The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 24, 1895, Page 1

he G a VOL. XVII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURS Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking busi $110,000. ness, all funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- commodation in the way of loans to our customers. to loan on real estate at lowest rates, at eny time and stop interest. DIRE Or. T. C. Boulware CH Dutcher John Deerwester JR Jenking Booker Powell HH Pig out C R Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith Funds always on hand allowing borrowers to pay part or all UTORS. Frank M Voris HC Wyatt RG West Wm E Walton OTHER S‘'TOCKHOLDERS, E Bartlett? Margaret Bryner; Luln Brown Hurley Lumber Co GA Caruthers HB Chelf JM Coartney Robert Clark © P &8 LColeman) JR Davis Frank Deerwester D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everinghbam Cc & E Freeman GB Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy CH Morrison Dr W D Hannah Robert McCracken A McCracken. M V Owen John Pharis Charles Pharis JK Rosier J W Reisner LB Starke Clem Slayback John H Sullens. Dr WE Tucker W B Tyler M E Tarner Wm W Trigg Wm Walls G P Wyatt NL Whipple Max Weiner New Home Items. A neighbor borrowed a sausage grinder from Mr. Walker Steele last falla yearago. Walker says if he is done with it he would be glad if he would return it. One of James Thomas’ girls is very sick with pneumonia fever. Dr. Warren, of Sprague, is tending on her. Frank Robb sails in a bran new suit. Glen Miller bought a pair of coon dogs of Wm. Robb. Elmer Garner, John Hedges and family and Noah Bright were down to see us last week. Schuler Robb bought a Jersey cow and now he wants to swap his wash- er for a patent churn. The tax collector will be in town the 24th to collect taxes. John Forsyth was in town Friday from Panama mines. N. M. NESTLERODE. Virginia Items. J. W. Hall, the rustling insurance agent, is insuring quite a number of farin houses in this part. John Cope, of New Home. was on this side of the river last week and purchased a horse of George Crook. Ed Dudley is buying turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens, dressing them ending to Chicago. ison Wilson, of Olivet, Kan., ting the family of Isaae Park last week. Mrs. George Jenkins went to Butler last Sabbath tospend afew days with her sister, Mrs. O. 8. Tuttle. ss Daisy Park is ing with the family of her uncle, Mr. H. H. Flesher. The spelling school at Nestlerode school house, last Friday night was largely attended and every one had a good time. Cliff Jackson left Monday for Den- ver, Colorado, where he will visit his brother. The party at Mr. able affair. Miss May Henderson, of Mulberry, was the guest of Mrs. ©. H. Hensley last week Miss Mamie home last week. George Thompson moved last week to the farm he bought of Wm. Duvall, three anda half miles south east of Virginia. James Cusick went to Henry coun- ty last week to look for afarm. He sold his farm here to W. J. Cowan Whipple returned on condition that he could suit him- | self elsewhere. Joe Hensley and wife, of Harvey, Oklahoma, are shaking hands with their many friends around Virginia. Both are looking well. Rey. DeJarnet preached his fare- well Sermon at the Christian church last Sabbath night. There will be a wedding in Char- lotte Township this week, guess who. One of the enjoyable events of the | past week was a birthday dinner last Wednesday at the residence of Mr. in Butler, stay- | Cumiford’s on ‘ last ‘Tuesday night was a very enjoy- i himself. The remainder of the after- noon was spent in social conversa- tion. This lovely home presented a beautiful scene during the reception, and the event will long be remember- ed by the guests present. Mr. Orear moved to this place in 1872, and built the first store in 1873, when this section was most all unbroken prairie. ELS’ CLERK. A Charming Dinner Party in the Vi- cinity of Virginia, Mo. Mr. and Mrs George F. Rubel, assisted by Miss Park of Virginiaand Miss Whipple of Pleasant Gap, enter- tained their friends at dinner on Wednesday, January 16th. The menu consisted of four courses most elegant- ly served. Those who have enjoyed the hospi- tality of Mr. and Mrs. Rubel can testify to the charming manner in which they always entertain. Those resent were: Dr. and Mrs. Brooks, rs. Henderson of Amoret, Mr. and Mrs. McBurney, Mr. and Mrs. Flenor of Amsterdam, Mr. and Mrs ‘aylor, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin, Mr. and Mrs. Dugan, Mr. and Mrs. H. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Leech, Mrs. R. Braden of Mulberry, Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Bard, ; Washington Park of Virginia. { Diep.—In loving remembrance of little Nora Brooks, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. parted this life, January 10th, 1895, after an illness of two days and nights. The remains were laid to rest in the Park’s cemetery. We wouid say to the sorrowing parents and | little brothers: | Mourn not for dear little Nora, Anchored safe where storms are oer On the border land you left her Soon to meet and part no more. i} | When you leave this world of changes When you leave this world of care, You will find your little Nora In Our Father's Mansion fair. By a Friend, C. C.K Puplic Sate. 1 will sell at publie sale at my farm yimiles west of Johnstown and one and a half miles east of Culver, Tues- day. January 29, 1895, the folowing property: 19 head of steers, 2s; 4 heifers, coming ; two old mules; one yearling mule of shoats; 2 male shoats; sows; about 800 bushels of corn; 8 tons of baled threshed hay; 600 bush- els of red oats; 8 bushels flax seed: one rick oats straw; one spring wag- on, One mower, one harrow, 2 culti- vators, one sulkey hay rake, also household and kitchen furniture and other things too numerous to men- tion, | TgRMs: Sums of $5 and cash, sums over $5 a credit of nine } months without interest if paid when | due, if not so paid to draw & per cent } from date. Note to bear approved security SIDNEY GRAHAM. OGBURN, Auctioneer iead E. C. We solicit the accounts of far- |‘ uuers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for Mr. and Mrs. Will Park, Mr. and Mrs. | Frank Brooks, de-} under RIVER PACKET SUNK. Steamer st Nez ot Missouri is Wrecked 4 At Forty Lives Lost. Ky, Jan. 20.—The jb New Orleans packet, the State | jof Missour, struck a rock on the |Iodiara side of the Obio river near! J { tng, art lureh Ina.- Least Owensboro, ar o'clock » about 61x es and went down in} fis ‘ water She gave a} eavy forward and rapidly sank. Four pasrengers of the City | of Owensboro here this | vening were picked up near the} Kentuckey shore They swam for} life on planks and reached the Wil lows. One reached the shore and the others remained in a tree many hours until resened. They were W. C. Leathers from Hopkins county, Kentucky, and a man named Gregory of Cave in Rock, Il. Tie vames of the other two could not be learned These passengers report that the boat struck a rock near the stern, and gave a sudden lurch forward. A yawl was launched, but so many people crowded into it that it was} soon sunk. As the boat lurched again a second yawl was put off from the sinking boat, in which four women passengers and some of the cabin passengers managed to get places. Leathers never swam before, but managed to keep afloat until he reached the Willows. He saw four men drowned near him, but was powerless to act. One chamber maid was picked up by a boat from a farm house near by and several rescued passengers were picked up further on and taken up to Louisville by the steamer Tell City. One yawl that was upset by frantic passengers was full of women and children, and all are thought to be lost. When the vessei struck the rock she ripped the starboard side open from passing | the other and in less than five minutes she was a complete The and passengers, nearly 100 in all, were paralyzed at the shock and before anything could be done the ve was almost completely under water. The deck broke and floated off. Nearly everybody jump-| ed and made for the} shore some 100 yards away | The State of Mssouri was built at} | one end to wreck crew sel upper away | i \ | into the river | City syndicate for the Missouri river | trade at a cost of $40,000. She was jone of atrio of fine steamers built by the same company—the State of | Kansas and the A. L. Mason being the others 50 feet long 5s | | She was ming | With a forty four foot beam and six | the ca ear-! foot hold. She was neve launched | Obioand Mississippi, plying between | Cincinnati and New Orleans, with | trips to St. Louis. The! | syndicate was compelled to sell the State of Kansas to enable the | pany to continue business. INDICTMENTS DISAPPEAR. Nevada, Mo., Jan —Anothea| chapter developed in the celebrated | Citizens bank cases to day when it was discoved that seven in- | dictments of two counts each against | occasional com j 29 here jafter 6 o’cleck we him with one each against William Christian, vice president and W. H tobinson, director of the bank were left undisturbed The all had two counts each. I indictments An Attack on Hat Chang. Hiroshima, Jan anese army, telegraphs as follows: “The Chinese have commenced an attack on Hai Chang at S o'clock on the morning of January 17, advane-! ing from three routes—Laiu Yang, | Aulangton and New Chwang. At} aboat noon they extended their front five miles, coming within 1,500 me ters of our line. The third army division, after maintaining the de- fense of the north side of Hai Chang | until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, as sumed the offensive and attacked the enemy's right Shortly succeeded in dis persing the Chinese. The enemy's strenght was over 10,000. The main force is retreating north and west. and the remainder toward New Chwang. The Japanese loss was as previously stated Inquiries are being made as to the enemy's loss Seven guns were taken besides other spoils ” wing. A Fortune. New York, Jan. 21.—Before Wm Waldorf Astor sailed for Europe he gave the largest commission to a florist that was ever before received by a representative of that industry in the United States Every day for one year from the burial 4,000 pure white, fresuly cut lilies are to be laid on Mrs Astor's grave. The cost of this tribute of affection to his dead wife is considerable to the millionaire, being estimated at $50,000. In this estimate is includ ed the wages of a man who will watch the tomb. Every morning when the offering of the day before is removed it will be burned, so that the flowers will have no other mis sion than that of keeping sweet the last resting place of the dead woman. Mr. Astor was a very affectionate husband and it is said that he the loss of his wife keenly. feels Shot in His Wite’s Presence. Moberly, Mo., Jan. 20.—James Heddrick, a Cherokee Indian, who owns a coal mine two miles west of Madison, Ind, in 1890 by a Kansas|hbere, while driving home with his! wife and the daughter of David Ma- son yesterday evening, was shot by Mason, the shot taking effect near the breast, from the effect of which he died this afternoon Mason was arrested shortly after the se of which affair shooting, d to bea Mason’s is fa in which five brood |0u the Missouri, hut placed on the/d Held in Virginia. Jan. 22 Springfield, Mo., local officials have received a letter from the Governor of Virginia where in he refuses surrender Frauk Lockwood Smith on Stone, Virginia to a requisition Sniith working Smith 000 on from Governor wanted in as is for various gold brick schemes worked Rey. Dail out of the gold brick swindle D. C., Jan. &e Washington, —The DAY JANUARY 24, 1895. 20.—General | Nodzu, commander of the first Jap-| The} - NO iO FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. $50,000.06 COUNTY DEPOSTORY OF BATES CO OSCAR REEDER R. J, HURLEY E. A BENNETT R. D. RIPE Presiden: Vice- Presid 2d Vice-President Cashier Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drat transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage Solicited. DIRECTORS N_ Thompson Steele clark Wik Oscar Reeder, 1. K_ Roster | 5 <ipy J. EVERINGHAM John E Shat | D a NON EST SD VIVERE = —aonOnE SED VALERE VITA. ae “Life | 18 not mere existen Bat the enjoyment of bealti Many times this enjoyment of health depends upon t Druggist. The best medical attention, the most caref nursing, will be of little avail, if the medicines be of poor quality or combined in an unskillful way. We ; with pardonable pride to our PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT. We have made it so that we can justly do this, by care ful attention to all details. Promp, reliable service erude drugs, pure; and chemicals obtained from reliable sourcet and all preparation carefully made. In mid winter is apt to have sudden calls for me ficine. Our Prescription Department will always be found equal to the occasion, | r | Hy De H. L. Tucker. Killed By a Burglar Trap. Yankton, S. Dak , Jan. 21.—H. C. Taylor, a storekeeper in Meckling, a small town miles east of this city, placed a shotgun at the front door of his place of business on Sat- Sheriff's Sale 5 a oun M” term, Ise Clark and some ares is ~OSSe eee o¢ 4 and JM Mali all the right above name DE DN hes & Ota® urday night asa protection against burglars. He attached {the triggers and fastened the other jends to the door lateh, so that both {barrels of the gun would be dis- | charged with the slightest movemer of the latch. Frank Elliott, nephew to Taylor, went tothe store doo and lifted the latch. The gun wa- | discharged and Eliott received th+ contents of both barrels in his ab domen. He lived twelve hours a7 73 4) | died strings to whehip & orth west eorm-r yuarter of section i running thence north 20 rote. west awe art mesa | required at yp te jer tor « endee Sheriff's Sale in Partiticn. satisfy By virtue and in pursuance of a id decree of the circuit court of Bates state of Miseouri rendered at the N term, ISH, wherein Anna B Campbell a D Campbell were plaintiffe, and Brown and Allie E Brown, Eliz and Charles Frey and J 1 | Mo ,to sell the real e ed atthe February te eo A WI leon a a Missouri, Wednesday, February betwe noon day, and offer for sale at publi highest bidder at the court house in the city of ing described real estate to- Lote one and two (1&2) in the sont quarter of section nineteen forty-one (41) of range thi Bates county, Missouri, an one hundred and sixty acres 2 A Sheriff of B iefenigete wMo., Tuill, weet i 1o-4t Sheriff's Sal By a Vision. STIGLEMA'’ 4 Missouri His Thos ence while in Kansas (i> and Mrs. W. D. Orear, in honor of his 68th birthday. The guests were intended to be of the older class of people, near his age. There wasa , bountiful table to suit the oceasion, |ence of each other, Lucy and Eva} and the following named guests par- | ae es sani t took of the good things prepared for | Bunting, twin sisters, have been | them: Mr. R. T.Judy and wife, Mr. | united. Lucy Bunting, who resides John Durrett and wife, Mr. Joe | in this city, had a dream two weeks | Hensley and wife, Mrs. Dr. Mitchell, : at : i Mr. J. ‘I. Hensley and wife, Mr, V ago, in which she saw her sister, T. Cowan and wife. Mr. Bb. F.Jen- | whom she believed dead, and at kins and wife, Mother Hallaway, 85 P _|O. K. Caldwell. late cashier of the | Senate committee on pensions to day | Lebanon, Ind., Jan. 21.—After 45) dtran@ed bank ihed ‘bee! taken-bei indorsed a resolution, which Senator } | years of total ignorance of the exist-; A ses as ae | will introduce in the Senate | unknown ee from Cireuit Clerk +>. morrow, extending the provisions | : t H. H. Brady's office safe. lof the act of June 27, 1890, the de- | J,W inset, | neve levied and) s° Jitizens’ c fai | t, J ANB as Wk The Citizens’ Bank failed about | pendent Se to the officers [Sete o Sa eran ee 2 ime three years ago by reasen of some of |@2d privates of the Missouri State | BareS county. Missouri, to-w:t the officers of the bank using the| Militia and the provisional Miseouri| , Lots Xo Jf and 13in block Xo z © —|militia which served ninety days! ‘ot Ba funds which they replaced with EES their individual notes signing each! By virtue and authority issuedéfrom the office of court of Bates county atthe Febroary term, me directed in favor of Hampton, lowa and ag Farmer— nder tp I I will on the county of Bates and state of Mo.. ‘during the war, and the other wid | Tuesday, February 19, 1 ows and minor children. The deci | between the hours of nine o'clock it year old, and Miss Dora Neil. Qu ite once began aD llvestigation by writ- anumber that were invited did not come on account of sickness. After dinner the guests were treated to some charming music on the violin and clarionet by the old gentleman | |ing different postmasters at various informed by the points aud was postmaster at Rushville, Mo, of her | sister's whereabouts others notes as necessity required. The deposits were in the neighbor- hood of $200,000. The assets real- ized 124 per cent dividend in the sion affects about 10,000 pensioners. Sedalia, Mo. Jan. 21.—Sheriff Porter and chief of police Kahrs re noon and five o'clock in the aftern di at the east front dour of he city of Butler. Bates co sell the same or +o mach thereof as mas quired at public vendne to the bighest bitd for cash, to satisfy said execation and costs D A COLYER + anwes turned from a three days’ trip in Jackson and Johnson counties hunt ing for Mike Davis, the fugitive mur derer, who was to have been hanged Friday pext ‘be officers learned |> positively that. on making his eseape Davis, iu eompany with friend, started north from Jobnsen | rate, county. where all trace of him was. there: lost. The belief prevails that the |countr: | will i 0 mo} .” Seven ou i & ~ | state ct , Mill arrive to morrow. : Se out of; fagitive is now far from the Missouri state t eight indictments against Caldwell!) oa the chances for his early|''* ™ , were taken. one sndictment against ! canture are not bright. Sherid of Bates Counts hands of the assignee. Cashier Caldweli and other officers of the bank were indicted but the cases have been delayed for sons. Judge James H. Lay, so highly ’r ended t bat i back and 1 be Of] treatment at one ening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report oval panne ABSOLUTELY PURE com Highest of all in Les Notice of Final Settleme uaGuuar various rea- ; £ War- saw was to Lave been here to-day to iry the cases but was detained. He a 4h