The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-21
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MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM
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General Happenings of the Past Few
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All Who Wish to Know What Has
Been Going On in This and Other
Countries.

Countries.
The Minnesota house by a vote Of
30 to IL passed the Smith bill provid-
ing for the holding of a constitutional
convention.
The statement of the British board
OF trade for February shows increases
of G1,977 200 imports and 9274, 900 in
exports.
Miss Julia Lamont, daughter Of Dan
iel Lamont, formerly secretary Of war,
is critically i'll with brain fever at her
home in New York.
The Yorkshire Post says it learns
that Hon. Alfred Littleton is likely to
succeed Lord Pauncefote as British
ambassador at Washington.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States is as follows: Wheat,
s.. 155 900 bushels; corn, 1926 900 bush
els; oats, 4,014,000 bushels.
Senator Hanna is to be invited to
make an effort to settle the strike at
the disclaimers works, which has
been or since June 1, 1901.
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds today author
lied a favorable report on the new pub
lie building at Hastings, Neb., to cost
SIPS, 900.
Rumors are afloat to the effect that
the Anglo-Swiss Condensed milk fac
tory of Elsin, ILL.,, had been sold to the
Gail Borden company of Elgin for
50, 900, 900.
Senator D%olliver will address the
Methodist Episcopal church conference,
which Will be held in Baltimore in
April, on Education Day" His topic
will be Education"
The Minnesota house adopted a COM
mitee report for the indefinite post
ponement of the bill making an appro-
priation for a Minnesota exhibit at the
st. Louis exposition.
The threatened strike among the
railway employees in Italy has been
averted. The government has agreed
to pay 81 600, 900 lire to satisfy the de-
mands Of the workmen.
General Chakir Pacha, a brother Of
the late Grand Vizier, who was re-
Gently arrested by order of the Sultan,
and the other officer taken into Gus
Lody with him, have been liberated.
Word that Cornelius Van
Ness, the ~octogenarian millionaire of
Port Jervis, formerly Of New York,
had been baptized in the river Jordan
by the Rev. William K. Hall of New
burgh, N. Y. Mr.. and Mrs. Van Ness
sailed on the steamer Celtic for q trip
to the Orient, to crafty an ambition
of years to be baptized in the Jordan.
Mrs. Roosevelt has received a gift
from President Dia of Mexico consist
ing of three pieces of eXquisitely-
drawn linen. They have been pro-
nounced the most beautiful specimens
that have ever come to this country,
and were sent to Mrs. Roosevelt as a
special recognition of her encourage
ment to the linen workers in Porto
Rico.
Bullets from the revolvers of police
men whistled over the heads of the
~outpouring congregation at Trinity
church, Chicago, on Sunday morning,
creating a panic among the women n
children. In the midst of the excite
ment an escaping burglar dashed
through the crowd, followed by detec-
tives from the Stanton avenue police
station, shooting as they ran.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter
of the president, with several friends
and accompanied by a maid, has left
Washington for a visit to General and
Mrs. Leonard Wood at Havana, going
by rail to Florida. Mrs. Harriet Blaine
Beale and Captain Philip were of the
party. Miss Roosevelt expects to re-
turn to Washington the latter part of
the month.
Mrs. Minnie Madden Fiske, the ac-
tress, who vas injured at the Grand
opera house at st. Louis Saturday
night has left for Indianapolis with
her company. Inquiry at the Plant
ers' hotel, where Mrs. Fiske stopped
while here, revealed the fact that her
injuries consisted only of bruises on
the head, from which she is rapidly re-
covering.
The officials of the foreign Office and
of the British embassy at Paris united
in denying the truth of the report cir
culated in the United States that Miss
Maude Come had aroused the English
colony by her revolutionary speeches,
and that the British ambassador, Sir
Edmund j. Monson, had made formal
complaintagainst her ~utterances, claim
ing they were reasonable.
In a decision just handed down, the
supreme court at Texas holds that the
state live stock sanitary board has not
the authority to establish a cattle
quarantine line at variance with that
of federal commission. The quaran-
tine was established as a protection
against splenetic fever, and the vari-
ance between the state and federal
lines has been a source OF much trou-
BILE to cattlemen throughout the west
ern country.
The steamship Majestic, which ar
rived at New York this week, reported
a very stormy passage. Late Saturday
evening a 40-mile gale sprang up.
Shortly before midnight an unusually
heavy sea struck the steamer, smash
ing in the port holes and shaking the
big liner to her keel. An hour later an
other big wave was encountered, which
carried away a lifeboat and snapped
a thousand-pound davit. One of the
cabin passengers, Mrs. Irving H. Good
rich, was badly injured about the head
by being thrown against a table.
George w. Vanderbilt has appeared
before the New York commissioner of
the department of taxes and assess