The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 24, 1893, Page 4

vpn BUTLiR WEE BiNwut J. D. ALLEN Eprror. J. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCE RIPTION: The We Thursday, one year, po IMES, pu sent to e paid, for S 2d every address 00. “Chairman Carter of the national republican committee, the free coinage of silver. favors A vote on the silver question will be taken in congress next Monday, and then the real war will be on. The Atlanta, Ga. Evening Jour- nal, Secretary of the Interior Smith's paper, has come out in favor of silver. The Iowa democrats will present Goy. Boies’ name before the conven- tion as a candidate for United States senator. Four intruders on the strip put- ting up hay were killed by soldiers Friday for refusing and resisting the order to leave the government land. Dr. S. S. Laws, ex-president of the Missouri state university has been elected professor of natural science at a South Carolina semin- ary. “Chas. Walton, a negro, was lynch- ed at Morganfield, Ky., Friday night for cutting the throat of Sam Keith, a white boy, and then robbing him of $4. Senator Vest cares very little what the eastern gold standard men think of his free silver speech, so long as he receives the plaudits of his con stituents. In three counties in Ohio, Ed- wards, Wayne and Clay, cattle are reported dying from a disease known as anthrax. The farmers burn the carcasses but it is stated the disease is spreading. The bill offered by Mr. Voorhees to allow national banks to increase their circulation to the par value of bonds deposited, has been blocked by Senator Cockrell, who enters his objections. Crazed by liquor Douglass Curtis, a switch thrower in the employ of the Western Indiana railroad, Chi- A BIT OF HISTORY. | In the fall of 1890, the union labor | party, professing great virtues \and deeply deploriug the corruption | } of the two old parties, succeeded in | \electing the county officers, and in| ‘capturing a majority of the town | ships, in Bates county. They suc ceeded in electing union labor of- ficers in oue township whose name much resembles a southern | river, made famous in negro song. | Unfortunately for these officers elect {the laws of the state provided that | they should keep a record. jhave no doubt if they had had full j very sented and kept their acts as evidence against them. The Biblical declara tion that‘-by thy words thou shalt be condemned,” is made significantly ap plicable in thisinstance. Last fall the two corrupt old parties were again successful in that township and the records were turned over toa good old republican trustee. nation the startling fact was disclos- ed that a union labor board had allowed a union labor collector $15 ayear for making out his tax receipts, a proceedivg which the laws of the state had neglected to provide for. But more startling still was the dis- covery that the poard had made it a practice to meet at the residence of the clerk and after partaking of ex cellent dinners, prepared by the good woman of the house, would draw warrants upon the township funds to pay for same. 3. that the good woman and her prom- inent husband should be paid for their trouble and eatables, is no doubt correct, but they were faulty in their deduction that the township should pay for them. Such a pio- ceeding had never been heard of be- fore from any township in the state, and only representatiyes of 2 very pure party would have been so in genious. {t is the duty of the present towr- ship board to bring suit on the bonds of these defunct officers and recoyer the money wrongfully taken from the township treasury. ——— VEST REITERATES. Their prew He Reafiirms His Attitude Toward the Silver Ratio. cago, shot and killed his wife and 7 year old child and then sent a bullet through his own brain. The bone of contention in Iowa is prohibition, and the declaration in their platform, ‘prohibition is not a test of republicanism,” is cre- ating great dissension in the party of that state and a split is liable to take place. Hoke Smith has arranged to effectually do away with the land shark, speculator and professional boomer in the opening of the Chero- keestrip. Under the rule every munis compelled to register before eutering the race and no one will be allowed to enter land that does not intend to become a bona fide settler. The Washington correspondent of the Republic has it from a source that he considers perfectly reliable, that Mr. Cleveland will sign a free coinage biil only as a last resort in the effort to repeal the Sherman bill: If the repeal can be effected without free coinage, then, the writer says, the president can be induced under no consideration to sign a free coin- age measure.—Ex. E. M. Donaldson, late of Kansas City, secretary of the late suspended Union Trust Co. of Sioux City and president of a number of banks in Towa and Kansas, has skipped the country taking with him upwards ot $600,000 in cash stolen from the dif- ferent institutions he represented. The papers represent him as the wleverest thief of the age, and his tongue and pen have served him well at the expense of the people of many states. Forgery is only one of many charges against him, and for this a warrant has been issued and a deputy marshal is now looking for him in Mexico, Kansas people have suftered at his hands to some extent, people of Iowa more, while the bur- den of loss will be shared by capital- ists of New England and the east. Donaldson is about 25 years of age, of medium height and slender build and formerly of Kansas. United States Senate City of Washington August 9, is93. My Dear Str—Yours of Aug. 5 has just been received. I have always voted for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and am ready to do so again, but it is nonsense to talk of passing such a law while Mr. Cleveland is president. t is well known that he will veto any such bill, and it is therefore useless to talk about it, for we haye not enough votes in either house to pass it over his head. If you prefer the ratio of 16 tol or nothing, then you will get nothing for four years to a certainty, and by that time it will not be much use to discuss ratios. The senators here from the silver-producing states are willing to take free coinage at a ratio of 20 to 1, but the gold men oppose it. Between the extremists on both sides, those who want 16 to 1 or nothing and those who are de- termined to have a gold standard or nothing, the only chance is to make some compromise by which silver can be preserved as a metalic basis. Iam trying to do the best I can for the whole country, but if every man js to sit down on his opinion and concede nothing, adjustment is sim- ply hopeless. Very truly, ete., G. G. Vesz, N. P. Black, Esq., No. 621 Wain- right Buildiag, St. Louis, Mo. Strange Death ot a Miser. Shelbyville, Ill, Aug. 2)1.—Last February there came to this city an old man who gave his name as John Hogan. He was almost blind and very deaf. Yesterday the old man was found dead in his house with two revolvers and a large file beside him. Thelatter had blood on it, but there was no mark on the corpse to show that Hogan had been struck with it. On the left arm, sewed up, was $1,300 in greenbacks. An administrator was appointed NOON OF SEPTEMBER 16 | SURPRISED BY CRISP. ‘Some Committee Appointments At That Hour Homeseekers May Entirely Unexpected. Cross into The Strip. Washington. D. C., Aug. 21— Washington, D. C, Aug ‘The interest in the financial discus. President Cleveland's prociamation liek to dae was dwarfed in the! Opening to settlement the 6,500,000 greater gakeroct that everyone felt in acres of land between Kansas and ane commit-| Oklahoma known as the Cherokee The speaker had kept his in /Outlet was forwarded from Gray tentions so secret that surprises were | Gables to the Secretary of the Inte- 22 — the announcement of tees. BENNETT-W We control of the legislature they would | jhave abolighed a law which repre- so much labor and trouble On exami- expected, but no one was prepared for the radical changes made in the! Prsonnel of some of the important ;comuittees. Springer, of Illinois, | }man of the committee on banking }and currency. Holman of Indiana, |the venerable “watch dog of the | treasury,” is deposed from the com | mittee on appropriations in favor of | Sayers of Texas, and goes into the | committee on Iudian affairs. | MISSOURI FARED WELL. Everything went Missouri's way in the make-up of committees as an- nounced by Speaker Crisp to day. | Her delegation got everything it |asked for, and more than it had rea- sou to expect. of good committees and two cow- mittee places which are considered the equivalent of chairmanships, went to Missouri congressmen By increasing the size of the come mittees, the Speaker was enabled to give places which otherwise might have been refused,but he left Bland, Hateb, Heard and Tarsney, all work- ers, 01 good terms with themselfes, and none of the others are dissatis- fied. Bland retains his old place as head of coin age, weights and and Hateh: of agriculture. There was a hard fight between Richardson of Tennessee 2nd Heard over the Dis trict of Columbia chairmanship, but Heard landed a winner. This place It is a sort ofa town council and board of public works melted into one, where indig- nant tax payers do not grumble be- cause of improyements, and the possibilities are boundless. Tarsney got lis much coveted place on the Ways and meaus committee, and is ) Shaking hands with himself over the bold stand he took when Crisp want- ed to be speaker last term. He is the first Missouri member to serve on this committee since the time of John S. Phelps. Dockery got third on appropriations, second on ex- penditures and is chairman of the joint committee to investigate the executive departments. Cob» gota place on banking and currency, and so did Hall. DeArmond was given a place on naval affairs and also on elections, Morgan on military af- fairs, Burns postoffice and post road and malitia, Arnold territories and Of the chairmanships, measures, i3 a good thing. jand Clark on pensions and claims. Thirty-two chairmanships go to the South and twenty-two to the | North. This number includes the chairmen of the four committees previously appointed—rules, mileage accounts and enrolled bills. After November, when Mr. O'Ferrall will resign to entec upon the duties of governor of Virginia, J. B. Brown of Indiana will go to the committee of elections and the totals will be 31 and 24. By states the chairmanships are as follows: | Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 1; Connect- icut, 1; Georgia, 4; Illinois, 4; Indi- ; ana, 3; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, 1; Mississippi, 2; Missou- ri, 3; Michigan, 1; New Jersey, 5; |New York, 5; North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 2; Pennsylvania, Rhode Island 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 3; Virginia. 4; West Virginia 2; Wisconsin 2. St. Louis Republic 22. If Mr. DeArmond returns from Missouri, where he is at present in attendance on a sick son, it is preb- able that! Mr. Biand will reserve time for him in the closing discussion on Saturday. Mr. DeArmond is look- ed on as one of the strongest speak- ers on the free silver side, and Mr. Bland is anxious that his argument should be heard by the house before voting is begun. * * * DeArmond is on naval affairs and on the committee and the property turned over to/on election of president, vice-presi- him. Laterin the day, the lat- ter, with a number of neighbors was going through the dead man’s effects, and in an old trunk found dent and congress. The assign- ment of Mr. DeArmond was some- thing of a surprise to the delegation. He is one of the real able men in $22,356 in bank notes and checks| the house and desired to be on the | ™* e 3 on different banks and fourteen $20/| judiciary committee, for which he is | time should be lost in pushing a gold pieces. eminently qualified. gives way to Wilson, of West Vir- | Sinia, ou the ways and means com- /mittee, and Springer is now chair- Three chairmaxships | education, Fyan on invalid pensions | ‘rior this morning. | The President in his proclamation | opening the Cherokee strip to settle |ment fixes the hour at 12 o'clock noon, central standard time. Septem- | ber 16. All thelands except those especial- ly reserved, recently acquired from the Cherokee Indian nation and the Ponca and Pawnee tribes the Indian Territory known as the Cber- okee Outlet are included in the proe- lamation provision. in With a view to preventing one person from obtaining any adyan- tage over another in making stead settlement, rules and rezula- tious have been prescribed stantially as follows: A strip of land 100 feet wide around and immediately within the | boundaries of the lands now opened | is set apart and entrance upon said | strip is permitted prior to the day | for the opening of the lands. Upon | this strip booths are to be located | home- sub- office detailed to take charge of) them. The booths will be conveni- | ently located upon the regular lines] of travel, five on the northern and; five on the southern boundary of the | outlet, and will be opened for busi | 10 and} be kept open each business da: | from 7 a. m. to 12 o’elock, and fron 1to6 p.m. until discontinued by | direction of the Secretary of the! Interior. | Each party desiring to enter upon | the lands for the purpose of making a homestead entry, or soldier's de | claratory statement, or settling upon a town lot, will be required to first appearat one of the booths and there make « declaration showing his or her qualifications to make such entry or statement or to settle| If the declaration proves satisfactory to the officers in| charge of the booth, certificates will | be issued by such officers permitting | the party who makes the declaration | to go in upon the Ovtlet at the time | fixed for the opening. Parties mak_! ing these declarations will be re- quired to make oath before the dis- trict oflicers or other officer who} may take their homestead affidavits, tbat all the statements contained in their declarations are true ia every particular. | | | ness at noon of September upon a town lot. TARIFF REVISION Chairman Wilson Says His Committee | Will Take It Up- i Washington, D. C. Aug. 22.—| Those Democrats in the west who; pinned their faith to an adjustment | of the tariff by the present adwinis- tration will not be disappointed. Mr Wilion of West Virginia, who} was yesterday made chairman of the! ways and means committee, has! called a meeting of his committee | for to-morrow when an organization | will be effected. Then work on a! tariff bill will at once begin. The selection of Mr. Wilson for the chairmanship of the ways and) means committee was unquestion-! ably in accordance with a suggestion | from President Cleveland. After the financial legislation has been dispos | ed of, the work of this committee’ will engage the attention of the| country. It was stated in the Pres- | ident’s message to congress that had | he not convened this body in August | he would have called an extra ses- sion in September to consider the tariff question. But the assembling} of the present session will advance} rather than retard work on the tariff. | In the preparation of a tariff bill | there is an endless amount of work for the committee. With a chair-| man in full sympathy with the ad-) ministration and a clearly defined | idea of the work to be performed, there is nothing in the way of a speedy solution of the tariff question | infaccordance with the Democratic | platform. | “There is a universal opinion pre- | vailing among Congressmen that no tariff measure. The speedy solution | gressmen in debate and in | the n —— DEALERS IN —— Hardware, Groceries, Stoves $ Queensware, Studebaker, Moline Farm proved Schuttler and Wagons, Im- Indiana Grain drills, Sulky and Gang plows, Top Buggies, Road Carts and Spring wagons, Wind Mills, Pumps and all Fittings, Wire and Salt. CASH or TRADE for all kinds of Pipe Grass Seeds, Barb and clerks, from the general land; We always pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICE in kinds of Country Produce. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. BUTLER, MO. f the financial question, whieh is | ow promised, gives the tariff ques. | tion prominence, and it is freely dis- | cussed and along with it too, comes | the question x graduated income | tax. Unless the expressions of Con- | private | nothing, | conversation count for of senti | me tax. | there is a preponde ment in favor of t Mr. Voorhees voiced it t y in the | Senate, and a dozen or more Con | gressimen have pledged their support in the House debates. This, too, will come before the i and means | committee for consideration, and a! radical reduction in the tariff tax, in the opinion of many, makes some | such provision a necessity.” Killed a Desperado. | i Mexico, Mo, Aug. 22.—At Port- | land, Callaway county, last night Fred Neff, a desperado, attacked | Gecrge Martin with a revolver, beat ing him over the head with it. Mar tin, after he had received several blows, finally wrenched the weapon | out of Neff’s hands and shot him! dead i Neff accnsed Martin of having him indicted for gambling. Shortly af-/ ter the killing Sheriff See of Mont- | gomery county urrived in Portland with a warrant for Neff’s arrest, | charging bim with murder iu ' Gas-! conade county. Neff has killed three men, but always escaped the gallows. | He served a five years’ term in the | penitentiary, for robbing a Mr. | Wolferman in Montgomery county. ! 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Kent of Wythe was nomi- nated for Lieutenant Governor by acclamation. Great Live Stock Show. Chicago, Hil, Aug. 20.—The great live stock show at the World's fair will open tomorrow and it promises to be the largest ever held in Ameri- ca. Nearly every breed of horses and cattle in the world will be repre- sented. There will be horses from the imperial stables of Germany and from the stables of the Czar of Rus- sia. The finest horses of England, France and Arabia will be there and alongside them will be the thorough. breds from the blue grass regions of Each day there will be a grand parade of fine horses and cattle in the big pavilion, which has | & seating capacity of 25,000. Already there are 1,200 horses in the stables at the White City and 1,000 head of Hundreds of people visited the stables to-day and took a look at the stock. arter is for Silyer. Chairman Inan interview with Chairman Carter, of the National republican committee, he says: “While the great west and the people in it un- questionably favor a repeal of the Sherman silver law, they would not agree to its total extinguishment without some additional legislation favoring a bimetallic standard. I am a bimetallist, as western republi- cans are generally, aud we think that not only ourselves but the country at large will be best served by a bi- metallic standard. My plan would be to withdraw all of the present issue of bank notes under $10 and substitute silver for them. This | would increase the circulating medi- um by $100,000,000. ee The United States is old enough, and strong enough to transact its own business without assistance or eae tion from foreign governments. |