St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 21, 1912

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Reaches Oyster Bay Issue Bulletin in Indiana Saying Former President’s Condi- tion Is Excellent. STATEROOM GUARDED, PATIENT ISOLATED!

Start From Chicago Delayed Slightly by Collision on Adjoining Track—Hospit- al Inmates Express Hope. for Pleasant Trip. ON BOARD ROOSEVELT CAR, FORT WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 21—The following bulletin was issued at noon hy Col. Roosevelt's physicians: — “Col. Roosevelt is resting wollnt is very comfortable. “ALEXANDER LAMBERT, “SCURRY L. TERRELL.” _— oO By Associated Press, VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 21.—*Col. ‘Roosevelt is resting comfortably and so far shows no ill effects from the.trip,” said Dr. Alexander Lambert as the Colonel's train reached Valparaiso. “‘His condition ig normal.” Col, Roosevelt,. in the opinion of Dr. Lambert and his associate, Dr. Scurry Térrell, bore the trip from the hospital in Chicago to the train surprisingly well. as * med Was the first time since he entered hospital that he has been fully and it was feared that the jon would fatigue him greatly. Col. velt said he was ‘feeling fine,”’ he made no protest when his physi- ans insisted that he go to bed at once. was soon made comfortable in his oii scases. with a stack of magazines to while away the time. Col. Roosevelt's stateroom has been isolated’ from the remainder of the car, and the physicians issued a strict order that no one except members of the fam- ily were to enter the room. “We're going to keep the Colonel in shed and by himself until he reaches ~ Opeter: Bay,’” said Dr. Terrell. ~ Wreek on Adjoining Tracks Delays Roosevelt Train. “CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—Col. Roosevelt quit Mercy Hospital, where he had been a patient since an attempt was made to assassinate him in Milwaukee, a week ago today and on board a Penn- syivania train, departed at 8:80 o'clock this morning for his home in Oyster Bay. He walked from the wheel chair 4 / @t the hospital door to the ambulance. The start, which had been scheduled for 8:08, was delayed 22 minutes on the account of a collision of Burlington lo- comotives on the tracks adjoining those used by the Roosevelt train. The ac- cident, caused by a mistake in signals, resulted in one engineer being taken to a hospital. Col. Roosevelt showed no nervousness the delay, and chatted with the members of his party until the route Was cleared and the train pulled out. Last Night Restless One. The Colonel's last night at the hos- pital was rather a restiess one. He slept only about four hours in the qe gregate from the time he first fell asleep at 11:15 p. m. He awoke frequently and he seemed nervous. When he was ready to depart the ‘Colonel said he was feeling well, but that because of his restlessness during the night he was somewhat sleepy and hoped he would be able to get sonie rest after he had reached his berth on the train, Dr. John B. Murphy, who has been in charge of the Colonel's case since he has been in Chicago arrived at the hos- pital at 6:30 a. m., and with Dr. Whitlam By McCauley, the house = surgeor, dressed the Colonel's wound for the lest time before his departure for the Bast. At the same time a consultation was held at which Scurrey I.. Terrell, the Colonel's specialist, Dr. Arthur D. Re. van, Dr. Alexander Lambert, tel] Roosevelt family physician, and pr. John B. Golden, Dr. Murphy's assistant. Deayiteg ‘present. ’ At 1:10 a. m. the following official yi palletin was issued:

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No One Discovers Condition of Alton Right End Until After the Contest. Courtney Perrin, 18 years old, right end of the Alton High school football team, played through most of a game Saturday while out of his head he- cause of a blow received in the first quarter. In his dazed condition. he played with such reckless dash that his team’s victory over their rivals, the Bunker Hill High school team, was due largely to his individual work, his captain, Walter Woods, said Mon- ady. .. Once after he had lugged the bai? over for a touchdown, he cried, “‘what period are we in? What's the score?” This question, towards the close’ of, the game, wan the first intimation that anything was wrong with him. A doctor examined him and decided his injury would leave~ no permanent results, WOMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR SACRIFICE, COURT SAYS

Her Giving Part of Bone From Leg to Save Injured Husband. Not Autoist’s Fault. The fact that Mrs. Florence Butten- hoff of Forest Park Heights gave four inches of bone from her left leg to re- place the bone in her husband's left leg after hée had been run over by R. EK. Funsten’s automobile does not entitle her to collect damages from ‘unsten, according to a ruling by Judge Wurde- man at Clayton Monday.

Mrs. Buttenhoff sued Funsten for $10,- 0. The Judge ruled that her act in giving bone to save her husband was voluntary and that Funsten was not re- sponsible for it. He sustained a de- murrer filed by Funsten’s attorney and Giamiesed the case. _— SAD KILLED Aeronauts Strike Mile . High Storm, Are Pushed Up 9000 Feet and Hit by Lightning. WERE ON A TEST FLIGHT Winner of Last Year’s Bennett Trophy in America Had ~ Most Improved Balloon. By Associated Press. BERLIN, Oct. 21.—Lieut. Hang Ger- icke, winner of last year’s international balloon race in the United States and head of the team of German defenders in the races to be held from Stuttgart next Saturday, was thrown from his balloon at a height of three miles yes- terday by the explosion of the gas bag, which is believed to have been struck by lightning. His aid, Lieut. Steler, also was killed. Gericke and Steler were making a tric’ flight to test the.new balloon, which they expected to use in the international races. . Just above the town of Grossenhain they met a thunderstorm, which they attempted to avoid by rising above. the disturbance. When a while in the air the craft was caught in an eddy and becam. unmanageable. After a terrific rush straight upward the bag burst. The shattered instruments which the bal- loonists carried on their flight were ex- amined today. The recording apparatus showed they were riding at a height of fy feet when they were hit suddenly hy a vertical gast of wind which pushed them straight up with the violence of a hurricane to a height of more than 15,- 000 feet. At this altitude the bag burst, either from the sudden change in pressure or, as is more likely, from being struck by iightning. Embodied Latest Ideas. The balloon embodied* all the latest ideas in gas bag construction and was regarded ‘throughout. Germany as the likely winner of the international cup in Saturday's contest. Gericke and Steler had expected to try for an altitude record in yesterday's flight and had equipped their car with oxygen tauks and a@pparatus ‘to assist them .in enduring rarified atmosphere,

Gericke Seventh Man Shown in Kin- loch Picture to Be Killed. The death of.Lieut. Gericke recalis to St. Louisans the tragic sequence of fatalities that follows in the wake of the famous “Death Reel” of moving pictures taken at Kinloch Field in October, 1910. Leiut. Gericke is the seventh of the central figures to meet a violent death. Arch Hoxsey, Ralph Johnstone, A. lL. Welch, Jacques Faure, Capt. Schreck and an attendant comprise the roll to which Gericke is now added. Col. Reosevelt, who is shown at length in the reel, narrowly escaped the fate of his picture-companions at Milwaukee, and Walter Brookings and Alfred Leblanc have likewise had their lives endangered. The reel is the property of Albert Bond Lambert, former president of the Aero Club of 8t. Louls.

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kaneis irst in Advertising Every Sunday for 54+ Consecutive Years. INDAY POST-DISPATCH, yesterday, October 20th,

was, 48 it has been every Sunday for 200 consecutive Sun- days, or more than FIVE AND ONE-HALF YEARS cwitn

al anniversar isstie of a competitor), first in volume . of REGULAR BONA FIDE advertising.

The count yesterday, Sunday, October 20th, was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 306 Cols, - Globe-Democrat. . Republic. . eeeeees 234 131

Post-Dispatch Bicnoee Over Republic . . Over Globe-Demoorat a : 175 Cols. 72 Cols.

The Want Ads POST -DISPATCH excess of Want Ade over the a alan ~ Re COMBINED NG Coline 44 Columns Sunday Circulation October 20: - om 380i, 047 Yoda ts ble oe weal biimiain

‘EFFORT TOSTART. RUN CHARGED IN TRUST CO. ACTION Ben E. W. Ruler, President of West St. Louis Concern, Has Rival Temporarily Enjoined. DEPOSITS ARE $400,000 Conway Elder Supplanted Ruler, Who Says Directors Put Him Back in Five Days.

Ben E. W. Ruler, as president of the West St. Louis Trust Co., 4101 Easton avenue, filed suit Monday for an in- junction to restrain Conway Elder, an attorney, from proclaiming himself pres. ident of the company, opening mali ad- dressed to the company or acting in any business capacity in connection with it. A te rary injunction, returnable Wednes ay,, was issued by Judge Muench” Ruler ¢ |jo named as defendants in his “git JacopP taurer, Dennis O'Leary and ie. 3 %4. Venz, who, he alleges, have ie, | with Elder. He declared that the cho. ce of Filder as president, Oct. 7, was the result of a conspiracy, and that five days later the directors reconsidered and again elected Ruler president. He says Elder has continued to declare him- self to be president of the company. Business Secrets Imparted. 7 Ruler states in his suit that he be- came president of the trust cOmpany in September, 1906, and that four years ago Elder was taken into his confidence as an attorney, and was intrusted with business secrets of the company. He was ¢epended on by Ruler, the petition states, to defend his business interests from open as- Sault and secret treachery. The institution has $400,000 depos- its, Ruler states, and the depositors, he sets forth, have a terror of liti- gation. He gays that at a meeting in Octo- ber, 1911, Maurer, O'Leary and Venz were placed on the board of directors, and that from time until Octo» ber, 1912, the ‘‘piracy to displace Ruler was in pi: tress. Bince the election of Elder, and. his subsequent deposition, Ruler alleges that Elder has been trying to sell to him his stock, also that Bilder has talked of bringing suit for the appointment of a4 receiver for the ¢Ompany. The amount which Elder has demanded for his stock, Ruler says, is $5000 more than its value. Charges Effort te Start Ruan, He sayvs Bilder has continued to pro- claim himself president of the company, and has signed cheoks and done other acts which are the prerogative of the president. He has been trying, Ruler charges, to “foment a run” on the com- pany. Elder, when told by a Post-Dispatch reporter of the suit, would make no statement except to deny that he had demanded a $5000 bonus from- Ruler. DELEGATE ROY EILERS WEDS DONIPHAN GIRL Representative of 26th Ward Surprises All His St. Louis Friends by Marriage. Delegate Roy M. Ellers of the Twen- ty-sixth Ward and Miss Fern Lawrence of Doniphan, Mo., were married by the Rev. W. J. Williamson in the parson- age of the Third Baptist Church at 11 a. m. Monday. Dr. Williamson was the only person in St. Louis Eflers took into his confi- dence as to his intention to wed. Etl- ers ani Miss Lawrence have known each other several years. The delegate-benedict is a member of the law firm of Hilers, Calhoun & Hey- man in the Central Netional Bank Building. Even his partner, Heyman, did not know of his hymemneal inten- tione. Eilers and his bride departed at noon on a wedding journey which will in- clude Palm Beach, Fla., and Havana, Cuba. They first met at a Chautauqua at Arcadia, Mo. RAIN AND COOLER, FAIR TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. 1 that

“Is my bridle on straight?’ asked Mrs. Horse. *“Yes,"’ said Mr. Horse, “I never saw you look #80 beautiful,”’ Et wae. #0 thoughtful of you to buy those box- stall tickets." “T thought you'd like it.’”’ “You ‘covldn't nine. Ay 1913 moper ° “lm: giad to hear you sey

ee Federal Attorney Tells Negro $1,000,000 From Him Would Not Bail White Woman. TO TESTIFY TOMORROW Hanging of Fighter’s Effigy So Realistic, Riot Call Is Sent to Police. ; SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 21.—Jack Johnson will not fight in Australia. Hugh McIntosh, who had offered Johnson $58,000 for fights with Sam Lang- ford and Sam McVey or Joe Jeanette, cabled today to W. W. Kelly, his rep- | resentative in Chicago, to cancél all negotiations. McIntosh explained that Johnson's part in the alleged abduction of a white girl had so angered the sporting men and public of Australia that the matches were no longer desirable. CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Jack Johnsor, the négro pugilist, made another attempt to- day to get possession of Lucile Camer- cn, the 19-yéar-old white girl he is charged with abducting, but the United State Government prevented the Srl from being taken from the Roc” ..d, DL, jail, where she is held as a witness in the Federal case against Jeannetté Dorr. The Dorr woman is accused ot conspiracy in violation of the Mann ac: in havin’, aided in the bringing of the Cameron (irl from Minneapolis to Chi- cago. Johnson did not venture out of his saloon, but undertook to transact his busijess by telephone. He called up Dig fict Attorney Wilkerson and toi: him he was ready to furnish the $25.- 000 cash bond fixed by Commissioner Moote for the release of the Camero. wir). Even $1,000,000 Wouldn't Do, “It doesn’t make any differenc:,” Wilkerson told him. “If you bring 1 a $1,000,000 cash bond. _ You are under suspicion in this case.’ “The testimony of the girl may in- volve you. I will not accept <ny bond from you,”’ Wilkerson’ said he expected a surety company might try today to put up a bond for the girl. “This bond will come from Commis- sioner Toote to me for approval,’’ he said, intimating that he would not ap- prove any bond. Federal investigation of charges that Johnson violated the Mann white slave law moved swiftly today. Twenty-five subpenas were served on \the pugilist’s associates, ordering them to appear before the Federal grand@ jury tomorrow. Prosecution was started by the city against Johnson for alleged violation of the 1 o’clock saloon closing law. The case was set for hearing Oct. 29. Federal officers are close on the trail | of the Dorr woman, who left Chicago when the Cameron gir’ was rrrasted. She has been traced to Denver and her arrest is expected today. Robert E. Cantwell, an attorney, later asked United States District Judge Car- penter for a writ of habeas corpus for Miss Cameron. Judge Carpenter an- nounced that he, would be unable to hear the petition until tomorrow. In- asmuch as the girl is to appear before the grand jury tomorrow, Attorney Cantwell withdrew his petition. He would not say whether he had been re- tained by Johnson. Johnson, Hanged in Effigy. In the presence of about a, thousand men and women, Johnson was hanged in effigy at 1 o'clock this morning at Montrose boulevard and Clark street, So realistic was the performance that, as the figure was attached to a rope and drawn from the ground, a passerby sent a riot call to the police station. ‘They are hanging @ man at Montrose anda Clark,”’ was the word sent out. The police cut the figure down and disper#ea the crowd. TOBACCO SMOKE SCENT LEADS TO POKER GAME Police Sergeant Searches for Fire, Discovers Game; Then Makes a Raid. When Police Sergeant Wade Mat- thews saw rings of smoke curling through an open window onthe sec- ond floor at 106% North Eighth street Sunday night he concluded the build- ing was on fire and procuring a la4- der climbed to the window. Before he reachei the second flvor Matthews became convinoed from th« odor that the smoke was from tobac- oo and was about to descend when raise you five.” Thefamiliarity of the phrase inspired Matthews to ré-as- cond the ladder and enter the room. ~ Wive men seatéd about a table play-

they were Adam Ott of 2647 Armani Charles Hewitt of the Ladies Hotel, Albert Dintaman of 1214 North Garrison avenue, Stierer ot 2200 Olive street and Charles Bryan of the stratford Hotel. They were booked for eg agr: court on a charge

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Crying at Pathetic Picture Be- lieved to Have Caused Fatal Attack of Asthma.

Mrs. Amelia Vallmacht, 55 years old, of 1612 North Fifteenth street, panied by her husband. attended a moy- ing picture show Sunday night at Fif- teenth and: Montgomery streets. One of the scenes told the story of a 6-year-old girl abused by her step- father, and pushed at night into a snowstorm, where she lost her way, and was found by her distracted: moth- er early the next morning, only to die In the parent's arms. The picture, her husband says, worked rc strongly on the maternal feelings of Mrs. Valimacht, the mother. of one Jaughter and two sons, that she wept silently while the pictures were flashed on the screen. While the Vallmachts were walking siong Fifteenth street, near Warren, on their wav home, and the wife was wip- ing her tear-stained eyes with her hand- kerchief, Mrs. Valimecht fell uncon- scious to the pavement from a severe ettack of EIN gp frem which she had suffered for five years. She was taken home, and physicians were called, but she died shortly afterward, without re- covering consciousness. : It is the belief of Valimacht that his wife’s death was attributable to the crying spell that bronght on the acute attack. Mrs. Valimacht hed had many fainting spelis in the last few years as the result of asthma. She is survived by her husba-1d, Hen- ry Valimacht: two fons, William and Charlies. and one « ugh‘or, Johanna. STEAMSHIP 1S BURNING Revenue Gutter Takes Off Pas- - gsengers, Fights Flames, i WASHINGTON, Oct. 1A relayed accom-

es RET Sy AUTOIST, ACOUSED OF HITTING BOY IN PARK, DISCHARGED State Has Insufficient Evidence in Case Against Isaac N. Brown, Manufacturer. Isaac N. Brown, ‘secretary of the Brown-MeDonald Machinery Manufac- turing Co., 9088 North Market street, was discharged Menday in Judge Rassieur’s after Assistant Circuit Attorney Shaner had entered a note prosequl to a charge of feionious wounding. : On circumstantial evidence, obtained through the testimony of one witness ond by means of some bits of broken class, the State has been trying to prove that Brown ,in his automobile, ran down wend seriousiy infured Hobert Kurth; a biercHst, in. Tower Grove Park, Oct. 6, TTT. Kurth, Lawrence Kurth of 6247 Magnolia ave- nue, wes in a eritieal. condition for reantis ahd: when he recovered he was unable to give any description of the. automobile that struck him. Another voung man, who happened to he. walking near the seen of the ace:- cent, saw, the automobile rush. away at high speed, and, susperting ther roniething had happened, took the nur- ber of the automobile’s police ateo found bits of gles# from an attomobile headlight at the place where the collision cecurred. The number given by the voune man court, garage, they found that the plecea of lytht on Brown's automobile. Brown refused to say anything aboot license tag. The} proved to be that of Brown's license, | and when the police went to Brown’s|or gave $50,000 to the fund, : ugh opposed to the nemination. o Parker. Sockies “I gave probably $90,000 in paign was drawing a : quite _mpparent that | Pan r throughout ‘the parses tin personal ‘contribution and did not I resent anyone except myself. Se give the money to elect Parker Dae ly wanted to preserve the D en ganization.” i oe In reply to questions cone pre-convention campaign of 1912, ve said he had contributed setween #8 10,06 and $80,000 to Gov. Harmon's campaign and mire than $30,000 - Represe ‘Underwood's. “When I came back tren Euro 1911 I made up my mind that the | pects of success Were bright,” he said. “I thought pai ocrat except. Mr. Bryan could be ¢ times and I) cloud on the interest in anyone, | manager for Mr. ‘Underwoot, « ime with an afgument in. pees fouthern man for. President. vat ap pealed to me and I | him thirty : thousand dollars. T-was not asked t Mr, Clark or Mr; Wilson, but” have given them assistance it i) been request = Ryan said that before fember’s nation he was sth he —* who is the li-year-old ‘son of ir glass fitted exactly into a broken head. aig

cago business. man, who, the were told. was. riding with . a witness,

Wireless from Capt. Garden of the rev- evening, refused to come ect. L = ek commit: