The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 21, 1896, Page 6

THE MODEL CL > ITS THE UNEXPECTED ; § . A week ago we hadn't the slightest intention of buying such a big | no: . | season. Our buyer declined all offers from the manufacturers, but’ when they urged him to make them an offer, he did so, offers : rene Svea : is surprise his offer was accepted and a laree part of that them an average of 40 per eent less than the cost of manufacture. Much to his surprise his offe S | ge | f th : stock arrived. of this department. price 190. Imported balbri ion $4 25 i. $ = ) Cost of production $0 75 2 : — ) Cost of production $4 et Our } Ee aes ene 0 906 Our 50C ME y bose past Eee 7 50 y price a ) Retail price 1i0) Bee . etail price 5 i y i $6 3 ) Cost of production $1 60) Z t a areca * 73 l Our 00 BOYS SUITS ~ Wholesale price 1 90 >. au $l 95 J Retail aig 10 00) price s ) Retail price 250) . i $8 6 u f production $3 46) Cost of production $8 63 ) Cost of y a $3 46 On: Wholesale price 10 25 ’ bee 7 50 BOYS SU IT - Sorireacream : A 5 price a Retail price 15 00) I a ‘ ) Retail pric : Cost of production $10 00 / Our ) Cost of production SM 8) ) Our ‘ Wholesale price 12 00, ‘ | 0 00 BOYS S Wholesale price paler ames ‘ Retail price 18 005 eice Ls ) Retail price 7 25 : i ishi i i ir i = a! SS 2s !!—We positively guarantee every pair as furnish: oods. We are proud | Fine laundried shirts, hundreds of styles, choice................ d4e Shoes! Shoes We positive ye yp bra moe ee ee oi nd ool worth 35c, Models | Large size hdkfs.......... 3c Heavy seamless sox......... de resented the best shoes on earth for the least money, great redueti iggan, worth 75c a garment, Models price 374c. | Good suspenders......... 8c Silk suspenders............ lie in Hats, Caps, Trunks and Valises. Ye who toil! Ye who earn! Here is your dollar saving opportunity, in justice to yourself you ¢ Examine what we are showing, our prices, and our qualities will win every time,and that we MODE Hundreds ate Killed. THREE CITIES LAID WASTR Seventy People Killed and Han- dreds Injured at Sherman.— Half the Town Blown Away. Four, Persons Die and Five Injured at Gribble Springs.—Justin Also Felt the Blow. Sherman, Tex, May 15.—A most disasterous cylcone struck Sherman at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, wiping out the entire western end of the town. The loss of life is appalling. The dead are estimated at between seventy and eighty. This is a very congervative estimate. Many more are fatally or seriously injured. At 6\o’clock this evening twelve bodies dve lying in the county court ed about across the desolate west end of the city. No accurate esti- mate can b* made yet of the loss of life and property. The work of res- cue and seatch for the missing goes on. The basiness part of town is destroyed ind the greatest excite- ment reign’. The westerns Union Office is oye rflowed with anxious ones sending messages and inquiring the fate of othar towns. Every available wagon, wa and horse is in use by the searches and workers on the field of death. As tine grows, later re. ports of greater loys of life and prop- erty are arriving. Many stories of micaculous es- THAT HAPPENS, The result of this unexpected but certainly most fortunate purchase can best +tt CICANTIC CLOTHING PURCHASES AT 40 PER CENT BELOW THE COST OF PRODUCTION -- The Greatest of all Clothing Saleg agar SRI 8 a ee > MUST BE Tl N BRA AR RAR A stock of clothing, didn't want any moi | ing the cost of manufacturer, wholesale price, regular retail price and our own price, the Moore building the highest ex citement prevails, and the greatest difficulty is experienced in getting the names of the victims and acour- j ate reports. | The storm siruck Sherman with- | out warning on the southwest cor- ner of the city and cleared a path 100 yards wide along the west end of the town. Houses, trees, fences and everything went before the ter- rible force ef the cyclone. The ne- gro part of the town suffered most severely. There are probably thirty negroes killed. Ten bodies have been picked up in Pest Oak creek. | The flood of rain which attended the | storm was severe. The town is a ;mass of mud and floating debris There is much difficulty in finding the dead and injured. Captain T. E. Ely’s house was de- molished and his wife and two child- |ren had miraculous escapes. i Captain B. Barges’ residence was | also leveled to the ground, but for- | tunately the family was away from | home. Frank Ryan, manager of the Sher and two children esea | jury. | SEVERAL KILLED AT GRIBBLE SPRINGS. i ae a: | badly damaged, and four people cyclone that struck Sabetha. Denton, Tex, May 15 —A sane jton, & mining town on the Baltimore | struck the | eight miles | ternoon. town of Gribble Springs, (and five others so badly wounded ~~ : The property = and houses were is great. Particulars as <E unroofed, trees uprooted and small | they :can not live. | damage unobtai: JUSTIN SWEPT BY THE sToRM. able. } | | | 2:20 p. m. | down, killing one man named W. J. capes are told. The Sherman court i : house is insufficient to hold the dead | Evans, of Keller, Tex, and badly in- and wounded. The vacant Moore J°72G seventeen others. The cy- building, on the south square was | lone also did much damage north utilized at 6 o'clock, fifteen colored | &! here people, dead or dying, beinyz placed | AKOTHER TWISTER IX RANSas. there. Mound Ridge, Kansas, May 15.— Express drays, baggage \ wagons A eyclone passed north of this city and all kinds of vehicles continue to - | was at Elyria, eight miles n ;man base ball team, had his house|was struck and house, and as many more are scatter. | blown off its foundation and com. | torn down. |pletely turned around. His wife | today from h ped serious in- | jat 4 o'clock this morning, traveling line stove, come in with dead bogies. Around jSoutheast. The firat place it struck |9t this office. | orthwest of this city, where it unroofed sever- al houses and corncribs, but doing no other damage. It then raised and the next place it struck was at the farm of David Boehs, an aged German, living four miles northeast of Mound Ridge. The house was utterly demolished and Mr. Boehs and his wife buried in the ruins. Ag | the house was rather iselated, it was tified of the disaster by the cries of the wounded man. They found him lying some distance from the house. covered with mud. His head and face were fearfully mangled,his nose jand upper jaw torn away and his |Skull fractured. His wife was un- ‘conscious but was not thought to be |seriously injured at the time. Later it was found that one leg was brok- ‘en in two places and injuries sus jtained from which she cannot recoy- ler. From this point the storm |seemed to rise, but reports come jthat a farm eight miles southeast several buildings Mr. Boehs died at noon is injuries. PENNSYLVANIA IS NOT OVERLOOKED. Pittsburg, Pa, May 15.—Smith- ;and Obio railroa d forty miles east of north of Denton this ao ee ee bya wind storm Four persons were killed 224 Cloudburst yesterday afternoon. The storm came up without the outbuildings demolished. The mines of the Waverly Coal company were badly flooded and nearly two miles of the railroad track belonging to miners, who were working in the mines, were compelled to flee for their lives, the water filling the mines to a depth of 3 feet before the men were able to get out. Loss.be- tween $59,000 and $75,000. For Sarze.—A «N, ew Process” gas. almost new. Enquire tf. } till about 7 o'clock that his nearest | neighbor, Cornelius Boehs, was no-| He was in his night clothes and was | | CYCLONE IN KANSAS. Fiye Persons Killed and Fifteen Injured at Seneca.—Third of the Town Destroyed. { | KE. E. A. D. KIPP, Cashier. | | Twenty-Five Are Injured in the Twister at Sabetha.—Three Hurt Judge Clark Wix, i | One Hundred Buildings and Two! Churches in Ruins There. | Storm Comes North. | | Texas | Seneca, Kan., May 17.—A terrible | | cyclone struck this city this even-| jing at 6:40. The cyclone followed a heavy hail storm, hail falling as) large asa walnut. About seventy | | houses are totally wrecked. Five | people were killed and many badly | | hurt. The opera house was entirely, | swept away. The elegant $40,000| | school house is a wreck and the/ CASH ¢ $5 5,0 { PINTO CASH QUICKLY, RAR AR A RRS SL © told by the following prices, sho un not pass this great sale by advertise facts only. The great and onli L, CLOTHING CO; D. N. THOMPSON, President BENNETT, Vice Pres. OTHER DIRECTORS | M. G. Wilcox, H. M. Gailey, at Frankfort. Jno. E, Shutt, Jno, Steele, J. Everingham. J.J. MeKee, FARMERS’ BANK -APITAL— WE DESIRE YOUR BUSINESS, “RNED 5 ¢ 2 § we) ‘e, had enough for ¢ * - il Jas. M. McKibben, 00.00 court house completely demolished. | ; There are few houses in the city;homeless, losing everything poi 4 ward | great | Owing to the dark- | wide. particulars are | i jhad. The storm moved on to | Falls City and apparently did | damage there. | that are not more or less damaged. | The entire north part of the city is | covered with trees, boards, etc. The! ness and heavy rain, | loss in this city will be about $200,-| hard to obtain. ; 000. The cyclone lasted about ten: erne | Was seen to form over the town of | | piel wect part of Balleyyille, Kan., Miltonville, Kan. It struck the ; . : ‘ground a few miles from town, but eight miles west, is also swept away. did not do much damage there. It Oneida, Kan., eight miles east, is is probable that this was the same | killed. Much damage is reported in| FRANKFORT PEOPLE HAD WARSIXG. | the country northeast of here. This! Frankfort, Kan., May 17.—Th | , Rews is sent in a field south of the,™0st destructive cyclone that ever | | cit All wi t 1 visited this portion of the state [oe aa reeare tom down; sand) pera our little city at about 5 afull report cannot be sent. The o'clock this afternoon. The cyclon | killed are: Two of M. R. Connett’s came from the southwest, and was | children; one of Pete Assenmacher’s preceded by a heavy fall of rain and jchildren; one of M. E. Vorhees’, Dail. The funnel shaped cloud came | = : from the opposite direction from the | children. Many miraculous €SCAPeS vind that was prevailing, and travel. | from instant death are reported. ied slowly, which gave the people | Three of James Sherrarr’s children ample time to go into cellars and, | Rear Oneida are killed. caves, which most of them did. Sey- | } Earlier in the evening a cyclone | | the loss would have been storm passed on to the no dealing destruction in ite patb,b the track of the storm is 80 10 It ie reported that the ston also did much damage near Big low, and at Vloits. The entire wea part of this city is razed to @ ground and such a picture of struction can only be appreci Seeing it. Some miraculous are reported, aud had the cyels come upon the city without warns AN ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. Benton, Ky., May 17.—A cyclone passed over the north n corner of this county this mersigg bout 1 o'clock, doing damage verything in its path. Bs i tore down the house of An Jones and killed the entire fassif consisting of Jones, aged 80; i wife, aged 55; his eldest child, a9 17 years old, and two girls, one and the other12. Jones was pore man, and had only lived in @ community about six months. MANY INJURED aT SABETHA. Topeka, Kan., May 17.—A fannel- shaped cyclone struck the north part of the town of Sabetha, a small place northeast of here, near the Nebraska line, destroying the Grand! Ieland railroad depot and elevator. About twenty residences were de molished, and twenty-tive injured, seven of whom wi Twenty famizies Deople: Il die.t eral farm houses were destroyed \before the storm reached the city, but so far as learned, at this time, no one was hurt. Nearly fifty resi- dences, besides barns and out build- ings, were totally destroyed in this city. Many of them were the finest in the city. At least 200 people are rendered homeless No one was killed so far as learned Tbe Methodist and Christian churches are total wrecks. Many in the same grave. Were rendered | buildings are slightly damaged. The | a coffins were sent to Elva todsy, the entire Jones family were The scene 7 visited to day by hundreds from over the country around. . nado came out of Graves county ® Sympsonia, where two stores lished, two churches and l house were torn dows, sides barns, stables, fences and FB) erything else in its path. There #™, considerable damage done in OOM parts of the county.