The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 24, 1893, Page 1

VOL. XV. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 18938. issouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, . - © » 820,000.) Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and | does a Ge Booker Powell, c. R. Radfer Be wv Fr WM EF. WALTON. DT eral Banking Business. DIREUCT nk Voris, Oscar Keeder, G. Wert. 1. H. Pigott, J. REJENKINS, —— Virgima Items. | Nestlerode his new hous Emanuel Lewis Dudley is laid up with a boil on his foot. Plenty of coal at Sampson & Heck- adon’s bank. LH Dudley has bought a horse of DB Nestierode. Watkins and are stripping far coal. Fruit of any kind is an object of interest in this vicinity. Rolly Flesher of Butler, was out last week on a bicyele, visiting. Alton Park is going to do all kinds of wood work; give him a trial. The balloon ascension at Butler was well attended by our people. I have a lot of turnip seeds to give away, sent me by Judge DeArmond. Mrs Henry Gardner of Worland, orders her paper changed to Virginia. Jake Fry of Amsterdain, sets his subseription up three years for the TIMES. * The rock is being hauled for the foundation of the new school house at Virginia. RT Judy and daughters, Misses Anna and Gertrude have gone to the world’s fair. Jack MeGuire of Amoret, was over the first of the week looking after his financial affairs. Maloney, Westover OM Drysdale, accompanied by Mr Moore of East Lynne, made a visit to Poster Sunday. There will be an ice cream supper at Miami Center Friday night, Aug. all invited to attend. Mr. MeMinnus, of Iowa, who has Mrs. dale, has returned to his home. Mr. Johnson, who hasbeen visiting Mrs. Howard for the past ten days, has returned to his home in been visiting his sister, Drys- his sister, Moniteau county, Mo. Geo Sampson has completed the cistern at Grandview Mr Downey has the contract school house. for ce- menting it and putting in the pump. | N. M. 2 ESTLERODE, Sunol in Coin Silver. Sprivgtield, Mass., Aug. 19.—The XN of completed a silver trotter Sunol which Ames Chicopee statue of the noted hitched to a sulky, equally noted driver. anufacturing company has is The piece of statuary is one fifth life size upon seated a: and is mounted upon a bronze stand- ard. ‘The sculptor is C. E. Ballm of Salt Lake City. The whole piece of statuary was molded from silver dollars. It required 331 ounces of silver The suiky is an exact fae simile of the one the mare made her record of 2:08$ with which fer a time was a world beater. The piece is to be presented at a coming ban quet in New York. Arecipe for whitewash that will not be washed off by rain, reads as follows: One peck of lime should be slackened in five gallons of water, in which 1 pound of rice has been boil- | ed until it is all dissolved. The rice water should be used hot, and the mixture covered closely until the lime is slacked. Then add r pound of salt,.and the whitewash must be heated to a boiling point when used. } ago. (et The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum, Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard. is plastering | | temperance plank in its platforin hy | vention in ad i ce. H. Duterr r, Geo Lo stneth. w v JRE Jeink dent er. The Towa Situation Des Moines, Io., Angust 17.—The action of the Republican State Cou leeal ga State in stirred up the people of the as they have net been aroused } years, and the campaign will proba- bly be exceeding cutcome problematical the d, lively avd the The party pro hibition element of are and returied to at the outlook. The opinion of the liberal members of the party is that the platform will streugthe. the party inthe anti prohibition parts, and materially weaken it in the others. The third party prohibitionists are much stir red up, and will attempt to make a great deal of capital out of the situ ation. It is even hinted that Presi- dent Ayleswortn, of Drake Univer- sity, intends reconsidering his dech- nation of the gubernatorial nomina- tion tendered him by the Prohibition party. Some of his friends held a conference this afternoon for the purpose of consulting on the advis ability of such a movement The failure of Gen. Drake to get the nomination, they argue, will give President Aylesworth the support of the Christian Church, and he has already been given to especially disappoi of the del homes in despair many rates their understand that the Populists will indorse him in the event of his consenting to be acandidate. The Democrats will be driven to making a straight license platform at their Convention next week, but their position will bs ma Convention's action. There is some wild talk about running ex-Gov. Lar rabee or Prohibitionist as citizens eandidate for Governor, harldly likely. Kincaid Makes a Statement. Mound City, Aug. | Much to the surprise of all, save pos- Robert Kineaid, of Linn county, returned to his home early some other well-known but such action is Kar sibly his relative ex-banker and ex capitalist last night. He was ubout the streets boldly and openly, zud at his home denied himself to no one who called. Mr. Kineaid denies most vigorously the truth of the stories that he left home with the intention of escaping his creditors, or that he has been guilty of any criminal act. He says that he has been unfortunate, noth- ing more; that he went to Iowa in the hope of realizing on some prop- terially weakened by the Republican | 18.—| NOW IN THE SENATE. A Repeal Bili introduced the Upper House. Into Bat it Deciares Dimetallism to he the Navion’s Poliev. Washivgton, DC is {The Soo te has followed the example lof the House, and ots \the fnan-ia Aug transferred tion to adjourn was withdrawn and continue the purchase of silver bul- lion and declaring it to be the poli- ey of the United States to continue the use of both goid and standard money. Mr. Voorhees reported fiom the committee on finance a bill to dis- OF BATES silver as THE COINAGE QUESTION. ARMERS BA Cash Capital. _ COUNTY DEPOS TORY NO. 40 NK COUNTY, $50,000.00 OF BATES Co. con somnrittee FE c tedt < i c list D President | = igures Compiled by Secretary Carlisle. vresiden jto the floor of the ite. The ares ; JOR. Vice-President ne i pa aos ; z E. 2d Vice-President finance coamuitiee reported today} Washington, D.C. August 20 — E Cashier the measure sereed upon Jast night, | Senator Voorhees, during his speech — . alee pies ste { ik a ‘ “A Clark Wix, Kiersey, John BE. Shutt, R. J. Harley John Steele j which is fraud on the Haili bill and | on the financial question in the Sen- M. c wt E. a Bennett, DON. Thompson I - Legg A i e Mee ee, HM Gailey ' D. Kipp Which repecia the Shertan law, but!ate on Tuesday next, will read the J. EVERINGHAM | | Pledges the government to the polis | cy of binietallisin, At the same time | the minority of the committee pre | | sented a report recommending a substitute bill providing for the free} coinage of silver at the ratio of 20| tol. Itis when the Senate will begin the dis-| cussion of these measures. Nii side appears to be in a hurry to| fores the question, as each side is | impossible to predict | her; i a evidently uncertain of its numerical The only significant de | velopment was the arraying of Sen- ator Voorhees on the side of the un- conditional repeal men, but the Iadi- ana Seuator explains his position by saying he thinks unconditional re peal of the Sherman act will relieve the financial stringency and that the battle for bimetatlism cau be fougkt out hereafter—in which contest he will be found on the side of bime- tallism. The full text of the bill is as fol- lows, omitting the enacted clause: That so much of the act approved July 14, 1890, entitled “An act di recting the purchase of silver bul liou thereon, and for other purposes, directs the Secretary of the strength. and issue of treasury notes ‘Treas ury to purchase from time to time silver to amount of 4,500,000 ounces, « much thereof as may be offered bullion the aggregate ww SO} | | al in| each month, at the market price! thereof, not exceeding one dollar} for 371 25-100 grains of pure sr and to issue iu payment for such | | purchases treasury notes of the} United States hereby repealed. be and the sume is| | Aud itis hereby declared to be |the policy of the United States to} |continue the use of both gold and silver into mouey of equa! intrinsic | and ex changeable value, such equal lity to be secured through interna | tional agreement or by such safe ation as will insure} |the maintevance of the parity in| ‘value of the coins of the metals and} ithe equal power of ever dollar at all nes in the markets and in the pay-| ment of debts; and it is hereby furth- | jer declared that the efforts of the| | government should be steadily di-| lrected to the establishment of such a safe system of bimetallism as will} : = j would ¢ | maintain at all times an equal power lof every dollar coined or issued by \the United States in the markets/ |and in the payment of debts. \ | Senator Voorhees will not, as be} had originally intended, ask the Sen-| ; changed ratio: that there would be a_ loss from | 'the fact that the or $21,156. 197 less than erty owned there, and that if allow-/ate to fix a day for the vote on the| ed to handle his own affairs that he | bill. He said this morning that he would have been able to pay all he/did not think a vote would be had | on it for some time, as there appear-| ed to be a disposition on the part of | Senators to debate the measure for an indefinite time. owes. Harrisonville, Mo., Aug. 20.—Aw-! brose F. Summers, a man about 55 years old, committed suicide last! - Voor! , chair night by taking a large dose of} Lie Vege, Gani ee ae strychnine. He was formerly a | Hance committee, concurred in the grocer here, but failed some months | necessity cf action ou the national He leaves a widow and child. | bank bill. He had heard the taunt! ‘go around that he was seeking todo {something in the interest of the ee luational vsuks. He was seeking e nothing of the kind. He was seek- & Baking Powder. jing to avail himself of their power, | of their interest, of their cupidity in| jorder to increase the circulating |medium and thereby to meet the | pressing wants of the laboring peo- jple. It was not a bill in the interest lof the banks. There was no thought or inspiration of that kind in his mind. After further discussion the mo- following letter from Seeretary Car lisle, to show the difficulties in the way of the free coinage of silver at a! Receives Deposits subject to chec Solicited. “Treasury Department, Office of Nebraska City, Neb. Aug. 18.— the Seeretary, Washington, D C. | The discovery was made early this Aug 19—Hen. Daniel W. Voorhees, | morning that burglars had entered United States Senate: Sir—Refer-| the Missouri Pacifie freight office at ring to our conversation relative {to / this point and investigation by the the probable cost incident to the agent showed that $4,000 has disap- change from the present coining | peared. No trace of the robbers bas ratio betweer gold aud silver (1 to iyet been found. 16 for standard silver dollars aud 1) The first thing which attracted tle to 14.95 for subsidiary silver) to alagent’s attention upon opening the ratio of 1 to 20, you are respectfully | oftice was the door of the safe lying informed that the number of silver! on the fioor ata distance of ten feet dollars coined since 1878 aggregates! from the safe itself. The robbers 419,332,450, Without any allow- {had evidently been scared away, for ance for abrasion and Joss incident / they left their tools behind them af- to melting the same, the coining val- ue of these dollars at a ratio of 1 to 20 would be $333 162, or $84,- 310,228 less than their present face | value. To recoiu these dollars at a ratio of L to 20 would require the jing through the other drawers in the office. Columbia, Mo.. Aug. 18.—Colum- j bia Presbyterians toalay closed the addition of 81,367,700 ounces of new ‘contract for the erection of a new a 307, | ; ballion Pear vat ihe avernce price | stone church, which will take the | a 7 “)_| place of the old struct Tk was | paid for silver, under the act of July 14, 1890 (93}$¢, would cost $7 3, 700. In addition to this, I estimate | is, and J. W. Wilson & Sou of Kirk- wood are the builders The cost will be $25,000. This makes $100,- abrasion and in the melting of these! 000 expended in ehureli improye dollars of at least $3,000,000, which | ter rifling the cash box and rumag- | | designed by J. C. Cairns of St Lou- | *k, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully Washington, D. C., 21.— | President avd Mrs. Cleveland will, (itis understood, return to the White | House the last day of this month. The work that has been in Aug. progress | : about the mansion has been nearly completed Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. 7 VWrenpatrs| ‘ost Successful Remedy ever discovered The J as itt jin in its eifects aud docs pot blister. Read proof KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE. below. ~ {ments in Columbia within three S amounts, together with the differ- ee s gi eer ge ey al bottles of your ence in the face value of the coin! aan goers priation for that purpose. From | de! t er dollars are meeting at the Hoffman House to- ates back from Chicago held a | | Cantos, Mo., Apr. 3, 1892 | | | | (84,310,228,) would have to be reim- A Silver Mass- Meeting. tio Have recommended ft to aioe : epee : 7 ever who are much pleased with bursed to the Treasury by an appro New York, Aug. 21 —The silver | and ke eS rome, ‘* SPAVIN CURE, Newnaska, May 11, 1890. lebrated Kendall's pabribateaclcous h t i ‘or a silver mas Please send distributed throughout the coun i rat for a silver mass | ‘tong it would be necessary, as they re meeting. The resolutions were | Rene oi ee y . , . } | . EB. Bi S deem at the several Sub-Treasuries, three pages long and they began ce Sees to transport them to the mints, and | thus: | DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., the expense of transportation for “Resolved, That we, the New York | $300,000.000—the amount outside! delegation to the Chicago Bimetallie | of the stock on hand at the Sub ‘convention, agree to hold a mass Treasuries and mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans— would average at least 1} per cent, or $4,500,000. It is therefore, esti- mated that the cost of recoining the silver dollars already coined be as follows: meeting at Cooper Union, Thursday avening addresses in favor of bimetallism It was resolved further that silver to 1 at the newspapers ought to should be coined ata ratio 16 and tk igive silver as fair a show as gould. Finally it was resolved that ut the meeting ov Thursday, Co Bryn nd, Davis, Sibly Senator would New bullion to be added... Loss by abrasion and melting Cost of coinage (labor, material, Copper for alloy Tansportation of dollars to mints © 000 Total ‘ Bees The stock of subsidiar coin in the country is estimated $77,000,000, which at full weight 8 y silver | at at ntain 55,699,875 oune fine silver. This amount at a of 1 to 20 would rati coin ent face value. To recoin $77,000,000 of iary silver into an equal amount subs of for the purpose of hearing | gressmen | ; Dasiels, Enosburgh Falls, Vermont. ALE DRUGCISTS, > SOLB | Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given, that letters of administration the estate of ) Catharine Brown wer- granted to the on the 22nd day of A by the pri bate « of s county, Missour ns having claims agains- sare required to exhibi: m mwance tothe ininistra or within one year after the date of said letters, orthey1 be preeluded from any benefit « id estate; and f such claims be not exhibited nin wo years from the date of this pul ation, they shall be forever barred, is 22nd day of August, 1893 Joun W. Brown, Admi on 3% You can Economnize By using Royal Baking Powder to the exclusion fractional coin at a ratio of 1 to 20 ~%4 : ba ee cuniblacgmes (i cibidien Ge tie) of all other leavening agents. The official ana- 797,622 fine ounces, which at 934¢ lysts report it to be 279% greater in leavening per fine ounce (the average price paid for silver under the act of July 14, 1890,) would cost $17,258,7 There would be aloss of about per vent by abrasion from the face value, or about $1,925,000. I would, therefore, estimate the cost of re- coining the subsidiary silver in the country at a ratio of 1 to 20 as lows: ‘cheap alum powders. It never fails to make fol Do dealers attempt, New bailion. Loss by abrasion..... Cost of coinage (labor, material, etc Copper for alloy . euleiees z Cost of transportaion these times all desire to ’ Total RECAPITULATION. Estimated cost ofrecoining silver altars 2g SL Estimated cost of recoinin diam silver... - A se--- $39,741,900 | ge subsi- ‘Tetel.... ---..2.-.-.--- sil2 Very respectfully, J. G. Caguiszz, strength than the other powders. It has three times the leavening strength of many of the good bread, biscuit and cake, so that there is no flour, eggs or butter spoiled and wasted in heavy, sour and uneatable food. because times are dull, to work off old stock, or low grade brands of baking powder? Decline to buy them. During be economical, and Royal is the most Economical Baking Powder.