The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-27
The NEWS CONDENSED.

Last week. average cOSt Oh nOBS dC
Chicago was $7.3S, being the highest
weeks average In nine years, against
1921 the previous week. 500 the week
ending May, 81, $6.10 March l, $6.0S a
year ago last week, $50 two years ago,
and $3.50 three years ago.
The American board of foreign mis-
sions has received word OF the death Of
Rev. Willis c. Dewey, d. D., in New
York. Dr. Dewey has been a member
of the Eastern Turkey mission of the
board since lS77, with his location at
Mardin. in northern Mesopotamia. He
was born in Canton, I'LL, and was grad
uated from Beloit college in 1873 and
from Chicago Theological seminary in
1877. 80
According to advices received by the
steamer Aorangi, at Victoria, B. c., a
Malayan sailor recently arrived at
Port Darwin and reported that he was
the only survivor of a crew Of ten men
Of a Malay trading schooner which
had been wrecked off Cape Wilber-
force, North Australia. The crew was
attacked by blacks and all but one mur-
dered. Tbs survivor suffered severe
%privation before being rescued
A special bulletin issued by the
weather bureau at noon Saturday says:
Storms OF the type hal appear this
morning over the east gulf usually
u copfous general rains in the At
lantic states. Semi-drouth conditions
will in all probability be broken in the
south Atlantic states and in the middle
Atlantic Sunday and Sunday night and
east to southeast winds increasing in
force and lower temperatures.
w. ". Atchison, a saloonkeeper, shot
and killed James O'Meara and wounded
William Thayer, after a quarrel in
Atchisou's saloon. at San Pedro, n. M
Atchison had been drinking and was
fiourishing a revolver wnen O'Meara
took it away from him Atchison went
home and secured a rife and began to
shoot, with the above result O'Meara
was a bookkeeper for the Santa Fe
Gold and Copper Mining company, and
his home was in Des Moines.
The people OF the Davis chapel Sec
ton of Marshal county, KY, were
thrown into great excitement by a fus-
illade of bullets being fired into a Nor
mon meeting by soma Of the opposi-
ton in the neighborhood. Hardy
Lamb was shot in the leg. The nor
mon converts, fifteen or sixteen in
number, returned the fire and more
bloodshed Is feared Less than a year
ago the Mormon church there was
burned and two elders were driven
away.
The degree of doctor Of jurispru-
dence Curis utriusque doctor,) has
been conferred upon former President
Cleveland at the commencement e1er-
cises of the Augustianan college of st.
Thomas at Villa Nova, a suburb Of
Philadelphia Mr.. Cleveland will bear
the distinction of being the first per-
son in the United States to receive this
degree. Among others who will receive
honorary degrees is Baron Won Henger-
var, Austrian ambassador to the Unit
ed States.
Lemuel Hickman, res%tauranteur, Of
Springfield. Ill, found his wife in a
compromising position with another
man Saturday. About $50 at night
Hickman induced his wife to take a
ride on the street car to Washington
Park. While strolling in the park
Hickman drew a revolver and shot his
wife three times, in the right lung,
right shoulder and right side of the
utdu, lllG llSI udlltu "Oullu lIdClul llS
her skull She died soon after. He
then shot himself in the stomach.
Mrs. George w. Parker, wife of a
farmer near Ann Arbor, Mich, COM
mitted suicide Saturday afternoon. Her
husband had gone to a n~eighboring vii
lage and while her grandmother and
her 7-year-old daughter were asleep
Mrs. Parker went into a chicken coop
poured a quart of kerosene over her.
self, and then ignited it The body
was not discovered until evening. Mrs.
Parker read an account of the suicide
of a woman in a similar name a few
days ago and remarked how terrible
q death 1t was.
The design for the Jefferson Davis
memorial arch to be erected in Rich
mond, Va, which was submitted by
Louis Albert Gudebrod and accepted by
a committee representing the United
Daughters of the Confederacy and the
Federation of Southern Memorial So
cieties, has been announced. The do
sign propose san arch. Corinthian in
style, to be constructed of Southern
granite, having a height of Go feet, a
width of 20 feet ana a breadth of "a
feet. The archway is to be 25 feet wide
and 40 feet high in the clear.
Henry c. White, the last colored man
to sit in congress, a member from
North Carolina in both the Fifty-fifth
and Fifty-sixth congresses, is reported
to be at the head Of a syndicate which
has purchased from Senator Robert e.
Hand 975h acres of land nea Burleigh,
N. j., and Cape May. 1t is intended to
establish a colony Of negroes from
North Carolina The name of the town
is to be Whiteboro. Already several
venue have been laid out. Each
colonist is to buy a house on the in
stallment plan. and is to have ten years
to pay for II. 1t is to be an agricul-
tural colony, on the same plan as the
Jewish colony at Woodbine, founded
by the Baron de Hirsch fund trustees.
Harry w. Bragg. a private in a COM
pany OF the Twentieth United States
infantry, Monday night shot and killed
Mrs. Lizzie Tibbits and then shot and
killed himself. The tragedy was enact
eded on the grounds at the Columbus
barracks. Jealousy was the motive.