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ww VOL. XVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21, 1895. have claimed that the Armenians) za, | Were the and that | former simply defended th when attacked by the lat: -| weakness of this plea ca | from the fact that dunng i. |massacre at Sivas 800 A i | were killed and only ten Tu Qideath during the rioting. It safe to presume that it aggressors, the \ ie < + Nae TALK OF THE TOWN! How long we will ofer such great bargains in BOOTS «| therefore | Was a massacre pure and simple, and <| not un ordinary disturbance, which jresuited in such great loss of life | }iamong the Armenians. oo AND SHOKS {THE POWERS PLAY A WAITI AME. i f a Atl.ANE & ADAIR?’S. Tis will interest every man. woman and child in Bates County for we intend to sell you boots and Shoes fora Constantinople, Nov. 16.—No de \ finite action is known to have been} “x j taken by the Ambassadors of the | powers, but it is reported they will ‘ +.) join in a note to the Porte, inform- te I x = NGtes 7 ms eT 7? ing the government of the Sultan! SHORT TIME FOR LESS WONBY 2 nor ee p i | and recommendations of the powers, | . —_ matters have now reached a stage ia | than we could buy them and lay them in our house for. This will 1 | Asia Minor where it i ident that a short time,until we reduce our stock which we find is too large for this season Y9 \the Sultan's authority is not sufti-| of the year. All of these goods were bougkt in April before there was any ad- #N | cient to quell the repeated disturb- | vance on leather. We cau sell you Boots and Shoes at what they would cost today }} ances which are breaking out, and it | s aa a as L] | has become necessary for the powers, | -.,in the interests of Christianity and } for. we handle a full line of Dry Goods, Furnishing Gcods, and notions and the profits on these lines will pay our small expenses _ humanity, co put an end to these disorders by occupying jointly vari for running the business. While we have some fun redvcing our Boots and Shoes stock. j-:- NOW IS YOUR TIME TO BUY -:- juntil order is fully restored and a better system of government is in ;| augurated. | you foot wear for the Winter don’t miss this opportunity, we will beat any price made to you and we have all sizes in mens, womens Childrens and Misses goods and while in take a little time and Look at our Underwear of the powers, the most powerful fleet ever gathered together is being assembled at Salonica bay. It will And look at our Blankets and get the prices on them,lock through our Dress Goods, 50 foot of shelving devoted to this line alone, you can find just what you are looking for. These goods were ¢ ‘ last April, to t tured to our order a this fall, bou Jobbers but direct 2 F 1 Make Prices Others Cannot Equal & Ladies Dongola button Opera ye, patent tip C retitors rice $31.75—our price $125 SS eae SPAS Yi 2e for <ow Sy ipwards Mens good heavy boots, com Ladies band turned fine shoes competitors price $3 and $3.50 —our price $2.50 SSL NOX etitors price e $250. $¢ French Kid, Ladies button or lace, fine shoes, competitors price $4 50—our price 33.30. ban PS a Lor Ss * | | c 7 | Dittmans Veal Kip extra high top boots, competitors price $3.75—our price $2.75. WE HAVE PLENTY = other good values in our stock, but owing t rains we have had lately BOOTS and SH¢ most necessary, we sell you DRY GOODS ANDCLOTHING at prices that will sare you $2 Ladies warm goods, we have — _— consist of about thirty British war ships, including a dozen battleships ||of the first claes; a dozen or so ‘| French ships, including half a dozen battleships; twelve Russian warshipe, s{/of which four will be battleships; ,(eight Italian warships, of which bumber four at least will be first- class battleships, aad several Austri- an and German warships. The British fleet includes the flower of |the British mavy and is constantly being reinforced The news from the different pro- » vincee “of Asia Minor confirms be |yond doubt the impression which —.| prevailed here for a long time past that the movement has now assumed the heary JES ure the VW. SO UERY > wy NOOR NOS: YA 4 (@ 1 every S10 purchase Our Guarantes - - - We positively guarantee all goods boug to be cheaper than anywhere else and sh prove not to be r ready in a rease to w tfrom ae articles we ate f article, Same satisiact 1 ' 4 ‘ a | Pr portions which have placed it ga | beyond the control of the Turkish BS ,| authorities, even if the latter were WA | really desirous of punishing the i | Mussulmans for massacreing Armen- YOURS RESPECTFULLY, GABE ELLINGER. OG 8/59 a ee ee &.*. 0" 108 at eS % IOKISICRRIGSIEI SIS SIS Big line of School Cloaks and they will all go at a price that will surprise you. Call and see, it is no trouble for us to show you goods. Warm and well lighted room. First door south of Farm- ers Bank. La eB | ians Tn fact, it is considered very in | doubtfal whether the Turkish troops | ‘©-| would fire on Mussulmans if they | IN | should va ordered to do so The inhabitants around Kharput | qj are in u state of great distress trom | hunger, and if the cold weather was A | to set in suddenly there would be {much more suffering and considera | ble loss of life. | in case the way was clear. He must have been blinded by electric lights for an eye witness lared that although the gates were closed, and died from | her injuries bad enraged them so that no was pand te defense ft f. end report that the girl had BLOODTHIRSTY TURNS. From Guran, in the Villayet of 'Sivas, where the Kurds have been | besieging 4,000 Armenians, it 18 re | the draw already im motion, the cot = | ; es ‘heietiang Die in| Ported that all the Armenians have|ductor raised the switch handle Eight Hundred Christians Die iN | been maseacred |The motorman applied the current a L iss 0 ll fl State Bank a Massacre at Kharput. | Iu tte District of Mardin, jand the car shot forward and struck | in. Perea | there is & large Christian population | the gates with a crash. There was OF BUTLER, MO. | Houses Stripped and Burned, But no of ee ay eepem —— only a wpe! aig and then tke | | of villages have been burned to the|heavy car ground its way through APITAL, . 5 . . $110,000. | ' i : i | ground. and the people are destitute| the wreckage and plunged ux ; Constantinople, Nov. 16.—About!and swffering from sickness due to | brink into;the black abyss, amid the Transacts a general banking business. We solicit the accounts of far- ) 800 persons were massacred by the | exposure and hunger. | screams and frantic struggles of the iyochiag ebserve: ers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for, Mussulmans at _Kharput and eight | passengers, who at the first intimation a ware alone ite fre funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- | out of twelve buildings belonging to} at dancer suslied tortie meee hiss * odation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand | the American missions were sacked | The ia A Sy 3 ae ak ms oe; t 4 cher of O An on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all and burned. The missionaries, how- z he 1 ses ae 4 th ; ‘ 2 . tt any time and stop interest. bes: 3 great splash an hen there was DIREUTORS. yer eccaod er ta eater silence. Soon men to rush Booker Powell i Washington, eee Nov. 16 ee, Phrough an Open Draw. shouting about and the Hilt Piggott, retary Olney has received a cable-| E REL ET 2 CB Radford gram from United States Minister] Cleveland, 0, Nov. 16.—A heavy | to the spot in response to telepboue Geo L Smith Terrell confirming the reports from | electric motor car containing be lcalls. In an incredibl short espace OTHER STOCKHOLDERS, Constantinople concerning the mas-|tween twenty and thirty passengers] o¢ tine vhe work of rescue had be re of 800 persons by the Mussul-; went through the draw of the Cen gun. All the oceupaxts of ¢ | with the exception Ae. = potion att al a the from bis cell, the vod bis neck and be was hurried away to the place of ex He protested his ine 22 e was draggei slong begged for bis life Themes the bettered down and lragged where placed ar ecution Missionaries Hurt. a tie the process of DRGP TO THEIR DEATH, Klectric Street Car Goes} beg: 2 be saidthey were there Sih | sfortus b, not ia ap make an example of os Pace (ha: tiey mua ~ of Frederick county { be Or. T. C. Boulware H Dutcher ohn Deerwesterj JR Jenkins Frank M Voris HC Wyatt "RG West Wm E Walton ate wrete { waliee.bat t Bartlett _ atgaret Bryner Lulu Brown Hurley Lumber Co HB Chelf Courtney obert Clark P&S LColeman R Davis Frank Deerwester Dr W E Tucker The assa sffuered ear, c which Goig, D A DeArmond Dr W D Hannah s John Evans Robert McCracken mans at Harpool and the destruction | tral vieduct at 7:45 o'clock this £2 Dr J Everingham A McCracken : fesse Scan ! ican | eneni d dropped 101 fe | < se Edith Everingham John Pharis of a large amount of American | enening, and a Ppe 1 feet tolind managed to jump as ; . aa mission property. |therivep below Itis:a horror, the} o. ge C & E Freeman J K Rosier is zs en % jover, went down t Boston, Mass., Nov. 16.—The/like of which has never occurred i The car d it struck th G B Hickman JW Reisner 3 following cablegram was received! here befere. the passeng w who to certain death E Turner Wm W Trigg Wm Walls GP Wyatt Dr NL Whipple leath el aed ed ad thirtee ber bed Semuel Levy Clem Slayback CH Morrison John H Sullens Peter Swartzendruber D B Heath L B Starke to-day by the American Board of} The Qent al viaduct is a huge Foreign Missions from Rev. H. O. stilt bridge ) feet long, made of | | DUVALL & BUTLER, FARM LOANS. Money to loan‘on farms atfreducedfratesfof 11 PERCIVAL. MISSOURI. Your Notes are Payable and you find them here when due f +e 5 V'e give you priv soon as papers are signed. The Jefferzon C nm -prodding ar izens of Missouri who would be; ;_ > I piling to act as governor of Mis. | pace ERS, buri. It finds that Judge Gibson, | Elijah H. Norto fol. Dalton, Senator Nat Shelton of |id R. Francis wo Pebuyler, State Treasurer Stephens, | 8¢¢ept the job — to | Dwight of Constantinople: | “Eight hundred were Killed in| Harpool. Eight of twelve mission | buildings burned; lives spared; | houses stripped; Lurks will regard this as a test of the intention o United States ue to defend missions. anywhere k olated: pec starving. Instant help that a si directed from Yild all Chri and Arme z Kiosk against not against the nd is a feature} y attract the} attenti of the mowers, even if it has not already dgne so. | At Sivas and elsewhere the Turks | which | iron. Itconnects the heights and the prosperous residence section of both sides wit’ the business of the city. Directly over th is a draw bridge on the pivot ing pattern, and this 101 bove the surface of the water. th side street railway passes over the bridge and on either side « w there is a safe eas the conduc holds up a handle send a into the gnliey in stead it to go on the draw. First reports from the the disaster med to ne on the conduc center is toe f ar of allowing and the bridge,attendants had d the big iron gites and were preparing | to awing ‘he draw. As is the rule} the car stopped and the conductor} went forward to release the switch | : Jas ea Going