The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-10-10
THE SOUTH.

Ed POWELL and Jim Leeper were
hanged in the jail yard at Gatesville,
Tex. December II, 1889, they muir
dered and robbed q farmer named
Matthias.
THEODORE SCHWARTZ, the Louisville
banker who has been on trial at Shell
byville, KY, for grand larceny by OBJ
tanning money from n depositor when
his bank was in~solvent, was acquitted
of the charge. Trial on the charge of
embezzling $27, 800 from the German
orphan asylum was postponed till IAN
nary IS next.
THERE was a disastrous waterspout
at Elizabeth, near Mammoth Springs,
Ark. Cotton snd corn were greatly
damaged.
DISTRICT JUDGE PAsCHAL, of Uvalde,
Tex, has refused naturalization papers
to r. v. Saur, who avowed his belief
in socialism.
THE southern interstate exposition
opened at Raleigh, N. C., on the 1st.
Gov. Hold delivered the address. The
whole town was decorated.
THE cotton pickers' strike eliminated
near Helena, Ark, in the shooting of
two negroes and the hanging of nine
others.
HARVEY WATTERsoN, father of Editor
Watterson, of the Louisville, KY,
Courier-Journal, died on the LIST. A
generation ago Harvey Watterson was
prominent in political life. He sup
ported Douglas for the presidency and
sided with the union in the civil war. ,
GENERAL.
LIE MATIN, of Paris, says that there
has been a revolutionary agitation in
several provinces of Brazil and that
great uneasiness has beer caused there
by. According to this paper the troops
have mut;nied in many places.
EIGHT miners were killed near Bird
MEME, Glamorganshire, Wales, by the
fall of a hosting car.
DENMARK has issued q formal notice
removing the restrictions on American
pork.
NERVOUS strain so worked upon Jay
Gould that he had a fit of Mysteries in
the recent meeting of the directors of
the Missouri Pacific Co. when the divi-
dend was passed.
AN attempt was made recently to
wreck Emperor Francis Joseph's train.
Two bombs were exploded under the
bridge at Reichenburg, supposed by
anarchists.
Blythe collapse of an unfinished tun-
mel ut Ovada, near Genoa, Italy, twen-
ty-one workmen were buried under
debris. Seventeen were eXtricated but
it was feared that the others were dead.
ADvIcEs state that the island of Tan
ma has been visited by a hurricane and
devastated by a civil war. Fierce
fighting has been going on and two
villages have been wiped out of ex-
istence. In the midst of the fighting
came the fearful hurricane.
Two vessels, the Barre and Amazon,
returning from Labrador laden with
fish, were overtaken by the recent
violent storm, driven ashore and be-
came total wrecks. The captains and
crews, numbering ten or eleven men,
were all drowned.
THE Pennonia, reported lost with all
hands some months ago, has been heard
from. She was wrecked on one of the
islands of the Marshall group May 4
All on board escaped to the shore and
after much suffering reached Apia in
safety. The Pennonia was a total
wreck.
THE expulsion of Bishop Dubs from
the German Evangelical church has
been confirmed.
THE R~othschilds have promised $780,
900 toward q Russo-Jewish relief fund.
A special prayer is to be said in all
of England on the day of
atonement.
THE situation in the Samoan islands
was, according to last mail advices,
again uncertain. Mataafa, the ex-king,
was a disturber and the German Off
GERS are not liked.
SOME little excitement was caused in
Rome by French pilgrims deriding Vic.
tor Emanuel's name and shouting for
the pope. A moi gathered and for a
time it looked serious until the national
flag was displayed at the hotels where
the pilgrims were staying.
A MEETING held in Windsor, Ont.
favoring annexation TO he United
States broke up in confusion.
THE Farmers Voice counsels holding
corn until next spring.
HALIFAX, N. s., lost between $500, 600
and $500, 600 by a fire which broke out
in the Morelin planning mill G a the
Cunard wharves.
THREE of the French pilgrims ar
rested for rioting in Rome have been
conducted to the frontier. Loyal
demonstrations were held in most OF
the large towns of Italy.
THE Princess ~Battenberg, youngest
daughter of Queen Victoria, has been
confined of q son.
THE earl of Portsmouth is dead.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY and Lieut.. A. M.
Jephson, who was one of Stanley's of
ficers on his last African expedition,
have gone to Ostend, Belgium, as the
guest of King Leopold