The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 31, 1896, Page 1

gol. XIX. Missourl CAPITAL - SURPLUS FUND We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merch let necommodation in the way of loans or T. C. Boulware LSmith H H Piggott John Deerwester C R Radford 7B Jenkins TJ Wright qhanking the public for their confidence and liberal patronay years, we 60) ment, With strict attention always to th J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. _— Virginia Items. yea”, It will be things we see and hear, | And if we get them wrong or mixed Friends forgive us for this is "96. James Pilgrim died at the home of hisson, Geo Pilgrim, Saturday Dee #at8 pm. f Amanzar Hensley died at his home Saturday at 5 pm. His remains were shipped to Independence. We will y sive further notices of both next | week. - Pedames AJ Park, Dr Lamb and and H C Wilson are on the sick list. Wallace Roland, of Cass county, is visiting old playmates around here. Harley, Cora and Stella Drysdale, Batler, visited their grandpa, Wm Pees. Saturday and Sunday. We saw three happy young men ' Christmas eve, who had each received pemall box containing a nice gift of the fluest workmanship. Some loving hearts dictated and some beautiful hands placed the gifts on the tree. Mrs John Cuzick presented her ‘husband a fine boy for a Christmas resent. T C Graves, a bachelor who farmed here for two years, was married toa widow, in Cass Co, last week. We would ask Mr Graves to bring his ' wife to Virginia. Walter Woody, of near Passaic, at- tended the Christmas festivities here. Last week a goodly nuinber met at the Virginia graveyard Tuesday and put up together and bored holes through and stakes in place of stones, which makes the yard look much better. Mrs WT Pyle and son, of Carter- ville, Mo, is visiting her father, Washington Park. platform, snow house in the center, fello had one tree, Santa Claus and his famil ercises were grand. created the excitement. ‘The church would not seat all. | This time F roads and Virginia full of people. Butlet, were the guests of Cicerc Will Coulter says he has got a gir to raise. Monday morning of pneumonia fever. father, James Pilgrim Monday. with friends in Lee’s Summit. - home in Penelton, Oregon. itory for all funds committed to our charge. Booker Powell licit a continuance of the same promising hone: : fn writing news for the TiMEs this: itch racks on both sides of the road; twisted three smooth wires the posts; staked off the yard in lots Christmas Eve the M E church had two small trees on each side of the songs and recitations by the little Santa Claus made fun for the littie chaps. The Christian church songs, recitations and The ex- Little Miss Mary Walker's song and going to sleep Last Christmas we had rain and ‘mud; A J Park was buried the day before, and but one Christmas tree was had on account of the weather. beautiful weather, good Isaae Lockridge and wife, of near Browning last Friday and Saturday. Henry Slichman. of Mulberry, died Sam Hamilton and wife, of Welda, Kan, attended the funeral of Mrs H’s Gordon Wallace is spending a week Earnest Bean left Saturday for his Herman Berman went to Lafayette BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY DECEMBER 381, 1896. State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. $55,000.00 2,500.00 ves Deposits, Loans money, Issues Drafts and does a general Banking business. ante andthe public generally promising Weare prepared to extend to our customers. Frank M Voris JM Christy RG West Wm E Walton ng the past fifteen and conservative man- e Wants of our customers. Wa. E. WALTON, President. SE EEN, ENTE ETS YT ENS SS TE NO | fill his weil. It is now positively known that the democrats will have full ticket in the field this spring, and that they will force the republicans to tackle the money question instead of the tariff. I, 1 Browning is talked of as the man for constable. Mr Browning is a young man anda natural born ora- tor. He firmly believes that free coinage of silver is the only thing that will save this country from ruin. Mr Browning was raised in Bates Co and iswell known. His friends think that if he will make a speech before the convention, he will capture the populists and be elected by one of those big majorities that we read about. Miss Elida Wetherspoon is on the sick list. Jefferson Park is growing weaker. AARON. Elkhart Items. John Couchman, of Lawrence Co, is visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity. A large crowd attended the party at Mr Henson’s Christmas night, and all report a good time. The Baptist have been holding a protracted meeting at Lone Star for two weeks. Warren White has the champion turkey of this part of the country, it weighs 36 Ibs. Walter White, of Red Rock, Okla, is spending the holidays in this city. John Romirae was on the sick list last week. ‘ The Presbyterians wil! begin a pro- tracted meeting January 3rd. Philander Wyatt is going to t Springs for his health. W White had ashooting match last Thursday and all the crack shots in the country were there. It is now a settled fact that Clint Burns will be our next mayor. Hand Bros & Co have started a saw mill at Pinchum. All of our people that went to the Christmas tree at Amsterdam had their whips stolen, and those that went to Fairview lost everything they left in their vehicles. Mr Kline has started his grist mill and will grind one day of every week, MOLLIE GAzOO. | | t he New Home Items. 'The boys had a wolf hunt Saturday. Earnest Swearens. Charley Ferguson and family and | With Mr and Mrs Jones Christmas. Somebody is taking without leave corn, east of this place. blacksmith. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. ed 14 miles scutheast of New Home. We were on the ground in a few sec- Jim Vaughn has sold his farm to Richard Alien and family took dinner the people’s apples, potatoes and There is a good opening here for a At 10:45 o’clock Tuesday your corre- spondent saw smoke rising from the roof of Clarence Morris’ house, locat- WAS WORK OF FIENDS. | Twenty-Two People Killed in Alabama Railroad Wreck. | | TRAIN FELL. ONE HUNDRED FEET FIRE ADDS TO THE HORROR OF THE SCENE. Men, Women ard Children Caught Between Burnirg Timbers.—Rail Had Been Removed. | His only injury was a broken arm. { who bad both feet mashed. Alu, Dee. 27.— Twenty people killed, five fatally in- jured ard two badiy wounded is the frightful result of a wreck which oc- curred at 7:30 o'clock this morning on the Birmingham Mineral road, twenty-seven miles from this city. The wreck is regarded as almost certainly accomplished by the re- moval of a rail on the middle span oi the trestle. This derailed the train, which caused it to fali between two spans and precipitated it into the river, 110 feet below. The wreck was the worst that bas ever occurred in the state, and the sur- vivors are so few and so badly hurt that they are unable to give any de scription of how it all bappened. It is not known aud may never be as certained just how many passengers were on the train. Most of them were miners and residents of mining towns in the district, who had round trip tickets and were returning to their homes along the line of the Birmingham Miueral road. Conductor Connell, who probably knew better than anybody else as to how many passengers were aboard, is dead, It is thought, howevor, that there were not exceeding twenty five or thirty. But one pas- senger purchased a ticket at Birm- ingham WHERE THE WRECK OCCURRED. The Mineral trains operate over the Southern railway’s Sriarfield, Bloeton and Birmingbam branch under a contract arrangement. Six miles south of Gluerney is the Cababa river, a shallow mountain stream, which hae a depth at this time of only about three or four feet. This river is spanned by an iron bridge with wooden trestles on each side. Its entire length is 800 feet, and the length of the main span, where the wreck occurred, is 110 feet. The bridge was built only four years ago, and was regarded as avery eafe structure. The main span just beyond it, both made of iron, gave way and precipitated the | entire train iato the river. Meanwhile a few country people gathered at the scene torender what aid they could, but it was too late to do much. Nine people had got- ten out, and the others bad been 3irmingbam. He leftthe scene for Blocton on foot almost immediately after the wreck, apparently crazed by fright. The railroad officials have not yet! been able to see bim and get astate-| ment. | OF the eight other survivors three | were children, all of whom bad their | feet burned and mashed, and a lady | Their | names have not heen learned. The) other three were Heury eienenee| a conductor from Birmingham, who| was taking his wife and two chil | dren out for a ride around the cir Wre wish one and alla happy and prosperous Now Year, thanking the customers of the Farm. er’s Bank for their ex- cellent patronage during cuit, and Will Gardner and Andrew | the past. Bryson, miners from Blocton. Hand | berry was on the same seat with his | Sincerly Yours, wife and children when the crash; came. The latter three were killed | and he was pinned down and would) bave béen burned alive had he not| been rescued by Bryson and Gard ner. These two men also saved the} unknown woman and three children who were likewise pinioned and ap- pealing piteously for help, but by the time they had reached these five | persons the heat had become so in | tense that they were compelled to desist jn their work ofrescue It is thought that fully three-fourths of the dead were killed outright in the crash, while the other five were pin- ioned down and cremated. Gard ner and Bryson were both badly hurt, while Handberry will probably probably as many more. Havana officials are jubilant, pas | sengers arriving here say, over the news of this victory A Cuban band was observed near | Pinar del Rio City Thursday morn | ing, and General Melquizo sent two | squadrons of cayalry to attack it. After a running fight the band, which proved to be composed of 15 Texans, was chased into a ‘‘bottle,” ie a bit of hammock, having only one The flames had completed the|opening. The Texans seeing that | work of destruction before any help | they were in a hole, retreated to the | arrived. The country around the] farther end and fortified themselves | scene Of the accident is sparsely set-| hastily behind some big boulders. | Pinar del Rio province,killing double | held in common. Negotiations are their own number and wounding | also reported to be in progress for tled, and the few farmers who heard of the wreck and went to the scene arrived too late to be of any assist- aace except to the survivors. WAS THE WORK OF WRECKERS. Dr. Ray, a Blocton physician who attended Gardner, one of the injur ed survivors, telegraphs to night the statement made by Gardner as to the cagse of the wreck. Gardner says that when he felt the cars leave the track he looked out and saw three gavage looking men rushing from a hiding place down toward the water’s edge, and that after the wreck they went through the wreck- age: robbing the dead and wounded, and fled tothe woods. They didj work quickly and offered no assist ance whatever in the way of rescuing the imprisoned and injured passen- gers. . The story, however. has not yet been corroborated, but other facts show that the work was thai of train wreckers. An examination of the engine off the steam and reversed before it went down, indicating that he saw danger ahead as he approached the bridge and tried to stop the train. His charred body was found with The Spanish troops dismounted and | surrounded them, pouring ina fire} from all sides. The brave Texans | replied, and kept up the fight for more than five hours. By that time six of the fifteen had been killed and four were wounded, while twenty five Spaniards had bit ten the dust, and ten or more were wounded. A flag of truce was sent in by the Spanish, and the Texans were called on to surrender but the Americans refused with one accord to lay down their arms, shouting: ‘‘We remem | ber Maceo ” This infuriated the Spanish and | they fought with renewed fierceness. \ Twice they charged, but the rapid firing of the brave little baud drove them back By getting on a high ridge bebind the Texans’ positions, the Spaniards were enabled to pour in a fire that) killed all but two of those left. Those two gallantly continued to | i | | | \ shows that Engineer White bad shut | fight, and held off the enemy an| hour longer. Then, overcome by thirst and en- | i feebled by the loss of blood flowing . from a dozen wounds, they were cut | to pieces by the Spaniards, who, =. D, BIPP, Cashier. | the purchase of an immense tract of {land in Northern Wisconsin, where it is proposed to establish an In- | diana Mennonite colony. ( Prof. S. A. Weltmer, the renowned Magnetic Healer, whose wonderful cures without the use of medicine er Surgery, has created so muett, interest, arrived in Butler to-day and will be located at the Palace Hotel for one week. Prof. Weltmer comes here from Sedalia, Mo., where he treated over two hundred patients ti» one week, and the remarkable cures he effected in thatcity created considerable excitement, many of his cases were considered incurable by both patients and physicians. ‘The Professor cures permanently every knew = disease without medicine or surgery and. thir strong endorsements he brings with him cer- tainly proves beyond a question ef doubt his wonderful ability. Remember that he will be in the city but one week and no matter what your affliction may you should not fail tosee him. He makes harge for consnitation. Find a New Cure For smatl-Pox. City of Mexico, Dec. 27.—Experi ments made with small pox patients ia Oaxaca show that by adminster- ing honey diluted in water to small- pox patients the pustules of the worst variety disappear, and the fever is immediately dimisaished: The matter attracts much attentiow The remedy was accidentally dis- onds, but too late to render any help | as the house was so near burned that it was impossible to do anything until the building was entirely con- county last week and from there he will go to Germany. G@ W Cybert was in Virginia Satur- day hunting a tank to haul water to | . = ——jsumed. The little child was burned toacrisp. The mother was in the hen house picking ducks, Clarence was plowing in the field and the child was in the house alone when the fire was discovered. Mrs M heard the child cry and rushed into the house, ; but the smoke was sodense she could not find him. She was badly burned about the head and hands. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as! there was no fire in the stove. This is the second burn out they have had in the past two years. Clarence and coyered by a young girl who was 'down with the disease who eecretly refreshed herself with honey and water with the astonishing curative results, and it was then tried o soldiers sick with the disease. his hand on the throttle. The sur | finally dashed up asthe Texans cried: vivors all agree that the train left | “Viva Cuba Libre.” the track and bumped along the ties | and then with a crash plunged) To Found a Heaven, through the bridge. Expertergin | Ligonier, Ind., Dec eers say that there is every indica-|ligious society known as Dunkards tion that a rail was removed, which is endeavoring to purchase the en | derailed the train and caused it to tire region comprised within Bown | pull down the bridge. The cross- county, is state, to which its mem- ties show marks of the wheels. To_ bers will emigrate to establish a gov- add to this,is the fact that three men | ernment of their own according to tried to wreck a Southern railway | their peculiar notions C.E Everett burned up in the wreckage. When the relief train from Birmingham arrived there was little need for the army of pbysicians that had gone along. The wounded were quickly | attended to and thensent to Blocton for further attention. The work of getting the dead was ertered upon. | Nothing was left of the wreckage but the smouldering remains, which j had burred to the water's edge.| 25 —The re- Holiday Excursione. On account of the Christmas ans New Years holidays the Mo. Pac. RB. Co. will sell round trip tickets to local points within two hundsreé miles distance at rate of one and one- third fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale Dee. 24th, 25th, and Bist, 1896 and January Ist, 1597 ané DUVALL & PERC 4 BUTLER,-MO- FaRnMiurnoans. ie" Honey to loan on farms at reduced rates o: mterest Your notes are payable atonr office 3 vi dyon find them here when due Pprivilece to pay any time. Mo: Afecon as papers are signed, re give wife are stopping with the latter's father, Uncle Joe Littlefield. NM Nestlerode was in our town @ short time ago. He said he was com- ing back soon and would stay all night if anybody would keep him. Drive in, Nels. William Collins and Miss Gill, of Foster, were married Sunday ist IM. Kentucky Stanaing. tucky’s vote of twelve electors for McKinley and one for Bryan is final. |The time bas expired in which the | Roberts of the Republican commit | tee announces that the notice served Charred corpses were packed in be- | Lexingtor, Ky. Dec. 28.—Ken-| tween the iron framework where the seats had been Most of the bodies had been burned beyond recogni- tion. Some had their heads burned off, and of others nothing was left | but mere skeletons. As rapidly as | possible the remains were taken out and laid io a row on the river bank. At four o'clock twenty bodies bad been found, sud no more were in sight It is possible, however, that there are others under the wreckage and also that some may be hid by } | | Bryan men were permitted te file a the water. Oftbe survivors, Sam} IVAL, | notice of contest, and Chairman | Spencer was the only one .of the! He! | train crew that escaped alive. | was the colored fireman. cn Bryan Elector Smith Was simply|ed from the engize while it was in/ed toa maa after hero jastrategic move and it will not be! midair and landedin the water some|for more than fite i mey ready | pushed distance from where the engine fell. He jump-| |train near Henry Ellen, fifteen miles|of Albion is the projector of the jenst of here. five days ago, by re- ischeme. He has already purchased moving a rai! on a trestle ninety feet | 41,000 acres of Jand in that county, | high. ito which 100 families will remove in | ‘The fast express left the track, a few days. The projector says that but the engineer managed by super- neither jail vor court bouse will be human effort to stop it before it ture needed, and that the election of local officers will be held only to comply down the trestle. FIFTEEN BRAVE TEXANS DIE { Spanwh Troops Get Them ina Corner: ning Highest of ail in Leave: and Fire. Key West, Filia, Dee. 258.—The Lone Siar company of the patrict army of West Cubs, consisting of | fifteen Texas sbarp-sho ;vastly superior Sp ‘ | with the law, as all property will be | Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE will be limited for return until Jas. 4th, 1897. Home seekers, round trip tickets will be placed on sale to various points in the northwest, west ard southwest, on the following dates, Jan. 5th, and 19th. Feb’y 2nd and 16th. March 2nd and 16th. April 6th and 20th, and May 4th and 18th, 199 For rates limit of tickets &c., apply t W. C. BuRRes, Ticket Ag’t, Butler, Mo. Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder