The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 13, 1889, Page 6

A ROBBERS CONFESSION. He Tells of Diyers Crimes Implicating Sundry Citizens. Kansas City, March, 6.—Superin- tendent Fagan of the Fort Scott the railroadthis morning received dying confession Alexander Spears | who was caught robbing the station house at Columbus March 4. Speais and an unknown companion, both wearing white caps was discovered by Detective McCleary and Marshal Tames Zeiley, and upon the refusal of the robbers to surrender fired wounding Spears so severely that he died last night from the effects of the wound. Before dying he con fessed to having robbed and fired the station at Columbus several months since and also implicated many heretofore respected citizens of Columbus in the “White Cap” robberies, which have occurred that part of Kansas. in The Fort officers are endeavoring to discover the whereabout of Spears partner, one F. Jones, who escaped in the confusion on the night ot Spears arrest. For some time th: authorities have been greatly wor vied by petty thieving and in some eases extensive robberies of freight and other property belonging to the road in the vicinity of Columbus the nals have been discovered, efforts will be put forth to stop such prac- tices and Jones, if captured, will b made an example of to the remainude of his clan. At the time of the capture of the Blalocks it was thought that they fired the railroad station at the tine it was burned. Speas iast nigh confessed that he did the deed Th Blalocks had a regular organize: band for the purpose of hors: -stea.- ing and operated in several courties They lived in Columbus aad the terrors of that neighbo hoo: The entire gang was sent to the pe: tentiary. Clara Blalock, a pretty schoyl teacher, was secretary of tie band. During the last few mouth & gang of criminals have been opersi ing along the Fort Scott and Louis and San Francisco railroads blowing open the safes of the statio: houses and robbing them of their contents. Many stations have su. - fered from the depredatious of the gang. Among the number are Bax- ter, Harrisonviile, Girard, South Greenfield, Paola and others, Spears’ confession may lead to th. capture of hisassociates in the crim: . Now that some clews to crim! Wee dst aie Mt. Vernon Items. Weather bad. Roads muddy and spring coming. Mr. Cass Lee shiped one car load of fine steers to-day. Mr. Ed. Boswell has a novelty for grinding feed; farmers look to you advantage. Our esteemed friend, Miss Floi- ence Quackenbush, is in our widst once more; we are glad to welcom:- her back. The exhibition given at the clos« of Miss Q.’s school was a grand suc eess. Both old and young took par: and barring the crowded house, ev erybody went away weil pleased, but some of our boys had to walk hou: There were some very efficient reci- tations and declamations rendered by the young people of Mt. Vernon and Dillon neighborhood. Reci x tion: The Maniac, Miss Lzz Bus- well; Dialogue: The broken betrith- al, Misses Deila McCoy, Jenuie Me- Neal and Ella Davis; Che iittle u ad, little Miss Gora Boswell; Janes Conquest, Miss Bettie Quacker busi.: Christian Spirit, Miss Lelia Hink!:: The Curfew, Mi:s Lizzie Bosley; A Letter, Miss Hattie Stucke y; the whole programme is too long t mention each separately, some of which were most efficient, songs an: tableaux, instrumental music was furnished by Henry Manlove isd others. In fact, everything was pio nounced a grand success, aud Miss Florence is one of Bates county's Most accomplished teachers aud we wish her success in her profession As this is my first attempt I will not detain you long and if this do..'t find its way to the waste basket, I°} come again. Rags. JACK THE CHOKER. , A Villain Who Strangles Women With i a Rope at Denver. | Denver, Col., March, 5.—The au- | thorities are very much ithe report of a mysterious individ 1 excited | ual whose conduct is anything but proper. For some nights women and girls have been approached by a slightly built man, whose dark swar thy complexion and peculiar dress indicates that he is a foreigner. He 1s deseribed as possibiy 40 years oi age with dark, piercing eves. He seeks a dark recess in which to hide, and without any warning whatever springs upon unprotected females, and throws a ropearound their necks This he twists in garrote fashiou so that a scream is out of the question. After insensibility ensucs the victim is laid on the ground and the myste rious individual disappears. Among the victims of this person is Minnie Teney, who had s¢ alighted from a car when the villain sprang from the darkness of a neigh- around boring shed, threw a rc her neck and twisted it in the man- that resi ner described so she could neither scream nor for her the operation was witnessed Luckily by a couple of dogs, who sprang up- to feaee the poor girl, Miss Teney wes +n the taan and caused him re- so prostrated by the shock that she s stilllying ¢ Mis exlain is another victim of the in: atrocious conduct. Another report c¢ iozen girls who w usmall, dark individual sprang from a pile of rubbish on the prai and exclaimed: “Lin Jack the Choker.” Che wiris set a howl that scared 8 ‘Jack the Choker.” While running away one of the girls, Mary Eckart, slip) ed and fell andas she wasabout to rise a rope-was thrown over her ueck. But for the prompt appear ance of » patrolman she might have 8. -dasimilar f te. Should the villain be caught by the mob who are awaiting hiseppear- result. aice ulynchwe will be the T is impossibie to tind a woman on tiestects aiter dark without an escort. Gold Excitemeat. San Prancisco. Mareh 6.—The xold excitement in Lower California near Ensenada is increasing and many people are flocking from San Diego to the gold fields. Work on the Cuyamaca, San Diego and east- ern railroad is stopped aud the work- men are ieaving in a body for the nines. Steamers between San Diego and Evsenada have doubled their rates, but the rush continues and stages are now running overland, carrying many persons direct to the mines. The San Diego papers de- clare that the development covers 100 miles square and that placer mines are making a great deal of money. Thirteen thousand dollars in gold dust was brought into En- senada and San Diego yesterday. Nearly all of the California papers nave urged the people to be cautious ‘bout rushing into the mines owing so the fact that many of the recently <eported mines in California failea 0 carry out the first indications of vealth, but there seems to be no juestion but that the people in tue southern portion of the state now boheye that a uew and really profita- ve gold field has been discovered. N- man on earth is in a better po- sitton to po uxurious table fa and enjoy a more than the American Properly fed and nicely cured, there is no better relish than a nice slice of bacon or pork. But apart frem flesh food entirely, what better cum any tan ask for than such dishes as may be made from oilk aud eggs, fruitsand vegetables, honey avd syrup, corn or oat meal. and either white or graham bread. We venture the assertion that never i. the history of the world had the , people the opportunities for fuxu- | ious living as Amencan farmers | possess to day, and it only requires ,a ittle aptness to have and enjoy them all, and what is more, and still better, inestimable luxury of good health aud appetite. mer, Long life at- teuds on simple diet and plenty of work.—Coleman’s Rural World. by j 1 SERIOUS FAILURE. Assigument. | Philadelphia, March 6.—Announe- ment was made yesterday afternoon of the failure of the Reading, Pa. sheet, tube and pipe wills, forges and machines blast furnaces, rolling, shops. employing in all over twenty- fivehundred men. The firm gay. notice of its suspension of its pay- ment and called a meeting of its creditors, to be held at Philadelphia It was one of est establishment of its kind to morrow afternoon. the | in America, and dispensed in in this city every year over $1,000 000. President Colt when seen at the office of the company, admitted that » company had suspended psy declined to apy tof assests ad liabilities. said that a list of creditors is Many of the stock ment, but mike It was being prepared holders of the company are Philadei- phians. had paid up capital of $1,050,000 and was rated by Bradstreet,s at S1,.000,000. The liabilities 200,000. The Reading iron works a ovei are said to be about of G05, 0 on ,G00— is due to various par siiostiy for material purchased al various times. Riotons Troops. Ww ston, D. C., March 5.—The Peun-;ivania troops become yery disor: to-day and ut one time it looke sas if there might be * troub ». A crowd of the P ylva- nia tsitiamen had congregated on E vi, beoween Eighth and Ninth and completely blockading the thoi- ongh daring all pedestrians and drive:s to attempt to pass the! line. A patrol of police several times dis- perse t them, but after awhile it was foun } neer ry to appeal to Gen. Hastings, who ordered Col. Craw- ford of the Tenth Pennsylvama to clear the street and keep it clear. The Colonel detailed a company to charge up and down the streets with fixed bayonets and in this way the up. Most of the nloters were partly intoxicated and they made themselves a terror to hucksters, keepers of small stands and peddlers by rifling them of r goods and severely handling them whenever they offered any re- sistance. broken Burned to Death. Kansas City, March 7.—At a late hour to-night the Metropolitan Com- pany’s street car barns corner of Fourth and Wyandotte streets, was completely destroyod by fire, 66 mules and 25 cars and 100 tons of hay being consumed. The men who first saw the fire and rushed in to cut the mules loose assert positively that six men within were unable to get out and are burn ed to death, but the stablemen who got out at the front say that several strangers rushed in to assist in sav- iug the mules but got out all right. Officer Flanagan, who was among the first at the scene says that of the nine men who rushed in with him only two got out besides himself. They were all strangers who hap- pened by at the time. He thinks they were saloon roustabouts. The ‘oss is estimated at $30,000 and ful ly insured. About 16 mules were saved. Nine Persons Drowned. Chattanooga, Tenn., March 1.—A day or two since the family of Mr. Bud Hynes, nine persons in all, were drowned in a swamp in Decatur county, near the Tennessee river, a negro man who was with them es- caping to tellthe story. The family were moving ina wagon and after | dark became lost in the swamp. | They came toa stream, which the colored ‘river refused to attempt to cross. Mr. Hynes thereupon took | the lines and forced the team to go ; ahead. Ina moment they were in | water 10 feet deep, and father, moth- | er and seven children were lost. Cit- | ' The Reading Iren Works Makes on Also a izens are searching for the bodies | j and have found three. | A VERITABLE GilOST. ate Farmer Who Filled the st Pullef Shet. Casey, Io., March 1.—There is a little pond known as Silver Lake, of here Ii hesa history as four miles west the Rock Island Railroad. a vathing place, where three or four persons have been drowned, and is a aud dread. Just west of the lake. isa school house, which has been a popular resort for of the seigi borhoud to congregate One intelligent Ivis! vows that be saw a white apparition be He fled in mortal terror. place of terror the belles and beaux and hold a ayceuni. an rise out of the water and kon to him. The next time he was accompanied by a friend, and the spirit appeared mounted ona white steed, guiding With Yo it by a golden rin and paying on = a what they declare was a harp. The | -y ; steed’s eves were balis of the. He Come and Bee US as ested on the fence until the Ir ane would e threw he peared beneath the waters of Lake. The ward ¥ at him, when apparit on ute) Sometimes the steed emitid volu. es - € rom his nostrils, and words of warn ing were written in fire across the rulauent. tnight the ghost came to ld igo the appar a farm team, over the vugey and nearly killed his wife. The husband piccured a shot-gur, loaded it with bu-k-shot. then laid in wait for four long, patient nights which ran away, tipped getting frost bitten, unti! last night, waen he filled the full o buckshot. It cried: “My God! Don't shoot any more! t ate. shooter and ¢: ost ' and fell pros- He was carried home by the ed for. Noone but the attending physician has seen him aud he refused to give any name. Tt is suspected to be a oud seek- er, who wished to scare the owners und buy the adjoining land cheap, but nothing positive ean be gotte: at. Mi uried at Jail. Some time last autumn Judge Mu rion Dale was cated upon to unite L. 7. McLain and Carrie Bridges in the bonds of matrimony. Withm McLain bigamy aud the Judge was called upon to pass upon him. He was given six months in the county jai. During the last term of court he s:- cured a divorce from his first wife, and Friday, Feb. 22, Judge Dale was again called upon to marry L. T. McLain and Carrie Bridges, this time at the jail. But McLain has served his sentence out, and once more the twain have settled down to connu- bial bliss.—Lamar Leader. & week was arrested for Stocked his Cellar. Des Moines, March 1.—George Washington Potts, the prohibition constable of Taylor township, is in trouble. He and his official partner Hamilton, raided the place of a man named Williams. The latter sought revenge, went before Justice Tippee and swore out a search warrant against Potts’ house. The sheriff served it and found in the cellar about 100 gallons of wine, whisky gin, ete., which Potts had seized in his raids on the liquor men, and some at least had been condemned to distruction, and which he had returned under oath as having di- stroyed. Potts has so far evaled charges of bribery and prijury against him, but it !ooks asif he was cornered at iast. “Why Do I Snffer So with headache and vertigo, doctor? Ihave a bad cough, too, and dull aches under the shoulder-blades; I'm losing weight; and am billious all the time.” The courteous physician answers: “If you inquire what is the cause of all this mischief, it is a tor pid liver. That organ, you are aware, is the largest gland in the body, and its office is to carry off the waste of the system When it fails to do its proper work, the re fuse of the body is re-abserbed and goes circulating round and round in the blood, poisoning, not nourishing the tissues. But why yoa continu. to suffer in this way Iam at a loss to understand, since Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery would give prompt relief, and :uture hu manity from such attacks.” Ce na ee ee ne, First d RO AY NATIONAL BANK, =—— Ne Nerv Bank Building BUTLER, MO. SGO6.000, $7,060,000. Japital, SURPLUs DIRECTORS Dr, T. C. HC. OY Judge j- H Sullens, G. B. Hickman Frank Voris, C. H. Dutche: Booker Powell, Green W. Walton, John Deerwester, Dr. N. L. Whipple Wm, E, Walton, J. Rue Jenkins. Boulware, Receives deposits, loans 2 transacts a general banking business. We extend to ourcustomers every ac- commodation consistent with sate bank- ing. CORRESPONDENTS. First Nat'l Bank Kansas City. Fourth National Bank - St. Louis. Hanover National (sank - New York. JOHN H.sUL OOKER PO. Wa. E, WALT! - RUE JEN -IN DON KINNEY....- -- President - Vice President cashier . (aashter, Clerk and Collector BATES COUNTY National Bank. (Organized in 171.) 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