The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 10, 1896, Page 1

3 SS N he OL. XIX. Missouri § OF BUTLER, CAPITAL SURPLUS FUND gives Deposits, Loans money, Issues Drafts and does a gene Wesolicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchan safe Depository for all funds committed to ¢ beral accommodation in the way of loans to or. T. C. Boulware Booker Pow: ars, we solicit a continuance of the same J. R. JENKINS, , Cashier. Virginia Items. swriting news for the Times this yea", It will be things we see and hear, if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is "96. Willis Zinn, who was mostly raised Mhree miles northeast of Virginia, dat his home in the Indian 'Terri- ory Nov. 10th. He moved from here | Mr Nance isa single man and there and our other car of soft winter pout eight years ago. dl | isa bright future before him both in| wheat f:om Cherokee, Ransie. We One of John Foster’s children was | politics and matrimony. sk with a bad cold and sore throat i week. | AW Simpson dehorned George Thompsou attle last week. Isaac Park sold [ Morewood 31 dof March Burkshire pigs that | weraged 2274 Ibs. Mint Boon and Mr Psalms of North Cotte, Kan., were in Virginia Satur- yafternoon, they are visiting the ilies of John and Alfred Jackson. F AH Jenkins and wife of northeast ‘of Butler, visited the family of James PCosick Saturday and attended church at Virginia Sabbath. F Miss Lillie Patterson, of Butler, at- | fended church at Virginia last Sab- ‘ath;also Mr Bennet and wife of PMulberry. © Wm Sinith of Butler, was gina Sabbath night seeing ¢ould see, John Jackson spent several days at dorado Springs last week with the ily of Wm Widers, formerly of this place. Sherd Cope traded his farm for one i Beer county, ProfJ J Berry of Adrian stayed bbath night with Aaron. ® Elder Claypool closed his meeting Sabbath night at Virginia with no additions; the meeting was not very well attended during the week. Last Sabbath we noticed another young man partly shaved since the election. Comittee on arrangement of Christ- mas tree M E church: Mesdames Wm McKibben, Geo Ruble, WT’ Cowan, Isaac Park and W A Simpson. James Pilgrim is getting better slowly, but his wife is very sick; ow- ingto their advanced age sickness goes hard with them. _Mrs A J Park is spending a week in Butler. Jefferson Park had another bad spell last week; his limbs and body are badly swollen. There will be a meeting of the if leading politicians soon at Virginia; Indge Wolfe will be the presiding officer, arrangements will be made to Recommend cabinet officers and rec- Mmend persons for township officers tnd then they will be interviewed. Watch and listen to what is coming. - Mrs Jap Pierce is visiting relatives in Butler this week. It is the talk on the street corners that John Nance will be the republi- ean candidate for constable; the re- Portercalled on Mr Nance at his shop found him busy at work, he greeted us with a big smile and in- vited us to come in and take a stool; after the usual talk about how each otlter felt and the happenings of the town since we last met and who had got married and who is going to, the reporter told Mr Nance about the talk he had heard on the street. He said there was no truth in that in Vir- what he Geo |. Smith HH Piggott doh» Deerwester C R Radford aR Jenkins TJ Wright ghanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen ment, With strict attention always to the wants of our customers. street gossip. would make the race he said he did not think not accept if his party thought he was the man. lican from head to foot, he said since McKinitey’s shops have all started and er near Butler last Sunday. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY DECEMBER 10, 1896. te Bank M ti 355,000.00 2,500.00 nts and the publi our charge. W our customers. ell Frank M Voris JM Christy RG West Wm E Walton promieing honest and conservative man- Wa. E. WALTON, President. When asked if he if nominated, it wise to Mr Nance is a repub- the election mills and that he was now able to own and run a wag- mand buggy factory of his own. Mrs Wyatt is on the sick list. Dr Lamb and wife visited his fath- John Hussey and Morton Jenkins killed hogs for Steve Cook Monday. Mr Cook has been sick for months. The quilting at Mrs James Crooks Wednesday of last week was a grand success. Those present were: Misses Lucey and Ida Cowan, Daisy Denning, Viola Haris, Clenma Jackson, Alice Crooks. The girls report a good time. John Hendrickson and_ wife, of Drexel, visited her father W A Me- Elroy Sunday. John Foster has a lot of coal on the bank on Mrs Garner’s place one mile north and three-quarters west of Virginia. AARON, HIGHWAYMEN CONVICTED. Train Robbers at Nevada, Mo., Sentenced to Ten Years Each. Nevada, Mo., Dec. 5.—The jury in the case of William Bruce Morris, charged with train robbery, after be- ing out less than an hour, brought in a verdict of guilty to day and as sessed his punishment at ten years iu the penitentiary. Morris was tried under the special law enacted in 1895, making ten years tho minimum aud death the maximum punishmeut for train robbing Morris’ confederates, Harry H Vaughn and William Rogers, both under indictment for the same of feuse, pleaded guilty, and were eack given aten years’ sentence. There are seven indictments against the three men for holding up a Missouri Pacitic freight train at Nassau June tion ou the Nevada and Minden rail way, two miles south of Nevada, on the night of January 15, 1896. The other cases against them were con tinued generally, so that they may be brought back and tried again at the expiration of their sentences The attorneys for the defense say they will take en appeal ground that the special law under which they were convicted is uncon stitutional. Special Agent Plant of the Mis souri, Kansas and Texas railway se cret seryice was here with a requisi tion from the Governor of Kansas in jload of fine quality aud pure seed; get your po tatoes now for winter use and spring 1n sell in spring of the year from $1 to on the) FISK BROS, FISK BROS, FISK BROS, & C0, > i We have in our store now one car} northern early Obio potatoes. These potatoes are fine; planting We are selling this car of potatoes at thiriy cents per bushel five, ten bushel lots. The same prade of potatoes usually or twenty 3$1.5Q per busbe! We also bave on loads of flour One ear from orth, the Minneapolis hard the finest bard wheat flour in the w hand two car wheat, 1d. rld.j bought this flour before flour advaue ed and can sell from thirty to forty cents cheaper on the hundred than any other stcre in Butler. We also haye on hands Power Brus. flour, Queen of Butler and the Royal, and will sell in five hundred pound lots at the same price that it will cost you at the mill. We have just received a fine line of Christwas geods Decorated queens ware af the latest pattern; decorated lamps that we are selling from 30¢ complete up as high as $5. If you want x fancy lamp, we have them, and if you want a cheap one, we have them. We bought our lamps this year—we bave not bad them on bands for two or three years like most of the stores have, and they bought them when they cost three times what they do now We carry all kinds of Christmas presents, fan cy mugs, faucy cups and saucers, fruit dishes, glass sete, knives and forks, water sets, children’s cups and saucers and a heavy line of plain and decorated queensware. We receive to day 5 bbl. of fine, pure sugar eandy from St. Louis, with no coloring in it, that we had ordered special for our Christmas trade. The candy we are selling at 8te per pound, it is fine, come in and look at it. We take all kinds of produce in exchange for all kinds of Christmas We paid the most of last | goods. week 18e per dozen for eggs; do not } sell your eggs and chickens until you get our prices. We get prices every morning from Kansas City and Chicago, and will give you the highest prices every day in the week for game, turkeys, chickens, ducks, | geese, apples, butter and egge. SUGAR. | SUGAR. | 2Uib best granulated sugar $1 00 103% best granulated sugar 50 | 22tb light brown sugar 1 00 FLOUR. at cost. f C D &T ACTUAL each year. Quality, Style Reed Takes a Stand, Wasbington, Dee 6 -—Speaker Reed bas thrown down the gauntlet | to the McKinley hosts. To a party of Republican leaders opposition to an extra session of | Congress. He 1s in favor of passing , the Dingley bill, and he advances as } | reasons for bis attitude the demoral- | izing effects that a prolonged strug- | | gle incident to a revision of the tariff | would have upon the business inter- | ests of the country. oppose an extra session. To-night \ FLOUR. his pocket for the men in ihe event they were acquitted They are want ed in Kansas toanswerto the charge | of holding up Station Agent Koox at | toe Fort Scott depot on the night of January 10. Chief of Police Hovey of Evansville, Ind, was also here with a requisition for the men from the Governor of Indiana. They are also wanted fora similar offense iv Teunessee. Mardered Two Boys, | Pine Bluff, Ark., Dee. southeast of this city last night. A negro named Davis, while out bunt- ing with the two sons of his employ- VAL, wh DUVALL & PER Bs BUTLER, MO- (Fa Rn Loans. Ww toloan on farms at reduced rates of it. Your notes are payable at our office Miyon find them here when dne. We give Privilege to pay any time, Money ready O a6 papers are signed, cs tf skull of the elder. ‘ dead and the other cannot live. The negro escaped and thus far has eluded capture. | will be caught, say the officials. ! —A double! ' murder oecurred about twelve miles | lers, aged 15 and 13 years, attacked the boys with a knife, cutting the) throats of both and crushing the) The older boy is} Bands of men|' jare scouring the woods. He surely | 50lb sack Nevada flour 3 95 | 50th sack hard wheat, standard i grade flour 115 |501b sack high grade flour 1 20 | MEAT. | MEAT. lib dry salt meat 04 1fb bregkfast bacon : 07 1lb California hams 07 | Country lard in 50% cans per | pound 07 COFFEE. COFFEE. | | Arbackles coffee, per pound 20 Lion coffee per pound 20 IXXXX coffee, per pound 20 | Spoon coffee, per pound 20 | Pure celebrated 25ct Mocha and Java is our leader. This coffee will equal auy 30 cent ceffee that is ou the market; it is very s x and come § a that we t potatoes on hirty cents per bushel FISK BROS. & C0. une nc t jhe said: “fam in favor of passing ‘the Dingley till.” Solves a Murder Mystery. Mo, Dee. 3 —The bead of Frederick Sueyberger, a Ger- { man, has been found in the woods, | fifteen miles sontheast of bere. hang- tied to the limb of 1: ‘ing from a woos latree. The body had fallen from | | the head. | | He lived with his nephew in Spring- | field. The nepbews's wife and the, ‘hired man, during the nephew's ab ‘gence, accused Sneyberger of at- | tempting a crime against chastity. After the disappearance of the old jman, the woman | clained to have received numerous iletters from The nephew re- ‘turned bh days ago and This will possitively eclipse all previous sales in We now have all sizes, come in while you can get a fit, they will not last LANE & | Senator Frye of Maine also will | Sneyberger, who was 75 years old: 1 | disappeared three months ago, and is believed to have been®nurdered. | aud hired man | COST and Price. long at the price. ADAIR. Goyernor Bradicy’s Condition. and SCHOOL CLOAK will be sold at exactly cost. Now is the greatest chance of the season for those who have not bought.to procure one of the ebrated Beifeld & ] Cincinnati, O., Dec. 6.—Gevernor i Bradley of Kentucky is still bere, in ™an Rosenheiuer of the People’s charge of Max Thorner Two oper tions were performed yesterday and ers access to the Governor. ecunt of his throat trouble be caunct talk, but itis believed that be will soon recover. Manchester Girl Barned Ballwiv, Mo, Dec 5 —This after- poon about 3 Bertha, the 16-year-old daughter of Dr August Meisch of Manchester, cue mile east |of bere, met with a terrble fate Sbe was nearly burned to death Her clothes umes rapidly o'clock while rendering lard. and the spread over her body. took fire fi Sbe was saved froin being crema ed by the pronptness of her father who quickly wrapped her in a car pet and the He was severely burned sbout the hands and arms. The youzg lady was put under the icfluence of morphine to relieve extinguished flames. ‘ber of pain Citizens of Ouachita Parish, La. | have organized for the relief of the starving poor of the parish. Highest of ali in Lea Re { ‘aw opin PINAY Calc & BiG CLOAK SALE, OO —————— ——sS EVERY LADIES JACKET, | EVERY LADIES CAPE, EVERY MISSES JACKET § : Remember they are tbe best fitting, as well asthe finest and most stlylish line of loaks Manufactured in the United States. It has been our custom to treat the people of Bates and surrounding counties to a ECEMBER CLOAK SALE Indiana Fusionists to Meet. Indianapolis, Ind, Dee. §.—-Chair- a., Party state committee hae issued @ ‘call for a general conference of poy ulists in this city, December 29. who called on him tonight at the | the patient rested well today, but} The call says it has been demon- Shoreham, the Speaker declared his i to-night the physician denied all call | strated that education and work by On ac | the people's party at the last elec. ‘ton all bat erystal:ized ite ideas into law. Silver republicans and ali other money reformers are requested to participate in the conference. The widdle ofthe road populists believe that the call indicated a moyement by which the democrats hope to finally absorb the populiet party in the state Deepwater Items. The farmers are busy turning over the ground preparing for the spring crop. There will be Johnstown M E Wednesd Isome $ neeting at tha South every eld died at his re-t ortheast of Johne- . 4th, 1806, after a sickness which hed lasted for several months. The remains were interred in thp town cemetery. He leaves & wife and six children to mourn Lis loss. Their many friends join in sym- pathy with them. The first Quarterly meeting of the Johnstown cireait was held by Rev E Y Ginn, of Calhoun, Saturday be- fore the 5th Sunday in November A protracted necting, conducted Rev Barett, is in progress at Bethe on the Lucas it. A great deal of interest is taken in the meeting. A young housekeeper arrived at W H Zimmers last Thersday night. Rose. Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report B= | ABSOLUTELY PURE Baki Powder