The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 4, 1894, Page 2

The Shooting at Rockville. The following taken from the! Rockville Reflex gives the full par ticulars of the shooting scrape which took plece ut Rockville last week. ISAAC PRYOR'S STATEMENT. Isaac Pryor gives the following statement of the shooting Tuesday morning avd the causes leading to it: “Saturday eveuing about 8 o'clock there were some parties in the in closure back of Midkiff’s pool hali throwing rocks against the vacant building just east of the pool ball. I stepped around there to see if I could find out what it was when }me down aud I heard the report of ja pistol and as I got up I saw Port jer was shot aud to see how bad George is hurt. Just at that time {Porter struck me on the bead with aclub and knocked W. Midkiff “By G—d I will go and get my shot gun,” at the same time starting to ward his residence l walked back to where Harris was standing aud we started and! went to the old stone building where we met Dr. Viedt an1 I told him to} go and wait on Macklin. Harris said he was going to Jeave and I told him not to go; he said he would go to the house any how. I then turn said: some one threw a rock at me and as I came back I saw Jas. Bishop, George Macklin and Albert McGuire throw rocks at me fronrthe front of Midkiffs. I walked up to them aud said: “Boys I woulk rather you would not throw rocks at me.” Then I walked back east to the vacant building,crosed the street to Ritchie’s corner and started home when Mc Guire hollowed “Ob! we have cuv him” I went on home and stayed there uniil Sunday evening. Mon day moruing I came down town about 7 o'clock, stayed around till about noon and then went to the mayor and told him that I thought Iwould need help that (Monday) night and he told me to get all the deputies I needed and I went and got my son Harris, Mr. Carthouse and Alvy Periman avd had them sworn in; we walked down past Mid kiff’s and told a number of boys standing in front to baye all the fun they wanted, but not to get noisy. Immediatly afterward we heard a revolver discharged in the rear of the pool hall. Deputy Grathouse walked back there and said he did not see anyone. ; Bill Scott who was standing in front, yelled as loud as he could several times and I took hold of him and saked him to stop; about that time W. H. Midkiff walked out of the house and waved his cane and said: “There is nary G—1—d man going to be arrested and taken to that caloboose tonight.” About tha time the back-door of the enclosure back of the pool hall opened and Grathouse walked back there and ed and walked back up the street to Hartman's office and stayed down town unit] about noon and went home and asked for Harris and they said he had not been there. Ihave not seen him since. W H. MIDKIFF'S STATEMENT. W. H. Midkiff, brother of S. P. Midkiff, the wounded man, makes the following statement, S. P.,owing to the nature of the wound is able to talk. “We were standing in front of our place of business talking with friends when Arthur Baldwin came running up and said: ‘Macklin is shot iun down there; I am going for the doe- tor.” I started down to the elevator aud Porter stayed to lock the doors and then came down. I got therea minute perhaps abead of Porter, I had been standing over Macklin ask not AT THE 0. H. F. S. You will find the Best Grade of FURNITU RHE, Carpets Window Shades, )/Picture Frames, And Carpet Sweepers, for the money in Southwest Missouri. Also UNDERTAKING in All Branches. When in need of anything in my lize, let me quote you prices before purchasing, they will help you. Cc. B. HICKMAN. Butler Grain Depot Successors to Bryant Bros. & McDaniel, Butler, Mo., are now ready and prepared to buy WHEAT, CORN, OATS, FLAX and all other Seeds and Grains, Castor Beans, &c., for which the highest market price in cash will be paid. Bring your grain to ing him how he was wounded when Porter, my brothef came up and be gan asking him about the same question. Then I straightened up and stepped back about one step, when I noticed Pryor ccming up be hind us with a cocked; pistol in his hand and I said te him: “What are yo1 going todo with that pistol? this man has been shot once too often now.” Then I. Pryor ad vanced one step closer to us and when Porter raised up partly I. Pryor had the pistol pointed right n his face; Porter struck out with a cane which he had in his hand and partly struck the second time when tl. Pryor who had been standing about 28 feet northeast and to the ear ofusfired. I saw Porter throw his hand up to his face and stagger this firm at Butler depot. FRESH FLOUR, MEAL AND MILL FELD For sale at lowest prices or taken in exchange. Also keep a supply of Call and see us. D. D. McCANN, Superintendent. | | Mr. E. M. Crigler, of Mexico, Mo., | in a conimunication published in the | St. Louis Republic, urges Gov Stone for the next presidential nom- ination. He says: | Gov. Stone for President - MISS COCKRELL’S DEBUT. The Coming-Out Tea of the Missouri Senator's Beautiful Daughter. Washington, Dec. 27.—The vers ile next presidentiallecaw palzm erable senator Morrili, with the frost is afor in the future and no man can | 0! 88 Winters upon his head, twelve nt - | years e 2 ag yet express any definite opinion | : vetas rey oisore ieeuiah of : | Congress 7 Ss as to what the issues or who the} U6 Leay pauus ye Neoly okey arse candidates will be. Many political | £°22tor, stood in the midst of tke changes will have transpired ere | holly and mistletoe and welcomed | BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS. |. THE CONFEDERATE HOME. “Hold Up a Missouri Pacific Tram Near! Captain Bait of Higgmsville Talks et Coffe) ville. —Five Bandits Form the Institution. “Ths Confederate Home is well,” said Capt. Mark L Higginsville in Globe Demoerat Louis Sanday. The Gans. Coffeyville, Kan, De bound passenger train loing lt of conversation with a St. 24 —South 32 on the Mis- scuri Pacific, which leit this station lat 6:30 o'clock this jheld up aud thoroughly robbed by | five masked men at Seminole station Trou Mountain division of the reporter at eveniug, was “There are now about 100 inmates and there is not one who does not deserve the assistance be is re ceiving. lin the Indian Territory, five miles The home was instituted andis be | south of Coffeyville | broken, and the train run on the sid- ing on which was standing, on which a box-car was standing, on which | assumed any ecutrol or responsibili- was ared lantern. The point of the ty Of the $85,000 raised, $20,000 robbery is a small station on the | w Sinvested in improvements, and The lock was ing maintained entirely through pri- vate the state not having given it any appropiation or subscriptions, ing resigned as superintendent | was t June Ido not know how much | carefully guarded by one of the ep | mor ey they have on hand with a Winchester, “The question of ms proceeded to rob the mail, express | abled Confederate soldi open prairie. The engineer, James Harris, while the rest ining dis- s isa sei car aud every passenger on the train | Ous one, as can be seen ina moment from the smoker to the sleeper. | when the immense sum necessary to The leader was a tall man, who | provide for the Federal soldiers is went through the cars and relieved | considered of the states the frightened passengers of their} Lave provided small pensions for money and valuables, while the party | those totally disabled by the loss of kept up a fusilade with their Win-! both legs, both arms or both eyes, chesters and revolvers. They evi-|but in the aggregate the aunual dently secured a large amount of|pablic disbursement is very small booty. “There has always been an objec: A party of young people from! ticn on the part of the Confederate Coffeyville, who were out driving,| Societies themselves to these pen- sat in their conveyance close to the | sions, as was evidenced in the atates scene and witnessed -the affair aud|of Kentucky and Tennessee, where were the first to bring the news of} protests were made by Confederate the robbery to town. Several gentle-| posts against increasing the pension men of this city, who do business in/lists,- upon the ground that they the Territory, were on the train aud| would maintain their destitute com- were victims of the brigands. For-|rades out of their pmvate means. tunately no one was injured by the! ‘And those who had been depriv- shooting which was all done by the] ed of the ability toearn a livelihood, robbers. would prefer, when possible, to be One young man who was in supported by free will offerings of smoker got up as the robbers their brother soldiers, given through in and walked ahead of them through | gratitude for their services and true the different cars in hope of evading | sympathy for their condition, rather them. When they got to the than become inmates of a state insti- of the last car they caught him, took | tution which appears to make them a his watch and $17 and made _ bhim| charge upon the public and a burden jump off. He walked back to Cof-|to the community to be supported, feyville, but is too badly rattled to/not through sympathy but by en- describe the affair. : forced taxation. The robbers held the train about an hour and a half, and the rear lights on the car could be seen from the Missouri Pacific yards here while the train was being robbed. Several the came rear “If the free will offerings are not sufficient for the purpose then a very different question arises The pres- backward and I said, *“‘what’s the vatter Porter are you shot?” he said “yes” und I had him to sit,down. In ifaw minutes he was brought to whistled for me and when I got there he. was talking to Porter Mid kiff; then we turned back and got about half way to the sidewalk, som+ one on the inside of the inclosure discharged his revolver. We went washed and then assisted by myself on over to the opera house to see it and friends to Dr. Veidt’s office everything was quiet there and I where his wound was dressed. left the deputies there and went | [he wound in Mr. Midkiff’s face was back on the street and when I got made by the ball entering the right in front of Gillum’s I met Jas. Mc | CBeek aud ranged down and crossed Mannus who had ona star and I| Ver lodging in the left side of the asked him to remove it; he drawed | 2¢¢- back his fist and, “G—d—n you I will fix you” and at the same time} Geo. Macklin’s statement is as fol- struck at me and 1 knocked the lick | lows; off with my left arm and drew my| “I came out of Midkiff’s billiard club when someone behind mej hall and started east to go home and caught it and then McManuus knock-| was opposite the little vacant build ed me down and as I got up I saw|ing when the Pryor'’s called to me him take an iron poker out of his|to stop and consider myself under boot leg and say ““G—d—n you Ijarrest. H. Pryor kept trying to get will fix yon” and as he struck, my} behind me and I walked backward sen Harris and I grabbed the poker:}|across the street to the crossing about that time the two deputiesjeast of N. A. Ritchie's. I asked came up and also others and started | them if they had a warrant to arrest to take McMannus away when W.H |me;I told them that I would go Midkiff stepped in front of the dep | peacefully if they would get a war- uties and ordered them to stop, at|raut. H. Pryor had a club and I. the same time drawing his revolver | Pryorshad his pistol out. I walked when one of the deputies drew his| backward east for I thought H. revolver and ordered Midkiff not to] Pryor intended striking me with a move or he would shoot him, andjclub. They kept telling me to go then the crowd dispersed and the| with them and I told them I would trouble was over. when they got a warrant. I Pryor Tuesday morning I came down/|started back up the street for help accompanied by my son Harris and|as I supposed, then I grabbed the attempted to arrest Geo. Macklin, | club fiom H. Pryor and ran scuth when he refused to go without ajeast to the elevator, through the warrant. Ileft my son to guard|engine room and out south by the him while I got the warrant; while Ijelevator corn crib. By this time H. was gone, Macklin grabbed the club| Pryor had reached the rear door of from my son's hand and ran to the|the engine room about 50 feet from elevator and it was then that Harris| where I was from which,position he shot him as he told me afterward|shot me. He never said halt or any while Macklin was running from|thing else. When I fell he ran up : - 5 to me and asked me where he had him. Harris stayed by Macklin and ESN EP Fergani: sent for me andI ran down there and let me alone.” and met Harris and he said: “I| According to the statements of have shot George, go and see how] Drs. Cooper and Veidt who dressed bad he is hurt and get a doctor.” I} the wound it was made by a 32 cali- walked up to where Macklin was bre pistol ball entering immediately iced both of the Mid below the left shoulder and ranging laying, and noticed of the SiC | upward lodged under the shoulder kiff boys standing there, I had my blade. revolver in my hand cocked, which | - ——__———_ is a Colts 44 and as I came up| Statistics show that 23,000,000 in Porter said: “G—d—n you don’t|babitants of the United States are here to choot wimmn after he is| Maintained by agriculture, 15,520,- come nere mz 000 by manufacturies, and the bal down.” T am not/ ance through salaries, interest and " puble, I want charities, asylums, etc. vur place of business by friends and GEO. MACKLIN’S STATEMENT Pox three years shall have passed, and it is reasonably that changes will haye much to do with the framing of issues and the choos- | ing of cindidates for services in that great political warfare. However, it can be safely that the next president of the United States will be a democrat, chosen from one of the Western states of | course, will explain all mysteries, | even to the eutire satisfaction of the | most precise critics. If in "96 the| condition of the country demands | the selection of a western man for} president, the democratic party can | crown itself with glory by selecting Gov Wm. J. Stone of the great and | progressive state of Missouri as its | candidate for the honorable and re- | sponsible position. Goy. Stone is a loyal citizen and a: good democrat. He isa man whose ! past and present record ‘or excep- tional ability, undaunted manhood ; and unfaltering democracy can, does and will always speak for itself inj} glowing terms of praise. With a| pure Jeffersonian platform and “Mis | souri’s Shnt-Taii Bill,” every demo | cratic opponent can be easily extir- | pated 1n 1896.” | such | certain asserted \ Time, Harrison and McKinley. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 27.—That ex-Presidert Harrison is a candidate and an aggressive one there is no} longer any room to doubt. It has come to the surface that his hench- | men are making every effort to se- | cure control of the state committee by personally soliciting his friends in various districts of the state to make the race against his opponents for positions on the committee. That the Buckeye lion is equally as strong, if not stronger, politically in Indiana, and especially in Indianap- | olis, than Ben Harrison is another | fact which has been substantiated | by recent developments. Here in this city the opposition to Harrison is particularly formidable at present and the anti-Harrisonites are bend- ing every energy to secure a Me. Kinley representative from this dise trict on the state committee, which will be selected in afew days. The Hons. C. W. Fairbanks and Book- | lance are | with graceful, pleasant words a fair Missourian to the social life of The father of the sen- ate is rarely seen of late years at social gatherings, but he came to Washington. | day to pay his tribute at {tke com: ing out tea of Miss Mary, the daugh ter Seuator Cockrell. Justices of the supreme court were there; senators and representatives in nume bers: generais of the army; diplo- mats talkiog in half a dozen tongues. It was an unusual social gathering, even for Washingtov, and a great triumph for the stately young girl in pure white, who stood at the head of ; Of the crowded parlors beside her | mother, while the congratulations came in rapid suceession for three hours. The Ewings are proverbially gracious of manner, as_ two or three geueratious of Missourians so well know. This young girl has inherited the winning social traits of the Ew- ings, but, unlike most of her family on her mother’s side, she is a pro- nouneed blonde. The light hair and blue eyes are the Cockrell gift. Rare charms of both manner and appear- hers. Missouri has a daughter at Washington «who bids fair to be famous. Mrs. Cockrell wore black satin with gold trimmings. Miss Cockrell’s gown was of white satin and mous- seline. The debutante received many beautiful floral tributes from her friends. People always want that which is hardest to obtain. Iu Illinois where the best of wood can be had for $1.50 to $3 a cord, the best fuel is believed to be anthracite coal at $6 to $8 aton. In Philadelphia, where the best grade of anthracite is com- paratively cheap, tue swellest fami lies burn wood at $9 per cord. What a Prominent Insurance Man Says. 2 H M Blossom, s¢nior member of H M Blossom & Co., 217 N 3d St., St. Louis, writes: I had been lett with a very dis- tressing cough, the result of influenza, which nothing seemed to relieve, until I took Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. Ons bottle completely cured me. Isert one bottle to mv sister, who had a severe cough, andshe experienced immediate relief. I always recommend this syrup to my triends. John Cranston, oS Hampshire street, Quincy, Ill., writes: I have found 3al- lard’s Horehound Syrup superior to any water, of Ft. Wayne, are engineering other cough medicine I have ever known It neverdisappoints. Seld by H L Tucker, druggist. Conductor Brownell, the engiueer, fireman and porters were relieved of everything they had, even to their pocket knives. The train continued on toward Fort Smith after being relieved, and the desperadoes mount ed their horses and left in a westerly direction. They were dressed in cowboy outfits, aud were all young men. They area remnant of the Starr gang.and from the description given by Conductor Brownell the leader is Jim Wooten,the fellow who led the raid on the Mound Val- ley bavk. Governor Renfrew’s Escape. Guthrie, Ok, Dee. 28.— A long- haired crank giving his name as Buckley, from Perry, called at the executive office this morning and asked to see Governor Renfrow. Mr. Blincoe, the school land commission- er, occupied the rvom he entered, opening as an annex into the private office of the Governor. Mr. Blincoe became suspicious of his manner and inquired his business. He re plied that§he wanted to see the Gov ernor, as he had been promised an appointment and now they were trying to send him to an insane asylum. Mr. Blincoe went into an adjoiuizg room and notified Chief of Police Kelly by telephone, who placed the man under arrest. He was armed with a six shooter aud a murderous looking dirk and had arsenic enough in a small phial to killten men. He admitted that if the Governor had not appointed him he would have killed him and taken his own life. He was placed in custody and strict inquiry failed to disclose his identity. Baffalo Bill tor Governor. New York, Dec. 19.—Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), whois in town, says it is true, as stated in an Oma- ba dispatch, that he isa candidate for governor in Nebraska. He has made a good deal of money in his Wild West show and is now anxious to secure political honors. But he is a Democrat, and with the present political conditions in Nebraska his chance for sitting in the guberna- torial chair is very slim. With his} long, curly locks, military manners and broad-brimmed white hat, ial would make a picturesque executive. He has already sat in the State Legislature. }ia reducing the order to 2,000,000,- ent irstitution has been a great benefit and those who have become inmates have been well cared for.” woop a “Twin Hells eynolds Crazy. Atchison, Kan., Dee 26.—A tele gram was received in this city by R. P. Waggener yesterday afternoon from Texarkana, Tex., stating that John N. Reynolds had suddenly lost his mind and was a raving maniac. The Odd Fellows of that place have him in charge and telegraphed here for his family to come to him. Rey- nolds telegraphed several of his Atchison friends Saturday that he had struck a scheme whereby he could make a million within a year, and asked them to share part of his good fortune. His wife was in St. Joseph when the news of Reynolds’ insanity reached here. She was noti- fiied and left for Texas last night. He Jeft this City about a week ago on a lecturing tour. Reynolds is well known as an evangelist and ex convict. He has been engaged in the past two years in selling a book entitled, “Twin Hells,” giving bis experience in two penitentiaries. Columbian Stamps. Washizgtov, Dec. 27.—The dis- posing of the heavy issue of the Columbian stamps has been settled by an order made at the postoffice to-day to be transmitted to the cen- tractor to-morrow. It calls for 165,- 653,845 stamps, valued at about $3,- 000,000. These will be issued to eight large postoffices and about 485_ minor offices througbout the coun- try. Postmaster General Wanamak- er, in ordering the series to be pr ed, contracted for 3,000,000,000 of tbe stamps. Postmaster General§ Biszel upon entering the office found that the amount was greatly in ex. cess of the demand, and succeeded 090. 1t May Do As Much For You. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, Il., writes. that he had a severe kidney trouble fo; many years, with severe pains in hig back and also that his bladder was attect: ed. He tried many so called kidney cures but without result. About a year ago he began use of electric bitters and found relief atonce. Electric Bitters is especi- all adapted to cure of all kidney and ty. er troubles and often gives almost in. stant relief. One trial will prove oer statement. Price only soc. for re bottle. At H. L, Tucker's drug store.