St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 27, 1926
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6 Need ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH A.M, DOCKERY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI, DIES | He Also Was Member of Congress for 16 Years MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1926 PAGE 2_ : GERMANS BUILDING MOTOR ‘SHIP’ FOR DESERT TRAVEL ae # oor Sg. ie ae : ine ee sf eee rr Wheels 40 Feet High. 5 ites iis tea oon, Ske eel 3 mai. ane. a : : | By the Associated Press. “am Se hee wisoen, ene pe aaa tee eee sce Bi rtinng Say - ; iting Q BERLIN, Dec. 27.—The future fy eam : rei ah eS a , “ship of the desert”’ will not be the traditional camel, in view of a Kiel inventor, who has evolved a ~Marcus Reynolds, 22, Ac- cused of Criminal Care- ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH wom ac Train Wreck Which Took 19 Lives > P 7 : . Ve es se oe m et ee ORE MN ona Me ocaphsiemaneapanignees bs ; = ee . ere i oe ee DEAD EX-GOVERNOR 0 Persie inaeee —— (a ceca STORE @ INEASTST.LOUS cf the Sunday awe was ge about by the next ¢ Folk re Enter Jacob Schneider’s Tobacco Shop “war a + Once Boomed for Early in Dockery’s ernor, an attempt was = him forward as a candiaal Democratic nomination for F dent in 1904 This boom longlived, as it became the candidate in that Fave to come from some 5 mote from Lincoln, Neb, ’ . J Pees in a Ser nS eee ee — Sent fectiveness and freight and pas- senger carrying capjacity in tra- versing the earth’s arid regions. The new craft, in which its pro- Ce FRE a Sen Ces ae ee. wae aR pha TP ll t~ Ae mr 5 ae Cit BA. ee My — - pring " Se FFs ste oe Ps . + : Nit ena wy sey +P 7 aA Rae Re . gm " . nh ee +h, (adiaiep ari ead 3 CP ns a ee ee craft which he believes will meet lessness in Death of Mrs. all modern demands ror speed. ef- Lillian R. Murray. FOUR PERSONS IN HIS SMALL COUPE Verdicts of Accident in Cases of Man and An- other Woman Killed by Motor Vehicles. A Coroner’s verdict of criminal carelessness was returned today against Marcus Reynolds, 22 years street, in the case of Mrs. Lillian Ruth Murray, 21, of 5427 Gerald- ine avénue, who died Saturday | night of a skull fracture suffer21 | Saturday afternoon when an au- tomobile, in which she was rid- ing with her husband, was struck by Reynolds’ car at Twentieth street and Cass avenue. Testimony showed that there were four persons crowded in Rey- nolds’ small coupe, that he was driving about 25 miles an hour, and that he ran into the other ca> after swerving in an attempt to avoid it. Reynolds and Murray did not testify. At first it was thought Mrs, Mur- ray had not been seriously injured. Dr. John Kehoe, 4145 St. Louis avenue, testified that he made 4 casual examination 15 minutes aft- er the collision, noticed a bump | on her forehead, and was to!d she had a headache. He prescribed headache powders and applicetion of ice bags. Several hours leter she became unconscious and ¢cied on her way to a hospital. Thomas Wilson, 35 years old, a laborer, of 1528 North Sixte-ath street, died yesterday at City los- old, a laborer, of 3134 Magazine | | —Photo by Lane Bros., Atlante. CLOSE-UP of what remained noe the forward cars of Ponce de Leon, crack Florida train of the Southern Railway, after it ran head-on at 50 miles an hour into a section of the Royal Palm, another flyer. Below, the locomotives as they appeared im- mediately after the crash, the - KELLOGG P OMISES REAL NE ALITY IN NICARAGUY _ Continued from Pnge One. United States and many millions of dollars would not be sufficient to subjugate Nicaragua, he added, “the Nicaraguan people, who have suffered much, will fight to complete extermination ‘*because,”’ ay SR “ bs ‘ ~~ ar : 7 fn FS 4 ?. ” S " 5 “ 3 : oO " $ , prmne Lae ae SOR Fog PR Re SI SNR A” RRL Se aad MM rd ~ yA : » a & ¥ 3 Pe, OMT OT aye CORES ey, jector, Johann €Cristoph Bishoff, is working in conjunction with other engineers and the co-operation of industrial interests, is really a gi- gantic motor vessel. nearly 300 feet 1 ng, 88 feet broad and standing about 60 feet high, resting on four huge wheels, nearly 40 feet in diameter, which greatly resemble the paddle wheels of the old-time river steamers. It is calculated that these wheels wil] take kindly to the desert sands and skim over them easily and lightly, for the estimated speed of the new land ship is about 20 miles an hour un- der average conditions, with a slowing down to perhaps less than 10 miles if the sands traversed are very soft and deep. Gasoline en- gines supply the motive pover. The craft is intended to speed its way across any desert area, in dependent of highroads or even trails, taking an airline from start _accommodations for 300 but with capacity for 50 tons or i was to destination. It is designed pri- marily for passenger traffic. with persons, more of freight. It bears « strong resemblance to a medium-sized ocean liner. with pilot house and bridge and searchlight at the bow NEW ASSOCIATE SECRETARY OF THE AMITY ASSOCIATION The Rev. O. Talbott, for six years supervisor of boys’ club work at the Olive - Grand Congregational Church, yesterday became associate secretary of the Amity Associa- tion, which maintains Amity Hali. at 810 Market street, to provide food, lodging and religious serv- ices for aged and homeless mir. He came to his new post from Bunker Hill, Ill., where for 18 months he was pastor of the Wood- burn Congregational Church. He educated in St. Louls at Xenia Theological Seminary and the Brooks’ Bible Institute, ani will handle the religious activitics at Amity Hall. A five-tube neutrodyne radio sct was installed at Amity Hall Chriést- mas day as a gift from the Stew- and Third Assistant Post- master-General. Spectal to the Post-Dispatch GALLATIN, Mo., Dec. 27.—Alex- ander M. Dockery, 81 years old. former Governor of Missouri, for- mer Congressman and Third As- sistant Postmaster-General under President Wilson. dieu here yer- terday. He was stricken a week ago with an intestinal malady, which had afflicted him at inter- vals for six years, His recovery was considered impossible at the time of his last attack. Mr. Dockery had made his home while in Gallatin with Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Gregory since;the death of his wife. Mr. Gregory is a |jeweler. Joshua W. Alexander, | Secretary of Commerce under Pres- ident Wilson and an old friend of Gov. Dockery, was at the home. The funeral, arrangements for which are in the hands of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri, will be in Gallatin and burial will be in Chillicothe where Mrs. Dock- ery and members of the Dockery family are buried. The hour for the funeral has not been set. The last request of the former Governor was that the Masons bury him, and a_ telegram has been sent to John Pickard at Co- lumbia, Mo., present grand mas- ter, asking him to arrange a serv- ice. Gov. Dockery was to have been an honor guest tomorrow at a Woodrow Wilson birthday dinner in Gallatin, sponsored by the &t. Joseph Wilson Club. The dinner, an annual affair. now will be in St. Joseph, and a memorial serv- ice will be part of the program. Son of Circuit Rider. was born on a farm in Daviess County, Mo., he» 11, 1845, the son of Methodist circuit rider who had come to Northwest Missouri from Kentucky He was educated in Macon, and in a St. Louis medica! college, and began practicing medi. eine in Chillicothe in 1866. He be- came president of the Chillicothe He —Harris & Ewing Photo. A. M. DQCKERY. of a commission which established a new accounting system for the Treasury Department. Elected Governor tn 1900. Dockery’s congressional service ended in 1899. and he became an activescandidate for the Democrat- ic nomination for Governor in 1900 Through the support of politicians and party newspapers in different parts of the State, he won withour difficulty in the State convention. State tickets being then named by the convention method. He was elected by a substantia) plurality over Joseph Flory, the Republican rominee. In this campaign, and in Dis subsequent dealings with poll ticlans at the State capital, the ‘Dockery wink” became celebrated esa personal characteristic During Dockery’s term as Gov- ernor, the St. Louis boodle scandal developed, and the revelations spread into State politics, particu larly in the baking powder scandal The resignation of the Lieutenant- Governor was one of the results of the exposures. Circuit Attorney Folk of St. Louis, the prime mover in the boodle exposure, became a candidate for Governor, and Dock- ery was placed in an attitude of opposition to Folk, not so much tirough anything that he himself finally furnished the will be remembered. In the middle of Doc as Governor. Mrs. Dockery “ children survived her ait children had been born ov After the end of his term, D returned to his home tin, and turned his attention ca] improvement work,: road construction in Da ty, and acting as president « town school board. | After being out of isi the wider sense, for ef Dockery was one of the) hun eourians to obtain an tm appointment after the Demacs party returned to power a, He was named by Pos eral Burleson as Third in charge of the financial of the department. Some tf er it was related that his a ment came about through a ehu remark made by Senator Burleson, In Dockery’s which Burleson took as @ ree mendation, though Stone intended to land a job for Dor ‘ having fully planned the tionment of the patronage disposal. Burleson and f had been friends in Congress,” E FOUR DIE IN CHRISTMAS Fi IN THE KENTUCKY MOUN, Special to the Post-Dispatch. PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 9. Four men were killed in two eh ing affrays in the mountains & The dead are: } R. L. Lattimore, 66 years old, pk siclan for the Fox Ride Coal ¢ Henry Smith, a his son Roy and Dan Jones, ol here Christmas. at Blanche, Ky.; Banner Fork. Dr. Lattimore wag shot in 3 home on Christmas day by ¢ stable Botner Smith and Bowman, his deputy, who had ? sent to arrest the doctor on @ rant charging him with drur ness and striking his wife, © two officers were released on i bond each, pending an in tion. The stories of the conflict. rigar , store é rhe 4 put , the , pY the ‘the thought it - down ‘ 4 aside dered Pocurrency gsafe were and Card Room Within Block of Police ~‘ ation. COMPEL TWO MEN TO LE ON FLOOR’ ' They Ditiah: Cui Safe and Escape With Money and Checks, Overlooking $130. ’ Two inen obtained $1445 in & Proldup today at Jacob Schneider's and card.room, 4323 lissouri avenue, East St. Louls a jock from Police Headquarters nd a half block from the city's ysiest corner—Missouri and Col avenues. in. the store when iinsville No one robbers entered, in the card room in the rear, tiichard Schneider, son of the pro- was opening the safe, and | Negro porter, Carl Bell, was eweeping As Schneider walked | front. carrying a box full of | change, for the cash reg- | ister, one robber covered him with | a revolver, and the other walked nto the card room and covered porter firs! was at 6:50 a. m.., prietor, PF $i0ov in and Bell} was a joke, but one robber cried: “Put ‘em up; this ts a real stickup!” Schneider , put his cash box and Bell put his broom Both were or- to lie on the floor. the open safe, was taken, and from chneider’s pockets $300 The 100 in the box and an additional $30 carried by Schnelder. were overlooked. The robbers also took checks for several hundred dollars from the Schneider protested that they not negotiable, and the rob- At Schneider from $1145 in IRI 8 LDR I Me wee ORR A en es pital of a fractured skull suffered | rather than bow to the Government . et 10 o'clock Friday night when/the United States would force upon struck at Sixteenth streét and Css |them.” avenue by the automobile of Ches- He said private interests, ‘“‘de-| ter Kribs, 23, of 4810 Delimnar|siring to exploit Nicaragua, .are| boulevard. A Coroner’s jury re-j| behind the machinations to induce turned an accident verdict today.|the United States to intervene,” John Williams, 56, a Negro, of|affd expressed a disbelief that the 1019 Logan street, Madison, died at | United States actually would “go People’s Hospital, Saturday of ajto the extent of attempting to skull fracture suffered Dec. 9 when/| force, at any cost, upon the Ni- he was struck by the automohtle|caraguan people the impotent and of Frank Krmack, 1206 Market | unpopular Diaz Government, which etreet, Venice, Ill., in Venice. they will never accept.” Automobile fatalities over Denies Mexico Is Helping. week-end in and around St. Senor Robleto pronounced as ab- totaled six, three deaths having! solutely falgeg reports that the been reported in yesterday's -Post-| Mexican Government was assist- Dispatch. The total in St. Louls so/|ing the liberals. far this year is 173 as compared “There is not an officer or sol- with 189 for a simi period Ixst|dier of the Mexican Army fight- year, and 192 for all of last year. [ing with the Liberal Army,” he Driver Fices After Killing Boy. said. “Possibly as many as 15 Police are seeking the driver of| volunteers from Mexican nation- a Ford coupe who sped away after/ality are with the Liberals. but running down Theodore W. Zer-| they came spontaneously. of their nick, 11, of 1011 Ohio avenue, at!own “esire, the same as men of Jefferson avenue and Rutger street, | other nationalities have done. x 10:20 o’clock last night. The The under-secretary challenged boy is at City Hospital with a frac-|the truth of Rear Admiral Tati- tured left arm, internal injuries and|mer’s statement that American probable skull fracture. citizens and commercial interests Others injured in automobile ac-{in Puerto Cabezas, where Amer't- cidents were: Frederick Rees, 44,/| can sallors and marines have heen of 1919 North Seventeenth street, | landed and which has been de- cuts and bruises; his wife, Ada, j|clared a neutral zone, had appealed fractured skull and collarbone; |for the protection of the ITI’‘nited their son, Raymond, 11, probable | States. . © ae —— ekull fracture: Albert Heidorn, 25, 1,000,000 SEE of 1625 E. Grand avenue, fractured skull; Walter O'Reilly, 25, of 4100, BODY OF MIKADO North Newstead avenue, lacerated | acalp: Lee Keene, 19, of 2104 North | BORNE TO PALACE Continued from Page One. ama before dawn on Christmas Ninth street, fractured arm and day in the presence of the Lord ribs. Privy Seal, the Premier, members An unidentified white man, about 45 years old, suffered a frac- of the imperial household and the Cabinet. tured skull and other injuries when struck by an automobile on State Highway No. 3, a mile south of His coronation will not take East St. Louis, at 9:20 a. m. today. place until 1928. It will be held He is at St. Mary’s Hospital. The at Kioto in October or November, car, occupied by two men, did not after the 12-month period mourning which will be prescribed for the late Yoshihito. stop. Another motorist, who gave chase without avail, reported a lie | ) Si sro earl cense number. On the strength of | Pope Sends Condolences on the this, a warrant charging assault | Death of the Mikado. was tssued against A. E. Ganaway | ROME, Dec. 27. — Immediately of Carlinville, Ill. to whom the l- | after the death on Saturday of Em- cense number had been issued. | peror Yoshthito of Japan, Pope A verdict of accident was re- | Pius ordered the Apostolic Delegate turned by the Coroner's jury today |®t Tokio to present condolences to _ in the death of Mrs. Catherine |the family of the Emperor and to Bialozak, 46 years old, a tobacco | the Japanese | 10V ernment. stripper, of 1429 North Ninth | street, who was killed Saturday | V. R, C. LACY DIVORCED night when she stepped in front | Wife Charged Attorney With In- of a Blue Goose bus at the inter- dignities and Incompatibility. section of Broadway and Mullan- Mrs. Ruth Foster Lacy today phy street. Witnesses testified | Was granted a divorce by Circuit that the bus was proceeding slow. | Judge Wurdeman at Clayton, from ly when Mrs. Bialozak attempted | Verne R. C. Lacy, attorney, on to cross in front of it. grounds of general indignities and ; incompatibility. They were married S. M. WAGNER IN NEW | ORLEANS. last Jan. 21, after he divorced his Jones and Roy Smith shooting at each other inag in Harlane County. Jones bil Smith, whose father then Board of Education and in 1874 14 removed to Gallatin, where he wae 21 member of the City Council and was Mayor fortwo terms. He was a member of the State University’s Board of Curators from 1872 to 1882. His attention was turned more and more from his medical prac- tice to politics, and in 1878 he had an apparent opportunity to get the Democratic nomination for Con- gress in the Third District, but re- fused the offer, as he was chair man of a delegation instructed for another man. He_ received the nomination in 1882. and was elect- eA for eight consecutive terms. In Congress, Pockxery worked for rostal legislation, and was the au thor of the measure extendirg the use of the special delivery stamp to ell offices. He worked for the ex tension of the rural delivery sys- tem, and was credited with promot: ing ‘the passage of the bill which abolished the fee system of paying United States Marshals and Dis- trict Attorneys. He was chairman ssid or did as through the St. Lofts Police Department, which was headed by Harry B. Hawes. als» president of the Jefferson Club Fo!k’s nomination in 1904 was 4 triumph over Hawes and James A Reed, and was indirectly a defeat for Dockery. Folk was elected but the Republicans carried other State offices. Dockery named as Excise Com- missioner in St. Louis James M Seibert, who established the rule trat saloons must close at 1 a. m This was the first action taken against the all-night saloon, which had long been a cause of com- paint. At that time, the Sunday closing law was not enforced. and there was etill complaint of wine art-Warner Co. Probate Judge Holtcamp will deliver a Christmas talk at the hall tonight. LIQUOR GANGSTER IS KILLED Detroit Police Identify Body As That of John H. Reid. By the Associated Press. DETROIT. Mich., Dec. 27.—~The liquor feud victim found slain in his apartment early yesterday was identified by police today as John H. Reid. A trail leading from his automobile parked in the rear of the building to his rooms convinced police he had been shot in the ma- chine, then dragged into his rooms. In the last seven years, police said, Reid's name has been con- nected with a dozen or more kill- ings, particularly those resulting from feuds between rival] liquor running gangs. Between June, 1924, and November of this year, Reld had been arrested six times on charges including homicide, rob- | bery, armed and violation of the prohibition law. bers promised to mall them back Throughout the holdup the rob- bers had shown familiarity with the fight, mortally wounding, mee the place. Finally the nen who, as he fell dying, Wee forced Schneider and Bell to open elder Smith twice, killing in a -# trap door and go to the bhase- pment, the door being locked, over NINE SHOTS FIRED INTO-A nda. Schneider ptheir heads. Schneider and Bell | A Sam Nathan of 2031A sinh . passed into the basement of an ad- jand avenue, a leather merchant, joining building, went upstairs, and | Bre ported to police that while he Aisa ~ & ’ - — / Pcaty Rs, Soamtieee Wy ae wo Pei 20 ae 2A. 2 iaigliere eee a ee re Nor wis Pinu " Pe ig 5 er Saati SS, AD ca omen Ne! “Fe NG 4 Beat NO tas A ding A a ee ey De: tates i PO SPs Ta gaa a Ate YY nef Air eT ae PAP dears or te 3 ' , teow + tes te % grees ee AE Fre not: we ae — —— _ — | SEDALIA FA FATHER 2 KILLS LAWYER WHO FAILED TO DEFEND HIS SON Continued Trom Page One. ee et ee —. MINISTER CHARGES» HARASSMENT BY ARMY OFICER Continned from Pare One. omin T with he indorav- romero naes herd ig nga pom rated was Known for his forceful nianner 'in addressing juries. He acted as Oklahoma U. President Denies attorney for Everett Adams, an Statements by Sayre. a ' Ohio youth, who, while trampinrg y the Associated Press. y ROUMAN, Ok. D66, S100 We [oe eee een en ene eee B. Bizzell, president of the Univer- | Se eee ee ee sity of Oklahoma, today denied he en him a ride, on a highway near had ever refused the Rev. Neel received a Nevin Sayre permission to speak)... Wilkerso was credited with | against compulsory military train- | - skint 9 f h 1 ia ie thal ¥. 38 CA Mellen Sf peek elegn him te. the gal- . i "Ss. y > ‘ f es vy, © - | the University. He explained tnat | eat oe a ccaiane ae Sik Gulabe. ag 180 ede llggghto oe pass through |, qairyman of Highland, IIl., mia emg — eee ote hom he defended on the charge ’ oe sgutgedite: a es a. U 1. | of murder in the killing of two of — 0 wt xc Daca Oo shore 4 . © ann Eticker’s farm hands because of | (A2@ W tense y “e a ae gm ds weayre. a | Pooggrend over a woman employe of } A now is that Mr. Sayre arranged | the dairy. Fricker was hanged. to speak at one of the churches in Joined Church Last Summer. Norman,” Bizzell said. Dr. Biz-| yast summer, Wilkerson declared. zell said that the university had in| he nad decided to quit criminal no way been cognected with the | practice, and to forsake his former . case. associations. He became a mem- | Dr. Bizzell said that he had re-| per of the Methodist Church. Not ceived a letter of protest in regard long after this, the charge against to the Rev. Mr. Sayre from Lieu-| phim in the Pleasant Green robbery tenant Col. George Chase Lewis (f| case was made. It was never al- Oklahoma City. (leged that he was at the scene of “Colonel Lewis wrote me prior|the bank robbery, but Wolford to Sayre’s coming about certain ac- ‘charged him with having advance ee ~ ie ae > na Hie os rey: called police Meanwhile the roth | pgp his family were absent at Gol P°"S had unlocked the store door, | sideg last night, nine shorts were fim “?'c they had locked when they | we through the front windows me entered. and had walked out iwar home. ae The money repres nted three|a he Detectives investigating | days’ receipts from the cigar store | g¢. that the fusillade was fired apf ynd card room, which has about | hat ently by gunmen stationed | me *" tables ticlt the street. , =e Kafe One 2 i clot the Lo is Rurgiars Get $600 at Place, $450 at Another. Vagner Brothers Moving & Stor- Page °01 South Jefferson ave- nue, reported that bhurgiare had knocked the combination off a Safe in their office last night and escaped with $600. Burglars opened the safe and wo cash registers in the grocery For rank Smith, 3000 Kossuth ave- +. hue, during the night, Greet it at - we on x Man Is Held Up in Automobile and tobh«d of $50. A ("o.. life sentence Now Comes New Year’s E vel some time LS VNI 9S PES OG VMs ras rales RZ 2o Y¥ A Gift for Yourself Alexander Cudmore, 70 yerrs Buy that piece of Furni- 5a Old, of 3743 West Pine boulevard, the 7 resident of the Cudmore Conat-We- | gig . A [ AE [ ae °°" Co., was held up in his suto- | ene ture you've wanted for so & [ Mae Mobile in front of 4333 Laclede escaped was dr A catnival of color, music, mer- revoly or long. On our floor you’ll q venue at 11:30 a. m, today by two}. : a Pe "UNnZ men who robhed him of ¢380. of find a treasure land of 3 Laclede avenue whew the tub- t ‘ rs hatled him They lumped on make the selection a real ‘ tivities of Sayre and quoted some ! know ledge of the plan. 10 . An investment for ‘ Ee. 4nd the one nearest Cudmore aeld statements attributed to Sayre said! At the Pettis ¢ ‘ounty jail today | iii season. Reserve tables in advance, a . against his side “he S Sayre Spoke at Missouri Bible Col- + Mrs. Wilkerson. The Sheriff said. = | | —. '' him to drive on | and Boyle Ve of | By the Associated Press. treatment given the prisoner, and |} P. | 7 COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 27. —j/to prevent any display of hostile | , a . :. ' . | C Oe CATHOLIC TEACHER'S FUNERAL ister, was refused permission to 241-/| the Cole County authorities to take NY 4 | dress a group of University of Mis-! charge of Bardwell and to ( y FURNITURE ~ DECORATIONS + DRAPERIES paren ng: ange ee ‘vice ‘ : 1117-1119 LOCUST STREST He Ving his roadster +\af it beautiful things that will j siment, gay in the Spirit of the a ne running boards on either vide! pe to have been made by him before | Bardw ell was placed in eyrewe of a! your Christmas money PpOther reached into Cudmore’s tac- | oa while » | ql and left | lege at Columbia, Dec. 2. 'that, to avoid any criticism of the | I¢ ' Ten dollars per person e the car at Lacled > 8 Hues John N. Sayre, Episcopalian min-/| feeling against ‘him, he would ask L »( ) VW on. R . . s ‘ister Mary ¥ m, 7 souri students on compulsory mtl-;| him in the Jefferson City jail. : “he vears old, a teacher ‘at | bl s D 0 m1 % n’ = 0 > S | a i Trinity Catholle School. 1424 Matti ne Krome po who died laat : Tr urs: iy Ae paralysia, were hel , Bioday at Ok lenburg, Ind. head- ' Quarters for the Order of Sisters Sf St. Francis. Sister Mary Monica. who before | ecoming aonun, was Miss Jo«es- | fe Phine Rubbelke, was born in St an Ouis She became a member _ of | ORIGINAL & the order 55 years ago at Olden. . it g ‘ « e A good part of our regular stock has been set aside to sell out oy Be pa bee ~ ‘tne cn a | before we take inventory December 31—perfect, stylish and de- sirable Shoes from the famous Dr. A. Reed factory. BE (1, Sh* Bad Deeg Ul for alment| —_— ¥ Rip - ee) op 3 J a 7 te ‘ - on f, * so8 oi 9 50 Sige he GRE 29:20 02h De a MI EI ES. adn. Sela PaaS Le. 1 RE 5S RRS oS RRS pa as hens ~ s hn Wat id hie oy x 5 - [Reese to the Bost Dinsatch. first wife, and separated Dec. 16. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. Stephen M. Wagner, president of the St. Louls Board of Education, arrived here today for an inspec- tion of New Orleanga public schools, particularly the new Delgalo Trades School which is considered one of the most modern in tlie country. Wakner -declared the Delgado School was one of the best and most complete institutions of its kind he had seen. “Every craft of brain and hand is being taught there,” he said. “St. Louls must have one like it or even better an4 bigger if we can make it go.” a7 * is Mrs. Lacy cried as she testified that Lacy’s disposition made life intolerable for her. Lacy was in court but did not testify. Senator Gould's Railway Begun. WASHBURN, Me., Dec 37:— Construction of the Quebec Exten- sion Railway which wil) reach from Washburn to the Quebec ‘borer, 111 miles, was begun today. “he railway will run through §timber- lands owned, in large part. by the International Paper Co. The rail- road, sponsored by United States Senator Arthur R. Gould, will cost 1$5,000,000 and will require two years to build. other day, and liked it. The Steen ST. LOUIS POST-9ISPATCH in a great rush while doing Christmas shopping, just before) nooh stopped in at one of the many | philanthropic institutions in which |! she takes a keen interest, intending | minutes, but | she became engrossed in the work | to remain only a few and it was 1 o'clock before she realized it. sandwiches were being served, she decided to have lunch right thon and there instead of going to the! every | | Delivered by cits ace, At the snack bar oO waits on himself, and the Queen did this, too, and enjoyed) herself. ° Me | ostehes herein aré also rese As her favorite kind of cheese | Foundec by JOSEPH PULITZER Deo. 12. 1878. Published Dally by The Pulitzer ee Uo Twelfth Boulevard and Olive & MEMBER OF THE absOCiatEeD P PRESS and AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS newspaper and oewe published herein. All rights of republication of «eperia! 4is rved. Subscription Rates by Mail, Daily and Sunday ogre year in A@vanee hes Dally without Sundar | Mundas only. one veer Remit either by postal order. “express mon rder or St touts exchange. Subseription Rates by ‘arrier or out-of-town Gealers. 10e¢ «a Dally only. 50¢ a month: Sunday copy Roy as second-class matter July 1%, 1879 the Postoffice at St. Louls, Ma. Phome MAin i111. $ kid, patents and sucdes. J. 2. BROWN SHOE 609 LOCUST ST. CEntral 3774 95 Women’s High Shoes —and broken sizes in Strape and Oxfords: black 181 paire only. Regularly Priced $10 and Up *5 —in patents. satinse Or evening wear. 95 Pumps and Straps and kida. 1450 pairs only. 4 Sul table for day Your Inspection Invited, No Obligation te Buy ~—<#tyies in patent and satin fords and tiles. Co. Mail Orders Filled P $625 The Season’s Choice Pumps, = All sizes 3 to 10. 225 5 the hannel!l Christmas night, as te) Fes} of a collision with the wei? Wr 24 SEAMEN MISSING IN CRASH tish Freichter Collided With | * 4 French Bark Christmas Night. | ¥ the Associated I: ene PORTLAND, England, Dec. he Wenty-four sailors of the | Neh bark Eugene Schneider ore) kEht to have been drowned ?. 27:1 freight steamer Burutu. The freighter. bound hither from, M four, kf Africa, reported that Tench seamen scrambled aboard! On after the crash, and that they ppeared to be the ~ ini only survivors) ac Nong the 28 men who manned thei J “Usene Schneider.
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