The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 15, 1890, Page 6

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN LIBERTY A Liwyer Kiils a Stranger in His Office—Very Dark Case Against the Ex-Prosecating Attorney. Liberty, Mo., Jan. 7.—Jaimes T. Sheetz shot and killed John Lewton in this place to-night. The crime was committed above Allen's drug store and the first intimation of it was when the shots were heard by the crowd below. Sheetz is ex-pros- ecuting attorney and gave himsef up to the sheriff a few minutes aftr the shooting. The case is involved in the deepest mystery. Sheetz will say nothing. He cried like a eluld when he gave himself up in the sheriff's office. The sheriff and deputies accompa- nied him to his office, where the murdered man lay. A physician of- ficing next to Sheetz says Lewton came into the former's office several times that day. THE SHERIFF'S STORY. Sheriff Thomason was sitting at home reading, when Sheetz knocked at his door and entered, “He was very much excited,” said the sheriff afterward. “He burst into tears and dropped on his knees, clasping his arms about my legs. I tried to induce him to tell me what was the matter, but he said he couid not and continued to weep bitterly, begging me to protect him. Finally he asked me to go his office with him. We proceeded at once but he would not say what the trouble was. On reach- ing his office and stepping inside he pointed to the body of a man lying on the floor of an adjoining room connected by an archway. I step- ped up to the man and, found him dead, lying on his right side facing us with his brains oozing out of a wound in his temple and his clothes on the left side over the heart sat- urated with blood. Sheetz sank into a chair aud broke out afresh weep- ing. Isaid: ‘Jim, what does this mean?’ Still he would say nothing. T at once sent for Deputy Wymore and Marshal Courtney. From the appearance of the room Sheetz was no doubt seated at his desk, on which » lamp was burning end writing material lying as if it had been used. The dosk is on the west side of the room and on the east sides ~ was a stove, by which was | which the ‘ His c man vo doubt oecu- overcoat was on the THE VICTIM. The dead man’s neme was found - to be John Lewton, 2 stranger, who | arrived here a short time ago with } his wife from Illinois. He was about 25 years of age with light col- ored mustache and hair. . When Sheetz was taken to the ) sheriff's office he still refused to make any explanajien. Robert Cochran, who married | Lewton’s sister, said to-day: “My | brother Pierce lives on Vine street ® south of Nineteenth, Kansas City. » Luyton’s wife is my niece and is just past 15. She has been at my house since September. Christmas ay she wanted to go to my broth er’s. I went to the train with her -and noticed that John Sheetz got on the same train, but thought nothing ofit. Asshort time afterwards she ttold her story to my brother's wife and when my wife and I went to nsas City she told us the story. She says that Sheetz got off the train with her and went to a house on Fifteenth street, where he had a oom rented. They got there in the aorning and remained until nearly three o'clock, during which time he ed her. She went to my broth- that night and told the story. - Her husband went to California Yshortly after they first came here nd did not return until New Year’s day last. Friday he went to Kansas City and his wife told him what Sheetz haddone. Lewton came back urday and we talked the matter wer. He said he was going to have ~ gn explanation out of Sheetz and f he denied it he would lick him. I Aent to Sheetz’s office with Lewtcn _ ‘oonday night and did not find him. advised Lewton to let it drop, but ‘gaid he wanted an explanation bem and that was what he t after last night. Luyton never Qhe would kill Sheetz, but that would lick him. This is the story aall tell the coroner.” S ex have become very warm rl er ; . Harrison and Mrs. Wana- No Counsel for the People, | Does it enter the heads of the | voters who are not able to go to} Washington, that the sittings of the | ways aud means committee are eith | jer mere empty pretense or prepa | rations for an assault by battalions | fon the resources of the public? We send representatives to Wash ington to make laws for the gener g al welfare The majority o: the to be permeated with the idea that they are sent to legislate for special | individuals aud industries. If it be the duty of the general] government to promote the incom s attention ducts ought to engage the ess until ome good is ac complished for the imost numerous aud most heavily taxed class. For many days we have been reading about what duties the iron mine and iron mill owners wauted, what the jate and hemp manufacturers want ei, what the wool men wanted. That is, waht prices they wished to} charge the general public for their goods. Who is looking after the poeple? Who is calculating what they can afford to pay and what they would like to pay? Who is looking into the prices of farm products and the wages of labor in the thousand fields where the wages of the country ure Who is figuring out the incomes of farmers aud how to determined? make their scanty cash go as far as e ia securing comforts—a far | er has luxuries—for them-j and their children? Volun for the welfare of the people appear before the ways committee, except member of not means when occasionally sor the tariff sion to speak for a few minutes. He is heard, but with hardly polite} patience, and the chairman gets bacd to real business by calling the} next representative of a protected | business. }a protec a sman knows what the ty should be? The capitalisis al | ways sey the same thing—that must d capitlist be taken bef congres have the present du higher The coms 1882 reccommend reduct ones. s but 1 in a ‘ republican congress substitu In th: on the commissioz and if it be true th: gressmen are thirsty for knowledge, | they had what they sought. But they paid uo more attention to the report own republican commission they do to the selling price of i) wheat, and cattle. back | to the lobbyists and made a tariff to suit the mill and mine owners. The people were sold out. It seems that the people are not in this tariff business at all. The; iron man or the jute man guesses at a duty which will prohibit importa- ASes. of the commission—their | Wee) They went tions. He gives himself the benefit of all doubts and guesses high enough. The Pennsylvania school in congress at once insists that the guess should be the law and the whole republican party from Maine to Kansas says: Yes we must have prohibitory protection from Alpha to Omega. Farmers burning corn for fuel and iron rising. Farmers sitting at home voting the republican ticket and iron men fixing a new tariff in the ways and means committee. Farmers furnishing the wealth to keep up the iron men’s profits and the votes to keep up the iron men’s party. This goes on and the people areat the bar of the ways and means committee without counsel.— Kansas City Times. An Ohio Legislator Dyinz. Columbus, O., Jan. 7.—Hon. F. W. Knapp, the representative in the legislature from Defiance and Paul- ing counties, is dying here at his rooms, and his physicians, Drs. W. S. Kinsman and James M. Dunham have given him up as beyond all re- lief. He 18 a leading lawyer of northwestern Ohio, and was elected by 1400 majority over James E. Coulter, the republican nominee. This was his first term in the legis- lature, and he came here in good health when he was seized with the la grippe, which turned into pneu- monia. His death will cut the dem- Ocratic majority of the house down to five and to seven on joint ballot. jman W. J. Stone of this lauthority for the statement that he;}county is examining the evideuce ways and means committee seem |, | to be governe Of citizens the price of farm pro-| orm league get permis- ; How often must the testimony of | ¢ CONGRESSMAN STONE’S PLANS The Present Representative Preparing | to Work for Higher Positions. H Nevada, Mo., Jan. 8.—The friends and political backers of Congre city, are at the ex- term aud} will retire from congress piration of his present k the n on of stat understood that he has an ambition | rder to step from | Es uate. | state himself } way h i with s i from quai workers whom heretofore he has never met. | Itis a fact that the present state | ox, the Hon. Barry G. Ti man of Barton county, does net want the place again, and farther, that Vernon county is entitled to it by order of preceience, and ther-} fore Colonel Stone stands fair chance of election, should not | a pretty | some stronger man from this county enter the race. The names of Judge C. T. Davis and ex-state senator S. A. Wight have beea mentioned for | the place, and as both are very pop-| ular throughout the district the in- dications are that Cougressiman Stone will have no wall Mr. Stone’s » mentioned for this county, which o would satisfy his purpose. hes also been} tive from | uo doubt} and. | he war | A‘chison, Kan. - Lis being inade on i e.-vator and commission busi: of this | section: by the F ce is} | approaching a ¢i rrow | demands will be uid Missouri, tes for elevator privilege: wood aliance doc Rot p friend Sir, Requa, stepped up land gave his check 0 to pay 1 pose to buy and seli x y MUL Srive) ply to store, clean and ship. Heleaa, Mont., Sav. 7.—When the |" legislature met this morning in joint | session diligent efforts on the pert | of Clarke and friends tc to Gt - ram had prevailed, and on the firs: | ballot Clarke and Maginnis were elected democratic seuaters from Montana by a vote of thirty-seven each. The Hon. A. W. Clarke, president of the late constitutional convertic: of Montana, is 2 well-known banker | | and mine owner of Butte. Martin Maginnis has repeatedly represeut- ed Montana as a delegate in con- gress. Governor Toole, it is said, will sign the certificate of their election but secretary of state Rotwitt will refuse official authentication and withhold the state seal. Fight With a Wolf. Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 7.—Sunday afternoon in the Boston mountains, some twenty miles north of here, two boys named George and Charles Gray were out in the woods, and found what they supposed were two puppies lying under the ledge of a rock. They caught the animals, whith snarled and bit viciously, and started home. The supposed pup- pies were a pair of cub wolves, and before the boys had gone far they were suddenly attacked by a large she wolf, mother of the cubs, and both were terribly bitten and scratched. The boys drew their pocket knives in self-defense, and after a hard fight killed the wolf. Save your stamps. Every letter that goes to Tennyson asking for his autograph is thrown into the fire. Autograph people and tuit hunters have never had" much suc- cess with the laureate. : ey the ace], le | Robert Frous, a well LL INDICTMENTS COME? The Post Dispatch Hot Atter the Al- ledged Legislative Beedlers JeZerson City, Mo., Jan.§8.—Pros ecuting Attorney Davidson of Cole laid before him by a representative Si. Louis Post-Dispatch of upt use of money in the leg- last winter to defend the The Post-Dis- considerable of the meat inspection bill. have patch claims to dam: - to be submiited v of Cole coun- rs that the St. $3,000 to seal in ting the passage of : raised about 1 which eff: required an inspection o live stock d for slaughter the city in meat was to be offered for sale, a proviso bemg included in the bill to exempt farmers from its It was directed against f and packing house provisions. the dressed bee interest aud aimed to protect local butchers from outside competition. It passed the house and when it came up in the senate it was badly defeated. There was plenty of talk of boodle during the time when the bill was pending and perhaps there was more or jess truth in some of the charges and Prosecuting Attorney Davidson muy find sufficient ground fora num- The next grand until May, ber of indictments. jary will not assemble but ther term aud jury if there is sufficient uiade to is soine talk of a special foundatic the cha Waiiaut tuat proceed An Absolute Cure. Phe ORIGINA ABIETINE OINT- ENP is only put up in] : oxes, and is anabsolu yurns, wounds, ch kin eruptions. Will positively for the OR- a= Sols F3 a true ted in thus city to- » generosity 0 Edward N «a leading furmer and Requa for many rhas been unfortunate in his financial deals lately. Among his jereditors was one to whom he was ig indebted tor $25 Mr. Requa ue here to-day and informed this x that he | 120 head of s winen he would ass over in order to satisfy At this juncture known citizen i this city, and a warm personal ob aud tural »Mr. Requa said: “Pave thos: hogs and if at th think you owe uything, all welland good. Do lease.’ A noble and warm : the breast of Robert 2 Demo of five years yo ie i aD t be The Rawlins farmer re- counly fuses to sell his corn because he ean get only eight cents per bushel for s it in preference be- s worth thirty cents per so lives in sod houses because lumber is worth $35 a thou A little over a year ago the Rawlins couuty er whoop ed up a big majority for « high pro- tective tanff which puts a tax on coal and luinber, and lets corn take eare of itself. Result: Coal 30 cents lumber $35 and corn cight cents — Atchison, (Kas.,) Globe. sand feet The United States Senate. Washington, Jan. 8.—In the Sen- ate to-day Senator Vorhees spoke to his resolution calling for an investi- gation of the “blocks of five” charg- es against Colouel Dudley of Indi- ana. He characterized Dudley’s conduct as infamous and said that President Harrison was the benefic- iary and instigated the very ‘rauds the rewards of which he is now en- joying. Thesenator was very bit- ter. AScrap of Papersaves Her Life _It was ust an ordinary scrap 0° wrap- ping paper. but it saved her lite. She was in the ast stages of consumption, told by phvsicians that she was incura- ble and could live ouly a short time; she weighed less than ~eventy pounds. On a scrap of paper she read of Dr. King’s w Discovery, and got a sample bottle; t helped her, she bonghl a large bottle, t helped more, bought another andj grew better tast, sontinued its use and | is mw streng, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 140 pounds. For fuiler parti ulars send stamp to W. H. Cole, arug- gist, Ft.Smith. 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