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NOTHING LIKE OUR IMPROVED oRoToN
DR.. Edison Says No City in the World Hss.
such Good Drinking Water.

DR.. Edison Says No City in the World Hss
Such Good Drinking Water.
The chemical exports Of tho Board OF Hes, h
will be sent throughout the Croton watershed
In few days to mako examinations and tests
for the purpose OF ascertaininG just how much
improvement there Is in the water since the
worst nuisarces in the district were removed.
Samples Of the water. obtained every week
from the city hydrants and reservoirs. have
shown ma ked though gradual improve
ment. Samples will now be taken from oil the
lakes and streams in the watershed.
Health Commissioner Cyrus Edison said yes
terday that the Croton water OF to-day Is SO
ner cent. purer than it was last August, and
that, the citizens OF New York are now sup
any other city in the world. No nitrites are
found In the water now. and whatever impure
substances are found exist only in trifing
quantities. He expects that the condition Of
the water will continue to improve oil sum-
mer. except in case OF q drought.
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guarded from June to September. and why
precautions should be taken against that class
OF diseases the heavy mortality from which is
shown by the weekly records.
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AIesaeephallo Eject OF n Crab Il
Hnll GlIrOY

from ne baltimore American.
Baltimore 10 the best fed city in the world
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Uotr friends rho Jduor suit, manuscript ion
publication ,csh to hare rejected articles returned
Cev must in all cases send stamps for that pa;pose
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Advertisements for THE WEEKLY Bun. issued
tomorrow morning. must be handed IN tbs epen-
tne before o'clock
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
LUCKY FIND.
Accidental Discovery Of a Plot Against
Chicago and the Fair.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 13.-The
police here yesterday claimed to
have discovered evidence of a plot
to blow up the waterworks and fire
the Worlds Fair buildings at Chi
cago. They claim that a letter was
accidently picked up at the Anarch-
lists headquarters, over a saloon on
East Genesee street. It introduces
Sebastian Verombelski to Joseph
Schultz, a leading Buffalo Anarchist,
but Schultz denies that he knows
anything about it. The letter, which
is written in German. bears the date
of April 30, and part of it, translat-
ed, reads as follows:
The hopes which l held out to you
when last we met are about to be
fulfilled, and we shall look formuch
assistance from you.
This letter will introduce Sebastian
Verombelski, who will explain the
assistance we need. He has the
complete plans of the waterworks
mains from the mouth of the intake
pipe to the pumping stations, also
plans of the Fair buildings.
The police claim that it indicates
existence of a plot devised to avenge
upon Chicago the execution of the
Anarchists condemned for the Hay
market murders.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
A FAVORABLE FEELING.
Attitude OF the Department Of Justice
on Sunday Opening of the Fair.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 10
Inquiry at the Department of JUS
tice as to the decision of the Board
of Directors to open the Worlds
Fair Grounds on Sundays. develops
a feeling favorable to it. 1t was
pointed out that the law provides
that the Government exhibits shall
be closed on Sunday. Another re-
striction is imposed in the appropri-
alton of ~, 500, 900 for souvenir
coin. This provides that the Exposi-
ton shall be closed on the first day
of the week. Nowhere is it made
compulsory TO close the grounds in
which the Exposition or the Worlds
Fair is being held.
Attorney General Olney will not
express an opinion on the subjects "a
it will probably come to him for
judicial determination, but promi-
nent officials in the Department OF
Justice do not hesitate to approve
the action already taken as being
within the law, but express the
hope that means may he found to
throw open the whole Exposition on
SUNDAYS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
Sherifs Sale.

By virtue and authority of a general
execution issued fIom the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Audrain
County, Missouri. r~eturnahle at the
June term, 1898, of said Court, and to
me directed in favor of lie. Cove ct al,
plaintiffs, and against Martha Hern-
don, defendant, l have levied upon and
seized all the right, title. interest and
claim of the said Martha Herndon of.
in and to the following described real
estate, to-wit: Forty-five acres. the
north part of the west half ofthe south
west quarter, and 80 acres, the cas-,
part of the southwest quarter OF the
northwest quarter, and % l-2 acres.
the southwest part of the southeast
quarter of the northwest quarter and
81 IL acres, the northwest part Of the
east half of the southwest quarter, all
In section Is, township 81, range Ii.
west; also 20 acres, the east part of the
northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter OF section 10, township 50.
range IL, west, all lying and being i'm
the said County, and State of Missouri;
and 1 will, on
Friday, the 9th day of June, 1898,
between the hours of 8 o'clock in the
forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon
OF that day, at the east front Court
House door. in the town of Mexico.
County of Audrain aforesaid, sell the
same, or SO much there f as NAV he
required, at public vendue, to the high
est bidder for cash In hand (subiect to
al prior liens and judgments), to salts
fy said execution and costs.
otd. J.. n. STEPHENS,
Sheriff of Audrain County. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
FOUR DOLLARS TOO MUCH.
Louisiana Telephone Subscribers Pro
test Against the Rate Charged.

LOUISIANA, Mo-, May 13.-The
Missouri & Kansas Telephone Co.
has an exchange in this city of forty
subscribers. The charge of 81 a
month for each month is considered
extortionate and the people decline
to pay it. A large and enthusiastic
meeting of patrons and citizens has
Just been held at which a committee
was appointed to present their
grievances to the company and re-
quest a reduction in price to one
half, and in the event of a failure to
make satisfactory terms with the
company, the committee is instruct
ed to solicit subscriptions tor stock
in a company to be organized fol
the purpose of operating a new ex'
change of 200 telephones at 50 pei
month each. Already propositions
from othertelephone companies have
been received offering the same ser
vice at half price.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
STABBED ELEVEN TINES.
A Desperate Cutting ARRAY sunday
Night at Chiliicothe.

CHILLICoTHE, Mo-, May ia
desperate cutting ARRAY occurred
here last night in which a young
man named Alpha Dean, a student
of the Chillicothe Normal School
from Carroll County, was dan
gerously and perhaps fatally injur-
ed. He was stabbed no less than
II times, the most dangerous wound
being in the abdomen. His assail-
ants escaped in the darkness, but
this morning Charles Seiser, Dudley
B. Ewing and VIM. Kemp, tire
young men of this place, were ar
rested on a warrant sworn out by
Justice J. c. Barley charging them
with assault to kill. They waived
examination and were held to bal
at So, 900 each. Seiser and Ewing
gave bonds, but Kemp went to jail
in default of bail. Their prelimin-
airy trial will take place next Mon.
day. The trouble is understood to
have originated about a young
woman. There is much indignation
in the community at the outrage.
Kemp was the one who did the cut
finp
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
SUNDAY OPENING.
The Whole Fair to Be Opened wide
and the S1,9OO,O00 Return
ed to Congress.

CHICAGO, Ill.,, May 16.-The
Board of Directors of the Worlds
Fair tonight adopted a resolution
to open not only the gates OF jack
son Park on Sunday, but the doors
of all the buildings as well, to stop
the machinery, to give all the en-
ployes a day of rest and finally TO
pay back to the Treasury OF the
United States the $1,000, 900 recelv-
ed from Congress. All this is to be
done, if at all, with the concurrence
of the National Commission. AS a
majority OF that body favors Sunday
opening there seems little doubt
that the resolution will be concurred
in tomorrow and that the Fair will
be opened every Sunday thereafter.
The price of admission on Sun
day is to be so cents, the same as
charged during the week days
Sabbatarians are disarmed of their
most effective arguments against q
seven-day fair by several clauses II
the rules adopted to-day. One OF
these provides for holding religious
services at the park each Sunday II
Choral and Festival halls. Eminen
l.
preachers will be invited to conduc
. the services.
UNCLEsAM WILL OBSERVE SUNDAY.
WASHINGTON, D.. c., May TO-
Attorney General Olney has render
ed an opion in which he holds tina
the laws of Congress providing 10
the Worlds Fair prohibit the open
ing of the branch Post Office OIL
Sundays. In accordance with thl
opinion the post offices and othe
Government exhibits will probabl..
be closed on Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
HE WILL GET EVEN.
"Dick" Dalton VIII Appoint no st.
Louis Man to Office.
From the ST. Lnnis Star-SaYinRs.

From the St. Louis Star-Sayings.
Mr.. Dalton would not give the
names of his bondsmen, but it is
understood that they are from his
home in Rails County, he being
adverse to having any st. Louis
parties on his bond on account OF
the bitter fight made On him in try
ing to keep him out of office, and it
is an understood fact among his
friends that no st. Louis man will
get a position under Dalton for the
same reason, as he is bitter against
St. Louis people. AS soon as
he takes his position as Surveyor,
he will bring his family here.
A peculir thing about his family
is that his step-son and daughter
are % and IS years respectively
while one of his own sons is % and
the other IS years old. Mr.. Dalton's
first wife was Miss Biggs, a daughter
of the celebrated Judge Biggs, of this
State. His second wife was a Miss
Curd, and a schoolmate of his 6rsi
wife. All of his children are a
home except his Oldest boy, who i:
attending Columbia College, this
State. He also has a brother, "Bob'
Dalton, who is conductor on The
Wabash Railroad. He was conduc
tor on the train that killed the sleigh
ing party at Sarah street, in Janu
ary, 1891.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
Father of Twenty Children.

TOPEKA, Kan, May 16.-A farm,
er named Dodd, living near King,
man, sent a record to the State
Historical Society to-day which takes
the cake. He is the father of twenty
children and in all has raised twenty.
nine.
Before he was married, his pa
rents dying, he and his sister looked
after and raised their seven little
children.
HIS first wife had twelve, his sec
ond wife was a widow with two
little children when they were mar
ried, and afterwards they had sever
more.
MI. Dodd is 63 years old now
but as spry as most men at 40
He is a native of Montgomery Coun
tv. Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
LOST AT SEA.
The Countess Evelyn Sunk by the City
of Hamburg-Only Two Out
Of27 Saved.

LONDON, May 14.-The captain
of the steamship City of Hamburg,
which arrived at Swansea to-day
from Hamburg, reports that at 1
O'Clock yesterday afternoon his YES
sci collided in a fog off the Reverse
Head, coast of Cornwall, with the
ship Countess Evelyn, bound with
passengers and iron ore from Bilbao,
spain, to Newport, Wales. The
captain of the Countess Evelyn
jumped aboard the City of Ham
burg and Mate Richards crawled to
her through a hole in the Countess
Evelyn's quarters.
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
Ninety seconds later the Countess
Evelyn went under with her crew OF
Is and with nine passengers.
Boats were lowered at once from the
city Of Hamburg, but the search in
fog proved almost useless. Seaman
Jarbin was picked up, but he died a
few minutes after being brought
aboard the steamship. The dead
body of a little girl was also found.
Otherwise the attempt at rescue was
resultless.
The lost passengers we're the En-
glish wife and the son and daughter
OF a Spanish gentleman in Bilbao,
Mrs. Williams, her son and infant
daughter, two men named Barton
and a Londoner whose name has no,
been ascertained.
The steamship Ataka, which ar
rived at Cardiff to-day, was dam
aged yesterday in a collision with an
unknown ship of Lundy Isle. The
Ataka's captain thinks that the
other vessel went down with all on
board.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

IT Is \ mistake of some persons
to suppose that the banks are un-
sound, or less sound than they were
a year ago. The cause of the pan.
icky tendency of last week was due,
not to the banks but to the people.
AT some places bank depositors have
taken alarm. Somebody has fool.
ishly cried Fire" and, not wait.
ing to learnt the truth, they too have
taken up the cry and spread the
alarm.
Timorous people should not de.
post their money in the bank if al
the first evil whisper they are going
to rush to the bank and demand it,
The banks, the public and CONNER.
cial~ interests generally would be safer
if such depositors should put Their
money in an old stocking and keep
it hid about their own premises.
The panicky feeling of last week
was due to the morbidly apprehen'
sive depositors and not to the banks
themselves
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
Advertised Letter List.

Matte Adair, Albert Austin, b.
D. Badgers, Bella Bradley, Daisy
Crooks, Lulu Drake. U. S. Duty,
Levi Epstin, Jesse Foreman, Minnie
Guss, Mary Grof, DR.. Goodman,
Daisy Harrison, Ed Hankins, Alonzo
Hankins, VIM. Hopkins, A o.
Hubbard, Daisy Johnson, August
Keffer, Alice Maple, John Martin,
VIM. Montgomery, Nellie Moore,
Grace Price, Charles ID. Poor May
Roberts, Margaret Robinson, James
Sarton, w. D. Stuart, V. E. Steam,
Matte Sims, w. J. Van Pelt.
Charles Vivion, Clint Wallis, Lizzie
Wood, W. L. Mcdonald.
Il n RrpvEI.pT p M
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
Six Feet Each Way.

Apropos of the lawyers pitching
into experts on the witness stand in
murder trials, the case is recalled
where the lawyer looked q~uizzically
at the doctor who was testifying and
said:
doctors sometimes make mis-.
takes, don't they2"
"'The same as lawyers was the
reply.
"But doctors mistakes are bur.
led six feet under the ground
said the lawyer.
eyes," said the doctor, land
lawyers mistakes sometimes swing
six feet in the air."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
How TO Keep Our Gold.

From the Lexington Intelligencer.
How shall we keep gold from go.
ing out of the country, asks the
Warrensburg Democrat.
Easy enough.
We owe altogether to the money
lenders of Europe about So 600. OOO,,
900. The annual interest on this is
800, 600, 900.
The criminal folly of John Sher-
man, Charles S. Fairchild and
Charles S. Foster led the way Of
paying this interest in gold.
But we have a right to pay it in
silver.
Then let us pay it in silver and
keep our gold at home awhile.
This may make our European
creditors howl. but it is SO nominal
ed in the bond, and
Dag gon 'em, let 'em howl.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
DAL1ON'S APPOINTMENTS.
He Will Become Acquainted With the
Work Before Making Amy Changes.


Col. Dick Dalton OF Saverton,
Mo-, arrived in St. Louis this morn
ing fresh fromhis Rails county farm
and proceeded at once to the FEEDER
al building, where he was warmly
greeted by Mr.. Churchill. When
seen by a fost-Di$patch reporter
this morning in regard to appoint
ments, Mr.. Dalton said:
~ wish you would contradict a
report that has been circulated in
st. Louis. The last time | passed
through here I was quoted in i
morning paper as saying upon my
return to St. Louis | would make
known a number of my appoint
ments. I never said any such
thing, but just the reverse. | in
tended to return Wednesday morn
ing to make preparations to move
to st. Louis, and not until L take
charge of my office and become
thoroughly acquainted with the
work will I make any chang es il
the present staff"
To a reporter of the Chronicle
Col. Dalton said:
81 have got a bushel basketful o:
applications" said he, "but they
do not worry me in the least.
have got just 81 many places and
can't make any more. | am golnE
to peg what I've got with my friend:
as long as the holes last; after tina
| can do nothing"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Collector of Internal Revenue
Wenneker of st. Louis is on the list
to go.
While the weather conditions of
the state have largely improved
crops are still backward.
1t has developed that after all his
buster Delegate Rawlins of Utah
has not resignedhis seat in Congress.
Schureman's private bank at
Normal, ILL.,, has closed. 1t is fear
ed that the suspension will prove
disastrous locally.
Ex-Sheriff Dosenback of St. Louis
county confessed judgment for So
900 in favor of Mrs. w. S. Smith,
whose husband he killed.
The evidence before the Missouri
Supreme Court shows that the
transcript of record in the case Of
Joseph Howell was undoubtedly
altered surreptitiously.
The same mob that lynched Ter
rell, the murderer of Conductor
Price at Bedford, Ind, went te
Brownston and also lynched Lo,
Trenck, another murderer.
An ex-M Methodist minister namec
Conn, at Memphis, claims to have
discovered stigmata while saving OF
a Pile of wood. An intense religious
fervor has been worked up by thu
alleged miracle.
Chinese exclusion was the sol
topic considered at yesterday
meeting of the Cabinet. The Su
t preme Courts decision is believes
to have been a surprise to the ad
ministration, which finds itself in a
embarrassing position.
Il The body of Pallister, the escape
murderer, was found In the river q
Sing Sing, close to where Rohle'
G body was found two weeks ago. Fl
had been shot and the suppositio
is that Rohle killed him and com
G mitted suicide, as Rohle's body ais
, had a bullet in it..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
One Thousand Dollars a Day.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 15.-John
w. Mackay, the bonanza king, ac'
companied by a large party, arrived
here to-day for a visit of severa.
weeks to the Worlds Fair. He has
engaged one-half of the entire tiool
of one of the largest hotels, and fol
which, it is said, he pays at the rate
of 81 900 a day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

IT is the intention of the parties
who have the Fourth of July cele.
bration for this city in hand to make
it the grandest affair of the kline
ever held in the state. Looking tc
this end, every society in Audrair
county is requested to send a repre-.
sentative to a meeting to be held Al
the City Hall in Mexico Tuesday
May %, at 7:30 o'clock, p. m. L
is of importance that every society
should attend to this matter prompt
"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
4 Great Curiosity.

Solicitor on soap box in front O.
tent-"Here you are, sir! The
greatest wonder at the fair, sir
Within this tent sits Terence Gala.
han, the only living man that has
drunk buttermilk made from a
ehurning of cream skinned from
the milk given by O'Leary's COW
that kicked over the lamp that Sc,
Chicago on fire. Here you are
Tickets only five dimes, two quar-
tiers, fifty cents of half q dollar.
Josiah Wright is down from Kan.
sas City on a visit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

The Sunday opening riddle OF the
Worlds Columbian Exposition has
been solved. The directors of the
Fair propose to meet the %religionists
half way and have services each
Sunday in several CT the largest
buildings, to be conducted by emf
nent divines.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
Administrator's Notice

Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration upon the estate of
). 4: Fsgan, deceased, have been
granted the undersigned by the pro-
Date Court of Audrain ColIntv Mis-.
souri,, bearing date April Is. 1893.
All persons having claims aoainst
said estate are requested to erhihit
them Tor allowance to the administra-
Tor within one year after date of Grant
ing letters, or they may be preeiuded
from any benefit of such estate and II
sue claims be not exhibited within
TWO years from the date thew viii he
forever barred. j. r. FEGAN
oF Administratnr
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

Two Mexicans fought with knives
forthe hand o. beauty. They fought
quite theoretically. After the hand
of beauty had strewn afew blossoms
over a pair of graves it will doubt
less be bestowed upon somebody
who had sense enough to keep out
of the row.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

CIR. GIBBS will likely accept a pc.
sition with the Equitable Life Assur.
ance Association and assist G. G.
VOORHEES, in c~anvassing this portion
of Missouri. Mr.. Gibbs is an active
and pushing business man with
fine requisites for such a position,
and we predict for him splendid
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
18th day of June. 1898,
Notice to Bridget Builders
On Monday. June 5, 1898.

OH MOnuays Juiie ~ 90"
at II o'clock a. m. at my office in Mex
leo, MOL will let the contract 10 build
an iron bridge 80 feet long on stone
pier at one end and iron tubes at the
other end.
At 2 O'Clock On the same date ana
place I will let contract to build hVe
Mcpherson PatentWire Cable hordn
bridges and 8 wooden bridges. an
contracts will be let at public auction
to the lowest bidder. who will g re-
ouired to give bond to keep the bridge
in good repair ford years from date OF
contract. The County Court reserves
the right to reject any or all BIDS.
| Plans and specifications are on file at
the County Clerks office.
c.. d. RODGERS,
BridgeCommissioner ofAudrain Coun-
ty. Missouri. 1-ot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

Col. DICK DALTON, the new Sur.
veyor of the Port at St. Louis, an.
nounces that he will not forget bis
friends. Jno. a. Knott, of Hanni.
bal, Thos. W. Mabry, speaker Of
the last House of Representatives,
Dennis Ryan, Sidney Ray, Hon.
James Donnell and Baxter Brown
are already booked for positions, SC
it is said.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

THE Protestant churches of Amer.
lea, Great Britain and Europe are
represented in their work for other
lands by 5000 missionaries. and
more than $4,000 native workers:
and have expended during the pas
year about $12, 500, 900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18
J.N.8ERRX
SheriF's Sale.

BY virtue and authority of a trans
cript execution issued from the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Au-
drain County, Missouri, returnable at
the June term, 1893, of said Court,
and to me directed in favor of Jennie
Slaughter for services as house servant
and against John G. Leniton, / have
levied upon and seized all the right,
title, interest and claim of the said
John C.Leniton of, in and to the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit: Be
ginning at the northeast corner of the
south half of lot No. twenty-one CID,
Sparks Addition to Mexico, Missouri,
run west a hundred and twenty feet
(120), thence south sixty feet{60), thence
east one hundred and twenty feet (120l,
thence north on west line of Calhoun
street sixty feet (60), to place of Begin
ming, all lying and being in the said
County, and State of Mo-; and will, on
Friday, the 9th day of June, 1898,
between the hours of 8 o'clock in the
forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon
Of that day, at the east front Court
House door, in the City of Mexico.
County Of Audrain aforesaid, sell the
same. or so much thereof as may be
required, at public vendue, 10 the
highest bidder for cash in hand (sub-
jeot to all prior liens and judgments),
to satisfy said execution aid costs.
6td. J. N. STEPHENS,
Sheriff of Audrain Co,nfy No
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

THE Columbia Herald gives some
good advice in reference to COM
mencement programmes being brief.
That paper also suggests that very
often too much outlandish music is
sandwiched in to pad out an other
wise short programme.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

THE United States supreme court
having held the Geary law to be good
the Chinese must be registered or
post off to China carrying their pig
tails behind them. This country
is getting to be particular about the
company it keeps.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

HG Go2otte,a Republican paper OF
ueuali,., Mo-, is in favor of holding
,.il.sry elections to select postmas-
.Y.s aid allowing all the patrons Of
,lIe cffee, regardless of party af1ilia.
liz. - vote.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-18

THE local option election in this
county on June 18th will be con-
Quoted on the Australian system at
the usual voting places outside OF
Mexico. There seems to be little OF
no interest manifested in the matter,