The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-01-16
CONDENSED NEWS

was almost paralyZed.
1t is denied in Mexico City that the
plague has appeared at Acapulco or
other ports than Mazatlan.
George c. Perkins Of California has
been renominated senator to succeed
himself by the Republican caucus.
The total revenue of Cuba for Deem
Der. including the November balance,
is SO, ,5oS; expenditures, $1,537,676.
A Caracas correspondent of the Ma
tin says the Italian cruiser Carlo AL
berto has begun the blockade of Coro.
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler. wife of
the president of Columbia university,
died in New York city Friday of heart
trouble.
President Burt of the Union Pacihc
will next Sunday confer with trainmen
concerning the demand for an increase
in wages.
It is said at the French foreign office
there is no grounds for the report that
France will join in the Venezuelan
blockade.
Robert S. Mccormick, the newly ap-
pointed United States ambassador to
Russia. and Mrs. Mccormick, have ar
rived at st. Petersburg.
The latest advices from Fee say that
the pretender has re-established his
camp at Elhillan. IL miles from Fee,
and that he is preparing to assume the
offensive.
d. NJ. Parry, president of the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers, denies
the story of the organization preparing
TO blacklist strike leaders and agitators
at indianapolis.
George Worthington of Shawnee, O.,
shot and killed his brother Alex. They
Quarreled over a game of poker. The
murderer escaped.
Several earthquake shocks were felt
in the vicinity of Lapachula, Mexico.
No damage was done, but the people
were panic-stricken.
The family of Archduke Leopold Fer
dinand, brother of the crown princess
of Saxony, has decided to pay him
$500 600, provided he %renounces all
claims to his estates.
The plant of the Peoria Glucose and
Sugar Refining company has been clos
ed for want of coal Eight hundred
employees are thrown temporarily out
of employment.
The officials of the Big Four stated
Saturday morning that nobody was in
jured and only one man killed in the
wreck on that road between Moro and
Bethelto, ILL.,, Friday night.
In London it is said that there is
absolutely no foundation for the report
published in the United States that Col
onial Secretary Chamberlain has been
assassinated in South Africa.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago has ap-
pointed a committee to prepare plans
for the celebration of the Tooth ami
yerSary of the permanent settlement OF
Chicago. 1t will be held some time in
September.
One man was killed and half a dozen
injured in the women's wing of the
house of correction which was partial
ly wrecked by a neXplosion of several
sticks of dynamite in the shaft of the
new filtration plant at Holmesburg, a
suburb of Philadelphia, early Saturday.
At San Francisco Willard V. Hunt
ington, one of the nephews of the late
Coils p. Huntington, and brother of
Henry Z. Huntington, has decided away
practically all his real estate to his
brother and the widow of c. p. Hunt
ington. The nominal consideration was
81. The transfer is subject to a mort
gage of nearly half a million.
General William Booth, supreme Of
ficer of the Salvation Army, and chief
of staff, General Booth-Tucker, arrived
in Omaha Wednesday, and were given
a hearty recognition. They went from
there to st. Joseph and st. Louis.
The spread of the bubonic plague to-
ward the United States has caused such
alarm at Tucson, Ariz., that federal au-
thority has been asked to investigate
and quarantine the ports.
One of the large independent iron
mining and manufacturing concerns at
Duluth has made a deal for iron ore
leases on the Western Mesaba neal the
Hawkins mine involving the payment
of bonuses to the amount of $500, 900.
Sagasta's funeral Wednesday was
witnessed by great crowds in Madrid,
Spain. The streets were lined with
troops. The archbishop of Toledo Of
ficiated.
1t is announced from Berlin that DR..
Won Holleben, the German ambassador
at Washington, has applied for a pro-
longed leave of absence on account of
his health.
DR.. William G. Gano, aged "A, drop
ped dead at his home in Springfield,
ILL.,, after returning from the State
house, where he had solicited a clerical
position in the legislature.
1t is believed the committee on for
eign affairs will undoubtedly report in
favor of accepting the treaty with the
United States and that it will be ap-
proved by both houses of the Cuban
legislature.
The Bank of Louisville. Neb.. was
broken into and robbed of S. 1900 early
Thursday. The robbers escaped.
c. c. Warren, a well known Iowa at
torney, died suddenly at Ida Grove,
aged 70.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Western Passenger asso-
citation held at Chicago an agreement
regarding the issuance of half-rate tick
cts was reaffirmed.
Crazed by pain attending his illness
from typhoid fever, Thomas A. O'Don-
ough OF New York, treasurer of the
O'Donough Coffee company, sprang
from a window of his room on the sew