St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 23, 1911

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“TOTEUPE.0.P ‘ @ertain members of the committee have » = fused by his omission. primary, Hopkins said, he was ¢of ered the: Republican party’s cand regarded as its’ candidate for Govern “I was assessed by the State Cenixg Committee, just as the other ¢ ide were, to run the campaign at | election,” said Hopkins. The election of a Senator by the i isiature in 199 was then inired I t oy ee. . seis, % hs ae aor ae ; for “Blond Boss” E cause OF $2500 BRIBE YR FE Rk 4 Pasa” es : 4 ee RE eR “I don’t think I ought to way," de . After his victory at the pa Lola ss | for Senator, just as Gov. ae ra 2 -

cisco Mint, was so badly injured that his recovery is doubtful. The gold, in sacks, toppled in ene of the mint vaults and overwhelmed . Wiliams, who was wheeling a truck. | epee: ecmrnenmanrrm ers The witness told of the election « speaker by a combination of “De crats and recalcitrant Repu lican and of a Republican senatorial « in which he was selected as the J candidate. — 2 ee _ ‘Blbridge Hanecy, coucsel ne Lorimer, suggested to the witn the meeting was a. “eonference” | Action Next Wednesday. The reorganization of the Republican City Committee is scheduled for next Wednesday. Otto Stifel, who has been backing Kiel in the fight to retain control of the committee is in Ger- many. It is reported that he is now on his way to St. Louis and will reach here Wednesday morning in time to confer with several committeemen be- fore the meeting. .The report of his return is not verified. Chairman Kiel gays if Stifel is coming he does not “know it. . Certain members of the grand jury bave also been making inquiries into a Jottery case in which no indictment was returned until it was exposed by the Post-Dispatch. A. J. Snider, who claimed a prize of $5000 in the drawing of the Standard Lottery Co., formerly operated at 509 Pine street, told a Post- . . Dispatch reporter Friday that he had been requested to have all the papers bearing on the case ready for the grand jury upon demand. . Snider attémpted to have Frank Beck- t. bring order out of the chaos of the tangled affairs of the late Charles T. Yerkes, whose widow feared that she would be left homeless ahd. penniless, it was suggested by the latter’s friends that she examine into the legality of the gifts made by Yerkes to Miss Grigs- by, his beautiful ward. The lawyers re- ported that Miss Grigsby’s rights were unassailable. She alone, of all who had erjoyed the traction king's riches dur- ing his life, was protected in them after his death. Among the property of her possession, cue to Yerkes’ generosity, was the great granite palace at Park avenue and Six- ty-seventh street, 660 Park avenue, se- cure against all claims. Here, on the mght preceding her sailing for London, Miss Grigsby gave a magnificent dinner t» a few friends, the details of which were published in full in the New York papers.: Immediately following the din- ner, Miss Grigsby and her guests were taken in automobiles to another enter- ' tainment. Railroad’s~ Mistake Exchanges Them for Suitcase Contain- ing Auto Tools. By Associated Presg. CHICAGO, June 23.—Through the mis- take of a railroag,company, Mrs. Mary E. Whité of this city found herself in Pittsburg, Pa., with a complete outfit of automobile mechanic's tools in the tiace of a brass urn containing the ashes of her husband. George S. White, who died a month ago. At about the same time a chauffeur in New York was declining a job be- cause in place of his necessary tools he was equipped only with a suit case containing a number of articles of femi- nine use and a brass crematory urn. ’ The railroad company at New York telegraphed Pittsburg and in reply re- ceived the following message: . “Return suit case at once. Am send- ing in its place man’s suit case with clothes and tools in, on train No. 6; the case of an American woman. Her distinction was additionally’ emphasized by the fact that a special arrangement was made for her to sit in a\box im- mediately opposite the one occupied by the royal children nd the German Crown Princess, this bringing her closer to the actual scene of the coronation than were any of the foreign envoys, placing her, indeed, in almost intimate touch with royalty... ‘ All Spectators Suffered. During the long’ and. tiresome cere- mony, Miss Grigsby,-in common with many other spectators, actually suffered from faintness caused by hunger. But she fared better in this peculiar crisis than did the members of England's most powerful noble families.and the’ ac- | credited ‘representatives. of the world’s greatest powers, all of whom found it incumbent upon them to “suffer and be still,” as the poet has it. Miss Grigsby’s period of “short commons” was termi- nated by the arrival of a flunkey from the royal box, who delivered a little Those who try Post-Dispatch wants In solving domestic and business prob- lems as they come, are pleased with the wants. cfter an all-day’s pursuit ran upon Hall, peacefully asleep alongside a well- traveled road. The bad man was cap- tured before he was fairly awake. BRICK WAS CHOCOLATE} ECLAIR, BUTCHER SAYS Court Fines Him $10, After See- ing Bruise It Inflicted on a Boy. George/Riégle was arraigned in the Clarke Avenue Police Court Friday on a charge of hitting 12-year-old Peter Hansen jon the hip with a brick. Riegle worksAn a butcher shop adjoining the Hansen home at 4117 Manchester ave- nue, and took offense because Peter's dog ran into the shop. Peter’s parents testified to the size and nature of the bruise on the boy's hip, and then Riegle took the stand. He

Facts worth knowing @ The United States Government says: : Population of St. Louis. . field to further his candidacy, a ph n Families in St. Louis (that said he hired a hall in which é€ read and write)............182,000 vv @ Sales of the POST-DISPATCH m the city: ...3.... 340.5. 488 00 @ In other words, the POST-DISPATCH sells more a St. Louis every day than there are families in e @ 95 per cent of the business of the retail merchants of that ay the party's loyal Republican member of lature should vote for me,"

# cite ive j ae ” - “Tf the grand jury wants to investi- er and his associates indicted for op- St. Louis comes from St. erating a lottery, but declared that he was unable to get action. He then gave the facts to the .Post-Dispatch, and ‘after the publication of the story Beck- er was indicted. Dental by Jones, Circuit Attorney Jones denied to a Post-Dispatch reporter that the grand nr was now investigating anything Other than routine criminal matters. “Anybody who says the grand jury is _ Investigating anything other than rou- tine matters is a liar,” said the Circuit ~ Attorney. ine “I don't know who is starting these yes,” he continued, “and I don’t care. of St. Lonis. advertising to the amount of gate my office the records are open I have nothing to conceal. Nobody bas ything on-me. My record is clean,” POST-DISPATCH reaches 100 Louis and suburbs. The per cent of the families @. The shrewd experienced buyers of udvestialne space know this, which explains the preference the St. Louis merthants show for the POST-DISPATCH in selecting it as their medium of publicity, as was shown by their ad- vertising yesterday, Thursday, when ey used display 94 columns in the POST-DISPATCH alone, while in the Globe-Demo- erat, Republic and Times, its three néarest competitors, all added together, they used only 76 columns a was asked | : ! r _ or 18 columns less than they used in the POST-DISPATCH @ There is no other daily politan cit all of its this field. q The POST-DISPATCH is The one

newspaper printed in a metro- in the United States that so far outclasses_ petitors as does the POST-PISPATCH in paper in every home, The only paper in many homes. First in Brerything Se cknmuepe yVVU eas er

pe, AREA. SESE, ai lady very anxious.” The clothes and the crematory urn were started back, and today Mrs. White is expected to be in possession o: her husband's ashes. WOMAN CLEANING BED BADLY BURNED Strikes Match. and Gasoline Blazes Up, Setting Clothes

Afire. When Mrs. Catherine M. Vedda of 1907 North Tenth street struck a match so that she could better see into some of the dark places on the bed wihch she was cleaning with gasoline at 7 a. m. Friday she received burns which the doctors at the City Hospital say} may be fatal. When the match was lit there was « blaze which set fire tc Mrs. Vedda’'s clothes and to the carpet. Her clotb- | ing was entirely burned off. Her lit- ter and oth hildren in the} tle daugh a erc Xmily Grigsby was a guest of a memter |} of the proud English family of Dudley, ‘f which Lord Dudley, former Governor- | neighborhood rushed in and beat out ythe flames with other garments. ‘Mrs. Vedda is $8 years old. The Post-Dispatch ts the only even-

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celves or S news methered by et Fe we ein * ' leather case into her hands. This case contained compressed beef tablets, a wheat biscuit, chocolates and, further- more, a number of lemon tablets to as- suage her thirst. With the box came a note, reading: “Princess Mary sends you this emers- ency kit to keep you from fainting.” American in Limelight. And so it came abdout, strangely, at the coronation of His Royal and Im- perial Majesty, George V, by the grace God King of Great Britain and‘ Ire- , Defender of the Faith, and Em- ror of India, that a young American woman, untitled, sat in the spotlight as the most highly favored individual of all the historically brilliant Westmin- ster Abbey assemblage that witnessed the King’s crowning. It was one of those astonishing “sidelight” happenings that. sometimes lend piquancy to the majestic progress of world evénts. %, ¥

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