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(I fk PAG ES TODAY SEVENTH Only Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service. FIRST IN EVERYTHING." VOL. 63. NO. 114.

ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1 9 1 0. PRICE ONE CENT FALLS TO DEATH moke Picture No. 1 (For the Information of Smoke Inspector Parker.) WOMAND A WHITE IS ME ARE BURNED EOF FROM DOM AN EXPLOSION NEW CATH DRA CHIEF JUSTICE BY VOTEOF SENATE Appointment of Fred V. Lehmann of St.

Louis as Carpenter Who Needed Money for Christmas Killed Soon After He Gets Job. Husband Leaps From Window and Two Sisters Probably Will Die. Solicitor-General Also Is Confirmed Martin A. Knapp Is Nominated to Preside Over Commerce if SVftUJtT xittf li 1 I I 1 I VVV. I I -fW I jdv-uaaaa-i-" i CTit L.

PLUNGE WAS 125 FEET Absorbed in His Work, He Failed to Notice Hole in Rough Henry Dinkelkamp of 2S49 Montgomery street was killed Monday when he fell 125 feet from the dome of the New Cathedral, nearing completion at Lin-dell boulevard and Newstead avenue. He died a few minutes after other workmen picked him up. Dinkelkamp had been out of work several days, and Ire was vastly pleased when he procured a place Friday as carpenter on the structure, and was told to appear for work Saturday. He went home and said to his wife: "I'll have to sharpen up those tools. Means more Christmas!" The force of half a dozen carpenters went to work at a.

m. The rough flooring of the dome was laid so as to leave a square hole in the center, through which timber could be up from below. None of the other carpenters saw Dinkelkamp fall. They think that, absorbed In Ms work, he must have stepped through the hole. Half way to earth the whirling body struck a joist, and DInkelkamp's neck was broken.

A force of plttcubers, idle because the pipes were frozen, heard the body hit the flooring, and rushed One of them folded his overcoat under Dinkelkamp's head until an ambulance arrived. The carpenter died on the way to the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, and the body was taken back to the Cathedral until an undertaker's wag on arrived. On account of the accident work on the Cathedral was suspended for the day. Dinkelkamp was 50 years Kd and had a Wife" and four children, three of them married daughters. The only ssn is unmarried.

TRAIN HITS COW: COW KILLS A NEGRO; NEGRO KILLS A DOG, ETC. MOBILE, Dec. 12. When a Louisville Nashville passenger train of Mobile struck a cow near Klrkland late Saturday afternoon, the consequences were as unusual and unexpected as they were fatal. The cow was hurled to one side, striking a negro who was watching the train po by.

The negro was knocked Into a puddle of water and killed. In falling he struck a dog and killed that, too The cow walked away. St. Bulletin 193 -4i rTX4 I'll I sS, "i II tr-yr rHi Scene in Mill PeeU Valley. I VlEWrROM CROJirMJ, LoOKN-(J LV1JT nORRiSOHrFULLER, -GLASGOW BANKER, DIES OF INJURIES ACnn U( DAMkTDU TWO NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICES SELECTED Van Devanter of Wyoming and Lamar of Georgia Elevated to the Highest Tribunal Two Nominated Also for Commerce Commission By Wire Krtim the Waahtaa-ton Hurra ii of the 1'oat-ltlBpat rb.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. As a matter of senatorial courteay. Associate Edward D. White was immediately confirmed as Chief Justice of th Fnited States by the Senate today when his appointment came from Mr.

Taft. Chief Justice White was appointed to the Supreme Court while serving as a Senator from Louisiana ln 1894. The selection was made by Grover Cleveland in order to dodge the complications created by the unfriendly attitude of Senator David Bennett Hill and Edward Murphy win) had blocked President Cleveland's efforts to place either Mr. Hornblow-er or Mr. xreckham, both Now Yorkers, on the supreme bench.

Judge White was confirmed forthwith at that time, and the courtesy was extended to the present promotion. The nomination of Frederick W. Iliminn of Louis to be of the I7nlt'd States to succeed, the" lata Lloyd W. Bowers, also waa ton-. firmed by the Senate.

Nominations Kent la. It Is expected that all the nominations sent ln by the President will bo confirmed without delay. In addition to Chief Justice White and Solicitor-General Lehmann, these 'nomination are as follows: To be associate Justices, United Ststes Supreme Court, Judge Willis Van Devanter. of Wyoming and Judge Jr'p!) Rucker Lamar of Georgia. To be Judxea of the new Court of-Commerce, Martin A.

Knapp, now chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, for a term of five years; Robert W. Archbold, now United 'States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, term of four years; William H. Hunt, now a Judge of the Court of Customs Appeals, formerly United States District Judge of tha District of Montana, term of three years; John Emmett Carland of South Dakota, term of two years; Julian W. Mack, now Judge In the Appellate Court of the First Illinois District, term of one year. Xrw Cosnsnerea Members.

To ba members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, B. H. Meyer of Wisconsin and C. C. McChord of Kentucky.

The appointments to the Interstate Commerce Commission ara to fill the vacancies caused by the elevation of Mr. Knapp to the Commerce Court and forthcoming retirement of former Senator Francis M. Cockrell of Missouri. The commission will elect Its new chairman. The members of the commission who remain are Messrs.

Clark, Harlan, Clements, Lane and Prouty. In the official nomination sent- to the Senate the members of the new Commerce Court are designated as additional circuit judges. In carrying out this, Mr. Knapp is named as a Judge for the Second Judicial Circuit; Mr. Archbold for the Third Judicial Circuit; Mr.

Hunt for the Ninth Judicial Circuit; Mr. Carland for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and Mr. Mack for the Seventh Judicial Circuit. Oae Appointee a Iemoerat. Judge Carland of fouth Dakota, named as one of the new Judaea the Court of Commerce, Is a Democrat, having been appointed to the bench by President Cleveland.

His appointment makes the cinul'-xion of the Commerce Courts tl.ree Republicans and two Democrats. mm Ievaaern Career. 2000 WOMEN WILL WAGE WAR ON SMOKE NUISANCE They Are to Form an Organization and Plan a Campaign Against Offenders of the Law-Meeting Called for Tuesday. LEADS THE RESCUERS Despite Own Injuries Frank Waser Helps in Beating Out Flames. Mrs.

Frank Waser and her sisters, llisses Tennie and Mary Harris, 18 and IB years old, suffered burns which will be fatal, and Waser was seii-lusrfy burned in a gasoline explosion In Waser home, 53 Gratiot street, at 3:30 a- in. Monday. The gasoline ttove in the front room If the family's three-room apartment on the second floor burst while Mrs. Waser K-as filling it to get lunch for her hus-and and sisters. One burner was light-Id and -sht reflected to turn this off before starting to pour the fluid into ilie reservoir.

As the burning' fluid burst over the W6men and set fire to the bed on which Waser was lying-, he sprang up, his Mothing afire, and leaped from the sec-nd-story window. His garments were still ablaze when he ran' into Masterbrook's grocery, icross the street, and ehouted to the proprietor: "Come quick! My wife is burning to 3eath!" The grocer and two customers threw coats around Waser, and the man; with great blisters on his hands and Tace, hurried the others to the scene of ihe explosion. Women Helplesn on Floor. The three women lay on the floor, with flames them. They were partly but were unable to rise to free themselves from the fire which was consuming their clothes tnd burning their flesh.

The windows were shattered by the explosion and the air which blew through fanned the fire. The wreck of the stove was still blazing fiercely. The husband, despite his own burns, led the other men in beating out the flames about the women's bodies. Firemen arrived a few minutes later and Capt. Meyers of Engine Company N.

2 jerked the blazing stove from the floor and threw it over a landing into a yard. The women were indistinguishable from one another. Their clothing was destroyed and their skin blackened. Physicians who saw them before their removal to the city hospital said Mrs. Waser was the only one of the three Who had a chance of recovery.

"Don't touch me!" the women hrieked as the ambulance drivers, as tenderly as they could, picked them up. Waser was taken to the hospital with them. BRAZILIAN REBELS SURRENDER Fresh Government Troops Go to Cobras Island Garrison. RIO JANKIRO. Brazil, Dec.

12. The revolting mariners on Cobras Island formally surrendered today and fresh. Government troops occupied the barracks. NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT; ONLY 8 ABOVE IS THE FORECAST TUB TEMPEHATIRES. ni 2.1 a.

tn 10 7 a. in 17 12 (nnnn) a. 1 1 p. m. 21 a.

in 17 2 p. 111 22 10 a. 18 Yesterday's Temperatures. Highest 37 at 3 p. m.

Uwi at 2 at 5 a. in. Earmuffs will be In order Tuesday morning and large furnace fires will be affected by the tjest families. The coldest weather of the season, thus far. is coming Monday night and it will hang on until Tuesday at least.

The temperature, according to the best belief of the prophets at tie Weather Bu-, iMii, will drop tc 8 degrees above TKEKH. MUST NO EMPTY STOCK IKCi IN SI LOUIS THIS CHRI3TMAS! DEC zero. This will be jo. Ice as cold aa the coldest ui lo this time. Twice the temperature has gone down to 18 degrees above sero, on the morning of Dec.

1 and at 8 o'clock this Monday morning. Official forecast 1 Fair and voider tOBlcbti Tuesday- Inc-earlta elondl-e and rUioc Itmprratarf loweat temperature tonight will be about 8 dearreea above aero. MUourl clouUns. with 1 'V "l'l't or Tuesday; warmer In north now tlon. por- Illinois Incrmilnf Tu-Uy.

ritn tmpratura Tuntity The 1. -i newspaper In SU Louis that receives or publishes news srathera.1 1 I Ud Press. 1 1 -1 WELSH RAREBIT IS AGCUITTED Government Oflicial Savs Will Prove Delicacy Is Harmless. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.

The Department of Agrlalture is advancing to the defense of the Welsh rarebit. Having proved by extensive experiments with the respiration calorimeter a double-walled boat-proof room connected with electrical instruments of wonder ful precision that raw iheese digested, the department has now Te-gun work to prove that the Welsh victim of late dinners and ancient superstition, is grossly maligned and misunderstood. At the conclusion of the experiments Secretary Wilson issue a bulletin explaining how to prepare a Welsh rarebit according to the official Government formula, with beer, or. without. He and his experts are confident the Information will be received with joy by the country.

TRUST CHARGE GOOD ANY TIME Indictment of 19o9 Held Valid by Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Announcing that conspiracy under the Sherman antitrust law is a continuing offense, the Supreme Court of the United States today held good the indictment in New York in 1909 of Gustave E. Kissel and Thomas B.

Harned under this law, as far as the statute of limitation was concerned. iTie two men were identified with ttiu sugar fraud cases. Louis, Dec 12th, 1910. Cols, cols. Score Was: 79 Columns 40 23 is easilv WOMEN ASKED TQ AID IN WAR ON SMOKE NUISANCE The Sunday of columns of advertising in the St.

Louis Sunday-newspapers yesterday, Sunday, December 11th, was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 377 Columns RABBIT FUR TO FURNISH HATS FOR GENTLEMEN And the Really Fashionable Shacje Is Going to Be Belly Brown. By-o, Baby Buntinp. Daddy's gone a-huiuiiK To set a little rabbit skin To hide hts funny bald spot In. Lay of the Mad Hatter. Belly brown will the fashionable shade In men's soft hats next spring according 'to the manufacturers who are now In St.

Louis to show their samples to the Jobbers. The color takes Its name from the fact that the most stylish hats of the coming season will be made of fur taken from rabbits' bellies. This part of 'Bunny's coat is a 'rich, warm, reddish -brown of a'shade unlike any heretofore put Into men's hats. But you will not. be able to tell what the hats are made of toy looking at them.

They will not be rough and furry like coon-skin caps, but will be as fine and silky as though they were made of beaver skin. By a special process the rabbit hair will "be smoothed down so that the resulting fabric will have the outward appearance of high-grade felt. "Besides belly brown the other popular colors will be pearl and steel gray." sald John on of the visiting manufacturers, at the Jeff erson Hotel Monday. "For the first time In years St. Louis men will be in style as to their headgear.

Heretofore larger hats worn nere ln the West tnan tn the East but this year all of the soft hats sold ln the irnited States will be mod- eled after the kind that St. Louis men have been wearing" pr years. "Easterners no longer will be able to tell a Westerner by the sire of hj hat brim, because the Kasternera themselves will be wearing big-hats. "Crowns will be from 3 to 3V Inches high and brims from 24 to 3 Inches wide. Fedora hats will be made as usual, but they are now regarded as staples.

The stylish head-pieces will be telescope hats, with much flatter brims than are now worn. The most stylish hats will have the new pencil curl. This means that the stiff brim will be turned upward and rolled at the edge Into a tight curl about the size of a lead-pencil. "For those who like a larger roll there will be the turban brim, a more pronounced and larger curl extending all around the edge. "There will be no fancy bands this spring.

Each band will match the color of the hat." Tfea V'ran S-ral1owla; Teeth. roU'MBt'S, Dec. II. Charles SmitM. a railway locomotive tester of Marion.

dlet last night In a hospital -iiere, from the "is of swallow-ir- hi -falM-teetn -1 wki m. Globe-Democrat 227 Republic 161 Post-Dispatch Excess Over the Republic .216 Over the Globe -Democrat 150 or Financier Expires Without Explaining How Wounds Were Received. John Morrison-Fuller, Glasgow (Mo.) banker, who took his wife's name when I lie married and who mysteriously was injured in St. Louis a week ago, died at the City Hospital Monday. His wife and daughter, who had been in constant attendance-upon him, were at his bedside when the end came.

He at no time regained full consciousness or power of expression sufficient to explain the manner in which he was hurt. Dr. Walter R. Hewitt of the hospital staff says thaf the direct cause of death was meningitis, a disease which often follows a skull fracture. Morrison Fuller had been living at the Southern Hotel a month while his wife and daughter were stopping at.

the Washington, when, on Dec. 6, he received the injury which caused his death. Unconscious and bleeding, he was i picked up in front of 113 North Sixth street. Wounds on his head led the police to believe that he had been attacked and beaten. Kemrmbered He Had Kallen.

At the City Hospital, where his wife and daughter had him placed in a pri vate room, he had a brief period of I consciousness, in which he said that he Ijad been drinking and that he started to visit the proprietor of a bil-j Hard hall at 1W North Sixth street. I He said that he must have made a mis- take and entered a stairway at 113 North th street. He remembered falling, but could not recall that he met or spoke to anyone or had a fight. Irwin McElroy, an employe at Duffy's restaurant, told the police that he saw Morrison-Fuller start up the stairway adjoining the restaurant. Apparently he was half way up when he fell and rolled out on the sidewalk.

Two men with whom Fuller attempted to- transact business on the day he was injured told the police that he had been drinking heavily. At the city hospital no fracture of the skull was found, but the development of meihngitls leads the doctors to believe that there was a fracture. There will be an autopsy and an inquest to determine the exact cause of death. Mrs. Fuller and her daughter who paid that there was no estrangement between them and Morrison-Fuller, although by agreement they were living apart, showed untiring devotion to him while was ln the city hospital.

Saturday night their already overwrought nerves were further strained when rover Vice, who had shot after wounding his sweetheart, was carried into the room In which they were keeping vigil. They fled from the room, but later returned to his bedside. Two thousand women, members of a score of clubs and other organizations, have been invited by personal letters to attend the anti-smoke meeting at the Wednesday Club auditorium at 8 p. m. Tuesday, called for the purpose of uniting' St.

Louis womankind in the movement to rid the city of the smoke The campaign for the enforcement of the smoke law, urged repeatedly by the Post-Dispatch, has gained force rapidly since the nuisance became acute with the coming -of winter. Civic and business organizations have taken up the movement, and the women will be advised by men at Tuesday afternoon's meeting how to proceed most effectively. Investigation by Post-Dispatch reporters has shown that one of the greatest sources of the daily smoke cloud which hangs over the city, a blur on' business and a pall on social enjoyment, is the Mill Creek Valley, with its Immense battery of locomotive engines, both of the Terminal Association and of westbound railroads. Core of tbe Evil. The section adjoining King's highway is the core of the smoke evil.

Rising from the factories, brickyards and locomotives of that region, the smoke blanket drifts over the Forest Park and Cab-anne residence sections, shutting off the sun, and spreading east. Joins with the smoke from the manufactories, office buildings and hotels beyond Grand avenue. It fills the atmosphere with vapors which make city dwellers choke and gasp, and which cause visitors both to Jest and to'make bitter complaint of the air which they have to breathe while here. Less than a decade ago the muddy drinking water of St. Louis was a byword.

Today the water Is crystal clear, but the smoke blanket of former years has grown denser with the growth of the industries that produce it. It ha also grown more odious, in comparison with other cities which have abolished smoke. ln maintaining a smoke abatement department the City of St. Louis ln acting on the theory that the smoke can be abated. The Post-Dispatch has repeatedly urged that the city proceed in earnest to rid Itftelf of the smoke nuinance.

More than three months ago the Post-LMspatrh a list ft 111 violators of the -ity smoke ordinance. names and location. The estabiih-mentaof some of which photographs 134 per cent excess over the Republic 66 per cent excess over the Globe-Democrat My MRS. K. H.

KIlOFXiKR. Wednesday Club Invites all St. Louis women, whether members of any woman's or ganization or not, to attend the meeting at Its auditorium Tuesday afternoon. We intend to set results from the meeting. Women speakers will tell of the smoke nuisance in its relation to health, cleanliness and household economy, and men will tell us of the work that is being done against smoke, and how we can aid ln the campaign.

There Is no more Important matter before the women of St. Louis today, and I hope that every woman who has felt the need of smoke abatement will give her aid ln the movement to do away with the evIL were shown, were believed to be producing the greatest part of the smoke that overspread the downtown district Smoke Inspector Parker said Monday that he had sent notifications to of the 11 that they were violating the law, and that 25 had complied with the law to his satisfaction. Of the remainder, five have made attempts to abate their part of the nuisance, without success thus far. Parker," who took office March 17 last, has Instituted police court proceedings ln only seven cases of violation of the smoke ordinance. His explanation Is that he prefers to Invoke the penalties of the law only as a last resort.

"When a violation of the law Is discovered." said the amok inspector, "I first ascertain who Is responsible, and send a letter calling his attention to the fact that the law Is being violated, and ask him to comply with the law. t'If after a reasonable time nothing is done. I send a second letter as a reminder, with a request for Immediate Information as to what the recipient Intends to do. If thta la also disregarded, a third communication la sent within a few days, stating that the case la ready for presentation to the city attorney, which will mean the lauance of a summons. This almost always brings re- in.

'One of the concerns prosecuted was tLe ft. I.mala Dressed Jleef whose ftae was staged on Its prcrelae In- The Want Ad Post-Dispatch Globe-Democrat Republic Judge Van Ievant-r was born In Indiana, and is $1 years old. He was a graduate of Asburr. now I vpauw. University, and was a araduate of the Cincinnati Law School In 1M.

After thre years of practice in Indiana he moved to Cheyenne, where he waa commissioner to revise the Wyoming statutes In 1G; City Attorney, member Territorial Ieglslatjhe -ralr-man of its Judiciary Committee. li; Chief Justh-e'of the Hutr-n Court Wyoming from by appointment'' while It was a territory, and by election alter It became a He resigned from the Supreme Court lo resume th practice of law. In 197 he wa appointed Assistant Attorney-General of tha United State aad assigned to the Department of the Interior. In February ha aa appi(nte. United State Circuit Judge of th F'hth Judicial Circuit.

He was a pto-or of equity pleading and practice julty jurisprudence in Col nnia 1 POST-DISPATCH excess, of Want Ads over the Globe-Democrat and Republic Combined was 16 Columns Over the Globe-Democrat. .39 columns Over the Republic 56 columns For 193 consecutive Sundays, or 37 weeks in excess of 3 full years, The Sunday Post-Dispatch has led all of its competitors in volume of advertising. Circulation books open to all. First in Everything. lMtI.