The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 1, 1893, Page 3

) Missouri Pacific Time Table Arrival and departure ot passenger trains at Butler Station. Nortu Bounp Passenger, - - 4:47 a.m. Passenger, = - 2:42 pe m. Passenger, - - giI5 p.m. Local freight + 11:20 a.m. SoutH Bounp Passenger, - - assenger, - - Passenger, - - Local Freight - 7:16 a. m. AMOS AVREY HANGED. His Neck Broken by the Fall decent Speech From the Gallows. Mo., May 24—At 8:30 this morning Amos Avery, the youthful murderer of Book agent Miles, was taken from his cell in the Lamar jail and hanged. tion Lamar, o'clock The execu- was witnessed by about fifty admitted by the sheriff. The death watch was placed over Avery at 6 o'clock last night. At 8:30 this morning the sheriff read the death warrant to him and he was taken to the gallows. He as- cended the stairs with perfect self possession aud ouly faltered a little at sight of ube rope. He staggered to one corner of the platform, brace ed himself against the railing and spoke for fifty minutes protesting his innocence aud deriding the of- ficers who were active in prosecut- ing him. The drop fell at 9:21 and he died without a movement of the muscles. persons In eighteen minutes his body was taken down and his neck was found to have been broken. Mrs. M E. Clark of Kansas City took charge of the remains and sent them to Fort Scott, where, as the 1:10 train from Lamar pulled into the Gulf depot this afternoon, fully 1,000 people, some friends of the family and others, curious spectators crowded the platform. The coffin was taken from the car on a truck and conveyed to the hearse which was in waitiug. The funeral pro cession started directly from the de- pot without any ceremony. It con- sisted of a dozen carriges, led by Rev. J. B. Ford of Grace church, who conducted a simple service at the place of burial in Oak Grove cemetery. Avery was hueg for murdering James A. Miles near Liberal, Barton county Missouri, on September 22, 1891. Having killed him he robbed him ofall the property he had, 16 cents cash, an old horse, a road cart and a valise with clothing in it. Avery killed Miles while Miles was asleep beside him. On October 2 1891, Avery was arrested at Galena, Kan., with the murdered man’s clothes on. He was brought back to Lamar for trial and was convict ed of murder in the first His was appealed to the su- preme court and Aver: Kansas City for’ sat The supreme court affirmed the judg- ment of the court below. He has been respited several times till the governor wes assured of his sanity. His speech on the scaffold was pro- fane and obscene and unfit for publi eation. He thanked the official well as the ministers and ladies who degree. case y was taken to eeping. AnIn-| “>| said: ials as) - DEACON BROS. & Co Hardware and Farm Machinery, | a nine Ever brought to Butler. Domestic Sewing Machines. 5 Rope, Grindstones, Washing Machines, Churns, Screen wire, Screen Doors, Builders Hardware Tron, Steel, Nails, and Wagon Wi ‘ood Work. -GROcCERIES.-: - DEACON BRos. & co. DEERING STEEL BINDERS, The best on ear foot gate without trucks, change made in ten minutes. The New Deering Mowers, all Steel Whiteley Mowers, a Car Load Binder Twine All Steele Sulkey Hay Rakes, Largest Line of Machine Oils. The large carriage repository is now filled with the choicest line of TOP BUGGIES. SPRING WAGONS AND ROAD GARTS Porters Hay Carriers, th. with new telescoping platform, A complete live of fresh The highest mare price paid for Butter, Eggs, &e. will go through Buckeye Pumps, Barb edand sentenced to be hanged at Vicksburg next mouth. probably bear him company on the gallows. Burns confessed that he aad his “bad niggers” who had committed macy crimes along the river and in St. Louis. iT ts A BITTER STRUGGLE. The Reyolation. in Nice the Fiercest Eyer Known. New York, May 24.—A gentleman with Central American af- interviewed to day. “While the report published in to-day’s papers and those of re- familiar fairs was cent date may be authentic, it is to of the reported engagement between the revolutionists ment forces all date from Del Sur, one of the two ports on the Pacific which is in the hands of reFolutionists. quently the one-sided. The territory in posses- sion of the revolutionists, while the richest by far in the Republic, com- best agricul- and the govern- San Jaun Nicaraguan reports are naturally prising as it dues the tural part of the country and some ealled on him, aud especially Mrs. | of the most important cities, is very Clark of Kansas City, who had be-| friended him in many ways. MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED. The Brutat phis Grocer Traced to Negroes. Memphis, Tenn, May 18.—Wil- liam Jehl, a suburban grocer who lives alone at his place of business, was found murdered tive years ago. The crime Assassination in his store had been committed with an ax, the floor was} covered with blood, and there were evidences of a desperate struggle, but the murderers left no trace, and it was only by accident that a clew was found, resulting in the arrest of Will Burns, a negro, by Detec- tive Wolff in Warren county, Missis- sippi, near Vicksburg. To the sheriff of Warren county Burns confessed that be and anoth er negro named Cesar Arrington | killed Jehl for his money, but got nove. Afterward he, Arrington,and two negroes named Gibbs and White robbed the postoffice at Phoenix, Warren county, Miss., last year they killed two country merchants, John Blake and J.C. Davis, and plundered their stores. White and Gibbs were caught and lynched several months ago, and Ar- rington was captured, tried, convict- of a Meme} and }small in comparison with that which | jremains royal to Cacasas’ g j A j.nent. Enlistment is eompuls jno roads in the interior, it will take the government lect and Enormous damage a long time to ecl- concentrate its forces. | is being done to foreign property. Laborers in the |mines and on the sugar, service, The coffee is not half shipped, nor jean it be moved until the revolution lis over. rying a rifle is pressed into servive, and the revolution promises to be of | some duration, though President | Cacasas has expressed his determin- ation to crush it at all cost. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that contain Mercury. as Mercu rely destroy the sense jot sme y derange the whole ing 1t thi rough the m Such articles should never be j tions from reput ble to the com them i you can possibly deriy Falls Catarrh Cure. r, J. Cheney & Co , Toledo O., contains no mercury and is taken internally act- ing directly upon the blood and mucous system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure youget the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo (O., by F. J. Cheney & Co* Testimenals free. pep Sold by druggists drice 75 cts. Burns will | companions belonged to a gang of | sua One of | He, be taken into consideration that. those giving the fullest details, Conse- | | but owing to the fact that there are cocoa and | coffee plantations are pressed into | and all work is stopped. | Every man capable of car- | { manufactured by} A Love-Sick Boy. | At'anta, Ga, May 24.—“T’ll show | | her I'm a man, I'll show her I can | |do something brave,” muttered a youn, bey as he walked up the steps | of the state capital last eveving. The janitors, who were sitting out- side and heard the words. thought | jnothiug of it, a minute Jater the! | great door slammed and almost im- | mediately there was the report of a | pistol. Hurrying to the door the! janitors saw the boy lying on the} floor with a bullet bole in and apparently his head | dying The next person on the scene was a beautiful | young girl, who fell on her knees | and, him not to die, all the while protesting her love for him. beside the wounded boy weepe ing and wailing, begged Physicians came within a but the bullet had lodged in the boy’s brain, and in less few minutes, than half an hour he died. The boy |was Louie Abbott, son of # promi nent cotton merchant. He was 17 | years old and one of the brightest students in the boys’ high | The girl was Viola, the 15 year-old | daughter of Rev. Dr. Tupper, rector school. Hoe St. Philip's Episcopal church. Louie had been madly in love with | the girl for quarreled, and months. To day they leaving his sweet- heart at the rectory gate young Ab- bott walked across the street to the capital and to his death. ‘roubles. May 25.—Enftie Pol- son, aged 15, youngest daughter of Judge R. F. Polson, and an older ‘sister, aged 20, quarreled last night | about household work, the younger | declaring that as her affianced, a young man named Smith, an em- ployee of the Wabash shops was ex | pected, she would not do her task. When Smith arriyed she went with | } him to the parlor, and soon after- ordered her to at- Smith left at Weary of Her Moberly, Mo.. | ward her father tend to her work. once. After the work had been complet- , | ed Effie went to her room, when Ler | older sister remonstrated with her about the way she had acted. Then she went toa bureau drawer, where she had strychnine concealed, pour- ed out a small dose and swallowed it, telling her sister what she had done. Aid was summoned, but phy- sicians who arrived in fifteen min-, | utes were unable to do anything and the girl died in about two hours. Judge Pelson is known all over this section, having been a judge of i the county court and coroner. The winter wheat millers of the! country are forming a “league.” | James Anderson | Pherson, relatives. | hood | 37 years old. At | New York city. | clothes ,and learned her trade. T MAN UN EARTH. Weighs 907 Pennds, is 6 feet 5 Inches Tall and is Still Growing. Frankfort, Ind., Dispatch. Citizens of the vicinity yesterday had an opportunity to behold the greatest living man in avoirdupois. John Hanson with his wife and 3 year old was visiting Jar-es Me- home is iu the show business since his baby- Craig, child, and Craig’s In answer to questions he said: ; “I now weigh 907 pounds and am birth I weighed 11 pounds; at 11 months I weighed 77 pounds, at 2 years, At that time I took the mium at 206 pounds. 31.000 pre- Barnum’s baby show in in the year 1858. At 5 years I weighed 302 pounds; at 13, 405 pounds; at 22, pounds; at 27, 755 pounds, at at 29, 791 pounds; at 30, 806 pounds; at 31, 536, present weight is just 907 pounds. I am six feet and tive inches high, measure eight feet and inches around the hips, around the 28, 774 pounds; and my four eighteen inches ankle, twenty-uine inches around the knee, sixty-six inches around the thigh next to the body. I require forty one is for a suit of and for stockings. three pounds of yarn Mrs. Craig is a good looking | blonde, weighs 130 pounds and| formerly accompanied her husband in the role of snake charmer as “Zo-| a Ayres” When asked how) A VERITABLE Vincente | found the motto, the people are | Celia, Ind., DEATH VALLEY. © #Terrible Experience of a Band ot Pros- | pectors in Northern Mexico. Maneloa, Mex., May 21.—Fran. eis Banada, a prominent rancher who lives north of here near} San Juan Sa has arrived} at Maveloa and brings the news of the terrible fate of a party of five mining prospectors. who BATES COUNTY National Bank. BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK | lef a left bere) ae LARGEST AND THE four weeks ago for the Sierra San | tl those through a desert for 150 miles and | jon the third day after leaving Santa Rosa their water supply gave out and their team of horses was left be- hind to its fate. For six days the menu lived on juice of the maguey plant. On the seventh day the two Mexicans were driven crazy by the heat and thirst, broke away from their companions aud lost in the desert of the party strength and soon became Other members gradually lost their left behind to die. The only man that out of the terrible ordeal alive was Mr. Kuapp, who on the teuth day reach- were came ed the San Jose Piedras ranch where he received water and kind treatment Upon regaining his strength he was escorted to San Juan Sabinas by «a different route than the one which bad proved fatal to his compauious. He is now rest- ing at the ranch of Mr Banada and will soon take his departure for his old home in the United States. What Is a Guarantee? 1 Itisthis. It you have a cough or cold, a tickling in the throat, which keeps you constantly coughing, or if you are afflicted with any chest, throat or lung trouble, whooping cough, &c., and you use Ballard’s Horeheund Syrup as directed, giv: it a tair trial, and ne benefitis experienced, we authorize our advertised agent to retund your money onreturr of bottle. It never tails to give satistaction. It rever disappoints Price 50c. Sold by H L Tucker, drug- gist. The scooper, the sensativnalist, the boom town, the produce corner, the trust, the panie and all kindred ideas are becoming things of the past. They ure abnormal and out of har- mony with the best interests of man hence cannot continue. As the peo ple become more enlightened aud business assumes legitimate channels profits become smaller aud returns slower. “Slow and sure,’’ becomes more con- tented and life frivolous.— is not so fast or so Holden Enterprise. Late Arrivals. “Rob, are you going to the village?’’ “Yes, wite,” “then don’t bring me a bottle ot Kemp’s coughs aud colds, the medic cured Aunt Mary’s cough let it run along ever getting rid . Remember, Kemp Balsan, you can get st at any drugstore” that atter she had Willis Thompson, postmaster at oftice to the of Ballwn and set up business in oppositio. to the mo-el his ghboring town Baldwin postmaster. The case of Wim. Si ohn against | the Missouri Pacific eailvendl begun BANK | bounda: been many IN| BATES COUNTY. jreports ci this part of | aes | Mexico for several 1 s pust of} | CAPITAL, nian jthe famous to be jsu RPLUs, = = $25,000 oo a | party of young a * J. — nen : waeniag |C. H. Lorian, B. W. Knapp. both | 1. C. CLARK : % peciinliizs | Amer ns, Cecilia Martinez, Eusta-| ei. Lojada and Jesus Guerrera or- Dawvyecu: |ganized themselves into a band to! jtry their luck in the reported Eldo-| yy ~ jrado W . Ou) acxsox The course of their journey lay -ATTORNEY-AT LAW — | iW <0 upst t Batee County Na- second d. ti 1 Bank. pe ARMOND & Sie: ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in B coun bey O fice over Bate Parkinson & GRAVES, ATTORN«YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down's Drug Store. tes and adjoining Co. Nat'l Bank. DX. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. Ail answered atoffice day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- eases. call T C. BOULWARE, Physician and ¢ Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women an en a specialtv. chik a ee DR. F. M. FULKERSON, DENTIST, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Office, Southeast Corner Square, over Deacoun, Sons & Co. store Fran Franz Bernhardt On the north side of the square, | | Butler, - Missourt, Does his own ‘Watch & Clock Repairing Also Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Sil-, verware at ACTUAL COST AND CARRIAGE, For the next twelve months. { ears experience can and will give you satisfaction. Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty. —GO TO—— — G. A. VAN HALL, —SUCCESSOR TO— long they had been married, she | ne arly 11 years ago, has been again F. BERNHARDT & CO. aughingly remarked were first married that they were their were divorced that in 1882, they | but | now enjoying | as they | in January, and re-| married but a couple of weeks ago. | Mr. Craig explained the trouble, stating that his wife had expressed a desire to learn fashionable dress- | making aud that he objectea. She | applied for a diyorce. ii was grant-| edand she went to Terre Haute She then and they were re Craig has been all just second honeymoon. returned home married. Mr. ; over Europe, and in every important city in the world. here to Dayton, was born and r All declare it to be a model of beauty and workmanship. The New They went from where Mrs. Craig ised. High-Arm Davis Sewing Machine jembodies all the latest umprove- ments known to the trade. Charles Menke, jr., is in jail at | = Mo., charged with rape. remanded by the Missouri supreme court. What is this anyhow It is the only bow (ring) which cannot be pulled from the watci. To be had only with Jas. Boss Filled and other watch cases | stamped with this trade mark. Ask your jeweler for pamphlet. Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA. —FOR— PURE DRUCS MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, TOBACCOS AND FINE CIGARS, ARTISTS MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS. =e Prescriptions Carefully Compounde A liberal Patronage of the Public is solicited.