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(OL. X11. BUTLER, ARMERS BAN OF BATES COUNTY, Southeast Corner of Square, (In room formerly occupied by Grange Store.) Cash Capital. $50,000.00 --President ice-President ice-President. - CASHIER Secretary .. Attorney D. N, THOMPSON K. ROSIE! BENNE! . KIP: Dr. J. EVERINGHAM. T. W. SILVERS, DIREC'TORS. Juage Clark:Wix, Farmer and stock raiser. R. J. Hurley, of R.J. Harley Lumber Company. J. K. Rosier, Vice-President nd Farmer. $s. Kierse, , Farmer and Stock raiser Bennett, of Bennett, Wheeler & Company and 2ad Vice-President. A_S. Rosier, Farmer. M. G. Wilco: farmer and Stockraiser. T. W. Silvers, Attorney at law M. R. Lyle, Farmer and Stockraiser. D _N. Thompson, President, farmer and stockraiser. John Steele, Farmer and stockraiser. J.J. McKee, Farmer and stockraiser. E. D. Kipp, Cashier. Receives Deposits subject to check, loans money, issues drafts, and transacts a general banking business. Your patronage respectfully solicited. ———————— MOB LAW. | prominent physician said to-day that — | there were not less than 2,000 cases Light Negroes Taken from South Car- | of weil defined “la grippe” in this olina Jail and Shot. city. Hesaid that it attacked all | classes alike, and j in Charleston. |S Dec 28 =a four out of the six members were mob of several hundred masked men | laid up with it. The disease. how raided the jail at Barnwell, C. H., | ever was of a mild type, and yielded at 2 o’clock this morning, overpow- readily to medical treatment in from ered the jailor and took out eight | three days toa week. : negro prisoners, charged with mur- | | \ ue Dec. 27.—The hospitals der. These were Ripley Johnson |” this city are crowded with pa- and Mitchell Adams, charged with tients suffering from influenza and murdering a young man named Hef- ferman and six others, charged with the murder of young Martin. The prisoners were taken out of town and shot to death. The jailor was tied and forced to accompany the lynch- ers. The whole thing wasdone in a very business like manner, the citie zens of the town knowiug nothing about it. A great many negroes are collected at the scene of the lyach- ing and more trouble is anticpated. inflammation of the lungs, pleurisy and peritonitis. Omaha, Neb., Dee. 27.-—Russian influenza is privailing here in an ep- ;idemic form. It is estimated that ' fully two-thirds of the population is | suffering from it at present. Boston, Mass., Dec. 27.—The in- fluenza is on the increase heye. It is | safe to say that one-tenth the pop- | ulation is suffering from it at pres- ent. Thesymptoms are more like | those of dengue fever than Russian Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Plas- | | ters are prescribed by the leading physi- | influenza. cians ot Michigan, its home state, and ! aap a7 ees are remedies of unequaled merits for | Baltimore, Md., Dec. 27.—Thirty rheumatism, blood disorders and liver | odd of the local postoffice clerks and kianey complaints. It comes with | and letter carriers are suffering from the highest endorsements and reccom- ° endations as to its curative virtues, |influenzaand are unable to work. Sold by all druggists. 44-1-Y" | Numerous other local cases of “la INFLUENZA’S SWAY. | grippe” are also reported. Chicago, II!., Dee. 27.—-The Rus- | sian influenza is said to have reached | this city. Dr. T. O. Summers, a phy ‘sician and surgeon who has passed | through two epidemics of the dis- | ease in Russia, reports that since last ' Monday he has had fifteen cases for i treatment. He predicts that ina | week the disease will prevail in all | parts of the city. . Many Cities m America More or Less Affected Now. No Serious Complications Reported in This Country. Paris, Dec. 27.—The influenza is spreading and is very fatal. The number of deaths in the city from | all causes on Christmas day was 318 | when for several years past the reg- ular average for that day has been Happened on Friday. Lee surrendered on Friday. | Moscow was burned on Friday. Washington was born on Friday. 200. : — Fully one-third the populace is ! Shakespeare was boi on Friday : prostrated. America was discovered on Fri- The editor of the Monituer Uni- | day. i versal and three soldiers died at the | Richmond was evacuated on Fri- i i day. Versailles hospital to-day. i ; ; ‘The situation in this city is excit- _ The Bastile was destroyed on Fri- ing the gravest apprehension. It | day. was reported this morning that 580 | deatns from the disease had occur- | day. ie oe red within the past twenty-four } a = Victoria was married on hours. The papers printed this re- | “"8Y- port, but some of them doubted the ; = ome Charles I was beheaded on igures, claiming that they were t riday. = aaa a Fort Sumpter was bombarded on Colnmbus, O., Dee. 28.—There | Friday. E are scores of cases of influenza in| Napoleon Bonaparte was born on ba city ‘ area snl) Friday. "a oor bes ae tae | Julius Czesas was assassinated on = eae Atchison, Kan., 27.—Senator Jobn | Friday. The batile of Marengo was fonght on Friday. The battle of Waterloo was fought on Friday. The battle of Bunker Hill sian influenza. i : W. tar AB Dee ar Ea fought on Friday. ees % Joan Are was burned stippe” has many Victims in this — ae te > stake on Friday. The battle of fought on Frida The Declan J. Ingalls, who is at his home here spending the holiday vacation, was seized with a cold this morning de- veloping mild symptoms of the Rus- AS the city. One large dry goods store 3 3s New has thirty clerks on the sick list. 2 Nearly every large concern here re- ports its prevalence ameny its em- é % : Was signed on ployes. H = _ > ' > E Nerves. Philadelphia, Pa.. Dee. —A | McELREE’S WINE OF ¢ ak Ner some families | The Mayflower was landedjon Fri- i Orieaus was 5 MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY JANUARY Facts Abont Human Lite. | There are 3,064 languages in the | world. and its ibhabitants profess jmore than 1,000 religions. The num-| ber of men is ubout equal to that of jwomen. The average life is about | {33 yearr. One-quarter die previous | to17. To 1,000 persons only one | reaches 100 years of life; to every 100 six reack the age of 55, and not{ more than one in 600 lives to 80 | years. There are on earthjene billion | inhabitants; of these 33.033.033 die | z 91,823 every day, 3,739 | | eve ry hour, sixt» | i one every se coud. VEuTs every iinute er | The married are the single and, ; ‘above ail, those who observe a sober | jand industrious conduct. H }longer lived than | Tail men live longer than short | | ones. Women have more chances of | Hife in their favor previous to 50 | years of age than men have, but few- | ler afterward. The number of mar- jriages is in the propotrion of 75 to; 1,000 individuals.” Marriages are | more frequent after equinox—that | is, during the months of June and} December. Those born in the spring | are geuerally of a more robust con-! stitution than Births are ; more frequent by mght than by day | as are deaths. The number of men | capable of bearing arms is calculat- | ed at one-fourth the population. others. y and Davis. H Miss Gibbs, a teacher in a south- ern college, wrote to Jefferson Davis | asking him to write a sentiment) which might se;:e as a motto for} Southern women The reply she! received, says She St. Louis Repub- | lic, might serve for the guidance of! mankind. “For my fellow country women: | Be ye slow to anger, swift to forgive | and hold fast the chastity that raises | the lowly, with the self respect that stoops not to the haughty. Jeffer- | son Davis.’ ; | This suggests a celebrated pas- | sage in Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural jaddress of 1864: | “With malice toward none, with | charity for all, with firmness in the! right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all! nations.” | Thus at the end, the two cherfs of the opposing parties in the might-| iest and bloodiest of civil wars ex- press a similar philosophy and a} kindred spirit. i Rheumatism. { jIs undoubtedly caused by lactic acid | in the blood. This acid attacks the fibrous tissues, and causes the pains and aches in the back, shoulders, knees, ankles, hips, and wrists. Thousands of people have found in Hood's Sarsaparilla a postitive cure for rheumatism. This medicine, by its purifying action, neutralizes the acidity of the biood, and also builds up and strengtheus the whole sys- ; tem. The Tariff and the Flood. In fact, Mr. Cleveland's publisked letters all bear more or less direcély, and always admirably, upon his tariff position, which isn’t as much importance as it once was.—Kansas City Journal. You think the tariff question not very important, eh? Do you happen to recall the inci dent in which a stupid fellow re- i marked, at the time of the flood, “Get away with your old ark, this lisn't going to be much of a shower!” | Great Scott! How it did rain after | j thai.—N. Y. Herald. | { } ' In its treausent of rheumatism and all rheumatic troubles Hibbard’s Rheu-} _matic Syrup stands first and roremost H above allothers. Read their medicai} ' pamphlet, and iearn of the great medie} cinal value of the remedies wnichenter! intoits composition, Sold by ail drug-} s 44ri-ye For sate cHeap—40 aeres of eood! i Butler. litt provements. A small payment d Apply to Some own | . | Peach & Sprague. The Butler Weekly Times. Men’s furnishings of all kinds still on our tables. can’t afford to carry over this large stock and must sell. Men’s Boy’s and children’s overcoats must go. Winter suits and pantaloons must of all kinds must go, and the prices must move them. Protits not considered. price. NO REASONABLE OFFER WILL BE REFUSED. Lf in need of men’s wearin o cas) for 60c is about the way we'll sell you. Of course these prices must be ¢ 1. 1890. go, Our salesmen have been given full) swing and apparel of any kind whatever, now is the time for making your money go the fartherest. .A $1.00 SASH down. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This stre than the ordinary kinds, andcannot be sold in and wholsomeness. competition short onlyincans. Rovat Baktxe Wiist..N.V a 33-488, Bridge Letting. In parsuamece to an order made ty the coun- ty court at ite November adjournedterm, and to me directed forthe letting of the contract tor the buikding of a bridge over Willow branch between section 12 and 15, township 38 range 30. The bridge to be the Mitchell Steele Wire Cable pattern, according to specifications now on file at the county clerk’s office, { will pro- ceed to let the contract for the above work at public venduc to the lowest and best bidder at the east from doorof the court heuse in the city of Butler, on Saturdsy, January Ls, 1890, between the hours of nine v’clock in the fore- noon and five o'clock in the afternoon of that day. All bids subject to the approval county court. DL. HAGGAED, wit fridge Commissioner. STOP AND READ wdermever varies. A marvelofpurity More economica with the multitude of low test. alum or phosphatepowders. Sold Powper Co., 108 the | Order of Publication. | STATE OF MISSOURI, ? a6 County of Bates. s In the probate court for the county of Batcs, November term, 1883. J. W. Ennis, admin- istrator with will annexed of John W. Med- ley, deceased Order of Publication. J. W. Ennis, administrator with will annex- ed of the estate of Jonn W. Medley, deceased, presents to the court his petition praying for an order for the sale of so much of the res! and satisfy estate, and tate of said deceased as will pa the remaining debts due by sar yet unpaid for want of sufficient companied by the accounts, lists ai T ries required by law in such case; on examina- tion whereof it is ordered that all porsuns interested in the estate of said deceased, be notified that application as aforesaid bas been made, and unless the contrary be shown on or beforethe first day of the next term of this }\ court to be held on the second Monday of Feb- ruary next, an order will be made for the sale ofthe whole, or so much of the real estate | of said decease:l as will be sufficient for the payment of said debts; andit is further order- ed, that this notice be published in some | newspaper in this state for four weeks before | the next term ofthis court. And that a copy be served oneach of the heirs and devisers of said deceased living in this county. STATE OF MISSOURI, ¢,, County of Bates. eee : I,J. 8. Francisco, judge of the probate court ‘heldinand for said county, hereby certify that the foregoing is a substantial copy of the original order of publication therein referred to, as the same appears of recor. in my office. ~<— Witness my hand and seal of said court 5 = d Done at office im Butler, 2th day of and December, 128%, ts$ J. 8. FRANCISCO, Judge of Probate Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, } A-E. Lewis, Administrator of the estate of | | John E. Stewart, deceased, will make final | settlement of his accounte with said estate | | as such administrator, at the next term of the c court of Bates county. Missouri, to be olden at Butler, in said county, es ith Administrator.” Cransceanbeneice’? pif Sern. is UPR j day of February, 1590. 6-4 Notice of Final Settlement Noticeis hereby given that the undersigned, | , administrator of the estate of Mary Eachus, | deceased, will make final settlement o ac- counts with said estate as such administrator, , at the next term of the probate court of Bates | county, Missouri, to be hoiden st Butler in said county. on the loth day of Febr . iG. J.W. ENNIS, Adminis: G-4t Farm for Sale. | the farm. AT TH —— AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. if * ie revatt We are tired of waiting for the cold wave. $20,000 worth of winter clothing, Underwear, Hats, Caps, and Take them along at your own Respec AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. North Side Square, Butler, Missouri. HGWATT&SON, Building Material Reducing Stock We All Winter goods tfully, LUMBER!!! Save money by calling on us for prices on LUMBER. LATH, © SHINGLES, ‘PAINTS, ——aAnd ail ——Our motto is HIGH GRADES _ And LOW PpRIcEs | oe z cays ne ae a = McElree’s Wine of Cardui and THEOFORDS 8LACK- DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in Bates County. Elliot Pyie “ Batler, J. W. Morris ered Bernhardt & Holt “¢ WJ Lansiown J_W. Andersor Wood & Gilmore M, Otto Smith Cc. D. Moudy JN. Bricker Pierce & Co - f rt S Rock viile Fy j 1 Ww. 1 = 1% Foss |