The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-11
The NEWS CONDENSED.

E. c.. Schultz, the Northern Pacific
engineer who was injured in the COLI
sion near Staples, died Tuesday night,
being the eighth victim of the wreck.
The Standard Oil company is prepar-
ing to pipe natural gas from the Kan
sas gas belt to Joplin ana other towns
in the zinc mining district of Mis-
souri,.
A cash donation of S50,0 to be used
In carrying on the strike in the West
Virginia coal fields was received at ma
tional headquarters of the United Mine
Workers in Indianapolis. 1t came from
the Illinois miners
Albert L. Sechrist, who was shot at
Kansas City by DR.. Louis Zorn, a
wealthy retired physician, the result Of
a dispute over rent, die6 of his wounds,
and DR.. Zorn has been held without
bail.
William NJ. Olcott, who was we'll
known among pioneers of Chicago
through his ventures in the ship-build-
ing industry while the city was yet a
lake shore hamlet, is dead at Norwich,
Conn.
Mrs. Ebert H. Gary, wife of Judge
Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the eXecu-
tive board of the United States Steel
company, died Saturday night at the
family residence in Wheaton, ILL.,, from
malignant stomach trouble and COM
plications. w. ~~srs ~ 80 -. ~-- 49,
- Linl: Monday, formerly Of the Ninth
infantry aLd a survivor of the Balan-
giga massacre, killed John Kennedy at
a church supper near Knoxville, Tenn,
because he charged American troops
with cowardice, Monday, and two 9TH
ers were fatally wounded.
James eFrgus, pa ioneer of Minnesota
and Montana, who founded the towns
of Ferguson Falls and Little Falls in
Minnesota and for whom Fergus coun
ty in Montana was named, died at his
home near Lewistown, Mont, aged SO
years.
julius Bowers, a well-known mer-
chant of SarcoXie, Is miles southeast of
Carthage, Mo-, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with a revolver. He recently failed in
business and dependency over the mat
ter is supposed TO have caused the act.
Mrs. Julia A. Simpson, gr~eat-grand-
niece of Charles Carroll, one of the
signers of the Declaration of l%ndepend-
ence, is dead from heart disease. She
was 73 years old. and was noted for
charitable work in connection with the
women's prison of P1ackwells island.
N. Y.
An unknown man, evidently tenn
porarily insane from worrying over
King Edwards condition, jumped from
a bridge over the Missouri river, at
Leavenorth, Wednesday, and was
drowned. Just before making the leap
he inquired about the condition of the
KING. vi ID M so -
Mrs. W. w. Latta and her aged moth
er, Mrs. Mary Layton, of Springfield, O.,
were bound by five masked robbers who
entered the Latta home, four miles
north of Ligonier, Ind, and ransacked
the house, securing 5000 in cash and
jewelry. ~Bloodhounds are trailing the
robbers.
Charles d. Poston, one of the fore
most pioneers of Arizona, who in 1853
led a party of New Workers and opened
up the first silver mine ever worked in
Arizona by Americans, is dead. He
served as A%rizona's delegate to con-
gress. He was a native of Kentucky,
where he was once a leading attorney.
Mrs. Fannie Lowe, matron at the
Kansas Reform school, shot last Sun
day by her husband, ]. G. Lowe, died
Wednesday,. Lowe was an inspector at
the school and was jealous. owe af-
forwards shot himself, but will recover.
Mrs. Lowe made a dying statement that
the shooting was accidental. Her hus-
band is in Jail.
Theodore Bates, representing Boston
capitalists and the Kansas City, Mex
leo & Orient railway, projected by Ar
thur E. Stilwell, are said to be interest
ed with the Swift Packing company,
which is reputed to have purchased the
Fowler plants at Kansas City and Chi
cago, in the erection of a rival stock
yards at Harlem, across the river from
Kansas City, in Missouri.
Word comes from Fl. Hall. Idaho
that John Donaldson, a wealthy live
stock and land owner of Wood River
Neb., and Chas. Fritz who accom-
panied him, had been found murdered
on the newly opened FIT. Hall reserva-
ton. No motive except that of robbery
has been given for the crime. Donald
son at the time was locating grazing
lands, and Fritz had accompanied him
as q guest.
Fi6el Kneifel of New Burgh Corners
20 miles south of Lacrosse, Wis, is
dead, the result of drinking a pail and
a half of water. Kneifel, who was 81
years old, fell from a barn some time
ago and since has displayed queer
breaks at times. During the hot spell
he became worse and upon being left
alone he drank all the water in the
house. The result was an internal rup-
ture and death. B
G. B. Blades, of Irwin, Iowa, sold al
Chicago Wednesday a choice bunch OF
Shorthorns, Herefords and Polled An
gus al $685.. John Moore, Humboldt
Iowa. marketed 20 1,27S-pound cattle
at $500. DR.. T. A. Dumont, of Dumont,
Iowa. 70 1 ,33S-pound cattle at $7.75, and
203 295-pound hogs at $3.50. J. H.
Shook & Son, Shenandoah, Iowa, "a
steers. averaging 1857 pounds, and sold
at $40. Their own feeding. B.. F
JACQUES, Jefferson. Iowa, Is !, 296-pound