The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-22
GENERAL DOMESTIC.


Iawton has taken place. A regular army
soldier and an Illinois girl were the pr1n-
cipals.
The Reverend Father LILLY, q pioneer
priest Of New York, is dead.
Indications are that Kansas will have an
unusually large crop Of fruit. especially ap-
pies
Kansas church pays its debt with pro-
ceeds of. wheat crop. Members OF the con-
gregation contributed the seed grain ana
gave their services in thrashing.
Two prisoners who escaped from the Pine
Bluff. Ark. jail notified the police Of their
freedom over the telephone
DYING man wishes to marry his fancee
! before death came but the license arrived
a few minutes too late.
A Kansas farm hand was tarred and
feathered by a crowd OF farmers, VINO
charged him with having set fire to stacks
of wheat on the farm of his former en-
ploye.
Captain n. ]. Walter. editorial writer on
the Dallas News, died suddenly of heart
disease.
Governor Yates yesterday messed with
the members of Company I, in which he
formerly served.
The twenty-frst annual meeting Of the
American County Christian Missionary CO.
operation closed at Mexico. Mo-. last night.
Five men were drowned in q second water
crib accident at Cleveland. O.. yesterday.
The Iowa Democrats nominated State
ticket yesterday and adopted a platform
which reafHrms the declarations of the Kan
eas City convention
Pennsylvania Republicans held the briefest
convention on record yesterday. nominating
their ticket and adopting q platform with
out a word OF discussion.
The business portion of the town Of Elma,
a.
The twenty-fourth annual session ct the
American Bar Association. in session at
Denver. An invitation to hold the convention
In St. Louis in 1868 was favorably received.
Jack Winters, who stole 900 in gold
from q California smelter, was yesterday
sentenced to fifteen years in the Peniten-
tiary.
Lawsuit over farm that is washed away
and washed back.
Mrs. Mary-B. Moore and husband, General
Milton Moore, Of Kansas City, have de-
nsanded through the courts an accounting
from the Burnes estate corporation. Prop
erty valued At SlooOo.OOo is involved.
SPORTING.
Sporting men believe even money should
f,fie In betting on Shamrock
race. London newspaper proprietor. WHIT
wants to wager $4,000 at long odds, vii
have to bet even II he wants to place hi
money.
Winners at Kinloch Park yesterday were:
The Four Hundred. Ben Battle, Hunting
Casava and W. B. Gates.
w. A. Larned won the national tennis
championship at Newport yesterday. de-
feating Beals C. Wright.
sSir Thomas Upton. owner OF the Sham
rock II, arrived at New York yesterday.
Riots occurred on the ball grounds Of the
Wooh fy0 M q
Baltimore.
The Belle Of Lexington. a 4o-to-1 shot, won
9race and broke track record at Saratosa
yesterday.
Tho Covington poolrooms have been closei
8nd the operators have removed to New
port.
FOREIGN.
Diplomatic relations have been broken be-
tween France and Turkey, as q result OF the
trouble over the payment Of French claims
United States Consul General Gudger re-
ports from Panama that the Colombian
Government is making no effort to over
come the insurgents.
II IL announced from Rome that sever
American Bishops will be appointed in thu
Philippines.
RAILROADS.
1t IL expected that the Montpelier branc
of, the Wabash will be completed by Nc
vember. There were heavy transaction
yesterday In debenture B bonds.
The Santa Fe IL negotiating to make en-
tire,v new steamship arranrements on tn
Parffc Coast
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1t IL said that c. n. Hays has been aske
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