The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-15

the Irainps, containing particulars OF
an attempt progressing to rob the
treasury.
THE EAST.
Rev. DR.. J. ii. WORCESTER has form
ally notified the directors of the Union
theological seminary of his acceptance
of the professorship rendered him.
PITCHER FERsoN, of Syracuse, has
jumped his club and gone home to
Boston. He served Buffalo the same
trick last season.
A TRAIN conveying n Sunday school
excursion from Ellenburg and Rouse's
Point and intervening stations on the
Central Vermont railroad, ran into a
mail train at Champlain, N. Y. Two
persons were killed and about twenty
injured.
A CLoUDBURsT occurred between
Harrisburg and Rockville, Pa, and
caused Paxton creek to rise so rapidly
that the railroad tracks and many
houses in South Harrisburg were flood
ed. There were several narrow escapes
from drowning.
The White Star line steamer Males
tic, which left Liverpool July 30, ar
rived at New York on the 5th, breaking
the record from Queenstown to New
York. Her time was five days, eighteen
hours and eight minutes.
THE green glass bottle makers and
factory owners split at their conference
in Pittsburgh and u lockout is probable.
Born members of the assigned bank
ing firm of Schall & Banner, of York,
Pa, have been arrested charged with
receiving money from John b. Walsh,
of New York, when on the verge of in
solvency.
PROCTOR KNOTT, the celebrated race
horse, died at Horse Haven, Saratoga,
N. Y, on the 9th, of pneumonia.
The st. Louis express on the West
Shor Mt Port Byron, near Syracuse,
N. Y, ran into n disabled freight train.
Fire added n terrible horror to the
wreck. Twelve persons were killed,
all but one being Italians. About
twenty were injured, mostly of the
same nationality.
A U was made on the New Jersey
Trust e. Safe Deposit Co. at Cape
May, n. j., caused by u lad, John NJ.
Love. employed at the Stockton, start
ing a groundless story that the bank
was in trouble. Love was put in Jail.
NINE insane convicts of the state
insane asylum at Auburn, N. Y,
overpowered their keeper, secured his
keys aud escaped. Five of the es-
capped convicts were r~ecaptured.
NORMAN CAMPBELL, a member of the
Consolidated stock and petroleum ex-
change, committed suicide in Prospect
park, Brooklyn. His family stated that
the suicide was probably occasioned by
business troubles.
ABRAHAM BACKER, the New York
broker who failed recently, is accused
of shady work.
w. E. ~SCHMERTz, an extensive shoe
manufacturer of Pittsburgh, Pa, has
failed. He confessed Judgment to the
amount of S233, 600.
EX-Gov. AXTELL, of New Jersey, is
dead.
Two men and four children were
drowned in Dorchester bay, Boston, by
the capsizing of their boat.
THIRTEEN workmen in n shaft at
York, Pa, were more or less burned by
an explosion of gas.
WILLIAM T. ~CRoAsDALE, the editor
of the New York Standard and chair
man of the single lax league, died re-
Gently.
The six-story building at 1913 to 1872
Jane street, New York, occupied by J.
ID. Hass, tinware, was damaged by fire
to the extent of so, 600; partly insured.
Six horses were burned to death.
THE WEST.
THERE has been another serious fire
in the unfortunate town of Grinnell,
Ia The Grinnell cart factory was the
heaviest loser.
THE G. A. r. national encampment
in session at Detroit, Mich, selected
Washington for the next convention.
Commander-in-Chief Veazey recon-
mended separate departments in Louis
lana and Mississippi as a means of
avoiding frictions on of color.
CoMANcHE, Clinton county, Ia, was
reported on fire. on the night of the 9th.
The Rock Islands new route to Dem
yer, Col, via Omaha, will be opened
August 10.
CAPT. JOHN PALMER, of New York,
was chosen by the Grand Army en-
campment ut Detroit. Mich, for the
commander-in-chief. The encampment
decided not to permit separate depart
ments on account of race differences in
the south.
MISS NELLIE BOISE, daughter of the
circuit judge of Salem, and William
Steel, son of Postmaster Steel, of Port
land, were drowned while bathing ut
Long Beach, Wash. Six other persons
were carried out by the undertow but
were rescued.
RETURNS are now in from the districts
of the Cherokee nation. The nationals
were routed. The Downings carried
seven out of nine districts. Chief
Maycs was reelected for four years
with 4 working majority in the senate
and council.
THE famous Moqui Indian snake
dance commenced recently On the rcser-
walton in Arizona and was to continue
sixteen days. IL Is said that no more
will be allowed.
Mrs. HELEN A. COUGAR will follow
Maj. Mckinley all through Ohio during
the campaign and talk low tariff and
Increased wages for w~orkingmen.
FATHER QUAY, a Catholic priest of
Snohomish, near Seattle, Wash, has
been tarred and feathered for immor-
atty. He was removed from acharge
in North Dakota for similar practices.
hDNDhhbS " iOBS duOuJT DCllDFOOkS
O., are dying of cholera. Only one
farmers drove has been untouched so
far.
The peoples party of Ohio nominated
John Seitz for governor. Frank Rist,
q compositor on the Cincinnati Post,
was nominated for Acknowledgements.
THE split in the democratic party at
Chicago has been healed by a love
feast. II. The party lost two elections in
consequence of the Carter Harrison and
Cregier factions.
TWENTY-FIVE saloons closed at Sioux
City, Ia, having learned that the law
and order league was after them. The
conditions were very similar to those
existing in 1886. Liquor was being
sent across the Missouri to Covington,
Neb., in large quantities.
A WILD furry in western passenger
circles was created by the announce
ment of the Chicago &C. Alton that its
harvest excursion rates would be one
fare for the round trip and that it would
run three excursions instead of two.
LETTER carriers in session at Detroit,