The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 1

lotions and Answers ON PAGE 4 IS VOL. 31 NO. 21. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916.

Vrjl ELSRWHKRG TA CENTS ID STAR rHArTlI7A I r- 1 I THE WEATHER. MISS HELEN ROSE-BR0UGH. at top. and Miss Irene Wooster, at bottom, who were chosen nearest per CHARGE OF JURY JOBBING DELAYS M'DANIEL TRIAL CORONER OPENS INQUIRY INTO GANG MURDERS VON MACKENSEN TAKES ANOTHER CITY ON DANUBE TERMINAL GIVES CONNECTION TO THE CITY BRIDGE Crime Wave Here Following Hangings as Woman Predicted 5 SOUGHT IN IABDUCTION fect physically of 1 50 girls. Forecast for St.

Louts and vicinity: Fair weather tonight and Thursday; 'colder tonlffht, with the lowest temperature about 36 decree. Slowly rising temperature I Investigation of Case! Temperatare ReadtaKSl Midnight .63 Joseph Swisher Held hy Jury on Charge of Homicide After Inquest Into Slaying of John Carmody. Judge Ryan Summons Attorneys for Both Sides, to Consider Remark Attributed to Attorney General Barker by Paper. Capture of Cernavoda Which Opens WayJorjClear Advance on Bucharest, Reported by Berlin War Office. McChesney, in Letter, Grants Right Which Was to Have Been Authorized in BiD Gerhart Said Gare a.

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lEtae ot he river at 2 p. 2 9 COURT IS ADJOURNED UNTIL 2 P. M. TODAY 'JOE PRETTY NEAR GOT ME WIDOW QUOTES HUSBAND VULCAN PASS ON NORTH ALSO HELD BY TEUTONS TRACKS TO BE COUPLED ON BOTH SIDES OF RIVER Pf ISStKlUUiLI ILL Hrs. Frank J.

Primavesi, wife of the superintendent of the Workhouse, who forecast August 18 that the legal hanging of two negroes in St. Charles on that date would result in a crime wave, reminded The Star today of the forecast and asked, "Now what do you think of legal hangings?" Mrs. Primavesi is organizer in St. Louis for the American League for the Prevention of Legalised Crime, and also Is a leading Theosophlst. She said that when a man is hanged his soul has a vengeful spirit and Impels living men to murder.

Three days after the hanging of the tw6 negroes In St. Charles, j. Steamship "filing from New York for Liverpool ue today: Rochambeau. from TV8Cania- 'rora Liverpool; Rot-frn'n? Aa; Mesaba, Mother Woman Testifies Murdered Man Jurors May Be Dismissed Because of PrejudiceAir of Gloom in Room as Seriousness of Charge Is Realized. French Hold Gains in West After Taking Fort Douaumont and Penetrating Lines on Front of More Than Four Miles.

Boy, Can't Identify jrfbprijonment Because Jarjot Eyeglasses. Had Told Her of Ill-Feeling Between Himself and Swisher, Who Had Purchased a Gun. Measure for Ranken Tract Vacation by Municipality and for Turning Over of Levee Rails by Association Pending. Harry Roman! was killed in a WOMAN ENDS LIFE WHILE IN HOTEL AS WIFE OF A COUSIN ST. JOSEPH.

MO Oct. 25. The trial of Prosecuting Attorney Mc- Daniel was delayed today as the re--t suit of Attorney General John T. Barker's alleged remark yesterday K. that the State was being "jobbed" In Meta Schaaf Dies pf Poisoning the selection of a jury.

lid club. According to police theory, Harry Dunn was killed September 19 In revenge for the death of Romani. Edward Schoenborn was killed October 5 as revenge for the killing of Romant. Arthur Fineberg was killed last Friday night in revenge for the killing of Dunn and Schoenborn. John Carmody was killed Sunday night In revenge for the killing of Dunn and Schoenborn.

1 According to Mrs. Primavesi's theory all were killed because of the dominance of the spirit of the dead negroes. Seven persons have been slain here since After Taking Room With La today were seeking the 4 two cars one a For i i Wd the other a fine y-tbo were implicated in of Mrs. Lucy Frazier, wealthy Jerseyville, 111., i fck ago today. Mrs.

(iaJield prisoner in a house way to Saturday, as ex-' in The Star yesterday, jjgrt believe the chauffeurs jtoat this house, tjftser's disappearance wa Utiie police last Saturday, night, after she ha1 jaeJ by her abductor to her lease in a fainting condi-m were notified. No work aw the case until today, Retails ot the abduction pita car had been told in Coroner Padberg today opened an investigation into the recent series of gang murders, six of which have occurred in St. Louis the last few-days. The inquiry is aimed particularly to determine what connection, if any, exists In the succession of murders. The Grand Jury began its investigation yesterday, when it summoned Chief of Police Young and Chief of Detectives Allender, but it was postponed, temporarily, owing to the absence of "material witnesses." The first inquest today was that Into the John W.

Carmody. who was shot to death at Twenty-third and Olive streets, at 12:05 a. m. Sunday. A verdict of homicide, holding Joseph Swisher, 209 North Twenty-first street, as the slayer, was returned by the Jury, after witnesses established a bitter hatred between the two men and after Charles But i I' Postal Clerk.

A young woman whose name is said to be Meta Schaaf was found dead In the Erlin Hotel, 210 North Seventeenth street, at 11:20 a. m. today under mysterious circumstances. Miss Schaaf had come to the hotel last night with Edward Richter, 1717 Longfellow boulevard, a clerk in the postoffice, Eighteenth street and Clark avenue; Richter registered "Ed Miller and wife. Kansas City." He left a call for 6:30 a.

m. today and when Mrs. When court opened today. Judge Kyan called attorneys for both sides to his chambers to confer regarding Barker's alleged remark, as printed in a St. Joseph newspaper yesterday.

Judge Ryan said he feared the effect of the alleged remark on the jury. After the conference court was adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the "jobblnpr" charge again will be taken up. Judge Ryan is seriously considering dismissing the jurors. The court was crowded by spectators today and a cloud of gloom WIDOW SEEKS MAN WHO DIDN'T WANT CEREMONY fflien who is 27 years old. tBMTted eleven years and of two boys, 7 and L.

R. proprietor of the ho- tel. called them, they did not re was noticeable as those present for spond. At 10:30 a. m.

the man tne flr6t tlme realized the serious na- came into the hall and said to her: 2 St. Louis Girls Best Physically in Class of 150 Mrs. Agnes Hartwig. a widow about 30 years old, appealed to the police today to aid her in locating a man she knew as Alexander Myer, 55 years old, whom, she says, she met in Kansas, City a few months ago. She said the man proposed marriage, and that she accompanied him to Vincennes.

where he tool: out a marriage license and told her the ceremony was not required in Indiana. They went to Olnery, 111., and then returned to Kansas City, where she learned the marriage ceremony was necessary to validate the union. Myer disappeared and the woman traced him to St. Louis. She is stopping at 911 St.

Luis avenue. WILSON ON LAST SWING INTO THE MIDDLE WEST She now is at ner nome fZt, dangerously ill as a I i the terrible experiences -A htr abduction, a to St, Louis" to visit her tin. Lulu White, 2732 avenue. Mrs. Frazier 3f1rn and reared.

She Christian, and has been 1 ta years from a serious jst the lungs. A hemor-m lungs was a factor that irfe return to her moth-'ffjtore became frightened haill. and sent her to her floute in a limousine. 2 tome trick of fate, Mrs. kft her glasses in her home near Jerseyville, and unable to see clear-seated her reading the i tht houses near where prisoner, and on the Iwuine traversed when JKOt hen to her mother's ture of the wife murder charge against the Prosecuting In that very self-same courtroom time and again Oscar McDaniel has stood and with, accusing finger leveled straight at a cringing defend-end, has sent men to the penitentiary.

for the very crime with which he now is charged. With scathing oratory, McDaniel, himself a speaker of ability, has spoken the fiery sentences which have sent many a poor man into despair. His mission has been to convict men, not to free ihem. for he has from the inception of his entrance into the legal profession been a prosecutor. Now he must sit quietly today while his boyhood friend and manhood chum, Bart Lockwood, arises and denounces him as the alleged murderer of his own wife.

i Lockwood sits quietly at the "Call a doctor. My wife is very-sick." Dr. Norman A. Gibson was called and arrived at 11:20 o'clock. He said the young woman was dead from arsenic poison.

A bottle, half full of tablets, was found in the room. Richter then told Mrs. Harkes, and the police that the young woman's name was Meta Schaaf, and that she was his cousin. He said she threatened suicide last nisht and he had gone to the hotel to prevent her from ending her life. 1 He rode with the body to the City Dispensary, and said tfyere that he would go to the Coroner's office.

At the Coroner's office, he pave his correct amet Edward Richter, Jr. 1717 Longfellow boulevard. Mrs. Louise Newcomb said "Richter BERLIN (Via Sayvil'e W.relesa, Oct. 25.

Official announcement was made this afternoon of the capture of Cernavoda in Dobrudja, by the army under Field Marshal von Mack-ensen. The capture of this vitally important bridgehead position on the Danube River was preceded fy violent fighting. The victory opens the way for an advance on Bucharest. Several hours before the official announeinent was made dispatches reaching here reported the fall of Cernavoda. Another Important victory has been gained by the Auatro-German troops under General von Falken-hnyn at Vulcan Pass on the northern boundary of Roumanla.

The pass is now in the hands of the Austro-Germsns. It Fives the Teutons another gateway for the Invasion of Central Roumanla from the north. Advance Continues. The following official statement was given out by the War Office on Roumanian operations: "Army group of Field Marshal Ton Mackensen Our pursnit of the enemy and our advance in Dobrudja continues as planned. Carnavoda waa captured this morning.

The details are not yet known. By the capture of this Roumanian stronghold the Roumanian Army deprived of iti last railroad line of communicafon in Dobrudja. It is an exceedingly important success for us. "Army group of General von Faik-enhayn In Transylvania there have been local engagements, the situation remaining unchanged. North of Kimpolung our attacks are progressing.

Vulcan Pass has been captured by German and Austro-Hun-garian troops. The capture was made by a storm attack which was followed by hand-to-hand fighting On the western front the War Office announced "a French attack until the burning of Fort Dousu moot gained terrain, and fighting continues." This statement is' taken to indicate that the Cro wri Prince ordered Fort Douaumont burned in the tmoi of the French attack reported toy Paris last night. The ext of the statement on tk western front follows: "On account of rainy weather yesterday the fighting activity in the Somme sector diminished. Only the artillery fire Increased temporarily. 'In the evening hours partis French attacks from the Iesboeufs-Rancourt line broke down writu losses before our barricades, with, out success.

"On th northeast front of Verdun, a French attack until th burning of Fort Douaumont gained terrain. The fighting continues." Russians Repulsed. Repulse of all Russian attacks launched during the last twenty-four hours in Volhynla and at other parts of the eastern front was announced by the War Office. On the Tnhara, River the Czar's forces used gas. but, according to the official stata-rneti obtained no success.

In the Carpathian forests the army of Archduke Karl Frans Josef firmly in air -talneo the heights recently conquered. The announcement follows: "A Russian gas attack an the Tnhara River failed. Likewise an attack of Russian battalions near Kolostrov northwest, of Lutsk wn without any success whatever. "On Archduke Karl's front in the northern part of the Carpathian forest during minor engagements, the formerly conquered heights and positions remained our poisesr'en. was a roomer there.

He had spoken I his cousin, Meta Schaaf. who he State's table and has not once glanced at the defendant. He is tired Patents of AJtss Rosettough, 5165 Kensington avenue, and Miss Irene Wooster, $50 Mary villa avenue, expressed gratification today at dispatches informing them their daughters had been awarded the Xeedham prize at the Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, for being in the best physical condition of any members of the freshmen class. They were chosen from 150 classmates. Each girl Is 18 years old, and they were classmates at Soldan High.

School. 11 was to the physical training at this school, that their m'others today attributed any physical development such as to bring notice. Miss Roeebrough is the daughter of "Mrs. Richard Rosebrough. Mrs.

Rosebrough said her daughter was proficient in basket ball and fond 6f tennis. Miss Wooster is the daughter of Mrs. F. G. Wooster.

Mrs. Wooster remarked that her daughter never had striven for physical improvement, but was a good swimmer uald was in love with hint. Mrs. NeflSeomb had seen the of the duty he must perform for he First Train. In St.

Louis from Jer-" rn.the. afternoqn -y, October 18. A heavy and McDaniel -were bosom, friend. when 'She eftine to ihe Longfellow avenue house to see Richter. She The Board of Public Service has received a letter from W.

S. McChesney, president of the Terminal Railroad Association, in which the Terminal gives the city the right to make track Connections in St. TiOuis and East St. Louis between the Terminal's tracks and tjiose of the Municipal Bridge, without ordinance oi "without any conditions whatever." This concession on the part of the Terminal Association means that it will not be necessary for the Board of Aldermen to pass Board Bill 32, providing for the connections. Two other so-called Terminal ordinances now before the board provide for the vacation of the streets and alleys of the Ranken Tract by the city, and the turning over to the city by the Terminal of, the St.

Louis Transfer Railway Company's levee tracks. Frank H. Gerhart and others have opposed the track- connection bill on the ground it would give the Terminal Association a perpetual franchise to use the Municipal Bridge. City officials denied this. The Committees on Public Utilities and Streets, Sewers and Wharfs of the Board of Aldermen, before which the bills, are up for consideration, requested the service board to confer with the Terminal regarding a grant without the enactment of an ordinance.

Negotiations Taken Up. C. E. Smith, consulting engineer for the Department of Public Utilities, entefed into negotiations for the bpard with McChesney, with the result that McChesney wrote today agreeing to grant the connections. McChesney's letter to the board, under date of September 22, in part, follows: "In order to remove any possible misapprehensions as to the attitude of this association toward the completion, development and operation of the Municipal Bridge.

I beg to assure you that we will co-operate with you in every fair and feasible way Xo make the project a success, "and we will at any time; upott request, grant, by proper conveyance to the city, a connection in St. Louis and East St. Louis between our tracks and those of the Municipal Bridge. "We will giant these connections either along the lines provided in the proposed ordinance Number 32, heretofore submitted to us by you, or we will grant them witho-ut any conditions whatever and leave the law as it now stands to fix and determine our respective rights, duties and obligations." Committee to Gt Letter. This letter, together with Smith's report, will come before th Committee on Public Utilities at its weekly meeting tomorrow afternoon.

President Kinsey of the Board of Public Service said it would not now necessary to enact the connection ordinance, as the connection on this side of the river would be made by the Public Service Commission of Missouri and on the other side by the Illinois Public Service Commission. Several pieces of property, Kinsey says. lay and Eighth streets at Gratiot street, which the city will have to acquire by condemnation before the connection tan be made. The city now is about to begin this proceeding Kinsey says. The Circuit Court will appoint commissioners to determine the value of the property.

The city apply to the two State commissions for permission to make the connections, which Kinsey says 1-robably will be granted. Chairman Gregory of the Public Utilities Committee refused to say whether his committee would recommend that the track connection bill be filed. It is presumed this will be done, however, as the necessity for its enactment has been obviated. The filing of this bill would necessitate slight changes in the two other Terminal bills. as they were drawn the consideration for passage of one being consideration for passage of the others.

ler, a negro, 2307 Chestnut street, identified Swisher as the man who ran past him Just after the shooting. Immediately upon concluding the examination of witnesses In the Carmody killing. Deputy Coronor Furlong began an inquiry Into the killing of Edward Beigunski, 26 years old. 1218 Clinton street, who was found shot to death at 11:15 p. m.

Sunday in the rear of the Mullanphy Pleasure Club, 818 Mullanphy street. Mrs. Anna Carmody, 62 4 North Garrison avenue, the widow, was questioned at length in the Carmody Inquest as to her husband's movements. She said she came here from Chicago on September 14. and her husband Joined her from Columbus, Ohio.

She then related her husband's relations with Joseph Swisher, 209 North Twenty-first street, who is under arrest as a "material witness." Formerly friends, they fell out, sh said, over the division of some goods stolen from a downtown department store. Carmody served -i term In the Workhouse, his wife related, and became embittered a Swisher because, the latter failed to call on him in the prison. This developed into a feud, in which each began to plan to "get" the other. The wife told of an incident September 21, when her husband came home and remarked to her that "Joe, pretty near got me." He told her how he had bought drinks for everybody at Canty's Saloon, Twenty-first and Olive streets, ignoring Swisher, ho sat outside in an automobile. Swisher came inside, she testified her husband told her.

and borrowed a revolver from the bartender. Carmody then left. Mrs. Tessle Dalley, 62 4 Garrison avenue, who lived where the Car-modys boarded, corroborated the testimony of this conversation. On advice of his attorney, Swisher refused to testify.

Patrolman Reinwold of the Laclede Avenue Station testified he spoke to Swisher after his arrest and Swisher had testified he was in a saloon from 5:30 p. m. to midnight, end that as he was on his way home he heard shots fired and Jumped into a niche in a sign board to avoid being hit. He said the police found him there and let him go. Carmody was known to the police under the names of Carmody, Burke.

C'onroy. Camredy and other aliases. -iew3 comins, but had but had not know her address, heard i 4 tav tlio 0-irl a thf rinnch- itrtln she intended taking Her two a later one. They worked" side by side for months and always have been closely associ ated. When he undertook the case ne did so with no idea that he would never be called upon to accuse hl3 own friend of the crime.

But now that he believes the evidence points that way he will do his duty. Lockwood has a tenacious look which bodes ill for some one and 1' tin met the tirst train. ler or a minismr in jiitio iuwh Missouri. Richter ordered an undertaker to take the bodjV from the Morgue. SHADOW LAWN, LONG BRANCH.

N. Oct. 25. President Wilson left today on his last swing flit-oug'h West before election. He proposes to make it a "home run" as far as Ohio Is concerned.

With four speeches scheduled for Cincinnati, where he arrives tomorrow, the President will wind up his fight for re-election Sn a Republican stronghold, which incidentally also Is a hotbed of German-Americanism. The President's tar will not he attached to a regular train. He will be able to make as many platform talks as he finds crowds desiring them. He will arrive in Philadelphia at 3.40 and at Baltimore at 6 o'clock this evening. His train will reach Cincinnati at 11:30 a.

m. There he will first respond to the Mayor's welcome and address the Woman's City Club at luncheon, make another speech after a motor tour of the city and at 8:15 p. address a big meeting at Music Hall. wait for the second, dells, Frazier had changed her SMitseraing to St. 'Louis.

She the Washington avenue i hr mother had written waited for a Page piitwm St Louis but twice lithe gix years since her STOVE FIRM TO'ASK RFTTFR SHIPPING MEANS work he has before him. it will be done fearlessly and conscientiously Ot that one may be sure as he JKFFKRSO.V CITI. Oct. 2o. The watches the acting prosecutor.

An1 FRISCO STAFF SHAKE-UP IS REPORTED DUE HERE tame here. She never before Hoi ivnoh. I ciuipk Me al Stove Company of St. iirnr him Is Attornev General Mease, her mother" having i Ioul? today filed an application Facing them is the trio of recentlv When interfere in a hearing to be held llfhta whlch comprises whlch comprises Mc- counsel and aiding Stroo, State Public Service commis- jjaniel's Wrt last a year and a half i the i i. irK in RVHini a i r- niainer was with her.

i Wen a 'jitnev or SPrv- quest for track connections wuntne ui rr: i mv fW day and she therefore Terminal nroaa rwh the operations te' ih Planters Hotel on Gabbert and Kay Porter are McDaniel himself and his assistants, Asa Porter, Homer King and Duval Smith, all of whom are experienced lawyers. The courtroom was crowded to the doors when court went into session today and the greatest interest yet shown, was exhibited. The word The stove company wants track avenue car did not 36 LOW TEMPERATURE PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT connections from its plant at King's rs promptly she noticed a ffnW l.y. She employed atafc hfr it, 97o U'och. highway and Daggett street wun tne Airk'lnlev system.

Its officers state ship- had gone out that the taking of evl- thfit rneir uui.v I n. na nail i er the McKinley system is to begin before noon and I UkA r.inil OV Reports have been circulated the last few days among the offices of the Frisco Railroad that there is to be a big reorKanizsitJon of the staff of the various departments. James W. Lusk, receiver, said he had understood the -permanent board of directors, who held their first meeting in New York Friday, would make some change? to improve the efficiency of the operating department of the road. It is reported W.

C. Nixon, who has been chief operatint; officer under the receivership, will be elected when, the permanent board of directors meet. Other officers, who it is said are slated to be elected are: W. B. Biddle, vice president in charge of traffic, and C.

W. Hlilard, vice president with headquarters here. The plan now is to take the property from the hands of the Federal Court about the middle of ics St. wi tue car wnicn snei'- rtr truck to 8 Ford. He put y.aKon or truck to Wkher.

Louis connectiona. jfrMiln i- V' crowds, half of which were wpmen, jostled one another and pushed and shoved to obtain standing room. No case in recent years has excited so much attention because of the prominence of the parties concerned and because of the character of the crime itself. aoout a block me i 6 KILLED WHEN TROLLEY 8P to the curb and an HITS AUTO AT CKUiSino rowed the machine and TORCH LIGHT PARADE AT SCHOOL BOND MEETING tae driver on the front Wticed the KProrM man I 1XI. Oct.

25. A drop in temperature from 61 degrees at 3 a. m. to 45 degrees at a. today, was followed by assurances from the Weather Bureau that no severe cold spell was in sight, although a low temperature of about 36 degrees was forecast for tonight.

Today's sharp drop was accompanied by a thirty-mile wind, which helped to make tne chill more apparent. The lowering temperatures today were caused by a "low pressure," which is moving eastward bringing cooler weather and in some instances, precipitation. Snow here was considered unlike-fy. The forecast was for clearer and colder weather today and tonight, with a probable low temperature of 36. and with rising temperature tomorrow.

cJaffur a drink from pers0ns three women, a man. a tad concluded this was g-year-old girl and hab ere TRAINING ORDERED killed today when an internrban car MPYirAM crHflOl i Pnw drove about lifieen i osr the Northern Indiana Railroad IN MEXICAN SCHOOLS he nor the man i struck an automobile at a grade heh" TUe; I SSinS- If "l1" Fra'nk Brown "in- EXICO CITY. Oct. mnZ 'n1 Frank Elluf pulsory in all primary and prepara- tn A torctiiight parade of 2,000 parents and children followed by a meeting irf the open air. featured a Kaatherin; a parents and pupils of the Dlvoll School.

2918 Dayton street, last night, at which a resolution urging the passage of the $3,000,000 school bond issue was French Hold Gains Along Verdun. Front After Taking of Douaumont and Fort RUSSIAN CASUALTIES 1,797,522 SINCE JUNE i Kokomo, It does not apply to 'Kted her suit ease two children of Mrs. 1 lory schools. universities. out Knkomo.

Id- Elliott Frank I Morris Ostfeld and Hargaret Nar- ens each 13 years old, made plat-j form speeches favoring the bod is-I sue, after Ben Strombern. president of the Board of Education; Richard I Murphy, vice president; Nat Gold- stein and James U. Conroy had MILITARY BURIAL GIVEN VETERAN OF SIX WARS iHafs all right. I'll sJ door for you and me there." The man fiesro maid appeared. "Hh the maid the suit- i r8' over the ut not IolJow her and the maid slammod fJae man did not collect i Jjiee car hire.

flrst thought, she! BE KLIN, Vla Sayviii'e Oct. 25. A dispatch from Kiev says the Russian central identifying office, in Its last published report, gave the total of Russian casualties since June 1. at 1,797,522. Among these were 85.

981 officers. Among the recent fallen officers, according to the dispatch, were two generals, six colonels and brigade commanders and eight lieutenants, colonels and regimental commanders. The highest ttrnier of casualties were suffered by the Siberian corps and the Caucasian it said. Read The Star's Machinery Column BET WITH A STRANGER COSTS ILLINOISAN $45 PASSENGER RATE BOOST ON EAST SIDE HELD UP t-ner, was. "Goodness.

ii. swel hi tins a 52kr-n conunotea up tne mnlfi ok ml find out how advantageously you can buy a good ece Tmachinery-slightly used, perhaps, but in first-cla condition, and attractive in price. Vfiltafnt i. i ILL. Oct.

25. The increase in passenger rates he- tween East St. Louis and Granite I City and other Illinois points, er-1 dered by the Interstate Commerce Commission some time fcgo and later! suspended pending the hearing oTI objections by the State L'tilities Com- mission, has been suspended In-! definitely, accordingly to notice re-i 209 AIR FIGHTS ALONG SOMME FRONT SUNDAY PARIS. Oct. 25.

Violent fighung was in progress all night on the Verdun front with the Germans trying to recover ground lost yesterday to the French east of the Meuse. Terrific counter attacks wer; driven home by the Germans at Haudromont quarrle and in th Damloup sector, but all were re-' poised, the War Office stated todrfv. The official communique says that, the French hold all the ground they gained Jn tbeir big offensive movement. The German commander at Fort Douaumont captured during th n'ght fighting along the shell-torn of that work. After 'the capture of the greater part of th work, a few elong with their leader, held This remnant of the German garrison was attacked during the night time.

All that were not killed were made prisoners by the French. German Are The outbreak of fighting on the Verdun front came after a lall of many weeks. The big advance the French indicates that the Geir rans were taken completely by surprise. General Kivelfe delivered a etftl blow OTr a four-mile front and at some points The French jusr.ed forward tbeir Itnes two miles. The night fighting amidst Wasted barricades and the fcur nPlers and individuals having good machinery, new Pfi1 fIL to ieH.

use The Star as the best medium for ooors ana red portieres; The maid con-i sma11 bnck room! 'Wh in whch. was cheap furniture and She began then to pro-! Seventh and Elm streets at 3 p. m. yesterday. Lande Nagale of Eldred.

111., seeing the sights." An affable stranger: "Are you a Democrat or Republican?" Nagale's answer unpreserved by I the police. "How strong are your sentiments?" "I'll bet on my man the same ai anyone." Nagale removes his wallet con-i taintrg $43 from his pocket and pro ceeds to "put up." Stranger and wallet get together and disappear down the street. Hard times may change Nagale's vote. worth-while audience ot reaching the most responsive r.adf.rs in St. Louts.

Thus are both The Star's readers and advertisers profited by this column August von Clossman, veteran of a half dozen wars, who died Monday at his home, 6828 Sulzburger avenue, aged 73. was buried this afternoon with military honors in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. He was born in Jannesdorf, Hungary, member of an old and titled Hungarian family and became heir to the title of Baron von Clossman. The Baron served as a Lieutenant In the Hungarian Army, served in the Franco-Prussian war, and became a Captain in the ill-fated Mexican expedition of the Emperor's brother. Maximilian.

Captured and imprisoned, the baron was released after Maximilian's execution, and renouncing his title, went to New York, where he became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and sang tenor roles. Th? former Be on served the Spanish-American war. He possessed a training in medicine, which he continued In a college at Starling. Ohio, and then joined the United States Army. He became medical inspector at Jefferson Barracks, which he.

held 2ntil hi a few years ago. 1 motner "8ress whom sue worn- Whether vou want to buy or to sell, read the column VY UtriUtJ. Ton u'nat von hav to larsre heavy se ,0 sit down cetved by Attorney General Lucey today. The rate formerly was suspended on November 15. DEATH OF ST.

LOUISAN IN WEST INVESTIGATED and keep an BERLIN, Oct. 25. Two hundred and nine fair fights took pla.ee over the Homme front on October 22. according to a statement issued through the semi-official Overseas News Agency today. German aeroplanes made more than 500 it was stated.

It is certain that sixteen allied aeroplanes were shot down and it is tw-heved that the actual numVer Is twenty-two, the statement says. Eleven of these machines are in possession of the Germans. i ft nrm i mi i leave with I'll or want to buy and when the ad ready. voud drugg-ist or 'ik tne room and Mrs. Frazier WOMAN EATS A PIE, I HAS PTOMAINE POISONING I 1 no scream The man kcn ti nie the nesress en- it to Tr.lephone SAN FRANCISCO.

CAL. Oct. 5. Suspecting foul play, the police are Investigating the death of Hugh In Ph.rt 6015 Wst Cafoanne ki Tif 8118 lockcd the door, J1 after her when she oar Druggist Is Oot Agent THE ST. LOUIS STAR t.nnn Central 370o razSer sAt up all i place.

St a traveling sales-1 "sat ut i Mrs. Anna O'Sber. 1835 Menard' i was taken to the City Hospi-j i tal last night, suffering from (ptomaine poisoning as a result of! I eating custard pie. Physicians sai-ij today she would recover. window Olive 6000 Canadian Parity Strike- Off.

QUEBEC Oct. 25. Announcement was made here Today that the proposed Canadian Pacific Railway strike had i-tfcB wllad aZ. pounded on man. who died in the arms or a woman Monday night in a hotel hre.

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