The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-01

THIRTEEN more skeletons have been
found on board the beached hull of the
Inflated steamer Utopia at Gibraltar in
addition to the nine recently found
there.
GREAT damage has been done in Mo-
ravia and Silesia by floods. A train
was wrecked and many were hurt.
A SPECIFIC duty of eleven cents a kilo-
gramme has been imposed On all lard
imported into Peru.
The Master Tailors' association has
decided to esort to n general lockout
i'm Great Britain unless the strike lE
Liverpool ceases within a week.
REV. C. II. STURGEON shows signs of
improvement.
THE Japanese government has ap-
pointed commissioners to the worlds
fair.
The shah of Persia Is very i'll.
DON PEDRO, eX-emperor of Brazil. Is
able to leave his bed in his residence in
Vichy, France.
THE education bill has passed the
third reading in the British house of
lords.
THE Russian government, it has been
learned, has made large purchases of
corn and is storing the grain for future
supplies. The rise in the prices for
corn in Germany, it is alleged, is partly
due to the wholesale buying of this
cereal by the Russian authorities.
The tower of a church in course of
erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell the
other day, killing sixteen of the work.
men.
LARGE credits have been assigned to
tho district of Zemstvos, Russia, with the
object of meeting distress arising from
the failure of the harvest To further
aid the impoverished people the time
for the payment of taxes has been ex-
tended and public subscriptions for
their relief have been opened.
PROF. KOCH has resigned all the pub
lie offices held by him. This step is as
ISOLATED with supposed disappointment
over the unsatisfactory results of the
discovery of ''tuberculin."
THERE was an anti-Jewish riot re-
Gently at Jaffa, which vas crowded with
exiled Jews from Russia. Several Of
the Jews were killed by the Turks.
A n soldier, armed with a
sword, recently ran amuck in the streets
of Posen (Prussian Poland), killing a
Catholic priest and a physician before
he could be overpowered.
SEVEN children of French-Canadian
parents were drowned the other day in
the lower st. Lawrence.
THE official census of France shows
a total of 3 S,097, 1859. This is an in
crease since the last census of POS, 5S4.
The increase is entirely in the suburban
population.
FRAZIER & Co.'S grocery warehouse
and Quinet's carriage factory, Montreal,
Canada, have been burned Loss, $780,
900.
FRANCE has acquired complete con-
troll of the island of Tahiti.
SEALING vessels to the number of
seventeen have been warned ont of
Behring sea. They will be seized if
they return. Several stated that they
would proceed to Russian waters.
ATTEMPTS by unknown parties have
been made on the lives of Nine. Con-
STAINS and NJ. Etienne and NJ. Treble,
French government officials. Fulmin-
ate powder was concealed in packages
resembling Roman Catholic prayer
books.
BY the collapse of the c~ondensers at
the chemical works at Gateshead, Eng,
six men nave been crushed to death.
Two excursion trains met in collision
at st. Mande, France, on the Goth.
Forty-nine persons were killed and 100
injured.
EMPLOYEES thrown out of work be-
cause of dull times caused by the Me-
Kinley law set fire to IA cork factory at
Evora, Portugal. Great damage was
done.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer,
has met with n serious accident. Ac-
cording to information from Muerren,
in the Alps, where Mr.. Stanley is stay
ing with his wife, the explorer has
fractured his left ankle bone by acct
dentally slipping while mountain climb
ing.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July 25 showed an average de-
crease of 2.6 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 1915.
THE pope has approved of the eXhi-
bition of the 'holy Dat at Treves and
has sanctioned the forgiveness of the
sins of pilgrims journeying there.
Three steamers, each with 900 pilgrims,
have arrived from America.