The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-13
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

terrain church has decided to meet next
year in May at Hopkinton. Iowa
Frank Robinson of Nevada, Ia. who
killed his sweetheart and a rival at
Kansas City, died there Thursday of
wounds self-inflicted.
Nicaragua sends word that she will
be represented at the Worlds Fair
and that a commission has been APP
pointed to prepare the exhibit
Colonel Richard Wintersmith, an ex-
Confederate officer and consul at Colon
during President C1eveland's nrst term,
dropped dead in Louisville of cerelra
apoplexy.
King Edward has ordered that spe-
cial thanksgiving services for the re-
storation of peace in South Africa be
held at all the military centers Sum-
day, June s.
Peter Ross, LII D., 33d degree Mason.
grand historian of the grand lodge of
Masos in New York state and the au-
thor of many books on Masonry and
Scottish history, is dead.
Robert L. Huntington. nephew of the
late Coils p. Huntington, has disap-
peared from Denver and is accused of
taxing $1,000 from his employers, the
Colorado Telephone company.
Four persons were injured, two prob
ably fatally, in a collision at Rockaway
beach between a trolley car and an au-
tomobile. while both were running at
a high rate of speed.
Four lives were lost and several per-
IONS injured by fire at Rockaway beach.
which destroyed half a score of hotels
and numerous other buildings. The to-
tai property loss is estimated at $780,
600.
After II years of labor, the great
docks at Cuxhaven, Germany, are now
completed. They were built by the state
of Hamburg and were leased by it to
the Hamburg-American Steam Packet
company for a period of 25 years.
A trustworthy private correspondent
cables from Port au Prince that Simon
Sam, the runaway ex-president of Hay
ii, stole $4,000. 900 from the public
treasury during his presidency. The
defalcations are only now becoming
known.
Proud of their thorough and efficient
system of education, and desiring to
show the rest of the world what they
have accomplished. the board of edu-
cation of Atlantic City. n. j., purposes
TO make an Independent educational
exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
The secretary of war has promulgated
a general order intended to effect q
large economy in government printing.
It provides that hereafter there shall be
printed only the reports of superior Of
ficers in command of military depart
ments and in the fields and chiefs of
bureaus.
At a special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Proctor & Gamble company
held in New Jersey it was voted to
increase the capital stock of the COM
pany from "a, 500, 900 to Sc, 200, 900. The
new stock is to be offered to common
stockholders at not less than $3.50 per
share in cash. The new issue is to pro-
vide additional working capital.
Gerhard Bohn, president of the
White Enamel Refrigerator company,
at St. Paul has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. placing his liabilities at $144,-
460 and his assets at STEPS. Bad in
vestments are given as the cause. His
chief local creditors are J. J. Hill. the
National German American bank, and
the Bohn Manufacturing company.
"Oregon will erect a state building
and make a big exhibit at the Worlds
Fair" says Alfred Holman, associate
editor of the Oregonian, Portland, who
visited the Worlds Fair site this week.
Mr.. Holman is out for the specific pur-
pose of collecting data on big EXPOSE
tons for the Lewis &c Clark Centen-
NAL Exposition at Portland in 1905.
Oregon's great specialties are minerals
and native woods, fruits and salmon.
Secretary Root will make a short visit
to Carlsbad. Germany, the latter part
of August for b purpose of bringing
Mrs. Root and the other members of
the family back to the United States.
Mrs. Root and the children will leave
New York on the Zeelandia on June
4, and will proceed direct to the Ger
man health resort in the hope that the
water will benefit the health of Mrs.
Root and the eldest son. who is con-
yalescing from an attack of typhoid fe-
yer.
Secretary of War Root has sent to
the house committee on military af-
fairs a draft of a bill providing an APP
preparation of 800, 900 to defray the
cost of medals for officers, soldiers and
Others who served in the Spanish
American war. the China relief expe-
dition, the Philippine instruction and
other campaigns that may be under
taken in the future. This will put the
soldiers on an equality with the sail
ors, who are to be provided medals un-
der existing laws.
The first consignment of an order
for 113 miles of wooden conduit for
electric wires has arrived on the
Worlds Fair grounds. The conduit is
four and a half inches square con-
tanning a three inch hole, and each
section is six feet long. 1t will take
100, 900 sections to complete the order.
The work of putting in the under
ground electric system began sometime
ago, when the contract was let for the
construction of a subway seven by sew
en- feet, one mile long.
President R~oosevelt's decision to
give Senator McLaurin of South Caro-
lima, a life job as judge of the court of
claims is expected to cause a lively row
In the senate. 1t Is usual for the senate
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