The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

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people he sank to rise no more.
GENERAL.
THE French senate has rejected, 1856
to 40, the bill passed by the chamber of
deputies extending the privileges of
trades unions.
THE Gear has increased the levy of
troops for Russia for this year from
212, 900 to 262, 400.
A from Broussa, Asia
Minor, says hat a band of brigands
has carried off two of the wealthiest
residents of the place. Gendarmes.
have been sent in pursuit of the out
laws.
THE st. James Gazette says that Mr..
G~ladstone's friends are seriously
alarmed at the state of his health.
PARNELL was married to Mrs. O'Shea
at the registrars Office at Steyning,
near Brighton, England.
THE German authorities are taking
extraordinary precautions to prevent
the spread of infectious diseases from
the Russian Jews who are flocking
through the country.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has devised a plan
for raising by lottery a fund of s,OOO,-
900 marks to be used in combating the
evil of African slavery.
THE total value of the exports of mer-
chandise from the United States during
the twelve months ended May 81, 1891,
was SS79, 1914, 1874. The value of the i'm
ports of merchandise in the same time
was $s4e, s77, O32.
Col. THOMAS FITZGERALD, of the
Philadelphia Item, who has been trav-
cling in Europe for the lasttwo months,
died suddenly in London from an at
tack of la grippe. Col Fitzgerald
founded the Item. He was the oldest
newspaper man in Philadelphia, being
70 years of age.
THE people of British Honduras are
expected to make a notable display at
the worlds fair.
REPORTS from England announce the
recent death there of Lillian Conway,
the actress. She has recently lived in
England with her sister Minnie, whoi is
the wife of Osmond Tearle.
JOSEPH A. MCDONALD, of Baltimore,
has been elected president and M. J.
McDermott of New York, secretary of
the Master Plumbers National ~associa-
ton.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June 25 numbered
234, compared with 1853 the previous
week and 202 the corresponding week
of last year.
JACK THE RIPPER has informed the
Whitechapel vigilance committee that
he is about to perform another ''opera-
ton" In his letter he said he had
been nearly caught twice.
THE British steamship Cid, 976 tons,
bound from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Ma
pies, has been wrecked off the French
coast
IT is said the Wabash road has Sc
cured control of the St Louis, Alton &
Springfield road.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Battenburg,
formerly ruling prince of Bulgaria,
who gallantly defeated King Milan in
the Bulgarian-Servian war of 1885, is
dangerously i'll, suffering from an ulcer
In the stomach.
THE action of a Russian impressario,
long pending. against Mime. Patti for
damages for breach Of contract has
Dccu ucClucu III hJti 3 IdVOT.
THE British ship New York, Capt
Thomas. from Swansea, February6, for
San Francisco, has been wrecked on
Staten island, Terra del Fuego, while
attempting to round Cape Horn. The
officers and crew escaped.
CoNsUL-GENERAL KING at Paris
learns from leading champagne houses
that prices will be higher the coming
autumn, owing to a threatened scarcity
Of the vintage.
MUCH indignation exists in German
government circles at the renewed bit
terness of Bismarck's organs toward
the kaiser and his policy, and especially
the covert assaults upon the triple al
lance.
IT is reported the car is angry at the
Danish crown prince for sending out
pamphlets protesting against the perse-
cution of the Jews in Russia. 1t is not
likely, however, that this will interfere
with the cars visit to the Danish court.
A p from the United States
consul at Rio de Janeiro states that the
sales of locomotives of American make
in Prazil have been very large. One
firm in Philadelphia, during the past
ten years, has sold PSI.
A CALCUTTA dispatch says that the
government of British India has for
mally made a claim to the part of the
Nekong valley now in dispute between
France and Siam. 1t is claimed that
the part in question formerly belonged
to the kingdom of Burmah, annexed
not long ago by the British.
THERE are fears Of a crop failure in
Russia
THE police searched the offices Of the
Panama Canal Co. at Paris and seized all
the company's documents.
AMERICAN seamen are warned against
landing at Iquique, mob excitement
against the United States having in
creased.
TwENTY-sIx brigands have captured
a wealthy Jew named Jakoel at Com
andsche, near Salonica. They demand
1000 ransom.
CAPT. SHAW has retired as chief of
the London fire brigade. He succeeded
Superintendent Braidwood, killed in
the great Too1ey street fire in 1861.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
that n bloodless revolution has taken
place in the province of Santiago and
that Senior Delestero, the president, has
been arrested and forced to sign his
resignation.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 81 showed an average de-
crease of 1910 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 21.0.
THE famous bandit, Arturo Garcia,
has been found dead near Artemisa,
Cuba. Numerous bullet and stab
wounds were found on the body, but it
has not been ascertained who killed
him.
CAREY, the American, easily won the
first heat for the 1OO.yard champion
challenge cup sprinting race in ten and
four-fifths seconds at Manchester, En-