The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 11, 1895, Page 6

seems es EERE ph MER. ISAAC FOWLER. ISAAC FOW Successors to H. B- ARNOLD: LER & (CO FH. B. Arnold, —DEALERS IN— Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, AND GROCERIES. — ~0ee Higest prices paid for Country Produce we invite everybody to}: *«: call and examine our stock and| prices. competition. We expect to meet all jms ss CLARDY & BRUNER. REAL ESTATE & LOANS EVERYBODY INTERESTE ness, and west Mi KNOWS it takes constant hustling to do busi | more this iswhat we are doing if you are; IN buying or selling lands anywhere in south- ssouri come and see or write us. We have the largest list IN THE the STATE and can satisfy you in prices, terms and location, SILVER QUESTION HUNG saihais Go dls Hiner AND THE PRICE OF OUR LANDS, tributing silver dollars, but sending information about the wounderfu! resources of Missouri. Yours for business, you want to sell. CLAR WE not are dis- the people, north and east, loads of List with us if DY & BRUNER. Killed Wife and Babe. Meadville, Mo.,-S. A. Fields, until recently of the Post at Polo, Mo., cut the throats of his wife and baby with a razor this morning and then ended his own life in the same way. The bodies were found in a garden about two hundred yards from the residence of his mother in-law who lives about five milles northwest of here and whom Fields and family were visiting at the time. No rea-| son can be assigned for the deed as | the suicide left no writing of any} kind. Fields was well known here | having edited the Messenger several years ago. ESTEE aL eens eek Nome The secretary of the state board | of horticulture says the apple crop | 5 in this state will be the best ever grown. From every locality of the | state reports are to the effect that | orchards promise an unprecedent- | ed yield. Wheat has nearly all been | harvested and the yield will be above ( an average crop. Corn looks well | and will doubtless meet expectations. With good crops, plenty of fruit and good markets the Missouri farmer is in no danger of starving. He ought to feel thankful that he lives in such a favored state.—Jeffer - son City Tribune. The Jasper County Demoerat says | To Fight Russia. Portland, Ore., June 29.—A special from Seattle says: The Japanese residents of that city are greatly ex cited over the attitude Russia has assumed towards their country and expect a war with the Czar’s Empire within two months. Macamara, a prominent merchant, thinks the re- sult will be an easy yictory for the Mikado’s army and navy. He says thousands of prisoners—deadly foes to Russia—could be released from | Siberian prisons and would assist Japan in the war. Vandalia, Til, July 4 —The first | wheat of the season was brought to market here to-day by John and Fred Hobler. The {grain weighed | 59 and 57 pounds, being in two ‘lote | The price paid was 65c per bushel. Removal, We take pleasure in announcing that after this date Parks Sure cure will re- move all traces of rheumatism, kidney trovbles and liver complaint trom the user. It is the only medicino that is guaranteed to cure these diseases or no pay. Parkssure cure is sold by Ht. L: Be A New di aaeadl — THE -- New York “Infection,, is a success in killing off | chinch bugs. Now for an invertion to kill off the gold bugs. To steep | the patient in a decotion of bimetal- | ism is thought to be an effective} cure. The supreme court of Missouri} has held that a city has not the right | to give away valuable franchises. What a pity this doctrine could not | have been enunciated in years gone Weekly World |: Has Been Changed to TWO PAPERS EVERY WEEN INSTEAD OF ONE And at the same price as The Weekly. before the corporations had gobbled of the larger municipalities. An exchange suggests that Mis- | souri should establish a tramp farm | upon which all vagrants found roam- ing about over the state could be eolenized. Such a scheme is not without feasibility, and ifthe ‘‘wan- dering Willies” were given from 3| to five years each they would soon give Missouri a wide berth. Four Big Successes. 1 Having the needed merit to more than make geod all the advertising claimed tor them, the following tour remedies | have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. King’s New Discovery, tor Consumption ceughs and colds, each to be guaranteed —Electric Bitters, the great remedy for liver stomach ana kidneys. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King’s New Lite Pills, which are a perfect pill. All these remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed tor them and cae gee! Baga ae * attached herewith wi giad to te! youmoreot thems Soldat H. L, Tucker Drug Store. everything in sight within eI nly One ollar . Year | | Sendin your order at once, and re- | ceive two papers every week. Why read | the news atter itis old. Get it while it is fresh in the TWICE--A--WEEK WORLD. Tell your triends and ne bors about the change and induce them | | to subscribe. WHY TAKE A WEEKLY THE WORLD “WICE A WEEK For The Same Money, { Remember, all otters made regarding the Weekly are good tor this semi-week- jlvy. The price, premiums, subscription | Offers—all are the same as ior The | Weekly. We simply giye you two pa- pers a week instead of one. Now won’t you help by sending in vour own sub- scription ‘and your neighbor's if you can? Address, THE WORLD, 32-tf, NEW YORK CITY. SEA MONSTERS IN BATTLE. A Fierce Encounter Between Sharks and Alligators. | The strangest sea fight I ever saw or heard of, said a staff officer of the navy recen was a battle that raged off the Pacific coast of Mexico between sh rks and alligators. Our sh r becalmed not far some of the ashore on one of t had voy- zanilla, and ficers gone | | | vy menin foreignlands. We learne which brought about this Hom test, it will be necessary to deser the countr ween Man z Colima, a of eighty miles, l lake of brackish water, the bed of which is several feet. above the sea. Th lake is about forty miles long, and was once most im- ins of communicatic I between the two places, particularly as in Mexico formerly the roads were s, and land port- ation was of the most primitive char- The lake ish and rep alligators | beset by brig: acte wus filled with fresh- wate es of all kinds, and the that sunned t on its banks often attained a aselves -ngth of ‘The ba the ocean from the bank, which, though tn a mere spit of land r to this time. sutticient waters of the lake e animals ier separating a high sand nothin more had been to contine Buta heavy the wind storm from the northeast ble the water of the lake down to the south and west, and piled it up so high as to dr it over the levee or dain. After a short time a crevassee or sluice formed, allowing the lake to drain irectly into the ocean. The rush of water from the lake increased the sluice became broader. and hundred square miles of lake surf fell four feet. Millions of | fish pouring through the crevasse with the water. and with these, the enormous alligators for which the lake had be- come noted The sluice was fifteen fect we reached it wide when We stood on one of the banks watching the enormous outrush of water and fish. The latter had at- tracted the numerous big) sharks of Manzanilla bay. and they had coll ed by hundreds to gorze themselves with the dainty morsels supplied in such an unlooked-for manner. ‘The al- ligators, less intent, perhaps, upon the tish than upon the rush of waters, which was carrying them on, were met by the sharks the moment they came out into deeper water. There the sharks rushed furiously ut the more slothful alligators, and at once the battle began. The alligators, of course, la- bored under many disadvan Al- though crocodiles are often known to swim out to sea and spend whole in salt water, the alligator is not found in the ocean. Not alone w gators handicapped by their They res, weeks the alli- out of bein element were also beset by a shoal of carnivorous fish o ¥, many of them twice their size and ght, and endowed with activity far iter. Five or six sharks would at- tack each saurian as he came out, not giving the alligators an opportunity to form themselves into a mass for con- eentrated attack or defense tered by furious onslanghts the ter were obliged to turn over on their ‘ore bei with This get able to bite ave the alli ay and into ators a bring their AL from tr their tails around urd. bony svented them ors p and swishing 1, often the and snap a shark before | | } | | | the fish covid turn on his back to bite or getaway. But when one considers | | | | Ls { i | ie | that th has speed and activity so great as to allow him to swim and | play easily around the fastest steam- ers, it will be very readily seen that the issue of the battle was only a ques- tion of time the alli Of course the or, though impedi for a time re blows and bites of his ad- after awhile the con- p snapping of the shark t¢ it uway bit by bit, and finally fu ements, was efficacious { But with a | its sharp teeth in a good grip and erush | ha vulnerable part of the alli- \¢ yas if the armor were an eggshell | he wonderful strength of the z tor’s jaw came into play. and in sharks were thrown almost out of the water. | he fight was carried on upon the | surface of the water over an area of a| quarter of a mile, in plain view of the | people on the bank and beach. and} | from our position we could see many | of the movements of the huge animals. | Several alligators were thrown up on lthe beach during the struggle, torn | and horribly maimed. so that they died a very few minutes. The wh face of the ocean in the immediate vi- |einity was churned to foam by the j lashing of the long tails. whi and there a reddish tinge in water showed where the waxed fiercest. No sooner was an al- ligator killed than the sharks turned upon his carcass, tore it to pieces. and | devoured it voraciously. This done, the increasing ebullition in another place indicated that the war was be- ginning with renewed vigor to decide this local supremacy of the sea. Only a few sharks were killed, although many must have been badly torn by the was | m Man-} ages of discovery that seem ol delight | i rsome of t natives of the fight] which was then in progress, nd reached the battle field when the com- | {bat was at : | from twenty to thirty feet They were ver jerce when aroused from their stomed | letharg much voracious © the | South Ameri i often | seized and des men and } The war-was raged with the utmost determinatlon on both sides, and-the al- ligators, notwithstanding many ditfi- culties, and being far outnumbered put up a very good fight. They kept |} the sharks at bay until finally | powerful tails were brought into requisition as often as the immense | a While the ators wer nore | slow to move than the sharks, the lat ous rush the huge shark would fix | e sur. | e here | combat | | the huge jaws of the alligators. One of the alligators thrown on the beach still had a piece of shark's fiu clene hed| in his teeth For battle half the day il last vent down, the volume we the lev e crevasse de gators were the surfa less. cor and no more | foam came | the showed still stru ess oceasi 1 swirl where ed, or were fighting | the disinte; nothi | of th | dippir among th ted carcasses. zr sh the gl surfac t rose anc but the] ne of the shore birds as | they swooped down on the small pieces | | of flesh floati and th | had been neglected by the sh | their hunt for and battle with the big | game.—N. Y. Sun | | COREA’S KING AND QUEEN. | Peculiar Habits of the Royal Couple Who Kale the Little Nation. The king lives in a tine palace in Seoul with his queen and six or seven hundred number of whom least, his wives. The stant companion and firmly resolved not to s or dignity with any other She next to never leaves his side— it is said. without knowing wher | going and what takes h jis not m women, the +, nominally at queen is hi ever beet her } has place | | | woman. | never, | | | away. ion. but te the reat | 7. de- | fe. despi number of other wives that custom elares should be his to command. It} happens now and then that the | shows int some other woman or e of! king | erest is suspected of h the queen's such a case ing visited satellites. Invar the new favorite flees the palace. Quite recently said, the que s merciful to a beau- tifuland clever and allowed her t ice and make Seoul. Th an in e th and r lett n her. Still merciful to the woman. She J eaused the man who carried the letters to and fro to be beheaded He was an old and faithful court attendant. [fe was publicly ex- ecuted. She is as truly king or sove- reign in the palace as her husband is king elsewhere in C¢ All who are in the palace—men and women both— are her appointees. They owe their places and their gratitude to her, and understand that it is far more safe to disobey or even to anger the king than to show disrespect to her, and nothing can happen in those walls without her being quickly informed of it. The king does not go to bed at night. He stays up all night and sleeps in the daytime. At night he and the queen sit together, whiling the hours away by smoking tiny golden pipes of Chi- alike pellet at a time. His owl-like life is a source of great an- noyance to the diplomats and other Europeans who have to do with him. it must be a dreadful trial to the court- nese tobacco, a pr jiers, who are obliged to attend the | king's call at the most unheard-of and | smallest hours of the mght. He sum- mons the diplomatic corps to meet him at’ o'clock or 10 o'clock at night, and often when these big-wigs reach as p: *, suffocated in their padded \ liveries, t 2 old the ris doz- ing and they must him to wake up. 1 cost a man his head t Champagne and ¢ Ss Visitors, but ' iy cham- pagne f two ort + hours fasa py formal interview | with he does j awa lence | ' ish before, bent a strange i Hoo-00-00 the rivers with » yet | ig Wrote to this woman | le | BAAN Mg COLUMBIAS—They Ladies’ wheels also Send for Catalogue, Pree : - a Agency, or two 2-cent Y. stumps, XS DEACON BROS & CO., Butler, Missouri. S 1S “GREATER f —ELY’ s : CREAM B Apply into the Nostrils 0c, D CAVEATS, TRADE MARKs “COPYRIGHTS: CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT? Fora wer and an honest opinion, write to NN & CO., who have ba! nearly fifty years’ experience in the patent business. Communica- tions strictly confidential. A Handbook of In- formation z Patents and bow to ob- Also a catalogue of mechan- h out cost to the issued weekly, ele largest crreulatic his splendid strated, has by the scientific wor! ff the copies sent free. Edition, monthly, $2.0a year. Single cents. Every number contains beau- tiger y plates, in colors, and photographs of new king would or and kno they {harm { within jalert to keep the consp’ | the conspirators ure to en king does not feel easy. 1 1on accoun he y. the disturbance plans and the general be puts him to. When the rev« | make their v into the palace they | instant the officers of the behead | ace closed. | ' | | houses, with plans, enabling builders to show the signs und secure contracts, Addsess MUNN & CO., NEw Youk, 361 BuOADWAY. C.B. LEWIS & CO. Proprietor of klk Horn Stables purchased the Eix Horn barn jand Livery outfit ot J. 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