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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
for KiI,ing Hi. sweetheart

Washington. Jan. 31--John st.
Clair, alias Sinclair, negro, was
hanged at the District Jail, Friday,
for the murder of his sweetheart,
Daisy Maddox, eight months ago.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
Killed From Ambush.

While Henry Cummings and James
Turner were riding along the high
way near Mddlesboro, KY, they were
fired upon from ambush. Cummings
was killed and Turner was mortally
wounded. 1t is thought that one of
Cummings old enemies did the shoot
ing. Cummings came from Alabama,
where he was reputed to have slain
nine men. He had also served term
in the penitentiary in that state.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.
Judge Declares Himself.

City Judge Riley declared himself
from the bench at Lexington, Ky. A
half dozen had been brought before
him on the charge of crap shooting.
"How much money did you find, Of
ficer?" asked the Judge.
"Sixty-five cents. your honor" re-
piled Delaney.
"Did YOU see the dice?'' asked the
judge.
"Was no sbones,'" said Delaney.
"You are discharged said Judge
Riley. "Why do you policemen drag
a few negroes through the streets for
crap shooting and pass by the gam
bling houses that are wide open,
where the play is SO strong that the
click of the dice can be heard, and
allow the others to go scot free!
Child Eaten by N Bear.
Three black bears attacked the
children of mountaineer named
Parker, living on the road from None
to Arcadia, on the James river, IN
West Virginia, and killed and ate ms
two-year-old baby. Parker's three
children were playing in the edge or
the woods, only few hundred yards
from the house, when the bears made
their appearance. The animals were
bold, and the two older children ran
to the house, forgetful Of the baby.
| The father and mother rushed to save
the little one, but the bears had torn
the head from the body of the child
and were deyouring II.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05

Edmund w. Pettus was reelected
United States senator from Alabama
by the legislature of that state ir
Joint session.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
Killed over a Crap Game.

Samuel Wilson, negro. was shot
to death in fight over crar game
at Yazco City. Miss.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
Fatal wreck in Kentucky.

A disastrous wreck took place at
Fulton, Ky. A south-bound freight
was pulling out of the yards and ran
into an open switch, derailing the en-
CINE and four cars. The engine
turned over and fell down an en-
bankment. George Brown, who was
learning the road, was buried under
the engine and instantly killed. En-
gineer Fred Brink was badly scalded.
and Fireman George Hunt was slight
IL, hrlli ed
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-02-05
Defended Her Honor.

j. B. Crawford, horse trainer,
was shot and instantly killed at San
Antonio. Tex, by Mrs. Otto Schunke,
who defended her honor.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
Yov WILL BE ALL
SMILES AGAIN.
Forget Your stomach and You'll
Have santn Claus Face.
now TO DO IT.

II there Is one thing more than al 9TH
ers that will give man forlorn and
1rienuless appearance and make him NOR
bid ana cranky and disagreeable. that
his friends and become morsse and irrita-
bic. Eie Is so wrapped up In his own mis-
cry that he Is ineonsid erate of eve one
else. Relieved of this terrible and depress
ing ailment, he again becomes good fell
low and man among men.
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets are beyond
question the most effective and popular
remedy ever offered to the sufferers of this
terrible disease. he thousands and thou
SANDS of cures they have brought about
fully attest the truth of this statement
They are, above all. d natural remedy.
! Trey possess exactly the same properties
fluids of the stomach POSSESS and they
actually do the digestive work of tie
stomach and enable that organ to rest and
reeuperate and become sound and welt
They act in a mild natural manner and
cause no disturbance III the digestive or
gans. They prevent any fermentation OF
the food which causes sour stomach. In
fact. under their influence the subject for
gets that he has tomach and his result
ing eheerfulness presents a great contrast
to his former detection
,. Millions OF boxes CT Stuarts Dyspepsia
Tablets are sold annually and they are but
IN the dawn Of Their popuiarity. Every
mail brings letters of Thanksgiving from
grateful ones who have. been cured Of this
terrible disease. The following is one CT
hundreds received each week:
Key j. r, Hoag of Wynore, Seb..
writes: For six years have been
troubled with dyspepsia. Last fall i be-
came very much alarmed at some syrnp-
Tens OF heart trouble and came to believe
there was sy;npathesic relation between
the two diseases, or, rather, that thestom-
sen trouble was the cause Of the heart |
dlistnrhances ! hit upon Stuart's Dyspep-
STA. Tablets for a remedy and invested a |
dollar and a half for three boxes, which |
lasted me three months and ] can eat any |
Kind OF FOOD want and have good Wig /
oreas appetite. Although ] am n wears |
old, pew feel perfectly well and without |
being requested BY any one make THIS |
statement as a compliment TO the virtues
% ,Stuarrs Dyspepsia Tatiets.'' !
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
PROFESSOR F. E. LLOYD.

journment OF which the sections and socie-
ties will assemble for their scientific pro-
srammes in the rooms assigned to them.
The hour from 10 p. m. Is reserved
f f9ia, LUNCHEON. which will be served in the
badges show them to have registered for
any one of the accredited societies, and
the afternoon sessions will extend from
the entire body will 60 to the Exposition
grounds for luncheon. and an inspection of
the exhibits now In place. as guests of the
Worlds Fair.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
Monday evening the retiring president of
vancement of Science. Ira Remsen of the
Johns Hopkins University, will deliver an
address at the Odeon.
President d. S. Jordan of the Stanford
in the High School a auditorium Tuesday
evening on THE Resources of Our Seas"
Wednesday evening, President John II.
Long will deliver an address in room l02
mentation.'' and Thursday evening 1t is
expected that Professor f. Rutherford of
McGill University will give lecture. with
demonstrations. in the auditorium on "Ra-
dunn and Radio-Activfty."
The evening addresses. those Of the re-
firing vice presidents Of the sections of
the. association. which are to be given in
various rooms of the High School at 2
and o'clock Monday afternoon. and the
presidential addresses of the many af-
fi.iating societies, which are to be more
definitely announced in the general pro-
gramme that will be issued Monday morn
ing, will be of popular interest, and are
all open to the public, who are also In
vited to attend any of the regular ses-
sions in which they may be interested.
In addition to the open scientific ses-
sions of the week, several Of the socie-
ties will hold others, restricted to their
own members. On Monday night, af-
ter President Remsens address, the
botanists will go to the University Club
for an informal smoker.
The American Society of Naturalists and
affilia ted bodies will hold smoker at the
University Club after Doctor Jordan's
lecture on Tuesday night. Their annual
Inner, at the Mercantile Club, Wednes-
lay night. will be followed by an address
rom the retiring president, Professor
rrelease. Thursday night the Sigma XI
Society will hold It's annual dim
Ter at the Mercantile Club. to be fol-
owed by addresses by Doctor Jordon and
.ther distinguished members of the
Society.
Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Gar
Zen will give, at the Southern Hotel. the
annual banquet provided for in the will
" Henry Shaw, to which large num-
'er of the scientific guests of the city will
,e invited.
A busy week has been arranged and one
hat will be full Of interest for the citi-
ems of st. Louis who wish 10 keen in
ouch with the advances of science as well |
s for the professional men who are to |
meet here.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

later times who seek to introduce some
thing new and strange must also wait
and worry before 1t gets a start.
| Skipping the hundreds of inventions of
the last thousand years. we come to the
automobile. which in some respects Is the
latest of the really great innovations, the
latest of the epoch makers, so to speak,
because 1t does mark an epoch in road
transportation
We call it new thing, but 1t is not
As early as 1769 one hundred and thirty
four years ago. Joseph Cugnot. French
artillery officer. had a road wagon. In
operation transporting artillery
1t was not success, but 1t set an ex-
ample which its successors of to-day are
still prone to follow, to wit. It ran away,
and. butting into stone fence. wrecked
Itself. Rude road wagons were also de-
vised by Engtshmen a few years later.
and one made by Matthew Boulton. part
ner OF James Watt. frightened horses and
people just as others do in this day and
generation.
In the year 1751. eighteen years before
Susno.s Wason had appeared, Oliver
Evans was born at or near the little town
OF Newport, In the little Sthte OF Della
ware.
divers father and mother. were thrifty
people OF the plain sort. who wanted their
boy to become farntr. and so he was
apprenticed. hut divers mimi was on
mechanics. especially en- eng mes that
foHid take tie places OF h0rses In draw
ing wagons. and he lest the farm and
went home to potter abou. a Blacksmith
shop just around the corner from his
hoiiss ;,
In dine, by the aid of the biacr. imith.
he had constructed an engine mo1sl that
worked. hot he had no money. AHA he
now began 10 feel The burden of tie poor
inventor.
sTRuGGL ED ALONG
WITHOUT MONEY.
he knew what he could do, what lie had
done. but there was no man With money
who thought as Oliver did. and re s.rug-
gled along Us the moneyless must.
lie did not confine himself exclusively 10
steam engines OF road wa S6as. biit in
, vented, among other things, a process fer
.nat Manufacture, and made him Il little |
money, which he spent at once on dtIel-
oping his other inventions.
{ lie also made the first high pressure en- |
comen and the Watt engine.
AT ls-that is, In If69 Cugnot's year- he |
went 10 Philadelphia as a Wheelwrixhf's
apprentice. Philadelphia was no more /
7 apid In those days than IL Is rcurtad 10 /
ee now, and Evans did not get on very |
In some mysterious manner he managed I
10 exc out an existence. and even to mar
~, but he could not get his horseless car
rage on the road. nor could he prevail
upon capltaiists to assist him IN building /
7 railroad from Philadelphia 10 New
fork-one of the great dreams of his life. /
Blind as the world was. this struFalina |
inventor and visionary saw the true Iirhi
ihead, and of 1t he wrote to newspaper:
The time VIII come when people win
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
PROFESSOR EDWARD HART.

The Mecca of scientists OF the United
States will be st. Louis during the coming
week. when the American Association
for the Advancement of Science will be in
session, with the bodies affiliated with it.
Many have already arrived and the air
about the hotel Hobbies IS trying to accus-
tom itself to the new kind of talk No
discussion Of prices or shop talk can be
heard among the groups of quietly at
tired men with brows creased from try
ing to look into the inwardness of things.
Their speech is of radium. ions, corpus
cies. waves of various kinds and the
latest work of those who daily produce
wonders in their laboratories. the least OF
which would have sent them 10 the faggot
and the stake had they been few CEN
This VIII be the only general meeting of
xaIcefnent of Science, the American So
ciety of Naturalists and nearly.
tmenty national professional sclen-
ton with them. There will be an at
tendance of rot far from / 600 of the most
eeisunsushed investigators and science
q. Howard, the permanent secretary of
the association. whose office in the South
ern Hotel, has been a scene of activity
SINCE nc, MS arrival Christmas night.
The distinguished guests who are now
nirlSing decided on ST. Louis as their
meeting place for 1903 at a, similar meeting
held IN washington q year ago, and their
coming has been enthusiastically looked
forward to since the summer of 1901
when.. at their Denver meeting, they
were invited to meet here in 19O3-at that
time supposed TO be the Exposition year
since their decision ives reached, plans
LOT their reception and accommodation |
nave Deem forming. and these have been |
energeIc3liy pushed since the opening of |
"a.
~ SLoCAL COMMITTEE.
Inc LEGAL arrangements are in the hands |
OF committee Of which David, r. Fran !
els Isl honorary president and Professor |
Langsdorf OF Washington University is |
secrefary. The local committee compris-
es more than 100 prominent citizens, |
among whom the membership, of the as |
Eociauon is Represented by Edward NAL /
Hnckrodt. Robert Moore. Professors Wood
ward. Nipher, Langsdof and JTrelease.
The meetings are to be held in the Gen.
trail High School on Grand avenue, which |,
mas been adapted to this use by changes |
IN the seating arrangements and the in /
stallation of local mail telegraph, teie-
phone and express offices.
. Rooms proportionate to their needs have
been assigned to the various societies and
the sections into which the American As
ISOLATION resolves itself for its meetings.
Beginning with Monday and extending
through Friday, the daily programme will
consist of a short general business ses-
sion in the auditorium of the High School
at 10 o'clock in the morning, on the adj
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
HAMBURG SHIPS, NEW PoRr.
After July the Big LINERS VIII
Touch at Dover.

New York Dec. ea-The Hamburg
American Line. having decided to mako
Dover. England. port Of call after July,
the Deutschland. Fuerst Bismarck. AN
guste Victoria, Moltke and Butcher, from
New York eastbound. will call at Ply
mouth and Cherbourg on the way to
Hamburg, but on the way from Hamburg
westward they win touch at Dover and
Cherbourg. -
The Pennsylvania, Patricia, Pretoria
and Graf Waldersee from New York east
bound will call at Dover on the way to
westward they will touch at Boulogne
and Dover on the way to New York. The
new Admiralty pier at Dover, at which all
these twfn-screw steamers will dock. has
direct connection by rail with London.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
ABE BUzzARD SENT TO PRISON
Outlaw Who Served Thirty Years
Again Punished.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
2 Reading, Pa, Dec. 9.-Judge Endlich
sentenced Abe Buzzard, the notorious out
law of the Welsh Mountains. to eight
years imprisonment in the Eastern Peni-
Tertiary and $3.50 fine for robbing farmers
Of this and Lancaster counties and carry
ing concealed deadly weapons.
Although Buzzard has already served
thirty years in prison, he received the YER
dict with apparent indifference.
It Is estimated by the police that Bug
gard stole 100 to $50 chickens every week
for O year.
Buzzard had a coop Of finest breeds at
his home here. where twenty-one turkeys
and four Spanish gamecocks and hun
dreds of chickens were found.
Buzzard trafflcked In poultry, but when
he was suspected OF familiarity with hen
roosts the farmers were afraid to inter-
fere.
The prisoner was the leader of the Bug
card gang" which has terroized the farm
ers for nearly fifty years.
In the height of its career the gang In
cluded the four Buzzards-Abe. Ike, Mart
and John-and three ne;ghbofs. In the
Businesses of the Welsh Mountains they
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

attack day and night.
But the police finally broke I'D the gam.
and Abe was sent to the PeuitenfiarS
Upon his release Buxxard loudly pro-
claimed that he had reformed. He became
an ttinerant preacher. living upon such
funds as he could collect from thozo to
whom he told the story Of bis ihe
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
SCIENTISTS OF WIDE RENOWN
ARE ASSEMBLING IN LOU|S

Meeting of the the Advancement Sci
Brings the City Those Who Deep the MISTER
les of Nature and Whose Laboratory the Bas
~ for the Mental Progress of Mankind.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

knows nothing, and evidently cares less.
Its ways are the ways Of a century gone
BON Marche, Madame; Bon Marchef'
Beneath its wide-spreadsng roof the Babel
Of strange tongues still goes on. and above
the din Of human voices and the shuttle OF
human feet there still rises the shrtll pro-
test OF countless tethered fowl, just as in
the days SO long since gone.
A visit to the French Market Is really
not unlike taking a stroll into the Eight
zenith Century.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
OLIVER EVANS INVENTED
FIRST H0RSELESS WAGON
BE Dreamed of Twenty Miles Hour Hundred Years Ago
Died in Poverty, and His Grave Is Still Unmarked

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The world moves slowly until it gets
good start, and then II goes with whiz.
Which may be the reason why the world
has gone ahead faster and further during
the last six thousand years than 1t did
during the previous six million years of
It's existence
As the Creator of the world had to
wait. and no doubt worry. long. long
time before it became fairly started. it
Is not TO be wondered at that men in
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

oEE THOUSAND PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS WILL A71E,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

Marietta. O.. Dec. S-The finest busil
ness block in Marietta. that Of the First
national Bank. was to-day destroyed by
Loss Sl15.000.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MARKET
IN "A TWENTIETH CENTURY CITY.

Chehes Its Old French Quarter Where Stalls Are
Stacked With Deicaces From Every Clme-Quaint Customs
of Unique observation-disclosures Must Get Up Early to Out
wit Gaseous
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

Imported Garments at Less Than Half
The balance of our stock of highc Coats and
Costumes, imported direct, has been reduced to
less than half former prices An unusual CD.
portunty to secure Paris and Berlin evening
outfits at less than European prices
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21

been denied by another message OF
later date There II much reason "a
believe. now. that that the little
Nome steamer has met with some ssri.
Gus mishap II she has not beer
wrecked. The fact that the steamer
Excelsior reports having picked up
one Of the Diseoyerys lie RATS At sea
on her voyage down from Valdez. adds
20 the fears felt Tor the overdue vessel.
The star. prior to the false report
from Sitka, published story 70 the
effect that Indians bad brought into
Valdez 4 report that large vessel had
gone on the rocks at the western end
% the Gulf u Alaska. Summing uu
the meager Information At hard. u APP
ps ars probable. at least that the Dis
ceverY was the vessel seen on the
rocks
IL the unlucky vessel was the Dis.
coverY, II may be that no lives we're
lost. and that the 20 Or % souls aboard
her were saved.
The fact that one q her ltfe RATS
was picked up need not be taken con-
ciusivsly that the Discovery II
wrecked. as no doubt seas % tremend-
Gus proportions swept over the vessel
and Il Is not AZ all unlikely that one
Of the life RATS may have been car
rled away Great reliance IL placed 90
Capt John McGrafh. who. although an
extremely young man. IL one u the
ablest sea captains on the coast.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21
The Stage


Jefferson De Angels. In THE
ToreA00r.' will be az the Grand on
Sunday and the three following
nights. An admirable company. eK-
cepti0nally strong. has scored an
emphatic hit. THE Toreadorr II a
clever musical comedy IL has a 81 /.
pcfb chorus Of pretty girls AMI q
magnificent mounting Lillian In
gliah, Edgar Norton. william Blais-
dell, William Frederick. Norma Bell,
Edna furd, Bertha Ricci and AdlBe
Bowler contribute to the success OF
the opera.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21

cttEYENND WE. Nov. 80
Tom Horn waa hanged at tt,e2
o'cioek this morning. in the county
iah for the murder 90 White MIX
ell Seen after 10 O'Clock this MORN
ms, Horn seemed Go realise that al
hopes Of his friends securing hts
feleasss We're gene. tie sent for his
FORMER employer, cattle man Mani
ed Cohlc, with whom he had long.
private talk. lie showed no fear,
and protested his iuuarenEe Go Coble
On the near approach of the hour
Of his doom, he was led Co the seaf=
field. After the final arrangements
Ter the hanging had been made. md
Just before the tran was sprung he
was asked IL he had anything to say.
In a brief statement he again uros
tested hts Innocence. Then the black
cap was put over his head. the trap
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21

20 kill him.
Aftef he had completed hts state
unsrt tfas was Atrappsd IN the chair
and - uut ~ the yard facing the
door Of the blacksmith shop. where
the ftfieueu were concealed. and
with his back TO the prison wall
The six guards were hidden behind
"a screen. with an opening just large
enough FOE them 70 take careful aim
al the condemned man. SIX rifles
exactly alike ln appearance were
then laid before them. and each
rnau took a gun. All but ono OF the
rifles we're loaded with steel Jacket
bullets. one wnF loaded with a
blank In this way II WAS imroHs
sibls for the guards to know which
dfsw the blank. and thus which %
thsm killed the condemned man.
When all was ready the guards
we're given the word "a fire. The
kik guns were discharged. almost
simultaneously. and MoFfsuson sunk
IA hta chair dead.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21
RAILROAD ACROSS ARCTIC CIRCLE

IN Sweden. traverseE the scandina-
Wan peninsula and after crossing
the Arctic circle. passes into cold but
picturesque Lapland- The route Will
undoubtedly be popular with tour
lists Ia summer. but rates OF fare
will be high.
The first through train. known as
the Boreai Express" has just been
iuauzurated by King Oscar, OF Nor
way-Sweden. at Bootbia.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21

turned an indictment against United
States senator Dietrich. and which Is
investigating other charges. said 10 be
even more startling than the one al
ready preferred against the Nebraska
senator
District Attorney Summers viii also
have charge q the prosecution - the
existing case against Senator Dietrich.
aud Il IL stated that President Roose-
welt wants "a discuss all Of the cases
aud charges with him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21

STOCKHOLM. Sweden. The con-
seas
Trains are now running across the
Artic circle and the line Will soon
40 as close 10 the frozen ocean Of
the north a. business and popula-
iion will warrant.
The new railroad starts az Boothia.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-21
MURDERER TOM
HORN MEETS
DEATH CALMLY
Cowboy Convicted Of kiIIig Willie Nickel
Is Hanged, But Dies Protesting His In
nocence-.- Greai Show of Arms Routed
Plans TO Deliver Condemned Man

was sprung and Tom Horn WIS a
few minutes later cut down and.
pronounced dead.
Tho rreat show IT force and arms
by the authorities yesterday and last
uiEht completely routed ail the plans
Of Horns friends to rush the iail
and Hibernate the condemned man
The iall WIS crowded with deputies
and the entire iHii building WAS sur
rounded by state troops. Who were
known 10 have ball cartridges In
their guns and orders to XIII IN ease
There WIS disturbance, A. "A re-
sult there was not even the slight
est show of an attempt to Interfere
with the authorities by Horns
friends.
Horn last niEht agreed Co see a
priest. aud before hls death iH said
To have accepted the Christian re-
ligian.