The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 4, 1896, Page 1

DIREcTORS. BSSsrPneaat ear venrr ‘Plormation was brought by Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. | APITAL, - + + + + $310,000. tsa general banking business. We solicit the accounts of far- ert, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for y funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- fy pmodation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all jeoy time and stop interest. . Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voris ig Duteher HH Piggott JM Christy jan Decrwester fe Foeiche ae wee i 6 a m alton — Geo L Smith OTHER S'TOCKHOLDERS, Bartlett D A DeArmond Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tucker igsrgaret Bryner John Evans Robert McCracken W B Tyler iain Brown Dr J Everingham A McCracken E Turner itorley Lamber Co Edith Everingham John Pharis Wm W Trigg AB Chelf C & E Freeman J K Rosier Wm Walls su Courtncy GB Hickman J W Reisner GP Wyatt bert Clark DB Heath L B Starke Dr NL Whipple cp’ LColeman Semuel Levy Clem Slayback Max Weloer BDavis CH Morrison John H Sullens, RG West qmak Deerwester Peter Swartzendruber J M Christy ——————————— BUTLER,QMISSOURLI. FARM LOANS. | Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of interest. Your Notes are Payable at our Office and you find them here when due. We give you privilege to pay at any time. Money readyjas soon aspapers are signed. 33-tf Nee ee TWENTY-FIVE DROWN. seven persons lost their lives in and pees near Seneca. town of Seneca, Mo.. inundated The ’Frisco railroad has two by a Cloudbarst. IVE FAMILIES OBLITERATED. tWo weeks ago. he Moore, of it, and wheat flour. pyge, and the far bridges out near Dayton and Seneca and much track washed away. There will be no trains from either the east or west until further orders Property Damaged to the Extent of The Kansas City, Pittsburg and $150,000. Gulf has washouts north of Neosho, P but trains are running between here Neosho, Mo., May 30.—Two cloud-| and Siloam. Springs. . The loss ra bursts occurred in this county at an | Seneca property will reach $150,000. larly hour this morning, one at this | place and one at Seneca. One life | me lost here and twenty five at Sen- WILLIAMS DEAD AT NEOSHO. Sylvester Wood, drowned by the oerturning of a boat while being CASH 6 R 0 C 3 RY tuken from the flooded district. ' DEAD AT SENECA. | Mra. Robinson and child; T. J.| We have few more screen doors Williams and family of five; Mrs | left, come and get them at almost Doebler of Carthage and her three your own price, a'so screen wire in thildren; H. Andrees and family of |same way. Our trade is almost five; Carl Schmidt and family of fiye. | double what it has ever been before MISSING. and we are doing just what we told Bucham and Cross White, Mr.| the people we would do, have re- Anderson and family of the Dayton | duced everything in our store and tller mills; Rev. Harry White and | are selling at lower prices than any wife of Seneca. | time, since we have been in business Two buildings were swept away|in Butler. We are selling 12 ths tt this place, but the loss was slight. | Michigan hand pieked beans for 25c, The damage to crops and furniture | 12 ths good rice 25c, 10 bars Fair- iigreat, as many houses were flood- | banks soap 25c, 12 lbs oat flakes 25c, a. | best salt, warranted not to get hard, The condition of Seneca is pitia- | $1.05 per bbl. tl, Itisatown of 1,200 inhabit-| Everything in our etore is being tata, sixteen miles west of here, and | 80ld at the same rate. issituated ina valley. The water | We have just received today an- tttended from bluff to bluff and was | Other cur of GOLD MEDAL from four to six feet deep in every | FLOUR, in the car we got 200 sacks business house Many buildings | of Imperial flour, which isa grade Were swept away, among them being | under GOLD MEDAL, that we will the building of the Seneca Dispatch | 8e!l at $1.00 per sack and warrant it together with the office. A number ‘to beas good asany flour sold in {residence houses were also swept | Butler, if not as good, we will give tay. The M. E. (South), was car-| it to you, and while we tell you that ted several blocks GOLD MEDAL is two grades above Rey. Harry White aud wife of the 82y flour sold in Butler and the best WE church were in the Dispatch four today, in the world, we mean fice and both are missing ‘They it, and we know it, anyone that is Were married in Now Jersey only not using GOLD MEDAL FLOUR A Mrs. Robinson is losing lots of gced bread. ia fact With her child clasped to her were GOLD MEDAL does not really found in u drift, both dead. OF cost you but 83c per saek, for we families of T. J five ure guarantee it to make 30 Ibs more of Missing; also Mrs. Doeblerard three bread to the 100 Ibe than winter thildren of Cy Buy a of H. Andress. jeweler, five in aii: keep track of it and see if we are Bucham and Cross White, Mr. that Paerson anc femnily of Dayton Roller You cannot get in aay The Higt and the finest flour in Bissine The wite I e world for only $1.10 or the next grade to it for $1 00 Youre truly, WILLIAMS BROS s are all down and all in- messen- twenty- qtr. It is thought that us SERMON ON ECONOMY. Cleveland Reproves Congress for its Extravagance. River and Harbor Bill Veto.— Doors ilosed Against Is- erease oi Public Burdens. UNSUSTIEILALLE EXPENDITGRES | Farth-+ Berd Trsuex Would Follow the Enectment —A Strong, Senat- ble Message. Wa-hintor, D.C. May 29.—Pres- vent Clevelun . tu day sent the fol- loving vigorous veto of the river aud harbor bill, which rect appropriations asd autkoriza including di- { proval or against the objections of jexamiing engineers. I learn from official sources that there appropria- | tions contained in the bill to pay for | work which private parties haye ac- tually agreed with the government | ,to do in consideration of their oc-! cupancy of public property. | “Whatever oi doubtiulness about the propriety of the of the appro- | priations may have escaped observa tion or may have been tolerated in| previous executive approyals of sim- | jilar bills. Lam convinced that the/| bill now under consideration opens | the way to insidious and increasing | abuses, and is itself so extravagant as to be especially unsuited to these | times of depressed business and re tions of contracts, carries appropri- ations aggregating $80,C00,000 “To the House of Representatives. “I return herewith, without ap- prova!l, House bill numbered 7977, entitled, ‘An act making appropria- tions for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works ou rivers and harbors, aud for other purposes.’ “There are 417 items of appropri- ation contained 1n this bill,ana every part of the country is represented in the distribution of it favors It di. rectly appropriates or provides for the immediate expenditure of nearly $14,000,000 for river and harbor work. This sum is in addition to appropriations contained in another bill for similar purpose, amounting to a little more than $3,000,000, which have already been favorably considered at the present session of Congress. The result is that the contemplated immediate expendi ture for the objects mentioned amount to about $17,000,000 “A more startling feature ot this bill is its authorization of contracts for river and harbor work amount- ing to more than $62,000,000 Though the payments of these con- tracts are, in most so distributed that they are to be met by future appropriations,more than $3,000,000 on their account and included in the direct uppropriatioas mentioned Of the remainder, nearly $20,009,000 will fall out during tho fiseal year ending June 30, 1898, and amounts to somewhat less ia the years im- mediately suceeeding. “A few contracts of a like charac ter, authorized under previous stat- utes are still outstanding; and to meet payments on these more than four millious of dollars must he ap- propriated in the immediate future. If, therefore, this bill becomes a law the obligations which will be impos- ed on the government, together with appropriations mede for immediate expenditures on account of rivers and harbors will amount to about eighty millions of dollare.Nor is this all. The bill directs numerous sur veys and examination which contem plate new work and further con tracts, and which portend largely in- creased expenditure and obligations. DUTY. “There is no ground to hope that in the face of persistent and growing demands the aggregate of appropri- ations for the smaller schemes not covered by contracts will be reduced or even remain stationary. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, such appropriations, together with the installments on contracts which will fall due in that year, can hardly be jess than thirty millions of dol- lars; and it may reasonably be ap- prehended that the prevalent ten- dency toward increased expenditures of this sort and the concealment A VETO Hid CLEAN burdens chargeable to this account in succeeding years. “Ia view of the obligation impos- jed upon me by the coustitution it j}seems to re quite clear that I only discharge a duty toour people when | | for which it appropriates rich | f > Patent =e publie welfare an y of them are |palpably for the benefit of limited jlocalities or in aid of individual in terests. 1 ©Ont pears that not d im pr mprovie and prosecuted that af expenditure of mil lio ew experiments for thei nave been en with nagement of lic & erest of all the peo j pl ‘or others as to the pract isueh work, the cts for which appropria. | tions are proposed in this bill have | the city endeavoring to | been entered upon without the ap justify questionable | representative 1 ers hold a Convention for the y of repudiating the acticn it appears thet some of) sentative on the « sulting disappointment in govern-| ment revenue. | “This consideration is emphasized | by the prospect that the public Treasury will be confronted with | other appropriations made at the| present session of Congress, amount- ing te more than $500,000,000 In dividual economy and careful expen- ditures are sterling virtues which lead to thirft and comfort. The eeonomy and the exaction of clear justification for the approriation of public moneys by the sevants of the people are not only virtues, but solemn obligations. | A SHOT AT BOND CRITICS. “To the extent that the appropri- ations contained in this bill are in- stigated by private interests and promote Iccal or individual projects, their allowance can not fail to stim- ulate a vicious paternalism and en courage a sentiment among our people, already too prevalent, that their attachment to our government may properly rest upon the hope and expectation of direct and especial favors, and that the extent to which they are realized may furnish an es- timate of the value of government care. “I believe no greater danger con- fronts us as a nation than the un happy decadence among our people affection for our goverumentas the embodiment of the higbest and best aspirations of humanity, and not as | the giver of gifts, and b its missions is the enforcement of exact justice and equality, and not the al- lowance of unfair favoritism, I hope I may be permitted to suggest, at a time when the issue of government bonds to maintain the credit and financial standing of the country is a subject of critism, that the con- tracts provided for in this bill would create obligations of the United States amounting to $62,900,000, no less binding than its bonds, for that sum. Grover CLEVELAND. cause Free Silver in the Lead. New York. June 1—Wm. Shaw Bowen, staff correspondent to the New York World, sends from Wash- ington an interesting story which is printed in to day's edition, of his interview with prominent democrats and declares that free silver will rule at the Chicago convention. Being a gold standard man, Mr. Bowen's words are all the more sig- nificant. After speakirg of the shock that will fall upon the gold standard people at the news from Kentucky, he says: “If there was a doubt as to the standing of tbe delegates at Chicago it has vanished. Ihave talked with A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS This bank us public a reliable, pe nt conserva- tive and accommoda’ banking insti- tution. @ with the toand LIBERAL ACCOMMODATIONS USTOMERS FARMERS D.N. THOMPSON. Pres.t BANK E,D. RPP cake | If James G. Blaine were alive to- Montpelier, Vt... May 27.—The!day, he would be fighting the Mc- Democratic State Convention for the | Kinley combine heart and soul. election of delegates at large at Chi-| Blaine’s opinion of the man from Vermont Democratic Convention. of genuine and trustworthy love and | | zuelan cago assembled here today. ‘The names of Cleveland, Whitney and Russe}! were cheered loudly. FM. McGretty was chosen permanent Chairman. The platform adopted declares as follows on the money question: “We demand the maintenance of a gold standard of value as being for the true interest of all our people, and especially of those who are obliged to labor fcr what they re- ceive, and we are opposed to the international agreement.” Other planks commend “the able, patriotic and statesmanlike ad:ninis- especially his brave and timely Vene- message; thank Secretary Carlisle fcr bis conscientious and efficient management of the Treasury Department; express sympathy with the Cubans; denounce the Kepubli- can protection theory, and favor a tariff for revenue, mot trusts nor unnecessarily interfering with business interests, uud de nounce the Republican party for fostering the secret, un American, jeowardly and despicable A. P. A. | organization In writing news for the TiMEs this year, It will be things we see and hear, And if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is “96. HH Flesher and family of Butler, attended the M E church Sabbath. Childrens day at the M_ E church well attended last Sabbath, good music. Topic, Young Crusader. It was grand; our battle ery is for God and home and native land; | came the cold waterarmy;then came the young temperance orators. It Prohibition day; there is no St Johu program. build a barn. Mrs A J Park had hands sorting corn last week, the heavy rains caused some of it to spoil. Geo Jenkins was on the sick list several Jays last week. Chas Hensley has his house paint- more than twenty democratic sena- tors and representatives to day. There was not a dissenting voice | that silver will control the conven | vote would be developed. | indiana Republican Factions. | | . : 5 oe | Indianapolis, Ind., May 27—The | two factions cf the Republican State | Central Committee beld meetings in jLinterpose my disapproval of the] this city to day. The faction oppos Tt 1s legislation proposed. Many of the | ing Chairman Gowdy and demanding | eounty. ;his deposition as Chairman was in ;Session at a hotel near the Union | Station, while GowJy and a number | of his friends were uartered at the Denison. | James A. Mount, candidate for Governor, was sent for tod 4 anti Gowdy men told him lt settle the fight, and they Gowdy’s scatp as Chairman of the State Committee Mr Mount de picred the in the midst of a « ,ed to side w t was said that won ' > - | the nominees for Si M | the troubled waters. ed up in good shape. Childrens Day at the | church next Sabbath. | Joe T whinnery is on the sick list Christian | Grant Park moved back from Kan- | | | Virginia last week. | Mrand Mr i of Stanton, Va., are visiting |tere. Mrs washington Park a Jefferson Park. the three sisters had jhot met for 40 years. They ' born in Highle Va., ' been | 2 were have wal Mr wilson w Saturday and listen \¢ talk on fr ‘he does in old Vir {he might be a « | Hastings of Neosho, | been teach in K eral days ¥ ¢ a sas, spent LDA oS ABSOLUTE free coinage of silver except under | tration of Grover Cleveland,” and | fostering | then | should have been called Childrens | Grant Garner is hauling lumber to | Ohio was forcibly set forth when he characterized the McKinley bill as a measure “that will not open the markets of the world for a single | bushel of American wheat or another barrel of American. pork.” About this same time the St. Louis Globe- Democrat was denouncing the bill as a product of Chinese Statesmar- | ship. The G.-D, however, has so often partaken of crow, it is getting fond of the diet —Clinton Democrat | Reynard items. Everybody is busy fixing fence, | which the rains have washed out. | Jim MeDavitt has bought him a fine top surrey. Mrs. Ella Ayer and Mrs Sweezy visited Mrs Mary Walker Thursday. Mrs Smith and family moved on Jim Sharp's place last Tuesday. Bert Brown has bought Jim M Dayitt’s buggy; loek out, girls Mrand Mrs Corbly of California, are visiting their daughter, Mrs Jin MecDavitt. | Miss Daisy Peipmeyer, of Kansas City, is visiting Misses Lewie and Lizzie Ooley. George Brown sold a fine bunch of hogs to Mr Bailey yesterday for $2.65. {i Edward B Cowley passed quietly away at his home on Round Prairie May 14. Rev McClenny of the CP church preached his funeral to a large audience, after which his re- mains were Jaid to rest in the Bap- | tist graveyard. Rev Bishby, an Adventist preacher, visited at the home of Jno Harriman | last Sunday night, we understand, he will preach at Brush college next Sunday evening after Sunday school. Children’s Day will ba observed at New Prospect the Ist Sunday in June at 8 o'clock p.m, Eeverybody cordially invited to come. Miss Hattie Nichols is visiting her | brother in Vernon county. Nancy HANKS. ANNOUNCEMEN | HAVE COME 10 Butler to Stay a ttt rs ee Qte tetas =e et tetete SH stteee | And wi 1 the people to know that I will do all kinds of ; 5 A ; sas last week. is going to stay! which pcatponed payments afford | tion, and there was the generaily ex. | see Ate Be if Litt ‘ ) for extravagance, will increase the! pressed opinion that 2 two thirds | james Beckett of Adrian, was in { * ac e ‘Upholstering | MATTRESS MAKING. DRAPERY WORK & BOX SPRINGS, WINDOW SEATS AND TUFTED COUCHES cod e a A Speciaity. PRICES == THE => AND- WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED R. R. PIERSON. 2-tf. — 4 :