The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1893, Page 3

We Have Bought a Lot of Things FOR CHR That means they were not intended to be carried over ISTMAS. We will not have te carry them over if you will come in and look at them They are marked at a price that will cause you to buy them quickly. DOLLS, DRUMS, &C We bought several Batrels of Candy for We are able to mrke Spec day Schools, Pubhie Sebi F EXTRA GOOD at an E) if limited 1 the Christmas Trade iallow Prices to Sun ull others desiring something A low price. We bought a sumber of {the ain tooger. Lbey refused and jSuortiy «ter lockjaw set im, and the | boy Went int) a death-like trance, Very Fine Lamps that will be sold cheap. We hay e just added a large purchase of CLASS AND QUEENSWARE These goods we have always sold verv !cw and will continue todo so We lead the prices on xroduce, and pay you for it in CASH order on avy store in town on our own goods. If you think we run a little or se horse store, come in and be convinced that you are mistaken. LEE CULVER & CO. North Side Square. £0 ALLOW STATE BANK NOTES. Outline of the Proposed Bill) for the Repeal ofthe Present Tax Law. Washington, Dec. 9.—The follow ing is the outline of the report made by the subcommittee to the full com mittee on banking and currency for a bill to repeal the 10 per cent! tax on state bauks: Secrion 1. The tax of 10 per cent on state bank notes, etc, paid out and used as currency, is repealed. Sec 2. Except as below provided no state bank notes, ete, shall be | paid out and used as currency out side of the state of their issue, ex cept subject toa penalty of 10 per cent each time paid out. Src 3. State bank note may be paid out and used as currency (out side of the state of their issue) on | compliance with the following: | everyone does not get what he wants ; be leaves with the eonviction that he | has been treated with consideration | and kindness and with a high opin j ion of Warden Pace an official }and gentleman. It is not too much to that Warden Pace is the most popular | aud efficient man who bas filed the as i say His executive ability was quickly and admirably ; Shown in the reorganization of the | institution. A spirit of progressive } i position for yeurs. ness which does not content itself | With existing appliances and weth- ods, but is constantly on the alert | for something better, his aptitude |for details, his thorough business | training, his knowledge of men. his idesire to do the right thing, his courage, integrity and wisdom are A—Blauk notes to be furnished, | the qualities which have caused the and issue to be registered by the comptroller ci the currency; and to be of sharp!y distinctive design. B—Banks issueing such notes to | be subjected to inspection by the comptroller of the currency | C—Outstanding notes of each bank | to be limited to 75 per cent of paid | unimpaired capital. * | D—State bank notes to be made by states of issue a first lien on all | assets of issuing bank, and a liability aguiust stockholders to an amount equal to their stock in addition to it. E—An assessment of 4 per cent to be paid on taking out circulation and also on all circulation outstand | ing more than a year. { Sec. 4 State bank notes may also | be paid out and used as currency | (outside of the state of their issue) | on compliance with A, B, C and D, of the section, on deposit with the comptroller (as security for ultimate | ae redemption of notes) of United States, state, municipal, ete., securi ties permitted to strictly prescribed in the bill. Warden Pace. Iva few days Col. James L. Pace will have served the first year of his term as warden of the state peniten- tiary. This is in many respects one of the most responsible offices in the state government, and demands a high order of ability in its incum- dent. It is easily the most umportant place at the bestowal of the gover- nor and bears necessarily a close re- lation to the success of the adminis- tration. That the judgment of Goy. Stone has been fully vindicated in the ap- pointment of Col. Pace is the opinion of every man in position to know anything of the splendid administra- tion of its affairs he has given us. In the first place. Col. Pace has the esteem and cordial good will of every man connected with the peni tentiary in whatever capacity and of all who have business with it. Of ficers, contractors, foremen, ull have him for his high character, his conscien- tious discharge of every duty. his democratic bearings and bis demo- eratic methods. There is no card- bearer at his door—he is accessible atall times to all who care to see him. He meets his callers with un- varying courtesy and cordiality and is direct and candid in all things. If learned to respect and bLonor | son City Tribune Missouri state penitentiary to be recognized as one of the best mar- aged institutions of the kind in the country. It is an honor to the ad- ministration and the state, and as such deserves the hearty endorse ment of the people. Believiug it'to be the province of the newspaper to applaud and con- demn public men according to their works, it is with much pleasure the! Tribune pays this tribute to an able, faithful and honest official.—Jeffer- Electric Bitters. This remedy 1s becoming +o weil known and so popular as to aeed no special mention. All who have used ic Bitters sing the same song of ‘aise.—A purer medicine does not ex- nd it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cu diseases of the liver and kidneys, w move pimples’ boils, salt rheum, a other affections caused by impure blood | will drive malaria trom the system as| “| he was riding. ; = ! WAS IT A MIRACLE? A Strange Occurrence That) Borders | on the Miraculous. | St. Joseph, Mo., Dee. 10.—TDhe_ people in Savannah, and especially | those living in the neighborhood of Alexander Gilpin, a farmer residing} jeight miles north of this city, are! | very much worked up over an occur | rence which borders on the miracu- | jlous. Last June Tommie, the 12 | year old son of Gilpin, was stricken | with rheumatism and his body twist | led out of shape. The best medical jatiendence was secured, but he grew | Worse, abd on Thursday Drs. Martin | Kerr, nnd Jeffries, who had treated | |him with uo success, were called and | requested by the boy to cut off his 'right lez, as he could not endure from wuich ue could not be roused | for veral bours. | Wheu he was fivally aroused he | wrote bis parents that he had been 'to tieaven, and seen bis dead sister He wrote i that they bad tuld Lim to have his jfather go to a certain field and ata particular point scrape away the snow, when he would find a bed of moss. Inthe mossa gopher hole would be found leading down to some roots. The jand two dead brothers to be |boiled and made into au oitiment. The father and neighbor, to please | the apparently dying boy, went to roots were the place, avd, much to their aston Iwhment, found all just as he had stated. The ointment was made aud applied to the limb and jaws, 2fter which all symptoms of lockjaw aud rheumatism disappeared The boy left his bed cured Friday morning. The story is vouched for by O. J. Hurley, editor of the Savaunah Democrat, the physicians and all the neighbors of the Gilpins The Tallest Man on Earth, Col. H. C. Thurston, who claims to be th» tallest man on earth, was in the city yesterday and his tall and erect form could plainly be seen sev eral feet above the surging masses | who crowded around to see him The Colonel's howe is in Mt. Ver nov. He has recently returned from the world’s fair and says that there were many sideshows with sv cilled tall men. but when he would step in they would invariably open their eyes and admit their superior had been found in the person of the man The colorel’s height! inches, but he says when he is on exhibition and gets himself} from Texas “well straightened out” he measures eight feet - He was a soldier in the confederate army during the war, en- listivg in the Fourth Missouri under General Marmaduke. Que of would be moving on foot the Col. to an outsider it would appear that While Mr. Thurston | was returning from Chicago be met a gentleman in Springfield. Ill., who well as ¢ rial t Por cor vand) indigestion try Electric Bit re| guaranteed or money ice 50¢ and $1.00 at H. L.| Tucker's cragstore. ‘Is Head Severed. Fort Worth, Tex., Dee. 13.—Dr. Johu Wagely, one of the best known physicians in Texas, who has been| practicing at Cleburne thirty years, | The said he had singled him out and shot over the heads of hundreds of other soldiers at him was in the Union army. man six times without any of the bullets striking. Mr. | Thurston reached his height when | 19 years of age It was amusing to | see some men yesterday, who thought they were tall, walk under the arms yuo MAKE NO In Buyi and all other times, at Pavic WILL MISTAKE ng Your Holiday GoOds AT JETERS He has the largest and most complete line for CHRISTMAS TIME, Prices. Do not fail to call and examine his large and complete live of ATGHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Solid Silver and Plated Ware Spectacles, Opera, Field and Marine Glasses, «c. Spectacles Correctly Fitted North Side Square, two doors west of Palace Hotel, Butler, Mo. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE. Five Hundred Thousand Pilgrims at the feast in the City of Mexico, City of Mexico, Dec. 12—The feast of Guadalupe, the great Catho- lie event of the year, came to aciose in the suburd of Guadalupe to night. The attendance was a s large as ever | A Corpse Boycotted. Louisville, Ky., Dee. 13.—A corpse | boycotted by the Undertakers’ union | This is the situation Mr O. Brews ‘ter, a young attorney of this city, ‘finds himself placed in. Brewster owed a balance on fueral expenses for his father’s burial to Miller Bro., undertakers, and on this account |conspicuous, are growing less fre | would soar so high above them that | known. Fully 500,000 pilgrims from ! not an undertaker in the city will all parts of Mexico were present to | bury his wife mobil the balance is make their devotious to Our Lady | settled. He offered good security of Guadalupe, saving virgin of the | but to no avail. He also offered to country. The scenes of fanatic zeal, | Pay the old account as soon as_pos- which cA past sible. On account of sickness Brew ster is short of funds. He will be pilgrims {compelled to have the city bury his years have been £0 quent.although many of the ; pile still walk from the Cathadral plaza | Wife tomorrow, who died two days | in the center of the city tothe Tem | 8° ple of Guadalupe, a distance of two e half miles, on their knees. Hun- } Ses Soave erly point in Norway, and also the eur! dreds o others go on hands and Z her fi k citizens who was in the war with |Enees up the rocky slopes of the | most nort aa point of apa at ; ae : pets mR " sun is visible above the horizon him says that when a regiment] pills of Guadalupe to the Temple | Sali thelenmimib inating thonapoe |} from May 5 to August 6, or just one n e a | on which occurred the opposition | day over three months Before May lof the Angel Guadalupe in the | 5it remains below th horizon for on- sixteenth century according to ly a few hours at a time and after Indian tradition. The gambling, | August 6 it will do so again. To and) make up for the long day, however, ligious feast in the South were all | the wintry night lasts from Septem present in their glory —Pickpockets | ber 22 to March 21, and from No- and robbers swarmed the vicinity of | vember 6 to February 5 the suo |the church, and the police have been | peyer appears above the horizon. It | kept busy since the feast was begun lou the 9th inst Thovsands sleep in the open fields to night,an chicken fights, bull fights other pleasurable incidents to a re ‘vill jis an.interesting fact that the three q | moath’s day causes much anity will be outward At the North Cape,the most nortk-| to morrow the drift of the penitents | among persons not usually accus | | of the Texas giant with perfect ease.| Wausau, Wis. Dec. 9.—The jury was knocked down and run over by | a Santa Fe train at the depot at Cle burne this evening. Mr. Thurston enjoys perfect health : fand Says he encounters no inconven- : His head Wa8lience by being so unusually tall.— | Severed from his body which was] Greenville, Texas, Herald. frightfully mangled. The doctor had | Baten couse buh inten; 2 5 ates county, this state. is oper- gene to the depot to see his wife| he aa eS antieon off Ther and’ about 100 | ated under the township organiza- = tion law, and the seems to phople on the platform saw the ac- i A Se cidentand six or seven ladies faint | prevail there that the constitutional ed. A daughter, married last week, |"°® riction limiting the tax levy to a oe Giulvesikn = hee bridal ae 40 cents on the $100 valuation in bos - “jeounties of less assessed valuation We seil Parks’ Cough Syrup on a pos- | = i 1) itive gucrautee to cure all throat and | than $10,000,000 does ney apply to lung troubles, It has stood the test for ,couaties under township organiza- many years and to-day is the leading | 4; rdi , = remedy for the cure of colds, consump- | bon aud accordingly they have tion and all diseases of the throat and}made a levy of 60 cents. If the ourts held that this is in aceord- lungs. Price so cents and $1. Sold b: (HL Tucker, druggist. 2 = nce with law every county in the tate that wants good roads had idea In the language of the late R. Vai Winkle “how soon we are forgot when we are gone.” A six month's! effort tor 20,000 for a moru ment to Jas G. Blaine has netted $115. Ten years ago more than) that would have been cheerfully, burned out in a toreh oil for a Blaine rally at Dinky’s Corner. Mr. ! Blaine was the showiest man in fight the reductions in the American politics for two genera-| schedule, tions, but made no history.—Bloom- (ington Bulletin. and then have the*legislature re move all restrictions as to the limit of taxation for local purposes.—Jef- ferson City Tribune. The manufacturers have organiz but it is hoped they will have no influence in defeating the ; Wishes and mandates of the people. |ed a strong lobby m Washington to| in the case of Herman and Otto | Habeck, charged with having killed their father, brought in a verdict ot not guilty as to Otto and guilty of manslaughter as to Herman to-day. Herman was sentenced to twelve den The father was chopped to pieces by Herman and the head severed the corpse and felled a tree over the spot. The boys were densely ignor ant. Their father had always abused them and on this occasion was about to attack them with a hatchet. Dallas, Texas, Dec. 9.—The Plano National bank was blown pieces last night and robbed of all |the currency and part of the gold in safe | bers took no silver. The bank kept | the bulk of its funds in a Dallas jbank. It had been reported some | days since that the Dalton gang had | been camping near Plano of late ‘and it is believed they were the rob bers, particular as an anonymous tariff |letter was recently found warning people of Dallas county that the | the Daltons had planned to rob several banks in this section. from the body The two boys then | dug a hole in the ground, buried the | jtomed to it, and that practically | ‘every whaling ship in the Artie wat | ers has at | st one sailor on who has been made insane by the absence of any darkness for so long | a time.—Jefferson City Tribune | What is this years at hard labor by Judge Bar | anyhow to. better adopt township organization | it from $6,000 to $8,000. The rob | It is the only bow (ring) w! cannot be pulled from the wx To be had only Filled and other stamped with th ade mark. ¥= Ask your jeweler for pamphiet. | Keystone Watch Case Co., J PHILADELPHIA. h cases we a Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve inthe world for Cuts Bruis ores, Ulcers, SaltRheum Fever happed Hands, Chib kin Eruptions, and pos Ss, or no pay required. It sive satisfaction cts per box gist. BATES COUNTY National Bank, | BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BAN | THE LARGEST AND THE) | . , ’ _ , "> ONLY NATIONAL BANK | IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, - - $125,000 00 SURPLUS, - - $25,000 00 | | | | | | F.J. TYGARD, - - - President. B. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres. LARK - - Cashier ——- Lawyers, | ( SSIS & CLARK, ATTORNcYS AT LAW. Office over the Nortt Missouri State Bank side square. ° DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. Atl call answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis eases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and « Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women aad chil- en aspecialtv. —$—$__—— Franz Bernhardt On the north side of the square, ' | Butler, - Missouri. | Does hie own i} Watch & Clock Repairing his Watches, Clocks, Jeweiry and Sil- verware at | ACTUAL COST AND CARRIAGE, For the next twelve months. \As a watch maker of 52 years experience! can and will give you satisfaction. Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty. —GO TO} G. A. VAN HALL, —-SUCCESSOR TO— iF. BERNHARDT («& CO. —FOR— PURE: DRUCS MEDICINES, “©: TOILET ARTICLES, | TOBACCOS AND ‘FINE CIGARS, 4RTISTS |MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS? Prescriptions Carefully Com pounde A liberal Patronage of the i public is solicited. THE WORLD'S FAIR photographed and described. W awake agents wanted for our 1 id's Fair book by Director G Davis, Mrs. Potter Pa . cials. Over ae) paid. | Men or ladies make $19 a day. for circulars; or send 54) cents to-dgy for large outfit containing 106 phots- P.W. Ziegler & Co., 527 ket St., St. Louis, Mo. 45-4t,