St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 9, 1910

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— — |OUR OWN DELEGATES BRAVE THE TERRORS OF NEW YORK’S FEARSOME COAST, AND LIVE

ss NO SUPPORT FOR “BUSCH LINE BILL ~ AVERS ROMBAUER Speaker of House Believes His Committee Was Slight- | ed by Council.

a — — — — — * v Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, MO., July 9.-- Governor Hadley received notice. this morning that the Committee on Award had concluded its work and is ready to award prizes to fifteen winners in the contest for the five acre farm in Taney County. Anton Opperman, of 2317 Ed- wards street, St. Louis, won the farm and fourteen others get prizes. The con-

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— abe > ES Ee Declares He Will Resign Rather Than Rush Ordi- nance to Passage. ARRANGED BY COUNCIL Lawmaker Says Upper Body Ignored Delegates in Mak- \ ing Al Arrangements. Rather than rush to passage a bill authorizing the Marmufacturers’ Rail- -‘wa3 to build and own railroad ap- hes to the Free Bridge, Speak- er pmbauer of tme House of Dele- gata ttes may absent themselves to mt the presence of a quorum to er the measure during the sum- pr con mer. President Gundlach of the Council and ‘ouncilmen Schutz and Schneid- erhain, who induced the Busch road to mke the proposttion, are in fa- vor f continuing sion pf the Munictpal Assembly in the ope of bringing about compe- titiorthat will abolish the Terminal’s arbitary, Thee wag no quorum at the meeting of th Council Saturday. The only membrs. present were Schneiderhahn and ispenschied. They adjourned the meetig until 5 p. m. Monday. Members of thé House of Delegates, will be in- vited, jetween now and Monday, to at- tend th conference on the Manufactur- er’s Rilway proposition, the Council- men sad. jelegates Feel Slighted, At tro conferences between mém- bers o the Council and representa- tives attorneys of the Manufac- turers’ Railway, Friday, the bill was prepara and submitted in the rough | io City Counselor Walther who is sai¢dto have pronounced it legally unobjetionable. Speaer Rombauer and other dele- gates re smarting under what they re- gard wa slight given to them and Mayor Kreismann by President Gund- jach, afd Councilmen Schutz and Schneiierhahn. The task of finding rail- roads viling to use the free bridge was intrustel by Mayor Kreismann to a 1g joint committee of the Assem- bly las’ spring. Presient Gundlach and —— Drew ad Fitzsimmons were selected to represet their branch of the Assembly. Delegats Hildenbrandt, Samel and Igoe were clywen to act for the House. At thi preliminary negotiations with officials pf the Manufacturers’ Rail- way, nom of the House’s representa- . Delegates Hilden- | tives wen present. brandt, S&imel and Igoe say they were | not invit@l to any of these discussions. When he propositon from the Manu- facturers Railway was unfolded to Mayor Hreismann, Speaker Rombauer, Presiden! Reber of the Board of Public Improvenents and several delegates, Thursda; afternoon, they had their first intimatim, they explain, that a definite -effer hal been received from the com- pany.

Members Disagreed. After the written proposal had been read and discussed, Councilmen Schutz paid f; was of such import to the city that the Assembly should postpone its adjournment to decide whether it should be accepted or rejected. Speaker Rombauer opposed that plan,’ ‘contending that the very importance of the subject obligated the Assembly to consider it carefully and with delibera- tion. Mayor Kreismann took a like view. The dispute about adjournment eventu- ’ ally provoked Speaker Rombauer to - leave the conference. Before the con- . ferees separated, however, it was agreed that there ‘should be another meeting According to Speaker Rombauer, Dele- gate Hildenbrandt, Deiegate Igoe and Delegate Samel, they received no word from President Gundlach Friday, not- withstanding that he and Councilmen Schutz and Schneiderhahn had two con- ferences with President George F. “Moore and attorneys of the Manufac- turers’ Railway. Speaker Going on Vacation, When inform tion of these confer- says he will resign, and other the present ses-j. test was for the best plan arrangement for a five acre farm. The tract is lo- cated in Taney County, on the White river and is worth twenty dollars an acre, according to J. H. Curran, state immigration commissioner, who origin- ated the contest. The names of other prize winners and honorable mention «contestants follow: Second prize, a dairy cow; Mrs. Kath- eriyn Mookbee, Hughesville; Third prize, mowing machine, Hether 8S. Wray, St. Louis; Fourth prize, incubator, Mrs, D. D. Lamm, Sedalia; Fifth prize, milk separator, Mrs. W. Y. Bran, St. Louis. The following received $5 prizes: Mrs. H. C. Barnhart, St. Louis; Mrs. T. C. Patterson, Springfield; Mrs. C. A. Gif- ford, St. Louis; Mrs. O. L. McBride, Racine, Mo.; Eugene Johnson, Rolla; John Muehlhauser, St. Louis; Mrs. W. L. Mesplay, Nevada; Belle Shéllion, Marshfield; O. S. Gerber, St. Louis. Honorable mention: Mrs. Mary Ann Gerber, St. Louis; Mrs. A..L. Mattoon, Parkville; Leroy C. Davidson, Spring- field; John M. McCue, Auxvasse. The judges were Norman J. Colman, T. C. Wilson, C. J. Clark, A. J. Gray, A. T. Nelson. SHOWERS. WILL TAKE THE EDGE OFF HEAT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY, THANK YOU THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday’s Temperatures. Misaimum 92 at 4 p. m. . 74 at 6 a. m. “Well, they ought to be prosecuted,”

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ences was given to Speaker Rombauer, he declared that he would resign from the House rather than take part in the | “railroading” ef the Manufacturers’ bill “through the-Assembly. “It wasn’t a strange experience for ‘Mme to get no invitation to the confer- ence Friday,”” Delegate Igoe said. “I have never been invited to any of them,” said Igoe to a Post-Dispatch re. porter. ‘I have been all along debating with myself whether I shouldn't resign , om the committee.” £ Bl In Submitted, _ -Offieiale and attorneys of the Manu- Be facturers’ Railway all Friday in | founding the company’s | tion into _ the form of an ordinance and in discus. ~, Sons with members of the Council, a p When this undertaking was accom- | , the bill was submitted to Pres. th and Councilmen Schneid- said the Straphanger, swaying as the car rounded the SLUPSKY Is Taylor avenue NOT THE ONW curve. ONE STUCK ON Money «

“TIT don’t know about that,” con- tended the End Seat Hog. “This is a free country.”’ “Of course, we don’t have to trade with them if we don’t want to,” agreed the Strap- hanger. “But, then, unless we take along a pair of hand = scales, how are we to know which ones to avoid?’’ “I supposed you were talking about the noise makers.”’ “No, indeed. But what I am wonder

**What?’’ “Why they don’t turn the Free Bridge over to the grocers, and let them intro- duce the short-wait system for it.”’ Official forecast: Showers tonight and Sunday; cooler. Stage of the river is 8.2, a fall of 3 Missouri—Thunder showers Saturday night or Sunday; cooler Saturday night and in east and south portions Sunday. Uilinois—Thunder showers Saturday night or Sunday; cooler Sunday and in north and west portions Saturday night. COROMILAS AND BRIDE SAIL NEW YORK, July 9.—Lambroge A. Coromilas, the Greek Minister to the United States, sailed on the American liner St. Louis for England today with his bride, who was Miss Anna Ewing Cockrell, the daughter of former United States Sen: tor Cockrell. The bridegroom and bride will spend their honeymoon in Greece.

Briggs. HEAT Former Hotel Keeper and Terror to Tramps Admits One Man Fooled Her.

Mrs. Mattie Crews of East Alton, on whose complaint George Briggs of Alton is in jail on the charge of embezzlement, now says she let him have $1060 because he made such lovely love to her. Mrs. Crews is 56. Briggs is 3% and married. Mrs. Crews says she thought until a month ago that he was single. She became acquainted with Briggs two years ago, when he boarded for a time at the Crews Hotel, conducted by Mrs. Crews of East Alton. From that time, she says, he called on her regularly, took her buggy riding and made love to her. A year ago, she says, he persuaded her to sell her hotel. Instead of selling it for cash, however, she traded it for a home on Dry street, and the buyer of the hotel assumed her building associa- tion obligations. He had told her, she says, that after the hotel was sold they would be married and he would take her to California. How He Got the Cash. Last February she heard that he was married. He denied it. Feb. 17, at his suggestion, she says, she sold her home for $1050 and turned the money over to him to deposit in his own name in Al- ion. This, she says, was in the expecta- tion that he was to be her husband and that argument was used by him to per- suade her to let him deposit it in his name. - A month ago, when she learned post- lively that he was married, she warted her money. He had given her his note for $700 of it. He then presented a claim of $200 as commissions for himself and his partner in the real estat business. He had returned $50 to her. He offered her the remaining $100, but she refused it, he says. She had him arrested. His hearing has been continued to Sat- urday afternoon before Justice Glass. Grand Jury Will Be Asked to Investigate Double Tragedy in Newark.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEWARK, O., July 3.—Adjutant-Gen- eral Weybrecht, morning to see if it were necessary to who came here this bring State troops to maintain order, declares that Sneriff William Linke and the Licl..ng County authorities are re- sponsi>le for the lynching of Detective Carl Etherington last night. Wey- brecht says the lynching could have been easily pr.vented had troops been called in tie. The mob that hung young Ethering- ton battered on the doors of the jail for two hours before forcing entrance. During this tims Sheriff Linke says he was in his residence adjoining the jail using the telephone in an effort to get Gov. Harmon to send militia to Newark. While the mob was battering at the doors of the jail, Etherington spent his time praying and writing a letter to his parents, farmers living near Willisburg, Ky. Then he tried to end his life by wrapping his coat around his head and setting it on fire. Other prisoners inter- fered and saved the young man for the mob. Several Prisoners Escape. When the jail doors finally gave way young Etherington was grabbed and hustled to the street. Seven or eight prisoners held for petty offenses es- caped, only one refusing to ‘leave the

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His wife has gone to Dow to try to get money to repay Mrs. Crews from Briggs’ . parents. Mrs. Crews says if she gets her money back she will not prosecute She Has Love Letters. Mrs. Crews has a bale of love let- térs which she asserts she received from Briggs, to reinforce her state- ment that he made love to her. One that she showed to a Post-Dispatch reporter was ¢sted April 23, 1910, at California, Mo6., where she says Briggs had gone on business. It read: My Dear Friend: I received your letter and was more than glad to hear from my loved one. Haven't much time to write. The work is taking all mv time. I hope you will sell by the time I get back. My dear, I think about you all the time. I wish you was with me now. I will send you all my love. Write soon. Bye, bye, dear. GBHRORGE BRIGGS. Mrs. Crews ran the Crews Hotel for ten years. Her husband died four years ago. At East Alton she earned @ reputation as a tramp nemesis. Every tramp who came to her hotel for something to eat was marched to the woodpile at the point of a re- volver by Mrs. Crews and compelled to saw wood. IS FATAL TO BAKER Nick Bell, 30 years old, died at the City Hospital at 5 a. m. Saturday from the effect of Friday afternoon’s heat, aggravated by the nature of nis em- ployment as a baker. Bell was overcome shortly before 6 p. m. at the Heydt Bakery, 1609 Biddle street. . The hospital author- ities did not learn his address.

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We fell just from our customary Friday record of beating the ‘‘three next best papers combined’’ in the volume of local mer- chants’ display advertising, yesterday, but came within 6 columns of doing it, the PO versus 64 columns in the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times added together. These little slips do occur occasionally in the dull months, but rarely when the sults are possible. It is keeping everlastingly at it that brings results in advertising. Don’t forget—‘“‘all low-priced advertising is not cheap.’’ * Circulation books open to all. , —* 2. * owe + — *&* 14 eg: 0 — *

down a little ST-DISPATCH carrying 58 merchants feel that big re- structure. Etherington: was taken a short dis- the jail and was forced to mount a box, A noose was adjusted about his neck and the rope was passed over the crossarm of a telephone pole. "He was asked if he had anything to say. “I want to warn all young fellows rot to try to make a livine the way T hive] ,done—by strike-breaking and taking jobs] like this,’’ he declared. “I had better have worked and I wouldn’t be here now.” The mob pulied on the rope and cut him short. He remained hanging for an hour while the crowd quietly left. There were hundreds of women and little children in the crowd, all eager to accomplish Etherington’s death. No member of the mbb was masked, and no attempt was made to conceal their iden- tity. The leadgrs were personal friends of William Howard who had been killed by Etherington. The lynching of Etherington was the culmination of rioting that had con- tinued nearly all day, being caused by raids on ‘“speak-easies’’ by. detectives brought here from Cleveland. In one of these raids Howard, who was for- merly Chief of Police, was shot. Seven detectives were at once arrested. Ether- ington, who admitted that he had done the shooting, was taken to the jail, while his companions were put in the city prison. News of Death Inflames Mob. Howard was taken to the hospital, where he died about 8:30 o’clock. News of his death reached the crowd sur- rounding the jail, battering rams were brought and the attack on the jail was made. , Etherington was only 22 years old. He had been engaged by the Cleveland de- tective agency only a few days ago. He had previously been working as a strikebreaker. After he was lynched the other detectives were turned loose as a measure of safety. They lost no time in leaving the city. Troops Not Called Out. “The lynching could easily have been prevented,’”” Weybrecht said today. ‘‘The established fact that the mob worked _at the jail for two hours, tells the story Oi negligence. If troops had been called ,for, when they should have been, the State of Ohio would not now be dis- graced. Fully 600 unmasked residents aided in the hanging of Etherington and will face a grand jury investigation. The authorities have caused it to be known that such an inves-igation will be made as soon as the grand jury convenes. It is said that when the detectives entered Howard’s restaurant armed with a warrant authorizing a search for liquor, Howard made no resistance, but was shot wantonly. CAPE GIRARDEAU IS FLOODED Downpour of Rain Washes Blocks From Newly-Paved Streets. CAPE GIRARDBAU, Mo., July 9.— A miniature cloudburst at noon to- day flooded the city and caused large loss to a wood block paving company that was. completing several blocks of streets. Piles of blocks were washed down Broadway into the riv- er and two streets recently relaid after a similar storm two weeks ago will have to be relaid @ second time - Basements were flooded and all streets leading to the river overran with water. The street railway is out of commission and shoppers could not reach their homes at the noon hour. The Frisco tracks on the levee

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Aeroplanists Ride the Air in Graceful Curves Like & Goldfinches. YOUNGSTER AMAZES ureat Future Predicted for eC Boy Operator Who Is Rap- idly Becoming Famous, By Associated Press.

SENATORS TIE: UP THE BROWNS

They Keep the Bases Filled and Pile Up Runs.

FIRST GAME. ST. LOUIS AT WASHINGTON. (sollol i 2/@@_ 1) CI WASHINGTON. fofofolols/@@_ i) CI THE BATTING ORDER. WASHINGTON,

Hart zell- Sb, Wallace ss, Newnam lb, Schweitzer rf, Hoffman cf, Truesdale 2b, Killefer c. Powell c., Elberfeld 3b. Gesslier rf. McBride ss. Killefer 2b. Unglaub Ib. Beckendorf c. Groom p. Umpire—O’ Loughlin. Attendance, 6500. FIRST INNING. BROWNS—Stone opened with. a line fly to left that Lelivelt got in his hands but dropped. Hartzell beat out a slow bounder over the pitcher’s head. Wal- lace sacrificed, Groom to Unglaub. New- nam singled to right, scoring Stone, Hartzell pulling up at third and the bat- ter taking second on the throw home. Schweitzer singled to center, scoring Hartzell and Newnam. Hoffman walked. Truesdale flied out to Milan. Killefer died on a grounder to Unglaub. THREE RUNS. WASHINGTON—Milan out, Hartzell to Newnam. Lelivelt hit a hot ground- er that struck Powell on the leg, and reached first in safety. Big Jack went down for the count, but after a good rubbing resumed his place in the box. Elberfeld walked. Gessler fanned. Me- Bride forced Elberfeld at second, Wal- lace to Truesdale. NO RUNS. SECOND INNING. BROWNS—Powell fanned and Stone followed siit. Hartzell died on a roller to Unglaub. NO RUNS. WASHINGTON—Killefer walked and was forced at second by Unglaub, Wal- lace to Truesdale. Beckendorf fanned. Groom struck out. NO RUNS. THIRD INNING, BROWNS—Wallace out, .McBride to Unglaub. Newman out, Beckendorf to Ungilaub. Schweitzer fanned. NO RUNS. WASHINGTON—Milan flied to Schweitzer. Lelivelt fouled out to Newnam. Elberfeld grounded out to Newnam NO RUNS. FOURTH INNING. BROWNS—Hoffman out, Killefer to Unglaub. Truesdale singled to center. On Uuglaub’s poor throw to Groom, Truesdale went to second. Killefer grounded out to Unglaub. Powell singled to center, scoring Truesdale. Stone hit to Groom, and was safe on Unglaub’s muff, Powell went to second. Hartzell flied out to Gessier. ONE RUN. WASHINGTON—Gessler flied out to Stone. McBride fouled to Killefer. Killefer bunted safely. Unglaub flied out to Wallace. NO RUNS. FIFTH INNING. BROWNS—Wallace walked. Newnam singled to left, Wallace taking second. Schweitzer grounded to Groom and the latter threw the ball over BElberfeld’s pead, scoring Wallace, Newnam going to ‘SCORE IN FIFTH —— GREAT STORM Al SEA WHEN BOUTS AND JIGGERS SAlL Two St. Louis Aldermen Praise Noble Work of Crew on Fishing Smack.

By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau ef the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, July 9.—Aldermen William J. (Boots) Brennan and James J. (Jiggers) Gallagher of St. Louis, der the escort of ‘‘Red’’ Donovan, also un- of St. Louis, blew into Washington last night from New York after a strenu- ous three days (and nights) in the me- tropolis. New York is a great town, they all agreed, but—and then followed many suggestions as to how the big town might be improved. The more they saw of New York the more they seemed to think of St. Louis, though they were willing to admit that in one or two respects,. especially as to hot weather, New York could fairly ~ be called the St. Louis of the. East. It was the first time either of the two aldermen had ever risked their lives, their consciences and their bank rolls in Gotham, and they seemed to think they had come through the flery ordeal in much better shape than had been an- ticipated by themselves or their friends. To be sure, someone nipped “Boots” Brennan’s watch fob on the train com- ing down, but whoever did it, not being equipped with a set of surgical instru- ments, failed to penetrate to the bank roll. The three big sights the .visitors saw in New York were Coney Island, the Bronx Park zoo and Chinatown. Their most thrilling experience came when they went to sea. That is, when they went to sea in a boat. That happened on Thursday and they felt like veritable Argonauts when they climbed aboard the Taurus as she was setting forth for her daily trip to the fishing banks. ‘‘Deep-sea fishing’’ is the proclamation hanging forth at her sailing pier and it is to be enjoyed for a nominal sum, tackle and bait being kept aboard for those who sail on the spur of the mo- ment, Fishing Boat “Wouldn’t Keep Still.” The Taurus is a gallant craft, and somewhat more comfortable than the bowl in which three certain other wise men once fared forth and she complet- ed her trip. of Thursday in her usual! dJecorous manner. ,None of the St. Louwisans had any criticism to make of the beat, beyond the one complaint in Which they all agreed, that she just wouldn’t keep still, even when they tied her down at the fishing grounds. “It was a terrible day out there,” quoth Mr. Gallagher. “The waves ran mountain high, the ship pitched and tossed like an Indian canoe shooting the Lachine Rapids up in the 8t. Law- rence.. I did not think we had one chance in a million of ever getting back alive. Away off in the hazy distance we could see the

INEMAN, INJURED IN TALL, LAY Ih STREET ONE HOUR Ambulance Awaited United’ Railways’* Employe, but Doctor: Did Not Give ' Word.

After a United Railways lineman had been knocked by a street car from his wagon, his skull being fractured in the 12-foot fall, he lay nearly an heur in the gutter, moaning and bleeding, be- fore he was taken to a hospital, accord- ing to eyewitnesses. | great BETHENY PLAIN, RHEIMS, France, — | July 0.—M. Labouchere, the French aviator, broke the world's record for ¢ | distance at the aviation meet here — today. He flew 340 Kilometers (211.14 z miles) im a single flight in 4 hours — 37 minutes and 45 seconds. Leon Morane, another French avi- | ator, on a new Bleriot 1060 beri | power machine, covered five kilo- | meters (3.10 miles) in 2 minutes and This is the first time that an s¢re- course faster than a mile a minute. Special to the Post- Dispatch. : ix ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 9.—A 3 multitude that densely packed three- f quarters of a mile,of board walk and, | pier went wild with enthusiasm yesterm day over the flights ty Curtiss and ~ Brookins. | over the ocean and Brookins made four at an altitude of 1400 feet. yey from his usual custom and — | aia trick work. Experts on ‘City crowds “guessed” there were 75,00 ‘spectators in this amphitheater, above — ‘which the splendid spectacle was given. — |. gy 2 * —— oa — Pi : °

56 seconds, and 10 kilometers (6.21 F miles) In 5 minutes and 47 seconds. — plane has traveled on a measured — Curtiss made three flights in his Wright machine. At one stage of his flight Brookins stopped his motor ee * and coasted with motionless propellers Curties, too, | 9 Atlantic.) = 2 +) : * Wee Oy PO ST aA NT ag PT a Regt as a aN : ‘ a “ * in et ae 28 Te SPE” PP a es ie a, ¢ Baty aT Sue? ET ee PY, war” yy ae Fo we, — 6

third, and Schweitzer to second. Hoft- were buried a f 4 | poe g~ foot deep with mud, D Bel utz, after the meeting of * * ve te — * aS —E — — * cM ee —— abitl ieee — )