The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
OF NEWS.

The mother of ex-Gov. L. U. Hum
phrev died at Independence, Kan,
aged 81 years.
The law governing racing at Roby,
Ind, was upheld by the state supreme
court of Indiana.
A private dispatch from Havana de-
mics the reported killing of Gen.
Maceo, the Cuban leader.
Leading democrats of Philadelphia
have started a movement to oppose the
election of Bryan and Sewall.
An overcrowded ferryboat at Cleve-
land, o., was overturned and 20 people
were emptied into the river. Fifteen
were drowned.
Soldiers of the Third regiment, Mis-
souri, national guard, are in annual
camp at Warrensburg. The attend
ance is very large.
The will of the late Harriet Beecher
Stowe was filed for probate at Hart
ford, Conn. She left $4,000, divided
among her children.
John Goode, a Creek Indian con-
victed at ~Okmulgee, l. T., for theft,
has been sentenced to be shot, this be-
ing his third offense.
The gold democrats of Wisconsin
have issued a manifesto declaring
against the "St Louis protectionists"
and "Chicago populists."
DIR. George IL. Graham, convicted at
P~ittsburg, Kan, of criminal assault
upon n 1l-year-old girl, was given Is
years in the penitentiary.
Jacob Rogers, a farmer, near Hum
boldt, Kan, is in Jail charged with
numbering Miss Della Hutchinson and
her ~prematurely born child.
The railroads from Kansas City, Mo-,
have announced a rate of Sl2 for the
round trip to st. Paul, Mimi, for the
G.. A. r. e~ncampment in September.
Gen. Rosecrans, president of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland,
it's next annual reunion at
Rockford, Ill, September % and "a
Prohibitionists of Kansas met at To-
peka and nominated a complete states
and electoral ticket headed by Horace
Hurley, of Junction City, for cover
nor.
The republican national executive
committee met at Cleveland, o., and
decided to locate the national head
quarters at 10Th New York and Chi
cago.
The corner stone of the new $780,
; 900 courthouse at jefferson City, Mo-,
was laid on the 10th with customary
ceremonies, witnessed by about 5000
; people.
Harold X. Sewall, son of the demo-
, cratic vice presidential nominee,
writes to the New York Herald from
I Bath, Me, that he will oppose his
L fathers election.
l Rev. G.. F. Scott aud Dora Dorian,
who eloped from Waterloo, Ia, have
been arreste&V&th Logansport, Ind.
Scott is As years, old and left a wife
and the girl is Is.
!, Judge John b. Stone, of'Kansas City,
has been nominated for governor of
Missouri by the American party. Stone
accepted the honor. The nomination
was made by petition.
Judge Owen A. Bassett, one of the
best known masons of Kansas and an
authority on masonic Jurisprudence,
died at Ellsworth, Kan. He formerly
resided at Lawrence.
There were two suicides Sunday at
Leavenworth Kan. Joseph Norris
shuf1led off by the morphine route,
while Marion Wagner preferred to
blow the top of his head of.
Lii Hung Chang, the noted Chinese
statesman, will arrive in New York
September Is. He will be tie ndered a
reception as elaborate as that ex'
a tended to Princess Eulalie in 1898.
Cashier Fleming, who was arrested
4 for embezzling SIS, 600 from the Elk
change national bank at EldoradoL
Z Kan, has made a confession. He says
his populations dated back to 1887.
Charles A. Faris, a pioneer Kansan,
died at his home in Kansas City, Kan.
For Is years prior to his death he was
connected with the editorial depart
ment of the A.. N. Kellogg Newspaper
Co.
The Kansas appellate court, sitting
. at Abilene, decided that evidence given
l. in whisky trials by so'called spoilers
was perfectly legitimate, and the fact
that a man is a .'spotter" should moi
weigh against him.
Ten thousand people attended the
s. old settlers barbecue and picnic a
n Hughesville, Mo-. All were given a free
dinner. Speeches were made by Sen
1t ator Yeater, Judge Cooney and Con
. gresham Tracey.
The Baptist Young Peoples union
in session at Milwaukee, reconsidere6
% its action voting the 1868 convention
y to Denver, Col, and it will be held a
Chattanooga, Tenn Denver will ge
the 1899 convention.
y 1t is stated that the corn crop o
70 Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana /
t, short and the supply will be much les
o. than the ordinary demand. Last yea
those states produced an unusually
large crop and had corn for sale.
. Republicans of Iowa met at De
lg Moines and nominated n state tickle
headed by NJ. l.. Dobson for secretary
Y MI -1Af.rn ak.nnolu In
dorses the St Louis nominees ant
= platform. Senator Allison made
speech warmly eulogistic of Mckinley
Republicans of Reno county, Kan.
after a stormy session, selected Trout
man delegates to the state convention
Judge Theo. Botkin, who won %notoriet.
"a in connection with the Sam Woo
murder trial in western Kansas, wa
& nominated for the legislature.
- st. Louis gold democrats are work
ing systematically to perfect a bolt il
a. Missouri. They will call a convention
= soon to nominate a separate stat
10 ticket, including presidential electors
ar and they will nominate gold standar'
democrats in every congressional dis
., trict.
IL 1t is given out that Quay, Manley
~, Scott, of West Virginia; Clayton, of Al
= kansas, and Gen. Osborne, of Masss
10 chusetts will have charge of McKinle
-, headquarters in New York, and Dawes
g. of Illinois; Payne, of Wisconsin,; Dui
bin, of Indiana, and Leland, of Kan
no sas, will have charge of the Chicag
t headquarters
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