The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 19, 1893, Page 2

4 i i ‘ i ‘ rece anneab cabot VEST HAS A REMEDY. | | He Proposes an Amendme it to the Re-| Lucas of St. Louis in a duel 02] three People Dead aud Others 0! °°” peal Measures. Washington, D. C., Oct. 12.—In} the senate to day Mr. Vest (dem.) of Missouri gave notice of an amend- ment in the nature of a substitute for the repeal bill. the purchasing clauses of the Sher- man act it authorizes the issuing of coin certificates for the *bulhion, consisting of seigniorage on | the silver heretofore purchased. It provides for the coinage of Ameri can silver that may be deposited by its owners at the rate of $3,000,000 amonth up to the limit of $800,- 000,000. ly proportioned among the silver producing states and territories | Holders of standard silver dollars | may have them exchanged for cer tificates. Authority is given the secretary of the treasury to refuse payment in gold “on any obligation of the United States’ when he is satisfied that the gold is applied for exportation. A joint committee of the two houses is to into| the financial and monetary condition of the government and the people of the United States. The 10 per cent tax on state bank circulation is to be removed. The Senate, at 10:45, is still in session. Senator Harris says he believes his party in the Senate able to devise a bill with sufficient una nimity to put it through as a party measure Senators Pugh and Jones, leading silver men, talked in the same strain. The repeal leaders are apperantly as determined as ever to go forward with the bill unamended. The basis for this bill seems on the Harris and Vest amendments, but there is a wide difference of op- inion as to whether a bond provision should cr should not be adopted. If the President continued to reject all propositions looking to compro- mise, nothing is Jeft but an adjourn iment of Congress ualess the leaders | should decide to go ahead and pass a compromise measure and send it to the Whith House and place the | responsibility of vetoing or signing it at Mr. Cleveland's door. Judging from the outcome of the other continuous session, there is little chance of any practical result from this second attempt to force a vote, even if the Senate can be held in session. examine Republican Situation tn Iowa. The republicans of Iowa opened their campaign under the most fay- orable auspices, and the question of their success by a pronouuced ma- jority was not atall doubtful. But it now appears that they inadvert- ently male a mistake in the selection of their candidate for goyernor. He proves to be not the kind of a man they believed him to be when they put hisname at the head of the ticket. The fact has been brought to light that he was disbarred from practice as a pension attorney some years ago because of unprofessional and disreputable proceedings on his part. There seems to beno dispute as to the nature of the charges which led to this action against him, and he has not attempted to make any explanation of the matter. If this had been known to the conven- tion by which he was nominated he would have been rejected by a de- tisive vote, notwithstanding his con- ceded ability and his other claims to political consideration. Strictly speaking, he was not bound, per- haps, to reveal that ugly part of his record; and yet. in a practical sense, he obtained the nomination under false pretenses. His party did not make a standard-bearer of him with full knowledge of his past history. It assumed that he had nothing to conceal, aud that it would not be} surprised by future disclosures af fecting his integrity and discrediting him as a candidate for office. In such acase there is but one; proper thing for a party to do, and | that is to withdraw the objectiona- ble nominee and choose a better man to take bis place. It can not afford to invite criticism and reproach by trying to elect a man who has thus turned out to be a disappointment and a deception. He is said to be After repealing | x | uncoined | This coinage is to be fair- | A Bloody Duet. Thomas. H. Benton killed Charles Bloody Island (East St. Louis) in September, 1817. Mr. Benton was most seyerely criticised over the | duel and it is |him to the day of his said that it worried death. Mr Lucas was « young lawyer of great | promise and had served one term in | the legislature. The trouble | October, 1816, term of court in St Mr. Benton and Mr. Lacas | were opposing counsel in a case be originated at the | Louis. and a dispute Ben ton to lose his temper, and his anger jing tried by a jury over the evidence caused Mr. was no doubt increased by the ver i dict of the jury, which was againts At all events, Mr. Ben ton concluded that his grievances and The latter declined to accept it outhe ground his client. ; demanded satisfaction sent a j challenge to Mr. Lucas that there was not sufticient for him to take a human life or j-op ardize his own. On the 4th of Aug- ust, 1817, an election was held in St. Louis and Mr. Lueas inquired, when Mr. Benton was about to vote, i” he had paid his taxes. This greatly enraged Mr. Benton and he applied cause the most abusive language to Mr. Lucas, which resulted in the latter sending a challenge. The challenge was accepted and the parties met on the 12th day of August 1817, on Bloody Island. Mr. Lucas was at tended to the field by Hon. Barton and Col. Clemson as seconds and Dr. Quarles as surgeon. Mr. L. was accomparied by Col. Luke E. Lawless and Maj. Joshua Pitchor as seconds. Joshua The weapous were pisto!s and the distance ten paces. At the first exchange shots Mr. Lucas was severely wounded in the neck and Mr. Benton received a slight wound below the knee. This ended the tirst meeting, and in opinion of many of Mr. Benton's friends, Col Lawless included, he should have droped the matter. Mr. Lucas was anxious to avoid a second meeting, but Mr. Benton did not deem any apology sufticient and as a result, a second meeting took place on Bloody Island September 27, 1817. The parties met early in the morning. The weapons were pistols aud the distance 10 feet. Both fired at near ly the same time, Mr. Benton having a barely perceptible advantage. Mr. warm Lucas was shot in the region of the heart and expired in a few minutes Mr. Benton was not soon as it was evident that Lucas was badly hurt Mr. struck. As Mr. Benton approached him and expressed his sorrow at what had happened. Mr. Lucas said: “Col. Benton, you have persecuted and murdered me. I do not cannot forgive you.” This, it is ; he repeated: but afterward, realizing that his life was fast ebbing away, he whispered to Mr. Benton: can forgive you: I do and | forgive you.” Mr. Benton was most severely criticised for urging the second meeting, and it is said he never ceased to regret having killed Mr Lucas. —Ex New York, Oct. 9—Almon B. Thompson, cashier of the Provident Savings bank of St. Louis, who em- bezzled $78,000 and fled to Canada} in July, 1886. and whose father set- | tled up everything, is living here with his wife and two daughters in a shabby boarding house. He is a bookkeeper on a small salary, and his eldest daughter is writing in an insurance office, while the younger is bedtast with a lingering illness, and the mother an invalid. Thom- son's story of his wanderings and suffering is pathetic. Luck deserted him from the moment he fled. He says he will not return to St. Louis, where he was once on the top wave of the social world, but will plod on to the grave in his fight with pover ty- It Should be in Every House. J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St. Sharps burg Pa. says he will not be without Dr. Kings New Discovery for con- sumption, coughs and colds, that it with pneumonia after an attack of La Grippe when various other rem- edies and several physicians had done her no good. Robert Barber willing to retire; and, whether he is Cooksport Pa, says Dr. King’s New cured his wife who was threatened | FIENDISH PULSONING. Affected. est of Jeries Golden C ‘miles northw | county, there lived a few the family of Mr. Comstock jing of himself, wife and 10 year old tson. Monday evening they sat down | : : to supper in company with Mrs | Wallace, a sister of Mrs Comstoc who was Visiting the family. Da jthe night the entire family was tak jen violently ill. M neighbo ad | that night and in tl |took of the food left {and shortly afterwards, she too, was Their condition exhibited all the symptoms MeQueary, @ the family morning par Dr, Wal from supper. seized with asimilar illness. | of arsenical poisouing and the suf \fering of the victims were intense. Mrs. Wallace died yesterday, the balance lingering in agony unti! this morning, when Mr. Comstock and Mrs. MeQavary died. Tue of the victims believe that some friends and arrests will probibly follow the coroner's inquest lle Wontd Not Retract. London, Oct. 9 —The correspo: ent of the Daily News at Ber in regard to the shooting of Freder- ick Harisch, editor of the Tageblat, by Lieutenant General that General Kirchooi demanded | that Hariscu signa paper confessiog himself a low scoundrel, at the same time pointing a revolver at his breast. Hari-ch refused to sign and the gen- erai fied. He was so close to Har isch that the latter's coat was singed. The butict struck Harisch over the heart, ut was deflected aud imbed- ded i rushed to his room and locked him if in the floor. self in:. Another officer, a general's, called upon the editor pre vious to Kirehoot’s visit aud de manded a written statement that th charge made in his paper that Gen Kirchoot’s daughter had eloped with aservaut was untru: Uarisch re fused and the officer jeft, ing that the Exuperor would be ia formed by telegraph of rence. threaten | Relatives of Creed Haymond Contest Large Bequests to His Typewriter. San Francisco, Oct. 6 —A ‘petition has been filed in the probate court at Redwood City will of the late Creed Haymond, for many years chief counsel for the Southern Paeitie company. The petitioners are Mrs. Annie Kelly and Kate Wigging, sisters and Annie M. E. Wilson, neice Haymond in his will, bequeathed most of his property to Mrs. Pau!- ine Bullard, his typewriter aud sec- retary, and in case of her death, to her daughter. The petitioners al- lege that Haymond at the time the will was made was of unsound mind and was unduly influenced by Mrs. Bullard, whom they characterize as a designing woman. According to the statements made by the executors of the will, James P. Brown and Dr. Luke Robinson, the estate is worth only $6,000, but petitioners allege that it is worth $100,000. At present Mrs. Bullard and daughter are traveling in Europe. An Offer traordinary - Only 10 Cents a Week. 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