St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 2, 1910

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— — ‘Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

VOL WL 95. NO. 74.

ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1910. PRICE ONE, = CENT

HEMENZ SUED BY “WIFE: CHARGES HE Employe of Brokerage Con- cern Is Defendant in Ha- beas Corpus. Proceeding, Mrs. | Hiemenz Alleging That | Little Girl Is Being ' Deprived of Het Liberty. — — — HUSBAND'S AUNT IS NAMED IN PETITION — — — Attorney Declares Plaintiff Has Tried but Failed to Ob- tain Possession of Her 5- Year-Old Daughter; Hear- ing Set for Next Monday. ; — — Mrs. Elfie Hiemenz brought habeas corpus proceedings Monday against her husband, Edward J. Hiemenz, cashier for the D. R. Francis & Bro, Commis- sion Co., to obtain possession of their 5-year-old daughter, Gladys. ; Mrs, Heimenz. who was recently re- leased from the Fulton Asylum, told a Ppst-Dispatch reporter Wednesda; that her husband: first placed her in the jAmerican Hospital in July, and then} had her sent to Fulton. “T was only nervous,” she said, “ow- ing to delicate health, Dr, Williams, superintendent of the Fulton Asylum, telephoned my mother He said A should never the firgt place Maxi ; | husband. We have n married six years, and our only trouble was that he was so ambitious he would not provide for me. He was always quoting some business maxim to the effect that a man must make his fortune in the first five years he {s in ‘Por this — he appeared to be @ iser. During our married iffe all he ver bought for. me was two | sive vats. He lived most of the time with 1y parents, who are labo people, nd paid no rent or board. “Before I permitted the habeas cor- us suit to be filed, I tol@ my mother wanted to give Edward @ last chance. jo We went to the Francis offices at 10 . m. Wednesday and asked to see him. We could see him plainly in his cage, and he rould see us. He had not been to see me since I returned from Fulton @ month ago. : “He sent another employe out to ask me what I wantea. I teld him to tell my husband I wanted to see him. He sent Out word that he was too busy to both with me. “My family has had to support me and give me clothes ever, since I was 7 But. I’ still love my husband and ‘wan?to be reconciled with him.” Deprived of Liberty, She Charges. -Hiemenz also names her hus- Mrs. .Hierr enz, - an effort 4 fjemenz had st to the State votes enourt t him. His tes —

Am CA TLIN’S SPEECH BLOCKED BY DYER

Congressional Candidate Gets No Chance to Talk in Own District. Among Republicans Wednesday there Was amused discussion of the speech that was not made by Congressiona! Candidate Theron Catlin at the Odeon rally Tuesday night. Col. L. C. Dyer, also a candidate for Congress, was the cause of Catlin’s being sidetracked, those who attended the meeting say. Catiin wants to go to Congress from the Eleventh District. The meeting was held in’ that district and it was pianned that Gov. Hadley and Catlin should be the principal speakers. Dyer, the Twelfth District candidate, climbed on the stage and asked that he be permitted to speak for 10 minutes. Catlin gave his consent. When Dyer got started the chairman couldn’t stop him and he spoke 4 minutes and was still going when Gov. Hadley arrived. When Hadley finished speaking, the crowd filed ont of the hall and Catlin was left speechless. BIG TIM SULLIVAN IS CALLED GRANDA MAN BY ITALIAN WOMAN Fact That He Made Columbus _Day Legal Holiday Wins When Other Arguments Fail. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Big Tim Sullivan who is a candidate for re-election for Senator, made a can- vass through his district yesterday, and invited his Italian constituents to come to hear him ‘talk on the issues of the campaign at Miner’s Theater on the Bowery, next Sunday night. In a Mott street tenement, which, in- cidentally, he owns, he found a woman who brusquely told him she was not ia- terested in politics and that her husband wasn’t either. “But, I am Mr. Sullivan,’’ Tim. “Maka no differ,” was the reply. “IT own this house,” continued Tim. “We always pay renta’ prompta,”’ was all the satisfaction he got. “Perhaps you don’t know,’ went on Tim as a last resort, ‘“‘that I am the man who passed the law making Colum- bus Day a legal holiday.” “Oh, you granda maa! Comma right in and eata dinner with us. Welcoma, Welcoma.”’ WHAT IN TIMES A SHOAT? CAMPAIGN ORATOR 1S ASKED He Spoke to Suburbanites Fond- ly Imagining They Were Real Farmers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Brainard H. Warner Jr.—"Bud”. Warner—is making a red-hot canvass for Congress in’ the Sixth District of Maryland, which lies just across the boundary of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Many residents in the district are employed in Washing- ton. Last night a meeting was held in Kensington, just across the line. It was attended by more than two hundred Washingtonians. One of the speakers Appealed to the gathering on the as- sumption that his hearers were farmers. He said: “Look at the low prices of the sad days of the second Cleveland adminis- tration. I remember when you farmers used to take a shoat into Washington and get only $3 for it. A good, fat shoat in these piping times of Repvwb- licanism will fetch $7.’’ “Say,” demanded a suburbanite in the audience, “what in time is a shoat, any- how?” STRIP OF FLESH FASTENS 3 KITTENS TOGETHER AT BIRTH Freaks Are Able to Stand Side by Side and They Can Walk in Unison. MIDDLEPORT, N. Y., Nov. 2.—Ti- gress, the large cat owned by James Albone, gave birth a few davs ago to three kittens, which were fastened along the length of their sides to one another; their h@ads are al! faced one way and almost in a line. They are perfect in head, body and legs, all three being able to stand at the same time and walk. They are véry active and bright and were it not for the fact that they are bound or attached to each other by a thick strip of flesh about an inch and a half in length along their sides, they would not seem different from ordinary kittens. Owing to their peculiar color, being reddish calico, white and maltese, they have been named Red, White and Blue. Two other kittens complete the lit- ter. one of the trio and seems to be the largest and strongest. MEDAL PURSUES HERO 7 YEARS Followed Nearly Around the World, Finally Is Decorated. TUCSON, Ariz, Nov. 2.—After a }search of se years, during which he was traced m Chicago to Hon-

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Tucson, Henry P. McCoy was found ived a reward

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Mrs. Helen Stansburgh Asks the Police to Find and Return Machine.

$950 ALSO GONE

Fred M. Stansburgh Took His 6-Year-Old*Son With Him, Wife Reports.

Mrs. Helen Stansburgh, a bride of three months, appealed to the police Wednesday to aid in finding her hus- band, Fred M. Stansburgh, who she Says departed Monday night in her Olive-green *five-Passenger bile. She back. automo- wants the automobile Money Missing, Too. Little Victor Stansburgh, 6 years old, accompanied his father, accord- ing to the deserted wife, who is the boy’s stepmother. They left the family home 3009 Easton avenue, Monday evening, she Says, and went to a garage a block east, where the automobile was kept. She later learned that they had driven away in the machine. She also dis- covered, she said, that $950, all the money she had on hand, was missing. Describes Auto and Husband. The Stansburghs were married last August in Leesburg; Fla., she told policemen at the Dayton Street Station. She said she had cash and _ property amounting to $10,000. They came to St. Louis recently, aft- er having made a long Southern tour in the bride’s auto. She describes the machine as a Ford, with a trunk rack at the rear, with three oil and three gas lamps, and bear- ing Missouri State license 6005. Stansburgh, she said, is 40 years old, 5 feet 6 inches in height, weighs 140 pounds, and was wearing a blue coat, black trousers and a gray cap. He had a sandy mustache and has a defect in his left eye, the nature of which the wife did not describe beyond saying that he was blind in that eye. WEDNESDAY 18 THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR ELECTION Those Who Were I!l, Out of the City or Who Have Moved Are Still Eligible. Wdenesday is the last day on which voters who have changed their resi- dence since Sept. 22, registration day, may have their registration transferred to their new addresses. For their con- venience, the Election Commissioner's office opened at 8 a. m. and will re- main open until 10 p. m. During the morning crowds, ‘were so large that three policemen were sent to keep them in line. Wednesday is also the last day for the registration of those who were ill on registration day or more than 50 miles away from St. Louis. In order to get their names on the books they must have filed previously with the Election Commissioners an affidavit stating the cause of their failure to register, and must sign their names in person on the books at the city hall today. Except absentees and invalids, no man whose name was not on the registra- tion books in some precinct on Sept. 22 can register. Clerks in the Election Commissioners’ office estimate that 1500 new names will be placed on the books Wednesday, bringing the total registration to more than 170,000. FAIR WITH BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE IS INDIAN SUMMER PROMISE THE TEMPERATURES,

3c 12 Je ugy BM. MRoawsees ~oo 2 ‘ Y esterday’s ee ee oe Maximum Minimum “Indiana is a great State for books,’’ remarked the man with the seven and one- fourth hat. “What's the latest?’’ asked the man with the six- teen and one-half collar. “A new one by Bark Toothington?”’ “Oh, no, I meant those books that were sent from St. Louis to Indian- apolis just after receivership was filed

suit here."’ “The thought people weren’( so shy on forethought that time, were they?” “Well, it ten't always necesthry te move 80 fast to keep @ copper |

HUSBAND ELOPES HOWARD'S LUCKY OVE GREEN AUTO {Phonograph in Clock Plays SERVANTS MARRY AMID SPLENDOR Wedding March for Maid and Gardner.

AUTOS ARE FURNISHED Minstrel Show. Follows Cere- mony in Home of Their Employers.

Martha Snitzmeier, maid at Maple- crest, the home of Clarence H. Howard at Chamberlain and Belt avenues, was married Tuesday night at the residence of her employer to Daniel Figard, How- ard’s gardener, by the Rev. A. H. Jor- dan, son-in-law of William K. Bixby. To do justice to the style in which they were to be married Figard and his fiancee rehearsed the ceremony Monday night at Maplecrest. Howard is presi- dent of the Commonwealth Steel Co. The marriage déccurred in the richly furnished drawing room of Maplecrest. There were chrystanthemums in pro- fusion. As the gardener and maid de- scended the grand staircase at 7 p. m., the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march, played -by. a- phonograph, - float- ed out from the case of a grandfather's, clock in the hall. Had Bridesmaid, Too. The bridesmaid was Elizabeth Ewan- schutz, maid at the home of Arthur T. Morey, 5565 Bartmer avenue, who is Mrs. Howard's brother..The bridegroom, who is a widower, was attended by his son, George. The romance was only two months old; Mrs. Figard having entered Mrs. Howard's employment in August, when she first met Figard. After the ceremony, automobiles were furnished, in which the bridal party was whisked away to attend a minsthel per- formance by the students of Principia School. A row of seats was reserved. Figard and his wife have begun) house- keeping in a two-story brick hduse on the Howard place, which was tendered to them rent free as a home. It was completely furnished by Mrs. ‘Howard and her friends. Figard has been gar- dener at Maplecrest for about a year. ABE SLUPSKY AGAIN TRIES TO DRINK 20 PINTS OF BEER DAILY Performed Feat 12 and One- Half Years Ago and Bets He Can Repeat. — Col. Abe Slupsky, like history, repeats himself. Twelve years and a half ago he demonstrated the quality’ of St. Louis beer and his own capacity for containing it, by drinking 20 pints of beer a day for 30 days. Now he has started, he announces, to do it again. His 1898 test was in pre-Folkian days, when Sunday was like other days to saloon keepers and their customers. Having been able to keep up the pace that fills then, with Sundays included, he thinks he can now do the same, with Sundays to rest up in. ‘The Colonel, with the sécretiveness which usually characterizes his move- ments, tried to conceal the fact that he was undertaking to reduce the beer supply by .600 pints within the next 30 weekdays. But when confronted with une evidence in the shape of a row of empty bottles, at the Jefferson Wednes- day, he admitted that he was trying to repeat his old feat, and said two brew- ery directors had put up $260 against his $100 that he could not do it.. Four bars are on his circuit, and he must drink the same kind of beer throughout each day, though he can change brews from day to day. TAFT STATES HE EXPECTS TO: BE PRIVATE CITIZEN IN 1914 Tells Pittsburgers, With a Smile, That. He Probably Will Be Their Neighbor. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—When Presi- dent Taft was invited today to attend a proposed celebration in Pittsburg in 1914 commemorating the close of a century of peace between the English-speaking peoples under the auspices of the Sister- hood of the Rodoph Shalom Congrega- tion, he said: > “In 1914 I probably will be your neigh-, bor, living in Cincinnati, and I will try to run over and see you.”’ There was aà smile on the President's face, however, when he thus eliminated himself from a second-term considera- tion. GILBERT E. JONES KILLS HIMSELF Former Owner of the New York Times Ends His Life. NEW .YORK, Nov. 2.—Gilbert E. fones, former owner of the New York Times and son of George Jones, found- er of the Times, committed suicide by shooting himseif in the right temple tn his offices in the old Times building,

tary of the Park B mams Co. the own-'

A FARMER

CENTRAL AFTER CONTROL OF CITY NATIONAL BANK Wants to.Get Majority. of Stock and Then Merge the Two. It became known in financial circles Wednesday that the Central National Bank is working to get control of the City National Bank at Eleventh street and Franklin avenue. According to persons interested financially in the two institutions, the Central National Bank has already secured about half of the stock of the City National and is trying to get two-thirds of it. In the event it gets a two-thirds control the plan of the Central Nationa] is to take over the City National. As the result of the efforts. to pro- mote deal, the City National stock has jumped up to $118.50 a share; with none offered for sale at that price. The stockholders are now asking . $150 a share. Recently Removed. The Centra! National Bank, which was originally organized by H. A. Fu - man and others, recently removed frm Seventh and Locus’. streets into the new Central National Bank. Building at Seventh and Olive streets. H. P. Hilliard, president of the Cen- tral National, when asked about the statement that his bank was trying to get control of the City National, said: “T' don’t know a thing about it.”’ Vice-President Rubenstein df the City National said the Central National had a right to try to get control of the Franklin avenue bank if it wished. He said he did not caré to discuss the mat- ter in detail. | It was reported in financial circles that the Central National paid as high as $135 a share to get contro! of some large individual holdings, $5 of this be- ing a commission to a stockholder of the City National, who engineered the sale,

Central’s Capital $1.000,000. The Central National is capitalized for $1,000,000. It has a surplus of $60,000 and undivided profits of $37,000. The officers are H. P. Hilliard, president: L. A. Browning, vice-president; M. R. Sturde- vant, vice-president; J. A. Beringhaus, cashier. The directors are Joseph L. Griswold, W. W. Henderson, H. P. Hil- liard, J. A. Beringhaus, Ferdinand Diehm, W. P. Evans and Forest Fergu- son. The directors of the City National are M. Landau, H. R. Rehme, T. L. Ru- benstein, Joseph N. Michaels, Charles Niedringhaus, Jacob Berger, Bernard 'Greensfelder, Benjamin Silverburg and N. P. Pufeles. M. Landau is president. The bank Is capitalized for $200,000, has a surplus of $48,672 and pays 3 per cent dividends, Tsemi-annually.

FATAL TRAIN WRECK REPORTED Several Passengers rs Said to Have Been Killed in Texas.

‘}at her and s |WOMAN WHO FOUND THAT LOT OF_ | ’S WIFE WAS HARD

_MRS. MABEL 8. METER.

BEAU BRUMIMEL DONS OVERALLS AND LOSES V Decree to. Be’. Granted Against Fred C. Meier, Who Graced City Hall.

When Fred C. Meier, once the Beau haberdashery -and spats for a farmer's overalls and heavy boots, and when his wife indulged in too rosy expectations of an easy life on the farm, the troubic began which has ended in Judge Kin- sey’s decision to grand a divorce to Mrs. Mabel Meier. The Judge has. an- nounced his decision, but withheld the formal decree until he can determine the amount of alimony needed. Mrs. Meier wants $100 a month for herself and-her adopted son, Meier was City Supply Commissioner under the Ziegenhein administratio”. He and his wife got along well as long as they lived in the city, but after ke went to farming there were three sium cessive separations. After the first, be filed a divorce suit in Gasconade Coun- ty, charging that his wife had struca him and left scars. Old Sear as Cruelty Proof, “When we became reconciled,” the wife testified, “I asked him how he ex- pected to prove those allegations. He pointed to a scar on his head, that had been there since childhood, and said he was going to accuse me of giving him that. He also admitted that his other allegations against me had been false. ‘““‘We separated again, and were récon- ciled again, but that was the last trial for him, and when he failed to treat me as he had promised, I filed my — in St. Louls. ‘The greatest surprise I ever had,” Mrs. Meier told a Post-Dispatch re- porter Wednesday, ‘‘was when my hus- band told me he was about to buy a 360-acre farm in Gasconade County and go to live on it. He was such an ex- quisite dresser, and wes so fond of the enjoyments of city life. But at first I was quite taken with the idea. I had read about farmers’ wives who had au- tomobiles, and while I did not expect to loaf, I thought I would havea pleasant life on the farm. “What happeneq was that I had to do the housework, get the meals for the farmhands and milk the cows and care for the ‘stock. I rarely got a monhient to sit down, and once when [ had been sitting on the porch a few minutes resting. my husband came up and rebuked me for idleness.” Meier, she said, succeeded unexpect- edly well at farming. Back te the Pots and Pans. The last time she returned to the farm, after the second reconciliation, was the worst of on. —* testified Tuesday. She said Meier discharged the hired woman ress — all the farm work on her, commanding her to “get back to the pots and pans.” She testified that she adopted a boy in. the hope of lessening her his Left the. State.

. The Afterthought concern is Western Gold Co., which, it has in debt. The officers of the Atterthought company, which inherited the assets and abilities of the Great Western concern, were attempting to borrow $500,000 when their plans were frus- trated by tle institution of receivef- ship proceedings by John C. Grafing, ‘secretary of the’ William A. Stickney -lCigar Co. ena the: owner of 19,0901 we shares of Great Western stock, ees Bank_Inyolyed by Loans. Foaks made to the Great Western’ in difficultiés with the bank — efs, Henderson testified. . “The Bank of Shasta County,” said, “which has‘a capital of $100, ee. loaned $121,000 to us without. note or security. Could you beat that in St. Louis. The bank examiners got after: the bank and trouble was brewing. Se we had to raise $125,000 from the stockholders to relieve the bank. “How did you get the $125,000T” asked Attorney Ss. T. G. Smith, who is representing Grafing. “By the sale of nothing but paper,” the witness replied, “just as if you would pick up a piece of paper there and sign your name to it. We raised Co. by the Shasta County Bank at 3 Reading, Cal. involved the institution Th | = he Afterthought Copper Co. was promoted ty. the eh nothing but paper and by the marketing of promises for $ 5,000 ) according to the story of high finance revealed on the witness sta by Theodore S. Henderson, vice-president of the company. i the follow-up firm of the | - (oe $1,600,000 from stock sales and the mining of ore, Was lized Arizona for $10,000,000, none of which was: nd in, and — 9 — * Scores of sieckBetdets — the offices of the companies | Commercial Bullding since the ‘ing began, ang demanded _ of the money invested in — panies, for the last few. weeks, have maintained offices in the Meridian Life defendant in an amended petition. nd served with a subpena to. her ¢ osition, has left the

the money by virtue of our personal- Frank Tennyson Neely, New York publisher, who was planning to reor- ganize the Afterthought concern by om taining for it a loan of $600,000. testi- fied that he entered. the Commercial Building offices one day after the fi. ing of the sult and found Miss Bibbins in tears. He asked why she wept, and she answered: “They tell me I have to move to In- dianapolis with my family.” Feared Pilea for More Pay. “Did she tell you,” asked Attorney Smith, “whether she was leaving the State because of the receivership suit or that Henderson was paying the ex- penses of the removal of herself and family to Indianapolis?’ “She did not,” Neely replied, “Did Henderson give you any in- formation to that effect?» “No,” said Neely. ‘In fact, Hender- son told me he was opposed to putting Miss Bibbins in charge of the India- napolis office because she might want a raise in pay. But he admitted she knew the business intimately and was. indispensabie."’ When a notice of assessment was sent out in April directing the stockhelders of the Great Western to pay a tax of 1% cents a share for financing the After- thought company, on. pain of having their stock sold at auction,’ they were testified. — Stenographer Is Found in Tears, Declaring She Must Leave. rbetea to send the money to — The circulars were signed | the name of C. G. Balmer, secretary a 2 < treasurer of the Great Western.” — Henderson Threatened With Jail. Henderson's evasion of questions ‘oak: to him during his testimony and his re- — fusals to answer provoked Commission-' er Joseph A. Wright, before ae ae hearing is being held, to threaten the }witness with jail for contempt. sw. in the Great Western.” sighs The story of | how Henderson is al- leged to have drawn from the N tio al Bank of Commerce $5000 deposit ed ‘Gian in the name of C. P. Keller, : yp or his ‘knowledge, was related by * funder oath, The directors were in sea- sion at the Maryland Hotel on Se —— and were advised by Attorn ‘Tyson 8. Danes to cont thats Baa ‘oney out of Missourt. — “A wrangle ensued,” Neely detiar “because Theodore 8. Henderson, ¥ president, insisted that a check beg to him personally so that he might ts possession of the money. The the controversy was that Hi withdrew from the room and ee hae ae ee

“Calling me outside, Henderson said: ‘I have some influence with the Na-

have any further conference, Tells of Drawing $5000 From * Be - Bank Withcut Getting &s Che chk