The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-05-30
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

one exception, ever known in Spring
field. III.
President Loubet arrived at st. Pet
ersburg Thursday from Tsarskoe Selo,
and was accorded an enthusiastic popu-
lar reception.
A heavy wind and rainstorm passed
over Oklahoma washing out bridges,
wrecking several houses and damaging
crops badly. No fatalities were re-
ported.
Railroad traffic was practically de-
moralized at La Crosse, Wis, Wednes-
day owing to six hours rain in hat vi
cinity, which caused a great MANY
washouts on roads leading into La
Crosse.
c. w. Goodlander, known as 1.-THE
father of Fort Scott" died at his home
in Fort Scott, Kas.. of congestion of
the brain, resulting from a stroke of
apoleXy. Mr.. Goodlander suffered a re-
lapse Tuesday night.
Henry Sladez, one of the most noted
characters in north Missouri, vas found
dead on the river bank near Paris, Mo.
He had been fishing since noon and a
sudden attack of heart disease is sup
posed to have ended his life.
""They number 500. Seven hundred
were criminals, having been convicted
at least once. Thirty-seven we're muir
derers and were executed for their
crimes. This family has cost the ma
ton $4,000, 900 for trials and execu-
tons"
Henry Brothers & Co., stock brokers,
whose suspension followed the decline
in what was known as Webb-Meyer
stocks early in the present month, were
reinstated to membership in the Stock
Exchange on the New York board,
having met all their obligations.
Attorney General Knox says that the
administration has never for a moment
thought of compromising or settling in
any way out of court the railway mer-
ger suits. He says that there is not a
word of truth in the recent story ema-
mating from Chicago to hat effect
The steam shovels and grading out
fits on the Santa Fe cutoff from Rip
ley on the north to Pauls' Valley on
the south are nov at work all along the
line. The road will be completed by
the first of September, and will be the
main line of the Santa Fe north and
Texas points about 80 miles.
The Ward line steamer Vigilancia,
which sailed for Havana Thursday, is
the first ship to leave New York fly
ing the flag of the new Cuban republic
at her fore. Herbert Squires, first Unit
ed States minister to Cuba, accompan-
led by his wife and daughter, sailed on
the Vigilancia.
Major Seward Dill is dead at Sequel,
Cal, aged 80 years. He was one of the
founders of the Republican party in
Maine, and was a delegate from that
state to the convention which first
nominated Abraham Lincoln for presi-
dent. For many years he was postmas-
ter at Phillipsburg, Me.
Mrs. Helen M. Wood, superintendent
of the Erring Woman's Refuge, Chi
cago, died suddenly. Mrs. Wood had
been conducting chapel services when
she was seized with an attack of apop-
lexy and expired within a short time.
She had been superintendent of the in
s%titution for q years and was 70 years
old.
The average price of hogs at Chicago
last week was $7.15, the highest average
of the year and the highest in exactly
nine years, or since the corresponding
week of May, 1898. The average the
previous week was $7.04, and $6.10 the
week ending Feb. %, which was the
low week of the year to date. A year
ago the average was $3.50, two years
ago s5.35. ad three years ago s3.S5.
Judge Cowan of Bismarck, N. D.,
scored two old men, one of whom had
been in the country IA and the other
16 years, and neither had learned the
English language. They wished to take
out their papers so that they might file
on claims, but Judge Cowan refused
them that privilege.
Juan Rodriguez is dead at Laredo,
Tex, aged 104 years. He was a veteran
in Hidalgo's revolution in 1923, which
overthrow Spanish rule in Mexico and
established the republic. Four years
ego Rodriguez wandered to Laredo and
was taken charge of by the Patriotic
Society de Obreos. He will be buried
with honors.
Nine English tourists, including four
women and four boatmen, were drown
ed Sunday by the upsetting of a boat
in the lakes of Killarney during a
squat. A train near Glasgow was de-
rallied Monday morning and a large
number of people injured. A storm is
sweeping over the coasts Of the United
Kingdom.
Startling statistics on criminology
have been presented at the annual con-
vention of the New York county w.
G. T. U. One of the delegates read a
statement to the effect that a woman of
criminal tendencies, whose name was
not made public for obvious reasons,
died in 1927. Her descendants have
been traced" continued the speaker.
A general advance in laundry prices
has been put into effect in st. Louis.
The advance was agreed upon by the
proprietors of all the large laundries
In the city, who saw that their action
was made necessary by the increase in
prices of material. They say that soar
has advanced in price 40 per cent, starch
Is per cent and horse feed 100 per
cent.
1t was generally accepted as a fact
in financial cirles of New York that in
terests friendly to the Wabash Railway
company had acquired a controlling in
terest In the Ann Arbor road. The
price paid and the amour of the new