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J. D. ALLEN Eprror. {.D. Atten & Co Proprietors, TERMS OF SUFSCRIPTION: TheWeexry Times, published every Wednesda: , will be sent to any edaress ane vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 t5y1- We are authorized to announce W.R. THURMAN, af Osage township, as candidate for the office of School Commissioner of Bates sounty, sub- 0¢t to the action of the democratic convention We are authorized to announce J oo. RYAN, of Orage towns! as candidate for the oftice of School Commissioner of Bates County, sab- cect to the action of the democratic convention | are authorized to announce JAMES A. BURKE, ofSchool © mmissioner of Bates County, sab- | ct to the action of the democratic cor.vention | FOR COLLECTOR. Weare authorized to announce ROBT, L GRAVES, didate for the office of collector of Mt. | township, subject to the action of | jocratic convention. Call For Committee Meeting. Notice is hereby given to the mem-| bers of the Bates county democrat- ic central committee, that there will) be ameeting of that committee at thecourt house in Butler on Satur- | day Feb'y 14, 1891, for the purpose of considering the time and manner | of placing in nomination a candidate! for county school commissiouer and | to attend to any other business that | may be brought before the commit- | tee atthat time. All members of | the committee are urgently request-| ed to be presert. L.R. Avies, | T. P. Crawrorp, Chairman. | Secretary. The Alliance people now say that} Senator Ingalls would have been re- | elected if he bad given them certain | pledges at the beginning of last cam-/ paign. In other words, while claim | ing to have defeated him because he | isa demagogue, they confess that they would have supported him if he had consented to be one for their -benefit.—Globe Democrat. This week we present you with the advertisement of the newly incorpo rated firm of the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Co. This is one of the largest retail establishments in this section of of the state. They earry groceries, hardware, queensware, glassware, stoves, tinware, agricul- tural implements, pumps, grass seed, garden secd, bard wire of the the best makes, anda large line of buggies, carriages and phaetons. Read their advertisement and before making your purchases call and see them in their handsome double store building, Emery block corner square. northeast | A Butte, Montana, special says: A vemarkable instance of the tickleness of fortune which occurred in this city several weeks ago has just come | to light. Dave Evans, a young miner had been to see his best girl Sunday aight. Returning home late he fell into an abandoned prospecting hole | and was compelled to remain until | the following morning, when in as cending by the means of a rope he) scaled off a portion of the wall and | discovered a rich deposit of silver. ; BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES. CONGRESS BEHIND. ‘Not One Appropriation Bill Sent to the President. The Present Record the Worstin Na- tional History. Washington, D. C., Feb. 1.—Only four weeks and four days remain of the Fifty-first congress and vot « sin- gle one of the thirteen regular an- nual appropriation bills have been both branches of congress and sent to the president But one of the-e bills has passed the senate—the army bill--which went through yesterday with a num- ber of amendments, finally passed by ou which the action of the house is needed. The ready for consideration. Three oth tions for the district of Colufnbia, have passed the house but have not been acted ou by the senate commit- tee. Of the remaiuing appropria- tion bills the consular aud diplomat- ic, the Indian und the legislative have been reported to the house and yINDOM DEAD. Secretary of the Treasury Ex- pires at a New York Ban- quet. He had Just Made a Long Speech When the Fata! Stroke came Upon him New York, Jan. 29.—Secretary of the Treasury Windom died sudden ly to-night while at the dinner of the Board of Trade avd Transportation at Delmonico’s. The Secretary was the first speak er of the evening. The dinner, which began at 6 o'clock, was completed | pension and fortification appropria sbortly after 9 o'clock, and the sec- of Osage township, as candidate for the office tion bills are on the senate calendar retary arose to speak. ‘tained the diners with a most elabo- er bills—those making appropria rate eration and sat dewn amidst the loud applause ef his auditors. ‘in the midst of his speech introduc- ling ex Secretary Bayard when some | one eried: “Look at Secretary Win dom.” every eye was turned inthe direction | He enter “1465. | the military academy aud the navy—| Judge Arnoux then got up and was, The speech was broken short ani. two others, the civil and the agricul- of that gentleman. He had collaps- | tural, will be placed on the calendar ed in his chair and was falling to the , early this week so that the general will be the only one left to be re- ported from the committee. | floor. festive revellers. There was an immediate rush on $925,000; trust companies. 38.969, MISSOURI CORPERATIONS. | rious Kincs of Business. Jefferson City, Jan. 31.—Seereta- | ry Lesueuer yesterday submitted to, the Louse the list of live corjora- tions doing business in the state, with the amount of their capital. Itisas follows: Manufacturing companies , $177,048, 732; private banks, $1,129,000; incorporated in $15,940,938; buildir and loan associations, $150, 00L; road | companies, S794,423.900; sireet rail! roads $5,071,600; depots, $2,365-000: banks, uulol msurance = companl: 900; telegraph aud telephone con panies, $8,726,600; bridge compa- | nies. $50, 645.500; total: $1,304,530, | Deere Tongueless Cultivators, Kewanee Check Rowers with futomatic Reels : Wood Frame Sever In tae estimate private banks. in- corperated banks and insurance com panies have paid up capital stock. IN DEEPEST WANT. Nebrashans Seck National Aid. and a Million Dotlars tobe Asked from the Goverment. Chicago, Til, Jan. 23.—Thirty- two counties in the western part of Nebraska are in such a condition of distress that Congressman elect His face was ghastly, aud | Bryan, W. A McKeighan and W. 0. deficiency and the postoffice bills!a cry of horror arose from the late | Keen of First, Second snd Third districts of Nebraska, are at Palmer house on their way 2s a relief com- While the present condition of the part of all hands toward Mr. | mittee to solicit aid fiom congress. the appropriation bills is mot eu-| Windom’s chair, but several doctors) “From the state treasury,” said courging as compared with the stat! who were guests nt the dinner got} Chainman McKeigbman, “the faim- of progress in previous congresses, there first and drove the others i ers of those counties will receivd no doubt is entertaiued by experienc jback. They were Drs. S. A. Robin- | $500,000, and we desire congress to ed members of both the house und ,sop. Durant, Whitney, Fisher andj make au appropriation of $ 1,000,600 senute of the ability to complete its ) Bishop. Dr. Robinson bent down) to give them a start in the spring. necessary legislation before noun of /and making a close examination of} What congress will do in the matter March 4. {the prostrate form discovered that|is avery unsafe thiag to predict at THE FORCE BILL DEAD. i the Leart was still beating. By his | and democrats. j orders the dying secretary was car- ; i Republican Senators Will not Call it} Tied ito the dish room adjoining | i i | i | | Up Again. i the bavquet ball, and there placed | on atuble. Messengers were hasti- Washington, D. C., January : The republican senators have ean- vassed the situation, and have agreed | that the election bill shall uot be . 7 jing cold. called up again. A notice to this! effect was conveyed to the democrat: | ic senators to day. ily dispatched for electric battegies, | ids many as four were applied to his bedy, which was rapidly becom. | This was exactly at 10:05 p. m.,| aud for six minutes the electric The democratic senators promptly sent word to the democratic leaders in the house. The effect was immediate. Every- thing savoring of obstruction and delay was at once discontinued. Both branches of congress ground away at the appropriation bill, and they will continue to transact the regular business from this time on. In the senate an order for the con- sideration of pending bills will be arranged between the republicaus | shocks were applied incessantly but | At 10:11 p m Judge Arnoux came out of the dish- room and announced to the diners that Secretary Windom. whom they had had the pleasure of hearing only a few minutes before had breathed his lust. “He is dead.” This was the fearful aunounce- ment that was sent through the gai ly bedecked banquet hall, around which still hung, like a funeral pall, the smoke of the after-dinner cigars “He isdead’” without success There is a strong probability of tie passage of the ssc — _ Supreme! The words went to the heart of bills NBR Coun ee: AmBOreADY every man that heard them. Could they believe it? The brilliaut ora- tor of a few minutes before, aglow Salisbury, Tex , Jan. 20.—From a} with enthusiasm, predicting his fu telegram received from J. V. Good, | ture policy in the treasury, was only trainmaster, the Texas ranger com la mass of clay. His pany was ordered to Salisbury and/eve silenced and his last words were & worse scared people were never! fer his country. Every man looked seen. Women and children repaired | at his neighbor with blanched cheek. to dugouts during the night and} Death, that awful messenger, had! families from the country came into | descended upon their feast and ta | town in droves. W. F. Huddleson,! ken from the erowd one of the na | a farmer, caused the scare He and jtion’s chief officers. A. silence fell What Caused the Scare. voice was for | Head one Solid present. The farmers were unable to 1aise suflicinet grains last -cason to save seed and keep the f from the door. They have practically consumed their entire surplus means aud I think they are worthy subjects for national assistance. BAD ECZEMA ON BABY Itching Awtul. Had to Tie His Hands to Cradle, Cured by Cuticura. Pore. 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They have orders for ih 10,000 Ibs. of Dried Apples, Bring them iu at ounce. Give them a trial and you go back again ‘ He leased the mine and is now tak-/ his boys came in and said the Iu-)}upon those who only a few moments ing out ore that yields $300 a ton indians were after them; that they fago were clamoring for news of Mr silver and considerable quantity of Were in and around their house.| Windom. Judge Arnoux on retiring copper. He has been offerred $50, |Huddleson and two boys mounted hadanuounced that Mr. Windom | 000 to cancel his lease, but refuses | their steeds and ran for their life, | had only fainted, and it was not! to sell. He will become a million- killing one of their horses by run-| thought by the outsiders that it was! aire, while the fellows who leased ‘ning him to death. They heard | serious as it had proved to be. the land to him have become hope- | screams from Indians and yells from; The secretary had succumbed to less lunatics. |Indians, and saw houses afire. The an attack of the heart. He had for Pains aud Weaknesses ‘Of females instantly relieved by that new, elegant, and infallible Anti- dote to pain, Inflammation and al! Aid Weaauess, the Cuticura Auti-PainPlaster ' | a MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION | Best in the World. | Awarded the medal for it ofthe result ofa epecia! election held im the city of Butler, Missouri, January 13. 1x91. is —) oe Notice is here by given that ata special election c held in the various wards ot the City of Butler, onthe i3th day of January, Is#1 an ordinance | passed by the council of sald city and approved se the mayor thereof, on the isth day of De- iency in work it of material i other sh table Me- S90. To Qnash the Indictment. ln the criminal court this after- rangers sent scouts to the scene of}along time been a sufferer from | action, 24 miles distant. heart disease, and only last Monday | cember, 1890, entitled ‘‘An Ordidance to rovide a supply of water to the city of Butler, in the County of Bates and state of Missonri and its inhabitants, | To-night the scouts returned from } had been visited by an attack which, noon Judge White is hearing the the reported scene of trouble. \Cow-| however, passed away without caus- | And authorizing Wm. E. Walton, J 1 | Jenkins, J.C Clark and F. J. Tygard, their For CENTLEMEN. arguments on the motion to quash) boys killing a beef were mistaken | ing much inconvenience. the indictments against Speaker F. | for Indians by a woman, and she put | When it was officially announced M. Hayes and Councilman Dennis |her children on a horse, and in the | that the secretary was dead Secreta- Bowers of the lower house on the excitement lost one of them tempo- iry Tracy at once went to the near- charge of offering to accept a bribe. rat ily, and that caused the scream- est telegraph etation and sent a mes- W. H. Wallace and Johu Beebe ing. Huddleson was so badly scared sage to President Harrison, inform- propose to make a hard fight to! that he did not kuow whether he ing him of the sad event and request- quash the indictments on the was walking or riding, consequently ing kim to communicate with Mrs. grounds that in the indictments sev (all the trouble and scare. |Windom and have her start on the eral different offenses are charged’ 11:10 p. m. train for New York. Kentucky Race Prejuice. (Tiiaigill. (bdngelthe widow to ths Owensboro, Ky.. Jan. 31.—The ae a e colored man who was installed as a/°''Y by ge elock in the morning,and member of the federal grand jury, not until then can any arrangements here was yesterday seated in the be made for the removal of the dining room of the Howard house! body. Fordsville. The white guests were)” very indignant and with one accord wots erescond iefi the damage See. An extra session of congress seems eral of the regular boarding also de- , unavoidable. The record of the clared their intention to quit the ho- present congress is said to be the : tel forever. worst on record. and having been committed at dif-' ferent times and places. making them irregular; and again that there is no law defining as a crime, a offer to accept a bribe.—K. U. Star. The force bill has finally been buried beyond reach of the most de- termined and persevering body- anatcher.—Globe-Democrat. associates, assigns and granteés, to construct. | g Haad-Sewed | maintain and operate water-works; also for 4 O00 ‘Welt shoe making and entering into a contract with said s 4 - ‘Wm E Walton, J R. Jenkins, Cc. Clark ‘ andF.J Tygard. their associates, grantees 53 50°" and | and assigns, for furnishinghydrants, and sup- s Farmer. | plying the eame with watar, for purposes of ire protection and giving eaid city an option to 59 50 Extra Value | 2 purchase said works Ajso for submitting this Calf Shoe. | proposition to the qualified voters of said city, ; for their adoption or rejection Working- was submitted to the qualified voters of said | 59 95 - | city of Butler for their adoption or rejection, | e man’s Shoe. 52.0 s and that on the 15th day of January, Isl, at a! regular meeting of the city council of -aid city L., Dongias Sioes for Gentlemen : it aud widths, and ail styles of toc. Lose cies For BOYS’ & YOUTHS, 22 & 91.75 SCHOOL SHOES. ess, Patton end Lace, sized 5 to 11, includ + abd youth's ii to'ls 1-2, also balf sae > Goodwear Shoe. | the city clerk of said city presented to the may- | or and council, poll books, ballo lly sheets 1 affidavits and returns made t ej i and clerks of said special el said council proceeded to canvass | as by law and ordinance required and did find land announce, that at eaid special election there was cast 544 votes: that ‘ For the Water- works, yes’’ received 424 votes and ‘'For the Water-works, no’’ received fore. I, J. L. Pace.mayor of : r Tra tnes before leaving | Missouri, do hereby declare. that said ordi- ion acd eaataeremiees 3 nance entitled as aforesaid, was at said special par d, put him down’as 4 frau ) election, daly ratified by the qu: ed voters ° i - — b hese 1 of said city, by a two-third majority vote there of. and that said ordinance, by virtue of said actioa became and is in fal! force and effect as an ordinance of the city of Butler, Missouri Done at my office in Butler, Mifsouri. this the Isth day of January, 3591 to RE OF FRAUD. Tf so, rea of all his ad prices and inferior good A lecal ngent in - re ue every city and town in the {. %. not niready occupied jecal adv agent cannot supply you. take no 4 Ivertised price. Ts der by Mail, Gentleme: = ssired. Ladies will please state style desired, size and oie hers, but seni! Mi state size pens ope aes rete Misses size and kind of heel = eras: x Mavor of city of Butler, Missouri. . Attest: vow, craves es MAX WEINER, Agent. Butler. Mo. i