The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-05-09

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Cincinnati. par bid sc premium asked
New Orleans. l0c discount bid. 1oc premium
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asked
The local wheat market closed lower at
.s4Nc a. May. 7Oc July, 6sisc a. Sept, !ogaHtse
No. red. Corn closed higher at 4bc D. May,
44ssc b. July. 45a4S.ic No. white. Oats
closed at 2sisc a. May. &c a. July. 3Vasf'tS
No. 2.
The local market for spot cotton closed
quiet and again lower.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.
The northeast corner of Grand avenue anu
Morgan street may be sold and USED Ior u
family hotel.
The Reverend Doctor John E. Green rs
conducting revival services at the MOUNT
! Auburn Methodist Church.
The girls belonging to the class IN 90,
mestic science at the Sumner High Schooi
give a dinner prepared entirely by them
selves.
President Phillips of the Board OF Pub
1ic improvements has drafted an ordinance
providing for the municipal ownership CT
lighting plants.
James Finnegan. young sailor IN the
navy. deserted his ship to come to ST. Louis
and marry his sweetheart. Daisy Clemons'
.AHu IS sfOW unueE arrest.
! syndicate headed by Sherman B. Pike
!. has purchased the Walton-Knost and Block
Express companies. which control the bulk
of the light hauling business of the city.
= Tho Fourth OF July Celebration Associa-
ton has been formed by number of pat
f4otic citizens. who have made arrange
meuts to fittingly commemorate the anni-
versary Of Independence Day.
Louisville Belle. against whom bookmak-
ers laid 100 to /. won the sixth race at the
: Fair Grounds yesterday. The other nHe
races were won by the favorites. A. ID.
Gibson. Hi-Kollar Lemuel. Nobieman, Kin
dfed and Louisville Belle were the winners.
Many Federal prisoners were sentenced
IN the United States Court yesterday.
Ida NJ Baare. who killed her father and
herself Tuesday night, bought the revolver
with which she accomplished the deed with
money given her by her mother for birth
-Soay present.
Thomas Brown. an East Side negro. was
shot in the head and the bullet fiattened on
- GENERAL DOMESTIC.
The cunard and White Star lines have
FORMED q pool to work against the Morgan
, steamship combine.
&C. r. Eastman. charged with the murder
~ Richard Grogan, testified in his own be-
half at Cambridge yesterday.
The Post Office Department will issue a
fraud warning to prospective investors in the
Durkee claims against the Government.
Prominent National Republicans are en-
couraging the talk about pushing Senator
Mark Hanna for the Republican presidential
nomination In 1904.
Senator Cochran and Congressman Bar
tholdt have asked the War Department to
remove the headquarters of the Department
OF Missouri from Omaha to Jefferson Bar
racks.
Another gusher has been reported at
Beaumont. Tex.
The st. Louis business men touring Texas
have arrived at Houston.
Captain ]. F. Merriman dropped dead at
Wheeling. W. Va. while watching reports
of the stock excitement on Wall street
The two st. Clair County Judges who
were arrested at Osceola. No., last night
have been removed to Kansas City. They
declare they will not issue the order for the
tax levy. This means that they must spend
the remainder of their office in Jail.
The sister OF Cole and Jim Younger ex-
poets that her brothers will be ultimately
pardoned.
The missing plans of the United States
&&Riser st. Louis have been found.
! ehe German Ambassador has complained
TO the State Department at Washington
about the unfrfendly comment of the Ameri-
can press regarding German colonization
activity in South America.
William Aughteraught, a married man.
living at Quincy. H., fatally shot a girl he
had ruined. and then killed himself.
The Diocesan Council of Arkansas il in
session at Little Rock.
The A. o. U. w. of Illinois. at its annual
meeting. decided upon an increase in the
salaries Of its officers.
A r,oY,ro ron thro,rr.
May Day festival at New Haven and caused
=. panic among the ladies in the audience.
Northern Pacific stock jumped twenty-five
. points yesterday and closed at a small gain
over the opening.
= Tho War Department may cause an IN
guiry Into the speech made by General
Chaffee at Pekin.
sssti FOREIGN.
The Powers have reduced the indemnity
$ claims against China to $sS7.o000 900.
ea SPORTING.
The Board OF Review of the National
Trottins Association handed down several
rulings yesterday.
Chorus Boy annexed the stake event at
Churchill Downs.
ii Close finishes made exciting sport at Oak
Hand.
Only one fayortte made good at Worth.
RAILROADS.
At the hearing before the Industrial
Commission at Washington alleged d!scrfn-
lnations in freight rates were given an air
ing.
Presidents Of Western lines will take
hand in the Kansas City eastbound rate
war at the meeting to be held on Friday.
). The st. Paul roxd will give a one-fare rate
10 the Modern Woodmen meeting in June