St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 26, 1911

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HARVESTER TRUST EVIDENCE FAILED 10 MOVE BONAPARTE Former Attorney-General, Now in Canada, Will Be Subpenaed to Tell Why Townsend Report, Show- ing Violations of Law, Was Disregarded. S ceeaeemnesienenenenesteenen DOCUMENT TELLS OF STEEL TRUST REBATES Declares Price of Material Was Made Seme as That in Europe and That Com- petitors Were Bought Up and Plants Dismantled. eee ee WASHINGTON, Jury %.—Another doc- ument of sensational irterest equal to tne steel plate association agreemeit recently produced, was mid before the Stanley Steel Trust Inves:igating Com rites today. It deite Townsend to former Was a report by Bur- Atforney-Gen- ¢-al Bonaparte during the Rousevelt ad- tiinistration, on the Internatiewnal Har- vester Co., the so-called trust. ‘ihe report showed that the Siates Steel Corporation allowed of $3 United rebates a ton to the harvester company gud Stanley declared that it indieatec fiat the giant stee] corporation and the iiarvester The report MNeCormick Harvester bh. Marriage to the great us of trusts,”’ the Standard Oi! also referred to J. Pierpont Morgan “the trust architect, & good bu.lder whe received fabulous fees for his work.’’ Attorney-General Wickersham, sum- inoned as a witness this afternoon testified that he had never seen the Townsend report until today. He prom- ixed that Townsend would testify later. tle did not know why the Harvester case Was not pressed in 1208-09. “I surmised,’ he added, “that the . vase Was held up pending the Supreme Court decisions in the tobacco and Standard Oil cases involving the same points.”’ Stanley announced that a subpena had heen issued for Bonaparte, who is now ‘0 Canada, and that an effort would + «,Made to ascerain from him and trom +..er Government officials why there )ever Was any prosecution of the Inter- wutional Harvester Co. upon Townsend's “ \arges. Says Companies Are Connected. Stanley also announced his intention of endeavoring to show a close connec- tion between the United States Stee! (ogporation and the International Har- vester Co., and as a basis for future inquiry he had read into the record the- names of the directors of both corpora- tions, the same being identica] in many _ instances. _ Attorney-General Wickershain also was subpenaed to appear before the _committee late today to identify the Townsend report and to testify concern- .ing the International Harvester Co. Townsend's report was exhaustive, going into the entire history of the Harvester companies involved and the organization of the International in 192, the transaction being directed and guided by J. P. Morgan & Co- The committee will call attention to the forming of the Steel Trust the year before, Trust were practically one. added that Was ‘related American fam- Co. fat Townsend +? te (*o. a Foreign Prices Lower. A feature of the Townsend report which the Steel inquirers lay stress upon is the following: * The International Harvester Co. sells to the foreign trade at a cheaper rice than the domestic trade. It sells machines of all kinds for export, deliv- ered at New York at the same price for v hich they are sold to domestic pur- ‘jasers f. o. b. Chicago. This makes difference of from $6 to $10 per ma- cnine. “Il was surprised to learn, while inves- tzating this subject, that the Stee! Trost refunds to Harvester companies % per ton for all steel used in the man- uracture of machinery exported, thus giving the same result as if the steel! iaG@ been imported, the import duty pa.d, aid afterwards refunded under the crawback law; indicating that steel era be profitably produced in this country and suld at the foreign price. It jus- ifics a small difference between tie dc- testic and forel prices, but it wouid ameunt te only few cents for each machine, and in no way explains the «c\fference indicated above.’ Many Other Charges. ‘Townsend detailed many other charges if 'Miolations. “i have learned,” he said, “of many siieged dishonest acts of the Interna- uional Harvester Co., such as legislation Ie obing, lax dodging, elc., some based on apparently authentic iuformation, some On rumor,’ These matters he submitted to enable the ,-Attorney-Genera!l to determine whether there has been violation of the anti-trust law. "In my judgment,” the report con- vester conetitute a violation of the anti- trust law.” . ee in his report wettnn ann |BLUE SKIES AND WARMER WEATHER IS THE PREDICTION TEMPERATURES.

THE 2p. m Yesterday’s Temperatures. .77 at 4p. m. Low. .59 at 6 a. m. ee ee > “What vou reading?” asked the straphange! PitTcCn EVERY. “4 interest- ste ing treatise on the art of versation,’’ replied the passenger with are

very polite con a seat. “Ah! of Lord Chesterfield’s books. I suppose.’ ag alg “Who wrote it?” “Tt understand it was compiled from rules laid down by two eminent 5t. Louis officehori- ers, Speaker Law- ton and Delegate Lahiv.”’ “What's One

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rule?” “When a man says you're fight. cal] him a: blinkety-blank liar. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and warmer tonight and ‘Thursday. Stage of the river: -1 of a foot. 100 one to § feet; a fall of a ee ee 7 *¢ “6 + .- Missouri and Illinois—Fair: warme! LO night and Thursday. POLICEMAN DENIES HE WAS BUNNIE CUDDLER Declares He Was in Saloon After Going Off Duty, but Did Not Dance. Patrolman John J. McCann denies that he was dancing the “Bunnie Cud- die.’ and says he cannot dance, but he was standing in nliar a position when Lieut. Thomas Walsh found him in the saloon at °801 Easton avenue Tuesday night that Walsh decided that either been or Was in the fect.” Chief Gillaspy received tele- message from a ‘citizen shortly midnight. It said a policeman, with four other men and three women was dancing the “Bunnie Cuddle” in a rear room of the saloon. When Lieut. Walsh entered the saloon he found McCann in the center of the room, back to back with a young man. Their heads almost touched. The policeman’s right arm tended and one of his knees was so ele- vated that only the toe of his foot touched the floor. Apparently he had stopped in the midst of a giddy whirl. McCann wrote a report that he enter- ed the saloon after he was off duty but did not dance. He will further explain to the Police Board Friday.

sO pec had dancing “dippy Night phone before he Was exX- Oe ee re ee TRAMP STEALS MEAL; LEAVES HIS THANKS Writes Note With Victim’s Foun- tain Pen and Then Takes It as Souvenir. While Mrs. F. A. Keller of Kast Fourth street, Alton, IIl., was visiting a neighbor Tuesday afternoon, an unin vited guest slipped into the house. He spread a white table cloth on the din ing room table, and set out dishes ane silverware. From the refrigerator he got meat, po- tatoes and other vegetables, and sat down to a full meal, which he topped off with a dessert of peaches and cream. When Mrs. Keller returned home she found the following note under the cor- rer of a plate: “DEAR MISSUS: ! Lungry, and happened io help myself. The meal Thank you very much “A HUNGRY TRAMP.” SOT was awfully just on time was fine. ° brown wrapping paper, was missing. wee tn ee - WANTS 5 PENSIONS FOR 5 HUSBANDS Widow Declares . They Were All in the Civil War—Two Were Killed. ATLANTA, Ga., July 26.—Alleging that she is the widow of five husbands, all whom fought in the ‘Civil! War, a woman of Walton County, Ga., has made application for five pensions amounting to $60 a month. The applicant stated that she was a Miss Malcolm before marriage and de- clared that her first husband was Killed dgring the first year of the war, while her second soldier husband met a like fate toward the close of the conflict. Sne further asserted that the three men she married since the war were vet- erans of the Confederacy , SUN of i RAINBOW CIRCLES JACKSON, Miss.. July %.—At noon today while the sun was behind a thick layer of hazy cloud a rainbow formed, completely circling the sun. The phenomenon attraé 2d the atten- tion of the whole town and business was at a standstill for half an hour. : LL EA Lt PARK CONCERTS TONIGHT. Carondele® Park, 7 to 10 p. m., Ba- funno's Band. Gravois Park, 7 to 10 p. m., Poepping’s

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GIRL QUITS PIANO, AKES POISON, DIES IN TWIN'S ARMS All Morning Ruth Hutchings Sang With Three Sisters and Then Decided to Die. QUARTET OF

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Neighbors Had Remarked How Happy the Four Girls Seemed to Be.

After new playing the piano and singing her three 17 carbolic songs all] Miss morning with Ruth Morgan 12:0 Pp. sisters, old, acid at Hutchings, drank Wednesday and died vears 406.3 street, m. in the arms of her twin sister, Mary. The neighbors had previously com- mented on the gayetyv of the four pretty wnose laughter, interspersed their music, rang out from the parior. “How happy they are!” some of neighbors they \thought as they heard them singing. At noon Ruth Hutchings left her ters and went upstairs to the room of a boarder, where she found an ounce vini of carbolic acid. She took it inio her room at the front of the house on the second floor, and drained it. The azony of the searing liquid caused her to scream. 3 Hier sisters rushed to her, but Mary [fitchings was. the first to reais her s‘ue. She raised her twin sister in her arms. Ruth moaned: ‘‘Good-by, Sis; Mit going, and died. Her father, George C. Hutchings. is an invalid, said that Mary Hutchings had been ill for some time. Neighbors said the girl had been the picture of health. She was blonde, with blue eves and attractive. Was cashier for the Conrad Gro- Co., Union boulevard and the Sub- tracks, but was on a vacation, which was spending at home. Her relatives declined to make a statement concerning her death. sisters, with the Sav sis- who She cery urban sne

BOY HIT BY CAR IS ONLY SCRATCHED Hangs on to Fender, Sees Police- man and Runs Off to School. When Phillip Keaty, 7 years old, was run down by a Westbound Page car in Washington avenue near Ewing avenue Wednesday morning he seized the edge of the fender and held to it-until Mo- Cc. H. Kerns could stop the

tcrman cal. P Patrolman Schmied!l saw the accident and ran toward the car, and the boy, believing he was to be arrested, scram- bled out and ran on to the Stoddard Summer School. Schmiedi got a physician and fol- lowed the boy to school, but the serv- ices of a doctor were not necessary, 4s a slight seratch on one leg was the only injurv the boy suffered. The boy lives at Father Dunne’s Newsboys’ Home, 3010 Washington avenue. - ——— ee ee ~~ WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH BY COAL OIL SC Mrs. Jordan of East Suburb Had Told Neighbors Mother Died Same Way. said Mrs. St. Louis “When I was a little girl,” Marv Jordan, while talking some neighbors Monday afternoon, ‘“‘my mother was burned to death while kin- dling a fire with coal oil, but I have light" fires with it for years and am not afraid.” At 4 a. m. to Wednesday Mrs. Jordan tnoured kerosene over a bed of coals in stove at her home in Ar- a district adjoining Kast St. Louis on the north. The ac- cumulated gases exploded suddenly and ignited her clothing, burning her so badly she died at the Henrietta Hos- pital 11 o’clock. She was 58 years old. kitchen at anne POPE PASSES BAD NIGHT; THROAT BETTER Fever Still High Pontiff Hopes He May Soon Re- sume Duties. ROME, July 26.—The Pope had a rest- less night, due to the fever experienced, buttthis morning his throat was not so «cre and the hoarseness had lessened. Addressing Mar. Bis’eti, Major Domo of the Vatican, the Pontiff said that he lheped to be able soon resume his audiences. WOMAN KILLS MAN AT HER HOME . July 26.—~Mrs. Ran- doiph Holman, a divorcee, of Cisne, 10 miles north of this city. shot and in- stantly killed Bud Sheborn, a stock buy- er, at 10 o'clock last, night. Mrs. Holman says he was trying to intrude im her home over her protest and that after warning him to desist she shot him through the head. Mrs. Holman is the mother of three enildren. Sheborn bas a wie and sev- eral children.

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Arthur Surgant, While in Panama Canal Zone, Learns to Love Girl Left Behind.

traveled 250. miles to Hammersmith of Artiur Surgant from the Panama Canu! St. Louis Tillie one os to wed Miss Mary avenue. married her at Clayton, Tues- he will depart for Panama, Thurs- day, leaving his bride behind him. But tiieir separation will be only temporary, as Surgant says he wife as soon as he finds a suitable home or her in the Canal Zone. Until three years ago Surgant lived with his‘ parents at 9910 South Broad- way, only two blocks from Miss Ham- mersmith’s home. He was electri- cian enaploved by the city. He met Miss He tv at her home. “But I didn’t fall in love with then,.’’ he said to a Post-Dispatch porter. “It was not until after lL went tc Panama as an emplose of the Canal Commission that I realized what a fine girl she was. @ was lonesome down there and did a great «-s caeene Mra. M. J. Hartman..... Central National Bank.. L. A. Engel .... Mrs. Jenniwe Engel of 3964... Flad avenue, is a widoweds «| sister-in-law of the atte Mrs. Katherine Engel is mother. eines oooedbone

ever statement he has to make 9 be reserved until the case goes court, he said. teh i F. H. Bacon, an attorney with ’ in the Holland Buildin~ 4hat he was representing « whd had a claim against ~ declined to state her narie or .@ amount of her claim, sayipg he sure that it would be to her adv for him to do so. | Eugene 8. Wilson, chairman Grievance Committee of the 8t Bar Association, said the had had under conrideration toe: time the complaints against £ ae that no action had thus far been | seen : In case wrongdoing is shown, nds Engel would be disbarred from tice. George B. Webster was attc the heirs of Evans Casselberry, ly a St. Louts lawyer, whose through a friendly partition tween J. J. (nahdier and Naney i Freeland, heirs, in Judge Homer's cou was turned over th Engel for diete tion. Of $440 realized from real ¢ left, only $2700 has been collected. 5 Webster gave a Post- er this account of the. matter: “Judge Homer a ~ 2. > tie Conferences have been held. in thelsold the property; ® last four months tn the hope of un- tangling- Engel'’s affairs,.according to attorneys In the case. and itn the hope of keeping the case out of the criminal courts, for the sake of Engels family. Mrs. Kerr's action put an end to these | efforts. Frank B. Coleman, one of the — ul yers having claims against declined to discuss the matter.

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