The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

Democrats of Tennessee will push
Gov. Bob Taylor for president at Chi
cago.
Senator Teller's name will be pre-
sented at the Chicago convention for
president
A. r. Gott, editor of the Stoutsville
(Mo.) Banner, committed suicide at
Erie, Kan.
The Seventh Missouri populists have
nominated Richard Thomas, of Mar
shall, for congress
A farmer at Alton, Kan., has con-
tracted to ship 200 tons of broom corn
to Sidney, Australia.
Three young children of Joseph
Wise, a Gin cinnati butcher, were IA
tally poisoned by chewing gum.
Joseph Moore, of Monongahela City,
Pa, committed suicide, leaving a note
saying that it was too hot to live"
The First Baptist church of Guthrie,
Ok, one of the finest structures in the
territory, was dedicated on the 2sth.
The Railroad Gazette says TIT miles
of new railroad were built in the
United States during the first half of
1896.
Joe Choynski and Peter Maher have
been matched for a six-round contest
at Madison Square Garden, New York,
on July %.
William Milligan, a farmer of Lulxin,
Ill, was called to his door at four
o'clock in the morning and murdered
by unknown men.
A yacht containing a party of nine
pleasurer seekers was capsized in
Shawnee lake, near Shawnee, Wis, and
six of the party were drowned.
A Chicago dispatch says that BANDS
friends may vote with the gold men to
perpetuate the two-thirds rule in the
national democratic convention.
1t is said many sound money demo-
Gratis of Iowa will go to the Chicago
convention to work for Boies for presi--
dent, despite the ex-governor's finan-
cial beliefs.
A Washington dispatch stated that
the A. P. A. vote would be cast indie
pendently for president, but that the
order would devote itself to congress
and legislatures.
Iowa's semi-centennial celebration
will begin October and last a week.
The governors of Iowa, Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnestoa, Nebraska and Mis-
souri, will be present
The explosion of boiler in the Of
fee of the Evening Age at Houston,
Tex, killed Henry Lyons, engraver;
Edwin Emery, telegraph operator, and
Matte Loeb, stenographer.
The Western Passenger association
decided that railroads could run home
seekers excursions from points in the
Transmissouri territory on July 2 and
81, tickets good for 90 days.
Matias Romero, Mexican minister to
Washington, has resigned because of
a newspaper criticism from his own
country during the recent pendency
of the Guatemalan question.
In the Thirtieth Kansas senatorial
district republican convention Royal
Matthews was nominated for senator,
defeating s. Il. Danner, the present in
cumbeut, after 1T ballots had been
taken.
A. NJ. Peel, of Purdy, Mo-, will make
the canvass for the democratic nomi
nation for congress in the Fourteenth
Missouri district on muleback, as he
says he has nothing but poverty and
ability" to back him.
The Coliseum at Chicago, in which
the democratic national convention
will be held next week, covers 81
acres and has space for $4,000 specta-
tors and 10000 shouters. 1t is the big
gest structure the world over.
At Hopkinsville, KY, Judge Breath
lit decided the Kentucky separate
coach law unconstitutional and or
dered a verdict in favor of colored
woman who had been compelled to
leave white" coach on the Erie
Valley railroad