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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
The Toy Pistol.

Chicago, July 15.-The tenth
death resulting from Il toy pistol
wound, received while celebrating
the Fourth of July in Chicago, oc-
cured today.
In almost every ease death re-
suited from lockjaw. Several chill
dren are in a critical condition at
the hospitals from lockjaw, and
scores of Others are suffering at
their homes.
Last year the toy pistol was
suppressed in Chicago, and not
one death was reported from its
use.
a stray bullet and Il gunpOwler
explosion caused two deaths here
on the Fourth of July, but the toy
pistol has Il big lead.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
For Shame.

a RECENT dispatch from Wash
ington says:
During the past eight years sew
cral hundred thousand dollars have
been expended for the purchase of
new furniture for the United States
senate. During the same time the
old furniture, which was the best
money could buy, was sold for old
junk for hundreds where it origi-
ually cost hundreds of thousands.
II is assumed that probably IA half
million dollars are involved by the
transaction Of the six years.
In addition the dispatch goes on
to say that all the new furniture,
bought and paid for as mahogany,
is nothing but ycncreed poplar!
And the dear people pay for
these frauds. Neneered poplar for
mahogany is bad enough, but these
repeated changes of furniture is
where the wrong lies. 1t is the
work of the trades people seeking
to swindlc the pub
lie. Shame!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Talks With People.

j. III. Lane: The Democratic
Reading Club is the thing. Come
join us By the way, this promise
of big crops this year pleases me
clear thru.
Il. q. Beebe: | am here from
Laddonia looking after matter of
back taxes on some little real es-
tate property ! purchased lately.
Don't know whether I'm left or
not, but a fellow has to be careful
in real estate purchases these
days.
Rev. w. A. Hanna: You had
the figuers a little wrong last week
as to the sum of money raised by
the Mexico churches for the starry
ing in India. But no difference.
You might say, however, that the
four Mexico churches get even
credit for the sum that was for
warded.
Newsboy on Train: Yes, was
in the employ of the st. Louis
Transit Co., until the strike began
and have been on the road about
three weeks. | think in short
time the citizens of st. Louis will
have to pay the Transit company
money to run their ears and | do
not think it will be great while
till the individuals will have to pay
the same company a bonus for the
privilege of walking the streets.
A Joker: | hand you this from
the Centralia COurier-it's good
one; DR.. Patton, president of
Princeton university, is more noted
for the logic of his sermons than
for the wit of his speeches. But
he can be humorous on occasions.
Last summer he decided to shave
off his side whiskers. After shaw
ing off the left side he went to the
bedroom where his wife was sitting
and said; "My dear, | shaved one
side. Ii You like it IN shave the
other"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Old Indian Woman.

Vinita, |, T., July ia cen
sus enumerator on Little River,
Cedar county, ChOcktaw Nation,
|. T., found Chocktaw Indian
woman who is believed to be near
ly 100 years old. Chocktaw wom-
en-, as rule, do not live to a great
age. This woman has abandoned
her name of Honitima for that of
Nancy Jacob, She was living in
an old log cabin in little field or
clearing in the woods, half grown
up with underbrush. Only a little
trail, half distinguishable in some
places, leads to her house. She
said she was a grown woman when
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

fought the bill bitterly before its
passage and even after it had been
sent to me he begged me TO veto
it. was opposed to the passage
of the bill myself and worked with
General Crow to try to defeat it.
II signed it afterward because
of the assurance | had that it was
not trust, and, with that assur-
ance and pressure, | would proba-
bly, do the same thing again. |
have nothing to do with this fight
or this suit, but say most en-
phatically that General Crow OPP
posed the bill and wanted it veto
ed. Because of his persistent eff
fort to secure its death in my
hands, | held it for several days
before | finally decided to act ON
it.
1.-THE fact is General Crow has
placed the Republican newspapers
in u very peculiar situation by this
suit. They declared all along that
the bill was trust, but the mo-
ment the Attorney General begins
proceedings to destroy the trust
they set up howl that the pro-
ceedings are. for political purposes
only, and thus place themselves
on the side of the trust"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

You below pretty loud about lG
to |. Take that silver dollar out
of your pocket. Look at it. You
know what it weighs? Exactly
412% grains. just sixteen times
as heavy rs Il gold dollar. That
is l6 to | dollar and we wish
you would tell us what is wrong
with it. You say it is worth only
30 cents! Will You sell it for 30
centsg Will You take 80 cents for
it, If it is not n good dollar, why
coin any more of them' We de-
mand that the government keep ON
coming dollars just like that one
you use in bnying goods at any
store in town. You accept it and
pay it out and You are not cheated,
and the fellow you pay it to is not
cheated. Tell us what is wrong
with that honest old dollar. York
Teller.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Verdict of Poisoning.

Moberly, Mo-, July 17.-Roy
Austin, aged 10 years, died here
last night under circumstances
which led to the suspicion of foul
play by poisoning.
He lived with his step grand
mother, Mrs. Hultz.
Physicians who We're called to
see him pronounced it ease of ar
senical poisoning. The Coroner's
investigation, held late last night
and completed to-day, resulted in
a verdict of poisoning by some
person to the jury unknown.
The stomach of the deceased had
been sent to Columbia for chemic-
al analysis. On the result of the
analysis depends whether criminal
prosecution will follow.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Hanna'S Trust Plank,

THE following is the so-callcd
trust plank framed at the Repub,
lican convention in Philadelphia:
We recognize the necessity and
propriety of the honest co-opcra-
ton of capital to meet new bust
ness conditions and especially to
extend our rapidly increasing for
eign trade, but we condemn all
conspiracics and combinations in
tended to restrict business, to ere
ate monopolies and TO limit pro-
duction or to control prices, and
favor such legislation us will eff
fectually restrain and prevent all
such abuses, protect and promote
competitions and secure the rights
of producers, laborers and all who
are engaged in industry and com
merce."
With this plank the Republican
campaign managers intend to play
upon the credulity of the Amcri-
can people. The full extent of
the hypocrisy involved in this at
tempt to mock the intelligence of
the voters with insincere dcclara-
tons can only be realized when it
is remembered that Hanna was the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
SLAYER KILLED.
Resisted Capture and Was
Shot Down in His
Tracks.

NpOSnO, MO-, July IT, leu
Fisher, highway robber and ALA
round bad man, who yesterday
shot and killed in cold blood Shcr-
iff .Jarrctte, of Mcdonald county,
at Southurst City, Mo-, was shot
to death this afternoon by a posse
of cnraged men of the county, a
bout two miles southwest of South
hurst City.
Fisher drew his revolvers and
showed fight when the posse came
up to him and ordered him to
stand. His body was riddled with
Winchester bullets.
George r. Clay, Prosecuting At
torney of the county, was mem
Der of the Posse. Other promi-
nent citizens were in the crowd
which hunted Fisher down and
killed him.
Had Fisher surrendered when he
was ordered, it is probable that he
would have been hanged by a mob
of enraged citizens.
The excitement over the murder
of Sheriff Jarrett by Fisher was
intense all over the southwestern
part of the State.
Fisher was Il young man under
bond for highway robbery com
mitted in Mcdonald county sever
al months ago. His bondsmen
had become uneasy and applied to
the court to be relieved.
Sheriff Jarrett went to make the
arrest yesterday afternoon, found
the criminal, placed him under ar
rest and hand-cuffed him. Fisher
then asked permission to go to his
fathers home for some clothes,
which was granted.
On entering the house the pris-
oner raised the lid of Il trunk,
grabbed Il revolver, wheeled and
shot the Sheriff in the hand and
abdomen, inficting mortal wounds
which caused the Sheriff's death in
twenty minutes.
There was no one present at the
time except the father and mother
of the prisoner, and it is reported
that the Sheriffs nying statement
was to the effect that the parents
held him and allowed their son to
escape.
The father has been arrested
and will be placed in jail here to-
night on charge of accessory to the
murder.
Sheriff Jarret was about 40 years
old. He was brave and fearless
officer and was serving his second
term. At the recent Democratic
County Convention he was nomi-
mated for Collector. He was mar
ried and leaves wife and four
children. Coroner Eden has been
sworn in as Sheriff.
The killing of Fisher removes a.
bout the last of the bad men of
this section who have terrorized
the country for years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

PRAISE for the manner in which
the democratic platform is written
is very frequently heard, some
times even from republicans. Ex-
Senator Faulkner, of w. Va, said
of it, FL have never read better
national platform than that adopt
ed at Kansas City. 1t is written
in plain language, says exactly
what it means and without indi-
rection.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

she came with her tribe, in 1890,
from Mississippi. She was an old
woman when the Civil War broke
out, and made hanaha, an Indian
meal made of corn, beans and other
ingredients, for the boys who
fought the "Faluma," as the In
dams called the Yankees.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

ATTORNEY GENERAL Grow has
begun proceedings in the Supreme
Court to test the consolidation law,
for street railways enacted by the
last Legislature. The suit is di-
rectcd against the Transit line in
st. Louis. Mr.. Crow thinks the
law unconstitutional, in that it per-
mits monopoly.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Defends Crows Course.

Kansas City, Mo-, July II -
Governor Stephens today, in speak
ing of the suit against the st. Lou
is Transit Company, said:
"The Republican newspapers of
st. Louis are doing Attorney Gen
eral Crow u great injustice when
they charge him with having sup
ported the consolidation bill before
the Legislature or at the time il
was pending. The facts are be
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Democratic Club.

Centralia, Mo-, July 1.-THE
Democrats of Ccntralia tonight
held an enthusiastic meeting. A
club was formed, and the follow
ing officers were elected: j. X.
Pool, president; II. S. Booth, sec
rotary; j. l.. Henry, treasurer;
M. S. Bush and A. q. Rice, vice
presidents. A great deal of en-
thusiasm was manifested. The
Democrats are well organized and
doing good work.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
An American Platform.

TnE magnificent outburst of true
American anti-imperialismtha from
end to end of the country grcets
your nomination gives sure prom
Use of your triumphant election,
AS an old friend and fcllow-towns-
man and Il Republican of the
school of Lincoln and of Blaine,
tender you my most cordial con-
gratulations and the promise of
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
The Unpaclfled PhiIlpinos.

Manila, June More sol
diers" is the demand which is com
ing to General Macarthur from
every department of the islands.
Recent events have worked to vim
dictate General LawtOn's Judgment
that 100, 900 troops would be need
ed to establish American sover-
eighty over the Philippines. I'm
til they attempted to hold prOvinc-
es of 100000 or 300, 900 hostile
people with regiment or two the
American commanders hardly re-
allied the size of the Philippine
Islands.
The present force is not large e.
nough to garrison more than half
the important towns, and in some
of the most important islands, a.
mong them Cebu, Panay, Samar,
Leyte and the great Mohammedan
empire of Mindanao only the com
mercial ports are occupied. The
MorOs are cloud on the horizon.
The officers best acquainted with
conditions in Mindanao and the
Sulu islands tell the Associated
Press correspondent that they con-
slider serious fighting there newt
able.
If it comes, the two regiments
which are scattered in small garri-
sons, some of them a hundred
miles apart. along the coast of
MindanaO-an island nearly as
large as Luzon-may have serious
work. The MOros are fighters by
nature, and do not fear death.
They have many guns, tho of an
tique makes; but do the best exc
cution by lying in thick jungles
and cutting down soldiers who pass
thru with their terrible knives and
spears.
General Young, who is holding
seven of the most mountainous
provinces of Luzon with four regi-
ments, expects severe work during
the rainy season. For some two
months after his bewildering inva-
sion of the North, in December,
the insurgents were paralyzed.
With few troops to keep an eye on
the villages and prevent recOncen-
tration, the paralysis, the General
believes, might have been made
permanent. Finding ample OPP
portunities to reorganize, the in
surgents have availed themselves
thereof.
Enough troops have worn them
selves and horses down to the limit
of endurance in marching about
the mountain trails, striking the
wherever they could get
the track of an organized band.
Hundreds have been slain, but
much of the work has been like
away mosquitoes, which
swarm down upon new spot.
General Tinio has nomadic COM
mand whose warriors can hide
their guns and become America
nos" if it suits their interests. AS
few of them wear uniforms and the
people combine to shield them
from detection, the Americans are
greatly handicapped.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

The st, Louis Republic yestcr-
day had the following headlines
regarding the war situation in Chi
ma: Allies again attack and TEN
Tsin falls. Americans in thickcst
of the fray, suffer heavily. Storm
the walls. City, posts and arsenal
taken from Yellow Men. Cannon
captured. American loss 215 out
of 10 so far reported.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Stead's Sad Story.

New YORK, July Nv. l..
Stead cables from London to the
New York Journal:
The pope is said to have remark
ed as he saw the Italian troops de-
parting for the far East that this
was the first war since the cru
sades in which all nations had unit
ed to make war for the Christian
cause.
The illusion is more apt than fe
licitous, for the struggle between
the East and West, which began
when steel-clad Europe hurled it.
self upon the Pynim hordes which
defiled the holy sepulcher, lasted
for over 300 years, and at the end
of that prolonged death grapple of
continents the combatants were
left face to face very much as they
were at the beginning. 1t is to be
hoped that we arenOt on the verge
of another 800 years war at the
other end of the Asiatic continent.
The gravity of the crisis in Chi
na hitherto has never been realized,
even family, in Europe. Other
wise England would have long ago
patched up any kind of truce in
South Africa which would have
enabled her to have used her army
for the defense of the threatened
outposts of Western civilization.
Even now, when the massacre of
the legations has sent a thrill of
horror thru the world, few dream
of the immensely and hOpelessness
of the struggle upon which they
are invited to embark with such
loud cries of vengeance.
The fact is that the white world
is face to face with Il determined
effort, by no means confined to
China, on the part of the colorcd
races, to assert their rights to live
their own lives in their own way,
without the perpetual bullying of
pale faces. The colOred races have
awakened to the fact that the SUI
premacy of the white man is due
to no inherent superiority, but
solely to the fact that he has supe-
riOr weapons. Hence the Chinese
have provided themselves with the
best artillery and magazine rifles,
and have employed expert instruct
Ors. Lord Wolsely told me long
ago he considered the Chinese the
very best fighting material in the
world. They were better even
than the Russians, because the
Russian soldier drinks, whereas
the Chinese are the most abStemi-
Gus of men.
The destruction of the legations,
however terrible it may seem to be,
was nevertheless natural.
1t was the result and inevitable
corollary of the seizure of the Ia
XII forts and the massacre of their
garrison. Human nature is much
{ he same all the world over, and if
we had been in a similar position
the white men would have acted
very much the same as their yell
brothers.
Christianity may be stamped out
of China as completely as 200
years ago it was stamped out of
Japan.
1t will be well if this is all that
we have to face as the result of
the Golden Rule in our
relations to the Chinese. One of
the awful possibilities of the near
future is that the allies will quar-
rel among themselves and that we
may have a world wide war, which
may lead civilization backward
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Births.

Born, to Mrs. II. A. Grier, a
son.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Gene
Null, twin boys.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Wagner, u daughter.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

The Missouri State Sunday
School Association holds its thirty
fifth annual convention at Columbia
this year-August 26 to 80, inclu-
siye.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

"THE Ilitching Racks Must Coz
is the title of Il poetical effort on
the front page of the MESSAGE this
week. Look, think II moment;
the hitching racks, where they are,
are II good deal like the man you
have heard of-perhaps you have
seen him-who built his house and
stable under the same roof, where
he could walk thru door from
the kitchen into the stable to har-
ness his horse. Would you have
that arrangement about your farm
or your residence' Hardly. Make
Mexico clean town from center
to outskirts. The farmers will not
object to this.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

THE Farber Forum speaks of n
bridge two and one half miles
southwest of Laddonia which is II
menace to life. The bridge is six
feet high and has no balusters or
ratings. On the Fourth team
hitched to n surrey containing four
young people, SHE'D off this bridge
and n fatal accident was narrowly
avcrted. The Forum is informed
that had anything serious resulted
suit would have been brought to
recover damages. That bridge
should have attention, and if there
are any other such bridges in Au-
drain they should be looked after
at once. The road overseers should
see to these matters.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

LET'S pave our streets and clean
up around the square. 1.-THE
Hitching Racks Must Co."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19

The prospects still hold that Au-
drain will gather the biggest corn
crop this fall in her history.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
my most earnest support.
PATRICK EGAN,
EX- Minister to Chill.


The above is one of the many
kilograms received the other day
by Bryan. Webster Davis, who
resigned as Assistant Secretary of
the Interior under Mckinley a few
months ago, said, in his speech at
the Kansas City convention re-
nouncing the Republican party,
that the Democratic platform is
one on which every true Ameri-
can can stand. And it ear also be
said that the nominees are men
for whom every true American can
vote.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
Terms Of Subscription:
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President,
WILLIAM j. BRYAN. of Nebraska.
For Vice President,
ADLA1 Il. STEVENSON, Of Illinois.
For Governor,
ALEXANDER NJ. DoCKERY, Of Davies.
observation-disclosures.
.JonN \. LEE, Of ST. Louis.
Secretary Of State.
SAM u. Cook. of Audraln.
State Auditor.
ALBEIT q. ALLEN. Of New Madrid.
Attorney General.
EDWARD c. Grow, of Jasper.
State Treasurer.
RoBERr l.. WILLIAMS, Of Howard.
Railway Commissioner.
IosErm i. IIERRINGToS. Of pcttis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-19
For Congress,
HON. CHAMP CLARK.

liO4N. VIZ WI \iIhhh.
For State Senator--11th Distric,
M. r. X. BIGGS.
For Representative,
RHODES CLAY.
For Collector,
ALBERT HARRISON.
For Sheriff,
QUINCY JAMES.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
HOWARD l.. Buckley.
For Assessor,
j. NJ. SUPPLE.
For Treasurer,
j. III. SAILEE.
For Surveyor,
Il. $. MCKINNEY.
For Coroner,
DIR. f.. Med. BRIDGFORD.
For Public Administrator,
j. f.. JESSE.
Judge Western District,
j. A. LEWIS.
Judge Eastern District,
GUY MCCUNE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-09
Senator Ross on Quay.

After Senator Ross voted against
the seating of Mr. Quay he spoke Of
his attitude on the matter in the fol
lowing sensible manner:
at would indeed have been unfortunate
had Mr.. Quay been voted a seat in the
Senate under the auspices OF his appoint
ment. SO far as my vote was concerned
it was cast against Quay simply because
did not believe that precedents should
be ruthlessIv battered down to admit
him met Mr. Quay here last winter,
and il it had been question OF his per-
sonal candidacy would have willingly
voted for him. don't think there was
the slightest factional feeling against him,
and | have no reason to doubt that the
votes of the other senators were cast as
sincerely as my own on the ground OF
the justice Of the matter. Had Mr.. Quay
been seated governors and legislators
hereafter would have been at loss what
to do in the matter of filling senatorial
vacancies. | am gratifed that Mr. Quay
has been elected"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-09
The Senatorial Contest.

The Brattleboro correspondent OF
the Springfield Republican thus dis
cusses the senator question in last
Sundays paper;
AS between the several candidates for
Senator Ross's seat the campaign is con-
siderably confused and uncertain, for
there are many things to be considered
before the canvass is fully understood. A
politician of wide acquaintance and in.
fuence declares that Gen. Grout will Ger.
tainly succeed in securing the seat recent
ly occupied by Senator Morrill,, and from
his reasoning, after going over the
ground with the intention of getting al
public sentiment, one can easily believe
that such will be the outcome of the
struggle in the Legislature. The popu
larity of Dillingham; would give hin
strong prestige over any other competi
tor than Gen. Grout. AS it is, he is tn
generals most formidable adversary TO
day, but what will be the situation on
or two months hence is quite anothe
question. Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Prouty's personal appeal to tn
voters of the state seems to have hat
little influence in itself. Senator Ros
continues to saw wood" hoping, so hi
friends say, that after the other candi
dates have spent their force, the peopl
will conclude to confer upon him tn
honor of denomination.