The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 11, 1893, Page 2

OT HIGH PRAISE FOR CARLISLE. Banker Lyman J. Gage Declares the Secretary Master of Finances. Chicago, Il., May 4.—Lyman J. Gage, president of the First nation al bank, speaking last evening about Sunday’s conference between Secre- tary Carlisle and Chicago bankers, said: “It was really nothing more than a friendly talk between us al though the secretary went some what into the details of his policy I must confess that I was surprised at the thoroughness with which he has grasped all points involyed in the management of national finances. It would be expected that any man holding his position would have at least a broad and general knowledge of matters affecting the national credit, but Secretar; Carlisle has gone into details. In short, he is thoroughly posted and, therefore, wonderfully qualified to meet any emergency. I may add that the Chicago bankers present Sunday evening were in hearty sympathy with his views.” “Did he make any specific declara tion of his policy?” “Yes, he gave us to understand that he did not care to issue bonds until it was necessary, but he also said the bonds would be issued just as soon as the emergency presented itself. In other words, the credit of the government would be preserv ed intact. Of that there can be no question. He is firmly set in his opinions and is unquestionably right. Furthermore, he and the president are in hearty concord in this policy. After the talk with Secretary Car lisle I would have no hesitancy in saying that they have fully settled ona policy and that in spite of what has been said there is not the slightest disagreement between them. Their policy is wise and con- servative. and will command the confidence of the public.” “Did the secretary say anything about the 14 millions of gold in the west?” “He expressed his satisfaction with the showing which had been made public and said he was glad that so much gold was in the posses sion of men who stood ready to lend a helping hand to the government at any time. Among the gentlemen present there seemed to be no ques tion that the gold held by the west- ern barks would be placed at the disposal of the government whenev- er it was needed. Further than that very little was said about the banks in the west. Teere was no specific pledges or promises although there seemed to be a friendly understand ing. The secretary was correct in taking it for granted that western banks ave in sympathy with his poli cy to issue bonds when it becomes necessary. As I said before the talk was largely informal. It was instruc tive and reassuring to all of us who had the pleasure of meeting the sec retary.” PENSION REFORM Farnham Post Determined in its Oppo- sition to the Degrading Abuses ot the Present Laws. ‘The Repubiic Bureau, ) Room 146 Times Building, + New York, May, 3, 1893.) Farnham Post, G. A. R., has come out unequivocally for pension re form, and the action of its members in passing resolutions demanding that the pension lists be purged of impostors has stirred up the other posts in this city until it seems like- ly that there will be a split of the old organization. The position of Farnham Post is immovable. It de clared itself outright and vigorously against the present peusion laws and confirmed that action by reso- lutions at the supposed peril of sus pension from the Grand Army of the Republic. Some of the mem- bers believe that the post is already aresuli might well be achieved at any price. Suspension by the au- thorities of the G. A. R. will not dis | band our organization. In any event we shail keep it going asa veteran association, holding regular meetings, paying benefits and ather- wise standing as closely together as ever. Nearly all of our members saw service in the field throughout the unfortunate struggle with the south. We joined the Grand Army | because we believed it would be fine organization. O7 course we are glad to belong to a respectable body and if it had remained respectable it would have given us pleasure to continue in its ranks. But when the finger of scorn is pointed at the G AR. when it is denounced as a set of blackguards aud robbers, always reaching out for the public treasury it is no longer a matter of pride for any man to belong toit. The Grand Army seems in danger of falling in to the hands of pension ageuts, who use it to make themselves rich.” General Henry W. Slocum, when asked this afterneon about the ac tion of Rankin post, of which he is a member, in rebuking the resolu- tions of Farnham post said: “I was not present at the meet- ing having taken no active part in the post tor more than a year.” “How do you feel about it?” “It was ill-advised,” Geueral Slo- eum replied. “Do you think that the Grand Ar my will take up the movement for pension reform?” “Not merely the Grand Army, but old soldiers everywhere,” said Gen- eral Slocum, with some warmth. “The scandal of pension abuses can- not beignored. It is disgraceful that the pension lists should be lengthened with the names of men who never did service in the field. At the close of the war about 500,- 000 were enlisted who had no fight ing to do. Yet these men are on the pension rolls on equal footing with the men who went to the front in 1861 and fought through the war.” “What proportion of the pension- ers, in your opinion have no right on the rolls?” “a very large proportion, I should say, probably from one third to one- half.” “Is the remedy for the abuses to be furnished by such a movement as that started by Farnham post?” “That will do good, of course,” under suspension. Past Adjutant Martin I. Keyes said to-day: “It our post is to be suspended because of this declaration, we can better afford to stand that punish- ment thanthe Grand Army can af- ford to inflict it. The action we took had been forestalled by public sentiment, and we know the people are with us. If it shall tend to re- lieve the odium that attaches to the G. A. R. in this connection, we can afford to be suspended as the pen-/ beloved and went her alty for what we have done. Such|—Sedalia Bazoo. said General Slocum, ‘‘but the real remedy lies with the people. It isa large matter to handle. There are 1,000,000 names on the pension rolle. An official inquiry would take a life- time. The good sense of the people can furnish a wuch better corrective by exposing fraud wherever it exists. Ihave strong hope that this reme- dy will be effectively applied.” Chased out a Preacher. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 27.—A dispatch from Oakdale, a little vil- lage in James county, says that lit tle hamlet was the scene of novel and wild excitement. A preacher was stopped in the midst of his ser mon by an infuriated audience, who collared him and at the point of a knife gave him a few minutes to “make peace with his God” or leave the country. He chose the latter, made rapid strides in a far away di- rection, and when last seen, some two miles distant, was following out the order given him by his late con- j gregation. He claimed to be Rev. R W. Holmes of Columbus, Ga., and pass ing through took it into his head to preach. Though of shabby appear- ance fora preacher, his congrega tion seemed willing to listen until he began to abuse women generally, and began a discourse of heresy ard false doctrines. He was asked to stop. His audience became enraged beyond control and rudely ejected him. Newton county, Missouri, has produced a case of genuine love. A young lady from that county desired to wed a promising young American from Lawrence county, who was not yet the required 21 summers by about nine months. Not to be de- feated in her fond aspirations, she approached the father of her ‘dear- est” and asked him what was the worth of his son’s labor. ,The fath- er valued it at $10 a month, where- upon she handed him $90, teok her way rejoicing. RECORDS TAMPERED WITH. | An Unheard of Case in the State | Supreme Court. Jefferson City, May 3.—The filing of ordinary motions in the supreme court is not usually a subject of pub- lic interest, but Attorney General R. F. Walker has filed a motion in di- a former order of submission in the case of the state against Joseph A. Howell of Linn county that is rath- er of a sensational nature. It is al- legedin the attorney general's mo- tion that the state has discovered since the argument of the cause last month that the bill of excep- tions does not contain a fulland true transcript of the evidence at the trial as shown by the affidavits of Judge Goodman, who tried the case, the official stenographer, the prosecuting attorney and half a doz en witnesses; also, that the tran- script as written by the official sten- ographer and delivered by her to the attorneys for the appellant has been so changed as to falsely present the testimoney given upon the trial, and the transcript is false and ur- true. A brief statement of the case is essential to a full understanding of the matter. On the night of Janu- ary 19, 1889, Mrs. Minnie Hall, a widow living on a farm in Linn county, and her four children were murdered and the house set atfire. The blaze aroused the neighborhood and brought a number of farmers to the scene but too late to subdue the flames When the wall partially gave way the body of one of the children, Nettie, rolled into the cel- lurway and dragged out and identi- fied by relatives and friends. The other bodies were badly disfigured. Thero was a fresh t. ow on the ing away from the building. These diately and Joseph H. Howell was arrested as the inhuman fiend who had committed the crimes. He had not yet gone to bed, and his pants and shoes were wet showing that he had been walking through the snow. He was a cousin of the murdered woman and had been boarding with her and teaching school. It is the theory of the state that Howell had performed an unsuccessful criminal operation on the woman, and eyi- dence of this crime was found. In fact the state has a purported con- fession in which Howell gives the horrible details of the murder. In this confession he says that when he discovered that Mrs. Hall was likely to die, he picked up an ax and fiuish- ed her by striking her on the head. He then started to leave when the little boy began crying. He return- ed and and picked up a_ hatchet, when the little boy, seeing him hid be hind some barrels. Howell reach- ed over the barrel aud knocked the httle fellows brains out. By this time the little girls were screaming and he took the ax and brained them. Howell was indicted on sepurate counts for each of the murders, but was tried on the indictment charg- ing the murder of Nettie Hall. The state selected this case because the little girl’s identity could be easily established, as it was to the entire satisfaction of a Linn county victed of murder in the first degree. An appeal was taken to thesupreme court where the judgment was re- versed and the cause remanded for new trialon account of some error in the instructions. The defendant then obtained a change of venue to Grundy county where, after one mistrial, Howell was again convicted of murder in the first degree. The case was again appealed tovthe su- preme court, where, as indicated at the beginning of this article, it was argued last month. Now it seems from the affidavits referred to that the transcript has been mutilated, pages taken out and false matter supplied until the iden- tity of the little girl is not estab- lished. The official stenographer, Miss Josephine H. Vandivert, makes affidavit that she preserved her notes containing the evidence taken at the trial and that she made the transcript thereform, and that in the particulars alluded to it bas been changed by taking out sheets wherein testimony tending to identify the little girl vision No. 2 of the court to set aside} groucd and tracks were found lead- were followed to Brookfield imme- jury and Howell was promptly con-; should be and pages inserted that | were made on different paper and | with different ink. In fact, it appears, that the tren-| script does not show that Nettie Hall was killed, but that a dead) child was taken from the ruins of the burning building and there wes / no testimony relating to identifica-| tion. It is also shown by affidavit | that the transcript was changed af- | iter Judge Goodman signed the bill | of exceptions. ; | The case is one without parallel | in the history of the state. ‘There| is no record of transcript or records being mutilated or changed so far | as any records of the supreme court show. The picol onthe part of the state that the transcript has been tampered with appears to be cons clusive, as the shorthand notes of} the official stenographer have been preserved in addition to the posi- tive affidavits of Judge Goodman and other reputable witnesses. The attorneys for Howell are Col. H. W. Mullins of Linneus and Ed. M. Harber and H. G. Knight of Trenton. The court has taken the matter under advisement and will doubt less make such orders as the case seemsto demand. An affidavit has been received by the clerk of the court from Cireuit Clerk Burkholder of Grundy county to the effect that the transcript he forwarded the su- preme court is the same as the tran- script in his office, and that he has kept the same ia his possession as delivered by the official stenograph er. The matter is a mystery as it now stands, but every effort will be made to ascertain the whole truth. Gu Sxoutp-Know THIS FACT. THAT FAIRBANK & Co. ff OF ST. LOUIS.MAKE ASQAP § cue? CHAIRETTE Waicn Has No Eaqvat. STANDARD Quatity &WeéichT sé t ¥ You Grot? for, os A 0. We lton} Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. NUEENSWARF AND GLASSWARE. CICARS AND TOBACCO, Always pay the highest market price for Countv A Leider. Since its first introduction, Elec- tric Bitters has gained rapidly in popular favor, until now it is clear- ly in the lead among pure medicinal tonics and alteratives—containing nothing which permits its use asa beverage and intoxicant, it is recog nized as the best and purest medi cine forall ailments of the stomach liver or kidneys. It will cure sick headache, indigestion, constipation. and drive malaria from the svstem Satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle or the money will be refund ed. Price only 50c a bottle. Sold by H. L Tucker. Anger Leads to Suicide. Joplin Herald. A remurkable case of suicide is re- ported from Webb City. The sui- cide oceurred about 5 o'clock Friday eve. The eldest son of George An- derson, a miner who lives near the stand pipe of the water company, was riding horseback when his younger brother, aged 9 years, asked to be permitted to ride also. The older boy refused to let him mount aud the younger, becoming ye1y angry, said he would go kill himself. Entering his father’s house he took -down a shot gun, placed the muzzle to his head and blew the top off his skull, scattering his brains against the walls. The boy was given to violent fits of anger and had fie quently threatened to kill himself. When a father fiuds that the boy whose expenses he is paying at col- lege has joined a “glee” club and is traveling around the country like a “nigger minstrel,” he should take him away from college aud put him to managing a mule.—St. Louis Re- public. A truth tersely told. I: may meal be added that when the father dis- covers that his son has joined a to- ciety which has for its purpose the “hazing” of a fellow student, he should take him out behind the barn and reason with him ina way that will make him eschew chairs for many a day.—Sedalia Bazoo. Hannibal Couzier-Post; A new ef the mud on Market Street. bast negro with atbig white apron gentlemen through the mud and slosh for the small sam of five cents a trip. 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