The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 1

— Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XVII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JULY 11 1895. RUIN IN THE STORM’S TRACK. Appalling News From Points in Mis- | souri, Kansas and the Indian OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . all funds committed to our charge. at eny time and stop interest. IDIREcTORs. Booker Powell Or. T. C. Boulware Transacts a general pantie business. mers, merchants and the public generally, promisi We are prep commodation in the way of loans to our customer: to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing b the accounts of far- a safe depository fcr d to extend liberal ac- Funds always on hand owers to pay part or all We solicj Frank M Voris > Wyatt = est Wm E Walton OTHER S'TOCK@OLDERS, CH Dnateher H H Piggott John Deerwester} CR ford JR Jenkins TJ Wright Geo L Smith E Bartlett D A DeArmond argaret Bryner John Evans Lulu Brown Dr J Everingham Hurley Lumber Co Edith Everingham HBChelf C &E Freeman J Courtney GB Hickman Robert Clark DB Heath CP &8LColeman Semuel Levy JR Davis CH Morrison Frank Deerwester Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tucker Robert McCracken W BTyler A McCracken E Turner John Pharis Wm W Trigg JK Rosier Wm Walls JW Reisner GP Wyatt L B Starke ir NL Whipple Clem Slayback John H Sullens Peter Swartzendruber Max Weiner RG West Virginia Items. (‘We heard ’em say it and noted it dewn, The things that happened about the town, So don’t blame usiftrue or not, We alwaysgive you the best we've got.”) Peter Crooks was born in Berwich- shire, Scotland, in 1822. He served four years in ship building in north Scotland; after that he went to Lon- don and went on a ship as carpenter. He remained on the water 8 years; came to America in 1850 and worked on a farm One yearin Grundy coun- ty, Ill, by the month, the second op he bought aclaim. He married iss Caroline Owens in 1853, and in 1866 he moved to Bates county, and bought the farm on which he now lives. Mr Crooks has always been a republican; he sayshe used to know nearly all the republicansin the coun- ty, they used to get together and talk an@ work. He is now 73 yearso'd and enjoying good health. The Harrison flag floated in Vir- ginia on the 4th; it was on populist ground. Has Harrison eaptured the ei As or vice versa? ‘had Harper is employed to teach the Nestlerode school this winter. W T Cowan has bought the Lee Browning farm for $20.76 per acre and it isa bargain. Mr C made one trip to Barton, Ray and Caldwell counties and a trip to the Territory, but concluded to stay in old Bates. Miss Josie Simpson is visiting her brother Andrew. Geo M Jenkins has returned home from school. Miss Mamie McDonnell, of Austin, Cass county, is visiting Miss Icy Jenkins, A large crowd of Virginia folks went to Butler on the 4th, with heads up and ribbons flying; they came home with their heads down and the starch out of their ribbons and did not get to see the fire-works either; many of them did not get home that night on account of the rain. irs Geo Ruble visited Rev Babbitt and family of Oak Grove, Mo., last week. Shere Cope was at Guy Bateman’s last week. He saysthat Mr Bateman performed some wonderful things; told Shere he could bite a knife blade intwo. Cope gave him his knife, he bit the blade off, then took a rock and bit a piece out, then he took a _ Piece of window glass and chewed it. Mrs Bradley, of Kansas City is ~quite sick. She formerly lived here. Coin Sehool, Coin argues that sil- ver was a premium over gold because the Freneh had given it a higher value than we had. But if that be the reason we had in the same way iven gold a higher value than the Frevich had and our gold, if his argu- ment be sound, should at once rise to a parity with silver. Aupert Park has gone to his wife’s OP! af Re *Sudy and wife spent two days last week looking at the country round Lee’s Summit. Mr Carpenter, of the Territory, bought the Jim Allison farm. Aman from Nebraska bought the Geo Short place. Will and John Cuzick have bought the Sam Doke place of their U nele. Mrs John Woody is reported quite sick. The river bottom south of Virginia isa big lake, within 15 inches of its highest mark. week. Oats cut last week is in bad shape; some of it is rotten now. NELs’ CLERK. wen Dudley’s buggy horse died last | ! New Home Items. Mr Geo Thompson, of north of the river, will be on this side buying early calves; anyone having such for sale please hee word with me. Doe Woodfin, of Nebraska, is in our midst. He expects to run his thresher in his old neighborhood this season and will start his machine up this week. McGaughey & Co want to buy a pit mule. Last Saturday the 2nd nine of Fos- ter, went to Hume and pleyed base ball; Hume beat the Foster boys 3 to 1, not 16 to 1. Jake Thomas, Jr., brought home a new wagon from Rich Hill the other day. Uncle Jase Woodfin visited Miller’s Sunday. Word came from Texas that Clar- ence Swarens has taken a relapse and is in a dangerous condition. The boys say, since the 4th, Oh! Just look at my purse! The girls say, for goodness sake look at my new hat. Oh! my, how wet we got. Mrs Blair is gradually growing weaker although tender, loving hearts and willing hands of relatives and friends do all they can to smooth her pathway, old age retards her re- covery to a great extent. Loss Kimes passed through here July 5th, en route for north Bates, where he expects to work in the coal fields. Mr Johnson, of Hume, will teach the New Home school this winter. The bottom land that seldom over- flows, has about 4 feet of river back- ed up on it this week. Seth Cope says Hon W J Stone has ordered two of his best men with small, jackets to watch his melon atch in this F & LN neighborhood. his patch was planted with a long handled hoe and tended with a long handle, and I guess can be guarded with same hoe. A burglar gained entrance to the store of Ephland & Wells at Foster, but was fired on by Bert Hartshorn, who was sleeping in the room. Two shots were fired, but the burglar es- caped without injury, dropping his plunder at the door, which consisted of 4 suits of clothes and other articles. Charles Cope, of Kansas City, was in our town Saturday shaking hands with his many friends. Squire Woods, of Foster, was in New Home Saturday trading his hard money for twine. Several parties have spoke to me about twine to bind their flax and oats I want to buy 3 40s of bottom land, I want it to be good grass or timber land. Will Rankin, who was killed by the ears in Rich Hill the 4th, was buried in the Foster cemetery Sunday. Hume and Sprague boys had a game of base ball the 4that Hume. Sprague beat by one score. Sprague and Foster played Saturday, Foster boys beat 18 to 9. Mrs A M Smith is on the sick list. Chas McGaughey signs for the Timks this week. Bert Smith is making hay out of his oats. He says there is more | money in oats for hay than to thresh it. John H Robb & Co have threshed their first job for Mr C Bopp with their new seperator. L W Jones markes his hogs with 3 rings in the Nose instead of 3 joints off the tail as heretofore. } H B Robb bought a_ razor strap of | JG McKetchen. Mr Mc has 40 more , to sell. \ N.M. NESTLERODE. DUVALL & FARM LOANS Money to loan on f PERCIVAL. s at reduced rates of interest. Your Notes are Payable at our Office and you find them here when. due. We give you privilege to pay at any time. goon as papers are signed. Money ready as 33-¢£. $110,000. i Territory. Reports of devastiog storms dure ing the past three days come from points cuvering a large territory and show that the entire eastern water- {shed of the Rocky Mountains, from (the Nebraska and Iowa lines to Tex- as wie swept by wind and rain. | Friday vigtit the severest blow came. Reports of luss life aud destruction of pauperty cuue with every tele- gram to the Post Dispatch, and the downpour, first regarded as a bless- ing, grew into «a wave of devastation. Fields of grain that promised the most bountiful yield in many years were swept bare of vegetation. In several instances the seas of rain were abetted in their work of des- tuction by tornadoes. It is too early yet to sum up the loss, but the total is appalling, and those to whom the angry elements spared life have little left to sustain it. The stories of storm are so similar that a statistical summary is all there is left to tell. The storm focus embraced an area of 200 square miles, with the southwestern corner of Missouri as the center. The greatest loss of life is reported from Winona, Mo., where eleven corpses have been found, with as many more missing. At Baxter Springs, in Southwest- ern Kansas, five were killed and eleven seriously injured by a cyclone that accompanied the storm. One person was drowned at Co- Jumbus and two at Ottawa, Kan. At Van Buren, Ark., a mother and her babe were drowned. A family of five was encamped on the bank of Fish Creek in the Indian Territory. Nothing of them or their belongings was found, except a part of their wagon on a pile of drift wood. At Thomasville, Mo., where—the rainfall was four inches in one hour five persons were lost. Unconfirmed reports are received of loss of life as follows: Three at Fayetteville, Ark, 1 at Paola, Kan., 1 at Richards, Kan, and 6 of a hunting party in the In- dian Territory. This gives a known and probable loss of forty-three lives. This total will be increased when the receding water permite a thorough search. The loss in property can be placed in the millions. Dwellings, fences and farm buildings were carried Tee and highway and railroad brite | BS Seocooooooes swept away. Thirty of the eighty buildings in Winona succumbed. Five residences, a church and a warehouse went down at Baxter Springs. Six bridges went out in Russell County, Kan. About Jefferson City, Mo, many square miles of grain were destroy- ed. Traffic on the Ft. Scott & Memphis Railroad is temporarily suspended. Reports of damage to property other than above noted cover five points in Kansas, nine in Missouri, six in Arkansas and two in the In- dian Territory. The storm spent itself in Illinois, but having lost its force, proved a blessing to crops. The above summaries are only a fraction of the loss in property. The greatest burden falls upon the farm- ers, as the season is too far spent to plant new crops, and suffering will surely follow in the storm’s wake. The country’s gramary has been cleaned out. Details of individual volumes and recall the horrors of the Johnstown disaster. The Negro Wright. Clinton Democrat, Jaly 7. Deputy Sheriff Ewing, of Nevada, brought to Clinton this afternoon acd lodged in jail, William Wright, the negro brute who chopped his wife to pieces one week ago this | afternoon. | Wright bad a bad reputation both jin Nevada and Rich Hill and had | been in trouble at both places. On! |the day his wife so that the woman filed, |eomplaint against him in the police | court and he was arrested and fined. | | He paid his fine and went to his} home in the edge of town, burning | |for brutal revenge. His wife saw | him coming and sought to fly. He! jgrabbed an axe and followed her | | into the street on the run and struck her a blow on the head, burying the | but not necessarily fatal. ax in her brain. Leaving her lying there dead he escaped into the brush j one time # patient in the Nevada | {and walked to Ft. Scott. He wan- suffering and experinces would {fillj of the murder he abused | - = ——— BUG CLA iI Lane & Adair’s, All summer goods must go regardless of cost, to make room for fall We mean just what we say, we have placed larger orders for, before and must have the roo Your Chance for Some Rea enue Bargains Wolton Delains | ine zephyr gingham 10 Selid colored turkey red calico | 2tc sateens for 10 Indigo blue calicoes 15c sateens for 12} Good ginghams Dimities 10 Lawrence LL muslin 124c duck now goat 10 4-4 bleached muslina 15c duck go at 12 American shirting calico Lonedale bleach muslin 8 Good shirtings Fruit of the loom bleach 8 a which is now coming in. falland winter than ever Good solid color outing flannel Hope bleach Solid color calico’s The Best And “Cheapest Line Of Hosiery In Butler Don’t miss the table linen at 25c and our perfect fitting shirt waist 75c. Remember we carry the best fitting and cheapest line of mens Shirts and Overalls in Butler Shoes for men, women and children. Make no mistake, see ours before you buy, it will save you money, remember they were all BOUGHT BEFORE THE ADVANCE There will be no change in our prices this fall but we will continue to sell at the same old hard time peices as before, if you regard The Value of a Dollar leave it where you can get the most goods for it. See our goods and get our prices and you will buy them there is no mistake about it. Call and see us LANE & ADAIR. 100 carpet samples at 10c a piece just the thing for rugs. r90 000000000 dK dered aimlessly, swimming streams | County Court Proceedings. | iwWM M Crawford, fees, 48 28 and stumbling through miry woods \RH Enterprise printin, 15 eo until footsore and weak from hunger, County court met Monday in ad- J A Trimbl d 5 LOU BELE opicectbe hemo Gee journed session with members and | timble, mdse, 1 55 ug! ¥ Pp A " : a officers all present. ° O F Renick, insane cert., 5 00 negro near Ash Grove, who had/ The following warrants were al- | Mrs D Walker, tem relief, 5 00 heard of the tragedy and who cared | },444 | Wm Whetstone, bed springs, 2 00 for him, at the same time sending ane J Z Graves, salary, 10 00 word to the Sherift at Nevada. Be | BE Colyer, janitor, $22 75 | DC Fuller, ae 10 00 was arrested Friday night, making | p y Holcomb, } salary > 995 99/WT Kemper “ 10 00 no resistance, and his colored captor Fowler & Co, spittoons, 2 00' DAColyer, “ 400 gets $175 reward offered for his ap- prehension. The news of his arrest was not telegraphed to Nevada, fearing that | Additional security approved: R 2 me H Plummer and Martha Beck. 5 00 Corrections of assessments of Doyle Banking Co., placed at $4,500 W H Igou, services, W F Pyle, hauling, Mag Delaney, tem sup Cynthia Wright and children, mob violence would be meted out to | tem sup, 20 09 | 22d Bank of Rockville, at $6,048, him. Upon his arrival in Clinton, | n,yiq Walker, plaGonesy. 8 00| both of Rockville. Deputy Ewing learned that the eg SESS Giles, Patents granted to Duyall & Per- Sheriff was absent from Nevada, and | cutting and hauling trees cival, lots 5 and 6, se-12 39 32 and did not deem it prudent to take his | from court house yard, 2 00 | 8¥ ne-12 39 32, and S P Halford, prisoner to that place until that of- | | D A Colyer, services, 14 49 | 8 half lot 16 and all 17 ex 25 acres, ficer’s return. Accordingly Wright | | JC Hale, express, 5 79 | Off north side 19 39 31. will be left in Clinton for an in-| G B Hickman, office chairs, 13 00| Stewart Atcheson filed quarterly definite period. He richly deserves | Wm Dual, tem relief, 10 00 | Statement which was approved. hanging, and that will undoubtly be | | Asylum No. 1, sup ineane, 140 80| . Bridge Commissioner, J B March metted out to him by law. Chas Brannock, clean’ g cess files report of survey of road in —— pool, 16 00 | Mingo township, J S Arbuckle et al HE RESENTED AN INSULT. | R R Nickell, wolf scalps, 3 00 | Petitioners; road ordered opened. | a 1H P Nickell, « “ 3 ET Overman purchased school | George Howard Severly Stabbed by an JH Sacos ee oe 3 rs | land ne se 16 38 33. and files bonds. i Enraged Hnsband . MG Wilcox “ “ 3 .00| Bridge commissioner ordered to Nevada Post. | CC Catterlin, oil jail, 1 80 | 8dvertise and let contract for bridge Judge Fielding Childs reports a| D W Drummond, glase, 75 | east of Rich Hill. subbing — oe — City, in| —_ & Co., mdse, 10 00| Clerk ordered to notify the differ- tes county on the 3th. | Delancy, repairs, 3 00 : Geued Howard went there wil |p A Colyer, board prisoners 351 25 ent township boards of order annex- several other Schell City people to IDA Coiyer, board ineane 16 00 | ing call bridges to townships for attend the celebration, and during! Wm Hudson. administrator repairs not exceeding $20. the day he met Mr. Miller end wife | of TH Hudson, coffin, 6 00| SH Fisher cancelled warrants to who were in a wagon. | Robinson &" Miller, hatrack, 1 50|the amount of several thousand Howard made an attempt to renew | = his acquaintance with Mrs. Miller | | Asylum No. 2, insane, and ed her to get out of the | = — on > d ride with him. This | Z e ‘i | | ennagal Ihe Husband who leaped ue | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report of the wagon and attacked Howard | RK , | B @ |with a keife. He stabbed him in be PURE 201 60 | dollars on the various funds. the side and slashed him across the | leg before he could be stopped. j Howards’ condition is dangerous | It is that Mr. Miller was at | asylum.