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Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs. William Cleveland Johnson, OF
Kentucky, is the guest OF her parents.
MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Pollock.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Cyclone and fire insurance in Farm
ers' Mutual Co. W. l.. FOWLES,
Office opposite Post Office, Mexico,
Mo, Write or call. est
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Leb Crigler il home from Moberly,
where he went on legal business. He
says the army worn is eating up the
pastures III tho west end of the coun-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

The Ferris building being erected
on the northwest corner of the square
is beginning to rear its brick walls
high in the air.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

About sixteen young and married
men have organized a tennis club and
will play on the grounds next to Mrs.
DIR. Walkers residence during the
amman.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs, Joe Kirkland and little daugh-
ter, of Hannibal, are the guests of Mrs.
Kirkland's sister, Mrs. Il. II. Carter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs. j. G.. Bassford ID home from st.
Louis, where she has been visiting her
son, Homer, and family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

w. d. Lee, Harry Luckie II G. j.
Clark shipped a car load of fine saddle
and harness horses to Des Moines,
Iowa. last night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Prof. John p. Class, of Fulton, one
OF Sne very I'm Missouri,
Is in Mexico on n visit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Fatally Injured.
Eugene Lott, 7 years old.
Pearl Hodge, 8 years old.
Son of Frank Erdel, 8 years old.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Gus Graham is home from Centraiia.
Gus now has n good position as trav-
cling inspector for the Central Mis-
souri, Telephone Co. He is a hustling
young electrician and will succeed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Miss Sibyl Hodges, of Carthage,
Mo, is the guest of her friend, Miss
Ruth Lakenan, of South Jefferson
street.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

At Lakeview, the residence of Geo.
A. Morris, ST., there is a rose bush of
the Prairie Queen variety, which has
fully $500 blossoms on it. IL is seldom
that such n sight is eel outside of
California, and lovers of flowers
should drive by LakeVieW.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Ex-Marshal Robert Kemp has pur-
chased his brothers. restaurant under
the Ringo Hotel and will take charge
and reiit it. at once. Mr.. Kemp has a
host of warm friends in Mexico and
will do n good business,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28
STORM
SWEPT
AGAIN.
The Northern Part Of
Audrain County Is
Devastated.
THE Winds AWFUL FURY.
Human Lives Lost and
Many Persons are
Injured.
A Church, Two School Houses
and Many Farm Houses
Are Destroyed.
St.LonisaVlctln,
Eleven Hundred People Known
to Have Been Killed
in That City.
Nothing Like Ii Ever Known
The East End Of the Eads
Bridge Went Down.
ALL THE RIVER CRAFT SWEEP
AWAY EXCEPT TWO Elk
CURSION STEAMERS.
Portions of the Great City Torn al
to Pieces and Distress in Every
Direction One of the Most
Appalling Disasters
,, Ever Known.
The East End Of the Eads
Bridge Went Down.
ALL THE RIVER CRAFT SWEPT
AWAY EXCEPT TWO Elk
CURSION STEAMERS.
Portions of the Great City Torn all
to Pieces and Distress in Every
Direction One of the Most
Appalling Disasters
Ever Known.
The Killed.

Eliza Ware, daughter of J. G. Ware.
Hilda Blase, 6 years old, who died
from her injuries last night.
Eulah Miller, 8 years old.
Rose Hodge, 6 years old.
Nine-year-old son of Albert Knoe-
| BILE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs. G. II. McDearmon, OF Gains
vile, Mo, is visiting W. Fl. Norris and
family
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

K. Stanton Suggs, of Bentonville,
Ark, is visiting his sister at Hardin
College.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mr.. and Mrs. L. V. Gentry and son,
Willie, and Mrs. John Freeman spent
Sunday in st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Ed. l.. Williams ia in C~arrollton, ILL.,,
visiting his grandfather, who is very
aick
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs. A. Retain, of Little Rock, is the
guest of her daughter at Hardin Col
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mrs. Braudenberger, of st. Lous, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. l.. P. Orig
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Belshe,
five miles northwest of Mexico, a ia
Mound how,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

w. L. GalIop is up from Eandaiia on
a visit.
New white sailors just received at
Hairs.
New dimity shirt waists Just receiv-
ed at Halls.
Farmers report that the army worms
are dying out.
About Century High Grades, read
Robertson's ad.
New stock of collars in grass linen
and black satin at Halls.
Century High Grades you ought TO
see, Read Robertson's ad.
Hall will show you a now line OF
collars and collarettes.
The colored people OF Moberly are
gong to have a far this season.
Capt. w. p. Frost and wife are Wis
ting their son, Frank, in Vandalia.
Miss Le,ha Trigg, of Fulton, is the
guest of her friend, Miss Ida Edmonds.
Miss Nellie Gray, OF Farber, is visit
Ing Miss Emma Haskell, of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy l.. Waite spent
Sunday with relatives in Bloomington,
Ill.
Mrs. Braudenberger, of st. Lous, ID
the guest of her sister, Mrs. l." P. Orig
Ter.
Ed. l.. Williams ia in C~arrollton, ILL.,,
visiting his grandfather, who is very
sick.
Mrs. A. Retain, of Little Rock, Is the
guest of her daughter at Hardin Col
lege.
Mrs. G.. II. McDearmon, of Gains
vile, Mo, is visiting w. II. Norris and
family.
K. Stanton Suggs, OF Bentonville,
Ark, is visiting his sister at Hardin
College.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Belshe,
five miles northwest of Mexico, a y.
pound boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. V. Gentry and son
Willie, and Mrs. John Freeman spent
Sunday in st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Guy l.. Waite spent
Sunday with relatives in Bloomington,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Miss Nellie Gray, of Farber, is visit
ing Miss Emma Haskell, of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Century High Grades you ought to
see, Read Robertson's &C
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Miss Letha Trigg, of Fulton, is the
guest of her friend, Miss Ida Edmonds'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28

Hall will show you a new line of
collars and collarettes.
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People i'm Print.

SOVAS A~
At New York City Charles Stanley
Reinhart, a draughtsman and illus
orator of international reputation, died
at the rooms of the Players club.
Rudyard Kiplins has left his home at.
marlborough. VT, to sail from New
York to England, where lie Will make
his home for an indefinite period.
Alexander Joseph ltibot, prime min
istci and minister of finance in France
during the early part OF President
Taure'S administration. arrived in New
York City on the steamer La Bretagne.
At Elyria, Ohio, Frederick William
Beese died. lie was born in Germany
In 1896, and woIid have celebrated his
hundredth birthday December 10th. He
came to America in 1860.
1t is thought that Pierre I.ourdcreau,
who is ninety-two years old, and VIC
lives in Paris, is the last survivor OF
the men who fought in the July v
luton in 1880.
Mrs. Catherine Salisbury, the sister
of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet.
and the only surviving member OF the
family, celebrated her cighty-third
birthday in Fort Green, ILL.,, last week.
One of the most prolific authors of
short stories in England is Mr.. PETIT
Ridge, who in the five years he a
been writing them has produced 200,
besides a large number OF sketches
and dialogues.
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T~ELEcRApH1C BREvTTIEs.


H. III LN|# 'EFl4L
Items of General Interst Cut Up and
Boiled Down.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
send two battalions' of marines to the
Philippine islands.
There is much uneasiness felt
throughout the western part of Mexico
over the threatened outbreak of the
Yaqui Indians.
Lon Agnew and Spider Kelly have
been matched by the Armory Athletic
Club of San Francisco for ten rounds,
1875 pounds, Oct. 8.
A great array Of oratory is booked to
speak at the Southwestern Soldiers as
sociation's annual reunion, which!
meets in Kansas City Sept. Is to IS.
An old bachelor farmer, Matthew
Clark, was yesterday found murdered
lying in the roadside near his home a
few miles from Excelsior Springs, Mo.
The conference committee of Cali
fornia Democrats and P0pulists ap-
pointed to agree upon a plan Of fusion
for congressional nominees finished it's
labors last night.
C. H. Townsend, Of the United States
fish commission, and temporarily of
the Boring sea seal commission, in an
interview in San Francisco to-day ex.
pressed the opinion that the seal herd
in northern waters is being rapidly ex-
terminated.
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Accidental Happenings.

The forests of Northern Wisconsin
are still ablazc and the fires are caus-
ing great damage.
John X. Cowan, president of the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, dislocated his
shoulder by a fall from u bicycle at
Nantucket, Mass.
The business part of L.addopia, Mo-,
was Quilted by a $5O,0O0 fire. which
started from an unknown cause in the
drug store of Frank ReaGles.
The state institution for feeble
minded children at Glanwood, Iowa,
was completely destroyed by fire, in
volving a loss of $15O,Cu0. AL OF the
inmates were rescued.
Victoria Leroy, an aeronaut, making
her fourth ascension OF the week from
the grounds of the st. Louis County
Fair association. fell $500 feet and
was instantly killed.
Lurane Bartlett, aged Z, daughter of
Albert Bartlett found a couple OF
headache powders in the yard and
swallowed them. Since then she has
been at the point Of death.
]. v. Carleton, one of the Oldest and
most prominent newspaper men In
Southern Indiana, accidentally shot
himself while hunting near Bedford.
His injuries are not thought to be
fatal
An explosion ID the ni~tro-glycerine
house of the California Powder COM
niny at F;nole, Cal, wrecked the
building and caused the death of
twelve workmen, eight Chinese and
the following whites: James McNulty,
w. w. Crates, James Fritz, M. Garcia.
Franklin Wells, president of the
Michigan state board of agriculture,
was thrown from his buggy by a run
away horse at Constantine, Mich, re-
ceiving serious injuries. His face is
distigured almost beyond recognition,
and it is feared that he has suffered IN
ternal injuries.
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The sentence imposed upon DR.,
Jameson and his fellow-raiders was
SO light that it was suggested that
Lord Russell had purposely made it so
in order to prevent an exercise OF
royal clemency, which might cause a
feeling of resentment in the Trans.
yaal. But, after all, the queen has
found an excuse to interfere, and in
stead of this noble band of .guerrillas
having to subsist on prison fare and
sleep on the soft side of a plank. they
will be treated rs 'tirst-class mis-.
demants," and enjoy hotel life, with
the slight difference that they will not
he able to take O stroll down Bond
street on in Rotten Row. There may
he some mild protests against the
granting Of these privileges, but that
viii be all. DR.. Jameson and his COM
rides are almost forgotten now.
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Cartridges tested by the RoentgeD
rays to show that they have been care.
fully loaded are offered fen sale by q
London goldsmith.
Wagner's violin teacher, Robert Sipp,
who is now 90 years of age, was pres
cnt at. this summers performances at
Bayreuth.
Fcrmosa continues in n state of re-
bellion against Japanese rule. Japan
csc forces are kept constantly alert in
an cndeayor to subdue the rebels.
Eaton Hall park, the residence of the
duke of Westminster, will %hcncefortb
be closed to the public on Sundays,
owing to the continued misbehavior of
rowdies.
The Cologne Gazette published a dis
patch from Zanzibar saying that the
German consul has refused the request
of Eyitish officials TO surrender Said
Kahlid.
BOY housemaids have been lately
proposed in England as substitutes for
the incompetent British servant girls.
1t is argued that what Cinnamon and
Hindoos can do Englishmen can do
equally we'll.
A French anti-tobacco society has
petitioncd the chamber of deputies to
enact a law forbidding school boys and
postottice clerks to smoke cigarettes,
and Furnishing tobacconists WHO sell
smoking materials to children.
The entire Japanese ministry has re-
signed. Count Kuroda has been ap-
pointed acting premier. The crisis
arose on account of a difference of
opinion regarding the vacant foreign
portfolio.
According to United States Consul
Johnson at Antwerp, there is nc. truth
in the story. which so excited Ameri-
can meat packers, to the effect that the
broken down English omnibus horses
are killed and packed at Antwerp as
canned beef under American labels.
High government officials in st. Pc
tersburs express the opinion that the
death Of Prince Lobanoff Rostovsky,
the Russian minister for foreign at
airs, will not involve a change in the
policy of Russia. which, it is admitted,
is distinctly pacific and fully approved
by the 'cZar.
A curious example Of the vicissitudes
of fortune is that of the late Mr.. Patti
son who recently died ut Rockhamp-
ton, in Queensland. He a a butcher,
who struck gold, became very rich,
went into politics. was made postmas-
ter general. lost his money and return
cd to his butcher shop again, dying a
poor man.
Mouthner Won Markow, the million
| aire brewer of Vienna. committed sui
eide by shooting himself with a reyol-
yer. He left a letter attributing his
suicide to attacks of the anti-Semitic
newspapers. which have accused him
Of defrauding the authorities in pay
| ment of octroi taxes. There is no doubt
that the charges were untrue.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-09-12
BURN KEY WEST
AN ALLEGED SPANISH PLOT Is
BROCGHT TO LIGHT.
Gen. Weyler Is Said to Have Coun-
tenanced n Plot to Burn Key
West, Fla the Hotbed of the In
surgcnts, and Thus End the War
The Town of Coscarrc, Cuba. Is
Burned by Insurgents.

New ork, Sept. G.-A special from
Key West to the World says: A letter
was received from Havana last night
by the steamer Mascotte containing in
formation that the Spanish authorities
are plotting the destruction of Key
West. A similar report reached here
several days ago, but at the time it
was not generally believed. The let
ter was written by q Cuban in Havana
to q friend in this city. The writer
says that a few days ago he went to
the government office in Havana and
was informed by q friend employed
there that Spanish authorities had de-
termined Ito burn Key West and an
initiate that nest of insurgent snakes
The plan of the Spaniards is to send
emisslries to Key West in the guise Of
Cuban sympathizers who are to fire
the city in as many places as possible
when opportunity arrives. 1t is said
that Capt. Gen. Weyler is cognizant
of the plan and approves of it. He is
reported to have said that if Key West
and Tampa were laid in ashes he
would soon be able to settle the rebel
lion. 1t is said that in the event of
the success of the plot Weyler has
ordered that the emissaries be paid
$4,000.
The people are so wrought up that
it is feared that an attack may be
made on Senior Cruz, the Spanish con
sui, and his assistant, Senior Fernan-
DEE. 1t was reported to-day that these
gentlemen, becoming alarmed for their
safety, had gone CT board the United
States revenue cutter Winona and de-
manded protection and that they were
told to remain on the vessel until the
excitement died out. The citizens have
determined to form a vigilance COM
mittee and every person who cannot
give a good account of himself will be
forced to leave the city.
Destroyed.
New York, Sept. S.-The Herald this
morning publishes the following spe-
cial correspondence from Palmarita,
Cuba, under date of Aug. 80: Coscorre
is in ruins and another step has been
taken toward the ultimate expulsion of
Spanish troops from Cuba. The forces
of Rose and Pena have laid waste the
entire heart Of the town, leaving the
occupants homeless. The inmates of
Coscorre's fort are now i'll a pretty
bad way, no food Of any kind being al
lowed to enter the place. Coscorre is
a small place, but important from the
fact that it was a relay for troops
marching between the cities of Puerto
Principe and Guaymare.
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They Want wat.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 9. = The
Democratic state campaign committee
recently appointed by Chairman John
B. Knox held it's first session here to-
day and organized by eleeting ex-Con-
mittee held a prolonged session work
ing out the plans of campaign. AS
yet nothing has been given out with
regard to the report that National
Chairman Jones had advised the offer
of three or four places on the electoral
ticket to the l'opulists. Leading Pop
ulists say their committee has received
no such offer as yet, and if they do
that their only terms Of acceptance
would be in the displacement of Sew
all by Watson on the entire ticket.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-09-12
ATTACKED BY HEART DISEASE.
Bondy, of the Minnesota Stat
Hoard of Equalization.

Bondy, of h Minnesota State
Board of Equalization.
st. Paul, Sept. 9.-Knute Bonby, who
represents Otter Tail county on the
state board of equalization, was taken
suddenly ill this morning from heart
disease and was obliged to return
home. G. o. Christianson of Crooks
ton will attend to the interest Of Otter
Tail county during Mr. Bondy's alb
sence The illness of Mr. Bondy is
said to have resulted from three
shocks that occurred within a week.
He was in the next car to the n that
collided with a freight train last week.
Thursday he heard that his two sous
were stunned. by q fash of lightning
while riding on a lead Of hay, and this
morning the engine that brought IN
the train on which he vas riding al
off the track betwee en- here and Fergus
Falls. Mr.. Bondy has. suffered with
heart trouble for some years.
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Crimes and Criminals.

Joseph OrOSZ was hanged at Fits
burg, Pa, for the murder of his sweet
heart. Teresa Bobak, who had rejected
him after promising to be his wife.
Frank Morris. aged eighteen years,
was hanged at U%niontown, Pa, at 1880
D. H.. for the murder two years ago
of Fark Lohker. a farmer of Chestnut
Ridge. Just above Connellsville.
Alexander r. Mcintyre, twenty years
old. son. of d. G.. Mcintyre, general
manager of the Detroit and Cleveland
Navigation company, committed sui
eide ut Cleveland. Ohio.
Baron Joseph Henry Won Rabeneck,
a German nobleman and an officer of
the German army, is locked UP in the
Center street police station, New York,
in default of $500 bonds, on a charge
Of highway robbery.
Mrs. Mary Bush of Pomeroy, Ram.
who was shot through the head by
John Hartig, her paramount, who then
blew out his own brains, died to-day
| without having regained conscious
ness. It
Michael Hecnan. sixty years of age,
Q%uhrreled with his wife Della, at their
home in Dorchester, Mass, about mon
ey. and Heenan settled the dispute by
crushing the woman's skull with an
AK. He then cut his throat with q
razor. Both will die.
John Dempsie, who lived near Clar.
linda, had for some months been pay
ing court to Miss Mary Kellogg,
daughter of Farmer Kellogg, who
lives near Logan, Iowa. The other
day Dempsie called and pressed his
suit, saying he would kill himself if
Miss kellogg refused him. This she
did. He went to the barn and blew
his brains out. He used q 3S-caliber
revolver. The ball entered the right
temple.
Mrs. j. c. eagles formerly Madden)
and her son, Charles Madden, have
been arrested near Perry, O.. r., on a
charge Of murder committed near Cad
do, /. T., several years ago. A war
rant was also issued for the arrest Of
another son of Mrs. eagles, but he has
80 far alluded the officers. The al.
legged crime is the murder of a wealthy
man near Jeffries, and it is charged
that the Maddens, with the assistance
of their mother, killed him for Iii:
money. Mrs. eagles is q widow and
wealthy.
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Heap big Intun.

Minneapolis. Sept. 9.-The Improved
Order of Red Men succeeded to the
place left vacant by the departing
knights Of Pythias, and took posses
a special train of seven coaches over
the Burlington, composed of five sleep
ers, a dining and a baggage car, pulled
into the union depot, where a crowd of
local Red Men awaited their visitors.
After greetings the guests We're con-
Quoted to the West hotel, their head
quarters.
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eaIth
Is impossible without pure, healthy blood. fur-
fed and vitalized blood result from taxing
God s
Sarsaparina
The hest : in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hood's pills for the liver and bowels. CSC.
SarsapariIla
4 MocktnE Birds Dance

Mocking Birds Dance.
The mower of the mocking bird to
amnsa folks is not confined to It's abll-
tiles as a rich-voiced singer. The more
birds are studied the more
wonder what they can't do. Birds
with some marked characteristics are
sometimes neglected in other respects
than their neculiarity and so it happens
that the knocking bird is better known
as an initiative singer than as an orig
inal one. and that it was a dancer as
much almost as a heron or crane rev
were aware.
The hooking birds dance methodlc-
ollv- like woodmen in a square dance,
rather than with the wild gyratlops
Of n darkcv hoe-down. They keep
their bodies stiff, with heads and tails
erect. their wings dropping and feath-
.ers fiattened ont, something like, the
English sparrow when hopping ABOUT
before its sweetheart; but the spar
rows feathers are thrown out usuaiiy
instead of being fattened against the
body.
Two of the hooking birds make a
set, and they bound along, Jumping
rather high, but not far, going from
one end of the playground to the other,
one behind the other about a foot, and
each one at the end of the playground
turns in a circle slowly and with dlg-
nifty, and goes back again. Sometimes
they stop and look at some distant Oh
ject, day dreaming, apparently, then
away they go again.
Mr.. Blake tells about a hen that was
disturbed by the actions of a pair OF
knocking birds in their dance, where
upon she left her brood of chickens
and charged the couple with ciucks
and futtering feathers. Up went the
mocking birds with true mocking Dlrd
talk, scolding and suffering at the
hen until they finally drove her away.
Science Monthly.
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The riots at Barcelona, Spain, at the
time of the departure of troops to rein
force the Spanish army in Cuba, are
significant. They indicate that the
people of Spain are not at all satisfied
that Cuba is worth the sacrifice OF
life that is being made in the effort to
suppress the Instruction. The Span
ish losses in the field and in the hos
pitfalls have been very heavy.
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co.iftton. IN Texas.

/, Fort Worth, Tex, Sept. 9.-The Re
publican state convention convenes
here tomorrow. The fight is on be-
tween the Quincy and the Grant fac
lions. The former represent the col
ored voters which predominant at the
polls. Every shade OF. political belief
is mingling together. The outlook Is
for a coalition. The nomination Of a
state ticket Is not likely. If a coalition
is formed the Republicans will support
the Populist state ticket in exchange
for one-half Of the electors.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-09-12

A Maine Central brakeman says II
tramps are not particular how they
ride or what they ride in as long as
they get a ride. Recently the night
freight out of Waterville conveyed a
hearse in a fiat car to Portland. Near
Monmouth, as the brakeman was 60
ing owe the train, he discovered the
feet of a tramp %protruding from the
hearse and the man himself sound
asleep.