The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 6, 1887, Page 2

Attacked With the Fatal Illness White Traveling. 4 —_—20Soo——— Only a Few Hours Between Health and Dissolution. A Pleasure Trip on the Lakes Changed to a Funeral. St. Louis, June 29.—Alexander A. Talmage, vice president and general manager of Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railway, died at 10:38 o'clock last night, in his private car, one mile cast of Peru, Ind., of disentery. He was en route with his wife for Toledo, where he expected to take a i yachting trip with A. C. Reynolds. ; He bad been ill for two or three i + months, but recovering early this month resumed active duty. June : 22 he was violently attacked by dysentery. Sunday he determined Yo seek rest on the lakes, and left yesterday morning at ten o'clock in i his private car. When within thirty miles of Peru, Ind., he fainted. The car was taken one mile beyond Peru, where the party were allowed to rest. Hl At 8 p. m. Mr. Talmage was sinking ! rapidly, and his children were sent for. Twohours and a half later he was dead, and at midnight the special train started out on the re- turn to St. Louis, arriving here at S a.m. to-day. The funeral services 4 i will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday. ’ Archibald Alexander Talmage was a born in Warren county, New Jersy, He April 25,1534. His parentage was f + of Scotch descent, his father having i been a minister of the Presbyterian faith. When 18 yeurs of : appointed clerk in the freight de d partment of the New York and Erie ont railway, and remained there for one year. Thon he went to New York and entered the employ of a whole- sale hardware establishment on Dey street. In the winter of 1854 he went to Chicago and obtained a sit- uation with the Michigan Southern as clerk in the freight department. He was soon given charge of all the freight exchanged at the lake term- inus of the road at Monroe, and then was returned to Toledo where he re- mained nearly four years until Aug. 1855, when he left Toledo and came to St. Louis as passenger train con- ductor on the Terre Haute and Alton railroad. In April, 1864, when Griswold, then president of the reorganized Terre Haute and Alton railroad, re- aigned to take charge of the Ohio and ° Mississippi railway. Tamage was appointed assistant superintend ent of the line between East St. Louis and Terre Haute; but in Oct., 1864, he resigned to accept a posit ion on the military roads controlled by the United States government south of the Ohio river, as master of transportation on all lines east and south of Chatanooga. Within thirty days he was appointed super- intendent of the same lines and re- mained in absolute charge of them re he was 2 until the government, at the close of the war, turned them over to the civil authoritles, when he was ap- pointed general superintendent of the East Tennessee and Ge orgia railroad, and remained there busily oceupied in reorganization and re- construction until the fall of 1868 a When the St. Louis, Alton and i} Terre Haute was leased to the In H dianapolis and St. Louis railway com- pauy, Mr. Talmage was requested by J. D. Herkimer, general superintend- wnt, to resume the duties which he ‘had resigned in October, 1864. i Here he displayed such marked » ability that in October, 1870 he w r ey ig unanimously appointed Mr. Herki i mer’s successer. the late Colonel | ti a: Thomas A. Seott claiming that he| ie i was the best manager then in the | oe, =O West. In March. 171. he was re quested by M Audrew Pierce to be- | come general superinten f | Atlantic and Pacitic mng from Pa In Decem general ; Souri Paci to } months , active cha ft On Mare) Louis : of road to the Missouri Pacifie by consolidation, Mr. Talmage was fourth vice president and chosen the combined roads, giving him the control of the traffic of the largest railway system the world has ever seen ward was severed from the Missouri Pacific and placed under the control of the United States court with Messrs. Humphreys and Tutt re- ceivers, and Mr. Talmage was ap- pointed to the position of general manager. He entered upon his new duties on July 10, 1884. When the western branches of the road were separated from one another he was made vice president and general manager of the Wabash Western railway company, with headquarters at this city. It isa Fact that Dr- Harter’s Iron Tonic 1s cool- ing tothe blood, controls excessive perspiration, and will sately tide you over that period characterized by headache, fainting spells, exhaustive spasmodic affections, and will give strength and new lite to the entire system. The Work of a Maniac. St. Joseph, Mo., June 20.—James B. Malcow has been contined in in- sane asylum No 2 for some time, and has always been considered one of the most dangerous men in the in stitution. He lived at Gowen. Sat urday afternoon he escaped and made his way to his farm, arriving there at 11 o'clock at night. His wife had retired, but Herbert Allen, up. Enter- his brother in-law, was ing w rear door the maniac stuck Al len a heavy blow on the head with a bar of iron, knocking him senseless. Then, pistol in hand, he entered his wife's bed room and commanded her to follow him. The lunatic marched an orchard and there standing her against a tree fastened a rope around her neck and, without saying a word, started to climb the tree to fasten the rope around a limb. She took advantage of this, loosened the rope and ran to the house and then to the barn, pursued by her maniac hus- band, and finally started on the pub lic highway for St. Joseph. When near a bridge crossing One Hundred and Two river, Malecow overtook her and fastening the rope around her neck a second time half led, half dragged her to the bridge that crossed the river. He had al- ready tied the rope around the rail- ing and in two minutes would have swung his wife into eternity when Sheriff Andriano and a posse of three deputies arrived just in time to pre- vent the terrible work. Maleow was brought back to St. Joseph. The woman is at the point of death from nervous prostration and the brother-in-law is suffering from cuncussion of the brain. his wife into Young ot middle-aged men, sui- fering from neryous debility or kin- dred affections, should address with tocents in stamps for large treatise, World’s Dispensary Medical As- a" 663 Main Street, Buffalo, A Spirited Game of Poker. This report of a spirited game of poker is going the round of the pa- pers. The ata private home in Paris, between an American and a Frenchman, in which the former took the stakes. Here is the report of the game: “The ante was a louis and the game un- limited. Late in the evening hands were dealt in which one of the play- ers. a Frenchman, raised the ante and drove out all the players except one. an Ameri Over 2. who aised his op 190.000 f pool before either drew. ponent in the Frenc were The the the meantime joined its 3.500 miles | general transportation manager of | The following from the Orange county, Florida, Reporter will be queer but interesting reading to the farmers of this section. “Irish tatoes can be grown as successfully po- on the high pine lands of Orange ‘county as in any part of the world. | For a winter supply, planting may The Wabash shortly after- begin as early as the middle of Sep- | tember or first of October. Planted at this date the new crop will be fit for the table as early asthe holidays. It is well to plant in succession a small plat of ground every two or three weeks. This will lengthen the supply and keep the family pro- vided with new potatoes for several months. We would not recommend planting in large quantity later than the first of February unless the weather has been especially cold and the season is liable to be very back- ward, as the tubers do not attain sufficient size after the warm dry weather of spring comes on. Seed planted in April or May will produce a spindling vine, having the appear- ance of having been propagated un- der glass; but no tubers of any size will form. New Irish potatoes may be enjoyed by Floridians from Christmas day until the first of July.” A Woman's Age, A woman, itis said, is no older than she looks. Many women, however, lock double their actual age by reason ot those functional disorders which wear upon the nerves and vitality, and which, it unche K ed, are liable to change the most robust womanto a we broken- down invalid. Dr. Pi 2’s favor ite Perscription’’ will positively cure every irregularity and weakness pe cular to the sex, and requires but a single trial to prove its surpassing ment. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. Men should not kick ness so soon and think they are “too old for work.” Some of the bright- of har out est and most useful writers and thinkers of the world to-day, are well along in years. Bismark is past 70, Grevy is 76, King William is past 90, Queen Victoria has entered upon In our country Evarts is past 70, and is a possible candidaie for President. the fifty-tirst year of her reign. Dudleyfield is over 80, and as springy asa boy. Simon Cameron is 87, and has any amount of fire and snap. Boston has six editors that are over 80 years old, and doing active work. Young fellows of 50, or thereabouts, can not afford to buckle down for a good long spell s: “A pecu- liar man is he whose dearest object is a nickle, whose public enterprise subsides when it costs a dime; who passes as a Christian, but when a little quakes with anguish; who condemns lucre is required his soul the rapacity of others whilehis hand instinctively seeks to clutch a shin- ing copper in his own pocket; who is deeply interested in his town, but would not spend a farthing for its prosperity; who easily detects the faults of others but never his own; whose soul rammed and jammed in to a mustard seed would have as much room as 2 frog in the ocean. A strong man is he.” No medicine is more conscien- , tiously prepared, more powerful, or same occurred recently } more highly voncentrated,. than Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Its standard of excellence is the result ot careful study. This preparatioa is ac- knowledged by the medical profess- ion to be the best blood purifier. A Democratic Conference. Washington, D. C., June 23.—The Star to-night says: “The presence of many prominent democrats in Wash- on Just now seems to lend color to the rumor that there is to be a wd to the party eduction, — ete. Harris, H democrats now | | Delicate Children, Nursing | Mothers, overworked Men, and for all diseases where the tissues are wasting away trom the inability to digest ordina- ry food, «r trom overwork of the brain or body, all should take Scott’s Emul- | sion ‘ot Cod Liver Oil with Hy- pophosphites, a lady who was delicate and threatened in with Bronchitis. It put her such good health and flesh that I mu y it 1s the best Emulsion I ever used.- L. P. WapbeELL, M. D., Hugh’s Mil S.C. “J haye used Scott’s Emulsion, and must say it is the best preparation ot the kind I haye ever used, aud I have tound it the very thing for children that have marasmus.”""—Dr. J. E. Layton, Brewer P. O., Mo. 32-1m. Better After All. Some Mexicans were caught rob- bing a freight car on a siding of the Mexican Central a few days ago, and the station agent telegraphed to headquarters as to how to proceed. The reply was: “Prosecute vigorous- ly.” He replied to this with: “Can't do it in this case, as they have been executed, but willdo so in the next.” —wWall Street News. We would be pleased to knowot a man or woman who has never had head- ache or been subject to constipation. As these. seem to be nniversal troubles a little adyice may be in order. Why should persons cram their stomachs with nauseating, purgative pills, etc., which sicken and Jebilitate when such a pleas- ant and sterling remedy as Prickly Ash Bitters will act mildly and effectively on the liver, kidney, stomach and bowels, and at the same time tone up and strengthen the whole system, causing headache, constipation and all such dis- tressing evils to quickly disappear. 35-1m. “In au Bad Way. General Sherman's letter express- ing loyalty to the President and re- spect for his person is condemned by the Iowa fanatics as bitterly as anything that ever emanated from a When man so patrioticgthat he “regards Old a copperhead and rebel icago Herald. Democrat. a becomes he is in a bad wa, Drunkenness | or the Liquor Habit Positively Cured by administerizg Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific. It can be given in a cup of Coffee or tea withovt the knowledge ot the person tak- ing it; is absolutely harmless and will etfect. a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drin*- er or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. It never fails. The sys- tem once impregnated with the Specific it becomes an utter impossibility tor the liquor appetite toe For tull partic- sulars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 185 Race st. 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Sold by all Druggists. CATARRHCURE. 32-1m. Inter-State Business Bureau. John A. Lefker & Co., Managers. Office on north side, over Steel’s. We make a specialty of buying, selling and exchanging farms, town property, or any kind of business in Missour: and Kansas. Our office 1s one link in a chain of twenty-three | Counties—nine in Missouri and four- | teen Kansas—and any l receive t business he atter- 1 of every oft in the ch If vou have real esta ms or town prop rusted to us wil 41 u oar. “T used the Emulsion on | ~ THE ENGLISH IN AFRICA. The Progressiveness Which the British | { Brought to the Dark Continent. Neither the progressiveness of the Mohammed an Arab nor the Protest- ant Dutch were a match for that sue perior progressiveness which the British brought to the development of South Africa. By fair means or foul— and foul much of it was, forsooth— they have gradually dispossessed the Dutch of nearly all their valuable pos- sessions. In 1796 they dispossessed the Dutch Government of the Cape, and in 1825 virtually confiscated more than half the property of the Boers who remained, by compelling the hold- ers of their paper six dollars, which they had issued for four shillings, to accept one shilling and six pence each for them. In 1836 the Boers abandoned the Cape and eight thousand of them founded the free republic of the Transvaal. Even here the British pursued them, and they.emigrated westward toward the Orange river. In 1852 the British Gov- ernment was induced to acknowledge the independence of the Transvaal Republic; yet, when some twenty-five years later it was discovered to contain diamond fields, the Transvaal was forcibly annexed to the crown of En- gland by Sir T. Shepstone. This oe- curred in 1877. Other encroachments are still going on, and within the com- ing half-century it is quite probable that the British flag will wave over the most valuable and salubrious portion of the African continent, namely, the entire table lands from the Cape of Good Hope to the line of the Zambesi and Congo. Nor is this result to be deplored. The Arabian, the Portuguese and the Dutch have all failed to develop the natural resources ef Africa. The British alone have scorned to enslave the natives and gone to work with their own stout hands and hearts. Nor is it to be supposed that its greater proximity to to the equator renders South Africa less fit for Anglo- Saxon colonization than Europe or North America. The mean altitude of all Europe is but 971.41 feet above tho . and this, I believe, is greater than h America. On the other hand, Africa has a mean altitude of no less than 2,169.93 feet. So that the climate of the table lands in latitude 20 in os thaf of lt is as bracing and healthy No as thaf of latitude forty in Europe. Mr. 'Salt was among the earliest of English explorers in South Africa; then followed Captain Boteler in 1823, Livingstone in 1857, Hartley in 1865 and numerous others since. Hartley's explorations led to the re-discovery of the Tati (not Tete) gold field, longi- tnde 28, latitude 21.30, and to the in- vestigations of Karl Manch in 1866, and the mining bubble of 1869-70. Among the failures of this period was the London and Liverpool Mining Company, headed by Sir John Swin- burne, Bart. This venture was in the Tati region. After this, about 1871-73, a new line of re-discoveries led to other bubbles. Leydenberg and Pilgrims’ Rest dis- tricts, both on Baneto's od line of march, and both explored by his one thousand greedy followers, were opened to Anglo-Saxon enterprise. In 1873 this line was pushed northward to Batua (Zumbaol), and it has since been pursued to the Zambesi river. Last year, 1886, a letter from this city was published in the London Times, which gave a marked impetus to the mining boom. Concealing the fact that the whole of Sofala and Mono- motupa has been repeatedly explored for gold—first by ancient civilized race or es; second, by the Arabs, and , by the Portuguese—and bestow- ing new and unpronounceable names upon well-known localities, the latter proceeded to show how much gold was being and was going to be shipped from these places through Capetown to England. It predicted an export in 1887 of little less than $4,000,000, equal to about one-third the entire product of California. So enormous and sud- den a production as this promised merited investigation, and it was with this view that I came to Capetown. So far as I have been as yet able to ascer- tain, the Times letter has but small foundation in fact. However, the country is extensive andthe mining districts numerous, and much remains yet to be seen.—Alex. De! Mar, in San Francisco Chronicle. —No Pass, Ne ride.— No more ‘twixt railsof iron laid, Over field and moor and fallow, Anemones will bloom and fade, And daisies white and yellow: No move between the ties will grow The weeds and tangled grasses: Th i all be dead, all trodden low, By people without passes. —Chicaao Tribune. —Mrs. Blank i bl gen n, but s} r thing the other day. WOOLEN M E THE BUTLEAMI I perc BU Are now readv tor businees . Atteation given to CUSTOM Wo Such as Roll Carding, Cardi Spinning and Weaving, Will exchange BLANKETS, FLANNELS, JEANS and YARNS for apit IRPLU R, si nk Vor Poi. Dut Receive nsacts 4 We exte| pmmodat ‘WW @Pang, BUTLER, MO., MAYsth, 188), J. 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