The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-06

Z" WORTH a GUINEA A BOX."
NEWS NOTES.

KcntuclSy's old fcuds are fast dying out.
The Federal fee system is to be over
hauled.
Senator Stanford has been offered $l5J,-
90 for Arion.
Influenza has grown in London to the
proportions of II plague.
An entire congregation at Tifiin, O., was
seriously affected by natural gas.
Mrs. Amanda Benton Smith, a pioneer
heroine of Hamilton, ILL.,, is dead.
The syear-oid son of H.. ID. Eoughen
was burned to death at -irksville, Mo.
The bingham gift Ii CATION at Kansas,
City was decided in favor of the state.
Three street railway companies ran a
race in building electric lines in Sioux
City.
a Mississippi planter who had locked
one Of his negroes 20 cents was assassin
ated.
Half the business PORTION of Agency,
Iowa, was burned. Tho loss is covered by
insurance.
President Harrison r~""OmmcndS the rat
i~fication of the Observation-Disclosures cessiOn
agreement.
Maine rivers arc still open, aud the ice
men are afraid they will have no harvest
this season.
A Louisville, Ky, bookkeepcr stole 49,
III one year.
james Avery, a thief, has made two es-
capes from Jail at Scottburg, Iud., within
a fortnight.
An alliance between the Rock Island and
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad is
being perfected.
IN NI,ftl,n, -,,,1, T.o., Nao,l.1;.,
pulpit at New York on the evils of society
as it exists to-day.
Mrs. James Vaughn, of Washington
county, Kentucky, fell into a fireplace and
was burned to death.
Ruth Cleveland beat Baby Mckee and
won a gold medal i'll a church fair popular
ity contest in Chicago.
Joshua t.. Wickham, SAID to be l16 years
old and to have voted for John Adams,
died at Ottumwa, Iowa.
The Poplar Bluff, Mo, city Jail burned,
destroying many city records. Tie one
prisoner was barely saved.
Congressman O'Neill has been asked to
labor against an excess of the nude in art
at the Chicago worlds tir.
A public undertaken ut Sioux City is
4 charged with selling the bodies of the poor
and burying the empty %coflius.
The church and press of Bloomington,
Ill, united in a successful crusade against
the gambling houses in the city.
The Creek delegation is dissatisfied with
Assistant Attorney General Shields
opinion as to Indian citizenship.
Citizens near Deming, N. M, have asked
the commandment at Fort Benton for pro-
lection against Mexican raiders.
Martin Duke, the star pitcher of the
Western association in 1889 and 1890, has
been signed by the Chicago club.
News that he had fallen heir to 81 ,2J0,
COO came TO +. T.. T.. Troy, Il young insur-
ancc agent at San Francisco, Cal.
Charles w. Crawlcy, wife-murderer,
was saved from trial at Kansas City by
being a~djudgcd insane after the act.
Yes pracy of Charlottesville, Ind, was
robhed'of his wife and afterwards badly
wounded by Mrs. Tracy's former lover.
Aiunatic forced his way. into the NJ. L
church at Crawfordsvillc, Ind, and oc.
cupied the pulpit during a revival meet
ing.
The missing Charlie Rush, who disap
peared recently from his home in Cameron,
Mo, is in charge of the police at Wichita
Kan.
The Iowa Democratic committee will
boom Boies for the presidency unless the
New York Democrats settle their differ
enceS.
The Indianapolis street-car strike ha:
been declared of, President Frenzel hay
ing agreed to submit the dispute to arbi
tratiou.
Beverly Estel, Il IabOrer, claims that his
brothers ut t'ayette Mo, have wrongfully
withheld from him property valued al
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