The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-01
NEWS ~BREVITIES.

almost wiped II 10y IRE.
President Cleveland has promised to
review Brooklyn's Decoration day pa
rade.
The liberty bell will leave Philadcl-
phia for the worlds fair April % on n
special train.
A man in a crowd at Rome threw n
stone at King Humbert, narrowly
missing him.
+. II. Frecrichs, a cafe proprietor of
New Orleans, has disappeared, leaving
So. 900 debts.
John A. Woods, banker and philan.
thropist of Cleveland, Ohio, died at
Augusta, Ga.
The sole leather trust has decided on
its officers. Its capital stock will be
at least $50, 900, 900.
Mrs. Christian Miller, aged rs, wan
dered from Seattle, Wash, to Column
bus, Ind, while insane.
In n New York store go clerks. men
and women, were arrested because IA
cash box had disappeared.
Heavy shipments of corn are being
made to Mexico since the removal of
the Mexican import duty.
Three young men were drowned at
Marietta, Ohio, while attempting to
shoot the rapids in a boat.
1t has been decided hat the sessions
of the Behring sea arbitrators at Paris
shall be open to the public.
1t is said hat President Cleveland
will give Texas the preference in max
ing appointments to Mexico.
Charley Small. one of the most noted
| 6nGnar11nnG of tho Southern hnr1aF
has been captured in Texas.
1t is said the Standard oil
is backing a scheme to wipe out the
middlemen in the oil business.
At New Haven, KY, a long-contested
law suit was decided b. the principals
engaging in a wrestling match.
Ruiz Sandoval, the Central Ameri-
can revolutionist, arrived at New
York as an exile from Honduras.
Frank Marshalrs elevator in Chicago
and 100,0 900 bushels of oats were de-
stroyed by fire. Losses, 500, 900.
The big shoe manufacturing concern
of Snedicer x Hathaway, Detroit, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000.
Minnesota's legislature appropriated
$4,000 to defend members against
legal attacks of the coal combine.
The shortage of S. A. Earhart, col
collector of Drywood township, Vernon
county, Missouri, has been made good.
Bismarck's health is so poor that he
will be compelled to give up "a trip
which he had planned for this spring.
Mrs. Clara L. Lowell of Chicago has
been defrauded out of $1,000 on a
bogus mortgage to property neal Ash
and, Wis
Salvation Henry, a street sweeper of
Chicago, lost S ,400, the savings of
five years. No trace of the money can
be found.
Fifty-three officers and sailors of the
United States ship Philadelphia are
suffering from influenza at the Brook
lyn navy yard.
. Colonel William b. Remey, ex-judge
advocate general of the navy, is in
sane and is confined in an asylum at
Somerville, Mass.
BY tine upsetting of a skiff in the
Tombigbee river near Mount Sterling,
Ala, Huber and John Dix and Edward
Westcott were drowned.
A test case has been brought before
the supreme court of Missouri to de-
eide the constitutionality of the in
surance law of that state.
General j. r.. Terrence of Chicago
declares that he believes hat Secretary
Gresham will be the Democratic candi-
date for president in 1896.
The whole Creek nation is infected
with horsethieves. 1t is supposed to
be an organized band and they are
doing a and office business.
An investigation shows that VIII ii.
Bradford, clerk of the county in which
Oklahoma City is situated, is short
$1,067. He will be prosecuted.
At Sheriff., Ark the body of Phil
Garner was found naked in the closet
of the Sheriff house, he having been
murdered by unknown parties.
Active war has again broke out
between the opposing factions in
Hayti and a battle has beer fought,
the result of which is unknown.
The bomb scare at Rome continues,
and its effect is feared on the attend
ance of the coming jubilee anniversary
of the wedding of the king and queen.
France has followed the action of
England in raising her minister to
this country to the rank of ambassa-
dor and several other nations will do
tliS WI
John Fowler of San Francisco, who
failed in the crockery business for
$50, 600 ten years ago, killed himself
with n pistol in a lodging house in
that city.
The conservatives in the British
house of commons have adopted the
policy of obstruction with the hope of
defeating the home rule bill by wear
1 = IN rr NarN r4r leo 200
The Ann Arbor management claims
an attempt on General Manager Ash
ley's life was mad by train wreckers
and offers 81, 900 reward for the arrest
of the guilty parties.
Edwin Hardy of Omaha, who was
severely injured in an accident on the
Burlington and Missouri River in No
vember, 1891. has compromised with
the company and receives $l2, 900.
George Manners Ashley, who has a
seat in the house of lords as Baron
Hastings, was fined $3.50 and sentenced
to three months imprisonment for
making indecent proposals to Il young
= girl.
1t is announced that the Spanish
government proposes to present to the
United States the reproduced Santa
Maria, Columbus flagship, now on its
way to this country for exhibition at
the worlds fair.