The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 10, 1893, Page 8

Duvall § Percival of this city are saving the farm- ers of Bates county thou- sands of dollars by giving them the benefit of their lower rates of interest on farm loans. Michener and Dudley both deny | that they or their friends are laying andergr( und wires to the republican conyention of 1896 in the interest of Mr. to know about what he is talking, but when did Dudley get back out of outer darkness?--Kansas City Star. on. The many truthfal testimonials in behalf of Hood’s Sarsaparilla prove that Hood’s cures, even when all others fail. Try it now. St. Clair county will hold an elec- tion on August 29th for the purpose of voting whether or not they will uecept a rate 50 cents on the dollar of their bonded iudebtedness. The amount has reached about $900,000 and Judge Copenhaver, of the St. St. Clair judges, comes out in a let- ter advocating the compromise. The Private Life, a collection of three short stories by Henry James, will be published by Harper & Brothers about August 15th. At the vame time will appear Mr. Jobn Bonner's A Child’s History of France, au illustrated edition of Walter Besant’s Rebel Queen, and Early Prose and Verse, the third volume in the ‘Distaff Series.” William Johnson, an Audrain county negro who was being taken to the Mexico jail by Constable Jas. Myers from Rich Hill jumped from the car window and was killed. His body swung under the train and was ground to pieces by the wheels. Fragments of his flesh and bones were scattered some distance along thetrack. The coal miners at Lexington Mo. to the aumber of about 600 quit work Tuesday out of sympathy for their Kansas brethren. They had better love their Kansas brethren jess end their wives and children more. Sympathy is all right in its place but uread and meat is more substan- tial. For further particulars we re. fer you to some sympathy strikers of Rich Hill The large barn of Jerry Wilhite, a farmer near Sheldov, Vernon county was set on fire by thieves and while Mr. Wilbite and his hired help were trying to extinguish the flames the robbers entered bis house and made a general search for money but found uone. The barn was 60 by 150 feet. A small amount of hay about 20 head of hogs aud two sets of harness were burned. The Kansas City Times in sending a representative over the state to gain inverviews of business men and others on the silver question has evidently wasted a good deal of am anition. The interviews gained in this city are nothing lke a fair esti- mate of the sentiment of the people (regardless of politics) of this county. Outside of a very few persons in the towns Bates county stands almost anavimous for silver money. Pension Commissioner Lochren assures his old comrades that not one deserving veteran will fail to receive the full lega! measure of his dues, but that bounty jumpers and the like will be weeded. out. The country is with him in his reform measures, of that he may rest assur- ed, and no deserving pensioner will object to strict scrutiny of his claims.—Kansas City Star. Four convicts at the penitentiary made a daring and successful es cape Friday morning by sealing the the walls while the guard was eating lunch. They were all white men and employed either as cooks or waiters. They had manufactured a false key, and after midnight unlock- eda big door which admitted them into the hospital yard. They then secured a ladder used by the guards to ascend the wall to guard houses, and over and out they went. The guard saw them as they darted around the corner of the prison sta- bles and gave the alarm; diligent search was immediately made, but they had disappeared. It is said to have been the most daring escape ever made from the prison. They left their prison uniform in the hos- pital building and effected their es- cape dressed only in their night clothes. Mr. Michener ought! The retention of a Republican | postmaster at Chicago creates the! suspicion that the Administration | rested at Rich Hilla few days ago! still has doubts concerning the se-| curity of the federal building in the} World’s Fair city.—Kansas City | Star. aad 11 years arrived at the Union) depot in St. Louis from Burr Oak | Kansas. They had walked the entire | distance 600 miles- They were iu a very destitute condition and greatly fatigued. If silver is not to be treated as a) j money metal equally with gold, it) should not be coined at all. What | is the use of issuing paper money for silver and then redeeming it with | said J. C. Portis, upon the charge of | as: gold? If silver is uot to be used for | redemption money, it should take its | place with iron and other mere come! modities.—Sedalia Democrat. | Warsaw will have a Democratic | postmaster on the first day of Aug. Mr. Stanley Drake is his name, of Democratic stock from way back, | and a young man capable and worthy of the trust. Why rot have these changes all over the country as well | as at Warsaw, the county seat of a Republican couaty*—Clinton Demo- crat. The large hay and stock barn of Jno. Aiken’s, 54 miles west of Hume, was struck by lightning Saturday night at 10:30 o'clock, and burned to the ground with contents. From 76 to 80 tons of fresh mown timothy hay was in the mow, and a horse perished in the flames. new building 102x42 feet in dimen- sion. Loss, $1,500. Insured for $1,000...Hume Telephone. The Osceola Advance has antago- | nized the bond proposition to be voted upon August 29 to compro- mise the St. Clair county debt at 50 cents on the dollar. It says both Judge Philips and John B. Hender son assured the people that the debt would not exceed $800,000 but it has already reached the million dol- lar mark and is uot disposed to stop. Besides this there is a floating debt of $30,000 which would have to be paid off at once, and this added to It was a; The City to Be Sued. J. C. Portis, the strike agitator ar- at.the instance of the mayor of the! city on the charge of vagrancy, is| modest in his demands for a plaster to heal his wounded feelings and | Mrs. Henry and two sons aged 8 presents the mayor with the follow- is | ing bill for damages: City of Rich Hill to J. C. Portis, Debtor. To damages for being falsely and | without due process of the law ar- rested on July 25, 1893, and unlaw- fully imprisoned, rined res 310,25 > 0. To damages sustained by reason of the wrongful arrest and false and malivious persecution of him, the vagrancy on August 4, 1893, without any reasonable, just or plausible cause therefor, $5,250. To the Honorable mayor and City Council of Rich Hill. In order that you may save litiga- tion and expense, we submit the j above claim or demand against your city for your consideration before | bringivg action thereon, and trust that your will give the matter your immediate attention and act upon the same at your next meeting, and thus obviate the necessity for‘us to take the legal steps for us to carry same through the courts before you have given the matter any consider ation. Respectfully. J. C. Portis. By Noah Allen, his Atty We presume that lack of confi dence in the democratic administra | tion was what caused a depression | of $9,500 in the accounts of the late souville deaf and dumb asylum.-— | Democrat Message, Ill. | Dennis Wilson, a young mau farm ing iu Vernon county, vas arrested Saturday night for stealing cattle and was placed in jail at Nevada. He confessed his guilt and says there were two other men engaged in the theft, but refuses to tell their names. The cattle stolen belonged to various parties and were running in the Kincaid pasture. One lot of 17 head was taken about the middle |of July und 16 head were taken Aug. 2nd. The cattle were shipped to the $20.000 necessary to pay inter est on the compromise, would prob- ably bankrupt the county.—Deep water Chronicle. was | so violent both boues protruded with the conditions which the comp- ored renter named Parker died Sat- | symptoms existing through the flesh. The limb was} dressed by physicians and on the morning of the 9th, the bandages was discovered that gangrene had set in and to save her life it became neces! to being removed it ry | Kansas City and sold. Wilson was | raised in Cass county and from there | moved to Bates and then to Vernon. ! | He is 23 years old, married and has Mr. F.C. France, living near Al | tona, called Friday and related the pariculars of a sad accident which | happened to his sister, Mrs. Luther | Shobe, at her home Wellington, Kansas, the 5th of July. Mr. Shobe| brought a mare and young colt to! the house from the pasture, and as | Mrs. Shobe was inspecting them the) mare kicked her breaking her left, leg below the knee. The kick two children. Want to Resume. Washington, D C, Aug. 1.—The comptroller of the carrency this af- ternoon received a dispatch from shareholders of the Har. (Me.) National Bauk which recently failed. the bank wish to resume business, and say they will be. able to comply sou ville The gentlemen interested in troller shall impose in their case. The comptroller thinks from the _/reports which he has at band in re-! gard to the bauk that the skarehold ers are stating the facts. He will af- ford them all assistance possible and aj deprived of his liberty for ten davs, | republican mauagement of the Jack i i] | Three Bottles Cured to be a great sufl fi I tricd almost every I took three bottles of Hood's Ss: found myself cured. I know it w Hood’s Sarsaparilla that cured me.” Murs. WILLIAM KENNARD, Moore’s Vineyard, Ind. Hood’s Cures. ~ Hood's Pilis eure all liver ills. 250 heuma: | Le and | Odd Fellows Celebration. | The Odd Fellows bave secured aj rate of one fare for the round trip to| Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 12, pro | vided the party numbers fifty. This | will apply to any oue wishing to go| to Kansas City on th:.t date and re | turn with the Odd Feilows Saturday | night. Every Odd Fellow is earnest- ly requested to attend as it is going to be the giandcst celebration of the} kind ever held iu the state. ' A Ti. Conver, ) G. W. Crarpy, ) Secretary Hoke Smith, says the opening of the Cherokee trip will take place about Sept. Ist Com. Clinton, Mo, Aug. 4 —Yesterday about 11 o'clock two boys of J. Kin sely, aged 7 and 9, went into Grand river bathing. At dinner time they did not return to the ard search was made The clothing of the children was found on the bank of the river, while tracks led into the water. Neighbors at once began to drag for the bodies. At noon to- day the search has been fruitless. house | Jones Gen to the “Wark” New York, Aug 2.—A_ sensation | was created in the World office at 19 oclock tonight Colonel | Charles H. Jones, for merly editor of | the St. Louis Republic, walked into | the editorial rooms aud assumed di when | rection of the; Colonel Jones jarrived in the city tonight, having /come, it is from Ber Pulitzer, | proprietor of the world, is spending lthe summer. He comes to the | World uot only as editor, but as the | persoual representative of Mr. Palit- zer, with supreme authority over all | departments mper. understood, |Harbor, where Joseph f the paper Turned White After Death. Dennison Tex , August 3.—A col- lurday morning xt this place. Im-} mediately after death, Parker who Was a coal bluck negro, commenced | jto turn white in spots extending | from face to feet. At the interment in the evenieg his entire body bad amputate the limb at the thigh. Mr 888 the probability is that in a few lnearly changed and itt, thought if | and Mrs. Shobe were former dents of this city and the friends of the family here resi | mauy | will be] sorry indeed to learn of her sad mis | fortune. days the bank will be feet om New Missouri Co “) wrations. Jefferson City, Mo,, Aug. 3 —The Secretary of State chartered the fol ain On its! the remaius bad been kept until the | issues. i i next morning the transformation of the nezro would have been eom- | plete. | | | | The funeral of little Johnnie Ear lowing corporations to day: Koppitz | Clinton, To., Aug. 6.—A three-story | som, kicked and killed by ahorse at) his home in Pleasant Gap, township took place the 30th of July, nud was | largely attended. The funeral ser-) vices were conducted by Elder Will- iam Miller, and the remains were} laid to rest in Double Branch ceme | tery. Johunie was 12 years, 11) months 25 days old. Helived two! days after being kicked and suffered | excruciating pain. Mr. Earsom in- forms us that he was with his little | son in the barn when the accident | occurred. The horse was tied, in a stall and kicked or struck John- nie with its foot as he passed behind it. The little fellow made no com- plaint at the time and walked to the house with his father and no atten tion was paid to the matter un til the following morning when the boy turned sick and began to suffer inter- nal pain. A physician was summon- ed immediately aud everything to relieve his intense done, but to no avail. There was not the slightest evidence of injury | or billious. or when the blood is im-|denced by te the body and the family were at a suffering was | Smith Milling Co., of Pacitic. capital $40,000, incorporators, A. Koppitz W. B. Smith aud J. H. Gross: Rock Island Improvemeut company of = Sees : | : Kansas City, capital $5,0000, incor-| tremendous crash yc sterday morn porators, Phil, Mitchell, W. J. Kirk and G. A. Maats; Union Reality Cc. Kansas City, capital $2,000. The Sexton Security company of Kansas City increased its capital from $10- 000 to $25,000 Refuse to Join the Strike. Macon, Mo., August 6.—The Be vier coal miners held a mass-meet- ing yesterday evening and refused to join the strike in sympathy with the Kansas miners. They refuse to ‘be controlled by the action of the recent Kansas City meeting. There | was a large majority of the meeting against a strike. here are only a few followers of Walters at Bevier |The Bevier miners are determined ‘they will not stop busivess there. To Cleanse the System | | Effectually yet gently, when costive pure or sluggish, to permanen | brick building occupied by Ballar & | | Sheeber, agricultural inaplemente, | jand ou the second and thi d floors | by Bijou opera house, fell with a jing. Workmen were basy about the | building but all escaped save oue | man slightly injured by falling brick. e loss is $10,000. | New York, Aug. 7—George J. | Gould, who returned from Europe } Saturday, declared that the present | jdepression was due in part to the} | silver question but still more to the/ | hostile legislation affecting the great | corporations of the country. He be-| lieved that there could not be pros- | | perity uuless the trausportation cor- | | poration prospered. | Investigation Invited. { i Of course it is proper to inquire | | about what any man says, Is it true?” | The most rigid investigation is in | Vited into the testimonia!s published | lin behalf of Hood’s Sarsapariila®! Soeciai attention is called to the high | character of the persons whose tes | timonials are putlished by tbe pro | |prietors of this med cine. asevi | Ir oce fobs or | y endorsements. In fa ne inatter | loss to know the immediate cause of | cure habitual constipation, to awak-| where a testimonial in bebalf of | his death. The father and mother |en the kidneys and liver to a healthy | Hood s Sarsaparilla may be from, it | certainly have the sincere sympa- | activity,without irritating or weaken-|is reliable and. worthy of confidence thies of the entire community ining them, to dispel headaches, colds | as if it came from your most trusted their sad affliction. or fevers use Syrup of Figs. neighbor. 1H. L. TUCKER, - Prescription Druggist. A full Line of Everythi Drug Store. ng Kept in a First-class Your Patronage Solicited, Mining Matters. Rich Hull 3 Both Supts. Reavley and Manville, as well as some of the miners and the county officials who are ou the ground andin a position to know Review report things running better at the |mines in this district today than | lany time since the origipal trouble began No. 15 bas ten more men at | to-day than Friday, which was the | best day of last week, and all the other mines cf the Rich Hill Coal CS now in operation are reported to be equally favored. Nearly all the men at work for this company old men, though five new ones who are larrived yesterday were fitted out with new suitsavd new tools this work | The latest report of the Secre of the Agricultural board in Kansas ' places the wheat yield in that state for this year at 21 million bushels. That is not one third as much as Kansas produced last season, but it isa pretty respectable bunch of grain after all. It would hardly be called a failure in other states. The government may coin into standard money all the gold and sil- ver produced in the country, but it will fail to bring permanent business prosperity if the McKinley robber tariff is not repealed by a tariff for revenue only substitute —Ex CLOSING OUT SALE morning and hauled out by Mr Kim. | brough, the trensfer man, and put} to work The Keith & Perry or Ceutral Coal & Coke Company make the same fa vorable report regarding their miner. They have all the men they cau uti- lize at present, aud have been oblig ed torefuse work to several appli cauts, among them four of the dis- charged Belgians, who plead for their places back. Wise Bro’s south wine bas been running full, though the men two teams were persuaded by 8 of the striking miners to abandon their work north of town this morning. Some men at Dave Reece's mine at the McCombs Handley mine are algo reported to have quit for to day. Martin & Gee are running a full torce of hands, none of their having quit at any time during trouble. Frauk Martin, who is ruuning a strip pit west of No. 3, was in town this morning. He said things were running very smoothly with bim. He had more meu than he wanted, men the and had to lay off two this morning. He loaded 22 cars last week, some of them 40,000 Ib. cars, others 60,000 pounders. He loaded six cars for day’s work ‘Tuesday. We have noreport from Mr. Bruce, | who runs 25 to $0 men when running |full, nor from several other smaller operators, but it is the universal | sentiment that there is no longer any strike here, and hardly any The record left behind Benjamin | Harrison Lad just as well hang his harp on a willow tree. He stands no better show of being nominated for Douglaes. The republican party must have a new 25 CENTS Proves the efficacy of CUTICURA Since a cake of CUTICURA Soap costing 25 cents is suffi- cient to test the virtues of these great curatives there is now no reason why thousands should go through life Tortured Disfigured Humiliated by skin, scalp and blood diseases which are speedily and perma- nently cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES at a trifling cost. Cuticura Works Wonders and its cures are the most re- markatle performed by any blood and skin remedy of mod- em times. Sold throughout the world. Porres Deve je Proprietors, Boston. Scalp and Hair,” free. Complexion, hands and hair preserved, purified and besutified by Cuticura Soap. Pain is the cry of a suffering nerve. Cuticura Anti-Pain Plaster is the first and only pain-killing plaster. president in 1896 than Fred | man and new; Closing out sale commences at once. My stock consists of NOVELTY GOODS | books of various kinds, blank books, ledgers and counter books, stationery toilet cases, work boxes, shaving sets, manicure sets, albums, dusters, baskets of different kinds, hammocks, croquet sets, toilet soaps, playing cards, pocket knives, scissors, spec- | tacles, base balla and bate, fishing ‘tackle, cane fishing poles, games of various kinds, with | |Druggists Sundries, ‘dolls ot all kinds, toy dishes, child’s furniture, doll buggies, and other things too uumerous to mention. | Everything goes—nothing reserved. _I want to close out this entire stock ‘in the next sixty days and I will | make you prices that will sell the goods. Come early and secure what |you want while you can get the | goods at less than cost at the Nov- ‘elty Drug Store, near Southwest ‘ corner of the square, Butler, Mo. | J. S. PIERCE. Teachers Examination. | A general examination for teachers | certificate will be held in the West ‘ side school building on Aug. 16, 17, } and 18. All persons intending to teach will please be present. Respectfully, ! Jno. P. THURMAN. \ BF Qt. Com. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. | When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria | When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria | When she had Children, she gave them Castorig Patler Academy. The 20th year of this Institution, the 5th under the present principal will open September Sth. The Fall term wil! continue 16 weeks. The number of teachers, the courses of study and the rates of tuition will be the same as heretofore. For cata- | logue or further information apply to P. H. Holcomb, Esq., President of | Board or to J. MeC. MartrIy, 7-tf Principal. $25,000 in Prmiums Offered by Liggett & Myers To- bacco Co. of St. Louis, Mo. The one | guessing néarest the number of peo- ple who will attend at World’s Fair gets $5,000 the second $1,000, ete. Ten Star tobacco tags entitle you to a guess. Ask your dealer for partic- ulars or send for circular. 4 20-13. R. 8. Catron insures growing cops against hail, also writes fire and tornado insurance. 413 tf T. W. Legg, the buggy man, for | buggy repairs and everything in the , buggy line. 5 25-tf A number of choice farms for sale very cheap. A. S. Miriuors the land agt. Butler Mo. 18-6m NEW DRUG STORE G.W.MIERS & 00. DRUGS, | PATENT MEDICINES, | Blank Blooks, Stationery, Toilet \ Articles, Perfumery, Cigars, Tobacco | &e. ptions carefully filled. Your solicited. G. W. MIERS & East Side Square. at stseadsaneive Sie Soni eg anente