The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 5, 1896, Page 1

—— ie a a of od bt OF BUTLER, MO. | at | CAPITAL - : - - - = - : 355,000.00 er SURPLUS FUND : - - - - - 2,500.00 | at i i i p H id} peecives Deposits, Loans money, Iesues Drafts and does a general Bankin business | re We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants andthe public genera promising a a- 4 safe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. Weare prepared to exten 7 Mbera! accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. { ™ or. T. C. Boulware Booker Powell srh8 | Geo L Smith HH Piggott sty 3 Jobn Deerwester CR Radford NG Wes re, IR Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Walton YOR thanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen Ig | years, we solicit a continuance of the same promising honest and conservative man- C. agement, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers. he} J. R. JENKINS, Wx. E WALTON, Cushier. President. a Fe aeememaiee TWO S: Virginia Items. |gy Sunday morning at the school house ee news for the Timés this P H Holeomb spoke here Monday . ig f is ree} » re v if we ge’ 2 aT ixe 5 “ sy s And if me get wien Ne paee es mixed | ver question Heread Mr Linton’s ? Frionds forgive us for this is "96. | Jetter of withdrawal from the can- or@ Wesley and Thomas Hensley of In- | Vass. It did not godown with all the in P depence, Mo., visited their father, | dear ones. Populists are looking Amanzer Hensley, who has been sick lown their noses; quite a number for some time. | say that they were sold out, and now MrsS M Coulter, who has been vis- | they will not have any home except iting relatives in Ohio for few weeks, | in the democratic party in the future. oF F returned home Friday. } They have this consolation; if the n- § The Free Methodists will hold their Semcernt sient the majority in con- district quarterly meeting at the Nes- gress they will get free silver coin- D. Fterode. school house commencing | age. Whether they get more silver Thursday night, Noy. 5, and contin- | or not they can live on the consola- uing over Sabbath. The Sabbath | tion they get of having democrats in wrvice willbe at 10 o’clock. J H | and republicans out. Eight o’clock ek Higgins, district elder of Springfield, | @. ™. Tuesday as send to press, @. B will be present. inte can see the fincies rolling in from John Hussey, the city carpenter | the timbered country, and that built a fine hen house for Mrs MeNutt | makes me feel easy that the finance da last week. question will be settled this day, but no | The quilting at Mrs J W = McFad- | we are not sure that we will all be vy, [en's a pleasant affair; those present made millionaires. Y: I vere Mesdames W D Orear, B F Jen- It will be sad news tomany to hear he kins, HC Wilson, Geo Jenkins, John | of the death of Virgil Brown. He ut PHussey, Dr Lamb and Miss Icey Jen- died in Christian county, Mo., Octo- jg. | kins. ber 18. Mr Brown settled in Bates 2 John Nance built a flue for Wm | county in 1868 he bought | 160 acres of Oldham and other repair work on his | land half-mile east of Virginia, He ile ! ; Rue house last week. moved from here in 1881 to Christian Ernest Judy and wife, who have | county, where he has stnce lived. He been visiting her folks at | Warrens- | served two terms as presiding judge. ler be for a week, returned home Sab- | He leaves a wife and four children. bath. AARON. te Grandpa Kinney went to Kansas ficanwater diene + I City last week to visit his daughter, Neepwater Items. 00 J Mrs Smith. Union labor speaking at Jonstown Mr Campbell of Lynncounty, Kan., spent Sunday night in our cit Philip Heckadon, son Wi his grandson, Ed Bones of Rict last Monday night. Preaching at the Methodist church and | sunday at 11 a.m. and at night by Hill, | Rev Boadge. at J visited his brother in-law, James Me-| Mfr E Kash sold his farm last week or ff Dale, at Fontanna, Kan., last week. | to Mr McElwane for $25 per acre and ref John Classen and wife of near Bar-| will not give possession until spring. at nard, Kan., visited Henry Eswien The Oak grove literary is progress- Saturday and Sunday % ing nicely and have large attendance Rev Corkell and wife and son of | and good order. Butler, brought Presiding Elder Mr Clabe Jackson and wife of El- Hunt out Satarday. Rev Galbreth | qorado Springs visited at his father’s got him to take charge of the quar- | Jast week W L Jackson, near Johns. st Fierly weeting in his place. Elder] town. er Hunt preached Saturday night and Mr DH Kash made a flying trip to Sabbath at eleven; the meeting was] Butler one day last week on business. well attended. f Messrs Sam Gillian and Willie Shel- Sam Dobbins, who has been sick, | ton attended the Oak grove lyceum __ J isup and around again, while F rank | Friday night. s Smith, who was taken sick about the |same time is improving slowly. PM Famuliner was somewhat ex- Hollowe’en night was observed by the Johnstown boys. George Wells will occupy the John « ed Sabbath morning when he w ent | Bowden farm in the spring, and Mr m § Othe buggy hed to get his buggy] Bowden and family will move to El- ine ghd could not Li He was about | dorado. toget up a searching party when some one told him that last night ehureh at pe ap z Eb t | at the Christian ot ae Hallowe'en and his buggy Was) town Nov. 10, and is to be unéer the he t nding in front of PC Henderson’s | eontrol of of Rev Lemons. ; ‘tr tPF Sel : 5 The triple wedding at the Catholic ari . oe ane ot He } chureh last Tuesday was largely at- PRT Soe Sas Ue * | tended alter i pura BOE Bey ca James Offll has nearly completed | a a ae jenee, OU his cellar. quiet little city Saturday night, and one of our townsmen found his bug- Gap, were visitors in township Sunday Eldridge Kash and 7 hundred pounds. Rosk. Pitched Battie e | Guthrie, Okla, Nov. 2—Utited ‘ | States Deputy Marshal Thomas and : | posse came in from the Creek coun : | try, having been in search of *Dyna- | Fox agency. | they captured ilaws us they were | = | bt There baggage aud one horse DUVALL &{PERCIVAL, Dick 2 ney gang lead by “Dynam to loan on: farma at reduced rstes ct| T- Friday blew down several hou Your notes are payable at our e y rhe We give | and one realy | and carried 150 yards. i = Myon ind them here when due. Peprivitere to pay any time, @Mon efon as papers are signet, Ol Protracted meeting will commence Johns- Jesse Blizzard and wife of Pleasant | Deepwater the largest hog in the county weighing between 6) | mite Dick” and his gang of outlaws, | who looted Carney and the Sac and They brought with them a team of mules loaded with | plunder and a saddle borse which} They came upon three of the out-| Jeading their} horses up a ravine and a pitched! battle ensued. It was getting dark} ELECTION IN DOUBT. Probabte E Ar Michigan snd Indiana Settle the \otienal Contest. | Mach ¢asfusios | ogre coves Congratulations, bat te Preitedt. About the Resnits. | [ The following summary election returns Kansas City Times Toursday morn veg and is the very latest at time of | going to press with the Times | The indications at midnight were that McKinley had carried Jodiana} and West Virgisia, both of which | were essential Bryan. Unless later returns change his result McKinley will certainly | have 239 votes in the electoral col lege, or 15 m to elect him. States which McKinley: Connecticut . Mlinois Jowa Maine Massachusetts ... New Hampshire New Jersey New Y Ohio Pennsylvania ... Rhode Island Vermont Wisconsin Maryland Total . In addition to these certain states special disnatches received by the Times at midnight, indicate the re publicavs have majorities reduced states: Oregon. North Dakota Michigan . Indiana. . and Indiana, hadd-clined Following Alabama Arkansas - Colorado . California Florida Georgia Idaho. .. Kansas Kentucky . Louisiana . Mississippi Missouri .... Montana Nevada Nebraska North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas .... Utah Virginia Washington Wyoming Total AER | i | | ‘has carried an ordinary never been found that | and over a hundred shots were fired. | Nobody was hurt, the outlaws es-| | caped in the dark,abandoning wules | is | : a SE Ra Joubt about their being the Car-|¢°e™ bad apy satisfactory answer to| Mrs. Stephers is aiso sick, no doubt 0 = 3 H life, ingly and +) give. man was picked up by wind | the city where his duties cailed him. | transact some -) Vore—YekKrn ey Re- Total probable MeKinley votes.. Official returns may change the figures in Michigan, West Virginia ried by Bryac: South Dakota - | Widower Lenr Carnes the remains of | that His Wite Wherever He Goes. | For several years Louis Lebr, a. laboring man of Memphis, Tenn. |v. Stephens, tue Democratatic can not able companion a cau looking much like | to vote tepbens s city, he with a top which serews on, but which, so far as anyone knows has) ¥ If he had been seen with the can |Some days ago his right ey only once or twice, or a dozen times j had escaped the discase th it might not have attracted attention. | the left, beeame but when those who know L-br)swoller, aud to day Mr. Stephens q}j they had said, though unable to | was coufined to his bed in a darken move, and that he did not pro was the constant companion of bis | ed room, and day, they began to | bis physician to remain there ut least wonder what it contained. The disease is not danger- |them asked him about it, now jok- | ous, but it is extremely painful and! but he! makes Mr Stephens very feverish.! he first thing when he got up in| tism Mr. and Mra. LHR, MISSOURL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5,18 ere: ee en he could see it const bome in the carefully with However, Point (0 stands on a little lection of M’Kinley. | bedside, where b | when he wakes ES WILL BECI DE. The-longer those who knew him | watched this performance the more | mysterious did it s \lively was their cu One day iast spri Haborers thougbt to play a joke on » Indiana as to the Lebr by remo little j¢an when its owner was not looking ‘and hiding quiet and recerved ruan discovered tly,and 20ing eveni he carried it him table close to readily can see it and the more osity. n, fallow Me g some r the curious it When the usually i ] Nervons | that the precious object was gone it | of the |chavged bim into semething Hkea from the |™adman. The two culprits, alarmed by his excited state, confessed their joke and returned the can. If it had not been for the inter ference of others Lehr might bave is taken work. Before belp could reach tuem both men had beea felled by an iron bar that stood hanx thought at the tir fur tue success of atally injured. ore than sre necessary | the have certainly gone for Following are about the mysterious can. It now appears that the can con «| tained the ashes of bis dead wife. At! ed in Washington and did not vote. her death she bad requested that her body be cremated. Lebr carried out her wish, end, can, or urr, a8 it has proved to be. ae 1 “Cyclone” Davis Rapped on the Head. Pittsburg, Tex. Nov. 2—J. H Ww ford. In Davis’ rejoindsr he assail ed the honesty of the land stated that in 1594 Demo crats seated O'Neil, of Cass County. also carried by for following the Populist, of Cass was elected. liar; whereupon Davis struck ‘hai : and Chairman Jones} y..3 Some one to concede the election i t ear : . . . isa list of states car | stick, inflicting an ugly wound, tha bled profusely. The Boy Is Lost. Nevada Post. : | years old. A. Gordon. of Walker. well pleased with his home. 1 5 tidings of him has beard The} jf | closest inquiry bas failed to learn| isfany clue to his whereabouts. Mr | 13 al °| formation leading to the discovery |ties being from int ASHES IN ACAN. | Edwin is an average age and with him as his constant |ddate for Governor, was Although M paint or oil receptacle, | built a fine residence in t removed. |to go there to vote. Some days a at this commouplace object | Some of | a week. again seriously, ¥ ie the © ciiere ‘ da severe BUTLER,2MO: >» | ee peepee Ste] irPaARMoROANS. | one at South Me Alister, I| the morning Lebr got the can. He | probably go to Hot Hewes = 8 | carried it to the various points about | Mr. Stephens recoyers sui tly He stood it, while he worked, where | demending his attention. gone to the gallows for that day's yy, and, a8 it was | They recovered afterward, but the Some Members incident showed more clearly than! ever the intensity of Lehi’s feelings heartbroken at} her deatb, determined neyer to be; (“Cyclose”) Davis addressed a large | audience on a street corner to day, and was anawered by Senator Cran- Democrats, | 3lin the State Legislature,when Frost, J. D. Bags stated that if Davis ussailed the hopest of that body by saying there was fraud, that Davis was a at at the same time struck Davis over the head witha Edwin Weod is 2 little boy only 9) He was from Joplin 2nd | department went to New Jersey, but | wus adopted xbout a yexr ago by J. | may find his right to vote bas been | He was an interesting little fellow end seemed 31 On Sunday lest he left the hom of Mr. Gordon, since which time no ‘| Gordon and family ere very anxious; ousy caused a terrible tragedy three |... labont bis whereabouts and any in-| miles west of this city, all the par sized boy of! her Jefferson City, Mo, Nov. 2 —Lon | w | has retained his citizenship at Boon: ille, and up to a week ago expected | ances, and his friends mude prepara go tions for the funera e, which |lay apparently without breathing, , > startlec attacked When he suddenly startled very painful and under strict orders from to be buried until be bad vote . Stephens will important business} a OG. < ) D. N. THOMPSON, Pr. E. A BENNETT E, D. KIPP, Cashier G. W. Newberry ) Assistents G. Pratt Wyatt § FARMERS BANK BUTLER, MO. Capital Stock 850.000 00 Sarplus Fund $5,000 00 DIRECTORS. —0o —. We Want Your Business. DR. J. EVERINGUAM JNO E SHUTT, Wo G WILCOX, J J. MecKEE CLARK WIX. ecrceceen R RLESE N Rre THE CABINET DIVIDED. Negroes Ambushed. | Scan sane la, Noy. 3.—While Birmingham, J of Mr, Cteveland’s Jeff Jackson, John Adams, William Household Failed to Vote. Taylor aud Robert Allison, negro Washington, D, C, Nov. 3—An laborers, were working at a sugar eane mill, near Wild Fork, Monroe county, lastnight, they were fired ‘unusual proportion of government ‘officials in the higher offices remain upon from the darkness by unknown persons. Ali but Taylor were in- stantly killed. He will die. It is supposed to have been done by a gauy of Whitecaps who have | The list included Presideut Cleve ‘land and Private Secretary Thurber, \ who were at the White of the day; Secretaries Olney, Car House most separated from her ashes. This ac {liste (who lost his vote by atechni | been engaged in ravaing all negroes counts for his constant care of the | culity of the law), aud Morton; Solie- | out of that section. John Middle- | | ton, employer of the victims, had ‘been ordered to discharge them, but he did not heed the warning. itor General Holmes, Conrad of Vir ginia, Assistant Attorney General Thomas, Assistant Secretaries Rock hill, Dabney and Sims, and a number | ‘of bureau Jackson And Walling. Covington, Ky., Nov. 2—Signs | are pointing to a confeesion by Jack- son and Walling or at least to a get- some of whom, | their votes by ebiefs, however, have lost | reason of long residene-in Wasbing- . Among se Ww lid vote! .. on ses woke: noe dds 20° iting at the truth of the murder of were Secretaries Francis, Herbert | : Pearl Bryan. For two weeks Jack- and Lamont, Postmaster General ys : son and Walling have been kept im Wilson, Attorney General Harmon, ‘ separate cells aud a bitterness is Sone ue A stoeney Conny pubiiney growing up between the:n. Yesterday of New York, Assistant Attorney | wajing said to Turnkey Maurer: ee Z g sa y Maurer General W. W. Buldwin aida State “Why should I be banished for a department, Assistant Secretaries | ime Tdid nok-commit® > tedid noe Hamlin, Curtis and Wake of the | nwurder Pearl Bryan. Jackson is the Treasury department, Comptroller | ian who cut her bead off.” Eckele, Assistant Secretary Reynolds stro: laniad wun he hedieobne and Assistant Attoracy General | togtigied, but Walling declined te Tionberger and Land Commissioner | 5 wer, Lamoreaux of the Interior depart- | ment, Assistant Postmaster Generals Jones, Craig and Maxwell. Assist- ant Secretary McAdoo of the Navy ’ t Hold Hanna | Post-Dispatch, Ten days ago the Post Dispatch warned the Chicago police to pre: vent the escape of Murk Hanna from Chicago at the end of the campaign. Knowing the work Hanoa was en- lost. Civil Service Commissioner | Proctor paired with a Kentucky free leilver friend, and Commissioners Rice and Harlow voted in Albany and St. Louis, respectively. gaged in, it foresaw that it would be necessary to have him where the ) Grand jaries can reach him. The firat Grand jury indictment : oes al !against Hanna has been found at Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 2.—Jeal-' pitas, Tex. But there will be oth- No cne who bas the slightest e Saot Them Both, Hanna's loubta fora moment that knowledge methods campaign heeling. Scott of the boy left with the Evening | Linton =bot “Dot” Gray, who 1s said 4 fas sent plenty of other tele | Post or communicated to Mr. Gor | to have been his c | don will be very thankfully received |liam Metzger, with whom he found j.., and also Wil- grams like those for which he bas lin Texar. A campaigs With both lying at his feet b of boodie aud bribery cannot be car- fired a bullet into bis own brain, and died almost instantly. The woman i probably recover, but Metzger will dic. without com- the ried on in a State where t 1 clothes would “object lesson” for the ‘lose o Wali Street carepaign. The penitentiary yawns for him and his confederates. isclosu promisi Grand jaries Hanna in be a fitti Retr Seymour, Ind, Nov Willian Gray, residing near Chestnut Ridjce, his county, was dead to all appear ed to bese His ¥ wee Noateie Notice of Final Settlement. to all creditors Notice ts here i in the estate o1 given the mourners by rising from his bed He informed them that be had heard county pre aacic ate state of set Misso , or. the d for' sind M inistrator. eKinley. hest of cll in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ter to 1