St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 23, 1915

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Jurors and witnesses were then dismissed unti) tormorruv. at 1) a m. After the postponement Judge Kin- sey resumed a conference in cham- bers with attorneys for the defen- dantg in the will contest and heard Here. Louis that recei bi by the Associated Presa A Centinued on Page . Column 2. their argumenis on affidavits sub- mitted by Attorney Ottofy late yes- terday afterrovun 1.1 Suport of his re- | ceeat for a continuance on the ground that six of his important wit- ;nesses were ill | Attorney"Ottoly, in his aftigevit asking zn continuance, «tates that he bs pres rent. OPC et Pt at Ot OT ORI a I a Ca Pla She Two Contestants in Campbell Will Suit and Child of One Soe «> ae ” MRS, GENEVIEVE CAMPBELL BAKER AND CH tALTON aaa A PORTER, NOW AN ACTOR OF CLASSICS Grandly Attired Shaksperean Reader Is Recognized as “Old Spread.” There was something strangely famil- iar about a 220-pound negro, grandly at- tired in a Prince Aipert coat, who ap- peared in Alton yesterday and began having handbills scattered about town. announcing that “Prof. Crawford’ would give a literary entertainment Wednesday night “ror the quoting of Shakspeare and the Biple.’’ He was the envy of a group, of ne- groes who gathered at the depot. “I’ve sho’ seen dat niggan right aroun’ dis very depot,’ one of them vouchsafed. He scratched his head, and later said, “Dat boy's old Spread.’’ The ‘“‘committee” called on “Prof. Crawford” and sure enough the pro- fessor admitted he was “Spread.’”’ That was his nickname in Alton 10 years ago, when he was porter at the Hotel: Madi- son there. He got it when he wag por- ter on the steamboat Spread Eagle and it remained with him the five years he worked at the hotel. The boys recalled that “Spread,” be- tween intervals of hustling trunks and carrying grips, used to devote himself to a Bible and a book of Shakspeare’s works which he al- ways carried in his pockets. And the “Professor” recalled that one night, more than a decade ago, he gave a performance of “Faust” in the city hall, and had to finish it in the dark when a little negro disconnected the electric switch. The “professor” weighed 140 pounds when he left Alton. He was & then. He says he has been among the natives in Africa, and besides singing songs in 27 native tongues, can repeat from memory 1000 verses of the Bible and whole passages from Shakspeare. He now portrays many Shakspearean roles, among them Julius Caesar, Richard the Third, Hamlet, Shylock, Romeo and even Juliet. He’s hired a hall and is going to show the “home folks” what a dis- tinguished scholar grew up among them while smashing baggage... WOMAN DEAD; ROOM GAS-FILLED Jets Believed to Have Been Opened After Husband Weni to Work. Mrs. Josephine Gale, 4 years old, was found dead at 9 o'clock this morning in her room, in a rooming house conducted avenue. The room was filled with gas. Mrs, Meiners told the police that Ben Gale, house at 7 o'clock to go to his work, and that the gas must have ~~ turned on ‘vetween « and 9 o'clock, wow ye PRICE ONE CENT} the woman's lusband, left the} 1 TLON anne | MEMBERS’ WIVES NVROW. RECENER ASKED FOR CLUB Petition for Sale of ‘‘Our Cot- tage’ Property. on Meramec - River, Valued at $500. On account of differences and quar- rels that. have arisen among the wives of the mempers or Our Cot- tage Club on the*Meramec River at Deicke, Edwin C. Kuntz, one of the members, filed in the Circuit Court at Clayton yesterday afternoon a peti- tion for a receiver for the club and partition of the club house and ap- purtenances, consisting of one flat- boat, a number of cots and bedding and kitchen utensils of an eatimated value of $600. He names as defendants the other members of the’club, A. Holgle, Edgar C. Larner, C. Huneke, C. Keefer, Thom- as P. Rutledge, Arthur Henneman and Harry Kaller. Each Contributed $48, The club, according to the petition, was organized between‘ Jan. 1 and June 1, 1913, for fishing, hunting and rowin purposes, and eacn member contribut $48, which was placed in the hands of Holzle. A tract was leased from Dr. Monroe for $20 a year, which lease is to run until April 1, 1918, and a clubhouse was erected on the river bank, opposite the spring and christened “Our Cottage,” and the club entered upon its hunting, fishing and rowing career, the flatboat named in the petition having been ac- quired for the latter purpose. The men, it is said, were able to fish, hunt and row amicably, but not so their wives. They held divergent views about the way a club should be run, and before the end of the second season there was a row on the Meramec that was spelled the same as the row in the declared ob- jects of the club but was pronounced differently. Wants the Property Sold, Kuntz says in his petition that the defendants want to close the club’s af- fairs and are willing to buy his share or sell their shares to him, but on. ac- count of the differences and quarrels among the wives, a price cannot be agreed on. He thinks it will be best to have the clubhouse and appurtenances and leasehold sold and the proceeds dis- tributed pro rata among the members, after the payment of all outstanding that a receiver be appointed for the season of 1915 and issue trustee’s cer- tificates, to be disposed of at not less than 100 cents on the dollar, and in sums not to exceed $100. All the members of the club are res- identa of St. Louis except Hoizie, Hun- eke and Keefer. President Believes $26,000,000 Deficit Estimate About Correct. dent Wilson expressed confidence to- day that the estimates by Chairman mittee placing the treasury deficit ' PETROGRAD, obligations. In the meantime he asks / ACCEPTS SIMMONS’ FIGURES! for the year at approximately $26,- |! by Mrs. Alivina Meiners at 3828 Finney 000,000 were . more i oS Bie, ——_— er - By Associated Presa. MP 4 March 2%.—E re filled) which preceded the final desperate ‘aha the of the beleaguered garrison in trian fortress of Przemysl, break through the enciroling Russian troops, are described a ficial communication issued } night. The last of the provisior fortress had been distributed fs sortie was ordered. The statement “During the last days before the sortie the garrison received ir rations. Each soldier was given cuits to last five days, warm, new ¢ ing artd new boots. Officers were | structed to explain to the troops © if they returned to the fortress afi, glorious fate awaited them and o : quently they must pierce the Rum front at any cost. | “An easterly direction was cr the sortie as the line of least as well as because it led to the distr where the Russians had large stores arcns and ammunition, of L than 20, men were ordered t’ part{, Me ) in sortie, but several v a are te Rss i , smber otf | despite the urgires ot) ‘Only the Twenty-thi ® decisively defeated.” 50.000 Prisoners ‘Taken. War Office advices are that nine'y trian Generals, more than 300. and 60,000 men were veaptured- Preemysl fell. The Russian cuitisnitied have information to the effect that fenses of Przemysl are in good « tion, notwithstanding the long and are capable of being put into ing order immediately. Six guns of the newest ‘trpe were in the fortress. A heavy snowstorm falled to the enthusiastic demonstration in the civil and military population uni when the fall of Przemysl was nounced. The Petrograd crowds, dering in deep. drifts which tled 1 street traffic, cheered the officers soldiers who remained to paren the celebrations. From the Kazan cathotent the of the national anthem swelled tn. ume as the crowd gathered, and other points throughout the city, teriously hidden behind the dense . tain of falling snow, music burst and added to the genera) spirit’ thusiasm. . The moral effect of the | Russia, it is expected, will be ¥ great, awakening hopes that this w be the turning point in the “] and Carpathian campaign. , % The ending of the long siege” Russia control of virtually all of ern Galicia and releases the army which has been besieging the : for service elsewhere. In consequence of the surrender Przemys!, the Generalissimi, Gr Duke Nicholas, has been awarded St. George's Cross, of the second gree, and the commander of the a before Praemysl, Gen. Seliwamoff, . St. George’s Cross of the third degr Simmons of the Senate Finance Com- | withdrawn “all his. the Lincoln and var ft she found: ia Mix. of the entered for i ¢