The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-09-05
GENERAL.

AN international prison congress in
session in Christiana, Sweden, favors
filming criminals instead of im~prisoning
them.
THE Grand Trunk railway tunnel I'M
der the st. Clair river at Sarnia, Can,
and Port Huron, Mich, will be opened
September 10 in grand style. A grand
banquet in the tunnel is proposed.
MISS LENoBA MITCHELL, the New
York actress found shot in a railroad
carriage in England two weeks ago,
died in London. The police declare it
was a case of suicide.
CONFLICTING reports have been re-
ceived from Chill. One was hat the in
surgent army at Valparaiso had sur
rendered and the other was that Bal
maceda's army had taken flight
EMIGRATION from Italy continues on
a vast scale.
MANY young Englishmen and Ameri-
q n hold commissions in the insurgent
army in Chill.
REPORTS from Warsaw show that the
peasants of central Russia are emigrat-
ing by the wholesale. Five hundred
men rave already abandoned their fam
lilies in order to smigrate.
EXCESSIVE rains and floods are re-
ported in lower Austria and upper
Italy. Great damage is being dono.
MR. GLADSTONE has written a letter
denouncing gambling as a formidable
and growing national evil.
The Canadian authorities are accused
Of sending all the Russian refugees to
this country.
GERMAN farmers along the Volga
river in Russia are reported in great
distress.
THE Munich Allgemeine Zeitung has
received a telegram saying that the
situation in China is exceedingly grave,
and hat combined action by the pow
ers is imperative.
CONSIDERABLE sedition is reported
existing in many of the cities of India,
arising from the recent marriage re-
form law, events in Manipur and other
causes.
BALMACEDA's army was routed by
the congressionalists at Valparaiso on
the 2sth and the city captured. Bal
maceda was practically a fugitive, his
cause being hopeless. P~resident-elect
Vicuna likewise wen down. The two
generals of Balmaceda's forces were
killed one after the other. Gen. Canto,
the leader of the insurgents, received
many congratulations for his brilliant
victory.
SERIOUS riots are reported in Russia,
~peasantry attacking Jewish middlemen
engaged in exporting rye. Soldiers
were ordered to repress the troubles,
which they did, killing two peasants
and wounding others.
THE great rubber syndicate has gone
to pieces.
THE steamships Gambler and Easily
were in collision off Port Philip heads,
Melbourne, Australia The Gambler
sunk and twenty-six persons on board
were drowned.
THE Lake Erie & Western managers
have acceded to the mems demands.
RUDYARD KIPLINa has just finished a
new novel, written in collaboration
with a young American. Walter Bales.
tier, now living in London. 1t is O
story Of America and India.
MRS LANGTRY has signed an agree
ment to make another tot of the
United States.
MISS EAsTLAKE has determined to
make a tour of the United States as her
W manager instead of joining Wilson
Barrett's company, as at first an
nounced.
The Alpine traveller, Maurice Petit
gate, has been killed by falling into q
crevasse near Courmayeur, Italy.
CoTToN is reported badly damaged by
worms and wet weather.
THE congressionalists took possession
of Santiago, the capital of Chill. Bal.
maceda was doing his best to escape.
The Martinique hurricane caused u
loss of $40, 600, 900 and 37s Kves.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says tina,
the empress Of Austria shows symp'
toms of insanity.
The London exchange was active
during the week ended August 20.
American securities were in demand.
The continental bourses were quiet.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 30 showed an average de.
crease of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 1877.
THIRTEEN missionaries and twenty
three nuns will sail from Rome for New
York shortly to join Bishop Piacenza's
American institute for Italian emf
grants.
A SPECIAL cable from Bermuda says
that a terrific storm occurred there,
.leveling walls, uprooting trees and de
stroying telegraph wires. 1t was the
greatest storm since 1880.