The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-07-28
ALL SORTS.
Somo of the Happenings of a Few
Days.
What the Sugar Investiga tion Is Disclosing
The wellman Arctic Expedition
Probably Lost-scare ut Coney-
ville-Other Notes.
The Sugar Investigation.


WASHINGTON, July 25.-Edward o.
Levy, New York broker and employe
of Wheeler & Co.. of New York, was
before the senate sugar trust committee
to-day. While not a member of the
firm, he acts as personal representa-
tive of Mr.. Guillardeau, of that firm,
in his absence, and it Is understood that
his testimony substantiated that given
by Mr.. Guillardeau before the commit
tee, and that it related to an order for
sugar stocks alleged to have been given
by Senator Camden.
The committee still refuses to give
out the testimony, but the members
unite in saying that the testimony is
important. and that if they are able to
complete it on the lines which they are
following the result will be either to
fasten the charges or bring them to n
point where their falsity can be estab-
lished.
The chain, however, will be incom-
plete so long as the committee fails to
find one witness for whom search is
being made. This witness is said
to be Samuel c. Battershall, who
formerly represented the New York
firm of Seymour, Young & Co. in
this city. Witnesses have SO far been
examined and Battershall is the man,
who at one time, had in his possession
orders from senator's for the purchase
of sugar stocks. The committee regard
the disappearance of witness wanted at
this time as sig nificant.
Probably Lost.
LONDON, July 25.-Carl Siewwers
| writes to the Standard that he is in re-
ceipt of advices from Norway that have
little doubt that the Wellman Arctic
expedition is lost. Experienced skip
pers just returned from the Spitzbergen
seas express the same opinion, and Col.
Fielding, who accompanied Capt
| Mares expedition in 1875, shares this
| belief The Pail Mall Gazette is in re-
ceipt of similar advices from Tromso,
all confirming the general belief in the
fate of the expedition.
Arctic shippers report that the flow
of pack-ice and its density this summer
| would prove irresistible to any vessel,
however strong. They believe that the
| Ragnvald-Jarl has been crushed in the
ice. and express the belief that there is
| a remote chance that the members of
the Wellman expedition have been
saved by managing to get onto an ice
| foe, in which case they believe that
the explorers are in a most dangerous
position. Should the forebodings of
the Arctic shippers prove true, and IL
the Ragnvald-Iarl was crushed without
warning. it is probable that the men,
bers of the expedition were unable to
take any large quantity of supplies
with them upon the ice foe, even sup
posing they succeeded in escaping
thereto.
Coneyviiie Scared.
| CoFFEyvILLE, Kan, July 25.-The
residents of the north part of the city
were startled from their sleep Monday
morning between 1 and o'clock by a
terrific explosion that shook the earth
and made the houses rattle like an
earthquake. Window panes were shat
tered and great pieces of rock show
1 cred upon the roofs of the houses. One
rock weighing about thirty pounds
crashed through the roof of a house,
frightening the inmates nearly to
death, but no one was injured
very strong gas well is located
near the center of the upheaval and
the ground in the vicinity presented
terrible scene yesterday. At one place
there is hole 10 or L. feet deep and
great masses of earth and huge stones
are thrown up all around to the height
Of l2 feet. Large rocks were thrown
to the surface from n depth of 30 feet.
The scene of the upheaval covers sew
eral acres. Great rocks were found q
block and a-half away.
The explosion is supposed to have
been caused by large quantities of
natural gas that had accumulated in
subterranean cavities and which be-
came ignited by some mysterious
agency.
Eight Trainmen Killed.
TExARKANA, Ark, July 25.--The col
lision of the north and south bound
Texas a. Pacific cannonball trains yes
terday near Queen City was caused by
improper service in train orders. One
engine was completely wrecked and the
other badly disabled. The baggage,
express, mail and smoking cars of both
trains were shattered into splinters-
The list of dead numbers eight, as
follows: Charles Holland, postal clerk;
Mike Voltz, postal clerk; Ed Bee,
postal clerk; Ed Grimm, engineer; AL
len, fireman.: Fred Marshall, express
messenger; James Jones. porter; un'
known man.
George Bean, a postal clerk, was
badly injured.
Killed In an Elevator Shaft.
New YORK, July 25.--Four men were
instantly killed yesterday afternoon
by the falling of an elevator in Clausen
& Prices brewery. Their names were
Louis Baer. Bernard Smith, Tony Far
rell. Henry Hombein. William f. En-
ert was fatally injured.
The cable of the elevator. which was
used for hoisting grain, broke and the
car fell on top of the men, who were
down in the pit.
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A War Rumor.
SHANGHAI, July e5.-A dispatch
received here from Nagasaki, OF
, the southwest side of the Island o.
Kioo Sioo, Japan, says that detach