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

J. D. ALLEN Epiror. J. D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Wexkry Times, published eyery | (WO gentlemen are eminently quali- Thursday, will be sent to any address| fied for the important position and one year, postage paid, for $1.00, Democratic Tickete Ut. Pleasant Township. For Trastee—R. L. Graves. For Collector—J. B. Pages, For Clerk and Assessor—R. B. Hurt. For Constable—Ed Dalton. Yor Justices of the Peace—W. F. Hemstreet, | bles that has taken place in Kansas Taz LaFollett and D. G@. Newsom. Dunn eays business is picking up Glad for that little encouragement. —_— One of the first acts of Congress should be to put through the arbi tration treaty. — The Cuban patriots seem to be getting the best of the Spaniards in every engagement. rE The Democratic congressmen and| The agitation of the papers and senators say they will not put a| general opposition to the adminis straw in the way of republican lege tration of police affairs of the city islation tending to put in circulation by these two latter gentlemen, whose promised prosperity. —_—_—_—_—_ The hungry Western republicans continue to harass the President for Office, notwithstanding he has notified all that democrats holding commis- sions would not be removed, and that applications would not be con. sidered until after the passage cf the tariff bill. —_—____.. The senate at Washington is get: ting down to business in real earnest. Tuesday 438 bills and eight joint resolutions were introduced. They embraced nearly every phase of pub. lic business. Congress has been in session since Monday and at the rate of 438 bills for the second day the senators evidently expect tore main at Washington for an indefinite period. Enfield, Ill, Mareh 13.—On ao- count of railroad traffic being so badly impaired by high water, thie little city is suffering one of the worst famines ever known here. commence now suffering among the poorer classes would be fearful. The Senatorial fight is on in Ken- senator by the caucus Saturday. The legislature will ballot for a United States senator March 23d. The death last week of one of the democratic senators, will no doubt elect Hunter. The legislature met in extra session Saturday. Brooklyn, N. ¥., March 13.—Af. ter the body of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher had been carried from Ply- mouth church, Brooklyn. hundreds of women surged forward and began to tear to pieces the floral decora tions on the pulpit. Women tore their gloves iato ribbons in their efforts to get not only one, but a dozen orchids or roses. The police had to be called. St. Petersburg, Marea 15.—All the Admirals except the French and Italian commanders have been or- dered to immediately blockade the principal Greek porta, especially the Piraeus (the port of Athens,) Syria and Volo. An ultimatum will forth with be addressed to Greece by the Admirals of the foreign fleets. An Agent of Prosperity. Wew York Journal, Of the many European war scares since 1871 this is the most serious. Forty eight bours may bring ona storm in Europe which, however, distressing to the humane sense of farmers’ pockets in the United States 88 no political policy on this side of the water possibly could. SUS so eee Bill Cook Converted. famous territorial outlaw, who is! the Albany, N. Y., ed. It is also eaid that he has been| converted, and is a devout Christian. | ——jSenate for confirmation by Gov. years, while standing near the corner fi of Eleventh street and Grand avenue} isa foolish and reckless thing for any ma: yesterday afternoon, was seized by an unknown woman, who held her ag : = i whi z insignificance. ‘he bull fighter is arme a with one hand while she threw car trained, and fully prepared for his battle. The thousands who stand face to face with that dread and insidious are but illy equipped for | man or woman who would successfully with- | stand the inroads of the deadly germs of | The little girl was on her way to {| CoNsumption needs to have arteries bound-| z i ith ich, man, will start the mills and fill the|8°hool. She loitered for a few mo. of health, “Di Pies ments, according to a regular cus. tom, near the store of the Emery rete ac tore Bird-Thayer Dry Goods company to | of all cases of consumption, meet a little companion. While she was looking at adisplay in cne of | fia the large show windows, an elderly Guthrie, Ok., March 14 —Deputy| Woman, well dressed, approached. | Frould go right to m Bill Tilghman received a letter to | She exchanged a few words with the | iting ia mytarcs day to the effect that Bill Cook, the |cbila. telling her she hada pretty | complexion. Jennie looked up at the | doctor liver oiland t bolic acid in her face with the other. The street at the time was crowded with people, but, strange to say, the woman made her escape unhindered. , woman, and seeing a fierce gleam in| Serving a forty five year sentence at | her eyes, shrunk from her. The S penitentiary, has |'woman grabbed her by the throat, j try been made a trusty, and is allowed 924 drawing a small bottle from her to go about the inatitns; | pocket, said, as she spilled the con-| S institution unguard. | tents on the little girl's face: | — ° j 5 Py = 17q | POLICE COMMISSIONERS NAMED. grasp on the child and dashed away BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES The names of W. C. Scarritt and R. L. Gregory, the two gentlemen appointed police commissioners by Gov. Stephens, to succeed Messrs. Fyke and Johnson, were sent to the Stephens Tuesday. It is said the their appointment gives general sat isfaction to the citizens of Kansas City, and will meet with no opposi tion in the Senate. | The selection of Messrs. Scarritt and Gregory is the happy ending of one of the most disgraceful squab City in many years, and the entire State will be glad to know that the affair has finally been amicably settled. south on Grand avenue. victim, who had been badly burned on the cheeks by the acid, swooned, and was carried into the store, was later attended by Dr. J. W. Smythe and removed to her home, 214 East Tenth street. were unable to locate the woman. No cause is known for the act. Mrs. Knight, mother of the little girl, called at police headquarters yesterday afternoon. She was greatly agitated, aud was under the impres sion that a plot had been Igid to murder her pretty little child. She was unable, however, to give any clue that would lead to the capture She said that she did not know of anyone who would have anything to gain by the death of her child. y ‘ President McKinley Sends a Commu- ; nication to Congress. THE GOVER MENT REVENUE. It Is Less Than the Current Expendi- | ture—The Revenues and Expenses of Certain Years Compared—Congres: Asked to Correct the Conditions. of the woman - It is conceded T than condition has ex- Flahive detailed two detectives to work on the case, and a description of the woman was the members of the given to all If the statements of the Kancas City papers are to be relied upon, the regime of Messrs. Fyke and Johnson, police commissioners, has been a paradise for gamblers and the city has only had its equal in the balmiest days of Leadville. names had been presented to the Senate by Gov. Stone for confirma- —____. Boat Uveriand to Carry an Excursion Fifty Miles Into Arkansas, Memphis, Tenn., March 13.—T wo great side-wheel steamers, capable carrying 1,000 passengers each, this afternoon issued notice of excursions into Fastern Arkansas, giving a view of the overflowed country and sub merged plantations. This means a trip of 50 miles due west from Mem- phis through the tree tops, and over cabins, farms and small villages. Past high water offered no such op- portunity. Nachez, Miss, March 15.—Noth- the ; i he inevitable can save| inch of available hade t: ing now but t 1 — eye — oe the entire Mississippi Valley from|cupied by great oda | oi if Bat Seer what indicates ore of the worst over- | Of every description for the spring | * Silke, satins and velvets of 39 the best; white goods and woolens & | representing thousands upon thous through the third story of the/ands of dollars, were food for the : flames. An equal quantity of fur tucky. Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, was| Wharf warehouse. Its contents are ame a made the republican SRI for | being carried out of the fourth floors | "i8hing goods, domestic and foreign ie -_ | notions, husiery and gloves, embroi- to save them. All kinds of stock is deries and the finer lines of laces went up in smoke. hills. The banks continue to cave on the stock is about $1,000,000, and the river is coyered with drift. | placed with almost every insurance aetad agency in St Louis. Wabash Still Rising, was insured for $200.000. Evanaville, Ind, March 13.—The owned by the John R. Lionberger Anes : ; estate, and was built about eight rise in the Wabash River continues years ago at a cost of $500,000 ~ Before the blaza was mastered one the rails of the Louisville and Nash-| fireman, Geo Gaultwold, was killed ville bridge between Wabash and| by a falling wn! at the eighth street Hawthorne, Ill. Farm houses, trees, end of the building, and during the lcittwood anil cartes indeed fire several other firemen were more! ;: : ee one een are: 10dged | ce less seriously injured. flows ever known. A steady rise continues and water is now runnin being drivenfrom the valley to the and the water is within 18 inches of against the piers, but the officials say this pressure will not endanger the structure. The service will be abandoned if the water reaches the rails. All trains are delayed. Black River is rising. White River is fall- ing rapidly. DISFIGURES A LITTLE GIRL. Unknown Woman Throws Carbolic Acid in a Child’s *Face. Kansas City Times, 15. Jennie Knight, a pretty, golden- haired, blue eyed little girl of 13 “Try this on your face.” Every effort will be made to capture her. The little girl’s face will always Kansas City for the past year under | show the marks of the acid. LOSS MORE THAN A MILLION. the government ject discloses this £: inevitably to the cone of the revenue whic’ and should be corrected We find by the report of the secretary of t sion that the conc Big Fire in the Heart of the Wholesale Lionberger Building at Eighth and Wash- ington Avenue Gutted.—Spring Stock of the Ely-Walker Dry Goods Com- pany Destroyed. St. Louis, Mo, March 16 —Fire tion, just prior to the expiration of {last night gutted the mammoth sev his term of office, were held up untillen story granite building at the an investigation eould be had by a|southwest corner of Eighth street Senate committee. This committee|and Washington avenue, occupied spent several days in Kansas City|by the Ely Walker Dry Goods Co taking evidence, and their report to] The loss will be close to $1,500,000. the Senate was adyerse to the con-|One human life was sacrificed, and firmation. seyera! people were hurt. was ove of the worst the department has had to cope with for along time, and for a time it looked as though there was going tobe a conflagration that would wipe out the The building burned was known as the Lionberger building. ed on Waehington avenue, running south along Eighth street to St Charles, aud extending west on Washington ayenue to the middle of the block. firm’s enormous stock of iucreased by 1893, amounted to zt 000,000 in bonds we was deemed neces: penditures over r goods was recently immense purchases of the finest Worst Overflow Ever Known at Nachez. lines of goods in’ the market from consequently every floor space was oc piles of dry goods trade. public debt there The insurance The building It takes nerve to face an enraged bull and launt in his face the color that he hates. It todo, but thousands upon thousands of men and women are daily fa cing a peril before which the bull fighter’ fore | Immediate Blocka s danger fades into |lands of Nevada, 1. Mr. Reed was |conducted to the chair amid much * | applause and addressed the House | briefly. foe, consumption, the powers inthe v ed, life-giving blood | ierce’s Golden Medical | ut an equal as a blood- It cleanses and | Discovery is wi Miss Lucy Kloeffier, of Armada, Mich., writes: ght years of age Thad in- . and from that time upI ¢ time and had a doctor Id take cold so easily it the age of nine. “When I was about ¢i: immation of the lun: was sick nearly all th nearly all the t' I oat was Studded ar | Teal well. The woman then released her jaaaee | Medicinal value in a bottle of Hood's Sarsa- parilla than in any othe: preparation. | More skill is required, more care taken, more | expense incurred in its manufacture. | It costs the proprietor and the dealer More but it costs the « uner Jess, as he gets more doses for |More curative power is secure ¥its 7 } combination, proportion and proce | which make it peculiar to itself. people are employed and more space oc- cupied in its Laboratory than any other. wonderf; umonials are reported people are today Sarsaparilla + and more are vet before. Teasons might be ud take Hoods Sarsaparilla Ine True Blood Purifier. $1 per bottle. egg. cure all Liver Ills and Hood’s Pills sick Headache. 25 cents. _ NGRESS TS, beth Houses Respond to President Mc- Kinley’s Call.—The Extra Session Began at 12 O'clock Today. Washington, D C, March 15 — Both branches of the Fifty-fifth Congress met in extra session at noon today, and proceeded to organ- ize. In the House the slate agreed upon in the Republican cau. cus was elected, and Speaker Reed again took the Speaker’s chair. In the Senate Vics President Ho- bart handled the gayel for the firet time aud opened the proceedings of the chamber. In the House the determination of the leaders is to direct the ener. gies of the lower branch to the ac- complishment of the task before it with all expedition, and throw the responsibility for any complications which may arise out of delays in the the Senate upon that body. cept in the event that the arbitration oh Great Britain is considered. tees of the various parties in the Senate in an effort to reach harmon- except those existing in the Commit- tees on Finance and Appropriations. NEW SENATO23. Sixty-eight Senators answered to the roll call and the galleries were filled to overflowing. Mr. W. A. Harris (Pop.) of Kansas sworn in as successor to Mr. Peffer. The credentials of Henry W. Cor- bett, appointed by the Governor of Oregon to succeed John H. Mitchell, the Legislature having failed to elect, were presented by Mr. Mc ready to take the oath of office. Mr. Gray (Dem.) of Delaware moved that the credentials be referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec. tions, it was agreed to IN THE HOUSE The opening of the extra session in the House was witnessed by an jimmense crowd of spectators Of the| 375 men who constitute the member | ship of the House, 132 bave never} before served in that capacity, while | 16 more bave served in the last Con |gress. Politically classified, there jare 200 Republicans; 122 Democrats and 20 fusion eilverites and Popu- lista. When the roll was called today 337 members were present In the ballot for speaker the vote |was: Reed, 199; Bailey, 21; New- *s Sale. Whereas Guy L Bateman, a singie man, his deed of trust dated September | Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit acres off of north end, of the east haif ‘thwest quarter of section eighteen (15) | e de- | payment of ast duc and | st of the aid note and pury t to th d deed of trust, I will procec bed cash, at the Kin the fore- e ernoon = that for the purposes of satisfying sai debt interest and costs, J.C, CLARK, Ti-4 Trustee, | HIS FOR THE ASKING Dick Bland Could Have H Nomination for Speaker, | WOULD NOT accrer TRE HON 3 Retuses the Democratic Lead Congress .— Bailey of T Washington, D.C, Regardless of the fact not a candidate before despite the statements members authorized t him that he did not want h presented, Richard P, ssouri received 22 votes for er in the Democratic Mr. Bland was s ent, and his loyal friends “toe Bree souri delegation explain did not want anyone toy Yet the sentiment for ¢ commoner was 80 strong that he not a candidate, received within § as many votes as Mr. MeMillin gf Tennessee, who has been acti candidate for six months, W. Bailey of Texas won th of the caucus nominatio the first ballot. votes, against thirty for and twenty-two for Bland. As the most effective way of sileng. ing carping critica who lose no op, portunity to detract from Mr. prestige as the advocate is but just to tell in det; came to get these twent At 10 o'clock this fore arks Biandy f noon the ning Democrats now in Wash ington—Dockery, DeArmond, : ran, Clark, Cowherd, Bodine, Benton, Vandiver and Cooney—met in con ference to discuss the should take in the ca decided that inasmuch as Bla: declined so positively to be ered as a candidate, and had written - letters to the members of the dele. gation stating thie, it was not right to put him in nomination. cision reached, they adjourned, after discussing probable committee ag: position they Just before the convening of the caucus at 3 o'clock Judge Terry of The week does not now promise a told the rps: -“ 5 is delegation would present Mr,” sathisebnign Meneirieilhisirocce ag) OIE Oo asked not to do thiag land's letters declining to be @ ndidate were read to him. was not to be dissuaded Considerable time during the — et bei agers spade : and, stating atthe time tha week will be spent by the commit- aaa pace el eae Democrats of Arkanses wanted to vote for him anyhow. ious adjustment of the Senate com- explained to the cauc’ mittees. There is now talk of an|Bland did not want his name con agreement to fill all the vacancies | Sidered. treaty between this country and] oq us that Mr, Mr. Cochran, in a forcible speech, said that the members from Missouri, who were all for Bland, had followed his instructions in not nominating him; the presentation of his name by Arkansas, however,gave them no alternative but to loyally vote for him in epite of the iact that it was against his wishes That’s the story of how Mr. Bland came to be voted for, and why he received only twenty two votes. It shows how strong is the regard for Mr. Bland, and how easily te could have won if he had consented to make the race. There were 108 votes in the cau- Bride (Rep ) of Oregon, who stated|cus. J D. Richardson, who had eat, been a candidate for Speaker, with- that Mr. Corbatt was present and Heiress spires of Mr. Bailey was placed in nomination by Mr. Sayers of Tex- as Benton McMillin of Tennessee by Mr Maguire of California, and Rieh- ard P. Bland by Mr. Torry of Ar- Gladness Comes ith a better understanding of the transient nature of the man: ical ills, which vanish before forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort ir the knowledge, that so many forms o* sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the onl remedy with millionsof families, and sj sth, iss, and recorded in the ‘record-| everywhere esteemed so highly by all | er s office within and for Bates county, Missouri | in book No. 135 page 344 conveyed to the under- | signed trustee the following deseribed ere. | tate pa and being situate in the county of who value good health. net effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness “without debi organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to ficial effects, to note that i ‘of good health, 1 3 OF city of | afflicted v nri,oa| may be comme 1 | physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, ee everywhere, Syru Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most ceneral satisfaction. well-informed