St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 13, 1913

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

On Evening Paper n St. Louis W wth ihe Associated Press News ‘Service: ‘ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER af 1913—24 PAGES, PERCY MACKAYE T0 BE MASTER OF — ST. LOUIS PAGEANT Joseph Linden Smith, Thomas Ward Stevens, Named as His Co-Workers. . * 2 * ‘ 275 4 . a 44: nm mmm. . ow cs 1 * i — 1 —.— 0 PERSONS ARE ALABAMA WRECK = — one Central of Georgia Train Falls Through a Trestle and Pas- sengers Are Crushed. 1 : * ee 1 : J * r , ‚— ] — eR NR eme IN DEFIANCE ORDERED TO eens tly. Elected Members of * Houses Called Together for . ganization Nov. 15. 1 N s Envoy tas Chief of Rebels With Whom He Conferred High, 73 at 3 . . Low, 40 at} 12:10 a. m “Well, that tel low Huerta is a sticker,” said Riggs. “Yes, a regular Mexican cactus.” “The man that invented fly-paper has nothing on him.“ “I Should say not. He makes the Scotch burr look like a billiard ball.“ “And yet they say he hasn't any constitution.” “Apparently he doesn't need any. He seems to be getting along very well on his by- aws.“ He must have one of those lid club charters.” Official forecast fer St. Louis and vicinity: Cloudy and colder tonight; sti igation W i 11 Be ö but Must Wait Danger of Con- a Uprising Has Passed. LL IS REPUDIATES * . HIS re ON PARTY BOUND FOR FAIR WILL BEGIN WORK AT ONCE 1141 5000 Girls and Boys to Take Part in Historical Episodes Next May. Two Cars Get Over in Safety but the Others, Heavily Laden, Drop Through Framework. By Associated Press. Percy MacKaye, distinguished poet- NTGO _.| dramatist, will be chief pageant master _ oe 285 of the St. Louis Pageant, to be staged Twenty persons were killed and 20 were next May in the natural amphitheater injured today when a Central of Georgia! at Art Hill, Forest Park, in honor of passenger train fell through a trestle the Both anniversary of the founding of four miles east of Clayton, Ala. [St. Louis by Laclede. The train, carrying a capacity load of] MacKaye’s appointment was an- persons, bound to the“tounty fair at nounced Thursday, together with the ap- Eufaula, was behind time and was] bointments of Thomas Wood Stevens, moving rapidly. The engine and two Artist and dramatist, and Joseph Lin- coaches passed over the trestle in safety] don Smith, who staged the Masque of tomorrow fair. but the other three cars went through | the Blue Garden“ at the home of Mrs. Stage of the river: 4.4 feet; a rise the elevated framework and were Arthur Curtis James in Newport last of 1 of a foot, wrecked. summer, as his chief co-workers. Relief trains-have been dispatched to] Mackaye and Stevens will arrive in PARKER CAN'T ATTEND Nov. oe’: ag Prepares Explanation of the United States’ At- titude With Intent to Make It Fublic Tosay, but Paper Is Withheld After O Shaugw- nessy and Lane Send Reports | 5 of the UF FERS 13.—State weer Edward P. Deal, chairman Hard of Prison Inspectors, told Oet-Dispatch Correspondent today ay * wou order a thorough in vesti- ot the Missouri Penitentiary to whether the treatment of the „ is just and humane, and the n. of ‘punishment known as the is cruel and demoralizing to -Repudiates Confession. cr important developments in 3 2 the scene. According to information that had reached here at 1 o' clock —flve hours ANANIAS CLUB DINNER after the wreck—four bodies had been recovered and identified. One of the seriously injured persons is Jeff Clayton, brother of Congressman Henry D. Clayton. He was caught be- tween two heavy timbers and the flesn lacerated. a BARKEEPER SHOT 3 TIMES FOR REFUSING MAN DRINK Police and Residents of Alton, II., Capture Gunman After Exciting Chase. John Gleason, a bartender, was shot three times Thursday afternoon in Al- ton, III., by Louis Youngblood, to whom he had refused to give a drink. Gleason is in a critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital, Alton. Youngblood was ar- rested after a chase of 15 minutes through downtown streets by the police and a crowd of residents. The quarrel started in an alley in the rear of Kitzmiller’s saloon, om Belle Warns Others Not to “Cut Loose“ in Absence of T. R., Who Designated Membership. NEW YORE, Nov. 13—Former Chief Judge Alton B. ‘Parker of the Court of Appeals and once the nominee of the Democratic party for President, will be prevented by a legal case from attend- ing the third annual banquet of the Ananias Club of the United States, to be held Saturday at Bismarck, N. D. A large number of other men whom Col. Roosevelt classed as undesirabie will be present. Ing nu . Parker wired his regrets as follows: — 1 : “Regret that busy days and distanse ‘went to Warden McClung,” Willis/compel my absence from the banque: ie Post-Dispatch co respondent, ot the Ananias Club. Am constrained Sa him that I had ned when IIto warn my fellow-culprits not to pre- obtained * bottle of whisky] sume on absence of the founder in for- eign lands and cut loose. Anyone so offending will receive the third degree when he returns.” FIGHT IN ARD |; ar"; — . employed, shot at Gleason. “Gieabon ran} Denother Pays $10 Fine at Al- —— of the alley and entered Kitamiller’s ton ‘After Quarrel Over Story saloon, where a dozen men were stand- of Working on Sabbath. 8 Youngblood followed and stood in the Deacon John Denother and Hider Fred | doorway with the revolver in his hand. Koch of the Salem Presbyterian Church. When Gleason refused to go outside. four. miles north of Alton, fought in] youngblood fired three shots into the the -churchyard Tuesday night, after crowd, witnesses say, and three bul- prayer meeting, over an old feud grow- | iets struck Gleason, two in the abdomen ing out of the circulation of a report and one in the right hip. that Denother had worked in his field} Youngblood fled and was captured by on thé Sabbath. Police Chief Lynn as he was trying to Denother accused Koch of continuing] climb up an embankment of the Chicago to circulate this report. Koch said it 4 Alton Ratiroad. was a He and Denother knocked him down. Koch regained his feet and was CROWD GATHERS TO SEE FEAT ON FREE BRIDGE By Associated Press. lished today under yesterday’ x site, ordering be Mexican 8 ators and Deputies who were elected on Oct. 26 to assemble during the afternoon of Saturday, Nov. 15, in their W houses, 2 order to effect their organization. 7 ai Huerta showed no signs of weakening this morning oa the American Embassy was in a state of suspense. ae : An early caller on Charge O ‘Shaughnessy was ‘the Minister, Admiral Paul von Hintze. It developed today that in the course ever, is tempered by some + of the preliminary exchanges of views] the neato of attaire at the National between John Lind and the Mexican of-/ ace, : ficials on the question of the dissolu- R W were mad night to ea. ee a ale VENUSTIANO -CARRANZA:.. of issue, 3 The bankers. have agreed to ask the Government to ‘punish those discounting paper money. When Lind early yesterday morn- FIRE IN CLAVION tssksseseees BURNS OUT BEFORE == sees ALARMS SOUNDED Sse =" is now in Vera Crus. Nelson O’Shaugh- nessy, Charge d’Affairs d the United States Legation, awaits instructions from Washington, and it is generally , ©) HARRIS BREWING o WASHINGT OM c. St. Louis Friday morning, and will con- fer at once with the Book Committee of the St. Louis Pageant. MacKaye is to write the book for “The Masque of St. Louis, which will show in symbolical form a prophecy of the future greatness of St. Louis. In staging this portion of the entertainment, which is to follow the historical part, he will have the assist- ance of Smith. Stevens is to write the book for the historical episodes, in addition to being the producer of this part of the pageant. Watches y Designs and atings in Hand- me Jewelry. | ae 0 ordinary Values. . J of 1 wading into the deacon when the pas- tor interfered and stopped the fight. A warrant was issued against De- Prison with the Post-Dis-|nother. He pleade@ guilty before Jus- at today, said no in-jtice J. B. Pfeiffer and paid a fine of —.— de undertaken im- $10. SAND-FED CHICKENS ARE DEFRAUDING HOUSEWIVES Department of Agriculture Warns Buyers to Watch the Tricky Poultry Shippers. o- By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13,—Uncover- ing a trick of unprincipled dealers in chickens, the Department of Agricul- ture today issued a warning to house- wives to be on their guard against sand-stuffed fowls. Of the unprincipled ‘the prison for male to the 1 Deal, in discussing. investi Man Denied Right to Cross, Evades Watchman and Mounts Framework of Structure. A man who was so desirous of cross- ing the free bridge that, when he was forbidden to use the roadway, he climbed the framework and crawled up the steel arch, the 150 N 55 top Of which ad He is president of the American Society eet above the river, held a Levee 0 , of Etchers, and has written a play rowd’s attention Wednesday aftarrocn. around the life of Rembrandt, which 8 Edward Rothweiler, a bridge watch- to be put on in New York in a short man, who had refused to let the man time by Donald Robertson. The page- cross because he had no permit, was 40 ants to his credit are The Old North- astonished to sée him go up the per- 75 3 West., Milwaukee, 1910, and the famous pendicular ‘framework and start over pageant of the Italiar “Renaissance,” the arch. He walked to the foot of the in Chicage a ; * eee to tell P yea ee MacKaye is particularly remembered 10 rant d Mau is the author of Jeanne d' Arc,“ played Though 1527 St. Louis County, has been an incorporated city since April 7, the same fire-fighting methods which were pursued when it was a village were | found “necessary when an alarm was turned in Thursday afternoon. As there is no fire. alarm signal sys- tem in Clayton, citizens do not know that a fire is Burning until someone tele-| All speculation as to the future, bow phones the information. to the telephone DR:WILLIAM BAYARD HALE. DEFINING OF gE poultry shippers, it says: “Some of these poultry shippers, a on the, boards laid across the lower deck of the bridge. But when the man saw the watchman, he turned around, by EB. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Among his other plays are: The Scarv- „Fenris.“ “The Wolf“ and THAT A FAGT,” ENDS change. The operator who receives the message presses a button and 4 President Writes Statement o on day or two before the chicken is killed, crow,” feed it red. pepper, which makes the chicken have an abnormal appetite; then they feed a mixture of fine sand and a little cornmeal. The chicken eats this mixture ravenously and as a re- suit large quantities of sand are in- — troduced into the craw and the intes- MAN AND WIFE FOUND had charge are the Joan of Arc pageant tines as well. | GAS LLED ROOM at Boston and the pageant of Glouces- It simply means that the dealers are IN A FI R ter. bell: near the court house rings. This indicates that there is a fire scemewhere in Clayton. Anyone who cares ‘for additional information may call up the telephone office and learn where the fire is. . When an attempt was made to sound Mexico Situation, Then Withholds I 5 mv Say. — WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-—President Wilson wrote today an exposition of the alarm, during the afternoon, the bell | his policy with a Mexico, 5 near the ‘courthouse was out of order. t wan his intention morning The ‘clapper moved spasmodically| make it public late today, but at noon climbed over the top of the arch again and descended in nearly the same way he had come. From the lower part of the structure he swung aboard a pass- ing freight train and disappeared. “Anti-Matrimony.”’ Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daugh- ter of the President, played the leading part in his Bird Masque, produced in Meridem, N. H., last summer. Other noteworthy pageants of which he has 1 | : A PERIURY TRIAL A judicial interpretation of the phrase. “fig that a fact?” saved Martin Jurack of 837 Exchange avenue, East St. Louis from prosecution on ‘a.perjury charge in the United States District Court in 1 : 8 ae 3 3 2 1 ö 1 13833 ; * ne 4 — * 2 7 * ’ 8 iy oo „ es ee — —— . : 8 * 5 ’ of ; D e 8 e 1 . peep or F : 4 NT > : ö * e * — 5 4 f I nne 8 a 2 sand to the consumer at the rate 20 cents or more per pound. DISLOCATES SHOULDER _ PUTTING ON A SHIRT Arthur Greathouse of 718 St. Clair i | Vived quickly. She refused to make any jjet and all the windows were tightly 11 ib 5 a we K 5 5 * ee ea 2 Pi x 2 - oom 3 ¥ Believed to Have Plannerd to End Lives; Woman Revived; Husband Still Unconscious. rs. Josie Slaughter, proprietor of a rooming house at 8207 Laclede avenue, at noon Thursday smelled gas issuing from u room occupied by Tom Fanning and Mrs. Bessie Fanning. When she broke im the door she found them unconscious. They were taken to the city hospital. He had not regained consciousness an hour later, but Mra. Fanning was re- statement. The gas in the room was from an open closed. nn HEL Preparations for the St. Louis event, which is being planned on a scale never before attempted, will begin at once. More than 5000 St. Louis young women and men will take part. The Advisory Committee is composed’ of representa- tives of virtually every business, civio and racial organization in St. Louis. OFFICIAL NOMINATIONS President Sends List.to Senate for Approval. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—The follow- ing nominations were sent to the Senate by President Wilson today: Minister to Siam, Alexander Sweek of Portland, Ore. | Secretary of the Embassy at Rome, Peter Augustus Jay of Rhode Isiand. Second Secretary of the Embassy at Home, Norval Richardson of} Missie- East: St. Louis Thursday. It was alleged that Jurack in appiying to the City Court for final naturalization papers had made an affidavit that he was a laborer and not a saloonkeeper and that he had later gone into court and sworn that the statement in the affidavit wa true The trial Thursday was stopped by Judge Wright “when a City Court of- fidial hau testified that when Jurack came into court the clerk said to him: “On Sept. 22, 19123, you made the follow~ ing affidavit.” - The clerk then read the affidavit to Jurack and after reading it said to him: “Ie that a fact?’ Judge Wright ruled that .* the form in which the question was put, , the phrase: “Tp that a fact?” mean to inquire of Jurack whether fact that he had made the enough to appraise observant watchers that it was trying to make a noise. The volunteer fire department of Clay~- ton doesn't know there fs a fire unless this bell rings long and loud. When Wire Chief Madden of the Kin- loch Telephone Co. was informed that the bell had fallen down. on its assign- ment he hurried to the courthouse and fixed it. The alarm was then officially sounded. The Clayton fire department has a hose wagon but no horses. It was expected that the new city government would). supply this deficiency, but it didn’t. After the bell was fixed the Fire De- partment telephoned to the Kinloch of- fices und learned that the dome of ij 10 i 112 me