St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 16, 1911

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AGES “FIRST IN EVERYTHING" Only Evening. Paper in_ St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

“VOL. 64. NO. 57. Si. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1911.

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SNODGRASS AVERS ‘WOMAN WHO SUED HIM GOT $30,000 Realty President Says Pay- ments Followed Threats of Mrs.. Minnie A. Hunt An- derson of Chicago to Dis- turb His Domestic Rela- tions.

ALLEGED SUMS HE PAID ARE LISTED Action by Her Grows Out of Real Estate Deal—He Says She Told Him Her Present Husband Thought She Was a Woman of Means. ,

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| WIND AND CLOUDS CAUSE QUICK DROP,

mercury which had been soaring into che high temperature atmosphere sud- denly took a dan- gerous dip at 11:10 a. ma Monday. Spectators’ shiv- ered and thought it would have a bad wreck, but it quickly righted it- self. the net re- sult being a five- degree drop. At ll a. m, the temperature Was 5 Megrees, an ad- vance of eight de- grees over the ..2- ure recorded - at } 7 a. m. Just bcfore the Crop came the western sky was filled with”dark clouds and a brisk breeze sprang up. The mercury went down to 68. Forecaster Hayes said the drop was quickly checked bu@ he prelicted cooler weather for Monday night. Official forecast for St, Louis and vicinity: Fair and cooler tonight and Tuesday. Missouri—Generally fa,. tonight and Tues. day; cooler tonight and in east portion Tues- day. BIG WIFE DIVORCES HER LITTLE HUSBAND Althou.. She- Weighs Pounas and He Is 5 Feet to She Charged Cruelty. Mrs. Julia Haemmerle, who weighs 20) puunds and is nearly 6 feet tall, ob- tained a divorce Monday front William Haemmerle, known as “Little Billee,”’ from his 4 feet 10 inches of height. The ground was that the husband beat and kicked his wife. The decree was hand- ed down by Judge McElhinney in the Clayton Circuit Court. Haemmerle’s petition for a divorce in a cross-bill, in which he charged that his wife broke two of his ribs with a mop-stick, was denied. 5 Mrs. Haemmerle lives at 6420 Page boulevard and Haemmerle at 917 North cixty-fifth street, University City. His two former wives were divorced by him. As alimony, $550°-was awarded to Mrs. Haemmerle, and her husband was ordered to repay her $250 which she loaned him when they were married in 1506. FIELD OF COTTON AT. EAST SIDE FACTORY A flourishing crop of cotton is grow- g@ near the National Stockyards in Rust St. Louis. F. P. Fox, president of the Cotton Seed Oil Co., planted two acres as an experiment and negro resi- dents of, Brooklyn, an East Side suburb, will be pressed into service to harvest the cotton this week. Fox expects the yield to be from 300 to 400 pounds an acre, and if the ex- Xeriment is a success he says he will plant a larger field next year and pro- duce much of the raw material used in his factory. Cotton is now quoted at 9 cents 2 pound. On a basis of 400 ‘+ CHINA ON THE. LAUNDRY TicKET 2

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REV. MEEKER SUES. REV ANDERSON ON ASLANDER CHARGE Congregational Pastor Says Presbyterian Minister Maligned His Good Name in Letter.

DAMAGES $25,000 ASKED “Discredited by Church People,’’ “Ignored by Christians’ Ex- cerpts From Aleged Note. fs The Rev. Jacob E. Meeker, pastor of the Compton Hill Church, filed suit Monday against the Rev. Merie H. Anderson, retiring pas- of the King’s Highway Presbyte- for $25,000, charging slan- tor rian Church, dei. A letter alleged to have been written by Pastor Anderson to some person in Portsmouth, O., whose name is not stated, is the basis of the suit. In the letter, as quoted by Meeker in his petition, it is stated that Meeker is “discredited by the church people of St. Louis,’ and that he is “highly regarded by professional politicians, and ignored by the Christian forces of the city.’’ Extracts From Letter. Meeker's petition gave the objec- tionable portion of the letter as fol- lows: “Mr. Meeker is a Congregational minister in good standing, which of course means only that so long as the church which he serves is satis- fied with him, no association has any jurisdiction over him whatever. “It is retty generally understood among people in St. Louis that his church is generously supported by a prominent brewer. Personally, Mr. Meeker is discredited by the church peo- ple of St. Louis because of his open stand for the brewers. ‘The ministers of all our evangelical churches, so far as I know, are united in condemning such a position as his as utterly inconsistent with the ministry of the gospel of Christ. “So far as personal! character {is con- cerned, I know nothing against him. He is high! rezarded by professional! poli- ticians, and, ignored by the Christian forces of the city. That should _ be enough to tell the story.” C. Porter Johnson is Pastor Meeker’s lawyer. Pastor Anderson recently re- signed the King’s highway charge and his successor has been chosen. BISHOP OF RICHMOND DIES

Van de Vyner at Head of Vir- ginia Diocese 22 Years. RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 16.—The Right Rev. Augustine Van de Vyver, for the last 22 years Bishop of the Roman Cath- olic diocese of Richmond, died here early today of complications resulting from a severe cold. He was born 1.11844 pounds to the acre Fox's crop would be lin Haesdonck, East Flanders, Belgium. worth $72.

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_—— ome BULLETIN 237: , om Oe tenis » The Sunday Record!

The Sunday POST-DISPATCH yesterday, October loth, was

as it has been every Sunday for more than four and one-half

consecutive years, with the exception of one single issue,

first in the volumé of REGULAR, EONA FIDE Sunday

advertising.

The count was as follows Post-Dispatch, 338 cols, Globe-Democrat Repubiic 46 ie

Post-Dispatch Over Republic .. Over Globe-Democrat .

Excess .e ae 199 Cols. 93 Cols. — Oo —— The Want Post-Dispatch Globe-Democrat Meoullie 63s.

Ad Score: . . 94 Columns . . 48 Columns . 24 Columns POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe-Democrat and Republic COMBINED .............. 22 Columns ipver Beem 6 o kikecls. ck. Over Globe-Democrat........ THE REASON: 70 Columns 46 Columns Sunday circulation Sunday; Oct. 1,-279,920 Sunday, Oct. 8, 281,354 Suaday, Oct. 15, 282,765 Yesterday’s Sunday circulation was 29,555 in Ox sone of correspdwling SunJay a year ago. Circulation Ahem open to all. al. St. Louis’ ONE ta N pid tnt Fr Py Congregational

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STATE IS CALLED INSINGERE BY A NM NAMARA LAWYER Prosecuting Lawyer Charged With Misquoting Record in His Address.

|}|LONG WRANGLE IN COURT Admissibility of Venireman Nel- son as Possible Juror Is Issue at Stake.

Oct. 16.—Oppos- again today be- LOS ANGELES, Cal., ing counsel wrangled fore Judge Walter Bordwell, over the case of Talesman Z. T. Nelson, in the ruurder trial ofy,James B. McNamara. Jeseph Scott, considered the. principal orator among counsel! for the defense, fh:ade the final argument for the de- fense, reading from the record to sup- pert his contention that Nelson was a man biased and unfit for jury service. “I don’t like to charge the opposing } counsel,” began Attorney Scott, ‘‘with insincerity, but it appears to me they have been carried away with fanati- cism. Mr. Horton for the State argued ai length as to what Mr. Nelsaqn actual- ly said and his understanding of it.’’ Scott here reread from the transcript cf Nelson’s examination alleging the counsel for the State misquoted Nel- son’s answers. ‘“{ think Mr. -Horton of the prosecu- tion owes it to the record to state that his argument of Friday was not based on the record. The record stated une- quivocally that Nelson said he had an opinion of the guilt or fnnocence of the rrisoner and Mr. Horton knows it did. “T think Mr. Horton fully understood that Nelson’s answer: referred not, as he says, to the cause of the exptoston-; clone, but the guilt or innocéee-of the defendant.”’ Court was delayed a half hour by the nonappearance of District Attorney Il’redericks and finally.convened at 10:35 vithout him. ' Before Attorney Joseph Scott began iis argument Martin Baker, a venire- man from Lancaster, was called before the Court, who questioned him to learn iy his knowledge of Englisly- was suf- ficient to enable him to do jury duty. From his window today in the cell of the County Jail, John J. McNamara, Secretary of the Internationa] ASssocia- tion of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, awaiting trial after his brother James B., could see the crowds on the line of march arranged for President Taft. The route not only” passed the Los Angeles Times building, which the Mc- Namaras are alleged to have caused to be destroyed, but it approached the new Hall of Records where the case is beings tried. “What have you been doing most of the time?” John J. was asked today. “Reading,” he answered. “And what?” ‘Books, magazines, and newspapers. I've been writing many letters, too.” NEIGHBOR ATTACKS WOMAN IN THE YARD She Is Beaten Until Unconscious and. Found. by Hus- band. Mrs. Josie Taylor, wife of Webb Teylor, was attacked in the yard of her home at Fillmore avenue and the Frisco Railroad tracks, South Kirk- wood, at 10:39 a. m. Monday by a man of the name of Huber, a neigh- bor, with whom the Taylors have had trouble. He struck her about the head and face four times and she was unconscious for two hours from the blows. Following the attack, Huber armed himself with a shotgun and patroled the yard at his home, defying any- body to molest him. Clayton officials were notified and will go to the scene and arrest ‘the man. Dr. John Pittman was called to attend Mrs. Taylor. WOMAN FIRST ON TRIAL FOR LYNCHING Four Men Also Accused of Hang- ing White Man to Get Her the Insurance. VALENTINE, Neb., Oct. 16.—The trial of Eunice Murphy and her brother Ken- neth, Harry Heath, Georg? and Alma Weed for the murder of Charles Sellers She 17, began “here today. The tase against ary Murphy will ~ prosecuted first. The four. men .are seduced of teking Sellers from the home ‘of -thutch duck, a rancher, and hanging. him tea phone pple. | The prosecution s eer the crime was committed s0 ‘that era "oats obtain’ the insurance whie she bell ved Meltets had ‘sssigned. to hehe! mo fate

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Tin Cc ans and Cow Bells Aid Philadelphia in Its Noisy Welcome toTeams

BY IRVING W. COBB. SHIBE PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16. NCE you get inside and” mouni C) the stairs flight by flight. to the press stand, which clings like a mud dauber’s nest to the very top of the lofty structure, you realize that Shibe Park arswers in all its plahs “and specifications to a regular basebati ground. Down below us, maybe 96, the smooth turf stretched lcoking* like green cut plush laced with black and white patterns lIfke the facings of a WHuzzar’s jacket, where the lines of the diamond’ cut through and across it. Back tn deep ctnter field, where the lines of tem- porary bleachers and fenced-in Stand-up space ended abruptly, ‘there was a round chute of sward running steeply up to the nest of a. smail emerald green hillock where from a tall flagstaff with double cross-arms there flipped in the languid breéze the family washing of these haughty Athletics, a world's champtonship pennant of blue and yellow, a. square flag with the elephant totem on itt and other flags variously lettered and pictured. Crowd Gets Thicker and Stower. The air was as soft and soothing to the cheek as the touch of a gaod bar- ber. (Note—There ure no good. bar- bers any more, but I stuck this Tine in because I like the simile). Overhead stood the sun, a big, yellow yolk, with’ a fleece of albuminous white ‘clouds. about it. side and plastered flat against the biue Gelft platter of the sky. About the ome plate, almost under where We’ sat, Givers famous bullpiayers,of Philadel- phia capered, like so many red ants on 80 feet down, « hot rock, and through all the” on | trances there flowed the populace of these and adjacent parts, conthig . 4n siow, steady, thickening streams that grew slower and thicker and steadier like cold treacle as the press behind in-. creased. | , Pretty soon the bleacher space a'l covered, All around the enct ng them- m selves there like ioe canpioies . , and on the roofs of many residences tf twe factories beyond thick free on-lookers’ loomed up. Like a great egg fried on one and derby ftiats, The picture reminded me very much of Paducaff, Ky. ‘We heard talk of specitlators, plenty of: it, as we’ came, but none of these pests were in sight. Probably they all stayed In New Yrk undergotng drill for tomortow, and not only were there no speculators ih sight about these ball }grounds, ‘but the police arrangements seemed -perfect. The ushers ‘knew their business “and ‘the multithde did .their part by acting ‘sore and good humored. Bigazest Crowd In Himory. So it befell that a good half Hour be- lore the game started Shibe Park. held tie biggest’ crowd in all its history— and more coming every minute. _ The efand ‘stand upstairs and down’ was full up, with ‘overréats and enthusiasts draped over the Fatlings at the front. Garnished as ft was with many flags ind ‘the’ nodding plumage - ‘of. many women’s hats, either wing of the stand noha from a littie way off like a huge j.anked steak. White hats: made the mushrooms and the potatoés.~ Green feathers weré ‘the “spinach — and red siveaters wery the tomatoes. It you'd brovght your _ap Btite with - -you the spectacle Was ca culated - to ‘put spre to your hunger. . The wide, big flanking spreads of the bieachers, being furtlier “\way. Were in different aspect... Viewed “from . the riess. stand, the bleachers had the shim- n ering look .of boheycombs in the hive with the black of hats for the bactés of the crowding, swarming beés and the tl usands Of white faces forthe mouths 6f the Honey cells. You conid look at tt through: half-shut “vyes* and almost expect ‘to see ‘the whole quivering mags Jorise and go. hiving’ off somewhere on myriads of buzzing, wings. Noise Knows No Abatement. If somewhat smaller than the New. York crowd of Saturday, this crowd of today was noisier, more alive and more alert ‘than the Polp Grounds outpouring. Coming-over this morhing, members of ih Glants’ team’ ¢ af .

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es —— . - —_— Catal ii seh ance * = « SHIBE BASEBALL PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16- With more than 49,000 persons in grand stand and bleacher — overflowing on the field, the second game of the series between the Giants of New York and the Athleties of Philadelphia. opened ati 4 © er this afternoon. Weather conditions were ideal, although yee? 8 rain | r ee made the diamond a trifle heavy. to pitch for the Giants an Siavers and Thomas were the —_ | When Lord, had scored the first run for the Athletics in’ iu first inning, Crandall began to waym up for the Giants. ° Athletics. : w : e if ' The umpires. were Connolly at the plate, Brennan on the bate Klem and Dinneen on the foul lines. FIRST IANING. NEW. YORK—Devere’§ struck Doylé drove out a high fly which Lord took care of. Snodgrass was hit by a pitched ball. Murray drove a lipe fly to Collins. NO RUNS. PHILADELPHIA—Lord, the first man up, singled to right and went to second on Murray’s fumble. He took third on Oldring’s beautiful sacrifice, Marquard | to Merkle. Lord scored on @ wild piten. Crandall began warming up for the Giants. Collins beat out an in- fiuld hit. Marquard was visibly nerv- cus, Baker struck out. Murphy was the third out on a fly to Devore. ONE RUN. ' @BCOND INNING, NEW oaat--seactade was retired, Perry to Davis. Herzog drove a double to center, Oldring misjudging the ball. Fletcher was thrown out, Collins to Da- vie, Herzog taking third. Herzog scored 1. moment later on Meyers’ single to left: Marquard struck out. ONE RUN. PHILA DELPHIA—Davis out, Doyle to Merkle. Doyle muffed Berry’s fly to left and the batter took second. Thomas flied to Devore. Plank out, Meyers to Merkle, on a slow grounder. NO RUNS. ‘THIRD INNING. NEW yYORK—Devore struck out the second time. Doyle flied to Lord. Snod- gress singled to right. Murray was re- tired, Plank to Davis. NO RUNS. PHILADELPHIA—Lord fanned. Old- ring Ufted a foul which Meyers took care of. Collins flied out to Devore. NO RUNS. ' . FOURTH INNING. NEW YORK—Merkle was thrown out, Ccllins to” Davis, on a pretty pickup. Iferzog lifted a high one to Barry. Fletcher was thrown out, Barry to Da- vis NO RUNS. PHIL...DELPHIA—Baker was retired, Doyle to Merkle. Marquard had steadied down and was pitching a splendid game. Murphy gave Devore an easy out on a high fly. Davis made the third out on a foul to Méyers. NO RUNS. FIFTH tN¥ING NE WYORK—Meyers was thrown out, Raker to Davis. Marquard fanned. De- vere struck out for the third time in succession. NO RUNS. PHILADELPHIA—Barry bunted and was thrown out by Marquard. Thomas out, Fletcher to Merkle. _— struck out. NO RUNS. . SIXTH INNING, NEW YORK~—Doyle out, Davis “unas

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Merkle was caught off first on a pretty throw by Plank. NO RUNS. ee PHILADELPHIA—Davis out liner to Doyle. Barry's terrific roller” nearly lifted Herzog off his feet. but thr — third baseman throw the batter out at first. flied to Fletcher. RUNS. KIGHTH (NNING, NEW YORK—Meyers lined to Collins Crandall went in to bat for Marquard Crandall: out, Collings to Davis. struck out. NO RUNS” - PHILADELPHIA—Crandali pitch for New York. After Mérkle had m also fanned. Oldring out, eu Merkle, on a very hard chance. RUNS. NINTH INNING. NEW YORK—Doyle fouled to | Snodgrass struck out. Murray out. NO RUNS.

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