The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 13, 1897, Page 3

| TO CATCH GOMEZ. Spanish Troops Sent Out Un- der Gen. Merciem. WERE DECOYED WITH A CUNNING AMBUSH. Dynamite Mines Expleded Under Them and the Cubans Won the Victory. Key West, Fla. May 7.—Las Cruces, Santa Clara Province, was the scene of a sharp engagement Saturday between a large force from Gen, Gomez's army and oyer a thousand Sp aviards. Gomez was qcamped near there for a time and jf was reported to the Spaniards thathe had only a few hundred gen. A Spanish column under Gen. Merciem was sent out to capture him, but, like all expeditions of this find. it was decoyed into a chnning gmbush prepared by the Cubans, snd the Spanieh lost heavily after a severe fight. As the Spanish cavalry charged they were thrown into confusion by barbed wires stretched over the ground. Added to this was the ex. plosion of four or five dynamite mines, creating great ecusternation jn the Spanish ranks. Araid was made on the estates of Ia Manie, near the outskirts of Ha yap, Monday morning and a Span- ish force of 25 men was captured. The Cubans stripped them of their aniforms and eent them back to the city. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Havana, May 7.—A train with sev- eal hundred troops was dynamited by the insurgents cear San Christo- bal in tho early part of the week and eotirely wrecked, and nearly 100 troops were killed and wounded by the explosion. Among pacificoes on the train were 14 Cuban women, who were forced to ride at the win- dows of the coaches, so they could be seen by the insurgents, which the Spaniards hoped would prevent an attack on the train. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) .. l,ucas County. s Frank J Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F J Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDERD DOLLARS tor each and every case of Catatrh that cannot be cur- ¢d by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, FRANK jy. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and suscribed in my presence, this 6th day of Dec. ALD. '98 f {Sea A. W. GLEASON, —— Notary Public Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous wrfaces of the system. Send for testi- Monjals, tree. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. t@rSold by druggist, 75- City Treasurer Shoots Himself. Sherman, Tex, May 6.—Julian G. Hedrick, who has been City Treas- arer of Sherman for four yeare, committed suicide by shooting him wif in the head with a 45 calibre olt’s revolver at his father’s resi dence here at 7 o'clock this morning. last Tuesday morning he was found in his room unconscious from what was enid to be an overdose of mor- phine. He bai hardly recovered from the effects of this when he shot hims:lf. He was 35 yeara of age and + very popular. His wife died several F years ago, and grief over her loss is mpposed to be responsible for his wt. He carried $12,500 life insur- “ance, mostly for the benefit of bis mother. He was au excallent busi- ‘Rees man, and his accounts are all straight. | Rabi’s Dynamite Gun Brings Victory to Cu- IT HURLS DEATH. | bans.—Spanish Force °F 1,500 Checked | and Routed. 1 Key West, Fla, May 5.—General | Rabi whipped the Spaniards, as re | ported Monday, with his dynamite | gun. Moving toward Jigueni, he | encountered, and after being twice | attacked, drove back 1500 Spaniards, | though he only had 600 men,charing them clear to town. j The 1,500 Spaniards were rein-| forced by 2,000 Spaniarde, but all| the Spaniards did not dare again face the terrible dynamite yup, and remained shut up in intrenchmente. ) SPANISH LOSSES HEAVY. Havana, May 5.—Letters from | Pinar del Rio from Gen. Ducasse, commanding officer, report several victories in the past three weks. Gen. Ducasse, in command of one detachment, had aa encounter with a large Spanish force on the 19th. The Spavish army was ambushed, and but for timely re enforcement would have been cut to pieces They were glad to escap2, leaving 125 killed and wounded MORE ALARM IN HAVANA. Tampa, Fla, May 5.-Much excite ment has been occasioned at Havana over the news that the insurgents were again at Vueltas, in the ‘paci fied” province. Officers telegraphed for re-enforcaments. To Consumptives. As anhonest remedy, Foley’s Honey and Tar does not hold out false hopes in advanced stages but trathfally claims to give comfort and relief in the very worst cases, and in the aay stages to effect a cure. At/J A Trim- ea. Aftermath of a Charivant. Milan, Mo., May 5.-Marion Glass, who shot and kiWed Ray Fear Mon day night while the latter, with a crowd, was attempting to s2renade him, was brought to this city this afternoon and placed in jail to await the action of the grand jury, which meets in about two weeks. The cor- oner’s jury has remanded him and he was committed. It is said that Glass had threatened prior to the night of the killing that if anyone came to his house to serenade him they would be hurt. The funeral of young Fear occurred this afternoon and was a very sad affair. Glass has attempted to deny the intention of shooting to kill and says he shot in the sir, but the way in which the ball passed through young Fear’s head seems to indicate that he was shot down. Temperance Element Aroused, Topeka, Kan., May 5.—The tem- perance element of this city is stirred up over the opening of the saluons and it is likely that a mass meeting will ba called for the purpos3 of ob- taining an expression from the pub- lic on the subject. The temperance leaders believe that unless prompt action is taxen, the suloons will, ina short period of time, be running full blast in Topeka, the same as they are in Atchison, Wicbita, Leaven- worth and other license towns. The polica profess to be in igno- rance of the violation of the prohibi- tory law, although it is generally known that a dezen er more saloons and joints are in operation in the heart of the city. The sale of liquor at the drug stores has fallen off 50 per cent in two weeks. In an Asylum. Washington. D.C, May 6.—Unre quited lova for 14-year-old Annie Corlett of Hyattsville, Md., so un- No Rain For Years. Vavcouver, B. C. May 6.—The theamer Miowera briogs the news that Australia is again suffering from aterrible drought. The different governments are proclaiming days _ of prayer in consideration of the very “serious calamities from the protract “eddrought. All churches are also ® wnoucing deys of prayer. “BH Should the drought continue much ® \onger there will be no stock left “@ trom Achburton to Gascoyne. The : last real good rain that fell there Swsin February, 1892. It is said all taxes on government land will be Premitte’ and steps wiil bs taken to ‘feed the hungry over the wide region devasted by the relentless suc. q Removal. We taxe pleasure in announcing that (after this date Parks Sure cure will re- 1 alltraces ot rheumatism, kidney les and liver complaint from the | Pe . It is the only medicino that is rantced to cure these diseases or no Parts sure cure is sold by .H. Le ¢ balanced the mind of Ulysses P. Tuaffitte, a man of 35 years, that last night he was locked up, a raving maniac, at the police station. Lafitte is a Treasury clerk, highly educated and popular. He first met little Miss Corlett through her father, who also works in the Treasury Department. Laffitte became attached to the girl,who isa Protestant, while Laffitte is a Catho- lic. He implored Annie to renounce her religion and marry him. Ske refused and eo did her father. La-| fitte’s miod gave way completely. He will be sent to an asylum. ————— Old People. 5 e who require medicine to boweis and kidneys will fine the true remedy iu Etectic Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and con- tains no wniskey nor other intoxicant, put acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the rformance of the functions. Electrict Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old people find it just exact- ly what they ni Price 50 cents and $ratHL Tucker’s drug store. go Old peop! regulate the | s |member of most fashionable c!ubs | Gy | che wanted to. FOR RHEUMATISM.. -~-{A CERTAIN. CURE, }~- $1.00 PER VIAL. SOLD BY = . ALL DRUGGISTS. 4 FORTY YEARS FOR WIFE KILLING. Missouri’s Oldest Negro. ; Macon, Mo. May 6 —The eldest | Mason Smith of Nevada Convicted on Cir- , HegrO in North Missouri, “Uncle* cumstantial Evidence. ; Wash Brown, of Bucklin, died at Mo, May 5.—The jary, | his home last night. It is said that N-val out rbout four hours, | he Potsesses authenticated data to brouget «1 a verdics cf guilty of | Show that he is several years over murder in the second degree this; the 100 mark, bat just exactly afternoon agiost Mazon Smith in {how maay is not knowa He toiled | dicted {| r w f+ murder, and fixed big | 88 8 Slava in the Soath fo: a longer punish sent rt forty yeers imprison. | period than the ordinary’ man’s life | ment in tle peniteutiany. The trial) “Uacle’ Wash was born ia Culpep has been in progrees seven or eight | Pets Vé.,and was brought from there days. | to Howard county, Mo., at an early Tho wife of the aceuted, Virginia { day, by a man vy the name of Ball, Smith, was foucd lying cn the floor |!ovg since dead From thence he| of the kitchen at her bome fifteen | ¥@8 taken to Tinn county, where be miles southeast of Nevada about| Worked until the war came on, when boon on the 13th of last October. | he joined the Union army. He has Her head had been beaten into a | been twice married and has a large jelly with a pitman rod of a mowing | family of childrea and grandchildren. machine. The alarm was given by | Ona Raft. Swith, who said he found his wife! Natchez, Miss, May 5--One of in that condition on his return to the | the most exciting and pathetic scenes houee from working in the field. His sise2 the flood commenced took actions and spots of blood on his| place to-day. About thirty negroes. shirt directed suspicion toward him, | drifting on a raft, were landed bere, and he was arrested. | having ben floating for seyeral days Smith is 55 yeara old, and his wife | with nothing to eat. No sooner had was 54. They came hero from St. they reached land than they fell Louis county sixteen years ago, and | down aud worshipped it. A colored at that time were well todo, but'| Baptist preacher being near by, of- Smith was unfortunate and soon lost | fared his services and began at once bis property. He persists in declar | to baptiza the whole crowd. They ing bis innocence. He was convicted | refused to eit or leave the river wholly upon circumstantial evidence. | bank until the baptism was com Once the jury stood at one to eleven | pleted. They said the flood was a for hanging him. | visitation of divine wrath. | Theriver situation is unchanged at this pornt. Unfortunate People. | are they who while suffering from Kidney Dis- eases are prejudiced against al! advertised remedies. They should know that Foley’s, Kidney Cure is not a quack remedy, but an / honest guaranteed medicine for Kidney and bladder troubles AtJ A Trimble’s. Movers Assaulted- Macon, Mc., May 6.—Mary and Katie Patterson, moving from Bevier to Woodlawn, Monrve county, were Ege Harbor, N. J, May 5—On\), ited two miles west of Macon by marrisge bent came Jobm Ford and | Thomas and Chas. Gray. The Pat Me ousrey clomect BOD Green | tereon girls and Richard Harrison, Bak yestexisy @ Lhepmeddine ne Newton Dwight avd Albert Cook of a as 2P at ane ey seeee uae | Monroe county, who were moving morcing walk ng about towo, Miss the Pattersons, were assaulted with Clowser gay in festal garmente. stones and shot at by the Grays Ford has a brother. Why this bros | phe Pattereoa girls were frightened ther came to town 1s not known, but land the parties stopped in Macon he happened to meet Leovara about | . 44 reported. Dwight was wounded noon. What he said bas not been | yt), stones. learned, but before 1 p.m. he and | Leonara were in Justice Preder’s | office being married. = | here that a strong Nicaraguan army, Jobn Ford econ learned how his is : : hee bad heating joubuandal |commanded by General Ruling, is brother ba: e im out and be| arching toward the Costa Rican vowed bloody vengeance, but Mr. |trontier. The Nicaraguan govern and Mrs. Ford were we!l away on, ment is recruiting men from sli over their weddiag journey by that time, | the country t> reinforce ber army. ———— Sem | Nicaragua has also sent troops to Aldrich Pleaded Guilty. ' Honduras to kelp suppress the revo- Kansas City, Mo., May 5 —James i lution there. The trouble _between Aldrich, the defaulting paymaster of | Costa Rica and Nicaragua is ss3um the Kansas City, Fort Scott and |'"8 threatening proportions. Memphis Railway, pleaded guilty in! Ardmore, I. T.. May 6.—A case the Crimioal Court this morning to | which is attracting widespread inter- embezzling $28,000 of the road's | st in medical aad scientific circles funds fe was sentenced to two es that of Delia Mayfield, a 16 aoe baie aie old colored girl, living here, who is yeara in the penitentiary. He left gradually turning white. About fiye for Jeffereon City at once. | years ago white spots began to make Aldrich was a society swell, a| their appearance on the girl’s body These have spread until her body is and was famous for his wine suppers. | now entirely white. He had been in the employ of the | railroad for almost 20 years. Married His Brother’s Sweetheart. May Yet Come to War, New York,May 5.—It is published New York, May 6—The sugar trust has begun to scare up prices again. Nos. 4, 5 and 10 grades of | domestic refined sugars have been Cincinnati, O., May 5.—Lawyers | advanced 11 16c. say that the city and not any indi- | vidual wil. lose the $142,000 over | which there is a dispute in the city, treasury. Notes to this amount | which was counted as cash will not be accepted by the incoming Treas- urer. They are for money illegally | paid by a former administration and | will not affect present Treasurer Ziegler, who was not responsible for | their making. An expert has been | engaged to look into the City Hall | bocks | Cincinnati is $142,000 1n the Hole. Barry’s ... Antiseptic Mixture has proved the ideal remedy for the home. Woman's Right to Cry. i Wiikesbarre, Pa., May 5.—During | the trial of ex-Banker Ricksfellow for embezzlement in court yesterday | the prosecutrix, Mrs. Meier, sobbed ig and cried. Counsel for the defense @ objected, on ithe ground that the ig woman's conduct would prejudice | the case. Judge Seerle decided that i it was natural for a woman; to cry, and that Mrs. Meier could cry al: It cures Sore Throat and Tonsilitis, Skin Diseases. Try i ‘Texas Paramour Shot | pistol of Charles H. Springer, travel- DUEL IN THE DARK. Bs Senator Vest Wins His Pott. Washington, D. C, April 30.— ete Senator Geo. G Vest and ex con- gressman John Plenk Tracey have locked horns over the appointment Ju Baker, of a postmaster at Sweet Springs, t. was killed. but the senator has won first bloc let from the | Ueder the rules of senatorial cour- tesy, the president pever names as postmaster at the home of a minor- ity senator one objectionable person- ally to bim Early in March the presideat sent 157 | t© the senate the nomination of William Smith to ba postmaster at Sweet Springs. He was recom. mended by Tracy. Senator Vest notified the postoffice department j ted between his wife aud Springer, | that Smith was personally objections | who is oneoftheirboarders. About | 2b!e to him, and asked that bis nom. ‘ination be withdrawn. The president Bintan hen tock in turn, was notified of Senator : 2 San a ee | Vest’s opposition, and he asked Mr. Baker with him to witness what Tracey to submit the name of anoth- happened. ‘er candidate This Tracey refused to do. It would be Smith or no one, t a Husband ploye Dallas, Tex., May employe of J. A. Wi at midnight by a b \ing salesman, which was istended | to end the life of Wright. The lat | ter a contractor and his family keeps a private toarding h¢ | North Akard. For some time at | Wright bas sus- | pected that improper relations exis 12:30 this morning, armed with double-barreled FIRED THROUGH THE WiNDOW While Baker and Wright were try-|2¢ Said Senator Vest said it would ght were HY" pot bs Smith There the matter ing to enter Wright's bed room from : jrested foratime. Then Smith, who the outside, through a window,!js a storekeeper at Sweet Springs, Springer fired from the inside, the! and wanted to draw the $1,300 a bullet passing through Baker's head | year that goes with the office, start- killing him inefantly. Wright fred jed a petition in circulation Of the g | 217 voters at Sweet Sprivgs, all but both barrels of his shotgua into the | sixteen signed a petition renceke room, slightly wounding Springer. Then, thinking that he had killed Springer, he went to the county jail, surrendered and was locked up. He said: “Springer and I had trouble be fore. Interference of friends only saved his life. All I have to say now is Iam heartily eorry that the shots I fired last night did not kill him. I expect to be released before night and he had better be in jail or some- where else.” CASTORIA. ‘Tha fas- simile {sca signatur every lowa’s Latest Fad. Webster City, Ia, May 5—The latest fad in Iowa is the holding of underground church socials. The Presbyterian church members are the latest to hold one of these unique entertsioments that are becoming popular ell over the state in districts where coal mines exist. The last social held at Seymour was 240 feet below tke surface of the earth. One hundred and sixty men, women and children, in responss to an invitation issued by the young ladies of the Presbyterian church, gathered at the opening of the mine, where they were provided with common miners’ lamps that were placed in caps furn- ished them. They each carried a funch basket and a tin cup and were dressed in old clotkes. Excureion trains were run in every part of the mine and the only charge was to keep “heads down.” The discovery that all boards of pension examiners whose compensa tion is less than $300 per annum for each member do not come under the civil service rule, has brought joy to the hearts of hungry republican patriots. When the combined com pensation of the board exceeds nine hundred dollars per year, they are still subject to ths civil service rule, and can be removed for cause culy, and their places to ba filled by com petitive examination. Commissioner Evans’ discovery is to the republican patriot what a commutation of sen- tence is to the condemned criminal, and their felicity almost as great ae that experienced by the fellow who has escaped the gallows. The Lamar pension board is included among those of Southwest Missouri that will have to walk the plank in a short time.—Lamar Democrat. Is Your Tongue Coated, your throat dry, your eycs dull and inflamed and do you tee! mean generally when you get up in the morn- ing. Your liver and Kidney are not doing their work. Why don’t you take Parks Sure cure. If it does not make you feel better it costs -you nothing— Sold sy H.I Tucker Boise, Idaho, May 6.—An interest- ing murder case is on trial at Moun tain Home. On October 17 last John Kensler, ranchman, disappear- ed. After two months the body was found buried under an irrigating ditch. Mrs. Kensler and Alfred Freel. the hired man, were then sr rested. The hired man is now on trial. Mrs. Kensler declared that Freel committed the deed, shoot‘ng jmending him fer the place. But |Sevator Vest stood pat The nom jination will be withdrawn, and that’s | why Bill Smith will not hand Senator | Vest his mail when the latter returns to Sweet Springs after congress ad- jourps News Service Extended. 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