The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 28, 1893, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | J. D),. ALLEN Eprtor. J- D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexty Times, published eyery | Thursday. will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00, The Trvzs has never been the first to violate atruce. But no armis- tice we ever subscribed to precluded us from criticising the public acts of an official. This we have always done and will continue to do with- out fear of punishment or hope of rewa:d. The Democrat stated what it’s editor believed to be true when it said that the democratic sheriff was “just getting ready” to give a democratic paper some of tha pat ronage that comes through his office. We believe this, because one of his friends who stands high among his coterie of advisers, informed the ed- itor of the Times several days before our last issue, that Mr. Colyer had informed him that he was going to give the Times some of the printing but was first going to have a pri- vate understanding with the edi- ter. That could mean only one thing to our minds and that was that ' | Congressman Harter on the Tariff. Ways and Means Committee to argue | plements and flour on the free list, | has submitted a brief to the commit- Mr. Harter is himself a manufacturer of agricultural imple- | ments to make. The present duty on agricultural jimplements, he says, is 45 per cent while the labor costs is only 20 per cent and the wages paid for labor in other countries which compete are about 70 per cent of those paid here, On this showing a revenue duty of icae manufacturer. Mr. Harter de clares that uo protection ought to be given as agricultural implements are produced in the United States cheaper than in foreign couutries, and that the American goods control the trade. He says that a small tar- iff duty ought to be continued per- haps, not for protection but for rev- enue. With regard to wheat flour, the duty at present is 25 per cent. Wages do not constitute 5 per cent of this cost. A duty of 20 per cent therefore, instead of the present rate what little patronage was thrown a democratic paper by a sheriff elect- ed by the democratic party was to be conditioned on the support of that paper for his renomination. It has always been considered that the partisan papers, in sympathy with and loyal to the party in power is entitled to the little printing that comes through the offices. It does not belong to the officer to use of 25 per cent, would be ample. As a manufacturer of agricultural im plements for twenty five years and flour for nearly twenty years, Mr, Harter asks that both flour and ag- ricultural implements be placed on the free list. Secretary Smith on Pensions. Washington, D. C., Sept. 23.— Secretary Hoke Smith has made a statement regarding his position up as his private property to punish papers not his subservient tools. The Times scorns to beg or bargain for patronage which rightfully be- longs to it, and we are willing that the democrats of the county shall judge between it, which has devoted its whole existence to the democrat- ic cause, and an official who has been a supplicant at the party crib ever since he came to the county. Washington D. C., Sept. 24 —The House will devote its entire atten- tion for the coming week, excepting to morrow, to the Tucker bill for the repeal of the federal election law. ‘I'he debate will run, aceord- ing to the special order adopted on Friday, throughout this week and next and until Tuesday, October 10 of the following. Mr. Tucker of Virginia will have charge of the de- bate on the Democratic side and Mr. Johnson of North Dakota on the Republican side. It is probable that the debate will be of an exceeding- ly lively character. The reconstruc- tion period will be lived over again, and Tammany and John I. Daven- port will cut a prominent figure. Col. Hyde formerly editor of the St. Louis Republic, has a splendid show to be appointed public printer. The entire Missouri delegation in congress are backing him and it is said that his chances are excellent. —_——— It is now stated that neither Cap- tain Joe Fink nor Clint Tillery are likely to be appointed collector for the western district of Missouri, and that a new man will be taken up. ‘The new man is supposed to be Mr. MeDonald, editor of the Kansas City Times. The House has adapted on order setting aside two weeks, beginning Tuesday the 26, for the consideration of the Tucker bill repealing the federal election law. At the expira- : tion of two weeks a vote will be taken and this obnoxious law will be stric’ <en from the statute books. —_—_—_—_—_—_—_ awaiting action at the bureau is 700,- 279. SS If Governor McKinley can do any it is high time he was at it. Wool ke all of those cases will lead to the on the pension qustion. He says that he has often been grossly mis- represented in this matter and held responsible for acts about which he knew nothing until they had been committed. The Secretary takes as his text the decision rendered in tke case of Charles T. Bennett, a private of Company F. 18th Indiana Volun- teers, which was the basis upon which an important order was issu- ed and about which so much has been said. Mr. Smith also says that it is wrong to suppose he is a com- mon enemy to pensions. He act- ually and conscientiously believes that there have crept upon the pen- sion rolls, through one avenue or an- other, by various rulings of pension commissioners, and the work of ex aminers and officers of the Pension Bureau, an enormous number of persons who are not entitled to pen- sions. “These are the ones I am after, de- elared the Secretary. “and they are the ones I intend to weed out of the pension list, if they reduce the total number of pensioners one half.” Referring to the order of Commis. sioner Lochren, that pensioners whose claims were not good upon presentation made should be drop- ped from the rolls for a period of sixty days, when they must take their claims good or suffer perman- ent supension. Secretary Smith says that this action was taken when he was absent from Washington, and that did not meet his approval. He believed that whether there was authority or not, a pensioner after being placed upon the rolls should have notice beforg being dropped. Secretary Smith states that his orig- inal idea in having the list of “sus- pects” prepared, was to have strick- en from the rolls those who had fail- ed to present prima facie evidence that they were entitled to pensions. He believes that investigation into Washington, Sept. 23 —Represen- | tative Harter, of Ohio, who was pre- | President and Congressman, U. S. st. Joseph Desperadoes Attempt jvented from appearing before the} Hall had the following conservation: | | ) “Mr. Hall” the President said, “I | 10 per cent would protect the Amer-| | Frankness . The New York Sun says that jin favor of placing agricultural im-| want you to tell me candidly what, | the farmers really think of my posi-, | tion on this silver question.” tee covering the statement he wished | “To be perfectly frank, Mr. Presi-| Gent,” replied Hall, with some natur- al embarrassment, “they think you are the tool of Wall street and en- tirely in the hands of the power.” Since then, ‘tis said, Hall has been “in the swim” with the Presi- dent. money De-Armond’s Income Tax Bill. Washington, D. C, Sept. 23.— Representative DeArmond, of Mis- souri, has presented a bill providing for an income tax. It imposes a tax en all incomes in excess of $10,000 per annum, the amount to be fixed each year by the secretary of the treasury, the total amount of reve- nue to be secured to be equal to the amount appropriated for the pay- ment of pensions for that year. Taking the rate of tax assessed upon incomes ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 as a basis, that on incomes of from $50,000 to $100,000 shall be twice as large; on incomes of from $100,000 to $200,000 three times as large; on incomes of from $200,000 to $500,000 four times as large, and incomes of from $500,000 to $1,000,- 000 five times as large, and on all incomes in excess of $1,000,000 six times as large. Cruei Work of Footpads. Wichita, Sept. 21—Andrew Pan- tele of Little Rock, Ark. was brought here t.. iay from Enid Ok., wounded in the arm and head. He was be- tween the two Enids last night when attacked by footpads who shoved a gun in his face. Pantele showed fight aud was wounded by a shot in the arm and knocked down with the butt end of a gun. The robbers took $400 from him and then laid his body across the railroad track where he was seen by the the engin- eer of a northbound Rock Island train. Under False Pretenses. Wichita, Kan., Sept. 21.-—Jean Bonnetti, a Frencman, was arrested here tonight by a deputy United States marshal, charged with fraud- ulently drawing a peusion for years. He successfully obtained money every quarter by impersonating a dead brother, who was a_ soldier. The fraud was given by his wife, with whom he had a quarrel recently, which caused their separation and the existence of a very bitter feeling between them. Criminals Convicted. Clinton, Mo, Sept. 21.—Judge James H. Lay concluded a three week’s term of the Circuit court here today. The docket was mostly of civil cases. Dan King of Windsor was given three years for burglary. Joe Reed and Joe Arnold were given two years for larceny and Mrs. Martha Sandridge was given two years for concealing the birth of an illegetitmate child and throwing its bcdy ina coal pit at its death. Death Ends a Contest. Enid, Ok., Sept. 21.—H. R. Kent of the Rock Island detective bureau telegraped to night that two men had been shot and killed at Wauko- mis, the next station south of this place. All that could be learned of the affray was that the shooting oc- curred over a dispute about the ownership of a claim. discovery of much fraud, and that The men who did the shooting ss fully half of those who have not/are in custody and will be taken to Ww ashington, D. C, Sept. 23.—An made prima facie cases will fail in| the Kingfisher jail. One of them is ‘official statement prepared at the/ their efforts to show that they were|a Texan named Williams. pension bureau shows that the total | entitled to pensions. Many of those number of claims for pensions now | who were being notified that they must furnish new evidence had so Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 22.— Gov. Stnoe this evening commuted little to stand upon that they would | the death penalty imposed upon make no effort whatever. John Mosely of Pemiscott county to The Secretary says it is a great twenty-five years imprisonment in thing for the wool growers of Ohio | _istake to suppose that he intended | the penitentiary. Mosely killed An- to decrease pension expenditures by drew Seaton in Pemiscott county in at l5ca pound is not encouraging depriving those who were entitled 1892, and was convicted in the Cir- to the grower. foundered at sea the other day and ten officers and 150 seamen were lost. ——EEEE Ss Hoke Smith is after the frauds on the pension rolls, and he is catch- ing some of them. to pensions under the law of their cuit court of murder in the first de- just rewards. He says that he is|Ste®- A failureto file the appeal not op; to pensions. Referring transcript in time resulted in the to the fact thet quite a number of | case not being reviewed by the su- pensioners who were dropped from| preme court. Fully 90 per cent of the rolls were being reinstated, the Secret states that ali of them fur- nished the citizens of Pemiscott county pe- tequited evideeco and titioned the Governor to commute had filled in the links breaking the|the sentence. Mosely was to have chain in their cases. been hanged on the 29th instant. the DEATH FOR OUTLAWS. ; ] | to Hold up aTrain and Only | Fall Into a Trap. | | | The Leader of the Desperadoes Ouly 19 Years Old—Many Hold Ups Previously Planned. | St. Joseph., Sept. —Six des | perate train robbers ran intoa trap! set by the Kansas City, St. Joseph | & Council Bluffs railroad official Jast | night and, tin consequence, two of the bandits are dead and four in} jail. The outlaws who were killed, | the undoubted leaders of the band, | | Were: \ Fred Kohler, aged 19, who lived | with his young wife at 1815 South | Tenth street. } Hugo Engle, stepson of Henry} Gleitze, propristor of the Occidental hotel. N. A. Hust, Charles Fredericks | and Will Carver were captured, but | they were decoys. The fourth mau, Henry Gleitze, half brother to Engle, was arrested later. When the train reached Schutzen park, a short distance this side of the water works, a man stepped out on the track aud swung uw red lan- tern. Engiveer Wright stopped his engine und he and the fireman were at once covered by a masked man with a shotgun, and were ordered to go back to the express car. When they reached the car two of the rob bers pounded on the door with their guns and and ordered the messen ger to open it. Chief Broder and his men were concealed behind the safe aud empty boxes. DYNAMITE READY, BUT NOT USED. When the robbers ordered the ex press messenger to open the door they threatened to blow up the car with dynamite, one of them saying, “Open up aud be a quick about it or we'll kill you.” They had two large sticks of dynamite aud each was wrapped up in two or three copies of a uewspaper. ‘To each of the sticks was attached a fuse about three feet long. ‘This fuse connect- ed with a fulminating cap. Four of the meu leaped into the car, the other two remaining out side. One of these latter was Hen ry Gleitze an-l the other was Fred- ericks. When the men entered the car, the officers raised up aud covering them with their guus, ordered them to throw up their bands. Instead of obeying, the :obbers began firing at the officers und ia @ minute a bat- tle was ou At the first fire, Hearst, Freder- icks aud Gamer dropped to the ground to prevent being shot. Eugle leaped from the car and ran for the bush on the east side of the train, from where he continued to shoot till discovered, and Kohler, whose job was to stand outside and keep the passengers from coming out of the cars, was on the cast side of the train also and he poured a deadly fire into the express car and coaches, while Heary Gleitze, who COL. C. W. DEAN. SUNSTRUCK IN BATTLE! DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., ELxnanrt, Inp.—I must Restorative N arin jervine and ae ver Pills have done me oTOn TEARS I HAVE NOT FELT AS WELL AS NOW. The starting point of my disease was & Ges received in battls ees On. MILES’ PILLS, 60 Dosrs26Cre, a er A SS was on the west side of the train, the express and mail cars and then Kohler proved to be a most des- perate man. He continued to shoot ‘until he fell over dead. He directed | ithe most of hia shots toward the first coach from which Officer Hayes on the platform was trying to kill him. | fred several shots at the officers in | committee on bauking and currency { Washington, D. C., Sept. 23.—The has authorized a favorable report on a bill prohibiting the officers of national banks from borrowing mon- ey from the banks with which they are connected, except when the se- curities which they offer have been passed upon and agreed to by a yea and nay vote of the directors. W. C. Brown, who was in this car, , says Kobler was concealed bebind some bushes near the train stopped. As the train slow- ed down he walkea towards it with his gun cocked, cursing and order- ing the suppose passengers to keep | inside. When he was ubout fifty feet from the train the shooting in | the baggage car begap, and then he commenced firing Mr. Brown says he could be seen very plainly in the moonlight as he walked towards the cays. After Le had fired two or three shots he was seen to fall He crawled behind some bushes and continued to shoot. He was being fired upon by Sheriff Carson's men and the officers in the other cars. When the flash from his gun was | seen ihe officers would pour a broad | side into him. Finally he stopped shooting and Officer Hayes walked | toward him. While he was within ten feet of Kohler the dying desper- ado raised up on his arm aud tried toshoot Hayes but dropped back dead. Engle fell soon after Kohler was killed, and when picked up, was found to be mortally wounded. He was shot twice in the back of the head and his brains were oozing out. \S. A. Dyer bought the Eldorado Mascot, and took charge of the plant last week. the track when! = KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. 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