The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-02-17
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

David Winget. veteran of the civil
Mar is to he eiec;rocutcd in Ohio for mur
der in the first degree.
Evangelist George Carter Needham is
dead in suburb of Philadelphia.
Mrs Julia Dent Grant yesterday ccebrat-
81 her seventy-sixth birthday. She is in
unusually good health.
Moro than twenty persons are injured i'm
fight n; a. dance at Ocmulgee, ]. T.. and
TWO are expected 10 die.
charles r. Schwab. president OF the steel
trust. arrived at New York Yesterday from
England. having spent several months in
various cities of Europe. He will preside
over the first innual meeting of the stock
holders OF The I'Tited States Steel Corpora
tion to-day.
confag grafton AT Woodbury.. Tenn.
causes damage that Will aggregate about
100000.
The eleventh continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution he
gins to-day at Washington.
Doctor G. c. Carroll of New York says
that he has discovered substitute for
auaesthetcs which will permit operations
without pain while the patient is perfectly
conscious. He claims that he has short
riTcuited nerve by an electric machine.
iiT,ed TO vebrat" in unison with IL. SO that
tn. sensation OF pain is cut off from the
hrEn and the patient felt no pain while
IN" tftTHIlDn was uIutI way.
Four railroad employees are killed IN a
collision the Iowa Central Railroad
near Clifford.
Near Litchfield. ILL.,, fast freight crashed
into the last sleeper of a beIated St Louis
train bound for Chicago. Two men. the
fireman and baggageman on the freight,
were killed and several persons were seri-
ously injured.
A passenger train collided with freight
gta nIi tta ,ui,, J,,,a
tion. ILL.,. and three persons were injured.
Trainmen saved their lives by jumping.
A student in the University of Michigan
takes his life with prussic acid.
Captain Barker arrives in the United
States to take command of the Kaiser 3
new yacht rs soon as she shall be COM
peted.
Six Democratic and three Republican
candidates for Congress are in the field in
the Sixteenth Missouri District.
The Continental Congress of the Daugh-
ters OF the American Revolution will con-
vcnc to-day in Washington. Missouri will
he well represented
A. Hyatt Nerril. a graduate of Yale and
son of Professor Edison L. Verrili, has dis
covered process Of photographing in
brilliant colors. He declines to discuss his
new method until patent rights shall have
been secured. but has exhibited five photo
graphs made by his new process. showing
bright -colored Bermuda fishes and Ber-
muda landscape with natures colors repro
duced.
4 three-cornered conversation in two Ian
guages between three ships in New York
Harbor makes confusion for a little while.
FOREIGN.
General Bell reports that American troops
have made a clean sweep on the insurgents
in Batangas Province.
Henry and his suite on board. stops at
Journey TO New York.
The steamer Dalton Hall, after a coils
ion with two other vessels at Liverpool,
has to be beached off Seaforth.
one hundred and fifty British soldiers are
led into Boer trap and twelve are killed
outright while more than forty are
wounded.
The Queen Regent of Spain will sign the
treaty of friendship with the United States
to-day.
General weyler will to-day submit a
proposition for the reduction of the Spanish
army.
Reports from Baku state that thousands
perished In the earthquake which destroyed
Shamaka, Transcaucasia.
Dordica one OF the Hindoo twins, is dead
at Paris from tuberculosis.
RAILROADS.
Daniel Hardy, former division superin-
,enden, of the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia.
takes charge of the general superntend-
ent's Office In st. Louis. TO which he was
recently appointed.
SPORTING.
An impromptu battle was started al Ath-
letic Park yesterday between members of
the jefferson Club and c. b. c. eievens on
account of n dispute over a decision.
Marine Intelligence.
New York Feb. 16-Arrived: Etruria
from Liverpool and Queenstown; La Tou-
raine from Havre: st. Paul from South
ampton and Cherbourg.
Fissures in a moutain and an earthquake
terrify the inhabitants Of Chilpancingo.
Mexico.
Lizard Feb. 16-Passed: Steamer kens-
ington from New York for Antwerp
Kinsale Feb. l6.-Passed: Steamer Cavic
from New York for Liverpool.
Hamburg, Feb. 16.-Arrived; Steamer Pre-
ioria from New York via Plymouth and
cherbourg.
Liverpool, Feb. l6-Sailed: Steamers
Buenos Ayrean from Glasgow, for ST. johns,
Newfoundland: Halifax. Nova Scotia and
Philadelphia.
Queenstown. Feb. 16.-Sailed: Campania
from Liverpool for New York.
Southampton Feb. 16.-Ssiled: Steamer
kronprinz Wilhelm from Bremen for Cher
borra and New York.
Halifax Nova Scotia. Feb. 1s-Arrived
Pretoria from Liverpool and Morfi'c and
sailed for ST. Johns. Newfoundland: 81
beriau from Glasgow and Liverpool. via st
Johns. Newfoundland, for Philadelphia.