The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 7, 1885, Page 5

gminations for the sons desiring to tea’ will be held on th ch 3d Sate month in the Ohio street school h Butler, Mo. and on the ist r cin0 the We d - Mo., the examination co h day at g o'clock, A. M. J. H. HINTON, hool Con si r Rich Hil mencing ca LOCAL FFEMS i. J. K. Brugler wants 2 lot of good , Tunning trom 6 to 158 , months. This is a good chance for farmers to get short loa or sell short real estate paper. The Louisiana returning board, Smith & Atkison, ought to resign their seats in the cour The great St, Louis fair opened Monday, and a large number of our ken advantage of the citizens have t cheap railroad rates and are attending the same. . ed his com at Ric Hill and taken charge of the office. He will retain Mr. Huckaby vets tamiliar with the workings ot office. Dixie Haggard left Monday night tor St. Louis, where exterthe St Louis College of Pharm- cy, for the ensuing term. D he expects to and will be missed both in busine social circles the coming winter. A breach of pro been concluded at rise suit has just Independence, Mo., wherein Miss Eva Vernaz, a young lady of Warrensburg. David Hughes, of Kansas City, for sues twenty-five thousand dollars damages | and gets fifteen thousand Prosecuting Attorney W. O. Jack son was in the city Tuesday and! made us a social call. Billy is con- ducting his office very satisfactorily track for re-election. If so he will runhke a scared wotf.—Rich Hill ' | tothe people and may be on ae) | | Enterprise. | }. W. Reeves, a horse thiet, in charge ot Sheriff Kav route to Boonville, jumped from the train Friday last near Schell City and broke one of his ankles and had. | lysprained the other. He was found early in the morning lying by the side otthe railroad track and taken to Schell City. 8. P. Day, formerly of this place, but now in the real estate busines: Ft. Smith, Arkansas, is in the city | iting reiatives and friends. San- | ders carries his arm in a sling, an | accident caused by the talling of a horse. He is running a real estate daper in connection with his business and says he is doing well naugn, i en- | } at A protest against the location of the asylum at Nevada has been sent | the governor and each of the com missioners. The objections agzinst the location only come from the dis- | condition, ! especially two grades across the bottoms. Osage i! township should, without delay, ree} paur the fill across the Marias des Cygines bottom, as we understand it } stone and the pen could be so ithe labor of the convicts uti Jing for a thir jreports Walnut on the boom. appointed. The verdict of the people, outside ot Carthage, is that the) commission made a wise and the governor will never recon- | sider the matter Repair your sidewalks or prepare order Street Commissioner S serving on a Willis number citizens who have permitted their walks to get in a dilapidated con- , : We are authonzed in saying the iE not comphed with. —__ Writing P.M. after his name. announces through his paper that he Will file his application with the de- Mr. B. of the best county pers in the state T. W. Legg left Monday night to Pay his Parentsya two weeks visit at his old home, Piqua, Onio. Mr. Lege came West six years ago to look at the country. He was favor- ably impressed with this place and drove his peg down, and now for the t time in all these long years does he turn his face homeward. The Tomes wishes him a pleasant visit and safe return. | commence from the Y south of this selection, | fora law suit, is the peremptory } ot our} ;on bed while they were camped in | the bottoms diton and ravel. | andrende a avel. ” = ndered unsafe tor travel j and not until then, did she know that order will be carried out to the letter ! Thos. D, Bogie, editor of the Jas- | Per county Democrat 1s desirous of | He partment at Washington in due time. | . is thoroughly competent and | @ most excellent man, and edits one | , elections for the city ot Bu Dic fifty balls aniece on Hurt and D. Cobb will shoot next Thursday services next Sunday Presb Pre estimated susand m round num over a hundred thousand people witnessed the grand parade and s With the cidents everyt 9t10n of One or ig passed off The road between this city Rich } and should be put in traveling is cut up badly and almost Now in earnest we Ipassa- that coal hauling has hope something that will be d this road, and ne on soon. Would it not be a most excellent idea for the citizens of Butler to mike a dead pull for tl anch pen- ry. No county in the state itenti furnishes a better quality of building 1004 ed at the quarries south of town and developing the natural resources of this county. Let’s make a pull tor the pen. There 1s nothing like try- The body of Si King was found hanging to the limb of a tree in the pasture ot Thos. Haley, near New London, Saturday. King is the ne- gro of whom the TIME. tion last ravishing Miss Jeffres, in Pike county, and Mrs. Harrts, of Ralls county. He was an ex-convict and negro. He made men- week as a bad | was found in a corn field and_ twice shot betore he surrendered. Three sheriffs and about five hundred citi- zens were searching for him. W. M. Mills was over Sunday and He says work on the grade between Walnut Pleasanton 1s being pushed as rapidly as men, teams and scrapers can remove the dirt. Billy has moved his drug store from Hume over to Walnut, and says he is well pleased with the change. The work ot leveling up the grade between this city and Walnut has been about com- pleted and ere long track laying will and place. In the Nevada Mail of the 2nd, Mrs. opens mouth and makes a full breast of her connection with the murder of the Sewells, and { Stairs her says she knew nothing of the killing until she saw Seweil’s dog heking the blood thatdripped from the wag- next morning. Then, a murder had been committed. She also stated that she had been put up to swear What she did on the stand. Stair undoubtedly will hang, the woman may escape the halter. The Record torneys managing the town election business in the circuit court will this sit hopes the at- time dot their 1’s and cross their t’s. as a demurer is equal to an alibi. Well, if one de:murer is equal to an ahb1, will the Record please intorm 'us what three demurers are equal to? It strikes us when a party is demured out of court three times, his plea isa thin one. In so} wighty fact, it is thm the time of the ccurt should not be cause. We move the Record spread nup with a renewal of the its grievances before the Louisiana returning board, Smith & Ark as they have assumed themselves to idges be the court, jury and j | stockholders of | that Butler has shed her linen duster ' round you. , money without spending money, and i come—-: gentleman situation. and exhibit -Henry County Democrat. The discovery o of Mr. Henderson, in part of this cour new in Co., of this city. ito | | said company was | | held in the consultation rooms of the Bates C day even oS | Bank Satur- } ral two thousand dollars was sub cute the work of driiling for oil on their leased lands in the i vt suntv. We | . ntention of the com- | ce work. pany to at once comm The little town ot Windsor over in Henry county, was n into citement Satur David 'S. the wildest e day last over the arrest of Kaiser, charged with attempting to rape the little seven year old daughter of his hbor, Mathew Kelly. oner Waived examination ne and gave bail. For a time the wildest excite ment prevailed and ropes were freely exhibited and threats made of lynch- ing the scoundrel, which was only intervention of Kaiser’s highly respected, his oldest daugh prevented by the cooler heads. family er being one of the teachers in the pub- lic schools at that place. What 1s the world coming to? , U. Woods, city editor of the Surday Optic, a new paper pu blish- ed at Quincy, III, went to his room at his Thursday night, and atter writing complete de- tails ot his own suicide, and a_ short history of his lite and career, picked boarding house up a 32 calibre revolver and shot out his brains. He winds up his com- munication with a touching pathos for the affection and love he had for his mother, and his last words read thus: say that as I write these lines, IT am Be- death- ‘Reader, it requires nerve to trembling lke an aspen leat. fore this marble slab dealing revolver charged and cocked, and as I look atit my heart almost leaps into my mouth. It is a fearful thing to take one’s life and I don’t see many who have the heart to do lies a no it, but here go: A tidal wave in the way of a busi- the whole country. Sunday morning the Sr. Louis Globe-Democrat and Re- pubhcan came to us with double containing ness boom has evidently struck adaitions, each paper twenty-four pages hlled to the margin with flaming advertisements ot the business men of St. Louts. Well, you say, St. Louis is having a boom because it is tair week there. Not so; the wave has spread all over the country, as each country paper received at this office will tully test: fy. In fact, about the only place this business wave has not struck is our own town, and we are sorry to ace knowledge it. Well, says one, what is to be done? Why, there is but one down thing necessarv and that is for the merchants of this place to wake up trom their summer's nap and make | the very hills resound with the echo nd put on broad cloth and is ready tor the tall campaig tlemen, now Gen- something you must do towards drawing trade or it will go No man ever made no man will eyer draw trade without advertising for it. The time bas now ion, gentlemen, action! coming up the g wor rhim but religion. — Joe Gazette. accident occurred to a cir- cus train on a branch ot the Northern Pau Sunday morning,by whic Pacific railroad,near St {inn., e circus nen were instantly killed and The the many bag- train more seriously injured. gage section broke while as going up a steep grade and ten or twelve cars went flying back at a ific rate, striking another engiae ade, throwing three | sleepers off the track with appalling results. There 1s now but that oi ger any doubt ounds in western Bates The <Adraia manin company with several ¢ county. Advertiser her gentlemen visited the lately discover- edwellon the farm of Henderson, last week, and he says through his paper that there is no mistake about 't, as he saw barrels, tubs and buck ets filled with oil which had been drawn from the well. To more thoroughly satisfy their curiosity, a the well The well and a bucket was let down in and brought up full of oil. ts over two hundred feet deep, itis estimated that there is about fifty There is no mistake about this oi! the not plugged up. Let the good work go on until the matter is given a thorough test. teet of oil in it. weli and hole 1s Married. Erwin-Todd—At the Palace Hotel on Tuesday, Oct. 6th, by Rev. A. Walker. Mr. Wm. H, Erwin, to Miss Annie L. Todd, both of Boone Mr. Erwin is one ot the most prominent young farmers and township. stock ramersin northwestern Bates, and Miss Todd is the daughter of Marion Todd, is one of the shining lights in the social world in We opine that other, and predict a long, happy and use- and which she fived. both are well suited to each ful life to this young couple. The Times extends congratulations. Shot at a Negro Ball. Rich Hill, Mo., Oct. 2.—Last night about iz o’clock during the progress of a negro ball, attended by a number ot the recently imported negro miners, 2 and Daniel Williamson, one of the mem- bers attempted to put out the hghts. This was objected to by Eugene Smith, who attacked An indiscmminate shooung of pistols followed, during which Smith, who had drawn a pistol on Willhamson, was shot by Williamson in the toot and stomach. The latter wound is considered tatal. This is the first serious crime committed 1n this city. Just as we predicted a short time ago, these imported negro miners The first row row occurred Williamson. would give trouble. is among themselves, and a negro is shot and mortally wounded. In all probability the next we hear ot them will be of a more serious nature. However, so long as they confine their shooting and kiiling to their own color, it makes very little differ- ence to the white community, except the expense of and cuting them. ng prose- ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, ! HEATING The Big Horse Shoe, STILL TAKES THE RANGES I MOS IN DESIGN FUEL AND QUICKER AND LONGER WIN 0009 STOVES, at BOTTOM PRICES } es and Prices betc money at the x OF BIG m with R.A. Atkis: n, East Side S nd well s Call when in elsewhere SIGN PENSIONS Cr0 |WE LEAD, ON LOW PRICES. 100,000 BUSHELS CORN WANTED! > | Eos John A. Lefker & Co's. Elevator, NEAR DEPOT. We desire to say to the tarming community that we are now prepared to receive Corn in any quantity. We have recent- ly overhauled our Machinery, and now have ample facilities tor handling Corn easily and expeditiously. Our Dumps Are Convenient, Grade very easy and perfectly safe. To those who have in the past so liberally favored us, we return our hearty thanks, and respecttully ask a continuance of their patronage. To those who have not heretofore dealt with us, we desire to say that we earnestly solicit a trial, believing that our mode of doing business will meet your approval, and, if so, shall en- deavor to merit a share of your patronage. We havea large quantity of Pere ced £ Oo) De = Oe. S. <_! | oe =e 8 specially selected for sowing purposes, to joan tor the season of 1885, and we invite all parties who contemplate sowing Flax next year to come and see us betore making their ar— rangements for seed, as we Know We Can Do You Good. < ‘what a man §doesfis the thing, not what Ibe says.’ Come and see us. JOHN A. LEFKER & CO.