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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
BELL TELEPHONE WINS.
The Supreme Court Decided the Patent
Contest in Their Favor.

The Bell Telephone company won
the case brought against it by the
United States to annul the last Berliner
patent. This decision has the effect OF
continuing the control of the telephone
6y the Bell company for seventeen
years from the date OF the last patent,
which was granted IN 1891.
The government asked to have the
patent of 1895 set aside on the ground
that the delay of thirteen years in the
patent Office was fraudulent and through
the fault of telephone company, and
that the patent issued in 1880 covered
the same ground on which the new
patent was applied for in 1891. The
court, in its opinion, delivered by JUS
tice Brewer, held that there was no
evidence of corruption or undue infiu-
ence exercised over the patent Office by
the telephone company, and that there
was no evidence that the delay in grant
ing the patent had been brought about
by the company. 1t held that what
ever delay there had been was through
the fault of the patent Office, and by no
fault of the company.
Justice Harlan dIsscnted from the
opinion. Justices Gray and Brown, it
is announced, took no part in the case,
presumably because they were inter
ested.
The suit, 1t was claimed, involved
the practical control of the art of tele-
phoning. 1t was claimed that the Ber-
liner patent practically controls tele-
phony, as it has to do with both the
transmisslons and receipt of sound and
that the delay thus secured until 1891
operated to prolong the control of this
act for fifteen years beyond the time
of the expiration of the Bell patent.
The suit originated in the United States
circuit court for the district of Massa-
chusetts, where it was decided in favor
of the United States. Upon appeal 10
the circuit court of appeals for the first
circuit this decision was reversed, and
the contentious of the Berliner claim
ants upheld. From this opinion the
United States appealed to the supreme
court.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15

where, Is the prosperity that was to
follow him as faithfully and closely as
his shadow? At the present rate of
progress William Is liable to get so far
ahead of his show that it will never
catch up with HIM.
"McKinley prosperity is a myth. 1t
is always just over the divide, in the
next county, on the other side of the
hill. 1t is like the mirage of the desert,
pleasing to the VISION, but impossible
to reach; like the pot of gold at the
rainbow's end, which no man ever
found; like the tabled fountain of per-
petual youth, which Ponce de Leon
sought for IN vain; like the pleasures
of Il dream which the awakening dissi-
pates forever; like the alchemist's
deferred discovery, 'hugged by the old
10 the very verge of the churchyard
mold
''lf we live till Mckinley prosperity
comes we will all double discount
Methuselah in length of days.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15

cut to fit our greenback friends, who
have our sincere respect and sympathy,
nor the wise financiers in whom many
stand in perpetual awe, who are sure
that they alone should have the power
over the currency issue, they will per-
haps, appeal to the judgment of the
earnest, unprecedented student OF the
money problem now up for solution.
Webster may have been wrong, but he
was the great expounder of the consti-
tuition, and one of the most profound
statesmen this country ever produced.
We especially call the readers atten-
tion to his declaration that:
.The legal currency of the United
States was gold and silver com; this
was subject in regard to which con-
gress has run into no folly"
Were Webster alive today what
would he think of the present situation
wherein the leading New York bankers
(who have for years been reaping rich
harvests from the banking system),
from whom the people should expect
financial wisdom and safe, conserva-
tive guidance, approve of the action OF
an American congress, which through
the persuasion and dictation of foreign
money kings, runs into the folly of out
having and debasing one of the coins
of the constitution, and who strive in
season and out of season, with terrible
persistence, to replace it with their own
issue OF paper money! what would he
think of our nation in debt to Europe
50, 900, 900, 900, principal and interest
payable in gold with less than one
tenth of that amount of gold in the
country, and the jew and Gentle
money lords of London in absolute
command of all there is in the world,
with power to call their loans and bank
rupt our country at will? and what
would he think of our gold and SILVER
mines, our railroads, our mills, and
our farms being bought up by foreign
money-lenders at half their value,
through their vicious control of our
currency systemP
What, indeed, would Webster think ?
We see by the London Agricultural
Gazette that the great financIers of
England have much confidence in the
revival of agriculture, of which it Is
instanced that Mr.. +. II. Tooley, a
shrewd and successful capitalist, has
invested half a million pounds in land,
in seven English counties, during the
last fifteen years, and declares his in
tention of going on till he has invested
a million pounds (S5 ,000,000) in the
same security. There never was a
more faborable time than the present.
he declares, for investing in land.
Twenty years ago agricultural land was
worth eco per acre; now it has gone
down to Gl0 per acre. 1t is also stated
in another publication and not denied,
than in most of the English counties
the poverty among agricultural work
ers is extreme, and in some of the most
beautiful parts of the island the cot /
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
Under the Presidency of ''The Advance
Agent of PrOsDerity."

| Last week the condensed milk facto-
ries at Elgin made their contracts for
their milk supply for the ensuing six
months. We take the following from
the Elgin Daily Report, showing
marked decline from former prices.
The condensing company has two fac
tories at Elgin, one at Carpentersville,
one at Algonquin and one at Belvidere.
1t is understood that the prices at Car
pentersVille and Algonquin were the
same is at Elgin, but at Belvidere the
/ prices wese less than at the other
stations. The average price for the
six months beginning April 1st, was
eighty cents per hundred. BY the
month rs follows:
July, SOC. Aug, SSc. Sept, LOO
Last years prices are as follows:
July, GI SO. 80. Aug Aug, 1.oS S Sept, Sept !!1:IS rs
The average for the six months was
931s cents per hundred pounds,
making a difference between last
years and this years price of 1917
cents. This means to great many of
the farmers largely reduced income.
while the cost, as many of them have
remarked, Is no less than last year.
Cattle, feed and help are quite as high
as last year, and taxes on their prop
erty is good deal higher. In addi-
ton to the reduction in price, some
forty or fifty dairies were shut off en-
tirely, making the market for the milk
in this district at the condensery that
much less. At all Of the other facto-
ries it Is stated that the same copdi-
tions prevail as to the amount of milk
contracted for. Only the very pest
dairies will be received, and under
very rigid regulations regarding the
production and delivery of the milk.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
tagers are as miserable as the denizens

tagers are as miserable as the denlzens
of London slums.
These insatiate money grabbers,
through their new, unnatural, false and
dishonest money standard, having i'm
poverished Ireland, are swiftly destroy
ing their own country. Our turn has
come; will we be content to submit to
their relentless scheme of plumber,
until we, too, lie PROSTATE and impov-
erished landless peasants, like the cot
tagers of England and Ireland.
London Truth, a well-known and
highly respectable newspaper of the
British metropolis. has the candor to
say that:
"England of today is what Carthage
was in times of old. We are ruled by
hungry, greedy aristocracy, which,
in its turn, is ruled by loan mongers
and by company mongers. Honor and
honesty under this regime are derided
as old-fashioned superstitiOns. The
minister who can steal any territory
whose inhabitants are too weak to resist
US is acclaimed as a hero. The COM
pany promoter who can build palace
by appropriating the savings of his
fellow-countrymen is worshiped as a
divinity. When, at the bidding of
kings and emperors, we shell Euro
peans struggling to free themselves
from the brutal Turk, we glory in our
shame"
This is English aristocracy today (not
the English people, as described by its
own newspaper, and there are AmerI-
cans who worship whatever IS British,
even gong so far as to demand the
destruction of American money to
enrich London loan mongers and graf
ify British aristocrats.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
SPANS CHEAP PAPER MONEY.
Weyler's Threats Will Not Compel
Havana Tradesmen to Accept it.

From the st. Louis Republic.
There is grim rumor in the official
announcements as to the state of the
insurrection, and the outlook causes a
sneer in Havana, where food is scarce
and sound money scarcer. As the Sit
uation grows worse at every point, the
palace reports become more rose
colOred and more at war with the
facts. For instance, for centem,
which is worth $3.50 in Spanish gold,
one may get the equivalent of S11.30
in paper money today.
1t is significant fact that the paper
money of Spain is at a greater discount
at this moment when the reforms are
said TO be at hand, than at any time
since the war began. During the ten
years war n centem was at one time
worth S13 paper, and no one doubts
that the billete will reach or pass that
point again. Two months ago a Gen.
tenn was worth S8 so i'm paper, and
then there was less talk of pacification
and of reforms than now.
The fact is, no one pays any atten-
tion to General Weyler's proclamations
about the peace he says he has brought
about, or to his talk about the golden
time that is coming now that the
Queen Regent has been kind enough to
sign the reforms. These things are
mere sound. But the paper money Is
grim fact, and the determination
with which all persons refuse to have
it thrust upon them at par has forced
even General Weyler to recognize that
the money question is superior TO his
DEGREES, and to abandon his declared
intention of Furnishing anyone who
looked twice at those ''shin-plasters. .
Indeed, Spain over his head suggests
that the billetes be accepted in custom
houses with an increase of duties cor
responding to the depreciation of the
paper. The shop keepers do not ac-
cept the billetes in many cases, or il
they do the customer must pay twice
the gold price. The billete is just SC
much deprecated paper and the coun-
try will not recognize it as anything
else.
The plight of Spain is enough with
out rioting, which would be general il
an attempt were made to force thi;
paper down The throats of men already
grown sullen because of the disastrous
and tagging military policy of General
Weyler. No one here can see how
Spain will be able to carry much
longer the financial burden with which
she is saddled and which is increased
tremendously every month. Still there
are official announcements that the
military outlook is roseate, despite the
fact that engagements are daily report
ed, and wounded soldiers carried into
the garrlsoned towns prove the activity
of rebels in every province.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
New Cuban President.

Before the month ends Cuba will
have a new man in the presidential
chair. He will be DIR. Eubesio Her
nandez. The election will be held
May %.
That Hernandez will be the choice of
the council is assured, as he is. the can
dIdate of not only Gomez, but of Gar
cia and Carollo rs well, which assures
his election.
Hernandez is unutterably opposed to
annexation to the United States. lie
married IL sister of Tierson Mesa, the
Cuban millionaire, and his wife and
three children now live in New York
city.
Hernandez is general counsellor and
private physician to Gomez.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
TIME TABLES
Missouri Paciflc-Lexlngton Br.
WEST BOUND TRAINS,
NJ

Nos 1873 and 1874 has elegant day coaches,
Sedalia to st. Joseph.
Nos. and has elegant day coaches, 81
Louis to Kansas City.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
The State Flower of Missouri.

Take pride in the flower of our state,
the crab apple blossom, whose sweet
ness and beauty are typical of the girl:
of Missouri. Plant crab apple tree
IN your front yard to show your pride
in your state. When in bloom there
is nothing prettier than it IS, and be-
sides its fruit is excellent for preserves,
jelly, cider, etc. Besides all this the
tree has a character not unlike the
thistle, the emblematIc flower of Scot
land, whose motto is, ''nO one can
injure me with impunity." The thorns
on the crab tree mean about the same
to the Missourlans.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15

Trains No IOi and 10. daily except Sunday
All other trains daily. 90
Excursion tickets sold to Kansas City Satur-
day evenings, Sunday mornings, ana SUNDAY
evenings at one fare for the round trip. good
for return up to and including Monday morn
ing following.
Round trip tourist tickets on sale to all tourist
points aao.s
s. A. VERMILLION, Ticket Agent.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
SANTA FE ROUTE.

Trims arrive at North Lexington:
Special passenger daily ly---.------- I;5O a. m
Trains leave North Lexington:
Especial passenger daily ........ S:OO a. III
Trains pass Lexington junction
GOING WEST.
0ress daily Leaves. 80 T2:lO p. IN
No s. California limited, leaves s-.-.-. I:49 u I'D
No 53 local freight, daily except
Snnday, leaves T...'....... -. 100 p. m
Trains pass Lexington junction
GOING EAST.
No. . Atlantic Express. daily, leaves. 9;iO a. m
No. g. Chicago Iimite,;, daily, leaves. S:l6 p IN
No 81, local freight, daily except
Sunday, leaves.-..... .'......-- II 10 d ~
Especial passenger train leaving North
Lexington at 500 a. m. daily and runs through
to st Joseph without change; also makes
close connection at Lexington Junction for
all points east and west.
j. ID. EASTER, JR., Agent.
W. Black, G. 2. A, Topeka, kas,
Chicago and Alton Railroad.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
Farmers Problems.

From the Philadelphia Farm Journal.
mo truth from Heaven descends upon our
sphere,
Without the greeting of the skeptics sneer;
Denied and Knocked at till it's blessings fall
Common dew and sunshine over ALL
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
PROFESSION
E. J. WESTERHOUSE.

Attorney-at-law. Will Practice IN all couru co
of the state. Prompt attention given to collec
tions. Wellington, Mo.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
JOHN S. BLACKWELL & SON,

Attorneys-at-Iaw. Will practice in all the
ourts OF the state. Prompt attention given to
all business entrusted to our care. Office in
Haerle building. rooms 8 and IL. jhnlOyl
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
THE EAST.

Rheumatic govt caused the death of
Frank Mclaughlin, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Times.
Large reservoirs in the Fishkill
mountains near Fishki l., y. Y, burst
their walls and flooded the Duchess
valley. doing great damage 10 proper
" and causing the death of probably a
dozen persons.
Joseph Lavoie, Frank Simard and
George Terrier were drowned at Man
chester, y. H., by the upsetting of a
boat.
In the mountains near Lincoln, VT,
a landslide ruined several fine farms.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
81, %, 479.114. against Sl,0T0,967, 1897 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was rs.
On the New York Central railroad
the Empire state express went from
Syracuse to Buffalo, 149 miles. in 143
minutes, beating all previous records.
At the age of % years Mrs. Amelia
Kohler. who prompted the writing of
the immortal song, The Last Rose OF
Summer" died in Mount Vernon. y. Y.
In the national league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 18th were: Boston, FOG;
Cincinnati. .6S2; Baltimore, .651; New
York. SIS: Cleveland. sos; Philadel-
phia. 100: Pittsburgh, .456; Brooklyn,
443; Chicago. .43l; Louisville, .429;
Washington, .3ss; ST. Louis, PA.
J. y. Angel, new United States min
lister To Turkey. accompanied by his
wife, sailed from New York for Turkey.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
a NEW SENATOR.
Thomas 70. "urIey, of Memphis, Named
tor senator harris seat.

Thomas 70. "urley, of Memphis, Named
tor senator harris seat.
johnson City, Tenn, July 20.-Gov.
Taylor on Monday evening made the Of
fetal announcement that he had APP
pointed Hon. Thomas b. Turley, of
Memphis, United States senator TO sue
coed the late Isham G. Harris. The
governor wired his choice TO Mr.. TURKEY
and received a polite telegram OF ac-
ceptance.
Memphis, Tenn, July 90. - When
questioned as TO his position on the
tariff bill now before congress Sen
ator Turley said that he had not studied
the bill technically, but that upon the
question of tariff he is as near a free
trader as it is possible to be. Referring
10 the differences of opinion which
have developed among democrats in the
discussion of the present bill, he said
that he is strictly in accord with demo-
cratic declarations through a long Sc
ries of years and is in favor of tariff
for revenue only. The senator pre-
ferred not to express n opinion regard
ing Cuba, believing that the question
would not again demand the attention
of the extra session of congress. On
the financial question MIR. Turley is
strictly in line with the Chicago plat
form. The new senator will leave for
Washington at the earliest possible mo-
ment-probably tonight.
THOMAS B. Turley was born In Memphis.
Tenn, April s. 1915. His father was the
late Thomas J. Turley, who died in Mem
phis August l. 1854. His mother was Mrs.
Flora c. Turley, a daughter of William
Jattle, one of the earliest settlers about
Memphis. She died a few years ago. Mr.
Turkeys fathers family was Virginian and
his mothers North Carolnian. He at
tended various schools of Memphis up to
the breaking out of the late civil war. He
enlisted in the first year of the war in the
Maynard rifles. company l., One Hundred
and Fifty fourth Tennessee regiment. lie
was wounded twice-once at Shiloh and
again at Peach Tree creek in front OF At
lanta. He was captured in the battle OF
Nashville and taken to Camp Chase, o.,
where he was held until March, 1866. when
he was exchanged and returned south.
After the war Mr.. Turley passed two years
at the University of Virginia, where he was
law student. Since 1869 or 1870 he has
been practicing law In this city. At the
present he Is a member of the firm of Tur-
ley & Wright. lie has ne yer held office
of any kind. lie was married In 1870 to
Miss Irene Rayner daughter of the late
Eli Rayner, of Shelby county. Five chill
dren have been born to himself and wife, all
of whom are liying.l
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

Fire destroyed the Central block, the
largest building in Pueblo, Col, the
loss being S3OO,OOO.
Cheyenne Indians were again max
ing trouble for the white people near
the reservation in Montana.
The doors of the Nebraska national
bank of York. Neh.. were closed with
liabilities of $4,000.
ut the annual meeting in Detroit,
Mich. Leonard J. Crawford, of New
port. Ky, was elected president of the
National Republican league.
vt West Point. Tenn. Anthony Will
liams (coIored), who outraged and muir
dered Miss ReI Williams. an 1s-year-
old white girl, was shot and then burned
10y a mob.
Flames in SIN Francisco destroyed
the mandatory and warehouse of the
Charles NJ. Yates company, tie loss
being $4,000.
In session at Detroit the National
League of Republican Clubs selected
Omaha as the meeting place next year.
The Santa Fe railroad officials report
that there will be yield of 6O,OOO,O 900
bushels of wheat in Kansas.
Near EIba. Ala. Major Terrell. a negro
who assaulted Mrs Martin Thomas. a
white woman. and then burned the
woman and her baby to death, was
taken from Jail by a mob and hanged.
Charles Sweeney, John Bridges and
T. Montgomery, young boys. were
Lill Il by the cars near Austin, Tex.
Frank W Phelan, q St. Louis, fatally
wounded kittie NJ Wadsworth in a Chi
Cago saloon and then killed himself
Jealousy was the cause.
The Baptist Young Peoples union,
in session at Chattanooga. Tenn, re-
elected as president John H. Chapman
cf Chicago.
In session at Salt Lake City the trans
Mississippi congress adopted resolu-
tions favoring the annexation of Ha-
waii. the construction of the Nicaragua
canal. recognition of Cuba as nation
and the free coinage Of silver.
VIII III. Tolbcrt and Ernest IT. Tay
Tor. OF Los Angeles. Cal. started on a
cycling trip around the world, to Oe
made in Is months.
In Missouri the fruit crop this year
i estimated to be worth over Ss0,OO0,'
600.
In st. Louis Anthony Edwards, aged
lO4 years. joined the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Every feature Of the business out
lock throughout the country was said
TO be encouraging.
Charles ". Spalding. eX-treasurer OF
the University of Illinois, was for the
second time found by jury in Chicago
not guilty Of embezzling endowment
bonds of the institution.
y dozen residences were burned near
the town of Red Bluff. Cal. and cattlt
ranges destroyed by a forest fire. the
/ loss being over 500. 900.
In the last fiscal year 1922 immi
grants entered this country through
san Francisco. against i.4il in 1886.
Charles +. Croker. g. san Francisco
! first vice president OF the Southern Pa
I cific Railroad company. and worth $50
1900. died Of paralysis. aged ~ years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
THE EPWoRTH LEAGUE.
Young People of the Methodist
Church Meet In Convention.

Young People of the Methodist
Church Meet in Convention.
Toronto, Ont, July 16.-Delegates to
the convention of the Epworth League
overwhelmed this city Thursday.
Decorations on the principal buildings
have given generalholid appearance
to the city.
The opening meetings were held in
the afternoon in the pavilion of the
Metropolitan church. In the evening
four monster meetings were held. In
Massey Music hall 5000 people gath
cred. At the pavilion more than 5000
assembled, at Coke's church there were
1,sO0, and at the Metropolitan church
$500 people present.
Bishop JOHN p. Newman delivered a
lecture on me advance of Christianity,
in the course of which he made a vicious
attack on the press, stating that in
stead of doing good they served up for
breakfast hash OF crime, murder and
scandal.
Toronto, Ont, July 1.-THE Ep-
worth leaguers have kept on coming
for two days till Friday they num-
bered over 10000 strong. and carry
everything in front of them. Meetings
they have in profusion, and speakers
"from Greenland's icy mountains" and
from India's missionary fields, all full
of eagerness. Friday the meetings
numbered no less than 16.
Toronto, Ont, July 19.-Five mon
ster farewell rallies Sunday night
closed the creates: convention the Ep-
worth league has ever held