The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

pectation.
Governor Odell has appointed Nath-
an L. Miller of Cortland county, state
comptroller to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Erastus G.
Knight, who was recently elected
of Buffalo.
Wild horse meat is the principal ar
ticle of food of the section men on the
desert districts of the railroads in
southern Utah. The section men say
the meat is not bad and it is the only
fresh meat o~btainable.
James Davidson, the oldest Odd
Fellow in the United States, is dead at
Santa Barbara, Cal. He was born in
West Virginia SO years ago and be-
came a member of Franklin lodge at
Wheeling on June II, 1888.
Mrs. Hattie House of Perkinsville,
Ind, is dead from the effects of burns
she inflicted on herself by pouring
kerosene on her clothing and then ap-
plying a match. She had been insane,
it is thought, for two years.
One of the new compound locomo-
lives recently put in service by the
Chicago. Milwaukee e st. Paul rail-
way made a record run from Chicago
to Milwaukee New Years eve, travel
ing So 2-10 miles in 81 minutes.
London counsel for the duke of
Manchester declare there is absolute
ly no truth in the report that the duke
had offered Portia Knight, the actress
500, 900 in full settlement of her claim
for damages resulting from alleged
breach of promise of marriage.
The explosion of a boiler in the
basement of the Sacred Heart insti-
tute at Duluth Tuesday night resulted
in a loss of several thousand dollars
to the building, while 20 persons who
were within at the time narrowly es-
capped being killed or injured.
Plans for establishing in the City Of
Mexico a branch of the Y. NJ. G. A. are
maturing. The project has the COOP
Grafton of Miss Helen Gould and John
Barrett, member of the Pan-American
conference. The object is to provide
many foreign young men with a re-
sort.
The federal court at Denver has de-
clared unconstitutional the state law
taxing corporations at their full cash
value. Small property-owners, how
ever, must pay in full. The decision
leaves a deficit in the state revenues
and will compel the closing of many
state institutions.
The Court Gazette that
the king has appointed Lord Marcus
Beresford extra equerry and manager
of his majesty's thoroughbreds stud.
The appointment is interpreted as an
indication of the kings intention to
renew his active patronage of the
turf. from which he withdrew on his
mothers death.
Charles Fox and John Miller, deaf
,mutes at Kokomo, Ind, quarreled
with their fingers over the formers
wife. also a deaf mute. who for some
time has been separated from her hus-
band. Miller inflicted severed severe
wounds with a knife and Fox was
dangerously injured. Miller fed and
has not yet been found.
Maggie Madwick, who is in Jail at
Port Huron. Mich, awaiting trial on
a serious charge. received a letter
from her aged husband, Elias Mad
wick of Watford, Ont, whom she de-
serted some time ago, stating that he
had fallen heir to $50, 600. He begs
her to return to him and go to Eng
lane with him to claim the amount.
Judge Hazen has decided that the
council of the city of Topeka has no
right to pass an ordinance for the
search of places in which liquor is IL
legally sold and for the seizure of
liquors found there. This leaves the
city practically without an ordinance
under which the police can success
fn1lu nrpco,,t, Tho ilJAra1 l;u,1, all
ers.
Charles Hockenbrock, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Hockenbrock, of Chip
pewa Falls, Wis. has returned to the
parental roof after being absent ten
years. He was thought to be dead.
Three years ago he enlisted in Califor-
mia and has been in the Philippines.
The family vas seated at the supper
table when the young man appeared at
the door.
f. ID. Coburn, secretary of the Kan
sas state board Of agriculture, certified
to- the auditor of state that the farmers
of Western Kansas produced this year
1.7121a tons OF sugar beets that yielded
more than ~ per cent. of sugar. BY
the act of the last legislature these
farmers will be paid by the state 81 a
ton bounty in addition to the market
value Of their product.
Mrs. Jack Wilmerding OF New York,
granddaughter of Commodore Wander
bjlt, an unsuccessful actress despite her
beauty, whose struggle to be released
from Bloomingdale asylum. where sh e
was placed by her family, kept the
courts busy two years ago, has had a
relapse and it is reported that she is
now under the constant care Of two
physicians and n nurse.
The authorities at st. Petersburg
have just given out official figures. &C
cording TO which the expenditure of
Russia's China expedition amounted 10
a total of 81 ,S43, 435 rubles. of which
AZ, 1853, 541 rubles were spent in 1900. OF
the total amount, So, 900 900 rubles We're
used by the wal department; 1900. 900
rubles by the navy department. and
the rest for reconstructing railrNad and
telegraph lines.
A New Haven dispatch says: w. J.
Hayes, who went several months age
as the agent of large tobacco interests
IN Sunprintenu the growing of Suma-