The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 7, 1891, Page 7

—— _ 4 4 | | i | knocked at Cameron, Mo BUTTER WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS ) The Woods local option has been eee | Bring yout hickory nuts to Sas. | Smith at A L. MeBride’s, and yet! cash for same. | If you want 4 fine Thanksgiving | or Christmas turkey call on Mrs Laura Concklin at Passaic, Mo | We understand that our friend Mayor Pace will go into business in the city and we wish him success.— Detaocrat. | W. W. Concklin, son of Chas. S. Concklin, left Monday for Neosho where he enters Scarret College for a four years eourse. Mrs. Laura Conklin has seme very fine Bronze turkeys which she will sell reasonuble. See advertise ment in anotuer column. W. O. Jackson sr, and daughter, Mrs. Phelps, of Bloomfield, Iowa, father and sister, to Attorney W. O. Jackson of this city, Spent several days in tewn last week. Chas. S. Concklin informs us that he has broken eight head of weaning colts to drive. Had McFarland Bros- to make harness to order. Charley is very proud of his little drivers. Uncle Marion Todd, of West Boone, one of the best democratic workers ip the county, tried an 1 true for principal not for the hope of gain, complimented us Monday. sake and Judge DeArmond informs us that all arrangements for putting up the three brick store rooms on the Dix- on corner are being perfected as fast as possible, and that it is the inten- tion to have the building completed and ready for occupancy by Christ- mas with no bad luck. Miss Belle Ross, the charming daughter of W. W. Ross, and Lete Sackett, a prominent young railroad man of Marked Tree, Ark., were married at Memphis, Teun., last Wednesday. W. W. Ross accompan- ed his daughter to the latter place and witnessed the ceremony. CP. Baldwin, of Jacksonville, Ills, traveling freight agent of the Jacksonville Southeastern Railway, game in from Chicago Monday in response to a telegram that his brother, T. P Baldwin was in trou- ble. He was accompanied by J. L. Morrison Esq., attornsy his road. for Yeur attention gentlemen, just a minute. We ask you tv look over the mammoth advertisement of A. E. Blachert. He has thrown his winter stock of clothing oun the market which is fresh from the manufac tories, and if you fail to call and see him before buying you are stand ing in your own light, for he has all the latest styles in dress suits anda large and handsome line of overcoats. Prices no object as he bought the goods to sell and not to look at. Call and see him, just west of the Palace hotel, north side. Sam'l Levy, the great dry goods merchant of southwest Missouri, is talking cloaks this week to the ladies and what they say in their advertise- ment can be depended upon. For rich goods and fine assortment their stock is not excelled. Their stock has just been received from New York, and embraces all the latest styles in the stock line. Now is the time to buy. Now is the time for bargains and the ladies should not delay iu taking advantage of the op portunity. They are glittering beau- ties and the latest fads. them, aud to see them is to buy. Go and see J. A. Florence, of Kansas City, traveling reporter for the mercantile agency of R. G. Dunn & Co., who has been spending several Jays in the city on business left Monday. While in our office Monday he said: **Well you have a good town. — In short it} is the best town and your busi: | 8 | | | tmenare in better shape thau any place I haye visited in southweet| Missouri The compliment to our city and business men coming. as it did from a man thoroughly posted as to the standard of business and wealth of every town in the section of the state should be highly appre- Ciated by our people. TOM BALDWIN SHOOFs Hal Evans And Empties His Re- yolver At Cy Patten. Cause of the Trouble Unknown. | On Friday evening last abeut 9 ‘o'clock our citizens were aroused by four pistol shots, fired in rapid sue- | cession, on the northwest corner o the square. The shots were tired by T. P. Baldwin, and Hal Evans stop ped one ot the balls. but the other three failed to overtake Cy Patton Policeman Dick Wright was on the ground by the time the last shot was *| fired and promptly plased Mr. Bald Hal Evans walk ed to Hobbs’ restaurant, ou the west side of the square, and Dr. J. T The doctor found that the ball had entered in front and had gone entirely through the left shoulder, and lodged under the skin, where it was removed. The wound, while very painful is not nec- essarily dangerous. Mr. Baldwin was placed in the calaboose, but his friends went his bond and kept him guarded at the Arlington hotel until morning, when he was taken before Squire Wright and gave bond in the sum of $1,000 to appear for trial on Thursday. The cause of the shdoting is a mystery, and as Mr. Baldwin has been counseled by his lawyers to re main silent, it will probably not be known before the trial It seems the trouble begun at Mr. Baldwin's house, the young gentlemen had gone to cal! on Miss Cooter, of Holden, who was visiting Mrs. Baldwin. curred and the cause leading up to same is best told by the evidence of those present. win under arrest. Walls was summened. where two CY PATTEN'S STATEMENT. Cy Patten says that he and Hal Evans were on the street together Friday afternoon and met Mrs. Bald | win and Miss Cora Cooter on the south side of the square, that Mrs. Baldwin invited them to call on M went east around the square, and he and Hal went around the square in the opposite direction to the post | That when they returned to| office. the north side they overtook the ladies in front of Weil's shoe store and Mr. Baldwin and Miss’ Lizzie Hornberger were with them. They all walked together to the northwest corner of the square, when Evans asked Miss Hornberger to go with him to call on Miss evening, but Miss H. engagement. Don't know whether Mr. Baldwin heard that or not. Mr. Baldwin appeared to be in a good humor at that time. Later Cy and Hal concluded to call that evening and Hal got in a buggy with Jap Pierce and drove down to Mr. Bald- win's to ascertain if that arrange Cooter ment was agreeable with the ladies | Hal says he met Baldwin coming up tewn. The ladies both gave him permission to call. When they call ed at about eight o'clock Miss Cooter was alone in the parlor, but in a few minutes Mrs. Baldwin camein. They had been seated probably 20 min- utes when they heard the front gate shut, but as ne one came up the walk they attributed it toa passer- by shutting the gate. shortly after- wards Mrs. Baldwin went out and they heard angry voices and a pistol was fired. Almost immediately Mr. B. appeared at the door pistol in hand, with his wife trying to hold him. discretion the better part of valor, they left and hesitated not on the order of leaving They walked as far as Gee. Smith's house, in the north part of town, and then returned to the square. They coneluded to return to Bald- win’s and learn the cause of their being run off. As they turned west hy the Bates Co building they met with a lantern and turned around Considering National Bank Win Hickman to speak to him when Baldwin came up to them and immediately began to shoot. The first shot bit Hal and he turned his pistol on me. Iran acress toward Sisson’s stable and around by the Palace hotel. I dig- tinctly heard the bullets whistle by my head. Tom Baldwin aud I were on the very best of terms and I thought him my friend. Dou't know why he should thus make s tempt on wy life ery HAL EVAN'S STATEMENT Hal Evans, the young man wounde What oe-| that | had another | | ed, was seen at the home of his fath- | er bya reporter for the Ties and | | made the following statement: } ; “On the eveuing of the difficulty j | Cy Patton and I met Miss Cooter, | | Miss Lizzie Hornberger and Mrs. T. | |P. Baldwin atthe “merry-go-round” | on the south side of the square. We! ltalked to them a few minutes and | Mrs. jcall on Miss Cooter iwe would. ' | Weafterwards met then again on | | the north side Mr. Baldwin was with them, when) the invitation to call tended aud ML objections j After they left us Cy and I con- cluded to call that evening, and see ing Jasper Pierce in bis buggy ask- | e@lhimto drive me to Baldwin's | house. | Baldwin asked us to come and We told ber | of the square, and Was again ex | Baldwin entered uo He did so and on arriving | there Miss Cooter met me at the and ~ asked her if it} would be agreeable for us to call | that evening. She said it would, and | Mrs. Baldwin who was in the house | also invited door So I came jback uptown and got Cy and we went down about 8 o'clock. | We had been at the house about | one hour when Baldwin came home | We heard some one walk around | the house and Mrs. Baldwin said she | thought the screen to the back door} was fastened and excused herself to) go and open it. She was gone a little bit and we} heard the shot, and it appeared to us she was trying to hold some one. } | We hear loud talk aud} knew from the voice it was Baldwin. | Then they came round us down. could the house | tothe front door avd Miss Cooter went out. We heard Baldwin say he would get them or something like that, and Cy and I concluded he meant us and took our hats and went out the back door and made our escape through Tom Fisk’s back yard and came up town We did not think he was after us snd in talking the matter over eon- | cluded we would go back down in i the neighborhood and find out if we Cooter at her house. That the ladies! could the cause of the trouble. We started down Ohio street and when about midway of the Bates county national bank we passed Win Hick- man, who had a lantern and was go- jing east. The light of the lantern | blinded us a little and at the back | stairway of the bank Baldwin came up on us and as we turned around he fired. The first ball struck me | and I fell in the stairway of the bank. | He then began to fire at Cy, who I then got up and walk- }ed to Hobbs’ restaurant. | | i | van away. “What had Baldwin against you?” | “Nothing that I know of. We | have always been ou good term. If he had anything ugainst me I did not know it. I am sure I had noth- jiug against him. So I cannot une | derstand why he acted as he did. | Or why he didn’t shoot through the windews or doors as they were up }and open. George Smith: I met Acy Culver | ou the north side of the square and he told me he was hunting Tom Baldwin. He and I eame down on the west side and met Tom. He was very much excited and had evi- dently beeu drinking. He left up and went across to the corner saloon. We hunted up Dick Wright and while we were talking to him the | sheoting began on the northwest corner Acy Culver said: I ama neighbor of Tom Baldwin. After the trouble at his house I followed him up jtowu. Told Oscar Heinline to ge around on the east side and find | Dick Wright, aud George Smith and |1 went around on the west side. Met} Tom and asked him where he was going, said he was taking a walk. I} {told him I would walk with him, but ‘he said he didn’t want me and he i | then went across to the “Goose” sae 1 Noon. I found Dick Wright and | j while we were talking I heard the} | 2 | shooting. i This is a very deplorable affair. | ithe best in the city. lisa promising young | at the head of | ment it the lar a c | Bennett, Wheeler & Co, while his) | wife is a beautiful and amiable | |woman. They have been married jenly a few months Parkinson & Graves have been re- |tained by Mr. Baldwin to conduct his defense. families of all parties are among Mr. Baldwin business mar, grocery dep i | | | | { —s YOU = Boots & Shoes, If not, you are doing yourself an injustice. We have but recent- ly added our SHOE DEPARTMENT you know, and are aware of the fact that the perce is the only magnet that will draw you from others to us. Those who have seen our stock, tell us that our prices .zrz much lower than they’ve been used to and We feel very much gratified at our success so far—our sales being much they must have thought so from the way they bought. larger than we anticipated. ur52.00,09 & 02.50 Mens’ Calf Shoes must be “hummers” from the way they sell. We've duplica- They are made to our order on the latest style lasts and have all the appearance of much higher priced shoes. ted our orders on them already. In addition to our regular lines, we offer the following extraor- dinary bargains from the stock of J. BAUM & CO., large manufacturers of Boots and Shoes in St. Louis, who failed about three months ago and whose stock was sold at public auction by the sheriff. Childs red top bootssize9 to 10 regular price $1, 75. our price Youth =“ “ 11 to 13 = 1 25 “ $1 00 Youth full stock kip 11 to 13 4: 2 00 “ I 25 Boys Spht boots 1 to 5 4 7 “ 1 25 Men’s split boots saddle seam, * 1 75 - I 25 Men’s full stock kip boots saddle seam, 2 50 “« 200 Men’s full stock calf boots saddle seam, 2 75 ‘“ 200 Meu’s full stock calf shoes, all solid 2 50 “ 900 Men’s B ealf bal. shoes all solid 2 00 “ 1 35 Remember these are not “job lots,” but fresh new goods bought You'll find the Come in and bring all the boys and girls. Wellfit you out for very little money, quality considered. AMERICA CLOT a at sheriffs sale and much below their real value. prices right on our school shoes. T 1 GOOD CLOTHES AND SHOES. riecaernenreinevsonmend L