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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
MISSOURI CROP. REPORT.
Corn Yield Has Been Shortened by
the Drought.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Columbia. Mo. Aug. 1.-THE crop report
Of the United States Department of Agri-
culture Climate and Crop Bulletin of the
Weather Bureau, Missouri Section, for the
week ending August Is, 1900, issued to-day,
says:
The week Just closed has been another
week OF high temperature, hot sun and dry
ing winds. with no measurable amount Of
precipitation up to Saturday noon, except
in a few localities in the extreme north
on August 8.
During Saturday evening light showers
fell In a few OF the northern counties. and
showers also occurred in some sections
during Sunday night. but appear to nave
been rather scattered. In q few counties
corn has not yet been injured by the
drought and is In good condition. but over
the greater portion of the State the crop
lS reported shortened one-tenth to one
third. and In some localities the loss is es-
tmated at one-half. Late corn has been
damage much more than early. In many
counties 1t now promises little more than
half a crop. and in a few it has been prac-
ticaliy ruined, some having been cut to
tons there is much less late corn than
usual. A large part of the early corn is
made and some is SO far matured as to be
out of all danger. but much of it may still
be injured if dried out too rapidly. It is
estimated that the bulk of the crop will be
safe from frost by September 10 to 10.
sorghum is faring quite badly. in a few
counties, put has withstood the dry wealth
er much better than corn. and is generally
IN good condition. Grinding has commenced
and the syrup is of good quality. In the
southeastern counties cotton Is generally
oolng Well. except in portions of Butler,
where 1t Is suffering from drought and is
shedding. -
Melons have been cut short by the
drought in some districts.
PASTURES have dried up rapidly and con-
sloeran Die feeding is necessary in a number
or the northern and western counties. Wa
yer is becoming very scarce In some locali-
tlGS. Prairie hay has been secured in ex-
celleht condition in the southwestern coun-
tles. castor beans are reported a good
crop IN Barton County. and picking is in
Over the greater portion Of the state the
ground has become too dry for blowing.
Inc weather has been very severe on ap-
PIES, and many correspondents report that
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
HOT SPELL NOT YET BROKEN.
DR.. Hyatt Says Days Will Continue
Torrid, but Nights Cool.

Yesterday morning it looked as II 81
Louis would have a change for the better
in the weather. There was a lively breeze.(
and about II o'clock clouds blew up and the
mercury dropped as low as 81 degrees.
After noon, however, the thermometer
gained lost ground, and at 8 o'clock reached
the 81 mark. which was three degrees high
er than the highest reading on Monday.
Local Forecaster Hyatt said yesterday ar
ternoon that he expected nothing in the
way of cool weather for at least four or
five days.
The clouds have all left this region for the
Northern summer resorts, and there is moth
ing to indicate that they will be back hero
in the near future. TIL nights, however,
will continue cool.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
BODY TAKEN FROM RIVER.
That of a Man About 80 Years Old,
Weighing 200 Pounds.

Daniel Devan and James e. Holland. fish
ermen. living at No. 513 North Levee, re-
covered the body Of a white man at the
foot of Locust street shortly before noon
yesterday. 1t was conveyed to the morsus.
where 1t was placed on exhibition for identi-a
fcation. From the appearance OF the bog
1t is supposed to have been In the water
about twelve hours.
At first it was thought that 1t might be
that of George NJ. Street. who disappeared
from the Southern Hotel on Wednesday
last but Superintendent of the Morgue AM
bruster, after a careful comparison of the
body and the description of the missing
man, decided that 1t was not Street
The body Is that Of a man about 30 years
old, six feet tall and weighing about 200
pounds. The hair is dark brown and the
eyes are blue. The face is smoothly shaven.
A white cotton shirt. a pair Of dark
checked wooden trousers and a pair OF black
lace shoes constitute the apparel. There
are no marks on the body to indicate vio-
lence and nothing which would lead to an
Identification. The man wore q scapulax
about his neck.
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on the case as soon as news Of the killing
reached the police. Burns admitted that
he was the man wanted and readily went
with the officers.
At the station Burns declared that he did
not know whether he or Mrs. Hicklyn fired
the shot that killed young Dickson. In
several other respects his story differed
from that of Mrs. Hicklyn. He said that
when he asked for the second loan Mrs.
Hicklyn told him he had already been
drinking enough and refused to give him
the money. He repeated his request, he
said. whereupon Mrs. Hicklyn assaulted
him with a but~cherknife, cutting him in
the arm. He grappled witt her and threw
her to the floor. She escaped and procured
her revolver. After she had fired one shot
he grappled with her again. and in the
scuttie the weapon was discharged. Burns
declares that he does not remember having
his hand on the pistol, except when he was
struggling with Mrs. Hicklyn. He denies
that he tried to shoot the woman.
Mrs. Hicklyn and Burns agree that there
had been no previous quarrel. though the
woman had often demonstrated with Burns
for his drinking. Young Dickson. who was
10 years of age. and Burns. who Is q. We're
fast friends, though Dickson was so Ill that
he was hardly ever able to leave his room.
Burns had lived at the house of Mrs. Hick-
Ign at intervals for a year. Mrs. Hicklyn,
who Is separated from her husband, has
two sons younger than the one killed yes
terday. They visited her at the police sta
ton last night, but were SO overcome with
emotion that they remained only a few
minutes.
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HEARD FROM THE PUBLISHERS,
international Typographical Union
Received Resolutions.

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. A-Frederick
Driscoll, commissioner of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, adj
dressed the International Typographical
Union Convention to-day as n representa-
tive of the special standing committee of
the American Newspaper Publishers As
socfation, making several suggestions in the
interests of harmony between the publish
ers and the International Typographical
Union.
He quoted a resolution adopted by the
special committee early this month that
the publishers should ave the right to be
heard on all proposed amendments to the
constitution, general laws and rules of the
international Typographical Union affect
ing publishers interests.
Mr.. Driscoll then noted the vast aggre-
gate of interests embodied in the publish
ers' association, and stated that consider
able bitterness of feeling had been cngen-
dered because of the action of the Inter-
national Typographical Union in compell-
become members of the Typographical
Union, which classes were in no sense to
be called printers, and these requirements
0c sYou are a asked skede 6 aeai the oI t n1blisbers." h,
said. Ito unite with them in establishing
a joint arbitration committee to adjust dis
putes between publishers and local unions
that cannot otherwise be settled. and to
act as a board of appeal. If you would do
this a long step would be taken toward the
abolition of the strike. boycott and lock-
out"
Mr.. Drlscoll was we'll received and a mo-
ton OF thanks and for the printing of his
address in the proceedings was adopted.
The report Of the Committee on Laws
was then taken and several sections were
acted upon, the remainder going over Until
tomorrow.
One Of the most important propositions
concurred in calls for the payment of mar
ried men of 81 and single men IS per week
for eight weeks from the time a strike Is
inaugurated A proposition calling for
the reserve fund shall be used for defensive
purposes only.
A resolution calling for the appointment
of a special committee of five to ~investi-
gate the matter of suspension of Photo-En-
gravers' Union No. l Of New York City was
adopted.
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Municipal Assembly Gives 1t Final
Passage and Adiourns IN
til October 8.
NO OPPOSITION DEVELOPED.
Mr.. McMath Believes 1t Will Be
January 1 Before Actual
Work on the Structure
Can Be Started.

Simultaneous sessions of the City Council
and House of Delegates were held yestcr-
day afternoon. after which the Municipal
Assembly adjourned until Tuesday octo-
Der ..
: The bill a~rpropriating s25S.nM from the
special fund for the erection of a new City
Hospital was passed unanimously in the
House, enrolled in the Council and signed
by Speaker Murrell. The measure viii be
presented to the Mayor to-day for his sigma
ture. and In ten days will become a law.
None of those who threatened to use
their influence TO kill the bill were present
in the House. and the fifteen members voted
favorably without expressing any opinion
whatever. President McMath of the Board
of Public improvements now will be able to
proceed with the preliminary work, and
Commissioner of Public Buildings LonSfel-
low may commence on the plans. All these
details will consume SO much time that Mr..
McMath predicts actual building operations
scarcely can be begun before January !.
This structure VIII be the main ediice
of a series of connected buildings, con-
structed on the pavilion plan. Ii will COM
prise an isolation ward. an octagonal ward,
connecting corridors, a laundry, a Kitchen
and a boiler-house. The entire capacity of
kAiAS kAst " " 40 a. ~
beds. which is about hale the capacity of
the present temporary hospital.
Delegate Albright offered a resolution APP
proving the shirt waist as the summer fash
ion in the House. but Speaker Murrell de-
clared 1t out of order. Mr.. Albright ac-
cepted the inevitable when informed by
the chair that member are privileged to
appear without coats, regardless of official
sanction.
The Engrossment Committee being alb
sent. MIR. Murrell appointed a special COM
mittee. consisting OF Messrs. Albright, Holt
camp and Schumacher. which met during
recess and reported favorably on bills for
the establishment and construction of sew
ers in Dakota Sewer District No. /, Rocky
Branch No. S and Rock Springs No. 3. all Of
which were passed.
The Council referred TO the Meier investi-
CATION committee, with power 10 pay the
bill of james 7. Roberts, stenographer, tor
1855. Chairman Virgins of the
finished and there remains only some final
details. The report will be submitted when
the Council reconvenes.
The h.1 authorizing the st. Louis Music
Hall Association to make alterations in
Music Hall was reported favorably, but will
lie over under the rules. The bill empow-
ering the Assistant Prosecuting Attorney 10
employ a clerk was ordered to eugroSsment.
EXCURSION To ARCADIA. MO-.
Sunday. August 10. 1900. Round trip ticket.
sl.2o. Special train leaves Union Station
$50 q. m.
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William Dickson, ali Invalid,
Heard Her Fighting Des-
p~erateIy With His Chum.
SHOT AS HE ENTERED ROOM.
Mrs. HiCkiyn and Dennis Burns,
Who Figured in the Ira
gedy, Are Held by Police.

While going from his sickroom to the
rescue of his mother. who was engaged in
a desperate struggle with a partially in
toxicated boarder. William Dickson of No.
s5s Collins street was shot and instantly
killed yesterday.
His mother. Mrs. Mary Hicklyn, and Dem
mis- Burns. the boarder with whom she was
fighting, are in custody at the Fourth Dis
trict Police Station pending the result Of
the Coroner's inquest. which will be held
to-day. Their stories of the tragedy differ
in several important particulars, and the
police have not determined whether the
fatal shot was fired by Burns or the
woman.
According to the statement of Mrs. Hick-
Ign, Burns had borrowed money from her
early In the morning to buy beer. About
noon he returned to the house and asked
for another small loan. She refused and
he threw her to the floor. She struggled
from his grasp and ran to a bed where she
kept her revolver Turning quickly. she
fired one shot at Burns. The bullet went
wide of the mark. Burns grappled with
her and wrested the weapon from her. He
pointed 1t at her. she says. and fired just
as her son. William Dickson, who had
heard the tumult from his room, came into
the kitchen to aid his mother. The bullet
struck him in the left breast just below
the heart and he sank to the floor.
Burns turned and fled and Mrs. Hicklyn
pursued him. Picking up a knife as she
ran, she caught the fugitive and cut him
In the left arm. Then she returned hastily
TO where her son lay and tried in vain to
restore him. The body was sent to the
morgue and Mrs. Hicklyn was taken into
custody.
Burns went at once to the Farmers Ele-
vator. at Levee and Chambers street, and
obtained employment. There he was found
a few minutes later by Sergeant Quinlivan
and Officer Stanton. who had been detailed
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
WANTS new CONTINGENT FUND.
Starklof Seeks Means of Disposing
of 0nfsido parnor S;cl,

Health COMMISSIONS Starklof yesterday
afternoon directed q communication to the
Municipal Assembly suggesting the ad-
Visibility of appropriating $500 as a con-
tingent fund to dispose of the INDECENT sick
and insane who are sent to st Louis from
~neighbordng States and cities.
Doctor Starkioff explained In the letter
City Hospital in the last year, 149 to the
Female Hospital and twenty-nine to the In
sane Asylum. He illustrated that each In
sane Asylum patient costs the city 81 cents
a day and Ns7.10 a year, the twenty-nine
costing S5.715 in one year and $57, 159 in ten
years. The cost to the city for maintaining
nonresident sick and insane patients, he
estimates. at sls4, 11s for ten years.
There - now one inmate of the asylum, he
wrote, q nonresident, who has .already cost
the city a.3s0. AT IN annual cost of $751; 10
this one man will cost the city a small
fortune. II he lives as lone as his general
health betokens.
The message was not read in the Munic-
ipai Assembly yesterday, as adjournment
until autumn was anticipated. The PROPOSE
ton probably will be considered later ON.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
STARVED BY MAD HUSBAND.
Imagined That Neighbors Would
Poison His Sick Wife.
REPUBLIC

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Ukiah. Cal. Aug. llama Elizabeth
Schefer is dead OF fright and starvation.
and her husband, John II. Schefer, Is con-
fined in Napa Asylum. a maniac, babbling
Of enemies who fire poisoned bullets.
Several days age. members of the State
Lunacy Board received letters, saying that
Schefer was insane. A warrant for his ar
rest was issued Saturday and Constables
were sent to place him under arrest.
The officers found s5chefer sitting at the
foot of a bed In his wtfe's room, talking to
his wife, who was in bed. suffering intense
pain. The room was hot and close. Every
crack was stopped with paper and cloth.
The woman, who was a sufferer from asth-
ma, was painting for breath. She was much
emaciated and bore unmistakable evidences
of starvation. The officers learned that the
mad husband had denied his sick wife food
for several days because he imagined neigh
bors were trying to poison her and him
self.
Mrs. Schefer died Monday, starved to
death, and the next day the husband was
sent to the asylum. Neighbors say the
woman was made to work in the field like
a slave.
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Wet Weather Has Damaged the Cot
ton Crop.

Wet Weather Has Damaged the Cot
ton Crop.
REPUBLIC eel
Galveston. Tex. Aug. H-The Texas sec
ton Of the United States Weather Bureau
in its report. issued to-day. for the week
ending August 13. describes the crop condi-
ton in Texas as follows:
Cotton continues to grow very rapidly.
All correspondents, except from Northwest
Texas, complain of too much rain for the
crop and many report that the plant is not
frIiting well. Some fields are grassy and
the ground Is too wet for cultivation in
most sections. The boil worm. Mexican
weeyil and sharpshooters are doing con-
siderable damage in localities. Picking has
commenced in a few localities, but this
work will not be general for some time.
Cotton Is opening very slowly. Some cor
respondents report that the hollis are rot
ting on account of the wet weather.
Cotton prospects are not as good as they
were two weeks ago. The continuous rains
are injurious to the crop and dry sunshine
weather is badly needed.
The prolonged wet weather has injured
grain, yet in the shock. Corn is maturing
slowly: some of it rotting in the field on
account of continued wet weather. Sugar
care not doing well; crop needs sunshine
and dry weather for maturing. Rice is
doing fairly well, but needs dry, clear
weather to ripen crop. Sorghum cane is
maturing, some being made UP. Dry
weather Is badly needed for general farm
ing interest Throughout the southeastern
half OF the State.
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BAPTIZED IN A COFFIN.
Strange Request of an Aged Ne.
gress Was Granted.
REPUBLIC

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Springfield. o.. Aug. A-One Of the most
unique and uncanny baptismal remon
on record was performed here Sunday
morning. Virginia Channels. an aged col
ored woman, who has been at the point
Of death for some time, requested that she
be baptized while in a coffin. When told
not long ago that she could not live she
made the strange request. saying that in
this way her sins would be washed away.
A local firm furnished a metallic casket,
which was flied with water and placed in
the house where the old woman has been
making her home.
This morning, in the presence of as many
people as could crowd into the small dwell
ing, the woman was lifted from her bed
and immersed, the ceremony attending it
being conducted by the Reverend Green
of the st. John Baptist Church. She was
then placed tenderly in bed, where. conf
dent of her sall alton. she awaits deaths
The woman was a former slave. and does
not know her age, but 1t Is supposed that
she Is In the neighborhood Of 50.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
A SLICE OF FLORIDA.
4 Number of Alabama Citizens
Wish to Annex 1t.

&c
Pensacola, Fla. Aug. 1.-THE newspapers
and many citizens of this section Of the
State are giving much attention to the pro-
posed annexation to the State of Alabama
of that portion of Florida west of the Apa-
lachicola River. which, it Is claimed, both
part OF Alabama. The point mainly made il
that all rivers In this section of Florida
nave their sources in Alabama, and bring
the products of Alabama forests to be man
ufactured in Florida mills. The interests of
the people Of the Apalachicola section are
said to be entirely different from those OF
other sections Of Florida .
1t is suggested that the most practical
method of meeting the issues would be to
hold a convention or conference OF repre-
sentatives from the various counties Of the
Apalachicola River at Pensacola. The meet
ing will likely be held here September l.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
FIRED ON BRITISH CONSUL.
kurds Finally Captured the OH
GERS Baggage.

London, Aug. 1.-THE British Foreign
Office has received a dispatch from Sir
Nicholas O'Connor, the British Ambassa-
dor at Constantinople, announcing that the
British Vice Consul at Van. while travel
ing near Elk, was fired on by kurds and
his dragoman was wounded. The Consul
his party away with difficulty and his
baggage was lost
The Ambassador has lodged a strong pro-
test with the Turkish Government.
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CROPS.
Cotton Is Being Injured by the Hot
Winds.


Little Rock. Ark. Aug. 14-United States
Department OF Agriculture climate and crop
bulletin Of the Weather Bureau, Arkansas
section, for the week ending August 10, re-
ports:
Scattered showers occurred during the
week, but as a rule the weather has been
hot and dry and rain is badly needed. Cot
the hot southwest winds. which are caus-
ing It to wilt and shed rapidly. Early corn
Is generally good. Late corn is being in
jured by the hot. dry weather. The second
crop of Irish potatoes is doing well in some
sections, while in others they are coming
up to poor stands on account Of the dry
weather. Apples continue to fall in most
sections. Peaches are abundant, but the
fruit is small in many localities.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
TO CLEANSE THE SYSTEM

Enectually, yet gently. when costive or bill
ious, to permanently overcome habitual
constipation, to awaken the kidneys and
liver to a healthy activity, without Irritating
or weakening them, to dispel headaches,
colds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs, made by
the California Fig Syrup Co.-Adv.
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Illinois Cattle Inspection.

EEPUBL1C sFEC1AL
Springfield. ILL.,, Aug. 1.-THE weekly re-
port Of the State inspection Of cattle at the
Union Stock Yards at Chicago for the week
ending August II. is as follows:
Number inspected. 21s: number passed in
yards. 1874; number held for postmortem, 81;
number passed postmortem, Ga; mimi er con-
'demnsd, 20; number Of cases of Tuberculosis
discovered, 10; number Of cases Of cancer
discovered on postmortem, 3.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
Handy Guide to St. Louis.

This years Handy Guide to st. Louis
has lust been issued by the Gould Directory
Company. It is unusually complete in all
details. and has been arranged to coincide
contains a key to the city's streets and to
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BLANCHE FEARING DEAD.
Blind Woman Lawyer in the
United States.

Chicago, Aug. I4.-Miss Blanche Fearing.
the only blind woman lawyer in the Uni
ted States, If not in the world, and an au-
thor of considerable merit. is dead at Eu-
reka Springs, after an illness Of several
months
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
GOVERNOR ALLEN DEPARTS.
Porto Rican Executive Sails for
the Island.

Boston, Mass, Aug. 1.-THE gunboat
Mayfower, having on board Governor Chas.
Fl. Allen of Porto Rico, sailed from the
Charlestown Navy Yard to-day for that
island.
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Revival at Madison.

Madison, Mo-, Aug. 14.-The Reverend E.
Tenn, is conducting a revival meeting at
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at
this place, which Is attracting widespread
attention.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15

Petoskey, weQuetonsinE, Mackinaw
and other Northern Michigan resorts. Best
Through sleeper leaves st. Louis / p. m.
daily: dining cars
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Have You Seen the Fine Sets

OF triple silver-plated spoons, forks and
knives. "a pieces in a neat silk-lined case.
which Mermod G Jaccard's. Broadway and
Locust. are selling for only 500? A useful
gift to the new housekeeper.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15
Rent an omce in the

New Mermod & Jaccard Building. Broad
way and Locust. Finest offices. best loca-
ton, f1reproof; $3.50 and upward per month.
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$3.50 to scdalia and Return

Via MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Account opening Of the Democratic cam
paign, August q. Tickets good on trains
leaving ST. Louis night of 10Th, returning.
leave Sedalia night of 2lst.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-15

Spectacles Should Fit the Eyes,
And when purchased at Mermod & JAG
cards, Broadway and Locust, after an ex-
animation of the eyes by their expert opti-
clan. Doctor Bond. they always do. Steel
frames, 81 and up; gold, IS and UT.
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TEXAS CROPS.

have deteriorated slightly. Grapes are rot
ting in many places. Other fruits promise
we'll.