The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-01-09
The NEWS CONDENSED.

m|lSSlOneT III SUCCESSFUL W wi. 1
ridge, resigned.
H. C. Prick denies he has been offer
ed the presidency of the United States
Steel corporation and says he has retir-
ed from business.
Three thousand people Monday night
saw the Portage Lake team defeat
Toronto Varsity by a score of 13 to 2
at Houghton, Mich.
General Nord, the newly-elected pres
ident of the Haitian republic, o the
oath on Tuesday. Tranquility reigns
throughout the republic.
1t is denied in New York that a con-
ference is to be held between Union Pa
cific officials and striking employees at
Omaha to adjust differences.
At Cordell, Ok. T.. j. A. White, edi-
tor of the Cordell Beacon. fatally shot
A. ]. Johnson, a townsite man. The
cause of the tragedy vas IN old quarrel.
Capt. John McKenna, keeper of the
lighthouse at Lime Point. Cal, on the
Marin county shore of the Golden Gate,
was killed by falling over a twenty foot
cliff.
A message from Governor Yates of
Illinois, now in Florida, was ne has so
much improved in health thaot he and
Mrs. Yates will return to Springfield
mex Tuesday.
The 50th anniversary of the Catholic
church at Jacksonville, ILL.,, and the
25th of the ordination of the Very Rev.
Dean Grove are in progress. The exer-
cises will continue all week.
Morris Pratt of Whitewater, Wis,
one of the early converts to Spiritual
ism, and founder of the only school in
the world devoted to instruction in
Spiritualism, is dead, aged 81.
1t is stated in New York that the
Standard Oil company has announced a
general pension plan for its employees.
The plan is on the lines of those an
nounced by various railroads.
Perry S. Heath of Salt Lake City,
secretary of the Republican national
committee, denied that he was a candi-
date for the Utah senatorship and pre-
dicted that a Norman would be chosen.
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner, president of
the Rhode Island State Society Order
convention, has received from Presi-
dent Loubet of France an acceptance
of honorary membership in the order.
The appointment of Vice Admiral
Cervera, who surrendered to the Amer
lean fleet off Santiago de Cuba, to the
post of chief of staff of the Spanish
navy has been published in the official
gazette.
The members of the Humbert family,
recently arrested in Madrid in connec-
ton with the great safe frauds, arrived
in Paris Monday morning. The prison
ers were conveyed to the Conciergerie
prison.
A freight wreck on the Chicago G.
Alton at Macoupin, near Bloomington,
ILL.,, tied up traffic between the latter
city and st. Louis Monday night. The
property loss is extensive. No one was
seriously hurt.
James Petersen, a widower, aged 50,
and his daughter Alice, aged Is, were
found dead in bed at Racine, Wis.
asphyxiated by coal gas from a heating
stove. A son. Rudolph, was found bare
ly alive, but was resuscitated.
w. ]. Bryan's visit to the City of
Mexico has been by sightseeing, official
calls and entertainments. He has been
received in audience by President Diaz
and Minister of Finance Limantour,
who showed him the greatest courtesy.
Horace B~utterworth will be appoint
ed director of athletics of Northwestern
university, vice DR.. Hollister. Butter
worth is a graduate of the University of
Chicago and has been instructor of
gymnastics at the university since 1892.
A permit has been issued by the ILL
nois auditor of public accounts for the
organization of the Woman's Saving
Society of Chicago. The capital stock
of the new bank is 5000 900. The or
ganizers are A. c. Tisdell, E. c. Wright
and c.. A. Horter.
At San Francisco Nathaniel Whipple,
son Of Col. Whipple, U. S. A., at present
chief paymaster in the Philippines, sta
toned at Manila, shot and killed him
self Tuesday. Dependency induced by
long illness is thought to have been the
Rev. H. F. Ross, pastor of the North
Presbyterian church at La Crosse, Wis.
refuses to deliver any more sermons
until the church pays up arrears of
salary. He is in Canada just at pres
ent, but has written a letter notifying
people of his intentions.
Former United States Senator Dwight
M. Sabin of Minnesota died suddenly
Tuesday morning OF heart failure at the
Auditorium, Chicago. He was 81 years
old, and for a quarter of a century he
was prominent in national Republican
politics and was very wealthy.
1t is reported that the Harry Weis-
senger Tobacco company's plant of
Louisville, KY, one of the largest in
dependent tobacco manufacturers, has
been sold to New York capitalists for
merly interested in the Universal To-
bacco company for 81, SOC, 900.
Directors of the Chicago Theological
seminary have conferred upon the Rev.
G. Campbell Morgan of London. Mr.. ID.
l.. Moody's successor in Mortified ex-
tension work, whose name is now being
pastor of the City Temple, London, the
mentioned as DR.. Parker's successor as
degree of doctor of divinity.
A San Francisco correspondent of the
Associated Press at Toxic, Japan, dated
Dec. G, gives details of Minister Bucks
death. The japanese authorities paid
every mark OF respect to the head min