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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-01-30

It's easy for the average man to
make bad break.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-01-30

BY doing duty we learn to do it,
E. B. Pusey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
INSANE MAN STAYS FAMILY
A MISSOURI FARMER LOCKS
HIRED MAN IN BEDROOM.
Then Shoots His Wife to Death,
Kills His Children and Finally
Commits Suicide.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEDINA, Mo. June 2.-After locking
his hired man in bedroom so that there
fully laid plans Bert McMillen. a farmer
OF this place. shot his wife to death last
night. then killed his two children and
finally committed suicide.
McMillen and the farmland returned
together from their work in the field yes
terday The farmland went to his room
TO wash, and his employer followed him
as Tar as the door. which he closed and
locked behind the man. Then he went
to his own room. loaded his revolver and
went down stairs. where his wife was at
Work preparing dinner The farmer fired
three shots at her. none of which took
erect The woman then ran into the ward
at the side of the house and here her
husband fired four more shots. killing her
Too Frightened to Interfere.
second farmland. who had been at
work on a distant part of the farm re
turned In time to see his employer shoot
his wife in the yard. but the man was
too frightened to interfere He ran to tho
house of the nearest neighbor however
and telephoned to the sheriff who lives
only a short distance away
When the sheriff arrived he found the
two children lying dead on the floor of
the dining room. while in an adjoining
bedroom was the body of the murderer
his clothing burned from his body He
had apparently tried to set fire TO the
house before shooting himself No rea-
son can be assigned for the deed. and the
sheriff believes that McMillen was insane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
VETERAN KILLS HIMSELF.
New York Lawyer Made Careful
Preparations for Death.

NEW YORK. June @.-Tired of life after
seventy Years Anthony B. Porter. senior
member OF the law firm of Porter &; Kill
vert. killed himself in his Office today by
inhaIing chloroform. He had made care
ful preparations for his death, and wrote
letter to a nephew requesting him to
take charge of all his affairs and TO have
his body cremated.
ON table in the Office where Porter
had killed himself was found no'e ask
ing that several persons be notified of his
death One of these was Mrs. Jennie r
Ieet iii Jefferson avenue. Scranton IA
Mr. Porter was q native of Georgia and
formerly lived in Chicago. He served in
the Union army during the civil war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
FRACAS ON THE MAURITANIA
SEQUEL TO CARD GAMBLING ON
THE OCEAN LINER
General Melee Started in Smoking
Room. Halted and Was Renewed.
Arrests at Gangplank.

Special Dispa tch to The Star.
NEW YORK. June 2-In a battle which
started in the smoking room of the giant
turbine steamship Mauretania and was
subsequently carried to the promenade
deck. four passengers on the Cunarder.
which landed here today. were badly used
up and detectives We're called to the YES
sci when she docked to arrest three men
whom persons on board accused of having
cheated at cards.
The fracas started Sunday night. when
d demand was made by one Of the alleged
card sharpers on Eric Thornton of Ant
werp for payment after Thornton had
lost so in cash and had given the man
note for $500 in addition. The demand
was made In such an insulting tone that
Mr. Thornton Immediately resented 1t.
and hot words were interchanged. which
led to the throwing of glassful of BRAN
dy and soda into the face of one of the
men suspected of unfair play.
The gambler retaliated by hurting
heavy brass cuspidor at Thornton's head,
and then the entire party went to the
deck, two men who had previously been
under suspicion accompanying the card
player. and George c. L. Perkins. Cam
Portland Ore. and Ernest Graham Of
Chicago accompanying Thornton. to see
that he got fair play.
Brass Knuckles Used.
When the figh, started it was alleged by
Mr. McLeay that brass knuckles were
used and Perkins, who has a reputation
In his own country as an amateur pugi-
list. promptly sailed into the three men
who were alleged to have been mixed up
In the crooked deals and trounced all OF
them badly. Perkins was pretty we'll used
up In the fray. was also Mr.. Thornton.
The fight was halted. and the four men
who had stood together returned to the
smoking room Later the three men un-
der suspicion entered again and the fracas
was renewed, so that the first. second
and third officers of the ship and a num-
ber of stewards had to be summoned to
disentangle the pile of struggling men.
Capt. Pritchard Immediately ordered the
combatants to their staterooms and kept
the three men who were accused by the
quartet in their rooms at the same time
notifying the company's offices here by
wireless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
11OL10L0 10 z301Sz11UNLO.
Present Bond of $4,000 Will Be
Acceptable to Court.

Edwin 5. Holmes. jr.. former associate
statistician Of the Department of Agri-
culture, against whom indictments for
alleged conspiracy with Theodore H.
Price. +. 4. Peckham and Moses Haas
al, OF New York. were recently returned.
will be arraigned next Friday before
Justice Stafford in Crimina! Court No
Holmes will plead NOT guilty IL is un-
derstood the government will consent to
his release on the $4,000 bail bond under
whIch he is now at liberty awaiting a re-
trial 81 the old charges against him
Special Assistant United States Attorney
Adkins did not go 10 New York last night
a reported He sent the bench warrants
by mail and expects them 10 be served on
Price. Peckham and Haas today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
ASKED TO REMAIN HERE.
Representative Hepburn Will Super
wise Construction Work.

Speaker Cannon. being compelled to
be away from Washington practically
all OF the recess of Congress, has re-
quested Representative Hepburn. his as
sociate on the commission created by
law TO supervise the construction of the
House Office building and TO govern its
occupancy and management. and con-
struction of the great heating. lighting
and power plant for the buildings OF
Congress. TO remain in Washington as
much Of the time as possible before the
reasSembling OF Congress. in order TO
determine promptly the many questions
that Will arise and to expedite IS much
as possible the great amount OF con
struct!on work to be done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
SHIP BROKE IN TWO.
Last of the Stranded Peter Rickmers.
Beachcomb bers Busy.

NE.W YORk. June Tine Peter Rick
ners. German full-rigsed ship which
ran ashore on the Long Island coast sew
eral weeks ago, broke in two late last
night and the remainder of her cargo OF
case oil was swept out 10 sea Only \
par, or the SHIPS bow is now visible. The
incoming tide brought IN many cases Of
oil ard heachcombe-s made IA profitable
naGl yesterday.
They were 80 numerous tha, the crew
of vreckers had difficulty IN saving The
remnants Of he cargo Deputy sheriffs
are now guarding salvage valued AZ S;5 ;
c00 Frustrated on shore the beach
ccmbers sailed out beyond the three-mile
lin1i; and caught many drifting cases of
oil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
20 Boarders in New York
Boarding House in Danger.
ONE JUMPED TO HER DEATH
Windows Crowded With Lodgers
Begging to Be Saved.
MEANS OF ESCAPE CUT OFF
Firemen's Heroic Efforts to Save the
women-Blaze Started in Coal
Bin in Cellar.

NEW YORK, June Fire. starting IN
the basement of Mrs. Mary Mooney
boarding house in West :'Oth street early
TODAY. completely cut off the escape OF
Mrs MONEYS twenty boarders, and When
tho fremen came one young woman had
fallen or thrown herself from the roof
to the pavement and was dead. several
others were severely burned and the up
per windows. front and rear. were crowd
ed with men and women begging to be
saved.
The dead woman is Miss Marie Belle
traine. who occupied a hall room on the
top floor.
Mrs. Mary Haggerty, who was burned
about the hands. face and body and over
come by smoke. is in a critical condition.
The fire started in a coal bin in the eel
lar. 1t mounted through the hall and
stairs, and when the awakened boarders
tried to get to the street they were
driven back Some of them went to the
rooms on the upper floors and some to
the roof. AS the first fire company gall
loped UP Miss Beletraine. In her night
clothing. appeared on the roof and plunged
over the coping. One of her feet caught
in the half-oren shutters. and for an In
stant the womans body dangled In space
Then she fell on her head to the street
and was killed.
No Fire Escapes.
AS there were no fire escapes and the
blaze cut of exit by the Railways, flremen
were sent up through an adjoining build
Ing, whence they crossed to the roof Of
the burning house. Mrs. George Mieklo was
confused by the smoke and was unable
to reach the roof. Fire Truck Captain
Sweeney saw her at a window on the
top floor. and tying rope to the chimney
lowered himself to the window. whence
the other firemen drew her and the cap
tain to the roof.
Mrs. Mooney tried to get down the
stairs and finding them ablaze turned
and went to the roof She was burned
while on the stairs leading from the first
to the second floor. Lieut.. Reilly tied a
wet cloth over his face and entered the
burning house through scuttle from the
room. Feeling his way through the heavy
smoke from room to roonH he stumbled
upon Mrs Haggerty in the third-floor
front room. She had fallen and then
crawled part way under the bed. seeking
shelter from the fumes. and then fainted
Lieut.. Reilly carried her to the roof and
thence TO the street.
The fire was quickly extinguished with
81 600 damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Horse Car Line Abandoned.

NEW YORK. June 2.-The old Fulton
street horse car line in the down town
district is no more. The five ancient
cars, all that remained Of the equipment.
have been withdrawn. The line had been
a heavy loser in recent years and the re-
ceivers of the New York City Re cilroad
Company which owns the Fulton rect
line equipment decided upon the dis, on
tinuance. They withdrew the cars and
horses. leaving TO holders of 500 nlO Full
ton Street Railroad Company bonds only
a few blocks of trackage with no cars
to operate upon il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
BUSY DAY FOR CHURcHMEN.
Ten Important Reports for Presby-
terians at Pittsburg.

PITTSBCRG. June To-day is one of
the busiest experienced by the delegates
attending the general conference and semi
centennial celebration of the United Pres
byterian Church. Over ten important re-
ports are scheduled for discussion. Among
them are home missions. church exten-
sion. judiciary. freedman's missions.
psalmody. appropriations. and the work
of the young peoples society and mems
movement.
The report on closer relations with the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States viii also be made some time during
the day. The first business of the morn
ing session was the presentation of the
report OH home missions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Col. T. n. Carter Dead,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va. June Col. Thomas
II. Carter seventy-seven years old. for
many years bursar at the University OF
Virginia father of Mrs. H. Rozier Du-
laney OF Washington and L. Spencer Car
ter - Baltimore. died today at the home
Of his son-in-law. Capt Robert f. Lee, Jr.,
III King William county He was dis
tinguished Confederate soldier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
ITALIANS sToRMED DOORS.
Riot Call to Quell Disturbance Over
Bank Failure.

dred infuriated Italians stormed the
closed doors of the private banking house
of Gaetano Lolita, on Orange street. to-
day, and had it not been for police inter-
ference would have gained an entrance.
The doors Of the bank failed to open at
the accustomed time this morning. when
the bank was surrounded by Italians.
Rumor flew fast and women and men
flocked to the place where they had de-
posted their savings.
The crowd threatened to break in the
doors and a riot call was turned in. A
squad of police soon arrived and drove
back the excited Italians. Lolita. it is
said. cannot be found. The total deposits
do not amount to more than $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Tennessee Post Office Robbed.

MARYVILLE. Tenn. June Safe
blowers blew the safe and robbed the post
office here early today. securing SSH l5 in
cash and stamps worth $500 They
escaped supposedly toward the Chihowie
mount aims. Bloodhounds are on the trail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
SCORE OF RESIDENCES BURNED.
Fire in East Aurora, N. T., Takes the
Opera House.

BUFFALO. y. Y. June 3 Fire which
broke out in the Switzers Bakery at East
Aurora early today consumed a score
of residences and business places before
the flames were checked. Morris Graf
baker. was terribly burned and NAV
die.
Among the buildings destroyed was the
opera house. the Model Pharmacy and the
Tackab berry building in which was locate ed
the lodge rooms of he Odd Fellows. The
loss is estimated at $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
John Redmond's Daughter Engaged.

LONDON, June o.-The engagement is
announced Of DR.. Power of New York
to the eldest daughter of John Z Red
noud. MP The wedding will take place
in July. The members of the Irish party.
of which Mr.. Redmond IS leader. will pre-
sent the bride with handsome wedding
sit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Danish Steamer Grounded.

RLYTH England. June o.--The Danish
steamer Louisiana. from Stattin for Bos-
ton. wen, ashore in Sea,on Sluice last
night during thick fog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
NO TIME TO Be LOST
Plans to Acquire Five Blocks
East of White Lot.
CITE FOR NEW BUILDING
Prompt Action to Be Taken by Sec
retary Cortelyou.
OWNERS TO SUBMIT PRICES
If Demands Are Too High Con-
demnation Proceedings VIII Be
Instituted.
OWNERS TO SUBMIT PRICES

Within a few days the Secretary OF the
Treasury will probably take the first steps
toward acquiring for the government the
title TO the five blocks bounded by Penn
sylvania avenue the Nall and l4th and
18th streets northwest. which are named
for purchase in the omnibus public build
ings act. and for which S2.Do.o0 is ap-
propriated in the general deficiency act
both being measures passed in the last
hours of Congress. No time will be lost
in carrying out the directions of Con-
gress and If all goes we'll there is every
reason to believe that before July l. 1909
rolls around these squares will belong to
Uncle Sam.
The public buildings act stipulates
that they shall ultimately be used for
the accommodation of the Departments Of
State Justice and Commerce and Labor.
There is no legislation whatever on the
subject of the building or buildings to be
erected some day on the site. This 10 a
matter for the future. perhaps for the
next session Of Congress. The legislators
on the hill have way of doing one thing
at time.
Estimate by Commissioners.
In view of the fact that the appropria-
ton for the purchase of the five blocks is
So 800 oOp. and the District Commissioners
have estimated the lowest purchase
price of these identical blocks at 81
aS5, CO., there may be hitch in the pro-
ceedings that will delay the purchase for
q year. Congress will make UP the de-
ficiency. If one should ultimately exist.
The following is from the Commits
sioners' estimates submitted to the Senate
in RESPONSE to a resolution this spring.
and also transmitted to the Secretary of
the Treasury in response to q request
sent yesterday:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02
Estimate by Commissioners.

Section 80 of the public buildings act.
which covers this item. is so wOrded that
the Secretary of the Treasury Is likely to
hold that he cannot acquire any portion
of the five blocks unless the money avail
able will buy the entire site described by
Congress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-02

Motion picture shows and the five-cent
theater shows we're characterized as gen
orally demoralizing and the practice of
employing women clerks In liquor stores
was also scored at conference today
between the board of Commissioners and
members of the Womens Interdenomina-
tional Missionary Union Of Washington.
Rev Zed Copp. in speaking for the mem
bers of the union declared that Is per
cent of the motion picture shows are de-
moralizing and filed with vile ideas of
life and tend to cheaper crime and pro-
duce a vicious life.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
After the Shysters.

One the most contemplate
things to be found is the brow
beating of a witness CO a man on
trial by some legal shyster. Often
if he does uot get the answer he
wants to some %senseless question
he will below like a bull at
the witness and speak as no
decent man would speak to
another. Why judges and mag
istrates will allow la pettifogger
to take advantage of the protec-
ton of the court to speak as they
do to witnesses and people Oh trial
Is more than we a understand.
And the contempt of the world for
n who will take advantage of
such protection to say what he
would not dare say away from the
court, is not concealed .-Assc-
clate Reformed Presbyterian.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Look Out for the Germs.

A man who has taken the trou
BILE to count 'em tells us that 1884,
900 bacteria roost comfortably on
each 81 pill after the currency has
been circulating freely for a year
or 80. So if you have $50 in your
pocket you are probably carrying
around about 5000, 900 germs. Yet
there are men brave enough to face
this terrible risk just for the sake
of having a roll of greenbacks. 1t
simply shows what dangers man
mill %undergofor money.
Most of US, however, are not in
serious danger. We do not dis
credit the man who tells us the
germs are on the bills. He is a
personal friend of the germs and
has seen them at home, right on
Currency street. But many of us
Q a large amount of paper mon
ey 90 seldom that we don't mind
feeling the bacteria wriggling
around on it for a little while.
For we generally spend before
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
On Wrong Trail.

Sheriff Summers spent two hours
in Salisbury last night in cosul
tation with Conductor Magnes and
the Pullman car on No. IS last
Saturday night from which a it
was thought that the dead child
found beside the railroad Sunday
had been thrown. The CONDUCTOR
said he had heard of the affair in
Chattanooga and immediately re-
called that there was not a single
suspicious character on his car and
there was no evidence that birth
occurred on the train. A railway
detective who was on No. 35 Sat-
urday night looking after other
matters also says he saw no sus-
plelous person on the train
Therefore the theory that the
new born babe was thrown from
train receives a knockout blow
StatesvIlle Landmark.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04

Default having been made in the pay
ment of the debt secured by a certain
mortgage deed of trust executed by
Walter e.. Montgomery to F. ]. Rose
mar on the 22nd day of October, 1907,
and duly regi<tered in book.31, page
522, of Rowan county Record of Mort
cages, pursuant to the provisions of
said mortgage the undersigned will
sell at public sale to the highest bidder
for cash, at the court house door in
Salisbury, North Carolina, on
Monday, the 9TH day Of December, 1908.
at II O'Clock m, tie following proper
ty:
Beginning at a stake in the. West
edge of the uew Concord road fifty and
one-third feet from the southwest
stone corner of the intersection of
Wharton street and said road. and runs
thence south two and three-fourth e.
erees EAST with the the west edge of
said aoad fifty and one-third feet to a
stake in west ed5e of said road, thence
south 80 degrees west 1876 feet, to a
stake, thence north 10 degrees west SO
feet to Il stake, thence north 80 de-
degrees east 143 feet to the beginning;
same being lot No. SO on the Southern
Loan & Trust Company's may of prop
erty adjoining the Great South Ward
of the city of Salisbury. See Rowan
county Record of Deeds. book 100, page
81, and book 113, page 80.
This the End day of November. 1908.
E. j. RosEMAN, trustee
B. B. MILLER, attorney
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Got Clothes and Thief.

Earle Thompson had on
to visit Concord last week and
while there had a very unusual
experience. While passing along
the street his attention was at
tracted by seeing two negroes en-
gage in a fight. He went to the
scene of the disturbance and dis.
covered the combatants were
mangling each other in q quarrel
over a suit of clothes of his, which
had been stolen from a pressing
club here. He arrested one of
the negroes and later brought him
to Salisbury and delivered to an
officer. The negro, whose name
is Arthur Banks, was tried in the
mayors court aud sent to jail in
default of bond, to await the &C
ton of the Superior court.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
The Mother and Her Child.

Ask the mother who holds in her
arms her boy, what her ideal is
concernig him, and she will tell
you that you she desires that his
heart may be SO pure that it could
be laid upon a pillow and not
leave a stain ; that his ambition be
so holy that it could be whispered
in all angels ear; and that his life
may be so clean that his mother,
his sister, his wife, his child, could
read a record of its every thought
and act without a blush. But ask
her if she will require this p%erfec:
ton in her son before she showers
her love upon him, and she will
answer, "No" She will tell you
that she will make him as good as
she can that she will follow his
his footsteps with a daily prayer;
that in whatever land he wanders
her blessing will abide with him;
and that when he dies she'll hope,
hope, yet hope that the world will
DO better that he has lived. This
is all that she can do. All that
any of us can do for ourselves or
for others is the best that oppor-
tunity and circumstances permit.
W. J. Bryan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
the gems have :ime to bite us.
Baltimore Sun.
Is II Straight Goods?

1t is stated that Sam Massey,
the negro now under sentence of
death for an assault upon Lucy
Houser, is doing the crazy stunt.
1t may be genuine or it may be
assumed but all the same Sam sees
things in his cell Ill the jail. He
is said to be afraid to lie down at
night because Lucy Houser calls
around and amuses herself by
sticking his body full of pins.
Those who know him best and
those who have observed him
closely are of the opinion that he
Is very weak mentally. A petit
ton has been sent to the governor
asking a Communication of his SEN
tence on this ground.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04

It isn't so difficult to strengthen
o weak Stomach if one goes at it
correctly. This is true of the
Heart and Kidneys. The old
fashioned way of dosing the Stom-
ach or stimulating the Heart or
Kidneys Is surely wrongl DR..
Shoop first pointed out this error.
go to the weak or ailing nerves
of these organs" said he. Each
inside organ has its controlling or
''inside nerve" When these
nerves fail then those organs must
falter. This vital truth is lead
ing druggists everywhere to DIS
pense and recommend DR.. Shops
Restorative. A few days test will
surely tell Sold by C%ornelison
& Cook.