The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-10-03
THE EAST,

hS. DELL hhthbUNs vi IcdTi
street, Buffalo, N. V, committed sui
eide at Cedar island on the Canadian
side near the Michigan central railway
station of Fellsview. She had been
missing for some days.
A WASHINGTON special to the New
York Mail and Express says; Mr..
Blaine, soon after the first OF the new
year, will notify his friends hat under
no circumstances could he accept the
nomination ror the presidency n that
he Is for the nomination of Harrison.
REV. Dir. BURCHARD, of Rum, Ro-
manism and Rebellion" fame, was re.
ported critically sick at Saratoga. N. Y.
MRS. BLAINE has become interested
In the case of Mrs. May brick. con-
demned for life to an English prison for
poisoning her husband.
THE resolutions adopted by the Ger
man Catholic congress at Buffalo. n.
Y, called for international action to
restore the temporal power of the pope.
The %parochial school system was
strongly Endorsed.
A FREIGHT train ran into a work
train at McKim's station on the Pitts
burgh s. Western, near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Seven men were killed and eight
wounded. All were Italians except
Engineer Houghton, killed.
PHILADELPHIA democrats have nomi-
mated w. Redwood Wright for city
treasurer and Theodore +. Jenkins for
register of wills.
GOLD in paying quantities has been
discovered near Susquehanna, Pa.
The strike at the shops of the Amer.
lean Axe & Steel Co. at Beaver Falls,
Pa, and other places has ended. Some
of the shops went non.union and the
Federation of Labor declared the strike
off.
MooREHEAD, MCLEAN 4 Co.. an en-
barrassed iron firm of Pittsburgh. Pa,
have been granted an extension.
Rev. SAMUEL ID. BURCHARD died at
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 25th. He was
born September 8, 1872, at S%teuben, N.
Y, and had quite a reputation in the
Presbyterian church until his famous
Rum, RomanisV and Rebellion" re-
mark to Mr.. Blaine. when his reputa-
ton was more extended.
THE jury at Buffalo, N. Y, in the
case of William Gould, Jr., of Albany,
charged with aiding in the embezzle-
ment of funds of the Albany City
national bank, returned a verdict of
guilty. Sentence was deferred.
THE Italian quarter at Newark, N.
j., was brilliantly lighted in honor of
st. Roca's day, when an explosion of
fireworks too place. Eleven persons
were killed and about thirty injured.
DAVID HASTINGS, formerly clerk of
markets at Allegheny City, Pa, has
been arrested for embezzlsment. His
stealings I've a period of eighteen
years and amoant to over $50. 900.
THOMAS O'BRIEN, the noted all-around
crook and confidence man and the asso-
ciate of Hungry joe" the prince of
bunco steerers, has been arrested at
New York charged with having robbed
a wealthy citizen of Albany of $1,000
in the old card game about a year and
a half ago.
The Anchor line steamer Circassia re-
turned to New York with a large hole
in her starboard bow, having collided
with the schooner Daylight. A hole
foul feet square was broken in the
Circassia's starboard bow and the Jill
boom and bowsprit of the schooner
were carried away.
WILLIAM II. KEMBLE, ex-state treas
urer of Pennsylvania, Is dead.
Gov. PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, has
convened a special session of the legis.
lature to investigate the charges OF
corruption against public officials, to
meet October Is.
A pnRTIoN of "a scafYold uDon which
thirty men were at work in Mechanics
vile, near Troy, N. Y, collapsed the
other afternoon. The scaffolding fell
about forty feet and all of its occu'
pants were more or less injured.