The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1892, Page 4

" 4 BUTL J. D. ALLEN Epitor. J. D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexty Times, published every Wednesday, willbe sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. Great distress is reported in West ern and Northwestern Kansas as a result of the cold weather. Frauds in the weighing oi sugar for bounty haye been discovered, so Government officials at Atlanta say. First Sergeant George Loyd, 1 Troop Seventh Cavalry, committed | suicide at Fort Riley Post. He was badly wounded at Wounded Knee and itis thought that affected his brain. Senator Vilas aud Hon. Don M. Dickerson were in consultation with President Cleveland at his residence on the subject of Northwestern rep resentation in the Cabinet and an extra session. It is believed that the United| States soldiers are closely pressivg the Mexican {revolutionists. It is reported that General Rocho, mili- tary instructor at Chapultepec, the Mexican West Point, has joined the revolutionists. Seme democratic paper in a spirit of fun suggested that the democrats now pass a force bill similar to the one prepared by the republicans. In stantly the ire of the radical sheets, which were the most urgent for the force bill, were raised aud they are indignantly denouncing such a mea- sure. Randall Lee Gibson, U. S. Sena- tor from Louisiana, died at Hot Springs last week and the remains were buried at Lexington Ky., be- side those of his wife. He went into the late war as a private when Lou- isiana seceded but was soon promot- ed and at the time of Lee's surren- der he was a brigadier general. He was beloved by all his old soldiers. That state has lost a great ard good man. Sa EE France is just now in the throes of a great public scandal over the Panama canal question. A number of prominent officials, legislators and public contractors have been arrest- ed and are confined on a charge of having given and received bribes- Charles De Lesseps, who has beea prominently connected with this work has also been arrested and Ferdinand De Lesseps, ths venera- ble engineer, when summoned to appear before a magistrate became delerious and is confined to his bed. The democrats will not have a elear majority in the next senate, but they will have more votes than the republicans. The populists will hold the balance of power, and on the tariff question, which will be the leading question before congrese, they will always be found on the democratic side.—Globe Democrat. Missouri will probably have a statue ofj zinc to advertise her min eral resources at the World's Fair. She could have one each of lead, iron, copper, or it might be well to include them all in one statue, rep resented as bearing aloft in both hands a world made of coal. Bates county will take great pleasure in furnishing the coal in any size lump required, but the modesty of her statesmen would forbid any of them posing as the model. Many Missouri editors want to be post-masters. When changes are made in the post-offices the men who have worked hard for the party through the columns of their paper should receive consideration. It is pleasing to note that in cases where petitions are in circulation the editor is getting a good share of the sign- ers. He spent his time and his ener- gy and his thoughts on plans to further party interests in his home locality to a greater extent than any other man in the town or township. The country editor did more than the committeeman who lived next door. He made more votes than half of the stump speakers who visited the neighborhood. When the time eomes for the post-offices to be changed, the rural editor should be allowed to earn thesmall salary at- ached to it.—K. C. Times. ER WEEKLY TIMES OFFICE STILL SEEKING HM. When the third party was organ ized with the hope of riding iute powerin the Farmers’ alliance wagon ; |the instigators and leading spirits | in this political movement protested \long and load that it was to bes | pure party, a poor mau’s party. free | from the wiles aad tricks of the pol- jitician, am which the office was to \seek the man Those who were mau jipulating the wires, old broken }down politicians, who had been | chronic office seekers in the old par ties made this kind of talk very ri j}diculous to those but a great many enthusi ed and listened to the suug by their leaders. In Bates county, at the very cut jset they began to make eyes at the jrepublican party, with many promises of rich deputyships and to totally annibilate their ancient enemy, the democrats, they succeed edin getting the republican ticket withdrawn from the field and with the aid of republicans gained a tem- who would see, sts believ siren songs aud porary victory. Then what a spectacle presented itself for the next two years. Every patriot, firm in the conviction that the office was seeking the man, at- tempted to throw himself iv its way. While the leaders were fixing things to suit themselves. Secret caucuses were held and the ticket practically agreed on before the cou- vention was held. Then came the most act of all, one from which the oll corrupt parties would have shrunk aghast, that of a populist nominee going as supplicant to the republi can committee and begging that in name be placed upon the republicar ticket. The point blank to consider the proposi- tion, aud the language of some of its members was more foreible than polite. Failiuog in this ruse to fool the voters of the district and get their votes by stealth, Mr. Atkeson got up a petition of his union labor co horts, with a few republican names to give it respectability, praying a democratic state official to plaee his name on the republican ticket, after the proper representatives of that party had refused to allow it to go on. This was allowing.the office to seek the man with a vengeauce. The county clerk of Henry coun- ty refused to be a party to any such fraud upon his people and placed Mr. Atkeson’s name under the prop- er heading on the the ticket where it belonged. If the people of that county wanted Mr. Atkeson—if the office was really seekins the man— they had 21 opportunity to vote for him not only on his own ticket, the peoples, but he was givena separate ticket all to himself. As a conse quence the voters were not deceived and were not hunting for him to any considerable extent The office is still seeking Mr. At kesov aud will continue to seek un til the supreme court extinguishes the last flickering iays of hope of this poor, badly used patriot. Now comes Pierce Hackett, that erstwhile ‘democratic warhorse”™ who fit for his democracy and never, well, hardly ever, asked for office, endecalls on his poor deluded fol- lowers, at least what is left of them, torally to Mr. Atkeson’s assistance with the ‘wherewithal’ to carry on his contest suit. Yes, according to Bro. Hackett a great outrage has been committed upon your suffrage because you didn’t let that office find Atkeson. Rodents! committee refused Congressman DeArmond was com- plimented last week by being chosen to preside over the House in com- mittee ofthe whole. We look for our talented member to make his mark in tke next two years. As chairman of the committee on presi dent and vice-president he submit- teda bill which should becomea law, that of the election of the pres ident and vice-president by a direct vote of the people. — Renewed confidence in the busi- ness tact and sound judgement of Grover Cleveland is given asa rea son for the sadden and wonderfui ad yance in the price of grain. The farmer can bank on Grover Cleve- land and hia principles and policy. The advance in the price of stocks and cereals gives the lie to the ca- lamity howlers who predicted eternal = under the new regime.—Toledo i SENSATIONAL. Suicide of the Son of the Treasurer of St. Louis. HE BURNS HIS BOOKs, Was Short in His Accounts—1 Chicago Man Fatally Shot By Burglars—A Speculator Kus Through Funds at New York and Disap- pears. St. Louis. Dee. 20.—About 6 o'clock this morning the watchman in the city hall discovered a fire in a closet in the private office of the city treasurer, W. J. Foerstel, in which papers and docu- ments of various kinds pertaining to the office were stored. The fire was soon quenched, but it is said that some of the dffice books were burned. About 9 o'clock word was received that Edward Foerstel, son of the treas- urer and also ehief clerk, had shot himself at his home. This event was immediately connected with the fire and suspicion was aroused that young Foerstel was short in his accounts and that the fire had been started with the view of destroying the evidences of the defalcation. It had also been known for some time that young Foerstel had negotiated loans through W. T. Yow, and some of the notes given by Yow, who, it ap- pears, was only a go-between, bore the indorsement of Michael J. Foerstel. These were declared to be forgeries by Foerstel, but Yow obtained money on the notes and the matter seemed to be settled. The treasurer declared that his son’s accounts were straight and that he could not explain Edward's at- tempted suicide. Young Foerstel died at 10:25 a.m. It appears that he stood before the mirror of his dresser and fired the ball into his temple, inflicting a large,ragged wound. He sank to the floor unconcious and re- mained in that condition until he died. Nothing was found in his room or on his person that would indicate the cause of his act. The young man was seen in the treas- urer’s office yesterday afternoon and the door of the office vault was found »pen when the firemen entered the room this morning, but the door of the inner safe was locked. An investiga- tion is now being made of the safe, vault wnd office accounts and by even- ing it is expected that it will be known whether there has been a defalcation. SHOT BY BURGLARS. CuicaGo, Dec. 20.—Fred J. Austin, of 3514 Prairie avenue, who had been down town until early this morning, was en- tering his house when he saw two men near one of the side windows. He drew his revolver and asked the men they wanted. One of the men fired a shot which did not hit Austin and the latter returned the fire. Several shots were exchanged, one of which struck Austin in the stomach. Austin fell to the sidewalk and while lying prostrate emptied his revolver at the men. It is thought that one of them was wounded for a trail of blood in the snow marked the course by which they escaped. A policeman heard the shooting and ran to the scene. Austin was found stretched in front of his door with blood streaming* from a deep wound in the abdomen. A doctor was called and said that the wound would probably prove fatal. The police made an investigation of the premises and it was found that Austin’s assailants had attempted to enter the house through a sid rdow, Officers from the Stanton avenue sta- tion started in pursuit of the murderers. IMMENSE EMBEZZLEN New York. Dee. 20.—Edward P. Chamberlain, a southerner, well known in Wall street and the trustee of the es- tate of the late John M. George, valued at $500,000, has disappeared and is re- ported to have taken with him a large part of the funds of the estate—how much nobody kuows as yet. George left two sons, one of whom was killed not long ago by the accidental e. plosion of a gun The other, Joe George, lives on a ranch in Texas. He was in the city about three weeks ago looking anxiously for Cham- berlain, whom he seemed to have great difficulty in finding. Up to that time he had placed perfect confilence in the integrity of his father’s friend, but it appears rumors had reached his ears of some disastrous speculations in wheat on the part of Chamberlain. Chamberlain was aiso trustee for the estate of George Harvey, of the firm of Harvey & Searles o left a fortune of $50,000. Harvey died fifteen years ago and his estate was satisfactorily settled. Much surprise is expressed on Wall street at the action of Mr. Chamberlain, whose honor was esteemed above re- proach. Dr. S&S. Laws Goes to Cincinnatl. Kansas City, Mo., Dee. 20.—Dr. S. S. Laws, ex-president of the Missouri state university and for several years a resident of this city, has left Kansas City to go to Cincinnati to live. Dr. Laws is engaged upon an undertaking of which even his most intimate friends know nothing. It is conjectured, how- ever, that this work is either the pro- duction of a book or the invention of something in the aprlication of electric- al science. Dr. Laws is the inventor of the ticker used in handling telegraphic quotations and from this invention he realizes a handsome income. A Protestant Church for Madrid. Mankaip, Dec. 20. —Despite the em- phatic protests of the papal nuncio, the bishop of Madrid and thousands of aris- tocratic Catholics, the Protestant church was consecrated yesterday with the consent of Premier Sagasta. Arch- bishop Plunta, Pere Hyacinthe and sev- eral English clergymen were present. Loring Pickering Dying. San Francisco, Dec. 20.—Loring Pick- ering, senior editor of the San Francisco Morning Call and Evening Bulletin, is reported to be dying, He is 84 years of os has a wife and ason5 years | Mr. Cleveland's plurality has been }imereased to 290.000 by the correct }+d returns from New York. Will that avalanche never cease falling?— | K.C Star. i The one year suspession of immi gration would be a proper move, ou account of the danger from the cholera, and congress ought to recog- nize this fact at ouce and act accord- | gly. —Globe Deaverat. Illinois want free The grang eund the Michigan want no How can the gravger con- gressnen be exp cted to get toze th- er when their supporters are so far apart.—K. C. Sour. The demand fer a new covstitu tion for Missouri will b> presented o the gi nera silver coi grangers of kind. assembly this winter, md there is every reason to believe \ ta proposition calling a cousu submit ted to the people.—Clinton Eye. tutioual convention wil be The correspondent of the St. Louis Republic from New York of the Alth iast, has the following to say in. cud to Gov. Stone's ech at the recent bauquct: About twenty of the mombers of the Refo.m C.ub and others who just t attesded .h+ ban Le gut called on Governcr et Sto.e at the t -lay to congratulate bi on bis arent victory at the late election ard him sve ver in the Madison Square Garden last nigi nov Stone did ed on for: quet ' Hetfman hou-e tu complimeat on his ri ging chat ©: Gover to be eall- ond bis tremuis lle spoke tbout 10 minutes; but owing tothe ef the heur and the faet that be had not been announced as areguiar xpouker, only the latter put of bis speech was reported in the account of the banquet. The governor was cheered repeatedly Hot expr speech were delivered off band. pitene-s throughout bis specch and when he concluded he He called oi the president white in New York by special invitation. rezeived an ovation. The Colonels and the Mugwumps. St. Lonis . epablic. Wn. J. Stone, eect of Mis: ouri, Hon. governor ‘8 a student of caracter as well as a man of affairs and in his speech nt tke mercantil ciul barquet he gives this interest- ing defimtion of the mugwump- There is a class of men of pon derous dignity and pre-eminent re spectability to whose highly culture ears the term “practices! 1 olities” i- offeusiv .. As a rule they criticis whatever is done be withou everatt- mpting to do anything them rot Joth to tell bow things should be dove if they but someLow thry the charce. These dis inguished gentlemen are not with others selves. Thev ure hat a chence, never pet out their uses, however, they serve as a sort of balance wheel—a check or curb upon the impetuous ardor IT neyer knew a mugwump, a dreamer or an ide to lead a political battle. of the practica’ politician t who was fit to organize or iw. a The seed is planted when you feel “run-down” and “used-up.” Malarial, typhoid or bilious fevers spring from it—all sorts of diseases. Don’t take any risk. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery invigorates the system and repels disease. It starts the torpid liver into healthful action, purifies and enriches the blood, and restores health and vigor. As an appetizing, restorative tonic, it sets at work all the processes of diges- tion and nutrition, and builds up flesh and strength. For all diseases that come from a disordered liver and impure blood, skin, scalp and scrofulous affections, it’s the only remedy that’s guaranteed. If it doesn’t benefit or cure in every case, you have your money back. You pay only for the good you get. The worst cases yield to the mild, soothing, cleansing and heal- ing properties of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. That’s why the proprie- tors can, and do, promise to pay $500 for a case of Catarrh in the Head which they cannot cure. comage of any} ee Judge DeArmond’s Election Bin. | Washington, D C., Dee 15.— > London, Dec. 16 —The American Representative DeArmond of Mis | delegates to the international mone- souri to day introduced in the house tary conference are booked to sail on the steamer Lahn from South vice president i ampton for New York December 21. of the people It is not understood that there will the electoral be any celeoration or dinuers op or The Times, referring to the conference, Delegates Coming Home. a resolution for the elee- tion < by the popular provid f president an Vot= aida distribution of vote in proportion to the number of before the occasion. ivotes cast for each candidate. A Says: must be sible for the ig- novel feature of the resolution pro “The American delegates ly. jes thatif ether house certifies held largely respot jtuat the nominious | pends on the vote of any Specitied America ¢ the State and that it ought to be judi- prepared with a practical scheme jcially determined for whom the vote and then offered only vain plati should be of Senator convened iu Joues would have been more to the fo iu January a purpose if the Americans themselves Jeourt of chief justices. istics of result of the election de failure of the conference. meeting as if andes. counted, there shul be The exuberant rhetoric Weshisgton on the Wednesc cousistr g of Lad not grown tired of protecting tue chief j the j re silver | ourt the cule of the ard determ.ae all oy either house this court shall Le final. Both the electoral ani the lar voteof Mr. Cleveland is quite satisfactory to hia party, and was | more than the hoped for. popu most sanguine hal After making allowance for the splits which bave been 1e vealedup to date in the electoral vote of states, and they are more | numerous than Lave been known be fore since the early days of the gov- ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is plea ernment, the total of the candidates | and roleeakang a pray tg ae pone wili stand thus in th: electoral col. | gaily yet promptly on the Kidneys, lege: Cleveland, 277; Harrison, 146; | iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- Weaver, 21. Cleveland, xecording | tem effectually, dispels colds, head- Pee ae coos Oe ee sp aches and fevers and cures habitual 0 these lgures, hus a plurality of | constipation. Syrup of Figs is the 131 and a majority of 119. He has | only remedy of its kind ever pro- 54 more votes than the number nee | duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- essary fora choice in the electoral | ceptable to the stomach, prompt ir : | its action and truly beneficial in its | effects, prepared only from the most ; | healthy and agreeable substances, its tu the past fifth of a century, and | many excellent qualities commend it that was iu 1872 Grant had 268 | to = and a made it the most ; eae See Pee + yo | Popular remedy known. votes in that yer ates ley having Seal of Figs is for sale in 50c died between the election and the | and 81 bottles by all leading drug- date of the meeting of the electoral | gists. Any reliable ye who college, the electors scattered their | may not have it on hand will pro- votes, which were 63 in the aggre-| CUTE It promptly for any one who gate, making Grant's lead 225.—Se- SS it. Do not accept any dalia Bazoc. | | | colo. 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