The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1892, Page 10

GOD We offer a nice variety of appro- priate presents for ladies, gentle- men and children; we can supply a suitable gift a: any price desired. Bibles, A thoroughly first-class stock, combining quality and elegance; with prices within reach of all. We will please you we will satisfy you. Toilet East Side Square. = We will meet your wants, large or small, with the most suitable presents at the lowest prices. PACE & TRIMBLE, DRUCGISTS, Cases, be they Butler, Missouri VEST ALWAYS ENTERTAINS. { | —— 1 | | Even His Political Opponents Be- | clare the; Like to Hear him Speak. The Republic Bureau, \ % r, Mth St, and Pennsylvanis Ave a Washington, D.C , Dec 7, 1892 The Washington Post of to-day prints conspicuously the following " eritique of Senator Vest’s style of speech’ anent. his speech delivered yeaterday: “Speaking of the ‘speech of Sena- tor Vest, cue of his political eppo- nents said yesterday: ‘He got excit- ed. He always gets excited. That isthe charm ofthe man. He argues himself into so firm a belief in what | ‘he is saying that he compels atten-| tyon even where he fails to convince. One of the readiest debaters upon be floor of the senate and certainly in the front rank of off hand talkers, | J always listen to what he has tosay. Sometimes the premises are un-/ gound and the deductions couse: | quently false; but are invariably ‘clothed in picturesque garb and they patter pleasantly upon the ear though they may not appeal to so- | Der reason. There is nothing harsh | go the language or uncouth in the | of the speaker, and although his active imagivation sometimes | too much adorns the facts, he never | transcends the limitations of good taste.” Their Kate In Doubt. Carrollton, Mo., Dee. 9——Last ‘Wednesday James Gallogly and 0. Z. Mirick, two popular young men ‘of this city, in company with several ions went to the Missouri “q few miles south for the pur- nee of shooting ducks. The last en of the two named they were in akiff in the center of the river go- , down stream. Their compan- waited for their return and : A for them until the follow- day without success, and it is ed that the boat was capsized that both were drowned. ! ———— ae 4 Mather is so ill at Oma- has dismissed her com- i | Swindling the Negroes. Mewpbis, Tenn, Dee, S—With inthe last two days a score of old ‘negroes have called on United States Marshal Brown for the pension mouey which they have been told is due them fiom the Federal govern ment. Whea questioned, they say that a man claiming to be an agent of the United States government hus collected from them sums ranging from 50 cents to $5 for enr ling them on the government peurion list. He tells them that the govern- meat is prepared to pay through the United States warshals pensions of $200 to $500 to all ex-slaves and it is necessary to have their names. Tn this way he has victimized hun- dreds of ignorant negroes in West Tennessee. It is thought it is W. A Lewis, the man who is reported to bave swindled negroes in this way throughout Arknansas, Indian Territory and Southern Misssouri Marshal Brown is hunting for bim Every vewspaper that does its du- ty faithfully aud unfalteringly has enemies—fierce, bitter and unrelent- ing enemies, says an exchange. Ev ery political trickster who fails to use the paper for the advancement of his sheme; everyone who attempts unsuccessfully to buy or bulldoze it hates thereafter with a malignity directly in proportion to the ful- | Some laudation which he would have lavished upon it had it done bis dir- ty work. We should say that every newspaper needs its evimies, in fact every paper with the noral courage, the firmness, honesty and indepene dence it skould most inevitably make enemies of the class we have alluded to. A paper without such enemies scarcely deserves to have friends.— Ex. ; Reviyal Tornado. Rev. T. A. Lampton of Montrose, and Mr. Johu Crabtree, his singer, closed a series of meetings at Fos ter with 40 conversions and 20 ad- ditions to the church. The young evangelist did a good work. He preaches the power of God, A Worker. FULL OF RUMORS.| Berlin Excited Over an Impending Crisis. FATE OF THE ARMY BILL. Rumor That the Reichstag Will Be Dis- solved—Strength of the Opposition and Support of Caprivi— He Has a Confer- ence With the Kalser. Berit, Dec. 12.—The city is full of rumors of an impending crisis on the new army service bill. One report is that the imperial message dissolving the reichstag will be read to-day; an- other that the army bill will not be put into effect without consultation with the reichstag. Public feeling is that the nation is on the verge of an explosion, particularly if the kaiser insists on retaining Count von Caprivi. It will be remembered that the kaiser formerly expressed a determination to keep Prince Bismarck in power in spite of anything that might happen. Thursday night, speak- ing with a group of liberal deputies, Caprivi said that in any case he would not retire from the chancellorship. In round numbers the opposition to the army bill may be estimated as fol- lows: Center, 109 votes: Progressists, 97: socialists, democrats, 10. On the other hand, it is possible that the bill may receive the support of sixty- six conservatives, of whom thirty-one, however, are wavering; of eighteen liberal conservatives, of whom eleven are doubtful; of forty-two national lib- erals, all of whom demand modification of the measure. Caprivi was unwell yesterday, but he nevertheless held a consultation with conservative leaders. He attributed much of the opposition to the army bill to the Ahlwardt scandal. In the even- ing he was summoned to the Imperial palace to confer with the kaiser. At a late hour it was reported that he would withdraw the military bill or tender his resignation. This, however, is not official. The papers consider that Maj. Hern- inger Heune’s object in refusing to sup- port the provision in the army bill in- creasing the peace effective, and insist- ing that the two years system be fixed by statute, is to effect a compromise be- tween centrists and the government. The Tageblatt, in an article headed “Shipwreck,” goes so far as to say that the fate of the bill has already been de- cided. Offenses on the High Seas—A Blil For Free Sliver Colnage—The Antl-Option Sill. WasuineGton, Dee. 12.—Mr. Hoar, from the judiciary committee, reported a bill to provide for the punishment of offenses on the high seas, and it was considered and passed. Mr. Vest, by request, introduced a dill toaid in the construction of the proposed electric railway between Chi- cago and St. Louis, and to secure to the government its use for postal, military and other purposes. Mr. Stewart introduced a bill amend- ing the existing Sherman act so as to provide for free silver coinage and the coinage of the silver bullion now held in the treasury and in addition for the issue of treasury notes on silver de- posits, to be redeemable in gold or sil- ver coin. The anti-option bill was laid before the senate at 2 p. m., but was informal- ly laid aside to allow the discussion on the Indian territory resolution to be continued. The anti-option bill was then, on mo- tion of Mr. Washburn, taken up— the question being on the amendment offered by Mr. Daniel, but it soon went over until to-morrow to allow it to be reprinted so as to show the bill as originally passed, the amendments adopted in the senate and the amend- ments now pending. ‘The senate then went into executive session on motion of Mr. Cullom, but five minutes later adjourned. THE HOUSE. A Resolution Passed Relating to a Change in the Treasury. WasHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The speaker laid before the house a communica- tion from the secretary of the treas- ury transmitting the draft of a joint resolution relative to the dis- charge -of the official duties of the register of the treasury. This set forth the illness of the register, Gen. Rosecrans, and the performance of his duties by the assistant register, an the resolution provides that the ‘sec- |- retary may delegate authority to any chief of division or clerk to act tempo- rarily as assistant register. It was passed. H ‘i Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, chairman of the committee on military: affairs, re- ported the army appropriation bill and it was referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Davis, of Kansas, from the com- mittee om labor, reported a bill to pro- hibit the employment of. convict labor on public works. : Bursting Water Malu. . Cnicaco, Dec. 12.—By the bursting of alarge water main at the corner of Fifth avenue and Charles place, two blocks of cottages below grade were flooded and many of the occupants had narrow escapes. The Consolidated Bottling company lost $20,000, I. N. Sherman, wagon maker, $10,000 andthe Godfrey & Frank Paper Co, $15,000. Six Years For Wai-ren. Waco,Tex., Dee. 12.—Tommy Warren, the feather weight champion pugilist, was convicted of murder end sentenced to six years im the penftentiary. He killed a negre: porter in a saloon while he was trying to get a shet at another man. The Missouri supreme court, in the Rentfrow murder case, finds. that though Greene county had not 50,090 people by the census, yet it was considered - to have that number by the legislature and therefore the conviction holds _—. THE NAVY. } Sammary of Secretary Tracy’s Annual Re- | port—The Country in a Position of Power | on the Ocean. | | WasHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Secretary Tra- cy, in his annual report, sets forth the fact that when the present administra- tion came in, March, 1889, besides old and obsolete wooden ships only three modern war.vessels were in commission. During the administration nineteen new vessels, withan aggregate tonnage of 54,832 tons, mounting two 12-inch, six 10-inch, sixteen S-inch and eighty- two6-inch guns, have been added, all of which, with the exception of five of the earliest, have been manufactured in this country. Three new steel tugs have also been constructed and putin service. There is in process of construction eighteen vessels, certain to be completed, should armor be completed within the next year, of aggregate tonnage of § tons and mounting altogether twelve 13-inch, six 12-inch, sixteen 10-inch, thirty S-inch, thirty-two 6-inch, thirty- eight 5-inch and thirty-four 4-inch guns, all of which have been or are to be manufactured in this country. Development the past four years has not been confined to ships alone. At the beginning of this administration, says the secretary, the naval establish- ment was entirely destitute of certain elements of efficiency, each one of which was indispensable to its practical employment as a fighting force, and the absence of which, even if it had been possessed of a hundred ships, would still have left it in a condition of paralysis. These were armor, tor- pedoes, heavy rapid firing guns, armor- piercing shell, smokeless powder and high explosives. The secretary details at length the noteworthy progress in the production of these things, and says the progress noted, by which the United States has emerged from its condition of helpless- ness at sea, and by the employment of its own resources has distanced its most expérienced competitors, marks an epoch in the naval development, not only of this country, but of the world. Delay in delivery of armor has caused final completion of armored vessels un- der construction to be somewhat later than at first contemplated. The only compensation for this delay is the superior quality of armor that has been recently developed. In connection with the development of nickel steel for armor, the department has undertaken SESE ER rata NT NE |sociation has aseries of experiments in the applica- tion of this material to other purposes of construction which promise no less important results than those already obtained. FEDERATION OF LABOR. Presideut Gompoers Describes the Labor Situation in Gloomy Language. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.—President Gompers opened the twelfth annual session of the American Federation of Labor in Independence hall This morn- ing. An address of welcome in behalf of the United Labor league of this city was delivered by George Chance, of Typographical union No. 2. In his reply to the address Mr. Gom- pers said: “Measured by the wealth that has been gathered Pennsylvania is great, prosperous and powerful. Con- trasted with the condition of the pro- ducers of that wealth, then the state is poor indeed. I have no_ hesitancy in saying that the laws of the nation and state are partly responsible for this condition of affairs. Trusts have been legalized and fostered, while soulless corporations and _ gigantic plants are the special wards of the state. Laws passed for the benefit of the masses are declared unconstitution- al or decisions given that render their provisions null. These and other deci- sions force us to the belief that there is one law, or rather construction of it, for the poor man and another for the rich. When this fact becomes patent to the masses of the people, as it surely will, the remedy, or the attempt at it, will be swift and it may be terrible. It is said that ‘the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church.’ It is possible that through the blood of the men who died on the banks of the Monongahela last summer may come a realization of the true condition of affairs and that the legis- lation of the future will be in favor of the masses rather than for the aggran- dizement of the few. It is lamentable that judges should stoop so low to ar- rive at such despicable ends as has been witnessed recently in Pennsylvania.” The speaker ascribed these wrongs to two causes—the comparative lack of or- ganizatioh\'among the laboring men of the state and the devotion of wage workers to partisanship first and their class interests last. DISASTROUS FOR STRIKERS. Collapse of Trades Unionism Almost Inev- e itable at New Orleans. New Orveans, Dec. 12.—The fight be- tweelt labbr and capital in New Orleans was to@ finish and the victory of the employers.is becoming more sweeping every day. The Amalgamated labor council which conducted the general strike is so weakened that it will hard- ly survive its defeat. The car drivers, on winning their strike, made a contract for a year, but when the order for a general strike was given the drivers broke their contracts and-went-eut with the rest. Under the settlement. the drivers were compelled to go back as‘an independent body and some have not. yet obtained their old places; so that they lost all they had before gained. Germany Monometallist. BeERutx, Dec. 12.—In the reichstag to- day Count Von Meirbach, a member of the conservative party, asked the gov- ernment- to assist the bimetal- lists at. the €international monetary conference at Brussels Chancellor Von - Caprivi replied that the German delegates in the conference had been instructed not to give their assent any proposals that restricted Germany's right to decide what should constitute her own currency. They had also been instructed to declare that Germany was content with her present system and would not depart from it Venezuela has forbidden the importa- tion of American oleomargarine and cottonsee? oil lard. Southwest Missouri Teachers’ Associa- tion. annual meeting at Nevada, Dec. ai, | 28 and29. An excellent programme | has been arranged and it is the de- | sire of the officers to make this! meeting the most profitable the as- ever held. 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