The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-10-24

Neebe, who was convicted with the
Chicago anarchists and sem "a Joliet
for fifteen years.
A to the Chicago Times
from Washington speaks of an opium
ring and says hat two senators and
five representatives are implicated.
ONE hundred and twenty men en-
ployed on the electrical building at the
worlds fair ground quit work because
their foreman, William Irving, had
been given the alternative to accept q
position at 40 cents an hour or quit.
TIE wife of Allen G. Thurman ex-
pred at Columbus, o., on the 18th. She
vas born in Chillicothe, o., in 1911, her
maiden name being Mary Dunn.
THE SOUTH.
THE American newspaper building at
Nashville, Tenn, has been Quilted by
fire.
GEORGE and Jim Howard were shot
and killed neal Mount Sterling, Ky,
by a man named Cupps, whose house
the two tried to enter to whip Cupps.
Rev. FATHER FRANCIS WUYTs, eccle-
siastical superior of the Lorettoans, died
at Loretto convent, in Marion county,
Ky. He was n native of Belgium and
was a man of profound learning.
SAM WRIGHT, colored, was hanged by
a moi neal Helena, Ga, for a~ssaulting
Miss Ada Beckwith. He denied his
guilt, but Miss Beckwith positively
identified him.
DIR. j. A. p. BAKER, of Abingdon,
Va, convicted of the murder of his
wife by poison, has been granted a
new trial.
GEN. w. ii. +. LEE, second son of Gen.
r. E. Lee, died at Ravenworth, Fair
fax county, Va, aged 81. Gen. Lee
had represented the district for two
terms in congress and was a member
elect of the next house.
DR.. SEYMOUR BULLOCK, n prominent
republican and Grand Army man., was
killed at Mobile bay, Ala, by Thomas
2. Brewer, an eX-c~onfederate. Bullock
had attempted to kill Brewer and was
shot in return.
ALLERToN easily defeated Delmarch
in the races at Lexington, Ky.
CLEAvEs * FLETCHER, Wholesale and
retail dealers in hardware and agricult-
ural implements at Gainesville, Tex,
have made an assignment. Assets,
$235, 600; liabilities, $500, 600.
A MESSAGE from Columbia, Tenn,
says the Columbia Banking Co, capital
500, 900, and Bunk of Columbia, capital
$50, 900, had both made assignments.
The failures were caused by inability
to collect.
Con-. NATHANIEL DUNCAN INGRAHAM,
formerly of the United States navy,
died at Charleston, 5. c.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
in East Nashville, Tenn. 1t lasted about
eight seconds and moved up in n south
easterly direction.
AT Clifton Forge, Va, some drunken
negro miners created n disturbance.
In attempting arrest a white man was
killed and another injured. Four of
the negroes were jailed. Later a mob
took them out and hanged three.
MANY Cinnamon are entering the
country by way of Mexico into Texas.
GENERAL.
A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting in
favor of political union with the United
States was held at Belle River, Ont
Before the meeting adjourned a cont
mental union club was formed with g
large mem bership.
THE United States war ship Atlanta
arrived at Bcdloe's island in a battered
condition on the 18th, after her trip tc
aid the wrecked Dispatch off the Della
ware breakwater. The naphtha explo'
4ion caused the injury of six men, two
probably fatally.
COUNT VoN ARCo- VALLEY, German
minister to the United States, died a
Berlin on the 18th after undergoing al
operation for a stomach disorder.
A DYNAMITE bomb was found on an
other railroad bridge at Reichenberg
in Bohemia, in the near vicinity of tn,
one which jeopardized the emperor
life.
TIE reported loss of the cattle steam
ship City of Rome off Newfoundland
was Il hoax. Brennan, who told tn,
yarn about the drunken crew, was
half-witted sailor belonging to anothe
vessel.
IT is proposed to appoint delegate
from England, Russia, Afghanistal
and China to settle the question of tn
Pamir boundaries.
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT FEE, O
the Northern Pacific, sent out last yea
1,S00, 900 parcels, principally through
the mails, to addresses in answer to let
ters of inquiry.
A ROYAL. patent creating Lady Mac
donald, wife of the late premier, baron
ess, with the title of Baroness Mac
ID,o1I hnI lnan rnoaal Of nttnuy,
Can.
MRS. LAWYER, formerly Josie Man:
field, well known in New York twent
years ago,w was married at st. George
church, Hanover square, London, t
Robert l.. Rem, of New York.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, NJ. F., has issue
Il statement in reply to the recent Pal
nellite defiance. In it he bitterly de
nounces the Parnellites' charge that h
and Dillon bounded Parnell to death.
CLEARING house returns for the wee
ended October Is showed an averag
decrease of So compared with the co
responding week of last year. In Me-
York the decrease was It's.
FIVE persons were found smothere
to death after a fire in Il tenement {
Millwall, London.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) fc
the seven days ended October Is nun
bered $50, compared with 2T0 til
previous week and 237 the correspond
ing week of last year..
THERE was Il fight between Chilia
soldiers and American sailors from I'll
cruiser baltimore at Valparaiso recen
lY. Three or four Americans WEI
killed and several Chilians were badl
hurt. The affair caused great eXcit
ment.
NJ. JULES SIMON made an anti-prote
ZIONIST speech before the committee
the French exporters union at Pari
after which that body adopted II res
luton demanding that the senate insi
upon the free admission into France
raw materials and food Stuffs.
TIE plebescite in Switzerland result
ed in the adoption of the new tariff NJ
the state bank monopoly.
The elections in Chill passed q
quietly on the 18th. The clerica
claimed the house and the liberals u
senate.
THE announcement is made sen
officially that Italy has decided to I
move the prohibition now existir
against the importation of America
ealted meats into Italy.
n The government estimates that Is;
| 600, 900 roublcs will be required