The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 22, 1897, Page 8

THE MODEL CLOTHING CO., TO THE FRONT AGAIN WITH AN IMMENSE STOCK OF CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND FURNISHING Goods, and owiog to our immense stock and emall room, wa are compelled to make a Coo MUA SPRING SALE 20® as Started With a Boom! stock reducing eale, which will overshadow all similar events of the past and present time. Our own past efforts out done. Competition com pletely eclipsed by Model's fusillade of tremendous values in wantable waree. Men's overalls.... ; ) ) Men’s overalle, the » 4 Brownie overalls. Men’s ehirts..... ) Real heavy shirts. Remember the MODEL’S advertisements is le- gions, and if you have been fooled by some adver- tisements, don’t count us amongst them. Model Clothing Co. A good serviceable suit...... $2 75 | Nicely made trimmed pants... 75 A No. 1 Saxony hat.......... 4 A good, solid, all leeather shoe 1 > $ Anico fineshoe............. 1 | Ladies fine shoe and slippers. 1 Good handkercbiefe, red, white best made. POOPOSOIDA SOO PIO ION HI PO I NI NIN POE ooocoo|]; EK BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL ITEMS _ To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab- lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails tocure. 25e. 51-6m. Go to Williams Bros. tor all kiuds of machinery oil at cheap prices. The heads of fourth class post- masters are dropping in the basket ata lively gait. It is announced that A. D. Barlow, of Missouri, is to succeed ex Gov. Crittenden as Consul General to Mexico. Thorough bred white Plymouth Rocks exclusively; eggs 50c per 15. -21-lm. Mrs. E. F. Crasrrer, Butler, Mo. The candidates for street commis- sioner ought to settle the fight by getting together and flipping a cop- per, heads J win, tails you lose. The fact that Spain is withdraw- ing her army from Cuba, is almost positive evidence that she could not subdue the patriots and has given up the fight. The pupils of Miss Paxton, musi- oal director of the Academy, will give a recital Friday evening, April 30th. An extensive program has been arranged and the entertainment will be a good one. Mr. L. O. Barnes, and Mies Sadie Miller, both of this city, were united in marriage at the Laclede hotel last Sunday by Rev Dr. Jones. The greom is about 50 years of age and the bride 19. Fort Scott, Kan., April 16.—Little Mamie Barker, the 2 year old daugh- ter of J. W. Barker, was bitten in| the head and face by a pet dog this morning. Her head was badly lacer ated and the doctor fears the child cannot recover. The gentlemen who left the dem- ocratic party last year are consider ing the advisability of holding a conference to devise ways and means | to save that political organization from a destruction they profess to fear. If we are to judge by the re turns from the municipal elections, the democratic party is engaged in its old business of saving itself, and that is more than some of its bolt = ~ be able to do—Brooklyn Health and vigor are essential for success. Therefore make yourself strong and healthy by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Chas Holt,a glazier, of Toledo, Ohio, went to Kansas City in search of employment, leaving his wife and children at home. He spent two months in the city huoting a job and not finding employment got de- spondent and drank himself to death. Jas. Fiynn, accomplice in the Blue Cut train robberies of last fall and winter, has turned states evidence and madea full confession. The cases against Flynn have been dis- missed in order to make him the prosecuting witness against J. F. Kennedy and Geo. Bowlin. M. L. Embree called Friday and had his name enrolled for the boom ing Tres. He was on his way to Oklahoma with his family overland, where he will spend the summer im proving a valuable farm which he located at the opening. The Tres wishes him a safe trip and a pros- perous year. Judge N. C. McFarland, of To- peka, Kansac, a pioneer and promi- nent citizen of the state is starving to death at his rooms in the Cope- land hotel. Two weeks ago his digestive organs refused to work and since then he has not been able to take any nounshment. There were several candidates for street commissioner before the new council Monday night. Geo. Pollock was nominated by the Mayor, but the council refused to confirm the appointment and there the matter rests. Eli still holds the fert. Jim Thomas was reappointed pound | master. Dr. Christy has associated with | bim in the practice of medicine his | nephew, Dr. Roe, who isa graduate | | of the Missouri Medical collega at) | St. Louis, and is a bright and prom- | \ising young man. The Tives wel | comes him to Butler, and being con- | nected with Dr. Christy, #h> enjoys) | a fine practice, the alliance will make + |a strong firm. i |. Mrs. George Seider found her | husband lying ona pile of straw in | | the yard of their home at Clinton. | | Friday morning breathing his last | tha effects of a dose of mor-| | phine, taken with suicidal intent. |, | from Ho had been ona big drunk. Seider was and old resident of Clinton. Asheville, N. C., April 16.—Mrs. S. M. Hanna, of Cleveland, Ohio, mother of Senator M.A Hanna, of Ohio. died at3a m. She went to the Senator's winter residence sx weeks ago. A week ago she was! attacked with pneumonia, which proved fatal. She was 85 years old, | aid a widow. Globe-Democrat: Greece will !ose no time in testing her supposed su- periority on the sea She has pve armored ships, twenty one unjro-) tected vessel, end thirty five steel-| you can get anything and always bull torpedo boats. Turkey bas more ships, but their batteries are nearly all old fashioaed muzzie- loaders. Prince George will proba bly take the offensive at ouce, and his fleet is ready for the work. Dr W. C. Trotter, of Fairhaves, Vernon county, going from kis home to Harwood, was thrown from his cart and kiled He was driving a young horse which took fright at some boys in a field and ran off. The road was very rough and the doctor was thrown high in the air, lighting on his forhead, crushing the skull bone and instant death follow- ed. The accident was witnessed by the boys who went to his assistance. The Missouri river was still rising Monday and the pumps at the pack- ing houses had to be used to keep the water out of tHe cellars. Harlem is almost under water and people are leaving their homes The public schools have been closed. About a foot of water surrounds the school building. The river has broken over the banks and flowing over the low lands. The bottom farmers, many of whom had their crops planted, will lose al). Tramps fired the town of Berea, Ohio, Monday and the busiress por- tion of the city was almost destroyed. The town Lad no fire department anda detachment of the Cleveland fire department with fourteen men Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. Lowest Priced Grocery, Hard- ware, Implement and Queensware Store in Butler. | Do your trading with us where: find prices right. We can sell you| a good family flour for 95 cents. Hard wheat Straight Patent flour 50 ib sack $1 10 |Soft wheat Straight Patent { flour 50 fb sack 1 15) Soft wheat Extra Fancy flour 50 tb sack | Golden Sheaf flour, best made on the market 1: Power Bros. Queen and Roy- al at mil! prices. | 1 fb broken Java coffee es 1 fb fancy broken Javacoffes 10) 1 tbh good Rio ecffee 15) 1 tb fancy Rio coffee 20! 1 ib African Rio coffee 25 1 th any package coffee 7 tb any package coffee a 12 ib fancy Michigan band went to the rescue of the p'ace They had to draw water from a branch a quarter ofa mile away, and with the high wind prevailing at the time made little headway against the flames. Dug Up the Ruble. Indianapolis, Ind., April 16 —For nearly a dozen years the heirs of Jacob Kissinger, a wealthy citizen of Leavenworth has been fighting over his‘estate. To settie the ques tion of the age of the last child the family Bible buried with Kissinger was dug up. It was found to contain picked beans 25 12 tb best cat meal 25 12 tb hominy flake 25 10 bars best soap in Butler - 25 1 pail, 14 gallon syrup, best quality 35 2 boxes Greenwich lye 15 7 boxes Greenwich lye 50 1 tb package soda 05 8 fb bulk soda 25 Barb wire from 2} cents fer pound up owing tokind and quality. We handle 4 dif- ferent kinds. More thar : any other store in town. Nails per pound 24 Golden Drip syrup per gal. 30 Scrgbum frem 30¢ to 40c owing to quality. his will made in 1884. It was wit nessed regularly. The will made the mother the guardian and distrib uted the property equally among the children after the widow received her third. All pending evits were dis missed. sites Rie ones anise TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Two Missouri Pacific Men Instantly Killed in a Shocking Manner. Rich Hill Review. A horrible affair occurred at Jop- lin at 6 o’clock Friday eyening and tbe sews reached Rich Hill a short time afterward. Jerry Shea, operator for the Missouri Pacific railway at that point, and Jno. Ginn, a brake man in the Missouri Pacific yards there, met instant death in a shock- ing manner. The local crew in charge of Conductor Williams were switching in the yards snd the two mea climbed on to the back end of the engine which was then running backward, to ride from one etd of the yacds to the other. Sbea was sitting on the tool boxand Ginn was standing on the break beam holding to the tool box lid in bumping slong over the rough track, Ginn’s hold on the box lid loosened the hinges and the lid gave way. Both men were precipitated to the ground; each one alighting on either rail. The engine was running at a good speed, and it was on the men in an instant. Ginn was cut in two at the waist, and Shea's body was split lengthwise by the wheels After the engine had passed over his body, Ginn pulled his mangled form from the rail and murmured eomething, and all was over Shea was unmar- ried and lived in Nevada Ginn was aged 50 years, and hasa wife and four children. He has a son now running through Rich Hill on a freight train. Awardea Highest Honors—World’s Fair. 5 gallon coal oil 6: Brooms from 12gc¢ to 25c owing to quality. ou 3 can Cal. peaches 25 3 cans best solid packed to- matoes 25 6 th fancy green Rio coffee $1 00 Eating potatoes, best Iowa stock 30 Pure Red River seed potatoes 45 Dry salt meat per pound 05 1 bbl best selt $1 05) We carry a large stock of bran, eorn, chop shorts and shipstuff on which we will make you epecial prices in lots of from 500 to 1,000 poucd lots. We havea large stock of millet seed Kaffircomn and cane seed for fodder our seeds are all re cleaned and merchantable, you get no dirty, trashy seed whea you buy of us. If you need any barb wire, smooth wire,poulty netting or woven wire, hog fence do not fail to get our | prices as we carry a larger stock of these goods than avy one in town and are in a posifion to make you closer prices. We are exclusive agents for the John Deere and Brad- ley plows, Cultivators, Corn Plant- ers, Harrows, Stalk Cutters, Sulky Plows and Diec Pulverizers. We are also agents for the cele brated Genuine New Departure Ton gueless and High Grade Riding Cul tivators. We havea large stock of screen wire and doors on hand which we will eell for Jess money than ever before. If in need of a Top Buggy, Carriage, Road Wagon, or Phaeton. Do not fail to call and examine our stock as we handle ths Racine of which we sold so many last year. If you buy a Racine of us you will not ;ba coming back for repsire every week, you wi'l know just where it is! made and by whom. 1 { Bring us all of your country pro-| duce fcr which we will pay you the! very highest, trade or cash price. | We will guarantee our price to be ‘equal to, if not better, than you can | get elsewhere. Always bear ia mind | \that we will not be underso'd ty ; anyone in Bates County. Lowest Priced Grocery, Hardware and | implement Store in Bates county. New York World: Senator Chan- d'er was at the head of the commit- tee that investigated the two armor- | plate factories He was chiefly responsible for the discovery that those factories, owing everything to! the United State government, were stliing to it at $525 a ton the same armor they sold to Russia for $249 aton. This explains the sensational | bils be will introduce to enable the government to siezea those factories and run them until the armor now need-dis supplied. It is Senator | Chandler's way of empbasizing his opinicn A Wiser and Sadder Man. Warrensburg, Mo, April 15 — Daisy Browr, the 15 year old girl, who eloped with Iraac Yoakum, an aged and prominent farmer of John json county, last Christmas, returned bome yesterday, accompanied by her father, D S Brown After reaching Falla City, Neb., Daisy repented and had Yoakum arrested for seduction. He was tried there this week and centeuced to a term in prison, and at the expiration of his sentence wiil |be brought back to stand trial for ‘crimes commited in Missouri. Back in His Old Roost. Ed Bievins, better known about town as New York, has been landed in jailagain. This time the cherze against him is a serious one and the cbauces are will laod him in Jeffer City. Edward has been loafing about the Laclede hotel of late, and Tues day afternoon he broke into the 1ooms of u couple of the dining room girls avd appropriated from bureau drawers $6 10 of their savings. He then took the local freight for Rich Hill to have a good time. The sheriff was notified of the theft and telee phoned to Marshal Beaty of Rich Hill to nab him. The marshal was on band and es Edward alighted from the caboose be shook hands with him and asked him “if he had any visivle means.” “You're d—n tight, said Ed,” and pulled his purse and shook it at the officer in defiance of the vagrancy ordinance Edward and the purse were prompt ly taken in and in a few hours dep uty sheriff Joe Graves, who had gcne down in a buggy after him was back and “York” was playing checkers with his nose- The money was all recovered except 30c York seid he thought Beatty was terrible friendly when he stepped up to him and that when ke asked bim if he bad any “visible” he flashed her a little too quick. He confesses that he stole the money and said he was going to the Hill to bave a good time. RRs See Increasing Business. Last Saturday we done more business in dollars and cents than in any one day since we have been in business. There must be a cause for this. One printer says it is because we advertise in his paper, and this may have some- thing todo with it, but we believe that good reliable goods at reas- 4 > onable prices is the main cause, ; ; 4 Poenine our goods before you ) buy. a Drysdale & Keasling, A Goed Van Gone, Of the death of Rey Baldwin, father of Mrs Sam Heinlein and T. P Baldwin, of this city. which ce- curred at bis home in Pana, Illinois, at 12:30 o'clock Wednesday morning of last weck, we take the following ‘vacts froma lengthy kistory of his life and career from the Pana (Iils ) Palladium: “*The passing away of this model citizen, this veteran of the late war, this christian man, this missionary of Christ, this man among men, occurred at his residence, No. 316 South Poplar @treet, where for the past five months he has been confined to his bed with a complication of diseases abetted by senility, at times suffering indescribable and almost unendurable pain and agony, and in consequence the death angel was truly and indeed s welcome visitor and found his victim ready and willingly awaiting the summons to ‘‘come up higher.’’ Caleb Price Baldwin, the fifth child of Smith and Mary Parcels Baldwin, was born in Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey, October Sth, 4818 and dying at Pana, Ulinois, April 14th, 1897, Be was 7s years, 6 months and 5 days old. Rey. Baldwin was licensed to exhort by Rev. Nicholas S. Bastion, preacher in charge at Alten, il. Quarterly Conference, Rev. Peter Cartright, presiding Elder, July 15th, 1843. Rev. Baldwin's first wife, Mary McLene Pinckard Baldwin, passed from this life in this city August 19th, 1587, aged 63 years, a true christian wife, and the mother of fourteen chil- dren, nine sons and five daughters, of whom the following survive: Wm. McLene Baldwin, Mrs. Lucy Elizabeth Webb, Mrs. Lucy Ann Peters, and Caieb Price Baldwin, jr., residing lin Pana: Abbie Pruden Bullard, of Olena, Ark.; and Mrs. Maria Wood Heinlein and Thomas Pinckard Baldwin, of Butier, Mo. Of forty-one grand childrep born to Rev. Haild- | win, twenty-seven are living, and of the seven great grand children, four survive the depart- ei. On May 29, 1800, Rev. Baldwin was joined n marriage to Mrs. B. W. Westcott, at Butler, Lil., who survives him. No children were born to this union. The farmer's fneude are the Ply-| ¥ mouth Rock chickens. We have _them both in the barred and white; best all purpose fowl in the world. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. oes for hatching at Golden Rale| Live Stock Commission prices. Come and see us. Mes. W. H. Hottoways, 18.6¢ Butler, Mo. | And rest for tired n with Coticera & Of CUTICURA mothers in a warm bath P,andasingle » the great skin cur DIES afford instant relief, ting, itching, burning, ly skin and scalp bumer, when all else fails, . Sold throughout the world. Porrsr Dave. Cone. Sole Props. Boston axe Com, ea ~ How to Cure Shin- Tortured Babies," trea, West Pot Cadetahip, At Clinton on June 2d, 1897, competitive examination, will selected a cadet and cadet al : to West Point from the 6th district,” who must report at West Point on. the 14th of June, for examination by government officers in Orth Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Gram. mar. Geograpby and U. S. History They must be sound physically agg between eeventeen and twenty-two years of age. For further particulars, apply to D A DeArmond, ¥.@ Washington. D C. When Traveling Whether on pleasure bent, or basi. ness, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most antly and effectually on the kidn liver and bowels, preventing fer hesdaches, and otber forme of si ness. For sale in 50 cent bottles by all druggists. Manufactured byt California Fig Syrup Company o Deepwater Items. Several of our farmers have plante ed corn this week. Miss Nannie Coleman, in comp with her friend, Miss Mabel G came in from Baird college F to spend Easte1. We wish the a pisessae visit. everal young people took din at the residence of Geo Allison, day. All report a splendid time a good dinner. he jolly fishing crowd that out Saturday morning came in evening rejoicing at the good ti and the amount of fish they h eeugnt, ‘e were sorry to learn of the di of Miss Hester Covey, which oceu last week, of consumption. Miss Lempie Allison started school at Elm Grove Monday. Misses Lulu Shelton, Pearl Rat and Della Offill were the guests ¢ Miss Nannie Coleman Monday nj ht, TheSSat the M E church hey” changed time from 3 p m to 9:30 8m, Everybody invited. 4 Mr Will McCool of Belton, Mo,, at home on a visit this week. é Miss Joan Langleo of Montrose, the guest of Miss Nannie Maxey, Mr Charley McCowan isa p visitor ut ae toma ig = Several Pleasant Gap peopl wore the guests of Miss Kempie Sunday. Inus., APRID 18, e : We have made the tr safely, and found Missouri far Illinois, not a bit of farmi yet, not even potatoes planted; talk of sowing oats this week. T ground is too wet. One man said it would have to plow all the up that he had sown in wheat plant in oats and corn, and he the lateness of the season was eno to give a person the “blues.” flax or castor beans raised here at No wheat in this part of the = will pay for cutting. The roads. at the worst I ever saw. On my way through Bates, Cass and Joknses counties the wheat was not of m account, but the eastern part of P tis and Saline counties the was five inches high. J The price of corn here is 18cts, oat 12cts, wheat 60cts per bushel; Bh $4.50 per ton; flour has dropped rom $2.75 to $2.25 per bbl. There wasas —@ immense crop of corn raised herelas ear. Great cribs of it are piled’ ere; they were filled up last ft 15¢ to 16cts. lamina good town, and think? can make some money as soon 8# spring work opens un. Yours, M. NESTLE ~ Good 80 acre farm for sale oF “7 change. J. A. Srivers. 36th Window glass, roofing and beild- ing papers, picture frames, shades, wallpaper, paints, ett, D. W. Drummonds. 4tt. Harpwoop Lumser.—Orders Benvett- Wheeler Mere. Co.'s kinds of hardwood lumber will! prompt attenticn. 1-+f Cuaxz.es SiMMOme Ice! Icz!! Persons want ice d ered at their residence will | | | orders ut W. F. LaFolietts market, North Main street. 20-44 Pasture:—We again have Mrs. # Henry pasture,two and onehalf 1 : northeas: of Butler. Parties bayi stock to pasture, especially Jerse heilers,will please let us know at o0ee 21-2t. Hannan & ARMSTRONG. Guo. Inext, Hos Dstt, i | BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1573. | W.F. FAOORE, al = lpg } CATTLE DEPT Salesman end Brokere. — Lett nd Telegrams addressed to us will poms ee steeationt Rooms 272 &Z3 dee Stock Dee» Kansas City Stock, Yards, | Kansas city ,e a