The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 29, 1882, Page 3

jtumn of 1572 the discovery of the body of an unknown man on the | shore of Lake Ontario gave a new j aspect tothe question. A descrip- tion of the body is published by the coroner induced the belief that it was the body of Morgan. Our committee decided to hold another | cussed in the lodges at Batavia, | Leroy and Rochester. Johns sug- The Story of Wm. Morgan’s Abaue- | gested that Morgan should be sepa- tion end Alleged Murder by Masons. | rated from Miller and placed on a = farm in Canada West. For this WEED EXPLAINS.} purpose he was taken to Niagara and placed in the magazine of the tort until arrangement, for settin: —. 3 . > 5 Buffalo, Nov. 27.—The last state- | him m Canada were made. Cana- ment ever made by Thurlow Weed | dian Masons dissappointed them. regarding the Morgan mystery is | Aftcr several meetings of the lodge just made public. The document | jn Canada opposite Fort Niagara a . és . oR es “ = z (“ESE a sufficient account of the | refusal to have anything to do with | case k A. L. MCBRIDE & CO.. tay A MYSTERY FATHOMED. | | ing the largest stock of goods in Southwest Missouri to select from ca nd will give you bargai GROCERIES, () UEN SWARE, Hardware, Stoves and Tinware. | THURLOW Special to the Kansas City Times- F200 WA8 written in answer to | his (Morgaz’s) kidnapers greatly | an invitation to attend the inveiling i perplexed them. \ TT ki 1 - n of a monument to Morgan. The | See eee ee yi inds of tin, copper and sheet iron work | newspapers have not been able to ) : j a Spee! It r get but an anti-Masomc society C pportunely a royal arch chapter a spe cla a) e was installed at Lewiston. The oc- of Chicago has issued a pamphlet. Gi : i i i i a . - sive them a call ar rice their ¢ » ing elsewhere pam casion brougnt a large number of c nd price their goods betore buying elsewhere. giving the article in tull. It is ae peer ee tates Weed if dives for enthusiastic Masons together, **Af- wii. = before anotary pubhc. The sub- ter labor. in Masonic language, i Blance as as tellows: Th the ane **they retired to refreshment.”? Un- AGENTS FOR BRIDGE. BEACH & CO’S., Celebrated der the exhilaration of champagne and other viands the chaplain, the Rev. F. H. Cummins, of Rochester was called on for a toast. He re- sponded with peculiar emphasis, and in the language of their ritual. **The enemies of our order; may they find a grave six feet deep, six feet long Superior Cook Stoves. North side public square, Butler, Mo. AT ‘THE 1. D. V. S, BOWDEN and six feet due east and west. J. PERRI inquest. I gave public notice and In deately af h . aha personally invited several citizens} ee ae : aa e et BL EECATEE who had known Morgan. One of sil phage ee ents ASE the citizens went to Batavia to se- a h inet | Iceran QUE oe a s s cure the attendance of Mrs. Mor- 1812 and then2 member of the as- DEALERS IN—— sembly trom Niagara county, called Whitney, of Rochester; Howard, of Buffalo; Thuback, of Lewiston, and Garside, of Canada, out of the room furnisked by gan. When the coffin was opened a body was disclosed with the ve- culiarities described vy Mrs. Mor- gan. This second inquest and ex- amination of the body proceeded in open day and in the presence of Ma- sons and anti Masons, not one of whom dissented from the coroner’s jury, by which the body was de- clared that of William Morgan. INVESTIGATIONS EMBARASSED. Subsequent investigations were embarassed and protracted by ab- Ify BAKERY, SIDE: DRUGS, And Druggist Sundries, West side of Square, AT RED WINDOWS, and into a Major Barton. THE SUBTERFUGE USED. {They were driven to Fort Niagara, repaired to the magazine and inform- ed Morgan that arrangements tor sending him to Canada were com- pleted, and that his tamily would soon follow hm. He receivcd the news cheerfully, and walked with carnage, ON THE EAST BUTLER, MO. ESTABLISHED 1870. * The largest stock, the greatest variety and lowest prices on SAE Ar hahaa ihe I ee eer CnC mn. nail sent and coacealed witnesses. was an invalid soldier, whe had the care ot Morgan while confined in a magazine at Fort Niagara. forts to find him were unavailing for more than a vear. One his supposed friends to the boat, which was rowed to the mouth of the river where a rope was wound around his body, to each end of which a sinker was attached. Mor- All ef- I finally traced SSS SS SSS SSS SSeS SSS esses saseseeessssssssesessessessssssssssssssssssssssessssssrsesersessssessessersessaasy BENNETT & WHEELER, Successors to C. Ss WHEELER & CQ. DEALF&S IN Holiday Goods, gan was then thrown overboard. He Can be found there just placed on exhibition by the King of Toy Mer chants. CHARLIE INDRIES Thanksgiving Service. ' There wil! be ‘‘Union Service’’ of | the churches of the city, at the Ohio | street Methodist church,on Thanks- | giving Day, Thursday, Nov. 3oth at} 10-30, a.m, All the Ministers and their congregations are invited. Free of Charge. All persons suffering from Coughs, Golds, Asthma, Bronchitis. loss of voice, or any affection of the throat and lungs, are requested to cali at F. M. Crumley & Co’s, Drug Store and get a trial bottle ot Dr. King’s New Discovery for con- sumption, free of charge, which will con- vince them of its wondertul merits and | American organs have been fouad equal show what a regular dollar size bottle will do. Call early. No. 3 Ike Landers, who torgedthe name of Johnson Shobe to a check on the | Butler National Bank fer $65,00 on Monday the 20th, inst., has heen ar- rested and was yesterday sent to Wilson county Kausas in charge of | the Sheriff ofthat county for robbery | said to have been committed by Landers a few weeks since. Lan- ders is no doubt a bad man and if he don’t go up from Kansas he will be returned to this county where he | will get his just deserts. Tne Bank MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS Are certainly best, having been so de- creed at every Great World’s Industrial Competition tor sixteen vears; no other at any. Style 109; octaves; sufficient compass" and power with best quality, for popular sacred and secular music in schools and families, at only $22. One hundred other styles at $39, $57, $66, $72, $78, $93, $108, $114, to $soo andup. he larger styles are wholly unriveled by any other argans. Also easy payments. New illustrated cat- alogue tree. PIANOS, This company have commenced the manutacture of Upright Grand Pianos, intreducing im- portant improvements; adding to power beauty of tone and durability, W7ll sot require tuning one-quarter as much as other Pianos. Tlustrated circnlars free. The Mason & Mamlin Organ and Also cheapest. Piano Co., 154 Tremont, St., Boston; 46 E. 14th St. New York: 149 Wabash Aye., steat Chicago. "'rHE NEW ORUC STORE! W J. LANSDOWN, Prop’r. Good Stock of Pure, Fresh has some of Landers’ property at- tached to reclaim the $65,00. ve Not be Deceived. vertisemente everywhere it is truly grati- tor as being a true and reliable remed) andone that will do as complaints, diseases ot the kidneys and urinary difficulties. We atrial. Sold at soc a bottle, by F. M. Crumly & Co. No. 5 $5 te SLO per cay at nome. Samples | werth $5 free. Address Stinson & Co. Portland, Maine. : 16-TY Drugs. | [ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SQUARE | IN BUTLER. MO. In these times of quack medicine ad-} i recommended. | ‘They invariably cure stomach and liver | trow sheet QUIVE HOUSE, we speak, and can reaaily say, give them | tying to find one remedy that is worthy / of praise and which really does as recom- | Give me a trial trip. W. J. LANSDOWN. Aisu proprictor ot the A first-class Hetel in the Southwes corner of the public square, ,_ 366 jand $5 Co., Portiand, Maine. a week in vour own town tty him (Flisha Adams) to Brookfield, a mountain town in Vermont. reached the house of Adams’ broth- er-in-law at night. voice from the second floor of the cabin, saying: “# | have been expecting you ail win- Iwill give my personal attention to compounding prescriptions, day mended. Electric Bitters we can vouch | °™ night. BUTLER. MO Terms | fi outiit free. Address H Hallett & | crets of masonry was rst suggested grasped the gunwale ot the boat con- vulsively. Garside, in torcing him to relinquish his hold, was severely bitten. Whitney, in concluding his narrative, said he was relieved froma heavy load; that four years he had not heard the window rustle or*any other noise wiihout thinking the sheriff was atter him, AN OMINOUS REMARK. Col. Jewett, fixedly looking at Whitney, said :‘*Weed can have you now.”’ “But he won’t,”? was Whitney’s premp* reply. Of course, the result thus confided to me wasinviclably kept, and twen- ty-nine years while at- tending the national Republican con- yention at Chicago, John Whitnev, who then resided there, called to say that he wanted me to write out what he oncetold me about Morgan, to be signed in the presence of wit- nesses, sealed up and published af- ter his death. I promised to do so before leaving Chicago. There was no leisure during the convention, Even betore its final adjournment. forgettrng what I had told Whitney, 1 hurried to Iowa, returning bv the way ot Springfield to visit Mr. Lin- coln. ‘HE DUTY NEGLECTED. We We heard a “T am ready, and ter.’ Immediately afterward the old man came down the ladder, and in ten minutes we departed on our was back. Adams said that, hear- ing a noise in the magazine, he re- ported it to Giddens, the keeper of the fort, who told him that a stranger way lodged there, who, in a day or two would be taken to his friends in Canada, and that nothing must be said. From time to time he car- Z 5 afterward ried food in period. v A BOAT MALE READY. Scon after he was told to have a boat ready for taking away the man. several gentleman arrived -n a Car- riage, by whom he was taken from the magazine and escort to the boat. The boat returned quietly, and as only five returned he supposed that one had gone to his friends in Can- ada. Adams was wanted as a wit- ness in the trials then pending in Canada. Three menwere on trial for abducting Morgan. The testi- mony of Adams was esseniial to complete the list, On being called to the stand he denied all knowledge Inthe excitement of the canvass bearing upon the question. “Wel and the secession of the southern reside,”’ he said, at the time speci-| states upon Mr. Lincoln’s election, I fied, in the fort, but knew of no man | neglected the important duty of se- being confined in the magazine. | curing the confession Whitney was On our return to Rochester witness | tumake. In 1861 1 went to Europe, Adams was in extra state with his] and while in London wrote a letter there were}to Whitney, asking him to have no longer any need of his hiding. | Alex B. Williams to do what I neg- He was on his was to Niagara. In] lected. The letter reached Chicago passing the Mansion hotel, Roches-}| one week after Whitney’s death. ter, Adams, who was standing in | closing the last and only chance for the door-way, asked me to stop,}the refelation. I now look back saying he wanted to explain his tes- | through an interval of fifty-six years with the conscious sense of having Masonic friends, as se Bae SaNICE SSION been governed through the ‘*anti- | hae aoa Mosonic cxcitement’”’ by a desire to { The. lawyers, he said, informed | vindicate violated laws. and next to what he | arrest the great power and danger- ous influences of secret societies. People were unwilling to believe that an institution so ancient to which many of our best and most distinguished men belonged, was in- capable of violating laws, but ot sus- taining and protecang offending men. A vast majoriiy ot the Amer- ican people believe Morgan was concealedby our commuttee for po- by a man named Johns. It was dis- | litical effect. ; him that it he had told ‘ knew about the magazine and [the ' boat, it would be a confession, and that would send him to states prison. i Whitney then related in detai! the i history ot Morgan’s abduction and i fate. The idea ot suppressing Mor- { ; gan’s intended exposure ot the se- GROCERIES, HARDWARE IRON, WOOD-WORK, FENCE WIRE, SEEDS FARM MACHINERY WAGONS AND CARRIAGES. , We have achoice line or California fruits, canned Peaces, Raspberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, String Beans, Lima Beans, Peas, Corn and ‘Tomatoes, canned Soups, potted Chicken, Lobsters, Mackerel, corned Beef, Clams, Salmon, &c., dried Raspberries, Peaches, Currants, Prunes, Apples, and in fact everything that can be found ina first-elass grocery store. = : We cordially invite the public to call'and examine our goods and prices and | see tor themselves that we keep none but the best NESS BOO! AT CONTINUES AND LAND BROS., ARE STILL Selling Harressata Fearful Rate. ~‘Tthaca Calendar Clock, A Perpetual Mechanical Calendar connected with the most superior Eight and Thirty Day (either weight or spring) Clock Movement, IT INDICATES PERPETUALLY The Dey of tho Month, The Month of the Year. The Hour of the, 5. 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