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No Longer Astonished Because
America Is a Country of
Millionaires.
QUITE Different In RUSSIA.
There People Retire When They
Get Enough, but in America
Each Wants a Million-Says
Chicago Is Tngainly.


AA-A CDL%AS
New York. Aug. @-Carrying out a plan
which he formed several days ago, the
Grand Duke Boris to-day visited West
Point. He had on his journey to this city
seen the roofs and towers OF the United
States Military Academy and he declared
that he would visit the place at his earliest
opportunity. The cousin Of the Gar Is a
Lieutenant in the Red Hussars and has had
considerable army training.
I'm Chicago and Buffalo," said the Grand
Duke himself. ct was particularly struck
by the -pleasantness, wit and easy-going
manners of the people. But Chicago itself
Is, l think. the most unlovely city I have
yet visited here. The buildings are fine.
but there is a wilderness of endless streets
unt!dy and picturesque. I had such a
magnificent time there, though. I shall new
er forget It. Speaking not OF its people,
there are three things that especially in
terested me in Chicago. the magnificent
equestrian statue OF General Logan by St
Gaudens, the statue Of Lincoln and the Hull
House.
u was delighted with Chicago. though.
II is a great city, greater and bigger than
Moscow or St. Petersburg. but not so pic
turesque. New York is 50 much more cos
mopolitan than any other city I have been
in. I am now at home here. New York
comes next in my m to San Fran
cisco. San Francisco is the most charming
city 1 have ever been in, In any country
There is no rush. no hurry, so different from
life here and in Chicago.
NO wonder America Is a country of mill
lionaires. The American engages in trade.
not for the love OF 1t. but simply for what
he can make out Of it. The thought upper
most in his mind Is. Shall I ever become q
millionaire? 1t is so different in Russia
There a man is content to retire from
business IL he has made enough to keep
him comfortably the rest Of his days. Here
you keep on trading till you become a mil
lionaire or death compels you to stop. Even
your women have a capacity for business
that their sex in no other country has. I
was told of a married woman who keeps a
shop on one side OF the street in Chicago.
while her husband has a similar establish
ment on the other side and there is said to
be keen rivalry between them
This independent spirit Of your women.
however, is one that should be admired and
encouraged. for It is a splendid example
they are teaching the whole sex. I only
wish that the same independent trait exist
ed among the women OF my country that
does here"
With the Grand Dukes party there were
the Russian Consul in this city, the three
military attaches and Baron S~chlieppen-
bach. the Consul at Chicago.
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eeedings of the State Committe Yesterday
from me time when Chairman Kin called
the session to order at 10 O'clock untiI Anal
adjournment at $50 last night the speech-
making could be heard throughout the cor
rldors OF the Lindell Hotel.
Committeeman Who Were Pra..n
When the roll was called the following
were reported present:
Ihomas J. Atkins, chairman.
A r. Shrlned, secretary.
Members-at-Large.
+: d. Roberts, Kansas City.
Otto F. Stifel, St. Louis.
Charles Nagel. proxy for G. A. FynkeIn-
burg. st. Louis.
John Kennish, Mound City.
J. II. Boutwell,, Sedalia.
Byrd Duncan, Poplar Bluff.
W. s. Dickey, Kansas CITY.
George a McCanse, Mount Vernon.
Z; u. Williams, BoonviIle.
Ihonas Campbell. st. Louis.
District Members,
First D~istrict-Bert Nortoni. proxy for
Doctor Bdward B. Clements, Macon:
Gnaries w. watson, by Lee Alexander of
Fourth Dtstrict-Samuel F. o'Falion Orc
gon: Ralph o. Stauber, st. Joseph.
Fifth D~tstrict-George A. Neal, Kansas
City; A c. Warner. proxy for William q.
Independence.
Sixth District-Bernard lick, Pleasant
HILL D.. c. Boisseau, Holden.
Seventh Dfstrict-C. ~. Van Housen.
Springfield; S. P. Huston. Malta Bend
Eighth Distrfct-R- S. Harvey, Eidron: J.
F., Smelich, by W. s. Pendleton Of Boom
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Children Born to West Madison,
ILL.,, Matrons Are Mixed by
Grandmother.
COULD NOT TELL THEM APART.
Mrs. James Morse of Flora, ILL.,,
and Mrs. Thomas Taylor in a
Quandary - Both Infants
Born About Same Time.

AS a result OF handling two newly-born
infants in West Madison, ILL.,. yesterday aft
ernoon, the grandmother OF the children.
Mrs. Frank Shelton, completely lost their
identity, and 1t was necessary for the moth
ers to draw lots for the babies, each agree
ing to keep and rear the child which fell
into her hands.
The infants involved were born to Mrs.
Thomas Taylor of West Madison, Ill, and
Mrs. James Morse of Flora, ILL.,, daughters
of Mrs. Shelton, who have been spending
the last few months at her home.
By a coincidence both babies were born
within a few minutes of each other, and
their grandmother, in matronly excitement,
placed them in the same crib, and not until
the newly-made mothers demanded their
children did Mrs. Shelton realize that she
could not tell to which mother each child
belonged.
Since the birth of the children, wednes-
day night, the fathers, mothers and grand
mother have been in council. Before the
result was reached the mothers were in
great doubt, and took turns in caring for
the infants. After thinking they had Sc
lected the right one, and keeping it for a
few hours. they would become doubtful and
trade back.
At the appearance of the first stork
Wednesday evening the grandmother was
prepared and calmly took charge OF the
household with experienced hands. When
the second, however. lowered over the home
a few minutes after the first, she began
to grow excited, but in her matronly pride
refused to call in an additional force of
neighbors.
As she took the two new arrivals in
charge. she forgot all else in her busy
preparations IN making them presentable to
their new fathers. She mixed the identity
of the babies.
She realized her error, when the younger
daughter said:
Mama, give me Ora's baby: she wants to
see it." She could not tell which baby to
send. Becoming alarmed at her blunder she
did not mention it until the next day.
The fathers were called in to decide. but
after locking at the tots said that ali babies
looked alike to them. N~eighbors were then
called in to Judge, but could reach no de-
cision, so the question was finally placed be-
fore the mothers for adjustment, resulting
in the casting of lots yesterday.
Thomas Taylor. one of the fathers. is
employe d at the car shops at Madison,
while the other. James Morse, is a prosper
GUS farmer living near Flora.
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GNE-E DIAN SE l.
Sparta, Ill, Aug. 3O.-Ardee Wilson. a ne
gro, who was arrested here for an assault
on a young white woman early this morn
ing. was riddled with bullets by an angry
mob tonight.
About s o'clock the mob took him from
the Jail. slipped a moose over his head and
swung him up to a telegraph pole, but in
some manner he slipped the moose and fell
to the street. In an instant he was on his
feet and running away.
He apparently escaped in the darkness,
but a posse pursued him and surrounded
him within two blocks of the jail and shot
him to death.
It is rumored that it was a ruse to allow
him to escape. and tina guards were placed
SO hat 1t was impossible for him to get
away. In this way It would not be known
who caused his death, while, II he would
have been lynched before the large crowd
present, in the electric light, all those who
participated would be known.
Two more negroes who were implicated in
Wilson's confession, Alexander Hyde and
Burrill Craven, are locked up in jail on the
charge of having been implicated with Will
son IN nearly, a score of robberies and at
tempted assaults which have taken place in
the last few weeks.
SPARTA TERRoRIZED
By NEGRO BURGLARS.
For the last fortnight the citizens of
Sparta have been terrorized by the work
of negro burglars who made 1t a practice
to assault the women of the household. No
less than twenty homes nave been broken
into, but not until last night was the fiend
caught.
On Wednesday night the women in the
household of Albert Eoagland were aroused
by someone in their rccm.
When they spoke the intruder ex-
tinguished the light and approached the
bedside. They screamed for help and he
ran out of the house, making his escape.
About 3 o'clock Thursday morning Mrs.
John Young was aroused by a burglar in
her room. The negro, seeing she was
awake, demanded her to keep silence and
when she screamed for her husband. who
was in an adjoining room. he choked her
Utmost into insensibility.
Mr.. Young and his brother, Horace.
rushed into the room, but neither was
armed. When the negro saw that he was
cornered he fought gamely and finally
managed to get away by jumping head
first through a closed window, akins the
broken glass and sash with him.
knute Harben's home was entered Friday
night. MIR. Harden and his son surprised
the thief at his work on entering the house
from the porch where the family was sit
ting, but he managed to escape. Harlem
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THRILLING
OF ARDEE WILSON.

Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the
eldest daughter of William Colbert was
awakened by a burglar who attempted to
choke her. She grappled with him and
called for help as loudly as she could. Her
mother was the first one to reach her. She
was l.orrifed to see the negro. but she
seized him with a will and held him until
the arrival of her husband, William Col
bert, who carried a poker.
He beat the negro severely with It, but
the latter had turned upon him, and was
about to wrench ii away from him, when
Albert Green, a ~neIghbor, who had been
aroused by the noise Of the ~scuffie, reached
the scene.
tiger. biting Green on the ARM, infficting a
severe wound. In a few minutes other neigh
bors fiocked into the house, among them
Alfred Dickey and James Gardener. To-
gether they bound the negro hand and foot
with a clothes line and te~legraphed for the
police
Chief Tolbert and deputies conveyed the
negro to the jail, where he was identified
as Ardee Wilson, a Southern negro, who
for the last fow weeks has been working
on the Illinois Southern Railway. When
put under the sweating process Wilson made
a statement, duplicating Hyde and Craven.
He said Hyde could be found within a
block of the Colbert home, at the house of
W. T. Thompson. Hyde was arrested there
and lodged in Jail. Craven was located at
his home a short while afterwards and
locked up.
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As usual. the anti-Kerens crowd OF Re-
publcans showed the yellow streak yester-
day by temporizing with their opponents.
a resolution adopted by the State Com
mittee-a body controlled absolutely by the
so-called reform element-giving coveted
time to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS m~anipula-
Tors, was unanimously passed after the ma
Jority in the City Committee of st. Louis
had been found guilty of the charges which
were preferred against them by the minori-
~ element.
Kerens's old cry of HARMONY carried the
cay after his enemies and those opposed to
a fair primary had announced that there
was no possible chance of a compromise.
NOW 1t Is claimed by the advocates of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS scheme that they have
the game well in hand and that the written
agreement which they have made with
Meriwether will be [ ried through the pri-
maries with a whoop.
Though ostensibly fair primaries will be
he'd, the Kerens crowd in the City Com
mittee say that they can manipulate them
with the aid OF Meriwether. and beat the
NTeform element down the line.
Mas they left the Lindell Hotel last night
thy laughed at the State Committeeman,
and to others called them such pet names
as "geezers," "gold-brick suckers and
easy money" In response to questions re-
garding the proposed fusion deal, one of
them, who is in authority. answered.:
I'VE said that we would put the slate
over the plate, didn't weT"
Well, Just watch our smoke and see US
make these pink tea fellows look like 80
cents"
City Committee May BE Recognized.
At that, there is a chance-about one IN
a thousand-that the present City Commit
Tee VIII be reorganized. 1t missed out last
evening by a vote of 16 to II when Bert
ID. Nortoni of New Cambria moved that the
report of the Executive Committee, which
found the sixteen City Committeeman guilty
or every charge which had been preferred
against them. be adopted. An amendment
~poStponing final action until Z o'clock was
carried by the one majority. The hours
City Committeeman.
To show how the majority of the City
Committee has played the State Committee
Tor suckers" may be judged by O SIM
pie recital of the Developments When
the State Committee met a fortnight
fhe Executive COMMITTEES. The following
fTnesday the Kerens element frankly told
the Executive Committee that they prp-
posed to carry the primary by fraud IL
necessary; that they had promised to deliver
the goods, and that they did not intend
ment.
1t was confessed that Butler was in the
game. a clause in the written agreement
with Merfwether being pointed out as re-
1erring especially to him.
A subcommittee was appointed to confer
Eittee: II was unable to secure any sort
OF satisfaction. the Kerens members in
slsting that they intended TO nominate the
fusion slate without let or h~indrance.
Inc mmi gave the City COMMITTEES
unA Tuesday evening to- square matters.
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PART i.
PaRe

l. David A. De Almond Replies TO Presi.
dents Trust Speech.
Sees War Ahead for England and Amer.
Sea.
B. Movement to Check Auto Accidents
thousands Eager to Go to South Africa
English Summer Resorts Deserted.
T. Production Of Lead Did Not Decrease
Won Bride After Twenty-one Years
FORGET Feud to Serve the Flag.
g. Dreams Of Thief Who Stole Jewels.
6. Surprising Results Of OF as Fuel
Trade In Footwear Shifts From Boston
American Women Pay Fortunes for
Dress.
Z. National and American League Aver
aces.
s. Editorial.
9. Making Sailors of Farmers.
TO- Big Increase Made in Realty Sales
Pedagogues Drive Stages in Vacation
A New St Paurs Protestant Church aft
Belleville.
Gasoline Explosion Results Fatally.
IL Railway News.
River News and Personals.
Il Teachers Assigned IN City Schools.
Judge Sidener Lectures Naughty Bows.
Letter From Self-Made Merchant to Son.
Young Couple to Celebrate Golden
Ii. Varied Career OF French Baroness Is
Ended by Tragic Death in ST. Louis.
IA. Confederate Comrades to Meet After
Forty Years.
MOfheT Insists That Girl Wa sF,-l-.-
Local Interest in Colorado Gold Mines.
Trains in Head-On Collision.
To Hold Services at Odeon-
PART III.
l. "Reminiscences of the Old DAYS OF the
Casino.
General Wheeler's Cure for Beggars.
Automobile Drivers Should Be Licensed.
~Squandered Millions of the House of
Condo.
2. Society Beginning to Return to Town.
3. Season Closing at the summer Resorts.
4. Notes About Society in Neighboring
Cities.
5. Jacobite Leagues Claim the Throne of
England.
Railroad Protects Shakespeare Cliff.
Republic Want and Real Estate Adj
vertisements-6 to u. inclusive.
Is. First Week of the Winter Theater Sea-
son.
"A. Passing of the skinker Road Has Be
gun.
Eighteen Report on Civil Service.
Hyslop Made Well by "Open-Air Cure"
PART III.
z To-Day's News in Brief.
Too Late for Classification Want" Ads.
Browns Win; Cardinals Lose.
3 Futurity Won by Savable.
The Republic Form Chart.
4 Football Prospects Beginning to Assume
Definite Shape.
one-Lesged Trick Cyclist Proposes Dare
Devil Feat.
s Turf Talk-Pugilism-Gossip of the Dia-
mond.
6. Summary OF ST. Louis Markets.
Chicago Grain Markets.
Z. Governor Jennings at Reunion
Rains Cause Heavy Damage
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CROWD WAITED
FOR NIGHT TO COME.

As soon as the arrests became known this
morning excitement ran high and a large
crowdc ongregarod about the Jail. Threats
to lynch were freely made. ropes were pro-
duced and it was clearly apparent that all
that was necessary fer mob rule was a.
leader. Chief Tolbert ~deputized a large
force to guard the jail and telegraphed for
Sher1r Moore TO come and take the prison.
ers to the County Jail at Chester.
Sheriff Moore. with one deputy, reached
here tonight to take Wilson and the other
negroes away. but when they saw the ex-
cited mob about the Jail they decided that
10 take the negroes outside would mean an
immediate lynching, SO they boarded the
return train home.
The 1ail was still guarded by a force of
deputies. but about 8 o'clock tonight the
mob o~verpowered the deputies and broke
In. A steel rail was used to batter down
the doors Of the Jail. Wilson was dragged
from his cell, a moose adjusted about his
neck and he was swung 10 to the nearest
telegraph pole. but in some way the moose
was slipped oyer his head
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the court. The effect assists the Imagination to fill the
balcony with thousands of visitors who will stand in the
same place during the Exposition. 1t is likely that she
will be the only woman who will have this privilege while
the buildings are in course OF construction, as the gen.
eral regulations forbid any visitor from climbing on the
structures.
Several thousands of sightseers crowded into the court
last Sunday and attempted to ascend the ladders leading 10
the balcony and higher parts OF the Electricity Palace. 1t
required the vigilance of twenty watchmen and a detach-
ment of the Jefferson Guard to prevent the eager visitors
from making the Exposition liable to damages from in
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which surrounds the four sides of the court and forms a
part of its architectural treatment
The court is approaching completion in its encasement
of staff. The columns have been set in the walls, the
holdings of the arches piercing the clofster, the coTnices OF
the balcony and sky line are in place and the balustrade
around the balcony line has been finished. Miss Glen
clambered from the garden Of the court to the balcony
that she might have the honor of being photographed as
the first woman to stand on any completed part Of the
EXPOSITION.
She appears in the picture. standing on the balcony.
behind tho staff balustrade, near the southeast corner Of
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Miss Daisy Glenn, daughter Of H. C. Glen, livestock
agent of the Wabash Railway. climbed a 4O-foot ladder
Electricity Palace. She Is the first woman who has been
permitted to ascend any of the mammoth Exposition
structures during construction.
The young woman heard of the distinction which re-
manned to be filled and straightway obtained the permits
sion of the Building Engineer to mount a ladder leading
to the balcony of the court above the colonnaded cloister
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ALL FIGURES BALANCED.
Haskins and Sells Certify Their
Report Was Statement of Facts.

The Republic received yesterday the fol-
lowing telegram:
To the Editor Of The Republic.
New York, Aug. 1.-In an editorial In thu
St Louis Star of August q. in regard to
the Missouri State finances, IL IS stated that
We forced a balance and called things
even" While 1t Is not our custom TO no-
tice apparently malicious i~nuendoes, this
Is Of a character 30 direct that we would
ike to have you say through the columns
OF your newspaper that all OF the figures
IN our report were completely and properly
of actual facts and that no balances wero
forced. The evident intention Of the Stars
to deceive VIII be apparent to any
one at all familiar with the subject who
will carefully read our report.
HASKINS q SELLS,
Certified Public Accountants.
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juries that might have been sustained. The force at the
building will be doubled to-day to keep the crowd in
check.
Nothing remains for the staff workers to do in the court
but the setting of various entabatures around the walls.
Then the bare brown surfaces which show black spaces
in the pictures between the white staff pillars and mold
ings will be treated to the plasters art. All dead, fiat
surfaces will receive a coating of heavy plaster. Then the
entire court will show a dazzling glare Of solid whiteness.
The whole surface. staff and plaster must then receive a
treatment of ivory-white paint
From the outer walls of the court the staff workers next
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INDICATIONS.

WEATHER INDICATIONS.
For st. Louis and Vicfnity-UnsettIed,
but probably thunderstorms.
For Missourf-Showers and thunder
storms md cooler Sunday. Showers
Monday.
For IlIinois-LocaI rains and thun-
derstOrms Sunday afternoon Or night.
MondR showers and cooler.
For - Showers Sunday,
cooler in northwest. Monday, show
ers In East.
For East Texas-Fair Sunday. Mon
day fair In south, showers in north.
For West Texas-Fair, except show
ers in north Sunday. Monday fair.
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Republican City Organization Is
Allowed Until Noon To-Mor-
Y row to "Harm0nize."
AKINS TURNS DOWN FRIENDS.
Refuses to Exercise His Influence
Five Hundred Dollars Paid
''ublic Ownership
ominations.
STATE CONMITTEE,S ACTION. @

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turn their attention to the finishing OF the interior walls
and ceiling of the cloister which completely surrounds
the court Then the vaulted entrance which extends from
the north main entrance of the palace across the build
ing to the cloister will be treated deliberately in rich cary
inss of stan. The vaulted ceiling rises sixty feet above the
floor of the way.
At the Textiles Palace, the sister building of the
Electricity Palace, on the opposite side of the grand
lagoon. staff is being applied to the west front. The en-
tire cornice line IS In place. all the doors have received
their holdings and the massive columns forming the grand
coionnade along the facade are being covered with staff.
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Woman Drank CarboIio Acid.

Cora Rogers committed suicide yesterday
at No. 100 South Fifteenth street by taking
carbolic acid. She died in an ambulance
on the way to the City Hospital two hours
after she took the poison James Casey
Coroners inquest. He says the woman
drank the poison while he was getting her
some beer.