The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-05-13
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
The New Orleans Delta. the great
anti-lottery organ, has suspended pub
lication.
The French legislative chamber is
considering q bill requiring foreigners
to register.
1t is said that hordes of Cinnamon
are being smuggled into Tacoma by
Canadian steamers.
The Missouri Pacific has entered the
rate-cutting lists and announced $37
round trip to Colorado.
A destructive tornado did much
damage in the vicinity of Gainesville
and Whitesboro, Texas.
Mrs Mittie Wilson of Bolton, Texas,
has sued the NJ, X. and Il. for 500, 900
for killing her husband.
Sam Jones' tabernacle at Meridian,
Miss, with n seating capacity of 1000
people, was blown down.
Two men were shot and killed near
Los Angeles, Cal, in a battle between
union and non-union sailors
A man named House near Rhone,
Texas, shot and instantly killed his
wife, whom he mistook for a burglar
Wall street has quieted down to an
almost normal condition, and it is be-
lieved now that the crisis has passed.
In Saragossa, Spain, twenty process
sionists were drowned while crossing
the river, the pontoon bridge collaps-
ing.
James r. Keene is said to have
cleared from SO, SOC, 600 to S., 900, 600 by
! the break in the Cordage Trust securi-
ties
The cyclone in Cooke county. Texas,
was followed by u deluge of water,
and thousands of acres of crops have
been ruined.
In case Theodore Thomas resigns as
musical director of the fair it is be-
licved that Walter Damrosch will be
, his successor.
The Western passenger association
has decided that clergymen cannot
travel on half fare under the special
worlds fair rates.
Russia has resumed her merciless
persecution of the Jews, this time
driving them, whole settlements at a
time, out of Poland.
Speaker Crisp has arrived in Wash
ington and is making arrangements
for the extra session of congress to be
called early in September.
Two Memphis editors had made all
arrangements for a duel, but it fell
through by the interference of officers.
Further trouble is expected.
American Cubans at Key West are
exceedingly active and assert that a
blow for the liberty of Cuba will soon
+, be struck which will be successful.
The postponement of the monetary
conference is said to have been deter
mined on in order to give congress a
chance to act on the silver question.
Postmaster General Bissell notified
two South Carolina Democrats that no
| colored postmaster would be removed
before the expiration of his term with
out cause.
River men ut Burlington, Iowa, are
predicting the greatest flood ever
known in the Mississippi valley when
the SHOWS in the North begin to melt
in earnest.
The corporation of the city of Lon
don has voted S12,5O0 as q present tc
the duke of York and Princess Victoria
Mary of Teck, in recognition of their
bethrothal.
The Geary law is to be tested by the
United States supreme court. Three
Cinnamon were arrested in New
Etrr rr--a->irday for the purpose Of
basa test cases.
Chinese in San Francisco are suller
and stubborn in their refusal to obey
the Geary law, and United States Off
cials look for serious trouble with
them before the matter is settled.
General Ticket Agent Francis of the
Burlington road at Omaha, says of the
present cut fares in worlds fair bust
ness from the west that it pro nises
the stiffest rate that wasever known
The act passed by the last legisla
ture of Arkansas, abolishing the hir
ing out of convicts, went into effec
Monday, and one firm turned over 76(
convict laborers to the state at once
The Pecos company, with a capita
of $5, 600, ,OOO has been incorporated il
New Jersey to develop agricultural
and mineral lands in the valley of the
Pecos river in New Mexico and Texas
The impeachment trial of Lant
Commissioner McGaughey of Texas
resulted in his acquittaL though i
was proved that he had wrongly in
terpreted the law rs had his prede
cessors.
Ex-Postmaster General Wanamake
talked to two Sunday schools, heart
two sermons and addressed the Y. M
c. A. at Kansas City Sunday, and wa
shown the town on Monday by tn
Commercial club.
The customs authorities of New
l I'll ,a1,
nearly $500, 600, which was captured
by Williamsburg police, is the propert.
of the count of Flanders, n brother o
King Leopold II.
Charges of reckless extravaganc
have been preferred against Crane
Chief Ramsey of the Order of Railroa,
Telegraphers and an investigation
on. 1t is said that over S4O,0 900 wa
spent on the Rock Island strike.
At Kingstree, S. c., mob lynche,
Sam Gaillard, colored, and an ex-con
vict, for raping a white woman. I
was the second lynching in the stat
within ten days. Near Duluth, MINI.
a white tramp was lynched for
brutal outrage on two little girls, age
s and years.
The largest and most powerful ban
bette so far made for the new nav
has just been completed at the Betf
1ehem ordnance works. 1t is the al
> barbette for the battle ship Maine.
is composed of twelve-inch nicke
. steel plates eleven and one-half fee
high and has an inside diameter c
twenty-five feet four inches.
New Fourth Glass Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-Postmastel
were appointed to-day as follows: