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

One of the fabed monsters of ancient
times was the unicorn. 1t was, accord
ing to a summary of the opinions of sew
eral of the old-time writer's, beast
about the size of common horse, but
with very short legs. The people of
the middle ages believed in the existence
of three kinds of unicorns: The mag
nificent white unicorn, which had pur-
pie face and blue eyes and siuGlc horn
Il yard in length; the eglisser;on, which
Fesemhled a gigantic deer and had a
very sharp horn growing from the mid
die of the forehead, and the monoceror,
or common unicorn. The white UNI
Corn's horn was of three different
colors. white at the lower part, blncl, as
ebony in the middle and red at the
point. Common unicorns were said to
have had horns about IS inches in
length. but 50 strong that they could
easily kill m clPOhnnt
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

There is a series of small and large
caverns in the marble rocks of the
Cuban mountains which are beinggrad-
ually filled up, and that, too, in a most
remarkable manner. The common land
snails, of which there are so many spe-
cies and varieties in Cuba, make these
caves resort during the dry season.
They congregate on the floors of the
caverns in immense numbers and mil
lions of them never leave. The reason
is this: The water which drops from
the roofs or ceiling of the different cav
erns contains u large per cent. of car
Donate of lime. When the water evapo-
rates the lime is left behind, and, acting
as cement, it CLUES great layers of
the snail shells together every year.
This process going on season after sea-
son is gradually filing up the Cuban
caves, and it is only n question of time
when there will not be II single cavern
left on the island
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

FEMININE SUICIDES.
Women Take Poison Where Men Shoot
Themselves.

Women Take Poison Where Men Shoot
Themselves.
Statistical tables yield curious in
formation to the careful student, saws
the Philadelphia Times. For instance.
they show that over one-third of the
women who kill themselves are not yet
25 years of age. They show that women
take poison, where men shoot them
selves, and they show that the poor,
sick and the infrm are not by any kind
of reckoning in the majority. A ply
sican who makes a study of attempted
suicide said this:
get a girl past 25 and she'll go
through poverty, sickness and desertion
and misery enough to kill ten men. The
more people suffer the more they cling
to life. I've seen it i'm the hospitals. 1t
is not the patients with the incsfrable
diseases or the hopeless cripples who
beg TO die, but the young, strong, vital
woman, who hates pain and doesn't
want to suffer it, even for the chance
of getting we'll 1t is strange thing,
this getting of girl past 25, but not
uncommon. Any physician with large
family practice will tell you of dozen
eases i'm his own circle of knowledge.
Sometimes it is called pyromania, some
times kleptomania, sometimes catalep-
sy, sometimes hysteria, sometimes
feigning and sometimes tnntrums-it's
all the same thing-nothing else TO do"
Another physician told of a girl who
committed suicide apd who left a note,
stating that her reason was that she
was tired of doing the same things over
md over every day. The monotony of
life had become unbearable to her.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
PROBES SSIONAL
DIR. J. W. MENG,
DIR. M. d. WILSON

Surgeon Dentist, Office in Meng naildins
Lexington. Mo.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The sugar trust has secured all but
60 shares of the Woodson Spice Co. s
stock.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
CHINESE JUSTICE

COunterfeiters Ordered DecapItated and
Their CaptOrs Promoted in Rank
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. 9.-According
to the latest advices from the Orient,
Ii Ka Chuck, superintendent of the
Canton police, on November % seized
n large number of counterfeit Chinese
coins and materials for their manu- fac
ture The chief coiner, Cheng Tung,
and his confederates, Chan Mui, Use
Sang and others, were arrested.
An imperial decree from Peising
commanded the immediate decapita-
tion of the three above named offend
ers and enjoins the v;ceroy to deal
with the others as he thinks necessary
according to law, as warning in
future to the people. The officials who
effected the seizure were all promoted
in ranL
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBED.
The Famous IsIue Cut the Scene of a Chi
rcago & Alton HOId-Up.


-cago g. Alton HoId-Up.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 25.-Blue
cut, four miles east of Independence,
already famous by reason of many
train robberies by the James gang and
others, gained more notoriety last
night. The Chicago e. Atoms st.
Louis express train, which left Kansas
City at s:45 p. M, was 'held up and
robbed at 9:25 o'clock by three masked
bandits mile and half east of Inde-
pendence.
The train was tagged with a red Ian
: tern, danger signal which no engi-
neer dare ignore. The fireman and en-
gineer were forced, at the muzzles of
shotgun and two revolYers, to step ont
of the cab. The conductor, who went
to the front of the train to see what
was the matter, was quickly covered.
The robbers were cool, skillful and
decisive. The leader cut the train
in two back of two baggage cars, which
were next to the engine, while his
companions held the train crew in
check.
All this time the express messenger,
]. A. Frier, was in the rear car assort-
ing Christmas packages. He knew
nothing of the ''hold up" One
of the robbers4Snocked on the door and
Frier opened it, thinking it was the
brakeman. A shotgun was thrust in
his face and he was order to step out
OF the car. The robbers then searched
the car coolly and leisurely. Frier
was forced to surrender the key to the
local safe, in which are stored pack
ages for delivery at points along the
run. It is an iron box about three
feet long by one and one-half feet
wide. From this box the robbers reaped
harvest, but the exact amount of
money taken the United States Ex-
press Co. refuses TO state. 1t is thought
to be about 81, 900.
The robbers next forced Frier to set
the brake on the baggage cars, while
they cut the engine loose. They
climbed into the cab, pulled open the
throttle and dashed down the track by
the Glendale station. The engine was
found ''lSiiled' and without water in
the boiler, a mile beyond Glendale.
The bandits were apparently well
satisfied with the haul they had made
from the local safe not to waste too
much time in trying to open the
through safe. Throughout the whole
affair not shot was fired or passen-
ger molestRd
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

A STEP FORWARD.
Chinese Omcinls Issue an Order to EncO
age Foreign Learning.

Chinese OmcinIs Issue an Order to Encour-
age Foreign Learning.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-According to
news received here from unofficial
sources Ii Hung Chang's visit to En-
gland and the United States already
has borne fruit in a decision of the
Chinese government gradually to an
glicize the Chinese people, at least as
far as their language is concerned.
The Pelsin government recently issued
instructions 10 the various viceroys
and governors of provinces of the en-
pire TO establish schools for the teach
ing of the English LANGUAGE and west
ern sciences in all of the principal
cities of the country.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
REVIEW OF TRADE.
The Recent Bank Failures-Earnings of
Railroads for the First Half of Decem-


INV YORK, Dec. 26.-R. G. Dun e.
Co. 5 Wee.ly Review of Trade says:
Tic failure OF Two important banks, the Sec
ond in SIZE OF business at Chicago and the old
est ut ST Paul, with some others dependent on
them. closes not favorabIy n month which
promised to end with only moderate CONNER
cial disasters. It does not lessen the effect of
these failures that one was caused by enormous
loans in aid OF an electric railway and other
concerns, and that the other appears to have
resulted from heavy ventures in unsalRble real
estate. Since several thousand business
men and dcpositors 'are for the time embar-
rasSed much as the spectators that caused
the trouble, the breakdown is the reverse OF
hopeful at present, although it comes when
money markets arc well supplied and when no
serious effect in business is to be apprehended.
The aggregate OF gross earnings of all rail-
roads in the United States, reporting for the
first half of December. or n part thereof, Is
sl2.0I7.I:6. a decrease of 4 per cent compared
with last year. and OF III per cent. impaired
with the corresponding time of 1892. the latest
period of ordinary business prosperity with
which comparisons can now be made. OF Sec
tions OF the country in which representative
roads have reported, western roads, including
the gruneers. make the most favorable show
ing. Southern and southwestern roads report a
small loss. In the other groups reports
yet Incomplete All classes Of roads report
n decrease compared with both years with
which comnarison is made. Traffic all
roads has been far from satisfactory for sew
eral months, and as yet there is little indica--
tion on improvement. but the heavy losses in
gross earnings reported by many roads is not
entirely due to loss of traffic. The falling off
In traffic has been greatest in the high-class
sreights. and the loss in gross earnings is con-
sequently relatively larger than the loss In
frad
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
EDISON'S --LATEST.
Tho Noted Electrioicn May E-vo-
lutionize Bsssemer Steel Trade.
A Plant Erected Which Is Pronounced His
Greatest Material Achievement
Convict-siace Roads-Cure
for Small-POx.

New YORK, Dec. 28,-At cost of
So, 900, COO ThomasA- Edissn has erected
in wild mountain region in western
New Jersey plant which may .revolu-
tioniz1 the Bessemer steel trade. Very
probably this is the greatest material
achievement of Mr.. EiisOn's career.
After years of incessant labor and
study he has now plant which covers
IL acres and is the largest mill in the
world. With stretch of mountains
80 miles long as a base of supplies, he
controls more Bessemer ore than all
the rest of the United States put to-
gether. The ore is extracted and sep
arated by Edison's new electrical pro-
cess Seven hundred immense magnets
draw the ore from the rock. The
whole process of getting out the ore
is done automatically, at the rate of
5000 tons a day, and the finished pro-
duct is put into the cars, ready to be
shipped, at a cost of rs cents a ton. 1t
costs almost So a ton to get the ore
in Pennsylvania
Gov.-EIect Jones New Idea.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. 2s.-Gov..
elect Jones authorizes the statement
that in his inaugural message to the
legislature he will recommend the
building of railroad by convicts, and
that he will bend all his energies TO its
successful issue. 81 am very much inn
pressed with the feasibility and practi-
cability of the scheme" said the gov
ernor-elect "My idea is that there
should be two trunk lines, one north
and south, one cast and west.
This would open up vast resources
and be of inestimable value to all parts
of the state. / believe that in ten
years these lines would create reve-
nue. which would pay the taxes of the
state, and they could be operated at
practically nominal expense. 1 cannot
say that / am in favor of the state
actually operating the roads, but after
they are built they can be leased to
other parties"
New Cure for SmaIl-POx.
CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 2S.-Experi-
ments made with smallpox patients in
Oaxaca show that by administering
honey diluted in waller to smallpox
patients the pustules of the worst va
riety disappear and the fever is imme-
diately diminished. The matter at
tracts much attention. The remedy
was accidentally discovered by young
girl who was down with the disease
who secretly refreshed herself with
honey and water with the astonishing
ly curative results, and it was then
tried on soldiers sick with the disease.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

DUBLIN, Dec. 29.-There was n large
meeting at the Mansion house yester-
day TO protest against the overtaxation
of Ireland as disclosed by the royal
commission. The report showed that
Ireland is now overtaXed to the amount
of e9, 75O,O 900 (s1S, 75o,OOO) annually.
The meeting was attended by the
Catholic and Protestant archbishops
and the leading merchants of this city.
Resolutions We're passed demanding
that the government rlme ly the in
justice done to ireland in the matter
of tn Sation.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
TARIFF THE MAIN ISSUE.

Mai. Mckinley Said to BE More Intent on
the Passage of Tariff BnI Than Any
thing Else.
NEw YORK, Dec. 99.-The Tribune
publishes what purports to be an au-
thorized article from Canton, concluding
as follows: maj. Mckinley is more in
tent on the passage of q tariff bill than
anything else, and to gain this end he
will become one of the most aggres-
sive fighters who ever entered the
white house, if this is necessary. He
will give no quarter nor ask any until
that bill is passed. His cabinet will be
selected with the idea of forwarding
the prospect of the bill and every
thing he is doing to-day has its inspira-
tiOn in that idea"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
To Omen the wichita Reservation.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90. Secretary
Francis has chang ed his mind concern
ing the opening of the Wichita reser-
vation. lie decided that he need not
wait until the department of justice
passes upon the suits pending there.
So he will name allotting agents
early next week and let them
get to work clearing away the
preliminary routine. Secretary Francis
said that the allotting agents
would be name before congress met
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 29.-Probably the
most notable social event of the sea-
son in st. Louis was the wedding yes
terday evening of Miss Julia Scott to
Mr.. Carl Vroomau, of Baltimore. Rev.
Frank t. Vrooman, of Chicago, a
brother of the groom, was the officiat-
ing clergyman. The bride is a niece
of Vice President Stevenson, who was
present and gave her away. The
groom is one of the six Vrooman
brothers, well-known in the west
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
SANTA FE CASE.

Judge Myers Says the Kansas Alien Law
Does Not Apply In This Case.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 29-The Santa
Fe rcceivership ease, which lately ere
ated ripple on the ocean of COM
merce, was yesterday deposited on the
shelf at OslIaloosa by District Judge
Louis A. Myers, who decided that the
Kansas alien land act, under which the
suit was brought, did not apply to rail-
road property This practically dis
poses of the case. The suit could go to
the supreme court only at the instance
of the attorney-general, and it is known
that MIR. Dawes would not act, and
it is generally believed that Mr.. Boyle
would have nothing to do with the
controversy. Judge Keeler. who as
sisted in the prosecution, however, had
exceptions noted to the ruling, but he
probably did that from force of habit
Mr. nite, Judge Keeler's partner, ad-
mitted that there was little prospect of
nm appeal from Judge Myers' decision
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

A curious story is related in the Phil
osophical Transactions: Her majesty's
ship Simeon was two days out from
Cape Good Hope, when a squall came up
which precipitated a veritable shower
of ice. In his report Capt. Blakiston
says: ut was not n hailstorm at ali. but
n shower of irregularly shaped pieces of
solid ice of different dimensions, some Of
thcm as lnrge as a nnvinp hrickN
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-Chicago's fashion
able folks will not, in all proba bility,
dance for charity's sake at the Audi
torium on the eveuinr of January 20,
1891 The cause of the probable aban-
donment of this, the greatest event OF
Chicago's social season, is the general
depression in all circles caused by the
recent upheavals in the banking world.
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PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 29.-Mrs-
Eleanor Il. Linter will be married to
her sixth husband Tuesday in this
city aud four of her ex-husbands will
act as ushers. The fifth ex-husband
met with an accident last week and is
confined to his bed. Contrary to the
ordinary run of such affairs, she and
all of her former husbands are on ex-
cellent terms and are also friends of
Augustus Thistlew wood, who is to be
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

SALTWATER, Ok, Dec. 2a-Ira n.
Terrell, the ex-speal<er of the first Ok
lahoma legislature, now in the peni-
tentiary at Lansing for murder, has
applied for patent on machine he
calls ''cyclorain," and which he
claims can produce a cyclone at any
time. The machine by bringing min
iature cyclones will cause rain in arid
sections at will and by taking the
cyclone conditions from the air will
prevent the formation of the genuine
cyclones and the consequent damage.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

MONTREAL, Que, Dec. ~. La Patrie,
OF this city, comes out with two-cOl-
umn defiance OF the Catholic church,
in which it calls upon all liberal Cath
olics to revolt. 1t calls the eXcommu-
nication the beginning of a war to the
death, and offers itself and all is fnan-
cial and intellectual resources to aid in
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
Victory for the American.

New YORK, Dec. ga delayed As
sociated press dispatch from Johannes
burg. South Africa, this morning says
that Kid Mccoy, the American middle
weight, defeated Billy Doherty, of Aus
tralia ON the 25th in nine rounds for
the middleweight championship of
Great Britain. The fight was to be 90
rounds and was for 5000 a side and a
division of the gate receipts.
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Postmaster Nominations Held Up.

WAsHINGToN, Dec. 29.-Postmaster-
General Wilson is working on list of
4S post Offices which will become
presidential January l, the appoint
ments of postmasters for which
will be sent to the senate when
it reconvenes Two or three
of the offices are in Missouri and one in
Kansas. The senate has now list of
1GO post office nominees whose confirm
ations are held up.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

Trains No. l0l and l0s daily except Sunday
NJ other trains daily.
Excursion tickets sold To Kansas City Shtur-
day evenings, Sunday mornings, auu SHhuaN
evenings mt one fare for the round trip. good
for return up to and including Monday morn
ing following.
Through tickets and checks TO all points.
Round trip tourist tickets on sale to all tourist
points.
For further information caIl on address:
s. A. VERMILIIOr. Ticket a gent.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
Kentucky,s Electoral Vote.

LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. 29.-Kentucky's
vote of IL electors for Mckinley and
one for Bryan is final. The time has ex-
pired in which the Bryan men were per-
mitted to file a notice of contest, and
Chairman Roberts, of the republican
committee, announces that notice of
contest served ON Bryan Elector Smith
was simply strategic move and that
it will not be pushed.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02
Memorial for Confederate Dead.

CovINGroN, Ky, Dec. 2s.-The move
ment of the United Confederate veter-
ans to erect a memorial institute edi-
fee is to be pressed during the coming
year. Gen. John c. Underwood, super
intendent and secretary of the Confed-
crate Memorial association, has located
offices here, and all communications
and rem;ttances are to be sent to him.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

BALTIMoRE, Md. Dec. % Conrad Eph-
ers, one of the eli :ht boys who was bitten
by a mad dog a month ago and after
wards treated at the Pasteur institute
in New York, died this morning at his
home in Woodbury. of hydropbobia.
lie was the second to succumb to the
disease and Robert Perry is manifest
ing symptoms which lead to the belief
that he will also die. All three were
bitten about the head and face.
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HEWITT, Mimi. Dec. 2S.-The decom-
posed bodies of Charles Bectler, his
wife and five children have been found
ly hunters in their house near here.
1t is not yet known whether it is
case of foul play or not, but murder is
susOactp1
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CoLUMRUs O., Dec 29-Statistics
just compiled 10y State Labor Commits
sioner Rueherwein from !, ,3sS industrial
esta blishments IN 46 states and terrific
ries show that 52,44S less hands were
employed in these establishments in
July, 1896, than in July, 1892, and that
$40, PA, AS less is paid out annually in
yyareS
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02

WASHINGTON, Dec. est is denied
officially and authori;atively that any
European government either directly
or indirectly has made any representa-
tions wha ever to the United States 10
restrain or prevent its free action in
connection with the Cuban insurrec-
tion. A similar report was denied by
authority several weeks ago.
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Every one making a cash purchase of
not less than % cents at my store will be
given a ticket to hear the phonograph.
So don't forget to spend your money at
Farmers drug store, where you shall not
only have good values for your money,
but an elegant treat besides.
I2-I2tf LEROY FARMER.
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NnLnnrer Mn American.

New YORK. Dec. 2s.-The Press pub
lisres the statement on what 1t as
serts is official au uthority that William
Waldorf Astor last week became a
British subject, swearing allegia nee to
the queen,
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LIVERPOOL. Dec 20. The latest and
most authentic reports place the
worlds wheat crop for 1896 at 9, 4O0,-
900. Oo0 bushels. The four largest
wheat-producing countries are: Amer
lea, Az, 900, 600; France, $40, 900 600; Rus
sia, 2sS, 900. 600; India, 2OG, 400, 900
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"Ixcuse me-" observed the man in
spectacles, "but 1 am 4 surgeon, and that
is not where the liver is" "Never you
mind where his liver is,' rctorted the
other. "If it was in his big toe or his left
ear DeWitt's Little Early Risers would
reach it and shake it for him. Crist 81
Day. Id iy
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TOPEKA, Kan, Dee. 20. Mrs. Mary
Snyder, of Thompsonville, Shawnee
county, has sued Rev. L. X. Billings
ley, presiding elder of the Topeka dis-
trict of the Methodist church, for $3, 900
damages for forcing her to surrender
her church membership
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Rev. John ID. Knox Suspended.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 29.-The prelIm-
mary hearing of John D. Knox, the
banker-preacher, before a Methodist
ecclesiastical grand jury composed of
nine ministers has been concluded and
the defendant bound over for trial be-
fore the state conference in March.
Pending action by the conference Rev.
Knox has been suspended from the
miniSfrv
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MEXICO, Mo. Dec. 20. Among six
co'ored prisoners taken to the reniten-
tiary yesterday FROM Bowling Green
was William Robinson, who was SEN
fenced for 102 years, % years for kill
ing his sweetheart in Il chuI ch, aDd
three Yenrs for stealing n horse.