The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 27, 1896, Page 1

foL. XVIII. —— Missouri State Bank BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 1896. OF BUTLER, MO. x ITAL 9 e 8 Transacts & general banking business. $110,000. We solicit the accounts of far- merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository t+ Yr} funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal xc- | modation in the way of loans to our customers. Joan on real estate at lowest rates, gy time and stop interest. Funds always on hand | allowing borrowers to pay part oral!) DIRECTORS. Booker Powell HLH Piggott © & Radford TI Wright Geo L Smith 7. C, Boulware Dutcher Deerwester Jenkins OTHER S'TOCKHOLDERS, D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everingham Edith Everingham © & E Freeman GB Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy © H Morrison Bartlett Bryner Brown Lumber Co BCheilf iM Courtney rt Clark p48 LColeman 1B Davis Deerwester Frank M Voris JM Christy RG Weet Wm E Walton Dr W D Hannah Dr W E Tueker Robert McCracken WB Tyler A McCracken E Turner | John Pharis m W Trigg | J K Rosier Wr Walls JW Reisner GP Wyatt } L B Starke | Clem Slayback John H Suliens. Peter Swartzendrubver J MCh Virginia Stems. awriting news for the TIMES this It wi things we see and hear, ind if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is 796. ! Chris McGuire and Oliver Stanfield | ave coal for sale at the Main bank | mthe Miami. ; James Pane says it is girl. Geo Crooks was at New Home Fri- after Miss Alice, who has been hitting Mrs J H Cope, who returned ith them to see her parents, Mr and | Peter Crook. Thomas Lackey and Cal Brown, of Amoret, were in our city Thursday, Dave Bean is running a hay baler. Grandpa Kinney and little grand- jon, Sterling Pierce, are enjoying the ride from his home to Virginia after the mail. Jno Nance is doing the stone work lon Dr Mitchell’s new cellar. WT Cowan says he has carefully looked over the political field and ays Bryan willbe the next president. rand Mrs A!fred Jackson pre- pared a dinner for their son Milburn and wife, who had just arrived from Denver, Col. Those present were: Sherd Cope and wife, Fred Hecka- don, wife and baby, PC Henderson family, John Jackson, wife and Miss Clema and other All enjoyed themselves. Mrs Jackson informed wthat her husband left Saturday Plor St Louis on a business trip, and fom there he will go to Denver, | Brhere he is in the employ of Teller & Morgan, the apostle of free silver that we hear so much about. Blackson says she expects to remain a month or six weeks with her father- inlaw, then she will visit St Louis before returning to Denver. She says the is enjoying coun life to the Plullest extent and is highly pleased with her surroundings. Aaron has been acquainted with Milburn for 18 jearsand is much pleased with the flection he has made for a life con ion; not so much as to feature on the indication of i and other qualities that are nec tomake a good companion for life journey. ‘Lhey will read the ‘Tres Piereafier. The Free Methodis tlsed last week. Fred Drysdale has his Bryan and tson cap and Volemy McFadden a Bryan and Sewall cap. Bepect to parade every night in the Week. They are not fussing about who shall be vice president, it is the fun they are after. Mrs Vanmeter and daughter, of Foster; Dr and Mrs Crum, } W Gray camp meeting and wife, Willis Hull and wife, of | RAmoret, were to hear Elder Miller Preach last Sabbath. Lyman Nickell is on the sick list. Ruben Main died last Thursday at s home in the Indian Territory. Mrs | telligence | They | He lived for anumber of years on the Miami, north of Virginia, and moved from here about three vears ago. He was known by inany of our people. Political matters are ona standstill here at present. Some changes are liable to take place inthe near future. The Christian church was one-third too small to hold the people that came last Sabbath to hear Elder Miller preach and Prof Givens, of Lincoln, Neb, sing. At night there were 500 present, and the house was well filled every night last week. Rev Galbreth preached at the M E church Sunday at 4 pin. Uncle Billey Drysdale has been quite poorly for several days. Jesse Newba, of Baldwin, Madison | Co, Ky, is visiting his son, who is liv- ing on the John Steelfarm. Helikes the looks of Bates Co, and was here Sunday to hear Elder Miller. Wednesday night when the boys were on their way to bell Earnest Judy, Novie Henson’s horse struck his foot against Cole Hensley’s buggy and fell with the boy under him. It was thought for a few hours that the boy could not live, he was uncon- scious nearly two days. His shoulder was thrown out of place, but he is doing well at present. James Pilgrim has been on the sick list for some time and was taken worse Thursday. Dr Mitchell was called tosee Aman- zar Hensley Friday. John Durrett, accompanied by his json Gideon and daughter Katie, of | Lee’s Summit, visited their many | friends here last week. They left | Sunday afternoon for Butler. A friend found a proposal made to | a young lady, who went to school in | Butler, and accepted on condition if | dad was willing, but he was not. | Henry, George and Bob Harding, West and Newton Wilcox, Dow and Doil West, of Passaic, attended | church at Virginia Sabbath night. | Mrs RT Judy lost a pocket book | last Sunday. Pleasant Hill found a paie of spee- | ticles in the rcad last week. The match game of base ball be- tween Foster and Virginia Monday | of this week was a victory for Va, the | score being 12 to 16. Lewis Garner has for sale 25 acres | of corn, averaging 30 bu, 13-year-old | filley, 1 cow, 8 head of shoats, 2 brood sows, some hay, and a place for rent. Harve Dudley says that C A Wal- | lace has his farm about plowed up. | John Etter moved to Merwin Mon- day, where he will commence school | the first of September. James Walker returned home last | Thursday from Ky, where he had | been visiting his aged father and old playmates. He reports crops good. | Monday night Mrs John McElroy | was unconscious. | Dr Lamb and Miss Annie Judy will be united in marriage Wednesday of | this week. | Elder Miller | will leave Thursday AARON. | morning. Elkhart Items. Threshing is about all done and | plowing for wheat is now the order of | ' the day. Some of the Elkhart people have | gone to Eldorado for health and] | pleasure. \- ‘The camp meeting at | closed the 19th. The singing at George Allen's Sat- (urday night was well attended, con-} Pinchum | | sidering the weather, and all report) a pleasant time. | | Lee Galloway writes from near | Lincoln, Neb., that corn in that part | of the country will make from fifty to | seventy bushels per acre. | Pat Neafus went to Vinton Sunday ‘on a visit. | We understand that the Quakers | will hold a comp meeting at Vinton | before long. | All a person can hear at Elkhart now is Bryan and free silver. The people don’t talk of anything else. | There will be a populist picnic at} | Elkhart September Ist. i | Miss Mary Smith, of Butler, visited | Mrs Heddieson and Mrs Neafus last IS A PUZZLE. S at a $10,000 Rate on $5,000 How « Senator Liv Pointed Askrii te Answer —Says the Obio Been Sacrificng Senator has Hiinseli for 36 Years, Aug 19.—W. O of the pro Republiesus of Zanesville. O., “0, One iect free the State, a Mupsoa of Juige journalist hare, bes addressed the epeu | y to Senator 'S i Shermarc: “Your close associates ‘and distingushed men in the Repub- the Hon. W J. Bryan is in the em- | ploy, at a salary of $6,000 a year, of the silver millionaires of the West. This Mr. Bryan denies, and as he is| an hovorable man I believe him “And now, Senator Sherman, a few words to you. For years I have watched your career and am avure} that you once carried a chain fur the surveyors on the Muskingum River improvement, and honor you, for that was honest toil, You have been before the public in various capacities for three dozen years. In that time you have held office con stantly. It is presumed that you had but little if any time for any- thing else We haye heard you say that accepting office was a sacrifice, for you could not live on the salary of $5,000 a year paid members of the United States House or Senate, and yet, after three dczen years of self sacrificing for you country, liv ing at a $10,000 rate on a $5,000 salary, you are rated as a millionaire from four to eight times over. A LEADING QUESTION. “You often in your speeches chal-| lenge your political opponents to answer close questions. Can and| will you before retiring to private life tell the dear people who have so| long supported you the secret of serving your country 36 years ona $5,000 salary, at the eame time liv ing at a $10,000 a year rate, and re tiring a multi millionaire? It would be interesting information for the} rising generation—even your young friend W. J Bryau may profit by it —and be an incentive for others to} emulate your career. The plain peo-} ple have for years been wondering | how their self sacrificing public ser vaut, John Sherman, could aceumu-| late wealth so rapidly, while they, his constituents, grow poorer each! year. W. O. Mcssos” | Big BOODLE. Report That Haaaa Will Pat $150,000 Into Washington, D. C, Aug. 21.—Dr. Dick Wise, Republican candidate for Congress In the Norfolk District, and brother of John S. Wise, states Virginia, ised to put $150,000 into the Vir- ginia campaign. Wise is hunting for some of that alleged money, and his friends say Brady, Bowden and the rest of the Republican managers will not come down with the stuff. The latter complain that the National Republi- ean Committee refuse for the time | being to aid them in Virginia Cleveland’s Cousin For Bryan. Buffalo; Aug. 15.—Bepnjamin Fol- silver to-day. He is a cousin of Mrs. Cleveland, and was United Administration and held over under President Harrison. Mr. Folsom is ja lawyer, and has business interests jin Nebraska. He says: Guestion John Sherman is! { and a lian: party take delight in saying that!other bond sale of a hundred mil ;of party policy. Secretary Smith emphatically that Hanna has prom | of Democratic voters of the couutry. | “All the gold of this country is in |the hands of the bankers and brok- jers. We do not sce a $10 gold piece jin circulation from one end of the | jyear tothe other. There is no de- OFFICIAL Of the financial jmand for gold as money. Those ppseeone and philauthropic baukers | jin New York who have in the past | Loans or disco | {bree years milked the Treasury dry Pecaicas aad jof its gold reserve and fattened on | sain ta vi |the profits of $265,000,000 bond sales came forward the other day | and loaned the Government $20,-| 000,000 of their hoarded gold in or. | 1 j der that another sale of bonds might | TES ENO E SHUTS, J be postponed until after the election! — = in November. It will not be three! payy NEWS THE PRES months after the election before an ites mais ———— RESOU RCES We certify above is correct Correct—Attest EA BENNETT, Directors lions will be required «And where is the thing going to| Republicans and Bolting Demo- stop? It is coneeded that we are to | erats Must “Pat Up.” have no relief from the present Ad | ministration, and the same policy ORE which was inaugurrted by the last Republican Administration is to be perpetuated by the next.” |The Big Boss Assures the Plutocrats That it Wili Take Tremendous CASH IS DAVE GETS HOhE’S JOB. Exertions to Win. | New York, Aug. 20 —Chairman Cieveland Calls Missouri's Ex-Gover-| Hanna threw a mighty scare into nor Into His Caoinet- |the Republican leaders yesterday. Governor David R. Francis of Mis-|openly said everything was going souri, will succeed Hoke Smith as| well, he brought the news for the Secretary of the Interior. news came tonight from Gray Gables and with it comes the aunouncement | Kinley is far from eatisfactory. that Mr. Francis has accepted the| Mr. Harna will not for one mom- position and will assume its duties|ent concede defeat in any of the when Mr. Smith retires next Satur-| States that go to make up the battle- day. ground, but he told Secretary Smith has long been de- termined to leave the Cabinet. It ie no secret that he and the other members of the President's official family have disagreed as to questions every friend the titkot could only be elected by tinued every day from now until November 3rd. The great battle ground, as the Republicaus see it, is compact. It includes the States of Michigan, Illi- noise, Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, Wis- consin, The roseate reports about Illinois being solid for McKinley by 80,000 are now conceeded by the Republi- announced his intention to support the nominees of the Chicago conven- tion and this, it is believed is respon- sible for his resignation. Hoke Smith was the most popular member of the Cabinet. In leaving it he carries wita him not only the respect but the admirationand good | cans to have put out for the benefit will of Mr. Cleveland and his coad |of the mariner. Unless the situa- jutors. Mr. Smith’s independence | tion changes between now and Oct. of thought long ago gained him Mr.| they confess no man will be able to Clevelaud’s confidence and friends | tell with confidence in his prediction of the administration say tonight | how Illinois will vote. that the President parts with the| Mr. Hanna talked plainly to his Georgia man regretfully. They are|confidants. One of them later said close friends and nothing but a| that in Michigan Republican leaders sense that duted pointed different aud newspapers have bolted McKin- ways for each would have made the | ley in favor of free silver. The Re- | resignation acceptable. publicans have no State organization It is believed here that Governor| worthy of the name. So useless is | Francis will accept. \it that Chairman Hanna is about to | Ex Governor Francis is one of the | direct his energies to creating some | best known amovg Western politi-|sort of Republican machinein Mich- jcians. He has always been a great) igan. ‘admirer of President Cleveland's} In Indiana, too, the Republicans ladministration. Mr. Francis has |are all atsea. State Chairman Gowdy | practically dictated all the appoint- | refuses to make any prediction as to | ments made in the Eastern part of | how the State will go. | the state | The Republicans are more hope- Mr. Francis has alwavs been ad-/ful about Iowa, but confess that | Vocate of sound money. He has dis-| Wisconein and Minnesota will have claimed being a gold monometallist to be fought for with great energy. and bas steadily declined to act with In both States much depends upon the radical wing of the gold Demo. the exertion of the bolting Demo- crats. He did uot sign the call issued crats, and the Republicans are using | | by the gold Democrats of Missouri, | jalthough great pressure was brought | to bear upon him to do so. | tact and get back the farmers into the party. ment of the situatior was communi cated to the Wall street leaders and | i Hard Work = i i ‘ bolting Democrats with an implied Chicago, Lil., Aug., 18.—Senator | intimation that more cash would be | Allison came to Republican National | acceptable | headquarters from the seashore, pre- | | pared to take an active part in the | elsewhere. | Senator Allison 1 \Iowa. The general situation is fav-| Louis Chronicle. | orable, but there is hard work ahead} Secretary of State. NECESSARY. | Washington, D. C., Aug. 24 —Ex-)| Although he wore a smiling face and | This; Eastern members of the Executive ; Committee that the outlook for Me- | with whom he talked privately that | the most tremendous exertions, cone | Nebraska and Kentucky. | jevery energy to keep their lines in- tis said that the state- . : “ Now that Bryan bas spoken his som came out for Bryan and free|campaign in his home State and jittie denial it might be well for Mc- said he would not | Kisley to speak a little piece to stop 4 |do much campaign work outside ofthe mouths of the gentlemen who States Consul at Sheffield, Eogland, | Towa. and added: “I shall be very | are accusing him of being mortgaged under President Cleveland's first) much surprised if we fail to carry | to a “White Houze Syndicate.” —St. | receiving the attentions of Page and ‘NO 41 STATEMENT condition of the FARMERS’ BANK of Butler, Mo., at close of business on August 10th, 1896 as rendered to LIABILITIES THOMPSON D. KIPP, Cashier All accusations so far made against Mr. Bryan bave fallen flat. Senator Thurston makes a very genteel with- drawal of his gossipy charges. Burke Cocbran’s speech was a falure as a ireply to Mr. Bryan's, and on the | whole the enemy simply “can’t cut the mustard.” Bryan and free silver are moving along ona tide of popu- larity which nothing can stem.— Rich Hill Review. A. W. Jones of Milo, who has been polling the vote of that pre- cinct for the democratic county com- mittee, has not yet completed the work, but up to this time he has found 27 republicans who say they will vote for Bryan and free silver. Many ef them are outspoken in this jand declare they will not support the gold standard. He has not found a democrat who will not sup- port the democratic ticket, and says he ia satisfied there is not one in the township.— Nevada Mail. One Wilham 8 Forman, with such | strong gold proclivities that his con- | science would no longer permit him to sit in the councils of the demo- cratic party of Illinois as a member of the state committee, resigned. | His resignation was accepted and /no attention was paid him. This made him mad and to bring himeelf into notice ke has written ao open letter assailing Gov. Altgeld’s offi- | cial record as governor of tte state, | in which he accuses the governor of high crimes and misdemeanors of | various kinds. If he knew all these things and they are true, why bas he held back the information so long. | CLASPED HANDS AND DIED, | Riyal Lovers Kali Each Madison, Fla. Madison, Fla., Aug 23.—George Page and Wili Morgan, young men ) who live near here, fought last night one of the most remarkable doels on record. For six months Page and | Morgan have been rivals for the af- | fections of a pretty young lady. The | Other Near | | | girl distributed ber favors imparti- \ally between the young men, and | this served to increase the bitterness of their rivalry. Last night Page and Morgan attended a dance, at which the young lady was present. ‘She was in a more coquettish mood than usual, and her conduct soon drove the desperation. Finally Page invited Morgan to ac- cowpany him for a walk. Morgan consented, and as soon as they were outside Page proposed that as each was armed they take each other by the left hand and shoot out the quarrel, the survivor to take the girl. Morgan agreed, and then with left hands clasped they drew their pis- tols and began firing. The pistol shots attracted the attention of the merry-makers and they rushed out to find both men on the ground weltering in blood. Morgan was dead and Page was dying. Each man bad fired five shots, and each of the shots had taken <fiect The young lady for whom the duel was fought viewed the bodies with seeming composure, and heard the dying Page relate the story of the tragedy. 1t now transpires that the girl wae affianced to another while rivals to Morgan. to make sure of victory. 1 don't; : . . | anticipate much difficulty on account | Highest of a | of fusion in Iowa.” in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. pa aRRRNORIN CER SeNRcRS ETRE DUVALL & PERC! | week. “One reason Bryan was nominated | AL, BUTLER, MO- ghes P EL Wyatt is laying the foundation| ya, because of the anti Cleveland | Col. W. R Morrison's decision to! for a fine house. MOLLIE GAzZ00. | 2 ‘take the stump for Bryan makes | —— sentiment thet prevailed throughout | {73° toes the prating of mea with | t | Br 5 i ten|the West and the South, but the a | FaRuMUlOANS. _ Bryan spoke to anandience of ten|the West ac far less title to the name of democrat | Bakin Ol powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of | thousand people at Albany, New | chief reason he was nominated rather sl the necessity of bolting to ‘Materest. Your notes are payable at our ofice | - 7 3 *Mad you find them here wher due. We give | Lork, Tuesday, Privilege to pay any time, Money, realy es ° a. | Meeon as papers are.eigned. ‘tr’ | Was given a grand ovation. exteoeryeeree rps | cause he represents the great masses principles of democracy.—Republic. ‘ t £ On his arrival he|than some other candidate was be- {Principle the honor and | \ | i