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Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
THE NEW ELECTORAL BILL
Will Apply to all Elections Held
in Mexico.

The new electoral reform bill APP
plies to towns of 5000 inhabitants
and over. A special census was
taken in Mexico a few years since
which gave Mexico SOP, although
we had less than 5000 when the
regular census was taken in 1879.
In answer to a letter written to
Hon. Champ Clark, as to whether
elections held in Mexico would BIZ
governed by this bill, the following
reply was received:
To the Editor of the Ledger.
BOWLING GREEN, Pike Co. Mo-,
June 10, 1SS9.-Answering yours
in query as to action of electoral
reform DILL in your city, my own
opinion is that the last authentic
census (by whatever authority tax
en- would govern in the matter.
Yours, CHAMP CLARK.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
MExrco's institutions are all

MEx1co's institutions are all
growing and prospecting, but none
more so than our Public School.
which is given up to be the best in
the State; but the building is now
too small for the attendance. The
School Board at its meeting ordered
submitted to a vote of the people a
proposition to borrow five thousand
dollars to erect three additional
rooms to the old building 1t will
take a two-thirds vote of those vot-
ing to carry this proposition, which
should receive the unanimous en-
dorsement of every friend and pa
tron of public schools. The bonds
will be $1,000 each and will come
due in one, two, three, four and
five years. and viii readily sell al
par. An additional levy of 10 pei
cent. each year for five years will
pay for the building and the tax
payers will not be burdened. More
room is absolutely necessary fol
the health and convenience of the
pupils and the plan adopted by the
Board, We think, is admirable il
every particular, and we hope oul
people will show to the world thai
they appreciate such a school al
they have by voting as one man fol
the erection of the addition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
A Cut in the Rate.

Friday next the Chicago & Alton
railway, which is dissatisfied with
the ruling of the Interstate Com
merce Railway Association in re-
lation to the rates on lumber from
Chicago to Missouri points, will
reduce the rate, if they feel SO in
clined, to 10 cents per hundred.
This move has been inspired by the
Alton people being denied the priv
ilege by the commissioners to give
Chicago lumbermen a chance to
compete with shippers of yellow
pine from southern points.
The southern roads interested in
yellow pine will probably force the
fight by cutting Immediately to 10
cents, though rates on yellow pine
from the south have been 6 cents
above those on white pine from the
north.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
Sanborn Fired,

COLUMBIA, Mo-, June S.-The
Board of Curators adjourned this
afternoon after abusy weeks meet
ing of three sessions daily, lasting
till late at night. J. H. Drum
mond, secretary of the board and
proctor of the University, resigned,
and J. G. Babb, formerly of this
place, but more recently of Wichita,
Kan, was elected in his place.
The resignation ofDr. Laws, placed
in the hands Of the Governor in
May, was laid before the board
and accepted. Prof. Sanborn hav-
ing refused to resign, the board to-
day declared his position vacant.
The board adjourned this afternoon
until July, after appointing Messrs.
Dilley and Lathrop a committee to
investigate fully the competency of
the various members of the faculty,
and the work being done by them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

EVERYBODY should attend the
festival at the Liberty Street NJ. E.
Church Thursday night for the
benefit of the Johnstown sufferers.
The money raised will be spent
right here for supplies as the ex-
press company will forward the
same free of charge and we will
know what becomes OF our money.
About $500 of the $500 sent from
Mexico to Lawrenceburg, Indiana,
for the sufferers a few years since,
was spent in repairing the levy in
stead of relieving the sufferers, and
by spending the money here such
abuse of money raised cannot oc-
cur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

IT is surprising that there should
be croakers and kiekers against
any and every enterprise started in
Mexico. There are parties to-day
kicking about the street car line
who have not a dollar invested in
Mexico. They have nothing else
to do but stand around and croak
and ask such questions as: "Why
can't the line go on some other
~route?" why don't they build the
line without tearing up the ~streets?'
&c. Out upon such talk! How
can a town expect to grow OF
amount to anything unless its PEG.
pie work together for any and every
enterprise? We must expect to be
Inconvenience a little in the course
of our growth, and should all vie
with each other in trying to encour-
age all movements forward. There
are several vacant lots in the grave.
yard, which, when filled, will leave
Mexico in a better condition to en-
courage and foster worthy enter.
prises.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
WYE LA NEVADA.

One OF the most delightful, as
well as successful, meetings of the
Missouri Press Association was
held at Nevada, the queen city of
Southwest Missouri, last week.
Nevada never does anything by
halves and the royal manner in
which she entertained the quill
drivers surpasses all her former eff
forts in this direction. Her bust
ness houses: public buildings, and
residences e profusely and APP
propriately decorated, while on
every ones face could be recognized
the warm smile of a hearty wei.
come. 1t would be impossible tc
go into details regarding the enter.
prises of Nevada or to half express
our appreciation of hospitalities ex.
tended. There is not a drone.
sorehead OR kicker IN the town
There are no dry goods box whit
lers or croakers. The business mer
all pull together with that unanim
ity which is the secret of the city's
brilliant success. Young and &C
tive men, many of them from Au
drain county, are in the lead, ant
we predict that while Nevada is
magic city now she will even breal
her own recordin the future. Young
blood of the right kind can be fount
in every line ofbusiness, and with
out any discord, Jealousy or differ
ence of purpose, pulses faster ano
faster for the good health of Neva
da and Vernon county. We hav'
not the space to refer at length t.
Nevada's beautiful young ladies
its newspapers, schools, asylum
fire companies, board of trade
hotels, business men, artesian well
water works, smelter, street cars
gas works, electric light works, ant
a hundred other enterprises, al
par excellence and all worthy o
especial notice, but must say tina
We never met a people which got S,
close to the visitors or made strang
ers feel SO much like buying a hous'
and locating among them. TIL
doors of the Jail only are closed t.
their guests, and those looking TO
a live business town will find NJ
dead people in that city, OUTSIDE
of the grave yard.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

The above is a fair sample of
what al be found in that paper
almost daily. In the LEDGER such
work is piracy" IN u contem-
porary 1t is ''high-minded journal
ISM" Our contemporary thinksl 1t
is a great reformer. The public
knows it to be whited sepulchre-
hypocritical in all things and rotten
to the core. It should attend to its
own affairs in the future and clean
up its own nest before throwing
stones at others. The LEDGER of
ten makes mistakes and is never
perfect,o or even as good as we would
love to e it, but in comparison
with our contemporary it is like
the sun compared with a green
cheese full of life, as our circula
ton, which is nearly treble thai
of our always green-eyed but "pure.
and without SIM contemporary
proves without any chance for dis,
pute. The reading public is the
jury and the LEDGER is eminently
satisfied with the verdict.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

IT IS not a "free-trade" journal,
but the chief Protection organ,
which publishes a dispatch an
nouncing hat combination ofthe
ssten leading Pittsburg firms will
ssbuy out all the little operators, by
N expenditure of about s12 ,o0o, 900,
and get a monopoly by which they
can dictate prices to consumers in
Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville,
and other cities ell the way to New
Orleans" And the Republican
tpriff. by maintaining . duty Of u
cents . ton on soft coal, helps te
make such combinations possible.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

BENSON j. LOSING the eminent
historian, recently wrote as follows
to a friend:''I am, l believe in sound
health Of body, mind and morals.
! am happy to say that 1 am an opti-
mist. / see humanity progressing
with marvellous strides towards q
higher place, and I believe in the
preponderating goodness of human
nature when properly developed.
/ walk serenely amid Gods works
of every kind, and accept as true
his fiat at the creation that all was
good and very good. Our country.
What a glorious heritage we enjoy
and will leave to posterity!
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
Charley Hooker Killed.

GAINESVILLE, Tex. June S.-The
mangled body of Chas. Hooker, a
brakeman on the Santa Fee road, was
found dying by the side of the track
IN the yards this morning. The
deceased was head brakeman on a
freight train and. opening the yard
switch, attempted to board the train
while it was in motion and his
clothing caught on the steps of the
caboose, and he was dragged to
death. He was formerly of Contra
liza, Mo-, where his parents still
reside.
Chas. Hooker was a son of Squire
Hooker, of C~entralia, and has rela-
tives in this vicinity, among whom
are Samuel T. Hook and family
who attended the funeral Tues
Iav
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
A TORNADO IN MISSOURI.
Churches and Other Buildings
Blown Down-A Boy Fatal
ly Hurt.

SEDALIA, Me-, June 10.-A tor
nado swept through this section
Saturday, dong much damage.
Two churches, an elevator. a store
and many residences and barns at
Hughesville were demolished. A
boy named Smith was fatally hurt.
The total damage was $4,000.
At Knobnoster the Dunkard
church was blown down and a
family of seven, residing in the
basement, were more or less injur-
j
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

The tan-colored shoe and flannel
shirt have broken out more violent
ly this year than ever before. They
are unconventional and informal;
they belong to no ~"set," they are
equally in favor in town and in the
country, in the mountains and at
seashore, and r DESTINATIONS only
in their suggestions OF ease. The
tan colored shoe and the flannel
shirt have risen to the dignity of
summer institutions; they have
come SO stay, and all the protests of
bootblacks and laundrymen shall
not prevail against them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE whited sepulehre of oul
contemporary, having finished his
LOB of reforming" the Christian
Church of this city, now turns his
attention to the LEDGER and ac-
cuses it of stealing an interview
with Champ Clark, but finally ad.
mits the interview was sent to us
on proof sheets to be used as orig
inal matter. Now, the LEDGER
does not pretend to be as bright
and as newsy as it is without the
aid of shears, but tries to be careful
in regard to crediting what is clip
ped. As q matter of fact, our con-
temporary, which is doing all this
bowling about nothing, is a bigger
"thief," according to its own con-
struction, than the LEDGER. The
very paper which contained a
column of hog-wash about the LED
GER using the Champ Clark inter
view, stole bodily and cut out with
an ak, a half column of a special
dispatch from Columbia to the st.
Louis Republic, in reference to the
Board of Curators of the State Uni.
versity, and used it without a word
of credit. The st. Louis Republic
paid a man to write the article and
paid the Telegraph Co. to transmit
it, and still our ''holler than thou
contemporary appropriates it bod
lily, while crying aloud, accordingt to
the custom of its class, "Stop
thiefp'
From Monday morn From Nondav eyan-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
nched for stealing.

The pension appropriations for
the current fiscal year aggregated
the stupendous sum of SIS, 4O0, 900.
Large as this amount is, the pen
sion authorities at Washington are
counting on a deficit at the end of
the year, June 80. The entire $685.
400, 900 has been drawn from the
treasury, though SIG, 900, 900 is said
to be in the hands of the eighteen
pension agents to meet next
months quarterly payment. Chief
Agent H. G.. Bell says the appro-
priation for next year, which be-
comes available July l., is too small
by about SIS, OOO, 900. The late
Commissioner of Pensions, Gen.
Black, Mr.. Bell says, did not ask
Congress for enough money to pre-
vent a deficiency, which he esti-
mates will be about SIS, OOO, 900. a..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

JUDGE HUGHES has not as vet
appointed an official ste~nographer
to take the place of Mrs. Edgar
Dudgeon, resigned, and says he is
not going to appoint one until he
informs himself as to the fact of
whether the tax payers want one
anpointed
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

WALTER WILLIAMS, retiring
president of the Missouri Press AS
ISOLATION, is one of the most bril-
liant young writers and takers in
the State, and the success of the
late meeting, to a great extent,
was due to his untiring and well
directed energies.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

If the blowing of the electric
light whistle is a nuisance, we
would that there were a thousand
nuisances IN Mexico. Our front
yard is at the service of any
man who will start a factory
in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
Fatally stung by a Bee.

PARIS, NO., June S.-Henry
Wright, a young man living about
20 miles from this city, was stung
on the ear by q common honey bee
yesterday from the effects of which
he died In great agony in half an
hour.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THERE need be no fears about
Mexico's street railway line not be.
ing a success. Mexico knows no such
word as failure, as the continued
try, try again, at the hole in the
ground proves beyond any chance
for contradiction.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE penny system of making
change is growing in favor and
should be adopted by everybody.
"Despise not the day of small
things and, by the way, a penny
is a good deal of money when it is
all you have.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

j. A. PoTTs, who has undertaken
the improvement of the west end
ofthe Boulevard, should meet with
financial encouragement from every
person interested. This valuable
strip of land can be made into al
elegant driveway for a small outlay
of q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
Is the S1,OO 900 Appropriation
Illegal

The certainty that the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature will approve OF
Gov. Beavers action in ordering
the State Treasurer to at once adj
vance s1,O0O,O 900 toward the relief
of the Jehnstown sufferers, the re-
moval of the wreckage, and the re-
building Of the destroyed town,
will recall the fact that such action
could not be taken in Missouri,
even in the event of a disaster of
equal magnitude. When, during
Gov. Crlttenden's time, a cyclone
swept through Brownsville, the
Legislature was in session, and it
promptly appropriated several
thousand dollars for the relief of
the sufferers. Then uprose in va
rieus sections of the State the
cranks who sleep with the constitu-
ton under their pillows, and
showed the Governor that the APP
preparation was illegal. The At
terney-G General withdrew into the
recesses of the Cole county forest
and wrestled with himself, and the
result was that he also found that
the Brownsville appropriation was
unconstitutional, and Critterfden
reluctantly vetoed the bill, thus es-
tablishing a precedent that has de-
feated any similiar proposition ever
cipoo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

E. w. STEPHENS, of the Columbia
Herald, who has just been elected
president of the Missouri Press As.
socia.ion, Is one of the most prae.
tical, sturdy and influential jour
nalists in the State and is a fine
orator besides.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE proceedings of the last edi-
torial association of Missouri, print
ed by the Columbia Herald, Is as
neat a job as we have seen in many
a day, and is a credit to the asso-
citation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

Chicago Inter- Ocean: To find any
thing at all comparable in magni-
tude of destruction to the Pennsyl-
vania inundation the mind has to
revert to the lava deluge of Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii, to the earth.
quake of Lisbon, to the bursting Of
Holland bikes. We doubt if any
other event of which profane history
gives authentic account resulted II
such dire calamity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

IT is stated that the smallest
steam engine ever made was re.
Gently completed, after two years
of labor, for the Paris exhibition.
II is composed of $50 pieces o,
metal, Is a shade under three-fifths
of an inch in height, and weighs
less than one-ninth of an ounce. A
matchmaker made IL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THERE has been a good deal OF
talk and nasty filings in Republic
can papers about the Bald Knob
bers of Missouri being Democrats.
An officer from Christian County
was in Mexico this week and says
he. arrested $50 Bald Knobbers and
not one of them was a Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE festival at the Liberty Street
NJ. E. Church on Thursday night,
for the benefit of the Johnstown
sufferers, should be attended by all
our people and a neat sum raised.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
In THE RAIN.
The Bodies Now Found Are All
Badly Mangled.

JeHNsTowN, June 11.-Notwith-
standing the fact that rain has been
falling all morning the work of re.
moving the debris continues and
the finding of bodies is carried
on with sorrowful uncertainty.
Many bodies are horribly crushed;
especially is this the condition Of
those recovered above the bridge.
Three heavy charges of dynamite
were exploded in the jam above
the bridge this morning, but hao
little effect in loosening it up.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

MEXICO needs, and must shortly
have, at least one main sewer run
ming through the heart of the city.
As soon as the street work is done
we understand the city will put
from FIVE to ten thousand dollars in
substantial sewers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

peaceable old gentleman, a native
of New Jersey, and was about SO
years of age. He was a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic
and was buried by Hancock Post of
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

The patrons and friends of the
Mexico Public School, which is
acknowledged to be the best in the
State, will be glad to know that
Prof. d. A. Mcmillan will remain
in Mexico and has accepted his old
position for another year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
After q Few Months Experience.
From the MINNEAPOLIS Tribune.

Graduate, class of 'S9: eyes,
sir, 1 will accept the position of edi-
tor of your paper if you think you
can not get along without me-"
Same graduate, six months later /:
eyes, sir, l will accept the position
of hose salesman in your store, but
can you not make it IS a wsek?'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE Globe Democrat raises Old
Harry because the murderer OF
Clayton in Arkansas is not arrest
ed. We suggest that the Globe
look after the murderer of DR..
Cronin in Illinois.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

The three year old daughter of
Hon. Champ Clark, of Pike county,
who was such a favorite in Jeffer-
son City last winter, died last Sat-
urday. She was as bright a little
child as we ever knew, of her age,
and it is hard to understand why
death should select such a bright
and shining mark.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

A. BUDGET FROM BENTON,

Correspondence of the Ledger.
BENTON City, June 12.-Water
and weeds are taking the corn in
this locality; most all fields are
covered with water.
J. r. Gay went to Centralia Mon
day, on business.
Elder Magee, from Centralla
preached Sunday at Unity Church,
two miles south of Benton.
Mr.. Hefsess is able to be out and
is improving nicely.
George Wylde returned from
Thompson Saturday, where ne had
been working for Mr.. Tinsley, the
agent there.
Miss Lena Harrison returned
Monday from Warrensburg, Mo-,
where she has been attending school
for the past eight months.
John Northcutt has resigned his
position as assistant postmaster in
favor of Thomas Randolph. Lucky
boy, Tom.
Mrs. Joseph Hildebrand spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. McGrath.
Charley Kimball, who has been
away for several months attending
school, returned home Saturday.
Mr.. Jake Douglass had the mis-
fortune to be thrown from his buggy
Friday, breaking his arm between
the elbow and shoulder. DR.. HALEY
set the limb and he is fast improv.
ing.
The old horse o. P. Jones claims
cannot be caught only by his owner,
Jones says. He was fooled last
Sunday. o. P. told Bill TRULY te
go out ia the pasture and catch the
horse to ride to church. Bill SEN
Willard Rodgers after the animal
on horseback, who chased hin
around the pasture several times
but couldn't get near him. Rodger.
then dismounted and run Jones
old plug down on foot. It's hare
to tell who the joke is on, Jones o.
Jones' horse. Everybody laughed
and Jones looked sorter sideways
like and said, "Dad blame it, boys
bring in another boss and let tn,
circus proceed!!" The race wa.
witnessed by large crowd, the re
suit attestlng the fact that as al
equine Splinter either Jones' hors,
is a failure or Willard Regders il
pretty swift on loot. Some of tn,
boys have dubbed O. P.aold plug
Mrs. Sontag, by her will, left al
her property, amounting to abou
$1,000, to her nephew, Gnssie Mil
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
No PROHIBITION for Marshall.

MARSHALL, No., June S.-The
"wets" carried the local option
election here to-day by thirty-ene
majority. The vote by wards
was: First for sale 1877, against
191; Second, for sale $50, against
126; Third, for sale 157, against 3d.
total vote S3S.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE stoekmens' meeting to be
held at the Court House, Saturday
afternoon, should be attended By
stockmen and farmers from every
township in the county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
seattle,s Horror.

SEATTLE, WASH. TER, June 81
A fire, which broke out Thursday
afternoon, is still raging. Thirty
one blocks in the heart of the city
were destroyed by 9 o'clock last
night, and among the burned build
ings are the Coleman and Denny
blocks, the San Francisco store,
the Western Union building and
several newspaper offices.
LATER.-It is now estimated that
the loss by the fire in this city on
buildings alone is SIC, 900, 600, and
the personal losses will probably
swell the total to $4,000. 600. 1t
is thought that many persons must
have persisted in the flames. Giant
powder a used to blow up build
ings in the hope of staying the
flames, but with no effect. 1t is
reported that two men have been
lynched for stealing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

CHARLEYGREEN ,ofthe Brookfeld
argus, pauses as he walks the floor
at 2 a. IA. with his new baby to
remark, Marriage is not a failure"
Charley is a philosopher.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

IT begins to look as though the
Mining Company would prove that
it was impossible for Wolf to have
bored any deeper. That is all he
claimed-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

MoBERLY is to have a new
Union Depot. What's the matter
with Mexico having such an i'm
provement7
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13

THE young lady who tried to gel
up a filtration with the drug clerk
by slyly winklng at him got whisky
in her soda.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
Bob Hisey will continue 10 send

Bob Hisey will continue 10 send
"Paper Collar" over the road
ahead of any trotter in town. The
horse was returned from Chicago
yesterday ,Banghart Bros. not desir-
ing to pay Mr.. Hisey's price for
the animal. Paper Cellar" is not
for sale. Bob saws.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-06-13
A Brilliant idea.

FrUm ffArptT 5 I3dLddr.
Hardware dealer: "Now, Mr..
Rusticus, there's what l call bar
gain. That stove has aquick oven,
and the draught is sc arranged that
it will save one-half your fuel"
Mrs. r. (who is a student of
economics): ala sakes, pa, why
not get two, and save all the fuel?''