The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-02
GENERAL DOMESTIC

Pennsylvania Chinamen are raising funds
to he used in an effort to prevent the re-
"a enactment of the Chinese exclusion act.
90 A long run for physician. when his wife
g became suddenly III. cost a Long Island man
. his life. The mother and babe are doing
: well.
II IL expected that the whiskey distrib-
,Itors will wage war on the whiskey trust
because Of the recent advancement in prices.
BY overturning a lamp on the kitchen
table. dog caused the deaths of five per-
sons. all of one family. A sixth person was
80 badly burned he mag die.
Pope Leo will in few days issue full
outlining the policy OF the Catholic Church
in the Philippines. A new system OF educa-
ton is to be established and American pre-
lates appointed to positions.
80 The Kerens-Hitchcock factional fight may
he carried to the Senate and the confirma-
non OF Boyd for Surveyor Of Customs op-
posed, II he Is nominated by President
Roosevelt.
The transport Buford has arrived at New
Fork with eight companies of the Twen-
ty-thiri United States Infantry.
f; william Webb Ferguson. a negro charged
With having murdered Doctor Joseph l..
Barnes, an inmate OF the Jacksonville, ILL.,.
Asylum for Insane. was found guilty ard
his punishment fixed at twenty years in
the Penitentiary.
The Armours will build a plant in St.
Louis to cost $500.sO.
Florence Nightingale is now reported well.
=. Harvard students will present a play in
French on December s.
THE bow and arrow has ceased to be an
official weapon in China The gun has been
substituted.
-, A Chicago professor has devised a new
university extension plan to be operated on
mpfh0ds similar recent frllcr formations
Miss Ellen Stones brother wants TIE
Ntited States to take immediate action
looking to the rescue Of the unfortunate
missionary. He says 1t In high time to cease
talking about ransoms and begin prepara-
tions for demonstration against Turkey.
The casualty list on the gridIron this
season is quite as heavy usual. The list
OF known dead numbers seven and more
than seventy were injured.
The Reverend George c. Belts. formerly
Of st. Louis, died suddenly of heart disease
at Goshen, n. Y. He expired In his bath
pOom
Foreign breweries having agencies in
Texas. that pleaded guilty and paid fines
for, violation Of the Texas antitrust law
RRY find diniculty in securing new permits
70 do business in that State.
Only three lives were lost in the ferryboat
collision at San Francisco. A freman's
heroism probably averted a terrible catas-
trophe.
a. H. Mueller, arrested on the charge OF
having made threatening remark about
President Roosevelt. has been held in 800
staa for court for disturbing the peace.
1Eopr thousand persons attended a pro-
.BOer meeting in Detroit on Sunday. Reso-
lutigns were adopted calling upon President
Roosevelt to tender the Offices Of the United
states mediator.
:. The South Carolina Interstate and West
Indian Exposition will be opened to-day
With appropriate ceremonies. Senator
Ohasmcey NJ. Depew is to deliver the dedi-
scAtion oration.
:. In trading circles ii is said that a copper
MAR involving millions of dollars in capital
Ia not unlikely.