The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-04-25

Senator Won Plehwe, secretary of state
for Finland, has been appointed Rus
sian minister of the interior, succeed
ing M. %Sipiaguine, who was assassin
ated OF April 10.
w. II. Means, the Lexington, Mo,
farmer who killed his niece, Miss Lydia
Means. at Henrietta early Tuesday
morning, was discharged at Wewoka.
The evidence showed that he killed the
woman in sef-defense and after she had
seriously wounded him.
At the general meeting Of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company to-
day, it was decided to increase the COM
pany's capital by 10000, 900 marks ($2,-
375, 5000. 1t was a"nnounved that the
Krupps had acquired extensive coal
fields which would Immediately be de-
veloped.
The Audiencia court at Havana has
accepted the 500 900 bond of the fidel-
ity company as bail for Major Rath-
bone. The court finds that, notwith-
standing that the fiscal maintained that
the bond is not strictly legal, its accept
ance is in accordance with article 3 of
order 81 of 1899.
John E. Madden has arrived at Nor
ris Park, New York, with 80 head of
thoroughbreds from Kentucky. Among
the lot was w. c. Whitney's Ballyhoo
Bey. The Futurity winner of 1900 is
declared to have recovered entirely
from the throat trouble which caused
his retirement from the turf is months
ago.
The Burlington is to expend in the
-.-ll - 81 nm nnA l.. tIn aDn
struction of a double track from st,
Joseph to RuIo, a station on the Ne
braska side of the Missouri river, forty
five miles northwest of st. Joseph. The
surveyors have finished their work and
the matter has now been placed before
the directors.
Mrs. Samuel L.anyon has received
word from her former home in England
that she has inherited $25 900 by the
death of her brother, P. N. Brown, one
of England's leading iron merchants
who died in Bradford, Eng, April 80
1901, leaving a large estate. Mrs. Ian
yon was his only sister. Another broth
er is still living in England.
Members of the medical profession Of
Battle Creek. Mich. note the case
of Esther Grimes, 4 years old Botf
the parents of the child are mptes, ye
the child talks and hears like othe
children. She uses the sign Language
in conversing with her parents. TIL
scientists familiar with the case con
slider it a contradiction of the laws o
heredity.
1t is said that the will of the lat
William H. West, the minstrel, prob
ably will be contested. Mr.. West lef
an estate valued at about $500, 000. H
left 81 900 to his sister, Eliza Gibbon
of Rockaway, and her counsel today OBJ
tanned permission from Surrogat
Church in Brooklyn to examine tn
witness to the will. Counsel decline,
to say why he desired to examine tn
witnesses.
Unfastening the heavy screen to he
room with a screw driver, Nellie Hoff
man a Cook county patient at tn
Northern Illinois Hospital for the In
sane, removed the barricade and jumpe
to the ground, three stories below. Sh
broke her right thigh.
The National Bread company of Eng
land has been formed, with a capital c
Sc 5000, 900. A large bakery will be es
tablished in Boston and others in ever
large city in New England. Bosto
capitalists are to u~nderwrite the er
tire issue of stock.
Mrs. Lottie G. Dimon, widow of Henr
G. Dimon, who was killed in the Par
avenue tunnel accident on the Ne
York Central railroad several month
ago, was awarded $50, 200 damage
against the railroad company by a jur
in White Plains, N ~, Friday.
William Scott, arrested at Mani altar
Knn IN tho nhor0n nf GRAND larppn
committed at Savannah, Mo-, is said
fit the description OF the murderer
the city marshal at Falls City, Net
who was killed two years ago, and fC
whom a large reward was offered.
The jury in the case of Burton, Wi
lis and Frederick Van Wormer, charge
with the murder of their uncle, Peter !
Hallenbeck, at Hudson, N. Y, Frids
returned a verdict of murder in til
first degree against all three of the a
cused. The death sentence was pr,
nounced.
X-rays will be used to determine WI
shot Mrs. William Laechle of Roge
Park, a Chicago suburb. at her home c
the afternoon of Feb. %. Mrs. Laech
was severely wounded in a quarrel wit
her neighbor Mrs. James Whittake
an argument hoNih6 ~ ~ ~
children of the two m
An unimportant newspaper at Vienr
reports that the Grand Duchess Heller
of Russia recently eloped with a stu,
ent, they they were arrested at Wa
saw, and that the student was sent
Siberia. The report is discredited. I'll
- Grand Duchess Helena of Russia is IL
only daughter of the Grand Duke Vlad
mir, uncle of the car.
An attempt was made to assassinat
Mayor-eleet Frank MCGUIRE of Hudson
Wis. Edward Huffe opened fire c
him with a revolver, but missed. M
Mcguire ran and was pursued by Huff
who kept up his firing. but without e
feet, until the st. Croix hotel was reacl
ed. Huffe then fed and has not bee
apprehended. Huffe was recently di
charged from McGuire's employ.
Charges of wastefulness and extravi
gance have been made against the Oh
cago board of education by Alderme