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; i, | lama other most admirable and attractive thing about an woman is manliness. body admires a} 4 nly woman. » must have of course, without it she yuld lose the rightness of her eyes, the fullness of her chee ks and her v Real | that a woman is reall is strong and perfect well as in every other of performing per ternity. Some are b ‘constitutions al we “r ot enjoy perfect hee the Boies pre cautions and the st ca: edy to Me me perfectly well and strong. Favorite Prescription will cure ent of the distinctly femi- no do 1, need only take Mayor Clardy returned from Chi- cago Saturday evening. There are several cases of small pox in Monett, Mo. The weather has been fine for haying and stacking grain. Judge Cole will move to town about the first of September. Mrs. Peter Lane is at Excelsior Springs for the benefit of her health. R. Brown will accept the thanks of the Timers for a renewal of his subscription. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Radford left yesterday for Eldorado Springs to spend a week or 80. The democratic county convention held in DeKalb Saturday, instructed for Stephens for governor. Webster Davis retracts charges of attempted bribery against Editor Edwards of the Kansas Cily Journal. Billy Huggins, a barber in the O. K. shop, skipped out Saturday night. He left a number of bills un- paid. All over the country prayers are going up for a good rain. The ground is getting very dry and the pastures short of grass. Now you have a western man nominated for president. You have been howling for this for a long time. Now elect him. C. H Bryant, one of the substan- tial farmers of Peru, and a good friend and subscriber to the boom- ing Times renews to ‘97. Taze LaFollett will take a trip to Wyoming in a week orso. He goes with a view of looking up a location, provided all things suit. Lots of muscle, both white and black, is going to waste in the court house yard that could be utilized in the harvest fields to advantage. T. K Lisle’s2yearold filley, Lizzie K., took third money at the races at Topeka, Kan. She won the second heat making the half mile in 1:09. The populist leaders are gather- ingin St. Louis and making ar rangements for their national cen- vention which meets next week. W. O. Atkeson wants the populist delegates to go to the Sedalia con vention in covered wagons. Atkeson is good at giving advice, he has been doing that all his life. As for him- self, he will goto the convention in a chair car, on a pass. It is announced that Gen. Harrison will take the stump for McKinley, and his services will be used in Ken- tucky, Maryland, West Virginia and possibly Missouri and Kansas. The republican leaders are alarmed over the silver move which is sweeping over thd country. It will be a cy- clone by November. Better hunt your cyclone caves. Back. in Jail. Both Bill Orr and Joe White, the | two prisoners who broke jail several months ago, have been captured and placed in jail. White was located in Kansas and the sheriff went after | him last week and brought him back. Orr was apprehended near bis old home in Cass county Monday. Orr is one of the brothers that robbed and shot Thomas Cornland. D. W. Johnson, Esq., of this city, ode ofthe best democrats in this country, although an uncompromis- | ing “sound money” man, formerly lived in Salem, Ill, and was well acquainted with t He says no better man than Judge Bryan (father r of the next president) | ever lived. Wm. J. comes of good! steck.—Rich Hill Review. * |Coroner, Dr. J. R. Colson, of Deep Vaughn, near} he Bryant family. | ao | 4 Republican Rally. The republican party held their county convention at the opera house Saturday and made the following ‘nominations: Representative, L. L.) Hegenaur, of Praire township; Sher- iff, Geo. A. Laughlin, of Howard | | township; Treasurer, J. B- Rucker, | jof West Boone township; Prosecut ling Attorney; =. <..---2~-- ; Public Administrator, W.W. Ross,of Butler; | | water township; Judge North Dis | \trict, F. M.Patrick Spruce township; | South District, John W. Gencb, of | | Pleasant Gap. | Delegates to Springfield conven: | jtion, Chas. Gilbreath, O. D. Austin’ | A. H. Lamb, Ben Wix, J. K Martin, | land I’. V. Hamilton. After business of the convention | had been concluded the convention was turned into a ratification meet ing and R. E. Lewis being present, was introduced and made the usual | republican speech, denounced the democratic party, endorsed pro tection and the gold standard. Hon. Perry Freeman, candidate for Secre- tary of state, was present and made a speech. The delegates from this county will support Lewis for governor in the Springfield convention,as a reso- lution to that effect was carried Webster Davis was given the marble heart. At onetime Webster was quite popular in this county but he ain’t any more. Fatal Cattle “Plague, Vancouver, B. C.,July 9.—Steamer Miowera, arrived from Sydney sev- eral days late owing to fogs. Latest mail advices, dated June 10, state that the tick plague is still raging in every part of Australia, causing destruction of entire herds of cattle. The tick fastens itself in salt meat and has been exported to Sydney in this way. Though the tick be re- moved, the egg remaing, and the in sect can not be exterminated. Pas toral sections of country are intense- ly excited oyer the unexpected plague, which has taken the place of the rabbit plague, and is costing the country millions of dollars and bringing financial ruin to hundreds of homes. The tick sticks to the cattle and eats its way into the vital parts. Bryan For President. Post-Dispatch. The nominatioa of William J Bryan as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States was not the result of the great speech he made in the Chicago Con- vention. That speech was the im- mediate cause, but behind the orator of the cccasion was the man who, in Congress, upon the stump, in every campaign, and in many States, had given active, intelligent and disinter ested service to the cause of the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. The office has sought the man Mr. Bryan went to Chicago as atrib | une of the people. When he was it was in the fear, almost the belief, that he would be rejected by the gold faction which then threatened | to dominate the Convention. nomination as the candidate of that Con ‘ention is a signal vindication of the power of a party anda people. | His nomination will leave no re- SAR | LAWNS-CH ALLIES wee 2 RRARARSS' YL RRR eee His} THIRVUY-ONE DIEIN A WRECK =a Heavily Loaded Excursion Train and a Fast Mail Collide. Omaha, Neb., July 11 —A heavily | loaded excursion train and a fast lided shortly after 6 o'clock this evening near Logran, Ia. Thirty-one} from the Cole county jail last night. | “That was a most wonderful speech. | They sawed their way out of their | Bryan is the Patrick Henry of to- load of Omaha pbysicians left for | cells and then through the bars of | day. people are reported killed. A train the scene of the disaster in charge | of General Surgeon Galbraith of | the Union Pacific, who confirms the | report that thirty one of the excur- | sionists were killed. A Northwestern excursion train left Omaha with ten coaches early this morning, loaded from one end tothe other, mostly with women | and children The train was side | tracked in the woode, fifty miles) from Omaha, between Missouri Val- ley and Logan As the train started on its homeward trip about 6:10 p. | m. the fast mail on the Northwest- ern, east bound, crashed into it while both trains were running at a high| rate of speed. The fast mail is the | Southern Pacific Union Pacific Over- land Flyer, which left Omaha via, the Northwestern at 5:45. It carries two sleepers from San Francisco, one from Denver and one from Portland, buffet diner, express and baggage cars. It was crowded when it left Omaha. Train men think that all the fatal- ities must have been confined to the excursion train,since it was made up of lighter coaches which would | easily be crusbed by the heavy fast mail. The first funerel train from the ecene of the catastrophe coxtained | many of the more seriously injured, | chosen as a delegate from Nebraska, land as the unfortunates were lifted jin blankets from the car the groavs of the wounded mingled with the agonized sobs of relative and friends. Twenty of the injured were taken in ambulances to St. Joseph's hospital. Several of them can not live. When the train carrying the dead | was sighted coming across the long sentments. No man in the country | will give him heartier support than | Richard P. Bland. For, great as is the triumph of Mr. Bryan it is Lo} greater than that of Mr. Bland, who | sees, in both platform and candidate, his own signal victory, and his own | | exaltation. | nas ae | McKinley Deserter fer Bryan. i Topeka; Kan., July 13.—A die- | States Senator P. B. Plumb, aud a jlifelong republican, has come out | for Bryan and contributed to the |local campaign fund. “In fact,” the |dispatch says, “all the Emporia | Plumbs are for Bryan, and they say that if the senator had been alive he would have bolted the St. Louis conyention with Teller.” Judge ‘Philips: Te broken loose aud abused the silver cause in a very undignified manner. ‘ done nobody but himself any harm by the tirade. His abuse of Joe Blackburn was a disgraceful out. burst of billingsgate, that will not | help the judge's popularity. —Harri-| j ; sonville Democrat. patch from Emporia says that Dale | | Plumb, eldest son of the late United | The judge has” Tnion Pacific trestle the contrast | with the scene of the day before, | when the happy excursionists were leaving, was awful. Seventeen bodies | boards laid on pine and covered with a plain muslin shroud, were placed ina long row on the floor of the baggage room. Qaly friends of the missing ones were allowed admission. Headless trunks, bodies without limbs, limbs with out bodies, a grue- | some spectacle were gathered in that small space. Occasionally some one would recognize the features of a son or daughter. Friends would lead them from the room body would be ticketed and sent to the undertakers. Women fainted and anguish was pictured ou the faces of many and the Detroit, Michigan, cary 13.—The Graud Rapids Democrat, leading Democratic paper of Western Michi- gap, which favored gold before the Chicago Convention, declares that the platform is the accepted creed of the party for this campaign, and says Democrats who don't like it can find comfort and company on ithe Republican side of the fence. é | erty. | Stone has offered a reward of $300 ' While the adminlstration has not ex ' withdrawals Monday were for $ ~ SUMMER PRICES. WE HAVE CUT LOOSE conahened poneTenes ON SUMMER PRICES ae we) op) > ZY SHALL DO SOME HOT § TQ? CAMPAIGNING | DURING THIS MONTH. if | SAM LEVY & CO. | G WHITE GOODS. SWISS 4 Sawed Their Way to Liberty. 1 Jefferson City, Mo., July 14.—)} ; Edward McKenzie the negro who | Peck sat on the platform back of the murdered Farmer Nick Linhardt at | {| Lohman station, Harry Garman, a! Bryan was making his speech and \bieyele thief and the ex convict, | Morvelle, who shot and dangerously Rayburn, some weeks ago, escaped | the corridor and through the iron} | bare of the window grating to lib- Pursuit was inaugurated as i soon us the discovery that they were | | gone was made, but so far no clue oa | their whereabouts has been found. | Sheriff Sone’s blood hounds were | unable to follow them more than two or three blocks Governor | | for McKenzie and Sheriff Sone offers | | $150. | > = sae areas | What you want when you are ail- | ing is a medicine that will cure you. | Try Hood's Sarsaparilla and be con- vinced of its merit. j Another Boud Issue Imminent, Washington, D. C., July 14.--It is useless to conceal the fact that | should the withdrawa!s of gold con tinue at the present rate another bond issue will be necessary to sus tair the credit of the government. pected to be able to pull through until March £ without another sale of bonds, it did hope to defer the issue until late in the fall, or if pos- sible to the first of next year The 300 of which $375,000 is for imme- | diate exportation. The balance will | | probably be boarded. This disposi- | ‘tion to hoard gold has been notably apparent for severai days. On Sat- urday nearly $125,000 was with drawn for this purpose and on the day before the withdrawals were nearly $1,000,000, a large part of which was to be kept in this coun try. The gold $98,429,635 ASufferer Cured “Every was two ye reserve to diy is m ."—O0. C. Davis, Gaccumeriie AYER'S PILLS Promote Good Digestion | ae oe | words of the mail on the Northwestern road col-! wounded Penitentiary Officer, Zera) When Mr. Bryan had finished Mr. | me in this city are two other foreign- | they jmniles north west of Shanghei. | Bryan the Modern Patrick Henry. Chicago, Ill., July 10 —George R. speaker's stand yesterday while gave his undivided attention to the Nebraska statesman. Peck turned to a friend and said: He fired up the audienco with enthusiasm as no man could have done. He fired those who did not | believe what he said. He fired me. His speech will live in history.” From Heathen Lauds. TAI-ER-TsWANG, CHINA, May PS "96, Ep. Timks, BuTLER, Mo., U. 8. DEAR SiR: I am now enjoying lite | in the interior of China. Last March, after four years’ service in the Navy of the United States, I gave up my position with the Government and came to China to preach the Gospel tothe heathen. | ama member of | the Southern Baptist Gospel Mission of the United States. Located with ers, Rev. T. L. Blalock and wife, with whom Iam living. Ina few weeks also will leave for the summer and I will be left alone in this hea- then city. The members of our mis- sion dress in native dress and live in native houses, Tai-er-Tswang Grand Canal is located on the eight hundred Has telegraphic communications withthe outside world. Several weeks of my passage was spent on the Grand Ca- nal,and in all my travels T have never seen an equal about monument of the] height of ancflent civilization. It is| navigable fortwoghousand miles. I enjoy my work very much beeanse | Ifeel it my calling in life. | My address is ‘(Gospel Mission,” Chinkiang, China, and I shall be very happy to correspond in regard to missionary life, with any who desire! to write me. | Very sincerely, | EARLE 1D. Sts. | A ButLerR Boy. | Amoret Items. i Mrs F M Kennett has been danger- ously sick the past two weeks. The greater part of Amoret went to Hume Saturday to see the ball | game between Prescott and Amoret, al, the Amoret boys were vic- ee There was a foot race week, and a number of were out; we think th wiser and a sadder set. L Hassig has his new almost completed. Mrs A J Park of Virginia was in town one day last week selling plams and peaches. Miss Rose Worley of Muiberry visited at IL M Stephenson's Thursday and Friday. j Quite a number of people around Amsterdam, Mulberry, and Amoret have learned, to their sorrow that it wont do to patronize a dentist. Johnnie Stephenson fell from his horse while out riding and up his face considerably. Mrs Lieklider has returned from) Richards where she had been v { ing her son; she left her son’s wife some better. D n town last ier sports | went back a store room traveling! bruised 5 friends in from Ka s City. i Wilson has been nd this week on inable account rplev of K C visir- LL Hassig several l stacks and de-: Mary Taylor} 2 Bias are attendi ngthe Ti pleased | ” CLERK. | daughter ef Le Schell City ;94 years; Mrs. Laura Wilhams of | | Parsons, Kans . great gtandmother 7 ? ¢ ; Pits great i 3 » mother, 79 years; Mrs Nettie Ij 2 of this place, grandmother, aged § < § : ¢ . 5 » 2 5 ; ¢| Bloomington, | Probate ~ | Chas D Mitchell, Geo E Logan Guard | appetite Has Five Grandmothers, Lela May Ijams, the one-y S. Tjams, west of | says the News of that | place, has tive living grandmother, Mrs. Marinda Coy, of Bloomin, Ill, great great grandmother, aged 73 years; Mrs. Elsie Tjame years; and Mrs. Ollie Culver, ot | Papinsville, grandmother, 45 years, | She also has three living grandfathe lores H. Review. SETTLEMENT DOCKET. Settlement Docket August 4 derm, 1896. Estates ist Day, Nn. Johu E Tattle, L B Allison G&C Charles W Rice, Effie J Rice G & € Ebinezer Caryer, Samantha Carver Adm'ry JC McKibben, James M Mckibben Execator Emma M Gleason, T J Morgan G & € Minnie Chambers, John N Chambers G & 2ND DAY. Samuel W Valentine, J C Clark Curator Brannon Hill, F J Tygard Executor Avis L Rich, Carrie A Rich G & © Norma Terry et al, Jas R Gallaway Curator Lizaie Pierce et al, JS Pierce G & C SD bar. Henry Bagby et al, James Bagby Guard Lucy Dark, Wiley Adama G & C Sarah E Owen, H B Owen G & © Geo € Burrows et al, C M Burrows Carator Rachel Roe, Sarah A StitiG & C Aken B Doak, J N Ballard Curator 41 Day Treasey Lee Cox, Nancy J Cox Curator Chas L Radford, Jno B Newberry Curator James J Crumley, Esther Crumley Admr David Lasky, Clark Wix Admr James L. Bell, Wm M Bell Admr C P Hersperger, Wm M Bell Curator Thersa Blevins, Henry Blerce Carator * OTM Day, Jacob Lefler, J N Lamon Admr RH Sproul, H P Cockrell & JC Sproul Exee A M Gragg, S M Gragg Admr W 1 Cross, Delia M Cross Admr Gladye Lewis, Mollie Lewis G & C Guy Wade et al, FJ Tygard& J CClark G &¢ orm Dar. 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