The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-08
NEWS BREVITIES.

BardOlph, MO-, was VISITED by Il dl6-
astrous fire.
General Hernandez Ronha has been
a~ssassinated in Bolivia.
Jesse Welch died at his home in
Oregon, Mo-, ut The age of lo2 years.
Prairie fires are raging in Nebraska
and causing great destruction of prop
erty.
Senator Palmer is urging Judge
Phillips Of Illinois for pension commits
sioner.
At Beaver Falls, Neb., Jesse Wooten
killed his wife and then committed
suicide.
Dukes big cigarette factory in New
York vas destroyed by fire. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
Fire destroyed the stan hotel at Wal
nut Ridge, Ark. Two guests were
burned to death.
A block of camel coal weighing
twelve tons is to be sent to the worlds
fair from Boston.
There is wan over the Georgia pat
ronage between Secretary Hoke Smith
N Senator Gordon:
1t is announced positively that Presi-
dent Cleveland will go to Chicago and
open the worlds fair.
1t is said that Editor Gil Shanklin
of Indiana, has been booked for the
Office of public printer.
Immigrants are pouring into South
Dakota at a wonderful rate, and the
state is filling up rapidly.
At South st. Paul Joseph Halter
mack and his ~l2-year-old son were
drowned while out hunting.
A temporary truce has been arranged
at Antlers, but the situation is still of
the most threatening nature.
Water broke into a drift on the
Laurel Hill mine at Hazelton, Pa,
and two miners We're drowned.
Telegraph wires have been cut in Rio
Grande do Sui, and it is difficult to get
authentic news of the revolution.
At Louisville, Col, a crowd of
drunken men became involved in a
fight and three were badly injured.
Saturday was the roth birthday of
Prince Bismarck and he was the recip-
lent of many gifts and congratulations.
General o. o. Howard has reached
Mobile on n our of inspection of the
ports of the department of the South.
Ex-senator Farwell of Illinois, wants
to sell the Texas land received for
building the capitol, back to the state.
War between Brazil and Argentina
seems near at hand, and Brazil is al.
ready negotiating for the support Oh
Chilli.
Elk. President Gonzales of Mexico, is
dying. He is enormously. rich, owning
over 2, 600, 900 acres of the bestlands OF
Mexico.
At Rolla, n. D., n party of womer
raided a Joint and were set upon ant
terribly beaten by n gang of dive
keepers.
j. II. Mason OF st. Louis, presiden'
of the Mason publishing company
was crushed to death in an elevator a
: Louisville.
Three hundred painters employed a
the worlds fair grounds have struck
for forty cents al hour, an increase o
five cents.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New Yorl
World is now totally blind, and it il
said will soon dispose of his newspaper
, properties.
Mounted police patrols along the
Manitoba and Northwest frontier will
be established May l to proven
smuggling.
On the Canadian Pacific near Winni
, peg, n passenger train plunged over
high embankment and four person!
were killed.
The Republicans of the senate in.
sist that the investigation of the
charges made against Senator Roacl
, must be pushed.
/, The medical profession of New Yorl
|, is interceding for the Communication O
Carlyle w. Harris death sentence t.
life imprisonment.
A misplaced switch caused a big oil
tank to be overturned at Omaha. Th,
oil ignited and damage to the amour
of S. 900 was done.
Emperor William omitted to congrat
ulate Prince Bismarck on his birthday
though nearly all other sovereigns O
Europe sent messages.
+ Mrs, w. j. Knight of Dubuque
Iowa, lost 81, 900 worth of diamond.
|, from her pocket while walking OF
Michigan boulevard in Chicago,
Two English vessels report having
seen pieces of floating wrecRage which
1t is thought possible may nave be
/: longed to the Inflated Naronic.
There will be thirty vacancies in The
engineer corps of the navy by June 30
Several of these will be filed by thi,
years naval academy graduates.
Secretary Smith is said to have de,
: cided in favor of the lottery plan fol
the opening of the strip, but it doe:
not meet with the approval of the set
tiers.
A Washington dispatch says thai
: President Cleveland will appoint w
M. Eads, formerly of Sedalia, Mo-.
but now of New Mexico, governor o
that territory.
A dispatch from Beain states tina.
: three railway officials and four officer:
, have been arrested for having plotted
to kill Prince Ferdinand of Bulgari;
with dynamite.
The San Francisco Chinese Six Com
panies have issued n new circular
officially and openly advising the Chi
nese to refuse to comply with tn,
Geary registration law.
Mrs. j. l.. Coates, wife of the pro
prietor of the Coates house at Kansa;
City, has sued for divorce on TIL,
grounds of incompatibility of tempe
and repeated indignities.
5 A letter of General w. II. Sherman
to Mrs. John Il. Henderson of st
Louis, written during the Republican
national convention of 1884, show
hat he did not want to be president
The Canadian government has de
cided not to ask parliament to ratif,
the reciprocity treaty recently nego
tiated with France, because it woul,
give the United States correspondent!
> advantages.
; The Austrian war office has accepte,
the bullet-proof cloth invented by a
= engineer residing in Paris. 1t is
third of an inch thick and is nue.
more pliable than that made by tn
Prussian tailor,