The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-05-16

The agricultural appropriation bill
reported to the senate Saturday carries
So. 249. $50, an increase Of 1881 over
the house bill.
w. J. Elder, whose home is said to
be in Detroit, was burned to death Sat
urdav in a fire which destroyed the
Sherman house and half a dozen small
buildings at Cripple Creek Col.
At a banquet in Boston Saturday
night former Secretary Long paid a
tribute to Rear Admiral Sampson,
argued on the justification of the oc-
cupation of the Philippines and eulog-
lied President Mckinley.
F. f. Vanderberg, mayor Of Brook
lyn, H., and former city clerk. ID. w.
West. also of Brooklyn, were arrested
Tuesday on the charge of forgery, NAL
feasance in office, and conspiring to
tain money under false pretenses.
1t is now known that six lives were
lost in the cloudburst at Foss, on the
Choctaw G. Oklahoma railway, in Okla
homa. Fifteen houses were carried
away, and a Choctaw passenger train
had a thrilling race to escape the flood
that followed.
Westbound Northern Pacific passen-
ger No. II crashed into a freight whose
length necessitated leaving ten cars on
the main line, at Bedford, between
Helena and Townsend, Mont, Friday.
A box car was knocked off the track
and the engine smashed. The engineer
and fireman had been sent back to
warn the passenger train, but did not
get fairly started before it hove in
sight, and so great was its momentum
80. Il --,II ,,NA 1A etnnnn1 in timn tn
avoid a collision. Beyond a severe shak-
ing up none of the passengers was in
jured.
The Cunard Line steamer SaXonia,
which left Queenstown today for New
York, has among her passengers w. r.
Clarke of Liverpool; ]. d. Player of
Nottingham and E. H. NJ. Gum, of the
firm of w. D. and NJ. o Willis of Bris-
toll. 1t is said these gentlemen are going
to the United States in connection with
a plan to manufacture tobacco there
and to fight ]. B. Duke, president OF
the American tobacco company, on his
own ground by taking advantage of the
feeling against the trade combinations
ana by e~ndeavoring to organize the in
terests in the United States and Cana
da. which are opposed to the American
Tobacco company.
Andrew w. Lyons, formerly an aero
bat. has brought suit in San Francisco
against E. w. Crelin. husband of Ca
mile d'Arville, the opera singer, for
$4,000, for the alienation of his wife's
affections.
Reports received at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
from various sections of the state in
Gicate the storm last week killed $4,000
or 13, 900 sheep, the losses running from
. t. 10 per cent.
Burglars who employed an improvis-
ed drawbridge as a means of escape en-
tered the house of Mrs. Babette Stein,
4133 DreXel boulevard, Chicago, an
carried away 5000 worth of jewelry dr
$50. Not to be delayed in their search
for %valuables the men carried a drawer
which they had taken out of a dresser
from the second to the third floor of the
building when they heard approaching
footsteps.
The California limited on the Santa
Fe at Bevere, Mo-, Monday broke a
wheel on the dining car n ran into
a switch striking a freight '9". The
casualties thus far obtai""' are one
man killed and e-~-"al wolnen injured.
Chancellor OF tie -~'Xchequer Hicks
Beach has yielded to the storm of dis
approval aroused by the feature in the
British financial bill affecting checks,
and Monday definitely announced in the
house of the withdrawal of
the extra tax of a penny placed on
checks.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States is as follows: Wheat,
So, 1902, 900 bushels, a decrease from a
year ago of 10,459 600 bushels; corn, s.
GS7,000 bushels, a decrease of II 81 900
bushels; oats. 2.917 GOO bushels, a de-
crease Of 1882, 900 busehls.
Eight hundred men are now on strike
in Denver. Six large unions are in
vOlved, and the trouble shows signs of
spreading. The lumber yards, wood
working mills, and livery stables are
completely tied up, while many bakeries
are practically closed. The organiZa-
ton of the strike includes wood work
ers, lumbermen, stablemen, bakers
machinists and team drivers.
President Roosevelt issued a prOcla-
nation Monday opening to settlement
on July 18th the Fort Hall Indian res
ervation in Idaho, consisting of 400,
600 acres.
The interstate commerce commission
has refused the railroads request Il
continue the hearing of the charges
preferred by the Chicago Live Stock
Exchange.