The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 5, 1892, Page 3

' ' : t PULIMAN BUFFETT SLEEPING CARS $500,000 =| NOT LIGHTNING. We desure to place outon ie gee real estate Frys larde| The Wiping Out of the Atkinsons amount of money- Will sip he best terms and Sates rates yet offered by, rates yet offer anyo in this line of business” x Notes drawn for one, two, three.or five years. ave sone money to loan: pauable on or befor 7 : 7) | 7 L 2W 7 5 St é€ a Give Calland see | ’ ( wow cheap we can let you have money The Bankers Loan & Title Co P2-C: FULKERSON, Manager. BATES COUNTY. National Bank, BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK f# «=LARGEST AND THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, - - SURPLUS, - - Has Mysterious Features. EVIDENCES OF MURDER. A Shotgun Found in the Kuins—No siga of the Place Being Struck By Light- ning—How Neighbor Wilker- son Discovered the Blaze and Fouad the Bodies. WELISVILI Sept. 39. tragical fate of tkinson family has cast a pall over t township that has never before been equaled. In the minds of many the lapse of hours but develops greater myst ad a strong desire that the most searching investigation shall follow. Between 3:30 and 4 a. m. Wednesday morning, during a slight thunder show- er, Mr. S. G. Wilkerson—living a quar- terof a mile north of Mr. Atkinsun— while reaching for a cup of water b side his bed, discovered building. Slipping on his boots, and dressing as he ran, he soon arrived on the premises—ealled in vain for the family—sought them at the barn, and rushing back to the almost consumed building, realized the full force of the disaster inthe utter absence of any- thing saved from the fire and the dis- covery of the almost consumed body of Mr. Atkinson near the center of the floor. $125,000 00 Before help could be summoned, but little more than e 1 of the inciner- 5,000 00 ated remains of the members of the | = - - family was left to suggest their | F.J. TYGARD, - - - President, | denti Careful serntiny of the situation led to the following conclusions: The six-months-old child improvised bed on the floor. The father died half w bed to the doorway kitchen. The three-year-old child perished un- dera table near this door, the mother lying on her baek alone in the kitchen. A few feet mm the bal watch HON. J. B. NEWBEKR}, Vice-Pres J. C. CLARK - - Cashier WwW. A- ROSE, LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER. Will do busi. adjoining counti risonyille, Mo. was on an from his ‘onnecting with the ss in Bates, Cass and « Address me at Har- w Reterence.—First National Bank and | found. It had stopped at 3:15. Nine Bank of Harrisonville. 4th #20 gold pieces were found in the south- = see Rs West corner, opposite the bed. r the father were found a razor and gun. Mr. Atkinson’s old gun was at GO TO_— the barn with both barrels loaded. Whether this gun was also his has not been settled. The gun N *HALL pointed toward his head and s a § | was “a double barreled breechloader.” Putting the iron work together it was discovered that one trigger had been pulled, while the other was at “half cock.” Examining the shell it was found that corresponding with the pulled trigger, the cap had received the —SUCCESSOR TO— F. BERNHARDT & CO. —FOR— PURE DRUCS MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, TOBACCOS AND INE CIGARS, ARTISTS raised hammer the shell had not been struck, conclusively showing that one barrel had been discharged during the fire. The chimney remained standing for three hours. Until 7a. m. it was not rent nor shattered. Neither it nor a galvanized iron clothes line that had been attached to the house, tree or other article on bore traces of electricity. Mr. Atkinson was an eccentric man between 40 and 45 years of age, yet greatly respected. He was supposed to be wealthy, though unapproachable : to confidences, minding his own ness toa remarkable degree. nor any the premises bus’ fis wife v much his junior in age and quite MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS | attractive in personal appearance. No statement of infelicity has been made. Fat For Coal Di San FRANCISCO, Sept Judge Ross, of the United States district court. has decided t the MeKinley bill did not repeal the act of 1883 granting the right of a drawback of 75 cents per ton on imported bituminous coal used for fuel on American steam vi engaged in the coasting trade. decision was given in the case of Allen vs. the United States. The decision will result in the payment of 2200.000 to coal dealers in this city who, since the passage of the McKinley bill have beer deprived of the drawback. ealers. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded A liberal Patronage of the public is solicited. WANTED—CHICKENS EGGS This Missouri Prohibition Ticket Filed. JEFF prohibition state ticket was filed with Secretary of State Lesueur } rday. It was filed by Secretary D. W. King, of the state central committee, and was accompanied by a petition containing 1,500 names, asking that the names of the prohibition state candidates be printed upon the ticket. This petition fulfils the law and the ticket was ac- cepted by the secretary. This is the first state ticket filed and the time for fi ling expires October 19. I will pay the highest market price for chickens and egg delivered at my store at Virginia, Mo. Ialso have good feed stable in connection with my store. Netson M. NEstLERODE. Missouri Pacific Ry. a Dailv -Train 2 KANSAS CITY and OMAHA COLORADO SHORT LINE 5 Daily Train, 5 Kansas City to St, Louis, THE PUEBLO AND DENVER, A Graad Naval Dispt sured. Wasuineton, Sept. 30.—All of the great naval powers and many of the smaller ones to which invitations were sent by the state department to partici- next April have accepted the invitation and have signified their intention to send some of their latest constructed vessels. Cowley County's Sheriff Not Killed. WIxFIELD, Kan., Sept. 50.—A sensa- tional report v sent from Guthri last night that Sheriff Nipp, of Cowley county, had been killed by the Dexter bank robbers, but the officer is here safe and sound. The robbers entered the Indian territory and escaped. Sev- eral shots were fired, but no one was hurt. Carnegie Coming Home. PrTTsBURGH, Pa., Sept. ment in one of the evening papers that Andrew Carnegie is on his way to this country for the purpose of settling the trouble at Homestead betw negie comp nd the considerable k in labor caused es here. m 3 2 4 fd 2,090 miners worked to rescue the elev in No Sshaft by a fall of jay morning. at s were given by the en- men aud it is hoped to rescue Kansas City to Denver without change H. C. TOWNSEND. General Passenger and Ticket A’gt ST. LOUIS, MO. night tombed them. the blazing | needle, while corresponding with the | els N City, Mo., Sept. 50. -The | pate in the naval display at New York! i 30.—A state- en the Car- | —_————————————————— — — THE ORIGINAL ROUND OAK STOVE ‘Bain, Fish Bio’s and Harrison Farm Wagons R. R. DEACON, SONS & CO. st ‘suoiey, Suds pue aiding doy | An Evident Difference. In extenuation of its dragging Co]. Stone’s private business into |the campaign the Journal cites the In the first place what was pub- lished in the Times was truth never idenied. The Journal bas xccepted \from a man | indictment for office several storics |without verification. under malfeasance in ence in public affairs for x fre | When a public man uses his intlu- jaction is a proper satter of com- | m ‘nt when he is a candidate for a jhigh and dignified office. It has a Cherokee outlet transaction of Major ; | Warner as published in the Times. | the | | bearing in that it explains somewhat | | his conception of a public trust. | Like the credit mobilier, the whis- lkey frauds, the swindling of Mis- jsouri cut of railroad property and \the star route schemes, these cattle | deals in the Indian territory are con- | versions of public property to” pri [vate uses and a public man’s | con- neet with thei ought to be exam- Major Warner did not act es a lawyer because he never admitted that the own let had any legal standi ined. rs of cattle on the out ‘There is no record of a legal argument or of a case made. He weut to Washington, not with a brief but with a puli. He feommit & crime. Many congressmen | do the same paign fund ar- jrangement did not exhibit that nice jsense of propri of Mists governors. tid not aud ex congressmen thing. But his car sty which the pec wihave demanded in t The Journal threatens other chap- {ters in the indicted man’s revilem jof C iel Stone. lin bri Stone was ac ging the man to justice. The nimus of the slanders is not politi- jeal but it is the revenge of defeated land exposed wickedness. The Times has led the campaign for strict and honest government | jis elected by the largest plurality jsince 1880. It will not deal with lthe private life of any candidate. {The Journal may keep on with its ' unverified tales, taken from a source as despicable as themselves. If re- jtaliation is provoked and Major | Warner finds stories in circulation ‘which cause him regret he must hold his organ responsible-——Kansas | City Times. ;those diseases which come | blood impurities-serofula and skin | diseases, sores and swellings. | Butdoesit? It's putup by thous- | of thousands. Canit cure as wellas jif it had been compounded just for ;you? ¥ Its makers say that thousands of people who have had tetter and salt- rheum, eczema and erysipelas, ¢: | buncles and sore eyes, thick nec jand enlarged glands, are well to-day | because they used it. Suppose this is so. Suppose that ‘a quick-witted man was far seeing ‘enough to know that to cleanse the blood was to cleanse the life. Sup that by many experiments, and after this y failures, he discovered key to health and that hs ma get your money returned y Willyou try it? The remedy to have faith in is the remedy the makers | themselves have faith in. ‘country and put at jens of gallons, and sold tohundreds | | throne in Africa. and will stay in the lead until Stone | “Golden Medical Discovery” cures | from | } was promptly decided thet nothing Are you made eon, constipation, dizziness, petite or yeliow skin? Shiloh’s Vit tir isa positive cure. Sold by HLL. Tucker. Called To An African Throne Nashvill+ Tenn. September 20., A young negro who has spent four } years xt the Central Tennessee C dl His name is Mom ulo Massaquai, and he came from the lege in this city has be nc to a Vey country, a region of the interior of Africa adjoining Liberia. Ife was ars since to Christ- ianity by Mrs. Mary Briwly an En glish missionary, and through her influeace and that of Bishop Penock of Louisville was brought to this school. He re- cieved the news to-day that his fath er, King Balab, had been killed war, aud ha is called to reign in his stead. converted sume y in Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved From aietter written by Mrs. Ada E. Hurd. of Groton, 8. D. we quote: “Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my lungs, cough set and finally terminated in nsump- tion. Four doctors gave ine up, say ing I could live but « short time. 1 e inyself up to my Saviour, deter- in co ir frieuc sent ones above My hasband vy advised to get Dr. Kings New Di covery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles; it has cured me, and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman ‘Trial bottles free at H LL. Tucker's Drugstore regular size, 20¢ and $1 00. A Family ! We all know with what pride, and even tenderness, the father and moth- er of a family oftentimes regard old pieces of furniture: a picture; 2 piece of eracked china, which te others may seem useless, but which to them is closely identtied with the dear old days when they “went to housekeep ing.” An instance, worthy of notice came under the writer's observation a few days since, at Salina Kansas: A family in which a Davis Sewing ad been in use tor the last rms were eighteen ye about to lose their first born—a handsome young lady—by marriage. The question arose as to what the bride should car-/} ry to he~ new home, as the partic gift of the Father and Mother. lar It could be so appropriate as the sew- ing machine. The mother looked at} the dear old machine, which had set v- | ed her so faithfully for so many} years; upon which Baby's wee ments had just becn fi trousse gar- wel and upon which | nae shed her wedding} . Thetears welled in her | deaths at twe | Beck has received eyes, and she said to the Father, “We} eannot let momeut ins After standing a} ence tenderly regard-| (ing the family friend, they decided ta| give to their daughter, to carry to} her new home. a New High-Arm Dav | i eal Feed Sewing Mach sured that it be to would j out HA RD TO CURE, Miles’ Nerve & Liver Pills, Act ona new princtple—regulating the liver, stomach and bowels through ne nerves. A new discovery. They speedily cure billiousness, bad tas did liver, piles and pation. Splen- jdid for men, women and children? maliest, mildest, surest. 30 do: for scents. Samples tree ar H. L. he rs Drug Store. 24-uNT Vaunted Cholera Remedies Really of No Effect. co Two Other Doctors Ride Their Hob- bies—The Washing Out Pro- |Franz Bernhardt On the aorth side of the square, cess Claimed to Have Some Worth—Baby | Missing. sl | TERLIN, Sept. 30.—Prof, Rumpf, of | |! P | the Eppendorfer hospital, in Hamburg, | Butler, - Missouri. | lin reporting his experiences in the | Dea hla owe | treatment of 5,000 cholera patients, di clares that all of the vari di A ous vaunte Watch & Clock Repairing] | Also Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and acid and hydrochloric acid. tion of sulphuric acid suggested bt rican doc found of ne but in m injection of tannin was successful, concludes that all ly at disinfection must be sought wh and morphia, as | verware at ACTUAL COST AND CARRIAGE, For the neat tweive ors, he also | di cases, the | He ning mere- hods ai months hat remedies * the chol- As a watch maker of 82 years experience Sones bases de can and will give sou satisfaction eraic bacill the He mentions baths, h Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty. use 1 eases, and adds that | the injec alt cured 25 per cent. of the cases se | ated. | Prof. Klebs, who has been treating patients in Hamburg with injections of a fluid obtained through the culture of ion f a solution of common | = W. H. i. Larimer, Church C. Sridgetord. Ed. M_ Smith. So it ainearemanel ——OONSIGN YOCR— CATTLE, HOCS and SHEEP tr the cholera bacillus, states that after To LARIMER, SMITH & BRIDGEFORE, the use of the fluid the tempera of | pe SCT TIL the patient soon becomes normal and | _, ; Seiten you tiie that several apparently hopeless cases | k 3 fre “ease tiea ee have recovered under this treatment Dr. E been tr Petersbur CORRECT Masouri Pacific Time tabie Imer Lee, of Chicago, who has | ing cholera patients in St g, says of his treatment: “My method is based on physiological experi ence and common sense. I simply ap- | ply to my patients the cleans which Dr. Koch and other scientists would like to see applied to towns and houses. In short. I wash out the deadly with common soap and water and an i Yi Arrival and departure of passenger trains at Butler Station. jNortH Bounp Pass 4st 3 Passenge~ = - system substances Qi2s 10:05 a.m. Local t cvight - lof the twenty-se Sovutn Bounp me [have been able toreport cures. To | passenger, = = 04 te, convince myself scientifically of the | passenger, ne, pm. value of my method I should like to ex- | Passenger, _ pen. periment on at least 100 more cases. I | Local Freight - 9-1:37 p.m. believe I am on the right track “Do you believe in the Koch theory that the bacillus is the cause, not the effect. of Asiatic cholera? “[L haven't been able to convince my- self on that point, nor have Dr. Nenck, professor of bacteriology at St. Peters- burg, and other Russian authorities.” “Do you beljeve in the efficacy of an- ti-cholera inoculation.” “LT shouldn't like to speak too posi- tively, but Lam disinclined to believe init. In the first place you cannot ex- clude the cause of cholera by inocul tion You cannot close the mouth through which they enter. Conse- quently you cannot keep them out of the stomach and bowels. Next, if the poison is once in, it becomes subject to ls and enters the DR. F. M. FULKERSON, DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, Dr. Tucker's old stand. T. W. Sitvers. SILVERS & SILVERS, Attorney-at-Law.- Will practice in the courts of Baes and adjoining countiet, the Court et » Supreme Court at Jefferson n the Federal Co J. A. SiLver-. the same laws as other materi will be absorbed when it bleol. The result is blood poisoning. A LIPTLE CHOLERA WAIF CHICAGO, Sept.50, —Frec raged li months, mother and two brothers perished of cholera on the pest third “cover Farmers Bank; door trom head of IWay. E ARMOND & ¢MITH. D s MISS whose ship Rugia, has been lost somewhere between here and New York and her father, who li s insane from ATTORNEYS AT LAW. At the babe was 3 * was supposed ai in Bates ai counties. ap" Otfice over Bates Co. Nat’! Bank. Will practice adjoining ws go bound passengers, but the Chi- cago authorities can get no trace of her. URG'’S CHOLERA CASES FEW. | PARKINSON & GRAV G, Sept. 30.—The official chol- ; era statistics for te give the | ATTORNaYS AT LAW. number of cases at t and the | Lans- Office West Side Square, over down’s Drug Store. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC ICIAN AND SURGEON, -four. s this ed with | is a decrease se of eight ay nine new ths were reported. ALENT IN ODESSA. -It is offi at cholera is present From Friday to Wednes- have been ten cases of the «ported, four of which proved Wednesd of eleven s return ses and In Altona yeste cases and nine CHOLERA PR ObEssa, Sept nounced to-day in this city. day th disease fatal. deaths. PHY Office, front room over P. O. All calls answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- eases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and « Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and ch en a specialty. WHY NOT? When you go tothe Pott Oftice for Dead For a Week DENVER, Col., Sept composed body of O. prominent democrat and politi contractor, was found in his room at the Revere house this morning. He had been missed by his friends for a and it was thought he was out of ity on business. As the hotel is near the business portion of the cit much surprise is expressed that the dis- ry was not 2 sooner. | cov Seuth Caroliaa Republicans. Cont a, S.C. 30.—The repub- lican state conv journed at 5] your mall, why not price o'clock this morning after 1 discus- | over small matters. A full set of | STATIONERY, SOAPS AND TOILET ARTICLES, Just Received electors was nominated and a platform | was adopted in which that. with a free ballot and a fair] count, the state would be republican | 25,000 Envelops from N. Y. by he democrats perpe ate 1% los Toilet Soap from Phil _ GICARS. From Baltimore, sud a general aesortment cf it is declared gross frat gross frau ndage in N delphia, Liddell, of Montgom for rounty, to look John Murphy and George two tramps who were wanted bducting Joseph Dwyer, a twelve- old boy. Messages say that the! enticed away by the tramps a/ istance from his home and is} being held for ransom. } T: for STATIONERS SUNDRIES. QUARTITY! QUALITY! PRICE! We have all these things and otherein ned. ein the Nickel hh h Forty Ca Be ad prices and ete ifwe are not cerrcet. POST OFFICE EOOK STORE