St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 4, 1903

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

1 : 8 - * * * 5 ; PEAY Gaem hae 5% — ; “3 8 * with. 9 J i, x 8 THE ONEY ST. LOUIS NE WSPAPER WITH TRE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. @ SIXTEEN PAGED 2 87. “LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, “FEBRUARY 4, 1903 N PRICE“ St, Louis, One Cent, | |COLK , YOUNGER, THE MAN WHO WORKED FOR His PARDON 7 TA 5 — . — “VOL. 5. NO. 167. COLD WA E TO REMAIN WITH Us Winter played a brief and unpopular re- — FOR CONTROL = mm lead coin.“ said UF PLANTERS Manager Weaver Opposes Col: Wetmore, Who Refuses to Be — TWO: INVENTORIES TAKEN IN PAST TWO WEEKS Stockholders May Determine Issue at Annual Meeting, to Be Held Probably Next Saturday— Offers for Stock. Two inventories of the stock, furniture and effects of ihe Planters’ Hotel, taken Within the past two weeks, are visible ev dence of the merry war being waged 4 tween the factions headed by President Moses Wetmore and Manager Henry Weaver for the control of the hostelry. It is a war to the finish. Either Wetmore must go or Weßer must be ousted from the managership. Nothing else will satisfy the combatants, as all overtures from me- Gjating stockholders have failed to pro- pitiate the tw6 principals. “Yes, the second inventory has been * taken, said Manager Weaver to the Post- Dispatch. President Wetmore and his force took one a week ago to ffhd out how I was conducting the hotel. They also ex- amined the books. They found everything . in good shape, and I hope he is satisfied. “Then I concluded I wanted one, and so I have set the boys to work to find out what the stock and fixtures are worth. This e for my own satisfaction.” Manager Weaver frankly admitted that the strife between bim and Col. Wetmore was to e finish. “When we elected Moses Wetmore pres- dent, declared Manager Weaver, it was understood that he was only to be a figure- Head. 80 far so good, but the office, iy his hands, has come to be an opportunity to. trouble. “I own one-third ot the stock of the ho- tel. He owns jess than one-tenth. I have two years more on the lease and don't pro- to lose control when the cream is com- duri the World's Fair. No, no. e other day I called him. It was re- to me that n wanted to sell oc owe met in the hotel and I got him in my ‘Understand that you want to sell” ‘ told hit. eu want for your * 0 y stoc and hawed 24 sald he did not — was wort don t? 1 retorted. ‘I know what "Well, that J is the last I heard about any " Weaver says the annual election has d n zer. 5 5 8 5 wt ; an * it may de he "Saturday de said. 2 will pro 2 doing = = and he in d his eye ere, 70 PROBE THE TURF INVESTMENTS JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. (-The Senate adopted a resolution by Martin of Saline. authorizing President Lee to appoint a committee of three senators to go to St. Louis and investigate the turf investment | companies there. Senator Collins opposed the resolution a which carried almost unartimously, saying | the Senate had no right to interfere with these corporations. * t they are guilty of unlawful practices, gaid Collins, “tee Circuit Attorney Folk make the investigation.” N. PRIMARY ELECTION BILL . ae to the Post-Dispatch. . CITY, Mo., Feb. 4.—Sena- php Collins introduced a rhow primary elec- tion law for St. Louls. It does away with the present law, and it embraces part of the law of 1891, with some additional pro- visions keeping the police from the polls, yes interfering with judges and cltrks.. It n, the eleotion commissioners 5 — the parties directing the primaries of the ‘parties. in 9 Critical Condition From * MIL WAUKEB, Wis., Feb. 4.—James Fo- | ‘ey, truckman; Andrew White and Edward so — of the Milwaukee fire department, " are dead and four other firemen are in a > ‘eritical condition as a result of inhaling | fumes at a five at-the Schwab Steel Com- t. Capt. Lancaster of engine company No. 3 eg and said to be in a dy- _ ‘mg condition. ge ada “nat bu from a carboy of nitric „ that burst. from the heat. TWO MEN KiLLED OVER oe: c 5 Animal's Owner, When Asked to Pay . tor Its Keep, Shot Father and Gon. to.the Post-Dispatch. 4 COLUMBIA, 8. C., Feb..4.—“I'll pay you : William King to James + ~ Rodgers, ‘neat Florence, today when Rod- ers asked pay for taking care of his stray 2 * 0 r more #hots in turn engagement Wednesday. There flurries of snow about 1:30 a. m., and a nipping, biting gugt that registered 50 miles an hour at 7:55. Big flakes of snow were blown through the air, but they were so few that they did not contrib- ute to the inconve- nience caused by the wind. The dropped temperature 14 degrees from 7 a. m. Tuesday io 7 a. m. Wednes- day, and is continu- ing to fall. Twenty. four degrees shown on the thermometer at 7 o’@ock Wednesday. Two hours later the mercury was at 22 degrees. The storm center is over the great lakes, but heavy rains have — @ast of In- dianapolis. Kansas City has a ere of 14 de- grees, but the wind velocity at its maxi- mumwas only 40 miles an hour. The official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity says: Generally fair, continued cold Wednesday night and Thursday. GAS EXPLOSION URES. THRE —ä — during the 24 hours Were INJURED IN AS EXPLOSION Anthony Klever, laborer; probably fatal. William Neil, laborer, serious. Unidentified laborer, internally sent to St. Mary's Hospital. injured; GRO. BOWER; injuries slight; bruises. Anthony Klever was fatally injured and a number of other persons were seriously hurt in a terrific explosion hich took plage at 8:6 o’cleck Wednesda at the plant of the Quick Meal. Gasoline Stove Co., Eighth street and Chouteau avenge. All the windows were blown out of the two big factory 22 8 RN lation 08 gas in the — fat nce. The company has an apparatus by which stoves, when ready for japanning, are put on a car-and car and all are run into the big, furnace. Iron doors close after the car ‘is in the furnace. A car load of stoves had. been run into the furnace Wednesday morning when there was a trémendous report. Anthony Klever was knocked against a post, and some of the flying iron struck him on the head. He is a laborer and was taken to St. Mary's Infirmary, bleeding from a number of wounds which are cer- tain to end fatally, the surgeons state. William Neil, who was close to the fur- nace at the time of th explosion, was se- riously — also. e is a laborer, and will recover One more man, whose name was not learned, waa thrown through. a windo® and seriously hurt. He was taken to St. Mary's Int Around the furnace room are a number of skylights. The foemr is situated in the center of a hollow square. All the sky- — and the window panes in the fur- * were broken and the window an in the twin burner shop. a adja- Sent building, were broken. e twin burner shop is 100450 feet in dimensions, and three stories — The furnace room is not quite so larg Other buildings 1— to the plant were shaken; but not greatly damaged. The plant is a branch of the American Stove Co. Ths damage to 1 tactoſ and stock is estimated at $10,000 CITY WATER - POISONS 100 Patients Are Attatked With Severe Cramps After Drinking the Bac- : teriarLaden Fluid. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. ,4.—One thousand consumers of. city water were suddenly aftacked with \liness, and ser- vices of every physician in the ‘place and in the neighboring towns were in demand all night and day. Some of the victims are still in seri- ous condition, but it is not believed that an the cases will result fatall ax 0 patients were all seized with vere cramps. The unusual color of the water has at- tracted attention, and investigation has resulted in finding a large pipe broken at the wells. 2 analysis ot the water made by Dr. Tucker, secretary of the city board Talk showed that it contained de- of he vegetable matter, free ammonia, gas and a large amount of bacteria. FIREMAN BLOWN FROM ENGINE and Engineer Climbed Onto Cab to Seppe Rush of Steam, While - Train Dashed On. Special to the Post-Dispatch. STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 4—Edward J. Hill, a fireman,. was killed, and Engineer a similar fate today through the biowing out-of a steam plug. The train was running at a high rate of speed. . Engineer Bannon heard a loud report and his cab suddenly filled witn scaliing steam. He saw the body of Fire man Hill flying over the rear of the ten- der, as ‘though shot from a cannon. The scalding, blinding steam rendered it morning James Bannon had a narrow escape from: MAS, R. L. CARR! She Spent Night and Half à Day in Four Courts De- tention Room. HER FINANCIAL STRAITS CAUSED CHECK TROUBLE After Father-in-Law Had Prevented Prosecution Young Woman Was Aided to Recover Her Pawned ° Sealskin Sacque. 0 Mrs. Emily Otterson Carr, wife of Rob- ert C. Carr, was released at e * detention room at the Four, Courts, ere she had been held since Tdesday night on the charge of having obtained money on fraudulent checks. 4 Mrs. Carr was charged with having cashed checks, drawn on the National Ex- change Bank at Springtield, Mo., at Alogs optical store and the Planters’. ‘The firms refused to prosecute after she had been arrested, and Assistant Prose- cuting “Attorneys Balton ordered her dis- charge. Mrs. Carr says she was driven to irreg- ular methods of raising money by dire ne- coesity: She said: needed money badly. I had no account at the chap pt bank, but my grand- mother, Mrs. T. Robberson, has a large interest in ‘ad bank. At times. ‘when I ‘have needed money, I have drawn a check on the bank and then telephoned her, and she has taken up the checks. When these last cheks were received at the bank she was out of the city, and they were i. tested. „Until lately we lived at an apartesent | house at 3960 Olive street. My trunks and all of my clothing except what I have on, a sealskin coat and a long coat, were at- tached. We went to the Planters’, and when, we left there gave a check. Went Without Food Twenty-Four Hours. had also — a check at a shoe store. “A week ago I pawned, my sealskin and gave the money to my husband to take up the check. He did not do it. Wo then went to the Terminal Hotel. I pawned my long coat and got enough money tc pay for our meals in the res- taurant up to Monday. The money was all gone, and Tuesday evenmg I‘ told the Bote nears that I could not pay, and to a smaller room, which they placed at my disposal, when I was arrested. I hai not eaten anything for 24 hours when I was arrested.“ Mr. Carr accompanied his wiſe to the Four Courts. He.wore no overcoat. Miss A. R. Catron; cashier at Aloe’s, went to the Four Courts and saw Prose- cuting Attorney Williams, but she was un- willing to sign the warrant after it had ** drawn, and none was issued. de Jong of the Planters’ called 1 Carr at the Four Courts and * for her. At his reljuest shee 8 2 At his request she gave awn ticket for fer sealskin. He recovered the rment and sent it to her at the Four ourts, so that she would not have to face the cold wind in her scant attire. Eloped to Alton in Automobile. At his invitation she went from the Four Courts to the Planters, where she will be ermitted to-stay until 1 = rer has — obtained for her to the home of her t Mirae field. 3 2 dead. Emily Clark grandmother at The parents of Robert C. Carr and Otterson were married — 5 in August at Alton. They eloped from St. Louis in an automobile and their marriage was a com- ete surprise to their relatives and friends. Ine circumstances of the elopement led to her being called the auto bride.” Mrs. Carr, notwithstanding she has been married twice, is only about ei years old. — is pretty and stylish and has a slight gure. PRESIDENT 10 1 FENCING Tired of Being Battered iy Gen. Wood at Single Stick, He Learns Parrying. “WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—President Roose- velt, weary of being battered by Gen. Wood in their single-stick play.“ has engaged a fencing master to teach him how to parry and thrust. Mr. Roosevelt sent for Profeasor Pavese, the Italian champion fencer, in Baitimore. Pavese found the President beset with a multitude of visitors, among whom were about a dozen senators and high 4iplomatic representatives of other countries were in the crowded chamber. j Pavese’s card to the President proved the magic’ word that opened the portals, and, while the famous fe&cing master and the chief magistrate of the nation were discussing the art of the sword, the digni- taries waited with more or less patience. The lessons win be given twice a week. SUIT OVER, EGb COST $12.02 Woman Enforced Man's Contract to Pay Two Cenjs for Unlaid Speci- men Found in Hen. Spetial to the Post-Dispatch. DANBURY, Conn., n naow, Abner,” said Mi§s ‘Sophia Banks last Friday; remember, f there's an egg in thet braown Cochin-Chiny hen yeou pay me tew nts over an’ above the 12 cents a paound — vin’ fer the dozen lot.” ay from Danbury to Kent as the shtewd- est’ chicken dealer in the business. They rang yh lata Bannon | OF erent tras and I was vif 2 to be bent Sunday nigh SE RELEASE: e ro wate! ak Be ES CLIRTON. MO. | b CONVICT IS 0 HE WAS CAUGHT Dan Kane Says He Was Wearied by Three Days Chase, Special to the Post-Dispatch. ¢ SEDALIA, Mo., Feb. 4—Dan Kane, who was captured at the M., K. & T. Railroad Shops, where he had gone to dry his ¢joth- ing, last night by Watchman R. W. Bar: nett, was returned this oon to the Missouri penitentlary by 1 captor, who will receive $300 reward. Kane, this morning, expressed himself as lad chat he was again in custody, as he was weary of being chased from pillar to tad 1 a Pere wes N 1 — 7 — —— * — he liberty, if I had been certain I would not ‘have been whipped.” Kane says he has never had a weapon ang he had only 75 cents in money when arrested. He also denies that he ever told ang person that his wife assisted him in es- caping from prison. Wanted to Prove * Escape Was Easy. The boys were talking one night, said Kane, “about how difficult it was to es- cape, when I took the opposite view — said I would ‘sight’ them * 1 these days. At that ti e I had no idea of attempting to escape, but the mere I thought of it the more thoroughly I became convinced that could do so, “I made the attempt and the result is a matter of history.” | He left the prison yard at 6 o'clock last a rday morning in his underclothes and ir of overails and made his way into the country, where a farmer gave m «a palr of pantaloons. He spent Saturday in thewoods; and Saturday night returned to Jefferson City. He went direct to 222 East Water street, where his wife is employed, and took pos-. session of a suit of citizens’ clothes, but his wife * nothing to do with furnish- ~— them. he says. e remained at the — over night and Sunday went to Coal Junction, making the trip on a freight train. whence he came to Sedalia by easy stages. He would never have returned here, where 80 many per- sons know him, he says, had it not been for the fäct that he had been drinking in- toxicating liquors. How.He Spent Hits Last Day. After his escape from Officer Robertson here at 2 oclock yesterday morning Kane says he walked south on the M., K. & T. tracks a distance of three miles and spent the day at a farmer's house, where he pat tially drfed his wet clothing. At dark he returned to Sedalia and went to the Ma K. & T. shops to get warm, it being his intentien to remain there unt he could board a train for Moberly and Hannibal. Kane is apparently devoted to his wife and expressed fear that she will be pun- ‘ished for — him to esoape. However, when he was arrested for rob- bing Missouri Pacific cars, he endeavored to implicate hiss wife, which resulted jn many of his friends repudiating him. Kane has been acting queerly of late as the result of an injury to his head in a railroad wreck two years ago. BROTHER HONORATUS 1S DEAD Instructor in Christian Brothers’ Col- | - lege Succumbed to Heart Trouble, Caused by Continued Work. Rev. Brother Honoratus of the Christian Brothers’ College died in the infirmary of the institution early Wednesday morning after a week's illness. . . Although the brother has been in Ill health, he taught up to nine days ago, bringing on heart trouble, to which he suc- cumbed. He was born in Bohemia 57 years ago and came to the United States when 22 years old. He immediately entered the Christian brotherhood. For several years Brother Honoratus conducted the academic classes. The funeral ser yes wilt be held Thurs- duy morning at Glencoe, Mo. * KING | EDWARD s STILL ILL. id, “after two days of DOCTOR DRIVES N i CUACHMAN’S SEAT Prof, I. Griswold Comstock Could Not Wait for Thirsty Driver's Return. In West End social circles the noted ride of Tam O'Shanter now holds second place to the famous drive of Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, unwillingly made Monday morn- ing. Mounted on the coachman's box, the phy- Sicilian drove his champing steeds to the }music of his well-known set of steel deco- rated harness, straight home from the Polyclinic Hospital, Jefferson and Lucas avenues. | Thirst Was Long, Patience Short. Dr. Comstock had arrived at the college early in the day, and after he\had been away from the carriage for 4 long while, Coachman Freeman became lonely. He decided to quench a long thirst in a short while But the thirst was particu- larly long, much longer than the good Doctor's patience. When he left the college and found a carriage sans coachman he jumped to the coachman’s box and cracked a long whip. The blooded horses sped away, their, steel chain orn dangling merrily, making more music an the nursery. maid who had “rings on her fingers and Dells on her toes.“ The cheers of the medical students. who had witnessed the beginning of the thrill- ing rid‘, awoke Freeman from his bac- chanal dream. 1 He saw the brougham turning the corner at Jefferson and Lucas avenue, the doctor in the seat, and the’ body of the vehicle Aer ‘oid of fares. . He ran fast as he could, but a stern chase is proverbially long, and this was no ex- ception. The doctor reached his home at /3401 Washington avenue before his coachman. The spectacle of the @ignified, courtly phy- sician acting as his own coachman at- tractdd attention to the point of amaze- ment in the ¢: exclusive nelghbo rhood., 1 LOSS REACHES $250,000) — a Time an: Entire City of Okla- homa Was in Danger of De- struction. * OKLAHOMA CITY, o, T., Feb. 4—The fire that started in the Lion store, dealers in ge 8 r here this morning. a loss 1 Insurance about one-third o stock d — — of the L Lion store was tailing loss of ‘brigade to prevent, sparks FIRE THREATENED LUXEMBOURG TOWN Residence and Carriage Shop Destroyed Before Flames Were Checked. Fire which broke out fh the town of Luxembourg, six miles south of St. Louis, at 10:55 o'clock Wednesday, burned the three-story brick residence belonging to Os- car Hines md a paint and carriage shop belonging to Fred Robitch. Thé damage is estimated at $8000. The cause of the fire is Bupposed to be a stove which was in Robitch's shop. Three families occupied the Hines res- dence. No one was injured. Fire company: No. . from . Carondglet, responded promptly and at 32.-o’clock the fire was under control. A strong west wind, which was blowing while the fire was in progress created the fear that other adjacent houses might catch fire, and citizens organized a bucket from igniting their homes. WRECKED ENGINE LEAKED. Driver in Dying Statement Said Escap- ing Steam Hid Signals. PLAINFIELD, N. J.. Feb. 4—The core- ner’s investigation of thé recent wreck on the Central Railroad of New Jersey near Graceland, in which 23 persons were kilied, began here today. The most important testimofy Was that of Dr. Westcott, cotinty physician of Ynion Counjy, who read the statement made to him dy Engineer James Davis on the night of the disaster. Davis was in cha ‘of the Reading express which crashed into the local. In this statement Davis stated that his en- ine had a leaking steam chest, which ad been cracked for a month or go, that the econ gray steam prevented from seeing the tower He oft the train ahead untii within 6 feet 0 a on “mechanic of the * —— at fee admitted that he had known Davis’ steam wes 5. And for the further 2 f more on og , ee ~ tem’ —- — „ e