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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
HUMOROUS.

Mrs. Pancake-"I can't see why a
great, big fellow like you should beg
Hungry Hank-"Well, mum, 1 s'pose
me size helps to gimme an Appellee
Truth.
The whiskers of the walrus ex-
tend three or four inches from the
snout. 1t would appear that the wal
rus aims to be the populist of the sea-
Boston Transcript.
On His Guard.-Dr. Powder@"AhI
How are you to-day, Mr.. Glimp?"
Glimp-"Do you ask as an inquiring
friend or as my family physician Pr
Philadelphia North American.
THE w~riter'sname mustaccompany
every communication" said the editor
to the man who had handed in a little
piece signed Constant Reader" ST see,"
replied the man. you don't want to
get the world involved In controversy
about h authorship of a second series
of Junius etters."-Pittsburgh Chron-
icle Telegraph.
-Woman's Way.-"You women" said
he, in the peculiarly ex~asperating way
a man has of saying those two words,
you women buy bargain things because
they are cheap" I'VE do not" said
she. 1--WE buy cheap things because
they + bargains" The distinction
was almost too subtle for the blunder-
ing Observation-Disclosures, but it was there.
-IndianapolisU Journal.
ALI She Wanted.-"My DEAF mad
am" said the professor of music. your
daughter has no sense Of melody and
no instinct for time. She couldn't play.
And she has no voice, therefore she
cannot expect to sing" well, of
course" was the complacent reply.
''those facts are drawbacks, but you
can go on giving her lessons, just the
same. I don't care about her perform
ing or singing, as it would maybe take
her away from home. All 1 want Is for
her to learn enough to make a comfort
able living as a teacher."-Washington
Sfnr
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Anne J. Taylor, ct al, to G. w, Hill,
IS acres of land in section 20, town %
ship 49, range 25. ...... ..........$ L
Patrick Pagan to Jas. e. Conners and
wife, lots 3 and 8 in Shewalter's
re-survey and shares numbered
225O. 2251, 2252, 2253, Odd in Lex.
ton b, 81 l.. association go. 81
j.. w. Beach q wife to q. H.. Glad
dish, lots 8 and 4 in block 4, Ridge
views addition to HigginsVille... II
go acres 10 section IL, township 48,
range %. -. 49,. ........ 2,1C
l.. F. Weaver and wife to j.. b. Sor-
ency, lot 2 in block 2, Smith d Pat
t~erson's addition to Odessa g. .... 1.C
VIM b. VIM and wife to Sally Miers,
the property known as the "Winn
place. in Dover. 49,. ..,..... 1856
D.. j. Powell and wife To VIM. l..
Powell 13 7S-100 acres in section o,
township 40, range 27......... g.
VIM. p. Barker n wife to Emma
u. Higgins, l57 acres in section 10,
township IS, range % e. ,...,.,, 80
w. j. Parker and wife To Mary A,
Parker 204h acres IN seetiOns1l and
%, township 4S, rnnge25... ....... 10
II. Taggart and wife to Chas. s..
Parker, A acres........ 49,. 20
Frank Heimbrook and wife to c. w.
Seeber, one-half interest in lot 3,
block A, Smiths second addition to
H"igginsyI!le -. .-.-.- .-...... ...
Bernhard E. Hefter and wife to Sam'I
Bruckner, a half interest in az
acres in section 80. township so,
range %; also lots 6, z, 8, 8 and 10
in block q, in Rarrhanke and
Hoefer's sub-diyisionJ also north
half of lot 8, In block J in Higgins
WIG ....... 800. &c. ........,.. g.Ut
J.. G. Cobb and wife to VIM. b.
Huckleberry, lot 8, in block IL in
Odessa 1921, ,..-.... ......... 2, c.
G. Cobb and wife to Dora l.. Jones
a track of land described by metfrs
and bounds and lying near the city
OF Odessa 49,. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IO'
Barker and wife to Seawell,
Wagner ana Benton lot 10, in
block 2, in Russell's addition to
Odessa. -, NM, y.y.,,..,...t,,. S4(
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Chicago Tribune: "The president
at last has sent a meek little Cuban
message to congress. 1t is an ~inoffensive
document, drawn up in the interests of
ordinary humanity and for the physical
relief of suffering American citizens in
the island. 1t reflects the utmost credit
upon the kind-heartedness of the presi-
dent. 1t is n gentle little message
which may help a few Americans, but
1t will do no harm to anyone and no
good in Cuba. The people are listening
for something more heroic, more reso-
lutte, more American and more to the
point. They are growing impatient,
they have listened so long. They want
to see this government Recognize the
beligerent rights of the Cubans and
speak the brave word which shall make
Cuba free. They would be thankful if
the president would read the Cuban
plank IN the platform upon which he
was nominated and elected, and then
act upon 1t promptly and resolutely,
without regard to SPANS wishes or
protests. The message is feebly and
painfully inadequate if the president is
going no further"
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Our Own War Victims.

Prom the st. Louis POst-DiSpatch.
President Mckinley is respectfully
asked to lake notice of tie fact that we
have Il vast number of American cIti-
zens at home here who are "without
means of support" The war of which
they are victims is not carried on by
Spanish dons and grandees, but by
American trust and tariff barons, aided
by the international gold combine. 1t
is as real a war as that in Cuba. And
as in Cuba, starvation Is its chef
weapon. Every week, however, some
of its victims succumb to the bullet,
the poison cup or the rope.
The American citizens who are suff-
ering as victims of our trust, tariff and
gold standard war have not, like the
Cuban-Americans, voluntarily expatri-
ated themselves. They are still here,
taxes and doing what they can
further the interests of their own
country instead of trying their fortunes
on a foreign shore. Most of them are
still voters, though the natural result
of the economic war in which they are
getting wOrsted is TO ~disfranchise them
by turning them into tramps and wan
If it Is desirable to appropriate
$50, 900 to relieve 600 or 800 Americans
who have left their country of their
free will, it is even more desirable
10 do something to relieve the army of
American citizens who are s'withopt
means of support" here at home be-
cause the trusts and the gold combine
won ''The First Battle" last November.
Whatever money is appropriated"
will be taken from the taxes paid by
he masses of this country who have
at home. Not a cent of it has
been contributed by the Cuban adven-
.urers, pity for whom wrings President
.cKinley's heart while he Is deaf to
he cries for aid that swell up from the
oauperized and starving at his very
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INGALLS, ON THE SUGAR SCHEDULE

Ex-senator Ingalls, was IN Washing
ton during the past week and in speak
ing OF the Jail life of Broker Chapman
SAID:
ssIn the old, barbarous days, if a
common, plain, plug citizen violated
the laws and was convicted and SEN
fenced t. inn Imprisonment, he was hustled
into the Black Maria with a policeman
on the step and turned over to the
jailor with unfeeling and inhuman lack
of ceremony. But here, when a man
suspected of corrupting legislation
defes the senate and Is convicted by
due process of law, the execution of
the sentence is deferred till the delIn-
quent has expressed his readiness to
endure the penalty. Obsequious at
PENDANTS receive him upon his arrival
in the city as a distinguished guest.
He is consulted about the hour when
he prefers to have his incarceration
begin. A diagram of the prison is
submitted to him that he may select
the most eligible apartments. Persian
rugs alleviate the ~harshness of the
stony floor. Vans of furniture are for
warded to replace the simpler appoint
ments of the cell. Trunks of fashion
able apparel are conveniently stored
for his access. Fellow-prisoners are
detailed to act as Wallets of the chamber
and cup-bearers. A daily menu is pre-
pared by a great CHEZ for the selection
of viands and beverages 10 solace his
weary hours. Eminent citizens in car
riages escort him TO the gate. The
iron cot is found to have been removed
TO make place for a brass bedstead,
with luxurious upholstery, whereon
this minion of fortune may VOC tired
natures sweet restorer, balmy sleep"
ssBlyant evidently had modern
Washington justice in mind when he
advised man to so live that when his
summons came to join the innumera-
BILE caravan he should not go like a
galley slave, scourged to his dungeon,
but
Sustained and scothed by an unfaltering trust.
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
thereafter, should this example be
initiated, men will come to Washington
to commit crime, as in ancient days
they vent up to Jerusalem to Worship"
''What should be done about the
s~chedule?" Mr.. Ingalls, was
asked.
alt would be better that the tariff
bill should fall than that the senate
schedule should stand. 1t is the
most brazen and audacious hold-up of
the century. 1t makes train robbery
respectable. 1t has no excuse, except
the Unsuitable greed and rapacity of the
most STAINLESS squad of p%lunderers that
ever escaped the ~penitentiary. Ordi-
nary marauders are content to rot "a
or swindle a community. These
brigands propose to pIllage the nation
and to compel congress 10 become their
accomplices. The trust schedule will
destroy competition, annihilate the beet
industry and add to the oppress-
We burdens of every citizen of the
States, for the avOwed purpose
Of swelling the already inOrdinate gains
If a remorseless monopoly. These are
he performances that explain pOpu-
ism, and which, if not restrained, will
anarchy possible"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
CRIMINAL COURT DOCKET.
June Term, 1897.
SECOND DAY, JUNE 8.

SECOND DAY, JUNE 8.
State VS.. John A. Taggart; embezzle-
ment.
State VS.. Amos Carter (six cases. selling
liquor as druggist without license.
State vs.. E. c. White; selling goods as
merchant without license.
State VS.. Henry Horn; burglary, second
degree, and grand larceny.
THIRD DAY, JUNE 9.
State vs.. Jonas Hockinsmith; assault,
with intent to kill.
State vs.. George &. Evans; assault,
with intent to kill.
State VS.. ]. M. ~Cavanaugh; embezzle-
msnt.
U DAY, JUNE 10.
State vs. A. Vanarsdale; assault, with
intent to rape.
500. State vs.. Otto Bauerle and Frank
Moore; robbery, first degree.
$40. State vs. Otto Bauerle and Frank
Moore; robbery. first degree.
FIFTH DAY, JUNE II.
State VS.. William Hayden; assault with
intent to rape.
SIXTH DAY, JUNE IL.
State VS.. Ed Gains; practicing medicine
without license.
SEVENTH DAY, JUNE IA.
619. State vs.. George w. Spence; ma
licIous assault to kill, etc.
$40. State VS.. George w. Spence; ma
licious assault to kill, etc.
EIGHTH DAY, JUNE 10.
State vs.. Joseph Wilkerson; murder,
first degree.
NINTH DAY, JUNE 16.
State vs.. Otto Bauerle; murder, first de-
gree.
TENTH DAY, JUNE II.
State VS.. John Lakeland; grand larceny.
JUNE "a.
Before Judge Shackelford, special Judge:
State VS.. George Gill; burglary, second
degree and grand larceny.
State vs.. Sam Yates; keeping common
gaming house, etc.
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OUR COMMENCEMENT EDITIONS.


As is the usual custom with the In
TELLIGENCER, special commencent edi-
tiOns will be issued next week and the
week following. The lNTELLIGENCER
editions have, for the past three years,
been features of our commencement
season. This year they will be larger
and better than before.
Within the next two weeks $4,000
copies will be printed on a fine quality
Of book paper and handsomely illus
trated.
These papers will be circulated in
5000 substantial homes of the state.
They will bear to these homes MESA
ges from the Lexington schools that
will revert, we trust, to the interest of
our city and our schools, and to the
cause of education. 1t is safe to say
that 1OO, 900 people will read of Lex
ington and her schools in the INTELLI-
GENCER within the next three weeks.
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Notice I

Notice is hereby given that a blank
New York standard form of fire Insurance.
policy, numbered fourteen hundred and
ninety n49Q), and a blank tornado insur-
ancs policy, numbered sig thousand and
fourteen (6O14), both OF the Lexington,
Mo-, agency of the Continental Insurance
Co, OF New York, have been lost or mis-
laid. II found, they should be returned to
w. j. Howe. agent, at Lexington, Mo- or
to the undersigned, as both policies are
absolutely null and void.
CONTINENTAL INSURANCE Co,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

Queen Victoria has decided not to
invite President Faure, of France, to
her diamond jubilee, on the ground
that il SO, she would have to invite the
president of this country and he is not
considered as being on a social equality
with the crowned heads of Europe.
We don't see why she should have
sighted us when the present admins
traitor is in entire sympathy with the
every move and interest of England
and stands ready and willing to do
everything within their power to in
crease her riches.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
PRESENTATIONS OF PolsoNs.
Men Who Make Cyanide of Potassium
Are STRANGELY to Eat II.

Men Who Make Cyanide of Potassium
Are Strangely Tempted to Eat 1t.
There is a factory in London that
makes only the deadliest poisons known
10 chemistry. Last year. it produced
1000 tons of cynaide of potassium. Five
grains of his is sufficient to kill a man.
In one room Of the factory a visitor
found tons Of this deadly poison. 1t re-
sembles very closely white c~rystallized
sugar. The visitor remarked to the
manager: 1T looks good enough to
eat"
"Ah," replied the manager, graVely.
that Is Just one of the dangers we have
to guard against. For some inexplica-
BILE reason cyanide of potassium exer-
cIses q remarkable fascination over the
men engaged in it's manufacture. They
are haunted by a constant and ever-re-
curing desiretoeatit. They are perfect
ly alive to the fact, however, thattog give
way to the craving would mean instant
death, and are consequently usually
able to resistit. BUT not always. Dur
ing the time I have been here three
of our best and steadtest workmen have
committed suicide in this strange man
ner, impslled thereto apparently by no
a v this mysterious, horrible
longing. 1 myself have felt the Same
strange lust when I have been long ex-
posed to the cyanide fumes, and have
had to leave the works fora time in con-
sequence. So well is this curious fact
recognized that there are always two
men at work together in this branch of
our business. and a jar of ammonia,
which, as you may know, Is the anti
dote to the poison. Is kept constantly
near at hand"
Apart from this remarkable i~nfatua-
ton. which may be likened to the de-
sire experienced by many people when
standing on the brink of a precipice
to throw themselves down, the manu-
facture of potassium cyanide is not par
ticularly dangerous. Neither Is it un
healthy. In fact. 1t Is asserted that
have gone into the cynaide house
i'll and debiitated and In a short time
have been restored to robust health
n. Y. World,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

Military Journals express interest in
an invention by which it is proposed to
arm a. selt-moving car, driven by a
10 horsepower engine, with two rapid
fire cannon, mounted on pivots so as to
sweep in all directions, Having four
broad-tired wheels. it Is claimed that
the car can run GRO u level country
(barring fences, of eourse) at the rate
OF IS miles IN hour. Terrible pictures
are drawn of the havoc hat such cars
could make on q battlefield. Only one
Is needed to operate the car and its
cannon, and he is protected by strong,
steel shields AXouth,a Cam2anion.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
WHO Is DISSATISFIED2

The St. Louis Republic says that the
politicians are dissatisfied because the
supreme court of Missouri elected Mrs.
Jennie L. Edwards, state librarian and
that an effort will be made to defeat
her at the coming election.
In making this statement the St.
Louis Republic delivers itself of a news
item that is less interesting than redic-
ulous. In fact the Republic has turned
loose 4 secret which has been closely
kept from the public prints. The Re-
public says the politicians are dissat-
isfied.
What p%oliticiansP
Who are they?
Where do they come fromP
As a fact has not the Republic made
the term too broad. 1t surely means
that the ''politicIans" who want Mrs.
Edward IS position are not satisfied that
Mrs. Edwards should be state libra
RAMP But the Republic should call in
this news item and revise it. All the
sspoliticIans" in Missouri are not can
didates for state librarian. About all
who are not candidates want Mrs. Ed
wards elected. Mrs. Edwards is not a
politician. She does not and cannot
vote. She is not a campaign speaker.
She Is more than this-one of the most
estimable women In h empire of Mis-
southland more than that-She is the
widow of the late lamented John N.
Edwards whose ceaseless labors added
hundreds and thousands of recruits to
the democracy of this state and nation.
If she does not deserve the Office herself,
and she does-the memory of the
lamented Edwards work would give
her a clear title to it. The politicians
who are not candidates for the place
are for her. The press of this state
want her to be elected, the old soldiers
both armies favor her election, and
we wager that the nine supreme judges
will cast their votes for her. The Re-
public should revise it's news item to
fit the facts.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

The playwright engaged in writing
the play in which Russell Sage is TO be
reproduced on the stage should be
careful not TO omit that act of the
miser's life in which he 30 generously
loaned that $50 TO his own dear nephew
with no better security than a mortgage
on that nephew's house.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
TINE TABLE.

Commencing Sunday, Nov. 18th, 1896,
trains will pass Lexington Junction on
the Wabash as follows:
West bound-NO. s, Kansas City and Des
Moines express, BIO a. M; No. 7, Denver
limited, 7:40 a. m; No. 3, fast line, $3.50 p.
nj No. II, local freigbt, 4;35 p. m.
Hos a. M; No. o, Chicago and Toledo fast
mail, 7:45 p. M; No. 4, st. Louis and Des
Moines express, 10:41 p. m; No. 20, local
freight, 9:2O a. m.
=, w. CARTER, Agent,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense
OF smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. HalPs
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by T.. J..
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains no
mercury and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucuos sur
faces of the system. In buying Halrs
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally and is made in
Toledo, Ohio, by f. J. Cheney & Co. Tes-
timonials free.
: lYeSold by druggists, T5c. per bottle.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

A shooting tournament has been
held IN Kansas City during the past
week. What an excellent opportunity
for Web Davis to get another nat assas-
sinated! One hole in the hat, a four
years job; two holes ought to mean
assistant secretary of the interior for
life.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

Chapman, the recalcitrant sugar
out a sentence of twenty-five days.
Now put the real culprits, Havermyer
and Searles, in the .'pen" for twenty
five years and their punishment will be
in proportion to the punishment of
their tool, as their guilt is to his guilt.
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the proper time approached.

Russia has pushed forward and at
least caused a halt in the attacks of
Turkey upon Greece. Now let the
United States put a stop to the barbar-
Gus warfare being carried on against
the Cubans by Spain. We might not
be able to stop Spain with a single rod,
as Russia stopped Turkey, but with one
blow we could place her on the other
side of the ocean where she belongs.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22
Ex-COnfederate Veterans.

Lexington Camp, No. 64S, u. g. ",
will meet oyer the Morrison Wentworth
bank on Saturday, May CAD, at 2 O'CLOCK
p, IN. As business OF Importance, involv-
ing the very existence of our organiEa-
lion, will come before the meeting, l
would ~strenuously urge every member to
be present ii possible.
10 A. WILSON, Capt. Com.
Il. 8. CHANDLER, AdJt.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

And now, in the city of st. Louis,
comes one Charles Jarros who, after
having been mourned for the third
time as dead, suddenly hobs up alive
and well. If he keeps on he will be a
rival for s'De Ole Man, who has
undergone burial at the hands of Dick
Kerens and his gang a score of times
or more, only to resurrect himself when
the proper time approached.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Fred L.. Burgan will open an office in
this city for IT. E.. Price & Co. of st Louis,
Mo.
Mr.. Burgan will receive quotations on
grain and provisions every ten minutes
and will buy or sell stocks, bonds, grain
and provisions on any market.
This office is located on the corner of
10th and Main streets, and the public is
invited to call and see the markets. 1t
DEATHS.
Died, at her home in Concordia, Mon
day, May II, 1897, from old age, Mrs. Anna
NJ. Nolte, aged 20 years.
Her remains were buried at the German
Baptist cemetery in that city.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

According to reports from Washing
ton, Hunter is TO be given the post of
minister to Peru as soon as he can
extricate himself from the bribery in
dictments he acquired while aspiring 10
the honor of a United States senator.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

The veIascope shows Fitzsimmons'
last blow. Wretched, indeed, would
be the fate of the general public if it
should reproduce all of the blowing
that preceded the fight at Carson City.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

We notice ia one of the dailies that a
Chicago gIrl of rich p~arentage stole a
bicycle and was arrested for the same.
The Judge called her a s'biclomaniac''
and let her go at that.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-22

Won't all the harem blossom out IN
fancy ribbons and new hats when
Abdul gets hat s1O, OOO, 900 from little
GreeceP
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NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS.

I will let for construction one steel truss
span OF three (S) panels, forty 90 feet in
length, on tubular piers, with wooden APP
proach, over branch north of Higginsville, on
Confederate Home road. and near DIR. Buehn-
ner'S, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1897.
at 10 o'clock, a. m, at site of bridge.
Bids to be made for furnishing material and
construction.
Plan and specifications can be had at time of
letting.
Contractors must give bond Tor the compile
ton and maintenance of the bridge as the
law directs.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
j. X. GRAY,
S-22td Commissioners
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)FFIcE OF THE COUNTY CLERK

TUX LARA lEIIE MO-
The following is il list of nominations
to office filed in this office, arranged in
the order and form in which they will
be printed upon the ballots to be used
at the City Election of Lexington, in
Lafayette county, State of Missouri. to
be held on Tuesday, June |, y. D., 1897: