St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 24, 1912

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WELL THROW OUT _ KANSASCITY, SAYS STIFEL, TAFT CHIEF He Predicts Roosevelt Dele- gations Will Be Unseated and President Will Control Convention, Whereupon St. Louisans Serve Notice They Won’t Stand for It.

COMMITTEE MUST BE FAIR, SAYS MORRIS £ - Chairman Declares He Can- not Do What Taft Forces Demand — South Side Committeemen Desert Bartholdt for Chairman.

Control of the Republican State con- vention at the Armory Thursday for Roosevelt or Taft may depend on the action of the Republican State Commit- tee, which met at the Planters Hotel at 2 p. m. Wednesday to pass on contests filed against the Roosevelt delegations from Kangas City ana 15 counties. The State Committee has the power to recommend the seating of the delegates in the “emporary organization of the convention, and also recomnrends the temporary officers. At noon Otto F. Stifei, leader of the Taft forces, said to a Post-Dispatch re- porter: ‘‘We control the State Committee. We will throw out the Kansas City dele- gates, and Taft men will control the convention.” Hadley Will Fight on Floor. «. The Fevosevelt leaders concede control of the State Committee to the Taft men, but declare they do not believe the com- ittee will undertake to throw out the ansas City delegates and enough other delegates to give Taft control. In the event the majority of the committee rec- ommends tlie unseating of the Kansas City delegates, Gov. Hadley, leader of the Roosevelt campaign, will carry the fight to the floor of the convention and appeal to the fairness of the delegates to seat the Roosevelt delegation. Stifel, with E. L. Morse of Excelsior Springs, Postmaster Akins, United States Marshal Regenhardt and Sur- veyor Gallenkamp held caucuses with members of the Republican State Com- mittee in the Taft headquarters in the Planters Hotel Wednesday mornirg. It was efter this caucus taht Stifel an- mounced the Taft men controlled the committee and would throw out the Kansas City delegation. Koeln Won't Stand for It. City Collector Edmond Koeln and Committeeman Nat Goldstein have perved notice on the Taft leaders that they will not stand for the unseating of the Kansas City delegation. Koe!n eontrols the South St. Louis delegates, ané he has assured Gov. Hadley that the delegates from his end of the city will not uphold the throwing out of the Mansas City delegation, which was elected at a primary March 7, and the seating of the Taft delegates, who wer= elected April 19 at a caucus of 37 men, wnder the leadership of oJseph McCoy. Congressman Bartholdt, slated by the Taft leaders for temporary chairman of . the convention, withdrew Wednesday when he learned that South St. Louis committeemen would not support him. The Taft leaders then tried to induce * Mayor Kreismann to make the fight for temporary chairman. Gov. Hadley, aided by Jesse Tolerton, Thomas K. Niedringhaus, Walter S. Dickey, former Senator Hugh McIndoe of Joplin and others, denounced the ef- forts of the Taft men to unseat the Kansas City delegation as a high-hand- ed outrage. The Taft men concede that their only hope of control of the con- vention lies in the unseating of the Roosevelt delegates from Kansas City and at least 10 counties. State Chairman Charles D. Morris told a Post- Dispatch reporter that whilo be personally favored the renomina- tton of Taft and thought the nomina- tion of Roosevet would be revolu- tionary, he could not in fairness te the party do what Taft leaders had in- sisted he must do in the matter of un- seating the Roosevelt delegates. “We Cannot Be Unfair.’ “The State Committee is charged with the duty of making up the tem- rary roll of the convention,’ said irman Morris. “It determines who thall have seats in the temporary meet- me. I want to say that the State Com- Mittee is comprised of a body of fair- minded men who will pass upon every sontest on its merits. While I believe a majority of the committeemen favor the sination of President Taft, we can go to the extent of being unfair to fhe Roosevelt delegates. “The Roosevelt delegates who are en- to seats in the convention, so far I am concerned, will be seated. The ef the State Committee is to t candidates at the November elec- s, and not to determine who gehal! p the candidate of the party. The State tt sae 0e Epis. Ne -attisede. ar of the

|THURSDAY TO BE FAIR AND WARMER THE TEMPERATURES,

Warm weather and clear skies are the weather sched- ule for the next 24 hours, and no disturbing indica- tions threaten to | delay the long-de- ferred coming ot spring, Forecaster Hayes says. NOW LET THE MILLION POPULATION eu DO IT! | the dogwoods are in bloom and the spring bonnets are abroad in the land. The prospect is for even warmer weather Thursday, the weather chart shows, and the overworked over- coat is having a long-needed rest. It is generally clear throughout the Middle West, with rising temperatures. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and warmer tonight and Thursday. Stage of the river: 24.5 feet; of .8 of a foot.

a fall Missouri—Fair tonight and Thursday, rising temperature. Illinois—Fair tonight and Thursday: er Thursday. COBB’S FLEETNESS BEATS CAMERA with warm-

Ty Is So Fast He Gets Into One Photograph at Two Places. DETROIT, Mich., April 24.—Getting into the same photograph of the Tigers team in two different places without blurring or spoiling the picture is the remarkable feat Ty Cobb's lightning thinking and speed have enabled him to accomplish. The Tigers were lined up in the ball yard Sunday for a group photo. Stand- ing side by side, they made a line too long for an ordinary camera. So a panorama camera was used. Cobb was fourth from the left end of the line. The camera exposes only a small por- tion of the film at a time, the lens trav- eling in an arc from one end of the lfne to the other. When Cobb notieed the rate at which it Was going. the idea popped into his head that he could beat it. So the in- Stant the lens passed him he dashed out around to the rear of the machine and sprinted for the other end of the line, like he goes when stealing home. He arrived in time to take up a posi- tion at the side of Manager Jennings, and in the photo appears smiling and composed as he appears in the fourth place from the right.

BRAYING MULE ENJOINED

Danville (Ill.) Judge Issues Writ After Protests Fail. DANVILLE, IIL. April 24.—Judge Kim- brough Wednesday issued an injunction in the Circuit Court against a mule be- longing to Jack Goodwine of Potoinac, restraining it from braying and annoy- ing the sleep and repose of Benjamin Wise, supervisor and publisher of the Potomac Record. Goodwine, who was foreman of the famous vote-bribing grand jury, keeps the mule in a barn adjoining the Wise homestead. It raised so much racket that Wise, after finding protests un- availing, last January sought an injunc- tion. This morning Kimbrough issued the writ. The redbuds an: |

NES INDEATH [BANDITS GET MYSTERY STOPPED TOCALL 2 WOMEN Mrs. Frank Hawkins Testifies She Found Husband Dead From Bullet in Heart. — MET A GIRL ON —y She Says Miss Ida Wilson Was Man’s Former Sweetheart— His Mother Is Summoned. PORCH

climax to the inquest held Wednesday to solve the mystery of the death of Frank Hawkins, 21 years old, bride found him dead in bed evening with a bullet wound As a whose Tuesday in his heart, at their home, 5639 Reber vilace, Mrs. witness table and said to Deputy Cor- Hawkins leaned across the oner Carriere: ‘‘Doctor, do killed himself or was he murdered?” Dr. you think my husband Carriere, who conducted the in- quest, said: “The undertaker tells me your hus- band’s hands were powder-burned. This might indicate that he held the re- volver in one hand and pulled the tng- ser with the other.”’ “But, if he did that,’’ urged Mrs. Hawkins, “how was it that his arms were above his head and folded in ex- actly the position in which he always slept? How was it that the covers wer« pulled up to his chin, and the revolver was under the covers?” ‘That is hard to say,’’ said Dr. Car- riere. ‘‘Strange things sometimes hap- pen. He may not have died at once and may have had time to pull up the covers and fold his arms.” Woman on Back Porch, Mrs. Hawkins told of finding Miss Ida Wilson of 2714 Pearl street on the back vorch when she rushed from the house after discovering her} She said Miss Wiison was a former sweetheart of Hawkins. After Mrs. Hawkins had told of the friendship of her husband and Miss Wil- son, the inquest was continued until 9 a. m. Thursday, and summonses were issued for Miss Wilson and for Hawkins’ mother, Mrs. Edith Christopher, with whom Miss Wilson is said to have left her home at 7 p. m. Wednesday, half an hour after Hawkins’ body was found. Faints in Women’s Arms. Mrs. Hawkins testified that she is em- ployed downtown and that her husband, pleading illness, had not been at work for several days. He was employed by the American Oak Leather Co. as book- keeper and cashier. “T returned home _ about 6:30 last night,” testified Mrs. Hawkins. “a opened the front door with my latch key and went into the bedroom to take off my hat and coat. My husband was in bed with his arms folded above his head, the way he always slept. Think- ing he was asleep, I bent over to kiss him. I laid my hand on his forehead and found it was cold. Seeing that he was dead, I ran through the kitchen and opened the back door. Ida Wilson, my husband's former sweetheart, was on the back porch. I fainted in her arms. Empty Shell in Revolver. “Two men who heard my screams ran into the house. They were there when I came to. They found a revolver with one shell empty. It was away down under the bed clothes at my husband's left side. - They said the bullet entered

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makes people think Every person whose patronage is worth having reads a daily newspaper, and in St. Louis the people have selected the POST-DISPATCH as the new spaper that fills all of their requirements, hence it; great circulation of over 175,000 daily and over 304,000 Sunday. The St. Louis merchants have found that the class of eople who buy their goods are all readers of the OST-DISI ATCH, which explains the fact that yesterday, Tuesday, these merchants bought 64 columns of advertising space in the POST-DISPATCH, while these same merchants bought only 45 columns in three out of all four of its St. Louis combined. The POST-DISPATCH covers this field it is competitors completely ; The one paper in every home, The only paper in many homes. First in Everything. Circulation last Sunday, 304,262. Average daily circulation over 175,000. was, dead.) T. Dissolution Said to Have Been

SOU00 AND SEI BANK ON FIRE They Cut the Telephone Wires Before Blowing Open Safe in Arkansas Town.

HAVE 2 HOURS’ | FIGHT Exchange Bullets With Citizens in Street and Then Escape.

FORT SMITH, Ark., April. 24.—After a two hours’ running fight with a posse of citizens, four robbers who had blown open the vault in the Bank of Midland, a town 30 miles south of Fort Smith, es- caped with their loot, about $8000. Citizens of Midland were awakened by noise of the blasts. They pursuit but the robbers had too good a start. The robbery of the bank had been organized

carefully planned. All telephone wires

M SINKING OF TIT ANIC AS DRAWN BY AN EY E-WITNESS; MRS. ISMAY

The chairman of the White Star Line board of directors, J. Bruce Ismay, now held in Washington to give further testimony to the Sen- ate Investigating Committee as to the Titanic disaster, was married in 1888 to Julia Florence Schieffelin of New York City.

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These sketches were made by J. B. Thayer Jr., He was taken on an overturned collapsible lifeboat. sank. assisted the boy in making the drawings. - [Soe 17 years old, The pictures illustrate young steps of the Titanic after the collision.

in the village had been cut. When iwuwakened by explosions, several towns- people tried to communicate. with friends. Finding that the telephone ex- change did not respond, these citizens armed themselves and aroused their neighbors. The first of the posse nearing the bank building was received with a vol- ley from the robbers’ lookouts. This was the signal for a two hours’ fight. After the robbers got all the money in the safe they set fire to the bank build- ing. Sheltered by the flames they got u good start and policemen were un- able to outflank them. Loss of papers in the flames will double the loss to the bank. Two Men and Youth Hold Up All in Postoffice. MUSKOGEE, Ok., -\pril 24.—Two men and a youth of 17 walked into the little town of Lane, Atoka County, last night and at the point of pistols held up the postoffice and everyone who happened to be in the place. They obtained $50 and stamps. Leaving the town they met a short distance out Ben Maxey, a dep- uty of the Anti- Horsethief Association, and John Wright, a candidate for Sher- iff. Both men were held up, relieved of their pistols and horses, which the bandits escaped on. HARVESTER TRUST AND U. S. AGREE Arranged—Senate Calls for Old Records. WASHINGTON, April 24.—Some agreement between the Government and the International Harvester Co. relat- ing to the dissolution of that corpora- tion Has been reached, according to statements here today. Its nature is net divulged and the officials decline to discuss the matter at this time. On motion of Senator Johnston of Alabama the Senate today adopted a resolution directing the Attorney-Gen- aral to supply the Senate with the in- structions given by President Roosevelt in 1907 the. preposed. prose- on of the International Harvester

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