The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 11, 1897, Page 1

eck| Missourl State | i OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL - : : - SURPLUS FUND . . ives Deposits, Loans money, Issues Dr: We solicit the accounts of Farmers, Merchants and the public gc safe Depository for all funds committed to ¢ | 5,000.00 1 2,500.00 | - - - ~ $5 afte and docs ag v prot our charge. Weare prepared to ¢ H iiberal accommodation in the way of loans to our customers. | Or. T. C. Boulware Geo L Smith H H Piggott JM Christy John Deerwester C R Radford RG West 3B Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Walton king the public for their confidence anc os. we solicit continuance of the eame ggement, with strict attention always to the J. R. JENKINS, Cashier. Hume Items. US Tegarden returned from a visit toIndependence, Tuesday. Wr Herndon, of Braymer, Mo., sited his uncle, Dr EK EF Herndon, this week. . 3 Mra Frank Messinger of Baldwin, fan, is visiting J J Messingers. EM Dickinson returned Tuesday a protracted visit in Kansas a of Drexel, was pros- sting in our town Tuesday, with view of opening another barber | Rev Potter preached his last ser- gon inthe M KE church of this place | iathis conference year on last Sun- | . Bro Potter has ahost of friends ere and all hope the conference will | we fit to return him to this charge. Walter Harkins has sold his barber and moved to Panama. | feveral of our citizens have been mbponaed in the celebrated Mc- A Combs—Foster trial which comes off the 11th inst. We understand George Whiting; aillsoon move to his farm in south- Kansas, cksare coming in rapidly and vera! of our nimrods bagged a few dering the past week. The P & G railroad has advertised tehange of time in their train service totake effect the 10th inst. ‘here willbe a morning and evening pas- wngerand the two midday trains. S John Strait has purchased the Yacksinith shop from George Whit- at will continue the business, nis a good workman and de- wtvesto succeed. We understand (al Biser will assist him. | Notices have been posted announc- ing a republican township conven- tion to be held at this place Saturday March 13, for the purpose of nomin- ating a township ticket. WB Wayts is erecting a new dence on his farm south of town. David Reed, who for the past four | years has been living in Nevada, | moved back to his farm south of town last week. Mr Biggs, father of our townsman IC Biggs, has moved into Mrs Zeig- let's property. Miss Myrtle and Master Robbie, daughter and son of R_B White are ®™ the sick list this week. EE Cannon, who is less dangerous his name implies, has rented his west of town and will cast his ltamong us. We extend to hima tty welcome. @ MrsT U Crai! and family left Sat- Wday to join her husband who, we resi- , Ka ll democrats are well pleased with township ticket, though it is Mmored that the rum element will it a part of it. e chicken pie social at Buckles’ given by the ladies of the ME ch Friday night was well attend- fdand heartily enjoyed by all ever fail to please with their sup- fers, both in the novelty of arrange- Ments and in the cullinary art. r Smith, our new night operator, taken the place of John Mitchell who, it is said, was discharged at the gation of a man who was dis- with his testimony before late grand jury. A petition ask- 1 REAR EY 1 .eane F ~ jean | RUALESYATEL eoee Booker Powell re | pleasant Understand, is merchandising in Sev- | Frank M Voris 1 liberal patronage during the past fifteen promising honest and conservative man- Wants of our customers. Wa. E. WALTON, President. ing for his re-instatement has been signed by thirty-five out of the busi- ness men firms in town. We hope the officials of the road will have him re-instated at once, Mrs Nantz left Saturday for an ex- tended visit with relatives in Indiana. Messrs C H Senior, G@ E Titsworth and J D Ricks, attended to business in Butler Saturday. Chris North has sold his dray busi- ness to Aaron Hefley who recently came here from lowa. Mr Hefley is a young man of good habits and sound business principles and deserves a good share of the public patronage. I. T. Mizer. Virginia Items. Kind friends if you wish the another year, Do for Aaron what he docs for you, tell him all the news you hear. ‘The Tres goes to friends in other states that ect up ‘tilleleven, To read what happens you and what other folke do in 1897. Prof 'v A Kennett of Amoret, was in our city Wednesday of last week hunting democrats; a gentleman gave him the names of the delegates to the county convention. Mr Kennett is a fine looking man, and no doubt would have made an excellent school commfssioner if he had been chosen by the convention. Gordon Wallace and wife visited Mrs W’s parents, Mr and Mrs John Durrett at Lee Summit last week. Mrs Isaac Park and daughter, Miss Edith, were the guests of H H Flesh- er and family at Butler two days last week. Frank McElroy has purchased a fine buggy horse. D C Wolfe is an expert paper hang- er, @ good farmer and a natural born free silver talker, and if one of the township offices don’t look him square in the eyes and say, thou art the man, we will think some other populist has played hookey. ‘The republican flag waved in the breeze and rain at Virginia Thursday the 4th. Emanuel Nestlerode’s hogs are dying with the cholera. 61 head have died. Mrs C H Morrison recently return- home from Illinois after a long and visit with relatives and Virginia news friends. W © Carpenter visited his brother lat Independence last week. He | brought his brother’s Jersey cow and an old pony home with him. The pony is 27 years old; his brother | drove the pony when he preached at Virginia. S T Holloway has moved to near Adrian. Geo Thompson had Aaron make a new top box for his wagon Friday of last week. Dave Bean has moved to the Dave Pearce farm east of Mount Carmel. Wm 1lOdhamand son, Henry, are on the sick list, with the grip. H C Wilson informs us that Mrs Wilson, who has been sick for some time, is improving nicely. LI Browning, who was quite sick with pneumonia, is able to be up again. Afton Park was at Clinton on busi- ness last week. S M Coulter has moved to the Dave Bean farm which he recently pur- chased. Bert Fairchilds has house. Miss Tillie Woody has the whoop- ing cough. Misses Dora and Mamie Neel have the grip. Amos Bright has moved to his farm south of the river. Grandma Roback is quite sick. They have sent for her daughter, Barbara, who lives in Kansas. Thos Broadhurst of Kansas City bought Geo Ruble’s cattle Wednes- day of last week. : Mrs Judy and son_have moved in the house with Sam Dobbins. Wonder why Will Durst is watched so close of late. Geo Zinn re-roofed and put a new floor in his house last week. Geo Poulman moved to what is known as the Elliott farm north of Virginia. He bought the farm last fall of Mendal Shaffer. Ww Voght sold 1,100 bushels of corn last week. Charley Hensley lost a new stay chain to'a wagon between Virginia and Aaron last week. If anyone found it he will be very glad if they wiil return it. | Geo Jenkins is cutting down the | big hedge on the south and west side | of his blue grass pasture. built a new | James Keaton of BUTLER,IMO 4ARMBRBOANS, toloan on farms at reduced rates of a -. Your notes are payable at our office Myou find them here when due We give ME privilege to pay any time. Money ready &s pepers ase signuei, ‘ | ship was at Virginia Saturday hunt- ing the democratic candidates for justice of the peace of Charlotte township. in our city Wednesday of last week. The ¢ m firm at Virginia invoiced Saturday. At present Cole flensley, president of the firm, has |taken in Aaron as Mr ¢ ub, one of the members is out for « *on the democratic ticket. Elkhart town-} Otis Radford of east of Butler, was The young ladies who aitended | Misses Blanch and Verna Cook’s quilting Wednesday of last week re- port a good time and think they were lucky not to break more than four needles. Last Sabbath Mrs W W Park went to carry her little daughter, Elsie, across a mud hole and Jost her bal- ance and feil; they were not hurt bat « homud. Mr Hensiey has faith that Aaron will always be found in his beloved party though it be all. Elder Blake ached at the Chris- tian church Sabbath at 11 a.m. and at Miami Center at night. Milton Fiesher of Butler, and —— passed through Virginia Sabbath afternoon. Saturday the 13th, will be pops convention at Virginia. Aaron has promised to write up the proceedings of the convention. We expect it will be long and harmonious. — It will be county, made two attempts a jcide at Harrisonville Friday. tue last Roht. Watson, « well known farm er aud stockman, of Freeman, C 1 being @ complete success. In the | afternoon he swallowed a dose of | poison, but prompt medical aid re | lieved him of the deadly dose. It was then thought by those having himin charge that this experience for the time being, | would be sufficient warning to him, and he was not watched very closely He disappeared from the streets and | no more was heard of him until Sat urday morning, when his dead body | was found lying by the side cf the| railroad track in the Missouri Pacitic | yards. liberately laid down with his neck | across the rail and the wheels of a passing train had severed the head, from the body, and it hadrolled into! a cavity between the ties The body! lay stretched out full length beside| The desperate man had de. | the coming together of the outside {the rails. showing Watson had delib-| of the road fellows. The middle-of- the-road fellows say it is better trav- eling in the middle of the road, as erately placed his neck across the| rail and awaited the result. Four | BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MARCH 11, 1897. - POOLE OOOO IS OP ODOT IOS OO ODE CONS Estal a paid up ca DOLLARS, ital « along strictly within the Butler, Mo., offers publie in made mutually ag able. Respect EoD. PPO POV OOOO OHOOOG 4-5 Se at NR i me al lines an state banking law, the FARMERS BANK 3 its services to the eral, believing it can be reeable and profit- 3 year’s ago. With f FIFTY THOUSAND i a fully, KIPP, Casuren. 6st INSURGENTS } tAR HAVANA. was quite severely injured about the there isa solid. track; some think it i -~ passed by during the} head, back, ribs and legs. Fireman list. Mrs WT Cowan was list Sabbath. John Foster has rented the J W Park farm of the Scully agent. Pleasant Hill is on the sick list. Washington Park sold his fat cat- tle to Cole Hensley Monday, Frank Porter is on the with grip and neuralgia. Mrs Jap Pierce is having a new porch built to her house. Albert Pilgrim is tixing up the lot fences on his father’s farm at Vir- ginia, where he will move in a short time. Some are talking about the post- office changing hands. Aaron is sure it will not be done, talk is cheap. If it is changed it will be done by par- ties eutside of this township. John Will Watkins, who has been visiting his brothers, Frank and Ben, has returned to his home in Ills. AARON. on the siek sick list SNOW BLOCKADE IN NORTHWEST. Railroad Traffic Almost Suspended in Minne- sota and the Dakotas. St. Paul, Minn, March 7.—The states of Minnesota, North and South Dakotas are in a nervous condition over the prospects of the next few days. It has snowed every day this month, to-day’s storm being the greatest in weeks. The snow fell furiously from 10 o'clock this morn- ing until nightfall, when it became almost a drizzle of rain. There are literally mountains of snow all over this section. In every dooryard cf St. Paul there is from 2 to 5 feet of snow. Railroad trains are in a hope- less tangle, being tied up in every direction, many of the small branch lines are wholly abandoned To night's reports from South Da-} kota say that that state is wholly at the mercy of the elements. The Leg- islature at Pierre, which adjourned sine die on Friday night, is tied up as tightly as if undera siege. Not a train is running into or out of Pierre. There is almost the same state of things at Aberdeen, Blunt, Gettysburg, Milbank and Chamber- lain. General Superintendent Rus- sell Harding, of the Great Northern, came in last night from a trip to the Pacitic. Speaking of the snow to- day, he said: and mate would place the snow in North Dakota at 3 feet on the plains. It is probably nearer 4 feet on a level, telegrams this ufternoon indicate This is the situation all over this country, and the people are begin- ning to realize that if the snow should go off with a rush or accom panied with a downpour of rain, as is likely at this season of the year, the biggest flood would resuit ever known ia the Northwest. It would cause incalculable damage along the Mississippi and tributary streams, and overflow the Red River Valley vent the seeding of thousands of “In ull my life career I never saw | Butter, Egge, Chickens, ete. anything like it. A conservative esti | eg and the snow isn’t all down yet, as; that another storm is on. |gal; FLOUR, the staff of life, 5¢ DROPPED DEAD. Excuse Me, | Mean the Bottom Has Dropped Out of Prices | ON GROCERIES.| Must Do Business, Will Do Business! PRICES TALK—THINK OF IT! 12 bb finest granulated sugar $ 1 tb Batttle Ax tobacco 50 20 1 can Greenwich lye 07 3 cans California peaches 25 4 Th evaporated peaches 25 1 pail jelly (best grade) 35 1 pail syrup (best grade) 33 1 package coffee, any kind, 14 Morning Glory coffse reduced from} 30c to 24e per pound; eyerybedy | knows this famous brand | Java Blend coffee per tb 17) Original African Java cotfee reduced | from 30c to 24c per pound. Come Quick and Gei It. 50c to 28c per pound. 50c Imperial tea now 27 Will have in a few days the finest uncolored Japan tea for 29¢ that ever struck Butler; you are now pay ing 75c for the same tea, not less than 50c at any store 1 tb Star tobacco 8 bars silk soap 25 05 Lamp chimzey. each 13 tb hand picked navy beans 13 ib rolled oat meal |1 ib can Womack brand baking powder 2 3-Ib cans apricots 25 10 25 Golden drip syrup per gal 24 4 fb best crisp crackers 25 Corn meal per sack 10 | Talk about otber merchants knock \ing me out on prices, they can not cutter. Yes, and by the way, they are not paying you enough for your é IAM paying 5c for chickens, 10c to 12¢ for butter. SEE ME before you sell your produce. Dry salt meat 4ic per pound; 10 bars Ark soap 25c; stoneware 7c per Best Gunpowder tea reduced from ; Pure cider vinegar, per gal 15} Lilly gloss stareh per ib 05 Wire nails per ib 025 | Rope any size per ib 07 | Side. New York, Mareh 8.—The Sun this moraing has the cablegram from | Havana: | Arroyo Apolo, which is near El’ Cerro,one of the fashionable suburbs the insurgents commanded by Ro- mera and Aravguren. In the first engagement there the Spaniards lost 26 soldiers. When the Spaniards | retired without reinforcements from the capital the Cubans retired with- out obtaining the provisions and ammunition stored in Arroyo Apolo. A few hours later the insurgents re- turned in larger uuwbers aud ran sacked the stores and obliged the Spaniards to abandon the place. The end of the engagement was a hand- to hand fight in which the Cubans charged with machetes, making havoc in the Spanish lines. The noise of the musketry fightened the families living at El Cerro,and many of them fled to the capital. The fight, from |the first tothe final defeat of the garrison lasted 14 hours. It is not believed here that Aran- | guren with his scanty forces and en- tire lack of artillery, would attempt jto take Havana. but his dash and bravery are much feared by the Spaniards, and nobody doubts that jif strong Cuban forces should join 40} him he would risk an attack even on | | the capital itselt. | As it is now,Aranguren has checke (ed the Spanish column marching | out of Havana and has put the city in a state of siege from the land side. Some times meat is so scarce that | auy price. defeated by the imsurgent leader, Alberto Rodriguez. diers deserted to the insurgents. ficers of the Pizarro battalion will dice | MAIL CLERK CREMATED. Such cases are not infrequent. | . zi Missouri Pacific. less on sack than any other merchant | Bonnets Mill, Mo., March 5.—Mis- | i and was tbere is not enough for the restaur | ants and on some days neither milk | nor vegetables can be obtained at |) Av Manacas, Province of Santa States, Clara, the Spanish forces were de- | To the thick of the engagement many Spanish sol- This news has made Weyler very angry and by his orders several of- | }soon be court martialed for cowar- | Landslide Causes a Passenger Wreck on the | under the coal of the engine tender badly sealded from the waist down. He will probably re- cover. The shde happened in a cut ona curve, making it impossible for the of the capital, has been attacked by | CDgineer to see it in time to avoid the accident. None of the passen- gers were hurt THE EXTRA SESSION CALLED. ‘President McKinley Issues a Very Briet Proclamation. Washington, D. C, March 6.— | Late this afternoon President Mec- Kinley issued the following promla- | mation, calling the Fifty fifth cone gress in extra session March 15. “By the president of the United States of America —A proclamation: Whereas, public interests require |that the congress of the United | States should he convened in extra | Session at 12 o'clock on the 15th day | of March, 1897, to receive such com- | munication as may be made by the | executive I, William Me- | Kinley, president of the United States of America, do hereby pro- claim and declare that an extraor- dinary occasion requires the congress of United States to convene in extra ion at the capitol in the city of Washington, on the 15th day of | March, 1897, at 12 o'clock noon, of | which all persons who shall at that _time be entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice. Giyen under my hand and the geal of the United States, at Washington the sixth day of March in the year ot our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven, and of ‘the independence of the United one hundred and twenty. first. Witurasm McKrixreys. By the President, John Sherman, Secretary of State.” Now, therefore, BurLerR, Mo., MARCH, 6TH, 1897, W. 0. RIppLE, GEN. AGN'T. Of the South-Western Mut. Ass’n, Marshalitown, Ia. Dear Sir. I have this day received of you a draft for $5,000, in payment of policy No. 14342 on the life of the late Jno. M. Hoagland. I desire to state that I qualfiedas administrator on March the 4th and you adjusted | the claim on that day. Such prompt- ness of you and your association only | continues the confidence the people have in the South-Western Mut. Life. I am yours truly. J. C. CuARK. | Administrator of Jno. M. Hoagland’s estate. Life to such an extent that it would pre | in Butler. Worlds of new Northern | gouri Pacific passenger train No. 4, | Garden Seeds, warranted, 5c papers | which left Kansas City at 1:30 p. m. | for 3c each; loz more bulk seed ran into a landslide about one and than any other one for 5c. ‘one half miles west of Staubert this Thousands are flocking to my | evening, telescoping the engiue, store, be patient when you come, we | tender and mail car. It set fire to will wait on you as soon as possible. | th. mail car, which in turn set fire | Just received a nice lot of Early | tg the baggage car, and both were Ohio and Early Rose seed potatoes, | completely consumed. i acres. | Out of His Troubles. Carthage, Mo., March 8.—Jobn east of here,shot himseif in the head | Then he fired the granary. The fire i was extinguished last night, but the body was not found unti! this morn ing. He was despondent over the foreclosure of a mortgage on his farm. | Peacock, who lived ten miles north-! jin his granary at midnight last night | direct from Red River, Minnesota,} yfaij Clerk W. A. Rosenberger, of. | which I will sell as low as the low- | Bloomington, Ill, was caught in the | lest. See me before you buy if you | j mail car and was burned to death. | jwant pure seed, Ihave surely got ithe fire burned so rapidly that as. | sistance was impossible. Conductor D. L. Parker, | them. | WANTED—Ten tho of St leggs and fifty thyusand pounds of | 7 suis, assisted by the male paseen- | chickens, so bring them quick; prices | ers, uncoupled the coaches from {subject to change without notice. Yours Truly W.G. WOMACK. | ~ aH Engineer F. Mauber of St. Louis, | Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for Ite great leavening strength snd healtfulness. Aseures the food against alum and ali forms of sid teration common to the chesp brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 5. ¥.