The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-01-02
NEWS NOTES.

The Indiana state fair grounds were
sold for S275, 900.
Christmas in London was made gloomy
by fog and icy pavements.
Rich lead ore has been discovered at
Easton, near St Joseph, Mo
The French foreign Office is drafting
treaty of commerce with America.
Frisco conductors will be asked to give
bonds to the company for 500 each.
Seven of the principal business houses
of Waverly, Ill, were destroyed by fire.
Detective Page Of indianapolis climbed
over store transom and caught burglar.
DIR. McGlynn's former parishioners gave
him n purse of 81 939. 80 for n Christmas
gift.
st. Joseph people are backing bi-
chloride of gold treatment for drunken
ness.
Charlottesville, Ind, we'll borers found
well preserved mastodon tusk IA feet
long.
One hundred Of the Mexican revolution
list Garza's band are still making trouble
in Texas.
Two distillers of Illicit apple-juck were
taken at the muzzlss Of revolvers near New
Albany, Ind.
Robert Severns of Mercer, Mo, fell
dead after winning a wager by eating four
cans of salmon.
John Lawhun of Indianapolis, 9l years
! old, sued for divorce by u wife OF 50,
coaxed her back.
f, M. Wells who died in the Arkansas
penitentiary Christmas, had confessed to
killing fifteen men.
Esau Bivens shot Sam Spratt dead at
! Wallace, Mo, after having been whipped
| by Spratt at fisticuffs.
Scotch crofters have won several cases
: in the courts Of Scotland, to the dismay Of
the wealthy landowners.
Clarence II. Gardner killed himself at
Keokuk, Ia, on the refusal Of q married
woman to elope with him.
The son of DIR. McCune of the Farmers
Alliance has been appointed page ia the
house of representatives.
| IA crazy woman with revolver held a
Pullman car from Hastings to Lincoln,
Neb., and wounded one man.
Mrs johnson of Kansas City is mourn
ing because the world did not come TO an
end as she predicted it would.
The Bank of Greenville, of Greenville,
Miss, has closed its doors. Liabilities,
S1,0tO, 900; assets about the same.
Adjutant General Wickham Of Missouri,
has disbanded Cos. E and G Of the Fourth
Jack Merrill blew open a street letter
box full Of mail with cracker at Sher-
man, Texas, for fun and was arrested.
Sid Joiner, negro murderer, was
killed in his bed near Mariana, Ark,
while shooting at the arresting officers.
Two big hats in Minneapolis theatre
have caused travelling man who sat
behind them to threaten damage suit.
Sioux City, Ia, was cut of from the
West by rail by a landslide in Big Cut,
, which took forty-eight hours to reopen.
Sir Edwin Arnold announces that he
will restore to the Buddhists their temple
at Bangkok, now occupied by the Brah-
Minis.
Robert Thomas, a prominent farmer
near Farmer City. H., is dying from the
effect of a cockle-burr lodging in his wind
pipe.
Revolutionist Cara proposes to the
Mexican government to lay down his arms
for $4,000 or a consulate in the United
States.
A Plainfield, N. j., 2-year old boy was
probably fatally poisoned by being given
whisky to make sport for lot Of bar-room
louDgers.
John Branyan of Huntington, Ind, who
was thought to have been murdered, has
returned to his home. He wanted to be
romantic.
: Representative Owen Scott of Illinois
will introduce q joint resolution looking TO
, the election of United States senators by
the people.
THE Crankiness of the Puritans" was
the subject of Chauncey M. Depew's
speech before the New England society in
New York.
=, thar will IN
, operate with the Jefferson Davis monu-
= ment association in promoting the monu-
ment project.
At Warrensburg, Mo-, petition is being
circulated asking congress to appropriate
, q sum sufficient to erect q postoffice build
ing in that city.
| The Flint and Pere Marquette railroad
has ceased to do business in Ohio to evade
damage suits, as result of the recent
wreck at Toledo.
| f. c. Allen Of Thornton, Idn., astonished
Shelbyville by getting thoroughly drunk
while posing as Luther Benson, the tenn
perance lecturer.
According to a decision rendered by
. Judge Burson in Wabash, Ind, Indiana
may be able to prevent companies from
piping natural gas to Chicago.
Miss Edith johnson married a man call
ing himself F. d. Myers at Clinton, Mo-,
last Wednesday, and he deserted her at
Nevada, Mo-, Sunday morning.
, Diplomatic New York merchants who
! discovered that certain customers had
been stealing from them sent in bills for
the articles and were paid in full.
Carl johnson, an insane man, ran from
; one end of five-story building TO the
other in Chicago and then jumped, break
: ing nearly every bone in his body.
= Benjamin Florence, a colored mail l-carrier
$ between Shelbina and Pansy, Mo-, was
v arrested for forging a note. which was
4 cashed by Major G. w. Eakle of the former
6 place.
:, REV. ]. Weih, German pastor" Of New
= York, has for a year been stealing indus.
triously from the churches of the city, and
5 had a room filled with articles so obtained,
It apparently stolen for pleasure.
C A London cablegram announces that
e Minister Lincoln is expected to resign
e soon. His Chicago law partners place nc
n credence in the rumor, which, they say, is
a revived about every three months.
~ Chandlerville, Ill, has little sensation
over the arrest of Oscar Barrett, man o.
'e family, on the charge of unbecoming con
duct towards a l4-year-old girl of one Of
'S the leading families of the village.
10 The American waterworks company
~ con trolling city plants in several western
d states, is involved in Omaha and Denver
lc Father Kroeger, priest of st, Vincente
" parish of Elkhart Ind, has fed, leaving
al debts amounting to about $4,000. Man,
~ of his parishioners arc sufferers and it il
: thought that the church funds have suf
n fered by Interpretations.
=, There is a crisis in tho affairs of tht
Swedish NJ. T.. church Of Bur lington, Iowa
The pastor, A. NJ. Soderstrom. a proba
toner in the Northwest Swedish confer
ence, has been adisdged guilty Of false
hood, fraud and treason, and suspended
tn from his pastorate. He will appeal to tn
u conference.
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