St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 24, 1913

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PRICE — ENT id N 80 K 22—„*„ — 6. 7%, P N — — ͤ — eee eee ee EF COMPANY ABANDONS FIGHT |JYNAMITE BIAST . Htucrta’s Rival Who Has Taken T * vy % a ry J 1 A WN 1 * a IT REVEALS Bh AG Al NST BILL 80 ARD | AW ALARMS CPHOOL. —. | Refuge Within U. 8. Consulate © SECRET DOMO S aaa ne sysiem Diem Ses acpeat in u. 8 PROVES A THEORY i 1 | Supreme Court, Hoping for “Fair Treatment” 8 22,250,000 of lola Portland in Pending St. Louis Ordinance. Prof. Nipher Explodes Charge in ; . Cement Co. Funds Paid to the Air on Washington 11 Stockholders, Says Witness. a! University Campus. A Centra * ' pecial to the Post-Dispatch. that a new ordinance would be needed , eae WASHINGTON, Od. 24.—The Supreme in any case, and that it could better ? a CONCEALED FROM CREDIT 1 ee 1 ned present its case to the Assembly if it} MAGNETIC NEEDLE SHAKEN * 5 e su n which the Gunniug | were not in e itude o 12e Bowling Gr Co Ke System, a billboard advertising eg — N oe Me xican Situation Desert at x ‘ i een Trust . pt | any, attacked the validity of the St. Ordinance Passed in 1905. Scientist Demonstrates Varia- ' : Louis bill ordinance, pr oard ordinance was ssed b . 7 in Ignorance of Deal, A. H. ce n billboard ordinance, prohibiting The linear pase 9 tions Are Due to Atmos- Figure In W ashington as Most. Serious Since: | Taylor Testifies. 14 feet high or nearer than 15 feet to] and prohibited the erection of new bill- pheric Conditions. Wilson Came In. N . 6 the building line. This action was tak- boards over 14 feet in height, thus plac- en through a stipulation agreed to be- ing a ban on double-deck boards. It 8 — 45 Te ‘The charge that secret dividends,/tween the city and the company. also forbade the placing of a board] Four charges of dynamite, fired a ae mounting to $2,250,000, or 7 per cent of nearer than 15 feet to the building line,] Thursday afternoon in the quadrangle f ee the capital stock of the Iola Portland] City Counselor Baird said Friday that so that a 14-foot billboard, falling down. behind Eads Hall, on the Washington d i M * BE W ARNED ee. the action taken by the Gunning con-| would not injure a person on the side- "| Od EUROPE A tS 8 7 la, were vo Univ ‘ Skinker Cement Co. of West Virginia, were voted; ern in the Supreme Court amounted] walk. It also was ordained that there versity campus, aroused the by the directors, and concealed from the; to dropping the company’s appeal, which| must be a clear space of two feet under road and University City residence Bowling Green Trust Co. of New York,|it took two years ago, after the Mis- each board, and a clear space of two] neighborhoods and started inquiries which held $250,000 of the common stock, souri Supreme Court had upheld the! feet at each end between billboards and! which ranged from hazing vranks to was brought out in testimony in t city ordinance. The appeal was taken adjoining buildings. the destruction of the chemical labo- on a writ of error. The St. Louis Gunning System, a bill- Bee eee Ot the Equitable Trust Co. of) Baird said he did not know whether] board company, determined to resist the . ew York against the National Bank of! the company had been influenced by the ordinance, and proceeded to bulld a] Most of the university people were * ye ara 1 — Louls, i trial in| fact that a bill is pending in the City | double-deck board on North Broadway] as much mystified as those outside, and 1 ‘hearing 3 8 second Couneil to amend the billboard ordinance near Little Round Top Market. James! there was alarm around the dormitories a. The $150,000 claimed in cen a aA so as to permit double-deck billboards.| A. Smith, then building commissloner, and classrooms until Prof. Francis E. Such boards are forbidden by the present] caused the arrest of the gompany'’s em- Nipher, head of the department of ‘ 3 * f leged to be the 1 due on 1 $250,000 : ordinance. Public hearings soon are to] ployes who put up the board, and the physics, explained that he was complet- * €ndebte@dness, secured by the cement’ be held on the measure. AGAINST INTERFERENCE Situation |‘ecretary of State Bryan and John Bassett Moore Preparing Statement to the Public 5 ae and Note to Foreign Powers Pres- dent’s Policy to Be Reiterated eed Pe * 5 company got an injunction to keeping his now famous experiments with N * : vgs andl r r Thomas H. Cobbs, attorney for the Smith from further interference, pend-|the magnetic needle. dé Man * mes 0 _ @reen company, which made * cg 4 Gunning System, said the company de- ing a decision on the law’s constitu-| By the use of the dynamite, he said, he a ie tae — ee * 8 0 cided to drop its resistance to the pres-| tionality. had verified his theory that the varia- | aes ee ent ordinance, in order to be in a posi-] In a decision in May, 1911, the Mis-| tions in the earth’s magnetic conditions ) be fs A f al me ’ * * ’ .¥ 9 — ——— thom tion to ask for what it considers fair] souri Supreme Court upheld the validity long held to be unaccountable, are By the Associated Press. “ or treatment in a new ordinance. of the ordinance. It was then carried| caused by atmospheric disturbances before its absorption, d ice- ' P f * few hours ta at Sorel the . The Company concluded, _Cobbs said, to the United States Supreme Court. such as attend upon wind, rain or deton- a 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Developments ot a 2 Vas the principal witness in the trust AE RETR. ee, 2 ment company’s affairs, and that Perry] Mrs. John Ganz sat disconsolate in] whether Rabbi Goodman Lipkind, for Nwher's demonstration. He said after-{ 1 A . ia * * mern. Ay 7. 0 end stating that the directors had day, bemoaning the fact that she was tive. and that the erer was the 191 ö . 2 . if ik : | i e+ 5 though it best not to declare a large , ng Congregation, King’s highway and Von] most important which had been made in 2 : nited ‘Btates. * * E 3 Dun “dividend, but to carry good bank the sole possessor of the key to a sad Versen avenue, is still pastor, following that particular branch of research for ~~ ee, D by th f ~~ | Sa : so that the company might/|Tiddle, the motive for the dramatic su:-/ the acceptance of his resignation by the 50 years. , 3 dispatched to Mexican Ww er the Provisional * me? unter Be in a position to declare a sub- cide of her son, John A. Ganz Jr. board of trustees, is a matter of wide] In conducting his experiments at his by the varto us foreign stank as one that N * rs etantial dividend. Ganz, who was 2% years old, a clerk | discussion in the congregation. Dr. Lip- summer home, Prof. Nipher placed his , would be proclaimed. . : ayers * Met Secretly in St. Louis. at the postoffice, killed himself in ats kind Friday appeared to be of the opin- | Magnetic needle on pillars sunk deep um Reiterate Policy. 7 Ss ‘Later, Taylor said, Perry proposed mother’s home Thursday afternoon by ſon that the matter had been adjusted in the ground, and guarded it in every . It le un derst 004 ai that the Unit: - that 14,000 shares of preferred stock be drinking carbolic acid. He left a nots;and he would remain as pastor, al-| way from shock, although the sur- : }ed States, by. that same statement, 3 uted for the 10,000 shares of com- to his mother, telling her why he was though S. J. Russack, president of the | roundings are those of nature. He then ee reiterate’ the Ametican policy A mon stock. held by the trust company, killing himself and solemnly enjoining | congregation, was inclined to think fur-| sat beside the needle for hours at a thdt ‘ently governmie fits founded pe | | 1 @nd this was agreed to. On the day] ner to divulge the knowledge to no onf. ther action by the trustees or the whole time, sometimes all day, observing its} wore than 450 policemen on duty in] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. ire. constitutional law and order will be | ie: that the transfer was made, Dec. 23, not even to his sister, Ione, of, whom he membership would be necessary. movements. These movements became hours | Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of Charle:| recognized. in the. Western Hemis- —, ~— $908, witnesses said, the directors of the] wa very fond and who played an un] According to Russack, Dr. Lipkind|most marked when there was atmos- an St. Louls districts for elgm hours Watren Pit nn tormer W phere, ye be 3 ‘Sola company met in St. Louis and de-| Witting but theatrical part in his death | submitted his resignation in writing two | pheric disturbance outside. Friday morning unsuccessfully sought) dent, died at her Meridian street home] The aituationhad assumed auch Pa eClared a 30 per cent dividend on the It was neither money, a woman ene weeks ago and it was accepted. Rus- Needle 8 on Calm Day. Patrolman John Shea of the Angelica at 7:45 a. m. today from pneumonia, |aspects thet it was considered pos- ie N common stock. Ot this action, Taylor ill health that caused him to do it.“ | sack said the matter might be reopened Once, on a calm day, the needle sud- Street District. All that time he was with which she had been sevieuety i laiste thes President Wilson might — J wald, the Bowling Green company was sobbed his mother in speaking to a re- Sunday morning if anybody chose to|denly commenced a violent oscillation. | walking his beat near Fairground Park, sevdcet “Gave ane at the laß moment hie i N * ee to erence. he added: But, oh I wish he „e e eee ee — nies See sal widen Gili stig hes ind . — Mrs. Fairbanks was president-general to Mobile, Ala. He had planned to salina The trust company contends that, by *. . gv a ‘ nin he gue ore meeting of the congregation, preceded la r — —— en whic ani- ita “8 S place while 5 8 of the Daughters of the American Revo- leave early tomorrow and be gone N 4 : . r r ð A 2 mne common stock, the value of the se-“ ae we w * * unn „ ter wald ne don by boite, in the General Federation of Women’s|doubt in the Presente mind today nt OP it hich it held was reduced, since Noticed He Was Melancholy. Neither Dr. Lipkind, Russack nor oth- | shore of the Straits of Mackinac. not finding or being foun y p en Clubs and helped to promote the “Junior| whether he could afford to leave oe eh the common stock, through the secre: Gahz went home for lunch at noon fer members of the congregation would, At the Eads Hall laboratory, where man. he went to his home at 2021 Nors Republic.” She made a tour of the Washirgton at this time. ‘provides a | Pividends, had acquired a value of which | Ihureden He was preoccupied and ie comment on the rabbi’s reasons for re- Prof. Nipher spends most of the day, {Twenty-third street. The police ques!) worid in 15 and 1910. Chairman Bacon of the Senate Foreign|| ann N — n ; = A record’ book of the National Bank sitting at the table his mother and sis- signing, although it was said that al he has a magnetic needle, based onjended when Dr. M. A. Bliss telephone Mrs. Fairbanks is survived by her hus- Relations Committee conferred at the 7 icine of Pilg own oe — ; * showing ‘that —— 1 e ing was said by him to explain the cause Many members of the congregation had] in the earth that the needle is not dis- Shea, who Is 57 years old, has been 5. cept Frederick, who is on his way from He declared that while the United Btaten — PP ec By avn, L Gr of, the 30 per cent dividend a notati of his melancholia. His depression at- not been informed of the resignation| turbed when the whole -weight of af the force “3 years. For more er bon California, were at her bedside. would always like to have the N 2 . ee whe rde recerd to pe —— fected Ione and when she went into ths Friday. man’s body is thrown against the tiin-| years he walked a beat in the vicinity “She elk dies daughter of Philander C. lof forelan governments in ite policy te rcs „ In f bee ver- 6 after lunch she took @ seat at] In answer to a telephone request Dr.] bers. The firing of the aynanuteſot Twenty-third street and St. Louis) Cole ot onic Tne children are: Ade- ward Mexieo and would siwars iüeten f gun n 4 contiavis fa. “~~ gonal obligation of the maker of 3 e- n Lipkind refused to discuss the matter] charges in the air near the bufldnzzwenue, but early in August he Was jalde, wite of rieut. John W. Timmons, to suggestions, nevertheless, this Gov- I | : rang 25 ‘ata George B. Nicholson began et play the Meditation“ from tha further than to say that all difterences brought à response in the twitching of transferred and assigned to a beat in U. 8. N., Warren C., Frederick, Richard |ernment would never yield its views. power. 97 5 T. deck, in a descriptk — nad been adjusted. He would neither] the needle, but Prof. Nipher wishes ne|‘he Fairground neighborhood. The ng Robert. because it had broader and more im — — * deseription of it, con-} The “Meditation” is the melancholy : g transfer caused Shea to worry and on , ; eained within its covers, was declared affirm nor deny that he had sent in his] could fire larger charges of dynani:ite. g portant moral considerations at hand in Gers except to proceed to their ; : 5 to de the property ot J. w. oi wy man song of a . — a e e ae gers. resignation. Russack said a majority] He will use the dynamite test at his Sept. 9 he had a nervous collapse. Since FAIR TOMORROW, N NO dealing with the Mexican problem than — àQ— n ee vice-president of the Nat! in bis. Wine what he regaras as lis of the trustees voted to accept it. Michigan home next summer. he says, then he had been under the care of merely material interests. 13 5 e mee Bank ot] many sins. For a time Gans remainzd] Pr. Lapkind came here two years ago and will fire larger sticks of dynamite Dr. Bliss, a neurologist. TEMPERATURE CHANGE Rights: tn Dies Case. Cuba Case Is Cited. Commerce. s o ins ; 3 a . . „* ‘however, at all times, by Nich ee eens POE eee from Milwaukee to succeed Rabbi Hen-|at a height of 200 feet or more. At 10:3) p. m. Thursday Shea pet wh — ‘ The gravity of the situation, it Predictions as to the course the "officers aa tin hone a 238 weird air being played by his sister./ „y J. Messing, who had been with the . his uniform and despite his wife's pro- — — was apparent, would be increasea by | United States would pursue * om- Then he walked out of his own room; ‘ tests started to report for duty. When } . 0 administration oe : 5 congregation 20 years, and who had re-] Mrs. Pankhurst Goes to Cleveland. | P da Felix Dies taking refuge is the greatly in | 15 merce. into a bh 0 + ed pn 1 tired. Dr. Messing served as Rabbi] NEW YORK, Oct. A.- Mrs. Emmeline n into the Angelica Street Sta- 5 fl. m. 43 11 . 56 | American Ceneulste at Vern Crus. Suggestions that the United * 1 3 — ee 3 1 S ſlemeritus on a salary until his death,] Pankhurst, the militant British suffra- 0 pa aed tgs dog eee a D Dem. ILI 0 Tue peanthility that the Huerta au-| might propose to re-establish Ay The book was used to record transac- a table near the piano. several months ago, from injuries re.'gette, left New York today for Cleve-] no Were assembling for roll call. Yeaterday’s Temperatures. thorities might demand hia release and conduct an election as was ¢ lions of Nicholson and Perry, who had] The girl left the plano as her brother A lapse of memory apparently caused . in Cuba advanced in LS date - ceived in a fall. land, where she will lecture. High, 50, at 3 p. m. Low, 36, at 5 a. m. and pievoke another emergency was in were contract in relation to the New Vork came close to her. The unmistakable - Shea to forget that before returning to —— ä coniiens quarters with some degree * loan, The 8 per cent dividend was pal i fumes of the deadly drug he had taken work he must attend the roll call. Ip- ro : 4 ida. Sie ped Secretary Bryan went to confer- thoritativenessa a N e eee e e om stead of going to the assembly room, u, F ER. hquake, sure |ence with President Wilson, just aft-| That the United States may be k 3 was made that the New York obligation and staggered back into his own room W b * 9 all walked out of the station and went to * 11 a eart — * r neee Gan ‘date Oe | @ personal one of Nicholson. Nich-|She followed, but he had fallen to the E ea em his beat to find his substitute and tell DO YOUR WORST. 2 ng. — 8 Consul Canada’s in-|cles le being taken into 3 olson is now a voluntary bankrupt. floor unconscious. On his dresser she him he was back on duty. «8. : ee Taylor, on —— by | Saw the bottle that had contained car- All advertisers cling to the medium that makes good. When it was found that Shea had not | A — u A — e Wr raf george Lockett Edwards, testified tha,| bolic acid. Results is the magnet that draws advertisers regularly answered at roll call and had not re- more like a pow- | clude * 8 Shee ner cate the trend of affairs, there o cas there was no agreement in conversations| Near the bottle was the note to the into the columns of the POST- DISPATCH. turned home, a general order was sent der mill blowing a e pees n mistaka ble evidence that Sigh. with Perry that the National Bank at mother. The note told Mrs. Ganz that There are five daily newspapers in St. Louis—-the to the police’ of all districts to look for 15 said * * decane wae tie ha te fictlals are prepared for any Bes ust then a ? * ~ Commerce was to guarantee the loan, al-| the knowledge it contained was for her him. R uality. > though he said he understood from Per- and her alone, and that she must burn POST-DISPATCH and four others. On Thursday of this And the only policeman on duty in St. stranger carrying N. n N After Secretary Bryan haa it during the negotiations that the Na- it when she had read it. Mrs. Ganz said week the St. Louis merchants bought Louis who was not looking for Shea a black valise ap- 4 n Nr Ae. potted out here at length with President Wilson he eat tional Bank of Commerce was engineer. | that she had burned the note and that was Shea himself. He was busy walking proached Jige¢es 0 ty 1 mi the deal; was to receive the profits] she never would betray her son's conft 102 ] his beat. and Riggs and * the A N — 2 ‘2 and that his concern was to get in on! dence. CO umns Dr. Bliss says that the exertion aud handed each of | ¥°U ve a t the same terms and upon the same col- -—— 2 ä 82 IS PATCH al d excitement ot walking his beat Friday them a bunch of ’ F — 8 LOST SIX YEARS of display advertising in the POST-D one an eee a tg it «tiple hapa — rel ge vic — ot 4 15 — ene e Na-| STEAMER b 1 : sail tomorrow from Hampton Roads for ought only l 11 N ne time “H de sald — Bank of A on its inter- FOUND WRECKED IN ICE apse and it probably will be sonie ere, ’ | their Mediterranean cruise, according to} before he is again fit for police service. “put this In your a original plans. They will be in constant t com Was not aware. , 97 ] — ears. W gg cor w Perry called on him SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 4&.—The steam- CO umns ‘ WARSHIP REPAIRS LIKELY “What are you — bo * wire- 7 and 1 the loan. 2 8 1 rave 2 8 name tee in all four of the others, the Globe-Democrat, Republic, — to do?” they | rhursday. stated of y. how- 40 1 fan an, , ’ 3 7 as , * N eee = - e of the National with a cargo of sulphur, and was never Times and Star, ADDED TOGETHER. Dreadnaught Texas May Be oy cov pode fm m f eal without any or- ae ; 1 | Bank of Commerce. Taylor said he heard from, ts repjorted to be fast in the There is but one solution to the above 8 St. Badly Damaged. of economics at one of our justly cele- . | 22 be 7) made the loan of a quarter of million | ice off Sachalin Island, Okhotsk Sea, 81. Louis merchants have found that the POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Yesterday’s} prated universities,” replied the strang- Diaz, nder Li nd’s Escort. Takes = ees ‘ie } by making a notation on the] derla. A Russian expedition, bound : d by all the op] -ho have mo to spend both accident to the machinery of the bat-|e, “With your permission I wolud lige % S346 es 9 ee * Sea. di is read Dy People who e ney pe 2 in of Perry's letter, directing the] through the Okhots discovered the dor the laxnries and +i life. and because its .* tleship Texas, on her trial trip, may send o explode this vallse of dynamite to Rel 2 in 155 merican ae clerk to make the loan requested] missing vessel with I:feboats gone, the or © 1 necessities o f Id th the big fighter back to Newport News demonstrate my theory that serial c-“ ug r 4 wet one erry. The interest, Taylor said. I nume partly obliterated and her tron circulation so completely blankets this field that the an- for repairs. unden es, Variations. tn ‘the Mah | mer hates 0 ee do 6 per cent, with 1 per cent | work 8 3 sign of a nouncements of these. merchants in its columns reach prac- *. 28282 now is being made tO! cost of living.” i r A Ree ion on the Pp. supposed termine the extent the damage. | » Wer Bea ge ay ) | . —— N tically everybody. of 2 Official forecast for St. Lee and m has so im Vera Crus te . Tue National Ba cuurse by a storm, caught in ewspaper. KING TO DINE LABORERS |... mcr change i. 8 * . -Huerta's «r-tn-law, a lawyer. Yast l ‘ N Average e ee first nine months, 1913: Will Entertain 400 Who Have . | | 5 : Daily (Exclusive — ) 171, 101 Repaired Palace. * , LONDON, Oct. 4%—To mark comple- ody, | Sau , | tion ot the new front of Buckingham „ f e 304,523 Palace, King George will entertain all) * 2 1 the % werkmen who have ban en- 3 . 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