The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1888, Page 5

i ; Buy the Tebo flour, sold by Pharis ‘tary of State. , \ § BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES] on. J. M Proctor, state senator ——— from the ninth district, composed of M ; the counties of Boone, Howard and = Audrian, has resighed his seat in the senate. 2 Aaron Bell spent Saturday, in the city. Capt. Cash, of the Foster News, day i came over to hear Capt. Shields Mon- "Jas. Brough spent Monday in the| day night. He gave the Truss a "ity in the interest of his house. a pleasant call. J. W. McVeigh has on the road fifteen cars of yellow pine for his lumber trade in this vicinity. Mc is a rustler in the lumber business and the yard that heads him off on enterprise must be up and doing. If you want geod potatoes you ean find them at Pharis &Son’s. Geo. Tucker has about recovered 1 from his two weeks spell of sickness. Our ice men will have no further trouble in laying in their summer’s supply. Alex Lamb has been confined to his house the past two weeks with rheumatism. Girls this is leap year, take your choice of the remnant left and go for a hubby. Noah McGinis, a lad 14 years of age, and son of Green McGinis, of Pleasant Gap township, was con- yicted of shooting along the public highway and sent to jail for one day by Squire Cannon, Saturday. The Hume Star says Dr. Williams so severely stabbed by Schryver a short time ago, was able to walk to his drug store last week, but took cold and is again confined to his bed. He is better, however, and expects to be out again in a day or so. Sedalia had a big fire Saturday, in which the Smith opera house and many other large buildings were con- sumed. The cause of the fire is laid tu the salvationarmy. The logs will foot up over two hundred thousand dollars. With all her other troubles Kansas ianow attacked with small-pox. Poor old Kansas. John Ray has sold his stove and _tin store to J. E. Harper. Success to you Mr. Harper. Judge DeArmond left for Carthage Sundsy night where he is holding a special term of circuit court. The Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist churches of Clinton are holding protracted meetings. The papers of the county seem determined to run our popular prose- cuting attorney, W. O. Jackson, for representative next time whether he he will or not. We are authorized by Mr. Jackson to state emphatically that he will not be a candidate for representative. Saturday was a severe cold day in Butler, and there was little or no business ‘done by our merchants. The streets were deserted and only occasionally could a coat tail be seen darting here and there, making for the nearest fire. Sqm Small says the greed for money making sends more men’s souls to hell than whiskey drinking. &Son. We tried it and we know its good. Special bargains on 50 pounds. Monroe Tucker whio has been quite sick for the past week, we are glad to learn, is about well again. Mra. O. P. Mathews, a highly re- spected lady of Rich Hill, died in that place of congestion of the bow- Dr. Orr, stenographer of our cir. els, Thursday. : cuit court, was in the city last week. He has just returned from Michigan whither he went to superintend the moving of his family to Missouri, having decided to locate in Clinton. The Tmes would much rather say the doctor was coming to Butler. The Rich Hill Review comes out for Hon. A. A. Leseuer, editor of the Lexington Intelligencer, for Secre- For the past week the streets have been a selid sheet of ice, and the small boy with his skates has enjoy- ed himself muchly. A new set of confidence men are fleecing the farmers of Missouri. The victims are induced to put their names to an order for samples of grain The paper always comes back, through an imnocent holder, in the shape of a promissory note. The grangers of Missouri should increase their acreage of bull dogs and sub- scribe for more newspapers. W. D. Lanier, a prominent busi- ness man of Rockville, while in the city Friday, gave us a pleasant and substantial call. Mr. Shields the great temperance orator arrived in the city Saturday and opened the local option cam- paign in the opera house. The public installation of officers of the G. A. R. in the court house Tuesday night of last week was very entertaining The speeches and songs by the little folks were appro- priateand pleasing. The court room was crowded to overflowing and the affair passed off just as nice as could be expected. Regular religious worship in our different churches was dispensed with Sunday night for the temperance meeting in the opera house. Allen M. Hynson, the young man held up and shot by footpads, in Kansas City, the forepart of last ee week, died Saturday. The Clinton Drilling Company have moved their machinery from the Henry farm to a piece of ground owned by the Power Bros., just southeast of the city limits, and we understand, will commence operation again Monday. The Truss hopes they will meet with no further obsta cles, and a rich find will be the re- sult. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Bricker of Adrian, left last week for Lenard, Texas. They go for the benefit of Mrs. Brickers health. The election of bank officers for the Adrian bank last week, resulted in the election of J. Scudder, presi- dent, and C. L. Afiils cashier. —- James C. Talmage, son of A. A. Talmage. late manager of Mo. Pacif- ic railway system, shot and killed C. D. Tidd, telegraph operator at Bruns- wick, the other day- The dispute which caused the trouble grew out of a train order. Young Talmage had worked himself up from brake- man to conductor which position he held at the time of the killing. Lamar went dry on the local op- tion question on the 13th inst, by seventeen majority. Both sides took an active part in the election. The saloons at Nevada, closed un- der the high license ordinance of the city, reopened last week, and are now paying iuto the city the snug sum of $1,200 per annum to do business. The stockholders of the Bates County National Bank held their an John P. Watkins one of the lead- ing merchants of Osceola made an assignment last week. His failure Will be a loss to Osceola as he was an enterprising business man. ensuing year. Local option meetings, conducted by Capt. Shields, will be held at the opera house every night this week, andon Saturday at 2 o'clock Bo will lecture to the farmers. } tial banking institutions. Mrs. W. J. Hutchinson and little daughter, Mabel Francis, of Pleas- ant Hill is visiting her parents, | - Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McBride. R. L. Graves has moved his har- ness shop from near the Grange store to one of the new bricks on the | future home. wes side of the square. Indianapolis, Ind., sustained a million dollars loss by fire, smoke and water the 13th inst. Nearly an entire block of wholesale buildings and contents was burned. Brower Brugler, with the New England Trust Co., of Sedalia, spent a few days in the city visiting his father and mother, leaving for home Monday evening. The «et and dry chip will be thrown up in this city next Tuesday. After the sun goes down Tuesday evening we can tell you more correct. ly which side of the chip was up and which side was down. Jeff Stevens for the murder of Thomas Kelly in Kansas City, July 14th last, had his trial Saturday and the jury found him guilty and the probabilities are Kansas City will haye a hanging. The thermometer dropped down to 13 degrees below zero Sunday morn- ing and registered it as the coldest day of the year. Saturday was a stem winders on account of the high wind and fine snow, and, forced the workmen getting upice for Stam- mans to suspend operations. The loss of life and suffering by the great blizzard in Dakota and Minnessota, last Thursday is terrible. The dead and missing in Dakota, known to date are thirty-six, but this list will be considerably augmented when the full returns are all in. The blizzard was one of the severest known for many years. Rev. McFarland of the M. E. church, Butler, left for Rich Hill Monday to assist in a protracted meeting at that place. He will spend the week at the Hill, returning Sat urday to fill his pulpit in this city Sunday. Rev. McFarland is a fine preacher and we opine he will do much good in the cause at the Hill. Rich Hill is stuck for $1,500 damages in the suit brought against the city by Mr. Mann. In addition, the cost will amount to about $500. By the time the Hill gets through with this debt we imagine her treasury box will look like an elephant had stamped on it. By the way, Bro. Irish, what has become of the dummy line? On one day last week two young men, James Goslin and Mr. Felhow- er, living at Ladue, went out hunting. While out a gang of quails flew up aud Felhower, banged away at them, not seeing Goslin, who was in range aud received seven shot in the face, one in the right eye-ball, which will Montrose Democrat. Mexican war veteran, father of Mrs. every direction by railroads. state 5,663 miles. of is a system of good country roads. } City News. seven in theshoulder and arm, and | } | without doubt destroy the sight.— Col. Sims, of Rich Hill, an old Dr. W. H. Allen, was in the city one day last week, and informed a Traes reporter that he has proven up his claim and secured his pension un- der the act pensioning all Mexican war veterans. The Colonel lived in Texas under three governments, the Republie of Texas, the United States government and the Southern con- federcy. He fought in two wars, the one with Mexico and therebellion. Missouri is becoming traversed in Nearly 600 miles of newrailroads were built in 1887; making im all within the What the state of Missouri is now in urgent need ' This is an improvement that has too nual meeting last Tuesday, to elect | long been neglected. On this point their officers and directors for the | legislation has been slow and ineffi- | No change was made | cient. but even under the present ineither the officers or directory, | law county roads might be improved. | Three boys when provided with and the business of the bank was The means and methods of securing satisfactoy to all interested. Proba-| good roads is a subject which com- to kill a hare in the course of a week, bly no town in the state the size of | mends itself to the consideration of | but afterwards it was discovered Butler can boast of two as substan- | county and town authorities.—Schell | that he was blind in one eye and quite sick for the past week or ten days. Glad to learn she is improv- ing. Joe Smith and family living near Johnstown, left for Los Angeles, Cal., last Wednesday to make it their Capt. H. C. White, representing the Ecquitable Insurance Co. of New York, is in thecity. He commanded the Tigress that went in search of Greely in the Artic expedition, in 1879. The Captain is a pleasant gentleman, to do business with. Mrs. J. L. Porter, of Johnstown, left for Longmont, Co’orado, last Wednesday, for her health. She will probably remain in the west about three months. She will keep posted on home news by reading the Tiuns. At the Baptist church Monday night, 363 men, women and children pinned on thered ribbon. The lo- cal option question for this city has now opened in earnest and the fight will be kept up ‘till the sun goes down on next Tuesday evening. The optionists are ‘irmly of the be lief that the question will carry, while those opposed to the measure are saying but little and so far as we can learn are offering no resistance unless it be very quiet and secret. The Tres has taken no part, pro or con, and will not, believing the cit izens of Butler are amply able to govern the matter themselves. As to the outcome we will be better able to tell you next week. The following lines were written by a most excellent lady who was a resident of Kansas in 1856, and is in answer to the anarchist poetry in the Advocate of last. week. The slave holding power of the nation, Hung old Ossawattomie Brown in a shower, And find on the flag at Ft. Sumpter, To keep love.of liberty in power, Brown’s thirst was for the blood of the brave, The Kansas settlers he tried to cut down, Who believed in holding the negroes as slaves, Living near Ossawattomie town. The settlers were attacked in the stillness of night, By old John Brown and his band, The sick ones were taken from bed ina fright, The men’s heads cut open by his marderous hand. As the voice of the blood of Abel crieth against Cain, So does that of Wilkison, Sherman and Doyles Cry against Brown whose bloody remains, In hell, forever shall toil, If those Chicago Browna’ were old John’s brothers, Other such deeds we hope will never be done, And their footsteps not be followed by others, Of the rising generations ant yet tocome Of all others whose name happen to be Brown, We pray to God such another murderer will never be found. Spruce, Mo. M.C.8. “Our paper is two weeks late this week,” writes a Nebraska editor, “owing to an accident to our press. When we started to run the edition on Wednesday night, as usual, one of the guy ropes gave away, allowing the forward gilder-flunke to fall and break as it struck the flunker flopper. This of course, as any one who knows anything about a press will readily understand, left the gang-plank with only the flip-flap to support it, which also caused trouble. The report that the delay was caused by over intoxicating stimulants by ourself is a tissue of falsehood, the peeled ap- pearance of our right eye being caused by our going into the hatch- way of the press in our anxiety to start it, and pulling the coupling af- ter the slap-bang was broken, which caused the dingus to rise and welt us in the optic. We expect a brand new gilder-flunke on this afternoon's train.” The hare is not a ferocious animal. Now and then when too closely pur- sued by a boy and a shot-gun, he may turn and destroy his pursuer, but his natural characteristic is that of timidity. He doesn’t go thrash- ing around by daylight like a buffa- lo, or prowl by night like tigers. He moves in a modest, retiring way, and almost his sole object in life is to keep ten feet ahead of the dog. Nobody knows how long a hare would live if he had the chance. He | or the other he has a hard time of it. ‘Jame in three legs.—Ex. Mrs. John Armstrong has been | has many enemies and between one | dogs and shot guns have been known Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, has in- | troduced a bill in the House of | Representatives to change the sys- tem by which presidents and vice presidents are elected. The meas- ure abolishes the Electoral College, and makes the choice of these offi- cials depend upon the direct vote of the electors, instead of upon the vote of members of the Electoral College as has thus far been the ease. Laws similar in scope to that proposed by the Illinois Congress- man have often been suggested, and no doubt this scheme will meet with some favor. One of the strongest objections to the present method of eleeting a president and vice president is the fact that under its operation the can- didate receiving a majority of the popular votes is sometimes beaten by the minority nominee. This has already occurred twice in our histo- ry. In 1824 Andrew Jackson re- ceived 155,872 votes, against 105,- 321 for John Quincy Adams. Adams however, was chosen President. The choice, to be sure, was made by the House of Representatives. There were two other candidates in the field—W. H. Crawford and Henry Clay—and these two obtained enough electoral votes to deprive either Jackson or Adams of the ma- jority. This sent the election to the House, which chose Adams. The other case in which the majori- ty candidate was defeated was in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes secured a majority of the electoral votes, although the popular vote which he received was exceeded to the extent of 250,935 by that given to his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden. Some of the presidential contests reveal a striking difference between the ratio of the popular vote and that of the electoral obtained by the candidates. In 1832 Andrew Jackson received 647,231 popular votes, to 509,097 for Henry Clay, but Jackson had nearly five times as many electoral votes as Adams in the same contest, the numbers, re- spectively, being 219 and 49. Wil- liam Henry Harrison, in 1840, re- ceived 1,275,017 votes at the polls, as compared with 1,128,702 for Mar tin Van Buren, but in the Electoral College Harrison had 234, to only 60 for his opponent. The most ex treme instance of this kind, however, was that which occurred in 1864, when Abraham Lincoln received 2,- 216,067 yotes and George B. Mc- Clellan, his antagonist, 1,808,725, and yet Lincoln obtained 212 elec- toral votes, or 2 more than ten times as many as McClellan.—Globe Dem- ocrat. Queensware and Glassware, Knives, forks and epoons, at a great reduc- tion from regular price and if you want anything of the kind dont fail to visit us. We are also giving bed rock prices on Groceries. 8 2t. E. T. Sstrztz & Co. a Johnstown Roads slippery. ride. of last week for Foster. week of school on account of sickness, she will commence next Monday. D. L. Haggard left our city for his back and that released him. Main. M.B. is trying to he says. mourn her loss. Suaver. ji 1888. | tea at Steele’s. buy your tea at wholesale prices. To Abolish the Electoral College. | OF INTEREST TO STOCK MEN. Remember that we are still selling | w Oh, for a big snow and a fine sleigh A. B. Maupin and son left the first Miss Susie Bowden missed one but we are glad to inform the district farm, on Sunday eve, with tears in his eyes because the clerk had come We see Mr. McFarland goes out East Dakota street instead of North get position in the mill. Hecan get board close by Died in Johnstown, of malarial fe- ver, Mrs. Guo O’Neal, aged 19, leav- ing babe eight weeks old, alsoa host of relatives and warm friends to It is sad to reflect that she was taken away in the bloom of youth just when life seemed sweet- est and the world most beautiful. The bereaved family have the heart- feit sympathy of their many friends. Remember the stock sale of W. P. Duval 9 miles west of Butler, Feb. A new lot of Japan and Imperial | % 35c. per poand or 3 pounds for one dollar. Come and Railrods Must Bear Losses Caused by Delay. In delaying the motion for new trial in the case of Hudson against the Union Pacific railroad, Judge Krekel yesterday handed down a de- cision of considerable interest to shippers of cattle. Charles E. Hud- son, @ wealthy cattle man, shipped 378 steers on August 18, 1884, from Bennington, Kan., to Kansas City, giving explicit ordersto have them shipped so that they would arrive at the stock yards in this city in time for the opening of the markets om the next day. The shipment as or dered was guaranteed by the Union Pacific. The cattle, however, were allowed to remain in the yards at Bennington too long and were not’ received in Kansas City until the’ stock market was closed. The cat- tle were sold the following day, but the market was dull and the plaintiff alleges that in consequence of the de- lay they were suld at aloss of $766, which amount he sued to recover. The case has been tried and ap- pealed several times and at the last term of the United States circuit court a jury awarded Hudson the, amount of damages asked for and. costs in the sum of nearly 1,600. The railroad asked for a new trial. In overruling the motion Judge. Krekel said that negligence had un- deniably been proven on the part o the railroad. Only some calamity or the act of God could operate in such @ case as a defense, or in mitigat:on of damages. In this case the de- fendant agreed to have the cattle in Kansas City at a stipulated time, and fully understood how important ~ it was to the plaintiff that ‘the con-* — tract of deliverey be fulfilled. The | contract had not been complied with, « and the plaintiff therefore ought to be entitled to damages. Syrup of Figs, Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co-, San Francisco, Cal., is « ~ Nature’s Own ‘True’ Laxative, This pleasant California liquid truit remedy *, ma, be had ot all leading druggists It + — is the most pleasant, prompt, and effect- _ ive remedy known to cleanse the system to act on the liver, kidnevs and bowels gently yet thoroughly; to dispel head- aches, colds. and fevers; to cure consti- pation, indigestion, and kindred ills. No. 7.-6m. 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