St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 23, 1914

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ERR ETE OEE HE WY, » "Only Evening Paper in St Loa With Associaied Pron Nows Sef. CT Be me : ~ 7 oy % _ ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1914—12 PAGES. Mey Pah aey Tre, of Youth They Had Seen in Swing. In the presence of a large crowd of - men and women who were powerless to save him, Robert Cowan, 18 years old, making his second flight in a hot-air balloon with a parachute attachment, fell into the Mississippi River at Alton Friday evening. Searching parties hunted in vain for him all night and he is believed to have been drowned. When the crowd saw the balloon drop into the river with Cowan clinging to a thal filight was one of the at- been in progress all week in tage s Grove, about a | from the Mississippi River. of a revolver to work was made to use it as an to cut his parachute bal is believed to responsible the accident. Adopted Son of Balloonist. car Cowan was the adopted son of ‘Thomas: ‘Cowan, who has the balloon ~ concession at the carnival. The elder Gowan is widely known as a parachute Jumper, but Robert had never made an itt mat rH : ae a ae spectator round them to watch the ascending balloon. “4 Judg that the bag had reached the se fe, followed by the joined by many of sliodn — The | gna. peg! no ; wiatble result, There was of the parachute. Appar- og “tit was slowly falling. : Ss who lined the bluffs over- te. » . ¢. s , Se i he seh a idan 1 RR RR RN: PALI GONE NR, ~~ Wr a ; es : an f , vy a. Mstacevcectes | Pa Penn Serre rer rr. | 7 a. casts so ¥ High .82 at 4 p. m. Low. @4 at 7 a. m. “I get up at 4 e’ clock every Gay,” said the man with the red i pipe. “O, yes, - I've heard that story.” said the one with the black cigar. “First you feed the chickens, then you mow the lawn, then you water the garden, then you turn out the cow, then you—” “What do you mean, turn out the cow?’ “O, I knew all about these. sub- night watchman. The 4 o’clock at which I rise is p. m. and vicinity: day, not muck change in temperature. in northern portions tonight and Sunday, pos- sibly with pertion tonight. THIEF SHIPS MICROSCOPE BACK TO WASHINGTON U. $9C. Instrument Expressed by Person Signing as ‘Conscience’ to Washington University’ by express from a person who signed himself *“‘Conscience.”’ strument inspired an among the departments of the univer- sity to ascertain from which room it was taken. ick A. Hall said no effort would be made to learn the identity of the sender. struments,”’ Dr, Hall said, “representing an investment of approximately $90 each, They are scattered about in eight or ten different departments. At the end of each school year an inventory its taken of everything in the institution. This is the first case of the sort we have had.” . ‘egpshanentty by the university through tt hed the, perso column. of | Dost-Dier- highway and.Daggett . patch. — : OORT ore seeegual Man Who Has Registered 300,- State Registrar of Vital Statistics, at- tributes the arrival of a baby at his home to the power of suggestion. has been married for 11 years and it was not until today that the union was blessed with a child. tered the birth of 300,000 babies and he says it was this continual thinking of babies that finally brought a happy realization of the and wife. SENATOR BRADLEY SINKS was entertained by attending physicians early today for the recovery of Senator Bradley of Kentucky, who has been crit- ically ill here for some time. the physicians remained at his bedsid e. Early today Senator Bradley was re- Ported to be gradually tele weaker, urbanites,”’ “But I’m not a suburbanite, I’m a The offic forecast for St. Louis Fair tonight and Sun- For Tllinois—Fair in southern mostiy cloudy showers; warmer in northwest and Authorities Start In- quiry. A stolen microscope has been returned The receipt of the in- investigation Acting Chancellor Freder- “We have about a hundred of these in- Restoration . of the microscope was POWER OF SUGGESTION Detectives Collins’ friends had him bond Friday evening prevented the po- lice from following an important lead to the clegging up of a series of recent street car robberies, in which passengers have been robbed of amounts totaling several thotisand dollars. several that occurred last Monday which workmen carrying home pay et- velopes were the victims. occurred in the neighborhood of the Quick Meal Range Co.’s factory, King’s = GONVIGT HELD AS A PICKPOCKET: GIVES BOND IN HOUR Early Release Prevents Police From Having Victims Try to Identify Prisoner. SURETY IS FIXED AT: $1000 Believed ‘‘Johnny” Collins Could Give Clew to Many Recent Street Car Robberies. The activity with which “Johnny” released on Collins, who has served a prison term for picking pockets, was arrested at 4 m. as he was about to enter the Municipal Courts Building, and was tak- en to the factory of the Quick Meal Range Co., where he was identified as one of three men who robbed Henry F. Gellerman of 1309 Carroll street, on a Manchester car last Monday evening. Detectives then took Collins to police headquarters to have other victims of pickpockets look at him, but they were compelled to release him at once, be- cause Samuel Epstein, liquor dealer ans professional bondsman, had furnished a common law bond in the sum of 31000. Judge Benjamin F. Clark of the Court of Criminal Correction had accepted the bond. Several Workmen Robbed. Collins now is under an indictment. charging he is an habitual pickpocket. The Detective Bureau was anxious to “show up” the prisoner to persons who have recently been robbed by pickpock- ets on street cars, some of whom were in needy circumstances. One robbed of his week’s pay, was forced to appeal to neighbors for money to buy food for his family. workman, was one of The Gellerman robbery in The robberies ayenye.... ..-.. Pastor Robbed of 960 Three more street car robberies were added Friday evening to the long list which has been reported within the last few weeks. The Rev. Charles F. Obermeyer, pas- a tor of the German Evangelical Luther- 000 Birtts' Now a Father After’Eleven Years. AUSTIN, Tex., May 23.—R, P. Babcock, He During the last two years he has rezis- fond hopes of himself WASHINGTON, May 23.—Small hope His condition was such last night are nue Friday evening. the back platform and when he reached Waterman Way he missed his wallet containing $175. He resides at 2501 Sem- a avenue. an Church, at 2000 Benton street, was on the back platform of a Broadway car when three men jumped off in the middle of tne block between Carrie and Holly avenues. Brandt of 4166 North Broadway, an- other passenger, remarked the actions of the men indicated they might be pickpockets. southbound John I. Two Others Lose $227. Henry Laads of Spanish Lake was robbed of a purse containing $52 on a northbound Broadway car, between Sal- isbury from the Angelica Street Police Station —about 5:30 p. m., just 15 minutes after the Rev. robbed. He told the police he was jos- tled by three men who jumped from the car while it was in motion. and Angelica streets—a block Mr. Obermeyer had been Edward Leisner, president of the Leis- ner Realty and Investment Co., boarded westbound Olive car at Jefferson ave- He was jostled on po enes =— ee Ww. editemdiien oe a eee ee A nace et GL A —unanimous twice this week? It is our pleasure to announce that on two consecutive days of this week, Thursday and Friday, the St. Louis merchants bought more advertising space in the POST- DISPATCH alone than in all four of its competitors, the Globe, Republic, Times and Star combined. Merchants advertise for one purpose—to attract the buying public to their stores. If there is a reason, for ponwisa. FA why do these merchants buy more space in the POST-DISPATCH alone than in all four of its com- petitots combined as they did on both Thursday and Friday of this week? The reason is obvious—they re- ceive a larger percentage of results from the POST- DISPATCH alone at a lower percentage of cost. For one paper out of five in a city of three-quarters of a million people to carry as much or more of its merchants’ advertising than all four of its competitors combined, as the POST-DISPATCH has done on 42 days out of 142 thus far this year, is an achievement that has never been equaled in the United States. The records of the 41st and 42nd days were as fel- ‘lows: Post-Dispatch 41st day, Thursday, 97 cols. 42d day, Friday, 11 All 4 of the other St. Louis papers combined. 94 cols. 104 cols. 1 cols. It is Home Circulation That Counts. St, Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Average circulation for April: OS aimee y only -- - vain oe ee ah ido dae rtepee = Pinta Brething, 29 WELTS ON BOY: NONE AMISS, SAYS [ SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Mrs. McGuire, Who- Whipped Benjamin Kramer, Tells of His Many Offenses. FATHER MAKES COMPLAINT Has Photograph Made of Son’s Bruises;- Said to Have Ad- mitted Child Was Beyond Control. Abraham Kramer’ of 1012 North leventh street, took his 13-year-old s0n, Benjamin, to a photographer Saturday and had pictures taken of the boy’s back, to show welts which he said were inflicted by Mrs. S. A. Maguire of 4569A Oakland avenue, principal of the Jefferson School, Ninth and Wash streets, when she whipped the boy Thursday after- noon, He had previously taken the boy to the city dispensary where, he says, @ physician counted 29 of the welts. The boy says they were made with two rulers, which were broken over his back. Mrs. Maguire told a Post-Dispatch reporter she had punished the Kra- mer boy severely, but that not a blow was amiss, as he had been wun- der discipline two years and the pun- ishment was for many offenses. she said seh used a rattan, the rod which. is authorized by the Board of Educa- tion. It was not her desire, she said, to mark the boy, but the rattan will mark, if the punishment is adequate.| Tries to Flee; Intercepted. The boy says he was sent to the principal's room by his teacher, Miss Sadie Meyers, of 4607 McPherson av- enue, because he had not learned his spelling lesson. After he had been punished, he threatened to call a po- liceman and says the principal pun- ished -him again. He tried to flee from the building, he says, but was intercepted by Miss Meyers and was detained for some time in the prin- cipal’s office, before-being permitted to go home. The boy’s father has complained to the Board of Education and an in- vestigation is being made by Assist- “The boy has been a persistent of- fender,’’ Mrs. McGuire said. ‘“‘There are many Children of foreign birth in the Jefferson School. He constantly slapped and fought and threw stones at these children. I put off punishing him as long as I could. He acknowledged yes- terday that I had given him 40 chances in two years. “On a car, on the way to the school picnic last week, he mistreated smaller children until the janitor had to put him off. His teacher sent a letter to his father through the mail. The boy intercepted it. His teacher sent him to me and I made him sit on a bench in my office. His father came and asked me to put him back in his room. When I told him some of the things the boy had done, he struck his son on the side of the head and knockéd him across the hall. Asked to Beat Him Soundly. “He told me to punish him and said he hoped I would beat him nearly to death. The father said they could do nothing with him. 3 “He committed 10 offenses Thurs- day. After I had seen him throw his book at the pupil who was handing his papers to him to be taken home, I took him to my office and in the presence of his teacher gave him the punishment he had long richly de- served. He is so bad that he is not permitted on any of the playgrounds. }I could have suspended him long ago but I kept him in school and was pa- tient with him until patience was no longer possible.” BOY RESCUES CARNEGIE FROM WALLED.-IN GARDEN fron Merchant, Locked In. by Automatic Gate, Could, Not Climb Wall. NEW YORK, May 23.—Andrew Car- negie, plucking flowers in the garden back of his home last evening, accl- dentally stut the garden gate, which Iccked automatically, and he was a prisoner. Not feeling quite up to scal- ing the garden wall, he whistled to a, small boy in the street. To him he ex- plained his predicament, and the boy called a servant, who unlocked the fate. Mr, Carnegie told the story on him- self today. just ltefore he sailed for Skibo Castle, Scotland, with his wife and daughter. BOB FITZSIMMONS SUED | FOR DIVORCE IN CHICAGO Pugilist's Wife Charges Cruelty and Alleges Husband Threat- ened to Kill Her. CHICAGO, May 23.—Robert Fitz- simmons, former world’s champion heavyweight pugilist, was sued for divorce today in the Circuit Court by Mrs. Julia Fitzsimmons, whe charged that he had treated her with extreme and repeated crut¢ since their mar- rlage in San Fra‘xCisco in 1903. Mrs. Fitzsimmons alleged that her hueband threatened to kill her when she left him in July, 1910, and that she fears that unless restrained dy eielac: court he will carry out “ on ‘ ee ee eee > * Boy Whipped at Sch oi: Picture Taken to Show Piasiaes on. Back } TWOBANK ROBBERS. AILLED IN BATTLE $1400 RECOVERED: wnoppiveR JUSTICE Oklahoma Posse Runs .Down Men After 36-Hour Chase Through Mountains, By Associated Press. HUGO, Okla., May: 23.—Specials from Millerton, Okla., today state that two men who had robbed a Millerton bank Thursday of $1400, were killed in a bat- tle with a posse last night and tht t:ve. members of thé posse returned to Millerton “with the money taken from the bank. : The. battle is reported to have been fought in the mountains along. Little River, 17. miles northeast of Millerton. after a ‘36-hour chase. Whether any members of the posse were ‘injured in-the fight was not’ stated. ALL IRON WORKERS ON NEW CAPITOL STRIKE Walkout Follows Refusal to Pay Employe. for Time He Ar- gued: With Foreman. JEFFERSON CITY, May 23.—The 30 steel workers employed in the constru word sent to Torreon by Gen. Villa” and it was on’ everyone's. ps: day. se “La Golondrina” is the “Home, Sweet Home,” of Mexico. Military authorities here were of the opinion that Villa had pushed on in pursuit of the Federal cole | umns of Gens. Mass and ponies ee retreating toward San Luis Potosi and ‘that after his habit, he wi allow nothing to go on the w while a fight was in nga ‘mal sessions of all of the principais to the mediation. Justice Lamar. and Frederick W. Leh- mann, the American delegates, Friday afternoon, held the longest and most important conference with the A BC mediators here so far, the session last- ing two hours. s#very aspect of the Mexican rituation was discussed, The Americans made ft plain that their attitude was one of disintereste* feasible plan could be evolved for the establishment of “an orderly and right- eous” government, which would . bring about a cessation of hostilities in Mex- ico, it would have the full support of the United States. Would Force U. S. Out of Mexico. It is realized by the mediators anc the Mexican delegates that Huerta must go, but it is certain that his elimination will be conditioned upon the withdrawal of the American forces which are now on Mexican soll. The solution of this difficulty is bound te follow the elabora-| tion of a plan which will establish the kind of government President Wilson wishes to see in Mexico and which would be acceptable to all parties there. So far the -mediators have put for- ward no plans and kave made no sug- gestion to either side. They have lis- tened to everything that both the Amer- ican and Mexican delegates have had to say, and they have corrected much! of the misunderstanding, by bringing both sides to a realization of the rela- tive unimportance of some of the things to which there was a tendency to at- tach undue importance. The report that the Constitutionalists had decided to send a representative here to place before the mediators the views of Gen. Carranza was received with considerable surprise. The media- tors authorized the statement that they had not invited the Carranza party to send anyone at this juncture, but that they would listen to anything a revolu- tionary envoy might wish to place be- fore them. Cause of Delay Explained. The A BC envoys have been greatly embarrassed by reason of the impa- tience expressed because they were moving slowly. In pointing out that diplomacy, more than any other call- ing must make haste slowly, a spokesman of the mediators sald: of the view of all 1-America specting the attitude of the 1 fe States and the relation of this ¢ for a long time to come, publics of Central and South J ta 4 ‘ § come a better interpretation of ie Mon- | roe doctrine that will more fully meet ~ the approval of all the wore ¢ < hi hemisphere. Obligation to Whole 2 “Because of the nor world, the mediators feel consumed in preliminaries necessary. former Mexican war. “Then there must be the economic problem Mexican delegates, diators themselves ge in going, in taking or revolutionary <ooahadiinn ie question, and how far roe al ste phi ‘question is essential, either ete lishment of an immediate to thi government. “How much of « factor |