The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-08-01
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for Cape Town, enroute for Europe.
William Filler, a steel worker, shot
and killed his wife, Clara Filler, and
Harry Bennett, a machinist, at Steel
ton, near Harrisburg, Pa. Jealousy was
the cause.
FRED Lee Rice was hanged at Toron-
to, Canada, Friday, for the murder of
Constable William Boyd June 4. 1901.
Rice belonged to Champaign, H.,
where his people are highly respected.
The president made the following
appointments for New Orleans last
night: Elmer Wood, naval officer;
Henry Mccall, collector of customs; r.
J. Kennedy, colored, receiver of public
moneys.
Christopher Norbeck. ex-police de-
tective, who fed while his trial for
bribery was in progress and was cap
tured near Chaska, Mimi, pleaded
guilty yesterday at Minneapolis and
was remanded for sentence.
The Michigan Central railroad has
paid Illinois S3S5.425 taxes on it's main
and leased lines for The current year,
based on last years earnings. This is
$39, 947 more than the company paid
last year.
A gasoline stove exloded at Pinto,
Mo. in the home of w. II. Feathers.
The house was consumed, and two chill
dren, 6 and 4 years of age, burned to
death. Mrs. Feathers barely escaped
and her young baby was seriously
burned.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Johnnie Connors,
q saloonkeeper, and others, were ar
rested in connection with a foot race
pulled off ten days ago. The complain
ant is B. c. Shaffner. Greensburg, Ind,
who claims to nave lost $1,000 on the
race. .-.t
-sAta special meeting of the Central
Passenger association resolutions were
unanimously adopted to cancel the half
rate excursions from Chicago and st.
Louis to New York and Atlantic City,
which were announced for July 81, Aug.
z and Aug. IA.
The official vote for governor in the
recent election in Oregon shows the fol-
lowing results: Chamberlain, Demo-
crat, 41,S57: Furnish. Republican, Al
581. r. S. Bean, the Republican candi-
date for supreme judge, received the
largest plurality ever given a candidate
in Oregon, 17,146.
At Chicago Arthur ]. Cation, presi-
dent of the Chicago club and promi-
nently identified in Chicago society, re-
ceived a severe scalp wound last night
in a collision between an electric car
and the carriage in which he vas rid
ing.
The first financial assistance was
sent the anthracite miners last night
when Secretary Wilson forwarded $50
900 appropriated by the recent conven-
ton to be applied Immediately to re-
lieving the wants Of the miners and
The engagement of Miss Alice Roose-
welt to Lieutenant Robert Sterling
Clark of New York, son of Mrs. Alfred
Corning Clark, is emphatically denied
on the authority of the president. Miss
Roosevelt has not even a personal ac-
quaintance with Clark.
At an audience which he granted to
the German charge d'affaires yester-
day, the sultan of Turkey presented
Emperor William with the ruined
fortress of Kalaat Sherkat, on the river
Tigris, which has long been desired by
German Assyriologists for excavation.
General Yuan-Shi-Kai, the governor
of Chilli province, and the Chinese
foreign office have decided to accept
the terms proposed for the withdrawal
of the foreign troops from Tien-Tsin
and will so notify the ministers on July
10, unless the dowager empress disap-
proves of their action.
At Chcicago the Longshoremen's
executive board adjourned today. A
wage conference between the Lake Su-
-perior Lumber Leaders and the Lumber
Carrier association will be held at West
Superior in February. A conference on
wages of ore handlers will be held at
Cleveland in March.
The Wisconsin Democratic state CEN
trail committee has decided to hold their
state convention at Milwaukee Sept. 3.
President Mitchell expects to return
to Wilkesbarre today. 1t is understood
he and his associates are convinced
they can win the strike if they car hold
out ten weeks longer.
The st. Petersburg Novoe Vremya
publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Co
rea, which says that two American
missionaries have ben stoned and beat
en- on the line of the Seoul-Fusan rail-
T. road by Japanese laborers, and that the
japanese minister has expressed regret
and promised the sever punishment
= of the offenders.
senate hanna mas interested Min
self in the case of DR.. Russell Wilson,
a young Ohio physician, sentenced to
death because he took part in an alleg-
ed flibustering expedition against the
Nicaraguan government. Wilson was
captured by a Nicaraguan vessel re-
Gently. Hanna asks the state depart
ment to plead Wilson was on the YES
sci in a professional capacity and not
as an enemy to Nicaragua.
Information has been received at
Kalamazoo, Mich, that a new lake
transportation company is being formed
at South Haven. capitalized at $500, 900,
A formal complaint of grand larceny
was made last night against Former
Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong by
May Yohe, who charged Strong with the
theft of jewelry valued at $3.50 900.
George Fouse, a young man of %,
wal found dying of consumption in a
hoyel near Lemont, III. The boy was
brought from the Cook County hospital
last Tuesday and put in care of his
father, who left shortly after, saying