The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-24
STATE NEWS.

Sedalians have organized a lodge of
the Order of the Iron Hall.
A revival meeting is in progress al
the Warrenton German Methodist
church.
A Louisiana poultry dealer shipped
1884 pounds of poultry from that city
last year.
A bill has been introduced In the
legislature to prohibit the sale of cigar
cites to boys.
A Vernon county boy killed seventy
five rabbits the other day with a pitch
fork. and sold the whole bunch to a
Nevada groceryman.
The st. Louis medical society will
begin the publication of an organ soon.
The editor will be selected at the next
meeting of the society.
J The Randolph county teachers met
at Moberlv Saturday, with Prof bod
ION. superintendent of the Mcberly
public schools, presiding.
George T. Riding of Monroe City
has invented a chicken coop that is n
trap for foxes, weasels and all sorts of
that feast on poultry.
J. W Mnssler, a well known cloth
ing merchant OF Marshall, assigned
Saturday. Liabilities, $4,000 assets
about two-thirds that sum.
Two Glasgow ladies were stopped
neal that town Saturday afternoon, as
they were driving home in a buggy,
and robbed of all their cash.
The Sedalia national bank, which
began business four month ago, has
placed 50 900 of its net earnings 10 the
credit of the surplus account.
j.. Frank Leake, of the Moberly
Democrat, denies that he is chasing a
red headed actress over the country, as
charged by certain newspapers.
The Sedalia police and the papers of
that city don't like each other. The
papers say the police make no attempts
to rid the town of gambling dens.
Blind Tom isn't Blind Tom at all, the
Sedalia Bazoo says, but is a base de-
cever. The genuine Blind Tom is in
a private retreat. dying of consump-
ton.
lD6 OlDbE uhS II Vdudbu DuN CdT
made the trip from Lexington Junction
to Carrollton In twenty four minutes,
and ran the last tenn m~iles-from Nor.
borne to C~arrollton-in nine minutes
Frank w. Parnul wanted to marry a
pretty girl to whom be was paying
court. In order to obtain license to
wed, he swore she was Over 10 years
of age. But she was not and Frank il
In q bad scrape.
Mrs. F. A. Houts, one Of the oldest
Inhabitants in Johnson county, liee
very Ill at her home near Windsor.
Her father, George Thornton, moved
from Kentucky about the time johnson
became a regularly organized county.
A rich coal find has been made ada
ceDt to Knob Noster at the depth of 81
feet-a vein of rich hituminous coal,
five and a half feet thick, lying under q
strata of fine gray sandstone. A large
bed of superior fire clay was passed
through to reach the coal. There is q
strong probability OF the organization
of an industrial company to work both
clay and coal veins, as they lie near the
Missouri Pacific railroad and are OF
easy access.
The proprietors of the Coates opera
house at Kansas City have incorporat-
ed in a company, taking the title of the
Coates opera house company, with a
capital stock of 5000 600, in shares OF
800 each. The five incorporators and
stockholders, the first four OF whom are
the directors, and the moun of stock
each holds, follow. Sarah w. Coates,
500; Laura e. Reed, 499; j. Lindley
Coates, 500; Arthur e Costes, soc, and
Homer Reed |.
David Isaacs, one of the oldest aud
w%ealthiest pioneer citizens of Howard
county, died at Rocheport Saturday,
aged IS years He was one Of a party
of fourteen who e%migrated from Ken
lucky In 1919. and erected a fort nsa
Rocbeport, February 8, of the same
year, til. fort was attacked by q band
OF Sac Indians. Mr.. Isaacs az the
leader Of this little band of fourteen
succeeded IN repulsing the savages end
killing forty-two.