Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-10-14
Twenty Years Ago This Week.

]. L. Ladd of the Vandalia Leade
attended court.
w. Fl. Beal of Laddonia called OF
the LEDGER.
H. W. Gleason was recovering from
a spell OF illness.
L. Phillip returned from a bushes
trip to st. Louis.
County Clerk B. L. Locke was il
st. Louis on business.
Seventy Thousand people ATTENDED
the st. Louis fair Thursday.
The necessary expense of a tril
around the world was about 81, 300.
| B. F. Dobyns was secretary of the
Malinda Allen Mining Stock company
W. o. johnson was an auctioneel
and sold $1,675 worth of stock Satur'
day.
DR.. Macfarlane was in Fulton at
tending a meeting of the Asylum di.
rectors.
Miss Florence Carson was attend
ing Valley Female college at Win
chester, Va.
| Seven hundred and fifty Thousand
humans persisted in the famine dis
tricts of India.
The Democrats had about forty ma
jority on q jair. ballot in the Califor'
mia legislature.
A. W. Ross, who boarded with
W. @. Davis, was robbed of 800 by
sneak thieves.
B. T. Rodman, auctioneer, sold
8 1850 worth of stock on the streets
Saturday morning.
Mrs. A. q. Moore, who made the
finest fruit cake in the county, pre-
sented the LEDGER with one.
An election was ordered to decide
whether or not Mexico should govern
under a fourth class charter.
The advice of the LEDGER was, "If
you don't want to he robbed of your
good name, do not have it painted on
your umbrella"
A dispatch from Messilla, N. M,
stated that q mob of several hundred
armed Mexican banditti had crossed
the border, taken possession of Ell
Paso county, Tex, and imprisoned
the county officials.
James Berry, of Galloway, who, it
was thought, had been in the Black
Hills at the time $50, 900 in gold was
taken from an express train on the
Union Pacific railroad near Big
Springs, Neb., returned to Mexico
and sold TO-, 140 gold dollars to the
banks and individuals. He was being
pursued through the "Red Hills" of
galloway by a posse.
The following was a telegram re-
ceived about the Ohio election:
ELECTION quiet. Bishops plurality
over West, $1,000; net Democratic
in 437 precincts, 7,47s; legislature
certain; supposed So to Al Democratic
majority. The Republicans concede
10000 majority. The work
ngmen polled a strong vote, but
mostly Republican. Democratic SEN
ator conceded in place of Matthew'S
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
F. E. Scroggin to @. Blackburn, lot
!, in block 10, in Vandalia, $500.
@. Blackburn to Amanda J. Scrog-
lin, one lot IN Vandalia, $500.
j. Lupton to 8. A. Potts, half inter-
'st In west half SO feet, 6 inches, east
ide of lot 4, block II, Original Mex
co, $1,000.
Audrain M. & A. Association to
W. Judy, two lots in Fair Ground
edition to Mexico, SIG.
@. w. Judy to L. D.. Craig, lots s
nd &, in block 3, Fair Ground addi-
ion to Mexico, SIG.
g. b. Simpson to James A. Simp-
on, Jr., ten lots in Laddonia, $3.50.
III. Lawther to P. 8. Faddis, $40
twelve miles northwest of Mex
co, $3.50.
Daniel Jenkins to Mary Spears, 80
'cres eighteen miles east of Mexico,
1850.
Margaret e. Rogue to Sarah Van
'acter, so acres, twelve miles north
rest of Mexico, $500.
A. McPike to j. Meadows, one lot
q VandaIia, $50.
Mary Fulton to E. McCune, lots
2 In block 8, Vandalia, $50.