The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-08-15
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the election by large majorities of the
Democratic state ticket.
At Lincoln the Nebraska prohibition
lists nominated a state ticket headed by
S. 7. Davies, 0toe county, for governor.
An opinion rendered by the Ramsey
county court at st. Paul has declared
the Minnesota inheritance law uncon-
s~titutional.
The pope has approved the appoint
ment of Mon. Guidi as apostolic dele
gate to the Philippines, to continue the
negotiations with Governor Taft in re-
gard to the friars and church property.
At Chicago a receiver has been APP
pointed for Frank r. Chandler, mort
gage banker. The petition says his liza
bilities exceed 5000. 900; assets $4,000
Chandler claims his assets equal the
liabilities.
Near Huntington. Tenn, Miller
Meeks was killed by his 17-year-old son.
The father attacked the boy with a
knife. and the latter drew a knife and
cut the old man in the arm. severing
the main artery. The boy escaped.
A heavy windstorm swept over st.
Louis early Tuesday and wrecked two
of the four overs of the varied indus
tries building in course of construction
at the worlds fair site. The damage
will reach several thousand dollars.
President Roosevelt will receive the
honorary degree of Ii. d. from the
University of Chicago during his visit
Oct. 8. A special convocation will be
called and the affair will be elaborate
President Mckinley received the title
in 1898.
d. E. S~hackleton, member of the La
Dor party, has been elected to the Brit
ish house of commons, without Oppo-
sition to fill the vacancy in the seat for
the division in Lancashire caused by
the elevation to the peerage of Sir U
James Kay-Shuttleworth. liberal.
Aaron Halle. the murderer. was put
to death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison Monday for the murder of
his sweetheart, Mary Mccarthy be-
cause she refused to marry HIM and
whom he shot and killed in q New
York department store last year.
VIM. Zeigler of New York. who sup
piled the funds for the Baldwin eXpedi-
ton. said to the Associated Press today
the statement he had received advices
from Baldwin is untrue. He is even in
clined to be skeptical of the report
Baldwin had returned.
Washington, Aug. 5.-Negotiations
have been opened in Washington for
the establishment of an entente cordi-
ale between the governments Of Col
ombia and Nicaragua. Ministers Con-
cha of Colombia and Corea of Mica a.
u are carrying on the negotiations.
Reports have been received of the
lynching Saturday night of Leo New
ton, a negro. by a mob of % men %
miles from Magnolia. Ark, and away
from telegraphic communication. The
negro was caught in the room of two
young ladies, daughters of a prominent
family.
Henry Rechtin, late disbursing off
Ger of the department of justice of New
York, deposited with the United States
treasurer a certified check for 81, Goa,
the amount of the shortage of his ac-
counts recently d~iscovred b ythe ac-
counting officers. Rechtin is still I'M
der arrest.
At West Point, 80 candidates present
ed themselves this week to be examined
relative to their admission to the mill
tary academy as cadets. Among the 81
who passed successfully and were ad
miteed were Guy S. Scovell of Mich
igan, David G. G.. Garrison of Illinois,
Joseph "A. NIttu Ol iowa ZINC Roy r.
Waring of Nebraska.
Acting Governor Northcott of Illinois
has ordered DR.. William Jayne, presi-
dent of the Illinois board of charities,
to make a full investigation of the
charges of immortality and cruelty
which have been made against the at
tendants of the eastern hospital for the
insane at Kankakee. The investigation
&c 1iLa1U To ha pnnp1pOr cod npvt ueal-
Edward J. Kolb, Jr.. the smallest
member of the Elks' fraternity in the
United States, having taken a prize at
the st. Louis convention of 1899 as
such, who has been stamp clerk at the
Allegheny, Pa, ~postofice, was drowned
in the Cheat river near Morgantown,
w. Va, while on his vacation. He was
80 years of age, and a member of lodge
No. 500.
Fire Friday night in the plant of the
Phoenix works, 81 and 313 Broadway,
Milwaukee, caused a loss of about 500
600, fully insured. The fire started
while the building was crowded with
employees, many of whom were women.
and all of whom had a narrow escape
from death. The fire was a difficult one
to cope with, and during it's progress
several firemen were overcome by the
smoke.
The members of the Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers local union &c. who
have been employed on repair work at
the white house at Washington, have
quit work in order to enforce the rules
of the union. The cause of the walk
out" it is stated, is the refusal of the
New York firm having the contract for
electrical work at the white house TO
accept the local terms of the electrical
workers union.
Waits from indiana polls demolished
the gravestone that marks the grave of
John H. Hamilton at Winona lake.
Warsaw, Ind, in an effort to take home
with them a memento from the fresh
air camp. Friday evening Col. Isaac w.
Brown gave a talk to the boys, and in
conclusion he alluded to the grave of
Hamilton, stating that he had once
been a great Indian fighter. Saturday
the boys visited the historic tomb