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Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
ROWENA ITEMS.
Corrrespondence of the Ledger.

Corrrespondence OF the Ledger.
RowENA, Mo. May 2.-The farm.
ers are backward with their blowing
on account of rain. The creeks have
been higher this spring than they
have for years.
Measles are raging in this neigh.
borhood.
MIR. Ed. Sehnus crippled himself
yesterday by STEPPING ON a nail.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. T. J.
Holloway, May LIST, a ten pound
son.
Mr.. Bud Mallory lost a fine horse
valued at $500.
Mr.. Craig and E. Threlkeld are
in Mexico TO attend the Masonic
Lodge.
Sunday School at Central has a
good attendance-average 80.
Holloway Bros. sold their hogs
yesterday at $40.
Since Mr.. Ed. MalIory's return
from Arkansas he has been kept
busy at his carpenter trade.
Mrs. Finks and Curtis Brue are
both improving rapidly.
Singing school at Central closed
Thursday night with a large attend
ance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Five Bouncing Girl Babies.

Five Bouncing Girl Babies.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, April 90
Mrs. L. E. Finney, the pretty young
wife of L. F. Finney, a prosperous
young merchant of Huntsville Ark,
has distinguished herself by present.
ing her husband with five bouncing
baby girls, all within the short space
of eleven months.
Last May Mrs. Finney gave birth
to two pretty little girl babies, both
of whom are living and are fine look
ing, well developed children for their
age. Thursday Mrs. Finney was
again confined, and increased the
family by three, and all girls at
that. Mrs. Finney is a plump, heal
thy looking woman about %, and
weighs lao pounds. Her husband
is 30 years old and the very type of
masculine beauty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
RUSH HILL ITEMS.

Corr of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, Mo-, May Farm
ers are alarmed at the gloomy spring
Oats, wheat and grass are On the
stand still.
Not many OF our citizens will pat
ronize the Worlds Fair or any othel
fair unless things loom up a little
different soon.
We understand hat Mrs. Thos
Roberts has gone to Montgomery
City for treatment.
George Slaven has turned book
agent.
Louis Roberts bought Rober
Stevenson's farm. Price $50 PEE
acre.
We would like to hearfr from some
body who a make it stop raining
E. Hughes and Chris Nohrnbers
shipped hogs from this place Mon
day.
The Clark Seminary has its closing
exercises the 4th, (to-day.)
The cholera is welcome to thai
portion of Rush Hill which the bool
agents cannot get.
The prospects are gloomy for the
poor farmers. The hopes they sc
cherished for raising a bountifu
harvest are waning into darkness
before the dark clouds and colo
rainy spring. They are very impa
tient but we trust the weather will
change. BILL DUFF.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
4 Toy Worth S., 0

One of the most valuable toys
ever made is that recently construct
ed by a jeweler of Turin, Italy. It
is a boat made of a single pearl.
The outlines of the boat are said by
those who have seen it to be perfect.
1t has a sail beaten from solid gold,
studded with diamonds. The PIN
nacle light is a ruby of wonderful
brilliance, and for the rudder it has
an emerald. The stand upon
which it is mounted is made of the
purest ivory; and the whole toy
stand, boat and all-weighs less
than half an ounce. The value of
this marvellous thing in dollars is
five thousand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Earnest Thanks.

To the Editor of the Ledger.s
MEXICO, Mo-, May PLEASE
allow space in your paper to tender
our earnest thanks to our dear neigh
bors and kind friends of Mexico,
st. Louis, Louisiana, Grand Rapids
and Kalkaska, for their many ex-
pressions of sympathy and acts of
kindness in our bereavement in the
painful and sudden loss of our dear
son, John M. Clark whose death &C.
CURED on the 18th, inst. by being
fatally wounded in the machinery Of
his woodenware factory at Kalkaska.
Mich. We appreciate your every act
feeling that they proceed from hearts
warm with kindness to us and his
dear family. With high appreciation
and earnest thanks to all we are most
Truly Yours,
JOHN P. CLARK.
MARY S.CLARK.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Our Forests Not Giving Out.

According to some facts and
figures presented by Henry Gannett
in recent issue of the NewYorkSml,
there is to-day nearly if not quite as
great an area of woodland in the
United States as when the white
man set foot on our shores. There
are not SO many square miles OF
merchantable timber now as then,
but the territory occupied by grow
ing trees rs about as extensive as it
was 400 years ago, and these trees
will in time grow to a size suitable
for the production of lumber. Some
OF Mr.. Gannett S statements are quite
inconsistent with the general belief
that American forests are giving out.
He says, for instance, that only
about 10000 square miles, or less
than one-tenth the area of the coun-
try, is artificially cleared land, while
to offset this loss there has in recent
years been great extension of wood
ed land in the prairie states as well
as in some of the natual tree grow
ing states. A table is published
showing the total area and the
wooded area in each state the figures
having been obtained from reports
OF the census and agricultural de-
partments, from official surveys and
in a few cases from careful estimates.
As a grand result, it is shown that
the wooded area in the United
States, excluding Alaska, is nearly
1,113, 900 square miles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
LIBERTY ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
LIBERTY, Mo-, May 2.-The high
water caused considerable damage
last week washing out several bridges
and culverts.
0. L. Woods family is very sick
with scarlet fever.
Mrs. Jim Smith is on the sick list
again.
Elmer Smith was home last week
from Columbia attending the COM
bination sale.
Ben T. Woods sold at the combi-
nation sale last week to E. j.
Kuechle, of Chicago, ILL.,, his fine
Black Squirrel mare for $3.50, and
Clay Cademy for 800. Hurrah for
Ben! He is getting to be quite d
horse man. A FRIEND.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

Hicks forecasts for May are
rather discouraging. Frosts and de-
structive storms are promised from
start to finish. Between the 10th
and 18th we are to have frosts and
storms. From the 18th to the 22nd
is a ''marked storm PERIOD" then
comes a warm wave. As a capsheaf
for a particularly stormy month it is
predicted that the last day of May
will be the center of a regular storm
period which runs into the opening
days of June. Hicks closes his
predictions in reference to May as
follows:
The effects OF the Venus equinox
will be felt in all Of the storms up to
the middle of May, hence there will
be a marked tendency to hard hail
storms, to excessive and sudden
changes from very warm to very
cool, increasing the probabilities Of
frost after storms in all northerly
regions. 1t will also be prudent to
anticipate tornadoes-to watch close
ly all ominous storm-clouds, and to
have your arrangements made, and
your minds clear as to what would
be the best thing for safety in a mo-
ment of manifest danger. The cleo
trical power of the sun is very great
in all the central parts of our north
ern hemisphere in the month of
May, and forces which expend them
selves in April showers, earlier, often
gather in May into storms of great
violence and wide extent. We beg
our readers to post themselves on
the important subject, and to rob
the storms of their power to terrify
and destroy. by such knowledge and
preparations as will insure safety to
human life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
FLOODED WITH WATER.
/ Large Reservoir I'm Ohio Breaks
and browns n Number
of Persons.

Special Dispatch to the Ledger.
ST. Louis, May 3.-The reservoir
at Lewiston, Ohio, the second largest
reservoir in the world, broke at /
O'Clock this morning. 1t is reported
that from fifteen to twenty persons
were drowned. Seventeen thousand
acres of water was released into the
Miami Valley. Great loss of life is
feared in the valley below.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

Between the LIST and 18th of June
there viii be a declamatory contest
held at the Ferris Grand Opera
House by cadets Of the NJ. M. A..
The contestants are: Cadets Gill,
Marshall, Ballard, Lingenfelter,
Duncan and Smith.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
MANY LADIES TAINTED.

Sobriety in business is one of the
first features under consideration by
our great syndicates who control the
leading lines of business and manu-
features. Many of the railroads are
adopting this and enforcing it, all Of
which is very satisfactory, in a prac-
teal way, when considered by the
moral element of our people. Phil.
D. Armour, of Chicago, says: "The
time is smear when sobriety will be as
requisite in obtaining employment
as integrity and ability are. The
nervous strain will break down the
most rugged constitutions, but it is
suicidal to resort to alcohol or mar
cote stimulation as a relief. Artif-
cial strength is delusive and destruct-
i've in the end" Governor A. J.
Smith, of the National Home, Leav-
enworth, says: "The phenomenal
success attending the administration
of DR.. Keeley's remedies during the
year, both directly in the cure of
hundreds of diseased victims at this
National Home, as bearing upon the
discipline and moral tone of home.
is an all sufficient incentive to una
bated zeal in the future to encourage
the people to better understand the
great good these remedies offer to
those afflicted with the disease of
alcOhOlism.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Administrator,a Entica

. UUIIC6.
Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration upon the estate OF
Alexander Sieger, deceased, have been
granted the undersigned by the Pro
bate Court of Audrain COUNTY. Mis-.
souri,, bearing date March 20, 1888.
All persons having claims against
said estate r requested to exhibit
them for allowance to the administra.
tors within n year after date of grant.
ing letters, or they may be prscluded
from any benefit of such estate. and n
such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the date thew will he
forever barred. JACOB SIEGER
o.. HENRY SIEGER.
Ir4-t. Administrators
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04


HARDIN COLLEGE Board in ex-
tending president Yancey's lease
three years and electing Redman
Galloway to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of John M. Gordon,
did two very sensible things. Presi-
dent Yancey is making Hardin Col
lege one of the grandest institu-
tons of the kind in the United
States. Redman Galloway is a
public spirited and progressive bust
ness man, thoroughly in accord
with the best interests of Hardin
College.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

MEssRs. VOORHEES, AND TALBOT,
representing the Equitable Life AS
surance Co. are doing a splendid
business in Mexico and Audrain
county. Within the last month
they have written a large number of
policies on some of the most sub
stantial business men: farmers and
stock ~raisers of Audrain county.
This company is one of the best in
existence and we take great pleasure
in recommending these gentlemen
as reliable business men who repre-
sent only facts in reference to their
company.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

Mrs. J. H. Kilgore, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and Mrs. C. R. Shearer
OF Omaha, are here at the bedside
of their mother, Mrs. Muir, who is
quite sick.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

The County Court is very busy
but will likely find time to do some
thing about putting in granitoid
walks and having the court house
heated with a furnace,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

PROF. D. T. GENTRY, formerly of
Mexico, has been elected Superin-
tendent of the Columbia, Mo-, Pub
lie Schools. Prof. Gentry is a man
of progressive ideas and a splendid
teacher. We congratulate the Co.
lumbia schools on securing his ser
uiooG
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

We notice that reliable cores
pondents state that exhibits at the
Worlds Fair will not be in position
until the first of June and that sight
seers should not go to Chicago until
fhaf fip,o
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
that time.

If the County Court will put
granitoid walks in the Court House
yard and heat the building by steam
the Court House property will then
be il line with the enterprise and
growth Of Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Admir- istrRtarIa Nntina

Notice is hereby given that letters
I administration upon the estate of
j. 4: Fsgan, deceased, have been
granted the undersigned by the Pro
Date Court of Audrain COUNTY Mis-.
souri,, bearing date April Is, 1898.
All persons having claims against
ald estate are requested to exhihit
them for allowance to the admjnistra.
Tor within one year after date of grant
ing letters, or they may be preeiuded
rom any benefit of such estate and Il
such claims be not exhibited vv;th;n
TWO years from the date thew will -
forever barred. j. r. FEiiAN
T" Admiuistrats,r
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

The business men of Nevada,
Mo-, are arranging to have a fair
this fall. What are the business
men of Mexico doing in this direc-
ton?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
DEATHS WILD WHIRL.
The Devastating Cyclone SwoOps Down
On Cisco, Tex.

EAsrLAND, Tex, April pa
cyclone, terrible in the death and
destruction which to-day marks its
pathway swept over Eastland and
Cisco counties last night, and what
last evening was the pretty little city
of Cisco is now a scene of disaster,
ruin and death. Out of the forty or
more business houses but one, that
of c. II. Fee, remains, and of 400
dwellings only a score or so remain
standing. The loss of life is great;
up to this hour twenty bodies have
been recovered and the number OF
wounded is APPALLING.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

Ii this weather lasts long it will
make everything flourish except the
Mexico fair.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1898.

ADVERTISE in the LEDGER. 1t
will pay you.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE.
The Fine Iron Gray Jack,

w. w. johnson.

Can be found at the same stabless 81
Sc to insure In foal or s. to insurea cob
to teat. Cleveland is 4 years old, H
hands 3 inches high, sired by Barnrrn;;
first dam by Red Oak. Barnun By
Napoleon, he by Stonewall, he By
Duncan's black jack.
Care taken to prevent accidents. bui
l will not be responsible should any
occur.
j.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04

B. Z. Cauthorn sold to Mr.. Duly
two lots in Highland Addition for
$3.50. A new house will be erected
upon them at once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Hail Stones as Big as Teacups.

ALTON, H., April 29.-During
last night this vicinity was visited
by a hail storm the like of which
has never equaled around here. In
this city the hail vas like walnuts,
but this was insignificant compared
with those that fell north of here.
At Monticello seminary the panes
of glass on the south and west sides
were all destroyed by hail stones as
large as teacups. One farmer is
reported to have found a specimen
measuring owe five inches in di-
ameter. All vegetation out OF doors
were literally torn to pieces. The
Missouri, Kansas & Eastern tracks
were greatly damaged. The loss
will foot way up in the thousands.
DiskOIine Oil for Disks---37
ashas. Kinds Oils. Robertson.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Local Option.

Theo. Bussen and others to-day
presented a petition to the County
Court signed by GAS tax payers out
side the city ofMexico asking that the
question of local option be submitted
to a vote of the people outside of
this city. The County Court grant
ed the petition and a day for the
vote to be cast will be set.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
Executors Notice.
Notice Of Final Settlement.

Notlse Of FINAL SettIemeHI -
Notice is hereby given that fna, ~
tiement of the estate of r. ii. WiiCos
deceased, will be made at the ~
term of the Probate Court of Auatses.zz
County. Missouri, to be held e No.
leo in May, 1893. NJ. WILCOA
I'd. AdministraQHs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
LADDONIA ITEMS.

DiskOIine Oil for Disks---37
kinds Oils. Robertson.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-04
TRAIN HELD UP.
Robbers Tackle an NJ, h. h L
Passenger "A Bold job
MiscarrieS.

PARsoS, kas., May 2.-Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger train
No. 8, which left this city at 4:3O
o'clock this afternoon, vas held
up at Pryor Creek, in the Indian
Territory, at $50 tonight by six
men, supposed to be the notorious
Henry Starr gang of robbers.
The holdup took place at the sta
ton. When the train stopped the
robbers covered the engineer and
fireman and the conductor and his
crew with Winchesters and forced
them to leave the train. They were
marched off. some distance and two
men placed to guard them.
\ PLUCKY EXPRESS MESSENGER.
This done the other four robbers
directed their attention to the express
car. Here they failed to secure any
thing. Although with a Winchester
at his head and a knife at his throat
the plucky messeger would give up
nothing. The robbers abandoned
this car and turned their attention
toward the passenger coaches. Here
they secured everything they could
lay their hands on from pocketbooks
to tooth-brushes and pocketknives.
Among the passengers or board the
train were President Martin Of the
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
road and party, who are out on 6
tour South.
MANY LADIES TAINTED. ~
Nothing can be learned as to the
amount secured from the passengers.
Great excitement prevailed on the
train and many ladies tainted, but
did not deter the robbers in theil
devilish work.
Prior to the arrival of the train the
robbers invaded the depot and bound
and gagged the agent. The robbery
consumed 40 minutes, and when the
robbers left a volley of shots Were
fired. No person was in any way
injured.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-28
POLICE COURT AFFAIRS

Peter Penn, colorcd, was fined So in
police court yesterday morning on the
charge of stealing coal from tho Nor
folk and Western tracks. j. l. Sicily
WAS fined 81 so for using profane Ian
guage.
William Hester, q colored boy, was
charged with stealing some whiskey,
and was dismissed on that charge, but
for vagraucy was given 80 days on the
chain gang
Charles Albany was taxed SO. so on
the charge of disorde:ly conduct. and
Sam Godson on a similar charge was
fined like amount.
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PERSONAL.

J. c. Graham. of Graham, Va was in
the city yesterday.
Mrs l Ernest Boone is spending the
holidays with her parents at Elliston.
Jas. T. wager has returned from FIN
castle, who're he spent Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs T. b. Stultz are visit
ing friends and relatives in the city.
Frank j. Sheppard went to Hagers-
town yesterday on visit to relatives
Rudolph Foster returned yesterday
from visit to relatives in Washington.
Judge Walter j. Pierce, OF Christians.
burg, was in the city yesterday on legal
business.
Capt. Frank Blanchard, of Bristol
Tenn, was in the city yesterday on
business.
Miss Mamie Henkle, of Buena Vista.
Is in the city visiting her uncle, Philip
Trenwith.
Miss Minnie Francis, Of Giles county
is in the city, the guest of her aunt,
Mrs. l. A. Francis.
Henry Price, well-known farmer
and distiller of Franklin county, was in
the city yesterday.
John M. Smith, we'll known citizen
of Elizabethton. Tenn, was in the city
on business yesterday.
Miss Daisy Crockett, popular young
lady Of Saawsville, Va is visiting rel
atives in Floyd county
Police Officer Flick will leave Satur-
day for Richmond to attend the inaugu
ration of Colonel U'Farreil.
James Reed, letter carrier in the
postoffice. has lone TO Maryland to
S pend few days with relatives
Llewelyn Lookabill returned home
Yesterday morning from visit 10 rela-
tives at baltimore and uagerstCwn
James A. Pugh, who was Shot two
weeks ago to-day, was on the street
yesterday for the fist time since his
pisnap
Callie Turner. OF Henry county, is
very i'll with typhoid fever AT the resi-
dencs OF M. Turner on Sixth avenue
'uthwest
was prominent business man Of this
city, came 10 Roanoke yesterday from
Baltimore.
Sam Oakley. an attache OF the FRI of
funeral directors OF Oakley & Wool vine,
came home yesterday morning FROM i.
Northern visit of a few days.
rev. john II. llarrlS, pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church at Floyd Court
House, will arrive i'll tho city TO day.
and will visit his daughter, Mrs. j. II.
Hall, at her homo on Chatham avenue
southwest.
G. G. Cushman, adjutane of the
Second Virginia res iment, vent to
Hsrrisonburg yesterday to sec Colonel
O'Fe:rall. The object of his visit was
to urge tho nomination of General An
derson to the position OF adintant gon.
erSl
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Bargains.

11.room house with all improvements
on Sixth avenue 8. w, So, 800.
Lot corner Jefferson street and Ninth
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$3.50; $50 cash, balance $40 per month.
Wanted.
We can sell two or three lots in the
southwest part of town. List yours.
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