St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 28, 1911

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at * x ck “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” Only Eeciing Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Setales. VOL, 63. NO. 161. PRICE ( ONE CENT ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1911. TITLE GUARANTY ees to This Effect in Fi- nancial Circles Cause Sharp Advance in Shares of Trust “Company, and Demand for Bank’s Stock, Hitherto Not Listed. INCREASE IS $5 __» DURING THE DAY Van Riper, President of Fidu- ciary Concern, and City Treasurer Quick, Head of National Bank, Withhold Announcement. The Title Guaranty [rust Co. and tne Was...ngton Nationcz] sank are to be merged, according to unofficial an- nounceménts which caused a big ad- vance in Title Guaranty shares on the “St. Louls Stock Exchange Saturday. The Washington National stock is not listed on the Exchange, but there has been a brisk démand for the shares in the last few date Bidding was so brisk for Title Guar- anty stock Saturday that it advanced .%5 a share. At the close of the market ie ~ bidders were offering $90.50 a share, the net gain in the last two weeks having been $10.60 a share. The Title Guaranty Trust has a capital gtock of $2,500,000 and sur- Plus and undivided profits of $190,000. I.-C. Van Riper is its president. The Washington National Bank, of which City Treasurer Leon W. Quick is president, has a capital stock of - $500,000, surplus $55,000, undivided 4 profits $8000 ana deposits $1,000,000. HM Neither Van Riper or Quick would discuss the projected merger. “I must deny the truth of the ru- “thor, but you may come to me for.a more extended statement later in the wo—Tpeturnmeg to See Van Riper. I can’t talk,’ said — Quick. | ~ puNBOAT WHEELING LOST TO WIRELESS, BUT HELD SAFE Navy Officials Express Confi- dence Fighting Craft Will Re- port at Guantanamo. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—No news has is 4 yet: ‘been received by the Navy Depar'- nt in regard to the gunboat Wheeling, be en route from New York to Guantanaino, Cuba, which, it is rumored, has met with an accident at sea. All southern wireless stations are reaching out in an effort to get into communication with the gunboat. Nev- 34 ertheless navy officials discredit the Tumor and are confident the vessel will report at Guantanamo tonight or to- morrow. po an —_ ——_— — ts * . PRISON TERMS FOR PEONAGE ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 2.—Five wealthy _ , Southern lumbermen will enter the Fed- eral prison here today to serve sent- They are W. S. W. EB. ‘ences for peonage. Harlan, Robert Gallagher, Dr. Grace, C. C. Hilton and E. S. Huggins, _ all of Lockhart, Ala. 28 Harlan and Gallagher will each serve z months and pay fines of $5000. INDAY PROMENADES; FAIR ~ AND WARMER 1S PROMISED THE TEMPERATURES. a. cs cktob cae a m Rick ko 00 eee a. sae t es Se . .— revere: a. mm... Has anybody here seen Win- ter? Nobody has. and nobody will, for a day or two anyway. There is no promise of a glimpse of it on the Sunday weather program. Tie cold wave and snowstorm that have been expected here heave gone else- where. Clear skies and The ~OASHINGTON BAK BURGLAR STUNS WILL MERGE WITH HELPLESS WOMEN WITH IRON JIMMY Miss Matilda Geis and Sister, Mrs. Lena Klein, Seriously Wounded by Young Thief. TELEPHONE WIRES CUT Niece of Victims of Effeminate Appearing Youth Was Not Molested During Raid. Geis and Mrs. Klein, sisters, living 1920 Sidney street, were beaten over the head by a burglar armed with a jimmy early Sat- urday morning. Each sustained severe the assault Miss Matilda at scalp wounds and after the burglar escaped. Miss Geis is an invalid and when the burglar stood over her bed flashing a dark lantern in her face, she awoke with a scream. “Shut up!’’ said the culet and get me your money won't hurt you.”’ “Get away from the bed,’ Geis, “and I will get up.” The burglar stepped back and Miss Geis slipped out of bed and ran to an open window from which she thrust her head and yelled for help. Grabbing her by the night dress the burglar pulled her back into the room and struck her over the head with an iron jimmy. The biow stunned Miss Geis for a moment and awakened her sister, Mrs. Lena Klein, who was sleeping in the next room with her niece, Miss Amelia Hack. Mrs. Klein started into the room where the burglar stood over the prostrate fozm of Miss Geis’ and as she entered the burglar siczed her and ‘said: ‘‘Get me your money and keep quiet.’’ “IT have no money in the house,” said Mrs. Kliein. Then she began to scream for help and the burglar struck her once over the head with his jimmy. She kept on screaming and was struck the second time with such force that she fell to the floor unconscious. The niece, Miss Hack, began to scream for help. In one room Miss Geis was ‘“*keep and I burgler, ’ said Miss Lena ADOLPHUS PEPER WROTE OF PLOT TO KILL BROTHER Inquiry Into Sanity of Son of Former Tobacco Magnate Be- gun in Probate Court. LETTER SHOWN TO JURY Louisville ‘Man Expresses Belief Relative Is Mentally Unsound and Cites Expenditures. In an inquiry into the mental condi- tion of Adolphus 8. Peper, 47 years old, youngest son of the late Christian Pe- per, founder of the Peper Tobacco Co.. Charles G. Peper of Louisville, Ky., brother of Adolphus, testified that he had received three letters from his brother in one of which Adolphus had written: “IT have hired five men to kill you.” This letter was shown to the jury. Charles G. Peper testified further: “‘My brother called me over the phone and threatened to kill me. He also called at my office and said he would kill me within six months and he threatened my brother-in-law, Col. Nicholas M. Bell.’’ Charles Peper téstified that in his opinion his brother was mentally un- balanced and as an evidence of it relat- ed that Adolphus used to draw $100 from the bank and the next day he would not have enough money for car fare. Imagined He Was Musician. Col. Nicholas M. Bell testified that his brother-in-law, Adolphus, had many pe- cularitics. One was that he was a tal- ented musician. : ‘He Would call me up over the tele- phone to hearghim play the jewsharp and beat a drum,’’ said Col. Bell. “In the coldest day in winter he would dress in low summer shoes, red stockings and thin clothing and then complain that he was suffering with the heat. He owned 19 houses in Papin ‘street jointly with my wife; but we could not get him to pay his share of the repairs nor could ‘we get him to consider any seri- ous business affair. He had a hobby for attending moving picture shows and imagined he was a singer in them. He told me he had signed a contract to sing over a circuit of picture houses and gaia es. Was..coming ~~ few . ber the other aunt, Mrs. Klein, was lying. “You don’t want to get what they got, do you?” asked the burglar as he pointed to the two women. “if you make a fuss I'll crack you over the head,* too.”’ Miss Hack kept quiet and the burglar left the house, going out through a rear door. ‘ Then Miss Hack ran to the telephone to call the police an@ found the wire cut. The screams of the women had awak- ened some of the neighbors and Fred K. Miller of 1919 Sidney street came to the door. He did not go into the house, but went in search of a policeman. It was 80 minutes before a policeman could be found, and this finally was accom- plished by one of the neighbors calling up the station. Henry Loesch of 1916 Sidney street was awakened by the screams of Miss Geis and saw the burglar fleeing through the alley. Mrs. Kiein is 59 yeares old and her sister, Miss Geis, is 55. The niece, Miss Hack, is 20. The women describe the burglar as being an effeminate looking young man about 22 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, slightly built and wearing a dark suit with tan overcoat. Mrs. Klein was the worse injured of the two and was weak Saturday morn- ing from loss of blood. Her sister, Miss Geis, did not suffer so much from the blow she received on the head, but, as she has been an invalid for years, the incident is expected to have a bad ef- fect on her. Eee v week in the year. Louis. light-colored fedora hat and af eS Startling Because no other metropolitan newspaper in the United States can show such ‘magnificent comparative records as the POST-DISPATCH is making week after week as shown on three days out of five practically every his... from Louisville to manage him.*’ Inherited $300,000 From Father. Adolphus inherited about $300,000 of his father’s $4,000,000 estate. Adolphus recently attacked his broth- er-in-law, Col. Nicholas M. Bell, in Bell’s office, because he believed Bell had in- duced Charles to begin sanity proceed- ings, and the same day of the assault Bell filed suit against AdoJphus in the Circuit Court for $100,000 damages. At court Saturday Adolphus was under guard ‘at the request of his brother. The Sheriff searched his pockets but found no weapon. Charles told the Sheriff that he feared his brother. Charles wag the first witness. He testified that his brother Adolphus had been physically and mentally weak since childhood. He told how Adolphus had been placed by his fa- ther 4n the Western Military Academy in Upper Alton. He said the boy would not’ stay there, but returned and went to work in his father’s to- bacco factory at $75 a month. He soon gave that up and lived on an allowance paid by his father until the elder Peper died in 1903, Charles testified. a $125,421, 1,538 FOR U. $. NAVY WASHINGTON, Jan. 28,—Carrying a total of $125,421,538, the naval ap- prepriation bill was reported to the House today by Chairman Foss of the Naval Affairs. Committee. The bill carries $5,929,318 less than the current appropriation and _82,044,- 621 less than the estimates skbinitted by the Navy Department. ———E The extraordinary record for the present week shows that, on three days out of five, without special effort of any kind, the POST-DISPATCH carried 233 columns of St. Louis merchants’ display advertising, while its next three best competitors, namely, the Globe-Democrat, Re- public and Times, all added together, carried but 197 columns Such overwhelming preference for one newspaper over all its competitors in its field is unknown outside of St. THERE IS A REASON First in Circulation, First in News, . |RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISSING GIRL, iene ONE SHOWING HAT WORN DAY SHE VANISHED +31 ees Whe on SHE, LEFY_WOME. CHARLES DIEHR IS ARRESTED ON FARO GAMBLING CHARGE Is*Son of Partner in Alleged At- tempt to Swindle St. Louisans in Fake Game. Information charging Charles Diehr, alias Charles A. Denton, and his ‘father, Augustus Diehr, with setting up a faro game was filed Saturday by Circuit Attorney Jones and his assistant, James C. Shaner. The charge in the information is a telony punishable by a penitentiary sentence. Charles Diehr was arrested Saturday afternoon by Detectives Joyce and Hoagland at the home of his father, 1153A North. Euclid avenue. The father was not at home and detectives con- tinued the search for him. The original charge upon which the Diehrs were arrested Friday and released on $200 bond was“one of vagrancy. Upon that charge they appeared in the City Police Court Saturday morning, but Fellhaugr re- fused to prosecute and the cases were continued. Afterward the Cir- cuit Atttorney looked up the law and decided to proceed against them un- der a state charge. Deny Faro Connection. Charles Diehr said to a reporter for the Post-Dispatch Saturday that neither he nor his father were connected in any way with the faro swindle. ‘My object in gotIng to the Jefferson Hotel was to talk over a system we had to beat the races,’ said Diehr. Diehr lives with his father and mother in richly furnished apartments at 1135 North Euclid avenue. It was there that the reporter saw both the father and the son Saturday. The father refused to talk. The son talked freely while his diamonds sparkled in the electric light. He had a large diamond in his neck- tie, another shone from a ring on his finger and a whole bunch of them blazed from a watch charm. Doesn’t Have to Work. “Tt’s true that I'm on easy street,”’ he said. “I don’t have to work. I have plenty of money, but I didn’t make it in any swindling games, and I didn’t get any of it from Fellhauer or any other St. Louls man by means of a faro game. I have been in the oll business, was vice-president of the Pittsburg & Tilinois O11 Co. I sold out my interest six months ago, and that is where the money came from upon which I am ‘ving now. ‘My father and Fellhauer are old friends. My father managed a saloon for him once. ‘It ie true that Fellhauer became interested in the system which I and others had for beating the races, and he might have invested, but he did not, and he did not lose dollar. f POLICE OF NATION ASKED TO FIND MISSING HEIRESS New York Department Sends Out General Alarm and Reward Is Offered in Hunt for Dorothy Arnold. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The police de- partment has sent a general alarm throughout the city, thus bringing uni- formed men into the hunt which has heretofore been confined to plain clothes men, in an effort to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Miss Dorothy Arnold, the young society’ woman and heiress, who vanished Dec. 12 from her home at 108 West Seventy-ninth street. In8pector Russell ‘has received orders to rush the mailing of posters, offering a reward of $1000 for the finding of the girl. An accurate likeness and descrip- tion of Miss Arnold will be sent to every chief of police, town marshal and private detective agency in the United. States and Canada. Miss Arnold’s mother is said to be breaking down under the strain, John Arnold, the girl’s brother, has just returned from a secret mission abroad, but denies that he has been searching for her in Europe. It Is de- clared his trip was in the interest of his father’s business. ‘This is the first I have heard of the disappearance,” said the brother. Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn de- nies having said he was satisfied that Miss Arnold’s parents knew her present wheréabouts. Additional letters demand- ing ransom for the young woman’s re- turn have been received, but both the police and the lawyers directing the search scout the theory that she is be- ing held for ransom. John 8S. Keith, of Mr. Arnold’s legal advisers, asserts his belief that the letters were written by blackmallers. It is the belief of persons interested in the girl, her case may prove to be one of the most remarkable instances of auto-suggestion on record. Should it develop later that Miss Ar- nold has taken her own life, the co- relation between the incidents that are thought to have imspired her disap- pearance and those which actually brought it about will have been carried out te the fullest extreme. The family of Miss Arnold say for publication that they fear she met her death through foul play, but they are known to carry a strong impression that she may have taken her own life. Her father, Francis R. Arnold, said yesterday that he was positive his daughter was dead. An extraordinary ~hain of coincidents hangs around the fact that a young Mr. Griscom, said to be a relative of Lioyd C. GQGriscom, former ambassador to Italy and the president’ of the New ork County Republican Committee, was one of ates, et er most ardent there was a young Andrew Griscom, son of William M. Griscom of Bryn Mawr, Pa. William M. Griscom is a brother of Clementa Griscom and of Lloyd C. Griscom. Andrew.Griscom was well known at Bryn Mawr, from which Miss Arnold was about to be graduated. The Gris- com and the Arnold families have been friendly for years in New York, and in Philadelphia Miss Arnold visited homes where Andrew Griscom was a guest. On Feb. 8, 190%, Andrew Griscom, 22, was reported missing. The police of Philadelphia were asked to make a sli- lent search. Eleven days later the po- lice of New York and other cities were asked to send out a general ~ alarm. Finally it was learned that Young Gris- com had fallen madly in love with a governess and Mrs. Griscom had put her foot down, The governess, a Miss Elsie Hanson, took a steamer for En- gland. Young Griscom promptly dropped out of sight. Steamships Watched. Every steamship was watched, but he eluded private detectives and sailed for Europe. Later developments made it appear that he had shipped as a helper on a cattle steamer, determined to reach England, where Miss Hanson had arrived a fortnight ahead of him. What happened in England is not known, but a month later, when the Steamship Minnetonka arrived at this port from London, the relatives of young Griscom where at the piér to welcome him. The captain of the steamer informed the family that An- drew Griscom had jumped overboard in a fit of despondency the day after the ship had sailed from England. The tragic fate of young Griscom, it is. said, made a strong impression on the mind of Miss Arnold at Bryn Mawr. The home of tlhe Griscoms, college, was closed and the family went into retirement. The curious similarity of Miss Ar- nold’s disappearance and the inability ef her parents’ to find her, to the case of Griscom, is heightened by the ad- mitted fact that she had a love affair with a. young man who is now said to be abroad. This young man is said to be at Florence, Italy, at the request of his relatives, who did not approve his friendship for Miss Arnold. when her family went through vate letters in an ontentee some reason for her t ME an ee ko ee te ns ea bee bY i one IN ee near the’ “ wt: , LL AT EOI ET CO Le A AOE TIT ee RN -oEXTRA SESSION FO RECIPROCITY BILL CONSIDERED CERT Taft, Determined to Push Throug 1 = Canadian Program, Will Not Hes= . itate to Convene New Congress; if Stahd-Patters Carry Out Threats. ‘ to Defeat His Plans. TARIFF REVISION LIKELY 4 TO BE INCLUDED IN CALL 4 Republicans Equally Divided on Project i a ee : agi 5° Treaty,.but Democrats Favor It as Step i — Right Direction—Former Mayors of Chicesg and College Heads Giv: Views. 4 cay “a 4 - *% ot ad Ae Shall tariff reform be postponed until 1912 ? Shall reduction of the cost of living be postponed until 1912 7 By Wire From the Washington Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. ~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A great white dazzling light has broken over Washington. National legislators who have been ignoring the question, oF have ridiculed it, are today prophesying an extra session, as it were a discovery of their own. hone There is no spot in the country that receives and realizes the impress of the will of the people later than official ‘Washington. ~ ig The prophecy made by Senators and Representatives today that will be an extra session of Congress is based on a careful President’s-Canadian reciprocity message which most of the stateumen had tucked away for future reference. When they read im the newspapers that President Taft ‘said in his. sage that far-sighted policy requires that if we can enlarge our. p of the necessities of life we should take steps to do so NOW, thts was an immediate rush to read the unread message. . Delay in Reciprocity Bill Likely A “CANVASS of the House and Senate showed that it was unlikely that. the reciprocity bills could pass at this session. A visit to the White — House by legislators revealed the fact that the President meant what he har said... The President hopes that the present Congress would put through the Canadian reciprocity program, but if it will not do so, the President is con- fident that the next Congress, of entirely different character, will. The Presi~ ; dent made no méntion of an extra session, but this attitude was pointed ont to several stand-pat visitors at ~he White House. | The administration lays emphasis on the fact that the conference o Wes ‘4 procity was brought about as much by the United States as by Canada. The agreement has been received with enthusiasm by the Canadian Parliament. It will be no less than international discourtesy on the part of the United, — States of this Government fails to do all that it can to make the agreement com=> plete, and the sooner it is done the less the United States will have to charge | itself with discourtesy. This statement, while in no way mentioning an extra session, was so plain | that Washington this morning is Sending the assembling of the new Coat? gress in March. Non partisan Solution Expected +, Cabinet members seen by the Post- Dispatch corfespondent today stood shoulder to shoulder with the President, even on his statement that the lowering of the cost of living should be prepared for now. The leaders of both parties in the House of Representatives, where this measure, as a revenue-raising measure, must originate, prophesied today that the result’ will be a nonpartisan solu- tion of the question by the Sixty-second Congress, called into extra session within ten days after March 4. Battle Must Come in House. The Senate is in a waiting attitude, as the battle must come now from the House. To be sure, the Senate might frame a concurrent bill, but that Is not likely to happen. Leaders of both the House and Sen- ate which control the machinery do not expect the agreement to pass at this session. They are confident that the agreement will be passed by the next Congress in extraordinary session. There is not the slightest doubt that if the President is forced by circum- stance to call an extraordinary session of the Sixty-second Congress in March, he will include in the call a suggestion for the downward revision of the tariff on the necessaries of life, not only in the relations with Canada, bdt in the relations with all countries. The members of President Taft's Cabinet were seen individually by the Post-Dispatch correspondent and each expressed the same. view, the view of President Taft and Secretary Knox,/}, as set forth in the President's mess- age: “A far-sighted policy requires that the Congress now nearing an would pass the necessary legislatich to ratify the treaty, theréby an epoch in American trade history. On the other hand, the men of t House and Senate who have : of the situation ‘knd who can a the bills out of the com leave them thege—indicated interviews that the Canadian r ity treaty will not pass at this » sion. Congress cannot reduce pats on the articles named in the ment by treaty. Senate bilis reduction of the tariff on the named in the agreement will be Introduced and voted upon th House and Senate and President in the same other new legislation. Almost daily Senator livered an urgent plea for has announced that the present tion of business is _— than he ever before witnessed, in service. Yesterday afternoon, suggestion of Senator Haje, an ment was made to have ne; | if we oan enlarge our supply of nat-| 9 ural resources, especially of food pro- pot s Pa f x La a to Come Through Extra. Session :