The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 9, 1887, Page 4

>R WEEKLY TIMES . 1). ALLEN Eprror. Bs } D \LLEN & Co., Proprietors, TERMS OF SUMSCRIPTION: exty [imes, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any edaress ne vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. snsaiiincansientasennsnesiieinsinanscncaeeers BUTLER MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, NOV.9, 1887 The saloon men of St. Louis have withdrawn from the Masonic order. —_—_——————— President Cleveland has issued his proclamation naming Thursday, No vember 24th. as Thanksgiving day. Maj. C. C. Rainwater, of St. Louis, in a card in the Warsaw Enterprise declines to be acandidate for govern- or, and says he will give his support to Mayor Francis. —_—— The clerk of the supreme court at Jefferson City, in answer to a letter from Clinton, says: The court will meet on the 14th of this month when a decision will probably be rendered on the constitutionality of the local aption law. Mr. Blaine recently drank Mr. C'eveland’s health ata Paris ban quet. P.rhaps he wished to rebuke his arde:t Philadelphia admirers, who forgot their good manners dur- ing the p «sident’s visit to that city. —Post Disp.tch. Tuttle, the flannel mouthed, bloody shirt hyena, is to be sued by the government for pension money fraud- alently obtained. He has been drawing a pension of $30 per month for ten Years, and received some $6,000 in arrearages when his pension was granted. This is the over zeal- ous patriot who threatened to insult the president if he should visit St. Gouis during the G. A. R. reunion. From the tone of the editorial columns of the Longton, Kansas Lender, we are lead to infer that Bob- by Grierson has not fallen in love with bleeding Kansas. He advises all Missourians located in Kansas to get out before they are kicked out. He goes further and advises all Mis- Sourians outside of Kansas to stay out. Chickens will come home to roost and we look for Bobby back before long. eee Since the decision of the U. S. supreme court the seven condemned anarchists have lost their bravado and have signed an humble petition to the governor asking his clemency. ‘The police of Chicago are very in- dignant over the sympathy expressed by some of Chicago's leading men, end while the governor is busy in- vestigating the evidence, petitions, ete., the sheriff is preparing the scaf- fold to hang the condemned men Rriday. The Appleton Journal announces that the Advance will support John H. Lucas for Congress. We have never made any such declaration, and what is more, we have never heard the gentleman in question in- timate an intention of entering the congressional contest; but should it eventuate that he decides to shy his castor into the ring, we will here state that we would take great pleas- ure in advocating the claims of Mr. Lucas, for the reason that we believe that he is among the very ablest and heat men in the district for the posi- tiom—Osceola Advance. a a | Hero is the governor's call for the Missouri thanksgiving: State of Missouri, Executive De- partment.—It is a Deautiful and Isudable custom of our people to de- vote aday in each year to prayer and praise to God for the great bless- ings we enjoy. Itherefore designate Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November, as thanksgiving day, and Trecommend that all the people of Missouri on that day forego their sual vocations, and, by deeds of charity and neighborly kindness, miake it indeed a day of universal Hianksgiving. ned) Joun S. Manwancge. By the Governor. omARL KR. MoGnara, Sec'y of State It is a fact that can not be truth- | fully controverted that the people of Butler have ever responded liberally | to every public enterprise that ap | peared to them to be legitimate and | founded on a substantial basis. Not | only once but several times have we raised the amount of subscription asked for by companies contemplating building railroads through our town, besides guaranteeing the right-of-way and depot grounds. | A WRONG IMPRESSION. | i} enterprise of this character unless it is above suspicion. It is the impression among some, and, we are sorry to say, the mana- gers themselves, that Butler is fight ing the projected Kansas City and Rich Hill railroad. This is a mistake. We appreciate the fact that, if such a road is built, Butler can not afford to have it run around her, no more can the managers of such a road afford to miss Butler. This matter has never been presented to the people of Butler in such a manner as to command a hearty co-operation. In the first place Mr. Wilson, the gentleman through whow, it claimed, the money is to come to build this road, came to Butler is and but two gentlemen knew he was here until after he had gone. He then sent a verbal proposition through other parties to the effect that if our people would do as well by his road as they offered to do by the Harris project, he would build to Butler. This our people readily agreed to and set about to fulfill their part of the contract—the giv- But the people | have been fooled so often that they | have a hesitancy in taking hold of an | secretly, staying ouly a few hours. | for the crime. Could any punish ment known to man be too severe for men who deliberately plan to | tear down or destroy the best gov- | e-nment the sum ever shone on and | in so doing take the lives of the de fenders of that government. If | these men are pardoned or even re prieved it will license anarchists to make a more determined effort for | the accomplishment of their nefarious plans. Let the law take its course | and nip this great evil in the bud. Plain Words | Inthe next contest, we hope to be | afforded the opportunity of support ling some gentleman for congress who possesses, not only some degree of integrity, but who will likewise | decry and repudiate the methods of duplicity and corruption which have | been so flagrantly and unblushingly | practiced in the past. The impetuosity with which the Rich Hill Review rushes to the de fense of W. J. Stone, and the ardor that it manifests in endeavoring to exonerate him froma suspicion of po litical intrigue, is, tosay the least pe- culiarly significant. The alacrity cf our contemporary in resenting every- thing which it regards as disparag ing to the gentleman in question is something. however, that is readily understood by who know something of the force and influence of the unusual methods that have prevailed during the two last con- gressional contests in this district. those At this juncture we have no disposi- tion to enter into any controversy to the candidacy of Mr. Stone, but in the sweet bye and bye we expect to have something to say relative ing of the right of-way over the old and we expect to say it in a manner road bed, which was to be valued at that will prove to ie very interest $1,000 per mile, and the depot i: grounds in Butler. Mr. Wilson notified our committee, in a very} vance evidently means the Rich Hill dictatorial letter, that unless our Enterprise as iligl Race has never people at once agreed to give them} peen a very great admirer of the the right of way from the north line | douehty Colonel. of the county on the old grade free ray of cost and a subsidy of from $14,000 to $17,000 that he would build around Butler. Our people, declining to be bulldozed, refused to have anything more to do in the matter, as we appreciate the fact that it would be as much a detriment in the long run to a road to miss a city like Butler, the county seat of Bates county, with all the business that sho commands, as it would injure ing to somebody.—Osceola Advance. In the latter article above the Ad- Fire at Rich Hill. Rich Hill, Mo., Nov. 6.—A very disastrous fire oceurred here at noon to-day, doing damage to the amount of about $20,000 in the business centre of thecity. The fire originated either in M. C. Fortune’s barber shop or the adjoining restaurant fronting on Park Avenue, just opposite the post-office. A brisk wind was blow- ing from the southwest and in a Butler to have the road run around : - very short ti that we are fighting this enterprise, | ¢_, department was promptly on and, if the opportunity is offered, we hand ue will show them that we stand ready cave Pc ons one cant ‘ ’ to do more than our part. however, did good eens saving — other property in the block and on LET THE LAW TAKE ITS COURSE. | the opposite side of the street. All The decision of the United States | of the buildings between the brick Supreme court in the Anarchists’ | buildings of Anderson and Wilson case was not a surprise to the great and R. E. Buckridge were entirely majority of the reading and thinking destroyed, together with the stocks public. The only human agency | and fixtures which they contained. now that can possibly prevent these | The owners of the property were Dr. seven anarchists from the gallows is| W. W. Harris, W. G. Huddleson, vested in Richard J. Oglesby, Goy-| Aaron Hart of Butler, and B. Bene- ernor of Illinois. Unless he exer-| dict. The tenants were Phillips & cises executive clemency they will be | Sons, shoe shop; R. A. Krigg & Son, hung on next Friday, Nov. 11th. | grocery; M. C. Fortune, barbershop; This is the most important criminal | Mrs. Barlow, restaurant; Sanders case that was ever tried in the Unit- | Bros., meat shop; Hughes & Elgert, ed States and has been watched with | Saloon; B. Benedict, grocery and the greatest interest by everybody. | restaurant; F. W. Benedict, jeweler. A body of men attacked the institu-| Sanderson & Wilson's large two- tions of our government and to ac-| story brick building was seriously complish their ends resorted to mur- der. The leaders, though not guil- ty of the act of throwing the bombs that sent'so many brave officers to their last resting places, blasting homes by making widows and or- phans, have been convicted as insti- gators and abettors of this awful crime and are to pay the final penal- ty. And this is right. The old Mo- saic law gives an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed. These men are as guilty as though they had thrown the bombs with their own hands. Why should the governor pardon them? Was not the lives and limbs of those policemen as dear as their ownt Did the State. State supreme and United States supreme courts err, and does it now rest with Goy ernor Oglesby to rectity this great wrong? No one believes this and yet the friends of these men claim that the punishment is too severe damaged, and they also suffered a loss of about $800 on plate glass and their stock of furniture and queens- ware. The plate glass front of H. Loeb & Bro., A. E. Beatty and the post-office building on the opposite side of the street were almost en- tirely destroyed by the heat. There Was no insurance on the Harris buildings. The others were insured for about half their value. A. Krigg & Son and B. Benedict carried only light insurance on their stock, and are probably the heaviest losers. The other tenants were fairly insured. One Fact Is worth a column of rhetoric, said an American statesman. Itisa fact, established by the testimony of thousands of people, that Hood’s | Sarsaparilla does cure serofula, salt rheum, and other diseases or affec- tions arising from impure state or low condition of the blood. It also overcomes that tired feeling, creates | a good appetite. and gives strength 1 +o every part of the system. Try it. I RAZOR AND ROPE. A Wretch Kills Wife and Child and Brother-in-Law. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4.—A terri ble tragedy was enacted in the west ern portion of this city last night, the awful results of which were not discovered until 10 o'clock this morning, when Mrs. Bruner, moth- er of Mrs. Charles H. Brownfield, who lives at 1922 West Chestnut street, called at the residence of her daughter upon some matter connect- ed with family affairs. No one an- swered her ring at the door bell, and after several ineffectual efforts she went to a window of the little one story frame cottage, raised the win- dow and threw open the shutters: The sight that met her eyes was horrible beyond description. Across the sill of the door open- ing between the room occupied by her daughter and husband and their little daughter's of 8 or 10 years, and occupied by W. F. Bruner, a brother of Mrs. C. B. Brownfield who lived with the family, was the body of Charles Brownfield sus- pended by a strap attached to the lintel and swaying lightly to and fro the features ghastly in death. Mrs Bruner aroused the neighbors who found at the suicide’s back and on a bed in a dark corner the body of W. F. Bruner with his throat cut Facing the self- murderer in the other room was an- other bed upon which, stiffened in their own blood, were the forms of his wife and 9 year old child, their heads almost severed from their bodies. CAUSED BY EVIL LIVING. Beneath Brownfield’s feet lay the razor with which the awful deeds had been committed. The bed clothing was drenched with blood and the faces of the victims besmear- ed so that they were almost beyond recognition. On the bureau in the parlor the following letter, dated 6:30 a. m. and written in an unusually legible hand, was found: “To all whom it may concern: I, Charles B. Brownfield, murdered my dear wife and child, also W. F. Bruner, my brother-in-law. I killed my wife and baby because I was tired of life and did not want them left penniless in the world and no one to care for them. My cause for from ear to ear. being tired of life is bling. Now let my brothers and friends take warning. Ikilled W. F. Bruner because I didn’t think he was fit to live, and now I will make an attempt on my own life. So good bye my father, brother and sister, and friends and relations, all take warning. Good bye. Cuartes B. Brow yNFIELD. Charles Brownfield, the triple murdurer and suicide, was 27 years of age and a son of Esquire G. H Brownfield. He wasa drummer for the shoe firm of Ingalls & Bro. and was always known as a sober industrious young man. Six years ago he married Miss Alice Bruner, the daughter of Mrs. Mary Bruner. He seemed particularly fond of his wife and little son, Harold, and spent his evenings and spare time at home in their company. 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