The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

The SuG ar trust has secured all out
60 shares of the Woodson Spice Co. s
stock.
The Missouri state G. A. R. annual
encampment will meet at Perlle Springs
May Is and ID.
There is shortage of $4,000 in the
accounts of Postmaster Mead, ut
Hutchinson, Kan.
The Western Surgical association is
in session ut Topeka, Kan, with over
100 delegates present.
The Aldrich Banking Co., private
concern at Garden City, Mo-, has gone
into voluntary liquidation.
The capital stocIs of the Kansas City
Northwestern railway has been in
creased from SO, 500. 900 to "a, ,O16,000.
The Missouri legislature will con-
vene on Wednesday. January 6. Gov.-
elect Stephens will be installed Janu-
ary IL.
Gen. Meredith Read, the we'll known
diplomat, died in Paris on the 27th.
He was the first United States consul
to France.
The county Jail at Hartville, Mo-,
was set on fire by incendiaries and
completely destroyed. Two prisoners
were rescued.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
tion is in session ut Topeka. Henry
Watterson will lecture before them
Wednesday night.
The Carnegie Steel Co., OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, will pay the same scale
this year as last. The scale affects
about Is, 900 employees.
T.
non, KY, on the 2?th, Armp Rowland
and Jack Rigby were killed aud
Greeley Lear fatally shot
1t took just 27 seconds for Peter Ma
her. the Irish pupilist, to knock out
Steve O'Donnell, the Australian boxer,
at Coney Island, N. Y, on the 25th.
G. II. Gilmore, a farmer near At
wood, Kan, was murdered while alone
in his house. A woman named Pru-
dence Holbert was arrested for the
crime.
Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi,
has gone to Cuba to personally investi-
gate the condition of affairs there. He
will return before congress meets in
March.
Several rich men in New York city
have provided ample funds for a great
series of revival meetings in Greater
New York, under the management of
Evangelist Moody.
The jackson day banquet at Chicago
will not be graced by any of the cab
met officers on account of cabinet
dinner to be given by the president the
evening before the banquet
Mrs. A. c. Stitch, wife of a prominent
banker at Independence, Kan, claims
heirship to an estate in England
valued at $50, 900, 600 She has employed
counsel to prosecute her claims
Alderman Thomas J. OMalley, of
the Twenty. Second ward, Chicago, has
been indicted for the murder of Gus
Coliander on election night, 1894. The
indictment created a sensation.
Tramps with grievance set fire to
Bond Bros circus at Wichita, Kan.
Five animal cars were completely de-
stroyed and Archie Morrison, an intox-
icated tramp, was fatally burned.
The general arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain is practically complete to the
satisfaction of both governments, and
its presentation to congress may be ex-
pected in the near future.
Ex-Congressman w. II. Hatch died at
Hannibal, Mo. He served in the con-
federate army and rose to the position
of adjutant-general. He was a MEM
Der of congress l6 years and four years
ago was a candidate for speaker. being
defeated by Charles F. Crisp in the
democratic caucus.
The Chicago Times-Herald, on al
legged trustworthy authority. says the
Mckinley cabinet will be composed of
the following: Secretary of state,
John Sherman, of Ohio; treasury,
Dingley, of Maine; war, ex-Gov. Mer
riam, Minnesota; navy, Cornelius N.
Bliss, New York; attorney-general,
Golf, West Virginia; postmaster-gen-
eral, Payne, Wisconsin; agriculture,
Waymire, California. No disposition
of the interior portfolio has yet been
made