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Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
THE KANSAS CASE.


Wichita, Kan, Jan. y Mrs.
Carrie Nation came back to Wich-
ita today after her recent incarccr-
alton under Il smallpox quarantine
aud the net results of ten minutes
of her work this afternoon are two
wrecked saloons. the pieces of
which are being sold tonight for
souvenirs.
In this Mrs. Nation was assisted
by Mrs. Julia Evans, Mrs. Lucy
Wilhoit and Mrs. Lydia Muntz,
all of the local W. G T. L. organ
lZatiOn.
With hatchets concealed under
their cloaks, they entered the Sa-
loon of James Burns, on Douglas
avenue, and did not leave Il com
pletc piece of glass or a working
slot machine in the place.
All show eases, both for liquors
and cigars, as well as the plate
glass windows and doors, were
broken into SmithcrcenS.
Then they ran as fast rs they
could to John llcrrig' 5 saloon and
had broken everything i'll the front
room, including the plate glass
windows, when he appeared with
Il revolver, placed it at Mrs. Ma
tons head and said that he would
blow out her brains if she did not
dcsist.
She yielded before the pointed
revolver and, with her companions,
ran to the Carey Hotel bar, wher,
she made her first attack on the
saloons of Wichita three weeks
ago.
There three policemen met hci
and she struck at Detective Suttol
with poker. He showed her II
side and "A youth struck him in the
face. \ policeman struck the
youth and knocked him down.
The police then ovcrpowere'
Mrs. Nation and her friends an'
took them to the city prison, fol
lowed by , 900 people.
Mrs. Evans little daught"
pushed her way thru the crowd
screaming and begging for tn" re-
lease of her mother, but the pole"
man was deaf to her rntrcaticS.
Chief of Police Cuhbom dis
charged the prisoners after the.
reached the Jail, and Is hearth,
condemned by the citizens, Mrs
Nation and the other women mad
him promise not to wreck nn.
more saloons until after tomorrow
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
Good For Farber!

Item from the Vandalia Mail
and Express:
1t is reported that a st. Louis
company has tested the clay fonnd
in the Farber mines and find it of
a quality but little inferior to that
produced by the Vandalia works.
A few car loads will be shipped to
st. Louis to be worked up and if
the brick prove satisfactory, a
plant will be built in Farber.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Willie Bryan Atchison, the lit
tie son of Harry Atchison, of this
city, is in receipt of copy of Bry-
an 5 paper, the Commoncr. This
little boy was named after the
great commoncr himself, aud the
Democratic leader takes occasion
to remember his namcsakc with
the initial number of his paper.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
THE At. LOUIS CASE.

INN - . lH'N - NNL.
Spectators in and about Fred
Cook 5 establishment at No. 20S
North Eighth street witnessed the
unusual spectacle, about four o.
clock yesterday afternoon, of three
detectives breaking open a safe
with sledge hammer and cold chis.
cl.
The work occupied about five
minutes, aud as the detectives
were not particular how they OPP
ened the safe, the safe was a total
wreck when they completed the
job. The outer and inner doors
of the safe were badly battered,
and the cement lining was strcwn
about the floor.
The noise made by the safe
crackers was heard on Eighth
street, and attracted large crowd
TO the place.
The safe was broken open by
Assistant Chief of Detectives James
Smith and Detectives Mike Kelly
and William Mckonna. They
raidcd the place, they said, because
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
Tired of Life.

Columbia, Mo, Jan. n. -Milt-
on Nichols, Il farmer living sever
al miles northwest of this city,
died this afternoon from the effects
of two ounces of laudauum, taken
with suicidal intent.
Financial troubles, combined
with drinking, is attributed as the
cause for the deed. He was about
65 years of age and leaves Il wife
and several children.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Bryan's paper, The Commoner,
has made its appearance, Bryan
SAYS he selected the name as Zone
of the common people," and the
paper is to be conducted in the in
terest of the masses. In conclu-
sion he says: "The Commoner
will be satisfied if by loyalty tc
the common people, it proves its
right to the name which has been
chosen
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

old time gladucSS; under the blue
sky and the storm he sleeps until
the resurrection. How the loved
ones will miss him whose image is
id WITHIN the grave. oh' 'h'
loneliness OF III" irN' l'w weeks
after death, h"i the l"h'll "at'h'
crs Will ilnd p"a"" ana rest III 'll'
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IIo ,,o. Io;d tn r,.t IN Nj Zion
cemetery. near MolIno, in which
church he held membership. Rev.
Johnston preached the funeral
Hon" Is not home
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Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
New Names.

The MESSAGE cnrolls the follow
ing new subscribers from Laddon-
ia this week:
G. A. league, John Eddleman,
+. p. Burnes, o. Freels, w. ii.
Nandeventer, w. X. Class, j. j.
Moomaw.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

A writer in the Missouri States
man of Columbia tells of n Chris
tian preacher in Boone county tif'
ty years ago by the name of Mar
Gus ?. Wells, who baptized his
father and mother, preached the
funeral of his mother, married his
father to his second wife and
preached the funeral of his father
and step-mother.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, H
W THEN ON THIS ONE.

Mrs Nation smashing saloons Kansas She says
they violation of the law she smacs them she will
if the law interfere unlawful BUSINESS
this number Louis broke
building and smashed safe because they uspconed
proprietor violating the law conducting his business
Now Mrs Nation be prosecuted these officers should be
both destroyed property because
supposed unlawful business being conducted Mrs Nation
not al officer. that is the only difference
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Republicans, he asserted, dare not
raise the black flag against the
trusts before the last campaign;
and now in gratitude for their H.
nancial assistance. they would not
raise their hands against them.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
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VIII EN LOVE is DONE.

YNAI carries but a single golden lamp
~ In her bright jewclcd hands adowm the sky
But shadows thcken and the air grows damp
When in the west its paling gories die.
Nights torches gleam in thousands er the hills
Her star-shod feet pass up the Milky Way;
But their cold light across the forehead chills
And in eyes they, deepest shadows, lay
Love carries in our lives, golden lamp,
Hcart-roscs blossom in its mellow light.
Faded they fall, with dews of sorrow damp.
When loves sow-fading beam goes II night.
Life flames thousand lights before eyes,
Far up the skies their lines of splendor iun;
Yet under all the deepest shadow lies
Across the heart for aye when love is done.
o II. B,Iiamy
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Clay Leniton and wife, former
" of Mexico, are now divorced.
Mrs. Lenitou secured the custody
of their child. She charged drunk
enness and cruel treatment against
her husband. She now resides in
Kansas City.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

There are 450 persons i'll the
Missouri penitentiary who can
neither read nor write; 76S Of the
inmates are temperate and 9l1 in
temperate, or have been addicted
to the liquor habit.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

The Missouri penitentiary-gov-
ernment ownership-has not cost
the taxpayers of the State one cent
for anything during the last two
years, and has made a net gain of
$5,S90.22.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Mrs. John Maxwell, north of
Mexico, returned from st. Louis
last week with her son who under
went treatment for an abnormal
formation in his nose. Glad to
state that the operation was sue
cessful.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Mexico Modern Woodmen de
gree team have been presented
with aluminium axes. The boys
can swing an AK all right, but
they believe in making work light
er when there is n way.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Some people who feel sure at
the outset that their marriages
were made in Heaven, change their
opinion when they see how easily
they can be busted" i'll the di-
yorce courts.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

The State camp of the Modern
Woodmen meets in this city the
l4th and 18th of next month. 1t
is thought the meeting will bring
900 visitors to Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

\ serious rupture is reported a
bout to take place in the Method
list Church at Sturgeon. Too ma
ny members indulging in the
dance and euchre games.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

f. b. Carter is home from Ok
lahoma, where he has been teach
ing. He is afflicted with white
swelling on one of his legs and
will take rest for awhile.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Fifty men in Indiana have been
disfranchised for selling their votes
Nov. 8. A few doses like this will
do much toward purifying the bal
lot.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Mrs. Barbara Coil, of near Per-
ry, Rails county, mother of +. b.
Coil, the Mexico attorney, will
shortly move to Mexico to reside.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Mrs. Julia Corner Kunkel will
represent the Mexico Royal Neigh
bors organization in the State
meeting at jefferson City next
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
This Is Bitter.

DR.. Stanton Colt is an Amcri-
can by birth but an Euglishman
by adoption. He is not pleased
with the British and American
governments. He made an ad-
dress before an elite club in New
York recently and said some uth-
er caustic things, tho Il good deal
of truth runs thru it all. Here
are few cXtracts-nOtice the last
paragraph in particular:
American industries are of the
people. by the few and for the few.
The railroad and trust vulturcS
are today feeding on the body Of
the people which they have slain.
The American government is of
the people, by the bosses and for
the spectators.
American women are America ;
finest product, and they are not
voters
Idiots, infants aud women are
the only people excluded from
franchise in America. And the
American woman is neither an id
lot nor an infant
II the present constitution of
the United States continues domi-
nant America will never be II de-
mocracy.
The constitution of the United
States was not framed by the pco-
pie who believed in absolute de.
mocracy,
The best intcllccts and charac-
tcrS have not gone into politics in
America,
To create true democracy one
must do away with ignorance and
OVcrwOrk.
The American people have been
dragged by their vicious leaders.
Every American child should bC
kept at school until hc or she is II
years old. American college,
should bc under the control of tn,
government, Their usefulness
should not he restricted by the in
fiuencc of mult-millionaircs, VIII,
use them to propagate ideas whicl
will result to the advantage o
men of the class which they repre-
sent,
beauty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. y
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathal
tic clean your blood and keep 1t clean, b
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all in
] al L. ln,, .
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

The Enterprise" is to he the
name of the new paper soon to be-
gin publication at Martinsburg
G.. V. Hamilton is to be the editor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

DR.. w. X. Mccall has sold his
practice and good will to DR.. F.
j. Cornett, at Worcester.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

The people of Montgomery
county are petitioning the Legis-
lature for an anti-cigarette law.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

Mrs. Il. G. Smith, in the Elm
Bend district, this county, has
been dangerously sick.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
For Sale.

My two dwellings in Mexico.
Will sell at half price, as | am Of
fered paying position in my for
mer home town.
A. r w WurpYFE
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31
VOLUME II.

The G.. & a. railroad has issued
a new time card.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-01-31

To Cure Constipation Forever.
II Q. g. O. faii 10 cure, druggists refund MONEY :.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18
A FOOlHARDY MINER.
Causes the Death of Six Men and
Fatal Injuries to Five Others.

Fairnont, W. Va. May 1G.-SX min
ers lost their lives. five were fatally in
jurcd and three seriously burned in an
explosion ut the shaft of the Georges
Creek Coal and Iron company at Farn,-
ington yesterday.
The Georges Creek company mine
was only recently put into operation, and
about 10 men We're employed, only 10
of this number being underground.
Fifteen men yesterday were assigned to
4 portion Of the mine that has been
worked for some time. One of these
men. it is alleged. had Smuggled torch
INTO the mine, as it gave much better
light than the safety lamps prescribed
by the company. He did not heed the
frequent warnings of Il fellow work
man, who warned him of the risk.
When the miner fired shot, the smoke
caught fire and the explosion resulted.
The explosion vented itself through the
air shaft, and almost demolished the
building on the surface in which the
air fan was located. The air was soon
turned ON, and in Il short time the head
ings were cleared of foul gases. and the
work Of rescue commenced. 1t was u
o'clock before the work was concluded.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18
How to Shave
Themselves

One idea with mustard seed OF
merit in it will buy wealth for its own
err. Here is one that may as well be
tossed out in the street to be scrambled
for by those who can make use of It,,
says western writer. 1t is the found
ing of a school to teach men how to
shave themselves. This accomplish
ment, like piety, is much admired in
the abstract. All men, secretly or open
ly, wish that they dared take liberties,
razor in hand, with their own faces,
but who is to show them how to strop
that sensitive and easily disabled aid
to the toilet without turning under its
edge? And how are we, unskilled, to
come triumphantly forth from an en-
counter with our steel, without mark
or blemish that requires court plaster
IL not absorbent cotton? 1t is pleasing
to sweep boldly over the level plain
from the upper cheekbone to the max
lilo mandibular region, but when we
try to round Cape Horn, look out for
squalls. Then there are men with a
dimple in their chin that would better
have been in some pretty girls cheek.
Even the safety" can exhibit no su-
periority over it's old-fashioned pre-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18
WELDED A RAZOR.
Would-Be Murderer at Springfield

Succeeds in Killing Himself.
Springfield, Mass. May l6.-tnarleS
!. RlOss committed suicide by cutting
his throat with razor after IN unSuc-
rrSSful attempt to kill his wife with the
same weapon. in their hom" on Bridge
street yesterday afternoon. The trag-
cdy was the outcome Of Il long dcbauch.
which eliminated in Il family quarrel
lust before the affair took place.
BlOss lost his position as driver for
the water department last week and
ever since that time there has been more
or less family trouble which resulted In
Mrs. RlosS threatening to leave him.
When BlOss came home yesterday noon
he found his wife packing her trunk,
md upon being told that she was going
to secure work to support herself and
three children. he became cnraged.
He dragged her into bedroom and,
throw ing her on the bed, slaShed at her
wit Ii r;luZr. She managed to fight him
off, but in the struggle was severely cut
on the chin and fingers. After her
wounds had been cared for she was able
| to he about again.
BloSs. evidently thinking that he had
killed his wife. rushed to IL woodshrd
whore he cut his own throat, and then
hid in the cellar, where he was found
by Il patrolman. He had inflicted u
CHASTITY wound in his neck. and severed
the arteries. \ physician was sum-
moncd, but the man died about 20 min-
iteS later
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18
CrernatiOn'S
y. Phases

People who take to cremation seem
to have fondness for having their
ashes scattered to the winds. There
was the first man who was Cremated in
in recent times. Toward the end of
the eighteenth century q southernei
by the name of Lawrence left a re-
quest to be cremated. His sons built
furnace especially, and the first Gre
nation not lndian--took place on
American soil. But in 1876 Baron Won
Palm was cremated in Dr. lcmOynes
private cremaiury at Washington, Pa,
and his ashes were scattered upon thu
Hudson river. Then there was Ernes-
Rosin, who, in 1897, stood ON the
Eads bridge over the Mississippi AMI
poured his fathers ashes into the
stream below. In both cases the dead
men had asked to be thus thrown
adrft. 1t is said that Joaquin Miller
has made similar request. Another
case Of the same kind was that Of
William Petersen Appleby, an officer
in the Mexican and the civil wars.
His body was Cremated at Fresh Pond,
in 1898, and the widow took the ashes
to her home in Hampstead. Her hus-
band had asked her to scatter them
abroad on the first windy day afto.
his cremation. She waited until gale
was blowing, and then. in the presence
Of some of her husbands friends, held
the ashes out by handfuls and let the
wind whirl them away. At Bromberg,
Germany, in 1897, the ashes of one
Robert Arons We're sold at public auc-
ton for $375. The purchaser was not
member of the dead mans family.
The records stop short there, and one
Is left guessing who wanted the ashes
badly enough to pay 1915 for them.
have been more than one bidder, for
1915 would hardly have been offered
AS starter. The remains of Abbie
Sage Richardson, the writer, who died
in Italy, were brought to this country
to be cremated. They were incine-
rated at Fresh Pond. Her brother
died from the shock and was cremated
on the following day. Kate Fields
body was also brought home to be
burned. She died In the Sandwich is
lands and was buried there. 1t was
long time before her friends got the
money together to bring the remains
to this country, but it was finally done.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18

Monson, Me-, May 16.-Almost every
mile of territory in Piscataquis county
has been secured by hundreds 0f people
in IN attempt to run down the murdererS
OF j. w. Allen and his wife and daugh.
ter. who were sfhin and their bodies
afterwards cremated In their home In
Shirley Sunday night, but up to now
only one arrest and that thought to be-
an unimportant one - has been made
here in connection with the crime.
The man arrested is known as Daniel
Creighton. Il tramp, and he Is now held
at the Dover Jail pending 4 further in
vestigatiou. During yesterday Il report
came from Brunswick that four men
had been detained there on suspicion
and another from Fort Fairfield that
two trulnps We're held there awaiting
the orders of Sheriff Ireland. No
prompt steps We're taken to ascertain
what possible connection the men may
have had with the tragedy.
Although nothing at all could be
learned from the officers it is believed
that within another "a hours one or
more important arrests will be made.
1t Is believed, too. that the arrests will
he made either In this town or in Shirley.
and that the person or persons who Will
be taken into custody are residents in
this vicinity and we'll known.
While Sheriff Ireland for the past two
days has had u large force of men
securing all parts of the county for the
mysterious quartet who are credited
with holding MP the Willimantic stage
last Saturday, and who are said to have
been seen near the scene of the tragedy
early Monday morning by II man named
Johnson, IL is known that he has been
prosecuting careful investigation of
the movements of one or more persons
who live in this vicinity.
1t is said as Il result Of these investlga-
tions. it is thought, that the next arrests
will be made
When word was received here from
| Brunswick that four men had been held
| there on suspicion. Deputy Sheriff Mar
| tin and c. T.. Scales ut once started for
| that town to bring the men to Dover
| Some time after the departure of the
officers, however, word was received
here that one of the quartet who mt first
was thought to be an Indian or half
breed. had proved to the Brunswick oth
cials that he was law-ahiding citizen
of. the negro colony ut South Warren
and that he had never had any connec
tion with the other three members OF
the party. 1t is understood. however
that he will be held until Mr. Martin
arrives there and has chance to qncS
tion him, but that unless Mr.. Martin
cares to hold him on his own responsi
blity the negro then will he released
Very little is known Of til" pair held II,
Fort Fairfield beyond the fact that one
of the officers of that town Is authority
for the statement TINT they answer til,
description of the suspicious persons
who have been seen near here within the
past week.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-05-18
FRENCH POLITICS RUFFLED.
BY Return Of a Banshed Marquis and
Threatened Ministerial Scandal.

Paris, May lG-Thc political calm
was rudely broken yesterday 10y two III
cidents, the return Of the Marquis DE
Lur-Saluces being one, while tine al
legged exposition of n scandal affecting
NJ. MEMS, the French minister Of JUS
tice, Is the second. II Is rumored IN
some quarters that NJ. MEMS will re-.
sign In consequence of this exposition.
IL appears that a German firm, eN-
hibiting ut the recent exposition. was
excluded from IN award by the jury of
awards on account Of the appearance
OF their bottled brandy and the label
employed. which was regarded rs IN un'
fair imitation of French cognac. Never.
theleSs. this German firm was included
in the list of hose awarded gold medals.
NJ. Monis was the honorary president
Of the concern exhibiting this class Of
alcoholic produce. and II Is insinuated
that he Is responsible for the forgery
from which he personally proiitcd. a
commission may be appointed to inquire
pitO the matter.
Another convention of the French
senate, as the high court of France is
promised by the unexpected return to
this country of the Marquis De Lur
Salucrs. the well-known roynlist and
former member of the chamber of dep
uties, who, in January. 1900. at the
time of the conspiracy trials. was con-
lemned, in default Of appearance, to 10
years banishment for treason. The
president of the senate received letter
yesterday in which the marquis says:
AT the present moment. when the
government of the republic is striving
desperately to ruin industry and COM
merce. paralyZe national work. disor-
ganize the army and destroy religious
faith-in word. to utterly destroy the
fathcrland ITSELF intend to provoke
another public discussion before the
high court. on the question of who are
he real authors of the conspiracy
| threatening the existence of France. J
hold myself ut your disposition"