The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 26, 1896, Page 3

has returned good many plums in the various lines. (TEESE I NIGE NEW 600 T PRICES WITHIN REACH OF \ AM AEM WETHON _ G. ELLINGER from eastern markets and the goods are arriving daily. There are a = Fine Black Goods, Mohair, Serges and Silks, Craventies, Sicilians, Mohair Brocades, Summer Silks, Wash Silks,Dimitys, India Linen,Challies, Batistes, Percales and Cheviois, also a fine line of | _————_—— EWILL RECEIVE THIS WEEK Lace Curtains, Bed Spreads anD Window Shades OUR LINE OF SPRING WRAPS AND SHIRT WAISTS iS COMPLETE—— OO DOZEN OF LADIES HOSE «which were bought at a special low figure and will be sold accordingly. Don’t forget;we sell youa f00D STYLISH SHOE AT A VERY LOW PRICE.__. G, ELLINGER \. mec ULATOR OF PRICE S. i THOMAS M. SPEERS. { age SMITH’S SCORE. ; eet wth of the Chief of Police of | tegarding the Massacre at Palmyra, Kansas City. | Missour:, Kansas City, Mo., March 20.— | S¢¢alia Democrat. homas M. Speers, Chief of Police| J. S. Smith, better known Kansas City for twenty one years, | “Dad” Smith, of this city, was a resi- removed last May,died suddenly | dent of Palmyra, Mo., at the time of heart disease at noon to day. Yes-| what is known in history as the lay Speers was present at the | “Palmyra Massacre,” and from him ith Ward primaries for the Dem- |the Democrat to-day obtained cor- as tod several othersalone prevent- | a letter written by W. T. Humphrey, lot-box stuffing. The fatigue was | attorney of Springfield, Mo. Omuch for him and today he| The subject of the massacre was . His last work was for the! lately revived by the offer of a Mr. odname of the city. | Evans, of Massachusetts, to endow Speers was taken sick at the City | Drury college at Springfield with this morning. Dr. Waring, | $25,000 if the college faculty could dalth Officer, took the ex Chief | corroborate the story to the effect ® ina buggy, but Speers lived | that a young man, unmarried, had yafew minutes after arriving. | offered himself and was accepted as Speers was born near St. Louis in! a substitute for one of the ten men, ) He went to California when and a man of family, who had been Aboy and returned to St. Louis in | condemned to be shot in retaliation IS) With his father he built the | for the killing of a federal s ; Pps, roundhouse and a big brick | Palmyra. lotel for the Illinois Central at Con- The individual who there sacritieed Malia and Vandalia. In 1861 he was | his life was Wm. Smith. but who dected an Alderman, being the, went by the namo of Hiram Smith oldier at /pMdgest man over given that office. |and was a half brother of “Dad forfour months during the war he | Smith, of Sedalia 4 political prisoner. After the The facts are thus set forth i Sthe went to California a rain, | Humphrey’s letter, which is zy ino S : 4 ‘ Saige a Rathing St. Louis on the return in| in the Springfield Leader-D: 19 187, A year later he came to Kan. | of last evening,and are corr: Ms City. }in every detail by “Dad” - an 3 | cept that the provost marshal r Wake up yc er but be sure | red to in the letter, Mr. Smith Mutake Simmons Liver Regulator -seebil offered to repri do it with-it will do it every time, | Mrs. Humphre do it so well that you'll feel hi i Wonderfully refreshed and streagth- | 7° Med. Tt is Simmons Liver Regula. | 8¢¢e for that do There is only one | life might be save mous Liver Regulator,and you'll | letter follows: het, it by the Red Z on on the | wage. Take nothing else, and You'll be sure to get all the good! “I would say th promised the ten m ! een Palmyra, M 7 lows: 7 Chiidren Gryfor °° Osvorn t 4 Pitcher’s Castoria. rebel sold Children Cry fos jsoun weNneill, bPitcher’s Castoria. | federal troop A» Children Cry for | if Osborn was tCher'g Castoria. jten days thet in the interest of a fair ballot. | roboration of the facts set forth in| wsother scandal through gang | of Lewiston, Mo, to A. W. Lyon, an © was at his house where Mrs. Hum- . | shot in retalliation for said Osborn.' Gen. John \ MeNeil, in command of land rapid fire, und have come from that she was heppy and comfortably At the expiration of the time there | the federal forces at the time of the | two sources—most of them as capt-/ situated, he left her undisturbed, | were ten men selected to be shot, of! above incident, receatly died at his! | which number I was one. On the | home in St. Louis. | evening before the execution my! Wm Strachan, the provost mar-| | wife and little daughter came to see! shal, was promoted to the command | |me at the Palmyra jail. After they | left and went to a friend’s to stay all j night, W. R. Strachan, the provost ‘marshal, came to the jail and read | the sentence to the ten men that had | been selected to be shot. The sen | tence was that they would be shot | the next Gay at 10 a. m. | “My wife was notified of the fact that night and was told that if she jeould not do anything then, that | there could not be anything done on | | the next morning. She went to Me Neil aud plead with him and told him that I was in Palmyra un parole , when Porter took the town, and re | fused to spare my life. My little | | daughter knelt before him and beg- | ged for me Gen. McNeil then, with tears in his eyes wiote a note and handed it to Mr. Read, the jailor | who was with my wife,and he took it to Provost Marshal Strachan, which note read that if the fact could be} established that Humphrey was here of a negro regiment and soon after- wards died in a mad house at New Orleans. While young Smith did not suffer | himself asa substitute for Hum-, phrey, he was selected as such, and gave up his life in consequence. Indigestion is often taken for con- sumption. The word consumption means wasting away, and dyspeptics often waste away as badly as con sumptives The reason people waste away is because either they don’t get enough to eat, or they don't digest what they do eat. | Tf the latter is your trouble, take! Shaker Digestive Cordial. This will) help you to digest your food and stop your loss of flesh. Shaker Digestive Cordial is made from herbs, barks and juices of fruit, by the well known Shakers at Mount Lebanon. It possesses great tonic and digestive powers. | Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured many supposed consumptives (who were really dyspeptics), by simply | 1 { |on parole when Porter was here helping their caireogeOl digest . i oa ne nour- and refused to leave, to reprieve their food, thus giving them nou : Be F ’|.. ishment and new strength. pub apy One *1n AIS) Sold by druggists. Trial bottles it Strachan, with an oath, 10 cents. ; he order should be filled nen said to him: ‘For God's some one that did not ’ and he selected Hi- old d the meu FIELD PIECES OF THE IS SURGENTS. bout 20 years before irs Patterns Now in Their Pos session. New York, March 19,—A recent k came to the jail and read i he mith t was t- Not Less Than Fifty of Various ; ures from the Spanish anda few |from expeditions which have landed. The rebels used cannon to bombard Sagua del Tanamo. The rebels have also acquired a! heliograph apparatus among the rest of their captures. Los Paliacios a Spanish detachment was sending in by the heliograph an | account of a victory which they had just gained over an insurgent divi- siou that afternoon. The message was only half completed, when Toire Hill, on which the station had been } 'set,was a scene of panic. rebel outfit was seen charging up The same the hill full tilt and the Spanish sig- nal corps fled Gown the other leaving the heliograph. The cffiicial reports admit the side, capture of some important articles but never vet admitted that a field piece had been lost. Maceo each have several pieces of light artillery. Their rapid move- ments make it difficult to carry very heavy guns. but they have a fair supply of ammunition for thore Gomez and they are using.” 1s nOW ¢ aber) that I was ter from Havana says: others of the ten) “Among the ves which have i shot The come over the war is the possession fe! ot r another cell now of field piezes by the patriots. olunteer to take my put there just as I's ion with a Democrat consideratien as a fact ments. As nearly as ¢ from the information a han fifty gu > day, “Dad” said that it : er ae dthe children went after #8 Bot less Last week near | for | Syracuse, Mo, in the company of his brother, Charles Hatfield, who | resides in this city. jand departed this afternoon ‘When When she was a Ch ‘When she bee; to Castoria, ‘When she had Children, she gave them Castovia, r Castoria, Warrensburg, Mo., March 20.— W. R. Frost, a prominent attorney of Holden, was arrested this morn- | ing by Sheriff S. W. Dunham, under indictment found by the late | gcand jury.charging Lim with baving forged the name of Mort Eades, a client, to a power of attorney author- izing him to sell Eades’ land, and jan with having afterwards appropriated the money to his own use.