The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 15, 1893, Page 4

WEE wis 4 KLY TIM J. 1), ALLEN Epitor. J. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexry Times, published every | Wednesday, willbe sent to any address} one year, postage paid, for $1.00. Judge DeArmond’s answer to the New York World's questions: Burtrer, Mo., June 9. . I favor a free coinage act ir place of the Sherman law. I favor an income tax. I favor the repeal of the law against state banks. D. A. DEArMonp, (dem ) Sixth Missouri District. Ex-president Harrison visited the World’s Fair Monday. Major McKinley has been re nom inated for governor of Obio. The new gove ject. Secretary Herbert has inaugurated an era of reform in the navy depart ment. The Hudson (Wis.) Savings Bank has closed with nearly $700,000 due depositors. Annie Doolittle, the pretty woman forger, has been convicted at St. Cloud, Minn. The populists and prohibitionists of Iowa have a deal on foot to fuse on state issues. for the collapsed National Bank of Deposit of New York. Missouri’s building at the World’s No Fair has not yet been opened. €xplanation is offered for the delay. James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was thrown from a car- riage in Paris and dangerously in- jured. Bishop Hendrix preached the bac- calaureate sermon at the first dis- trict normal school at Kirksville, Mo. Sunday. Valuable cattle belonging to sen- ator Prector and ex vice president Morton have been poisoned in a Ver- mont pasture. ae The Bank of Mascoutah, IIl., con trolled by J. N. Hagius of the col lapsed Columbia National ef Chicago has suspended. Anton Sholl, a merchant tailor at Odell, Iil., drank half a gallon of whisky and died after having suffer- ed great, agony. Cotton planters in Louisiana's and Mississippi's flooded districts will experiment on planting cotton after the June floods. Sugar king Spreckles says that very soon the government at Hawaii will be restored and the deposed queen re-instated. “Ike new senatorial reappointment bill was passed by the Illinois house last week and is ready for the gov- ernor’s signature. a The orange industry of Florida has increased from 600,000 boxes in 1885 to 3,900,000 for the past season. ‘This year’s crop will exceed 5,000,- 000 boxes. Since the retirement of Col. Jones the St. Louis Republic has changed somewhat and insists that none but democrats be put on guard. That's the right ring. Two boxes of dynamite were found near the railroad at Joliet, placed there, it is thought, by the Lemont strikers with the intention of blow- ing up the militia. It has developed that the ex- supervisor of City Island, N. Y, and the town clerk of the same bor- ‘ough are embezzlers to the amount of $30,000. Both are missing. Mr. James A. Scrymser, one of the yice-presidents of the New York association for improving the condi- tion of the poor, says a surfeit of charity has made the metropolis a paupers’ paradise. Miss Lizzie Chapin, who was re- cently dismissed from the Wilson school in New York for being a The-| ten wounded. osophist held Sunday school exer- HS ronment at Nicaragua is said to be hostile to the canal pro- THE INSURANCE TRUST- A persistent and relentless war- fare has been maintained by the | democratic party against trusts and jcombines which are meant to do { the price of products to the con- jsumer. The evil effects of these trusts have been brought home to | panies doing business in our city i have formed a trust and as a conse | quence insurauce has gone up from 20 to 80 per cent. notwithstanding the fact that we have better facilities for fighting fire and the risks are cor- respondingly decreased. If grocery | merchants in Butler should get to- gether and form a combine and put sugar up so they would only sell ten pounds to the comsumer for $1 00, |it would be but a short time before j another would be started or our people would send their orders direct to Kansas City. If the newspapers of the town would combine to put up job printing more than it is worth, who doubts our people would send away for that class of work. So it is in every busi ness and profession in Butler. But the insurance companies have their Board to establish rates and they all conform to those rates. The in surance rates in Butler are outra- geously and ruinously high, and in- stead of getting vetter, every kick that is made up goes the rates. There is a law against such combi- nations in this state. This law is being violated openly and notorious ly. In Kansas the insurance compa- nies have been prosecuted and brought to time for this very thing In democratic Missouri they will be when the proper complaint is made. Our merchants and business men have tried hard to get these compa nies to be reasonab'e, but it seems thereis only one recourse left them— tomake complaint to the proper state authorities and have them prosecut ed under the antitrust law. Cor- porations are loud in their complaints that they are constantly persecuted and harassed by laws passed by the average state legislature. It is true in some instances there is a tenden oy for that class of legislation, but it is also true that corporations have themselves alone to blame for that state of affairs by becoming grasp ing and domineering in their greed to declare dividends. If the insur auce companies are determined to wage war on Butler, let it not be said that it is a one sided contest. grocery store ys: “There’s dynamite in the ‘breakfast table’ tax. The party which replaces the duty on tea, coffee and sugar will be beaten. The Globe Democrat is right. It would and should be the death of any party that again placed a tax upon these necessites. The strong- est argument the democrats in 1892 had to prove the tariff a tax, was to point to the price of sugar before and after the tariff was removed. No, instead of puiting the tariff back on tea, coffee and sugar, we want it re- moved from a number of other things equally as valuable to the great ma- jority of the people. The duty should and we believe will be taken off of woolen goods. A democratic congress will not replace the duties on these articles and the republican party will never again have the chance. The Illinois legislature convened the first day of last January and is still in session, with no prospects of adjournment. A constitution like Missouri has, would have adjourned the legislature long before this. The legislator on a dollar a day gets ter- rible anxious about his farm, wife and babies. ————C—___ The laws passed probibiting to have not reached the insurance from 20 to 80 per cent. ed in this state. day at noon and Winshester bullets were exchanged. One member of sent state troops to aid the officers. cises at her home, a group of chil-| Sixty-eight clerks in the dren being in attendance. the people of Butler in a very forci-| ble manner. With yery little osten-| | tation and noise the insurance com-| Washington, June 9.—Ford’s his- | 'FORD'S THEATER COLLAPSE. | |Vhe Spot Where President Lin H coln Was Assassinated. away with competition and control| Department Clerks Hurled into | H Eternity Without the Slightest Warn- ing i Gross Negligence 1s Charged. |toric old theater, the building in which Abraham Lincoln was assas- sinated, used by the govern- ment for many vears as part of the office of the surgeon general of the army, collapsed this morning short- ly after 9:30 o'clock, with a terrible result in loss of life and injury. At | least twenty-four persons were killed and scores maimed. The building stood on Tenth street, northwest, between E and F streets and not far from Pennsylvan- ia avenue It had been condemned three times, the first years ago, some claim as many as fifteen or twenty, but has been repaired, prop- ped up and renovated from year to year. When it was condemned by Colonel Rogers of the war depart- ment in 1880 the government promptly moved out its medical museum, there stored and exhibited but the caution then displayed ex- tended only to the exhibits and the building has since been kept crowd ed with clerks despite successive condemnations There were 475 persons, mostly government clerks employed in the build.ng and nearly all of these were at work when the building tell. An «xeavation for an electric light plant was being made in the cellar of th: structure—a three-story af- fair— and, according to the best in formation obtainable, the workmen this morni: gy had dug beneath the foundation supports in the front of the building, weakening them to such an extent that the walls gave way before they could be jacked. This explanation of the cause of the accident is the only one advanced, but it seems somewhat strange in view of the fact that {the top floor | KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, SyEue of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas- ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- ative ; effectually cleansing the system, spelling; colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. another tragedy within the walls of this building. The news of it was flashed to the four quarters of the earth, and it brought consternation wherever it went. The man who was killed was the President of the United States. The building had borne a curse upon it. It ended its career in a fitting manner. But how much better it would have been if the government had removed the building years ago. Those in the multitude who could think of some- thing besides the catastrophe alone remarked upon the strange coinci dence that the buildingin which Jno. TE -W 0 i EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE Light Running Milwaukee Binder, Champion and .AN Table Rakes, Reapers Machi | ‘ ii} AND QUEENSWARE, IN BATES COUNTY. BUTLE The lightest weight of any Binder on the market Buckeye Hay Loaders: Aultman Taylor Threshing BUCCIES, SPRING WAGONS, AND ROAD CARTS. os The Largest Stock of ‘Hardware, Groceries, Stoves, Bennett-Whe The celebrated genuine Mowers, D , Sulky Hay Rakes. “"3NIML YSGNIG 40 VOT YVO V nery: | i | | | eler Merc. Co. R, MO. A KANSAS TRAIN ROBBERY. Express Messenger Whitley Shot in the Side. Kansas City, June 11.—Five men held up the California limited ex press train on the Santa Fe railroad Wilkes Booth slew Abraham Lincoln should fall and kill scores of people on the very day that the body of the assassin’s brother was being laid to rest. There was no connection be- gave way first. NO WARNING OF ANY KIND Men who were in the building say the crash came without warning. Those on the top floor were sudden- ly precipitated to the floor below and the weight of falling timber and furniture carried the second and first floors down. Fortunately only the forward half of the floors gave way. The outer ends of the floors and the rear part of the structure remained intact and the walls did not fall. A general fire alarm was turned in a few minutes after the crash and then all the ambulances in the city were summond. As quickly as pos- sible the police and firemen formed a reserve brigade and ready hands assisted them to take out the killed and wounded. In less than an hour about twenty-five people had been taken out and every few minutes thereafter some still form would be conveyed 01 a stretcher from the building. A brave act was performed by a colored boy 19 years old named Basil Lockwood. Assoonas the floors collapsed and the dust cleared away, realizing the danger of those at the rear windows who were wildly climb- ing outand calling for aid,he climbed up a large telegraph pole as high as the third story and lashed a ladder to the pole, putting the other end in the window. By this means ten or fifteen were assisted down to safe- ty. THE LIST OF THE DEAD. There are sixteen dead bodies at the morgue. As nearly as they can be identified their names and states the strikers was killed and ni r | be those of F. W. Maeder, The ciainee ad rich and — Younng. These three, from which they were appointed are trusts, pools, combines, etc., seem | as follows: George M. Arnold, colored, Vir- companies, as they go right along | ginia; B. F. Miller, New York; John pooling, combining and raising rates | Bussus, District of Columbia; George Some | W. Allen, Pennsylvania; F. B. Lof- healthy insurance legislation is need-| tus, New York; David C. Jordan, Missouri; Samuel P. Banes, Pennsyl- yania, William Schriver, Maryland- A sheriffs’ posse and a mob of a lian : 2 J. B. Gage, Michigan; J. R. Fagan; strikers from the quarries and drain- | Kansas: er. McFall, Wisconsin; age canal, met at Lemont, Ill, Fri-|L. W. Bood, New York; F. M. Wil- The three other bodies are said to R. Dieter, however, cannot be identified by the official ros ter of the division. SCENE OF ANOTHER TRAGEDY. land office are booked for dismissal: Twenty-eight years ago there was tween the events, but the supersti- tious shuddered and the minded commented. stronge Although it was Friday evening, half a mile west of Cimmaron, Kan., early Saturday morning, wounding Express Messenger Elston C. Whittlesey of Kansas City, and es- caping with a bag of silver dollars | and the contents of the safe. They | are supposed to have secured about $1,000 in money. April 14, 1865, over twenty-eight years ago, that the awful tragedy which made Ford's theater famous was enacted, the scenes of that night can never be effaced from American memory. President Lincolu had been unusully light-hearted all day. In the evening he went with Mrs Liocolu, Miss Harris and Major Rathbone, a young betrothed couple, to witness Tom Taylor's eccentric comedy, “Our American Cousin.” But Jobn Wilkes Booth and his little band of conspirators had also heard with pleasure of the Presi- dent's contemplated attendance. Booth was an actor, handsome of person, and very popular around the theater. Shortly before 10 o'clock, armed with a pistol and dagger, he passed through the crowd in the rear of the dress circle of the old play-house and entered the passage back of the President’s box which was to the left of the stage. This passage was closed by a door open- ing directly into the box. The first of these the assassin closed after him and fastened with a wooden keam. The President sat immediately in front of the other door, facing the stage. Booth placed the pistol close to the back of Mr. Lincoln’s head and fired. Instantly there was confusion. Major Rathbone, the other gentle- man occupant of the box, sprang at the murderer, but Booth cut a deep gash in his arm and leaped out of the box. His foot caught in a piece of drapery as he sprang and fell up- on the stage, breaking his leg. Ris- ing with tragic mien he brandished the bloody knife, shouting “Sic sem- per tyrannis!” In the excitement Booth hobbled to his horse and escaped, only to be shot down like a dog a few months latter. The Presi- dent died at 7:22 the next morning Vienna, June 12—Duke Maximi- lian Emanuel, brother of the Em- press Elizabeth, while returning to Munich from a ride to-day, ruptured acardiac artery and died almost immediately. He was born in Mun- ich in 1849 and married in 1875 Princess Amelie of Saxe- and Gotha. He was a lieutenant gener- al in the German army. The messenger was brought here | Saturday evening and sent home. He was shot in the left side, the} bullet entering the car, passing | through the closed door. It took effect in the rear and passed out through the front of his body. The | wound is not regarded as fatal, though it is quite severe. At the time he was shot he was moving bags of silver and putting them behind a lot of other packages in theend of thecar. During this time the rob- bers were cempelling the engineer | to batter the door down with a pick. The train bad been stopped by two men boarding the engine. Three others joined them as the train stopped. The messenger asleep but awoke when the train came to a sudden stop. When he heard the shooting he began mov- the bags ofsilver, which was kept up until the door was broken down, and the robbers extered the car. “The night was warm,” said the messenger, and the men’s faces were streaming with perspiration, which had trickled down their faces, leav- was | | from here.’ They searched through | the car and passed out several pack- ages to the rest of the gang on the outside. I have no idea what they took. When they were through they came back tome and the ten- der hearted one asked me: ‘Are you much hurt, pard’? “I told him I thought I was pret- ty badly used up. “ Weill be said, ‘I'm sorry we hurt you, but it can’t be helped now.” He gave mea drink of water from the cooler and then the two jumped from the car door and that is the | last I saw of them.” “We will meet you at the Worid’s Fair,” were the parting words of tke robbers, as they ordered the con- ductor to pull ahead. The gang then mounted horses and heading southward, disappeared in the dark- ness. A posse was organized and started in pursuit, but no trace of the robbers has yet been found. Macon, Mo, June 12.—Charles Daugherty a prominent merchant of Sue City, was pretending to puuish the son of George W. Salyer, anoth- er merchant, Saturday when Salyer was informed that Daugherty had his son down choking him, went to the scene and believing Daugherty was really whipping his boy, struck him with a stick, inflicting dangerous wounds. Baby Cured Scall Head | | Bad Case. Two Doctors No Good. | Tries Cuticura. First Set Helps. Four Sets Completely Cure. Onur baby Pearl was born Nov. 29, 1591. From her birth she had Scall Head until she was four ing streaks of white in the grime with which they were covered. They wore slouch felt hats with wide brims and scowled at me in a way that convinced me they meant busi- ness and were not out for the fun of the thing. “At first they were fierce and shoved gunsin my face. One of them called me a pet name that you would not permit in the paper if I repeated it you. Then the other noticed the blood that was soaking through my clothes and trickling away in a little stream onthe floor. He put up his hand and pushed the other fellows gun away from my face, at the same time saying in a rough voice that had a trace of ten- derness in it: ‘Let up, Jim, the fellow’s shot.’ He laid his six-shooter on a box, put his arm around me and laid me on the cot. I couldn’t have stood on my feet much longer, anyway, and was glad of achance to lie down. He started to unbutton my shirt, but the other one ordered him, with an oath, to ‘come on and let's get through with this job and get away mosths old, then it became worse and came out in small white pimples, and then spread to be large yellow scabs. We tried “two doctors, but they could not do it any good. Bo we tried Cuti- cura Rewepres, giving her a thorough washin; three times a day, ‘aod perfectly cured. At the = a, of six months our weighed z pounds. Her skin {s fair and amooth, mat orste Perfectly well. Portrait inclosed. I would not do ithout Curiccrs Remeprgs, and can recomme: them as most excellent for children. =e Mas. SETH JUBB, Vanderbilt, Mich. Tused the Crriccra Rexepies for about months, and the entire expense oa: but $5.00, which no one would regret for a nice smooth skin. It left my face in the best of conditions, free from all and blotches. I still use the CUTicuRa Soap, and alwaye shall. E. RUFUS THOMPSON, Youngstown, 0. Cuticura Resolvent ‘The new Blood and Skin Purifier, internall Coricums, the great Skin Cure,’ and Concens, Soar, an exquisite Skin Beastificr, externally, in- stantly relieve and ly eure every disease and homor of the skin, scalp and bicod. with hair, from infaney to = Wo scrofula. Sold everywhere. Be.; RESOLVENT, $1. ‘the Deve asp Cuzmicat Conporatios, § S27“ How to Cure Skin Diseases,” ‘ Mustrations, and 100 testimonials, mailed hee” beautified BABY'S Syccmcomshaco4 cnt, toeuiies IT STOPS THE PAIN. Back ache, kidney peins, weskness. Anti-Pain Plaster. tic.