St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 12, 1911

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2000 REBELS HEN UP CHUA AND OTIS SUBURB “Chicago of Mexico” Cut Off From World for Two Weeks, Reports Insurrecto Army at Its Gates—Muni- tions of War Admitted at ~ Juarez. NEW RUMORS THAT DIAZ WILL RESIGN Jorge Vera Estanol, a Mem- ber of Cabinet, Is to Take Place Temporarily, Ac- cording to Persistent Re- port. CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, May 10 (via El Paso, Tex., May 12.)—Two thousand in- surrectos, part of the band operating in the districts south of here, are re- ported today to be marching on Chi- huahua. Already the advance guards are en- camped around the city. An armed mob just before daylight to- day entered Nombre de Dios, a suburb, looted all the stores and took all the borses, despite the presence of 1500 Fed- eral troops in nearby barracks, and es- caped. Santa Eulia, an important min- ing camp, 12 miles gast of the city, has been abandoned by all the municipal of- ficlals because of the approach of the insurrectos. The place is now regulated wholly by Americans employed in the raines. | This city, long in dread of an attack, is now in greater fear than ever, because of the extreme violence shown by the insurrectos in their northward march. The whole district, enibracing Durango, Torreon and in- termediaté towns, has been in a state approaching anarchy. To conceal their movements, thé in- Surrectos destroyed all the remaining ph and railroad lines, so that: hua city, with its 35,000 in- habitants, has been isolated for prac- tically two weeks. This dispatch is pent 225 miles overland by automobtle to El Paso, Tex. Situation Over Country. The situation in the South is reported here as: | _. Torreon, 26,000 population, including numerous Americans, surrounded by in- surrectos, estimated 200 in number; @ommunication in all directions fre- quently cut off and inhabitants in con- stant fear of attack. Lerdo, three miles from Torreon, in hands of insurrectos under Pablo Lavin; ®ondition chaos, looting and acts of vio- tence. Palacio Gomez, near Torreon, invaded ®y insurrectos without resistance. . Durango, 32,000 population, capital of Btate of same name, surrounded by in- #urrectos and in fear of attack. Zacatecas, 33,000 population, capital of State, 20 miles south of Torreon, sur- rounded by insurrectos; possesses only mmall Federal garrison. Aguas Calientes, 56,000, capital of the ‘state, described ag a hotbed of evolutionists, who frequently make incursions into the town and receive encouragement from the inhabitants. _ Parral, located on a branch line: from Jiminez, just south of here, sez:t/ out a distress signal. Fifteen hundrad _Ansurrectos surrounded the town and already have onghared. Minas Luevas, a suburb. ) Guadalupe Y Calro was entered by 100 1 men, who shot and killed Jefe Po- litico, a lieutenant and several Fed- eral employes. All the stores were looted and the municipal records burned. August Beckman, an American oft Luckenback, -Gillespie County, Tex., “Was pulled off a horse while trying to @scape and was ordered executed. Sev- eral shots were fired, but he escaped : after suffering a wound in the scalp | and hand. He, with other Americans, ‘Bppeaied to the United States Consul for protection. * Condition of Anarchy. Rosario, another town, has been cut for some time, and its fate at the of the insurrectos is unknown. ] from there before the wires eh said conditions of anarchy pre- : d, mpny of the regularly consti- ‘Fiaeee authorities having fled. Inde, acs pans Fuh relent ae ete “ay! & - “FIRST DN EVEBYTEING."”

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VOL. 03. NO. 265. ST. LOUIS, | FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, #11,

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Yesterday’s Temperatures. High 15 at 4 p.m. 1 Low G4 at 9 a. m. “O, pure is the water And clear are the skies, That help fair St. Louis triumph rise,”’ sang the drummer. HE MAN is BATTING 1000 THESE DAYS. EH 7 In to shoe for this sudden burst of melody ?”’ asked t he wholesale druggist. “Let me I'm a St. gondolier.”’ “What do mean ?’’ | “Why, I made that tour of the factory district in a gondola car yester- day.” ‘“And that makes you a gondolier?’’ ‘ure. We're going to visit Venice next.’’ . Official forecast of St. Louis: Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Stage of the river: 8.7 feet; a fall of .4 of a foot. BROWNS’ BATTING BREAKS UP A HOME Winning Streak Responsible for a Divorce, but It Happened Last Year. DETROIT, Mich., May 12.—Baseball has driven many a man to drink and caused one to swallow a lighted cigar, but it remained for the St. Louis Browns and the Tigers to break up a home. Hazel M. Buck told a pitiful tale to Judge Murfin today about her husband's deportment when the Tigers lost to other clubs. Last fall she and her husband, Wil- liam M. Buck, usually accepted de- feat as best they could, but when the Browns took seven games out of nine that finished it. After the last game the couple started home, Buck crest- fallen, nerved and quarrelsome. They had a‘bitter quarrel’ and Buck. broke up the furniture, packed up his clothes and left. She has not seen him since. Judge Murfin granted her a divorce. HAS A 12FOOT SNOUT casion sing. Louis you

Found) in Montana, Marred by Curious. ~ GREAT FALIA, Mont., May 12.—In a deep canyon on the Blackfoot Reserva- tion north of Cutbank two Indian serv- ice employes have discovered in sand- stone the fossilized remains of a huge animal. The’ verterbrae and ribs of the animal are distinct and it has a trunk or snout that measures twelve feet. Specimen hunters have carried away pieces of the fossil and an effort will be made to*prevent further marring of the specimen until an expert can pass upon rs find. BOY 14 KILLS HIMSELF Fossil

Uses Shotgun When He Grows Tired of School. PONTIAC, Ill., May 12.—George Mobr, 14°years old, killed himself at his home at Sycamore, IIl., today with a shotgun. He steadied the gun with his feet and discharged it with a stick, the entire charge lodging in his head. He was tired of schoo} / ' alone, competitors, combined, four days of this week, the carried only we ‘ ‘Profit by their experience.

“What's the oc- f/ LITLE MOTHER. SAVES FAMILY AS HOME |S BURNED Carries Baby and Leads Brother Through Flames in Kitchen to Safety.

EXPLOSION OF GASOLINE Woman, III, Is Also Led to Yard by Her 10-Year-Old Daughter. ees

When a gasoline stove exploded at 9 o'clock Friday morning at the home of James Burns, 4634 Margaretta avenue, house on fire, and Mrs. 2-day-old infant and an- other child 18 months old were in great danger. Loretta Burns, 10 years old, the “little mother” of the bousehold, rescued them. Loretta, setting the Burns, her kept at home from school to nurse her mother and the new baby, had placed water on the gasoline stove to heat it for the baby’s bath. She turned on the gasoline and applied a match. The gasoline in the tank ex- ploded and the kitchen was instantly in a blaze. The house was a two-room frame. Mrs. Burns and the baby were in bed in the next room and James, the other baby, was playing in the same room. The only exit from the bedroom was through the kitchen. Loretta acked quickly. Saves Baby and Brother. “You will not have time to dress,’’ cried to her mother. She assisted the invalid to rise from the bed, threw a blanket around her, picked up the baby in one arm, took James by the hand and said, “‘Come on.” She ran through the flame-filled kitch- en, her mother tottering after her. At the door they were met by John Hen- nessy of 4592 Evans avenue and Harry Anson of 4627 Natural Bridge road, who were building a house next door. They carried Mrs. Burns across the alley to the. home of J. H. Telger, 4633 San Fran- cisco avenue. She was in a serious con- dition from the shock of the alarm. and the exertion she had-undergone, and was sent to St. Mary’s Hospital. Finds Shelter for Children, . The little mother found shelter for her brood, consisting, besides the two babies, of Pauline, aged 4; Dan, 5; Rob- ert, 6, and Llioyd, 8, at the homes of neighbors. Pauline and Dan were play- ing In the yard when the fire occurred, and the other two were at school. The father was summoned from his employment in a furniture factory at Sixth street and Cass avenue, to find the home burned to the ground, and the family scattered, but unhurt, through she ithe coolness and courage of the, little mother. The loss on the house and contents was $1000. The insurance was $400. GOUT WEAKENS THE POPE

Causes , Audiences. ROME, May 12.—Pope Pius X is still feeling the effects of his recent attack of gout, and the public audiences plan- ned for this morning were suspended. The general condition of His Holiness is giving little alarm to his physicians, who. permitted the private audiences set for today.

The Post-Dispatch is the only evening newspaper in St. Louls that receives or publishes news gathered by the Asgo-

time ‘or in other words, on two week days out of four, the POST-DISPATCH has carried a larger volume of the an- nouncements of the St. Louis merchants than three out of all four of its competitors COMBINED. On Tuesday the record was POST-DISPATCH ‘Three out of the four of its “tated Press For the second this week 71 penne 65 columns Again yesterday, Thursday, or for the second time in the POST-DISPATCH repeated this achievement by printing 88 columns of the home merchants’ advertising, while the Globe-Dem- ocrat, Republic and Times, its three nearest competitors 83 columns The St. Louis merchants have spent millione of dollars for aw! , in learning how to spend many more millions. T Follow the leaders. Talk to ee eae ee Fay ean Go st | the POST-DISPATCH. rine in ee: Suspension of Public Photograph of Charles D. Garnett and Wife at sania County Home

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ERS PLEAS. “BEEF TRUST CASE OVERRULED Sherman Law Held Constitution-| Miss al, and Armour Indictment Valid. , CHICAGO, May 12.—The demurrers of the Chicago packers in the ‘“‘Beef Trust” cases were overruled today by Jhdge Carpenter in the United States District Court. In his ruling Judge Carpenter de- clared that the Sherman anti-trustlaw, which had been attacked by the pack- ers, ig. constitutional. He also held that the charging J. Ogden Armour and other packers with violating its provisions is valid. GRABS 3 JOBS AND IS AFTER 2 MORE Newcomer Seeks to Displace Oregon Mayor Who Ap- pointed Him. MITCHELL, Ore.,’ May 12.—Oregon ras developed a new political prodigy. A few days ago W. C... Vaughan, a young Kentuckian, came to Mitchell from the sheep‘ ranges. He found that Mitchell did not have a jus- tice of the peace, that the postmaster did not care about his job, and that the city recorder. was ready to quit. So Vaughan took all three jobs, Mayor R. H. Jenkins, who is a _ physician, giving him two of the “appointments. Vaughan held down the three jobs for two or three days and then devel- oped an ambition to become mayor and police judge. As city recorder he today announced an election for the re- call of the mayor, whom he charges with incompetencys At the same time Vaughan announced his own candidacy for the mayorality. Pa neat ALEXANDRA BACK indictment

She Is Enjoying Good Health After Cruise. LONDON, May 12.—The Queen Mother Alexandra, who returned a week ago from a cruise in the Mediterranean, has taken up a residence at Sandringham Palace, where she will remain unfil after. the coronation. During the cruise and since her return, the Queen Mother has enjoyed good general health.

$37,000,000 Increase for Trainmen, HARRISBURG, Pa. May 12.—The of the trainmen in the United States and Canada have been in- cre $37,000,000 In a year, accord- ing to the report made to the Inter- ‘natiénal convention of the Brother-

94 of Railroad Trainmen by W. j miles WOMAN AURT IN LEAP AFTER AUTO HITS A GARDENER Agnes Broken Shoulder—Brain ‘Concussion Feared.

Miss Agnes Rickaby, 22 years old, of 1414 North Eleventh street, plunged headlong from an automobile on the Olive street road a mile west of the city at 1 a. m. Friday and was serious- ly hurt. : , The machine, as identified by license tags, belonged to Charles W. Honegger, a butcher, who has a shop at 1300 South Compton avenue, and lives at 3152 Rut- ger street. Miss Rickaby. leaped from the ma- chine after it had struck and demol- ished a farm wagon, and injured Charles .Elgasser, who was driving to St. Louis with a load of produce. Brain Concussion Feared. ‘Her right -shoulder was broken. and she is belie¢ved to have concussion of the brain and internal injuries. She was taken to-Clayton for emergency treat- ment by Dr. George C. Eggers and was brought to.St: John’s Hospital in St. Louis by William Autenrteth in his automobile. With Miss Rickaby in the Honegger machine were another young woman and two men. The men said they had been to.Busch’s Grove, but denied that they had been. drinking. The machine passed the Capri Inn on Olive Street road at 1245 a. m.,- and witnesses there say it was running 50 an hour. A quarter of a mile east of the inn, while approaching a narrow bridge, the machine struck the farmer’s wagon, rolling it into a ditch. Alights on Her Head. Speeding eastward the automobile was about to cross a narrow wooden bridge when Miss Rickaby leaped from it, alighting on her head. Constable Bode, notified by telephone from the Capri Inn, arrested the men and wom- en, who, were taken to Clayton by Au- tenrieth, who was returning from the theater in his automobile. When Bode joined the party in the inn one of the men who gave his name as George Meyer of 1804 South*Grand ave- nue turned to Bode and said: “You know Mr. Honegger, don't you?” .He pointed to the other man. Later Bode was surprised when the 4 man he supposed to be Honegger gave his name afd addrass as James Gienn, 2915 St. Vincent avenue. The men were taken before Justice Werremeyer and gave $500 bond to ap- pear for trial next Thursday. They said they did net know why Miss Rickaby jumped, unless she became panic-stricken because of the collision with the wagon. J. When seen at his butener shop Fri-| 1 day sini call denied that his automobile

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Rickaby Suffers] He Had Packed Trunks to’Start to St. Louis the Day He Killed Himself.

The body of Charles D. Garnett, St. Louis paper manufacturer, who killed himself with a revolver in New York Thursday, will be brought to St. Louis for burial. Garnett had been for months a sufferer from acute nervousness. Mrs. Garnett ts prostrated, and until she recovers somewhat arrangements ‘or the funeral will not be made. She expects to accompany the body to St. Louis, according to press dispatches from New .York. James L. Garnett of 3864 Greer avenue, a brother of Charles D., said no word had been received’ by him as to when the body would.reach St. Louis... It is probable, -however, that Mrs. Garnett will start Friday evéning. Mrs.” Garnett formerly was.Mrs. Eli Silverburg. She has no chidren. Her | husband had been twice married and: by his first marriage has a son, James, L. Garnett Jr.,.who survives him. His: mother, Mrs. R. Garnett of 303 Union | boulevard, also survives. Garnett had been expecting to bring his wife for a visit to his mother and his trunks were packed with the inten- tion' of leaving New York Thursday night. The mother is elderly, and the shock. of her son’s death has made medical attention necessary for her. , Garnett was 49 years old. WOMEN’S HATS IN ’76 AS BIG AS TODAY; Millinery Collection Also Shows’ Caps of Period Like: Kind Now Popular for Theater. By Associated Press. NEW, YORK, May 14.—Colonial gowns and millinery of revolutionary times take their place among the art treasures of the world in a collectinn just. presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art here. One of the hats is as big as any of the present day, and is trimmed with: the brightest green so much affected in up-to-date millinery this spring. hat would have to be dipped to enter the ordinary street car of today. Then there is a charming cap which could be worn without alteration, as one of the theater caps of today. It is sewn over at intervals with and there are loops of otrung, at one side.

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— Coaster Merida of the Ward LIne, Bound for New York, Almost ~~ Cut in Two. 3

Wireless Call Brings Battleship lowa and” Steamer Hamilton to Rescue of Half- Clad 4 a Frightened Passengers— Merida Stays : Afloat Only Five Hours.

By Leased Wire from the New York Bureau of the NEW YORK, May 12.—The big new Ward Line steamship: Merida, due here from Cuban ports today, was rammed and —_ . a, cut in two at 12:55 o’clock this morning while running at f speed 55 miles off Cape Charles, Va., by the little Admiral Ta gut of the American Steamship Co.’s line, bound out of Phila jel phia for Port Antonio. Less than five hours after the collision, the Merida the Old Dominion liner Hamilton. The battléship Iowa, summoned by of the Merida were awash. wireless messages of distress, assisted in the transfer of the passengers, and then acted as an escort for the ‘little coaster when she turned about and headed for Norfotk, Va. _8oO8 in Fog. : ertgon, in. one of the Iowa’s left her only a few minutes t \ Line also called out of the fog by wireless, arrived. whilé the transfer of passengers was still in progress. After about one hundred passengers had been put aboard the Farragut it was decided that she was.so badly injured that ‘it would be wiser to put the remaining passengers of the sinking coaster and about half the crew aboard the Ham- liton. This was. done. The crash came in the dead of night when all of Merida’s passengers were asleep. There was only one passenger aboard the Admiral Farragut, a vessel about one-fifth the size of the Merida, but, like the Ward liner, built entirely of steel. Capt. Mader was on the bridge of the Farragut, but almost before his signals reached the engine room the sharp prow of his ship had struck and burst through the metal plates of the Merida. The prow of the smaller boat cleaved into the Merida as if her hull had been made of cheese. Capt. Robertson of the Merida was on the bridge~an inmstant~after the col- lision. Quickly he rushed his officers to quiet the panic in the staterooms, and as the Farragut pulled free, leav- this port this afternoon. The only Americans on the list of t Robert Wright, Ann Wright and/William White, the I atter Canadian. ° 5 ae The Merida was " pullt for the | Iine at Cramps’ shipyard, in Phil phia, six years ago. She was — steel to meet the requirements United States subsidy act of J 1991, having all the necessary for an auxiliary cruiser. and Carribean waters. The Admiral Farragut . comparatively new vessel, having De built In 1898. She is a twin-screw #1 ship, built entirely of steel. The was in command of Capt. A. Re nn the Farragut in command of Capt.

;manned 9nd the work of transferrirg | the passengers to the less injured leutting great silvery gashes in the The jing the water to pour through the hole she had made, he signalled that ship to | stand by as he’realized the Merida was ‘hopelessly rammed. i While the wireless operators on ‘both ships pounded out the S&S O 8 | signal of distress,, the boats were Patent Scaffolding Falls’! gine House and Five } Farragut was begun. The Iowa was less than a three hours’ run from the scene of the e9i- lision and, with all her searchlights fog, she rushed to the succor of the sinking Merida and the battered Far-. ragut under a full pressure of steam, Saved in Night Clothes, The Merida filled so rapidiy that none of her passengers was ab’e to save any of his or her luggage cr “veluables, ana few were’ able to ob- | tain any clothes to put over their pajamas and night dresses. While the stern of the rammed liner settled, and she listed to port at @ sharp angle, frightened men and women stood huddled on the upper decks in a shiv- ering group. Only when they got word that the; battleship Iowa was racing to their as- sistance did they take any cheer, and this reassurance failed, really, to stim-. ulate them until they saw the giant bull of the huge fighting vessel emerge from the mist with her blazing search- lights. It was not until the transfer of pas-

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