The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-10-17
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A RUMoR prevailed on Wall street
that Samuel Sloan was SO Disguised
with Mr.. Gould's methods that he pro-
posed to withdraw from the directories
of the several corporations that Mr.
Gould controls. Mr.. Sloan maintained
Il grim silence as to his intentions.
ID. o. SAUNDERS, u contractor on the
Adirondack Il St Lawrence railroad
near White Corners, n. ", in anger
fatally shot William Davis, n of his
colored laborers. Saunders found fault
with the work performed by Davis, and
the negro replied to his rebuke in n
surly manner, whereupon Saunders
shot him.
EDWIN SHAFFER, John Il. Tate and
Thomas Downing, the three Beaver
county (Pa.), congressional delegates
charged with bribery, who were re-
manded into the custody of the sheriff
to undergo our months Imprisonment
for contempt of court, delivered them
selves into the custody of the sheriff
and are in jail.
AFTER four days and nights of I'M
ceasing labor and some hundreds of
tons of coal had been removed by the
rescuing party the bodies of four of the
unfortunate miners imprisoned at the
Richardson c~olliery near Pottsville, Pa,
were found.
THE New York harbor tugboat Nc
Caldin Brothers, was run down and
sunk off Fort Montgomery by the tug
Conqueror. Two persons are known
to be lost-the engineer of the Mccall
| H., n.DtIa.. md 4, how 1,LD ,,,g +1,o
guest of one of the crew.
LAIDLAw & BROTHER, Wall street
bankers of New York, were recently
swindled out of S11,OSO by a noted En-
| gl;sh crook through Il forged letter of
credit.
THE Belmont mansion, !O1 Fifth
avenue, New York, was destroyed by
fire on the Sth. Mrs. Perry Belmont
and other members of the family had a
narrow escape. Perry Belmont was
away at the time.
ANsON ii. HAMILTON, proprietor of
the Cape house, Shoreham hotel and
other properties, real and personal, at
Cape Nav Point, n. j., has failed. Liza
bilities, 500, 900.
JOSIE MANSFIELD, who has been re.
| .Dol bCb az tNSSt luo W L L
phia from Paris for information about
the death of Il former husband.
THREE hostlers at the county fair at
Burnettstown, Pa, found Il bottle of
liquor secreted and all but drained it.
Alexander Chapel took commissions
and died in two hours and the others
weredying. An analysis showed equal
parts of s~trychnine and whisky.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND says his
baby girl will be called Ruth.
DURING the last year the Indian stu.
dents at the school at Carlisle, Pa, have
earned SIG, 900 outside of the school.
Miss ELIZABETH BIsLAND, the hero
inc of an around-the-world trip, was
New York recently.
MANN & Co., dry goods, Rochester
N. Y, have assigned.
THE Oliver & Roberts Wire Co., Pitts
burgh, Pa, has suspended.
A POLISH boarding house at Pitts,
burgh, Pa, in which there were fifty
men, caught fire and was burned to thu
ground. One man was ~suffocated ant
another jumped from a third story win
dow and was dangerously hurt.
AN old woman has been found in Bos
ton dying of hunger and nearly naked
She had been badly bitten by rats.
New YORK tailors complain of Amer
leans who go to England for clothing.
NEEL & WAMPLER's planning mill a
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been destroyed b,
fire. Loss, $50. OOO; no insurance.
WILLIAM DAVIS, a prominent irol
merchant of Brooklyn, was drowned il
the East river. He was thrown from
the deck of Il steam launch by the swell
of a passing steamer.