The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-12
The NEWS CONDENSED.

Monday, died yesterday afternoon.
Elihu Root, United States secretary
of war, after four weeks at the cure,
left Carlsbad direct for Washington
yesterday.
The directors of the Suez canal COM
pany have decided to reduce the rate
for transit through the canal after Jan.
] next to 10 cents per ton
The accounts of John Rose. the city
treasurer OF Wabash, who mysteriously
disappeared on Tuesday night, are now
said to be over $11 900 short.
The demand for government bonds
is steadily improving, probably because
they are wanted by national banks as
a basis for increased circulation.
The National Association of POstof-
flee Clerks Wednesday, at Kansas City.
rejected the proposition to affiliate with
the American Federation of Labor.
The tug strike, which has been on pt
lake ports for several months, was set
tied Wednesday at a conference held
in the Office of Senator Hanna at Cleve-
land.
President Roosevelt has accented an
Invitation to review the parade to oc-
u during the forthcoming encamp-
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Wednesday, Oct. 8.
Herman Hasche. cashier of the Doom.
Ia. bank. committed suicide by shoot
ing Wednesday. No cause is known.
His accounts are being examined, but it
is blieved they are correct.
The board of education of Philadel-
phia has completed arrangements by
which anthracite coal will be Import
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public schools during the winter.
William C. Woodwork. of Marshall
town, one of the few surviving mem
bers Of the Ninth Iowa assembly. which
met during the civil war period, died
yesterday afternoon, aged So.
Peter Barnes. aged IS years. connect
ed with the Valparaiso, Ind, college
o 16 years, committed suicide by
hanging himself in a coal shed. His wife
found his body while looking for him
to come to dinner.
Judge George II. Durand of Flint,
Mich, Democratic nominee for COVER
nor. who suffered a paralytic stroke
Monday. is able to move his limbs with
considerable freedom. His son for the
FIRST time expressed the belief the Judge
might now recover.
Anarchist literature. including sew
eral autograph letters from Emma
Goldman and Johann Most, together
with a mysterious iron chest. has been
found in New York beside the body of
woman about 40 years old and known
as Mrs. Freda Schroeder.
Henry White, secretary of the Amer
lean embassy in London, who has just
arrived in New York, says that the re-
port that King Edward will send a spe-
cial ambassador to this country to rep
resent him in social matters is non
ems
Edgar V. Einstein & Co., proprietors
OF a department store at Harrisburg,
Pa, have made an assignment. The liza
bilities are SIG 10 and the assets $780,
600. The firm has peer in business so
years. The creditors are said to num-
Der 200, the largest being in New York
and Philadelphia.
While the Pennsylvania railroad is
still transporting weekly thousands of
tons of bituminous coal and coke orig
mating on the lines east of Pittsburg
and Erie, its anthracite shipment for
the week ending Aug. 80. of 513 tons,
was the smallest since the strike was
~fnaugurated.
The statement prepared by the comp
troller of the currency shows from
March IA. 1900, to August 81. 1902, L.
741, national banks with an aggregate
capital stock Of $65, 534, 500 were organ-
ixed. During August AZ national banks
organized with aggregate capital stocks
of 81, 430, 900.
A desperate effort is being made by
his friends at Tacoma to save Fred
IyArlu UhN &c na~AA-a41 81 H. $1,000
at Nome Sept. 9 for the murder of three
men on Unimak island in the Boring
sea. Hardy claims to be a relative of
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. He
served in the Philippines in a Ten
nessee regiment.
The decision of the supreme court at
taching a strip of land four miles wide
TO Oklahoma in the Chickasaw nation
has brought thousands of people at Ell
Reno to file at the land office, and to-
day more than 400 filings were rejected.
Special trains are bringing in addition
al crowds, and the rush for these lands
promises to be almost as great as the
opening last fall. There are about 1900
farms in the strip.
The census bureau Wednesday issued
a statement showing the decreasing
3 VI tne pOpuldtlOn from ueCaQe 10
decade. The statement gives the re-
suit. computing the meridian, instead
OF the average, age. The meridian is
such IN age hat half the population is
under 1t and half over it. The meridian
age of the total population in 1900 was
22.S compared to 21.9 in 1890.
The Republic Iron & Steel company
is considering the purchase of an iron
mine.on the Mesaba range which is ex~
pected to yield Is, 900, 900 tons. The Re-
public has been a purchaser of ore lands
whenever suitable opportunity offered.
1t is possible the purchase will be made
Jointly with the Cambria Steel COM
pany.
The Master Plumbers association is
declared to be a trust operating in vio-
lation of the Missouri antitrust law in
n petition filed at Kansas City in the
circuit court by w. r. Young. a local
plumber, who alleges hat his business
has been ruined by members of the
combine. who have refused to sell him