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Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09

John Smith, ST., bought $500 bu. of
corn from Atchison and Cornett at 80
cents per Blu.
Miss Mary Armstrong, of Rush Hill,
is tho guest of her sister, Mrs. A. F.
ScheIer.
VIM. Atkins and family have re-
turned from southwest Missouri very
much pleased with the country.
Tho boys who rode out from Mexico
on their wheels q few Sundays ago
and stopped at Tom Kunkel's, think
ing there was no n at home, went
to the well and drank, then began to
use such profane language, will very
likely get themselves into trouble If it
Ia repeated, 30 Tom says.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09
Cattle for Sa

Cattle for Sale.
Ihave for sale 100 head of good cat
tie. VIII weigh about 800 pounds.
A. III. KALLMEYER,
dit wat New Florence, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09
The Weekly Ledger.
rtI11RsDAY, SEPTEMBER o.
Money to Loan.

va are prepared to make loans on
"a real estate security at a low rate
s,,tarest and on easy terms.
LAKENAN 4 BARNES,
Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09
Public Sale Of Poland C1iDaS.

| will sell at the farm of VIM. H.. Fields, four miles
west of Martinsburg and five miles southeast of Ben
ton City, Mo-, beginning at I O'Clock, sharp, on
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09

Mrs. Guiella Mountfort and grand
daughter, of Kansas City, r the
pueets of Mrs. j. G. V. Baskin.
Cracker-Jack is the best road wagon
made, FERRIS & CAUTHoRN,
West Side Square.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09
To the Ex-Confederates of Audrain
County, Missouri.


Col. Bob McCulluch, Commander of
the Camps of Confederate veterans of
Missouri, has issued a call for a meet
ing of the camps at Moberly Sept.
2sth, 18th and 30th, 1897. A meeting
of Ex-Confederates will be held Satur-
day, Sept. 18th, at 2 O'Clock p. M, at
the court house In Mexico, to make
arrangements to attend meeting at
Moberly. All Ex-Confederates are
invited to be present and participate
in the meeting.
A. G. Turner. d. H. Mcintyre.
Joe Z. Moore. H. A. Ricketts,.
]. @. V. Baskin. DIR. j. w. Luckie.
J. v. Williams. Joe Boyd.
J. 3. Snidow. @. T. Allen.
R. 8. Mckinney. Henry Edmonds.
w. Fl. Kennan.
EX-CONFEDERATEs, ATTENTION.!
There will be q meeting of ex-Con-
federates at court house, Mexico, NO.,
on the 18th day of September at 2
O'Clock p. m, 1897, for the purpose of
electing delegates to attend the
reunion to be held at Moberly, Mo-,
the latter part of this month, and to
transact other important business.
Be sure and come. The cause demands
your presence. By order of
G. T. ALLEN,
Commander Camp No. $50.
r. 8. MCKINNEY, Adjutant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09

The Weekly Ledger.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ..
Money to Loan.
Wa are prepared to make loans on
"a real estate security at a low rate
s;ntsrest and on easy terms.
LAKENAN & BARNES,
-, Mexico, Mo.
,sv,el cooking stoves at Ferris &
~Csutnorn's.
p,hert Arnold was down from Cen
trslia Sunday.
Roru, Sunday, Sept. 5, to Mr.. and
Mrs., E. H. Mcdonald, a son.
Ferris & Cauthorn sell all kinds OF
.nups. West Side Square.
M,s. Sam Evans is entertaining
u,.a Jessie Lamb, of Kansas City.
Chain pumps at Ferris & Cauthorn's'
west Side Square.
Miss Hattie Miller, of Moline, is at
landing s~ynodical College in Fulton.
W. q. Myers, OF Bolivar, MISS, ID
Waiting his sister, Mrs. Frank Coats
worth.
For Sale.
One first class wheat drill. Address
P. O. box 755. 24-tf
n. d. Haussler, of near Benton City,
made the LEDGER a pleasant cal
Monday.
Born, Sunday, Sept. 5, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Moore, of north Mexico
. daughter.
Miss Martha Sullinger left Saturday
for B%ardstown, KY, where she viii
teach this Wlnter.
Jewell cooking stoves-call and see
them before buying.
FERRIS & CAUTHoRN.
Mrs. Henry Dudley, of Moline, re-
tnrued the first of the week from {
visit in Tacoma, Wash.
Lee McFadIn ia still confined to thu
house by illness. His many friends
hone to see him out shortly.
Mrs. @. @. Lister and son, Charles
Of Philadelphia, Penn, are the guest
of ]. E. Ross and family.
Miss Hannah Schopp left Saturda.
for st. Louis to attend the Exposition
and visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. Guiella Mountfort and grand
daughter, of Kansas City, r tn
sueets of Mrs. j. G. V. Baskin.
Cracker-Jack is the best road wagol
made. FERRIS & CAUTHORN,
West Side Square.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
STORM DAMAGES DENVER
MANY PARTS OF THE CITY
FLOODED SEVERAL FEET.
Families Compelled to Abandon
Their Eomes-Cloudburst On
Pixies Peak-Railway Tracks
Washed Out.

Denver, Col, June 11.-Four railway
washouts. a $4,000 fire and a host of
minor losses. epitom:zed the evil re-
suits of the storm which prevailed in
Denver and the southeastern section of
The state generally from near o'clock
last evening until a little after mid
Night.
4 cloudburst on the slope of Pixies
Peak shut eff traffic On the Rio Grande
and Midland lines between Manitou and
Colorado Springs. Sixteen miles out of
Denver the Julesburg tracks were
washed out in spots for miles in length
4 wash-out on the Burlington & Mis-
scuri road occurred near Parr station.
hsen were a work all nigh. repairing
he damage done by the storm.
According to the weather bureau re-
BORT, SO of an inch fell in Denver be-
-ween GAO and 1910 O'clock. From the
.ime the storm reached its height I'M
il travel ceased upon the streets the
ar lines were either inoDeratiye alto
sether or gave but poor service Many
Darts Os the CITY were flooded TO a
depth of several feet, numbers of fami-
lies having to abandon their homes. 1t
IS feared that ranchmen living i'll the
low lands to the east CT this point have
lost heavily in stock and buildings by
the niollt's foods
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
wEYLER's pEvmIsH WORK.
Even Cuban Women Not Safe From
His Dirty Hands.


New York, June ia dispatch from
Havana to the Journal saws:
Weyler continues his persecution of
helpless Cuban women who nave rela-
tives in the rebel ranks. Sonora Sar-
dug, whose husband is a Cuban leader,
lately captured, was dragged from her
home and thrown into the house of de-
tention. where she will be kept ''incom-
municado" until her husbands court
martial and execution at Cabana castle
Six insurgents who surrendered TO the
Spanish authorities at Santiago de
Cuba and who expected to be pardoned
and Daroled under Weyler's amnesty
DEGREES, have since been court-mar-
tailed and are to be shot.
The town of FL CallaO, on the western
trocha, was entered by insurgents re
Gently. They visited the local Spanish
hospital and confiScated all medicines
and supplies in sight, but did not men
ace the inmates. DR.. Paguera, a
wounded Cuban surgeon from Castiilo's
staff who had struggled himself into
Havana TO recuDerate, was discovered
by Spanish police and sent to the mill
tary hospital of San Ambrosio.
FL Commercio. in an editorial com
plimentary to Premier Canovas, says
that. supported by Dupuy de LONE at
Washington. he endeavored TO maintain
apparently good relations with the
United States, simply 10 gain time to
re-enforce the armada, better fortify
peninsular and Cuban ports and com
plete certain dry docks already under
way
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wEYLER's RETIREMENT.
It Is Denied by Senior Canovas del
Castillo.

London, June 1.-THE Madrid CORE
spondent of the Pail Mall Gazette says:
1t is thought that the cabinet as at
present constituted will continue only
during the summer sojourn of the court
at San Sebastian, and that on the
queen regents return to the capital it
will be radically changed.
Senior Canovas del Castillo denies the
report Of the retirement of CaDtain-
General Weyler, but although for the
moment he remains at his post, there
is the best reason for believing that his
resignation has been requested by the
premier. to be accepted or not. as the
latter deems hest Saccording to the cir
cumstanceS of the moment.
In the meantime, CaDt2in-GensTai
Weyler has sent a telegram to the
premier recommending that municipal
elections be held Immediately in Cuba.
This may be the precursor Of other
conciliatorv measures on his part. but
Captain General Weyler's ant acedents
are no. such as to inspire confidence
among the people of the island with re-
gard to his bona fide direction of liberal
reforms, nor is the present retrlbitated
government in position 20 keep him
long at his post in view of the path
that will have to be followed for a gen.
eral pacifcation of Cuba
Reports are current that a private
understanding exists between Senior
Canovas and Senior Sagasta. by the
terms of which the latter is to succeed
the former at the proper moment, but
not at the present critical juncture, so
that the succession to the power shall
always be kept between the chief par
ties, to the exclusion of the minor fac
tons, including the Carlists and the
Republicans
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
B 4RRIOS ADMITS 1T.
Has Announced Himself Dictator of
Guatemala.


New York. June 1.-THE Heralds cor
respondent in Guatemala says that Pres
ident Barrios has confirmed the dispatch
that he had declared himself dictator of
President Barrios he gives his reason for
assuming the dictatorship in these words:
Some of the deputies, inspired and in
fiuenced by personal ambition. have com
mitted Irregularities unprecedented in the
country's history. and have attempted to
break the ties of harmony by debating
unconstitutional laws both inexpedient
ana contradictory. The majority of the
deputies retired. leaving the minority per-
sistent, unpstriotic and hostile. On the
1st of May, adjournment day, they failed
TO meet. thus dssolving the national rep
resentation. On account of the impru-
den,e alIG irGpoiitlc course o. some OF the
representatives. this circumstance has
placed the executive in the unenviable
position Of assuming the national public
powers. Notwithstanding this in the ful-
fillment OF my duty. | will not fail to con-
tinue firm in my endeaVor to maintain
order and the liberties of individuals I
have no other ambition than the fulfill
ment in the rest possible manner of the
obligations imposed on me by my con-
d.tion as a son Of the people. and the
high Office conferred by a vote of the ma
iority- The executive remains under the
str:ctest obligation to execute well the
understood interests of the nation. will
fulfill the obligation until the national as
senebly : convened again.
For the knOV,ledge OF all. let this mani
festation be declared publicly.
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LUTHERAN SYNOD
Gets Down to Business and Figu

Gets Down to Business and Figures.
Mansfield. O.. June 1.-THE Lutheran
synod got down to business today. and
as soon as the opening services Of the
morning session were over, began the
raising Of $4,000 to cover deficit that
has been troubling the board of home
missions for the past year. 1t took al
most the entire morning session and
part of the afternoon session, but the
task was finally accomplished The
afternoon session was devoted to
speeches on home mission work by the
different ministers. During the morn
ing session Rev. DR., A. Stewart Hart
man Of Baltimore delivered the 14th
biennial report Of the board Of home
missions The report was, in part, as
follows:
The total amount received dusing the
two years was sec, 665. which, added TO
the balance made available for the
work, S100,S1i. Of this So1,SI came
from the synod. $12,oz2 from the Won
ans society, S6.0S5 from legacies, and
$4,000 from loans.
The receipts showed an increase of
81, .3f over the preceding TWO years The
amount contributed by the Sunday
schools was $50, 900. The item loans
revealed that the current income was
inadequate to meet obligations as they
matured. This inadequacy confronted
the board early in the biennium and
continued to the end, the deficit having
reached the sum of S1S.50G. As long as
this last debt remained the board would
not be able 10 undertake any new work
The number of congregations is 2O9.
with 16 1893 members; the number Of
Sunday schools is 1856. with 23.954 teach
ers and scholars. There was paid on
church property and for other local
pu-noses s2G9. S5S The total contribu-
lions for all purposes were $50. sos
The total number of missions was 100,
and of missionaries 1875. The net gain
in members was 4.162- Twelve mission
churches no longer asked aid from the
board, having assumed their own sup
port.
The board asked for $4,000 for each OF
the two years beginning May l. 1898.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
WIFE MuRDERERs HANGED
One Says Newspaper Men are Liars
and the Other Fellow Faints.

and the Other Fellow EaintS.
Georgetown, Del. June Thames NJ
Gordy was hanged at 1926 o'clock to-
day for the murder of his wife He
died game and protested his innocence
to the last.
Gordy, on the scaffold reviewed the
evidence upon which he had been con-
victed, pointing out what he considered
the Inconsistencies therein and sug-
costing connivance of his sister-in-law
with the detectives to secure his con-
viction. He said:
In regard to the newspapers, am
sorry people believe all they say. They
are the greatest falsifiers that I ever
heard of and are largely responsible
for people thinking so i'll of me today.
l thank God. though, that day viii
come when the newspaper man will
have 10 give an account of the deeds
done in the body. To all / say good
bye. You believe that ] am guilty.
God and ] know that I am moi. l be-
lieve that I am going to heaven. l do
hope that you will hear, and those that
read my statement Will ultimately en-
ter the rest that remains for the people
of God. Farewell
The crime for which Gordy was
hanged was the murder of a woman
whom he had married in New York
only about two weeks before. Gordy
was q widcwer and there was strong
suspicion that his first wife had been
murdered. In December. 1896, the body
of a woman was floating in the rives'
near Georgetown with the skull
crushed. Investigation proved that
GoTdy had been seen with her near the
river shortly before the body was found
and further search proved that he had
clandestinely married her in New York
about two weeks before. Other dam
aging evidence was found including
hammer with hair and blood stains on
it in Gordy's barn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
THE HERALD BULLETIN

PAGE ONE.
First Blood for Brown.
Trouble at Boise Barracks.
Mckinley at Nashville.
Good News for Cuban Patriots.
Reformed Episcopal Church.
Floods Damage Denver.
FACE TWO
General Sporting News.
In Railway Circles.
Massacre of British Soldiers.
Red Mems Raid in Montana
PAGE THREs.
Brickyard Operations.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
First Test Vote on Sugar.
Yesterday in the Courts.
Thomas, the Colored Soldier, Dead.
PAGE SIX.
Markets of the World.
PAGE SEVEN.
News From Nearby Towns.
PAGE EIGHT.
Some Living Pioneers.
Death of DR.. Holman.
The Utah Cadetship.
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New York, June 11.-General Thomas
Estrada Palma. head of the Cuban
junta, has received a letter containing
news of a character highly satisfac-
tory to the patriots. The letter was
written by Antonio Martinez Carbon.
a chief of dispatchers in General Co
mez' army, and was written from the
interior or the province Of Matanzas.
under date of MAY 90. The writer saws
that Matanzas province is practically
in control of the insurgents, the Span
iards being unable to dislodge them
from their strongholds. and being them
selves gradually starved out.
The insurgents, he says, not only
have possession of all the cattle, but
their supplies have been replenished by
several recently landed expeditions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
Especial to The Herald,

Washington, June 11.-Ex-Senator
Brown scored mis- first victory in the
matter of Utah patronage in securing
the appointment Of George J. Kelly of
Ogden special inspector of customs.
which was made today. Kelly was an
unqualified Brown man, and relied
wholly upon the ex-senator in seeking
the office, hence his success. He sue
ceeds joseph Barton. removed.
c. H. Post arrived here last night
w. r. White, who is said to be an
applicant for registrar of the land Of
flee, Will arrive tomorrow.
o. P. Hatch, sheep man from Woods
Cross, Utah, who is on his way to Bos-
Ton. stopped over in Washington to-
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
INHERITANCE TAX.
Democrats of the Senate viii Offer
an Amendment.


Washington, June 1.-THE Demo-
cratic members of the senate committee
on finance today agreed 70 offer rs an
amendment TO the tariff bill a PROPOSE
ton for an inheritance tax. The
amendment was prepared Dy Senator
Turpie, and was r him presented 10
the senate on behalf of the Democratic
minority. The principal provision is as
follows:
That on and after the LIST day Of
January. 1888. and Tor five years there
after there shall be laid ard levied a
sum equal TO per cens q the value OF
every decedent's estate, as an in
heritance tax. whether it is testate or
intestate. TO be paid ny the executors,
administrators and trustees thereof or
by the heirs or by the distributes, de-
visees or lesatees. when the value Of
such estate, as an Inheritance, is $@.OeJ
and upwards. except where iegacies or
requests are made % religious, charita-
BILE, educational or other organizations,
which may, by the laws OF the state.
territory or district in which the
decedent was residing al the time of
his death, be exempt from taxation
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
Murdered hv rs Doctor.

Atlanta. Ga, June 11.-Dr. ]. J. Kill
patrick. a prominent physician of Mid
VILE. arrested Monday charged with the
murder of Joseph Sprinz. several weeks
age. was given a preliminary hearing
at Midwife and discharged. Fitzpatrick
was Sprinz' family physician and friend
and the theory Of the detectives is that
he killed Sprinz in order to marry Mrs.
Sprinz. with whom he was said to be
infatuated. The evidence failed to
stsbstantia.e the charge. and Fitzpatrick
was given an ovation. Thomas +. Wat
son, late Poouiist candidate for vice
president, was Kiloatrick's attorney.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
HALF A rlILLION OF HONEY.
Efforts May Be Made to Take it
From the Wrecked Elbe.

Milwaukee, June 11.-If the wrecl1ing
company which has discovered the long
lost Pewabic is successful with its new
diving apparatus in this venture. a con-
tract win be closed with the North Ger
man Lloyd to recover the ocean
steamer Elbe and its treasure of 100000
in gold. The Elbe lies in 250 feet of
water. a depth at which diving bells
heretofore constructed have been use
less, and from observations and sound
ings taken is in good condition. The
Elbe was sunk in a collision in the
North sea on the night Of Jan. 80, 1895.
and 500 lives were lost. The officers of
the wrecking company have been ne
gotiating with the North German Lloyd
company for some time and the result
of the Pewabic will decide whether or
not they will be given an opportunity
to recover the treasure which is on the
Elbe
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
Treaty Of Alliance Is Sure.

London. June 12.-The Paris CORE
spoadent of the Times says:
IT am in a position 10 affirm that
definite treaty of alliance viii be
signed by NJ. Faure on his approach
ing visit to Russia by the Emperor
Nicholas, President Faure. Count
Muravieff, the Russian foreign min
lister, and NJ. Hanotaux. the French
foreign minister. The treaty whose
terms have already been settled, viii
be one of the most laboriously con-
structed instruments of its kind
Ever since 1889 1t has been in process
of construction. Two cars and three
French presidents. with their respec-
tive ministers. have been working upon
it, the negotiations often being sus-
pended owing to deaths, designations,
and similar causes of interruption.
"a military convention was care
fully considered and the instruments
exchanged settled upon the basis
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
NOT UNDER SEALED ORDERS.
Cruiser New York Going to Newport
News

Washington, June lit is now
denied at the navy department that the
cruiser New York sailed away from
Boston yesterday under sealed orders
as reported. The explanation of her
movements given at the department is
as follows:
The ship was TO have left Boston
last Monday and the department was
under the belief that she had done so.
Late yesterday when it was learend
that she was still at Boston a teIe-
gram was sent to Admiral Sicard ask
ing why his departure was delayed.
This telegram was put in the naval
cipher because if anything had gone
wrong with the ship or her machinery,
it was not desired that it should be
generally known. The passage of the
cipher however was supposed by two
officials of the department. to have
given rise to the story that the ship
had sailed. Now it is stated that the
ship is going TO Newport News and
viii return TO New York. She will re-
main a month at Newport News and it
is probable that advantage will be
taken of the opportunity to dock the
New York in the big private dock at
that point
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
MASTERS OF DANCING.
Three New Movements Selected for
Next Season.

New York. June 1.-THE American
National Association Of Masters of
Dancing have selected three new
dances fer next season. They are:
La Danse Beatrice. by Professor
Dare. four quarter time, can be danced
TO any shOttisch music.
The Allemande. by Professor Theo-
dcre Lyttle of Newark, n. J., two step
time and arms or hands are joined
during promenade or dance.
The Schenley. by Professor Brown Of
Pittshurg, dedicated TO Mrs. Schenley.
the millionaire society woman of that
city.
The figures and movements Of the
new dances will he kept secret until
the opening Of the next season.
j. W. Harkins was elected president.
The members were much interested
IN the new system Of dance short hand,
invented by Professor Dare. Instead Of
recording the voice this short hand
records the movements of the human
body in the dance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
BAD AS A PRIZE FIGHT.
Young Man Killed at Alta, Califor-
MIA, by a Blow With Fist.

Alta, Cal, June 11.-Last night
George Sharon. of Dutch Flat, and Ben
Billings, of Towles. while intoxicated.
became involved in an alteration in
saloon. Words led to blows and the
young men adjourned TO the street for
the purpose of settling their differences
with their fists. Neither showed any
science and honors were easy for some
minutes, but Sharon finally swung
wildly with his right and landing
squarely upon Billings jaw, knocked
him down. As the latter made no eff
fort to rise his opponent supposed that
he had simply stunned him but on
investigation it was found that Bill
ings' neck had been broken by mis- fall
and that he was dead.
Sharon promptly surrendered himself
10 the local officer
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Special to The Herald.l

Especial 10 Inc Herald-J
Boise. Ida, June 11.-Colonel C. II.
Burton, inspector United States army.
department of the Columbia, is here for
the purpose of making an investigation
of difficulty that has arisen at this
post There have been differences
among certain of the officers. culminat-
ing in the preferring of charges against
Colonel Coates by Captain Noble. and
by Colonel Coates against the captain.
The charges were filed some time ago.
and Captain Noble has since been I'M
der arrest. The inspector has come to
make an investigation Of the matter
and determine whether or not a court
martial shall be ordered. Both officers
came here not long ago from Salt Lake
The exact nature of the charges can
not be learned. 1t is understood the
trouble had its inception in social I'M
Dleasantness.