The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19
The NEWS CONDENSED.

Al 1IttuNlllt, N1lSS.p VnlSs Olii
Westrobe, who while insane murdered
elhurst, June 16, committed suicide by
jumping into the river.
The new airship that is being built
for Santos-Dumont will measure IL
meters in diameter and 20 meters in
length. 1t will have ten places, eight
for voyagers and two for those operat-
Ing it.
Burglars robbed the postofice of $500
in money and stamps at Miami, Mo.
They also entered the Miami Savings
bank. but were unable to open the safe.
All private boxes in the vault were
robbed, however, but the extent of the
loss is unknown.
Sioux Falls. Sept. 12.-J. P. Harring-
ton, a sign painter, tonight shot and
killed his divorced wife and then sent
a bullet into his breast, dying instant
ly. The cause was an unsuccessful at
tempt to induce the woman to live with
him again.
Passengers on the last trip of the
steamer Bertha from Alaska say that
the volcanoes Redoubt, Iliammoa and
Augustine mountains are in active erup-
ton. Great volumes of steam issued
" al lllVNs ohu NV ~
ing clouds of smoke miles high.
Admiral Killick personally fired the
after magazine of the Firminist gun
boat Crete-a-Pierrot, sunk off the en-
trance of Gonaives harbor, Hayti, Sat-
urday. and appears to have gone Town
with his ship. His body was recovered
later in the same day.
President Roosevelt put his stamp of
disapproval on the proposed cowboy
race from Deadwood to Omaha and the
contest has been abandoned. In addi-
ton to the presidents ~disapproval there
had been received several protests from
humane associations.
The body of F. T. Merry, clerk stem
ographer of the Fifth district court at
Kauaik, Honolulu, has been found in
the forest. 1t is thought he committed
suicide by shooting while temporarily
insane. Merry came from Ann Arbor,
Mich.
The emperor of Germany and Prince
Henry have been formally proposed for
honorary membership in the New York
Yacht club, and their election probably
will occur at the next regular meeting,
Oct. 90.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, because her
husband failed to give her S25 he had
promised her for a new dress, Mrs.
Louis Dahlstrom swallowed a quantity
of carbolic acid. Physicians were called,
but their efforts were ~unavailing, and
in three hours she was dead.
According to information from
France, that has just reached a friend
of the Fair family in San Francisco, II
was a defective steering wheel instead
of a collapsed tire that caused the death
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Fair while
they were automobiling in that coun'
try. All arrangements have been com
pleted for receiving the bodies of thu
Fairs on Friday in San Francisco.
Jack Shields, a hermit, living neal
Maple Hill, KY, was found dead in hi:
cabin door, and it is believed he was
murdered. There was blood on thu
floor of the house and in the doorway
and all the circumstances indicate {
severe struggle. 1t was supposed the
man kept a large sum of money in
the house.
A band of whitecaps visited the home
of Mat Sturgeon on the Wycoff farm
hve miles east of Bloomington, Ind, OF
Monday night, took Sturgeon out, an;
gave him a severe whipping. Stur
geon's wife was also lightly switched
Notices were left at the door of Roll;
Sturgeon, near by, warsing him tt
leave within a week.
A great whale hunt took place a
Hillswich, in the Shetland islands, las
Saturday. On that day a school OF her
ring whales was reported approaching
the village ana the entire fishing pop
ulation put to sea aboard of everything
that would float. They drove the whales
ashore and slaughtered 166 of them
The longest whale measured 80 feet.
While on their way to camp nea,
Brownsville, Tex, three members o
the state rangers were shot at by mel
in ambush, supposed to be friends of
man recently killed by the ranger,
while being arrested on a charge o
cattle stealing. Ranger Robuck was in
stantly killed. Ranger Baker wa
slightly wounded and Ranger Miller
horse was shot. Eight MeXicans hav,
been arrested for participation in tn
ambush.
Willis o. Tyler, the young colore
man of Monroe county, who won tn
state oratorical contest in 1901 and too
fourth place in a field with ten con
testants in the interstate oratorical i
Iowa, will enter the Harvard La
school.
The burning Beaumont gusher cease
flowing from natural causes Sunday an
the fire was easily eXtinguished.
There is a united effort in Cambridge
Mass, to have President Charles v
Eliot of Harvard college run for mayo
this fall On an independent or citizen.
ticket.
More than 500 employees in the freigf
departments of the different Kansf
City railroads have been granted sui
~stantial increases in salaries in the lai
month. In no instance has there bee
any threat of a strike.
George Huber of New York shot an
killed his wife in the town of Montere,
Mass, Sunday morning. The murdt
was committed on the public highwa
and several persons were witnesses
the tragedy which brought to an Ell
an unhappy marriage.
At Guthrie, Okla, in a quarrel ov'
school affairs Joseph Watkins, a farmt