The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 29, 1894, Page 2

i i j oe are vere. SEIGNIORAE ON THE SLY. Half a Million Silver Dollars in. Cirealation Without Geyern- | ment Authority. A Profit of Fifty-One Cents Upon Each | Perfect Coin Minted. Omaha, Neb., March 10.—Half a million of perfect silver dollars in cireulation unauthorized by the Gov- | ernment is the subject which many | detectives and Omaha bankers are| disturbed over tonight. Last week the headquarters of the United States Secret Service Bureau at Des Moines was combined with} HARPER the special agents in both are on a hot chase after two gangs of coun terfeiters who are flooding this city with the product of their work. It was necessary to secure re enforce- ments today, and four special agents of the Government, in addition to Marehal White’s forces, have been co operating with the Diyisien Chief in a determined effort to cage their bird. A good clew to one gang has been atruck and some arrests will be made within a few days in all probability. This clique of “queer” shovera have been making a clumsy imitation of silver half dollars, which indicates that they are amateurs in the bus- iness. But the other gang is re garded as a foxy one, and their scheme is one of magnitude. They have practically established a little mint in Omaha, right under the nose of Uncle Sam, and are working so smoothly with such clever product that thesecret service men are mysti- fied, as well as amazed, at the extent to which this monetary deception has been practiced. For months Omaha and vicinity has been the hotbed of a smooth crowd of ‘“mint- ers.” They have coined, so it is said, about 500,000 or more of dol lars, which contain the same amount of silver and alloy placed in the reg ular dollar by the Government mints. These men have simply started an opposition to the Government, and their money can not be detected from the genuine. They are mak ing money figuratively and littleral- ly. It is said that they realize 51lc profit on every dollar they turn out. So cleverly have they worked that the cash drawers and banks of this city, Council Bluffs, South Omaha elsewhere have been the receptacles for thousands of these home made z aus May. Among the point which will}/gsame as you always could hear in — Pe aanecepctego nou. the be in the contest are St. Joseph, St | Butler or avy other “well regulated eek James, Camden and Nevada. The|city.” The only statement in the Not very long ago Omaba was the seat of operations fora “gold wash ing” gang that palmed off a number of $20 gold pieces on the unsuspec ting. Then came the spurious half- dollar product The former crowd was apprehended. On the eve of arrest the members of the gang skipped for parts unknown. In the investigations incident to following up clews on the crowd, the startling development was made that silver dollars with the true ring of them were being made in this vicinity. At first it was thought that the ‘mint. ers” were located in Council Bluffs, but a subsequent clew disclosed the fact that Omaha was the headquar- ters of the gang. The office of the United States Secret Service,station- ed at Des Moines for years, was sud denly removed to Omaha. A few days thereafter four secret service specials appeared in Omaha, and the officers are now bending every en- ergy to locate the mint and pull the coiners. The information leaked out today after the sworm of secret service men had been satisfied that their birds were in their clutches. No by United States mints. Ballard’s Snow Liniment. 1 cure your Rheumatism, Neuralgia, sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted It you have a lame back it will cure it. It penetrates to the seat of the disease. muscles after all other remedies have tailed. Those who have been crippled mentandthrown away their crutches and been able to walk as well as eyer. €t will sere yom Price soc. Sold by H “Tucker. dreegist. SEE THE Beautiful Stock OF anv There is no article of wearing ap with taste. storeof HARPER & VANCAMP. These ladies have one of the hand somest stocks to be found in Butler. and their are the lowest. stock has just arrived. the postoftice. IUIS AVNOBLE ENTERPRISE The Attempt to Locate the !. 0. 0. F. Home Should Win. Nevada Mail, work in earnest to decure the loca tion of the home soon to be estab. lished in this state by that order. The .committee, is now engaged in soliciting sub scriptions to the fund. The solici members of the order. The aggre lows in the city who are not connect ed with either lodge. is believed that $2,500 will be rais ed. order now has a fund of about $70, of the Home. children and the fortunate old mem bers of the society. 1t will be sup- ported by a per capita tax levied on the members in the state The work is a grand one and calculated to cary it to a successful Fellows. We guarantee this to be the best cough syrup manufactured in the whole wide world, itistrue, For consumption, coughs, colds, sore throat, sore chest. pneumo- ungs, we posit equal on the tace of the globe. every druggist who has eyer sold it Such evidence indisputaple, H. L. Tucker. Death May be Investigated. Jefferson City, Mo, March 21.— arrests have yet been made, however. | Mies Ella Stewart died here to-day The purchase of several thousand at the residence of her sister, Mrs. dollars’ worth of silver at the Grant | D. M. Parker, and the circumstances smelter in Omaha weekly by persons | of her death and the treatment she unkown to the trade gave the author- | receved may be the subject of inquiry ities the first clew to the affair. The|by the grand jury. Her home is in dollars are exactly like those coined | Rich Hill Mo. where she has been living with her sister. ‘She came here on a visit was taken sick and Dr. LN. Edloe was called in charge This invaluable remedy is one that In a few days she had improved very ought to be in every household. It will | much and her recovery soon seemed acertainty. Just at this juncture teet and ears, sore throat and sore chest. | some of her relatives had the physi- cian dismissed and the case was {t will cure stiff joints, aud contracted/taken in charge by the christian scientists. From that time she sank for years have used Ballard Snow Lini-|and when at last she had become a very sick woman, physicians were again called, but their efforts were without avail. New Spring Millery VANCAMP parel that so pleases a lady as a stylish new hat or bonnet, trimmed To get the very latest styles and handsomest trimmings you will have to call at the millinery Their Store west side of square, a few doors south of The local Odd Fellows are now at consisting of Messrs. C. F. Strohm, Dan Gibson and J. M. Hull from Vernon Lodge and E. G. Maring, W. H. Wilderson and J. B. Beagles of Nevada Lodge, tation will at first be confined to gate membership of the two lodges is now about 160 and it is estimated that there are at least 40 Oda Fel- From this total of 200 members it It is thought the location of the Home will be made some time in 000 to be used in the establishment The idea is to furnish a comfortable asylum for the orphan there is no order in existence better conclusion than the I. O. O. F. That fraternal feelmg which is eupposed to exist in all benevolent societies is an intense reality among the Odd Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. 4 This is saying a great deal but nia, bronchitis,asthia, croup, whooping cough, and all diseases ot the throat and ely guarantee Ballard’s Horehound Syrup to be without an In snp- port ot this statement we refer to every individual whe has ever used it and to Sold by Now Get Together. i It will be unfortunate if the dem-| ecratic party is compelled to enter | the campaign in this state torn by| needless dissensions, rent by person al enmities and handicapped by the: absence of harmony. | The one cause of democratic suc-| |cessin Missouri for twenty years | has been the union of its leaders, the singleness of its purposes and | the patriotism of its followers. To} abaudon this course now, at a time) when every consideration demands unity, is little short of disastrous and should engage the attention not enly of those who desire the contin. ued success of principles, but those who are only looking to the advance- ment of persens. It is worthy of remark here that the democratic party of Missouri never yet had a “boss” but the peo- ple. In all its quarter of a century of domination no one man has arisen who could say, “this will be done,” or “you must do that.” The gov- ernment of the party has rested always with the people, and § party organization has been based aud coudueted entirely upon the will aud pleasure of the combined democratic vote of the state. There have been no caucuses behind closed doors, no secrets that could not have been proelaimed upon the housetops and no conferences that were not in the open. This is the history of democracy in Missouri—a party united, harmo- - | nious, free from bossism and disgen- sion. If we hope for continued success, let us not abandon the lines upon which we have heretofore de- served and achieved unfailing vic- tory. The campaignv, however, is already upon us, and it behooves all Missouriaus whe love democracy to get tegether and stay together.— Jefferson City Tribune. ’ Oklahoma Letter. Enip, O. T., Marcu 18, 1894. Ep. Tres: Refering to an article in the Trwzs of the 15th, in regard to “Great excitement in Enid, A fight in the Council Room, 100 guns and pistols drawn, that blood would be shed and that 500 citizen were deputized to keep the peace, ete.” Allow me to say it is all a hoax. Nothing of the kind has ever occur- red in Enid and was never heard of here only through the newspapers. It is nearing the city election and of course you can hear the usual talk of fraud in the city’s affairs the} article that even had the semblance of truth was in regard to the council room affair. Two gentlemen had a dispute over an unused blank book; there was no violence or none threat- ened, and I wish further to state that I never have lived in any town where eyerybody seem@d to be on their good behavior better than they are here. Enidis a thriving city of between 4,000 and 5,000, enterpris- ing and industrious people and is the peer of any town of its size so far as morality is concerned. We have a would be rival known as Tanktown, that is very industri- ously sending sensatioual lies against Enid, which undoubtedly accounts for the untruthful reports in regard to this city. The piace is free from rowdyism, in fact everybody has enough to do and have no time to spare to paint the town red. Gro. A. Topp. Shot Through the Head. -| Winnona, Minn., March 21.—W. G. Die, one of the oldest residents of this city, also one of the best known Odd Fellows in the state and United States suicided by shooting himself through the head this morn- ing. Die was grand marshal of suv- ereign grand lodgeof the United States, and he had held many offiees in the state grand ledge. He was founder of the Winona Republican. He bas been suffering from soften- ing ef the brain, and this is the fifth attempt at suicide within a few weeks, once by poisoning, twice by gas inbalation and once by a revolver which were prevented. “I think it perfectly disgraceful:” exclaimed Mrs. Fogg. *‘Flanderson’s wife has been dead just six weeks, and he’s going to be married next Sunday. Only think of it?” “I don’t see anything to make any fuss about.” grunted Fogg; “he couldn’t very well have married again befere his first wife died. é MAJOR SALMON TALKS. He Yells How The Democratic Convention Was Fixed For May 15 He Does Not Beheve Ex-Governor Francis Had Anything to do With It. Clinton, Mo., March 9.—Major Harvey W. Salmon ef this city,chair- |man of the Democratic State Execu- | tive Committee, was seen to-day and his attention was called to the criti cism of Lieutenant Gover John B. O Meara and others upon the State Committee for its action for fixing so early a date—May 15—for the meeting of the State Convention, and he was asked to give his version of the matter. He said. “J have read that a mythical Con gressman at Washington has been made to say about the action of the committee and care nothing for it but with Lieutenant Governor O'Meara the matter is quite differ ent. “He is a trusted Democratic State official and I am astonished that he should join iu a wholesale denuncia- tion of the members of the commit- tee and insinuate things which as ano intelligent man, he should know had no foundation in fact.” “Have you any objection to stat- ing what caused the committee to fix such an early date for the meet- ing of the convention? “Oh, no. In the first place the date is not as early as it has been made jto appear. Four years ago the convention met at St. Joseph on the 11th of June, so you see that this year the date is only three weeks earlier. One thing that prompted the committee to choose the date Specified is the fact that in many counties the county ticket will be putin the field weeks before the meeting of the state Convention. In this county, for instance the ticket will be nominated April 7. And I may as well say another thing that had an influence was the crowing of the Republicans over the result of the recent special elections in New York and Pennsylvania, and the boasts of that party that they will have a majority in the next House of Representatives caused the com mittee to put on its war paint and begin preparations for battle. “What jhave you to say to the charge that ex-Governor Feancis manipulated the committee and Shad an early convention fixed in order to take snap judgement onthe farmers who will be putting in their crops?” “I have already shown you that the date of the convention is not ex- traordinarily early, and have told you what, in wy judgment, caused the committee to promptly begin the work of organization. Now, as to Governor Francis’ part in the matter, I simply want to say as- far as I know or believe he had no more to do with it than Tom Reed had in forming the Ten Commandments. “This talk about the convention being fixed at a date when the farm- er will be busily engaged putting in their crops and they will therefore be unable to attend, is the merest nonsense. The Missouri farmers are always busy from the time the planting season in the spring begins until small grain is harvested and corn laid by, and then again, the planting season begins in Dunklin Pemiscot, and other southern coun ties two or three weeks earlier than in Atchison, Nodaway and other counties in the northwestern portion of the state, and no date could be fixed which would suit ail sections of the state alike. “As to locating the convention in Kansas City, I will say that the sen- timent of the committee seemed to be that inasmuch as the Democrats of Kansas City had made such a gal lant fight for the ticket in 1892, they were entitled to what ever recogni- tion they asked if it was in our pow- er to give it.” “What about the State Committee being favorable to a resolution in- dorsing the Cleveland administra- tion?” “The matter was not mentioned in the committee’s meeting. In- deed the committee has nothing whatever to do with matters of that Kind. We will cross that bridge when we come to it. The convention will be all-powerful. It will speak for the party at a proper time and | | AT THE O. H. Carpets, And Carpet Sweepers, for the AND ECONONIZE YOUR TIME, HUSBAND STRENGTH & INCREASE YOUR PLEASURE BY USING | ICLAIRETTE SOAP) BEST,PUREST & MOST ECONOMICAL SOLD EVERYWHERE "s THENK FAIRBANK COMPANY. St:Lous, Fs YOUR } _ F. S. You will find the Best Grade of FURNITURE, Window Shades, Picture Frames, 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. c. B. HICKMAN. R. J. HURLEY, Pseuipenr. G. B. HICKMAN, Vice Pres Bates Co, Elevator Co, (INCORPORATED.) BUTLER, Missouri. DEALERS IN Grain, Seeds, Flour, Feedand Farm Implements. Branch House at FOSTER and SPRAGUE. Bas Flax Seed to Loan to Farmers. in a proper manner. There is no admivistration faction or anti admin- | istration faction in the Democratic party in Missouri. Democrats may not be agreed as to certain things, yet when he comes to standing up for Missouri, the party will be found shoulder to shoulder, the party of force billa, McKinley tarifts, combines and syndicates ” Flying Missiles. Grenoble, France, March 22.—A bomb was exploded yesterday after- noon in the church of Gallieu near Grenoble. The bomb was placed against a screen inside the main entrance of the church and exploded at about $4 o'clock as the congregation was leav- ing the buildiog after an Easter ser- vice. The explosion injured twenty persons, three ef whom may die from their injuries. A panic was caused in tae church, during which a number of other per- sons were injured by being trampl-| ed under foot. No arrests had be made up to an early hour this morning. An Exhorbitant Charge. City of Mexico, March 21.—The two Republics of to-day eontains a strong protest from United States Consul General Crittenden over the charge of $1,050 made for the em- balming of the body of Miss Lelia Sherman of the Raymond & Whit- comb excursion party, who died on Saturday night. The consul gener- al denounces the affair in strong terms, and thinks the general way in which tourists are bled is a mat- ter requiring decided remedy. The physicians making the charge claim that it is entirely justifiable in view of the fact that the old Egyptian method ef enbalming isstill in vogue ‘ confronting | Fally ‘twenty Persons Injured by | DEFRAUDING PENSIONERS. ; A Smooth Swindler Arrested tor Per- | sonating an Officer. | West Plains, Mo, March 19.— “Dr” Frank Fuller was examined | before Commissioner Sigler Satur- day on the attempting to defraud an old blind pensioner in Pulaski | couaty, and was bound over to the Federal gravd jury. Hon. J. R. Walk- |er, the newly apppinted district at- | torney. represented the government. | Fuller bas been traveling over the | country, claiming to be a special | pension examiner, and telling the old | veterans that unless they purchased {certain medicines which he claimed | were good for their peculiar ailments he would have their pensions cut off |or reduced. In the Pulaski county case he demanded $50, and said if it | was not paid he would have the | pensionér’s pay reduced to $12. Fuller,whose right name in Frank H. Roe, has ouly been out of the Kansas penitentiary four months, | where he served asentence for forg- {ery in a pension case. He is also | wanted in Topeka, where he repre- | sented himself as connected with | the pension department. In many | other States, from the Atlantic to jthe Pacific, charges are pending |againet him. He is a smooth rascal, ‘and bas caused the department an | endless amount of trouble, besides | robbing the old vets of thousands | of dollars. W.S. Roudebush of St. | Louis, who was detailed on the case | by the government, wav instrament- al in running bim down. Keokuk, Ia, March 22—Some- | what of a sensation has been created | here by the elopement of Milt Bland, | a well known colored man, and Miss | Tillie Hennemav, a good looking , blonde German girl, whose family is jof some prominence here. They probably went in the direction of St. Loui