The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-05
GENERAL DOMESTIC.


4 Michigan veterinary surgeon is arrested
on a charge Of sending 4 poisoned headache
powder TO his nearest neighbor.
The Decatur and Lincoln. Ill. Presbyter.
les Of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
have each adopted resolutions requesting q
reunion with the Presbyterian Church from
which it branched off in 1910 The Lincoll
body went still further. and adopted = me.
mortal to the General Assembly q the Pres
byterian Church, to be held at Nashville
rem. requesting 4 reunion. inasmuch as
all creed differences had been removed.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania asserts
that he viii smash the coal ring and de.
ciares further that If satisfactory and ef.
ncient bill to settle labor difficulties i.
presented he will have the Legislature mass
The wisconsin Democratic Convention af-
journs, having ignored Il motion TO indorse
the party's national platform
Mrs. Dake OF Denver hires q special train
IN Arizona when she hears that her hus-
band is near death ard makes record
breaking run through the mountains finding
her husband still alive and conscious at the
Colorado capital.
Inc coal strikers in the Norfolk and
Western field of West Virginia agree to re-
Turn 10 work next Monday, the operators
promising to give them their old places.
President Roosevelt is entirely recovered
held, Mass. and will start on his short tour
in the South to-day.
Buying orders sustained the cotton mar
ket for some time yesterday but selling al
the advance soon caused weakness and the
close was considerably lower than the high
price OF the dav before caused by the Gov
ernmenta gloomy report.
W. ]. Bryan characterizes the Presidents
Providence speech as n ''servile appeal for
lawless wealth." and declares that IL proves
he has come 10 agreement with the
trusts.
Senator Sullivan of New York declares
that Bird $. Coler Will be nominated by the
Democrats for Governor of New York, and
will be elected by an old-time Democratic
majority.
More than 100 patents for using oil as
fuel have been issued, and the applications
continue to pour in 10 the number of TWEEN
ty-five each week.
A negro preacher caused the Mayor of
New York City to blush when he predicted
that Seth Low would one day be President
of the United States.
A Jefferson County, Missouri. farmer IS
gored to death by an angry bull.
Secretary Shaw is pleased by the re-
sponses received from national banks to his
suggestion that they issue sl5,0oo0oo in bank
notes.
The Census Bureau issues a report show
ing that the average age of the population
OF the United States is steadily increasing.
Mrs. ]. E. Johnson. a ST. Louis bride
/. was shot through the hand by stranger
who entered her bedroom at Navasota
Her husband shot and seriously wounded
the man. who opened fire on both of them
apparently without provocation
Captain Allison H. Foster, a lifelong Re-
publican OF Mississippi has declined to serve
as the Republican member of the Board of
Election Commissioners, declaring that he
is not follower of Roosevelt
The citizens of Mississippi are complain
ing because of the small national appropri-
ations for their State, while other States
receive many times as much. They declare
their Congressman are timid about advan-
cling their claims.