The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 21, 1895, Page 6

Use ST. JACC. Wik. | TxC, LGIc, SCcrIaA ric, World K~ouis the Fours is SURE. CLARDY & C The Hustlers Real Estate Business, OF BATES COUNTY If you want to Buy or Se Promptly attended to First door South of Post Office West Side Square, Butler, Mo. ANTERBURY | | | | | are Doing the ll see them. Al] business “BLOODY CHAMP.” A Kentuckfan Who Killed One Hun- | dred Men. | Albany, Ky., Feb. 14.—Notorious | Champ Ferguson was born and re- sid-d in Clinton County till the year } 1861. Champ Ferguson was a tall man | of good appearance His bair was | lived on a farm and was fond of horses. He generally kept a race horse and appeared to be extremely happy when he could bave a contest between horses at the Seven Chest nuts race track Champ did not like |log, when the ax cut through and to be thwarted. In 1861 he did not hesitate to de clare iu favor of the South, but re mained at home without committing | haste he broke the top, and to his an overt act. Union citizens, who knew bim and his temperament, were satisfied that he could not remain quiet, so they arrested him and started with him to Camp Dick Robinson, but Champ made his escape aud after that it was war to the knife and knife to the hilt. He orgauized a band and during the war was a terror to Union | men in Tennessee and Kentucky, | especially in Clinton County. He never hesitated to killa man whom he believed had wronged him. Wood, Koger, Tabor, Smith and perbaps 100 others were his victims Champ would sometimes send word to Union citizens, who had fled and were keeping out of his way. to | return home, that he would not kill them. He always kept his word But woe uato the man upon whom Champ had pronounced the death penalty. | The records of Clinton County | remained in the clerk's office till in | 1863, when they were removed to | Columbia, in Fair County, Champ | and his men went to Columbia and) burned all, he saying he would not | have molested them in Albany, but ; as they had been moved to keep him | | from destroying them, he concluded | to convince the parties that he could | go anywhere. During the war Champ moved his family to White County, Tenn., and | at the close returned home and sur- | rendered, claiming the terms grant- | ed to Lee and Johnson, but his| Re ommittee on Appropriations, made | mother out of it. deeds were such that it was decided | to try him before a court-martial. | The court was held at Nasbville, | Tenn., where many witnesses testi fied as to the killing of Reuben Woods and others. He was executed in Nashville There are still left in this county | two sisters and one brother, besides | other relatives. He said he did not regret what he | had done except the killing of one man. Clinton is a small county south of the Cumberland River and on the Tennessee State line. Little is | known of its resources or people, yet | the natural endowments of the peo- ple are equal to those of any section | Thomas E. Bramlette and P. N.! Leslie, two of Kentucky's Governors were born and reared in Clinton. James Semple and Sam Bell Maxey | were reared there, Semple was a United States Senator from Illinois d Mi from Ti ' % j see that your ticket reads via an axey m Texas. mertime. You may ! c ug trov and liver com ‘i age a +E: ” a cough or a little cold or baby may have|user. It is the only medicino th: is Missouri Pacific Ry. | Ladi gistmamed eee x24 the croup and when it comes you ought |‘guaranteed to cure these diseases or no H, C. TOWNSEND, / sect oans “ome: to know that Parks cough Syiuy is the| pay. Parks sure cure is sold by H. L.} | }Ceneral Passenger and Ticket Agest, ST. LO*!= y Sola by —T ene wommen. , best cure for it. Sold by H. L. Tucker | Packer 7 | — = | Ji ee " Se es A°d. SELMAN, 9D. ge EES i ad ind. black and he hadakeen eye. He | boat house at ihe foot of Loughbo j years, and is thought to bave been }livehhood all his life by satching }summer months wi sev i pal estate is pacer BSS It as several | ward for any case ot Catarrh n- | real estate is mortgaged to its full, Sure Enoagh Gold. Miss Overmever’s find of $50.000 bas gone the rounds of the press of | the country, and now the Globe-| Democrat comes to the front with avother story—not as much money us the-Sedalia young Indy 18 said to have found but in this case the coins | were visible | While splitting wood near his| rough avesue yesterday afternoon, “Driftwood Pete,” made a lucky stroke of the »x which put biw in possession of nearly $400 in gold He was pounding away at a holiow| struck against some metalic sub stance, which proved to be an iron pot tightly sealed With eager delight gold coins came rolling out Upon counting the coins he discov ered that the find amounted to $400 The pot had been incased in the log apparently for a great number of hidden in the tree during the war Where the tree came trom will prob | Patrick V. Fagan of the Sixth Cava! | Black Dismond Coal Company mine iry, Fort Leavenworth, met with ous the jeoal mine. Whether it was suicide Migs of re nt Stopes and the mine | or accident will never be known (is ry toig The alarm was! His body was found hanging |v te tuors working in the through the top of the cage by the toes aed a aet rush was made for fire bosses wheu they boisted the | te stn fie sain rs lenving tools, cage to descend at 4 o'clock Fag |obe~ catevors thing av had either jumped or fallen fre: Phe ed sto, ane was abandon | the mouth of the shaft to the bore ¢ | 254 cccuunt of too jtom,a distance of 750 feet Hi ue tee oT is suid that there ‘but his legs and arms were broker vs + flodd Tr . of jin several places Tho body stiuch (tl) water th a the wid we soon |feet first, snapped in twa an iveb ms xrged cue swail bole, and the! anda balf iron support and sbet [Water cost do through throwing a} oer its | vA Hat Dollars, | Wal Bott | Cherokee, Kau. Feb 13 —William | Indianapolis, Ind, Feb 14—/ Hargiss, wh tad recently woved | | Spoilsinen carried the Repubhess | wth is family to Cherokee from} | publicans in their places jo'clock this morning, a proposition | Ziue work- at Weir City” There will] COLUMBIAS oPE I ira: ve was pending to passa fee law for provsiny bo other arrests made soon in our illustrated cat~ BOSTON. Xo county officers, which a powerful ‘bux vas taken b fore the United | pate ably never be known. It bad been felled somewhere up the river, and drifted along with the current to} yield its treasure to “Driftwood Pete.” The possessor of the coin | says he now had enough money to| purchase a fine new boat, fishing | tackle and make a few additions to | bis stock on hand which he claims to baye caught afloat “Driftwood Pete” has earned a} driftwood and other floating articles | on the Mississippi river during the | months ago that he caught the log which contained the pot of gold.! and it had lain near his cabin ever! since until yesterday, when he| started to split it up for firewood. | Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry fox Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for | Pitcher's Castoria. | Crooked. Jefferson City, Mo, Feb. 14.— | Chairman ‘Tatum, of the House} ithe startling statement to-day that; he had been approached by a repre | sentative of Wall street brokers, who ; Want to defeat the bill appropriating | $1,250,000 to redeem State pone | during the next two years. | | The Wall street brokers say they | jdo not want the bonds redeemed. | |They are too good gn investment. | | Missouri's State debt now is al trifle more than $6,000,000. It can ler Stephens are urgivg the bill | which Tatum says Wall street brok | ers are asking h to 0 defeat. Diseases unfriendly to women sre positively cured by Dr Sawyer’s Pa-tilles. Ask your | druggist for a free sample package." It heal .and cures, Sold by HL Tucker. It is not beyond tl the bounds of probability that Senator Peffer will . be called to preside over the senate jas president Pro. tem. What About’ colds an jdeclared unconstitutional the law] Tne couple stepped inside the junder which western counties had! with a justice jnine in his beans. | will be rebuilt on a more pretentious be extinguished by 1900, and Gov. | scale. | Stone, Auditor Seibert and Treasur-| OWS WHATS WHAT” ' F Fell 750 Feet. | FLA For Life. 1 Leavenworth. Kan, Feb J4—) Bevier, Mo. Feb 14—The Bevier best equ pped mines in| death in a strange an wost terrible: t © Sa su. oying about 100 men wanbner this morning at the Hewe/ aud boys Su-=r through to the work | body was uot even badly bruised, #6 bow 15 wres ot od work sup-/ © BEST. PUREST & MOST ECONOMICAL SOLD EVERYWHERE K FAIRBANK COMPANY. St.Louis, through the top of the cage of two | 8ttesm 30 1 inch oak, leaving a hole hke the! passage of a cannon ball. Faga: | mace d at prrsent,butit wil. be great, got into a drunken row late Inst} 0 sdes throwing 100 wivers out of | night, and later appeared at the po | ¥erk | liee station to wake cowplaint. +i trou the face of the! al tn danaye cannot be esti-| i caucus last night, and many Senators | Weir Cin, where be tad been work-} and Representatives have openly We Blu the Zee aimel is at that place, \ threateued to bolt the action taken | Wes stiested yo sierduy charged with | ic a double diamond frame excepionaly graceful in design- After a tight lasting nearly six wakins and passing counterfeit) . pica — petra ga pics sat on bours, a vote was taken, and the mey Vh rucmaieations of the} fal ———— ee ck spas yal Raped ae — caucus decided to turn out ali the moves sore mostly half dollars, | Se ~ ay tote, es mee, i a") steel tubing, with every Jeint_and part Scientific present managers and trustees of bsuceved-d in passiug} it ig a Morthy backbone for a famous wheel:-.- State institutions, and appoiwt R tsveral pies These (queer) half very crad AS about » bering made | When the caucus adjourned at | vireb be purtan-d from the eNEW YORK. lobby has been demanding. Unless |S a'e+ coumussiouer tor bearing at! — obtain free at ours Just night's action is reconsidered, | For! Sot agencies or by mail a‘ ia “CHICAGO. the party will be split during the} = = for two tho cent slams _ <a HARTFORD. Olt mau A Weyl, the St. Louis} rest of the one k lerecker mau, is wrestling with a suit] Ord y Disease. | tite by John Rebrmann. charging Chicago Tribune. jtiu with aleoatn .g the affections of “You'd better go away. We've/ins wife Mes Retrimann was cash SUCCESSFULLY.” CLEAN HOUSE WITH got measles here,” said the woman jier for Mr Weyl, and her busband at the kitchen door charges that her ewployer gave her, Ss A i O L_ } 2 “Madam,” replied the tramp, seat | amony other things, a $250 diamond| © ae ing himself on the step with great]/pin Ste bas sued for ivoree and MANHOOD te uaranteed to cur es s guch as Ld ea mory, Loas| detiberation, “the only disease I aw)the husband wants Mr Wey] to afraid of 18 appendicitis. I shall be} turn over some of his large supply obliged to ask you, madam,” he ad-| of eracker mouey. ded, with dignity, “not to give me any cherry pie.” “HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS ty, Consumption or Insanity, Can 6 for BS, by mall pre) Si honwetacenaweee arcuieed ie ane. Bold by at ararcists. Ask forit, take no other. W. ‘rite for free Medical Book sent reale AG. in plain wrapper. ‘Address NEARY. ESEED CO., Masonic Temple, CHICAGO, For sale in Butler, Mo., by J. H. FRIZELL, Drugygist. Wiliam Dray and Miss Viola | Roderick were married Tuesday in The Kansas supreme court bas) the recorder’s vault at Kavsas City. jays Pain and L the Sores, Restores ‘Taste and Smell, and Cures vault of the peare to avoid >of spre been paying bounties for the killing | the I of wolves, rabbits and gophers. the door close When inside} aclerk turned} 1em in inky | { Policemen Healy and Moran of jOUt the lights | ae Chicago have been given fourteen darkness But age was years in the penitentiary for killing | P® tformed and the couple stepped | Nature's ScHENCK:: a Swede who refused to treat them | jout smiling. " rans | Remepy Quarter af 4 ‘Year to whisky | The estate of the lace actor aud} rs m= Manprakt A Fort Boots man parrowly a | theatrical manager John W. Norton, IVER ( eaped death by poisoning. Stryeh- | 0! St. Louis, who was ed ina re Compcaint \ LiverPitcs — cent railroad wreck, consists of a! aoe == j few hundred dollars worth of jewel z Sure, Prompt, Posttive A wart “5 pence ure for Impotence, L i How's This! Iry. efi Maalosdst es emiore We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-! Emissions, Spermatorrhea, Nervousness, Se/f Distrust, Loss of Memory, &c. Will OZMANLIS ORIENTAL brica brac and furniture His not be cured by Hall’s ata a j value. As yet no will has deen found. | : : make you a STRONG, Vigor- F. J. Cheney & Co., Props oO} “2 i oy - Ua pee oe hope s we, | At bis death he is supposed to h ave | SEXUA Ree esOO eS o ly Cents ey for the last years, be- | been robbed of a valuable diamond | Special Directions Matled m_ perfec ess trans e to carry ov | by that firm in his ae ly} bad | with each Box. Aadrese Ballard Snow Linimert Co., 2819 Lucas Ave. 3T.LOUIS, - MO. The Twice-a-Week Times! 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