The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-01-08
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Wolves were infesting the country
near Glasgow.
SLIcER's hotel al CaruthersvilIe was
destroyed by fire.
FIFE at Tuscumbia destroyed two
buildings valued at SO. 900.
II is said that Lord Scully, OF Er-
gland, owns so, 900 acres of choice land
in Bates county.
CORNELIUS RAGsDALE, over 40 years
q resident of Mexico and 80 years in
business there, is dead.
THE annual conference of the Mis-.
souri, Epworth league was held at
Cameron the past week.
GEORGE ZEIGLER, an escaped convict
from the Missouri penitentiary, was
captured near Pilot Grove.
MORE cattle are being fed in the
great pastures of the northwest part
of the state than ever before.
A REWARD of $3.50 hns been offered
for the murderer of Miss Mattingly,
who was killed at Miami in September.
W. w. LANfBoRN, who died at Lex
ington ia his 7sth year, had been
member of the masonic fraternity SO
years.
STREET car companies at st. Joseph
are complying with the state law re-
quiring vestibules for the protection
of motormen.
WHILE hunting near Coffey, Clarence
Scott accidentally shot of the arm of
Ward Brown, young companion, who
bled to death.
CHAIRMAN RozELLE, of the populist
state committee, demands an official
investigation of his acts, which have
been criticised.
TIN HER, q constable at Carthage.
was arrested the other night while
trying to burglarize a store. He had
long been suspected.
MACON COUNTY attorneys gave an
elaborate banquet in honor of Judge
Ellison, who has been 81 years on the
bench as circuit judge.
IN Shelby county every landowner Is
being asked TO donate 10 cents an acre
for the construction of the Eldon 81 ST.
Louis railroad through the county.
The Chillieothe Constitution, the
oldest democratic newspaper in north
Missouri. was sold to Sherman NJ.
Smith, postmaster at Chillicothe. for
$1,000.
ANDREW WILSON, the Buchanan coun-
ty farmer who fatally shot his neigh
Dor. Nathan Groshory. was taken to
the st. Joseph Jail TO avoid mob vio-
lence.
NEAR Springfield while Anthony
Kloucheck was crawling through
wire fence his gun was discharged.
the load of shot entering his temple,
causing instant death.
WHILE attending the funeral of Julius
Arndt. near Houstonia, the carriage
containing the bereaVed family was
upset by a runaway team and Mira.
Arndt was fatally injured.
THE first permanent settlement in
central Missouri was made in Howard
county, opposite Boonville, in the
spring of 1sOs, by colony OF Kentuck-
ians headed by Benjamin Cooper.
JouN Hunt, the old man sentenced
to hang at Columbia for numbering
his daughter, has been declared insane
by a sheriff's jury. Gov. Stephens will
be asked to place him in an asylum.
AT Carrollton a letter ADDRESSED to Il.
Staifer was opened and $40 in cash
taken from it. Federal officers arrested
Fred Stafford, who confessed and
showed the officers where he had
buried the money.
Mrs. JoHN w BYERs, who died in
Kansas City last week, had resided
there continuously SO years. Mrs.
Mary Mulkey, who died there the same
day, had been since 1886 a resident OF
the Missouri valley.
THE prisoners in the ST. Joseph
workhouse became unruly and threat
ened mutiny, but the hose was turned
on them and after n Commute applica-
ton of cold water the half-drowned
toughs were glad to subslde.
RUBY TAYLOR, q I3-year-old colored
schoolgirl at Kansas City, stole her
grandmother's purse containing $50
and bought Christmas presents for her
teachers. She was arrested and the
presents were voluntarily returned.
The town of St Geuevieve, below st.
Louis Is the oldest white settlement
in Missouri, being settled by French
pioneers in $780, st. Louis was settled
in 1864 by Pierre Laclede, French
merchant from New Orleans st.
Charles was settled in 1869. (
THE Hodge family at Irondale is i'll
fated. William, the oldest son, was
killed at Elvins by fourton rock fall
ing on him, Henry, his brother. had
his eyesight destroyed by powder ex-
plosion, and John, another son, was al
most killed by falling under a loaded
wagon.
HENRY SQUIEEs and John Cropp,
near Pratherville, were
arrested on the charge OF circulating
scandalous stories about Miss Nettie
Bird. When the cases were called for
trial Miss Bird failed to appear and
the prosecuting attorney was dumb
founded.
THE county judges of st. Clair county
asked United States Judge Phillips for
more time to consult with their con-
stituents regarding the proposition to
the railroad bonded debt
of the county, and the case was con-
tinued until January ga The sum
now due is 81, 900. 900.
When in doubt take "Forker's Elec-
;ricIty pills" They have no objection
.bIe features, All druggists sell them, II