The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-28
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
All Who Wish to Know What Has
Been Going On in This and Other
Countries.

countries.
Daniel McCrery. a merchant at Mar
tinsburg, Ia, succeeded Wednesday in
shooting himself while temporarily in
sane.
Harold NJ. Cole, assistant superin-
tendant of the East Helena, Mont,
smelters, shot and MORALLY wounded
his wife and suicided.
It is proposed to establish in New
York city a branch of the Catholic uni
versity of America. to be known as the
department of pedagogy.
Asuncion Esquive obtained a major
ity of the electoral votes in the election
for the presidency of Costa Rica. The
election passed off quietly.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a dividend Of So percent in
favor of the creditors of the insolvent
First National bank Of Neigh, Neb.
Calvin c. Burt, aged 50, a lawyer n
well known in Michigan, died at De-
troit Wednesday. At one time he was
private secretary to General Lewis Cass.
The Marquis Ito, who left Naples Jan.
23 en- route for Japan, landed at Hong
Kong privately Wednesday and visited
the governor. There was no public
demonstration.
Frank B. Brookman, head of the
Brookman Manufacturing company,
and one Of Chicago's representative
German-American citizens, died of
cancer Of the stomach.
The damage suit of Sylvester Simons
against the Minneapolis & st. Louis
Railway company was terminated in
the district court at Mankato by a jury
awarding Simons a verdict for $1,000.
The Illinois pure food commission has
brought suit against fifteen Chicago
grocers for alleged violations of the
statute governing the sale of chocolate
and cocoa, and five for violations of the
provisions regulating the sale of
vinegar.
A cut in the price Of distilled spirits
has been announced and now the basis
for finished goods is SLIPS. While
neither the representatives Of the trust
or the independent houses will talk con-
corning the cut they both admit that it
is the beginning of a war.
F. w. Cropsey, ar employee Of Alt
man, Taylor& Co. Of Cincinnati, o.. was
struck and instantly killed Tuesday at
Des Moines by a switch engine on the
Northwestern tracks while on his way
to work at the power house of the Des
Moines Street Railway company.
DR.. Levi Cooper Lane, the eminent
surgeon, died in San Francisco Wednes-
day. His demise was due to a general
breaking down of the system. He was
the founder of the Cooper Medical col
lege and the Lane hospital. He was 60
years Of age.
The De Windt expedition, bound on
an overland trip from Paris to New
York and which started from the
French capital Dec. 10 last, has arrived
at Yalusk, EastSiberia, from Irkutsk,
Siberia, which place De Windt and his
companions left Jan, Is.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Council of Administration of the
Grand Army has accepted the Washing
ton proposition for the national en-
campment provided free quarters for
20, 900 veterans are furnished. The date
may be fixed for the early part of Octo-
Der.
Boz Kelly. once a noted Fenian inc
who is said to have served nine years
for shooting James Talbot, an English
government employe, in Dublin, has
been admitted to Bellevue hospital,
New York, where he applied for aid.
Kelly, who is 65 years old, said he was
without funds OF friends.
N. Semon, of the Neenah, Wis, Cold
Storage company. whose plant was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, is comforting
with capitalists of Lacrosse with the
intention of building a mammoth plant
in that city. The plant recently de-.
stroyed at Neenah was the largest cold
storage plant in the state.
The Hindoo twin named Dordica,
which was separated from Radica by
an operation, February 8, died sudden
ly in commissions. due to the advanced
stage of tuberculosis from which she
suffered at Paris. The death of Dor
dica has been concealed from Dadica,
who is making excellent progress.
Albert o. Klein of Chicago, a student
of the University of Michigan. COM
mitted suicide by taking prussic acid.
This is the second suicide among uni
versity students within the last two
weeks. No reason is known for Klein's
act. He left a note saying his life was a
failure, but giving no reason why.
Chief Postofice Inspector Cochran at
Washington received dispatches an
nouncing that Hamilton Schuyler, post
master at Belleville, o., had apscond-
ed and that Thomas II. Holland has
been appointed to take charge. The Of
flee is a presidential one of the second
class. The amour Of defalcation is
unknown.
The executive committee of the Sew
enth Day Adventists has decided to
build a sanitarium at Madison, Wis.
The building will cost $40, 1000 and the
equipment Sc, 1000. Two sites are under
consideration. n on Lake Mendoza
and one on Lake Monona. The COM
mittee will have another meeting with
in thirty days, and then a selection will
be made.
w. Proudft, a well known mining
stock broker of Colorado Springs, We'd
nesday posted a notice on the Colorado
Springs mining stock exchange that his
firm WAS unable to meet its obligations.
He was president and treasurer of the