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Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
WILD WITH INSANITY.
viii Leher, Of Thia County, Becomes a
Raslng Maniae-He Was Hand.
Cafed ana Taken to the
AsylaM ut Fulton.

Will Leber, a young man living
4 miles northeast, was taken to the
mad house at Fulton Friday by
Constable Bunton. In 1890 Young
Leber fell from mule and from the
effect he became temporarily insane.
He recovered his mind until lately,
when he became wild with insanity.
He was brought to town yesterday
and kept at the Leake House last
night, where he demolished a fine
piece of furniture for Mr.. Leake and
told the clerk what he thought of
him in strong language, too vile to
be repeated. He was hand-euffed
and taken TO Fulton to-day. When he
passed along by the county jail, go
ing to the depot, he saw the negroes
behind the bars, which made him al
most uncomfortable. He wanted TO
murder them. After getting in the
coach he read a chapter of bias
phemy to Marshal Kemp. He
"cussed" every individual in the
car in the worse language known to
the American tongue and kicked a
window out of the car. A drummer
ON the train had his character torn
all to pieces and it was as much as
he could do to conquer his violent
agitation of mind. He wanted to
fog the crazy man.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Mount Vesuvius is again in cru

Mount Vesuvius is again in erup-
ton.
The Senate passed the 81 900, 600
urgent deficiency appropriation bill.
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
in an interview, says he sees no
chance for Cleveland to carry New
York.
Jessie Hall, the actress, has sued
Paige, the typesetting machine man,
for $3.50, 600 damages for breach oi
promise to marry.
The trial of the Taney county
iynchers progresses slowly at For
syth. George Friend, the man who
turned States evidence, will take
the stand to-day.
The House passed a bill for the
relief of pensioners residing in the
Southern States, and another to ad-
NIT prosecution of suits in the Fed
eral Courts by 'spoor persons.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
A HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL.
The Editor Of the Ledger Presented
With a Diamond Pin i'm ReeOg.
milton of His Services on
the Trip.
From the Kansas City Times.

A car load of Missouri newspaper
men came in from the west over the
Union Pacific at 6 O'Clock last even
ing. The car contained Mr.. and
Mrs. r. NJ. White, Mexico LEDGER; !;
E. w. Stephens and wife, Colum-
bia Herald; w. 0. L. Jewett and
wife, Shelbina Democrat; o. d.
Gray and mother, Sturgeon Leader;
Walter Williams, Columbia Herald;
B. F. Blanton, Paris appeal; John
Marens, Hamilton Neaos- Graphic;
II. C. Bell, Potosi Independent.
r. NJ. White, who is good rep
resentative of Missouri journalism,
had charge of the big train that left
st. Louis thirty days ago. 1t con-
tanned eighteen full coaches and
went to the coast without a break.
Another train started from Chicago,
but did not have Bob White in
charge and went in the ditch several
days ago. The st. Louis train APP
preciated the able Missourian s work
and he was presented on the train
with valuable diamond pin. Colo
mel Ed. Stephens made an eloquent
presentation speech, but Colonel
White was paralyzed-at least that
is his version of it-and could say
nothing. But he is proud Of the
pin. Colonel Stephens delivered
the address of the convention at
San Francisco. He is ex-president
of both the Missouri and the Nation
al associations and Colonel White
was reelected executive committee
man and appointed one of the five
delegates to the international meet
ing at Toronto August Is.
The Missourians travelled 10000
miles by rail, 900 miles by steam
er and 800 miles by carriage. This
is official. Col. White wore out his
best Cleveland hat saluting the pref
ty ex- Missouri girls in California,
who decked their car with flowers
at each stopping place.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
Ford Finally Fooled.
THE NOTORIOUS SLAYER OF
JESSE JAMES PILLgD FULL
OF SLuGs.
Murdered without Moments Warm
Ing, Just Lake he Sent the Noted
Missouri Outlaw into Eterni-
ty-a Good Riddance.

South CREEDE, Colo, June S.
Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James,
was shot and instantly killed at 3 40
o'clock this afternoon by Edward O.
Kelley, with as little preparation or
warning or opportunity for defense
as Ford granted James in the MEM
orable Missouri killing ten years
ago. Ford, after having been burn
ed out in the great fire of Sunday,
secured ground on the school land
and got up tent building, opening
his dance hall last night. It was in
this place that the shooting occurred.
Ford was in the room and had start
ed to walk to the rear room in COM
pany with Dot Ford, his wife, when
Kelley stepped up ON the sidewalk
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

JAMES A. GRAHAM, managing ed
itor of the Kansas City Times, is a
thorough newspaper man. He is
making the Times one of the best and
most reliable papers in the country
and is improving it in every way.
Graham is man who knows what
the public wants and can furnish
the same in the proper style, having a
splendid corps of assistants. The
Times is run almost exclusively by
young men and we are proud of its
success, many of its force being from
this city, two or three of them hav-
ing graduated from the LEDGER Of
flee
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
LOOKS BAD FOR .nKs. MILLER" J"


Last winter Mrs. AL. Campbell left
her husband and went TO st. Louis,
where George r. Miller, who sold
popcorn ON the street here, had To-
Gated. After a few hot communi-
cations and personalintervIews pass
ed between Al.and his wife, and the
latter following the former TO the
metropolis, Campbell came back to
Mexico, got divorce and settled
down. The rule of the Court is
that the divorce is not legal until
the costs of obtaining such is paid.
Mrs. Campbell has never settled her
Indebtedness with Circuit Clerk
Johnson, therefore in the eyes Of
the law she commits q penitentiary
offence when she weds Miller. AL.
heard it rumored that Mrs. Camp
bell intended marrying the pop
corn man and he has been watching
the st. Louis papers. To-day the
following license was published:
"George R. Miller, 512 South
Fourth street, has been granted IL
cense to marry Rachel Campbell,
512 South Fourth street,
Our townsman and politician, Mr..
Campbell, read this with an eager
ness he never felt before, and inn
mediately repaired to an attorneys
office to begin legal proceedings
against the bride and groom. No
tice was sent to the Prosecuting At
torney of st. Louis this afternoon to
investigate the affair and if the cere-
mony has been performed to place
Mrs. Miller in Jail. It is possible
they have not been united yet, only
secured the license. AL. says he
has perfect right to be wrough up
over the matter, even if he is di-
vorced. "When she lett me-" said
Mr.. Campbell, "she took about $500
worth of my fine furniture and has
been trying to suppress me ever since,
but now you can see who is wrong.
| shall try to put her in the peni-
Tertiary if she has married that
popcorn peddler with out a divorce
from me-,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

THE City Council of Mexico
should instruct City Engineer c..
d. Rodgers to give the grade at least
around the public square and within
the fire limits of Mexico. Then
property owners should relay their
sidewalks, put in curbing and gut
tering and the streets should be
paved. We are glad to know that
the City Council is moving in this
direction and we are sure our bust
ness men will approve of this step.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
CAN BE DEPENDED ON.
A True Fish Story-Rey. Mump0Wer's
Experienee-The Rev. Nallaee's
Viet0ry-JOhn N. Marina
dukes Account.

Thursday afternoon Rev. ]. A.
Mumpower, Rev. A. A. Wallace
and John M. Marmaduke, of the
Southern Bank, and Mr.. Scudder,
of st. Louis, who is sojourning in
Mexico, went to the creek, near
Powelps Ford, to fish.
Shortly after their hooks were
bated and thrown in the water Bro.
Mumpower's cork. darted out of
sight. The reverened gentleman was
watched closely by Rev. Wallace,
who didn't propose to be beaten
during the afternoon catching fish,
especially by Southern Methodist.
Mr.. Mumpower grabbed firm holt
on his fishing pole and gave sud
den pull-but he accomplished moth
ing. Mr.. Marmaduke, who was
sitting down the creek little ways
from his partner, was, Of course, in
sympathy with the good Methodist,
and seeing his gesticulations knew
che surely must have a bite Hur-
rying to his assistance he caught
hold of Mumpower's coat-tail to
keep him from falling in the water
while the minister worried, pulled
and tugged with the supposed whale.
After sometime the fish Of its own
accord came up to the top OF the
water, give the two Methodist breth-
rem the laugh, and with gigantic
dart broke the line and Brothers
Mumpower and Marmaduke tel
to the ground with such force It rem.
dered them breathless. All this
time Rev. Wallace's heart was in
his mouth for fear they would gel
the mammoth bass out of the water
but was relieved when the line
hroke. About this time Wallace
cork went under and he actually
landed a fve-ponnd bass. Tht
Presbyterian had beaten the two
Methodist gentlemen.
Mr.. Marmaduke says the fish wa'
the same one w. A. Morris hat
such wearisome time with recent
/ ly. 81 know it by the description
Morris gave me, and it is ~
inches lone -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
Farmers will find that it. pays Il
patronize the Daniel Bros. 1-tf
Millions In Smake.

In Scotland the waste smoke. and
gases from the blast furnaces of a
small iron works are rented out for
a large sum of money. Wrought
iron tubes some miles in length
carry them from the works TO their
final exit into the air; but in the
course of that short journey, as the
gases cool, they deposit a consider
able yield of furnace oil-2 800 gal
Ions week being derived from one
small factory alone, not 10 mention
large yields of sulphate of ammonia
and other substances, which are
worth fortunes TO those who know
how to use them. An estimate Of
the dollars that have hitherto gone
off in smoke, because men either
did not know OF the value or we're
too lazy to catch il, places the figure
at 2 800 million dollars year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

The city of Maryville has passed
an ordinance ordering the streets in
that city paved. The pavement is
to be made of hard burned vitrified
brick. We understand that only
three property owners along whose
property the pavement was located
objected. Nobody ever claimed
MaryviIle to be as good a town as
Mexico, at the same time our streets
would be a disgrace to a country
village.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
Trotting Horse Lore.

r. j. Grigsby, Arkoe, Mo-, has
completed half mile track on his
farm, where he will give his young
callaways their first lessons.
Telegram,. Misseuri's great
rspraseatafiye ii tbs fast pacing
|elasses, ii taking his initial lessons
under the guidance Of Sam Fuller at
Sedalia. Sam also has Blazeherry,
n :29k.
Louis Spellbrink, st. Louis, Mo-,
whose picturesque finishes behind
the gray stallion, Tom Kimball, were
the talk OF the Missouri Stss.e Fair
Circuit last year, has purchased the
yearling filly Rena, by Red Bell,
2:11A, dam by Haw Patch. BY
the way, what did the Mexico, Mo-,
artist ever do with the snap shot he
took at St. Louis last August p
Western Breeder.
Honesty, 2:17A, who began pac-
ing way back in the early part o1
the century, took record of 2:17A
seven years ago on half mile track
and who could turn that sort of a
course in 2:20 last year, is being
prepared for the western free-for-alls
of 1892. A free-for-all pace west oi
the Mississippi and south of Mason
and Dixon's line wouldn't be race
to some folks if old Honesty didn'i
start.
The Western Breeder, st. Joseph,
Mo-, says: The owner of Robert
Rysdyk, 2:13A, the champion Mis-
souri, stallion, is willing to try him
against the best. Thinking the
special announced for the st. Joseph
September meeting was open to all
stations, G. F. Clark, owner Of
Robert Rysdyk, wrote as follows to
Mr.. F. ]. Grigsby, his former owner !:
"I would like a chance to trot Robert
in that race at st. Joseph, and do
not think that if the matter is prop
erly presented to them that they will
shut out the fastest stallion in this
State. Robert can make any of them
|trot, and I will take it as a favor if
you will present my claims to them. y
On receipt of this letter Mr.. Grigsby
wrote to the local association and
said: eff possible | want to enter
Robert Rysdyk in your $4,000
stake. I am very anxious Missouri
horse should win it, and | think
Robert stands a good chance, as no
horse can out live him."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
g. N. HASKELL & GO.
Carriage Makers and Repairers.

Headquarters for carriage and
buggy repairing. Carriage trim
ming and painting. Horseshoeing
and blaeksmithing all kinds. We
have also a fine line of buggies, sur
ries, phetons, carts and spring wag-
ons. You are especially invited 10
call and examine our spring wagons
We thank you for past favors. We
are still located at the old stand and
are better prepared than ever TO dc
all kinds of work in the blacksmith.
ing line. GIN. HASKELL q Co.
Southeast corner Jefferson and Lib
erty Street, Mexico. Mo. 2-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

THelsR was a small, but enthusias-
tie meeting at the City Hall last night
to take some action in reference to
the rebuilding of the Fire Brick
Works in this city. Mayor Lupton
was made chairman of the meeting
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
Decliassl TO Change II.
,scial Dispetch 10 the Ledger

Special Dispctch 10 the Ledger
MONTGOMERY CITr, Mo-, june
10.-The Congressional Committee
Of the Ninth District met here this
afternoon to consider a request Of
the voters Of Audrain county in the
matter Of restoring Misrepresentation
Of is delegates to the Congressional
nominating Convention. The com
rnittee declined o rescind is action,
- - 1870 basiis tarl
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

On PUGET SOUND, June 4.-Our
visit to Victoria, B. c., was most
enjoyable and we are now headed
for home and will stop only three
times-a day at The Dalles, a day
in Salt Lake City and day in Dem
yer, Colo. We were royalty enter
tanned in Victoria with court din
ner and a drive over a beautiful
boulevard. Most of the Britishers,
we think, favor free trade with the
United States. One of our party
wanted to buy quite a lot of clothing
over there, it was so cheap; but the
Customs officers would mot have it.
Puget Sound is splendid body
of water and a grand hsrbor. We
heard great deal of Queen Vic in
Vancouver and of earthquakes in
Columbia, but did not get to see
|either. From what we can hear Of
earthquakes they are not near so
Objectionable or SO fatal as cy-
clones.
We see from the papers that
Mansur was defeated and that Clark
is likely to defeat Norton. 1t looks
as though there would be several
new faces in Congress.
/ hear Prof. Carrington has been
elected to succeed Prof. Mcmillan.
Carrington is a thorough teacher, q
splendid disciplinarian and an ele
CANT gentleman. The people Of
Mexico viii like him and he viii
keep our schools up 10 the high
standard they have attained.
We have seen all kiiads Of land
and all kinds Of products and have
experienced all kinds Of climate and
felt the results Of all kinds OF eli
mate and win return 70 Mexico
better satisfied than ever. You
cant have perfect soil, perfect eli.
mate and perfect scenery al in the
same place. You can have them oil
in California, but it il q big state
and no one portion Of IL enjoys al
Iof them. The Missouri people have
1.-THE soil, the climate, The schools
and the churches. With the proper
application they can 81 = happy
and psoartou i nj opl 8
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

No FARMERS are in town to-day,
except those who are compelled to
attend court. Thousands of acres
of ground have been turned over
yesterday and to-day and seeded
with corn. We have the Divine
promise of a seed time and a
harvest, and the latter will be boun-
tiful. The wheat harvest will be
plentiful and the oats will make a
big yield; let us not be discouraged
about the corn crop. 1t, too, will
be large one. Remember, He doeth
all things well.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16
He Knew Bob Ford In Colorado.

h0 anew OOW FOE0 In COlOIhuOs
81 was talking with Bob Ford
several weeks ago." said Commy
Griggs this morning. 'sI lately re-
turned from South Creede, Colo. !,
and just before I left Bob Ford and
/ were talking about the country.
He thought there was no place
equal to Colorado; said he had
made a fortune there. He showed
me some of his diamonds and /
have no doubt Ed. Kelley stole
them as accused by Ford. know
Kelley; he and Bob Ford goafed'
together a great deal. Ford was
always suspicious of everybody and
was in fact afraid of everybody,
thinking they would kin him. He
was a professional gambler and the
house he run when I was in that
place would not be tolerated here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

We are glad to know that poll
tics in this part of the world is about
to become a thing Of the past for a
year or so. As soon as the dead
and wounded are removed we trust
our people viii get down to business
once more.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

THelsE was a small, but enthusias-
tie meeting at the City Hall last night
to take some action in reference to
the rebuilding of the Fire Brick
Works IN this city. Mayor Lupton
was made chairman of the meeting
and several addresses were made,
also a statement by Mr.. Goodrich,
superintendent of these works. We
would like to cali particular atten-
ton to his remarks, which can be
found in another column Of this pa
per. Ite referred to the work OF the
company in candid and modest
manner. We We're disappointed that
q larger number of our citizens were
not present and we trust that the
meeting at the Court House next
Saturday night at Z 80 o'clock will
be attended by our business men
and all of those interested in the
prosperity of Mexico. We should
at least show this much interest in
the matter, even if we are not will
ing to contribute. The citizens of
Mexico did not appreciate the value
of the Chicago 4 Alton Railroad di-
vision until it was taken away, and
then it was too late to take action in
the matter. Scores of houses were
left vacant and our people lost thous-
ands ard thousands of dollars from
the channels of trade. 1t looks some
what al though our people would
not miss the Fire Brick Works until
they were gone. 1t took two or three
years to recover from the loss of the
railroad division and the loss of the
Fire Brick Works will affect us ma
terially in the same way. We do
ilot uiItlCiStdifu tildt lliS 0uiAt tAhy
wants large sum of money, but do
think that we should show some ma
terial interest in the matter. Those
who fight the works are active; those
who are friends of the works and APP
preciate the advantages derived from
the same should now come to the
front. In addition to what Mr.. Good
rich says in his remarks we would
say that some of the people of Mex
leo are under the impression that
our business men paid the company
$S 900, but this is mistake. The
$S, 600 stock taken by the people of
Mexico was in another company,
which proved a failure. When the
present company came to Mex
leo it paid cash for the buildings and
ground to Mr.. John Lane and bought
out the old company without any
assistance, as we understand the mat
ter, from the people of Mexico at all.
On next Saturday night we would
like to see the Court House crowded
with the live men of Mexico, as this
meeting will likely settle the matter
as to whether the works will be re-
built in Mexico. Too much impor-
tanee cannot be attached to this
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

4. M. WHITE, the editor of this
paper, has just returned from a
thirty days tour through California,
Old Mexico, British Columbia and
the Western states. He returns
better than ever satisfied with
Mexico, her institutions and enter
prises. The majority of the peo-
pie in Mexico are in favor of going
forward and making our town a city.
We are glad to find several new
buildings in course Of erection and
the outlook for our prosperity was
never better. We find the LEDGER all
right and even more fiourishing than
ii was when we left The subscrip-
ton list has increased wonderfully.
Farmers from every part of the
county, in spite of the bad weather,
have voluntarily called at the Office
and subscribed for the paper pub
lished for the people now on earth.
The proprietor of this paper desires
publicly TO acknowledge the fidelity
of his corps of assistants. Mr.. B.
B. Runkle, who had charge of this
paper during our absence,ls without
question one of the best all round
newspaper men in the state of Mis-
Isouri and was ably and faithfully
assisted in his management of this
paper during our absence by every
employe of the Office. 1t is great
satisfaction for a man to have in his
employ those he can trust implicit.
fly. 1t takes hard and faithful work
on the part of every man connected
with a newspaper to make it q
suceess. Often an editor of 9
lpaper claims all the success wher
Imuch, if not more of it is due
Ito those in his employ. The
LEDGER was never in more pros
porous condition than it is to-da,
and ne will not be satisfied until it:
subscription list reaches at leas
5000 copies for the Weekly ans
i
1900 for the Daily. People in thi'
part of Missouri are reading people
land patronize newspapers literally
With renewed energy We are go
ling 10 make the LEDGER better thai
: lever and we refer the public to th'
motto at the head Of our paper
sTo our pride in the past and on
/ hope for the future, let MS add vigor
Ious work in the living present.
/ Our chief endeavor is 10 make thi
1 mean Hhat i says
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

We notice some papers through
out the State guessing as to who
"Gov. Francis will appoint to succeed
DIR. Atwood, ex-superintendent of
the Fulton Insane Asylum !" This
position is not filled by Gov. Francis
but by the board of directors of the
asylum. Gov. Francis is not even
a member of this board and in no
way should be held responsible for
the appointments made.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

Our attention has been called re-
peatedly to the fact that three or four
of the lowest dives in the country
exist right in the business portion of
this city. We have not had time
to investigate this matter, but are
sure there is some mistake about it.
Such things surely would not be al
lowed to exist right under the shadow
of our churches in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

w. L. Rennolds received dis
patch from Kansas City Thursday
morning, stating his brother, Jackson
Rennolds, had just died of dropsy.
Mr.. Kennolds left for Kansas City
ON the first Wabash. The deceased
was 65 years old and had been in
poor health sometime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-16

WHrrEIAw REID, the Republican
nominee for Vice-P President of the
United States, is a cousin of Prof.
d. A. Mcmillan, Of the Missouri
Military Academy of this city. If he
is anything like Prof. Mcmillan in
character and sterling integrity, he
will run ahead of his ticket.