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

| | } | | | | | ——— BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY UGUST 3, L898. Missouri State Bank. OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Receives Deposits subject to Check, does a General Banking Business. H Booker Powell, R. WM FE. WALT J._R’ JENKINS, Cashier. ———— eee Ballard Items. W B Cole fixed that bride. M L Embree is cutting flax. Jim Cole wants torent asmall farm. C D Greer is feeling better of late. MecClenney stacked oats this weeks. John Nelson was in town Wednes- day. Stock hogs and mand. JR Ray sold toS of mules. Ogburn has gone to Henry Co. with his thresher. A number of good mule colts in the neighborhood. The late rains abundant crop. Mrs Sidney poorly a few days. WS Hurt & Son are helping stack the Starke wheat. Milt Anderson and work on the church. Mr. Walls, we are glad to hear, is able to be out again. RA Chenoworth has our thanks for favors conferred. Mra. R J Starke will have a sale soon, we are informed. Charley Arbuckle is preparing him- self for a Virginia doctor. AJ Ousley’s quarry furnished some nice sandstone for the bridge. RD Beatty fenced his turned his horses on the grass. Judge © D Cole returned from the south Tuesday with some swine. Miss Mamie Kenney and is at her musical post again. Milt Beatty seems to have trouble vetting a cook for harvest hands. Ice cream at TN Hendrix’ Friday night Aug. 4th, so Charley reports. Mesdames Ida Beatty and Cora Fowler drove to Clinton Saturday. Ogburn theshed $00 bushels wheat off 50 acres, for Will Beatty. Ice cream at Lakeys night of the 7th. Dr. Miller & Co. will farnish it. Frank Patrick and Milt Beatty were hauling rock for W B Cole, Fri- day. Mrs. R. J. Starke is having her wheat stacked, as Bud is at Jefferson City. Mr. and their sons, calves are in de- P Evans a span will assure us an Graham was quite hands are at yard and has recovered of Mrs. spent Auna McFarland. Judge LaPFollett and Jack Moore attended the Odd Fellows supper at Butler Friday night. J R Ray and Nip some hogs a few days since Murray. who leavesfor the west sgon Mrs. Beaman of Pettis Co., visited her brother CD Greer, from here to Summit township to see her mother. Messrs. 'T M Starke, WF Jas. rnd A J) Ousley transacting business in Butler day. Frank Barns & 1) 20 loads of rock for the chureh founda- Moshier and Beatty ‘Tilden Sunday with Mrs. Ray, with Evans bought of Mr. were Tues- Co. got or tion and Messrs. hauled them. Dan Embree and his brother came out frbm Butler, where they are at- tending the Institute, to be present at the Cloud-Buck nuptials. Lant Cloud and Miss Fannie Buck were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, on Wednesday even- ing, July 26th, Rev. W. A. Walker officiating. We extend congratula- tions. JACK. Virginia Items. Mrs. Oldham was out calling Friday. Drysdales of Butler, was out Sun- The only Pure Cream of Tartar Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard LaFollet, } JOUBLE LYNCHING. riare of Pwo Negro Assatl ants—A Third Hanging Expected. Columbia, S.C... July doubi+ Iyuching took plice at Gas ton to lay, $110,000. | Loans Money, Makes Collections and) SaVigeness surpassed auytin ted in tuis Siate. were ever | eud 1eytces who committed an as- | jSautupo. Mrs. Sizbtler, of Gaston. The first one coptared was Will | Thompson, jau ovei-geown 16 year jold negro. He caug he Colu:ubia, and was taken back early this wormng where his captors were met by a mob of 200 persons, who were jomed by 100 mec from this city. plied with questions and confessed that he and Tom Preston aud Andy Kaigler, } both colored, committed the crime ago. JRE Jenk 5 ON. President Was day. {fJim Hays and horse trade. Born, to the wife of Luther a fine girl. Jerd Flemaini Ed Dudley made a Thompson was Judy, ng of the home on @ visit. John Hedges is talking of making a visit at Austin, Cass Co. Mr. Nefe far we d was terribly enraged, wanted to nail Lin aud sum+ Raybourn = and family tae was at Pat Malony’s visiting Sunday. |turpentine barrel and burn him. Inthe Craig and Samson suit at) The man begged them for God's Justice Camon’s; verdict in Craig’s . : ae es Vere | sake not to kill him that way. Some vor. = cool men in the crowd prevented such a tragedy, and Thompson was taken to the railroad, 100 yards dis- tant, to a swall tree, where We are glad to seeso much interest taken in the disposal of the money. Wiley Comiford and wife will soon start for Eldorado Springs for Mrs. Co's health. Miss Ida Bell Moore and Isaac Por- ter were married one day last week. school he was Before this took place Arch Sightler, husband of the out- rage woman, with the consent of the to be hung. The boys of Miami to chivarie. crowd, laid fifty lashes upon the A “rain bow” supper at the M. E.|Wwretch’s bare back with a heavy church Friday night. Refreshments | bu, gey trace, every blow bripging will be served. Everybody and their girls have a first-class bid. Miss Ella Durst gave her mother a birthday supper. Aunt Amanda was 66 years old. Ice cream and cake was served, and a general good time was had. The ice cream social at C H Morri- son’s July 28, under the management of Warren Ayes, together with the hearty welcome accorded them by Mr. M.'s family, is reported to have been one of the most enjoyable events of the season. At the home of Carr Dud- , the infant son of Fred and Rosa Nestle »rode. Funeral ser- blood. When he got tired another min tovk his place ani coutinued the whipping. Thompson could not yeil, for a rope areund his neck choked him. When the whipping ceased Sightler kicked the victim in the fuce and bead, knocking out his teeth and almost oue eye. A plat- erected and the negro was made to get upon it- The rope was put over form of cross-ties was a limb and around his neck and the ties knocked out one by The gro’s struggles were terrible to wit-| were one. ne ness, but the crowd seemed delight rest in the The bereaved parents wish to thank their many friend for their kindess in their time of grief. Virginia cemetery. this boty with pistols, shotguns and rifles. Hardly a square inch of his | body escaped a bullet. A ball the bat was again pulled N. M. NESTLERODE WRITTEN BY EDWARD DUDLEY. | A lovely one has gone the some up and erowd continued shooting for To join the angel band, But yet we hope tomeet our babe In the far and better land i minutes into his lifeless body. | The crowd then went to search for Preston and to get Kaigler out of ‘Tis hard to break the tendereord | Lexington jai! When love has bound the heart ‘Tis hard, so hard for us to know, That on earth we now must part. | z j to the scene of the early morning's \tragedy. Here all the horrors of the| | Thompsou lynching were re-enacted. from Gaston and was at once taken We mourn our loss while we But life will soon be past, And then we are here go to meet our babe, x z Where all is joy at last Preston was stripped and Then let us ali in future lite Uo (Re Sate fp CGS Strive to do our best, So when we are called to [sor The Lord will ¢ rive Us rest the ‘heavy buggy-trace beat | tunate wretch until his | assortment of fabric, superior styles, | o'clock, after Preston had regained | tine workmanship. Profitable business connections can be had by right party. | consciousness, he wasswung up to jbullets. Preston declared hi day evening for her home one and a} S pecousconated 1ule jponcenee to the last. Sytem BBS Ce OCIA Sie A 9 o'clock to-night the mob at yin good health and | | Lexington Court House had swelled | excellent spirits. At 8 o'clock, two hours later, she was a corpse. Hear! trouble was the cause. It was quite a shock to all living in that vicinity. \ —Hume Telephone. he jail, where Kaigler is confined, was | | momentarily expected. It is uot be \ lieyed that the Sheriff will offer any | 30.—A winch for brutality and | | Both victims | Lear | jyear | pean buyers are taking vices were held at the Christian si sae : church conducted by Rev. West, of ed at his sufferings. After hanging Adrian. The remains were laid to|for two minutes, 100 men fired into | cut) rope and the body fell like lead, | At 11 o'clock Tom | | Preston was captured seven miles} pinioned | which | had served as a scaffold for Thomp-| | plus of wheat, and the throwing of the World's Columbian exposi in-} | Tremendous Drop in the Price of Wheat St. Louis Chronicle Never in the of the St Louis grain markets has there been uch prices as prevailed to-day. And whe itary is more, there is no real things. Wheat bas been declining steadily | for two or three months. There | (Ww ould be a faint rally, but the mar- |ket was heavy and prices would just | lelunip away without any support. Since last Monday prices have de 3e clued rapidly and from le to day. of the oldest grain men in the city, No. 2 red cash wheat sold 64f¢, the lowest it ever reached previous to this year On August 1 last year cash wheat sold on this market at 73fadc, and on the same day 1891 it sold at 86}c Today it sold at 524c. a decline of 334c below the price of 1891, 20ga%c below last year and 12%¢ below the lowest point before 1893. The average cost of raising a bush el of wheat is from 25 to 30 e:nts. By the time the farmer gets it to market, at the present prices, he re ceives from 1 cent profit to less than it cost to raise, the distance it bas to come governing the protit or loss. Futures are also very much under the weather, today September wheat sold 18}c below August 1, 1892, and 303c below the same day in 1891. Reliable statisticians make the crop of 1893 at about 383,000,000 bushels of wheat, which, added to the surplus from last year, will wake less than 450,000,000 bushels England will probably want 2: | 000,000 bushels and the home trade needs 370,000,000. The crop this will about 130,000,000 bushels below last year. The ex- ports to Europe have been running large and it is reported that Euro- run American wheat rapidly but quiety. With this in view it would to the average grain man that wheat jis very low aud ought to be purchas- red. seem a to |cattle than sell it at present prices. A grain man said to-day that armer had better feed his grain The real cause—though it is not! (cousidered a good cause—is the liquidation ut Chicago. The market there is in the hands of the grain gamblers, and the present financial \ difficulties have helped the bears! | break what has been unprecedented pr ices. | For the past three days Chicago! banks have called in their loans iets at. on That point has a big sur ake up bank paper. Ev cron says wheat is a purchase, | jand the man who buys it will make proper time to buy. Siam Surrenders Siam has yielded to the demands | lof France and a war between the; terms of concession are these: 1. A récognition of the rights of ; Anam and Cambodia on the left or! | al From personal recollection of one NO. 37 OF BATES 'Cash Capital. cause for the present condition of} | Solicited. for various damages French subjects The immediate deposit of 3, sustained by ment of the fourth and fifth claims, or the assignment of the taxes certain districts in liea of the depos- it of 3,000,000 franes This was sent on July hours were allowed for Siam to an- On July 21 M. Pavie, the French | Minister to Bangkok, presented the | ultimatum to Prince Devongse, the | Siam foreign minister. On July 23 Siam replied, stating | | that the King was at a Joss to un-) ua derstood what the rights of Avam | and Combodia were on the left bank | of the Me Kong river. The hing ex | pressed his willingness to abandon | all the territories over which the ex istence of these rights could be proved, and called attention to th fact that five months previously he | had proposed to submit all the con- tested territorial questions to iuter- national arbitration. In the inter | est of peace, however, the king of- fered to surrender the territory as far north as the eighteenth degree | of latitude, but no further, aud pro- posed that the islands in the Me- Kong river be used in common by Siam and France. ; All the other points of the ulti- matum were conceded. This answer was not satisfactory to France, aud subsequently M. Payie withdrew from Bangkok on a gunboat, and the French warships in the Menan riyer went to Kohsi- Chang, an island near the head of the Gulf of Siam, where they joined the French fleet under the command of Admiral Humann. France then | determined to blockade the Siamese j coast Last of the ‘Sunday Opening iy Chicago, IIL, July 27.—Chief Jus- tice Fuller today decided the case of on Arch Sightler with the same! this market is in order to realize and | ®ginst the United States of America unfor- | rength be- | in the Circuit Court of Appea's reversing the the by decree of court and remanding the further proceedings. lower cause for jand Jenkins had granted a_prelimi- ‘nary injunction closing the fair on |Sundays. Judge Grosscup, dissent- This wheat thrown on to an al A merchant « \ uF ~jeame exhausted. The whipping was! ready overburdened market kas ual to take orders in this ¢ 1 | lar fonche larcesitailesine ce: a }eontinued by others of the mob ur-/ broken it to pieces, and no one is ment inthe world. Pants to order) til the negro’s entire body was a mass able to tell jast how much further | States Cirevit court Judges Woods from $4.50 and upwards, suits to or- | 1 der from $18.00 and upwards, large | of searified, bleeding flesh. At 1 it will Addre oll the Tailor, 710 and) the same limb to which Thompson} money, but not a dealer can tell |#®& delivered an opinion favoring 712 Olive yu > 5-24 \ 712 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. 6-29.3t. | had been hanged four hours before, | where the bottom is or when is the | tbe opening of the fair. oe orden ee a ‘and his body literally riddled with, (of the day ara both sides free Mrs. D. Faylor left Hume Satur-/ ene) ae s from any legal ties. Application can ; now be made by the government to | the Circuit court for a permanent | * injunction and a final hearing had. Ito 1000 persons, and an attack upon | i governments is at an end. The) [From the decision then rendered | another appeal could be taken. The | proceedings would oceupy consider- | jable time, and more than probable the fair would be closed long before } | serious resistance to the mob, so it! | | eastern banks of the Me Kong river, the end was reached. lis a foregone conclusion that ere to- ; morrow’s sun the third of the assail- ‘ants will have paid ;the penalty of! | their crime. | F FS sakingé Powder ie Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum, Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for r’s Castoria. Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. ‘as far north as the twenty-third par- allel of latitude. 2. The evacuation within a month | of the forts held by the Siamese on! the east bank of the river. 3. Fall for various Siamese aggressions against French | ships and French sailors on the) satisfaction | Menan river 4. The punishment of the culprits! jand provisions for the pecuniary in- | demnity of the victims. 5. An indemnity of 2,000,00 foie | COUNTY DEPOSITORY 000,000 franes to guarantee the pay- | in | | 19, and 48 { swer it oe MAKES CHILD BIRTH EASY, the woods terribly mutilated. Inu the United | FARMERS BANK _GOUNTY, $50,000.00 OF BATES CO : President Vice-President 2d Vice-President . Cashier | DIRECTORS | Clark Win, IM. S, Kiersey, John E, Shutt, — R. J. Hurley John Steele M. G. Wilcox, E. A. Bennett, DN. Thompson, T OW. Legg J.J. Mckee, MON ley. J. K Rosier, D. Kipp J.E NGHAM. Secretary Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully DO YOU EXPECT TO BECOME A’ | MOTHER ? ** MOTHERS’ FRIEND’’ Assists Nature, Lessens Danger, and Shortens Labor. | “My wife suffered more in ten minutes with her other children than she did all together with her last, after having used four bottles of MOTHER’S FRIEND.” ; Saye s customer. Haunpgrson DALE, Droggist, Carmi, Il. ut, receipt of me of rice, bo Gees ice, $1.00 per BRADFIELD termes co., FOR GALE BY ALL DRUOGTES ATLANTA. Ga Uer Body Nearly Devomed. West Plains, Mo., July 30.—About the first of the wonth Hunter Single- ton o” Shannon county left the house where she was staying with the in- | tention of gathering bucklebernies. She failed to return, and search was made but until this week when ber body was found in It had apparently been been there for some time and had been pirtially eaten by hogs and birds. Sune of her bones without «feet could not be found. The seeond vol in the *Distaff Series” of books written, edited and mad+ by women, will be published by Harper & Brothers on August 1 under the title, “The Literature of | Philanthropy.” Its editor is Mrs. Francis A. Goodale It will be fol- lowed iu the midhe of August by Early Pros and Verse edited by Mrs. Alice Morris Earle and Mrs. Em Ellsworth Ford. Washington, D. C., July 27.—The secretary of the interior to-day madv arequisition upon the secretary of the treasury for $12,500,000 on ac- count of pensions. The money is to be distributed among the second group of agencies, where quarterly payments begin August 4, as fol- lows: Topeke, Kan, $3,600,000; Philadelphia, $1,900,000; New York, $1,700,000; Knoxville. Tenn., $1,- | 900,600; Louisville, Ky, $1,200,000; Indianapolis, $2,700,000. Se. Notice. given that letter o7 he estate of John C d, were granted to the ned on the jist day of July he probate court of Bates coun- i All persons having claims state are required to exhit it them tor allowance within one year after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of said estate; and if said claims be not exhibit ed within two years from the date of this ation,they shall be forevex barred. s 31st day of July 1893. JAMES M. McRIBBEN, Executor. Rol Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder