The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-07
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS LOCALITIES.
General Happenings of the Past Few
Days Taken from the Wires and
Condensed to Suit-of Interest to
All Who Wish to Know What Has
Been Going On in This and other
Countries.

E~ighty-two new cases of smallpox
were reported in London Friday.
Seals of the dowager empress, obtain
ed in the loot of Pekin, sold at auction
in LONDON for 1890.
A railroad between Edinburg and
Glasgow has been planned, with trains
running III miles an hour.
The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers association will meet at the
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, on March
) and 6.
The Atlantic hotel, Columbia office
building, and a block of stores were de-
stroyed by fire at Norfolk, Va. Loss,
$1,000
The Boer war debate in parliament
brought out the fact that the struggle
$500, $50, 900.
AS a result of successful expert
ments of wireless telegraphy between
the steamship Philadelphia and shore
stations on the other side of the At
At Province, Ok. T., Walter Childs
was shot and killed by Ella Pitts, the
result of a quarrel. The woman is
under arrest at Ardmore.
Calvin A. Black, travelling man for
a Chicago firm. fell over a banister
in a hotel stairway at Wichita, Kas 8,
and was killed. His home was in
Somerville, Mass.
Bubonic plague is reported at Naples.
Italy. and several cases occur daily at
Rio Janeiro. In Manila AZ cases were
reported during the month of August.
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Sister Mary Constance B~entiyoglio,
mother superior of the Omaha convent
Of st. Clare, and relative of Pope Leo,
died this week at the monastery of
pneumonia, after two weeks illness.
Gilbert Parker, the English author
and member of parliament, said before
sailing from New York for home: In
my opinion the American workman is
more enterprising than the British"
Bertha, aged 10, and Edgar, aged 5,
children of Harry Burrows, a contract.
or, of Bellaire, O., were bitten by a
dog afflicted with hydrophobia and
were taken to Chicago for treatment.
Tho premier r. j. Serdon, announces
that the government of New Zealand
was prepared to give preferential treat
ment in the shape of rebate duty, to
British goods. carried on British ships.
Denver Christian Endeavorers are
urging the society to hold it's national
convention there in 1908. Work will
be begun at once to raise funds to de-
fray the expenses of that great meet
ing.
The idea that all coughs are produced
in the chest is erroneous. Many coughs
come from intestinal parasites, para
sites in the stomach, foreign bodies in
the ear, enlarged tonsils and numerous
other causes.
Canton, o., is to have a hotel named
the Mckinley. Announcement has been
made by Austin Lynch, attorney for
Mrs. Mckinley, that she had consented
to allow the SaXton Hotel company to
use the name.
About 100 union bakers and bench
hands, employed by the six leading
firms in Kansas City, have been locked
out because of an attempt of the indus
trial council to form a union of bread
wagon drivers.
The Dominion government has an
proved of an issue of $4,000, 600 stock
of the Canadian Pacific railway, sub
iect to the sanction of the company's
shareholders, the proceeds of which
are to be applied to improvements.
Disputes between hotel porters and
dragomans over a division of back
shish eliminated in a shooting ARRAY
in front of a leading hotel in Constan-
tinople, in which the head porter killed
two dragomans and wounded q third.
It is announced that Rev. Charles S.
Oimstead of Philadelphia has decided to
accept the position of coadjutor bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of Colorado, to
which he was recently elected, and he
will be installed shortly after Easter.
All the factories and mills in south
western Michigan and Indiana that
depend on water from st. Joseph Tiv-
or to furnish motive power have been
compelled to shut down owing to low
water. Several thousand men are
idle as a result.
All students at the state school Of
mines, Golden, Col, absented them
selves from the classes recently in
consequence of the recent suspension
of seven students by the faculty. An
investigation is to be made by the
board of control.
The will of Henry Barnard, probat-
ed at Kokomo, Ind, leaves an estate
of $780, 600 to a young wife, whom he
recently married, and gives his four
grown children So each. All his blood
relatives are ignored. The children
will contest the will.
The Neues Wiener Tageblatt of
vienna asserts that negotiations are
in progress for the sale of the Philip
pine islands to Germany, and that the
visit of Admiral Prince Henry to the
United States is preliminary to the an,
nouncement of this sale.
]. b. Haggin arrived in Lexington,
KY, on a special train with six nrchi-
tects and contractors employed on the
residence of Green Hills. They will
meet Mr.. Haggin at the place and dis
cuss certain alterations he desires in
his S350,000 residence there. He has
decided to enlarge the former plans.
John Willis Baer, general secretary
Of the Worlds Christian Endeavor
Union. who arrived in Denver, will go
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