The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 15, 1887, Page 5

SOTICE TO TEACHER be held on the 3d Saturday of eac jay at o'clock, A. M, 7 W. W. GRAV mencing each d LOCAL ITEMS Shall we celebrate the 4th? The Academy will turn out twelve | } wrduates this year. Judge Gantt came over Monday W. W. Graves went to Montrose ) from Clinton to attend court. Sanday evening on legal business. : The side alks on nearly every sreet of the city need repairing badly. ysit friends and relatives at Lexing ton, Mo. Mrs. A. Henry returned the last of the week from a visit to her parents st Baldwin, Kansas. Wm. Wainscott, of the Indian Ter-|}oucht the A. ritory, is in the city shaking hands with his many friends. —~e sUTLER WEEKLY TIMES a —_——_—— —Public Ex- oe tsons for the benefit of those per- desiringto teach in Bates county, | e hj) sets of railroad harness to Dodi thinthe Ohio street school house, tier, Mo., and on the ist Saturday of gach month in the West side school house, Hill, Mo., the examination com- County School Commissioner, | Mrs. H. C. Mills of Adrain, is iting her sister, Mrs. N. B. MeFar land. McFarland Bros. shipped thre« City, Kansas, and a large bill of har ness to Eldorado Springs last week | The Toes richly | sobriquet of “boomir the deserves 80 appropri | ately given it in the past few years. | Circulation has already reached 1,700 jin the county and increasing at the | rate of from forty to fifty per week. Let her boom. | Dr. W. C. Tucker left Tuesday for Kansas City to attend the annual jmeeting of the dental association. | He will be absent during the re the week. Dr. Tuck- er has been a member of this asso ciation for twelve years. mainder of Nev. J. F. Watkins, of Rich Hill. delivered the baccalaurate sermon to the graduating class of Butler Acad- emy, Sunday evening at 3 o'clock, at the First Presbyterian church. His audience was very large and his sub- ject entertaining and instructive. J. G. Stephens of Clay county. A. Coffman farm in Summit township, consisting of 120 acres, on Monday. Quite a number Miss Mary Walker returned home | of Clay county farmers who have re Saturday from an extended visit to | cently sold their farms for big prices, friends in Carthage, Mo. A.J. Bonham is having the opera house repaired of the damages sus- are locating in Bates county. We are glad to welcome such men into our midst. Prof. Frank McClellan. of Ge Springs, gave us a pleasant call Fri day and had his name enrolled on 1, {tend to visiting attorneys counties are in attend- | ance at cireuit court. Col. Bob Adams, The following from other THROUGH A BRIDGE. —~. <2 . TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN SUMMIT City; Jarrett & Whitsett, Hill; Railey & Burney. wille; Judge J. B. Gantt of | Pleasant On the 3d a pension was issued to | | Johseph Bingman, of Butler Mo. late private in Company I. Thirty fourth Towa Infantry, for tote blindness. the Topeka | The first payment under | this pension amounts to $12.492- payable at agency. The annual catalogue of the But ler Academy is out and appearances | certainly indicate that this excellent | school is ina flourishing condition. The printing wasdone by the Times. | of this city. and is very creditable to that sheet.—Record. — so that it keeps one man hard at work on the composition and a boy to run the press. We have the best facilities for doing job work of any country office in the State. Satis- faction given in every particular or work not allowed to leave the office. now The enterprising people of Foster are making preparations to celebrate the glorious 4th as becomes the natal day of our independence. The Times is getting out the bills for sal and from the preparations be- ing made it is evident that they in spare neither money or | isto make it a graud success. Everybody invited to attend: A. Traction En | heart-rendering accident which ever | | oceurred in this county was that which happened Monday afternoon. | when the engine to a steam thresher | went through the wooden bridge | over Willow Branch, three mile of Butler, killing Wesley Fisher and seriously if not fatally injuring his The Times office has been rushed | brother Elmar. with job work for the past month, | living near Johnstown, desiring to move their steam thresher to Spring field, started to Butler to ship the same. on to leaving the older boys and engineer, Geo. Ross. with the engine. thing worked well until the wooden bridge over Willow Branch, near the county poor farm, was reached, when some misgiving was had as to the propriety of attempting to cross it. to make the effort heavy planks were laid endways over the bridge for the wheels to run on. We will let Geo. Ross. the engineer, tell the We are ranklin who has been quite si 8 Lto report that Sidney ¢. for several days, is on the the Times subseription book. He recently purchased a neat little resi dence in the northwest part of of L. S. Padd for | On last Thursday Mr. M. A. Blev ins. of Walnut wdc township, came to Butler to meet his two little children, and Ella. who he ave been at S$. J. Groves has been contined to his room the past two weeks with alarge carbunele on the back of his neck. Frank Kepner, a2 prominent farm with our Saline county, on the 7th, and did eof Deepwater, in company 1 8 th ill « Unele Billy Griggs, called at oftice Friday last. i | A young cyclone y isited Marshall. Si | ) no lives were lost. oe Mollie Dimmitt arrived in the elty | properly observed by all patriots on > of Monday evening ona visit to their|the fourth. We had hoped that considerable damage to property, but Mrs. J. BK. Lingenfelter and) Miss unprecedented prosperity should he sister, Mrs. J. R. Davis. A. H. Bell is store the past two or three days attending the sick bedside of his sis tera few miles west of town. J.B. Bs Graves, graced owe sanctum. while inthe city one day last week The should be cut down bad in many places it is hard for a lady to get to church without soiling her dress. in the State when it comes to genu boom We understand that N. B. Langs- ford, in the northwest part of Mt. Pleasant township, had a tine four push, n = year old steer killed by lightning the last of the week. Mrs. J. W. tained from the big: fire. Dr. Everingham has the ground about cleared for his new brick ad pining the Butler house. d has been absent froin erry, editor of the Roek- tile Globe, in company with W. W sidewalks They are so The “booming” Tres does not take a back seat for any county paper me and unadulterated and MeVeigh. presented after this season. C. C. Clark is cle debris on th away the burt t district preparn ie In tory to patting up a hands« business house. This brick business houses up this summer on the burnt site. The old frame hotel is also offered for sale and as soon as sold a couple more handsome bricks will oceupy the ground on which it stands. This year of democratic rule and Butler business and citiz would have the grandest celebration men Zens in the county and it seems we 2 not to be disappointed as the boys an effort in that direction. are makin Hon. J. B. Newbe Bates county, on their way to the Missouri State Horticultural So West Pla . Tuesday. stopped off to visit Mr y and wife, of ty. which met at is In Howell } count frie Newberry reports in his section fs The crop will not be as good as was ex corn and wheat good. fruit pected, but there will be plenty. He believes in helping the printer, and is now taking about thirty papers and magazines.—Clinton E A heavy rain visited this section of the county on last Friday. It is estimated by the knowing ones that more water fell in the same length of tending the de at Fulton, Mo. tied this far by their teacher, Prof. afand dumb asylum They were accom re bright children from Prof. and) dumb They are twins and ays it is the first case on rd where both children, in such cases are thus afflicted. The Tives has just completed one of the finest catalogues for the But ler Academy ever issued from any office in this city. It is printed on the tinest quality of book paper. new type. used which makes the printing r and pretty. perfection itself. The table work is This much for the mechanical work. The composition and arrangement of matter perintended by Professor W.S. Mor- row, and he may well be proud of Was su his work as no school in the state can boast « better or neater arranged catalocur Mrs. De C. Mize met with quite a seriou on last Monday enin was returning home om avisit to her father, who re sides south of the river. In going through the timber, the horse turn ed to one side of the side of the road to avoid a mud hole and at the same time the wheels side of the buggy ran over a stump or log and on one Mrs. M. was thrown out of the ve- hicle, breaking her collar bone. She was carried to the home of 2 neigh- bor and medical assistance summon ed. She insisted on being brought time than has been known in Bates county fora number of years. learn from parties from other sec- We | permanently home before the broken bones were set. Accordingly a spring wagon and mattress was pro- tions that it was pretty general over | cured and she was brought to town. the county, and was a veritable God- | She is recovering as rapidly as could her husband with a fine girl baby | send, as corn was needing it very | be expected. Tuesday last, and Mae. is as happy | badly. An abundant crop this year ‘saboy with his first pair of red}is almost an assured fact. A more topped boots. Ed. H. Meek, formerly of Butler P. ©, now in the postal service, spent seasonable year has not been known to the oldest inhabitant. week with his friends and relatives | highly respected citizen of Summit in the city. His run is from Sedalia | township, died at his residence on to Dennison, Texas, a run of nineteen | last Tuesday, the 7tn inst. of heart About the meanest thing any man can be guilty of is returning a news- Paper to the publisher, marked “re- i,” when there is two years back subscription due upon it. Such a Mr. Horn had boen afflicted for a number of years and confined to his bed since the first of January. Thus is another old landmark tz disease. ken away, he having moved to Bates county and settled in Summit town- ship in the spring of 1866 where he has since resided. of : and leaves a wife and five The annual address before the { children. four girls and one boy. all Hesperian Literary Society.” will | grown hours. fused : Manis a moral coward.—Boognville Advertiser. e The funeral took place at be delivered by Rev. W. B. Burrows, \the Dakota St. M. E. chureh (south) tthe Chapel room of the Academy, o Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The a Patrons of the school and friends of the society are invited to attend. and the remains w cemetery by a friends. large number followed to | their last resting place in Oak Hill | deed done his sister. killed the man of | whom his sister identified as the We wish to say to the public, that the clippings of El Dorado Daily Democrat which appeared in the | Record of last week were inserted by Nathaniel D. Horn, an old andj the publisher with our knowledge We authorized him to give the proceedings of the Rockville affair, but not the bitter and unjust vituperations against the citizens of and consent. Rockville and the civil officers of Bates county. That there was a great wrong perpetrated in the killing of John Vandenburg, we pre. | sume no one will deny; but there are * palliating circumstances connected He was 73 years | therewith. The wrong done Miss Jennie Anderson worse than murder and it is no surprise that ' her brother, maddened almost to in ' ° j sanity as any man would have been was ina similar case by the revolting culprit.—HarwoodgRecord. TOWNSHIP. —— +e mee e Goes Through a Bridge ese. Killing Wesley Fisher and Seriousiy Injuring Eliner. ——-sewe- Perhaps the most horrible and ast The Fisher Bros., Two younger brothers came with the town seperater, Every After a consultation it decided As a precaution, was rest. He front of the engine to keep the boards straight while Wes and Elmar rode on the The front had already passed off the bridge, said: “I went in engine wheels and I, standing on the end of one of the planks, was feeling good over the the brid Without any warning, throwing me to the north of result. when ge gave way the bridge down a The engine fell a distance of fifteen fect to the water, | N turning completely the descent. [jumped up and ran under steep embankment. over in = the bridge to see what had become of the boys. For 2 time the eseap ing steam prevented me from seeing anything, but Tscon found Elmar, on the north side. with his right leg fastened under the engine, with his He asked what had become of his brother. I head just above water. went around the engine and found that Wes. was underneath and com- pletely under the water.” A neighbor who witnessed the ac cident came to town for assistance and in an incredible short space of time hundreds of willing hands were at the ropes and pulleys rele: scene of and with ed Elmar from his trying and perilous position aecident and then removed the corpse of his brother Wesley. which had been completely submerged in the water for nearly two hours. Drs. Boul examined Elmer's injuries and decided that the right leg would have to be amputated be low the knee to save his life. When a Times reporter reached the scene, a sad spectacle was presented, one which would melt a heart of stone. The one brother stiff and death, who but had been the very embodiment of life and while the living brother was suffering under the surgeon's knife. Both fof these young men were married and have a child each. Wesley’s{wife is in Springfield where she had gone but a few days before to await his com- ing, and what a sorrowful coming it will prove to her, that{noble, manly husband and father whom§she had left but a few hours before. in the health glorious | young life, laying cold and silent in death’s embrace. snatched from this world without a moments warning. Elmer was returned to his faithful wife upon a stretcher, all bruised | and torn. with one limb gone | ware and Renick cold in a few hours before noble manliness, and vigor of a the prospects of weeks and months of terrible suffering and perhaps | death at the end. Oh. it was horri- | ble! horrible! | Coroner Rice was promptly on the | round and emp: g neled a jury which returned a verdictZof accidental kill jing g. The engine was of large size and would probably weigh between | | nine and tentons. This was a heavy | | strain upon the bridge.jbui not more | than it shouldjhave heldjup. i When Raby was sick, we cave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she ened for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them (: ‘astoria, English Spavin Curbs, Splints. Sweeney, Sprains, Sore and Sw Coughs, ete. Save Sso by us bottle. Warranted by W. J. down, Druggist, Butler Are keeping pace with the Boom, and extend a special invitation to the ladies to call and examine their new patent ANTELOPE COOK STOVES, BUCK'S BRILLIANT GASOLINE STOVES vat, no smoke, and just the thing fer summer. guaranteed to be sate and reliable. They are Also a large lot of . BUCK’S BRILLIANT AND RANGES, Large line ot tinware, Rooting and yvttering a specialty. North Side Spuare, Butler, Mo. 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