The St. Louis Republic., 1900-08-21
GENERAL DOMESTIC.


A hotel proprietor refused to serve
shirt-waist man in the dining-room and is
a defendant in a $4,000 damage suit
Captain BENJAMIN Howard died at Me-
tropolis. Ill. yesterday.
The Baptist Sunday School Institute is In
session at Pana, Ill.
Figures show that the special war tax
IS a needless burden. The regular revenue
would have been sufficient to conduct both
wars The unjust and unnecessary levy
has piled up the largest sum of gold ever
accumulated in the United States Treas
ury.
Cisneros, the Cuban patriot, fears that
the Mckinley administration will not keep
Ats promise to grant the Cuhans independ-
ence as promised. He has filed protest
from the leaders and people against any
outside interference in the formation of
the Cuban Constitution.
The broomcorl crop in Illinois has been
seriously damaged by the rain and storms.
An Illinois father prevented an elopement.
He took his daughter home and his son
arrested the prospective bridegroom and his
friend.
Miss Helen NJ Cougar. the Indiana equal
sufffagist. predicts McKinley's defeat. and
gives reasons for her opinion.
Youtsey has asked the court for a de-
lay in his case on the plea of Illness
According TO a recent communication re-
cefved froyh Manila. small isolated
American garrison was recently sttacked
by an Overwhelming force Of natives and
almost arnihils.ted. twenty out Of thirty
men being killed. 1t is feared. says the
correspondent, that other small garrisons
in isolated towns in the islands will meet a
similar fate.
The coal miners OF Illinois remember the
action taken by Governor Tanner during
the strike troubles, and are determined to
Tanners friends who are aspiring for Of
fee will also come under the coal miners
ban, 1t Is said.
An American Consul in England reports
that American women in that country have
great difficulty in getting hosiery 20 fit
them, the English-made stockings being
without fit or the desired length. The
American women also complain Of The in
fertor and unsatisfactory underwear they
. are compelled to use in England.
Broomcorn growers in Illinois are con-
fronted with the problem of how to get
their crop harvested. Laborers are very
scarce. and the few who have been found
who will work in the broomcorn fields, have
forced the farmers to pay them greatly in
creased wages.
Sedalia expects great crowd at the DEM
ooratic campaign opening to-day. Many
prominent leaders of the party will be pres
ent Senator Cockrell, who is to be pre-
siding officer of the day, arrived yesterday.
Mr.. Bryan will start for Topeka tonight.
He will deliver several speeches in Nebraska
before his return to Lincoln from the Pop
ulist notification meeting.
The Circuit Court at Peoria has ordered
The women managers of the Industrial
School for Girls to release the three Pan
key children, in accordance with the order
of release. issued some days ago. by Acting
Governor Warder, which the ladies refused
TO recognize.
President Mckinley will not deliver any
set speeches at Chicago during the G. A.
r. reunion, it IS announced. Accompanied
by Mrs. Mckinley, he will go from Chicago
to Canton, and from there to the wedding
OF his niece. the daughter of Abner Nc
Kinley.