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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-08-05
SECOND CITY IN THE STATE.
Oshkosh Claims a Population by School
Census of 80, 900.

Census of 80 900.
Oshkosh, Wis, July 30.-[Special. -
The Oshkosh school census just completed
shows an even 800 children between the.
ages of and 20, an increase of 272 over
last year. The girls are in the majority,
there being 4494 girls and 1906 bows. an
excess of 2SS. These figures Indicate
population if 10000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-08-05
CRUSHED BY THE CARS.
FnaMk Meadows, Brakeman, Killed
Near West Superior.

Near West Superior.
West Superior, Wis, July 30-[Spe-
cial. Frank Meadows, a brakeman we'll
known here, was run over and instantly
killed by work train on the Eastern
Minnesota road near Fox Boro this
morning. Mr.. Meadows was a young
imam % years old and was engaged to be
married to young woman in this city
next month
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30

o. G. Willard is seriously ill.
Mrs. Jane Ricketts, is quite sick.
Hall wants to show you millinery.
b. Il. Tureman is in Fulton OF a
visit.
The only line of French organizes at
Blum's-
See Ragsdale's SIS double buggy
harness.
Stylish hats for ladies and children
ut Halls.
Percy Shuck, of Fulton, is visiting
friends here.
New line of fans, parasols and UNI
brellas at Blum's.
RillbOards for the rirpUs ara heinz
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
$1.25 and 81 ladies' kid
gloves, all shades, 85c at
Victor Bros.
In Memoriam.

The funeral discourse of Miss Annis
Vail was preached at Benton City
April 10, as was also that of her sister,
Emily Vail, whose funeral was delay
ed at her death by ~protracted illness
in her family. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. N. Hagerman,
Of Montgomery City, and was one of
the most impressive funeral dis
courses the writer has ever listened
to, and, as one of the audience observ-
ed, it was as near inspiration as man
would ever come. At the close of
his discourse the pastor read from a
copy of tho Mexico LEDGER a poem
entitled ''The Benton City Cemetery"
written by Miss Emily Vail, dear to
the heart of every having friends
resting there and who expect to
sleep beside them. Although equally
talented, Miss Annis was not as well
known here as her sister, as her writ
ings were mostly published in the
east. All extend their heartfelt sym
patty to the bereaved family of these
| gifted sisters. May God bless and
comfort them as only He can to bear
this painful separation. No words OF
ours can reach the %sorrowing hearts.
| Only the Father a heal. DE-"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
STORY OF HIS FIRST ESCAPE.
TAYLOR Tells for the First Time How
He and George Got Away After
the Murder.


In his cell at the county Jail last
night Taylor was in a laxative mood.
He told for the first time the.story of
how he and George escaped from the
blood hounds and $500 men who hunt
ed for them like wild beasts during
the exciting day following the murder
of the Meeks family. He laughed at
the dogs.
"They were good enough for an
uncle Toms Cabin show" he said,
'but when set to hunting men, they
imagined they were hunting rabbits"
Taylor said that on the morning
when the bodies of the murdered FAM
lily were found he and his brother
George rode to old man Taylor's clear
ing in the woods. That was at 8
O'Clock. They abandoned the horses
and hid in the brush. That night they
went to their brother in-law's house
and lodged in and out of hundreds of
men. When leaving there they met a
body of twenty-five horsemen in the
road. He and George fed into the
field alongside. Sheriff Allen of Linn
county said this morning that this was
true. The posse saw VIZ figures in
the darkness and cried:
"There go the Taylors," and were
about to shoot. The cry went up that
perhaps it was their own men and it
would be better to surround the place
instead of firing. That was the single
and only glimpse the man hunters had
of the Taylors.
Bill declared that they remained in
the vicinity of their crime, surround
ed by men and dogs and avengers, foI
ten days. Then they escaped in a box
car. He told with glee how, when
walking past a group of men in a
fancy county hamlet, a nan cried:
"There go the Taylors," but another
man exclaimed:
"You mean there go two of Coxey's
army" and they were unmolested.
He said they we're in Springfield
three days at Decoration day time,
The story that they surrendered to
Jerry South at Buffalo Springs after
an arrangement for a half and halt
dizzy of the reward Bill repeated en-
phatically. He said hat they kept
their pistols as tar North as st. Louis
when they suggested to Jerry South
that it looked bad and laid them away
"Once in JAIL" said the murderer
bitterly, 1--WE never saw a cent of the
money Or heard from Jerry South
Bill seemed to feel that Jerry South
was a monster of perfidy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
SIX TO DIE.
Ed Wilkey and the Famous Buck
Gang Sentenced to Death ut
Fort Smith.

FORT SMITH, Ark, April 2s.-The
death sentence was passed to-day up
IN Ed Wilkey, alias Davis, who was
convicted of II criminal assault upon
Mrs. Lillian Amett near pawpaw,I.T 1T,
last June. Judge Parker made some
remarks very pertinent to such cases
being tried by Judge Lynch. Wilkey
showed bat little concern at being
sentenced, though he denied being
guilty of the charge of which he was
convicted. Rufus Buck, Maoma July,
Sam Sampson, Louie Davis and Lucky
Davis, the Infamous Buck gang, were
also sentenced to die on the same day
with Wilkey, Wednesday, July 1. The
Buck gang operated in the Creek
Nation last August. Their crimes
were so revolving the entire populace
turned out to capture them. Their
treatment of Mrs. fiassep, for which
crime they were to-day sentenced,
was one OF the most diaboiical
in the annals OF crime. After their
capture thousands OF people fiocked
to Muskogee with the intention OF
taking the fiends from the officers and
trying them before Judge Lynch.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
Old Times.

We think we have hard times, but
we don't know what hard times are.
If we think back a few years we will
realize what hard times mean. We
live better than the kings and princes
Of old times. We have knives and
forks to eat with; they did not. We
have good spoons and plates; they did
not. Why, only two generations ago
they did not have a cook stove. Our
grandmothers had to wipe their faces
with a tow linen apron, made at home,
as she sweat over a hot bed OF Goals in
a big fireplace about five or six feet
| wide. Yes, and they had to pound the
corn up with a mortar and big pistle,
instead of having it ground at a big
roller mill. Now they have got things
made so cheap the folks can live bet
ter than kings in old times.
Now you "a get things cheap, so go
and see the many nice new things at
Johnston & Asbury's.
Glassware direct from the factory.
Set of nice goblets only 25c. -Four
piece set, latest design, imitation cut
glass only doc. Hand painted, ground
glass from 75c to S1.75 per set; they
are beauties. Decorated water sets
see them. Groceries, the best quality
very cheap. Can't tell you all, bu'
come and see
Q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
REMARKABLE SKIN GRATING
j. Il. Light, OF Kingman County, Kas.
Patched Up With 600 Pieces of
Hide OF HIS Neighbors.

TOPEKA, Kas., April 27.-Topeka
physicians have Just been notified of
a most remarkable case of ''skin-
grating" in Kingman County. Sew
eral weeks ago J. II. Light was Sc
verely burned ON the hands and face
in a prairie fire. Physicians despair
ed of his life, and as the only hope of
preserving it, the amputation of both
arms was agreed upon. DR.. Buck
persuaded the family to prevent am
putation and try skin grating. The
physician consumed two days in the
preparation of the ngalid's hands and
face. Eight citizens agreed to con-
tribute the gratis. Rev. Hendershat
furnished 200 pieces of skin from his
arms, another $50, another 100, and
five other contributed a total Of more
than 200 gratis, in all 637, which were
placed on the afflicted parts. Reports
received here to-day say Mr.. Light
will soon be out and that the COG
pieces of skin are knitting together
nicely.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30

CHINCH BUGS.
Already Operating in Illinois Wheat
Fields.

MAsCoUTAH, ILL, April 25.-The
continued drouth that has prevailed
throughout this section of Illinois dur
ing the winter months has not yet
been broken by rain and it is begin
ming to threaten disaster, to the grow
ing crops in this section of the State.
The wheat crop is still in apparent
good condition and has a fine appear
ance, but the farmers are very much
worried at the appearance of millions
of chinch bugs in the field.
The drouth is favorable to the little
insects and it is feared that they viii
make away with the growing wheat
crop, and then be ready to destroy the
oats, and other spring growing crops
The hope of the farmers is a heav,
rainfall, which would check the raw
ages of the insects and possibly SAVE
all of the growing crop.
The remarkable dryness of the pas
| winter causes the Coolest inhabitants
a lot of trouble to recall a greater win
ter drouth that prevailed twenty-tiv
years and more ago.. For the frs
time in many years the roads through
out this section remained as hard a
rock all winter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30

From the st. Louis Republic.
This is a question We ask each year
as the young girl graduate receives her
diploma on commencement day and
goes out from our care: what will
be the life she is commencing and how
will she acquit herself in it?"
The typical new woman is much
talked of and much written about, but
we have not observed that she is the
product of our colleges.
A certain old type of woman is no
doubt disappearing-theG riselda char
acter, which is its representative,
we hope, relegated to the dark ages.
The woman graduated to-day is fit
ted, or is in process of fitting, to fill
capably any place which her tastes or
her needs may indicate. The progress
of the age has not left woman in the
rear. She has responded to careful
training, and, in the greatest number,
there is an intention to prepare for
some particular life work. Teaching
seems to be the choice in the majority
of instances, either of the literary
branches, music or art. The aim we
observe is for the highest class of
work.
Inc dlScardlng OF the OLD ldea tnat
there is for woman no respectable re-
munerative work but teaching has al
lowed many to leave the ranks of in
structors and take up some other oc-
| cupation, professional or otherwise.
| putting into practical 8 the educa-
ton they have received. In most
cases they have made their first efforts
as teachers.
Domestic life seems to be less than
formerly a necessary goal of woman's
ambition, and yet she is fitting herself
| far more systematically for efficiency
and happiness in it. Her studies are
| practical, and she takes a pleasure in
| cuItivating that great art, and &C
quiring that great accomplishment
| home-making.
Many women in the world of to-day
have proved by their course that there
need be no clash between this prime
requisite and the highest literary pur.
suits.
The limits of this article will not al
low names in confirmation, but it is g
patent fact. Authorship, journalism
and scientific pursuits are all fields in
which woman now works, and works
well, proving Bacon to be right, thai
education is not a circle-simply being
taught in order to teach again.
A. X. YANCEY, President.
Mexico, April "A.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
RUSH HILL ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, Mo-, April 29.-Planting
corn is the order of the day. Many OF
the farmers will finish blowing this
week. The grass was never better.
Lee LaRue, of near East st. Louis,
spent a pleasant week with his many
friends here last week.
Harvey Sorrels will move to Rood
house, ILL.,, this week.
The Rush Hill Glee Club will go to
Thompson Friday night.
G. w. Slavins will occupy the Sor-
rels property.
| The new blacksmith shop will be
| ready for business about the 4th OF
May.
The only game here is croquet
| which opened up in full blast last
week.
Charley Casper shipped one load o.
hogs to Chicago Tuesday.
Six car loads of cattle were shipped
from this point to st. Louis on Wed
nesday.
Porter Gregory bought and shipped
Jim billiards. cattle.
Ounce James sbelled and shipped
two loads of corn this week.
Some of the boys were up to Mexico
Friday night to e Uncle Toms Cabin
Prof. Strother was in this vicinit!
looking after the interest of schools
Rev. Britain was returned to his ole
circuit to preach one year more.
We have the promise of preaching
in Rush Hill four Sundays in tn,
month.
Some of the boys we're busy las
week fishing.
A business man could do all RICH
in Rush Hill if it was not for every
body being in the same business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
MAezzaMM
of Glass,

A company of glass workers have
recently discovered that ordinary
plate glass will make a more durable
monument than the hardest marble
or granite known to stone masons. In
a graveyard there is a gravestone of
plate glass, and it is certain to last
longer than any other tombstone in
the cemetery. Glass is practically in
destructible. Wind, rain, heat and
cold have their effect on the hardest
rock; solid granite eventually crum-
bles away, and one can seldom read
the inscriptions on a stone gravestone
fifty years old. A glass stone will look
as fresh a couple OF centuries after its
manufacture as on the day%it was
erected, and the inscription can be
| made ineffaceable.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
x RAYS FOR D%IpHTHERIA.
A Missouri Professor of Bacteriology
Duplicates the Experiments Of
the Chicago Savants.

COLUMBIA, Mo, April 2s.-Hearing
OF the successful experiments of Pro-
fessors Pratt and Wightman In Chi
cago with the y rays In certain dis
eases, Professor Hickman of Columbia
college decided to do some expert
monting along that line himself. He
prepared some diphtheria germs and
subjected them to the Roentgen ray
process. The result was entirely sat-
isfactory.
After repeated attempts to revive
the bacilli, Professor Hickman feels
justified in announcing that they have
been killed by the X ray. Further
experiments will be made at once. II
they continue successful, the cure Of
Roentgen's rays to the afflicted throat
will probably become part OF medical
practice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
A Si,GOO,OOO Blaze.
BUSINESS PORTION OF CRIPPLE
CREEK IN ASHES.
The City Jail Being Threatened. the
Marshal Gives the Prisoners
Their Liberty -Firemen
Use Dynamite.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, April 25.-
The main portion of the business Q
tion of the city is in ashes tonight.
Charred timbers and crumbling wallis
now mark the site of what was the
best business places of the town. One
million dollars is considered by some
to be a conservative estimate of the
damage; while others place the loss
rs high as two millions. As nearly as
can be established ut a late hour to-
night, the insurance will not exceed
$3.50, 900.
AT l O'Clock this afternoon fire
broke out in Carey's secondhand
store. The firemen responded quickly
and the blaze was not thought to be
serious; bnt q sudden change In the
wind occurred and the flames quickly
spread to adjoining buildings. Then
IL was conceded half a dozen buildings
on the corner of Meyer and Third
streets would be destroyed, and the
occupants made hasty preparations
for the removal of their goods to
places of safety.
Every moment added fury TO the
flames, and as they spread rapidly
from house to house, the people be-
gan to realize that an enormous con-
f~iagration was about to take place,
Every vehicle in town vas pressed in
TO service by merchants, anxious to
save the contents OF their stores, and
great confusion existed, during which
a number of casualties occurred from
runaway teams.
The merchants were not successful
in moving their goods; the flames
spread with such rapidity that not
moro than oHe-tenth of their wares
were saved. When the post-office
caught 1t became evident that desper-
ate measures should be adopted to
stop the spread of the flames, and, the
water supply being very poor, the
flremen decided to resort to the use
of dynamite, and a number of build
ings sacrificed before the fire had
reached them.
During the progress of the explos-
ion a fireman, whose name cannot be
learned, was probably fatally injured
by having one of his legs blown of.
Late this evening the fire vas finally
gotten under control, having destroy
ed the entire district surrounded by
Warren, Eaton, Third and Fourth
streets, comprising four entire blocks.
The buildings included in the burned
districts are the First National Bank,
the Gold and Stock exchange, the
post-ofiice, the Topic and Central
theaters, the city Jail, several large
rooming houses and hotels. All the
mails in the post office were destroy
ed. Great excitement prevailed al
the city Jail, and, as the prisoner
could not be cared for elsewhere
Marshal Jim Marshall threw open the
doors and released all of the prison
ers. Telegraph and telephone servic,
was for a time completely suspended
but tonight communication is par
TALLY restored. Those who are not af
fected have offered shelter to tn
homeless, of whom there are sever
hundred. The burnt district will b
rebuilt at once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
A. K. YANCEY, Presiden'
Mexico, April "a.
The Nude, Championed by a Woman.
Wins.

Dies MONIES, Iowa, April 26.-The
Iowa Monument Commission to-day
settled the vexed question regarding
the clothing to be placed on the figure
of "Iowa." Three years ago it was
decided that the nude sketch made by
the artist was within bounds of pro-
priety. A year later the action was
rescinded.
To-day, after a discussion of two
hours, the ~no-clothiug faction, headed
by Mrs. Cora Weed, won the day.
"Iowa'' is seven feet high, in a sitting
position, and represents the fruitful
ness of the fields. From her waist M
she is nude; her hands support her
breasts, symboiizing nourishment.
Senator James Harlan and Judge
Trimble bitterly opposed the exposure,
but were outvoted. They said the peo-
pie of Iowa would be shocked by such
a display and they feared the condem-
nation which they said would surely
be visited upon them.
Mrs. Cora Weed, the lady member,
thought it was all right and perfectly
proper, and smiled at the idea of put
ting calico around Iowa.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30

Percy Shuck, of Fulton, is visiting
friends here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
WORCESTER ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
WORCESTER, Mo-, April 2s.-The
prospect for fruit in this locality is
good.
Strother Underwood ia home from
Iowa, where he has been on business.
Claud Morris will leave Thursday
for Montana to reside.
Miss Blinco, of Colorado, recently OF
Martinsburg, is here getting up a sub
scription school.
Rev. Shelton filed his appointment
at Rock Hill Sunday night.
The Misses Morris gave a social to
their many friends Monday night.
Philip Cable is visiting his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dee Guy, at Stephens
Store, Galloway County.
The SundaySchooI at RockHin is In g
prosperous condition, with Tom Arm
strong as superintendent. Everybody
invited to attend.
n. Butterfly has moved into his new
shop and will be glad to have bis ole
customers call on him when they wan,
anything in the line of blacksmithing
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
A CALIFORNIA FEsTIvAL.E E
Description OF the La Fiesta" Parade,
Which Is Held in Los Ange-
les, by Miss Carrie Cord
ner, of This City.

Miss Carrie Cordner, daughter OF
| Mr.. and Mrs. II. Cordner, of this city,
who has been spending the winter in
Southern California, in a recent letter
to her mother, thus describes the great
"La Fiesta" parade, which is held an
nually in Los Angeles, and which she
witnessed this year.
~ will give you a brief sketch OF
yesterdays parade. First came the
Los Angeles, Santa Anna and Santa
Barbara bands. Then came about 900
marines, dressed in white sailor suits,
followed by 200 mounted cavalry led
by Gov. Budd, of California; then IS
more marines in dark blue sailor suits.
Next came the PASADENA float, which
was formed like a great rose with pink
petals and a little girl in the center to
represent the "Queen of Roses" Then
the California float. 1t was an old
man, made entirely of gold; sitting at
the mouth of a great mine with a huge
solid silver American eagle resting
over him. Then came the god of the
sea. This float represented a huge
mass of foaminss pillows, with beauti-
full golden, life size mermaids down in
the green foam. Above this, on a
throne of marble, sat a solid silver
statue, holding a gold wand, who was
the sea god.
CATER this came a float represent
ing a sail boat, followed by float called
the Goddess of Fruit" consisting OF
two copper cornucopias filed with
golden fruit, and a woman sat on them
dressed in green and purple satin. Then
came the goddess of grain, which was
just an autumn scene, with a woman
dressed in yellow satin embroidered
in gold. A large float followed this
and | looked at it SO hard that I forgot
to get the name. Then came the Pueb-
10 Indians and their children, then Is
infantry. Then came 80 mounted Chi
nese, two Chinese floats, and the great
Chinese dragon, 2h blocks long, the
only n in America. 1t was at the
Worlds Fair. l can't describe it on
paper but will tell you about it; then
six more Chinese floats and the fire
companies, chemical display and wheeI
men. Next came six small floats about
like we saw in st. Louis, then the flow
or queens float.
1.-THE people elect two queens -
queen of the city and a flower queen
During Fiesta the Queen has entire
control of the city. The flower Queer
was only eight years old, her float be-
ing merely a huge pillow of white
roses, on which she lay, while over
her was unfurled the American flag
made entirely of.flowers. After thil
came four small floats and a huge lily
float bearing the old cracked liberty
bell, which vas followed by ten deco
rated carriages, the electric float, more
infantry, another fire department, ant
the carriage bearing the Queen. She
was dressed in royal purple, while
elaborate parasol, and following hel
came five carriages bearing her maids
The carriages were white-so were the
horses. The footmen were dressed il
pink plush livery with white stockings
slippers and hats; and the maids were
all dressed in white and pink silk.
TT is all I Will have time to de-
scribe now, for they are hurryins
me-"
See, at P~asqueth's, the best ant
cheapest road wagon in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-30
SET BACK BY THE A
Misfortune OF Location OF st. Louis il
no Longer An Obstacle.

The st. Louis Republic, in gathering
information from the Mayors OF differ
ent cities in Missouri In regard TO the
present needs OF st. Louis, quotes
Mayor b. G. Johnson, OF Mexico, as
follows:
alt appears to me that st. Louis has
been lately, and 10 now, entering upon
her manifest destiny, viz: One of tho
very greatest Of our cities.
"Af know that before the war she
was fast becoming the metropolis Of
the West and Southwest; that her
progress was retarded by the losses
and reverses which she sustained on
account OF the war and her peculiar
geographical position that she lost
much territory, and was ridiculed by
rivals, which gioated rcr her mis-
fortune, and that uow she IL stepping
forth proudly TO take her proper
place.