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@ Soe Mi, M. . —_—— Z Svat eee oe Seen end —— z = = =o z M. iF my +p al © whVOL. OX BUTLER, MISSOURI, W M, Z Ai UTION DAYS SET. TRAVESTY ON JUSTICE. M, Hugh M. Brooks aud Rider Both to be sch. the Holden Female Fiend. Hanged June 12. Given Only Two Years. TITLE ABSTRACTORS, fells ast oyPLETE AND RELIABLE ARSTACTS Tn the supreme court Monday), : _ ay 4 = : aD == lo, : ‘ UU lepadeeshertcod sabi tsdo none of Mrs. Sallie E. Tesch for the mur- a a aaa cee aaailniaetal re ve : an es : LI lis u pe? der of her husband's niece, Annie ; z - z ag and remanding the case® yr chal at de. M ope: Sih a of Webster Jackson, under sent _ : oa ase sae = ie : ig « ry at «a this mec g DY “|]MONEY TO LOAN © testh in Pranktyn comty, fo 0 guameee ut tne] igs aw verdict o1 taan- murder of Alexander MeVicers in Est ri ort | hoe he pri ay. nnd : ee Giice deat door conth of a that county in 1886, end of Charles ; ESSENSE ies mae ei Bates Co. National Bank. Tab& of C: county, convicted of ae nee The Die BUTLER, MO. murder in the first degree, for shoot- ; : a) ud fs a ani oe Peaine to this county on a change of 0, ae =o ies container (CL (es Winall oh | venue from Johnson county and the LOOK HERE. | It you want to save money get. | LEE -:- CULVER | der case, appealed from the Pleasant hill; and Judge Bri opinion in the celebrated Rider 1nur- | trial began last Monday, Judge John | E. Ryland presiding. The verdict is a great surprise to | court of Saline county, fix the prosecution, as they were conti- | | date for their execution July E | to to do your | Th oe : a 5 u dent that the prisoner would be} oe 3 \ ne court wound u e eri : : s . tof PAPERING, a ; ee aes : a convicted of murder in the first de-| Bs Ereale cases of the day by fixing July 13, : : goalie Be CALSOMINING, | j ee < | gree, as charged in the indictment, | ha Bs 1888, as the day upon which Hugh and the case will be appealed to the | ny PLASTERING, M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the mur- er Cal i ‘Jud Ry i AND CISTERN WORK.|derer of © Arthur Preller, in the| ~~ : wile 2 ay ee La lai land reduces the bond of $5,000 the | nth pRSatistaction given or no charges | Southern hotei. St. Low ould be | prisoner will be compelled to remain | ff made. Office at Jewett & Hickman’s | exceuted. The papers ie PR son i es o mp led to remain } Furniture Store. = : jim jai until the supreme court passes will be made outin due t anc 4w. 5. TUCKER, upon the case. Marsh -eged to have be forwarded to the proper court officials in St. Louis. the al-} 1 murdered, made | Annie woman t DENTIST, c Nieeront of June 1, ieee. her Lome in the family of her uncle, | i BUTLER, a MISSOURI. | Office of Missouri State Board of Fred Tesch, who is engaged in the th OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. Aorieulture, Columbia, Mo., June | very aud feed business at Holden. | rbd 5 be MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first | Saturday in each month. | Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, ; No.6, meets second Thursday in each | month. | Gouley Commandery Knights Templar | meets the first Tuesday in each month. 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- | day night. Butler Encampment No. 6 meets the | and and ath Wednesdays in each month ne | Lawyers. T H. CROCKET . Bo ATTORNEY AT LAW. } Ofice North Side Square, over A. L.- MeBride’s store. W. BADGER LAWY Will practice in all courts. All lezal busine strictly attended to, Office over Bates Co. tional Bank. Butler. Mo. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORN:YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store- | HOLcomB & SMITH, LAWYERS BUTLER, MO. Office front room over Bates County National Bank. | T W. SILVERS, e ATTORNEY : LAW. Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties, in the Appellate Court at Kansas City, and in the Supreme Court at Jeffer- | son City. S@P-Orrice North Side Square, over A.L. McBride’s. aitf Physicians. J. R. BOYD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, | Orrice—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, tive and some se | vegetables. | crease. ‘in some localities as doing great 6.1 | Annie was not very bright and it is The following report is made up claimed that Mrs. Tesch cruelly | | treated her and at intervals gave her | She died last De- | after the funeral | from very fall returns and repre- sent | terrible beatings. every county in the state. | cember. The 7 The chinch bugs. tly and dry The day Rraitlier ime tie eclick (Cinscemihat toc rumored that death had re | have operated against wheat during | sulted from violence and the coroner and held | postmortem, and grext sores and } exhumed the remains I the pr: the av reduced a (7.5 per t month and have re condition from : ire bruises were found upon the body! cent. report 1 : 1 for past month to the DNESDAY | tive girl, courted and married her. JU MARRIED H TWIN BROTHER. The Unfortunate Wedding of a Geor- gia Couple and How it Came About. Atlanta, Ge June 7. county fart Clark county, among J a s other inrrates, two idiotic sisters who are cared for by a decrepit old man who looks with pity on these poor unfortunates whose lives were blight- | ed by their parents. Years ago there came to a neigh- boring county a newly married cou- ple, who entered life with promise | of a bright future, and lived thus for a few months, when a boy and girl (twins) to them. Their happiness seemed complete, but the ruthiess hand of death cut the father down. The mother final y gave way, and her spirit winged its eternal flight. Thus the children only a months old were left s to care for them. were born ew with Friends came in two families, one thus separated, each taking the name of h taking a child. They we the family who had adopted them. The family in whose care the boy was moved to a distant state. and {thus time wore on until nineteen | years had gone. The young man weary of his western life, came to Georgia and became acquainted with a blooming VE 13, no rela- | Hap- | Cimes, I o nsas City, t& Souther: with a full surveyi 1 and went into cy up yesterday, been ordered to make the fina edad nec tLATOR eS A SPECIFIC FOR Wortan's Diszases AS ii and locate the route to City. Kansas There is great rejoicing here, the certainty, & | grand celebration of the event being had here to-night. as the immediate completion of road is considered a Bands of music jare parading the streets, cannons | are being fired, and speeches, toasts, banquets. ete., are the order of the | evening. s. I: ENST .JATION or SICKNESS. send for Hw A8— Ppa | rofuse Several parties of survey- | ors will be put on the line, the con- | ; tracts let at once, and the entire line | sirfy and | completed as fast as men and money | eae !eanaceomplish it. t i FIELD Rrevrator nia, Ga | = | | Nevada. Ato. Qe Apithell School Fund Mortgage Sale. ; ei iar F | Whereas J.D. H. Butler and Elizabeth But- demoer tie prima y election for coun- | ler, his wife, by their school fund mortgage ionic iS hae | dated Octobe and recorded in the ¥ officers in this county, held to- | recorder’s oftice within and for Bates county ie a | Sel ae . in book No. , page S79, eyed to day in this city, the successful | Bates county the following real’ estate Ising d being situate in the county of Bates and ouri, to-wit: The south west uth east quarter of section sey- {17] township thirty-nine [39] range June | candidates were: Por representative, | T. Dav prosecuting attorney, L. | enteen i - R sey Sica ae | (30), which cony nce Was made to secure th | L. Scott; sheriff. C. Seroggins, treas- | Grane fund bond, fully. de- urer, Charles Prewitt; justice county te Taosds ta ate court at large, Thomas J. Smith; e ‘ant ie st | surveyor, W.S. Wood; coroner, Dr. ee | : ! default be made in 1d. B Harms. | the payment pal or interest or any hen it shall become nd payable, ac > toe terms and of said bonds acti sheriff of unty may Without suit on this mortgage | part thereof, a! ba i ltosell the proy y herein conveyed | ow, therefore in pursuance jot county court made at the May term, Isss, of said court, I will proceed to sell the above described premises at public vendue tothe highest bidder for cash. at the t front door of th urt house, in the city of tler, county of , ond state of Missouri, June 30th, 188s, | Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. | i | When Raby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was Child, she cried for Castoria, piness in th ec, too, seemed to be | When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, complete, until children were born to them, and the horrors of being idiotic rushed in and low average of 63.6 per cent and a great gash in the back of the happiness. Then the hand of war 2 ! head 1 itl ree was laid on them and swept every Abundant. and in some sections | 262 with ots } exCesuives vais (ell in inost dechons Tesch was arrested and after a pre | "#uag trom them. The husband ef fhe ctate dane the uae at it examination was held toi‘ nd the wife was left with sev g await the action of the grand jury. | At the March term of the the month. oe criminal Corn y} is } - S mre 20 + » o | taieee tine nee court ° hnson ¢ unty the ¢ nd cloudy weatl ce ee _j jury retu ied an indictment fer | arene enn murder in the first degree. Judge . of germination and has : ae pes Ryland placed the prisoner under alhemone Oe aoe tyl plac the prisoner under | bonds o7 $5,000 and she has been in t. Mrs. Tesch is an intelligent, Cut wornis have b: | jail since her ar \ rather siderable damage from + The acreage practically unchanged from last year. Frosts from the 15th to the 17th damaged small garden good looking woman of forty years. Her | ‘husband and relatives were with her | during the trial. The defense claim- jed that Annie Marshall was afflicted | with scrofula, and that the sores and sears found upon her body were / ‘ caused by the ravages of the disease. | | Over 100 witnesses testitied in the | case and the large court house was | thronged daily with spectators. i planted corn remains | z ay = , the mother of four children. fruits and Complaint from chinch bugs con- tinues quite general and some sec- tions in which they were not before mentioned report themas becoming numerous. The rains and cool cloudy | weather however militated against | them and severely checked their in- | Sinotobacenounretchie Na uconcoct aaa Ye ee | ed the filthy pamphlet about the oc- STUNG CGT [SDEUERES TRE “ate cupants of the White House, copies oe: = = bs Paes - me | of which were distributed here at the past two years’ drouth and have not | tine of the convention, seems to improved materially during the past |),46 been traced out. The New| month. Army worms are reported York Times of Friday says, editor | tally: “The person who wrote the | | pamphlet, and who is now in St. | Louis distributing it. is William H. damage to the grass crop. REWARD OF HONESTY. Ig-ty * ButerR, Mo. “Talking of umbrellas,” he said ex- es = of ae New York ~~ | citedly, “I lost my silk umbrella a | *™?Une- e conductors of that DR. J. M, CHRISTY, yeckago, and Td cheerfully give | journal have known of the dirty busi- HOMOEOPATHIC | 310—” | ness in which Berry is engaged fo PHYSICIAN AND ‘SURGEON, ; Office, tront room over P- O. All calls answered at office day or night. Special attention given to temale dis- eases, _ a pir eae T C. BOULWARE, Physician andj ¢ Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- fen a specialty. DORN & PIERCE—BARBEES. | of the group, quickly. .Shop on North Side Square. We | ; “Was it a brown silk umbrella with z carved ivory handle?” inquired one | of the counting-room just before he | went to St. Louis, gave him money for his expenses on the trip.” It seems incredible that a journal of the repute and standing of the Trib- interrupted the other; “I saw it was | U2¢ could be guilty of the infamous a valuable article and locked it up in | conduct, but the charge is specific, the wardrobe and kept it safely for and both Mr. Berry and the Tribune you.” ‘should be heard from with great “Well I was about to remark Id / is ee pascal —St “It was. You've described it ex-| eetly. AsI was saying, I'd give $10— “It is at my office this moment,” | ! the some time past, and one of the heads | | eral idiotic children to take care of. Many of the citizens of Athens re member a poor old woman who has been among them askir ms. the wrinkled She did not know until long death dew from brow. | after her husband's death, when the truth was told her that she had mar ried hertwin brother. She died and was buried in a pauper’s grave, and entatives of the un- fortunate family are the poor lunatics at the pauper farm. the only repre “Lord Wolsley not only tells the English that they have no adequate guard and safe guard against inva- sion, but he jeers quietly at the | United States, for its enormous ex- | penditure on military matters. be sure we have an army of only about 25,000 men, but our pension list is extraordinary and enormous. So far this has multiplied on the plea of gratitude for a Union saved. | It is, however, desirable not to have the Union devoured after ithas been saved. The facts, not to be blinked, are that a good deal of pension mon- ey goes regularly to persons who have no decent. reasons for taxing their neighbors for their support. The pension system needs to be eco- ‘ nomically handled to avoid breeding | in the people a pauper sentiment. It /is domg agreat deal too much in | the way of creating national mendic- lity. It is time to goslow.”—Globe Democrat. | Cleveland and Thurman. | Such early and apparently hearty | unanimity upon a ticket and definite ! poliey of tariff revision and surplus ive special attention to Ladies and | cheerfully give $10 to have never | —— 3 reduction will give the democrats Guides hair eee We keep pemn pes 3 umbrella. Being as you | Louis Republic. ‘advantage at the start. They will the best of Barbers, also grind scis- | have it TN call around, however. | =a pee eres _ enter upon the contest with strong Sors and razors. Everything first- | Much obliged.” i The Perfection ; _ | candidates, with an aim and a. pur- All work guaranteed. Give | “Don t mention it. Of the age in the medical line is | dwith the i Us a call | And he didn't. the liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of | he Speer bole se ! cai tiie Figs, manufactured only by the Cal- | Of the federal patronage at their Cockle’s a ae Pills. ! Thoroughbred Bull. _ifornia Fig Syrup Co., San Francis-/ backs. It would seem that nothing This old Engitsh Family Medicine in | Ihave a thoroughbred Jersey bull | © ore pe spin to the taste, | but the leadership of such a candi- Use for S6 years all over the world, tor | which I will admit to service at the — oe ste sagen cern | date as Judge Gresham and a liberal : E Bile, Indigestion, Liver, &c. { very low figures of $2, for the sea- pase ag ergbenbc Roe Jor Proms and progressive tariff and tax re- Of Pare, Vegetable Ingredients. | From Mercurs. and thorough in its action. sale by all leading druggists in 50¢ and $1 bottles. son. 27-tf. J. R. Harnmay. For, duetion policy could save the repub- | Heans.—Springtield Republican. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. forenoon day for interest ock in the onot t blighted their | On} To} LOOK, Sheriff of Bates County. School Fund Mortgage Sale. Trustee's Sale. Whereas WH. Git and Hattie Gib- Wile, by their schoo! fand mor une th, Iss6, and reeorded in t order’s office Within and for tes county, < rm | 1 k No. 20, page undersigned, as | following sribed real ituate in th ruri, t0-W 2 rods w t « sand stave | ner of the ont andinr si) West of | to secur je unty may without proceed to seli the pro y and mortgaged. Now, therefore, in pursuance | of an order of the court made at the { May term, I++, of said court, I will proceed | to sell the above described premises at public | | vendue to the highest bidder for cash, at the east front door of the court house, in the city | of Butier, county ot Bates, and state of Mis- souri, on \ Saturday, July 7th, 1558, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day for | the purpose of satisying said debt, interest and costs. GEO. G. GLAZEBROOK, wn-dt Sheriff of Bates County School Fund Mortgage Sale. Whereas F. M. Canterbury and;Ben B. Can- | terbury, her husband, by their schoo! fund | mortgage, dated November Ist, Ix 1 re- corded in the recorder’s office withi ad tor Bates county, Missouri, in book No. 20 page of said n able, a jue and p: ee shall advertise and And wh A part of t ISS] is now d d wholiy unpaid, and the whole of said principal sum and interest has | been declared due and payable to the legal holder of said nete, amounting, on the day of sale tothe sum of nine hundred and dollars, including the costs and expenses of this proceeding. And whereas, by the provisions of said deed of trust, the undersigned. George W. Toms, Was appointed and made the successor in trust, | in case the trustee named, Henry C. Wilson, | should decline to act, and the said Henry C. | Wilson having declined to act. now. therefore. | at the request of the legal holder of said note, I will, as trustee as aforesaid, on Tuesday, June 26th, A. D. 1888, between the hours of 5 o’clock a. M. and 5o’clock Pp. M, of that-lay, at the’ east 1 aid tras- leaid premises axes for Iss6 and 306, conveyed to Bates county the foliowing | door of the court house, in thecity of St. Louis real estate lying and being situate in the coun- and state of Missouri, sell to the highest bid- ty of Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit: The | der, forcash, the above-described premises, east one-half [1-2] of lot three [3] of block No. | and all right and equity, including homestead one [1] in Williams addition to the town (now | of the said Jay E.Uwen. — aaty) of Butler, which conveyance was made to GEORGE W. TOMS, Trustee. secure the payment ofone school fund bond, Dated May 15, 1888. ay described in said school fund mortgage, and whereas default has been made in the Par: = ne ment of both principal and interest since the Sheriff's Sale. th day of November, Ise7. By the terms of f said mo! e it is provided that shoulddefault | By virtue and authority of an alias execution be made in the payment of the principal or in- | issued from the office of the clerk of the cireuit terest or any part thereof, at the time when it | court of Bates county, Missouri, returnable at shall become dueand payable, according to the | the June term. 1-88, of said court, to me direct- terms and effect of said bonds the then acting | ed in favor of John Gough, and against Leslie sheriff of said county aif without suit on this | Burrass, I have levied and sei upon all the mortgage proceed to self the property herein | right, title, interest and claim of the said de- conveyed and mortgaged. Now, therefore, in | fendant, Leslie Burraes. of, in and to the fol- pursuance of an order of the county court made | lowing described real estate, situated in Bates at the May term, 1888 of said court, I will pro- | county, Missouri, to-wit ceed to sell the above described premises at The northeast quarter of section twenty-two public vendue to the highest bidder for cash, st | (22) and the west half of the northwest quar- | the east front door of the court house, in the | ter of section twenty-three (23) all in township city of Butler, county of Bates, and state of | forty-two (42) range thirty-one (31). I willon Missouri, on idav, June 1 Saturday, June 30th, 1888, Friday, June 15tb, 1888 } - between the hours of 9 o’clock inthe forenoon between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon | and 5 in the afternoon of that day at the east | and 5oclock in the afternoon of that day for | front door of the court house in city of Rut- the purpose of sati said debt, interest Bates ty, Missouri, sell the same or cael pata GEO e. GLAZEBEOOK, to inach therecf'as may be Tequired. e: public wat Sheriff of Bates County. vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, to ies satisfy said execution snd eae BOOK i Sheriff's Sale. eTiff of Bates County. By virtue and authority of s general exe- | cution issued from the office of the clerk ofthe | circuit court of Bates county, Missouri, re- / turnable at the June term, !188, of said court. to me directed in favor ot R. MH. Washburn and against J. W. Alexander, I have levied and seized upon all the ht, tithe, interest and | claim of the said defendant, J. W. Alexander, a a a Pe ig ay 0 3 i Ww meetal. against F. M. Man- lm acres, lot one and'two {1 & 3} west half | fove.et al. Ihave levied acd seized upon all the | ee Ses £52 *Syreared eouth sust enrieret | PERcatiiyy srnet ted clei of feet te | ~ ° .M. in | the north east quarter of sec eight (3) township | following described real estate, situated in forty-two (42) range thirty-two (32), ~ acres! Betes co ty, Missouri, to-wit: Se Se ey |All of the south haif (1-2) of the southwest | tor forty-two range thirty- 32), ‘arter of sect! arteen (if townsbi | 330 acres nort half of sec nine (9) township | sovciainlat ne ee ete caer. all ae | forty-two (42) ran; thirty-two (32) all in Bates | Bates county, Missouri, I will on | county, Missouri, I will on < se 3 Tr : ' Friday, June 15th. 1888. Seeing, Jame eS | between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon between the hours of9 o’clock in the forenoon 5 0’cloek in the a! of that day at | Betis o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at | 2242.0; 200k tO ae ieee court he %, he east front door of the court house in the | city of Butler, Bates county, Missour! | city of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, seil the | game or so much thereof as inay required, same or co much thereof as may De required. | at public vendue, to best bidder for cash, vendae, the es der fo A eatisfy = = Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and authority of a general execution issued from the office of the clerk of the cirenit court of Bates county, Missouri, returnable a: the June term execation and cos: G. GLAZEBROOK, i Sheriff of Bates County. at pi cas meres