The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-05-13
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

Governor Barnes of Qklahoma retires
from Office to-day.
SC ID. Jacobs of Camden. Ark, conmitteu
suicide at Fort Worth, Tex.
Charles sheets Sedalia carpenter. was
.ound dead on the Missouri Pacific tracks.
TCompa MES have been formed TO thorough
ly prospect fer oil in the vicinity OF Tex
arkana.
A Missouri society will be organized In
New York City on May IS. at dinner al
sherry's.
The ST. Louis merchants who are touring
Texas spent the day quietly at San Antonio
yesterday.
Experts have given satisfactory reports
upon tests of the oil found In the vicinity
OF Wellsrille, Mo.
Jesse Chism. a farmer living near Bloom
ington. H., murdered his wife IN sehsa-
tionally brutal manner.
Oklahoma Rough Riders will attend the
reunion at Colorado Sprinss. going from
Guthrie by special train.
Much damage to crops is reported from
the vicinity of Fcrt Worth, Tex, as re-
suit of hail and wind storm on Saturday.
T A. Reese under Indictment for forgery
at Atwood. Ill., was found in Missouri run
ming a reform paper and teaching Sun
day school.
Two miners were killed and another seri-
oisly injured by the explosion of n neg
lected shot in mine at Carthage yester-
day.
A Chicago grain expert reports that the
Kansas wheat crop will be much smaller
than last years, owing to the ravages OF
wheat pests.
In his sermon in New York yesterday
Doctor Hills praised the Catholics for the
prominence they have given the virgin
Mary in their worship.
Adiutant General Reece of the Illinois
National Guard has announced himself as
a candidate for department commander OF
the Illinois G. A. R, at the eneampment
to be held in Peoria this week.
An engine put an end to fight by kill
ing one man and seriously manning the
other.
Philanthropist D. X. Pearsons returned to
Chicago much pleased with Missouri and
Missourians. He says the tall, clear-eyed
young men in the Imperial State deter
mined him to devote his wealth to educa-
tional work in the West. He will not give
a cent to colleges east of Chicago.
SPORTING.
Chicago made it three straight from St
Louis. WsddeE won two of them
Breeders Of thoroughbred horses in Ken
lucky will back Tom Hayes in his fight
against the Western Jockey Club.
Horsemen believe Silverdale's victory in
the Inaugural shows him to have been best
horse in the race.
FOREIGN.
Germany and Austria are reported to be
forming league TO resist American indus
trial competition. :
One hundred Frenchmen and thirty Ger
mans were killed by an explosion OF buried
mines in China Ht
= Composer Wagner's widow has appealed
to the Reichstag for continuation of the
..Parsifaf' monopoly. She will yield the
copyright on all other operas il this is
granted.
Mariae Intelligence.
New York, May 12.-Arrived: Rotterdam,
and Naples: Georgian, Liverpool; Ciudad
Uempione. Genoa, Naples and st. Michael.
=, scilly, May l2-Passed: Minnehaha, New
York, for London.
:. Gibraltar. May 12.-Passed: Liguria. New
York. Via St. Michaels for Naples and
Genoa.
: Isle of Wight. May 12.-Passed: Menomi-
nee. New York, for London.
n Liverpool. May l2.-Arrived: Belgeniand
Philadelphia, via Queenstown.
Liverpool. May 12-Sailed: Siberian Nrom
Giasgow), st. Johns, Newfoundland, and
Halifax, Nova Scotia
6 Queenstown. May R-Sailed: Umbria
from LiverpooD, New York; Westenland
<from Antwerp and LIVERPOOL, Philadelphia.
Bremen. May u.-Sailed: Barbarossa,
southampton, and New York.
southampton, May 13.-Sailed: Barbarossa
0rom Bremen}. New York