The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 11, 1891, Page 5

LOCAL ITEMS Mrs. Abell, who was taken quite ick last week is on the mend. Miss Zoe James, teacher in the gest school, was quitesick last week. Mrs. C.F. Pharis is visiting her sister Mrs. Geo. Wilson of Kansas City. | Geo. B. Newberry and wife, of Deep Water, were in the city Fri- day. | | Miss Myrtle Catterlin, daughter of John Catterliu is attending college at Marshall. Private dwellings should take the dectric light as well as the business houses. The elections last week dismisses the idea of a people's party for 1892, beyond a doubt. Trade was exceptionally good in Butler Saturday, and the city was crowded with people. The poles for the electric light wire have arrived and are beivug planted about the city. D. N. Thompson is out again after being laid up for three or four weeks | with » severe spell of sickness. A substantial concrete pavement is being put down in front of Phavis | & Son's store cn the south side. The Record’s benty ronster crow- ing over Ohio was very appropriate. Aus. was thankful for small favors. The Batler silver cornet band, one of the best bands in the state was out serenading the city Friday night. | It is reported that the electric | light engines of Butler will furnish the power for the lights at Rich Hill. Mrs. F. M. Lloyd, of Kansas City, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Smith, and her many friends | in the city. | Our popular young friend. J. E. Hook, of Hudson township, was in| the city last week and gave us a pleasant call. Four thousand dollars of redeem- ed bonds for this school districts, | were burned by the school board Friday night. Fred McNeil came iu from Wash- ington last week. He says he saw W.S. Mudd, who is running a store | in that state and doing well | Men who live on five acre tracts! to avoid paying a city tax should not dictate to those who bear the burdens | ofrunning the town. | Dr. Walls was called to Drexel, | Cass county, last week to attend | Mrs. Frank Robbins, who has been | quite sick for several weeks. | Ex-Congressman Martin L. Clardy of Farmington, Mo, attorney for the | Mo. Pac. Ry., was in the city attend-| ing circuit court the first of the week. i The subscription price of the! Union now drop to 5e for three months, and we predict before the ides of another November Carroll will be out of a job. Robt. Webb was elected javitor of the west school building by the school board Friday night. He takes the place of Lewis Webb, re- signed on account of sickness. Lost—On the streets of Butler, on Wednesday, November 4th,a $20 bill. The finder will leave the same @t this offico aud receive a liberal reward C. E. Sevisr. Sam Walis will opeu a bar room in the new brick just completed by | Pharis & Son on the south side. The building has been sold by Pharis & Son to Capt. Hannah and J. J. Me-| Kissick. Mr. Boswell closed his saloon on | the south side Saturday night. He was granted a renewal of his license | by the county court last week and} we are not informed as to bis change ! of intention. | Latin, will hereafter be trught in the Butler public schouls. So said the school board at their meeting Friday night. The Butler schools | are keeping pace with the best schools of the state. a eres, BUTTER WEEKLY TIMES eity from Streeter, Ill, on Wednes- ers of the southwest, is feeding 600 ' business in the city. | thus obtained iz estimated at between | a Miss Laura Moore arrived in the! Rev. Gill was up from Rich Hill y Tuesday. day last on a visit to her sister, Mre. Mr. and Mrs. C Joe Meyers. and Mrs. Corder. of Lafayette county are in the city to spend a few weeks visiting their daughter Mrs. J. C. Cruson, formerly a promi- W. H. Walton. nent citizen of Charlotte township, —___—______ now of Eureka, Kansas, was an im-| . The official returns from eighty- portant witness in the circuit court | rig Pai eee ene Airy UE last week, and favored us with a} fp peeP Sv bere carmied) Bye cand | the republicans eightv-three. pleasant call. { . ————— / = The city councilat its last meeting, W. R. Walton, of Richard town-| very wisely levied a license tax of $21 ship, one of the leading cattle deal-/ on every insurance company doing The revenue head of cattle. Yesterday he bought F | $1,400 and $1,500. 4,000 bushels ef corn at 30 cents.—} $ ed a Navade Doniocrat. We understand that an effort is Pierce Hacket was in the city Sat urday, and loeked as if he had lost his last friend. Cheer up, Pierce, don’t take the matter too much to heart, this is only a foretaste of what you may expect at the next election. |a popular attraction at the Opera House one night next month. Sam, unlike other entertainments, has to have his money guaranteed in ad- vance. C. B. Lewis informs us that the Underwriters Fire Insurance Co., which had a policy on his household goods settled with him entirely satis factorily. F. C. Smith was the agent who took his application, and he in- sisted on his company settling fuir- ly and promptly. While Dr. Renick was returning from the country Thursday evening his horse became frightened and ran away turning the cart over and spill ing the doctor on the ground. He In summing | the electi had to walk about the miles totown. H Paste dale Sites turns the Record gives Ohio a banty ee ee ae a Deli ley, Fd le _|rooster and nearly a column, the lia Oxley, a daring female burg great state of New York three lines, lar sentenced at Carthage last week | Towa tive lines, Massachusetts two to five years in the pen. escaped!jines and Maryland, Mississippi, from the jail by sawing out the| New Jersey and Virginia nothing. grates, but was recaptured at Bax- ter three days after her escape. Chicago, of baking powder fame, W. L. Henderson and Miss Eva! 28 mistakep for a bear bya com Kandsiake were macciad af the home | panion while camping out in Colora do, and was shot : of the bride’s parents, north of the eg. Price was a + city, on the evening of the 3rd. after being out on a tour They left Wednesday for Denver, |ing back into the the tent Col., where they expect to locate. The petticoat eud of the Farmers’ | Alliance in Kansas Lav: Lad a meet ing in Topeka fer the purpose of formulating new schemes to infuse Ina number of counties in Kansas the republicans put a negro on their being made to procure Sam Jones as| G. W. Price, son of Dr. Price of | ntly kill- | s alist and | tickets for some small office, and in every instunce the county went} strongly republican, except the ne- life into the third party corpse. These female “calamity howlers” feel that their occupation is eudangered |the wound, which though }saine cordial relations and success. and they propose to make an effort to keep up their talks at $5 a talk and expenses gro: he got left every time. John March, living near Virginia while out hunting one day lust week | accidenally shot himself in the leg. John Hornback, one of the substantial democratic most farmers of Dr. Renick was called and dressed ! New Home township was in the city | Mouday attending to business be fore the probate court. © Mr. Horn- back is a clever geutleman, and his name has been prominently men tioned in connection with a county office. E painful} is not serious. The postoffice safe at Hume was'| cracked Wednesday night of last | week by burglars. A smail amount ; ? Lmoney was taken. The| Your attention is called to the ease SURES drug advertisement of G. A. Van thieves effected an entrance at the : Hall, front door and blew the safe open} is successor in this issue. Mr. VanHall to Franz Barnhardt, | with powder. | having purchased the store a shert time ago. You will find him a first class prescription druggist, and if needing anything in the line of med- icines, toilet articles, artist materials The suit of Tgou for five huvdred dollars on account of Franz Bern-| hardt’s dog biting him, was tried in cireuit court Friday and Igou got|or cigars and tobaccos call and | see him. what he justly deserved—nothing. | re Eee eS, However, the dog did not dieas re-| Moying dirt for the three new ported. i brick business houses on the south- - —— — east corner of the square began Fri Miss Laura Moore, of Streater.iday. We understand it is the in- IL. is spending a few days in the | tention of the company to putin the city with her mother, Mrs. Badgley | foundation walls without delay dsisteiifte. Jost Miyars. She | But owing to the lateness ot the aie ob ae eee . |Season for brick work the cowpany was called to Butler as a witness in! wil] wait till early spring before the Addie Rogers suit sgainst Gage! putting up the buildings. Bros. & Co. ie | Off for Camden county in a few Jobn W. Groucl ane bought the | days on a deer hunt: Frank Suith, Windsor Review, Mr. Cotton. ster-| Lom and Everette Walton and Chas. eee AN Douglass. We wish them better ping down and out. The Remew)i jcc than the party who were down has been in the past one of our most} there 1 week or so age. valued country exchanges, and wej not be@n for the big buck that Un- hope for its new management the cle Jim Graves killed they would } have returned with nothing. From the Hume 'f learn that the pos*c that place was robbed ou Wedunes day. The burglars gaiued access The body of Helen Hunt Jackson, | the famous poetess, known as “H. H..” has been removed from Chey- If it had} enne mountain, where it has been buried for six years, and taken to Evergreen cemetery in Colorado through the door and by means of | tools proeured from a blacksmith shop forced the safe open. The amout of money secured was small. {horning the shrubbery, hence he de-! |He valued her at $70. i Springs, Col., and buried. James McNeil, of Eldorado Springs, was in the city Wednesday G ae ae rie ; Buidette looking after his property| Gemocratic ticket for president. interests, and was on his way to the} Goy. Boies is a very bright man and Springs, where he makes bis home) bis adwinistration has shown him to for the benefit of his health. | be awise and safe statesman, but Suspicion points to an individual who was there the day before but suddenly disappeared. The city council should crder alas a presidential nominee. He would new sidewalk down in front of Mr. bowever, grace the second place on Hartweli’s property on the south |the ticket as = fit copra tetera Ot ; . _ {the great and growing west side. The present walk is getting giosni ny cuneisins ants in a very dilapidated condition. In} Col. Thomas Irish, of Rich Hill short the walk should be continued {spent Monday in the Sys aud um to intersect the new one being put Berg tore pat SAU eS he | planting of the electric light poles, jaud machinery at the city hall. He | said Butler had secured a good fran- Mayor Pace bad bi cow dehorned Saturd bled to death in a short The | first class in every particular, in a cow was fresh and an extra milker|Sbort time the huge balls of fire hanging over the streets of the city : i : .. | would make the town from one end He had permitted her to forage in | to the other as light as the noon-day his large lawn at his residerce and jsun. bles by | : Ts abe, shed become trom eee ‘S| | will offer for eale two fine half- é | Jersey milck cows at my auction cided to have her horns taken off! next Saturday at 1 o'clock R. W. James. fine Jersey and be regrets the loss very iueh. | i = | we hardly think his time has come | ud she | chise and the plant throughout was | i Shot in the Leg. 1 Monday evening Jas. Franklin' ‘and John Medley had a slight dis-/ | pute on North Main street and Frank- | lin pulled his gun and shot Medley | ‘inthe thigh of the right lez. The ‘ball struck the leg center and pass-| jed nearly through. When the shoot-/ jing took place the two were stand | jing in the middle of the street be | jtween Potter's livery stable and! | Pentzer’s furniture store. { | The affair was conducted in a very | |quiet manner as a number of per ‘sons standing on the sidewalk with | ‘in fifteen feet of the of combatants! knew nothing of the trouble until! | they heard the report of the pistol. Then they turned and saw Franklin |with the drawn pistol and Medley | \a few feet from him. | Dr. Christy, who was ao eye-wit- \ness to the affair, said he saw the | two standing in the middle of the |street and drove his buggy within a few feet of them when the pistol was fired and stopped his horse. He saw Medley slap his hand on his leg and heard him say “you have shot me.” Then he saw Franklin present the | Pistol again at Medley’s breast, and the two steod for a minute or so eyeing each other, then Franklin turned and said he would go aud give himself up and started off up the street with the smoking pistol | still in his hand. | The doctor also said that when} the shot was fired the newly ap pointed justice of the peace and ap pointed deputy sheriff, J. A. Math- es Was pussiug up the street apd) made no effort to arrest the law) | breaker Fravklin went to the vourt house, | gave himself up, then returned to] seof the battle, suiling hke al bere, as he passea the bystanders | jou the streets. Next we saw him} with the sheriff. and we suppose le} leaped for the night at the jail. as | ihe appeared with the sheriff Tues | day at the court house and, unat teuded, carried coal from the coal house avd buili a fire in the sheriff's office. Franklin is a notorious character jand has speut one term in the peni tentiary and since bis return has Seen a standing candidate for re ad mittance, there being at the present time two or three indictments against him for different offenses. Heretofore, the Times has been very itable with the officers in their extreme leniency with the crim inal class, as it is a notorious fact \ that matter what the charges, have been confined in jail, except for short terms, but all have had the liberty of the jail yard, aud some the liberty of the streets, some have even been entrusted with the; |keys and going so far as to act in} the capacity of jailer and to subpeena | | none, no their own witnesses. i Badty Clubb-d bya Nezoo James Payton, living 7 miles east | of Butler on Dr. Christy's farm, was severely beaten by Tom Williams, jcolored, ou last Thursday in the | east part of town. Vrou Mr. Pay- ton’s statement he went to Mis Hubbel's house in search of a girl to do housework for his wife, who is in bad health. Mars. H.'s daughter came out and went across to ae gro cabin aud he turned his horse and drove over there He was sit ing on his cart when the negro man came from behind the house with a club in bis hand aud ordered him to} get away from there at the same time hitting him. Payton does not remember after that how many times he was hit or what happened = Jim Thoiwas says he saw Payton runuing with the uegro after him with a club, that he knocked him down and continued beating bim with a club until another negro came up and made him stop. Williams claims that Payton followed the girl to hie house and was very abusive, that he] ordered him away and he would | go. Payton was unconscious when picked up and carried to Dr. Chris- ty’s office. where his wounds were dressed. The doctor tound several bruises and cuts on his head and body. While nis wouuds were see vere they were uot dangerous. The negro was arrested aud taken before Squire Newsom whe sent him to jail to await developments We under stand the grand jury is investigating the affair. Lee Moore, formerly a citizen of jour city and son inlaw of William Burrows, of Prairie towcship, died at his home in Coffeyville, Kan., last | Tuesday. The remains were brought |to Butler and funeral services were | conducted from the residence of G.| | L. Smith on Friday and the remains jinterredin the Oak Hill cemetery i Mr Moore was au exemplary yo | deeply regretted by his many friends | jin Butler | The best medical author ithe proper way to treat ca (take a constitutional remedy. lke Hood's Sarsaparilla. Auction Sale. I will have an auction sale every | Saturday on the square at one v clock : | of hardware. cutlery. buggies, carts | &e i R. W. Janes SAM JONES is a big draw and will be in BUTLER DECEMBER 18th, and so is the BOSTO: STORE. If you had visited our store on last Saturday you would of thought SAM was in there but it was the piles of CHEAP GOODS that we have that was the draw this time, we give you more GOOD GOODS for $1, Than any house in the city. BOSTON STORE. Seriously Hurt. Frank Brock, driver of Power Bros’. mili wagon, engaged in a friendly I Se eg er rr seuffle with Wm. McCowan at the mill | Sunday evening Call on R. S. Catron for insurance on stock against lighting. 29-tf Garland! Garland), Garland!!! The Garland Oak with revertible tothe ground, falling on his head j flues is guaranteed to produce more and shoulder and k:e vow lies at his! heat with less fuel than any Oak home paralyzed from the effects of (heating stove on the market. For the fall. One of his arms and both |e by Bennett Ee BS ~ | ‘The Garland Oak has a handsome legs ave affected, and his condition | yjekle top ring. is reported to be quite critical . The Garland Oak has a heavy i niekle foot rail The Garland Oak has solid doors with perfect fitting joints. ‘The Garlaud Oak has an automat- ic check damper. The Garlaud Oak has a large per- fect fitting ash pan. The Garland Oak has a very heavy steel jacket. The Garland Oak is the most per- fectly constructed and best propor- Brock was thrown i The “fiowlers’ of Kausas_ will now take up their heels and emigrate to T —Record. Has Aus. zone back on the peo-! ple’s party? He have dared to talk this way a year ago would not ‘tioned Oak heating stove on the ;market. For sale by Bennett Wheeler. Peoria Base Burner wood stove at ' Bennett- Wheeler. The celebrated Charter Oak cook | stove with the wonderful wire gauze | oven doors at Bennett-Wheeler. If you want a stove of any des- |cription or price go to Bennett- { | Wheeler as they keep the largest ' stock in Bates county. DR.J.W.LOWRY’S ' Office FARMERS BANK, one door east ot Express office. Residence on Ohio street second door east of Public Scheo!l | North side of street. Office hours 8 to12 {a.m 2to6p.m. Calls answered at ali times. Treatment ot all diseases both Acute and Chronic. Charges reasonable | Medicine turnished. Consultation free ; All who are afflicted of whatever Char- | acter will lose nothing by calling to see | me. oe 1 a 'W. M. ARNOLD. CONSTABLE MT. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, A FALL. IN But with no disastrous results what we have to anrounce. | lectione. BUYERS, ATTENTION ——GO TO—— j _ Clothing is away down, you will ¢ A VAN H never buy any cheaper than we will | s 8 ALL, sell you good hoaest goods in over- | | — SUCCESSOR TO— coats, men’s and boy's suits, pants hats caps and furnishings. We have! F. BERNHARDT & CO. a house full of new goods, just what | —_FOR— you want for the cold days that will , surely come. ~~ PURE DRUGS day and you can see just what you | | MEDICINES, are gettiug. Everything bought of usis as rep-; | a = resented or money refunded. We! TOILET ART | : oR ree jing in the city, aud inspecting the | gentleman and ins uutimely end 1s | have been selling you outfits for a 5 down by Pharis R good many years and you know : TOBACCOS AND what a guarantee from us means. We wake a specialty of duck cats, working shirts, jeans pants NINE CIGARS, 4&RTISTS MATERIALS OF ALL aud overalls Come in and we will please you KINDS: in quality and price. A. E. BLACHERT. BUTLER, MO. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded A liberal Patronage of the public is solicited. i i eis se ioe a Se 2 Special attention given to private col- sassiseuiahosintlatssieisinlealisainuisanentinittininsiabieiiiissiteennisiuionssinives snarled emma amtinni tlt ett srt