The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 30, 1896, Page 1

foL. XVIII. * a (AFITAL, sacts a general banking business, 3, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for fonds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- modation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand on realestate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all OF BUTLER, MO. $110,000. jeony time and stop interest. DIRECTORS. ware Booker Powell Frank M Vorie Oe her HH Piggott JM Christy Ce peer wester ¢ 8 Radtord KG West , right Wm E Walton ia Jenkine Geo L Smith OTHER STOCKHOLDERS Ng Bartlet D A DeArmond Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tucker iusrgatet Bryner John I 8 Robert McCracken W B Tyler Dr J Everingham A McCracken E Turner Edith Everingham John Pharis Wm W Trigg C & E Freeman J K Rosier Wm Walls GB Hickman JW Reisner GP Wyatt D B Heath Semuel Levy CH Morrison L B Starke Dr NL Whipple Clem Slayback Max Weiner John H Suallens, RG West Peter Swartzendruber J M Christy #§ LColeman Pe erwester { P Y Morse is preparing to plant | some melons, Unele Joe Littlefield is going to disk 70 acres Of land and plant it in corn; he says disking is better than breaking; he tried a place last year. Bob Goodrun caught some fine fish last week. Some of them weighed ten pounds each. BP Caldwell and wife visited the widow Steele Sunday. We had quite an electric storm Sunday morning. Lightning struck in several places; it struck the widow Steele’s house and barn, tore the flue off the house and did considerable other damage. S Robb was up from off the Osage in Vernon eounty, Saturday. He re- ports the Osage all over the bottom; he said that on Wednesday of last week hail fell as large as goose eggs. JM. ———— Culver It Randolph upset his boat Setting a Ree line in the creek nd lost his outfit besides getting a ood ducking. DrRenick, of Butler, was out to ie Mrs Willey, who is quite sick, me day last week. ‘ TN Hendrix and J B Hays shipped lattle last week to Kansas City and btles have the experience—some else the money, as all claim to this season. : Deo being sick and his deputy fails eday last week caused us to mis rmail last Thursday. MS Kiersey takes the cake, being ite first to plow corn, so far as have ems. lonie Kiersey is taking lessons this ing in gardening. an Metihee and wife ning visiting in Culver. : Carl Decker took a flying trip to s City last week. Miss Maud Stover is taking treat- ent in Butler for serofula. CJGreer brought out a load of our and merchandise Friday. He owns them allon flour. Bring your hickens and eggs to Charley. Our new mail carrier took poss ion of the route Friday and will con- ‘inue to run same as Dee. Wehave a new road wagon to le for a good buggy. BF Billings is home from his trip Carthage. His daughter, Mrs Ida ee, accompanied him home for visit with relatives and friends Mr Patrick from the northeast was erto Dr Mc.’s. He is gold stand- dfrom away back. DrW A Williams of Hume, is not the fight this year for representa- tive, (as we suppose) as he is a gold ndard democrat. Spruce township has up a fight (not tapital removal) on the removal the voting precinct from Johns- n to Ballard. Bob Douglass called at Culver. OL Grigys drove to Butler for fish Uncle Billy was fish hungry. So Butler is having trouble with city dads, just such as we expect hear at Culver. Dr McFarland’s wife is quite sick. Adaughter of G G Gartin is sick. JACK. spent an Summit Items. Plenty of moisture for all purposes and corn promises to bea good stand. Crops of all kinds make a good showing for this date in the season. Klder Webb came to his last ap- pointment laden with some of the novelties purchased at Butler. The township examinations held at Summit center by B E Parker and Misses Emma Bolin and Janie Dono- van passed off nicely and we suppose satisfactorily to all concerned. Miss Vina Lawson is visiting Mrs Peter Lane, of Butler. Miss Grace Stearns came out from Butler Friday evening to spend Sun- day with her parents, and was éaught in the rain in spite of her ef- forts to evade it, being in an uncey- ered vehicle. Most of the farmers are well along with their corn planting, while some are through. This surely indicates one of our earliest seasons, and a good. crop, unless unfavorable conditions arise earlier than usually looked for. D D Peeler and A B Owens were in this locality fora limited time 1) °t week. Both are competitors to be feared by those who aspire for the same positions. Politically, Summit’s waters are not ruffled by any discord and all are sailing on in anticipation of a glorious victory for the principles advocated. Mrs Angelina Gutridge, of Spruce, passed through Summit Sunday to Butler, where she would take the train for Baker City, Oregon, to visit two sons and a daughter living in that state. Dom Pedro, the hard pan blatent correspondent of the Democrat talks through his hat, when he is able to talk, and we are loth to use our amu- nition on such small game, whose voice must be elevated in that way in an effort to bring it on a line with the better class, but to let him know that while we are not expecting any- thing better from him nor any good | to result to the Summit boys, socially, morally or otherwise, by coming in contact with such elements of society as himself. Yet we feel practically | safe, as the Summit boys were grown on good soil and are strong inalithat New Home Items. There is a worm destroying the in this vicinity. ll Bell is very low; he was strick- ith paralysis some time ago and no use of himself, has to be turn- ina meet le Burks visitec last Week. 6 James Bell is adding 15 acres to his y fine orchard. Jim is plant- B% some of the finest trees we ever in Sprague htning struck and killed a horse Brin Ricks on last Wednesday. erehas been a Sunday school Mganized at the New Home school house, with Parson Miller, superin- ‘endent. Harry Gray visited at W feld’s Sunday, Anew man in New Home, his name Stray, he is from the burnt district anraks. Trowbridge is cutting stalks vith © whridge is cutting sta! Mw Little- be able to withstand any evil influ- ences that may be thrown around GROVER. or any other localit hoe at 10 ets per acre. TO Tax Payers, Shally isin very poor health. | i enamber were on the: river } inday fishing. 1 Mite corn taniorth 20c a bushel. B srElliots was farming Thursday harrow tied behind his Wagon. 4 Weeds and grass have posses- eMot the early planted corn. 79> "93 and ‘9+ at the S. H. Fisuer, | paid at once. Ex-officio Collector. { DUVALL & PERCIVAL BUTLER, MISSOURI. HARM LOANS. Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest ,Your Notes are ;Payable at j our, |] and you find them here when due. We give you privilege to pay at any time. Money(iready<as “Ksoontaspapers are signed 33-th. We solicit the accounts of far-} goes tomake up the man, and will them by the ‘“‘big Injuns” of Shawnee Notice is hereby given that suit will be brought on the taxes of 1891, next term of | the circuit court, unless the same is} sarsz ‘ems | —— ELCVEN PERSON A CYCLONE, i ee Nes | |Clay County, Kas., Visited by a Death Dealing Storm TWENTY-PEOPLEINJURED Houses Wrecked. Trees Up-) rooted and Animals Perish i | the Village of St.| Joseph, Then Plowed Its Way to Clifton, Destroying Every Standing Thing in a Path Nearly Half a Mile Wide--Some Won- derful Eseapes. Clifton, Kan., April 26.—Eleven persons dead, three fatally wounded and twenty-five others seriously in- jured is the result of a cyclone which struck the village of St. Joseph, near here, last evening, then plowed its way through to this place and thence eastward, cutting a path from 150 yards to nearly half a mile in width. The day had been a very warm one, and in the early evening there were indications of a rain, but later it cleared away. About 9 o’clock clouds formed near St. Joseph, anda half hour later a full-fledged cyclone broke upon the village and partially de- stroyed it. Thence it seemed to rise, until within a few miles from this place when it again struck the ground. A large number of cattle and horses also were killed and injured. The cyclone started about six miles south of Clifton and went in a northeaster- ly direction for twelve or fifteen miles and then lost its force by spreading. It passed about half way between Clifton and Morganville. Its track varied from 150 yards to a quarter of amilein width. It tore threugh a farming community and left nothing standing. Houses and barns were wrecked, trees torn up or broken, fences leveled and hay stack blown in every direction. The cyclone was followed by a terrifie rain storm, which lasted several hours, flooding the devasted district. The cyclone took the people una- wares. There had been indications of a heavy rain all day, with local showers, but nobody expected a storm. So far as learned,the victims were in their houses, and the most of them had retired. The storm struck Peter Anderson’s house at 9:30 i | i | o'clock. This was about a mile from the starting point. The house was demolished in an instant. Every member of the Anderson family was injured. When they had extricated themselves from the debris they dis- covered that Anderson’s grandchild was mnissing. The dead body of the child was found this morning in a ra- vine haif aimile away. It evidently had been carried there by the wind. Anderson alarmed the neighbors who lived out of the track of the storm, and search was commenced for victims, but little headway was made in the rain, Couriers were sent to Clifton and Morgansville for doc- tors, but it was daylight before they arrived, and the extent of the injury and damages is not known. At noon to-day it was thought that all the victims had been found. Heart-rending tales of suffering are told by persons who had visited the scenes of the storm. Many of the in- jured lay all night, pinned down by S DIE IN. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY APRIL 30, 1896. issouri State Bank uprooted or broken off, and every- thing in its track was destroyed. ~ The first victims of the storm were | sli Belshazor and wife, living about | a mile east of St. Joseph. The fami-| ly Were just preparing to seek refuge in the in cellar when the storm struck. | The six children{ were all more or! less seriously injured, and it is} thought two of them willdie. About| a mile further east the home of Julian Trembly was destroyed and he was killed. | The greatest loss of life occurred | south of Clifton, some six miles. Two farmers, E, B. Peterson and J. 8. | Haynes, Were killed and a number of } others whose names could not be learned. At one place a woman and | Id were killed, and at another a| ear-old boy. ‘The body of the lat- | ter has not yet been found. | Several are reported seriously in- jured south of Palmer and some of them fatally. The number killed and | who have died from their injuries is this evening reported to be eleven, but the list will doubtless be in twen- ty-four hours. Over twenty-five per- sons are said to have sustained ser- ious injuries. Over twenty families were rendered homeless by the storm. The suffering of those injured was rendered great by the severe hail and rain that closely followed the cyclone. The roar of the storm could be dis- tinetly heard for miles. The little city of Clifton was wrought to a high pitch of excitment. At tirst it seemed as if the storm might strike there and many sought safety in cel- lars and dug outs. But it passed sey- eral miles to the south. HE TOOK SIX LIVES. Awful crime of a Boy Who Was ‘Told to Saw Wood. Two Children, Two Men, One Woman and Himself Are Siaughtered in His Frenzy. Rockyille, Ind., April 25 —This morning at 7 o’clock Peter Egbert, a young man 23 years of age, shot and killed Mrs. Herman Harshke and her two children, Herman and Aggie, Sheriff W. D. Mull and con- stable W M Sweem. He then killed himself; and his sister Miss Florence Egbert, who was lying very ill of typhoid fever, died shortly after- ward of the shock. Shortly after 6 o'clock, Egbert was sent into the back yard to saw some wood. Shortly after, while Mrs. Hershke was out milking her cow, Egbert secured a double-bar- reled shotgun, and going to the Harshke house next to his home, he shot the little daughter, a child of 10 years, dead, and wounded the boy, two years younger, who ran out on the porch where Egbert shot him again, killing him instantly. The murderer then went out into the alley and levelled his gun at Mrs Harshke, who seeing his intention, wreckage or paralyzed in the mud, while others crawled or hobbled across the country to a neighbor’s house. In several instances people were lifed into the air by the cyclone and carried fora distance and then suddenly dropped. The buildings, it seems, also were lifted upand then hurled to the ground with force enough to demolish them. The wife and daughter of John Morris were reading when the shock came. The house was divided. The women man- aged to get out, when the wind pick- ed them up, carried them 200 ‘yards and let them safely down on a pile of straw, just away from the storm’s track. The people for miles around today gathered at the different points where damage had been done, and rendered assistance in every possible way. The track of the storm looked likea piece of ground which had_ been lev- eled with a roller. Half a dozen tele- graph poles were torn down where the cyclone crossed the road. Tele- graphic communication bet ween Clif- ton and the outside world was cut off from the hour of the storm till 9 o'clock this morning. Itis expected jthat much damage was done in the | vicinity of Palmer, Washington coun- j ty but the details can not be learned. | There was no damage to crops to [speak of, but fruit in the storm's j track was ed. It isimpossible at this time to estimate the damage to ildings and other propeity. WORST IN KANSAS HISTORY. Kan., April 26.—The ch swept through this eon last evening y one of the most severe r experienced. o’clock last_even- h town of St. Joseph 2 eastern part of Cloud county, passed ina northeasterly di through the northern part. of > and biy in the southern ieordia, h a thickly-se the Republican ¥ ne was funnel-shay 1.ed unlimited. “Hén el linto the-aira Trees w ted ) ac half, west attempted to escape. He shot her]... [rts fs) tection “tive (6), town- |for. Here are a few nuggets: however, the charge taking effect in | ship thirty-nine (59) of, range thirty-two (52) | 39 tb good rice 1 00 i it ess e eal e! the top of her head, removing part) Pana appear at the next term of this court to | § tb fancy broken Java coffee 1 00 of heraKall. Mrs. Harsbke lingered | bs bran soy Mitcouri, on tue ‘ret Tacaday |4 Tb “ 30croasted =“ 1 00 : : ates * . a . . in an unconscious .state for about after the second Monday tn Ee tate 34 tb genuine African Java cof 1 00 the t! a) ereo! pie hours, when death ended her chal «9 long continue, and if not, Bhenthstors 3 —_— a rp — “ 100 suMSHbgs- He Jou ee : = |15 ib extra dry salt meat clear = i rd to law, the same will be taken as Having completed this work of coutesietl an judgment rendered sccording to of bone 1 00 butchery, Egbert shouldered his gun | tye pear Pt Staelsoid to satiaty the same. | 40 Tb rolled oat flake free from and deliberately walked up into the] “and it ie further ordered by the clerk afore- black specks 100 business part of the town. Sheriff) fail Snats COPY tere a ee 30 tb Mich hand picked beans 1 00 ‘ utler Weekly Times, a_weekly n p 5 and inted and published in Bates county, Mis- % Mull acy —— Sweem Pai yourl, for four. waeke successively, the last Best brooms aeae 20 planning a means o capturing t © | insertion to be at least fifteen iasresbetoreisiie Good * 1b Egbert was walking eee Witness my | 5 cans good sweet corn 25 across the north side of the square, hand as cierk aforesaid with theseal| 4 « pest “ 25 renee = oe 2 [szaL] of said court hereunto affixed. Done ; id holding dis gun in position, with ” at oflice in Butler on this the Isthday |2 ‘¢ heavy syrup apricots 25 both bagrels cocked, when he saw of March, 196. STEWART ATCHE: ON 12 mountain yellow table Mull aid Sweem crossing the street | peaches 25 towards him. He called out to them | 14 boxes Greenwich lye 1 00 that they had better not come any ge ae 116 “ Greenock * 1 00 aie ae ; : Well Satistied with | 28 bars Claizette soap 1 00 The Officers then retired intoa i i i |28 “ Silk soap 1 00 stairway in the national bank build | azga’ Hair Wi 124 « Old Country soap 1 00 ing for a moment's consultation, |6 ib raisins 25 when Egbert turned, and, coming | 5 tb extra fancy large raisins 25 upon them suddenly, shot and in-| | | 4 tb good California peaches 25 stantly killed both men. t 1 2 gallon pail sugar syrup 50 The murderer then started to run,| |, 15 th pail jelly 35 ingsa westward course toward | the fair grounds, a number of citi-| zens infflose pursuit. He ran like a deer untii while crossing an open; field, jfct west of town, a shot from! his pufsuers took effect in his heel. This stippled him. and, though he! man to scale the enclosure of | the fa grounds, he was unable to) run further. wled into a stall in the fair| fs. where he shot himself in! } breast. The fire from his) hited his clothing which was burned when he was found. | ‘in the history of Rockville! tement sointense. Business | dand people can think or} ‘talk of nothing but the awful trage | dy. edead are being prepared | 31, but no arrangements for | rals have been made. gin Was | } ral das cured. The general) insanity was the cause Pardridge, the board of trade plun- | greatest flood in Abilene’s history ger, who died a few days ago, was resulted from a terrifie raina few worth $2,700,000. ulator left no will. STATE OF MISSOURI, In the circuit court of Bates county, Missouri, the circuit court of Bates couaty in the state of Miseonri, in vacation and files her affidavit stating among Other things that the abeve named & non-resident souri. clerk in vacation,that said defendant be noti- petition and affidavit the object and general state of Miscouri for the delinguent taxes of the Ea D. N. THOMPSON E. A. BENNET . E. D. KIPP, Cashier. OTHER DIRECTORS Judge Clark Wix Jas. M. MeKibben, M. G. Wil Jr S —=— -¢ =< FARMERS’ CASH BANK CAPITAL— $ 5 5,000.00 WE DESIRE YOUR BUSINESS. OSCAR REAVIS | I wish to say to my friends that I have just opened, one door south of Post Office a NEW GROCERY STORE My stock consists of a new and complete line of Groceries and provisions, and I extend to my friends a cordial invitation to call and see me. I will treat you right and sell you goods as cheap as the cheapest. Country produce wanted, and the high- est price paid for same. Give me a call. Oscar Re ) } ) avis. eS BOOS RFA. Chicago, Ill, April 24—Edward| Abilene, Kansas, April 24—The The noted spec | miles north of town about 5 o'clock. | In three hours Mud creek rose thirty feet and all the west and north sides | are under water to-night. The streets | being level are rivers from sided to side. Much property is injured,but no lives have been lost. DE EEEEEEEEEEEEeeEen Order of Publication. U County of Bates. "5 *S* in vacation, March Ith, 1595, The State of | missouri at the relation andto the use of S H Fisher, ex-officio collector of the revenue of Bates county in the state of Missouri, Cplaintiff. vs. James H Meffor@l, defendant. Civil action for delinquent taxes. Now at this aay comes the plaintiff herein by her attorney, before the undersigned clerx of Golden Opportunity 2 Supe. W.G. WOMACK’S CASH CROCERY, for the farmers of Bates county. Gentlemen, trade with me and I will do you good by selling you goods cheaper than you ever bought them James H Mefford is the state of is ordered by defendant, of it Mis- Whereupon the fied by publication that plaintiff has com- menced a suit against him in this court by nature of which is to enforce the lien of the years 1890, 1391, 1892 and 1393, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $4,00 together with intereat, costs, commission and fees, upon the following described tracts of land situated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: Vould like to give prices on a thousand other articles, but space wont admit of it. Rem and pro- the time ase bear duce only J for eggs and poultry. Pi n of AYER’S t in mind wh to But- et € ler. I ar attention to nae ae ie ae my large assortment of queensware : soe a and tinware, which I am § liing low- Te & er than it was ever offered for in Butler before. Iam selling winter wheat flour rauging in price frou 75e per sack to $1.10; do not handle spring wheat flour asit works sticky and will not give satisfaction in this country, would advise you to let it alone. A cordial nvitation is ex- tended to one and ailto trade with me. Respe Hy. >