The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1901-11-08
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Flashes From the Wires P~ortraying
Occurrences in All Parts of
the World.

Repairs to walls, towers and palace
have been almost completed at Pekin
in order to conceal from the emperor
the evidence of foreign invasion.
The bubonic plague has re%appeared at
Glasgow.
Sir Thomas Upton. who was inter-
viewed aboard the White Star liner
Celtic, denied emphatically that Sham
rock III is for sale.
Emperor William has telegraphed
the German Protestant community at
Shanghai that he will give an altar and
windows to the new church there in
memory of Baron Won Ketteler, the
murdered German minister to China. -
British people are quarreling among
themselves over the retirement OF Cen
eral Butler and the church is involved
in a bitter discussion of affairs in South
Africa.
Miss Stone and her companion in cap
tivity are reported to be in a Turkish
border village in the house of a Mussul-
nan hey, an accomplice of the b%rigands,
who will negotiate the ransom.
European ports will disinfect vessels
from Liverpool, where bubonic plague
is reported.
The Portuguese minister at Washing
ton is recalled for prematurely an
nouncing the death of President Nc
Kinley.
Louise de Gardens Classe, formerly
a countess of France, has been grant
ed citizenship papers at Salt Lake,
Utah. Nine. de Classe is related to
the royal Bourbon family of France.
kpopnhicto in Don,A hold N n,notinu
at which Leon F. Czolgosz was eulo-
gized while his electrocution was &C.
curing. The government endeavor-
ed to suppress the meeting, but it was
nevertheless held secretly.
Referring to the plans of the Duke
dAbruzzi to visit American waters,
the Italie says he will assume COM;
mand of one of the fastest Italian,
cruisers next January for a voyage of
IA months along the coast of America.
Joseph Herrings. a n~aturalized
American, who was war correspondent.
for the Stats Zeitung of Berlin in
1898, and who also acted in China last.
year for American journals, has re-
oeived notice of his expulsion from
Prussia.
Sir Robert Hart, the imperial COM
missioner of maritime customs, says
the increase in the exports from New
Chwang is greatly in excess of the.
shipping facilities. He also praises
the protection afforded by Russia Of
the trade with Manchuria, which is be-
ing rapidly recovered.
An earthquake was felt in many Ital-
ian cities, including Spezzia, Genoa,
Bologna. Brescia and Milan yesterday.
There were two severe shocks at Gal
larate, where a number of houses were
damaged.
A new development of the Gothen-
burg system has made it's appearance
in several Swedish towns. There mu-
nicipal public house companies have op-
ened temperance hotels Offering meals
at cost price. 1t is called the Vexlo
system.
Emma Defryes, daughter of a Hawai-
ian missionary, and descendant of the
kings OF Maui and Hawaii, has become
a claimant to the crown lands in Ha-
wall. This is the third claimant, the
others being Lilioukalani and Mrs.
Wilcox.
Fearing the loss of commerce, Eng
lish merchants are planning a con-
ference upon methods of retaliation on
Germany.
DR.. Hope, medical officer of the port
of Liverpool, has conferred with the
American and other consuls regarding
bubonic plague precautions and has ar
ranged to supplement the board of
trade examination of outgoing vessels
SO as to meet the desires of the ranre-
sentatives of foreign countries.