The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
MISSOURI A NEWS.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
LAST year 81 counties in Missouri
produced coal.
THE Missouri legislature declined tc
make football n crime.
THERE is an epidemic of whooping
cough in Audrain county.
THE curfew ordinance at Lebanon is
proving to be a good thing.
LEXINGTON is said to be the Oldest
coal mining town in the state.
ALL the post offices in Shelby county,
save one, are connected by telephone.
AFTER min years the grave of Gov.
Marmadulke at Jefferson City is still
unmarked.
A. p. CRowELL, of Sedalia, thinks he
has a chance to ''come into a So, 500,
600 estate in England.
ALEXANDER VEST, second son of Sen
ator Vest. will be secretary of the new
police board Mt st. Louis.
Z. w. FIoRY, a school-teacher of
Johnson county, raised a warrant from
$35 to $135, got it cashed and skipped
the country.
Gov. Lon. V. STEPHENS is credited
with being the first governor seen at
the communion table in a jefferson
City church in 20 years.
john Il. ROLLINS, who died at Lib
erty recently, vas a veteran of the
Mexican war and went across the
plains to California in 40.
JOSHUA HIGHTowER, the man who
discovered the famous Eldorado
springs in 1881, died recently at the
town which bears that name.
A URFEw ordinance drafted by the
Law and Order league and affecting
persons under 90 after $50 at night
has been passed at Knobnoster.
Mrs. ELIZABETH HALL, aged so, acct
dcntally fell head foremost into an
open CRATE and was burned to death
before being rescued, near Mansfield.
The st. Joseph insane asylum, under
DR.. Woodson's management is self-sup-
porting, no appropriation being asked
for the maintenance of the institution.
IT was said that about 90 members of
the house at Jefferson City who are
farmers or millers had organized to OPP
pose any legislation hostile Is their in
t~erests.
MARTHA MARSHALL, a young woman
of Centralia, has had ~hiccoughs since
Christmas day, almost uninterruptedly,
and her physician is entirely unable to
control it.
DIR. j. 7. CooMBs, a leading homeop-
athist physician Of Kansas City, has
been appointed by Gov. Stephens as
superintendent of the insane asylum
at Nevada.
OscEoLA, this state, is probably the
only town west of the Alleghenies hav-
ing three steel bridges spanning a
navigable river, all within a quarter of
u mile of each other.
THE annual meeting of the Missouri
State Press association will be held at
Meramec Highlands, near st. Louis,
June 1926. An excursion to Colorado
Springs and Manitou, Col, or Wash
ington city will follow.
A TRAM who had been refused hot
coffee by a servant in the home of d,
II. Wilson, in Rich Hill, returned next
day and set fire to the house, which
was saved from destruction only
through vigorous work.
KANSAS II produce dealers organ
lied to oppose the repeal of the anti
oleo bill enacted by the last legisla-
ture. A leading dealer declared hat
since the anti-oleo law vas passed pure
stocks have been more than ten times
in consumption.
AT the convention of the National
Mutual Insurance association at Des
Moines, Ia, last week, John Kengler,
Stanberry, and J. Il. Gates, of Sc
dalia, this state, were chosen vice pres
idents, and Frank Burns, of Bethany,
a member of the executive committee.
Caldwell COUNTY will vote February
81 on a proposition for the issuing of
So, 600 in bonds with which to replace
the burned courthouse at Kingston.
offers to present the county
with a $4,000 courthouse, free of
charge, if the county seat is located
there.
FRANK B. CONNER was arrested at Ne
vada and taken to Butler to answer to
a charge of forgery. Years ago Con-
was one of the best dry goods sales
men in Nevada, but sickness and hard
times overlook him, and yielding to
what he considered a relentless fate,
started on the downward road.
WILLIAM SAUssER, a wealthy citizen
of Hannibal, who died in 1892, left all
his property, exceeding $3.50, 900, to
Westminster college, at Fulton. Now
two distant relatives of the dead man
have brought suit to recover the prop
erty, alleging that when Sausser made
will he was mentally unbalanced.
HENRY SQUIREs and John Cropp,
young school-teachers of Buchanan
county, were recently arrested for per-
Jury. They were mixed up in a serious
scandal, and their arrest grew out of
their testimony at the trial of William
Fl. Poston, whose niece had charged
him with being the father of her child.
MRS. WILLIAM OwINGs, of Howard
county, met a horrible death by burn
ing. She was standing by a heating
and her dress caught fire. Her
husband rushed to her rescue and made
efforts to extinguish the flames,
but she was fatally burned before he
did it, and the husband received burns
which he may die.
TIE state board of health will in
augurate a movement all ove the state
reference to the prevention and
spread of communicative diseases, es-
pecially consumption. All pupils in
the public schools will be given in
struction along this line, and public
and clinics will be given in
the more p%opulous centers.
DURING a revival meeting service at
Nevada the other night Rev. Il. +. lay
lor got up and publicly denied the Pc
port that.he had tried to hug a certain
young lady, He created a sensation.
A BILL is now before the Legislature
TO establish the office of pure food
commissioner, whose duty 1t would be
to prevent the adulteratiOn of every
sold by the butcher, baker and
grocer.
Rev. S. L. KING, pastor of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church at War
rensburg, who made such n hot fight on
five parties, was forced to resign
because his congregation would not
him,
The YIrginian.
Williams iu the Columbia Herald.
Some people are born Vlrginians,
marry Virginians, and others