The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-01-30
NEWS NOTES.

Dutneu.
The proposed fight between Myer and
McAUliffe is off.
Safe blowers robbed the Bonanza club,
Hot Springs, Ark, of 5000.
The first rainfall in four years has just
occurred in Durango, Mexico.
Senator's Quay's libel suit against the
Beaver QPa.) Star has begun.
Senator Stanford has been offered S7o,-
600 for the stallion Advertiser
Gopher Moll," q notorious half breed
sorceress, died at Babylon, L. I.
The Texas Pacific is TO be built from Ell
Paso, Tex, to Guaymas, Mexico.
An international bicycle race will be
held at Chicago in the near future.
Five thousand ounces of gold shipped
from Colorado to England has been lost.
Supervisor Soucy of Cahokia, ILL.,, is
on trial for an alleged shortage Of $4,000
The national convention of the Prohi-
bltion party will meet at st. Louis, June 20.
John A. Gilbert, notorious forger, was
held ut ST. Louis for the Cincinnati police.
Jack McAuliffe has found a hacker, and
a fight between him and Billy Myer may
be arranged.
Trouble is looked for among the tele-
graphers on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia.
A. POLICEMAN, Wilkesbarre Pa, has been
sleeping for thirteen months and shows no
signs of waking.
At Alton Junction, ILL.,, John Williams
was fatally hacked with a meat axe by
William O'Neill
The daughter Of Millionaire Pattison, a
heroine in the Mexican war, is destitute in
Sioux City, Iowa.
Ex-President Cleveland is enjoying fine
sport hunting on Joseph Jefferson's plan
tation in Louisiana.
The shortage of ex-Treasurer M. ].
O'Brien of the Catholic Knights Of
America is s75, s23.23.
General Robert E. Lees birthday ami
versary was appropriately observed
throughout the South.
b. w. Mccullough. general passenger
agent of the Texas and Pacific railroad,
died at Hot Springs, Ark.
The proprietors of the Beaver, Pa, Star
have been convicted of libel in a suit
brought by Senator Quay.
In an interview Senator Power Of Mon
tana predicted Blaine and Hill would be
the nominees for president.
!, Over 200 members of the Western Re
tail implement dealers association met in
: session at Kansas City, Mo.
film Burwell, desperado, locked up his
jailer at Lenora Kan, stole his revolver
and horse and got safely away.
Will Long young blacksmith Of Fair
view, Ind, had his left eye put out by q
piece of red hot steel flying into it.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
4 committee on the revision Of faith elimin-
t ated the doctrine of infant damnation.
; Representative Oates of Alabama thinks
congress should name It's committees in
: stead of allowing the speaker to do so,
: The senate has passed bill relieving
the Missouri state university of liability
for ordnance and ordnance stores burned.
The Deadwood, S. D., court cut down
u Mrs. j. G. Blaine's alimony allowance and
y attorneys fees, her husband pleading pow
e erty.
An explosion of natural gas in Lancas-
e ter, o., destroyed a large residence with
n out seriously injuring any of the occu.
, pants.
, The dry goods store of J. J. Flannelly OF
Chetopa, Kan, was totally destroyed by
ire with $1,000 stock of dry goods, boots
. and shoes.
According to court decision the ex-
5 treasurers of Wisconsin must turn over To
/. the state the interest they pocketed on
e public deposits.
At Heltonville, Ind, boy found at the
@ roots of tree a, 900, some counterfeiters
tools and the revolver OF a man lynched
fifteen years ago.
1t is claimed by friends of DIR. Graves
that they have found that one OF the jury.
: men who found him guilty expressed al
. opinion before the trial.
I While sleeping in bed near the fire
Il place Mrs. Jason Smith, living neal
c Neosho, Mo-, was fatally burned, spark
= setting fire to the bed clothing.
M. B. Puryear the white man who was
n leader of the negro rioters in the lat,
\ troubles at LinwoOd, Ark. received sent
. ence of twenty-one years in the peniten
IL tiary.
/ Mrs. Fanny Van Dover of Poplar Bluffs
: Mo-, was sentenced TO life Imprisonment
d for planning the murder of her husband
l.. by her paramour, Martin Long, las
d spring.
# Governor Francis of Missouri, has ap
a pointed Phineas H. Holcomb a regent 10
Il the Warrensburg Normal School, to fill
vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon
Joshua Ladue.
:, :, Charles Hill Sedalia Mo-, merchan
duuOuuICS thdI IliSS
BlaUterman in secret year ago Will
l. waiting for proof that his first wife ha
l. secured divorce.
Bud Cork, of Neosho Mo-, noted des
le perado, and four times a convict at Jeffer
son City, was sentenced to five years /
N the penitentiary for attempted rape abou
four months ago.
~ Captain M. c. Broneugh Of the Missoul
= | VI 'nn fC iarnta homo ran0rfs NM
I lected TO date from the Twelfth congress
, ional district. He intends to make it SO
ii 600 in this worthy cause.
81 Carnegie Bros, at Pittsburg, Pa, cor
e summated a deal involving 800, 600 TIL
d firm contracted for the delivery of NJ
d wards of 10000 tons Of iron ore, to b
d delivered to the BesseMer works.
: The Missouri river at jefferson City ha
# gorged, and for the first time in FIVE year
- is frozen over. The icemen, for the frs
time in three years, have gathered a spler
did crop of ice. The ice is about 12 inche
thick.
George w. Stranandn, tailor of Atch
ly son, Kan, was convicted of forgery an
N will be sent to tho penitentiary. Stranl
:. han up to eighteen months ago was a prom
,a inent prohibitionist and worker in the Bal
,f tist church.
=, At Dubuque, Iowa, Joseph Benzer, di
:, abled by rheumatism, was smoking pip
" in bed when his clothing caught fire and b
l. was burned from foot to waist
" Senator Sawyer and Secretary Rusk, @
IL oondsmen for several ex-treasurers
1f Wisconsin, will be called upon TO max
|, good thousands Of dollars pocketed by th
al treusurers US interest on public deposits
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