The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 25, 1895, Page 1

i cies q er Weekly @ VOL. XVII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JULY 25, 1895. NO 36 Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, $110,000. Transacts a general banking business. We solicit the accounts of far- mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- commodation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all at eny time and stop interest. DIREcTORS. Frank M Voris JHC Wyatt ‘RG West Wm E Walton OTHER S‘TOCKHOLDERS, Or. T. ©, Boulware Booker Powell CH Datcher HH Pig ott John Deerweastert C BR Radford JB Jenkins TJ Wright Geo L Smith E Bartlett D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everingham Edith Everingham argaret Bryner Lula Brown Hurley Lumber Co HB Chelf C&E Freeman J Courtney GB Hickman Robert Clark DB Heath CP 4&8 LColeman Semuel Levy JR Davis CH Morrison Frank Deerwester Dr W D Hannah Clem Slayback John H Sullens Peter Swartzendruber Dr W E Tucker Robert McCracken W BTyler A McCracken E Turner John Pharis Wm W Trigg J K Rosier Wm Walls JW Reisner GP Wyatt L B Starke Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner RG West Virginia Items. ('*We heard ’em say it and noted it down, The things that happened about the town, So don’t blame us if true or not, We always give you the best we’ve got.’”’} Lewis Poiter threshed for Mother Coxe and Crest Wright last week. Dr. Brook’s trial before Squire Dudley did not come off last spe , asthe prosecuting attorney cou’ not attend, but was continued to the John Maloney, who was quite sick last week is getting better. A young lady said the other day she dia not see why dad got a dog just as she was of age, as every time she is away and comes home after night the little rascal barks till dad wakes up. Grandma Dobbins was born in Ray Co., Tenn., May 26th, 1819. When 18 ears old, in 1887, her father moved rom Tennessee to Missouri and _set- tled five miles west of Pleasant Hill. She was married to Samuel Dobbins in 1840 and moved from west of Pleasant Hill in 1843 to Bates Co. They entered the farm they now live on from the Government, where Mr. Dobbins died. Mr. Fisher was their nearest neighbor on the north and Mr. Foster on the south. She says that from the Ist day of August, 1843 to that of January she did not see any ground corn or wheat and they ad to prepare their own grain to eat, the best way they could. Grand- ma Dobbins talks with much energy as if she was a young Woman. She ets in and out of a buggy with ease, ‘ar ahead of some of the young ladies for they have to be helped in and out. She says that she joined the Baptist church when 14 years old, re- mained with them a number of years, then joined the church of her choice, the Christian church, of which she has been and still isan active mem- ber. She bought a Communion set for the church at‘ Virginia several yearsago. Inher old age she is per- mitted to see a class of her choice formed, where she can meet with the most of her children and grand-chil- dren in the Sabbath School and at preaching. ‘ Mrs. Jefferson Park is on the sick list. On Monday of this week we passed through the south part of Elkhart township, and passed Squire Hack- ett’s. We found him and family well and all appeared to be enjoying themselves. There was a heavy rain along that road Sunday afternoon, The most of the corn is looking well; a large amount of the flax is to be cut; most of the oats is standing in the field yet, and but little hay made. Along that road from Jim Keaton’s, west to the bridge is the finest corn fields that we ever saw in that sec- tion. We have beenacquainted with that country about sixteen years and the prospect for good corn is ahead of anything we ever saw in that sec- tion before. tj Mr Pattoboo's boy was kicked just above the eye last week. Dr Mitchell was called to dress the wound. J W Park had some pigs killed by * wolves last week. Geo Ruble and family were at But- ler Monday. Geo Jenkins has some fine ripe peaches. The nine young ladies who went Bishi: Wednesday report a splendid time. i Harve Dudiey’s baby is quite sick. Mesere. Will Smith Harley Drys- Thursday. The dance at Mr Seighman’s Satur- day night was a pleasant affair. Geo Jenkins and John Harper went to Burdett Friday. |mirable speech in launching Bland Bland For President. | ‘The meeting at Sedalia Tuesday | of the silver democratic editors of} the state was largely attended, every section of the state being represent ed Among the prominent person jages other than editors present were Governor Stone, Senatcr Cockrell, | State Treasurer Lon V. Stephens | and Dick Biand | Speeches were made by Governor Stone, Senator Cockrell and Mr. Bland. Gov. Ston3 seems to have been the orator of the day. and io his ad- for president in 1596, the conven- tion simply went wild with enthusi- asio President Colonel W. F. Swizler, Boonville; vice president, (one from each congressional district}, First, J. A Kuott, Hannibal; Second, B. F. Blanton, Paris; Third, T. B. Bo- gie, Richmond; Fourtb, C. F. Coch- ran, St, Joseph; Fifth, W. N. South erp, Independence; Sixth, C. H Whittaker, Clinton; Seventh, T. B White, Warsaw; Eighth, J. P. Bell, Fulton; Ninth, E. R. Britt, St. Char- les; Tenth, W. McNamee, St. Louis; Thirteenth, S. H. Lewis, Farmington; Fourteenth, S. G. Titweller, Charles- ton; Fifteenth, O. W. Bingham, Shell Married.—Miss Lizzie Morrison and Rufus Sellers. May happiness attend them. Mr Erwin Addison, from Texas, is visiting his sister, Mrs Isaac Lock- ridge. _Mr Manna and Mr Whetstone, of Kansas, were visiting the family of Isaac Lockridge last week. Miss Alpha Brown, of Kansas City, is visiting Miss Lida Park. Mrs John Wood, who has been sick for three weeks, is now able to be around the house again. NuELs’ CLERK. “Ballard Items. The wet weather is ruining lots of the small grain. Tom Maybree is slaying the flax in this meighborliood with his new machine. Miss Mary Miller has returned from Denver, where she has been attend- ing the Teachers’ National Conven- tion. Miss Georgia visited in Butler last week. Jim Woods and wife visited at Jim Wainscot’s Sunday. Mrs Frank Kepner, of Urick, visit- ed relatives and friends here last week. Madam Rumor reports a wedding or two in the near future. Will Cole and Ira Fowler have been trading horses. E L McClenneys visited near Cul- ver Sunday. Mrs Kepner and Mrs Johnson were the guests of Mrs W B Morlan, of Ballard, Saturday night. Criss Greer and wife with several others visited at Mother Beatty’s Sanday, it being her 68th birthday. A pleasant time is reported. T M Stark shipped four car load of hogs to Kansas City last week. True Cole, son of Andy Cole of Cooper Co., is visiting his uncle C D Cole. A bouncing baby girl arrived at Isaac Anderson’s Sunday. Uncle Dick Andrews has been quite sick the past week, but is better at present. A little child of Charley Hill has the scarlet fever. The Misses Hart, of Butler, visited the family of C D Cole last week. Will Cole, Milt and Will Beatty took a flying trip to Butler one day last week. W B Cole says he knows who took the neck yoke off the road grader, and they had better return it and avoid trouble. Mis TLETOR Fired Without a Word. Ozark. Mo., July 22.—A. C. Crain was shot and killed this afternoon about 6 o'clock in his yard at Sparta by Bud Ray, marshal of the town. The men had quarrelled in the morning and Crain struck Ray. The difficulty seemed to end, and the men separated. At alate hour this afternoon Ray rode up to Crain's house and called him out, firing without a word. Crain drepped dead and his slayer galloped off out of town toward the Bull creek hills. Sheriff Thompson ie in pursuit of the fugitive. A. C. Crain was sheriff of Christian county three terms, and his death will cause a great shock | throughout this section of the coun- dale, of Butler, were in Virginia | try. DUVALL & PERCIVAL. BUTLER, MISSOURI. FARM LOANS. ==e=—= Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest. Your Notes are Payable at our Office: and you find them here when{due. Wefgive you privilege to pay at any time. Money ready as soonfes papers are signed. 33-tf. City; secretary, H. J. Groves, Lex- ington; treasurer, C. K. Waldon, Nevada; executive committee, to consist of the elective officers. The following resolutions were passed, and an address to the people will be issued. Resolved, That the executive committee of this body is authorized to constitute a library bureau to act in co operation with a similar bureau which it is hoped that the demo- cratic state convention at Pertle Springs will appoint. That every democratic free silver editor of the State is earnestly re- quested to actively cooperate with the executive committee of his coun- ty in perfecting a thorough organi- zation of the{Democratic voters in such measures as may be best calcu- lated to secure harmony and activity in the canvass and a full vote and victory at the polls. That we will as one man oppose every effort no matter from what source inspired to commit the dem- ocratic party to the republican pol icy of gold and monometallism and that we will in the future as in the past fight with unfaltering courage for the old democratic doctrine of bimetallism, by which we mean free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver on equal terms and at the old valuation of 16 to 1 A committee appointed by the Societies of the city of Ne vada, to circulate “a petition against the desecration of the Sab bath in that town in less than 12 bours secured over seven hundred signatures, very few people refusing to subscribe to the document when presented. The young ladies in fil- ing their report with the society concluded the same with this para- of jyoung ladies Young People’s DROWNED IN THE GULF. One Hundred and Forty-Eight! People Perish Oif Genoa. | TWO ITALIAN SHIPS COLLIDE.| The Maria P. fs Torn Open and Sinks | in Three Minutes. | Genoa, July 21.—The Italian} steamers Ortegia and Maria P. col-! lided off Isela del Pinto at the en-| trance to Gulf of Genoa to-day. The! latter sank and 148 people were drowned. The Maria P. was bound from Naples to La Plata. There was a crew of 17 and the passengers num- bered 173. She was calling here, en| route to er destination. She was entering the Gulf of Genoa at 1:30 o'clock this morning wken she met the Ortegia,out bound. They noticed each other only when acollision was inevitable. The bow of the Ortegia crashed into the starboard side of the Maria P. penetrating six yards and ripping up the Maria P. like match wood. The water rushed in through the hole and the Maria P. sank in three minutes. ‘The majority of the passengers were aslvep at the time of the acci- dent and had no time to escape after the alarm was given. They were en- gulfed with the vessel. The Ortegia remained on the spot until 6 o'clock im order to pick up the survivors. She rescued fourteen of the crew and twenty-eight of the passengers of the Maria P. Other Steamers have been dispatched to the scene of the disaster and are now searching for further survivors. The Ortegia’s bow was smashed for a space of twelve feet along the water line. There is some comment upon the fact brought to mind by the disaster that the Ortegia once collided on the same spot with the French steamer Oncle Joseph. At the conclusion of the sitting of the Chamber to-day at Rome the Minister of Marine announced the news of the disaster in the midst of a profound sensation, adding that an officer, a seaman, stoker and 144 passengers of the Maria P. had per ished. The Ortegia had twenty-five pas sengers on Board. The Maria P’s captain was named Ferrara. The chamber has ordered an inquiry into the disaster. The sky was overcast at the time of the accident and there was little sea. Both captains were asleep, and Third Officer Revello was on watch on the Ortiga and Second Officer @’Angelo was on watch on the Maria P. The Ortegia was going at the graph: “This is God’s work, not ours. May He giye us a Sunday that is honored and respected and may every form of Sabbath desecration be driven from our midst.” The work of these societies to advance the morals of that particular commu- nity is to be commended, If the vicious have no respect for the sab- bath day then the iron hand of the law should be applied and enforced in such a manner as to give them to understand that their wickedness will not be tolerated by a law abid- ing and Sabbath respecting citizen- ship. Withdrawing Gold. Washington, D. C. July 19 —The Secretary of the Treasury to day re- ceived a telegram from Mr. Jordan, assistant United States Treasurer at New York, stating that W. H. Cross- man & Bros. had withdrawn $1,000,- 000 in gold presumbly for export from the sub-Treasury in exchange | for United States notes. ter, but some officials who have been is the beginning of a movement in opposition to the Morgan- Belmont syndicate who, it is alleged, are holding up the rates of exchange which it is desired to break down. rate of eleven miles an hour ard the Maria P. at the rate of eight miles Both vessels saw the lights of the other and continued on their proper roads till the mistake was made, it is not established by whom, which brought the Maria P. broadside to- ward the Ortegia. Third Officer Rev- ello of the Ortegia saw the danger and ordered the engines reversed, but the order came too late. The Ortegia struck the Maria P. making an enormous gap in her side. All the boats of the Ortegia were lowered and the crews rescued all they could of the surviyors. The latter, for the most part, remain in such a state of terror since the res- cue that they are unable to give a single detail of the disaster. Captain Ferrara, who was sayed, said he was sleeping in his cabin when he was awakened by cries and @ great noise. He rushed upon the deck and saw the Ortegia backing off while bis own ship was sinking. See ing that all was lost, he jamped into | Carlisle declined to discuss the mat-| the Ortegia’s boats. They lost every- | ing. F Second-Officer d’Anngelo of the | watching the exchange market ex-| \faria P.. who was on aac on that press the opinion that the shipment ship when she was struck by the was drowned. Among the is a child 8 years old, who is the only survivor of a family of sev- en who went down in the ill-fated 0: = sa has been opened. ° a FARMER'S BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. OSCAR REEDER R. J. HURLEY... $50,000.00 President ‘President ice-President --+++ Cashier Vi Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and transacts a general Banking business. Solicited. Your patronage respectfully DIRECTORS, D. N. Thompson, John Steele Oscar Reeder, Geo W Kiersey, M. G. Wilcox, J.J. McKee, E. D! Kipp. John E. Shutt, . J. Hurley Clark Wix, E. A. Bennatg,} Jas. M. McXibben, H. M. Gailey, J. EVERINGHAM. Secretary — eee Culyer Items. Jno. Peters had an empty bee gun and along came a swarm of bees, which went into the window and settled in the gum. The gum was used by the Misses Peters as a stand, so we understand. Boys, can't you understand, why hive bees? John Hays will feed his horses hot feed, as he has his oats in the barn heating, so we hear. Sam Keirsey and Robt. Hays drove some cattle to Mr. Fox ef Butler, Friday. Prosecuting Attorney Holcomb passed up Central Avenue Friday, bound for Squire Shelton’s court where he had a case, Several children were on the sick list last week. E. L. McClenney and family, of Ballard, visited at Culver, Sunday. JR Kay, Y C Combs, Doc Bolia, Owens Bros and several others spent an evening here last week. Mr. Geo Huff and several others are on the sick list. John Seelinger and family, of Fair- view, Summit township, visited on settlers’ reunion, Mr. Rufus Seller and Miss Lizzie Morrison were married last Sunday and will make Kansas City their fu- ture home. NELS’ CLERK No. 2. Prairie City Items. Considerable grain in shock is be- ing greatly damaged by the con- tinued wet weather. Quite a number from here attended the celebration at Eldorado Springs the 20th, and report a splendid time and the largest crowd that has ever visited the Springs on any similar occasion. W. E. Shrum and wife, of Fair Haven Springs, were visiting rela- tives in this neighborhood, Sunday. H. K. Hornbuckle and wife have lately returned to Missouri. Witha bountiful supply of fruit and pros- pects flattering for a large corn crop together with her genial climate, Missouri certainly hath charms. A number of our teachers are at- tending the institute at Rich Hill. Geo. Howard, of Schell City, who was stabbed by Miller, is not dead as Central Avenue. A number of the relatives of Andy Ray gave him a call and ate ice creain a few evenings since. W S Griffith and wife gave usa pleasant call. Tom Crabtree and J M Pettus call- ed for repairs. One of TH Smizer’s little girls is quite sick. We are having quite a good deal of rain lately. quiry about a thresher. The first one here will surely do well. What's the matter with the Peo- ples ,Party’s thresher auctioneer Miller? Keeper of fine stock Ogborne would like to see him come. A B Herrman says he intends soon south. Chas Greer and Mr Stark were at work one day last week. John Seelinger has the look of a silver democrat, why not? goods Saturday. Hon. D A DeArmond and others have our thanks for assistance ren- dered in establishing our postoffice, whieh is run now by Uncle Sam. Emmet McClenney and family vis- ited at Dr. McFarland’s last Sunday. Preaching at the Chapel Sunday at 11 a. m., and at night. Sunday School every Sunday morning. Salem, last Sunday. Prof Frank Deerwester delivered a splendid lecture on the S 8 work, Sunday evening at the Chapel. JACK. Foster Items. wont know what to do with their corn, as they say they will have to use a ladder to reach the ears. Mr. Arthur Henry entertained his Sunday School ciass last Wednesday night, and treated them to ice cream aud cake. All had a nice time. The yeung folks who attended the ice cream supper at Mrs. Shelton’s report a fine time. illie and Miss Emma Clouse visit- ed Miss Martha and Mark Thomas, Sunday. s The rain Sunday evening spoiled the Christian Endeavor meeting at Salem. The base ball boys, who came up from Sprague to play against the A number are already making in- | to move his house a short distance | almost overcome by the heat, while | Our merchant went fora load of | Mrs I T Stilwell was baptized at | If it rains much more the farmers | repopted last week but is going about assisted by his crutches. L. A. Lyons has taken the contract to clean off the grave-yard at this place and is doing some neat work. Wm. Colinsworth entertained a number of his friends Tuesday eve, it being the occasion of his 21st birth- day. jolly time is reported. HaRRy. Program Directer's Bay. Bates County Teacher's Institute, Rich Hill, Mo., July 26th, 1895, 2 p.m. _ Address of Welcome.—Mayor Jam- ison. Gradation of the County Schools.— Pres. J. _E. Carpenter, Rockville; ; Prof. B. F. Cox, Merwin. Discussion.—‘‘Relation of Teacher {to School Board.” Pres. W. W. Ross, | Butler; Miss Fannie Licklider, Am- | oret. Diseusion.—‘‘Rules and Regula- tions.” Pres. E. T, LaBarriere, Rick Hill: Miss Kate MecClement, Butler. Discussion. — “ and | School Librarie: - B. Dur- and, Praire City; Miss Fannie Grider, Vinton. All School Directors and Clerks of the County and others interested in the Schools are urgently requested to be present and participate in the discussions. The school teachers spend four weeks each year discussing subjects for improving our public school. Directors and others interested should meet at least one day with us in solving the educational problems now pressing uponus. Resp. J.P. THURMAN, County School Com. A Fatal Flash. Salina, Kan., July 20.—Lightning struck the farm-house of Eli Mcflen- ry, five miles northeast of Elleworth, at 2 o'clock this morning and instant- ly killed three persons. The names of the dead are: Eli McHenry. F Brown and Wm. Grimes. Six persons were sleeping on the floor of the kitchen. Lightning struck the chimney and split it to the base, killing the man nearest the chimney, skipped one and killed the next two. All the other persons are slightly injured. The dead are ak well known farmers. The house wae Foster club Saturday, had to return home without playing on account of the rain. Judge Henry, who has been under the physician’s care in St. Louis the past three weeks, has returned home much improved in hralth. Messrs. A. G. Wilson and A. L. Metzler have completed their ar- rangements to commence their brick business houses next week, which will make Foster boom and improve the town very much. not destroyed. | Huntington, W. Va, July 18— | United States authorities arrived here this evening with C. M. Wilkia- sou, formerly teller in the Hunting- ton National bank of this city. Wilkinson robbed the bank of many thousand dollars a few months since | and when about to be detected skip- | ped out and has since traveled all The Foster band will gotoPrescott | over the country. He was arrested next Saturday to play for the old} ia Chicago. Secretary the sea, where he was picked up by | ~ mans _— = Ro Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report al saxo I ABSOLUTELY PURE Baki der