The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-05-09

The memory of the British General
Warren would be sweeter had he made
Spionkop his Bunker Hill.
Ferdinand Schumacher, who started
the first factory for the manufacture OF
cereal foods, celebrated his S0th birth
day in Akron, O., this week
DIR. Boris Londonier, at present in
San Francisco, is considering the es-
tablishment of a Russian newspaper in
the United States. The paper will prob
ably make it's appearance soon. and un-
der the name of the Russian Courier.
A Milwaukee paper, referring to Oma-
has matrimonial bureau, intimates
that il is as interesting and useful to a
city as a can of nit~ro-glycerin attached
to a runaway grocery wagon on block
pavements. In other words, matches
have an explosive tendency.
Robert Sharkey, who has been APP
pointed naval officer of the port of New
York, belongs to a family, the members
of which are doing quite well in the
way of public office. Six Of them are
getting paid by the taxpayers, the COM
bined salaries footing up $14, 700.
Governor Crane of Massachusetts has
signed the bill awarding a medal to
every man from his state who went out
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call for troops. The pen with which he
signed the bill has been presented to
President Pierce, of the minute men
of '61."
Emilien Renou, who died last week in
France at the age of 81, was the oldest
of French m~eteorologists in active
work, if not the Oldest in the world.
Since 1878 he nae been the director of
the St. Mauer observatory. In 1852 he
was one of the founders of the French
Meteorology society.
The Austrian army has an active gen.
eral who is 95 years old. This is Field
Marshal Lieutenant Baron Schwartz
Meiller, who has been az officer "a years
and so years a general. He is one of
five officers still alive who marched
with their luggage on their backs from
Lemberg to Naples.
The Burlington ticket Office at Nap
%erville, Ill, was robbed in a novel way.
the thieves turning out the semaphore
lights, which are four blacks away on
either end of the depot in order to get
Night Operator Dawson to leave the
Office to light the semaphores. He
locked the Office, but they broke in a
window, and, prying open the cash
drawer, took everything in it.
Cardinal Sebastian Martinelli, who
left Philadelphia for Washington, an
nounced before going that he had re-
ceiyed word by cable from Rome Of his
recall. The news was brought from
Washington by the Rt. Rev. Francis
Marchetti. auditor of the apostolic dele
cation at the capital.
The p~ostoflce authorities at Berlin
confirm the statement that plans have
been made for a new cable between
Germany and America. No route, ter
mini, or other details have been de-
cided upon. None of the countries
through whose territory the cable will
pass has as yet given its assent.
The United Railroads company of
San Francisco. has accepted the resig-
nation Of General Manager E. P. Vim
ing. His successor has not been
chosen.
Exporters forwarded $500 cattle from
Chicago last week, against 3,400 the
previous week and 5000 a year ago.
Most of the export steers were bought
at $6.75@7.00.
Howard Hill Monday shot and fatally
wounded his former sweetheart, Mary
Boyer, and then committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid at Chicago. Both
were colored. Jealousy was the cause.
Two hundred and fifty fishermen are
reported to have been drowned in a
gale which has made havoc of the her.
ring fishing fleet on the west coast of
Japan. The Japanese cruiser Musashi
was driven ashore, but her crew were
saved.
At the suggestion of Captain Dayton,
Secretary Moody has authorized that Of
ficer to convene a court Of inquiry for
an examination into the matter of the
arrest and Imprisonment of the officers
of the cruiser Chicago at Venice. The
personnel of the court is not known.
Nearly $4,000, 900 were distributed by
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw Mon
day among the national banks in vari-
GU parts OF the country. Sixty-two
banks are recognized as government
repositories in widely different sections
of the country.
Two hundred houses at Bartlett, a
famous health resort near Buda Pest,
were destroyed by fire. Several persons
were injured.
Three masked safe crackers blew the
safe at the Lake Shore freight depot
Monday at Cleveland, O., and secured
an unknown sum OF money thought to
be $500. The robbers had a struggle
with the night Waterman, who was
bound and gagged.
Good rains are reported to have fallen
throughout Kansas, Indian territory.
western Iowa and Nebraska Sunday
night and Monday. The threatened dam
age to crops is apparently removed.
Richard Mansfield has decided to re-
tire from the stage in three years and
devote himself to playwriting. The IA
nous actors plans at present are to
play two more regular seasons and to
make a final and farewell tour. He has
always suffered acutely from nervous
troubles.
BY the breaking Of an axle the Berlin
express train was derailed on Monday
morning. Herr Freidel, member OF the
reichstag. and two other persons were
killed, and six injured.
The congress of the German Peoples
Examiners for a life insurance COM
pany have found that John p. Stafford,