The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-03-25
NEWS NOTES.

Inc pope mas informed u rance Oh Ills
intention to beatty Joan of Arc.
Robert Warning, secretary of the
Makuska manufacturing company ut
st. Joseph, has disappeared.
The manufacturers of playing cards
have organized Il trust. Only me com
pany is outside of the combine.
Mrs. Mary Il. Lease of Kansas is said
to be organizing peace associations
among the women of that state.
Governor Northen of Georgia M
nounces that he will be in the race for
Senator Colquitt's seat next year.
Heavy rains nave caused the inunda-
ton of several towns in Southern
California.
Petitions for executive clemency for
Carlyle Harris were put in circulation
to-day in New York.
The report tn 1t John w. Mackay is
in a critical con ition is denied by his
physicians, who say he is entirely out
of danger.
Louis Schiling was found murdered
in his meat market at Kalamazoo,
Mich, with his throat cut and a hole
in his head.
The colored people of Guthrie have
issued a call for a new political party
TO secure protection and advancement
of their race.
Mrs. I. A. Frazier of Wichita shot
herself through the breast, after a
quarrel with her husband. jealousy
was the cause.
O. L. Kimmer, an insurance man of
Lima, Ohio, met a terrible death at
Grand Rapids, Mich, by falling under
a moving train and being ground to
pieces.
There is a remarkable scramble for
the Office of public printer, there being
at least twenty-five active candidates.
At Athens, Ala, fire destroyed about
ST., 900 worth of property and caused
the loss ofstwo and probably more
lives. ~
The strike of che Big Four railroad
switchmen at Springfield, Ohio, ended
by the men declaring the strike off UNI
conditionally.
Elizabeth Slater and William Gau-
smell, alleged jointists of Emporia,
Kan, were arrested for violating the
prohibitory law.
The Italian Legislative committee
Investigating the bank scandals has
found frauds a~ggregating many mil
lions.
The great strike of the Pennsylvania
miners, which has been on for seven
months, may end soon, as the miners
have called a conference at Mononga-
hela City.
Senator McGinnis, Speaker Mabrey
and Chief Clerk Jacks, of the Missouri
general assembly, were the recipients
of handsome testimonials of regard
from the members and clerks.
Bishop Newman of Omaha who has
, been delegated by the Methodist Epis-
: copal house of bishops to make bien-
NAL missions to the South Pacific
islands, has started On his long trip.
i Senator George of Mississippi has
| written a letter to the cotton planters
I advising them to raise less cotton to
r prevent over production, caused by the
. great strike of English cotton opera
tives.
i 1t is said that the late esquire" Alb
4 ington spent $12, OOO, 900 during his ten
. years as a sport. He had a fad of pre-
e senting women whom he admired with
I checks of $50, 600, OF $50, 900 lots of
4 diamonds.
The negro arrested at Greeley, Col,
e giving the name of Neill Thompson,
has been positively identified as the
. brute Davis who outraged Mrs. Taylor
!! of Sedalia, Mo-, in the presence of her
: husband, whom he had bound.
|. The indianapolis city council passed
an ordinance levying a special tax of
four and one-half cents on every 500
. on city property for the purpose OF
y n raising S75,0 600 to defray the expenses
I of entertaining the G. A. r. next fall.
: In the house of commons at London,
I a Tory member urged war as a better
r means than arbitration for a settle
, ment of the Behring sea dispute.
8 The United States glass company's
plant at Tarentum, Pa, was destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss, $3.50, 900.
e Five hundred men are out of work.
= 1t is reported from Atchison, Kan.
e that the joint keepers propose to resist
the orders of the police board to close
at l o'clock each night and keep closed
t on Sundays.
9 The Congregational ministers of Chi
q cage nave demanded of the president
: and secretary of state an investiga'
Y ton of the latest reports of cruelties tc
Q American missionaries in Turkey.
e Governor McGraw of the state o.
Washington said last night that ht
would call an extra session of the
q legislature if John b. Allen was no
seated by the United States senate,