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

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agascar.
Colonel w. D. Meade. one of the pio-
neers of Kansas and for thirty years
a resident of Wichita, died in Denver.
A dispatch to the London Telegraph
from Pretoria reports that 200 Beers
have surrendered at Franklin, Orange
river colony.
President John Henry Barrows, D.. D.
of Oberlin college, is dangerously i'll,
with pleuro-pneumonia at his home in
Oberlin. The gravest fears are express
ed as to the outcome.
Snow to the depth of nearly an inch
fell Tuesday at Terra Alta, Berlin, and
other points in the Alleghenies. Gar
den truck and other crops were dam
aged to a considerable extent
A mob broke into the jail at Paris,
Mo. Sunday, after a desperate fight, in
which the sheriff and deputies were in
jured, secured Abe Winthrop, the negro
who killed young William Grow last
The government of Nicaragua has ac-
copied the official invitation to be rep
resented at the St Louis exposition
and shortly will appoint a commission
er to arrange for the Nicaraguan eX-
hibit.
Emigration statistics for 1901 show
that $4,000 N~orwesians came to the
United States last year, and it is esti-
mated that during 1902 10000 Nor
wegians will leave their country for
America
The senate committee on naval af-
fairs has agreed to report favorably
the bill providing for the retirement
of Naval Constructor Richmond P.
Hobson.
w. NJ. Leeds, president of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railway,
who underwent an operation a few days
ago for appendicitis, is reported to be
much improved.
Mrs. Mary J. Thompson, the first
settler of Blue Rapids, Kas.. died sud
denly of heart failure. Mrs. Thompson
was born in Virginia in 1921. In Kan
sas during the civil war she proved
herself n heroine.
At Newark. n. j., Wednesday Vice
Chancellor Stevens today denied an in
junction asked for by Henry NJ. Rau of
New York, to restrain the proposed
dissolution of the Shierits Distributing
company OF America.
Five men suspected of killing Dan
Tel Hill. the wealthy board of trade man
in his home Saturday night, were ar
rested in Chicago Tuesday. No one was
able to identify them, however, and
they were released
Rev. William II. Calmon of Bridge
port, Conn, who recently declined lAe
presidency of Tabor college at Tabor,
Iowa, has accepted the presidency of
Carleton college, Mortified, Mimi, and
will enter on his duties Jan. l, 1903.
A telegram dated Sunday evening, at
Yalta, Crimea, says hat no complica-
tons have arisen in the condition of
Count Tolstoi. who is suffering from
typhoid fever. ana that the general
state of his health is satisfactory.
The remains Of Edwin Lawrence God
kin, editor emeritus of the Evening
Post of New York. who died in Brix-
ham, Devonshire, England, May 20,
were taken to Hazel Beech Northam-
tonshire. where they will be inferred.
The steamer Koenig Albert has
landed at Naples twenty survivors of
the passengers and crew of the steam
er Camorata, which foundered early in
May in the Indian ocean. Eighty-nine
of her crew and $50 passengers per-
ished.
The bill of Representative Overstreet
OF Indiana, abolishing the one-eighth
keg of beer, has been favorably acted
upon by the ways and means commit
tee. The measure is desired by the beer
trade in order to do away with the
small kegs.
Governor Dockery of Missouri has
granted a respite from June 13 to June
81 to Sam Brown, who was sentenced
to be hanged in Wayne county for
murder. The respite is granted to al
low time to present evidence for COM
mutation of sentence.
Before the final adjournment of the
American Zionists' Federation Tues
day at Boston the following officers
were elected: President. Prof. Richard
Gatthell, New York; treasurer, VIM.
Morris, of Philadelphia. Among the
vice-presidents elected was Rev. Isidor
Myers, of San Francisco.
While the royal train at Naples was
at the arsenal two stones were thrown
at the king and queen by a man named
Vincenzo Guerrero. who was immed-
lately arrested. The assault of last
evening resulted in a great demonstra-
ton of loyalty toward the king and
queen from the assembled crowd.
e. H. McHenry, for several years
chief engineer of the Northern Pacific
and OF the receivers of that proper
ty, returned Monday from a six months
trip in China and the east, and leaves
at once for Montreal to become chief
engineer of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, which position he will assume
June l.
Mrs. Thomas Kensett and her daugh-
ter Gertrude, of Cornwall-on-Hudson
N. Y. have been robbed of $50. 900 worth
of jewelry, says a Paris dispatch to the
American and Journal. The jewelry
was aiken from a trunk in their hotel
room, close 20 the Grand opera. Part
of the jewelry consists of heirlooms.
There is no clew to the robbers.
Mrs. Thomas Kensett and her daugh.
ter Gertrude, of Cornwall-O n-Hudson
N. Y, have been robbed of $50. 00p
worth of jewelry says a Paris dispatch
The jewelry was taken from a trunI
in their hotel room, close to the Graad