The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-11-17
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

GENERAL. DOMESTIC.
a heavy rain in Texas damaged late col
ton and caused the Trinity River to ris
twenty feet in eleven hours.
A woman dies at Boonville. Ind. fror
the effects of a fish bone she swallowe
several days ago. Her suffering was In
tense.
Judge Henry Of Kansas City is nea
deaths door. HIS physician says that h
cannot live longer than three days.
Commissioner Lewald. the German rep
resentative to the Worlds Fair. left New
York for Washington last night. Afte
greeting state officials ne will proceed t
ST Louis.
Harlan Buckles who was sentenced to If,
Imprisonment Saturday. was taken from
the Jail at Eliza abethtown KY. and lynched
The live stock and cattle men of Illiroi.
VIII gather in convention at Bloomington
to-day
The friends of Judge George w. Thorn.
berry of Ozark County have started boom
for him for the Democratic nomination 70,
lieutenant Governor in 1901.
Chester Norton kills James Moss by q
single fist blow in the face at Teutopolis
Ill, in fight. because Norton refused to
buy liquor for Moss. They were strangers
The Kansas senatorial race is growing
quite interesting. Chester /. Long Charles
curtis and Governor Stanley have set their
hearts on the seat and the most astute
peiitician cannot say who will shake the
plum.
General Chaffee is optimistic concerning
the future OF the Philippine archipelago. He
thinks one of the first things the American
Government should do is to get rid Of the
Sultan of Jolo.
John Dillon and Michael Dayitt smoke to
& large audience in Baltimore last night.
cyclonic wind did considerable damage
In fhe vicinity Of Terrell. Tex. Houses were
blown away and fences wrecked. but no IA
taHties were reported
frmour & Co.'S packing plant at Sioux
City was burned. The damage is nearly a
million.
fhe Reverend Walter Mitchell rector of
81. Jude's Parish at Monroe City, No.
mas resigned to accompany Senator Cock
reu TO Washington this winter as his pri-
vate secretary.
The Colorado Humane Society will try to
nave Congress establish a national bureau
Tor the purpose of protecting children and
animals
Recognition of the miners union is said to
pe tine chief question for settlement by the
strike commissioners, despite the decIara-
ftohs of the coal operators to the contrary
"A naming meteor which fell at Lexington
Ay-' caused CONSERVATION among many of
tne inhabitants. who thought 1t a sign that
'he worio was coming to en- end. 1t was
seen in Cincinnati. o.. and Louisville. KY.
The pastor of the Baptist Church at JEFF
ierson City. Mo-. circulated a resolution
among the members OF his congregation
Sunday condemning all the pracftces
OF .f'social worldliness'' prevalent to-day
such as card-playing. dancing. drinking,
etc. The pastor intends to inausurate a
crusade. +
The October statement Of exports shows
a tendency toward recovery from the de-
Gad bx-& H. -
crop last year.
The American Federation of Labor NAV
enlarge its Executive Council from nine
TO eleven members. The Socialistic wing de-
mands that it receive representation on the
council.
Frank Allen, a 16-year-old boy. of Bedford
Ok: picked cotton in order to buy Socialist
DOCKS to circulate among his neightors
He finds his library Is not half large enough
and has advertised for more books.
The First Congregational Church of Dali
las. Tex. has extended a call to the Rever-
end Doctor Scoffield of East Northfield
Mass
Walter Harvey Reed of St Louis. a mem
ber OF the United States Geological Sur
vey. has won recognition in the department
and national fame by his discoveries and
writing In his chosen field of science.
The creation of department of commerce
wiilSbe one Of the first duties of the new
Congress.
President Roosevelt ate a reg'Iar 'nigger.'
dinner in camp yesterday on a pine board.
The layout consisted of roast bear paws.
possum" and sweet "'taters." The in
surgent newspaper men. repulsedy on the
land side by armed pickets have char
tered boat and are trying to force
the camp from the water side. A party of
Chicago hunters in the vicinity has had
wonderful luck in hagging big game, and
Colonel Golfers dander is up; ani he is
determined that +Se President shall not re-
turn home empty-handed.
The street-car men of BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,.
go on a strike because the companies re-
fuse to recognize the union, and all of the
lines in the city are tied up. Not a car
moved yesterday.
A Government bulletin issued yesterday
predicts a cold wave in the Southwest
A religious enthusiast, who declares he
II the holy ghost was sent to prison at
New York for disturbing the services OF
a Seventh-Day Adventists' Church. With a
woman he calls his spiritual wife, he de-
scended upon the church. and was only SUBJ
dued after eight deacons threw him down
and sat on him.
The liquidation which was the feature of
the security market last week may, il
continued long enough. bring about a COM
plete cure OF the markets Indigestion. from
which 1t has suffered so long.