The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 10, 1886, Page 9

—_— a FOR MURDER. Kansas City Lads in a Bad Box. © <a An Old Ditch Digger Horribly Hurt by the Wretches. —-- -eme- — — The Crime Committed for a Compara- tively Small Sum. ~~ —0- Bloomington, Ill., Nov. 5.—Frank Litcngy, a German digger, aged 50 years, was slugged on the road near Towanda yesterday and robbed of $150 by two strangers--young men whom he had met in this city—who knocked him senseless with a slung shot. The two men were arrested at Joliet this morning, and Deputy Sheriff Swain Started with them for this city this atternoon. BUTLER TIMES---SUPPLEMENT. — eee General Jackson, ex-Munister to, NUMEROUS QUAKES. ae and exghty-six, and of the | Mexico, says: ‘The scenery of Mex: | ae independence ot the United States jico exceeds anything in the world A Volcano Rises From the Center of alof America the one frekiadhiscn’ that has ever come under my obser- | vation, either on this continent or in} { Grover CLEVELAND. Europe. The City of Mexico is} San Francisco, Cal., Nov. im “T. F. Bayard,Sec’y State.’ 7,400 feet above the level ot the sea. | Jetter tram Opia, October 15, says: | —— It is in what is called the cold coun-|+« Authentic news has reached Samoa) A Weird Picture. try. Next to it, toward the gulf, is/that on the morning of September! Mr. M. L. Williams, of Ridge ithe temperate country, and from 10 over 1,000 heavy earthquakes, Prairie, showed us a remarkable there one passes into the hot country. | occurred on the island of Ninafoo, Photograph recently. lt was a pic- | The country about Jalapa Was | one of the Tonga group, and that, ture of a man’s face and head, with |pronounced by Humbolt the garden| from the bottom of a lake, which) !ong flowing beard. It was taken spot ot the World. It is distinguish-| had a depth of 2,000 teet, a moun- | from she ceiling ot the Methodist .ed from all other grand and beauti- | tain has arisen to the height ot 300. church at Wellsville, Montgomery ‘ful scenery in the world by the tact | teet above its surface; also that this County. It seems that some time in that at the foot ot Mount Orizava) mountain had burst out in flames|/ast August the church, during « there reigns perpetual! sun:mer, while | and thrown out hot stone and sand, heavy thunder storm, was visited by ithe mountain itself rises into the re- jin such quantities as to destroy two- lightning, and that picture was flash- gions ot eternal snow. I have seen thirds of the cocoanut trees on the €d upon the smooth surtace of the ‘the mountains ot Switzerland, but island. a Sagi ce are having , Ceting by the electric fluid, and and Deep Lake. jeleventh. By the president, | es | At Towanda the deputy left the;never saw one that 1 thought com /Jight shocks ot carthquake so tre-| train with the men to take them to/parable in grandeur and beauty to} quently now that they are no longer} Litchgy’s house for identification, it} Omzava. Ihave watched an orange | noticed by the residents.’ being feared that Litchgy was about|tree, the development of the — Thanksgiving Pebeee ssin: to die. from the bud, through the blossom, | Wry Wihinteresting character. It was feared that the people might attempt to lynch the prisoners, but although the two highwaymen were fully identified by Litchgy. there was no outbreak of violence and the deputy arrived here with them at 9 and placed them 1n jail. They gave their names as W. P. Nephler, of Kansas City, and James Drummond, of Leavenworth, Kan. They are both quite young and well dressed. Their clothing 1s marked with blood in many places. Litchgy will probably die, as his head has seven wounds upon it. WITH BAD RECORDS IN KANSAS CITY. Nephler is quite well known in Kansas City and belongs to a very respectable family. Hle1s about 19 years of age and tor some time had; been wild, but had never been re- garded as a desperate criminal, although he had been before the police court a number of times tor miror offenses, The most serious | charge ever brought against him was the robbing of a drunken man, for which he was indicted by the grand jury, and escaped trial through the| intercession of friends. Drummond bore a hard reputation, and had been arrested several times. He was a small card sharp and lived in the bottoms, working confidence games on green strangers. About two months ago Officer Milton ar- rested Nephler on a charge of pick- ing pockets, but sentence was suspended and he then left the city. Jay Gould is a great pacific genius. The magician ot millions came to an angry west, and found the people sore and hostile. He passed over the region, waved his golden wand, and lo! peace fell upon the land, and no man knew what he “had got or whether he had got anything or not.’’ Yet all were left in the blisstul mood of pleasing expectancy. ' | well shudde es Sree ee George Sears, ot Altona, was in! his knowledge. sight of the snow-covered mountains. I have drank ice-water flowing trom Orizava, and at the same time had in reach splendid ripe pine-apples. Frank James Gets «a Decoy Letter. Nevada City, Nov. 5.—Frank James received a letter to-day, mail- ed at St. Joseph, enclosing $50 in unsigned Merchants and Planters’ National Bank, Sherman, Texas. | The writer asked hin to accept it as a memento of the late Frisco rob bery. Frank James said: * I think it is an outrage for any scoundrel to take advantage of me in that manner, situated as I am, striving as [ am to make an honest living for my wife and little boy.” 1 { Establishing a Precedent. A woman out in Kansas heard that her neighbor had said that she was weak in will and exercised no discipline over her children. She immediately called in her boy from ithe back yard and walloped him so that his yells could be heard half a mite. Then she telt satistied the neighbors would pronounce the other |to the ripe orange, there in the very | yet The following is President Cleve- | land’s proclamation designating | Thursday, November 25, as a day or} thanksgiving and prayer: | ‘It has been the custom of the | people of the United States on a day | jin each year set apart for that purpose iby their chief executive, to acknowl- jedge the goodness and mercy of |God, and to mvoke his continued jcare and protection. In the observ. lance of such custom, J, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 25th day of November, instant. to be observed jand kept as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. ‘On that day let all people forego i their accustomed employments and | | assemble in their usual places ot | | worship to give thanks to the Ruler | of the universe for our continued enjoyment ot the blessings of a free government, tor a renewal of busi- ness prosperity throughout our land, for the return which has rewarded the labor of those who till the soil, and for our progress as a people in thence photographed, [tis a weird and shadowy picture, of the Storm King, apparently, and has a stravge mystery about it.-—Marshall Pro- gress. A Political Dodge. A correspondent wants to know the real meaning of the pronibition plank in the republican) plattorm— Mr. Blaine’s device—to refer the subject to the people. It means just about the same as certificate given by the principal of an academy to a candidate for a teacher’s position, of whose fitness he was in doubt, as follows: **This certifies that Miss A B has all the qualitications necessary to teach any school that she is qualified to teach.”’ The republican platform = says: ‘We are in favor ot prohibition, if « majority ot the people want it.’’— Bosten Herald. It is commonly believed that, with- out the advantages of what is called a classical education, through the medium ot a college, there can be no real success in the field ot htera- ture. And while it is possible that a classical education is an aid to excellence in this respect, provided all that makes a nation great, and/always, that there is plenty of talent while we contemplate the infinite! as a toundation, yet a writer in the —- power of God in earthquake, flood; Globe-Democrat has clearly demon- It begins to look ominous for Eag-| snd storm, let the gratetul hearts ot jstrated the fact that the best and land in Egypt. Russia is apparent-| those who have been shielded from/|ablest writers of this century have lv making combinations to compel the evacuation ot that country by the a har.—Shoe and Leather Reporter. harm through divine mercy be turned | not been classically educated, or in sympathy and kindness toward!even more than farely educate in ihe British, with a Russian movement) those who haye suffered through His! ordinary school, and cites ay ex- upon India by way ot Afghanistan] \,sitations. amples, George William Curtis. as the alternative. As the Russian | ‘Let us also in the midst of our|Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lenry j|movement upon India will come at! thanksgiving remember the poor and Leas, W. D. Howells, Bret Hart, any rate, sooner or later, it 1s inter- needy with cheerful gifts and a, ED W. Cable, Bayard Taylor, esting to watch English opinion to} ., that our service may, by deeds ot} Julian Hawthorne. Mark Twain, see whether England will fight now. | charity, be made acceptable in the, Paul Hayne, and others. The lesson —St. Jee Gazette. sight ot the Lord.” lies in the fact that, stripped of all One Reason Why. ‘In witness whereof, I have here-| superfluous ideas, real talent—to say She—-I don’t see why women|unto set my hand and caused the seal' nothing ot genius, which ts the gitt |should not make as good swimmers | Ot the United States to be affixed. [merely of an age, and which does ‘as men ‘sDone at the city of Washington,|not appear oftener—will not be ee er you see a swimmer this first day of November, in the) kept in obscurity, and with # will has to keep his mouth shut.—Life, year of our Lord, one thousand, eight 'invanably finds its way.—Bazoo. rif their crimes come to | lunch counter, where he will serve | beef steak, buns, sandwiches, eggs, ee Rent riding past the barn, heard the shots and cries of the boy hastened to his eet Pe, fee eS be 5 2 a Pe —— ‘Mii fo m De] ynie ills, his ny