St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 27, 1910

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For You. Today lay the Post-Dispatch printed 289 business ———— TERY ion’ of - Resolutions ' Almost- Reached Personal Bo * mb bat Stage Weh Dele- : —* NINE-FOOT ADOPTED : r¢ Gathering Is Firm for 2 2. 44-Foot Channel Built Ref sh — With View of Increasing to “ote When Traffic De- — ‘att tn regard to ver nent was the question over h, at the closing session of the deep ¥ convention yesterday after- —— and visitors alter- y cheered and hissed. Nearly all were for the President of the Pet eee wat the where than its two.

GENERAL AND SPORTING NEWS,

| HERE IT COMES—FIRST REAL SNOW OF THE SEASON IS ANNOUNCED FOR TODAY THE TEMPERATURES. . 52 6 p. TR ws coe ee 53 7p m. eseeeae BD. eeeeeeeaee Dp. MM. ce ctees

.54 54 55 56 “Well, anyway, they didn’t run things in the ground,” said Binks, “Who 4idn’t?” asked Jinks. — “That Busch- Everett syndi- cate that gave up “its plan to pipe natural gas to St. Louis.” -“Maybe go00d gas is like good wine.”

spect?” ‘It needs Busch.” “Well if Ever- ett’s piped I bet he'll do it.”

“Who will?” “Busch.” “If ever what's piped—gas?” ‘No, beer.” Official forecast: Rain, turning to snow and colder Sunday; Monday, generally fair. Stage of the river: change. Iilinois—Fatr Sunday and Monday: gener- ally fair and cooler; high southwest winds. Missouri—Rain turning to snow.and colder Sunday; Monday generally fair. NEGRO BOY WHISTLES FOR AN HOUR TO LECTURE AUDIENCE Speaker Didn’t Arrive and Al- ton People Kept Lad Re- peating Repertoire. The Rey. M. H. Day of Upper Alton aid not arrive at the German Method- ish Church in Alton at 8 o’clock last night, to address an audience which was awaiting him. Manuel Williams, a negro boy, who had entertained the gathering by whistling “Rock of Ages” to a piano accompaniament, was asked to continue his perform- ance until the clergyman arrived. “Go on,” he was urged. “The speak- er will be here in a minute.” After another quarter of an hour, the boy unpuckered his mouth and showed signs of distress. He had com- pleted his repertoire of hymns. “Keep right on,” he was told. will only be a minute longer.” The whistler repeated his store of 1.8 feet; no

“It misacred warblings. At the end of an hour a messenger arrived. and an- mounced: “The Rev, Mr. Day has a bad cold ana will not be here tonight.”

* raph, eimtoatet ee A DRINK HE CALLS = tn te favor, wens would have been E "the paragraph by the fact that all is first projected or con- been found toe.small CITY’S FIRE-WATER WAGON Pulls Hook on Alarm Box and Waits for Liquor to Appear; , Is Arrested. John Kuldock pulled a hook in. a little red box at Becond and Cedar streets yesterday afternoon and waited for a Grink of liquor to appear in the box. Before the drink arrived, Kuldock’s attention was attracted by a fire engine Gashing down the street toward him. Lieut. Burke arrested him on a charge of turning ifn a false alarm. Kuldock protested against the arrest, declaring that he wanted a drink, and that he thoucht it would come if he pulled the hook. MAN-SUFFRAGETTE USES WHIP Attacks Minister Churchill, Cry- ing, “Take That, You Cur.” LONDON, Nov. 2%.—Winston Spencer Churchill, Home Secrgtary, returning to London tonight after a speech at Brad- ford, was attacked in the train by a male suff t with a dog whip, who cried out, “Take that, you cur."" De- tectives overpowered the Secretary's as- sailant. When the train arrived at London, three women tried to assault the Home Secretary, but the detectives drove them off. PAYS BET WITH TWO-TON HAT Editor Sends Payment of Popu- latioh Wager on Flatcar. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 2%.—A sheet-iron hat, weighing 4000 pounds and standing 8 feet high, arrived here today on a flat car from Richmond, Va., in pay-

| ment of a bet between the editors of the Richmond Evening Journal! and the At- lanta Journal as to which city would show the larger population in the 1910 |qensus returns.

EDISON WAS TOLSTOY'S. FRIEND m - Aa —— Nov. 26.— Among ‘the papers left by Tolstoy were found many letters from Thom- as A. Edison, the American inventor,

— doubtless of great interest. ters have been deposited closest friend, Prince ‘In what re-

NOONAN MARRIES GIRL WHO ROUSED A WIDOWS WRATH Secretly Weds Miss Frances Cook, on Whose Doorstep Rival Made a Scene. ROMANCE IS HASTENED Bridegroom’s Mother Pre- dicts Son Isn’t. Through With That Mrs. Phillippo Yet. The intervention of a flaxen-haired widow in a one-piece gown hastened the coufse of true love for Sarpy Noonan and Miss Frances Cook of 3887 Washington avenue. They were to have been married next March. But following a scene, provoking: two riot calls, which was created upon Miss Cook's doorstep by Mrs. Nellie Phillippe of 4381 Page boulevard, on Oct. 2, the wedding was performed secretly Thanksgiving afternoon in Judge McQuillin’s chambers, the parents of the couple were informed yesterday. They are in Chicago on their honey- moon. Noonan’s plans were enveloped in such secrecy that not even his moth- er was taken into his confidence. Thursday morning, she told a Post- Dispatch reporter, her son went whistling, about thé house. “This is the happiest day of my life,” he told her. “Why? asked she. Was a Devoted Wooer. “O, I just feel happy,” he replied. He said that he was to take Miss Cook to the Syracuse-St. Louis Uni- versity football game in the afternoon and to the theater at night. He re- turned home at night in high spirits but kept his counsel. The next day he and his bride were seen in a daown- town store buying her trousseau. Friday night they took a train for Chicago. The bride’s father, Charles F. Cook, beamed when he learned of the mar- riage. “Sarpy was the most devoted of woo- ers,” he said. “My daughter met him wt a party 10 months ago and he called upon her every night since. She gave up ail her other beaux and he gave up all his girl friends.”’ Mother Fears Widow. “IT don‘t think we've heard the last of that Mrs. Phillippo,” said Noonan’s mother, shaking her head. “She used to call me up on the telephone every day and then call me down because I wouldn't let her speak to Sarpy. A was in Texas a month once, and Sarpy had to look aboutfor a lodg- ing place. Unfortunately, he went to Mrs. Phillippo’s home. After that he couldn’t get rid or her.” On the evening of Oct. 2, Mrs. Phil- lippo bounded from a taxicab in front of the Cook home at night and announced in a shrill voice that her troubles were more than she could bear. She battered on the screen door and shrieked at Cook, who answered her summons: “IT just want to get my hands on Sar- py Noonan and that daughter Frances of yours.” Is Taken to Hospital. Cook slammed the door and the widow recited her woes to the nelghbors from the sidewalk. One excited auditor turned in a call tu the Newstead Avenue Police Station ‘and another telephoned to the Laclede Avenue Station. Mrs. Phillippo retreat- ed to Vandeventer avenue and resumed the narration of her griefs in a high- pitched voice. Afterward she was taken’ tv the Deaconess ital to be treat- ed for nervous prostration. Mrs. Phillippo told a Post- Dispatch reporter that-she was twice a widow, that her second husband left her plenty of money and that she was 32 years old. Noonan is 23 years old and is the son of a former president. of the Real Es- tate Exchange. His mother’s home 1s at 4996A McPherson avenue. His bride is 19 years of age and pretty. POPE RECEIVES CONNIE MACK AND BLESSES THE ATHLETICS Pontiff Grants Private Audience to Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius MacGillicuddy. By Associated Press. ROME, Nov. 26.—The Pope gave ia pri- vate audience today to Cornelius Mac- Gillicuddy (Connie Mack), the manager of the Philadelphia American League baseball team, and Mrs. MacGillicuddy, Who are here on their. bridal trip. Thé Philadelphians were introduced by Dr. C. A. O’'Hearn, vice-rector of the american College in Rome, who acted as Interpreter. The Pontiff remarked that, being the first Pope to open the Vatican to the athletes of the whole world, he was par- ticularly pleased to meet the nager y American champions for and ed the apostolic benediction on

cr visitor and his team.

ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY ’ MORNIN G, NOVEMBER 2 a7, 1910. tke "PAGES ——

LQUISANS GO T0 JAIL BECAUSE. MONEY WAS AGED Smart Ticket Seller in Okla- Homa Thought Bank Note of 1863 Was Counterfeit. BANKER SAID SO. TOO William Sacks and Hugh M. Thomasson Had to Wire Banks for Freedom. Special to the Post-Dispatch. OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok., Nov. 26.— William Sacks, a St. Louis lawyer, and Hugh W,. Thomasson, secretary of the Mound City Floor and Art Co., will.carry nothing but crisp new money in their purses the next time they visit Oklahoma. When Sacks and Thomasson went to the Frisco ticket office last night to buy tickets to St. Louis they tendered in pay- ment a $20 bill of the series of 1863. Practically nothing but new money circulates in Oklahoma—new. bills, new dollars, new dimes, new pennies. “Counterfeit, sure as I’m alive,” whispered the ticket agent as he re- solved himself into a junior Sherlock Holmes. The cashier watched Sacks and Thomasson return to their hotel. Then he took the bill around to the presi- dent of the Night and Day Bank. The bank president also pronounced the bill a counterfeit. Then the railroad agent sought out United States Dis- trict Attorney John Embry, who never having seen any old money himself and being no currency expert, ordered Sacks and Thomasson apprehended on suspicion. Arrested at Hotel. Policemen went down to the hotel and found Sacks and Thomasson sit- ting in the lobby smoking. “Come on with me, you counter- feiters,” the policemen said. Arguments availed nothing and Sacks and Thomasson were taken to the police station, where they sat on benches all night. They were kept there until noon today, when they were taken to the of- fice of the United.States Commissioner for a preliminary. hearing. They man- aged to get a few telegrams away to St. Louis, and by the time the hearing Was well under way Sacks had received a telegram from the Mechanics-National Bank showing that he has $26,000 on deposit there. The bank telegraphed him a mite of $4000 to help him out of his trouble. “A man who has-$26,000 in a St. Louis" bank certainly doesn’t have to pass counterfeit money,'’ declared the Com- missioner as he ordered Sacks and Thomasson released. Trunks Searched, Pajamas Found. In the meantime an expert had been found who knew something about old money. , He declared the bill to be per- fectly good, the only thing against it being its age. Sacks and Thomasson both said they had accepted the bill in the ordinary run of business transac- tions, and had not even noticed that it was of ancient design. While Sacks and Thomasson were in the police station their trunks were searched for counterfeiting out- fits, but nothing more suspicious than silk pajamas were found. Sacks was for many years a de- partment head in the 8St.;Louls Post- office, and was once a Republican candidate for Congress. He has been active in St. Louis political and. civic affairs for several years, and was once president of the Twenty-seventh Ward Improvement Association. He is a law partner of Otto F. Karbe, secretary of the Million Population Club. ‘Thomasson lives at 708 North Grand avenue, and is the owner of big blocks of property at Broadway and Washington avenue and at Jef- ferson avenue and Wash street. DEAF MUTE SUES FOR DIVORCE,

CHARGING BRIDE “SASSED” HIM

Shows Attorney by Signs What Wife, Who Can Talk, Did With Her Lips. Special to the Post-Dispatch. KIRKSVILLE, Mo., Nov. 26.—Frank Legrand, a deaf mute, today filed suit for divorce from his bride of six weeks, alleging that she “sassed” and slapped him. Mrs, Legrand can talk and hear. Legrand depends upon a sign sys- tem for his communication with others. . In getting a lawyer Legrand went to ex-Police Judge William Frank, who has Known him since he was @ boy, and who can understand his signs, Legrend pulled out a pocket cal- ender and showed Attorney Frank that he wag married Oct. 12 and arated from his wife, Nov. 25. ~» “You must have some wrote the lawyer on a pad. “For an- swer pointed toward his chest, slapped hig face sharply *⁊l times, then turned up his hose at game time, moving his lips ra * The attorney declares it meant un- mistakably that wich at & “sassea” him, even he could .

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East St. LouisWom- en Cross Bridge to Turn Back the Invasion. The collections for the Hospital Sat- urday and Sunday taken yesterday at the public. buildings and hotels aggregated $18,283.13, a decrease of $4709.19 from the collections from the same source last year. Despite this, President D. R. Francis told a Post-Dis- patch reporter that he expected , in- Association creases from other sources would bring the total collections up ‘to last year’s collection of $47,802.27 and perhaps more. The association received Saturday from the public bulldings’ . collections and employes in St. Louis institutions a total of $24,708.97, while last year $29,- 385.58 was received from the same sources., Of the 1600 lists sent out to employers, only 3240 have been reported. Today collections will be taken up in the churches. A. L. Shapleigh, one of the members of the Executive Board of the associa- tion, expressed the opinion that the business men of St. Louis had been called upon to make such heavy con- tributions to the anti-prohibition cam- paign fund that they found it necessary to decrease their gifts to the hospital association. Contributors Were Fewer. The total number of contributors yes- terday was but 66,189, as compared with 77,453 last year, a decrease of 21,264. The auecrease in the number of contributors, as well as in the amount of the contri- butions, may have been due partly to the fact that the workers confined them- selves closely to the buildings and ho- tels to which they were assigned, white in other years they went on the streets and stopped passersby. That many of the contributions, were small was shown by the count of the money collected at Union Station. The workers turned in 2813 nickles, 2061 dimes and 1628 quarters from Union Station. The heaviest collection for the day was taken at Union Station, which, however, showed a big decrease from last year. Yesterday’s collection at Union Station amounted to but $1269.10, as compared with $2083.00 last year. Big Buildings Were Generous, The second largest contribution was taken at the Syndicate Trust: building, where the workers gathered n a total of $1190.21, and where last year they col- lected only $964.22. The collections at the Postoffice and the 14 substations ag- gregated $1101.14, of which $369.83 was collected at the main office, Last year the collections from the Postoffice butld- ings reached only $699.65. The Security building wag the only other office bullding to exceed the $1000 mark, its total contribution to the fund being $1008.26. The Pierce building made a fairly good showing with a contribu- tion of $576.23. The Third National Bank bullding showed a collection of $953.03, prectically double its collection of last year. | The contributions from trades and pro- fessions reported this year amount to $4996.15. Last year the trades. and pro- fessions contributed $11,739.98. The com- ‘plete reports from the trades and pro-

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ican National Bank, whose president, Walker Hill, is the association’s — urer Present and assisting Davis at the count were David R. Francis, president; B. J. Taussig, A. L. Shapleigh, Hanford Crawford and Edward H. Semple,’ all members of the pace ih Board; John H. ‘Douglass, secretary of the board; Philip C. Scanian, Boyle Rodes, C. Rodes, Allen C. Orrick, W. C. Bitting Jr., Felix E. Gunn, J. E. Riley, Hubert Schmidt, Roger N. Baldwin, Walter’ W. Kiein, F. W. Knemeyer, 8. M. Frank, J. M. Wagner, Frederick J. Swartz, J. W. Pearson, Charles Morris and ue ahaa Vastine. When the money had been counted by these representatives of the association, it was re-counted by the committee of bank téllers, comprising D. L. Barker, chairman; D. D. Colquhoun, J. W. Da- vis, V. Jacquemin, V. Jacquemin Jr., B. J. Lazar, William A. Marshall, F. Matoushek, O. A. Morard, W. C. Pow- -ell, J. M. Scott, A. B. Zott, A. Sullivan, W. M. Ward, William “Brune. All day in the public ‘buildings, sky- \ scrapers, hotels and theater lobbies of St. Louis society women were busy s0- liciting funds for the sick poor. The little red and yellow badges were worn*in the coat lapels of hundreds of St. Louisans in tokén that they had contributed. “Have your money ready. Pay as you enter,”’-was the legend on large circular signs at every collection place and no one who went into or out of a downtown building wag permitted to escape yntil he had contributed to’ the fund. ‘Invaders Defy Police, East St. Louis had a hospital tag day, too, and in their zeal for the cause the charitable women from across the river invaded St. Loufs and took toll for charity at the west end of the Eads Bridge. One of the most active of the East St. Louis collectors was Miss Virginia Sullivan. She became indignant when Capt. Schoppe of the St. Louis police or- dcred her and her aasistants to go back to the east end of the bridge, so as not to compete with the St. Louis Hospital Sajurday and Sunday Association. Manager Haynes of the East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. intervened. He said the bridge approach is leased by his company and that he would ses that the East Side hospital workers were not Penrice 1m ‘sot, be ontin Spe 8: Steet Ge ; =

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NEGRO. NOOOSTS. WHITE. GIRL; 1S BEATENBY POLICE {Patrolmen Hammer Prisoner Five Minutes After Laying Trap for Him.

After twice accosting Genevieve Tuck- er, a 15-y ear-old white girl, Elijah Jack- son, a negro, fought with two poll@- men for five minutes before they over- powered and arrested him at the Wells- ton Arcade, ban tracks, last night, in the presence car junctions in St. Louis. Miss Tucker, whose home is at 1525 Weliston plece, was waiting for a car at .4 p. m. yesterday when Sergt. -moved away from him in apparent Alarm and he walked away. \found her in téars. tras spoken to me,” she said. “What did he say to you?” asked Ma- loney. “He asked me ‘to meet him here —* 8 o'clock tonight,’”’ sobbed the aurl. Girl Acts as Decoy. Maloney advised the girl to overtake the appointment. Then he reported to Capt. Gaffney of the Page Boulevard clothes. night. At 8 o'clock Miss Tucker ap- peared. The negro joined her a few minutes later. the collar. He jerked aiming « blow at Riek's face when

| sirls and one boy have already & Easton avenue and Subur- | of crowds at.one of the busiest street) Maloney and Patrolman Riex + wa ne- gro approach her and speak to her. She}: : The policemen went to the girl and} “That is the second time that negro | the negro and ‘ell him she would keep| They weht to the Wellton Arcade last

* 5 x 3 ts 2 a 8 a ‘ Se 7 . & GF % , — —* 8* wer, : J AS - Y i = 3 J ae > al * 3 ——— * * » * * a * od “eh os = + ars = r o * al La b € +e .¢ 5 * * ¢ - 8 Banker’s ——— who collected fren grown-up folks Saal door, three women active in ne | pital Saturday and Sunday work and dog that gave $2 Workers Flee 'F ro) Machines and iu Escape Is Cut 4 bn Of Drop Into Neta It Breaks. Re F tory here — too near a lighted gas jet, In th e fr — — 24 lives were lost, as ‘the’ bodies © ts : — recovered, Twenty-three ‘other were injured, . The. bahar id vos Tabout $150,000. The loss of lite and property 9 a four-story brick — High street, and all ‘those kille injured, save one man. and the, ; — — “ae ey —s y 5* Mog a Me — — F me — —* ae a? ee be — 3% . * oe ies a — Le 4 ve * oe * 1 — * were employes of Woit % chair that had been in f) machine. The forthern « ing cannot be night theta e It was so hot toni 3 not \get into it, but the 1 theré are more bodies tt Sadie Hanson of 20 ‘Stor ark, Was cleaning carbon’ f : incandescent electric lights in the of the Anchor Lamp Ge 3 h the t floor, in the process of r the ⸗ tric bulbs, <4 — Within « few feet was a f ghted sen burner. ever the . Jame fumes were ignited by burner. The explosion w burned off ail her hair and part of i clothing. ; — Fleors Soaked with: on. - The floor was saturated with ‘ott at the fire spread ‘rapidly. stricken with fear, ——— so ik that they could be heard by the Son fe Station and obtained permission for’ 1 himself and Riek to wear citizens’. Riek grabbed him by |of away —2 oor anne, 3 4 Bo ¥: / " ng fi Stic, hae * at ’ e win : ar, Wiles thet a

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