The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 3, 1883, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES Chas. T. MeFariaud. “spiror AND PROPRIETOR. RMS OF SUISCRIPTION ae ‘The Weery Ties, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any edaress one year, postage paid, for $1.25. ES BUTLER MISSOURI. ‘WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1883. —— ee Hon. A. P. Morehouse, represen- tative in the legislature from Noda- way county, is talked of asa candi- date for Lieutenant governor. ———— Lord chief Justice Coleridge of England, arrived in St. Louis, on the evening of the 27th. A commit- tee of the most prominent lawyers of St. Louis, met his lordship at Al ton. S——— Col.George Knapp, semor propri- tor of the St, Louis Repudlican died on board the steamer Portland on the 18th enroute home from Europe. He was 68 years oi age. The /e- publican pays hima beautifal = tri- bute which we publish in an_ other column. Jay Cook the famous banker and millionair who went down in the financial crash of 1873, loosing ev- erything even the house that shelter- ed himself and family, again a rich man worth a $1,000,000. It is said he accumulated his new fortune by dealing in Colorado ming stock, and with a part of it has repurchased the old homestead. SSeS The Kan-as City Times says that Bates county will be the third couniy in the State in pomt of wealth ana population when the next census shall be taken. The counties will stand as follows, it sa St. Lov’s Jackson, Bates, Buchanan, &e. The press of Bates county has con- tributed not a little to that result, if the above anticipations shall be real- ized. is ‘Lhe Walnut fournal and the Rich Hill Reveew ure in terrible rangle. The] Journal seems to have the inside track and is woring brother Irish con:iderabie. There is no need of discussing the quality of the coal gentlemen, everybody up this way 1s thoroughly _ satisfied, (blacksmith and all,) that one bush- elof the Walnut coal is worth five of the Rich Hill coal. a Henry Villard, President of the Northern Paea:fic railroad, who has been banqueted and toasted through- out the length of the road ot late, was oncea newspaper reporter connect- ed at the time with the Cincinnati Commercial and later on with the Washington Press. In this connection we have ed that Mr. ge Vanderbilt ot New York, whose inheritance is sev- notic- Geo eral millions, is ambitious ot being a Journalist and to that end has engag- ed himselt to report the police court proceedings tor a New York paper atasmall salary. Young George is sensible. Weis beginning at right place to make it in course of time a sucessful newspaper man. the The nomination of General Butler by the democrats of Massachusetts Was a ioregone conclusion. There connot be much doubt ot his election He has proved beyond doubt the ne- cessity of reform in every department otthe fiovernment ot the old Bay He has awakened nota desire for retorm in the corrupt administra- tron for so many years, but rather a hatred in the chronic oftice-holders of the man who had the boldness and ability to expose their schemes He will have more power and mfluence uext vear. state. Work has begun on the St. Louis, Emporia and Wesiern road at Rich Hint. It is reported that J. D. Scott, an old railway contracior, has the contract to build ten miles, and some- body else the balaace of the road to Appleton Ciiy. Scoit is at work on the Maiias Des Cygues boitom, which he is ansious to finish before | The blue bloods of Beacon Hill will | her own. 2d weaiher seis ia.—Henry County Democraé. : Mistaken gentlemea it is nothing, but a turn pile the Rich Hillites are throwing across the botiom to bridge site on the river. a FORGOTTEN HISTORY- Immediately following the death of Napoleon Bonepart on the island of St. Helena in 1822, there appear- ed in England among the new pub- lications of the day a book entitled ‘*Napoleon in Exile; or, A. Voice trom St. Helena.’? The work pur- ported to give the opinions and re- That was a monstrous Augean | stable, that Massachusetts ore, but-/ tressed upon a majority which seem- edto grow larger year after year- Radicalism, true to its hereditary in- stincts, began to play the tyrant and | the thief. It dealt in dead men’s bones. It skinnedthe paupers who died of violence m dens of filth and | { | flections of Napoleon on the most important events of his history in his own words, and was written by Barry O’Meara, who was the fallen chief’s surgeon during the two years of his exile at St. Helena. But it was known that a part of the origina! manuscript had been sup- pressed by the British authorities, in fact the most important part, for it embraced Napoleons declarations as to the conditions of the crowned heads of Europe and what relation they had sustained toward him im the past. Hence through the in- fluence of these powers Brittain sup- pressed O’ Meara’s book in so far as it referred to them. But the manu. script was not destroyed and although a half century has inter— viened since the work was published in London, it has lately been dis- covered that a citizen in a quiet vil- lage in Texas is the indiferent pos- sessor of it and with whom ne-zo- tiations are now pending for its re- covery and subsequent publication by some eminent English parties. Words from Napoleon’s hips will be as interesting to-day as they would have been fitty years ago. Ben gutier. The St. Joseph Gazette, on Ben. Butler: The Greenbackers, last Tuesday, furnished the vest. Last Wednes- day the Democrats furnished all the balance of the suit, until to-day this political harlequin and clown is pret- ty well accommodated in the matter of clothes. Every garment he has on he, like Joseph’s coat, full of colors, tor he has bee! many aggressive should many things in his strong, vigorous, lifetime. States rights Democrat: ardent supporter of jefferson Davisin the Cha: leston Convention, staunch i Breckenridge as against Douglas; an unconditional Union man; a zeal- ous advocate of the most exireme otf war measures; a general without a 1 proscriptionist after peace Greenbacker: a victory was declared ; woman’s rights man; an _independ- ent candidate for governor; then a and outspoken states a prominent rights Democrat again—is there any- thing else known to the shift, the change, andthe demagoguery of American politics that this man has not sought for a season, embraced, and revelled in? Why, then, it may be asked, does the Democratic party take Ben But- ler up, endo: him, and elect him. if it is a party seeking to reform the civil service of the government, and bring the administration of affairs back to.the old modes and processes Upon the p 1 ot the constitution? ciple solely of fighti ¢ fire. Massachusetts joined to her ido!s and she had to be eithe E had to be found tenegade beat Intrenched alone like hriam, 2a who could down or destroy them. Hean party is tican party 1s an as the Repub the United S fare is acceptable which England had Indians to fight George had to-day in le of war- an ki it. Washington. France Indians to fight George the TI Turkey had Bashi Bazonks to t the Rus- sians, and the Russians had Cossacs to fight the Turk. The at New Orleans called upon tke pi- | rates of the Gultto help them against Packenham, and the Repubhcans of the Grant regime called satraps, the provost the carpet-baggers against the Democ Americans | is tair in war, and this man Butler is i upon the | marshals. and | to them { | ! help Anything able man in Massachu- to the most avail sets for the necessary done. These Pecksnifian Hoars | | he will assault with a manure f. work be | take to what shipping may be foun jin the harbor whea he comes roar up from the Tewksbury marshes, } master of every weapon of savage denunciation, and skilled in all the | hornfying arts of blackguardism. | dj ng | { thing, than Radicalism. torment. It tanned the skins that they might be utilized for shoes, ; drum-heads and parchments. It al- | lied with every monopoly known to i special legislation and reduced the labor of the state to starvation fig- ures. It begot every ism known to} political crankery and prostitution, j and sent it broadcast over the land} as the east wind sends the poison of yellow fever over all the low-lying coasts and tropical islands of the s It grew so in insolence, bullying, and the knock-down-and-drag-out style ot pohtical administration that de- cency revolted, and what was lett of | personal selt-respect and sovere‘gn- ty, began to look about for an aveng- j A lily-handed dilettante would | A caromel eating, pick-and | wouldn’t er. not do. span jamboree of a fellow do. A man who can get drunk baked beans, like Hoar. or wear like Charles wouldn’t do. mild | } on; al seal-skin coat in July, Francis Adams, jr., No blue-eyed man would do, as May, velvety, broad-faced, and as unassuming as a field dandelion. The sort ot md who had lungs, | stomach, and digesti and who | ence then Caye| knew no more about cc the fishes the Mammoth know about the sun. And he been found. With a ; club his hands, Butler is in the the Pecksniffs and the Veneerings, 1 has In reat midst of} doing such work as only an outlaw- the hour upon all| and ed colossus can do. when k for has struc who once belittled his pedigree snapped their jeweled iingers in vengeance his | plebeian face. And the Democra:y? Democracy—they are well to see “Plucked off the old bark when the jinner was slow to renew it; And put to the Lord’s work the when the saints tailed to do it.’’ Oh! the content sinner, Towa. Ordinarily,"the Republican party can count upon a majorty in Towa ranging anywhere frum 40,000 to 60, ooo. But the devotion of that pariy to the interests of the monopol'sts. The legislation of that party in the sorrow of interests of the tew to the the many. to regulate by statute the morals the people. The determina.ion pressed by that party to say what the not drink— of ex: | masses shall and shall these ty hertful done py the Republican par more hke these—is creating a revolu- tion in Iowa that may about some unexpected developments in November. Perhaps it is expecting too much, ! if any one expects 1 Democratic vic- Such an event would oe rannical and chings and bring tory up there. be largely in the nature of a miracle, | and *he days of the niracles deed} with she Apostles; but some sort of be ck, whch will] have venom and powerinit. itmay not be able to crush Radicalism com- | pletely, but it will surely lay out Pro- | That is someth t ic a blow will hibition. Prohibition business is worse It poisons | - You may it take an ordinarily cieve body touch man, us the world goes—a tolera panionable and turn him tuto | straightway he | ake. a Prohibitionist, an will want to burn you at the st If ev the old days he was fond of a dram, he would curse in the new | sy every hand which He would leave your Bac- ; sovr- days with the p: filled a boitle. side a grape-tinted, rollicking chus, and come back to you a faced, grim-visaged Lozenzo Dow. election will only do Tt the lowa { something to circumscribe this breed of fanatics. it will not have been held in vain.—St. Joe Gazetie. Holden wants to be a county seat} and have a great big court house all The question ot dividing Johnson county is croping out in the editorial colums of the Exterfrise. They can never get a majority voie in favor of such a proposition. The present generation will not divide | Johnson county. ' ' | train on the Atchisc | Special traia wi | that the thir }ere many a THE GANGS GRIP GONE. Train Robbery in the West to be Hereafter Numbered Among the Lost Arts. |The Experiment on the Santa Fe Saturday Morning and Its Tragic Termination. Engineer Hilton Shot , Through the Heart and His Fireman, George Fadle, Fatally Wounded. One of the Outlaws Enters the Ex- press Car and Makes a Desper- ate Fight for the Treasure. | Brave Messenger Peterson Drives | the Bandit Out of His Cur at the Pistol’s Point. What Frank Jamcs Says—The News in the City—Full Details of the Blosd-thirsty Raid. K. C. Times. The attempted robbery of regular east bound passenger and express Topeka and Coolidge, Kan., yesterday morning, excitement Santa Fe about 2 o’clock vay ¥ caused the most intense throughout the and the extra edition of giving the first affair was eag: ly 10,000 copies of required to The attack wast two boarding the third entered the made a tutile attempt to kill the The two men who jumped upon the en- ! in their y during the day, the Times ws of the id only ne supp! ngine while the express car and messenger and rob the safe. gine held drawn vers hands and seeing the engineer, John R. Hilton, with his throttle, called upon bin nand upon the pull this to out quic Instead of doing Hilton pushed the lever clear over, when one of the men HIM SHOT DEAD, the bullet passing through his heart. At the same time the second man shot George 7Fadle, the fireman, through the back, Fadle faliing from the train upon the plattorm, while the dead body ot Hilton remained in the cab. The third robber entered the express car and began firing at S. S. Peterson, messenger for Wells, Fargo & Co’sexpress, who, at the improvised bed of blankets, spread out upon the express safes. Hear- ing a noise, Peterson partially raised up, when THE ROBPER FIRED. The bullet passing over the messen- ger’s head into the Instanily Peterson grabbed his revolver close at hand, and jumping up returned the fire but owing to the partial dar man, car. ness in the car, did not hit his and a second bullet whistled close to his head. A second time he atfempt- ed to shoot, but the robber retreated from the car and escaped into the followed by The two men on the ¢ Peterson. e also aa Aicss, seeing that the game was up, jumped three men ran lost to to the groand, and the d were as possible up th view. EER and wounded fireman were into the d news ot | rage telegraphed to headquarters F:3 t ity De a Topeka and Cit h once dispatched pesse of armed men was Dodge Ci men named Loomey and Chambers | were arrested on j veyed to Dox s kep 5 is bein tup by ever, and it is more 1 man wi urs. was bloodthirsty in the extreme, and the murder of the engineer and shooting of the fireman unnecessary, ome to pass. eyen had the worst It the night me it 1s more tha of a tr i with, and‘that “western justice’’ will be dealt the murderers and attempt- ed robbers. c e that hav all torms tal be dispensed by jury w ARRIVAL OF THE TRAIN AT COOLIDGE. | 2 Shortly after | first side door ot from } the day two | been captured | } | the Atchison, and Santa Fe, j bound tor Kansas City, drew up at ; the depot at Coolidge, and a few | hungry passengers jumped off and to get | went into the eating house | luncheon. Conductor C. S. | ley had gone inside the depot build- the tele- min- for almost Gree- ing to get his orders from twenty ] 1 | graph office, and, the utes which 1s ordinarily allowed | the stop at Coolidge having expired, was preparing to start, the While moving about the de- | pot platform, Conductor Greely no- ticed two men, who afterwards prov- ed to belong to the robbers, standing At that time of course that they were atten- for- train. | in the depot. | he had no dream | bandits, and in tact patd no tion to them. He ward to the engine to give the engi- Was going noticed a be neer his orders when he man whom he supposed to a tramp climbing into the express car. | The tellow was behind the conduc- tor until the express car was reached and then he ran around Greeley and began climbing into the front side ot Thinking that the fellow was a tramp wh to steal a ride, Conductor Greeley said, 1 the express car. o wanted “Com out of there—— —— —- Then the hostilities began. THE FUSILLADE IN THE CAR. It was these words spoken by con- ductor Greely to the supposed tramp that first awokejthe express ymessen- who was of the Mr. Pe- terson had finished his work at Cool- ger, Samuel S. Peterson, | sleeping on a bunk in front the cai. idge and ,was jnearly asleep when rather harshly to step down so far trom conductor Greeley ordered the intruder andout. The latter, obeying, paid “no attention to the conductor’s command, and when the messenger opened ‘his eyes he saw the man standing in near the door, pistolin band. Quick as a flash the robber, for such he was, fired at the prostrate messenger, and then wheeling around, fired at conductor Greeley, who still stood on the plat- form looking mto ¥the car through the door. Messenger Peterson, tak- ing in the situation at a glance, lay still for aninstant and lead the rob- ber to believe thathe had been shot and was dead. After the robber shot at the conductor he retreated to- ward the rear of the car but betore he had reached the side door, Peter- son had contrived to lay hands on his pistol, and springing to a sitting posture on his bunk, he fired at the The efforts of thet party | time, was partially asleep upon «nm jytruder, m whose body the bullet probably took effect. The robber fired one or two shots after this, both of which were wide of the mark, and then jumped out of the rear side door, down to the platform of the depot. An accomplice who had at- tempted to enter the car by the front side door was frightened away by the grit of the brave messenger, and both of the bandits left the express car, with Peterson complete master ot the situation. The baggageman, a man named Johnson, was sitting in the rear side door when the first robber the car, but ne ran inio the depot as enieied soon as the shooting began. Conduc Greeley, on bei -an to the troat g shot at plat- sse] by the robber, form ot the express car-and ¢ | over to the other side of the train. | Being unarmed, Greeley saw at a glance that he could nuibing to prevent a robbery. The b depot p | sheoting, 3 of the track by going under the car, the the scere of the opposite side xh on ATTACKING THE &NGINEER. | Hardly had the reports ot the five shots fired in the e died | away, when a fusilade began at the i engine which ended far more disas- trously. Engineer John Hilton had just received from conductor Gree- and already . when scar. Dress car ley the signal to start. | had his hand upon the throttle | he heard the shots in the expr j Instead of pulling out the engineer paused to ascertain what was the matter behind, and at this moment a man sprang into the cab, and cover- revolver, said: ” ! ! th ing Hilton wi a “Pull out, you j At this Hilton too his hand off the | throttle and turned his tace toward his assailant. dead at his feet. The fireman, Fadle, then jumped out of the plat. form, and the robber, having finish. ed the engineer, turned on the fire. man, shooting him down The bul. let lodged in Fadle’s neck, and the wound was thought to be tatal. THE SCENE, The town of Coolidge is a station loci small ed 469 miles west of this city. and a few miies cast of the Col orado state line, settled section of country, and is well adapted ior a The mountains ot Colorado are close at Tt hes in a sparsely train robbery, hand, and the panhand’e of Texas jx not tar Either may be reached by several days’ traveling < distant. through a country in which there are tew inhabitants . AN EXPERT'S EXPRESSION, Gallatin, Mo., Sept. here we just take great train robberies and robbers, 29.—Over Intesest: in having the chief of robbers a compulsory When the Tunes got here this morning with citizen among us. ac: count of the attempted robbery at Coolidge, Kan., the story created no little excitement and has the talk oc the town, and no has talked more about it and with a high- er exultation than Frank Jaw He remarked to your correspoacent to- day, who v.sited him in jail to get his views about the rebbery: **Now if I was out, or would be the been one Jesse was put down to the James boys. That was the case for fifteen years or more. A stage couldn’t be robbed from Main to Texas, ora train robbed f.om New York to San that the James boys didn’t do “This little affair’? continued Frank, ‘will rather the public that the James boys are not responsible for every raid in the coun- try,or I suppose not, after all, T have no doubt some of the eastern papers who claim Lam out of jail, will write up ‘poor old Missou- rm,’ and say Frank James has gone back to his old business. See ifthey don’t.’”* **There’s talk’? remarked yovr cor- respondext, “that Jim Cummins was in it.’” **Pshaw’’ said Frank, *‘ Jim wasn’t there, and Jim since he left Tennes- see is not making himselt veiy tre- quent anywhere. He isn’t the kind of aman to lead or undertake any job of the kind.’? Frank rather gloates over the event, and says it shows up pretty conclusively that much charged to the James boys has been false, for as sure as fate if he were out the job would have been put uvon him. alive, that robbery Francisco, convince The ¥F. and M. Bank. The annual meeting of the Farm- Bank ot ers’ and Manufacturers’ was held in the ditectors’ room the bank, in this city, on Tast Saturday. and the were elected for the ensuing yc J.C. Ferguson, J. J. F ae ; Estill. B. Farmer, J. C. Burns, F. G. Bate, Geo. Templeton. Wm. Leslie and A. F. Davis. The direc tors met subsequently and elected the following officers; J. C. Ferguson, R. C. Mass The last three gentlemen ot tollow!ng directors ICISCO, cashier ; e, assistant cashier. business are now managing the the bank, Mr. inne old cash- sitt at Colorado. on ation in a national bank Texas, for w Frid ) wish him success in his labor. — Ruch Hill Review. tt h point he lett new field « Missouri is taking lead im tne sections and peo- ter of uniting the ple once estranged by civit war. She is driving the last nail in the sectionalism. ‘I'he ge coffin of ous spirit exhibited by the reunion of Union and Contede Springfield the August has been duplicated as ucar as could be by the reunion fast we Marysville. Thisis the kind o sentiment every patriotic should encourage. The been a dead issue too long tor ble men tocling to even for politica! The future 1s pregnant ant prob € soldiers’: during mon at citt war has buncomb with great issues and lems to solve. The past irievable. The future will make it. Let us not, waste time by grieying over importe ss irre- is what we thes efc The bandit uttered | might have been or in trying to em- o’ciock yesterday | not another word, but pulled the | bitter life by teeding it on the ani- -morning passenger train No. 4 of | trigger, and the brave engineer tell ' mosities engendered by war.