St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 28, 1904

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Ais hee Mah ee Stee Rb ue Satie THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WI''H THE PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. fie 4 ie SF % Ware i: ae TR “VOL 66 NO. 341. ~~ §T. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1904 ~~ PRICE | Saha A mete a FATAL WRECK AKINS BEATEN % eyes Pree jak We Rae pritprsp sic B of Missouri OW ROCK SLAND | IN FIGHT FOR = = = =" "eS —E ‘Russian Police Keep Secret All the Evidence They May Have Procured of the identity . and Connections of Their Prisoner, NEAR ST. LOUIS) = CHAIRMANSHIP -_—_-- > -—-— — _ — —~_>---— Passenger Is Killed in Rear-End| Republican State Convention Votes to Crash Between Passenger Trains at; Leave Selection of Campaign Man- Jeffriesburg, Mo., and Engineer Is} ager in Hands of Candidate Wal- Probably Fatally Injured. bridge and State Committee. a i, » re Se SAY HE REFUSES TO TALK OF KILLING VON PLEHVE _ = =. i ee Assassination Is Believed to Have Been a Devel” opment of the Futile Attemptto Slay Powerful Police Head Last April. 3 ~~ RUNAWAY ENGINE DERAILED |McKINLEY FORCED TO TAKE AFTER FIVE MILES SPURT SECOND PLACE ON TICKET Train Was Making Up Lost Time and| Editor Swanger of Milan Nominee for Engineer Was Unable to Stop in| Secretary‘of State, While Ste. Gene- Time to Avoid Train Standing on| wyjeve Brewer Is Candidate for Au- Main Track. ditor—Nortoni “and Russell Out. VON PLEHVE’S MESSAGE TO NEW YORK WORLD A NOTABLE ACT i. } Probably the official act by which Von Plehve was best known to the American public was his famous cable message to the New York World last ON ALLAN ON CONAN In a rear end collision between two east- bound passenger trains on the Rock Island railroad at Jeffriesburg, Mo., 6 miles west January, assuring the people of the United States that the threatened repeti- tion of the awful massacres of Jews at Kishineff would not occur. The Worle cabled to Von Plehve the warning that threats that these massacres would recur on the Russian New Year had reached American news-_ papers, and, on behalf of the Amefican people, appealed to the Creat & ise his influence to prevent this crime. The Czar, anxious to redeem Russia in the eyes of the world anf stung by the criticisms of his police service, which not only failed to protect the Jews at the massacres on the previous Easter, but, in some cases, it was actually assisted in the depredations, sent this reply through hig minister: St. Petersburg, Jan. 1, 1904. “Fears of forthcoming troubles in Kishineff absolutely unfounded. _Reports of anti-Jewish riots are consequence of agitation led by persons evil-diapesed against Russian government.” REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET of St. Louis, one man was killed, one prob- NOMINATED AT ST. JOSEPH. P. Walbridge, Governor—Cyrus president Bell Telephone Co., St. ably fatally injured and several others slightiy injured at 6:30 o'clock Thursday PAN} d ; Ja tnorning. Train No. 4. which was over an hour Louis. late. was making up lost time and ran Kinley, farmer, Unionville. inte Jeffriesburg, which is not a regular Secretary of State—John E. Swan- stopping point, at great speed. Train No. ger, editor, Milan. 6 was standing on the main track loading Treasurer—J. F. Gmelich, banker, the express car and was struck by No. 4 Boonville. The engineer of No. 6 saw the rapidly Auditor—H. W. Wilder, brewer, approaching train, and started his engine, Ste. Genevieve. in the hope of being able to get up suffi- Attorney-General—Herbert 8S. Had- cient speed to get away from the approach- ley, former prosecuting attorney, ing train. The engineer of No. 6 put on the Kansas City. brakes, but could not stop his train. Railroad and warehouse’ commis- In the collision J. Hesseman, a farmer living at Bemont, Mo., was caught in the wreckage and almost irstantly killed. His e~~ — son was with him, but escaped i —Frank W ynduct sioner—Fran ightman, conductor, This inessage—the first ever addressed by a member of the Russian royal Monett. family to a newspaper—attracted the greatest attention throughout the world Presidential electors-at-large—D. and was printed in every civilized tongue. M. Houser, St. Louis; Lawrence M. _jeutenant-Governor—John C. Mc- | sonal The Czar’s minister kept his master’s promise, and, though Jones, Kansas nes, Kansas City. N. A Clary. engineer of No. 4, stayed efforts te renew the rioting at Kishineff, they were promptly suppressed by with his train and‘is seriously injured his BY J. }. M’AULIFFE. skull probably being fractured. Charles . King of Sioux City, Io., a passenger on A Staff Correspondent of the Post- irain No. 6, !s also seriously hurt. Dispatch. The engineer and fireman of No. 6, after) oy jJogmpH, Mo., July 28.—The Republi- tart eir engine, Jumped and eacaped = ing _ ey ae joose at the] Can state convention this afternoon voted on and ran at great speed to Union.!to leave the selection of a chairman of the waese, Tilda trenk See state committee in the hands of the state to Union. committee and of Candidate Walbridge. | Walter 8. Dickey of Kaneas City is ex- and nationality and will not talk of the tragedy. It is said he-is a Jew, | pected to be chosén chairman. reports class him as a Nihilist or an agent of a fival faction in the ( = the police. : The contest over the state chairmanship] {» vit a Still other rumors say he is a Finn or a leader of the Zemstova, It is believed he ST. PETERSBURG, July 28.—The Russian police officials are keeping secret any information they may aave procured touching the identity of the assassin of M.” von Plehve, the minister of the interior and tne power behind the Russian throne. The man is in their custody, but all they say is that he declines to. give be wos . was taken up by the convention as the last order of business. had confederates and five or six men are held on suspicion. Von Plehve recently told friends, who were talking to him of his constant den- E. C. Ellis of Kansas C ity started trou- le by a resolution to vest the right of ger, that if he should ever be killed it would be on Thursday, as his movements selecting the chairman in the state com- } f » gu- were secret on every day but this upon which he visits the emperor. mittee, subject to the approval of the . CNIS deietees EGets. wan .oleialy o The tangeny occurred at 10 o’clock this morning, while the minister was riding move of the Walbridge forces. to the Warsaw station to board a train for an out-of-town excursion. Son of Wealthy Grain Merchant Mar-| non Russell of Steclville opposed the Ellis : | ails A b : Plehve ries Miss Viola Wolff at . resolution, declaring that the convention , " Doe wee ee re : CS722Q(US f=) was terribly mangled. ° The coachman was killed and the wounded and maddened horses dashed wildly represented the wishes of all the people E away with the front wheels of the carriage, the only portion of the vehicle re- Qa maining intact. Belleville. anc sheuld conform to past precedents. Immediately there ensued a scene of the wildest confusion. Police and gendarmes hurried up from every direction, and vast crowds gathered about the spot where the mangled body of the minister lay in the middle of the road. It had been partially covered with a police officer's overcoat, with the left arm, the bone of which was broken off, projecting. A polleman approached and raised the overcoat in order to re+ arrange it, revealing for an instant the strong features of the de.4 minister, whese “Not oniy the city but the country has Edgar T. Orthwein, son of Mr. and Mrs. the right to have a voice in this matter,”’ William D. Orthwein of 15 Portland place, and Miss Viola C. Wolff, daughter of Mr.| deciared Russell. and Mrs. Paul FB. Wolff of 245 Park av- Ellis repliéd to’ Russell, and in a speech muc, were married at 6 o'clock Wednesday ringing with intimations of interference on evening at Belleville. the part of the federal officers, defended Theil? marriage was a great surprise to] his action. He was alternately cheered and thelr friends and the news that it hadj| hooted. head was battered almost beyond recognition. The roadway was strewn for 100 yards with the wreckage of the carriage and pieces of the red lining of the minister's off P ecrurred was even unexpected by the par- POSTOFFICES THE TROUBLE. cial overcoat. ; ents of the young man. It was known to the relatives of Miss : are wage Pome AA ee e Lours CY. : : spoke for Sllis res n. as . Wolff and to the brothers of Orthwein that me ha Tings > lege hg esa » Peel ta ~ , BOMB THROWER WAS EVIDENTLY Qended to have a large wedding in the “of : : : : | LANS have heard some gentiemen talk of i INFORMED OF VICTIM 8 P me couple were engaged. It had been In the Akins wing. fall, but plans for this had to be aban- enled ant Steere’ ; , z : » wt y ‘e. “IT would like té°ask il , eae eather ‘of ise’ Weim trom | *hete the discord ‘comes rom?" > ruin Ritnntis wondol winger Which he is still contined to his home, un- ‘The postoffice,” yelled a dozen dele- ar os sac t:- which @er the care of trained nurses. gates. and the audience cheered. ce cur tonal; om the ether SianTEIInT ues cancion an — Mre. Wolff, mother of the bride, sai Resuming his address, Moore said that pa capes alpen ot have RROW Serbeatin. welt thea ‘ , Thursd that as soon as Mr. Wolff's re- for years the party in convention as- The een ee iets mnOWn perfectly weil thet Mie Yeo “ aA d oO ceded far enough she sembled had selected its chairman, and RO ee. Se ~ al os ~a “ rece tion Foye, bridal no good reason had been shown for a The infernal machine was thrown with deadly accuracy and the assassin was fa- ea give a larg » STeE RACs rod thelieh oe Gan c. vored by the fact that traffic here is always of the heaviest, owing to the crossing The coupic went to Belleville late in the When he had finished, the delegates de- , of lines of spice sane Sh 967 poe Soe cee rele OC Dery eee afternoon on a trolley car. It was 6 o'clock manded a roll call om an Akins amend- . Zz was always apprehensive of ca upon his life and used to drive as rapidly . ment to the Ellis resolution, which pro- —— possible. The coachman, however, was compelled to go slow at this point. The assassin if laying his plans evidéntly foresaw this circumstance and, while ' when they left the car at the Belleville m4 vided for the selection of the chairman | j perio Soe Rites Serene at meer) as by the convention. TWO DAYS OF I 6000 WEATHER] the minister's coachman slowed down, threw the bomb. ‘ Bers) cen ) + bull the amendment Was lost by a vote o Tho minister's servant, who was also on the carfiage box, was badly wounded, and two officers, who were driving by in a cab, were injured by fying splinters. The sy County Clerk Winkler was hunted up and Bi. he went to the courthouse and issued a li- McKINLEY MADE TO RUN. 2 as ps wc Says ms . . to them. In absolute disregard of his decision. P : EMPEROR NEARLY PROSTRATED , goer _— ae Repro g | os emphatically expressed to the delegates. Bureau. an a“ ec 1a ” Was in e not to accept t? . , ‘ . boninese. tie stated his age was 26 med wae 9 eo vl ape 5 Ee ogee Pe _ptiwagareg a ‘ae ee ray ger BY NEWS OF TH ASSASSINATION Miss Wolff gave hers as 20. 4 clamation St amet — E air so we a 0 Gays of £ : al Ne . ° . re ? AcCOoO i ‘ P ’ " : Among . asked to be directed to the nearest|c¢ tntonville et OC McKinley | Leaves Judge Parker's Home Enthusi-| ¥ ‘ : r Ba : E. Church. They were married by him. | ¢p. wre ad wee +g Brag Ree en ae Democratic Victory. he h —_ nothing for Senator Vest. rible tidings bee e. eee ie aaveait aan eilatre ‘thtounhéet “tee ae causing ae t - o- 1 ‘i — On thelr —, “e w tte, ya A went to] the gubernatorial nomination, consent to | 5ci*! to the Post-Dispaten. Gy se neo, we lorns ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 23.—After taking Bocas a erywhere. Police reserves were hurried to the scene from all parts 4 bride's tag where they will remain | take second place on the ticket. The dele- a 8 N. Y.. July 28.—Deeply ne : tures for the next Sesser: par ee pron e-sth mene 9 the city an@ the various departments were instantly notified, eis," the prese . gates listened impatiently to his announce- mo \ ed by the enthusiasm and harmony 48 hours | Democratic Spain fer ceetaurer aad H.W. Wil. N “ouit eifice coast. No decided changes in tem- even in the case of the most powerful min- placing them before the conven- peman we Mr, Murphy | vay region. Lea remov Theodore, Kermit and Archie Ve i the remains could be ed. hat ma Special to the POst-Dispatch. . Tonia and was driven slowly to a little chapel ad- | knew hands ih eee came over and shook! rrone, widow of the late Rev. Philip Trone, ‘bee hess eotenitc by Mra. Roosevelt, ee this pte consent of her parents. that no man was bigger than his party, Rosemount, gave out this statement just) | hs variable winds Mrs. Wolff said, but sh “ x ' agree Se two |event so close to the father’s heart. s parents, She WAS i select McKinley. Cries of ‘“No.”’ from the f am here, in common with other tions throughowt | days and has: been in a since the first ballot, no change having Whatever may have been the notive for the crime, nothing but the utmost I Belleville with Miss gone to Wolff | of the hall. and success. Everything that occurred ; morning,. with ing and making a suc- place Thursday a sister of Edgar |, magerits ever known.” 3 Wwein Stated that the family ye ag Mr. Mu and fair weather the rule west of the Mis- Guarded by police the body remained in : the street until the arrival of the official auditor were . y to ‘elect the ticket, but der for nominated by Reela peratures were reported. It was slightly Byecches ister of the empire the law required tion were made by W. C. Irwin of Sullivan ghed. Packt. t nator actually After this official had viewed the body it ers wonderment at Fike spectacle. nd Mr. Hill want away > MI staff, to talk to some friends, for many years chaplain of the Missour! Secretary Loeb and the executive sad te ee us “hi te P £ ane a“ cA RAY —— DY sad be ry | od ae os o Sn mee . - _ Se te nn ee, : as h ee ee 4 vi — 7 write of Mr. Orthweinm has never met /insisted that the convention proceed io before his return to New York: “8% Weather condi- The convention has been In session n with his brothers, Fred and |asc-Kiniey delegates were quickly drowned | P®™Mocrats throughout the country. to the country were) ; occurred in the figures. nation and eT of the assassin's act is voiced a everywh 1k ts sald that here tod I A c Senator McKinley feels fact that tea” impressed me with the &ho wers csaensa| ’ BODY y IN THE STREET UNTIL to his father. the fact tempt of the Walbridge people to appease “aut Canvass in the state and nation. gion east of the John E. Swanger for secretary of state, cordially | hand a | assuring sissippi, except along the northwest Pa- corresponding with an American coroner, z wae? eooler in the upper Mieeissippi river val- this formality had to be observed ined them a a Ms Hi Oyster Bay for Journey phenell jaben T Dead 0 to | Then some of sme committeemen who| SEDALIA, Mo. July %— Mrs. Elisa OYSTER BAY. N. ¥., July 3.—President ietnints sap satan et ee aoe ogee) of seca i glee vas found dead