The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 17, 1889, Page 1

| The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. X1. BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY JULY 17. 1889. NO. 34 a $20 suit for ing? we never Best They all go. COST and even less. 50c straw hats at 35 cents. Our word for it Tailor Goods. Murders by Wiley Matthews. Ozark, Mc., 12.—The most sensa- tional report received here since Wi- ley Matthews, the condemned bald knobber,who should have been hang- ; ed when the Walkers and his broth- er were executed here, made his es- cape, was one received from Arkan- sas that the outlaw had killed two men who attempted to arrest him. It is stated that the killing was done thtrty miles south of Kirby- | villo in Boone county, Arkansas, and | P CLEARANCE SALE! “% American Clothing House, Summer Clothing, 33 1-3 Per cent. Off for CASH. By actual count, we have 160 suits mens’ Summer Clothing, of all grades, left on our counters. anxious to close out this lot, and in order to do so at once, WILL OFFER FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, ALL OF THESE 160 suits at the ridiculously LOW PRICE of 33 1-3 per cent. off MARKED PRICES FOR CASH. Our marked in plain figures and you off yourself, just think a moment, 3 1-3 per centoff means a 87,50 suit for $5,00, a $10 suit for $6,70,a $15 suit for 10, oar of such low prices for good reliable cloth- Tailor and of this springs purchase, no old shop worn goods, but the newest in the store. of our pants will be slaughtered in this fashion: $7,00 Pants for $5,00; $5,50, Manila straw hats at 75e worth $1,50; —These are the lowest prices ever made on AMERICAN GLOTHING HOUSE. North Side Square, ButlerMo 'to take very well with your people Weeks, chairman of the committee ' ' | | j j | | j i Weare very good are ean figure the discount 13,70. &c. &c. Did you ever did, and remember these suits are our nMiade Goods During this sale the remainder and 5,00, for $4,00; $3,50 for $2,50; &c. All straw hats at 75c and $1,00 Mackinaw straw at 50c How The Whipping Post Works. | Many Milhons in Trusts. “Our whipping post doesn't seem New York, July 12—Mr. James np here,” said Governor Biggs of | 0” unlisted securities of the New Delaware shortly after he made his | York Stock exchange, has learned great ‘short talk’ at the Tammany | | the number of certificates the various centennial. I told him that there | trusts have outstanding. The big- did seem tobe something of a feel-! gest turns out to be one of the new- ing in Few York against the whip-/ est in the family—the lead trust. ping post and other methods of six-| The following statement shows teenth century punishment. | the capitalization of the various “ Well,” continued the old gentle- | trusts at par: Lead, 83 millions; su- | kind of aman McClearney is; says | | for $5, | kept quite busy repairing machines | see his girl. | favorite piece, Oh! how I love thee. | to visit relatives in Shawnee; sorry | we could not go along. | with Miss Lizzie Embree. | bleeding Kansas, where his attrac- Ballard Squibe. | The binders are running all around us this week. All busy, but stillj | cannot supply the demand. The cate are falling fast from the effects of | | the rust, and some of it will not be| harvested, only mowed like hay. We | had anticipated a big oats crop, but j will be very poor. As we write we see the smoke a steam thresher over the hill in| Shawnee; suppose it is at Booker Powell's threshing wheat. Hope all | the farmers will sow a few acres of wheat this fall. M. L. Embree seems to be out of | luck, his binder is giving him lots of | trouble. Jas. Wilds is rustling things. Chas. Searight, we learn, is run- | | | i { | { } | ning his harvester day andnight. | Tom Short is the most discour- | aged man in Baies county. Geo. Price thinks the Drake Bros. are rustlers for—other people. | Sam Ford has a carbuncle. | Mrs. Gragg has erysipelis. Mrs. Wheeler suffered from the effects of lime in her eyes. | Bill Drake wants to know what he wouldn't have taken what Mc. did | but still Me. lived. John Dentz, our blacksmith, is | and shoeing horses, but still he will go to Adrian in spite of all, he must Judge Cole shipped a car load of hogs from Adrian Tuesday. The boys hauled them to the railroad Monday night. W. B. Cole says blackberries are fine on Peter creek. M. L. Embree goes to Montrose to-day. Eli was with his best girl Sunday, and looked as happy as of old, when we used to know him. Heis one of Henry county’s best men. What has become of Milt? we use to hear him every few nights as he passed from the west humming his Bud Kuntz, of Henry county, call- ed this week. He was on his way Misses Annie Price and Tiny Moshier spent a night in the village Jasper Moore has left us for tions are.- He is a fine boy, and we join friends in wishing him well in all things. Loren Whitmore says he does not know how she is, but inquire of Wat. Doc. says Jordon left him too soon, and would say, he had better return at an early date. Uncle Dick Andrews was shocking oats this week, he must be going east. Doe. Greer talks of going to Il, FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Southeast Corner of Squall: (in room formerly ———— by Grange Store.) CashCapital. $20,000.00 | D. N. THOMPSON, President, J. K. ROSIER, Vice President B D. KIPP, Cashier. DIREC'TORS. J. K. Roster, - T. W. Srivers, : J. J. McKzx J. Everryeuam, - Jno. STEELE, - A. S. Rosa, | D. N. Txompsoy, - M. R. Lyze, - E. D. Kier. Does a Geueral Banking Business.” Special attention given to time deposits and interest paid on same. from college, looking well, and no | his father's 8 Ror not far dintente doubt has a school for the fall and | Where he again repeated what had winter. We bespeak for Miss Tiny | occurred. The father did not ad- visé him, and shortly after he left. success. i i Miss Cole, of St. Clair county, is | Officers and citizens from all parts j of the county gathered for pursuit, and free threats of lynching were indulged in on all hands. The pursuers divided into various parties for the hunt and scoured the county in all directions, but their ef- forts were futile till late this after- noon, when they found the culprit in hiding on the farm of Obadiah Stronge, four and one-half miles from this place. He made no resistance to arrest jand was taken into custody brought boy of | here and lodged in temporary con- finement until he could be taken to | the county jail at Warrensburg. It was reported by parties here that a mob of 500 men was in wait- ing at Wurrensburg to take summary | Vengeance on the ravisher, but de- spite the warning to the contrary, he was forwarded to Marshal Childs. Lynching is strongly anticipated, as the crime is one of the most bru- tal in the annals of the country. The girl lies at her house in a critical condition and doctors report | her recovery doubtful. visiting at her uncle's, Judge Cole. Loren had to give up (but hated to) could not bind the hay or thet oats on the Marsh harvester. Sam Me. says Uncle Joe came to see him twice this week, and he re- turned his visit and added one visit for good count. Walt says its a mistake, he is all! \ right, it’s McClerney’s wagon that suffered the loss on the 4th. Tom found his end. Dan Embree is the lucky these parts. The Cole boys are rustling the hay to-day in full force. Sam Keirsey has his shed full of | new hay and several ricks in the! field. He thinks he will have 100 tons from 35 acres. Charley Greer called a few even- | ings since, he is always welcome. H We understand Mr. Griffith will | soon leave Judge Ballard’s for a home in Shawnee; cannot tell what the judge intends doing, but would guess on his renting his farm and moving to Butler with his family. Amos Hughes, with many others, i called Thursday, but J. B. still wears | the belt as the champion marble} player; with his K. C. marble he is; | rangers have been sent to Malta to uncenatul: | replace troops who have been dis- It seems to be raining all around | patched to Egypt. Four regiments us, but as yet none for us, hope will | stationed at Aldershot have been soon get a good one, as we are need- | | ordered to hold themselves in readi- ing it. Hom Bus. | ness to proceed to the front in ea gee eT | Egypt. R. W. Houx, The Columbus Fiend Ini ———— Custody. | Muldoon, Sullivan's trainer, says Holden, Mo., July 11—Officers | | he thinks “fighting too brutal” and arrived at this place about 5:30 | Be * ees se no more of it.” o'clock this afternoon having in cus- | j The world at large will propably tody R. W. Houx, son of William | 88tee with Mr. Muldoon—that is Houx, of Columbus, Mo., charged the decent and respectable part of | the world. Troops Ready for Egypt. London, July 12.—Nine hundred and fifty members of the Connaught with the commission of a criminal | assault on the 10 year old daughter man, “we are old fashioned people down in Delaware, and I presume | gar, 50 millions; cotton oil 42 mil- | lions; disstillers’ and cattle feeders this fallto see his wife's people. of Joseph Seidenstricker, a wealthy | Good boy, but we hate to have him farmer living about one-half a mile color is given to the report by the fact that it is positively known here short time before in Arkansas near where he is said to have committed the crime. No details of the killing can be had at present, but the report is | _ generally believed here, as Matthews | was well armed when last seen. The Best Snake Story Yet. Marshall, Mo. July 12.—A strange | hut true snake story, as Andrew | Campbell, the hero of the incident, | is above suspicion of mendacity, materialized here to-day. Campbell lives six miles east of Miami in this | county and found yesterday ina black oak tree fifteen inches thick which he was splitting up for rails, a black and white spotted snake coiled up ina hole in the solid wood, with no outlet whatever. The se- luded snake fought frenziedly, still ashing out wildly after decapitation y the ax. The question is, ~ id the snake get there?” How that Matthews had been seen a} | Wwe are away behind the times ina | 34§ millions; American cattle, 13} great many things, and rather set | iar Total, 219 millions ; in our ways. Now I am not an apol-; 2 ee aT | ogist for the whipping post because | Denison, Tex., July 12.—Last !I don't believe that Delaware needs | Wednesday while setting a brake, J. any apologies made for her people | | F. Woodard, of St. Joseph, a Mis- or her acts, and if I did they wouldn't | souri, Kansas & Texas brakeman fell | come with very good grace from her | between the cars and was dragged | | executive; but Ican tell you some} about fifty yards. His neck was | ‘ facts. | broken. ‘The doctors think with | “There is not in the state of Del- Proper precautions Woodard may re- | | aware to-day a single penitenitiary. | | cover. | If a man beats his wife or sets fire | A Calitornia Bear. | |toa neighbor’ s barn, or breaks into | Anybody can catch a cold this | a house, he isn’t shut up with a lot | kind of weather. The trouble is to/| |of other criminals with full time let go, like the man who caught the) and opportunity of learning their | bear. We advise our readers to pur- | | tricks of deviltry that he did not | chase of Dr. E. L. Rice, druggist, a} know before. As a preventive of | bottle of SANTA ABIE the Califor- , crime the whipping post has a much | nia King of Consumption, Asthma, | greater terror than a term in the | Bronchitis, Coughs and Croup cures, | penitentiary, and I havenever known | | and keep it handy. ‘Tis pleasing to | aman to come back for a second | the taste and death to the above dose. He simply leaves the state. | complaints. Sold at $1 a bottle, 3) | Maybe he comes to New York, 1! for $2.50. CALIFORNIA CAT-R. | don't know. At any rate he seeks | i | CURE gives immediate relief. The | ‘another home, and you may rest as- | Catarrhal virtue is soon displaced by | sured that if he stays in Delaware he | its healing and penetrating nature. lives a quiet life. To be sure it is a | Give ita trial. Six months’ treat | relic of barbarism, but it is our way. | ment $1.00, sent by mail $1.10. | or west. leave. | from the above place. Will Hooper supports a buggy. | It seems from what can be learned | John Hays says he done them all | here that young Houx, who is about | up at Altona playing marbles; yes, | | 21 years of age and the son of re-| and Ballard boys done up UTrich’s | | spected parents, had been working | champion player. jon the farm of Mr. Seidenstricker | Mr Branch reports friend Broad- | for about a month, and during that | dus alive and as full of fun as ever. | time had become enamored of the | Health very good, Dr. rather | latter's little girl, who is unusually | blue. attractive and ‘well developed for her | Dr. Mc. was on the sick list a few | age. | days, but convalescent at this writ-/ Onthe Monday afternoon of the | ing and able to attend all calls, east |crime he had been cutting hedge, jand according to a prearrangement, The young folks of Shawnee met | | the girl carried water to him about | at Mr. Allen's a few evenings since 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It was! and enjoyed themselves nicely fora jatthis time that the assault was j 'few hours. Mr. and Mrs. Allen | made. | know how to make everything pleas- Immediately after the perpetra- | ant at their home, and serye ice) j tion of the crime, young Houx went | cream and cake in excellen style. 0, to the house and told the child’s for another such an evening's enjoy- mother what he had done. She said ment. ' that she would have him arrested and | Miss Dalton, of the western part | hung. | of the county, is visiting relatives Houx replied by brandishing ae land friends here; she used to live corn knife which he carried, and; threatened to cut off her head. He | finally left, however, and went to! | | } hear us. Miss Tiny Moshier has returned . ‘Sa Take Hoots saparlla WO. Poses. VoeDahar The Chief Hensom for the great tuc- cess of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is found in the article itself. 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