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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
prnsnerous Administration

Under Democratic administration
wages are advancing ali over the II
tire country.
PAssAIC, n. J., June 21.-The New
Jersey Electric Railroad Companyh has
announced an increase Of one n a
half cents per hour in the wages paid
to motormen and conductors on their
lines.
PTTTsBURG, June 21.-The confer
ence between the Wage Committees
of the Amalgamated Association and
iron and steel sheet manufacturers
ended last night by signing the scale
to run from July 1 next to June 1 of
next year. A sliding scale based on
the selling prices of sheets was adopt
ed, instead of the old scale of the sell
ing price of bar iron. The workers
are to get 2 per cent. in the increase OF
every 10 per cent. advance II the
price of the sheets. This wage agree
ment insures work for 10000 men.
LEWISTON, MAINE, June 21.-The
Hill Manufacturing Company and the
Continental Mill Corporation, two OF
the largest mills in this city, have an
nounced a voluntary increase OF IL
per cent. in wages, beginning Monday,
June "a.
PORT CHESTER, n. Y, June 2l.-The
/ employees of the Port Chester Bolt and
Nut Works have been notified by the
firm that after July ! their wages will
be increased. Two hundred men are
employed by the company.
WHEELING, W. VA, June 21.-Al
the men in the sanitary p~otteries here
were given an advance in wages yes
terday of 10 to 40 per cent.
PORT CHESTER, n. Y, the Port
Chester Bolt and Nut Works, of this
place, have notified their employees
that beginning with July /, theil
wages will be restored to the stand
ard of 1898. The works have beer
running day and night for III past
| three months,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
DESTROYING CHINCH BUGS.
Pettis County Farmers Use a Fungus
Imported From Kansas.

SEDALIA, Mo-, June 25.-Pettis
County farmers are iubilant owe what
they claim is an infallible destroyer of
the chinch bug. Farmers in this sec
ton, it seems, have no faith in the in
fected bugs sent out from the expert
ment station at Columbia, Mo. But
recently Thomas Calls, one of the
prominent farmers of Pettis County,
living near H~ughsville, sent to Law
renee, Kas., for a few specimens OF
the fungus propagated by Prof. w. @.
Stevens, director of the experiment
station of the Kansas State University.
Mr.. Calls received through the mail
a small box containg three particles
of the fungus no larger than pin heads,
| These were put in a box OF moist
earth, together with about a quart oil
bugs and a quantity of green oats for
their food. On the second morning
all the bugs were dead, and in the
mass we're numerous particles of the
fungus. This was taken by MIR. Calls
to his corn field, and minute portions
were rubbed on the stalks where the
bugs were mostly found. In three
days wherever the infection had beer
| placed could be found millions of bug:
in heaps, all dead, and among them
were fresh fungus which they hat
propagated. Mr.. Calls has entirely
reclaimed his corn field, and coulc
have saved his wheat had it not beer
harvested.
Mrs. Margaret Williams and daugh.
ter, Nina, of Greenwood, Mo-, are the
guests of Mrs. Joe Brown, Mrs. Viii
| liams' sister.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
SAYS pOPULIsTs WILL WIN
General Weaver Predicts the Disrup.
ton of the Old Parties.

Dies MONIES, June 21.-General j.
B. Weaver, the free silver Populist,
said in an interview:
"The Democrats and Republicans
are divided on the money question.
These divided houses cannot stand,
and a new structure viii rise upon
their ruins. / think the national
ticket next year will be the point OF
union for the reform forces. The
country may hope for broad and lib
eral action by the Populist national
convention. Ninety-nine Populists
out of a hundred wish only to bless
mankind. This will lead them to
nominate such men as Sibiey, of Penn
~sylvania, and District Judge Caldwell,
The one is of Democratic antecedents,
the other Republican. These mel
are of the Lincoln and Jackson type
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
RATHER SHAKY.
Lon v. Stephens Investigating a Han
nibal Loan Concern.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, June 22.-Hon. Lon
V. Stephens, State Treasurer and Su-
pervisor of Building and Loan Associ-
ations, and his deputy, Mr.. Gray, will
be in Hannibal Monday 10 begin an
examination of the books of the Mis-
souri, Guarantee Savings and Building
Association, and thousands of papers
will be eager to read their report.
This association was organized i'll
Hannibal a little over four years ago,
and during the first two years it sold
stock to the amount of $4,000 900.
For the past two years it has been
considered very shaky by many, and
hundreds of its members have with
drawn their deposits at a loss of copper
cent. Under the new law, which went
into effect on the 21st inst, the asso-
citation is not permitted to do any new
business, and consequently the con-
Germ is badly crippled. In view OF
these facts the association has sent
| out personal letters to all members
holding installment stock for invest
ment to stop payments when theil
stock is fifty months old. The letter
reads:
sInasmuch as the future payments
due OH your certificate cannot. under
the new law, be loaned at a sufficienr
rate of interest and premium to make
their investment profitable to you, WI
deem it our duty as your trustees tt
advise you of the situation and rec
ommend that you make no more pay
ments on said certificate, but FORWARD
it to the home office and have il re
duced as authorized by the last CLAIM
of section II, page 8, of the bylaws
also, the face value will be only one
half with all payments made in full t,
maturity"
The officers and directors of the as
ISOLATION claim that the concern i
solvent and that all promises will b
fulfilled, but there are others who be
lieve that it will eventually go into tn
hands of a receiver.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
SUIT FILED
To Prevent an Election on Capital Re,
moval- Claim the Resolution
is Invalid.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, June "a
A suit of great Importance, at least to
Jefferson City and Sedalia, was filed
in the Circuit Court here to-day.
Joseph r Edwards, as plaintiff, asks
for a writ of prohibition to prevent
the Secretary of State from submitting
to the qualified voters of the state the
concurrent resolution providing for
the removal of the State Capitalize Sc
dalia. Mr.. Edwards is himself an at
torney and associated with him in
this suit r Judge H. Clay Ewing, A.
NJ. Hough, j. C. Fisher, F. NJ. Brown,
Edwin Silver and ". S. Pope.
One point raised is that the removal
resolution is invalid because it does
not provide that it shall go into effect
as an operative amendment to the
constitution.
Another point is that such an amend
ment to the constitution would be in
the nature of invalidating q contract
between the State and Government.
Under an act of Congress six sections
OF land were granted the state to aid
in building a permanent seat of Gov
eminent. This land was accepted by
the State, and sold, and the proceeds
applied to the constructing a State
house in this city.
The cas- will be argued some time
next month before Judge Shackleford.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
NUTS FOR M'KINLEY TO CRACK
An American Company Furnishes
Steel Rails for a Canadian
Railroad.

Close in the wake of the recent ad-
vance in the wages of iron and steel
workers comes the announcement
that the price of steel rails has been
increased 50 per ton, this rate having
become effective last Friday.
Another announcement that will be
received with some surprise is that
the Illinois Steel Company has a deal
on hand TO furnish one of the largest
Canadian railroad companies with
thousands of tons of steel rails. This
is a fact. The deal was begun through
d. p. Garrison & Co., the st. Louis
agents of the Illinois Steel Company,
who, after arranging the preliminaries,
turned the negotiations I'VE to the
home office at Chicago. Whether the
deal has been closed or is still pending
the Garrisons do not know. They re-
fused to talk about the matter beyond
confirming the statement that such q
deal was on and would undoubtedly be
carried out.
IL lndl ucdl 10 CdHficu oulJ Sdiu q
well known local banker, sit will re-
flute all the arguments advanced in
favor of a protective tariff on steel
rails. If this country can manufacture
and sell rails to Canada she has moth
ing to fear from England or any
European country. The very fact
that rails have advanced 50 per ton
and that wages have been increased
argues that the United States can un-
dersell Europe with all her so-called
pauper labor"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
The Business Boom.

From the st. Joe News.
Governor AItgeld will continue to
insist, with all his class, that the hard
times still continue and must con-
time until the theories are adopted
by the Government, but every hour
the evidences multiply of a return of
prosperity. In his speech at the
Springfield currency convention this
great demagogue said: "UrtiI this is
done there is no possibility of a return
of general prosperity. 1t has been
told lately: why, times + getting
better. Don't you say that we have
got iron works hard at work, and
they have raised wages 10 per cent?
Well, how many men are they en-
ploying? Fifteen hundred. What did
they get before they raised their
wages lately? They got 81 a day.
What do they get now? One dollar
and ten cents a day. What did they
get years ago, under the former con-
dition of affairs? They got 50 and
$3.50 a day" Now, the fact is that
those iron mills have orders ahead
for all they a do, and some of them
are compelled to work night as well
as day, employing a full force of men.
And instead of an advance of but 10
per cent, the old wages are being
fully restored. On the 10th instant
the McNeal Pipe and Foundry Conn
pany of Burlington, n. j., gave no.
tice to its employees of the restoration
of the former scale of prices, which
affects 500 men in that factory. It
must chagrin Altgeld and his sort, too,
that these RESERVATIONS of full wages
are made voluntarily by the employ
ers, without strikes or bloodshed. And
the iron miners are also coming in
for a share of returned prosperity,
sGs the raw material is rising in value.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala,
on the 18th says:
The raise of fifty cents a ton on No.
] foundry iron by the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company, an
nounced yesterday, makes a total adj
vance of a dollar and a half a ton
since May L. 1t is stated authorize
lively that the three successive adj
Vances are the result of a selling pool
that has practically contaminated be- |
tween the Tennessee Company. the
Sloss Iron & Steel Company and the
Pioneer Mining & Manufacturing
Company, who control nine-tenths of
the iron output of the South.
With the maintenance of the selling
pool still further advances are looked
for, and an increase in miners wages |
in this district is expected.
1t is a very unusual thing for the
iron market to advance without the
aid of the railroads, but that is what
it is doing. The Iron Age, in its sum-
mary, shows that this upward ten
dency has developed without the
powerful aid on the part of the rail-
roads, the principal consumers, and
the Central West leads in the general
growth. Evidently the good, all
around work of the new tariff sched- |
ule is trimming industrial sales in |
ways of prosperity that even it's enc
mics must acknowledge as the ma
terial facts come to light. But the
croakers will croak, and the kickers
will kick right along, and the dema-
gogue will vend his wares, whether
they be upon the tariff or the cur
rency, and there are those who will
listen and believe him to the end.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
Contractors Strange Experience.

CARTHAGE, Mo-, June PA con-
tractor named Ellis Jackson left last
October for Kansas City to witness
the Priests of Pallas parade and never
returned home. Search was made, but
nothing could be learned of him, al
though the Knights of Pythias, of
which he was a member, made dill
gent search. A few days ago a letter
came to his wife, in which he stated
he came to himself about two months
ago. He recollected nothing that
TRANSFERRED after retiring to rest at
midnight in Kansas City, but when he
came to himself was wandering on the
banks of the Ohio River. Being with
out means, he procured work as a
carpenter, and then thought of his
family and last week sem money. To-
night his wife left for Louisville to Join
him. He had large contracts on hand
when he disappeared, which have
since been completed by others.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

German frugality is shown in the
letting of the old Reichstag building
for business purposes at $500 n year.
Anatole France, the novelist, is q
candidate for the seat in the French
Academy made vacant by the death
of Camille Doucet.
Charing Cross Hospital, in London,
is i'll financial straits. 1t is proposed
to move the hospital to Camberwell,
south of the river, and sell the valua-
BILE sight on which it now stands.
Miss Emily Faithful combined her
work for the cause of oma with a
love for strong cigars, of which she
was an inveterate smoker. She took
to tobacco at first to relieve her
asthma.
At the first ten performances OF
"Demi Vierges," as nasty a play as
Paris has eve seen at the Gymnase,
50, 724 francs were taken at the door,
a sun that has only been exceeded at
the theatre i'll 1887 by "L'Abbe Con-
stauten, zone of the cieanest of modern
French comedies.
Anew type of vessel is 20 be added
to the British Navy, a fast combined
gunboat aud torpedo boat destroyer,
propelled by electricity and with a
submergeable hull. 1t will be built at
Chatham, will be POI feet in length,
with very narrow beam, and is to make
thirty knots an hour.
COLTS place in Scottish life is shown
by the ceremonies of opening a new
links at Barnton, near Edinburgh. The
Edinburgh Burgesses appointed the
day and attended as a body. The
Lord of the Manor, Sir James Gibson
Maitland, was the leading figure of
the occasion, he and his daughter
formally driving off the first balls.
This was followed by a feast at the
manor house, the Lord Provost of
Edinburgh and other important peo-
pie being added to the company.
London lost its trade in cheap
watches by the obstinate stupidity of
trades union workmen, says Mr..
Booth. "The Swiss makers contrived
the horizontal escapement, but Lon
don makers would not bulge, and
later held out also against the Lam
cashire lever escapement. Nor would
they hear of machine work. A com
pany for the use of machinery was
opposed by Clerkenwell influence,
and, failing to obtain a charter, was
transferred to the United States,
where it has been the pioneer of the
modern factory system"
Rubinstein's "Christn has been per-
formed as a religious play'' at the
Bremen Stadt Theatre. 1t is divided
into seven scenes with a prologue and
an epilogue. The prologue represents
the birth of Christ, with the shep-
herds and the procession of the three
Kings. The scenes selected are the
temptation in the Wilderness, the
baptism in Jordon, the sermon on the
mount, followed by the miracle of the
loaves and fishes, the repentance of
Mary Magdalen, and the raising from
the dead of the Widows son, the pur-
ification of the Temple, the last sup
per, Christ before plate, and the
crucifxion. The epilogue is the VIC
tory of Christianity. Rainmund Won
Yurmuttien took the part of Christ.
Care was taken to carry out all the
composers ideas with regard TO the
representation. 1t was artistically
successful and was received in a rev.
erent spirit by the audience.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
JURY OF WOMEN.
Trial of a Breach Of Promise Suit
Brought by a Man.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 22.-ken-
lucky is soon to enjoy the novelty of a
female jury trying a suit of a man for
a breach of promise against a woman.
w. G. Stivers,a widower and prosper
ous farmer of Garrard County, has in
stituted proceedings for damages for
breach of promise and named as de-
PENDANT Miss Katherine West, a school
teacher of % years. He averred that
he had proposed and had been accept
ed, and that even the day of the we'd
ding had been set, when she refused
to marry him. The Judge before
whom the case will be tried is NJ. G.
Sanfiey of the Garrard Circuit bench.
Judge Sanfley says that he will trythe
case before a jury composed of women.
Under the new Constitution they are
eligible for jury service.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.
1t Is Expected That Germany Will
Call It Before October IS.

BERLIN, June Pat is expected that
an international monetary confer
ence will be called by Germany before
October IS. The B~undesrath, after
receiving replies from the various
Federal Governments, stands AZ to 16
in favor of such a conference. The
opposition is members come from
three South German States, and the
towns of Hamburg, Bremen and Luz
beck, while Prussia, Saxony and the
middle States favor the calling of a
monetary conference. The only point
still unsettled is as to what extent
Germany, in calling the conference,
is to engage herself-whether she is
to state the purpose as being the ulti-
mate restoration of bimetallism or
only to fix up a new ratio between
gold aud silver.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
TO TEST THE STATE LAW.
Arrest OF a Negro and a White Woman
for Marrying.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, June 22.-Sever-
al days ago Allen Mayden, a co1ored
man, and Josie Smith, a white woman,
were married at Ozark. They were
arrested and placed in the Ozark jail
for violation of the state law, which
makes such marriages a felony. They
could not give bonds of $500 each.
Now the masonic lodge of colored men
of this city is making preparations to
testthe constitutionality of the law. \
purse is being raised for that purpose.
The Equal Rights Association of the
State has been solicited to join in the
test, and will probably do so, as the
organization has been waiting for
such an opportunity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
NOTICE

10 J.; NJ. Waters, MolIie Rulor.
NancS Mustine and Rittje A Filler
neirs OF Thos. II. Waters. deceaged
fou are hereby notified. thai /, 40
n1ardIan OF the estate of Thos II,
atefs, insane, will on the first dav of
me september term, 1895, to be begnu
ano aeld at Mexico, in Audrain Conn
9, missouri, on the second MONDAY in
,oePtstnoer, 1885, make a final settle
mienL OF my guardianship of eatare.
Nneh u where you NAV attend II
li-5t Guardian OF Thos. m Watcrg
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27

SENATOR STEWART has been making
some free silver speeches in Kentucky
and promises to come to Missouri in
a short time. A correspondent, refer
ring to his trip through Kentucky,
says: Stewards haranges fall on list
less ears and their only effect is to
make the people indignant at the pre-
sumption Of the silver mine owners.
Half the papers of the state have in
their possession the financial record of
the Nevada silver millionaire. He has
charged Carlisle with inconsistency,
but his record is infinitely worse
than the M he charges to Carlisle.
Before his wealth had all been invested
in silver mines he said in a speech de-
livered in the United States Senate
February IL, 1874, and published in the
Congressional Record:
81 want the standard gold, and no
paper money not redeemable in gold;
no paper money the value OF which is
not ascertained; no paper money that
will organize q gold board to speculate
in it,"
In these days Stewart was as much
OF a nuisance in trying to force gold
monometallism on the country as he is
now with his silver monometallism.
A few days later he thus elaborated
his idea:
"By this process we shall come to a
specie basis and when the laboring man
receives a dollar it will have the pur-
chasing power Of a dollar, and he win
not be called upon to do what Is i'm
possible for him oil the producing
classes to do, figure upon the ex-
changes, figure upon the fluctuations,
figure upon the gambling in New
York, but he win know what his mon
ey is worth. Gold Is the universal
standard of the world. Everybody
knows what a gold dollar Ia worth"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27

WHILE we haven't had as much rain
in Missouri, up to this time, al we have
had in former years, it has come just
when needed "and the prospect for
good crops was W. better than it is
to-day. The rains this season seem to
have come to order" While some
people claimed on Saturday that ev-
erything was going to die of drouth
others said that more rain would ruin
the harvest. We had "more rain" on
Sunday and it was just what was
needed. II the politicians governed the
weather like they do the politics of
the country we would be in a terrible
shape. There would be extra rains
and extra dry spells every day or so
in order that some persons who can
not make a living any other way
might have q chance to get an office.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE,

Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration with will annexed
upon the estate of George Coughlan,
deceased, have been granted the I'M
dersigned by the Probate Court of
Andrain County, Missouri, bearing
date May 30, 1895.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to exhibit
them for allowance to the administra-
tor within oneyear after date of grant
ing letters or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate, and if
such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the date they will be
forever barred.
loft. JNO. Il. CALLAHAN
Administration with will an,,eYnd
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27

THERE never was such a prosperous
looking future before the people OF
this country. An eminent writer says:
From every quarter of the country,
east, west, north and south, come the
tidings of q revived business and in
creased commercial prosperity Nor Is
it in one line only, but in all. The
products of the farm and Of the mine,
of the plantation and of the mill, have
all gone hand i'll hand toward higher
prices, and all the pulses OF trade are
beating with accelerated force. Mon
ey, the barometer of business, is rapid
ly being Withdrawn from its hldlng
places and is seeking investment III
safe enterprises and adventures, and
confidence is daily being restored. The
advance of wages in the manufactur-
ing industries is becomins so common
as no longer to create surprise at h
announcement.
The cotton mills of the south are not
only paying better wages than before,
but are enlarging their force and ca
pacity at the same time, and new mills
are being built in Arkansas and Louis
lana. In Alabama and Tennessee the
coal and iron trades are on a better
footing than in past years, n in one
county alone of Alabama the coal out
put for this year will exceed the whole
product of the state for 1894.
Here in Chicago the Illinois Steel
Company has advanced wages 10 pei
cent, which affects some 1000 en-
| ployes, while its business has SO in
/ creased that the contracts nov made
cover all the product it al manufact-
ure in the next three months.
The Pittsburg district shows the
same condition of affairs, of increased
wages and enlarged output, while a
Port Chesger, n. Y, the bolt and nut
works are running to their full capac'
ity.
What has occurred in the cotton ant
iron industries may also be noted il
the pottery manufacture. At Wheel
ing and at Trenton wages have beer
advanced from 10 to 40 per cent and thu
capacity OF the works has been great
ly enlarged.
Such indications as these are un
~mistakable. After two years and
half of depression the load is lifted
and good times have come again.
YOU will never have gold or silve
or paper money until you go to worl
or get office.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-06-27
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration upon the estate of
Thos. IL. Waters, deceased, have been
granted the undersigned by the Pro-
bate Court of Audrain County, Mis-
souri,, bearing date May 4, 1895.
All persons having claims against
said estate r requested TO exhibit
them 0 allowance to the administra-
tor within n year after date of grant
ing letters, or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate. and
II such claims be not exhibited within
Two years from the date they wiz be
forever barred.
NJ. L. WATERS,
Iu-4t Administrator.