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The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-25
Look at Miller's Bargains for Sat-
upday Only.

500 lbs of the best Parched Coffee
in l ID packages at zoe package
Ga sure WINERY
Bottle Picked Onions at
1" Chow Chow 10cts
l 4" Chill Sauce
q" Pickles (Cherkins) bottle.
Calf. Evap. Apricots at
Calf. Pitted Plums lbs
Georgia Peeled and for
Sliced Peaches. $1.0s
Calf. Egg Plums at
Prunes 10 lbs for
Fancy Fvap. Apples. $1.OO.
S. d. Peaches at Is lbs for Loo.
s. D. Apples
Irish Potatoes at 20 cents bucket.
Apples (sound) at 45 cents buck
et
Apples slightly speCk at Is cents a
bucket.
Jelly's in all size at 5 cents ID.
Preserves in all size at 5 cents a
ID.
800 lb choice cooking butter at ~!
cents per ID.
Fresh Eggs 7 dozen for $l.00.
Nice Bananas at Is cents dozen.
Oranges blood Oranges) at 3Octs
a dozen.
Oranges Calf. at 20 cents a dozen.
Spare ribs at 10 cents ID.
Fresh fish at 10 cents Id.
Vegetables fresh every morning.
For bargains call at o. j. Miller's
III Austin Avenue.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-25

Lack & Greenberg, merchau
tailors, 4144 Austin street are pre-
pared to do the very finest work in
their line. Give them a call.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-25
OxfOrds.

We have large and novel line
of latest styles in low quarters.
Here as elsewhere we sell fancy
goods at staple prices. We
SAVE YOU 50 cents to $I.oo a
pair.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-25
Children's Shoes

Here is the place it pays to
save money on good wear. The
best shoe wears best. We sell it
to you at less than regular prices.
Plain and fancy tops, cloth tops,
no tops at all, in fact every style
and quality. Prices from IS cents
pair to $3.50 pair.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
RUSH HILL ITEMS.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, Mo-, July 19.-Farm-
ers are very busy harvesting their
oats.
The angry shrek of the threshing
engine is once more awakening the
slumbering echoes.
Mr.. A. B. Smock, who has been
very sick, is again able to be up.
John Bick has sold an immense
lot of binder Irvine this season.
Much hay is being put up at pres
emit.
Many fences were torn away by
last Wedne sday's rain. Cuivre has
beaten its past record, being almost
an eighth of a mile in width. How
ever, this great raise was caused by
the cloudburst near Benton. Many
bridges and culverts were washed
away.
Mrs. Mike Devaney has been very
sick.
A new threshing machine was
switched off at Rush Hill last week.
The Audrain County Union will
meet in Rush Hill in two weeks.
The reformers at this place are ar
ranging themselves for the event and
there is no doubt but what the dele
gates will be Hospitality cared for.
Rush Hill has a singing club. The
warblers will henceforth pour out
their melodious strains in perfect
streams. Among them r some
who are exceptions, most undoubt-
eddy, and may some day have Lon
don and Paris at their feet (by climb
ing upon some tall church steeple).
Their voices vary from that of the
most monotonous bull frog to that
of a mosquito. An old farmer, who
was notaware of its existence, came
to town while the club was practic-
ing and admitted his Ignorance of
Rush Hill having a saw mill.
BILL DUFF.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
Resolutions of Respect,

WHEREAS, The great Ruler of the
universe las, in His infinite wis.
dom, removed from our midst our
worthy and esteemed brother, John
w. Ecton; and,
WHEREAS, The intimate relation
held during a long business life by
him with the members of this lodge
makes it fitting that we record oul
appreciation of him therefore,
RESOLVED That the wisdom ant
ability which he exercised in aid o
our lodge work by counsel, service
and otherwise will be held in crate
full remembrance.
Resolved, That the removal of sucl
a man from our order leaves a va
cancy hat will be deeply realized
by all members of the lodge and it,
friends, and will prove a grievous
loss to our neighbors and the public
Resolved, That with deep sym
pathy with the afflicted relatives an6
friends of the deceased we expires;
an earnest hope that even so great {
bereavement may be overruled by
their highest good.
Resolved, That a copy of this
be recorded in the Secretary's booE
and also sent to the members of the
bereaved family.
j. G. ORR,
R. III. Brown,
j. A. LANG,
Committee
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
BENTON CITY ITEMS.
Correspondents of the Ledger.

correspondence OF the Ledger.
BENTON CRY, No., July 90
John Dermody has so acres of the
best corn in this neighborhood. 1t is
beginning TO tassel.
Misses Via and Maggie Marshall,
of Mexico, are visiting the family of
j. W. Douglass.
LastWednesday while rakinghay,
little Willie payton's horse became
frightened and threw him from the
saddle, cutting quite an ugly cash
in the side of his head.
Mrs. Crews died lest Saturday of
blood poison, resulting from a rat
biting her on the hand last February.
AS Chris Norhnberg was hauling the
coffin from Mexico he fell from the
wagon and bruised his head consid-
erably.
Joe Kellerhauls slipped and fell
last Wednesday evening and broke
one of the bones between the knee
and ankle.
Nj. Culbertson is harvesting $50
acres of meadow for John Field.
John Smith moved his engine yes
terday from his saw mill to COM
mence threshing.
The old settlers east of us say the
rain last Wednesday was the hardest
they have ever seen.
JAS. Dowell shipped two loads of
hogs last night.
The Benton City 1. o. o. f. in
stalled their officers last Tuesday as
follows: ]. G. Orr, P. G.; j. F.
johnson, N. g.; VIM. Hofsess, V.
&C.; G. w. Kimball, Secretary; J..
A. Lanig, Treasurer; 7. c. Hicks.
Warden; w. 7. Sira, Conductor;
w. T. Richardson, r. S. to N. G.;
A. j. Paris, L. S. to N. c.; I. j.
Brown, r. S. to V. e.; Ira Miller,
L. S. to V. G., and r. II. Brown,
Guardian. CAL O'MEL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
Future Worlds Pairs.

The Worlds Fair at Chicago will
be followed in 1896 by a worlds fair
in Berlin. In 1898 there will be a
fair in Vienna, and In 1900 France
viii take another whirl at the fair
business.
Thus four immense exhibitions
are to be given on this tidy planet
in the space of less than ten years.
Paris has a little the best ofthe show
ing, having had a fair but four years
ago, and appearing as IN exhibitor
again at the last and highest point
in the century. The fair of 1900
must be fin-de-siecle, indeed.
Yet each four OF these exhibitions
will be immensely important and
each will be in a measure represent
alive of certain conspicuous national
traits. The Worlds Fair at Chicago
will be a fitting introduction TO the
great series.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
The Mexico Fair.

The Mexico Fair commences Au-
gust 1 and continues one week. Joe
Glandon, the efficient secretary, sent
us a polite invitation in his own
hand write on Bob Whites type
writer. He also put ina ticket, which
admits us free at the gate; then We
have the freedom of the beautiful
grounds. Ii we want to sit down we
can get a cushion to put on the seat
for 10 cents. Each lemonade stand
is instructed by the secretary 10 let
us have lemonade at 5 cents a glass,
fried chicken, well done, at 10 cents,
and five want hotel accommodations
we can have them st 81 per day.
He adds a postscript IN his own ia
miliar hand, "You are expected to
read this catalogue carefully, 56
pages besides cover; furthermore,
you have been selected as one of the
baby judges for the Bob White cup
Newspaper babies are to be ex-
cluded; you must do your duty
kiss every baby, tip your hat TO the
mothers and treat them to ice cream.
N. B.-I send you a cut of our
kite-ehaped track at your expense.
Please do with it as you think best
or like you would for the Moberly
fair-give il good position on the
first page, following reading matter.
no Moberiy fair ad. touching it, fol-
lowed by reading notices ofthe cam
paign. Please put two ROSTERS in
the same ad; also, the merry-go-
round and the pictures of Editorcook
and Bass Runkle. Mrs. Show has
left here. You might say that the
Salamander Fire Brick Go. viii have
a fine display and that LATE Hume,
Cash Newman and Sol. Hughleit
have already entered and spoke for
a hand. Tell all of your people 10
come. / win meet them at the depot
and show them the new cushioned
seats.
P. S4-Excuse the typewriter; it
:. Rah tEhtfaso fxUvsfo= fhia NTH n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
THE ADVANCE GUARD.
gathering OF the Clans ut the State
Capital to Name the Next Gov
ernOr OF Missouri.

JEFFERSON CRY, July 17.-The
influx of delegates and visitors to
the Democratic State Convention
begun in earnest to-day, and the
hotel rotundas were well filed to-
night with a more than ordinary
enthusiastic body of Democrats.
The noon trains brought to the
capital both Colonel Stone and Col.
onel Dalton. The latter was met al
the depot by the local Dalton club
and escorted to his rooms in the
City Hotel. Colonel Stone was
greeted by a large party of friends
and repaired at once to his head.
quarters in the Madison.
The friends of Colonel Stone are
confident, aggressive and smiling
They express themselves with a great
deal of assurance, and unite in the
declaration that Stone will have 24C
votes on first ballot. If he does
have, the probabilities are all in
favor of his nomination, but it is the
consensus of opinion that neither
Stone nor Dalton will have more
than 200 votes on the first ballot,
and that the field is still open.
Colonel Dalton's friends are active
and persistent in their estimate that
Dalton will have $50 votes on the
first ballot.
The Gibson men claim eighty
votes for their favorite; the Yeaman
men place his strength positively at
seventy-one votes, and the Clay
comb supporters put the Jasper
County statesman's vote at twenty.
five.
1t is claimed by Gibson's friends
that the Stone and Dalton delegates
can never come together; that they
are i~rrevocably and so evenly divid-
ed as to prevent the nomination Of
either; hat Gibson is the only
candidate upon whom all can
unite, and whose nomination would
have no bitterness in its train.
The supporters of both Yeamar
and Claycomb make a similar Jar
gument. 1t remains to be seer
which has the best of it.
SECOND PLACE GOSSIP.
The candidates for Lieutenant
Governor are here with the excep.
ton of Hon. jeff Pollard of St.
Louis, who is expected on the
morning train. The others are
A. w. Florea of Nodaway, A. J.
Seay of Dent, John B. O'Meara Of
st. Louis, Wilbur F. Tuttle of Pettis
and Andrew Mackey of Charlton.
Few of the delegates are instructed
for this office.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
ED.
Refused an Appeal to the United States
Supreme Court-He is al the End
Of His Rope New.

JEFFERSON Cry, No., July H.
The Supreme Court has refused the
writ of error in the case of Ed. No
land, ex-State Treasurer, and the
case win not go to the Supreme
Court of the United States. This is
the last recourse and nothing
remains for holland to do but to en-
ter the penitentiary and serve out
the sentence of two years. Mr.. No
land was not present at the time,
but is under pledge to surrender
himself to his brother, the Marshal
of the court.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
LADDONIA LAC0NICS.

Correspondence of the Ledger
LADDoNIA, Mo-, July 19.-Miss
Minnie Price is visiting in Hanni
bal, Mo.
Miss Callie Morris, of Mexico, il
visiting relatives and friends here
Miss Kate Clark left to-day for
protracted visit in Mexico and Wells
vile.
Mrs. Ruby, of st. Louis, is visit.
ing at John w. Jewellers.
Mr.. James Landrum and family
are spending a few. weeks with rela
tlves here.
Doctors May and Lotion are wait
ing on a very sick child of Rev
Harris.
Mrs. M. Sears is quite sick with
typhoid fever.
Ed. C. C. Hill has concluded to
remain in Laddonia and has bought
Mr.. Darnell's residence.
Mr.. L. C. Provine returned home
Saturday from a visit to Perry.
Several ladies and gentlemen o.
Laddonia are talking of going off or
a camping and fishing tour abou'
the second week in August.
Mrs. R. w. Pearson has returned
from Frankfort, where she has beer
for several weeks for medical treat
ment.
Miss Leila Pearson has returned
from Stuttgart, Ark.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
POst.Omce Letter List.


Parties calling for letters under this
head will please say, Advertised
John Bryan, Ellen Clark, Ann
Carson, H. A. Colhoun, Laura
Cleveland, Chas. Cenclair, A. L.
Conradt, A. A. Dawson, Jas. Du-
gan, Lodisa Eprel, Hon. J. H. Ed.
minds, George Tanning, Henry
Fisher, Mary Garth, S. A.. Gerison,
jamie Gibbs, F. w. Gaddis, G.. w.
Hall, J. Hamilton, c. Ell. Harris,
O. Hall, j. B. Hays,W. T.. Hombs.
Jas. Hunter Media Johnson, Jane
Johnson 2, Maggie Johnson, Mary
Jordan, jamie Johns, H. Jung, Sam
Lakeland, Robt. Lee & Bro, CIV,
Martin, J. A. Martin, R. w. Mar.
tin, G. w. Marshall, Juan Maldon'
do, H. G. Merideth, B. F. Mills:
Giuseppe Mafins, j. G. McIntire.
M. A. Pollard, Frank Paris, J. F.
Robbins, VIM. Scott, w. G. Sims.
E. H. Smith, Ruth Sanford, R. s.
Smith, Lille Sanders, HI. w. Sharp,
J. w. Thomas, Dee Thomas, Rosie
Woolery, W. II. Williams 2, Alice
Willingham, NJ. Willingham, E. c,
Wilson, C. T. Williams, j. A. Wea'
yer, Levi Watts, w. M. Walker.
J. w. BEATTY, Postmaster.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
At The Grand Fair Week,
]. G. Orr,
r. III. Brown,
]. A. LANG,
Committee

Theatre goers will be glad to know
that there will not be a ssbrass band
show at the Grand during Fair
week. The management has Sc
cured the Spooner Comedy Com
pany, which has a repertoire of
fourteen refined comedies. This
company gained great fovor all
through the West last season, play
ing only large towns. During an
engagement in Kansas City the
Star favorably compares Cecil
Spooner to the great Corienne. A
first-elass orchestra will furnish
music during the engagement and
the Mexico Band win give concerts
in front of the theatre each evening.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
NOT BILL HARTLEY.
The Man Arrested at Memphis, Tenn,
For Numbering a Woman Not
Our Hartley.

Leslie c. Hartley, of this city, half
brother of VIM. Hartley, who, it
was surmised, had recently murder
ed his paramour near Memphis,
Tenn, to-day received the following
letter which is self-explanatory:
Leslie c. Hartley. Mexico, Mo.
MEMPHIS, TENN, July 49,
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 18th
inst. was duly received, inquiring
about the man namedWm. Hartley,
who is under arrest here for killing
his paramour, Mrs. Goodman. In
reply l have to say this man does
not fill the description you gave of
your brother. This man is rather
slim, low or medium size, and is
As years old. He had registered
recently in order to be able to vote
at the election soon to be held here,
and his age is given as 46, and he
looks to be that age. / am satisfied
he is not the man you describe.
Yours Respectfully,
w. G. DAVIS,
Chief of Police.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

What the Hon. George G.. Vest
says in regard TO the superiority Of
Hirschberg's diamond and nom
changeable spectacles:
~ am using glasses which / pur-
chased from Prof. Hirschberg and
they are the best l ever tried.
SIT affords me great pleasure to
recommend Prof. Hirschberg as an
excellent optician and his glasses are
simply unequalled in my ex.
perience. G.G. VEST"
These glasses are for sale by ]. III
Pollard. d&w-H
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

Mr.. Van Pelt, Editor of the Craig,
Mo-, Meteor" went to a drug store
at Hillsdale, Iowa. and asked the
physician in attendance to give him a
dose Of something for cholera morbus
and looseness of the bowels. He says:
81 felt SO much better the next morn
ing that I concluded to call on the
physician and get him to fix me up
a supply of the medicine. | was sur.
prised when he handed me a bottle
OF Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy. He said he pre-
scribed it regularly in bis practice and
found it the best he could get or pre-.
pare. can testify TO its efficienc,
in my case at all events For sale
by G. a. Buckner. till August
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
A Jaunt to DanYilIe.

There is what is called "The
Devils Backbone" in Montgomery
county, neal Danville. The devilish
thing is apparently solid rock and
one is compelled to ros it going
from Danville to Montgomery City.
1t is almost perpendicular since the
division of the court in Montgomery
county--the devil has his back up
because Montgomery City has a
Court House. A representative OF
the LEDGER crossed over it this week
and it seemed to him as if the"bone''
must be dissatisfied about the Con-
gressional Convention proceedings,
also. There is a historic cave near
Danville which was the home of an
old bachelor for forty years. He
took up his abode in this lonely
cave sorne fifty years ago with the
insane idea there was gold in its
vicinity. After dwelling in the OBJ
scure spot, living on wild meat and
wearing skin apparel for nearly a
half century, he died and was buried
near the cave in the deep woods.
In company with a crowd of young
folks on a pleasant jaunt we visit
ed the old town OF Danville, which
has a antiquated appearance, but
seemingly is alive to the reality of
its importance-the inhabitants real
lie they have some of the court left.
The county officers reside therein
fact, several others. There is no
signs of mortifcation-but quietude
and peaeefulness are the supreme
pleasures of the sleepy townsfolk.
They take life easy, very. Minneola
is a resort for those whose health is
impaired, " anyone else that likes
water that tastes as no other liquid
ever tasted. We stopped at the
springs and drank to the health of
the inhabitants and drove home
ward. We. are in favor of rock roads
but those near Danville satisfy us
too well. Nature manufactured the
mammoth rocks in that neck of
woods for its own convenience in
stead of the travellers. The pheaton
with four persons in it could hardly
be pulled up some of the perpen-
dicular hills by two steeds.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

tanned control of the Legislature tina
an ati-Pinkerton bill was success
ful. Assemblyman Skinner intro.
dueea one in the last House, ani
though it was violently opposed b,
the Republicans, who ilibustared te
prevent its passage, it went through
both branches with handsome ma,
jorities.
Congressman Thos. Watson, 81
Alabama, said that sin one day the
pinkertons could turn over to a big
corporation $4,000 men. provided
the place where they were to be con-
gregated was near a big city. My
attention was first attracted to this
great evil at the time of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad strike"
Here was Mr.. Hoxie, then the
General Manager of the Missouri
Pacific SYSTEM" continued Mr..
Watson" employing a larger force
of armed men that was controlled
by the States. These ruflians show
ed that they placed no value upon
human life, for during the strike
many innocent people were killed
and wounded. Every one in New
York will remember how an limo
cent man was shot down in the
streets of Albany by a Pinkerton
detective, and l remember that
during the same strike the sweet
heart of a young striker while walk
ing along the street with him was
shot down by one of the villains"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
Important to Farmers.

| have a few Walter A. Wood en-.
closed gear 1892 pattern mowers left,
and, as the season is nearly over, ]
will offer a special inducement te
those of you needing a mower fol
this or next year by offering for one
week only the above mower, 5 foot
cut, for $40 without interest for one
year. These goods are strictly first.
class and guaranteed in every respect.
Call quick and examine them. Re-
member, no half lead boxes are
used-nothing but brass.
SAM MORRIS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
How to TEN Bride and Greom.

n0W 30 E6Af DftAE Una ut 99Afs
He always carries two new grips
and two umbrellas.
He always offers her his arm.
He's always clean shayen, and
wears, besides Immaculate linen, a
careworn, worried expression.
He always pulls out his watch,
presumably to see how much OF the
honeymoon is left.
When he registers at the hotel
the land wife, Is written twice az
large as his own name.
She never fails to ask how many
humps Of sugar he takes in his cof-
faa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

B. Olin will open a large stock Of
clothing, boots and shoes, gents
furnishing goods, &C., in the build
ing recently occupied by Albert.
next door north of Phillips new
building. The stock has arrived
and the store will be open for bust
ness Friday. Frank Tucker, for
merly in the boot and shoe business
here, is connected with the new es'
tablishment. Watch for the adver.
tisement for further particulars.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

The Kansas City Star is away off
when it mentions Audrain as one of
the Missouri counties that viii be
short in a corn crop. Corn in Au-
drain and, in fact, throughout this
section of the State, bids fair to
make an average yield, though the
acreage is not so large as last year.
There is an abundance of old corn
lin Audrain, too.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21
THE HEAVY HAND OF MONOPOLY,
1t Dictates to the Nation How Its
Affairs Shall be Managed and
Usurps ALI Other
Authority.

MEXICO, Mo-, July 20.-The
Homestead troubles are not the re-
suit of a skin disease. The whole
body polite is diseased and is now
suffering from a chronic ailment
which requires constitutional treat
ment. And it now looks very much
as if it had passed beyond the pale
of human remedies. The hand of
corporate monopoly is laid heavily
upon the fountain head of justice.
Mr.. John w. Bookwalter, of Ohio,
says: "Mr. Carnegie has gone be-
fore Congress for the past twenty
years with his doctrine of protection
and like a good subservient body
Congress has always given him
what he desired" Il is very ques-
tionable if our government has any
longer the power to restrain the
greed of wealth. In the face of an
antitrust law and recent investiga-
tons by the highest tribunal in the
land, trusts are multiplying at an
alarming rate. In the Homestead
investigation Manager Prick openly
defes all authority. The commit
tee is powerless. Nothing will ever
come of it except a batch Of CAM
paign thunder. If the striker had
been captured by the Pinkerton
outlaws they would to-day be Ian
gushing behind the bars. But on
the other hand the Pinkerton muir
derers, armed and backed by Prick
and Carnegie, will never be punish
ed. Will not the mighty hands
of our sturdy Congressman be
uplifted against the bold advent
of Wall street into council cham
bers of the nation? Like the Colossus
Rhodes it stands in a threatening
attitude astride the interests of the
people. 1t dictated the financial
planks of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties and has boldly
marched into our Congressional
halls and usurped all authority
there. A few valiant spirits we
have there, but their efforts to legis-
late for the people are like unto the
contests of the renowned Don
Quixote. The infamous Mckinley
tariff bill is being denounced from
Maine to California and Democrats
everywhere are agreed as to its per-
nicious tendencies, yet 40 Demo-
cratic majority cannot repeal it and
throw the responsibility where it
rightfully belongs, because Congress
is overawed by the hand of corpor-
ate wealth. For the same reason
the House cannot add to the free
wool bill an amendment placing
wooden goods upon the free list. And
for the same reason Congress cannot
remonetize silver, although nearly
every noted Democrat condemns
the action of Congress in demonetiz-
ing it by stealth in 1873. The re-
cent speeches of Bland, Culbertson
and others would furnish mighty
good reading for some of our peo-
pie who think we are on the high
road to the millennium.
The country is astonished and al
most dumbfounded at the appoint
ment of John W. Foster as Secre-
tary of State. That a man of such
small mental caliber or of such
questionable morals should be APP
pointsd to SO high a position is
enough to make patriotic American
citizens turn pale in contemplation
of future possibilities. That Presi-
dent Harrison should show such an
abandonment of moral principle is
a matter Of wonder. x. L.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-07-21

A carpenter by the name of M. s.
Powers fell from the roof of a house
in East Des Moines, Iowa, and sus.
tanned a painful and serious sprain
of the wrist, which he cured with
one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. He says it is worth IS bot
tie. 1t cost him so cents. For sale
by G. A. Buckner. till August.