The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-04-18

week.
James Jackson, a negro. aged %, was
hanged at Kansas City, Mo-, Friday for
the murder in December, 1900, of Prop
het Everett, another colored man. The
men quarreled over cards.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations considered but did not finally
pass upon the bill granting an annuity
of $4,000 a year to Miss Clara Barton
for her services as president of the
Red Cross.
The Renfost apartement building in
Chicago. occupied by about 40 families,
was destroyed by fire Friday. All the
occupants escaped safely. Loss, $175,-
600. Patrick Mccormick, a fireman,
was killed.
The state insurance department of
Wisconsin has collected in taxes and
fees and turned over to the state treas
urer for the first quarter of this year
s43S, 25S.S0. which is $13, 200 more than
for the same period last year.
No athletic meet of the Western In
tercollegiate association vii. be held
this year. This announcement was
made Friday by Wendell Huston, who
was in charge of last years meet. The
meet was successful from an athletic
standpoint, but lost money.
The largest quarterly receipts in the
history of the postal service are re-
corded for the three months ended jan
uary l last. figures for which have just
been completed. The receipts were
S32, COS, 621: expenses, $30,947 ,131; eX-
cess of receipts over expenditures ST.
O5S, 400.
A train load of 22S hay fed Montana
cattle lfront frDn, thn 90 cold of
Chicago. Tuesday, for $6.15@6.20, av-
eraging 1918 to 1925 POUNDS. These
prices are the highest for straight
Western cattle since 1883, when some
grassers sold in November of that year
at $6.25. The record top for Western
range cattle was in 1882, when $3.50
was paid in July.
The largest oil and gas land deal ever
made in Marietta, O., has just been
consummated, whereby the Ohio and
California Refining Oil company has
acquired $4,000 acres of oil and gas
land in Mason, Jackson, Putnam and
Kenawha counties in West Virginia,
lying below the Guffey and Galley tract
purchased last week by the Standard
Oil company. The price is not made
known, but it is said to be very large.
Hogs are dying in the Pine Creek
valley, Wisconsin, in large numbers,
and the malady is thought to be hog
cholera. The heaviest loser is Edward
Williams. Health Officer Boynton is of
the opinion that the disease is not chol-
era, but as a precautionary measure or
dered all the carcasseS burned. The
stnch resulting from the operation
was such as to cause uncomplimentary
comment for miles around.
President Raymond IL that
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000 to
Union College at Schenectady, N. Y.
A decree was signed by President
Loubet Tuesday providing for the par
%ticipation of France at the st. Louis
exposition, and appointing M. Michel
Lagrave commissioner general of the
French section.
DR.. b.. d. Cox, a well-known physi.
/ clan of Jackson, KY, was shot and in
: stantly killed last night by an unknown
s. man on the streets of Jackson. DR.
Cox was on his way home from his
, office when the shots were fired. The
!, murder made his escape. The cause
for the shooting is not known.
According to news received at st
, Thomas. d. w. l., the largest find OF
!, diamonds in the Demerara country
: British Guiana, since the diamond in
dustry was started there, has beer
made on the property of the syndicate
AS a result of about five weeks work
/ $1,000 stones We're brought into
Georgetown last Friday. The largest
stone weighed eleven and one-hall
grains.
Mrs. James MCGOWAN, 2S years old
| of fuckers Corners, a village in Ills.
ter county, New York, has given birth
to i've children, all girls, All are do
ing well. Mrs. MCGOWAN is the moth.
err of three other children, a son and {
pair Of girl twins.
Since he became chief executive o
the nation, President Roosevelt has be
e come one of the most heavily insured
e men in the United States. The presi
b, dent has just taken out a policy TO
S $4,000 in a New York company, be
r sides continuing policies for smalle
amounts which he had taken out lon;
p before he was elected governor of New
A York. President Roosevelt's policies
q it is understood. exceed by SIS, 900 o
$4,000 those held by President McKin
ley. Mrs. Mckinley was paid abou
S6e,0 on policies on her husband
n life.
If States Attorney Deneen Tuesday an
n nounced Annie Berndt, one of tn
states witnesses in the Toombs' cast
n at Chicago, and her infant, have bee
If missing since Sunday, and has eX
o pressed the fear the woman ha
plunged into the lake with her child
Miss Bcrndt lived on the steamer PEEL
r plcss with Toombs' wife, and left tn
boat a week before the death of CARR
- Larson, for whose murder Toombs
" undergoing a second trial,
Rev. Samuel Krell, pastor of tn
Methodist church at Tacoma, Ia, VIII
served in the Philippines as a privat
A. soldier in the Fifty-first Iowa volur
is teers, committed suicide here. He wa
rs ~disconsolate over his inability to secul
e. a larger attendance to his church NEE
Sc ings.
is Fifty feet of the dam at Post Lake O
is the Wolf river, fifty miles north
is Appleton, Wis, went out, doing COZ
lie siderable damage. Fifteen squal
miles of country was Hooded