The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-18

Df. FulkefSOnS team ran away wed
nesday night, and did slight damage to
the buggy. The driver jumped and
was not hurt.
Burglars raided the premises of Elder
Goode Thursday night, and carrier off the
contents of the refrigerator, to which they
gained access.
"Gentlemen, the question now is, shall
the (goose) ordinance become n law, the
mayor to the contrary Notwithstanding"
Verdict OF the council, "No."
Emil Ludwigs went to Higginsville
Saturday, and repaired the electric annun-
ciators in use in the Arcade hotel. There
are forty call bells on one and nine on the
other.
Henry Pickett, the man who assaulted
Davis Register with a knife at Edwards
last week, was committed to Jail TO await
the action of the grand jury, failing to
give $500 bond.
The school board met Wednesday night,
when the new secretary and treasurer as
sumed the duties of their respective
offices. The contractors were paid the
money due them on account.
Now that the season of vacations has
begun in earnest, an article on How to
Rest, by DR.. VIM. A. Hammond, in the
August number of the North American
Review, is sure to be read with the great
est interest.
In the regular monthly medal shoot of
the Lexington Gun Club last Friday after
noon, at fifteen single and five pairs of
blue rock, Hay Heathman won on n score
of nineteen. This was the first shoot of
the new year.
In Justice Bryant's court at H~igginsville
Saturday, County Attorney Aull secured
the conviction OF James Green and iona
Fitzpatrick, on charges of lewd conduct,
and they were fined $40 and costs each.
Frank Riggs was fined 81 and costs for
playing cards on Sunday.
The disgraceful expedients that are re-
sorted to by INSCRIPTIONS writers to at
tract attention to works which have no
merit but indelicacy, are described in an
article which Anthony Comstock will
contribute to the August number of the
North American Review.
The McGrew mill boilers were steamed
up Thursday and Friday, INT the machin-
cry given a warming-up run. To-day the
engineer proposes to a%cquaint all those
within the sound of his whistle that he is
alive and ready for business. The mill
has been shut down nearly two months.
Benjamin Franklin Adams, the negro
accused of breaking the seals on a mer-
chandise car at the depot June 10Th, and
stealing a box of sapolio consigned TO w.
A. LaBertew, was held to the grand jury
in Justice Wallace's court Monday, and
committed to the county Jail in default Of
81 900 bail.
When there is an engagement at 10
o'clock and part of the company fail to
arrive on time, what is the difference be-
tween the two parties? Give it up? OF
course you will. Want to know? Why,
those who are on time are attendants, and
the others are at-ten-don'ts. [Slow music
and sulphurous smoke.
"Do you know why Kansas City teams
are hauling this macadam from the
crusher to its place on the streets?" asked
q business man of IN INTELLIGENCER re-
porter. "Simply because Kansas City
men and teams can be had to do the work,
while Lexington men remain idle and re-
fuse to work for the wages the Kansas
City men get"
Some fellow at Higginsville is "going to
hold the Higginsville correspondent" OF
this paper Irresponsible for his name get
ting into print on a charge of gambling
The information that the fellow complains
of was furnished by the county officials,
who were elected to help in just such
transactions. A reporter at Lexington
fitted the information into words.
Moses Hays, a colored man residing q
few miles south OF town, had a fight with
Henry Anderson, also colored, Saturday
afternoon, in which Hays two sons, Bish-
OPP and Stanhope, tool a hand. Ander-
son was pretty badly used up. Hays
pleaded guilty in Justice Prices court
Monday, and was fined 81 and costs,
amounting to %. Anderson was able to
go to work Monday morning.
Judge Robert Hale, Of Lexington, ar,
rived Thursday morning, and accompanied
by Constable w. Scott Thomas, visited the
farm OF George Haddix, southeast of town
and proceeded to kill the two horses anC
two mules, which had been previously
condemned as diseased with CHAMBERS anC
appraised. Every effort should be en-.
couraged to stamp out this loathsome dis,
ease wherever it may appear.-Waverly
Times.
Annie Wilkomont, by Wilkomont, GU
Of Annie Johnson by Marmaduke, tn,
two-year-old chestnut filley owned by j
A. j. Shultz, OF Linwood Lawn farm, wa.
given a trial trip over the track ut Lin,
wood Lawn Wednesday, and paced thu
mile in 2:24, a very good gait for a two,
year-old. Mr.. Shultz is very proud Of thu
filley, and contends that he has a recOrt
maker. She is p~re-eminently a Lafayette
county youngster.
The boys OF the Lexington Sta bant
know precisely how to handle musical in
struments, and many were the compli
ments paid them while playing in tn,
X. OF p. parade July 4th. They played
many excellent selections and they PLAYED
with spirit and yigor. They are IA cleVe
set of boys, and with their neat uniform
and bright instruments they natural.
became the center of attraction in tn,
procession. -Higginsyille Advance.
A man styling himself "Col." George o
Gus Hardin, and claiming to hail from
Louisville, KY, succeeded in victimizini
a few people here last week, for small
amounts. He claimed to be very wealthy
and to be looking for a farm upon which
he might build a kite shaped race tract
and expend from 5000 900 to 1926 600. II,
had two suits Of clothes, and donnint
both Saturday forenoon, left town, leayinl
a SO board bill and a few small sums o
borrowed money unpaid. He was a vic
tim of the morphine habit.