The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-01
.To-DAY's NEWS IN BRIEF.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.

4 tU.UAl.S NEWS IN 6nlef.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.
The Southwestern Mercantile Association
gives picnic at Lemp's Park.
Chairman Kennard OF the Worlds Fair
COmmittee on Grounds and Buildings an
nounces progress OF the work OF organixa-
tioa the commission OF architects.
Worlds Fair directors and their guests
depart for Buffalo to attend the dedication
OF the Louisiana Purchase Exposltion'e
building at the Pan-American Exposition.
One death results from the heat and sec-
eral prostrations are reported. the temper
allure reaching 100 degrees.
Elmer. w. Drake and Doctor Hugh C.
HarEins claim to be heirs to the 5000. Co.,
600 Sir Francis Drake estate.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.
Mrs. Josie Grehan. separated from her
husband. commits suicide by saturating her
clothes with gasoline and setting the oil on
lire.
Edward Walsh. Jr., dies on a Big -Four
train near Nation. ILL.,. from the effects Of
heat. The body is brought back to ST. Louis
By the dead mans brother Julius s. Walsh
Andrew H. Prize. the victim OF a highway
mans bullet. il rapidly sinking at his home
In Ferguson.
The Reverend James N. Crutcher OF the
Compton Heights Christian Church
preached to his congregation attfred in
shirt waist.
Nearly $4,000 worth OF new beer stamps
are sold In about ten minutes just after
midnight to st. Louis brewers.
GENERAL. DOMESTIC.
Ten thousand harvesting machines and
1890 laborers worked in the kansas wheat
fields, on Sunday.
Thirty thousand union men viii be idle to-
day ~ the result Of an order issued to en-
'paoyes Of sheet steel mills to strike.
A Decatur. H.. preacher appeared in his
pulpit Sunday CARRIED In shirt waist. Dur
ing the service three men In the congrega-
taon removed their coats At the evening
services the entire choir appeared coatless.
Caleb Powers and Jim Howard. convicted
OF conspiracy in the Goebel murder case are
said to have planned to escape.
Evangelist at Madison. Wis. who at
tempted to hold religious services at pic
mic. got ducking from a crowd OF roughs,
Deaths by the score due to the intense
heat are reported from many cities In the
East.
Forrest Rinenberg Of St Joseph fell upon
a picket and was partly disembowled.
The passing OF million-dollar check to
the Union Trust Company Of st. Louis Is
believed to be the first step in plan of
Eastern interests to acquire all Of the pur-
chasable lead lands in Missouri.
Noted American actors will present a
play In Paris in celebration Of July l.
Sales Of lead and zinc ore for the week
show an increase.
FOREIGN.
The Empress Of China Is said to have de-
cleared her determination not to return to
Pekin On the plea that she fears plot to
take her life.
, Tien-Tsin II crowded with strangers. The.
city is preparing to receive Prince Chun,
who will stop there several days on his way
to Germany.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention will
discu0 the electoral law this week.
The long drought in England was broken
yesterday by heavy rains and thunder
the heat waves have caused intense suffer-
ing. France wis visited by heavy rains and
electrical storms
The Panama. rebels are reported to be
feoeganixing, am It IL believed that con.
aldesahle fighting Is going on in the in
teEioe.
11rs. Brown Potter appeared in a pic
&urssQus costume and recited several poems
as . London church at regular religious
services. The Bishop viii forbid her reap
psarance in . similar role. although the
PASTORS plan to draw . big crowd was
highly successful
- Marine Ihtelligence.
New Yoek. June 0.-Asrived: Astoria,
GlasgoW and Neville: Rinnemara. Genoa.
afesainA and Palermo; La Champagne,
ahsfSs 0taAtendam: Rotterdam and Bou-
Antwerp. June so.-Arrived: Steamer
.outhWaxk. New York.
UvsEpool, June al-Arrived: Steamers
Georgian. New York: Georgia. New York; |
Umbfia, New York, via Queenstown.
40y11lA June 0.-Arrived; Tunisian. Mon
tfeal and Quebec. for Liverpool and pro-
ceSdsd.
ouesnstoWn, Juno So-Sailed: Steamer
campania. from Liverpool. New York.
Neville. June 0.-Afrived: Steamer Sar.
einiaa. New York for Glasgow.
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