St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 17, 1913

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Tf |CHINESE STRIKE; | . PANAMA LOOKING | 3 ee PANAMA, Nov. 1 17.—The Chinese 8 tion assumed a serious turntin the . Public of Panama today. All the Chi- nese merchants, wholesale and retail, in this city, in Colon and at points in the interior, numbering more than 1500, ſelosed their places ot business after posting notices Stating’ that the doors had been shut to take inventories, The demonstration was an effort to @ compel the Panama Government to re- cede from its program relative to tie new registration law. This compels Chi- nese residents to take out new certifi- cates of registration and pay an addi- tional fee or render themselves lable to deportation. The closing of the small stores has al- ready entailed considerable hardship o1 the poorer classes to whom the Chinese sell butter, lard, rice and other articles in small quantities valued as low as 2%. cents, Much annoyance has also been caused by.the non-delivery of laundry If the laundries are not reopened within a reasonable time the police have been authorized to take action. The Panama Government today an- nouriced its decision to stand firm. Or- ders were issued to all Provincial Gov- ernors to proceed with the arrest of Chinese not complying with registration law before Nov. 25. The Chinese shop- keepers in the Canal Zone have not A1 affected. 8 : cen. |30INCH u SNAKE IS FOUND HINGTON, ssi Mog n. resident 1613 the Mexican sit- : a a having reached any such erit- stag jas to require the somes: view of the situa- Sums" Up. Situation. mn the status of ‘affairs, the u of the gods grind shawty,” 2 slow and steady purposes . plain at the White House er resignation of Min- e did not affect «materially rich plan, as it was pointed out b scheme that this Governmen: have could very well depend on Reorcy of hare gin member of the 4 a rh ‘ “oe 2 t made it plain that the anges in the situation. had not im- re | gonfidence here in the ultimato ot the problem by peaceful Mela dental was made at the White | “y ot e report that #an-American lation was contemplated and it Was 4 that no mediation ot any kind offered to either faction. Soutn 1 it was stated, had i in the same way as Euro- ons and have expressed in the ur destre to support the Ameri- sn Deva has ordered an in- don of the executions at e 8 nas deen W to recon- 8 rey NOUET MAY BE STED BY HUERTA — — 8 Diss e No Successor to | 2 Aide Named. T. Nov. 17.—An early of relations between Mexico th ne United States is regarded here en ble None ot the newspapers, — de hag ‘ts sean re. t rev 2 Feng pare a sat tae a “ 2 . es ‘IN A BUNCH OF BANANAS Belleville Grocer’s Clerk Kills Bos Constrictor“ That Hisses at Him From Fruit. tr vin Veigel, a clerk at Zimmerman’s | grocery, in Belleville, Monday found a snake 30 inches long in a bunch af ba- 8 A shipment of bananas was receive’ from New Qrleans and delivered at the store a short time before the discover? was made. When Veigel went to pluck some bananas’ from a bunch, the snake poked cut its head and hissed at him. Veigei ran to the back yard with th⸗ dunch of bananas and killed the snake with a club. Samuel Sansone, a Belle ville f- uit dealer, said snakes are fre fauentiy found in shipments of bananas, but tule was the largest of the kind he ever saw. He called it a “boa con- aes 85 \ CHILDREN’S TOYS TO COST "U-S: PARENTS 20 MILLIONS 4 — Commeree N Experts Forecast New Records; Nine Millions in Importations. extent of more than $20,000,000 will have been provided for American children by their doting parents before the present year wanes, according to the experts of the Bureau of Domestic and Foreign “ommerce. This establishes a record. K marked feature is that the United States is guarding with increasing yealousy its own production of toys, and is sending fewer abroad for the children of other countries. The importation of playthings before the new year is ush- ered in will aggregate $9,000,000, the ex- perts say. BRIDGE DISGUSTS KIEL There's the Damned Thing,” He Says to Friend in Auto. Mayor Kiel and a friend were riding in the Mayor’s automobile Monday morning on South Broadway. They were discussing municipal conditions and problems, including the free bridge. Looking towand the river, the Mayor caught sight of the approachless bridge structure. With a look of disgust, he remarked: There's the damned thing!“ ' Editorship Short Route to Jail. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 17.—The New Labour Gazette of Odessa has just made irty-ninth daily appearance under the direction of ite seventh editor. «is six (predecessors are in prison. Twenty- scven of 39 issues have been confiscated. Fo CLEAN SHIRT| WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Toys to the 4e ST. LOUIS, MONDAY Nees meee 17, 1913 —18 PAGES. . MAN KILLED B TRAIN. IN TRYING ~ TO GROSS TRACKS Mrs. C. French gee Maplewood Meets Death at Frisco Sta- tion in Lindenwood. HER DAUGHTER COLLAPSES Station Mistress Has to Be Taken Home After Hearing of the Accident. Mrs. C. French of 3333 Oxford avenue, Maplewood, was killed Monday it 7:45 A. m. by a Frisco passenger train at Lindenwood station when she tried to cross the railroad tracks. There is no street crossing the rall- road tracks where the accident hap- pened. Mrs. French was crossing the tracks to reach a small suburban sta- tion on the opposite side, when she was hit by the train. Mrs. French sold toilet articles, and started out Munday morning carrying u small case containing face powder, perfume and like goods to visit several customers. She was knocked down by the locomotive of the passenger train and was dead when trainmen reached her. Her daaghter, Mrs. Portner, who is station mistress for the Frisco Railroad at Lindenwood, collapsed when she was told a few minutes after the. accident that her mother had been killed, and Was taken to her home, 7401 Common- wealth avenue. UNION FIREMEN - IN TEXTILE MILL STRIKE Employes in Lawrence, Mass., Now Working 84 Hours a Week Demand 8-Hour Day. LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 17.—The union firemen in the textile mills in this city struck today. In pursuance of their vote vesterday to strike unless their de- mand for an eight-hour day was grant- ei, the men went to the mills this morning and started the fires, then walked out. The strikers number about 450. ‘Shovld the strike be long continued, it is believed, the mills employing 2%” operatives would be forced to close, ow- ation of a manufacturing establishment for more than one week without licensed firemen. The firemen have heretoforo worked 12 hours a day and seven days a week. Before voting to strike the union ro- ected a compromise offer from the manufacturers of a 60-hour week, with two days off out of seven. TURNS SURGEON WHEN SON ON HUNT IS SHOT One Brother Wounds Another and Father Cuts Out Shot With a Knife. Constable W. L. Ward of Belleville made a surgeon of himself Sunday aft- ernoon when one of his sons, Frank. shooting at a rabbit, hit the other son, Arthur, in the face and chest. With his hunting knife Constable Ward cut the shot out of the face and chest of Ar- thur, before taking him back to Belle- ville for medical treatment. The two boys were walking in small ravines near each other. Arthur scarea up a rabbit, and it ran over the turn of the hill toward Frank, who shot it. Arthur was in the range of the shot, and several of them hit him on the face and chest. He was taking his pipe out of his mouth at the time the shot was fired, and two shot hit the pipe. Constable Ward said that his surgical operation was a success and that Ar- thur, who is 23 years old, would be well in a few days. fhe one thing that does come back—a lost article that is found by an honest person, when the loss is advertised in —— — Wants. — E or over 6% years - 346 consecutive Sundays newspapers in the volume of _ proached it. the Sunday POST-DISPATCH has led all other St, Louis business carried. This is an unparalleled record. No other metropolitan Sunday newspaper in the United States has ever ap- On last Sunday, November 16, the count was as followis 'st-Dispatch, be-Democrat, 191 | Republic . „2 2 ñ 1385 118 Cols. * THE unser — 5 2 Shs: 3 8 ; x ; „ Ae, circulation first ten months, 1913; a Soe 1 B fine to the law which prohibits the oper ILLS HUSBAND ON STREET AS HE ESCORTS NEGRESS Wife Shoots Lumberman, Mem- ber of St.. Louis Fraternity, at Ferriday, La. DYING, HE CLEARS HER J. C. Arnold Asks to See. Wife Before He Dies, but She Does Not Go to Him. — Special to the Post-Dispatch. NATCHEZ, Miss., Nov. 17.—J. C. Ar- nold, a well-known. lumberman and in- isrector for the Sycamore Lumber Co., Was fatally shot by his wife on the streets of Ferriday, La. He died Sun- day morning, and his body was brought kere today for turial. Arnold made a statement just before he died, which is taken as an exonera- tion of his wife. “Take care of the littl woman, said. ‘‘She isn’t to blame.” Arnold was walking with. a negress when his wife discovered them and shot tim. Gossip had connected the lumber- man’s name with that of the black wom- ah for some time. Mrs. Arnold was arrested and placed in the Concordia Parish Jail at Vidalia. Arnold asked to see his wife shortly before his death, and his request was communicated to her, ‘but she refused to go to him or make any comment on her action. Mrs. Arnold used an automatic pistol Two bullets pierced Arnold’s left breast within an inch of one another and just above the heart. The Arnolds lived in Natchez during the flood last epring,-and Mrs. Arnold made many friends among the.best peo- ple of the city. She is % ‘years old, a blonde and strikingly pretty. Arnold was a member of the Elks lodge in Memphis and of the St. Louis local branch of the Hoo-Hoos. The preliminary trial of Mrs. Arnold will be held Tuesday morning. COUNTESS SZECHENYI LOSES $1000 GOLD BAG he Gladys Vanderbilt Which Disappeared This Month. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.~Detectives’ aré looking for a chatelaine bag of solid gold, decorated with diamonds, lost br the Countess Lazlos Szechenyi, forméf- ly Gladys Vanderbilt, on a shopping tour here, Nov, 12. The police put the value at $1000 ‘or more. The Sgechenyis offered $200 re- ward for its return. They are now at the Breakers, at Newport: Newspaper dispatches from there, dat- ed Noy. 6, said the Countess had lost a gold mesh bag in Newport. That bay was studded with diamonds and rubi¢s. A reward of $100 was offered for its re- turn, but it was not found. The bag lost | in Newport had been lost in New York | several years ago, but it was promptly returned. MOUNTED PATROLMAN HURT, HORSE FALLS ON HIM Patrick J. O'Connor Pinned Be- neath Mount, When Animal Slips on Union Boulevard. Mounted Patrolman Patrick J. O’Connor was seriously injured Mon- day morning when his horse slipped on the freshly oiled macadam on Jnion boulevard, between Patton and Theodosia avenues. He was pinned beneath his mount and when fellow patrolmen picked him up it was found that his left hip was dislocated and that he was internally hurt. He was conveyed to his home, 4008 Flad ave- nue, in an ambulance. FAIR TONIGHT’ AND TOMORROW, WARMER THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's Tem ..48 at 2 p. m Low. .41 at 5 a. m. Two persons crowded into a space % inches wide,” said Jiggs. “Mighty little room,” replied Riggs. “And two per- sons in a similar space on the other side of an aisle two feet An ouWage!” “and the space so limited that it LG RR De PRs e ee Fak: ‘Second One Owned. by Former 5 | 9 4 Sith, Miss McAdoo Wilf Give a Dove“ be the, guest of Justice Hughes of ‘the Luncheon for White House Bride WASHINGTON, Nav. 17. HIS is to be a week of social gaie- 1 ties at the capital in honor of Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the President, who will wed Francis B. Sayre of New Nork, Nov. 25. Conspicuous among the entertainments | being arranged for Miss Wilson. ate two dove“ luncheons, One will be given by Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the other by Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, the Speaker’s daughter. Miss McAdoo is re- garded as the prettiest girl in the Cab- inet circle. Others who will entertain for Miss Wilson are Miss Garrison and Mrs. Lamar, wife of Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court. Miss Clark’s luncheon’ will be given on Wednesday at the Congressional Club and will give Miss Wilson an opportuni- ty to meet the 200 unmarried women in the congressional circle for the first and probably the jast time. The bridegroom, Francis B. Sayre, will Supreme Court and Mrs; Hughes when he comes to be married. Charles Hughes Jr., who will be one of the ushers at the wedding, end who was a chum of the bridegroom at Harvard law school, will also be the guest of his parents at that time. Mrs. Lamar will also give a luncheon for the bridemaids,. who will go from her home to the White House to don their wedding finery. Miss Wilson’s. Fiance Quits York Joh, 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Francis - B. Sayre, who is to marry Miss Jesse Wil- son, the President's daughter, Nov. 3. today resigned his position as an assist- ant in the District Attorney’s office. He will go to Washington on Thursday to remain there until the wedding. During the year of Sayre’s service here he has been dealing with abandonment cases and has formed such a.liking fo1 the study of social problems that he says he will continue it, as far as possible in his new position ag secretary .to the president of Williams College. He said that while he found that strict divorce legislation works a certain amount of suffering, he believes in it “There is a general rule, he said.“ that the individual must sometimes. suffer for the good of the commz.ity.” PRINCESS MARIE NOT TO RETURN TO HUSBAND All Efferts to Induce Her to Re- consider Her Action Have Failed. STOCKHOLX. Nov. II. -The official news agency announces that Princess Marie, wife of Prince tam of Swe- den, has declared her determination never to return to her husband, and all efforts to indure her to reconsider her decision have tailed. 2 the . Grand Duchess. . Pavlovna, daughter of the Grand uke Paul Alex- New “MISS MONA WIEADOO— ATO let S STUCK IN NUD FOR SEVEN HOURS Attorney George Safford Finds What. Appears to Be Shining Asphalt'Is Puddle. George Safford, a St. Louis lawyer. pleasure riding in his automobile Suu- day night, started to cross the viaduct over the Iron Mountain Ratlroad at the south end of Grand avenue. The via- duct leads into Carondelet Park. Under the glare of his headlights the roadway of the viaduct looked Iike a shining piece of asphalt, still wet from the recent rains. When he had driven 50 feet the front axle of his automobite suddenly disappeared beneath a soft substance consisting of about equal parts of mud and water. Safford de- scribed it as a “loblolly,” As it was 8 p. m. when his machine got stuck on the yiaduct, and 3 a. m. when it was dragged out by four other automobiles,. he said, he had plenty of time to analyze. the substance out n which the roadway was made. ‘‘ingetead of being asphalted or con- creted, the roadway was made of soft dirt.“ said Safford to a reporter Mon- day, after he had bought a suit of new cinthes to replace the suit rulned whi trying to pry his machine out of the mire. “It was so soft that it appeared perfectly smooth under the lights, and n» one would have suspected that 11 wat « trap. Saturday night one man drove his machine into the mire, and it took five hours to get it out. I kep* six other men from driving into the ‘loblolly’ pool Sunday night. “The viaduct is about 200 feet Jong. In addition. to hiring four automobiles to pull me out, I had to hire a lot of men to help me. I was all in when I got out—and as for my suit of clothes, I had to throw it away.” Street Commissioner Talbert sald: tall ure of the Municipal Assembly to in- crease the tax rate last spring was pri- marily responsible for the condition of the roadway of the viaduct. Au appro- prlation of $7500 was asked, to build tho roadway, he said, but this was stricken from the bill after the tax rate increase in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch, were ished. number of leading men in St. Louis and ee Ci ions were obtained Mon: day. They: united i in dee ods of prison government should be mne ad eee ately. The Warden of the Illinois Penitentiary: at Joh 0 il a peng expert, took the same view, and declared that t ec cont net labo system is the cause of much of the evil and that its Conditions i in the Missouri Penitentiary,» as tes 5 hes JOLIET WA RDEN ya Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. JOLIET, In., Nov. 17.—Edward. M. Al- len, Warden of the penitentiary at Joliet, after reading Frank Putnam's Larticle in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch de- talling contiitions in Missouri's Sta te prison at Jefferson City, analyzed the situation from the standpoint of an ex- pert in penal affairs. He was appoint- ed to his present position last April. During the 14 years following, 1892,. while his father was Warden, he ved within the prison walls and for many Y acted in an officiar capacity on his ther’s staff. The case of the Missouri Penitentiary. Mr. Allen said, was a striking examph- ern prison cannot. be conducted under such a system, he sald, a fact that the Illinois Legislature discovered. when. in 1892, at the beginning of his father’s first term, public indignation forced th» passage of a law abolishing the syi- tem. He pointed out that with the doing away of the private contract system in are consumed in the various eleemosy~ nary institutions of the State. All shoes made by convicts are worn by inmates of poorhouses, reformatories and insane asylums. Two other factories.are main- tained at the penitentiary. In one the convicts turn out rattan furniture which is used in State institutions, and the other is a broom factory, the products of which are sold in the open market with- there being no broommakers union. Warden Allen expressed the opinion that the whipping post, „the rings” appear from the routine of the Jotter- private contract system, just as they did of the private contract system. A mon- Illinois the goods manufactured at Jolie: out conflicting with organized labor, and solitary dungeons are sure to dis-} son City prison with the abolition of the} mee 4 ka KANSAS CITY, vas City as the to the ‘cells at the N easton conditions, at the i tentiary: with., fetson City prison than 4 Judge. His attitude posure was one of jodiclal et Judge Porterfield | Bers ' Pow Dieptch eite the Hight Jefferson City. It is incone