The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04
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at the home of her son, Charles Bee, at
Trnton, III.
King Edward has completely recov-
cred his health, and has now arranged
for the court to return to London on
MONDAY.
Fireman Montgomery, injured in the
Northern Pacific wreck ear Staples,
MINI, last Friday, died Monday, max
ing the seventh death from the acct
dent.
Mrs. Anna Spence Wolfe, one of the
most notable pioneers of Carthage, ILL.,,
died Friday, aged so years. She had
been a resident Of Carthage for so
years.
The steamer America, which ran
aground in the straits several weeks
ago and was severely damaged on the
rocky bottom, has been made ready
for sea aagin.
There was a slight frost in the low
places through Nodaway county, Mo-,
Friday night. The coolest June wealth
er for many years has prevailed in this
section for several years.
DR.. McFall of Mattoon, H., has deed
ed his fine farm of 800 acres near that
city for a Protestant hospital. Other
parties have donated $4,000 cash. so
that the endowment is already 100000.
The directorate of the Oklahoma,
Gulf & Western Railroad company met
in Chicago and took action which
passed the Guthrie-Haileyville extern
sion of the Choctaw into the control
of the Rock Island.
At a meeting of all the trades I'M
ions connected with the silk industry
in Paterson, N. j., Saturday night it
was decided not to go to work again
in the mills until the militia has been
withdrawn from the city.
The body Of King Albert arrived at
Dresden on the royal funeral train
from the castle of Sibyllenort on Sat-
urday afternoon, accompanied by King
George, the widow of the king and
many royal personages.
A cinematograph for the blind has
been invented by DR.. Dusand, a French
physician. The successive stages of the
picture are embossed on sheets of tin
and made to revolve rapidly between
the fingers of the blind person.
U. s.. Epperson, manager of the Kan
sas City packing plant of George Fow-
Ter, Son & Co., said he knew nothing
oOOuI lit ItpOl ltu utdl ny MHlCu ohIll
& Co. is said to have purchased the
Fowler plants in Kansas City and Chi
cago.
The eleventh annual convention of
the National Association of Elocution-
lists began in Chicago Monday. The
convention was formally opened by the
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Virgil Alon-
zy Pinkley, of Cincinnati, O., delivered
the presidents address.
Charles T. Child, technical editor of
the Electrical Review, of New York,
died Monday at ~Gleasondale. Mass, of
typhoid fever. Mr.. Child, who was %
years old, was a widely known writer
on electrical and scientific subjects in
this country and abroad.
J. G. w. Cowles, of Cleveland, was on
Monday night elected chairman of the
board of trustees of Oberlin college.
The election means that Mr.. Cowles
will be the president of Oberlin college
until a permanent successor to the late
President Barrows is named.
A message from Columbia, Mo-. from
the secretary of state says Finest
wheat crop ever grown in Missouri for
many years 10Y being put in shock.
Quality very best and great harvest.
Corn conditions more favorable than
for years. Work pushed rapidly past
week and considerable corn laid by"
A Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch says:
"There has been a serious miscalcula-
ton of the size of the Kansas wheat
crop and the number of men required to
harvest it. 1t was stated last month
that no help would be needed, but now
there is a call for 10000 men in addi-
ton to the number already secured"
The Lloyds' medal for meritorious
service was presented Monday to Cap
tain Freeman. of the British steamer
Roddam, in the committee oom OF
Lloyds, as a recognition of his action
IN CALAMITY taking his vessel from St
Pierre, Martinique, on May s, during
the destruction of that town by the out
break of Mont Pelee.
A merger OF all the anthracite coal
roads under one management is under
way. The ROADS now under control OF
]. P. Morgan and associates carried
75.5 per cent of the coal traffic last
year and there is $500, 900 900 already
invested. Only four roads remain out
side. The total capitalization now
reaches 81 900, 900, 900.
Acting Governor Steele of Nebraska
after a two days hearing, declined to
honor the requisition of Governor Her.
ried, of South Dakota, for the removal
of three brothers named Turgeon from
Nebraska to South Dakota. Six weeks
6 the T%urgeons. who claim Dakota
county, Neb., as their home, engaged
in a fight with the sheriff and posse OF
Union county, S. D.. in which a mum
Der were wounded.
The Duluth Commercial Record
says: North Dakotans are not saying
much about grasshoppers, but there i,
a noticeable feeling of unrest when
eve the subject is mentioned. In the
Red river valley they are Matching out
very fast, and some reports indicate
their appearance in the north central
portion. There is no appreciate dam
age as yet, but some fear seems to ex-
list that they may become numerous
enough to cut down yields"
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