The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 17, 1894, Page 1

a ¢« Weekly Times. VOL. XVI. OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . Transacts a general banking busir ners, merchants and the publie gener: all funds committed to our charge. commodation in the way of loans to ot to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borr¢ at ony time and stop interest. We are} We x ally, promising a safe dé ness “posit snd liber ur customer ids al DIREvTORS, Or. T. C. Boulware OH Dutcher John Deerwester JR Jenkins Booker Powell HH Piggott C & Radford TI Wright Geo L Smith Frank M y RGW Wm E Walton OTHER S’TOCKHOLDERS, E Bartlett Frank Deerwester Margaret Bryner D A DeArmond Luju Brown Jobn Evans ifurley Lumber Co Dr J Everingham q GA Caruthers © & E Freeman cl HB Chelf GB Hickman . JM Courtney} DB Heatte d ‘~« Robert Clark Semuel Levy L AP &SLColeman} © H Morrison cl J W, Davis Dr W D Hannah d CULVER & 6 WA EUG) and Robert McCracken A McCracken M V Owen br WE Tucker W B Tyler ME Turner Win W Trigg Wm Walls oe P Wyatt John Pharis harles Pharis JK Rosier JW Reisner Dr Whipple B Starke M einer lem Slay back John H Sullene. NT POULTRY At Butler, for which we will pay the highest mar Ket price in CASFi or trade, or give you an order on any dry goods or clothing store In Bu:ler. North side square. Summit Items. Weather mixed; rain, mud, cloud and sunshine. Look out for an early har the wheat in some fields is beginning to head out. Cc. B. Raybourn was down from Warrensburg last week looking after a position in the Rockville school. He returned home Sunday evening. An exhibition is on the programme for the near future, by the Redmond school. Will speak of it more partic- warly later on if we learn any- thing more to report. G. B. Parker accompanied Kegeris and Hubbard with some stock to Kansas City. Took a cheap barber along to shuve the boysif fate should be against them, but the tide set in to their favor and a shave in the city was indulged in and enough was taken by their deal to keep them shaved many years hence. J.T. Moore was up last week from Eldorado Springs and sold his con- tracted cattie while here and went back feeling allO. K. Better. went | to the city, John, it don't affect aj > man every time the sane. ' Jas. Reynold’s new house looms up | over the hill now, and Jim is pleased as the heavy work is completed. O, that caucus! It makes us feel | sad and weary to think two or three | fellows, who hitherto have laid cer- tain charges against other few trying torunatrip, would soon fall onto | the same scheme they charged oth- | ers with. No, boys, it won't work!) The other fellows were innocent of | the charges made and if reports be} true, you have resorted to undue means to carry out your purpose and | the slate fixed up at that caucus ts} destined to be broken by the demo-| crats of the township who are oppos- ed to the Czar rule. WEUNS. Virginia Ltems. Mr. L. C. Ogle, Belle Dudley and | W. A. Simpson sign for the TIMEs. Dr. J. J. Mitchell has two loads of | top of the market hogs ready for the market. Mr. M. has fattened his hogs on graham. Mr. Burdett says that his meat was | stolen one night last week. Girls fix up and be ready to takea ride for Bob Shelton has had his} Mrs, Carr Dudley had new potatoes buggy overhauled. | The Grange Committee sold one * lot off of the south end of the grange jot to the Christian chureh to build a } parsonage on, and ene lot off of the { north end as nice lots as there are in town, and to Mr. Orear. I am glad to see our town improving Mrs. Wm. Vogt hasa young chicker that has four legs. W. W. Park has hay forsale cheap The wolf that Jas. Oldham shot sc many times is not dead yet, as clods grass were in the way so that he could not of dirt and bunches of dead get a fair shot at it. Uncle Billy Drysdale, who is visit ing his stepson, Mr. W. C. Kennedy found astrand of gold beads, while walking through the orchard. Mr. Jas. Woodfin, who lives on the south side of the river, passed throug! our town one day last week. Mr. subscription up to date. Miss Maggie Hayne the Hot-Waterse satisfaction, so 3 s teacher o: Downey, one o! the directors reports. Luey Barry, of near Butler, is visit ing home folks this week. . W. Park informs me that there will be a debate at the Mount Vernor school house in Elkhart townshiy ynight, May 19, between G Pos Joe Whinery, W. J. and W. 'l. Meglass Phe subject fo discussion is ‘‘Resolved, That the} Banks cause more Mise tress than Intoxicating Li and Di quors taking the negative side of the ques tion. Mrs. Jay Bright las her loom ir ining order and she warped a piece, putitin the loom and about two yards the first day. Any one wanting weaving done should call on her. Grandma Bright has the larges' garden and Uncle Billy Drysdale ha: the fines seen this year. The neighbors surprised Mrs. G. W Park with a birthday dinner las week. Those present were Mesdames | would cut off both of their heads. + $110,000. fii i Miss Ella Durst Secreta They are Morton Jackson pays for his ool is giving entire Park | 28 to the support of the family. W. Park and Joe Whinery | wove | patch of potatoes I have Nadie Dudley at- vs that they hada lub meet- t house, last tion, **Re- ks cause g liquor” ed by Th Harper Badgley on the side of the | and G. W. Parkson the whisky. | Win. Gardner and daughter | sie were thrown from their cart | Sunday and Mrs. Gardner was hurt was Dollie | id Miss » sick list. yedale was buggy | Downey's was a tacd Walter moves their Many thanks. da Durst got her pen- +r pays for his paper o date wrri-on signs for the Timks. rh, to the wife of Isaac Porter, a | 16 pound girl. Miss Etta Gardner of leas visited her son last week. | Mr. John Fleming lost his fine gray horse Sunday with lung fever. The prospect of a flax crop is fine. Mr. Jake Fry was in our neighbor- hood last week. | ‘The Sunday School was organized }at Olivebranch school house Sunday to meet 3:30 o'clock every Sunday. Orval Brown superintendent, John Durrett assistant superintendent, Fuller Kan- uncle John Fergu- N. M.N A BLOW AT HILE LERODE. Whitney Ceatered Upon for Governor of New York. New York, May 12 —A sensation was sprung upon the political leaders of this city today. It was nothing more nor less than that William C. Whitney. the ex Secretary of the Navy aud the aspirant for presiden- tial honors, had been selected by the party leaders as the Democratic can- didate for Governor of New York State. This statement seems in- significant, but it is very startling when it is known tbat Mr. Whituey will accept, and in doing so will make his chances for the Democratic nomination for President in 1900 very rosy indeed Recognizing the fact thata defeat for the Demo cratic party in the State election next fall means a setback for the machine which a generation of hard -|work will scarcely neutralize, the 1) leaders have come together and evol- ved of the greatest political }| schemes ever concocted. oue SLAIN EY HIS SON. A Dranken Father Armed With a Hatchet Stopped by Two Bullets. Wheeling, W. Va, May 13.—At 9 rfovelock this Frauk Blake more, aged 42 years, & native of Cameron Marshall county, but for | 20 years a resident of this city, was shot twice through the heart by his f/ 15-year old son George. The kill. ing took place in the kitchen of the family residence on 3128 MecCullock street. 2 | 1| The dead man was addicted to >| drink, and contributed little or noth- morning r| He left the house about 8:30 and jhad seveal drinks of whisky. Re- turning he found his wife talking to Marion Coulter, her brother in law, about a dress for Mr. Coulter's little daughter, which Mrs. Blakemore was ijto make, the daughter also being | present- Blakemore accused his! wife of having kissed Coulter, and a quarrel ensued. George Blakemore |the son, was upstairs in bed, aud} t|} hearing the quarrel he came down half dressed and remonstrated with | his father. The latter struck et the} .} Son and also at his wife and then! tiran to a cupboard, swearing he CRIME MOST HIDEOUS Gus Meeks, Wife and two Child ren Murdered Near Browning. Decoyed From Their Home and Slain on the Roadside .—Brothers Under Suspicion. Brooktield, Mo, May 11 —This county has been in a fever of excite- ment to-day, caused by one of the most diabolical crimes ever commit- ted in this portion of the State. Gus Meeks, his wife, and two children, little girls, were murdered in cold blood last night, and their bodies thrown in a straw stack for conceal- ment. William P. Taylor of Browning, a town in the Northern portion of this, Linn, county, is a lawyer and banker, aod up to the day of the murder was cashier. He has for the past four or five years been arrested sev- eral times on different charges. Last fall he and Meeks, the murdered map, were arrested ona charge of stealing a kerd of cattle from a farmer's pasture avd driving them to Purdin, where, it is claimed, it was tleir intention to ship to Chica- go in the night. Meeks had his tria and was sentenced to the peuiten- tiary. Taylor gave bond and his trial was put off aud was to come up in Milan next week at the Sullivan county Circuit court. While in the penitentiary Meeks turned State’s evidence, was pardoned and came home and has since lived at Milan with his mother and family. He would, of course, have been a dan gerous witness against Taylor. Thursday night William Taylor and his brother, George, a farmer living near Browning, drove to Mi- lan, a distance of twelve miles, in a two-seated buggy. It seems that the Taylor brothers went to the home of Meeks and called him out- side the house. Meeks went back into the house after awhile and told his family he was going away to leave the country and that the Tay- lors were going to assist him, and then the wife said, “I and the child ren will go with you Gus.” They |all got ready and left with the Tay lors, so the child says to day. STORY TOLD BY A CHILD. George Taylor is a prosperous ‘farmer living three miles from Browning. This morning a little 7 year old girl crawled out of a straw-| stack on the Taylor farm and went across the road to the farmhouse of} Mr. Gooch. She pitifully told her story of how she was awakened the night before while riding along in her father’s arms, of how she heard revolvers go off and her parents scream. Then something hit her on the head and she said she went to sleep she guessed and when she awoke she was in the haystack. There was blood on her clothing and a bruise on her head. Before she had finished telling her ; sorrowful story George Taylor, at 6} oclock in the morning, was seen ap- proaching the straw stack with a ‘team and harrow and begin harrow- ing around the stack The suspicion: jof the Gooch family was aroused, | and they went out and told Tayler the story of the little girl. Taylor | Daisy and Mattie Park. | Fiesher, James and Everett Drysdale of Butler, Alice Jenkins, Orear, Hol- loway, A. S. Park and Alta, Isaac Park, George Jenkins, Peter and James Crook and her two daughters, C. Woolf and Omer Drysdale. Miss L Thad Harper says that business is} driving him so that he has hardly } is “‘ bad.” As he stooped for the hatchet the son fired twice at his father, both balls passing through his heart. THERE'S DANGER in a cough—more than ever when your blood | bout 7 ae It makes things easy for Geo Con- | time to attend to debates. for supper the 12th of May. Miss Lizzie Porter has a very sore! foot. Misses Maud and L. Nestlerode at Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report 3 s I oval YEAS Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. A pos- itive cure—not only for Weak Lungs, Spit- | ting of Blood, Bronchitis, Asthma and all | lingering Coughs, but spr Consumption itself in all its earlier stages. It’s reasonable. All | | these diseases depend on tainted blood. tended Sunday School at Virginia on | PIERCES3*% CURE OE MONEY IS RETURNED. i] Harrison Davis, of Tompkinsville, Monroe | . Co., Ky.. writes as follows: — ““My daughter, Miss Flor. ence E. Davis, had been aftiicted for several years | with a cough and lun; trouble, and tried several | remedies but none seem. ed to do her any good. bought a bottle of your | *Golden Medical Discov. | ery’ and ‘Pellets’ and commenced g#ring them | | se according to ‘irections, | FLORENCE E. Davis. for Pere ee Soin perfectly well and the cough is gone. | I am thankful to you forsuch a w | Medicine.” Sold by all medicine dealers. at once unhitched the team, |run toward Browning. He went to | Banker Taylor's home in Browning, | o'clock the Taylor sumption, But there's a cure for it in Dr. | brothers were seen riding out of town on horseback, going eastward. FINDING OF THE BODIES. The bodies of Gus Meeks, his wife and two children were found in the straw stack, and upon an inquest being held it was found that the father and mother had both been shot and then beaten with some weapon or club. Although the Taylors left about 7 o'clock this morning nobody went in pursuit of them until afternoon. About that time Prosecuting Attor- ney Bresnahan and Marshal Crith- field of this city were informed and ard! | mounting one horse rode off. on the! SOTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MAY 17, 1894. A RE OO ee Iwlissouri State tee een NO 26 FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, i\Cash Capital. | | OSCAR REEDER .. | a. EN TT E. D. KIPP.. Solicited. | D. N. Thompson, John Steele Oscar Reeder, going northeast, with a view to heading off the fugitives. Whether they will be captured remains to be seer. At this hour nothing has been heard from the pursuers and pur sued. If they the county line they will be in rough timber country reach and stand a show of getting away. Ifthey we caught, short work will certainly be made of them. The farmers from the entire northern portion of the country have gone out in pursuit and large rewards will be offered if they are not caught soon. Excitement is at a high pitcb, as it is the most dia bolical crime ever committed in this part of Missouri. Browning is alive little town of 1,000 people. For some time past there has been a sort of feud there) between the two banks, one of which | was Taylor's, originally belonging to | Morgan Leonard, capitalist and farmer, highly respected, who died the past year, leaving the bank in the hands of Taylor, his son in law. The first crime Taylor was arrested for some three years ago, was on a charge of raising a check that passed Kirksville. Ever since that time Taylor, although acquitted of that a cloud | Later.—A farmer has just come in from the northeast and says that the Taylors have left their horses not less than 500 men are after them. | LOCATED NEAR LA PLATA Macon, Mo., May 14 —This after seen in Macon county, seven miles | west of La Plata. They were |by a party who knew them. and the |report that they are seven 11! ; between there and Elmer is confirm- |@d from another source. The? lin the Chariton river hills aud they seen are have formerly bought, drove and ! fed cattle in that vicinity and Kiew ithe ground, and itjwillbe hard to capture them. | Browning in the direction east in Macon county. has aroused the people of Linn livan, Macon Adair counties,and fully 700 peopie are pursuing them. Of this number about 250 autboriz- ed officers are after them; the others are determined to help capture, and Sul- y efforts the efficers The Tay- rot be ,ers in spite of |may make to prevent it. lors have stated they will pursuers generally are aware of fact and will take no chances them. ARCHING the when they run int EVERYWHERE of Macon secured ld rifles from St. to La Plata, there he was met by thirteen armed men from Marceline, Linn cous headed by Major! Thomas A White i e of La Plata west to find the murdere Ti is evident the mur- derers intend to make some small | posse was formed in this city,!station on the Wabash or Sania Fe f Macon | through his bank and a bank at | charge, has been more or less uuder | noon the two fleeing murderers were | uw! They have also been | traced by blocd hounds from near | The terrible murder | , will lyneh the murder | captured alive, and the officers and academy avd went | clock this evene| $50,000.00 COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO. President -President Cashier Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business Your patronage respectfully aS x. Gailey, Secretary . EVERINGHAM. —_—— S$ railros skip the country. The Sheriff sent armed men deputies to every station rn these railroads in this county to capture them dead or alive. Itis believed that the mur- | derers will attempt to flag some pas- | Senger train between stations during the night, but the railroad coudue- tors have been advised of at that point The whole country, for seventy | five miles nround, is all worked up jand nearly every town in the neigh. | borhood has out a crowd in pursuit. | The oflicers are contident they will jeapture the wurderers some time during the night It is expected some will be killed, and it is hardly possible for the officers to prevent a lynching from the angry crowd, in case the murderers are caught alive There is » crowd of seventy five people and officers from Adair coun- ty and Kirksville searching the southern portion of that county for the Taylors MORE BLOODHOUNDS 8ENT OUT. Another pack of bloodhounds was taken from Macon City to La Plata tonight. Detectives from St. Louis are on their way to La Plata, and unless the Taylors are captured to- night there will be from 1,000 to 1,560 people out after them tomor- row morning The criminals are | walking aving left their horses to hide fron 3. At li o'clock tonight another | posse arrived at La Plata from Buck- line, Linn Co. They were directed by the sheriff of Linn county to report | at La Plata, and then they took the Santa [Ie railroad on foot toward the | Chariton river. Every bridge, ferry | boat and ¢rossing and important | cross-:oads are being guarded. The ;Q. 0 & K. C. railroad line’s stations from Kirksville east and west are | watched At 11:30 to night no re- | ports from the sheriff's posse have been received ; Lhe two Taylors, it is reliably | stated, took ali the way from $30,- | 000 to $60,000 from the Browning bank, in which one of them was cashier, xfter the murder was com mitted. 25 CENTS Proves se efficacy of a Yorg® CUTICUR Since TICURA SOAP costing 25 cient to test the virtues of these great curatives there is now no reason why thousands should go thro life Tortured Disfigured Humiliated Ip and blood diseases which are speedily and perma- nently cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES at a trifling cost. Cuticura Works Wonders and its cures are the most re- markable performed by any blood and skin remedy of mod- em times. a cake of C Complexion, hands and beactifi Pain is the cry of a suffering nerve. , and only pain-killing plaster.’