The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-07

in as a member of the Dominion cab
met without portfolio.
Fire destroyed the greater portion
Of the business district of Thurber,
Tex, causing a loss of 500, 000. The
loss is covered by insurance to the ex-
tent of rs per cent.
The National Association of Letter
Carriers, until recently with head
quarters in Washington, is on the
verge of a split, the carriers in cities
planning to effect a separate associa-
ton.
1t is announced from Hamburg that
the dividend of the Hamburg-American
Steam Packet company is 6 per cent, as
against 10 per cent last year. An in
crease the capital of the is
expected.
C. II. Boiler, for 80 years a leading
hardware dealer in st. Joseph. Mo-, has
filed a petition to be declared bankrupt.
Liabilities, $29, 149; assets, exclusive of
exemptions ana consisting principally
of open accounts, about $4,000.
Woodford Hughes, a prominent cit
izen of Scottville, ILL.,, was murdered
in bed by three unknown men. The
men made their escape. Blood hounds
were Immediately put on the trail. The
greatest, mystery surrounds the affair.
The Empire City race track at Yonk-
ers, n. Y, was bought at public sale
by Byron L. Kennedy, who is said to
represent a syndicate. The price paid
was $500, 900. The track was built by
lie late w. F. Clark at a cost of $780,
600.
The remains of Lena May Prender-
grass, aged seventeen, III has been
missing since Dec. 90, last, have been
found at Bonham, Tex. She had been
murdered and her body concealed in a
hollow stump, being much mutilated
in the process.
Incensed because the girls father
had reprimanded him several times,
Leonard Robinson, a New York lad
Is years old, is said to have planned
to shoot Jessie, the ~15-year-old
daughter of John Danes of Blue Point,
l.. l. The boy is under arrest.
The merchants of Liverpool who
trade with Cuba are ~agitating against
the suggested treaty between the
United States and Cuba because they
believe such a treaty is likely to be
prejudicial to British trade, which has
hitherto enjoyed a favored nation
treaty with Cuba.
The total increase Of stock, fire and
marine insurance companies in the
state of Minnesota for 1901 was $780,
765, 4S3, an increase over 1900 of
1854 45, 269.. The premiums for 1901 were
81, $40, 719. "a. The losses for 1901 were
S 2,215, 460.42 The average rate per 500
of insurance was 1.34 per cent.
Gen. Horace Porter, United States
a rohacSndnr in Franco will nnnn IN
this country this summer, having ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the
Grafton in connection with the centen-
NAL celebration Of the founding of the
United States Military academy, which
will occur at West Point June IL.
Engineer Lyman Benjamin died at
Bloomington, ILL.,, aged Sc. He was the
oldest engineer in the service of the
Chicago & Alton road in point of con-
tinuous service. He handled trains be-
tween Bloomington and Chicago for 35
years, giving up the road last week
when stricken with pneumonia.
Mrs. Henrietta Strong has brought
suit against George A. Strong Of Chi
cage for divorce. They were married
in this city March 7, 1898, but later
went to Chicago to live, making their
home with the mother and sister of
the defendant. Mrs. Strong, the hus-
bands mother, is said to be worth
81, 000. 900.
A general strike involving about
800 men, has been ordered on the
buildings of a large contracting firm
in New York city. 1t affects carpen-
tiers, painters, steamftters, plumbers
and plasterers. The trouble is an out
growth Of friction between the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers and the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters and Joiners.
The New Jersey assembly, after a
long and humorous debate, has passed
the mosquito eXterminating bill by a
vote of As to 9. The bill a~ppropriates
$10,0 900 to the state experiment station
for the purpose of making a scientific
investigation of the habits, origin and
breeding places of the mosquito, and
their relation to the malarial ana other
diseases. The money is to be expended
by the state entomolOgist.
The Milwaukee chamber of commerce
has adopted the resolution recommend
ed by the board of directors two weeks
ago placing a heavy penalty on any
member who pursues so-called bucket
OlOp Vpou "Nit
through without a dissenting vote. This
ruling, in addition to previous legisla-
ton enacted by the chamber, it is
thought, will practically put an end to
the bucket-shop business In Milwaukee.
Several hundred workmen attempted
to invade the chamber of deputies at
Bucharest, Roumania, with the pur-
pose of demonstrating in favor Of the
modification of a bill hen under dis
cussion by the chamber dealing with
the trades unions. The workmen at
tackled the police, who barred the en-
trance to the chamber, with sticks
and stones. Several policemen were
injured and 100 of the demonstrators
were arrested.
The attorneys for the prosecution in
the trial of Stewart Fife, alleged muir
derer of Frank Richardson at Savan-
nah, Mo-, have asked for a continuance
on the ground that two important wit"
nesses. the little sons of Mrs. Richard
son widow of the man. arc