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The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 4

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THREE DRUGGED BY Men's Furnishings Men's Bathing Suits 91.50, 2. See Athletic Ribbed Vndershirts pOc Men's Lisle Underwear 3ii. 5ic Nainsook Athletic Underwear. sr 50e Silk Wash Ties 25c Wash Four-in-Hands. "is-e 33c Barathea Silk Ties iL.

Men's Bath Robes Of liyht-weight materials in pretty patterns and colorings. 3.50 Bath Robes, now only 24 Mercerized Bath Robes. and KV Comfortable Bath Slippers. -SO and SlO Men's and $1.59 Negligee and Outing Shirts, now reduced to only 7 W0MA1TRAEFIES" Victims of Millionaire's Divorced Wife Lose $1,000 in Valuable Jewels. ii MJUUU I ft i I DISAPPEARS ROBBER Police Start Search After Char-' (I 1 i acter Is Identified in the Rogue' Gallery.

mm Mesa's. SubHs A Harvest of Great, Big; Clearance Bargains! The keynote of this occasion is economy vital savings on thoroughly dependable clothes of correct and likeab'Ie designs. The savings are actual and each sale tag tells the plain price and value facts as to that particular garment. Here are less-than-rejrular prices tJiat will appeal to thousands, of men who need summer Clothing for outingr, vacation trip or everyday midsummer wear. It's our great summer clearance in the Men's Clothing Store our sweeping July disposal of summer stocks.

Many new and larger lots, including scores from our own stocks and hundreds of Suits from high-class manufacturers who contribute to our regular lines of Summer Clothing, all now sacrificed at extraordinary price reductions. Here are the grandest buying opportunities in all your experience! Come tomorrow and supply your clothes wants for immediate as well as early fall wear! All Our Men's and Young Men's Two and Three-Piece Suits Must be closed out. The Suits are productions from the best tailors in this broad land. CHICAGO. 24.

Keecnt.y pa- i roled from th- penitentiary, where hhi was sent with her negro burglar affinity, Mr. Evelyn Romatika. divorced wife of a Milwaukee millionaire, and notorious woman "Raffles," is again the central figure in a thiev I PATROLMAN SAVES ARMY HOME LODGERS 1 WftmkirW i mm ery scandal in which three guests of: the Congress Hotel were victims. With, Mrs. E.

II. Hardin, a wealthy Kansas But One Life Lost in Fire Citr woman and two she went on an expedition Thursday night and; 1 II If I 1. I I Which Endangers Two-score in Upper Floors. is said to have drugged ana robbed her companions of nearly $1,000 in mmji iv. t-j I money and jewelry.

Tht men were, nfh 99 ih fnoitr tniir. Edmund C. Gattlin. president of the' I paid for being where he had no right Gattlin Construction Company of to be. according to C.

A. Soderholm. taff officer la charge of the Salvation Armv hnmt 12 and 1 Xouth Third commercial traveler. 1 7 street, which was damaged by fire to WOMAN IIS APPEARS, the amount of $5,000 night, Mrs. Romadka mysteriously disap-At the time of the fire Soderholm peare(J after )eaV'ng her conpemoto.

ai down on South Broadway, hold-) All $12.50 and $15 Two and Three-Piece Suits, now selling at jf All $18 and $20 Two and $1040 Three-Piece Suits, now selling at J9JjtJ All $22.50 and $25 Two and (P QA Three-Piece Suits, now selling at mSJ 1 All $28 and $30 Two and Three-Piece Suits, now selling at 1 17, I lJ All $35 and $40 Two and (P 1 A Three-Piece Suits, now selling at 1 mjJ lug a meeting, but as soon as he was 1 the police found Gattlin unconscious and prostrate at the corner of East Twenty-eighth street and Michigan avenue. The wagon toon him to the Twenty-second Street Station. A littie while before noon, when it was discovered that he was still sleeping, the police became alarmed and began an attempt to revive him. Atter two hours of work they succeeded. He was ab'e to remember nothing after the departure of Mrs.

Hardin. DFTKCTIVK IS TOIJ. Returning to the Congress Hotel. Gattlin told House Detective Repetto of the affair. He said he had lost a COPYlttSHT w.

xn diamond shirt stud and a diamond! An Extra Pair of Trousers At this season of the year many a man can save buying a new suit, simply by having his old coat cleaned tip and wearing it with a new pair of trousers, at a total cost of a few dollars. This sale of trousers is intended for Just such emergencies and includes the season's choicest styles, fabrics and patterns in cassimeres. cheviots and blue Also outing and golf trrmsers. all sizes and waist measurements, in conservative styles as well as extreme peg-top models every pair tailored in the best possible manner and warranted to fit and hang perfectly. Reduced Prices on Mohair Suits Jut now when torrid weather makes them of great importance to sweltering men.

we off er -several hundred Mohair Suits at about lialf price! They're of the world-renowned "Priestley cravenetted mohair," and, being waterproof, will not stain from perspiration nor shrink if out in a shower. We offer you choice from over 20 handsome styles and patterns. Stilish shapely Mohair Suits that will keep their shape, now offered in this wonderful Rebuilding Sale at about half the price at which they really ought to sell! Priestley's Mohair Suits made to sell at $20.00 and $22.50 each; your choice tomorrow for 1 Boys' Wash Suits Reduced $1.25 and $1.50 Suits. $1.75 and $2.00 $1.15 $2.50 and $3.00 $1.55 $4.00 and $5.00 $2.35 75c Khaki Knickers 45c $2 Blue Serge Knickers $1.39 50c and 75c Rompers. $1.50 Jack Tar Suits.

$1.50 Indian Suits. informed of Plerson" death he made the statement that Pierson did not belong on the fourth floor, and had no Tight to be there. "If he had been where he belonged he probably would "be alive still," said Soderholm. The bravery of Patrolman Hade of the Central District and his indiffer-'enee to danger, probably was all that the lives of forty other persons who were in the home when the firs out on the third floor, where I iles of paper were stored. It was thought for a time that all had es- csped.

but later, upon investigation, 'Captain Ilorst of Engine Company No. 39, stumbled over the lifeless form of a man on the fourth floor. The body was carried below and there identified by other occupants of the home aa that of John Pierson. a Canadian carpenter. The body lay rear the fire escape, and death was tetidently due to suffocation, as hi3 body was not burned.

The fire was discovered at 8:20 i clock by George Smith, who lives at J7 North Third street. He was awak-Ined by his wife, who had heard the 4-rackMng of fire. Grabbing his 7- year-old son in his arms. Smith rushed from the room and to the street below, where he turned in an alarm. After the arrival of the fire department the fire was soon under control.

Another thing that assisted in preventing a conflagration was the presence mind of Patrolman Hines, who closed the iron shutters between judging rooms and the warehouse v. here the flames were, and in this 'fay prevented the spread of the fire. Little or nothing is Jcnown of Pier-son, and the police have not heard from relatives. ring worth $800. and about hi cash.

When he went to Mrs. Hardin's room for an explanation he received nothing except a story siiuilar to his own. Gattlin then reported the robbery to the detective bureau. Detective Sergeant McFarland gave Gattlin a chance to inspect the portrait of Evelyn Romadka in the rogue's gallery. His identification was instant.

Mrs. Hardin and Sweeney affirmed it later. A search was immediately begun for the woman, but no traces of her were founcT after she left the Auditorium Hotel at 12 o'clock Friday afternoon. 1 :i.2 4.40 93.SO 2.r.O -nil :J.OO TROl'SKRS reduced St.OO nd f.l.OA THOlSliKS reduced u.M and S7.M 1'ROlFHS redneed s.O and reduced 910.00 and $12.0 TROlKKS reduced Priest ley's Mohair Suits made to sell at $25.00 and 1 SJ 7C each; your choice tomorrow for 7 1Uf I A i TRADE BOOSTER DEAD NOISE WORRIES GATES LOVE LETTERS TO CENTRAL TRADES BARS CARPENTERS' RIVALS Prion toot "Wni Adv toiar and tvrrf iuf. Tc-y will oi)r In TTie if received by a.

m. Main 24: Central a70j. USES X-RAY TO PHOTO SOUL SPIRIT John F. Caliill, Advocate of Riter Traffic, to Re Buried Tuesday Morning. American Millionaire Kept From Much-Xeeded Rest by Rumbling: or Trains Family Still Optimlstte.

FIGURE IN SUIT Mrs. Kruckemeyer Claims to Have Found Evidence Against Her Husband. in Charges of Treachery Strike Made Against Body. CITY RETALIATES FOR BOND DEFAULT Mandamus Suit Brought to Test Right to Discriminate in Individual Case. FOOTPAD IS WOUNDED The Amalgamated Society of Car-nnfr nnd Joiners was declared an Was PAK.1S.

July 2 4. The oppressive heat of the past few days, together with the rumbling noise from the trails in the underground railway which runs by the Hotel Maurice, have deprived John Y. Gates, the American millionaire, of much-needed sleep and have not tended to the bettering of his condition. Mr. Gates is at times much agitated and nervous and his sitting up so frequently is a result of this nervousness and does not denote improvement.

While the Gates family is optimistic over the outcome of the case, the physicians are not so confident. They say he can not be pronounced out of danger for several days. 'JVejrro Identified as Man Who Shot While Attempting Iloll-rp. The funeral of John F. Cahill, 4S60 St.

Louis avenue, will be from the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, King's highway, near Xorthland avenue, Tuesdty morning. Mr. Cahill died Sunday morning, after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Cahill was- best known to the present generation of St.

Louisans as a tireless advocate of a renewal of river transportation. He sought to make possible a revival of the traffic by means of boats equipped with adjustable keels; capable of threading the shallow channel of the river or of breasting the storms at sea. Before coming to St. Louis Mr. Cahill was engaged in the wholesale drug business in Cuba.

His establishment was burned In the war between the Spanish government and the in-surectos. At the time of his death he had a claim before Congress for damages. For many years after coming to St. Louis he was editor and publisher of Camerrlo del Valle, printed partly in Spanish and partly in English, and designed to promote the commerce of St. Louis with the Spanish nations of the South.

Massachusetts Physician Arrives at Many Analyses of Human Body. I1AVEKU1LU July 2 4. In his search for the human soul, that quest which has enthralled men in all ages, Dr. Duncan MacDougall of this city, who claims to have weighed the soul of a dying man. and who has tested the passing of the spirit by powerful raj-s in all the colors of the spectrum and sought to pla'be definitely whence came the sixteenth part of a pound of "soul substance" from the body, is now waiting with keenest interest to observe what may be done to picture the spirit in X-ray photos.

"The soul is a definite weight ranging from about three-fourths of an ounce to a little more than an ounce, and in relation to light it is identical with the ether of interstel- I. SHOOTS AT BANDITS An application for an alternative writ of mandamus was filed Monday by -William M. Schumacher, a licensed embalmer, in Judge Kinsey's division of the Circuit Court, demanding that the city accept a $1,000 bond prepared by the American Surety Company, so that he may practice his profession according to the requirements of the city ordinances, which demand such a bond. alleges that the bond is good, and that when he presented it. Actine: Mayor Gundlach refused to approve it.

Grocer Saw But lie Elmer DeSchields. a negro, who refused to tell the police how he received a bullet wound near the heart, tiss been identilled by John Crueiiic-tor as a negro whom he shot, when the latter demanded that he and tthree companions hold up their hands end submit to being robbed. Crucifictor states that he and three other foreigners were in a doorway at Twent3'-second street at 2 a. m. when the negro and a companion ordered them hold up their Instead of complying Crucifictor shot, and the two highwaymen ran away.

The shot attracted the police, who found DeSehields in the neighborhood. The police arrested his brother. Robert DeSchields. The latter denies outcast at a meeting Sunday after- noon at the Central Trades and Labor Union headquarters when three ofi the amalgamated delegates were refused a seat in the Central body af- ter a heated debate. Members of the Central Trades and Labor Union were asked by the council not to work on jobs with the Amalgamated workers.

The attitude of the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners during the recent carpenters strike was scored. The Amalgamated delegates declared it was the purpose of the United Brotherhood of Carpetners and Joiners to destroy the rival body. For years two organizations of carpenters in question have existed. Both were members of the Central Trades and Labor Union. In December, 1909.

the Amalgamated was suspended for non-payment of dues. It is. however, a member of the American Federation of Labor. Some months ago the Independent Union was formed. It is charged this association was founded One Man Fall Got up and i Fscaped.

Judge Kinsey set the hearing of the These two things 1 have nciitinn "1 i i.v,,-..! lar space. The bravery of Charles W. Karejci, who runs a grocery at 312 7 Xeosho street, prevented him from being robbed when two youths about -9 years of age, entered the store at 10:20 and commanded him to hold up his hands. One of his hands went up, but the other reached into his pocket and drew a revolver. He opened fire upon the would-be robbers, who fled son and J.

D. Johnson fild the writ! Proved to rny vn satisfaction," said for Schumacher Doctor MacDougall. "I have come to At the City Hall the reason for thl the Positive conclusion of the nega-refusal of the bond was said to be the! ve Quality of the soul, namely that Ten love letters, which Mrs. May Kruckemeyer of 5108 Maple avenue avers are the "mushiest ever written." are to be submitted In evidence fn her suit for divorce against Gus-tave Kruckemeyer, a packer. The letters are to be offered in an effort to prove Kruckemeyer Is infatuated with Mrs.

Lillian Hlrsch of 134 7 Arlington avenue, who is named in the petition. When Mrs. Kruckemeyer was informed by her friends that her husband had been out riding with another woman she determined to play the part of a Sherlock Holmes, ami started a still hunt for evidence. She was rewarded, she avers, by finding two letters in her husband's room and others under the gasoline tank of his automobile. After 2 4 years of happy married life, Mrs.

Kruckemeyer says, she discovered two years ago that her husband was. paying attention to another woman. She discovered the identity of the other woman, she avers, in the person of Mrs. Hlrsch. She called upon her, and after securing a confession of acquaintance witk'her husband, sh- says, the also obtained the solemn promise of Mrs.

Hirsch that she would have nothing more to do with Kruckemeyer. But the promise was broken, Rh-s declares. Mrs. Kruckemeyer fays that ln tried coaxing, pleading and scolding in efforts to win her husband again, but without avail. She says also that Ben Hirsch.

husband Mrs. Hirsch. has visited her and warned her that her husband would get into serious trov7Tle if he continued to visit th Hirsch fiat. Hirsch, when seen at his home, 134 5 Arlington avenue Saturday night suggested to the reporter that he might "beat it while the going was good," and added that unless the "going" was somewhat rapid he would kick the reporter's "fac-e participating in th? attempted hold and companions: aotion the National Surety Company itH c'f refraction to light is up, but Crucifictor in reiusmg to pay the city a bond of! ay he was with his brother. "Jlv next experiments w-re con bv F.

G. Bos'd, secretary of the Gen- Ball Stand Collapses; 25 Hurt. NEWARK, July 24. Twenty-five persons were injured, six seriously, yesterday, when, ihe grand stand at the Newark baseball park collapsed during a game between the Newark and Wheeling clubs of the Central League, carrying 250 persons with it. Many women and children were in the stand when it collapsed.

To Open Kansas City Office. through a side-door into Michigan I Contractors Association. Mr. avenue. Karejci followed and emptied $200,000.

duo the city when the Kern UI7TF14X TICKirr RF.I.n l. Incandescent Gas Light Company broke its lighting contract with the Police Fear Confewd Forger Onlj in 1S01- The National corn-Wanted Free Ride to Cincinnati panj- which is a Pittsburg concern. Awaiting word from the police "of TaS in turn innlnl the Amer- ducted with a view to determining the relation of the soul substance to light, and have carried these on tin-til now. I am convinced of its resemblance in this respect to ether. What other attributes it has com- his revolver but he is not certain as to whether or not he struck them.

One fell but before Karejci could reach his side he had jumped to his feet and escaped. Boyd has admitted this. Last Thursday night 133 members of the Independent Union voted to join the Amalgamated Association. It was charged by the members of the United Brotherhood that their rivals had betraj-ed the brotherhood in mski-ig terms with the contractors. mcinnati.

the police of Central Sta- men with ether or dissimilar to it we hAirtirs- jr.ni, The sult 13 stlU ln the courts, an! The Missouri North Arkansas; vho surrender "to PatrohVn'Ven: a "t3 ray. but 1 believV thVsoul is a sub- verlob Sunday night" at Fifteenth and -vv-vvv stance utterly unlike the protoplasm of our bodies, although up to the Sleeper Lxes Watch. Oscar Lowndaht of 4310 College Market street, telling him that two and a half years ago he had forged T.Mikt HaaeHall Mght. Pain's Fireworks. St.

I- V. camp-' moment of death it is blended with the protoplasm of the brain and spinal cord." Railroad Company will, on August 1 establish a traffic office In Kansas City. in the Board of Tra3 Building, Eighth and Wyandotte streets. L. A.

Patterson be in charge, with title of commercial agent. J. G. Smith, with title of trav-fllne freight agent, will be attached the name of Oscar Waag to a check for $100. and realized that avenue, fell asleep viile sitting in a doorway at 2320 O'Fallon street Sunday, and when the police awoke him at 3 a.

m. he discovered that his watch had taken flight during his slumber. lie said he had traveled about the so worried him that he surrendered. Xegro" Wound Fatal. The Coroner will hold an inquest Monday over the body of Doll Salisbury, negro.

4 6 32 McKissock avenue, who was shot in the leg by Patrolman Wisa. July 8. and died at the City Hospital. Sunday. Salisbury attacked another negro, Cleveland Kelly, who was being protected by Wisa, and then ran.

The patrolman fired to stop him. At first he thought of goins to Cincinnati, he said, but he felt it best to be taken back as a prisoner. He longed for his mother, too. he said, and this helped him make up his mind to surrender. The police believe he wants a free ride back to Fiiiht Hurt in Kxplosion.

GARY. F.XGLAXD. July 2 4. An explos-ion wrecked a two-story building in the heart of the business district early today, injuring eight persons, two of whom, girls, may die Ieaky pipes were blamed by the for the explosion. country of late, working as a watchman, and laborer in Hereulatieum.

He went under the name of Joseph Kolb. hf said. The police found no complaint from the Cincinnati police Hjsain-t such man. but Trisledf-r the charge existed and asked to be held. He said his conscience had to that office, assisting Mr.

Patterson in the solicitation of business in Kansas City and outlying territory. r- -achat ym nd Tot pfirbm yoa tim Ftmr "W.ot Ad." I to a'l btwI TH fitar'm I.oes Wallet on Car. Fmil Hellmieh of 2160 Leona avenue, lost his wallet and S15.50 on a Ca.s avenue car, Saturday night. Two mfcn jostled him, and he believes they stole the money. I in." BY "BUD" FISHER JEFF MAKES UP IN JUDGMENT FOR ANY DEFICIENCY IN COURAGE "You- trt-i-f p- IP a "eve.

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