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VOL. XV. crm ae Se Lk em Missouri State Bank. OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, $110,000. Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and does a General Banking Business. BUTLER, DIRECTORS. | MISSOURI, ITIS HOT IN WYOMING. No Rain tor Weeks, and Fierce Forest | Fires are Raging. Buffalo, Wyo., July 23.—Yester-! day and today at Fort McKinney the temperature was 112 in the shade, at | Buffalo from 10£ to 103, while the mercury in the sua stands at from 130 to 150 degrees. This is the hot THURSDAY JULY 27, 1893. A Burglar Drops his Booty Lexington, Mo., July 23.—This | morning about 2 o'clock Officer Go- i lightly was notified that some one was robbing James Long's grocery} store. He went tothe rear of the| store just as the robber was coming | out, and fired three shots at the| map, which made him drop the mon- ey box and his hat. He had not succeeded in getting the money box Cash Capital. NO. 36 FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, anes 000.00 Erank Worms CoueDutcher a ees Fieieeaane D. N. THOMPSON .. President ra ras J+ See E ° est weather recorded for eight years. i , J. RK. ROSIER Presiden Oscar seeder, Geo L. smuh, ene Greta lien (a0 y - open and the money was recovered. ¥. A BENSETI Tobia toa - Boulware, R. G. West. Wm E. watton, | NOba drop of rain bas fallen for! He got about 25¢ out of another | bh a ee un Deorwester, H. H. Pigott, J. RL Jenkins, ‘nine weeks, od sic ‘tange is com-| drawer in the store. TP. W! SILVERS Attorney yatt a is sur aa eee WM_E. WALTON. President pletely) dest:eyed: Buffalo) 1s) (eur “Attacked by # Rat. J. RO JENKINS, Cashier. rounded by forest tires. To the Lafe Short has strayed from her farm, it weighs about 200. Any infor- mation thankfully received. Ballard Items. Mr Dean was quite poorly last week. John Radford makes a | southwest twenty miles firehas been burning with more or less intermit tent severity since July 7. ‘The fire at one time came down into the val- Sedalia, Mo., July 23.—Thomas, the 6 year old son of Louis Harris, was attacked by a rat that weighed nearly two pounds, and the right Receives Deposits subject to check transacts a general Banking Solicited. Lones Money, issues Drafts and business. Your patronage respectfully See b - ya,,{hand was bitten and lacerated so | 1. I | LU Chk E py & ‘i SESTLERODE. ley, destroying all of Tulley Field's ae 5 stable. RES DEE ODE Saad aes y badly that itis feared that he will 4e Ch. Preaching at Walnut grove the first Sa aE Rar pastures, fences, corrala, etc, on locaat fromubloodiineisoning nit ; ae " | A BRITISR VIEW OF SILVER. | Poison creek, and burning baif of |/08¢3¢ ‘Tom blood poisoning. e Sunday. one : c child’s cries attracted his mother = F Sam McFarland attended the law —_ Horseter’s place south of Muddy suit here, MeClenney, busy Friday. Alonzo Ray says he has the tooth- ache no more. Mr and Mrs Patrick visited MeClen- ny’s last week. Judge C D Cole has a business trip. Bill Hughes runs his machine al- most day and night. Andy Dudney furnishes the gas to runfOgburn’s thresher. Commoner Richard Lacy Everett De- Greer and Warford all nonnces the Action of the Indian | Government. New York, July 24.—Richard Lacy of this city has received a let- ter on the silver question from Rich- ard Lacey Everett, member of the British parliament, in which he says: “The feeling of the many friends of free coinage of both metals in England, both to be legal tender, is gone south on Brussels, while it now seeks to car- ry out a bastard bimetallism between him well. CD Cole, Jas Ashbury and M L La- creek. By great exertions the fire was checked. Up Clear C.e-k can- you another fire buruing. The cavalry troops from McKinney went out yesterday to endeavor to extin- guish it, but nothing cau be done without rain Ten thoucand acres of choice timber are already destroy- ed just east of Buffalo. Anvther fire broke out in the Red Hilis and is burning some ten square is a bullet through his own body. All the parties were men of high social | before its bold was and she was compelled to kill the rat The was the largest ever seen released. roJlent here. Killed by Pic kpockets. Milwaukee, Wis., July 23.—Louis Peterson and John Dunn, painters, while standing on Chestnut street this afternoon watching a procession saw two pickpockets working the difference between this gang and its predecessors was the fact that they Prescription Druggist. A full Line of Everything Kept in a First-class Drug Store. Your Patronage Solicited, Children Cry for | Jefferson City, Mo., July 25.— crowd and frustrated their attempt Pitcher’s Castoria. , Governor Stone today appointed A wedding reported northeast of | strong against the action of the|miles of grass which was the last/to rob a woman. Que of the thieves | Dr George H. Williams of Jackson ’ 6 : : : z Children Cry for | H here in the near future. _ | government as to India. First, be-|range feed in the locality When whipped out a kmfe and disembow Pitcher’s Castor! Cape Girardeau county, physician ) Bob Beatty has coal, iat says he is | cause it has taken a step of world-|the fire cane into the flats approach-|eled Peterson, aud the other struck cher's Castoria. of the penitentiary, to fill the vacan- ae towasaeges non oe ete wide importance withont consulting |ing Buffalo all neighboring ranchers| Dun over the bead with a bluut in Children Cry for | cy caused by the resignation of Dr. ros, “J ‘st uy ye esn- a e ey e. ~ a . Tae = fi Ber RcE otal parliament, though parliament was|and some citizens and firemen from|strument. Peterson is dead and the| Pitcher’s Castoria. _ J. N. Holmes, who was appointed to } Some are threshing, while others | Sitting at the time; second, because|town fought it all night, getting| murderers bave escaped. wen — ~ | the place when the present adminis- are stacking and making hay. having in the early part of the ses /it cut off. To the north another aM PeMine Cutie ROE ee brow ned. tration came in and who resigned on f Hick Ray went home from Beatt sion indignantly denounced tamper | huge timber fire is seen in Sheridan Haati Neb ' a is T Asad accideut occured Friday. | account of the inadequate salary. VALOIS Sab Cris Ente ae a es *- | ing with the currency, it had noyr|ecounty. _ aa Pel pe he | Several children of Mr. Benson's liv-| The place only pays $1.200 a year ae endl Mice Chel called a tow days tampered with it in a way that rests Lacey eam ee Cees oom cumcoon trap ing near the Osage River about two | and the incumbent is not allowed to since to leave a couple of teeth, and ee i A Coward's Triple Crime. miners from Denyer passed through Ce ae | i z sain Te f Se SGthe upon no principle, and that will ad k : pavick : © | miles southeast of Prairie City, were | practice outside of the institution. We ecutnen: é : Metropolis, Tll., July 21.—Yichard | this city this evening en route for Se peeeee | Dave Manning gave us a trial on a | Yersely affect the dumb helpless wil : : ; : playing in a boat on the river. They | peas Reber A hs ming & : : ligne of 4th soubient of clade, Shoemaker this evening killed Rich-| Lincoln and Omaha. The men had 5 . lanes cin the! }} «= tooth, but we failed to get it, and ns e continent of India; medeTiukue. Te. nd Gant nese: | Ree ial angnotnne. aa Mereae the habit of playing in the Hicks On the Weather. yo sant him to the dentist. third, because it did allit could to]®*¢ “wusens Uh | ner 2 ce tae ue vg | Shallow water, and not the slightest) m6 96 t0 30 of July is Our friend, Marion Colson has lo- | frustrate coming to an international | 8°™0US!Y wounding their father and traveled in box cars attached to a Pee S asienteninied tne thee ere e 26 to 30 of July is to be at- } cated at Spruce, where he will clerk | a -yeement as to silver and gold at then committed suicide by sending) special freight. The only point of until one of the children came run-| CL by GSU ietan eae. + for his nepbew Dr. Colson. We wish |? For August he says: A temporary ning to the house and told her! oy toment in heat after last storms mother that the boy a lad of 14 had . - . . | | standing in this city « vere well! wer rnished wi i 8 Zs in July wil! be renewed about the 2 Follett were appoiated by the pro- India and Eugland by their joint | 5 a 4 cuy pe oa el were ap nee : up br cad ra ant fallen out of the boat into a deep modlceyithinenmthrenternn lente i} bate court to set off $1,500 worth of action alone; fourth, having railed | now throughout southern 1bOis | meat. eir description of the suf- Rolognethelcee Se ehotho Dy t y atening 5 property for Mes Starke out of the ferm of TM Starke. Mr Alexander of Johnstown, of blood and heart trouble one evening last week, after an ill- ness of two years. He was respected by all who knew him. at the folly of the idea of attemp- tipg to fix an artificial value of one metal, it is now aiming to do that very thing; fifth, because a farther new demand for gold will be created for what is proposed, to artificially died poison defendant, Mr. St on plead his own ease and won it, Callahan took an appeal to the circuit court. sixth, because new difliculties will be created between India and China, Richard Lukens Shoemaker’s step daughter, Miss Lillian Jones, some three years ago. Shoemaker guardian, and in Kentucky. r., married was Miss Jones” and upon her marriage he was called upon for an with two large revolvers, walked up to Richard Lukens, Jr.'s gate, and, fering in the mining regions of Col orado which they have left is some thing appalling. They claim that Denver authorities are trying to suys press the real facts dead about three*miles from the city this morning. Hicks 1s beyond re- over The father of the work as at once sent for As we enter period 8to 12 look for ‘ about the hottest spell of the sum- poor boy was at mer. Vulcan, Mercury, Venus, Moon half mile away, w and Saturn all bear on the period. and in company with several ueigh-| yy. 4 storms, phenomenal heat, bors rushed to the river but too late | | changing suddenly to very cool must boat had drifted. about one or | : " Prospectors i ae his child. The body was| = a : Si Messrs. Stayten and Callahan had | further raising the value of that met |@¢ceuvting. Seemingly he had run Tospectors gt aii: ore ea where the peor esol Ae ath eyiived) spate r S zs - take. « a Yi B 7 Sie ih Meal ARO A toKeR NGnine . ch with a laree sum] : i “Word and Works ihe same con- i law eure ee aay l ue ° eal . al and by consequent forcing down through with atee sum left her by, Leadville, Colo., July 23-—P. T | was about 10 feet deep.—Rockville | 5.,. =a x i : LaFollett; the jurymen were Frank the prices of commodities to the her father. Suit was broughy in! ’ : a ition will exist for the reactionary Patrick, 8S R Young, © © Pogue, Mr. maith Pda pression ar ind eterienl the court und bitter feeling resulted. Jones aud Ted Hicks, two old-time | Reflex. eae | days, 14 15. Stubborn heat, Maxwell, D E Edrington and J M splat —7 hic evorenine Ss a miners here, were picked up half Teka 2 wee | with sh tendency trical ‘Askbery, WW Geaves, attorney for | the adding to the but den of all debts; This evening Shoemaker, armed E Chicago, Il., July 21.—Joseph J. | with much ter dency to hard electrical Miller of French and Potter had a/ storms and heavy local rains on 19 sachel containing cash and securities | to 2 3. Watch all heavy clouds. Cool- JACK. Japan and other silver using coun finding the two young men standing pied The men’ started/on)s pros to the extent of $7,266 stolen from | er from 23 to 27, at which time ates RUS tiie: coventl, Wesauso the coe aah in the yard, opened fire, shooting pecting tour July 4, well loaded him Wednesday afternoon 2s he sat) warmer with storms Month ends Virginia Items. Geo. Metealf is on the sick list. 7 Tons 1c r. F ‘ ; y instead of leaving ee AL Mr. Fred Nesilerode has avery sie money instead of leaving it free and jey tends to restrict the supply gf} George in the right temple and then sending a bullet through Richard's | with provision On Thursday they were attacked by a party of four in the Many earthquake indications in the Union Depot. the flurry in the West He says that! warm with storms starting had scared | west. at etamate heart, as he was holding his babe in =a a aud were ash ie ca: him and he was coming to Kausas jin August. child. = 5 : eir possessions. They pleade : ale i — - See E (eye é : : : ; his arms. Shoemaker then ent 1 I uo: 3 sollecting. Only $400 Os Conger of Vinton Mo. is de- We look anxiously now to gee ieee ee on = @ - ered er Metlio cb bara tor leavau choad to do some collecting y Special Excursions to World's Fair. ranged. what the United States willdo. We ie part ee ane’ shot after shot iameach to wat. bul the when Minokod was cash. The Missouri Pacific Railway has Lhave some corn to sell at 40 ets | earnestly hope that free coit at |into the quivering bodies. Tichard 5 : 8 i es xe S the same ratio will be America’s an swer. The one great supreme aim of the moneyed classes and the Lon- per bushel, A big meeting is going on at Miami Center this week. Mrs. J. W. Hensley Eldorado Springs. Born, to the wife of Hacry a fiue dishwasher. bas gone to Parker, | of money so as to enrich the owners of it at the expense of the raisers of don press is to restrict the supply} | Lukens, Sr., hearing the firing ran ito the scene of the trouble, only to be met by the murderer, who open- ‘ed fire on him, shooting him in the thigh. By this time a crowd was | gathering and Shoemaker ran a cou- at them. They were placed under guard until all their provisions were removed and were told to “git.” without a bite to eat, and sleeping After a weary tramp of three days in the open air, they stumbled into aj i made arrapgements fora cheap trip Washington, July 2: 2—Since July ebdtie World ee narr Wacidemeeat aes 1—twenty two days ago—the treas-| special excursions to Chicago at a new and further issue of national August 7th. The advantages of this i $5,082,00 The in- | Toute are many, owing to the elegant bank notes of $5,0 000. | through service and magnificent crease to the money of the country / equipment. All particulars, concern- 4 z : : . = i ing rates, leaving time of trains, lim- 4 ore ue Gamenand jus pest girl were produce and the owners of land and} ple of squares and then sitting down, | PC $ cabin ae Ue ua au daWcLeaad ocseUrberpall AC) ea Wecta aces it of tickets, ee furnished by W. C. age soa oe went to | other real property. We hope that/| sent a bullet into his abdomen and | "°° epee — me ---— see Ticket Agent, issouri, . MM. rys 2 s . . 4 9 I i 3 er ee | Foster, Moi, on a:visit: Sunday. the sharp intelligence of your people | ¥8S dead in a few minutes. | About the Supstitutes for the Sher-| Grand F orks, N North Dakota, July sone ee 4 s ’ “y 8 Ag ee ee | ¢ k ) Parish Nick'e is g bis timothy | in the main a nation of producers man Act. 20.—A case of genuine leprosy hes MISSOURL and land owners, will see through this cruel game of the moneyed classes and frustrate it. The muis- eries of the agricultural classes here are indescribable, but they don't clearly see why it is that prices are | hay in the field at 5 dollars a ton. Sarah Oldham and Brotber were at Lewis Garner's Sunday visit- ing. JW. Nance has taken the contract Vir Washington, D.C., July 21.—In partment paid a lower price than it ‘has ever paid for the commodity. | thirty miles west of here last night, purchasing silver bullion to day at 70 cents per ounce the treasury de- Denver, Colo., July 21.—Captain Thatcher of Aspen, back from Washb- | been discovered west of here in Ne’- son county. The victim is C H. Nel- School Of Mines. ington, says that personal talks with | Carlisle and Cleveland assure him three years ago. money under $5: second, free coin- An Institute of Technology. Coursex in Mining. Civil and Mech. Engi- neering, Chemistry and Metallurgy, Math. and Physics. Special Courses json who came here from Norway a ae . = 7 Se ee in Land Surveying and ¢ addit Jobn W. ae they will not try for ere ae : ane cy P eae esueonon sons Hen forced down to their ruin, so it is|The highest price paid for silver! Jasper Carter, formerly editor of , Ele y. Excellent Chemical Lab- 1 lof the Sherman sil law. 2 jley’s barn. lifficult t th Th | repeal o! e silver la’ Pp. li t Paola, is serving | tory, an id 225,000 Mining Labratory Mr. Wm. Kennedy and family oi | ficult to get t a to move. € bullion under the Sherman law was | He says they have substitutes ia * opulist paper ut Paola, © about erec ting. Tuition $14.00 a years p, . . town Saturday | Wits of the American farmers are | $1.20 per ounce. | ee us |a term in the state penitentiary and | Expenses | low. Next session begins ; a se i> our town Saturday Sane i hope eae SR - | consideration as follows: dibig the Poon Meaty a pert September 18th. For catalogues, &e., : ——— i |e iting > idress SCHOOL OF MINES, A black hog belonging tothe widow | S°M® pneeae Wanted to Burn His Aged Wife. | Ove for free coinage at an increas | Populist paper —Blue Mound Sun. | “962m Roila, Mo, Lincoln, Neb., July 23.—At Friend jed ratio, and retirement of all paper! a BS ec Michael Kesler, aged 70 years, set |°8° of 4,000,000 ounces monthly, | lighest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ys |fire to his son’s house and it was} pith ee oorehe scr comme | (creea fad 2 al 5 burned. His wife, old and feeble, narrowly escaped being burned : 8 i Se i ; bullion; third, the re-enactment of | ny | Z S ‘the Bland law, making coinage of| : | Kessler was arrested to-day and bag poneee aes compat) k a i n | made a confession, saying he wanted | S°'Y: BeNeee: il ST REE | : the oldiiads. from ebom) Reese! | sible and positively asserts these’ S = é ieee | Os q | separated, out of the way so that he| T@¥S are direct from the I resident | Oy a | and Secretary. LCELS could mortgage some land, she hav- Mie Gaciule denies this atatament The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum, : : ing refused to give her consent to| and gays he does not know Thatch. Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard __| the transaction. a a Baking Powder _ ABSOLUTELY PURE