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Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27

During these spells I was 90 nervous that I
could not bear to have my husband walk
across the floor, and as the doctors said there
was 40 medicine that would reach my
trouble, consented to the operations, which
left me worse off than ! was before.
"In January of this year there was an
article in the Ererins Nesrs about the drug
gists that sold DIR. Williams Pink Pills In
Detroit. ! told my husband / was going to
try them and he said, try anything
h next morning l went into Murphy
DR.. Williams Pink Pills. Mr.. Murphy
said he had a big sale for the pills and per-
sonally knew many people who had been
helped by them. / took the pills as directed,
but was not helped q bit, and / told Mr..
Murphy so, but he suggested that / give
them a better trial. Before | had finished
the second box I began to feel better and
went down and bought O dozen boxes.
When l had taken six boxes my headaches
we're gone, but i continued using the pills
until I had taken the twelve boxes.
"Just think what l nave suffered by
operations and vile medicines, when . sim
pie remedy cured me.
There is only one thing against DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People" con.
tinued Mrs. Clark, ''they made me fat.
Since I commenced taking them, in Janu-
airy, l have gained twenty-six pounds. I
remember the many times when my friends
came to see me, when / was SO thin and
weak, that they expected to hear that / was
dead the next week. To-day I am perfectly
well, and never felt better in my life, and IL
is all due to DR.. Williams Pink PILLS for
All dealers sell DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, or they will be sent post
paid on receipt of price, 30 cents a box or
six boxes for $3.50 they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr.. VIII
Hams Medicine Co, Schenectady, n. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
DRAPER MURDER TRIAL.
William j. Bryan Testiies as to the
Defendants Good Character.

JACKSONVILLE, ILL, Jan. 20.-lt is
very seldom that two men, candidates
for the presidency at the same time,
meet in such commonplace relations
as in a murder trial, but such was the
CAGE in the Draper murder case yes
terday, when VIM. j. Bryan, the Dem
ocratic free silver candidate, and John
NJ. Palmer, candidate for the gold
Democrats at the last election, met
and greeted each other cordially. MIR.
Bryan was called here to testify as to
the general reputation of Charles l..
Draper, and said that after GRADUATE
ing from the law school took desk
room in tue Office of Brown & Kirby,
where the murder was committed.
He stated that he was acquainted with
all the employees in the office and
knew Draper we'll, and that he knew
Draper's reputation for honesty and
uprightness as a ~peaceable citizen,
and it was good. He knew of but two
instances where Draper manifested a
violent temper, and those were in the
heat of political debate. The burden
of testimony on the part of the de-
Tense to-day was to show that Draper
was insane at the time he committed
the deed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
A SILVER SHOW.
The Curse of Gold" is to be Produced
Soon-Senator Jones Approves.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The silver
people have made a new departure.
The American Drama 20. has been in
corporated in this city and Alexandria,
Va, for the purpose of producing
American political plays. The incor-
porators are men of prominence in
the silver Democratic party and they
propose sending out well acted plays
in the hope of influencing voters for
free silver.
"The Curse of Gold" is the name of
the first play to be produced. It has
received the appreciation Of Senator
Jones, chairman of the national DEM
ocratic committee ;ChaunceyF F. Black,
president of the association of Demo-
cratic clubs; Senator Faulkner, form
erly chairman of the Democratic Con-
g%ressional campaign committee. Sew
eral leaders here have also Endorsed
the movement. The heavy william Of
the plays will all be pronounced gold
men.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
BLADDER TROUBLES.

The bladder was created for one
purpose, namely, a receptacle for the
urine, and as such it is not liable to
any form of disease except by one of
two ways. The first way is from inn
perfect action of the kidneys. The
second way is from careless local
treatment of other diseases
SAMPLE SENT FREE.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid
neys is the chief cause of bladder
troubles. 1t is comforting to know
that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root fulflls
every wish in quickly curing bladder
and urinary troubles. 1t c~orrects fire.
quent calls, inability to hold urine and
scalding or stinging pain in passing it,
Or bad effects following the use of
liquor, wine or beer, and overeomes
that unpleasant necessity of being
compelled to get up many times dur
ing the night to urinate. The mild and
extraordinary effect of DR.. Kilmer's
is soon realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful
cares of the most distressing cases. If
you need a medicine you should have
the best. At druggists fifty cents
and one dollar. You may have a
sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent
free by mail. Mention the Mexico
LEDGER and send your address to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. Y.
The proprietor of this paper guaran-
tees the genuineness of this offer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, John Bick and Mary b
Bick, his wife, by their certain .dssd
of trust, dated Feb. 8, 1894, ard n
corded in the Recorders Office In Aa-
drain County, Missouri, Ia Book u, u
page 24S, conveyed to the under
signed trustee the following descFibed
real estate situated in Audrain County,
Missouri, to- wit:
The west half of the northwea
quarter and the northeast fourth II
the northwest quarter Of 6ectien
Twenty-one (21), in Township Fifty-
one (51), of Range Seven "a wed,
containing one hundred and twenty
acres more or less by the q. 8. survey
thereof.
Which said conveyance was made
in trust to secure the payment Of tie
promissory note In said deed desczib-
ed; and, whereas, said note rennaing
due and unpaid; and, therefoug st
the request of the legal holder OF aiA
note, and by authority of the proyie.
ions OF said deed of trust, I viii, on
Friday, the 4th Day of February, 1895
proceed to sell the property hereinbs-
fore described, at public vendue %
the highest bidder, for cash, at The
east front door of the Court House, II
Mexico, Missouri, between the houru
of 8 O'Clock in the forenoon and 8
O'Clock in the afternoon of that day,
to satisfy said debt and the expenses
of executing this trust.
II. A. ROCKETS, TrusteeI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
A pAupER,s GRAVE
Is ALI That j. e. Berry, the TRAMP
King" Has-Spent 100000
in Seven Months.

PADUoAH, KY, Jan. 20.-James e.
Berry, the "tramp king" will fill a
pauper's grave. The remains OF Berry
remained at an undertaking establish
ment until this morning, when the
body was buried in the potter's field
at public expense.
A pine plank sharpened ut one end
and a rough mound will mark the
resting place Of the man who tried to
spend 800, 900 and succeeded in seven
months, though it cost him his life.
]. D. Robertson, the attorney of the
deceased, administered upon the
estate of Berry and took charge of his
effects.
Mrs. Sadie Berry, of Mount Vernon,
ILL.,, arrived here yesterday, accom-
panied by her attorney, Hon. I. G.
Blood, q member of the Illinois Legis-
lature. She showed little emotion.
1t is now certain that Berry died
absolutely without a cent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
Fine Judge of Human Nature.
From the CentraI1a COURIER.


]. T. Johnson, the Audrain auction
eer, is a very fine Judge Of human
nature as well as the price of stock
and sale plumber. On Tuesday of last
week he stood in the Office of the
Globe Hotel sampling a mixture of
rock candy and rye that he had brought
along with him. OF course, he passed
it round, and upon several refusing
his proffered hospitality, he took a
snort from the bottle and delivered
himself of this speech:
81 have always taken a drink when
I wanted it and probably always will,
bat to save my life I cannot help hav-
ing just q little more confidence in the
man who does not touch it than I do
In the man who drinks. The man who
never walks on the railroad track will
never be q down by the cars, while
the man who does is constantly ex-
posed to the possibility of ruin"
Coming at the time it did and from
the ource it did, we considered it one
OF the best temperance speeches we
ever heard and one of the most SUBJ
stantial compliments ever paid to the
total abstainer in our presence. Mr.
Johnson Is right. The man who never
drinks will never fill a drunkard's
grave. From the ranks of the men
who drink are the vast army of drunk
ards constantly recruited.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
A Reading Room,

Some of the members of the K. OF
P. lodge are talking of trying to es-
tablish a reading room in Mexico, but
the plans are not matured enough yet
to give any definite idea about 1t. The
desire of those talking the matter up
is to secure a well lighted and COM
modious room and furnish it for that
purpose. The daily papers will be
kept on file there, together with many
periodicals. A library will also be
put in.
Mr.. r. D.. Worrell, who first pro-
posed this, wants to have Sunday
afternoon meetings in the rooms at
which much good could be done by
the ministers of Mexico, who, the
LEDGER is sure, would lend their as
sistance. Whether the rooms would
be purely q K. of P. institution has
not been decided.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
CALL A SPADE A SPADE"
Some People too Modest to confide in their Physician Woman
Cured Of a Serious Disease by a Certain Method, the Only
Drawback Of which was, it Made Her Too Fat."
From the Essssns Meas. Detroit, Mich.

The doctor came In haste and found his
patient again in great agony from a splitting
headache. II was his fifth call on the same
patient, and each time TO treat the same
trouble. With q suspicion that his diagno-
sis was incorrect and that he was treating q
symptom and not the disease, he said to her:
MADAM, it is useless for me to visit you
again. You are keeping from me facts and
symptoms which il Is necessary l should
know. The patient finally Acknowledged
that, through q false modesty, she had not
told him all. Then she told how she had
suffered from female weakness but had kept
It from him-too modest to speak. Thu old
doctor was disguised at such prudishness,
but when he knew the facts, cured her easily
and quickly.
only in the fact that the patient is not afraid
to speak, and TO "call q spade aspade."
"Words fail to describe the suffering I
endured before I used DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People" said Mrs. Alexander
B. Clark, of Az Michigan Avenue, Detroit:
Mich. "For FIVE years / have suffered
my room for months at a time. | have
undergone two operations for this trouble at
the hospital, and seemed to grow worse
instead Of better. I had the best doctors and
the best nursing, but for nearly five years 1
was not free for one single day from the
ing pains in my neck and shoulders.
"You would scarcely believe, to look at
me now, that for about three days every
week for nearly six years, ] had to stay in
bed. Those headaches would come on me
every week regularly. First I would notice
would go blind, and send for the doctor.
At first they would treat me for indiges-
ton and dyspepsia, then finally cknowl-
edge that something else caused the trouble.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
Grand Jury Report.


The Grand Jury have brought in
the following true bills and we're dis
missed:
State vs.. Elzea Hays, Indictment
for burglary and attempted burglary
and larceny.
State vs.. Jasper Talten, indictment
for grand larceny.
State VS.. Frank Johnson, indict-
ment for grand larceny.
State VS.. John Payne, Indictment
for assault with intent to kill.
State vs. E. A. Frohboese, indict-
ment for assault with intent to kill.
State va. B. F. Wilmington, indict-
ment for assault with intent to kill.
Brooks vs.. McFall, motion for Sc
curity for costs sustained and plaintiff
ordered to deposit $40.
Gregory VS.. Wilson, motion to dis
charge overruled.
Bruner vs.. Gardner & Pearl, judg-
ment for 1886.
Medical and Surgical Sanitarium VS..
Cornett, discharged by plaintiff.
Dodge Mfg. Go. vs. Bick, Judgment
for $4s5. 40.
Smith vs. Ahlfeldt ct al, judgment
$6s2. 02.
Same, No. 2, $2,704.75.
Same, No. 8, s3s1.47.
Brown vs.. Ahlfeldt, judgment by
default.
Beagles vs.. Beagles, judgment for
$1,652.s6.
Hardin vs.. Canterbury, judgment
for STATS.
Guthrie VS.. Canterbury, judgment
for $624.42.
Hamilton va. Flittner, judgment for
$500. 0s.
Settle VS.. Mackey, Judgment for
SALT.
Atchison VS. Ringo, Judgment for
$460.s
]. P. Covington VS.. j. B. Harrison,
Judgment for $3.50.
Powell vs.. Chalmers; motion for
bond for costs.
National Bank of Mexico VS.. Rags
dale; motion for new trial.
Turner vs.. Jones; venue changed to
Moberly Circuit Court.
Potts VS.. Turner & Jones; venue
changed to Moberly Circuit Court.
Robinson VS.. City Of Mexico; dis
missed at plaintiffs cost.
Laughlin VS.. Riggs; continued at
plaintiffs cost.
Brooks VS.. McFall, ordered to file
bond for costs 80 days before next
term.
State VS.. Hayes, plea of not guilty
as indicted for burglary.
State We. Talton, plea of guilty of
grand larceny.
State VS.. Wilmington, plea of not
guilty of assault.
State VS.. Frohboese, plea of not
guilty of assault.
State vs. johnson, plea of not guilty
of grand larceny.
Laird vs.. O. & A. Railroad Co.,
motion to make petition more specific.
Winkler vs.. Hudson, answer with
drawn.
Powell vs. Chalmers, verdict for
plaintiff for $500.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
JUSTICE BARCLAY TO RETIRE.
Will Resign His Seat on the Supreme
Bench February 1-Goyernor
Stephens 50 States.

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, Jan. 21.-
Chief Justic Barclay, of the Supreme
Court, was interviewed this morning
by q correspondent concerning the
probability ofhis resigning his seat on
the Supreme Bench of Missouri. He
said the only thing for the public to
do now was to be patient, that the
whole thing would develop publicly in
a few days.
The Chief Justice admitted that he
desired to 60 back to private practice
and said be had a fine opportunity but
that he would not resign unless he
was sur some competent man would
succeed him, one who would give en-
tire satisfaction to the bar and the
people. He said that he regarded Will
liam Williams, of Boonville, who, it is
generally understood is to be appoint
ed to the vacancy by Govern Ste
phens, such q man, but that as Chief
Justice he had some work which he
wished to look after before he took
final action regarding his resignation.
Judge Barclay spoke very compii-
mentary of Williams rs q lawyer and
said he was of unimpeachable char
acter.
There has been some doubt in the
minds of some Of the leading poiiti-
clans as to whether OF not Williams
would accept the place and here hangs
the secret of the action Of Judge Bar
clay. 1t is, however, safe to say that
he will in q very few days tender to
the Governor his resignation to take
effect February /.
Gov. Stephens, when see to-day,
said that Williams had agreed to ac-
cept and go on the bench Feb. /, that
Williams would arrive this afternoon,
and would hold a conference with
Judge Barclay.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
JOHN M. e e A
he Died Friday, Jan. 81, at His Home
in Los Angeles, Californla--For-
merly a Highly Respected
Citizen of Mexico.

1t will be with the greatest sorrow
that the people of Mexico will read of
the death of John NJ. Menefee, for
merry of this city. He died of lung
trouble at his home 1929 Lovelace
Ave-, Los Angeles, California, on
Friday morning, Jan. 81, at the age of
81 years and about four months.
Deceased was born in Galloway
county on September 4, 1s43. When
he was FIVE years old his parents moved
to Monroe county, where he was
reared. In 1853, at the age of ~ years,
he went to Portland, Galloway county,
and engaged in the general merchan-
disc business for about Is years, when
he came to Mexico and engaged in
the furniture business. Previous to
coming to Mexico MI. Menefee mar
ried Miss Virginia Davis, of Galloway
county, on April %, 1868. To this
union there were born six children,
five of whom are living. They are
Mrs. Ida Thompson, Bette, Charles
and Margaret, all of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Menefee is dead.
After remaining in business in Mex
leo IL years MI. Menefee moved to
Los Angeles, where he has since lived,
with the exception of one winter spent
here about 6 years ago.
Two years ago deceased joined the
Christian church in California.
Coming up on the farm and under
his father, who was a sterling, sincere
man, he learned those habits of indus
try and inherited that strength and
worth of character SO indispensable to
a successful life and well did he use
the requirements thus gained. He
was charitable to a fault and never let
an opportunity to do good pass him
unnoticed.
No sadder news could have reached
Mexico than the news of the death Of
John M. Menefee. In the Masonic
Lodge he was a loved member; he was
a Sir Knight.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27

Miss Frances E. Willard, who has
been attending the worlds convention
of the W. O. T. u, says that better
health for women is to-day a more
urgent matter than woman's suffrage.
She says: "What wo men at present
most need is a better supply OF red
corpuscles."
From every section of the country,
from Maine to California, come we'll
attested reports of women, bloodless,
d~yspeptic, nervous, seriously run
down, and in many cases 80 weak as
to be bed-ridden, who have been en-
abled to resume their places in the
family circle and in social life-healthy,
rudy, welcomed women, by the aid
of that great blood-maker and health
maker, Paine's celery compound.
Mrs. E. A. Ward Ia one of these
fortunate women whom Paine's celery
compound has saved from an ailing,
unhappy invalid condition, az her let
ter shows:
213 Michigan Ave-, Mason City, Ia.
September IL, 1897. !
Wells & Richardson Co.:
Gentlemen: My greatest trouble
seemed to be a general weakness and
all-over tired feeling. I am &c years
of age and I did not expect to be ever
strong again, but I used four bottles
of Paine's celery compound and was
greatly strengthened, and my cough
seemed better so that I stopped using
the remedy and have not since felt
the need of any further help whatever.
Very Respectfully Yours,
MRS. E. A. WARD.
Persons of large experience among
nervous women who, as a rule, are
thin and lack blood, recommend
Paine's celery compound as beyond
all question the one remedy that can
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27

be depended on to renew the vitality
of feeble persons.
This settled confidence in Paine's
celery compound is not a hearsay be-
lief, but rests in nearly every case on
personal use or acquaintance with
men or women who have been restor-
ed to useful health by no other means.
The rapid change for the better in
color, flesh and expression of the face
is go unmistakable that repair of the
wasted tissues might we'll be called a
renewal of life.
The process by which Paine's celery
compound is able to build up health in
the rundown body is not hard to un-
dsrstand when n observes how
surely it disposes the bowels to act
regularly, how it increases the capaci-
ty to take and assimilate food, and
regulate the nerves all over the body.
The heavy, alarming pain in the
back and loins disappears; the grow
ing paleness and loss of flesh is stop
ped and a bright, buoyant feeling
gradually takes the place of that un.
ending sense of tire and depression.
Paine's celery compound is the exact
remedy for that large class of feeble,
thin blooded, often hysterical persons
whose greatest need is a thorough re-
furnishing of their blood with the red
corpuscles upon which health and
happiness in such large measure de-
pend.
The extraordinary virtue of Paine's
celery compound to increase the pro-
portion of red corpuscles in the blood
is the source of its great power over
all blood diseases, rheumatism, neu-
ralgis, kidney diseases, back aches,
loss OF flesh and general rundown
condition
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
Sheriff'S Sale.

By virtue and authority Of q tran
script execution issued from the once
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court Of
Audrain County, Missouri, returnabe
at the January term, 1898, sof M4
court, and to me directed In favor 1t
8. M. Edwards and against Er4nk
Beagles and James NJ. Beagles, / hGvo
levied upon and seized all ths right
title, interest and claim Of the .s11d
Frank Beagles and James M. BeagiM
OF, in and to the following descTihed
real estate, to-wit:
east quarter %, section one Qf};9
acres, northwest quarter %, soutt.
west quarter "a, section two obs
acres, south half (6), southwestq uGs.
ter 90, section two (2); 80 acrss, -
half Cd, northeast quarter (Lx).seer
ton ten (10); 40 acres, southNst
quarter %, northeast quarter On
section ten (10); 10 acres, southwest
quarter %, northwest quarter fADs
northeast quarter %, section r.
(10); 20 acres, east part, north heh
90, southeast quarter %, sectto1
ten (10); 30 acres, west part, south.
east quarter 90, southeast quaxta
90, section ten (10) 100 acres, north
east quarter Cd, section eleven Qlli
240 acres, north part, west half %
section eleven (r1); all In townshiP
fifty-two (52) north, range eight "
west; also, middle part Of northsass
quarter 90, southeast quarter lAt
section twenty-three (23), towusntp
ifty.one (51), range nine (9) Nesss
also lot number one ~, block nunabef
three (3), Lakenan & Barnes' ColeBe
Addition to the City OF Mexico, NJ.
souri,, all lying and being in the ~
County and State Of Missouri; !
will, on
Friday, the 18th Day Of JanuaiJ.
A. D., 1893,
between the hours of 8 O'Clock in ~
forenoon and 8 o'clock Ia the altefs
noon Of that day, at the Court Hooss
door, In the City OF Mexico, County
of Audrain aforesaid, sell the sarna g
SO much thereof as may be requi!ess
at public vendue, to the highest %.
der for cash In hand (subject e g.
prior liens and judgments), 70 Mnssy
said execution and costs.
NJ. N. NELSON
Sheriff Of Audrain County 10
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27

Frank Sherwood was down town to-
day the first time since he had his tussle
with the cholera morbus. He says he
drove thirty miles after he was taken
and never came 30 near dying in his
life. After this, when he goes out in
the country he will take a bottle OF
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy with him.-Mis-
souri, Valley, (Iowa) Times. For
sale by Woodbridge & Purdy, Drug
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
N exchange remarks:

An exchange remarks: "More
young men are learning trades in the
penitentiaries than outside of them,
because we are trying to make clerks,
doctors and lawyers out of the material
intended for blacksmiths, carpenters
and other mechanics" There is too
much truth in the latter part of the
statement. Boys are too eager
to avoid the labor of life, and too
anxious to follow some calling that
does not soil the hands. Most
boys should be taught that there
Is more dignity in manual labor than
in loafing and more honor in toll than
dependence. The farm and the shop
often r more profitable than the
office or the counter. All the work,
worry and profit are not always to the
farmer and the laborer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
ACCEPTS $3.50.
A Compromise Effected by the City in
the Case of Mrs. Robinson
Against the City.

Mrs. Robinson, who recently brought
suit against the City of Mexico for
5000 damages, accepted $3.50 to-day
and dismissed the suit.
Mrs. Robinson claims to have been
permanently injured by a defective
sidewalk some time ago and therefore
snad the city for 81, 000. -
The first part of this week Mrs.
Robinson refused to compromise the
matter for a less consideration than
$4,000, but she finally took the $3.50
offered.