The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 28, 1897, Page 1

BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JANUARY 2 aan A nen nO, me ma? mel (APITAL s0RPLUS FUND Deposits. Loans = solicit the accounts of EF on itory for all funds © secommod: TC Boulware L Smith Deerweater ins pa Boo Geo ‘Theo! yeore. ), B. JENKINS, Cashier. Virginia Items. cei friends if you wish the Virginia news nother year, f what he does for you, tell him all the news you hear. rues goes to friends in other states that P etap 'till eleven, what happens you and what other folks doin 1807. Bev Vermillion, of Ft Scott, Kan., oving back to Kates county. geo Jenkins was confined to the most of last week witha severe OM knest Judy will teach the spring of schoo! at Concord. §G Adams, the tax collector, is d calling on the payers, HC Wilson has rented the Elmer yer farin for 1897. WM Nestlerode and Virgil Jenkins ed the show to Amoret Sunday. WA McElroy and_ wife were at tire Dudley’s office Friday making adeed fur some property that he re- ently sold at Drexel. The pound and pie party at WT ( ‘’s Friday night was a succe fhose present were: Misses Da’ ning, Leda Wallace, Birdie Da Sadie Whiunery, Daisy Park, e Crooks, Icey Jenkins; Messrs Howell, Gordon Wallace, Jobn (owifurd, Chas Harold, Lawrence d Walter Wallace, Cary Park, Geo Borooks, John Allen, Joe Whinnery, Robert King. ‘They all went home alate hour saying it was good to there. B Gordon Wallace bought quite a fove of hogs last Saturday he is fix- to feed hogs quite extensively summer. We will give the par- lars of the wedding on the 28th, week, ‘fhe show has come and gone; they in our town one week, and made people look happy. Some of the Mbysgotrold. They sold a lot of Bredicine to the old aud cripple, so tived new goods. the doctor will have a rest, and young folks had a good time riug the week. Last Sabbath there were four at each Sabbath ool and eight at preaching. Jefferson Park was very poorly all st week. The reporter recently called on D BNestlerode the whole-souled and Jround jolly good natured farmer sksinith of South Grandview. Nestlerode at present is the senior ner of Dudley and Nestlerode, beral dealers aud shippers of poul- iy, hickory nuts, pecans and furs. the firm has been and is now doing ery profitable business; their main nts of export are K C, Chicago Boston. Mr Nestlerode’s friends u determined that he shall make herace for commissioner of high- ys. Dave saysthat he is not see a public position, but if they e him by public sedtiments to eept this position of trust, that then the time comes be they Jew or Gentile they will have to attend to their road work as prescribed by law. Our merchants have recently re- The coldest wave of the winter truck our town Saturday night. Jack Henderson, of the Nation, Was visiting his father-in-law, John Forgeson, last week. His daughter Katieand husband returned home wilege t as pape! url State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. 000.00 2 500.00 Issues Drafts and does a general Banking business. Merchants andthe public generally promising a omitted to our charge. jon in the way of loans to our customers. Powell BAH Piggott C & Radford TI Wright ng the public for their coniidence and liberal patronage during the past fifteen we solicit & continuance of the eame promising honest and conservative man- t, with str ct wttention always to the wants of our customers. Weare prepared to extent Frank M Voris JM Christy RG West Wm E Waiton Wo. E. WALTON, President. with him. Mrs Carr Dudley is on the sick list. The prohibitions are talking about men for townsbip offices this spring. The fusion fellows are after them to fuse but they saw the folly of fusion last fall. AARON. Round Prairie Items. Three Vernon county citizens were on the prairie Saturday and Sunday. Dixie Ooley has a fine gold watch which she says she got through the mail, Court was held on our prairie last Saturday at the Reynard school { house, resulting in the case being thrown out, Hog cholera is raging here. The sick on the prairie are all con- valesceut. A couple of slick-tongued fellows, claiming to be stock buyers, were on the prairie last week and staid over night with some of our farmers and cheated them out of their lodging aud horse feed. : Prof G L Brown left Saturday for Brookings, South Dakota, to accept a position as professor of mathema- ties in a school. Jeff Mock lost some wheat from his granary a week or so ago. Mr Schull, who has been visiting relatives on our prairie, returned to his home Monday. Mrs CD Peeler spent Friday wit her parents, sr and Mrs J P Mc- Davitt. There will be a sale of peasonal property on the W C Stephenson farm Feb 4th. CrImMax. Present For Namesake. Burlington, Iowa, Jan. 22.—One Burlington baby bas been honored in an unusual degree by William Jennings Bryan, the late silver presi dential candidate. During the elec tion time a boy was born to Mr. and Mrs C. L Masdin of this city Mr- Masdin was a redhot Bryau man, and Mrs. Masdin shared witb ber husband's enthusiasm. They vamed their boy “William Jennings Bryan Masdin,” and notified Mr Bryan of the fact. To day a personal letter of congratulations was recety- ed from Mr Bryan, in which was inclosed ac S100 silver certificate for the boy. A Mother and Two Children Perish. Bedford, Pa, Jan. 24 —The houee of Willian Croyle was completely destroyed by fire to-day, and Mrs Croyle, with two children, were burned to death. While the fire was raging Mrs. Croyle threw two of their children from the second story to her husband and then returned to a back room for the remaining two children. She was not seen again, when the ruins were sesched all that remained of the mother and the {two children was their charred trunks Ono of the children who was thrown from the window is so badly burned that it will die. The | father is also badly burned. No Missourizns Need Apply. Washington, D. C, Jan. 22.—The “crisis” in the make un of McKin ley’s Cabinet, which was anxiously awaited by the Republican Con- gressinen from Missouri so that they could recommend a Missourian, is said tc have been side tracked. “Missouri will vot be recognized | ‘in the \ outtock now.” And as the member \from the Tomahawk district sai ths, there was atwiokle in his eye indicate that he Cabinet.” said Congressman | =. | Tracey to-day. “‘At least that is the | Cla: POPULISTS AGREE TO FUSE. MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD MEMBERS OUT- | VOTED AT JEFFERSON CITY. | State Committee Practically Reads J. Waller Long Out of the Party—Party Mischief ilakers Condemned— By a Vote of 24 to 21, the Committeemen Agere to Fight for Free Sil- ver Without Regard to Porvy Lines. Jetersen City, Me, dan. 2%.—The populist committee me: here yester day wits cam stexcitieg session At sidioght the committee was still io executive session, and excited or ators could for balf a bock. It was « bitter fight between, that clement of the populist’ party of the state Jed by Chairwan Roz z-lle of the state central committee, | and the be beard middle of the-road crowd, who do not want to win and are op posed to fusion under avy circum stances There larve attendance | from all parts of the state, each side baviog yotten out its full strength. R.zzeile presided over the meeting There isa faction of the populist party that is fighting the men who ‘ed the party during the past cam paign out of pure jealousy. They are ufraid tbat they are going to be recognized in some way, and are angry, for the same reasons which prompted the dog in the manger to bite the horee’s nose. J. Waller Tong has been the loud- est in bis fight against Rozzelle and tbe other leaders, and some time ago @ committee was appointed tu investigate the charges made by Mr Long. The committee made its re port to day, and practically reads J. Weller Long out of the party. Here was a against fusion, and pledging the party in Missouri for all future time to put its own tickets in the field and not to fuse with any other party |Over this came great discussion, | jand there was everything except a free fight H | When it came toa vote, the mid | | dle of the-road men lost by a narrow | |margio. The vote was 24 against | |the Alldredge substitute avd 21 in! | favor ofit. The original resolution i | was then adopted. This means that) \the poptlist party of the state is! | going to keep up its fight for free ‘silver, and that it is going to fight | to win, and will be willing to unite with all friends of free silv-r agaiust | the advocates of a single gold stand ard. Afterthe big fight over the resolution, the committee pessed a resolution indorsing Chairman Rez | zelle for the office cf labor commis | sioner. A MURDERER MURDERED. Charles Stevens is Killed, Presumably By a Threatened Witness. Chillicothe, Mo, Jan. 24 —Chas Stevens, who was acquitted of murder of William Ellis at the pres ent term of the Cireuit court in Livingston county, was found dead in the road a few miles from bis home this morning,having been shot terough the head some time last night. Since his acquittal it is alleged that he and others of the family bave threatened the lives of some of the witnesses who testified agaiost bim in the trial, and the sup position is that someone wes threat ened who would not take the chances of his own life being taken any long It is feared that this is the be ginning of a feud that may end in further loss of life, as there are men er. is the report made by this commit tee: “We, your grievance committee, beg to report as follows: That the charges agaiust J. Waller Long, wember of the populist state com- mittee for the first district are sus unped with respect to publishing false and malicious charges against she chairmar aud secretary of the state central comwittee, and pur suing a course calculated to divide and disorganize the reform forces of che state We further find that J. Waller Long hav, from his own tes- timony, persistently antagonized Messrs Rozzelle aud Carroll, and done everything possible to reflect upon them both publicly and pri vately. He isa disturbing element | in our party, crying aloud for har mony, while willfully creating dis cord and trying by all possible ueans to block the wheels of pro zress, allowiog his personal spleen to wwterfere with his public duty and party fealty.” Long was present to-day with his war paint on, and made a spread eagle speech in defense of himself. But it did him no good. The reso- lution was adopted by a large ma jority This was the first victory for the fusion forces. | George T. Demaree of Kansas | City, bas it in for Rozzelle, and the fear that the chairman of the popu- iabor commissioner caused him to introduce a resolution indorsing Lee | Merriwether, the present commis- | sioner, for reappointment. ‘olution met with so support, and was killed eans ceremony. This was The big tight came to night, how | ever, when the future of the popu- list party iu the state came up for idiseussion The committee knew the jfight was coming, so the bull was icleared, and the committee went into executive sessiou Cuairman kson of the free silver party and la few others were allowed to remain 4 resulution was introduced, which | in effect an indorsement of the the party and a n plan followed by t campaign, | } | list eate committee is to be the next} The res- | | murder of Samuel another victory for Rozzelle. | omuece and highly respect p | bodies of Kirby and his wife wer jo either faction that will not hesi tate to shoot if they think they are in danger. Stevess, it will be remembered, was indicted and tried for what i+ known as the hay-stack murder on the night of October 12, 1894. Wm. Ellis, a young man of this city, was called for at his home by someone ip a buggy, and that was the last seen of him alive. His charred body was found the next morning in some burning hay stacks on the farm of S. H Patterson, ten miles south of Chillicothe. The crime was brought home to Stevens, and he was indict ed. His recent acquittal was gener all denounced as au outrage, that bs alibi was the result of perjury on th- part of some of his friends. His motive for the murder of Ellis was the alleged intimacy of the latter with Mrs. Stevens previous to her marriage It came out in the trial that Stev evs had served aterm iv the Nebras ka penitentiary for murder under al most similar circumstances in that | State, he having concealed the bod) of his victim in some bay stacks it Waa tie Work of Fiends. Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 23 —A special to the Evening Post from French Lick Springs, Inod., says: | of Sanat Clara, telling of quick ret | 28, 1897. THE FARMERS BANK of Butler Capital and Surplus, $54,000.00. OFFICERS gE. D. KIPP, Ca DIRECTORS, J Db. J. D. N. THOMPSON, Pres tent. E. . BENNETT, Vice President. JAS. M. McKIBBEN, CLARK WIS, JNO E.§SHUTT, E. D. KIPP, EVERINGHAM, N THOMPSON, J. McKEE, H. M. GAILEY, JNO, STEELE, K A. BENNELT, M. G. WILCOX. oN RE NA AL | NO MERCY FOR PENSION FORGERS. Jan. 24 —Ex Governor | Altgeld was last night given a com plimentary banquet by his friends at the Tremont house, the course of bis speech he made whole sale charges of fraud at the late elec tion. He said, among other things: “In Ohio there were nearly 200, 000 more votes counted in 1896 than Altgeld Charges Fraud Chicago, Cleveland Pardons Others, but Refuses to Pardon Them. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22 —Bud Creek, sentenced in Arkansas in 1895 ,to three yeare’ imprisonment for | selling hquor to Indiane, and R H. | Freeman, couvicted (uot yet sen- tenced) ia Tennessee of failing te there were in 1892. whict would in erase marks oo spirit burrels, bave dicate an increase of population in| been pardoned by the President. that State during four yeara of very) Tbe sentence of three months and nearly 1.000,000 of people, wkereos | $200 fine imposed in West Virginia in reality there bas not been anin upon Lewis Nowlin for removing crease ef a third of a million in that | spirits illegally, bas been commuted time. In other words, it is clear; so as to remit the fine and coate, im that in Obio over 95,000 fraudulent | consideration of the convict’e exen- voter were counted, and as the re- | tions in saviug the jail from fire. turns show that McKivley bad only| Applicatious for pardons bare a majority of 49.000 in that state, it | been devied in the cases of Fraak is certain that Mr. Bryan carried! L. Turner, sentenced in Kansas to Obio by over 40,000 ‘two years’ imprisonment for possess In Illinois, in 1892, practically | ing counterfeit money; Thomas every legal vote was cast, yet in| Robbins, Jr, sentenced in Miesouri 1896 there were 243,000 more voters | to three months and $1,000 fine for counted than there were in 1892 | conspiracy; Hiram Emersoa, sen- During the whole past history cf; teuced in Texas to fifteen monthe: Iihnoia our population bad not | aud $100 fine forselling liquor with- . reached 4,000,000; in ten years from | ont license, and James A. and Wien 1880 to 1890, during which our] R ffert, sentenced in Kentucky to growth was greatest, the population | oue yeare’s imprisonment and Gas of the state increased only about! for forging signatures to pension 750,000; yet, according to the late applications Io thie last ease the election returns, the population of | President says: “Those who, throug this state increased in four yeare, a prostitution of the pension. hws from 1892 to 1896, nearly 1,200,000. | and by furgery seek to defraadsthe. , This shows the monstrosly fraudu | government and abuse its benevc- lent character of the whole proceed i lent intentions toward old soldiers ing i need not expect to easily ehtaim It should be eaid that notwith | c'emency at my bands.” standing these fraudulent yotes = McKinley did carry Illinois, but only, : bv a small majority, and not by i Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 22.—There 160,000 majority, as reported, but it | “9° ®° exciting fight to the death is certain he did not carry Obio and | Cee me large male leopard# Indiana, or Kentucky, or California, confined in a cage of the winter. and itie doubtful if he carried a | AUatters of Lemon Bros.’ circus at number of other states credited to} Argentine. The leoparde bad been bim.” | oa unfrieudly terms for several days, | but Keeper Fisher was able to com- trol them. When the fight begae 1 | there was a scene of the wildest paz- demonium, the other animale joining. in the bubbub Circus employer from all over the building ran to . . ; -. the menagerie room. They saw s ds for their | ribution to the Spaniards for their | the winter cot aie | “Zerke,” butchery and barbarous methods of | standing over the dead body of warfare. |*Spot.” The victor was sucking the A Spanish force under and in Foucht to the Death, They Poisoned the Waters. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 24.—A special from Key West saye: A borrible story comes from Jumento, province This section of Indiana is greatly | excited this morning over the double | Kirby and bis} 2 | wife last night, two of the most) eople | of this county. This morning the) e| discovered in their room, and there | \were evidences of an awful fight | from which over having taken place Blood stains | were al lit was evident that more than one) | man had dove the fiend ‘the telltale trac | out shawed two different foot pr | An ax was found cutside the house l stained with blood, i been used to ¢ d founds 5 mn t the >? Se ‘been the camp of the insurgents, 1] over the walls and floor, and | ish work, as | ks in the snow with | He theu turned the women over to ints. |the tender mercies of the men, who | it bad) urder | Capt Mar | dead leoperd’s blood. Keeper Fisher telli entered the place, which had | explains that » display of unvswal/ viciousness made by the animals te ¥ eiDg oree-— and before going away secretly poi — by their beimg fed on b soned the wells and a fine spring, | noted for affording extra pure water | That evening a Spapish band of guerrillas entered the town after the, otbers bad left, and used the water, twenty five men died. The guerrilla captain charged the Caban residents with poisoving bis men. He took the principal resi dents prisoners aud shot them dead. shot the young bors who attempted | and sisters The bert