The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-06-27

AN ~ nv DAAOtpt oAto VI
commons N the factory bill the amend
ment of Sidney Buxton (liberaD to pro-
hibit children under IL years of age
from working was adopted by a vote of
2O2 to 1856. The government was thus
defeated, them majority including a few
conservative members.
A c containing eleven persons
was struck by n squall and upset i'm
Lake Erie, neal Peterboro, Ont. John
Foote and his two daughters were
drowned.
THE National Press, of Dublin. says
that proceedings ave been commenced
against Mr.. Parnell to recover the sum
of 81, 500 which he has been ordered to
pay as costs in the o'Shea divorce case.
THE emperor of Austria has virtually
recognized Bulgaria by giving special
audience to Prince Ferdinand.
A SHANGHAI dispatch says hat the
number of executions in that vicinity
has not been paralleled since the Tai
ping rebellion. All the mob leaders
rave fallen into the hands of the gov
eminent troops and are being con-
demned to death.
FIVE children belonging to a family
named Lachance were playing in a BOAT
on the St Lawrence river near Port
Neuf, a few miles from Quebec. when
waves from a passing steamer caused
the boat to Oil and four of the children
were drowned.
JOHN MCLEAN 6 Co., wholesale
milliners of Montreal, Can, have de-
eided to go into liquidation. The liza
bilities are $3.50, 600 and the assets
ample.
A VESSEL from Jacmel brings a re-
port that President Hippolyte was as
s~assinated after the recent revolt in
Hayti.
OFFICIAL mails from Chill report that
the house of deputies has passed a bill
authorizing the president to levy a
forced loan Of $40, 600. 900 to carry on
the war. The measure has not yet
passed the senate, however.
ADvICEs from Sonora convey the i'm
formation that Mexican cavalry pur-
sued the Apaches who killed Calcium
and committed other depredations re-
Gently 200 miles without sighting them,
though they recovered Catchum's horse.
The pursuit has been abandoned.
RUMoRs in circulation in London of a
revolution in Portugal were entirely
unfounded.
Can, two men were crushed to death
by the fall of a beam.
THE Arabs in Yemen have again de-
feated the Turkish troops and have cut
the telegraph wires.
PRESIDENT DA FoNsECA, of Brazil,
proposes 10 visit Europe in a short
time.
RAILWAY ~telegraphers have elected
the following officers: A. ID. Thurston,
OF Vinton, Ia, grand chief telegrapher;
5. o. Fox, OF Vinton, Ia, grand secre-
tary and treasurer; ID. G. Ramsey, of
East st. Louis, assistant grand chief
t~elegrapher; j. A. Lecanda, of Celaya,
Mexico, grand senior telegrapher.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended June IS numbered
25S, compared with 244 the previous
week and 1893 the corresponding week
of last year.
TIL steamer Queen from Sitka brings
news of the drowning of Lieut.. Robin
son n four of the crew of the Bear,
and A. c. Moore, of the Russell party,
while the party were trying to make a
landing in Icy bay with the Russell-Mt.
st ELIAS party.
GENs ALBERT Pixies will makes the
Scottish Rite Masons of the southern
jurisdiction his beneficiary.
The rapid advance in the price of sill
yer bullion Is thought to be due to a
French pool.
AN empty train collided with a train
carrying o body of militia seventy miles
from Londonderry. The driver of the
military train was killed and the fire.
manfatally hurt and scores of the mil
itary and others were injured. The
first three carriages of the militia train,
which were laden with luggage, were
destroyed.
ANUGGET of gold weighing thirty
five pounds has been found in the gold
district recently discovered in British
Guiana, and has been sent to England
as a specimen of the auriferous deposits
of that colony.
IT is said by theatrical people that
Fritz" Emmett's son will undertake to
play his fathers parts next winter.
THE French ambassador to the holy
see has presented to the pope a letter
from NJ. Garnet, in which the president
has expressed his high appreciation of
the pope's encyclical on social ques-
tions.
1T was reported that a revolution
took place among President Balma-
ceda's troops at Coquimbo, and that the
insurgents killed four of their officers.
FINANCIAL matters were extremely
quiet in Europe during the week ended
June 20. In London American railroads
showed a tendency to improve.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 20 showed an average de-
crease of liz compared with the COR
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was $50.
THE Steele of Paris says the cabinets
OF Europe are n0w discussing the ex-