The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-05
The NEWS CONDENSED.

Lneu COluIulJltu SulClut'
The Anchor Fire Insurance COM
pany of Cincinnati has reinsured the
risks of the Indiana Insurance com
pany, amounting to $685. O1.
Mistaking his friend, who occupied
the same dwelling with him, for a bur
glar, ]. u. Wilson shot and instantly
killed G.. f. Apperson at Richmond,
Va
Tom Jones, the negro who criminally
assaulted Mrs. William Smith of Sew
en- Springs, n. c., who died from her
wounds, was lynched by a mob Monday.
Prof. w. 2. Rogers, dean of the law
school of the University of Indiana,
has been offered the presidency of the
law school of Cincinnati university and
will accept.
Willie Fargrove and Otis Montgom-
cry, each IL years old, were knocked
from the top of a freight car in the
yards at Oklahoma City, Okla, run
over, and killed.
Because he lost his ticket and S16O
Lawrence Slaynor, who left the Penn
~sylvania strike region to find employ
ment in Indiana, threw himself in front
of a train at Terre Haute and was kill
ed.
At st. Louis Marie Antoinette Hop
kins, widow of the late Edward A. Hop
kins, former United States minister to
Argentine republic. was instantly kill
ed by stepping in front of a street car
going at the rate of 80 miles an hour.
She was born in France in 1889.
The First National bank of Aberdeen,
S. d., was robbed of SO. 0 in silver on
C,nJn,y pipht Tho rnhhnrC pIt a hole
in the vault through the side steel. The
chest was not opened, the silver being
stored outside of the safe.
Gen. Edwin r. Niles of Goshen, Ind,
was arrested at Grand Rapids, Mich,
for stealing a government mail pouch
which had been dropped by a passing
street car. Gen. Niles was placed in jail,
but it was discovered that he was de-
mented. Mr.. Niles rose to the rank of
brigadier general in the civil war.
James Cahill, a member of the fam
Gus band of Fenians for whose attack
upon a prison coach and the murder or
Sergeant Brett, ar English officer, at
Manchester, England, in September,
1867, Allen, Larkln and O'Brien were
hanged, died at his home in Lawrence,
Mass. Two months after the murder Of
TStdu .DItlI ne 'SCdpth llOhi LhS
land and came to this country. Cahill
claimed that he fired the shot thai kill
ed Sergeant Brett.
Seven hundred workmen employed
by the Parlin & Orendorf Pillow COM
pany at Canton, ILL.,. were locked out
Monday and the factory will be
closed indefinitely. The action was due
to a threatened general strike.
Mrs. Rachel Mckinney is dead at the
age of SO at Terre Haute, Ind. She left
four children, "a grand children, 800
Observation-Disclosures and 70 g~reat-great-
grandchildren.
The emperor of Germany is going to
Italy in November. He will make the
Journey on his yacht Hohenzollern, en-
barking at Kiel on the 5th of the
month.
The street railway strike and boy
colt at Lafayette. Ind, have been sub
mitted to a committee of five business
men for arbitration. Both sides agree
to stand by the decision of the com
mittee, which met this morning to in
vestigate and render a decision.
The Ojibway Indians in Minnesota
have agreed to surrender their rights
and take lands elsewhere, provided the
appraisement of the government in
spector is satisfactory.
Rev. Sam Small of Georgia collapsed
on the stage at the auditorium in Brat
tleboro, VT, when he arse to deliver
a political address. He staggered wher
introduced, said a few i~ncoherent
words and was led away. No eXplana'
ton was given and the meeting adj
l,-n11 NJ Sn,n1l uroC lnHar parn M
a physician last night.
From the effects of burns she sus-
tained at her home, 1906 Champlair
avenue, early Monday morning, Miss
Mary Flannery. As years old, died at the
Chicago Baptist hospital. In attempt
ing to light the gas she set fire to hei
night gown. Ormsby Eyers, 16 years
old, FASTENED to her assistance ant
smothered the flames with a blanket.
The boiler of a freight engine on the
Chicago & Alton road exploded neal
Mexico, Mo-, Saturday night at 1870
killing Brakeman Harry Maxwell o.
Slater, Mo, and probably fatally injur'
sing Fireman NJ. L. Stephenson and L.. c
Eheltenberg, also of Slater, and ]. |
Mcmahon of Springfield, Mo-, who were
on the engine. Sheltenberg was max,
ing a trial run and Mcmahon. it is said
was going to Springfield, III.
A yellow book recently issued by the
French health department makes the
revelation that at the time of the
Fashoda dispute with Great Britain il
1898 France, fearing war with Grea'
Britain, concentrated 10000 troops a
Cherbourg, where a serious outbreak
OF fever occurred among the soldiers
A thousand cases were reported anC
there were 120 deaths.
II is reported that William Zeiglel
OF Brooklyn, who fitted out the polal
expedition in charge of Evelyn Bald
win. has ordered the latter to proceed
in the steamer America to Franz Jose
Land and search for the ship Frithjof
Mr.. Zeigler's secretary, William S
Champ, started in this ship in June tC
search for Baldwin. The ship has no
been heard of since.
II is reported that an English syndi.
cate with $40. 900, 900 capital is buyins
coal lands in Kentucky and West Vir
ginia and will begin developing them