St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 31, 1914

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Howard, St. Louis heiress, Coroner’s Physician Leonard in his re port to the police said Miss Mewiad took her life in her hotel apartments while temporarily deranged as a result of nervous prostration. The hotel management maintained the deepest secrecy about the tragedy and it was only by chance that the news of the suicide became known last night. Miss Howard shot and killed herself yesterday in her room in the Marlbor- vwugh-Blenheim Hotel. The body was started for St. Louis this morning, ac- companied by the young woman’s grand- mother. Mrs. Henry Flad of 421 West- minster place. It was planned to make connection at Philadelphia with the train which will reach, St. Louis at 1:40 y. m. New Year's day. The circumstances of Miss Howard's death were not’made known until laté last night. Early in the evening it was stated that the police and the Coroner had not been notified. of. the death, and no record was filed with the local Bu- reau of Vital Statistics. Later it appeared that the police had made a quiet investigation, and, having satisfied themselves of the facts, they made it known that Miss Howard had ended her own life. It was stated that she arose before breakfast, went to the bathroom of her suite and fired a bullet from a revolver into her temple. She died before her zxrandmother and her aunt, Miss Fannie Flad, rcached her room. A nervous col- lapse, following illness, was. the only reason assigned for her act. Associated v Wes Dec. 31.—A ’ was re- Inherited $415,000 Estate. Miss Marian Howard. was 21 years old and was. the. sole inheritor: of an em tate estimated at $415,000... Her father, Laclede J. Howard, fire brick manufac- turer, died in 1998, and her mother. who was a daughter of the late Col. Henry Fiad, died in the same year. Edward Filad, of 676 Waterman ave- nue. former water commissioner, is Miss lioward’s uncle, and she has four mar- ried aunts. in St. Louis, Mrs. B. ©. Farrar. Mrs. Andrew Sproule, Mrs. Cecil LD. Gregg and Mrs. Albert Lupton. Soon after the death of Miss How- ard’sa father and mother, suit was flied against the Howard estate by Mrs Mary Leafgreen, who alleged that How- ard, masquerading under the name of “Henry Howard,” had married her in Decatur, IIL, 2 years before. Although the woman brought no substantial evi- dence to support her claim, her case was kept in court for pine years at an. ex- pense to the estate of $40,000, the family refusing to compromise. In the Circuit Court. and later In the State Supreme Court, the suit was dis- missed with caustic judicial comments on those who had instituted it. | } Leader Asks Workers to War War LONDON, Dec. 31. clalist member of the Ger- man Reichstag, who attract- ed considerable attention early in ber of the Reichstag who voted against a new.war credit,. has sent & New Year's message to British ‘the workers of the world to ‘unite in a war against the war. This communication is published Leader. Liebknecht declares the masses everyWhere loath this’ war, and he says that among German degree of opposition to it than has been generally supposed. Amount Due Jefferson City Is Paid ‘by Former Secretary of | German Socialist ARL LIEBKNECHT, the So- December by being the only mem- Socialists, in‘ which he calls upon in a newspaper called the Labor workers there is a much greater State Sam B. Cook. JEFFERSON cITY, Dec. 31.—County Assessor Jones, who said yesterday that if’ Senator: Stone should not make tax returns for 1913 and 1914 by this evening he would make the assessments under the statutes, arinounced today that the returns had: been received. They came by telegraph, he said, from Senator Stone’s secretary, W. R. Hellister, in Washington. He said the return for each year was about $110, the amount entered by the Assessor in 1912, when the. Senator failed to make a return, and which’ was double the last return made by Senator Stone, in 1911. The taxes which were due to Jefferson City’ from Senator Stone for the year 1¥12 were paid yesterday by Sam B. (Cook, ‘former Democratic Secretary of State and now president of the Central Missouri Trust Co. When Mr. Cook received ‘the information that Senator Stone no longer was paying taxes here and owed the city the sum of $12.22, he verified the figures by teléphone and had a collector sent to his office for the amount. Senator Stone had paid State and county taxes amounting to $22.99 for the same year, but had neg- lected the city’s portion and failed to make a return for the two succeeding vears. County Assessor Jones sald it was through an oversight that he was not assessed for those years. PRESIDENT 10 SPEAK IN INDIANAPOLIS ON JAK, 8 WASHINGTON... Dee. Dee. 81.—President Wilson decided definitely today to go to Indianapolis, Jan. % to speak at a ackson day celebration under the aus- pices of the Indiana. Democratic Club. LONDON, Dec. 31.—There are increas- ing indications, in the opinion of Brit- ish observers, that a serious allied of- fensive movement against the whole German line in the western arena of the war will be postponed until such time as larger contingents of Lord Kitchener’s new army take the field. The losses of the allies in the tentative thrusts forward here and there have been heavy in proportion to the gains achieved and it is understood various leaders unite in the opinion the sacrifices entailed by a general vance at this time would be | The turn of events in the theater of hostilities, where pears to be more than holding necessitates, nevertheless, hard pressure against the in the west to prevent them from | ing any more of their treops to still held by the Germans is : pao te be one of the hardest problems the al- lied forces have to solve. The invaders have thrown up exceptionally strong earthworks and they have two army corps quartered in the city. To take this stronghold by direct assault would mean a terrible loss of life, but its taking is essential to any concerted move forward in order & afford pro- tection to the communications of the allies. There are indications in London that the entire Continental political os a which involves Greece, Italy, and Portugal is developing day by day, That the participation in the war of at least some of these states soon will be+ come a reality is the view of certain of the British commentators. Among the factors contributing to this situation is Italy’s occupation of Aviona and the reported racial unrest in Aus- tria-Hungary, where the Rumanian sub- jects of Emperor Francis Joseph are said to be on.«the point of rebellion, as well as Germany's continued aggression in Angola, the Portuguese possession in Western Africa. : Frequent Raids Expected. : The German air raid on the channel port of Dunkirk, in France, gives basis for the belief that visits of this kind will be more frequent from now on. It would appear that the British raid on Cuxhaven arour:4d in the Germans a spirit of rets‘sation. England, judging from the e .pressions appearing in the newspaper’. is just as eager to deliver biow for )iow in this respect. Four Oerman aeroplanes flew several times over Dunkirk Wednesday, drop- ping bsmbs as they went, according to the Daily Mall correspondent in that city. Soldiers in the streets fired on the machines, and one Taube seemed to ve hit, but all got safely away. The official report on the casuaities shows that 15 persons were killed and 33 wounded. The bombs were filled “— shrapnel. For half an hour the whole city crackled with rifle shots and bom which threw up dense clouds of smoke. No sooner did one seem to depart than another Buildings in all parts of the city wrecked. The first bomb fell on the fortifica- tions, two more near the rallway station and many others in different parts of the town and in the suburb of Rosen- daell and the districts of Coudekerque and Furnes. One child's arm was blown off and an aged woman was killed out- He will. be accompanied by Senator *