Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-08-19
UNNoTIoED.

Mrs Mac, wife Of Alderman c. G..
Mac, of Nation, Ill, died of apoplexy.
Pom Kuang Sob. until last fall Corean
minister to the United States, is dam
gerously Ill in Washington.
The cornerstone of Woodford coun-
TVS new courthouse was laid at Eure-
ka. Ill. 1t Is to cost $40, DOC.
The barn of Daniel Zoohr, Jr., eight
miles south Of Fairbury, Ill, wae
burned. The loss exceeds IS, 600.
Russell Sage believes that thec our
try is just entering upon a prosperous
era of unprecedented proportions.
Grain thieves, with headquarters In
Fort Worth, Tex, are depredating the
country round, hauling off wheat by
the wagon load.
The arrest of Sam Denzley breaks mp
q gang of robbers that has infested
north central Missouri and southern
Iowa for a year..
Edward j. Fishback, aged 80 years, .
pioneer settler of Lafayette county,
Mo-, died at the residence of his daugh-
ter. near Lexington.
Amos Jones, the pardoned Missouri
Bald Knobber, wants his neighbors to
give him q chance to become an up
right and honorable citizen.
L. W. Miller, postmaster and notary
public at Otoe, Kaa, was arrested and
taken to Wichita on the charge Of forg-
Ing names to pension vouchers.
Alabama has leased her conviets to
two coal mining corporations for ten
uaorS ~ Cfz c1n o,,I o. r-a-&L g..
first, second and third class men.
William R. Green, the defaulting
cashier Of the Hannibal & st. Joseph
railway, has been arrested in Brook
lyn. N. Y, after IS months lodging
officers. :.
johnson county (Mo) farmers are
engaging extensively in the sheep in
dustry, 1000 head having been pur-
chased to add TO the flocks already
pasturing.
All the prisoners In the county Jail
at olney, ILL.,, made their escape by
cutting the bars with files supplied
from the outside.
The state department IL said to be
Investigating a charge that Prof. Henri
Bertrand is a Belgian ex-convict. He
has been appointed United States COM |
missioner to Brussels.
A. e. Buzzard, OF Gallatin, Mo-, was
adjudged insane by the Daviess county |
court and taken. to the st. Joseph |
asylum. He attempted suicide by i!
shooting on August 5. |
Alvin Dorr, aged "a, a resident Of |
Aurora, Ill. for half century, is dead. |
He was a soldier in the Union army, |
and had four sons who enlisted in the |
same company VITA him.
Eleven letter carriers of Fort Scott, |
Kas., nave received from the United |
States treasury checks amounting to |
81, 407 in payment for time worked in
excess of eight hours per day.
Robt. Stephens. a farmer, who owns
a travelling threshing outfit, was jerked
out of his buggy near Greensboro, KY, |
and robbed of his pocketbook, contain
ing $500 in bills. The highwaymen es-
capped.
The insurance commissioner of Ar
kansas has notified the Massachusetts,
Benefit Life association that a state
ment must be fled showing its solvency
before 1t can do more business in Ar
kansas.
The ninth annual reunion Of the |
Carver family of Macon and Piatt coun-
ties, Ill, was held at Decatur, with $50
present. John Good, aged
So, was the oldest member of the fami-
ly In attendance. |
John Votaw, a patient at the Eastern
Indiana hospital for the insane, made
his escape in a naked condition, taking
with him two blankets. He was cap
tured Thursday I'm the woods, where
he was subsisting on blackberries.
The superintendent of schools at Sa-
lem, Ill, has issued certificates to two
female teachers who could not pass the
indorsing thereon: "At
the request of the school board, not for
merit" and the board accepted certif-