The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 8, 1894, Page 2

THANKSGIVING DAY. President Cleveland Issues His Procis- mation Fixing Thursday, No- vember 29. Washington, Nov. 1.—The presi dent yesterday issued the following: By the President of the United States of America The American people should grate fully render thanks giving and praise to the Supreme Ruler of the universe who has kindness and fostering care the year that has psssed; they should also with humility and faith suppli cate the father of all mercies for con- tinued blessings according to their) needs, and they should by deeds of | charity seek the favor of the of every good aud perfect gift. Therefore, president of the United States, uo A proclamation: watched over them with laving during giver hereby appoint and set apart Thurs-| day, November 29, as a day of thankegiving and prayer, to be kept and observed by all the people of the land. On that day Jet our ordinary work and business be suspended and let us meet in our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty God for our preservation as a na tion, for our immunity from disease and pestilence, for the harvests that have rewarded our husbandry, for a renewal of national prosperity and for every advance in virtue and in- telligence that has marked our growth 43 a people. And with our thanksgiving let us pray that these blessings may be oultiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a better recognition of the power and goodness of God, that in our nation al life we may clearer see and closer follow the path of righteousness. And in our places of worship and praise, as well as our happy reunions of kindred and friends, on that day let us invoke divine approval by gen- erously remembering the poor and needy. Surely He who has given us comfort and plenty will look upon|convert to Presbyterianism shortly | and escaped. our relief of the destitute and our ministrations of charity as the work|ried and has four children, and is | tained way bills and cheap jewelry, | of hearts truly grateful and as proofs of the sincerity of our thanksgiving. Witness my hand and the seal of the United States, which £ have caused to be heretofore affixed. Done at the City of Washington On the Ist day of November, in the year of our Lord 1894, and of the in- dependence of the United States the 119th. Grover CLEVELAND. By the Presidext, W. Q. Gresuam, Secretary of State. From Millions to Want. San Francisco. Oct. 30 —A. J. Holmes, twenty years ago one of San Francisco's millionaires died re. cently at the San Francisco almhouse and narrowly escaped burial in the Potters field. He was the original locater and owner of the North Belle and Holmes mines near Candalaria, Emerald county, Nevada, and for several years was one of the leading social and financial lights of San Francisco. He spent his money with a lavish band and it soon went from him. After his money was gone he haunted the vicinity of the atock exchange and one day recently was found unconscious cn the street near his former sumptuous office. He was taken to the almhouse,where he died. Ballard's Snow Liniment. 4 Mrs. Hamilton, Cambridge, Ills., says: Thad rheumatism so bad I could not raise my handto my face. Ballard’s Snow Liniment has completely cured me. Itake pleasure in ‘informing my neighbors and triends what it has done forme. Chas. Handley, clerk tor Lay & Lyman, Kewanee. Ills., advises us Snow Linimeut cured him of rheuma- tism Why nottry it? It will surely do you good. = It cures allinflamation, wounds, sores, cuts, sprains, etc. Sold by H. L. Tucker. “DL Forgive You Joe.” St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 31.—Joseph Lochner, who murdered his wife several months ago and escaped with a 10 years sentence, claims that her spirit haunts the cell and comes in the middle of the night and em- I, Grover Cleveland, | Minister Arrested tor Arson. Fulton, Mo., Oct. 31.—Tuesday afternoon Rey. J. R. Ramsey, a Presbyterian minister and school | teacher, was arrested at the McClel- ; land school house, eight miles north: | west of Fulton, and was brought to this city today. The arrest was made on a warrant sworn out by Prosecuting Attorney Thurmond, charging him with burning the house owned by William Baker and oceupied by Ramsey as a renter, and his house-hold goods and library, | with the intention of defrauding the insurance company. He was taken | before Justice Collier | upon his arrival here and placed under’ $800 bond to appear Friday. | Mr. Ramsey bad $1,009 insurance on | his library. The surance ou it and was valued at %2,600. Rev. J. R. Ramsey came to Callaway County from Kansas about three years ago. Prior to his coming to Missouri he was a Northern | Methodist preacher and became a | immediately | house bad no in before his moving here. He is mar- | about 33 years of age. | Potsoned by Jimson Seed. | On Sunday a little daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weunsch, of Se | dalia, died from the effects of eating | a bumber of jimson weed seed whi at play with companions the before. The poison did not atiect her until | after she had retired, when about! 9 o'clock, members of the family | were attracted by her delirious talk, | as though she w pleasant dreams. Investigation revealed that she | was ill, and a physician was called at midnight, when it was discovered | that she had been poisoned. Every thing possible was done to save her | life, but she lingered until Sunday | noon, at which hour death claimed | her. During ber ravings the little child | would sing the songs she had learned, and then break out into a laugh, which would be followed an instant | later by a cry of fear, making the | situation heart-rending in the ex-| treme. —Clinton Democrat. was the victim of un- | John “Wanamaker, Postmaster- | General under Harrison, is recogniz- | ed as one of the shrewdest and most | successful merchants in this country. He has an immense retail store in| Philadelphia, and does a large! amount of advertisiog in all of the | city newspapers. In a large adver. | tisement in the Philadelphia Record | he says that, in consequence of the | new tariff law, which goes into effect | on woolen goods, January 1, 1895, | he will sell all classes of blankets, | woolen dress goods, etc., at a reduc- | tion of nearly one half of the former | market price, in order to close out | \these goods before the new tariff understands the new tariff law and knows what he is doing. He realizes braces him. He says he is suffering intense | agony and remorse over his crime; and says he is going to drop dead as/ soon as he serves his term in the, | kinds of woolen goods at a greatly » |reduced price. And this is just what | the welfare of the people demands: 1 . ps | Learnard showed himself in the ex- | | waymen are believed to be farmers. | | the frontier fortifications to agents| | ing also divulged the plans for mo- agents information similar | with detectives, are after the ruva-| law takes effect. Nobody who knows | of sound mind lately. The negro Mr. Wanamaker doubts but what he | stole $25 with which to elope. There | everything, don’t you? that the new tariff bill will enable | the merchant to buy and sell all | DEACON BROS. & CO. Sell The Origiual ROUND OAK, Over S00 in u 3 tOR9} Co. The only abeo a | ae lutely airtight stove. The a ia : j Majestic Steel Range ~ the best cooking apparatus i in tbe world. Like the “ / Round Oak hester, it will eaye its price in f THE BAIN WAGON. The largest stock of -LOWP county. Call and see us. DEACON BROS. & CO. ; The Low Priced Hardware and Grocery House. IU GGIES in the MIDGET ASTROP DEAD. Masked Trio. Birmingham, Ala, Nov. ee Natl See train No. 3 on the Kansas Never Outside His Native County and | City, Memphis and Birmiogham | Left a $10,000 Fortune. j | Railroad, due here at 6 a. m. + pulled | ; i out of New Albany, Miss., at la. m., | Ashland, Ky : Oct. 3h —Abner| three masked men stepped aboard Astrop, the midget, is dead at his the engine, covering Engineer Camp- | mountain home in Johnson county, bell and Fireman Alexander with | the age of 52years. Astrop sais pistols and compelled them to stop; in his life weiehed more than forty the train within half a mile. The | {ve pounds, and at the time of his engineer and fireman were ordered but thirty to break open the express car door was twe inches less with a coal pick Astrop was born in Johnson county and was one of} five children. He was of ordinary | size in babyhood but he grew very little after his fifth His strength for a dwarf was remarkable | His parents established him in a small cross roads store and he spent | his life in it. Museum managers | death his weight was ‘pounds. He than 3 feet tall. Meanwhile the robbers attempted the express car, but Just then Conductor W. B. to uveouple failed year. press ar door, but when fired upon went buck, leaving the door open. One robber mounted the platform of the car while the others stood on tha : Conductor | mde flattering offers to him but he Learvard and Messenger Genette | He died worth $10,- were forced te hand out contents of ) 900; never married and was never the safe. The robbers then backed | Otside his native county. off with pistols pointed at trainmen, : Express officials say packnuzes secured by robbers con- ground shooting. refused them. A Bold Forger Sedalia, Mo., Nov. 1.—J. H. Bry- ant, a stranger, who got in his work | in Sedalia Saturday, has proven him- The high | He | self to be a successful forger. passed a forged check for $15 on} | | \ and they got no money. Fifty shots were fired. | Gentry and Cloney, gent’s furnishers The check been drawn on Will Be Shot. _ in exchange for goods. Paris, Nov. 1.—A special Cabinet | #8 perported to have | council was held to day to consider | a Mee comings) ‘the case of Capt. Albert Dreyfus, the People’s Bank. who is now under arrest and confin.| Bryant, who claims to have been a Missouri Pacific Railway brakeman a farmer, ed in the military prison on a charge ;of high treason in having sold in-| hired a horse and buggy aud went formation in regard to the plans of | t° Dresden where he boarded a train. | Early Sunday morning he showed up | of the Itaiian Government, aud hav- | in Knobnoster aud told J. W. Hays, a liveryman, that he was a partner the | of W. H. Harrah of Sedalia, and _that they were buying live stock for a St. Louis firm on commission, for future delivery. He engaged Mr. Hayes to drive him to Odessa. At Warrensburg, Bryant forged bilizing the French army in event of war. It is the general opinion that Capt. Dreyfus will be shot after the form- ality of a court-martial has been gone through with. It is also charg- : jed that he has sold to Gernene| three checks, aggregating $31, on to that , Sedalia banks. Near Columbus, Mo.. | supplied to the Italian Government, | | he bought a mare froma man named | ‘and further that he bas given to { Rice and gave another forged check | Austria and Germany the names of | for 360. The mare was to have jall the French officers who have! been delivered in Holden yesterday. ' At Odessa he bought a ticket for ‘ Kansas City and told Hays to wait Rol oa sy | for him until Monday. Hays waited Qaeex Teste: ‘until yesterday, but Bryant never Montgomery, Ala, Nov. 1.—A| returned and Hays is loser by $15. sensational elopement occurred at! | Bryant is described as 5 feet 8 inches Ariosto, near here, on the Alabama, high, weighs 150 pounds, bas dark Midland, last night. Miss Williams, | pair and eyes, anda black mustache, a beautiful youug white girl about | and is of slender build. 20 years old, the daughter of a pros- perous farmer, left with a negro. | They took the train at Ariosto,reach- \ 7 clock last | lately been sent abroad on secret, missions. Might as Ww ell ‘Spoke Too: Two of those women who beliave | jing this city about 7 that women should have the same night, passing through to Birming. | | privileges as men everywhere were ham. | talking over the matter yesterday in The indignaut father and brothers, | a car. says the Philadelphia Call. Pretty soon an elderly man, wko had been both amused and exasper- ated by their “advanced” ideas, turn- ed to the one nearest him and said: “You believe that women should do about the same as man in nearly ways, and if they are caught there is i no doubt as to what will be the fate of the negro. They claim the girl has not | been is great indignation in the communi-| “Yes.” ty in which the elopement occurred.'| “That they should dress pretty | "7 A Household Treasure. 3 | much the same? “Yes.” D. W. Fuller, ot Canajoharie, N. Y., | « carry canes.” | says that he always keeps Dr. King’s | ‘And, perhaps. y New Discovery in the hous? and_ his “Yes. tamily has always tound the-very - best | results tollow its use; that ne would re Then the elderly man leaned over | — Ex. The Czar is Dead. be without it, if procarable. 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Their suspicions were aroused, and an entrance was effect Asearch of the house revealed the woman bang ed through a window, twine She by some doubled and attached to a nail. had been dead some time ing in a small closet, of German descent. In Contempt of Court. Oklahoma, City, Ok, Nov. 1L— | Judge Scott has areested the editor of the Tecumseh Republican and plaeed him $1,000 bond for coutempt of court. This moruing he published an interview in a city paper announcing that if certain re- publican and populist candidates were elected he would remove them from office. The interview was very libellous. There was a bitter feeling against Scott bere which may yet lead to serious trouble. under Worth Knowing. The whole plan and scope of the Speer wine press rooms at Passaic N. J., and wine cellars and warehous- jes, and the increasing accumulation of wines each year for forty yearsand the capable ‘experienced, French. 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