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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16

but the business of the company at the
present time is much smaller than that of
the Milwaukee company when the p1pula
ton of the two cities is taken into consid-
Grafton.
With the incoming of Mr.. Cowdery. the
work of advancement win be begun at st.
Louis. New mains will be laid. new retorts,
condensers and holders will be constructed.
the demand increases and an active cam
paisn will be begun. the end in, view being
to pipe every available houses store and
factory building in the Missouri city.
Much attention will be given to working
up a demand for fuel gas
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
Youthful Runaway Ia Arr.,t.s

Eldie Chapman. II years old. possessing
SS and two travelling bags, was ruined
over to his parents at No. 1873 Pentlleton
avenue by the police yesterday.
me boy was arrested at Deer street and
home with so. The father of the lad tmmn !
dately reported his disappearance to the
police. " '"e
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
MRS. WALKER IS ON GOOD TERMS
WITH THE NEW YORK FOUR HUNDRED

Negro o. the Williams Walker Company
"Gaught With the Smar Set the Dinner Demonico
Guest the Homes of Fifth Avenue Bellies
MatrOns Whom She Is Showing How to "Cake-
walk"-The New Craze Affords Bored Society
OF
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
Stationary Mt Paducah,
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

Paducah. KY. March 1.-the river has
been stationary here for forty-eieht hours'
The gauge reads AS feet. The prospects are
that the river will begin to decline tonight
the rain starts fresh rise The steamer
Dick Fowler carried about 700 excursionists
up the Ohio and Tennessee this afternoon tn
View the flooded districts.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
LETTER OF A LITTLE SCHOOLBOY
COMMENDED FOR SPECIAL MERIT.
Twelve Year-Old Frank McGirl
Uses the Best of English in
Writing Practice Essay
on His Boyish Expert
ences and Views.
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q EXTRACTS FROM LETTER 4
a MHITvCEN ~ E.BANk McGIRI

q WRITTEN BY FRANK McGIRL. 4
. II read about Mrs Claxon's ser 4
. mon in The Republic, and side with 4
q the business women. II a girl IL Z
. stonosrapher has she not a right to I
q make a living for herself? I
q 1t was with much difficulty that I
= wrote this letter, and l am glad now 4
= that II is written. After playing all 4
= day I had begun to get sleepy when I
q 1 thought OF 1t. l remembered Fa-
& Their StoiteS instruction at O'Clock
Q mass, and determined not to yield.
q Il stopped at Kirkwood a couple of
4 days coming into the city. II has Z
p fine lots and would make an excel Z
q lent city, as 1t is healthy. 1t pos Z
= scsses good farming soil and is u fine
o place for manufacturing establish q
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
Killed Under Train.

Texarkana. Ark. March 15.-L. C. coffs
a section foreman on the Texas and Pacific'
was run over and instantly killed by a
yards at II O'Clock last night. A'
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
Found Husband Dead.

well-known citizen of Maroa, was fn,,nd
dead in his home at that place today. He
was apparently in perfect health when his
wife went 20 church and when she returned
home she found him dead II is supnosed
he had a stroke Of paralysis
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
TO IMPROVE ST. LOUIS SYSTEM.
Cowdery Will Inaugurate Change.
in Laclede Gas Company.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Milwaukee. Wis. March 15.-E. G. Cow
derry will inaugurate at St Louis his policy
of Improvement that has made the MIL
waukee Gas Light Company one of the best
equipped and best paying plants In the
world. The Laclede Company, according to
Mr. Cowdery. has an exclusive franchise,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16
E. G. COWDERY.


IGust
of Of
of
most gasme in h
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-16

ROBERT BEBEE,
ST. Louis fireman, who will be buried to-day
50 years old and came to st. Louis in 1882
He was born in GaIlia County, Ohio.
He was appointed a member of the Fire
Department in 1895 and-as truckman on No.
80 did heroic service during the cyclone.
Before Joining the Fire Department he
served Tor nine years as a member of the
police force.
Mr.. Bebee leaves wife. formerly Miss
Mary A Robinson. arr three children
They are: Miss Maude Bebee a teacher in
the BLOW School: Robert Be5ee, who is the
with the clerical department of the Wabash
railroad. fSd Joseph Bebee. aged years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
AS A GIANT KILLER
ROBERT The RED LEADS

Robert Edgren says Bob FitZsimmons is
the giant-lSiller of the heavyweights.
His greatest delight lies in administer
ing the knockout punch TO some untor-
There is only one giant who still defies
his power, and that is Jeffrles. All the
others are easy game. He has knocked
he was still a mtddlewelght. be knocked
out the Akron giant, Gus Rubin, with
equal ease.
Tom Sharkey. the big fighting sailor,
who was once thought big enough to right
Jeffries or any other man in the world,
went down as quickly as the rest OF them
But picking up easy things is JOY Tor
FitZ He had one over in Philadelphia
night before last. Two slaps on the
wrist on this occasion Melted the giant
killer $3.50 And the Irish giant stood five
inches over Fitz and Outweighed him
about thirty pounds.
The speckIed giant-killer is the only
man who ever Knocked out big Dunk
horst. whose Waight is variously esti-
mated from go to 800 pounds. The latter
is Fitzsimmons own estimate. 1 dis
claim all responsibility is IL Is incorrect
On the road, meeting all corners. is the
game that pleases FitZ The big mel
come 10 fight him then Knocking Ou
! giants has the same fascination for Fit
| that the whisky habit has for some men
! II is a habit that he likes to indulge
/ When he was out with Jeffries last sea
\ culiar and fiendish delight in fighting an,
} knocking out every huge miner that JET
: fries refused to meet.
/ And Fitz does not use a club. All h.
F. needs IS simple twist Of the wrist ant
/ the impact of his bOny knuckleS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
FRYING TO FIND OUT
WHERE GUNS CAME FROM

who struggled the revoIvers into the
Drisou2"
This is the question which is giving
Acting Warden n. c. Wright much con
Germ. His investigations yesterday cast
little light on the subject There is
suspicion that one Of the TRUSTEES may
have done this. although there were
number of visitors recently who might
have accomplished TT. Among the recent
visitors were Mrs. Nick HaWorth and
Mrs. WAGNER mother OF Abe Majors.
90 am satisfied that Majors and WaG-
den planned the break said Acting
Warden Wright Yesterday. "COnnOrs
was indicated in it. and so were others,
but they were the principals. They were
the ones who got the guns. I have nor
vet made sure how the guns We're snug
gled In here. but ] expect to find out"
Ms. HawOrth called on her husband
recently. as was her custom As usual.
she was extremely affectiOuate i'm her
Ci0u that she might have handed him a
revolver. Further Investigation has led
the authorities to believe differently
Mrs. Wagner called TO see her son last
SUNDAY. but there were others entering
the prison. Waddell never had a. caller
in the DrisOu. but ne might have made
friends with the TRUSTEES who were pass
ing back and forth
Several sluuE-shOts were found yester-
dav. evidently all made i'm the peniten-
tiarv. The casting. if is supposed. was
done Ga the boiler room. A shoe knife,
in an imDrovised sheath. was found a
short distance from the wall. along the
path of Lynch and HawOrth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
CKnockout IN New York World.)

(KnOckout in New York World)
Robbie Fitzsimmons. rude. rough
priZeflghter, hit Connie COughlin, an
Irish gentleman. real hard three or four
times at the washington Sporting club
and mussed his hair.
Oh, fudge. it can't be true? But, It
is, and Connie might have been hurt
real bad If Mr.. Mccormick hadn't taken
a towel and thrown It right into the
ring, right at that horrid Fitzsimmons'
feet, and called out to Mr.. Recap. the
referee, to make him stop hitting Con-
ME
Now you make him stop" said Mr.
Mccormick, and then he climbed right
into the ring and pushed Connie into a
chair and brushed bis hair back, where
that horrid FitzsimmOns had mussed it.
Those prizefghters are such rude.
( horrid things, anyway, and it served
/ Connie right for having anything TO DO
with them.
/ Percy Dewdrop and Harold Sappy
I say they won't have anything more to
do with Connie because he associated
with such rough men. and they are go
! ing to blackbau him at the next pink
/ tea party.
They shouldn't do it. however, for if
Mr. COUghlin got mixed up in tea
party he was in one last night, up to his
neck For a week he has been in it, He
was plastered all over "Quakertown" IN
4 blOOd-red ink. "Con Coughlin, the Irish
Giant" and the rest Of it said he was
going to fight Bob Fitzsimmons at tht
Washington Sporting club.
He made a liar out Of the printer VIII
set up the word fight" The opening
round Of as pretty a farce comedy a.
was ever handed out in the boxing line
saw only the end of the fight" Cough
Inns only excuse for being in the rims
at all was the fact that he had on (
pair of tights and had his hands GOV
cred with boxing gloves Even his. sec
Onds couldn't stand for this excuse 70
a whole round, and tossed a towel int
the ring. It's a waste of good pape
and ink to try and describe a fight tina
was as far from being fight as a Chi
naman is from being an angel.
Al couple of thousand of the kind o
n people who aaFe born every minute
pushed their good money into the DO.
Office for the pleasure Of seeing this:
Two long-lesged, longer arme
clothes props standing in the center o
a ring being instructed by a diminutivC
, bald-headed referee not to murder eac
other in the clinches. In other words
to break clean"
They agreed and backed away {
their corners.
T Then a bell rang.
. The legs and arms advanced to tn
center of the ring and started to sa1
the air.
A A long, much befrec1led left shot on
twisted a bit and hit the other bunc
of legs and arms in a likewise Ion
neck
Mr. CoughIin hit the floor.
: / They let you stay down ten second
: before you are counted out. COughH
took nine. He got up because he di
$ not know any better. The freckles cor
- nected with his jaw this time. Ths
- got rid of nine more seconds.
As CoughIin got up this time Fit
s chased him over into one corner ar
: hooked a shOrt-armed, inside right
= the side of his head. At this the lOr
d neck looked as if it might lose its tC
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
McMaster's Secret Sin.
(New York Press3


1t nearly broke MCCaleb's heart when
EIcNIaster was stricken with typhoid Not
that McCaleb loved McAIaster- but be-
cause 1IcNIasters having typhoid seemed
to DESTROY all McCalebs pet theories
about typhoid and how to prevent it.
AIcCaleb was a crank on typhoid. He
would talk by the hour about the danger
lurking IN Croton water. lie had talked
to AfcMaster on the subject until Me
Master was almost as bad as McCaleb.
Neither would drink plain. undistilled wa
ter if he were paid for it. Every drop.
had TO be boiled and boiled so long thar
every germ was sure TO have gone TO
. kingdom come.
Yet McAIaster had typhoid What is
more. he had fierce attack. 1t couldn't
have been worse had he been drinking
CrotOn. RamaDo. Catsldu. Adirondack
and every other kind of water just as il
came from the pipes or the ground.
McCaleb pondered on the mystery all
during the DAVIS when McMaster was
I lowering between life and death. When
MCAfaster was cOnvalesccnt. MCCaleb
Went 10 him. He must solve the nrid-
die.
Are YOU sure YOU drank nothing but
boiled water2" he asked.
II haven't tasted a drop Of any other
/ kind since I've known YOU" McMaster
answered in "a weak voice.
And no wine or beer or whisky
And YOU first boiled the water you
bathed in?'
! Eyes; lust as YOU directed
! McCaleb looked CrestfaHen. Tt was in
! eXplicable. For ten years he had preached
/ the gospel of boiled water. And now the
/ temule of his faith was threatened.
/ ct cannot understand it, he said.
! There must be something you have
] done. Think. man. think. Haven't you
/ been indisCreet in some Way2"
/ "ATcMaster racked his poor tired brain
/ For a long time ne could think of no
/ wayin which he had sinned- But at last
| the flush OF guilt came into his pallid
! checks McCaleb watching him like a
| hawk leaned over.
what was il? What was it?'' he de-
| manded
| "DO YOU think" McAIaster inquired in
| a whisper IL could have gotten st 10y
| washing my teeth with hydrant water?
| You don't mean 10 tell me you didn'
] boil the water before washing YOU
/ teeth?' asked the horror-strickeu Nc
| Caleb.
II didn't think it was necessary" tn,
| Invalid meelSly replied.
I And now YOU wonder how YOU gOi
/ typhoid" McCaleb exclaimed tri
umphantlv Don't ask me for sympathy
after ignoring my advice.
And then he nut on his hat and wen
ont. indignant vet happy His frienC
might have a relapse and die. but wna
Of that2 The theOry-the great theory
bad been Vindicated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
WlLCKEN'S STRUGGLE
WITH ABE MAJORS

The escaping prisoners did not use
Guard Wlcken as shield after the oOoL
leading from the south cell house mo
the ward north Of the south wail was
reached according to the statement mace
last night at the hospital By the injured
man.
After had been stuck up. p. ne said.
"and the cells OF the death row hau Deeh
unlocked the men marched me down
stairs ahead of them Just before we
reached the door leading from the cell
house into the ward. the shooting com
menced. When we reached the eoor. :
I'm the lead. Frank Naylor opened frs
uuon us. AS the bullets began to fly
bv Waddeu broke from the file. and cried
ITS all off. boys
at that the men broke and ran in all
directions 1 knew that Waddeu and
Majors each had guns, and 7 went after
them. DAYTON and Waddeu went up
the same ladder that Lynch and HaWOrth
had used i went up after them, Majors
following me. When i reached the top
of the wall DAYTON dropped over and
was shot by Guard briggs. ] caught
Waddell. and wrested his gun frOmb him
lust as he drODped over TO receive 4 bull
let from Driggs' gun.
"Bv that time Majors had reached the
TOP. and / engaged him In q fight. I sue
ceeded I'm getting his gun, and just as
threw him off the top of the wall Guare
briggs plugged him Ia the right arm. AT
that moment I got a bullet in the right
leg. and fell down on the walk which
Overhangs the wall on the outside Who
shot me I do not know The bullet came
from the rear. A moment before called
out to briggs not TO shoot me. IL was
dusk and L knew he could not tell who
was who from his distance.
THE first man 20 go over the wall was
HawOrth. He wSs followed by Lynch 2
second later. Before I reached the yarc
those two men. ConnOrs and Mullins
were already in the open space. Attei
the two condemned men had dropped ou'
of sight. COnnors ran I'D 10 the ladder
and moved il TO another point turthel
down the wall"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
NO MORE ARMoR.
Coach Stage Of Chicago University
Will Discard Paraphernalia.

University of Chicago football play
ers hereafter will not go upon the field
clad in armor. All headgear, nose and
shin guards have been discarded by the
orders of Coach Stage. who has the
hearty cooperation of the athletes,
who believe this step viii eliminate
much of the brutality of the game.
Instead of appearing on the field
swaddled like an Eskimo, the player
will be clothed slightly and will de-
pend upon his agility to escape broken
bones.
1t is thought the new order win re-
suit in a much faster and cleaner
game Under the old rule it was a
question of beef, simply a crushing out
of the opponent. Legs and brains Will
be the requisites hereafter. Discarded
along with the spiked shoes and face
guards will go the heavily quilted and
padded trousers and jerseys, the hip
pads and knee pillows, and the long
/ leather and canvas shin guards. Time
( and the new football rules are respOn-
sible for the change, Where a player
is afflicted with weaH ankles or has
/ suffered an injury in his head or nose
he viii be permitted to wear shields
/ but not otherwise. It is thought the
/ general public will be glad Of the
/ change, for it means snapper, faster
work on the gridirOn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11

Bishop A. G. briggs, enc Of the guards
killed DAYTON and wounded Wadueu
Turnkey u. NJ Janney IS believed 70 have
wounded Lynch. and beyond question ne
captured Connors, Guard David Hilton
CAPTURED Mullen. Either Driggs or Wan
Guard F. g Navlor gave Majors the
flesh wound in the arm. while Guard
David Wilcken threw Majors off the
wall
Naylor, the wall guard, had one of the
most perilOus posts of an. If not the most
DANGEROUS. For several minutes he was
the target of bullets from two revoiVers-
Coming out from the tower in response TO
the forced summons Of Wilcken, he was
fired ON from the. cell house. As the
prisoners rushed across the yard, firing,
he stood without fhnching, shooting
whenever he could without hurting
Wilcken. All this time he was in fun
view. making an excellent target lie
emutied his rifle and his revolver on tne
cOuvicts. Lynch was wounded on the
wall. as shown by the blood that flowed
where he dropped. NaylOr fired this shot
Jannev shot Lynch afterward, and me
man droDDed. He was left for dead, pul
later got uD and started away, this time
ESCAPING
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
MURRAY CITizsNS' TICKET.
Socialist Beats Present Mayor For
Principal Place.

Principal Place.
Joseph Stratton. socialist. was last
evening nominated for mayor on the
citizens ticket at the city convention held
at Murray in the old school mousse he
defeated G. i. Miller, the present ancumD-
ent. Democrat, by eight votes. a year
ago Mayor Miller received the nomlna-
ton over Stratton by three votes. The
remainder of the ticket follows:
RecOrder-William WarCpski, Republic
an. siEty-six votes against torty-LWO TOT
Joseph Hadley, Republican.
reasurer-William Bishop, Republican,
lightweight, against forty-two for John
Justice Of the Peace-J P. McOmie,
Democrat present incumbent ftty-tOuf.
against twenty for James DrinkWater
and twenty-five for Isaac Hadley, Dotn
Republicans.
Reynolds Cahoon, Republican, received
seveuty-eight votes. making him the CITY
councilman nominee for the long term
The following were elected to the two
year term: ri. i. Sanders. Democrat
sfxty-three votes, John Birch, Republic
an fifty-five votes; James Gilbert Re
publican, fifty-two; James stephens Re-
publican, fOrty-fiVe. Those who ran IoI
nomination against them We're John VIII
iiams. Republican, VINO received thirty
four votes. Emil Erickson, RepupAcan
thirty-three: Albert Shaw, Democrat
thirty three; Arthur White, Democrat
thirty-one: a Lee, Republican, twenty
| four: L. G.. Larson, Democrat, nineteen
| The convention was temporarily pre-
| sided over by Eugene Miller JOSEPH
and d. r. CahOOn. permanent secretary
/ The platform and resolutions declared
| for clean municipal affairs and necessary
! improvements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
SENATOR KEARRS WAS
TO CALL ON HAW0RTH

Had mick" Haworth not made his sue
cessful get away Friday afternoon
with Murderer Lynch iu the break at
the state pcnitentiary. ne would have
been visited yesterday by Senator
Thomas Hearus. The latter was 20 have
seen the condemned man at the request
81 Senators William Boyd Allison and
JOhnathan PreureSs Deliver of Iowa.
A few days ago Senator kearns re-
ceiVed letters from those two men ask
ing him c. ascertain the status of the
HawOrth case; advise them as to what
could be done towards getting the man
out Of the penitentiary, and to cali upon
the man and get his version OF the crime
OF which ne had been convicted. The
flight of the prisoner Obviated the me-
ccssity Of Senator kearns making the
trip 70 the peniteutiary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11
TAMMANY PUTS
UP STRONG FRONT
Mcclellan, Grout and FOrnes
Duly Notified.
SOME BR0OKLYa sOREHEAOS
FUSION CAMPAIGN OPENED
LAST NIGHT.


New York Oct. l0.-Cumptroller Ed
ward Crout announced today his inten-
ton to support George y. Mcclellan, the
Democratic candidate for mayor, in OPP
position to the reelection Of Mayor Low.
in answer to q question after he had fin
fshed his speech Of acceptance Of the
Democratic nomination for Comptroller
Mr. GrOut said.
every power that ] have
The notification Of Mr. Mcclellan MT
GrOUt and Charles v. tornes on lhell
nomination by the Democratic city con-
vention for the offices Of mayor comp
trOuer and president of the board OF
aldermen took place this attefn 9On. Ohiy
three of the seven Brooklyn members OF
the city notification committee attended
the meeting. emphasizing the revolt oi
the Kings county organization Seralol
McCarren was present. The fourt re
naming members OF the Kings county
delegati0n sent 10 Chairman Grain let
ter of protest in which, while they agre'
to support Colonel Mcclellan, they oe
clare their opposition TO Grout anC
Fornes and regret the combined folly
shocking lack of seltTrespect ana scan
dalOus indifference TO party principles
shown in the nomination Of two men wh'
are as much Of an offense TO homes
Democrats as they have quite recentll
declared Tammany- to be-"
Mr.. Mcclellan. In his speech of accept
ance declared hat il elected he shoul,
L
of the police. The laws, he said, shout
be enforced in the spirit in which the
were intended. with due regard Tor IN
/ rights of the citizens and not used as in
struments Of oppression and blaekman
I nor for the uuWarranIed curlallment q
/ individual liberty. Charles +. Murph
today took steps to carry the fight int
/ Hugh McLaughliu's territory by prepar
I ing to open Tammany headquarters j
/ Brooklyn.
The fusion campaign was opened j.
] Brooklyn tonight. Mayor Low, BOroug
/ President Swanstrom, City Chamberlai
! Gould and Frederick ". Hinrichs, nom
/ inee for comptroller, were the principa
/ speakers.
Mr.. Low declared that the present cor
/ test for municipal control would not b
/ considered lightly for it's involved 'ur
I compromising hostility TO Tamman
/ HALL" He said that the nature Of Tan
! many had not changed because CrOke
/ Is living off his profits in England.
The total of the first two days req:
| tration IN. Greater New York is 9O4,S
/ against 2S6. 66S last year