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

eek BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Ebiror. J. D. Atitew & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekty Times, published every Thursday, will be sent to any address ake year, postage paid, for $1.00, It is estimated that fully 20 per cent, or one-fifth of the entire rail way milage of the country, is now in the hands of receivers. The election of a democratic May or for Chicago last week, deprived the republican papers of again assail- img the administration and the Wil- son tariff. Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.— ‘Lhe House eommittee on Territories has authorized a favorable report of the bill providing for the admission of Oklohoma as a state. The Tribune says the Missouri river at Jefferson City is lower than aver known and the average depth is scarcely three feet, notwithstanding the government has narrowed the ehannel at that point to 1,200 feet. Congressman DeArmond has block- ed a bill robbing the tax-payers of the country for the benefit of Wash ¥ugton City, and for this act alone he deserves another term in Cong- xess if he does nothing more during his term. The Kansas City Times of the 26th inst. coptains a lengthey edi- forial upon the question of public roads. George Gibson must be a oandidate in fact, for governor in 1896, ere Harry Cockrell, clerk to the house committee on the District of Colum bia aud a well known mewspaper man of this state, died in Washing ton City the other day. Mr. Cock rell’s home is at Glasgow, Mo., and he secured his position in Washing- ton through Congressman Heard. It is now thought that Dr. Nuly will secure the place of U.S. Mar- shel for Kansas over Col. W. C. Jones, who has heretofore felt quite confident that lightning was sure to strike him. Politics at best is un- certain, and in Kansas uncertainty does not cover the case. Joliet, Illinois, is now enjoying a smallpox scare. The penitentiary there has been placed under quaren- tine regulations, and no one is ad If members of the G. A. R. will generally obey the order issued the other chief of that organization there would soon be no fraudulent pen- the roll of pensioners in their imme- Journal- Democrat. If this suggestion of the com- mander was carried out with honesty by the posts, the roll would soon be one of honor and the stigma of traud attached disappear, as the ren- egades and camp followers were dis- patched by the commissioner's hatchet. A majority of the posts are of the opinion that a man capa- ble ef attending to business in store, office or shop 365 days in the year, is not a fit subject for government charity,and there are lots of them in every community. “It is understood hereabouts that C. C. Dickinson, of Clinton, is laying an electric wire all around him in order to attract the congressional lightning. Should Mr. Dickinson finally decide to enter the race, he will be a hard man to beat. Nearly eyery county in the district, how ever, has a favorite son, and quite a lively campaign is looked for.” The above is taken from the Osce ola Advance, of our congressional district. Weare of the opinion that the efforts of Mr. Dickinson will prove to be love’s labor lost. The present incumbent, Hon. D. A. De- Armond, has made asplendid record and there is but little doubt that he will stand for reelection, and in such a case we believe he will be re- nominated. But if Mr. DeArmond does not want to return to congress after the expiration of his present term, we hereby give notice to ths other counties of the congressional dintrict, that Cass has a man who is iu every way qualified to represent the sixth with great honor to him self and his constituents. It is our turn to name the man and we pro pose to claim our rights —Harrison ville Democrat. The Democrat is right. Judge DeArmond will stand for re eleétion and his splendid ree ord entitles him to another term. Washington, D. C. Dec. 25.—There is good reason to believe that the appointment of the successr of pub lic printer Parmer so long delayed will be made in the course of the next ten days. Mayor-elect Hop kins of Chicago is here in behal’ of Mr. McAbee, the Chicago candidate for the place, and William Hyde, formerly part owner of the St Louis Republic, who was postmaster at St. Louis during the first admin niitted except upon a certificate that he has not been in the infected dis- trict. The mayor has directed all school children to be vaccinated. ——— John H. Hopkins, the newly elect- ed mayor of Chisago wil! be induct- ad into office on January 2nd, 1894. ‘fhe day was postponed for the: pur- pose of getting in the financial statement for the past year, it being elaimed that the finances of the city are in a rather precarious condition. —_—_———— President Cleveland in the exer- cise of the usual Christmas clem. ency, commuted the sentence of Jno. W. Pitts, who was sentenced in Sep- tember last to two years in the Mis- souri penitentiary for breaking into a distillery in charge of the United States goyernment, to one year’s im- prisonment. Missourians are not allin disfavor at the office of the chief majistrate. It is claimed that in Indiana strong efforts are being made to oust Sena- tor Voorhees and make ex-Governor Gray his successor. Gray's friends will attempt to capture the state committee and then call the aged senator to time for his ‘position up- on the silver question at the recent extra session of congress. Voorhees is not the only man who is likely to be called to a reckoning upon the result of this extra session. as Joho Goff, aged 18 years, was ar- rested at Deepwater Henry county, the other day for killing Rodney istration of Mr. Cleveland, and like- wise a candidate for the public prin- tership, is also in the city. There are a dozen other candidates for this position. which is exceed ingly desirable and eagerly sought after on account of the enormous patronage connected with it, amount ing to over 3,000 places outside of the pale of the civil service law. Among them are ex Public Printer Bendict of New York, John Cox of Baltimore and Victor Baubman of Frederick, Md. - Worked a Bank. A Carthage special of late date says: A farmer named Robert O. Randall living near Jasper. came to the bank of Carthage 10 days ago and presented a check for $1,532 signed by Ben Kernsa wealthy farm er and secured a loan upon it. Z Cashier Mitchell saw Kerns lately and called his attention to it. Kerns acknowledged giving a note for $532. Mitchell told him he was mistaken and took him to the bank to see the doeument. When critically examin- ed it was discovered that the note had been raised $1,000. The cashier learned that Randall had gone to Arkansas and left imme- diately to have him arrested. Attach ments on proper sufficient to secure the bank were made to-day Randall was held in good repute and is the json of a former representative in the legislature of the western district of of Jasper county. Surveyor of the Port J. Scott Harrison of Kansas City has appoint- ed David W. Wallace deputy sur Drake at Warsaw the 4th of Decem- Goff and Drake with other) went to work yesterday to learn the| Whitman was formerly engaged in boys had been playing “craps” and quarreled over the payment of ten cents. When the game broke up Goff claims that Drake threw a rock at him and struck him in the breast and that he picked up the same rock and threw it back at Drake which| Franeis and atruck him over the lefteye. Drake egation. As deputy dived until the 21st and died and an{| Wallace will draw asalary of $1,200 |of this country. If this is good doc. | ; 2 autopsy revealed the fact that his|/a year. He succeeds Edward Ferre, |trine why not include the manufac-j in curse Nervous Diseases. had been fractured by the| who has filled the office for the past | turing establishments and complete dangerous ber. ekull blow. veyor and chief clerk. Mr. Wallace routine business of the office, but will not draw salary until January 1. Mr. Wallace is an ox-treasurer of Jackson county. He was a eandi- date for the office now held by Mr. Harrison, and had the endorsements of Governor Stone, ex-Governor e entire Missouri del- four years.—K. C. Times. day by the commander-in | sioners; he asks them to examine | diate neighborhoods and to report | all frauds discovered —Warrensburg | | MONEY CONFERENCE. | Gov. McUreary of Kentucky Be- | lieves Another one Will Soon Be Held Washington, D C, Dee. 21. Ex- Governor McCreary of Kentucky, | who was a member of the Brussells International Monetary conference, has been siuce the conclusion of that conference iv correspondence with foreigu members and other promi- nent persons of Europe, and from distant future another conference, which will result in an international agreement for the money use for both gold and silver and their coin age on au international ratio. Governor McCreary says that the movement for international bimetal ism is gaining strength every day, not alore in Germany and France and otber leading countries on the continent, but that the movement is also developing with rapidity in England. An important fact to no- tice iu connection with this matter is that many of the letters which have recently been received in this country favoring and predicting that au iuternational agreement is likely to be arrived at come from seurces which have previously opposed any such agreement. These letter writers admit that the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law will compel the establishment of ap international ratio for the two precious metals. PACKERS ANXIOUS FORK HOGS. They Say 10,572 in one Day at the Steck Yards. T. Times, 22 The pachiu., demand for hogs bas een Very stroug this week Wed nesday the slaughtering concerns bought 10,572 head which was 135 more than the total receipts for that day. The supply was 11,500 and only 351 head went to the shippers. In no single day since last December when they bougkt 12,144, have the packers made such large purchases. Armour took 4,147 hogs on Wednes day, the largest number bought by that concern in several months; Ried Bros. got 1,231; Fowler, 2,047, Dold 2,083; and Swift, 1,032 Receipts uf horses at the yards this week have been light, and the market has been fairly brisk. The arrival of western horses have about ceased and no more are looked for | before spring. Several loads of | horses were sold to southern buyers and some eastern traders were on the market, notably Walker Bros. of | Reading, Pa., Geo. Ames of Boston, Mass., and Oliver Seligman of New York. No marked activity in the trade is looked for until after the holidays. when, it is claimed,receipts will be targer and buyers more nu- merous than for several months. | The cause of our hard times can be summed up in the following sen- tence: The New York City Banks now hold deposits of $475,000,000— more than one third the entire sum of money, gold, silver and paper, in circulation in the United States. Broadly speaking, this fact may also be said to be one of the effects of hard times. First, the money was hoarded there and made hard times, and then after hard times came each of the owners is afraid to let loose his hold for fear of a general crash. If some one can originate some plan by which all of the depositors will be willing to turn his holdings once more into the channels of trade or commerce then we will have good times again.—Ex. Joplin, Mo., Dec. 22.—Chas. W. Whitman, who has been employed as collecting agent in the territory south and west of Joplin skipped about two weeks ago and his present stopping place is unknown. Irregularities are charged and his collection re- turns are undergoing investigation. the hardware and furniture business in Joplin, but failed about two years ago. Some of our laber organizations have decreed that the national gov- ernment ought to own and operate the job. t private letters received believes that | according toa statement made to-! day that there will be in the not} Debate on Pension Reform. The item in the deficiency appro- priation bill for paying special ex amivers employed in the peusion | bureau meets with rapid opposition jfrom the republicans in congress. This was expected Tie work of i the epecial examiners was necessary | to correct the frauds consummated during the last republican adminis- jtration The republicans do not like to have this work done and they | would prevent paying for it if they could. But the democrats will not be jfrighteued from their purpose to make the pension roll a roll of hon or. Judge Lechren, who is the | Commissione: of pensions, is a rep resentative soldier of the highest type Heisalso an honest man He will do what is right. Iu his late message the President | confessed his iuability to understand why frauds in the pension rolls should vot be exposed and correct jed with thoroughuess and vigor The real reason for objections that are mude is because currection inter feres with corrupt purchase of power by politicians, chiefly those of the republican party. It also deprives many undeserving persons of gratui- ty which they have earned by no Service, thus exposing their fasle pretense. Of course they do not like it. The hustility of both these classes ean bedetied They did their worst in the last national election They knew that they had nuthing to hope for from Grover Cleveland, who had fearlessly vetoed scores of .rauduleut pension bills in his first term. The whole horde of advocates and bene- ficiaries of extravagaut and unjust pensions was agaiust him; but the people elected him aud elected a democratic congress in order, among other things, to insure reform 1m the pension office aud the undoing of the iawless wrong accemplished by the corrupt Rauw. There are nearly a million names on the pension roll, and $165,000,- 000 will be required to pay pensions for the current tiuancial year. With such a burden on an exhausted treasury the people will insist that uo part of the sum shall be given to it under the laws In this as in eyerything else the policy of courage in reform is the policy of wisdom for the democratic party.—Sedalia Bazoo. Idle Conyicts at Jefferson City. There are now nearly 500 idle con- the penitentiary and the number of recruits is being augmente ed every day. At present there are 1,800 male convicts in the penitenti- ary and a httle over 1,000 of this number are worked under the con- tract system. Several contracts ex pire the last of this month, but it is likely that a renewal for a short lease will be affected. None of the shops are workiag extra mea. This is due to the general business stag- nation. But even if there was a de- mand for all the convicts, the state | has not enough shop room in which to work them.—Sedalia Bazoo. victa in Attempt at Suicide. | Ht Might Have Been Prevented. | [From the Boston Post.] | While the walks in the Public Garden | were crowded yesterday afternoon sbout 4.30 o'clock, people near the entrance gate: at the corner of Beacon and Charles street: were horrified to see a man suddenly p!unge | a knife repeatedly into his throat and fall to | the ground. While waiting for a conveyance an officer questioned the would-be suicide, who was about 50 years of age, as to his name, address, and reason for wishing to end his life, but the man steadfastly refused to give any infor- mation regarding himself. He was taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital and surgical attendance given him. Although weak from loss of blood it is probable will recover. About 9 o'clock last night a/ hospital attendant got a little information | from him. He said his.name was Samuel D—-, and that he came some weeks ago! from New Brunswick. The last few days | his head has felt queer, and he has been wan- dering about the city, not knowing which way toturn. What impelled him to commit his rash act he was unable to say. The above is the familiar but terrible story of the results of mentalderangement caused by overstrain of the nervous system. People who have dizziness, headache or back- ache, or who are Bose melancholy or | despondent feelings, are ly well on the/ toad which leads to insanity and suicide. i “Dr. Miles Medical Co.: I cannot find} language in which to express my apprecia-| tion of the great benefit I have derived from the use of your Restorative Nervine.| ° When life became a burden I would use the | Nervine to soothe my weakened nerves, and | to calm my exhausted and irritable brain.” | and clerk Mr. | the railroads and telegraph systems | vps. H. Brows, Rochester, N. ¥. Dr. Miies’ Restorative Nervine has no equal | no opiates or drugs. on a) positive guarantee by all drageists and 7 Elkhart, i Dr. Miles Medical Co. i NO RELIEF FOR TH ‘OUNTY. i} Imprisonment of St. Clair County's | Juctges Causes Mach Distress. The St Clair county judges who are imprisoned in the county jail in this city by order of Judge Philips. of the United States district court) | for contempt in refusing to comply ) with an order to make a tax levy to pay bonded indebtedness of the jcounty. are feeling blue over the | trouble the fight against paying the |bouds has brought on the county | Yesterday the judges received a let | ter from Prosecuting Attorney Law. |ton of St. Clair, stating that there | was absolute need of a meetiug of jthe court. There was no danger, he |said. of the couaty’s insaue being jreturned from the state asylum be cause of the bills for their keeping |not being paid. The other cousty officers’ bous are to be approved, a depository chosen the county funds, and hundiels of like things | to be attended to. Noneof the mat- ters can be arranged with the judges in jail, and the result is the affairs of the county are in a state of chaos Attorney Lawton states that he has applied to Judge Philips for at least the temporary release of the for judges, but has received no answer to his letter. He also says he is/ preparing to again carry the case to | the United States supreme court. | Only two of the judges, Thomas N. Nevill and Geo. H. Lyons, are in jail here. Their fellow, Judge B. R F. Copenhaver, was in confinement with | them until about a month ago, when he was allowed to go home because ; of a severe illness.—Kansas City Times. Sank Wreckers Indicted. Indianapolis Iud.,Dec.,21.—Nearly | all night the clerks in the district attorney's office worked on the in dictments in the Indianapolis bank | ease, which the United States grand jury late this afternoon There are eleven indictments against | the alleged wreckers of the Indian- apolis national Bauk. ‘The names already under bond are made public. They are: Theodore P. Haughey | president; Schuyler Haughey, Lis} son; Albert S Reed, Francis S. Cof | fin and Percival B Coffin. The last three were conneeted with the Indi anapolis Cabinet company which concern borrowed ap enormous sum from the defunct bank. returned New Orleans, La., Dec. 21.—Geo. B. Prochaska, president of the American Rice Milling company, whose works were destroyed in yes- terday’s fire, shot himself in the right temple at an early bour this morning. He is dead Business | reverses, which unsettled his mind, ! is given as the cause of hia act. | To Kidnap Rany Rath. Abilene, Kan., Dec. 22—Letters written by one R. F. Rockland, dat- ed at Topeka, were found here and outlined a scheme for ki lnapping Rath Cleveland next month. Five people were implieared in the deal. It was at first thought to be « fake, but developments show it is proba- bly the scheme of a crank, who has been hang ly, but has ng around the city recent- goue East. Arrested at the Altar. Bentonville, Ark. Dee. 25.—Our city was thrown into excitement to- day by the arrest of Mr. Lewis, who is well connected and stands high here just as he was entering the house of bis intended bride for the purpose of inarried. The charge was larceny for stealing a gold watch at Exter Mo., where he lived recently being The watch found on the young man contained the num rapbed to Sheriff Gilbreath who made the arrest and took the priscner to Missouri. Stevensen and Stone. 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It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. THE OAK-GARLAND The OAK GARLAND Makes No Clinkers <= It has an Air-tight base and will keep fire longer than any other seove of same pattern. It is made of heavier material and will wear longer than other stoves. It has cold air flues which keep up a circulation of air, thereby producing more heat than any oth- er stove of same size. It has a large ash pan which is a great convenience in taking out ashes and makes no dust or dirt. The nickel trimmings and urn are very heavy and handsome. guarrntee every Garland Stove we sell to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. We Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. GEN’L AGENTS for Bates Co. IBUTLER, Mo. Ne