The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 20, 1887, Page 1

The Butler Weekly Times, VOL. 1X. BUTLER, o— Time (Lexixcton & SouTHERN BRANCH.) Table Mo. Pacific R. R | Chicago, Fort Scott & Texas Maj. J. H. Dowlan and C. H. Ma- lin, of the Chicago, Fort Scott and Texus, arrived yesterday evening, | trom Fort Scott, and registered at the Heckler, where they were met Commencing Sunday, May loth, and until turther notice, trains will leave Butler as follows: GOING NORTH. —Texas Express.--+++++4:45 4M “ eae : “3 eK. Express. oo 5PM by M. Pp. ae night, Col. R. D. « 134—Accommodation.. -..2:00 PM | Blair, Dr. G. Y. Salmon and other | : GOING SOUTH. |gentlemen. They lett this morning Ko. 124—Texas Express...-----g:14 PM | j - soca A ; “uf se C. Express raphe ee accompanied by | 8:55 am| Wright and Blair, to make a trip to the Johnson county line, where the line of their proposed road crosses “ 129—Accommodati S. L. & E. Div. GOING WEST. | No. 145—Passeenger +11:50AM | z : | ae Hie—-Accomodation + OSC AM janto Uenry county. | GOING They go tor the purpose of secur- | No, 146—Passenger..+ eee we ing the right-of-way, which has in | 210 PM | : cea « 148—Accomodatio’ tag ioe | the main been assured through this | All passenger trains make € nection for St. Louis and all points east Texas and all points south, Colorado, California and al! points west and north- west, Forratesand other intormation county. The line will run within} half or three-fourths ot a mile of | Urich, through Duplex on M. P. | apply to E, K. Carnes. Agent. Wright’s farm, and thence in the! — | direction of Butler, from whence it | Secret Societies. | will pass through Rich Hill and on —_—_ | to Fort Scott, the most direct and MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first | feasible route. i Saturday in each month. | ae : re nS oa) “Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, | The is pacugaen Were ip etcady. No. 76, meets second Thurs n each | pleased with € ked & I month. oe Meee ptt d to| to Gouley Commandery Knights ‘Templar | i : : , meets the first Tuesday in each month. | run th line thi 4 city of so 3 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. jmuch promise, but that to do so, | Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- | would throw it too far south of its Ty Bh day night. adeeb ee : oe el th Jutier Eacampment No. 76 meets the | destined course. It 1s said that pe and and ath Wednesdays in each month | Bates county people have about} i ——— > : | completed the requirements made ot y NiZ them to secure this new Ine. nd ; E, T C I i a7) The Democrat welcomes the ad- | yut DENTIST, vent of this new line through the ity northwest part of our county. It ure BUTLER. > MISSOURI. will assist to develop and enrich the 9 . nll country, thus adding materially to - ee our taxable wealth OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. : . fies ; ees This road will start from Higgins- en-|_. pewter tae usual work ef a ville, Mo., and reach Ft. Scott ata tist, he does. ; Re distance of 115 miles.—Clinton CONTINUOUS GUM, GOLD CROWN, | nemocrat. a AND Hanged in a Cour t Room. MS, BRIDGE WORK, Union City, Tenn., April 14.— nile | So popular now in the east and the | Last Sunday evening John Thomas, large cities. a young married negro, committed | a brutal assault on a little white girl and then fled. He was captured at Humboldt Tuesday back. At the preliminary trial yesterday | the negro failed to secure a lawyer, but introducing several witnesses in | a vain attempt to prove an alibi, when the child, with her grief-strick- en father and mother appeared, and gave her testimony, which was clear and convincing. A voice in the audience called out, ‘that’s enough,’’ and in an in- stant the officers were overpowered, The negro was then seized, a rope Lawyers. camaae & GRAVES, , ATTORNiYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store. }.8. Francisco. S. P. Francisco. agen BROS, Attorneys at Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining | counties. Prompt attention given to col- lections. Office over Wright & Glorius’ hardware store. 79 and brought T W, SILVERS, e ATTORNEY = LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining ‘ounties, inthe Appellate Court at Kansas Bian in the Supreme Court at Jeffer- won City. s@-Orrice North Side Square, over cBride’s. aitf beam in the court room, and hun- dred hands drew him to death. The body hung for one hour and was then cut down, and the coroner’s jury returned a verdict to the effect that *tdeceased came to his death by hanging at the hands of parties un- known,”’ as it was impossible to find witnesses to testify who they were. W W. GRAVES, - Notary -:- Public... Office with Judge John D. Parkinson, West side square, Butler, Mo. Arthur D. Davis, a traveling man for a Chicago stove manufactory Physicians. J. R. BOYD, M. D. HYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orrice—East Side Square, oyer of Max Weiner’s, Ip filled him with an unutterable long- ing, to quell which he steeped his soul in rosy rum. Then he sallied torth upon the streets to make a mash, and tried to flirt with two ladies on the street. They rushed into a bakery whither Mr. Davis followed them. Seeing a beautiful ButLer, Mo. }-M.cunisry, W. H. Batzarp, DRS. CHRISTY & BALLARD, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, fice, tront room over P.O. All calls n atoffice day or night. Tele- take the cake by clasping her to his arms and kissing her. Keokuk | seemed | and express. jised a necktie party 1f he does not placed around his neck, and over a} was in Keokuk the other day, and/ the quiet and ease ot the little city | girl in the bakery he attempted to! maidens, however, draw the line at MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY APRIL, Reunited After Nineteen Years: Waco, Tex., April 13.—Fourteen : = years ago there lived at the beauti- Twoof Missouri's Governors Died by tul village of Masterville, in this (McLennon) county, Mr. John Mar- quez and his be: They, Governor Lilburn W. Boggs was | pair, indeed, and | E 2 | shot at Independence, Mo., in 1S4o. aca ges | coma Rois was charged with | household, husband and wife i. . —s ead agen ie pe gradually drifted apart. Just PTR igi ci ae yee | Independence, Mo., and the shot on Marquez dis- | not even his wife, | HOW THEY WENT. ee Their Own Hands. titul wife. a happv two bright little union. and teen years since J! } { Y was fired through a window ot the appeared, noone, 2 ; ne governor’s house. The victim was knowing whither he had gone. On dangerously but not tatally wounded i at | Monday he stepped trom the cars | Governor Bogg’s successor was | Thomas Reyonlds. During his term ot office, and in February, 1844, he committed suicide in the executive } mansion at Jefferson City, He took breaktast as usual one morning, then went to his office, locked the door, reading. | 5 i near earearce tee | closed the window shutters and shot te O:d Dreach ts tully healed. { and Was soun ii arms of his faith autiful daughters, now grown to young womanhood. Joy reigns supreme in that household now. The wanderings of John during the fourteen years’ absence would make ful wite and two interesting himselt vy ith a rifle. Hewas shortly after found dead in the with one end ot a string in his hand and A Change of Name Wanted. room, Mo,, April Brownsville, the other tied te the trigger of the Qur citizens are very chen c s ; E al j . pe gun. The following note was dis- | over the prospect of cha | } ake ld i] 2 | covered among his papers address name of our city from Brownsville | 1. L.M : : pap : eset i Shae Ages ne to J. L. Minor, then secretary of the j to that of Sweet Springs. This is] - , j state ot Missourn. no new idea, but one which has been | I n every situation I have been placed I have labored to discharge my duty tothe public faithfully. But this has not protected me for the last twelve months from the slanders and abuse otf my enemies, which has rendered my life a burden to me. I pray God to forgive them and teach them morecharity. My will is in the hands of J. L. Minor. Farewell. Tuos. REYNOLDS agitated tor several years, though |} not until now has it received a suffi cient tollowing to warrant its success. The reasons for this change are sub- stantial and numerous. est reason The great- is the confusion of mail matter. Postmaster Buckner states that it is of daily occurrence that letters are received at this place for Boonville, Browninton and the va- rious Brownsville in the United States, of which there are 25. The same trouble is experienced in freight Within the last tew weeks goods for this point have gone to Boonville, which delayed them ten days. Only to-day a consign ment of goods was received here which should have gone to Brown- ington, Mo. Februay 9, 1844 Ex-Governor T. C.Reyonlds’ re- cent suicide is fresh in the minds of all. He jumped from the third floor |e: the custom house in St. Louis, down the elevator shatt to the base- ment, where his lifeless body was aftewards found, Wednesday after- noon, March 20. He was incited to self-murder by fears that he would become and demented through disease, and thus be a bur- den to his family. helpless St Louis, Mo., April 13.—Kale Turner, restding near Fulton, Mo., has been terribly flogged and prom- What a medley of inconsistencies humanity exhibits! We have seen a woman who contemptuovsly pass- eda sister woman who had fallen out ot the path of virtue, but before the erring one was out of sight shake | hands, with effulgent friendliness, with the man who was paramour of the other. We have seen young men who would pay $1.00 to go to a theater !andbehave themselves, who, with the price of the same troupe reduced to 25 cents to accommodate the times, go again with their pockets leave the country within three days. He had lived in the country for many years and had amassed a small com- petence. A short time ago he quar- reled with his neighbor, Mr. Curtiss, the result of which was Curtiss and Mrs. Turner let their homes. A few days ago a band of masked men with shotguns fired through the window otf Mrs. Curtiss’ house, doubtless intending to kill the mother and two children while they slept. The terrified woman and children fled to a neighbor’s. | 7 id at w ei a ee full of peanuts and act like ignorant ‘ roughs, who had never been at a and no reply wasgiven. He denied a ' civilized resort of decent people be- } any impreper conduct with Mrs. Y aide fore. We have seen a man who was | | tiss, but he and she have lett th aye — i CaS abundantly able to pay his little SS nenee debts, waited on for months by a A NEGRO PEACHER SWITCHED. business man, who put the screws A colored Baptist evangelist by thal Hamme OF (Walliccias @houhad ot the law at once upon the man, : who, though honest, had the willing- ness, but not the money to pay, thus been holding revival meetings in DeSoto, was taken trom his house cine doi nee te dio igh acal his ability to pay more ard more by masked men last night and un- improbable or impossible. mercifully beaten with hickory a. A eae ee See Society sees these things also, and they continue to exist because of the ‘heen on frendly terms with Wil- liams’ wite and the latter says she Raeeilemnaine bof thet teonielwho do these things. recognized the neighbor, who is a Who dares to expose them and white man, as the leader ot the gang. be consistent?—Montrose Demo- crat. The New York journalists and | politicians of Democratic persuasion who are so industriously making war Drunkenness, or Liquor Habit, can communication to all parts of the 7 a2, Special attention given to temale was caught, seized and fined $100, DRS. FRIZELL & RICE. \et 50 cents a day. AND ACCOUCHEURS. 1 2 - ' Over their drug store on North } M street, Butler, Mo. a propensities. = 2 : ; | drinki their own free will. 3 _ . See nee ern nencee : tow ther S : hat itClevela rinking on ame an Iowa town where the prohi- gation. Second That itC oan [ eeapiiiciecatesnite omits adminis’ | T Ss BOULWARE, Physician and | bition amendment is in tull force 1s not the candidate no other New jtration. Cures guaranteed Send for! @ Surge. ide squa : - is : oe . i n Butie;. ga 9 ide square, | and no liquor is to be obtained for Yerk man stands a ghost of a ciscalar — : fren ve? Mo. t nand chil- confidence Ge ® specialty. love or money.—Peora Journal. chance. 'St., Cincinnati, Chicago drummers, and Mr, Davis and committed to the city prison where he will board it out at the rate He will in this ; PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS | manner be liberated late in the fall | when the weater will cool his blood and the diet will tame his osculatory All this happened in on the present administration would | have abetter understanding of their positions it they would remember | two great truths. First: that New | York alone will not nominate the | taking it, effecting a speedy and perma- = SEY nent cure, whether the patientis a mod- [next president. Thirty on states | crate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. will engage in that function, and the | Thousand of drunkards have been made influence of New York will only be den Specific in their coffes without thelr reckoned by the strength of her dele- | knowledge, and to-day believe they quit ° be Cured by administrating Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific. It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person temperate men who have taken the Gol- 20 1887 BUY YouR Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES NTS FURNISHING GOODS. Where you can get them as represented. to select from. Gi a call will convince you of the A large stock c@ quality, loy r RESPECTFULLY, J. M. McKIBBEN. qoW ER s. 3 E "FISH BRAW None genuine untees Xone genuine unless} Don't waste your money on a gum or rubber coat. 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