Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-28

Cider vinegar, at Gordon q Fulkerson's.
II you want to buy town lots or houses, !
call on E. Winsor & Son. sloH
Pure cider vinegar for pickles or for table
use. at Gordon h Fulkerson's. s26tt
The best -four 10 always the cheapest. ASK
for A, v. Robinson q Co.'s roller flour. II
Graham 4 Morrison do roofing and gutter
in the city and county As chesp as the
80, a12tf
Books covered free Of charge, ut Hicks.
Be sure and 20 to see him If you need any,
thing In his line. 81"
II you want . hobby bat or q nice lifting
shoe or boot, 10 to b. A. q NJ. }. Chinn, op-
posite the courthouse. o'
the latest styles out In prints; they are
handsome. Come and see them at the II. >.
Z. Ahrens Dry Goods Bazaar. SSH
A. V. Robinson & Co. have their roller
mill In full blast. II you want the best hour
you ever used. try y sack otthsir fatent. u
An extensive line Of f~iannels, blankets,
comtorters, yarns, and "a Wide si'-wooi
dress suitings the newest out. ut ID > Z.
Ahrens'. s%"
Almost daily persons come to A.. v. ROD
fnson 4 Co., and state that the last SACK OF
-four Vas that roller flour and the best they
ever used. o|o"
Mr.. Silvermsn has removed his wholesale
and retail liquar store to the old W'nsor
Corner, whers he has fitted 1t up neatly. he
keeps good goods, and pays especial stten-
ton to pure liquors TOR family use. DO To-
vites an inspection OF bis stock. aou
In the associated press dispatches of the
24th inst, Is one from Joplin, Mo-, stating
that q little S-yesr-old boy WAS run over shd
badly injured while Jumping from q push
| car on the railroad track ut that place. While
| walking on the new extension Of the Mo. r.
| K. K, ut this place, last Sunday, we noticed
q dozen or fifteen boys. whose ages ranged
| from 10 to 10 years, engaged In playing with
one OF these cars. pushing 1t up the grade
for some distance then sll scrambiing on TO
ride down, jumping on and OF the car while
in motion. We thought It dangerous sport
ut the time and so expressed ourselves; and
now we have an accident chroniclsd from
similar proceedings. Boys, don't do SO any
more. As much a. we like to pick up local
items, We should dislike 10 write one telling
of the killing or. crippllng for life OF one OF
you.
The IntelIigencer has told some pretty big
stories about the growth Of the German
carp, but our ordinarily staid, reliable anu
veracious contemporary, the Boonville Topic.
captures the entire bakery. in its last issue'
with this paragraph :-'lh February last,
Mr.. George Adams, q farmer, living neal
Boonyille, procured y lot OF German Carp,
and placed them in d pond on his place. The
largest fish at that time be ng about four
inches long. A few days ago, one Of his
lworkmen was fishing in the pond and hsv'
ing caught . string Of sun Perch, concluded
he would try for Catfish, aud Hx nis line fol
deeper angling, and was soon surprised BY
J landing on the shore . fish the like Of which
, he had never before seen. He called to Mr.
q Adams who readily recognized 1t as . Ger
man Carp, Weighing nearly i've pounds
> Mr.. Adams says he thought such fish coul'
" not be taken with q hook. The bait uset
was q grasshopper. The growth Of the fl
was remarkable" Well. we should say 30
We haven't any doubt rs to the sincerity o
our frisnd. Hutchinson, but does he know
how big y fish 1t takes to weigh i've pounds
Was the tish put upon the scales?
Quite q serious collision occurred, laf
Tuesday morning, on the eastern division &
the Missouri Pacific railroad (0id Mario,
GAUGE between the west bound passsnge
train, under charge OF Conductor Williams
D. and the east bound coal train. Conductc
r. Hendricks. The accident was near Adam
% station, four miles east Of independence
er both trains being under full Roadway, an
resulted In the probable fatal injury OF W
liam Patterson, OF this city, Truman on II
r. passenger locomotive, who was caught b
Is tween the tender and the cab Of the engil
ne and badly hurt internally in the breast AZ
Il. several ribs said to be broken. James Good
o. formerly Of this city, but now OF lndepe
IN dence. who was 3 passenger on the freIg
IN tram had his shoulder blade broken !; co
IL ductor Hendricks had several OF his frol
hc teeth broken OF or knocked out and "
re- otherwise injured about the head roa
master Sprague considerably bruised abo
ny the body, hut no bones broken Mr.. Jol
Leeright. q butcher Of Independence. hu
mt In the back ; Mrs. Dutisld, OF Buskner,
IN. jured in the breast, and general shaking
tic given to all the Others upon the train. BE
srs locomotives and their tenders. the EXPIRE
and mail car and the baggage car were
ns, most totally demolished. Mail agent q
M express MESSENGER Bishop had l~oltunst,
~. just stepped from his own into the smoki
YES car rs the collision occurred. thereby pr0'
The bly, saving his lite.a the express aud mail
tle- was telescoped for ut iesst half Its length
'st. the baggage car, and the express psckas
bis thrown prOmiscuously aud violently arOu
en- and among the wreck. From our Mr.. ALI
ell who was one Of the passengers, We les
that the probable cause Of the accident '
our q d ference IN the time INDICTED by
ich watches OF the conductors, that of Nj. v
the liams being two aud a-half minutes too {,
mtg while that OF Mr.. Hendricks was one an,
ion half too slow. Conductor Willams' tr
lee was exactly on tims according to bis Wa
GET at Lake City, Give miles east OF the pIAce
Is, which the collision occurredl and as
3 OF train was running at its regular rate
the speed, must have had the right OF the r
sud at the time OF the accident, the rules OF
ows road requiring sill freight trains to keep
of the way Of The passenger trains by ut /
ad. ten minutes. THIS would, Of course, c
nes- Conductor Williams OF VII blame or resp
y q. slbility, Notwithstanding the variation
The time as Indicated by his watch. giving
saws II minutes additional time IN which be
tne right OF the road. Upon the other ht
ious CopGuetor Hendricks, even though
had watch nad iudica,ed the correct time, wi
hich 1t did not by one aud s.half minutesI,
lner, had he been strictly on time, should /
been upon the switch ut Adams, (the reg
heir meeting place) waiting tor the passsl
CON- train to pass, eight and . huif minutes
row.. io7e the accident occurred. We, therei
utfsd think the entire blame should he born
It hs Conductor HENDRICKS, who, no doubt,
!. The Stunning upon the fact that. the passe
come train bad been without q single excepl
prin. considerably behind tims every day {
Id on tho widening OF the gauge, thought he W
,s,csl have ample time to make the Adams sv
lie to before the arrival OF the passenger train
failed to do so. Taken altogether 1t !
thief, tlemely fortunate for all concerned tina
e re- result Was not much more serious.
Did Patterson, the injured 6remap. was imr
psper ately taken to q farmhouse near the v
eass, end u ply sicisn summoned from Ind
10 dence - saop as possible. lie WAS rem
I'D be 10 the railroad hospital the same mig
cor. Division Superintendent Cummings'
10 d.. that official starting from Sedslis imme,
D, can ~ pbou bearing OF the accident. The
Then WAS cleared AZ soon as possible and Co
The tor Williams was again son tiIao"
I and ravHIar hour for the denarture nj the r