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Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Judge VIM. Stuart left for
Texas Sunday and on Wednes-
day, June Is, he was married to
Mrs. Addie Judy at the residence of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. W.
Sumner, at Vernon, Texas. Judge
Stuart. is one of Mexico's most sub
stantial and worthy citizens. Mrs.
Judy is an Audrain lady and a
daughter of one of our oldest and
most highly respected citizens and a
most estimable woman.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

The Centralta Courier says; j.
w. Sexton, one of Audrain's most
prosperous farmers, was in town
Friday aud treated himself to d new
surrey and set of harness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

While in Topeka last March, L. T.
Barber, u prominent newspaper man
of La Cygne, Kas., was taken with
cholera morbus very severely. The
night clerk at the hotel where he was
stopping happened to have Il bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhoea Remedy and gave him three
doses which relieved him, and he
thinks saved his lie. Every family
should keep this remedy in their
home at all times. No one can tell
how soon 1t may be needed. 1t costs
but q trifie and may be the mean OF
saving much suffering and perhaps
the life of some member of the family.
3 and Scent bottles for sale by Chas.
A. Ruekner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
AudraIn Courts.

CIRCUIT COURT Sd Monday in JAN
nary, LIST Monday in June, Sd Monday
i'll September.
COUNTY CoURT-1st Monday in Feb
ruary, 1st Monday in May, LIST Mon-
day in August, 1st Monday i'll Noyem-
Der.
PROBATE CoURT--2d Monday in JAN
uary, - Monday in March, I'd Monday
in May, I'd Monday in September.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

While at Peekskill, N. Y, Mr.. J.. A
Scriven, a prominent manufacturer of
New York City, purchased a bottle of
Chamberiain's Cough Remedy. Such
good results were obtained from its
use that he sent back to the druggist
from whom he had obtained it for two
more bottles of the same remedy.
When you have a cough or cold give
this preparation u trial and like Mr..
Scriven you will want it when again
in need of such a medicine. 1t is a
remedy of great worth and merit. %
and 90 cent bottles for sale by Chas.
4. Ruckner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
Got n Corner on Apples.

CHICAGO, June 6.-What few good
apples there are in Chicago are
held at $50 a barrel, a price high
beyond all presidents. As there
are only 400 apples in a barrel this
makes the price 1915 cents each.
The South Water street firm has all
the stock there is in the city and is
holding the precious fruit until ii
will be practically worth its weight
in gold.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria,
Races. NJ. Lou,s,

The Chicago & Alton and Wabash
Railroads will, on June IA and %,
sell tickets to st. Louis and return
at $40; tickets to be used only on
trains reaching st. Louis the morn
ing of date of sale and good for re-
turn one day after such date.
d&w til22 T.. S. WILSON,
Tiki. Ag't.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AtEHS VI tNlEItECi
Over 80 flags are a necessary
part OF the outfit Of every American
warship.
There are no known mean by
which the scars made by smallpox
may be removed.
When pigs carry straw in their
mouths, or when they run grunting
home, rain is at hand.
More than four-fifths of the muir
ders in the United States last year
were by men who had no regular
occupation.
A Latah (Wash.) man has in
vented a bicycle which he claims
will successfully run en- the single
track of q railroad.
Scientific men have demonstrated
that a speed of 200 miles an hour
can never be attained by anything
that moves on wheels.
Electric pianos, which play them
selves, the keys being pressed as
though by some unseen hand, are
now being manufactured.
Letters are whirled between Paris
and Berlin through a pneumatic
tube 700 miles in length at the rate
of twenty miles a minute.
There is 4 newspaper in southern
Missouri that is still running a rail-
way advertisement offeringlow rates
to the worlds fair at Chicago.
The existence of only two copies
of the edition of the "Pilgrim's Pro-
gress," which was issued in 1878,
are known. Both are in England.
A Butte, Mont, young man, for,
merly a clerk in a newspaper Office,
has come into a fortune OF over ST.
600, 600 through a judicial decision
Nuggets Of pure gold have beer
washed ont of sand dug out of {
well at La Veta, Col; and the dis.
covery has created great excitement
a Maine young man entered /;
store ut Caribou and asked if he
could buy a bicycle son the insol.
vent plan" He was not successful
Brazil is going to celebrate the
Fourth of July by setting up a
statue of President Monroe in one
of her finest parks in Rio de ia
metro.
Trees from which coffin wood i!
taken in Tonquin are mined instead
of being taken from the living for
est. They are found buried unde
a sandy soil.
The Chinese have a flower resem
bling a lily in shape, which is whit
in the shade or at night and as
sumes a light pink tinge on expos
ure in the sun.
An Indian is being fraudently ex
hibited at the Antwerp exhibition
as "Sitting Bull" 1t will likely b,
remembered that the old chief dice
some years ago.
All plants have periods of a~ctivit,
and rest. Some are active in tn
daytime and sleep at night; other
repose during the daylight hour
and are awake at night.
The liking OF the Water Moon
is the name given the largest gol,
nugget ever found in Australia. |
weighed 223 pounds and four ounce
and was found in 1852.
Allowing only thirty chews pc
minute, ten hours a day, a Ken
lucky statistician calculates that tn
average gum chewer moves his o
her jaws 103 miles a year.
A careful record kept at Yale 70
eight years shows that nonsmoker
are 20 per cent taller, % per cen
heavier, and have 60 per cent NOR,
lung capacity than smokers.
A single plant of wheat will Otter
produce 1000 seeds in one season
the sunfiower will yield 1000,
poppy $4,000, n tobacco plant 362,
600, a spleenwort Loco, 600.
In parts of France a species G
rabbit is utilized for the wool, wbicl
il said TO be softer and finer thai
that of sheen. IL is obtained al in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
Notice of Dissolution.

\. q. Armstrong, having purchased
the entire interest of Mary A. Baskin
in the firm doing business under firm
name of Armstrong & Baskin. We, the
members ofsald firm, bymutual agree
ment, declare said firm to be dissofv-
ed, the said A. 6. Armstrong assuming
all debts of the late said firm, aud he
is fully entitled to all the assets ofthe
same. A. q. ARMSTRONG.
June 6, 1891. MARY \. BASkIN.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

When Baby was SICK, We gave her Castoria.
When she was y Child. sine cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung 10 Castoria.
When she had Children. she gave them Castoria.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

The marvellous success OF Hoods
Sarsaparilia is based upon the
corner stone of absolute merit. Take
Hoods throughout the spring
months
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Dandruff is an exudation from
the pores of the scalp hat spreads
and dries, forming scuIf and caus-
ing the hair to fall out. Halls Hair
Remover cures it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
HONEST.

In these days of adulteration and
fraud, in all branches of business
and pursuits, it is pleasing to know
that there is one medicine prepared
which is strictly pure. Such a med
icine is Sulphur Bitters in curing
scrofula; you can depend on them
every time, w. 3. EvERTs, A. NJ,
Charleston, S. G..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Mr.. Mcpherson, formerly of New
York state, but who moved to Mis-
souri, in 1859, is visiting in Mexico.
His home is in Monroe County. Al
though Mr.. Mcpherson is over II
years OF age, be has planted and
tended q large crop of corn. He
says the outlook for crops in his
section was never better than to,
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

A. G. Armstrong and Mrs. Mary
A. Baskin have dissolved partner
ship. Mr.. Armstrong will continue
in business at the old stand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
CaStoria.

"Castoria Is so veil adaptedto children thss
I recommend it a~ssuperior to any pss riptioo
known tc ne"
H. A. ARCHER, II. D.,
~ So. Oxford ST, Brooklyn, NJ
O physicians in the childrenfs depart
ment hare spoken highly of their expera.
ence III thei- outside practice with C~astoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies q is known as regular
produces, Yet We are free TO confess that tia
ncrits Of CaStoTia has won u 10 looE gia
favor upou it,"
UNITED HOSPITAL AND D~IsrEssA1s,
Boston, kASa
ALLEN C. SMITH, Pres,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

sSascoris is the bes. remedy for children CT
which / am acquainted. hope the day is net
Tar Distant when mothers will consider the real
IN secest Of their children, and use Castoria in
Sad Of the variouSq usck nostruTns which are
Sssfroying their Lowell ones. by forcing opium,
ncrphine, sootAine up and other huriili
sssnks down theiz roats, thereby seDeiuG
asa to p-emat:4F graves"
Dr.. j. +. K~IEcaELoE,
EonHaY. Ark,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

The Western Horseman, publish
ed at indianapolis, says Eliza X. is
showing 2:10 clip. She was sired
by Robert Rysdyk, 2:134, and is
owned in Canada.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

"Uncle' Frank Shepard, Of Pike
county, was in town Saturday the
guest of his brother-in-law, Martin
Kunkel. Mr.. Shepard made the
LEDGER an agreeable call.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
CaStorsa.

sCzs1oria IS an excellent is.edieiue fer ciil-
dsss. Hoshers have repeatedly told ma 81 'H
scodegsct upon their children"
DE- G. g. osGooc,
To,-i Mo-.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

DOUGLASS CHRISTIAN, of Paris,
Mo-, was in Mexico this week on a
visit to friends. Prof. Christian is
Superintendent of the Paris (Mo.)
Public Schools and has been for ten
years. There is no more painstak-
ing, conscientious and successful
educator in the state than Christian
and the people Of Paris show their
appreciation Of him by retaining his
services from year to year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Mrs. w. T. Darlington has been
visiting Mrs. G.. ". Batterton, of
Sailing township.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14
THE FINE SADDLE STALLION,
Diamond MOntrOSe, Jr.,

THE FINE SADDLE STALLION,
Diamond MontrOSe, Jr.,
VIII stand the season of 1894 at my
stables, 10 miles north of Mexico and
l 3-4 miles west of Molino, at Sl2 to in
sure a living colt; $40 to insure a mare
in foal. Money due when facts are
ascertaiped, a parted with or re-
moved from the neighborhood.
Diamond Montrose, Jr. ,503, was sired
by Diamond Montrose 275, he by old
Montrose, first dam by Jack Sports
man, Jr., he by Caiter's Jack Sports
man, he by La Blanche, he by Bel
Air. For further particulars see Turf
Register.
Diamond Montrose, Jr., is 5 years
old, is now full Is hands high, coal
black with two white feet, stands up
well and is a model horse. He was
shown fifteen times in model, fine and
saddle rings since he was 2 years old
and was never beaten but once i'm his
class.
At the same place the fine young Jack,
Abe Larimore!
AT eight dollars TO insure u living
colt. Money due as above. If paid by
Nov. /, 1895. will give discount of 10
per cent. on horse and jack.
VIII serve Jennets at $25 for Jack
colt and $3.50 for u Jennet colt.
For extended pedigrees of horse and
Jack see bills.
VIII pasture mares from a distance
at II dollar per month. Care taken
to prevent accidents, but not respon-
sible should any occur.
Will give a liberal premium to bes,
colt of horse and jack.
w. w. Johnson
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Cases of 40 years standing where
operations have failed, have been
cured by japanese Pile Cure. Guar
anteed by French d Garrett.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

Bob Throckmortan, Jr., is happy.
1t is q boy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

sna csutaur Company, TT Murray Street, New York City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

II. Heineman, Milwaukee, writes:
"One box japanese Pile Cure has
cured me of a case of % years
standing, after being treated by New
York's best physicians" Sold by
French e Garrett.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

ALLEN C. SMITH, Pres.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-06-14

In parts of France a species of
rabbit is utilized for the wool, which
il said TO be softer and finer than
that of sheep. Ii is obtained at in
tervals by combing the animals.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-19
BURNING OF CHICAGO.
FIRES RICH HARVEST IN THE
AWFUL DAYS OF 1871.
How the Destructive Flames that Wiped
Out Great City Spread from That Fate
full O'Leary Cow-shed-Heroic Work OF
the Firemen.
Greater than All Fires.

Among the great trials which test
mems endurance that our country has
gone through, none perhaps has shown
more clearly the innate strength OF
the American character than the Chi
cago fire of 1871. The bravery, cour-
age and patience of the men who built
the modern Chicago on the ruins OF
the old is glory to the country at
large and a subject of congratulation
to every citizen.
The Chicago fire is without paral-
lei In recorded history. Many cities
have burned-some by accident and
others by invading enemieS-but in all
the annals of time there has not been
recorded a connagration so fearfuly
destructive as that which overlook
Chicago twenty-three years ago. The
great fire in London destroyed some
1920 buildings, but they were mostly
cheap editices, while many of tho Chi
cago buildings were sub ,tantial struc-
lures of stone, brick and ir n. When
Moscow was burned during the inva-
sion of the French army the highest
estimate of the number of buildings
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Of New York, sent $4,000: James A.
Western of Manchester, n. H., $l5,
600; city Of Erie, Pa, $1,000 Troy, N.
Y, $4,000; Montreal, Canada, $4,000;
Albany, n, Y, $4,000: Philadelphia,
Brooklyn and Pittsburg, each $l0o, 90;
Kidder, Peabody 81 Co., 100000; A.
Belmont 81 Co., Duncan, Sherman q
Co., and Brow Bros. ca h contributed
$4,000, making total Of S530,C00.
Towns all over the United States
took hand in a sisting the city, and
on Tuesday night it was known that
81, 5OO,O had been contributed BY the
people throughout the country for the
sent several trainloads of supplies,
$4,000 from the city aud over $1,000
from citizens. Louisville distributed
81 0, 90 worth of supplies. The S ate
of Illinois through the legislature pre-
sented the city with v. 1856, $40.
The condition of things after the fire
was enough to appall the stoutest heart
and make the most resolute lose Cour-
age. But those Chicagoans of II knew
not fear. Before the smoke ha ceased
TO curl up from the ruins and ashes of
their homes and their business y aces
they had set about re-creating the city
of which they had Just been robl ed.
With blistered hands but bold souls
they cleared away the wreck and ruin
and began TO rebuild. For twenty years
they kept up this new work. Then to
crown ii they wrote on the sands Of
the lake shore an architectural poem
and invited the world to come and adj
mire. And the world came and ad &.
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tion. Not until there was nothing left
in his path TO burn was the fiery mon
ster appeased. Commencing in the
barn, which was near the corner of De
Koven and Jefferson streets, the flames
swept north to Lincoln Park, leaving
in their wake miles of devastation,
acres of destruction, millions of loss.
In q few short hours the all-consuming
fame had swept over 2,400 square
acres. It had traversed an area almost
four miles long by one mile to mile
and one-half in width. More than 49,
900 buildings had been reduced to
ashes. Over 10000 men, women and
children had been deprived of their
homes. Every bank in the city had
been burned. Schools, churches, busi-
ness blocks, hotels, theaters, factories,
public buildings, national and munic-
ipal, had disappeared. Industry was
paralyzed. Thousands were on the
verge of starvation. Hundreds lay
dead, the victims o. the conaagration.
How the Relief Came.
Before the fire ceased the work of
relief was begun. Between 1 and 2
o'clock Monday the First Congrega-
tionai Church, corner Of Washington
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Richly dressed and apparently refined
ladies, with jeweled hands lifted the
wine glass again and again TO their
lips. Homes of int ligence and refine
ment and haunts of wickedness and
vice poured their children into the
same street side by side. The infamous
10 tied the innocent, and the vicious
leered in the face Of the virtuous.
Incendiarism also cropped out. For
plumber, firebugs set houses on fire
that they might pillage them without
being discovered. On 32d street a boy
saturated clothes-line with coal oil
and threw it into building. He was
killed by the firemen. At the corner
of State and sd streets "a negro saw a
white man firing q building and
promptly shot him down. Two men
were killed for setting fire to the
jesuit Church on the West Side. On
Fourth avenue q man was found with
hay and matches in the basement of a
house. He was beaten and stoned to
death By a crowd, and On the same
street man was shot dead for firing a
negroes barn. After the water supply
was exhausted neighbors put out fire
in barn at the corner of 18th and
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ton. Many of the men were half dead
with fatigue-one man afterward said
that he had been on duty or seventy
two consecutive hours-and tothers
were sick from the effects OF the
previous fire.
Flames Beyond Control.
The flames were utterly beyond con-
troll in short time The mass of
wooden buildings in the vicinity blazed
like finder and several lumber yards
along the margin of the river furnished
rich food for the flames. A strong
westerly wind began to blow, and this
drove the flames across the south
branch and into the south division
with incredible fury. Just at this time
the wretched fire apparatus began to go
to pieces and before day dawned eight
engines and seven other machines
were rendered useless. Attempts were
made to stop the progress of the flames
by blowing up intervening buildings
with powder, but the strong wind
drove the fire over every gap which
could be made and rendered the work
useless.
The fire soon reached the business
rart of the city and banks, no els,
shops, theaters, the postoffice, the
Court House and the sub-treasury ell
fell into one burning, fiery grave.
Such scenes were never before enacted
and probably never will be again.
Disaster tore the veil of pretense from
human character and kindness and
charity, brutality and dishonesty
ranged side by side. Again, the ca
lamity so craZed others that they were
apparently deprived OF their senses
and became unconscious Of their &C
tions. In its beginning the fire. as 1t
spread from house to house and from
block to block, excited only horror and
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the old condagration AS he looked
more intently he saw the light become
brighter and clearer and the fearful
truth rushed upon him that a new fire
had broken out. 1t was indeed so. In
a snall wooden barn on De Koven
street, in the southwest part of the
West Division, a woman was engaged
in milking COW, having a lighted
lamp nearby. The cow kicked over
the lamp and the flames Immediately
enveloped the shed, shooting their red
tongues high up into the night air.
The man on the Court House, finally
becoming aware OF the truth, gave the
alarm, but much delay interviewed be-
fore the fire companies answered it.
The City Fire Department was poor
enough at best. Two hundred men,
seventeen steam fire engines whereof
three were in the repair shop, sixty
hose carts, hook and ladder trucks,
etc, and 4,SG0 feet OF hose covered it
all. This outfit, it will be remembered,
was to defend from destruction a
sprawling wooden city of 330,0s0 in
habitants Forty or forty-hve precious
minutes was used up before the fire.
men got to the scene of the Conhagra-
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Mounted on drayloads OF t unks were
ladies in elegant dresses and adorned
with precious Jewels, which they had
donned to save them.
Frantic Efforts q Save Property.
Men and women in the shafts of bug
gies, pulling them along, horses, wag-
ons, carts and carriages, driven reck-
lessly over those who got in the way,
people carrying or dragging their
goods, wome n with children in their
arms, others looking for lost ones,
drunken men reeling and staggering
through the crowd, men, women and
children, rich and poor, in one hetero-
geneous mass, swept down the avenue
Hospitable doors were thrown open to
entire strangers and they were housed
and taken care of until they were again
driven out by the advancing flames,
and they saw other homes destroyed
"a their own had been. Often the
kindness of tho who welcomed the
homeless was repaid by the pretend
cd unfortunate victims stealing every
thing valuable in tao house. As
the night wore on the scenes In the
streets became more horrible. Liquor
houses and saloons were broken open,
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dered homeless. Tie entire business
portion of the city was wiped out of
existence. Men who went to bed Sun
day night worth mi lion awoke the
next morning paupers. The fruits Of
twenty-four years of industry and econ
omy and enterprise had disappeared
in a night fraught with grief and ter
ror. Men raved and women wept,
while children chung, terror-stricken,
10 their parents, who were as helpless
rs themselves. There was no invading
army at the gates, but the work OF
destruction and de- olation was as COM
plete as though Napoleon's guns had
shelled Chicago as they did Moscow,
and the fiery spectacle was as terribly
awful as If another Nero had applied
the torch.
Origin of the Fire.
1t was short Y after Q o'clock on the
night OF sunday, Oct. s, 1871, that the
Chicago fire bell rung up the curtain
on a panorama which stands out alone,
unrivalled in the history of the world.
Three months of drought which had
parched the wooden buildings, of which
Chicago was then mostly built, had
we'll prepared tie city for its terrible
fate. Several unusually large fires had
broken out during the preceding
week. one especially on Saturday, Oct.
Z, had exhausted the fremen utterly.
Sunday everyone was making holiday.
No thought OF any misfortune came to
che myriad citizens or to the wearied
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lake and out on the prairies was never
dreamed. The river was supposed to
be an impassable barrier, ut the ter
rifle wind that was blowing to the
northeast hurled firebrands a quarter
Of q mile from the West Side and the
destruction OF the South Side began.
The North Side, confident OF safety,
sought points OF vantage to view the
great sight, and looked about too late.
1t was encircled with flame. The
truth gradually forced itself upon every
one-the city was doomed.
How the Fire Spread.
Tic fire leaped from building to
building as If they were strawstacks.
The air was filed with flying brands
and sparks. Pandemonium reigned.
The roar of the flames had increa ed a
hundredfold. AS the calamity grew in
extent men, women and children be-
came frantic. The horror-stricken ST.
lence that had prevailed in the be gin
ming gave way to confusion of wild
despair. Brick walls were falling ia,
red-hot bricks were being dashed to
the pavements, and iron sales and pill
lars were heated to whiteness. The
streets were bright as day, but the
light for once was no terror to the
criminal. Boldly they entered the
doors or smashed the window of a
store and ransacked it of its valuables.
They even held up people on the
streets and robbed them OF treasures
they had rescued from the flames.
There were instances where the
thieves brazenly threw off men who
were driving with loads of goods they
had saved. aud mounting the vehicles,
the scoundrels disappeared with their
spoils.
The effort to rescue goods only
ceased when the flames rendered work