St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 7, 1914

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_,» Sought His Release. 225 to the Post-Dispatch. - CITY, Jan. 7.—Gouv. . who paroled Joseph T. Weisman om Louis out of the penitentiary on March 24, 1913, restored him to citizen- was sentenced to two years 19, 1911. those recommending the resto- ‘he’ exception of Assistant Cir- Bishop, all of those who r endation have long in Democratic ward politics (Miles, sad ot the Fourth Ward. Bren- gerved several terms in the House *Delegates.’ Ne and Miles supported or in a fight in their ward the last gubernatorial election. 1 Naughton formerly was clerk House of Delegates. He was con- of bribery in connection with the ce in 1908, but the con- was set. de by the State Su- . eg P. Collins is a State d has long been a practical the river wards. Quinn and have been politicaly active. the : poly walked into the of- rou Attorney Jones and said t be and no one else was responsi- „ forthe fraudulent registrations. —.— f ® Republican and the aus- 8 Attorney Bishop 1 told. @ Post-Dispatch report - Bt he signed the petition for Weis- to A er — hl time until his sentence 1d a by. the Governor’s parole * 1 ‘prt 8 25 5 nies. ” ' ay 2. 2 ee ‘DIES AT 67 oh fl J, Cullen, u years oid head of rary ‘firm of Cul- § at 1:15 p. m., Wednes- » 2783 Cans avenue, after y senrried her sinter, Miss ae, He was one of the | SUFFRAGISTS NEAR TEMPERATURE CHANGE THE TEMPERATURES. if „ „„ „ „% „„ „„ „ 35 10 a. Vo err C A. . . III. 12 (noom)...........46 G 2 p. „ Well, hat's er 0 A. a. a. a. up?“ asked Riggs. “Don’t you see it?" said Jiggs, as he stood with his eys turned sky- ward. **What?’’ “That strange, luminotis object up there.“ Do vou mean that round, bright thing?“ es.“ “Why, Jiggs, what’s the matter with you. That's the sun.“ Is it? I hadn't seen it for so long that I didn't rec- ognize it.’’ ‘ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; the lowest tonight will be about freez- ing point. Stage of the river: 1.3 feet; a fall of 1 of a foot. Missouri—Fair tonight and tomorrow: mod- erate temperature. @ Iilinois—Cloudy in the north, fair in thé south portion tonight and tomorrow: moder- ate temperature, WOMEN PAINT ELEPHANTS ON FACE, PEARLS ON NECK Russian Fashion, Adopted by Some Women, Said to Soften the Lines. PARIS, Jan. 7.—Fashionable Rus- sian women are now painting flowers on their faces, declares Sergius Diaghilew, of the Moscow opera. Diaghilew says: “The fashion was started by Nathalie Goutcharoff, the most noted woman painter in Russia. Princesses and other titled women can be seen in St. Petersburg and Moscow, not with flowers but with horses and elephants painted on the sides of their faces, foreheads and necks in ultra-marine blue. “Nathalie asserts this softens the lines of the face. Now that pearls are so dear, women are having imi- tations. painted on their necks. The effect is very | striking. on Gen. Rosalie Jones and Her 5 Band on Final 13 Miles. RAVENA, N. N., Jan. 7.— en. Rosalie Jones and her suffragette army left this vihage shortly after 7 O'clock this morning prepared to complete their march to the capita) today. There were 11 in the little band that set out for the final 18 miles of the 180-mile jaunt from New York City. All were in good spirits de- spite: sore muscles. The pilgrims were met by a delegation of Albany suffragettes with a fife and drum corps at Kenwood. WHOLE TOWN ‘IS’ TRADED Place Near Rockefeller Estate Exchanged for New York Skyscraper. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Announcement was made today that the town of Philips Manor, a mile above Tarrytown, N. X., and near the estate of John D. Rocke: feller, at Pocantico Hills, had been trad- ed for a 2-story building at the north- east corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty- first street in this city. The town consists of 250 acres and has many houses valued at from $10,000 to $20,000, The Fifth avenue property is valued at $2,209,000. Sugar as Heart Stimulant. PARIS, Jan. 7.—The injection of sugar into the veins of the patients apparent- ly dying from heart failure and exhaus- tion from various diseases restores heart action .and produces a remarkable im- provement in the general condition, Dr. Enriquez of the Hospital de la Pitie last night reported to the Academy of NO. 140. — — RELEASE OF THAW SAFE, CUSTODIANS “ASSERT ON STAND Sheriff and Policeman, With Him Since September, Say He ~Shows No Sign of Violence. MOTHER AT THE HEARING New Hampshire Commission to Decide if Matteawan Fugi- tive May Give Bail. By Associated Press. CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 7.—The release on bail of Harry K. Thaw would not menace public safety, in opinions ex- pressed by two of his custodians today, at a public hearing before the commis- sion appointed by the Federal Court to pass on the subject of Thaw's mental condition and its relation to his libera- tion under bonds. Sheriff Drew and Patrolman Stevens, who have had Thaw in charge since September, favored his admission t« bail. Thaw and his mother were present with eounsel. None of the legal repre- sentatives f New York State was in attendance when the hearing opened. Sheriff Drew told of his close rela- tions with Thaw during the period of his custodianship. During that time he said Thaw had not shown any tendency ii] temper, no irritability and no lack of self-control. Sheriff Praises. Prisoner. The Sheriff said that Thaw Was nerv- ous and excited when first arrested at Colebrook after his deportation from Cunada and also showed some excite- ment when he was denounced at the ¢xtradition hearing before Gov. Felker, by William T. Jerome, special deputy Attorney-General of New York, but no more than any man would be under the same circumstances,’’ added the wit- ness. “Thaw was a pleasant companion un- der all circumstances and in conver- sations upon current -topics displayed “wonderful insight,” the witness said. The Sheriff did not consider him suf fer- ing from exaggeration of the ego. Policeman Stevens, who ‘occupies a Sieeping room with the prisoner and ac- companies him on his walks, described Thaw..as ‘a perfect gentleman” He Jade Wished de had Thaw’s conver- sational ability. The principal differ- ence between Thaw and other men, in his opinion, was that Thaw was more kind than the general run of the wit- ness’ acquaintances. Stevens said that Thaw’s wife had never been mentioned in their conversa- tions. No anger or resentment towards any public official or other person with whom his past had been connected had ever been shown in his presence by his charge, whose conduct had been char- acterized by commonsense. The witness had never seen anything about the pris- oner to make him feel that Thaw was @ public menace. ‘ Jerome Not to Appear. Before adjourning the hearing with- out date, Gen. Frank S. Streeter stated for the commission that Jerome had notified him that he had decided not to appear, because the scope of thé com- mission’s inquiry was so limited. “It seems obvious,“ the commissioner said, that Mr. Jerome greatly misap- prehended the Court’s order and the scope of the commission’s powers and duty thereunder. Unlimited powers ap- pear to have been conferred on the commission to enable it to perform its duty of advising the Court on the only question submitted, whether Thaw’s lib- erty on bail would menace public safety.“ INQUIRY AFTER 20 YEARS Bureau of Mines Seeks to Find Cause of Explosion in 1894. DECATUR, III., Jan. T. - David Price of the United States Bureau of Mines today began an investigation of an ex- plosion which occurred 20 years ago and which wrecked the Planet Flour Mills at Litchfield. The many fatalities by dust explosions in mines and mills has caused the Bureau of Mines to make in- It pays to Tuesday, January 6th— 3 out of the other 4 St. that they reach more buyers Anything it * uj vestigations with a view of prevention. advertise This shows how the St. Louis merchants buy or ing space in the St. Louis newspapers: Post-Dispatch alone, 67 cols. 1 papers all added together 67 cole, In other words, the St. Louis merchants have found for their merchandise i in the POST-DISPATCH alone than they do in three-fourths of the other St. Louis papérs combined. : It pays to advertise pays to sell. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspa, Average cireulation entire year_1913: 0, 171 214 * toward violence and had manifested no ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY.7, 1914—18 PAGES. Photograph of the Tank Liner Oaklahoma Sinking; Her : Captain and Captain of Spanish Ship Which Stood By ‘3 er Sst 8. Wel CALYO of The OKLAHOMA MOTHER, CHILD AND MAN FOUND IAIN IN ROOM Los Angeles Police Believe That. Woman to Whom Lawyer Was Attentive, Killed All. By Associated Press. LOS ANGELBS, Cal., Jan. 7.—Efforts made today to.establish a motive for the double murder and suicide which caused the deaths of W. M. Melton, a local at- torney; Mrs: Mary Graves Cox of San Francisco and the latter’s daughter, Florence, 12 years old, last night, proved futile. Lodgers in the house where the tragedy occurred, said that when last seen alive together, Melton and Mrs. Cox appeared to be on the best of terms. Melton received four wounds, any one of which would bave proved fatal. Mrs. Cox was shot ence. Around the wound, which was in her head, were powder marks, indicating ‘that the pistol had been held very close. A photograph of her und the child, « which Mrs. Cox had written Florence Cox and May Graves, 2734 Mission street, San Francisco report “the news at home,“ indicated the killing. was pre- meditated. Melton was a member of the Lodge of Elks here. He had been attentive to Mrs. Cox, who was a divorcee, of about three years. Mother of Woman Says That Couple Was Engaged. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 7.— Nothing that Mrs. Joseph Graves, the mother of Mrs. Mary Cox, could tell today shed any additional light on the reason for the Los Angeles tragedy last night. „I have known W. M. Melton for the last three years,’ she said. He was en- gaged to marry my daughter, Mary. Her husband and she are divorced and the little girl, Florence, my granddaughter, was a daughter of that marriage. Mel- ton was always fond of Florence. I can- not believe that he killed her.“ B. M. L. GETS RIGHT TO : FILE LUMBER BRIEFS Supreme Court Grants Petitien in Behalf of Companies Fined and Ousted. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 7:—Authority was granted by the Supreme Court to- day to Harry B. Hawes and Judge George H. Williams of St. Louis to file a brief on behalf of the lumber companies weich were fined and ousted by the Supreme Court on Dec. 24. Sim- ilar permission was granted John P. Atwood of Kansas City. Judge Williams and Hawes came here as representatives of the Business Men's League. The Court will not take up the motions for rehearing in the lumber cases within less than 20 days. DISEASE GERMS. SOWN BY CHAUTAUQUA SALUTE WASHINGTON, 8 2 he chau- tauqua salute is the latest institution to come under the ban as a distributor of colds, influenza and tuberculosis, Reso- lutions condemning the familiar Mutter ef handkerthiefs which marks many gatherings were presented today to the Public Health Service and to the So- . | clety for the Prevention of Tuberculosis by the local ase organization When on Yon ot due Wille mee: N TE saan ielei ys 8 0 8 * * R Ba Geis Oe «ae 3 1 2 9 re Nr 1 WOMAN IS FINED: FOR DISTURBANCE UF PEACE IN ROTEL Stay Granted After She Explains Incident of Room and Drink Order at aged na Merciles Harcourt, a black-gowned woman of 40, who gave her address as 4146 Delmar boulevard; was fined $10 in Judge Kimmel's Police Court, Wednesday, on a charge of disturbing the peace at the Maryland Hotel, The fine was stayed on her promise of good behavior. E. W. Dunn, manager of the hotel, testified that she went there Monday evening, and that, after sitting in the parlor a few minutes, she took posses- sion of room 204, although she had not put her name on the register. While in the room, Dunn said, she ordered $1 worth of drinks and took a bath. When a demand was made for pay- ment for the drinks and the use of the room, she was indignant,. Dunn said. She telephoned to her attorney, Vital W. Garesche, who also is City Attorney. After the telephone conversation with Garesche, she paid for the drinks, but refused to pay for the room. - Dunn had her arrested. A policema/; testified she had been drinking wh¢ i he took her in custody. She took ‘€ e stand and said that as she remembé?fed the incident, she went to the Maryland and sat in the parlor. As she was leaving the hotel, she no- ticed that room 204 was open and she went in. She said she meant no Harm. PRESIDENT IN ROLE OF BELATED SANTA CLAUS Sends Boxes of Candy to Missia- sippi Children Who Have Be- come His Warm Friends: PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Jan. 7.— President Wilson today demonstrated his fondness for children by assuming the role of a belated Santa Claus and distributing boxes of candy to the youngsters along the route from the Gulfport golf links. . Since coming here the President has made warm friends with the children. who daily run to their front gates to wave greetings to him. Today there were many expressions of delighted surprise at homes along the way when the big White House auto- mobile stopped and a secret service man appeared at the doors with a box of candy from the President. HUSBAND AROUSED, FOUND TO HAVE TAKEN POISON Doctor's Efforts to Save Life of C. M. Trustel, a Bakery Wagon Driver, Fail. When Mrs. Josephine T. Trustel of 2007 California avenue tried to arouse her husband, Charles M. Trustel, 58 years old, a bread wagon driver, at 1:35 a, m Wednesday, he groaned and waved her aside. ; “You needn't try to get me up,” he gaid; “I've taken poison.“ ter, Margaret, had a physician moned. While the doctor gen on 60 actively fur the cure and preveu- " > * * CHAMBERLAIN TO RETIRE AFTER 38 YEARS SERVICE Venerable British Statesman Will Leave Parliament at Next General Election. . BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. '7.—Jo- seph Chamberlain, the venerable British statesman, has decided to retire from Parliament at the next general election He has served continuously as a mem- ber of the House of Commons since 1876, all this time representing Wes Birmingham. In à letter addressed today to the president of the Unionist Association of Birmingham, Mr. Chamberlain Bays: “I have not come to this decision with- out many regrets at the severance of a connection which has. already ’ laste? over 37 years. But I cannot hope again to do my work in and 1 of West Birmingham need ane: ‘services of a younger man, Mr. Chambertain ieaves Highbury, his residence at Birmingham, next week for London. There has been no change for the worse in Mr. Chamberlain's: health recently. It is, however, nearly eight years since he spoke in the House of Commons and nearly three years since he appeared there. „Joseph Chamberlain at the outset >! his political career was a Radical. H- served under William Ewart Gladstone in several cabinets as president of th. Board of trade and president of the Local Government Board. He became a Unionist at the time of the break in the Liberal party over home rule for Ire- land, and he was Secretary of State for the colonies at the time of the Boer War. He is now 78 years old. Mr. Chamberlain has been married three times. It is generally expected that Nevili« Chamberlain, a younger son of the re- tiring statesman, will become Unionist candidate for West Birmingham in suec- cession to his father. . TREATS “DISLOCATED W. M. David Is Charged in War- rant With Holding Himself Out as a Physician. Winiam M. David of 406 Delmar bou- levard, who says he is an osteopath and who was “arrested by detectives after treating Jefferson Rogers, 20 year- old, Of 829 South Eighteenth street, fo: a “dislocated atlas,” Christmas day, le charged with holding - himself. out as a registered physician; in a warrant is sued, Wednesday, by Assistant Nee Attorney ‘Wilson. In Wilson's office, Mrs. 28 Scaggs, Rogers’. aunt,. with whom ‘he lives, said that her nephew was: ofter afflicted with severe headaches an! convulsions due to injuries received im an accident in a mine four years’ ago She declared David, who responded t. her call for a physician, came to her home and applied an electric vibrator tc Rogers’ spine, diagnosing: tne case as) | “dislocated atlas.“ Her suspicions led her to report the case, she said, and David's arrest foi lowed. He wag releaséd on $900 bond pending investigation and the filing’ of I» a charge, Rogers is now in the Physi- clans’ and Surgeons’ Hospital at 2 North Grand avenue, where he under- went an operation, Tuesday, for depren- on of the skull. ASTOR LEFT $85,890,826 Reappraisal Adds $41,109,321 to. Widow's Share in ee NEW .YORK,. Jan. 7. — The value 51 ye estate 8 the 1 the parstee: of xing the s properties urtam Mrs. Trustel swooned, but her daugh- RESCUED CAPTAIN. teel that our city and the constituency a ATLAS,” IS ARRESTED| -TELLSHOW STORM WRECKED OIL SHIP Officers Caught i in iit in Forward: Part of Vessel, Suffered From Hunger, Cold and Thirst. BOSTON, Jan. 7.-—Capt. Gunter and three of the officers of the oil tank steamer Oklahoma, who were among the eight men rescued from the sinking ship and brought here by the steamer Bavaria, were de- tained today as witnesses in an in- vestigation of the disaster by Gov- ernment. inspectors. ? Th? four officers were suffering from wounds and frost bites. an were so poorly clothed that the in- vestigation, which was secret, was delayed until they . could, receive medical treatment and obtain new the Manuel Calvo had arrived at the scene in answer to his distress signals, but “She tooled around,“ he seid. put over a boat, then fooled around. some more, and finally picked up the boat and went away.“ Of the disaster, Capt. Gunther said: “All Saturday night the storm raged, growing worse and worse, until it had reached a velocity of what we estimat- ed to be 8 miles an hour. It got to be. sc bad, with the wind blowing hard on that one could not see beyond 20 or 30 feet ahead, and this fact makes it im-. possible for any of us to tell just what happened. We could neither see nom hear. Weathered Saturday Night Gale. “Saturday night we weathered the sale all right, and on Sunda} morning seemed to be all right except that the snow and spin ift were so thick that we could tell but little about where we were, The officers on the forward part of the ship. were worn and hungry and I ordered them to go aft for some break- fast. I told them to send a steward forward with something for me, as I didn’t want to leave the bridge. “The officers came back to the /for- ward part of the ship a little before 8 o’cloek, and there were eight of us gathered there when we suddenly heard a crash that was a cross between a “ip and an explosion. None of us could see more than a few feet and could tell only that the ship had broken in two by the fact that our part. buoyed up and keeled suddenly—on account of the tanks. The afterpart ot the broken section sank away, the bow rising correspond- ingly. We were all but thrown. off our feet by the shock of the split. Only the tanks saved us from being toppled ‘nto the sea. “That was about 8 o’clock ‘tn the norning on Sunday. None of us had anythi but the clothes on our backs. We didn’t Rave a bite to eat or drink. | The wind and the storm was so great that we couldn't hope to hear anything rom the other 32 men who we knew were in the afterpart of the ship. ‘ “With ‘the breaking up of the ship, of course, our wireless apparatus went out of commission. “We all of us began to wonder and 1 some cases asked one another wheth- er we should be able to swim in the suction that would be sure to accom- Shortly before 11 p. m. stopped George Maylor ot 5 nue at Channing and Bell held a revolver to Maylor’s t the other searched him, F money, the robbers. took drove south on Channing 2 Ol Stations An BH Bree later the that the Waters-Pierce Au Station, 1322 South Grand the Auto Gasoline Co. s 81 in ply static Grand and Vista avenues, Fa een e tered through forced w 1 lin formed that seven car had been seen hood a short time were discovered. | Shortly after 3 a. trem a’ 2 3 x ee eee 1 wea * — * — inte North Ma we minute later heard a crash When Antram got to North Market streets, he chine turning north Into E The plate glass Window n of Thomas P. Moékler, 82 N ket street, had been —— large stone, and two quart: Passengers on a north bound 1 saw seven men in a on driving north on Fifteenth = the time that two empty t hurled through the front saloon owned’ by State Ser n at 2300 North Fiftee This incident occurred about utes after Moekler’s, saloon h robbed. Shortly before 3:30 a. m. F Horton saw seven men in a of auto rushing toward apres North Broadway. He ‘ond fired several shots in the air ir th to halt the party, but they ignored ! and crossed the bridge to tro st Six RADIO PHONE P SENTENCED TOP J. D. Smith Also Fined Using Mails in rast Gets 30 Months. NEW YORK, Jan. Jamon | into Smith, president of the Rad 2 n Co., was sentenced today to a half in the Federal prison at Att and was fined $6000 for using t to defraud. * Elmer eterno agent of & Bud sidtary company, Was se! ee ee and one-half years’ imprisonmest an fined $10,100, The we * i om np aay. a subsidiary, which ge ie pare corporations stock, was The Government ch were un " ö Att at in ves wea 8 * n a ae a a > 7 ee