The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 21, 1897, Page 1

Park, Daisy Denning, Minnie Bean, \\ Pgor. XIX CAPITAL SURPLUS FUND OF BUTL Receives Deposits, Loans money, Issues Dr: We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants and the public generally promising a safe Depository for all funda committed te « Hberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. Booker Powell or T. C, Boulware Geo L Smith John Deerwester TR Jenkina Thanking the public for their confidence an¢ years, we solicit & continuance of the same agement, with strict attention always to the J. R. JENKINS, Cushier. HH Piggot C R Radfor Cee ee en a a eR RE our! State TJ Wright S3ITTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1897. O00 00 ER, MO. 2,500.00 afte and does a general Banking busine | our charge. Weare prepared to extent Frauk M Vorte JM Christy RG West Wm FE Walton 1 liberal patronage during the past fifteen promising honest and consery ative man- Wants of our customers. Ws. E. WALTON, President. it ‘d ee NT NE TA HIT RE ) Virginia Items. Kind friends if sou wish the Virginia news another year, Do for Aaron what he does for you, tell him all the news you hear. ‘The Tres goes to friends in other states that | set up 'till eleven, To read what happens you and what other folks do in 1597. Van Walker says it is a boy. Elmer Garner wants to rent his 40 acre farm one mile north and a half- mile west of Virginia. John Coulter and sister, Miss Grace of Drexel visited the family of Joe T Whinuery Saturday. Rumor around Virginia have it that the last will and testament of the Hon Herman Bearman, formerly ‘of America but late of the historic | city of Brensea, Germany, makes rovision for his old friend and tutor udge C W Wolfe to the extent of $11. We have always contended that it was better to be born lucky than rich. Dr J J Mitchell of Groveland, Ilin- ois, will soon commence the erection ofa nice little house over the cellar he had built on his farm prior to his moving away. Healso contemplates having considerable tile put down. Albert Orear of K C, has contracted for carpenter work. The doctor would like toemploy an expert tile layer; send bids to G W Park, Vir- ginia, immediately. Mrs Rosa Berry, of Cherryvale, Kansas, has been visiting her broth- er, Mr Liston, for the past week. He isslowly recovering from a severe spell of sickness, The endeavor social at Joe Whin- nery’s Friday night was well attend- ed and a good time reported. MrsA J Park went to Garnett, Kan., Wednesday last, to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs Henry Myers. Geo Bright of Foster, was in Vir- ginia, Monday. Virginia has been in a quiet state for some time. Monday of this week acompany selling and advertising the wonder working Remedy Co of Omaha, Neb., Monday night they gave a free entertainment, had a good audience; even the tittle boys’ sides mere made to shake with laughter. The old women and men looked young again. They will con- tinue till Saturday night; show each night and a lecture by Dr George. Misses Luna and Ida Cowan, Daisy { | Clare. Dugan, Bettie Hensey, Alice Crooks, Maud Hackett, Lena Jenk- ins and Mrs Jessie Jackson were all at Miss ley Jenkins quilting last Thursday, All say they had a jolly good time and plenty of good things to ear. W P Ayers has appeared in anoth- ershape in the suburbs of North Grandview; he reports work plenty and confidence fully restored. The reporter: twitted him in regard to his candidacy for constably of Charlotte township. Mr Ayersdoes not appear tobe avers to making the race he claims that his growing business in- terest will hardly permit him to make an active canvass, but has no doubt whatever that his numerous friends will see that his political aspirations does not suffer. Mr Ayers is affable iv eee ‘in Appleton City. and courteous and rej ort has it, as nervy as an African lion. The Grand view fellows all seem to think that their section should have recognition bext spring at the pie counter for past servic in maintaining party supremacy; with these things in view we see no reason for classing W P Ayers’ chances as doubtful. Mrs Jefferson Park is on list. Mrs Taylor Adams and two chil- the sick dren are reported on the sick list. Gordon Wallace is fixing up his place where he expects to move in the near future. AARON, Round Prairie Items. Osear Mock is slowly recovering from the effects of his powder burn. Luther Nichols, of Vernon county, was visiting relatives here last week. Walter Young has been visiting relatives in Henry Co the past week. Miss Maud Parker, of Rockville, spent a few days with friends here. Cameron Peeler returned to school at Warrensburg. Prof G@ F Tally has returned from a visit in Henry Co. The supper at Hook Chapel last Wednesday night was not quite a failure, as some said it would be, but those that were there got value re- ceived for their money. Christian Endeavor every Wednes- day night at the Christian church. Miss Minnie Wilson visited relatives in Rockville last week. Rev Hamilton will commence a protracted meeting at Hook Chapel the first Sunday in February. J F Wilson has been confined to his room with a lame back. Prof George Brown arrived home Wednesday to spend a few weeks. Grandma Price and Hurst are re- ported to be dangerously sick. Some of our young folks attended a dance in Rockville Thursday night. Mrs Ooley gave an excellent turkey dinner New Year's day. Mr and Mrs J P MecDavitt enter- tained our young folks Tuesday night of last week. J M Routsong and family spent New Years with relatives in St Clair county. Andy Jackson and wife were visit- ing relatives in Vernon county last Wednesday. Mud, mud, mud, everywhere. Several of our young folks attend- ed the ball in Rockville Friday night CC Peeler, Will Koontz and Mr Morris were in Butler Friday on busi- ness. Miss Minnie Wilson is on list again. On account of the preacher, Rev Lewis being sick, there was no preaching at Hook chapel Sunday. Walter Dean isreported to be quite sick. CC Peeler and wife visited Mrs G B Nichols, Thursday. Prof G L and Bert Brown and Will Koontz and family Sundied with Mr Hall. AC Nichols and family and Mrs Ooley and daughters Sundied with J T Wilson and family. Waiter Young returned from Hen- ry county Thursday where he has been visiting relatives. Mr Farnum, the tax collector, call- ed upon some of our farmers last week. the sick was on the prairie last week. Some of our farmers had a hog- killing time last week. Prot Tally and CC Wilson Sundied at Mr Brown’s, May Patton at the home of the bride known on our prairie. our best wishes. CLIMAX. Austin Mems. John McKee and Miss Gabe Wal- ley were married last Sunday. Geo Skiller has been away from home for three weeks. His son has become uneasy and is searching for him. May Abotish Normal Schools. Jeff-rson City, Mo, Jan. 17 —The committee of members of the IJast Legislature appointed to visit the State institutions and report to the present Legislature will soon make ts The accomodations of the State for the care of the insane are wo-t woefully inadequate,and all the «s.iums will ask the State for lars a. propriations for pew build ing-. The committee, however, will tavor of the building a new asylum, tty ‘oeated some place in the southeastern portion of the State. The committee, so it is eaid, will also report in favor of the State withdrawing its support from all vormal echools, aud also in favor of the doing away with the State in dustrial school for girls at Chilli cothe, and the school of mines at Rolla, Mo. If any measures are proposed. making law of the sug- gestions, they will of course, be bit terly opposed by the representatives from the counties in which such in stitutions are located. report report Fee System Must Go. Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.—Con gresaman Dockery, who is chiefly responsible for the bill abolishing the fee system as applied to United States Marshals and attorneys, pass ed by the last Congress, after a stubborn contest, indorses the posi tion ot Gov Stephens in regard to abolishing the feesystem in Missouri. Oo this point Mr. Dockery saye: “Upon the threshold of his adminis tration Gov. Stephens bas challenged the confidence aud approval of all the people by urging the abolition ALL EUROPE ALARMED. Powers Are Aroused By The Spread of the Black Plague. INDIA’S VISITATION DOUBLE. MOR-) TALITY HAS QUADRUPLED. i Famine and Disease, Arm in Arm, Devastate the Orient. Victims in Bombay Alone Number Two Hundred Daily—Work to Prevent its Spread. i Bombay, Jan. 17 —Plague and | famine are stalking arm in arm! through densely populated portions | of the empire, thousands are dead | or dying, and the outlook becomes | blacker and more terrible every day. Millions of helpless men, women aud | children are starving and the famine | stricken districts, having a popula | tion of nearly 40,000,000 people, will haveto depend upon the hand of charity for food enough to keep body and sole together until April or later. Other districts with a pop- ulation numbering about 50,000,000 are élready feeling the pangs of bit ter privaticn from food, and this must be endured well on into spring before permanent relief will be af forded by nature Furds for the relief of the euffers are being raised on all.side; but a very large amount of money will be needed to provide food even for those unfortunate peo- ple who live on almost nothing (in comparison with Europeans and others) from one end of the year to the other. This calamity, awful as it is in its intensity, is possibly not much great of the fee system as applicable to the offices of Sheriff, Probate Judge, Excise Commissioner aud Coal Oil Inspectors. “This recommendation of the Governor has a business ring Fixed compensation should supplant the fee system wherever practicable The act fixing salaries for United States Marshals and Attorneys has been in operation little more than six months, yet the administration of justice is fully as ample and eftective and the Government will save yearly at least two and one-quarter millions The fee system should go.” New Home Items. McKethen & Taylor is in the furni- ture business. Bob Goodrun is in the coal busi- ness, They have got, don’t know which it is, a boy or girl, at Bonham’s. Uncle Ben is going to do some fine graining for L W Jones. Bart Briscoe is back from Iowa where he has been to visit his wife's people. Geo Charles started with two loads of household goods Monday for Clin- ton he is to take charge of his fath- er’s farm four miles north of that city. JM. In Olden Times er than the ravages of the dreadful plague here threatening to spread, through the fright of the natives of this ¢ity, into other parts of India, and if it reaches the greatly weaken ed famine sufferers, the mortality may be enormous. The natives have beer reduced by lack of food to lit Ve less than living skeletons in the most heavily stricken districte, and as euch they can not but fall victims by the thousard to the black plague, which threatens to invade Europe through the Mecca pilgrims and other sources for the spread of con- tagion which are too numerous to mention, principal of which, how ever, are the export of rags, linen and other merchandise likely to con tain the poison germs. The mortality here has quadrupled without counting the deaths which have occurred among the hundred of thousands of people who have fled in terror from Bombay, in many cases abandoning their all in their hurried flight from the pestilence. Up to recently Bombay, with its population of about 850,000, enjoy ed the reputation of being one ot the healthiest cities in India, its san itary works being equal to those of THE FARMERS Capital and Surplus, $54,000.00. OFFICERS DN. THOMPSON, President. FE. A. BENNETT, Vice President. E. D, RIPP, Cashier. DIRECTORS. JAS. M. McKIBBEN, J. EVERINGHAM, H. M. GAILEY, CLARK WIX, JNO. E. §SHUTT, E. D. KIPP, DN 3. J. that some more drastic measures be | adopted, and one of the weekly pa | pers suggests that Parliament vote a big grant or iend India £10,000,000 A representative of the Associated | Press called on the Lord Mayor, | George Faudel Philips, after the, meeting at the Mansion house to | day. At that meeting a resolution | moyed by the Duke of Connaught, | recognizing it to be a public duty to i assist in the work of extending the relief measures and aleo a motion of | Henry Hobhouse, M. P, which in-| vited the county officials and clergy to co operate in the relief work, were adopted. The Lord Mayor said that he was hopeful that the Americans would co-operate and he | wrote the following statement which | he asked the Associated Press to} publish in the United States: | “The Lord Mayor of Loudon will) receive with profound gratitude any | donations from the people of Amer | ica for the India famine funds. He aske the family to contribute to the | fund. Signed, George Faduel Phil lips, Lord Mayor.” From the European point of view, however, the plague isa matter of graver concern than the famine. All continental governments are adopt ing precautionary measures at the | posts, and the imports from India of | rags, linen and other articles capa ble of conveying germs are probib | j (funded. Price, 25 Cente. NO 10 BANK of Butler THOMPSON, McKER, INO. E A. BENNETT, M. G. WILCOX. Young County. All the wives are alive, and, 80. fae as he knows, Lowe says they are wr-- divozeed. Lowe says heis from Az: Kansas, and claims to have served as adeputy United States marshal i the Iudian Territory. He confessee to hia multiplicity of marriages with a coolness of a making a boast af accomplishing some heroic deedhamd says that occasionally be has heard from the first of his wives, and that so far as he knows nineteen childrs have been born them within Se last eight years. Why suffer with Coughs, @olde and LaGrippe when Laxative Brome- Quinine will cure you in one day. Does not produce the ringing im the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Hes up in tablets convenient for tabing... Guaranteed to cure, or money re For sal» by W. H. McClement. 33-6re» Ft. Scott Attorney a Suicide. Ft. Scott, Kan., Jan. 13 —Join | Couch, a prominent young attormss- of this city, lieutenant colonel em | Gevernor Lewelling’s stef,candidme at the recent election on the st7asght- out Populist ticket for judge ofthe: court of appeals, died at hie Dome here this morning of morphine pes» oning His relatives clamit an acm dent.but everthing points to suicides | He had just returned from Sprimg field, Mo., where his wife residem, ited, and it is announced that * | and with whom he failed to effect » European conference will be held at Rome to consider the adoption of combined measures to prevent the plague from invading Europe. BROOKLYN MAY BE QUABANTINED. New York, Jan. 17.—The Brook lyn Health Department, fearing that the plague, now raging in India,may be carried tu this country by steam ships, has made preparations to have all vessels arriving from India sub jected to thorough disinfection and quarantine. The chief bealth officers today issued orders to health officer to take extra precautions in the ex | People overlooked the importance of | :he European capitals. But all this/ amination of ships. Especial vigor permanently beneficial effects and has changed. More than _half| is to be exerted at the shipyards were satisfied with transient action; | lati h di i but vow that it is generally known |0f the population has disappesr | Some of our people attended aie} wedding of Frank MeKenney to Miss! Miss May is well) They have} Miss Gertie Metcalf is taking care) 3. 1 that Syrup of Figs will permuneptly Arista Walker of Vernon county | overcome habitual constipation, well | linformed people will not buy other jlaxatives, which act fora time, but | finally injare the system. Sunday Schoo! Convention, Rich Hill, M January 24th, 1897. The following order of exe ses has been arrangea for the district Sunday School convention to be held ses in the First Presbyserian church, | Rich Hill, Mo. PROGRAMME, 1.—-A H Culver will preside and con- to 2:30 p. m. of Mrs James Frantz, who is sick. The oyster supper at Archie last Saturday night was a failure on ac- count of the rain. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, 4 BUTLER,2MO- FARM IOAN S. | Money to loan on farms at reduced rates of imterest. Your notes are payable at onr office you find them here when due. We give ON privilege to pay any time, Money Fr acon as popere are eiguet, Otey Schooley has returned frow a six weeks’ hunt in south Missouri; he | reports a fine time. : ‘The wheat crop looks well in this neighborhood; only a small per cent Was sown. 2 4 Mrs John Taylor is on fthe sick list. The Patton Bros. are ber to build a new barn. . : Geo Frantz has gone to visit rela- tives in Ohio. swe Witl Goble wants to sell his forty- !acre farm and go where he can get cutting tim-} 5.—Addres: ~ Mrs NO Wyard, Butler. Recitation, Rep. M E, south 3S Rich Hiil. Exercise, Rep. 1st Baptist S Rich Hill. i Ss | ' i ] rian 8S 8, Rich Hill. Address, “The Young People,’ T W Legg, Butler. |io.— Exercise, Rep. CPSS, R | In the evening there i service and an address iME Sonth, and the ehurches at 7 o'clock. 9. ; more land. NELS’ CLERK. invited.} ‘ duct devotional services from 2:00 Solo, Rep. Christian S 8, Rich Hill “The Primary Depart- .—Motion song, Rep. Ist Presbyte- at both the Presbyterian | Everybody | helpless and can not get away, or are @owding out of the city by rail | water and road, or else contemplate 'so doing unless there is a change | for the- better shortly. : | ment officials are seriously alarmed, las the native physicians have nearly lallleft the city. Business is para llyzed, the mills are closed or clos- ling, the streets are partly deserted land on all sides are empty houses, | boarded up or wide open. The pas | sage of funeral parties through the 2.—Song, representing MESS., Rich streets goes on day and night. Hiil i l i dies 3.-Exercise, Rep. Calvary Baptist [acd lipe after line of bodi S, Rich Hill. fare awaiting consignment to the | flames or to mother earth | The number of deaths from the S| plagee in thie city is now estimated, | S, | unofficially, to be over 3,000, and ithereare about 170 additional vic jing a8 time wears on. The Euro ich Hill | peant, however, have been singularly will be a song | free from contagion up to the pr lent time, only three deaths emoog them being recorded to date The ne papers, ed, and those who remain are either’ The govern | ims daily, with this number increas | however, urge, 15, at HAS SIXTEEN LIVING WIVES. i z Matrimonial Career of Tom Lowe, Aged 26, Now Under Arrest. Dension, Tex. Jan. 14.—Deputy ' United States Marshal B. C. Birch | field, of Durant, I. T., arrived in the leity to night, having in charge Tom | Lowe,26 years of age, who is wacted lia this county under indictment im | two cases for disposing of mortgaged Lowe in the presence of | Officer Birchfield and Policeman | James, confessed to being the bus- Poeud of sixteen wives, all of whom | he has married within the last eight | years The confession was made in ‘writing. He married wife No. 1 at | Parcel!. I T., in 1899; No. 2,Brown wood, Tex. the same year; No. 3, in Belton; No. 4, in Hillsboro; No. 5, in Ennis; No. 6, in Marion County; No. 7, in Galvestov: No. 8, im Houston; | property No. 9, in MeLenvan County; No 10, in Denison, No. 11, in Paris: No. 12, No. .13, in Delta County; ; No. 14, in Milen County reconciliation. He was a member oF | the Bourbon county bar associatiom.. a graduate of Ann Arbor, elass al: 1889, and the youngest son of Sw: oldest and at one time wealthiest | familiee in this part of the country- Lett Milliens on Deposit. New York, Jan. 17 —-The safe de posit boxes containing the secus#tser of the late Richard Tighe have Beez opened, They disclosed stocks an | cash agregating $1,538,215 18. Tighx: was known as an eccentric old rmwz who owned the only private howse on Union square. This house, thr value of which is estimated at $238.- 000, brings the o!d man’s repoteat wealth up to $1,750,608" Most of the securities are gilt edyod which may raise the estate to evem = higher figure Tighe’s will, leavamg ‘his fortune to hia wife's relatives, a. contested by several Irish relatives? ‘of the testator. nearly