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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
sEARCHCElLARsFOR
BODIES OF WOMEN
DIGGING BEGUN IN BUILDINGS
OCCUPIED BY coccHi, RUTH
cRUGER SUSPECT.
BICYCLE MAN Is NOW HUNTED
Woman Attorney Says a Statement
From Him Would Involve Many
Prominent Men Living in
New York City.

New York, June 21.-The cellar OF
every building occupied by Alfred
Cocchi, underneath whose shop the
body of Ruth Cruger, 1S-year-old high
school girl, was found buried last Sat
urday, is to be dug up by detectives
to find out if more girls met similar
fate. Excavation began in several
buildings in which Cocchi conducted
motorcycle repair shops, and in addi-
ton detectives working under direc-
ton of Inspector Joseph H. Faurot
were assigned to investigate every
phase of Cocchi's life in this city.
In an open letter to Mayor Mitchell,
made public, Henry D. Cruger. father
of the murdered girl, asks for the re-
moval of Commissioner Woods and
the reorganization Of the police de-
partment under a new head.
No word of the arrest TN Italy OF
Cocchi has been received by the po-
lice, and it is feared that he has fled
from Bologna, where news was last
received from him. Both Commits
sioner Woods and District Attorney
Swami believed Cocchi had part in
the traffic in women in this city, as
revealed by Mrs. Grace Humiston. at
torney for the Cruger family.
Eight detectives were assigned to
the bureau of missing persons. Rec
ords of the bureau show that since
Jan. / between 700 and 800 girls and
Young women have been reported as
missing.
Miss Humiston said that If the au-
thorities could get statement from
Cocchi he would involve so many per
sons of importance that the case
would be one of the most sensational
ever exposed.
For two hours Mrs. Marie Cocchi,
wife of the fugitive, was questioned
at the district attorneys office. She
insisted she knew nothing that would
throw light on Miss Crugers disap-
pearance or murder. She was not In
his shop Feb. 10, the day the young
woman disappeared. she said, and be-
cause of GOODNESS between her hus-
band and herself she did not visit his
shop from Sept 8, 1916, until two days
after Miss Cruger was reported miss
ing from her home and after her nus
band had fled.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
JACKSON RED CROSS
COMPLETES PLANS
Unit to Cape Chapter Organized
in County Seattle Solicit
Funds for Red Cross.

Another mass meeting for the Red
Cross campaign was held in Jackson
last night, in order tc arouse the in
terest Of the public for the work of
the Red Cross. A delegation of Red
Cross members of the Cape, among
them Prof. w. w. Martin of the Nor
NAL, who made the address at the
meeting, was present.
The final arrangements for the CAM
paign in Jackson were made by the
Executive Committee at a meeting
held yesterday afternoon following the
organization of the Red Cross unit,
which will work under the Cape Red
Cross chapter. The meeting was call
ed by N. G.. La Pierre, who was select
ed chairman of the unit in the meet
ing held Wednesday evening.
The organization was perfected
Wednesday evening. Mr.. La Pierre
was elected chairman, Rev. X. C. Sor-
rell, vice chairman; r. Kent Wilson,
secretary, and Fred Clippard, treasur-
er. The Executive Committee CT the
unit is composed of the following men,
bers elected at yesterday afternoons
injecting: John Sanders, Joseph
Schmuke, c. l.. Grant, r. NJ. Nc
Comb, A A. Boss, William Wagner
Jr., and Mayor d. B. Hays.
The city has been divided into four
districts taking as the boundaries the
political wards of the city. These dis
tricts will be canvassed by the fol-
lowing workers: First district, NJ. G.
Jones and c. A. Macon; second dis
trict, Rev. Jenkins and Mrs. Herman
Obermiller; third district, John Talley
and Mrs. C. l.. Grant; fourth district,
C. H. Wolters and Mrs. J. A. Arm
strong.
The solicitors will meet this morn
ing to arrange the plans along which
to conduct the campaign. The Red
Cross section of the Women Christian
Temperance Union has established a
headquarters for their weekly gath
erings, during which bandages and
surgical supplies will be made for the
wounded soldiers.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
LEMING PURCHASES
ZIG HOUCK LOTS

One Of the largest real estate trans
actions recorded recently in the city
was negotiated Monday, when NJ. E.
Leming, president of the Commercial
Club and owner of one of the largest
saw mills in this city, purchased 2S6
lots in the Giboney Houck subdivision
on the Sprigg street road. 1t is I'M
derstood that the consideration was
$4,000.
Mr.. Leming said yesterday evening
that he would place the lots on the
market for residences. The lots he
purchased are on both sides of Sprigg
street road, in South Cape, and ex-
tend as far as the city limits on the
south side OF the city. The section of
the subdivision he purchased is known
as subdivisions four and five.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
3 FARMERS BARELY
ESCAPE LIGHTNING.
Tree Near Which Men Were
Seated is Demolished by
Bolt of Lightning.

Three welI-known Kelso men mar
rowly missed being struck by light
ming yesterday morning, while fishing
on the Little River Drainage ditch, six
miles below the Cape. They were,
John Dohogne, Philip Scheeter and
Gus Halter.
They had left their automobile I'M
der a cluster of shade trees at the
roadside, and began fishing off the
bridge crossing the big ditch. A few
minutes after their arrival an cleo
trical storm swept over. A large tree
beside the machine was struck by a
bolt which hurled bark andtWigs upon
the fishermen. No one was injured.
Mr.. DohOgne said yesterday after
noon that they were Uttered with bark
from the tree, and the automobile.
which was standing by the tree, was
almost filed with debris, but the ma
chine was not damaged.
Mr.. DOhOgne attributes their escape
to the fact that it was not a severe
bolt which struck the tree. "Had the
lightning struck the tree squarely," he
said, II am sure we would have been
severely stunned. We were less than
thirty yards from the scene at the
time.
"a Cape Girardeau automobile had
Just passed under the tree when the
bolt struck. The machine was less
than one hundred yards away when
| saw the flash and heard the crash"
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
3 BLODCETT BOYS
ENLIST In CAPE co.
Had Come to Cape to Offer Ser
vices in Regular Army
Meeting Monday Night.

Three young men from Blodgett
were enlisted yesterday afternoon in
the Cape company of the Missouri
Sixth after they had come to the Cape
to enlist in the regular army. The
three are: Malcomb and Carvel Wal
ton, brothers, and Willie Cobb, cou-
sin of the first two.
The young men told Lieutenant
FriSSell of the Cape company that
they would rather enlist in this regi-
ment because they would be assured
of remaining in the same company
during their services in the army. They
said they had applied at the local re-
cfuiting station of the United States
army, but decided not to volunteer for
the regular army.
A meeting will be held Monday
evening at West End Hall to have all
the members of the recently-orgaRized
company, who we're not examined by a
physician, undergo the medical test.
Following this examination the first
drile will be held.
After the drill it will be decided
where and when to hold the regular
exercises before the company is order
ed into the training camp. 1t is be-
lieved that the reorganized Sixth will
be sent to a training camp near San
Antonio, Tex, in the early part of
August.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
CITY NEWS In BRIEF

H. L. Albert returned yesterday aft
ernoOn from st. Louis where he had
been for several days on business.
Claude Speak returned yesterday
morning from a business trip to Par
ma.
Mr.. ard Mrs. w. w. Pell of Com
merce were in the city yesterday en-
route to st. Louis.
DIR. d. H. Hope left for st. Louis
yesterday afternoon on a business
trip.
VIII Mayhem of Wittenberg arrived
in the city yesterday afternoon to ac-
company his wife home. Mrs. May
hcw recently underwent a minor OPP
Grafton at St Francis Hospital.
Otto Kiehne, who recently accepted
a position with the Waters Pierce Oil
Co., moved his family from Jackson
to the Cape yesterday. They will re-
side on North Painter avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Tranel of St.
Louis and Miss Edith Hess Of Jones'
boro, H., are visiting Charles WHIP
perman and family of 1913 South Lori
mier street.
Try tie Home Dairy. Phone SS5-J.
Mrs. Vincent L. Davis Of Blythe
vile, Ark, is the guest of her brother,
Attorney Harry f. Alexander, and
family, of 1902 Broadway.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Lewis of 225
North Ellis street started on their au-
tOmobile trip to Kansas City to attend
the wedding Of Russell Lewis, who will
be married there next Thursday. They
will return during the latter part of
July.
Gus LasswclI and Walter Heutler
came up from Kcnnett yesterday aft
ernoon to enter the Sixth Regiment
with Schuchert's Band.
Gene Ruff is visiting friends in
Kenneth for few days.
Mrs. Elkins and Mrs. Hamper, rep
rcscntatives of the Purina Chicken
Feed Co., are in the city. They will
make a house-to house canvass in the
interest Of the Purina company.
James c. Mcdowell, formerly an at
torney of the Cape and now assistant
to Prosecuting Attorney Ashley in
Charleston, spent the day in the city
on legal business.
Albert Grimes, who is employed in
the Park Auto Co.'S garage, will go
to st. Louis sometime this week, to
enlist in the navy.
J. ID. Randolph came up from Chat
fee yesterday afternoon on business.
Thomas Jefferson Caruthers, super
intcndent of the Perry County schools,
is in the city visiting relatives for a
few days.
Arnold Keller of DutchtGEn spent
the day in the Cape on real estate
matters.
]. w. Clynler Of SikestOn was a
business visitor in the Cape yester-
day.
A. G. Eakcr of Chaffec spent yester-
day in the city.
A. p. knoerr of Charlottesville
transacted business in the city yester-
day.
Mesdames Ada Lennox, James +.
Smith. H. w. Baker Jr., and G. Penn
Parsons and Miss Ora Lennox and
Charles ID. Matthews of Sikeston were
visitors in the Cape yesterday.
ID. L. Lacy of Morehouse was a
business visitor in the city yesterday.
Jas. I. jackson of Hayti was in the
city yesterday.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
$500. 900 to Actors Fund.

GAINESVILLE, o., June 21.-The Ac-
tors Fund of America, with headquar-
tiers in New York, is to receive $780,
900 and the Metropolitan Art Museum
s1,O00,000 from the estate Of John
Hoge, millionaire retired soap manu-
facturer.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22

w. H. Loeffler of Lutesville trans
2 ted business in the Cape yesterday.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22
In Court II Years.

Chicago, June PA judgment of
$4,000 was returned in court here
against Henry D. Laughlin, a former
ST. Louis judge. Col. w. S. Eden and
wife commenced the litigation II
years ago.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-06-22

The second concert by Schuchert's
Band was given in the Court House
Park last night and was enjoyed by
hundreds Of people. The Poet and
Peasant overture was especially well
rendered, drawing forth loud applause
from the large crowd.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25
THE BIG DRAYMAN
AND THE SMALL
LOAD OF COAL

A big drayman brought a small load
of coal to the newspaper mans house
the other day. "Yes, il Is a small
load" he admitted. but when you
consider the gullies and rocks and
ruts in these open places they call
streets. and when you also consider
the increased cost of tires. it's a pref
ty big load, after all
Why, | can remember, not so very
long ago. when a poor man could buy
a tire for his auto truck without de-
claring a bond issue. Now, when !
buy tire walk on the edge of bank
ruptcy proceeding. And the mechanics
that fix your car. Say, those fellows
would own my car in three weeks if
l didn't start hauling stun before sun
rise. They shut both eyes and name
price higher than those mountain
tops.
And then there is the gasoline.
ONLY SO cents per gallon.
Folks rave about how much it costs
to keep horse. but let me tell you no
herd of horses can eat as much stun
in a week as one tire cost me the
other day. I'm going to get a half
dozen burros and start in 10 make
some real money hauling stuff"
And the drayman cranked his car.
took long and sad look at a rear
tire that was beginning to go" and
drove away.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25
AS MAN TO MAN
STRONG FOR SCHOOLS
IN GLEESON DISTRICT
AND THEY WIN

While only $4,000 in bonds we're
voted for a school in the Gleeson dis
trict. the citizens determined that
they would have real school house
with all the modern trimmings, if they
had to strain a sinew to get it. SO
every one pitched in and did his or her
part. One man hauled and another
man dug and another nailed and an
other smeared the paint. Even the
plans and specifications and archi-
E. Penberthy. manager of the mine at
Gleason. furnishing these. And Elsie
Toles. county superintendent. who
passed on them, declared they were
perfect for school purposes.
The new school house will be ready
for the pupils January /. 1t will have
four rooms and an auditorium and a
"teacherage." The newspaper man is
green and did not know what a
'teacherage" was. so he asked Glee-
son resident who was proudly telling
OF the glories OF the new school build
ing.
why. it's place for the teachers
to stay; just like a parsonage is
home for the parson," he said.
The explanation was simple and
complete. The ''teacherage" viii be
great convenience for the four
teachers.
The newspaper man heard the story
of the Gleason school with both in
terest and admiration. II is the big
gest. 'bestest" ten thousand dollar
school ever built for the money. and
its accomplishment speaks louder and
longer for Gleeson than a brass band
and leather-bound book
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25
THIS STORY IS
ABOUT A WOMAN,
BUT 1T FITS HERE

While this is man to man" col
umn. yet women are not barred, espe-
ciaIly the kind herein referred TO. a
man came in TO the Review office last
week from out in the Chiricahua
mountains. Say" he began, without
preface or preamble. Il got bully
story to tell you about that Miss Elsie
Toles. the county superintendent of
schools. She's sure a game one.
Want to hear it,"
The newspaper man did. very much
want to hear. and said so.
We'll, it was this way" went on
the man from the mountains, Il was
puttering around the house one day
not long ago, ADDING some little thing
or other. when up came this young
woman, jaunty and smiling. She said
her fivver was stalled back up the
road a ways, and asked if | would
come and haul her out with my team.
| told her | sure would. So | got
my horses and started out.
Would you believe it. it was four
miles back over that mountain road
that | found her little old car stuck
in a mud puddle made in the dust
and sand of the road by an overflow
from a windmill that some fool had
let run. The little lady had run plumb
into il and her car wheels just spun
in the muck
Il had her out of there in a jiffy,
and she thanked me in the dandiest
kind of a way and cranked up the
machine with a cunning twist of the
wrist and climbed aboard with that
same bright smile and chugged away
TO some rural school or other up in
the mountains.
8 Game? Say. she's game clear
through and through. Think of it.
She had walked eight miles over the
rocks and never lost her smile or her
disposition. Never made complaint.
Eut as for me. If ever find that fell
low that let that water run he won't
smile for month"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

Rain has again to the aid of the hard pressed
Germans the battle front Late dispatches from the
Cambria sector indicate that the fine weather of the
preceding had given place to downpour the
British advance and hamper the widening of the breach
in THE Hndenburg line Time and time again rain has
robbed the British of the fruits of victory What might
have been vital blow Cambria has been turned into
local big scale. 1t brilliant victory
but not decisive However, if the weather clears
the attack continues. the pressure the Italian
line may be relieved and that after all. is probably
the main behind the tremendous blow at the
Cambria line.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

1T appears to be much easier to get people to die
for Democracy than to diet for it, declares the Kansas
City Star. How true A Bsbee restaurant COM
planned to the high heavens yesterday because Of
his best customers elsewhere breakfast his
meatess days. man that cannot make breakfast
from oatmeal. pancakes. fruit and coffee at his
country's call is pretty patriot Beefsteak and
chops and ham are not necessary sustain life for
twenyfour hours. The host who fails observe meat
less day. and the who refuses help him observe
the trenches They get meat there every day but
they have to fiuht for it.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

A big, bronzed man wearing the
uniform of a non-commissioned officer
of the United states navy walked up
to the flower stand in front OF the
Phelps Dodge store in Bisbee one day
not so very long ago and bought a
red carnation to pin on his blue coat.
George Ellis, the florist, turned the
flower over to the man of the sea.
Something in his dialect and manner
caused the sailor to look at him close
" and asksd: "Boer?"
yes" replied Ellis, who is a man
of few words.
The big sailor smiled and stretched
forth his hand. Il fought you fellows
at Spion Kopp," he said, "and I'll tell
the world to this day that you were
the DEVILS own fighters"
Ellis grinned and shook hands. I'VE
fought our best" he said simply.
Then these two men who had fought
each other across the sea. and met
here in the little shop full Of red and
white blooms, held a reunion for fair.
A. Wassman is the sailors name, and
he is here still. and never a day passes
but that he and the ex-Boer talk it
over, and their conversation is full
of kopjes and veldt and impis and
incubu and the lions and jungles and
deserts of South Africa.
Wassman has a career that reads
like a dime novel in three colors- He
went to Africa in 1897 as a soldier of
fortune and joined the British army
under General Butler. serving in the
Imperial Light Horse. He was in the
fight against Cronje at Spion Kopp.
He fought at Wittenburg and in many
skirmishes. He was at Elmslackta,
where Ellis, by the way. was taken
prisoner. Ellis has a photo of this
engagement, and he and his former
enemy looked long and earnestly at
the familiar landscape and the brave
figures Of their former comrades.
Wassman entered the United States
navy after the Boer war, or rather he
re-entered the navy, for he had gone
down to the sea ia ships before he
went to South Africa in quest of ad-
venture. He served seven years in
the Asiatic station and four in the
Atlantic. He was in the United States
battleship squadron on its famous trip
around the world. He is a chief ma
chinist in the navy, now on detached
duty in the Bisbee recruiting office.
George Ellis. the man who tends
flowers and arranges bouquets Of
white and red buds laced with green,
and swathes his delicate wares in
tissue paper, used to sight lang a
rifle with an eye of fire and lead the
British troopers a dogs life through
the veldt and over the kopjes. He was
a prisoner at st. Helena. where the
great Napoleon fretted his life away
like a Gagged lion.
Fate smiles at her children. She
took the Boer riiemau and the British
trooper BY the hand and led them
across sea and land TO Bisbee and
brought them face to face in little
shop filed with flowers.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

well authenticated story is told by Los Angeles
girl recently returned from France that the German air
dropping poisoned candy from their planes over
the Belfort region and that French children have
died horrible deaths from eating these deadly sweets
1t sounds unbelievable but surely this is than
suffocstng children in London by bombs dropped
from the air. There has been nothing in German
and far in the that he used TO retute
this story. They have perpetrated crime against
humanity that fiend could conjure from the darkened
of his soul they would cut off the hands of
Belgian boys why would they poison French chill
dren? By their printed and spoken ethics nothing must
stand in the way of the German advance Cathedrals
cottages and children all these have been victims by the
thousands of Prusssn steel flame and cruelty And the
allies fight with grim determination that will never
he stayed until the kaisers legions have been broker
and destroyed
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

Forced back TO the border of the Venetian plains,
the Italian soldiers who fled pe nell from the noun
passes before the German helmets are standing
like granite wall Put second time the real test.
the Italian is making good He may yet be all the
that awful drubbng Bainsizza and his ter
rible retreat He has been blooded ana burned with
powder. Next spring he may go back this ground
and knock again the door of Labach with stronger
and confident fist than he has raised against il
in war since the Roman empire fell
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

Senator Claude Swanson member of the senate com
affairs declares that the United States
navy ready for According to the Virginia
the naval forces number more than quar-
of million and $50 merchant vessels have been
armed and 7s7 naval vessels in Of construc
ton The health and spirits of the of the best
their equipment already provided and the training
of making fine progress. In fine, declares
the optimistic senator The American navy in this
will fully up its highest standards of the
past"
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

THE BIG THREE DOWN THE FIELD
The old Tricolor swings TO the right;
To The left flies the Union Jack;
And a new flag comes to the smashing
fight.
To drive for the next attack;
A flag that has guarded a stainless
shield.
A banner OF stripes and stars;
And now-when the bugle once more
pealed-
Now when the three start down the
field
God pity the trench that bars.
The old Tricolor has gained new
heights
And so has the Union Jack.
And the flag that comes where the
shrapnel bites
VIII never be driven back;
The flag that has never yet been furled
Or stopped by the driving Fates.
And now-when the cannon smoke lies
curled.'
Now when the three start down the
world
God pity the Hun who waits.
The old Tricolor is dripping red.
And so is the Union Jack;
But new flag comes TO the work
ahead
To start for the next attack;
A flag that was never known 10 stop
A. the end of testing tray;
And now wherever the shells may drop
Nov when the three go over the top
God pity the trench at bay.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

An idea of the scope and energy Of the campaign by
United States government agents against the l. w W.
the Kansas oil fields may be gained from the fact
three thousand arrests contemplated unless
the agtators left the This wholesale government
raid upon these wobblcs is taken by Bisbee off
cial O. K of our deportation OF July II.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25

Secretary Wilson of the presidents industrial peace
commission, is doing a lot of worrying Sheriff
Wheelers efforts enforce the prohibory law. Every
time botteggers auto is stopped and searched some
wobby sympahizer reports violation of the Bisbee
agreement with the commission and effort to enslave
the worlkingman.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25
TWO BOER WAR
VETERANS MEET
IN BISBEE TOWN

For east is east and west is west
And never the twain shall meet;
But there is no east and there is no
west
When two strong men meet face to
face.
inlinp
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-25
Sunday Morning, November Is, 1917

81 exceedingly disappointed not to be able to
accept the high cabinet position which offered me-
but feel that do better work with newspaper
ak on the outside than if inside where would
be gagged Northcliffe in offer of
a place in the British cabinet