St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 24, 1902

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Ne * " * . ) ae 3 » " 2% hate Dito ale x MB yse: sit oe ty or va , a : Ss ee a ~ wa * x. | TS ot. es | : ‘d ms a Pe ‘COMPLETE MARKET f | ‘ ze In St. Louis, One Cent. : : Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. engi | Ps a a hee Von By g. A a sy yee iS t THE ONLY ST LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH THE | TEN PAGES. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1902: ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. re 6a foe eee ee Fae “ ~ , i / a When not asleep, the President passed the time In reading and in conversation, hi@ disabled leg propped up on pillows. He is said to be cheerful and does not regard his condition as in any way serious. -The train is running slowly, about miles an hour. ’ © It is said that the President on | at Washington will be taken to 233 Jack son place, where the temporary executive offices are located. But this place may be changed later in the day by Mrs. Roose velt. r JOKED WITH THE n The President Took No Anesthetic fog the Operation and Made No ; Complaints. Z OSS SOCHOSCOOCOCOOOOOS SURGEON'S STATEMENT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 4.— The following statement was issued by the surgeons after the operation had been performed on the Presi- dent: “As a result of the traumatism (bruise) received in the trolley acci- dent at Pittsfield, Mass., there was found to be a circumscribed col- lection of perfectly pure serum in the middle third of the left anterior tibial region, the sac containing about two ounces, which was re- moved. ‘The indications are that the Presi- dent should make speedy recovery. “It is absolutely imperative, how- ever, that he should remain quiet and refrain from using the leg. The trouble is not serious, but tempora- rily disabling.”’ Sucuceninmne ae Special to the Post-Dispatch. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 24—The operation on President Roosevelt was simple, but a® *Accolade Lofter Mona 754 Tom Collins Second race, five and one-half furlongs, selling: -»» Mau Durbin 735 Budweiser 705 ’ 742 742 The Advocate 762 Wolfram T *Dr. Kammerer 705 A Convict 735 SC Third race, six and a half furlongs, selling: Moderator ... : Rowe of Red Palmette *Herodes Anna Elliott *tight Munt aT Dn hiss Pin x 736 Lynch : a. irst race T mm € ollins, 622 Fugurtha ; : . Fourth rare, six furlongs, handica Second ,race—\W olfram, ° Kammerer. a0 a ee Third race—Light Hunt, Herodes, Fugur- 142 Bill tha. 476 Buecleuth Fourth. race—Schwalbe, Miss 741 Amigari Amigari. Fifth race—Ciales, Tickful, Four Leaf Cc. 755 Bine Blaze (790) Nobleman Sixth race—Menace, Salinda, Josie F *Apoeeation allowance claimed. » DELMAR SELECTIONS FOR THURSDAY Alvin Dr. Accolade, D: Kingslad?, Golightly, ee AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia. U0] 4) Of ol eho fop xis € satin... BBO 2 x o In Ak. TODAY'S DELMAR SCRATCHES. ! 4 F(R DELMAR RACETRACK, &T. LOUIS, : Sept. 24.—Scratcnes at Delmar today are as (Sketched by a Post-Dispatch artist wonder Dr. B ePimys' sgpervision this morning.) ed DR. BERNAYS’- DIAGNOSIS. “Tt is eminently proper, however, to have a@ blister opened under antiseptic precautions, and therefore it seems quite the proper thing to have taken our much;admired Dr. Bernays said that while it was true| president to an operating room a hos- Mthat he had made good guesses as to the | pital if only to open a blister. I do not outcome of the two operations which were|care to discuss this case any further be- performed on President McKinley and King |cause I am not posted upon the political Edward VII, he was not anxious to estab-jend of it. lish a reputation as a long-distance diag-| ‘‘Recalling the President from an impor- nostician. tant political tour on account of a blister “The case cf President Roosevelt seems santtiieing ‘perfectly pure serum’ savors more difficult to diagnose,"’ said the doctor. | somewhat of politics. While Dr. Bernays was supervising the | work of the Post-Dispatch artist he dis- cussed the interestingly. who earned his living by the sweat of his row, and the voung couple settled down to a life of rural humdrum, with its hard la- bor and its peaceful repose intermingled. CHAPTER II. After some vears there was a sensation in Manchester. It was second in magnitude only to that of many years before, when Col. Monastes disappeared. Col. Monastes again was the occasion of a sensation. The colonel had been discév- ered. In the warroom and the stores his name again was upon the lips of men grown old, who had Known him ir. their youth. ? case follows: Fifth race—Echodale and Tickful. Bixth race—Dandy Jim. z : 3 : > ; : ; FOSS SSS 9GSFHGSOSOSHTS OOD — * ~——~ KELLY, YOU CAN “COME IN” Emily Herzig at Clayton Tuesday is a strange story of family fortune and tnis- parents, pioneer citizens of the quaint cld town of Manchester, in St. Louls County, George L. Herzig, the husband, contested the suit. He is a day laborer. He showed to the jewels worn by the wife, who at the time of" nfarriage was the daughter XY , ip PRESIOE™ Mfrs. Herzig’s mother, recently, has. in- He LEG £: Mheri¢ed 389.0. In her petition Mrs. Herzig ' : aliefed thax since the acquisition of wealth ” by his wife and mother-in-law they have fi Judge MecE*hinney granted Mrs. Herzig’s a decree, with the custody of the three . Photographed by the Post-Dispatch. visit them at his pleasure. eee.’ Herzig bowed his head and wept when I am bargaining now with a negro who ; . aa aati owns a fine farm in St. Louls County, and | ree ar oO eee CHAPTER I. become the owner of my house at 1609 South Dieventh street, and will move his - stringtown-on-the-pike, with one long, straggling street—a section of the fine Old First race, seven furlongs, selling: When he was king of the St. Louis Bo- oe ie inlene . » Fifth race, seven furlongs, purse: ily, many years ago. hemia, Matoushek was a Democratic lead- 5 Kala Manchester was one of the early villages Autumn Leaves . were one of the first families of Man- council ticket. When he was seen active- Has Gift chester. Col. Monastes lived in a stately ly working at the Republican primaries a Cla les best horses of the hamlet. His orchard Doeskin grew the ruddiest. apples of the neighbor- ‘king had changed his political faith. egy rosiest, it was sald, of all Manchester girls. TRIED TO DEFEAT OLD FOE oe ni Monastes was not a man of wealth, as Sixth race, one mile and three-sixteenths, sell- metropoolis. But in the two general stores in voting and electioneering at the Repub- tng 3 , . and the one barroom of Manchester he was lican primaries was to defeat John H. Peter aren tion. Josie The’ Manastes family tived well, mot ex- ~@ing tor constable.” He points to the large The life of Manchester was then, as it "vote agatrist Becker in his precinct as evi- is today, reposeful almost to the idyllic nastes, who had fought in the war, yearned still loyal. for excitement. While Mgr. Hessoun was rector of Bt. to discover that the colonel was missing. His accustomed haunts, the stores and itual powers were in harmony, and Mat- k hi q , street, new m no more. His saddle oushek's title as King of Bohemia was un- horse and his buggy horse neighed for &ged priest as administrator of the parish The colonel had disappeared. the king’s throne commenced to totter. Bereft of its head, the Monastes house- of grief and chagrin, to Manchester qui- Matoushek and Father Bleha. But the etude. The family and the friends sought arch, as a reside : a ident of the parish, with withont success. After a year or two, time softened down the sorrow and the elimina- building, kept on worshipping in his ac- customed place. plete. 3ut the family fortunes waned somewhat Bieha give bond as admipistrator of the girls were not considered beyond the agpir- parish his enemies lined up against him and ations of humble suitors. still bears on his head a scar which re- ee ee wan Of the am minds him of his fali down a long flight Matoushek was convicted of disturbing the peace and had to pay a fine. and more, too," reasoned Matoushek. will give $10 for my pew this year, in- letting in May h@q reduced his annua! gub- ecription. fortune, going back to the plaintiff's grand- 20 miles southwest of St. Louls. his calloused hards to the court, in contrast of a day !aborer. afleged non-support and indignities. Herzig fi considered themselves above him. FRANK MATOUSHEK. children. their father being permitted to “I am going to sell my house to negroes. ¢——____ _-_ -_-~. the court announced the decree. if I put through a deal with him he will In the little village of Manchester, a family into it.” . Manchester road—lived the Monastes fam- enne + s Cr B43 h steses er. Three years ago he was placed on the Lennep of St. Louls County, and the Mona € Barklyite house on the hillside. His stable held the¢ week ago it was supposed that the ex- ) ee heey hood. His daughters’ cheeks were tne 758 Tickful rd es in these days and in this But Matoushek says that his only object re Sere, Se ssenace ... “the colonel,” and that gave him distinc- Becker, an old-time ene who was .run- * : f cs ‘dpa —_ travdgantly. and apparently were happy. -@enoe that some of his former subjects are degree. It lacked strenuity, and Col. Mo- One day the Monastes household awoke John of Nepomuk’s the temporal and spir- the barroom at the end of the stringtown disputed. When Father Bleha replaced the him in vain. hold settled down There was never peace between King . after the first shock to learn the whereabouts of the colonel, but in a stone's throw of the towering church tion of the colonel gradually grew com- When Matoushek de manded that Father by reason of his absence, and the Monastes é@jected him from a parish meeting. He One of the daughters married John Stras- of stairs. Police court trials followed. and “Father Bleha wi)l have to pay that fine Stead of $40."" So it was that at the pey- A check for the first six months’ pew ‘“T heard of Morganitis in a ntusic hall in fent, signed by Matoushek, went to Father Bicha in the next day’s mail. The check Donovan Says He Will Stay Preliminary Arrangements for the Surrender of the Missing Delegate Since his going away old Time had Rip Van Winkled him into oblivion. but now a strange and wonderful tale of him nad from the mountain. “The official statement says that only ‘per- fectly pure serum’ was found, and evacuat- ed by the incision. This may have been a had reached the western hemisphere. Sur- London, but did not think that the disease Indianapolis surgeous adhere to the belief that simple troubles often cause the harm, they went at the President's leg * With the Club in 1903. Syecial to the Post-Dispatch. was never cashed. Then Matoushek sent Rls contribution in a registered letter by come down gery is a rather clear department of medl- cine, but when it gets mixed up with poll- blister. and would deserve but little atten- all the care and precautions that charactere I have never heard the opening of a ) Are Complete. The colonel was dead, but he had left Special delivery to the priest's house. It Was returned. | Matoushek says that he sent the required ticket to the pastor, as well as his check. ; PEW CARD WAS GONE. ~ At church last Sunday Matoushek found the card designating him as the occu-'! int of his new pew had been taken from place. He cut his name from a busi- card and placed it in the recepticle. onday morning the ex-King’s niece, Miss Annie HMample of Maxwell, Mo.. Stepped into the church. The card was one, and the holder had been unscrewed the seat. Matoushek entered the church and pasted @nother card on the back of the pew in front of his. When he returned « few hours later, he found that the paste had been dis- ‘ golved with hot water and the card re- - : > moved. Then the ex-Kirng got some glue warrant- @d not to rip, ravel or run down at the heel—some of the sort of glue with which @treet car windows are glued down. He at- tached hie card to the pew with the fiuid, and awaited developments. * Bome one took a knife and scraped off the glued card, and Matoushek resolved Tuesday to abandon the attempt to retain his pew. . ‘ » Father Bieha says that he is the’ persori who removed Matoushek's card from the pew. He did this, he says, because the for- mer monarch had not complied with a church rule requiring all pewholders’§ to turn in their receipts for pew rent to the “Tf Mr. Matoushek will submit to the church rules.’ says the priest, “he will have. no trouble with me. But he cannot me because he has money, any more t he could run the parish because he was called King. King he may have been, “Dut he ts only ex-king now.” ares. x = wR ‘ 3 : that Matoushek now oc- seat of his big barrel » ¥ or aa it, a * 7 CINCINNATI, Sept. 24.—There was no wame between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati! Reds this afternoon, wet grounds preventing the meeting. The wame will be played off on Friday. both clubs canceling exhibition dates in order to get together on that day. Manager Donovan, who arrived in the city with his aggregation this morning, anid that there was no prospect of his jaying with any team but the St. Louis Nationals next seAnrson, Eddie Murphy. Kruger and several other members of the St. Louls team were wit- nesses to an attempt at suicide on the part of a domestic employed at the Burnet House, where the team is stopping, this morning. The. gir! had become despond- ent through ijIness and leaped from a fifth story window in the hope of ending her life. At last accounts she is still alive, with but small hopes for her re- covery. Frank Dwyer, representing the Detroit club of Americar League, tried to do busi- ness with several members o the 8t. Louis team this morning, but was unsuc- cessful. Several pitchers and a catcher or two were the men whom Dwyer desired. He says he does not care for any of the Reda. all of whom, with the exception of Tom Corcoran, Rave signed contracts wit the local club for next year. MRS. KELLEY’S JEWELS GONE. Cash and One of Her Boarders Have Also Disappeared. Miss Josephine Kelly of 8513 South Broad- way has reported to the police the loss of a quantity of jewelry and a check for $500, which, she says, disappeared from her house simultaneously with William A. Rodgers, a boarder. Miss Kelly, who re- ¢umed her maiden name after her tgeee man named Walters, says that last Saturday she gave Walters a signed check for $300 on the German-American Bank, re- questing him to get it cashed for her. He told her later that he had left it at a saloon to be cashed and would hand her the r next day. me bout 6 o'clock that evening. she says. Rodgers left the house and she has not seen him since. After his departure she ye a ir of @amond cuff buttons val- u at : a dlamand: stud. worth $75 a old watch, worth Fevolve : cost $45 ed a great fortune. It was said to. be a million or 80. He had gone to Oregon, where he settled when that state was in its pioneer stage and opportunities were abundant. The colona) had gone into business and had stuck to it. He had prospered be- vond the dreams of Manchester, and now he was dead and his fortune was left he- hind him. John Strasser, heard the story colone]'s daughter. to the story. but this narrative. “You are entitied to part of that es- tate,’’ said Strasser to his wife. =? “IT should think so,” replied Mrs. Strasser Strasser scraped towether his savings andl went to Oregon, where he laid claim for his wife's shar-. There were, it appears, heirs in Oregon as well. Litigation ensued. and the Stras- sers despaired of winning the fortune. CHAPTER III. George Herzig, a young man.from Arkan- sas, had settled in Manchester. making an honest living at day laber. Sometimes he worked tn the mills, at other times on the roads or the farms Emily Strasser, a granddaughter of the colonel, looked upon Herzig with favor They became sweethearts, and more. While Strasser was away or his uest of fortune. Emily was married to Herzig and the couple settled down, even as the bride's parents had done, to a life of hard work and the Manchester repose that it earned. Strasser returned from Oregon and the life of the Strassers went cn as before. But after a few years the success of the litigation instituted in Oregon caused an- other sensation itn Manchester. The Strassers had struck it rich. They ward- f the sur- missing are arrangements for Kelly, the of Delegates, Preliminary render of Charles F. member of the House complete. Close friends of Kelly expect * him to “come in” at almost any time now that bondamen have been secured. Yesterday Adolph Wallner of 2828 Frank- lin avenue declared that there would be no hitch in the bond this: time and that no matter when Kelly surrenders four bonds- men would be there to furnish the néces- sary $45,000 security for him. “The bond,’ continued Wallner, “thas not been approved as yet by the court, but it will be. The three men besides myself, who will constitute the surety, are merchants tin North 8t. Louis, large holders of real estate and men who have mot made a prac- tice of signing bonds or dabbling in politics. “As to where Kelly is, or when he will come in, I can't’say. nor can Mrs. Kelly. It is hoped that he will read tn the papers that his bond has been secured and that he will not Be obliged to go to jall if he surrenders.” = . Yesterday was the first time since her hus- band's disappearance that Mrs. Kelly has remained at home and this is regarded by friends of the family as evidence that had won their case., The courts had a ed Mrs. Strasser $126,000 as her share o the eatate of her father. Shortly afterward $80,000 cash was turned over to the aencnentas daughter of tne energetic Col. Monaste®, and the Strasser family became the village leaders. Mrs. Herzig pre at the Manchester church and at the social functions of the ‘Hage bedecked with diamonds. A “party” is entitled to be called a* function when a woman wears $1500 worth of jewels. George Herzig’a only jewels were the callouses on his palms, the tinheritance of toll. CHAPTER IV. “When fortune flew in at the window. love waa kicked out at the door,” remarked Attorney Samuci Ly Isbell of St. uis, of lh div sult ae = oe of the divorce : Mr. Tonal cond the other lawyer for Ber! At Gravesend, GRAVESEND RACETRACK, Sept. 24.— Weather cloudy, track fast. First race, about six furlongs—The Mus- keteer 117 (Martin). 5 to 1, firat by a length: | Clorita 102 (Michaels). 5 to 1, second: As- tarita $2 (Redfern). 2 to 1, th'rd. Time, §:14. Second race. one mile and a sixteenth— Old Hutch 106 (Lyne), § to 10, first by a length; Essene 9 (Shea). 3 to 1, second; Bar Leduc 106 (Redfern), 11 to 56, third. Time, 1:47 3-5. At Hawthorne. Epeeial to the Post-Dispatch. t t a ¢. bah pe A enin slopr tion. blister called a surgical operation. ee ea zig, Zach J. Mitchell of Kirkwood, sought to prove to the court that this was the true state of affairs. ; On the other hand, Attorney C. P. Taylor of Manehesier, for Mrs. Herziy. under- took to show that the husband had failed properly to support his wife, and had been | guilty of indignities. Quaint old Manchester, for the day, was almost deserted, her inhabitants into Clayton to testify in favor of one of the other side in thia latest chapter of the romance of Manchester. fendant had thraratemed her. But the de- fendant sought to offset this by explaining that the threat was evoked in the heat of the moment e@evhen he had [nferfered upon finding his wife severely chastising one of their children. Herzig proved that his wife had taunted him with being ‘‘an Arkansas traveler’ and “Arkansas clodhopper.”’ But the preponderance of evidence as to ‘“indignities,”” the court decided, favored the plaintiff, and the decree was awarded to her. Mrs. Herzl umph, her turned to left the court room in $tri- iamonds glittering, and re- her parents’ home in Man- cheater. Herzig, in defeat, his head bowed in his horny hands, sat for a moment weep- inge™’ther came to St. Louls and spent the night in a humble lodgings house on North Fourth street. And now Manchester is discussing the Monastes-Strasser-Herzig affairs. YOU MUST GET VAGCINATED Health Commissioner Starkloff ts prepar- ing a letter to the public urging the im- portance of vaccination, now that winter is coming on. Dr. Starkloff says that there was more smallpox in St. Louis last winter than for 15 years. ee the past month only two cases have b reported. : Terre Haute Races Postponed. TERRA HAUTE, Ind... Sept. 4.—The grand circuit trotting races were postponed until tomorrow on account of the rain. O., Sept. 4.—Today's races were postponed on ac- pouring: ' | At least, no change is to be made for the It was shown by the plaintiff that the de- | present. | tics I will have none of it."’ HYATT LIKES THIS WEATHER Forecaster Thinks It Is Good Enough to Have a Little More Rain Wednesday Night. Weather matters are very well as they are. in the opinion of Forecaster Hyatt. Not only will Wednesday night be marked by more rain, but Thursday will be partiy cloudy, a tearm which, in weather lore, may mean whole cloudburats. The local raing are not exclusively a Bt. Iouls’ feature, All over the central states the modsture is plling up faster than the earth can absorb it. These con- ditions are most ag- gravated in Missouri, lilinios, Towa, Arkansas and Mississippi. Cooler weather Is promised for tomorrow. The “high which is expected to bring this change is now over the lower Rocky mountain slope. A “low,” which fs over the upper Mississippi and lake region, has been chased out of immediate proximity to the city, and will not bring the expected In- dian summer, at least for a few days. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. For St. Leuls and vicinity—Showers and cooler Wednesday night; party coedy Thursday. Missourt—Rain Wednesday night, with cooler east portion; Thereday partiy gloudy, with warmer west portion; northerly winds. lilinctse—Rain Wednesday night and probably ize really serious surgery. No knife was used, no anesthetic was a@ ministered. ’ Dr. Oliver handled a needle syringe knowa as an aspirator and made a puncture om the bruise, plercing the cyst. In other kinds of trouble, the same opera tion is called “tapping’”’—that fs the seat of the trouble is tapped and pugs, : fluid or liquid, or whatever name the ease may make ft, is carefully drawn off. No real abscess was found, the p say. It was pure serum, two ounces of which was removed from the leg. In another 2% hours this serum have become pus and an abscess have formed. ‘ ‘This might have spread and blood ing ensued. When the President was o1 bperating table his bruise was sprayed ether to deaden the pain. f. The President felt the pain of the ture, notwithstanding the ether, but no complaini. The President's leg was fodine after the operation and washed a dgzen times with carbolic solutions. | the leg was bound with tight bandages: aW 'to keep it rigid. Dr. Oliver sald there was no | simply @ cyst, @nd that there was | nothing serioas to be apprehended. = IN THE OPYRAIING ROOM. — - Sister Stella, tno sister superior ofthe hospital, was in t roum, and three aurea in the regulation ij.) Dr. Lung, Be Richardson, Dr. Covk and Henry | son assisted at the opecation. Dr, J was the late President Blam Fos " “a +e x. Va 4 ¥ Lom ae t - ae = ae ty * FT Pe CE aks Strat % ee 38 i ~ ae les es «fats CON Lee a es by