The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 5, 1893, Page 1

’ ler Weekly Cine VOL. XV. a, it A AR RT BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY OCTOBER 5, 1893. NO. 46 | Lane & Adair i MAKE THE PRICES ON DRESS GUUDS we cee We will quote you some of our prices which we claim is 25 per cent cheaper than these goods have ever But we must reduce our stock, it is entire room. When in take a look at our 36 inch Euglish Henrietta 36 inch Extra Fine English Henrietta 36 inch Illuminoue Dress Goods inch Feney Hop Sacking 35¢ 36 inch Whip Cord, a dandy forthemoney 35¢ 36 inch black Henrietta 25e 38 inch plain all wool Camel Hair 50c 38 inch black Henrietta, » beeuty 35e 40 inch fancy all wool Camel Hair 50¢ 38 ineh whip cord, worth 50c, for . 38 inch Hop Sacking all wool 50c 38 inch EP aris ae we 36 inch English Shot Pengals 50e 40 inch all woo enh ue 40 inch all wool Henrietta 50c 40 inch al) wool Benguline ¢ len . : ne 40 inch all wool Arnold Heurietta The = — srt —— ea 46 inch all wool Arnold Henrietta 85e 36 inch all wool Storm Serge 5 com 2 : en 40 inch all wool Armour, a beauty 75¢ 46 inch all wool Sctee : (Se 40 inch all wool Arnuld Henrietta T5e Fall line of SERGE BROADCLOTHS nesemee 40 inch all wool Shot Pengals, very new a perfect beauty, don’t fail to sée them $1.00 Black Dress Goods. arare f 4 ad beea sold before. ly too large for our | persons and wounded probably three 46 inch all wool Arnold H Don’t forget our trimming; we carry all kind of Braid, Plushes, Velvets, Bead Trimmings, tur Trimmings, Etc. Be sure to give us to see our good ar . the newest thing out in Broadcloth. enrietta 85c | a look before buying; it will do you good id prices. Very Truly. LANE & ADAIR. FOUND WATERY GRAVES. Mine Casuality Without Paralell in Annals ot Mining. Crystal Falls, Mich., Sept. 29.—j} With a rush and roar the waters of the Michiganine river broke through the Mansfield mine, drowning twen- ty-eight of the employes at work The eighteen men who escaped were em- ployed in the lower levels. The ac- cident ocemred last night between 9 and 10 o'clock, but did not become known until later. None of the bodies have been recovered, and it is beeved it will be necessary to divert the channel of the river before they can be secured. The Mansfield mine is situated ou | the banks of the Michiganme river | about six miles from Crystal Falls, the county seat of Iron couvty. It has been working about three or tour years and bas shipped about 60 000 tons of Bessemer ore. The ore vein dipped rapidly beneath the stream, and for more than two years | the workings have been directly un- | der the bed of the river. The de-! pression in the iron trade had closed immediately under the stream. fine quality of its product enabling | through the little hamlet about the it to keep on working. |mine. Men, women and children The night shift had gcne down gathered with horror drawn faces to jand though someone noticed that see eighteen men come forth from as the pumps seemed to keep the a sullen rvar in the chasm in its bed. drifts Habitated to danger | The men who escaped were almost the miners went to work as usual, | all from thetwo lowest levels. Warn- intent only upon the accomplishmezt ed by the roar of the waters they of their daily task that brought food | fled wildly towar’ the shaft and and shelter for themselves and fam- | managed t» escape from the pit of | danger. There was no laek of vol- on its usual | unteers to descend the only availa- Then! ble shaft, but the self sacrificing there was a rear anda rush of water. courage of the hardy miners was all So fast came the flood that it is in vain. The dark, angry waters doubtful if the meu in the upper 1apidly running in the shaft proved leyels were able to reach the shaft | even to the courage of despair that | atall. ‘The of horror and } human aid was without avail there. death in the upper levels can only be The twenty eight men still in the} imagined, for no one escaped to tell | pit were strangled corpses now. | the tale. Had the men been able to| Not untilafter daylight did the, reach the shaftdeath wouldstill have river complete its work and resume been certain, fortthe old, or No 1) its normal course. The mine work- shaft, the only direct means of reach | ings had been filled to the river level ing the upper levels, collapsed and | aud the fatal stream began to crawl fell in about 9:30, cutting off all es- down its bed once more. eupe that way. The death of twenty-eight men Had there been time the men, marked the end of the Mansfield might have descended by some | mine, for unless the river be forced means to the lower levels and cross- | to seek another channel this rich de- free. ilies. if So the work Went on, course unti! sbout 9 o'clock. scene practically all the iron mines in the Crystal Falls district, and the Mans- | field was almost the only one from | which any ore was being raised, the” a (je? Powder -_. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum, Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard ed over to No. 2 shaft, but the in- | posit of iron ore can never be work- rushing flood came too fast. There | €d again. Eight of the victims leave DISASTROUS WINDS IN THE SOUTH.—NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER TOWNS DAMAGED. | Many Lives Lost, The Levee Broken | 1 aud Handreds of Buildings Wrecked. New Orleans, La., Oct. 2—A_ ter- STORM SWEPT. | rible tornado struck New Orleans} coming from the} ‘northeast, and raged all night and a portion of today, sweeping to the jsouth from here along the liue of the Mississippi river. through the Par- ish of Plaquemine to the Gulf. The storm was one of the which ever visited this section, as far as can be learned killed worst and O4 2+ times as many, some of them fatally, besides destroying a large amount of property at New Orleans. The revetment levee on Lake Pcn- chatrain, which protects New Or- leans from overflow on the rear, was washed away, the water sweeping over it 15 feet or more, and many of the yachts there were sunken cr injured. In the Mississippi the coal fleet was scattered. the transfer boat of the Texas and Pacific Railroad badly damaged and several wharves carried away. The New Orleans and North- wester had its track flooded for sev- en miles aud so badly washed that it can run no trains. The track of the Louisville and Nashville was FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. $50,000.00 COUNTY DEPOSTORY Sah OF BATES CO Official statement of above Bank at close of business Sept lth, 1893, dered to Secretary of State. ren RESOURCES. Loans and discounts Overdrafts by solvent custom ’rs Real estate at cash value LIABILITIES. Cash Capital stock $50,000.00 Surplus Funds Q845.80 t € s Deposits 68,691.25 Fnrniture and Fixtures Cash and Sight Exchange Total $121,587.05, Total $121,537.05, We hereby certify above statement is correct, E, b. KIPP, Cashier. LN. THOMPSON, President. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Si ens1. 5 ne . » $110,000. Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and does a General Banking Business. DIRECTORS. Frank Voris, c Oscar Keeder, R. G. Wert. 8. H. Pigote, WM E. WALTON. President? J.R JENKINS, Cashier. OO Stallions Fight a Duel. Pablic Sale. Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 29—Two| J will sell at publie sule at my valuable stallions, owned by Dr. C.| farm 8 miles southwest of Butler, 2 Booker Powell, c. R. Radferd, v.C. Boulware, Johu Deerwester. H.C. Wyatt. - HW. Dutcher, Geo L. smuth, Wm £. walton, J.R Jenhkina, badly washed for 15 miles and it L Thudicum of Haddontield, N. J, will be several days before it can|fought a duel tothe death yester run trains. While only four deaths day. They were known to be vicious there was more water than usual in | the hideous depths, and to behold} the mine, no special alarm was felt | the Michiganme river plunging with | not fatally reported from the storm in New Orleans, below the city it was far worse, especially in Plaque- mine Parish. Here the winds reach- ed a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour, sweeping everything before it. NOT A HOUSE ESCAPED. Pointe a la Hache, a town of 2,- 000 people, was the worst sufferer in that town not a siugle house escap- ed injury. ings in the town, and some 20 other buildings destroyed and the situa- |tion was so threatening that the | greater portion of the people, fear- ing being crushed to death in their building, camped out in the street all night in a heavy rain. filled with debris, aud the wind blew so fiercely that many had to anchor themselves against trees to prevent being blown jaway. Four grown persons and several Children are known to have been killed in Pointe ala Hache, but how many children is not exactly known. Many other deaths are re- ported from this neighborhood but a full list cannot be ascertained at) this time. MOBILE INDURATED. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 2—A spent east gale broke here this morning about four o'clock and the wind has! been increasing in velocity since until this hour, 1 p. m, blowing at least fifty miles an The barometer is still falling. wind has blown the water in from the gulf until the river has reached} Royal street, which is four blocks! from the river and at an elevation of | about fifteen feet from the main/| river height. There is no possible! chance of estimating the money! damage. The air was it is} bour. | were heart rending scenes about the | families of children fatherlese, and mines and a wild cry of alarm | #bout half of the remaining “Grenty | men were the support of parents. | A Fatal Mistake. Nevada, Mo., Sept. 28 —George W. Johuson, aged 63 years, a highly jesteemed farmer of this vicinity, | was accidentally poisoned to day by | his wife, sho gave him aconite by | mistake for Jamica ginger. He took | the fatal draught at 9 o'clock this | morning and died in great agony at |2p.m. Itis feared the wife's rea- son is dethroned, so intense is her | grief over her sad mistake. — trict of the city is some four feet} under water, and thousands of dol- } i Several boats have been driven/ ashore, and great damage has result- ed to wharfs. worst that ever visited this city. } eee eet i | €remated Alive. | Wichita, Kan. Sept. 28.—Laura Scully, 5-year old daughter of Officer The Court-house and} Catholic Church, the principal build- | i ever! ¢ The) | All the wholesale ‘and) § agricultural portion of the retail dis-| lars worth of goods have been aac ‘ laged. The storm is the! ‘ and one person wounded severely if and been kept in separate fields. Yesterday they got in the same field by accident and at once went at each other. Their hoofs struck ter- rible blows, and the horses bit ss zebras. Finally, the mor: valuable stallion, worth $1,000, fell. The other soon trampled over him. Then to make sure of a finish, the victor seized his rival by the throat and dragged him about the field. Troy, Mo.. Oct. 1.—Yesterday af- ternoon as “Unele Billy” Bragg, | old colored grave digger was filling a grave in which had been buried a an little child, he fell over dead. He was up tothat time in his usual geod health. He had dug nine- tenths of all the graves at Troy cem- etery during the last forty years. ed by both black aud white. Washington, Sept. 29.—Senator Martin, of Kansas, has joined the senators who believe that the sena tors should be elected by direct vote of the people. He introduced a b! |to.day providing for an amendment |to the constitution permitting such states as may so elect to choose their senators in this manner itis because of the riority protit powder, and to cost with cheaper a: thus, though wholesome food, by you. Scully of the police force, was burn- ed to death-here to-day, her dress having caught fire from the stove. The little thing was fairly roasted,as her mother was absent and no one near to ive her aid. He was 74 years old, aud was honor- | miles northwest of Nyhart,on Wednesday, Oct. 11th, 1893. the following personal property. Five head of horses, one fine 3 year old stallion, good style and action, 2 cows and calves, 20 head of hogs, 20 acres of corn in field, 200 bushels of oats, 20 tons of timothy and clov- er hay, one two horse wagon, one spring wagon, a lot of harness, and farm implements, consisting of a mowing machine, rake, cultivators, plows &c. Also household and other things too numerous to men- tion. Terms or sate: All sums of $10 and under cash in hand, over $L0 a credit of 10 months will be given without interest if paid when due, if not paid when due, 8 per cent will be charged from date. Purchaser to give note with approv- ed security before articles are re- moved. On day of sale will offer my farm of 120 acres for sale LUCAS GOWGILL. C. B. Lewis, Auctioneer. RS. Catron insures growing cops against hail, also writes fire and tornado insurance. 413 tf Reward Offered for Murderer Furbusb Jefferson City, Mo, Sept. 28 — Governor Stone this afternoon issued a proclamation offering a reward of $200, good for one year, for the ar- |rest and delivery to the sheriff of Howard county of Reason Furbush, who is under indictment for kilhog Ghthe “hogal” the ther sy) the other must id inferior muaterials, Grarvi"le Hayes in that county. Be on your Guard. If some grocers urge another baking powder upon vou in piace of the * Royal,” Ps - . . ea ? greater profit upon it. This of itself is ev idence of the supe- “ is) IVE ereater } a lower cost less it must be made and sciling for the same, give less value to the consumer. To insure the finest cake, the most be sure that no substi- tute for Royal Baking Powder is accepted Nothing can be substituted for the Royal Baking Powder and give as good results. Awe ee G SSIES ETE SEE SOS C2 PUGS TT SESess