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PART I.
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KRUSHBVO. AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT. LOOTING AND CONFLAGRATION.
Time was when this Macedonian town was famous for Its beauty and the comparative luxury in which Its Inhabitants
lived. Hera dwelt many merchants whose business extended throughout the Balkans and Asia Minor. But the Insurgents
came and massacred the Turkish garrison. Then the Turks came, bombarded the place for days and Anally drove the rebels
away. Barbarous men of the hills for scores of miles around had gathered for the looting- which followed .and little es
caped when the sack once had begun. Hundreds of nonrombatants were murdered, their bodies left on the streets. Un
speakable acts of cruelty were perpetrated on women and children. Now Krushero Is only a city of the dead.
LEADING TOPICS
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TO-DAY'S REPUBLIC.
THE SUN RISES THIS MORNING AT
S:57 AND SETS THIS EVENING AT 5:'4i
THE MOON SETS TO-MORROW
MORNING AT 3:12.
GRAIN CLOSED ST. LOUIS DEC
WHEAT Sotfc: DEC. CORN Cc ASKED.
CHICAGO DEC WHBAT mvatt-ff
ASKED: DEC. CORN c BID.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
St. Louis and Vicinity Shorrers and
stationary temperature.
For Mlaaonrl Fair In east ahorrera
and cooler In Treat Saturday. Sunday
showers and cooler.
For Illinois Fair Saturday; warm
er In north. Sunday ahorrera and
cooler.
For Arkansas Fair Saturday San
day ahoYrers and cooler.
For East Texas Fair Saturday. San
day Increasing; cloudiness.
For West Texas Showers and cool
er Saturday. Sunday fair.
Page.
J. Prompt Payment of Stock Urged.
World's Fair News.
4. The Republio Form Chart.
5. Baseball Games Yesterday.
C. Editorial.
St. Tirmlsans In New York -end Chicago.
I. Of Interest to Women.
S. East Side News.
The Sunday-School Lesson.
ft. Balfour Upholds Mr. Chamberlain.
IB. Books News and Comment.
River Improvement Congress Called.
Weather Bulletin.
1L X. M. C A. Officers Expect Great Edu
cational Rally.
Sunday Church Services.
Rellglosa News.
U,RejmKo "Wontr Ads.
Birth. Marriage and Death Records.
New Corporations.
12, Rooms for Rent Ads.
It. Chicago Grain Markets,
live-stock Markets.
River News.
15, Tractions Hold Steady.
Wall Street Gossip.
Summary of St. Louis Market.
If. Ohio Blot Victims In Critical Condi
tion. f Builders Ignore New Ordinance.
fXf Dun's and Bradstreet'a Weekly Trade
Review
j"v' Declares Commission's Powers Are
limited.
Japan Makes Explanation.
PRESIDENTS TITLE FORGED
TO AID VAN WORMER BOYS.
Telegram to Warden. Deyo Orderlac
Delay of Execution Ignored
Officials. Seek Sender.
Albany. N. Y.. Oct. 2. Forgery of the
official title of the head of the nation fig
ures in an attempt made yesterday to
save the three Van Wormer boys from
the death chair at Dannemora prison.
Less than half an hour before the time
filat for the execution. Warden Deyo re
ceiired the following telegram:
"West Point Station. Oct. 1. 1S0X To
George Deyo, Warden: The Van Wormer
boys must not be executed to-day. A stay
has been granted.
"By order of the President of the United
States."
Warden Deyo at once consulted frith
some of the witnesses present and con
cluded that the message was a forgery
sent for the purpose of delaying the exe
cution beyond the official day. It was con
cluded, first, that the President could not
Interfere except through Governor Odelt
and. second, that reprieve could not be ac
cepted by telegraph, but must be by per
sonal signature or In personal interview
by telephone
No attention was therefore paid to the
communication, but every endeavor will
be made to find -and prosecute the sender.
FRANCE TO SHOW JEWELS
$ VALUED AT $4,000,000.
jfo Paris, Oct. i The French Jewelry
exhibit fur the St. Louis Universal
Exposition already amounts to $4.-
$ 009,000 and Includes a pearl collar
6 valued at JSC0.CO0.
VI
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INDICTMENT FOUND
Charges That He Shot, Robbed
and Then Threw Body of
McCann Into Pond.
CASE MAY SOON BE TRIED.
Grand Jnrv- Recommends That
Constables Be More Vigilant in
Prosecuting Drivers of Auto
mobiles in County.
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EXTRACTS FROM REPOnT
OF CLAYTOX GRAXD JCRY.
"Constables should be more vlgl-
lant in arresting and prosecuting
v drivers of automobiles."
"Our rock roads are regarded by
chauffeurs as speedways."
'The safety of others is willfully
and unlawfully disregarded and
accidents ate thereby cau.-ed to
persons and proierty by the auto-
mobiles."
Frederick Seymour Barrlngton was yes
terday indicted by the St. Louis Countv
Grand Jury on a charge of murder In the
first degree.
Barrlngton is charged with murdering
James P. McGacn at Bonfils on the night
of June 11 The Indictment charges that
he shot McCann, robbed him and then
threw his body into a pond.
Barrlngton wiU be arraigned shortly and
a date set for his trial in the Circuit Court.
It is probable that a change of venue will
be applied for according to Beno Alt
helmer, the defendant's attorney.
The Grand Jury mada its final report
to Judge McElblnney. Seven true bills
and one Ignored bill were returned. Six
were given out for publication. The sev
enth was withheld because the person
named in the Indictment Is not In custody.
Eugene Ilanimann. former Justice of
the Peace and Postmaster in Maplewood.
Is named as a defendant In one of the in
dictments. He is charged with resisting
Constable Fred Lenz in the rervlce of a
writ. The oSenss is a misdemeanor pun
ishable by a maximum fine of WOO and
twelve months in the county JalL The
offense is aUeged to have been committed
while the Constable was executing a writ
Issued by JusUce Campbell to eject Hans
mann from the Suburban Railway prem
ises in Maplewood. Hansmann at the
Ume, It is charged, pointed a revolver at
Lenz and snapped It. He was knocked out
by the Constable.
John Stuart and William Vollmer. the
Delmar race track employes who shot and
asaulted William Trent, an alleged wire
tapper, were Indicted on a charge of as
sault with intent to kill.
Alexander Volkman was indicted on a
charge of carrying away and concealing
mortgaged property; Walter Simon, alias
Greasy, on a charge of placing obstruc
tions on the tracks of the Creve Coeur
Transit lines, and Joseph Woolfolk on a
charge of attempting to commit burglary.
An Ignored bill was returned in the case
of Darius Henderson, charged with as
sault with Intent to kill.
The case of Oscar Rhodes, who was ar
rested on a charge of substituting "Abble
L." for "Untrue" in a race at Delmar,
was not mentioned in the report. Rhodes
Is sUII In Jail in Clayton.
In the report the Grand Jury recom
mends that Constables be more vigilant in
arresting and prosecuting drivers of auto
mobiles in St. Louis County, who "wilfully
and unlawfully disregard the safety of
others and thereby cause many accidents
to person and property." The report fur
ther states that the chauffeurs regarded
the rock roads as speedways.
The Grand Jury recommended that the
interior of the jail be painted: that the
salary of the Jailer be increased to 173 a
month, and the office of assistant Jailer at
a salary- of SO a month be created; that
the useless outbuildings on the south side
of the Courthouse square be removed and
a granitoid walk built, and that the Pros
ecuting Attorney be provided with neces
sary law "books.
The JsllVas found to be clean and the
prisoners weU cared for.
TOWN IS COMPLETE.
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HAMILTON GETS
LIGHT SENTENCE,
Descendant of Famous American
Is Treated Leniently by the
President.
WILL NOT BE DISMISSED.
Roosevelt Takes Cognizance of
the. Pact That Officer Did Not
Resent Hamilton's Insult
With His Fist
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington. Oct. 2. President Roovelt
to-day commuted the sentence of dismissal
from the service, pronounced by a court
martial against First Lieutenant Loul3
McL. Hamilton of the Fourteenth United
States Infantry. Freat-grandson of Alex
ander Hamilton. First Secretary of the
Treaeurj. Lieutenant Hamilton was
charged with having made offensive re
marks while Intoxicated about the child
lessness of a brother officer's family.
There were certain extenuating circum
stances, among them the fact that the of
ficer had not personally resented the In
sult, but had made complaint later
through official channeK which Influenced
the President to restrict the sentence to
lcs of HE files In rank and a public apol
ogy for his conduct In the presence of his
superior officer.
The excellent record and illustrious line
age of Lieutenant Hamilton were factors
In his favor.
A Joke passed on this case to-day was
that President Roosevelt was not inclined
to punUb severely even such an indiscreet
condemner of race suicide as Lieutenant
Hamilton.
In three other court-martial cases, bow
ever. President Roowvelt wlelJed the dis
missal ax with fatnl effect. The sentence
of dismissal from the service and tno
years' Imprisonment pronounced on Lieu
tenant Thomas EL Murtaugu. coast artil
lery, V. S. A., by a court-martial which
tried him at Governor's Island for embez
zlement, obtaining money under false pre
tences and deserUon, was approved. Lieu
tenant Murtaugh ta the son of an old New
York family of that name, prominent In
Cathollo affairs. He had a meteoric career
from CIenfuego:i Cuba, to St. LouU and
Chicago, leaving a trail of creditors be
hind. He will serve the two years In some
prison yet to be fixed upon.
Sentence of dismissal and one year's
imprisonment pronounced against Lieuten
ant Hamilton Foley of the Fifth Cavalry
was remitted to dismissal without con
finement. He was charged with scandalous
conduct unbecoming an officer and a gen
tleman, and embezzlement, but the latter
charge was not proved directly.
Sentence of dismissal pronounced
against Lieutenant Rucker of the Philip
pine Scouts on a charge of misappropria
tion of Quartermaster's supplies, was ap
proved. I CORSETS AND JEWELRY
$ BARBAROUS, SAY WOMEN.
Hamburg, Oct. i The Women's
Congress, at Its session here to-
day, debated the propriety of wear-
ing corsets and Jewelry.
Both practices, according to the
prevailing opinion, are barbarous,
but no vote on the subject was
taken.
The congress cheered the state-
v ment that women vote In five of
the United States.
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ROYALTY IN TRAIN WRECK.
Princess Clementine and Grand
children Are Uninjured.
Belgrade, Eervla. Oct. i The Orient ex
press bound for Constantinople, ran Into a
freight train to-day at Pasua. Hungary,
Dear the Servian frontier. Many persons
were Injured.
The Princess ClemenUne. mother of
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and the lit
ter's children were on the express, but
1 they were uninjured.
TURKS' MEASURES
BREAK BACKBONE
OF REVOLUTION,
Several High Insurgent
Chiefs Have Been Slain
and Their Followers
Are In Flight.
LINES OF RETREAT CUT OFF.
Entire Christian Population of
Mehomia, Province of Seres,
Massacred-by Soldiers.
THE STRUGGLE IS DESPERATE.
St. Petersburg Begins to Hope
That War Is Temporarily
Averted Porte Ignores Con
suls in Selecting a Vnll.
Sofia, Bulgaria. Oit. Z According to ad
vices received here this afternoon, the
backbone of the revolution In Macedonia
Is brol-en, the Turkish troops are gaining
the upper hand everywhere, several In
surgent chiefs have been killed or wound
ed, others are abandoning the struggle
and fleeing to the fronUer. the revoluUon
ary bands are sustaining heavy lonses and
are seeking refuge in large numbers and
the Turks occupy every important point
alone the routes of retreat to the frontier
Fighting Is reported to have taken place
throughout the districts of Raxlog, Melnlk,
Demlrhissar and Nevrokop.
GENERAL MASSACRE.
The Macedonian revolutionary heardquar
ters assert that they have positive infor
mation that the whole Christian popula
tion of the town of Mehomla (Razlog),
Province of Seres, was massacred Septem
ber 2S. with the exception of ten men. who
escaped with the news.
Mehomla is an Important town and the
seat of the local government. The popu
lation was about equally divided between
Turks and Bulgarians. The latter num
bered XO persons.
According to the fugitives, when the
general rising was declared in the Raxlog
district on Sunday, the Turkish troops In
the Plrin Mountains hurried to Mehomla
and surrounded the town, rendering the
escape of the Christians Impossible.
The Bulgarian population, were prepared
to Join in the rising, several insurgents'
agents being In the Bultarian quarter of
the town at the time.
Desperate fighting occurred In the
treets, bombs end dynamite being freely
tsed. After fighting for five or six hours
the Turks gained the upper hand and pro
ceeded to massacre every Bulgarian they
encountered.
FIRM WORDS EFFECTIVE.
St. Petersburg, Oct. i The semiofficial
Journal de St. Petersbourg. commenting
on the vllt of the Cxar to Emperor Fran
cis Joseph, declares that the Arm language
employed ' the representatives of the
Russian and Austrian Governments at
Constantinople and Sofia, has averted war
for the presmt.
A dispatch from Constantinople says the
Anatolian troops recently called out are
n-erely Intended to replace the unruly
troops, who are responsible for the ex
cesses, so the actual effectiveness of the
army in Roumella will not thereby be in
creased. NEW VALI FOR BEIRUT.
Beirut, Oct. 2. Ignoring the unanimous
request of the Consuls, the Porte has ap
pointed Khalla Pasha of Brussa as Vail
of Beirut. It Is feared that disorders will
ensue on the departure of Naxlm Bey. the
acting Vail.
REBEL SELF-SLAIN.
Five engagements are reported to have
taken place In the vicinity of Kravtovo,
where S.0CO Turks were attacked by revo
lutionary bands, and. though many Turks
were killed, the Insurgents were com
pletely routed. One of the leaders of the
Utter. Lieutenant Tontcheff, committed
suicide in order to avoid capture.
'Advices from the Insurgent headquarters
assert that G.0O) Turks were routed by 2,
000 insurgents in the Plrin Mountains aft
er four days' fghting. The Turks' losses
In this affair pre said to have been the
heaviest during the whole outbreak. They
included three Colonels and many officers
of lower rank.
Three batteries of siege artillery left
Sofia early this morning for Haskovi. near
the frontier of Adrlanaople Vilayet.
BEE-GUARDED CONVENT IS
BESIEGED BY OFFICIALS.
Hundreds of Ctlitena of French
Torrn, Headed by Former Mayor
IIlis Gendarmes.
Paris. Oct i The convent of Araanlls
(Department of Illeet-Vllalne) strongly
barricaded and defended, was besieged to
day by civil officials, assisted by gen
darmes. A crowd of hundreds of people, headed
by a former Mayor, hissed the officials,
threw stones at them and Impeded tbelr
progress-
One of the novel methods of defense con
sisted In a row of beehives, which were
placed at the entrance of the convent. The
barricades weie finally broken down and.
several monks and clvUIanswere anested.
At Catres-5ur-rAgout (Department of
Tarn) a large seminary, chape and libra
ry have been destroyed by Are. which Is
believed to have been the work of an In
cendiary, as the flame were started si
multaneously In Ave places. It was In
tended to open the seminary to-morrow.
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MOUNT ST. HELENS
WAS IN ERUPTION.
Portland. Ore., Oct- i John Con-
nors. superintendent of the Gold
Crown quartz mine, who arrived
here to-day, declares that Mount
St. Helens was in eruption en Sep-
tember 15. the date on which an
earthquake shock was felt over the 4
4 Pacific Northwest country.
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KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATS
BITTER AGAINST FUSI0NISTS.
Borough Organization Probably
Though Agreeing to Support
Slayor, George B. McClellau
Strongly Denounces Actions
FUSION FORCES, IT IS EXPECTED, TO NOMINATE DEMOCRATS.
LEWIS NIXON.
Who announced himself xi an Independent Democratic candidate fur Mayor of
Greater New York, but who probably will make little headway, now that the
King's County Democrats have agreed to support McClellon. the Tammany nominee.
REPUBUC SPECIAL.
New York. Oct. i-Hugh McLaughlin,
leader of the King's County Democracy,
was very bitter to-day over the action of
the Democratic City Convention last night
in nominating Colonel George B. McCIel
lan for Mayor. Edward M. Grout for
Comptroller, and Charles V. Fornes for
President of thj Board of Aldermen.
The old Brooklyn boys characterized the
proceeding as one of "bnital might."
Not content with voting the Brooklyn
delegates down, they were subjected to a
tirade of abuse from the platform by Sen
ator Grady.
The Brooklyn delegation would have
swallowed McCIellan for Mayor, but the
nomination of Grout and Fornes. who are
the present incumbents, for Controller and
President of tbe Board of Aldermen, to
which offices they were elected two years
ago on the Fusion ticket, was too much
for them. They saw In It an attempt to
wreck the King's County Democracy and
establish In Its stead a Tammany annex.
Rather than give Leader Murphy the
opportunity he Is aald to have sought by
bolting the convention, the Brooklynltes
remained and took their medicine.
To-day. however, all eyes were turned
toward Brooklyn The Tammany leaders
were eager to know the extent of the de
fection from the ticket, which will take
place there. Signs showed that the organ
IxaUon of Hugh McLaughlin was unalter
ably committed to the policy of beating
tbe Tammany nominees at all hazards.
The only straight Democratic newspaper
In the borough openly bolted the Wigwam
ticket. McLaughlin denounced the meth
ods of Murphy and more than one Tam
many brave will long remember tbe lish
applied by the old boss.
BOROUGH WILL BOLT.
It Is said that the programme Is to have
the borough convention, which meets to
morrow night, pass resolutions bolting
Grout and Fornes.
In an editorial this afternoon the Brook
lyn Citizen, McLaughlin's organ, rays:
"The ticket nominated last night by tbe
votes of the Tammany organization and
Its dependents under the direction of Mr.
Murphy. Is entitled to no support from
any self-respecting Democrat. It Is In no
MAILS WILL BE SHOT
TO POST OFFICE IN
J. M. Masten. Assistant Superintendent
of Railway Mall Service. Is In the city In
specting the progress of the work being
done In tbe conitractlon of the pneumatic
mall tubes that are being laid between
the Post Office and Union Station.
"I am agreeably surprised at the
progress that has been made In the laying
of tbe tubes," paid Mr. Masten. "There
Is no specified time for the work to be
completed, but tbe tube service will be
Installed before a great while.
"About 2JCO feet of tubing has been
laid already and tbe contractors are add
ing to this at the rate of 100 feet a day.
The distance between Union Station and
tbe Post Office Is something over a mile,
so it will not be long before all the tub
NEW YORK WOMAN $50,000
SHORT IN HER ACCOUNTS.
New York. Oct. i Marie Layton Johnson, aged 19 years, the wife of Albert M.
Johnson, a dentist of Larchmont. N. Y with an office In this city, was arrested to
night on a warrant specifically charging her with the grand larceny of COCO. The
total amount of ber defalcation, however, may. It is raid, amount to 1M.0CO. the money
having been lost In speculation.
The complainants are officers of the United States Playing Card Company of Cin
cinnati and New York. Mrs. Johnson, whose maiden name was Marie Layton. was
bookkeeper In the New York office of Ihe company.
Cincinnati would send a bill of goods to New York, which would be sold for $3,000
and that amount would be placed to the credit of the Cincinnati account But. it Is
alleged. Mrs. Johnson would charge the New York office account with COCO, taking
the difference herself. To make the accounts balance she wcuid then raise a small I
blU of goods shipped from Cincinnati from, say, to CCOS.
Will Bolt Grout and Fornes,
the Tammany Candidate for
Brooklyn ''Citizen" Strongly
of Leader Murphy.
gwxjto.q
proper sense of the term Democratic: it
conforms In no essential to the qualities
of a regular nomination: It represents
methods that are In complete antagonism
to truly Democratic procedures and it is
poslUvily bad in point of. morals.
At best, there was little to be said In
favor of McCIellan for Mayor, but when
Murphy Joined him with Grout and
Fornes. It became impossible for honest
men to aay anything. No man with a
spark of honor in his soul would con
sent to go before the people in such com
pany. Every consideration of good citi
zenship and honest Democracy requires
the defeat of It."
The sentiments of the Brooklyn Leader
are no doubt expressed In this paragraph,
although for the sake of "regularity" Mr.
McLaughlin will not openly bolt tbe
ticket.
That Murphy v.111 have a difficult time
in electing the ticket he nominated last
night, goes without saytng. Very Uttle. If
any aid. will be extended in Brooklyn, and
he win have to depend upon the boroughs
of Manhattan, Richmond. Queens and the
Bronx to roll up a majority to overcome
the vote which Brooklyn is sure to roll
up for Low.
LEADERS DISPLEASED.
The Greater New York Democracy,
headed by John C. Sheeban. went to pieces
to-night and several of the district lead
ers bolted lna body because of a disposi
tion was shown to Indorse the Tammany
ticket.
The defection of the Greater New York
Democracy from the fualonlsts Is caused
by the turning down of Jacob A. Cantor,
whom It wanted to be the nominee for
President of Manhattan Borough.
R. Fulton Cutting to-night sent a long
letter to Mr. Grout informing the Con
troller of the decision of tbe City Com
mittee to require him to withdraw as the
candidate of the Citizens' Union for Con
troller. Mr. Grout has no Intention of com
piling, but at a meeting of the Citizens'
Union next Wednesday the names of two
Democrats probably will be substituted for
tho;e of Grout and Fornes.
It now reems unlikely that Lewis Nixon
will make any headway a an Independent
Democratic candidate for Mayor.
FROM STATION
ABOUT 2 MINUTES.
ing Is In. The work has been practically
finished from Nineteenth to Thirteenth
ltreet.
"When completed mall can be sent
through the tubes at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The distance to the sta
tion is a little over a mile, so the time
consumed In sending a package from the
Post Office tr tte station will be about
tno and a quarter minutes.
"Tbe Government rents the mall tubes
and contracts for the transmission of the
mall through the same as It contracts
with railroads and other common carriers
to carry the mall from one point to an
other. The amount of rental which Is
paid yearly to tbe St. Louis Pneumatic
Tube Company for the use of the tubes
Is tlS.570."
GfiAi JURY If
NDICT PROMOTERS,
Believed Bills Hnve Been Found
Against Operators-of 'Get-
Rich-Quick" Scheme.
SEVERAL WITNESSES HEARD.
Pinal Report Will Be Made to
Judge Douglas To-Day
Many Jail Cases Dis
posed Of.
With the final report of the June Grand
Jury, which will b made to Judge
Douglas at the Four Courts this morning,
at least two Indictments are expected
against operators of so-called "get-rich-qulck"
schemes.
From a reliable source It was learned
yesterday that the Grand Jury, at the
morning session, had voted two Indict
ments, and It Is understood that Assistant
Circuit Attorney Bishop, acting under In
structions from the Circuit Attorney,
drew up the indictments yesterday after
noon. The Grand Jury began an investigation
of the Rlalto Grain and Securities Com
pany's affairs Tuesday, following a raid
on the company's offices In the Rlalto and
R-llway Exchange building.
Dissatisfied stockholders, according to In
formation at the Four Courts, have given
to the Grand Jury Information on which
to make the Investigation.
Major Hugh C Dennis, his brother.
arry Dennis, and several employes, in
cluding two women, have been called be
fore the Grand Jury three times.
Major Dennis hoi, not been called as a
witness and the first day he was at the
Four Courts he was permitted to leave
the building only under the escort of a
deputy sheriff.
The June Urand Jury reconvened-Monday,
after the summer vacation. Before
adjourning for tbe summer the Grand
Jury had under Inquiry several matters
pertaining to State boodllng at Jefferson
City. Important testimony, it is said,
was given to the Grand Jury by former
members of the General Assembly, but It
is not known at the Four Courts whether
the boodle deals; of which they told, had
a St. Louis connection, which would give
the St. Louis Grand Jury Jurisdiction.
The Grand Jury will return more than
twenty Indictments In routine cases to
day. The October Grand Jury will be im
paneled Monday morning by Judge Taylor.
CHIEF ASKS FOR AFFIDAVITS.
Kiely Says Discharges Will Fol
low if Charges Are Proved.
"I have requested he persons responsi
ble for the charges to fl'e affidavits and
the matter will be taken before the Police
Board." said Chief KWy yesterday after
noon, in discussing the report that police
men have been seen shooting craps in
Kogan's saloon at Jefferson and Cass ave
nues. "if these 'eports are true. I "do not want
the men on the police force any longer,
and If the charges are proven. It Is almost
certain taht they will not remain in the
department.
"Captain Gaffney of the Ninth District
has been instructed to thoroughly Investi
gate the matter and make a report to me."
The Police Board was In session foom
130 o'clock yesterday afternoon unUl
nearly 7 o'clock last night, but it Is re
ported that as no affidavits had been filed
against any of the policemen alleged to
have been gambling at Hogan's, no acbon
was taken. The report was discussed,
however, and a thorough investigation
Has ordered.
RIALT0 CO. ASKS DAMAGES.
Seizure of Effects Leads to Suit
Agjiinst Officials.
The Rlalto Grain and Securities Com
pany and Hugh C Dennis. Its president,
sued Sheriff Joseph F. DIckmann. Circuit
Attorney Joseph W. Folk and his as
sistant. W. Scott Hancock, and the mem
bers or the Grand Jury. In the Circuit
Court yesterday for J1W.C0O damages on
account of the seizure of the effects of
the Rlalto Company on Wednesday.
The Rlalto Company asks CO.MM actual
and ).W) Dunltlve damages. Dennis asks
JS.CO) actual and CS.0UO punitive damages.
The suits were sent to the Coroner to be
served.
RETAIL STORE EMPLOYES
TO ENJOY "BIG THURSDAY."
Retail Merchants' Association AaTeca
to Cloap llualnra If Mayor De
clares a Lecal Holiday.
That "Big Thursday" of Fair Week will
be a bait holiday for tbe employes of the
downtown stores is now practically as
sured. In case Mayor Rolla Welts declares
next Thursday a legal holiday.
Fred C. Lake, secretary of the Retail
Merchants' Association. In a communica
tion to C A. Tilles. president of the Fair
Association, said:
"Tbe St. Louis Retail Merchants Asso
ciation has decided that It the Mayor of
this city Issues a proclamation making
Big Thursday of Fair Week a legal boll
day, the members of this association win
close their respective places of business
at noon on that day.
The officers of the Retail Merchants'
Association are: George IL Wright, pres
ident: Hanford Crawford, first vice pres
ident; John C. Crawford, second vice
president: Fred C. Lake, treasurer.
The most extensive exhibit of sheep and
swine ever seen In St Louis is promised
at the Fair. Breeders from Wisconsin.
Iowa. Illinois. Michigan. Ohio. Kansas
and Missouri will be here with the pick;
of their stock.
The management announces that all en
tries to the textile department must bo
made before 6 o'clock Saturday evening.
Women are requested to have their fan
cy work at the grounds before the closing
hour, as the Judges wUl make tbe awards
In this department Sunday morning.
Superintendent Peter Adair has selected
a. special corps of experts from the down
town retail establishments to do the Judg
ing in the Textile Hall.
GRAYVILLE IS IN DARKNESS.
Company Turns Lights Off Be
cause City Refuses to Pay Trice,
rtEPunuc srECiAL.
Grayvllle. lit. Oct. '-The Grayvllle
Waterworks Company has turned off the
electric lights and the city Is in total
darkness. The private lights were also
turned off and the merchants who have
not Installed gasoline lighting systems
were forced to put up oil lamps and can
dies to light their stores last night
The lighting plant Is owned by Chicago
parties and they closed the plant because
tbe city would not pay the price d4
manded.