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nanan + SOIR OP AOE . at oe y , Va sf > t + wy $, LXE 3s Gs as SS 4S a § Be Ge eer ISAS “9 What do you Suppose on Oi: ie that has brought this store its rapi ily increising trade! xx Is it the tact that the needs of the com y lave Ss been looked after and that everything nee 1 anthe < line of drugs and medicines can be had here - is it 25 because everything furnished is invariable the re Bt Y because you can feel ubsolutely certain ebout the quality of everything we sell you’ Or is it due to au system of fair prices andadoption of modern methods in conducting an up-to-date drug store. Doubtles all these features are responsible. Zz = «BLL, TUCKER, ie Prescription Druggist. Si ? MR REPUDIATE THE PLATFORM. THES AME STORY FROM NEB. Congressman Curtis of Kanszs on {Omaha Kepublican Bimetallic the St. Louis Money Plank. League Starts Independent Movement. Topeka, Kan., July 2.—Congress- a man Charles Curtis returned from Oxana, Neb., : Washington to-day and will remain | publican Bimetallic league was or in the state during the campaign. | ganized a yearago. At a meeting In an interview he practically repu- | held here recently the following res diated the St. Louis platform. He | olution was adopted and has been said he was surprised when he learn- | Signed by all members of the league ed that the national convention had Who could be reached: promised to maintain the gold stand- | The Republican Bimetallic league ard until there should be an interna- | deems the time to have come when it should make tha following declar- tional agreement. : ‘that it | ation: “I believe,’ be said, F would have been better to have de-| “Its organization was formed in clared for free and unlimited ecinage | the hope that the Republican party at least until such time.” Continu-| Would, in the future, as in the past ing, he said, “I have not changed | be true to the behest aud will of the my position on the money question. | People upon all the living issues, On March 9, 1896, the republicans and especially In the demand for free of the 4th Kansas district honored | and unlimited coinage of silver at me with a third nomination at which | the ratio cf 16 to 1. But that hope time the convention declared in fay- | has been dispelled. 1n its national or of bimetalism. I explained my (Sana at St. Louis ES party de- position to the people of the 4th in| clared for gold and the single stand- 1890, 92, ‘94 and °95 and have no} ard; that this great nation, dedicated reason to change. They know | in its birth to the highest develop- where I stand and I look to the re-| ment of the human race, should en- publizans of this district for my in- | 898¢ in the business of making milli- structions. | onaires aud paupers; that the classes Personally, I believa in honest Should dominate the masses, and etalon! In other words I am / that the government of the people, for a bimetallism that will guarantee for the people and by the people the permanent use of both gold and | anol perish from the earth. silver and am against monometalism | “We, 882 league, most heartly in- of either metal, because I believe | Gorse the stand taken by Hon. monometalism will decrease our | Henry M. Teller and his associates circulation. For one, I shall adhere | 17 their patriotic efforts to prevent to the cause of bimetallism as enun- | ‘his party betrayal of self, and alike ciated by the Republican party in {commend their withdrawal from the Stanley Matthews concurrent | ®%Ch convention when it ceased to resolution which passed the Senate | Tepresent the party of Lineoln, and House in 1878. This resolution | Grant and Garfield. was used in the Republican cam “Weare further perswaded that paign book of 1888 which was | Ur duty is clear; we are called up- furnished Republican orators to OP 8s wer and citizens of the Repub- fortify them with arguments for | lic to resist this proposed wrong; bimetallism. we therefore invite all Republicans The resolution to which Mr. to join with us in securing the unit- Curtis refers is: Resolved, That all 4 action of all persons and parties the bonds of the United States is-| Who are, in belief and sympaty, with sued under the said acts cf Con. to make one united effort to establish grees hereinbefore recited are pay. | the financial policy of this govern- able, principal and interest, at the ment upon the true principles of option of the government of the | bimetallism as it existed prior to United States, in silver dollars of | 1873. D. D. Greccny, President. the coinage of the United States} “R- P. Wiitiams, Secretary.” containing 4124 grains each of standard silver and that to restore to its coinage such silver coins asa the herald foot A SRyE: legal tender in payment of said | USD ULY Scouloudi, . friend of the bonds, principal and interest, is not | King and Linister of Marine under in violation of the public faith nor Tricoupis, has asked the Herald to in derogation of the rights of the | °*PTess the wish of all Greeks that public creditor. | United States should send a ship— say the San Francisco—to aid the The St. Louis Globe Democrat ®tarving fugitives, women and child- says that an “international agree. teu. There are ment for the larger use of silver is | 824 7,000 at Point Plate nothing but an irridescent dream,” | men are weakened by expe avd that Whitney “talks about it lack of food that they caunot suekle simply with a veiw to avert the im. their children who are dying by the pendeing suicide of his party.” Ig hundreds. M. Scouloud: says that the Globe-Democrat’s statement js Americans are the only people that New York, July A dispatch to 5,000 at sure and correct, that portion of the republi. cannot be suspected of having any | can platform declaring for “an inter. | ulterior motives, therefore, the only national agreement with the leading | people who can undertake this great commercial nations of the world, humanitarion work without exciting which we pledge ourselves to pro- jealousy and mote,” is an irridescent piece of po- litical chicanery, inserted in the Found a Nest of Tarantulas, republican platform for the purpose; Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29 —Ap of deceiving and humbugging the l ni d 2 adult taranutula and 200 Set, t taranutula and 20 yeupg ones were captured in a bunch of bananas that arrived Saturday from the kim for Suez. broke her shaft yes- —— e a oo F — = terday and drifted upon a reef, | S*¥°2 0 ‘he Natural History socie- where she foundered. Sixty persons |*¥- Shippers say it is the first ir. were drowned. Most of them were Stance of a nest of young reptiles Greeks. being shipped north. disagreement. Saukim, July 1—The Red Star packet Rahmanieb, bound for Sau- July 2-—-The Re- NO LIFE IN THE PARTY. | eae { Kansas Republican League Con- vention a Dull Affair. Outside of Shawnee County Less Than eae | 200 Were Present. Topeka, Kan, July 1.—Tae annu- al convention of the Kans as Repub- lican league in this city today was a to the man than 200 | delegates presevt, barring the at- great disar jagers. There less were | tendance from Shewnee county. | Last year four times that number were present. Itis supposed that | the dissatisfaction in the ranks of | the party on account of the financial | plank in the national platform was! responsible for the falling off. The| | proceedings of the convention were | uninteresting, aud many spectators | left the hail during the Sessions. enthusiasm among Republicans, but | the party will not be burdened with the entnusiasm created today. The} actual work of the organization is to meet once a year and elect officers. | This was the tenth meeting. | A Campaizn ef Dynamiie | New York, June 30.—Several Cu-! bans who arrived here last night} from Havyava, on the Saratogo, brought with them copies of a circu- | j lar issued to the Cubans, informing them that during the summer there would be many explosions in the towns of the island, caused by dyna- mite. The cireular advised all Cu- | bans to leave the threatened district while (a. campaign of destruction Was ip progress. At the Cuban Junta headquarters | yesterlay it we that the de struction of Hayana in this way had been under contemplation for a long time, and that private buildings and property owned by Spaniards oppos- ed to the independenca of Cuba, would be sacraficed as well as the pubiic edifices. Detroit Tribune Boits Jeffersun Cit The Detroit Tribune, of the oldest daily newspapers in the west, aud the leading republican paper of Michigan since the birth of the party has unequivieally repudiated the action of the republican National convention at St. Louis in declaring for the single gold standard. The! Tribune says that, while McKinley is allright, “the platform on the Tribune 2s. one only important issue before the country is damnably uapatrotic and} unrepublican.” It says “no one’s republicanism ean be impugned if he continues to stand squarely on the} National and State platforms of the| Most of the speeches were lifeless, | he convention, taking it alto-} Pe and the convention, be t to- | DEERING gether, was about the dullest affair! of the kind ever given in this city. | The object of the league is to create | CHAS Deac d Co Mac Groceries and Farm Produce —— Peoples’ Ticket, For President. DEERING PONY BINDER. For Vice President, DEERING IDEAL MOWER. ois. For Secretary of State. PORTER'S HAY CARRIER. For Secretary of War, STEEL HAY RAKE. For Secretary of the Interior. SH 2&4 SANBORN’S COFFEE. For Governor, MAJESTIC STEEL RANGE. For Sherif, AMERICAN ROUND WASHER. For Recorder, ANCHOR BUGGIES. (paar PLATFORM: Machine oil, oil cans, binder twine, , cold pune chisels. wrenches, rivets, sections,square head machine bolts, tin fruit cans, glass fruit jars, ice cream freezers, refrigerators, pre- croquet sets, grase, bush and weed seythes and snaths, rubber hose, | sercen wire. screen doors, buggy paint, corn and hedge knives, grind- stones, axle greese, large line of piteh forks, pumps, &e. DEACON BROS. & CO. Low Price Hardware’ and ZGrocery House. and at ourtstore. ———EE—————E Wo are for free purchas TELLER ON THE SITUATION. Denver, Col., July 2.—Senator Henry M. Teller will go to his mouuisiu home at Central City, Col., jor a week or two to recuper- | ate. During the campaign he will deliver a number of speec interest of the silver ticket in Illinois and Indiana, aud probably also in Ohio and several other Eastern States and in California. “Just now it looks as if Bland or Boies were in the lead, with Blaud a little ahead if anything,” Senator Teller seid today, when asked re- past, aud if he repudiates utterly the false and unamerican falmina-| tion of the St. Louis conspiracy,” | and advises active campaigning | against “go!d monometallism by cons! gressional candidates.” H Riot In Ohio. shots were exchanged by deputy | sheriffs and strikers this morning at | the Berea Stone Quarries. No one! | striker had bis leg broken in two| |places, and many have sore heads | jas the result of a hand-to-hand con. | | flict. | | The strikers approached the quar- | ry through a woods, with the avow-| ed intention of driving out the nen- | union men at work. They were| jmet by the sheriff and forty dep-| uties, who commanded them to/ |stop Foran answer began firing, | Gonia| and the fight then became general. |i8 gaining st The wo-|For a few moments the strikers rapidity in all parts of the | were repulsed and fell back to tre! woods. The men in the quarries | quitting for fear and through | mpertunities of their wiyes | Atnoon fifty additional deputy jSherifis were swornin at Cleveland | are the jand started for Westview. Banker Re wan Suicides. | Batavia, N.Y. June 29 —Jerome | Rowan, a rich banker and father of |Lansing Rowan, the California actress, who has challenged Corbett | |tu meet her in a scientific Sparring | contest, committed suicide to day by shooting himself through the str | hea By his side lay a copy of the | | Bat Daily News, containing a | dispatch that his daughter had chal- ilenged Corbett. Mr. Rowan left a! letter addressed to his wife, the con. | tents of which she declined to make jpublic. Mr. Rowan was 65 years told. i | uow and get relief. jbas been i | adapted to | tion, jcholy or tro | Electric Bitte: | guaranteed by its use. ,and $1 at H L Tucker's garding the situation at Chicago. “I believe that the Democratic par- ty will declare for silver at 16 to 1. The silver people are too much in earnest to allow a straddle. I do 'not think the gold Democrats will | bolt the convention, but fthey will Westview, O, July 1.—Over 100 | knife the ticket at the polls. The! gold forces of the country will be a unit in November.” “What would you advise, should |was kilied so far as known. One| the Democratic party declare un-/ equivocally for silver!” he was ask- ed. “f would advise all silver forces to support it, for that is the only way we can win,” he ans- wered. “We must meet the enemy with a solid front. I believe that if the silver forces unite, and there i3 a genuine silver ticket in the field on a straight silver platform, we will succeed this November. the h with and Tam sure it will conti grow from now on. It i subject discussed, and is diseussed the more adherents it will gain. The tariff has been rei ega- ted, and the battle will be on the financial question.’ Did You aoe | Try Electric Bitters 23 a remédy for your troubles? If not, gat a bottle This medicine to be peculiarly ef and cure of all exerting a won- uence in giving a 2 to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipa- headact i } nervous, 1 Fema e Co: the need. Health and Fifty cents unlimited | es in the | Silver Is, or are! €. melan- | Bruises,Sores, Uic« Spells | Sores, Tetter,Chapped Han medicine you | Corns, tnd all Ski on erizemced strength ‘are | tivelycures} drug store. |e ARTHQUAKE IN THE PACIFIC. | | Hundreds of Lives Lost on the Coast of Asia, Vancouver, B. C.. 1.—The, rived last night to June 18 |Regarding the recent earthquake } wave the Yokohama Mail July Empress of Chi iwith Yokohama Says: ; It will be some time doubt | fore the full particulars reach Tokio jof the cruel disaster that bas over- | taken thepeople living along the coast of Rikuzen and Rikuebu. [Sand 8 ss be- Between | seisruic disturbance occurred in the | {ocean that bathes the leoast of the main land. Ves far received place the center of | | disturbance in the vicinity of the| \celebrat . (Fol-} lowing the coast line northward from | | Kinkwa Zan, we find these reports | jfrom the various places on the | beach: i | Onagawa, Fatabema—Many lives | Accounts ed island, Kinkwa Zan jlost, animals destreyed and houscs| jinundated, but no definite number | | Stated. | Washinghami—Forty houses des- troyed, several deaths. Okatsuda—Fifty persons killed, | thirty houses washed away. Prison| doors thrown open an several pris- oners supposed to be lost, as well as some of the wardens; quantities of mail matter swept away. Motoyeski (or Shiqua)—Kighty houses swept away. Seventy three | 16th. Kamaishi—Over half the town swept away; many persons and animals killed; telegraph office wash- ed away Miyako—Much injury to life and property. | Kuji—The same fate as above. p- m. on the 15, aviolent) ha northeastern | a Bates County Bank, { corpses recovered up tol p. m, on Bates Co. National Bank, Established in 187¢. | Paid up capital A general banking business trang Hachinoye Minato—Eleven per- building destroyed; bridges swept away. Stephens Well Ahead. Jefferson City, Mo, June 29.— The instructed for Lon Y. Stephens for the democratic nomina- tien for governor number 72 so far jand include: Bollinger, 3; Butler,2; | Cape Girardeau,.4; Cole. 4. Cooper, 15; Douglas, 1; Dunklin, 4; Holt, 3; Howard, 5; Lewis, 4; Maries, 2; Mer- | cer, 2; Mississippi.2; Scott, 3; Miller, 2; Taney, 1; Saline, 10; Ozark, 1. ; Six of the seven Macon county votes |are for him,as are the three of Linn votes the seven of Chariton, two of Atchi- [ kon, two of Iron, three of Montgom- jery, oue of Gasconade, one of War- ren and two of St. Clair. David A. Ball has the seven of Pike, his own home, while Judge Hockaday and| ; Major James Waddiil have no in- | structed votes. | | Savanah{Bank Robbery. | Portland. Ore , June 29.—John! McGinner and John O'Brien, both men of many aliases and both notor- ious bank robbers, were captured in Vancouver late yesterday afternoon by detective Joseph Day of this city, and are now safely housed in the | Clark county jail. A man giving his name as Fred Martin, who was with jthe pair was also arrested. When | captured the trio was found to be! | equipped with pistols, dark lanterns | Sticks of dynamite, fuses and caps. a | big bunch of skeleton keys and sev- | eral pairs of new oarlocks It is be ilieved that they intended to rob 1a Vancouver bank last night, steal a | boat and ba off down the river be | fore daybreak this morning. O’Brien | jis wanted in Sayanah, Mo., |with two xuccomplices, he looted a F.J. TYGARD, = ~ - sons killed; two missing: school! HON. J. B. NEWBERRY 1) Vices J. C. CLARK - - ADRIAN sale, ranging from 40 acres up. This land is located in Bates county and is choice real estate. Call and Nee Ine before buying. « Scolls Emulsion, dat Oi, is condensed nourish, tor the b 8 UD of the csist the attacks of dj It should be taken in reasonable dosey all summer by all those whose the standard of health, g ground, try a bot UTLISES At soc. and frm THE BUTLER, MO. Suecessor,to- 3125,000 | acted. President Cashier .R. WOODS. © Real Etate and Life In urance Agent. MISSOURI T have a large number of farms for GRavess CLARK, as North side square. Office, tront store. night. eases. + ATTORNZYS AT LAW Office over the Missouri State Bank nce DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, room over McKibbem Ail callanswered at office dayot ~ SSEEBEES Specialattention given to temale dis T. J. Saitn. AacW, Tuomas 2 SMITH THURMAN, 9" Office over Bates County Natn’l Bank. DR. Fred R. Jones, Office church parsonage, corner Ohio & streeta. —_—————— ee T C. BOULWARE, Physician ast e Surgeo. Butler, Mo. Diseasesof w }en a specialty. DR. J. ‘T. HULL IDENTIST. Newly Fitted up Rooms, Over Jeter’s Jewelry Store. Entrance, same that leads? to Hagedots’s Studio, north side equare , Butler, Mo, Seven e Ba LAWYERS, Butler, Missourl, Physician, in Deacon Block, Residene Sas upeps pe -_ de square. en an Pal Office no: where |‘ | bank safe of $14,000 worth of bonde. | Gavel With a History. Ossin Guthrie, of Chicago, will] present to the National Democratic! Convention a gavel with a peculiar | history. The head is made from ¥! | piece of oak timber taken from the corner of ths old block house Fort PHOTOCRAPH ER Dearborn, in Joues. 1856, by Fernando! The handle is constructed | from the truuk ofa tree found 29! feet below the surface of the ground, Has the best equipped gallery and below the glacial drift, at the! corner Thi inth street and Cot. | | tage G e. This wood is | believed to be 7.000 years old. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve in € world for Cuts | Salt r! ad posi Or no pay required, [ is guaranteed pertect satisfaction or mon efunded. Price 25 cts per box | Forsaie by H,L. ucker druggist nd } Brides on Havana etreet. executed in the highest All work in wy line is guaranteed! (}. RACED The Old Reliable North Side Square. Southwest Missouri. All Styles of Photogrphing art, and at reasonabie prices Crayon Work A Specialty give satisfaction. Call samples of work. C. HACEDORSA and $5)