St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 20, 1902

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THE ONLY ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. TTT “VOL. 5B, }, NO. 91, ow emipeedinnrs amagiend - nn remeememeat yee Detet Le Bo ie asian St. PRICE| aie ST, LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1902 er sia a STATION ef Throng Bid- ig Groom room Goodby. CEASED pOOK IT AS A JOKE AND SOME DIDN’T. jety Man and His Bride, od no Was Miss Chappell, Did fee Relish Parting tae Serenade. * RA i t at the onslaughts of an army Horace Rumsey, son of Rumsey, whose marriage to |} Chappell at the Grand Avenue Church last evening was one notable society events of the @ revolver as he was preparing Station with his bide and ked that he would have to it if 'the merry-makers didn't cease iT wirenuous congratulatiens. Ru and his wife were due to w York over the Big Four at It was not quite 11 o'clock reached the station. There, in ‘them with the missiles of rice, vend confetti, were about 50 per- 9 women. Prominent in the whic had come to bid the young ion their honeymoon journey, | Bwing, Guy Alexander, Edwin ' Carianer, Sterling Foster, mn, Edwing Hilts, Mary Bwing, °F af sister of the bride- Edwina Tutt, Miss Queen Harriet Fowler and Miss “A ae te L » 7 : . - si and Pie "ie ee " - Oy fgarmte: c y eg tube hap benedict seemed surprised at malt of and farewell reception he became slightly ssing through ye ¢ het the gate ta ze neoyan J emblazoned with A» wr ‘ 1 and g0ing to see the sights |. NOT PLEASED. ; ght 4 His bride pettishly nes ghe didn’t think that “ban- tere : he gate the crowd e Fptemac pushed ax and Then they plead- “a admittance. into the Midway ' po back to see if on *! e train. ee hurried him to the bag- unk was there, and more, id with inscriptions ga- © hu we" not the least con- he bridal ornamentations. wan promised to remove the fons, the bridegroom Pre... Ct ca LA Agee } me ymakers stole through aveling garb was soon fali of confetti. Rumsey was cong her their unruly well-wishers Her husband concluded, inade — efforts at resist- t * her Feneue . He did and some on him, dropped ) "went down his neck, ‘filled his rs bullied Rumsey as a holder nace 's zeencest eatable. d to “cut it out,’ a8} ety “cut and so whee am : ~~) vow “ ty REVOLVER. . his faultless linen wilted A mill appealingly asking her if “please. don't,”” Mr. Rumsey the surprise of the evening. coat’ he put his hand in his an instant later a revolver m held it high above his head. 4 } ; iat On. eald:. Another, ap- i mplorea her husband to away. t deliberateness. e rice?’ he said, were there any a look- teek had put every- or, | itself into hearty msey and his bride rt in peace. HANCOCK MONEY meh eo, 2 , An attorney of the led a Berition asking that he be amir tor of the estate of ay severutionary patriot. : the eighteenth rome extent an under- ce n Vessels ton at t me when noe and this country ! ° yi peek pnts e ynoney was compel ed to CEEDS YATES. PO Ed E., Appoint- at of Insurance. Mo., Nov. 0.—Gov, poset appointed R. D, tin _ Superintendent of the | ment to succeed E City, who Monday rer te a Reni d ¢ Pa Y rates o if Be ee mae Sh = ur JR YOUNG CLARK. ie a With At- _ | . ae. : ark's ie bal. warrant n_ issued Re go to a tel re , i 7 AT A PROFIT “Corn King” Took Advantage of 1 Cent Raise HAS 500,000 BUSHELS MORE STILL CONFIDENT HE WILL BE ABLE TO DICTATE PRICES. Market Will Corner Itself, He Says, on the Deeember Grain—Weather Conditions Favorable. bush- con- the Following his purchase of 5).0u0 of December corn, by which he siderably strengthened his claim to title of “Corn Kine,’’ Thomas A... Clcage els "UNLOADS” this morning to»xk advantage of a rise of a cent to “unload’’ some of his holdings on the market. ’ The impresision that Mr. Cleage about to retire from the contest for ner on che December option became preva- lent among the “shorts,”’ but this was soon found te be a mistake, as the Cleage brokers held on to most of the.corn which they bought just before vesterday’s clase. Corwin H. Spencer, one of last year's 75 cent corn bulls, is now said to be teeth among the “shorts.”’ Mr. Cleage continues to predict that the market will corner itself, and that he will be in a position to dictate the price of the December option. ’ At Thursday's opening December corn sold up to 474c, an advance of a cent over the day before. There was heavy buying by the “sharts.”’ “If present woather conditions keep up, said Mr. Cleaye Thursday, “corn up to 80 cents. was a cor- between Dec. 1 and Jan who will deliver in order to save due at any time 1, most of those do.s0 on the Ist, charges. “It is being found imposs! cure corn. That means that a great share of th: corn, which I have contracted for. cannot be delivered. All my contracts call for No. 2. Before long No. 3 will be selling higher than we are buying No. 2 now.” Aside from the rise at the opening, Thurs- day's market was fairly quiet ee SEARCH WORLD FOR STUDENT Police of Many Nations Seek Frederick Johnson, Who Disappeared After Visiting Titled Aunt. Special to the Post-Dispateh. VINELAND, N. J., Nov. .20.—It, beeame known yesterday that Frederick C. John- son, son of Col. Edmund Johnson and nephew of the Princess Salm Salm, has been missing for three months and that private deteetives and police all over the world nave been tecking for him in vain. The young man was the favorite of his titled aunt. He went to Germany Murch to take a post-graduate course in medicine and dentistry at the Darmstadt University, and spent much of his time in her company at her home at Bonn, He started for home Sept. 1 last and that was the last Seen’ or heard of him by his relatives and family. Upon receiving no news of his arrival in the United States, the princess made in- quirites at Antwerp and found that the young man pald for a passage and that his buggage had been delivered at the pier, but that he himself had not appeared. She started a search through pri vate sources and later -*Ued in the German police. Meantime the young man's parents started a search on this side of the water. When young Johnsun left his aunt he car- ried nearly $1000 in cash, and it is feared he was murdered and robbed. Johnson is 20. years old and was a student at the University of Pennsylvania up to a year ago. At Bonn, elevator hie to his relatives say. he became aequainted with the German Crown Prince and they became fast friends. His family is wealthy. His father was for many years in the consular serv vice. MANSFIELD STRUCK EMPLOYE Actor “Tapped’’ Assistant Stage Man- ager With Parchment Because He Rang Bell Too Fast. Special to the Post+Dispatch. CINCINNATI, Noy. 20.—Richard field has gone on the warpath again. This time Thomas J. Yore, who has been his assistant stage manager and property man tor 18 years, is his vietim. Yore says Mansfield struck him five timés with a hard instrument, making several! bumps on his head. Mansfield says he only tapped Yore gen- tly on the cheek with a parchment roll to show him hew a dell should have been Mans- | 7. ! ; last | i statutes it, Cy will go | ls “While delivery of the December option is | to New York | XTREME CRUELTY Is MRS. MOLINEUZX’S BASIS. OF DIVORCE Cruelty of Mental Kind Suf- ficient Cause in Dakota. LAWS THERE ARE LIBERAL _-- ---—--- -—_ IF THIS GROUND FAILS SHE HAS ANOTHER PLEA. This Will Be That Her Husband Was Convicted of a Felony — The Woman’s Life at the Sioux Falls Hotel. Post-Dispatch. ~ D.. Novy. Motineux Roland B. Moelineux cruelty. The grant absolute Special to the SIOUX FALLS, Klanche Chescbrough abselute divorcee from the ground of extreme of Bouth Dakota divorce for theae causes: Extreme aruelty. Willful aesertion. Wilful neglect. Hiabitual intemperance Conviction of felony. kxireme eruelty, accordirg to need not be physical crucity; is sufficient. if the extreme cruelty) insufficient the plea will ‘conviction of a felony Vhile Mrs Molineux rcumstances tend proceadings will the Molineux family. The atmosphere of the which Mrs. Molineux fegistered, is not the atmesrhere of the Murray Hill New York, but such as it is Mrs. promptly adapted herself Mrs b> tes os | ning 20.— is on the stat- utes, mental cruelty charge is deemed be based also on admitted conteste: not how has to not divorce be by Cataract Hotel, quite Molineux Ras to it. She has the princely suite which some imagisative correspondents have ptc- tured. In fact, there are no princely apart- ments. It is a rather sordid habitation, filled with ill-mannered men and a colony of upholstered and chemically complexioned women seeking the same end as Mrs. Mol- ineux. not HUNGRY BURGLARS HAD FRUIT FEAST They-Followed Social Gath- ering at Lasley Home. WINDOW OPENED AT PARTY THIEVES LEFT TRAIL OF ORANGE AND BANANA PEEL. ‘*mixer.”’ good is not a remains tment, ySpaper.rs, Mrs. Molineux fashionably. deal of the time in her bundles of New York the and giancing over the magazines. Mrs. Molineux came here apparently without friends. She has not even a maid. She learned that Senator Kit.redge was ihe most prominent lawyer in town, and to him she went. Senator Kittredge took her | case, and told her that she must do no talk- ing for pnbelieation. Mrs. Molineux at first the public dining room. . Then the “colony” ferreted out her secret with woman's tution. A telegram to Mrs. Molineux wich she received completed the work. After this meats were served in her room A story in the New York Herald purport- But Gowned che a apar re ner writ- was a feature of in- ading ! ing to give the real cause of her seeking a divorcee aroused her to the wildest indigna- That stary said in substance that she become convinced of her husband's and that they had a yiolent quarre! death house at Sing Sing. tion. had guilt In the GRANDJURY 1 tapped. He says the taps would not have hurta eaby. He hus discharged Yore. Tn the tent scene of “Juliug Cesar’’ one of ‘ore's duties was to tap the bell 12 times, enoting the , Satannent our. Ménday ight Yore tapped the bell so@vast that t wes noticed all over the Se and partly upset the scene, When the curtain was closed Mansfield went off the stage in ill-temper ang aecosted Yor lie car- ried 4% his hand a smail bund of paper and, ping Yore on the pees with It, aeknd y that was the way a bell should be tapped, having imitated fn his strokes the | rapid manuer in which employe had Struck the bell, Witnesses of the incident say that this was all there was ‘to it, but Yore made some move that either added to Mans- fie,d’s iit-humor or spoke back to him in a Way that produced the same results, for ae tosted the package of paper at him and started for his dressing room, at the same time ordering Yore to fake off his stage ap- rel and leave the theater at ance. ore has hirec a a? er preparatory to fii we sult for Samager neficeld says he Is being made the vic- “e “a actions for damages on the most vial causes and will contest any action Yore may bring. LUNATIC AT ROYAL PALACE. Stranger Told Sentry He Was Austrian Emperer’s Son. Budo!ph. LONDON, Nov. ®—A apecial dispatch from Vienna published today announced that a wel!-dreaged_ individual. evidently in- his a , aecosted a ¥, try on ~ x st the en- =e we the Hoge re at midnight and gala ae the ah, eH ae Eso. ” ehne majes he ’ z ee eee Ps Cm em | - - = a itt & yl ‘ . 1 ‘ et aan” ise ee oe F ew ve vee by 4 . we a i» v , C t he eo a . es ; a oe wean * ey ‘ : ta ft: a / : ee RP ON eS > We : ak es wae. So . . viet errs stranger, wh o > a inerchant ft ‘o. the fraaré reom bapethed : ona 7 Ses thve soon he ihe pt * wo BF a a va R GAMBLEHS It Is Said They Pay Cash in Order to Run Open. CIRCUIT ATTORNEY FOLK ACTS —— a ee HE HAS BEEN INFORMED OF IL- LEGAL PRACTICES. Handbook Men, It Is Said, Have Been Given Notice to Close Their Places of Business. Circuit Attorney Folk proposes t¢ make a thorough investigation of gambling In St. Louis, and it is stated that the grand- jury will direct its attention to that evil at ence. Mr. Folk has information to the that certain gambling institutions are ing a regular fee for the privilege of permitted to run wide open. it is said to be the attention of the cir- cuit attorney to lay before the grandjur) a large volume of yeidence as to gambling and to ask for indictments. Among the witnesses who are expected to be called to testity. before the December gradjury are Thom@ Goetz, Robert Pate, John J. Ryan and onrad Heib, William Cunningham and John Wind. QGther witnesses, it is said, policemen of what is known as the gam- bling squad. These officers will be asked to explain why gambling is not suppressed and to tell the grandjury the instructions they have reecived from the police depart- ment. “Handbook” men, it is reported, have been warned that they must shut down within 24 hours or take the consequences. it is believed that a number of arrests will take place temorrew unless the hand- book men close down. TOOK REVENGE ON ANIMALS. Enemy of John Schindler Killed Calf and Glashed Horse. A blooded Jersey calf was knocked in the head and killed and a valuable horse wes g0 badly sinshed with a knife in the barn of John Schindler, hear Belleville. last night, that it a M cesbesosine whether the ani- mati can be Mr. Schind oF of efes that eoms took thet means 6 being avenged When he’ went te the bern this morning he found the calf dead #4 the horse biced- ing from gashes In the threat snd across the face. The injuries of the horse ind'- cated that an ont had first bgen made to cut the throat the cnimal and ihat ne about it effect pa)- being wil be the | encmy ‘fore iy la } } front ee eee ee aad Their Work Was Leisurely and Thar- ough and Their Plunder Included Clothing, Eatables, Jewelry and Money. After a social pa Tuesday night the flat. of Leroy D. ley, at 4153 Laclede avenue, was entered. by burglars carly Wednesday morning and thorougaly ran- sacked, $25 and severak pieces of jewelry béing taken The burglar ar burglars entered by the window. Mrs. Lasley says.she dis- tinctly remembers that she fastened the vindow before the guests assembled. Wher the burglary wus discovered it was found that the window hal not been red, but that several tlower pots in the vindow had heen set asid> carefully and small stand im fren: of the window had moved away. as evident that the wiadew Lnufastened «turing the party “The yarty was given in }onor of Miss Florencs Rupentaal, a sister of Mrs. Las- ley. A jolly company of yvouns people was present. During the ventas dinner was bee r)} it w had been served. The ‘lat downstairs und consists of thres rooms. “The bed in tne middle rcom had been taken out for the occasion and the dining table ocenpied that room. About 1.3) o'clock Mr. and Mra. Lasley, with their 5-year-old child, retirad. They placed a mattress upon the floor between the dining table and the parior and went to sleep. CLEAN SWEEP WAS MADE. The entrance of tne intruders did not disturb their slumbers. When Mr. Lasiey awoke late in the morning he faund hig is Ary ¢// yy trot in the front naall, the peckets having beet? emptied. Mrs. Lasley’s jewel from the dresser and Her purse. which she hat hidden drawer of the dresier, Was missing Oranges and bananas and other remains of the feast had been taken from the table, and the peels strewed upon the floor, show- ing that the burglars had enjoyed a late lunehcon. The signs left by the burglars showed that their course had been through the parlor, by way of the window, into the hall, where a hall seat box was pried open and through the hallto the kitchen, the middle room, where the and finally back Into the par- sors box had been its contents in a ransacked, thence into family slept, lor The mattress lay in front of the folding Aoor opening into the parlor. The burglars apparently walked between this mattress and the table to reach the dresser, tn the , revolver, } pockets and eorner. They then went into the pa’ or | and. from. the evidence of the orange and banana peels on the floor near some chairs, sat down and ate the fruit. they coolly WASKED MEN ROB GAMBLERS —_— —-~- Two Raid Resort While Play Is Pro- gressing and Get Nearly Two Thousand Dollars. Special tc the Post-Dispatch. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 2.—Two masked men raided a gambling resort at Columbla Heights, a suburban place, last night and procured $193 from the proprie. tors and patrons, The bandits entered the hal! simultane ously through two separate entranccs of th» Hulilding and lined everybody In the place against a wall. Que of them while the a elr the crowd wit the other searched t money drawers. toward, a negro porter, ran’ into the bulid.ng. while the rohbers were at work und then started to run out again Just to show hm they were In earnest the, the three in y Poth legs and dropped him on e threeh Sulliv ati, the galoon keeper of-the ret sect. ea $365 by Clasping it be krees The robbers kept the croy Chet. BoP ates SES covered Harvey Fee : To taken | . stolen | ‘Ny JM: RE ips i Ad BGS gS Earner ro eet teil } Trail of the Bold Burglars Who Stole Money ab _— =. . . « a oe a ht ee ot. **+etbe * ees ~ ~ : “DE-LIGHT-EDI” a“ _ or _ ts . «+ YS“ ww « “. = @ ~ = -— = ~~ me , — ke .. +. = o a wa 2. = “=. oo — —S * er woe and Jewelry and Ate Their Victims’ Oranges _- — —-. KITCHEN pode — J25.00 & JEWELRY 0, ES OLEN HERE T => MALLIWAY BURGL ARS REST, ih SMOKE & TABLE oe? —_— Pr i orn nt a —_ FAMILY ASLEEP SLEEPING R Br es FOLDING / door —e * a — -—_— BURGLARS EXIT At Bennings. Special to the BENNINGS., track slow. First race, quarters—Ohnet lirst by t to 1. second; 1, third. Time, Novy. 3:2. hurdle, 138 three lengths; Victor Post-Dispatch. to~- a Ne RACING RESULTS |WORE PR! ~0.—Weather one mile and (Gallagher). Iw Second race, six furlongs Malden * dry), 7 to 1, first; to 1, second; 3 te 1, third. Time, 1:17. MAKE UP AFTER Greece and Persia F Relations for F Darius Demanc Special to the Post-D ATHENS, Nov that Ibraham Khe pointed Persian enic court is mo appears. ince Dart’ heralkis to waiter as #8’ aian ambas Now dip’ resumed, event wil ceremon \ The ar present is Gould 14° (Hior 2 Meisters nger VIN and EAT ERES REMQVED vw BURGLARS t&NTRANCF ’ Cie | Clor -— — ae EO Ee Ee Ee OOO Cl —_———_ —_ ——— —. HIS OWN STORY OF BEAR | aE WAS IE5) AS HAPPY AS A SCHOOL BO “I Never Seen a Man in All My Times What ’Joyed a Hunt Like He Did and He Certainly Is a Dead Game Sport.”’ Special to the Post-Dispatch. the veteran negro swamp guide and hunter, told a Post-Dispatch co today the full story of his four days’ exe perience with President Roosevelt. “Holt was busily engaged in horses, dogs and hunting outfit aboard acar on the siding here, to be taken back to his” home at Greenville. Holt Collier is one of the figures in the Mississippi delta. His with his rifie and his constant attention the trail for past 40 years have him perfectly familiar with the ins and soil from Vicksburg to Memphis. He was President Roosevelt's throughout the hunt. the first detailed story of the hunt yet told: GUIDE COLLIER’S OWN STO “ft know all these gent’men in de : has had a mighty fine time, and, ag for + President, I never seen a man in all times of hunting in dese woods what a hunt like he did. He was jes’ as t as a schoolboy, and he certainly is a ¢ game sport. ‘ “We started out Thursday, and it took u "bout till dark to get in camp and get tled good. So, on Friday morning, ‘f we started out, Mr. Roosevelt said he awful anxious to kill a b’ar. “So, wher he said dat, I told him was determined for him to get dat ct and, if I had to run a b’ar down and t him, I would: ane dat 00 00:6 Ae ~~ see or heard tell of for a long ‘He was a hard one to run down, too, 5 am here to tell you. When I heerd rascal breaking through de cane and dogs hot after him, I knew I was a- to get close after him. I was anxious gomeone to ride around and get the feelin’ dat he could get a big bar ° long. “WHAR WAS DE PRESIDENT?” “Whar was de President? Why, |} chile, he was a-snookin’' round on his hook in de jungle. Dat man wouldn't tiled to nobody. I done make a te noise, so he'd come whar de b'a? wa but whar wus he? “When my dogs did run dat b’ar do he went down in a mud hole, and it w kinder thick and hard to get at. #0 stood round and didn't shvot, ‘cause wanted the colonel to hurry up and er in behind me soe he could kill the first “I tried my best to get ¢ tree, but he wouldn't jes’ goin’ to hit hir th SMEDES, Miss., Nov. %.—Holt Colter, x : be * ca ae getting hie” of the woods, and every foot of the ri o ch. * a ident to follow in with us, as I kept ry ‘ 2