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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-01

Mrs. Charlton Edholm. superinten-
dent of Florence Crittenton Missions,
viii deliver a temperance lecture at LIZ
berty hall tonight, 42O Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-01

Rock Greek, Kan. May IA fright
ful runaway occurred here today in
which A. P. Cibb. Mrs. Noah Elrod and
Mrs. Ambrose Collins were terribly and
possibly fatally injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-01
Death Of john A. Kearnev.

Mr.. John A Kearney died of heart
failure, at $3.50 a. M today. Funeral
Saturday at p. m at the residence,
sos Tyler. Friends of the family invi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-01

time has not been agreed upon for the
committee meeting yet and that there
is plenty of time for that"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
THE RESULT IN KENTUCKY.
Silver Men Jubilant-Blackburn Talks
Magnanimously.

LEXINGTON, Ky. May 31.-The silver
leaders are jubilant to-day over their
sweeping victory throughout the
State yesterday. Accurate figures on
returns from the entire State show $40
silver delegates to the State Conven-
ton against 240 for gold. The silver
men carried every Congressional dis
trict in the state except the fifth, which
is the Louisville district. The western
part of the state, including the first,
second and fourth districts, did not
send a single sound money delegate,
and for that reason the leaders who
have consulted with Senator Black
burn think it will be proper to make
a western Kentucky man chairman of
the convention. The choice will prob
ably fall between ex-Congressman
Goodnight of the third district and
Congressman Stone of the first.
Stone is the one-legged Congressman
whose initials are the same as Cover
nor Stone of Missouri, and whose
mail raj always getting mixed with
the latter while they were in Congress
together. Senator Blackburn is dis
posed to be magnanimous. He said
tonight:
"This is no time for quarreling. The
success of the Democratic party ought
now to be the aim of every true Demo-
crat. We have fought a good fight,
and we have won. We ought not 10
say an unkind word of our late oppo-
nents or censure those who came to
us at the eleventh hour"
The friends of Carlisle and Cleve-
land are not sc easily pr~opitiated.
Senator Blackburn will probably be
made temporary chairman of the con-
vention Wednesday. He is in splen-
did spirits tonight over his victory
and the hundreds of congratulatOry
kilograms he has received from all
over the Union.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Great Storms of History,

The following is a list of some of the
most terrific tornadoes, cyclones,
hurricanes and storms of the world in
modern times:
Calcutta, November, 1s67-Cyclone,
10000 persons were drowned. The
crops in Lower Bengal were destroyed,
$1,000 persons died of cholera.
Calcutta, October s., 1s64-Cyclone
followed by a bore of spring tide in
the Hooghley; 10000 persons perish
ed.
England, November % and %, 100
1.-THE Great Storm" The loss GUS
tanned in London alone was $40, 900 900,
The number of persons drowned in the
foods of the Severn and the Thames
were 5000. Twelve men of war with
more than 1880 men on board went
down within sight of their own shore.
Trees were torn up by the roots, H.
600 of them in Kent alone; $1,000
sheep were drowned in level.
Orissa coast, September %, 1856
Cyclone; 5000 persisted.
Mednapore, October, 1s74-Cyclone;
1900 persisted.
Mauritius, July Il, 1s92-Great de-
struction of shipping and crops; 1,23(
killed.
st. Thomas Island West Indies).
October %, 1s67-Cyclone. Two yes
sells wrecked; so driven ashore; l,0Ot
persisted.
Havannah, October %, 176s-Foul
thousand and forty-eight houses de
stroyed and 1000 inhabitants killed.
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
March 1 to 10, 1sss-Blizzard; 400 per-
sons perish.
Ohio Valley, March IS, 1ss0-Tor-
nadoes from Cincinnati to Cairo; 81
persons perish at Louisville. Illinois
Missouri and. Indiana also suffered
The total loss of life was about IT'S.
Minnesota, July IS, 1s90-Tornado;
100 drowned and 100 killed.
Johnstown, Pa, July 26, Isss-Storm
and flood; 5000 killed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
ONE KILLED, FIVE INJURED.
Work of the Storm at Curryville, NO.,
and Near Bowling Green.

BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, May 3d.
This city was not swept off the earth,
as reported in some quarters, by We'd
nesday nights wind storm, but has
suffered great loss of property and
injury to man and beast.
Two miles west of Bowling Green
residences and barns were blown to
atoms. A house was picked up with
its contents and occupants, carried
over tree tops and set down again in
N instance, without injury to the
family. In a strip of country a mile
wide and extending from here to Cur
ryville, eight miles away, almost every
house was damaged and many are ut
terly demolished.
AT C~urryville not a single house
escaped damage. The residence of j.
w. Avis was crushed in like an egg
she'll and Mrs. Rebecca Reed instantly
killed. Jack Emerson and Henry
Cash and wife we're injured. The
damage to property will aggregate
many thousands of dollars.
Four miles west of here Mrs. Carrie
Bradbury had her ribs crushed and
sustained internal injuries; Louis
James boy had both arms broken and
Joe Smiths boy had his scalp taken
off and will die. In most places the
wind was a tornado, but at others it
took on cyclonic features, twisting off
elm trees three feet in diameter, and
whirling houses around on their foun-
dations. Inside of 80 minutes the rain
fan was 80 inch es, and from three to
six O'Clock it aggregated Z inches.
No such rain was ever before seer
in Pike county. Creeks and rivers
are higher than ever known and five
bridges are washed away. Almost
every one on the st. Louis railroad
from Hannibal to Gilmore is gone.
This road will not be able to run trains
for several days.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Old Rip Van Wrinkle went up into
the Catskill mountains to take a little
nap of twenty years or so, and when
he wakened he found that the "cruel
war was over" the monthly maya
zines had "fought it over" the second
time and 'blown up" all the officers
that had participated in it. This much
is history, and it is also an historical
fact that it took the same length of
time for DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery to become the most cele-
brated, as it is the most effective, liver,
blood and lung remedy of the age. In
purifying the blood and in all manner
of pimples, blotches, eruptions and
other skin diseases, scrofulous sores
and swellings, and kindred ailments,
the Golden Medical Discovery"
manifests the most positire curative
properties,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
DEATH AT A FEAST.
Twenty-Five Hundred Men, Women
and Children Killed Multitude
Had Assembled to Partake of
the Hospitality of
the Gear.

MOSCOW, May 30.-A terrible panic,
resulting from the great crush of peo-
pie at the popular feast here to-day,
in honor of the coronation of the Gear,
caused the t%rampling to death of
thousands of persons, including a
woman who was delivered of a child
during the excitement.
In anticipation of the grand holiday
and banquet on the Hodynsky plain,
tens of thousands of persons began
trooping towards the Petrovsky Pal
ace, in front of which the plain is sit
uated, during the earliest hours this
morning.
1t was at first arranged to accom-
modate 400, 200 persons, but in view of
the immense crowds assembled in and
about this city at the coronation fete,
extra tables and benches were hastily
erected and every effort was made to
provide seating Don and a hearty
meal for them. Twice that number
was DESTROYS of taking part in the
feast, but the authorities decided that
there must be a limit to the number,
and the figure was fixed at 100000.
By dawn the mass of peasants about
the table was enormous, and they
were all desperately hungry, some OF
them having tasted, by choice or ne
cessity, for nearly twenty-four hours.
The police did everything possible to
keep back the crowd, but, suddenly,
the masses, controlled by some mex
plicable impulse, Or impatient to get
at the food, pressed forward, swept
everything before them, and yer
turned tables and benches, trampling
thousands under foot and crushing
the life out of a great number of per-
sons. The police and military event.
ually succeeded in restoring order and
took away the dead and injured,
while preparations were made to pro-
coed with the banquet as i; nothing
unusual had happened.
Two thousand five hundred dead
bodies were taken away and the num-
Der of injured is great.
The Gear and Czarina, when inform
ed of the disaster, we're much dis
tressed, sent additional physicians to
the scene to care for the injured, and
issued instructions that a full report
of the tragedy is to be made, in order
that the distressed families may be re-
lieyed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, Robert III. Stuart and
anc a. nsuur,, hi so W' ny Gr; an ,n , esa
ona 1 r ue in the Pecorder,s os5ses
of andrain ount Missouri. I'M deal
of tr1st Nook IA nj, pace 3 convey
ed to I. q, Mitchell. trustee, the fcl.
loving described reaI estate sitnatsd
In An5rain Conntv' state of Missonri
to-w;t.
All of lots one and two n and ". N
blnok six e no laid down an the MAJ
Of Hir & Ransche,s SECOND Add;t;or
to the yiilaoa of Rusb Hill Missnmr;
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
ID MAY RESIGN.
If the Kentucky Convention Repudi-
ates His Views.

New YORK, June 1.-The Journals
Washington special on the free silver
victory in Kentucky says:
"Secretary Carlisle c%onfesses over
whelming defeat. He will not talk
for publication, but it is known that he
is disappointed and Inundated. He said
to-day that if he held a commission
from the State of Kentucky he would
promptly resign, but as he holds office
under Federal authority, he will serve
out his term.
sit is said by intimate friends of
Senator Lindsay that if the coming
State Convention Gin Kentucky next
Wednesday shall repudiate him and
his financial opinions, as the county
primaries indicate will be the case, he
will resign his seat in the Senate and
permit the free silver element to send
a man to Washington in accord with
its views.D
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
CONCEDED TO sILVERITEs.
Sound Money Democrats See no Hope
for Them at Chicago.

WASHINGTON, June 1~.-Precisely as
Mr.. McKinley's success seemed to be
assured before half of the delegates to
the Republican convention had been
selected, SO now it is gradually be-
coming certain that the Democratic
National Convention will be ruled by
the free silver lei The complete re-
turns from Kentucky and all of the re-
ports from Ohio are accepted as de-
termining the result as fully as if
every delegate convention had been
held.
The free coinage men are already
considering how they shall best profit
by the victory to which now they
make uncontradicted claims, while
the sound money men almost without
exception concede defeat, and those
exceptions r founded rather upon a
purpose to fight with resolution to the
last rather than upon the faintest hope
that anything may intervene to
change the probable result.
AT the home of a member of the
cabinet the Star correspondent was
| told that while Don M. Dickinson's
victory in Michigan was gratifying,
the sound money men could not win
at Chicago unless they also carried
carried the States of Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky; that the
loss of any n of them would be near
ly disastrous and hat the loss of two
would be undoubtedly fatal. OF the
| States named, Iowa is for silver; Him
| OILS at least can offer but a contest to
the convention for decision, with the
white metal men occupying the points
| of vantage both in the arena and the
Judges stand. Indiana will send at
the lowest estimate twenty-five silver
men in a delegation of thirty; Ken
lucky is overwhelmingly for free sill
yer and there does not to-day seem to
be a reasonable probability that the
sound money men will carry over six
| districts in Ohio.
| Senator Brice comedies defeat and
puts the free silver majority in the
| National Convention at a little over
100. OF the most competent observers
and conservative men in the sound
money Washington ranks, scarcely
! one places the free coinage majority
at less than seventy-five.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Septimus Martin Dead

Septimus Martin, an old residan,
this city, died Monday, June
$3.50 O'Clock, a. m.
Born j n Charleston, Virginia; Dae
"A, 1924, Mr.. Martin moved tn No.
in 1865, and for many years waa .
prominent man in the politics ana
business of this city. Elected Mayor
several times and Treasurer NOR.
than once, he always discharged HI,
duties iii an upright, honorable man.
ner which won for him the -resnect
and friendship of all who knew him
Mr.. Martin was proprietor of the
Martin House for fifteen years, until
the hotel burned down, and was also
engaged in the mercantile business.
The funeral took place at a:ans
Tuesday afternoon from the South-
ern Methodist Church, of which he has
been a devoted, conscientious ana
constant member. Rev. j. III. Prit-
chett conducted the services.
His wife, one child, Mrs. Rose Ringo.
and three grandchildren, Mrs. Rob.
Lawder, Herbert Glandou and Min
Rosa Ringo, survive him. To these
stricken ones the LEDGER, as well a.
the whole city, extends heartiest
sympathy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Sben;ff,s Gate

BY virtue and authority of n special
execution issued from the Office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Audrain
County, Missouri, returnable at the
June term, 1896, OF said court, and to
mt directed in favor of the State OF
Missouri at the relation and to the use
of j. w. Dowell, Collector of Audrain
County, Missouri, and against Nellie
Yates, / have levied upon and seized
all the right, title, interest and claim
OF the said Nellie Yates OF, in and To
the following described real estate
to-wit:
Seven acres, southeast corner of the
southwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section twenty-five, town
ship fifty-one, range six, all lying and
being in the said County and State OF
Missouri; and will, OF
Friday, the Twelfth Day of June,
A. D., 1896,
between the hours of nine O'Clock ig
the forenoon and FIVE O'Clock in the
afternoon of that dav, at the Court
House door, In the City of Mexieo.
County of Audrain aforesaid, sell the
same, or so much thereof as may b
required, at public vendue, to tho
highest bidder for cash I'm hand sub
ject to all prior liens and judgments1,
to satisfy said execution and costs.
J. N. STEPHENS,
Sheriff of Audrain County, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Senatorial Convention.

By order of the Democratic Sena-
torial Committee Of this the 18th Sem
atorial District of Missouri, a district
convention is hereby called to meet in
Bowling Green, Pike county, Missouri,
on Tuesday, June 80, 1896, for the pur-
pose OF nominating a Democratic can
didate for State Senator from this dis
trict.
The basis Of representation in the
convention will be one delegate for
every two hundred and fifty or frac-
ton of one hundred and twenty-five
or more votes cast for Cleveland In
1892. The several counties composing
this district will take such steps as
may be necessary to send delegates to
said nominating convention.
+. M. PATTON,
Chairman.
j. w. ALyIs,
Secretary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

THERE should be an organized COM
mittee to look after the cyclone suf-
ferers in Audrain county. There are
quite a number of subscription papers
in circulation. A man who desires to
aid the sufferers wants to make one
liberal subscription and have it cover
all. He don't like to refuse any. I'm
less there is an organized arrangement
to look after the sufferers the most
timio, who r very often the most
needy, will get nothing, while those
who are injured slightly perhaps not at
all, will get the most help. Imposters
always take advantage of times like
this. Perhaps the County Court should
take the whole matter in charge. All
who are needy should be looked after
at once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

THE New London MOI Record, in
speaking of good timber for Judge Of
the st. Louis Court of Appeals, refers
in most complimentary terms to
George Robertson, a leading member
OF the Mexico bar. George Robertson
Is one of the most studious, industri-
Gus, successful and best posted attor-
neys in this State. He devotes his en-.
tire time to his profession and meets
with brilliant success,as every profess
ional man will who keeps away from
all side issues. MIR. Robertson is not,
and will not be a candidate for this or
any other office, but will be found ac-
lively at work supporting the nomi-
nees, and will do all he can to redeem
grand old Missouri from the Republic
cans.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Is Developing Encouraging Proper
lions, Says Allen.

George w. Allen, Secretary of the
Bland Campaign Committee, Is great
ly encouraged over the outlook. Ar
kansas, which holds its State Conven-
ton June II, he says, is almost sure
to instruct for Bland, and he has adj
vices that the Missouri mans boom is
spreading rapidly in Alabama.
"Letters of encouragement" he
said, "are coming in from New York,
and we r being flooded with COM
munications of a hopeful nature from
Oregon, Washington, Kansas, Colo
RADIO, Kentucky, Nebraska and Mon
tana.
"From present indications l should
say that Bland will be stronger on the
first ballot by long odds than any
other candidate"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
On b Road

to recovery, the young woman who is
taking DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. In maidenhood, woman
hood, wifehood and motherhood the
prescription" is a supporting tonic
and nervine, nerve food or invigora-
tor that's peculiarly adapted to her
needs, regulating and strengthening
the system and curing the derange-
ments of the sex Why is 1t SO many
women owe their beauty to DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription? Because beau
ty of form and face radiate from the
center-health. The best
bodily condition results from good
food, fresh air and exercise coupled
with the judicious use of the "Pre-
scription,p
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
fBridge LETTING

On Friday, June 5, 1896, at 1:30 p.
m, at the east front door of the Court
House in Mexico, Missouri, | will LET
to the lowest and best bidder, the cons
tracts for building the following
bridges:
One 40 foot span with II foot ap-
proach in Sec. 10, Twp. 81, Rng. IL.
One "a foot trestle in Sec. 30, Twp.
so, ring. IL.
One 30 foot span with two 10 foot
approaches in Sec. 9, Twp. 80, RING. g..
One 80 foot span with one ii foot
approach in Sec. p, Twp. 50, Rings s..
One "a foot trestle in Sec. 20, Twp
81, RING. 8.
One IA foot trestle in Sec. 80, Twp.
So, RING. s.
One brick culvert Mt railroad cross-
ing in Sec. 81, Twp. 81, Rng. s.
Also rebuilding one 30 foot span with
approach, situated one mile east OF
Benton City.
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids. Plans and specifications
may be seen at my office.
G. X. ALLEN,
Road and Bridge Commissioner for
Audrain County. Z till June 8.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
SALE

By virtue and authority of a cspiAa
execution issued from the office OF the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of AudS1in
County, Missouri, returnable at the
June term, 1896, of said court, and 70
me directed in favor of the State Of
Missouri and against J. ID. Morse, !
have levied upon and seized all the
right, title, interest and claim of The
said j.. ID. Morse of, in and to the Df,
lowing described real estate, to-Nn;
Lots number four, Ave, six 40
seven, block twenty five of the ORG.
nal town OF Martinsburg, Missouri, ~
lying and being in the said County
and State of Missouri; and ] Will, On
Friday, the Nineteenth Day of juno,
A. d., 1896,
between the hours of nine O'Clock IN
the forenoon and five O'Clock 10 the
afternoon of that day, at the east front
Court House door, in the City of Mex.
leo, County of Audrain aforesaid, sell
the same, or so much thereof an may
be required, at public vendue, 10 the
highest bidder for cash in hand sub
ject to all prior liens and iudgments),
to satisfy said execution and costs
j. n. STEPHENS,
Sheriff of Audrain County, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
The "Lady Kenton" bows at Halls.

The 21st annual convention of the
Missouri Christian Bible School will
be held at Palmyra, Mo-, June 1917,
1895. A splendid programme has been
prepared and the State board fully
expects this to be one OF the best and
most successful conventions in the
history of the bible school work in
Missouri. A N fare rate for the
round trip has been secured on the
Burlington and H., &. & t. Railroads
and other roads are expected to give
the same rate, but a one and one third
rate on the certificate plan is certain.
II ia hoped that many will arrange to
come and aid by their presence and
cooperation the interests of the bible
schools i'm the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Terrible Loss of Property.

There is no question but there was a
a large amount of property destroyed
in Audrain county by the cyclone. The
members of the County Court are
going over the district closely and
carefully, and those in present need
will be promptly looked after. You
will always find some enthusiast who
wants to do a great deal of talking
and inclined to damagogue In favor Of
spending a whole lot of money simply
because II costs them nothing. The
County Court will look into matters
closely and govern themselves ac-
cordingly. The needy will all be
looked after right here at home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
From the Chronicles of Hanna.

From the New York Sun.
And many of the tribe of G. O. Pier
came to Still in the Land of
Buckeye asking of him what manner
of way he would pursue concerning
his elevation to the Chief place in the
tribe of g. o. Pier. And many more
asked him from afar, writing to him.
And also the Scribes, being those who
published matter abroad in the land
for all people who were less than they
in knowledge.
But no answer came to them, nor to
any of them, for Hanna the Profit will
ed otherwise.
And they came unto Hanna and were
wroth.
What manner of man, say they TO
him, is this that thou hast given us to
be our Chief? We have asked him di-
vers and sundry questions on those
subjects nearest to the good of the
tribe of G.. o. Pier, and he answers us
naught.
And Hanna said unto them: Men
and brethren, Silence is the eloquence
of discretion.
But they were not content with this
and cried aloud: Why is this thus?
And again Hanna spake unto them
saying: Three silences there are-the
first of speech, the second of desire,
the third of thought.
Then n great among those asking
said unto Hanna: Add thou a fourth,
the silence of Bil-the-St
T%hereupon Hanna was much put-to,
for he was seeking to pacify them, and
he said unto them: Silence has many
advantages.
But they importuned him with vigor
of speech, demanding to know where
of they were to be led blindly.
And one portion of the tribe of G. o.
Pier shouted with a loud voice saying:
Is Bil-the-Stil the Chief of Silver?
And Hanna said unto them with
soothing tones: Silence gives consent.
Then did the other portion of the
tribe OF G. o. Pier rush upon Hanna
the Profit, shouting fiercely and
brandishing their arms wildly, saying:
Is he not the Chief of Gold?
And Hanna replied unto them with
exceeding g%entleness: Silence gives
consent.
Whereat they were greatly aston
ished and gazed upon Hanna the Profit
IS if to probe his innermost SOU to its
depths.
And Hanna, noting these things,
trembled, for he held the safety of Bill
the-Stil to be of greater value than all
else, and he said unto them, lifting his
hands up as if he would bless them:
Peace, be still; it is not much talk we
need, but a great, sweet silence.
Thereupon the tribe of GO. Pier
lifted up their voices as the voice of
one man, saying: What tell?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Affairs was unequaled in what might
be called the plastic or nascent era of
the republic; and a regret that Web
ster's splendid powers had in many
instances been lent to an injurious and
dangerous stretching of the Constitu-
ton. :
Undoubtedly that portion of Mr..
Clark's address which created and will
create most remark among Missouri
ans was his frequent and friendly al
lusions to Thomas H. Benton, whom
he placed above Webster.