The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 4, 1891, Page 1

VOL. XIII. BUTLER, The Dut MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER +4 1891. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . . + .- $110,000. Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Colleetions and does a General Banking Business. DEPOSITORY FOR COUNTY FUNDS In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make loans on Real Estate on long or short time at lowest rates without delay. : “STO K HOLDERS i John ¢ slayback, Ea rt, WN Farmer Smith, GL Liveryiaan $ Furniture dealer Smith, John f Lawyer Allen, Mra. Levina Boulware, TC, Phy Burk, Monroe Far: Gallard, J N Farmer Heath, D Starke, LB Deputy cirenit vierk Grown, Lala Jenkins, J R Cashier Turner, Mrs M KE Capitalist Martlett, Edmund Farmer RKianey. Don Ase’t Cashier Tucker, W E Dentist Wryner, Margaret Levy Sam Goods & ClothingTyler, W B Farmer chelf, H B Farmer Morrison. C H Farmer Voris, Frank M Farmer Coleman, Sam’! 1 Miller, Alf Farmer Vaughan. J M Capitalist Carathers, G A Farmer McCracken, A Farmer r Obristy, J M Physician McCracken, Robt Farmer v ‘ ‘k, Robert Farmer Owen, M V Farmer West, RG Farmer courtney, J M Stock Dealer Pharis, John Grocery Wolfe, Pattie Deerwester, John Farmer Pharis, © F Grocery Walton, Wm E Cashier Davis, J R Foreman Times officePowell, Booker Farmer Wright; TJ Capitalist bateher CH Prof Normal Sch Pigott, It H Bank Clerk Weiner, Max Boots & Shoes DeArmond,DA,M C Rosier, J M Farmer Walls, Wm.Farmer John Farmer car Walton, G nam, J Physietan has R Farmer Walls, JT am, Caroline and Eliza y Ineurance Whipple, NE Physi r, Isaac L. Banker Williams, 8 V Farmer WM. E. WALTON president J. R. JENKINS cashier BOOKER POWELL vice-president DON KINNEY asst. cashier LT Public Sale. Fine Stock For ates County , Breeder's Gazette of Chicago, Oct. 2 Having sold my farm, located six ae had ‘ Mr. Jobo Dryden, Brookly», Out., miles west of Butler, L will sell on | ene 2 i; fee * g : in a private letter writes: “I am no’ Thursday, November 12th, 1891, ee e 6 F ‘ sae, often without Short-horns which I the following described property: 4 : ) | brood mares, 2 mule colts, 1 two ¢an spare, but I strongly dislike to vear old Clydesdale stallion, 1 jack, | sell the cream of the herd; but when 7 milch cows, 1 thoroughbred short | a very amiable gentleman calls and horn bull, 11 calves, 40 head of hogs | after a day's pleasant talk looking eS a, donne cena over the whole of them, settles down imc ’ o] household yoods and other things | 0” @ few of the best and shows no too numerous to mention. disposition of grumble at the prices Terms—Under $10, cash; $10 and | one is sometimes tempted to divide | over a —_ palate oe yee be) him. given, without interest if paid when | MAG ay due, otherwise to bear 10 per cent | when a few weeks ago lw oS ted interest from date. Note to bear | by Mr. F. E. Kellogg of Rich Hill, approved security. Sale to begin Mo., whom I had never seen before at 10 o'clock promptly. His visit bas added another to the 49 2t A. Wattace. the large number of friends among | — American cattlemen. If you or your | readers meet him give him a hearty R OB BE D | | welcome, for be is worthy. Mr | Kellogg purchased two young cows, (one being imp. Vessial a grand daughter of Victoria 63d by pride of | the Isles. Ido not think that even !Mr. Burk could improve on_ this BY LEE CULVER, Such was wy experience | WILLIAMSON HANGED 4 Four Vimes Murderer Pays the Last Penalty. He Meets Death Quietly With a Warn- The Trial Executed Man. Ingen fis) Lins and Crimes of the | Efforts to Secure Clemency. Sedalin, Mo , Oct. 31.—Tbhomas A. | Williamson was banged in the jail yard in this city at ten o'clock this forenoon. Precisely at 10:05 the trap Was speung, and six minutes jlater life was pronounced extinct. The exec yu was performed | Sheriff Ellis Ro Simith. assisted by Sheriff A. Hornbrook, of Cooper county and Mat. Ayers of Saline county. There were seventy-five by persous present in the enclosure sur- |Tounding the scaffold) They com- prised the twelve jurymen who con victed Williamson, the ex aminers, lawyers, officers and news- paper men. The street in front of the jail was packed for a block with medical men, wowen and children, and the jtops of all high buildings in prox mity to the jail were literally alive The in keeping with hooting men and b police had a hard time the jail ; At the hour of 10 Williamson ap- peared iu the yard supported on either side by Father Murphy and | Sheriff Smith. When placed upon the trap Sheriff Smith said: Uncle Tom, have The doomed man stvod firmly, fac ing the crowd. Tears stood in his eyes, but not a muscle moved. Said ithe crowd out of you he: “What I am going to say is this: Lhave been going down hill for years; lam going to try to get to Sheriff Smith has been | good to me ever since I have been here | heaven. To all who have been good to me I am much obliged. Boys, boys, take my advice and be good or else it will go hard with you.” Sobs choked further utterances. He stepped back, the deputies strapped adjusted, and with a anything to say?” | his legs and arms, the black cap was “God have mercy on your soul,” Shemff Smith sprung the trap, and so Williamson NO. 50 NINVESTIGATION MADE The following day Ashbury Good S BANK night. August and Henry Breen-, lua few minutes they Se , Moore, with the skullcrushed. The 2 ae jentire neighborhood was aroused | ‘ae ROMER Vice-President jand a further search began for the a > esi a Moehe Sor ‘younger Moore. It was found 100) es iene a oiersas yards from the house, buried 18, a inches beneath the surface. The} DIREC TORS. skull was crushed. | Jusge Clark{Wix, Farmer and atock raiser. } An inquest was held on the re-| Sakae ee ice Eeatlercenainaraee a mains. Ina summer kitcher adl- aE A Be Bocce GURaEnEt Witeclene Company and fad Vice-Vresitent. the house was found a jul Ea nae We Rares al steak rainer low soaked with blood, showing : ae By, neater G | "01, . “ i j thatjold man Moore was lying in bed John Steele, | when the murder was committed. In a yrs | the rear was an axe, freshly ciled. | but showing blood stains, evidently es weapon used by the murderer. A warrant was sworn out for Wil | Receives Deposits subject g busine general ban Your patrona to check, loans money, issues drafts iStock Raiser artiage Works. D N_ Thompeon, President, farmer and stockraiser Farmer and stockraiser rmer and stockraiser, Cashier. , and transacte a ge reevectfully solicited. | iamson’s arrest and he was taken in| jeustody at the Salvation Army bar- | 5 : a parsnip bed planted over them. Alter the arrest of Williamson it was learned that in L868 sui- ao !murdered a farmer of Tazewell coun- below the surface of the earth with jracks an hour later. where he was | found at the poiut of death from a| | dose of strichnine, taken with mtent. . Jitnois, named August Koch, by \ILLIAMSON’S) MOVEMENTS : whom he was employed He was Sunday Williamson had come to f 1 t = urested, tried, found guilty and town. Monday morning he weut to} the house of Mrs. Mary Funk, a sis- ter of the elder Moore, and told her her brother had gone te Calhoun. From there he called at the house of Mr. J. G. Sprague and left a large pocket book in the care of a domestic, Rebecea Arnold, with whom he kept company. Williamson then pur- chased 10 cents’ worth of strichnine and, later, swallowed the drug. He was discovered, in great agony, and removed to the Salvation headquar- ters, whence, when arrested, he was taken to jail. The poison was pump- ed out of him and when accused of the murders he at first denied all knowledge, but later confessed, im- | plicating the wife of Jefferson Moore ; from whom the latter was separated, a woman or questionable repute known as Mrs. Anna O’Banion. She was immediately arrested, but up-| on her preliminary hearing was released, it being shown conclusively | sentenced to be havged, but Gov He and came to Mis- twenty years’ imprisonment. served his time souri. Williamson was first sentenced to case was appealed to the supreme court. On June 30 2 decision was rendered by that body conticming the sentence. Wilhamson was then sentenced to be executed on August 21. was entered, thus deferring the sen- tence once more. September 25 the supreme court fixed, finally, the date of execution on October 31. A numerously signed petition ask- ing for a commutation of sentence to imprisonment for life was trans mitted to Governor Francis, but the executive refused to interfere, and the law allowed take course. was to its he had | Oglesby commuted his seutence to | be hanged on March 20, but the, A motion for a new rehearing | | RAW AS BEEF-STEAK. ‘s Fearful Suffering from sease Covering Entire Body Cured by Cuticura. Ay baby was taken very sick three months old, and in a te breaking out y Skin when he worse ail the time; and then l took him to Jackson, to a doc tor who attends es- pecially to skin din- eases, and then he xot worse than every. ThenI told my hus- band we had better nes the Cuticura Rem edies any way: dia not have any idea they would do any good, but in less than ; Wo monthe from the time we began giving | them to him he wae entirely well, and not a | spotonhim His hair began growing right | off, and we thought he would always be baid- headed. There was nota spot on his whole body, face, , only his nose and eyes, but what was as raw as beef-steak. So poor that there was not anything but bones, and 80 ! weak he could raise neither hand nor head. Mrs. Frank Barrett, Winfield, Mich. Cuticura Resolvent | Tbe new blood and skin puritler, and greatest of humor remedies, cleanses the blood of alt impurities and poisonons elements, and thus remove the cause, while Cuticura, the great iskinecure, and Caticura Scap, an exquisite benutifier, clear the shiv and scalp,and restore | thehair Thus the Cuticura Remedies cure every species of itening, burning sealy, pim- ply. an! hy skin scalp and blood diseare from pin to scrofula, from infancy to age, when th physicians fail. Sold_ everywhere. Soap, 2h : Resolvent, Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation, Boston | Ba-Send for *‘ How to Cure Skin Diseases.’” BASY'Sh: and Scalp purifed and beautified i by Cuticura Soap, Absolutely Pure P ce, Cuticura, Of Butler, Mo.,——Several wholesale _ young cow very much, she has a | died. When he was pronounced} that she had no part in the crime. | E RHEUMATIU PAINS fee ibeicacrs. Nowisonie beautiful head and neck, stright lin |dead the body was cut down and} Williamson was then arraigned. | Inone minute the Cuticura Ant.- MOUaSe: NS hee Gite ; * i ecaatl at | above and below. prominent briskets, | turned over to an undertaker to be|He waived a preliminary hearing. | When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla eae mero would call it rebbery, but we se wanda great depth and substance; | prepared for interment. The funer-|and the November term of Criminal | When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, = ore uN good buying on the part of Lee, sho is, as the saying goes, “pretty |al took place at 3. o'clock this after-| court in 1890 the grand jury return-| Yhea she became Miss: she: clave to Castor. ~ They tell some remarkable stories whereby he is several hundred dol-jasa picture.” The other cow a/noon from St. Vincent's Catholic|ed a true bill against him for mur-| *"? she had Children, she gave thera Castor { alout the growth of corn in some of lars worth of groceries ahead, and | beautiful red named Sonsie, may be | Church. der in the first degree. He was tried | the Snes a te penile | will offer them at the following low | described as useful and substantial. At 11:30 o'clock last night Wil-|at the February term of court the Po at the Kaiser to day. e tells _ Waclesatonly a ieead She was bred at Maple Shade, sired |liamson retired to rest. He slept); -sex! year, was found guilty and REGuO REST 10 Brot Sie | “I saw,” said areliable farmer, “a ae ab d par 1 00 | by Victoria bull Vensgarth, and out /soundly until 3:25 this morning, | sentenced to be hanged. The case . iar man standing at the foot of a corn pes pa onl ar “4 00 of the Secret cow imp. Sultana by| when he arose and dressed. At 6]was carried to the supreme court. —_——— Wises seg Pn ead we 8 1 00! Pride of the Isles. She is a large | o'clock the sacrament of the hoy | That body confirmed the sentence| A firein the vicinity of Manchester, Pn sci is your corn?” I asked sth Java coffee 1 00) substantial cow and has been a fa- | communion was administered by Rev. | and set the date of execution for Oc- Mos doing great damece |” pela owe kuGw Ziwaethie reply, “4 5 atane ct abucklewcotiae 50 | vorite since her calfhood, when she} Father Murphy. The intervening | tober 31. Manchester, Mo, Oct. 30._News | just sent oue of my boys up to see, 2 packaves Arbue se 50} 0 : } 2 - x) ” . 30.—2 ; i Pe Sn ee yoreey “ 50 | Wou many prizes in the show-ring, | hours were spent by ..e condemned| While incarcerated the pocket- pene. to eae arin ae and I'm worried to death about him.” 111) Barley alles. 1 0@| Both cows had been served by the|man in smoking and chatting with| book before mentioned was recover- AL eae a ft wal “Can't he get back?” é {tb best roasted coffee 00|imported bull Sussex, which had | the press representatives, who kept|ed from Williamson's sweetheart. It|, 4 aie ate “No; that's thetrouble. The corn » best roasted ¢ : : : : long-continued drought. Fire broke | stalk’s growin’ up faster than he can. 2}tb best Imperial tea 1 00 | developed into a massive, lowlegged.| him company. He bore up remark-| was found to contain papers belong- Ro oi Nee meie Nei oa flats down! Besaa 11h tea dust ; 15| thick animal, with exceptional loin|ably well until one hour before the ing to the Moores, among them a between Gl a d Elli ill a . 31h lar 95 | and hind quarters. Mr. Kellogg al-|execution, when he had frequent | document in Williamson's own hand- ee pec oe te ee, ’ 31 lard set . = | . ane 3 burned in a northerly direction, de-{ | The importance of on aS 25 | 80 selected a beautiful Golden Drop | spelis of weeping. He showed writing purporting to be a transfer ae 1 ? fap raee keeping tite blood in 3 pest aGil 5 | heifer calf from the herd of my old | “nerve” and faced death bravely. ab a uthsictiasts of tke Moores in tne ee ee ey @ pure condition is * cans corn, fairly 00: ~° | friend J. I. David | ‘ i 5 corn in the field, hay stacks and universally known, Good corn, per can 10) friend J. I. Davidson, M. P. The} WILLIAMSON'S CRIME. eluding the farm, worth $3,000, to taileafotifencan g and yet there are Tomatoes, per can 10} whole shipment reached his farm 30) Williamson's crime was the mur | Williamson. His object in perpe-| m., fre finally reached the farm | Rat Bal seta Apples oo“ 10 sefety a few weeks since, and will,| der of Jefferson and Charles Moore, | trating the horrible crime was, with- of Mr. Tom Nichols, living about a} 20%, The taint of scrofula, salt rheum, or 4 packages soda 25 \ I doubt not, be a constant source of |-pather and son. on a farm three miles | Out doubt, to gain possession of the} Bie ands hall south of Ellisville. | for pentane cee ee 4 boxes sardines 25) pleasure to him as well as profit. | southeast of this city in May, 1890. } Property. Here the fire jumped a strip of | eeeiaoeanes poison and germs of dis- S 4 “ . =~ i - £ . 7 _ . ease from ‘th fi Lamp flues No. 5 10 Lightning Speed. | The old man was 58 years of age; ; ie MURDERER 5 cat plowed ground 20 feet wide and! breathe, Hatarpats ie , as Pos k ; 15 The Missouri Pacific fast — son 28. It was their custom to Williamson was born in Tazewell] q-ogsed the road. A cornfield eee ee eS the water Tr oucke! 5 ? é soe BG eusn : | we 5 Th Py ni 6) 7 ao that leayes St. Louis at 3 ®. m., and | attend —- ce 3 seen county, Illinois, in 1833. His father | first in the path of the flames and | Beanies puerers oo ie oh Gewese at Kansas City at 10:30. m Army in this ‘ty at one of | was a farmer. From boyhood Tom} geyeral auudred bushels of corn were | ¢!Usively preven Taleo have a nice line * waited tor the fast mail from New these meetings they met Williamson. | gave evidence of being a natural ‘The latter was” vited to share their | thief. dwelling. He did so. j than the Positive | power of Hood's Sarsaparilla over aii diseases of the blood. This medicine, when fairly tried, does expel every trace of scrofula or table a pocket cutlery which I bought for 50ets on the dollar, and will sell the same way. I also have destroyed. From cornfield to barns He was a member of the! and stables the fire fairly flew. and 'One Hundred and Eighth Illinois! in less time than it takes to write it York, yesterday morning at St. Lou is, and made the run to Kansas City) ee a : BNE a = a0) ie : | salt rheurm, removes the taint which causes I - Breakfast |i? five hours and 55 minutes. The May 14 Williamson and Charles; Volunteers during the civil war,! bis valuable home with nearly all! catarrh, neutralizes » ageney for Longs pakfas ; : : 2 Fee zi 7 : the agency for sor al peach fF train was under the charge Con- Moore, the son, went out. ostensibly! serving for three years His only! bis furniture wos in flames. | the acidity and cures Le a lelicate food for is a plain, wholesome, Flour, it ts epicure, it rheumatisin, drives out the germs of ductor French The ran fro to repair some fencing. The former! relative is a brother. who resides in) At thi ng the report reaches ! Blood “ ; Louis to Sedalia was made iu returned alor and told the old man! Kan here that Mr. K. Shotwell’s place. a! ™alarla, Dlood poi- economical food for the poor man. it as : : Ge ieee : i Z : soning, etc. It also t Lhighly nutritious food hours. engine N ph A. Taylor, bis son had goue to visit relatives in Uniil a year prior to his arrest for! quarter of a mile noith of the Nich- vitalizes an a is a sweet and lighly § foo me ‘ * : ' my eas - tori ‘ '. pee It Red iar con er Fr Barton «ounty. Williamson's expla- rder of the Moores. Wilham-/ ols place: is on fire. and that every-| Tiches the blood, thus overcoming that tired tor ehildren tis milied bot Com Fi ee te ee a =e : : = - : ce ae - ug, aud building up the whole system. pounded, and is just as wholesome Raby se Fun sas ation of his disappearance wa son lived with a wife three th iding §=1.000) bu of | Thousands testify to the superiority of Hood's t spe be the vember; 1 fiftv-tive unit In a few days the neighbors wes. 0 is city. One dav his wif se = , rm atmos. Sarsapayilla as a blood purifier, Full infor- it » Lot summer as © a See 5 e 3 : mation and statements of cures sen ‘ ~ ; aS, and 200, 5 ee ed that the elder Moore had peafed. Shortly afterward he| phere is. full of emoke, and thistown| oc ee yuths pay more for eggs and” pres au Fre le ae" ee © ‘ ‘ singe : Guiles Punstake ono clea un town tance was 3 appeared. Sunday, May 25. p hic} ¥ ¢ ted, fearing is re) 45 abser Chan ays stops and cha .a farmer passing the house city. Afters his srrest a speed was at y six L J LEE CU LV ER. miles an hour—a eet speed and and suspected ed the old place and found the The myste- body of Willi nsou's wife buried in .. Sarsaparilla for a road that crosses all the de- jrious disappearance of the Moores'a shallow grave twenty ock y | Sold byalldroggists. #1; six for #5. Prepared oniy > WEST SIDE SQUARE vides of the states.—S. Bazoo. nto be discussed, and it! the cabin door. only a consequence | °7C-L HOOD & CO., Apathecaries, Lowell, Mass. ! 100 Doses Cne Dollar \