The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 10, 1888, Page 6

MISSGURI BONDS STOLEN. The Attorney of Platte County Robbed | in a Mysterious Manner. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 3—J. W. Coates, attorney of Platte county, Missouri, took $40,000 innew bonds of that county to Jefferson City Monday to have them registered. The bonds were duly recorded, and Mr. Coats placed them in his valise, which was in his room at the hotel at Jefferson City, while he was at dinner, but they were not out of his sight at any other time. Upon his arrival in St. Louis to- day, where he intended to dispose of the bonds, Mr. Coates discovered that twenty funding bonds of the denomination of $1,000 each were missing, their numbers being from 20 to 39 inclusive, and dated Octo- ber 1, 1888. It is supposed that the bonds were stolen, as all efforts to locate them have failed. Bank Notes Talk. A well-hnewn business man, says the New York Sun, who is a member of the Cleveland and Thurman wholesale dry goods club, and whose name can be obtained from the sec- retary of the club, wagered yester- day $50 to $250 that Cleveland would carry Illinois. He is willing to wager $250 more at the same odds. A Saratoga dispatch says that Hon. Edward Kearney has bet the Hon. James O'Brien $300 te $1,000 that Cleveland will carry the state of New York by 20,000 plurality. Sime Katzenstein has bet W. W. Worden $100 even that Cleveland will be elected, and $50 to $25 on the elec- tion of Hill. ‘The following bets, says an In- dianapolis dispatch, were made to- day: $50 on general result and $300 that Indiana would go for Cleveland, both even. A refused bet was $5,000 that Harrison would not carry his own county or state. Republicans and democrats of Jamestown, N. Y., are both very contident of the result in the nation- al election, and a good many bets have been made. Levi Johnson, democrat, bet 1,000 even with W. C. Wade, a lawyer, and $1,000 even with Orison E. Jones, capitalist, on Cleveland. Walter J. Weeks, dem- cratic grocer, has bet $100 with John Babcock, landlord. To-day, when Ed Sliney, proprietor of the Kent house, on Chautauqua Lake, shook ten $5,000 certified drafts on the Chemical bank of New York, and Superintendent Theodore E. Grandin of the Steamboat company offered to put up £5,000 more on Cleveland, the republicans didn’t call. Last night John Ford, of Bridge- port, N. Y., secured an even bet of $250 on Cleveland’s election with a man named Wheeler. Mr. Ford has also bet $200 with a Stratford man that Cleyeland will carry New York by 25,000 plurality. At Freyler's cigar store there is $5,000 waiting for takers, eyen money, in sums of $50 and upward, that Cleveland will be the next president. This money pooled by citizens, and when taken they are ready to advance as much more. Mayor Neely of Leavenworth Thinks Cleveland may Get the Kansas Electoral Vote. The New York Sun says that Dr. 8. F. Neely, mayor of Leavenworth, Kas., and proxy for National com- mitteeman C. W. Blair of that state, said at the national democratic head- quarters of the political situation in Kansas: “The situation in Kansas is somewhat pecular on account of the defections from the republican party to the labor party. It is said that these defections will enable the “Tabor party to poll not less than 65,000 votes. If that is the fact the electoral vote of Kansas will go to Cleveland. Even the republicans acknowledge these defections are so large as to imperil their success. Thereare many conversions from replub: democracy. the most noted being that of Jobn Seck- ler a rich clothier and manufacturer of woole s in Leavenworth. Mr. S nalife long ree converted by the cracy on free to ism attitud: wool. | The Republicau Party Dead in South i Carolina. The state republican executive | committee, says a Columbia, S. C., dispatch, appointed a committee of five to wait upon Governor Richard- sop and demand representation in the management of the general election in this state. They claim that in one county in the state the commissioners and managers of election were all democrats, and that this tended to prevent a fair vote and honest count. Governor Rich- ardson to-day sent to the committee his reply, saying that the elections in this state were now the fairest in the world and were only corrupt under republican rule, and that he would make no change in the pres- ent order of things. He said that the committee could not make their demands in the name of any organ- ized party, as the republican party has been dead in the state for so many years that their non-recognition as a party was justifiable. If the president of a southern col- lege—let us say the University of Virginia, that great institution founded by Thomas Jefferson, should take some public occasion to declare that he intended to vote for General Harrison at the coming election, for the reason that in his opinion that candidate more nearly represented the views that should dominate America, there can be no doubt that the whole republican party would rise up as one man and give their undivided plaudits to that courage- ousman. And if it so happened that the trustees of the university, should announce that because the president had so declared himself he was no longer worthy to be their president, what a storm of indigna- tion would sweep through the north and in what unmistakable terms such narrow and partisan action would be denounced! No language too severe could be found to condemn such 4 miserable and petty feeling, and it is safe to say that the republican ticket would gain thousands of votes in consequence of such a proceeding, because it would be an attempt to tyrannize independent, conscientious opinion, and the very corner stone of our free institutions is that every manhasaright to express and act upon his own opinions under the law. Nowitso happens that this particular incident has not happend in the south, but it happened in the north. Dr. William DeWitt Hyde, the pres- ident of Bowdoine college in Maine, has recently declared that he would vote for Cleveland for the reason that the democratic principles and pledges are the most favorable for the country, and will bring about a greater degree of posperity. Has he an honest right to do this and fullfill his duty as an American cit- izen? Who dares to call inthe ques- tion? And yet Dr. Hyde has not only been unsparingly criticised and de- nounced, but he has been threatened with loss of position, and measures arenow said to be in progress to oust him from the presidency of the college. Dr. Hyde, though still a young man, is one of the foremost educators of the United States and has won the high position he now holds because of his great abilities. But now because he is in favor of political reform, is opposed to mo- nopolies and trusts and believes the government would be safer in the hands of President Cleveland than Blaine and Harrison, he is to be punished and ostracised and in- jured in every possible way that injury can be wreaked upon him. The spectacle is no more pleasing in the north than it isin the south.— Chicago Herald. Below we present the comments made by the Sedalia Democrat on the contents of an Iowa paper. Behold the measure of the intellect that prints republican campaign argu- ment, forgeries on English papers, yells free trade and supplies facts to republican orators: We are indebted to a prominent business man for a copy of the Mt. Pleasant (Io.,) Evening News of date Wednesday, September 5, 1888, in which we find the following rather startling, not to say “juicy” piece of news from Missouri: “A : the leading republican pap Tllinois are expressing the belief that | Missouri will give a republican ma- | jority in November. Considering \ that the rebel guerilla, Mosby, was elected governor of that state two | years ago by an overwhelming ma- jority, is would seem hardly possible for it to gorepublican in November.’ The Evening News is an ardent ad- vocate of the election of Harrison | and Morton, and no doubt believes that a small reduction in tariff duties would everlastingly ruin the news- paper business in Iowa; indeed there is no telling what a consummate ass, as the editor of the Evening News evidently is, might or might not be induced to believe! An editor who gravely informs his readers that the “rebel guerilla, Mosby,” was elected governor of Missouri two years ago by an “ouerwhelming majority” is not a fit subject for alunatic asylum, simply because it is against the rules of such institutions to receive hope- less idiots. Why don't some kind- hearted citizen of Mt. Pleasant tell the editor of the Evening News that the “rebel guerilla, Mosby,” has for years been a highcockalorum in the republican party? Odd and Costly Keepsakes. A tooth of Sir Isaac Newton was sold in 1816 for the sum of $3,550. It was purchased by a nobleman, who had it set in a ring which he wore constantly on his finger. The hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of Eylau was soldin Paris in 1885 for $400. It was put up for sale at $100 and there were thirty- two bidders. The coat worn by Charles XII at the battle of Pultawa, and preserved by one of his officers and attendants, was sold in 1825 for $116.: The two pens employed in signing the treaty of Amiens were sold in 1826 for $2,500. A wig that had belonged to Sterne was sold at a public auction in London for $1,- 850. The prayerbook used by Charles I when on the scaffold was sold in London in 1825 for $525. A waist- coat belonging to J. J. Rousseau was sold for $190, and his metal watch for $100. A Pelitical Shrew. We took occasion the other day to criticise Miss Anna Dickinson, now in the employ uf the republican national committee, because she never alluded to the president of the United States by any other name than “the hangman from Buffalo.” We did Miss Dickinson an injustice. Her vocabulary of vituperation is not so limited. In a recent speech that high official, for whom all good Episco- palians offer prayers every Sunday and whom every American, regardless of religious creed or political preju- dices, should treat with respect, was denominated “an emissary of the devil,” by the distinguished Miss Dickinson. It is a pity that the ducking stool as a punishment for shrewish women has fallen suddenly into innocuous desuetude. It might with advantage be prescribed for this political scold. —K. C. News. Thurman and the Small Boy. As Mr. Thurman was about to step on the gang plank a tiny, ragged and barefooted urchin, with a bun- dle of papers under his arm, ran up to him and piped: “Paper sir? Allabout Thurman.” The old man stopped and smiling benignantly on the little fellow ask- ed. “Who is Thurman, my boy.” “I don't know, sir,” promptly came the answer. This pleased the old gentleman immensely, aud patting the boy on the head chuckled to himself so me- thing about “fame” and passed aboard the yacht amid the yell of the amused spectators. The urchin holding up a bundle of papers and the old man bending over him was a picture for an artist. Goy. Hill in Indiana. Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 21.—Hon. F. E. D. McGinley, a prominent democratic politician of Northern Indiana. has succeeded in making five appointments for Governor Hill, of New York, in Indiana. He will open the campaign October 13 in this city; October 15 he will be at Terre | Haute; 16th | Politics the Cause of Trouble Between | Man and Wife. i John Boyer was arrested last | night, says the Indianapolis Journal, on & warrant sworn out by his wife, charging him with assault and_bat- tery. 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