The weekly intelligencer., 1893-09-30
NEWS NOTES.

vecke was lost by fire with sixty lives.
The Populists nominated straight
middle Of the-road ticket at Leaven-
worth, with a woman for coroner
The authorities of Louisiana have
inaugurated a thorough Investigation
of the lynchings in Jefferson Parish
August Reese and wife were at
tackled by anarchists at Calamity, Pa,
Mrs. Reese killed and Mr.. Reese
beaten into insensibility.
1t is reported that Treasurer Wash
burn of the Old Colony ilway, at
Boston, is defaulter to the extent of
$125,0 900.
The battleship Oregon, which is be-
ing constructed at the Union Iron
works, San Francisco, will be launched
October 26.
The Casino vaudeville theater, Spo-
kane, Wash, burned to the ground.
The damage was $4,000, partly in
sured.
John G. Wooley, temperance re-
former, is charged with the misappro-
priation of 81, 900 of Minnesota w. G.
r. u. money.
Willard Morgan, a moonshiner of
West Virginia, who has defied the
authorities for thirteen years, has at
last been captured.
Rev. DIR. Talmage, in his pulpit Sun
day, proposed, grand international
jubilee to celebrate the dawn of the
twentieth century of the Christian
era.
Mrs. S. c. Shrigley was instantly
killed and several other passengers
seriously injured by IL collision of
motor trains at Omaha.
committee representing the citi-
zens of Roanoke, Va, have invited
Mayor Trout to return and assured
him protection.
The farmers and merchants of North
Louisiana have asserted their rights
and for the time being the gin burners
have been silenced.
At Greenfield, Mass, Mrs. Henry Il.
Stevens and Miss Sophia Morto n,
while driving, were instantly killed
at grade crossing.
The Chinese government has given
assurances that in case of further
cruelty to foreigners being reported
the viceroy of the province shall be
degraded.
Herr Alers, an artist, who is an in
innate faiend of Bismarck's s, says that
his condition is very discouraging and
that he is nothing but a skeleton since
his severe illness.
Steps arc being taken in Pittsburg
looking to the resumption of the iron
and steel works there on larger
scale. Both manufacturer and work
men are asking for conferences.
Jubilees are being held in many
Washington towns over the return to
work of the miners, which has been
sanctioned by the Knights of Labor
and the Miners Union. The COM
panies offered So so per day for miners
and SO for car men, and it was ac-
cepted.
John Legs, of Toronto, queens
counsel and eX-member of the Ontario
legislature, who fled from that city
last week and is now in hiding near
Buffalo, N. Y, appears to have en-
bezzled every cent of the trust funds
in his charge, bringing his defalca-
tion, with his debts, to $300,0 900.
A solid projectile with a striking
energy of over $4,000 ton was fired
through seventeen inches of steel
armor plate and two inches of its
wrought iron packing, at the govern
ment proving station at Indian Head,
and came out unharmed.
Senator Faulkner introduced bill
providing for the admission of the ter
ritory of New Mexico as a state. The
bill provides for constitutional con-
vention to be held at Santa Fe on the
first Monday in December, 1894.
A statement prepared at the treas
ury department shows the collections
! from internal revenue for July and
| August of this year to have been $25,
092, S34, as compared with receipts of
$ss,577, GAL during July and August of
| 1892.
S. G. Stodhart, at Pittsburg, Fa. -,
while insane from religion and bust
ness troubles, shot his wife through
| the heart while she was asleep and
then blew his brains out.
| Rewards amounting to $4,000 have
| been offered for the arrest and CON
viction of the dynamiters who caused
Saturday nights explosion at San
Francisco.
An amicable settlement of the diff
ferences between the Amalgamated
| Association of Iron and Steel Workers
and the Pittsburg manufacturers was
effected at the joint scale conference
by accepting ten per cent reductio n
in wages.
The worlds fair congress auxiliary
of the Columbian exposition, in con
nection with the international com
mittee of the Young Mems Christian
association, has just issued Il call fol
the congress of the Y. M. G. A. of the
! world, to be held on the 9th of Octo'
| Der in Memorial Art palace.
Three children named Bolduc of St
Evariste Beach, Canada, aged ;, and
years, were left alone in their home
yesterday. They found some strych.
nine in bottle and drank it. The
eldest and youngest are dead and the
other ch lid is in q precarious condi'
| tion.
New York millionaires are being
considerably annoyed by anarchists
threats, and in many instances pri-
vate watchmen have been employed.
Superintendent Byrnes, however, an,
ticipates no demonstration by the
| reds
The Tribune hoa5ts that Jefferson City
has passed through the financial crisis
! without a scratch.