The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 3, 1894, Page 1

ad a AS SEIT UST TESTA SE ae ier Weekly Times. VOL. XVI. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MAY 8, 1894. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking business. We solicit the accounts of far- | mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for} all funds committed to our charge. at any time and stop interest. DIREcTORS. Or. T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voris i OH Dat Tr HH Piggott HeW t John Deerwester © R Radford RGW JR Jenkins TJS Wright Wm E Walton Geo L Smith OTHER S’TOCKHOLDERS, E Bartlett Margaret Bryner Luju Brown Hurley Lumber Co GA Caruthers HB Chelf JM Courtney} Robert Clark U P & 8 LColeman) JR Davis Frank Deerwester D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everingham C & E Freeman G B Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy CH Morrison Dr W D Hannah WA EGGS and At Butler, for which we will pay the highest market price in CASFi or trade, or give you an order on any dry goods or clothing store in Butler. North side square. { A dashing little wind storm and rain passed over Summit Sunday about noon. A good rain would not be any draw- back. James Reynoldsis laying the foun- dation for his new residence which will soon be ready for the carpenters to go te work. Some of the early birds have their | corn to plant over, it seems they let the worm slip one time. All crops generally are looking and doing well. I. 'f. Moore was up from Eldorado last week looking after his interests in Summit. It’s not every time John loses a job when he comes. The gale Sunday overturned some out houses for Mr. Stearns and others. Better have them anchored boys. If Bert Stanton improves in the future asin the past his bass horr will need tojbe a double strength one. Bert has a strong voice. i Some of the young ladies of Sur mit have the bicycle craze and from the way they progress will probably be able to attend the next world’s fair. r : Stuart Atchison says he will strike | Summit one of these days and the} boys needn't run either as he will follow a week or see them, unless his lame limb goes back on him. A strange thing it is how Tom and Stuart can get around and make so many votes when some men with a good set of limbs are so slow. | Some of the—well, would be—useful | fellows object to men making their | wishes know when they want an office. For one if we wanted an of- | fice or anything else would not be} ashamed to let it be known outright. Looks better than sneaking around, | losing a month’s sleep trying to get | a nomination, and then have the} cheek to tell the boys: O! we never | sought the office it sought us and | just keep seeking until it run us) down, collored us and forced us to! acept against our wishes and now as Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. ; Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for ,Pitcher’s Castoria. Highest of all in Lea We are prepared to extend liberal ac- commodation in the way of loans to our customers. to Joan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or ail)!" Robert McCracken A McCracken M V Owen John Pharis Charles Pharis JK Rosier J W Reisner L _B Starke Clem Slayback Jobn H Sullens. FE CULVER & CO. | ly and faithfully if you will give us | millet seed. | last weeb. | was in our village shaking hands with | the few ‘*Dems.” Funds alwa Dr W E Tucker W B Tyler ME Turner Wm W Trigg | Wm Wallis | GP Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner Oscar Reeder NT POULTRY we are caught will serve you honest- your votes. Yes, that racket is get- ting threadbare, not apt to be very faithful in a thing or calling, to which you are forced against your wishes, except to get the dollar. We know human nature and please don’t try to fool us sucha line. WEUNs. Virginia Items. | Mrs. G. W. Sybert, formerly Mrs* Lafe Short, p another year's sub- scription on her paper. Pp. ©. Burns and Mr. Sanders are the first | have seen piowing corn. Mr. Ed Goble’s simoke house was entered by a thief and the last bit of meat was taken. | Emanuel Nestlerode’s house was | visited by thieves and a marked fifty eent piece and sometobacco are all that is missed. Uncle Israel Nestle- rode’s house was also plundered, but do not know the extent of his loss. Mr. Luther Judy has purchased a fine mule. Boys, you should be careful where and when you talk to your girls. It certainly is bad manners to stand on | the corner till a late hour, or keep| storekeep! from their suppers. John Harp: ys that mulberries) will soon be ripe. Clif Jackson says, its awful easy to get struck but O, how hard to stiike! We understand that Mr. Wheeler's mill is again in operation after being severely damaged. Dr. Mitehell reports several cases of heart disease, none serious, mostly | among boys in their teens. The Dec- tor’s favorite prescription for this is} plenty of taffy wrapped up in love's sweet kisses. The Peoples Party convention will be held in Butler on May 19. Town- ship convention on May Mr. C. Park has arrived as among} us to make us a Visit. Mr. Amos Lockridge and Virgil Jenkins made a horse swap. Virgil says he made $10. Amos is not sick. Some inquiry about cane seed and Mr. Vogt lost a fine mare by colic Stuart Atchison and M M Tucker Mr. Warren Ayers says he would} gladly accept the honor of being a delegate to the convention at Butler, the 28th. i Mr. Geo. Sampson, of Altona,moves the date of his paper up two years. +r Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report | $110,000. | strikers thrown out of th Thanks to Mr. Sampson. a 4 Cr has returned | from her visit to the Indian Territory. | Itis reported that Mrs. Alice Lent | died last night, no cause has y: giv Mrs. Lent is an estimable and | hope the report isa mis » Sadie Dudley is quite sick Mr. ‘Pom Hutfman hastakena back his sickness, but is now on the ogain. Hensley, no one has about you plant- M. NESTLERODE, Beale-Blaine Wedding. re en. D C., April 30.—Very a d iu the presence of their ' personnal tueuds, Truxton Beale, ex Micister to Persia, aud Harriet Blaine duughter of the late Secretary Blune, were married at ithe Blaine residence of Lafayette square at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The Rev. Dr Hamlin, pastor of the Presbyterian Chureb of the Coven ant, performed the ceremony. Ed ward Woolston, of New York, was the best map, and there were no bridesmaids. There was an entire absence of show or ceremony about the wedding. Among the valuableand handsome wedding presents was one from John McLean, costing it is said $20,000. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorin, When she was a Cnild, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria When she had Children, she gave them Castoria Brown 1s Sane. Jefferson City, Mo. April 28.— The inquiry into the sanity of Jacob Brown, the condemned murderer, was proceeded with today. More expert testimony was taken, that of! Dr. R. E. Young. ex-superintendent | of the state lunatic 1 da, being very strongly eg theory that Brown is insane. He saw the fit that Brown had in the court-room yesterday, and stated that he believed it was a sham After a great mass of evidence had been adduced, there hour or two of argument and the jury retired. A verdict was return ed that the man is sane. This ends the case and Brown will be hung next Friday, if Governor Stone does not grant a further respite, which is not at all likely. 22 ist the | was an] 1 28.—On Conneslisville, Pa, Monday tue Oliver Coke company will begin a wholesale evictio: the Hungarian families its houses. There are ove ilies, and they are the most desper. ate inthe region. They say they will not leave the co: houses, and bloodshed is exp if the sheriff attempts to force them out. The sheriff says that next week will see hundre of families of the} homes World's Columbian position Will be of value to the world by} illustrating the improv mechanical art and eminent physi cians will tell you that the progress in medicinal agents, has equal importance, ar ening laxative that Syrup of Figs is far in advance of all others. been of Mansfield, O., April 2 do struck the town at 7 o'clock to- jnight. Roofs were torn off of houses and ‘actories anda large quantity of | debris blown on the Erie track, which wili delay trains several hours. The telephone exchange was so bad- ly damaged that it will be several days before telephonic communica- tion car be resumed. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS come ito you if you're a suffering woman, ‘The messenger in this case is Dr. Pierce's | Favorite Prescription. It’s a tonic and _nervine, scribed by an eminent ph: | cialist for all the peculiar ills and ailments of women. My daughter, 3 MEEKER, was sick we called in one of the best doctors here. She got se weak that I had to help her out of bed and draw her in a chair. She then tried some of Dr. Prescription. In less than a week she was Miss and working about five weeks now, and looks the picture 25 =) ae Miss MEEKER. fered most of ;poen | Leader of the Commonweal- | ents in the} ae 3 - |them following Browne, conspicuous | | | das a strength- | —A torna- 5 sass ciares ily into their midst. 5 Pierce's Favorite | out of bed and has been | ers Reaches the Capitol. He is Not Allowed to Speak.— Taken in Charge by Police and Sent to His Carriage. Carl Browne Placed in Jail.— Performauce at the Caditol Without a Counterpart.— | Police Charge the Crowd. Washington, D. C., May 1.—The march of Coxey’s commonweal army, which started trom Massillon, O., on Easter Sunday, ended to-day by the interruption of the police. Fortu- nately there were uo casualties, and to night General Coxey is addressing his burlesque army in camp, while Marshal Carl Browne is under bond, and Christopher Columbus Jones, leader of the Philadelphia commune and the comedian of the moyement, who endeavors to appropriate a share of the martyrdom, sleeps in a police station. The performance en acted within the shadow of the Cap itol today is without a counterpart in the memocy of Washingtonians Over the broad smooth plaza of sev eral acres facing the east front of the Capitol was packed, a crowd of men and women numbering 10,000. The Capitol steps and the porticos under the Grecian pillars were pack ed with people of both sexes. well dressed, and most of the members of Congress in the throng. It was shortly after 1 o'clock when the army halted in the public street south of the Capitol grounds. Its five mile march down from Bright wood through the principal streets of the city bad been witnessed by thousands There were 500 men in line. Mrs. Annie L Digge, the Pop- ulistic agitator of Kansas, ina ba rouche;Coxey's 17 year old daughter in white ona cream colored steed representivg the Goddess of Peace; Carl Brown on a great gray Perch- eron stallion, General Jacob Slecher Coxey, his wife, and the infant Legal Tender Coxey together in another carriage; Virginia La Valette, said to | be an actress, on horseback, draped jin an American flag as the Philadel- phia commune’s Goddess of Peace; the unemployed carrying white flags of peace on staves and the nonde script banners ting forth the doe ltrines of the: earnation, good oads and enmity to plutocrats sprinkled through the caravan | Marshal Browne halted the pro- jcession there in the street, walked back to Coxey’s carriage, the general sed his wife, then the two moving spirits of the affair forced their way lover the plaza to the Capitol steps, |their men, acting under orders, _ standing in their tracks. After Coxey and Browne passed a yelling crowd jof several hundred men, most of | because of his | Trampling and | through unique costume. | tearing its way | the ecstly shrubbery the| | mob weut, while the squad of mount-| led police which had headed the | parade, dazed for a moment by the; }unexpected move, charged rec: 2ss- | Coxey was confronted by the po- jlice as he took of his hat to speak | {on the steps, and his demand for constitutional rights, as he classed it, been refused, thrust upon them | a printed protest which proved to be | a well worded epitome of populist! | doctrines. Meanwhile Carl Browne! | collar to the nearest station. after he | had made a fight to retain his ban. | ner. Two police captains, a lieuten | }antand sergeant thrust the mild-| | mannered Coxey, without violence, | back across several hundred feet of | |humanity to his carriage. Mounted | | policemen were forcing their horses ‘among the people, several of them | | cracking their clubs over the heads of the vearest persons, women were | | shreiking in terror, men were yelling | | fiercely, some were being knocked | | down and trampled-upon. For five, | minutes there was riot in that sectioa S | of the mob in front of the east steps | which occupied about an acre of as-| ; Phalt. Then the two agitating spir | jits having been removed and half a) NO 24 1 | ; ; 1 want pasture for one two year-old ( ’ . = oxey's Army Parade John Nance made i trip to Sansas, t gone fi days. John says there is no place like he s Gussie OF BATES COUNTY, Capital. $50,000.00 COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO. OSCAR R R. J. HU Y E. A BENNETT 2... ESPP...... Receives - President - Preside: 2d Vice-President , +... Cashier Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and cts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully DIRECTORS. Dd John Steele Oscar Reeder, N. Thompson, John E, Shutt, R. J. Hurley rk Wix, E ° Bennett, J.K Rosier. 4 jailey, J. EVERINGHAM. Secretary A Demon Assaults and Brains » Wo- | man Charlotteville, Va , April 30.—Gov. O’Ferrall last night ordered the Monticello Guards to Staunton. It was said thata mob of 1300) men had gathered tolynch Lawrence Spiller, the negro murderer of Lottie Rowe. John Bradford and Lottie Rowe were returning home from a dance near Staunton when they met a blacksmith named Lawrence Spiller, who knocked the young man sense less with a club, and, seizing the girl, carried her to an adjoining field where he criminally assaulted her. Then, as though a deamon had possession of bh he crushed the girl’s skull, mutilated her arms and breast, nearly severed her legs from her body and then hurled the body | from a bridge over a railway cut near by to tracks below. Bradford did not recover con- sciousness for half an hour. Wher he realized what had been done he hastened to give the alarm. A searching party soon discovered the body, and before any train had pass ed since it was placed on the track. Spiller was arrested at his house, where the officers also found the woman with whom he was living en gaged in washing the blood from some of the clothing he had worn Near the bridge was found the club used by the murderer. When Spiller was placed in jail the excitement was so great the Augusta Guards were ordered out to afford protection, but their num- bers not being great enoagh more protection was asked for. The New Orleans Fire. New Orleans, La, April 29.—The imposing front of the St. Charles hotel, on St Charles street, with its | spacious portico, surmounted by u dome of majestic dimensions and classic architecture in the center of the block, are all that is left stand- ing of the most famous hestlery in the United States, within whose walls Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Ben- jamm and the other leading fextures of the confederacy formed the first } establishment of the new republic before they started for | plans for the Richmond; where no less than six congressional cormittees had sat where countless political, rail- in the Creseent City, and where pres: , kings and notables from every nation on the face of the globe who have vistited New Orleans b been sheltered. ve Tore Off His Foot. Hannibal, Mo., April 30.—Frank Hilt, whose home is at Cario IL, was being literally dragged by the | met with a horrible accident near this city yesterday afternoop. He was on a raft of logs for tne Hauni- bal Sawmill Company and while the | raft was passing under the Hannibal | Bridge a coil of rope caught around | his left foot and twisted it off. He wa: where he received medical assitance and this morning was sent to 4 hos- pital in Quincey. entirely Mexicc night tue strikers notified the coal miners at Martinsburg, this county, that ifthey persisted in wor violence would ensue, and, thot the miners are non union were forced to re a the Mexico fire brick works men, t gto solve what became known | e Louisiana question after the | , commercial and social meetings | of national importance have been | held: in whose famous parlors the | king of the carnival has held his | headquarters during his short reign | conveyed to this city | Mo., April 26 —Last | H His HiAD SEVERED. | Horrible Execution of Sam Vaughn at Fayetteville, Ark. | Fayetteville, Ark., April 27.—Sam | Vaughn was hanged here this morn- ling for the murder of W. A. Gage, , which occurred in September, 1291. | From the time of arrest till this }morning Vaughn has been full of courage, and has always claimed in- }nocence Last night his wife and children spent the night with bim, ‘and he talked and laughed until the jtime came to part, when his wife {wept and prayed for him to die be fore he could be hanged. Vaughn's courage then left bim, ; and he fell iuto fearful convulsions, grew rigid, groaned, and so great was his fear that it kept three phy- sicians constantly attending him to keep him alive till the time of his execution He was carried to the scaffold on a board, and held up by deputies while the trap was sprung. He was asked to make a statement ; but was unable to utter a word, his |jaws being locked, and he could only groan. The trap was sprung at 7:30 o'clock this morning, and he died without a struggle. When he fell, his head was nearly severed and hung to his body only by muscles. Torrents of blood covvered his entire | body, making a horrible and sicken ing sight. . Proops Ordered Out. St. Paul, Minn, April 28.—To- night at-1U:40 o'clock Colonel Swayne | received a call from Marshal Cronan of North Dakota for the assistance | of troops and four regiments of the First battalion of the Third infantry under command of Major Patterson have been ordered to start for | Grand Fords, N. D, at 6 o'clock in jthe morning. They will probably | send the first to Devil's Lake. The Second battalion of the Third Regi- ment will be held in readiness at | Fort Snelling to move at a moment's (notice in support of these sent to \ Graud Forks in the morning. | MOTHERS! MOTHERS !! To know that a single applica- tion of the Cuticura Remedies wil! afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy and economical cure of torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning anc scaly humors, and not to use | them without a moment's delay is to fail in your duty. Cures made in childhood are speedy. economical and permanent. Porrer Duce ax pand Hair,” mailed £7 Facial Blemishes, % ig hele and simp'« : F ra If tired, aching, nervous moth- the t ers knew the comfort, strength, and. dozen particularly belligerent men shut down, on account of uo coal, | You aw mation. owder | MEEKER, Reval ANC having been taken in by the police,| thus relieving nearly 160 men from | KY vitality Plasters, they , Delaware Co.N-¥- | the disturbance was quelled without | work in this city, besides a large| jL. sould nevet them. Ts ; ! ABSOLUTELY PURE | PIERCE ‘222 GUIRE, |sross jury tos sogie person. [somber at Martsburg. | gkgeeer vor tm oes eee s : ce att