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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The st. Louis Republic. referring to
Senator Vests position on the Anti
Option Bill, says:
1t is said that since Mr.. Vest re-
fused to vote for the Republican
option bill his popularity in Mis-
souri, is id need of tonic" That
is nonsense. Mr.. Vest is not seek
ing the approval of those who will
approve nothing unless it bears the
brand of Republican paternalism
and Capitalization, but in this as in
every other vote he has cast for
Democracy he will have the indorss-
ment Of all who will indorse Demo-
cratic principles and are intelligent
enough to know what they are.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
1T WAS HORRIBLE.
A Citizen Talks Of the Burning of
Henry Smith In Texas.

Speaking of the burning Of the
negro, Henry Smith, which occurred
in Texas Wednesday, a prominent
citizen said: "I have never read
anything SO horrible as the eremat-
ing of that negro Smith in Texas.
1t is impossible to conceive of any,
thing worse. His crime was a hor-
rible one and deserved an awful
punishment-probably he should
have been burned alive. But the
conduct of the executioners of that
indescribable occurrence should, in
my feeble opinion, be rebuked by
Governor Hogg severely. He has
ordered the names taken of the
leaders and be will likely see that
they are punished. 1t is nothing
less than disgrace to a civilized
country; it reflects upon humanity /;
it stains the character of an Ameri-
can citizen and puts US below the
demoralized and uncivilized Indian.
For man, made after the image of
his Maker, to inflict such punish
ment as slowly pushing red-hot
poker in a humans eye and leaving
it there untilit had cooked the flesh
around it; then putting it in the
other eye likewise; then applying a
red-hot bar to the feet and gradually
drawing it up and down and around
the body. After this, amid tre-
mendous yells and heart-rending
pleas to be killed, they oiled and
burned him until his arms and legs
became loose from the post by being
almost entirely consumed in the
angry flames. Yet alive, miraeu-
lous it seems, he rolls from the aw-
full fire but is pushed back. Again
he endeavors to free himself, thus
showing consciousness, and tumbles
from the bed of red-hot Goals. This
time a rope is placed around his
cooked head and he his drawn and
held in the fire until he is utterly
in ashes. 1t was citizens of these
United States, of this Christian and
moral country who did this. 1t was
actrocious and words are inadequate
to tell of it. The negro deserved a
horrible death but this was wicked
and inhuman.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

MEXICO. MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY o 1ae3
The Anti.Option Bill.

Nk@sAs ttAC sOia6asuA lihy IFlDuEe.
When Senator Vest predicted, ten
days ago, that the so-called Wash.
burne Hatch anti-option bill would
pass the Senate, be signed by the
President and become a law, there
were many who thonght him too
positive in his assertion. But the
bill passed the Senate on Tuesday
and will go to the President. There
is no mistaking what Benjamin Har-
rison will do with it. He will attach
his signature and make it law.
SenatorVest also said in that same
connection, "and the people who urg-
ed it and supported it will be sorry
before they hear the last of it," The
bill, at its inception, was designed by
Col. Hatch to prevent gambling in
grain, or rather to prevent gambling
in wind, whereby tie price of grain
was forced up or down, according
as the gamblers were able to cover
margins. 1t was, no doubt, praise
worthy purpose on the part Of Col.
Hatch, who supposed he was draft
ing measure in the interest of the
farmers.
But about the time the bill became
popular in the house, SenatorWa ASH
burne, of Minnesota, himself repre-
sentative of the great Touring mills,
which have entered into a prodigious
trust, saw the opportunities in it for
a bear movement in wheat. He has
denied this vigorously, but the indi-
cations are all against him, and it is
conceded now that the inevitable ten
dency of the bill will be to lower the
wheat market, and with the millers
in combination, we will have to sell
wheat at the cheapest and buy flour
at the highest.
In short, the measure is on a par
with the establishment of the depart
ment of agriculture gigantic hum
bug, behind which is one set of spec
ulators crying down another set of
speculators in the name of the farm
er. The farmer has had a great deal
to answer for, in his time, but he will
repudiate all responsibility for the
Washburn-Hatch anti-option bill.
He remembers the "hold your
wheat" circular and millions of mon
ey it poured into the sacks of these
same milleIs.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
The Funeral or ]. D. Garrard.

The corpse Of J. D. Garrard, who
died Wednesday, was brought to
Mexico Friday and laid to rest in
the new cemetery. The remains
were accompanied by the immedi-
ate friends of the family and the
pall-bearers from Centralia, who
were J. w. Booth, J. T. Mitchell,
James White, w. H. Carpenter, w.
T. Summers and w. R. Mcbride.
Rev Oldham, of Columbia, of6ciated
at the funeral in Centralia and Rev.
A. A. Wallace conducted the SER
vices at the grave. Many friends
of the deceased were at the depot to
meet the remains.
Among those who attended the
funeral from Mexico were Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Howell and Mr.. and
Mrs. Leslie Ferris.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
ANTI-0PTION BILL.
Hon. J. NJ. Barker, Of Mexico,
Thinks the Bill a bad One
The Trusts For II.
To the Editor of the Ledger.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, Feb. 2.-The vote
OF Senator Vest against the anti
option bill will call down many
maledictions upon the head of that
bold and able legislator, but it will
be well for all men to think twice
before they speak once in condem-
nation of his course. The time will
surely come when he will receive
commendation instead of curses for
his vote upon that bill. The real
question and the only one worth
naming is, "who is to be benefited
by the passage of the anti-option
bill?" If it is the oppressed agricul-
turists of the west then Mr.. Vest
made a mistake; but if it is that
buccaneer on the high seas of the
worlds traffic, the trust manipula-
tor, then Senator Vest made no
mistake and no prophet is needed
to foretell the latter resultif the anti
option bill goes into force.
The assassins of commerce, the
trusts, now have by the throat near
ly every avenue to prosperity within
their greedy and insatiate grasp;
they have the currency, gold, silver,
bonds, insurance, railroads, iron,
copper, lead, all manufactured cot
ton, wool, coffee, matches, even
coffins for our dead, and the trusts
would have all the balance of the
creation Of labor-oats, corn, wheat,
pork, beef and other farm products
were it not that the option dealers at
New York, Boston, Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans are in con-
slant fight over prices, gambling if
you prefer to call it that, but they
do not rob anybody in the dark, if
they rob at all. They ransack the
furthest corners of the earth to learn
the limit of supply and demand.
They do not hide their light under
a bushel but publish it day after
day, and any farmer can always tell
when to hold back his grain or sell
it better than if all such sources of
information were cut off.
As the member of a trust he
moves as quietly as the bat in a cave;
no one is permitted to know until
too late what he is moving upon,
but when he does move he ties every
hand and foot on a continent and
laughs at the misery caused, while
his bank account swells into mill
lions. The only thing that the trust
fiend has not been able to control
or crush, are those articles of COM
merce or necessity which the option
dealer has kept out Of his grasp. l
am one who does not condemn Sem
ator Vest yet.
Yours Respectfully,
JOHN M. BARKER.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest s. Govt Report
R9HaIl! BakiRg Bs,sdsg,!
ABSOLUTELY PURE

of its horribleness? What father can
know the feelings of that babes
father? None but that father him.
self. What honest citizen of the
civilized world can eensure that
father and that brother for pushing
red hot pokers into the rapists eyes2
Were they to stand by and see the
worse than murderer of their inno-
cent babe meet a death less cruel
than that which he had inflicted?
Cannot big black ruffian be tor
tured, as he has tortured, especially
when his victim was the Innocent
babe of a mothers heart?
/ say that it is impossible to con-
ceive of a death SO horrible as that
which was the result of the Smith
attack. Words are surely inadequate
to express anthing nearly 80 hor-
rlble, and that the death of the ne
gro, in all of its phases, was yet
even sweet in comparison to that Of
the child. When we consider one
as the best representation of the
devil and the other the emblem of
purity, and one of which Jesus said,
"suffer them TO come unto me and
forbid them not for such is the
kingdom of Heaven. %
This kind of crime as committed
by Smith is on the increase. Some
thing must be done; justice must be
meted out. 1t is a shame and q dis
grace to the Republic and to the
greatest civilized and christianized
country on the globe. How many
fathers read of Smiths act but that
shuddered with fear2 How many
mothers read of it but that Shrek
ed in sympathetic agony? Which
act has or ought to shock the human
family the most2 The cruel punish
ment of negro rapist or the criee
for a mothers help from that babe
when being cut, torn and murdered
By ruffian. Fathers and mothers
of Mexico, answer this in your
hearts. Let the happy homes of
this grand God-fearing land of ours
answer this question. We may be
accused by Citizen" as an advocate
of the mob law which we in advance
deny. But while God never tempts
us beyond that which we are able to
stand sometimes the devil does and
if God has entered black mark on
the holy record, kept by angels
against that father and that brother,
then let all the happy homes of all
christendom pray increasingly until
the blackened pages have become
as white as snow and as pure as
the innocent babe that Smith MUIR
dered. May God save the child
and mete out to the rapist his just
reward. READER.
N. B-I do not care to further
argue the case.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
Shot, her Nofhar.

NEVADA, Mo-, Feb. 3.-The four
year-old daughter of Mrs. ]. Robin
son, of Hoover, playfully picked up
a revolver, pointing it at her mother
remarklng, "I will shoot mama. "
The weapon was discharged, the
ball entering her head fracturing
her skull. Medical aid was sum-
moned and the ball removed. She
is in precarious condition.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
0MissNurI N MHsenm."

The proposition to establish at the
Capitol a "Missouri Museum" :"
while it has not taken a we'll defined
shape, is, on general principles.
good one. There should be some
where in the Capitol at Jefferson
City room or rooms where speci-
mems of the mineral and other pro-
ductions of Missouri should be dis
played SO that a visitor may form an
idea of Missouri as God made it and
man improved it.-Kansas City
Star.
What's the matter with the Mis-.
souri, Legislature2 :.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

THE Perry Enterprise says: ]. R.
Smiley weighed three loads OF four
teen hundred pound cattle and one
load of 235 pound hogs to Rollin
McNama of Laddonia last Saturday :.
This stock was contracted two weeks
previous, the cattle at "a so per hun
dred and the hogs at 1886 per hun
dred. OF course Mr.. McNama
made q bushel Of money on the lat
ter.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

DR.. S.S.LAws, ,ex-President of the
MissouriState University, has remov-
ed from KansasCity to Cincinnati. 1t
is not generally known that DIR. Laws
invented the ticket used in handling
telegraphic quotations, and from that
source realizes handsome income.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

No ONE denies that Hawaii would,
in many respects, prove a valuable
possession to the Uuited States. 1t
is only a question of whether it is
valuable enough for US to take
chances of having to fight England.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
THE AN1I.OPTION BILL.
Some Of the Provisions Of the Measure
Passed by the Senate.

The "anti-option bill" SO called is
designated to suppress "short sell
ling" of farm products. 1t does
not place any restriction on the sale
for future delivery of a product
which is actually in possession Of
the seller or which the seller has
contracted for to be delivered to him
at some future time. It provides
for licensing all dealers in "options"
and futures" an aunualf fee of ST.
600 to be paid by each dealer and
for collecting a tax of 20 cents per
bushel on all grain and 5 cents a
pound on all cotton, hops, grass
seed, flax seed, pork, lard, bacon
and other edible products of swine,
which are sold for future delivery
by parties who do not possess the
articles thus sold. These taxes
are of course prohibitory, the object
being to tax "short selling out oi
existence
The friends of this bill is congress
with numerous lobby have been
working hard for years to secure
legislation on the subject. The
| strongest supporters of the bill are
| Hatch in the house, Millionaire
Miller Washburn in the senate and
C. Wood Davis in the lobby.
The bill passed the house June 9
by a vote of 16S to 46. Some
amendments have been attached to
it, which viii necessitate its RETURN
to the house for final action.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The st. Louis Republic says: 8.
E. Kendall, of Mexico, NO., sent
ST to this Office for Mrs. Blum, q
beneficiary Of the lRepablse's Free
Coal Fund, who lives at the corner
OF Levee and Plum ,treets.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
A. C. Dawes.

KANSAS CITY, No., Feb. 3.-A
dispatch from Tampa, Fla, an
nounces the death in that city of
Col. A. G. Dawes of st. Joseph,
Mo-, formerly General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Burlington line
in Missouri. He was well known
both in the railroad world and politi-
cal field
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The London swells have decreed,
it is said, that the black dress coat
Tor evening wear must go. Have
they made any arrangement as to
what the walters are to wearY
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The Pittshurg Dispatch inclines
to the opinion that in eriticising the
Columbia stamps Senator Wolcott,
OF Colorado, was trying to maintain
for his state the high repute it
achieved as an authority in aesthet-
les by its rapturous praise of Sem
ator Tabor's $3.50 night shirts. 1t
NAV be so.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

HYDE d GALLEMoRE are now the
editors and proprietors of the Wash
ngton (Mo.) Observer, one of the
staunchest and truest Democratic
newspapers in Missouri
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
cuticura Resoivent

The new blood and Skin Purifier. and greatest OF
Huinor Remedies, cieanses the blood OF alifmPun-
ties and poisonous elements, and thus removes the
cause. while CUrrcURA, the great skin cure, and
CurIcURA Soar. an exquisite skin beautiiier clear
the skin and scalp, and restore the halr. nus lne
CrzTcuRA REMEDIES cure cvery species ofitching,
burning. scaly, pimpy, and blotehy skin scalp and
blood diseases, from pinples to sefofnla, frosa
infancy TO age, when the best physicians faii.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

TheFarmers' and Laborers Union
of Livingston county, Mo-, has
adopted the following resolution:
Resolued, That the petit and
grand Jurors be elected by the peo-
pie Of their respective townships,
and when elected they shall serve
two years, or until their successors
are chosen.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

CHICAGO is a good deal pulled
up over a souvenir spoon with a pig
in the bowl. Both the pig and the
bowl will be generally accepted as
very appropriate.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
Took His Own Life.

Henry Hagemeyer, an inmate of
the Fulton Insane Asylum, ended
his miserable existence by hanging
himself. His remains were brought
to Mexico Thursday and sent to
Wright City.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

As the contest between Harvard
and Yale now stands, the boys of
the former do more with their brains
while the latter excel with their
feet and hands.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

ing to directions, he began
to steadily improve, and
after the use Of them for
seven months his head was
entirely well. When we
began uein ng ithis head was
Q solid sore from the crown
to his eyebrows. It was
also all over his ears, most
ofhis face, and small places
on different parts OF Bis
body. There were sixteen
weeks that We had 10 keep
bis hands tied to the cradle
and hold them - hen he
A~Iax, 1n. and hah In
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The Centre (Mo.) Coutier says !:
Mrs. Trail, grandmother of Mrs.
John Hall, living west of Centre,
died at her home in Lincoln county
last week, aged SO years.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

IF hoop-skirts are coming back
the girls will have to abandon the
use OF hammoeks, at least in public
places.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

Hog cholera is reported from a
number of localities. The Monroe
CountyAppeallast week said: 1--WE
are, sorry to learn that hog cholera
is in the vicinity Of Paris. However,
it can not kill a great many hogs as
there are but few left over"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

Mr.. John T. HARRISON, who lives
near Benton City, Mo-, says that it
thundered and lightened at his place
on Wednesday night. Thunder
and lightning in connection with
snow and the thermometer five de-
grees below zero, is pretty hard
story, but Mr.. Harrison is a truthful
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

MAN may be the architect of his
own fortune, but he is responsible
Tor some structures terrible to con-
template.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

The torture inflicted upon the ne
gro ravisher at Paris, Texas, is with
out parallel in the history of the
world.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

THERE were forty duels in France
last year and but two deaths re-
suited. This makes it less dam
gerous amusement than foot ball.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
1t Is InluckY

To meet your tailor just as you
are entering the bank on Saturday.
To be struck by lightning on
Monday.
To sit on circular saw in motion
on Friday.
The break the mirrow your wife's
mother gave her.
To fall down stairs with the coal
skuttle On Tuesday.
To speculate with other peoples
money and get caught.
To get wet when you fall over
board while boating on Thursday.
To see tax collector over your
right shoulder on Saturday.
To bet all your money on one
horse whose rider has put up his on
another.
To marry on Wednesday girl
who practices with ten-pound dumb,
bells.
To spill salt in the coffee ol
the man who has the carving
knife.
To be one of the sixteen al
the table when there is only food
for six.
To meet a detective when you
| are buying a ticket for New York.
To call bigger man than your
self hard names any day in the
week.
| All these things are very unluckY
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

keep mittens tied on his hands to keep bis finger
could in any way get his hands loose. We know
your CuTIcuRA REMEDIES cured him. We feel
safe I'm recommending them to others
GEO. B. g JANETTA HARRIS, Webster. Ind.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
All these things are very unlucky.

The building committee of the
new Baptist Church has not award
ed the contract. Bids have been
opened but the prices of the least
bid even is higher than the amount
of money subscribed. The commit
tee will either have the plans altered
or will endeavor to increase the sub
scrjption.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

Van Roberts viii shortly take
charge of the Clifton House at Mar
tinsburg.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

eold EVERYWHERE. Price, CurfcgRA, Soc; Soar,
a5c RgsoivESr, Sf.83. Prepared by the PoTTER
SSrsend for .sHow to Cure Skin Diseases" Is
pages, SO illustrxiions, and 100 testimonials
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09
BAD ECZEMA ON BABY
Head one Solid Sore. Itching Awful
Had to Tie His Hands to Cradle.
Cured by Cuticura.

Our little boy broke out on his head with . bad
form Of eczema, when he was four months old
We tried three doctors, but they did not heip him.
We then used your three CUTIcyRA REMEDIES,
And after using them eleven weeks exactly accord
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

Mrs. Harry Dey, who has been Wis
iting relatives in this city, has re-
turned to her home in St. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

DR.. ]. L. Gartiell has our thanks
forIate California papers.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-02-09

tortured with irons until dead.
No resistance was met with from
officers as the people were cool and
determined.
THE CAPTURE.
TExARKANA, ARK. Feb. 1.--Henry
Smith, the negro brute who, on last
Thursday, outraged and killed
white child at Paris, Tex, was cap
tured near Hope, Ark, yesterday
evening, and was brought through
here at 8 O'Clock this morning on
the way to Paris where every prep
aration has been made for roasting
him at the stake.
About fifty men from Paris,
headed by District Attorney Bir-
mlngham and Chief of Police
Shanklin, met the prisoner here
and returned with him as guard
to Paris.
About 1000 people were at the
depot here when the train bearing
the prisoner arrived, and one man
made an attempt to kill the negro
with a knife, but the Texarkana Of
ficers drew their pistols and threat
ened to kill anybody that would
again attempt to harm him. About
200 people accompanied the train to
Paris.
Smith made a full confession to
the officers. He is copper-color,
clean-shaven, about % years old
and of most repulsive counten-
ance.
He fully realized his position and
knows that a horrible death awaits
him at Paris.
EN- ROUTE TO THE MASSACRE.
DENIsoN, Tex, Feb. 1.-The
town was wild this morning with
excitement when news was received
of the capture of Smith, the negro
rapist who assaulted and killed little
Myrtle Vance at Paris. A great
number of men took the early
train this morning for Paris with
the intention of helping to lynch
Smith.
THE FEARFUL CRIME.
PARIS, Tex, Feb. 1.-On Thurs
day night, Jan. 26, Henry Smith,
alias Bob Dowery, committed the
crime of rape and murder on Myrtle
Vance, the 3-year-old child of Henry
Vance.
| The sight of the torn and mangled
body aroused the people of this place
to fury, and vigorous and ex-
haustive search was made, until at
last Smith was found and captured
in Arkansas, brought back, and to-
day paid at the hands of the people
a penalty as awful as his crime.
The Kansas City Star is rather
rough on the Missouri Legislature,
as the following indicates:
Senator Vest formed and express
ed his opinion of the Missouri Leg
islature yesterday by voting against
the anti-option bill when he had
been positively instructed by the
Legislature to vote for it. This may
be taken as the estimate of a states
man now advanced in years, who
has known many Missouri Legisla-
lures. Without regard to the merits
of the anti-option bill Senator Vest
has struck a popular chord in acting
| as his own master in voting on it
and declining to be governed by the
instructions of the Legislature.
why should an assembly which de-
votes its time to petty partisanship,
to abolishing an important depart
ment OF the state government to get
rid of "Yankee," to listening to
arguments of antediluvian "educa-
tors'' and friends of the old clog
school house" and to resurrection
speeches about the "Lost Cause
instruct anybody
| Mr.. John T. Harrison, who lives
near Benton City, Mo-, says that il
thundered and lightened at his place
lon Wednesday, might, Thunder