The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 17, 1889, Page 5

MY STOCK OF | Tevible Tragedy, CLOTHING, ELATS, rms eat = AND ’S FURNISHING GOODS ARE ALL | AND OF THE LATEST STYLES, GEN Bought direct from the Manufacturer for Cash. are invited to call and ex spected Citizen of Bates County Shoots Into a Charivari Party. Kithng | One Man and Serionsty Wounding Two Others, WY Es NEW [Statement of Eye Witnesses to the) Unfortunate Affair. | We are called upon this week to again record a horrible tragedy inj Bates county. News was brought | | to town early Tuesday morning that | | Prank Wright, a large and prosper All ainine stock and prices! jasif they were going to leave | Frank Wright came from A. KEK. BLACHERT, PALACE HOTEL BUI LDING, BUTLER, MO. gr NRE LR FO BUTTER WEEKLY TIMES. Qa Bc 198 LOCAL iTEMS a SpringUpening 00 Miss Laura Blachert is visiting friends in Rich Hill this week. You can fi pons in Jesse Trimbl spent Sundays Bargains in Rackett Store, Southeast Corner. Geo. W. Roberts, of Pr: ship, was mixing with Monday. Girl wanted to do general house work for small family. Enquire at this office. Sutlerites Rev. O. M. Stewart, presiding el- der of the M. E. chureh, held quar terly meeting at this city Sunday. Finest w r done in Bate County, now , t west side gallery, KE. Rose, Operator. W. Sunday night to join his wife who is there for medical treatment. He will return the latter part of this week. If the weather clerk wants to the square thir hold back 2 yrood supply of water that we are now getting for July and August. The farme that the oats crop sown tl is ‘the largest for many years, and if the crop turns out well oats will be very cheap this summer. K The fruit crop, such as apples pears, cherries and in fact all kinds | of small fruits, was never more prom- ising. The trees promise an abun- dant yield. Talbott Bros. will make you a 4 fashionable business suit for $22.00, and pantaloons for $6:50, and guar- antee perfect fit. South side square over Bidgley. Mr. E. A. Bennett informs us that work on the Emery building will be commenced next month. This will be one of the handsomest double store buildings on the public square. R. C. Dickinsheet informs us that he will on or about the 10th of May opena chop house in the building Row occupied by Sam Walls, on the @ west side. Ghands. Bro. Harper has stepped | Mr. D. is a first-class Testaurant man and we predict will 4 do well. The Rich Hill Star has changed down and handed over the scissors and paste to R. R. Warden. The @ Star under the new management will continue to be strictly republi- | } can in politics. Gen. Noble, secretary of the in- terior, announces that all democrats found in the service of the pension bureau will have to go. He says that Tepublicans are to have the “favors.” That is not a Noble view — the public service, Gen. In a few more days the Arlington hotel will tip its hat and aie a graceful bow to the general public ma new suit of paint and a general overhauling throughout. Doctor sdown is not sparing money to | make his hotel first-class in every # particular. Capt. F. J. Tygard will leave for St. Louis Sanday sagt on business and will be absent the greater part ofthe week. As chairman of the water-works committee of this place, while in the city he expects to meet @ parties connected with water-works companies, and will make every ef- ort to gather data that will be of | @uterest in aiding the committee in: Booming toa correct solution of the | water problem for this city. Y TIMES.| ithe finest line of rib | E. Walton left for Chicago | do | sby us he will just | | Grand Opening ot Pattern Bonnets. | Hats and i SPRING | Novelties in A1S8SS | Millinery Department, | Thursday April Sth, : ° Affernoon and Kyening. SAM L Unele Kit Harris is on tl list and hardly able to get about. EVY & CO. C. Kk. Barnes, cashi bank, spent Friday in the |ing at the residence ' Unele Kit Harris. ie of his cc ties competition | iillinery. Farmers, Lane de in dry goods and | M.L. Burnett and Miss Elmira Wright, of Adrian, were united in} marriage by Esquire Cannon, of | this city, Wednesday a | | j { | Don’t forget to callon the sane Store” and compare prices. | ) | A. L. Graves, who has been rus tieating inthe southern part of the} | state and Arkansas for the past two jor three weeks returned home ; Wednesday. | ike | The Tivesis sorry to ee | uncle Tommy Heath, one of our best citizens and democrats, who has been on the sick list the greater | | part of the winter is not improving very fast. | Examine our Gents & Ladies ive Suoes, big bargains, H. B. High, | Southeast corner square. William Hubble was arrested Sat- urday and placed in jail for sending obscene literature through the mails to his wife, accusing her of unfaith- fulness. Monday he was taken to Kansas City for trial before the U. S. court. Lane is the only dry goods and millinery establishment that will | take poultry and eggs in exchange. | There wasa time when the cis- \tern and bucket brigade were suffi- cient to battle against fire in our \ son: }about 18 years of age, | young men in the p: town, but that day has passed, and Butler with her six thousand popu- lation stands in supreme need of a j system of water works. | We learn that Jim Smith, of Archie, }is making arrangements to shortly commence work rebuilding his livery | stable on North Main street. This jis a valuable piece of property and we felt sure Jim would not allow it to | lay idle long, and now the Truss is | glad to learn that he has concluded to replace the building. A Mr. Boyd, of Henry county, purchased last week the fine saddle , stallion Senator Vest, This young \horse belonged to Harlan Turner, | and was brought to this place last spring from Kentucky. He has an excellent pedigree and was about ‘the finest and best gaited saddle | horse in the county. Weunderstand ithe price paid by Mr. Boyd was | $800. SS |ing for my father-in law, also heard Our friend F. M. Woods, living | of the mtentions of the boys to come | | 1} miles north and one mile east of | to my house on Monday night, and | Altona, called Friday and had bills|informed Mr. Wright. | printed for his thoroughbred 3. year | o'clock Mr. Wright accompanied by ous farmer of Elkhart t three miles west of Ac } into a chavirai party hood boy two oth thou ple PY en 2 of He told Mr id when the s eame to order th out | the yard. He and his sons then} went out of the house. Mr. Burnett | : i OL says that ihe part {between | 19 and 11 o'cioe) hid re- | quested — by iathe:-u-law land ordered them away. Thai they refused to go and wuue discus rg the matter Mr. Wright and his uppe lon the se inurking t he crowd, or something he ordered ti and su 3 >and re of the to that effect, 2 off the premises then began tinny. The first} shot took effect in the back of Jess: V. Christoleer, a young man living near, about 23 years of age, the | charge of shot tearing away several | ribs 2nd + »of the shot went ex- tirely throug He fell at the gate but got ap and walked about one hundred yards down the road where he fell aud was carried to Mr. Johnson's house where shortly died im in great agouy. At the iirst fire the boys began to ran. Ed Russeli, was badiy wounded in the neck, side and arm, and his iife is despaired of; the oth er young mun, Otis Peebles, received a flesh wound in the right side trom a pistol ball. There were eight yand they claim that between and eight shots were fired. The shots taken from the wounds were about the size of No. 4 buck shot. In order to give a full and fair ac- count, that would do justice to all parties, a Trwes reporter was dis patched to the scene of the tragedy. The following is the testimony of eye witnesses to the affair: The reporter called first at the residence of Mr. Wright to get his version o/ the unfortunate affair but found him away from home. His wife said he and his three sons had gone to Adrian. M. L BURNETT'S STATEMENT Iam Frank Wright's son inlaw, was married to his daughter Wednes day last. The boys came to my house Thursday night and fired off guns and rang bells: They went in- to the kitchen and fired off their guns again and stayed about the house for some time. Friday night they came back again and mede about the same racket, and on the following day I Jearned that they were going to keep it up from night to night entil I set up the “alkey.” I eared nothing for the racket they Was Captiui h bm nA were making and intended to lay | still and beat them at their own game. Then I could have the joke onthem. Monday afternoon I went over to a neighbors to get some | shrubbery to set out in my yard, and was told the boys would be back that night. I thought I was getting pretty tired of their racket, but con- cluded to tough it out and turn the joke. Chester Hoovey, who is work- About § {pot apy | jam shot. Soam I, | Then Russell asked me where he jeould get went out of the house and I went up stairs tobed. About 10 or11 o'clock the boys came, rung bells and made a noise. I got up and told them to leave and they laughed at me and went from the north side of the house to the west side. I then came down and went to the west window and again told them to leave. They started back north toward the road | I then went back upstairs and to the window and asked who was the cap tain of the crowd, and if they had one, for him to take his men away. | They said they had none. and | about this time my father-in-law back of | to get) the house and told them away from there, and the shooting | commenced. I don't know who did | the shooting. This all I know about | it. | The following is the statement of | Otis Peebles, one of the young men | | th the chaviari party, who receive ifrom a pistol which struck vehind the shoulder blade Thurs- | boys con- e word We tired | bells bout > wood time then we went back sedthe dickens n hoar, we then went d pile, and again eand rattled xgain and went hor Dari Burnett ne tot as not at home. ne you boys to t? Well, we Wrig Friday left said he s a bucket of uso heard that Dan Gingrich did he con clusion he w How ¢ Monday 1 Burnett at night, and just as we had started to bring apples to treat. We he said Sunday that had not been in the crowd he would n t have cared to treat us. So we coneladed to go back Monday night and give him another round. So Monday night we got together and went back again. and leaving Gingrich, at the school house, about one hundred yards distant from Bar nett’s residence, the rest of us went to the house. It was between 10 and 11 o'clock. We waiked in the front gate and to within ten or fif teen feet of the house. Some of the boys having taken their shot guns with them. I gave the command to tire, aud three or four of the boys fired their guns in the air and we all yelled and made a great noise. We kept the racket up for three or four minutes, when Burnett came to the upstairs window and said, hold on there, boys, and we stopped to see what he had to say. He asked who was captain of the crowd. Isaid, [ guess there ain't any captain. Ithen called up the road oh! captain, meaning Dan Gingrich. Burnett then said, take your crowd and get outside the gate. At this instant Frank Wright, father inlaw of Burnett, stepped from behind the corner of the house and said; Here is your captain, get, you s—b, and presented a shot gun and fired, and in quick succession there were five or six more shots tired, some of them sounded as if they came from a gun and others were that of a pistol. We all ran, and when about half way to the gate I turned, looked back, and just asI turned my head, a ball from a pistcl struck me under the right arm passing through the fiesh, making a wound about an inch deep. Then we all ran into the road and Ed Russell and myself ran up toward the school house and met Dan Gingrich and told him we were shot. We then went to the residence of Hiram Johnson and called him up and told him what had happened, and while we were yet in the yard Frank Wright came down the road cursing. DAN GINGRICH’S STATEMENT. I was in the school house a short distance west of the Burnett resi- dence when the shooting took place. I saw the shots from the guns at the corner of the house, and saw the boys run. I then ran down toward the house and met the boys about midway between the school house and residence, and Russell said, I said Peebles. was oe and half over. some water, said he was bloody old Cleveland Bay stallion, Utility. | one of his sons, came to my house,| We then went to Mr. Johnson's This is one of the best bred horses ; two of his sons being already there. | house and called him up. He Farlington, in this county. ed from England was import- | Mr. Wright brought with him his | mal, being registered in both the | going to have his children imposed English and American herd books. | on any longer. He told meto go to! Persons desiring to breed their | bed and if they came to get up and | mares to an extra fine horse will do! well to call and see Utility. The wounded boys were then ex- ishot gun. Mr. Wright told me what | amined and it was decided the best and isa thoroughly pedigreed ani-, he had heard and said he was not | thing to do was to get a doctor. I walked out to the front fence and | mounted Russell's horse, and, as I turned into the road to start for tell them to leave the premises. | Adrian, met Frank Wright, who d | Then Mr. Wright and three sons | came riding down the road with aj procedure further discussed. quality; 2nd low prices and = 3rd itirst-class manner in which we treat all our /eustomers. ~ BVERYBODY -- HAPPY! fa hl . . . . . ° hat visit our store, examinines the quali- ties and learns the prices on our goods are made happy. We pride. ourselves, Ist on on the Here are some. HGURES - THAT - TALK. ——_———— | 36 pairs SHOE DEPARTMENT. Besides cur ial large assort- ment we have just received 9S pairs Ladies worth Dougola Button, 5, our price 1,40. uirs Ladies Goat Bution ), our price 1,25 Ladies Punnell worth 75 our price 40 cents. Ir 3,00. all worth | shoes Spring Heel, ary price 60. | Plow shoes at 125 a 60 pairs ¢ worth 1, Best Tanne price 1,90. | 10 styles tine banderchie ry calf worth 3.00, our lin Bates con NOTION DEPARTMENT. Brauch of the Rochester Bargain Co. ce each. 24 Inch Turkeys Red bandanas Sets. 24 Inch true blu Kerchiefs Tet. 21 “ Sets. 300 styles of 1} to Thets a rd wo m n + hosic one half price t Figures talk with us and remember our rule is should you buy anythig from us that is not correct in every particular cheerfully refund your money. we will Come and c look our stock through, we'll entertain you nicely, and if you don least have the pleasure t buy why, we will at of your acquaintance, Yours Truly, + ENTERPRISE SHOE CO. i. A. WEIL, Marager. shot gun on his shoulder. He halt- ed me and asked where I was going. T told him I was going to Adrian af- ter the doctor. He asked what for? I told him there was a couple of the boys shot. He were hurt and I told him. He said, yes go after the doctor, d—nyou, you are the head of this thing. I told him I was not. He the took the gun off his right shoulder and directed it at me, and said, I don’t want another d—-n word out of you. Norno more of your d—n chip. I then rode off to Adrian after Dr. Bates. When the reporter arrived at Mr. Johnson, where the body of young Christoleer lay, he found Prosecut- ing Attorney Boxley, Sheriff Glaze- brook, Deputy Shelby and Coroner Walls, and when he left the coroner has summoned a jury and was hold- ing aninquest over the dead body. Just as we go to press Prosecut- ing Attorney Boxley received a dis- patch from Sheriff Glazebrook at Adrian that he had Mr. Wright un- der arrest. Water and Gas. Believing the people of Butler would like to know what the water works and gas committee are doing, a Tres reporter called on Capt. Tygard, chairman of the committee, Monday, to gain some information in regard to the matter. The Cap tain met the reporter very cordially, and said: Capt. Hannah one of the mem- bers of the committee being absent from the city most of the time since the committee was appointed, we have not beenable to meet. How- ever, I have been busy correspond- ing with different companies in re- gard to the matter, and have receiv- ed quite a number of replies. Here the Captain exhibited letters from the Holden Water Works Company, Clinton Gas, Coke and Waterworks Co., and the Nevada Gas and Water- works Co. Of course this is only correspon- dence, but it shows that the chair- man of the committee has been at work and discharging his duties, and when the committee meets which will be ina short time, then the mat- ter will be thoroughly canvassed and & i asked which ones NOK PH SEDI SQUAR | The St Louis Republic's Wash- jington correspondent in extolling copgressman Wade's influence with the administration ve the follow- jing as anexample: “He yot Pete Shuur, editor of the News at Joplin j appointed postmaster of that town, and O. D. Austin, of Butler, post- | master at that place. Mr. Austin is the editor of the Bates County Ree ord one of the influential republican organs in Uncle Bill's district.” The above is substantially correct with the exception that Mr. Austin is not in congressman Wade's district but in the one which sent W. J. Stone to congress by the largest democrat- ie majority of any district in the state. and the fact his “influential re- publican organ” consists of a little patent sheet published somewhere on north main street, between But- ler and Adrian. COXSUMPTION SURELY CURED. The protracted meeting at the M. E. church south, is still progressing and the interest gaining. Sunday | evening the walls of the building were two narrow to accommodate the audience, and there was at least ahundred turned away. Rev. Shack- elford is a great church worker and if great good is not accomplished by this meeting it will not be any fault of his. The past week he was assisted by Rev. Harney, a man pe- culiarly adapted to revival work, and his sermons and pleadings were lis- tened to with marked attention. This week he is being assisted by Rev. Francisco, of Lee’s Summit, brother to Sim and Judge Fran- cisco, of this city. Mr. Francisco bears the reputation of being a pol- ished preacher, and a good worker at revivals, and as this is an oppor- tune time for a grand old-fashioned revival of religion in Butler, we hope to see much good result from this meeting. There will be preaching each evening this week and the gen- eral public, are invited to attend. O. D. Austin, editor of the Record, has been appointed postmaster at = place in place of C. C. Duke, re- some plan adopted by which the wa- } signed. The appointment was made ter-works and gas problem can be | Saturday. Itis presumed his com- brought before the council in an in-| mission will arrive m due course of telligent manner and the mode of|time. He made Butler a good P. ML jand we believe he will do it again.