The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-03-05
C sHORT-STOPS.

Mr.. n. @. Wallace has sold his suburba
place to Mr.. Joel Ewing, Jr.
Before purchasing a steel range, call an
see the Peerless at O.. E. Yingling's. f5i
FoR RKNr.-A hve-roomc cottage in Col
Ieee Place. For further information ca
at this Office. l-lo-tI
Mr.. jim Price sold his cottage on Six
teeth stree {, to Mr.. John McFaddin. on
day last week.
WAHTED-work for colored boys. len
twelve and fourteen years. Apply at tn
T,-rr1yYaENcER office. If
Americas greate-t medicine is Hood
6arsaparilla, which cures when all othei
urepA-stious fail to do any good whatever
Eighteenth street ought to be macadam'
lied from South street to the cemetery
Last week a good team could scarcely
draw g vehicle through the mud.
Don't nauseate your stomach with tea'
and bitter herbs, bot regulate your iive'
and sick headache by using those famouf
little pills known as De Wits Little
Early R,sers. Day & Shelby, Leading
Drr.etsta. 1-16tf
0LdE8Aoeos
Mr.. Walter Chiles has sold his iarn
nsar Mayhem and has purchased the
Turner Williamson farm near the Con-
federate Home. He will move his family
to their new home shortly.
A telegram was received by Sheriff
Fulkerson Sunday, saying that Charles
SwansIey was wanted. The telegram was
turned over to Oscar Thomas and Dave
Heathman, and In less tn n an hour they
had picked up their man. Constable
Thomas, of waverIy, came up Monday
and took the prisoner to Waverly'
JAKE Slower was arrested In this city
Saturday by Deputies Sheriff Thomas and
D. o Heathman. A letter from the
sheriff of Lawrence county stated that
Slower was wanted for abandonment Of
his wife. Within twenty minutes after
the letter was received, the man was
under arrest. He Is a good looking young
fellow, about 81 years old. The sheriff OF
Lawrence county came up Monday and
got the prisoner.
Edwin Is q bright little ave-year- old
boy, IN this city. Last week his mother
told him to do something, and he was a
little slow in obeying. She told him the
second time, and in such a manner That
he knew obedience to be the best policy.
Hs turned TO rer and said, "Mamma, how
lon will ! have to mind your" The an
sver was sYou will always have to mind
mel The look on the little fellows face
showed that he did not consider life
worth living.
Kansas City World: "George W. Hughes,
a coal miner living at Higginsville, was
at St. Louis-av and State LiDe'
Sunday. by Officers Reidy and Nichols,
o telegram from Higginsvilie, stating
that he 10 wanted there Jor DESERVING bis
wife and two children. The police claim
that Hughes left Higginsville with the
wife of a man named Rogers, and that
have peer living at 70 James-st, Kan
City, Kan. The Rogers woman was
not arrested"
The alarm of Ere, at $3.50 O'Clock last
Monday night, quickly brought a large
crowd Of people to the scene OF destruc-
o.. DR.. J. Fl. ~Straughn's cottage on
6 xhteenth ST. est was brightly burning.
The Ore had evidently caught In the roof,
near q hue. The Academy boys wers
quickly on the ground, and rendered good
ss wee 10 saving the furniture, and In
guarding 1t after 1t had been taken out.
The East Lexington fire department was
nrst on the ground, and soon had the hre
uuder control, but the house was COM
plstelv destroyed, only an ugly, charred
lhsll being left. $500 insurance.
One morning last week a couple of
on mischief bent, went to the res
nee of Mr.. Milt. Crowder. took the
mi Z bucket IT I'm It's usual place, went to
he barn, mixed the COW, and placed the
OF milk Ia the hay loft. When b
lamiIy srose, and the time for milking b
,oW had arrived, no bucket could be
AT length another vessel was
,ecured, and then 1t was oundt that the
,ow had b. en- MIXED. There was a shot
lime In D d Town" for awhile. But the
had O be fed, and when the oft was
cached there sat the bucket of milk.
How did 1t get there2 This is the CUES
.Ion that has caused a great deal OF worry.
rue family finally came to the conclusion
hat the hired girl Is a somnambuiist, and
lad MIXED the cow while asleep, and had
hidden the bucket of milk. They probably
% not know any better now, but will
NOW all about IL when they read this
lotice.
DR.. Francis G. Henry died at his home,
OF East Fourteenth strser, Kansas City,
4 O'Clock, Saturday morning, of a
COMPLICATION Of nervous diseases. DR..
Henry has been one of the best known
,hy clans In Missouri for many yeRrs.
5s was born In Paris, Ky, ia 1928 and
1850 moved to Carroll county, Mo.
1 year later he mC we'd TO Lafayette
Gun , where he lived for over 20 years.
Ie entered the confederate army and
accompanied Price In his first raid. He
erved under General Shelby also, and the
wo became Intimate friends. After the
var DIR. Henry was the generals family
,hysiclan for many years. During Gov
rnor C~rittenden's administration DR..
Henry was appointed superintendent Of
asylum for criminal Insane at Fulton,
he being the first to hold that posi-
lon. Nine or ten years ago DR.. Henry
moved TO Kansas City. where he has since
lived. When General Shelby was United
Itates marshal be nppointed his old friend
urgeon of the Unlted States prisoners.
'or the past few years, owing to advance
A. years, be has practiced very little. He
as q member of the Jackson County
Esdissl seeisty. "