The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-06
GENERAL NEWS BY WIRE.
Matters Of Interest Covering Various
Parts of the World and Put
In Concise Form.

much ~jubilation throughout the 18TH
mus.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
senate the nomination of George E.
Roberts Of Iowa to be director of the
mint.
Judge McDougall of Toronto, one of
Canada's best known judges, was found
dead in his bed at his home in st. Cath
crimes, Ont.
The California assembly by a vote
OF 81 to 9 passed resolutions instruct
ing Senators Perkins and Bard to vote
against the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
A large tank in the DeSmet gas plant
at Huron, S. D., exploded, damaging the
building and slightly injuring the man
ager, who was blown through a window.
The United States charge de'affiaries
at London, Henry White, was the guest
at the luncheon to King Edward and
Queen Alexandra given by Earl Car
rington.
Nels Brudvig, a prominent farmer,
lies in a critical condition at his home
in Irene, S. D., from a load of lumber
falling on him as he was returning
home.
The big "a" mill at Minneapolis.
Crosby company, has been closed owing
to the inability of the railroads to re-
move the flour promptly, because Of
lack Of cars.
Levy Ankeny, the millionaire bank
er and farmer of Walla Walla, Wash,
has been formally elected United States
senator from Washington to succeed
George Turner.
White Calf, chief Of the Blackfeet
Indians, who won General Miles regard
for his military abilities, is dead at the
Providence hospital in Washington, d.
c., at the age of so.
A Vandalia special train ran down a
buggy at a crossing near Darlington,
Ind, killing Benjamin Tollin and Thos.
Grisman, both prominent business men
of Charlottesville, Ind.
=. Jerry Richtmeyer has been arrested
at st. Louis charged with being one of
the men who robbed the Steelville, ILL.,,
bank of SO 500 Tuesday. His bride Of
one day is in Jail with him.
Capt. William e. Parnall, general
superintendent Of Bigelow copper min
ing syndicate properties in the Calu-
met, Mich, district, is suffering from
cancer and is not expected live.
Arthur Kirkpatrick, for a quarter Of
a century the leading banker and inan-
cier Of northern Missouri and quite
wealthy, died suddenly of rheumatism
of the heart at his home in st. Joseph,
Mo.
John B. Hoxie, Of st. Paul, a promin-
ent commission man, well known
throughout the northwest, is dead, at
a hospital where he recently was oper-
ated on for cancer. He was 63 years
Of age.
Several members of the Iowa COM
mission have inspected the worlds fair
grounds at st. Louis. The state capitol
of Iowa will be represented by a COM
mission on the site allotted to that
state.
General Charles Taylor, publisher of
the Boston Globe, was the speaker at
the banquet of the Louisville board of
trade. General Taylor was given a
hearty welcome by those assembled at
the banquet.
The title and rank of envoy extraor-
binary and minister plentipotentiary
have been conferred on Baron Sheck
Won St%ernberg, who succeeds DR.. Won
Holleben as the representative of Ger
many at Washington.
Harry Forbes and Andy Tokell of
England, who are matched to meet in a
ten-round battle for the bantam-weight
championship of the world, have ac-
cepted the offer Of the Detroit club. The
fight is set for Feb. 81.
The feature of the banquet of the
Kansas Day club at Topeka, Kan, cele-
brating the And anniversary of the ad-
mission of Kansas into the Union, was
,La oIHraoc np Cannral onrorJ HE
subject was Reciprocity"
Albert Hansen and Maurice Martin.
were caught by the falling Of a hang
ing wall at the eighteenth level of No.
l shaft at the Kearsarge branch Of the
Osceola, Mich, mine. The former was
killed instantly and the latter is ex-
pected to die.
President Johnson has appointed the
American league representatives on
both the rules and schedules commit
tees, and 1t is probable that the repre-
sentatives named will confer in Chicago
next week with a similar committee of
men from the National league.
The board of trustees of the Pea
body Education fund held a special
meeting at Washington. Chief Justice
Fuller presided. A resolution was
adopted SIlpuldtlHB lHdI the luuu OF d
portion of the income thereof be appro-
priated to establish and maintain a
teachers college in the South.
Mrs. John Mulhall addressed tho
Mothers Child club at Sioux City and
her remarks aroused unusual interest.
She denounced the carpet as a danger
GUS furnishing for the house, and re-
commended hard wood floors. Carpets
accumulate too many disease germs.
She recommended fewer and less fancy
furnishings. The colonial style of arch
itecture was given as the proper style
for a model house. The club Endorsed
her views.
One of the biggest real estate trans
actions ever made in Keokuk was filed
for record whereby j. G. Hubinger,
known as Keokuk's starch king, trans
fers to Lincoln Brooke and Jennie l..
Brooke, of Chicago, a large amount Of
Keokuk real estate, including the large
stone business building, the Casino
building and baseball park. The con-