two- feet. residence of United States Ambassador Bacon has become untenable and the family has removed to the Mercedes Hotél. There have been further cave- ins in a dozen streetsjand avenues. - The afternoon -pa print™in “Black tybe a warhing to the public against {drinking the water of the flood or eat- ing stale vegetables and@ fruits. § ° The water is three feet deep in, most of the subway lines and the streets in the fashionable St. Germain quarter are — | submerged. The Red Cross Society, which has re- ceived a substantial check from, Am- bassador- Bacon, today established soup kitchens for the destitute at a hundred points. This afternoon Mr. Bacon called upon Foreign Minister Pichon and in- formally tendered the sympathy of the American Government and people. The diplomat also asked if financial assist- ance from abroad was desired. J. P. Morgan Has cabled from New York tendering $20,000.if outside contri- butions to the relief fund would be ac- ceptable. Famous Art Factory Menaced. The foundations of the National Percelain Factory at Sevres are sink- ing. At many places in that vicinity the rush of water Was so rapid that the people did not have time to leave their homes. Automobiles are’ being used to assist the fire engines in the work of pumping. The work of building temporary dykes back of the parapets, which had begun at daylight, did not cease for a moment, however. In many places the soldiers labored in three feet of water damming the openings in the parapets and con- structing great holding dykes of stone and cement. Between the Place de la Concorde and Avenue de Alexandre, where the water had begun to flow over the parapet, 1000 men were busy erecting a wall in the middle of the road to keep the waters out of the Champs Elyssee quar- ter. 7 The government of the munitipality has placed the military barracks and public school buildings at the disposal of the refugees, who already number, it ig estimated, more than 100,000. Fifteen thousand laborers are out of work and though subscriptions are pouring in, $200,000 having been raised last night of which $140 was -ontri- buted by the American Chamber of Commerce. The Government today de- cided to ®sk Parliament for an addition- al credit to be used in relief? work Vault of Tunnel Gives Way. Every minute today brougrt a new At 8.9’clock the veult of the Orleans Rallway tunnel gave way at the Rue Git-Le-Coeur, Another bad cave-in occurred in the:Rue Lille, flood- ing the quarters’ of the German Em- bassy. The buildings of the Foreign Office were surrounded by water this morning end abandoned. The main drain under the Champs de Mars broke during the forenoon and the blanket of water ex- tended back to the Invalides, where re- pose the bones of Napoleon. Several subsidences have occurred in the Place de la Concorde, the Rue st. Honore abd the Rue de Lappe. The basements of the Grand Palace and the Ani se a. 1 Medeggere Fallteres are pe

The! law; ne and it Six Men in Police Court Take but Three Min- utes to Adjudge Cor- poration Guilty of Il- legal. Occupancy of Montrose Avenue. Each Day Constitutes a Separate Offense and the Amount of the Fines May Run Upte $1,000,000--McChes- ney a Witness. JURY HEARING FIRST CASE AGAINST THE TERMINAL HE following jury was se- lected to try the Montrose avenue cases ‘against. the Terminal Association: Mathias W. Becker, Val. A. Reis Piano Co: Alexander J, Burtens, cross Printing Co. Guy HR. Alexander, paying tel- ler, Mercantile Trust Co. Louls Becktold, secretary Beck- told Printing Cc. William Buskind, salesman, 1015 Washington avenue. Albert W. Albrecht, vice-presi- dent Schoellhorn-Albrecht Ma- chiacry Co. salesman, Schall- A jury if six business men, after being: out three mitutes, Thursday . afternoon, found. the Termitial ‘Railroad © “Association |: guilty of placing its. tracks un- lly on: Moittroge: impésed, a ‘i. of. ‘$400 costs. ©The highest: fitie ‘it could have;imposed was $500. ; Attorney ‘Sam’ G: McChesney, son of the president: of the Ter- | ev minal Association and ‘one of the lawyers for the defense, said an appeal would be taken to tlie Court..of Criminal Correction, The $300 fine, if sustained, would open the way to fines aggregat- ing $1,000,000 or more, as under the city ordinances, every. day of’ unlawful obstruction of a street may be dealt with as a sep. arate offense, and there are nu- merous eases of long standing which ‘could be brought against the Terminal. - Police Court Trial. The case was tried. before Judge Tra- cy in the Clark Avenue Police Court, as the offense charged was‘ a erect meanor. A parallel case, involving the com- pany’s occupancy of -Atlantic street, went te trial before another jury at 2% Dp. m. Thursday, a few. minutes after the verdict in the Montrose avenue case was returned. The practical effect of.e defeat to the Terminal! in these cases, it is believed, will be to oust the Terminal, and . all otner railroad corporations, from streets which they occupy by virtue of mayoral permits and without authority of city ordinances. , The prosecutions, inatituted by City Attorney Anderson, charged violation of the erdinances by placing on public highways obstructions not authorized by ordinance and by operating trains over streets. Arbitrary Comes” Up. In arguing the case, Attorney Ander- son referred to the bridge arbitrary and the 25-cent passenger charge as indicat- ing that the Terminal has pursued a policy oppesed to the city’s welfare. At- torneys for the defense objected to this, but Judge Tracy ruled that they had paved the way for it by attacking An- derson’s motives and.by declaring that the Terminal was helping the city’s business. , Attorney McChesney and his associate, Matt Holland, charged that Anderson was “playing to the galleries” in bring- on the and said’ that no citizen had requested him to take such action. pericie: replied by ‘saying that John G. Gorman had asked him to act against the M., K. & T. Railroad in 4 similar case, and thet the road had removed. the track in question as soon as he com- ay with them. He was thus lea, . " said, to look into the question of Kae ———- | BR, xj ee és say aoe ; a7 . 5 ae Bt. Sos § i = be rie a eens ae 8 oe 13 3 “#84 tal 5 x 4 me o> aa a r & 4 . - erme * : & r- + - - 4 eee id

é. entertig covet court when called as” a _witnegs agaihgt his ow ia Insane Patient in n City: Poor House’ Stricken Following | Lunch of Stewed Prunes. Mrs. Josephine Klettaky. an insane inmate of the City Poorhouse, is’ dead from a three-day's’ iNness which began 30 minutes ‘after she had eaten’ stewed prunes taken to her by her hysband, Peter Klettsky, ‘and his landlady, Mrs, Theresa{Stroff. “Supt. Anderson of the Poorhouse Thursday ,reauested the Cor- oner to investigate the case, and with- } held from the’ husband the’customary notice of the Géeath. He also asked that the police refrain from siving Klettsky the information. ' The Corvnér ordered Dr. Abeken, post- mortem physician, to remove the stom- ach from the body at the Morgue and examine its contents, calling on the City Chemist for assistance if necessary. Hasband Ate Some, He Says. A Klettsky heard the news Thursday at the three-room home of ‘Mrs. ‘Stroff, where he is “star boarder,” at 184 Texas avenue. He expressed surprise, and said’ the prunes ‘eould not: have caused his wife’s fliness, as both he and Mrs. Stroff had eaten prunes from ‘the irons. jar, ‘without’ fll: éffect. ¥ Supt. Anderson placed the case ‘in the Coroner's hahds on the recommendation of Dr: R. M. Spivy ‘of the Poorhouse staff, who treated Mrs. the time her illness began Sunday after- noon“until her death at’ li a. m. —_ day. fo pe “My wife su ralgia two years ago,” he aaild, “and it affected her mind. Blie was sent to the Insane Asylum and . three or; four months ago gar tranates tps: te' arabia wie house... Fuk Bz “y have sianiies gone to see ber, from ie Kiettsky from.

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