The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 25, 1888, Page 2

| | OVER TWO HUNDRED. Still More Victims of the Awful Storm Reported. Complete Details Not Likely Until the Snow Melts. Many ofthe Missing Probably Buried Out of Sight. St. Paul, Minn , Jan. 18.—An eve- ming paper figures out a list of 217 deaths by the blizsard and adds that remains of masy peeple whoare reported missing may not be found ‘ until the snow thaws in the spring, +the bodies being covered by deep drifts that'fornied over them. Specials to-night give the names ‘ofa nainber of additional victims. “Pwo are reported from Canton, Dak., a hired man twelve miles north and a child seven miles south. The driver of the team found frozen west of Cunton has not yet been discover- ed, dead oralive. Lewis Forsie who lived in Dakota, twelve miles south of Crystal City, Man., has been miss- ing since January 9, when he left Crystal City for home. A man named Jisland, living near Bropking, Dak., went to the well Thursday to water his stock and was caught in the storm and perished. He was 70 years old, and when found was only twelve feet from his house. Chamberlain, Dak., reports that Annie Anderson, daughter of Mrs. Nels Anderson of Ola, froze to death while going to school Thursday morning. Her remains have not yet been found. Chamberlain has had notrain for eight days, and the mer- chants are running out of supplies. Near Hutchinson, Minn., the wife of Mr. Jupke was so badly frozen while out in Thursday's blizzard that she has just died in horrible agony. STILL MORE DEATHS REPORTED. From Hand county, Dakota, comes the story that Miss Maggie Dunn, narrowly escaped death in a storm last winter, was frozen to death while going from her school last Thursday. The case of J. H. Reed wascurious. He had gone to Minnewaukan, Dak., after a load of coal for a neighbor and was overtaken by the storm while returning. When found the lines were around his waist. is horses had walked about as the lines would allow, trampling the snow down around him. Yankton reports the storm wes severe about Sauter agency, Neb., and some'lives were lost and there was great damage to stock, but no oparticulars. J. Millbyer, frozen at Leaterville. died of his injuries this morning. This makes only three deaths’ reported in Yankton. Harold Baker, an English boy, left Yankton the day of the storm for his ranch in Nebraska and has not yet been found. Two men living west of Miller City, Dak., are miss- ing. The wife of one became insane through anxiety. Flandreau, Dak., reports the find- ing of the body of a Mra. Owens near Wentworth. The husband, though badly frozen, probably wiil recover. The body of achild, frozen to death, had been partially devour- ed by wolves. BAD NEWS FROM IOWA. Dubuque, Ia. Jan. 13.—Bryon “Cleveland: of Manchester, Delaware ‘county, ‘has received information ‘that his‘¢wosons, aged 15 and 17 years, wéte frozen to death during the storms together with ninety head of cattle. The boys were driving the cattle to water about a mile from the house when the blizzard struck them and their dead bodies have just been found. The cattle were frozen stiff. John Olney was found in a snow drift near Marathon frozen dead. Miss Mea Henning and a boy named Julius, 12 years of age, start ed in sleigh to attend a party in eom- pany with two young men. When the storm struck them they lost their way and the young men de serted the lady and the boy and reached a farm house in safety. The deserted pair remained in the storm all night, and in the morning were found partially covered with snow. The young lady will lose both legs and the boy's hands and feet were badly frozen He was saved from death by the brave girl, who wrapped him in the only b‘anket left them. The worst blockaded road in Iowa is the St. Louis. Des Moines and Northern, which has not had a train over the line since last Wednesday, and little prospect of having one for several days yet. The last train left that city for Des Moines Wednesday and the train from Des Moines was overtaken by the snow storm and re- mained stuck in a drift two miles from that city, the train hands being obliged to walk back. An attempt was made to open'‘the road Friday, but after plowing several miles the second storm filled the cuts once more and the train has been snowed in since then. The towns along the line are cut off from communication with the outside world. SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED. Ennis, Tex., Jan. 18.—Two young women, daughters of Williams Wil- liams, a farmer, and a young man named Babbitt, were skating on Saint lake, east of here to-day, when the ice gave way and they sank in four and ahalf feet of water. Miss Babbitt and two little girls, aged 8 and 14 years, also daughters of Williams, who were on shore watching the spurt, were drowned in attempting to rescue their friends. A small child of Williams’ also fell through the ice, buat was saved by one of the drownmg young ladies catching it aud throwing it out on the ice. Young Williams, a brother of the young ladies drowned, was quarter of a mile distance at his house. He saw the trouble and ran to the assi:- tance of the unfortunates, but he was soon overpowered by the struggles of those were drowuing and he, toc, was drowned. Mrs. Williams, his mother, made an effort to save them all, but she was pulled down and would have met the fate of her children but for the timely aid of her two daughters, rged 10 and 42 years. These child- ren threw her a rope and succeeded in puiling her ashore. English Spavin Liniment removes all Ward, Sott. oc Callouscd Lumps and tlemtishes trom horses, Blood Spavin Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifle-, Sprains Sore and Swollen Throat, Couzhs, bre, duve $50 by use Of one boitle. Warrant ed. Suld by W. J. Lanopows. Drug ict, Butler, Mu. S-ayr. Tariff Folly Exposed. The letter which we print this morning from our correspondent in Lewiston, Me., the stamping-grouud of Senator Frye and Represenative Dingley, is an instructive and inter- estivug addition to tariff literature. Mr. Dempsey is » bleacher aud dyer, who has been in the business foi nearly fifty years, and lvs opinions therefore alarge back ground of prac- tical experience. He does not be- lieve in freetrade, but he does be- lieve that if this tax on the materials he uses can be radically reduced it will give him and others a chance to compete with English manufactur- ers in their own market. That is to say, the customs duties limit his trade, and, so far from affording him any protection, only serve to protect the foreign trader who sends goods to this country. The soda ash, of which he uses three hundred thousand pounds a yeur; the bleach- ing powder, the bichromates, the aniline dyes, and the thousand and one articles necessary to his busi- ness are imported, and, of course, dutiable. Reduce the tariff on these, he says, and give American business a fair show and will be able to take care itself in any part of the world. We have a larger number of skilled workmen in this country than can be found elsewhere, he adds. They exhibit more brains in the conduct of their work and they can produce a better result from most raw im:-! terials than either Englishmen or Germans. They will therefore lose nothing in wages, but will be gain- ers by the larger demand for FRONTIER FRIVOLITIES. The All Night Dance In Which “Ole Virgima Never Tires.” A writer in the American Magazine gives a very felicitous description of a dancing party in the sparsely settled portion of Virginia. These parties are events of great importance, drawing friends ani ac- quaintances fur many miles aroand. They will come, perhaps from dis- tant counties, a day's journey or more, to participate iu the festivities. The method of travel is “on horse back,” aud as the roads are bad and frequently bridgeless, the journzy- ing must be accomplished betwe:n “sun up” and dark. This would 22 sufficient reason, if no othe, for keeping up their merry-makig through the entire night, as is he uuiversal custom. Old and young join in the danciig, which is only suspended for he hearty supper at midnight, and he “sweet supper,” as it is called, of cakes, jellies, and tarts, which is ur- nished just before daybreak. As the sun rises the visitors nant their horses and start ou their hene- ward journey, perhaps of many hours duration. It seems like vay ing a severe penalty for a few lurs enjoymeut, but these tough, brdy settlers do not wilt physically as esily as our modern, hot-house soiety plants. : Iu the log-cabin days of the:arly settlers in the northern states the all-night dance was a common feat- ure of social life, aud old and yuug, for miles around, were partieiputs. They were a hardy race, pechas be- cause they enjoyed themselves, took pleuty of exerciso and but little medicine. They enjoyed a rgged old age, because they found medi- cine for their simple ailments in ni- ture’s remedies, the roots andieibs of uear by fields and forests, which cured them and left no after ll ef- fects. The people of today miht be more rugged and enjoy life vetter if they would have recourse 0 na- ture’s remedies, instead of nineral drugr. With a purpose of siving them a chance to try this couse, H. H. Warnei’s Safe Cure hae had prepa ed, from the best reaps, us ed in real log cabiu days, + ine of remedies known as Warres Log Cabin Remedies, comprising a Sui- saparilla,a Hops and Buchu Iemedy, a Cough and Consumption Jemedy, an Extract for External m Intei- nut use, Liver Pills, Rose Sram for cat inh, Scalpine for Headanl Hair, and a porous plaster. Tiry are all v-getable compounds, harnies, and just such remedies as wer sed by our grandmothers with tle est e.- fects. Washington Letter. Washington, D. C., Jan. 18, 888. The law makers are endivoring to make the Capitol a modebf mor- ality, and may they have swess in purpose although thei are many cities that caunot bos of as much morality as Washingte But still the people here want ) leave as little temptation as posple be- fore the statesmer away fro home and so clasp hands with th repre- sentatives in the good wa. One day during the week repréntative Cutcheon introduced a bi in the House, providing that with ninety days after passage there sluld be held in the District an eltion to determine whether any inkicating beverage shall be made or {ld here. The temperance people apushirg the measure with vigor, d if the bill passes Congress, tagmeasure will be carried by an ovehelming majority. Later in the me week ; Senator Blackburn introded in the senate a bill making it uawful in | this city to bet, gamblepr make avy books and pools on je result lof arace of any kind. fe result s-rvices if au extended free list and | will be to greatly purifyse moral a reduction of the tariff give us a| atmosphere of the city aymake it chance in the foreign markets. In ;adesirable place of ab@ for all other words, the present dute | Congressmen the year rad. uterfere with legitimate business, | ; portunity and compel usto step on/one introduced by repsentative our own toes when we should walk | MacDonald, to simplify b rules of with a free and swinging gait.— evidence im pension cas¢ Jt pro- Herald. { viles that the neceptanc¢ a soicier into the service shall be evidence | enough of his soundness in body, at | the time of enlistment, assuming that if he is a good enough subject to be accepted, and to fight, he is entitled toa pension for disability iucurred in the service. At present the Pension Office requires proof that the soldier was sound in body when ne enlisted, no matter wheth- er he served faithfully for three years, or longer, and it resolves all presumptions against the soldier while the proposed bill provides that all presumptions shall be in favor of the applicant. The bill proposed by the “great objector,” Holman, of Indiana, limit - iag three years after the passage of his bill, as the time for presentation and payment of claims against the Government, has been reported ad versely by the committee on the ju diciary, to which it was referred. The reception at the White House, on Thursday night to the Diplomat- ic Corps, was one of the most bril jiaut ever witnessed. The parlors were elaborately decorated with the rarest flowers and plants, and the court costumes vied in-their beauty with the beauties of nature. The attendance was large, and the guests assembled early aud the reception lasted until 11 o'clock. The English Minister was accompanied by Sir | Johu Chamberlain, the English Fish Commissioner and that worthy was enveloped in as much gold cord as auy of the other Foreign Diplomats. Things have been lively in the Senate the past week. The bloody shirt is at full mast and seems to be resoried to by the republicans to counteract the influence of the free trade policy of the Democrats. First came the nomination of that con- gervative statesman and jurist, La- mar. The republicans, bold-faced and without shame, determined to oppose the confirmation of their old associate in the Senate merely for the purpose of making campaign literature. Many of them were at first disposed to vote for his con- firmation as associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court but those op- posed managed to have action with- held until a sentiment of opposition could be worked up in some radical c'ubs in some parts of the country soas to whip the otheis into the traces. But the lash of the party | whip failed to bring all into line t defeat the confirmation. The noted “Bill Chandler” is again to the fro t, this time in tne senate, but is recog- nized by the ear marks of his “Southern outrage” mill. He intro duced a resolution of inquiry into charges of suppression of coo.ed votes in Jackson., at a recent mu uicipal election based upon lett-rs without any signature and reg Jed the senate for an hour or more wiih a tirade against the whole south. He is working up his war-whoop for the coming campaign and in his specialty is acquisition to his party. Everybody here knows the hollow ness of his charges and the narrow, biased mind and vindictive spirit of the little petrified specimen of hu- manity from the rock bound state of New Hampshire and so measure him according tohis size. «The Sen ators from Mississippi replied with warmth denouncing the wholesale charges as without foundation and courted the fullest inquiry. The resolution passed by a strict party | vote. Ballard’s Horehound Syrap 1s the best remedy for Consumption, Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed. Itis the best remedy for children. There is stul hope for General Shermar. He has so'emn'y resolv- ed not to accept invitations to dine out oftener than three times a week. W. J. Haskell, a New York lawyer, has ieft the New Yo-k Press cuba legacy of $1,009. It wis needed; and accepted. bey Asa state rida knows some-/ thing of theart ofadvertisrg. The! latest scheme with the state is for a| A bill that meets with neral ar-j sub tropical exposition. contract the scope of Ameican op-/ proval ia many of its prisions, is | hw Detchon’s ! iffer and waste { . This abso ; Sold by We J. & xa} J co money On ot lutely never t bows, Drug FURS WANTED — ——I WILL PAY—— ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS, ——IN CASH—— For all kinds of Furs offered the entire season LEWIS HO™"MAN| NORTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER, MO. M’FARLAND BROS Keep the Largest Stock, Atthe Lowest Prices in, Harness and Saddlery; Spooner Patent Colla: —PREVENTS CHAFING CAN NOT CHOKE A HORSE Adjusts itself to any [lor-e’s Neck, has two rows ot stitching, will hold Hames place better than any other collar. SCHWANER’sS — MAME TG MOTI from tearing out. USED ON ALL OF OUR HARNES SOUTH SIDE SQUARE BUTLER MO. WHY NOT BUY YOUR Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES NTS FURNISHING GOODS Where you can get them asrepresented. A large stock : to select from. Guod qualitv, low prices, a call will convince you of the fact. RESPECTFULLY. J, M. McKIBBEN, y