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Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
VENEZUELAN COMMISSION.
Five Men Named by President Cleve-
land Last Night.

WASHINGTON, d.. c., january L.
President Cleveland tonight an
nounced the appointment of the Ven
ezuelan Boundary Commission, as fol-
lows:
David j. Brewer, of Kansas, Justice
United States Supreme Court; Rich
ard H. Alvey, of Maryland, Chief Jus
tiee of the Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia; Andrew d.
White, of New York; Frederick K.
Coudert, of New York, and Daniel Q.
Gilman, of Maryland.
The commission is regarded here
among those who had an opportunity
to o the list of names after they
were made public as a very satisfac-
tory one, whose opinions and conclus-
ions win be received by the Ameri-
a public with that confidence which
the standing of the members of the
commission in the public eye inspires.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
To Make People Kinder.


If / had a million to give away l
should give a large portion of it to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. That this SO ciety is sad
ly in need of benefactions to carry on
its merciful work is a reflection on
the humanity of opulent philanthropy
lists, who seem to have fallen into the
habit of continuing their gifts to col
leges. The colleges devote a portion
of their benefaetions to promote the
i~ndefensible study of vivisection.
Cornell university boasts a large class
in vivisection, and teaches students
to gouge out the eyes of living cats
and scientifically note their slow death
by the watcn. Recent benefactions to
our W university have rendered the
study of vivisection a possibility of
the ear future. The Humane So
ciety will not be able to reach these
highly educated offenders any more
than it has the fashionable people
who dock their horses tails, and in
the attempt to make cheap animals
look stylish, check their heads so
high that the animals suffer the most
.excruciating pain while in harness.
Its active and effective work is among
the ignorant and inhuman owners of
animals, accounts of whose brutalities
have recently appeared in the daily
papers; tiends who have invented in
genious crueIties SO diabolical that /
fear to describe them lest some heart
less person should remember and
again put them in practice. These
cases were prosecuted, but the Offend
ers rel let off in the Justice co urts
with a trifiing fine. These justices are
thus morally as brutal as the brutes
they seek to shield.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
Buried in the Debris.
EXPLODING FIREWORKS WRECK
TWO ST. LOUIS BUILDINGS.
Employees Caught in the Ruins and
Unable to Escape-Flames Add
Horror to the Disaster and
Impede Rescue.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. AIT 12:45 a ter
rife explosion occurred at 81 North
Second street, shattering the Lindsay
building and burying many persons in
the ruins.
The structure was occupied by the
Anchor Peanut company and the H.
B. Grub Commission company,agents
for the Excelsior Fireworks con pany.
Fireworks in the rear of II. b.
Gr1bb's Commission company had ex-
ploded with awful force. The building
was torn asunder. The conclusion
shook every structure in the block,
and every pane of glass in the vicinity
was shattered. The walls of Levison
& Blythe, the building adjoining, were
crushed in, pinning three persons
down to their death and ~iniuring at
least 20 others.
A moment after the explosion men
and women rushed into the street
with the blood streaming from numer
GUS cuts on their faces and hands. The
exploding gunpowder scattered fire In
all directions and hungry flames were
quick ministers in the work of death
and destruction.
FLAMES FOLLOW THREE EXPLOSIONS.
The fire started in the first floor of
the building 81 North Second street,
occupied by theH. b. Grub Commits
sion company, upstairs, and the second
and third floors were occupied by the
Anchor Peanut company. A quantity
of fireworks was stored in the rear.
The explosions, three in number, fol-
lowed in rapid succession, The con-
cussion rent the partition wall to the
south into the Levison & Blythe Co.
and into the Excelsior Wire and Iron
Manufacturing company, 313 North
Second street on the north.
When the department arrived the
buildings occupied by the Grub Com
mission company, the Levison &
Blythe Stationery company and the
Excelsior Wire company were in
flames. Chief Swingley turned in a
third alarm and twenty streams were
playing on the burning buildings.
Something worse than flames had
to be encounteredby the firemen. Men
were caught by the falling walls.
There were probabilities that at least
a dozen men were in the burning
The firemen got the flames under
control and began the work of taking
out the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In
the debris.
In the buildings occupied by the
Excelsior Wire company were fifteen
men, and SO far but one, Fireman A.
S. Whitlock, is accounted for. The
ruins are still SO hot that no search
can be made for the missing. There
is little hope that they will be taken
out alive. The property loss will not
reach over $50, 900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
Agents, Mexico, Mo.

We accept as a good omen when
Col. Bob Ingersoll speaks to empty
benches as in his late tour of the
Southwestern part of Missouri. 1t is
verg conclusive evidence that the
people are disguised with his blasphe-
my and that they are unwilling to hear
the religion of their fathers and moth
ers ridicaled when they decline to 60
to a hall to hear 80 great and distin-
guished an orator. Col. Ingersoii will
soon find that when he wished to as
sauIt the Word OF God or assail the
religion OF the lowly Sazarene he viii
have to do so alone or in the presence
Of persons SO disreputable as to make
hin ashamed of his sudisnss.-H.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
1T Depends on the Ticket"

The Columbia Herald agrees with
the LEDGER and all other reputable
Democratic papers that much depends
on the kind of men placed on the
Democratic ticket in Missouri during
1896. The Herald COOS even further
than the LEDGER when it says:
The Democrats can win in Missouri
this year If they nominate the right
knocked to kingdom come If they
nominate the wrong kind.
Missourians, like voters elsewhere,
ave grown more independent. They
no longer vote the party ticket with
out examination. The day o fthe yell
low dog has passed. To win support
a party must deserve support, not IN
ly because of its platform but because
Of it's candidates.
To nominate a party hack, without
magnetism, with long and objection
able record, would be to invite defeat.
The people are tired of the old war
horse business. They want new blood.
Nor will q candidate who frequents
saloons, CANDLES and is generally
reckless win votes, The ideal caudi-
date Is n man of sound business sense
clean record and irreproachable in
teprity. Such q man, placed on the
Democratic ticket, will bring success
to the party.
The Democratic politicians, with ali
their shrewdness and harnlonizing,
cannot carry to victory a ticket madt
mn of the staple article of candidates
found In every campaign. We mus
have q new deal this time,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
VEST WAS NOT PRESENT.
A Meeting of the Senate Finance
Committee Silverites' Plans.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The Senate
Finance Committee adjourned at 1880
until tomorrow. No action was taken
and no vote was had. The bond bill
was discussed, but the tariff bill was
not taken up.
Senator Vest was not present, SO
that the free silver men and the anti
silver men were a tie. 1t is under
stood that the intention of the silver
men is to report either a free coinage
substitute or amendment to the bond
bill, probably an amendment. After
the regular meeting of the committee
the Republican members held a con-
ference in the committee room and
the Democrats conferred in the dis
trict committee room. Senator Jones
Pop, New went with the Demo-
Gratis, as the conference was consid-
cred a silver conference more than
anything else.
The silver men unanimously decid-
ed to insist upon an amendment in
the nature of an entire substitute
providing for free coinage Of silver
and the elimination of all authority
for the issuance of bonds.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, was
delegated to prepare a measure in
accordance with these views, to be
submitted to the committee as soon
as It eau be completed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
Highest of all in Leayening Power.-Latest u.S. Govt Report
kakies
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ITEMS OF REAL e R

A snow white hedgehog was sho,
on the Sunapee Mountain, in New
Hampshire, a few days ago.
Mrs. Talcott, of West Hartford.
Conn.,, celebrated her 105th birthday
last Christmas Day. She is believed
to be the Oldest woman in Connect
cut.
Three hunters returned toBangor the
other day from a long hunt in the re-
gion about Big Fish Lake, Maine, hav-
ing killed between thirty and forty
sable, four caribou, and three deer.
Georgia is getting the gold fever
again. One or two old gold mines are
being reworked, and three boats are
dredging the sands of the Chestatee
River for the gold they are supposed
to contain.
A Populist newspaper with the
sfngulariy appropriate name of tn
Simeon, for some time published in
Port Angeles, Wash, suspended pub
LEGATION last week, the proprietors be-
ing no longer able to raise the wind.
Maine newspapers are telling
that a Caribou clergyman last
Sunday, noticing that the choir seats
were ~unoccupied when the time for
the service arrived, rose
and remarked: "I see all the singers
are absent this morning. Let the
congregation rise and sing Praise God,
whom all blessings fowl"
Barmaids were installed in a num-
Der of saloons in Iron Mountain, Mich,
some little time since, and proved a
great success, from their employers
point of view. But the Mayor of the
town has just declared that the bar
maids must go, and the police have
been instructed to see that no women
serve behind bars in the future.
Florida is on the verge of a big
boom in tobacco growing, according to
all indications. There are fully 500
applications for seed tobacco on file
in the Florida State Department of
Agriculture, and tobacco growers as
are being formed in almost
every county in the State. Both
cigar and plug tobacco are to be grown.
The suppression of the nickel-in-
the-slot gambling machines all over
the country has snuffed out what had
become a very profitable industry in
New Haven, Conn. Practically all
the various machines of this charac-
ter were made in that town, and the
first and most popular gambling slot
machine was invented by a New
Haven man.
A Covington, KY, woman has a lit
lie cat farm from which she makes
considerable profit. She raises only
.ngora cats, and at present has about
twenty on hand. The animals are of
high breed, and sell for an average
If $50 a pair. They require a great
ieal of careful attention, and are
'aised on much the same plan az are
high bred dogs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09


Two very important facts in con-
nection with the new era of maya
zines are illustrated in the December
Cosmopolitan. Its fiction is by Stew
enson, the last story written before
his death, "Oudia," Sarah Grand,
Zangwill, and the beginning of James
Lane Aliens new Kentucky realistic
story, Butterflies" Probably no
stronger array of fiction has ever been
presented in any magazine-money
could not buy better. Nor has any
magazine ever had a larger number of
really distinguished artists engaged
upon the illustration of a single num-
Der. The reader might be puzzled to
know how such a number can be made
at the price of ten cents. But the
magazine itself affords the solution.
1t contains 139 pages of advertising,
which, as the publishers announce, is
from $4,000 to $4,000 more net cash
advertising than was ever before
printed in any magazine, of any kind,
and in any country. 1t breaks the
worlds record in the publishing bust
ness. Moreover, the cost of the artists
and authors who appear in this num-
Der is divided amongst 400, 900 copies,
bringing the cost per copy proper
tionately low. The Cosmopolitan
thinks that the ten cent magazine,
bringing, as it does, the best in art
and literature into all classes, is an ed
u~cational movement second in i'm
portance only to that of the public
schools.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

There are some people who are
never positive in anything. 1t is al
ways, 81 don't know" or ~ guess so."
There is a world of such people, and it
is refreshing sometimes to hear a per-
son speak as one having convictions,
like Mr.. Chas. F. Snyder, of Bangor,
Pa, who wrote: ST can heartily
recommend Simmons Liver Kegula-
tor to all who are troubled with Dys-
pepsia or Liver Complaint.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
announcement.

A few days before the beginning Of
the year we accepted the agency of
the Accident Department of the Etna
Life Insurance Company. II you are
thinking of taking accident insurance
call on us and we will take pleasure
in explaining the numerous policies
written by the largest and best acct
dent insurance company in the United
States. GUTHRIE & GENTRY.
Agents, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

G. C. WoNNEMAN approves OF the
LEDGER's plan to furnish employment
for tramps who come to Mexico. He
has been putting tramps to work ever
since he came to Mexico and finds it
a good plan. Those who are not
worthy wont work and he gets clear
of them. Those who + worthy will
work and he gets pay for what food
he furnishes them. He says he finds
a large number of them willing to
W0rk-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
Originated With the Mexico Ledger.

tHv Ltf L3uW ttSPUDfHCs
The Mexico LEDGER is entitled to
the credit of originating "the letters
to Santa Claus" which proved such
a popular feature of the Missouri
county papers just before the holiday
season. The first series OF letters ap-
peared in the LEDGER a few weeks
before Christmas of 1887 and nearly
every child in Mexico sent In q con-
tribution. Other papers were not slow
to inaugurate the scheme, and the re-
suit is that the children of the State
have an opportunity OF telling Santa
Just what they want, and this year
most of the Missourichildren got what
they asked for.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

MEXICO can have free delivery
''when the houses are numbered and
the sidewalks fixed" The sidewalks
in Mexico are much better than in
most towns That have free delivery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

A peculiar incident occurred ia New
York on Q recent Sunday. While Q
policeman of that city wss trying to
see what was going on In q "suspect-
ed' saloon he soiled his hands; he
noticed a sink in tho ante-room Of the
saloon, and when he turned on the
faucet he was surprised to find that
he was washing his hands In beer.
The keeper Of the saloon was, of
course, arrested.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

THE Montgomery City STANDARD,
one of Missouri's most conservative
and substantial country papers, is
twenty-eight years old. May it live
long and prosper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

SENATOR ALLISON seems to occupy
nearly the same position that Garfield
did six months before the holding Of
the 1850 Republican convention; the
friends of all the other candidates re-
gard him rs an available compromise
man.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

II suffering with piles, 1t will in
terest you to know that De Wits
Mitch II -eNzve-wih-cur taIer1s
This medicine is a specific for all COM
plants of this character, and II in
structions (which are simpIe) N car
ried out, a cure will result. We have
tested this In numerous cases, and
always with like results. IL never
fails. Woodbridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

THE Republicans who think that
Maryland and Kentucky are going to
vote for a Republican President would
better brace themselves for q terrible
disappointment.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

Debating societies throughout the
county r arguing in reference to the
Venezuelan matter, the Cuban war,
the tariff and silver questions. A joint
discussion was held at the Jones
school house in the west end the 9TH
er night. The subject discussed was
"Resolved, That it is for the best in
terests of the people to elect the Dem
ocratic ticket in 1896" Mason Crea-
SON and ID. NJ. Jennings ably argued
the affirmative side, while F. NJ. Tins
ley aud r. Fl .Cauthorn took the mega
tive. All present took a great deal OF
interest In the discussion.
No. a. NJ arl nTr~ TT T. Ro1ou
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

THE sympathy in this country for
the Armenians is not backed up by
cash contributions to the extent some
people thought it would be, and no
date has yet been set for the departure
of the Red Cross relief expedition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

THE wide awake merchant and the
wide awake buyer get together by the
means of the newspapers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
MISSED HIS
But the Managing Editor Concluded
There Was Some Excuse.

"There is a good story on the Ear
aminer," said j. Ross Jackson, the ex-
newspaper man, to some friends, "and,
although Pm out of the business, /
can't overlook its merit on that ac-
count" quotes the San Francisco Call.
"It appears that a druggist named
Putnam was killed in Willows recent
1y by a man named Sehorn. The teie-
graph report came to the Cdu and also
the Chronicle. The next morning when
Managing Editor Hamilton Of the En-
aminer was looking " the record of
the day, he discovered that his paper
had been 'scooped' on that particular
item. He thereupon sent for Mr..
Corey, the coast editor of the paper.
Mr.. Corey he said, with a digni-
fed look on his face, have we a cor
respondent in Willows?'.
yes
Did he send in a report OF that MUIR
derP'
NO.
Fire him..
Mr.. Corey went to his record book
Of correspondents and presently re-
turned to the managing editor.
MIR. Hamilton, there are certain
circumstances in this mans favor
that
There are no circumstances tina,
would justify such an exhibition of in
competency. Bounce him, ! say
'But, Mr.. Hamilton, this case has no
parallel. That man has a good excuse
for overlooking the Importance OF the
story
We'll, what was his excuse?' in.
quired the editor. becoming nervous.
WELL answered Corey, scratching
his chin a moment, he was the man
who got killed."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

WHEw! What q change. Those
who predicted that England would re-
gard the appointment of that Venezu-
elan Boundary Commission as a step
towards a declaration of war must
have been shocked to learn that the
English government proposes to aid
that commission i'll every possible way
in its work of trying to locate the
proper boundary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

Az organization should be formed
to give Mexico a Fair again this year.
The Fair can DO made a success, but
the company should be formed now
SO as to secure good dates in the cir
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
Keen II.

Frpm ths SoKnfE stIs Joafh4I.
Young Business Man-When do you
think Is the best time to advertise?
Old Business Man-AI the time,
young MAE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
RIMS Riot

When there is Tactic acid in the
blood. Liniments and lotions viii be
of no permanent benefit. A cure can
be accomplished only by ~neutralizing
this acid and for this purpose Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the best medicine be-
cause Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
true blood purifier prominently in the
public eye.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

b. z. Robertson, Of near Foley,
Lincoln county, father Of Geo. w.
Robertson, Of this city, had a Poland
China SOW that gave birth TO twenty
ffue piga.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Howe, of
Chicago, who have been Waiting their
daughter, Mrs. Frank Sanford, have
returned to their home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

1t has recently been estimated that
a November fog in London costs for
electric light, gas, accidents, delays
and damages shout skos, 900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
TALMAGE IN A ROW.
He Wants to Preach in Place of DR..
Allen, and the Latter Objects.

WARRINGTON, Jan. "A disagree
ment has arisen in the First Presby-
terrain Church of Washington between
the Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage and the
assistant pastor, Rev. Adolos Allen,
over which a special meeting Of the
Washington Presbytery viii be called.
When DIR. Talmage came to the
church recently it was arranged that
he should preach Sunday evenings,
while DIR. Sutherland, with whom he
was made co-pastor, should alternate
in the pulpit Sunday morning with
Mr.. Allen, the assistant pastor.
The church has been crowded on
Sunday evenings since DR.. Talmage
began to preach, and there is a de-
mand that he should hold the pulpit
twice on Sundays. Officers have also
come from other churches for DIR.
Talmage's services on Sunday morn
ings. He has announced to the elders
that he desires to preach twice each
Sunday; that he Is able and that the
pressure on him seems a providential
call. The elders have the same opin-
ion.
Mr.. Allen, however, stands upon his
rights, which are defined In the con-
tract, and declines to yield the pulpit.
Consequently tho prssbytery was
called upon to decide the question.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
A hiouranhical skatch. intended !.

A biographical sketch, intended to
be wholly complimentary Of a banker
In Lamar, Kas., a newspaper Of that
town, says the banker "has forged his
way from q cIerkship to q position in
the frm.n Obviously it would be a
delicate and difficult task to under
take to explain that the use OF the
unfortunate figure of speech was well
mssat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

The yandalia Mail and Express says:
Two Or three cases OF "shoplifting''
have come under the observation of
our merchants, and in every case the
offender was a man. No effort has yet
been made to prosecute the offenders
because OF the small amount taken,
but IL the thefts are repeated IL is
probable that trouble viii be occasion
ed by it. It is to be hoped this timely
warning gill be Of benefit to the shop
fifter
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

properly nourish
the ,aerves and It's
sues. Feed the
nerves upon pure
blood, and they
will be steady and
strong. Read this:
at is with pleas
ure that I recom-
mend Hoods Sar-
saparills rs an ex-
celent nerve tonic
and blood purifier.
! have taken Il
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

So Banker Geo. Wilson, of Licking
ton, No., is mad at Grover and wants
to take his spite out on Hardin College
girls. Poor Grover! Poor Hardin
girls,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

De Wits Little Early Risers for
biiiousness, Indigestion, constipation.
A small pin, a prompt cure. Wool
bridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

The vandalia Maa and Epress Is
eminently correct In the following:
A number Of wealthy gentlemen OF
Canton r speaking OF starting q
buggy and carriage factory there
which viii employ 100 mechanics and
artisans. II would certainly be a good
thing for our State and the west gen.
orally IL we manufactured more at
home thus being enabled to keep in
our own midst much Of the money we
now send east for articles which we
can make a. good and cheaply ~ they
can be made in the northern or east
tern States. No country can ever be
prosperous which, ignoring It's own
facilities and resources for doing good
work, contributes TO the enrichment
Of other sections rather than to the
material development of its own.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

THE Republicans organized the Sem
ate. They + now in control of both
houses aAd are responsible for legis-
lation, bond bill and all. If they have
power to control for spoils they have
power to control for legislation, and
the country will properly hold them
responsible for all that is done and all
that is left undone.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

JUST az soon az our sidewalks are
put in good condition and the houses
are numbered Mexico will have free
delivery.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09

Otis Purdy Is ready for leap year.
He has opened a book and win record
all offers of marriage and on January
1, 1897, he will close his book and
marry the girl who has the most