St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 20, 1912

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BILLS ‘Board Favors. vin, es Giivernor Power to e Commissioners. een of Pol- PO ME BES OE RS NN IO RRR o Ivo... 65. NO. + thas ’ JONE: TOWER GROVE — STREET CAR CLEAN ee Fe So Astonished He Writes to Post-Dispatch About His Discovery. BH. F. H. Werneker of 6221 Simpson av- enue, Clifton Heights, rode from his {home to his office in a clean street car | Friday. The novel experfence so de-

‘lighted him that he couldn't help mak- ing it public, so he sat right down a: his desk and wrote this letter to the Post-Dispatch: “Editor Post-Dispatch—An amusing “and refreshing incident took place this morning. It was on and about.car No. 65 of the Tower Grove line, when the conductor was show:sred with se and cong-atulations for the neat appearance of his car. He smiled in embarassment and modestly disclaimed credit. But f,s0 many kicks are published, it more than fair to givs credit when fe, e. Car No. 755 was as clean and | eg as a pin. Scrubbed inside and out, 4, Windows and all. Even the seats were ‘not dirty and sticky as usual, while I could not resist the pleasure ,and comfort of placing my hand on the window sill, so smooth and clean and inviting. The car was also thor- Governor Re-| cugnty ventilated. Great was the joy va | Powers Will Not 4 r | Home Rule Committee of One | Sponsor ‘ef three home rule ree, a agreed Thursday not an amendment to them invest- ‘Governor the power to remove ot duty the Police, Ex- a Election Commissioners to be i by the Mayor. ; committee decided, however to “by the. bills as originally hale, by Charles W. Bates, for- rc Counselor, and approved by he uls ‘members of the Legis- a oe i however, the country es of the Legislature object to s giving thé Mayor absolute poe these. officials, now ap- i by. ‘the Governor, the com-. “will accept the amendments. ye “executive: "poard~' of the Civic Dmg public Friday its recom- “the | ‘home rule question, + A te y aa ~ Se vag ien's aon. ue, The board adopted Db committee ao iE a peal land inspiration. ‘from those of the Busi- We ali felt like we lived in the West End instead of Clifton Heights. Give us clean cars and ws: will boost every day and more than give credit when it is due.” FIGHT RAGES, ADMIRALS JOKE BY WIRELESS “We Await Your Orders,” Greek Announces; “‘Take Better __ Aim,” Turk Replies. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec.. 20.—The Turkish ‘flagship Kheyrh-Ed-Din Bar- barossa, which, according to reports from Athe)Qs, Was practically destroyed by Greek shells during the recent sea fight off the Dardanelles Straits, today received from the Sultan of Turkey the

| historic flag flown by the battleship Mahmudieh at the bombardment of Se- bastopol in 1864. The captain of the flagship was pre- sented to the Sultan, who congratulated him -and the rest of the Turkish navy on the outcome of the action. The Turkish flagship was struck by two Greek shells, but the damage done to the vessel was insignificant, One man on board was killed and eight others wounded. During the battle the commander of

a by, come less ate as : ned: ; es thi Hinizes’ on Sa Whether idaded the - nt ic and dattion ma- should’ not be under the ‘ ‘power. If _ the . the police officials, mor cheepegal name the elec- he Giversior should have the pow- “i taser hk Boles, “excise or elec- fica police commis- “two or more. we dvitesa’ Should be estab- ‘appointments. art; * casting 10 per cent of cut ‘ ‘should have represen- a the election board, Chairman's Views. > Capen, chairman of the eon. One Hundred, gave out «reviewing the efforts of itte ang the Business Men's Ditls Ohat: itis seine Rule Com- Saga have advocated je Yarious civic and business One of the city have met with. oa indorsement, ex- k al Dealers’. Asso- c League. “and election bills have thas the police bill, and nd has been found to e ma fm which the excise and’ a s have been drawn up. The the bill to which /$ The principal cause of the is the fact that so much power od tn the hands of one man, and Sean, ere : wei : ii ne we! Ball Was Used to Win 1912 : .° Tournament. NEW YORK, Dec. 2—The Supreme whether a championship game ‘of ten-' — won with a ball alleged to be ‘loaded,”” had been won fairly. The suit was filed by the Corinthia championship trophy in the 1912 tour- | nament, to ‘restrain the National Bowl-| ing Association from expelling the club from its membership and thereby pre- venting the. club from participating in other organized tournaments. | — The. .club asserts that the association intended to expel because of charges team, had used an unfair aa | io — _ club Comies. AUSTRALIA 122 IN SHADE SYDNEY,. New South Wales, Dec. 2. -—One hundred and twenty-two in the shade is the record of the first heat

| ¢ Ito have interested the peo-. wave experienced in Australia this sum- mer. This was recorded at Aucla. | At Poma, in Queensland, the mercury stood ‘at 110, while Newcastle, the coal city of New South Wales, has had the hottest spell for 16 years, accompanied by dust and wind storms. Other parts of New South,Wales were affected, but in Sydney the heat was less severe, the thermometer going only to 93. No deaths were “se aa

Court was called upon today to decide: Club, winner of the Eagle Cup, the, that William Hein, a member of the’ Ebene. Paper in: St: Louls With the ‘Associated Press News Service

NEGRO REVEALS RIDDEN $4786 IN WOMAN'S HOME Lad Keéps Secret Eight Days, Tells of Mysterious Drawer on Appraiser’s Arrival. CONTEST OVER’ ESTATE Numerous Heirs of Childless Mrs. Aubuchon to Fight for $40,000 Property. The sum of $3286 in currency and sil- ver and a bank certificate of deposit for $1500, which were found in an old dresser, are unexpected additions to the estate’ of Mrs. Felicite Aubuchon, who died Dec; : € at Cross Keys, St. Louis County,. @t: the age of 83. Attorneys at Ciayton expect a legai battle among her numerous heirs over the property, which is valued at $40,000. The hidden treasure was saved to the estate through the fidelity of a negro boy named Foley, a descendant of a negro man and woman who were named in the will of Gregory Aubuchon, hus- band of Felicite, as “‘Bub’”’ and “Puss,” and to whom 20 acres of land were be- queathed. For eight days after the death of his mistress Foley kept the se- cret of her hoard. Negro Reveals Secret Drawer. Last Saturday Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Settle, who was appointed ap- praiser of the estate, was searching the old house for a will, although it was belisved Mrs. Aubuchon had died in-| testate. To him Foley’ revealed the, secret drawer in the dresser in which bis mistress kept her valuables. Sattle found two packages of currency, each contalning $1000, six $20 gold pieces and $1166 in mixed currency and silver. There was also a certificate showing Mrs. Aubuchon had $1500 on deposit at the Bremen Bank in St. Louis. The money was turned over to Thoophile Euno, Mrs. Aubuchon’s nephew, who was appointed administrator of the es- tate by the Probate Court at Clayton. A contest is expected because Mrs. Aubuchon,.so far as is: JAcnown, left no | will.. .Her husband, . “who died in . 1896; | made a. will in 1874, He and his wife, Had no children, and ther provided "that, unless his wife remnarried “Fatter his death and had ‘childrefi; the fentire property should go to a girl’ whom they had reared but not legally adopted, and to whom they gave the "4 ‘naine of ‘Felicite Reuil,, In case Mrs, Aubuchon remarried, she wag to ‘get thajf of the estate. She remained a widow. a | a Felicite Reuil .married: Edmond A. Aubuchon, nephew of Gregory, but both she and her husband died before Mrs. Aubuchon. They left a son, Reuil Au- buchon, who now lives in Colorado and is:a widower with a son, According to one party of Clayton at- torneys, Reuil Aubuchon, under the will 1 of Gregory Aubuchon, is sole heir to the property. According to another opinion. the 17 nieces and nepheWs of Gregory Aubuchon who are living, have legiti- mate claims to.be considered. heirs. The Aubuchons are the oldest and most prominent French family in St. Louis County. Gregory gained the nick- name, of ‘‘Brickhouse’”’ Aubuchon . be- cause he had the distinction of buildinz time when wood was universally, used. TAFT ON WAY SOUTH TO BE MADE ‘ALLIGATOR’ CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec 2.— Charleston friends greeted » President Taft and his party when the President's special train, bound for Key West, stopped this afternoon at Ashley Junc- tion, near here, to change engines.

’ 20.— “Alll- JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Dec. President Taft will be made an of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, when he stops in Jacksonville en route to Key West. The honor is the highest that can be con-

ferred on a Shrinern in Florida. —— '—the Xmas spirit than receive.’’ and only

The sored of our St. Louis merchants are thronged with buyers imbued with the spirit ‘‘It is better to give They are stirncted to these stores through the an. nouncements which the merchants place in the columns of the POST-DISPATCH day after day, as they did on Thursday, when they bought 111. columns . of display advertising in the POST-DISPATCH alone, 109 columns in our three nearest competi Democrat, Republic and Times, ALL PUT TOGETHER. Why? Circulation last Sunday: = 308,661 tors, namely, the Globe. a home of. bricks at. Cross Keys at a} gator” tonight by the Morocco Temple. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, G;" DECEMBER’ 20, 1912 —24 PAGES. _ PRICE

IMS. ROSE MILTON SUES FOR DIVORCE: WAD MRS. KOKEN Charges Husband Asked Her to Give Money to Him First Day After Marriage. REFUSED TO SIGN NOTE She Declares He Left Her Then —Former Widow of Iron Works President. Mrs. Rose Milton of 3522 Hawthorne boulevard, has filed suit to divorce Alva J. Milton, whom she married at her home Aug. 17. Mrs. Milton was former- ly Mrs. Rose Koken, widow of William T. Koken, late president of the Koken Iron Works. She charges that the day after her marriage Milton demanded $1400 of her; that he asked her for $300 later and de- manded other money. She declares he boasted of his friendship with other women and kept the photograph of one of one of them hanging in his room. She declares he is a gambler and vag- , rant. Says He Left Her. He left her Nov, 15, 1912, she said, after she had refused to sign a promis- sory note with him. She accuses him of threatening to leave her unless she would convey her property to him, and make a will in his favor. Mrs. Milton is considered wealthy. The divorce suit was filed quietly ™iednesday afternoon. None of Mrs. 'Mitton’s friends was aware of her in- tention. Because of the name the iden- tity of the plaintiff was not ~— in the petition. Mra, Milton in East. Inquiries at the family home elicted the information that Mrs. Milton is in New York. Her two grown sons, Ernest Koken and Roy Koken, told a Post-Dis- patch reporter what they said would be the mother’s testimony when the case comes up for trial. It will follow very Closely the charges outlined in the peti- tion, they said. _“*We do not ‘know what defense Mil- ton will attempt,” said Roy Koken. “It }may be that’ mother will file a. new pe- tition. That remains, to be seen.” The brothers had not seen or heard from ™ “since he left their mother’s-home, _ om 5, They un- derstood he is forming a partnership in East St. Louis to déal in livée stock, they * added: The marriage of Mrs. Koken to Mil- -ton -became public in Aygust, after ef- forts. had been made to keep it a secre:. ‘The clerk at the city hall who issued ‘their marrtage licénse, said that botia asked him to keep it secret. Mrs.. Koken gave her age as 40 years, while Milton said he was 36. A Post- Dispatch _reporter who called at the Koken home after the ceremony -was unable to see the bride. A woman, who said she was Mrs. Milton’s stepsister, said Mrs. Koken and Milton had known each other since they were children, “They used to make sand piles to- gether,’’ she said. ‘‘Then they became separated and she married Mr.. Koken. Her husband died and now she is mar- rying her childhood sweéetheart.’’ a few friends present in the Koken home. A minister who resides in the, neighborhood said the ceremony. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; COLDER

The Temperatures. Westeréay*s Temperatured. High, 47 at 5 p. m. . me - ew, 29 at 7 a. m.

While Santa Claus is fireproof- ing his whiskers and sorting out the toys that al) good little girls and boys are so anxiously waiting for, the Weather Man will oWDlige with a solo. Bhe instrument: on which he per: forms has man) keys, but on this occasion he touch- es only two of them, fair and colder. He puts a soft pedal on the cold stop, too, so that the bur- den of his tune is fair. While they the Money, Trust some powerful combi- nation is dornering all the snow, so that there is now none of it in sight. But keep your eye on Santa Claus. He may break the Snow Trust before Christmas. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday, slightly colder tonight, lowest tem- perature about 26 degrees. Missouri—Fair tonight and Saturday; some- what colder tonight. Iilinole—Fair tonight and Saturday: some- what colder tonight. Stage of the River—2.3 feet. a fall of .2 of a foot. 40-Mile Walk Cuts Man’s Fine. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. %.—After walking miles on railroad ties S through the hills of Stone County, W. B. Taylor, storekeeper at Blue Eye, ar- Niel in Springfield to answer a charge of gelling bad.eggs.. Only. a small fine DO YOU THIN RNY FN HELD

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q Lusty Twins ithe ‘Caesarian Route Mother in Rare Case 18 Years Ofd

Mrs. Jessie Caldwell ‘and the Infants Doing Well After Operation—Believed to Be First in St. Louis. Lusty boy twins have arrived at Sst: Ann’s Hospital, Page and Union’ ave- nues, by the: unusual Ca¢sarian route. The mother of the youngsters im Mrs. Jessie Caldwell, 18 years old, of- 4059 Olive street. While no official record has ever been kept of the fact, it i¢ the opinion ef veteran physicians that this is. the 4irst case ever recorded in: St. L ouls. of the birth of twins in this manner. The nurses at the hospital have chris-. tened the infants Albert and Henry, in honor of: Drs: Albert, May of 3905 Mor- yank street and Henry Schwarz of New- stead and Westminster place, who at- tended Mrs. Caldwell. ; Albert weighed six and Henry four pounds at 'thel? birth Wednbsdav night and both are crying as healthie and gaining: weight. as’ rapidly as ‘other :nfants In. the. hospital. The. mother, who weighs only 9&8 pounds,’ is “resting quietly and the attending physicians are of the opinion that she will recover with .no ill effects. Mrs. Caldwell was taken to the hos- pital Wednesday morning. The doc- ters, after. consultation, decided that the only chance of preserving the life ot the mother and the children was to resort to;,the rare operation. At 10 o’clock that night Mrs. Caldwell was put under chloroform and the operation lasted half ah hour. The case is so remarkable that many physicians throughout the city, after they "had been notified of it, visited the ¢ hospital Satake ag and Friday to investigate it... Dr. achweek specialist of national repute and an instructor. at the Washington University Medical School, brought his class to the hos- pital to,give them details of' the

case and informed them that in all likelihood it would be the only one of its kind they would ever witness. “We feel so indebted to Drs. May and Schwartz for their wonderful skill, that I think my daughter as a testimonial of her appreciation will actually name the children as the nurses have named them, in hon- or of the two doctors,” said Mrs. Lil- lian Wolcott. “My daughter and Mr. Burl Caldwell, who is only 22 years of age, eloped last February. The only objection to the marriage on our part was the youth- fulness of the two. Now that they are parents to twins I guess this objection is effectually removed.”’ Dr. H. 8. Crossen of the Metropolitan Building, said: “The fact of twins coming in this remarkable manner is the first case of such a character that I have evér heard of in St. Louis. A few cases of the same nature are men- tioned in the medical books, but they are spoken of as highly trusual.”’ Dr. Percy Swahien, surgeon in charge of st. Ann’s Hospital, said: ‘I am .of it ig. the first instance of its kind in St. Louvis.. The-operation is Arrive by|

WIFE DIV ARLFRANCIS a. ~ SHE TAKES CHILD Alimony *, of ~ $150 , a Month, Which Was Agreed: on by At- torneys, Is-to Be Paid. H “ Mrs. Sally Coulthurst Francis obtained « decree of divorce from D. R. Francis Jr, son of former Gov. D. R. Francis, in. Judge McQuillin’s coum™>Friday. Cus- tody of the child, Alice Fx dperell Frati- cig, 8 years old, was awarded to Mrs. Francis and alimony was fixed at $160 a ‘month, in accordance with an agre> ment between counsel. : The case was heard Dec. 3 and was taken under advisement by the Judge. At ‘the trial .Mrs. Francis was closely. questioned as to wheth- er she legally was a resident of Mis- sourl, as she had lived with her mother in the East since the separa- tion in July, 1911. .This is believed to have been one of the points which caused delay in handing down the decision, | Francis did.mot contest the suit. wife testifies =a he was neglectf:l, that she selaom Saw him ‘and that at the time of the. separation, he orderéd her out of their horhe on Maryland ave- nue.and forbade her to return. They were married at Danvers, Mass., June 12, 1901. a DIAMOND DEALER FOUND MURDERED IN CHICAGO Robbers Believed to Have Killed Jeweler in Heart of Busi- ness District. CHICAGO, Dec. %.—J. H. Logue, &% years old, president of J. H. Logue & Co., diamond dealers, was found bound, gagged and murdered in his offices in McVicker’s Theater Building this aft- ernoon. . ; Logue’s body was found lying on the floor of his private office. There was a bullet wound in his forehead and the back of his head was crushed. The office was in disorder and “from indications the show cases and drawers had been ransacked. A stock of dia- monds valued at many thousands of dol- lars was carried by the firm gnd. the police began immediate investigation to ascertain whether any of the jéewels were missing. An office boy made the discovery and gave the alarm. Ocoupants of adjoining offices declared they heard a shot The

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