St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 27, 1914

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84 — 2, A are . i oo. 2 e © 4 4 * ee ee e ae ee ae ta ‘Paper ia St. Linis With Associated Press: News Service. 1 — St LOUIS, FRIDAY — ‘NOVEMBER 27, 191424 PAGES. sentatives of U. S. to Let Belligerent Countries Kno 2 — —— = om N, Nov. 2. President Wilson her communicated unofficially to the diplomatic representatives of the ‘United States in the belligerent countries of | Burope his disapproval of bomb at- , N aireratt on untortitied cities Department. but personally sed the American Ambassadors: broad. The President took this course, came ons aaa today, nearly two „ „„ „„ THE a . a. . 1 a. .. a. F Official fore- Generally fair to- night and tomor- row in west por- tion, probably with rain or snow; colder tonight. For IIlinois— Un- settled weather tonight and to- ‘morrow, with rain in south portion and probably rain or snow in north portion; colder tonight and in extreme south portion tomorrow. Bomb That Failed to Drop Knocked From Balloon With Ax LON DON, Nov. 27.—The Standard's ‘epecial correspondent in Northern France, under today’s date, says: “A remarkable feat has earned, dis- tinction for the commander of the dirigible who was sent out to destroy a railway junction, occupied by Ger- mans, with bombs. “Descending low enemy’s searchlights, the _ dirigible dropped three bombs in rapid succes- sion, but the fourth after the balloon’s mechanism had been deranged, failed to slide from its tube. “The dirigible was in imminent dan- ger of being blown to pieces, but the commander boldly climbed out on the framework with an ax in his hand. Now he was under the full glare of the searchlights and pelted with bullets. He hacked away at the tube and its pro- | of a report that the Presi-| sectile only just in time. The bomb ex- dent had ‘discussed the matter with ‘diplomats here. This, how- European ever, was denied by some of those men oned In e n with it, including “abroad were to convey President wil. “Son's feelings to the foreign Govern: nente has not been disclosed, as White done officidis, in the absence of the -Sreaident, declined to discuss the sub- = t a belie: 1 here, asian that the resid ou ee n to the article 4 oe He _— vention | fk e — as oes — toward all ‘the bel- ok = » Abdweke Not Mentioned. 0 vlolation, but ex- un ts supposed apne the * dipio poet used ‘their good offices in a personal way with the belligerent Gov- 8 ents without perhaps even mention: — Had Orders Net to : Swies Teritory Nov. .27.—Winston Spencer * Lord of the Admiralty, => 7 hay See gar. ee aa ¢ 1 ploded 300 feet below him. The diri- ‘gible was tossed about, but it got away safe Its purpose was fully accom- we — TAKING CENSUS OF CITY Postoffice Collecting informa- tion on Service to Equalize the Work of Its Men. St. Louis letter carriers are taking a E ang city. For the last week 9 — —— h house on ** En 3 pete — in ne Sk The primary object is to obtain infor- | mation for the use of the postoffice officials as to the service that is being given and the possibility of improving it by equalizing the work of the carriers in the various districts. The canvass will provide interesting information to the — about the 1 dy ae of the city. - ee LION DEVOURS INDIAN BOY Companion Says They Threw 4 Stones at Cubs. RENO, Nev., Nov. N. -A story re- ceived here from Simpson, Lyon County, describes the death of a Shoshone In- dian boy who was devoured by a fe- male lion in the hills near that town. “Big Mack,” a Piute Indian, who brought in the story, said two Shoshone boys wandered in the hills and seeing a lioness and cubs. stoned the cubs in ignorance of the danger. The lioness pounced on one boy. The other returned to camp and guided other Indians to the acenie," 1500 Horees, From St. Louis Bound for War, Attached NEW YORK, Nov. 27.~Fifteen hun- }dred army horses from St. Louis were attached by the Sheriff at Jersey Cit, for a debt of $152,863. Carpenter and Mayer, agents for Eu- ropean army contractors, are alleged to have arranged with Novelly & Co. of New York to handle the shipment of horses to Burope, and after freigh: a. ee ca ha a E a. III. P. n [Wins Sing’s after evading the} | LEAVING. 1 4 A CHINESE PUZZLE Laundry Bundles Tied Up (Le- gally) and Customers Wear Coat Collars About Necks. KNOTS IN SEVEN TANGLE All of Them Would Be Cut if Irish Landlord Could but Read Cantonese. Wing Sing is dead and Lawrence Tracy mourns, So also mourn the Owners of sundry shirts and collars and pajamas and under-garments that repose this minute on the shefves of laundry at 231 North Spring avenue with titkets nicely tucked into the parcels. Resident of the neigh- borhood have the tickets which cor- respond, but laundry tickets are very poor substitutes for shirts, et cetera, and the holders thereof yearn to ex- change them for the shelved things of warmth and adornment. They may not do so—and this is why. In the first place, as mentioned, Wing Sing is dead. In the second place, another Chinese buried him. In the third place Public Administrator New- ell has taken charge of Wing Sing’s estate, consisting in considerable part of undelivered laundry. In the fourth place the Chinese who buried Wing Sing has filed a claim for $80 with the Public Administrator. In the fifth place the Public Administrator has put Wing Sing’s estate under lock and key. In the sixth place Lawrence Tracy, Wing Sing’s landlord (before Wing Sing died) has declined the suggestion of the Pub- lic Administrator that he pay $50 and take over Wing Sing’s estate. In the Seventh place the Chinese who. buried Wing Sing has offered $30 for the estate, provided the $30 is applied on the claim for $80, but the Public Administrator has spurned the offer. Outside of That, All Is Well. With these few exceptions. there is nothing to prevent Lawrence Tracy getting possession of the room in which Wing Sing lived and laundered and died and nothing to prevent the owners of the. shirts’ and so forth from coming inte their own. Up to last Sunday. | Wing Sing lived and ironed In the base mant of the Lawrence Tracy domicile. That day Wing Sink died, and a wealthy | countryman paid an undertaker $80 to bury him. William F. Bohn, Public Administre- tor Newell’s chief deputy, went out and had a look at the estate, and took pos- session. Tracy was concerned about regaining possession. Bohn suggested that administration of the estate would be facilitated if Tracy would buy it for $50 and recoup himself by delivering the parcels to Wing Sing's customers and collecting therefor. Tracy Is Orientalist. But Lawrence Tracy knew his lim- itations. One of them was that he couldn't read the characters on the laun- dry tickets. So he said he. was much cbliged, but he didn’t think he would go into the Chinese laundry business. Not, at any rate, until he learned to read Chinese, and he didn't think that would be soon. “It would be this way,“ he said. “A man would come in and hand me a ticket and say, Gimme my laundry.’ And I'd say, What's your name? And he'd tell me his name. And I couldn't tell from the ticket what his name: was in Chinese. And I'd say, with a wave of my hand. Here's all the chink left. Pick out yours!’ And he’d pick out the biggest bundle and carry it away. And then another man would come in and d find out that the first one had car- ried this one’s shirts away. And I'd tell him to take the best of what was left. And don't you see what the late comers would do to me?” Bohn said Ch, very well.“ and locked the laundry door and went away, after warning Tracy that if Wing Sing’s es- tate was touched or tampered with Tracy would have to answer to the Pro- bate Court. Laundry Ia Still Locked. The laundry door is still locked. Wing Sing's customers come and look 10 through the glass door panel. Then they go upstairs and ask Tracy when he thinks the door will be opened. And Tracy says he doesn’t know, but he hopes it won't be long because the rent ien’t likely to be coming in from ‘Ia Chinese who has been dead three weeks this coming Sunday. In the meantime some of the young men of the neighborhood are going about with their coat collars turned up because they can't get their shirts and collars because and so forth, and some “Gents Furnishing Houses ‘around there have been doing an increased busi- NESS UNABLE | TQ TELL ORIGIN OF CAMPBELL'S SCAR James F. Forgerty, in Will Suit Hearing in New York, Says Mark Was on Forehead. ATFORNEY ON THE STAND Says Copy of Baptismal Record Is Admissible Evidence Under Law of State. —— NEW YORK, Nov. 27.— The taking of depositions in the Campbell will contest was resumed in the offices of Sullivan and Cromwell today. James F. Fogarty, who testified Tuesday, was recalled for a further redirect examination on the point constantly brought up in Attorney Ottofy’s cross-examination that 1Campbell had a dépression in his skull as the result of a street assault of many years ago. Fogarty was the only witness who had admitted hav- ing seen any sign of injury about the head of the dead millionaire. Attorney Jourdan brought out that. what Fogarty had in mind was a scar on the forehead, the cause of which he knew nothing. After a wait of an hour, Henry -H. ‘Pierce, of Sullivan & Cromwell, was recalled by the defense to expound the law of New York State relative to the admission in evidenée of certified copies of birth records, Ottofy objected on the ground that the statute law was itself the best evidence on the point. Pierce testified that such a certified copy was admissable in evidence under Section 955 under the New York court civil proced- ure and that it has always been held in New York that publie records certi- fied by the custodian thereof have been admissable in evidence. Questioned About Records. Plerce was also questioned as to the edmissibility of the records of baptismal and marriage records as evidence of baptism and marriages. Ottofy objected to this question. on the ground that in the Missouri law such evidence was not admissible and the New York laws could not control a cause on trial in Missouri, after which Pierce answered that such records ** accepted as evidence of } Ler ees in New K. 1 8885 cross-examination Pierce ae . ‘Of Jackson — King Cowan) as one in which such e. was accepted as proof of pedigree. Asked to éxplain what he meant by ped- igree, whether he meant such evidence was accepted as proof of parentage, Pierce said such testimony was ac- peted as presumptive evidence of parent- age. When pinned down as to whether, in the Jackson vs. King case a sworn copy of a baptismal record was accepted as a proof of parentage of a child, Pierce wads not sure that was the direct issue in that case. Asked if he could cite a case in which such evidence had been received as proof of parentage, he asked and was given permission to consult a memorandum. Then he got a copy of Fifth Cowan and went over the Jackson vs. King case and also cited a recent case, Layton vs. Kraft, 111, Appellate Division, New York Supreme Court, 843 in which the records of marriages and baptism in the Collegiate Church of New York City were admitted to prove parentage which was the issue in both cases. Merely Presumptive Proof. He admitted the laws of the State did rot compel the keeping of records of marriages and baptisms by the State. and that this evidence in the cases cited had been accepted merely as presump- tive proof, subject to rebuttal. Because the keeping of such records was not compulsory under the law. Ottofy moved all the testimony of the witness be stricken out. Then prompted by Judge Goode, Pierce corrected his testimony, after looking at the statute by stating that clergymen/are compelled by law to keep record of marriage. Pierce could not say whether this law had ever been construed by a court, or whether it had ever been repealed or amended, nor would he swear it was the State law in 1898. Court then adjourned until later in the day. 15 NEW:DIPTHERIA CASES REPORTED IN 24 HOURS Health Department Officials Say the Contagion Is Slowly Dying Out. Only 15 cases of diphtheria were re- ported to the city health officials during the past 24 hours. The contagion seems to be dying out slowly, physicians say. Less than 900 cases are now deing treated in the city and it is hoped by the officials that this number will be quickly decreased. Cherokee Indian Bride and Husband, Her Chief of Men’ MR. and MRS. RICHARD CROKER. 1 5 Her Dreams as Child to Express Ideals of Tribe Won School Training for Her. Special to the Post-Dispatch, : MUSKOGEE, Ok., Nov. 27.—The mar- riage of Beulah Benton Edmondson, à Cherokee Indian girl, to Richard Croker, former chief of Tammany Hall, in New York City yesterday, marks a romantic chapter in the history of the Cherokees. The bride has dreamed from childhood of opportunity to give expression to the lofty ideals which have characterized her race and her marriage gives her ample means to gratify her ambition. In the remote hills of Delaware County, Oklahoma, then Indian Terri- tory Beulah Edmondson was born 30 years ago. Her father, Wash T. Ed- mondson, and her mother still live there in a comfortable farm home. Beulah was a winsome and attractive child. She grew into charming woman- hood, with a desire for knowledge and expression. Something She Wanted te Tell. When she as a child roamed the hills and waded the streams of her native country she often puzzled her Indian parents and acquaintances by saying. „There ie something in me that I want to tell and cannot. This something developed with years and training. While her parents were and still are in comparatively poor circumstances, Beulah was fortunate in her kinsmen. W. W. Hastings of Tahlequah, Ok., Is her uncle. She is his favorite niece Hastings wanted to find out what tha‘ “something” was. So he caused her parents to send Beulah to the Cherokee national seminary ‘for girls at Tahle- quah, where the Cherokees for nearly 2 century have educated their giris. When she had finished this school, Beulah’s thirst fcr knowledge was great- er than ever. With her Uncle Hastings ghe discussed her future. It was ar- ranged for her to continue her studies at the Curry. School of Expression, Boston. The expense was borne by Hastings. himself a Cherokee, who has attained notable success as the leading attorney of his race, representing his nation in all litigation at Washington, and who was recently elected to Con- gress. He is one of the wealthiest men ak the Cherokee nation. Attended Chicago Untversity. After finishing at the Copley School, Mis sEamondson went to Chicago, where she took additional. work in expression in the Chicago University. She returned DELEGATE FRANCIS OF WARD 9 TAKEN IN POLICE RAID Patrolmen Say They Saw Craps Game in Progress Through a Side Window. John J. Francis, member of the House of Delegates for the Ninth Ward, was one of six men arrested in a raid on the Tammany Club at 417 Sidney street at 3 a. m. today. The. policemen who made the raid reported that they climbed to the roof of a shed and, looking through a side window of the clubroom, saw a craps game in progress there. According to the offlela report Sergt. Lanz and three patrolmen of the Wy- oming street station suspected that gambling was going on at the club. They raised a ladder to the roof of the shed. The report says they sew” men shooting craps and watched the game for some time. Then they went down the ladder and pushed open the door of the clubroom. As the policemen entered, the report says, one of the men threw the dice on top of a wardrobe. The dice were taken by the police as evidence. duct it on the bummelkasse pian. The policemen, who made the report, say no beer was in sight when the raid was made. The men arrested gave these names: Failure of Germans Along ¢ chowa Front to Stop Czar's T Permits Von Hindenburg’s iN Who Advanced Toward Wa rsa to Be En veloped. GERMANS CAPTURE 40,000 PRISONERS AND 70 2 a Tour of City. Artillery Fire Slackens Along Battle Line in f gium, and Quiet Prevails on me France Rheims Violently Bombe Kaiser’s Troops While Neutral Jos ir a held. in the struggle. e ves any such details as dates, d successful operations in the region of this great battle. It fs evident that the comparative failure of the Austro- German operations. along the Czen- stochowa front gave the Russians op- portunity to envelop Gen von Hinden- burg after this brilliant German leader | had thrown a wedge into his antag- onist’s Genter. The Russians to the sotuh, safe on their own front, were able to strike | northward, thus break- ing the enemy, who bad passed east beyond their right flank. in the vicinity of Wielun hag initiated an advance which is beli¢ved in Lon- don to have been started too late to be of any use. On the other battle fronts, quiet pre- of their effort to break through the allied lines on their way to the coast. The Petrograd correspondent of the 1 = 7 ; LONDON, Nov. 27.— While the belief grows hor ‘th ; : Russians in Northern Poland have won the greatest battle of war, actual details of the operations in this locality still a From Petrograd comes a report that the patience of sian people, awaiting official confirmation of the re is approaching the breaking point, and the same of the publie | here. Berlin announces Nr that 1 No Decisive Engagements in