The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 7, 1888, Page 2

DARING ROBBERS, Another Arkansas Train Held Up. The Outlaws Cool and Determined in Their Methods. ire Used to Force the Express Messen- ger te Terms. Pine Bluff, Ark., Feb. 29.—As train No. 2. northbound, onthe St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroad stopped at Kingsland, about 1 @elock this morning, three men stepped on the platform of the bag- gage car next to the engine. About a mile west of Kingland the train suddenly came to a standstill and Conductor J. B. Browning stepped to the door to see what was wrong. Ashe opened the door a bullet whistled by his head and he at once retired inside the car, where he re- mained during the trouble. The robbers went to work in a cool and systematic way. They boarded the engine and commanded tthe engineer, Bob Rue, and fireman, Ed. Hacknett, tohold up their hands. Hacknett was just in the act of put- ting a shovel of coal in the firebox and supposing it was one of the ézain men trying to perpertrate a joke, held up his shoyel exclaiming: Ah, there!” The robber, with grim humor, dropped the muzzle of a six shooter against the fireman’s cheek with the words: “Stay there!” The The fireman quickly climbed down from the box. Taking the fireman and the en- gineer with them, the robbers or- dered them to call on the messenger to open the car. They did as order- ed, but he refused to show up. Then began a fusillade which lasted while aattemps were being made to force a way into the car. The fireman was ordered to take the slash bar from the en- gine and break inthe door of the «ar. He obeyed, but as’ he could mot get in after ten minutes’ delay, the robbers proceeded to set the car em fire. This forced the messenger tip .open the door and the men were mmade to get in the car first, their bodies thus protecting the robber ss they climbed in. A GOODLY 8UM SECURED. ‘The messenger opened the safe without further trouble and the con- tents were quickly transferred to a sack. The exact amount taken is nat known, though it is believed to be large. ‘The mail car and passengers wera mot molested. The engineer and fireman of this train were in charge «of the train robbed at Genoa, Ark., afew weeks ago. The messenger geceived a note at Texarkana warn- ang him to watch out, but he paid mo attention believing it to be a Joke. The robbers were just 35 minutes doing the work. Later reports state that between 35,000 and $10,000 was taken, but some place the loss much higher. ‘The sheriff and posse are in pursuit af the robbers. Rob Row the engineer tells of the xobbery as follows: “I had just put on the air-brakes for Kingsland, when a fellow came crawling over ‘the tender toward me and in an in- ~stant had his revolver pressing s=against the side of my head. He said: “Pull out quick,” and I did at you bet. After we had run about = mile and a half he told me to shut ther off, and as soon as we stopped ‘two other fellows showed up from Wehind the tender and ordered me and my fireman to “come off that.” Hackett, my fireman, crawled down, but I told them I would not leave amy machine. In about a second *there were siz revolvers pointed at sme and I concluded it was too warm “tm my engine, anyhow, so I got -down too. Then they told us to auncouple the mail and express car from the train, but we pretended not te be able to do it, and as Mes- senger Tom Calvin refused to open up, they commenced shooting in lively shape. Then they got a can ef oil from the engine and a lot of “waste’ and piled it against the car door and set fire to it. Calvin be. gan to beg then and told them if they would agree not to hurt him he would open up. They told him to! ASYLUM BURNED. Is Life Worth Living? { “Is life worth living?” c ied a sage | come ahead, and he threw open the! The Deafand Dumb Institution at Ful- | some shousand years ago; his form | door and jumped down to the ground. | The robbers then helped themselves. | I don’t believe they got a great deal | as about nine-tenths of the run was! hidden by the messenger. It was | the easiest thing done *I ever saw. | We stood there about forty minutes | and not a single man showed up out of the cars except a nigger, who stood on the platform and cussed the robbers all the time they were at work. They just laughed at him, though, and kept right on.” Bajlard’s Horehound Syrap This simple remedy will positiv] cure Consumption, Coughs, Col and all Throat and Lung troubles, where other remedies have failed. Negroes Burned Out and Shot Down. Houston, Tex., Feb. 29—Spanish Camp, sixty miles from here, is com- posed of Mexicans, negroes and des- perate whites, and is remote from railroads and telegraph lines. Sunday morning about 2 o’clock a negro cabin wasseton fire and the oc- cupants brutally shot downas they ran, half awake, from the burn- house. Five were killed outright, one severely wounded and two oth- ers consumed in the burning dwell- ing. In the same neighborhood the dead body of a negro named William Battle$was found hanging to a tree, and it is thought that he was hang- ed on the same night the other ne- groes were shot or burned. The affair is said to be the out- come of of a suit over the title of the land where the negroes lived, | and which they had purchased. The suit was decided in favor of the ne- groes at the last term of the district court in Wharton. No arrests have been made although the sheriff and posse have been on the ground. William’s Australian Herb Pills. If you are Yellow, Bilious, constipated with Headache. bad breath, drowsy, no appetite, look out your liver is out of roder, One box of these Pills will drive all the troubles awaf and make a new being of you. Price 25 cts. qty Pyre & Crum y, Agents Taxation in Missouri. {McGrath’s Drectory,] In Missouri; lands improved and unimproved, and personal property, is assessed for taxable purposes from 25 to 334 per cent of their market- able or cash value. Improved real estate in cities and towns from 25 to 30 per cent, except in St. Louis, where it is assessed from 50 to 75 per cent. Corporations, except railroads, are taxed like individuals. Railroads are assessed on roadbed, superstructure and rolling stock, and inthe same proportion as is real estate, and by the state board of equalization. Real estate and personal property owned by railroads is taxed like that of individuals, and by the eounty assessors, under the act of 1877. Missouri levies a tax of 40 cents on the $100 valuation for state purposes. Half of this amount is paid for interest and re- duction of the state debt. A third of the balance goes back to the school districts as a part of the pub- lic school fund. This leaves only 13} cents for the expenses of the state government. Ballard’s Snow Liniment. There is no pain it will not relieve no swelling it will not subdue, no wound it will not heal. It will cure trost bite, chilblains and corns. A Young Texan's Crime and Its Conse- quences, Beeville, Tex., Feb. 29.—Tom For- syth, son of sheriff of Panola county, was yesterday arrested for the mur- der of County Treasurer Hill. For- syth tried to throw suspition on a negro barber named Tibbitt by planting alot of stolen money in Tibbitt’s yard. He has confessed his crime. The widow of the mur- dered treasurer has gone crazy and Forsyth’s mother fell senseless in | the street when she heard her son had confessed. The barber, Tibbitr who was arrested when the money was found in his yard, narrowly es- caped being lynched. Forsyth, is | well connected and has borne an ex-| cellent reputation. He is 22 years| floor, her face dropping into the of age. i ton, Mo., Completely Destroyed. Fulton, Mo., Feb. 28.—The deaf and dumb institution located here was completely destroyed by fire last evening. The fire originated in the dome of the main building in the fifth story, and is said to have been caused in some way from the electric wires in that part of the building. The flames were discovered at 7:30 p- m., just after the pupils had gone to the study room for the evening. It was first seen by an attendant from the Insane Asylum as he was passing by. A moment after the discovery the whole dome was wrapped in flames, which made it impossible to get at the fire in time to check its progress. Almost at the same time parties in town saw the fire and gave the alarm. The professors first took the 185 pu- pils from the building, and when help arrived began to move the fur- niture. As the top of the building burned away everything that could be was removed from below. At 9 o'clock the main building and the three wings were a solid mass of flames. Citizens with powder tned in vain to blow away the passages that connect two ofthe wings with the main building, hoping thereby to save them, but the heat became so intense that the flames leaped the short space and enveloped the whole. The citizens have volunteered to take vharge and provide homes for the 135 pupils. Daring the progress of the fire hund:-.is of people stood about the burning mass, but were utterly pow- erless to do anything to check the prog’ess of the flames. The fire is a gr.ut loss to the state, the build- ing }.aving been erected at a cost of abou: $500,000. There was about $45,¢ 0 insurance upon the struct- ure, Cistributed among a number of comp unies. HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION. The institution for the education of the deaf and dumb was by the legislature, February 28, 1851, es- tablished near Fulton, upon forty acres of land previously included in land set apart for the use of the state lunatic asylum. A dwelling house intended to become a part of the school building was first erected. Wm. H. Bailey, James K. Shelley, Dr. Alfred Riley, Jas. S. Henderson, and Chas. Hardin were the first com- missioners, and Wm. D. Kerr the first superintendent. The citizens of Callaway county contributed mon- ey to erect the school building, and the school was organized therein. Since that time the legislature has made appropriations—at different times, $150,000—for building, to purchase land for a new location, and for improvements. Most of the pupils are beneficiaries of the state. The school opened with afew pupils but the numbers have steadily in- creased. What Am I to Do? The symptoms of billivusness are un- happily but too well known. ‘They diff- er in different individuals to some extent. A biilious man is seldom a breakfast eat- er. Too frequently, alas, he has an ex- cellent appetite tor liquors but none for solids ot a morning. His tongue wi hardly bear inspection atany time; if it 1s not white and furred, it is rough, at all events. The di; sive system is wholly out of order and diarrhea or Constipation may bea symptom or the two may alternate, There are otten Hemorrhoids or even loss of blood. There may be giddiness and often headache and acidity or flatu- lence and tenderness in the pit ot the stomach. To correct all thisif not es- fect a cnre try Green's August Flower, it cost but a trifle and thousards attest its efficacy. 4t-lyr. @ ow. Drowned in a Washbowl. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 29.—Miss Alice Gundiff was found dead this mcrning, having been drowned in a washbowl half full of water which lay on the floor of her apartment. She was addicted to the use of mor- phine. Just before retireing last night she took a dose of the drug. An hour or two later she woke up, feeling sick at the stomach, and left her bed,. It is supposed that she was suddenly overcome by the mor- phine and fell unconscious to the bowl. was bended low with age, his hair | was white as snow; he dwelled with- | in a somber cave; as mouldy as_ the | tomb; he thought with pleasure of | the grave, and longed to know its} gloom. “Life is a fraud,’ he sadly said, “a bitter dismal fraud; ‘twere better that £ should be dead, at rest beneath the sod. A never ceasing stream of tears has furrowed my thin cheeks; my joints are stiffened by the years, methinks I hear them creak. No sooner does one ill depart than twenty new ones come, the ice seems laying on my heart, my wrinkl- ed hands are numb. The branches of the groaning trees, like skele- tons are bare; the wailing, moaning, sighing breeze, is tuned to dull des- pair. The birds no longer ecarrol near, but winter holds its sway, the nights are long, the daysare drear, and cheerless is the way. I fain would tread the deadly road, the road my fathers trod; I faint‘and tremble ‘neath my load—and life is but a fraud.” A phanton faced him in the gloom, a specter, cold and grim, its garb the raiment ot the tomb, and slow it spake to him: “Thy wish is granted aged one, and when the night hath frown, thine eyes will not behold the sun”—with low, de- spairing moan, the sage fell at the specter’# feet, and said in tones of woe: “O, deathly comer, I intreat, that I must not yet go!” And thus we still philosophize, and say that life’s a snare, but when we see old death arise, we rave and tear our hair.—Nebraska State Journal. Itch, Mange and scratches of every kind on human or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wooltord’s Sanitary Lotion. This never tails. Sold by W. J. Lans- down, Butler, Mo. 11-6m A week ago Thursday Walter Haysler accidentally pushed one of the sharp points of a brass school compass into his left hand. It did not hurt much, and was thought nothing of until it began to swell two or three days later. Dr. Britts was summoned last Tuesday, and it was by the utmost care and atten- tion that he kept it from running in- to blood-poisoning or lock-jaw. The arm had swollen. The hand was deadened as to feeling and the doctor first thought he would have to amputate the arm at the elbow. The hand was lanced in four places, and while no chloroform was used, Walter felt no pain during the oper- ation. Dr. Britts pronounced it a most extraordinary case. He is bet- ter to-day and will probably im- prove rapidly now.—Henry Co. Dem- ocrat. A co-worker with Francis Murphy the great temperance orator, has just been jailed for appropriating funds that did not belong to him, drinking whisky and attempting te make an assault on a woman. 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