The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-26
To-DAY's NEWS IN BRIEF.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.

ISOLATION in St. Louis next month.
The architects commission is ready t'
submit the ground plan to the Louisiana
Exposition Company.
p A secret organization to be known al
the "Cr1ckets Society is being formed BY
: milliners viHting in St Louis.
. ATOMS street fair ID declared to have
been the largest ever held in the United
States.
Thousands Of knights Templars pass
through Union Station on the way to Louis
v1lbe. KY. to attend the triennial conciave
The st. Louis Letter Carriers band will
Whit Chattanooga next month at the time
of the letter carriers national convention
Euabians are celebrating their annual
harvest festival at Concordia Park.
= William Stanton of ST. Louis departs for
= Manila to accept position instructor at
: the Lyceo Municipal.
GENERAL DOMESTIC
The twenty-frst district meeting Of the
Illinois Farmers Institute will open at
Salem on November 70.
The trustees of the new Western Illinois
State Normal will meet tomorrow to elect
a president. and Yates is likely to have
more trouble on his hands as a result OF
his efforts TO secure the place for Heninger.
Experts of the Government Geological
Survey estimate that il present plans for
. the marketing of fuel oil from Beaumont
are carried out the bituminous coal produc
, ton in Western and Southern States will
be reduced by 100000 tons.
Kirk B. Armour. a prominent business
: man of Kansas City. who was stricken
with illness while in New York. is being
hurried to his home on a special car.
knights Templars by the thousand ar
rived In Louisville yesterday to attend the
triennial conclave OF the order. which opens
on Tuesday.
Government statistics show that Ger
many's imports and exports in the manu-
featuring line have more than doubled in
the last three years.
II has been discovered that Former Pres
ident Cleveland never cashed one Of the
warrants issued to him by the Govern
ment in part payment Of his salary as
President.
Shoe manufacturers are making a deter
mined effort to have the coming Congress
repeal the duty on hides imported into the
United States.
Steel trust managers assert that they will
start q large number of idle mills with non
union men to-day. Peace negotiations are
stiu In progress.
A negro who confessed to having killed q
white woman near Winchester. Tenn. was
burned at the stake by a mob.
Robert q. Evans, a prominent Minnesota
politician. dropped dead at his home in q
Minneapolis suburb yesterday.
H B. Kelley. prominent Illinois attor-
ney. II dead.
Two negroes were placed in the same cell
At 0reenville. Tenn. They engaged in Q
light with knives and one was killed.
The dry spell continues in Texas and the
Indications are that the cotton crop is grow
ing shorter daily.
An unknown youth was found dead near
Dawson. KY. He was apparently killed by
. train
Richard Ireland. a prominent resident of
Saline County. was shot and seriously
wounded by Peter Ritchey
Tho report of Professor Fred W. Atkin-
9oos General Superintendent of Education in
fhe Philippines. shows that satisfactory
progress has been made in the DEVELOPMENT
OF the schools of the archipelago, but that
there Is crying need for school buildings.
The call for Loo teachers met with more
Responses than were needed.
Captain Forsythe. discussing the coming
6chley court of inquiry declared II a great
that such a controversy as the
court will be asked to settle should have
arisen from the promotion Of Admiral Samp-
Don over senior officers In the navy.
Two Geutenants Of the Illinois National
Guard are held at Camp Lincoln under ar
rest on the charge Of breach of discipline.
The beet sugar plant at Pekin, Ill, has
been closed for good.
: Large sales Of zinc ore among Joplin pro-
ducers at lower prices are reported.