The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-27
GENERAL NEWS BY WIRE.
Matters Of Interest Covering Various
Parts of the World and Put
in Concise Form.

Mrs. Roosevelt has returned from q
brief visit to friends in Philadelphia.
The pope has appointed Cardinal Mar
tinelli to be a member of the congre-
ton of rites.
Louis Cure defeated Schlossen 500 TO
210 at the international billiard tourna-
ment at Paris.
The president has nominated John ].
Lambert to be receiver of public money
at Pueblo, Colo.
In the International Billiard Tourna-
ment at Paris Sutton won with 500 to
Slosson's 800 in q innings.
The opera house and public library
and three stores of Ashland, Ohio,
burned. The loss is $50, 900.
Ex-State Senator Smith Of Jackson,
Mich, has accepted the Office of prose-
cutting attorney at Manila.
The Big Four today purchased the
Chicago & Southeastern railroad at a
receivers sale for 81, 010 900.
Steve Crosby of Louisville and kid"
Ashe of Cincinnati fought 20 rounds to
a draw at Hot Springs, Ark.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the
president. is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
John William Brock at Philadelphia.
AS a result of zero weather several
schools closed and traffic Of all sorts
has been hindered by snow at Toledo,
Ohio.
Ambassador Choate has returned to
London from his tour through the
countries of the eastern Mediterranean
and Egypt.
Eleven passengers and 40 members of
the crew of the wrecked steamer Ma
diana have arrived at New York from
Bermuda.
The British steamer Kelvinside has
been sunk in Para river in Brazil. The
captain and eight of the crew were
drowned.
. The Monongahela and Allegheny riv-
ers are rising rapidly at their headwa-
ters. Pittsburg is threatened with an
other flood.
Prince Komatsu, who was the envoy
OF japan at the coronation of King Ed
ward, is dead at Yokohama of an effec-
ton of the brain.
The president has nominated James
Rudolph Garfield of Ohio to be ON
missioner of corporation in the depart
ment of commerce.
The main strike of the Chicago city
railroad employees was avoided by the
acceptance of the company's PROPOSE
ton of arbitration.
Three trainmen were caught under a
locomotive that jumped the track in the
Denver & Rio Grande yards at Lead
vile, Col, and scalded to death.
The residents of Jackson county have
started a movement, supplementary to
that of the school children, to erect a
monument to Gen. John A. Logan.
A bill has been introduced in the Illi-
nois legislature prohibiting foot ball.
A violation is punishable by a fine of
from ten to one hundred dollars.
The body of William Corlett, an old
prospector, vas found in his cabin at
Boulder, Mont, frozen stiff and a large
portion of the fresh eaten away by
rats.
The second day of the convention Of
Illinois supervisors and county clerks
al Bloomington was devoted to various
matters coming under the jurisdiction
of these officials.
Two unknown men. dressed as wo-
men, smashed the window of the Her.
wick Jewelry company in East st.
Louis and escaped with a tray of dia-
monds worth 81, 500.
VIM. Cossitt, Cone & Co, stock brok-
ers of the consolidated exchange. as
signed at New York. 1t is stated the
assignment is due to embezzlement of
$40, 900 by an employee.
A Constantinople correspondent says
that Russia sternly refuses to admit
Bulgaria's plea of inability to restrain
Tp1-1,.n- ha~l, a.. fLnt ,tntr ahn,,t
Monastir, Macedonia.
1t is reported from Fee that the sui
tan's troops suffered a repulse with
great slaughter at the hands of HAMA
Kabyle tribe, which is friendly to the
pretender, Blu Hamara.
Judge Blodgett of the United States
court of appeals, is critically ill with
pneumonia ar Chicago. Because of his
advanced age, so years, fears for the
outcome are entertained.
The Hamburg-American company Is
organizing a new ~coasting service for
China. The steamers will ply between
Peng Kong, Fort Arthur, Chempulo,
Nowchoang and Kanton.
Four prisoners escaped from the
Morgan county Jail at Jackson
Vile, Ill. They broke a lock and
tnen made an attack on the turnkey,
injuring him seriously.
The Erie Railroad company has been
granted the consent of the state board
Of railroad commissioners to issue a
mortgage of $50, 000. 900 for improve
ments are betterments.
Bluejackets from an American war
ship had a fight with German sailors in
q cafe at Brussels and two Germans
and one American were injured. Five
of the American sailors are under ar
rest.
Rev. Father Aloysius Bosch, a Jesuit
missionary, who for the past Is years
has been superior of Holy Rosary mis-
sion OF Pine Ridge Indian agency, died
at Omaha Of injuries received last Sep
TENDER.
Nathan Doras. a diamond broker OF
Philadelphia, was robbed of $1,000
worth of diamonds wiunin ten minutes
after stepping from a train on his ar
rival at Chicago. ~Pickpockets relieved