The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
To-DAY's NEWS IN BRIEF.
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN

LOCAL AND SUBURBAN
'Scrrpulous conscience seeks to pay
debts forgotten by creditors"
Harbor Commissioner Whyte says that
4 the Laclede Power Company is digging
tunnel to the river to avoid paying
water tax.
Frank Wyran, the new Postmaster OF
St. Louis. announced the appointment of
his brother to be his assistant. This
means the retirement of Mr.. F. ". Baum
hon from the local office.
Mrs. Mary Dechent died from an at
tack of coughing. 81
Five counterfeit dollars were passed on
Noah F. Waterfield, a Transit conductor,
on one trip.
Republicans will hold the Missouri con-
vention early in January. and this State
may be the first to indorse Roosevelt.
Chairman Atkins, Is preparing TO remove
to st. Louis.
Viola Schaefer. . years old, was burned
to crisp while left alone by her mother.
GENERAL DOMESTIC
Perry Heath says Hanna does not want
the presidency, but that he does desire
the nomination.
William B. Smith. the New York baker
who recently inherited part of the fortune
of his sister. the late Mrs. Charles l. Fair,
was mysteTiously missing from his New
York home. but was located in Denver,
after the police had been notified of his
disappearance.
An organization of manufacturers of
patent medicines. hopes to stop the cut
ting in prices by druggists and depart
ment stores.
More than s1sl, 900 will be distributed
in dividends and interest in New York
City In January.
Archbishop Chapelle sails for Cuba to be
absent several months.
Kansas is borrowing money from the
East again. but this time it is said to pay
for more lands.
FOREIGN.
William ]. Bryan writes OF his observa-
lions in Glasgow. The Kaiser regrets that
Christmas festivities will prevent him
from giving an audience to the American
Mrs. Henriette Duperon. a picturesque
character of Paris, well known to Amer
lean visitors. is dead. She will have a re-
rnarkable funeral.
The French Senate has taken up the bud
get for 1904. which presents unusual diff
cuities, there being at the same time ne
cessity for economy and for increased ex-
penditures for the army and for educa-
ton.
London manufacturers of tights COM
plain that the demand for this style Of
costume is steadily declining.
London was deserted, as usual, on
Christmas Day. the majority of tourists in
the city having gone to Paris for the holi-
days.
American promoters in England find
English investors tinrid by reason of heavy
losses during the last few years.
One direct result of the massacres of
the Jews in Russia. it is suggested by the
English press. probably will be that Rus
STA win have great difficulty in making
loans In case OF war with Japan.
A movement Is on foot to beautify Lon
don with boulevards similar to those which
are the fame Of Paris.
London mail carriers were compelled to
hire cabs to make their Christmas dis
, trfbutions. &
The principally Of Monaco discharges
fts standing army. a guard of honor of
eighty men.
King Edward goes this week to Chats
worth. where he viii be deliberately en-
tertained. An attractive programme of
private theatricals has been arranged.
France will buy Of Italy the old home of
tie Bourbons, the family of the late King
OF Naples. @tss
A French Colonel sends the regimentai
cooks to a cookery school to learn how to
vary the meals served to soldiers.
The new French bettieship. Patrie. came
mar einhipcr uyten lo,,nched