St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 8, 1916

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] | Some Correspondence Con- aE ee pple 5 tai ye 4 | amined by the British censors. g a Ships Carrying Neutral Mails q have been sent forward to their desti- - fation. oa 4 in some instances, —@ respondence. GEN, STOPFORD ASKS FOR AN : not take place until the end of | Gen. Stopford'’s responsibility © matter, | blame in an even greater degree for not - insleting on ' continued while it might yet have beer - puccessful. ' by the War Office. has just been appointed to represent the ' army on an important committee, » though, if Gen. Hamilton's strictures are ' well founded, able failure of the war to his account, ' according to military men. ACTRESS WHO CAPTIVATED _dohnson, who, as Emma Linden, one of the beauties i in the lonely farmhouse at Rayn- "passed her girlhood. ; fhe was 18 years old. Emma Linden’s | Deauty and charm attracted Dom Pedro. _ One theory is that he was frst attracted 4 ‘Yo her when she happened to fall before ¥ the carriage in which he was driving. ' Mis open attentions and his lavish gifts | © her gave Brazilian revolutionsts op- | Portunty to decry him and occasion to | Talse a rebellion, ae ' pasily, 4 tor many years after leaving Brazil. ‘ / Made her almost penniless. ‘YH of England when he visited this 4 Fifty Vax on the ay 3 Tells of the Biggest Moments in Her Halt Century Career in Tomorrow's Week Consult the Sunday POST-DISPATCH = —— For a as Best Features at St. Louis Movies Next Programs on the amo and in the Amusement it Columns, Sunday. ee Oe er OTE seaman) PST Yea Se Aman lemmas ares, , Sa a ae by tee mre 3 we e it PU elie = 3. Se ai Ti aa Wyre oe pial prior OTR TP ep noe geen ee: CRE gee SC I rng Ay, Foe "LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper m St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. atest ae TPE ee coe First Want VOL. 68. NO. 141. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1916—12 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT 4 — oe NIGHT EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS [1. PROTESTST0 ENGLAND AGAINST CENSORING MAILS Vigorous Note to London Cites Complaints of Busi- ness Men That Letters to Neutral Countries Have : Been Opened and Delayed. fiscated — Communication Is Understood Already to Have Been Delivered to the Foreign Office. Have Been Held Up and After Examination Matter Has Been Sent Forward to Destination. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The United States has sent to Ambassador Page at London, for presentation to the British Foreign Office, a note vigorously pro- testing. against the British aythorities interfering with and censoring mails from the United States to neutral Eu- ropean countries, The note is understood already to have been delivered to the Foreign Of- fice. The State Department plans to make] public its text here later today. Numerous complaints have been re- ceived from American business men and others that their mails to neutral European countries have been a emus by the British censors. Steamships Carrying neutral mails to and from the United States havé been held up by British warships, and taken to British ports, where practically all mails have been removed. The steam- ships then have been allowed to pro- ceed, and the mails detained and ex- After complete examination the mails This has resulted in much delay, and confiscation of cor- INQUIRY IN SUVLA BAY CASE Man tpon Whoo Sir Ian Hamilton *- Places Blame for Failure at Dardaneliecs Wants Hearirg ‘LONDON, Jan. 8—Gen. Stcpford, on whom Sir Ian Hamilton puts the blamvwe for the Suvla Bay failure, has applied for an inquiry, which, if granted, will he war. The general feeling is that whatever in the himself is to Gen. Hamilton the Suvila advance being Gen. Stopford has not been disciplined On the contrary, he al- he has the most lament- OOM PEDRO DIES IN POVERTY TAUNTON, Miss., Jan, %.-Mrs. Emma bor the stage, captivated "Dom Pedro, then Emperor of Brazil, 's near here, where she was born and While playing in Rio Janeiro when It was suppressed Mrs. Johneon remained on the stage misfortunes and ill health ) EDWARD ELM CUT DOWN ‘iphia Tree, Said to Have Been Pianted in 1861, Dead. _ PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8&—The big tree in Independence Square, said have been planted by King Edward airy as the Prince of Wales in 1361, cut down yesterday. tree had been dead for some Under the ground surrounding tree when the stump was removed found several objects, including a und cannon ball and @ variety of Some of Revolutionary date. Japanese Steamer Disabled. Ba Jan. &—The Japanese Kumi Karue, bound from Se has returned to Hakodate with her damaged. / Associated Press News Service @ received and printed exclusively by Post-Dispatch in the St. Louls even- - Morse, however, sent the bill back with “| AM NO MORE PRO-GERMAN THAN YOUR PRESIDENT: | AM PRO-GREEK, === GONSTANTINE Standing as to King, in New Declaration of Policy, Says He Wishes to Clear Up Any Misunder- His Intentions. By Associated Press. ATHENS, Jan. 6, via Paris, Jan. 7.—‘‘I hype that I can make the people of the United States understand that I am no more pro-German than your President, ’ said King Constantine to the Associated Préss correspondent today. ‘I am pro- Greek, just as your President tries to be only pro-American. “It is one of the saddest evidences of the blind hatreds and prejudices evoked by this war that people who should, and in their sober senses do, know bet- ter, insist upon imputing to others mo- tives which they never could conceiv- ably have entertained.”’ The King’s statement was made _ in rcommunicating to the correspondent an important declaration of his policy which he had given to a representative of the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, This declaration was made with a viow to clearing up any misunderstanding which may exist in Germany respecting hfs !n- tentions. ALLIES OCCUPY MELOS ISLAND BERLIN, Jan. 8 (By wireless to Say- ville.}—Announcement is made by the Overseas News Agency that the Greek Island of Melos, off the southeastern coast of the mainland, has been occu- pied by entente forces. “Public opimion in Greece is being greatly aroused,’’ the News Agency says. ‘“‘Athens dispatches say the peo- ple are particularly indignant because the entente powers did not even make a request to Greece, as was done before other Greek islands were occupied, but simply said the island was desired for naval purposes.”’ MAJOR LIBERATES 47 IN THREE DAYS Relieving Crowd ‘in Prison Where There Are More Than 2000 Inmates. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch, JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 8—Gov. Major, carrying out a policy of reliev- ing the crowded condition of the penl- tentiary by granting paroles to first term convicts, today relased 13, making 47 paroles he has granted in three days. It is known that for several months the Governor has had members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles studying the merits of many applications for pa- roles with a view to releasing many prisoners. It was reported three months ago that ths Governor intended to release 500 con- victs, but he refused to admit that he had such a plan in mind. There are more than 2000 convicts in the peniten- tiary. Noyes Price, a St. Louis convict, serv- ing four years for burglary, was paroled to Charles Powell, Chief of Police in Lafayette, Ind. Price had served less than one year of his sentence. William E. Richardson, ‘also a _ S8t. Louis iconvict, who had served two years of a seven-year sentence for per- jury, was paroled to Rozier G. Meigs of St. Louis. | Hobart Snelson, a grand larceny con- vict from St. Louis, serving two years, was paroled to R. Griffin of St. Louis. William May, a grand larceny. con- vict from St. Louis County, serving four years, was paroled to Mrs. Nellie Smith of St. Louis. A. F. Rieth of St. Louis, serving two years for forgery, was paroled to George H. Rapp of St. Louis. NEVER WINCED AT $1000 TIP But Walter Gets Only 810 Bill When Weomat Discovers Mistake. BOSTON, Jan. 8.—After Mrs. Dudley L. Page, wife of the candy manufacturer, had lunched with friends at the Hote! Lenox yesterday afternoon, she placed a $1000 bill for a tip on the waiter’s sil- ver tray. Most walters are stoics and this one never even coughed. Clerk un inquiry as to whether it was in- tended. “T though it was a $10 bill,”’ said Mrs. Page, as she smilingly exchanged it for one of that denomination. , FAIR WITH SLOWLY RISING ~ TEMPERATURE; 28 TONIGHT THE downey yah “eee Me Miss euscsvcccaome SY Ge Mheoiecesnceces St ee eee ee it >. — PSS pee ! T Ge TR. gesnceenses a ae ess KN Ks FS Sere eee 27 ; Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .31 at 4 p. m. Low. .20 at 7 a. m. Humidity at 7 p. m. yesterday, 61 per cent; at 7 a. m. today, 72 per cent, ERE THERE OftfMial fore. an . Oe cast for St, Louis Seanad ‘amd vicinity: Fair 700 LEST ‘| tenight and to- morrow; slowly rising) 3 tempera- tere; the lowest tenight will be about 28. Missouri —Part- ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: warmer tonight and tn south por- tion tomorrow. Itiinois — Fair tonight and prob- ably tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight and ‘'n’ southeast portion tomorrow. 13 MORE CONVICTS: ' CLERK WHO AIDED IN MAIL FOLDUP GETS THREE YEARS Court First Makes Term Six Years, but Reduces It on Pris- oner’s Record in Service. Charles M. Summers of 3410 Cambridge avenue, for 10 years a clerk in the rall- way mail service, pleaded guilty this morning before Federal Judge Dyer to three counts of an indictment chasging attempting train robbery. He was sen- tenced to serve two years in Leaven- worth -Prison on each count, or six years in all. Summers was for three years. in charge of the mall service between St. Louis and Memphis on the Frisco Raii- read. Last October he suggested to an acquaintance, Melville Fox, that they form a plan to rob the mails, Summers using his knowledge of the run to give the “tip” when a heavy haul of reg- istered mail could be expected. He asked Fox-to provide “good, husky man’’ to assist them. ,One the night of Nov. 1, the outbound Frisco train was held up, according to arangement, at Southeast Junction, west of Maplewood. Everything went as scheduled, except that, when the booty was being divided, the ‘‘good, hus- ky man” placed Summers under arrest. He was a city detective, in whom Fox had confided. Judge Dyer said that he felt sympa- thy for the prisoner, and for his wife and two children, but that because of his position as an employe of the Govern- ment who used his knowledge of the Government's affairs in an attempt to rob it, he could not expect leniency. After leaving the bench, Judge Dyer talked in chambers with Hampton Roth- well, counsel for Summers, and later announced that he had changed the sen- tence imposed to one year and a day in each of the three counts, tnus prac- tically cutting in half the original sen- tence. Rothwell said he had asked clemency for his client upon tne ground that he has a wife and two children to support and that during 10 years of work for the Government Summers had never had a demerit mark, 52,000 SAVE RAILWAY FARE BY GOING TO EAST ST. LOUIS Commercial Club Figures for 10915 Show Many Take Advantage of 2-Cent Interstate Rate. Statistics made public today by the East St. Louls Commercial Club indicate that approximately 52,000 persons, going from St. Louis to Illinois points last year, saved one-half cent a mile on their-railroad fare by crossing the river M, on street cars and buying their railroad tickets at the Relay Depot in East St. Louis, instead of buying them at Union Station in St. Louis. The passenger rate for intrastate busi- ness in Illinois is 2 cents a mile. The interstate rate is 2% cents a mile. The interstate rate was increased at the beginning of 1915. On some trips passeiigers were able to Save several dollars by buying tickets in East St. Louis, The Commercial Club, seeking toc learn the number of persons passing down Missouri avenue to the Relay Depot in Nast St Louis, learned that in 1915 241,300 persons bought tickets at the Relay Depot. This was 52,800 more than bought tickets there in 1914. | W. W, ASTOR SELECTS HIS TITLE LONDON, Jan. 8.—William Waldorf Astor, formerly of New York, who was raised to the English peerage on New Years day, has chosen for his title Baron Astor of Hever Castle, after his splendid Tudor estate In the County of Kent. HELP YOURSELF, HELP THE CITY, BUY REAL BSTATE and IM- PROVE IT. See the Investment offers in today’s rtea) Betate column. More ver: 12.4 feet; a _ than 8000 offers every Gunday. | SKIPPY” ROHAN CALLED “SNITCH, SHOT 10 DEATH Slayer of Gangster in Saloon Frequented by ‘‘Egan’s Rats” Hunted; 3 Witnesses Held. | Slain Man Had Long Criminal Career, but in Late Years As- serted He Reformed. William (“Skippy’’) Rohan, ex-convict and gangster with a 22-year crimi- nal record, was shot and killed shortly after midnight in the saloon con- ducted under the name of John Ryan, the rendezvous of ‘““Egan’s Rats,’’ at 1031 North Broadway, by an unidentified man who denounced him as a “‘snitch’’ before shooting him. Three men who were found in the saloon by the police were arrested and held as witnesses. Search is being made for the slayer. The shots were heard by a policeman standing on Broadway, between O’Fal- lon street and Cass avenue. He found .ohan lying on the sidewalk on the south side of “arr .street, west of Broadway, near the side door of the Ryan saloon. Someone had telephoned for an ambulance. it arrived prosent- ly and Rohan was taken to the city dispensary, where he was pronounced dead. He had been shot in the heart, through the nose and in the right arm. Three Men in the Saloon. The three men in the :aloon were John Laker, 926 North Twenty-second street, the bartender; James Jeffries, 813 North Sixth street, and August W. Hartmann, 2406 South Seventh street. Hartmann told the police he an. ..ohan attended a meeting of the shoeworkers’ union at Seventh and Olive streets, last nizht. Leaving there at 8 o'clock, they went) north, stopping at different saloons, and re sheu Ryan’s at midnight. Four or five other men were in the saloon. About 12:30 a stranger entered and ordered the bartender to ‘‘set ‘em up’’ to everybody except Rohan. ‘What's the matter with me?’ asked Rohan. “Go on, you snitch,” said the man. They quarreled and the stranger dréw a revolver and fired five shots at Rohan. As Rohanefell to the floor the man dropped the revolver and ran out. Bedy Taken Out of Saicon, Laker, according to Hartmann, picked up the revolver and tried to slip it into Hartmann’s pocket. Hartmann pushed him away. Laker demanded that the body be taken out of the saloon and Hartmann and Jeffries carried it to the sidewalk. Laker, questioned by the police, dis- puted Hartmann’s. statements. The stranger and Rohan had an argument in the saloon, he said, and he put them out and the shooting occurred on the sidewalk. The police found bullet marks on the north wall of the interior of the saicon. Laker later amended his statement. He said he was about to push them out on the side-valk when the shooting was done, just inside the door. Laker and Jeffries were released on $800 bonds signed by State Senator Mi- chael Kinney. Rohan was 4 years old. He lived with his wife, Catherine, 3716 Hickory street, to whom he was married two years ago. They were known in the neighborhood by the name of Ruane, and the police say that since his mar- riage he had not given them any par- 69 ticular trouble. Before that, for 2 years, he had the reputation of being the most dangerous and thoroughgo- ing crook with whom the St. Louis po- lice had to deal. He had served four terms in the penitentiary. His spe- clalty was burglary and larceny, but he was mixed up in numerous gang affairs. ‘ Rohan married the widow of Daniel Winn. She has four children by her former marriage. She is said not to have known that Rohan had a criminal record when she promised to marry him. She found out about his record before the wedding, but married him with a determination to reform him, Rohan’s Police Record Long. Rohan's police record began in 1892, when he was 22. He was sentenced to the Pontiac Reformatory for three years for burglary in Chicago and shortly afterward escaped. Just at the close of the year he was arrested here, and while being held at a patrol box he shot and wounded Detective O'Con- nell. For this assault he was sentenced in 186 to two years in the penitentiary at Jefferson City. In 1897 he was charged with robbing a saloonkeeper, a theft of diamonds and shooting and killing Caspar Beinford, 1835 Benton street. While being held for these charges he escaped from the city jail in August. Three months later ne was arrested in Chicago after a run- ning fight for 20 blocks with two police- men. One of the policemen was wounded. In 1898 he was acquitted of the charge of murder, but sentenced to five years -n the penitentiary for the diamond rob- bery. Just after gaining freedom he was sentenced to six months in the work house as a pickpocket. From 1902 to 1914 he served two more terms in Jefferson City and one term in Sing Sing prison, New York, for burglaries. In 1914 he was twice ar- rested upon suspicion but told the police that he had refermed and was working | as a shoemaker. Eleven Murdérs Since October. The Rohan killing was the eleventh murder in St. Louis since last October. In only three cases have the police been able to obtain evidence and make Centinued on Page 3, Column &. . ) SHOTS FOLLOWED QUARREL., Guns on Italian Liner That May Cause Her to Be Interned in New York as a Warship cover alongside. NEW YORK, Jan. &. HAT appeared like two covered W planos set up ‘on the deckhouse over the steering gear of the Italian liner Giuseppe Verdi when she arrived from Genoa and Naples Thurs- day were two Armstrong 3-inch guns, Capt. Luigi Zannoni explained that they nad been installed hurriedly in Genoa The photograph shows one of the guns uncovered for inspection. and were for defense only in case sh was chased by a submarine in the Medi- terranean. When the liner docked in Jersey City F. A. Dowsey of the Neutrality Squad inspected the guns with Chief Officer Vesidirio Maggi. They were rapid fir- ers, with telescopic sights, good for four and a half miles, and capable of firing 2 Photograph by New York Herald Service The other is shots a minute. | nad in her crew two ex-gu trom the Italian navy. to Collector of Port teiegraphed to and it is expected that the will look thoroughly into tl a possibility terned as a warship. the ->=-------- - FORD PLAGE PARTY S WELCOMED AT THe DUTGH CAPITAL Member of Second Chamber Says Purpose of! the Expedition Is Laudable. By Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. &—The Ford party has arrived at The Hague, peace says Netherlands its headed a Reuter dispatch from the a capital, and was welcomed on ar- rival by a reception committee by Jonkheer K. Noble, a member of the second chamber, who, in a brief speech in which friendly sentiment toward America was expressed, hoped the party would achieve its expectation. Even if it did not, however, added the speaker, ‘its intentions were laudable. An earlier dispatch, which reported the arrival of the party at the Dutch frontier, said the 1ll-hour trip through Germany was without important inci- dent. The train passed through Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen. a Several Ford Party Delegates at Ber- lim for Journalistic Studies. BERLIN, Jan. 8—Several members of the Ford expedition are visiting Berlin, having been granted permission to de- viate from the party’s prescribed route for journalistic. studies here. The main party traversed Germany by direct train from Warnemuende, on the Danish fron- tier, to benheim, on the Dutch fron- tler, by way of Hamburg. The German Consul at Copenhagen vised the pass- ports of the party for this route only. WOMEN TO REPLACE MEN IN INSANE ASYLUMS OF ILLINOIS New State Policy Regarded as Mean- ina More Kindness, Leas Force, in Dealing With Inmat>s. CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Male attendants in Illinois state asylums for the insane are to be replaced by women, according to an announcement today of plans adopted by the State Board of Adminis- tration. The new policy is regarded as in line with the Introduction of more kindness and less force in dealing with the unfor- tunates. REPORT AMERICAN PASTOR WAS ON THE PERSIA IS CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Jan. §—Confirmation of reports that the Rev. Homer R. Sal- isbury of this city, an American citizen, was & passenger on the Sstearmer Per- sia, sunk in the Mediterranean, was received today by the State Depart- ment from Consul-General Gaulin at Marseilles. Salisbury took passage on the Per- sia at Marseilles, the dispatch said. His name does not appear among survi- vors. =o $16 for Marie Moentmann, The Post-Dispatch has forwarded $16.4 to Marie Moentmann, who lost her arms in a factory accident. It was sent in by employes of the Ford Motor Co. Tie Associated Press News Service is received and printed exclusively >y the Post-Dispatch tn the St. Louls even- ing field } gor ry te ¢ y % 3 . * ? yD ¥ % Pi | WHITE. BOOK’ 1S TOLD OF IN Tite GLEN ECHO SUIT Lawyer for “Outs” So Terms Circular Letter of Trustees Giving Reorganization Plan. off first in the at Clay- James C. Jones teed Gien Echo game of court golf ton today. There usual large gallery, which followed the play closely the difficult was the ond evinced great interest in iaw- vers’ efforts to negotiate the legal hazards and bunkers. lor the first time the now famous cir- cUlar letter issued by the trustees, »ut- lining a plan for the reorganization cf the club, was referred to as “‘the white book.’ It was thus characterized by Attorney Frank H. Sullivan, attorney for the former members of the club who ere suing to wrest control of the club's property from the trustees who bought it in for $132,000 at a foreclosure sale last July. Jones told of several meetings at the Washington Hotel and at the Mercan- tilé Club early. last year, when plans were made to refinance the club in the interest of all the members. At one time, he said, Russell E. Gardner cf- fared to advance money to pay the ciub’s current expenses and pressing debts. Says Roberta Shifted Attitude. After one of the meetings in February, he said, John €. Roberts, a directo. of the club, followed him out of the recom cud told him that any steps that micht be taken to refund the club’s dabt would be in the interest of all the members. Later, he said, Roberts was one of the tine trustees who bought In the prop- erty and then exciuded 146 members uf the club from the invitation list of the proposed new club, Jones said Roberts had assured him that no member in good standing would “frozen out.’’ When a majority of the trustees voted to limit the membership in the new club and to invite only certain chosen mem- bers of the old club, Jones resigned as a trustee. He is one of the defendants in the present suit. While Jones was testifying Attorney W. Christy Bryan of counsel for the ‘ins’’ referred to Jones as one of the plaintiffs in the auit. Jones Seeks No Retief. “T am not a plaintiff and I am not asking relief,”’ said Jones. ‘I do not want any interest in the club property. You can take it and go with it now. Dont’ consider me as claiming asao- clation with you people. I am not in the attitude of a plaintiff, and as a defend- ant I want to say that I had no part in doing the wrong complained of in this case.” Jones testified that after the com- mittee of five had been enlarged by the eddition of four members. 8. T. G., Smith, a member of the committee, said. ts him: “We can exclude all the mem- bers we want to exclude and we are going to do it.” After Jones testified the trial was continued to Feb. 21. Shep Proprietor Kills Holdup Manz. KANSAS, CITY, Mo., Jan. $.—A young man who attempted to hold up the pawn- shop of Arthur Harris, 142% Matin street, last night, wae shot and killed by the proprietor. The youth was identified as having regietered at a hotel under Loft the office: $34 000,000 IN EAST ST. Sum Animals. The allies have that the vesse Represents Allies’ 1 This Section for 195,000 purchased mately 195,000 war horses at the Nation- under the canvas To man them the liner nners’ mates Dowsey reported Malone, Washington who fom advice, Government 1e case, witn 1 will be in- ce ee ee ee PAID FOR HORSES LOUIS Outlay approxi- a: Stockyards in East St. Louis, since the war began, C. T. Jones, president of the stockyards company, said today. At an average price of $180 a head, this would call for a total expenditure of $34,100,000. The majority of these were scld through the Holland-Nugent-Max- well Bros. firm. The British have purchases at the East Side the French, tinue to buy, About 300 horses day. few months French alone The British tion expense here. Jones said the the country apparently is 1 There is no trouble in ge animals desired. ing from the Western not the cowpony type. hundred cow ponies have and they were obtained gians to draw light field g¢ liorses of the ety are the kind most desi hardest to get. They can b for artillery or cavalry, as although are of war, the have moved points farther West, of transporting beer discontinued were buying supply of their market, but Italians and Belgians con- not being. sold each In the rush period after the first sO freely, British arn: 1200 a day. their inspec- to avoid the the animals horses ‘ti nexhauatible tting all the Most of them are com- states, but are Only a few been bought, by the Bel- uns. wagon team vari- red, and the e used either their weight makes them valuable in both instances. MARY PICKFORD TO HAVE HALF INTEREST IN FILM Moving Picture Star Forme COMPANY artnere- ship With President of Concern for Which She Has Been Working. NEW YORK, Jan. §8—Mary Pickford, the high-priced moving picture star, proved her business ability she put through a deal will be retained in the Pia‘ and also share in the profi by today when which she ers Film Co. ts. A second company to be known as the Famous Players-Mary Pick been formed, Mary Pickfe president of the original c owning 50 per cent of the s The contract of the actress ford Co. has vd and the mpany each tock ran out Dec. 31 and all the motion picture con- cerns have been bidding for her serv- ices. a 21, SUCCEEDS DECEASED ATHER AS COUNTY AUDITOR Misa Geneva Moeser, 21 years old, of Belleville, was appointed auditor of St. Clair County todJay, to fill out the unexpired term of her father, Frederick Moeser, who died twe weeks ago. The salary is $2206 a year. * Miss Moeser for two years had and she tse familiar been her father's confidential clerk with the duttes She was the only wom- an candidate for the place. The Board of Supervisors made thé appointment after balloting five times Miss Moeser’s clore- et ee eee Henry G. Schne! etitor =~ d 2000 TROOPS AT OHIO RIOT SCENE; | DEAD, 100 HURT Guardsmen Put Down Two New Outbreaks Around East Youngstown—Stores Looted, Ten Blocks Burned, Causing Loss of $1,000,000. Posse, After Night of Terror, in Which Men Drink From Liquor Barrels in Street, Drives Marauders Off. Workmen Start Trouble at Bridgehead — New Cloth- ing Stolen and Donned in Strtet by Frenzied Men. YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 8.—After pute ting down two incipient outbreaks, en- of the situation at Hast Youngstown was obtained this afternoon by the militia sent there as the result of labor rioting last night in which one Man was killed, probably 100 persons were injured, and property valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed by the firing of the entire business section of the town, lv blocks in length. Three regiments of infantry, ing of 2000 men, tire control conatat- are at the scene of the trouble. They are under command of Brigadier-General John C. Speaks. Mar- tial law is expected to be declared be- fore night. Two companies of militia were sent in automobiles to Struthers, across the Mahoning River from East Younge- town, upon receipt of a report that members of a mob were fighting among themselves there. The trouble had sub- sided, but troops were left on guard to prevent another outbreak. Guardsmen, with fixed bayonets drove back a mob of strikers who threat- ened the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. plant he:': early this afternoon. The estimate of 10 wounded in the rioting last night is made by phyai- clans. While the majority had been shot, there were many wounds from knives, bearing out the statement that when the rioters were driven from Wilson avenue, the main Street of the town, they began fighting among theme selves. All But Twe Seleons Buarved. Mayor Carroll Thornton of Youngs town, two miles from the burned town, was expected to issue an order today closing all saloons in the city, while ar- rangements were being made to restrict and perhaps prohibit the sale of fire- arme, if the military did not act. There was no liquor question to settle in East Youngstown, for of the ® raloons, all but two had been burned and those twu had been looted. Two weeks ago laborers of the Repub- lic Iron and Steel Co. struck for an in- crease of wages from 19% to @ cents an heur. The Youngstoyvn Sheet and Tube Co. offered them 22% cents an hour tm- mediately after the United States Steel Corporation had announced its locrenke of 10 per cent for laborers. This was re; jected by the workers and the strike has since been in progress. Reports tr day are prevaient that atrikebdDrenkers haa been imported, which precipitated the trouble. Operations of the mill are entirely sua pended today. ‘Three hundred office ¢m- pioyes are marooned in the plant, where they spent the night for safety and to keep the fires going The State Industrial Commieston decid ed today to send Fred CC. Croxton, head of the State Statistical Burean, te Youngstown to act as mediator itn the airike situation He will confer with employers and strike leaders tomorrow. He will be accompanied by W. J. Boese! ni’ George Miles as deputies. The trouble began late yesterday when the day shift at the plant of the Youngs- town Sheet and Tube Co. quit for the day. The plant is on the flats of the Mahoning REiver, several hundred feet from the hillside on which ts bullt Baa Youngstown, where moat of the work- men live. The mille are reached from the town by a high bridge. spanning the ratiroad yards. This bridge has been carefully guarded by private watchmeb since the laborers at the olant, severa) days ago, joined the laborers of the Re public Iron and Steel Co. and other mille for an advance of & cents a day. A crowd of men and women estimated *t 200 had gathered at the East Youngs- town end of the bridge and jeered at the workmen as they crossed. Suddeniy « thot was fired and guards taking this as ® signal, fired over the heads of the crowd. The mod replied and another volley came. A number of persons, tn- cluding two women, fell, and the mob broke and ran up the hillside. Firtieg of Hutidiagse Begun. A block away it reformed and almost immediately set fire to the building oc- cupied by the tube company’s employ- ment bureau. <A little later tt fired « small warehouse and then turned its at- tention to private property. A saloon stood on the corner and a rush Was made for the door. In a niin ute a shouting crowd filled the tittle poom and the rioters helped themseive- te what they sew. When the lcoting was complete the match was applied. A clothing estore nearby was next entered and the stock pased out te the oa vtantly growing crowd. in ~~ —_—