The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 20, 1892, Page 2

| | se THE PENSION ROBBERY. A Million Pensonsioners to Whom the People Must Pay $200,000, 000 « Year. The discussion of the pension ap- priation Dill in the senate the other day was remarkable v s the New York b iad core from the house isg # pensions, and has been m¢ reased by tue senate committee to 144,956, 0) ly $12,000,000. With 3045,366 for army anc é inistration t led for $146,737, eae Mr. Ste i. H ritted that the prese ut vate of vanine out pen sons there would be a deficiency of | 10,000,000 or $15,000,000, with this enormous appropriation. In other words, our pension expend itures must already ve reached 160,000,000 x Mr. Gorman Comn azo ackuowlelged before the senate committee that he had no data for exact estimate of the expenses of the fiscal year just begun, and in fact had sady discovered that his previous calculations were %$7,009,- 000 too small. And now,added Mr. Gorman, even with an addition of nearly $12,000,000 to the house bill, there is a prospect of a heavy defi- ciency. Accordingly he renewed a prediction of two years ago, which year. pointed out er Raum that had some tite at the time was scuuted as prepos- terous, that the pension expenses of | 1895 would reach annum. 0,000,000 per | On the 14th of May last, as ap: | we ipon played about the blade of | pears by the commissioner's testimo ny before the committee, there were 838,525 claims pending senate in the pension bureau, and 350,077 | of these were original invalid cases of the soldiers themselves. There widows and increase, and were also claims of claims for the office had then in hand of ori The al work 525,714 claims. coin expected that ©215,000 new people would go on the rolls missioner this fiseal year.” He farther estimat elthat “oa the Ist of July, 18! we Wilk have on the roll SY > ,G00 pen added it} even | .| paused. The altog ather: j resume a of a young Mexican officer | THAT TARIFF PLANK. | as a second. The s-couds an-| pounced that the combat would be} Review gr the Stree SHAE Puce de aa pean pay Bis ’ itan the Citeazo P.atforin, f Finley's inexper 1 RS 3 epedec viades of thir instead of Some of our est ed bat over- | ‘ eeking, for reasons | . ly t lawn on the following morn center of an capital and rumbled)... burbs to a silent ¢ nd} : . There the occupants | The four ed by a fifth | flat case of surgical instruments On ing two coaches left the the Mesi | through. th ecluded groy alighte men Were 8} date ne compa who carried a} 3 sec-! |the way into the wood F }ond whispered his last instruction: | at Co! “Strike adversary’s face, 1t sion for your man of the } lis the weakest point. After lunging | no other cause |spring back quickly to avoid his | je, too, has the | blade. In a small His returns are rapids journalist. Nevertl glade the party | matter of fact, that them ly and tariff reform opeu suds assisted ass to remove their waistcoats Then they stood back. “Gentlemen, en garde,” exc the elder. to incorpr, The two men ed | of the platform their points and threw ap their left! only plank. coats, and collars. anybody clse, : Mr. Neal of Ohno. advanced. er hands. For a few moments they | Several mex seemed to feel each other, and in! committee who, with Col. Jones, be- those moments Finley felt that he | lieved in a tariff-for revenu yd was overmatched and that death | not join Mr. Nealin his was staring him in the face. port bacaus+ there was already a Suddenly the Mexican made a lunge and Finley parried it. Then came another and another. The Mexican advanced and | with the sinoothness of as minority silver, seeing in Mr. Cleveland in himself as tu the tariff, restraiued by ho: | considerations ot dene, au act of party erron: us or have report as to a platform were retreated ke. His ahtful | duty. which | his opponent like a rod of tire but | deserves to] Finley retreated and parried me chanically Suddenly he felt himself woundel) If fabove the heart, but he | backward spring an it Agai- the followed by rapid lunges! more thaa © The shortness of his | the fi assment to the | tion of » glo correct, its integrity respe 5 everywhere. is Watters on had gone on the gomiuittee thers might have bees a little room demoe the commit he could have done no | Jonel Jones did, and | . the glorious vind more fan in But feeling was Jand retreats lire sword was au embar It had saved the on thrusts already have beer Amerean | not vent. soldier. whieh ali, was the after r body to lighten the hten the wr from a doze Finley advice remembered his second’s darkness attacked the Mexica \face. He inflicted one or two slight prop and and asto the claims still »mude this ealeulation: sioners,” while rr ling | | “You understand that in the adju- jt dieation of these cases there is about 25 per imants are entitled to pension; so that 009 claims if 25 per cent of them | were rejected, it would take off] about 106,000 and that about 418,000. That that is in the office to- jected because the cls having | would leave | ay.” Tc further appears that these new | partialy names could, at the present rate of | work, be put on the roll in about} two years. $60,000 } scordingly, if to the nsioners of to-day we add hundreds of thousands are ex pected, we that in spite of deaths | be over a million pension- | ers on the roll before the end of the year 18 may assert | tively there will What a record! A million pension- | ecs, more than a quarter of a century after the close of the civil war, be- sides the hundreds of thousands that | were pensioned until death removed | them from the rolls! Expenditures, too, aggregating much more than thousand since the oe millions close of the war, and now amount- | ing to the monstrous figure of $160,- 000,000 year, with $175,009,000 or $200,000,000 a year in near prospect MR. FINLEY’S DUEL IN MEXICO. He Says He Left His Aneagonist Dy- ing and Fled Across the Border. F.H. Finley, an old resident of Niles, Mich., has just returned from a visit to Mexico, suffering froma sword thrust in the side The wound was received in a duel with a Mexican officer and the story he tells of it is sensational in the ex- treme. On January 18 Finley stood be fore the historic castle of Chapulte- pee, and unstrapping a small camera prepared totakea “shot” at the rare old pile. He was quietly ad- justing his plates when three young Mexican officers in passing made an insulting remark, Finley replied in kind when the Mexican rushed at him with drawn sword,but was pre- vented from doing violence though | Finley succeeded in slapping him in | the face. Achallenge was presented and accepted, Finley securiig — ser- cent—23 is the extra percent | ceeded lunge with lightnir aze, I believe—of clains that are r¢ ity ©) advaneed 1 |tack he grew weaker | 8 Middlesber Ky reply to resolutions successi sword | force passed by ( | plunged through th near the | Stevensou cinb here and seut groin. I an second the ofticer! Cleveland, the following aute scratches, but his wrist nndarm, un- the ustomed to sword play, began to ttee tire. The soldier felt bis advantage [the press, dw her a jand pressed him hard, tu suc: | harn ‘ ) ‘ rapidi Imate ane Finley parried and retired and tler, one te ther. but after each at- CLEVELAND ON FORCE 81 after a terrible o At last the Mexican feinted at F sat ji ud the u changed his poir |The Democratic Chasen Denenne the epublica Se could not withdraw it and in that !lette ed we. mowent Fir shortened his own Gray Gables, ud’s Bay, | weapon aod drove it tt hi Mass., July ¢ Sw: Id tagonist’s breast near the s sire to thank nai: The Mexic fell inser copy of the resvlutions adopted by died the next day, while the demoeracy of Midd? . and to uss ried across the border as soon wound would permit that those Bourbon, ed. wite owe | ado}; The Rev, G. H, Th Ind., says. Both my eso.utions speak of « horror of republi ne the force bill as it em- k upen ihe spirit and theory of our goverr Three Men Biowa Up. Helena, Mout, cabin near the Buckeye mine, twelve | : i }and while such a measures especially miles from the village of Townsend, | ia July 12 —A miner's x put enaces the welfare and prosperity was occupied by David J. Bennet, | 7 1 i ’ lof the south it must be con Peter McDonald and Daniel We!- z ae jand denounced by all those every lace. During a thunderstorm yester- | Where who love their country and | day a terrific explosion was heard | |have the best claim to be numbered which was supposed at the time to amongthose who belie be a shock of thunder, but to-day portions of the bodies of the men| were found blown to atoms. It is suppose lightning ignited a keg of giant powder in the cabin. The | cabin was torn into kindling | in the prin- ciples of true democracy. Very truly yours, Grover CLEVELAND. Pronounce: ed ‘Hopeless, Yet Saved. From a letter written by Mrs. Ada 2 : E. Hurd, of Groton, 8S. D, we quote: Wallace's body was found abou “Was tiken with a bad cold, which feet away. The other bodies ole on my lungs, cough set in literally torn to pieces. It took three | and finally terminated in consump- hours to gather up the remains of | |tion. Four doctors gave me UP, een: | saying I could live but a short time. Sg eee \I gave myself up to my Savior, de- A young Mr. Wickuam of Kaloka | termined if I could not stay with 'my friends on earth, I would meet was recently plowing in a field nea : YE ae o a | my absent ones above. My husband that city when a bolt of Fighting | was advised to get Dr. King’s New struck the cultivator and shattered | Discovery for consumption, cougis it to pieces. Mr. Wickham came to | and colds. I gave ita trial, took in his senses some time later and found all, eight bott!es; it has cured me, his horses in a dazed condition from and thank God I am now a well and | hearty woman.” Trial bottles free at the effects of the shock. Man and|W [> Tucker's drugstore, regular | 5 horses soon recovered, and the cul- | size, 50e and $1. 'tivator was run in for rej The Osceola Republican directs | The Fulton Sun talks of *‘pushes” | attention to the Monegaw cave. It jand “pulls” in connection with ap-! has been penetrated the pointments in the state imsane asy-|g mile, but has never been thorough- lum. i explored. und) pru-|* distance of } A Threat to Business. New York Wo: s destroy mear talk o new sout 1 created + f vis of noriber ‘Tt has rade between north nt brought with it ¢ d south st suffer from any ¢ and industria It has establishe] financial us between the ity of which every and eve fiua in the ectly bank country is or indirectly in- t rested. Northera capital aad enterprise have a vital puthern presp now that peril the it is proposed to i prosperity for partisa by good | Purposes me thern capital aud enter- ele will surely have a strong word Politics of this disastrous business to say in prot kind has a ve meantne which business men are | not slow to see. three bott and when | was sick ed unti! 12.30 ock aL mM. Ww > all Ll can other's never Wer cannot here go into »has at least tole dalous nnmoralities between nd their he has « reading newspal ised the administrat she has plotted to iivision female rs that ; he has ve gy committee; he fused tu explain how it was attorney indorsed his note which i t ¥ th ite 1G i not pay, although h pension - for 2 lary ge amount, note thousands of eases in attorney as the cor char . in tine, 1ittee ges, “prostitute purpe his office for political purposes. Secretary Noble’s conduct bas been | las to ia Bae it prob e that] e by the command of Gen but é than what ae (dent Harrison is now doing. Gen. Grant, moreover, was a simple heart President Harrison is an astute politician and also au elder | in the Presbyterian church. en in office was uat’s political ruin, did nothing wo ed soldier. A cablegram to the city dailies an- nounced that an American banker | jnamed Jasper Peery, coed to the extent ot $35 by two 00 in Pz confidence k, Chariton county, is agog over the incident. ing that the American is Jasper M. Peery, president of the firs: national bank at that place. left for Europe a month ago. who only jner, as if to s north and | northern | interest at) and j between her husband, | | toe { ‘This lin | | ull details certain | How the Missonrians Voted. Washingtor, D ingt D.C., July 13:—Thet Missourian in the house of ( a I sentatives ik voted “in Why is Pears’ Soap—the best in the world, the soap with no free alkali in it— sold for 15 cents a cake ? It was made for a hospital soap in the first place, made by request; the doctors wanted a soap that would wash as sharp as any and do no harm to the skin. That means a soap all : soap, with no free aikali in 4b it, nothing but soap; there is nothing mysterious in it, .. Cost depends on quantity ; Imost Quantity comes of quality. ated’ how, wher 9ind and his e. Dely nite the bed in vy the woman look Vequitied of Murcer All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it, espe- cially those that know what's what. «doman- usbiad witness said sriy unaba “Your The mn of than she ——THE—— West Ward Stock Farm, —THE HOME OF— Mambrino Chief Jr Raymon 1 of the charge oo- BRONZE TURKEYS FOR 1gs to m+ } L sis exhibit wanton bra could enbess Was more endure and sue voiler of her sprang upon the de happiness and killed After securing the evidence of M nd who did ection of his not once look in wife while giv- testimony, the jury ac quited Mme against her The The prisoner was prisoner was much effected ey ime with which the charged was committed jlast May, in this city as the result of au liaise: M. Paul Ray wom jimond, and the A Tt was a very s whom she af o° Paris fer snsation FANCY BRED, some time Ballard) s Snow Liniment. ’ from INQUIRE OF LAURA CONGKLIN, PASSAIC, MO. e Feet, Con- sints, old Sc wire cuts, Sore C benef the | »who was sin thsir re-} mimatiorto the ine has re-| x that a} advanced | was interested. He j A his office for the e of private gain, prostituted Presi- | This policy of main- | had beea bur} Por You to Read to take a delieht{ul trip for 4 gitvise you to “the ‘Carlebad of of the Ozark atiful scener: most healin in solid tri Iron Moun TLEY, WOOD AND oat AKG WOSD MOWERS, i} | Are the Lines of Harvesting Machinery that i SHIRLEY CHILDS | Has for Sale. He also keeps Hay Rakes, Binding Twine and Machine Oi A full and complete line of repairs for C hatspien Mowers. oa vex? h | | i | » NEW FIRM? NEW GOODS? apprehend. Having purchased the stock of goods known as the Grange store consisting of GROCEREIS & DRY GOODS, {d | | | | re to say to my many friends that I have re- plenished the stock and fitted up the store room in shape and I would be glad to have all my old friends call and see me. PORDUCE OF ALL KINDS WANTED. I will guarantee my prices on goods to be as low us any Cali and see me. Tr... PETTyYs. store in the city.