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VOL. XIII. ois ow STOW Hoc iewa BC tha aw AOEL even! OF ANY FORM | USE HEISKELL’S OINTMENT Tt hi red infaJible in case. from sim- ple Frimpics aotatinnts Ween also itching Piles. 60 CTB. per bex. 4¢- Send for ‘Hints for Kitchen and, Sick-Room,” a Landy Look for the vuschold. FREE. BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK TH LARGEST AND_THE ONLY NATIONAL IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, a1 SURPLUS, - - 25,000 00 $25,000 00 F.J. TYGARD, - - - President. HON. J. B. NEWBERRY Vice-Pres. }. C. CLARK - - Cashier DR. F. M. FULKERSON, DENTIS‘, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, Dr. Tucker’s old stand. Lawyers. Hi W. SILVERS, Attorney-at-Law. re Otlice over Farmers Bank; coor trom head of stainway., third | ee) ] ye ARMOND & guru. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in Bates and counties. ‘ Bea Office over Bates Co. Nat'l Bank. adjoining DARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORN«YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, town’s Drug Store. over Lans- DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. All calls answered at office day or night. alattention given to temale di Spe ‘Ey C. BOULWARE, Physician Surgeon. Office north side squar er, Mo. Diseasesot women and chil- a specialty. J. T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. fice, Southwest Corner Square, over \aron Hart’s Store. Residence on Ha- annah street norrh ot Pine. Potter Bros. BRICK LIVERY STABLE. An ample supply of Phaetons, Drummer | gcc: an farmers pa Wagons, &c. This is one of the best equipped Sta- bles in this section of the state. hour, day )st reasonable lesiring to put hen their when in the city will find thi barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. ing | negroes to a general strike | Mills and BANK! }caped and nive were capture | landing the selves and the prisoners surrounded by a crowd of ed and armed. prisoners at the hands of the depu- par | following short article tells a | | deal of truth: | take the tariff from clothi fed for $9? Bug gie ’ Carria EE g you that protect i mer, plow |r that sells in Cs \ first wo BUTLER, NINE MEN HANGER egro Leaders ina Cotten Pickers Strang U; Strike Helena, cousideral the | over rumors coners warfare in the county, catine body of cotton pickers er wages which culiutmat: Deputies bise ik Jesse Hodges, who been{with Sheriff Derrick last days, the reported that ye terday they succeeded in of the worst of the rioting Oats This evening the arrived in att locating thirtee inacane brake near The negroes had been tryiny to work ; their way towards President's land and thence to Memphis ealled u The sheriff's pou posse them to surren: arms. The negroes at volley of shots ¢ made a dash te escape. Two were killed. ts captives were disarmed aud piven in eharge of Deputies Mills and Hodges who started with them to Marianna, the county seat. A few of t found miles back auckley’s deputies them- They demanded the ties twenty-five to one, took charge of the nine prisoners, marched therm into a thicket and hanged them un til they were dead. It is believed that most of these negroes were from Memphis. Among the killed is Ben Patterson, who is! known as a crap shooter and all round gambler, aud who organized the strike in behalf of the pickers who annually go from Mem- phis in the bottoms. The alliance had nothing to do with the distur bance. It remains to be seen whether the trouble is entirely over, though the general impression is that it is. The death of Patterson settles it. cotton I have been a great sufterer from eatarrh for over ten years: had it very bad, could hardly breathe. Some nights I could not sleep and had to walk the floor. I purchased Ely’s Cream Balm and am using it freely, and is working a cure surely. T have advised friends to use it, and with happy results in every e: It is the medicine above all others for catarrh, and it is worth its weight in gold. I thank God I have found | a remedy, Ican use in safety that does all that is claimed for it |to do. Itis curing my deafness.— iB W. Sperry, Hartford, Conn y Tribune, 2 m The Jetierson C the great When a oni tells us that the McKinley bill jreduced the price of sugar tod cents | la pound, ask him if it isa fact that the government first takes 2 cents per pound from the people and pays it to the home producer so as to eu- able him to sell at 5 cents per — and still make a profit? The ;him the question: If free sugar such a benefit te the public, why not | a $20 suit of clothes can be purelas- ber ask him why it th that the 2 tar- for a netured it nada fo Bucklen’s Arnica before the Bei tish house | mons. ‘SPRING WAGONS, - Bain and Fish Bros island. | 1 ~ WILL PLOW IN HARD IFALL masked men, mount | MISSO URI, WEDNE SY OCTOBER Iss 1. R. R. DHACON, HARDWARE 4 Cutlery and Guns ~ FARM WAGONS, ROAD CARTS, THE CELEBRATED Casaday Sulky PLOW , PLOWING, WHERE ALL OTHERS FAIL Tin Plates. The Natior eschews politics in its treatment of al Provisioner, which commercizl questions, but whose ed- fue yor of protection to existing indus- tries, has been investigating the ef- fect of the McKinley bill the canning industries. It has also made the itors announce themselves as in upou a close study upou production of American tin. It states boldly isfmade in this campaign that no eountry except for and that ” the question of cost is not cousidered in that enterprise. It this part of the discussion as unworthy of dignifed treatment, tinplite purposes discards but proceeds to give its information on prices and effects. 19 cents before the McKinley 22.6 tray, cents. flask now passed, are now worth Square kettles, and cup which were 27 dinner cents cost 30.3 cents. A second size which cost 3l cents is now sold for 34.0 cents. During the discussion of the {schedule Senator Aldrich stated that and | so that} When a republican tells} in wo! jas the canners would save two cents | tin would not hurt them. but that j Uy > whole they would be ben- ‘efited, because the sugar relief was than the tin tax. The provisiouer, commenting upon “While undoubt- fruit canners have received an equivalent through the sugar | bounty, we fail to see that for the ;canners of meats, provisions, lard, | fish, in short all of those which are greater this point, says: edly the |canned with salt, anything has been done but to raise the price of tin- plates and consequently tin cans for (eae The duty on salt has not | been reduced.” Auother result of is the tax lard dealers to di to ard their fifty pound tins, becauselard packed od is one-quarter of a cent a ce |pound cheaper, and sales of fifty pound tin cans have fallen off sixty ent sy note alsothat Mexico s0wer imits duties and they express r that with her nuvadavee of wud fruits: Mexico Ttioen of a Five gallon lard caus, which costs { bill | pound on sugar the increase cost of IDES AT. Eric EN | that we have n } of ches apore, sufficient nid anust import skilled labor te make it until our learn the trade, it be- marent that the own worlinen comes ap; is gument that nelusive because it a strict- fin tax unnece will be & ty Theonlya Ivy revenue tariff, there being no home producers to reap a bonus. The bonus comes into Pittsburg hope to substitute lal in roofing, and so de- ait direct - firms w some other ing stroy tin’s use ion. Makes a A Sound Liver Well Man. Are vou Billions, Constipated or trou- bled with Jaundice, Sick Headache, Bad taste in mouth, Foul Breath, Coated tongue, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Hot dry skén, Pain in Back and between the Chills, and Fever, &c. If vou ay your Liver blood is slowly because your liver does HERBINE will cureany r ae the L , Stomach or Bow- has no equal er Medi- 75 cents. trial botve at Tucker's Drug Store. 44-1 yr. } The in one of lis peerless editorials,said: N. Edwards, “If the first hour of its demoera from the creation up to the not been the friend party present hour | of the laboring man, then kill it. If it lias not stood as a wall agaiust every land grant, grab every extrava it ut appropriation, kill Tfit has not a constitu- tional party in every boue and fiber. beeu secking to preserve States rights home rule and in their very essence ‘and purity, without which no repub- lican can be long free, kill it. If, in short, it has not been the seadfast and unselfish friend of the oppress- ov how, or kill it. But g been all these thingr, there is a single honest workingman to day in the country who would vote te y the demoeratie pa: whom, in what what fashion, if after havin ed, no matter by that same workingman woul d iur- der his father.” Hoosiers! Wy. aster of Ida- ville ctric Bitters | has dowe more for me than all other m edicis es combine for that bad and SIMPLE quantity | | the | or steal and IEN'TS, BUCKEYE Force Pumps, FREEMAN'S DIAMOND BARB Builders Hardware Iron, Steel, Nails and Wagon Wood Work. On A Dangerous Mis: 2 Boston, Sept. 28.—At a meéting of the Russian Nihilist Society Jast evening the member chosen to be (the secret bearer of dispatches to the headquarters of Nibilism in St. Petersburg was given his final in structions and was charged to bring back complete details of the political situation in Russia, and us it is be- lieved the time is nearly ripe for events of greater movement in the history of the Empire. The agent who will depart on his perilous er- rand this week, was formerly an ex- ile in Siberia A Cc Colt Wave. St. Paul, Oct. 1 —It is snowing in Montana and over a large portion of British Possessious Last evening the temperature was two degrees be- low freezing at Helena, and a cold was rapidly wave moving ward, The first snow fell yesterday morning. of the season in Nevada City California, near You should not be without it. 3 Every tamily is liable tohave a ditary taint of consumption in i late back 3 or even 4 ge first can re it gets a serious ho cn 3allard’s Horehound Syrup w in its early etges will cure cons: It is ranteed to bring relie ca when used for any affect throat, lungs and chest, such as co 1 tion, inflamation of the lungs, bronc tis, asth ima, whoopi ng cougr Ttis pleasant = take, perte can always be depended on. Sold by H I cre nator Plumb 1 tion that all the corn land iu this country which is located thin ireach of market, will be wort al a re before the year 1900. quite agrees with C. Wood Davis in regard to the future indepe: of ale American farmer. He this res is ine vitable in view of the rapidly incres: the cour tion of Plumb the land will and ie r the public dicts that an who owns It atry pr pr mnsidered savs: 1s taking be tznach, where an- renovated and time wor are removed. ‘his visit there after the fan fellows He escaped to the | ' United States about four years ago. east- ses the predic- He | of Jeff Davis. Miss. 8 d du Je » $395, was paid by the contractor lay after having laid in the depot re two m -The P Davis’ stat- ty on It wes quietly earricd to ipitol yard, opened and inspected by the Monumental Association. But it has net yet been decided whether or not it will ;be accepted. Some old of Mr triend Davis declare the likeness is 1 i good, while others say it is like he jlooked just after his surrender. The | bust from which the statue is moJ- | elled was made in London during It war. 18 of Italian marble, 6 feet high and weighs 1,500 pounds. The committee agreed to reier |the matter of zeceptance to a new committee of twenty-tive citize composed of persons to whom Mr. Davis was well known, Mrs. Belmont Manship, vice president of the isso- ciation, to name the committee. Consumption Cured. An old physi retired trom. prae- tice, having laced in tind simple veget his hands vv vary the tormula ot dy tor the speedy and permanent cure of Consumptica, Broncl: Catarrh, Asthma and ati throat and Lung Aftections, also a pou tive and radical cure tor Nervous Debib ity and all Nervous Complaints, at having tested its wondertul cv ers in thousa dutv to make it Known to his su ufteri Actuated by this motive anc desire to relieve human suffering, I w send tree of charge, to allwho desire this recipe, in German, French, or E glish, with tull directions tor prepariog, and using. Sent by mail by addressi with stamp, naming this paper. V Noves, $20 Powers’ Block, Roches bo es Gn 291) Time makes its mark on the tin- est human beings. Jean Iogelow ie how y-haired, little old woman of 63 years. She is a kind friend ot the poor, and at regular intervals givesthem what she calls “copy- right dinners” from the proceeds of her books. Startling The American people are rapib! coming a race of nervous wrecks, the tollowing suggests the best remed Alphonso Hempfling, ot Butler, Pa., swears that when his son was. speec! trom St. Vitus dance Dr. Miles, Restorative Nervine cured him. J... Muler, of Valparaiso, and 4 faylor, of Logansport, Ind., each ed 20 pounds trom takiug it. Mre. Gardner, of Vistula, Ind., was cured 40 to 50 convulsions per day, and ous protre se tles, and a. recommen qualed rem ion by one bottle. Trial 00k of marvelous cker, Drug Store, who tree Joseph F. Smith at last the Edmonds bill and renounces po- lygamy. yields to He says, “I have accept<d? the anti-polygamy manifesto and Le- lieve that polygamy is dead forever.” This descendant of the founder of mormonism did take much T wives LUMBER" never stock in the muitip! H.C. WATT & SON. Save money by calling on us for prices on i's: LUMBER. LATH, SHINGLES. PAINTS. 4rd a uilding Wate ——Onur motto is—— HIGH GRADES —— An 1 fal LOW PpRICEs