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Che Butler Weekly Times, jjst- Americans Filling the Acad- | my of Music to Overflowing | and Pressing Around the Doors. plete vay and Collins Speak to Them amid the Wildest Enthusiasm— “a Meetng That Will Tell. — | New York August 26.—One of | x¢ wildest political meetings ever id in New York was the Jrish- ' American Cleyeland assemblage at | dgazademy of music last night. The | yst building was literally packed | giltishmen and they made their! seence known in a manner peculiar i istheir enthusiastic natures. So great | gasthe crowd that not one-fifth of ion could tose applying for adm: amentrance to the building. Four- vent street trom Third to Fourth yenues was a Struggling mass of men | ad women while the scene on Irving gace was of a similar character. fully 20,000 people were outside the xademy, and in order to breathe at | [they were compelled to seck the} pen space at Union square WHERE A DOZEN SPEAKERS jwided the crowd and Jed them in deers for Cleveland. ‘The meeting oper was called by some 700 Trish fzens of New York to give Cleve- that the Irish- | and an assurance American element intended to stand | : : | fm by their democratic faith. | | Mrs. Parnell entered, supported by} At7:30 when the building was tull sson John. They were shown te iproscenium box, and the crowd} geedily learned who they were. | diately cheers rent the nere, and a scene of ti st enthusiasm followed. ll bowed her thanks from the box ind seated afening cheer. herself amid another | Every mention ot | Blin’s name Was greeted with hisses | d when Whitelaw Reid and the fhour Suc Inbune were mentioned 5,000 MEN YELLED “*RAtTS’’ 4 sifintent upon raising the roof. | pugene Kelly, the noted nullonaire | unker of Now York, presided. and adashe thanked the audience for he honor he spoke the name of Cleve- | ad. He was probably sorty fot it dterward, as he did not get a chance | osay another word for ten minutes. | ‘Cleveland, God bless him!’ yelled menthusiast. At once the cry was | skenup and in another instance a | vene of unsurpassed confusion and | ‘mpestuous applause reigned. As | atas the cheers began dying out} tev Were taken up again, and so it | sted fully ten minutes. i United States Senator Jones, of | ‘londa, was the first speaker, and) is teception was of the most cordiai haracter. Mr. Jones 1eviewed the | wsterv of Irishmen in America prais | dtheir devotion for almost a century the democratic party; and deliver- | da really orthodox democratic ora- | He said: ‘‘God knows I have special love for any European ernment. Certainly none for the | ne which has so long oppressed my | itive land. But if I was capable of | lowing my warm sympathy for Ire- | | \ ind to stand in the way ot a free, Mpartial and intelligent discharge of ty toward this republic and _ its ‘attous people, | at while I mi ment by s¢ quite sure ymere se be gu ‘Acrime against my native opted country Wed appiau [Long and con- jand } }and abroad, the jwas r | rang thro utes he returned, and had two BUTLER, MISSOURI, REMATED. Ss record from the days of know nothingism in Maine to the hour when he left the office of secretary of state. Congressman Hines, of Buffalo, and General Thomas Francis Bourke of this city, were received with un— A Number of Men an bounded enthusiasm. Daniel Dough- | erty, the famous Philadelphia law- | yer. Attorney-General Cassidy, of | Pennsylvania, James Boyle O’ Reilly of Boston, and Congressman *‘Rich- eheu’’ Robinson, of Brooklyn, were expected to speak, but failed to ap pear because of illness and urgent business Animals aud Men of Orten’s Show Surprised by the Flames and Roasted Alive in Burn- ing Cars. d Part of the Menagerie Perish in One of the Most Appaling Scenes on Record. Denver, August 26.—The News special says: The burning of a cir. j attended with undescribable horro elsewhere. Resolutions | The burned car was next to the en- were adopted, the closing paragraph | oj a ne ina train ot of which read: | seyenteen cars, } containing Orton’s Anglo American ; circus, which left Fort Collins about years of Gfficial life never interested | midnight for Golden, over the Gree- James G. Biaine during twenty himself ia the welfare of Americans, | ly, Salt Lake and Pacificroad. The| who, while abroad, were deprived of | train w as nearing Windsor, a their liberties and nights without | station near Greely, running about authority of law, and while secretary | twenty-five miles an hour, when en- of state not only failed, but refused | gineer Colleprest discovered the car to interfere and exert the influence ot 1on fire, the United States government in the behalf of such citizens. He reversed the engine and threw open the whistle valve. There were sixty men in the car, arranged in the extension and protection of jin three tiers of berths, on either citizenhood, and in the principles set | side of the forward end. Believing One door forth in these resolutions, and hold—j| was closed and the men in bunks ing them to be of high importance to | sleeping against it. The rear side the American people, we earnestly | door was also closed and the men reccommend our tellow citizens to’ who awoke discovered the lower | support, as fitting represestatives of | unoccupied berths next to it, contam- that party which has already asserted | ing rubbish, on fire, and maintained those priaciples and Bi 2ING LHEIGAR Wire SarOice. made citizenship respected at home nominees of the | 7,, a? © |} The only means of ul window egress was democratic conyention at Chicago, through srover Cleveland,for president and the c: } John P Thomas A. Hendrie Bao US dasian cad Millet, of iden : ’ . Iowa, crowded through the openit The meeting closed with three and tried to p in water from re » cheers and resounding tigers owing to the suffo- for Cleveland and ilendricks. As Ledbeeal te sera ee the great andience joined the larger evel eed crowds on Fourtenth street. Irv- ey 2 snock e and Union square, the fire ing plac rere ted ndled and cheer after cheer Scre rh the s for halt an stree through another political dem- onstration is not remembered in New York. ctims outs 7 pase e agony on cactus beds Fighting Serpents in a Swamp. the Wild beasts in the Mr. Tuttle, who has killed seven- to become trantic with teen rattlesnakes on his farm in terror, m more ap- performers who oc- } ceunty since Christmas, vouches for) pallins cupied the rear car cleaned snakes this: He and an old negre up a fence row where While at work many WITH WHITE FACES raise they ue 1 the midst ard a noise in an old stun ox three heroic al to the occasion, nest of rattlesnakes inside. h Sticed a huge kingsn ap- as ‘ ae = = = pamions to find them already in the proaching the stump, so they were * of death. Albert Lake, in z ek quiet and awaited his motion, old i Wen Be eS : Z : 1k; B é 1 e of the animals, and his friend an Ingram remarking: **Boss, das | ,- ce : : ae ee oe Kent, walked over the cactus in their PLIES We 2 ee ane on SER bare teet, pouring buckets of oil on Sune ug SLT " Sue gen nee the blistered unfortunates and wrap- kingsnake went in, it soon bound— \ ped Rn Pee ASlon Gd! SEES ene ee An old pacific coast sailor named McDonald, formerly of the Fore- paugh’s show, terribly burned, flesh The little hill hard-by. In a few mia- other Then all descended mto the hellow kingsnakes with him. three stump, and hanging im_ shreds. heart- Sie | rending re followed a most ise. After some fif- kingsnakes CRIES OF THE MEN tremendous no : on the prairie, with the smothered teen minutes the three came out and went off, and : the roar of the flames and the howl- Tuttle. with old Ingram, dug up the : ing of the animals made a scene ter- “= SS - stump. They found five dead rattle- ae I a > . rible beyond description. The odor snake- -—Milledgeville (Ga.)Chron— Tible bey Bee i pe ot roasting tlesh, and the distant cry ticle. She Siopped the Train. | ot the coyotes added to the general horror of the scene. The voices of oe I a: engine had Division t up to s wssistance, re- sse Hawes, pres- WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ~ | cus car nine miles north ot here was | small } cutting off escape in that direction. | between | Mr. | appeals of the dying within the car, | soon! 4i7k a?) ment. ‘TT county isioners buried the remains in a huge coffin, p seven teet wide and ten feet long, in 1 | the Greely cemetery. Rev. Mr. Reed, jof the Presbyterian church conduct- [Best Fits, AMERICAN “CLOTHING Liberal—A Misnomer. j HO Eprror Times :—In your issue of USE. {Lowest Prices, | We wish to announce that our | stock for the Fall and Winter trade is now being opened and is the largest and most complete ever offered in this market. Particu- lar attention has been given to the selection of our hing and Furnishing Goods, Our stock is complete, our goods reliable, and our prices always revsonable. We will do better by you than others will or can, ed the funeral services. The coro- ner impaneled a jury, who were un- able to learn the cause of the fir any important facts, as th with the remainder of , left imme e or © managers n€ company, ately tor Golden to fill an atternoon engagement. visit to the town of Liberal by Mr. | [Pe |C. A. Tripp. I- wish to say that | Fines Good | Mr. Tripp can’t tell us, who have 4 | lived in Southwest Missouri,anything | about that town and its people. I | was located, as pastor of the Church | of Christ, at Mt. Vernon, the county seat of Lawrence county, Mo.. hence | | I know of what 1 write. | Under their first organ | Liberal was a misnomer—they would | zation, | | not even sell land to a christian. | | Thereis about as much liberality in | | that as in the man who ht a candle | to help the sun shine. Where would e . Pd te - be the liberty of our republic were it | \ | not to allow liberalists to hve in our | domains? At present the name | | Liberal is not a misnomer, for about | | tour months ago I was present at] jthe laying of the corner-stone of | ; Ash Grove Christian College, at | which time a brother preacher of the (ei ch of Christ arose and announc- | ed the glad news, “the better class }of people at Lib Say we are They ed of liberalism.”’ want irches,Sunday ols and preach- | and want te come and pre tor them. We all said amen; go! COME AND SEE US, \ Part of what Mr. Tripp has been in- ete ormed, Bua ve not, they i SIMMS & COY, 1 an organiza: , ‘need not, that North Side Public Square, Butler, Mo. nan has his weal or woe in his own! - 2 NEW FIRM R.A. ATKISON The Newest and Freshest Line of ids in this hfe, and here he de d estiny tor the hereafter. The “stage for the drama and ks, * future, resound with the Son of God. Mr. | Tripp says, ‘‘if it stands the test, it dance,’’ of which Mr. Tripp spe: j will, in tl gospel of the Then ; on his own reasoning, ADOPTED IT Is. | is adopted, if not, rejected.”’ Our preaching brother said they are singing ‘‘Nearer my God to thee.’’ | May the nations of the earth join in the chorus. We ask, where did | these li uhsts get their idea of 3 | | | ‘*morali Did they create it? | | You answer no. Did they get it} EINT "CELE; crrTr x jtrom heathen lands, where ‘the j Bible’’ is not found? You no. But what if it they got whatever of morality they | indirectly the from whence we get the answer BOTTOM PRICES for CASH Sign of the Horse Shoe, East Side Square. re said that possess either directly or from God's revelation to Bible,’’ tdea of God. for man c nan. First, Owing to the tact that the new elev * GEC: fimagination, | Of Letker & Childs requires my entire Fig ies wicca tt : God is not a creature of imagination ites Uauu that Vieaunor give GHEE aE Will open for its eleventh year on etrate the | tion to other business that is necessary, unknown, and works only on Ihave concluded to offer my flouring is known. x + Nat re mill known as the | SEPTEMBER, 8th, 1884. Second, Nature tells us not of a God, but only coroberates EMPIR= MILLS, | new brick building will Even j erected this summer which } afford tacilities tar superior ing betore oved conceived the idea of God. | Butler Academy. for imavination can’t pe what the previously known fact. learned infidels find no God in na- tor sale. ot of the] ture. Hence we get our idea of) TP | 5 ‘Thorough work, by ; God. morality, | heaven and i : bess angels trom the B a =e LOS OF 1 6aChels UU; d ‘