The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 18, 1897, Page 4

eee J. D. ALLEN Eprror. |. D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexty Times, published every Thursday, will be sent to any address one vear, postage paid, for $1.00. —— The Corbett-Fitz mucns’ tight} will come off at Carson City. Nevada Tn inaugural cerimonvies the vice pr sident does not appear to be ip the wim The state seuate bas passed the | le placing the Federal and ex Con fe lerate homes under state control. Gen. Alger, who will be in Me Kinley’s cabinet, is a millionaire. He eoxde his money io lumber assisted by the tariff Some people talk too much and it ia feared Mr Gage, McKinley's e@-cretary of the treasury, bas a fail- ang along this line. The Foraker factiou in Ohio is @-rermined to keep Hanna out of "FLER WEEKLY TIMES | HIS LAST BATTLE O'ER. Away at Daybreak. ly Aware When death Came. Messages of Condolence Pour in From all Quarters. Sketches of His Military Career and Roman- | tic Trip to Mexico at the War's Close. Adiiau, Mo, Keb 13. —Lu uts iasi great battle Geuctat Jusepu UV Shelby. aller building ul Ucivically lur & Week, Lao yielded by tlc git Lue cud cause av 4:5u uuis was lio wartlol. uur lug, but sO) peatciul cumlug that the walcuers scatGely tealiZcd when che old suidicl s epiite) tovk 1s Higut. : Geueral Suelby's iast wutuecuts Arouud the dying wan were bis family ald Irieude, aud bis fawily physician, Die Eb. Gilwure, stayed af whe bedside ul Were peacelut th» Senate, regardless of the person- @! request of MeKinley Since the bill turning over the wermal schools to the counties in which they are located failed to pass the legislature, the normals ought motto get saucey Neither ougbt they to want the earth in appropria- + tions. W. L. Wilson, postmaster gener- al, bas been elected president of Kuve University at Lexington, Vir- iginia, in place of Gen.G W C Lee, who recently resigned If Mr. Wil- @on accepts the position he will Bike charge of the University July 1. Representative Williams’ anti cig wrette bill is liable to pull through the legislatere, and the governor eave he will sign it The bill with ~proalties for violation, prohibits the | j,¢0 4 comatose or delirivus stute.|ordered to toe Mississippi river | coutives of the earth. esle of cigarettes or cigarette paper | He begau to sink rapidly Tuesday | On this expedition he fought mavy| mined togo into Mexic bis distinguished Inteud aod paticut vu the last. Des Kiwyg auu Kugers vf Kaueas Cuy aut Boulware oi Butior were bis Cuusulllug physi claus Ibe wife aud daughter are pros traced with griet. Lue bowe aud couwuuity are in the midst ol uuu. Geu Shelby was taken seriously ul teu days ago with poeumuuia, and gradually grew woree. fis vi tality was great, buwever, aud his trieuds apd family bad bopes that ue would oveicume toe disease, aud, tudeed balf a duZzen umes sivce then when given upto die, the patient's towurkable recuperative pcwer 48 serted itself aud be each time reviv- ed. During ail of last Suuday uigot aud wost of Monday the patieut talked continually 10 au trrativval way about biw, but mwowent, wheu be would again lapse Spirit of General Shelby Passes | his first or survawe | {In 1862 be bee me a colonel of }eavalry; iu Javuary of 1863 « colonel }tu Command of a Origaie, aud Ww May, 1564, a brigadi-r general {t'rom Bovuville tu 861 Price moved tu Spilugdeid aud recruited Sbeitry Sams urdered to the Missouri river a the wauy skirmisbes aud battles | iL END COMES PEACEFULLY. | bat cccuned iu tuts early raid be igaye evideuce of the geulus, intre | prey aud acaviy Wulcl were so iWatchers at the Bedside Hard-| ongles Gimplay ed in later engage- At tue battle of Pea Ridge, March 4862, Suelvoy was particularly | distuguinbed Expored to beavy j de be wateuveread wih adunawe | precistuu aud raved one of Price's bat alous At tue retreat be was | placed iu the rear aud drove back | oe castes of the federal arwy Ab libe battic of Cave Hell, winich tovk pines later, Geueral Suelby by sume ‘wilsuuderstauding Was pressiug jUyou the federals with bis two gus bauda few of bis staff The federals, recognizing General Suelby, tbe reader Spraug up and said: You surrvuaded and overpowered jare ei ———————————— They repulsed the tederai-, driving them to Westport. Ou the moruieg lof the 224 Shelby received orders to capiure Westport, pow a saburb of Kausas City, aud the battl: was the most desp-rate iu whieh Shelby was engaged iu Missourt He just 800 of bis picked men His strategy jand cool verve aud bravery, bowev: 4 saved Price's arwy frow capture and !buwtimdon } A writer who was present at the bloody engagewent, whieh west a band to baud effair, deserbed G-uera! Sueiby: “We will uever forget the impres | sien upon our mends when te saw General Sneiby coming out of the fight at Westport witha bat ou bis tead, his locks streaming in the | wind, bis six shooter in bis band. | aod bis gallant division, after three | days of bard fizbtiog, overpowered | and cur to pieces, but stil not whipp-d, gathering about their be loved chiefrain and ready to turn at a moment's notice upon the rapidly | advancing enemy.” The rear guard of the retreating | army was placed in command of) was al thus Surrender youc men immediately, ol. Shelby’s wouderful self possession tematoed uuslaken Laos federa cavalry Were between bigs guur, men, defending themselves with saber strokes plying their pistols waufully “Surrender, do you hear?’ suouted Hubbard, the coumauder of the federais, present lng & reyolver at Sbelby’s head, “eurreuder, or I fire” “You are wintaken,” phed Sbeiby. “Itis you woo are ty prisoner Call off your men aud look bebind you” Sure enouzb Shelby’s meu came teariug dowa the read trom both direcucus “I'm cau hit,” said the federal command er, “nicely caught, aud bere is uy sword. Tonly ask quarter for my men” “Take back your sword, major,” generously avewered Shelby “Is was never stained, as I bave beard, tu the blood of the helpless around Newtunia. I respect an bonvrable foe” After the battle of Pea Ridge Price crossed the Mississippi and joved G-veral Beauregard at aud coolly re Cormth When Coriuth was evacu At times he recoguized those| «ated Shelby’s company was the last | 600 men. isbing order. Shelby was agaio G-neral Sbelhv. Price sending him | these orders: “You alone can save} the army, ant you must do it.” | Shelby did it. He fought bis way | back to Newtoria, Ark, where the It was a} The retreat Miasiasippi was waged. bloody prairie fignt seuthoard from Newton was al wost a.famive. General Price then! teok up beadquart-ra at Clarksville, | Tex. At the close of the war, woen Kirby Scnith, in command of the de partment, was anxious to surrender. General Shelby was an xdvocate of further resistance French sup port, medicine-, ammuuition and French gold were commg by way of M-xico. and upon these he based hia hope His protest was unavail ing, and the surrender was made at Shreveport and the army disbanded Before the surrender was made the armv became dissatisfied with Gen eral Smith and G-neral Shelby was commissioned to ask bim to with draw aa direct commander of the army. which he did in favor of Gen eral Buckner. At. the surrender of the army Smith surrender to Buck ner and Buckner gsurrendered to the United States Shelby then gathered about him They were Missourians to follow their leader to the utmost They deter o and take in this state to minors. The bili | mworuing, and iu a few womeuts bis| battles vu Arkaceas against the fed | part in tbe contest then waging be Ought to go fartber and prohibit the mnnvufacture or sale of the vile things in the atate all together. Alice Piatt, the girl. on trial in Kunsas City, for the past week on was almost that moment Mrs. Shelby. pulse otil imperceptible. | erals under the command of General |tween Maximillian Biunt of Kausas, aod Juarez who bud been constantly at the|ability Geueral Shelby bas always| remarkable in mauy respects. [exas Geueral’s bedside, believed that be would survive, and then gave way, prostrated with grief and physical |river, aud 1t was decided to attack | were weil su Later Geueral|H-lena, which was done July 4.|and disband and mental strain. expressed the hiyhest esteem. Price recrossed the Mississippi was a vast arsenal of arms and am munition at the time and his troops pphed Some returning led soldiers at times at 4h» charge of baying poisoned the Shelby revived somewhxt, but re-|1863. In thie battle the confeder | tempted to levy coutributious upon enildren of Obarles F Muesey and | maiued unconscious till death, and |ates were repulsed and Shelby wus|the surrouuding country, but Shel Dire. Mussey'’s mother was acquit ed. The Kansas City papers ae aot pleased with the termination of prac! isbment. mm great danger, and, although ‘aint tically took no medicine or nour |severely wounded. His battery was] by’s stern orders arrested them in the act, and his swift punishment of General Shelby was born in L-x |from the loss of blood, he rallied | depredutions left a shield over the ington, Ky, in 1831, and was edu | fifty yoiunteers and would bave no|neighbo the trial. They believe her to be a| cated in the schools of that city. | wore to make the capture, although dangerous woman turned loose on| When 19 years old he came to La {1,000 men j »yfully voluateered. The @ociety. In the apprupriatious to be par- celled out by the legislature, Jeffer |rapidly becoming rich at the out |the enemy's guns those fifty meu} Mexico, son City wants her share for improv ing the capitol buildiogs and @rounds. Jeff. City ought to be @atiefied with the victory over Se for a couple of years asking improv- nents. REED'S OONGRESS. Mr. Reed’s preaiciion that the present congress would be a duo wotbing, bas not been verified. The facts just brought to ligbt by con greesmen Dockery and DeArmond, tu regard to wanton and wild ex penditures of the people's money dias caused Mr Reed great anxiety avd made him howling mad. The facte show, that notwithstandiag Mr. Reed's great effort to keep down expenditures, the last and present tepublican covgress eclipse all past cords in the way of appropriations Toe appropriations of the first con gress foot up the enormous sum of $515,000,000, while it is estimated the appropriations of the present session (which was to be a do voth ing) will increase the outlay to one billion two hundred million dollars Just how the republicans will go before the couutry two years hence eud explain this matter of robbing | ¢he people of their money is a mat ter to be settled. Another matter to be eettled is just how much longer the tax burdened people will submit | 4o such extravagauce. Speaker Reed | to the severest discipline and as a! e#ee8 the hand writing on the wall, ‘and also the consequences which are | eure to befall his party in the next! Congressional campaign and in the campaign for the presidency to fol low a year er so. later, Tha-pseple can be imposed upon and oppressed destso far and no farther. Then | eomes the day of retribution. fayette county, Mo He became the {ery that Suelby’s brigade bad never | ward to Houston, Texas. owner of arope factory. His busi |lost a battle cheered the men on,|in June, 1865, rbood that needed only its shadow to insure eafety. The columm marched rapidly for This was and the men bad set ness proved a success and he was|aud amid a most terrific fire from|out from Corsicana, Texas, for old where they boped to attract break of the Kansas border war. | brought back the battery, although | huodreds of confederates. At Hous- He espoused the Southern side of the question and went to Kentucky and raised a company of cavalry |raid into Missouri, fighting and cut | children should have such of these Kansas | ting his way to Boonville, Jeff-rson|as they needed and so ordered. This alia inthe removal fight to desist | vith Clark, Atchison and Reid, ren |City being the objective point But|was disputed by a thousand or so He took the field in dering great service to tbe pro slavery settlera. When the trouble was over Shelby returned to his manufactory at Waverly, Mo, and his company disbanded at St. Joseph Missouri With the firing upon Ft. Sumpter Shelby was in the field A company of cavalry was organized, mounted and equipped with extraordinary rapidity and marched to Independ ence, Mo. which was threatened by attack from federals stationed at Kansas City. This marked Shelby’s entrance into actnal war. He was an ambitions voung soldier of 30 years and aoon joined Price's forces in western Missouri. His first en gagement was at Boonville, where the confederate forces under Gen Marmaduke were defeated by the federala under General Lyon. The history of Shelby’s military career would be a minute history of the entire war west of the Missis sippi river In everv hard fought battle he was an active participant. He was the firat to charge and the leat to retreat If there was any tbing he detested it was lying ia camp. He longed to be on the march and he begged to be allowed to make raids manv of the most important and terrifying raids that were made by Price's armv ' the state. body of fighters thera was no supe- rior in the confederate service. During the war he had com about 10.000 men, a very Jarce num ber of whom were killed and unae counted for. From 4,609 to 6,000 were generally on duty It jis said by many ald confederates, that Shel by knew the mame of every ian junder his command and at any and jat this pl jal times could address everyone by jena "Shelby = = He had charge of His old brigade was! composed of the bast voung men of He had subjected them) twenty of them fell. After this battle Shelby madea General Brown bad covered the city with §.000 men and it was madness to attempt the capture. Brown ad vanced upon Boonville. Shelby an uoyiog him by his habit of fittting from one station to another. Many farms and homes were destroyed by this raid. From Boonville, Mo, Shelby marched to Marshall aod thea rapidly retreated into Arkansas. Further stayiu the state became criminal and useless. The country swarmed with federal troops. He went into winter quarters at Cam den, Ark. Inthe spring numerous jbattles were fought in northern Arkavsas and it was inthis year that the famous raid upon the Helena plantations were made § Wherever Shelby found that a federal com. mander had robbed innocent people he demanded “an eve for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” LAST RAID INTO MISSOURI. When the last raid into Missouri was decided upon by the department of the west in 1854, General Shelby was the youngest general in the list and was not given charge of the expition because he was too young to be put over ranking officer neces sary to be sent with theforce Price was placed in command and the origina! plan was to forces a march to St. Louis. But the movement of jthe army became too slow and the plan had to be given up. Shelby |advanced upon Jefferson City, Price following in the rear. Shelby did | much hard fighting before reaching ithe city and it was so strongly for | mand of | tified that the attack wasabandoned | | The armies moved westward toward | Kansas City and bad several sharp , encounters, routing the federals sey jeral times. About October 20th. Price's army reached Independence jand the Blue river. In a skirmish 8 Marmaduke ton, Tex, there were vast supplies. Shelby desired that the women and renegades. Shelby sent one hun dred men against the city But such was the terror of bis name and the reputation for prowess of bis men that no resistance wasoff-red and in a few hours the streets were quiet and deserted. When in the neighborhood of Austin General Shelby performed one of bis characteristic aud valor ous deeds. Koowing that Shelby was io the neighborhood, and know ing that the blame of any lawless act would fall upon Shelby. thirty or forty Texans from the neighbor hood of Austin attacked the state treasury as Shelby aud his men were approaching and commenced to loot the iron safes, which contained all the state’s ready funds as well safe keeping. The citizens called upon Shelby for assistance and it was promptly furnished. He se cured both robbers and treasures and every cent was returned to the owners General Shelby's troope were penniless at the time and the ethics of war times were to take everything in sight, so that General served to show his character. “We came into this war with clean hands, said he “and by the help ot God we will go out of it in the same | way. i ceive 640 acres as private treasures deposited for| Shelhy’s conduct on this occasion | Cures Prove the merit of Hood's tive, perfect, pe! Cures of scrofula swell tla— posi Cures 0! s and burn: S Cures of Boils, Pimple tions due to impure Cures of Dyspep: a good stor Cures of Rheumatism. wh able to work or wal Cures of ¢: whie! Cures of N feeding the nerves upon pure blood. Cures of That Tired Feellng by reste Strength. Send for book of cures t Hoods Sarsaparilla ToC. I. Hood & Co., Proprietors, Lowell, Mass. the bes Hood’s Pills pis, sia aigest tou. 25e. party avd be allowed biuselt to be goverved by tberr wishes. They crossed ths Rio Geande as East+ Pase aud entered Mexieo. A few arouud which Clustered the artillery | last battle of the war we-t of the days later Suelby was offered the command of the states Neuva Leone and Cozbuila, but the off-c was de clined, as tis men bad joued the imperialist forces. Historimus say that Sseiby accepted this positiog be would in all probability bave been joined by thousands of coufederates bad General who-e fortuses were to be mad, and with that force he would) bave been able to save Maximilian) or mmght have become a power iu Mex- ico’s affairs However that may be, General Stelby and his men bad many a bloody and fierce encounter with the brigands that infested Mexico before the City of Mexwo was reached Oue wasthe rescue and liberation of Inez Walker, a beautiful American who bad been educated in Caltfornia She was seen years before by Rod- riguez, a millionaire Spaniard, who took a fancy to her and abducted ber. In the encounter be was kilied and the American woman received the protection of Shelby’s men. Shelby offered his services to the it was vuly for | to leave the city, marching ia ekirm | for the most part and were wilting| Emperor, but they were refused. Maxiwilau was not willing to trust the Americans io his orgavized army. It isa curious fact that Ganeral Shelby. when interviewiog Maximil ian’s represeutative, predicted the of whose military /Shelby's march through Texss is|gituation that ufterward befell that lucklees Emperor When Shelby gathered bis men about bim and announced the deci sion of the Emperor he said, “We are not wanted, and perbaps it is best so. Those who have fought as you have for 4 principle bave no thing to gain ina war of conquest. I stand ready to abide by your deci sion in the matter of our destiny If you say we shall march te the head- quarters of Jaurez, then we will march. You will refuee today as you refused before, because you are imperialists at heart and because, poor simpletons, you immagined that France and the United States would come to blows. Bub! the day for that has gove by—L-uis Napo lean has slept too loug ” it was necessary that the mn sbou'd have a little money and Bazune, the French general, was applied to. He gave each mau $50 aud then every man went ths way it best suited bim. At this time the famous emigra tion scheme of Maximilau’s govern meut was decided upon and the cel. ebrated colony of Carlotta formed Agents Were sent to every place in the south. Laud was set apart for actual American settlers, each to re idea of serving in Maximiliau’s army Many accepted his advice and enter ed heartily iuto the duties of the new wife. A few joined the imperial army ia Sonora. General Shelby, | with headquarters at Cordova, be- came a large freight contractor. | Among those in the colony with bim were G-ns. Sterliug Price Stephens of Lee's staff. Gov. Revnolds, ex G.y. Alien of Louisiana,Gens. Lyons of Kentucky and McCausland of Virginia. Ex-Governor Isham G. Harris was also a settler. Freight- ing soon proved unprofitable and ; be went to Vera Cruz and was fitted out witha vessel and instructed to \sail for Havana in furtherance of the colonization scheme. He loaded his ship with agricultural implements exported from America and return edto Mexico. But Maximilian’s forces meeting with defeat on every | | JOINS WARRING MEXICO. ; bis cannon and his men took a vote {the aame night to decide which of the contending parties in Mexico | they should join Shelby was de ; who led in the revolution, well ar | guing with his usual foresight that the U. | Would not allow gain a foothold nited States 4 foreign power to on American soil | havd and Shelby saw that the end jwas pear. At last Meximilian sent | When the first Mexican station | for Shelby and asked him how many | | was reached General Shelby sold Americans he could summon to hia! | assistance. | “Nota corporal’s guard,” said the general. ‘You are too late.” | General Shelby returned in 1867; | cidedly in favor of joining Jaurez, | to the United States and to his home| in Lafavette county. S-+veral years sagacity and later he moved to Bates county.) | where he bas since resided. Sines | then he has led a quiet and unevent- | fal life. oth engaged. | Bat his men favored the imperial | The funeral of Gen. Shelby took |General to Advian Mor day and Sheiby advised bis} meu to give up at ouce avy further! | place tn Kansas City yeater i lterneon. and the place of int | jwasat Forest Hill the ex late barving vround The removed from the home of the ii veyed from there to Kangas City y rail, The remains were met at Gg Avenue station ef 3:45 Monday jing bya enard «f bonor Comp of confederate ant union Veli jand taken to the Federal build 4 | Phere, in the United State oa room, the body tay in State y | Wednesday The \Deral servicers were conducted /Rev De S. VL Ne |, a Warn ps jal friend of G-neral Shetbs, at te j tral Presbyterian church Adsty morning, jwere also mads by Judge Phy Tne honorary bearers, chosen by the family, 4 ) Robt Keith, Judge Joho P Pa, 'Capt Maxwell Minter, Judge ie! ' Dougal, W.O Cox, RT Van {Maj BL. Woodson, Mej Wi Warner, J. Seott Harrison, W. Walton and J. R. Jeukine, Butlee! Mo, Webster Withers, Capt 8. Ragan, Judye Jas. Gibson, Og John C Moore, Capt. A EL Asl Aigyinsville, Mo, and J. L Play burg, Lexington, Mo ‘and others. ® The active pail bearers werecho from the members of Gen Sueiby owo cComtmunnd, as follows: Ja Bannerman, Ss Luis; Major fe E Newwau, Raudolpb county; ¢ tain M. M Lanzborn, Iudepende Mo; W.A Davis. West port; Capnaias Alexander Evans, Colonel Wilh H. Woodsou, Liberty, Mo; Catron, West, Plas, Mu ; und Jobo T. Crisp. Mrs. Shelby bad decided to the remains of her husband inter at Oxk Hill cemetery, Butler, hat gf the lust moment yielded to the im. t portunities of comrades of the Grae eral in the War and old friends allow the burial to tuke place Kansas City The Moueru Way Commends iteelf to the well infor ed, tu do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly done io the crudest manner and disagreeanly # well. 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