The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-25

Buchanan will resign from his post.
The Secretary of Agriculture has ap-
proved the plans for the campaign against
the cotton boil weev1l evil -
LOCAL AND SUBURBAN.
Many applications have been received
bv the worlds Fair officials from mill
tary academies for space on the grounds
and dates on which the cadets may en-
camp.
Miss Jennie Ritchey of Neosho. Mo-,
lost her nurse containing diamonds valued
at $500 and s75 in currency at Union Sta
tion yesterday.
Several Young women. members of vari-
ous unions, have offered to postpone their
weddings rather than ride in nonunion
carriages.
The body of James Leland. o!d friend OF
Abraham Lincoln, was sent to Ottawa,
Ill. for burial.
The New York Life Insurance Company
will pay s775.OO0 to Blair's beneficiares to-
day.
Gertie Tentinser. "a years old, charges
that her teacher. 0. 8. Hays. principal
of the Oakville School. punished her ex-
cessively.
Transcontinenta1 Passenger Association
agents announced that low rate to the
Pacific Coast probably will be fixed. The
delegates will visit the Exposition. site
Wednesday. -.
The Reverend Doctor S. A. Steele con-
demned Chicago theater patrons for de-
manding that unsafe playhouses be
opened. er
John A. Butler. chairman Of the Ma
tional Municipal Leagues Committee on
Civic Week al the Fair writes. that sew
eral similar organizations will meet with
the league. o.
Sears Hamilton. arrested in st. Louis
for deserting from the navy, says that he
left the service because he was assigned
to cook for nearly a thousand hungry
fellow-apprentices.
Zero weather is predicted for St Louis
this morning.
Hebrews raised 5000 within fifteen
minutes for the Union College at Cincin-
natl.
Coaches in Union Station were left in
darkness for several hours because air
instead Of gas had been pumped into the
tanks.
William Sacks was reelected president
of the Young Mems Hebrew Association.
At a meeting in the Pilgrim Congrega-
tional Church plans were made to raise
5000 and fight the spread of vice and
lawlessness in the. neighborhood bounded
by Grand. Jefferson. Laclede and Easton
avenues.
Mrs. Kate De Long advertised for infor-
nation. concerning her sister. Miss Ger
trude Gushing. to relieve family distress.
GENERAL DOMESTIC.
Baron Won Sternburg. German Ambas-
sador to the United States. says he is in
thorough accord with President Roose- |
velt's order that members of the Diplo- |
matte Corps appear in court costume
Doctor Dugger of Missouri University |
discovers new method of growing mush- |
rooms. whereby he can grow them as |
cheaply as potatoes.
A glass blower is choked to death by a |
piece of beefsteak in restaurant at
Ltchfieid. Ill.
Several Pennsylvania towns are partly |
submerged by the foods.
Lowden defeats Governor Yates at the
Ogle County Republican primary
The Grand Jury of Kansas City, Kas,
which so far has refused to. return
any indictments in connection with the |
recent Doodle investigations, is threatened
with an expose by the Citizens Commit
tee. . ~'f.~
r. c. Francis is murdered in his office
by an unidentified person at Sherman,
Tex.
Russians in Ellis County. Kansas. has
ten to become citizens of the United
States so as to avoid serving in the Cars
army. in the event of war between Rus
sia and Japan.
The Philippine exhibit for the st. Louis
Worlds Fair arrives at Portland Ore
Frank c. Dunton of Sedalia. Mo-. who
killed man for causing his daughters
suicide. is convicted of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to serve
twenty-eight years in prison.
Missouri University students plan an
$4,000 Y. NJ. c. A. building.
SPORTING.
Association football results: Spaldings.
s; Leacocks. 3: Kerns, 3; Rawlings. /.
Ed Cuthbert. well-known ex-baseball
player. is Ill and destitute in St. Louis.
A Central Missouri baseball league is
FOREIGN.
Reports of an alarming nature from the |
far East continue to pour into ST. Peters
burg These include the landing of Jap
anese troops in Korea. the crossing of g.
300 Russian troops. over the Yalu River
and the dispatch Of Chinese army be- {
yond the Great Wall into Manchuria ,
1t is reported that conspiracy against
King Peter of Servia has been formed by
friends of the murdered monarch and
Queen Draga.
Marine Intelligence.
New York, Jan. 2.-Arrived: Auguste |
Victoria, Hamburg. Southampton and
Che, bourg.
Liverpool. Jan. A.-Arrived: Umbria,
New York, via Queenstown.
Kingston, Jan. A-Arrived: Prinzessin |
Victoria Luise New York, via ST. Tho
mas, etc. (on cruise).
Naples. Jan. 24.-Arrived: Republic,
Alexandria for Gibraltar. Punta del Ga
da and Boston.
Hamburg. Jan. 23.-Sailed: Bluecher,
New York. via Southampton and Cher
bourg (and passed Dover January 2D.
Glasgow, Jan. 23.-Sailed: Anchoria.
New York, via Moville (and sailed from
latter port January 2D.
Queenstown, Jan. 24.-Sailed: Etruria,
from Liverpool New York.
New York, Jan. 24.-Arrived: Perugia,
Leghorn and Naples.
DEATH OF MRS. ELIZA CURTIS.
City Woman Was Well
known in st. Louis.