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

und n Cleveland, is dead.
CItECoTAH, ]. r., was struck by n tor
nado on the night of the 1st. Much
damage was done, several animals be-
ing killed.
IT was reported that Texas cattle in
the Cherokee nation attacked a cow
boy, a woman and two little girls and
gored all four to death.
TIE SOUTH.
"A REPORT reached Houston, Tex, that
S75, 900 was missing from the express
Office at Kountze, a big saw mill center.
Officials are making investigation but
are reticent.
j. w. DAVIS, who was to be hanged
murder of Il. c. Evans, has died in Jail.
LEE HUGHES, the convicted wife MUIR
derer of Houston, Tex, cut through the
bars of the Jail and escaped.
A~PAssENGER train on the Iron Mount
ain went down an embankment near
Kensett, Ark. A colored woman named
Ward was killed and her child fatally
injured. Several others were more or
less hurt.
THE Maryland prohibition state con-
vention met at Glyndon and the follow
ing ticket was placed in nominations:
For governor, Edwin Higgins, of Balti-
more; for comptroller, Joshua Lever
ing, of baltimore. for Encouragement,
Hosea b. Moulton, of Montgomery
county; for clerk of the court of APP
peals, Levin s. Nelson, of Snow Hill.
GREAT fears are entertained for the
cotton crop throughout Alabama, as
the cotton worm. which has not been
seen for years, is now reported in all
directions. If they increase n panic in
the farming district will ensue. The
cause is constant rains.
THE Baltimore United Oil Co. IS tanks
at Canton, Md, were struck by light
ming and set on fire recently. The loss
exceeded 800, 900.
WHILE preaching to a large audience
at Houston, Tex, and when in the
midst of his discourse, some people on
the outside turned out the lights and
rotten-egged Rev. Sam Jones and his
audience, most of whom were ladies'.
THE culvert at Charlestown, Md, on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more, was washed out by Il c~loudburst
South bound freight III ran into the
washout n was wrecked. Great dam
age was done to crops
l.. Ii. TOWER, a prominent lumber
man, fell dead on the street at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, from heart failure. He
vas formerly from Ottawa, ILL.,, and
for several years was manager of n
banking and trust company at Omaha.
FRANK BROWN has been nominated
for governor by the Maryland demo-
Gratis.
WILLIAM CALDWELL, a negro, was
hanged at Houston, Tex, for murder.
He was a "Woodpecker" in the notori-
Gus Jaybird- Woodpecker feud Of Fort
Bend county and vas the only one of
the murderers to grace a scaffold.
SYLVESTER YOU'VE, cashier at Louis
vile, KY, for the southwestern division
of the Chesapeake &c Ohio railway, is
missing, and is alleged to be a defaulter
for $50, 900.
FIFTY kegs of gunpowder exploded
in the Great Southern railroad depot at
birmingham. Ala, doing considerable
iamage. One man was slightly injured.
In Henry county, Ala, n mob took
from the officers our negroes, two men
and two women, who were charged
with burning n dwelling house. On
the way to the river one of the men es-
capped. The others were placed oil the
bank Of the stream and shot Tho
body of one of the women was recov-
cred.
IN Wayne county, w. Va, n Mr..
Brumfield, his wife and five children
were beaten to death by a gang of in
toxicated Italian laborers. After rob-
bling the house the miscl eants burned
it to the ground.