The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10
The NEWS CONDENSED.
MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS LOCALITIES.
General Happenings of the Past Few
Days Taken from the Wires and
Condensed to Suit-of Interest to
ALI Who Wish to Know What Has
Been Going On in This and other
Countries.

The employees of the street railway
company at Lima, have demanded
shorter hours and more pay.
Frederick Rupert, aged IS years, of
Huntingdon, Pa, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun.
John Henderson of Metropolis, ILL.,,
became ~entangled in the dust elevator
at the box factory and was killed.
Dependency over misdeed of his son
led William Hafen to commit suicide at
Clinton, Iowa. by taking carbolic acid.
The son was in jail at the time.
King Carlos, in his speech opening
the cortes at Lisbon Thursday. referred
with regret to the death of President
Mckinley.
Robbers assaulted the assistant post
master at Mystic, Ga, and robbed the
Office of stamps, money order blanks,
mail locks and keys.
Two wagon loads OF clothing, dry
goods and jewelry, worth about 1000,
were stolen from the Brown dry goods
store at De Soto, Iowa.
b. F. Partridge, a prominent citizen
Of Fergus Falls, MINI. died from po-
plexy, aged so years. He organized the
Fergus Wagon company.
Lawrence Hex, colored, was sent
enced to be hanged during the week of
April 18th at Pueblo, Colo. He MUIR
dured a man and woman
The Chickasaw full blood Indians in
Indian Territory are waging a hot cap-
paign for the election of William Bod
to succeed Governor ID. M. Johnson. :
Attorney General McVurg of Missis-
sippi is contemplating the institution
Of proceedings to break the merger Of
the Southern and Mobile & Ohio rail-
ways.
The Illinois Central fast mail train
struck a hand car near Farina, ILL.,, and
killed a man named Stevens, overseer
for the Giser Construction company of
st. Louis.
Judge W. w. Duncan of Marion and
state Senator o. H.. burnett have an
nounced themselves as candidates for
congress from the twenty-second Illi-
nois district.
Levi Reed, who was among the pris-
oners that escaped from the federal Jail
at Guthrie, Ok, T., on July 5th last, was
recaptured on New Years day and re-
turned to Jail.
The San Francisco mint has Just
completed d coinage record which
makes 1901 the banner year in it's his
tory, $S1 ,012 $50 having been converted
from bullion into coin.
The Italian government has decimal
the invitation of the United States to
partipicate in the st. Louis exhibition.
but undertakes to facilitate representa-
ton of Italian producers.
A man SO years old, believed to be
j.. w. Cheek, formerly a practicing ply
stefan in Bryan, Texas, st. Clair county,
Mo, and Council Grove, Kan, commit
ted suicide at Kansas City Mo.
The engagement of Miss Abble Camp
bell of San Jose, Cal, to Prince David
K~anawakoa of Hawaii has been form
ally announced. Miss Campbell is a ma
tive of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Candid Friend says that NJ. de
Blowitz has resigned the Paris CORE
spondence of the London Times and re-
tired to private life, and that he has
an American.
By biting a highwayman's fingers I'M
til he cried out with pain and then
kicking his companion senseless, Mrs.
Anna Wirsing, a widow living on the
South side, in Chicago, foiled an at
tempt to rob her.
Robert Ames, has surrendered to the
officers at Fort Pierre, s. D., saying he
had shot and wounded Frank Handley,
a ranch manager for whom he worked,
on White Clay Creek. He claims he
acted in self-defense.
Zionists of the middle Western
states organized as the Knights OF
Zion will hold their fourth annual con-
Zion held their fourth annual con
Sunday. About sixty delegates attend
ed, representing 80 organizations.
Conductor ]. C. Jackson and Walter
Beavers, a boy, were fatally hurt at
South McAlester, l. T., They were
standing on the depot platform, when
two freight trains collided. and were
thrown under the wheels of a car, their
legs being cut off.
The National Grain Dealers associ
alton executive committee will meet
in Chicago the first week in March
The place for holding next years con
vention will be determined. The prin
cipal bidders are Minneapolis anG
A dispatch from Ilwaco. Wash.
says: Lieutenant James f. Beven
Eighth artillery, was found dead il
bed at Fort Candy. His brains Were
blown out and by his side was found
a revolver. 1t is apparently a cas-
of suicide, though no reason is known
why he should take Ais life.
} A man entered the office of tn,
Prudential Insurance company in Rox
bury near Boston, and. pointing a re
volver at the young woman cashier
Wilhelmina Knott, demanded wha
I money she had. She gave him abou
$50, which was in the drawer. The DO
lice have not been able to trace him.
Miss Estelle Reel. government su
perintendent of Indian education, ha
: decided to have the annual convention
I OF those interested in Indian educa
ton, including the teachers. held il
Minneapolis next July in connection
with the session Of the National Edu