The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-15
NEWS ~BREVITIES.

Nearly 5000 immigrants landed
in Now York Sunday.
The White Star officials have finally
given up the Naronic for lost.
SrttOn's whisky warehouse forger-
les at Louisville are nearing the $780,
900 mark.
A child was scaldcd to death and an
old man fatally burned at La IIarpe,
Ind.
More than 10000 women are candi-
dates for employment at the worlds
fair.
A number of worlds fair buildings
was slightly damaged by high winds
last week.
a bill declaring hat boycotts were
not unlawful vas killed by the New
York Legislature.
A boiler in u sawmill at .Jonesboro
Ark, exploded, wrecking the building,
but killing no one.
George Slosson that he
has retired from active participation
in the billiard world.
A man and wife ut Homestead, Pa.
named Barr. have discovered that they
are brother and sister.
Memorial day for the Confederate
dead was appropriately observed
throughout the South.
BY the wreck of the pleasure boatof
the sultan of Turkey Sunday sixty
persons We're drowned.
A lot of men threshing clover in
Michigan were asphyXiated by a yepe-
table poison in the dust.
The ice in the Minnesota river near
Granite Falls, Mimi, is gorged and
the lowlands are flooded.
The maximum freight law lust en-
acted by the Nebraska legislature will
be fought by the railroads.
Joe Berlin, a well-knoyn stockman,
committed suicide at Pine Bluff, Ark,
while temporarily ~deranged.
Jim Hall and Frank =. Slavin have
signed articles to fight for a SIS, 900
purse before a London club.
G.. |. Ewers of San Francisco has in
vented a device to save the lives of
people who blow out the gas.
A. e. Spaulding e Co.'S sporting
goods factory at Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $40, 900.
EX-Minister De Parieu. a French
man who was prominent in the empire
fifty years ago, is dead at Paris.
AT Pittsburg an attempt was made
to blow up the boiler of Il factory
where 200 hands were employed.
a rain which came just in time saved
a number of Ohio towns from d~estruc-
ton by forest fires in their vicinity.
A large portion of Idaho's aeri-
cultural exhibit at the worlds fair
was burned while en- route to Chicago.
Unknown m~iscreants tried to burn
and blow up Emmanuel Baptist church
in Little Rock, Ark, but did not sue
ceed.
Ex-Governor David A. Merriwether
of Kentucky, Henry Clay's successor
IN the senate, died at Louisville, aged
% years.
Secretary Smith has decided to re-
strict timber cutting, and has revoked
permits recently given to Montana
companies.
Flo Benson and Jesse Kendig were
asphyXiated at Hyde park, Chicago,
Saturday night, by escaping gas and
both died.
A terrific boiler explosion, resulting
in one death, took place at Meredosia,
Ill, twenty miles south of Jackson.
Ill.
A. Il. Garrison, cashier of the Ma
tional bank of Denver, is missing. His
friends fear he has been robbed and
Papers of the late DIR. Francis T.
f~ontenoy of GAINESVILLE, Tenn, in.
a confession of a murder com
in 1868.
The state boards of health decided
not to recognize the national govern
inent in quarantine matters, but to act
Independently.
The Missouri River and Northwest
lines to Chicago have agreed on one
hours slower running time to Chicago.
beginning May :.
The shortage in the ottawa county,
Ohio, treasury is growing, and the
thus far Indicate it will be up-
wards of $50, 600.
BY his own recklessness Henry
Flamian, a workman at the worlds
ialr, fell $50 feet and was instantly
on Thursday.
The whisky warehouse recent for
series of a. R. Sutton at Louisville
$500 Npe IN p'ApibVilolCh VI JIG Mill
e sons distillery.
McAlester, the new marshal of the
indian territory, proposes that a con-
of the factions shall be called
o settle the Choctaw wal.
United States Deputy Marshal John
{. Upchurch of Raleigh, N. c., was
fatally by John Allen Johnson,
wanted for counterfeiting.
The Choctaws are alarmed over a
threat to take their claim
money to pay soldiers expenses unless
heir war is speedily ended.
At Lagrange, Ark, Il log hauler
famed McBrown was pinned by a fall
ng log against Il sharp snag, which
'ierced his body, killing him.
In a fit of madness, a GermanGamed
Surkhardt at Fairbury, Ill, held his
6-months-old niece against a red hot
o V till she was fatally burned.
1t is charged that many bills passed
" the Colorado legislature are inval-
l, having been passed after the con
titutional time limit had expired.
The Democratic judicial convention
I the Secon district of Illinois took
OF ballots at Alton and adjourned sine
lie without making a nomination.
George Dixon, champion feather
and John Griffin have signed
, fight for a $50, 600 stake before the
Island athletic club June 30.
New York capitalists are forming a
indicate to develop the rubber indus
lies of Bolivia, South America. q,
The Cherokees are still making hot
ar on Postmaster Watts at Muldraw,
hose appointment is held up by the
apartment, pending investigation.
As Governor Jones OF the Choctaws
to come to WaShinrtun the
will send a pcaeemakcr
to sec. if an agreement between
&c factions cannot be reached
Thcre is excitement in Omnh1 ayr,.
lie discovery that Russian Jews thcr,
ave buried their children who havc
led during the winter in cracker
and only a foot below the arr-
of the ground.
Odds and Ends. :
have from fifty to sixty childrcn's