The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-20
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.

crooks and immoral women by members o
the Police Department.
Mrs Emma Fox, sister-in-lsw Of Dell
Fox. the opera singer. attempted to commi
suicide. but without success.
Odd Fellows will have charge OF tn
funeral tomorrow of ]. H. Crane. one o
the oldest members Of the order. who ha'
been furniture dealer in st. Louis TO
ffty-five years.
Francis Scharwitz. Assessor and Collecto
of Water Rates. abolished the custom o
permitting taxpayers to remit through dru
stores and express offices.
The Burlington building was sold to W
K. Bixby. trustee OF the Mcmillan estate
for 100000. 1t pays per cent on the in
vestment.
Con p Curran. city printer. who was ex
amined at the tril of p. R. FftzGibbon. tn
suspended City Register. testified that com
petitcrs who underbid him on certain con
tracts were crazy.
The National Securities Company obtain
a temporary injunction from the Fedora
Court against Postmaster Baumhoff to pre-
vent him from applying the fraud mark t.
its mail.
Doctor Johnston Myers. Baptist evangel
ist-pstor of Chicago, in an address at tn,
Mercantile Club. deplored the tendency IL
st. Louis to build churches in fashionab biz
neighborhoods instead OF downtown amons
the masses.
An elaborate approach and trumphal cause
Z way from the Lindell Pavilion to the
Liberal Arts building has been designed
W. Jen Pollard has applied for the place
70 be vacated by Police Judge Sidener. who
has resigned
:. Mrs. Laura Sauer started to sing in J,dpe
: Morris's courtroom and was sentenced tc
Jail.
H. T. Nowotny, who has been a motorman
Tor ten years. said he was threatened with
discharge If he did not resign from the
union organized Wednesday night. He quit
Albert Stephen Tackle. the sailor who was
Killed In an explosion on the battleship Mas
sachusetts. buried with naval honors.
Philippine Worlds Fair Junta enlists 90.
operation OF the Catholic Church in islands
Doctor Amand Ravold testified before the
Chicago Drainage Canal Commission that
65 per cent of the water supplied to st.
Louis from Chain of Rocks settling basins
contains bacillus coli, animal matter. said
to be due to Chicago sewage.
GENERAL DOMESTIC.
Texas legislators begin to- offer obiec-
ton to the Railroad Commissions activity
In advocating or opposing the passage of
bills relating to railroads in that State.
The American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation, in session at New York urges
st. Louis Worlds Fair
The member of the Kansas Legislature
who introduced a bill to Justify the kill
Ing of slanderers explains that his action
was suggested by an editor who called him
a thief.
Twelve school girls are killed and thirty
persons injured in a collision between a
trolley car and locomotive at Newark,
N J.
INra To- IT.
uon of the city caused damage estima ted
at more than s2O0.Oo0
Cornell University will build filtratio
plant for Ithaca as a result OF the typhoid
fever epidemic there.
Four men are dead and nine seriously in
jured as the result of an explosion in the
magazine OF Fort Lafayette in New York
Bay.
Judge Ben o. Jones died suddenly vester-
day at Metropolis. Ill. He recently started
the move to convert Fort Massac into a
national park.
A Kentucky physician on trial at Pitts
burg for attempt to kill says that he in
tended TO horsewhip his victim for mis-
treating the physician's wife. but in the
fight that resulted he was compelled to
shoot.
Senator Riley OF Illinois Announces in
the State Senate that other members Of
\ that body whose names he does not an
nounce. have grossly slandered him.
FOREIGN.
All the European Powers Join in a de-
mard upon the Porte for adequate protec-
ton TO Christians in his domain.
SPORTING.
savable is the favorite in future books
made on the American Derby. which are
being heavily patronized already. s,
Tommy Love won a slow. bout from Jim
my. Dunn last evening.
Minor baseball leagues are against con-
tract jumping. S-E t 1Ss3
Marine Intelligence.
New York. Feb. 1s.-Arrived: Flrnessia,
Glasgow. .
Queenstown. Feb 1s.-Sailed: westernland
tfrom Liverpool Philadelphia; Celtic, from
Liverpool. New York.
Liverpool, Feb. ls.-Arrived!:. Prnss,an.
Halifax. 3,
Rotterdam. Feb. 1s-Arrived: Amsterdam,
London Feb 1q-Arrfved. Columbian. T,o..