The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 22, 1895, Page 4

; F f ¥ mere meee ————— peg PRE RT IIT LTE ITE OT EE BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Epr:ror. J. D. Ant & Co., Pteprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexty Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00, The following is a bit of “mighty interesting history.” It comes in good season, now that the “boom ig on. It's the chronology of the tariff: Paste it in your scrap book. 1890—McKinley bill enacted. 1891—Panic. 1892—Panie. 1893—Panic. 1894— Wilson bill passed. 1895—Milis opening. Wages re- stored. Senator Chandler, a republican of New Hampshire, was reported to have come out in an eastern maga- tine in a eulogy of President Cleve- land and his administration. Mayor Davis of Kansas City, ie no fool. He knows how to avoid a terrible drubbing by declining to become a candidate for governor of this state and a cat’s paw for old mar Filley. The Duestrow murder trial has cost the state twenty thousand dol- Jars and still the end is not yet. This shows the influence of money and the almost impossibility of pun- ishing a rich man in this country for crime. _— Mrs. Nancy Cooper, of Lexington, Mo., celebrated her 100 anniversary last Wednesday. She is remarkably hale and hearty yet and possesses a good memory. She was 85 years old when she took her first ride on arailroad train. ————_—_—____. The press of the state could not doa nobler or more generous act than to erect a monument to the memory of the late Jno. N. Edwards, oneof the brightest editors the state ever produced. The nation does aot forget its Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Jackson and other great men, and the press should not forget its illustrious dead. __ As shown by state auditor J. M. Seibert’s report, the tax valuation for Bates county for the year 1895, is $9,248,993.71. Only two counties, Ozark and Taney, go below amillion dollars in valuation. The total val- uation of the state is $1,005,099,- 769. An increase over last year of nearly 90 million dollars. Senator Peffer has a new scheme. He has declared himself in favor of & currency based upon land values, what ever that means. Coxey wants the same kind of money, and Debs wants his liberty. The populist leaders change so often the rank and file don’t “know where they are” to- morrow. Congressman Charlie Burton, the gentleman who defeated Charlie Morgan, says the Neosho Times, was asked the other day how he stood on free silver 16 to1. He answered the question by saying: “I heartily endorse the bloomer costume for lady bicycle riders.” Congressman Burton can say a good many things after the election that he would not dare say before. The insurance companies have finally settled the celebrated Dr. Fraker case, by paying to the heirs $35,040.56. It was claimed the doc- tor was drowned in the Missouri river July 10th, 1893. The life in- surance companies in which he was insured doubted his death and re- sisted payment. The companies scoured the earth in search of the doctor, but failing to find him paid the amount at the end ef the con- test in the federal courts. The Kansas republicans refused to hold astate convention to con- sider the silver question. The re publicans of Kansas are putting themselves in position to lose the atate in 1896. the idea that the populists will again come into power over there, as that will not be the case. Two years of populist government in Kansas has satisfied the people and nothing would persuade them to do so foolish a thing as to return that party to power again. =| corrupt. By making this pre-! diction we do not mean to convey) It’s always that way with great meop in public life. Ceasar had his and Benjamin Harrison bis son Russ. | —Globe-Democrat. | The Republican machine has as- sessed the city employes of Cincin- nati 2} per cent on their salaries, and this will bring in $50,000 for purposes legitimate and purposes Municipal rottenness in Ohio’s chief city is not in the least jachamed to exhibit itself. When congress meets next winter the Globe Democrats says Reed’s policy will be to keep as far away from the tariff question as possible. The good results now apparent in every manufacturing center and the steady increase in wages of the workingmen has put a quietus on further tinkering with the tariff question. Mr. Reed and the repub- lican leaders know the country would not consent to return to McKinlyism. No arm but that of a sentimental idiot would have been stretched forth to save the life of Emmet Divers, the negro who was swung to a railroad bridge in Callaway county on Wednesday morning for the rape and robbery of a white woman- In such cases the only rule of govern- ment should be a moditication of the maxim of Davy Crockett soas to make it read, “Be sure you’ve got the right fellow, then go ahead with the hanging.”—Globe Democrat. The Duestrow Trial. The all powerful influence of money and shrewd lawyers has just been exemplified in the case of Ar thur Duestrow, the millionaire mur derer of his wife and baby boy in St. Louis. After three weeks’ trial the jury disagreed in their yerdict, standing seven for acquittal and five for conviction. ‘Che Globe Demo- crat has this to say of the verdict and case: “The disagreement of the jury in the Duestrow trial will not disap- point those who have been acquaint- ed with the internal facts in the case, and have been able to judge how the lavish use of money could be used to befog the minds of igno- rant jurymen with the testimony of medical experts, so called. But the forms of law have been observed, and this cold-blooded villian stands before the community as a» man who is still untried for a heinous crime of which everybody acquainted with the facts knows him to be guilty. The prosecution did its best and was well conducted, but it was pow- erless in the presence of the influ- ences that were brought to bear against ii. A year hence there will probably be another trial, and in the meantime, if there is any sense of justice among the people of St. Louis, a liberal fund should be raised to remove the financial in- equalities of the two sides to the contest just closed. If the law cannot be induced to hang Duestrow. it can at least be induced to wear him out.” Tais brutal murder was commit- ted February 13th, 1894, and the in- fluence of money, and the shrewd manipulations of Gov. Jobnson, Duestrow lawyer, here is the way the case has been dragging through the courts: 1094. Feb. 13.—The fatal shots were fire. Feb. 13.—Baby Duestrow died. Feb. 16.—Warrant for murder against Duestrow. Feb. 17.—Mrs. Duestrow died. Feb. 17.—Hearing set for Feb. 20. Feb. 20.—Hearing continued until March 20. March 20.—Duestrow for wife murder. March 27.—Duestrow arraigned for wife murder. Case set for April 9th. April 9.—Case continued until April 23. April 23 —Special judge granted; case set for May 7. May 7.—Change of venue granted; case set for September 17. indicted child murder: case set for June 25. June 25.—Child murder case con- tinued until September 27. | Sept. 17.—Wife murder case con- {tinued to January 14. Sept. 27.—Child murder case con- panusd by consent until further notice. 1895. Jan. 14.—Continued to January 21. Jan. 21.—Attorney pleaded that quiry commenced. Jan. 26 —Hung jury; case set for | April 30 April 30.—Second insanity trial begun. May 11.—Duestrow declared sane: trial for murder of his wife set for July 26. July 26.—Present trial begun.' A COTRT ROOM SEOT iD | | | | Platte City, Mo., Aug. 16.—The | dignity of the circuit court, now sit- jting here, was turned to panic to-, | day by a shooting affray in the crourt jroom itself. As a result, Newton | Winn now lies at the point of death. | The tragedy formed the climax to ja quarrel betwee ton Winn and Watt Reed over some hogs. The) }two men live near Plattsburg, Clin- |ton county. A lawsuit eabout the | hogs was pending here on a change | of venue. Many other Clinton coun- | ty people are in town, all of whom) take sides one way or the other, so| that much bad blood existed. j Vent was given to the animosity | \to-clay, when John C » lawy Reed, made an in about Wine’s son. At this Winn sprang from his seat as if to strike Cross. At this juncture Reed drew | a pistol and fired at Winn. Two shots struck him, one in the right} arin and the other in the bowels. | Winn was carried bleeding from the room. He was taken to the home of a Mrs. Sheppard where an opera- tion was performed. There is little hope of his recovery. Reed was taken back to the jail and locked up. Both parties are oid citizens of the county and have families. Platte City, Mo., Aug. 17.—New- ton Winn, who was shot in the court room yesterday by Watt Reed, dur- ing the session of Circuit court, died at 6 o'clock this morning. The body was taken to Plattsburg this evening, where it will be buried femora The excitement in Clinton county | over the affair is said to be intense, although all is quiet here to-night. Reed is still in the Platte City jail- No violence is anticipated, in spite of the fact that there has been talk of a mob coming over from Platts burg all day. The grand jury in- dicted Reed for murder in the first degree to day A strange coincidence was brought | to ligit in an operation performed upon Winn before he died. Drs. Halley of Kansas City and Jobn Winn of this place, while performing the operation, extracted a ball that was fired by the present assassin | nineteen years ago. At that time] Winn had a quarrel with Reed's! brother at Bainbridge, Clinton coun. | ty. The latter ran and Winn follow ed. When Winn returned Watt Reed shot and lodged a ball in his stomach. There seems to have been | a smouldering feud between the families from that time to the present. Watt Reed is rich and unless something unexpected happens the case will become famous in North west Missouri. Though the contro versy was nothing more than a fight for the possession of eleven common hogs, it was hard fought. It was begun in 1593 in the court of Clinton county and successively taken by change of venue to Piatte county, and by appeal to the Kansas City Court of Appeals and remanded) here All the evidence was in yesterday | morning when the litigants and their lawyers and the great host of wit-! nesses and curious spectators poured | into the court room. Frank Ellis of | Plattsburg opened for Winn. He| Hogs Use Violence. medicine when the first symp- toms of trouble vent long illness. Mr. J. F. Was sel, printer and publisher at Dwigh .) SAYS: seemed to bea tha rs ‘ Hood’s Sarsaparilla |, did it and insisted on my writing this let- ter of gratitude in acknowledgement of the same.” Be sure to get Hood’s. Hood’s Pills ton. Pace hand at the time of the shooting, but it was found closed in his pocket shortly afterward. The wounded man walked out of the court room, clasping his abdomen, unassisted, but he was helped down the stairs, and sank exhausted from loss of blood at the foot, and was carried to the house of Mrs. Shepherd, near by, to die. Attorney Cross, with constipa: cents, coolness which seemed miraculous after the | exciting event which had just trans- pired, continued his Judge Herndon reprimanded him severely for his attack upon young Winn, which brought on the difficul- ty. Attorney M. B. Riley closed the case for the wounded man, and then the jury, as though events of life and death had not transpired | before their very eyes, retired, and in an hour returned a verdict for Reed. FORTY PEOPLE KILLED. They are Buried in the Ruins of a Big | Hotel in Denver. Denver, Col.,’Aug. 19.--The Gum- | ry hotel 1725 to 1733 Lawrence street was wrecked by a terrific ex- plosion at 12:10 this morning, the rear half of the building, a five-story brick and stone structure, going down with acrasL. The hotel was crowded with guests and many of them must have been killed, as well as the entire force of hotel employes who were sleeping in that portion of the building at the time. On both sides of Lawrence from Seventeenth to Eighteenth streets, and on Lari- mer, directly back of the Gumry,the plate glass windows of the business houses were blown in and a number of pedestrians were injured by fall- ing glass. The fronts of many build- ings in the vicinity were badly wrecked. The hotel structure, for 100 feet “Ineglected what | argument. | | street and sidewalk in every direc- | | j DEALERS IN ; : SS — — ————— ) i } A wae e . { A Stitch in Time | ~| Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, | Contestants ina Law Suit Over a Rew Saves nine, says the old proverb, and it | zm + ‘ is equally true that a little of the right | appear, will pre- The famous Peter Schuttler Farm Wagon,also Clinton Webber and Studebaker Wagons. barb wire and the in Bates county. duce wanted. —=—- = LARGEST STOCK OF== Groceries. Hardware, Stoves Queensware and Tinware We have an immense stock of top buggies, road wagons, spring wagons, fine surreys and carriages on hand at prices to suit your pocket book. Cider mills, road scrapers, wind mills, iron pumps, Prices low, and -- GOODS GUARANTEED TO BE -:- as represented or money refunded. All kinds of country pro- BENNETT-WHEELER MERC, CO, crowd of spectators. A number of | people were more or less injured by being trampled upon and falling in the broken glass, which covers the tion. Hlectrie light wires dangling | from broken poles in the alley add- ed fresh peril to the firemen. One horse was killed by contact with a} live wire. | Two injured women had been ai- most extricated from the ruins when the flames approached so close that the rescuers had to abandon them for their own safety. Both voices | have now been silenced, fire com- pleting the work commenced by the explosion. The bodies of three women are also to be seen in the back part of the building, but can not be reached. Shot by a Drunkard’s Wite. Old Monroe, Mo., Aug. 17.— Farmer Baird, living near New Hope had been drinking hard for some time and his wife threatened to kill the druggist there if he gave any more whisky to her husband. ‘The along the alley and extending for seventy five feet toward the front, is merely a mass of debris. Brick and plaster are piled in a heap twenty feet high, and from this mass of wreckage can be heard the moaas of the injured and dying. At 12:35 o'clock fiye injured per sons had been taken out. They June 1.—Duestrow indicted for | was followed by F. M. Wilson of | were ali inmates of the upper story Platte City for Reed, J. W. Coburn | and sank down with the floors escap of Platte City for Winn and E C.|ing more fortunately than those be- Hall of Plattsburg for the defense. | low,who are still buried in the ruins. Ex Prosecuting Attorney John W.) The firemen are working like beav Cross of Clinton county, of Lathrop | ers, digging into the debris, but are crusade fame, had begun his argu-| making little progress. The re ment. He sought to impeach the| maining portion of the building, testimony of Berry Winn, the 18 | from which guests are being remov year-old son of Newton Winn, andj ed by ladders as fast as possible, is argued that he had testified at his| expected to fall at any moment and father’s dictation. He had reached | precautions to avert further loss of this point in his speech: “I have|life adds to the difficulty in reaching four sons at home, but not for all| the dead and injured. the great wealth of both the partici-| By some estimates forty people pants to this suit would I have one /| were in the portion of the hotel de- of them present such a spectacle as | troyed, nearly all of whom must be that young man,” pointing to Berry dead. It will be morning before a Winn upon the stand. | fall list ean be obtained The cause The boy’s father leaped to his/of the explosion is uncertain, but it feet behind Cross and seized him by | is supposed that the battery of boil- \the collar. Dan Reed, brother of! ers in the hotel basement must have the defendant, sprang forward to/| exploded. assist Cross as Winn struck bima| The sound of the explosion was light blow upon the face. From a/heard throughout the city. awaken- seat behind them all, with a revolver | ing people in bed a wile from the clasped steadily in both hands to/scene. A cloud of dust was thrown make the aim all the surer, suddenly |a thousand feet in tne air, and as started Reed, firing as he advanced. | there was not a breath of air stirring Not till the first shot was fired did | it still hangs in the air like a buge ; Winn seem to observe him. colum. Minute atoms of powdered Three shots were fired, and two| brick and the mortar are ascending took effect. One passed Judge | like gentle srow. |Herndon's head and lodgedinthe; At 12:39 the ruins. are burning | wall behind his back. The wounded fiercely and the firemen have been |man sank partly upon a table. He | obliged to retreat from the work of had been shot through the abdomen'rescue. Every engine in the city is jand arm and the bullets lodged be-| pouring streams into the mass, but | hind him, one in the stenographer's! the flames can not possibly be got | table and the other in the floor often under control before many of ‘the judge’s stand. Judge Herndon ‘the injured have been cremated As} | bauamered upon his desk and shout-|their chances of escape lessen the! } in the form most accep jed for order, and for a moment after | the cries of the imprisoned people Duestrow was now insane, and in-|the shooting there was an intense are increasing, heartrending shrieks! > | bush, and then, as Reed started into rising from every portion of the i | the sheriff's office to surrender him-/ great mass of wreckage. Fears are) ‘self, a great crowd surged in after! now entertained that the portion of | | him. ithe building, which seems to be tot- | | Winn had left his revolver in a tering, will fall and bury the fire-| vault of the Wells bank before/ men at their work. a going to the court room. It is! During the height of the excite claimed that Reed's defense is that | ment a hose team ran away on Eigh- | Winn had an open penknife in his| teenth street, stampeding the great | druggist heeded, but Sam Elston supplied Baird a quart of liquor, when Mrs. Baird appeared. Elston started to flee when Mrs. Baird shot him with a revolver, killing him Wages of Wire Drawers Advanced. | Cleveland, O., Aug. 16.—A gen-| eral advance in wages granted the wire drawers Cleveland rolling miils. has been at the *e draw ers will hereafter get 10 per cent) advance and un advance ranging from 5 to 10 cent have been given the coarse wire drawers. 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Trustee's Sale. Whereas John Hedger and Annie E. M. Hedger, his wife by their deed of trast dated August jth, . 110 page 88 cam- ¢ undersigned trastes the following described real estate lying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Sfiseouri, | to-wit The north three-fucrths of the east halfot the northea southemst quarter of section thi ow pehip forty-one containing fifteen was meade went of three said deed of been made in id note and 15) acres, it to secure th certain notes fully desert trust; and whereas, defa: the payment of the prinelpal of accrued interest thereos, now past dor unpaid. Now therefore. at the request he legal holder of said notes and pursuant to the conditions of said deed of trust, I will dtoseil the above d. bed premises udne to the h + bidder for ast front door ot 2 court house of Butler, county of Bates and state | of Missouri, on Friday, Sept. 13th, 1895, between the hours of nine o’clock in the fore- noon and five o’clock im the afternoon of that day, forthe purpose of satisfying said debt, interest end costs. H. P-NICKELL, at \ oo