St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 26, 1913

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Po ee dieing maf _@ All the details in i riti ih if bx oS Sn ieee @ 8 8€©3>©6: Wife “‘With Massachusetts Ex- 7: fd rer eeyaen: oh Ae eS A ep 3 |zBe the next ee Posi «Dispatch fiater for cows, novel features in the “place of the West. “VOL. 66. NO. ' 128. Note for $3 Are Dug Up in New Haven, Conn. PROPERTY DEED OF 1697 Dollar of 1798 and Watch ‘Made in 1731 Among the Con- tents of/ Silver ‘Snuff Box. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 26.—A sil- ver dollar bearing the date 1804, highly prized by nymismastists and understood to be valued at $2500, was found here today. Wiliam Sullivan, a laborer, when ex- cavating on the site of the ice rink for the Yale hockey team, turned over with iis shovel an old jar which rested on g@ boulder seven feet below the surface of the street nearby. Under the bow! was a silver snuff box made in Nuremberg, green with oxydization, and in it were a United States silver dollar dated 1804, in good condition, a number of Connecticut cop- per coins; a Continental note for $3, several State notes and some rings. The metal articles were slightly corroded, but they rubbed up well and dates were plain. The notes had to be carefully handled to prevent disintegration. The 1804 dollar, when cleaned up, showed on one side a woman's: head, with “Liberty” and:13 stars above it,. and ‘°1804’"’ below it. On the other side was an eagle with “E Pluribys Unum” as the motto. A shield and arrows “and “United States of America” com- pleted the design. The words on the edge were “One Hundred cents.” Silver Dollar of 1798. The Northampton Canal was close by in the old days and excavation showed a ledge of rocks on which the boulder rested, the impression that water formerly covered the spot. The snuff box was taken to jewelers for exam- ination. They found the contents as follows: Silyer dollar, dated 1804, with letters _ @round the edge in place of milling; ‘ sfiver dollar, 1798; three Connecticut cop- 187; Conneetictt” Btate bank for 4 shillings, 1778; Continental mote of 1775 for $3; a watch made in Strassburg in 1731; a deed of property written in old English, not yet deci- of date of 1697; a document dated with .six imprints on it, which ‘to be imposts -by the British 4 Skeptical About re- lar Re i here think it unlikely that an American dollar of the date of 1804 has been found in New Haven as reported, as the only ‘known dollars of that date were struck off from the 1804 die in 1858 and what few generally into the So far ag known ‘there are no mint records of any American dollars struck off in 1804, though for years it was re- that American dollars minted in 1804 went to Algeira and were lost. Coin dealers thought that today’s New Ha- ven’s find would prove to be either a Spanish or a Bank of England dollar of 1804, ~e AFTER FINDING SON BY A POST-DISPATCH AD ‘Edwardsville Man’s Wish to See Youth, Missing Several Years, IIs Gratified. ; Zeph J. Montgomery, 58 years old, died at 10 o'clock Christmas at his in Bdwardsvilie, after having -guccessful in his efforts to find Leland Montgomery, 21 years been missing several years. . found his son in Omaha, ‘weeks ago, through an ad- b pange in the Post-Dispatch. ‘Montgomery became il) about a ‘ago, he realized that he “might survive and expressed a desire to Fg ie E . E iF i g learncd of his father’s gs _ eoutive When He Looks Over _ State’ s 750 Convicts. ‘ON, Dec. | 7 AA “That's right.” | Sayville Wireless Greets Sailors, FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; COLDER ——— ae _THE TEMPERATURE s. “Well, well, are | you still here?” said the Union Station ticket agent. “*Yes,"’ replied Santa Claus; “‘cir- cumstances over which I had no control delayed my departure.” was » “Well, they told a me the best way Louis was to go across the bridge.’’ “I guess I must have crossed the wrong bridge. ; There wasn’t any approach at the other end. So I’v@ come back to take a train.”’ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity—Fair tonight and Saturday: slightly colder tonight, the lowest temperatrue being about 26 degrees. Missouri—Generally fair tonight and . Sat- urday, somewhat lower temperature tonight in. the southeast portion. Illinois—Generally fair tonight and Satur- day, colder in the south and east portions tonight. LIFE OF EASE:FOR THOSE WHO WED-DUSKY BELLES Women of Easter Island Group Who Own 6000 Cattle and 20,- 000 Sheep Want Husbands. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2%.—Sturdy young men who would consent to spend a life of ease are offered an opportunity to become the husbands of rich dusky belles of the Easter Island group in the South Seas, according to a story brought to this port from Papeete yesterday by Capt. Bourgeson of the schooner Annie M. Campbell. Before the vessel sailed from Papeete an envoy from the young women ar- rived from the islands and asked the crew to return with the captain to be- come the husbands of the lonely maid- ens. Six thousand cattle and: 2,000 sheep belong to the.-women who: roam the islands. Easter island: is the place where the crew of the wrecked schooner Eldorado sought refuge recently. POLICEWQMAN BESTS.BIG — MAN WHO RESISTS ARREST Pulls Him From Car and Stands Him Against Post Until Patrol Wagon Arrives. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—Mrs. Mary Boyd, one of Chicago’s 10 policewomen, is not a large woman, but she is musovlar. Yesterday she boarded a street car just as Tossel Wendt, a powerfully built ‘man, began an argument with the conductor over a transfer. The men were soon engaged in a fight. Mrs. Boyd showed her star and sep- arated them, telling Wendt he was un- der arrest. When he resisted she pulled him from the car, stood, him against a post and rang for the patrol] wagon. Mrs. Boyd rode to the station with her prisoner and preferred a charge of dis- orderly conduct against him. } SWISS TO TAX MUSIC All Instruments to Be Assessed in One Canton. BERNE, Switzerland, Dec. 26.—All musical instruments are to be sub- jected to an annual tax in the Swiss Canton of Ticino according to a ie- cision reached today by the Cantonal authorities who have been seeking for new sources of revenue. The mayors of the towns, villages and rural districts have been ordered to register all pianos, violins, etc., in the households under their jurisdic- tion. The Canton of Ticino is on the Italian side of the Alps. CHRISTMAS BATHERS OUT Dip Taken at Coney by 130, With Water at 35 Degrees. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Christmas was celebrated by 130 winter bathers, men and women at Coney Island yesterday. The water registered 8% degrees, while the temperature of the atmosphere was 37 degrees. As the bathers appeared from the bathhouse each was enveloped in a at the edge of the surf. The majority remained in the water for fully 16 min- utes. KAISER DISTRIBUTES GIFTS Walks in Royal Park, Remem- bering the Employes. BERLIN, Dec. 2%.—Despite slush and sleet, Emperor William refused to de- part from his annual] custom of taking a walk around the park at Pots- dam, distributing Christmas gifts of money to the keepers and gardeners. The gifts averaged between $2 an 3%. Some soldiers and a number of: old people and children also ‘mares in the distribution. Giese U. S. TALKS TO ITALY s ad » Rocks ‘efelier | — ese axe tae ¥ ” ve ae, vk See Weve aS ologan bathrobe which was quickly discarded | ‘ONE TAKES 7 | FROM A SLEEPING Arthur Rogers Confesses After Landlady Tells of His Conversation. DIGS BILLS FROM GROUND John Taylor, United Railways Foreman, Robbed in: West Belle Place House. Arthur Rogers, 2% years old, an em- ploye of the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., was held Friday on a larceny. charges, and Mrs. Theresa Cissell, 27, a widow, -of 4430A West Belle place, was held pending investigation, as the result of the theft of a roll of bills Thursday from John Taylor, & years old, assist- ant foreman of the United Railways, who has been a boarder at the Cissell home. Taylor told the police he went there Thursday at noon for his lunch, later going to a room on the second floor to sleep. Awakening at 2:30, he said, he missed a roll of bills asnountihe to about $800 from his trousers pocket. Mrs. Cissell weS arrested. She said Rogers came t@ her soon after Taylor had gone upstairs and said, “Now’s the time.”” Mrs. Cissell said she asked him, “Time for what?’ and that Rog- ers anawered, ““To get Taylor’s money.” She declared she told Rogers she didn’t know what he was talking about and left him. When Rogers returned to the Cissell home at midnight, three policemen were waiting for him. He at first professed ignorance of the theft, then confessed after he had heard the story told by Mrs, Cissell. When the police asked him to pro- duce the bills, Rogers led them to the home of his brother, 6718 Page avenue, a frame house set on posts, crawled beneath it and dug three feet into the ground. He brought forth a drinking glass, from which he took $763 in cur- rency. Rogers declared he had not touched the roll since he took it from Taylor’s pocket. SURGEON TO KING RAPS “BRILLIANT SURGEONS” Sir Frederiok Treves Says There Is No Person of Whom He Would Have Greater Fear. LONDON, Dec. 2%.-—Sir Frederick Treves, one of the greatest living sur- geons, who bears among many high- sounding titles that of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen and formerly Surgeon Ex- traordinary to Queen Victoria and the late King Edward, has provoked the virulent fire of the eminent specialists of his country by uttefing a warning against the brilliant members of his own profession of surgery. “There is no person,” says Sir Fred- erick, “fof whom I would have greater fear than the brilliant surgeon, and if it fell to my lot to have to undergo an operation I should carefully select one who was not brilliant. Hard work produces better results than brilliancy.’’ Eminent surgeons declare that they are living from day to day on their reputations—always working at the highest point of achievement. But what Sir Frederick is understood to be hitting at is the growing habit of brilliant surgeons of advising operations on in- sufficient grounds when big fees are assured. Sir Frederick has retired from active practice, being in his sixtieth year. For the last 14 years he has been surgeon to the British royal family. WIFE KILLED AS HOME IS BLOWN UP; HUSBAND HELD West Virginian Is Charged With Exploding Powder After Quarrel! Christmas Night. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec. 26.— Thomas Ellis was brought to jail here under close guard on a charge of the murder of his wife on Christmas night. They had quarreled, according to the authorities, and while the woman was asleep Bilis is alleged to have placed a quantity of blasting powder in the mid- dle of the floor of their mountain cabin near Winifred, W. Va., and exploded it with a fuse. The explosion, which tore the cabin to pieces, aroused the settlement and Ellis was captured. Officers secreted him in a coal mine during the night to prevent a lynching. LT Only a Few Hours Elapse ‘from the time the want ad is phoned, until the “‘help’”’ called for is on hand through the use of Post-Dispatch Want Ads. Help ads are received as late as 2 o’clock daily for the late editions, Home. Edition closing at 11:30. PHONE your want, _8990—Oive or Central, ee ee ROOMER’S POUKET "PATHE F RAMPOLLA SEALED TO PROTECT PAPERS Legality of Act by Notary on Request:of St. Peter’s Admin- istrator Questioned. KEY TO MISSING’ WILL Box Corftaining Document Men- tioned in Inscription by Car- dinal Is Not Found. By Associated Press, ROME, Dec. 26.—The sealing up of the late Cardinal Rampolla’s apart- ments is denounced as a high-handed and illegal proceeding in some quar- ters. The legality of the act is ques- tioned because it was carried out without the authorization or inter- vention of the judicial officials, and Simply by a notary on the request of Mer. di Bisogno, administrator of St. Peter's. The administrator desired to insure the safety of documents of great in: terest to the church which he feared might be lost. No trace of the Car- dinal’s missing will has been found. Key to Missing Box. That a will was executed by Car- dinal Rampolla bearing a latér date than the will found is considered al- most certain, because the Cardinal left a key with a tag attached, on which was inscribed in his own hand writing. the statement that the key opened a box containing his will, and these close to the Cardinal think it incredible that he would not alter his testament of 1889, explaining that his estate had grown fourfold since that date. The box referred to has not been found, and so far no one has come for- ward to say that he has absolute knowl- edge of the existence of the testament reported to be missing. No Claims Are Set Up. There is.no evidence that it was stolen and no claims have been set up by any- one that he has sustained damage by the loss of the will. The authorities, therefore, are not in a pesition to take action, because, ac- cording to the Italian law in such cages, prosecution could only be possible after some interested person had officially submitted charges. As the situation Is now the authorities cannot even insti- tute an investigation. MEN HIDE UNDER SEATS, ROB THEATER OF $2000 Watchman Is Bound and Safe Is / Robbed After House Is Closed. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Two thousand dclilars, the receipts of Christmas day, was, stolen from the box office of the Orpheum Theater early today by four men who hid under the balcony seats after last night’s performance and sur- prised the night watchman. While a policeman stood just outside, the robbers knocked the watchman down and left him bound and gagged. Then they ripped the door off the office safe, took everything of value inside and escaped. The watchman, still. helpless, was found when the theater was opened to- day. . GIRL HAS CHRISTMAS DIP Young Woman Aged 16 Swims ig~ Lake Michigan’s Waters. CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Clara Pause, a 16-year-old girl, yesterday celebrated Christmas by taking a long swim in the icy waters of Lake Michigan. She as- tounded her parents when she appeared in her bathing suit and told them she was going for a Christmas dip. The young girl is a good swimmer and nearly every day since summer has swum to the waterworks intake crib, four miles out in the lake. The tem- perature during the day was close to the freezing point. POLICE RULE WITH IRON HAND AFTER FATAL RIOT Unemployed Men Searched for Weapons in Los Angeles and Rendezvous Is Raided. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 4.—The historic plaza district in the older_sec- tion of Los Angeles, where a riot among unemployed men resulted in the death of one man and the injury of more than a dozen others late Christmas afternoon, was placed under a sem- blance of martial law by the police to- day. Patrolmen surrounded the district. searching for weapons all who attempt- ed to pass, while city detectives invaded the Mexican quarter ngar by concern- ing the reported death of two more riot- ers. During the night the police raided ey- ery restaurant, saloon, pool hall an lodging house near the plaza, taking into custody all who were armed or who showed signs of having taken part in the riot. dezvous of Industrial Workers of the World, where they say they found short lead pipes, clubs and other weapons. JAP EMPEROR OPENS DIET TOKIO, Dec. %-—The Emperor today personally opened the Diet. In his speech from the throne .he emphasized | we vn SES The police visited the ren-| ; ey a i, sss eI yee i on sy § ae a ~h A tg tee ot” i ae - Ree Se i a Wet “i Metre a hia ie ~: = ae oe “ae ; UTR eM, Hig. Ses *y , a4 Has "ti an % ll ll i AUTO KILLS WOMAN FRE RETURNING. FROM CHRISTMAS DINNER} Daughter of Retired Army . Of- ficer Dead and Husband Injured. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Mrs. Gertrude Lee, daughter of Col. Philip F. Harvey, a retired United States Army officer, was killed and her husband, Richard B. Lee Jr., was seriously injured by two automobiles, which ran them down early today. as they were returning home from Christmas dinner at the house of a friend. The Lees were crossing the street, struggling under an umbrella. against a driving rain, when the first car, a limousine, knocked them down, and a second, a taxicb, ran over them before the driver could stop. Mrs. Lee died on the operating table at a hospital. Her husband may recover. The chauffeur of the taxicab was arrested, but released. . The police started a hunt for the driver of the limousine which, after the accident, put on speed and disappeared. Col. Harvey, here on a visit from Washington, had accompanied his daughter and son-in-law to the dinner and was walking ahead of them. He did not learn of the accident until he reached home. Lee is superintendent of transportation for the American Sugar Refining Co. Mrs. Lee, before her sec- cond marriage, was Mrs. Conville Arnold MAN FINED FOR STRIKING MATCH IN PICTURE SHOW Judge, After Hearing Man’s Case, Warns Against Acts Likely to Cause Panic. In view of the fatal panic at Calumet, Mich., which was caused by a baseless cry of “fire!” Judge Sanders, in the Dayton Street Police Court, Friday, as- sessed a fine of $ and costs against Harry Topel, 2333 Montgomery. street. who was charged with striking a match, Thursday night, in a moving picture show at Prairie and St. Louis avenues. It was testified that, at the sudden flash of the match in the darkness, a number of women and children. sprang in alarm from their seats. .When a man sitting beside Topel remonstrated, Topel struck him and was ejected by the manager, Robert Sherwood, who caused his arrest. Judge Sanders re- marked that, because of the tragedy in Calumet, persons should beware of acts likely to induce a panic. Topel’s defense was that he was in- toxicated. About 2 other Christmas celebrators who found their way into court were fined from %5 to $5 each. PAINT eyeistiegc MAN Liquid Flows tue His Face When He Falls and Is Stunned. CHICAGO, Dec. 2%.—George W. Riggs, an insurance agent, lost his life today in a singular accident at his home. He was coating the walls of his bath- room with enamel paint, when he fell from. a jJadder and was stunned. The} ie ee and’ suffocated him, : OF Grace Singer Who Takes Her Manager as Third Husband First One Was: a Baron a ‘the Second Was John Fox Jr., an Author of Note. NEW YORK, Dec. 2%.—Fritai’ Scheff most gayly audacious of all light opera prima donnas, now defies the “hoodoo 13” of the Old Year by making @ third venture in matrimony while the _peril- ous spell of that ominous number’ still is on the job. In the home of a friend at New Ro- chelle, N. Y., Miss Scheff became. the wife of George Anderson,: her leading man and manager, on Christmas Eve, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. F. A, Wells of the North Avenue M. BE, Church, the bride and’ groom then departing over the New York Central for St. Louis,. where. Fritzl Scheff-von Berdeleben-F'0x-Anderson begins a vaudeville engagement at the Columbia Theater next Monday after- noon. Always fond of variety in-life, Fritzi Scheff seems to have insisted as well that she shall enjoy that same spice in her hymenea! ventures. Her “first “hus- band, who came into evidence.while she was one of the bright stars of the Met rupolitan Opera Company’in New York in 1903, was Lieutenant the Baron Fried- rich Wilhelm Gustav. Karl von Barde- leben of the Austrian army and nobility. A year or two iater, after, quitting; the Metropolitan forces and scoring her first hig success at the head. of her own com- rany in operetta, Miss Scheff divorved Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Kari and »er- mitted that generously named young arsitocrat to return to his native land. Her next leap into double harness was made when she became the wife of the) shorter-named but more truly . distin- guished John Fox Jr., the Kentucky novelist, who gained fame and: fortune with his two best-known books, “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” and “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Their wedding took place in 1908,. and they lived happily together for four years. American and European high seciety made much of them and John Fox built for his wife a beautiful country home in the Virginia Mountains, where, at in- termittent interyals, they dwelt in sen- timental seclusion, “the world forgot- ten, by the world forgot.” But this, apparently, was not entirely to Miss Scheff'’s liking as a permanent proposition. Early in January of the present year she filed sult for diverce against John Fox Jr., @ great secrecy at first attending the proceeding. . When her divorce petition was grant- ed in May, however, it was announced ly W. Lusk, the Judge ‘Sanborn. Directs That james Only One of Three Not Complained of by Ste holder Niles, Shall Have Exclusi , Charge of Suits. APPOINTS NILES’ LAWYERS COUNSEL TO RECEIVER Probable ‘Daheodentas Will Be B F. Yos James Campbell, W. moted Sale of the Brownsville Raion. the Estate of Edwin Iapras a Bixby, Who plication of S Frisco officials an plication as responsible to thie’ order of: the court. While the Court said in the opinion. that the allegation that Receivers Ww. Cc. Nixon and W. B. Biddle, on account of their former-relations with Frisco offi- clals who might. be sued -.would not prosecute the suits with vigor “was not pérsuasive,” he specifically placed exclu- sive control of the suits in the one re- ceiver, Lusk, who had never been iden- tified in any way with the Frisco Rail- road. The opinion of the Court dismissing the Niles petition and the order direct- ing the receivers to file suits follow: pany for alleged violation of their trust in the sale by them in 1900 of stock, bonds and notes of the st Another stockholder, Mr. William W. Niles, has filed a’ petition for leave to a5 : cf IH : ut g & | 78 — — a United States Circuit Judge Sanborn Friday di ) older W. W. Niles for permission to directors for restitution of profitg leged to have made-individually in the sale to the Frigso. lines of railroad by syndicates in which they were sh rel but the Court ordered that suits should be filed by the sce ———=> |and directed that Receiver James W. Lusk be invested with ¢ sive charge of the conduct.of: the suits, and that John D. Johngom* and ‘hii son, Loontis ©. \Johnson, counsel for Niles, be nia special counsel for the receivers to prosecute the suits: Thisorder fulfilled the greatest hopes of Niles snd o stockholders similarly situated and. their counsel, the. on The: officials and directory of the Frisco“ named inthe” les ‘ape es . 5 stockholders for am account profits made in the feeder line transactions were: B. 3 + dhsivsiai: ot'the Boked af Direoters; ‘ust alee of Executive Committee; James Campbell, vice-president and ¢ tor; W. EK: Bixby, former director, and the late’ Edwin’ Hawle It, is probable’ that: Yoakum; ‘Campbell, Bixby. and the. estate < Hawley will. be. sued. by the receivers’ in accordance with conduct no investigation of shess a 4 actions so fair and just to all parties in interest as that which ‘will result le f “ . a t a. 2 5 ¥ y , - ef ihe * & i [ Ta ! g i é : g : ia f ‘ ther. . - Ce nk PRP Oe a