The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-05
the NEWS CONDENSED.

hospital was dedicated Thursday with
impressive ceremonies. Bishop Won
Robe of Winona oficiated.
Notices have been posted at the vari-
Gus shops of the Wabash system in st.
Louis to the effect a revision of the
scale of wage for skilled labor has
been directed by the president.
Surveyors who had nearly completed
work on the proposed Boone, Rockwell
City e. Northern GOA road have re-
ceived orders to quit work. 1t is I'M
derstood the project will be abandoned.
F. w. Reul. an employe Of the bank
at Watertown, Wis, was shot and kill
ed early Wednesday morning while es-
corting Mrs. A. l.. Schissler to her
home. The woman's husband was ar
rested today charged with h murder.
Ira Merchant, for ten years city en-
gineer of Bloomington, Ill, and known
throughout the state, died Thursday,
aged IS. He surveyed the routes of
some of the first railroads in Illinois
n Missouri.
Chief Wilkie of the United States Sc
cret service, after inspecting Mrs. Lena
Doxheimer's story of the plot to kill
Roosevelt, said q searching investiga-
ton by the secret service proved con-
clusively she was mistaken as to the
facts.
Late Thursday evening papers were
signed at Pittsurg, Pa, completing the
combination of steel companies at Do
nora. The new company will be known
as the Union Steel company, capitaliz-
ed at $4,000, 900.
The principal Czech and other Ger
man parties in Vienna appear disposed
to accept the proposal of Premier Won
koerber to hold a conference with a
view to a settlement of the language
question.
A coroner's inquest into the death of
Florence McFarlan, held at Rochester,
N. Y, finds that Miss MacFarlan came
to her death as a result of stab wounds
inflicted by Mrs. Lulu Miller Youngs.
Mrs. Youngs was held for the grand
jury.
Indications are that foreign labor
will be brought to Springfield, ILL.,, to
take the place of strikers in the Wabash
shops. The men refuse to accept the
company'S offer to compromise wages
unless protection to all employees is
guaranteed.
A negro captured at Lawrenceville
Wednesday is suspected of being the
one who assaulted two women near
Oakton, Ind, on Tuesday. He was shot
three times by the city marshal before
he surrendered. If identified he is like
ly to be lynched.
G. w. Johnson, a Boston contractor,
has sailed from San Francisco for
Manzanillo, from where he expects to
direct a search for 81, 600, 900 of treas
ure which went to the bottom of the
ocean when the steamer Golden Gate
burned and sank 40 years ago.
District Judge Mullins of Denver has
ordered the arrest of II aldermen who
voted for the ordinance granting e new
franchise to the Denver City Tramway
company after they had been served
with an injunction which forbade the
passage of an ordinance as drawn.
Following the death of Mrs. Gertrude
Young at Minneapolis after a fast of 40
days the coroner decided to bring to
the attention of the county attorney,
with a view to prosecution, a cult the
chief theory of which is that cures for
many ills lie in total abstention from
food.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, &C
companied by Miss Holeluki and Jo-
seph Amoka, arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu on the steamer Ventura
Monday. The former queen is on the
way to Washington, where she will re-
side during the winter. She declined to
be interviewed.
Governor Yates of Illinois was rest
less Wednesday, and while there is nc
cause for alarm he was worse than on
Tuesday. After a very restless evening
the governor fell asleep about 10 o'clock
with a temperature of 100 10; pulse
100.
Wednesday night Edward Zechiel oil
Culver, Ind, and Roy Zachman of Mar
ion, o., freshmen in Heidelberg univer-
sity, were seriously wounded by a shot.
gun in the hands of a member of the
sophomore class. The freshmen at
tempted to steal the conveyance of the
s~ophomores with the above result.
William ]. Lomasney, aged 80 years
exchange teller at the Third Nationa.
bank at st. Louis, committed suicide
Wednesday in the court o of JUS
tice Cullimane. The body was found al
night lying on a table with a half.
drained cup of carbolic acid by its side
No motive is yet known for the act.
diss Florence McFarlin, aged 81, a
music teacher, was stabbed to death in
her fathers home at Rochester, N. Y.
by another woman. An hour later Mrs,
Lucy Young, wife of Frank Young
formerly city purchasing agent, was
arrested as being the supposed MUIR
cerer.
The arbitration board of the Nation
al Association of Minor Baseball
Leagues, has arranged a truce between
the Milwaukee and Kansas CITY clubs
by which each club is to play upon its
W grounds in these cities. The Amer
lean association, which has been an
outlaw, will come into the national as
ISOLATION.
News has been received Of the prob
able fatal shooting OF A. l.. Collins,
general manager of the Smuggler I'm
ion mine at Pandora, near Telluride,
by an unknown assassin. Collins was
the manager of the Smuggler Union
mine at 1901 when the riot occurred,
and ii Is the result of animosity engen-
dered at the time.