St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 27, 1903

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SOLDIERS AWE DANVILLE MOB: URDER REIGNS Though Situation Is Still Tense, Riot Spirit Is Slowly Dying While 200 Members of the State Militia Guard the City. TWO KILLED AND 22 HURT THE TOTAL CASUALTIES No Effort Has Been Made to Arrest Men and Women Participating in the Lynching, Though They Are Said to Be Well Known. FEWER IN THE SOUTH. The following tables show how lynchings are becomina more nu- merous in the North and iess fre- quent im the South: LYNCHINGS, 1903. _-— ee »- © . 7 _ — — re eer are LYNCHINGS IN TEN YEARS, 1908 (7 mo.). 51 -_—_—_—_lcowrooner ee Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. DANVILLE, Ill., July 27.—With the city practically under martial law and 200 militiamen guarding the streets, 1eigns here today, and there is no indica- tion that there will be a revival of the riotous scenes that prevailed Saturday night. Companies A, I, B and H of the Seventh Illinois Infantry were rushed to this city yesterday morning from Springfield, where they were attending the state encamp- ment. They proceeded to the jail, where Wil- son, the negro charged with assaulting Mrs. Burgess of Alvan, is confined. The troops surrounded the prison. Their guns wore loaded with powder and ball and they were under instructions to shoot at the first effort to attack them. The mob dispersed about 2 o'clock Sun- day morning, but many of its members were still on the street when the soldiers arrived. Throughout the day farmers residing in the neighborhood in which the assault was committed came to the city in the hope of assisting in lynching Wilson. Troops Help to Crash Mob Spirit. They helped to spread the sentiment against the troops until it became so strong the commissary department had great dif- ficulty in getting food for the men. The mob spirit appears to be dying out slowly, though the situation is still very tense. The feeling against negroes is very strong and it would not be wise to call the militia away today. The mob is overawed by the soldiers, and they not only protect the negroes from fur- ther violence, but also have a tremendous weight in crushing the mob spirit. far, no effort has been made to arrest of the rioters, though the leaders, women and men, are well known. is openly declared on the street that the participants will never be punished. This was the first mob in Illinois in which women figured as leaders. They were as insistent as the men for ven- geance on Wilson and seemed to be de- lighted when Metcalf was hanged and burned. ' Several women were greatly displeased because they could not lynch the sheriff Ser defending his prisoner. These women were wives of respectable men, who were also in the mob. The old saying that no mob wil! stand in a rain of bullets was fully exemplificd in this cage. order As soon as Sheriff Whitlock fired into (ering from a scalp wound. | his injury comes from falling down a well it, it began to scatter, though no more determined :men and wemen were ever brought together. Two men wére killed and 22 were wounded ESCAPING CONVICTS KIDNAP THE WARDEN = = ——_ -—_ = Twenty Men Break Out of the Sacramento Penitentiary, Tak- ing With Them Four Officials, Including the Captain of the Guard. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 27.—Bighteen or twenty prisoners escaped from Folsom prison between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning, taking with them Warden Wilkinson, his grandson, Harry Wilkinson, Captain of the Guard Murphy and two other officers. Guard Cotton was mortally stabbed by one of the prisoners. Nearly all the sher- iff’'s force and county constabulary are searching for the prisoners, who secured a number of rifies’ from the prison armory before they left the prison. Folsom penitentiary is a prison without walls. It is situatedgin a rocky: amphi- theater close to the American river, about twenty miles from Sacramento. The pris- oners are lockcd up at night in the cell house, put during the day they labor in the stone quarries under the supervision of arnted guards. On the hills grcunds are watch prison the surrounding the towers in which guards armed with Gatling guns and rifles are stationed. Mounted guards are also stationed about the hills. Neurly 1500 men are confined at Folsom, ard it has been the practice to send the most desperate prisoners there. The Amer- ican river runs through the prison grounds, but its waters are rapid and deep, with high precipitous banks, and an escaping prisoner stood but little chance at cross- ing. PLACURVILLE, Cal, July 27.—The 2 convicts who have broken out of Folsom prison are reported as coming across [1- derado County and are now said to he in the neighborhcod of Clarksville. Of the officials captured it is reported that Warden Wilkinson and Capt. Murphy huve been released and that two of the creptured guards have peen Killed by the convicts. Company H of the nat/oral guard, which is the Placerville company, commanded by Capt. A. S. Wisler, has been called out and is now formed at the armory to await order.rs. ee ee BOY GOES AFTER RUDOLPH Master Charles Vortruba, Aged 15, Would Fain Capture Willie, the Escaped Bank Robber. Charlies Vortruba, aged 15, who disap- peared from his home, 930 Allen avenue, last Saturday evening, was seen for a mo- ment Monday morning by his cousin, Charles Vortruba, a messenger boy. The two boys met at Bighth and Market street long enough for the runaway to tell his cousin in hurried words that he ‘‘was eut after Bill Rudolph, the bank robber, and didn’t have time to stop.”’ . her believe that he was working Saturday afternoon, when he was_really paid off at 3 o'clock. But when Charles did not come home in the evening. she began to make inquiries, all of which proved vain. WHOSE EMPTY PURSE IS THIS? Forgetful Excursionists on Corwin H. Spencer Spent Money Before Losing Pocketbooks. A bulky collection of women's »elongings held for their owners on board the Corwin H. Spencer bear evidence to the forgetful- ness of river excursionists. In the collection are two moncyless purses with silver trimmings, two pairs of Kid gloves, a black silk belt trimmed in silver, two handkerchiefs and a black hair ribbon. They were found at various t!mes during the past two weeks on board the excursion steamer and reported to the clerk. He fs holding them for seeemnpszen. “Every trip we make brings us ina col- lection of this sort,’’ said ne. ‘“‘We 4l- ways keep them long enough to give the owners 1 le to fin out their loss and reclaim the articles.”’ Mrs. Vortruba said that her son made | | MOUNTAIN MEN CROWD THE COURT Jett and White Again Placed on Trial for the Murder of Marcum. MILITIAMEN NOT ON DUTY Judge Osbourne of Harrison County Declines to Permit Uniformed Soldiers to Enter Court. Special! to the Pcet-Dispatch. CYNTHIANA. Ky., July 27.-The case of Curtis Jett and Tom White, charged with the murder of James B. Marcus, which was brought to Harrison County on a change of venue from Breathitt, was called for a second trial this morning. ATthough Judge J. J. Osbourne requested that the Cynthiana company of State guards be called out he would not allow the militta- men to be in the courtroom in uniforms. Col. Roger D. Williams, commanding, Tre- fused to allow his men to serve in @itizens'’ deputy 8 eriffs to guard the cou conduct the prisoners to and from, A detail of soldiers was sent to Lexing- ton this morning for Capt- Ewen, who left yesterday because he feared that he would be killed unless given military protection. About 10 mountainéers, tncluding several noted feud leaders, were present when court convened. Jett and White were brovght into court at 10:23. Judge James D. Black of Barbourville, formerly a can- didate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, appeared to-day as an attorney for the defense. When the case was called for trial Judge Black of the defense filed a demurrer to the jurisdiction of the Harrison Circuit Court on the ground that the special term was not legally called; that Judge Red- wine's order transferring the prisoners to Lexington instead of Cynthiana was illegal and that the change of venue to Harrison/come from St. Louis. County was not legal after the order trans- ferring it to Morgan County had been made. Judge Osbourne overruled the demurrer. STRIKERS ORDERED NOT TA INTERFERE Injunction Issued by Judge McDonald Against Carpenters on Appli- cation of Three Firms. | ! / ’ ' ' i) | Lehnbcuter bretiiecmeids FEDERATION REVOKED CHARTER After Signing Wage Agreement. Men Are Said to Have Demanded Raise —Formed New Union. Juage McDonald of the hanided down an opinion Monday in cham- bers, enjoining the United Brotherhvod of circuit court |Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local Unicon No. 1596, and others from intezrfer- Ing with, molesting or hampering in any Way the business of the Hollrah-D: Refrigerator and Fixing the Claes & Co. and the Staudte & Rueckholdt Manufacturing Co., who applied for the injunction. Several months ago an agreement was signed by eniployes of these three firms that. they would work for a certain fixed wage, it is said. The men subsequently asked for an increase, which was refused. The men striick and the employers ap- pealed to the National Federation of Labor when that body was in session at New jwith the employers and Orlears. The national organization sided took away the icharter of the striking union, which was knoWn as Amalgamated Woodworkers’ Union, Local No. 12 The National Federation ordered that the local branch issue circulars approving the action of the employers so that they might not be harrassed by the strikers who had joined the United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners. When their formes employes began to picket the works of the three firms the injunction was asked. The employers also asked that funds in the hands of the union belonging to the strikers be impounded that damages might be recovered. This question was not passed upon by Judge McDonald in his opinion. The injunction will not be made perma- nent or dissolved before the October term of the court. house and BLOODY BATTLE WARK VILLAGE AX CUTS ght at Missouri. Excursionists who went on Frisco trains Sunday to Arlington, Pheips County, headquarters for parties trips on the Gasconhde river, nesses of a bloody street fight two men were probably fatally shot. Perry Andres, a guide, well known to hundreds of St. Louis fishermen, was shot in the chest, and his condition Sunday night was very serious. Ed McDowall, who makes a business of supplying fishermen with boats and min- nows, was shot in the head, and his fath- in which er, J. W. McDowall, was shot through the (abdomen and is not expected to live. Andres and McDowall are rivals in seek- ‘ing the patronage of the fishermen who Enmity which has for some time in which three i | existed between them | caused the battle Sunday, Judge Osbourne had Col. Williams called | McDowalls and Andres participated. into court at noon and informed him that, given military escorts | e | but no mi-'! witnesses would be from the state lirte to the door of th courthouse if they desired it. litiamen could appear in or about the courtroom in uniforms. Judge Osbourne then issued a formal order to this effect. _ BLACK JACK. LOGI TOO DEEP FOR HIN Be Punished for an Acci- dent. When Philip Shatzrnan next starts out to look for work he will go in another dil- rection than Black Jack, Mo., as his feel- ing for that town and its officials is not a | kindly one. Shatzman is ct the City Hospital recov? He says that in Black Jack and that he had a narrow in the night's rioting; of the wounded, escape from death by his fall. two may die. the responsibility for the shooting, saying he did all of it. He says: Sherif!’ Whitlock takes all | When the Black Jack authorities had fished him out, Shatzman says, a just ce “After I saw from the jail that the MOD | gor disorderly conduct, although. in Shatz- was determined to attack I went to the man's opinion, there was nothing disorder- veranda and attempted to talk to the maéd- dened men. As I stepped into view of the | a6 it crowd two bullets were fired, one striking the wall back of me. “I fired two shots in the air. Some one shouted that I was only bluffing and that I was shooting blank cartridges. I warned the mob that I would resist an attack on the jall with powder and lead. “There was another shot from the mob and it murged forward. I then fired a shot from my shotgun into thelr legs. This Grove them back, but they returned a mo- | ment later to the attack of the front door. I was alarmed for the safety of my wife and children. ) “My wife took a gun and aaid she would stand by me. I got her and the children out of the way and then as the leaders — came with the rafl to batter down the’ walls I shot along the rall to make them drop it. This accounts for so many being shot in the hands and arms. I fired eight or ten shots in all.” Sherif! Whitlock hed four deputies and three constables with him in the jail gudra- He says mo one ftred| jand that ly about his fall, and he did not mean to anyhow. , When the Black Jack justice of the peace learned that Shatsman was from St. Louls he was badiv hurt by his fall, it wax decided to send him to the hospital, where he could have proper care and would not be an expense to Black Jack. As falling into wells is not conducive to hie well being, Shatsman hea determined not to go to the country for work on his recovery, but to stick to the city, where Welle are covered over. His condition is not considered serious, although it was at first feared that Shatzman's skull was frac- tured. APPENDICITIS CAUSED DEATH. Mrs Emma Lippelt Dies by Reason of It After a Short Illness. : The funeral of Mra. BHmma IAppelt, wife of Loule A. J. Lippelt. a well-known renl estate man, took place Monday ~ ae wpe § at 8 o'clock from the family residence, 56106 K avenue. eaten had been fli but a short time. resulted from appendicitis, 6 “a eS ate Ps “w a ie *y tu Ba Gs a f - | | Shatzman Cannot See Why He Should | | boarded lof the peace wanted to send him to jail | INJURED BOY CLINGS 10 SPEEDING TRAN 7 Almost Fainting From Pain, Young Traveler Grasps Iron Bars for an Hour While Stations Fly By. A l7-year-old boy rode 21 miles Sunday night with a fractured leg pillowed across the bumpers of a freight car. He clung with both hands to the fron brake rods for nearly an hour, sometimes almost fainting from the pain, but remembering in time that a moment’s unconsciousness would mean instant death beneath the whirline wheels a few feet below. William Frederick of Baton Rouge: La., was trying to make his way from Chicago to St. Louls, and thought that Sunday would see him here. At Litchfield, Ill, he an extra Wabash freight and slipped between the cars. He braced him- The train from St. Louls arrives in Arlington at 1 o'clock. At Newburg, Ed McDowall and Bud Todd boarded the train and offered liquor to the excursionists. Both had been drinking. Todd started a dispute with McDowall and by the time the train reached Arlington the men were menacing each other. At the Gaconade Inn a fight tarted be- tween the two men, and when the friends of both arrived, the scrimmage became a general fight, blunt weapons. Todd was badly beaten and bloody when ndres arrived on the scene. He at once took the part of Todd against McDowall. . W. McDowall, the father of Ed, cut Andres with a knife during the fight. Andres Sromety drew a revolver, shot the elder McDowall through the body and wounded Ed McDowall in the head. Andres started on a hunt for Jim Mce- Dowall, a second son of the elder McDow- all. He found Jim in his store and was trying to get at him when Jim shot first, wounding Andres in the chest. The wounded were cared for as wel) as ossible until physicians arrived from olla. Late in the afternoon, the heriff reached Arlington and arrested Jim McDowall, the only uninjured man. Two physicians ex- amined the wounded, and pronounced the elder McDowall! to be dying. SUIT WILL BE TRIED SEPT. 1 Will Hear Evidence in the Pierce-Imboden Case. the trial of the court will begin eckman making fishing! were wit-| Judge Crews of the Probate Court. | carried on with fists and | | Judge Thomas B. Crews of the probate | in the history o1 tne syort. suit of} self firmly and was enjoying the fast ride} yriss rillie Belle Pierce for a widow's share! when at Staunton the train suddenly slack-} of the half-million dollar estate left by the’ ened speed. The slack between couplings was taken up with such a jar that. Frederick's leg. braced as it was, snap between knee and thigh. The train and the boy's shouts were unavailing. He could not stand. so he cautiously lowered himecif and laid the broken |! bumpers. There pounded the fr ft was the only way. The triin parsed Worden, C Edwardsville Junction at full boy almost ready to let go when Po x wns reached and the train stopped on e side track. Frederick's cries were heard and he wae removed. He is in the Madison County Hospital in a serious condition. CAR KILLED GEORGE DETHER. Body Was Identified Monday by His Niece, Mary Brown. Miss Mary Brown of 338 South Second etreet identified the body of a man killed George street, of her uncle. by a Broadway car at St. Saturday night, as that (jeorge Wether. It was reported to the po- Iike that Dether got off a southbound car and walked struck skull was fractured and he diei on the : hospital. way to the ’ left’ Gq Parrish. Jr.. across th@| week showing acture, bUt; Pierce reelsiered ‘celved by mail from F late Luther Imboden to his daughter. Mrs. John G. Parrish, Jr., Sept. 16. Mrs. Parrish and her husband, Dr. John who are now in Europe on their wedding trip, will return for id not stop; trial The ded ait:ons taken by Attorney Joseph Wheleasas in Frerch Lick that Imboden and Miss there as LIL. Pierce and wife of Buttle Creek, Mich., and were nter and known as man end wife, were filed in the and the | Munday morning. being re- rench Lick Springs. They inc!tuce the testimony of curl Vie- tov, a Ht. Louis physical culture teacher: lr. W B. Fernington vf French Lick Springs Hotel. William L. Coleman, clerk of the French Idck Springs Hotel. one Marg«aret Ketchum, a maid in the ho- tel. probate court Doubtful Checks Found. Otto Phiemick, aged , was arrested on the charge of passing a worthiess check f Miowntown department store. r each on the Nationa! “0.” -agd Made payable to rere found on the prisoner. The ‘y he. drew ocket knife and ‘it_on the Way tot t rom m, lic@ gay that po Phiemick, h iy passing bad chécks tn different\ parts the country, ' ' rings, Ind., last. Chie! | ving station. They ; looked over the WIFE OF BAKING POWDER TRUST AGENT WHO IS WITNESS FOR ACCUSED SENATOR MRS. DANIEL J. KELLEY. Sketched at Union Station. ene - — * FRANKIE O'NEIL AT HOME AGAIN Distinguished St. Louis Jockey Thinks Hermis a Great Horse. Frankie O'Neil, the 17-year-old St. Louis lad whose name has been flashed through the country as the greatest rider since Tod Sloan was in the zenith of his career, and whose exploits in the east this year have been related from one end of the country to the other, has passed up St. Louis tracks. “I will probably never get into the sad- dle in a St. Louis race again,” said O'Neil to the Post-Dispatch this morning. “There is no money in St. Louis for me, compared to what I can earn in the East, and unless I have a mount for the World's Fair Derby Handicap next year, there is no chance that I will get into the local game.” O'Neill, looking fit and in training, ar- rived this morning from New York. He was summoned here to the bedside of his mother, who is ill with typhoid fever, but is now recovering. O'Neill weighs 101 pounds in his riding clothes. ‘Il will leave Tuesday night for the east, where I have several stake engagements to ride’ said O'Neill. “No 8t. Louis me for me. The horses have no class here, and the element of sportsmanship connect- ed with the St. Louis turf can not be com- pared to that in the east. where nearly every owner that races is independent of the winnings of his stable and is in the game for giory. O’Neil Has Made a Nice Pile. ‘i nave made aii Kinds of money this year. When you win a stake in the east the owner makes it worth your while. I don't care to state what my earnings are to the present time, but they are well up in five tigures. ‘The game in the east just now is as nearly ideal as tt could be. The class of the horses racing there is better than ever ‘The three year olas, with Africander as the best, are without doubt the great- est that ever were raced. Africander is a wonder. I rode him in the Brooklyn handicap and he was the best all the way. ‘The race meeting at Sartoga will sur- pass anything that has taken place in this country. nk of the race horses that the’ will contend there: \ Waterboy, McChesney, | Hermis Africander, Irish Lad, Hamburg Belle, Bromstick and a host of others. Ev- ery event wil be of .almost match race interest, go keen is the competition for hon- ors for this year. “Hardly a day will pass but what some of these eat ones wi'll tie up under vary- ing onaitions. It whl be there that t champions in different this year will be tried out. “Tl understand that Hermis is in form again. If so, look out for him, as he cer- tainly has it in him to win. from the best. I do not think he can defeat Waterboy. That thoroughbred outclasees them all, to my notion. ‘The Faat is to have another race track which will surp@es even Saratoga. This will be Belmont Park, now under construc- tion. Several millions of dollars will be expended in fitting this track and it will unquestionably surpass anything In exist- ence. [ft will not he completed until 19%. classes for e, signed ‘‘Sally Commis- | «¢ you can imagine the plans that are be- George | in worked out for it. August Belmont is back of it and te president of the club.” O Nell Delmar track today and, Bituation. H's fa*her’s en- try, Mayor Gra . looked kxood to him in the second race, for a bet and he got dows on =) yim SLIGHT RELIEF FROM: AT IN PROSPECT > A “Light Southerly Winds” Are Light as Hardly to Be Noticeable. Clouds and a little rain put an end to Monday's race for the hot weather record. After rushing wp to s8 degrees at 10 o'clock the mercury stood still, still registering 38% at 1 o'clock p. m. The clouds first caused the halt and the big drops of rain did mot cause it to fall any. The rain came about noon, but only scat- terlug drops foll, splashing over the hot pavement. They cooled, freshened the air on the street and the clouds continued the rellef. With the mercury touching 80 degrees at 7 o'clock, two points higher than at any other place on the map, Monday made a sprinting start to gain a record as the hot- test day of the summer thus far. The official forecast for Monday and Tuesday is “fair and warm Monday night and Tuesday; light southerly winds.”’ Not a cloud and very little smoke cuts off the sun’s rays Monday, as Sunday. but there was rain as near as Du- buque, Io. Men and women on the streets with two hands (free carried an um- brella in one and anda fan in the other. There was not an electric fan out of work dur- ing the day. The “light southerly, breeze spoken of in the forecast was too light to be of much use unless reinforced by a fan. Dry air prevented heat prostrations Sunday, and {ft was three degrees drier Mon- day, promising further immunity. The ba- rometer read 68 Sunday and 71 Monday. IOWA MOB SEEKS TO LYNCH ASSAILANT OF LITTLE GIRL FARMINGTON, lo., July 27—A mob of farmers early this morning began search- ing for a negro named Clark. who Is ac- cused of having assaulted a white girl by the name of Gertrude Hess on Sunday. The negro used a razor and the giris’ life hangs in the balance. The mob is now itn the region of Medill and reports received here —— tnes they .¥~ en bea the negro in a ow and it o uestio of a short time before he is frachel. s SIX PERSONS KILLED. Death Follows Explosion in a New York Ice Piant. NEW YORK, July 77.—Five or six per- sons are reported to have been kill in an today at "s p’snt venue. So MRS, KELLEY TES LETTERS. 10 COPITAL — Wife of Baking Powder Trust Legisla- tive Agent Will Be Witness in Be- half of Senator Frank Farris, Ao cused of Alum Bill Bribery. DEFENSE WILL URGE THAT MALICE ACTUATED LEE “Business Is Business, and I Control the Situation,” a Phrase Which the Volunteer Witness Is Fond of Quot- ing From Husband’s Letter Files. Mrs. Blanche Kelley, wife of D. J. Kel- ley, legislative agent of the Baking Powder trust, left at 9 o'clock Monday morning for Jefferson City, where she will present the letters written to her husband by former J.ieutonant-Governor John A. Lee at the trial of Senator Frank H. Farris of Craw- ford County, ‘who is charged with bribery in connection with the alum baking pow- der scandal. According to Lee's story. Farris was paid $1000 to suppress in committec at the 1901 session of the legislature the bill to repeal the anti-alum law. He also swore that Senator Buell Math- ews of &. Louis County and Charles A. Sintth of St. Loule received like amounts, and that he, Lee, was the custodian of the baking powder boodle fund of $3500. The exclusive publication in the Post-Dis- ratch of the Lee-Kelley correspondence has aroused widespread interest in the case throughout the state. The defense will attempt to show that Lee was actuated by malice in declaring that he bribed the senators mentioned with money which he alleges he received from Kellcy, and further that he acted with the purpose of levying blackmall against those * whom such charges might effect. How to Stop Lee’s Testimony. Soon after Lee told his story and warned Kelley to leave the United States, Mry, Kelley ved in New York a communi- cation John Sargent. stating that Lee would not be a witness if he were paid a sufficient sum. On the outside of this letter, which was typewritten, the word ‘Personal’ was scrawled in pencil. The envelope was pust- marked St. Louis. Mrs. Kelley will identify which, it will be charged, Lee wrote. Mrs. Kelley is the editor of the American Queen, a New York weekly magazine of fashion and fiction. y She is an unusually bright and versatile young woman, handsome and stylish, and has an intimate knowledge of her hus- band's financial and legislative affairs. Kelley intrusted to his wife all the let- ters which Lee sent to him during the last two and one-half years, and she kept them filed in chronological order. She enjoys as much as does her husband the humor of the bombastic declarations of Lee concerning his personal and politi- cal ambitions. During a conversation at the dinner table a few days ago at the Queen's Regent Ho- tel, Niagaru-on-the-Lake, Ont., where Kel- ley is an extle, he twitted his wife about some trivial matter, HER Bis e*! 7%, ‘ t She Controls the Situation. “No,” she said with an afr of importance, “IT can't do it. Of course, you are a nice fellow, a good felllow. a jolly good fellow, but business is business, and I control the situation.” ‘That's right,”” was the husband's re- joinder, “but you know we have an itching palm.”’ Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have been present at nearly all the social functions given at the Queen's Reyal during their stay there. Mrs. Kelley manifests the deepest inter- est in the publication of the Lee lettere, and in the comments which followed them. Her utterances concerning the former Heutenant. governor are more severe than those of her husband. While Kelley says only that he despises Lee, his wife she utterly hates him and considers the basest of ingrates. “I ao not think,” she remarked. “that the American people have seen anything t al this man's publife actions. Soe. Kelley dues not dread the ordeal of appearing on the witness stand, although it will be her first appearance in a court f law. "she gays she considers this a duty she owes her husband, as well as t men whom Lee has caused to undergo al. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. For St. Loule and vrictnty—Talr end warm. Miseourt eed Kanees—Generally fetr and ware Monday night and Tuesday; southweeter'y winds, Ulincle—Generally fair Monday night and Tues- this letter, himeeif winds. South Dekote—Partly cleu@y Monday sight ané Tuesday except possibly lecal thundershowers ip east portion; varteble wrads, mostly goatmaty. Nebraska—Generally fatr Monday sight and Tess day; southerly winds. Tennessee and Kentucky-—Fair Monday night aad Toesday. Fa Tezes—Mondsy night ead Twesday showerss light to fresh southeriy wieds om coast. | following le the temperature T tures in Other | em pera n at o- Jerk, 00: bee See Sets BPs