The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 21, 1897, Page 2

——_—— SPAIN’S ARMY Is Principally Made Up of Half Starved Ruffians, ‘ MANY OF WHOM ARE MERE PHY- SICAL WRECKS Sicvening Scenes of Barbarity in San- fiago. —Bloody Dead Cuban Hauled Through Streets. | BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR. “Object To Serve as an From Scripps MeRea Stas El Cotre, Jan. 1—The of Spain's army in Cuba is indescrib able. Such a dilapidated and de-} praved gang of Ruflians the civilized world has never before seen. They are unfit to bear the name of soldier. I have had abundant opportunity | to study the habits and condition of the soldiers while en route to this city. During my four days’ trip ou | the cattle vessel from Batabano, as well as at Clenfeugov, Tumas, Man | zanillo and in this city, I made care- ful observations. They are an immoral set and most of them quite young. Nine out of every ten are suffering | with sore throat and catarrh. Many are consumptive,hollow eyed,and not a few are absolutely starving. Their clothes are little more than rags. | Half of the soldiers are and the other half are wearing di- lapidated sandals. Their equip- ment consists of a straw hat, a num- ber of straps, a blanket, a jeans suit, a machete and a very good gun These guns are patterned after the style recently introduced into the United States army. The bullets barefooted, jent chairman, put into the platform | manufactured articles of general con- ored to take him alive, probably for |torture, but were forced to finally shoot him after he bad wounded’ three other soldiers. Tucs W. Srzep. Why Attempt to Cure (eles by the use of so called biood remedies? That catarrh is not caused | | by blood trouble is self evident when | you reflect that attacks are always |dueto sudden climatic changes or} | exposure, and occur most frequently | | during winter and spring, though | | the blood is as pure then as in sum | mer or fall. A remedy which quie Kly | relieves and cures the catarrial at- tacks bas been fouad in Ely’s Cream | | Balm Republican Inconsistencies. Inconsistencies was never the bug- bear of the Republican party. At this time contradictions between their promises and performances are worrying them less than ever. Hav ing secured power by a fight on the currency issue, they propose to call an extra session of Congress, not to but to enact a reform the currency, higher tariff Another inconsistency in their at titude is the ground on which they argue for a higher tariff—to raise prices. Yet the effect of the form- er McKinley tariff was asserted by them to have been Jower prices. The Republican national convertion which met at Minneapolis in 1892, h William McKinley as perman- the following declaration: “We assert that the prices cf sumption have been reduced under the operation of the tariff act of 1890.” It would be entertaining to com- pare with this declaration that the McKinley tariff reduced prices, the bitter arraignment of the Wilson tariff for reducing prices. And the are made of steel. Each man is also provided with a ticket for rations. I think Spain’s impotency lies largely in the poor feeding of her soldiers. A sight of the privates at “megs” is almost sickening. It isa case of first come first served. The poor fellows are really inhuman in their behavior. They lack even hog decorum. A SOLDIER'S MEAL. I was a spectator at mess a num- ber of times. The “stock” or chief ingredient of the soldiers’ meal con- sists of a weak soup made of old meat and and scraps, which are pre- pered and kept for an indefinite period ina barrel. A very poor quality of hardtack is also furnish- ed. This mess is dished out to equads. The rayenous devouring of food by the hungry men is well-nigh inconceivable. Spoons, fingers and aticks plunge simultaneously into the general dish I know nothing in America to compare this to unless it be to swine about a swill barrel. Many of the soldiers under the condition of affairs have become physical wrecks, as they have already become examples of moral corrup- tion. In all their personal life and babite they are repulsive, although most of them have retained their love of personal adornment and gaudy display. The contrast be- tween the officers aud soldiers 80 apparent in Havana is even more marked in the field. The privates are reduced to the level of slaves and they are servile in manner. If the majority of the army were actively engaged in the war and iso lated from the source of proper feeding, there might be some excuse for these facts. SAMPLE OF BARBARITY. A{sickening spectacle, but not un- common one, Iam told, was present- ed in the narrow streets of Santiago yesterday afternoon just before I left. The body of a Cuban, bleeding and coyered with mud and filth, was thrown across the back of a horse by the Spanish police and carried through the lower districts of the town. The parading was done by order of the governor and was intended as aa “ebject lesson.” Hipolite Cabellero, a patriot, ven- tured on the Sueno farm, on the Republicans might explain why, if the new McKinley act will raise prices, the old McKinley act reduc- edthem. They might further ex- plain why, since the reduction of prices was a thing for them to boast of in 1892, an increase of prices should be their object in 1897. The McKinley act, moreover, was entitled to “an act to reduce ihe revenue.” We know it did, in fact, reduce the revenue. In its last year it created a deficit of $75,000,000. Why then should another McKinley act to be labelled ‘‘an act to increase the revenue?” The secret of these inconsistencies is that the Republicans cannot pro- duce a logical argument in favor of a high proctection. In their cynical contempt for the people they do not even care to try. They have the power to sacrifice the people's rights and welfare for the enrichment of the trusts. And the Republican party would rather be corrupt than consistent.—Kansas City Times. Jenkins Gets Justice. A telegram received by the Daily Democrat late last evening from the Warrensburg Star gave the pleasing information that Chas. Jenkins, the bigamist, was convicted and given three years. ‘Twere a pity the jury did not give him three times three. Jenkins, who has a wife and child- ren in Nevada, persuaded Martha Marsb, an estimable young lady of Montrose, to elope with him, and they were married in Warrensburg. He was arrested and sent to the penitentiary from Clinton two years for inticing the girl away. Miss ly she had been deceived, committed suicide. When Jenkins’ term was out, he was sent back to Johnson county to be tried for bigamy. The prineipal witnesses againat him were Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Putnam, of Montrose. who lived near him wife. The jury was out 30 minutes. —Clinton Democrat. Marsh, when she realized how cruel-} in| Strong, Nebraska, and knew of his! Try Lallemand’s Specific for Rheumatism, | THERE ARE NO EXCUSES NOT TO USE | ST. JACOBS OIL tr DEACON BROS. & CO. : Heavy sud shelf Hardware, and Stoves, Field and Gard and Farm machinery, Wagon wood work, ‘Iron, Steel, Nails, Salt, Machine ,oil, a The Starling with cast top and bottom. The best air tight wood heater in America. Call and see our line of wood and coal heaters. are not going up as promised.” And having made these statements of un- | doubted fact, the Herald goes on to ask: ‘How will heavier duties on manufactures help this state of things? Heavier duties may enable producers to produce, but will they help consumers to conume? what is the use of stimulating man- ufacturers unless you can stimulate the markets for them also?” tinuing, the Herald further says: “There have been sixteen bank failures in the West and South since | November; some of them in Chicago itself and in St. Paul Does Mr Mc Kinley think a new tariff would have prevented them? They are! due in part to overtrading and overlending on an unsound basis. They are due primarilly to the condition of the currency which produces a glut o money in New York and a scarcity eleewhere. Would the tariff help that?” Platt to Succeed Hill. Albany, N. Y., Jan. the usual formula of a nominating speech tonight, with eulogy, but with a strength of votes that was overwhelming Thomas C. Platt was named as the Republican candidate for United States Senate | tonight by a vote 147 to7 for Joseph H. Choate. Seldom, if ever, has the Assembly chamber, the meeting place of the joint Republican caucus oa the Sen- scene as it did tonight. ed, the galleries were filled with vis itors. Before the ballot was taken a resolution was adopted to make all Republican members. resulted as already stated, and the nomination was made unanimous amid applause The caucus then) selected Chester S. Lord of New. York to be regent of the State Uni- | versity. i Mov Gathermg, Middlesboro, Ky., January 14—A | | County, to lynch W. H. Garnett, | it cures quickly and permanentiy. have used it and all recommend it. per vial. Thousands Price S@ So: by McClement & Co. sturdiest supporters of Maj. McKin-} ley is troubled and sick at heart over} the poltical and ficancia! outlook. In| outskirts of the city, intending to| take some cattle. bands ran to the barracks near by. A few minutes later a charge of 50 cavalry swooped down on Cabellero. Beiore be could be captured the! Caban shot and killed Lieutenant! B. Fernandez. One of the tarm| an editorial utterance with despond- | Kinley was the advance agent stil | lingers by the way. | Wages ency lurking in every word it says:) | “The prosperity of which Maj. Me-| Industries are! still depressed. The railroads are | net doing a good business, freight |i The troops endeay-| not coming forward freely. jassaultand murder of Miss Polly | The New York Herald. onc ofithe | Feltner, and, unless Garnett can | | prove an alibi, he will swing before inight Ballard’s Snow Liniment. 3 | 1 in sprain Barbwire, Buggy And | Con- | 14 —Without | no word of | atorship, presented such a lively | Long be-} fore the hour for assemblage arriv | the choice of the caucus binding on | The ballot | jmob i is gathering at Hayden, Leslie | colored, under arrest for the criminal | ),| Covey for Cutlery and Guns Tinware en seeds, Buggies, Wagons paints, Glass? Xe. ORIGINAL ROUND OAK | Best heater in the world. KEEPS FIRE -:- es = | with wood or coal, TRIUMPANT over all others. Give you references from 1000 Bates County People. | Won His Ww ife. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 14.—In | the habeas corpus trial before Chan- |cellor Martin here this morning of | Robert L. Schmidt vs. E. K. Sechler wherein Schmidt cited Sechler to | show cause why he (Sechler) should not surrender his daughter Miss Jennie, who was married to Schmidt Tuesday last,and who has since been forcibly detained by Sechler, Judge Martain decided that Sechler had no right to detain the girl. She is a married woman, and he must permit her to go to her husband. The court room was crowded. Mrs. Schmidt was so excited during trial that at the conclusion she fainted. The case will be prosecuted further by Sech- |ler, who declares he will annul the | marriage license. | The old man still has bis daughter | but Schmidt swears he will get her | yet The girl is 17. Louis Hodges Slain by Her Lover. Webb City, Mo., Jan. 12.—Grant | Edwards, 31, instantly killed Lois Hodges, 14, in the front yard of the girl’s home, at 11 o'clock last night. Then he placed the revolver to his forehead, fired and fell unconscious | across the girls body. The ball | passed around his skull and hei is | | not fataliy wounded. The couple had been buggy riding all the afternoon and evening. Jeal- | ousy is supposed to be the cause. Edwards is in jail at Carthage. He claims he shot the gir] accidentally while scuffling for the possession of | the revolver, and that, seeing what he kad done, tried to commit sui | cide | Sacramento, Cal, Jau. 13.—Geo. C. Perkins was recently re- elected | United States senator, receiving a | majority of the votes in both! branches in the legislature. In the| | senate he received 27 votes, against | | | —— i t ia scattering opposition wote of 13.| Bretney’s tannery for fifteen years, | His vete in the assembly was 47, | committed suicide by cutting his ' against a total opposition of 32. His} | majority on joint ballot is 19. The two houses of the legislature | | will hold a joiut eession at noon to- let the blood drain in a bucket go it| | would not stain the carpet morrow and cast a ballot for Per- \kins. The democratic vote was di | |W. W. Foote and National Commit- 'teeman, J. J. Dwyer. vote went to T. V. Cator. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 13 —Rev. F. Campbell, of Haysville. a claim in the Probate Court againet the estate of the late Truman J. conducting the services of deceased. The amount | of Rev. Campbell's claim is $5, and H. The New Guu that Unele Sam is | vieit arsenal, near Troy, | work prelimine | the largest ¢ | It is to be of i | 1 jof the larg smooth-bor pared to the new gunin size or any thing of whieh is mc ton has been i each time its recoil has very dickens with its carriage. feet long (to be ac will haye a range of 16 miles and be able to penetrat best steel armor miles. jit will throw a solic projectile wei; zle of the gun it will be traveling at | the rate of 2,000 feet a second, and! if a plate of harveyised |County. The appointment has been ; while in Hot Springs that be had The populist | has filed | funeral | © ‘it will probably be allowed. i J Shoots 16 Miles. | Making Vakes Halfia Ton of Powder to Fire li | 15-INCH BORE, WILL BF fty Feet in Lenzth a etrate 27 1-2 New York, Jan 13. The Water | has begun y to the casting of | | ited States The United Stat er calibre were except cal 20 inch guns, one; ed at Fort Hamil | dafew times, andj raised the | There are two 50 curate 49.67 feet), The new gun will be nearly 4 inches of the at a distance of is The gun wi!l weigh 125 tons and When the proj: steel 33] inches in thickness were placed near | the muzzle of the gun it would be! penetrated by the ff ot the projectile This gun mounted at Fort Wads worth, would be able to hurl a 2,370-pound projectile upon a man o war before she got within seven miles of Sandy Hook. Engtland has in her coast defenses } and her navy 16 guns of 16 inch cal iber, and France has eight. Italy hae 25 guns of 17-inch caliber. The new gun, work upon which has now begun at Watervliet, will be -super ior in effectiveness, however, to the Italian guns, although, they do have one inch more of caliber. The maximum diameter of the ing mass breach of the new gun will be 62|Office, tront room over The diameter of the breach | store. To fire this mete it ches. cpening is 20 inches. gun requires a charge of 1,060 pounds of powder, of the usual brown kind. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other disease put together, and until the last tew years was supposed to be incnrable. For a great many years docters pronounced it a local disease,andjprescribed local rem- edies, and by constantly failing to -uie with local treatment, pronounced it {n- curable, Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there- fore, requires constitutional treatment Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the mar- ket. Itis taken internally in doeses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. Its acts directly op the blood aud mucuos sur- faces of the system They offer one dol- lars tor any case it fails to cure. Send tor circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. s8@F Sold by druggists, 75c. Bell Appotnted. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 12 —Gov. Setephens’ first official act was to take effect at once Mr. Fred Bei! iz a prominent citi- zen of Fulton. He is an architect and bas never before held public of fice. The new Adjutant General is not yet 40. He bas long been a per | sonal friend of Gov. Stephens and did good work for him in Calloway expected. Gov. Stephens admitted selected Bel! for the office. CASTORIA. ‘Tho f20- simile < = ee are Zoe Gihlehidé A Considerate Suicide. Springteld, O, Jan. 13—D. A Gibbs, aged 65 yeara, ex rere at throat from ear to ear this morning |at his boarding house. He was de. spondent and too old to work. He! When | ‘discovered he was dying. He was vided between congressmen Maguire taken to the hospital, but died at| He was born at Ashtabula. | Clinton, Missouri. 3 noon. iBates Co. Twenty Vears.... For more than twenty years we have been telling how Scott’s Emulsion overcomes the excessive waste of the system, puts on flesh, nourishes and builds up the Sody, making it the remedy for all wasting di. seases of adults and children, but it isn’t possible for us to tell the story in a mere stick. fal of newspaper type. We have had prepared for es by a physician a little book, telling in easy words how and why Scott’s Emulsion benefits, and a postal card request will be enough to have it sent to you free. To-day would bea good time to send for it. SCOTT & BOWNE, New York, Bates County Bank, BUTLER, MO. Successor to National Bank, Established in 187¢. Paid up capital $125,000 A general banking business trang acted. F.J. TYGARD, - - - President, HON. J. B. NEWBERRY J. C. CLARK - . Vice-Pres, Cashier EE. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, McKibben Ail callanswered at office day or pecialattention given to temale dis eases. Dr, O. L. Helwig, ——SURGEON——. Office two stairway trom T. L. Pettys grocerv, Residence second house north C.P. Church. - DR J.T. BULL = DENTIST. Newly Fitted up Rooms, Over Jeter’s Jewelry Store. Entrance, vame that leads to Hagedorn’s Studio, ‘north side square , Butler, Mo, Dr, R. Fred Jones Ph ysician, Office over McKibben store." Residence, M. E, streets. T Cc. . BOULWARE, ~ Physictan and e Surgeon. Office norta side square Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chi en a specialtv.} G. .W ROBINSON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention to diseases of Chest. Nose and Throat. Calls answered night and da] Officer Calver Mo. Z sf . J. Sviriu. A. W. Tucatan SMITH THURMAN. LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Natn’l Bank, Butles, Missouri. mB. | (GRAVES wcLaRK, : ATTORN“YS AT LAW. 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