The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-11-20
GENERAL DOMESTIC.


Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings have
been begun against Tanblyn & Tamblyn. .
large cattle firm of Kansas City. Liabili
ties are given az $4,000; no assets given
An English firm gets contract to make
and lay first section of Pacific cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu.
Engineer Michael Sprath dropped dead AT
the throttle on a Lake Shore engine yester-
day.
WAS opened for this term with prayer. an
Episcopal rector officiating.
Michael Dively. aged Is years. a pioneer
merchant of Kansas City, f. dead. NJ.
Diyely represented Missouri at the Vienna
Exposition In 1873.
Near Creston. Ia. a widow. Mrs. Charles
Edwards shot two men, one of whom may
die. She had been elected from a leased
farm and the men left in charge Of the
bremises The woman regained possession
OF the place.
Beaumont Tex. lumber mills have taken
an order for 2oc.cc0O0) feet OF lumber. 1t
Will require their output for three years.
Fire at Assumption, ILL.,. destroyed eight
brick business buildings. causing a loss OF
10000. Insurance partially covers this.
One of a party OF burglars at Hutchin-
son, Kas., VINO had wrecked a passenger
station Office with dynamite while trying
TO open the safe. was shot and killed. sup
posably by his companions. who found ths t
he had been stunned by the explosion and
was liable to capture. They shot him
through the heart.
The Missouri State Conference en- Chari-
ties and Corrections in session at Columbia,
Mo-. was addressed by Missourians proni-
nant in this work Officers were elected for
sthe} coming year.
-, The Republican faciional fight in Mis-
souri, has assumed national import. and
A.arfd fnr ~
The other faction. Colonel r. e. Kerens is
pitted against State Chairman Atkins and
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock.
City Treasurer OF Buffalo, y. ". re-
moved by Mayor. who charges misconduct
and misuse of the city's funds. The charge
rs dcnied.
= Miss Ellen Terry has decided to retire
from the stage at the end OF the present
Season and has selected Cecilia LOTUS TO
ssucceed her
- Two persons were killed and sixteen in
iured In nine collisions on Chicago elevated
roads. caused by a dense fog.
30 Mistake caused run on Metropolitan Bank
Of Tacoma, Wash, and caused Il TO fail.
= The fifty-fourth annual session OF State
5Encampment. l. .. o. F., Is now being held
at Nevada, Mo-
James L. Blair of st. Louis. In an address
before the Missouri State Conference of
Charities and Corrections, at Columbia.
Criticised the tendency to inject politics into
sthe management of State institutions.
Shipments of Beaumont oil SO far this
month have reached an unusually high
Figure.
Missouri women are selected for import
ant Offices at the W. c. I. L. National
Convention, in session at Fort Worth, Tex
ahe removal of the Minnesota Capito,
may cause a reversion of the site to the
sneirs of Charles Babille. who % provided
when he decided the property to the State.
y negro In Alabama has been sentenced
TO death for highway robbery. 1t is thu
nrst case on record of capital punishment
for such an offense.
Mrs. Lola Bonine was arraigned In court
at Washington yesterday en- the charge of
numbering James s. Ayres. and pleaded
not guilty. 1t is expected that the jury will
be completed to-day or tomorrow.