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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Think q Minnie
From the Shelbina tMo.l Democra

From the Shelbina tMO.l Democrat.
We are no worshiper or eulogist of
the administration, but when we pick
I'D a Democratic newspaper and find
If filled with abuse of Cleveland, Car
Isle and other Democrats We think
that sheet is doing poor work in the
cause of Democracy. The President
and otherDemocrats have done things
we wish they had not done, and left
undone things we wish they had done,
and it is proper to criticise them in
these respects. But calling names is
not criticism, and using epithets Sis
not argument. These things do no
body good, but tend always to harm.
By what authority some papers say
Il majority of the delegates to the late
Kentucky convention We're when
elected opposed to the administration,
we do not understand. Those instruct
ed that way voted that way so far
as we know. We have no way to judge
their views but by their votes. When
three-fourths of them voted thanks to
the administration we a not believe
the majority vas opposed to it. Too
many Democratic papers are engaged
in the warfare upon Democrats. 1t is
alright to advocate principles earnest
ly, but the denunciation Of all who diff
fer with us had best be left off. Others
are as much entitled to their opinion
as we to ours; and they may be just
as honest in holding them as we. Lei
us have more charity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
SILVER KNIGHTS OF AMERICA
Secret Organization Formed to Ad-
anc the Cause of Free Coinage.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 5.-The
Supreme Temple of Silver Knights of
America, a secret organization for
political purposes, has been incorpor-
ated, with Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, as President, and offices have
been opened in Washington. The
charter calls for the publication and
circulation of literature, the propaga-
ton of principles of political economy,
and the adoption of rules, regulations
and practices deemed necessary for
the purpose of securing the free coin
age of silver by the Government and
to make silver when coined a legal
tender. The promoters claim that
Temples are being formed throughout
the country, and the Knights have al
readydeveloped considerable strength
1t is expected that lodge rooms viii
be located in every town and hamlet
by the time the next campaign opens
The literary bureau is to be one of the
most important features of the So
| ciety, and the country will be flooded
I with free silver tracts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
A M CHASED DOWN.
The Report That Mrs. Mary Stewart
and Her Daughter Were Murder
ed in st. Louis is Likely
Erroneous.

For several days a m has been
going the rounds in Mexico that Mrs.
Mary Stewart and her daughter, Fan
ME, who formerly lived in this city,
were found a few weeks ago in st.
Louis with their throats cut. A news
paper man of this city has made an
energetic effort to chase the rumor
down. He traced 1t to "Fighting
Johnnie" Rogers and then, and not
until then, gave up disheartened. 1t
seems to be a fact that several weeks
ago Mrs. Stewart and her daughter did
leave Mexico.
After the report of their murder be-
came generally circulated in Mexico
a telegram was sent to st. Louis to as
certain if it was true. This reply was
received: "The report is evidently a
mistake. No such crime has been
committed in st. Louis"
Mrs. Stewards husband, it is said,
is in the poor house of Galloway coun-
ty. Her father lives at Santa Fe, Mo.
Her grandfather Mr.. John Charlton, is
a highly respected citizen OF North
Mexico and knows nothing of the
rnmor Mt all
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
HOW MRS. LEASE WAS INITIATED.
And Why The Editor of the Chase
County Leader Thinks She
Wasn't.

The Atchison Globe says: "The ed
itof of the Chase County Leader is a
Mason and is presumed to speak 'by
the card when he exposes the initia-
ton which Mrs. Lease must have
passed through if she is a Mason, as
she states. He says: We wonder If
Mrs Lease knew what she was telling
when she said she was a Mason2
When a candidate is initiated in a
Masonic Lodge he is stripped as max
ed as when he vas born, except he
has more hair on his head, of course.
He is then mounted on a goat, his feet
tied together under the animals stom-
ach, and his hands fastened to the
horns. A cookie bur is then placed
beneath the goats tail and the march
begins. The candidate Ia kept warm
by the right and boss Masons, who
srnite him on the rear breasts witt
large wooden paddles, etc. OF course
there is nothing improper about thi
for a woman to undergo, only a littl'
incopyenient.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
A Happy Fourth of july.

The women Of the w. F. NJ. Society
Of the Littleby church of the Mexico
circuit conceived a plan to make their
pastor and wife happy, enjoy the
Fourth and have the exercises Of their
society at the parsonage. Accordingly
they brought their baskets filed with
good things, ice rea and cake, and
filed the parsonage from 10 a. m. I'M
till about 4 p. m, and we ate and
talked and the ladies had their meet
ing and all went away feeling 1t was
the best Fourth of July they had eve,
| enjoyed. No doubt upon such scenes
the Lord looks with great delight.
ONE THAT WAS THERE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

Husbands Rights,

A wife must prepare her husbands
dinner, but he is not justified in boxing
her ears if she fails to do it. Such is
the syllabus of a recent decision of a
learned court in New York.
1t seems that man went home from
his work to get his dinner. On arriv-
ing at his residence he found neither
wife nor food. Then he started out
of the house and met his wife on the
street returning from a temperance
meeting. The husband forthwith ad-
ministered such punishment as, in his
opinion, the gravity of the wife's Of
Tense warranted, and the wife had him
arrested for assault and battery.
The ase went to court and the judge
placed the husband under bonds to
keep the peace. He also said to the
wife: "You woman, go home, and
temperance meeting or no temper
ance meeting, have your husbands
dinner ready when he wants t."
This decision is all right SO far as il
goes. II, however,the man was prop
erly under bonds for his part in the
affair why did not his lawyer insis
ti,at the mans wife be put unde,
bonds to perform her part?
The case indicates that a new brancl
CT Jurisprudence is to be opened 70
the bar just at a time when allthe prin
ciples oflaw have become well settled
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
TO WIND UP ITS A
Receiver for the Sturgeon Exchange
Bank-Cashier Winscott's
Shortage.

STURGEON, Mo-, July 4.-The doors
of the Sturgeon Exchange Bank are
closed under the following circum-
stances: Last Monday morning Mr..
w. Fl. Winscott, the cashier, sent for
Mr.. J. NJ. Seymour, the president, to
come to his residence as he was sick.
Mr.. Seymour went and found Mr..
Winscott laboring under great mental
and physical distress, and he was in
bed. He at once told Mr.. Seymour
that he was short in his accounts to
the bank in the sum of about $500,
and made a clean breast of the whole
affair; said that he had simply out
lived his salary since his election as
cashier in 1887, and thus his accounts
had gradually grown OIL him till they
had reached the amount stated. For
part of the time his salary was $1,000,
but of late years only $500. He had
been mixed up in the Sedalia and Ne
vada Bond Investment Company, and
at one time received several hundred
dollars from them on maturing bonds,
and claimed that that was not the
cause of his shortage.
The bank was then closed and the
Secretary of State was applied to for
a special examiner to investigate its
affairs. He Immediately sent Mr.Aus-
tin, one of his Deputy Inspectors, who
at once made G thorough examination
and last night made his report. He
found the shortage of the cashier to be
8 1901. SO. Otherwise the bank was in
good condition and able to pay all its
depositors in full. Mr.. Austin made
his report to the Secretary of State,
who at once laid the matter before the
Attorney General. He at once filed
his petition in the Sturgeon Court OF
Common Pleas asking that a proper
person or persons be appointed to
take temporary charge of all the a 8
sets held by the bank. Upon the re-
ceipt of the petition, Judge HockadaJ
appointed J. Nj. Seymour and Thomas
S. Carter to take temporary charge o
the bank, which they have done.
A meeting of the stockholders wa
then held, and it was declared to lie
!, the bank go into the hands of a re
ceiver, with a view to winding up it
, affairs. Depositors will be paid in full
, first and whatever loss there may b.
). will fall on the stockholders. Mr.
: Winscott, the cashier, has offered t
: turn over his home, valued at $3.50
r to the bank and to make over his lf
insurance of $4,000 also, together wit
other small securities, which will re
= duce the loss to a small amount.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Money Struck by Lightning.

FROM Tue bdiLil1lttH gun.
Fragments of a two-doliar treasury
note were presented at the sub-treas-
ury for redemption yesterday by a
resident in Ole of the counties of Ma
ryland.
"This was struck by lightning" he
said, as he EXHIBITED the two pieces OF
the note. The note had apparently
been burned iengthwise through the
middle, leaving the top and bottom
margins. The burned portion that
was missing vas from a half to one
and one-half inches wide. The edges
of the remaining parts were charred
The man said his home was in the
country and was recently struck by
lightning; that the note was in a cup
| board at the time, and that the light
ming entered the cupboard, burning
| the note as described.
The number and seal on the parts
| of the note were legible and genuine
and consequently the note was re-
| deemed,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest US. Govt Report
R@a!!:!!l! RskiRS
ABSOLUTELY PURE
FOLLOWING A NEW CLEW.
In the Stillwell Murder Case the Re-
ward of $4,000 Has Been
Withdrawn.

HANNIBAL, Mo, July 4.-The fact
that R. II. Stillwen has just announ-
ced that he has withdrawn the res
ward of $40, 900 offered by him for the
apprehension and conviction of the
murderer or murderers of his father,
Amos ]. Stillwell, has created a sensa
ton and revived the story of the hor-
rible tragedy that was enacted on the
night of December 81, 1888, when the
wealthy pork packer was killed in his
own house. The motive that prompt
ed Mr.. Stillwel to withdraw the re-
ward just at this stage is known only
to himself. 1t is said that Mr.. Still
well has experienced a change OF
mind that he no longer believes in the
robber theory, and that he will now
follow up a more plausible clew and
will be rewarded for his trouble. In
an interview with Mr.. Stillwell to-day
he said to the Post Dispatch CORES
pondent: "I will do anything in my
power to bring the guilty to justice, mo
matter what it may be. Some day the
people will know what my reasons
are, and they will see that 1 am right,
| but 1 cannot make them public al
present. l believe we will live long
enough to see the murderer of my
father punished"
Mr.. Stillwell has been accredited
with placing obstacles in the.way of the
detectives and others in f~erreting out
the guilty party, and the above is hi
response to the question why he hat
done 80. The Grand Jury will recon
vene in Hannibal nextMonday, and i
Ia understood that they will make
thorough investigation. The murdere
of Amos j. Stillwell is r to tn
gallows now than ever, if the rumor
here are based on facts, and the pub
lie need not be surprised at unexpect
ed developments at any time.
1t will be remembered that shortl
after the murder ofStillwell his wido'
married DIR. Hearne of this city. d.
Hearne and his wife now live in Sa
Diego, Gal. Since their residenc,
there they yer divorced and re
married. When these events too
place the San Francisco Chronic
printed the story of the Stillwell mul
der, and made statements which cause
DR.. Hesrne to enter suit for lib
against the paper. For the past fe
months the paper has had agents he
: collecting facts to assist it in defent
Ii ing that suit. 1t is surmised tn
the developments in this phase of Il
case have something to do with r.
Stillwelrs action noted above.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
GOLD STANDARD CANDIDATE.
Ex-Congressman Bryan Will Not Sup
port One, Even Though a Democrat.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July 3.-Just as
ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
closed his speech here late last night,
Prof. III. P. Burris, leader of the Pop
ulists in Jefferson county, asked him IL
he would support a Democrat who
holds the views of Cleveland and Car
Isle if nominated on a gold platform
by the Democrats next year. With
dramatic emphasis, Bryan replied:
"Nothing in heaven above, on earth
nor in hell beneath could make me
support a gold standard candidate on
a gold standard PLATFORM"
The u~tterance caused manifest dis
pleasure among the silver Democrats,
who propose to make this fight inside
the party, but he was loudly applauded
by the Populists.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
DIVORCE IN HIGH LIFE.
Mrs. Mary Sadler Sues Robt. Sadler
for a Divorce-Insane Jealousy
the Plea.
From the Ceutralia Courier


Various parties in C%entralia have
received letters from an attorney by
the name of Webster, of st. Louis,
asking for dispositions favorable to
the character of Mrs. Mary Sadler,
and stating the reason for wanting
the deposition that the lady had en-
ployed him to secure a divorce for
her from her husband, Robt. Sadler,
of Centralia, Mo.
Mr.. Sadler, when seen about the re-
port, admitted the truth OF it, and
stated that if Mrs. Sadler would give
him a deed to the home propert-.T,
where he resides, he would not fight
the case. Otherwise he would.
Robt. Sadler is one of our oldest and
most mighty respected citizens. He
has always walked uprighly before OH
people and has the profound sympathy
| of the entire community in his pres
emit domestic troubles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Secret Silver League.

from the SprlhRnelu Defnoctbt'
What is called a Silver League Ia
reported to be in process of formation
in Illinois. 1t is an offshoot of the
National league of which Senator
Stewart is president and Senator
Dubois and other free silver Republic
cans are active members. The secre-
tary of the National league is getting
up the new organization, and has
commenced work among the politi-
clans assembled at Springfield. 1t s
to be a secret organization, and ia
intended to draw within its fold mem
bers of all parties, Democrats, Repub-
licans and Populists.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

My little boy, when two years of
age, was taken very ill with bloody
fux. 1 was advised to use Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and luckily procured part of
a bottle. 1 carefully read the direc-
tions and gave it accordingly. He was
very low, but slowly and surely he be-
gan to improve, gradually recovered,
and is now as stout and strong as ever
I feel sure it saved his life. l never
can praise the remedy half its worth
1 am sorry every one in the world
does not how good it is, as / do.-Mrs
Lima s. Hinton, Grahamsyille, Marion
Co., Florida. For sale by G. A. Buck.
| ner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
SHOT JOHN WARD.
Tim Kellogg, Well Known in Mexico
Fired the Bullet.

KEYTEsvILLE, Mo-, July 6.-Tim
Kellogg, a saloon keeper, shot John
Ward, a barber, on the streets OF
Keytesville this morning, and it liz
feared with fatal effect.
They with others had been up all
night engaged in displaying some fire.
works, and while they were working
the display John Barleycorn Gems to
have been working them.
Kellogg was promptly arrested and
placed under a bond of $500 and will
have a preliminary trial as soon as the
results of Wards injuries are known.
Kellogg ia a bachelor and Ward has a
| wife and several children.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

A FRIEND and reader OF the LEDGER
writes as follows: "Accept my con-
CALCULATIONS for your brave course on
the financial question. The present
iangle between the State Committee
and Farris and his followers must, if
anything, rebound to the welfare of
the Republican party in Missouri. But
there should be no politics in good
business and America will be
satisfied without the very best OF
money. | have been in debt all my
life, and ] have always wished to pay
every dollar of my debts with a one
hundred-cent dollar. The cry for a
debased currency is simply an up
beaval to the surface again of the old
fiat money idea and ! firmly believe il
ia much less strong than two months
aco. Hinrichsen in Illinois called his
silver convention and who now re-
members of such a meeting. The
prospect for good crops etc, are toe
large to permit the "Pops'' to do more
than make n terrible noise and hula
baloo. The Democratic party vii
come out Of the storm stronger ant
better than ever"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

THE Linneus (Mo.) Bulletin, m of
Missouri's staunchest and truest DEM
ocratic papers, says:
Our present silver dollars are not
coined free and are kept at par with
the other money of the country by
the Government receiving them for
all dues the same as other dollars and
keeping them interchangeable and at
a parity with its other money. In
other words, our silver dollars are
really based on our gold money. They
do not stand on their own footing. II
they did, their value would be about
half their face, for they are coined al
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Cnnldn't Do II.

An exchange paper tells a story OF
a mar in London who determined to
spend all he made during the first
year in advertising. He soon found
that it was impossible, for the simple
reason that the more he advertised
the more he made, and after o stronu-
GUS effort to get rid of his money in
advertising he had to give it up. Ii
you don't believe it, try it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

Mr.. C. d. Yonker, a well known
druggist of Bowling Green, Ohio, In
speaking of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, says: al take pleasure In
recommending it to my customers,fo
I am certain that 1t will always please
them. l sell more of 1t than all other
kinds put together. For sale by O. A.
Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
ED VIOLET DEAD.
Well Known in Mexico, Where He Once
Lived-Whisky Made Him a Thief.
From the Perry Enterprise.


The people in the neighborhood of
Florida were treated to a mild nsa-
ton the first of the week. The sequel
is a dead man. For several years there
has occurred at that place occasional
robberies. No clew to the criminals
could be gotten. AT n time a safe
in Vandeventer's store was cracked
and 81, 800 taken. A few days ago it
was again robbed, but it seemed i'm
possible to get track of the robbers.
A man by the name of Ed Violet iv-
ing in that vicinity attracted some at
tention because of an unusually pro-
longed spree. 1t was found that he
had a big supply of liquor and NOR
phine at his house which later he ad-
mitted having stolen from Mr.. Van
deventer's drug store. His condition
rapidly grew worse and on Monday he
died from the effects of a big spree.
Before he died he called a friend to
him and confessed that he had been
in the thieving business for some
years. He admitted being one of the
parties who got the $500 from Van
deventer's safe several years ago, but
could not be persuaded to give the
name of his partner. 1t is safe to say
that save by his mother, whose heart
he had already broken, but few tears
were shed. Perhaps but few young
men promised more than did Ed Yio-
lett. In early life he was an energetic,
successful business man, drawing a
large salary as travelling salesman for
an eastern company. About five years
ago he took the whisky cure, and foI
a short time abstained from liquor but
continued to use morphine. When
the buildings occupying the block in
which Hoyt & Longs store now stands
were burned, he was a resident Of
Perry and claimed that he found
bucket of liquor which had been car
ried from the burning drug store, ant
took a drink before he knew what i,
was. Whether true or not he wa!
: addicted to both the liquor and NOR
phine habits, and from their poisonoui
effects finally died. He was a man o
splendid intellect, and a natural gen
JUS. He had years ago lost the respec
, and confidence of those who knew
' him, but in his death is revealed ever
! greater crimes than was before known
Persons who are subject to diarrh9:
! will find a speedy cure in De Witt
, Collie and Cholera Cure. Use NJ
other. It is the best that can be mad
= or that money can procure. 1t leave
g the system in natural condition afte
o it's use. We sell it. Woodbridge
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

WANTED-A good, live, energetic
man to sell the world renowned Singer
Sewing Machine and also to collect
Must furnish horse, harness and guar
antee honesty. No capital required
Excellent chance for right man. APP
ply or address the Singer Mfg. Co. al
Mexico or Moberly, Nc. d&w u
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
Sent it to His Mother in Germay

Mr.. Jacob Esbensen, who is in the
employ of the Chicago Lumber Co., at
Des nroinoo, Iowa, says.-I have just
sent some medicine back to my moth
er in the old country, that l know
from personal use to be the best medi-
cine in the world for rheumatism,
having used it in my family for sew
eral years. 1t is called Chamberlain
Pain Balm. 1t always does the work.
80 cent bottles for sale by G. A. Buck
nor 6rupuiSt
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
CentraIia's New Hotel.

FTUfu Ut NtHtFHIH AVAtFNE'
Wilson & Hall have changed the
plan Of their corner building, and wiz
now put up a ten thousand dollar
hotel. II. G. ThreIked has leased the
hotel for a term of I've years. When
completed it viii be one of the hand
soonest and best apportioned hotels in
the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11
w ..!. n. E! n
FEMALE
REGULATOR.

1T Is A SUFFERS TONIC and
exerts a wonderful influence in
strengthening her system by
driving through the proper chan
mel all impurities. Health and
strength are guaranteed to result
from its use.
NV wife was bedridden for eighteen months,
after using ERADFTELDHS EMAIL REGU-
IATOR for two months, Is getting we'll
j. n. JOHNSON, Malvern, ARK.
BBADFTELD REGULATOR CO.. ATLANTA, GA.
sala sy all Druggists st 81. 90 per bsttis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

The Farber Forum says: j. j..
Alexander says his firm has sold six
teen binders and about nine Thousand
pounds of Irvine this season. This is
doing pretty well, considering the
ssct that the oat crop is somewhat
abort.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

MEXICO had q large croWdfrom Au-
drain and adjoining counties on the
Fourth of July. The merchants of
Mexico should have added to the en-
joyment of the occasion by taking
more interest in the Trades process
uinn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

THE Democrats may and will prob
ably always differ on some details, but
every Democrat is in favor of the ma
iority ruling.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

On the big day of the Mexico fair,
the LEDGER will offer its annual prize
:. for the best looking baby.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

Travellers find a safe companion in
De Wits Collie and Cholera Cure. A
change in drinking water and in diet
often causes severe and dangerous
complaints. This medicine always
cures them. Woodbridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

THOSE gentlemen who wished to
start the Presidential campaign this
yea are slowly but surely finding out
that one year out of every four is as
much time as the people are willingto
give.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

If Mckinley really meant what he
said about not ~dickering for votes in
the national convention he may con-
slider himself ous of the running.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

DEMOCRATS should reason together
about the money question. There is
more business than politics in this
matter. Prejudice should have moth
ing to do with the final result.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-11

REPUBLICAN editors who wish pic
lures of Mr.. Benjamin Harrison can
obtain some, postage free, by address
ing that gentleman, care of Col. Johr
G. New. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.