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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-03
The o'clock meeting Sunday will be
charge of Dea. G. f. Thompson.

The o'clock meeting Sunday will be
charge of Dea. G. f. Thompson.
The regular meeting of the woman's a.
iliary will be held on Tuesday afternoo.
The boys meeting at O'Clock SUI,
will be led by Secretary Austin, thea
ject being Magnets"
At the regular monthly meeting Motday
evening IL new members were elected The
membership of the association isInow
about 1926.
A bowling tournament has Beg ar
ranged. Two gold medals will beBiven;
one to the man scoring the highest fum6er
of points during the tournamenfnd the
other to the man winning the mof games.
An attractive prospectus has bk Issued
by the association. 1t containsF4 pages
of interesting matter relating tflhe local
work, and is illustrated with hq tone cuts
of the Leonard building, the val pus rooms,
gymnasium and bowling alley Company A
and the cadets of the boys fhIaIlon, the
three captains of the batta ~, and last
years foot ball team. The slgn for the
cover was made by Louis tee. Secre-
tary Austin is receiving maif compliments
for the makeup of the bog from \. Nj.
c. A. men in other place 10 whom the
hook has been sent Thee ok is from the
press of The Phoenix job h'lhg once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

bed with horror at the restless night
which l was almost certain was be-
fore me. Matters became so serious
with me that l could no longer keep
silent about myself, and speaking OF
it to one of my friends one day, he
suggested that l try Paine's celery
compound. / purchased a bottle and
before / had taken a dozen doses
knew that the suggestion was a good
one. l felt an improvement. / con-
tinued to use it, and felt restored.
My appetite is good, and I sleep well,
and instead of an irksome grind my
business is again a pleasure to me.
1 attribute this happy state of affairs
to Paine's celery compound"
AS in the last of Fire Chief Runge,
the beginning of poor health is very
apt to rob one of the will power to
start Immediately about getting out
of danger. 1t is this inertia of poor
health that makes an ordinary "run-
down. bodily condition so dangerous,
and SO likely to go on to something
worse. Every day it is clearly shown
that it won't do to live tired-out, and
on the verge of breaking down. The
languor and the lack of strength are
sure to increase.
Now is the time to throw off dis
ease. AS the new year begins there
are fewest hindrances to getting back
strength and sturdy health. The
bracing weather arouses a longing for
health. Paine's celery compound,
taken now, does its best service
toward driving out disease and es-
tablishing firm health.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
TEN THOUSAND IN A vALIsE.
Recovery of a Part of the $4,000
Stolen From the Wells-Fargo
Company by George Krout.

CERRo GoRDo, ILL.,, Jan. 31.-Ex-
press Agent George Kront, who rob-
bed the Well Fargo Express Com
pany of $4,000 at Colorado Springs
November IL, 1895, was brought to
his home near Cerre Gordo to-day by
a Pinkerton detective and Special
Agent Dodd, of the Wells Fargo Com
pany. 1t was supposed that the JONI
ney was made from Colorado for the
purpose of recovering q portion of
the stolen money that had not been
accounted for. When questioned
about the matter, those in charge of
the prisoner admitted that such was
the case, that they had secured an
old valise in which was 10000. This
valise had been shipped by Krout
to his home some time ago. The ex-
press official who furnished this in
formation was confident that his
mother did not know its contents.
Krout was taken back to Colorado
Springs this evening. The father, on
whose person was found some Of the
money, will not be prosecuted.
George Krout was raised on a farm
near Cerre Gordo. He received a
good education and taught school in
Oakley Township. He also took a
two years. course in civil engineering
at the Illinois University at Cham
paign and managed his mothers farm
for a few years. Ten years ago he
| went to Texas and from there to
Colorado, when he began to work for
the Wells Fargo Company. The
mother owns a good farm valued at
SO, 600 and the family are highly re-
spected. Krout was apparently in q
happy mood when he left home this
evening and told his sister that he
would be back soon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

The position of chief of fire depart
ment in q big city like Minneapolis,
with its acres of valuable building
property, crossed by rail-
road lines and dotted with factories
where the fires are never "banked,"
is one of the utmost responsibility,
and car be entrusted only to a man
of unquestioned character and ability.
August H. Runge, who has filled
this responsible position for several
years with SO much credit to himself
and to the city, was born in New York
in 1862, where he received a common
school education.
What such a man as this has to say
| can scarcely fail to carry weight with
it:
"With the hope that what ] say
may in some way be brought to the
| attention of others who, like myself,
have suffered without any apparent
cause, l feel constrained to recite a
brief tale regarding an experience
| which l trust may never be repeated
in my case.
ga few months ago, owing doubt
less to the exacting nature of my
duties as head of the fire department,
I began to feel a sort of languor and
listlessness, to disguise which 1 was
compelled to bring into play all the
strength of will I could command.
The feeling grew upon me, however,
and in a short time it took such pos
session of me that it affected my ap-
petite and caused insomnia. I ap-
preached my meals with a feeling
amounting almost to nausea, and my
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
Stole His Own Wife.

FULTON, Mo-, January 30.-House-
breaking and forcibly stealing his own
wife is the charge against Jas. Myers,
who was arrested at Montgomery City
last right and returned to Galloway
county this evening and piaeedsin
jail.
Josephine Myers was the wife of
James Myers. After a bitter quarrel
she left her husband and returned to
the home of her father, Mr.. Bacon,
near here. On the evening of Novem-
Der 10 Mrs. Myers, during the absence
of her father and mother, stopped at
the home of a neighbor, James L.
Ross, and her husband, James Myers,
forcibly entered the Ross house, and
drawing a loaded pistol, overawed the
household, kicked in the door of his
wffe's sleeping room, dragged her
from the bed in her night clothes and
carried her bodily away. For this he
is now in Jail, and will have to stand
trial. His former wife, Josephine
Myers, who since the abduction hag
secured a divorce. will be the principal
witness for the State against her one
time husband, charged with house
breaking and stealing a no less vaIua-
BILE article then herself.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
EX-PRIEsT WAGNER WARNED.
His Life Threatened if He Does Not
Move Away From st. Joseph.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. 30.-Casper
j. Wagner, the ex-priest of st. Mary's
Church, has received a number of
letters threatening to take his life if
he does not leave the city. Other
anonymous letters threaten him with
tar and feathers if he does not go
away. The letters were put under
the door of the house in which Wag-
ner lis now living with his child wife,
the girl he abducted, and her mother.
One of the letters received by Wag-
ner is as follows:
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-Wagner: We ad-
wise you to leave this city as soon as
possible and do not disgrace us and
our church any longer with your
presence. Take this warning as a
hint before it will be too late. We
are determined to make 1t hot for
you. Ask no questions, and do not
have this published, if your life is
dear to you, for / mean business and
will do it. A MEMBER.
The ex-priest has fitted up a room
q short distance from his home, where
he sleeps at night. He does not
leave the room after dark. The law
suits that have been brought against
him by the church societies have
kept him busy since he has been out
of Jail, and he has had little time to
look for employment. The book
written by him when in jail, 'Both
Sides of the Latest and Greatest Scan
dial in st. Joseph" will be issued on
Feb. 10. The ex-priest has received
orders from all over the United States
for the book from people who believe
it will be an attack on the Catholic
Church. The book will not attack
the church, Is Wagner still claims
that he has not been excommunicat-
Cd
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
A COSTLY EXPERIENCE" TALK
Mrs. Houston's Revival Conversion
Causes the Theft of S50, 600 In
Valuables.

WE'LL FLEET, NEB., Jan. 29.-Mrs.
Jane Houston, wife Of a bank presi-
dent, lost diamonds and other jewelry
last night valued at $50, 600. Mort
Green, whom the authorities were
shadowing as a dangerous suspect,
attended a Methodist revival last
evening. He heard Mrs. Houston, in
an experience talk, say that she had
discarded her diamonds and other
jeweiry since she thought it ungodlyl
to wear them, aud that she had left all
her finery on her dresser. Green left
the church, broke into the Houston
home and found that Mrs Houston had
told the truth. He took everything
in sight aad left a note saying that he
was glad he could remove temptation.
The authorities are after him.
The Vandaiia Mail and Express says:
Misses Maggie and BERTHE Barnett, OF
Mexico, were recent guests of Uncle
Jesse Barnett and wife.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
NEARLY CAUSED A FAMINE.
The Editors Get Stranded IN a Small
Town and Clean Up Every
thing to Eat.

Editorial Correspondence Of the Ledger.
RoCKLEDGE, FLA, Jan. give are
on Dur way north from Palm Beach
and at this beautiful little city on In
dian River for lunch. The beautiful
walks along the river front, both north
and south of the hotel, RI certainly
very interesting and pleasant, and a
stroll through the orange groves of
Rockledge Hammock, SO famous the
world over, is something the visitor
and tourist should never miss.
The fishing and duck shooting on
the Indian River r fine. For fresh
water fishing (black bass, pickerel and
other varieties), alligator hunting,
bird shooting, etc., go to Lake Poin-
sett, a~fresh water lake a short dis
tance back of the hotel.
Near here is located large pine ap-
pie plantations and they are well
worth visiting. You can imagine how
large the hotels are here when / tell
you that our party of five hundred
pC0pAO 10 1QGt LII ~ hoAC4 GAiIN VIC jill
fill one corner of a dining room. The
other day Wa got faid out in a small
town on account of a hot box and
there was no hotel and only one store.
Our party actually caused a famine.
Every bit of anything to eat-all of
the canned goods-was devoured in
less than.ten minutes. The Cuban in
surgents could have done no more in
so short q time.
We are all beginning to feel like 60
ing north. For several days we have
done nothing but eat four times a day
and try to keep cool. Even this be-
comes tiresome. We found some
watermelons to-day which made US
homesick and yotfwould be surprised
that with all the fruit we have here
those from the North and West are
continually trying to buy apples.
Take it year in and year out, the world
over, there is no better fruit than the
big fred apple" of Missouri
Some of us are still unable to tell
alligators from crocodiles. One works
the upper and the other its lower jaw,
1 just can't remember which. l am
sure, however, I know politicians in
Missouri that are combinations of
both. They work both jaws all the
time. There seems to be as little use
for the alligator and crocodile in Flor
ida as there is for the average poll
tician in Missouri, except the hide of
the former can can be used for shoes
and the skin of the latter is not worth
taking. r. M. WHITE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
WHO IS SCHRADERP
"A Macon Pastor Discovers in Him a
Man Who Escaped From the Burn
ing Town of Hinkley, MINI.

MACON, Mo-, Jan. 31.-The Rev. G.
A. Robbins of this city went to Mob
erly to-day to assist the Rev. J. H.
Cox in a revival meeting at the NJ. E.
Church. He had hardly struck town
before he learned of the wonderful
excitement caused there by the pres
ence of "Faith Healer" August
Schrader. Mr.. Robbins went around
to see Schrader this afternoon, and
Immediately recognized him as one
Rev. A. J. Schraed, who was here last
October and remained over night at
Mr.. Robbins house. At that time
Schrader represented himself as a min
lister of the M. E. Church at Hinckley,
Mimi, when the forest fires reached
the town and wiped it off the earth.
Schrader claimed to Mr.. Robbins
that out of the entire population OF
the city only seven people escaped
and he was among them; that he was
horribly burned and lost all he had.
Mr.. Robbins raised enough money to
take him to Ottumwa, Ia, since which
time he has heard nothing of him I'M
til he met him at Moberly to-day.
The man at Moberly would not admit
his identity, but Mr.. Robbins is willing
to swear to it that the Moberly
Schrader and his visitor at Macon are
the identical same person. Schrader
is credited with assertingat Carrollton
that he never entered a church and
belongs to no creed, which is hardly
consistent with the story of his church
at Hinckley, where he stated his mem
bership of $40 people persisted in the
flames when the city was burned. MI.
Robbins is absolutely reliable; is pas
tor of the M. E. Church here and has
lectured all over the State for the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
A Sensational Chump.

Senator Tillman's maiden speech
might have scored a hit if it had been
delivered for the benefit of a hoodlum
gang and against another hoodlum
gang.
1t contains the information that one
United States Senator holds himself
emancipated from the restriction
which men since the days of Moses
have associated with fitness for OK
istence in an established order.
He pretended to speak for the South.
Yet thatharangue, dripping with igno-
bic c%oarseness, disfigured with unsup-
ported accusations, inf1ammatory,
ignorant, unfeeling and fiatuIent, is
capable of robbing the South as even
a sectional tariff law could scarcely
rob her in years. 1t can rob the South
of much advancement in wealth and
population. 1t can furnish the de-
tractors of the South with instruments
of Misrepresentation which they could
not plausibly invent.
Senator Tillman may hear some ap-
prevail. There are men everywhere to
applaud boorish and excited yitupera-
ton. They are in no corner of the
earth, however, the men who do good
to their communities. They are the
men whom laws against assault and riot
are made to fit; the men who make
the progress of civilization slow and
painful; who are the enemies of the
Sheriff and the courts of law. BUSH
nes and education languish where
they are numerous. The Christian
preacher is discouraged where they
infest.
Senator Tillman had the beginning
OF great career. The small farmers
OF the South, fearless, Woodworking,
moral citizens, wanted q spokesman.
he has fallen below his opportunities.
ms character is not strong enough to
develop. Discussion, poise and rehec-
.ion are impossible to him even in
positions where without them dis-
graceful failure is the plain destiny of
the delinquent.
Inc Pop ulist agitation is singular in
the story of the nations. OF all the
mel 1T has thrown into the public
view, not one has been able to sustain
himself. Not one has reached, even
.hooerase standing in a generation, OF
" no means extraordinary eadsr
me West fastened to turn but of Of
nee 9 n of them it could oct ;ts
ana upon. The South bushes when
!. thinks of Irby, Marion Bnt,er ana
Cleveland and Carlisle are not ;ne.,.
non .ass nave opponents among
good men and good Democr..s
Their mistakes win be
greater kindness and the;r aaa WIN
win be fewer when Tfum.n..
~tempsible biilingsgate il read :. con
country. ny the
Ladies' skirts, 80 cents % a ~
HALLS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
PENSIONERS IN THE SOUTH.
Colonies OF Veterans Settling in a
Mider Climate.
From the Savannah Ca News.

From the Savannah tGa.i News,
The time may not be distant when a
third, and perhaps half, of the pension
money paid out by the Government
will be distributed in the South. The
movement of members of the Grand
Army of the Republic, particularly of
those who receive pensions, to the
Southern States is now SO large as to
attract general attention, and it is
steadily growing in volume. The rea-
son of this is that the old soldiers of
the North suffer from the effects of
wounds received, or diseases contract
ed in the war, and are anxious to pass
their declining years in a nilder
climate. The long and. severe
Northern winters are thinning their
ranks rapidly. They believe they
would live longer and would have bet
ter health in the South. That is why
so many of them are settling in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louis
lana and Texas.
In a dispatch published last Thurs
day, giving an account of the move
ment of immigrants from the West to
Alabama, it was stated that at present
about 81, 500, GOO of Federal pension
money is paid out in the South annu-
ally, and that it is estimated that s15,-
0o0, 900 will be paid out next year. II
this estimate should not prove err
roneous it affords good ground for
saying that the time is not distant
when half the money disbursed by the
Government for pensions will be paid
to Northern veterans living in the
South.
Only those who have given special
attention to the movement of North
ern veterans to the South know how
large it is. All the Southern railroads
are now encouraging immigration.
This State has received thousands OF
immigrants from the North within the
last twelve months. There are at
least 1000 in the new town Of Fitz-
gerald, and it is confidently expected
that the Fitzgerald colony will mum
Der anywhere from $4,000 to 10000
| within a year. In fact, nearly all the
countries in Southern Georgia are
gaining in population from jmmigra-
ton. The freeze last year in Florida
did not check immigration to that
State. From all accounts it is greater
now to some parts of the State than
ever before. Mississippi, through the
| efforts of the Illinois Central Rail
road, is receiving immigrants by the
| thousand.
| Tt would be a remarkable condition
of affairs if the greater part of the an
nual pension disbursement should
be distributed in the South before the
end of this century, now pretty close
at hand. Yet things more remarkable
than this have happened.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
MR.. JONES AND THE TIMES.
Another Rumor That the st. Louis
Editor Will Buy the Newspaper.
From the Kansas City Star


1t is again rumored that @. II. Jones
of the st. Louis Post Dispatch has his
eyes on the Kansas City Times and
will be a bidder at the coming auction
sale of that newspaper. 1t was report
ed about three months ago that Mr..
Jones would buy the property, and the
publication of the rumor brought from
hum a statement that he had at no
time entertained an idea of purchas-
ing the paper. Since then, however,
differences have arisen between the
st. Louis editor and Joseph Pulitzer,
which are likely to lead to the form
er's withdrawal from the Post Dispatch
and this fact has given to the renewed
umo a stronger color of truth.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
How to Treat q Wife.

FROM the Pacfnc Health journal.
First, get wife; second, be patient.
You may have great trials and per-
plexities in your business, but do not
therefore, carry to your home a cloudy
or contracted brow. Your wife may
have trials, which, though. of less
magnitude, may be hard for her to
bear. A kind word, a tender look,
will do wonders in chasing from her
brow all clouds of gloom. To this we
would add always keep a bottle OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the
house. 1t is the best and is sure to
be needed sooner or later. Your wife
will then know that You really care
for her and wish to protect her health,
For sale by q. A. Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

The Teller who figured that a clothes
line would last six weeks longer if
taken down every night was all right
as fur as he went, but he might have
also figured that it would take Jest
twelve weeks off'n any mans life to
do it. Things is purity nigh right
without any figurin' at all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
BOOK WITH A WAR HISTORY.
Taken from Missouri University at
the Time Confederate Prisoners
Escaped in 1862.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, January 31.-A
weather stained and time-worn copy
of Bryant's poems, accompanied by
an extraordinary message, was re-
ceived to-day by the Missouri Uni
versity, which recalls to mind a re-
markable instance of the late war In
1892 q number of Confederate soldiers
were captured by the command of
Gen. Lewis Merrill, a Federal cavalry
officer, then stationed at Columbia.
and imprisoned on the third floor of
the university building. By the as
sistance of an old slave the prisoners
secured knives, and cutting a hole
through the floor of the room in which
they were confined dropped into the
hall beneath. Another hole was cut
through the hoor OF this and
the prisoners, reaching the ground
floor, escaped without detection by
crawling under the Federal cavalry
horses picketed in the rea of the
building.
The person who sent the book to-
day, who desires his name withheld,
but who is an old Federal veteran,
was one of the guards stationed at
the building to watch the prisoners.
He was off duty at the time of the
escape, and while the Confederates
were boring a hole through the uni
versity building this grim warrior
sat in the library reading Bryant's
poems. The book was the property
of the university, as he had removed
it from a shelf in the library. But
when he was interrupted by the
shouts and confusion caused by
the discovery that the prisoners
had escaped, he slipped the volume
into his pocket, anticipating that it
would help to relieve the monotoDy
of future camp life. Shortly after
ward he was ordered out in pursuit
Of the fngitives, and never entered
the university building again.
The soldier and the book of poems
went through the war together, and
to-day he returned the volume to the
university. The message which ac-
companied the book was mildly
humorous, saying that since the war
it has caused his conscience many a
twinge, and that he was now reform
ed and resolved to steal no nor
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
AUDRAIN COURTS.

CIRCUIT CoURT-3d Monday i'm jan
uary, LIST Monday in June, Sd Monday
in September.
COUNTY CoURT-1st Monday in Feb
ruary, LIST Monday in May, 1st Monday
in August, list Monday in November.
PROBATE CoURT-2d Monday in Jan
uary, I'd Monday in March, I'd Monday
in May, I'd Monday in September.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06
MISS BARTON IN ENGLAND.
She 10 Glad to Hear of the Concession
the Porte is Disposed to Make.

SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 29.-The Amer
lean line steamship New York, having
on board Miss Clara Barton, president
of the American National Red Cross
Society, and her staff, who are on
their way to Turkey to distribute re-
lief to the Armenians, arrived to-
night, A reporter interviewed Miss
Barton and Mr.. Pullman, her aecre-
tary.
The reporter showed her the an
nouncement that the Porte had agreed
to permit persons nominated by Min
lister Terrell to distribute the fund for
the relief of the Armenians. Miss
Barton said that she was very glad to
see that the Sultan had accorded such
permission, which she considered a
great concession after all that had
been said against Turkey.
Miss Barton and her companions win
go to London tomorrow, where they
will remain for q few days. They viii
then proceed to Constantinople, stop
ping in Paris on their way.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

Now and then you meet a man who
has soured on the world and can't see
no good in nuthin' nor nobody. In
SIGH cases jest size him up and you'll
find a chap SO ALFRED mean that a
yaller dog wouldn't foller him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

never yit went to a man and asked
him to give me his advice without I
had my mind fully made up to believe
him a fool if he didn't think as / did
about 1t. If he was a lawyer, how
ever, and charged me $40, why that
altered the case.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-02-06

I've heard a heap o. men talk about
luck in my time, and SO fur as I have
been able to keep track of individuals,
the mes hoein' corn at a dollar a day
instead of talkin' on the grocery steps
got ahead the fastest.