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Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-01-09


Friday night al rip Van Winkle'
at the Grand there was a theatre party
Of the following young women and
men: Misses Ricketts,, SalmOn, sue
Robertson, Lakenan, Aessrs Graham
Orear, Crawford and Clarence Barnes,
They went TO the Montezuma Clut
afterwards.
Kisses Plunkett's and Bakers Party.
These young women entertained al
Miss Bakers, about 50 friends on
Tuesday night They had a guessing
/ contest. Miss Jessie Karnes o the
prize, a bunch Of roses. Lovely re
frcshments vert served. Nearly al
who seFe there went 10 the dane
later In the evening. So they had |
d0ublY good time.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

we had annexed Cuba after the war, instead of restoring the island to self government? Would that have created situation rrinous to our farmers? We did not hear from the Mississippi val ley any very loud protest against that proposition, and yet it would have in volved free trade with Cuba in sugar, sooner or later. Suppose it had done so at once. Yet there still would have been an opening for the establishment of q beet sugar industry if the country is really fitted 10 undertake il. Cuba never produced half of the sugar We need, and latterly not q sixth of what we consume; and as that which comes from other countries would still pay duty, the price of sugar would not fall very much through the reciprocity ar rangement.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
HEARD Ia PASSING

The oyster trust is little late in getting into business, as this is the last ..R' month until fall.
 Memphis is preparing to do little entertaining stunt to show it's opinion of the attempt to muzzle the Schley sentiment.
 South Carolina has shown MT Roosevelt that it had a warm welcome for him and his guests even if it has no electoral votes for him and his party.
 The republican steering commit tee of the senate made sure of anoth- CT delay for the Nicaragua canal bill when they decided that the Philippine bill should follow the Chinese bill.
 General Stephen W. Kellogg of Wa terbury was 80 years old on Saturday. He's still active and alert, and he was never more anxious for genuine consti- tutional reform than he is now.-Hart- ford Post.
 We are told that the company that is to control the American rights of Marconi's wireless system of telegra- phy is to be capitalized at $60OO,O00 buL " Adt We WOuiQ llhe u hnOW iS how much real money is to be put in the scheme.
 The German gentleman who wishes to sell us an unproftable palace in Berlin for our embassy should have got in his offer while the Prince Hen ry fever was raging. Now that we have cooled off a secondhand palace isn't so likely to appeal to us.
 Ninety new hotels are now planned or projected in New York city. Sey- eral of them are costing morethan three millions of dollars each to build One will cost five millions. The new syn dicate hotel at the corner of Forty-sec- ond street and Park avenue will have four stories underground, and one of these stories will communicate with tie station of the underground railroad at that point Hartford Times.
 Colonel Osborn was wandering about the corridors of the convention yester- day when .one of the Capitol employees approached him and asked him if he had seen ''Trumbulrs'' article in the New York Herald. The colonel an- swered him nay. Then the employe pushed the inquiry further and asked if he never read those articles, and the colonel said he never bothered himself with them. ''Well,'' said the man, you'd better. Once in q while they are worth reading. ."-Hartford Courant
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Senator Blackburn has presented to the senate petition from R. H. Fuller, the legislative representative of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Bremen and Railroad Trainmen, and the orders of Railway Conductors and Photographers, against the bill which purports to limit the use of re- straining orders and injunctions, but which in reality does the contrary which concludes with the following words: We cannot now afford to ac- cept such mischievous subterfuge- mischieyous because it will not only furnish no relief, but on the other hand will give federal judges affirmative and new grounds upon which to base their objectionable writs. And rather than take senate bill 4553 we whould prefer none at all, for it is only q matter of time until public opinion will settle this question and settle it right"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
ACTORS AT WAR.

Members of the Frankie Carpenter company we're at war with their man. ager, Jere Grady, over Sunday. says the New Britain Herald. The hotel Beloin was the scene of the battle. and at times the encounter ragged so briskly that it might easily be mis- taken for the able bodied preliminary to the Simms- -McFadden bout of this evening. At last reports Manager Jere Grady was holding the fort and the entire company. minus ''the bright little star of the east" Miss Carpenter. had left for the Rialto and the other places where actors do love to congre- gate.
 Different stories are given as to how the trouble originated. It seems that Charles H. Stevens decided early in the week to leave the show and he made known his intentions to Mir Grady When Saturday night came stevens demanded his money. Man. ager Grady reminded him that Tues day was pay day and he could not ex- pect that the ghost would walk at odd intervals. Stevens walked over to the congressman who was loading the paraphernalia on the car and desig- mated his trunks, which he ordered sent to the Beloin. When Grady he, came aware of Stevens determination to leave he paid him off. Gordon FL drid then asked for his money.
 Grady then formed the companv that as this ak was a lay off if would be put ill in rehearsing n new man for Stevens place. There is but another month to the season and tho players demurred to putting in such an unprofitable week.
 All right then" said the manager this show is through and the season IS ended" He paid off the company and the players at once proceeded in search of their trunks which had been shipped to Middletown. They found them at the Berlin station. Gordon Eidrld and Stevens persuaded the bag gage man to get their property out of the car and they ordered it sent to this city. The baggage handler changed his mind after a while and when the actors made second trip to Berlin they were informed that they would be compelled to wait until the car reached NIiddletown before getting their trunks. The actors returned to the hotel very Ah-i' uhd pFl SOildl CuCOuulCF Wllu Grady was looked for at any minute during the night
 Said Manager Grady this morning: Those fellows were trying to run me and shut down on them, that's all. When you're the captain of the ship it's up to you to run it and I was run hing this show. I have three other good companies and can finish all cur engagements with satisfaction to the public. Everyone knows Jere Grady is as good as the Bank of England.v
 Some of the members of the company threaten to sue Grady for the mishan- ding of their property.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Representative Sulzer of New York has introduced a resolution in the na- tional house of representatives calling upon the president and the secretary of state for the report of the governor of Louisiana and other evidence in re- gard to the existence of military camp in that state. Fridays cabinet meeting was largely devoted to the consideration of Governor Heard's re- port and after tne meeting Secretary Hay said that the president proposed to make a thorough investigation of the subject. If the allegations of Gen. eral Pearson are true and the camp is used as a recruiting station for the British army, it will doubtless be abol- ished. Mir Sulzer has come to be known as the Boer champion on rhe floor of the house and he says that there will be "a lively session. when the papers are sent to the house by the secretary of state.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
SOCIAL STANDARDS.

Foreigners, or those of us who have lived long in foreign lands, are unspar- ing in their criticism of one feature of our conditions, that is, the lack of men in social life in America. Not that there is any scarcity of men in places devoted to the pleasures and business of men. but that in general society. where men and women mingle, there is growing tendency upon the part of the American man to cut off every possible demand of the sort.
 Of the rich and unoccupied man this Is just as true as of his toiling, striv- ing brethren-perhaps more so, since he has had the chance to become thor oughly bored and blase with functions that still hold the glamour of novelty for the man who attends them but seldom.
 AS q result one feels a decided diff ference between the young man of to- day and the man of a generation back one born in a time when social life means little to men and one a pro duct of the days when no man could afford to do without the forming in- duence of the soc of women-when to be rude, neg II of courtesies and ill-trained or uth was to place oneself beyond sie. A few such men whom we pleased to call sgentlemen of ts.e old school'' still finger ill society, but as rule the younger generation cannot be said to be of any school-old or new-since it's training has only been to resent the restraint of convention.
 Social ritual and socssi standards may seem trifing matters to the busy, practical man who spends his days at his work and his evenings in complete relaxation. But we are coming to have with wealth and leisure very decided need of social knowledge and standards. an it is rather astonishing to find that our men neglect them more now than they did in the early days of the republic, when life was a more ceremonious affair, as we'll as more simple and more crowded with hard ships.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
THE MATTER SETTLED.


 Florian Peixotto has achieved the most ambitious and successful work of his career thus far in his large, decorative historical paintings for the new court house, at Fort Wayne, Ipd. Being destined for frieze on walls of sienna and other highly colored marbles, these pictures of Peixotto's are toned to a correspondingly high key, which makes them look a trifie garish when isolated from their proper harmonious surroundings. When these works were on exhibition recently at the American Art Galleries rich and pompous old collector, whose well known purchasing powers make him a dangerous person for young artists to dispute, stood disdainfully before the portrayal of ! General Anthony Waynes Indian fight and said loudly:
 Well, if that is art, then I'm a feol'
 MT Peixotto, who had been standing unrecognized in the background, step ped forward and remarked gently, but firmly:
 Well, sir, that is artw-New York Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
COUCHRS

A good assortment of easeful, broad attractive Couches of best possible con struction, and quality guaranteed. Couches that cannot be duplicated, marked for immediate deliyery-be- cause we must have the room. Here is sample of some of the prices:
 $14.S5 for one that Is adjustable on both ends, covered in handsome velour, six rows of tufting, price was SIS.
 $19S5 for one of similar descrs)tion, except it is wider. with eight rows of tufts, oak frame, with claw feet Have sold others just like # for S24.
 Another in Silk Velour. has hair stuffing. Price was S22, will sell for $17.S5.
 One with massive quartered gold en oak frame, covered in myrtle verona yelour-goods nearly as heavy as car pet Good value at S30; $24.S5 will buy it.
 SIS Couches. guaranteed for year, for S1o.5
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Notwithstanding the columns of slush printed about Mir Roosevelt's Americanism, he this week appointed an Englishman who had been butler Ill his brother-in-law' house to fill va cancy in the staff of White House ush- CTS, and there were score of Am2rl- can applicants for the place. Ushers at the White House are not considered servants in any sense of the word, but Mir Roosevelt's theory i'll this case seems to have been that a good ser vant would make good usher, unless it was merely a case of oblige-my- brother-in-law. But surely such an apostle of civil service reform would not make an appointment just to oblige relative, and relative by marriage at that. Perish the thought!
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Hartford is well pleased with the voting machines that were tried i'll Mondays election. The results in the wards where they were used was an- nounced in about fifteen minutes after the polls closed, while in some of the other wards it was about midnight be- fore all the votes were counted and tabuIated The machine is bound to come, and those who are interested would do well to fall ill line early. The difference in the time it takes to count a machine and a hand deposited vote is big argument in favor of the ma chine, even if it had no other good quail ities.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Another thing which bodes i'll fer the republican party is the dissension over the enactment of reciprocity with Cuba in the matter of sugar and tor bacco," says New York writer. "The beet sugar people are working up q great disturbance over the proposal to admit Cuban sugar at even 20 per cent reduction, as though that must be the ruin of their business. What if
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

It is now admitted by many republi- cans that no attempt is likely to be made to force the ship subsidy bill through the house at this session Of congress. fer fear of the effect it would have upon the congressional elections. This does not, of course, mean that the job is to be abandoned-only that the voters in those sections where there is much opposition to it shall be allowed to think that it has been abandoned.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 9, 1902.

Hartford is claimed by the repuDli- cans by 1000 majority, but has dem ocratic mayor. New Haven is a demo- cratic city with 2,500 to spare, and Las a republican mayor. Politics is mighty uncertain '-Hartford Times.
 And. New Britain with republican majority of six or seven hundred has a democratic mayor, and reelected him for another term yesterday.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

The Democrat has no desire to heap coals of fire upon the heads of it's con- temporaries. but We dislike very much to see some of the newspapers of Wa terbury stand ill the way of reform, even when attempted in this wicked city. As both of our neighbors have assumed q guilty, perhaps; but appeal for mercy attitude, the case will be considered closed.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09

Money loaned on all kinds of Person al Property at NEW YORK RATES and all PLEDGES WILL BE KEPT FOR 1 YEAR. Unredeemed pledges for sale at UNHEARD OF PRICES.
 New Stock of Gold and Silver Watches, Diamonds, Rings and Musi- cal Instruments at the lowest Prices in the city.
 Call and see us.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
Passing of Full Dinner Pail.

Washington, May 1.-THE "full
dinner pail of the workingman is
fast becoming a thing of the asst in
this city.
The wholesale price of beef took
another advance in price yesterday
m orning, and, as a result, hundreds
OF housewives who visited the mar
kets to-day to lay in their supply oil
meat for the Sunday dinner tomor.
row, sent their baskets home without
any meat in them. As generalrule
the retail price was not raised in pro
portion to what the dealers pay fol-
their meat. The wholesale price was
raised 81 more per hundred pounds
than it has been since the advance in
price.
Beef was higher to-day in price
thanit has been at any time here fol
thirty-five years. Surloin steak is
70 cents per pound. Stew beef, which
formerly sold at 6 and Z cents a
pound, was being disposed of at the
rate OF 10 cents Der pound in the
markets to-day.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
A NAPHTHA EXPLOSION.
ManV Persons Instantly Killed
and Burned to Death in a
Town Near Pittsburg,
FLAMES ATTACKED CROWDS.
Garments of Men, Women and Children
We're Soon Ablaze and
Panic Followed.

Sheridan, Pa, May PA remark
able series OF explosions this evening
caused the death of at least twenty
five persons, the burning and injur-
ing of two or three hundred others
and property loss that will run in
to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Sheridan yards of the Pan,
handle railroad are a few miles below
Pittsburg. The cause ofthe accident
was the explosion of a naphtha car,
brought about by a leak in the car
communicating to a switch light
near by. This explosion occurred
about $50 O'Clock.
Crowds of men. women and chill
dren quickly gathered to look at the
fire and were lined about the yard on
the hillsides. When all danger had
apparently passed a second explo-
81 on ofnaphtha followed, much worse
than the first.
The flames from the second car
were thrown five hundred feet into
the air, completely enveloping the
onlookers. The air was superheated
to degree impossible for human life
to exist in. Those nearest the ex-
ploded cars were stricken and fell to
the ground. The clothing OF those
farther away was soon ablaze and
the victims ran frantically about,
tearing their burning garments from
their bodies and screaming for help.
In the meantime the fire had spread
to Bt HEP ettf.s and in short time the
entire yard was ablaze. The heat
was so intense that tiremen were un-
a BILE to get near the fire.
BURNING OIL IN THE SEWERS.
The burning oil is said to have ell.
tered what is known as Cork Run
Sewer and came out one and a hall
miles below, where another fire began
to burn.
The burning oil was carried
through the sewers to distant parts
OF the district, one of the results be
ing an explosion in a pool room at
Mckee's Rocks, where hundreds of
men were gathered. Four men are
reported killed at this point.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
This Farmer Was Wise.

Mexico, Mo-, May 1O.-Confdence
men tried to rob B. 0. Sims, a pros.
porous farmer Of this county yester.
day. They allowed him to- win S..
600, but when they insisted that
Sims put up security in the case they
lost. The farmer dropped out, but
returned the money and reported the
case to the authorities. Two OF the
men, giving their names as Mr.. Hull
and MIR. Egan, were arrested. They
had $40, 900 in good or bad money
One Of the men called at the Sims
farm and said he was a banker O,
Fulton and wanted to buy a farm fol
a widow. While they were looking
at the land, the third party happen.
ed along with his game of cards.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
Petit Jurors, June Term.

The following have been selected as
jurors for the June term: X. White,
Howard; Jesse Steele, Usage; A. d.
Hyde. Prairie; W ID Lanier, Rock,
Vile; Dan Donnohue, Hudson; o. NJ.
Burkhart, Pleasant Gap; NJ. h. Lyle,
Lone Oak; W. b. Miller, New Home
Cass Mills, Walnut; Frank Stillwell
Homer; Jack Berry, Charlotte; J. NJ
Kendall, Mt. Pleasant; janis Her.
rell, Summit; W. l.. Kash, Deeb water
J. NJ. Spears, Spruce; Geo. Rearsey
Shawnee; Jas Gragg, Mound; Orville
Shelby, Elkhart; s. G. Lewis, West
Point; Chas. Chapman, West Boone
c. +. Fenton, East Boone; jeff Nc
Comb, Deer Creek; H. H. Wyse, GRAND
River; II. r. Goodwin, Mingo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
School Fund Mortgage Sale.

Whereas, The Merwin Academy Association.
l.. Richardson president, Theo REYNOLDS.
secretary, OF Merwio, Mo-. did on the 10th dsy
OF November, 1895, execute and deliver 10 Bates
county, in the state OF Missouri their school
fund mortgage, which said school fund mort
gage was duly recorded in book 1870 at page $50
OF the school fund mortgage record OF Bates
county MO-, conveying to Bates county the
Following described real estate, to-wit: Begin
ming at the northwest corner OF the southwest
quarter OF the southeast quarter of section 20
township AZ, range 30 west thence east
53l l-2 feet, thence south Isl l-2 feet TO pont
OF beginning; thence south 4a5 feet, east Sss
feet, thence north 496 feet, thence west 1855 feet
TO place OF beginning, containing a. 100 acres
In Merwin, Bates county, Missouri, which was
made In trust to secure The payment of one GER
tain school fund bond therein described and
whereas the principal and interest on said
school fund bond is now past due and unpaid.
NOW, therefore In pursuance Of an order OF the
county court, made at tho regular Nav term.
lgO2, held May 9th, 1872, will proceed TO seli
the above described real estate at public ven
due to the highest bidder for cash at the east
'front.' door OF the opera house building. where
the circuit court is now held In the civ of But.
Ter, county Oh Bates and state Of Missouri, on
Saturday, June 7, 1902.
beween the hours OF nine o'clock In the FORE
noon ana i've O'Clock In the afternoon of that
day, for the purpose Of satisfying said bond.
Interest and costs OF executing this trust,
JOE 7. SMITH,
sheriff Bates County, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15

Organization and Order of Business,
beg leave to report as follows:
l. That the temporary organiza-
ton be made the permanent organ
ization of this convention.
=. The appointment of seven dele
gates to the Judicial Convention to
be held at Springfield, Mo.
3. The appointment of seven dele
gates to the State Nominating Con-
vention to be held at st. Joseph.
1. The appointment of seven dele
gates to the Congressional Conven-
tion to nominate representative in
the next Congress from the sixth dis
trict of Missouri.
>. The appointment of seven dele
gates to the State Senatorial Con-
veation to be held at Appleton City,
Mo.
6 The report of the Committee on
Resolutions.
4. Adjournment.
On motion of DR.. W. A. Williams,
the followingcommittee wasappoint-
ed by the chair to confer with Judge
Graves and report a list of delegates
to the State Judicial and State
neutrality-suspicious. satisfactory
to him: DR.. Williams, Charley
Smizer and George Moore. Which
committee reported the following
delegates which were unanimously
elected:
Judicial Convention at Springfield
Thos, W. Silvers, ii. c. Clark, W. W.
Ferguson, DIR. W. A. Williams, J. W.
Anderson, $. W, Dooley, DR.. J. \.
Patterson.
State Convention at st. Joseph: J.
ID. Allen, j. s. Francisco, r. b. White,
W. F. Tygard, Joe Whipple, Geo. V.
Boswell, Estis Smith.
motion of Pierce Heckett, Judge
DeArmond was requested to select
the delegates to the Congressional
Convention. Judge DeArmond be-
ing absent at his post OF duty in
Washington the following delegates
were elected to look after his inter
ests: 5. +. Warnock, James Shep-
pard, William Laney, JAS \. Sharp.
". H, Mendenhall, Sam Walls and
Thomas Chick, Senatorial Delegates
elected were: q. j. Moore, c. II.
Walters, J. s, Combs, A. c. Edring-
ton, DR.. T. W. Foster, J. r. Simpson
and r, g. West.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-05-15
DESERVES RECOGNITION.

THE BUTLER TIMES says: Bates
county never had an elective state
q flee, Although one Of the largest
counties in the state, with democratic
m Notwithstanding from 500 to | 800
for the past twenty years, has been
g content to thus help the party keep
control of grand old Missouri, while
other counties. much smaller and
with much less majorities, il any At
all, have secured the Offices
This is all very true. Bates coun-
ty democrats have acted well their
part, They have been both loyal
aud generous, But now it appears
{ hat their time has come for recogni,
ton ON the state ticket. With Judge
q raves they are asking for the posi-
tion OF the supreme court bench. He
is a good man, an able lawyer, fitted
and deserving OF the high position
he seeks, and il will be the part Of
wisdom and justice forthe democrats
{ o give him Il position on the ticket.
Bates county is our neighbor, and
rs such its democracy has ever been
kind, generous and responsive to our
every call, hence the Mail bespeaks
for Judge Graves the most solid aud
: teadfast support from the demne.
racy OF Vernon county Hewill honor
Z he bench il chosen to n position
upon it, by able, efficient and honest
service; and Vernon county democrat
cy will do itself credit by standing
with its neighbor. Bates, in demand
ing party recognition for its favorite
and deserving Son.-Nevada Mail.