The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-21

Southern Pacific system and chairman
of the Union Pacific lines, will, it is
said, leave New York in about two
weeks for the City of Mexico.
The state senate of Colorado has
adopted by a strict party vote the
joint resolutions which already passed
the house, appealing to President
Roosevelt to interfere in the British
Boer war.
The United States transport, Wright,
which was wrecked Nov. % last by
striking an unchartered rock at the en-
trance of San Jacinto harbor and sink
ing in Is feet of water, has been sue
cessfully raised.
George s. Gould has been arrested at
Bellwoo6, Neb., charged with conspiracy
in connection with the failure of the
Platte Valley bank at Bellwood. He is
the third of the Gould brothers to be
placed under arrest.
BY way of experiment August Bel
mont, New York, has ordered a string
Of horses shipped from his Long ISL
and training quarters to Aiken. S. C.
This will permit of earlier training
owing to milder climate.
The Egyptian postal administration
has advised the American government
hat p~ostoffices for the receipt and dis
patch of registered mails have been
established at K%hartoum, Fashoda and
% other places in the Soudan.
A mahogany piano stands in Rear Ad-
miral Schley's apartments in Washing
ton. and the rear admiral and Mrs.
Schley are wondering where it came
from. In the rear admiral's desk Is q
receipted bill of $1,000 for the instru-
ment.
Nora Fuller's murdere is still at
large, and it is believed thousands Of
miles from San Francisco, but the
whole police force is still following
every clue to the whereabouts Of the
mysterious John Bennett, alias G. B.
Hawkins.
Frank C. White. for many years the
official banker of New York, is dead
at Wnitehouse, N. j., from paralysis.
He supplied bread for the public insti-
tutions of New York and was rated as
a millionaire. He was widely known
for his charity.
News of the new placer findings OF
the Peace river north of the Cariboo
gold district in British Columbia, is
contained in a private letter from j..
Fl. Reed, a prospector. Reed says he
found ground that averages $35 per
day per MAI on the surface.
The American delegates remaining at
Sores, Macedonia. after the failure re-
Gently of negotiations for the ransoming
of the abducted American missionary,
Miss Ellen M. Stone, and her compan-
ion, Nine. Tsilka, have again started
negotiations with the brigands.
A school of law and Jurisprudence, to
be known as the school Of law n jur-
isprudence of the University of Chicago,
will be opened by the university Oct. 1.
This will be the only law school west of
New York requiring a bachelors degree
of three years of college work for ad-
mission.
DR.. Jokici Takamine, a Japanese,
claims to have discovered the possibili-
ty of bloodless surgery through the me-
dunn of a chemical composition called
a%drenalin, in solution, operations may
be performed, it is said, on the nose,
ear and eye without the splitting of a
drop of blood. At present adrenalin
costs $1,000 a pound.
F. NJ. Zellers, a patient in the hospital
at the national militia home at Dan
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American consul at Tien Tsin, China,
stating that his daughter, Margaret Eel
lers. had committed suicide there Dec.
90, and that he held $25, 900 in gold
which she had left for her father.
EX-Congressman Charles F. Booher,
leading attorney in the prosecution of
the Richardson murder case. says there
will be evidence Of a highly sensation
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the business partner of the murdered
man, when it is expected an y wit
ness to the shooting will be produced.
Mrs. Robert Johnson, aged so years,
of Sleeth, Ind, died suddenly at her
home Wednesday of hemorrhage of the
brain. Mrs. Johnson was a singer of
national fame and a leading member Of
the Methodist church of that place. 1t
was at the church that she had started,
having just finised tie corus of Near
err, My God, to Thee" when she dropped
dead.
At the annual meeting of the Atlantic
Yacht club resolutions were adopted
e~lecting Kaiser William of Germany
and his brother, Admiral Prince Henry,
Of Prussia honorary members of the
club. The action was taken as a token
OF appreciation TOT the KalSerS action
in ordering an American yacht and his
expressions of good will toward the
United States.
The Capitol company or the X. l. l..
ranch, of which the Farwells Of Chi
cago are the principal owners, has sold
to the Reynolds Land and Cattle COM
pany $4,000 acres, to L. T. Clark 40, 900
acres, to William J.. Tod $4,000 acres,
to the Matador Land and Cattle com
pany 210, 900 acres, to T. ID. Wright
70, 900 acres and about 40, 1000 acres in
smaller tracts to various purchasers.
An unusual use of hypnotic power
was made by Rev. w. H. Anderson, pas
tor of the Christian church at Pana, ILL.,,
in the a S of Policeman James Macon
of Assumption, who far SO hours had
been in a comatose condition which
baffled the Attempts of physicians to
arouse him. Mr.. Anderson, upon being
caller, used his power, and Macon i'm
mediately awoke. He was quite weak,
but recovered rapidly.
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