The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
The NEWS CONDENSED.

The International Association of Fire
Chiefs at New York selected Atlantic
City, n. j., as their next place o. meet
ing and chose Chief Croker of New
York president.
Among the candidates for midship-
men who successfully passed at An
napolis are George B. Wright of Fergus
Falls, Mimi, and Herbert Emerson of
Sioux Falls, S. d.
Continuous rainfall over the entire
eastern slope of the Rocky mountains
from Montana to New Mexico has saved
late crops and allayed fears of a short
age of water.
Richard v. Dey, the San Froncisco
representative of Clarence II. Mackay,
announces that within so days messages
will pass over the Pacific cable between
San Francisco and Honolulu.
Judge Joseph McCulloch, formerly
county judge and treasurer of Woodford
county, Illinois, is dead at his home IN
Clearfield, Iowa. The remains will be
inferred at Washburn, Ill.
Construction of the government
building at the worlds fair has begun.
The building will be 200 by 800 feet,
carrying a great dome and having a
row of massive columns in front.
IN a collision of freights on the Fort
Wayne road at Kenwood Junction Pa,
six cars were wrecked, two frame
dwellings demolished, and three train
men and two women seriously injured.
Mrs. Charles Gate of Grass Creek,
Ind, while gathering vegetables in her
garden, pricked her thumb with q
sand burr, which has caused her death
from blood-poisoning.
]. w. Bishop has been arrested at
Sheffield, Eng, on a charge of roD5ing
his employer at Burlington, Iowa. of
$3.50. The police have notified the
American state department of his ar
rest.
Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl has
been appointed chief of sculpture or
the Louisiana Purchase fair. He will
have the active direction of the model
ing of all sculptural effects at the ex-
position.
A space of 500 by 700 feet has been al
lotted at the st. Louis fair to the
French government for its building.
The building is to be a reproduction of
the famous and beautiful Petit TRAN
on at Versailles.
The United States government Life
Saving Station at the worlds fair will
stand at the inner angle of Arrowhead
Lake, in the western part of the
grounds. The lake is 1900 feet long and
at the station is 450 feet wide.
Patrick ]. Hyland, aged sc, yeonlan
on the cruiser Brooklyn, is dead at his
home in New York. Hyland was one
of the best petty officers in the navy,
He was Dewey's chief yeoman on The
Olympia at the battle of Manila Bay.
In a dispatch from Johannesburg the
correspondent of the Daily Mail says
he understands that Port Matala, two
miles from Lorenzo Marques, Portu'
guese East Africa, has been leased &c
Great Britain.
Miss Isabel Hanger, social secretary
to Mrs. Roosevelt, has fallen heiress
to a snug fortune by the death of bel
aunt, Miss Frances Randall Hagner. II
is believed that the total beQuest vii
amount to about 500, 900 in money anC
a handsome residence in Washington.
The elevator at the Emery & Bird
'rhayer Dry Goods company, Kansas
City, carrying % young women en-
pioyes, fell three stories at noon Thurs
day. A dozen girls were injured, bu'
with the exception of Emma Parish
aged IS, who was hurt internally, It il
believed lone were seriously hurt.
R. H. Henry, worlds fair commits
sioner for Mississippi, has visited q
counties of his state and delivered owe
80 addresses on the subject of Missis
sippi's representation at the coming
exposition. Mississippi's appropriation
for the worlds fair is $50, 900, but ther'
is now talk of doubling it.
In some of the Milwaukee schools thu
coal famine is being felt to such an eX
tent that the children have been com
PEELED to furnish their own fuel. Woo
boxes have been placed in the barracks
and the teachers have asked each pup
to bring two sticks of wood each da
so that the barracks may be heated.
Col. John A. Ockerson, chief of tn
department of Liberal Arts, attende,
the semi-centennial meeting of tn
American Pharmaceutical association a
Philadelphia. The pharmaceutical dis
play will form an important section G
Col. Ockerson's great department
which will occupy a building covering
nine acres.
The strange beast that has been kill
ing hogs, sheep, calves and chickens i
Howard and surrounding counties i
luuldid udo Dtth hlllCu ny ma lN
Shelter of Greentown. The animf
is four feet long, with slender body an
short legs. 1t had long sharp claws
fiat tail and fiat, broad head, with bear
like ears. No one is able to classify tn
brute.
d. p. Erwin of Indianapolis who die
a few days ago leaving an estate value
at nearly a million dollars, left $4,000 t
five men who were formerly employe
by him In his wholesale dry good
house. They had worked for him fo
many years. Erwin's young widow
whom he married about a year ago. get
the bulk of the estate. He was 60 year
OLD.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, Mrs. Magdelin
", Rode is dead and DR.. Walter H
Morris, her physician, is suffering iron
blood poison, as is e. ]. Williams, tn
undertaken, as the result of a splde
bite received by Mrs. Rode three week