The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-09-26

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SIR john STEEL, Il. 5. A., sculptor
To her majesty Ct Scotland, is dead. lie
was porn in Aberdeen in 1904. In 1872
Sir John executed in bronze u full-size
copy of his colossal statue of Sir Walter
Scott for Central park. New York. He
also executed the colossal statue of the
Scotch poet, Robert Burns, which is
erected in the same place.
THE French government has ordered
its minister at Santiago to recognize
the provisional government of Chill.
THE Elgin and Waltham watch COM
panies have combined against the Due
Der company and ave cut prices on
certain movements 20 per cent.
THE strikes in Milan have ended and
work has been resumed in the factories
MEXICAN independence day was cele-
brated at TiaJuana by n fight between
u wild bull and u bear tied to a stake.
In their struggles they broke the ropes
and the bear climbed out of the arena
among the spectators. A panic ensued
and women and children were trampled
on and bruised.
PRESIDENT CARNoT nj his ministers
of state at Nilly-Le-Francois reviewed
the French army, consisting of 10, 900
men, which since September 10 have
been maneuvering in the east under
Gen. SauSSier.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres re.
ceived in Paris announces that EXPIRES
ident Balmaccda has arrived at Men
doza, capital of the Argentine province
of that name, not far from the Argen.
tine frontier.
AMONG the miracles asserted to be
authentic as resulting from the exhibit.
ton of the holy coat ut Treves are the
curing of the withered arm of an alb.
bess, the restoring Of the sight of blind
persons and the curing of cripples.
THE pope is writing an encyclical
condemning the pending Italian divorce
law.
The popc's health is said to be better
than for a long time.
THE press of Paris without exception
attacks the emperor of Germany for his
Erfurt speech on Napoleon |.
DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state tina,
Lieut.. Tcttcnborn and siXty-five sur,
vivors of the Ialewslli expedition have
arrived at ~Bagamoyo.
The Mexican government has de,
clarcd the concession granted to Mcssi%.
Ellis and Ferguson for the colonization
of negroes in Mexico forfeited on nc.
count of noncompliance with the con,
tract.
An acntc crisis prevails in Quebec
over the government scandals. The
guilty parties being mainly French,
Canadians has been the cause of in.
flaming race passions with English,
Canadians, causing bitter aninosity.
THE Chinese government, it is an.
%nounccd, is not aware of the threatened
naval demonstration by the combined
fleets of the powers.
BUSINESS failures Dun's rcport) for
the seven days ended September II
numbered 80, compared with 2l4 the
previous week and l90 the correspond
ing weclt of last year.
THE statement that supreme officers
of the Catholic knights of America had
hypothetical $50, coo is denied. Tho
order is declared to be entirely solvent.
A MAN was killed in II fierce fight be-
tween ParncIlites and anti ParneIlites
at Ncnagh, Ireland.
THE insurgents in Yemen. Arabin,
have captured Sana. the capital of the
province. The grand vizicr intends tc
send to Yemen the troops now stationed
at llediaz, where cholera is raging. Il
is rumOrcd that KurdS are murderinp
many Christians in Armenia.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended September ~ showed an average
decrease Of 81 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the dccreas" was lii.
EEroRTa Of Ealmaccda'a escap.
proved to De lie WAS Sc
creted all the time in the rooms of Tia,
Argentine legation at Santiago, which
fact was not discovered until he endet
his tragic career by shooting himself
through the head. Great rejoicing fol
lowed the death OF the tyrant.
SIR GEORGE GREY, cS-prcmicr of New
Zealand, has made Il proposition that ;
new upper chamber be formed in tht
government o.. New Zealand, that thi,
new lcgislatisW body he composed en-
tircly Of sAAhpI that it replace The
present Hb3estharnbcr
TIE resurrection in ~TamaulipHs, Mex
leo, MAS snllffed out by the capture o.
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