The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-12-24
GENERAL. DOMESTIC.

A member Of oklahoma Legislature is IL
r"rCed twice from one woman, and marie /
twice TO another.
Governor-eIec, Natss'@ friends declare for
David ShanuIhan tor Speaker ui Illinois
House of Representatives.
Mgr. Martinelli. Pope Leo's representa-
tive in this country. Will be- made a Car
dinal by his pan;iI.
y member Of lraterrai order falls dead
while attending the services az unv. iii. : a
monument 10 member of tae same arde-.
\ Kansas CITY danciurmas,er believes
newshoys would achieve greater success
In life If they learned To dance. and tenders
free instructions to them.
The First Presbyterian Church o. Fort
Worth. Tex. held Thanksgiving services yes
Ierday, when it WAS announced that III, "a-
tire Indebtedness of the church had been
wiped out.
Peter Curren. the English labor leader.
In speaking 10 the workir smen of Chicas"
yesterday. declared that the social pr'hl'm
cannot be solved by strikes. He asserted
that only through legislation may labor So
cure its rights.
Members Of Colonel Asa Gardeners staT
declare that his removal from office hy Gov
ernor Roosevelt was act of injustice.
against which they desire to emphati-allv
protest.
a big coal deal is about 10 b" closed IN
West Virginia. 10y which - 2o11 acres. lginc
near Salem. WILL change hands
The first blizzard Of the winter has struck
Minnesota. ST. Paul and many other cities
and towns I'm the State were visited by Il
snowstorm Saturday rignt.
The treasurer Of lodge at Mitchell, S
u. was robbed by footrads. bound and
gagged. and left living in an alley. whrr.
he was :ound unconscious in the mornn:.
with his hands and feet frozen.
An epidemic of bank robhsries has fol-
lowed on the heels of prosperity in the
West. For three months, scarcely week
has passed without some country inStitu-
tion suffering the loss of considerable cash
Only one capture has been made.
The contest in Nebraska over tin, two
vacant senatorial seat hogins in earnest to-
day: WREN Assistant Secretary of War
Meiklejohn arrives in Lincoln 10 take per
sonal charge Of his own canvass.
The big stock marke; Is expected to react
soon. the phenomenally heavy buying and
bUoyanCy Of Saturdays ma rket being taken
as an unnatural state of affairs
Judge Louis Sulzbacher formerly of Kan
City. now a member Of the Supreme
Court OF Porto RiCo. declares that the ma
tive Judges on the woolsack with him defer
to past Spanish customs and laws and for
get the President Of the United States and
changed conditions and authority.
Jessie Morriscns brother declares that
she will give bord in a f,w days.
Lieutenant Crowder. secretary Of the
Military Governor of the Philippine Islands.
summarizes the reports Of subordinate Of
fcers dealing with perplexing questions in
the archipelago.
Theodore l.. Poole. former Congressman
from New York, and a Civil War veteran.
is dead.
The auto-slsiSh is the newest thing in in
Tentions- The Inventor is in Colorado
Springs waiting for q heavy snowfall to
mantle Pixies Peak. when he will atteTnrt
the ascent and descent OF the great noun |
tain on his gaSoline-pr propelled sled.
Patrick Furlcng. Chi ago policeman who |
killed Edward Teach a brother officer. in |
February. 1859. in a dispute over the Boer /
war. and who was sentenced to fourteen /
years in the pententiary. has been par |
done6. |
Knox County. No. girl spelled 2.lco |
words correctly at a spelling bee at Edna. /
No. and took the prize over forty con- |
testants.
Captain Heysate. an agent for Great Brit
ain. is at Kansas City. commi- stoned to buy |
5000 head Of cavalry hors, and mules to |
be shipped To South Africa.
4 Chicago thief steals 500 Christmas |
dinners intended for the poor and collected 4
by the Salvation Army.
A strong effort IS being made to sec,Ir,. 4 ,
pardon for Colonel Fl. Clay King now serv- |
ing a life sentence in a Tennessee peTiten-
tiary for the killing Of Attorney David |
Poston.
The police feel certain that Pat Grove
planned the Cudahy abduction and ne had |
as an acCOmplCe Lille Dsvine. Il noted con- |
1idence woman. of Denver.