The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-02-14
GENERALTIES.

may be spared an increase in cost. The
oatmeal trust is off for the present.
Senator Stanford is now the richest
man in California. He is reported to
be worth not less than 80 millions.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania,
has vetoed the joint resolution instruct
ing the United States Senators of that
state TO support the force bill.
James 4. Henry, wanted in Canada
for rObbing the bank of Montreal of
81, ,500, 900 in cash and securities. has
been arrested in the city of Mexico.
Queen Victoria has never been noted
for style in dress and yet she supports
five maids to assist at her tOilet--there
are three drcssers and two wardrobe
women.
A woman was forcibly robbed on the
door step of n church in Chicago the
other day. Thieves are no respecter Of
places, and especially is this the case
III Chicago.
Trouble in the Englewood Presbytc-
rian church prompted the Chicago pres
bytery to appoint committee of three
to take possession Of the edifice, by
force, ii necessary.
From Newburn. H.. comes the
painful news that George Harris. who
announced his intention Of starving
himself 10 death. has abandoned his
laudable undertaking.
The little daughter Of j. ID. Stark
weather was burned to death in Il
prairie fire near Edmond, Okla,
yesterday. and James Funk is not ex-
pectcd to survive his injuries.
A fiend in Morley, n. y, enticcd
Lena Marks, aged 20, from her father :
shop, chlOroformed and assaulted her
and cut her throat from ear to ear. lie
escaped and she still lives.
The report that the wife OF &. :.
Allen of st. Louis has Il claim to 100
acres in the heart of Toledo, eNcites
only ridicule in the Ohio city, where no
trace of the deed can be found.
The cat home7recently established in
New York has been given up as i'm
practicable and the inmates now have
to hustle or starve. There is very little
sentiment in the metropolis of the east.
They "seldom die" and never retire
in New Hampshire. Frederick Living
ston. in his Goth year, continues to per-
form his duties as president of the First
National bank in Petersboro, n. II.
This is about the size of il: "When
man tells you that he is perfectly
contcnted he means, in nine cases out
of ten, that after thinking the matter
all over hesdoes'not see how he can gel
anything more.
Six would-be lynchcrs at Homer, La.
battered hole in the wall Of The jail
only to find their intended victim,
Link Waggoner, armed with two six
shooters. Two lynchcrs were shot and
the party driven off.
The millionaires of Denver, having
failed to provide comfortable existence
for the starving ranchmen living in the
eastern part of Arapahoe County, the
Chicago e. A. Il. posts have been called
upon for assistance.
..Quite q number OF whisky wagons
were in Cartersville, Georgia, last week.
Ii is not IN uncommon thing fol
whisky TO he retailed on the public
square there This shows that the
good old ways are not yet extinct.
A London item says: Sir Charles
Dixie is lecturing in the French tongue
on the position of the working classes
in the British colonies. 1t Is rather 6
coincidence that at the moment Of Par
nell's eclipse Dixie should emerge from
a merited obscurity.
1.-The white plague" RACES mos
severely in the north. Statistics show
that in the most northern cities o
Finland and Norway the annual NOR
tality from tuberculosis is from 2.3 Il
"a in / 900 living inhabitants, while il
southern Italy is but IL in 1000.
Up in Michigan they believe tha
where brother can sing or speak ol
pray, and won't do either, he should
quit the premises. So it is said thai
three deacons at Bellaire, that state
threw brother out of church because
he refused to sing, or speak or pray.
They had county seat contest in
Texas and the matter was arbitrated
and referred to the attorney general OF
the state. He decided that the cour,
house should go to the geographical
center of the county which was located
in the woods. They do it differently
in Kansas. There they never arbitrate
they fight it out.
Concerning his letters on America,
the Chicago Tribune says: Mr.. Rud.
yard kipling may turn up his finely
chiseled Brahmapootra nose at the
cities of the wild and fuzzy west, but il
he ever writes word derogatory OF
Boston-dear old Boston--let him stay
on his own side of the ocean. There
are some things Americans Wont
stand.
A correspondent who recently visited
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprsgue says she is
hard at work on that much looked fol
life of her father. She Is still young
looking, and, with her magnificent
manner, taste in dress and brilliant
conversational powers, decided favor
ite in society. Meanwhile Governor
Sprague vegetables at Canochet, and il
happiest when trading horses ol
swapping stories with the boys on th'
beach. Such is fate.