The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 22, 1896, Page 12

DO YOU REMEMBER the mf&n who for twenty years bad refused to taste asparagus and being induced proclaimed it the most delicious vegetable he had ever tasted. He'd wast- ed just twenty years of toothsomerness. IT’S JUST $8 with some shoe wearers who haven t wore our shoes For a number of they've been putting up with all kinds of poor shoes when best all the time. they might have bad the We are making it easy for you to buy our shoes. Selling them so low that we meet the prices you want to day—we sell for $2.00 Mens winter boots that ere good for 12 months service—$1 50 buys of the best Womeus every day shoes. INER. | FARMERS | BANK BUTLER, MO. Capital Stock $50,000.00 nd $5,000.00 Surplus * We Want Your Business. - OFFICERS » ++4tte setts D. N. THOMPSON, Pres. E. A BENNETT, » D. V, Pree. E KIPP, Cashier. |G. W. Newberry ) i ; Acsistante. G. Pratt Wyatt § DIRECTORS. Catarrh is a coastitutionel disease and requires a constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which puri ties the blood. The post office at Adrian was en- tered and robbed of 2 small amount of money taken from the cash draw. er Thureday night of last week. No attempt was made to blow the safe. ! The robbers entered by way of a back window. This is the third time this office has been burglarized in the past six years. New York, Oct. 15.-Ernest Nilsch, | 23, was killed early this morning at his home in Brooklyn, while walking | in his sleep. He was mistaken for a | burglar by John Krueger, with | whom he lived, and Krueger. in his excitement, fired twice before he) recognized his boarder. Nisch drop- ped dead in his tracks. The W. C. T. Us. assisted by the| Y's. will give a ten cent lunch Mon | day evening, Oct. 26tb, at their head | quarters. ‘There will be vocal and | instrumental music also some literary exercises. | Come, but do not be a Rip Van! Winkler The Elfin inhabitants | of another sphere may want a) dime for your attention and escort | during their brief sojourn here. No | amusement promised. ASL. | Secretary. | “W-O. Jackson, of Butler, delivered | one of the plainest and most convine- ing tree silver speeches here last night that bas been heard in Mon- trose for a long time. He was greet- | ed with a crowded house and much enthusiasm prevailed. The free sil- ver glee club added much to the! evening's entertainment by a number of their choice songs which were! well rendered.—Montrose Dem., 16. O. D. Jones, populist nominee for governor, has withdrawn from the race in favor of Mr. Stephens, the democratic nominee. Mr. Jones pub lishes a letter to the populist party of the state explaining his reasons. Principal among which is that he | had no chance of election, and tbat as the gold forces of all parties had combined to carry the state against the democrats and thereby place the machinery of the state in the bands of the republicans and gold bags, he thought ita duty to get out of the way and make the election of Mr. Stephens and triumph of silver im the state certain. To defeat the cold bug republican ticket Mr. Jones urges that populists vote for the democratic nominee, Mr. Stephens. | eo | State | people. Rev Tennison Editorial paragraphs from the N. Y. World: Is McKinley in favor of law and order against the Coal Trust, the Steel and Iren Trusts and the Sugar Trusi? If so, why not say so? Does he think he has all the votes he needs? Tt is said that the Hanna commit- tee will soon have distributed 25,- 0C0,000 campaign documents. That is a good many, but there ought to ij beat least one more, telling what the Hanna committee's Presidential candidate thinks aboat the Anti Monopoly law. Henry George after his tour of Indiana, Ohio, Ilinowe, Michigao,and Wisconsin, had the following to say | to the New York Journal on hia re- turn to that city: “Iam somewhat more confident thau wy letters to the Journal have shown, that Bryan will carry the states that have been considered doubtful in tbe central West and will be elected to the presidency “I bave no ability to see into the future, and am liable to all the mis. takes of judgement that beset man born of woman, but tais is my opin ion as to what will be, formed after five weeks of as diligent cautious and dispassionate effort as Lam capa ble, to diseover the trend and the | strength of the tides of political opinion pow running in that part of the country ; This was not my first Opinion —on the contrary. it at first seemed to me that McKinley, not Bryan, would carry the central west,but it is the matured conviction with whieh I came back to New York. And that the tide is daily setting more strong ly toward Bryan Tam convineed.” Children’s Home Society in) Missouri Rev J. M Tennison, of St Louis, Superintendent of the above association spent several days in this city and vicinity lately. He succeeded in collecting $36.55 for the association and took two small boys from our county to the headquarters in St ~ ASSASSINATED. | Dr. C. G. Lockwood, of Burdett, Foully Murdered. | Dr. C. G. Lockwood, one of the} eee prominent physicians and citi-| | zens of the north part of this county was foully and brutally murdered, y night of last week, at jabuut 8 o'clock. At the time of the killing the doe-| | tor was returning from his drugstore | fat Burdett to his home which is} jloeated about one fourth of a mile | | west of the village. He bad gotten) | within a few rods of his residence, | when the assassin who was conceal led behind a hedge fence about |thirty yards distant, fired a load of | buckshot from a shotgua into his | jright side. Fifteen bullets took effect. Three jon the side of the spise, six on the} right side aud six in the right arm \ At the time of the shosting the docter wes carrying a lantern under his arm aud this was broken by the | shot. | | Drs. Gilmore and Bates, of Adrian, | were surnmoned but they could do | nothing aud ihe doctor passed away | jat 9:30 Vhursday night. Of tne | shooting the Adrian Journal bas this to say: | “Those who reached the doctor first efter he was shot, quote him as | saying that William F. Nelson had shot him. He stated that he recog-| nized him at the time he was shot and after he fell. This statement he adhered to during his conscious Lo : ed Fi a it Rie moments up to the time of his! W is a He death.” The following is a verbat-| am copy of the anti-mortem state- ment of the doctor as taken by’Geo. | D. MeNeil, notary public, and now in the possession of prosecuting at-| torney Holcomb. Srare or Missouri, ) County of Bates, 5 C. G. Lockwood, of Burdett, Bates county, Mo., of lawful age, being duiy sworn, deposes and says, that le was walking from Burdett, Mo.,| tohis residence a short distence of Burdett, st about eight o'clock, on the evening of Oct. 14th: 1896. That when he wasabout half | way home that he was shot is the right side and that he recognized at ate ’ nS = Pe cs Soap cs aR <5, 8s. west WE RECEIVE = YOU OF THE ABOVE Gio. YOU ARE RESPEGTFUL- his assailant as W. F Nelson. his CG. X Lockwoop, mark Geo McNem, witness. Subscribed aud sworn to before me this 15th day of October, 1896. Gero. D. McNen, Notary Public My comission expires Feby 2, 1898 Upon this affidavit W. F. Nelson was arrested charged with the crime aod brought to town and placed in jail Tuesday a Times reporter called on the prisoner and obtained from him the following statement. W. F. Nelson: “I knew Dr. Lock wood well. noon I did not yo farther house than the barn lot. I did not learn of the shooting of the doctor until the next morning, when my nephews, Taylor's came howe avd teld me. They uleo told me thet I was accused of shoot- ing the doetor. [ told the boys I did not understand how I could be accused of the shooting when I was at home in bed. Wm Page, of Butler, also carve to our house that afternoon and told me that there was a bad re {port out on me. LT eaid yee, I would have Burdett that evening but I] was advised by from the sons, [sear] gone down to Have been acquainted | : : : a ac, ithers not to 7 with him about four years. We have| Page and othersnottodoso There y : : : } : as a 206 “al o t always been friendly. I lived about | ¥#S 8 2009 deal of excitement over 1} miles from him. Some time jthe ailair and rr ago the Dr. audi myself took a trip out there eee bet heard west. Oa this trip the doetor was that the doe fe some threats to pay wy expenses and also pay} ®%!hst : rnent I me for my time lost. There was did noth a tet and I no specified amount fixed, but he] U4 not PUbsUUCH Stress pt wit would pay ine good wages The heard Yet the doctor was a high doctor told me he was going rent joo be oo) tui to find a Jocation for a drugstore | Ifthe doctor m jand also a good place to practice | that I sbet bin. be w jevedicine. He expected to get a po (Lean prove where Twas at the tir H he wae suot. 2 the Rock Island railroad | About three weeks azo I called | Tregret as ui of our ou .,| doctor's dea trip | sin Bardeit. I Gaim | i ea : e doctor cftered to pay) me $200 and it even. I refused} {totakeit. While we were talking | | George aod Philip Fenton came up. | abe |In discussing the settlement the | J¥ste* | doctor used some harsh am duty words to | ward me. I told him I did not want | to bave any troubls with him and | nan owns horse he careful of ealth. He ae would not for the xmount be owed! looks after its diet Louis, A number of children have = ; | and is particular been taken out of this county and|™e The doctor told me be pocid h placed in homes elsewhere, while} pay the $200 and uo more avd that} some have been brought froma dis- tance and fonnd homes among our Is an excellent seems well adapted to which he is engaged. gentleman and the work in ane oo ee ae Children’s Home| case then, and we separated. ae Society of Butler will hold thei 7 a Joc ' monthly meetings at the nape ee i ’ Mrs Fred Dorn, N Main ¢$ onthe first Monday of ez All interested in this work are Anyone know spm th. fa to a Mrs Dr Ore. Mrs ML lsey, see and t dames NO Wyatd, Dr Reni Tacker and Fred Dorn. Mes- ,HL | be did not want m+ to bother him} apy more about the matter I told! him we would Jet the law settle the! not that he elf suffering was at my brother Taylors house, | ; With whom I makemy home. My} b | brother and I had bees t> Merwin} == during the day and returned home! the afternoon of jthe eveniag the doctor was shot, and idornc i ind [aes the remainder of the maa | ed Oca ¢ healthy standard. | life that brought suns ‘om amy cause, | | For rexr—A_ good barn, one block | from square. Enquire at this office. | After weeks of earnest labor, 2 or 3 | three McKinley men and three or! four disgruntled populists,managed | to take advantage of Judge DeAr- mond’s crowd and under the guid- | ance of one Carr Dudley met in the { top story of the Grange Hall and or- | ganized for the purpose of holding | each other on election day in order | to keep the democrats from swallow- ing them. GENUINE REFOMER. | Obituary. i { | Died, atthe home of her mother, Mrs Fannie A. Walkkr, on Obio pet, this city, Friday evening, Oct 16, at 6 o'clock, Miss Ruth L Walker, in the 27th year of her age. Miss Ruth was born in this eity. and with the exceptions of about | sixteen months, she has spent her whole life here. Ruth was a how girl, and it was initssacred precine she sought and found her highest e joyment, and here is where she emit- ted the fragrance of her pure good life, and of course in the home envi- | ronments she will be missed the most. About two years since she confessed | her faith in the with Christ and united the Christian church and at became an active member of ; Sunday school and Y.P.S8. C. E. The sunshine and brightness of this | shine and joy to} the home, came and like a benedic- gave the same life tothe various departments of church work. She made but few intimate friends. Those whom she loved she loved ar- | dently, and they will miss the cheery voice and gladsome s1 come to them no more. Funeral services were held Jast Sunday afternoon at the Christian ducted by the i at was occ ood during the se that will pastor, nied and Her | friends manifested their lora! offerings, which were profuse, church, the body was borne to Oak Hill cemetery where it was laid to Afterthe services at the resi. The family have the de pathy of the entire commur p | Special Excursion to St. Lonis, Mo. Special excur. Butler, Mo., at p- mn. Oct Louis, Mo., arriving in S - um. Oct. 24th for this train at 3 sion train wil sale for the round | trip and will be good for return jeay- t. Louis on special train at 6:30 | n. Oc thand on regular trains | 25th, 1896. be exhilsrating sense of re- th and strength and in- 8, 13 unknown to t progressed be- e Wan EVERY GARMENT WE HANDLE. EVERY WEEK | Acac and examine t | antee sat Gove your son or daugl letinite eousse, and ree Celve of genduation, that CTU — ra vol 8 Rece We COAL FOR SALE. At our bank five unites southeast of Spruce Post Offic: in Deepwater township, six cents per bushel. Bavcurror Bro. f Why suffer with Couvhs, Colds and LaGrippe when Lyxative Bromo Quinive wili cure you in one day. Does not produce the rivging in the bead like Sal; baie of Qainine. Pat up in tablets convenient for taking. re, 49". “3 ser Vpatee {of Batler® Jueemente # lipst-ciaeS MU for entalogue course in somiealal ove to there who of eical ed music. A i questioned ability. u sin oreetbods of ine struction scharpe ed wil guar. will be 40tf. ASufierer Cured rm6r ott st t “at use of it has "—Q. C. Davis, YER'S THE ORLY WORLD'S FAIR Sersavarilla PILLS AYEE’S