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

Jim Beard and Jim Curtis had a
fight at a dance at Taylor, Texas.
Both were killed and lady fatally |
shot.
All the arrangements for the remov-
al of jeff Davis remains from New Or
leans to Richmond, Va, have been
completed.
Richard Smardon, shoe manufac-
turer of Three Rivers, Canada, has as
signed with $150,000 liabilities and
small assets.
The organization of a SlOO, 900, 900
steel manufacturing syndicate to com
pete against the Carnegie plant is said
now to be n go.
The supreme court of Louisiana has
decided that the clubs of New Orleans
must pay liquor licenses If they run
buffets.
Bessie Mitchell has completed her
1O,O00-mile railroad journey without
touching her foot on the ground, and
will write a book now.
The Duer rifle has received it's test
at the national armory at Springfield,
Mass, and passed all the tests to which
it was submitted with success.
Twenty-seven Mexican boys and
girls have been sent to their homes
from the Indian school at Genoa, Neb.,
where they were sent as Indians.
The proceedings of impeachlnent
against Judge Dubose of Memphis, are
in progress before the Tennessee SUI
Sreme court
Mrs. Berlin of Pulaski, Tenn, was
instantly killed by her 15-year-old son,
who had n pistol which he thought
was not loaded.
north in North Dakota, is beginning to
move and people living along it are
preparing for flood
Still another earthquake has been
felt in Servia, following the fatal dis
turbances of Sunday. Thousands of
houses and churches were wrecked.
A considerable portion of the town
of Brewsters, above New York, has
been condemned to prevent contami-
nation of the water supply of the city.
At an anti-Semitic meeting in Wen
ma merchant was so enraged by their
speeches that he attacked them with a
knife, killing one and wounding an
other.
| Another Santa Fe bridge has been
burned near the Texas border. Cher
olSee strip boomers are suspected of
being the incendiaries.
The Leipsic Gazette severely con-
demns those Germans who seek to
toady to the emperor by objecting to
the location of Bismarck's monument
in Berlin.
| A powerful syndicate of Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and eastern capitalists has
been formed to compete with Carnegie
in the manufacture of iron and steel
of all grades, and armor plate. They
will start with capital of $75, 600, 900.
John Blake. superintendent of the
asylum for feeble-minded at Fort
Wayne, Ind, has been taken to Rich
mond, Ind, for examination into his
sanity. He was found in Chicago.
Many of the members of the recent
conference of physicians in New York
to consider the subject of quarantine
against cholera are dissatisfied with
the result
There is much Indignation among
the friends of the late Roscoe Conk-
ling because q statue of him has been
refused a place in Union Square,
New York.
| W. IL SldJ toli, VI Nit-
Clayton, the assassinated Republican
leader, does not believe that the man
Hickey, now under arrest at Morrill,
ton, Ark, committed the crime.
The lead and zinc sales of Southwest
Missouri and Southeast Kansas last
week aggregated Ssl, ,7O3. OF this
Joplin contributed S27,46l, Carterville
S22, 6S7 and Galenu, Kan, Sl5,253.
Drunken packing house employees OF
Cudahy, Wis, attacked n negro bar.
tender in saloon Saturday night, and
when he drove them away, demolished
the place and set it on fire and then
tried for several hours to secure the
negro to lynch him.
The negotiations for the opening OF
the Yanlxton reservation will probably
fall through on account of DISPOSE
ton on the part of the Indians to back
out.
1t is feared that the exhibit from
Southern California for the worlds
fair has been ruined in a wreck on the
Southern Pacific.
Many deaths by earthquake are re-
ported in Servia, several villages hav.
ing been destroyed.
The case of DIR. Briggs Will come ur
once more before the Presbyterian
general assembly, which meets il
Washington in May.
A defalcation of $4,000 has beer
found in the funds of the New Basin
board of control of New Orleans
Treasurer Williams of the old board is
openly accused, though no charges
have yet been preferred.
In sentencing Envet Davis to be
hanged at Provo, Utah, June 9, for thu
murder ofhis wife, Judge Blackburn
broke down completely while utterine
the fatal words.
James Jeffcote, white planter oi
Pickens, Coahoma county. Miss, was
lynched by his neighbors for murder
ing his wife and charging an innocen
negro with the crime.
Five thousand coal miners IN tn
Boringe district, Province of Hainaut
Belgium, have resolved upon n genera
strike partly for higher wages ant
| partly for universal suffrage.
} John Helleckson, a farmer, has bee
: arrested, charged with being respon
sible for the prairie fire which burne
over the country west of the Missoul
river, near Chamberlain, S. D., las
week and resulted in the death of
young woman.
Girls with perfumed hair are the col
n l.